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The fifth photo is of a 20-foot wave at Mavericks (yes, there is a surfer on that). Next time I need to rent a 600mm lens.
- Robert Scoble
Spectacular!
- Gregg Morris
Thanks, watching the world's best surfers (they were here to practice for when an official "big day" comes around) were out there. Some were being pulled in by jetskis.
- Robert Scoble
The fifth photo is... currently unavailable ?
- Desirade
Desirade: because I cropped it, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
Nice shots Robert, god I wish I was in a place where I could take shots like that. But we have negative temperatures and snow all over :-(
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Rasmus: snow is wonderful to shoot in. The best time to shoot Yosemite, for instance, is in winter when there's snow on the ground.
- Robert Scoble
You are of course right Robert, but it's so damn cold out there... :-P
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I'm really digging Torchlight. $20 PC game that plays like an updated Diablo 2 (made by mostly the same team). http://www.torchlightgame.com/
Alex Scoble, Joe Pierce, Alex Scrivener and 3 other people liked this
Hearing good things from Other friends as well - may need to fork over $20 :)
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Got it off steam so I can play it anywhere I have an internet connection great fun. But you should be playing Modern Warfare 2 on the XBOX with me! I need someone worse than me to beat up....er..I mean 'to play with'. Yeah..that's the ticket.
- Berial
Cool! Torchlight runs great on Avynn's Eee PC netbook! :D Just needs a mouse to play it properly.
- Internet's Tad
Def worth the $20
- Joe Pierce
Russian Investment Group DST Ups Its Facebook Stake To 5%+, Wants More - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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newsycombinator: Friendly: NoSQL With MySQL in Ruby http://bit.ly/7epU8X - http://twitter.com/newsyco...
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Now, You Can Comment on Facebook Status Updates By Email - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009...
Thomas Power, Mark Essel, Christopher Galtenberg and 4 other people liked this
Friendfeed's blood
- Jérôme Flipo
ha Jerome, good call. Bret?
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Tumblr implements that Twitter API and it takes another (major) step toward becoming an open standard. http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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codepo8: A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB! - http://twitter.com/codepo8...
Mark Essel, Ivan Dyachkoff, payalnik and 11 other people liked this
There's a joke about hard drives, streams or interfaces in there somewhere...
- Andrew Terry
Giggity.
- Otto
To paraphrase a Bill Hicks joke, I've left entire hard drives filled with data in a tube sock.
- James Ferguson
Get Ready For The Google Branded Chrome OS Netbook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Mark Essel and James Stratford liked this
New Blog Post: Companies That Set the Market's Agenda Win http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Susan Beebe and Mark Essel liked this
Oh ... THERE you are. Super auto Google Tweeter. Where was that a few days ago? (ignore)
- Louis Gray
Hehe, it let me catch up at this oddball reading hour- tech delay = win
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
The Day AT&T Learned Moore’s Law (it’s not when you think it was) - http://www.cringely.com/2009...
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2010: the year SEO isn’t important anymore? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Mark Essel, Manantsoa, Jason Huebel and 3 other people liked this
As soon as I liked this I got SEO spam. I hope that's not related :-)
- Todd Hoff
They aren't that important since social networks popularity, aren't they?
- polou/indigo_bow
If SEO isn't important why is social media full of SEO experts?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
John: Because there are tons of out of work real estate agents...
- Christopher A Carr
techradar: BREAKING: EC reaches agreement with Microsoft over browsers http://techradar.com/658563 - http://twitter.com/techrad...
Daniel Rowley and Mark Essel liked this
Shame on Australia for cowardly following in the footsteps of dictatorial China by restricting access to the internet. #pathetic
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antique™ to antique™'s feed, Fotograf, Digital Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photographing, Photography as Art, Photography United
MODEL CAREER (A moment alone.) on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Bullet Time Scene From The Matrix – Lego style! [VIDEO] - http://www.susanbeebe.com/technol...
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Google Expands Web Elements With Reader, Translate, Orkut - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Victor Panlilio, Mark Essel, Jenna Bilotta and Vishy liked this
Google Is Adding Live Updates to Searches - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Andrew Bowers, Ho John Lee, Matt G and 16 other people liked this
"Twitter makes a search tool available on its own site. But Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, said that Google would be better able to provide Tweets that were relevant to a particular user’s questions. “We’re not good at relevancy right now, and they are,” he said. “More people will get more value out of Twitter because we are doing this with Google.”" I think that would be great--easier to search Twitter means more people tweeting.
- Matt Cutts
from Bookmarklet
I suppose that if somebody wanted to search Twitter, Google would be better at it. I just can't imagine why anybody not searching Twitter would want those results in their searches.
- Gabe
Gabe - Try again. Imagine someone searching for "Honda Civic", gets regular Google results but also a few tweets on the results screen. Those tweets mentioning "Honda Civic" could be very revealing. Like, dislike, problematic, cool feature found, just bought... Can find people thinking or doing the same thing you are right now. It is the future of search, come on.... I think so anyway.
- Odi Kosmatos
Odi — I don't understand the “Honda Civic” example. What are you looking for, when you search for “Honda Civic”, that you'd rather see what was posted 5 seconds ago instead of 5 minutes or 5 hours or 5 days ago?
- Amit Patel
I'm having a hard time trying to imagine a query where I would want to see the latest out-of-context chatter about the topic.
- Gabe
Gabe, it's mainly interesting as a way to see what people are thinking about something "right now". It's fun to watch during product launches and other events.
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's most appropriate for current event and news searches. If something big has gone down in a certain location... you would be able to have real-time accounts of the action fed into your google search. That makes it cool.
- SAM
Two slider controls are needed to customize page of result set: Pagerank<Low---|---High> and Date <Old---|---New>
- Micah Wittman
That's great but when can I get a pubsubhbbadabub Google Alert feed from that search?
- Bart LePoole
Is there any NON-voyeuristic purpose?
- Gabe
Hyperlocal Goes Mainstream: CNN teams up with Outside.in - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Michael Bravo, Urbansheep and Mark Essel liked this
Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Daniel Rowley, roamin, Amani and 46 other people liked this
brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly
- Thomas Power
True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?)
- Louis Gray
why is LazyFeed invite only?
- Damir Zubović
Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone.
- Louis Gray
Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia.
- Damir Zubović
Your password's too short :-P
- Jesse Stay
the word "password" is too short?
- Louis Gray
:) :)
- Damir Zubović
Louis, yes.
- Jesse Stay
BTW, what screen capture software are you using?
- Jesse Stay
I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one?
- Jesse Stay
but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that?
- Jesse Stay
Snapz Pro X: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti...
- Louis Gray
Very nice - thank you sir.
- Jesse Stay
More video demos == good, btw
- Jesse Stay
Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often.
- Ethan Gahng
greta video - got straight to the point :)
- Riaz Kanani
Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks
- Jane Finch
Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks
- Mo Hall
why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF?
- Thomas Power
Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time.
- Louis Gray
cool thank you
- Thomas Power
LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you!
- Lazyfeed
I will have to check this out. I admit that the point of it was not immediately obvious the first few times I used it.
- Bill Kinney
Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Awesome demo, finally got a chance to watch it.
- Bill Kinney
Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue.
- Liza
Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks.
- Ethan Gahng
Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas?
- Liza
Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis.
- Amani
Just got home from tree hunting.
Wulffy, Mark Essel, aden and 3 other people liked this
Re: Go Hack Yourself - http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009...
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"Nice post Mark. Generally, when I have moments like this I just check my bank account online, and that generally does the trick!"
- David Semeria
hahaha!
- Mark Essel
Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It's Not Going to Happen. - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
Mike Fruchter, Henner Zeller, Mike Nencetti and 28 other people liked this
I'll admit that I'm biased. But I also agree.
- DeWitt Clinton
eh. I maintain a healthy distrust of all companies; especially those that grow as quickly as Google has been as of late. of course, time will tell.
- jbrotherlove
Not only are you legally required to agree, DeWitt, but you are quoted. :)
- Louis Gray
Ha. But I was about to add: But please never stop keeping Google honest, and holding the company to the highest standards. Call out Google on any BS or funny business you see. (I certainly do, though I usually do it internally...) I have tremendous faith in the people I work with, but it takes the whole community to do this right. And thank you, Louis, for your help here.
- DeWitt Clinton
My problem is that Google is into so much, and has so many good products, that it puts people into a situation where they end up with too many of their eggs in one basket. And no matter how good the basket is, it's still not a smart thing for people to do. And while Google may not be openly and willingly sharing its data with the government, it's only one subpoena away from being forced...
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- April Russo (app103)
April, if you were running Google, what would you do to make users feel more at ease? I'd be curious to get your take on what we should do.
- Matt Cutts
The way I see it, Google has no choice but to continue on the road its currently on, getting bigger and better/worse. So I have no advice for Google. I do have some advice for the rest of the world, however... Startups need to have a business plan from day 1 that includes the idea of profitability without being acquired by a bigger company. The idea of "build and sell to one of the big...
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- April Russo (app103)
"Google is not going to be evil because it hasn't been built to be evil. Will they work to speed up browsers and Web sites to give them more traffic on their search engine and more ads in more places? Sure. But that's just good business, not trickery." - Google's interests lie in creating a fast, ubiquitous, diverse and distributed web - that's what their business model needs. Today....
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I am not saying to avoid being critical or trusting naively. But I think we should give a company credit for having set a foundation and trajectory that is to be respected and trusted, when others are not.
- Louis Gray
@April - cheers to that. Interestingly, just two years ago Facebook was the little company that decided to go it alone and not sell to the big guys, and now you list them *as* one of the big guys. Who knows, maybe the next big company is two people hacking away in a garage right now, plotting a course not to get bought, but to be the best.
- DeWitt Clinton
I hope so, and I hope there are a lot working in garages with those plans, because we need them.
- April Russo (app103)
They have always worked to align their interests and that of the users - and that was smart and good and created tremendous value online. I have my set of biases that make me suspicious of any business with too much control, too much market share. "Don't be evil" is not a nice-to-have marketing concept, it is an absolute requirement considering the flabbergasting amounts of information...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Just a sidenote - not being evil is what will keep Google from nailing the telcos with their efforts in GoogleVoice and Gizmo. To win in that market they will have to play a very evil and dirty game. They'll be going against masters at graft and corruption who own the legislators and regulators. If they don't learn to play evil and dirty, they will have a tough time winning in telco...
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- Ken Camp
Louis, I hope you are right. Google is a great company with a lot of great services and a lot of great people. But April and Joelle make some excellent points. I know I do a lot of half-tongue-in-cheek tinfoil stuff, but diversification is always a good idea (intentions can change, there can be rogue actors, etc.), as is pushing to know exactly what information is used, how it's used,...
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- LogEx
@LogEx - have you seen: https://www.google.com/dashboa...? Also our Privacy Center: http://www.google.com/privacy...? And our Ads Preferences control panel: http://www.google.com/ads...? And our public policy blog: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/ (which talks about our take on public issues). Just a few links to show that Google, and Googlers, think about this stuff all the time. We agree.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'd suggest Google split up. 1) A super lean, but ultra focused semantic advertising team. 2) A blazingly awesome search company (those datacenters make me wistfully dream of virtual assistants of the future) 3) and split off every other focus (changed from service) they have into a separate entity. Allow the separate business entities to develop independently. Can big companies shrink successfully, you bet. They can do it on their own terms.
- Mark Essel
I also would like to remind what DeWitt said yesterday: "BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they...
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- Can Demirezen
I agree that the public DNS is not likely a tipping point on the evil scale. But "Not going to happen" --implying never? -- are you saying that Google is somehow special, blessed, different from every other corporation on the face of the earth?
- Brian Sullivan
@DeWitt, I follow all of those regularly, thanks. Perhaps best on another thread or offline to convey some of my more detailed concerns. @Can, very true, ISPs are notorious for bad data practices, but from my perspective I think the main reason that DNS raised this issue yet again is the growing extent of access Google has to people's online activity.
- LogEx
@Matt Cutts: I would ask the Chrome and Wave teams to make the use of Google technologies possible and easy *without going through Google's servers* (as a 20% project). A Chrome + Wave system à la Opera Unite... Sure, the result wouldn't compare to Google's own cloud computing offer, but it would prove that Google is serious about our privacy and independence, and that "cloud in...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Killing Etherpad WITH all users' data looks nothing short of evil. Really, Wave is not ready to take its place.
- Alex Kapranoff
from Android
#1 on Tweetmeme Right now. :) http://www.tweetmeme.com
Jim Connolly, John (a.k.a. dendroica), Jeannette Høvring and 7 other people liked this
Gratz chief.
- Mark Essel
That´s grand. Speech! Speech! Speech! ;)
- Thomas Bøhm
hee! :) awesome.
- Jenna Bilotta
COOOOL :) bump!
- Susan Beebe
nice - you should have removed the second story before screenshotting.
- Allen Stern
World of Warcraft Philosophized: How to make fishing in Wintergrasp waters worthwhile - http://wowphilosophized.blogspot.com/2009...
CW™ and Mark Essel liked this
Totally trying this the next time the Dangerously daily fishing quest comes up.
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Half the fun of doing the Wintergrasp fishing daily is fending off Hordies. I always go at a time where there are a small handful of people around, because then it becomes a mini BG experience. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
True, true. But not so much fun when you're level 71!! :D
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
Good point. :D But that's when you should go with a posse. :D Besides, the Horde on Silvermoon eat fat balls. It's usually a priest and a rogue and a warrior coming over to harass like ten Allies. The rest of our battlegroup totally carries Silvermoon's Horde in WG skirmishes, no doubt.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Wedding stress is starting to build...between vendors acting like they don't give a crap and people calling at the 11.5th hour wanting to add people to the guest list, or finding out that some people weren't coming but didn't have the decency to let us know...yeah, this week is going to be full of stress.
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it's worth it, though! Remember to focus on each other, and not on the other stuff. Our mantra the whole week before the wedding was "As long as when it's all over we're married..."
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
Oh boy....sorry to hear it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
=) Sounds like a typical wedding. Let it roll off of you.
- Admiral Anika
Aw man. Theres a big pay off the end of all this, remember that. Is robert going to live-tweet the wedding ;) ( just kidding - send him the menu, the directions and the hotel info all in word, just for kicks)
- Roberto Bonini
I have that stress packaged for next year. We're on deck for the ceremony/party may 30, next year. When's yours Alex?
- Mark Essel
December 12...8 Days away.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Need an inspired break? See new Post Conceptual Art created: "Painting with the Big Bang of Genesis" - http://www.youtube.com/watch... #followart
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Real Time Web is passé, welcome to "Intent Based Web" http://www.web-strategist.com/blog... by @jowyang
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"Don’t be surprised in the future and you walk into a store with your preferred items, meal, or drink already nicely packaged for you." - No thank you, not unless I've specifically ordered it. High creepiness factor. This sounds too much like realtime geolocation with precrime prediction.
- LogEx
I echo your thoughts, LogEx.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
I want to see how far I can pull a fake identity in that kind of future.
- Itachi
Only one, Maxamad? ;)
- LogEx
I have plenty up my sleeve ;)
- Itachi
Amazing Iron Man Illustrations - http://abduzeedo.com/amazing...
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