Augmented reality is really taking off! The weekly Best Buy ad in the newspaper has an AR tag on the cover. It works at http://bestbuyin3d.com
- Pete Barry
Awesome! Did they show the ghosts? I was helping with that part =)
- Kevin Cheng
Any idea how we make use of the toolkit, there is new download at the link, I'm new to iPhone Dev, so I'm probably missing something.
- Keith Moon
It is new and I don't have all the details yet. Yes, they showed the ghosts. Funny!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What does augmented reality mean ?
- Mark
from iPhone
Mark you aim your iPhone at things and it tells you about them.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
So I would aim it at a poster for a west end show and I would get reviews and tickets etc ?
- Mark
from iPhone
Android has more and better augmented reality. There are more Android phones out there than iphone 3gs, soon about a dozen new Android phones are coming out from Samsung, Dell, Acer, Huawei, Philips, Motorola, Archos, Asus, Creative and others
- Charbax
Mark: that is part of it but think the world, not apps. Go watch some videos on YouTube to see what AR does.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Will do when I get home on my wifi the 3g sucks here on iphne
- Mark
from iPhone
Robert, remember the ghosts on iPhone ARKit? We have a beta that's almost ready for the appstore. If you have a 3GS, let me know and we can get you a test version if you like!
- Kevin Cheng
Just wish I could get more of my friends to use it. None of that fail-whale crap so far.
- Ed Gutman
Sadly, I never visit my identi.ca account; everyone I know is on Twitter pretty much and without a community, it's not very useful :(
- Travis B. Hartwell
Consider setting up a laconi.ca site for your state and start pushing people to it. I know it seems silly but it can come in handy when twitter is down.
- Patrick Allmond
7billlion tweets a year - 2trillion SMS messages a year. "tweets" will take over for short messages. No way twitter is gonna handle that by themselves. the federated sites will develop
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Highly likely, given issues recent DOS attack had on twitter AND Laconi.ca offers far more than twitter!
- peterjabraham
There is a massive need for this... it really is a must that they (or someone like them) succeed in creating a federated microblogging platform. Remember how important the IRC was for the internet in the early days? Then instant messaging took off and now microblogging is the next technology that will change the use cases people have for their internet connected devices.
- Charles
I've been using it for a few months (here in the UK) and it really is a brilliant service. I've been an occasional music torrent downloader, and Spotify has almost wiped this out.
- Chris Nixon
I can see that, Chris. Downside would be that it doesn't go portable (to iPhone, car, etc.) but on the laptop, this is pretty darn impressive.
- Louis Gray
It's also great for re-visiting artists older artists which you have long since forgotten.
- Chris Nixon
Exactly. Hence my searching for Jesus Jones, EMF, Information Society, etc.
- Louis Gray
curious yet skeptical regarding availability of a few artists i listen to. apoptygma berzerk, skold, iscintilla, birthday massacre, emilie autumn, hednoize, psychohed, kidney thieves, mdfmk etc... they're typically not on many library-style music services that try to be comprehensive. but again, i'm not on spotify's private beta to make an informed comment.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
210 tracks from apoptygma berzerk. 18 from skold. 0 from iscintilla. 27 from birthday massacre. 1 from emilie autumn. 0 from hednoize. 0 from psychohed. 0 from kidney thieves. 11 from mdfmk.
- Louis Gray
sweet :) just saw you updating that in realtime. thanks for the info!
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Louis: It's about to go portable though. The iPhone app is due to come out in the coming week and the Android app is quite far gone as well.
- Gabriel
blackfeathers: Like you, I listen to a lot of subgenre-music and underground stuff, and I don't find everything i want, unfortunately. But the surprising upside to this is that I've come to discover a lot more music that I like when I'm forced to find "alternatives".
- Gabriel
Now I am listening to apoptygma berzerk. :) your fault... sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
- Louis Gray
It still lacks the catalogue for me but I listen to lots of not so popular artists and songs. It's a great service though, I've been playing with it again this week.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd like to be able to bring in your local MP3s also, on network drives etc. This is actually the main reason I still use iTunes. Enjoy the service though for music I have not purchased in my own catalogue.
- Travis Koger
But if you want free music you can't complain about Spotify! I wish it had a recommendation engine though and the ability to import your other playlists and re-create them, as best it can, in Spotify.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I thought it had playlist sharing... couldn't this be a defacto recommendation engine?
- Travis Koger
It's still not available in India. Sad. :(
- Faraz Mullick
Travis, sorry I meant like the Last.fm recommendation. It recommending new artsts/songs based on our playlists or tracks we've 'liked'. I'm always after new songs. Their 'radio' is very random.
- Kol Tregaskes
And I'd like to have my playlists from iTunes ported to Spotify - I'd rather not manually recreate them all again.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah I understood what you meant, but couldn't people just have a playlist in Spotify called 'Song Recommendations', then share that. Other users would then be able to look through the recommendations. I agree though a good recommendation engine would be beneficial.
- Travis Koger
It's amazing isn't it... be better if there were slightly less adverts though... I'm too cheap to pay the premium rate.
- Rich
Re the adverts, you can sort of get around that by clicking on a new song rather than let the playlist do it for you... I know that it sort of defeats the purpose, but if you are too cheap to go premium or listen to the ads then it does provide a workaround ;)
- Travis Koger
Travis, yeah user's recommendations would be nice too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Aaah, now you have said user recommendation I now understand properly what you meant earlier (and realise that I did not understand it properly earlier ;))... you are talking about something like iTunes Genius etc.
- Travis Koger
Yep. While on iTunes Genius does that only recommend songs in your playlists only or should it recommend songs I don't have? When I select a tune and hit Genius it lists other vaguely related songs I have already. It would be more useful if it showed new songs.
- Kol Tregaskes
As for it's catalogue, I tried to recreate my 25 tunes of the moment: http://ff.im/6diug and it only had 13 of them. It's missing the likes of Boxer Rebellion - Misplaced, Snake River Conspiracy - Breed and The Prodigy - Warrior's Dance. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I cannot get because it says it's not available in my country.
- Damond Nollan
spotify song recommendation / discovery works really well with 3rd party websites like http://sharemyplaylists.com/ you can also cut'n'paste the playlist urls to share like this one spotify:user:iamnottheenemy:playlist:3LWd6ZTnj5lg7tqEAW4eJm
- Ian Crocombe
Ian, me and a friend also made one of those: http://listopify.com its fairly basic, but it has a "like" feature which i will admit was very inspired by friendfeed :)
- Lasse Johnsen
Spotify is a cool service but there are too many ads for now ...
- DAL
Spotify's library does hold a lot of song. Some millions, I read somewhere on their blog. But it definitely doesn't offer all my favorite albums and songs. Most main stream bands are in there, but more indie musicians and especially cd's from before 2000 are missing.-- Still, it's defintely the best desktop music experience at the moment. :-) And I'm looking forward to the forthcoming Android and iPhone apps!!
- roel
keep hearing great things but happy with iTunes
- Thomas Power
try to find french music, you'll be disappointed!
- Sophie Domingues
About 600 geeks here at Yahoo's headquarters building iPhone apps. When I walked in I couldn't help but think this is the most interesting thing Yahoo has done lately. We are seeing demos of apps that were built this weekend. #iphonedevcamp
- Robert Scoble
If you want a clean window, with a comment box stuck open on the bottom, you can click on the timestamp of the entry twice, or just go to http://friendfeed.com/twit-co...
- Ken Sheppardson
But It Can Only Be Made With HTML CSS JAVASCRIPT
- nanochrome
Palm should have built the app store for it sooner to make a better initial impact
- Chris Miller
So, who wants to bet that even though Calacanis pushed the Arrington issue before the show, he'll bring it up again during the show. Arrington's a prick, apology or no...
- James Britton
Mister IQ, last year they announced the new Touch in the summer, before it came out in September
- Matthew
And A Mic In A Ipod Touch So Mic Apps All Work
- nanochrome
My WinMo phone has an app to turn it into a wifi router
- Michael Benny
I have a T-Mobile MDA and haven't upgraded because EDGE data is costing me $5 but if I got a new phone, it would be $25!, thats over $200 more per year!
- Sean Flaherty
I'm sure we'll see webOS on different form factors withing 12 months... there's already a candybar in the works
- Ken Sheppardson
@Jay throw Android in at number three (maybe tied with 2) and shove blackberry down
- James Britton
Japan has HD video cell phones already!
- Scott Hubble
Google gave out free phones at I/O - think Apple will do the same at WWDC?
- Jesse Stay
Matthew: Still it may not be released until September by my guess.
- Mister IQ
"apple has a tendency to make me drool"
- Jay McCormack
how about a 3G macbook Air using a via cpu & ION platform
- Michael Mooney
Apple will never release a netbook with ATOM processor.
- Akshay Dodeja
Is there a way to keep the twit.tv popout window always on top?
- zephyrlily
zephyrlily: I use nvidia software to put any window on top
- Jay McCormack
Apple Might Make a netbook but they will redefine what netbooks are
- nanochrome
zephyrlily, you would probably have to have a separate app that does that for you
- Matthew
Jackson Pollock: I hope it would have a full version of OS X.
- Mister IQ
I think Apple might drop the price of AIR, the margins on
- Akshay Dodeja
Steve hates pens and gloves and everything like that. They would never do a tablet with a pen, and never do a tablet without a pen, but with OSX. It will be a huge iPhone
- Jackson Pollock
I tend to agree with Jeff Cannata about tablets, iPhone is a perfect size, just needs more power/storage/openness
- James Britton
Yea for Man Purses! :D We can accessorize together. :)
- Daynah
Dear Jason, you know which platforms already have the turn-it-into-a-wifi-hotspot app you described? Windows Mobile and Symbian. For months.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Mister IQ. They would never do that. if an engineer gave Steve a touchscreen devise that you have to hit a tiny little red x in a corner to exit an app, he would throw it out the window. It has to have a touchscreen OS.
- Jackson Pollock
I'm so proud of them, they haven't mentioned twitter once!
- Curtis
They're not going to release a Netbook unless there is some sort of developer focus. Remember this is a dev conference.
- Jesse Stay
Jason the digg blog that announced (http://blog.digg.com/?p=808) digg ads says "Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system."
- russtbarnacle
@Jesse, popout the twit.tv and put it next to your FF window
- zephyrlily
zephyrlily I know how to do that - that's not what I was referring to. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Jason is full of it, people will watch good ads... Superbowl anyone?
- Roy Pledge
@jesse I'm sure when (if?) Wave comes out, Leo will do that.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Bing takes over Yahoo, wihtout much effort. all advertising
- Chris Miller
I don't think Bing is doing well regionally beyond the US. i can't get the map stuff to work in Australia.
- Jay McCormack
But Google Is Better And I Don't Like Going To Any Microsoft Site
- nanochrome
Bing 's reign as Number 2 search engine ends after one day - @TechCrunch - http://bit.ly/sEHTW
- Todd
bing = because it's not google or bing is not google
- Holger Eilhard
Even if BING is great, what is the compelling reason to use anything other than Google which IS great and I am really comfortable with already?
- Joel Asaro
I'm very impressed with Bing. I haven't used Google since Bing come out.
- Joseph Ferris
Joel: Agreed... there's just not enough to move accross to it
- Jay McCormack
That's the problem it good but there is nothing about Bing that makes people want to use it over Google
- Kim Landwehr
The video preview is a thumbnail, how can Denise expect you to watch a video in a search result in total
- Jay McCormack
Bing; how about not showing previews of short videos. problem solved
- Roberto Bonini
This is the same issue over and over again. It's not the technology's responsibility to not watch inappropriate content (porn or violence or whatever). It's the parent's responsibility to instill the right values in the child.
- Jay McCormack
See! Leo has done a good job educating his kids to look at the right stuff
- Jay McCormack
Where is everyone going for WWDC coverage?
- Mister IQ
@Chris That's true, but I would personally rather just see user-generated content without the advertising. At least Digg is doing it much better, as long as they clearly disclose what is advertisement, than banner ads and popups.
- 321
is WWDC going to be streamed, or will it only be for download after the fact
- Matthew
Bing video search does show youtube videos
- Kim Landwehr
Hard work... it's taken PayPal years to get it right
- Jay McCormack
Exactly when did PayPal get it right?
- Roy Pledge
LOL @ clinton and cigar. Did anyone get that?
- Lise
Would be nice if they bring back their old features they took away because their infrastructure couldn't handle them before they try to add new ones.
- Ken Sheppardson
Of the many payment options, it's easy, it works, it's international, it might be expensive, but it does work.
- Jay McCormack
he didnt make any intention to even use or expand no the account, he just wanted it down
- Chris Miller
yeah ken, but you and i know that's not a technical problem
- Chris Heath
@Lise: I laughed, but then felt guilty because no one seemed to find it funny :P
- Cory Roush
Have you ever tried to contact Twitter support?
- Jesse Stay
@Ken I agree. I'm still upset about this whole @ reply feature
- Lise
You have to have TechCrunch to write about it for them to listen that you are being impersonated.
- Jesse Stay
Tony La Russo's 501c3: It's NOT about adoptions; it's about DONATIONS. Donations might be affected by something like a Twitter account, especially in the future.
- shelter watch
I guess this means Tony's not getting on the Featured users list
- Jesse Stay
@JasonC you look cute as Maverick! I say keep the look. You don't need the cigar, though.
- Lise
Lise: he needs a cap or something to finish the look
- Jay McCormack
Bill Gates did talk about this at D5 tho, people forget
- Jackson Pollock
Natal can recognize 48 points of motion compared to the PS3's 2, plus you know Natal will work with Windows 7
- Matthew
Natal combined with the new controller Sony showed would be pretty slick.
- Ken Sheppardson
Felicia Day looks good with anything! :-P
- Hipp
from IM
watch the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs interview from D5. Bill talked about it and was laughed out because people thought he meant the Wii interface
- Jackson Pollock
Shane Kim said that releasing Natal in the spring would be "aggressive". So they still have a year or more to work on it.
- Matthew
The press has completely missed the navigation piece of Natal...did you see the minority report style menu conteol and the voice control of teh video playback?
- Rob
Wii's just integrating acceleration to get position. The Sony controller actually measures the position of the controller, doesn't it?
- Ken Sheppardson
I want 3D games with those controllers
- Jesse Stay
MS will put Natal on Windows as well, so Minority Report type interface is possible when this comes out
- Matthew
Lindsay: All chats on FriendFeed are real time.
- Nicholas James
what if they added skype to xbox using natal
- Michael Mooney
You know what drives me mad! "Fall 09" as a release date. Just watched the scribblenauts video, says available Fall 09. 1: Fall = Autumn for me, 2: When is Autumn? Each hemisphere has autumn at different times of the year! Argghhhhh!
- Jay McCormack
Leo, the newest dashboard for the Xbox (NXE) lets you install your games to the hard drive, and it barely makes a sound. The fans don't make that much noise, it's the DVD drive that makes all the sound due to wanting short load times
- Matthew
The streaming HD on the TiVo Netflix interface is beautiful!
- Aaron T. Harvey
I think that ringtone should have Keyboard Cat as a backing track instead.
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't think Michael was the only person who was supposed to get a review unit Friday and didn't. I suspect there were logistical issues.
- Ken Sheppardson
It works great within iChat or Google Talk
- Hipp
from IM
It's stuck between real time chat and blog-type comments
- Aaron T. Harvey
"The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2009 will kick off with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. A team of Apple executives, led by Phillip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, will deliver the keynote address" -- http://developer.apple.com/wwdc...
- Ken Sheppardson
anyone watching twit live? is this a green screen shot or are they at WWDC?
- David Lloyd
That pretty much means tablet as far as I'm concerned. In terms of touch, the trackpad on a macbook is the same hardware as the iphone/possible mac tablet
- Jackson Pollock
Well, Quicktime has been the same for the last 3-4 versions more or less
- Jackson Pollock
You know, you guys were nagging Apple like this last year. You wanted 3G, you wanted GPS bla bla. Now you're poo-pooing GPS and saying that there is zero coverage of 3G in the US. The beauty of the iPhone is the lack of a continual need for hardware updates. The functionality is not tied to the phone. Every version of the phone has the same functionality, only with different specs
- Jackson Pollock
I'm sure I heard there's a back door in it somewhere... but then, that is info from the net for you. Also, it's hardly plausable denial when you claim "yes, those files are all that's in there" when the file itself is many gb's larger. Plus it's useless in the UK where laws now exists that make it a criminal offense to not supply encryption keys to police when demanded. If that is what your end goal is. For just security reasons to keep thieves out it's fine.
- alphaxion
the file is fixed size from the beginning, so plausible deniability still holds. And even in the UK, they cannot prove there's another hidden fs in there.
- You.
what I was getting at is if you create a trucrypt locker file with a max size of 20gb and claim there's only 500k of documents in there, I'd be deeply suspiscious that there was a lot more in there - especially knowing that there's 2 layers to the file. Volume level encryption certainly holds plausable deniability, but an encrypted filespace within an unencrypted volume?
- alphaxion
at which point, if I were a law enforcement officer I'd get a warrent to demand you show the rest of the file. You'd have to be either stupid or ignorant to not use a fully encrypted volume.
- alphaxion
IIRC, the data file size is fixed from the beginning. So when you start out, it's going to have a lot of space unaccounted for.
- You.
from BuddyFeed
That is to say, my impression is that the file does not expand over time. If it does, will it compress if you delete files? If not, that is another plausible explanation
- You.
from BuddyFeed
alphaxion: If you think there's a back door just look through the source code and compile it yourself. As for the pre-compiled binaries, there are users who compare self-compiled binaries against the released binaries to ensure there's no hidden code in there.
- KyleHase
from twhirl
@dave-o but would you create an encrypted space multi GB's in size to store a small amount of files? This is what I'm getting at. If people are using it to store a lot of data (large collection of illegal images for example) but when you open up the non-secret portion of the file to say "look, I'm only keeping these documents in there" and they don't add up to much in disk use, that would immediately make me suspicious of the person. Do you get what I'm saying yet?
- alphaxion
Ok, I get what you're saying, wasn't sure if you understood my point. My comeback for that would be "hey, I don't know how much stuff I'm going to put in there, space is cheap, I just allocated a large file." For example, on a thumbdrive, I would allocate space that was very close to the capacity of the drive. That wouldn't be suspicious.
- You.
@Daniel: as far as I can tell, that only helps you find the outer data file, not the nested one. Plausible deniability only works for the nested one because it's not even listed as a file.
- You.
Still, it's there, and if you get into court, you can be forced to open the volume if they can find it. And then they can do so recursively until all volumes are found and opened. You can't plausibly deny it if it's uniquely identifiable. =p
- Daniel Bruce
Creating one the entire size of a drive, might as well just to drive level encryption otherwise I would eye that with suspicion. Still, the point stands that if you're creating one with say 20Gb addressable inside and you're only ever putting in some non-changing documents, it'd still look odd to my eye. Bear in mind that I used to manage the SAN where I used to work and so I got to see the differences between someone hiding something in their network storage and someone just being lazy. It's noticable ;)
- alphaxion
Okay, I'm forced to open the outer one, fine. But TCHunt can't find the nested one because it's not listed as a file on the encrypted drive.
- You.
@alphaxion: I can explain that one too. I have stuff I don't want the expense of encrypting (e.g. utilities). So I don't encrypt the whole drive. :) When you were managing the SAN, how do you know the rest of the 20G is being used for other stuff? :)
- You.
but if storage is cheap you wouldn't keep your data on the same HDD as your OS and utils. When managing the data, you look for patterns & behavioural stuff. I had people who would horde emulators nested within silly amounts of folders. Setting aside 20gb for less than 10mb's worth of documents would immediately get my attention, it becomes more plausable if you use say 500mb or 1gb. they are far easier to explain, likewise if you have 500mb and 1gb files but you have 20 or 30 of them then you're sussed out
- alphaxion
another trick of theirs was bunging it into zip files or renaming files to different extensions. I never encountered anyone encrypting spaces tho. But when you spend a lot of time looking at data and usage patterns, it becomes a form of ESP - you immediately know.
- alphaxion
Nothing is totally secure. A fence is just to keep the honest people honest. Although a brick wall is a little better... and the cement wall with barbed wire and attack rabid pigs with flu is even better. It just makes it harder to get in. But not impossible.
- CW™
I agree. I think if you can explain why you chose the size you did (like basing it off of a physical consideration), it becomes more believable. For example, I can say "I picked 200M because my thumbdrive is 256M. I wanted to leave some space leftover for utils (and TC)." OTOH, people don't always act rationally and choose file sizes for ill-considered reasons. At any rate, the...
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- You.
Rom: that's the big question, isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
Its sad. For a long time Sun's biggest problem was that the market considered Dell to be a computer company. Sun would spend enormous sums on R&D, Dell would spend far less but pull in much higher revenue, and analysts would ask why can't Sun be more like Dell? Sun's R&D developed Java, but Sun never managed to capitalize on it. That missed opportunity is what finally doomed them.
- DGentry
Sadly, Oracle bought Sun for the open source products Sun recently acquired. Sparc and Solaris will simply rot. Its time for Sparc to be put to pasture, but Solaris still has some great technology.
- DGentry
What's new in this release (see below for details): - Support for Visual C++ project files in winemaker. - Improvements to the Esound driver. - Many Direct3D code cleanups. - Fixes to OLE clipboard handling. - OpenBSD compilation fixed. - Various bug fixes. Support for Visual C++ project files in winemaker.
- 微笑の迪妮莎
from Bookmarklet
It's mind-boggling the cumulative amount of work that's gone into WineHQ by this point in its life.
- Ryan Waldron
I only seem to use it when twitter is down. A better iPhone app might bring me around more often more "reader" like features (ie, let me add feeds and info that only I see like my google reader subscriptions and all of the tweets from my account on twitter)
- Scott Watermasysk
If it's not on friendfeed, I'm not interested, Thomas. :)
- Alex Scoble
Best ignore those that think they know what is going on and preach about it.
- CW™
Uhh oh, don't I act like that sometimes, CW? *goes and cries in a corner*
- Alex Scoble
Your a scoble.. I don't think you can help it. ;) But you back up your statements, allow others the chance to change your mind and not go off to a Ashram and sulk when people complain about you. ;)
- CW™
People are complaining about me? *goes and cries in a corner*
- Alex Scoble
You mean yesterday's news Arrington ??? Or today's embargo Arrington?
- David HC Soul
I just read Arrington's post and commented via FriendFeed (not to make any philosophical point, but because I'm on an older mobile phone right now using fftogo). While I had some quibbles, the fact remains that there are far fewer FriendFeed users than there are Facebook users. Then again, there are far fewer Twitter users than Facebook users, so simplicity isn't everything...
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
The word I heard him use was "nobody", not "fewer", "nobody"...Perhaps I'm wrong though...either way, I don't care. I find friendfeed to be eminently more entertaining and useful than Twitter or Facebook.
- Alex Scoble
I'm going with Scoble, and betting on this horse. This new UI is just a thing of beauty. This is how it should be. They're the ones who've found the Grail Castle. This is it right here. I'm just loving it.
- Web Nex
Here. But off to bed soon. Back later. G'nite, FF.
- Lisa L. Seifert
Love the new beta. Really nice job to Team FF!
- Marc Chung
Wow, a whole ~120 people ... over 5 hours. I used to play on MUDs 10+ years ago with more simultaneous users. FF is 98% Scoble-hype noise, 2% RSS crawling.
- Dossy Shiobara
@bec rowe - fine, I'll be generous, suppose there's a whole ORDER OF MAGNITUDE more users, 10x or 1,200 ... this is a big deal? Most major IRC networks each have 60k+ concurrent users and that's tech that's 15+ years old now.
- Dossy Shiobara
for such a "new and improved" UI, why do I have to scroll ALL the way back up to click the "comment" link? what, did none of the UX people think "gee, putting it at the bottom of the list of comments would be a good idea"?
- Dossy Shiobara
seriously, people, stop being sheep. FF is cute but it's a pet rock.
- Dossy Shiobara
Exactly -- I come here to escape from Facebook and when I want more conversation than Twitter :) Sheep we are not. ;)
- Mona Nomura
I have 3 tabs locked into the first three positions of my always-open Firefox window: Google Reader, Gmail and you guessed it... FriendFeed.
- Brooks Bishop
Absolutley! Great aggregator, but have to use Twirl or other app at work
- Jonathan Decker
from twhirl
Who the hell is Michael Arrington, and why should I give two tugs of a dead dog's cock what he thinks?
- Steven Perez
damn you steven perez... speak ya mind for a change!!! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Perez: Some meatbag with an overblown sense of self importance
- Mo Kargas
Arrington is a Web 1.0 dinosaur trying to make himself relevant still by being Jerry Springer without the entertainment value.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Just to note: I know damn well who Arrington is. He's that meatsack whose website couldn't hold its load for a few hours. But I'm serious about not caring what he thinks.
- Steven Perez
that's r scoble too mo... ooops I'll get bashed! :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
something tells me THIS proves how little he uses this place ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
That's OK, I get the sense that most people here couldn't care less. :) We use friendfeed because we like it, not because some A-Lister that doesn't even participate here thinks we should or shouldn't.
- Alex Scoble
Shouldn't this be on a TC post since all those comments will be sucked into the blog itself?
- coldbrew
agreed alex, if you watch your brother's video of the pre-beta walk through from last weekend, mike was there, engaged and asked good questions of bret and paul, but then he goes off and belittles ff & those using it - immature or trollish not sure which it is...
- mike "glemak" dunn
But Alex.. your bro is a supposed A-lister...
- Rob Sellen :o)
dunn: Arrington is providing feedback. I'm sure team-FF can handle it.
- coldbrew
yeah the feedback he provides is..."the worse way to use friendfeed" :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
My brother also participates here a lot, so when he says something is great or sucks here he has some authority...certainly a lot more authority on the subject than you know who.
- Alex Scoble
i am and its soo much better. Tell mike the tech rumors are better here, too.
- Roberto Bonini
my head hurts. || button is my friend
- Todd Randolph
Right on Alex! To enhance what I said yesterday, FriendFeed is the "coolest app" to consume information on the Internet and interact with smart people.
- Eric Berlin
Nah, I never use FriendFeed. FriendFeed uses me! Don't ask.
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
*rolls eyes* Outlandish statements are how Arrington moves the space. It doesn't matter how the space moves, as long as it moves, then Arrington can remora off it. He doesn't care who wins or how his little bombs affect anyone, just as long as it moves somewhere. He's like a weapons dealer who foments the extension of wars so he can sell the weapons to both sides.
- Matthew DeVries
It's Michael Arrington. His ego is the size of the Sun and is infinitely expanding like the universe. All I hear is "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah."
- Zach Flauaus
My thread was first and my brother was just being a copycat. First!
- Alex Scoble
Put both threads in a room, and similpost in both. The power of the exponent!
- Matthew DeVries
yep, that Scoble is a copycat !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
I think the only way to settle this is with a good old fashioned slap fight. Or a drinking contest... Either way we need video of it.
- Joe Pierce
But I said "First!" That's the internet beat down right there.
- Alex Scoble
more comments than likes? how can that be... you commenter's who have yet to like...like.. and those who have yet comment...comment..and like ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I'm down with FreindFeed. My usage has skyrocketed since the beta launch.
- Tim
Haha, yeah. Is a good one, all will become clear. Leo ate fire at the end after the recording stopped, was great!
- Simon Wicks
They're all twitter episodes. And they're all filled with a lot of fluff, whatever happened to the more serious episodes.
- Richard A.
Guess that's the value added for listening to the live feed: finding out what happened after recording stopped.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
LOVE the title, Leo. Although I saw the live show, so ya know, I know. ;) What a great episode!
- Lise
Any episode with Sarah Lane and Roger Chang is bound to be a good one. And Brian Brushwood wasn't half bad either. :)
- Eric Geller
One of the best shows in a long time. Great "twitter" discussion, it was refreshing
- Stan Thieman
This was quite a great show. TWiT has been getting better and better of late. Don't let the anti-twitterites get you down, a story is a story. Eventually something will be more interesting than twitter, and people will complain about you talking about that too.
- Justin Flood @justinflood
Good show, but I miss Dvorak. Love curmudgeons
- Jim Corkrum
Great show. Brian Brushwood was very knowledgeable.
- Stephen Heron
Just in case the title scares you - it's ironic. There is, in fact, ZERO Twitter talk on this show. We didn't say the word once, thank you.
- Leo Laporte
100M for $20 in Japan is a myth. "50M" DSL is ~$45 but actual speed was ~6M. Now using $70 fiber and getting ~30M down and ~20M up. Also, there are upload caps of 30GB / day.
- KyleHase
Finally heard the episode and get the title now. And agree, it was a great one
- Deepak Singh
This week in Twitter had no mention of Twitter? What is the world coming to? :-P
- Adrian Wells
Go ahead and try to have a bad attitude after meeting Milan. He's my happiness monster. Eats up stress and spits it out with a smile.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
"Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you're on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, bit.ly, connotea, google bookmarks, google reader notes, gmail, kaboodle, magnolia, meneame, mixx, myspace, plurk, reddit, soup.io, stumbleupon, tipjoy, tumblr, twine, twitter, weheartit, yahoo buzz, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly to a friend."
- Anika
from Bookmarklet
I've been using this for a year now and it's been wonderful. So easy to send stuff to my Gmail, SU or Twitter. But I hadn't noticed the FF icon until my reinstall today. You click on your items hit the Shareaholic link for FF and it brings up the bookmarklet for you. Now, all it needs is a post to blog and Social Median button and I'll be good to go.
- Anika
If it had Evernote I might be interested... does it bring up tags for services that have tags?
- Her Lindsay-ness
Chris what does Firefox have to do with anything? EDIT...Ah, I see it's a FF plugin. Yeah, I'm not on Firefox.
- Anika
Lindsay, it's a way to post/share a link someplace. It's not cluttered with tags or anything. So say I want to share your comment to Twitter. I just click on it or highlight it and have this send it to Twitter.
- Anika
One button replaces multiple bookmarklets. I like it very much.
- yezi
The fact that it's an add-on kills it for me. Why can't it be a bookmarklet? I never understood that.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Rah, yep. Shareaholic needs a bookmarklet. ShareThis has and supports FriendFeed. ShareThis is the better alternative for Chrome users anyway.
- Kol Tregaskes
Saying that, I use Shareaholic on Firefox and have done for ages.
- Kol Tregaskes
agree with Rahsheen, should be a bookmarklet instead of an addon. I refuse to go back to firefox now. Thanks for the tip Kol Tregaskes, regarding ShareThis - will check it out as a chrome user
- Peter Efland
I've been using it for several months now. So glad to see Friendfeed added.
- Keith - @tsudo
i am NOWHERE without Shareaholic. and so far it has given me nary an issue.
- edythe
Kol - was it a joke regarding Chrome? Got to bookmarklet in Chrome, but absolutely nada happens when I try to use it.
- Peter Efland
Peter, yep I had the same problem. Contacted the devs and eventually they worked it out, change the URL to: javascript:var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('language','javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://w.sharethis.com/button...);
- Kol Tregaskes
oh, cool. thanks Kol, will see if I can get it sorted out
- Peter Efland
Just downloaded. I will have to report back on how it is after a few days.
- Colide81 (James)
using it for two weeks and really appreciate it, would miss it.
- Tobias W.
I started using it about a week ago, and I am slowly doing away with my bookmarklets.
- Seth Greenblatt
Odd. I have been using this to post to FF for quite some time. I like it.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
if @shareaholic added URL shortening then all of my bookmarklets would be history
- Keith - @tsudo
tsudohnimh, i have bit.ly in my Shareaholic. Go to Customize and add it.
- Anika
nice. TY anika. Didn't notice that before.
- Keith - @tsudo
Does evernote have any formatting capabilities beyond using the keyboard for ctrl-B, ctrl-u kindof thing? I don't remember it having a formatting toolbar. Does it now?
- Kamath (नमः)
i think you mean soho notes, yes? if so, it's a great program that i first began using as a note application on my mac and still love to use. other than that i use yojimbo for personal stuff occasionally and evernote all the time for archiving articles and clippings from the net
- Cee Bee
I love Evernote. I use it email feature, so I can send formatted emails (specially copied and pasted webpages) and I get it with images and a similar format than web pages. A great tool.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
evernote is probably my most often used out of the three i mentioned above. it has a great search function (images and words) and is pretty good overall with the use of keywords
- Cee Bee
I use Google Notebook for somethings that I want quick access to, when in my browser, but I use Evernote for most all note taking stuff, unless it's stuff I want to share with a certain. closed, number of people, and then