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Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
Chatsohbet, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Kol Tregaskes and 20 other people liked this
we are back
- K.D.
I wondered. Glad you are back!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No problem. Just don't scare us like that again ;)
- Mark Krynsky
Ok otherwise it was going to be an topic on Twitter.
- Madhav Tripathi
I forgive you.
- Vezquex
I thought FriendFeed would have deployed mobile datacenters across the US by now.
- imabonehead
Talk to Scoble about getting you guys on Rackspace :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from Alert Thingy
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
Andy, long time :)
- Micah
Something changed with this downtime, didn't it? All images are now hosted on friendfeed-media.com instead of the old i.friendfeed.com
- Mitch
Mitch, the friendfeed-media change was deployed yesterday and unrelated to the outage.
- Paul Buchheit
A small request, could the search term "service:friendfeed" be changed to "service:ff"?
Roberto, Gordon Swaby, Kiran Patchigolla and Glenn Slaven liked this
Or at least be an addition. :-) #betakoltag-sg-searches
- Kol Tregaskes
Laaaaaaaaziness! ;)
- Glenn Slaven
Hehe, that's it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Daniel Rowley, Amani, Svartling and 41 other people liked this
brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly
- Thomas Power
True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?)
- Louis Gray
why is LazyFeed invite only?
- Damir Zubović
Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone.
- Louis Gray
Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia.
- Damir Zubović
Your password's too short :-P
- Jesse Stay
the word "password" is too short?
- Louis Gray
:) :)
- Damir Zubović
Louis, yes.
- Jesse Stay
BTW, what screen capture software are you using?
- Jesse Stay
I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one?
- Jesse Stay
but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that?
- Jesse Stay
Snapz Pro X: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti...
- Louis Gray
Very nice - thank you sir.
- Jesse Stay
More video demos == good, btw
- Jesse Stay
Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often.
- Ethan Gahng
greta video - got straight to the point :)
- Riaz Kanani
Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks
- Jane Finch
Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks
- Mo Hall
why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF?
- Thomas Power
Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time.
- Louis Gray
cool thank you
- Thomas Power
LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you!
- Lazyfeed
Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue.
- Liza + = ?
Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks.
- Ethan Gahng
Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas?
- Liza + = ?
Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis.
- Amani
I'm Louis Gray recommended! http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Mo Kargas, Justin Rains, Amani and 26 other people liked this
Graphic blatantly stolen from Bwana: http://bwana.posterous.com/i-made-...
- Michael Hocter
To be exact, it's a Mike Fruchter recommendation on Louis' blog... Thanks so much, Mike! http://friendfeed.com/fruchter
- Michael Hocter
Congrats!
- Bwana ☠
totally jealous
- The Real sofarsoShawn
very nice
- (jeff)isageek
nice
- andy brudtkuhl
No, that's another guy, this Louis Gray is...is...amaaaaaaazzzzzing
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Same guy: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Josh Haley
Fake beard? Hey! I've been working on that thing for months in secret!
- Louis Gray
I totally thought it was real.
- Michael Hocter
from fftogo
stop. please.
- joanne devault
Stop what, joanne?
- Michael Hocter
Scary
- Charlie Anzman
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Custom Themes for Posterous. Also supports Tumblr themes OTB.
Alex Schleber, thegeniusfiles, Nikos Anagnostou and 68 other people liked this
Not official yet I think, but the screenshot is real and provides some info. The "Porting Tumblr" tab explains that you can use Tumblr themes as is, but all Tumblr blocks in the code won´t be supported at first.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Where is the screenshot from?
- Daniel Sims
Looks exciting! I'm glad we'll be able to do completely custom themes from the beginning.
- Andrew
@Daniel: Just add "/theming" to your Posterous url :) (http://posterous.com/theming) Not visible in settings yet though. EDIT: Blocked now.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Shhh guuuyys it's seeecret!!!
- Garry Tan
that'll be great if there comes a WYSIWYG creater tool for this...
- 麦克.疯
At last! Looks great, especially because users can build their own themes! Can't wait to put my hands at work on this!
- Jordi Soler
Can't wait!!!
- Rubin Sfadj
The folks at Posterous are really hard at work. I haven't seen anything exciting coming out of Tumblr lately
- Andre P. Siregar
Wow! That's really cool!
- Svartling
Can we use widgets and javascript code?
- Svartling
I think it will spawn quite a large number of available themes and probably cannibalize Tumblr quite a bit. @Garry: Sorry, but it wasn't a very well kept secret;) Google blogsearch showed it to me on a search I had surrounding Posterous.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from BuddyFeed
@Svartling: No, not at first it says. But knowing Posterous it'll probably come along.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
from BuddyFeed
Things just got intriguing...
- JA Castillo
So, when does this theming feature become available? ;-)
- Rubin Sfadj
So are we any closer to getting an official date for the launch of custom themes? Or have I overlooked something?
- Andrew Eglinton
They could have custom backgrounds just to tide us over. Full themes may already be possible if the API is good enough.
- Vezquex
where's this exiting screenshot? Please, let me know how's possible to implement my posterous with theming options ..(
- cipriana maiameraime
WOW, nice scoop !!!
- kOoLiNuS
Awesome... just set up two sibling Posterous blogs last night... it will be cool to style them!
- Lindsay
...........that's great !!
- Marco Castellani
Dude, this was not suppose to be leaked
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
But since you did, custom themes is going to be nice !
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
It's been leaking for a while now ... any update on projected availability? There have been a number of new features added since this was posted here.
- Allan Besselink
Theming is live! http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
- Garry Tan
New san jose airport terminal is stunning video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kiran Patchigolla liked this
Kinda boring I thought....
- Steve de Mena
Google Reader adds “Send To” feature - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
Kol Tregaskes, Thomas Power, Kiran Patchigolla and 10 other people liked this
Has anyone configured their own link there, yet?
- Kathy Fitch
Kathy: I just did. In fact I wrote a web app that lets me sendTo posterous, tip to techmeme, etc. http://www.kiranslog.com/sharing...
- Kiran Patchigolla
Kiran: how can non-programmers (like me) do that?
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Thanks, Kiran--love it.
- Kathy Fitch
The app is pretty much done - we're just working on translating it into a bunch of languages.
Findlay Colquhoun, Marco Fabbri, Tim Kersey and 2 other people liked this
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
rui aldos, ibrahima diallo, Matthew Hawkins and 25 other people liked this
Really? Whoa.
- Veronica
from Bookmarklet
Yea where did that come form!???
- Fee501st
I actually hope this isn't true.
- Ryan
i hope not. how come TC is the only place I'm reading this??
- Edgar Rodríguez
Hmmm. Well, it's not April 1st. Interesting!
- Tim Chemacki
My initial reaction is "Bummer" but I don't really know why yet.
- Veronica
hmmmm, good thing or no? can't decide
- chipmason
Veronica: same here, i dont like it
- Fee501st
Presumably, it was a good exit for the founders.
- DGentry
thats sucks, fb will kill ff
- shaff
I don't like this... but think about it - Facebook was becoming quite like FriendFeed. However, Facebook is CLOSED, what I like about FriendFeed is being able to interact with lots of people that I haven't met IRL. I don't want these discussions to be taking place among my high school mates and coworkers.
- Hector
My day was already crappy, now it's downright abysmal
- Fleagle
Well that came out of nowhere. Honestly, I don't like it if it's true.
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
just when i was getting into the groove of friendfeeding
- Edgar Rodríguez
mybe TC goofed and they will become network partners
- Fee501st
The closed network thing is really troubling to me.
- Veronica
Well FF was (was? geez) a bit of an island, now maybe there will be both more openness and more, well people
- chipmason
Veronica: yea
- Fee501st
Whoa
- Mauricio
Now i wish FF had Don't like at all option
- Fee501st
Not excited at all.
- Jordan Patterson
this is INCREDIBLE if its true.
- Ron Mwangaguhunga
Facebook is blocked at my workplace while Twitter isn't. If FF is merged into Facebook, it will be the end of FF for me.
- Hector
I don't see why this is a problem. What's making everybody a fatalist and think fb is going to kill ff?
- Mauricio
Me thinks this does not bode well. ><
- David C. Cooper
Matthew DeVries: *tear* :(
- Fee501st
I think this means facebook is getting ready to compete against Google Wave, not only against twitter the real threat in the horizon is Google Wave!.
- Carlos F. Sam Castillo
So much for having a good monday....
- Fee501st
Well, look here: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Ladyepiphanybug
It's in friendfeed-news now, too: http://ff.im/6pFNz
- Ladyepiphanybug
im still on twitter, but i use FF alot more
- Fee501st
Confirmed: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Hector
From the blog: "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." And later? That's a little troubling...
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Bwana said it: http://ff.im/6pGgD
- Fee501st
So Facefeed or Feedface?
- Fee501st
Friendfeed gets assimilated by FaceBook.
- George Brickner
i wonder for how much.
- Kiran Patchigolla
Friendface http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Fee501st
I like the name feedface.
- Ferdinand Perez
I don't like this. Facebook is too closed for conversations like these.
- David Hepworth
also now FB owns your comments
- Fee501st
Hrm...not sure what I think of that. Initial impression is not a positive one, but you never know, it might not be so bad.
- Amy
The Scobleizer says FF is dead http://ff.im/6q5Wv
- Fee501st
yeah l was on twitter and l recivced a twit.to check out friendfeed.
- Isaac Antwi
<sarcasm>Thomas is looking forward to all the mafia requests from people he hasn't talked to in 15 years now that FB owns FF.</sarcasm> Sigh.
- Thomas
If Facebook effs up FriendFeed, someone else will build the same functionality. But I doubt FB will screw with it to the point they wreck it. 47 million is a lot of money, they won't be willy nilly with it.
- Dave Friedel
yeah l hear it was 80 million
- Isaac Antwi
enjoyed TWIT this week - u go
- Richard Brock
Ridiculous statement of the day: Jeff Pulver tells NYTimes that for AT&T Google Voice is a much bigger threat than Skype. Seriously?
Cam, Mike Benjamin, Mark Davidson and 31 other people liked this
There are business threats all over the place. Not many people want to see Google mounting a challenge to their business model.
- David Damore
US Telecoms are a $150 Billion industry. Google is about to disrupt that.
- Charbax
Perhaps Google is to Skype as search is to content producers? Content producers create value but its Google that sits at the center of the web, clicking mandibles, and collecting rents from whomever steps onto a silken thread.
- Todd Hoff
Sure.... Also, someone said that google is going to disrupt a $150 billion telecom industry. Well that was disrupted with the IP networks. I think to think Google can do it all is childish. After today they will go on the defense with their search-and-advertising business. I refuse to believe (without proof) that they can do well in a competitive market place.
- Om Malik
from email
Wait, what fears don't you think Google will ever be able to overcome?
- Matt Cutts
Matt... I think we have argued about this before. :-) So at the sake of repeating myself, why should I believe that Google Voice (and Google Wave) going to take over the world. Just because Google says so? The real world success is yet to happen -- first signs of that are yet to happen. And when that happens we can have a nice conversation - over Fraiche with Scoble as referee.
- Om Malik
Ah.... I love FF for having a way to expand my last Twitter reply. The ridiculous depends on the temporal view. In the US market -a- CLEC for Google Voice is Level 3. Today. Now, imagine DID deprecation. *BOOM* Yes, that's right. All the weight that ENUM has never had could have with the flip of switch that AOL mouthed for years with limited take. Leverage applied to the millions of accounts as a "by the way" menu item is the kind of latent functionality we may see. The war of endpoints is yet to come.
- Jay Cuthrell
1. Google releases Android, the absolute best OS ever 2. Google sets up free wireless broadband using White Spaces (deployed cheaply worldwide using the FON model) 3. Android phones/Tablets and Chrome OS Laptops on White Spaces means the end of Telecoms and ISPs. All this can happen in the matter of a few months.
- Charbax
Charbax.... I think you would *like" it to happen :-) but that doesn't mean it would happen. As they say, in a matter of months I could star in a blockbuster movie. Except it isn't happening any time soon. :-D
- Om Malik
As for Google Wave, it changes the way we work, communicate, collaborate. Effectively replacing email, blogging, im, word processing, web browsing, feed reading, microblogging, even changes the way we search. Puts twitter and facebook instantly out of business.
- Charbax
4. The nice day at the telecom park picnic runs smack into Congressional, FCC, and FTC quagmire that makes up the US market's very own colony of ants. All circuits are busy. Please try your call again later.
- Jay Cuthrell
Telecoms are backwards and lack the ability to innovate. They have grown fat, not having to compete. Apple came in and created the App Store, something the walled garden telecoms could have done at any time. I don't have confidence in Google so much as I have no faith in telecom.
- Todd Hoff
Okay Om... no hits. http://www.imdb.com/find... What's your stage name?
- Jay Cuthrell
When they activate overlay advertising for anyone who wants it on their uploads to Youtube (not just a few beta testers so-called "Partners"), they will be taking over Hollywood and the TV networks as well. The GigaOm show automatically becomes a blockbuster.
- Charbax
Om, I don't recall Google saying that Google Voice would take over the world. Since I've been using Voice, I've found 2-3 killer features for me. The ability to pick a great phone number. The ability to record a call easily (I've already used this a lot) and get an MP3 of the call. And the ability to mark calls as spam--then future calls from that number get an "out-of-service" tone....
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- Matt Cutts
Om - no worries... late for me as well. I just realized you are using email vs. the FF web interface. My context was the "star in a blockbuster movie" reference.
- Jay Cuthrell
Matt - Google Voice is collectively raising the bar of expectation for every other enhanced voice service out there. Many Google Voice features are associated with small nimble voice appliance companies as well as hosted IP centrex services. However, most are tied to silos of authentication or realms (enterprise). My view? VoIP is a race to zero commodity. Just as the charge for email market has seen rapid adjustment in value/price in the wake of Gmail, Google Voice will similarly impact voice markets.
- Jay Cuthrell
jay just to be clear, the email market was down to zero a long time ago. Google just changed the game from a storage stand point. I think you are right about Google Voice commoditizing voice minutes, but that has already happened. Nothing new there. I just think it is going to be much harder for Google to get traction than most think.
- Om Malik
from email
Sure -- the email storage play is prominent but... I'm less interested in SIP O/T as much as the feature sets exposed for free by Google Voice. It's that blend of features that have formed something of a last hope for appliance and centrex solution providers as a licensed key or allowance in a bundle. Google Voice sets that feature set on that same approaching zero path. Don't forget that Gmail blended spam and virus filtering, POP/IMAP, and other premium features in a free bundle -- much more impacting.
- Jay Cuthrell
As for traction -- total agreement. Highly overt and persistent appearance of Voice buttons on everything that is a web property would be a nice start down the path --- but it's a mobile handset world.
- Jay Cuthrell
Maybe it's because eBay somehow managed to not buy all of Skype: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Joel Webber
Pulver knows a thing or two about voice.
- Jim Peake
The thing I'll miss from FriendFeed is posting something, then someone else posting the exact same thing 5 min later & getting all the play
Zach Scott, Bonnie Foster, andy brudtkuhl and 5 other people liked this
Tell me about it! ;)))
- Jordi Soler
lol - ffcheck is good for that, will need a fbcheck now ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Automated tools don't help for comments: I posted something about the 5 stages of grief, got a few likes and comments, someone else posts it 5 minutes later, gets 30 likes and a dozen comments. C'est la Friend-vie.
- Mark Trapp
That doesn't happen on Facebook?
- Morton Fox
With tr.im going down, it's another reason to look at creating your own url shortener service like myself and others have done. Read how to here: http://s1w.us/createshort
Dwayne Watson, Daniel Rowley, Rob McAlister and 13 other people liked this
Nice. I was just looking for just such a tutorial :)
- Rah-PM 2012
I also found an alternate approach here - http://yourls.org/
- Dennis O'Neil
...this is good. shortening URLs is great. but someone essentially owning your permalinks, is not. thanks for sharing. let's see where this goes.
- .LAG liked that
NP
- Wayne Sutton
Wayne -- Awesome! I'm also recommending people consider pURL as well http://purl.org
- Jay Cuthrell
Nice tutorial on hand-rolling URL shortening.
- Bernie Goldbach
The Case Against Apple Is Just As Much A Case For Apple - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Kiran Patchigolla, Jay Cuthrell, Rob Sellen :o) and Maya Baratz liked this
Interesting post. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Pregnant woman tased at baptism - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Anette Hagen, durbin, Robert Konigsberg and 11 other people liked this
It's time to take tasers away from the police. It seems that tasers have become the solution to every problem, big or small.
- Matthew Gifford
craziness!
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's just awful.
- Kevin Winn
Interesting. A person can now be charged for *public* drunkenness in their own home.
- EricaJoy
I don't want to make assumptions about exactly what happened, but it does seem noteworthy that all of the charges against this couple are of the sort that can't be easily disproven. Public drunkenness in his own backyard? Do they have a BAC measurement to prove that? Assaulting an officer? When her husband's just been tased three times *in your own yard*, *in front of your children*,...
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- Joel Webber
Just to be clear: I have had a number of friends who were cops, or who had family members who were, and I have the utmost respect for the very difficult job they do. I just expect them to be reasonable to the people in their communities, and not tase-happy. A little respect on both sides of the equation would go a long way.
- Joel Webber
Tasers are supposed to be an alternative to lethal force, not an alternative to regular police work.
- Gabe
Major Denial of Service (DOS) attack on Twitter going on now. Good luck guys! http://status.twitter.com/post...
Kol Tregaskes, metalerik, Jeremy Schultz and 13 other people liked this
FriendFeed and Facebook are also really slow at times. Wonder if it's a major DOS on all social nets?
- Jorge Escobar
You can read "panic tweets" on Twitter about Twitter being down here: http://bit.ly/lA7HK
- Gus
All my Internets are broken today =(
- Jess
I guess because FriendFeed and Facebook poll Twitter for read/writes, they are both suffering (sort of what happens when Amazon S3 goes down)
- Jorge Escobar
Google Wave is up, though ;)
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge: What's your Wave addy? :) (mine's guruvan of course)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Mine's joeles-test (had to get it somehow)
- Jorge Escobar
i need a google wave account!! :)
- (jeff)isageek
lol Jorge - I have one of those handed out myself ;) (passing the test account around actually)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The whole account is joeles-test@wavesandbox.com
- Jorge Escobar
I'm so angry, my friend Joel signed up the same day I did, and got an account and I didn't! LOL
- Jorge Escobar
The great masses will get their end of September. There were 20,000 going out between about 2 weeks ago and then. (so don't feel so bad, as of 2 weeks ago, only 6,000 accounts ha been handed out. I must have gotten mine on the first day or two of the 20k round)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@guru sent you a wave but have gotten no love from you :(
- Jorge Escobar
lol - I have been on a chat and haven't been able to look. ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Hm. Do you mean good luck to Twitter or good luck to the attack? (unclear) :)
- Louis Gray
True that LG. Good luck, Twitter team! (I never root for the DOS'ers, been under those meself)
- Jorge Escobar
I blame Scoble. It's one of the people he unfollowed getting revenge :)
- Ian Betteridge
Scoble is the most likely cause of a site going down if he said something about it. Sooooo.....
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I thought the new trend was to Blame Drew's Cancer and not Scoble anymore. :)
- Daynah
Daynah: I think we can safely Blame Drew's Cancer for the attack, but have to blame Robert for Twitter actually going down.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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At least :)
- Benjamin Golub
and hardly any hicups.. thats quite an accomplishment !!
- Peter Dawson
I asked him if all the press your partners/competitors get due to their frequent downtime made him envious. I recommended one of the four pushes be a bad one.
- Louis Gray
Talk about extreme agile software development.
- Kiran Patchigolla
Good advice Louis :)
- Sameer
@Louis- a bad push means a buggy push or a push that needs to be exterminated and pulled out all together (functionality) ?
- Peter Dawson
any1 know their cooking sequence ?
- Peter Dawson
@Ben - do you guys have/use a continuous build process and then push from dev to QA and/or to release/staging, and finally to production? Just curious to know how many layers you have before code is actually pushed into production.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Could someone explain in simple terms what the nomenclature on lenses on fancy schmancy cameras means. Like 50mm versus 100mm versus...? Excuse the ignorance.
Mac Sharp, vijay, vicster and 20 other people liked this
There are three general types of lenses for a camera: normal or standard, wide angle, and telephoto. The focal length of a normal lens for a 35 mm SLR camera is approximately 50 mm. A standard or normal lens produces a picture with a perspective similar to the human eye. The focal length of a wide angle lens is any measurement less than 50 mm, but is typically 28 mm. A wide angle lens...
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- Derrick
I'd like to know, too.
- Rah-PM 2012
The focal length of a camera lens is the distance between the center of the lens and the film when an in-focus image is formed of an object very far away. The focal length of a camera lens is displayed on the barrel of the lens along with the measurement of the largest aperture and the maker. The focal length of a lens establishes the field of view of the camera. The shorter the focal...
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- Derrick
Thank you, Derrick.
- Anne Bouey
i will reread that 100 times derrick and see if I absorb it, thanks. What's a 17-40mm lens or 28-300mm? Is it like 28 to 300mm? Is there a lens number that's recommend for general use?
- SteVe C
It depends on what you want to shoot. A 17-40 or a 28-300 is a lens that is capable of shooting within those focal lengths. So yes..as 28-300 can shoot from 28mm all the way to 300. Careful though, just because you get that range doesnt mean you will ultimately get the most for your purchase. I stray away from lens that give me all that....but there are many that do not. A classic...
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- Carlos Ayala
also generally speaking...primes....or a lens with one focal length ie 10, 20, 50, 100, 400 etc have the sharpest optics. again, this is dependent on the quality glass we are discussing. Also there are a ton of photographers on FF....expect more responses on the matter.
- Carlos Ayala
oooh! thanks for explaining crop factor. I have the xti as well. I could never figure it out. now I get it!
- Nathalie
And then there's also the "speed" of the lens or f stop, which tells you how much light it brings to the sensor. The lower the f stop of the lens the shorter the shutter speed that can be used with a given amount of light. This is also why primes are typically better. A 50mm prime with an f of 1.8 will allow you to shoot using a faster shutter speed (which reduces blur) in lower light...
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- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The f stop of the lens is also typically given on the lens. A zoom lens will usually have a range of f like this Canon lens on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Canon-5... It has an f range from 4 to 5.6. This means that as you make the lens longer, the less light it can bring in to the sensor and so you'll either have to increase the lighting you have or decrease the shutter speed to get the shot
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Thank you much Carlos and Alex and Derrick. I looked up some cameras as recommended by Consumer Reports last night the headache that soon followed means i probably need to continue my education some more first.
- SteVe C
When I was first starting out in photography I found these tutorials and their associated helpful diagrams incredibly useful: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutoria...
- Mark H
Consumer Reports is a horrible place to research cameras. I'd look at http://www.dpreview.com and elsewhere.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
A little late to the party but I'll add that lenses capable of large apertures (f/2.8 and below) also tend to be large and heavy compared to their slower counterparts. f/4 lenses generally give you the best blend of speed and size/weight. As for what range is recommended for general use, there's a reason why most DSLR manufacturers bundle 18-55mm lenses (effective 27 or 29 to 83 or 89...
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- ronin
Thanks peeps, I think i'll just leave a large wad of cash here and let one of you pick out something. Alas the big vacation/ work trip just got economic downturned but i'm still very interested in all this advice. I'll keep thinking come to a decision then hold it up for ridicule test. :)
- SteVe C
BULLETIN -- NORTH KOREA FREES U.S. JOURNALISTS.
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YEAY!!!!!!
- Shevonne
great news! :)
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
way to go Bill !!!, but very disappointed in the whole situation
- Harold
is the timer going to see how long it takes the "News Sites" to catch up?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Ok, the big news: we're having a girl!!! We come out of beta in December. :-)
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Congrats! Our boy is coming in late September. Lots of geeks having babies.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Congrats! We're expecting a boy in Late November. Exciting, isn't it?
- Michael Hocter
Congrats Jason! :)
- Simon Wicks
Enjoy the first release @jasoncalacanis as you dont get any updates to that version once it is gone live......
- Geer
congrads, :)
- chaz2b
congrats Jason
- Joshua Smith
from twhirl
Funny how the startup life of late nights and constant code-cleaning begins after u come out of beta in this case :)
- The Fat Oracle
Congrats. Just brought our fourth, a little boy, home today. Kids are a wonderful blessing!
- Gary Gifford Jr
from iPhone
Congrats, Jason! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
congrats!!!
- Francois Lamotte
Congrats Jason!
- travispuk
Mazel Tov!!!!!
- Lillian Banchik
from twhirl
Nice news, congrats to both of you
- Patphelan
here's my advice about having two babies in your house: let me tell you that is a lot of babies. you might want to add a third adult to your household to scale the load :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
that's good news.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
congrats!!!
- Sullivan
If you are really sick you can start watching Dora and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse now to see what life will be like :)
- James Burk
Congrats!
- Brian Watson
Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm - http://staynalive.com/article...
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Samuel, auto DM is any message sent to me without my permission by someone other than a human.
- Jesse Stay
FCC Takes On Apple And AT&T Over Google Voice Rejection http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... by @jasonkincaid
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Experimental: Feedly for Safari - http://blog.feedly.com/2009...
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I love my new FriendFeed wifi picture frame. It's a great desktop companion for getting my FriendFeed fix throughout the day.
paniaguai, Kol Tregaskes, Thierry R. Andriamirado and 57 other people liked this
Where and how did you do it
- Kim Landwehr
Just need touchscreen
- sean andersen
haha - just a screenshot..LOL! Someone please make this though, I want! :)
- Mike Bracco
Hope you work at home or you could have some unwelcome surprises!!
- Lindsay
With real-time picture frames of FriendFeed all the people would just stand and stare for hours...
- Jemm
Jemm: I know, it's bad enough with the FF Air Notifier - I often have to turn it off to get anything done :)
- Mike Bracco
I thought about having such a frame displayed in a corner of the room each time we throw a party with my friends. So that everyone can see what the others are FFing or brightkiting from the party. Using a special hashtag and the search function to display it in the frame, for instance.
- Brome
That's pretty smart
- LANjackal
You could create this with a old cheep laptop. And by following these instructions: http://www.popsci.com/diy...
- Wizetux
hey, that is cool! hahaha! good funny Mike! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Ooooh! I like the idea
- Josh Haley
ahahh nice job @Mike! :)
- BraGiu
You could always buy this USB Monitor http://www.thinkgeek.com/computi...
- BRҰANSAҰS
Bryan - very cool!! It would be nice to have a couple of those to throw information on :)
- Mike Bracco
Saw this monitor before and thought what could I use this for? Friendfeed would be the perfect App for this!
- BRҰANSAҰS
Mike, what's the make & model of that thing? I'm curious about the size & resolution as well as cost. That option Bryan shows is pretty cool too. I've thought about doing something like this but you my friend have done it. Nice job.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark: I wish I actually had this. I actually just took a screenshot on my computer and placed the screenshot on my Brookestone digital picture frame. :)
- Mike Bracco
from BuddyFeed
Jake: FriendFeed addiction knows no bounds :)
- Mike Bracco
OMG:)
- K.D.
I think we need a recount: EvanCarmichael.com ranks the Top 50 Geek Entrepreneur blogs http://www.evancarmichael.com/Tools... I come in #7 behind @louisgray
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Your GSM Phone is (Probably) Vulnerable to Malicious Text Messages (Andrew Brandt/Technologizer) - http://www.techmeme.com/090730...
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From Corporate to Personal: A Breakdown Of The Four Types of Twitter Profiles http://www.web-strategist.com/blog... by @jowyang I'm type #3
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It's hard to like Android. - http://jerakeen.org/notes...
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Tom Insam: "It's not a big deal, but a thousand things like that is like using linux in a world of windows people again. No-one bothers with the little stuff. Stuff works on the iPhone because everyone tests on the iPhone. It would work on Android if anyone bothered. Linux vs Windows/MacOS, all over again. You gain Freedom by using an open platform, making life worse for yourself in a thousand tiny ways, any one of which can easily be dismissed, so they are. But it's still worse."
- Michal Migurski
@LisaBarone weird how browsers/web software do autosave better than most desktop software, huh? Sorry to hear about your work.
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A New Look at the Path to Popularity - Facebook engineering blog - http://www.facebook.com/note...
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"What’s even more striking is how a flurry of fanning or short chains, all started by many people acting independently, often merges together into one gigantic group of friends and acquaintances. This merging happens when one person fans a Page after seeing two or more friends fan that same Page. A case in point is a Page devoted to a popular European cartoon, Stripy. The diagram below shows the cartoon's close-knit communities of fans in both Bosnia (blue) and Slovenia (yellow). A few fans serve as the “bridge” that brings the two groups together. A third cluster of Croatian fans (green) hasn’t yet found its connecting bridge. Finally, there are a few fans from other countries (grey), perhaps Bosnian and Slovenian expatriates!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I knew it! Facebook is Friendfeed's research lab. Bret, how'd you keep this secret for so long?
- Amit Patel
Maybe I'm expecting too much rigor for a blog post, but this statement doesn't sound that impressive the way it's qualified: "In fact, more than 90% of a popular Page’s fans can be part of a single group of people who are all somehow connected to one another."
- Doug Beeferman
The full paper is at http://cameronmarlow.com/papers...
- Bret Taylor
The person sitting next to me just said "TechCrunch" #iloveeavesdropping
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What? That might have come up in another context.
- Daniel Zarick
from iPhone
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