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every things fine here cant hear the gurl of course - daveccorey

Google Groups is Dead might be interesting to cover :) http://bit.ly/Q6XmK - Digitalxero

I like to watch the pre-game show and then turn it off and listen to the podcast when it comes out. Haha! I'm probably in the minority there, huh? - Michael Kaiser

I'm pretty interested in a netbook running Android. I saw a video of an Asus Eee PC on the snapdragon chipset running Android & I was impressed. - Jason Hansen

Cell phones that are locked require 3 yr contract in Canada plus additional fees. - Greg

Well, hashtags make sense when using things like lost or #Lost... :) - Holger Eilhard

hash tags started from IRC ... all rooms in IRC start with # - z3cka

hashtag sidebar here gr8t call thanx guys ...as usual - Pam Gwenzi

Tease: Gina lust over the Droid, Jeff joins Google's Data Liberation Front, and we'll show you how to find all your Google accounts in just one place. - Leo Laporte

Droid sucks. A lot of people are drinking kool-aid over it. - Fnord

I wish. - Kevin Fox

Woooohooooo. Damn. - Fossil Huntress

Nice ;) - niniane

WOW! - Carlos Ayala

I just got vertigo, tipped forward and smacked my forehead into my monitor. Thanks, Kev. - Mark Novak

I think that may be the flu more than the pic, Mark. ;-) - Kevin Fox

LOL @Mark. - Anika

Dazzling Scenic Picture. Not recommended for people with Vertigo - Acharad Sami VanJoulee

GAH. Clicking away from this! *vertigo in full effect* - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

WHOA that is scary and cool all at the same time ... just stunning! - Susan Beebe

just added this to "things I must see IRL before I die" list. - FF's Bubba of Arizona

Neat. So where is this? - Kekoa Proudfoot

Coooool !! - Keiko Yamada

What if... - Ozkan Altuner from iPhone

Seems like Huangshan to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Yinhaiming

Amazing, indeed. - Onur Kabadayi

Gorgeous! Do you know where is it? - Nicolas Dufour

I need to go there. - Parvez Halim

i would poop my britches. - Joe Silence is not dead

Amazing! Do you where in China? - Frank Da Silva

/r location - Chris Hofmann

better than any roller coaster.. - Onur Gündüz

Woah... crazy! :D - Joel Lovato

I'm guessing it's the only lift mentioned on Wikipedia for China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... "access to mountain tops of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in Hunan, China" a few pics via Bing: http://www.chinatravelca.com/uploads... , http://www.chinatravelca.com/uploads... , http://www.chinatravelca.com/uploads... - Andrew C

i'd do it in a second. - T. Brent, technopeasant

I wanna ride!! - nakachi

What if they took the gondolas off one day a week and turned it into a zipline? - Kevin Fox

I'm wondering where the gondola locates in China? - Xitong Liu

It has been wildly inconsistent lately. Sometimes it is right on time, other times there is a major delay. - Rob Diana

Paul Bucheit wrote that they no longer had access to Twitter's firehose, so it sounds like it may have had something to do with Facebook's acquiring them, but don't quote me on that. - Jorge Escobar

it's weird that twitter signed a deal to give access to google and bing, but friendfeed seems to have lost that deal. - gregory

Paul or Bret: what is the latest status please? - Steve Gillmor

The latest status? They're busy working valiantly on mincing the glory of their FriendFeed UI into the horror show that is Zuckerberg's Facebook UI. - Akiva Moskovitz

from here to Twitter things are going live - Johni Fisher

It was mentioned previously as being an issue with Twitter. They are polling now. - Louis Gray

what? It's OK now? Or is it true that "Paul Bucheit wrote that they no longer had access to Twitter's firehose, so it sounds like it may have had something to do with Facebook's acquiring them, but don't quote me on that. - Jorge Escobar" - - Steve Gillmor

I am trying to locate the conversation where he said this. But it's clear that Twitter is not giving FF the firehose for *some* reason. And they still aren't. - Jorge Escobar

"The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon. - Paul Buchheit" on Oct 26, 2009 http://friendfeed.com/paul... - Micah Wittman

Parse that as you will. - Micah Wittman

Awesome Micah, I was going nuts for a while. So without going to speculation what do you make of "Twitter's realtime feed from them is gone"? Is it scalability issues? But Google and Bing have no problems? - Jorge Escobar

It's speculation, but I think it's Twitter saying "Ooopsy, now how did that happen? We'll put Top Men on it." and a Friendfeed Alum with "we hope to get it restored" as technically true, but belying that they know or suspect it's a TWTR business decision dragging-of-the-feet and not merely technical. But this can all be cleared up with an official statement :) Maybe I missed it - if so I apologize for wild speculation. - Micah Wittman

Thanx Micah, Jorge. We'll wait for the update from Paul or Bret. - Steve Gillmor

Sounds good :) - Micah Wittman

While you all are waiting to go on the air. A question for Jeff: What's really the common theme for your mediawonks-list on Twitter? - Gabriel

They also weren't doing a browser, an OS and a phone OS - Johnny Worthington

Discussing about Motorola Droid and other Andrioid related stuff today? - Gideon Guillen

google sites are acting up for me at the moment :s - Chriz

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 3407872) (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/parser/Parser.php on line 1101 on completewaveguide.com - Atul Arora

"Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/ginatrapani/completewaveguide.com/includes/DefaultSettings.php on line 2625" - Don Bonaddio

The pitfall of fast media propagation, is not being able to properly verify the information propagated and its consequent risk of the spread of potentially inaccurate information... - Ciro

GOOD SHOW HAAPY HOLLOW WEEN EVRY 1 TRICK OR TREAT - daveccorey

google.com/music - Don Bonaddio

Doesn't work in Canada (Google Music) - tytycoon

Tease: Coming up on This Week in Google, Eric Schmidt predicts the web's next five years, a Google maps mystery, and Gina makes a big announcement. - Leo Laporte

what was the big announcement? - Mark

the published audio is only 30 minutes :( where's the rest? - Tom

Inspiring Show! I every much enjoyed your show last week, TWIG: 14. From 54:45 to 57:45 your conversation reached into the higher levels of Maslow's Hierarchy. Public discussions like one (and much more in bits and pieces throughout) are both special and important. I believe that changes in our society have made inspired work much more accessible. When people do what they love and love... more... - timapatterson

Great! Significantly faster than the G1. Better screen. The keyboard will take a bit of getting used to. The default notification sound is a robotic voice saying "DROOOoooooID", thankfully easily changed. - Tudor Bosman

What, why would you change that ? :D - Mo Kargas

*spock eyebrow* LOL - Derrick

The screen is absolutely beautiful. YouTube videos over wifi (bandwidth detection?) are sharp and clear. - Bill Strathearn

Also, it's the first phone I had that does email right; it can easily handle multiple email accounts (two Gmail accounts, both using the Android Gmail client; one IMAP account, and one Exchange account). It seamlessly merges the contacts from the different accounts (and also my Facebook friends) and allows me to configure different notifications for the different accounts. - Tudor Bosman from Android

What about the keyboard - heard it was kinda janky. Though my number one concern is Twitter (need to demo Twittdroid) then UX of 1. mail and 2. SMS - Mona Nomura

The keyboard isn't great. It's not bad, but I think the one on my old G1 was *slightly* better. It's no Blackberry, it's no Sidekick (the Sidekick had the best keyboard, but it was also huge and clunky). There are two different email clients -- one for Gmail (which is awesome, and supports all Gmail features in a very Gmail-y way), and one for other accounts (IMAP/POP, Exchange) which I... more... - Tudor Bosman

I'm actually excited to play with one tomorrow - it sounds a lot more promising than the Pre. - Mona Nomura

Contact integration is really great. You get an address book (which is automatically synced with your Gmail, Facebook, Exchange accounts), and, once you select a contact, you get a list of options (based on where the contact was imported from) -- call / SMS the phone numbers on the account, send an email, chat with them in Google Talk (it shows the Google Talk status right there in the... more... - Tudor Bosman

/hangs up logic hat on rack and retires. - Louis Gray

If all the tasty stuff of a cake comes from the sugar, why not use all sugar and no flour, eggs, or milk? ;-) - Amit Patel

Amit the chemist, ladies and gentlemen. - Josh Haley

Because then no one would be on FriendFeed :-P - Jesse Stay

because part of great ideas come from having them, a larger part comes from carrying them out. - Vincent van Wylick

And because public business are in it to make money predictably, not from sporadic ideas that could potentially turn the whole business-model around. - Vincent van Wylick

Because the inspiration often comes from the perspiration of the 80% work. Most people are not able to be inspired 100% of the time, though there are a few at Google who are. - Bill Strathearn

Now how many people thought I was 100% serious on this question instead of just 20%? I'm getting a lot of 100% answers. - Louis Gray

Do all Google's major innovations come from 20% time? I guess we'd have to start by agreeing on what those major innovations were. - Cristo

FriendFeed? - Jesse Stay

Twitter? - Jesse Stay

Is "innovation" the emergence of new competitors from that time? ;-) - Jesse Stay

Maybe Google should give all of their employees 100 1% projects. Then they'd really have a bunch of new ideas. One exception, though; one person gets stuck modifying Gmail to let you see your mail in an unthreaded date plus time received order. - SuezanneC Baskerville

Neither Twitter nor FriendFeed came out of Google 20% time, as far as I know. - Cristo

The all sugar cake is not only sweet and tasty; a big tablespoonful of it swallowed quickly, at the right time, often cures hiccups. - SuezanneC Baskerville

LOL - Thomas Power

I'd bet there are plenty of people at Google who do work this way. - Kevin Gamble

Happy Birthday Paul! - AJ Batac

Today is actually just my internet birthday. - Paul Buchheit

Well, thanks :) But for a verbose API I'll stick with YUI :P Have to inspect the power of templating and compiler, though. - Claudio Cicali ♋

I wonder what happens when you apply it recursively -- can you get down to 1 byte of code that takes no time to execute? ;=) - Brian Sullivan

Finally! This is great. - Tudor Bosman

Happy Birthday! - Robert Scoble

Nice! - Micah Wittman

Unfortunately it looks like the internationalization features may be missing. I wonder why those were removed? (or if I'm just not seeing it) - Paul Buchheit

Paul you are my best-friend :`( - Onur Gündüz

if you were starting a new site today, would you use this over jquery (which friendfeed uses)? - Karl Rosaen

Karl, jquery is a library, this is a compiler. I would use them both. - Paul Buchheit

well, i mean closure library :) but yeah, they could be used together - Karl Rosaen

ah, i see this is a link closure compiler, not the broader closure tools. - Karl Rosaen

Refactoring, JS style. - Gabe

Now, this is a good news - Ozkan Altuner

@Paul the Closure project has three components: compiler, library, and template language. Looks like the Closure/library might be competing with jQuery. - Shakeel Mahate

this is sweet! - Jay

I think jQuery does a lot of stuff that might confuse the compiler, e.g. iterating over an array of string function names and creating new function wrappers (look at the way the parent/child/next/prev/etc functions get installed) The Closure library is also full of type annotations that help the compiler make better optimization choices, so you're likely to get a better compiled outcome using Closure than jQuery + fixes + compiler - Ray Cromwell

@paul -- I know you've been wanting this opensourced for a long time. sorry it took such a long time. Nick Santos and the jscompiler team has finally done it! Cheers! - Jing Lim

Happy Birthday - ashish

Many happy returns!! - Drop dead, gorgeous!

Happy Birthday, Paul! - Andrew Terry

Happy Birthday Paul - Sandeep Kalidindi

Happy B'day Paul! don't be evil :) - sirishkumar

Congratulations to the team (and @Paul & Jing) -- I know everyone's been waiting a long time for this. For anyone considering whether to use jQuery vs Closure, consider that they're meant for largely different purposes. jQuery's good for enhancing static web pages; Closure's much better at building large apps. And as Ray points out above, Closure the library is going to get much better results from Closure the compiler than an arbitrary js library would, because of all the type annotations. - Joel Webber

Paul Buchheit has been at the top of my best of pages all month. Rock on, Paul. - Donald C. Lindsay

Wow. Just wow. - ha3rvey (doink doink)

LOBSTER RAGE FIST! - Otto

Happy Birthday, Paul! And thank you for FF. It's being a great help to me just now. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Happy birthday! - Becca

Got the image here: http://www.labnol.org/interne... - AJ Batac

Writing "Don't be evil" 500 times..penance for selling out to Zuckerberg? :) Happy birthday, Paul! - Alex Schleber

Happy Birthday! - Shevonne

;) so many birthdays this week. Happy B-day Paul! - Bicentennial (Franc)

I just opened the link and I'm kind of astounded. I had no idea what a deep influence Paul had over at Google. Created GMail? I am in awe. That plus Friendfeed and many other accomplishments. Happy birthday, Paul. I know we get fussy here sometimes about you, but that's only because we love so much what you helped create, and we're terrified at the thought of it vanishing. - Kamilah Gill

Happy Birthday, Paul! - Anne Bouey

Happy Birthday, Paul! - Kevin Fox

Huge happy b-day PB - Christopher Galtenberg

Happy Birthday Paul - Helen Sventitsky

i started using chrome. Totally love it - Sandeep Kalidindi

I use Chrome and Opera on the mac; chrome, opera and firefox on Linux. - imabonehead

i use firefox while developing though. waiting eagerly for chrome plugins - Sandeep Kalidindi

Firefox on my Mac; Chrome on Windows - ǝuǝƃnǝ

Safari on Mac, Firefox on Linux, Chrome on Windows. - Burcu Dogan

MicroB http://browser.garage.maemo.org/ and Firefox ; for me, Chrome is not functionally full to be used serious - A.T.