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Troubling the visitor for problems of your own
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I like this one best :)
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"The good thing about the Python coders is they’re not bothered. They’re just not even trying. They’re so past giving a shit about being cool that they’ve all grown ugly facial hair."
- Benjamin Golub
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Hi Benjamin, I was wondering if you could talk a little about the technologies used in FF? Language(s), frameworks (for web frontend or backend stuff), that kind of thing?
- Diego Barros
Benjamin: i.e. geek coder stuff. :)
- Diego Barros
Diego: nearly everything is Python. We use Java for search. No frameworks (all custom built) but our frontend is similar to web.py
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: Thanks for the response. I wondered if you'd gone the GWT route with UI for a minute. But there's no GWT Python support, just Java (as far as I know)
- Diego Barros
There is http://pyjs.org/ a python clone of GWT, but I'm not sure how mature the implementation is.
- Peter Hoffmann
Thanks, Peter.
- Diego Barros
New Yelp iPhone app is also out. There's a cool easter egg (Augmented Reality feature). Here's how to do it:
Kenn Ejima, Denise Howell, Doug Schumacher and 95 other people liked this
Download the new Yelp app (came out yesterday). So you shake your iPhone 3 times. That activates a feature called Monocle. A message should come up if you activated it. A blue box will come up saying "the Monocle has been activated." It will create a button in the top right corner. Now you should be able to look at the bars, restaurants, etc. Only works on iPhone 3GS.
- Robert Scoble
waiting Robert.... :)
- Sampad Swain
You point it at businesses, or down the city block. I'll try it right now.
- Robert Scoble
Yep! Works. Took a few tries to get it to activate. Some of the places it shows me have been closed for ages though, guess I need to update Yelp for the area.
- Otto
That sounds so cool. Would love to see a video demo of it Robert!
- Alex Calic
I wonder why it's an easter egg. That sounds great.
- Daniel Ha
I just did it. Very cool. I hear this feature was added for me. I really love it!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Daniel: probably to get it through the iPhone store approval process faster.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Raises the question of whether they would have rejected it if they'd known about it. Or did Yelp tell the reviewers about it?
- Jan Dawson
Very, very cool! Just tried it out. There's not a lot on Yelp near by work (kind of an industrial area), but I did get it to find the nearest restaurant. So cool! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
awesome!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
as long as Yelp allows iPhone users to rate on the fly.. previously had to sync first (not smart)
- Sam Levin
can anyone grab me a screenshot of this? i want to write about it
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I do love beating TechCrunch with news! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yes, Mr. Scoble, you beat RWW, TechCrunch, AND Mashable! Damn.
- Ben Parr
I can't get it to work... :(
- Larry Roth
We need a Yelp for Federal, State and Local government services.
- Chris Stevenson
Too bad nobody will ever see it 'cause you mentioned it here and not on your blog ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I just posted a photo on my friendfeed account.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Installing
- Stephen Pickering
The instructions sound like World of Warcraft.
- Steve Rubel
You android lovers will see that 'Layer' reality browser does the same as Monocle
- Wayne Bentz
Yelp also just launched their Palm Pre app in the Palm app store. No augmented reality that I can find :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
Yelp doesn't seem to have much support for Canadian business according to some reviews
- Alex Knight
Marshall, I just blogged a screenshot. Will be on www.tinyscreenfuls.com as soon as Posterous gets it there.
- Josh Bancroft
Stupid 3GS. You guys think you're so cool. Easter eggs, harumph! *mumble grumble*
- Sarah Lane
Yay it works in Canada too!
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Nice idea but in my case the locations seem to be about 180 degrees off - i.e. showing behind me instead of in front - but may be down to a fuzzy GPS location or something - will have to keep trying
- Jan Dawson
I wonder why it was "secret", ... undocumented API usage or just to create marketing buzz ?
- Kooleido
Kooleido: I hear it was added at last minute.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Damn, nothings happening. I've shaked it :(
- Stephen Pickering
No iPhone 3G love because no compass? Phooey. :P
- Cheryl Jones
Installed It! Works Awesome! Would definitely use it on my next lunch hunt in Downtown
- Kooleido
Got it to work--just took a little more shaking...was worried I was going to put my phone through the ceiling!
- Larry Roth
Kooleido, how'd you get it to work. I've installed and shaken, but nothings happening
- Stephen Pickering
Oh--and very cool
- Larry Roth
Stephen shake in long and hard strokes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I hate that the iPhone 3G can handle all this new stuff, but Apple insists that you need the 3Gs. Qik on the jailbroken 3G has been awesome!
- Elijah Nicolas
@Elijah Nicolas The 3Gs is for the built in compass that is required for augmented reality to work.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
lol if it was added for you Robert it would show the cutest girls in the area instead
- Sherry Reynolds
Didn't I hear that Apple had an embargo on AR apps til next month?
- Brian O'Connell
Very cool, thanks for the info. It appears you have to be logged into Yelp though the app before the monocle option will appear.
- Patrick Looney
just posted about it http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... good job finding it first Robert!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
1st sentence typo in your post Marshall ;o)
- Alex Calic
Couldn't get it to work by "shaking it" but I got it to work by moving my iPhone up and down 3 times in a vertical motion. Pretty damn cool.
- Doug Rice
Marshall, how do you get that camera view? I can't seem to get mine to work. I've shaken and shaken
- Stephen Pickering
Well, thats slightly cool.
- Sean Oliver
Stephen, you should probably just keep shaking. In publish, with lots of people around. :) No, I don't know. I don't have a 3Gs so I don't have a compass so I don't have the Yelp AR.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Holy crap. It really works.
- David Sharpe
Unreal... landscape and portrait works.
- Drew Lucas
Yeah this is very cool. Don't know if I want to be the guy standing in the middle of the street downtown using it, but I can see some very practical applications.
- Trevor Childs
Check out our Yelp AR layer inside of Layar Reality Browser ... Android. http://www.GoWeb3D.com
- Dave Elchoness
Scoble, I just published on Mashable: http://mashable.com/2009...
- Ben Parr
Doh! mashable wins with the most link-baity headline again.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Putting up a video on Gear Live.
- Andru Edwards
we have video too :P
- Jennifer Van Grove
@Marshall - We still love you guys, your article's great. :D; @Robert, props. Total props.
- Ben Parr
@Robert thanks it's fun http://bsu.gr/4414782
- briansugar
I made a screenshot here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It takes a few tries to turn on the option though!
- Daynah
posted about this on Obsessable and my blog. We'll see if Techmeme grabs it and actually puts this FriendFeed thread first, or if they just ignore it until TechCrunch covers it lolz http://www.obsessable.com/news... & http://www.sampletheweb.com/2009...
- C. K. Sample III
ah Marshall got it up first on a notable blog... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- C. K. Sample III
I got it to work and man, is it sweet! So smart.
- Leslie Fishlock
Shake the darn thing 3 times :)- they say that break dancin was learnt , robbing hubcaps of a movin car in NYC.. so lets so what the new thing will be by the time th iphone has all the motion sickness activiated apps !!
- Peter Dawson
just got word of a THIRD app with AR live in iTunes store! http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... I'd say it's official: AR apps have come to the iPhone!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I already had 2.0.2, but I'm downloading 3.0 now. I'm not thinking it's going to work in my office, but we'll see.
- RobinDotNet
Ok, that's really cool. It even works sitting here in my office at home.
- RobinDotNet
Downloading now. I am absolutely fascinated by the idea of augmented reality!
- Victoria Harres Akers
This is pretty cool but the shake 3 times thing doesn't work too well
- Jason Wehmhoener
from iPhone
This is fantastic, just activated Monocle. For those having trouble, its best to move/raise and lower the iPhone 3 times vertically instead of just shaking it. I was shaking mine like a madman until I tried the vertical move.
- Bryan
[Video] Yelp iPhone Augmented Reality Application http://blip.tv/file/2524950
- Steve Garfield
very cool - I can't believe stuff actually shows up near my house on the bay - sweet :)
- Susan Beebe
Damn, guess I'll have to upgrade to the 3GS now.
- Damon Cortesi
I am using the app in Indianapolis to find a restauant. As I guessed the augmented reality is cool but not very useful. Other than to help figure out which direction to walk in.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Argh. I wish I had wifi here so I could download it. A trip to Starbucks might be in order.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
killer in nyc
- mike "glemak" dunn
from iPhone
dang it - iPhone 3G...
- Jodi
iPhone 3G... not in the States... meh
- Johnny Worthington
It's innovative and that's awesome, but I think this type of interface will be a passing gimmick until more advanced image processing is built into the mobile device. My thoughts on what does matter about it here - http://bit.ly/12wtcY My $0.02.
- Alex Hawkinson
shake your iPhone 6 times, that activates GoogleVoice
- HansVanRock
Pretty damn cool. Thanks for the heads up
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
I just got this going on my friend's 3Gs. I don't even know what to say. That is freaking incredible! Makes me want a 3Gs *just* for that feature!
- Michael Lynton
Just tried this. Awesome! Too bad I'm in a po' dunk town with nothing to do. :)
- Bryan Lee
Amazing, how on earth did you find it! It's still 6:00 am, perhaps I'll Yelp for breakfast
- Nalin Perera
Wow, I'll have to say this is phenomenal. Wish I'd had this on my trip to D.C. a couple weeks ago. Yelp just made an incredibly useful app even more useful. I've seen a lot of developers working on this technology lately but it looks like they beat everyone to the punch.
- Mike Elliott
screen capture of it in action http://twitpic.com/fklr4
- mike "glemak" dunn
very cool....it took me a few times to get the blue box, but then it worked. thanks
- Pam Negoro
I just got the yelp AR to work, and I am staying tonight in a hotel, so I went to my window, and held the camera to the window and it was able to show me reviews of the businesses right across the street from me! I am in love with yelp all over again!
- Colide81 (James)
This youtube video should help you learn how to get it Islandwoo, I think its in how you shake it, I tryed several ways but after I watched this video I did it like the guy in the video and it worked. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Colide81 (James)
Yeah, you've got to learn to shake it just right! :-)
- Nalin Perera
I’m Shaving Off The Beard… And I #blamedrewscancer - http://www.johnnyworthington.com/...
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I am proud that when Drew Olanoff from Blame Drew’s Cancer hugged those other people that had been diagnosed with cancer, I was in tears… unashamed, unyielding, full flowing tears. His talk at Gnomedex has stirred something inside me. It’s a mixture of sorrow, fear, joy, love and a dogged determination to roundhouse kick all [...]
- Johnny Worthington
*blow off chair into quantum anomaly*
- Mo Kargas
Excellent cause sir
- Mo Kargas
<3 you are, as always, too cool for words.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Indeed Mo... Plus you can win a FFundercats shirt!
- Johnny Worthington
Thanks Pea :)
- Johnny Worthington
I just went through it, they don't accept my card type :( Is there another way?
- Simon Wicks
Ah, donation form :)
- Simon Wicks
Shave it off, sell it to hairdressers?
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
I love the beard but I love this more.
- Ayşe E.
You better live stream the shave you know...
- Simon Wicks
The site seems directed against US donors, as it makes you choose state (in the US) and no country?
- Thomas Bøhm
Yeah.... great idea....
- Roberto Bonini
How long will it take to shave? I doubt the beast will go down without a fight.
- Benjamin Golub
Dood...you friggin' rock...
- JA Castillo
Alas, it seems US only. There is a downloadable form at the bottom under the thermometer. I'll check it out
- Johnny Worthington
Ive entered the calcs into my Shave-o-meter. It will take approx 15mins and 49 secs with a total weight of 8 oz's. :)
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
-hugs- Go Johnny!
- Colette
Maybe you can donate the beard to Locks of Love? http://www.locksoflove.org/
- Nathan Chase
Nope, solution found... There is a Not In USA option down the bottom
- Johnny Worthington
Nathan... I'll check out my local chapter but I fear they don't want what's on my face :P
- Johnny Worthington
I don't have one of the cards listed though. #mybankisshit
- Simon Wicks
All these are cute!!!
- Shevonne
Well maybe it can be refashioned and sold as a merkin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ;)
- Nathan Chase
Simon, I'll work on a solution for you. Check by mail seems to be the only option so far.
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah, i downloaded the form, need to find my cheque book now..
- Simon Wicks
Got it, thanks, Johnny. A bit awkward form though....
- Thomas Bøhm
Thanks guys... I really appreciate it
- Johnny Worthington
That's my bro!
- Josh Haley
Done! I forgot i have a dollar card with some funds on it still :)
- Simon Wicks
I second Nathan's idea of creating a merkin. You can then auction THAT off for charity as well! Cuz I've always wanted an Australian merkin, y'know...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
If you want my facial hair on your crotch guys... at least buy me a drink first... :P
- Johnny Worthington
I...uh...damn. You blindsided me there.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
lol
- Imabug
OMG save the beard! To shave that would be to desecrate an Australian national treasure!
- Sparky, a big deal
Sparky... I was at picture 2 in about 3 weeks. The beard will be back... I just have a need for sans beard for a few weeks
- Johnny Worthington
September 11th will forever be remembered for the rest of mankind's history!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Already is for other reasons Mathew..
- Simon Wicks
GASP.
- Chieze Okoye
Someone should send this to Drew!
- Rochelle
Video evidence please, Johnny. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh OK, on the ffundercats podcast then, cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
مازیار خارجی ها =)))))) رونوشت به فرزاد
- Mil∂d
You think "the foreigner" is copying Iranian 70s bearded star Maziar ? Why not write in English when the thread is in English ? Besides I like the 7th photo best and he definitely looks like one of the ZZ Top guys ;)
- Thomas Bøhm
Go Johnny, go! What a cool thing to do! You can bet I'll be donating when I get home :)
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Rochelle, I sent it to Drew this morning.
- Louis Gray
If us nutbags don't get Drew more interested in FriendFeed, I don't know what will.
- Akiva Moskovitz
thank the lord...
- Zee.
No! No!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! http://friendfeed.com/mikenay...
- Mike Nayyar
The only part of my body with enough hair make a growth phase montage like that about, then shave #blamedrewscancer would rather have the cancer than view.
- Matthew DeVries
Worthy cause for shaving.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
'Worthy' indeed sir... well played :)
- Johnny Worthington
as the STRAYANS would say "good on ya mate" - seriously that is awesome =) (but will be sad to see the beard go)
- Snipergirl
Well done...and thanks.
- Shannon
I'm still waiting for the profile pic update...!
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
suggestion - after you shave it, grow it again based on the amount of money you raise. something like 1 day per $5 raised. so if you raise $100, then you let it grow 20 days before shaving again.
- chrisofspades
or you can do something like http://iwearyourshirt.com/ and allow ppl to sponsor your beard, and then donate the proceeds.
- chrisofspades
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
monkchips: massive fucking fail. del.icio.us now supports post to twitter. but it doesn't use OAuth. yahoo fail. del.icio.us fail. #passwordantipattern - http://twitter.com/monkchi...
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Re: What extras are in your System Preferences panes?
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Credit to the original topic starter - pity no images allowed in comments :(
- Nick B.
Flip4Mac, Growl, Hazel, iStat Menus, Perian
- Yunus Tunak
MacFUSE, NTFS-3G (and probably Flip4Mac)
- Ozkan Altuner
Logitech Control Center, Flip4Mac WMV, Growl, MacFUSE, MySQL, Perian, iStats menu
- Ray Slakinski
Flip4Mac WMC, Growl, Persian, and Backblaze
- Hunt
Perian, Growl, NTFS 3G
- Osman Üngür
macfuse & flip4mac (though will check out some others listed here now ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
What is Powermate?
- Hunt
@Hunt it's a USB media controller - spin it, push it, see it glow blue http://ff.im/74XIO
- Nick B.
Application Enhancer, Connect360, Default Folder X, Deja Vu, DivX, FinderPop, Flip4Mac, GeekTool, Growl, MacFUSE, MediaLink, MySQL, NTFS-3G, Pen Tablet, Perian, SteerMouse, Version Cue CS3, WindowShade X, Witch. I should weed out some of these things that I no longer use.
- ronin
Apple has Snow Leopard ready for August 28.. for $29 and its worth every cent | Startup Meme - Technology Startup and Latest Tech News - http://startupmeme.com/apple-h...
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Gratuitous screen shot of me talking on CNN.com Live. Sorry... just have to...http://www.cnn.com/video...
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Should've rick-rolled 'em.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dang, why couldn't they have called you Lindsey :/
- Daniel J. Pritchett
There you are!
- Micah Wittman
Damnnnnnnn ,, congrats on the coverage
- johnpiercy
Oh snap, Ted's an engineer but you're a developer. What gives?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nice.
- phil baumann
Loved it, great stuff!
- Sally Church
ROCKIN'!
- Joe Silence is not dead
That's so awesome. Haha you said Meatspace
- Rodfather
awsomme !
- Peter Dawson
that's awesome...but i did have to laugh out loud when the host claimed the debate between twitter and facebook is "an age old question"...um, yeah, i tend to side with aristotle over plato on that one...
- Trent Olson
1UP for saying "meatspace" I wonder if the general public knows what that means :p
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Finally something that makes sense on CNN :)
- Jemm
I just watched this. Check you out! And + a gazillion for mentioning Friendfeed!
- Josh Haley
omg!!!
- Johnny Worthington
I should get your autograph on my conference program!!!
- Rochelle
nice
- sean percival
:) love it! And they, erm, spelled your name right..! :DD
- WorldofHiglet
That's hot
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
w00t! Love this. Nice job, Ted. ;-)
- Laura Norvig
she kept calling tad, ted, didn't she? what do i know... i wear a hearing aid. oh, good, laura heard it.
- Trish Haley
+++for meatspace use. :) and tad handled the facebook questions well. :)
- Trish Haley
Nice! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ha, she got your name right at the very end, Tad! BTW, Lindsay, I love your voice. Such a sweet accent.
- Laura Norvig
This program has always baffled me, but I'm glad they interviewed you! But one question lingers: do you both enjoy your titles?
- Amy℠
hey Congrats Lindsay!! woo hooo you're famous! :)
- Susan Beebe
yee haw!
- anna sauce
Awesome!!!
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Why the southern accents?
- Vezquex: God of FF
@Raphael - Tad and I are from Mississippi originally... the accent came with us.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Awesome, congratulations!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
The three of you did very well, and I think that what you said was accessible enough so that a non-tech audience could get it also. I forget which one of you said that 40% of ALL conversation is babble; good line...
- John E. Bredehoft
Yay!
- Laura B.
You're cnn.com famous. Rad.
- Pete Delucchi
hawt!
- imabonehead
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- AJ Batac
You Rock Lindsay! Great stuff
- Charlie Anzman
Simply awesome! You guys were great.
- Christopher Harley
Loved it!
- joey
You know, if all the news anchors were as cute as Lindsay, I might be watching CNN all the time.
- Louis Gray
I second Louis Gray wholeheartedly!!! :-D
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
timbray: Cloud API revised: http://bit.ly/noUlQ - http://twitter.com/timbray...
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Man Jailed Three Months for Breath Mint Possession - http://www.reason.com/blog...
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I think this citizen is entitled to full and complete compensation for his economic losses. And I'd toss in a little extra damages for the department's use of poor field test kits. Perhaps others have been similarly screwed. (jcunwired--I missed the para. on the test result)
- Andrew Skretvedt
What's incomplete? It took three months to find that the mints were not drugs, nor were drugs found.
- jcunwired
That is seriously jacked.
- Victor Ganata
Mentos, the jail maker!
- Richard Bitting
Pretty scary. Hide the breath mints when you get pulled over - better them to smell the beer you just drank!
- Sean Higgins
RT @iTunesTrailers: Exclusive James Cameron film AVATAR teaser trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailer... - but the links aren't live yet?
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Success & Motivation: What Entrepreneurs Should NOT Do - http://blogmaverick.com/2009...
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Facebook 3.0 May Be The Most Useful App On The iPhone Yet - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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It's pretty slick on the BlackBerry as well.
- Ken Bauer
I'm waiting for the FaceBook app for the Android phone. I thought I heard it was in the works.
- Chris Jackson
This thing makes me think how much mobile app dev of soc net tools will drive (and, actually for someb is already driving) smartphone sales. It's obvious, but this makes it so clear. Thnx
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Yes, but when will we *get it*?
- Brett Kelly
This is why I hate the app store so much. Cool app, massive delay in getting it to market. Why do I have to download this crap through Apple? Why can't I download through FB directly? Frankly, all developers of "free" apps should release through Cydia, so those of us with jailbroken phones don't have to put up with Apple's BS.
- Otto
I hope Spotify release their app on Cydia if Apple rejects it. What a great reason for millions of people to jailbreak their phones. :)
- Jamie Cansdale
Those admins from hell kicked me off of facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/causes...
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Looking forward to this, three weeks until available?
- Joe Dawson
Taking ages isn't it! I've been refreshing the app store a couple of times a day hoping for it to arrive. Dont even use Facebook that much, just wanna play with the update :)
- Simon Wicks
The current app is just dreadful.
- Derrick
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Amazing job Ross and Dan!
- Benjamin Golub
Awesome!
- Casey Muller
Really cool!
- Rutger Blom
Nice! Good actors too. :)
- Gus
Awesome, as you once said yourself, in lego.
- Simon Wicks
You and Dan did such an AWESOME!!! Job!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks, Rachel!
- Ross Miller
We should totally build the "Open FF" out of LEGOs. BTW, superb video!
- Jemm
Really awesome! Thanks Ross and Dan!
- directeur
No thank you directeur. It's the amazing FF community that inspired this video.
- Ross Miller
If there were an 'awesome, ultra-mega, super kick-ass' button, I'd click it.
- April Buchheit
April: Haha... I would click that button all the time :)
- Ross Miller
OK you screw us on the facebook deal, but those things make me love this place
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
ahhhh...now I understand all the lego pictures!
- Jini
Jini: And you thought we were just goofing off :p
- Ross Miller
from iPhone
Who wouldn't want to play with legos?!
- Jini
This is clearly the highlight of your awesome work at FF!
- Anne Bouey
This is teh awesomesause!
- AJ Batac
Why is "I wonder how this site works?" a question? Do you? Why are you asking us?
- Andy Bakun
you should be proud, It is great...
- amelia arapoff
I could watch this 50 times. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Glad you liked it, Robert!
- Ross Miller
I could watch this over and over again all day. Really.
- April Buchheit
It's definitely fun to watch. Thanks, April!
- Ross Miller
fantastic
- mjc
wow. i'm snagging this to store offline.
- Joe Silence is not dead
A (Google) Wave vs a FriendFeed Post. Here's a quick overview of the structure. (updated version here: http://docs.google.com/View...)
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blip = post & blip = comment & a document can contain photos, rich text
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
a wavelet provides access control. It provides a branch where participants can be different from another branch.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
a wave, itself, can also have participants: which implies they can see/control all the wavelets
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I've written a bot that creates a post on FF for every blip... but it's not feasible. The alternative is to create a comment for every blip .. and thereby lose all formatting/photos.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Hmm, I should flesh out the FF side of it. An FF Post can have participants. A Comment has an author.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
From the Wave docs: "Waves are hosted live conversations between multiple participants". Excellent definition.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Did you create that graphic?
- Chris Heath
Yes, Chris. With vym (mind-mapping software for linux).
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
cool
- Chris Heath
Now if only I could get a login for Wave!
- Rick Cogley
Rick, you will if you have applied for it ! Surprisingly, many people haven't.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
I'll need to update this mind-map further. Will post an updated one later.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I think anyone working in tech - not just programmers - can get access to the sandbox. You just have to pitch them a good reason :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan, yeah that makes sense
- Chris Heath
Yeah, seeing that I'd take the money and run too
- sofarsoShawn
lol @ shawn :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
You forgot that on Friendfeed, a post also has addressees. Addressing specific people on FriendFeed also allows for access control, since the post/thread/conversation will be private. If you post something to a private group (and not your home feed), the whole group will have access (and not the public).
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, agreed. I need to work on this further.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
It's a pity FF doesn't allow me to edit/reattach inline images ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Sounds too complicated to start a new technology off with. They need to start more simple.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, the map is from a technical perspective .. visually, you'd just see a threaded conversation with (optionally) private sections. It is interesting, however, how much FF has achieved with a relatively simple model. Maybe their success is _because_ it was simple ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yeah, the friendfeed side of this mindmap is very simplified right now. I really think Google Wave will run into some mainstream challenges for what I've read so far (don't have wave account yet). However, aren't you really just displaying the threaded feature of a Wavelet? That would just be the ability to comment to a comment in FriendFeed.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
manielse, yes. The major difference between the two is threading.. except in Wave, a comment is equal to a post itself (with photos, rich text, etc, multiple participants). Hence the recursive nature of the tree. A comment (blip) can have a reply, which can have a reply in turn.. and so on)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
But these are features that some of the FF users have wanted, to reply back to a comment and also with a richer content such as a diagram that explains the topic better.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Exactly :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
Updated version as per Meryn's suggestions: http://docs.google.com/View... This is not meant to be an exhaustive mindmap - just an overview of the structural differences.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Nice
- Chris Heath
Ahsan, I know how it looks visually - I'm on the dev sandbox. I still say it's too complicated for an initial launch. They need to start simple, the Google way.
- Jesse Stay
Oh I agree that it definitely needs a lot of work.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
Google Wave is all about potential. In a sense, it's like handing someone a copy of Visual Studio or Eclipse and saying, 'Okay, now go build what you want!' The majority of people will say, 'Uh... what?'
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, agreed. That's why they haven't released it to the public yet.
- Jesse Stay
Http was the same way - and look what we have now?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Interesting comment, Joelle. I wonder if Microsoft will branch off from the Wave server protocol at some point, like they did with XML, and do their own thing. :) Interesting times, ahead.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan -- what a great post! Pure gold. (And I happen to think that Google Wave is the wave (oops) of the future. But I need to get hands on with it for a few days to be sure.
- Sean McBride
Glad you liked it, Sean. Be sure to view the updated version (see the link I've edited into the original post).
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I didnt have a precise enough project to make it into the closed access, apart from having written time and time again that what we should have and want was an open standard, distributed system matching nearly word for word the wave press release... (although the reality will probably be different). AM more interested in what can be done on a node basis than writing bots.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
A key question in my mind: will Google Wave feel more cluttered than Friendfeed? The beauty of Friendfeed is the simplicity of the look and feel. Will more power features reduce the impression of simplicity and clarity?
- Sean McBride
You really can't compare FriendFeed and GoogleWave, they're both completely different things. Google Wave is a set of technologies that I feel will contribute heavily to the next generation of social networking tools, however it will not replace them. http://jaredquinn.info/article...
- Jared Quinn
Reshared to the Clonefeed/OpenFF room
- Roberto Bonini
To answer Sean's question, the interface itself looks pretty, but inside the wave it can be difficult to manage: I don't like some of the keyboard shortcuts; the threading in a live chat becomes confusing. While the windowing is slick, you feel like you need more space (at least on my monitor). They need to work on the UI (see Jesse's points above).
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
It's nearly certain that people and companies will come up with different client "front end" apps which are slicker to use, focused on using wave for a specific purpose - live chat/discussion, document management, information sharing, location enabled services, archive access, tech support, games...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"the threading in a live chat becomes confusing" (I wondered about that from the first moment I saw a Google Wave demo -- it looked busy and noisy...)
- Sean McBride
We strip the threading out then, sean..... non threaded real time conversations work perfectly well here on FF.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto -- I need to actually use Google Wave in threadless mode to compare it to Friendfeed. Can't wait....
- Sean McBride
Step-by-step: Build your own Apple 1 computer - http://thomas.boehm.no/step-by... (via http://friendfeed.com/bohtho...)
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With a little bit of HDL, I bet you could make it use a lot fewer components. :)
- mikepk
HDL?
- Thomas Bøhm
I think we have our book for today! r/t @lucidbeing just finished Accidental Billionaires from Audible. Highly recommend it! #twist
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Just grabbed the book to listen to on my flight tomorrow! woohoo
- Ray Slakinski
How about an app that implements the FriendFeed API and nothing more. Simple, manageable, achievable, boring (meaning it might get done). Open projects for things with user interfaces end up in religious battles within nanoseconds, imho.
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Unfortunately without a better way to filter the types of content being displayed, the content display would be rather uninteresting, I'd think (or overwhelming). Might be a good place to start, however.
- Chris Messina
That was my suggestion as well: http://friendfeed.com/clonefe.... There's already a ui demo that runs on top of the api: http://friendfeed-api.appspot.com/
- Paul Buchheit
Ah, lookit that: http://code.google.com/p...
- Chris Messina
I think it's the right way to go. Plus it would incentivize lots of experimentation on UI. Further, I would be more comfortable building on the realtime API (which is very nice btw) if it were open source, more so than when the future of FF was uncertain.
- Dave Winer
Now comes the obvious question -- Paul -- would you guys be willing to release your implementation of the API under an Open Source license? That would get things going really fast. Not sure if it makes sense, perhaps the implementation isn't easily separatable.
- Dave Winer
We're looking into open sourcing some parts, but I don't think it's possible to open just the api because it's too integrated with everything else at the moment. Maybe after some refactoring it would work -- I'm not sure.
- Paul Buchheit
How dependent is that on server infrastructure?
- Amit Morson
Somewhat missing the point of why its being talked about in the first place.
- Michael W. May
@Paul, I'm excited to hear some things may be open sourced. What license would do you think you guys are likely to use? GPL/LGPL? BSD? Apache?
- Jason Huebel
Jason- I'd assume Apache, just because that's what they used with V1 of the API
- Jimminy
The potential of this is very exciting! :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Yeah Paul just said that in the comment here: http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- Roberto Bonini
Once a core API is in place it would be easy enough to have multiple UI projects. Without the API there is nothing.
- Eoghann Irving
A client API is a great start, but what we really need is an open source server that emulates the backend of Friend Feed. Then...we can do whatever we want to expand the protocol.
- Gary Burge
But there could be multiple back-end implementations. You could have everything from a new, stand-alone Python engine to some sort of weird Ruby system that tries to use Twitter as a datastore to some PHP glue added to Drupal or Wordpress. For a distributed, federated system to truly thrive, IMHO, the group needs to concentrate on how the parts interact, and then teams can break off and build components.
- Ken Sheppardson
BTW, I agree with your original thought, Dave. It's hard enough for groups to agree on a common data bus system/format (ala RSS vs Atom), let alone on some collective vision of a GUI.
- Ken Sheppardson
In fact, if there were a sort of "stack" of components for implementing FriendFeed-like systems in muliple languages, it might encourage other teams to build compatible systems. You have any sort of architecture diagram you could share, Paul? :-) How bout you and Bret and Benjamin just quit your day jobs and come help out ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Wave federated protocol.... people can write thier own servers, or even use other WFP clients.....
- Roberto Bonini
Now you're thinking like good programmers! Modular programs that interact, independent of underlying language or OS. This stack idea is worth developing, I think.
- Kevin L
Roberto, Wave is only a method for communicating changes to objects in real time. It doesn't relieve us from having to define data structures and how they relate to each other.
- Kevin L
Kevin: My point is that as long as clients and server agree on the saame protocol, the underlying implementation does not matter. This means that A) Anyone can write thier own server in what ever language they so please using whatever data store they want B) People can write what ever Ui they so please including web and desktop based clients and C) it means that we can interact with other Waves, seeing chages to those waves IN REAL TIME as part of our FF stream.
- Roberto Bonini
Sure, building a federated social network on top of Wave is a pretty slick project, and Google's going to be pushing that effort, I would think. The only problem is there are currently no public projects that support Wave, let alone FriendFeed. Trying to "clone" FriendFeed starting with a Wave engine confuses me.
- Ken Sheppardson
Wave isn't ready yet but the tools are there: threaded conversations, multiple participants, real-time, public waves (though I don't know if they will retain that for the final version), bots to integrate with servers. So all your conversations would be centralized in Wave, but you would go to a site like ff for 'discovery'.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yeah - exactly ahsan
- Roberto Bonini
I agree. The API is the place to start. I also like the stacks idea. If we are trying for a federated, distributed system, going as modular as possible with as much encapsulation as possible is the best route because it will give users the most possible control of their own installs. I don't know about Wave as the way to go, but I can't back that opinion up as much as I would like as I haven't worked with it too much yet; it just seems half-finished and up in the air.
- Neal Jansons
YES! YES! YES! @Audible_com is coming on board as the "homework" sponsor for ThisWeekinStartups.com!! What book should we do today!?? #twist
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Congrats Jason! I am taking notes from #twist and @leolaporte, keep dodging the arrows. #techcrunch50
- David Stratton
Thank you for sponsoring #twist @Audible_com is what my mother is getting for her birthday next week.
- David Stratton
@jasoncalacanis Imagine our disbelief! ;) "You Need to Be a Little Crazy" looks cool: http://denise.howell.net/crazy
- Denise Howell
I'm working on a "Homework" jingle for you.
- Doug Chase
from twhirl
Awesome, looking forward to listen to Accidental Billionaires, would the next one be in this year's #techcrunch50
- Alberto Saavedra
Grats! now if you could broker a deal where we get the homework books stupidly cheap *cough cough free* it would be perfect :-P
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Google Chrome Beta Is 34% Faster Than Safari - http://www.cultofmac.com/google-...
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Could you remark on Chrome's security (as compared to Firefox). I really like Chrome's format, but I feel more secure with Firefox.
- Donna
I'm pretty sure it's on par with Firefox. I'll try to track down a couple links for you after I eat some lunch.
- Joshua Schnell
Thank you, Joshua!
- Donna
Most of those look pretty old though, so a lot of that stuff may have been addressed
- Joshua Schnell
One 32GB iPhone 3GS is on its way from Shenzhen China. Scheduled to arrive Thursday!
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Yay! ;)
- Peter Kruit
Nice. I have to wait until July 12 :(
- Jim Graham
Congrats!
- Terje Mikal Espedal
Enjoy, Leo!
- Sarah-Jane Gray
a day early? Awesome for you!
- Jim Oxenford
Nice. You'll have to give us a good review.
- Tom Silk
You are a sucker for incremental apple upgrades Leo but I love you all the same :)
- David Lloyd
Drat! I ordered on the 9th and still no shipment :( Look forward to some first impressions :)
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
Jealous. Screw you leo!
- ihateatmfees
Unfortunately I won't be able to get one until December. grr
- Tony Buser
GIve us a good hands on review. Debating if I should upgrade as I hit one year with 3G on 7/12
- Alan Ashley
iPhone 3G S[orry its not a Palm Pre] - Palm Pre shootout? :)
- jcunwired
Congrats!!! I want one so bad but I don't want to leave T-Mobile.
- Eduardo Contreras
Jealous!
- Duncan Rawlinson
@jcunwired: I played with a Pre. It's nice. iPhone will kick it's ass. Frankly, so will the new BB's which is what Palm seems to be targeting.
- Adam C.
When did you place your 3G S order? I put mine in to Apple on June 10th, and it's not showing as shipped yet; trying to judge how fast they're processing...
- Paul Skudlarek
Mine was scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. Checked again this morning and it changed to Thursday.. Let's see if it changes again to Friday.
- Rick Huizinga
iPhone will undoubtedly kick its ass, at some point in the future. The delta is too small between Pre and 3G S to warrant an ass-whooping.
- jcunwired
I can't wait!!!
- Jerry Lee
Lucky you, we can't preorder in Canada :(
- Ray Slakinski
Uh, not sure displaying your tracking number is a good idea. That's about all it takes when requesting a package redirection - and that's pretty tempting!
- Anil Rhemtulla
Mine says it will arrive on the 17th, which is tomorrow. I don't know how, since it hasn't left china yet
- Nate T
I'm scheduled for delivery on the 18th... order placed June 8th. God... sounds like a baby... Cheers
- Ross W. Prout
Ordered mine on the 8th and no shipping notice yet. :-\ As for iPhone vs Pre, it'll take awhile to fully see how the apps change the Pre since that's the iPhone's key right now for me.
- Ken Chan
When can we stop calling these phones?
- David J Lowe
I'm taking a chance and heading to the Birmingham Apple Store Friday morning to get mine. Hope they have enough.
- Dom Barnes
Me too. Mine says the 17th!
- Wo
kewl
- emoqix
Gonna pick up my pre-ordered one at the "T-Punkt" T-Mobile store here in Germany on Friday. Picked the same You did, unless You chose the white one, that is. Personally I especially can't wait for the tomtom car navigation set with exta speaker and GPS enhancer to finally come out - it's gonna be so awesome!
- weckman
I got that message too! Woo hooo!! sooo excited, where's that UPS brown truck baby?!! party at the front door!!
- Susan Beebe
P.S.: Don't You love world-wide rollouts? So much more fun when we all get it the same day!
- weckman
That's so cool
- ramiles
from Alert Thingy
I ordered it from Apple around noon Pacific on June 9.
- Leo Laporte
Mine, too.
- Jim Cutler
Ordered mine same time on the 9th, but no ship yet. Is this another famous Leo Laporte "free and early access to garner a good review"? Screw you Leo! :)
- Richard Goodwin
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- ramiles
from Alert Thingy
Very interested on your reports about the speed increase and if it makes a difference. I may get one in December when my contract is up for this old Moto Q.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
That's awesome Leo. My 3G will have to suffice though. Still looking forward to 3.0
- Joel Crawley
Anyone know how leo dealt w/ the AT&T contract/costs??? Just curious. I know he can afford to spend the extra for the phone, so that's not the question.
- mark dekruyter
congrats, Leo!
- Matthew Vaughan
How much did it cost?
- Henrik Falk
See if it still has that date Leo. Mine disappeared.
- Wo
My delivery date has just disappeared! It's beginning to look like UPS may hold the delivery until Friday.
- Rick Huizinga
Wow, no 3G S for me only OS 3.0 update..waiting for the download
- Gerard Marbeck
I'm really not understanding the i-phone thing. Frankly, I think the phone sucks. I hate the keyboard touch, I can't imagine a woman in this country with a decent manicure wanting to deal with that crappy screen! I have service at home with Verizon in the countryside where we live, my husband's crappy I-Phone drops out about ten miles from the house and not only that, the piece of crap is constantly dropping phone calls. Is the bay area better?
- Jennifer Ragde
Boys like their toys, Jennifer.
- Jeff
I love toys as well, I'm just not getting the I-phone thing, I have a DS, PSP, I'm a seriously geek game girl, just not getting that horrible phone. I can't be the only girl that thinks that touch screen is completely awful! The touch screen is so sensitive, if you have fingernails, good luck!
- Jennifer Ragde
Clearly it's a counterfeit!
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
UPS is holding delivery on the iPhone 3GS until Friday: http://tinyurl.com/n8gr8o
- Joshua Blevins
I envy you Leo!
- Rahul Mirakhur
did u get it leo? details please! lol
- Arnold
State Dept. to Twitter: Keep site up in Iran - Washington Times - http://washingtontimes.com/news...
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"The State Department asked the social networking Web site Twitter last weekend to postpone scheduled maintenance that would have cut daytime service in Iran on Tuesday, just as protests against official election results were heating up, U.S. officials said."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"Twitter, which has emerged as a leading unofficial news source from and into Iran since the Friday presidential election there, is still up and running in the Islamic republic, even though it has reportedly blocked text-messaging services."
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok I will try that, thnx :)
- Farshad
:-) If you highlight any text *then* click on the bookmarklet that text will automatically be put into the comment box on the bookmarklet.
- Kol Tregaskes
Twitter users screamed about this outage. I think State Dept reacted to that. Sounds like they're taking credit for something they didn't do.
- Kevin Arth
Am I the only person who is troubled by this? The webosphere has completely condemned Yahoo and other companies that conform to Chinese government dictates, but apparently it's OK for the U.S. State Department to, in effect, use Twitter the company to affect foreign policy?
- John E. Bredehoft
John, great point. Sets the stage for shutting Twitter down or otherwise commanding it for State purposes.
- phil baumann
John, it's definetly worth thinking about but i think there are differences in the examples.
- Steve C
It's probably best for Company X to have pre-established guidelines on how to respond to requests from any government. Under what circumstances will the business cooperate with the request? Under what circumstances will the business refuse to cooperate, for the good of the business? (Note that I differentiate between "requests" and "legal orders.")
- John E. Bredehoft
Just got home work, and read the article. Good article...twitters down 4:12pm CST
- Wallace
How awesome is this!!!!!?
- Alexander A. Carde'
Skip to 24 minutes into the presentation to learn about YouTube and SUP http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Can someone summarize for those of us in a low-bandwidth situation?
- Bruce Lewis
Summary: YouTube has a SUP feed (http://gdata.youtube.com/sup) which was announced at Google I/O. As far as I can tell it hasn't been documented yet but it sounds like they are working on it. FriendFeed has been consuming the feed since a few days before the Google I/O announcement.
- Benjamin Golub
Try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Adewale Oshineye
New blog post: 2008 Eco Trail - Pelee Island Winery http://www.foxywines.com/tasting...
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