 |
|
| FriendFeed is the easiest way to share online. Learn more » |
Randy Holloway › Likes
People Who Exercise On Work Days Happier, Suffer Less Stress - http://digg.com/health...
Ho John Lee, Ruchira S. Datta, Sarah Miller and 10 other people liked this
Seems true for me
- Evan Williams
Affirms my recent decision to get back in the gym at Google. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Yes, exercise is rewarding and reduces stress. This shouldn't be news to anyone :p
- Charles Bihis
that's because running is an escape to reality, and not the opposite
- thomas marban
It's been shown over and over again that one of the best ways to build a strong mind is cardiovascular exercise (see: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2008...). Yet our offices and schools aren't designed around that!
- Piaw Na
Wow, I've never seen comment spam like that here before. :-(
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wiley Windows 7 Secrets now available in Kindle Edition too http://www.amazon.com/Windows... congrats @thurrott & @WithinRafael
Randy Holloway liked this
Mayo Clinic head points out "we need health system reform, not health insurance reform." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... Really good advice for Obama
Michael R. Bernstein, Phillip Stewart, Alan Morris and 4 other people liked this
FriendFeed Beta Service Icons for Greasemonkey - http://userscripts.org/scripts...
HealingBrush, Kamath (नमः), Adam Boutte and 87 other people liked this
Inspired by zoblue and Ken Sheppardson, here is a Greasemonkey script that dynamically adds the service icons to each post.
- chrisofspades
from Bookmarklet
zoblue was headed in the right direction here (http://beta.friendfeed.com/zoblue...), but had the limitation of needing a CSS style created for each service. I was able use the API to grab the service icon dynamically.
- chrisofspades
Ken's discussion here (http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...) led to the placement of the icon.
- chrisofspades
Cool, I don't suppose this can go with AJ's CleanerFriendFeed scirpt? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Feedback and suggestions please!
- chrisofspades
Good work. Does it cache the icons?
- James Myatt
Kol, installing both shouldn't be an issue. AJ's is actually a user style, so the two don't conflict.
- chrisofspades
Ah, brilliant. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
James, it pulls the icon from friendfeed, so if friendfeed caches it then yes.
- chrisofspades
Awesome! I love it :D Installed! I'm glad it was done better, the CSS was cumbersome
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
There we go. Nice. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Super, thanks very much!
- Simon Wicks
çok güzele benziyor.
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
Installing
- Bwana ☠
Installed
- Holger Eilhard
Could this be standard in FF - without installing anything?
- Frode Stenstrøm
This isn't working for me in Chrome (v2.0.172.1). Any ideas?
- Kol Tregaskes
dont show at all for me.. chrome too.
- Rob Sellen :o)
Me neither, although CleanerFriendFeed does.
- Yan
doesn't work for locked accounts
- Davide Leonelli
Davide, locked accounts?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yan, yep same here.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I think Davide means that it doesn't work on private feeds. I'm using FF's public API so it won't work for private entries. I'll take a look at the Chrome issue.
- chrisofspades
well I figured out why it doesn't work in Chrome (http://dev.chromium.org/develop...), but I can't find a fix. sorry guys.
- chrisofspades
"Could this be standard in FF - without installing anything?" LOL, it is standard in the old friendfeed!
- Mr. Gunn
Maybe this could be added to beta.friendfeed as a new feature??
- Chris Loft
Installed! awesome!
- Justin Korn
OK, thanks, Chris.
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome
- Russ Jackson
Im all over this like a Fat Kid on a Twinkie
- johnpiercy
johnpiercy wins the intertubes
- mjc
hehehehe Im trying to dive into this Beta FF and any or all of this GM scripts will help me .. I love that little GreaseMonkey ...
- johnpiercy
Amazing!
- Sweyn Venderbush
♥♥♥♥♥
- Alix Whitmire
Chris (chrisofspades): http://beta.friendfeed.com/micahwi... Thanks!
- Micah Wittman
OK, this is a good example to resume the lost favicon~
- K.D.
I love Greasemonkey.
- Robert Scoble
Between this, AJ's Cleaner Friendfeed, and pausing realtime, it's actually starting to become usable for me. Just need to work on easily finding everything I want and I'll be all set. (don't worry, I am working on that one myself)
- April Russo (app103)
Yay. I gotz in the screenshot.
- zeroinfluencer
Added it to http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... Anymore out there?
- zeroinfluencer
chrisofspades is working on a new release with some code I contributed to get the icons insertion working in realtime. Stay tuned!
- Micah Wittman
Updated to include realtime support! many thanks to Micah. Note: There will be a popup if you install this version that says you don't have the current version. Just ignore that for now. This should be accurate for any future versions though.
- chrisofspades
Right on!
- Micah Wittman
Misconfigured scriptId value - please don't install until amended. A new comment will update the status of the fix. Thank you for your patience. UPDATE: FIXED!
- Micah Wittman
UPDATED again to fix error in Micah's comment above
- chrisofspades
Bump the hell out of this thread. This is my favorite bit of code I've seen in the last 2 weeks.
- Matthew DeVries
Thx - I just added it :-)
- Kevin Nordmand
UPDATED to work on new live site. no more beta!
- chrisofspades
Great script! Thanks.
- Andrea Sturm
<cry> I can no longer see them in the iPhone feed, but at least this script, updated to look at 'regular' url still gives the fix needed for full service use !
- David HC Soul
Bump for eterinity - seems FF would be able to do this natively if someone was able to knock up a script to do it so easily.
- Matthew DeVries
WTF, why won't this bump?
- Matthew DeVries
Works well with Cleaner FriendFeed :) Thanks!
- AJ Batac
Weirdly for me it doesn't always include icons for twitter posts. For many it just has a lock icon on twitter posts.
- Quasar
Quasar, all twitter posts? it's possible some of them are coming from a private feed.
- chrisofspades
Can't believe it's come to this to get back an important visual clue when trying to process a real-time stream of updates. C'mon, Felicia Day says she wants the icons back. That's good enough for me! http://ff.im/2x34Z
- Ryan
Ahh. It's not all twitter posts where the icons don't appear, its just all posts made from imaginary friends (no matter what service it comes from). Can't remember if that was true pre the new FF.
- Quasar
UPDATED by Micah for greasekit compability and better performance.
- chrisofspades
This should be a standard option in FF (along with CleanerFF) - toggle on/off options??
- Allan Besselink
Sing it loud Allan...
- Matthew DeVries
This has started becoming intermittent on FF :( :sad panda: is it the themes?
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
which theme are you using zu? and which version of the script?
- chrisofspades
I'm using the Flowers theme, along with AJ's "Cleaner FriendFeed w/themes support" but the "FFbeta Service Icons" script doesn't mention a version number
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Finally! Service icons even if its a script. One feature I sorely miss from the old FF. Why the reluctance to bring it back?
- Kamath (नमः)
Zu, try uninstalling the one you have, and updating it with the one here http://userscripts.org/scripts..., or with Micah's latest version here http://ff.im/3ibSK
- chrisofspades
Why did Google announce Chrome OS this week? Well, of course, Microsoft has a big announcement coming on Monday (I'm embargoed).
Daniel Rowley, Bill Romanos, Charanjit and 216 other people liked this
It'll be interesting to discuss both announcements too, and what they mean for each other.
- Robert Scoble
Is this that internet clipboard that Ray Ozzie demoed a few years ago? Maybe they've completed it!
- Diego Barros
I hope to see something good come out of this. Are they saying free or paid for the Chrome OS?
- Anthony Timberlake
That's my Scoble - seeing things behind the things!
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
*raises eyebrow* Interesting. I applaud more competition
- Mo Kargas
I'm intrigued!
- Daynah
Diego, no, it's one of Microsoft's primary businesses. Did you know Microsoft has 14 billion dollar businesses?
- Robert Scoble
Related to Microsoft's Gazelle browser? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
- Kiran Patchigolla
Windows 7 GPL 3.0 ?? Brouahahaa:-)
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Microsoft isn't doing too bad lately.
- Eric Florenzano
cool, im thinking its a special version of windows 7 for netbooks?
- sean percival
Robert: I'm sure they do. As I'm sure IBM does. But I don't care about IBM. :)
- Diego Barros
Anthony: I'm sure it will be free.
- Robert Scoble
BingOS?
- imabonehead
imabonehead :D
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
imabonehead: no. :-) Microsoft isn't that disruptive.
- Robert Scoble
And that means Google Is doing well once again, doesn't it?
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
The Chrome OS will be for netbooks and such for now. And is Microsoft announcing the Free One Care?
- Dylan Richardson
haha BingOS! I like it
- Diego Barros
Bingo yes :)
- Kiran Patchigolla
*chuckles at imabonehead*
- Daynah
LOL BingOS! The startup sound will be Ballmer saying "BING!" like he did at AllThingsD conference.
- Paul Salzman
Bing-OS was his name-o!
- Daynah
Bingos <--- that was his name-o
- Micah Wittman
GoogleOS is already out - "It's the browser" - the GNU/Linux/Ubuntu skin is just marketing...
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
*high fives Daynah*
- Micah Wittman
An open source OS - how much stable will it be??
- Palak Mathur
Question is Robert, if you are not allowed to say, how on earth did Google find out?
- Sandra Large
Bingo-sssss
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Micah, we're on the same google brain wave tonight. :)
- Daynah
Palak - you troll
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Ride the wave :D
- Micah Wittman
Sandra: it might just be coincidence. Or maybe they have great spies. Depends on your view of the world, huh?
- Robert Scoble
Microsoft is open-sourcing their code too??? Yeah, didn't think so. :)
- Josh Fraser
Josh: part of the Microsoft announcement on Monday runs on Google Chrome (and Firefox for that matter).
- Robert Scoble
Not all "open-sourcing" is created equal.
- Micah Wittman
Maybe Microsoft is making it's secret announcement this week cause they knew Google was about to announce?
- Alan W Silberberg
Robert - say no more, don't get into trouble, Duder.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Thats real funny Josh .. Its like pulling teeth to get them to give a discount on anything.
- Dylan Richardson
Alan: maybe! It all depends on how you look at the world, doesn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Nice Cant Wait!
- James Hunter
It just seems to coincidental. Like President of Iran making big speech during MJ's funeral!
- Alan W Silberberg
Scoble the only MS announcement they could make that would blow me away is Windows 7 Early release.
- Dylan Richardson
Dylan: Microsoft has a few other impressive things up its sleeve.
- Robert Scoble
So the question is now that Google's making an OS, will Eric Schmidt resign from Apple's Board?
- Paul Salzman
It's all just ones and zeros. ;)
- Victor Panlilio
So, do we give Calacanis credit for calling a Google OS back in 2006? http://calacanis.com/2006...
- Mike Doeff
Sanat: insightful. Paul: Google makes a smart phone OS, and he hasn't resigned, so why would he now?
- Robert Scoble
Zune HD. Looks nice for the first time ever I'm thinking about it.
- Dylan Richardson
Google is talking about it's goals at this point. Isn't Intel trying a netbook OS too that boots fast? It'll be interesting to see which OS features win out here with different implementations. Is instant on to the browser the key or will some other feature shine? Fun times ahead, though really need to see things in action.
- Loren Heiny
from iPhone
Dylan: sorry, that is dead on arrival. They should have combined Zune with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got a screen photo here: http://ff.im/4WoVE, I don't have much comments yet due 2 that I am using it now, its not much of an announcement.
- polou/indigo_bow
Robert, Zune with a phone hmmm??? I hope ur rite as u said ur embargoed!
- polou/indigo_bow
Gazelle?
- carrotmadman6
MS does not have the Balls to take on the iPhone.
- Dylan Richardson
Wait for Monday. Nothing else to say.
- Frédéric Sidler
from iPhone
Robert, because they claim to excuse him from the part of the meetings related to iPhone...computer OS is arguably the biggest segment of Apple. I guess he can stick around for the hardware discussions. I know my argument is elementary, but maybe walking a line here?
- Paul Salzman
What was the last big hit new MS product?
- James Watters
But if they did that would be cool competition is always better for the consumer.
- Dylan Richardson
James: Xbox? Dynamics? Bing?
- Robert Scoble
Apple is not really what I will be looking at Android is the big boy here
- polou/indigo_bow
MS Office on the browser would also explain why GMail and Google Apps are finally out of Beta today too.
- Ron Schott
Xbox
- polou/indigo_bow
OH OH Project Natal is coming out!! lol j/k
- Dylan Richardson
Robert: Thanks, wasn't hating, just looking for organic momentum from products. Bungie was def a godsend to 360. Bing proved Seth Godin wrong which I greatly enjoyed.
- James Watters
@Robert Scoble: So I looked up Microsoft's last quater's financial report, Microsoft does indeed have a $14 billion business :)
- Long Zheng
Bing is nice I have to say. Here is how I use it .. If I want to Buy or shop a price I use Bing. If I need info its Google.
- Dylan Richardson
MS better fix the %$^#%@^ Gumblar hole first, it's apparently worse than Conficker -- http://rixstep.com/2...
- Victor Panlilio
MS also has ~6+ B in R&D, is it efficient?
- James Watters
Not new news, but it could be the launch of Silverlight 3.0? Offline mode and all the other nice bits, runs on Chrome and Firefox.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Oh, really? When I get something on embargo...I don't write about getting it under embargo. Come on, Robert. You're better than that. Or at least I hope you are.
- Andrew Feinberg
I agree @travis, but google make it like a news
- polou/indigo_bow
James: it doesn't matter, a company like Microsoft needs a product pipeline to remain relevant. Research lets Microsoft remain relevant and on Monday you'll see a bit of how it does that.
- Robert Scoble
OK. Google Chrome OS. Netbook makers say Linux based Netbooks have high return rates. How will people react to a Netbook that only runs a browser? Linux has remained niche.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Andrew: sometimes you have to take a risk. This is one of those times.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I will look forward to it. We ALL win when great software comes to the market. Almost nothing better in the world.
- James Watters
14 billion, maybe Office that runs on Silverlight, therefore in the browser properly.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Do you all think GoogleOS will just boot up right into the browser? Browser will be in firmware?
- Paul Salzman
BTW, Robert, will Microsoft finally dump IE and develop a Webkit based browser? (Forget Gazelle. Yet another stupid Microsoft research project that will never successfully make it mainstream.)
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Paul: no highly unlikely.
- James Watters
Dileepa: I don't know the answer to that. But the demos on Monday (I have a bunch of video coming) were shown to me in Firefox. So maybe that's our answer right there.
- Robert Scoble
James: so you think it will sit on top of Linux or something? Or just be a new flavor of Linux?
- Paul Salzman
Linux flavor of Chrome, thus far not arrived yet
- polou/indigo_bow
Paul: I'd look at Android as a precursor and say yes its going to use a google refined linux kernel, and I believe the post even says a windowing system. I'll check TC again to be sure brb.
- James Watters
Paul: I bet there will be some customization of Linux underneath Google's Chrome OS. I'm intrigued and can't wait to see what they will do with it.
- Robert Scoble
Google says the software architecture will basically be the current Chrome browser running inside “a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.” (quoting TC)
- James Watters
I can almost bet that its web based Microsoft Office with some nifty real-time collaboration features.
- sameer
Sameer - I agree. Explains cross-browser compatability
- Daniel Lazarides
from iPhone
"a new windowing system" leaves the door open for a greater level of abstraction away from the kernel for sure. Probably still with some access to files, devices, etc on the local hardware though which a browser alone would be a clumsy solution too.
- James Watters
If Microsoft's BIG announcements are Web based Office (already demo'ed and announced), Windows Azure RTW (nothing unexpected) or Windows 7 RTM (already announced to be announced!), there is nothing that's going to surprise people on Monday then.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
I think Wave might be integrated into the OS.
- Jayasimhan Masilamani
Dileepa: Windows7i -- the Cloud OS from MS
- Paul Salzman
Jaya: Like as a built in extension to the windowing system? Like IE and explorer?
- James Watters
@Alex Will they be able to match Open Source strategies as followed by Ubuntu,etc??
- Palak Mathur
just another rehashed disaster of windows in another marketing created packing
- Zac Bowling
Dileepa - They haven't talked much about collaboration using Office web. There was one OneNote demo that showed some realtime synchronization. I'm thinking more Wave-like realtime features.
- sameer
Zac: I'm going to believe Robert, but lets give him hell if this is marketing glossy! :)
- James Watters
Paul Salzman: Windows 7i with WGA! -- works only when accessed through IE when running on a WGA validated copy of Windows.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Dileepa: that's it, we've called it! ;)
- Paul Salzman
Robert you managed to convert a complete google night into a complete MS night :)
- Kiran Patchigolla
James: it's been a while since I've felt compelled to do more than five videos at a Microsoft press conference. See ya on Monday.
- Robert Scoble
sameer: That will be mimicking existing Google Docs feature. Google Wave is at a completely different level and I am not sure if Microsoft is up to doing something like that.
- Dileepa Prabhakar
Till Monday it is, I'm thinking I'll even blog it.
- James Watters
Wave might act as the collaboration platform on the OS. But that leads to another question. Will the OS be tied to Google accounts for login?
- Jayasimhan Masilamani
Dileepa: Let's see, I think there's potential for implementation of realtime collaboration across the web based and desktop offerings of Office that could be of big mainstream impact. It's got to be something related to Office, Robert talks about the "$14 billion business" - The only other Microsoft business I know of that's that big is Windows.
- sameer
sameer: I said that Microsoft has 14 billion dollar businesses. Plural, not singular, but I also said it was one of Microsoft's primary businesses. That narrows it down a bit, yes.
- Robert Scoble
My guess is a MS hardware that will shake the netbook market!!
- Krishnan Subramanian
So that's a Win7 RTM announcement, combined with Web Office. If Web Office will be free to use, the combination of W7 Starter with Web Office will be a huge notebook hit.
- Kirill Petrovsky
If ChromeOS was meant to counter MS, then the logical MS announcement would be some kind of OS project, like maybe a combination of Microsoft Singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ) combined with Silverlight for NetBooks or mobiles.
- Ray Cromwell
MS Web Office for sure: Scoble said it runs on Chrome and Firefox and it's a multi billion business. Actually, MS Office accounted for 18-19B $ in 2008.
- Jérôme Flipo
I fear that if the tech side of their release if good (but whatever the pricing), Google Apps isn't ready for the fight.
- Jérôme Flipo
Microsoft announces the cloud OS? I'm still not sure about a Google OS though.
- Burcu Dogan
Web Office in Silverlight, together with a mobile version that means we get Silverlight on WinMo and maybe even IPhone would be a win for me
- Ian Blackburn
I cannot wait...:-) but I DO have a clue...
- Eric Denekamp
Lots of people suggesting Office-in-browser but if that were it why would Robert be under embargo given they've already announced it and demo'd it? I'm not saying it ISN'T Office-in-browser but if it is then something doesn't add up!
- Jamie
Good point Jamie - the two primary business in MS are Office and Windows (in terms of revenue anyway), so perhaps this is more to do with a Windows OS in the cloud? How would that look?
- Ian Blackburn
Midori perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jamie
Initially, Google VS Live, Then Chrome Vs IE & Google Vs Bing, finally its Windows VS Chrome OS
- Michael_techie
Ummm... are they announcing an online version of MS Office like Google Docs?
- prolificdyslexic
that's why I do not subscribe to Scoble - too many comments on his articles, too much noise
- Павел Романовский
I don't see any noise in here. Interesting conversation!
- Robert Scoble
The MS guy at Portland Cloud Camp said Azure was going to be released very, very <wink, wink> soon. #cloudcampPDX
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
@gwalter You’re maybe right. The front end would be MS Gazelle, and the back end would be Azure.
- Bram Pitoyo
Microsoft is finally putting the Zune out of it's (and out) misery and killing it? :)
- Diego Barros
Office Web Apps release to public beta is well overdue - first promised for end of 2008. If this is embargoed then it must involve something new. ScottGu hinted that Silverlight 4 was already in development. SL3 is released this Friday. So maybe SL4 will be released,in beta with a beta of Office Web Apps showing some SL4 features (like more AIR like features)..
- Joe Wood
It seems like "too late" and illogical for Microsoft to come-up with another vendor-lock-in type innovation and expect positive results. Microsoft is not run by daredevils nor wimps. The announcement Robert talking about might be about a web based productivity application suite, which is standards compliant and offers a familiar interface and workflow for people, thus easily adoptable and steal competitors' (G, Y!, Zoho, 37S, Adobe?, etc.) user base.
- Berk D. Demir
The thing thats got me shitting my pants over all this is Games. I need Windows to play all the latest Direct X 10 and 11 games. Linux is hopeless in that regard.
- Mark
Audience in here is mainly composed of technically inclined, early adopters. We feel comfortable with online apps and mainly ready to ditch (or already ditched) many offline applications in favor of our new toys. OTOH, that's a huge paradigm shift for the other majority of less technically inclined and incomparably bigger masses. Microsoft still have the power to lead masses, create...
more...
- Berk D. Demir
Interesting discussion! I vote for MS Office online !
- Krishnamoorthy
I commented in istartedsomething on Long Zheng theories with this list. so why not here after having read all of Scoble responses?: Safe Guesses (not crazy): 1.- Office Ensemble (Office Web Apps + Office Live Update) and a Office 2010 public CTP (the most likely one) 2.-Microsoft Online Services gets full release along with a full release of Windows Azure while one of the new Data...
more...
- Avatar X
from FriendFoo
i crammed a lot of guesses that may not have to do with the announcement so maybe robert could say warm or hot to the whole list without having to specify. :P
- Avatar X
I vaguely recollect listening to the GIllmor Gang in June/July 2008 where Robert said he'd just visited Microsoft Research and seen "an amazing new browser". If memory serves me correctly it was said in the context of mobile devices but who knows.....this may be another contender for Monday's announcement!
- Jamie
Anything related to Midori ? http://technologizer.com/2008...
- Krishnamoorthy
Microsoft has already made their counter-move to a Google OS. It's called Windows Azure. It'll serve apps to the Google OS with ease and MS will make money in the process. Yeah, I know today the money be nowhere near what the Windows OS makes, but while the Google OS is gaining traction as a desktop OS, Azure will be gaining traction as an app hosting platform for that very same Google OS and others.
- Jeff Weber
More spam news will come in. Azure, Mirot ha ha ha
- Michael_techie
just another social network (where the IE users might hang out)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Another huge innovation like renaming Bing?
- Burcu Dogan
Google is initially going after netbooks via a new OpenSource OS. If Microsoft's Next Big Thing is Azure then they are betting that a locked-in cloud-based OS will trump Google's move. It's gonna be VEHLEY INTELESTING to see this play out.
- J.D. Deutschendorf
launching online enabled MS Office, free and beta
- Павел Романовский
I really hope it's not anything Silverlight related, some one is on crack if they think the end game is everything running in a plugin in a browser.
- Scott Kahler
Tease. Tease. :)
- Charlie Anzman
Robert, they'd better have more than a few "14 billion dollar" businesses. Their market cap is 200 billion for heaven's sake.
- Stephen Pickering
sorry, have to ask. did it make you cry? :)
- dannysullivan
does this mean google=novell?
- Eran Even-Kesef
Made the news onto electricpig your announcement!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Dr. Schmidt HAS to resign from the Apple board... too many conflicts of interest (iPhone v Android, Chrome OS v OS X, Chrome v Safari). What could he possibly be adding that can't be obtained through someone else?
- Gerald Buckley
You are in Palo Alto? I am in Mendocino. :)
- Joe
pricing of Azure will definitily be one of the announcements; not the BIG one. Office online perhaps...
- Jeroen De Miranda
Very interesting indeed. Chrome OS sounds like a great companion to Windows on a netbook+ device, for those times when you do need instant web/email. Looking forward to your videos!
- Will Johnson
Since the event on monday is WPC I'm guessing that Steve Balmer will present MS view on future of the Enterprise and showing off some of what Ray Ozzie has been working on. Coming full circle with Azure (computing infrastructure), Mesh (powering collaboration), SilverLight (future of runtime enviroments on all platforms) and of course all of this software+services has to be powered by Windows Enterprise Servers on the back end.
- Daniel Chow
Also the new Office is the first application to launch under the above stack. Scoble, did I get anywhere close to any of the embargoed announcements? :)
- Daniel Chow
Robert - Was GLADoS based on you? ;)
- Matthew DeVries
What do you think? How long will the Apple-Google Friendship last? http://friendfeed.com/applero...
- Hans Kainz
They are going to announce the release of IE 9 - the even worse with net standards addition.
- Bobby Griffith
Windows 7 Home/Business/Ultimate Netbook Edition. Each with different capabilities and things disabled for no reason other than to confuse users and make more money.
- Scott Koon
heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)
- Allen Stern
Go for it, Allen! Inquiring minds want to know!
- Rudy Amid
Well if you do know, you owe it to your readers to report the news,
- Mark
Mark - That's if you see tech journalists (which I don't think Robert even classifies himself as) as true hard hitting journalists (think woodward and burnstein, ed Murrow) or if you think of them in the vein of Sports writers. Sports writers, like tech writers, need to foster relationships and have their names known and have to cross closer into the friendzone to get us the day to day...
more...
- Matthew DeVries
Mark: sorry, I signed an embargo. That's the way these things go and I'm not willing to burn this relationship, sorry. You'll know on Monday. Matthew is exactly right. And even with Woodward and Burnstein, they played this game. You didn't know who Deep Throat was, even though that was news too.
- Robert Scoble
Not even going to go for the Deep Throat joke... I swear, I'm not going to... :p
- Bill Heslin
what announcement?
- kang
I didn't mean Robert should report it. I meant Allen Stern who commented he was not under an embargo. He knows it, he has no NDA, he should report it.
- Mark
RT Allen Stern "heh - i know now what the announcement is and i am not embargoed - i should make a post :)"
- Mark
I hope its not Gazelle. If it is I respect Robert for abiding by the embargo. It seems as though no one in tech abides by embargoes any more. If it is Gazelle, might as well discuss since it is all over the tech blogs already.
- Keith Beucler
As they keep it under the blanket till now! It should be software only thingy! speculations about xbox, zune phone etc are free to leave!
- Amir
It's not Gazelle. At least I don't think so, because I have no clue what Gazelle is. I'm off to find out.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, nope, what I was thinking of is not Gazelle. But now that I see the rumors I wonder if Microsoft has more than one major announcement on Monday?
- Robert Scoble
My Guess: They enabled Live Mesh Web Desktop to run applications, So in future all applications are going to be hosted in Live Mesh
- Amir
maybe i want use chrome all day,,just for internet surfing
- qian
Hey Robert, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being an announcement that version 8.1 of IE includes a better spell-checker, and 10 being that Windows 8 is coming out in 2010 and is free, how many out of 10 is the announcement going to be in terms of having an impact?
- Mark
btw I have had this single chrome window open for about a week, and because each tab has its own process I don't get memory leaks like with firefox.
- Mark
Does unmodded, unaddon'd firefox leak?
- Matthew DeVries
Not sure to be honest
- Mark
So there could be your difference.
- Matthew DeVries
Mark: that's hard to judge. I'd say 6.9 based on how you framed it.
- Robert Scoble
Is this something that will go over well on Wall Street?
- Michael Fidler
Well, today Microsoft announced the promotion of Steven Sinofsky to president of the Windows Division.
- imabonehead
Robert ur (face) a hit today in the news outlets: http://lifehacker.com/5310444...
- polou/indigo_bow
I hope Google comes up with a great OS. I have tried any different Linux versions on my netbook but have never found the perfect one. Looks like they have connected the right partners as well so I am very excited. 9 0ut 10 for me. This could change everything
- Asgeir
TechCrunch on Scoblelizer's drumroll: "Office In Cloud Comes Monday" http://bit.ly/18sKUe
- JimmyJet
it will be a sigh of release for people come to fear those massive, massive office purchase/downloads. still a pain for when you travel and have no access online though...
- Terry O'Fee
While Google's forays in the OS and office productivity arenas are great for consumer choice, are they playing w/ fire? Google's core revenue stream is search, which has a much lower switching cost than any of MS's multiple revenue streams: Client, Office, Server. It seems like the two are pitching for a protracted fight that could be costly to both. But in a battle of attrition, it seems to me that Google could lose $ faster than MS.
- lingb
Windows ME Ultimate?
- Michael Funk
Well, it's Monday, what is the announcement about?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
MS is making Office apps online. Ala google apps. Boring.
- Rudy Amid
At Cambridge, Bill Gates makes bold statement against neckties. http://www.techflash.com/microso...
Randy Holloway liked this
I'm developing a bit of a search crush on Carol Bartz: http://www.cnbc.com/id...
Laura Norvig, Randy Holloway and Simon liked this
Me too. I saw her interview on CNBC earlier today and, wow. She's feisty.
- Shawn Farner
Jeff Bezos, meet Tony Hsieh. @Zappos Expands http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... [Luv seeing David vs Goliath, esp when David is Asian dude like me! :-)]
Randy Holloway liked this
Jim Collins piece,The mighty do fall and how it happens, one of best things I've read this year http://www.businessweek.com/print... via @juliandarley
Phil Calvin, Mahesh CR and Randy Holloway liked this
A person's ability to solve a problem can be influenced by how he or she moves. http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
Randy Holloway liked this
Nicholas James, Joshua Allen, Randy Holloway and 9 other people liked this
"Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability, and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Is Axum a Product? As an incubation project, Microsoft has made no commitment to ship Axum as a supported product. The form (i.e. syntax, runtime, features, and ecosystem) is subject to change to any degree and at any time. Should I Use Axum? Yes! We are incubating Axum to solicit feedback from our customers and validate Axum’s value propositions."
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
Via Stefan Tilkov: http://www.innoq.com/blog...
- DeWitt Clinton
Programming Guide (http://download.microsoft.com/downloa...) and Language Specification (http://download.microsoft.com/downloa...). Both PDFs, unfortunately.
- DeWitt Clinton
Looks like erlang.net :) It actually looks a lot like the C# extensions they built for Singularity (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us...). I particularly like the idea of explicit support for protocol state machines and safe, serializable data types.
- Joel Webber
@carnage4life I can always tell when a TV show will be canceled: if I like it and find it interesting and clever, it'll be canceled.
Randy Holloway liked this
Top complaint about Kindle: too expensive. Amazon's solution: make an even larger, more expensive model for broke students.
1001 noisy cameras, Mrsth, Ladybug Heather and 50 other people liked this
Academic books are $60 to $120 each and weigh many pounds. If they can get even half of the academic books ported to the Kindle this is a big win for students, even though it is expensive.
- Robert Scoble
I can imagine universities giving Kindles to first-year students or at least offering them to students at a reduced cost. I don't think we'll see a huge reduction in the price of text books, because you will still be paying for publisher costs.
- Nathan Finley
My books from school had a lot of text marked in yellow or pink, to remember what was important. I think it would take a lot to get use to using the Kindle
- Asgeir
Asgeir - you can bookmark, highlight and annotate text in Kindle
- Jamie
scoble: are the text books free then?
- Riaz Kanani
@Asgeir It is really only a matter of a couple of years that students will have NOT known that Kindles and other readers haven't always been around. To them it will be a natural to tag, search, share, etc.
- Jim Espinoza
It really is expensive. And you know textbooks are still going to cost $100+ each.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
If the books are cut down to about half the price because of the kindle, every student will get one. I need to spend 200+ on books every quarter, and that's with buying used and looking for the best deal.
- robbie nakamura
the text books don't have to be *free*. if you spend $900 on textbooks a year (http://www.uspirg.org/higher-...), the Amazon textbooks just have to be 14% cheaper than the paper versions (saving you $126/year) for the Kindle DX to pay for itself after 4 years.
- Karim
good analysis here of why it's good for the publishers, too: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... basically, without printing and shipping costs, they can sell books at lower cost but with a higher margin. Amazon is trying to do to books what Apple did to music. :-)
- Karim
good point karim - ebooks are cheaper typically than books.. so could be good if text books see the same level of discounting
- Riaz Kanani
so what is going to happened to libraries, if books in the future is digital?. Perhaps one day we can rent a book and read it on the Kindle?
- Asgeir
The Kindle is still a novelty until it comes with colour and supports graphic novels/comics, with backing from Marvel and DC. And drops to about $199. Then they'll be flying off the shelves. As it is now it's an expensive gimmick. What amazes me about the DX is you now need two hands to read. Can't be long until the market is flooded with cheaper, smaller alternatives. Or more likely...
more...
- Shéa Bennett
Kindle should come in 2 flavors IMHO... Wireless G and EVDO. I already have sprint internet on my phone. I won't buy a kindle to pay for a connection I already have.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Students already have laptops: they need PDFs not another large device to lug. Physical books sell used @ 50% eBooks are new only
- Tyler Ham
My experience in the UK at least is that the ebook versions are not cheaper, can usually find printed ones heavily discounted. Although we can't actually get the Kindle, only other brands like Sony and have to buy ebooks from Waterstones or WHSmith. Will Amazon launch in UK soon?
- Steven Horner
from Nambu
I pay a $95 fee per class for e-books at the University of Phoenix - if I could get them on a Kindle, for half the cost (assuming a partnership between Amazon and U of P), I'd do it in a blink
- William Harryman
I'd love something that is, well, like a book. Small and foldable. I couldn't take this on the train to read. People are used to reading books why not design to feel like one. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazon is still only aiming this at the American market, once they go global, it will be quite a different story.
- chris demeyere
Is 500$ too much for being able to sit in the sun, save trees and finally read programming papers without code snippets getting messed up?
- Thomas Amberg
If my textbooks were available on a kindle... I'd pay up to a grand for one. The kindle is reusable from year to year... my text books... not so much. I pay just about two grand a year for text books.
- Joshua Schnell
Core texts are significantly cheaper in the UK, and unless you can resell on your core texts second hand (which you don't seem to be able to do with an electronic text in this case), it's going to be a difficult case to prove for the academic text in Kindle
- David Bird
you can resell a second-hand Kindle just like a physical book. :-) i'd guess that licensing on the DRM'ed books doesn't allow resale, but i can imagine a black market for those. how much would a freshman pay for a 4-year-old Kindle that already had every single textbook they were going to need in the next four years on it? :-) and what if the textbooks were already annotated with "this question will appear on the final" notes? NOW how much would you pay? lol
- Karim
Karim, that's genius. Could you imagine universities and colleges building them into their programs? Students would get a preloaded kindle with their course materials in 1st year. Man, that would be a game changer.
- Joshua Schnell
It's a no-brainer for all economic reasons laid out by many above commenters as replacement for dead tree textbooks. So only shoe to fall is MIT, UC Berkeley, CalTech and Princeton (above all- Bezos alma mater) to be part of a discount university marketing program launched by Amazon. Bring it on.
- Lisa thorell
RT @astevens: Worth bringing to peoples' attention. McKinsey ed report. Failing to invest in ed costs us billions: http://www.mckinsey.com/clients...
David HC Soul, Randy Holloway and Glen, Bespectacled Elder liked this
you want to know what the new model is for music. this is the new model. gtmcknight: Metric is label-less for its new album, and instead selling it on its own website (via Topspin) and through direct distribution deals with iTunes. They have made more money with 24,000 digital downloads in three weeks than they made in four years from their last... - http://fredwilson.vc/post...
 |
jerobins, Dwayne Watson, Urbansheep and 6 other people liked this
A sign of things to come. How do other media makers follow that model? What businesses will sprout up to better enable creators to self promote?
- Mark Essel
Two interesting articles on competitive neuroenhancement, via @jstogdill in email: http://www.newyorker.com/reporti... & reaction http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Victor Panlilio, Pawel Szczesny and Randy Holloway liked this
Well - What Are Friends For? A Longer Life - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Felicia Yue, Robert Felty, Anne Bouey and 4 other people liked this
"Bella DePaulo, a visiting psychology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose work focuses on single people and friendships, notes that in many studies, friendship has an even greater effect on health than a spouse or family member. ... Only smoking was as important a risk factor as lack of social support. Exactly why friendship has such a big effect isn’t entirely clear. While friends can run errands and pick up medicine for a sick person, the benefits go well beyond physical assistance; indeed, proximity does not seem to be a factor."
- Clare Dibble
from Bookmarklet
Warner Bros HD to BluRay http://www.red2blu.com/ (via @RobynMiller): Is there a print->ebook idea here: send your book cover for discount ebook?
Randy Holloway liked this
Wave 1: Communicate (1970s/80s) - activity focused, Wave 2: Share (90s/2000s) - content focused, Wave 3: Connect (2010s/20s) - ppl focused.
Randy Holloway liked this
What Happens When Twitter Gets Mainstream Attention - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Randy Holloway and Stuart Miniman liked this
RT @mattthomas: @timoreilly "Century of the Self" is indeed an amazing doc. It's also available online: http://video.google.com/videopl....
Randy Holloway, Phillip Stewart, Helen Sventitsky and 11 other people liked this
It's pretty fascinating series, Tim. I basically watched the entire 4 hours in a row.
- Nate DiNiro
This documentary is a must-see if you want to understand the 20th century.
- Sean McBride
@Nate I did exactly the same. I couldn't *not* watch it all once I found it. Fascinating stuff.
- Rudolf Olah
Wow, just watching the first two minutes makes me think this is gonna be very good. Good storytelling!
- Meryn Stol
RT @Dave_Cuerdon: I teach digital photography classes to underprivileged children & families. Anyone have old digital cameras to donate?
Randy Holloway liked this
They should change "What are you doing?" to "What are you doing for Oprah?"
Randy Holloway liked this
You Can't Solve Problems With Money - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
Randy Holloway liked this
Unless your problem is lack of money?
- Brian Sullivan
Interesting perspective from @newsycombinator: YouTube Is Doomed http://www.businessinsider.com/is-yout... One more sign ads not the answer for everything
Roman Zolotarev, Craig Bailey, Neal Jansons and 2 other people liked this
This is very interesting. Doesn't this sound familiar? If not mistaken, facebook is in the same boat as youtube.
- Benin Brown
I agree. Ads are not the answer. Welcome to the end of free- http://www.techrepeater.com/2009...
- Craig Bailey
EFF says that Obama's DOJ has even worse position than Bush on warrantless wiretapping: http://www.eff.org/deeplin...
Hein Roehrig, Donovan Watts, Krikit Media and 27 other people liked this
This seriously worries me for reasons different than those I've been hearing. In cases where disclosure 'would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security' you have to trust the governmental body making that call. In Bush's case most of us think he was abusing that security blanket. Personally, I would want a trusted, constitutionally-minded independent observer to be let behind...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin -- a third possibility: Obama is not the person his supporters have assumed he is. The truth should have been apparent to all thinking people when Obama appointed to the highest levels of administration all those neoliberals in the Democratic Party who were most closely allied with neoconservatives in the Bush 43 administration. Most Americans have not been paying attention to these appointments and their significance.
- Sean McBride
Once you open the faucet and start drinking from it, its very very hard to turn it off. Only the severely naive or delusional really expected Obama and his crew to turn their back on the program. I'm with Kevin on this, I watched in horror as everyone cheered for change, thinking how easy it was to deceive people, though I do believe that Obama will be remembered for change when the history books are written. He's just not going to mess with the intelligence infrastructure and risk an enormous backlash
- Aaron deMello
Aaron, I'm not sure you're with me. I'm one of the 'severely naive or delusional' who believed that Obama meant the things he said during the campaign, and that there's information that he wasn't privy to at the time. For example, if he found out after becoming president that there had been four plots (say, a dirty bomb, a ricin release, and a couple other multi-9/11-level attacks) that...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, Obama was one of the senators on the Senate Security Council (or whatever it's called) and had access to the same intelligence reports as Bush got. Plain and simple Obama is a Chicago politician of Barnum proportion.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I dunno, Kevin, people gave the same benefit of the doubt to Bush about the whole Iraq war thing. And there were several Senators, even Democratic Senators, who said things like "if you could see the evidence I've seen, you would agree that this is necessary". Turns out that evidence was hokum.
- ⓞnor
That said, only a blind, narrow single-issue fanatic would call Obama's promises of change "empty". I'm seeing a lot of savior/demon thinking -- either Obama fixes everything, or else he's a traitor and a scumbag? He's a politician with some good viewpoints and some bad ones and he needs to be held to task when he does things that are bad, as this seems very likely to be.
- ⓞnor
my private bet is with substantial technical advantage, processing power and storage not commercially available. functioning optical computing.
- bob phillips
Mark, Obama sat on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, not the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. NSA intelligence gathering woould not go through HSGA, and even if he had been a member of the SSCI it's questionable whether Bush's NSA directive was made public to its members.
- Kevin Fox
ⓞnor: The 'if you knew what I knew' defense is usually used by people to justify actions they already want to take. My contention is that Obama did want to remove the wiretapping program, and if he were using the 'IYKWIK' defense then, at the very least, he sincerely believes the threat justifies the action, where he did not prior to taking on the presidency. One thing I haven't seen...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Nor: have you been reading carefully the critiques of Obama coming from the best and brightest on the center-left? From Chris Hedges, Frank Rich, Glenn Greenwald, James Galbraith, Juan Cole, Matt Taibbi, Maureen Dowd, Norman Solomon, Paul Krugman, Robert Dreyfuss, Robert Reich, William Greider and others? They are not susceptible to savior/demon thinking. They are focusing in precise and well-informed ways on Af-Pak policy and the Wall Street bailout.
- Sean McBride
Obama at Mt. Doom [http://friendfeed.com/e...]
- MikeAmundsen
Kevin I am going from memory, but, I recall an interview with Obama after the election (but before innauguration) in which he said he was receiving the same intel reports as the President. Perhaps that was only after he had won the election, I suppose. Either way, I still try to live with one of my dad's life rules: Don't make promises you can't keep.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark: It's an interesting timeline, and this isn't a sudden switch. He expressed a desire to dismantle the NSA call-tracking program during the primaries, but moved to vigorously supporting telco immunity as early as July of last year, and I can't find any evidence that dismantling the call-tracking program was part of his post-primary campaign. I'm not saying he doesn't need to keep...
more...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: Agreed as to the timeline. We'll agree to disagree as to the motive for making the statements.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
When Bush was Pres., Obama was against Presidential power; now that he's in power, he's all for it.
- Robert Hafer
Kevin Fox, I am with you. Sorry for not being clear but I'm still in a fog from a late night last night. My thesis is that Obama meant and means change. Good and bad. Prior to the election he wasn't privy to the monsters in the basement. Now he's peeked behind the curtain and I know with every bone in my body that any other president would do the same thing. The program will continue, and it will be expanded. My delusional comment was directed at the folks who expected anything different re the program.
- Aaron deMello
Bob, the capabilities are far below what we see in the movies. Its basic, basic stuff. Intercepts are reviewed by humans, its extremely labor intensive. Finding analysts is hard and expensive. There is no optical computing, just take a look at the gargantuan size of the data centers - they are housing COTS equipment these days. Why? COTS > the older custom equipment as the market is innovating faster.
- Aaron deMello
Aaron. I agree that is what you see. I remember info on functional optical computers from UUtah (as I recall) back in the 80's. rack was the size of a pdp-11, natch, all bread boarded. storage was fiber optic loop multi-kilometers long. read out by taps along length. suddenly nothing follows after that proof of concept. If you were running black project, you'd certainly leave COTS impression in place.
- bob phillips
But why all the fuss only now and not last August? "By choosing Joe Biden as their vice presidential candidate, the Democrats have selected a politician with a mixed record on technology who has spent most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders, who ranks toward the bottom of CNET's Technology Voters' Guide, and whose anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP." http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Eugene -- good points about Biden. I noticed those issues when they went by, and had forgotten about them. Mainstream media moguls exert tremendous influence in the Democratic Party. Billionaire Marc Rich, who won a pardon from Eric Holder under Clinton, is, for instance, in tight with the Hollywood crowd. Billionaire Haim Saban is the single largest contributor to the Democratic Party.
- Sean McBride
A good idea by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/founder... A visa to help immigrants start companies in the U.S.
ǝuǝƃnǝ, Anders Fernstedt, Brenda McLaren and 8 other people liked this
Let's say you've gone back in time - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
 |
Randy Holloway liked this
Cheat sheet for inventions/discoveries and what to take credit for, to be taped to the side of your time machine.
- Paul Whitaker
Other ways to read this feed:
