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I'm so proud! My son was interviewed about his iPhone use. Miniscobleizer tells all about iPhone, cool! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog...
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I want a fuze lol
- David Gross
from IM
An army of Scobles seem to be taking over teh FriendFeed. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
- Chris Luckhardt
mini is Patrick, micro is Milan and nano is on the road, right? :)
- directeur
directeur: yeah! :-)
- Robert Scoble
He must have your wife's coloring...
- SAM
Now if only you could get him on friendfeed.
- Alex Scoble
Scoblefeed Rocks!
- Russellreno
The picture is adorable! The Scobles Rock!
- lygea
So Milan was interviewed? :)
- Rochelle
Rochelle: Milan cries if you take away his iPhone. So another geek is in the building! :-) But this interview was with Patrick. Scott: yup, Milan has a lot of mommy in him.
- Robert Scoble
My three year old loves my iPhone. He kicks me off it to play AwesomeBall.
- Matt Mastracci
Hopefully the green won't set in later in life... I'm much more pale now than I was as a kid.
- SAM
Patrick - CONGRATS!!!!! you too @Robert, since you imprinted Patrick correctly; and now, Milan soon to follow! :) @Directeur LOL! @Iygea, I agree, the picture is adorable!!
- Susan Beebe
the Honda Insight "Let It Shine" ad on @vimeo is one of the most creative examples of online advertising around http://vimeo.com/4281939
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Seriously thinking of getting one...hmm.
- Victor Panlilio
wow...that was probably the most creative bit of online advertising i have seen. this McAfee ad done by Obscura Digital in San Fran wasn't online, but pretty amazing nonetheless... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jeffrey Marsh
This is how all advertisements should be done!
- Nicholas James
http://twitpic.com/wqkz - One of Ben's presents--an electroinics project kit with "fiber optics". Fun for whole family!
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Where did you get this http://twitpic.com/wqkz . My 5 year old got tired with this http://tr.im/iWMD. So, thinking of upgrading :-)
- Ranjith Antony
I don't know, that Snap Kit looks pretty cool. The kit we got was through the school's book sale. I don't see the same kit on-line anywhere.. The fiber optics is a entertaining. And the fact that the kit has a "transmitter" and a "receiver" with about half a dozen projects for each. Don't know where you'd get a hold of one tho.
- Steve Mitchell
wow - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - wow for so many reasons
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Wow this is amazing
- Chris Saad
This took my breath away - amazing voice
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I'd admit it...I was getting a little misty-eyed. Hard not to.
- CAJ, somewhere else
When will Simon Cowell bag the ugly ass haircut?
- Alex Scoble
I love these things. Worth watching.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, agreed. I wish the iphone had the ability to send a link to a youtube video quickly so this could be sent to my daughters today
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I wish they tuned down the audience a bit... Could barely hear her at times
- Mark Philpot
this lady certainly has a voice! good for her i say for being brave. :)
- Tatty Gibson
OMG, I'm in tears here. That was lovely and wow that song with all that. Had to favorite it. </sentimental wimp>
- Admiral Anika
Is good to see what nature can do. Incredible voice!
- Rafael
Alan, me too. Out of this world.
- Meryn Stol
Newspaper says she's the frontrunner to win: http://news.scotsman.com/enterta...
- Sprague D
That's a magnificent clip, I wish America's Got Talent was so entertaining and surprising.
- Jonathan Coffman
i watched this last night, love her! Her voice is a true gift.
- Laura Zickus
Thanks for sharing that - perfect for this time of year
- Jesse Stay
She's this year's Paul Potts. Great voices, the pair of them.
- Mark H
That was just amazing. And the perfect song for both her situation and to start the waterworks. Now i have to follow the show and see if she wins.
- Kevin Fox
While I absolutely detest these shows, I must say, this woman got to me.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
It says "embedding disabled by request."
- Dawn
You can click through to YouTube via the link. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Awesome
- Rodfather
Wow.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, Duh. Got it, Kevin. This reminds me of the British man who sang opera. It was unbelievable. I think our American shows shoudn't limit the age. I'd love to see what some of the older folks here can do.
- Dawn
Here's the opera guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Dawn
Dawn, America's got talent doesn't limit age either
- Jesse Stay
Great! I was thinking of American Idol. Never seen America's Got Talent.
- Dawn
"so you think you can dance" limits at 30 years or so. Such a shame.
- Kevin Fox
"So that's just one side of me!" Hahaha. So nice, she's courageous and willing, good game! So modest to have her walk away after her performance, I'm almost crying.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Wow. I usually avoid all of these types of shows. But that was very cool!
- Louis Gray
I actually felt a lump form in my throat. Good for her.
- cecily
As LG said, it's my first view of that. Damn talents' shows, they got me.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
it's terrific.. awesome.. fantastic..
- Ozan Kilic
I loved this-she is sublime!
- Susan Dennis
What a beautiful voice. Love how she proved them all wrong.
- Patrick Ward
Fantastic. Thanks for the newspaper link @Sprague D, her life story is just as amazing.
- Henry Burger
awesome
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Wow!
- Phil Maxwell
WOW! brought a few tears to my eye.
- Jasmin Smith
incredi-wow.
- Micah Wittman
Beautiful.
- CW™
Gosh, I think I've watched this video like 50 times already.
- Nir Ben Yona
Just goes to show how synical we all are, and how fast we are to judge people.
- Steve Mactaggart
from twhirl
Incredible stuff.
- Russ Jackson
Not bad! I still prefer this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - That said, it was a surprisingly good performance. Not as much as Paul Potts, who was entirely horripilative and transcendent.
- david beckwith
This was a surprise--and lovely, thx
- susan mernit
and I love this song
- Erin @queenofspain
Awesome performance. I've never seen the look of pleasant surprise on Simon's face before. You could tell that even he enjoyed it. He still needs to get a better haircut though.
- Alex Scoble
Britain may have talent, but that's more than I can say for Simon Cowell. The man is the Antichrist, as far as i'm concerned.
- Iain Baker
He was a tamed little kitteh for 6 minutes during that performance though.
- Alex Scoble
Don't know enough about Cowell to make a value judgement on the man. Sometimes (and I don't know if this is the case with Cowell) the a-hole attitude is a public front. It's possibly the case with Gordon Ramsey, and it certainly is with Ann Robinson - I've been to a recording of 'The Weakest Link' at Pinewood Studios, and she switches 'bitch mode' on and off along with the cameras.
- Ian May
Wow! Brings back memories when I first saw paul potts...
- Jorg Jansen
Seriously? This reeks of scripted viral. The show caught (online) fire in '07 with the Paul Potts audition...arguably the hottest shared video of the year. When the show returned last year, there wasn't an act even minutely close to the WOM impact Potts had generated the privious year. Clearly the BGT online buzz strategy for '09... Potts 2.0. #fail
- Zach Lytwyn
The best thing about this thread is that there is really only one cynical jaded comment out of all of them.
- cecily
Britains Got Talent FTW!
- Nicholas James
I cried...
- mjc
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!
- josh neff, geek at large
I was completely amazed...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Watching Simon's eyes go wide was soooooo worth it.
- Great Scott!
ahh, the power of the edit. great job of making her look like a 'cat lady' for the first several minutes. all the more powerful when we find out she's not totally daft.
- MikeAmundsen
That is one courageuos woman with an amazing voice. Goosebumps all over.
- Jochen Lillich
Don't judge a book by its cover!
- TheHenry
That's absolutely awesome
- C.K. Johnson
'Embedding disabled by request'! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol you can still follow the link to Youtube ;)
- Nicholas James
Nicholas, yeah I did just wondering why it didn't work embedded. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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Mmmmm.. leaks..
- Bwana ☠
No threats from Arrington about posting pics? http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... :p
- Rob
I can't believe it's real.
- Rudolf Olah
Rudolph, check out this video of the new TechCrunch offices that Michael Arrington shot today. You'll see the same units on the table, running. http://qik.com/video/1429553.
- Loren Heiny
10 most extraordinary tweets http://mashable.com/2009...
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"Slumdog" Kids Back To School - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
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"I don't want to sleep on the floor anymore. I want a proper bed and live where the air does not smell of poo. I have seen what it is like in America. Here, there is garbage everywhere, people get angry, swear and shout. I have realised how bad life is here. I just want to get out."
- Karen Padham Taylor
from Bookmarklet
"Meanwhile, both Rubina and Azharuddin continue to wear their Oscar clothes and pine for life in America"
- Karen Padham Taylor
God, there's something wrong with this. These kids are traumatized. They were trotted out to LA as showpieces and now they can't live a normal life anymore. Is the production company and the Mumbai housing authority going to give them a flat, as promised? "I cannot believe these kids have just been left like this after being taken to Hollywood. It is bound to affect them psychologically," said social worker Sanjay Bhatia, who works in the slum.
- Christopher Chung
Ugh!
- Jason Wehmhoener
So, not taking them to the Oscars was a better idea? Uprooting them from their only known social construct and plopping them in front of Brad & Angie's house?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Much better to see what is possible and strive for it in anguish, rather than be satisfied with the status quo. Coming from a lower middle-class background in India, I have bought old Fortune magazines from wastepaper shops for two rupees to read up on what was happening. Yes, it made my then condition seem like hell, but heck I would not be here now if I had not known what I wanted.
- Mahesh CR
This is so sad!
- April Buchheit
If you never realize there is something better out there for you, why would you climb out of the crap-hole you're in?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
That's really sad... I have been living under a rock and don't know much about the movie but didn't they make any money off of it since it was so successful??
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Lindsay, seriously, that's the part I don't understand. I would have thought they'd have made at least enough money for a "proper bed" and a place to put it, at least for a while...
- Jason Wehmhoener
Honestly, it sounds like $1K would make a big difference in their lives... they didn't even make that much??
- Fa La La La Lindsay
back to School and back to the Slums
- bcultral
Doesn't most of the responsibility fall on the people behind Slumdog? They had to make a few extra dollars that they can pay these kids. Why aren't they doing it?!?
- grant fox
I thought I read somewhere that the producers of this movie were buying houses for the families of all these kids. I need to try to find that story.
- Trish R
Perhaps this is a stretch, but how is this any different than any of the kids throughout the world who get used by large companies to manufacture products that we use in the West? Danny Boyle and co. are eating very well right now.
- Cee Bee
If they're child actors, the money would've been paid to their parents. No matter how much the children made, the production company has no control over how the parents opted to spend it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Here's the story. http://www.independent.ie/enterta...
- Trish R
but do the same rules apply in India as they do here? from what I understand it would take a very small amount of $$ to make their lives better. The child actors in Slumdog were a significant part of the movie, and one could argue that they were the better actors as well (besides Freida Pinto, but I digress...).
- grant fox
Sounds to me like the Indian government said they'd find houses for them and then backed out of it. Based on the photograph of the youngest boy's father hitting him, I'd guess his parents are pocketing the money and the officials are looking the other way.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Mahesh: very powerful statement. This whole story makes me sad, partly because of how spoiled we are as Americans.
- Robert Scoble
From the article: His father is also saying he wants more money for his son's film role. In addition to school, the kids were paid for their work and have trust funds set up for when they turn 18.
- Nine
At least they are in school. I hope they do something useful with their trust funds.
- Jason Wehmhoener
How sad. But then again, so many kids never have any opportunities.
- Andrew Pass
40 Useful JavaScript Libraries - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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Cool new Avaak wireless camera system puts low-cost video to the web | FastCompany.TV - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...
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I can see using these for monitoring different rooms and my front door so I don't have to go down the stairs just to find some salesman.
- Robert Scoble
They "had" to develop their own protocol? Is it open source? Totally ridiculous, and it will be hacked. I'll check out their site for documentation.
- coldbrew
No documentation. Poor support section. No developer hooks. It looks like they want to be an island unto themselves, just another silo, *sigh*.
- coldbrew
Looks like to me the media is MJPEG, but they might have used a transport protocol similar to Bluetooth's GAVDP instead of RTP or HTTP, to conserve the batteries. I really would like to see a wireshark :-)
- Ranjith Antony
coldbrew: probably they did that to save power. But, yeah, it does have some pretty big holes. I really wish it had audio. Not having audio makes it difficult to use for things like baby monitoring.
- Robert Scoble
That's thing, they only tell you 2.4GHz, but not 802.11, 802.15.4, 802,15.3 etc. It all comes down to the ASIC they are using, and power management has nothing to do with air interface protocol.
- coldbrew
I stand corrected, to some extent. They could save some power using a custom stack, but keeping it obscured and proprietary will only hurt them in the long run.
- coldbrew
What happens if you loose connectivity to their service? Is there any local storage on the base station...
- Milko D. Georgiev
Milko: good question. I don't know that answer.
- Robert Scoble
10mins a day usage? meh, cool they have their own protocol? there are still of other options that make this nothing more than a commodity, i don't see the differentiators what am i missing?
- adolfo foronda
It was 600min streaming time.
- coldbrew
And, it is not "cool" that they came up with their own "protocol" that is not interoperable.
- coldbrew
I was on board until I found out they weren't motion triggered. I'd like it to SMS or email me when someone triggers the camera and then start recording and let me see it live or the recorded video (to catch a thief) of know when the UPS guy comes by.
- Kevin Trotman
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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programming without semi-colons? madness! I want each and every one of you freaks to PERSONALLY apologize to Kernighan and Ritchie.
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Yet Another Twitter Marriage Proposal - http://blog.wired.com/underwi...
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Aww I knew those two were gonna get hitched!
- Phil G
Not to be morbid, but where's the first Twitter proposal FAIL? Happiness is so 1992-2000.
- Jason Wong
@Jason Wong I haven't seen any immediate rejections, but at least one of the previous high profile proposals did not end in marriage.
- Gordon Saunders
Where is the first (false) proposal with a hacked account?
- Jemm
I was thinking about asking @Scobleizer to marry me, but then they passed Prop 8, darn prop 8. He wouldnt've got the tweet though, until it showed up on FF.
- Will Higgins™
One more reason to get all your friends on Twitter ;)
- Yuvi
A Holistic Approach to Security in Product Development - http://stevejmitchell.blogspot.com/2009...
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Congrats FriendFeed!! Best New Startup of 2008!! #crunchies
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YEAH!! I love Friendfeed...this is really well deserved!! Congrats Bret, Paul, and team!!
- Susan Beebe
W00T!
- Eric Florenzano
Outstanding!!!
- Louis Gray
Congrats Friendfeed Best New Startup of 2008
- zsafwan
Congrats FF, that's awesome!
- Carmen
Well deserved! (despite the poor applause)
- Jesse Stay
Friendfeed? What's that?
- John Rubier
from twhirl
w00t!
- AJ Batac
NICE!!
- Mike Fruchter
Very well deserved indeed.
- Mike Fruchter
YEAH!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Congrats on the Crunchie!
- Sean Brady
congrats guys!! you deserve it as much as louis gray and scoble deserve it :)
- Abhishek
:)
- Ayşe E.
YAY!!!
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
FriendFeed rocks!
- Igor Poltavskiy
GO FRIENDFEED!!!
- Steven Perez
FriendFeed rules!
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
Congrats FriendFeed!
- Drew Lucas
oh yeah! congrats!
- Jay
never heard of it
- sean percival
Sean!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
This feels so right! Congrats!!!
- Bo Stern
Well done and congratulations :)
- Niki Costantini
Hurrah!
- Felicia Yue
w000t!
- dario
Friendfeed for the win!! Well done.
- Amani
FriendFeed wins best startup of 2008
- Drew B
Great news! Congrats to everyone at Team FriendFeed!
- Mark Krynsky
Congratulations! :)
- Karthick R
Well Done
- Marcus Beagley
Well deserved!
- Phil Smirnov
12 hours later, there's me congratulating FriendFeed. It's not too late I hope.
- Umit Namli
Yay!!
- Tyson Key
who else was nominated? was it even close?
- Christian Burns
FF rules! Way to go guys. Are you hiring now?
- John McElhenney 2.0
Breaking photographic rules. You know not to shoot toward the sun, right? Here's why you should: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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If I were a good photographer and could write for the Digital Photography School blog (one of my favorite blogs about photography, it's at http://digital-photography-school.com/blog... ) I would write a post about breaking the rules. For one, people tell you all the time never to shoot toward the sun. I find that to be a stupid rule that's worth breaking once in a while. Why? It creates dramatic lighting effects that are second to none. Look at how the patterns in the sand are highlighted by shooting directly into the reflections made by the sun. Most people don't think of doing this, because it hurts your eyes to look at it, and exposing this isn't easy (even here, I should have made it a little darker).
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
That's a sand dune? Wow! Looks like the top of a milkshake with raisins. Not sure I could ever become that good of a photographer, but I will keep trying.
- MarkCarras
I love to take photos at the sun, pulls in unique colors, lighting and shadows, especially through trees! My Flickr stream is full of in-your-face-sun-shots!
- Susan Beebe
Mark: it's not a dune, it's the beach where the water washes over the sand. I love the patterns it makes when the water drains away. One danger? Watch for the next wave or you'll get wet! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Another image, done right into the sun's reflections: http://www.flickr.com/photos... I love how sharp the Canon 100mm F2.8 macro is. I wish I had the 5D MKII -- someday!
- Robert Scoble
Just don't catch the sun directly cause you might do this to your imager (http://www.vimeo.com/2637713). Lens caps are not just for dust any more.
- Joel Ordesky
I took a series like this on my last couple of trips to the beach. The key is to wait until the sun is very low in the sky and you can pick up the shadows and golden reflections from the sand and water. Beautiful photo.
- Karoli
Looks magical! :D
- Michael Forian
You're right but you need great gear, take a look http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Vincenzo Cosenza
vincenzo: nice photo!
- Robert Scoble
Same as a few above, it's great to take photos towards the Sun. I started without a rule book and, to be fair, that was probably a good thing. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Joel, I destroyed a perfectly good camera after setting it up to take a sequence of sunset shots :(
- Nicola Quinn
whats that on the wierd kool pic
- Jasmine
texting while driving is a no-no
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How about driving while testing ?
- Ranjith Antony
The World in 2009: forecasting the year ahead | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/theworl...
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The Economist's annual collection of predictions for the year ahead.
- Steve Rubel
"Those with cash and cunning will find opportunities to buy competitors on the cheap."
- ernie yacub
ernie: I have $20, do you think I can buy Steve Rubel? :-)
- Robert Scoble
i got a better idea, pay him with ff$ whenever he does something you like.
- ernie yacub
ernie: friendfeed's stats tells me he's already sixth on my list of favorite ff'ers. Don't know I can pay him much more ff$ than that!
- Robert Scoble
Flickr Photo Download: - http://ffffound.com/image...
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Your Code Sucks and I Hate You - http://mumak.net/stuff...
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interesting article about the social dynamics of Code Reviews.
- Alan Le
from Bookmarklet
RSS shows its age in real-time web (SUP and XMPP to the rescue?) - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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you mention SUP resource but not XMPP - here are some: http://xmpp.org http://metajack.im/ http://stpeter.im/ http://ralphm.net/blog/
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Mike: I just added those to the post, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: on Leo Laporte's FLOSS Weekly they covered XMPP with one of the developers and the guy who writes the documentation for Jabber is a great overview of XMPP and more info: http://twit.tv/floss49
- Jonathan Jesse
Jonathan, thanks, just added that to the post too.
- Robert Scoble
thanks Robert - and I'm now reading about SUP to see if it is a good fit for Seesmic
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Robert, you should check what we do at Notifixious : http://notifixio.us and let's meet to discuss it!
- Julien
Brilliant. I like it. I think the whole faster web is upon us. As is the need for a meta web, LIKE what we're doing in FF and in BrightKite, etc. What if that were a "layer" of sorts?
- Chris Brogan
When I read that Disqus was using SUP, I checked to see how fast Disqus comments were reflected in my FriendFeed. Surprisingly fast. But we'll have to see what users will demand a year from now; perhaps by that time 30 seconds will seem intolerably slow (it's way too slow for computer aided dispatch/911 folks and some stock traders, for example).
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
A real-time system for corporate info (earnings releases etc) would be a big advancement over current PR wire service distribution, which is slow and unfair to the masses. Companies could cut out the middlemen and deliver their stuff direct to consumers who want it in real time. Just saying there's potential business opportunities here...
- Dominic Jones
With props to Arthur C. Clarke, any sufficiently advanced/frequent polling may be indistinguishable from real time... to the end user... but it's not real time, and it won't scale nearly as well as some form of notification. "Do you have anything new? How about now? How about now?" doesn't scale. "Please tell me when you have something new" (via XMPP or some sort of HTTP callback or post, for example) is still the gold standard.
- Ken Sheppardson
It depends on what's scaling, surely. If service X is watching 2 blogs then it's not hard for that service to ask repeatedly; if it's watching 2 billion then it's harder. Likewise if blog Y is providing updates to 2 services it's not hard; if it's providing updates to 2 billion then it's harder.
- Deborah Fitchett
Deborah: I'm talking about scaling the overall system. Providing updates to 2 billion services is certainly easier [ok, maybe not easier for the system providing updates, but more efficient for the system overall] than 2 billion services polling.
- Ken Sheppardson
two links on http callback/webhooks http://webhooks.pbwiki.com/ and http://joshua.schachter.org/2008... the advantage of this method is that it is based on the well known http infrastructure, while xmpp still has to find its breakthrough for content delivery
- Peter Hoffmann
@Domic/IRWebReport: I would subscribe to that service, google alerts works ok for news about specific companies, but it is as slow as rss
- Jonathan Jesse
Ontario Emporer, it's easy to adjust the frequency of SUP updates, so expect it to settle at whatever is good for that particular service. If you're using a service whose SUP interval is longer than you would like, ask them to shorten it.
- Bruce Lewis
Julien: let's get together soon. Where are you located?
- Robert Scoble
Bruce, thanks for the info.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Thanks for bringing this up. I've been thinking about real-time, but haven't seen SUP yet.
- Adam Kinney
Maybe something like HTML 5 WebSockets will even the field a little (http://www.whatwg.org/specs...). It's a standard defining a bi-directional connection for pushing and pulling information between the browser and server.
- Todd Hoff
Great post Robert. One more SUP resource worth mentioning is the SUP FAQ: http://code.google.com/p...
- Paul Buchheit
Great post, but I think SUP and XMPP aren't the solution. Going lower to something like AMQP is.
- Kirk Wylie
Agree great post. Didn't know SUP data was available on Google Code. Thanks Paul (and FF crew!)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm the developer of ToastedRav.com and I've been looking hard at getting some sort of realtime activity on the site for our social news feed or something, but getting the XMPP setup is a big obstacle.
- Mike Flynn
Shaping Software » Blog Archive » 7 Habits of Highly Effective Program Managers - http://shapingsoftware.com/2008...
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Photo: Hundreds of people, some disguised as Santa Claus, take a bath in the Mediterranean sea. http://discuss.flickrfan.org/2008...
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rockets help build bridge higher than empire state building - http://deputy-dog.com/2008...
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This is just AMAZING. The Siduhe grand bridge (or 四渡河大桥) is located in China's Hubei province. The deck of the bridge has just recently been connected over the valley below and is so high above the ground that you could fit the empire state building underneath it, and still have 360ft spare. The brains behind the bridge attached the 3200ft cables to ROCKETS and accurately fired them over the valley, becoming the first people to do so.
- Nir Ben Yona
Interesting, despite the feat of harnessing rocket fuel to span the valley, it still looks like a bridge that could have been built 75 years ago. Progress?
- Brad Kligerman
If a design works why change it?
- Arthur Guy
I'm not a bridges expert but it looks like the entire feat was more complicated than we might think. No doubt, the rockets technology is a breakthrough, but 75 years ago? Maybe thousands years ago, where secret architecture technologies are still hidden from us (AKA: Egyptian pyramids).
- Nir Ben Yona
@Brad - No, physics
- Tim Ostler
That is sweet.
- Jamelle
Yes. China has the skill set to deliver when and where it wishes to do so. Funny back when the railroads were being built in the U.S they imported Chinese labor to work building the railroads.Irish workers were threatened & thought the Chinese were not capable of doing quality work.
- Baba
A new superpower in making
- imran
Indeed !
- Nir Ben Yona
Fabulous engineering feat! love it! :) Scoble is on to something with the Chinese...hmm
- Susan Beebe
Maybe an IT consultant to the Chinese government.
- Nir Ben Yona
Animal Planet in photos (126 photos) | FreakyMartin.com - http://freakymartin.com/2008...
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Atul Arora, Kol Tregaskes, Ranjith Antony and 11 other people liked this
wow
- Maryam Ardakani
عین دبیر تاریخ سوم دبیرستانمونه مو نمیزنه
- Papak
awesome picture.
- Davide D'Incau
Connie Talbot "I will always love you" from her debut CD - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sweyn Venderbush, Kenton, Ranjith Antony and 5 other people liked this
I've known about this amazing little girl. She truly is gifted.
- James Hoang
Stunning talent! so cute too Great timing... amazingly good
- Susan Beebe
Like this many many times better than the W. Houston version
- Alyx
She deserves a record contract. Incredible.
- Fleagle
is this the girl that won Pop Idol in the UK?
- Chris Hollander
It was Britain's Got Talent
- Fleagle
She's pretty incredible, but there is something about a kid this age singing songs like this that doesn't work.
- Kenton
The unfortunate thing... 10 years from now and think of Britney.. sad already
- Ian D. Nock
An Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after receiving IVF treatment
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Indian woman Rajo Devi,70 (L) holds her baby in her arms as her husband Bala Ram (R) looks on at the Hisar Fertility centre in Hisar on December 8, 2008. An Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after receiving IVF treatment, newspapers reported her doctor as saying. Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state. AFP PHOTO/STR
- FlickrFan
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