Haven't been to the one in CA. Really, really want to go to the original one in Billund in Denmark but that would involve having to go to Jutland... - Patricia Hanrahan
they are nice in jutland. they also understand german there. *g* - Nicole Simon
Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me. I dig it. - Louis Gray
im just trying to be funny...hehe good post btw. - (jeff)isageek
Wow, twhirlscope down -- gotta try this out - Shey
ah! and I was wondering why my twitter vanity search hit on that topic as I do not like the air apps. but grouping actually would be a reason to try it out. problem: as long as twitter decimates the request rates it is unreliable, but a first step in the right direction. will download it now ;) - Nicole Simon
Louis, I think you're right - there is still innovation happening around Twitter, fortunately. The fact is there is still a huge audience on Twitter and that audience still has the potential to be monetized. I'm even building something around Twitter at the moment. There is still that threat though, that developers could leave if Twitter keeps neglecting them - it's in the back of the mind - Jesse Stay
"feels" like Twhirl. Wish it had FF support...if it does it wasn't obvious from the website. I agree with others that I'd really like to see these Adobe air apps with some better skins - Rob Neville via twhirl
"Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me." - That's part of why I like the platform so much. Most people like native apps but AIR apps are pretty easy to build so there's bound to be a few that people really like. (Ryan - rstewart@adobe.com) - Ryan Stewart
“email survey: does a search for hookers or strippers bring up more results in your inbox? i'm at 5 and 13, respectively but for the record i do have political concerns about the sex industry. just sayin'”
I don't know. I always search for "hookers" or "leather doughnuts." Spam comes from so many directions, I feel like I'm eating in Hawaii again. - Simon Goetz
get yourself a working spam filter. ;) - Nicole Simon
um, i'm not talking about spam, i'm talking about legit emails in my gmail inbox. oh nevermind! - Marshall Kirkpatrick via fftogo
Marshall - There's always the delete button :) - Charlie Anzman
Most strange that my first time in the US was only 2 and a bit months ago. Will soon be in San Francisco for the third time in 3 months :) - Patricia Hanrahan
i think we will have some chat about flyertalk stuff somewhere ;) - Nicole Simon
“The word "blog" is a noun and a verb. When you make a new blog post you do NOT have a new "blog" up. You posted a new "blog post." Seeing the word blog used this way by non-early adopters. Pet Peeve.”
Franklin, long been a pet-peeve of mine as well. The MSM are particularly bad at using it this way - Duncan Riley
same here in germany, plus they all use the wrong article as well. driving me nuts. i intend to make that punishable in my contract so i at least get paid for the pain. ;) but yes, it is about telling them about it, they usually do this mistake because they do not know better. - Nicole Simon
Yeah that's something that pisses me off on MySpace, they call blogs to posts... - Marcos Marado via fftogo
jeez, it's the discursive police - get those 'non-early adopters', who are, like, 'late adopters'. Call a spade a spade man. - Ivan Pope via twhirl
oh shit i still need to find a place for the 14th to 16th! thanks for reminding me. for the rest of the time at some funny hotel near the venue. if you have better suggestions, please ping me. ;) - Nicole Simon
Agreeing that it looks simple just at first glance. Nice overview of alternatives.
From the page: "All of this combined has made Twitter a very compelling platform for barnacle application development. Having so many services that depend on it creates a great deal of resistence to move to other platforms." - Nicole Simon
“Is there an easy way to make the variables "is:inbox is:unread" a filter in gmail? It works for search, but I can't seem to find a way to make it a filter.”
I think you can only use it as a search "filter", not as a "true" filter. - Kevin C. Tofel
there is acutaly a google labs addon that just that - Matt Rider
in:inbox is:unread (did ou have a typo here for "in" or in the filter you tried to setup? - Naor
Don't filters run on all incoming mail, or is there some way I don't know to manually run a filter. If the former, than it doesn't really make sense to have a filter that asks for unread email, it's all unread as it's coming in. - Kyle Johnson via twhirl
if you put "label:unread" or "label:inbox" in the "Has the words" field, it works. - Larry Latouf
If you want to show all your unread emails, you can simply make a search for "is:unread". But maybe that's not what you meant, I'm not sure. - Vincent X
Larry & J. Phil are close. If I use "label:(unread inbox)" in a search, I can get the desired results. Now if we could just create a custom label with that query, that would do it. - Kevin C. Tofel
No, I know that. But I have a lot of other filters, so I don't want to see ALL unread, because that would include all my bacn and other junk. I just want the inbox. Oh well. - Veronica
You can turn on the Quick Links feature in Gmail Labs and then use it to create a bookmarked search request. It's kind of like a filter, unless you're trying to take an automated action based on those items. - Daniel Andrlik
Kevin, no need to a custom query, Gmail URLs are universal.. once the correct URL is constructed, you can just cut and paste it here. - J. Phil
Okay, so if I understand correctly, your filters tag and process your bacn and other junk, getting them out of your inbox... Then in that case, if you want to view all of your unread emails in your inbox (and not the other stuff), running a search for "is:inbox is:unread" should work, but I might be slow and missing the point of what you're trying to do. :) - Vincent X
The Quick Links Labs addon works perfectly for this. I've been doing it since Labs put it out (and was doing it manually before that). Run your search for "is:unread in:inbox". Once the results are showing, make the quick link, and you're done. After you've activated Labs and Quick Links, of course. ;) - abacab via twhirl
Got it! Between J. Phil's comment and abacab's, looks like you can create the custom query and then use a Quick Link for it. I'm excited and I wasn't even looking for the solution! ;) - Kevin C. Tofel
I just added Quick Links. Very nice, quick and easy. That should do the trick! - Vincent X
be careful though that some quick links will not stay and sadly sadly they do not do what saved searches did (= apply them as additional filter to the current search) but they will do in the meantime. - Nicole Simon
I believe (and hope) quick links will end up sticking around (with some tweaking here and there to accommodate saved-searches functionality, maybe?). At the very least, if Quick Links goes away, someone will whip up a GM script and get it working again (assuming someone hasn't done it already). - abacab via twhirl
It's not really what you are looking for, but it achieves the same aim: if you archive *everything* that's read, then your default "filter" is unread stuff. You can go to All Mail if you need to find other stuff... - Clay Newton
Folks, keep in mind, as I said that Gmail URLs are universal. That means you should be able to bookmark all the URLs, export your bookmarks as a html file (or put them on del.icio.us as private) and then use them wherever you are. Agreed that the quick links feature is cool though, definitely the best labs toy. - J. Phil
have you written blogs or articles that describe the use of social media for conferences? share them with bradley. e.g., reporting news events from twitter and share slides on slideshare. - Harry Chen via Bookmarklet
i have not but i have extensive experience of the value of a pre conference podcast - i would talk to him but not make a article out of it yet. :) - Nicole Simon
i just change mine to keep all reboot interviews entries on the fp as it determines how much is available through the feed, but usually I think 5-10 is fine. - Nicole Simon
I was asking myself that question the other day .. still haven't figured out the answer :) - Steven Hodson
The average I see is 10 but as my posts are quite long I have 5. - Colin Walker
I have 5 for my blog, I think that's my personal preference for the amount of info I'd want on any one page. - Shey
I'll chime in with "it depends", but on a 'straight' non-magazine-variety themed setup, 5-10, but probably closer to 5 than 10, for my tastes as a reader. More than 10--unless they're incredibly short entries--is too many, imo. - abacab
I find that return visitors (regular readers) tend to come to the front page to check for new stuff, so I keep to 10 or fewer. More than half my traffic is from Google and those people come into a particular page and leave. The trick is to find a way to "tease" them to view more pages. - Sprague D
I think two things worth considering are how quickly you want your page to load and how easily readers can find other recent posts (links on the sidebar etc.) - Julian Baldwin
I just counted 7 on mine and I'm glad there wasn't more than that. A mixture of videos and short updates. - Larry Kless via twhirl
I agree with Julian Baldwin and abacab. It really depends on your blog, what you are posting, how often and how easy it is to find something that was written in the past. Typically, I think the rule of thumb should be 10 or less, but that's just me. - Justin Korn
is that your present or hers then? ;) - Nicole Simon
I thought I might go see a movie that presents at least the remote possibility of being good. Rotten Tomatoes has Hancock at a dismal 34%. Maybe go see Wall-E instead. - Jeff Nolan via Alert Thingy
adorable! :) "Don’t have passes? Tell me my hair looks pretty or have candy and you might just be able to get in. I’m a sucker for Starbursts, but don’t you even think about bringing me orange and yellow ones!" - Nicole Simon
I have a pass but will make sure to comment favourably on your hair (or shoes) :) - Patricia Hanrahan
"Nexting." I like that term. I compulsively next an entire week, then get paralyzingly overwhelmed at the plethora of things I have to do, and wind up only accomplishing 10% of what I planned out. I'm interested to see what strategies work for you over the next few weeks/months. Oh God, did I just next not nexting? - Mark Trapp
I think it is much more healthy to spend time thinking about the future than the past. Myself I am more of an eat whatever is around when I am hungry person like your husband. But my lack of planning means I miss out on activities and later regret the lack of planning. - Brian Sullivan
"I clapped my hands over my ears and chanted, 'NA NA NA NA NA NA,' until I realized I was driving, and turned the radio volume down instead." :D - possible248
Thinking about the future can be dangerous if it takes you away from enjoying the here and now. I sometimes can't relax and enjoy what's going on right this second because of obsessively contemplating what's going on later... - Jason Kaneshiro
Yoda had a lecture about always looking to the future, of course if would have planned ahead a little more we could have avoided that whole Empire thing - RAPatton
Your description of how your husband thinks about eating vs. you is classic. Exactly describes my wife and me. Cereal for dinner? Not a problem! - Hutch Carpenter
I think you're onto something: it's often a lot more relaxing to just stop and breathe and stop thinking about the future. - j1m
I think I'm a NEXT-er and a LAST-er. The future and the past both seem more important than the now usually does. - Wm Scott Rees
@Amit Patel Yeah, he was the mastermind behind blowing up the death stars and runs a terrorist training camp on Dagobah - RAPatton
Isn't thinking about the future what's supposed to get us to drive Priuses and save for retirement? Americans seem to be accused alternately of being short-sighted and of being unable to focus on the moment. Maybe it's all about being smart about what to next and how much. For example, if you did plan your meals (or a default choice) on paper a week ahead of time, it might free you from having to think about it as much. Not that I could bring myself to do that. - ⓞnor
I like the friendfeed comment widget on your blog. - Shakeel Mahate
as my mind is just about ready to explode on some of those issues, thanks for linking it so I can get my mind back! ;) - Nicole Simon
strange, you don't have Carmen in friend list on FB :) and she doesn't have FrF... time to fix all this social bugs :) - silpol
we will talk on friday and then I will get her hooked up with all the usual stuff ;) betsy, you will like that she is more or less english only, if you ever fancy visiting frankfurt ;) - Nicole Simon
I've sent her casual invitation for FrF already but not more - silpol
Hee hee hee ... now I know why my ears were itching this morning. :o) - Carmen S. Villadar
facebook, delicious, twitter, flickr, etc etc - I see all there and ready. so looking forward to our talk friday! :) :) - Nicole Simon
From the page: "Seedcamp is happy to announce we've opened applications for our main event this September: Seedcamp Week 2008. Entries are accepted via our Seedcamp online application form, with a deadline of 23:59, 10 August. More information can be found in our 2008 application guide." - Nicole Simon
"When the 78-year-old Swede was set to board a ferry from Danish Helsingör to Helsingborg on Sweden’s west coast, he opened his wallet to discover he’d spent all his money at the bar.
Determined to make it home, the near octogenarian then stole a rowboat and set course for Sweden, which sits across the four kilometre wide straight separating Denmark from its Scandinavian neighbour." - Patricia Hanrahan via Bookmarklet
FB does add your image to an advertisement, if you are a fan of the service, hence misusing you. laist found the setting for removing that 'option'.
From the page: "Turns out there is a way to opt out of appearing in such paid ads for Facebook Apps, although it is not entirely easy to find the opt-out page.
Log-in to Facebook, go to "privacy" at the top right, click "News Feed and Mini-Feed," then select the "Social Ads" tab within the module and change "Appearance in Social Ads" to No One. " - Nicole Simon
even though you obviously sign away all your IP when not using privacy filters in FB, this isn't explicitly spelled out in the ToS. Is this crossing the line? - Andy Sternberg
Alas, you've already sold them your soul in the ToS- you just don't know because it was in 1 pt type and it was in a color matching the background to boot. That's the trade off these days: give me your privacy, I'll give you the service you want. It's not right- but it is what happens. - Abby Martin
thanks for sharing the link to switch of the appearing in social ads. Btw, Facebook even did google adsense ads on names of certain bloggers in Germany, hence if you would search for a name a google advertisement of "x is on facebook!" etc would pop up. - Nicole Simon
Currently I have to manually keep track / check and everything to find out about new users from Facebook. I see no reason why I should not get a notify of this as I do with all other new users. (background: By accident I found out that somebody I like now also has a FF account. As I monitor a rather high number of user and she is not posting that much, I was surprised by this. Now I am waiting for a third person we both know to join and work on a room together. ) - Nicole Simon
“When can we get a customizable blog widget? Change the colors, make the gigantic friendfeed logo smaller, etc... Right now this is my biggest wish for friendfeed.”
Hum... I think I can make this, it shouldn't be that hard; parse some json with javascript and include that in the page... Will try to create it :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
I would like to see this as well, several versions as well so you could have - 1. Feed, 2. Comments, 3. Likes, 4. All three combined. Also having a multitude of available views for instance - 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 depending!! - Joe Dawson
I have seen a customizable one for Wordpress, need one for Blogger though. If anyone has one they want to share, please post a link. Paul, yours is very nice, love how the comments are readable right there on your blog. Widgetbox has a pretty big border, and is not customizable beyond a few preset color choices, so that's not what I am looking for. I really think Friendfeed should have taken care of giving us this already. - artistVictoriaC
paul that would be awesome. even just the code as a dirty as is solution (without your key) would be extremly welcome. - Nicole Simon
