"After arriving home to Fremont in the wee hours Wednesday from her campaign stint in Indiana, she was back to work the next morning at FriendFeed, where, even for a start-up, the days are more predictable than campaign work." :) - Ana
Congratulations on the interview, Ana. I made sure to highlight your stumping for Obama in Scoble's Qik video from the other day, and Kristine enjoyed meeting you as well. - Louis Gray
Here is a version w/ photos: http://www.mercurynews.com/loc... You have to click on "2" under the photo of the Hillary supporters though. That said, it's not really worth it, since I look sort of strange. Must have caught me in a moment of naive, wide-eyed support :) - Ana
Server troubles. We're still investigating exactly what triggered it. - Paul Buchheit
I reckon it was a case of Murphy's law's third addendum: "If something cannot possibly go wrong, and it is the weekend, that thing will go wrong.". I propose a revision - Murphy's law's third addendum as applied to startups - "If it is the weekend, and everything is working, nothing will go wrong, but it will still cause a system outage." - Slippy Lane
"Who can imagine New York City without the Mission burrito? Like the Yankees, the Brooklyn Bridge or the bagel, the oversize burritos have become a New York institution. And yet it wasn’t long ago that it was impossible to find a good burrito of any kind in the city. As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss." - Tudor Bosman
Reminds me of the now defunct Golden Gate Tunnel. I still have my permit in one of my Google Stuff boxes. - Kevin Fox
Cool, tunnels rule. They are so, well, underneath it all. - Mike Reynolds
"Convincing skeptical businessmen to buy into the plan proved more of a challenge - it took six months to persuade suspicious taqueria owners to switch to a salsa with lower magnetic permittivity." :) I know what I'm having for lunch... - Paul Buchheit
so now there's "data availability" as well as "data portability"? I'm not sure, but it's possible that Myspace actually has this right, or at least not as wrong as some advocates would have everyone believe. Myspace is being somewhat conservative in pushing their user's data out, but that might actually be what users prefer. See for example: http://foaf.tribe.net/thread/a... and http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... - Nick Lothian
Yeah, that's one of xkcd's "things", You should click thru to the site to see the mouseover. I only discovered them after I'd been reading xkcd for a few weeks (how slow am I, lol) and it brought a whole new level of understanding to the whole thing for me. - Slippy Lane
This is so weird. I didn't favorite this photo 12 hours ago, I did it like 3.5 hours ago, but it landed in my feed at the time location of 12 hours ago, which is when I assume it was posted by Patti. Is this a bug or did you guys want it to happen this way? - Rachel L Fisher
Of note is that the video is primarily of Louis Gray giving details of the crew at FriendFeed. He will be employee #8 heading up PR :) I kid....I kid.... - Mark Krynsky
Robert Scoble interviews Louis Gray, as he introduces the FriendFeed (Oct 2007) team of 7 people. Tudor Boseman (#7) joined last week. Sanjeev, Jim, Ana Yang (stumping for Obama), Kevin Fox - Chief Designer. -- If you'd like to Digg the story, click http://tinyurl.com/5sq7y5 - Mitchell Tsai
Robert Scoble interviews Kevin Fox (as Louis Gray states "designer extraordinaire and all-around nice guy") - Mitchell Tsai
Q: Why is the FriendFeed interface so simple and easy-on-the-color? A: We want to walk before we run. Maybe a richer UI after FriendFeed has more features. - Mitchell Tsai
Q: Why are some features (like discussion feed) so hard to find? A: It's an early stage of design. We don't know yet how vital or frequent features will be for users. (e.g. hide-UI). - Mitchell Tsai
Q (6:15): Do you do user testing? A: (1) User-off-the-street (2) Friend-testing (3) Public-at-large --- We want to use Tiered testing - broad view, then drill-down. - Mitchell Tsai
Q (7:05): What about "noise"? A: (1) Duplication-noise (2) Looping-noise (3) Fast-user-noise 15 very fast Twitters - we do that well - Mitchell Tsai
Duplication-noise (8:55) - Hash on same URL (final source) isn't good enough. People reference things in different ways (a) link to primary source (b) adding extra sources (other related articles). - Mitchell Tsai
For this contest, the goal is to create fear. Not just any fear, but a fear that you can alleviate through the sale of your new product idea. There are lots of risks out there, some of them serious, some of them so unlikely that we shouldn't worry about them, and some of them completely made up. And there are lots of products out there that provide security against those risks.
Your job is to invent one. - Tudor Bosman
"This is especially highlighted in one anecdote in the article, of Myhrvold holding a dinner with a bunch of smart people... and an attorney. The group spent dinner talking about a bunch of different random ideas, with no real goal or purpose -- just "chewing the rag" as one participant put it. But the next day the attorney approached them with a typewritten description of 36 different inventions that were potentially patentable out of the dinner. When a random "chewing the rag" conversation turns up 36 monopolies, something is wrong. Those aren't inventions that deserve a monopoly." - Paul Buchheit
At the same time that bringing good ideas from the mind to the paper in record time is extremely important for the development of technology and to make the world a better place, the monopoly of these ideas make the whole point of this endeavor moot. I wish there was a law where, if you made your invention go "open source", you could deduct the market value of it on your taxes. :) - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
"Drivers are employing remotely controlled devices that can switch the numbers on their license plates in seconds, to fool speed cameras and avoid fines." - Simon
Government should start using chips for licence plates. It will work with other app. like auto-cash in gas stations, etc.. - Erhan Erdogan
Sounds like something from Back to the Future! - Joe
Why don't they just smash 'em like the French drivers? - Kevin D. White
...or submit to them, like us Brits. - Slippy Lane
@Joe: lol. @ⓞnor: some suburb. To the north, beach. To the east, half a mile of farmland, then 1000 miles of desert: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=... - j1m
and [massive cymbal and guitar crescendo] that was my 1000th comment. I'm glad it wasn't one of my stupid ones. - j1m
"The first switch arms explosives on the shuttle’s two solid rocket boosters. Flipping the second switch would detonate them, destroying the shuttle and crew." - bob
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