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A First Look at Mozilla's Snowl - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Suzannah, mjc and MG Siegler liked this
another of my random tweets that will live on... but seriously, good write-up. i'm interested in this but haven't tried it yet.
- MG Siegler
@MG I know you have a thing for seeing your tweets in screenshots - and this time, you even get to see it three times :) As for Snowl - my advice for now would be to stay far away from it...
- Frederic
I have another concern about Mozilla's approach. I don't really see how it may be useful to have all the activities combined in a browser - it will not only make the browser too heavy to use, it will not solve the main problem for multi-taskers. Now I have to switch between apps for different types of activities and with this approach I will have to switch between tabs. Does it really change anything?
- Svetlana Gladkova
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Though it may reduce my open tabs by 2, I still have lots of multiple tabs open and it really is difficult when Firefox seems trudging along like a man with a leg problem. Slow. Best. alain
- Alain Benedict Yap
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
That's my point, we are damaged by the nature of multi-tasking, not because we have too many tabs open in Firefox.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Right there with you. Uninstalled Snowl yesterday. Trying Feedy now. Anyway, performance in Firefox is just atrociuos these days. Using a tool to clear memory cache, but temporary manual fix. I love the Epiphany browser for performance, but none of my Firefox extensions work and its interface behavior(tabs) is strange.
- Brad Nickel
Same here, FireFox can behave unpredictably in terms of memory consumption but many of us stick to it mainly because of the extensions. This is actually the reason why I have to stick to Outlook - I am a heavy user of Outlook and Plaxo toolbars and can't just get out of this MS product because of them.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
with twitter, Snowl separates Authors and Sources. So you can see the whole stream of a source (all your tweets) or the tweets of just one author. If Snowl was able to a.) do the same thing with FriendFeed and show you FF postings by author, and later b) consolidate all tweets, facebook postings, and FF postings by author, it would be preeettttty powerfully cool.
- Suzannah
Reports are that the quad core iMacs are now shipping. not mine yet.
Roberto Bonini liked this
Did you get the 27" one?
- Cristo
yep, i7
- MG Siegler
A test.
Denise Howell, Kol Tregaskes, sofarsoShawn and 3 other people liked this
A comment.
- Paul Buchheit
A response.
- MG Siegler
a thread
- anna sauce
A moment
- Mo Kargas
This is my playground.
- Gary Burd
Panama
- Ken Sheppardson
A presto
- Keiko Yamada
B test.
- Stephen Mack
C test.
- anna sauce
Who wants to be a Zillionaire?
- Josh Haley
A nother...
- Ciro
I looovvvvvvvvveee iiiiiitttt
- sofarsoShawn
no comment
- Petr Buben
result?
- ashish
this is a no no no nonsense comment thread.
- Petr Buben
An ending.
- Itachi
Da capo!
- Henner Zeller
this comment has been edited for brevity and punctuation!
- Jay Cuthrell
You pass
- Charlie Anzman
with flying colours (wait, how do colours take flight anyway?)
- Micah Wittman
can you ship yourself as a package, perhaps via UPS, Fedex, or US Postal Service? and can you check on your delivery via yPhoney convenietly packed with?
- Petr Buben
There is this gut feeling, that this is all a bit silly. Can't put my finger on it though.
- Henner Zeller
google it
- Petr Buben
Would love to pretend this was all me but really it was all @jayzombie
Baboon, Mark Douglass, Paul Stamatiou and 13 other people liked this
ha
- sean percival
Foursquare lets you take photos now?
- Michelle McCormack
michelle - only of yourself when you look like the mascot on halloween (ha ha no, that's just my mad photoshop skillz)
- MG Siegler
Awesome!!
- Andrew
this costume crashes too much
- sean percival
This is an awesome photo! I wonder...eerie that they look way too similar. LOL!
- Kenneth
thanks kenneth took a few poses to get it just right
- MG Siegler
dear lord. that's really good.
- Andy Brett
Nice!!!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Awesome.
Garin Kilpatrick, China Internet Rumors, Voyagerfan5761 and 128 other people liked this
hahahaha
- MG Siegler
haha
- Daniel Brusilovsky
I've been having fun watching the Facebook employees do that today as well - lol
- Jesse Stay
Is there a group "I Just plain hate Facebook"? I'd like to join.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Scary thing is I think a lot of people are actually taking that group seriously.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Hhahhahaha!!!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
LOL at Mark Zuckerberg joining. That's hilarious.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
laugh out loud.
- Micah Wittman
LOL!! Yes they are, Tony - that makes it so much better. :->
- Kurt Starnes
It's killing me - check it out :-> http://www.facebook.com/search...
- Kurt Starnes
I just love how some people have joined, completely ignoring the description of the group and showing the type of people they really are. I don't *love* the changes, but I will get used to them and someday soon I will not even remember the old way it was done. Change is good... long live change!
- Travis Koger
hahha that is too funny!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Classy!
- Tyson Key
ROFL
- Roberto Bonini
I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK HOME PAGE, UNTIL ITS NEXT FACELIFT, AFTER WHICH I WILL BITTERLY COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW PERFECT THIS LAYOUT WAS.
- Rebecca Sun
Yes, Rebecca, exactly. :)
- Dan Hsiao
just joined
- johnpiercy
Touché Facebook Employees, Touché.
- Navarr
ahahahaha:D
- beybinesen
Try http://lite.facebook.com/opozo, the simple the better, but not simpler.
- Orlando Pozo
On Drumming And Distractions - http://parislemon.com/2009...
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Spencer Schoeben and Anne Bouey liked this
Can you drive a manual?
- Cristo
nope :)
- MG Siegler
Sinuses... killing me... slowly....
George Brickner, Fee501st and Carlos Urrutia liked this
killing me... softly... ?
- MG Siegler
Is that your "bad mood" profile pic? :)
- Thomas
Vampira Veronica!
- Veronica
Vampira, eh? You sure it's sinuses and not the fact that your still up and the sun's out...?
- Thomas
thats a cool pic.
- Carlos Urrutia
I guess they can't kill me... because I'm ALREADY DEAD!
- Veronica
at least you know have your Halloween costume :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I take it you ran out of Ron Howards...
- Thomas
Amy keeps eating them.
- Carlos Urrutia
Strumming my pain with his fingers. Singing my life with his words.
- Fleagle
Kill your sinuses first.
- George Brickner
Dead people don't need to breathe, didn't you get the memo? Your sinuses evidently did. Breakdown of communication there. :)
- Amy
Carlos: I resent this idea that I can't share the Rons. I'm not THAT greedy!
- Amy
Amy: Apparently she isn't getting enough of them. I mean, look at her avatars complexion. She's going goth. Obviously its because you've had too many Rons.
- Carlos Urrutia
I'm a Scottish geek! I need a booster, man! I'm practically blue!
- Amy
Yeah, but couldn't you just bathe in their blood like normal people? You just *had* to eat them...
- Thomas
I told you, blood makes me faint! Besides, they taste good with BBQ sauce...
- Amy
Yeah, but you took too many from her stock of Rons.
- Carlos Urrutia
It's fine, Dave's off cloning some more!
- Amy
just make sure they are Rons and not Fonzies or Chachies.
- Carlos Urrutia
Hey, do I look like Dave's boss? Dave knows what he's doing...kinda.
- Amy
Hey, this is what happens when you snack on someone else's ingredients stock.
- Carlos Urrutia
‘I Automatically Hate The New Facebook Home Page’ Group Gets Some Big Support - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
rowlikeagirl, Jemm and Brandon Harris liked this
This is getting pretty comical: it's like every time Paul Buchheit posts something here, within minutes there's a TechCrunch article about it.
- Mark Trapp
are you denying this is awesome?
- MG Siegler
No, but I do wonder if this is like the spoken word version of a Garfield comic.
- Mark Trapp
have we gotten an answer as to why tweets are taking so long to show up in FF the past few days yet?
Kazutaka Ogaki, NaHi, Jesse Stay and 3 other people liked this
"We are having some issues with our connection to Twitter that we hope to resolve within a week. We are working with Twitter to find a solution to the problem. - Bret Taylor" via a comment in http://friendfeed.com/mattcut...
- Benjamin Golub
ahh thanks ben, figured someone commented on it already
- MG Siegler
do you guys too have to work around that oauth thing?
- ffcode
Force-pushes work at least.
- Veronica
true, but that's a pain.
- MG Siegler
"I even remember what it was like before Robert Scoble got here!" - http://louisgray.com/live...
ydfeed, rtshiva, Shea and 100 other people liked this
i do miss festivusfeed. airing of grievances brought about actual FF updates, right?
- MG Siegler
there should be a "love" option for things like this. lol
- shaun mclane
Great example of how the FF culture was a big part of growing a love for the service that will no doubt be eaten by the FB dragon.
- Mark Krynsky
++Mark
- vijay
Awwwww
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Will this be the butterfly?
- Jesse Stay
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Jesse roflol!
- Melanie Reed
Jesse wins!
- Micah Wittman
How many users did FF have when FestivusFeed was implemented?
- Cristo
Cristo, not enough. It was in December of 2007. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, I know. I was using it. But I'm still interested to know what the number was. 5K-10K?
- Cristo
FriendFeed has never released user statistics, to my knowledge.
- Louis Gray
No reason for them not to now though, right? I mean, who cares how many users they had in 12/07 except us?
- Cristo
I forgot about this one, a true classic. I need to have a high-trafficked site just so I can pull out gag logos.
- Vezquex: God of FF
FriendFeed Not Dead, Just In A State Of “Chrysalis,” Says Co-founder - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Casey Muller, Kol Tregaskes, David Cook and 24 other people liked this
I love seeing Paul and Bret liking these things.
- Jesse Stay
me too.
- MG Siegler
And Eric Eldon :-) (Does this mean Eric's using FriendFeed more?)
- Jesse Stay
hey jesse - i actually never stopped using FF! we use it internally.
- Eric Eldon
Eric, maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention - you are now officially on my favorites list, sorry about that! (now embarrassed)
- Jesse Stay
Good times.
- Micah Wittman
Hey, Paul, you should post something like "I am the walrus" and see if it generates a TechCrunch article. Extra points if you can get them to say "monkey".
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I'm still unclear on whether being the walrus is a good thing or not.
- Paul Buchheit
I think it depends on whether you ask John Lennon or Lewis Carrol. Maybe you could leave that part out and just go with "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
- Ken Sheppardson
Paul - exactly - gotta wonder, what the heck did Steve Gillmor mean by that? Walrus, really?
- Susan Beebe
But at least it got everyone's attention that is good, but now we want to know what is next, anticipation, a lot like a ketchup commercial.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
really gloomy days somehow feel less gloomy than half-gloomy days. maybe its cuz really gloomy days are so confident about what they are
Cristo liked this
poetic
- MG Siegler
i feel you man
- Jay Cuthrell
This Used To Be My Playground - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Mahdi Ebrahimi, Susan Beebe, Mitchell Tsai and 40 other people liked this
No comment
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Commenting here so that MG stops feeling bad that nobody comments on his stuff anymore.
- Bruce Lewis
Wow... that makes me so sad
- Holly Rae, FFer
*sigh*
- Yolanda
...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
*shrugs* I get more comments now, I think.
- Jennifer Dittrich
This used to be my childhood dream...
- Rochelle
quite right rochelle :)
- MG Siegler
but...I don't wanna have bloody feet!
- WorldofHiglet
Now look what you've done, MG. You're scaring Higlet!
- Bruce Lewis
I noticed that my Hot Threads saved search mostly turn up non-english threads now, so there's definitely been an effect. That said, FriendFeed may be down but it ain't out yet.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
MG, you're right about the FF infrastructure being on autopilot, but I would characterize the activity as a network of small towns - not a (monolithic) ghost town. Anyway, compared another article of late, you did the topic justice. :)
- Micah Wittman
MG: Don't be so fatalistic. FF is there, it's up to us, the users, what we make of it. Personally I like this place so much that I think I'll hang in here until the cleaning staff starts placing upturned chairs on the table and asking the last few customers to hurry up with their drinks.
- Paola Bonomo
i haveNEVER had one comment,but I got one like.I must be posting crap.I'll stop and change up.what's the deal here-the person who gets the most comments get JUST a mention on best of the week or day?
- R_ C
R_ C, step 1 is to make your feed public. I see a private feed and assume what's in it is none of my business unless I know you in real life.
- Bruce Lewis
My feed's public, but I've never gotten many comments. Still, I comment on others' posts a lot. FF's still here for me, so I'm still here. As for Posterous, it and FF complement each other. For me, FF is where Twitter, Facebook, Posterous, Blogger, and Google Reader come together in a single feed. So it's still important to me. I don't think it's so much "dead" as "alive and still dying"...
- Dennis Jernberg
Nice, but I think I woulda used the opportunity to pull out some REM "Cuyahoga" lyrics instead of taking the Madonna angle.
- Ken Sheppardson
liking this place wouldn't get all those tech talks we could have it would be more of a fun place now, memes going on and all that, a lot of geeks have moved on
- ffcode
Dennis: that it is an aggregator is the reason why it remains Scoble's homepage at twitter and the badges are still up at scobleizer :)
- ffcode
It's apparent that what we have here is just another bad creation http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jay Cuthrell
This makes me want to write an article about this. Friendfeed has a better interface to communicate, but people are spending their time on Facebook.
- Andrew
Andrew: i think the type of people facebook has can be attracted to ff if we have themes here and private msging be a prime feature
- ffcode
notice how the digg buttons of 2007 that were everywhere are now the twitter / facebook buttons of 2009?
Marcel Weiß, vijay and MG Siegler liked this
yep
- MG Siegler
Stuck In The Twitter Jam? Try This Hidden Route. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
I'm seeing plenty of posts via friendfeed too
- Kevin Marks
seing some. though less. but that's probably because everyone has stopped tweeting because they assume twitter is fully down. but good call, i'll update that too
- MG Siegler
Return of Bearonica - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Arseny, rowlikeagirl, Jason Huebel and 31 other people liked this
From Mexico?
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
brizzly logo tryouts were last week.
- MG Siegler
now you just need one of these :) http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoy...
- Carlos Urrutia
That's scary!!
- imabonehead
Does there need to be an excuse to have more Bearonica?
- Jason Wong
and can we have more Bearonica on Tekzilla? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
like little Bearonicas roaming around? :P
- imabonehead
I'm not sure if the world is ready for that much cuteness
- Carlos Urrutia
Celebrating Smokey The Bear's birthday? Only YOU can prevent flame wars.
- George Brickner
Ok I'm an ass. I admit it this time.
- Dave Friedel
Very cute! A Bearonica attack doesn't hurt!
- Fee501st
I'm not sure if that picture is ferociously adorable or adorably ferocious.
- Mellissa Claus
Dave: you are going to get mauled. And yes, you kinda deserve it there :)
- Amy
everybody RUN
- Alejandro
There is no booger.
- Veronica
That was totally random.
- Carlos Urrutia
don't know - but i'm kinda partial to bearonica ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
heh
- Carlos Urrutia
It's a Kodiac Moment!
- Caleb
Sorry, I'm stressing over moving and exuding an extra level of a-hole behavior this week.
- Dave Friedel
Dave, are you sure you're not just constipated...? http://friendfeed.com/sarahla...
- Thomas
Oh. Why did no one tell me you can renew your passport through the mail? This will be much easier than I thought.
As long as you don't need to travel in between Otherwise, you go to the passport office on Hawthorne within two weeks of your next international trip.
- Cristo
cool, i think i'm good with the mail version
- MG Siegler
http://travel.state.gov/passpor... for those interested -- i might just do this since mine expired almost 2 years ago
- Chris Heath
Confession time... Go!
Mo Kargas, Andrew Euell, James Ferguson and 32 other people liked this
I like Lady Gaga.
- Veronica
Im a Geek and i never fully watched Tron...
- Fee501st
I have never watched The Wizard of Oz all the way through... and I live in Kansas.
- Danny Minick
My first cassette as a kid was Alice Cooper. My second was Debbie Gibson. I had a weird youth...
- Thomas
I don't like it when mariachis play at mexican restaurants because they're too loud.
- Veronica
I claim to be anti-pirate but my first CD was downloaded from Mininova.
- Lachlan Harman
I'm a dog person trapped in a cat situation.
- Veronica
aww :) you need a doggy!
- Fee501st
Cats take better care of themselves when I'm away.
- Veronica
If you got dogs, it might take care of the cat situation for you...
- Thomas
One time i killed a motherboard by plugging a Firewire motherboard connector in a usb motherboard connector, turn it on and saw blue smoke! But I RMA it anyway ;)
- Fee501st
I like Taylor Swift. (for her musical talent)
- Jim Bednarz
I cracked and almost destroyed the headphone jack of my iPhone in a tantrum where I threw my purse at the ground, and the phone went flying out. It was an unintended casualty.
- Veronica
Original iphone or 3G
- Fee501st
3G
- Veronica
oh, i was going to say the Original iphone deserved it with its funky headphone jack!
- Fee501st
The only *nix command I know by heart is ls -la
- Caleb
I dropped a 10 thousand dollar betacam videocamera on the job. Was in grass and only busted the light and mount.
- Josh Haley
I managed to snap part of the staircase in my parents' house and 'fixed' it by putting it back together and colouring in the chipped bits with brown crayon (they didn't notice for years). Never did get around to glueing it...
- Amy
Josh: yikkes!
- Fee501st
I once called my second grade teacher "Mom". In front of the entire class. While shouting at the top of my lungs.
- Mike Nayyar
I hate cellphones, actually phones in general.
- Jimminy
I got mad at my mom once when I was a kid, and went to her record collection and picked one, broke the album, and put it back in the sleeve. Never told her. Don't remember which one.
- Veronica
One time when i was a kid, a broke a figurine that my mom love by running threw the house, i blame it on the cat.
- Fee501st
Veronica: I'm sure she probably does! :)
- Amy
Veronica, lol i hope our moms are not on FF
- Fee501st
I consider the term Webmaster to be retro and therefore cool again.
- Mark Krynsky
from iPhone
I lick the cheese off of Doritos before I eat them.
- Veronica
Mark, is that akin to SysOp?
- Jim Bednarz
Lady Gaga is a dude, Confession - I enjoy Penguins of Madagascar
- Matthew DeVries
eww, Veronica! ;)
- Josh Haley
What? The cheese is the best part!
- Veronica
yea, it just a nacho without the cheese!
- Fee501st
For the longest time I thought "lol" was a tie fighter
- Caleb
Nooooooooooooo! The BEST part of the Doritos is the crud after all the chips are gone.
- Matthew DeVries
I would pay double for a bag full of just the crud
- Matthew DeVries
i like doritos fingers but hate cheetos fingers!
- Fee501st
I've skipped family events to watch TWiT
- Jim Bednarz
I've lied to friends to stay in and play WoW.
- Veronica
I have a PS3, but only bought 1 game for it!
- Fee501st
once in a while I play "Never Gonna Give You Up" just because I want to hear it.
- Joe Pierce
Veronica, we all done that, just different games!
- Fee501st
Fee: Aye, go and buy some!
- Amy
I LİKE LADY GAGA YES VERONİKA
- ramazan çekiç
I used to watch G4
- Fee501st
I don't like vampire flicks. In fact, the whole vampire genre makes my flesh crawl #IblameAnneRice.
- Helen Sventitsky
I once cut a picture out of a book and let my old sister take the blame and punnishment It was a perfect cutting job as I remember
- Kim Landwehr
I HATED Barbie/Sindy dolls!
- Amy
I have no idea what my neighbours names are and they talk to me almost every day. It's been 2 years so I can't just ask :(
- Neil McDonald
I used to cut my Barbies hair into a very fashionable "Hellraiser Barbie" look.
- Veronica
Veronica: lmao! :)
- Amy
I'm a post-op tranny.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I crushed my hot wheels cars in my dad's vice grip and have terrible pile ups
- Fee501st
I used to hate Shirley Temple movies because I was jealous that she was a small child (I was also a small child) that could sing and dance better than I could.
- Veronica
I refuse to watch any of the Saw films because I don't want my friends to see exactly how much of a wuss I am (I'll either faint, puke or scream like a little girl - the jury's out)
- Amy
I can't watch ANY horror movies.
- Veronica
No matter how many times i watch Futurama - Jurassic bark, I still cry at the end!
- Fee501st
I talk to myself.
- Veronica
I took my parents car when I was 14 and drove all over Connecticut. Broke a sway bar in it try to do fancy spin outs. Admitted I took car but lied about how it got damaged. "Avoiding a bad driver"
- Jim Bednarz
Veronica: what about Zombie movies? like Zombieland?
- Fee501st
Don't like horror movies either.
- Jim Bednarz
Haha, Jim!! I once drove to Mystic from Hartford and didn't tell my parents, and I got lost and had to pull over and cry.
- Veronica
Veronica: Everyone does that (talking to themselves). I have conversations with my friends in my head.
- Amy
Er...to clarify, that's my ACTUAL friends, not imaginary ones!
- Amy
I dont care much for Horror movies either, but dont mind zombie movies
- Fee501st
I will probably see ZombieLand and pass out.
- Veronica
Veronica & Amy: same here i talk stuff out to myself
- Fee501st
Haha! Veronica! Thats too funny. I cried after I broke the car. Didn't know how I was going to to get it home from New Britain to Portland. Ended up just driving it really slow down Route 9.
- Jim Bednarz
Amy: Are you going to go all Tyler Dyrden on us?
- Caleb
LOL Amy. How DO you keep them separate?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Hard hittin' New Britain!
- Veronica
I nearly fainted watching Blade when they have all the blood sprinklers and told my friends I 'just didn't like the film'
- Amy
OH NO you De un!
- Jim Bednarz
I used to take my brother to the skate park in New Britain :)
- Veronica
New Britain is my hometown. Moved to Portland when I was 12
- Jim Bednarz
When I was 5 I moved from NY to CA. Upon hearing my New York accent, my new school put me in the slow kids class for two years...
- Thomas
I the person that keeps playing all WWII FPS
- Fee501st
MVB: It's only when I have something REALLY exciting to say and totally forget to tell people. It gets rid of the 'omg, must tell people nao' feeling. :)
- Amy
I was actually pretty good at sneaking out, I was never caught.
- Veronica
Amy: I think the whole social awkwardness of being a Geek :)
- Fee501st
Veronica: Nice, i wasn't so smooth
- Fee501st
I am fond of samsara
- William Harryman
Fee: lol, I'm 'ok' in that dept actually. I think it's just neuroticism. :P
- Amy
Nice! I snuck out many many times before and after that incident. Only caught a few times. :)
- Jim Bednarz
I like the smell of bus exhaust.
- Veronica
And parking garages.
- Veronica
I like the smell of WD40
- Fee501st
I used to think The Darkness' song, "I believe in a thing called love" was actually from the Queens of the Stone Age. (Yes, it nearly got me fired!) Also, I used to think all Jehovah's Witnesses were probably black or vice versa. You had to be there. And 8 years old.
- midnightgolfer
I like the smell of fresh tarmac
- Neil McDonald
I like the smell of gas at the pump.
- Thomas
Niel: yes that too
- Fee501st
I like skateboarding through parking garages.
- Caleb
Better than bus exhaust and Parking garages, race track smell (Waterford and Riverside (before it became sixflags NE)
- Jim Bednarz
Hahaha Riverside! The Cyclone!
- Veronica
I like the smell of a Propane engine also
- Fee501st
I can feel when TVs are on in other rooms.
- Veronica
I got into a drinking contest with one of my 'friends' (he likes to show off) and told him I'd had 1 shot more than him, when really...I went to the toilets and just left it there.
- Amy
Veronica, been on the Boulder Dash at Lake Compounce?
- Jim Bednarz
lol, Amy
- Thomas
Yes!
- Veronica
Veronica, NO WAY REALLY? I can too, i tell my friends that but they say im full of BS so i have to prove it them! Even new tvs like LCD and Plasmas?
- Fee501st
Nice! One of the best wooden coasters in US.
- Jim Bednarz
This is the most interesting thing I've done all day.
- midnightgolfer
Glad to help, midnightgolfer ;)
- Veronica
me too midnightgolfer
- Jim Bednarz
no mariachi love? tear.
- Mauricio
Isn't it because they make that really high-pitched noise?
- Amy
I respect them as musicians! I just... don't want to listen to it while I'm eating.
- Veronica
No, it just a feeling not a noise to me
- Fee501st
i tried to fold a money with my brain waves. i tried so much, then i slept with a terrible headache.
- Mutlu Oğuzhan Öztürk
that is the best one.
- Veronica
OK, going to the shuttle, be back later!
- Veronica
When i was a kid i knew when the teacher turn on the Apple IIs
- Fee501st
CYA Veronica. Thanks!
- Jim Bednarz
She going to space?
- Fee501st
Going to moon, BRB
- Fee501st
Her and GMail need some alone time...
- Thomas
Fee: lol!
- Amy
Thomas, cue the 'sexy-time' music
- Amy
They hit a rough patch today. Now is the time for make-up text...
- Thomas
"lets get it on"
- Jim Bednarz
you dont get this on your twitters and facebooks and yourspaces
- Fee501st
THIS is why friendfeed rocks!
- Jim Bednarz
^Agree
- Thomas
Amen :)
- Amy
ahhhh. forgot about net@night... going to watch it now... http://live.twit.tv
- Jim Bednarz
I've still not learnt to drive because the last time I was in a car I essentially ended up playing chicken with a bus (I didn't mean to, obv)
- Amy
i been trying to do both, Jim!
- Fee501st
I didn't learn until I was 24, and I have a friend who's my age (37) who still doesn't...
- Thomas
Oddly, I'm pretty awesome at driving games :)
- Amy
i'm all confessed out
- Fee501st
Gadget shame: My phone is a Samsung Instinct. Honestly, it's not that bad.
- Fleagle
Fleagle: Mine is ancient - I just can't decide on a new one.
- Amy
Listen to Hypnotoad. *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr* you want an iPhone *brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
- Thomas
Hypnotoad talks sense
- Neil McDonald
Nein! *grits teeth* I. Don't. Want. An. iPhone!
- Amy
Don't fight against the power of Hypnotoad, Amy. It's futile...
- Thomas
Ach, the borg are always saying that and it's never true
- Amy
Veronica: Mental note, make sure never to have vinyl around....
- Carlos Urrutia
Carlos Urrutia: her kids will just delete a random album on her itunes
- Fee501st
Not quite so satisfying though...
- Amy
I was once a 27th level, Half Orc fighter, chaotic good.
- Joe
I'm terrified of moths :)
- Amy
Fee501st: Nah, they would delete the files and leave the album information in iTunes untouched. That way the album stays but you can't listen to it >:)
- Carlos Urrutia
Carlos: Damn, Veronica's kids are crafty :)
- Amy
Amy- And best of all, it would look like it was an iTunes bork so she'd never know :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Oh yeah, I still haven't gotten around to PROPERLY learning to drive and I find horror movies as entertaining as having something heavy land on my crotch.
- Carlos Urrutia
Yay for the non-drivers! :D
- Amy
I just find taking the bus more relaxing. I nap and someone else drives! Win-Win I'd say :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I think your hot!!!
- Ned Garcia-Mathews
from iPod
you're, and thank you.
- Veronica
I am Lady Gaga.
- MG Siegler
I'm not sure how many computers I have
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I am 48 a Man and I Like Twilight
- John D Reasor
MG, I so called that.
- Veronica
I never have and never will watch a Harry Potter movie.
- Alejandro
I love shopping. I mean, LOVE shopping.
- Veronica
I have successfully avoided getting an ebay or paypal account ^_^
- Carlos Urrutia
mah mah mah mah
- MG Siegler
i'm so getting you to do that on karaoke one of these days.
- Veronica
I have no idea where ~90% of the data i've created/gathered is located or if the media its stored on is still readable.
- Carlos Urrutia
oh snap, i think he got ya bet V!
- Fee501st
oh and also http://friendfeed.com/parisle...
- MG Siegler
Deep down in my heart of hearts all I ever wanted to be was loved by someone... okay just kidding. I actually try to live as vapid a life as possible and gauge success by the number of times I get to consume bacon before I pass on to the great dust heap in the sky.
- Jay Cuthrell
The best part about that is the profile picture. This is a man who's SERIOUS about his Gaga.
- Veronica
Veronica, unless you got pics he won :)
- Fee501st
I'm going to repost that picture and then you'll be sorry.
- Veronica
I've yet to complete 90% of the video games I've purchased.
- Carlos Urrutia
whatever. i was just dance-in.
- MG Siegler
I once shot a man just to watch him die. Luckily for us both it was a cap gun.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I once built a computer in Reno just to watch it boot!
- Fee501st
i like when friendfeed threads ajaxercise and update... i dream that people are typing and caring and sharing
- Jay Cuthrell
Congrats Veronica on yet another epic thread :)
- Thomas
its good, but its no audi 5000 ;)
- Fee501st
Thomas- You forgot to Capitalize EPIC :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Fee: True, but what could ever achieve that lofty height...
- Thomas
Sorry Carlos, I have a frog in my finger and can't shout...
- Thomas
Thomas: some threads only dream of such great heights
- Fee501st
Actually, it just needs the extra Bass for effect :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I still log into a MARE from time to time. Now if they would break their idle times a little more often... -_-
- Carlos Urrutia
Here my last confession of the night then im off to bed! Sometimes i feel sorry for the Pygmies in Pocket God, but i abuse them anyway!
- Fee501st
I wish I could remember the addresses of half the MUDs that I used to go to to see if they even still exist.
- Carlos Urrutia
I actually believe in Chinese astrology
- Amy
I don't watch any NFL football games except for the SuperBowl.
- Sylvain Nadeau
I haven't logged into WoW in months
- Carlos Urrutia
Any part of Tekzilla without Veronica in it, I usually Tivo-skip over. Sorry Lloyd Case, guests, and sometimes Patrick.
- Dave Friedel
i still need to finish Assassin's Creed
- Carlos Urrutia
I have not played a video game since 2002. I find coding whatever I want much more stimulating than playing someone else's gaming code.
- Dave Friedel
I secretly hope that Kevin Rose spills a beer on his Mac during a taping of DiggNation... not Alex's PC... Kevin's MAC. :D
- Dave Friedel
I don't own a HDTV, or a digital tuner.
- Ian
I'm a huge, huge Bjork fan.
- Dave Friedel
I completely forgot what I was going to confess...
- Carlos Urrutia
I would be a Mac user if they didn't cost 400% more than a PC.
- Dave Friedel
The person I'm most like on the outside is probably John Dvorak, yet the person inside is really Roger Chang.
- Dave Friedel
I still haven't seen an episode of Tekzilla
- Carlos Urrutia
I am not a dog person trapped inside a cat situation. I'm a cat person. Dogs are too much commitment IMHO.
- Dave Friedel
I like listening to The Monkees
- Carlos Urrutia
I really like strong women like Sarah Lane. Except when her podcast first comes on and her shrill scares my cats away (true story).
- Dave Friedel
Carlos! Fix that!
- Veronica
I'm Chinese and I know gongfu!
- imabonehead
I guess Veronica doesn't like the monkees.
- Dave Friedel
No, I do.
- Veronica
People say they monkey around.
- Dave Friedel
But they're too busy, to put anybody down.
- Dave Friedel
I have seen almost every episode of gilmore girls. And I actually enjoy romantic comedies. By the way, yes, I'm a guy.
- Michael Weems
Veronica: I assume you are referring to Tekzilla? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Yes.
- Veronica
/me goes and finds the latest episode...
- Carlos Urrutia
Wayne likes Friendfeed better than twitter
- Wayne Sutton
Not the latest episode! I'm not there! :0
- Veronica
Let me rephrase that, the most recent episode with the lovely Veronica Belmont :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Nica (Eron, ronic, vero, eronic, to many cool sounding small names in your big name) - This picture made me think of you, not an otter, but still geeky. http://friendfeed.com/dariusm...
- Matthew DeVries
I watched Jem.
- Jason Wong
@billheslin Mine was real.
- Michael Weems
Jason - nothing wrong with that, Now I? I can still sing the full theme song to Jem. (glamor and glitter, fashion and fame)
- Matthew DeVries
Yes Michael, as I said, it would be nice, and actually weird if everyone really gave their True confessions...and it would be Hollywood gold...
- Bill Heslin
I once suggested going to see "Spice World" in the theater. In my defense, I'd been up for 48 hours...
- Thomas
And as I said some seemed true and heartfelt
- Bill Heslin
When I was born I had a stroke in the white matter.
- Michael Weems
Matthew - I hated that they changed the theme song in the 2nd season.
- Jason Wong
I saw the Monkees in concert at the Hartford Civic Center when I was in High School.
- Jim Bednarz
And high school was in the late 80's. Not exactly the music of my generation.
- Jim Bednarz
Despite most of my 'indie cred' music on iTunes, if you were to take a gander at my iLike profile, you'd see that "Since U Been Gone" by Kelly Clarkson is in the top 5 most played in my library.
- Fleagle
One more before bed. I was a huge fan of the Charmed TV series.
- Jim Bednarz
You can't make me confess anything.
- George Brickner
Veronica: Okay, its fixed :)
- Carlos Urrutia
Thomas: Spice World?? Really?! *shakes head*
- Amy
I hate bagpipes.
- Chris Luckhardt
I love my neighbor!
- Cosme Falcon
I love your neighbor too.
- Dave Friedel
Amy: I'm not proud. You *did* read the bit about being up for 2 days straight, right? :)
- Thomas
I do Ren Faire with my friends :)
- Carlos Urrutia
I learned the Duke of Argyll's cellphone number this morning.
- Glen Mistletoe
I like Owl City - Fireflies
- Michael Zamora
from iPhone
I haven't read The Forever War still even though it's been on my list since forever
- Carlos Urrutia
Thomas: No excuse :)
- Amy
What can I say? I'm a Roger Moore fan...
- Thomas
I'd confess something, but it'll go to the confessions room to be private, else I need some sex for so much time now, I almost can't cope anymore, I wouldn't want to be forced on the dirtiest streets with that in mind. ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Well, there's one way to stop a thread dead in its tracks.
- Fleagle
When i was a kid the Cacodemon in Doom would scare me!
- Fee501st
When I was a kid I saw 80% of the posidon adventure then was sent to bed (never got to see the 'happy' ending) and cruise ships STILL freak me out
- Amy
I haven't eaten seafood since I was a little kid after I had a nightmare of a giant crab coming after me.
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
I like booty panties( please don't have to explain it on here).
- Terence
I love meatbags
- Mo Kargas
I enjoyed watching the VH1 Behind the Music special on Pink.
- Mark Krynsky
I used to watch Kids In. and the Edison Twins on the Disney Channel back in the early 90's
- Carlos Urrutia
Boy, you have ONE night out during the middle of the week and you miss the best FF thread EVER!
- Jerry Perez
The typical 2:30 AM Lady Gaga listener
Travis Koger, Steve Rubel, Jay Cuthrell and 6 other people liked this
nice glasses, very Jack Benny. thick framed black glasses are really fashionable in England right now
- Mark
Pa-pa-pa-poke her face! :)
- Mona Nomura
is this a poker face?
- sean percival
Can't read my poker face.
- Mark
*BUMP*
- Jay Cuthrell
Most TVs come with good remotes but then we're still forced to use the shitty ones that come with cable boxes.
Kol Tregaskes, Eric Geller, ashish and 18 other people liked this
A good option exists: replace the cable box with a TiVo, which has a very good remote.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
TiVo is the only solution ever.
- Louis Gray
Louis, Imma happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Logitech Harmony has the best remote ever - ever!
- Jesse Stay
I use the a Logitech Harmony remote which works great - especially given the fact that you can program all the settings via their app on my Mac.
- Mike Bracco
Mike, I love my Harmony - watch Woot - you can often find a pretty good deal on them there
- Jesse Stay
used to have a tivo, that did have a good remote, but tivo is yet another box, i want less boxes. always hear good things about harmony remotes but i really just dont see why tv makers spend time making these pretty nice remotes only to be cut out of the picture by cable box makers, who, by the way, have some of the worst tastes ever when it comes to UI/UX design.
- MG Siegler
Jesse: cool thanks. Although I love my Harmony it's just b/c it's not as bad as all the other solutions. The UI still feels really kludgy - The ideal solution would be to just have an iPhone app .......which would also require component makers to build bluetooth and/or wifi into their boxes.
- Mike Bracco
Mike, that's coming. I know of several in the works, and a few in early stages right now. I'd like to see Logitech build an app that does it though.
- Jesse Stay
My satellite box's remote isn't that bad, it's the U.I. that's lacking - they still don't have a widescreen EPG and instead strech the regular 4:3 EPG
- Bryce Roney
Jesse - cool, I'm sure it's coming. I think long term the ideal solution are for these components to have no interface on the physical box themselves. They should all be controlled on an iPhone or another device using an app. I think in 5 years the thought of having knobs on components will seem old school...at least I hope so! :)
- Mike Bracco
I have a Harmony and a TiVo - because cable boxes and non-universal remotes suck
- Ankush Narula
Controlling from your Iphone would be great but I would not pass mine around, controlling with the Apple tablet would be awesome because it would pretty much stay in my living room most of the time. But my Harmony 900 will have to do for now.
- Johann Diaz
from Nambu
I'm still waiting for the remote that will stand the heavy beating of a 1 to 4 year olds for more than a month or two.
- Amit Morson
Apple Tv uses both the normal remote (which is pretty good) and the Remote App for iPhone or iPod Touch (which is freaking amazing)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I've had a logitech Harmony - sorry but didnt work with my very standard sony TV, or with my arcam home cinema. Were listed in the booklet but didnt work as described. Logitech support suggested actually it only worked in the more expensive models, i should buy these... Expensive paperweight - and the last logitech product I bought.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Years ago I had an HP iPaq 2210 with a powerful IR LED perfectly capable of functioning as a remote. And in fact, one of the provided app in it was a remote control app, with a database of over 400 devices that it support directly. And one can train it to record the IR signals of unsupported remotes. Miss it a lot :-(
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
@parislemon RT @dataliberation: The Orkut friends export has been fixed. Friend data is liberated once again! http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/2009...
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yep, see it, updating. as anticipated "bug" :)
- MG Siegler
@Sparkpr_Katie no but we did get to wear chain necklaces and wigs for a bit.
Without context I'd say MG is getting ready for Halloween. Gonna be hard to top his Joker costume.
- Mark Krynsky
from iPhone
it will be hard. i had an idea a few months ago but now i've lost it... hmm...
- MG Siegler
Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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MG: Related to that pic, you should check out this Creative Inspiration video on Lynda (subscription required for all clips). Anyway, It's a interview with Dale Herigstad of the company Schematic - he was the guy who created/conceptualized the gesture nav scenes for Minority Report - http://www.lynda.com/home...
- Mike Bracco
i believe i met with someone from there last year in spain of all place. i saw probably the coolest demo i've ever seen - but wasn't allowed to talk about it in detail. but yes, think minority report, but in real life. i wonder if i can talk about that now, would love to :)
- MG Siegler
Cool stuff, yeah the touch/gesture stuff coming looks really exciting. As far as this post on tablet, the most exciting part of tablet for me is the possibility of removing "keys and buttons" on every other electric device. By being the interface for everything in my house including TV, appliances, coffee machine etc.. these electric makers can stop placing arcane knobs on things and...
more...
- Mike Bracco
The thing with mice and keyboards becoming touchscreen: the one factor that makes them incredibly useful as inputs is that they don't need to be looked at when you use them. Maybe for the mouse you can make a case (there needs to be a LOT of ergonomic work that goes into it, though), but the KB? The utility and simplicity of the keyboard's functionality is just too great for something to supplant it if it doesn't nail that "non-visual feedback" issue.
- Chieze Okoye
Google Wave Leads CNN.com on a Day With an 8.0 Earthquake - (That's Impressive) - http://www.cnn.com/
sirishkumar, Jay Cuthrell, Iván Abrego and 8 other people liked this
CNN is truly ridiculous. Even the international edition. But good for Google Wave.
- Christopher Galtenberg
and what lovely quotes.
- MG Siegler
Well, it's sorta paradigm-shifting, after all. I hear Wave offers a sleek and easy way to navigate and participate in communication on the Web that makes both email and instant messaging look stale.
- Ken Sheppardson
Lovely quotes MG! But, will someone invite me please!!!
- Michael Fidler
BTW; my email is mdfidler at gmail.com
- Michael Fidler
Dear anyone at Google. Why on earth does my Gmail slow down to an absolute crawl a few times a day? No other site, just Gmail.
Camino, Firefox, Chromium?
- Matt Cutts
oops replied on twitter but saw you left this in FF. so here's what i said "it has been happening on camino, safari and chromium. seemingly at random, but is quite annoying when it's happening. like now."
- MG Siegler
just takes forever to load messages (about a minute) does the whole "still loading thing" again, not all the time, just sometime. even after browser/computer restart.
- MG Siegler
The same was happening to me in Safari. I switched back to Camino and have been fine so far
- Roshan Vyas
happens in chrome too
- testbeta
Some people report similar issues w/Maps -- some tiles take forever to load. Is that happening for you too?
- Daniel Dulitz
Happens to me all the time too :( It's not (local) network related b/c I can reach other sites and other Google sites just fine while the "...still loading..." goes on. I suspect that somewhere a machine in Google's datacenter has just died and there are little gnomes running around to replace the machine and get my mail transfered to some other, healthy machine. I don't know if that's the case, but imagining that brings a smile to my face while I wait.
- Bill Strathearn
seem to be solved now,can someone confirm ???
- sami
from Alert Thingy
And like that, it's 3PM on a Friday.
I'm going to tell mike that you've been spending your Friday afternoon on Digg instead of writing your 15th post. busted.
- Eric Eldon
i'm going to tell justin you're tweeting in japanese
- MG Siegler
Closing In On Launch, Twitter Tweaks Its Retweet API And Shares A Picture Of How It Will Look - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Nicholas James, Tiwa, Chris Martin and 17 other people liked this
How did TechMeme beat you to FriendFeed?
- Jesse Stay
cause i manually push to FF, usually when i'm done updating for a breaking item. TC tweets out immediately though.
- MG Siegler
Wow - TechMeme's fast. I'm impressed.
- Jesse Stay
The Perfect App To Start Your Weekend Off With A Drink – Or Several Drinks. Fast. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Find Power Music Hour in the App Store here. It is $0.99. Please drink responsibly. Or, please listen to music for a minute at a time responsibly. While jogging. Or whatever.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
A Couple Little Nifty Facebook And Twitter Username Tweaks - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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On the Twitter Username tweaks - is it a ploy to get more pages into Google index? Not sure if the URLs are canonicalized. Will be interesting to see if Google crawls these pages or simply ignores them
- Atul Arora
They aren't redirecting or using link rel=canonical for the new pages. You basically have two homepages now.
- Matt Mastracci
I do see google has started indexing/crawling some of these pages - see site:twitter.com/@parislemon or site:twitter.com/@ev
- Atul Arora
very interesting
- MG Siegler
matt cutts - what say you on this?
- MG Siegler
Gillmor Gang recording live 1PM Pacific http://www.building43.com/realtim...
Daniel Rowley, Michael Pinto, earl wallace and 13 other people liked this
If it's Thursday, it must be the Gillmor Gang.
- Cliff Gerrish
Looking forward to it
- Kevin Marks
+1 for MG joining GG
- Mike Doeff
Nice. Welcome MG
- Ken Sheppardson
thanks guys
- MG Siegler
Ditto that.
- Karoli
And in the room at the same time. Crazy ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Glad to have the GG back!
- Colin
yes, good to see you, MG
- Kevin Marks
in black and white even!
- MG Siegler
Maybe Saturday for the baby, Robert? Here's hoping all goes well!
- Robert J Taylor
social media is dead, huh? wonder how he feels about the public option. :D
- Karoli
you should invite @caro on Gillmor Gang, Steve - she'd be great
- Kevin Marks
I wish Facebook allowed multiple accounts on threadly
- earl wallace
a design comment on this page: If the rackspace sponsor icon were above the video screen, the friendfeed discussion would line up with the video better.
- Karoli
thanks Karoli...will look into it
- Tina Chase Gillmor
we lost Scoble...Robert call back in!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
That happens every day. See failwhale
- Ken Sheppardson
Seth has a point.
- Antonella Stellacci
Sorry -went out of channel: @Karoli - working on a new site version/update. I've considered that issue as well. Thanks!
- Rob La Gesse
What a great looking show.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
What's critical mass these days? How many users have to be using a service for it to be taken seriously?
- Ken Sheppardson
So maybe the next big thing is "None of the Above", i.e. lots of small site that don't necessarily have a large userbase.
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert's back on the line. we're bringing him back up
- Tina Chase Gillmor
User centric vs site/document-centric ala http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009...
- Ken Sheppardson
hi Tina no see long time!
- earl wallace
hello Earl & everyone
- Tina Chase Gillmor
jet overhead!
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Posterous just launched customization. Nice.
- Ken Sheppardson
I agree with MG. Google does'nt seem to get the gist of social media
- earl wallace
Same view, Google isn't moving fast enough.
- Colin
Trying to tweet the show URL and my tweet won't go out..can someone help?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I want to try threadsy...I think I'll like it
- Tina Chase Gillmor
threadsy wont let me bring in my different private and public Facebook accounts
- earl wallace
going to have to catch this on the rerun...kid issues override all today. Hopefully resolved soon. Thanks, all.
- Karoli
That doesn't mean everybody wants to do that, Robert.
- Ken Sheppardson
talked to women about sharing your location with everyone, robert?
- Kevin Marks
yeah, pretty much everyone i talk to isnt ready for that yet
- MG Siegler
It would be easy for FourSquare to integrate Facebook contacts
- Jesse Stay
eventually it will be the norm, but in no way are people ready for that yet
- MG Siegler
Just a few lines of code - copy and paste mostly
- Jesse Stay
I'll bet you 99.9% of the population of the US doesn't want their location published.
- Ken Sheppardson
1000 followers isn't publishing your GPS location
- Ken Sheppardson
and there has been no location-based incident yet, but sadly we all know it's going to happen
- MG Siegler
they want their location published to some people, not to everyone
- Kevin Marks
No, I'm not, Robert
- Ken Sheppardson
Kevin: You realize all your comments here are going out as tweet? (Just checking)
- Ken Sheppardson
Facebook Connect integration would make that easy - you can import their friend lists, choose to publish to only those friends, etc.
- Jesse Stay
I thought you just said "everyone", Robert
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken- I agree. There are some less than savory characters I want to give the opportunity of finding me
- earl wallace
Lost video/audio
- Ken Sheppardson
wow robert is pissed
- MG Siegler
refreshed page and it cam back
- Robert J Taylor
hold onfolks... something went down
- Tina Chase Gillmor
yep. refreshed here too
- Ken Sheppardson
get back up
- Tina Chase Gillmor
For me, I'll be much more selective about who I share my location with. And I'm not likely to send a friend request for a location-based system to someone who I haven't met and consider a "real life" friend.
- Mike Doeff
works again
- Ken Sheppardson
guys, has scoble been saying we should share our location or something ?
- Mark
The evidence to me that we're on the path to everybody becoming Scoble one day will be the existence of a second person like Scoble :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
geez... weird. Think ustream is messing up
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Tina -is there an audio stream url to listen on VLC?
- earl wallace
No video. :(
- Otto
video down hard again
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't mind having my location known if I am in a public place, but I sure don't want that at home.
- Francine Hardaway
we're still here...show continues but seems like there is a ustream problem
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Trying to watch this is a real chore, and I love you all
- Francine Hardaway
video up!
- earl wallace
Back up!
- Robert J Taylor
It's back up, refresh.
- 321
I share my location via BrightKite to my friends, and I use Navizon on my jailbroke iPhone to update a map on my Facebook page every 10 minutes. Kinda fun.
- Otto
A friend of mine built out a calendar tool for FB: http://wezaggle.com that delegates well
- Kevin Marks
aaaaaand we're back
- Mike Doeff
our audience is SO awesome
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Fire Eagle enables the sharing of location between services quite well.
- Otto
Have to agree with Scoble on the sharing capabilities of things like Foursquare ... not worried about the privacy issue at all
- Robert J Taylor
Fun, Otto, but you really don't want people knowing where you live. I have been stalked and it's scary
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: The only people that can see my location are people I know. I don't friend people on social sites if I don't know them. Facebook especially.
- Otto
I use Foursquare. But once again not in mmy home
- Francine Hardaway
I've had people (on FriendFeed and my blog) threaten me and my family. Since then I'm very careful revealing my location. I want control - I think utilizing Facebook privacy controls is the best way to do this.
- Jesse Stay
BrightKite offers a neat feature to make specific locations more private than others, so you can use it at home, but only your BrightKite Friends can see it (as opposed to the world)
- Otto
Francine, you tweet your location out a lot...I hate the whole idea of letting folks know where I am in real time unless there's some purpose in that notification.
- Karoli
But there's a fundamental difference between something like "track" and geolocation serivces. People don't know what "track" is, but they know what "everybody knows exactly where I am at all times" is.
- Ken Sheppardson
people make @foursquare venues for their homes that don't have addresses on, so they can check in, but only those in the know can find them
- Kevin Marks
yeah i have my place but not my apt number
- MG Siegler
Foursquare is crap. It doesn't work in any city within 400 miles of me. How the hell can a company sustain that sort of thing? They're totally ignoring like 80% of the bloody country.
- Otto
Because you're an outlier, Robert.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Karoli +1 What is the purpose of sharing location, i.e., WIIFM
- Dave Martin
NTTAWWT
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert that would be cool except those with mental illnesses that catch alot of prejudice
- earl wallace
but will we have to arm ourselves?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Definitely am an outlier. I like sharing my location so people who know me (or want to) can join me. Works well in my home town and in towns I'm visiting.
- Robert J Taylor
Main reason me and friends use BrightKite is to check in at places so that we can meet up without having to trade texts and calls and such. Much nicer than how it was before, having 20 people call to ask what bar we're hanging at
- Otto
Dave, if I were stuck on a country road in the dark and wanted someone to come get me, it would be extremely handy. (that's actually happened to me in the past)
- Karoli
Snarf
- Brant Walker
Hey Steve--How are you monitoring the show's audio w/ out headphones without creating feedback?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Tina: good reason to live in Texas...the "Castle Doctrine" applies to home and car. :)
- Robert J Taylor
nice plug
- Tina Chase Gillmor
yeah i've seen a few things like that coming soon also
- MG Siegler
Not to throw a legal question into the mix but at what point do we all become default public figures as a result of our election to disclose personal information? The privacy myth writ large.
- Dave Martin
By the way, was talking to someone who work kids trying to get guns off the streets, and they were explaining that one of the biggest problem they have these days is girlfriends with cellphones.
- Ken Sheppardson
think flashmobs
- Ken Sheppardson
interesting Ken...
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Speaking of visiting... I'll be in LA at 140tc next week. Staying at Hotel Angeleno.
- Robert J Taylor
taking pictures of guys from gang A, msg to boyfriend in gang B, boyfriend says keep him there, we're on the way
- Ken Sheppardson
Big Brother replaced by little sister, Ken?
- Robert J Taylor
Robert T. - I like that hotel
- Tina Chase Gillmor
with latitude you can choose what to share with who (share best location, city level, hide)...
- Antonella Stellacci
@Karoli good point but we would probably agree that you would want to somehow limit those who were made aware that you were alone on a dark road
- Dave Martin
another jet
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Dave, absolutely.
- Karoli
Antonella-Good point which illustrates that foursquare and others should use Goolgle for open standards template
- earl wallace
or not
- Tina Chase Gillmor
IMO, people think too much of themselves. Nobody cares if you like coffee.
- Otto
Yes, location based services have value. Will everyone use them? Probably not. What's next...
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert, as long as you control those "where I am/what I'm doing" location disclosures
- Dave Martin
Your *friends* might care, but those are the only people. And you'd probably want them to know.
- Otto
the interesting thing about @foursquare is that it does encourage you to perform your location
- Kevin Marks
Kevin: Only if you live in one of the towns it supports. Nobody I know uses foursquare.
- Otto
I remember Kevin and myself being in those early conversations. We've only been talking about this stuff for 8 years now.
- Jerry Schuman
the starbucks bot notices you were at peets and asks, why were you being unfaithful to me today at 10:20am
- Dave Martin
Gowalla is neater.
- Otto
Good show guys.
- Mike Doeff
Dave: If that actually occurred, it would be a horrific fail and the backlash would be tremendous. Can you image how many people would get ticked off about starbucks tracking them?
- Otto
Otto: I think that the same thing was said about Twitter - who cares what you're doing, besides some friends? Now we're talking about "where are you"...
- Robert J Taylor
Thanks Steve, Kevin, Seth, MG, Robert, good show
- Dave Martin
thought-provoking show!
- Robert J Taylor
Thanks Steve for the wonderful platform, looking forward to more!
- earl wallace
@otto true, that was the problem with dodgeball too - it is primarily an urban density app as built
- Kevin Marks
Robert: The thing nobody got about Twitter is that "your friends" is enough to make it a useful service.
- Otto
thanks everyone ...great show
- Tina Chase Gillmor
thanks guys
- MG Siegler
Just joking Otto, we agree, there are two issues, having access to the data and application of the data, collection/mining will be the science, application will prove to be the art
- Dave Martin
@Kevin: Yes, foursquare supports 21 cities. But I live in the 19th biggest city in the country, Downtown no less, and foursquare doesn't have it. Lame, lame, lame.
- Otto
yeah crowd-sourcing cities is coming soon. will open it to a lot more
- MG Siegler
I live in the 7th largest city -- no Foursquare love for San Antonio. Always pretends I'm in Austin
- Robert J Taylor
Crowdsourcing should have been in there in the first place. Gowalla has 50-60 locations in my city, and I was only the 3000th user or so. What the hell good is a location based app that doesn't work in almost all locations?
- Otto
I live in the 10th largest City, San Jose, and I have to tell @foursquare it's San Francisco...
- Kevin Marks
Kevin, I had the same problem in Boston. It doesn't work well with suburbia.
- Jesse Stay
San Francisco is a suburb of San Jose. If you go by population.
- Gabe Wachob
One thing is certain, GPS will redefine "local" to mean not DMA, block code or any other crude marketing/census definition but local as EXACTLY where you are in the moment.
- Dave Martin
or san jose is a suburb of SF if you go by white upper middle class cultural associations
- mary
Actually, San Jose is part of the so-called embedded San Francisco metro or DMA/SMSA definition.
- Dave Martin
MP3 here: http://www.archive.org/downloa... When the youtube version is uploaded presumably without the dropouts, I'll rip the audio and put it here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/bootleg...
- Jack
The real time comments here are interesting but lack much in the depth department. Where do I find the post show comments?
- Jason Adams
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