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A memo to the sticklers - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
Amen to this. Needless precision is senseless.
- matt hollingsworth
girl (680×456) [causabon, Pixdaus] - http://pixdaus.com/pics...
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Mark Czerniec, Mehrdad, Λlii and 45 other people liked this
beautiful!
- matt hollingsworth
those are some powerful eyes
- (jeff)isageek
this photo is amazing. Congratulations!!!
- obolonskyi
very beautiful woman
- Cee Bee
Pretty
- AJ Batac
Cute :)
- Iain Baker
beautiful pic.
- john conroy
Intense and sultry :)
- Toby Graham
wow, stunning.
- Zee.
Why I did not make Olympics - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ouch!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
My son did a vault face plant *twice* during warmups at his first competition (he was 9 I think)-- the coach reassured him after the first with a "just go out and do it again" -- which he did (fortunately he came 2nd in the event). Some of these accidents shown here could have been life threatening though so I am not sure what the right response to these should be,
- Brian Sullivan
Brian - I agree. Especially the last incident with the vault. That's not really funny. Some of the other things actually did make me laugh, though, especially the bicycle guy getting some payback after he pushed down a competitor.
- matt hollingsworth
My Awesome Son Jackson - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Michael Hocter, Lisa L. Seifert, Mitchell Tsai and 73 other people liked this
I'm super excited that I get to take my 7 year old son Jackson to an A's baseball game tonight just him and I. He won two club level tickets at the golf driving range by hitting a 175 yard drive into a bucket a few weeks back. He kept trying for the bucket over and over again so that he and his dad could go to a baseball game together. He's such an awesome kid. I'm so lucky to have him (as well as the rest of them and mrsth) in my life.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
good looking kid. gonna be a hit with the ladies when he grows up
- Cee Bee
+1 Cee Bee.
- Yuvi
That's a great shot.
- Jeff Jones
awesome! You two have a blast!
- jerry
he's lovely Thomas. :)
- Anna Haro
Have a great time. I take my sons to a Dodgers game every year and they love it!
- RAPatton
Handsome kid. He's gonna make a lot of girls cry when he's 18 ;)
- AJ Batac
EOS 5D is getting very popular
- AJ Batac
you are indeed blessed, Thomas!
- matt hollingsworth
a bucket @ 175 yards? thats impressive.
- Bryan Clark
Jackson Hawk is a cool name. It has a Chuck Norris vibe to it. ;)
- Chris Luckhardt
@Chris: Yeah, I thought Jackson Hawk was a cool name as well. I would have LOL'd if Thomas had named him Hudson though. =)
- jerry
bello come il sole :-)
- Sereneeta
@chris & @jerry, you know that Thomas Hawk is not his real name. It is just his pen/stage/photog name. Which in a way makes him even cooler than he already is :-)
- Mark Anderson
@Mark: why you gotta bust my groove in hopes that he'd have a "Hudson Hawk"?? =P
- jerry
Maybe his last name is really Five.
- jcunwired
Oh my gosh, he is absolutely darling!
- Karen Swim
from Alert Thingy
He's a cutie!
- Tamar Weinberg
Nothing like a father / son outing to a baseball game. Have fun.
- Mike Doeff
That's an awesome story! It's such a treat for both parent and child to be able to spend quality one on one time with one of your children. Have fun!
- Jeff P. Henderson
omg he's adorable. totally going to be a heartbreaker. :-)
- Corie
could be a model ,, TH ,, nice to hear the father /son at a ball game stuff . Hope its a great game ,, Im sure there will be pictures ;)
- johnpiercy
That's one photogenic kid.
- Kevin D. White
Congrats on raising a good boy. Not an easy thing to do.
- Brad Nickel
So handsome boy. congrats ☺☺☺
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Another World, Another Planet - http://www.zooomr.com/photos...
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Andrew - such a beautiful picture!
- matt hollingsworth
I'm taking a poll: Has Silverlight prevented you from watching Olympics online? Please vote here: http://ping.fm/Ua6XL
Silverlight works great. The video quality is amazing. No, Silverlight didn't ruin the online Olympic experience... NBC did.
- John Denver
I wouldn't have installed if it wasn't for the olympics, but Silverlight itself does a capable job and the video quality is quite good.
- Scott Lockhart
I tired to use it even though I am on a mac and it didn't work.
- Colide81 (James)
no
- Jeremiah Owyang
I went ahead and installed Silverlight just to use nbcolympics.com on my Mac. It doesn't seem to work with Firefox, but does with Safari on my Mac. It seems to work just fine and I have no issues with the quality.
- matt hollingsworth
piclens seems to be crashing my Firefox; it is a mentally-challenged PC, however, but frustrating nonetheless
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When piclens works, I love it!
- Joe Perrin
yeah, there's really nothing like it for seeing someone's Flickr stream or going through a specific set on Flickr. One of the best online innovations of the year, in my opinion.
- matt hollingsworth
I've been having graphics problems with Firefox 3 on several different computers running WinXP SP3. FF 2 was extremely stable. Hope they fix whatever the glitch is in the next dot release . Haven't noticed any problems with Piclens specifically.
- Jeff P. Henderson
@Matt, sorry to hear your computer is crashing. Feel free to drop us a line at bugs@piclens.com and we'll help you sort out the crashing problem.
- Cooliris
thanks, @Cooliris! I haven't experienced a crash in over a week now, and it was only happening on my Windows PC, not on my Mac. If it happens again, though, I'll send an email.
- matt hollingsworth
Awesome. No crashes = good crashes.
- Cooliris
@Cooliris. Nice work responding to customers. I like you and you product!
- Kate Foy
@Kate. Thank you! We love to be able to interact with our users. It keeps us fresh and on our toes :)
- Cooliris
12seconds Integration? Hey all I'd love to see how we can get 12seconds integrated with friendfeed beyond a blog feed. something like the seesmic or youtube integration would be rad! - http://12seconds.tv/channel...
(jeff)isageek, Amy Wood, Joe Lazarus and 15 other people liked this
This would be so badass. How can we make this happen?
- Sol
Yes please!
- Justin Korn
Totally! With a little 12s icon & everything! :-)
- mindi
yes, please please. I could go on for 12 seconds about how much I want this.
- matt hollingsworth
ditto - please to build!
- Jeremy Toeman
yes please!! must build.
- ryan
yes hook it up
- Ishmael
I want it. Yes please.
- drs650
Yes please! 12Seconds.tv support would rock!
- David Howell
I would love to see 12secs integrated into FriendFeed. Let's make it happen.
- Chris Rodgers
I agree.
- delgado
gotta have it!!!!
- Amy Wood
Let's integrate 12seconds in Seesmic, so it will be automatically integrated in FriendFeed !
- Philippe Bovigny
from Alert Thingy
i love the idea of FF integrating 12seconds!
- (jeff)isageek
12seconds support please
- johnpiercy
anyone have any idea how to help make this happen?
- David Beach
Beach - NoiseRiver has done it: http://noiseriver.com/entry.... See if you can get in touch with Directeur (creator of NoiseRiver: http://friendfeed.com/directe...)
- Justin Korn
Though, that really doesn't help with making it happen IN friendfeed...
- Justin Korn
It's gotta be a simple factor of how the feed is being processed. Seems like other media is picked up just fine...except for 12seconds (not blaming 12seconds, just saying it soudns like a more basic issue that could help future services as well)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Agree with Rahsheen. Beach - you can also check out the NoiseRiver room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Directeur is very active there.
- Justin Korn
Tonight's haul from the delivery guy. D700, SB-900, new Macbook Pro. Was it a good night? Actually, it kind of sucked. But all those things are really cool.
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I lied -- it really sucked.
- Ryan Brenizer
Sorry to hear. :(
- Nick Takayama
I'll take the MacBook Pro and wait for the new 5D replacement. =)
- Jauder Ho
hope tomorrow is way better.
- Doug Robertson
The day is more than stuff, for sure. Sorry you had a bad one, congrats on the new gear. Can't wait to hear your experiences with the D700.
- matt hollingsworth
... and definitely hope tomorrow is better for you.
- matt hollingsworth
I hope, things are going to improve..., new toys sometimes help...
- Ulrich Hilger
Today, so far, has been just as bad. But at least I can whisper sweet nothings to my D700 to give me solace. Plus today has only been about 10 minutes long.
- Ryan Brenizer
Hey, there. Yeah, you: Mr. Fingers. You do realize that you don't need to actually TOUCH my monitor screen to point at something on the desktop, right?
Dereck, clarke thomas, Shey, Jamaican of FF and 28 other people liked this
My favorite is when he pushes hard enough to discolor the nearby LCD pixels.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The monitor of a co-worker here is covered in fingerprints. It's disgusting.
- James Ferguson
I touch my monitors all the time. DON'T JUDGE ME!
- James (@willia4)
Hi there, its Mrs Fingers. Mr Fingers is touching your what?
- Yolanda
I just LOVE doing that ;) On my monitor, that is.
- Yuvi
that's a big pet peeve of mine. don't leave your dirty prints on my monitor please.
- Alan Le
Oh I HATE it when anyone touches my monitor screen. I want to amputate their nasty greasy fingers. One good thing about working from home, is that no-one else goes near my screens usually, but it even bugs me if I'm working at a clients, and someone touches the screen I'm working on.
- Ian May
hee. that bugs me, too.
- edythe
I think it's the iPhone condition- I accidentally touch pad everything!
- anna sauce
For real.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
the worst is when they point at something on the screen with a pencil or pen -- gives me a heart attack
- Trent Olson
Every time this thread pops back up at the top of my FF page, I run my fingers down my laptop screen. Just because I can. :)
- James (@willia4)
easy for you to say. Not so easy to say when the fingers are on a 3, 5, 6 and 7 year old. :)
- Thomas Hawk
it's kind of like the people who think they not only have the right, but the obligation to touch your baby once they come within 10 feet of you and utter something involving the word "cute" or "precious" :)
- matt hollingsworth
Hah! We don't let people touch the baby unless they are blood or dang near close to it. "OMG! He is gorgeous!Can I hold him?!" "Uh...No, not really"
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
How else are you going to point at those little dried up cough and sneeze specs. ew.
- Andrew Smith
+18 James
- Akiva Moskovitz
My husband looooses it when I accidentally touch his monitor... too F*ing funny!
- Susan Beebe
Oh, good, there is no video. If there was, I couldn't watch it. That is a Monk-like issue of mine ;)
- Michael W. May
My monitor is not a touch screen... so don't! Never can get the fingerprints off.
- Lurking Grue
Also, Mr. Fingers, stay away from my iPod too. Only my greasy fingers get to smudge up that tiny little gadget.
- Pete Delucchi
99% of people in Taiwan over 40 all Mr. Fingers...
- Mark Forman
My patent on "do a hard reset and hope that fixes it" just came through! All of you bastards now owe me a metric assload of money. Cough up!
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At my DayJob I have been using a pc since roughly 1997. 11 years with Windows95, Windows 2000, briefly WindowsNT and now WindowsXP ... figuring 2080 working hours a year, minus vacation time ........ I'm figuring I owe you somewhere around the GNP of the eastern coastal countries of South America.
- matt hollingsworth
I have a couple of Toluu invites, if anyone wants to get social with their OPML :) d me if you would like one
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If you still have Toluu, hook me up!
- Joe Perrin
Joe - just send me your email - d me on Twitter or email: personintheworld at the google email thingy
- matt hollingsworth
I've just started using Things.app and I can already see how much good it will do me. It will be perfect as soon as it syncs with the iPhone version. - http://culturedcode.com/things...
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This is the first I've heard of Things. It will be interesting to see how this compares to Remember the Milk (http://rmilk.com), which is what I use today. Thanks for sharing this.
- matt hollingsworth
I keep switching between this and OmniFocus
- Adam Turetzky
I was considering OmniFocus, but this is so darned cute.
- Ryan Brenizer
have you tried using jott.com? I've used it for a while now to keep organized, especially while away from the computer. they just announced their iPhone app (free) and it looks pretty cool.
- Neil Bernhart
That looks interesting. Thanks, Neil!
- Ryan Brenizer
Wow - big news. JKontheRun acquired by Gigaom. Two of my friends come together. http://blogs.chron.com/techblo...
Loren Heiny, Cheryl Jones, matt hollingsworth and 7 other people liked this
Fantastic news!
- James Tenniswood
funny yo just point to Jkontherun when you mentioned Missing Marc , earlier !!
- Peter Dawson
Marc would be proud.
- Steve Rubel
sweet!
- Bwana ☠
Lemme throw my congrats out there!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Congrats, James!
- matt hollingsworth
Holy cow, just saw the news. Congrats, James and Kevin!
- Cheryl Jones
Private Photographer: The New Luxury Accessory - http://www.PDNPulse.com/2008...
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Despite a couple of snarky comments on this article, I think that vacation photography is great - albeit probably not huge - market. As @ryanbrenizer pointed out, if a family is going to spend a big chunk of change on a vacation, why not have some high quality images - a "visual narrative" to remember it?
- matt hollingsworth
AT&T to Offer Free WiFi Service to iPhone Users... APRIL FOOLS! Ha Ha, Suckers! - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
Kevin C. Tofel, matt hollingsworth and acedanger liked this
I, too, was excited this morning and even felt kind of warm and loved by the big U.S. exclusive iPhone provider - like maybe they really did want to be closer to the cutting edge and show their highly-paying customers some goodness. What a mess they have made, however. It's like my boss sending me an email that I'm getting a raise, then saying "oops, sorry, I didn't mean that" ... then doing it again!
- matt hollingsworth
stop the presses - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Doug Brooks
Raise your hand if your iPhone 2.0 firmware is constantly stalling and/or freezing. Is this a known bug that I miss because I was at E3?
Rob Fuller, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, Jennifer Van Grove and 6 other people liked this
erm, not me, tho mine reboots alot.. but I must have my apps!
- Socom
hand raised here. There are a lot of freezes and hiccups where it seemingly takes a little break.
- matt hollingsworth
2.0 is definitely flaky / unstable - apps crash more often, more spontaneous reboots, more freezeups etc. - Apple have supposedly got an update coming soon - can't be soon enough
- Patrick Jordan
Once mine starts stalling, it's only a few minutes away from an auto-reboot. 30min-1hr of constant use in multiple apps will bring about a reboot.
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It's definitely more sluggish and less stable than 1.1.4. The price we pay for more choice and complexity on essentially the same hardware?
- Kevin C. Tofel
Yup. Mine too. Lots of little hiccups in my iPhone 3G. Especially, web pages quitting for no apparent reason, returning me to home screen.
- Len Edgerly
what bothers me more then anything, is the whole 1 hour backup that you have to cancel out of, holy ted whats up with that
- Socom
mine happens the worst when i'm trying to use the keyboard. doesn't matter if it's for a txt, notes, or email. takes about 30 seconds or more to type.
- Veronica
Keyboard was hella lagging earlier, i was words in front of it and having to sit back and wait for it to catch up. Restarted and all ok again now.
- Simon Wicks
No problems here. It's been working like a charm (so far)
- John Frenette
from twhirl
major reboots for me on app launches. I had a period today where 3rd party apps would open then close
- Matt Devost
Mine reboots if I play a video podcast without explicitly using the "video" tab. Before 2.0 it would just play the audio fine from anywhere.
- Dwayne
Yeah, that and my passwords show while I type. That's ungood.
- Alan
Mine is getting very bad signal...actually have an appt to get it looked at Friday.
- Jay Martin
*hand*
- l0ckergn0me
Yep its buggy when dealing with apps. Needs an update.
- Sean Davis
yep. when mine was jailbroken it worked like a champ, now it hangs in the breeze whenever it wants.
- grant fox
make sure you have the official release not the pre-release from the night before & try turning off push data
- mike "glemak" dunn
Raising hand for the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware. Some of the Apps have crashed too. Tho I noticed that several apps have updated within the past couple of days. Rumors suggest that a newer firmware is being readied.
- George Brickner
I find certain apps are causing problems (memory leaks, etc.) and that I have to reboot daily. If I don't use any apps other than Apple's, it runs pretty stable.
- Jim Bergman
It's crashing almost as much as it did when I jailbroke it. Almost.
- Bwana ☠
See James' take on why this happens here: http://bit.ly/1eHvyQ
- Sergio Cruz
Sergio, I've tried holding the home button for 6 seconds to "force quit" applications in order to attempt to free memory by that assumption. It hasn't made *that* much of a difference, but it does help some with memory intensive apps like Mail, Safari and iPod
- Bwana ☠
@Veronica I have had the same keyboard issues. App crashing not that bad.
- Andy Lewandowski
Day 6 for me with no lock ups, freezes or crashes. Had a couple free apps that won't run but only those 2.
- Al Degutis
from twhirl
I love my iPhone for everything that I can use it for, but someitmes I just want to chuck it out the window - and then I remember I waited in line for 8 hrs :/
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
I've noticed too, on my iPod it's painful typing anything at times.
- Josue Salazar
I've had apps crash to the homescreen, but only one reboot so far. What annoys me more than that is that iTunes wants to back up the phone every time I plug it in. Also, why is the contacts app so slow?
- Frederic
No: seems fine here.
- Chris Baskind
I find when my keyboard slows down if I hold down the home button (not just press it) until it resets to the home screen and then reenter my app or txt it is much more fluid. 2.0 needs some definate stability work.
- Sidney
Yup ... freezes every couple days. Sometimes it even reboots.
- Jeff Smigel
2.0 is certainly flakier than 1.1.4. Apps lock up and reboots the iPhone randomly.
- Marshall Bose
mrsth (she's the best) has been waiting in line 40 minutes at the Walnut Creek Apple store to buy me an new iPhone. Wives are comparing whose husband is giving them the most for waiting. Seems like shoes, purses and dinner seem to be the top offerings so far.
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Still lines? Buy one next week...
- Hutch Carpenter
I really can't believe there are STILL likes either! Goooo mrsth!
- Justin Korn
she says she's still got another 45 minutes in line. Yikes. They are sold out of white iPhones. Good thing I wanted black anyways.
- Thomas Hawk
Hey how did you manage that? I waited 6 hours for my wife.... :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
I got lucky in the wife Dept. Jeremy.
- Thomas Hawk
You were skeptical last month ( http://thomashawk.com/2008... ). What made you decide to get one?
- Mike Doeff
Mike, I wasn't going to get one but then my old one got dropped and I can no longer use the power on/off or screenlock. I wasn't planning on getting a new one, but without power on/0ff or screenlock the phone doesn't hold a charge all day.
- Thomas Hawk
at least you have iPhones within your state. WA is sold out.
- rick gordon
Thomas - you got a great deal! And, are getting a good phone. :)
- matt hollingsworth
If she is not the main account holder, she may have trouble purchasing one; at least, that's what they told me when I was in line.
- Jeremy Brooks
@Jeremy: yes, I know of one person whose assistant was turned away because of the above.
- Anthony Citrano
So what did YOU promise her?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Im sure MrsTH will come home to a fullcourse dinner , followed by Iphone Delight after supper ..
- johnpiercy
hmmm, she's pretty resourceful Jeremy. I'm sure she'll be able to talk her way into buying one.
- Thomas Hawk
I have mixed feelings about mine. Battery life is terrible with 3G and Push enabled. Managed to get by so far by turning Push off and its not too bad.
- Sean Davis
Haggis, I'm sure I'll figure out some way to thank her.
- Thomas Hawk
I think she deserves a year of MobileMe. You can push and pull sweet nothings to each other all year long. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
Um Thomas ... you are aware that Tiffany's is two stores down from the WC Apple store, right?
- AJ Kohn
Thank you for the idea, I'm posting an ad on Craigslist stat!
- Mona Nomura
AJ Kohn, Yikes! Tiffany you say? Gulp.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas: Yup. I live in WC. Know the area and that Apple store well. Good luck :)
- AJ Kohn
Ok, she's at the front of the line now. Buying me a 16GB in black.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, lucky isn't the half of it. How did you train her so well, mine would never do that :-)
- Duncan Riley
After waiting in line all that time Apple is telling my wife that I'm "ineligible" to upgrade until 2009. Looks like someone at Apple or AT&T hates me. So much for paying $600 for the original iPhone on the day that it came out. She's still working with the store to try and activate the phone. Hopefully this can get resolved. I wonder if AT&T is going to try and screw me even more with an early termination charge.
- Thomas Hawk
Someone in FF had that same problem but when they got home and looked at their accont, they found out they were eligible for the upgrade.. Hopefully that's not the case for you! Wow, the mrs rocks!
- Mona Nomura
Typical screw ups with Apple/AT&T. It took me 36 hours to activate the last iPhone that I purchased. http://thomashawk.com/2007... When I tried to use their "generous" $100 rebate back for paying $600 for the original phone they rejected that as well. mrsth doesn't give up easily though so I bet it gets resolved.
- Thomas Hawk
that's my son William on the computer at the Apple store while my wife is trying to convince Apple that I should be allowed to upgrade: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Thomas Hawk
i spent 5 hours in line at the Walnut Creek apple store on saturday to get mine. here's my qik videos of the event: http://qik.com/morgan
- Morgan
Ok, it's done. iPhone is activated. Apple said something about some of the phones that they got already having SIM chips in use and so that was the hang up. Unfortunately mrsth did end up with a $35 parking ticket over the long afternoon. Meeting up next to take her and the four little ones to dinner. Need to make sure she gets a strong cold drink at dinner.
- Thomas Hawk
Surprise her with thank you choclates! :)
- Mona Nomura
You're paying for her parking ticket too, aren't you? ;)
- Helen Sventitsky
funny - i got a parking ticket waiting in line too! the walnut creek parking police are like sharks in front of that store!
- Morgan
The Hawk daughters have plenty of Tiffany jewels to inherit from the past 14 yrs. What I really want is the $12k side-by-side Sub-zero!
- Mrsth
CPK right across the street, P.F. Chang's around the corner or dive down to Locust for something nicer at Lark Creek. A bit pricey but great drinks and cheaper than a Sub-Zero.
- AJ Kohn
You can't go wrong with something clean, crisp, minimalist. I'm thinking diamonds.
- Donna Mugavero
so far I'm unimpressed with 3G speeds.
- Thomas Hawk
@ Duncan- how to train a wife-nightly, close living room to children @ 7:30 followup w/wine & foot rub, & intriguing conversation. Weekly date nights, date lunch every other week. Daily, grateful kisses & hugs on hellos & goodbyes. Humorous &/or provocative text messages &/or IM's. Breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.
- Mrsth
Mrs. Wirehead wants an iPhone. I do not accept Steve Jobs as my personal telecommunications savior, so if anybody would be waiting for a phone, it would be her for herself.
- Wirehead
Incredible underwater photography! : http://ahboon.net/2008...
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wow, that's some amazing stuff!
- matt hollingsworth
Frederick - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
Allison Kipta, Jesper Kjær Hansen, Lisa L. Seifert and 24 other people liked this
Nice story and photo
- Bob Gannon
love this project
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from fftogo
This is incredible Thomas. It's sad that Frederick won't ever see our comments. Do you think he ever will?
- Eric Thompson
Great idea and "Frederick" is an awesome portrait.
- James
This is one of my most favorite projects being done ... excellent
- Steven Hodson
he picked a great pose... great photo!
- Tim Hoeck
from NoiseRiver
Thomas, another great portrait! I love the expression on his face, he looks very happy considering he is homeless. What is your sense about the homeless people you have photographed so far. Do they seem at peace with the fact they are homeless or is there an underlying sense of despair?
- Jeff P. Henderson
I think this is one of my favorites so far. Well done.
- Justin Korn
Beautiful shot. I think your $2 portrait project is a fantastic idea.
- matt hollingsworth
Nice one again! It's easy to just ignore these guys (that's what I do most of the time). By taking a picture you give them some time and show respect. I think that's great!
- Daan
I truly look forward to reading your $2 portrait stories. I think I like most that you talk to them about their lives. That shot was amazing. I love the emotion.
- Jeremy Kunz
FriendPoll! If you care, in your estimation, which do you think is more interesting / important / exciting: the new iPhone hardware, or the new iPhone OS? Will reblog your extended thoughts with credit. If you've blogged about it, leave links.
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OS is always more important
- Aaron L. M. Goodwin
For me, the OS is more interesting because of the new application platform. Also, as the App Store is available to iPod Touch users as well, its reach is potentially more broad. The barrier to entry for the software/OS is small, while the barrier to entry to upgrade hardware and service to an iPhone 3G, for first-generation users, or non-iPhone users will be too much for many people.
- Louis Gray
It's all about the apps—hands down.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
The firmware and the app store are monumental. Much more than incremental hardware upgrades. That's why I kept my 1st gen unit. It offers 98% of the funtions of the new hardware. Including LBS. One of many thoughts: http://bit.ly/3xqiVj
- Kevin C. Tofel
BTW, this post, while not being prefectly relevant, might peak your interest for discussion. I think that subscription-based products are going to dominate in the future. I believe that the app store is providing Apple the experience necessary to take my ideas in my blog post further. http://onlyjames.com/future-...
- James Mowery
from twhirl
definitely the apps - now it's much more like a mini computer
- Nathan Manley
from Alert Thingy
Definitely the new firmware.
- Angel Smith
OS my biggest issue is as multi-whatever as this phone is, why doesn't it multi task? when are the apps going to run in the background??? all these apps are useless if it can only run one at a time.
- Mona Nomura
The App platform is the biggest thing, though the hardware is nice for the fixes it provides: http://fury.com/article...
- Kevin Fox
Definitely the firmware. Mona, all the apps are not useless due to lack of running in the background, though they're not nearly as useful as they could be if they did.
- Robert Seidman
@mona n ...until apple does something to improve battery life considerably, I can't see multitasking & background running apps that soon.
- Nick
Maybe it's in my head but notifications seem slower when my browser is up.... which is a problem for me since my entire life is based on e-mail and SMS. I also wished Apple at least integrated Java (solely for Gmail)
- Mona Nomura
Definitely the new OS. It's great to have the App Store and finally third-party support on the iPhone OS. Not everyone needs the new hardware as the 3G coverage isn't available in all areas.
- Kevin Skocik
The hardware new features will have a lot less reach (e.g. limiited 3g ares) than the software which will affect both original and 3G models. Furthermore, I wouldn't be surprised to see the AppStore bring in more coin than the hardware.
- William Reveal
from twhirl
@Nick: agreed. Though I'm getting the external battery shipped to me from Japan. It plugs in the butt and it's not as huge... See, only a 50 hour time difference between 2g & 3g iPhones means nothing to me, since all the new apps will probably drain the battery 10 times faster. Well the good news is, the battery is replaceable... since my current battery is crapping out.
- Mona Nomura
The new OS, definitely. The best hardware in the world isn't worth much if nothing good is running on it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The OS - no doubt - though it's my first iPhone, so the hardware is pretty cool as well. Without the AppStore, the new phone wouldn't be half as interesting.
- Frederic
Software by far. 3G is limited in coverage, GPS is limited in capabilities, extended battery will be wasted on 3G and GPS.
- pb30
I only wonder how long it will be before we are buying full fledged Mac OS X desktop applications through iTunes.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
The hardware is only particularly useful as an enabler of the new OS. The inverse isn't true.
- Nicholas Molnar
definitely the OS. I'm skipping the hardware update (at least for now) but can't wait to use the new apps.
- matt hollingsworth
hardware - the 3G download speed trumps all the apps
- Jeremy Toeman
OS for sure!! Not everyone needs 3G.
- Ryan Cates
2.0 but the 3G is great too
- Grant
I'm kinda "anti-iPhone" but, I would think since most people will be using the 3G and GPS features alot, the hardware would be important. Not to say the apps aren't important but, I'm sure people can live without them as some point. Me, I'd personally say battery life was important.
- Outsanity
It's ALL about the software. Without software, all you have is a nice little heater for your cup of tea, or a shiny mirror. ;-)
- Josh Bancroft
Hardware. 480k for me vs 36k GPRS on the old one. + the queues speak for themselves. I had apps on my old cracked iPhone
- Duncan Riley
If it was truly all about the software, then you wouldn't have seen the amazingly long lines that we saw today. They were FULL of people running 2.0 software on their current iPhones. They weren't satisfied with that though.
- Andru Edwards
The OS. Because I don't plan on getting an iPhone, but I will be getting an iPod Touch come Christmas. :) Also, the OS changed the rules of the game for mobile development, as far as I'm concerned. A development environment that allows thousands of desktop app developers to directly apply their existing skills to a new platform? Hell yeah.
- James (@willia4)
iPhone 2.0 is much better than 3G or GPS, mainly because I don't have 3G in my area.
- Shawn Molnar
The new iPhone OS is much more important. The 3G and GPS are nice, but the improvements to the OS are so much better. I'm just going to stick with my first-gen iPhone for the time being...
- Brandon Wood
But Which is the Stock Photography Model of the Future? on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Jim Pickerell is a photographer who runs a stock photography website and newsletter, Selling stock. Jim said in his presentation that he thought the new microstock agencies out today frequently sell photos for too low a price. Jim said that it seemed wrong that Time Magazine could buy a photo and use it on their cover from a microstock agency paying far less than they should to use an image like that. Lise Gagne is one of the top selling microstock photographers who has made over 700,000 image sales on iStockphoto. She now is the Artistic Director for iStockphoto.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
An interesting tradeoff between the old and new model. With the old, quality had to be high and quantity was low. With the new, quantity is the name of the game, while quality still needs to be high, but probably not as high as with the old model. Digital has definitely enabled the new model.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I would be interested to hear from each photographer how much time and effort each would have to spend to generate an equivalent income. Lets say the the old model photographer would produce and sell 700 images and the new model photographer 700,000. Seems like there might much more labor involved in the new model, which is the opposite of what one would expect.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Stock photography is different from assignment photography. I Think the trend is to buy at a low price and with all rights cleared and that is not good for future sales. Photojournalists used to be able to sell a photo for a specific use only, enabling future sales of the same image for different uses.
- Mário Pires
At least they're paying for it ... Maybe this is the future. Content is worth less, eyeballs worth more. Discuss...
- David Weiner
The value of content is quickly dropping towards zero, and I don't see that photography should be any exception. Much like the music artist who doesn't make a dime off of CD's (or digital downloads), I don't expect photographers will make much from stock photography anymore in the near future - the competition from amateurs will ensure that. Rather, photographers will have to look at it as a vehicle to promote your brand and gain credibility, to earn yourself future paid assignments.
- Eric P
The problem is that photographs as well as music can have significant value depending on their usage. If a large high profile corporation uses your photo or music as part of their national advertising campaign, it has a significant amount of value to them by way of increasing their revenue & brand awareness. In contrast if a local non profit uses your photo for their monthly news letter, it is worth far less to them. This is how the 'old' system worked, cost was based on usage.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Unfortunately, people (and large corporations) now expect to get something of value for free because a president has been set by some people giving their work (or stealing and giving other peoples work) away for free or cheap. This decreases the precised value of content below what it actually costs to create the content. This is an unsustainable model which will eventually fall apart, once content creators finely realize that it is not worth their time to produce quality content any longer.
- Jeff P. Henderson
As the overall quantity of photography goes up, does it automatically mean that it's easier to *find* the right photograph? License it? Use it in a context where, as Jeff Henderson notes, it has considerable value? In some cases, absolutely. But another side to the value chain to consider is the effort expended finding and obtaining the right to use a photograph. (disclosure, work for Getty Images)
- Madsimian
@Jeff P. Henderson: The thing is that it's been proven that there are plenty of people who are willing to produce content and give it away for free. There might be some content creators who will take their ball home and refuse to play anymore if they can't get big bucks - but the vast majority of content creators will keep doing it anyway, because they like to. And that means no matter how much I want to charge that big corporation, there'll be someone out there just as good willing to undercut me.
- Eric P
Love to hear some thoughts on this post from a PR/Marketers perspective: http://www.eyeballeconomy.com/2008...
- David Weiner
@Eric, That is the unfortunate reality of this trend toward free content. People who earn a living doing something else are often inclined to give their work away for free or for attribution only, because it is a hobby or because they like to see their work in print. As you alluded to, with the explosion of digital, there are so many really good armature photographers out there that there will probably be and endless flow of free or cheap content. This is an unfortunate reality for stock photographers.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Even with all the free content available, there is still a market for rights managed stock photography. What RM provides is exclusive usage of an image for a period of time, which you pay extra for. i.e. your competitor can't use the same photo. With 'restriction free' photos like you might buy for $5 at iStock, you have no guarantee that a competitor or someone else will not use that photo also. Large corporations who are very careful with their public image WILL pay the cost for RM images.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Having more photos to choose from works if you just need some for a powerpoint. When you are actively competing against other design firms for business from large corps that compete among themselves for your jaded eyeballs, you're in a whole 'nother world where different rules apply. The aftershock of this wave of digital quantity will be revolutions over how to find quality. Trust me. :)
- Madsimian
from fftogo
If you can find someone who is willing to pay for quality and you deliver that on time and on budget, then you can still have a revenue source. Specialized photo shoots that involve models and teams are another area where only professionals compete. Stock is generic, images made at a client request are another story.
- Mário Pires
@Madsimian I think you make an excellent point. If Time wants to use a $5 photograph on their cover, then who can stop them? On the other hand, if they want something truly unique for a story, they will pay for it if they can find it quickly and easily. The trick, I guess, for photographers is to a) photograph things that are unique enough for people or corporations to pay for, and b) make those photographs findable by those entities. I suppose that's the value prop of the big agencies like Getty now.
- matt hollingsworth
@Jeff - do you think individual photographers typically handle their own rights-managed sales? I would think so since they inherently need to control the distribution of the photo once someone buys the rights. How effective is using an agency for rights-managed sales & marketing? Just curious as one investigating rights-managed sales for my photos.
- matt hollingsworth
@Matt, I know of some full time stock photographers that handle the sale and licensing of their RM photos, but I would suspect that a majority work through some sort of agency. Here is a link to Dan Heller's web site. He is a very successful stock photographer who manages his own web site for sales and licensing http://www.danheller.com/ He has a ton in info on his site on how to do what he is doing. Dan also has a Blog http://danheller.blogspot.com/
- Jeff P. Henderson
@matt Thanks, yep, you got it. There's no doubt that the flood of pretty-good photos is causing a certain *use* of them to become a commodity transaction. Outside of that box, quantity starts to work against you quickly (more noise) Finding aids (better search) and/or more focused high-quality collections increasingly become competitive advantages . Both for stock providers, photographers working with them, and ultimately those who use them to produce advertisements.
- Madsimian
@Jeff - thanks. I've been reading some from Dan Heller and he has so much great info and ideas. I'm going to spend some more time on his website.
- matt hollingsworth
Dan Heller's stuff is great.
- Thomas Hawk
Sitting on a plane at Oakland Airport on my way to Seattle. Excited to be attending Microsoft's Pro Photographer Summit today and tomorrow.
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Have fun in Seattle!
- Jonathan Bailey
welcome! good weather for the rest of the week! Can't wait to see those Seattle pics...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Great ...Have fun
- saee:Dsharif
Have fun at the summit, keep us updated!
- Aaron Myers
Looking forward to hearing what MS is up to in photography.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Great you made the flight , see you @ the party this evening.xoxo
- Mrsth
that sounds really fun, Thomas. I know you'll get some great pics and hope you have a good time.
- matt hollingsworth
Best way to beat the Bay Area heat wave I've heard. Wish I were going & I'm not a pro photog.
- shelisrael1
You must make it to Gas Works Park, I could see you spending a couple hours there without moving more then 20 feet in any direction. So much macro.....
- Squid
definitely planning on shooting gasworks.
- Thomas Hawk
WorldBlu | Designing Democratic Organizations - http://www.worldblu.com/scoreca...
25 companies who have the most democratic (lower-case d, not John Kerry Nancy Pelosi Ted Kennedy capital D) workplaces - freedom of sharing, communication, equality in the workplace.
- matt hollingsworth
the art of daniel pitner - http://www.danielpitner.com/
very nice flash-based website design, with snakes!
- matt hollingsworth
Google Reader Adds Universal Sharing - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008...
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Thanks for pointing this out, Steve. I was actually just thinking how neat it would be to share web pages in your Reader shared items feed, and voilá, here it is!
- matt hollingsworth
FeedDemon has always been able to do this with its shared items ;)
- Glenn Slaven
Besides laziness, I have officially run out of reasons not to use Google Reader.
- Rob Diana
See my other comments at http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... on the Google Reader Shared Items stuff. Lots of duplicates are now coming into my feeds. Really badly implemented. Plus, FriendFeed's comments are really showing their value.
- Robert Scoble
I don't really see the point of them stepping into the game this late with features we already enjoy using here on FriendFeed.
- Gadiel Rivera
My redesign is up. What do you think? Note that if you comment on FriendFeed you'll be found there on my home page. http://scobleizer.com
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Looks good. Clean and simple design.
- Spencer
Looking good... it was time.
- Matt Shaulis
I like it!
- Ian Betteridge
very nice blog redesign, Robert; very clean & crisp, and I really like the FriendFeed widget / badge
- matt hollingsworth
wow, nice redo - I really like it!
- Sarah Perez
new redesign is clean and easy on the eyes!
- Nick Ali
Its nice & clean! Can you add a link to your friendfeed feed? right under your Twitter feed?
- Elliott Ng
I really like it...its clean and fresh!...via feedalizr
- John Kotsaftis
I like the new design. Disappointed no OpenID support, but guessing you're still on wordpress.com and it's a limitation there?
- Aaron B. Hockley
nice, it's a HUGE improvement, plus now's there more of an incentive to comment via FriendFeed :), I also really like the layout, what WP template is it?
- Jennifer Van Grove
from Alert Thingy
Feature request: U should add "classic mode" setting where u can view it in the old ghetto style. I miss it already. It had character. Change is hard.
- Elliott Ng
I really like it. Clean and simple!
- Nelson de Witt
from twhirl
Nice update. How did you do the FriendFeed part so nicely?
- Mike Reynolds
easy to read -- nice! adding anything else to the sidebar?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Very nice! Now you need to work in Disqus so that I can follow the comments using gReader.
- Phil G
from Alert Thingy
looks good robert!
- (jeff)isageek
I like it - very Web 2.0
- Pat Gannon
Dude - New site rocks!
- Michael Lehman
from Alert Thingy
as I said in the comments - nice job but definitely needs Disqus for the comments IMO
- Steven Hodson
Very cool, clean and elegant.
- Michel Bechelani
from twhirl
I like the CSS modifications you made to the FriendFeed widget to get rid of the border. Looks really nice.
- Benjamin Golub
Awesome redesign. Especially love the photo of you ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Nice improvement. Like others, I'm having trouble with the FriendFeed widget. Might want to consider a link in the sidebar to an article detailing what purposes are served by the different services you've chosen and the reasoning behind them.
- Kawika Holbrook
Looks nice -- like the way the logos/links to the social sites you use (on the right) are useful and unobtrusive; like the layout of the posts
- Kirk Kittell
The layout really seems to capture all of your activity across multiple social media and looks nice. Thumbs up!
- Chris Luckhardt
really like
- Charlie Key
from twhirl
you need your own favicon
- Charlie Key
from twhirl
Scoble, how does one add an avatar for your comments pages?
- Thomas Hawk
You add an avatar by registering for Wordpress.com. It's also an Autommatic Gravatar.
- Robert Scoble
Just checked out the new design and I like it. Great idea with the FriendFeed panel. I am using it more too.
- Grant Griffiths
from twhirl
the blog looks nice, a great improvement from the previous version.
- Alejandro
So much more professional. Well done, Robert.
- Trevor Carpenter
Nicely done. I love it that your "About Me" redirects to your Wikipedia page :)
- Mario Sundar
Brilliant picture! Looks really really great. Was pleased to see you in Tim Ferriss' videos on YouTube.
- WebErika
Robert, you're better looking than that photo! plus, it's old and tired... kee-rist, get Hawk to shoot a new one! :-)
- Graeme Thickins
Nice and clean design. Love it. Did I hear there is ads? I don't see any. -- Adblock+ User
- Mike Wills
from twhirl
Looks good - but I agree with Elliott.. with all the links and the ff widget, there is still no direct link to your friendfeed profile
- Jeff Smith
I tried to click on a link in the FriendFeed area and it shows some FF UI right there in the widget. Not supposed to happen (like a messed up iframe). I'm using FF2 on Windows.
- David Bisset (sn)
SocialNetworking: we're rolling out some fixes for the FriendFeed bug. Hopefully that'll be fixed in the next hour.
- Robert Scoble
Disqus would add value
- Seek Ground
Love the new design. Nice job Haewon Kye!
- Don Campbell
Getting ready to head up to Yosemite to shoot a new photo video show with Robert Scoble. http://www.zooomr.com/thomash...
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this sounds so cool! I can't wait to see it; hope you guys have fun
- matt hollingsworth
A camera and Yosemite. Great combo.
- Russellreno
Death to PowerPoint!
here here!
- matt hollingsworth
Using Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer (version: 0.0.4) - http://InternetDuctTape.com/tools...
Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them.
- matt hollingsworth
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