Don't use your mouse for 30 days? Rely on keyboard shortcuts alone? That would be a cool learning experience!
- Tony Ruscoe
I'm going to shoot for no Microsoft operating systems for 30 days. My laptop is normally WinXP and my main home computer is WinXP (with an Ubuntu machine as sidekick), so it will be a switch.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, that's evil considering Win7 is launching this month. LOL
- Chris Arkwright
What are you switching to? OS X? Ubuntu?
- Gary Burd
"The fruit's striking colouring is thought to be caused by a random genetic mutation at odds of more than a million to one."
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
Hilarious - may all come to pass before 2018.
- Todd McKinney
Love it. But 2018? I'd except to be able to get Friend.com directly through the HUD in my flying car by then... Only silversurfers (like us) would still use "web browsers" in 2018.
- Tony Ruscoe
Twitter feed not available? That may come to pass at 10:30.
- Bill Bittner
And what's up with "low karma comments"? I thought the karma thing left us in the seventies... but yes, everything comes on cycles...
- Alex von Halem
You've got the Google thing backwards :)
- Paul Buchheit
Hey, I just noticed I'm in the screenshot. :D @Paul: ? What's backwards, where?
- Voyagerfan5761
Actually, it missed one important thing - a HUGE ad, taking up the top half of the screen, for a substance that is just as effective as Viagra (which was banned in 2011).
- Ontario Emperor
I think Paul's saying that in 2018 ff will own google
- j1m
It's comforting that hitting monkeys will still be as popular in 2018 as they are now.
- Ginger Makela Riker
One thing they got wrong: by 2012, Paul will have started his own country southwest of Alaska on an artificial island. It'll be called Free Festivusland, and it'll get the top-level domain “ff”. FriendFeed will then be http://ff/ — no dots or coms or nets or orgs.
- Amit Patel
I think the web will be voice and audio driven in 10 years, or at least it will be available. There's even some startup now that can sense nerve pulses to the vocal chords to know what you'll say before you actually say it.
- Mike Reynolds
I think comments won't be replaced by nested commented, just like @ in twitter, many people like this.
- terababy
Mike Reynolds, now I'm scared. Very scared. I'll get myself in trouble before I actually hear what I'm saying (rather than after).
- Ontario Emperor
For some reason, the Facebook deal makes this future user interface look more likely.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I've always knew that I would see a Friendfeed feature somewhere on blogoscoped.com sooner or later.
- Jérôme Flipo
Users will get a taste of friendfeed here and not want to go back
- Brian Sloane
What if FriendFeed replaced the Blogoscoped Forum! =X
- Danny Piccirillo
Wow! Practically in the same moment when the debate was moved to Friendfeed I was thinking: "What if Philipp uses the Friendfeed Blogoscoped room as the only center for feedback?" I hope that I wasn't cause of the server's bad luck...
- milivella
Jared, you can embed Friendfeed threads by clicking "share" on any item and then copying the iframe URL. Though this isn't a replacement for the forum, I figured it would at least be an interesting and perhaps feature-inspiring experiment to make use of the outage :)
- Philipp Lenssen
I wish that my iPhone could mimic safari so that people would stop sending me to their crappy mobile sites.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, there's a hack that uses Privoxy - check comment #24 at http://i.tuaw.com/2009... (I don't have an iphone so I don't know if it really works :-))
- John Mueller
Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter.
- Matt Cutts
The fix was included in the latest Chrome update: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009... "Windows Live Hotmail now works. While the Hotmail team works on a proper fix, we're deploying a workaround that changes the user agent string that Google Chrome sends when requesting URLs that end with mail.live.com."
- Ionut
"Normally you think of web pages being faster to update than client-side software downloads. In this case though, Chrome updates near-weekly, much faster than Hotmail did. Another illustration that velocity and speed of iteration matter." That's a rather naive statement. You think that Hotmail is a web page and you expect a service with hundreds of millions of users and thousands of...
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- Omar Shahine
Omar, it's true that I do consider a web service easier to update than client-side software. Google runs web services with many users and servers too and we launch changes weekly or faster. At any rate, it's great to know that Hotmail's next service release will address this issue--thanks for mentioning that.
- Matt Cutts