"The ED, short for electric drive, is Smart's new battery car, which can deliver up to 150 miles on an overnight charge of its lithium-ion battery pack. It joins an expanding line-up of high-mileage powertrains offered by the Mercedes-Benz sibling division, an assortment that also includes diesel and the new Micro Hybrid Drive, or MHD system—all of which PM recently test drove here across the pond after the fortwo's decidedly slow start."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
The public beta is not very stable on my laptop yet,and after I tried the dev version,it is even worse,it crash all the time,and now I have to uninstall the dev version and install the beta version again.Wish Google won't let the Chrome "Beta" forever like Gmail.What we need most right now is a stable version.
- Steve Chou
Careful. Adobe has been working on this for a long time. I see no reference to Apple saying they'll let flash on the device. Could just be another blogasm.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
God no. It'll run like crap and flash is evil anyway.
- Brad Brooks
They haven't confirmed shit. I could confirm Flash for the iPhone, but that doesn't make it any closer to being a reality under Apple's umbrella.
- l0ckergn0me
Chris... Maybe they announced it so people would put pressure on Apple to allow this. Now there is a large player on the field, and they have lawyers, maybe Apple has to be careful about what they reject.
- Johnny Worthington
"Largest Swimming Pool in the World over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water
- Andrew Baron
from Bookmarklet
That's nutty. The ocean is *right there*. A little redundant (not to mention, the ocean still wins in size!).
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
ocean is cold. they should do this in Cananda. Anyone ever been to a Canadian beach? So beautiful.... and clean. but damn cold. heated outdoor pool is a great idea
- Noah David Simon
I want to see how quickly Phelps can do a length!
- Joe Dawson
Forget the bar, this pool is big enough for an outdoor mall. Shop while you swim.
- LiquidLag
from fftogo
You know how much pee you'd have to get to fill up that pool? lol
- Jim Kukral
from twhirl
@Jim According to Andrew, it would take 250,000 m^3 ;-)
- Kirk Kittell
I kinda wish someone would just make a definitive page with all the world record things in Dubai. I have literally seen 4 Dubai-based links in FriendFeed today.
- Phil G
We Americans look at Dubai the same way the rest of the world looked at us in the last century.
- Chris Baskind
That's an apt assessment, Chris. I still get a kick out of watching public domain footage from the 1939 World's Fair, which I would guess captivated the postwar world.
- Phil G
@Chris Baskind You mean as a destination I'll reach from the bowels of a steamship only to find myself living in a rat infested tenement, waking daily to peddle fruit from a horse cart? Hey, Dubai, here's my papers!
- Christopher Harley
Dubai?? That swimming pool is in Chile.
- Morton Fox
"My friends are spread across dozens of different sites—Picasa, Pownce, Plurk, Pandora, Polyvore—and that's just the Ps. Most of them publish to two or three sites at minimum. Figuring out how to navigate each site is more work than I have time for. My fellow tech pundit Robert Scoble posts movies, photos, and text to more than a dozen sites. Can't I just get one page that lists everything Scoble did today? I can!"
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
This is a good article, overall. For the first time I really am "getting" friendfeed and understand why folks are drawn to a place like Facebook. The updates are so much easier to track here than going places and then if I want to go somewhere else I can. My question as an educator is will this too be blocked by our filter? Or can I show other teachers how this might be a great learning tool for students?
- Sean Sharp
might give this a shot, cheers for sharing.
- Zee.
I'm going to have to look into this FriendFeed thing.
- stretta
from twhirl
For this kind of passive consumption of your friends' content, I think SocialThing is the better service. It automatically collects your pals' latest updates without having to recreate each person's individual feeds as an "imaginary friend." SocialThing addresses the hard truth: your friends aren't on FriendFeed.
- mrshl
@mrshl Given my circle of friends, most of them are on friendfeed. YMMV
- EricaJoy
now likely they will run it over and run it, but in keeping hope alive Erica I frankly open that there is an opening up of FF. As a non-tech person it can be a challenge to find discussions NOT RELATED to tech. Part of the reasons i post the things I do from my FF is in hopes of drawing others out to talk about something aside from the fact twitter is down or what I like to call "the meat which shall not be named". speaking of that: it is a BAD example of non-tech talk...LOL.
- R. Ferguson
SocialThing is pretty cool too -- it really speaks to a totally different need. Incidentally, I've never seen a single Polyvore link on here. Does anyone actually use it?
- Nathan Rein
@erica definitely agree. i have a few pals on friendfeed, as well. but most of my friends are relative non-techies who nevertheless use flickr and facebook, or even twitter and del.icio.us. they tend to post about their lives, not social media tools. as much as i dig FF, socialthing lets me keep up with the lion's share of my pals.
- mrshl
FriendFeed + cooliris ( http://cooliris.com/site... )is a pretty nifty combo, altho i wish there was a way to turn cooliris on for friendfeed only.
- Allan Anderson
@Allan. Glad to hear you're enjoying Previews. Have you checked out PicLens by Cooliris? We do not currently have the option to turn Previews on for only friendfeed, but it's a great idea. I'll pass it on!
- Cooliris
This is what i love Friendfeed my favorite site
- Victor
Vallaha bende hayat damarlarımdan biri kesilmiş gibi hissettim, nasıl bağımlı olduysam 1 ayda :D Gedik saolsun :D
- Harun Baris Bulut
Like bile edemedim message'ı:)) O derece unlike etmişim ff'nin kısa süren eksikliğini:S
- Elif Salar
Elif, I hear you sister, I hear you ;) ( tam Zencu chapel korosu tadinda okuyunuz )
- Alemsah Ozturk
uzun zamandır ilk defa firefox'u kapattım çalışırken. (ie'de çalışıyorum firefox'da sorf yapıyorum)
- Levent Bali
aha dedim şirket bunu da yasakladı. sonra baktım 403 değil 500. emin olmak için google'da arattım hata kodunu. "not client side, server side" yazısını görünce rahatladım.
- Mücahit Yılmaz