Key part of this article: "...iBiquity has been in talks with Apple to eventually get the HD Radio receiver built directly into the iPhone and iPod touch, eliminating the external accessory and tangle of wires." Let's hope. I would like to get my Yankee broadcasts and other local radio on my next iPhone. Get it done Apple.
- Rolf Schewe
Damn. ZFS sounded really interesting. The must have their own next gen file system under development anyway. We'll probably see it in an Apple keynote in the future.
- Rolf Schewe
This could be huge. It would be welcome competition for iTunes. An advantage it may have over iTunes is possibly being available on multiple platforms, Android and others. Interesting. Would Apple allow this service on the iPhone via an app?
- Rolf Schewe
I love competition. This will push Apple to make a better iPhone sooner. I can't wait to get the next new iPhone when my contract expires. After this attack from Verizon it seems highly unlikely they will carry the iPhone. That sucks.
- Rolf Schewe
"...deplete and recharge your battery once a month." Sounds like good advice. Reminds me of the old RC car days doing a discharge except less often.
- Rolf Schewe
Very fair piece. I would have to only disagree with Myth 3 the marketing of the product suggests otherwise. I don't care what nuance Microsoft supplied to the tech media. Nevertheless the OLED screen sounds sweet. My next iPhone will have one in June. I can all but guarantee it.
- Rolf Schewe
"It was supposed to have been Annie Le’s wedding night. But hours after the missing Yale graduate student was to have been married, investigators found a body stuffed inside a wall of the lab building where she was last seen alive on Tuesday."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
@Bret - I think they're still in the 'gathering evidence' phase of things. The article on CNN mentioned that they have a great deal of physical evidence from her lab that they have to go through, as well as whatever they're retrieving from the waste processing plant. It's so sad that it turned out this way.
- Jennifer Dittrich
The killing is sad enough but the fact that it happened on her wedding night is just horrific.
- Spidra Webster
O, I have been monitoring this but but this is first I heard of her murder. Prayer for her parents and betrothed. deep Sadness
- Melanie Reed
@Spidra: the reference to the 'wedding night' is that the day that her body was found is *supposed* to be her wedding night, had she not been missing. The act of murder itself IMO happened several days prior. Of course she went missing so there was no wedding.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
@LAG, her body was found in the crawlspace behind the wallboards, i.e., the space used for cables, plumbing, etc.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
It sounds like she got a call from someone she knew associated with the lab (she left her purse , ID and cell in another building). Someone close or or someone she had worked with? She was aware of taking care of herself (she wrote an article on protection and being safe in the city), so why would she leave her cell unless she knew and trusted who ever she was last with?
- Melanie Reed
now, a personal dilemma for me: I think this news is important; but I can't bring myself to 'like' this... What to do? That said, condolences & prayers to her family and her fiancé.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Or it could be that this call unnerved her and she rushed over to the lab without thinking. Whatever it was, to help or in anxiousness, she broke a habit.
- Melanie Reed
@Pandu as long as you comment on it, the story gets moved to the top of FF and more people can see it. That helps a lot. I want to share my condolences & prayers to her family and loved ones too.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Pandu: I was just about to write the same comment, Weird. Bret, can we get a "horrified" button next to "Like" :)
- Bryan Lee
Probably someone she rejected who couldn't handle the fact she was getting married. Proabably a guy who she considered 'a friend', but felt much stronger for her. He confessed his love there in the lab, she rejected his final plea and he killed her. That's pretty much the way I see it going down. Guys can be nuts like that over women.
- Vince DeGeorge
from iPhone
My thoughts exactly, Vince. Had to be someone she worked with.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Vince, yeah, I think that should be considered. It was either because she was too smart (jealousy) or too loved (jealousy). Or there could be a third reason because of something we don't know about something that she may have been involved in that threatened her future that is an unknown. The killer was not very smart about hiding her body. If they were, they would have taken the time...
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- Melanie Reed
Now, the picture I saw was of her outside the building in the daylight. How could you kill someone with wounds that would obviously cause crying out in pain and no one in that building or in an office nearby not hear it? Someone had to see something or hear something. Was the office completely empty?
- Melanie Reed
I wonder who the Prof was she was working under.....what was their relationship?
- Melanie Reed
This is an instance where I would feel uncomfortable "liking" a posting on FriendFeed.
- Rolf Schewe
One other thing strikes me as strange: They were in a lab. She was a pharmacology student. It took 3 levels of security to get in there: "He said it took three levels of security to get into the basement of the lab building on Amistad Street, including two swipes of a security card." This seems another indication that lends itself to someone she knew and that it was a crime of passion...
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- Melanie Reed
Here's a meta-post http://ff.im/7ZvND I'm been following this story for the past few days. I used to work in biochem labs, so it's pretty spooky. (1) Animal rights activist? Jealous/unhinged guy who's a staff member? Stolen security card? (2) Early on I heard mention that she went in the building with a guy...but haven't seen that since. (3) She walks from/to her office & this lab...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell good meta-post. We don't have enough info especially about her daily routine. You make some compelling suggestions. She's recorded as going in at 10:00am. Was this routine? Here's a couple of AP postings: http://news.yahoo.com/s... |...
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- Melanie Reed
"We're not believing it's a random act," said officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. No one else is in danger, he said, though he would not provide details other than to say that police believe no other students were involved. He also denied reports that police had a suspect in custody. Several news organizations reported that police were interviewing a possible suspect who failed a polygraph test and has defensive wounds on his body. Avery denied those reports."
- Melanie Reed
The problem is the relationship to the killer. How long and how close? Why didn't he/she do this where she lived? Why in a public lab?
- Melanie Reed
I think a phone call can be ruled out IF this was a routine day for her. On one article it states that she could be seen with a cart going back and forth with the lab mice. The lab mice are located in the basement where her body was: "The body was found in the basement in the wall chase — a deep recess where utilities and cables run between floors. The basement houses rodents, mostly...
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- Melanie Reed
It's possible if the scenario above is true that she might not have even known the killer that well at all. Perhaps the killer was already there and was doing something that was wrong and she threatened to report them. Then they killed her and stuffed her in the most immediate and convenient place.
- Melanie Reed
My sister is a science graduate student at Yale and has worked in Armistad and the buildings around it. She's pretty freaked out about the whole incident - it can't help but make you feel incredibly nervous at your own school...
- Jennie Lin
Police about to release news.....9:58pm(EST) Tuesday
- Melanie Reed
Claim an arrest may be imminent. Hope they have the right suspect.
- Melanie Reed
Think we're going to hear soon in the next few days. Agree with Levin.
- Melanie Reed
How about not friend-ing everyone in existence? You could probably set your privacy to only allow friends to tag you. If anyone of your "friends" keep hammering you, un-friend them. Easy.
- Rolf Schewe
If I understand this correctly, movies theater chains are not going to be happy to hear this. This sort of thing is why you see this big push for 3D. Movie Theaters want to differentiate themselves from Home Theaters.
- Rolf Schewe
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I think I have to qualify my earlier answer. I don't have many friends on Friendfeed, but I do use it as a news aggregator. With groups and rooms, I used it like Techmeme. Facebook, where i have a more healthy friend list is less interesting. In fact, I spend more time there locking things down, than sharing, which I did pretty freely on FF, even if only 10 people cared.
- Peter
Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows.
- David Lounsbury
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
option c and e - they are both already based on xmpp and e adds the really new social aspects to c
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Google's 'social platform' is . . . Google. The concepts that make up 'social networking' don't have to be limited to a finite space like FB, or MySpace, or FF. Google is adding those capabilities to e.g. Reader, not creating a new sandbox. Expect FB to become more like Google instead of expecting Google to become more like Facebook.
- John Craft
Don't forget to include Google Reader via pubsubhubub-fagalisticexpialadocious.
- Rolf Schewe
There will be a Google Reader robot for Google Wave, it will bring in all the feeds in real-time and provide all kinds of open discussions about all feed items.
- Charbax
Om says Android, but that's a limited user base. Google's main products are everywhere, and social features and integration points increase monthly.
- LogEx