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Flickchart - A social network centered around a unique method of determining each user’s own prioritized list of favorite movies. http://www.flickchart.com/Splash...
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1. Users also feel empowered by having their lists contribute to the site's collective list of the “Greatest Movies of All Time”, and receive targeted recommendations based on the acquired data from all users.
- Flickchart
2. Website, newspaper, and magazine critics offer excellent insight into the qualities of movies. The problem is that they are all rating movies individually with some sort of point value – using stars, a 1-to-10 scale, or percentages. When these ratings are combined to create the “Greatest Movies of All Time” lists, they always seem to come up short of where we think they could be, and are inherently limited in their ability to furnish a final, authoritative, and holistic list of a user’s favorite movies.
- Flickchart
3. Flickchart provides a superior strategy for rating movies by taking any two films, presenting them to the user visually, and asking them "Which is better?". By always using this direct comparison, we are able to efficiently calculate the best-liked movies by our user base and combine their choices into a site-wide list that accurately judges what the “Greatest Movies of All Time” really are. This process, aside from being more accurate, is inherently a lot more fun.
- Flickchart
4. While ranking, the users will be presented with far more movies than they would ever take the time to look up on other movie sites, and in so doing we help them effortlessly become explorers of new films and genres. As they encounter movies they haven’t seen, we note those for them and compare them to our site-wide aggregated rankings (calculated via an algorithm we’ve developed), to provide crowdsourced recommendations that are specifically tailored to find the best movies our users have never seen.
- Flickchart
5. Flickchart is currently self-funded, designed, and developed by Jeremy Thompson (http://friendfeed.com/prophasi) and Nathan Chase (http://friendfeed.com/nathanc...), who are both web developers in Orlando, Florida. Nathan designs and implements the layout and complete user experience of Flickchart, while Jeremy develops the programming logic and data algorithms that power the site.
- Flickchart
I am eager to find a good movie recommendation engine. Are you the one that will work?
- Charbax
6. Robert, you have a private beta invitation in your inbox.
- Flickchart
Can I import my IMDB ratings and other such movie ratings sites into flickchart, easily rate a whole bunch of other movies and have you output a perfect list of recommendations personlized for my taste in films?
- Charbax
@Charbax - Importing of external ratings (IMDB, Netflix,Yahoo, etc.) is certainly something we plan to implement. In addition, we also plan to offer ways for you to parse and retrieve your data, via an API.
- Flickchart
7. There's a Flickchart group here on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/flickch...
- Flickchart
8. You can also become a fan of Flickchart on Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/profile...
- Flickchart
9. User support, ideas, and questions for Flickchart are at: http://getsatisfaction.com/flickch...
- Flickchart
10. News & updates on Flickchart, straight from the dev team, are available on Twitter: http://twitter.com/flickchart
- Flickchart
11. Blog posts from the co-founders - including movie reviews, film-related stories, and articles about Flickchart and its creation - are at: http://blog.flickchart.com
- Flickchart
I just received my invite. I could not remember the details so I came here to a preview before accepting my invite.
- Russellreno
Just got my invite too. And I'm loving it! Already shot off 3 invites to other friends. It's such a simple & great idea. Though I've yet to see their "replay value" so to speak. Why would I want to keep going back after I've rated a few hundred/thousand movies? I'll know what counts to me, and I'll probably get tired of clicking the same stuff over and over anyway. Should be interesting to see what Flickchart does to retain members.
- Tyler Hayes
12. Louis Gray has been kind enough to do a write up on us at his blog: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Flickchart
13. We just pushed a new build that includes FriendFeed integration - Flickchart users can post their favorite matchups directly to Friendfeed from within our site. They can share the posters of the matchup, and a link directly to that matchup on Flickchart for others to rank right away. http://friendfeed.com/flickch...
- Flickchart
sweet guys - let me know when you want that intro we discussed
- mike "glemak" dunn
14. After interviewing on the most recent FFundercats podcast, we launched a full discussions and commenting system on every Flickchart matchup - along with details and statistics of every movie - all accessible without leaving the homepage. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more details.
- Nathan Chase
15. We've been recently featured on Cinematical (http://www.cinematical.com/2009...), Lifehacker (http://lifehacker.com/5272858...), Ain't It Cool News (http://www.aintitcool.com/node...), and Film School Rejects (http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/feature...)
- Flickchart
16. More recent press includes: our mention at #5 of Mashable's "Top 10 Great Social Sites for Movie Lovers" (http://mashable.com/2009...) , Variety's Anne Thompson, film industry blogger, talks about box office inflation & the addictiveness of Flickchart...
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- Flickchart
17. On 09/09/09, we launched out of beta, with over 25,000 users. We were also featured in two local news outlets in Central Florida, the Orlando Sentinel (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busines...) and the Orlando Weekly (http://orlandoweekly.com/film...) covering our launch.
- Flickchart
Just announced that @stevegillmor 's "Gang" will be aired at http://www.building43.com/realtim... Thursdays at 1 pm via http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
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recordings?
- Panayotis Vryonis
meh
- Mattb4rd
It looks like with this announcement, Michael Arrington is now back on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/michael...
- Jesse Stay
During the workday?
- Jeff Harbert
Robert, could you please explain the hard- and software-setup using for the live-stream?
- HansVanRock
Hans: We haven't announced the hardware and software we are using to stream the Gang yet, but for starters it's powered by NewTek Tricaster.
- Steve Gillmor
Looking forward to this, and would like to hear about the tech too
- Kevin Marks
from Android
I'll be asleep on the other side of the world. Let us know when you get the RSS feed up, Steve :)
- Edward Coffey
Plans on a downloadable file? I don't think the boss would appreciate me walking around the store with headphones on. :-)
- Larry Walker
Clicking the embedded viewer works at any hour in any part of the planet.
- Steve Gillmor
Very cool. Thanks Steve.
- Larry Walker
Let us know when the bootleg mp3 download gets posted on Friendfeed
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
RSS please unfollow.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Cool, so I just need to write a script to click that link and record the stream so the file is waiting for me when I sync my MP3 player. Modern technology makes it so much easier than when we had to use clunky old VCRs to record things!
- Edward Coffey
you'll be able to download the MP4 as soon as Google fixes a bug they're working on.
- Steve Gillmor
Excellent, thanks Steve. (which bug?)
- Edward Coffey
Bad Hair Day uses RSS. http://badhair.us/rss.xml
- Dave Winer
. @edwardc I am sure the mp3 will be available on the gilmor gang bootleg feed
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
if everyone insists on bootlegging, then won't worry about Google fixing the bug
- Steve Gillmor
no bootlegger me....just need something that will play on my iphone after the fact. :)
- Karoli
No bootlegging here either, just need something to show up in iTunes (automatically) with the rest of the podcasts.
- PXLated
sounds like you will have at least a few options. I'm not planning to release audio only, so you'll need to either get a blindfold or go bottleg
- Steve Gillmor
well, we'll give it a try, see how it rolls.
- Karoli
Will there be official 'Gillmor Gang' blindfolds available in the Building 43 gift shop?
- Cliff Gerrish
No audio only - Booo!
- PXLated
Wait - logo'ed blindfolds at $15/pop is intriguing to m :)
- Rob La Gesse
Building 43 GG blindfolds $30
- Steve Gillmor
oh I see Cliff already got there
- Steve Gillmor
I'll take 2. it's a bargain these days. :)
- Karoli
It's not quite RSS, but it feels the same...
- Cliff Gerrish
Option earplug accessories for just 19.95 (plus separate shipping and handling)
- Rob La Gesse
John Lennon wore our Firesign Theatre Not Insane button.
- Steve Gillmor
Bravos, good to have the show back after your holiday. @stevegillmor are you inviting Leo to play along?
- Dave Martin
Curious Steve - Why no audio only? - Seems simple enough to do.
- PXLated
Close your eyes - even easier :)
- Rob La Gesse
If its video that is released, its video I will take!
- Phillip Molly Malone
Can I get a pair of "driver"-style GG blindfolds, please?
- Robert J Taylor
from iPhone
Attention wise, video is much more expensive than audio. I don't have the money to devote an hour of my eyes and ears to the gill or gang at this time.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Christian, I think what they're saying is that you can put the MP4 on your playback device and listen to it and ignore the video component. I know that works on iPods and iPhones.
- Dave Winer
Dave, you are as unproductive as you've ever been. What I've said is that RSS is in the process of being disrupted by micromessaging, and no amount of name calling is going to change that. Your attempts to reinvent RSS will not get traction if you continue to slime the messenger. And having this discussion here underlines how partisan your attacks are.
- Steve Gillmor
The message above is out of context because Dave Winer deleted the message to which I am responding. I thought about saving his message and reprinting it below where only the owner of this thread could remove it, but figured it wasn't worth it. This is also why I never respond to anything in a thread Dave owns unless I don't care if it gets erased or the context removed.
- Steve Gillmor
Where's the Winer Watcher when you need it?
- Matthew Gifford
mmm, popcorn!
- Laura Norvig
The iPhone has a bug that will not allow you to download over the air for consuming later mp3s or mp4s unless they are an enclosure to an RSS feed.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
once Google fixes their bug (Wednesday) you should be able to download via RSS.
- Steve Gillmor
Steve, the msg you're referring to was here just a few seconds, I realized it'd provoke the kind of response it has, and decided I didn't want to go there. Re being unproductive, I've had a cold this week and have been unable to do dev work, but I'm feeling better and expect to releas some new software this week. Don't expect TC to cover it, as usual. Finally Steve as you know the <cloud> element has been in RSS for eight years, hardly a retrofit.
- Dave Winer
So did google fix their bug yesterday? Any idea what the Gillmor Gang RSS feed is?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
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[blog post] Yammer: This thing is a prize winner?: Like more than a few people (as far as I ca.. http://www.mathewingram.com/work...
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Hawking makes $100 bet that the LHC won't find Higgs - http://blog.ted.com/2008...
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Just $100 ... wimp
- Deepak Singh
What Deepak said. If you're not going to make a strong prediction, why bother with a bet?
- Bill Hooker
Given that the bet that they will find it was some billions of dollars...
- Cameron Neylon
Liking Cameron's comment :P
- Shirley Wu
I think you'll probably find it was £100 not $100. Hang on, since the LHC is on the franco-swiss border maybe it was €100 or 100 CHF? Yours pedantically...
- Duncan Hull
Or maybe, since he's thinking about moving to Canada, it was Canadian dollars :)
- Deepak Singh
Is it on ? we are not dead yet ?! :)
- Pedro Beltrao
Pedro, are you sure. Perhaps we are communicating in the afterlife
- Deepak Singh
@Pedro (paraphrasing Cameron Neylon) don't worry, the only thing that has disappeared is €6.4 billion! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- Duncan Hull
I wonder how much biomedical science you could do for €6.4 billion?
- Duncan Hull
Well according to the website the NIH annual budget is $28 billion but I am not sure how much of that goes into grants.
- Pedro Beltrao
€6.4 billion on a single project though? $28 billion NIH budget gets cut up into lots of much smaller pieces...
- Duncan Hull
It's worth it, IMO. The US backed away from their collider, which IMO is a general trend in the sciences here. If you can recreate dark matter, and even ephemeral black holes, will be completely worth it
- Deepak Singh
Well, 6.4 Billion may be a big thing now. But the way it is going to shape the world few decades from now will make every penny worth.
- Krishnan Subramanian
Mozilla: The browser as operating system - http://www.mathewingram.com/work...
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road - http://www.wired.com/cars...
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"Agassi unveiled the outline of his vision for the crowd at the Saban event: a new kind of infrastructure, with ubiquitous charge stations, that was not only simple and logical but potentially profitable, too. As he talked, he read the body language of the audience—they were leaning forward, they were nodding—and he fed off it, layering on details. A country like Israel, he told them,...
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- Marcos Marado
" When I ask Shai if he's worried about a competitor stealing his idea, he stares at me like I'm an idiot. "The mission is to end oil," he says, "not create a company." "
- Marcos Marado
"Once Agassi had $200 million to fund the grid and a government serious about tax breaks, Renault began developing an electric car that would be ready for the market by 2011. Agassi promises that 50 Renault prototypes will be on Israeli roads this winter—and 1,000 stations will be there to recharge them. He's not talking about some three-wheeled, pimped-out golf carts, either, but blend-in-at-the-school-parking-lot cars and SUVs."
- Marcos Marado
"The initial deal with Israel was, thanks to Agassi's connections, practically foreordained. The real test would be signing up a second country—a "validator," to use Agassi's term. In March, he got one. Denmark is everything Israel is not: a cold climate (which is hard on batteries), a net exporter of oil, a nation friendly with its neighbors. Agassi had no ties to the government. But he had a business model that proved irresistible to a Danish company called DONG Energy."
- Marcos Marado
Where does the electricity come from?
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew - buried in the article is the following snippet: "The governor's people wanted to know why this wasn't just shifting the environmental burden to the electric utility. Agassi said he'd pay a premium to buy energy made only from renewable sources, making it cost-effective for the utility to put in wind farms or solar-powered plants"
- Jeff Smith
the meme that sticks with me is that the OS in the car detect that you are not going to make it to your destination on the current charge - and books you into a nearby 'service station' where they replace the battery with a fully charged one. genius!
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Have to say, this was one of the best Wired articles I've read in a while. Really enjoyed it and hope Shai succeeds. Trying to enter USA via Hawaii is a damn fine idea.
- Anthony Baker
You can’t get there from here - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008...
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I didn't catch the implications of a dedicated Track on identi.ca, Steve. But I don't think Evan would do anything to damage the community. Track across federated servers is key. I wouldn't be interested in using laconi.ca if I were creating yet another silo.
- Leo Laporte
I wouldn't think otherwise but want to be clear that we need to keep XMPP open to foster development on this platform. Very glad you're in the game.
- Steve Gillmor
Welcome, Leo!
- Jesse Stay
Connectedness: Teaching executives to see social capital, by Ron Burt and Don Ronchi - http://connectedness.blogspot.com/2006...
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Pipes: FriendFeed Services - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes...
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Charles River Ventures - The CRV QuickStart Seed Funding Program - http://www.crv.com/quickstart
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"CRV has created an innovative program to eliminate these issues and help entrepreneurs get up and running quickly - the CRV QuickStart Seed Funding Program. CRV QuickStart explores opportunities in the communications & technology, software & services, and new media sectors. CRV QuickStart provides select entrepreneurs with a loan to fund the work needed to build out your idea, enabling you to explore its potential in its earliest stage before you raise a round of formal equity financing. By offering up to $250,000 in the form of a loan (also referred to as a "convertible note"), we're providing the capital to fuel ideas without that painful seed-stage dilution." Susan sez: Anyone have thoughts about this program? Works? Not? How many companies have they taken and how have those cos performed?
- susan mernit
Pointless Games - a knol by Bernie DeKoven - http://knol.google.com/k...
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Weird. I bookmarked this weeks ago. Don't know why it's showing up now. Still interesting as an example of a knol.
- Michael Nielsen
Well, they did relaunch the entire delicious website.
- Richard Akerman
[Wired]: Start Data Plumbing With Yahoo Pipes - http://x.techwheat.com/1KK
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"Yahoo Pipes is an online solution to manipulating data sources without having to resort to coding. Want to create a mashup of our Webmonkey RSS feed and remove any articles about "Google?" Pipes can do it and deliver it in a data source you can import into an application or your latest programming project. "
- tech.newsjunk.com
Finally something new built with FriendFeed API: StumbleRead, http://www.stumbleread.com/ displays your FriendFeed(s) like RSS reader.
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and I see Duncan already wrote about it: http://www.inquisitr.com/2019...
- Orli Yakuel
OK, I officially like it!
- Orli Yakuel
comsi comsa, the left panel is hard to read, still prefer the primitive ctrl+click and a new tab
- Naor Mark
This is a nice one
- Rutger Blom
this is great!
- Kerem Ozkan
Orli, very cool service + idea
- Duncan Riley
Yep, making friendfeed much more usable. I'm tired of managing hunderds of tabs =)
- Hakan Deryal
from StumbleRead
what is "Recent Readers" on the main page? does that regard stumbleread site?
- Majento
It's cute, but not sure if I like it yet.
- Mitchell Tsai
Well, still lacks some functions like " hide ", but worth to try
- Hakan Deryal
from StumbleRead
This is fantastic ... very handy ...
- Todd Loren Sinclair
@majento - yes "Recent Readers" are the most recent people to use StumbleRead
- Adam Loving
@hderyal - hide coming soon!
- Adam Loving
Why the world needs quantum mechanics - http://michaelnielsen.org/blog...
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This essay explains why we're forced to reject the conventional picture of the world, and instead adopt quantum mechanics. It's not technical, and I hope can be understood by the general public.
- Michael Nielsen
Some Thoughts on Standards and Dare Obasanjo - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Hasbro's Nightmare: Scrabulous Returns With New Name And (A Few) New Rules - http://techdirt.com/article...
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R. S. Burt: Structural Holes and Good Ideas - http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...
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Burt is a sociologist who has written many articles (and at least one influential book) on the importance of people who acts as "brokers" connecting different networks.
- Michael Nielsen
Interesting to read in conjunction with Cameron Neylon's post: http://blog.openwetware.org/science...
- Michael Nielsen
The Network Thinker: Single Point of Failure - http://www.thenetworkthinker.com/2008...
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The difference between an org chart and the real lines of communication in an organization. This difference can mean catastrophic errors are introduced during restructuring. (C.f. Conway's Law.)
- Michael Nielsen
I don't grok the reference to Conway's law. Elucidate?
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
A famous old paper by Mel Conway: http://www.melconway.com/researc... It studies the relationship between the structure of a design group, and the product they design. Not surprisingly, the communication structure in the design group is reflected in the product. This is an obvious fact, but has many surprising implications (see article). It also helps explain why small teams are often better - as one's understanding of the problem changes, the team can be more easily restructured.
- Michael Nielsen
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - http://ycombinator.com/ideas...
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"So we're trying something new: we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn't anticipate."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Good ideas, mostly. Of course, as always, the devil is in the details (and to some extent, I think that's the point).
- Paul Buchheit
interesting list, surprised to see photo/video sharing sites on there.
- Adam Kazwell
From pg's comment "Most people who read that one [search engine that concentrates on design] will think "huh?" But if someone reads it and thinks "Damn, how did he hear about what we're working on?" that's someone we'd really love to hear from."
- seman
"More open alternatives to Wikipedia." Wonder whatever happened to Google Knol...
- Philipp Lenssen
They should start FF rooms for each of these. I'd contribute to a few.
- Amir Gharaat
I think most of these are *great* ideas. This post isn't food for thought, it's a banquet :-)
- Karim
Seems a little like bait? Some of the ideas are excellent reading and should be interesting to a few thinking about 'what they can do better'. Some of the other mentions (and wording in particular) leads me to wonder why go public with the list.
- Charlie Anzman
Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it. --- :-)
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Jesus, this single page has more original content and ideas than the last 1000 ff and blog posts I read. Inspiring.
- John Murray
AWESOME idea, thanks for sharing Paul... this is going to be fun to watch!
- Susan Beebe
Haha i posted thast too. Although Paul is most more visible on FF, of course.
- Akshay Dodeja
Very interesting, especially #4
- Scott Schnaars
did any of the y combinator startup go big ? perhaps an ignorant question... a couple of them i know of are scribd.com, and a search engine for mechanical parts.. forgot the name.
- Krishna Gade
We're working on #3.
- Ryan Kuder
search engine for mechanical parts: http://octopart.com ?
- Peter Stuifzand
Interesting: "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. ... What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. " How does TV advertising treat its audience better than web advertising?
- Constantinos Michael
TV advertising is generally more entertaining than web advertising.
- Ajay Kapal
@ Peter yeah... I was talking about octopart thanks for the link.
- Krishna Gade
@ Ryan, what is it ? do you have something outside to try ?
- Krishna Gade
would have liked to see this idea for an iPhone App Builder make Paul's list....seems much for YC-esque: http://joelaz.com/post...
- Adam Kazwell
@ Ryan Kuder, I've been looking into #3 for a while, I'd love to chat if your in the bay area
- Kris
I definitely vote for better email, or better say, better communication tool.
- Jan Horna
What I'm interested in are #5, 6, and 7. :)
- imabonehead
Sorry to say... The "Y Combinator" team is a little ...ahem... short on business expertise.
- Mitchell Tsai
re 13, I wonder if the ESP-game trick can be spun out into an entire educational system.
- j1m
Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails - http://michaelnielsen.org/blog...
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Adapted from my draft book on the future of science. This is from the chapter on new tools for creative collaboration. Comments would be most welcome!
- Michael Nielsen
Very interesting post. Do you also discuss positive examples of science social software that obey to Shirky’s Law? Connotea or CiteULike? FriendFeed?
- Martin Fenner
FriendFeed comes close to obeying Shirky's Law - it's a simple, striking idea, but maybe a little feature heavy. It's not entirely clear everyone has the same way of using FriendFeed. I've only fooled around with Connotea and CiteULike, and couldn't comment for sure. Social bookmarking services have the advantage that they are primarily useful for the individual user, and so their success depends less on having a simple shared mental model.
- Michael Nielsen
another great post MIke! The simple feature I tell people why FriendFeed is so great is the "like" button - the other details come later
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Thansk Jean-Claude! Yeah, the "like" button is definitely a brilliant little innovation.
- Michael Nielsen
Eva - I guess it depends on what you use FriendFeed for. I love being able to follow a lot of information from other people, particularly the best-of-day and best-of-week features. So I'd find it useful no matter what.
- Michael Nielsen
Hmm, I think you might want to rework this: 'The site is Nature Network, one of the dozens of social networking sites aspiring to be “Facebook for scientists”.' While *I* certainly have described it like that for ease of conveying the idea (and may in fact be guilty of being one of the first to do so), I don't think *they* describe it that way. If you listen to what Timo says, it goes...
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- Richard Akerman
That's a nice catch, Richard. Yes, I need to reword that. My apologies to any Nature Network people.
- Michael Nielsen
@Eva In terms of FriendFeed and other social software, timing and experience are everything. It is really really hard to solve problems for people that they don't yet know they have (trust me, I've tried). So you need a certain critical mass of web stuff and associated problems before FF makes sense. As well, lots of people use Flickr not because of the social aspect, but because it's the only photo sharing site they've ever heard of. I've talked to lots of people who think Flickr's innovation was...
- Richard Akerman
... who think Flickr's innovation was *inventing* photo sharing. (for more along this line of thought see http://scilib.typepad.com/science... ) Plus which "success" is a bit ill-defined. Flickr has huge buzz within a certain community, but Yahoo Photos, with no social glitz, had more photos in it, and I'm pretty sure Photobucket, also without web 2.0 glitter, has way more photos than Flickr.
- Richard Akerman
I didn't realize that all the commenting was going on over here on FriendFeed rather than in blog comments! Anyway, re: Richard, I'd say that Photobucket is targeting something quite different than Flickr, though. Photobucket tends to be "drop and forget" without the same kind of commenting and social sharing. In many ways, what I've seen out of Photobucket is a kind of "dumb host" that does a good job of simply putting your files online.
- Christopher Granade
Christopher - it's two different (but overlapping) communities of commenters. Some people dislike this, but personally I like it - it's like getting to chat with two groups of people. I find the FF comments tend to be fast and short, while the blog comments are slower, but often lengthier. I enjoy and learn from both.
- Michael Nielsen
I'm guessing that the fast and short has to do with the character limit that FriendFeed places as well as the lack of a newline. Interesting how placing restrictions like those can make a service more useful by changing the dynamic. I think I'm starting to understand the 140 character limit on Twitter and identi.ca.
- Christopher Granade
Incidentally, Christopher, I really liked your comment on the blog. But I don't have much to add to it beyond "I agree". The funny thing is, I'm a little uncomfortable writing "I agree" in my own comments, but I have no hesitation on FriendFeed! Yes, the character limit is brilliant - it legitimizes fast comments, and a rapid back and forth.
- Michael Nielsen
I'm glad that you liked what I had to say. If it means anything, I like your book on quantum computation, and have been studying it for the past 15 months (on and off, with classes in the way). It's been really helpful for an undergrad trying to learn a bit about the field.
- Christopher Granade
I thought "Shirky's Law" had something to do with social networks being describable in terms of power law distributions? (an observation that was not originally Shirky's, but...)
- Karim
Karim - shortly after writing the post, I got curious and Googled the term. I saw that Hugh McLeod has a blog post that does, indeed, point to Shirky's discussion of power laws.
- Michael Nielsen
The McLeod article is at http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveabl...
- Michael Nielsen
Microsoft: Still unclear on the concept - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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Leopard savaging a crocodile caught on camera - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth...
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"A series of incredible pictures taken at a South African game reserve document the first known time that a leopard has taken on and defeated one of the fearsome reptiles."
- edythe
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WOW! that's amazing...I've never heard of a big cat taking on a croc!
- Susan Beebe
Whoa...kinda like the question we had as kids, "who would win in a fight, Superman or Batman?" Leopard got this one.
- Hutch Carpenter
Quote from the article: "It just doesn't make sense. The meat you get out of a crocodile is just not worth the risk it takes a predator to acquire." LOL Ok, *you* tell that to the leopard. Clearly, this leopard has not been on the interwebs and keeping up-to-date on prey meat quality risk-to-reward ratios. I'll be rolling up the windows on the Range Rover. :-D
- Karim
Two of my favorite animals.
- James
poor hunting, Croc does not make a nice meal
- Duncan Riley
Reminds me of a great quote from the early days of the Web, when the heat was between an upstart Netscape and a (then) predatory, monopolist Microsoft. The press quote, attributed to Marc Andreessen (but clearly originating from Jim Barksdale) was: "In a battle between the bear and the crocodile, victory is determined by on whose turf the fight is waged" or something like that.
- John McCrea
Maybe it was not a hunt for the meal, but a precautionary kill. Leopard's morning strolls are 1 croc safer now.
- Roland Hesz
This looks like a revenge killing. Just as odd, if not more so, I know. Yet, that's what I see. Maybe it was a territorial thing. I would also expect, once you find yourself a leopard in a fight with a croc, you better go to the death because he will.
- Michael W. May
Video or it didn't happen
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Yeah MWM I agree. This is one of those things that if you (the leopard) start, you'd better finish, and fast.
- Anthony Citrano
=O
- Mona Nomura
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I think the croc is attacking the leopard with his back.
- Barak B
You plan your day around, and mentally prepare for hippo activities AND THEN THIS HAPPENS! Sheesh.
- Micah Wittman
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Barak: you reminded me of the Woody Allen line from Play It Again, Sam: "I snapped my chin onto a guy's fist, and then hit another guy in the knee with my nose."
- Anthony Citrano
@Barak..LMFAO!!! That comment gave this pic a whole new meaning for me
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
great photos! that leopard must've been hungry
- Cee Bee
Big cats are territorial by nature- the croc might have invaded its space.
- Peter Dawson
25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time - http://www.sawse.com/2007...
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This is my favourite!
- John Samuelson
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(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...
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Impostor - http://xkcd.com/451/
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I have a job offer at a startup, am I getting a good deal? Part 1. - http://venturehacks.com/article...
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The Now Web--and the acquisition of Summize - http://www.susanmernit.com/blog...
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Re: Umair: It’s user-generated “context” - http://www.mathewingram.com/work...
Richard Shulman liked this
"Good point, Antje. I don't think Umair is saying that there is no user-generated content at all -- although I like your idea that if you generate content, then by definition you're not a user. In any case, I think he's saying that the majority of what people are thinking about as user-generated content is less content and more context around content created by someone else."
- mathew ingram
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