Just forewarning - the public will be overwhelmed. It's too much to launch with, IMO - way too many features. (I'm in the developer sandbox preview)
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse Thanx 4 the forewarning I kind of have that feeling when the video presentation presents itself it will take a while to look around its features. I always take my time to test features
- polou/indigo_bow
I expect a steep learning curve. I've barely started learning about GReader, for that matter. Still, I'll be there when Wave launches, for sure.
- Dennis Jernberg
Unless they fix up a lot between now and then people are going to be very, very surprised (not in a good way!). Release early, release often is great, but I'm not sure people's expectations are realistic.
- Nick Lothian
Let's see what it's like then. Thanks for the info.
- Rick Cogley
Great now how long till Google buys Twitter to integrate it into Wave
- Rob Cairns
Rob, there is already a Twitter extension called Twave that integrates Twitter into GWave.
- Kol Tregaskes
Rob: I highly doubt that Google will buy Twitter as it doesn't fits any were with their existing products and with its integration with Wave what's the point of buying it.
- Usman Bashir
Usman - they will find a way to leverage it into Wave or another product.. I really believe Google is going going to make a big splash with Wave and they will have some big surprises in store. Google is not King of the cloud for a reason:)
- Rob Cairns
I've been secretly hoping that FFers, through one of our A-lister friends, would be reached out to for early invitation. Sept 30 is sooo far away!
- jcunwired
Thank Heavens for Google!! Every Computer User owes Google a Huge Thank U for FREEing us all from the Shackles of Greedy Monopolistic Crappy Microsoft* ;))
- Billy Warhol
I watched the video. So exactly what kind of beast Google Wave is? A social media platform? Can it aggregate as well as FriendFeed? Looks awesome to me. More like a tsunami. lols
- jan geronimo
I'll bump this again. Sorta disturbing that the the Scoble "look at me, I'm part of this" thread has garnered more attention than this. WAVE offers more promise at this point.
- Mattb4rd
Whoohoo - I am really looking forward to Google Wave - great news - thanks Zee.
- Robert Freeze
"Problem. You are interested in how the Google Chrome 3.0 Dev, Firefox 3.5 RC, Safari 4.0 for Windows, and Opera 10b web browsers manage memory on the Windows Vista operating system over moderate usage, such as with 150 top web sites. These numbers can be measured but there are complexities involved in measuring memory. Solution. Here we look at a program that simulates a user visiting the top 150 web sites from Alexa from the command line, with visits occurring at short but varying intervals in many tabs."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Of course, firefox has been known to have memory leaks in the past, and this data looks to be over a somewhat short period of time. I'd be interested to see this test run over a longer period.
- adam garrett
@Adam: The memory leak problem was fixed with Fx3. Any issues you experience are likely to be a result of extensions, not Fx itself. Good link :)
- LANjackal
LAN: I tested Fx 3.5 and it still has leaks after an hour or so
- Johnny
from BuddyFeed
"Opera Unite is a unique technology that turns any computer or device running Opera into a Web server. In other words, your computer (running Opera Unite) is truly part of the fabric of the Web, rather than just interacting with it, and it’s something anyone can use. With Opera Unite, everyday non-technical users can serve and share content and services directly from their own computers in the form of intuitive applications."
- Adi
from Bookmarklet
"Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu. Completely Free and Open Source. Cross platform. Navigation through hard drive contents via dynamic popup menu. Configurable favourite locations for quick access. Plugin system (gmail, twitter, search etc.)"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
from Bookmarklet
I thought for a bit it might offer me a cross platform alternative to my favorite windows launcher, but alas it's not quite that. My favorite windows launcher is one that doesn't need manual addition or setting of favorites, it automatically spots any programs added or run (I hate having to manage menus beyond deleting entries that were one off)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Everest Ultimate is one of the best system diagnostic and benchmarking solution for all concern Windows user. Its provide essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings.
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
from Bookmarklet
Joshua - I'm trying hard not to give up on Disqus because I like their features, but I am also pretty fed up with numerous things not working, anti-spam filters being virtually non-existent, and support being very hard to obtain ...
- Patrick Jordan
I had a problem with them about a week ago. I had to upload the original template and scratch from start to get disqus to work. Am thinking of changing myself.
- Russ Jackson
I just moved to intense debate. It went well, and all my comments remain intact.
- Joshua Schnell
I agree. One thing about IntenseDebate is that the FF comments get imported in with the person's avatar. With Disqus, they say they support FF, but I have to still have the FF plugin for the comments to show up.
- Shevonne
Yeah. Disqus is supposed to have a bunch of social media comments being integrated, but it is just not working.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I got really sick of my comments going missing, then having them tell me they we're patching their systems after I inquired. You'd think they'd send out an email letting people know what's going on before they break everyone's comments. It happened twice a year on Macgasm.net, I decided to move on.
- Joshua Schnell
This is interesting, I have to decide soon what form of comments I am going to have on my new Drupal site.
- Andrew Roche
Giannii, what were your findings upon investigating my Disqus mentions problem last Friday? I don't think I've heard back yet. [EDIT] I realize there was a three day weekend and it's likely nothing's been done yet, but a ticket number would be nice ;)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@ Giannii - I have emailed them to you before, and even pasted full content of some of them into this support thread on your support forums, a month ago now: http://disqus.disqus.com/disqus_.... Look at that thread please. I don't get spam notifications because as far as I can see, Disqus does not recognize anything as spam. In that thread...
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- Patrick Jordan
@Gianni - as for my comment about support being hard to obtain being unfair in your view, I disagree big time. Read this FF thread for just one example where you'll see various FF Disqus users mention that they generally find they get support reactions via Twitter or FF: http://friendfeed.com/patrick... - Why is that??? I would say...
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- Patrick Jordan
And Giannii - here's another support thread at your site, where yesterday you promised updates last night that would fix at least THREE separate bad issues with your Wordpress widget, and many users complaining about it. Today there is no change or fix for any of the issues - and zero status updates from you on it. http://disqus.disqus.com/disqus_...
- Patrick Jordan
My distinct impression of Disqus is that your focus is very much on racing ahead with flashy new social features that grab the attention of folks like Scoble and lots of others, whilst paying very little attention to making sure your basic stuff works. I mean, you are a provider of a comments system. Isn't anti-spam a pretty critical component for a freakin' comments system? And how...
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- Patrick Jordan
Giannii, I would have stayed around if support was more preemptive than reactive. Relying on 3rd parties for comments is risky to begin with, and not finding out that there may be down time previous to the down time is a huge detriment for site operators. I couldn't find anything about it anywhere until I complained on Twitter. Its a little unsettling that I was getting emails from readers of the site about the comments being all funky.
- Joshua Schnell
Giannii - please list some of the key instructions for combating spam here. Your response in that thread on anti-spam only ever said the filters were being worked on / improved. I imagine your instructions are going to say things like tighten up restrictions on who can comment. I already require that commenters have a registered email address, further tightening basically negates the...
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- Patrick Jordan
Giannii - I've 'pinged you' directly in the past, and gotten no good results from it. I'm not looking for a long-winded discussion, just one where you get a bit real. The steps you are alluding to are these: * If it's coming from one username, block that username / email / IP address = have done this numerous times, but as you should know, all 3 of those things are easy to fake and...
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- Patrick Jordan
Oh, and maybe most of all, explain to me why more often than not, in order to get any sort of timely support one has to resort to calling you out on FF or Twitter, please ...
- Patrick Jordan
Giannii - I'm sure you were not planning any answers to my last few questions - but just in case, nevermind. I've switched over to Intense Debate as well.
- Patrick Jordan
Exact same problems here. I remember the day when I sat down and really compared ID and Disqus. Went with the latter after much thought. Boy do I regret that now.
- joneilortiz
I, too, have experienced some spam problems after switching to Disqus. Now, I'm trying out Intense Debate. Let's see how that turns out! I have to add that Patrick Jordan seems frustrated with reason to be.
- Niklas Pivic
Glad I found this thread. I have a big client (ie high traffic blog) and I want to recommend disqus to them, but everything in this thread plus a question i had about syncing accounts on the service have me in doubt of useing the service. I have heard praise for disqus for a while now but never bought into the hype. I think I'll check out intense debate instead. didn't obama put that on his social media sites?
- Liz
I've gotta report, installing the Intense Debate plugin for WordPress was super easy. Also, importing ~1300 comments from my blog to ID took appx. 10 minutes. No problem. The interface feels really thought about and there are some brilliant features I haven't found in Disqus, e.g. Friendfeed Comment Retrievals.
- Niklas Pivic
Disqus is good and so is intense debate.
- TrafficBug
Gianni, the FF integration to Disqus does not appear to be working for me. I have it turned on and have yet to see a comment from FF appear on my blog. Here are 2 FF entries that show comments that don't appear: 1. http://friendfeed.com/krynsky... 2. http://friendfeed.com/krynsky... I also would like to see 3rd party comments integrated better like Intense Debate.
- Mark Krynsky
and then there's people who systematically manipulate feeds by deleting their comments in part or whole, almost for 'funsies'. getting tired of that.
- Josh Haley
Strange. I've not had any issues at all with disqus although I agree the spam filtering could be a bit stronger.
- sean808080
Disqus is broken, and it doesn't look like they've got much cooking. I think I will switch to Intense Debate as soon as posssible, for three reasons: 1) Access to plug-ins and the stellar Wordpress community (which Disqus obviously cannot match) 2) Spam filtering (which Disqus fails at terribly) 3) Backtype integration (Disqus doesn't import anything from anywhere, and when it does it just shoves the links in at the bottom).
- joneilortiz
So does ID use Akamai? Spam and the broken FF integration are my two biggest gripes with Disqus. I don't know why Disqus seems to do all of their spam handling in-house.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
@Daniel - I think you mean Akismet - the popular and very effective Wordpress anti-spam plugin. If so, answer is Yes - you have an option to let Akismet keep kicking ass and taking names on spam for you :)
- Patrick Jordan
This Add-on allows you to reclaim screen real-estate by hiding Firefox Menu items. Really helpful if, like me, you rarely touch the Bookmarks or History menus
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"Select text and it's automatically copied to the clipboard. Like Linux or mIRC." - If you share a lot of stuff from the 'net like I do, this extension will save you a LOT of clicking/keyboard work
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
If you have Windows 7 and Mozilla Firefox 3.1 beta (or the upcoming Firefox 3.5), then you should know about Winfox. Winfox allows you to use those new super cool taskbar features built-in to the Jumplists with Firefox.
- Farshad
I'd been thinking about loading Firefox 3.5 on this Win7 install; I'm now fully convinced that's what I should do.
- Jared Smith
Kinda buggy. Can't wait for Mozilla/Google to start incorporating the new taskbar api themselves.
- Adi
I hate how the "Winfox" shows as one instance of the application so whenever you launch FF, it appears that you have two windows open in the taskbar when you really have one.
- Grant Gochnauer
+1 to what Adi said. I'll just wait for official support from Mozilla
- LANjackal
"OffiSync is a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003/2007 that integrates the office suite with Google Docs. You can open documents, spreadsheets and presentations already saved in Google Docs, edit them in Microsoft Office and save the files in Google Docs. The add-on creates a new revision of the document when you save it, but there's no option to automatically save the document periodically."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
They just released their first public version today morning! No need to wait for them to accept your registration anymore. You can download directly from the site.
- Hasitha
It looks interesting, but I wish their technical page had a bit more information. It would be nice to have, but I don't want Google's desktop search installed on my machine - and since they reference search a couple of times, I get the impression that's part of the deal.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Office Live Workspaces is a free option, too...
- Jemm
What is OCR Terminal? OCR Terminal is a free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and PDFs into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents. Read more
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
from Bookmarklet
i did a little research and it does definitely appear to still be under development. I'm not sure if i'm been fortunate or what but i just never have any problems with it...although I have basically all the plugins available installed. But i have heard others say the same as you
- Zee.
The guy who wrote Quicksilver now works for Google. Not sure if he is still working on Quicksilver, but it's a great little app.
- Gerard Lagana
it's been open sourced - development has been kinda slow but there is a relatively stable copy up somewhere - not sure how stable b56 is u can dl it here http://code.google.com/p...
- newmedias
this is nice, i hadn't heard of Quicksilver. To install the plugins during the installer, I had to manually do each one separately.
- rob friedman
This app is a great time saver and once you begin to use it your fingers always do the same trick even when using someone else's computer. There is a Linux app called "Gnome-Do", not the same but quite similar. 0.8.1.3 release has a dock appearance similar to Mac dock, and it responds better than Avant Window Navigator!
- Emrah Özcan
Zee, not that you aren't doing so much already, but you should start a quicksilver page here too! I wish i could find more ways to do things other than just open apps. The info is all so spread out though, it seems.
- md.
"URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day?"
- LouCypher
"Country of origin (IE, where the domain name is registered, not where the service is based) is something to consider, when it comes to URL shortening services. In order for some of these services to get such short domain names, they’ve registered names in countries off the usual .com beaten track."
- LouCypher
why is the country in the domain something to consider, does it matter? is the .ly domain blocked in some places, for example?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle: the article already explained it
- LouCypher
Not really, the article says they dont think it matters, yet they did list them as if it did. They're trying to say something without saying it, perhaps
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"Add Multimedia to Your Website with One Click. Integrate reference guides, images, video, maps, music, documents, presentations and more from 25+ sources. Keep visitors on your site, instead of sending them away."
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from Bookmarklet
I'm using it more and more. Really nice.
- Niklas Pivic
This is interesting, but i wonder if readers will like the pop-out after a while.
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
Hallelujah?? I've posted this two times already
- Zee.
Oh, I know Zee. I'm glad that I've seen it every time. It means you're not missing any of the shenanigans.
- Christopher Harley
GUYS, PLEASE EMAIL ME ME WHEN YOU SPOT SPAM. I've seen loads of spam posts recently and loads of comments on them yet very few emails to me to me letting me know about them....PLEASE email me at z@zee.me when you spot one. Don't bother commenting or attracting attention to it - just email me. Thank you.
- Zee.