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[from macaetano] Not that I haven't thought of the same before...: Here’s How Friendfeed Will Generate Revenue - Allen Stern (CenterNetworks) - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf...
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"This is where Friendfeed comes in. They have an awesome opportunity to take over the forum world. While forum software isn’t as sexy as creating a Twitter app, there is a real market opportunity which could be there for the taking. Naturally Friendfeed would need to create a self-hosted version of their tool and modify it to allow for better “forum-like” thread creation. Friendfeed forum owners could also opt to allow their content to be indexed into Friendfeed’s new search engine. Take a moment to think about how much more “real-time” data would be included in the Friendfeed search if thousands of popular forums were included/indexed."
- Alexandre Gamela
Re: [Histport] Uma Cultura para o Século XXI - http://ml.ci.uc.pt/mhonarc...
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"Belgais é sintomático também. É um projecto tão inovador, é uma utopia provada, que incomoda muita gente, o que faz que, como não se percebe bem o que é, é porque gasta dinheiro sem fazer nada. Mas convido quem quiser a vir ver de perto o que aqui se faz, o que demora alguns dias, pois não se percebe este projecto com uma visita de jornalista apressado. Estamos a trabalhar sem nada, sem salários, sem móveis na escola, mas desafio qualquer professor a vir ver o que fazemos e se, com salários religiosamente pagos a tempo, horários das 9h às 15h15 (tb religiosamente cumpridos), direitos e tudo o mais consegue fazer nas suas escolas o que nós fazemos sem nada disso. Ninguém ainda teve coragem para fazer as contas de belgais, ou de olhar para os relatórios de gestão ou para as auditorias, senão teriam que se calar para sempre."
- paula simoes ☃
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PETIÇÃO MIL: “NÃO DESTRUAM OS LIVROS!” Petition - http://www.gopetition.com/online...
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"Verificando-se que editoras nacionais estão a proceder à desativação comercial dos livros não esgotados mediante a sua destruição, e que esta hipótese é igualmente contemplada pela editora do Estado português, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, o MIL: MOVIMENTO INTERNACIONAL LUSÓFONO considera isto um escandaloso crime de lesa-património, que vai fazer desaparecer muitos milhares de volumes preciosos da nossa cultura que, apesar do seu valor, não tiveram sucesso comercial junto do grande público."
- paula simoes ☃
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Top 10 Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr, All Fresh and New for 2008 - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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Good article. I guess you've got to work smart to get noticed on Flickr.
- Adam Christie
Very good advice, Thomas. A comment on no. 6 ("Groups"): I remember Flickr staff mentioning that not only photos that are in too many groups (more than 10-15, as a rule of thumb) get penalties for their Explore rating. Allegedly, this is also true for photos that are in the *wrong* groups, specifically the ubiquitous "post 1, comment x" groups. So not all photo critique groups might be good when you want to get your pictures into Explore.
- Ole Begemann
Ole, I hadn't heard that certain groups penalized photos but have seen Flickr staff in the past mention that posting your photo to too many groups will reduce it's visibility with their algorithm.
- Thomas Hawk
Re: no. 5 ("Explore"): more criteria that seem to influence whether a photo makes it to Explore: the presence of EXIF data, geotags, title, description has a positive influence; faves and comments from people who are not among your contacts seem to count more than from contacts; faves and comments from popular photographers count more than those from nobodys; a photo that gets 2 or 3 faves within minutes after uploading is more likely to make Explore than one that gets faved 15 times within 24 hours.
- Ole Begemann
Thomas, I'll try to find a reference for this.
- Ole Begemann
Good point on EXIF data Ole, yes, photos in Explore are required to have EXIF data. My own guess as to why this is is that if a photo has EXIF data it is more likely to be your own photo vs. something you simply ripped from the web. Not foolproof of course but I'd guess that this policy is in part due to a desire to increase the authenticity of the photos promoted on Explore.
- Thomas Hawk
If you look at the photos in Explore, the only "Leave a comment" groups that I see with any regularity are TWTME and 1-2-3 groups... what makes them special I'm not sure, other than they're amongst the largest groups in general. But you see very few of those award groups or "leave x comments" groups in the photos in Explore, so I suspect that Flickr must be penalizing them.
- Eric P
Thomas, that's a great refresher on the original article. Some great tips.
- Tom Quinn
And Thomas, throwing reciprocation in as a "bonus"? It should have been #1 or #2. The vast, vast, vast majority of comments and faves that I receive are from people whose stream I previously visited. The only real exception to that is when a photo is high in Explore, which results in a torrent of views/comments/faves from strangers.
- Eric P
Yep Eric. Reciprocation is very high. Bonus tip might not be the best place for it. It's very important. Faving back when people fave your work, commenting back. Adding people back as mutual contacts, etc. All encourage activity on your photostream.
- Thomas Hawk
Eric, participation groups don't penalize your photo from Explore best I can tell. This photo http://www.flickr.com/photos... from a few weeks ago was in the Deleteme Uncensored critique group and was #3 on Explore as well.
- Thomas Hawk
In fact just searching flickr for the save10 tag from the DMU critique group along with "explore" brings up a number of photos: http://www.flickr.com/search...
- Thomas Hawk
Good post, *IF* getting attention is important to you, as opposed to using it as a vehicle to just share photos with people
- Eric Rice
After I read your original article on Flickr popularity a while back, I began reciprocating every comment received. That worked very well.
- Tom Harrison
Eric, true. Some people have no interest in their photos receiving attention. I do think that the majority of people posting on Flickr though do appreciate when their photos receive some attention. Lots of people do not though. I have friends that only publish private photos that their friends can see and opt out of every public aspect of Flickr. I think these people though are the exception rather than the norm and think that Caterina's quote is pretty typical of the most active users on the site.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for digging my article Aaron! :) http://digg.com/arts_cu...
- Thomas Hawk
Alright, I found something. Flickr staff member acknowledged almost 2 years ago that "groups that force people to comment/fave on certain photos with no choice" do in fact hurt your Explore chances. Also, "weight of comments and favorites from contacts is quite low in interestingness calculation." (http://www.flickr.com/groups...). A very old post and the algorithm has changed since then but we can probably say that the gist of it is still true.
- Ole Begemann
interesting Ole. I hadn't seen that. I think it would be difficult for Flickr to manually track every group that encourages tags and comments as participation. Per the links above though, photos in DMU have definitely made it into Explore anyways.
- Thomas Hawk
Yeah, I have no idea how they maintain a list of the "bad" groups. Further below, SilentObserver mentions his business is writing algorithms to filter them out automatically, though.
- Ole Begemann
Here's another good summary of nearly everything the community knows about the Explore algorithm: http://www.flickr.com/groups...
- Ole Begemann
Here is an example of tagging. I did not know this woman was a celebrity until after got this shot. It appears on the first page of the image search engines and it has received over 12,000 views. http://flickr.com/photos...
- Russellreno
So far I got 3 (!) photos into explore. Their common factor? They all were faved by you (TH) soon after I posted theim.
- Guillaume Lemoine
Flickr used to say "who" faves your shots was a part of the Explore algorithm. It wouldn't surprise me if the algorithm weights faves by different people from the Flickr community differently. For instance, Pro accounts where people actually have paid for the service might be weighted higher than non-Pro accounts. More active users might carry more weight with their faves then less active users. Just speculating on this part.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas - I don't think that participation in all groups gets a penalty, just that there are some groups that are penalized as far as Explore is concerned. I simply don't see Explore photos in "Post 1, Comment X" groups - so either there's no explore-worthy photos in those groups (not likely IMHO), or Flickr is penalizing the photos in those groups.
- Eric P
such a great post Thomas, thanks for writing it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
As a note to certain groups penalizing your photos...I had a photo (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) that went to explore spot 150 or so. After, I added it to a few groups to see if I could bump it higher. It had the opposite affect and immediately dropped off. I can't say which group exactly did it or if it was the number of groups I submitted to, but adding to groups definitely does come with some sort of penalty.
- Justin Korn
If you use FeedBurner, you can splice your Flickr photos into your blog feed. I have it splice my last two photos and I find those have at least 5x the number of views as the ones that aren't in my spliced feed.
- Mike Hussein Cohen
Awesome post Thomas. I signed up for Flickr a couple of years ago, but only started using it more regularly after the purchase of a digital SLR camera - so this post is particularly relevant to me. I am still patiently waiting for that first comment/favourite on one of my photos to truly experience the emotions as described by Caterina Fake.
- Jeff Smith
Thanks for this post, Thomas. Great tips!
- Eric Johnson
Great article Thomas... I was also wondering about what my friend calls 'Shooting for the 75'. That is, a great majority of people only ever see a 75 x 75px thumbnail of your photo. When he processes, he always does a square crop to test how it looks in the frame. Would you like to see proportional thumbnails as an option?
- Johnny Worthington
I actually really like the square thumbnails. Heck I really like the square crop period. I think I'm cropping more and more of my photos 4x4 these days. Maybe it's just that I've always loved medium format photography so much, not sure why I'm so drawn to the square crop right now though. I much prefer Flickr's square thumbnails actually. Still would love to see larger sizes on FF like SmugMug's thumbnails.
- Thomas Hawk
you're right though. Frequently it's the thumbnail that draws people into a photo. A good looking thumbnail is more likely to be selected by viewers for clicking through to full size viewing, commenting, faving, etc.
- Thomas Hawk
One of my very first Flickr experiences was someone in a critique group cutting me down for a square crop. It was a rose in a perfect spiral petal pattern, could only be cropped square as far as I was concerned. LOL...I didn't change it either.
- Karoli
Haha, that's funny Karoli. so much of the criticism in critique groups on Flickr is so lame. You should have seen the deleteme critique group ravage a Henry Cartier Bresson photograph who is probably considered by most photo historians as the greatest photographer who ever lived. Read some of these comments on this photo for a laugh: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
I used to work to get photos into explore. I think I probably take better pictures now, but I don't have the time at the moment to put in the work. Lots of community building and commenting went into the mix. I confess, there's a real rush to hitting the front page. I had three in the top 10, and it was a lot of fun.
- Karoli
I have been doing a lot of panoramic shots over the past year and I have started to play around with vertical cropping. Taking a portrait photo and cropping a really tight vertical crop: http://www.flickr.com/photos... It's all about how the picture looks to you in the end. Square, circle or hexagon, it's about the sensory reaction :) (and now I'm going to square crop for this week just to try it out, thanks guys)
- Johnny Worthington
Thomas, those comments are a hoot! I met some nice people in some of the critique groups, but it didn't take me long to know the critiques weren't helping. I do love Flickr's community...even if I haven't spent a lot of time in it lately.
- Karoli
yeah, the attention from Explore can be fun. But I'm pretty unimpressed with a lot of the photos there. I think Flickr could do a much better job with that algorithm. I do find filtering explore just by my contacts though produces more consistently interesting photographs for me. I use this script to do just that: http://www.drewmyersphoto.net/flickr_...
- Thomas Hawk
Agree on the photo quality on Explore. Seems like a lot of the same sort of gimmicky stuff lands there. Looking forward to trying the script.
- Karoli
Thanks for the article, that opened my eyes up a lot
- Alex Carpenter
Hey Karoli, here's you and your daughter by the way. I uploaded this to Zooomr a while back when I was taking a break from Flickr but uploaded it tonight on Flickr. Great fun on that photowalk. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Thomas Hawk
Hey, cool! Thanks for the pointer. It was a great photowalk, would love to do another sometime soon!
- Karoli
Here is one more way to get attention: Comment on this post with a link to one of your photos. I received a hit today from the comment about. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Russellreno
Good stuff. Worked for me: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Demetri Mouratis
Marjane Satrapi talks to Haaretz about Persepolis. (via Largehearted Boy)
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TOREAD
- Marcos Marado
Google Chrome and the future of browsers - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
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As usual, Chris gets the big picture.
- Chris Baskind
Chris is a tech superstar that I listen to deeply. He is excited by Google's moves and lays out the poor execution on the Mozilla side of the fence.
- Robert Scoble
What I missed in the Chrome comic was a mention of browser add-ons like Firefox's. Surfing the web without Adblock Plus is hard to imagine.
- Ole Begemann
or without the delicious add-ons... or the evernote add-on... but at least bookmarklets are (likely?) to still work.
- Justin Long
The comic was aimed squarely at devs. There was little mention of what would make end users choose Chrome over IE.
- Paul Grav
Best read so far, been waiting for a commentary like this...
- Kevin Cearns
Gee, Ole... why wouldn't Google want you running AdBlock Plus? Can't imagine. ;) (Now, I agree, add-ons are cool, but as a publisher, I'm not going to weep over that one...) Anyway, I wouldn't count Firefox out. Obviously, what Google addresses is the performance/reliability side and building around apps. Both FF and Chrome are built around standards, both closely married to JavaScript for what they do next. I think this could be a great rivalry, frankly.
- Peter Kirn
from twhirl
They talk explicitly about plugins on pages 29-32 of the comic so you should be able to have your AdBlock. I seriously doubt Google cares that much about AdBlockers -- which makes up an extremely small percent of the overall market, and which is probably made up of people who don't click ads anyway.
- Chris Messina
Chris: I suspect by plugins they mean Flash etc. and not Firefox-style extensions. But I hope I'm wrong.
- Ole Begemann
But will it support 1Password on the Mac?
- Khürt Williams
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Will they, wont they. Time will tell. Who do you want to hate today?
- Steve Blamey
Interesting article. More choice = better for the users. But I think that you are over-hyping the death of Firefox. As far I can tell. Firefox 3.0 is much better than Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.1 will be better than Firefox 3.0. Multi-process, V8 and native Gears support are definitely a step forward but firefox is part of an ecosystem so I would not count them out (A lot of people said...
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
Hmm, well, I didn't claim to foretell the death of Firefox at all. In fact, Firefox will likely continue to gain marketshare and attention (as the web is still expanding). One of my points is that Mozilla missed the opportunity to be the foundation of Chrome -- and will now have to play catch up -- instead of set the agenda for what's next.
- Chris Messina
Do you think that was a technical decision or a control decision. From the last couple of interviews I have seen of John Lilly, I think that he has a really clear vision around performance, usability and ecosystem. Performance is coming in 3.1. Usability is driven by some of the concept Labs has been pushing out and ecosystem come from the fact that there are 100s of extensions to...
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
I am using chrome right now, and I really miss my shareaholic addon as well as my stumbleupon bar. hopefully the developers get crackin for plugins for this browser.
- James Campbell
I'm hoping to see some good progress from Mozilla. I do worry a bit about them fish-tailing and not being able to say no to developers (whose needs are often very different from regular folks). We shall see. @James Campbell:There will be a need for web hooks, no doubt... and places to insert additions or modifications to your browser experience -- I don't really doubt that (some standardization there would be nice too).
- Chris Messina
The bookmarklets work just fine. I really wouldn't miss any of my add-ons...but the fact that I can't scroll up with my mouse is a deal breaker. talking about plugins/add-ons/extensions when people can't even scroll up is kinda putting the cart before the horse...just sayin
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Project - http://1001albuns.blogspot.com/
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"Blog criado para me auxiliar na hercúlea tarefa de ouvir e analisar até 2010 cada um dos 1001 álbuns presentes na lista organizada por Robert Dimery e publicada no Brasil pela Editora Sextante. Os links para download são apenas para análise, se gostou do álbum, compre. A RIAA agradece"
- Miguel Caetano
Best Video Conferencing Tools That Anyone Can Use - Sharewood Guide - http://www.masternewmedia.org/news...
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Good list of Video Conferencing Tools. Gotta check these out.
- Robert Scoble
502 server error Service Temporarily Overloaded - must be really good post
- Brian Sullivan
The french Seesmic community francofous has launched its own video news show so cool http://mistressoftheweb.wordpress.com/2008...
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YouTube will never be the same. Panasonic just announced VieraCast that will put YouTube on its TVs in 2009 (and other IP services).
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That's really big news Robert, Thanks, the IPTV race is on. Keep us posted.
- Larry Kless
ahhh. the distribution channels keep expanding for publishers. i love it.
- Rodney Rumford
I find that YouTube loads very slow, all the other flash players load a bunch faster, and it isn't my connection, I'm on FIOS, so it sohuld be perfect, but it seems that they could some work on the CDN side
- Andrew Fielding
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first the Apple, now the whole Tree, huh? cool. iThink. ;)
- TheMacMommy
from twhirl
Now you can see Youtube quality videos on your 60" TV. Lets hope that they are not just going to team up with the like of YouTube but open things up with something like miro. http://www.getmiro.com/.
- John Cooper
? it's TVs on sale this year do YouTube.
- Richard Lawler
from twhirl
What about Vimeo, which is more fo a choice for businesses and professional usage due to its better quality?
- Hayk H.
This will actually bring IPTV into main stream
- Arjun
sure - and vreel.... well: I#m mostly looking at the lawyers now for figuring out how I can watch Hulu here in the old world...
- Günther Mulder
from twhirl
got a PS3 or 360 or other DLNA device Gunther?
- Richard Lawler
from twhirl
ah, I see, you meant outside the US?
- Richard Lawler
from twhirl
right - outside the USA (ie. Europe in my case)
- Günther Mulder
from twhirl
TiVo added the same feature to their series 3 Dvr's today.
- JOHN SIMPSON
YouTube better improve their encode quality pretty quickly. Users better improve their capture quality pretty quickly.
- Jon Price
how much is this tv?
- Allen Stern
the PZ850s are top of the line, depends on the size
- Richard Lawler
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Am interested to see how the current developments in internet enabled television will play out (especially tech like Intel's TV-based widgets and Panasonic's YouTube support). It would be very cool to be able to watch decent quality feeds from Revision3 / Justin.tv / etc in your lounge room on a flat screen. Hopefully this technology will develop to the point where internet video will represent a compelling (& free) alternative to cable/satellite/pay TV.
- Nick Mutton
This may be a dumb question, but will there still be a 10 minute limit on the episodes? MicroTv? MicroSodes?
- Dana Willhoit
not at all - but how much of TV is in a way already bowing to some kind of 10-minute rhythm. Short bits trying to keept you intrested for the next short bit. but I guess the 10 Minute thing you're talking about is more a thing of the computer-usecase, where you are even more fickle with your attention than in front of a TV-Set
- Günther Mulder
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and how much will this new service cost us? how much will my cable or dish company charge for this as well?
- Jonathan Jesse
Yay! Enabling even more YouTube comments to document human decline. ;)
- Vidar Andersen
@Scobleizer re: your interest in internet-enabled TV & VieraCast. What do you think about TV-based widgets? Breakthrough or Teletext 2.0?
- Nick Mutton
I want Youtube to get some HD love before it gets stretched to 60" :)
- Josh
ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors - http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter...
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Arrested for taking pictures on a *public sidewalk*. GOD this riles me and I hope Asa and ABC push this as hard and as long as they can.
- Anthony Citrano
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Yeah - totally no good at all.
- Tad
So spread the word, then, man. Click that like button. ;) [Everyone!]
- Anthony Citrano
grr... wtf?
- Alan Le
Nothing to see here, just people vying for your vote to rule your country. Nothing important or anything...
- Dan Messer
WTF?!?!
- JA Castillo
on what charges? there is nothing illegal being done? WTF is right.
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
'During the arrest, one of the officers can be heard saying to Eslocker, "You're lucky I didn't knock the f..k out of you."' Would someone explain to me again what constitutes terroristic threatening? Ok, maybe I'll Google it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
A cigar-smoking cop says "You're under arrest buster.", you can't get more stereotypical than that. I thought those kind of cops were only in the movies. I'm sure there's more to the story than what we're seeing here. I don't trust the press enough to believe that what was released is all there is.
- Kenton
Pretty weak Abby.
- Mattb4rd
Our civil liberties have been eroded way before W's America Abby.
- Michael Tefft
BTW Abby, Obama voted for warrantless wiretaps.
- Michael Tefft
Although I agree with Michael that civil liberties had been eroded before "W", no administration has done more damage to the Bill of Rights than W's.
- Anthony Citrano
It's tough to say that it's 100% true About of being W's fault. But I can't Belive this
- Roberto Bonini
blogged on this this morning. This is terrible.
- Thomas Hawk
Ill be the first one to complain about this, but we didn't see what the photographer was doing before the Police told him to stop. Does anyone know what they were doing that caused the police to come over in the first place?
- Andrew Baron
Haven't cops got better things to do? What a waste of public money.
- Paul Grav
Denver Police Policy Manual excerpt: RR-140 - Discourtesy. 'Officers shall at all times be courteous and civil to the public and to one another. They shall be orderly, attentive, respectful, and shall exercise patience and discretion in the performance of their duties.'
- Anthony Citrano
Thanks Thomas - wish we could link our FF threads in a more substantive way. Great info on yours, too: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Anthony Citrano
don't know exactly what the reporter did but it seemed pretty ridiculous to me
- Midori
The cop pushing the guy in the chest kinda looks like assault to me. It would be if it were anyone else doing it.
- Dave Roth
@Dave: yes - and he's not just pushing him, he's pushing him into traffic.
- Anthony Citrano
I need more podcasts; can you recommend some?
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Things I already listen to: This Week in Photography, This Week in Django, NPR (several), Wine Library TV, ReadBurner Weekly
- Benjamin Golub
Do you have Radio Lab in your NPR feeds? I pulled mine into Toluu not too long ago, they are all together at the top of my feeds list (minus the top 2) http://www.toluu.com/knightk...
- David Knight
My favorites are The Vinyl Cafe and This American Life
- Will Goldstein
Diggnation, strongly recommend, if u could use Videocast.
- Yuancheng
This week in photography is one of the best photography podcasts out there. The history of photography podcast is also pretty good: http://photohistory.jeffcurto.com/ Unfortunately there are not many more great photography podcasts. The Web 2.0 show has some good podcasts, TWIT, Phil Leigh's Inside Digital Media is good. NPR has lots of good feeds.
- Thomas Hawk
the social geeks podcast
- (jeff)isageek
of course Jeff better have recommended TheSocialGeeks podcast. iTunes or stream it. Subscriptions on the right of the site
- Chris Miller
Check out Miro.
- Tanath
lusitania de peso Ekxtaktika celebra parceria com Fnac:
A Ekxtaktika celebrou u.. http://lusitaniadepeso.wordpress.com/2008...
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Bancos não podem cobrar comissões em mudanças no crédito - http://dadospessoais.net/textos...
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Europeana - Connecting Cultural Heritage - http://www.europeana.eu/
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thanks for the reminder, it should be out in next months I think :-)
- paula simoes ☃
Photoshop Contest: 85 Famous Works of Art 'Improved' via Modern Technology - http://gizmodo.com/5030518...
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Interesting reinterpretations of some famous works of art.
- Thomas Hawk
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It's art appreciation for tech geeks. Well done.
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
I don't know about "improved", but fun to look at. BTW, I love Andrew Wyeth.
- Kreg Steppe
I always thought that girl laying in the field needed a Mac.
- Thomas Hawk
She's checking the price of wheat futures.
- Andrew Smith
@Andrew: +1 for the joke.
- AJ Kohn
Lol @Andrew
- Nicholas Kreidberg
New official release of Better Gmail 2 is here: http://lifehacker.com/320618/ (thanks, testers!)
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Already installed! Thx!
- Matias Sulzberger
Other new little feature we pushed, you can now post a video on Seesmic and NOT post it on the public timeline if you do not want to
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Loic, I was just going to post this to Seesmic...I LOOOVE this feature..it allows me to put in a whole bunch of private videos just to say hello to friends that do not have account on Seesmic...and not have it be in threads..otherwise there's be 20 threads of Meng saying Hi! to friends (:-). I love it...thanks for this.
- Meng Fong
great feature Loic!
- Benton
awesome to know....thanks for all the recent stuff that's been added. lookin good!
- sean808080
now i can use seesmic for vlog postings
- adolfo foronda
Are you in the tribe? - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
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Just like with Calacanis, I wouldn't want to be in such a tribe. The future is open and transparent. Godin is wrong.
- Meryn Stol
A signal that his new book sucks no doubt?
- Brian Sullivan
Transparency has never been very high on human behavior.
- Mário Pires
Mario: True, but reputational effects will win out. Non-transparent people will be left behind. They'll slowly become invisible. As such, they will be unobservable in practice, and not part of the visible future. I see you because you post in public!
- Meryn Stol
Come to think of it, they'll indeed be like tribes. Like "primitive" tribes. Those exist. They'll might survive. But they won't have influence.
- Meryn Stol
"You have to be committed enough to pre-order my book, sight unseen ... months in advance." Wow. That's some pathetic marketing right there.
- Nathaniel Payne
I hope it's a secret test of Godin for how many readers of him "don't get it". :)
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, you have a point about the reputation. If one gets trust on opinions or actions, then people will listen.
- Mário Pires
I wonder if there's a pattern of "falling stars" (let's say those are Calacanis and Godin) to flee with some followers into there own little worlds, where they still can feel a star.
- Meryn Stol
Interesting bunch of thoughts. I'm interested, and I'm going to take a look-see all the way around to understand beyond his blog post where he's going.
- Chris Brogan
@Nathaniel I expected more from Seth -- doesn't this, in away, "cheapen" the book?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I soured on Godin when I invited him to be on Inside the Net. He responded "I'm working really hard not to do podcasts that have fewer than 25,000 subscribers." I asked him how he knew we had fewer than 25,000 listeners (we had 70,000+) and he responded that he figured I would tell him if we didn't. I didn't bother to correct him. For a "marketing expert" he didn't seem very clued in about new media.
- Leo Laporte
Seriously?
- Jennifer Van Grove
Sounds like him and Scoble have jumped the shark
- Fred Grott
@Leo - nicely done. :) This whole concept just reeks of elitism to me, and I don't care for it.
- Nathaniel Payne
"You have to be committed enough to pre-order my book, sight unseen" -- really? Update: Sorry Nathaniel - didn't see you said the same thing !! Yeah - Um - really?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Yeah...this is the new trend, it seems. The problem is, only 1% are biting, and that 1% are even dwindling quickly.
- Bradley McSpinn
I *will* be in the Godin tribe. Pre-sale book hype always works on me... ;-)
- Barbara K. Baker
"A tribe for marketers" - I can already see that this isn't a tribe I'd care to join.
- David Worrell
Hey, guys. I'm starting a new club. It will only be open to people I deem worthy, you have to buy my book in advance without even knowing anything about it (besides the fact that it's written by me, and really, isn't that enough?), oh, and a generous charitable contribution to my investment portfolio couldn't hurt, either. ;)
- Nathaniel Payne
Ok, I see your point, but thing is I'll probably buy the book anyways so I may as well get in on the action. I can always choose to ignore later! What gets me is this conversation should be taking place on his blog!
- Bill Deys
Looks like smart book marketing to me, that's all. Don't over analyze it. Go with it, or don't.
- Jim Kukral
Godin is dead to me. Squidoo was the first sign of senility. This book thing is the next. @Leo's anecdote is the third strike, for me. It's not the size of the audience that hears you, it's who's in that audience. I do podcasts with *any* size audience, because those people, however few they may be folks who have never heard of me or my works... and want to. I'll take any free horse, and I don't care what it's teeth look like, y'know?
- Matthew Wayne Selznick
from twhirl
I'm in. Just pre-ordered the book. Maybe some peeps have have charge on the word "tribe," but Seth's on to something here - this is a terrific concept. I appreciate those who get out there and make stuff happen, and those who aren't afraid to stick their neck out. I don't always agree with Seth's strategies (like turning off blog commenting :() but I like his work.
- Mari Smith
@Bill Oh, I'll probably get the book, too, but it will be on MY terms, not to get into his elite club. I'll get it after people have already raved about the usefulness of its content. What really gets me is that this idea seems to run completely counter to how Seth normally operates.
- Nathaniel Payne
Seth needs to reread his book Meatball Sunday! Is he pushing a pyramid skim? "Buy my book to join my tribe!" John Chow!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Almost everything wrong in the world can be traced back to tribal instincts and thinking. To encourage it is discouraging.
- Todd Hoff
I like Seth's early works but ... he seems to be mailing it in lately. Agree with Matthew on Squidoo. I'm rejecting the 'cool kids' high-school click club. You want me to buy your book (new) - write something provocative that I can't help but want to pick up. What happened to gradual engagement?
- AJ Kohn
I also hate him using the "tribe" meme! I am a Hebrew and that is a tribe! Who the Fuck is Seth? Meatball Sunday? LMAO A micro community like we have on Friend Feed, yes! A tribe no!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Have we learned nothing from Clay Shirky? /smirk
- Eric Rice
What's so great about an exclusive elite tribe where the only requirement to get in is to buy a book? Heck, you could even pre-order the book, get in, and cancel the pre-order. If this is representative of the awesome marketing skills you're supposed to learn by being in the tribe, you might want to look elsewhere. "Even with just a few people in the pre-beta tribe we've built, I can...
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- Mark Trapp
He's merely being explicit about what all these social media sites are about anyway, especially in beta: tribalism.
- Prokofy Neva
I don't understand this elite, access only stuff in the context of social media. The idea of social media is that you build your knowledge by leveraging different perspectives and views that you would not have had otherwise. This access only tribe has the whiff of inbreeding and group think that quickly turns out stale ideas. I'm not looking for 'yes man media'
- AJ Kohn
It's the misguided reaction from the big names who billed social media as the next great thing, but now realize they don't want to deal with the unwashed masses who bought into it as well. It's funny how ineffective these attempts to make it elite access are, though: Calacanis's private one-on-one 2775 member email list, now Godin's elite tribe that only requires you to pre-order a book that's less than $20. Let them "privatize" themselves into irrelevance.
- Mark Trapp
Me think Seth was one of the "out" kids growing up, now he wants to be the "in" kid! lmao Poor Seth must have got picked on in Junior High School.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I'm going to sign up. Why would I crap on something ahead of time?
- Chris Brogan
I read the description on Amazon and it seemed the blog post is in sync what the book is about.
- Jonathan Kong
+1 todd. the last time anyone pulled crap like this it was Tom Sawyer. "Nahhh, only members of the Exclusive Club can whitewash this fence, sorry. If you fork over $14 in advance, I might see if I can get you one of the few remaining slots left." Chris, it's not crapping on something ahead of time, so much as refusing to pay in advance for something of unknown value.
- Karim
BTW I'd like to announce my new Sucker of the Month Club. There are only a few remaining memberships available, and they're going fast. The sooner you sign up, the better -- lower membership numbers get bragging rights and dibs on whatever crap I decide to throw to members. Act now, quantities are limited!
- Karim
The times they are a-changing' and I'm changing with them...
- Ricardo Rabago
Flickr Find: Clean the Grill With an Onion? - http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitc...
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This is really a problem. How great content gets paid for on $1 CPMs is just beyond me. Especially in the video space (video is many times more expensive to create than a blog is).
- Robert Scoble
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I must the old AudioGalaxy. Not just the free aspect, although that was sweet, but the recommendations system was terrific.
- James Joyner
Subscribe to our show, Aural Sex and chexk out the reviews section of the site wihich points to some cool free music sites.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
Great find! Personally, I Google "(track name) mp3 download"
- Brent Newhall
Arrrrggggh, me hearties.
- Cheryl Allin
from NoiseRiver
music blogs
- Cee Bee
Mostly last.fm
- João Almeida
from twhirl
Lately, songbird hypemachine - via StumbleRead
- Adam Loving
Pandora & salon's song-a-day, friends, radio
- anna sauce
a mixture of Last.FM and Pandora, so basically lately I've been using http://pandorafm.real-ity.com/
- nick carrasco
last.fm, or http://www.muxtapestumbler.com/
- clarke thomas
Torrents are the only way to go... I use BTJunkie alot.
- Ryan Ellis
from feedalizr
Seriously, I have found a TON of music simply by browsing the 'celebrity playlists' in iTunes. It's weird. Last place I would have thought to look.
- Ryan
there are quite a few online blogs that i use, some protected. last.fm and torrents also.
- DJ Swole
Tinysong.com was very nice. I did find some of my bands on there but, other bands are not available. I guess my music is very obscure. There are some really good resources on the web for the type of music I listen to. You do have to pay for the tracks but it is worth it.
- The Geek Media
I stumped the band the first time out. "Father's Day" sung by Goucho Marx.
- Michael Markman
Live365.com -- think you can stream it on iPhone too... my station is http://live365.com/station... -- you'll find yummy new music there :-D
- Andy Sternberg
from twhirl
I stumped it finding "Waking Will" by Bel Canto. It does have some older Bel Canto stuff but not that one.
- Candace
Photoshop Tutorials L -> R Web 2.0 Badge; Digital Smoke; Web 2.0 Footer - http://www.vimeo.com/godonho...
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Goes straight to the man's Vimeo page. Some pretty cool tutorials on there!
- Mona Nomura
I subscribed his vids. They look interesting
- Outsanity
Love the video tutorials. Subscribed!
- Kalei Weber
Welcome to Drobo 2.0 -- Two Times Faster and Now Offering Firewire Support - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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Ok, well there was supposed to be an 8:35 a.m. embargo on this news but since Engadget's already running the story here's my article on Drobo 2.0. This looks hot!
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, the Drobo 2.0 looks great, but did they mention when we might see a unit with integrated ethernet? That is really what is stopping them from getting my $$$. Nice post.
- Jordan
Jordan haven't heard anything about ethernet.
- Thomas Hawk
When on earth are they gonna add GigE on this and finally make it useful? NAS is far more useful than DAS. :(
- Don MacAskill
the ethernet connection is named droboshare, but on version 1.0, does not have good reviews: http://tinyurl.com/67wq2p
- hector juarez
Thanks for sharing Thomas! I was really hoping they were going to upgrade the DroboShare as well. Seems that the USB connection between the share and the Drobo itself would be a bottleneck (though I am speaking out of ignorance as I don't have one).
- Justin Korn
Can someone explain to me whey you don't need 1:1 drive space for replication? I'm a total ignoramus in this area. Thanks!
- Matt
Matt: Read this about RAID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Justin Korn
Now if only they could make it more affordable for the rest of us.
- cecily
Ok, thanks! So based off that, the Drobo is essentially a RAID 5 array wherein any one disk can fail and data be retained. Thomas said, "four 750GB hard drives in a Drobo gives you effectively 2TB of replicated storage". I assume that calculation is 4 x 750GB = 3TB x 3/4 = 2.25TB. That's pretty cool. Sorry I'm such a RAID moron. I'm one of those guys that's been hoping his hard drives don't fail (until I signed up for Amazon S3 last week).
- Matt
Matt: No worries. I *think* Drobo does something similar to RAID 5, but not exactly since, with the Drobo, you are able to use different size drives. Technically, with RAID 5 you can only use the the same size drives or else the larger drives will not be used to their full capacity.
- Justin Korn
Okay, i understand the need of backup and so I solved a small Math Problem. If one has two hard drives (in my personal case my MBPs hard drive and a WD MyBook, my backup) each with a Million Hours as the MTBF and 3% as the AFR (most claim 1% but CMU says 2 to 4%; so I'm taking 3). These figures give me - assuming a Gaussian Curve for the MTBF - insignificant probability that both the drives will fail simultaneously. Aren't 8 discs (in 2 Drobos) seriously Over-kill? The probability will never be zero anyways
- Parth Awasthi
Parth, yes, it's probably pretty likely that 8 drives in 2 drobos won't fail. But don't forget about the probability of things like getting robbed or having your house burn down. By keeping one drobo at your home and another offsite somewhere you seriously diminish risk by theft, fire, natural disaster, etc.
- Thomas Hawk
@ Parth: Thomas is a Photographer. Each one of those thousands of images are unique - will never happen again quite simply becuase we can't travel back in time. In a word, they are priceless. Is 8 drives overkill, probably. Piece of mind? Priceless. (with thanks to Mastercard for the phrasing :) )
- Roberto Bonini
Thomas: I Understand completely the reason for distributing them in two places. my point of over kill was 8 drives; probabilistically speaking, we are good with two drives over two physical locations. Again, just a thought; by no means questioning your backup suggestion. Roberto: Agreed, peace of mind over all else; I understand the value of each of those brilliant shots of his, totally agree that it is only natural to desire as many measures as possible for safety.
- Parth Awasthi
I'm getting one also.
- Alexandru Savu
Vaguely annoyed because I bought a Drobo the day before this came out. Annoyed that the sales rep hasn't managed to get back to me in two days, but I understand. Would be extremely annoyed if I couldn't return my still-unopened Drobo 1.0, since it was still in the mail when they came out with the new one.
- Ryan Brenizer
Still no XP64 support
- ThePicMan
RAID helps improve reliability but does not address recoverability should one entire Drobo fail. That's how I usually make the distinction to people.
- Jauder Ho
@Thomas, with you storing your photos in RAW, how full is your Drobo? How many are you going to need for a million images?
- Bryan Clark
Taxas de juro dos empréstimos à habitação: consumidores podem receber quantias cobradas indevidamente - http://dadospessoais.net/info...
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A group Is its Own Worst Enemy: http://shirky.com/writing...
- Armando Alves
Has the revolution in stock photography happened yet? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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I wrote this guest post for Armando Alves, on my views on stock photography for the semi-pro photographer.
- Pedro Pinheiro
Thanks Pedro !
- Armando Alves
PTBlogs.org: entrevista com Benjamin Junior - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The Pope is on qik - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Damn, Qik is gonna get slow. The Pope? Freaking A.
- Robert Scoble
Tim: do you have any idea how popular the Pope is around the world? Huge.
- Robert Scoble
It will be the most seen Qik channel soon. I'm not sure If it makes me laugh or not. :)
- Markingegno - Donato
from twhirl
That's seriously insane... i see your indiana jones and raise you a pope lol. im excited to finally try out qik with the iphone. it's not available at launch right?
- Frankie Warren
Microsoft Pro Photo Summit http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
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sitting next to Scoble at the Pro Photo Summit. First row :) Scoble's broadcasting the conference live.
- Thomas Hawk
When is he gonna talk about photography?
- Andrew Smith
So, what is the agenda for the summit?
- Jorg Jansen
Jorg: Talk about digital photography.
- Robert Scoble
Why does someone need to bang away on their keyboard when this is being recorded?
- paul mooney
Thanks for broadcasting this.
- Jordan Hofker
my god, will he ever get to the point?
- David Silvernail
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