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Philipp Lenssen
"I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong."
(via Reddit's Altered Sayings thread) - Philipp Lenssen
Ionut
What problems does Google Wave solve? - http://danieltenner.com/posts...
Ionut
YouTube - Tribute to Michael Jackson - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - Tribute to Michael Jackson
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Ionut
Andy Baio
if websites were cartoon characters [via] - Andy Baio
Philipp Lenssen
Get rid of all the bugs in your code by redefining them as "challenges".
Messages need to be adjusted accordingly, e.g. "Program cancelled: There's a MySQL challenge in line 367". - Philipp Lenssen
Philipp Lenssen
(Appeared in Ebony, 1973) - Philipp Lenssen
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Matt Cutts
For the folder-lovers among you, Gmail just added drag-and-drop for messages: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Ionut
Opera Software: "On June 16th at 9:00 a.m (CEDT), we will reinvent the Web." - http://www.opera.com/freedom/
"We start our little story with the invention of the modern day computer. Over the years, the computers grew in numbers, and the next natural step in the evolution was to connect them together. To share things. But as these little networks grew, some computers gained more power than the rest and called themselves servers ..." (from the source code) - Ionut from Bookmarklet
Will Opera 10 come out of Beta or...? - Philipp Lenssen
No, I don't think so (the beta version was released last week). It's something related to cloud computing. - Ionut
Tall order. I remember a day in early 80s when I explained the then-new office microcomputer to a journalist as a "typewriter of tomorrow today." What do you think was the newspaper leading with the very next day? - ianf ⌘
http://unite.opera.com/ - personal web server with many cool apps - Ionut
Great. Could they build an extension or similar feature for Chrome/Chromium? - Jérôme Flipo
Would it deserve a blog post on GOS? - Jérôme Flipo
LIked this bit "Fridge - A fun place for people to leave notes on your computer." Rrrright. @Jérôme, if it proves a success, the other undoubtedly will follow. There are only so many ways desktop-server can communicate with peers over the IP, so the principle can not have been patented, only certain aspects of Opera's implementation. - ianf ⌘
There was a plugin for Firefox called AllPeers that turned Firefox into a social P2P file sharing application. But the project was stopped because there wasn't enough users. - Brome
While servers are not useless, the idea that not everything has to pass through them is sensible. You need a always on computer (e.g. at home) for Opera Unite to work, don't you? - milivella
Probably not, not always on. They must've taken into the account what it is running on, how to save and reestablish state of connection seamlessly after possible "hiccups" in the network. In effect implemented a stateless system with high level of redundancy, possibly with a distributed p2p file system etc. - ianf ⌘
If you close Opera or you shut down your computer, your web applications will no longer work. You'll get the message: "The device you were trying to access does not seem to be available." - Ionut
Ionut, if you shut down the computer you won't get anything ;-)) But the issue is not how it ceases to be, but how well it recovers from temporary "absences." - ianf ⌘
@ianf & Ionut: thanks for the reply. Ionut got what I meant, but what ianf wrote is interesting as well. - milivella
Ionut
Philipp Lenssen
Kevin Fox
Magnet falling through a copper tube: Eddy Currents - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Magnet falling through a copper tube: Eddy Currents
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This is wild and I can't wait to try it. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet
I would love to see this performed atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa with a really long tube. - Micah Wittman
Awesome… Faraday currents! - John Lam
Copper isn't magnetic. This is witchcraft!! - KyleHase from twhirl
BURN HIM - Josh Haley
Wow! - Kol Tregaskes
:O so cool - Jay
That is unbelievably cool. - Andrew Leahey
I could watch eddy current stuff all day - Josh Haley
Ionut
YouTube Realtime: First Impressions - http://www.michske.be/blog...
Seriously, why can't Google design their own Friendfeed (or acquire it) and put "Updates" between Web and Images in the product bar? They could then integrate updates from all services in one stream, with a private section for confidential information ("John has shared a document with you and Paul"). They already have "Friends" (Contacts), "Services" (Picasa, Youtube, etc.), the... more... - Jérôme Flipo
They even have the Social Graph API for finding all third party services! - Jérôme Flipo
Mihai Parparita
Ionut
Ionut
Gmail Search Autocomplete - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
Gmail Search Autocomplete
Pretty neat - Bindu Reddy
nice how it knows about (all?) the special fields like subject:, etc :-) - immaterial
Philipp Lenssen
Philipp Lenssen
Google's Advanced Image Search Lets You Restrict to a Certain Width and Height - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Kevin Fox
Offline Gmail for iPhone and Android using HTML5 local storage - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Offline Gmail for iPhone and Android using HTML5 local storage
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This is huge. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet
I really hope offline Gmail comes to the iPhone soon. - Kevin Whalen
The offline use is nice, but doesn't the point about the experience being the same seem a little dubious? The HTC Dream and the iPhone run relatively similar versions of WebKit; the problem has always been UA developers not coding to the same specifications. - Mark Trapp
HTML5 the draft? http://www.w3.org/TR... "HTML 5 is still a draft. The contents of HTML 5, as well as the contents of this document which depend on HTML 5, are still being discussed..." - Stephen Mack
Mark: I don't understand. Can you elaborate? Is your concern that other mobile HTML5-compliant engines won't render the same as each other? - Kevin Fox
"The HTML 5 specification will not be considered finished before there are at least two complete implementations of the specification. This is a different approach than previous versions of HTML had. The goal is to ensure that the specification is implementable and usable by designers and developers once it is finished." - Philipp Lenssen
Kevin, I guess I'm thinking about the discussions from Joel Sposky and others (Joel's piece: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items...) when the IE8 "standards mode" was announced: I'm not convinced all mobile HTML5-compliant engines will interpret what it means to be compliant the same way, and this has been an issue with every version of HTML. I get it if we're limiting the... more... - Mark Trapp
Contradictorily to how things should be, if some dominant apps come out while the spec is still in draft form then engine developers will, for better or worse, try to code to those entrenched apps or at least not break them too hard, especially in the mobile market where the ability to run those apps are features that customers use when making purchasing decisions. - Kevin Fox
The alternative would be a "Gears" for every platform, right? It makes sense to me they'd rather chase an evolving HTML5. - Antonio Piccolboni
Exactly. By chasing it, you pin it down. How can you know if a spec draft is complete without building production apps to it? :-) - Kevin Fox
The great thing about standards is how many there are to choose from. - Stephen Mack
Philipp Lenssen
New: 250,000 Shareable Sketches - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
[fixing a problem with embedding animations, hope to be solved soon :)] - Philipp Lenssen
[Just updated the blog post to show an example of how you can embed an animation showing the sketch being drawn. (We're currently working to add a border around it and make the link at the end link to the sketch in question...)] - Philipp Lenssen
Ionut
YouTube - MADtv The Best Skit Ever - Nicole Parker Presentation - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - MADtv The Best Skit Ever - Nicole Parker Presentation
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Ionut
Philipp Lenssen
You are invited to join this fictional reverse-chronological Friendfeed thread.
Red. And I guess that's the end of this discussion. - Philipp Lenssen
But what color would it be if they hadn't won? - Paul Buchheit
It was orange. - Bec Rowe @d0tski
The previous card was blue. Blue was seriously not good. - Tony Ruscoe
Thrown off balance by Bec's shocking revelation, Philipp's mind blanked on what the previous card was. Breathing slowly, he tried to calm himself. "Let the memory come," he silently commanded his subconscious mind. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
"Yes," Bec uttered in threatening tone, "You suspected this all along, didn't you? Now turn your final card." - Philipp Lenssen
wow, do i feel lost... ok need to go carve a pumpkin or something...oooh look candy!!! - Susan Beebe
@Soulhuntre, that was the nicest thing you've ever said about Obama... I guess you've really, really changed your mind!! glad to hear that you'll be voting for real change on tuesday... awesome! - Chris Hollander
They stared at each other across the table for what seemed like an eternity. A warm breeze blew in through the window, carrying with it smells of the marketplace and conversations of random passers-by. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
Andy Baio
iminlikewithyou launches open API for multiplayer games - http://developers.iminlikewithyou.com/
Philipp Lenssen
Steve Ballmer Talks About "Windows Cloud" - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Philipp Lenssen
A Greasemonkey script to create longer comments on Friendfeed...
... could perhaps save its data into a special room created for that purpose, as a comment. If you don't have the Greasemonkey installed, you'll see the first part of the comment as normal followed by a link to the continuation of the comment in that room's storage. If you did install it, you'll simply see the longer comment, with an additional agreed-on character for line breaks. - Philipp Lenssen
Or they could just break open the limit. Maybe you would have to take a test in essay writing, and get issued a license to post long-form content, just to keep the riffraff from blathering on forever. More reasonably, long comments could have their tail hidden behind an expando of some kind (a "..." that you click on and expands in place). - ⓞnor
I like the idea of an expando on long comments. - Jason Wehmhoener
For now you can simply copy/paste the long text to override the limit. - Aviv
I don't like posting lots of text without paragraph breaks, though. - ⓞnor
@Aviv: The last time I tried that, the extra text was truncated. - Voyagerfan5761 from Alert Thingy
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Yep, truncated at 1024 characters exactly when pasting. - ⓞnor
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But, when typing, you only get 512. - ⓞnor
<< ... with an additional agreed-on character for line breaks >> Why not just use line breaks? FriendFeed stores them and even includes them in the source code (check the source of this comment) but you currently have to paste them into the comments box. So... you could easily just change the stylesheet to maintain line breaks. - Tony Ruscoe
I've hit the typing comment limit several times. It really ought to be larger. - Tanath
if you want longer, just make a post somewhere else on the web and let it flow in - Vezquex: God of FF
Tony Ruscoe
Parking lot wayfinding by means of giant, stereoscopic words that only line up when you're correctly positioned - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
Orli Yakuel
hah! - Orli Yakuel
Oh my...frustrating indeed. I lol'd ;) - David Adam
hehe, ahhh those teenage years, its all flooding back now, two of my greatest tonnage puzzles in one pic - Patphelan
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