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"Meanwhile, both Rubina and Azharuddin continue to wear their Oscar clothes and pine for life in America" - Karen Padham Taylor

God, there's something wrong with this. These kids are traumatized. They were trotted out to LA as showpieces and now they can't live a normal life anymore. Is the production company and the Mumbai housing authority going to give them a flat, as promised? "I cannot believe these kids have just been left like this after being taken to Hollywood. It is bound to affect them psychologically," said social worker Sanjay Bhatia, who works in the slum. - Christopher Chung

Ugh! - Jason Wehmhoener

So, not taking them to the Oscars was a better idea? Uprooting them from their only known social construct and plopping them in front of Brad & Angie's house? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Much better to see what is possible and strive for it in anguish, rather than be satisfied with the status quo. Coming from a lower middle-class background in India, I have bought old Fortune magazines from wastepaper shops for two rupees to read up on what was happening. Yes, it made my then condition seem like hell, but heck I would not be here now if I had not known what I wanted. - Mahesh CR

This is so sad! - April Buchheit

If you never realize there is something better out there for you, why would you climb out of the crap-hole you're in? - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

That's really sad... I have been living under a rock and don't know much about the movie but didn't they make any money off of it since it was so successful?? - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Lindsay, seriously, that's the part I don't understand. I would have thought they'd have made at least enough money for a "proper bed" and a place to put it, at least for a while... - Jason Wehmhoener

Honestly, it sounds like $1K would make a big difference in their lives... they didn't even make that much?? - Lindsay is in 20-ten

back to School and back to the Slums - bcultral

Doesn't most of the responsibility fall on the people behind Slumdog? They had to make a few extra dollars that they can pay these kids. Why aren't they doing it?!? - grant fox

I thought I read somewhere that the producers of this movie were buying houses for the families of all these kids. I need to try to find that story. - Trish R

Perhaps this is a stretch, but how is this any different than any of the kids throughout the world who get used by large companies to manufacture products that we use in the West? Danny Boyle and co. are eating very well right now. - Cee Bee

If they're child actors, the money would've been paid to their parents. No matter how much the children made, the production company has no control over how the parents opted to spend it. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Here's the story. http://www.independent.ie/enterta... - Trish R

but do the same rules apply in India as they do here? from what I understand it would take a very small amount of $$ to make their lives better. The child actors in Slumdog were a significant part of the movie, and one could argue that they were the better actors as well (besides Freida Pinto, but I digress...). - grant fox

Sounds to me like the Indian government said they'd find houses for them and then backed out of it. Based on the photograph of the youngest boy's father hitting him, I'd guess his parents are pocketing the money and the officials are looking the other way. - Jason Wehmhoener

Mahesh: very powerful statement. This whole story makes me sad, partly because of how spoiled we are as Americans. - Robert Scoble

From the article: His father is also saying he wants more money for his son's film role. In addition to school, the kids were paid for their work and have trust funds set up for when they turn 18. - Nine

At least they are in school. I hope they do something useful with their trust funds. - Jason Wehmhoener

How sad. But then again, so many kids never have any opportunities. - Andrew Pass

Now what am I going to do with all those bic pens? - Troy Forster from twhirl

So that's why lock-picking tools are illegal. - wrecks

This guy picks 7 locks in just under 2 minutes! - Joe Bland

OMG, alarming oO - Dennis R.

looks like I could do that too - esther ♥ ♫

Heheh, and after picking the locks he's faced with a very large hound looking him straight in the eyes and a terrier jumping for his b$lls... Somehow I think the locks are the least of his worries. - Henk de Kruyff from twhirl

Lock picking tools are illegal?? What about crowbars and bolt cutters? - Paul Grav

All burglary tools are illegal. If they think you are carrying crowbars and bolt cutters to break in somewhere, they can arrest you. Of course, there are legitimate purposes for those tools, too. Lock picks are just for picking locks, so you better have a really good reason for carrying them if caught (e.g., you are a locksmith). - Brian Hawthorne

lockpicking tools are illegal because it's so damn easy to open for expamle a samsonite suitcase or a bicicle lock. - and the guy in the video is really well trained, a newby takes 3 to 5 minutes to open his first lock. - pm10

I always wanted a set of those tools when I was a kid watching private eyes breaking into bad guys' houses. :) - Steve Lowe

Carrying bolt cutters is a little more obvious than these few tools. He should throw in a third minute showing the liquid nitrogen trick and the bic-pen bike lock trick. - Indio Apache from twhirl

Wow, this makes picking a lock look far too easy... He even picked a combination lock?!?!?! - Walt Ruppar

Just confirms... locks are for honest people. :-( - TranceMist

I saw him pick Loch Ness. Now that was effin' wild! Then he picked his nose and that was kinda gross. - Christopher Harley

this is really pretty appalling to watch. i assume standard dial combo locks are harder to pick. as for the tools, meh. making them illegal is hardly sufficient to protecting users w/ these types of locks. - MikeAmundsen

Why aren't guns illegal then? It's absurd that lock-picking tools are illegal. Mere possession shouldn't prove you're ready to break the law. - thepete

The combination lock was the easiest. Under one second. The last one required three tools and was a little more fiddly than the rest, which were all done in a couple seconds. Scary. In other words, you can't really put your trust in locks. Makes you wonder what kind of locks you _can_ trust, if any. - Rick Cogley

I think it's a conspiracy! ;-) Did anyone ever get an honest answer out of Twitter as to why this is happening? - Jeff P. Henderson

Days? More like weeks or months. If they were thinking, Twitter would reverse that latency so input to Twitter was fast and outbound was slower - Christian Anderson

It is because FriendFeed is posting directly to Twitter via the twitter API. Twitter is NOT posting to FriendFeed, so it is up to FF's polling mechanism. But I suppose FF and Twitter could have worked something out where FF should get the updates in real-time. - Daniel Sims

Bret wrote (on Thu) “The XMPP feed we get from Twitter is about 30 minutes behind. Sorry about the lag for Twitter messages this past week. We are working with Twitter to fix this technical issue.”" http://friendfeed.com/e... - Ken Sheppardson

Hope it's fixed soon. - Ontario Emperor from fftogo

I wanted to mention this the other day, it's annoying and so not useful. the core of Twitter is in real-time... well, it's not when it comes to Friendfeed. - Orli Yakuel

That delay is annoying - Susan Beebe

Everyone wants to be in two places at once when they're not anywhere at all. - Michael Markman

Sometimes forced Refreshes seems to fix the problem. - Nicholas James

That's odd... If FF is getting Tweets via an XMPP feed from Twitter, I can't see how refresh would do anything. - Ken Sheppardson

forced Refreshes do work in case of shared items via Google reader...which otherwise take few minutes to appear on FF stream. - Roshan Ramachandran

my are pretty much instant - sofarsoShawn

sucks that it happens, but good to hear that its not just me... how could we even expect Twitter to be fast... - Peter Efland

FF's got SUP - .LAG liked that

I tend to force a refresh a lot - not just for twitter, either. Flickr photos haven't been showing up at all w/o the refresh. - Sarah Perez

True, very annoying. Facebook is just as bad...their stream shows things I did days later. - Neal Jansons

To me it looks like there's a disconnect of the Twitter "Firehose" that used to work between FF and Twitter. FF seems to be using Twitter's feeds now (maybe as a fall back) but twtitter feeds frankly suck. Slow, frequently broken, etc... - mikepk

I also force Refresh often, both the tweets and blog posts on FF. - Bora Zivkovic

This never bothered me. I almost never have a message that can't be sent out over a 30 minute period. When would that 30 minutes be so important? I'm curious. - MarkCarras

Mark: when you are trying to have a conversation about something 30 minutes isn't acceptable. News, for instance. Or just plain comparing notes. What Twitter is doing is ensuring I'll send more notes from friendfeed because I know then both of my groups of friends will see whatever I'm doing at same time. - Robert Scoble

there's actually a reason why Twitter's feeds are slow, but it's not described here - Steve Gillmor

Robert: Twitter has never been about conversation though. It just doesn't seem like it was made for that to me. On the rare occasion I do converse through Twitter, I do it directly to avoid the lag. You are right about Friend Feed being better for conversation, but I think it was made with that more in mind. - MarkCarras

Steve: Some reason other than the XMPP 30-min lag Bret mentioned last Thu? (per above) - Ken Sheppardson

yes - Steve Gillmor from IM

Steve: Care to share? - Christopher Mercer

no. just interested in fixing the problem. - Steve Gillmor from IM

Useless! - Christopher Mercer

what's useless? My information? Do your homework. - Steve Gillmor

Have to assume it has something to do with the "business model" they have but are not talking about... how long until search results/API are slowed by 30 minutes without $$$ - Brian Roy

that would be great if they made reliable access available for $$. - Steve Gillmor

I'm of two minds. 1) It stifles the dev community 2) I'd pay (reasonably) for preferred access - if they are taking away what is there today unless we $$ that would just seem like extortion. - Brian Roy

neither of those explain why the feed is asynchronous. 1. so far has not stifled community. 2. It's not here today. - Steve Gillmor

By here today I meant inducing an artificial 30 minute delay in the (in particular) search API. I get tweets today within 15 - 30 seconds 90% of the time. I would, however, pay for a premium service with SLA for timely delivery. - Brian Roy

I doubt a delay is being "induced." We "pay" for every message we get. - Steve Gillmor

Ah... ok. As cryptic as that may seem I think I know exactly what you mean. - Brian Roy

I am not being cryptic. I am being factual. - Steve Gillmor

Yeah I know... that is what I meant. It seemed cryptic but wasn't. Thanks Steve. - Brian Roy

I dont think he meets the criteria: these are TV-famous hot women. ;) - Tamar Weinberg

Well that's just sexist... - Nathan Howell

But he's hot and in the TV-business... :-) - Håkan Dahlström

Brilliant, just brilliant. :-p - Hutch Carpenter

Mmmmmm, Olivia Munn - Josh Haley

no Scoble, no cred - Live4Emma (L4S)

Twat-ter.com - Håkan Dahlström

some of the best tweets are funny. ie. tina fey, summer glau - Hao Chen

These are lazy women, not really any updates at least make a bit of an effort ha ;) - Joe Dawson

Håkan don't worry Robert is there here he's just on HIDE at the mo;-D - Jason

Didn't know Tina Fey was on Twitter. What's sad is that I haven't heard of half these people. Where is Jaclyn Smith? Jane Pauley? Misty Rowe? - Ontario Emperor

why hello there, olivia.... - Cee Bee

Is Jessica Alba on that list? - Outsanity

Oh, porn stars use twitter? RIOT! - Outsanity

LOL @ Hakan bringing the funny all the way from Sweden. And if you're going to have a hottie, shouldn't the cover model be, uh..a hottie? I may be gay, but I'm not blind. She's boring. - Derrick

best tweet: Sasha Grey - Porn Star, Actress: “just finished a shoot…man I’m tired!” 7:25 PM Jan 3rd from mobile web, lol!!!!! - hector juarez

I shouldn't have made the list. But my wife @maryamie should have. - Robert Scoble

That's 20 more I'm following :-P - Andre P. Siregar

Maaaaaybe 3 on that list actually send their own tweets. The rest use it to sound hip and for publicity. - Rolf Schewe

It's also interesting to see who these people are following - Andre P. Siregar

Can't believe I looked... OK, so I followed Tina Fey :) - Floyd Davenport

Never heard of eighteen of them. Not following any of them. - Pat Rice

+1 on Tina Fey. Also, I doubt the ones from the movie Twilight are real. Way too few followers given the cult status of that movie/book series. - Randy Holloway from twhirl

Oh wow! The Twitter Swimsuit Issue is coming ... I can feel it. - Martha

lol, ontario: "Didn't know Tina Fey was on Twitter. What's sad is that I haven't heard of half these people. Where is Jaclyn Smith? Jane Pauley? Misty Rowe? - Ontario Emperor" - edythe

biz and ev...you must just love this :) - don loeb

There's only one way to find out Steve! - Mona Nomura

Yeah, I just looked at one of the screen screenshots, really neat. Sort of makes twitter a bit more like friendfeed. Here is the link to the extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Steven (optionshiftk)

Agreed. Thanks for the link. :) - Mona Nomura

I just added it. Nifty, but I will still most of my tweets trhough Tweetdeck. - Christopher from twhirl

Power Twitter has some issues with the Twitter API. See here: http://twitpic.com/zle8 - Svartling

I will definitely be following this room. Thanks for creating it Robert! - Justin Levy

Thank you Robert. Looking forward to a lot of CES stuff there. Meander through the Nokia booth while you are there.... - Robert Miller

They are good for tracking and I think they'll also be great for collaborations. I'm trying to get more interested in that idea. See http://tinyurl.com/BeExcep... for examples. - Internet Strategist

Great idea - so is there a way to pull in or emulate Google Alerts? - invariant - farewell FF

invariant: I already get all Google News through an RSS search. Same thing as alerts. - Robert Scoble

robert: Just did a test and I get many more entries from my Google alerts than I do from a Google News search. edit: it is probably because you can set alerts to search other categories including blogs, groups, video etc. - invariant - farewell FF

Google Alerts already have RSS feeds associated with them, so you can set them up and have them appear in FF (I already have several I use this way). - John

John - exactly what I was looking for. You need to set your alerts to deliver to "feed" and then you can get an RSS link for it. Perfect! - invariant - farewell FF

Wonder if Microsoft will announce the next Xbox - Joe Dawson

That would be great! Then again, I would continue to hold off on getting an Xbox while waiting for the next version. - Robert Miller

@Amit Absolutely agree. It's definitely an interesting addition, but a little more enigmatic. ;) - Rick Turoczy from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Great, was waiting for this. I hope they take things one step further: I'd like to be able to select 1 or more documents from Gmail and attach them to an email. - Samuel Driessen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

lol, I cant wait to hear what olbermann has to say about this - Kyle Weller

interesting showing some polls are now within the margin of error, including the zogby poll which is now within 6 - Jonathan Jesse

Jonathan: if you talk to pollsters, though, they say the actual results aren't that close. The polls that are closer aren't using cell phone only voters, like me, which tend to break younger and more educated and which are breaking for Obama big time. - Robert Scoble

A great read. Amazing how much interest there was in Europe while i was there about our election. Everyone I talked to over the past two weeks was scared of McCain/Palin and rooting for Obama/Biden. Fascinating to see how citizens of other countries took such an interest in a foreign election. US citizens are so far removed from such affairs abroad. It was good to see the interest and concern. - Jim Goldstein

No one calls me which is good anyway. If they did, I might not tell them what I really felt, as pollsters and telemarketeers calling get me pissed anyway. - Ian May

I was in Europe in April/May for a month and everyone was interested. Many doubted that Americans would ever elect a Black President. I told them to "just watch us - it will happen this time!" - Bora Zivkovic

If the obama campaign called me I would be happy about that - Kyle Weller

Oh wow, a media outlet endorsing 0bama. How surprising! - Spencer

Call Guinness. - David Risley

that's one good nucular tidbit I have not heard until now? :) - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

Not surprising at all - since the choice is between a candidate and a caricature. - Bora Zivkovic

Actually the choice is a marketing campaign, which 0bama has been good at, but still has no substance. - Spencer

So, you've gone and read the articles on his website with the specifics and still believe that? It's okay to say no substance if you've read and feel that way, but if not, it's pretty silly. - Karoli

Anybody can write marketing materials, look at 0bama's past, look at his voting record, that is more telling than what some marketing strategist posted on a website. - Spencer

Voting record, and record of bills introduced and/or passed, which for a senator with 2 years, is quite impressive. If nothing else, the guy is a workaholic. I'd say the conduct of his campaign also speaks to management/governing style. - Karoli

4 years. I was living in Chicago in 2004 when Obama rose through a crowded Dem primary field to absolutely dominate the election. Even before Ryan's scandal, he was up by 35 points. I remember seeing the first "Obama" signs at the Wilmette Metra station and not knowing if that was a first or last name. - Dave Slusher

Hilarious, Steve. - Rex Hammock

He's the only one of us whose personal equity went up 1,000% this week :) - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

I heard one of the commentators say that Joe should be our next pres because he represents the culmination of American morals and virtues! HAH! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Jason, if you are talking about Joe, he wants to own his own business. I don't think he owns one yet. - ComicList

Is Joe The Plumber complaining because he's an S-Corp? Just change to a C-Corp and not have the business income flow into personal. No sweat. - LogEx

People miss the morality aspect of taking someones hard earned money. If you punish success, there will be less of it. - Robert Hafer

@Robert Understood. At a gut level, I thought that's what this was about until I read the book, "Don't Think of an Elephant" which explains the liberal/progressive thought pattern on this: The objective is not to punish the successful for being successful. The objective is to ensure that those who are benefiting more from the US's public infrastructure are paying commensurately larger amounts to support it. The infrastructure makes possible private success. - Chris Lasher

Joe the plumber is worried about that portion of his potential future income that may go above $250,000 changing from a 36% bracket to a 39% bracket. Warren Buffett even understands. - LogEx

The same argument holds true for complaining about paying taxes on short-term gains in the market. Just pay the taxes on the wins and be happy you made a profit! - Louis Gray

Jason, I have heard lower-middle income people who didn't want raises because it would put them in a higher bracket. Good employers will work out a deal to help out those employees. - LogEx

Most people who fear the "higher tax bracket" don't really understand incremental tax brackets. - Brian Johns

They also don't understand effective tax rate and itemized deductions. - Brian Roy

You know that will never happen. At least Blair here kept his religious conversion to after he left office! - Rachel Clarke

Rachel: I wouldn't be so sure. At some point they will see the errors of their ways. Focusing on abortion while the economy burns like Palin did today in front of her audiences? Please do be serious. - Robert Scoble

My Guess is that the Palin Party will separate from the Repubs when/if this campaign hugely goes down in flames. - CW™

Bored: that would be awesome because the religious wackos would never win without another group like the fiscal conservatives (who should never have joined up with them in the first place, it turns out. Bush proved that). - Robert Scoble

Um... it would be interesting to know if taxpayers pick up airplane fees and per diem fees etc. for other politicians to speak at other events, maybe not religious events? Ex. Jimmy Carter, Democrat + Baptist? or the Clintons? or the Bushes? college commencement addresses? charities? red cross? etc? - Justin Long

@Justin - all modern presidential campaigns do this. This is the anti-theist movement on FF using any excuse to beat up Christianity. That Palin is involved is a bonus. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark: you're sort of right. I'm not beating up all of Christianity, though. Not all Christians believe what Palin does. Not all Christians use their religion as a litmus test for who they'll vote for. Not all Christians believe it's more important today to talk about abortion than the economy. Not all Christians believe McCain would make a better President than Obama. So, clearly, I'm not beating up Christianity here. I'm beating up religious wackos who control the Republican Party. - Robert Scoble

+1 Robert - Jeff P. Henderson

See the update at bottom. This isn't a religion issue so much as a travel expenses issue, since she charged taxpayers more to travel to her own home. - Bruce Lewis

Maybe you didn't read the article, Mark, this is something Palin did as Governor. When a _Presidential_ candidate like Obama spends money to speak somewhere, he's spending campaign money, that is, from supporters. However, what this article, and her other statements and positions, do is further delineate that she doesn't think much of the establishment clause of The First Amendment. Nor do many in her wing of the party. Which means, in my mind, she's a fundamentalist, not a conservative. - Rick Powell

I think many of those people might be happier in some Christian version of Islamist theocracies, complete with rabble-rousing, kill the heretic rallies such as we've been seeing from their campaign. That seems to be their goal. Which is why, if for nothing else, they must be defeated. - Rick Powell

What I meant was, it would be interesting to know if people in office (not in election campaigns) spend public money to speak at events - religious or otherwise - e.g. some of those I listed. I do believe it's okay to use your religion as a litmus test; i think a voter can use any qualification he or she desires. On the other hand, I think that someone in office should NOT use religion as a litmus test for their decisions, generally speaking. - Justin Long

And I for one do think the economy is more important than abortion simply because the economy is more likely to see some progress. We have had plenty of Republicans in office who have done nothing about abortion, largely because it's politically impossible at the moment. Although generally I wouldn't vote for a pro-choice candidate. What a difficult line to walk, between what is *possible* and what one *feels is important*. Sometimes we just get angry. I think a lot of Americans on both sides are angry... - Justin Long

Christians should try and remember the passage "Be angry and sin not" - or "he who says to 'You fool' is in danger of hell fire" - etc. I'm off my soap box now. - Justin Long

Yawn. Do 0bama supporters have anything else to do besides be obsessed with Palin? - Spencer

and recession - adolfo foronda

+1 to Edmundo for using the phrase "Where's the outrage" - MikeAmundsen

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins just tried to claim that disagreements with Sarah Palin's brand of religious extremism are attacks on Christianity, religion and theism as a whole. See what I mean about the generally low level of intelligence among Sarah Palin supporters? Barack Obama himself is a Christian, religionist and theist, as are most Sarah Palin opponents. What causes this kind of mental meltdown? - Sean McBride

We non-believers shouldn't forget Obama supports faith-based initiatives being supported with tax dollars. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Either religious extremists will be expelled and expunged from the Republican Party, and perhaps it will recover its health, or the extremists will be permitted to take over the party entirely and drive it into irrelevance and extinction. My personal assessment is that the Republican Party is beyond saving at this point -- neoconservatives and religious fundamentalists have damaged it beyond repair. - Sean McBride

speaking of "anti-theist movement", I just watched Religulous last night. it just floors me to see elected officials be so anti-intellectual and too much faith based. and I thought that leaders in developing nations are lightyears behind when it comes to psychosocial development. - ~C4Chaos

Is this actually against illegal or is it just being stated that way? - Jeff Layton

+1 to Jack Carlson. Obama is *very* religious and we could see several initiatives that bring attempt to bring churches into gov't activities. - MikeAmundsen

Welcome to FriendFeed Edmundo, that was an interesting first comment. What you failed to point out was that the $100,000 in "federal pork" that went to "Rev. Pfleger's church in Chicago" actually went to the COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER *attached* to the church. You know, the place where kids can play basketball after school, get homework help, learn karate or golf, get help finding a summer job, prepare for college, or use the computer lab if they don't have a computer at home. - Karim

But God forbid poor black kids should learn how to play golf, eh? Because then where would you be? lol EDIT: they also have some kind of nutritional snack program. So it's possible some of that $100,000 is literally "federal pork." - Karim

Jeff, good question. If you drill down to the Yahoo! News article (http://news.yahoo.com/s...) it says "Experts say those trips fall into an ethically gray area, since Democrats and Republicans alike often visit religious venues for personal and official reasons." - Karim

Also from the article: "'Politicians are entitled to freely exercise their religion while in office, but ethically if not legally that part of her trip ought to not be charged to taxpayers,' said Walker, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. 'It's still fundamentally a religious and spiritual experience she is having.'" So again, gray area. Between this and Troopergate, it looks like Palin is good at worming into ethical gray areas. - Karim

this is really about ethics, not legality. in gov't, corporate, and volunteer orgs, it is *always* best to steer clear of anything that might look like your'e taking advantage of taxpayers, shareholders, and donors. any chance you get to charge the group for a trip, a meal, a conference is a chance to express your ethical standards to everyone associated w/ the org. and you can bet that folks w/ in the orgs take their cues from leadership. and they judge you accordingly. - MikeAmundsen

"Zakaria worries that one day historians will write about how the United States globalized the world, but forgot to globalize itself." - Dave Winer

it could be a "may" if it were written a few years ago... otherwise.... - Jeremy Toeman

It's not such a terrible thing. It's a world economy. What we had going here couldn't last forever. Now we just have to stop doing things that disadvantage us, and we'll do okay. We need to get to work on our education system, health care, infrastructure, and stop borrowing all that money for things that don't create value -- like the war in Iraq. - Dave Winer

You know if McCain started talking like that he might win the election. The thing that's scary is that he doesn't seem to understand where we fit in. Our army isn't going to convince a lot of our adversaries and all of his bluster is going in the wrong direction. - Dave Winer

And still, people are overlooking South America. China and Russia are slowly building alliances with other countries, bypassing the United States... - Mona Nomura

BTW, I think it's very cool that the Chinese are opening plants in the US. I'd like to dig into that and find out why it was economic for them to do that. Maybe they just did it for PR purposes. It's hard to imagine that our labor costs less than theirs. - Dave Winer

For those who follow the recent goings-on in the Anglican Communion, it's intersting to note that much of the debate is North-South centered, with some concluding that the North is moving toward a phase of Laodicean irrelevance. - Ontario Emperor

In *only* 30 yrs. China has been steadily moving from the centralized planning of socialism to free markets and capitalism....Meanwhile the U.S. has been moving in the opposite direction...U.S. citizens would be wise to go back to their roots, because the China horse has left the barn. - Chris Rossini

There is obviously a lot for the US to be concerned about and I don't think it's necessary for the US to be the sole superpower. It's probably better for us if we're not bc obviously we aren't very good at it. That said, I have some real concerns about what we're seeing from China and what's really going on. If I had a lot of money, I would probably spent more investing in India than... more... - Ray Grieselhuber

This makes the same amount of sense it did when Leo Laporte proposed this idea during the opening ceremony - that is none at all. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Technically ... until China floats it's currency, we're subsidizing them. Free trade at some point needs to be fair free trade. - Charlie Anzman

we made our bed. soon, sleepytime!! - Anthony Citrano

boy 'yall thinks this is a good thing? I'm just glad to be here and not there. if the rest of the world wants to bend over for tyranny, cheap labor and unrestricted industrialization... then let them destroy their land. ...and they can hate me all they want. ah yes the joys of socialism that is not sustainable, so now they have to be a bunch of predators. I'm just glad we aren't voting Obama for president or we might end up like them. A green ghetto makes a carnivore - Noah David Simon

Bull shit bunch of Propaganda! American imperialism is not finished but just starting! Watch for New World Order! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

they should of put you in the gulag Igor. Goodnight! - Noah David Simon

Noah yes Solzhenitsyn! I speak the Truth and Fuck U! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

absolutely..."no 'may' about it' - Harold Cabezas from feedalizr

It already ended. Depression mode ahead! - Michael Forian

Just added Fareed Zakaria's book to my Amazon.com wish list. - Mike Reynolds

Agreed with Dave Winer. This doesn't mean some post-apocalyptic future for America; just less American dominance in various areas. - Brent Newhall

you can have your Chinese mob glut of human meat and I will take America and it's breadbasket of food, plentiful natural gas and running on Chevy Volts in a few years. Wind and Solar going faster then any other country. America is BACK! I just hope I can hold all of you to live outside of America's borders in a few years. Socialism and Dictatorships are flip sides of a coin. America might hit a few bumps down the road to energy independence, but I will take this road over any other. - Noah David Simon

"one world, one dream" indeed but certainly not the american dream - Brian Sullivan

mahnah​ mahnah - Noah David Simon

if you live in New York, then you'd have to be rich by default - Outsanity

depends on the part of the city, but a few million at least - Cee Bee

pretty much useless from November till May .. unless you like sitting in parkas and downfilled coats - johnpiercy

That doesn't look like much fun. - Scot Duke

I guess I am rich! When I lived in NYC I went on roof tops with my lady friends and Bacardi rum! I am a real Rockefeller! lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

No FriendFeeders?:) - Igor Poltavskiy

This just makes you wanna go rich! :D Las Vegas, here I come :> - Hrvoje Martincic

I wish that gallery had addressess - Brian Ries

When we were in New York in December we stayed at the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South. We spent a lot of time up on the roof. It was super cold with snow on it but had great views overlooking Central Park. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Mrsth

NYC is a shit hole, I prefer nice open fields. - Claude Betancourt

I like the wide open spaces too. Even if I worked in NY I would probably live in jersey (gulp). For this kind of money, imagine the deck/patio you could have! - Alex

lol @ nyc being a "shit hole." right. real astute comment there, guy - Cee Bee

Maybe he meant the Bronx... - Outsanity

It says "live" in teh corner of my nbc swimfeed - Archangel ωαřмaiden

WarMaiden: I already know that Phelps won a goal and set a world record but it won't be on here in California until later tonight. - Robert Scoble

TV is dead. Time delays are dead. In Canada, they don't allow local broadcasting of election results until your region's polls have closed. The Internet has killed that old-fashioned idea. Time delay TV is so 1988. - Stephen Pierzchala

Aaah, gotcha - Archangel ωαřмaiden

We hear this every four years, but if you truly want the Olympcs to be live with the 12-hourdifference, be waring to go at 3 a.m. That said, I notice that at least for the East Coasters are getting some of the big events live while us West Coasters have to wait three hours... But we're used to that... - Chris Reed

CBC is the perfect model. Live, inclusive, no smaltzy profiles, just the sports. - Kathleen Mazzocco

NBC sucks. Why aren't they showing more of the Olympics? At 7 they showed Access Hollywood Weekend, now they are doing "Olympic Zone" live from Downtown Palo Alto??? WTF?? - PC Easy from twhirl

Ben: are you on East Coast? - Robert Scoble

Robert, you sure are in a hateful mood tonight..but I am with ya..so carry on. - Scot Duke

that sucks. here in Detroit we've got the CBC too, although at least on EST, they've had just as much live coverage for the first time since at least '92 - Richard Lawler from twhirl

Scot: I hate it cause people are talking about it on Twitter and I can't watch for three more hours. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Agreed PC. Their announcers suck, their stupid commercial breaks every 5 minutes suck. Ugh, I want decent coverage of this stuff already. - Dennis Jackson

I am with ya on the Twitter talk about it. I have been trying to watch it online and that sucks as well. - Scot Duke

agreed that the CBC coverage has been great so far...too bad they've lost the broadcast rights for the olympics after this year... - Trent Olson

And it appears NBC may have altered the broadcast of the Opening Ceremony to place TeamUSA in primetime: http://tinyurl.com/5pu92v - Peter Svensk

I am so angry that I can't watch my friends who are racing over there...I have to read about it and hope for youtube. Not angry. Outraged. - Andrew Feinberg

And the MSM wonders why people pirate content and feeds.... - Duncan Riley

gee .. like no-one thought this would happen huh .. a corporation re-writing history to help their bottom line .. I am so shocked <GASP> - Steven Hodson

+1 for CBC - JT Perry

Have you tried the NBC Olympics site? http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv_and_... Some content is streamed live... you may have to adjust your sleeping habits to can the next round of competion in four hours from now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Robert - Yes East Coast, but they are back to recorded gymnastics. "LIVE" is gone. - Ben Newton

I'm watching it live right now. Is it a west coast thing? There are tons of live events online this year, even practice sessions. Requires MSoft Silverlight but pretty good quality streams. - Andrew Leyden

I watched the opening ceremony on my TV via Sopcast&Tvants (pc hooked up to TV). Watched it again in HDTV on NBC later that night. This link has all the ways to catch coverage http://howto.wired.com/wiki... - Andrew Leyden

and you are surprised? at all? honestly? - Thomas Vincent

I'm watching CBC in Canada. http://www.cbc.ca/olympics Do you think it would be any different if another network was covering the Olympics in the States? - Phillip Jeffrey

Comcast added two special Olympic channels in the HD section--one for basketball and one for soccer. There is also Universal HD which has some coverage, USA Network, Oxygen, CNBC and MSNBC, and Telemundo. I'd spin around to see if you can find anything live at the moment (I think there is a basketball game on now). - Andrew Leyden

Have you tried nbcolympics.com? I know they are having some events live. Personally I don't have a problem with the delay. With a choice of the races being broadcast live but not seeing them and being able to see the delay I'll take the delay. - ChiliMac

Here is a good list of what is on (all times EDT) across all the networks http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv... - Andrew Leyden

If you want live, unfortunetly the only way is through the web. And they are raw feeds using MS Silverlight. So if your willing to deal with that you can get all of the events in a pop-up window on your computer. : | - Bluesun 2600 from twhirl

On the West coast in .au we are use to 2hr delay for most sporting events, but not the Olympics. Appears to be live at, least on SBS the "complementary" broadcaster, time to settle down for 3 hours of the womens cycling road race. - Nick Cowie

whenever the olympics take place on the other side of the world most events aren't shown live. This is not about broadcasting the olympics as a public service. It's about NBC making their money back. You do understand the relationship between ad rates and prime-time, right? The Internet takes away any suspense about the olympics when they are held on the other side of the world. You ain't gonna get live from NBC. Too much money at risk. - Dave Madison

part of the coverage is live at least on the east coast. there has been some effort to schedule a few important US events in the morning a la Phelps so that they can be seen live on primetime - Ted

Adding insult to injury, my rather capable PowerPC Mac can't even access the Olympics on nbcolympics.com. It's using an Intel-only version of Silverlight. Trying CBC and other foreign networks online all reject me because of my American IP, and I haven't found a successful proxy server that'll let me stream. - Kevin Hessel

loving nbc's use of silverlight working awesome on the macbook pro - adolfo foronda

The BBC have just had to put a bucket into the Olympics studio in Beijing as the roof is leaking! - Rich

@Kevin Hessel: Thanks for pointing that out. Now I'm not happy with NBC either. - ChiliMac

try watching CBC channel 99 on Comcast. I just watched USA creamed China in basketball, live. - ~C4Chaos

NBC focuses too much on the #olympics drama rather than live coverage. bball on primetime? USA already creamed China - http://bit.ly/1cQyX2 - ~C4Chaos

yeah - accesine

Turns out @petehoekstra isn't following anyone. Usually a bad sign, but I followed him anyway. - Ontario Emperor

Roberto: it's not a filibuster. Congress adjourned for the summer recess. They wanted to vote on the bill lifting the ban on offshore drilling before the recess, a bill that has no urgency. - Mark Trapp

Mark: It has urgency now. :-) - Brent Newhall

Pelosi shut down the CSPAN cameras, turned off the lights and microphones. I think they should vote to decide if there should be drilling. - Caleb Easterwood

It couldn't be a filibuster it's the House members doing this and filibuster is a Senate procedure. There is no filibuster in the House rules. - Thomas Vincent

@Thomas: Good point. Just remembered that myself. - Roberto Bonini

Caleb: no, she didn't. She adjourned the house for the summer recess. When the Congress adjourns, CSPAN turns off and everyone goes home. It's not censorship, it's the Congress going home to their constituents. What's the rush to vote on drilling? It won't have any effect on the summer's gas prices. The twittering/qiking congressmen are playing the social media crowd hard. - Mark Trapp

رونوشت به حسین مزیدی - Shandiz

+1 to Mark. Exactly. - Kevin Bondelli

The outcome of the vote won't have any effect on gas prices for at least ten years. This is pure grandstanding. - Nathan Rein

... not, of course, to imply that there's anything wrong with grandstanding, a glorious tradition in parliamentary politics the world over. - Nathan Rein

@nathan It should have an immediate effect because the prices are at least in part a function of speculation. In the very short term, prices may go down with the promise of more oil in the future. (My own speculation: I doubt that price drop will bridge all the way from now to when the oil actually enters the marketplace. Without the oil actually in the pipes, the prices should creep back up after the initial drop.) - Kirk Kittell

Kirk, no, they won't. Futures speculation is based on the delivery of futures contracts, which must occur within a quarter (more often, within 30 days). Speculation is based on what will happen to the price of oil (more specifically, the production/supply of oil) at the time of delivery. This will do absolutely nothing to speculation or "psychology" until the oil can be delivered to market, which will not happen for several years. - Mark Trapp

A Twitibuster? Err drilibuster? Maybe more accurately, a re-electibuster. - Christian Anderson from fftogo

Mark, very lucid. - Pete Delucchi

Was not a filibuster. Only in the Senate can that happen. House had recessed, so it was more of a sit-in. Still very interesting though. Almost went down to the gallery to check it out. Presser at http://qik.com/johnculberson is cool - Andrew Feinberg

@Mark: So you don't think the prices will come down at all if the offshore ban is removed? - Kirk Kittell

I think it's totally an illusion that gas prices will come down if offshore drilling is allowed. It's a Republican smokescreen. - Cathryn Hrudicka

It'll have no effect on it until the oil comes to market. That's what so silly about this drilling push. Environmental concerns aside, it's a long term solution to a problem that requires an immediate answer. The gas tax holiday, for all its argumentative defects, is more based in reality to solve gas prices now than drilling. You want to bring gas prices down now? Mandate the prices or ban speculation entirely. - Mark Trapp

@Cathryn: See, that response is the reason I have a problem not believing that there is a chance they may be right. I'm a minority: a biker/walker in Houston. I don't want the ban to be lifted. But when it gets pronounced as a Republican scheme only, I try to separate the Kool Aid response from the possibilities. I think the truth is fuzzier than that. I think Mark's explanation is smart, but might only deal with the trades reported to the exchange and that the whole picture might be a little different. - Kirk Kittell

That is: Mark, I think you're right, but I also think that a sufficiently motivated cast of Congressfolk and billionaires can achieve anything that they set their minds to. I can question their intelligence, sure, but I can't question their political and business savvy. - Kirk Kittell

Yeah, business savvy is right. It's all about some extra profit for a few oil companies. At it's max predicted production (which would take 7 years to reach) it would add about 1 million barrels per day... That sounds like a lot, until you realize that's a 1.2% increase in the global supply, and, since oil is a market-traded commodity, there would only be a commensurate reduction in oil prices. Whee... $0.25 less per gallon... in 7 years.... - Jason Carreira

Mark, you now they used this "years" arguement 10 years ago, 20 years ago & even as far back as 30 years ago, meanwhile, we have went from importing 20% of our oil 30 years ago to importing 70% today! The same thing can be said of alternative sources (which no one on my side is trying to block, Bush has subsidized these sources more than any previous Admin), so using your logic we should give up on alternative sources as well! - Brian

Brian, there's solving the energy crisis, and stabbing blindly in the dark because it "sounds" good. Drilling will have no measurable effect on the economy now, and outlooks show that even at peak production, the effect on the oil market will be negligible. So why did it need to be passed before the recess? Why was it so important to have a special session after Congress adjourned? It's political silliness, and they got people to bite via Twitter and Qik. - Mark Trapp

hi , nice to know u ,my name is cici - cici

It's taken a while, but it's worth it :-) - David Peacock

I always wanted a sort by # of bookmarks feature. I hope they added that. - Steve Olson

I love astonomy pics. - Alan Le

our earth :) - saeedeh

Yes, Yuvi. They're from the official NASA site. - Mona Nomura

"The Heavens are declaring your works" These are so awe-inspiring and then there is also a sense of delight about them at the same time, really, when you think about it. If Joy were to burst from an intelligent heart into the universe, this is what it would look like. There is no art to compare. Thanks @Mona N for sharing. - Melanie Reed

Melanie, absolutely my pleasure :) - Mona Nomura

Glad to see you are on this Mona, we were talking about this on Friday - http://friendfeed.com/search... Love that this is now up! - michael sean wright

Your post must've slipped me by... If I had known, I would've re-shared :) Btw, aren't the archives absolutely fascinating? I'm glad NASA is opening up their library to Google and this site. And that we, have the tools to share this information with everyone :) - Mona Nomura

Hubble Fellow, Steven Beckwith, looks back to the first 2 billion years... http://www.youtube.com/watch... - david beckwith

Agree .. Thomas is a pioneer in his own right (and apparently a pretty good business man ... hello Intel?) - Charlie Anzman

Hilarious - Nicholas Kreidberg

great ideas I never thought of doing that before might be cool to mix and match a pretty picture and one of these other alternitives - Charles Rice from twhirl

I'll stick with your nightime shot of the Whitehouse (currently parked on the big design display) and the Ester Dyson shot (on the MBPro). Thanks btw for open sourcing your photos! :) - Gerald Buckley

Great find... just got started on the GTD path, so this + your last WorkTV segment were very timely. THX again - Jericho

Active Desktop FTW. I've put myself together a tabbed page via Yahoo! UI tab view library, with things like Airset, remember the milk, various igoogle gadgets inc password generator, a tab with another set of tabs inside it for webmin for various servers, a tab for phpMyAdmin, one for site company wiki, one for company trac server, one for a tiddlywiki 'scratchpad'. All of this accessible with just two keys (WIN + D) = productivity++. - Mat

Great idea! - Ronald

I'm not a fan of wallpapers. I generally have black or some cool nasa image, currently of a hurricane from the space station. I do like to use an app called sideslide on the pc, for most of the same reason people put icons on their desktop. - Shawn McCollum

oh oh .. getting to predictable - Steven Hodson

Liked the piece Steven. I think there's more mainstream potential than you do. Commented on the blog. - Hutch Carpenter

Steven!!! Funny, I just did a Qik video about comment duplication and Kevin Fox stuff and it hits on this big time. FriendFeed needs a new UI. I keep trying to spread it and I keep getting pushback I never got with Twitter. The people who run FriendFeed aren't delivering noise-reducing tools, either, and insist that the noise is good (duplication from one micro-node of friends to another). I don't think they've done research with real users. - Robert Scoble

FF should steal some ideas from Digg on commenting. It should also steal some of Digg's recommendation features. I think an interesting addition would be to have most popular threads and discussions for the global FF network, among other types of recommendations. - Charles Ju

Fragmentation and duplication are serious ills of FF - oh how I wish we could tag a conversation so we could have unified conversations around a topic; but just think how LONG the comment thread would be...wow. Rich convo but too long?! - Susan Beebe

Robert, you "don't think" Kevin's done user research, or you asked him and he told you he didn't? Kevin, what do you say? - Jason Wehmhoener

I agree with Robert, Friendfeed needs a new UI if it wants to go mainstream. Maybe some sort of homepage like the new facebook profile. More noise-reductions tool would be good too. - Alejandro

Well, considering most people I talk to still wont use a feed reader, you may be right. I think part of the mainstream problem is that there are so many different services out there and friendfeed can potentially pull all of it together for them. For me, I want to be able to read blog posts, shared google reader items, digg articles, etc right here, I mean heck - there's an awful lot of screen real estate there to the right-hand side....let's have some AJAX-y fetching going on of the actual content. - Rob Neville

I think you're incorrect, Robert: mainstream people are not as interconnected as people are in early adopter communities. I think Kevin's got a point: let's say you remove the early adopter audience. Do you think one person's friends really cares what you, or me, or potentially 50 to 100 strangers think about something? They care about what they're friends are doing. Just look to real... more... - Mark Trapp

To my point, I really don't care that 500 other strangers shared a story, or that there were 80 comments with people I don't know talking about it. I care about the people I'm following. I want to have a discussion with people I care about, not strangers. I think the reshare and fragmentation facilitates that. If say, James Ferguson shared a story, I'm interested in that, because it... more... - Mark Trapp

well then we need a feature that locks out superconnectors who have, say, more than 50 friends. Or at least locks them out for, say, a day so that a micronode conversation can happen first. - Robert Scoble

I was watching Michael Arington's Stanford Startup School presentation and I think a good point he made was that after your site gets to critical mass, the comments start to become trolly and the community loses its close connection. I can foresee this being a huge problem for FF as it grows. - Charles Ju

Robert, maybe even if there was a way for the content producer to say "Do not allow friend of friend on this post." So, it becomes sorta like an on-demand private feed. You can still see it, but your like and your comment doesn't expose it to 15,000 other people. And of course, there'd be some visual indicator: could even use the lock icon like it does for full private feeds. - Mark Trapp

Mark: point taken...I suppose what I was getting at, although not articulating quite well now that I read it again is that I think the key for taking FF beyond us abnormal folks is to make it a one-stop-shop to remove the confusion of so many social interactivity services and feed readers, etc. I think FF has the capacity to do that with some tweaks. - Rob Neville

I agree with you Robert Neville; I apologize, my response was directed towards Robert Scoble. There's a few assumptions that I think we take for granted that's lost on most people: 1) privacy is an illusion, 2) we're all interconnected, 3) we spend an acceptably large amount of time online. No matter how true those sound to us, for most people, there's a lot of pushback. Which is why,... more... - Mark Trapp

I think Kevin (and FF as a whole) is correct in realizing the value of fragmented conversations. The issue here is that super-connectors with 20K subscribers are bound to expose those fragmented conversations (that otherwise would go unnoticed by the masses, as intended) quite often - all they need to do is 'Like' whatever random item that shows up in their feed. Not only that -... more... - Aviv

Best two lines in this conversation: "We're abnormal" [Mark Trapp] & "we need a feature that locks out superconnectors" [Robert Scoble]. The rest is just noise. :P - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

a more compelling UI would truly elevate FF...but then, that could be said about many Web apps - .LAG liked that

on the contrary, i would much rather have a service that is up and running all the time than a fancy prettified site that is virtually useless. the past few days, facebook has crashed my browser SO many times, the only time i go on is via phone. myspace? every since their overhaul i NEVER go there anymore - Mona Nomura

some of my favorite services are niche! - Ross M Karchner

I actually like the FF interface in its current form. It's lightning fast ( damn facebook is getting irritatingly slower these days ) and its UI is simple much more Googlesque. It's quite unique that its social graph is not bi-directional (like many other social networks), and it gives me tons of useful links and is gradually becoming where i come for personalized information discovery.... more... - Krishna Gade

Friendfeed will go mainstream when the applications that fuel it go mainstream (which might be a while). Whoever mentioned that people don't even get feed readers was right. Even among tech-savvy types (non-web), concepts like RSS and Social Bookmarking are still completely foreign. - Steve Spalding

*sigh* niche tools are so important both digitally and in meatspace - why does everything need to become mainstream to be viewed as a success - the majority of businesses and products in the world would be considered niche and in aggregate far out weight the aggregate of what would be considered mainstream - no disrespect to you steve for writing this post but anytime i see "this will never be mainstream" sentiments i can't help but think that its a myopic view - mike "glemak" dunn

FF depends on a whole lot of users using open services like Twitter Flickr etc. I know no one outside of tech who uses them. Most people are locked into the privacy world view and wouldn't dream of openly sharing their stuff. FF is SV/tech niche only. Sadly......... - Sean Kelly

oh Orli - this gives me hope! With the auto-refresh we might even be able to have a half-decent conversation on Twitter! Do you know what it's using under the hood for the real-time updates? Ajax? Keep us posted on this please!! - Matt Hooper

Matt, it's probably Ajax-based. Guys, this application is amazingly good! - Orli Yakuel

twitter is dead. too bad it uses a bad standard. let me know when they interface ff - Noah David Simon

That's pretty nice. Wonder when they'll open up their beta more? - Patrick Veverka

any invites? - acedanger

Thanks for the positive comments everyone. Our team is really dedicated to providing the best twitter experience possible via the web. There are a few bugs left to work out, but we're hoping to get those ironed out over the weekend and do a soft launch next week. - Derek Gathright

Oh, and follow @tweenky for the latest updates with the application. Matt, this application uses the Summize & Twitter APIs, and heavily uses ajax (jQuery). - Derek Gathright

Whats going on with this people! Is IE secondary ?? "It looks like you are using Internet Explorer. We are still in early early early beta and haven't had the chance to properly test in IE yet. In the meantime, go download Firefox! =)"................. - Jigar Mehta

Jigar, Ugh... IE is such a pain in the ass. we're hoping to get IE7 support, but really, we're targeting power twitter users, and they don't use anything but Firefox & Safari. Right now we're at 4% of our traffic is IE users so not sure it is vital to get working during a beta launch. - Derek Gathright

Sounds interesting. Would love an invite. Thanx! - Barbara K. Baker

Alright derek, any idea where to get invite from?] - Jigar Mehta

The screenshots look really nice. Would love an invite. Thanks! - Sudar

No invites... but hopefully Tweenky will go public soon. - Orli Yakuel

I need something looking like gmail like I need a hole in the head - James Tenniswood

@derek - Thanks for letting us know a bit more about it - can't wait to have a closer look! - Matt Hooper

Wow! it's so cool to see that lots of people liked Tweenky. Really something that worth waiting for. - Orli Yakuel

Agree with James. Why? - Duncan Riley

wheres the innovation ? I Agree with James, do I need another gmail type interface ? to me its just a skin being applied to Twitter, you can do all the makeup you want, but that will not hide the twitter illness beneath a skin !! - Peter Dawson

@Duncan, convenience. But you know what, it's not a second Gmail, it's just some colors an elements that resemble to Gmail, and make it easy to understand and work with the applications. Duncan, this application rocks big time, wait till you try it yourself :-) - Orli Yakuel

Orli, " this application rocks" - this is just a UI app , as much as I hate sayin this, but building an interface on a "rocky" /unstable application will certainly lead to what ? another mini fail whale experience ? - Peter Dawson

Peter, you're talking like Twitter is to be close tomorrow... come on... we all know that this "UNSTABLE" thing, didn't stop none of us from using it. And I'd like to think that Twitter will be stable eventually. - Orli Yakuel

Tweenky.com seems to bring up only a white page... So is this a full Twitter-like platform, or just a UI that talks to Twitter itself? - Jason Carreira

I can't reach at the site.is tweenky under construction?? - Chris Qie

Yes. (even for me, and I miss it already since yesterday) - Orli Yakuel

See http://twitter.com/tweenky... for what has happened to Tweeny - Nick Cowie

Yeah, I know about that. It will come back shortly :-) - Orli Yakuel

waiting to play with it... not sure if i'll use it - Naor Mark

tweenky... omg-omg, what a name... famous... brand name I could say... omg... http://www.imdb.com/title... lol - A.T.