Just cut to the chase. When you meet a pretty lady, just buy her a car on the spot and skip all the whining.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
I love how research dollars are being spent to confirm things everyone already knows. Next up: New Study Confirms Scientists Crave Validaton... Aren't there diseases to cure and stuff?
- Shannon Paul
from FreshFeed
Well, that explains a lot ... I married one 46 years ago! Now I have a comeback!!
- Don Smith
Bah! I knew it all along. I can't talk in the presence of an attractive woman.
- Faraz Mullick
If you're banking on Google to recover your car after a grand thief auto, you might want to try other resources. Bing?
- Micah Wittman
Me and my family just picked ourselves up off the floor and dried our eyes after ROFL'ing profusely at this...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL! <sarcasm>I am going to go talk to the Race Czar's about this immediately!</sarcasm>
- EricaJoy
if you search for "blakc peolpestole my car" you can see the same result.. just change for the correct one and take a print screen... hahaha this is hell funny
- Rafael
huh...I tried both and neither gave a 'did you mean....' Why the difference?
- George Gray
George, this was from earlier. I think it's probably been fixed by now.
- Thomas Hawk
I can't reproduce the results either. Even more proof that Google's damage control department works real f-a-s-t
- BLOGBloke
I can reproduce these results (as it's fake). 1 - Do a google search for 'balck people stole my car' 2 - when the results come back, in the search box type 'white people stole my car'. 3 - Screenshot and fool everyone.
- Will Higgins™
Thomas...ah...I was catching up on my feed and didn't notice when the message posted. Still, I have noticed different results when using Google from: the browser search bar, going right to google.com and when logged into google via iGoogle. Weird.
- George Gray
Dude, you win 1000 times over for use of the word 'colored'. I'm about as far from a racist as you can get but that shit cracks me up every time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
i think that google isnt racist, but people that use it yes..infact google shows firstly the most popular results.....this is my opinion..and please apologize me formy english..i'm italian!w La pizza!
- Lyssa
they did it as the Chinese government did.
- xiawinter
Although an Apple Fanboy, I've betrayed Apple's iTunes. I've been exclusively buying music from Amazon MP3 for about a year and half. Amazon's had a better bitrate (although both 256kbps now) and it's an MP3 (not AAC like iTunes). Anyone else doing the same?
For what it's worth a 256k AAC file has a lot more fidelity than a 256k MP4.
- Sparky
Well it sounds cool on my Sony X-Series
- outofmyarse
Lala.com, Amazon, Amie Street & Napster on this end
- LANjackal
Yep, even with all my iTunes gift cards, I still buy more from Amazon MP3. Their deals have always been better and I don't have to pay extra to upgrade to a DRM-free higher quality track.
- Cloud
Yeah - I only buy through amazon as well.
- Chrimmus Tad
I never use iTunes. I've been using Amazon MP3 from the beginning...love it.
- Bonnie Foster
Usually torrent music, but I bought a rare Simpsons album at Amazon.
- Raphael, Raphael
If there's no difference in price, I stick with iTunes.
- ronin
I buy most of my MP3s through LaLa now. In general its cheaper than the other places and its convenient since I'm streaming from there already.
- Neil
I have never bought from iTunes because of aac. I don't buy much music online but when I do it has been from Amazon. Their download manager has great Linix support.
- Vaughn
from BuddyFeed
I check Amazon every month. They also have several hundred MP3s available for FREE.
- Bill Sodeman
I go back & forth, but I prefer Amazon for your same reasons.
- Neil
from iPod
Nope. I only buy from iTunes and I like their AAC files.
- Peter
from iPhone
I've definitely been doing the same. I especially like the fact that Amazon offers the option to download the Mp3 independently of having to download and install yet another music management program.
- Miss Elle
Yup - if I buy music online, it's Amazon.
- amygeek
Same here. Have been buying music exclusively from Amazon for about a year now.
- Tsega Dinka
not a fan of AAC. plus, my first purchase experience w/iTunes was terrible. I'm all ripped CDs (to FLAC), AmazonMP3, emusic, beatport and direct artist purchases now.
- jbrotherlove
Only when I have amazon affiliate credit, sadly.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
*This* is why FriendFeed will succeed, although I still want it more open.
- Jesse Stay
GG is the best use of all of Leo's resources
- iluvgimp
Hello! One Question: Friendfeed Beta + 1 week. Have you all made the switch? I have a hard time switching from the old interface which I find more conversation centric (and makes me feel less in twitter)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Should be either a scrollable window or be able to reverse the order (newest 1st).
- Stan Augustyniewicz
Does anyone else have a problem viewing Google Calender whilst watching through the BitGravity stream? Always appears behind the video, has done for a while now.
- Daniel Rowley
stan, this is still beta (in the true sense)
- Chris Heath
Robert, I'm glad that you finally decided to switch over to wordpress.org instead of wordpress.com, which did not allow for plug-ins.
- Steven (optionshiftk)
If you click on the timestamp, you'll get an open comment box that stays open at the bottom
- Ken Sheppardson
ken, did you come up with adding the ?embed=1 to the timestamp url to make it nice and clean?
- Chris Heath
Chris: No, Benjamin pointed out that if you're on the item's page, you can click on the timestamp again and you get a little embed/popup
- Ken Sheppardson
ken... add ?embed=1 to that url (i linked it a couple times above) it is a clean page... only the chat
- Chris Heath
So, what twitter are the topics twitter on tonight's twitter gillmor twitter gang?
- Phil Essing
i forget who came up with that though, thought it was you ken
- Chris Heath
Robert: The problem with multiple feeds is just that if you want to concentrate on the event, you can pop into the item view... but you don't see all the other threads.
- Ken Sheppardson
steve, the stickam looks better to me... that seems to be the advantage of going w/ multiple streams... people can choose the best stream for them
- Chris Heath
Love the fact you can wget the bitgravity feed
- Adnan
Ah..welcome to the real world. All idealist who thought Obama is the real deal will have their heart broken. Real world is not run through idealism.
- Rohit Harshvardhan
so does obama admin position make it more possible for a supreme court review?
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
I have a nice microphone and a mixer - does that count?
- Jesse Stay
Nixon said it with his actions, if not with words ;)
- Krikit Media
First, there is NO right to privacy in the Constitution. Second, nobody calling into the US has any Constitutional right to not have that call monitored
- Phil Essing
Third: this wire-tapping is not done in order to gather information for later prosecution. The informatioj is gathered to thwart possible terrorist attacks.
- Phil Essing
Obama ran on talking points, and then, perhaps, grew-up a little once he became privy to the intelligence
- Phil Essing
half the show googling for a "real newspaper"
- Lasse Johnsen
ok everyone, time to put full faith in gov't... they'll never take advantage of you, not even when it has to stay secret. fear bin laden, the all powerful instead
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
i, for one, welcome our old NSA overlords
- Chris Heath
Advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned that the Obama administration is seeking to expand the government’s authority to carry out wiretapping under the auspices of national security.
- Nick Rae
This panel is discussing an issue without knowuing all the facts
- Phil Essing
Phil, exactly. Both candidates were running on talking points. I chose Obama because he was the only one that was going to be able to get anything done.
- Jesse Stay
I dont get it. People who dont trust govt with personal information trust them to be socialist and run the country?
- Rohit Harshvardhan
I do think Obama is finding many things more complex than he thought.
- Francine Hardaway
The real problem here is he ran on the statements that he would absolutely reverse all of this stuff both habeas corpus and this wiretapping.
- Adam Turetzky
the wire tap issue is great conversation, but Google's Latitude will get my butt in more trouble on the home front than wire taps.
- Albert Maruggi
i love that we have a president that we can be proud of, but i do feel that Obama has often spoken his true feelings only to be reeled back in by his seasoned administration.
- Landon
Why would you not use private key encryption and email?
- Chris Jones
The warrantless wire-tapping only pertains to a certain type of call
- Phil Essing
Phil: pundits speaking without all the details? What?!?
- iluvgimp
I don't either but I still don't want to give up my privacy just to prove it
- Chris Jones
If you guys understood what happened on 9/11, you would realise the govt. is deep into the mess.
- bill giltner
Where Obama is really screwed up is in what Marc is talking about now.
- Francine Hardaway
it's all so complicated, and only gov't can understand it. eg the economy. we elected them, so they *have* to be smarter than us, on everything! :)
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
Steve, you don't realise that Obama Admin is not doing what they campaigned on
- bill giltner
It's the age-old american cowboy attitude of revenge and making things right. You need to swallow september 11th and try to make sure it doesn't happen again by not putting your boot where it doesn't belong
- Jackson Pollock
I'm going to go decorate eggs with the kids. I'll be listening...
- Jesse Stay
the world loves Obama because he projects weakness, and everyone hates the big guy. If you think Obama is going to get more cooperation from the spoiled euros, you have drunk the Kool-Aid.
- Phil Essing
BTW, this isn't "TWIT", this is a show on the Twit.tv network. Stop complaining about the lack of tech or the inclusion of politics. Tune out if you don't like it.
- iluvgimp
Donnie that was funny. Link to digg bar sucks using digg bar.
- Landon
Lasse: I will try to get this back to tech shortly. I like that topic.
- Robert Scoble
gillmor gang is by far my favourite podcast
- Jamie
Does Leo take notes on when editing needs to happen (i.e. cursing, long pauses) or does do it as he goes later?
- Eric Geller
Dutch TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden
- Nick Rae
Right. And there IS a connection between tech and Afghanistan, but we're not discussing that either. The question is whether social media and new tools can influence things like Afghanistan or warrantless wiretaps
- Francine Hardaway
I think this is agreat way to bring politics to the tech community
- Mike Gargano
the crunchpad seems nice, but who is going to provied customer support when it breaks? and how are they going to pay to employ those customer support reps?
- Blake
It would be better if you have FriendFeed streaming on your Chumby. :)
- imabonehead
Jonathan Ive and Steve Jobs are tied to the hip. What comes out of Apple isn't limited to Steve's presence. Jonathan and his team are developing the products Apple sell. He was the person who introduced Steve to the "few products, fewer product categories" methodology, and he is still the one who limits it.
- Jackson Pollock
I would like to see the cost of the pad when you add the marketing costs to the entire project.
- Joe Lima
Apple won't enter this marked for a while yet. They always sit tight and see what works, what doesn't. It's the world's biggest marketing survey. They're in no hurry to get into this market. No one company is running away with this product catagory
- Jackson Pollock
I think, marketed well the kindle would do well in the uk. we love a book.
- Mitch Kent
TechCrunch could just OEM the Crunchpad... hmm..
- Ken Sheppardson
The NYTimes also has a Desktop reader that is pretty cool.
- Eric Geller
Who needs an iPhone? Got a G1 and it's fantastic. I can actually run apps in the background.
- Paul Goldsmith
FriendFeed needs usernames before the comments, and it should support messaging within the comments. Therefore, "scobleizer: here's my message" will darken for Robert and stand out so he can see when he's being addressed (like IRC)
- Jesse Stay
The NY Times iPhone app is well done... too bad the paper is a rag
- Phil Essing
psion they first they made the first netbook that came out in 1999
- Donnie Murdock
How much would a non-ad-subsidized subscription to the NYT cost?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: that will get them nowhere. The one thing that stretches across every successful product is product design and usability. OEMs will never make an iPhone.
- Jackson Pollock
Newspapers needs to change their expense structure.
- Joe Lima
I leave it plugged in the USB at office and on charge at home.
- Paul Goldsmith
Eric, in an elementary school library?
- Jesse Stay
And yet the armed services still teach morse code at BMT.
- Chris Jones
We still need some replacement for the long-form article that's well researched, etc.
- Eric Florenzano
I like the way the underpriviledged are running around in horse and buggies, while the afluent drive cars.
- Ken Sheppardson
you don't stifle innovation and progress because a small part of the population refuses, or is unable to keep-up
- Phil Essing
Jesse: No, I'm talking about the real ones. I agree with you.
- Eric Geller
newspapers need to find a way to produce their product cheaper or Robert right they become not economical, no matter how much people like them
- Kim Landwehr
Economies of scale will kick in and papers will die.
- Ken Sheppardson
The newspapers need to give value to the people that is harder for them to find online.
- Lasse Johnsen
things will always be printed. It is far too easy to format a hard drive, wipe a record, etc. Redundency can only do so much, people need records!
- Mitch Kent
It's not quite over, it's in decline. And, newspapers are not dying solely because of the digital alternatives, but because most newspapers are a mix of amateur "journalism" and AP feeds
- Phil Essing
phil every friendfeed entry is like this
- Chris Heath
Apple lets the market define the problem -- and then they come up with a better solution.
- Cliff Gerrish
The problem with the Kindle newspaper subscriptions is that they don't update during the day
- Phil Maxwell
Donnie: there is nothing close to a mac tablet. It is either an Apple product, or nothing close to it. About 1000 people and hundreds of thousands of manhours behind
- Jackson Pollock
cris that is not apples business... apple is a premium business (read: luxury)
- Chris Heath
Chris, Apple is in the business of mainstream premium.
- Jamie
jason, no but where will the next generation of seasoned journos come from?
- Chris Heath
I tend to look for the complicated solution, even if the easy solution is staring at me in the face
- Phil Essing
right jamie - that's what i was saying i guess
- Chris Heath
Click the timestamp once, you get the item page with an open comment box at the bottom that scrolls along. Click the timestamp again, and you get a little right-bar-less pop-up window
- Ken Sheppardson
I really like Monocle.com magazine as a model for print 2.0
- Joe Conyers III
Heath: same place they did before. we're becoming more specialized, don't you think?
- Jason Nelson
This live thread reminds me of a very long night on Rejaw when they started
- Majento
didn't clicking on the timestamp open the convorsation in a pop-up window the other day? it's not doing that now until you click on it for a second time
- Phil Maxwell
Leo: click the timestamp of the FF entry, the stream is easier to follow.
- Lasse Johnsen
I just got told that all my comments here went to Twitter and FB. I forgot about the intensity of this conversation and that FF feeds Twitter for me
- Francine Hardaway
Apple lets the market define the problem -- and then they come up with a better solution. -- Clif
- Ken Sheppardson
jason, i guess so... i just see the next generation of journos being more like bloggers (maybe that's not a bad thing, i don't know)
- Chris Heath
Like youkeep repeating what Cliff said... ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
That's how I feel. I don't have to see everything anymore
- Francine Hardaway
"Apple lets the market define the problem -- and then they come up with a better solution". - Cliff Gerrish
- Chris Heath
cris: if they have to price it at $800, the entire category will not work. Nobody does what Apple does and make it cheaper.
- Jackson Pollock
Heath: perhaps. i just see so much of the paper as someone writing to take up space.
- Jason Nelson
If its important enough, it will be "retweeted" or "liked" enough that you'll see it
- Lasse Johnsen
ken, i didn't notice that you were doing that already... :)
- Chris Heath
I'm *almost* ready to give up Google Reader and the ability to mark things "read", and just rely on the stream to put things back in front of me if they're important.
- Ken Sheppardson
its pull media anyway.. so its in purportion to you're interests
- Matt Searles
me too jason, but there's a lot of that going on with blogs too
- Chris Heath
The present is a form of recursion - statements are repeated, but evolve as the context evolves.
- Cliff Gerrish
Ken, I've 254 subs in Reader, I can't create a feed for each
- Jérôme Flipo
agree with Leo, you just have to realize you are not going to be able to read everything, if important it will come back around
- Kim Landwehr
right so with the brevity of ff and twitter pointing us to good elaborative information it becomes about the quality or authority of the folks sharing the links
- Landon
Twitter's a tool for broadcasting links to actual conversations and content.
- Ken Sheppardson
tweetmeme is how to track all these story links being posted
- Nick Halstead
As an example, my mates and I all read the same web comics. We could rely on 'the stream' for the better comics but someone has to read them first to decide whats good - so where does that leave your reader?
- Mitch Kent
John, shhhhhhh, don't scream, babies are sleeping here :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Andrew just needs to buy a printer and have some app that automatically prints the last five pages of FriendFeed for him each morning.
- Ken Sheppardson
If you actually want print to take with you, you can still print stuff. Sheesh.
- Ken Sheppardson
jokin on mr keene is too easy isn't it?
- Chris Heath
Ken, like the old appliances that just dialed up to get email and print out like a fax machine.
- Micah Wittman
RT @binladen Closer to kabul, islamabad, and nukes at our fingertips. currently bidding on at&t!
- Preternat (Ken Cadby)
I use Feedly for my reader, but if I miss a day I delete those unread article and start again.
- Kim Landwehr
But as soon as you start talking about printing stuff, you get "Oooh... you're wasting TREE"... as you walk down the sidewalk stepping over those free papers nobody reads.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm heading out - I have to take my affinity group on a date. Later!
- Sprague D
I used to wake up every morning, scan the newspaper and read the interesting articles. Now I wake up in the morning, scan the unread items in my feed reader and read the interesting articles.
- Eric Florenzano
Signal on FF is very very powerful, but the noise is huge (try to follow Scoble for tech news, even with complicated filters you can't get rid off his family news, milan's photos, etc.)
- Jérôme Flipo
but you can overwhelm w/ noise - choice noise is the way to go
- Joshua Dale
(I don't want to re-debate the hashtag issue :D)
- Jérôme Flipo
leo get to the bottom and it will stick
- Chris Heath
one of the keys to FF is the use of filters by the users and also for the producer to properly label things.
- Kim Landwehr
i was scrolling on me but then once i got a good roll going it stopped
- Chris Heath
Leo: If you scroll all the way to the bottom, the comment box should anchor itself and you'll just see the comments above it scroll up
- Ken Sheppardson
well yeah, i think it made twitter say to themselves ... wow... we've got all these people chomping at the bit... lets see how long we can keep them at bay
- Chris Heath
The thing that wasnt really working was the landline.
- Lasse Johnsen
Tony: it's easier to tell when someone replies to you in irc though
- Phil Maxwell
and the skypeasaurus lasse... still wasn't fixed on monday
- Chris Heath
Using FF comments - much preferred over a chat widget like on ustream. This is good. Not too fast for me, but when hundreds and thousands join. Hmm. We'll see.
- Micah Wittman
plus micah its all archivable and searchable
- Jamie
My Bitgravity feed keeps buffering and reconnecting. Is that my broadband connection? Ustream and Stickam didn't do that.
- John Klopp
lol yeah might need a slider to adjust speed?
- Jay Neff
Leo: What browser are you using? Need to figure out what's going wrong with the item view.
- Ken Sheppardson
phil, i use it mainly for checking mail and archiving my messages out of the inbox... something that i couldn't really do easily in the mail app... if i need to respond with spell check i'll go into mail.
- Chris Heath
anyone know the link to usea the gmail 4 iphone on the mac?
- americanm
i just archived 10 emails and read another then archived it... quicker than could be done on a pc by the way
- Chris Heath
i guess not... google is doing useragent or browser detection to pump you the iphone version if you're using an iphone... so i guess you might be able to do it
- Chris Heath
that's actually the old iphone site
- Phil Maxwell
<< no iPhone here, i used this url when i had problems loading Gmail
- Majento
you can use change the User Agent to iPhone under the Developer menu in Safari and you will automatically be redirected the the new mobile site from http://gmail.com
- Phil Maxwell
963 comments, already the 3rd longest thread.
- Jérôme Flipo
Stupid Facebook application added about 1,000 people to my FriendFeed subscriptions. No offense, but that's just too many to follow. Some of you have got to go!
Hah! Why did you add them to Facebook? :-) Leo, just add the good ones to a list and leave all the other ones there. You should NEVER unsubscribe from someone in friendfeed because we have the ability to build lists of just the people we really want to follow.
- Robert Scoble
I unfollow people who are just piping mindless tweets into ff. I don't care to see all the @ replies. I do look at their posts and if there's meat there I keep them.
- Leo Laporte
@Robert - I know you like lists as a way to keep huge lists of people. But why not just follow relatively few people, those of value, and "follow" everyone by searching. I do make extensive use of your list idea (I was thrilled to separate "utility" posts from companies I follow to get them only when I need them). So I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm asking, what's the difference between following so many people as opposed to searching?
- Nathan Wenzel
Just don't axe the Rhode Islanders. Or you can NEVER COME HOME.
- Charles Kinney Walker
I love the new FriendFeed look, but really makes me look at what subscriptions I have. Filters are the way to go.
- Corey Marthaller
Leo you can filter the @ replies out ;)
- Nicholas James
ERTCAK ;-) error remaines betweet computer and keyboard, or what was the term? Can't remember
- Richard A.
I think the term your thinking of is PICNIC - problem in chair not in computer
- Scott Schanke
Version I first saw was PEBCAK - problem exists between computer and keyboard (EDIT: or was it chair?)
- Scott of Two Countries
Scott of two countries; that's the one :-)
- Richard A.
Leo - You need to get out of your Twitter-mindset my friend! FF lets you manage who you subscribe to and focus on what YOU think is most valid. Loving TWiT BTW!!
- Jim Connolly
I am a little clueless here, which app is Leo referring to? The FB FriendFeed app? How could I filter @ replies out of my stream if I was going to stream my FriendFeed into a site? Apologies for the diversion ...
- Paul Jacobson
Shawn Smith is correct... think... what's between the keyboard and the computer? a cable? Chair is the C
- Chris Heath
One Question: Friendfeed Beta + 1 week. Have you all made the switch? I have a hard time switching from the old interface which I find more conversation centric (and makes me feel less in twitter)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I never cared for the old one a whole lot.. this is much nicer
- Aaron