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iPhone users to walk and read at same time • The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009...
Vishy, Reto Meier, immaterial and 3 other people liked this
"iPhone users can now walk the streets safe in the knowledge that upcoming letter boxes, errant children or dogshit can be easily avoided, without interrupting the more important act of reading email. Email 'N Walk is a genuine iPhone application, available for free from developers Phase2 Media, which displays the camera's view of the world behind the email being perused..."
- Tony Ruscoe
Anyone try it? Is it actually good for the intended purpose?
- ⓞnor
ⓞnor, I just tried it but I don't think I'd bother using it seriously. It's a great gimmick but if you're looking at the text, you're not looking at the background anyway. And if you're going to look away from the text, you may as well look away from the phone. Besides, all it does is launch the mail app so that you can pick recipients and hit the send button, so you're probably going to step in that dog shit anyway...
- Tony Ruscoe
Had a great lunch with @retomeier about Android (exciting) over bacon polenta (tasty) http://twitpic.com/3o9qn
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Reto Meier liked this
Now that picture is making me hungry again. :)
- Matt Cutts
Antarctic Fox - Day 7: Abandoned Antarctica: Base W - Detaille Island - Part 1 - http://antarctic.fury.com/27-base...
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David Vasileff, Mark Trapp, Josh Haley and 6 other people liked this
This is the latest chapter in our Antarctica blog, and is the one I've most been looking forward to posting since we started blogging our adventure three months ago. This is Britain's 'Base W', hurriedly abandoned 50 years ago, and only a handful of people have been inside since. Seriously, check this out.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Man, I am SO envious now...
- jho
We loved this stop so much, we really couldn't sort the set down small enough so we split into two parts. Part 2 will be next week.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Text from that Navel Message (spelling errors authentic): "Recent Mails received from bases have disclosed several irregularities with regard to despatching mails and treatment of remittances by postal order and reply coupons [stop] All bases should ensure that stamps are properly cancelled with official ink provided see para 2(1) k(2) (B) [stop] Postal orders received must be signed by...
more...
- Rachel Lea Fox
Take a digital picture of the kids before entering an amusement park in case they get lost - http://www.parenthacks.com/2009...
Reto Meier, Tony Ruscoe and immaterial liked this
great idea, 'have you seen *this* child'
- immaterial
Make your own terrorism billboard! http://jamesholden.net/billboa... Here's mine:
immaterial, Daniel Dulitz, Ryan and 8 other people liked this
I like your billboard, but I LOVE his billboard generator.
- Stephen Mack
David Mitchell: I'll tell you what really offends me - political opportunism - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
Reto Meier liked this
The Ultimate Post Pub Snack? - http://www.briddon.com/2009...
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And it's quite literally got my name on it!
- Tony Ruscoe
I just finished reading Terry Pratchett's Nation. If you liked his Tiffany Aching character, I think you'll like Nation--it's deep and rich.
Jenny Morman, Reto Meier, Simon and Deepak Singh liked this
Yeah Nation was excellent - though so is almost everything Pratchett does :)
- Reto Meier
Amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle.
«Weird & Sons», Matthias Schwenk, Martin Rix (Mrrix32) and 16 other people liked this
(via April http://friendfeed.com/e...)
- Philipp Lenssen
Cars are horrible space & efficiency wise, but better in terms of comfort & convenience, eg cold and rainy :-/
- immaterial
But if it's warm and sunny, I'd rather be on my Bike. Plus it cost a lot less to use :P
- Martin Rix (Mrrix32)
David Mitchell: Don't talk to me about teen spirit - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
Reto Meier and Ionut liked this
In a 2006 interview with The Independent, Mitchell (the author) stated his childhood dreams: "When I was at school I either wanted to be a comedian-stroke-actor or Prime Minister. But I didn't admit that to other people, I said I wanted to be a barrister and that made my parents very happy. I didn't admit I wanted to be a comedian until I came to university, met a lot of other people who wanted to be comedians, and realised it was an OK thing to say." - via wiki
- Ionut
Academy of Science in SF for a very cool Google announcement which i can neither confirm nor deny :) (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog...)
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FriendFeed Blog: Find and subscribe to your Twitter friends on FriendFeed - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
urdumania1, krispijn Beek, timepilot and 219 other people liked this
"We've just added a friend importer for Twitter so you can easily find and subscribe to your Twitter friends who are already on FriendFeed."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Try it out here: https://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
oh finally. also it's more usable than twitter's thanks.
- Eren Emre Kanal
was thinking about this earlier - want Flickr too - deperately!
- Phill Price
Hurrah!
- Andrew Trinh
Aweseomeness and YES, definitely build the same thing for Flickr.
- Thomas Hawk
Finally, great news!
- Justin Stevens
O neat.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Cool!
- Vicky
704 of your Twitter friends use FriendFeed. You are already subscribed to all of them.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks a bunch. Exactly what I needed
- Christopher Howie
Nice! Just used it, thanks to the FF team. There were a couple odd mis-matches that I caught, though: Thomas Rauscher (https://friendfeed.com/wuz) != @hotdogsladies
- Micah
I'm confusednow! I think I need it the otherway around :)
- Vicky
Sooo. Does this collect non ff twitter users?
- Phill Price
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I also almost posted about such a feature this morning. I guess in theory I could create imaginary friends for all the twitter users I follow that are NOT on FriendFeed... is there a way to automate that? And then perhaps convert them to non-imaginary friends once they join? :)
- Dylan Parker
Some are not who they say they are.. Got a few in my list 'Mark Hobbs @patricknorton, Ron Perrella @leolaporte (private feed)' Other than those, great stuff, thought id done something like this to start with when i first signed up, guess not.
- Simon Wicks
Good stuff - thanks ...
- Patrick Jordan
Simon: we do our best to make sure someone is who they say they are before recommending them but a few could slip through the cracks. Your feedback definitely helps find the outliers.
- Benjamin Golub
oh we can also search other twitter users' friends, nice.
- Eren Emre Kanal
Been waiting for this! Thanks FriendFeed!!!!!!
- Patrick Lightbody
Benjamin: Good stuff :)
- Simon Wicks
The only slight issue, which is not a big deal, is when people add other people's Twitter feeds to their FriendFeed account. In the search I got results for people who have added other people's Twitter feed to their FF account instead of the actual owners of the Twitter accounts I am following. I do this with imaginary friends. They must not know what imaginary friends are for.
- Rolf Schewe
This is cool! But noticing some bugs too. I.e. twitter/techcrunch goes to john rocker etc.
- jho
Jauder: In that case it is likely because http://friendfeed.com/techcru... doesn't have @techcrunch added as a service. Once it is added we should recommend the correct FriendFeed account.
- Benjamin Golub
Sweet. That was easy. Nice job.
- Andrew Smith
awesome
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
No worries, I scanned the list manually and it added fine. I would suggest giving the ability to add to more than one list though. I created a new list called Twitter but would the people I just added be added to the home feed too?
- jho
Hmm. It found 3 twitter friends for me, and none of the corresponding FF users are correct. Weird. [looks again] Oh, I get it...none of them are actually on FF, it's just that other people have imported their twitter accounts. Ugh.
- Ken Sheppardson
any chance we can get imaginary friends created automatically for twitter friends that are not using friendfeed?
- berkay
so so good...
- Zee.
BTW, there's a third party app for this. https://twitter2ff.appspot.com It can sync both ways.
- Ken Sheppardson
nice thanks ken - was wanting something that went FF to Twitter as well
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Oops. Smooth. Overwhelming. Added 62 & sent 8 requests. Simply good. Waiting for the big news wave now :)
- Markus Merz
this would really rock if you could do it for Flickr as well. It would also be interesting if FF was smart enough to delete imaginary friends with the real ones as they show up at FF.
- Thomas Hawk
Find your twitter friends on friendfeed
- Sean
Given I can put in any user ID, I can pull in any followers on Twitter, period. Shouldn't this tie in to the account you have registered?
- Louis Gray
It prepopulates with the account you have registered, but we let you type in any account because the info is available on Twitter, and you may have a Twitter account that you have chosen not to connect to FriendFeed.
- Bret Taylor
Thanks, Bret.
- Louis Gray
OK, don't everybody try to import @scobleizer's friends at once.
- Ken Sheppardson
Bret, make sure you add the link to this importer to http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Atul Arora
Nice. Thanks, Bret.
- Steven Perez
Sorry, I have a question Houston http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Erhan Erdoğan
Erhan: we have some logic in place to figure out who "owns" a Twitter account so we always attempt to recommend the correct user.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: Really wonder about this logic? Can you explain it?
- Erhan Erdoğan
nice brett, next find and subscribe to facebook friends already on FF
- Bob Sonin
Bob, the Facebook app already finds which of your fb friends are on FriendFeed: http://apps.facebook.com/friendf...
- Paul Buchheit
Nice! Import Twitter friends to FF. That is great.
- Drew Lucas
from BuddyFeed
It was about time... Thanks!
- Alexandros Georgiadis
oops, forgot about that
- Bob Sonin
wasnt there some tool for that... or maybe that was the other way around - intreresting for sure. However, actually think I know my friendfeed people better than them on Twitter, so I´ll see
- Peter Efland
Darnell: The Facebook app finds your Facebook friends are on FriendFeed: http://apps.facebook.com/friendf.... We plan to support other services.
- Benjamin Golub
This is awesome. Thank you so very much.
- Sloan Bowman
this was realy helpful. thanks!
- graham mudd
This didn't work for me. Oh well.
- Robert Scoble
That's what you get for having thousands of followers.
- Richard A.
That worked *really* well. Hmm, maybe I'll just unsub those folks on Twitter as long as they are bringing their feed in here. Sorry, Twitter.
- Laura Norvig
Oh, I don't typically dig that deep. Wouldn't that require TweetDeck or using Twitter search? You're right, though, if I happen to be on Twitter and someone asks an interesting question, sometimes it's nice to see the replies of the people I *do* follow.
- Laura Norvig
Thanks for the great feedback everyone! We just pushed some fixes that should make our recommendations even more accurate based on your feedback.
- Benjamin Golub
The Joel on Software Discussion Group - Why I Hate Frameworks - http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default...
Daniel Rowley, urfin, Ken Sheppardson and 15 other people liked this
Nice caricature of the Java disease. ""If you really want a high-quality, industrially engineered spice rack, you desperately need something more advanced than a simple hammer from a rinky-dink hardware store." "And this is the way everyone is doing it now? Everyone is using a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory now, whenever they need a hammer?""
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
we got a club here...
- Luigi Centenaro
I don't buy this sort of whining anymore. His REAL problem is the part where is HAS to be Java and he is "evaluating a bunch of J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC role-based CMS web service application container frameworks". So he's had the solution forced on him. Anyway if you need that solution (portal/CMS), the spec is usable, and there are good open source impls. But if you don't need that toolset, it is appalling. Get your needs clear, choose the right toolset to fill your needs. As always.
- Scot Mcphee
http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc... ... Sorry, it's just that this stuff is far out of my experience.
- Andrew C (✓)
@Scot Mcpee check the date it was posted. In 2005 there weren't any good "J2EE portlet-enabled JSR-compliant MVC role-based CMS web service application container frameworks"
- Nick Lothian
maybe he hates frameworks because he sells bug-tracking software and perhaps frameworks eliminate a certain percentage of basic software development errors that his software is designed to catalog. or, he just hates frameworks.
- .LAG liked that
@Nick Lothian - ok there might not be any good frameworks at that date, but why was he looking for a solution that only has bad implementations? That's not the fault of immature frameworks - some of which are now very good frameworks - that's the fault of poor, or leading, requirement specification. In other words, the cart is before the horse.
- Scot Mcphee
It's not 100% clear from the formatting, by the way, but this was written by a forum poster, not Spolsky himself. (I grant that the writing style is also very Spolsky-esque.)
- Andrew C (✓)
So how did this pop back up to the top of the stack after 3 years? I notice Merlin Mann posted a link to it as well. Attributed to Spolsky, BTW. :-(
- Ken Sheppardson
Ah, one of my favorite pieces.
- Gabe
Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition - washingtonpost.com - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
karl dotter, Michael Zehrer, Susan Beebe and 62 other people liked this
"Still more daunting is the list of things Favreau can't think about as he writes the inaugural. He went for a run to the Lincoln Memorial last month and stopped in his tracks when he imagined the mall packed with 3 million people listening to some of his words. A few weeks later, Favreau winced when Obama spokesman Bill Burton reminded him: "Dude, what you're writing is going to be hung up in people's living rooms!" "If you start thinking about what's at stake, it can get paralyzing," Favreau said."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
27?!
- George Tziralis
"One Saturday night in March, Obama called Favreau and said he wanted to immediately deliver a speech about race. He dictated his unscripted thoughts to Favreau over the phone for 30 minutes -- "It would have been a great speech right then," Favreau said -- and then asked him to clean it up and write a draft. Favreau put it together, and Obama spent two nights retooling before delivering the address in Philadelphia the following Tuesday."
- Kenny Stoltz
from twhirl
@ george tziralis Too young? If you write well, age is irrelevant.
- Phil Boiarski
Re the race speech: "Obama wrote most of the speech himself, according to his campaign." http://www.cnn.com/2008... Other news outlets simplified this to "He wrote the speech himself" http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washing... Grumble...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, if he told the writer what to say and the writer just cleaned it up and edited it a bit, I don't think that detracts from his authorship.
- Paul Buchheit
Yah, book authors' editors contribute a lot to the final novel, but no one asks that their names be put on the cover.
- Bret Taylor
Speechwriters shouldn't grant interviews. Period. The words they write are not "theirs," as someone mentioned above, they are the words of the speaker. It's not appropriate for this guy to be welcoming any sort of media attention.
- Mary Trigiani
@Mary - agree - I'm totally jealous of the wunderkind, and am in awe of him. That said, he should stfu and focus and turn the attention back to his boss, lest he start thinking that his role is anything other than Obama's automatic typewriter. I've seen and heard way too much about him this year.
- Christopher Galtenberg
I have never heard of this guy before and liked reading the story. I don't see why they shouldn't write a story about him just because of his job.
- Gabe
I was a speechwriter, and the first thing you learn -- or should learn -- is that the words are not yours, they are those of the speaker. For me, it's a question of ethics. Had this problem when Peggy Noonan stepped forward, will always have this problem with these folks who use the limelight. Being a speechwriter, and people knowing it, was plenty enough for me. It distracts from the message and the speaker for the speechwriter to get attention. This is a professional code issue.
- Mary Trigiani
And by the way: the best speakers, like Obama, like Reagan, direct the content and the cadence of their speeches. They own them. They craft the speeches with the help of the speechwriter. It's not about the speechwriter, it's about the message of the speaker and the speaker himself/herself.
- Mary Trigiani
Thank you for the conversation on this. It's a real hot button with me. And I can tell you from having worked with good speakers that what you see up there on the podium is what they bring to it -- not their ability to read someone else's words. A good speechwriter writes in the voice of the speaker -- has that person's voice in his/her head while writing. Talking about it is a breach of confidentiality in my book.
- Mary Trigiani
Mary, are you saying that speech writers should not have stories written about them, or should they just pretend that they're not speech writers?
- Gabe
Stories about them are ok, just they're not to be part of the limelight. If they're too well known, it detracts from the story of a speech (who wrote this line, who wrote that line, ala Gerson of the current administration).
- Christopher Galtenberg
mary you offer a really interesting perspective, and i never thought of it that way! thanks.
- Neha Narula
I'm so glad I commented on this thread. The ensuing conversation has been the most interesting I've read all month!
- Kevin Fox
I definitely agree w/ Mary. I've also done some speechwriting, and you shouldn't reveal that you were the writer and/or talk about it. It's a contract you enter when you agree to be the behind-the-scenes writer.
- Ana
This is an interesting rule. Whom else does it apply to? Encyclopedia editors? Screen writers? People who voice over movies and TV shows in foreign languages?
- Gabe
Gabe: I'm saying that speechwriters should get enough of an ego rub from working with the speaker. A speechwriter should not do interviews. Spidra: Please read my comments above. An ethical speechwriter will tell you that the words come from the content created by the speaker -- the words could not have been written without the direction of the speaker to the speechwriter. At least, that's how I "wrote" speeches.
- Mary Trigiani
Gabe: Regarding your comment about encyclopedia editors, etc, apples and oranges. Speech writing is not ghostwriting; it is helping the speaker to organize and present personal thoughts. Encyclopedia writing is a form of reporting. Screen writing is under one's own name.
- Mary Trigiani
Gabe: I always told people what I did. Then I found, thanks to big-ego speechwriters and political speechwriting, that I had to explain I was not the brains of the content -- I was the brains of the presentation. The speaker created and shaped the content. When I was assigned to an exec that wanted it the other way, I quit.
- Mary Trigiani
Anyone who ended up regularly using those Google search results upvote/ x buttons?
Adewale Oshineye, Varun Mahajan and Reto Meier liked this
Hell no. I'm vaguely afraid I'll accidently click one and 'corrupt' my future search results in some way.
- Reto Meier
from fftogo
Nope, never used them, not even enabled.
- Stuart Grimshaw
from IM
I still try to ignore them, but sometimes I accidentally click on them.
- Ionut
i do, i use them to get rid of experts-exchange & other results i find annoying, though can't say if it's helping. i do like the option to vote against them, though ;-)
- immaterial
For SEO type reasons, I don't want to customize my results too much, so I leave the X's alone.
- Mike Reynolds
me
- John Mueller
No. It's so stupid to put "Google Earth" as 1rst result for the search [earth], just because I upvoted "Google Reader" for [reader].
- Jérôme
No. Not once. But I would use a simple MARK button often -- to flag particular results as interesting, and searchable as a group.
- Sean McBride
I'm biased but I find it satisfying to correct certain search results. It's usually the ones where majority opinion is wrong e.g. [trivium] shouldn't be the heavy metal band
- Adewale Oshineye
Happiness is... breaking the seal on a perfect new jar of Marmite.
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In Berlin's Boar War, Some Side With the Hogs - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Reto Meier liked this
after using chrome since launch - it really is incredible how slow FF is to load and browse
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So... I tell my wife... "tonight you're going to sign up to Facebook." She says, "I'm already on there." She didn't add me as a friend...
Niklas Sjostrom, mjc, Sidharth Dassani and 103 other people liked this
She swears she signed up just to look around. Right...
- Louis Gray
Zing! And what about Friendfeed....?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I have a number for a good counselor. You can make it work if you want to. Are you even *really* married if you're not Facebook Married? :-P
- michael silverton
LOL!
- Cristian Conti
I'd say I'm happier now, because she agreed to my friend request... but she DID also accept one from Jesse Stay, so now I don't feel special. :-) And Jess, that is too funny.
- Louis Gray
So did she accept my request before she accepted yours?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, she says yes.
- Louis Gray
My daughter added me on FB though quickly changed my relationship status to 'mother'. Not quite sure what she's saying there.
- Nicola Quinn
Did she add the U-Haul guy? :)
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Months ago, my brother came to me and sad that "I've just had a mail which says that dad wants to add me as a friend. I think dad has personality issues...I have to call him and remind him that i'm his SON!"...
- Olcayto Cengiz
I wonder what the relationship status is/will be... "It's complicated"? ;)
- Jemm
I got a friend request from someone I could only identify as one of my grannie's friends.... almost deleted my FB account... luckily I turned out to be wrong about the identity of the requester
- Peter Efland
from twhirl
Ouch!
- Tom Mack
rofl Louis! I wish I made a comment on her wall now so I could get first post just like on The Gray Effect
- Jesse Stay
Hahahhaa this is funny... poor Louis...so rejected...had to ASK to be friends! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
Smart woman
- Charlie Anzman
My wife and I are not "friends" on Facebook. Because we both tend toward petty jealousies, I don't need to see friends of hers bubbling up from the past, and vice-a-versa. Gotta say it's a pretty sweet setup.
- Marko Bon
Maybe she's waiting to upload that perfect "In a relationship" picture for the news feed.
- Shawn Farner
One of my brother in laws signed up for facebook. On his profile he selected that he was interested in men. I called his wife and asked her how she felt about that. She said he could do whatever he wanted. lol.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
That's hilarious. I can't even get my husband to THINK about Facebook. He has no idea what is going on in the social world....or why I like it. We are just very different when it comes to these kinds of things.
- Jennifer Windrum
from twhirl
ouch.
- Bonita Garrabrant
Ah. Everyone's gotta have their own private life I suppose!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
HAHA! That's funny! At least she doesn't have two accounts and is keeping one of them a secret from you. (Silver lining?)
- David Cook
:) sad face
- Brian Bufalo
it's complicated.
- Joseph Miller
PWND!
- Steven Perez
This is now the #2 most-liked item in the last 30 days according to FFHolic, so this is stuck in my sidebar in the blog. Thanks for the constant reminder, guys. :-)
- Louis Gray
"My mother added me on Friendface, and she's set her mood to sensual"
- Bryce Roney
That is probably a good thing. I have a lot of people I cherish but don't want as a friend on facebook. It's about context. But in my case it's also a generation gap thing :) - hehe, only noticing that this thread started December 15th.
- DC Crowley
Stephen Fry on the iPhone, Bold, Storm, and G1 - http://www.stephenfry.com/blog...
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Polygons Evolving Into Your Custom Picture - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Reto Meier and immaterial liked this
Awesome, horribly slow for the image i'm trying(i may have been over optimistic...), but definitely awesome :-)
- immaterial
Slow for the one I started too... plan to let it compute throughout the night.
- Philipp Lenssen
Private Albums in Picasa Web - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008...
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Preparing for an evening of catching up with buddies and making myself ill with too much cheese, pickles and charcouterie . Raclette FTW!
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Google Maps Has a New Interface - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008...
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The Graveyard Book - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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That's the book I tried to Kindlebuy today!!
- Kevin Fox
He is my hero! Well done
- sofiagk
Great book - I intended to pace reading the stories little by little (which I usually do with his short story collections), but ended up reading the thing in one sitting :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
John Gruber on the iPhone's deprecation of "http://" - http://daringfireball.net/2008...
Reto Meier liked this
I'm so surprised this hasn't happened earlier. Take out "www" too, while we're at it :). People shouldn't have to worry about the technology used to get the information.
- John Mueller
John, absolutely. I've always preferred non-www domains but that does seem to confuse some non-savvy Internet users. Especially when you've got odd TLDs. For example, when I tell people my genealogy site is just "ruscoe.name" they think I must be wrong...
- Tony Ruscoe
Gmail's New Default Theme is a Step Backwards for Usability | Raleigh Web Design & Development | New Media Campaigns - http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page...
Susan Beebe, опять меня цитируют, George Tziralis and 21 other people liked this
Interesting. Hated it when I first saw it, however, I'm now using it. YMMV.
- Daniel Shaw
I see their point, that's why I'm using a different theme than the default.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
classic is much better, the new theme gave me a headache just looking at it.
- brianp
I'm not resistent to change. But i prefer classic, too. Using "rocks" now though. Wondering why gmail isn't offering my wife themes in the settings on her account (!?
- Alex von Halem
from twhirl
I feel this article isn't worth the bytes stored on the disk. To complain about usability based on a contrast calculator and without a formal usability study is mere conjecture rather than science. I find the new default theme helps me focus on the important elements easier, personally. If I didn't, I'd change the theme.
- Thomas Stromberg
I suspect if they had left users at the "Classic" theme, many would have remained unaware that themes exist.
- Ruchira S. Datta
by changing it and observing reaction from users, one might learn quite a lot ;) at the expense of walk-away :)
- A. T.
@thomas... well, it's still in 'beta.' .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Admittedly, the decreased contrast is only on *read* messages, unread messages are in bold black. Perhaps similar to how Friendfeed decreases the contrast of comments in comparison to FF messages. Still, unread messages often need quick scanning too. But having the new Gmail active since some minutes, I have to say I don't understand what the blue border is supposed to be for -- it almost screams at you but I'm not sure yet what it's trying to tell me! Does anyone know?
- Philipp Lenssen
I agree with Ruchira - the main purpose is to constantly remind the user to engage with this new feature. As for the usability aspects considered in the post - I'd say it's very personal. I'm loving the ninja theme 'cause it does make work fun. And I'm definitely looking forward to customizable themes, i'm almost sure they will be in labs within weeks...
- Kirill Bolgarov
My assumption is that they did this to force people to notice the themes, and make a change if they don't like it. Otherwise, it's really poor design.
- Chris Stevenson
Let Me Google That For You - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Udschal Imanov, Eitan Burcat, Kirb and 13 other people liked this
omg, i don't like it, i love it! daily i get people asking me questions that i answer with a google query... can't wait to use this haha
- Dan Bedford
I need a ubiquity script for this :)
- Eitan Burcat
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