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Every roads lead you somewhere!
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The one on the left leads to the whiplash-effect-department of the hospital.
- vimoh
Love the tree tunnel
- Josh Haley
I would love to drive in the road on the right.
- Sudar
AWESOME
- Charlie Anzman
I think driving in the left road might be so adventurous. but lead to hospital :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
If I could get on 95 and end up in Rome, I'd be one happy American.
- Kim G.
Seriously, you all think the road on the left is bad? I'm going to have to go find a map to post of something called "The Tail of the Dragon" =D BRB
- FFing Enigma
Tina: It's not 'bad' per se. Just that high speed travel will kill you. Now, if only I still had my bicycle...
- vimoh
تو این جاده (عکس1) با سرعت 200 تا بری و تو جاده (عکس2) پیاده روی کنی. عجب حالی میده
- ♥ D E V I L S ♥
Bes of this week .
- Arash
In these pleasant ways destination isn't important...
- saeedeh
the roads for stay, not to going away...
- ardiba
*LOVE*
- Anna Haro
The aim is going indeed, alireza :)
- saeedeh
Nice !
- انجل
it's strange how happy these pictures make me feel... i love driving so much,, mmm, and the trees...
- Melissa Maskevich
Melissa, i also love to driving with one Ferrari in first road :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Loved this interview with the real woman behind @MarsPhoenix http://www.urbanhonking.com/univers...
Charlie Anzman, David Peacock, Sylvain Nadeau and 9 other people liked this
When thinking of disruptive business models, have to keep reminding myself that "Rome didn't fall in a day"
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Weebly scores 1 million users, reaches profitability - http://venturebeat.com/2008...
Florin Grozea, Leila Boujnane, Srikar and 5 other people liked this
"Weebly, an AJAX-based drag and drop web page creator, today announces it has reached a million registered users — and perhaps more importantly — that the three-year-old company is now profitable. The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up, seeded with $650k by Ron Conway (who participated in our Downturn Event VC Panel) and other angel investors including seed fund Y Combinator, in June launched two products to help bring in revenue: The first was professional accounts (versions that users actually have to pay for), the second was Google AdSense integration into sites built using Weebly."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
congratulations to them. inspiring to hear at a time like this.
- mike
"...that the three-year-old company is now profitable..." this is what i like
- Naor Mark
The Apple-RIM Wars Officially Begins - http://www.markevanstech.com/2008...
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No Contest in My Book. I am more than happy with my Blackberry Curve at this point in time.
- Ian May
Used the iPhone, Used the Blackberry. The Blackberry wins IMHO. I wonder if iPhone sales were larger because everyone stopped buying new Blackberry's until the storm comes out. I know we are waiting to do a refresh.
- Sean Brady
Ooh! Subject/Verb disagreement in the headline! My eyes! They burn!
- Louis Gray
Begun this handset war has
- Jason Carreira
Science in the 21st Century Talks - http://pirsa.org/C08021
Yaroslav Nikolaev, Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley and 4 other people liked this
Video and slides for the talks.
- Michael Nielsen
Mike -- I was under the impression that all PIRSA talks became available at midnight, but I was happy to discover that the workshop talks were available some time before 6pm EST (which means that I can actually watch them in the UK on the day they're given). The quality was good except for suboptimal audio during Sabine's talk.
- Robert Spekkens
Rob - I spoke to Jacob (who does A/V), and he said he noticed, and it is apparently a problem with some equipment that's just been installed. He said it should be be better now.
- Michael Nielsen
totally awesome that they're available as mp3s!
- Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
I'm really enjoying the fact that I can attend this conference vicariously by watching all the talks on PIRSA. It's an interesting experience. I've been working normally during the day and watching the talks in the evening after they become available in the UK. I dedicate about 3 hours + to the conference every day. That's less than would be required to watch all the talks because I can...
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- Robert Spekkens
Mike -- Could you mention to Jacob that Harry Collins' talk doesn't work on PIRSA. (I presume that Steve Fuller's talk isn't available because it was given by video link.) Thanks.
- Robert Spekkens
Rob - Apparently Harry's talk wasn't recorded; there was a problem of some kind, so it won't be going up. Glad you're enjoying the event.
- Michael Nielsen
That's a great shame - it was a really good talk and very difficult to liveblog - the Friendfeed commentary of Harry's talk is at http://friendfeed.com/e... and there are links to his website there
- Cameron Neylon
Here's a reasonably recent interview with Harry Collins, which covers a lot of the same stuff as his talk: http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshe...
- Jen Dodd
Armstrong Confirms Comeback Plan - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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Go Lance go. (Note - Edelman represents his Foundation)
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
Fitbit just demoed at TC50 and was a huge it, a tiny wearable device that automatically tracks your fitness & sleep http://www.fitbit.com
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Check out the Bodybugg (bodybugg.com), works great, and is a helluva product
- Chad Albert
How Silicon Valley Heavy Are Web 2.0 Consumers? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Really interesting. Kind of surprised to see Reddit in other US #1. I believe Pleasanton is a large server hub - so it could really just be classified as SF/SJ Metro.
- AJ Kohn
Wouldn't the presence of a companies HQ skew the data so that city/region would come out on top? I know that we have people in our marketing dept. google our name to see what pops up - and lo and behold - the city where we are HQ'd is #1. A random company - Lockheed Martin - indicates that the top Google searches are all around where their company locations are....Just a random thought....
- George Smith
George: Of course it would. Zillow is a great example. But even with that, there are many examples here where that's not the case.
- Louis Gray
It's an interesting data set - I just don't think having a SF area based #1 is a sign you haven't jumped. iTunes obviously has. As has linkedin. I love google trends - but think this data set is a mixed bag.
- George Smith
is this all that surprising??
- Jeremy Toeman
@Jeremy: First paragraph: "unsurprisingly, the San Francisco Bay Area is disproportionally weighted". So no, not a surprise. :-)
- Louis Gray
Touché - but your headline sure makes it seem like a question, eh? :)
- Jeremy Toeman
Isn't AOL headquarters in new york now?
- gregory
FYI: Halifax (#1 for Facebook) has a population no greater than 400K. Many US cities have 5 to 10 times Halifax's population in a similar geographic area.
- Mark Dykeman
Cops Target Photographers - News - Miami New Times - Miami New Times - http://miaminewtimes.com/2008-07...
MiniMage, enterRUPPted, joubert berger, Rodfather and 33 other people liked this
The incident is one of at least four that have occurred in Miami-Dade County over the past year in which photographers have ended up arrested, handcuffed, threatened, intimidated, or accused of being a terrorist. (I spent 16 hours in jail as a result of one of them.) Taken together, they raise the question of whether the First Amendment means anything anymore. "Officers do not have the right to seize cameras, look at the images, or delete the images," says Oregon attorney Bert Krages, who wrote The Legal Handbook for Photographers: The Rights and Liabilities of Making Images.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I keep hearing of these incidents
- NoahDavidSimon
Of course, if they delete pictures you can get them back. Take the card out and don't take any more pictures on it. When you get home there are any number of recovery programs that will recover the photos. Sometimes it's just easier to back down and show them you're deleting the pictures, then restore them when you get home and tell your story. Otherwise, the whole camera might get impounded and you'll never get the photos back.
- Kevin Fox
You would think that there was enough other crime to deal with in Florida without cops wasting their time bullying photographers?
- Brian Sullivan
Wish I could say this surprised me. I'd buy the fact that he was upholding security measures if his issue were that the photographer was photographing a sensitive area ... but this guy got caught probably doing something that's in direct violation of the rules of his shift. Or maybe he was worried that the picture made his ass look big ... which it does.
- Cathy Brooks
Things like this greatly frustrate me. It's beginning to sound a lot like a police state around here.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Kevin, is there a program you use for this? I didn't know you could recover pics from a card. I thought once they were gone, they were gone for good.
- David Cook
WHY?? WHY?? WHY?? lame-O
- Susan Beebe
@David: if you haven't taken other pictures (or written to the card in other ways) after the deletion, recovery is easy. I've successfully used a free tool called PhotoRec in the past. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki...
- Tudor Bosman
This is a shame. They were talking about this on TWIP a few weeks back and the guy actually stood up to the police. I believe they are gathering a bunch of Photographers to that spot in LA so they can all take pictures where they guy was asked to stop.
- Matt Donders
Of course, this is also a good reason to get an Eye-Fi card. By the time you delete the photo it may already be posted to your flickr account!
- Kevin Fox
wow those are some seriously disturbing stories.
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
Reminds me of my story last year in San Antonio - I had basically chosen to not get arrested by capitulating to a big, threatening cop with obvious anger issues... a reporter friend of mine at a major daily told me, when I relayed the story to him the next morning, that it wasn't really a story unless I got arrested. I mean it's getting that common, and that's sick. Story here: http://www.cosmictap.com/an-acci...
- Anthony Citrano
I think there is safety in numbers and maybe someone in the group could photograph the incident. @TWIPPHOTO has a poll this week asking is you shoot photos alone or with others.
- Bob Gannon
Here's how to pitch me: Send me a blog post about your service so that I can copy/paste it . :) I'm kidding lol
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that so happens!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Blasphemy at its best on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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WTF? dialing zero on a rogers phone gives "customer you are calling is unavailable" ummm hello operator? operator?
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A Deep Dive Into The Paris Startup Scene - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
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@jimgoldstein You opened quite a box with that one. I've been following what people are saying on Flickr groups. It's just amazing.
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Rogers caves on iPhone 3G plans, offers up 6GB for $30 a mon - http://www.engadget.com/2008...
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I know you can't compare markets directly but that sounds like a great deal compared to the minimum spend contract on offer with o2 in the UK. Having trouble loading the Rogers site to compare the deals directly. Lots of pre-orders being placed I guess :-).
- Ben
Well, it's a start, at least. I really wish that Rogers would offer a reasonable explanation for their actions. So far, all they've managed to do is spew fluff such as "normal users won't really use that much", etc.
- Brad @ The Next Web
finally - thanks for not sucking rogers.
- Cole Orton
Just be aware that the $30 is only the data plan; If I read this correctly, there's plenty of other charges that will be applied to owning that phone. (e.g. voice plan, caller ID, etc.)
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
@Cole: Rogers still sucks. It's still a 3-year contract and that's only a promotion. They should remove the time bomb!
- Long Nguyen
silly Canadians... The U.S is still awesome
- NoahDavidSimon
still not gonna buy one, the 30 dollars only applies to data and i'm sure the voice plans still suck
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
Lets use this to start the I want a free breakfast from AT&T on Friday! :-p
- Mark Hurley
from twhirl
Great, now i want to get an iphone 3g, again...damn you rogers
- Charles Desaulniers
So it's official? I get a sausage and egg buscuit with my 3G iPhone?
- Mike Lewis
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Photo contest winners http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
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Robert, what's the agenda for the rest of the day?
- Jordan Hofker
Idee TinEye - http://qik.com/video/125205
Mark Douglass, Bec Rowe @d0tski, phil baumann and 28 other people liked this
This is the coolest image search service I've seen. They are giving me free accounts for FriendFeed'ers. Use this link to try it out: http://tineye.com/registe...
- Robert Scoble
Your right! Very fun and interesting. Oh... and they have a firefox add-on.
- Czar
Awesome, thanks for the invite!
- Ocean
Really? Surprised that Scobleizer *just* found this.
- Ivan Stegic
I like the idea of new media search tools, especially in images and video. I love hearing people answer how they plan on making money, it very often seems to be a touchy issue.
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Ivan: they were too. Hey, I don't always see EVERYTHING. :-)
- Robert Scoble
TinEye is really really REALLY cool. There's a huge potential there -- can't wait till the index more of the web.
- Shey
Clever stuff. Signed up, thanks.
- Simon Wicks
seems like a very cool tool. haven't found anything good enough to mark as "cool" but it's fun to see what comes back
- Steve Long
Yeah, it's a really awesome tool... I bet it's hard to see a gem amongst the rough sometimes, Robert. Especially when you are wading through as much electronic waste as I am sure you are. Whew!
- Ivan Stegic
thanks for the invite URL!
- David Silvernail
This is a great service, been using it for a few months now.
- Jacob Burke
Thanks for the link, the service seems really cool!
- Sébastien
Jim Goldstein had an interview with Leila Boujnane from TinEye some time ago on his EXIF and Beyond Podcast (http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog...)
- Antonio Marques
from twhirl
Scobleizer: Man, everytime I look at that pic of you, I think of the Ghostbusters. Here's a search I just did on *that* pic, you really are omnipresent: http://tineye.com/search...
- Ivan Stegic
Nice! Thanks for getting FriendFeed the hookup, Robert.
- Phil Glockner
Also a big thanks from me for the invitation! Up to now I wasn't too impressed with image searching...
- Arnd Gronenberg
Signed up for TinEye. Thanks!
- Morton Fox
Looks like a great service..thanks for the hookup..
- Darryl
I've been using them for more than a month now, they really do amazing stuff.
- Yuval Atzmon
Scoble would have known about Tinyeye a lot sooner had FriendFeed been around sooner :) Glad you found them though. They have really good potential to be very powerful and useful.
- Justin Korn
A very cool tool indeed, especially if you need to keep track of where images are going around the Web...
- Chris Reed
The firefox add-on is great..
- Darryl
they should offer the ability to sort by image size - would be immensely helpful
- Nathan Chase
"Password may only contain alphanumeric characters " - :-(
- Jordan Hofker
great tool
- Tom Quinn
Robert, I embedded your Qik video in my latest blog post: http://www.scribkin.com/2008...
- Phil Glockner
Great! Thanks...trying Star Trek matches
- Kevin Benson
searching images with an image, meh
- adolfo foronda
Yeah tried this out a while back, should be awesome in the long run. @Ivan, that's hilarious about the fact that you think Scoble looks like a Ghostbuster...i've been trying to figure out what it was he reminded me of for ages! And you're spot on! :)
- Zee.
hmm, Pownce (notes/files/links), Digg (stories), Twitter (short updates), FriendFeed (aggregated comments), do I still need a blog?
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Sort of wondered about that on my blog too.
- phil baumann
Twitter's already kind of like the short attention span version of a blog
- Mark
FF is a big, huge, group blog
- Mike Doeff
hell ya, my new site just feeds and project links
- videopixil
from twhirl
Don't forget your vidcast.
- connor
Thanks kevin: I just wanted to hear that from someone else as well. I am happy that it come from you. I have been thinking about the same in last few days. I want to set up a blog for our site and I thought why not do it for example here on Friendfeed and use the other tools you mentioned above to support it.
- Joao
I still can't feel comfortably with Pownce. I preffer Tumblr for easily and freedom.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
I use the blog to talk about the stuff that I find on the sites.
- Brad @ The Next Web
i was commenting something similiar the other day - isn't facebook for people that can't type more than one sentence in their own blog? Does it make you seem more interesting than you really are?
- Jason Hoch
Joao: yea, have been thinking the same thing - I might start forwarding kevinrose.com to friendfeed. Just wish I could customize the layout.
- Kevin Rose
A blog is still good for long-form thoughts as opposed to the quick bursts that you'd put out on Twitter or FF.
- Alex
Posterous works for longer things.
- Jason Wehmhoener
You bring up a good point... Soon, design will not matter much.. Content is King.
- Robert
I think a blog still has its place, but it is used much less frequently. Like Alex said it is really just for long (multi paragraph or even page) thoughts and personal opinions that you can't find on say Digg. Even still, using FF in conjunction with a blog improves it even more :D.
- Shaun Bevill
Think about how many "flash" websites you used to see and how many you see now....
- Robert
Has anyone set up a FriendFeed room as a personal blog yet? I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't work.
- Mike Doeff
well for you no. For people who don't own Pownce, Digg, etc and want to make $ from the internet by creating content and selling ads around those content. Still need a blog or site.
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
good point Greg - no way to place ads on these sites.
- Kevin Rose
@Greg Wilker good point... I am sure there is another way, but not sure what that way is...
- Robert
I'll post wherever I get the most interaction... for me that happens to be FriendFeed.
- Brandon
its a good point / question. what ecosystem works? I still think having a blog as a personal home base - an airport if you will - is a good idea. touch down on all the other sites - engage - and for further content: blog
- j sven
well, it's not really needed. But being a writer, it helps me to be in the writing habit and maintaining discipline...
- Fajar Jasmin
Yes, but the form will change. A successful blog will have API access to all of the above and be able to sort/arrange your online footprint in a meaningful way that is easy for users to scan through. It would also allow you to make traditional blog posts that work in reverse order. Friendfeed is close to this, but it is too disjointed and not customizable.
- Cade Brown
Dang, seems you struck a chord. Conversation's exploding here and on Twitter. I am glad you bring this up, as you have the ability to get this question answered quite effectively. I WANT to have a blog, but these other services are treating me quite well. The issue comes in remembering where all this stuff you've saved/said is located and the audience that receives it is more and more niche...enter FF? I guess.
- Victor Vasquez
One other thing is I'm all about less is more. Do you really want to say "hey go friend me up on twitter.com/insertname friendfeed.com/insertname digg.com/user/insertname etc etc or would you rather just say insertname.com to people with links to those other sites on it. you can insert my name into those if you want to friend me up. =D
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
you forgot your tumblr zen-style blog....
- Daniel van Moll
Agreed, blogs should be long form thoughts. Stop posting one sentence updates to your blog.
- Eric
I'm still keeping mine! A blog to me is different than what Pownce, Twitter and FF offer. They are more "communities" where there is far more interaction than in a blog. Receiving and responding to comments out on a blog is very different than the instantaneous interaction I get while using the likes of Twitter and FF.
- Geoff Peterson
Depends on if you want to write. I like the idea of a personally branded dedicated space...
- Ryan
I still think a blog is important. Its just more personal than forwarding your site to FF. Ya, FF is personal, but its something that you don't own, and can't customize the way you want.
- Nick Humphries
But FriendFeed might be able to monetize the comments, especially if there's a thread/pattern among participants.
- phil baumann
All that stuff is wonderful if you suffer from ADD.... but for thoughts, arguments, commentary, etc that's longer, fuller, better developed and hopefully more "permanent" than one off comments, you still need some kind of site or blog. Contrary to popular belief around here, sometimes you need more than 140 characters to say something worthwhile.
- Eric P
Hell yeah, for SEO! :)
- Melle Gloerich
I'm still having issuse with the FF comment plugin for wordpress =( I really like FF so far just wish my coding skills were up to part to figure this out. send me an email if you know how to get it to work gregwilker.net@gmail.com
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
Since you don't post long entries, probably not. FriendFeed catches my Diggs, tweets, and Pownces, I just pipe all of that to my blog: http://www.screwtheman.com
- Paul Reynolds
And Vimeo (HD videos), QIK (mobile live streaming)
- Langley Zhu
Nope!
- justine
One of the most interesting things is that there is, so far, no content spam here in the discussions. On my Wordpress blog (lightly used) I had to turn off all comments because of horrible drug spam. While the filters usually caught it, nonetheless, it ended up on my server, and added to traffic. My site (not the blog :-) ) has 65,000+ visitors per month and doesn't need junk added into the blog space. While Kevin may not need a blog now, his material is readily and happily accessed and organized, some may.
- iSteeve
blog for fuller content, but you'll use it less.
- clarke thomas
"The people you add on FriendFeed tend to reflect your interests." -Bret Taylor #sdforum
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Very true
- Deepak Singh
Isn't that (for the most part) the point of FF?
- Justin Korn
I choose subscriptions based on a core-perimeter model. The core are people whose interests I know overlap with my own. But I also try to have a strong perimeter - very high quality information sources across a wide variety of areas. So I read blogs by people like Robin Hanson (economist), Terry Tao (mathematician), Ethan Zuckerman (developing world), etc. Unfortunately, FriendFeed usage still seem to be mostly concentrated in a few areas.
- Michael Nielsen
Michael, it will get more interesting over time. Waiting for the synthesizer geeks to show up :)
- Deepak Singh
Michael, that is one of the best comments I've seen on FF.
- David Gutelius
This is true with most things in life. Your real friends, the sites you visit, etc. Why is this so shocking? Just saying... :P
- James Mowery
from twhirl
it's not shocking... It's justa useful quote that sums up the service... ;)
- Chris Messina
I know, but, it could be applied to every social network: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and YouTube. Even forums and such. I'm sure the Bret guy is smart, but I mean... yeah.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
Yeah, I'm being really picky about what I read on FriendFeed. Trying to master the "hide" functionality like so many have suggested to filter out the not-so-useful stuff. :D
- James Mowery
from twhirl
Thanks, David!
- Michael Nielsen
Couldn't agree more. I just added a bunch of gluten free people cause I have celiacs and then the usual band of geeks.
- Ryan Cates
I'm just going to subscribe to Michael so I won't have to work so hard to track those people down.
- Todd McKinney
and would even be more interesting if FF helped me discover more folks who werent like m, but were still interesting.
- dave mcclure
But I'm filtering out the social news stuff, for the most part.
- Tamar Weinberg
+1 Dave McClure... we need categories of interests badly! so we can filter content and subscribe accordingly; plus rooms would also be associated with said categories... (I already submitted a feature request for this)
- Susan Beebe
the funny thing is that FriendFeed wouldn't work for me if it was my actual circle of friends. they like stuff that I have no interest in.
- Jamie
Jamie: Funny but true for me too. I really like Susan's suggestion for finding cool new things and interesting people via categories. That would open the door for a StumbleUpon-like function for FF.
- David Muir
I agree. And thats a good thing..right? Every day when I come to FF it works like "Google News" for me :)
- Saad Kamal
It's exactly what u said . ... The more popular ur friends are , The more famous u are
- saee:Dsharif
I think that would be the main reason why you would add people on FriendFeed although it is not the only reason. You could add friends (who are not on FF) by making them "imaginary friends" just so that you could keep tabs on them.
- Hubert Lotilla
@Hubert turns out whoisi.com approximates the imaginary friend feature rather well...
- Chris Messina
Watching Microsoft's CTO David Vaskevitch speak. He's wearing shiney pants.
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Beautiful Kinetic Sculpture at the BMW Museum in Munich - http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/~r...
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Microsoft Pro Photo Summit http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
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sitting next to Scoble at the Pro Photo Summit. First row :) Scoble's broadcasting the conference live.
- Thomas Hawk
When is he gonna talk about photography?
- Andrew Smith
So, what is the agenda for the summit?
- Jorg Jansen
Jorg: Talk about digital photography.
- Robert Scoble
Why does someone need to bang away on their keyboard when this is being recorded?
- paul mooney
Thanks for broadcasting this.
- Jordan Hofker
my god, will he ever get to the point?
- David Silvernail
Microsoft Pro Photography Summit http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
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"If you look at the two major dystopian novels of the 20th century, 1984 and Brave New World, it seems we've gotten the worst of both worlds: creeping authoritarianism tempered by the seductive complacency of indulgence and entertainments."
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I prefer the seductive complacency over rats eating my eyes :)
- Paul Buchheit
Have you seen what passes for entertainment today? Watching "reality TV" makes me wish rats were eating my eyes!
- Gabe
I watch "The Soup" with April. It's all the good parts of all the reality tv shows condensed into about 20min/week. It's pretty funny.
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah, a week of TV is 20 minutes of entertainment surrounded by 167 hours and 40 minutes of "rats eating my eyes". I'm just glad my job isn't finding the needle in that haystack.
- Gabe
Both novels erred in assuming mankind would self-destruct faster than it has. We're dragging out the last few chapters, creating sequels as we go. But we're getting there.
- Jack&Cleo
the part that Huxley missed out on in abnw is that we can evolve to still function, even in a world that would appear dystopian to our forebears. There will always be more than one person who can see the truth, and the ship can be righted. Of course, the pessimism of both novels, and the uniqueness of he protagonists, does a better job of moving copies. I think we are just in a time of transition, where the government cannot keep pace with social or technical change.
- Nicholas Molnar
At least we're not eating soylent green yet. Although, the way things are going with biofuels and whatnot....
- Keith Pelczarski
@Jack Carlson - I'm not sure either novel assumed humankind would self destruct. I think the biggest mistake both made was not predicting how the cold war ended. If they had then the novels might have been set in Russia, and would seem even more accurate.
- Nick Lothian
Cubical fireworks! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Comet Between Fireworks and Lightning - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...
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This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists.
- Andrew Baron
Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The...
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- Andrew Baron
wow indeed
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
مثل ساحل لاست میمونه :دی
- Mil∂d
wow, Greattttttt
- Zahra HB
That is an amazing image
- Kreg Steppe
It's worth being subscribed to friendfeed for that photo alone. I wouldn't have found it if you hadn't been a friend of Scobleizer.
- James Robertson
Dude.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
So becoming my wallpaper.
- Ben Parr
Very nice wallpaper for dual monitors setups!
- Éric Senterre
What a spectacular photo !!!!!
- Nellie Root
echoing what james robertson said......worth being here for that photo alone. amazing.
- carlotta fancypants
I am setting this up as a dual monitor type display between my two work systems!
- Joe Dawson
that is unbelievable. astoundingly awesome
- Paul Rj Muller
Wow! That's amazing!
- Marcus Beagley
thanks for sharing, great photo
- sean percival
Amazing!
- Jiri Fencl
from Alert Thingy
Incredible! Thanks Andrew for finding such a beautiful shot. Lovely to wake to up to such beauty on FriendFeed...
- Mitchell Tsai
Oldie but a goodie!
- Steve Rubel
Breathtaking.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
Wow ... this is incredible
- Nick O'Neill
Mind-blowing!
- David Fendley
this is really kewl...!!
- Peter Dawson
Wow
- Aaron Myers
very hip, I've seen this photo before (might have been on APOD)
- mikepk
sometimes good photography gives me goosebumps!
- Phillip Jeffrey
great image
- Pete D
Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments.
- Andrew Baron
Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :)
- Charlie Anzman
Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm enamored with that lightning.
- Jason Toney
ahhh good one
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction
- Duncan Riley
I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is
- Duncan Riley
Now the wallpaper on my iMac
- Adam Helweh
Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :)
- Penny
wow, just wow
- Mark Douglass
Amazing shot!
- Timo Heuer
Unbelievable!
- fbrunel
This is for sure a record post for me! 333 people liked this!
- Andrew Baron
Congrats Andrew... this is truly a unique share!! thanks! :o)
- Susan Beebe
Though I like the picture, I do agree with Brian Sullivan :(
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Crazy looking - didn't even notice the comet until reading the site...
- George Smith
Kick ass photo.
- David Risley
smoke on the water
- Harry Myhre
At 302 likes, the #1 most liked post of all time on FriendFeed. Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos.
- Mitchell Tsai
just incredible!
- Geoff K
An absolutely stunning shot.
- Brandon Wood
Still lovin this shot days later. :D
- Andrew Baron
amazing. I guess the timing for this shot couldn't be better
- Dan V
I forget which Greek philosopher said it, but "Right timing is everything is most important."
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
Amazing photo!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing
- Arash
F#$king Amazing!
- Michael Fidler
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
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