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FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/bgolub... UPDATE: looks like FF is in the default list now :) - LogEx

that change in greader is how I found FF - Jeremy (on vacation)

I had no idea they forced him to get chemically castrated after he admitted he was gay. Disgusting. I hope the government officially apologizes for killing one of the great minds of that generation. - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

ACM Statement Regarding British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Apology on the Treatment of Alan Turing ACM (09/11/09) Hall, Wendy ACM applauds Prime Minister Brown's statement on the treatment of Alan Turing, writes Dame Professor Wendy Hall, ACM President. ACM has long celebrated the fundamental contributions of Alan M. Turing not only for his instrumental role in British code-breaking... more... - ǝuǝƃnǝ

"There are lots of uses of Twitter that smack of lame bandwagon-jumping. This definitely isn’t one – live commentaries for TV shows via Twitter." - Martin Bryant from Bookmarklet

And HOW EXACTLY would Twitter be more effective than FriendFeed or a chat room to hold such a large conversation about a program? - Brad Williamson

I still don't have any lenses though :P - Benjamin Golub

I plan on selling the D40 and DX lenses. - Benjamin Golub from email

Fun feature on the stories behind Apple and Microsoft's ad campaigns. "Apple’s ads put Microsoft in a bind. One of Madison Avenue’s rules is that a market leader never acknowledges a smaller competitor in its advertising. What’s more, if Microsoft responded with ads that backfired, it would look just like Mr. Hodgman’s character. Maybe it was better to grin and bear it." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

lol... maybe: “You are not so embarrassed to take your PC out of the bag on a plane anymore,” said Mr. Reilly at the ad agency. “It’s actually kind of cool that you do. I know this is working.” - Christopher Chung

cool feature. love it! - Jenna Bilotta

"Just looking at you from across the bar, I could tell you display high Brightness and Vibrance, and have multiple Layers." - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

Wow, the girls are really good at making up creepy pickup lines! - Rebecca Sun

Firefox 1.5??!! - Kenton

"Several events as of late have cause many folks to celebrate a resurgence in blogs. The events of FriendFeed being purchased by Facebook and the demise of Tr.im (although it was resurected) have everyone questioning their trust in storing data on services controlled by others. Chris Saad shouts that Blogs are back. I recently chimed in on the need to maintain blogs and providng reminders of others who have deemed blogging dead and shown us the future of blogging. I completely agree with Louis Gray, Robert Scoble and many others that our blogs should always be our main hub but they also need to evolve with the changes that have transpired with the advent of Social Media services and the real time web..." - james reilly from Bookmarklet

I am wagering that those lines will cross within the next few years. (I am typing this on a netbook.) - Sean McBride

True I think these lines will cross even sooner like late next year - polou/indigo_bow

You may be right, although the most popular form factor will perhaps expand a bit -- to say a 12" display or so, with quadruple the RAM. Netbooks can easily replace desktop PCs and laptops for most of the tasks most people need to perform with computers. - Sean McBride

A study published today by eMarketer, more than half of social networking users have become a fan or follower of a brand online. Moreover, users are far more likely to say something positive about a brand than something negative. From the report: “52% of social network users had become a fan or follower of a company or brand, while 46% had said something good about a brand or company on a social networking Website—double the percentage who had said something negative (23%).” - polou/indigo_bow from Bookmarklet

Sometimes even brands or big names does not guarantee success. - polou/indigo_bow

#46 is Valentino Rossi, #1 in the world right now. #99 is Jorge Lorenzo, #2 in the world. I'm here to study innovators and these two are at the top of their game. The team behind them is doing interesting stuff with social media, too. - Robert Scoble

Good work, Robert - James Myatt

You can share items that you find out on the web in Google Reader. In the blog, click the "Notes page" link and then click "Expanded" to find the bookmarklet and drag it up to your bookmarks bar. - Matt Cutts

Jenna or Mihai, can you add the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet to the Goodies tab as well? It took me quite a bit of searching to find the bookmarklet. - Matt Cutts

matt, it's been filed as a bug for a while. Guess we should just do it sometime soon. It's now (only recently) on all the viewer interruptions though. - Jenna Bilotta

Yes. That would be really great. A cool addition would be if Google Calendar will be integrated. That would make the wave a real killer applet. I hope for a lot of cool Gadgets for integration in alot of services. - JoeD

Web-savvy scientists gathered at the Science Online London conference in London on 22 August to explore how the Internet is changing the communication, practice and culture of science. Biochemist Cameron Neylon, of the University of Southampton, UK, was one of a few scientists at the conference who have been given pre-release access to Google Wave an online collaboration and communication tool announced with great fanfare on 27 May. Nature spoke to Neylon about how Google Wave could transform the way that scientists work. What is Google Wave, and how might scientists use it? It is a communication tool that is essentially e-mail crossed with an instant messenger. You can think of each 'wave' or e-mail thread as a flexible document, which allows collaborators to chat and edit the same version in real time. You can also easily drop rich media such as sound files, charts and videos into the document. So Google Wave could be used for collaborative authoring, to speed up writing papers and... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Writing Chemspidey Research Robot http://blog.openwetware.org/science... Via: http://friendfeed.com/cameron... - Eric Logan

"We are excited to announce the limited beta of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between your existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables you to connect your existing infrastructure to a set of isolated AWS compute resources via a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection, and to extend your existing management capabilities such as security services, firewalls, and intrusion detection systems to include your AWS resources. Amazon VPC integrates today with Amazon EC2 compute resources, and we will integrate Amazon VPC with other AWS services in the future." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

Will this be enough for the pharma companies to start using the cloud too? - Egon Willighagen

Egon, to start using? What do you think keeps me so busy :). But yes, it will definitely accelerate usage for certain workloads - Deepak Singh

About Craigslist: "I do not believe we should criticize a company that operates like this. We should learn from it. Of all the Internet companies out there, the one that serves as the most iconic for our firm is craigslist, not Google. We dream of funding a company that can be worth a billion dollars with only 30 employees. We've never done it and I don't know if we ever will. But we are going to try again and again and again." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

I don't follow: "Only programmers, customer service reps, and accounting staff work at craigslist. There is no business development, no human resources, no sales. As a result, there are no meetings." - Doug Beeferman

The reviews on that are worth the time to read. Hilarious all around. - Akiva Moskovitz

Well, now that Amazon officially recognized it, I guess its internet meme life is over :p - Kamilah Gill

Good Stuff for Wordpress Bloggers, thanks! - Antonio Pinheiro

Really good talk. One thing I found odd was to try to switch between synonyms in a post: content is clearer and more understandable if you refer to the same thing the same way every time in a particular context. Is Google working to make synonym searching better to obviate the need to do that? - Mark Trapp