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Fwd: Everyone say hi to Schrödinger! (via http://friendfeed.com/pierce...)
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Andromeda Edison, Lix and chaz2b liked this
hey Schrödinger, ;)
- chaz2b
Soooooooo cute.
- Lix
I love kittens - so cute!
- Andromeda Edison
@gretawire Please pass along to O'Reilly. 4 year-old killed by drunk driver. Repeat DUI. NO license. Potential illegal. http://www.ketv.com/news...
Andromeda Edison liked this
I'm actively trying to use other URL shorteners now that bit.ly is in bed with Twitter (their servers are even in the same racks). That's too much control to give one company, especially one that is defacto owning my namespace. Am I too paranoid?
Bertrand Doux, aerobroken, guruvan (Rob Nelson) and 32 other people liked this
Smoke less potent pot Robert. ;)
- Rolf Schewe
Rolf: I wish I was stoned. It might make me less paranoid. What happens when we give our lives over to Bit.ly and it changes all of our links from Facebook to Twitter's search?
- Robert Scoble
dunno if you're paranoid, but you raise a good point. I could see bit.ly getting a lot bigger than just an url shortner.
- phil baumann
People would revolt, that's what would happen
- Jan Ole Peek
Eggs. Basket. All-in-one. I agree with your sentiment, Robert... I just switched from Tweetdeck to Twhirl so I hope to distance myself from bit.ly a little.
- David Muir
Robert: I hear you. Competition is a big issue for me. The paranoid point was a freebee. Had to take it.
- Rolf Schewe
Jan: that might keep them from doing it, but what if they put an interstitial advertisement? Or did something else, like block Google's spiders?
- Robert Scoble
Maybe we'll end up with meta-shorteners to keep track of the links stored by all the shortening services. This would avoid the problem of "what if it goes offline", but doesn't solve the "Twitter/Bit.ly can see all my information" issue. But that part mostly comes with it being a publicly visible service.
- Ho John Lee
These people are in business and aren't here to make friends with us. They've already proven that to me.
- Robert Scoble
That's why I use random url shorteners, whichever one I can remember at the time ;) But let us know if you find a best alternative, I think there's so many it's hard to choose for the average user.
- Jan Ole Peek
Look at the problems that Jesse Stay is having with Twitter. They change things on a whim without communicating them. They don't care about what people think of their moves. And we want to bet our entire linking system on this company?
- Robert Scoble
@Robert So how big could a twitter-bit.ly entity become?
- phil baumann
you should be able to set your default shortnener in your twitter profile
- Allen Stern
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there aren't people after you.
- Harry Wolff
Allen: that would be very nice and a good engineering solution. I just don't see Twitter as being good at either of those attributes. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
@Allen Agree, but what would stop twitter from giving you only 1 option? would enough people exit to make it too costly?
- phil baumann
Robert: I personally like the tr.im name the best. Bit.ly's has the best features. Both are better than TinyURL. At least the move off of TinyURL by Twiiter was one in the right direction.
- Rolf Schewe
My Twitter client supports 9 URL shorteners and I usually use urlborg.
- Morton Fox
Allen: also, we all know the power of being the default. Most people won't switch it. Heck, look into how the suggested follower list is working. Most people use it and nothing else.
- Robert Scoble
And it's not just Jesse having problems with Twitter. Several companies, and everyone with email filters got hosed by the recent changes on the New Follower Emails from twitter. No, Robert, you're not being paranoid, you're being smart. While I'm not sure that the "too much control to give one company" argument holds with the likes of Google and Microsoft around, it sure doesn't seem...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Has Twitter stopped artificially shortening URLs that fit within the 140 yet? Someone needs to come up with a syndicated shortener you can run on your own domain.
- Tinfoil 2.0
yes. unless you end up proven right, then no.
- Tac Anderson
Logical Extremes: There are at least 2 that I know of.
- coldbrew
I personally think URLs should not count towards the character count of Twitter or other services. They should be embedded someway in their message/posting. URL shorteners have always seemed like unnecessary middlemen.
- Rolf Schewe
I think Twitter *should* own it's own URL shortener. That way we know that, as long as Twitter exists, all our short URLs will too.
- Pat Hawks
I use icanhaz.com whenever I post a link, just because it's really silly.
- Alan Chamberlain
While that may be nice Rolf, the only message in Twitter is the tweet. There is no metadata, and therefore there is not "character that doesn't count"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan: Thus an inherent flaw.
- Rolf Schewe
LE: In my experience they have stopped the autoshortening of some. It seems that they will still autoshorten in some cases, but I haven't determined exactly which. I have seen tweets that were mostly URL.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, I tried to do some testing too, but the results were inconsistent. I wonder if they are sensitive to certain domains, among other things. But it's annoying... if it fits, don't mess with it. I want to manage my message length myself, avoid shorteners whenever possible, and choose my own when needed.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Metadata is huge. Imagine each post having a URL embedded. Then the service like FriendFeed or Twitter resolving the link and pulling metadata. Then they could rebuild a nice comprehensive link title under the post with context such as Title, Author, Location, tags, etc.
- Rolf Schewe
yes seems there are enough monopolies already, really don't need one more ... but certainly it is an interesting idea to wrap the mind around to see how a community run system like Twitter could be improved to be truly community based. I also understand that twitter is in business whereby the objective of any business is eventual profit.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
Use a Twitter client that gives you a choice of URL shorteners -simple. Why the fuss? IMHO bit.ly has been the most reliable and simple system to use so far, so I'm happy enough. Some people are only happy when they have something to complain about, of course... ;-)
- Bob Walder
from BuddyFeed
LE: Yep, that's my experience as well. Didn't seem to have much rhyme or reason to it. and Rolf: In one way it's an inherent flaw, but the service was designed specifically to be completely compatible with SMS...SMS inherently passes no (user usable) metadata. But that's not inherently flawed is it?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
You're too paranoid.
- Chieze Okoye
Maybe. I've come to love bit.ly. Good alternatives?
- Hutch Carpenter
Tr.im seems to be a good alternative, but b/c I don't use Twitter, I have no use.
- coldbrew
robert/phil - what i am suggesting is that by default it uses bitly (since they are in bed together) - but you can go into your profile and set it to whatever shortener you like - say they have a list of 20 or something...
- Allen Stern
Coldbrew: The one use is to be able to track CTR on the links you post. Unless you're posting links to sites you already get stats from, this can be valuable in measuring personal reach.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Hutch: adjix is a good alternative. Doesn't experience the outages like the one seen with tr.im over the past day.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
To quote Robert himself when he is responding to others outrageous claims, "what are you talking about!?" But seriously if you search using Google and you're signed in isn't that surrendering far more personal information about you? And why wouldn't you want your shared links to be evergreen? I think bit.ly should cache results too.
- Gregg Scott
I use BurnURL because the data that comes from the sharebar, including Mood Mining, will be fed back into ReadBurner, who I advise for. I advise them because I loved the ReadBurner service and when they relaunch it should be very cool.
- Louis Gray
I gave up on all shorteners like 6 months ago, cause well - I didn't like any of them!! And have faithfully used tweetburner/twurl bookmarklet - it is a secret favorite, but don't tell a bunch of people because I don't want their servers to get slow on me!!!
- T.S. Elliott
cli.gs! They power the WP to Twitter plugin I've started to use (bye bye Twitter Tools).
- Shawn Farner
You're not being too paranoid. I recently noticed that Ars Technica has deployed their own shortener at http://arst.ch.
- Michael R. Bernstein
try http://shortn.me we haven't automated it yet, but it offers the ability to have multiple links to intelligently redirect to mobile web for users who hit links from their phones. We have the flickr automation ready to launch as a demo.
- Tom
Huh? what's wrong with being in bed with Twitter? I love bitly, use it constantly as it gives me feedback on how many clicked and keeps a record for me and doesn't get in my way, stays on the side.
- Prokofy Neva
I think it makes sense to like variety of providers in a landscape, to be wary of too much control by one company etc. But why are people so freaked at twitter+bit.ly but arent freaked over google's, apple's or amazon's own vertical control? Twitter seems small potatoes in comparison
- Iphigenie
I really like cli.gs
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I use the is.gd shortener in twhirl. I dont care which one they use. I started getting ff in email, it is good I use gmail..
- David Gross
from email
tweetdeck gives users a choice, if you think it important I will stop using the default (bit.ly)
- JCunwired
I've been using tr.im and been happy with it. Other suggestions?
- Ted Bradford II
How about www.notlong.com ?
- Martin Lindeskog
Or make your own. It's a relatively easy script... :)
- Joe Manna
sco.bl?
- Iphigenie
I usually use http://twitclicks.com I can track clicked links geographically, by browser, if the clicks came from Twitter or some other source, plus it tells me the username(s) of the Twitterers who clicked on the links.
- Sharon McPherson
resources - Kol's room http://friendfeed.com/url-sho... , list of shorteners http://kl.am/short , http://friendfeed.com/social-... , I personally look for shorteners that allow for custom/edit addresses ///////// and FF, it'd be fine to have an option of ff.im/user , and also, if i type <term> , a box with search of where that term was discussed/posted about last, as an option :]
- pb:
I like ow.ly for posts I don't care get indexed by Google, but here's a breakdown of options. http://foomandoonian.blogspot.com/2008...
- Janet Fouts
Not paranoid. Now ME, I'm caesium standard Paranoid!!!
- pazzer1
The difference between FREE and 1 cent? - http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_nex...
Riaz Kanani, Allen Stern, wannagot and 3 other people liked this
"Oh, and if everyone paid just a penny to view content it would translate to a $10 CPM rate, which is double or triple what most web content commands. Think about that for a minute."
- Casey
Forgive the momentary low-brow / pop-culture aside, but did anyone else immediately leap to thoughts of the scheme from Office Space?
- Casey
Retweet @dolphyngyrl Spam email subject: 7 mistakes you're making with men. HA HA HA HA HA!
Andromeda Edison liked this
One Billion Tweets..and Counting - http://www.twitterrati.com/2008...
Alex Howard, john, Aram Zucker-Scharff and Andromeda Edison liked this
Frank Sinatra – Luck Be a Lady - http://www.last.fm/music...
Andromeda Edison, LB shining, Live4Emma (L4S) and Marco(aureliusmaximus) liked this
Reports of blogging’s death are… - http://www.wordyard.com/2008...
Laura Norvig, Andromeda Edison, robertocastro and Chris Charabaruk liked this
Twitter and Facebook are good for blogging because they will pull away some of the noise. Blogs are settling in on a higher value plain that will lock them in for the long term.
- Pete Steege
I voted
Charlie Anzman, Larry Kless, Sarah Perez and 25 other people liked this
Friendivus? Cheater! I want that shirt on eBay pronto.
- Louis Gray
Louis: that is their offsite t-shirt.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, that's a definition, not an excuse. I still want it. :-)
- Louis Gray
Louis: you know where to get one! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Frank Costanza: It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born: a Festivus for the rest of us!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
So uh... Friendivus, for the rend of us?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Somebody said starbucks is giving away free coffee if you show your
voter receipt. I'm just about to fuind out.
Andromeda Edison liked this
Question: How Long Before I Get Spam? - http://www.internetdefensetech...
Andromeda Edison liked this
Top Spammer Sentenced To Nearly Four Years - http://www.geekologie.com/2008...
Andromeda Edison liked this
He recently pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming, tax evasion, general douchery, asshatness, and sucking at life
- georgeker
Hutch Report: Obama Email SPAM Has Already Started - http://mhutch.blogspot.com/2008...
Andromeda Edison liked this
An Imminent Victory for Net Neutrality Advocates - New York Times Blog - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...
siavash, Mark Stahl, Michael Carter and 8 other people liked this
"The Associated Press reported late Thursday that the F.C.C.’s chairman, Kevin J. Martin, has concluded that Comcast improperly blocked some file transfers. Mr. Martin told the A.P. he would recommend that the commission punish Comcast, and order it to stop the blocking, tell the commission how and how often it blocked file transfers and disclose to consumers its future plans for managing its network. Such an action would be the first time that regulators have slapped an Internet provider for violating F.C.C. open-access rules. Those rules are designed to prevent providers from favoring some services over others — for example, by accelerating the transfer of video from their own movie service or slowing down transfers from competitors."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Study: FriendFeed Users "Like" and Comment on Headlines Without Looking at Underlying Link - http://chris.pirillo.com/images...
Phil Glockner, Meryn Stol, Bartek Ciszkowski and 19 other people liked this
I believe it. I sometimes "like" items when I'm using fftogo, just to mark them for later when I have a real computer.
- Bill Sodeman
really? Oh wait a sec...
- Scott Lockhart
sure
- kosmar
I just Liked it right now. Oops. Hold on, lemme click the link...
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
No way man. That's an interesting study, but I'm always wary of such publications, they are, as always, so biased you can't really take them seriously. So...
- Josue Salazar
Wait a sec, so I click on the link to look at the story and you tell me Im an Idiot?
- Andrew Baron
Poor man's rickroll.
- Hutch Carpenter
Smelt this one coming a mile away... lol
- Czar
Get a REAL job, dude :-)
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
nakedwife.swf?
- Shawna Benson
but I clicked on it before I was going to like it... does it still apply to me? oh wait... I'm asking this question, therefore it must. :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
now only with YOUR :D
- Sid
HA!! I didn't click on it, because I KNOW what you are up to =P
- Kevin Nunez
I just clicked Like on this one. Anyone want to tell me what the link was all about?
- Kevin C. Tofel
I didnt read this.
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
struth.
- Duncan Riley
If the headline appeals, I like it (so it doesn't go away) and then go read the article. If I don't like it, I find it agian and unlike it. This was a time where I had to unlike it.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
read?
- Jeff Woelker
from twhirl
I also hide things without clicking at the link.
- sergiooo
your wife is a hottie, but she's giving me seizures.
- Hao Chen
naa.. i'd at least look at the url first, then like it :)
- Tim Hoeck
Is this meant to be humour??
- Mel Buckpitt
There are times when the comments deserve a comment, even if I don't care to look at the item itself.
- Michael C. Harris
Why do I have to click the link first? Maybe the headline is compelling enough to be liked and spark discussion. Also, there is no link sometimes.
- Rah-PM 2012
ha liked it and didn't click... But now I'm curious... Where does it go?
- JR
Don't tell me, the study was done by the "Short Attention Span Institute"???
- Useless.com
liking this without reading your article
- Bartek Ciszkowski
I haven't clicked on a link in years.
- Akiva
If your brain provides enough context, sometimes you only need the headline. Headlines are sentences too... Maybe we're moving to a "one sentence" world. Friendfeed can fuel that, because it allows passing along sentences easily. P.S. I didn't read the post :)
- Meryn Stol
It's everywhere, not just here. You people are lazy. *stares at you*
- Bwana ☠
Microsoft on Vista: ‘The time of worry is over.’ - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Mike Hussein Cohen, Jan Cifra, Brian Daniel Eisenberg and 4 other people liked this
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffff.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
I probably have to show this to one guy, who was yesterday sending all the hell on heads of M$ (together with other 108,000+ people) where MS can NOT solve HW/drivers/SW issues for months... or probably forgot to do so :)
- A. T.
Too little, too late. I still love XP. It does its job and I don't have to spend $300 or whatever ridiculous amount of money I need to spend to do what I need to do.
- Michael Gaines
so essentially, it WAS and IS crap but you should move to it anyway in preparation for more crap called Windows 7....jeesh, I sure hope they have more going on than the two cash cows called Windows and Office...
- Kevin Cearns
I found it somehow amusing
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
@Bwana this is not exactly funny, actually - majority of people out there _is_ dependent on MS, and majority of IT basics education goes on guess-which platform...
- A. T.
Maybe Brooks listens to TWiT, a couple of episodes ago they were talking about how Apple has been promoting OSX at the expense of Vista and MS hasn't done anything at all to combat it.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
@silpol Some concessions were made to Vista compatibility for security reasons. It's better overall for the computing landscape to not support crappy applications and drivers.
- Paul Whitaker
@Starman you can get an upgrade to Home Premium for $119 on amazon.com. ;)
- Paul Whitaker
I like the admission that Vista is vastly improved now. kind of saying that it was not fully ready at RTM. This does nothing to assure people of Windows Seven - its the next attempt at fulfilling all Vista's promises and it's still winodws under the hood. We need a new OS built for the 21st Century with 21st Century programming, not an OS whose heritage goes back to DOS.
- Roberto Bonini
@rbonini: technically, modern Windows (since NT) has more VMS heritage than DOS's. DOS is emulated in it, and not quite brilliantly: dosbox does better.
- 9000
I absolutely love both my Vista machines. Just sayin'.
- mrshl
I don’t feel sorry for Yahoo - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Ashraf Mansoor, Andromeda Edison and gregory liked this
The most hated man in productivity - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
RAPatton, Bryan Landers, Alex Hammer and 20 other people liked this
Tim Ferriss is on in 20 minutes (at 10 a.m.).
- Robert Scoble
"hated!?" Tim is great! Who hates Tim, I'll punch them in the mouth.
- Veronica
Hate.. how can I hate Tim??
- Dave Peck
I love his book...I read it in 4 hours during work...J/K great book! :)
- Pokai
Tim is loving these comments.
- Robert Scoble
will You record it? how long is it?
- Luca Conti
I am Fan of Tim
- Kreg Steppe
scoble, why suit and tie?
- Pokai
I hope the video will be up after i get off of work (in 4 hours)
- Eric_T
are you going to re broadcast the vid?
- Tanya
I have a crush on Mr. Ferris
- Andrea Baker
i thought outsourcing his online dating to people who prettended to b him and schedule 1 hour dates with pretty girls all lined up in 1 day was creepy. especially when he fired some outsourced labor 4 picking girls not pretty enuff. if i remember story right that's pretty messed up.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from fftogo
It's a great book, I think i bought the audio book on iTunes then lost it through some HD crashing DRM goodness. Then went out to the book store and bought the "real" book. That guy owes me a beer next time he is in Seattle or where ever I am when we cross paths. I used to recommend it to my coworkers but then I thought maybe i should just recommend it to people I DON'T work with...
- Eric_T
He seems like a "unique individual" but love him or hate him you have to respect what he's doing, what he's done and how well he has made it work.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Thing is, his book's title is there only to grab attention. And then he spends the bulk of his book trying to make the content fit the title, and spends his interviews defending his book title. Why couldn't he have been more honest in the first place, and named his book something like "Outsourcing unpleasant tasks"? I'll tell you why. Because that was already known, and because it wouldn't have sold. So he created controversy to boost book sales. In my book, that's DISHONEST.
- Raoul Pop
Tim is awesome. The title is what it is and frankly it's probably time folks got over it. He doesn't try and "justify" it - he explains it because people keep asking. Reality? Even in the book itself he is clear and honest about the title. Tim has good advice, and more than that he is a living example of thinking outside the box - just knowing he is out there, pulling it off, helps me think laterally.
- Soulhuntre
Scoble, your welcome for the suggestion to interview Tim, how bout some props?
- adolfo foronda
Adolfo: I have known Tim for more than a year, and he was always my first choice to have on the show. I also got dozens of people asking me to have Tim on the show, but thanks! He was a great guest.
- Robert Scoble
Good FastCompany interview, Robert. Enjoyed it.
- Phil Glockner
An Open Sourced Twitter Emerges: Identi.ca - http://www.bwana.org/2008...
Mitchell Tsai, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Paul Kane and 43 other people liked this
that's the way to go..twitted is an utility and open source Is the way to go to guarantee availability
- PF Thaler
registered as well
- Naor Mark
ericortega is on there
- Eric Ortega
from twhirl
It's PHP based, which disappoints me for some reason. But the code looks pretty clean.
- Fred Yankowski
I'm there - mwsmedia
- Matthew Wayne Selznick
from twhirl
Port it to python :) http://laconi.ca/
- Bwana ☠
Open source and Twitter? I think I smell awesome.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
and i thought that pownce will benefit ...(from twitter whale)
- Naor Mark
I hope this works
- Alejandro
Time to test another site.
- Eric_T
Why built another website? There already is Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk.
- Andrew Bashore
from twhirl
How long before @SteveRubel declares FF dead and identi.ca the new google? ;D
- Gez
I'm just curious how the distributed part works, how do I connect my install of laconica with yours? So that I can see your feed on the friends timeline of my install. Or is that not how it is supposed to work?
- Frans
Does anyone have an answer to Fran's question?
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
This is the spec for OpenMicroBlogging: http://openmicroblogging.org/ I don't think it works like that, Frans. The idea behind it, as far as my understanding goes, is that there's a protocol to allow you to write to identi.ca's data store, and eventually identi.ca will support other microblogging services that use the OMB protocol, but it's not federation.
- Mark Trapp
I'm pretty sure everyone's wishing, out of thin air, something that identi.ca is not. All it's really doing is implementing a standard like REST, JSON, or whatever; it's just standardizing the fields so you don't have to guess or rely on a specific API for each microblogging service. I guess you could federate based off of it being interoperable, but it's nowhere near that. For one, identi.ca is the first service that I know of that even implements OMB.
- Mark Trapp
fd
- Justin Coleman
from twhirl
Bwana - You do a good job explaining the potential on your blog. Thanks
- Charlie Anzman
Suppose you have an account on server A and you want to follow somebody who created an account on server B. You can subscribe to the remote user, and your server (A) will contact server B to set up a remote sub. After that when the user on server B posts an item, it's also posted back to your server. Sync/decentralization is handled on a user-by-user basis.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm sure Laconica looks very much like Twitter did two years ago when it was just starting out. Simple SQL tables on the back end, basic UI functionality, no API, etc. Twitter's had two years to work on this full time, and they haven't been worried at all about building a distributed network. I'm all for open source, but I'm skeptical. It's not obvious to me that a community-based effort can catch and pass a venture-funded, full-time team with two years of operational experience.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, you highlight two huge misconceptions of this hype: 1) it's not federated yet. It's not even close to federated. and 2) it's not a community project. To make changes you either a) have to get identi.ca to buy into it and push it to http://identi.ca, or b) fork the project and run your own instance. This isn't the power of the internet working against the machine. This is a locked-in cathedral style development. Only one party has access to the final release (the server on which identi.ca resides)
- Mark Trapp
Yay Mark! Yes, yes, yes. While anyone can GET the source code, any major changes have to come from a main hub for separate instances to work together. There's always this misconception of Open Source that it's this completely democratic process and anyone can just do whatever they want.
- Cyndy
Exactly, Cyndy! You have a huge problem open sourcing a software-as-a-service, especially one that needs to interact with all other copies of itself: there is no way to run a bazaar style development without compromising the security of the main distribution points. It REQUIRES a single development team controlling the project scope and direction. Maybe the guys that run identi.ca are the next Linus Torvalds or the next rms or esr, but the law of very large numbers suggests they probably aren't.
- Mark Trapp
What does that mean for everyone else? The exact same scenario as Twitter. One development team who contributes the vast bulk of the code that makes it into the final release. You're still at the mercy of the design decisions they make, and the preliminary reports about the nature of the code does not bode well.
- Mark Trapp
I definatly think that Identi.ca is extremely slow in loading
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
AKA this is not a big deal :) This is the argument I was trying to make earlier but couldn't. This isn't a revolution, it's just a company using everyone else to try and improve their Twitter clone.
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
After the server move (if your DNS has caught up), the speeds have improved. It's day 2. I'm treating it as such.
- Bwana ☠
I'm confused. Where in my article or in these comments is anyone calling this the next big thing? Why are there so many quick to shoot it down? Seems like a lot of assumptions are being made.
- Bwana ☠
If you want more details of the architecture, join the identica room where this has already been discussed - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
i'm not a fan of being forced to accept creative commons licensing where my content is concerned.
- Brooks Bayne
Mark, I give you a +10. I felt like I was spitting into the wind on this one.
- Cyndy
Bwana, I'm quick to shoot it down because a PHP app with a database back-end is going to end up as the same mess as Twitter. Adding the shiny "open source" tag doesn't make it any cooler OR more stable. It just makes Dave Winer happy to jump on the bus.
- Cyndy
@wolfsbayne you aren't being forced- you don't _have_ to use the service, CC is part of the feature set of the service- some people prefer freedom of content- and as always you still have the freedom of choice.
- Nathan Eckenrode
You're assuming way too much. My article's tone was simply to watch it because it's the first major effort that I know of that's open sourced and is testing the waters of OpenMicroBlogging. The point is not whether it'll fail or not, the point is that is taking a different direction. I stated many times that I don't believe open source or federation will automatically equal success. It's ok to use it and not be gung ho that it's going to kill anything.
- Bwana ☠
And yes if Dave Winer is happy, it'll get attention. Whether that's right or wrong is irrelevant to my point.
- Bwana ☠
@nathan i think it was implied by my post that i wasn't going to use it because of CC. thanks for telling me i don't have to use it. lol!
- Brooks Bayne
I think the "Replies" feature is out now. Time to update your article. :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Microsoft Yahoo then Facebook? Rejected - Microsoft Did Bunker Down in Palo Alto - http://furrier.org/2008...
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Microsoft MVP at Microsoft - http://www.linkedin.com/in...
Andromeda Edison, Mark Trapp and Louis Gray liked this
Oh no! They got you!
- Louis Gray
Aaaargh! It's sucking my will to live!
- Stephen Foskett
MVP? Do you get a trophy?
- Mark Trapp
You get a virtual trophy and some MS software... But the important thing is the networking and business value. I'm pleased!
- Stephen Foskett
I don't have to like all aspects of someone to have a good conversation with them, do you?
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You shouldn't have to like any aspect of someone to have a good conversation with them. Otherwise, how do we bring about the hardest of changes - those with people we hate?
- Dossy Shiobara
not liking all aspects is one thing, but I won't tolerate anyone who abuses and harasses...they lose their right to debate or engage with me
- Erin @queenofspain
But where do you draw the line of abuse or harassment? For me, I might have a good conversation with someone who someone else has felt abused by - is my conversing with them tantamount to condoning that? I'm exploring this idea here... b/c I've been confused lately by people apparently condoning behavior by one person, but not tolerating it in another. Confusing. :\
- Lucretia Pruitt
Dossy: Thumbs up to that!
- Steve Isaacs
I've drawn the line at someone who's gone after me, personally. other than that, I like hearing all the crazy voices out there
- Erin @queenofspain
In general, no. I have known a few people who push things far enough that I feel I can't talk to them. It helps if they are not stupid.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
love the crazies but not the abusive... pretty easy to figure out.
- Barbara K. Baker
I'm with you on that Erin, to a point... but sometimes I see someone attack people I know and think "I don't want to be next on the list" - it's a hard line to draw. @Julian very good point - it is a subjective situation, isn't it?
- Lucretia Pruitt
Conflict = Drama.
- john conroy
I think it depends on what aspect of the person you don't like. There are levels after all, if you don't like the way they dress and they don't like the way you dress, still have great conversations. However if they are just critical of you and/or people you know, maybe not so much
- Andromeda Edison
World's Most Expensive House Costs A Lot - Geekologie - http://www.geekologie.com/2008...
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"Mukesh Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world, is having a new house built in Mumbai. Mukesh made his money as head of Mumbai-based petrochemical company Reliance industries. His net worth is over $43 billion and he, his wife, and 3 kids currently live in a 22-story tower (the whole thing)."
- Bret Taylor
My mind is officially blown.
- Andrei M. Marinescu
from Alert Thingy
-1 for excessive consumption!
- Jennie Lin
Shows that $ can't buy taste. This is hideous!
- tagami
guys, you sound jealous - it's Ok to salivate on TajMahal but blame modern time nuvoriche for own palace ;)
- A. T.
Gates' house is sicker...
- Ryan
Anyway, it's a HECK lot of money in a house.
- Cesar Cardoso
It is misleading that there will be only 5 people in the house. Ambani's have a huge extended family, lots of uncles, aunts, cousins. And don't forget the servants.
- Shakeel Mahate
Bret, maybe this pad on sea cliff ave in nw san francisco is more in your price range - its a steal at just $22 million! ha -ok I guess its still better than $2 billion http://apr.com/Default... ...the views are pretty amazing though
- Michael Mayer
There is a term for this style of house. It's called "a fucking hotel."
- peter
$2B certainly gets you a lot of ugly house!
- m13a
I think it looks absolutely awful, the guy has no taste at all!
- Joe Dawson
Ugliest house ever. Probably nice to live in, though.
- Rob Schonberger
@Michael I agree that's much more my speed
- j1m
Definitely not the prettiest looking building, but the inside is something else
- Andromeda Edison
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