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Game Over: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb - Atlas Shrugs - http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_s...
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"Experts at the world's top atomic watchdog are in agreement that Tehran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is on the way to developing a missile system able to carry an atomic warhead, according to a secret report seen by The Associated Press. The document drafted by senior officials at the International Atomic Energy Agency is the clearest indication yet that the agency's leaders share Washington's views on Iran's weapon-making capabilities. It appears to be the so-called "secret annex" on Iran's nuclear program that Washington says is being withheld by the IAEA's chief. The document says Iran has "sufficient information" to build a bomb. It says Iran is likely to "overcome problems" on developing a delivery system."
- NoahDavidSimon
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first U.S. president to recognize Palestine is G.W. Bush. pro Israel is keeping Jonathan Pollard in jail? pro Israel is holding back Iranian Nuclear development information while they pressure Israel out of Gaza? Bush wasn't really a friend of Israel... he was just a better guy then the alternative. I wish it weren't true.
- NoahDavidSimon
Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators - http://www.techipedia.com/2009...
Ryan Underdown, Laura Norvig, Wins Fern and 7 other people liked this
This is a jab at FriendFeed. I suggest you all look at it.
- Tamar Weinberg
(and if you don't look at it, it proves Josh's point)
- Tamar Weinberg
Jab schmab. He's just a frustrated content author. Get in line. :)
- Louis Gray
It's free promotion - we're recreating the water cooler online. I don't have a problem with it - at least we have some way of tracking it now.
- Jesse Stay
A Mathematical Approach To Help Reduce Urinal Protocol Vulnerability - http://laughingsquid.com/a-mathe...
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Amplifeeder: An open source lifestreaming platform - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
santiromero, Lindsay, John Field and 27 other people liked this
I have been using this for a while now, I love the skins and it is all in my domain - beautiful.
- Paul Kinlan
how easy to install Paul?
- Zee.
very easy, I just followed the install instructions and it is installed on my IIS host.
- Paul Kinlan
I belive it will be part of the Web Platform installer soon as well so it will be a one click install to get it all working.
- Paul Kinlan
That and you can pull in your FriendFeed configurtaion so once you have it installed you can pull your config in in about 2 seconds.
- Paul Kinlan
can you share the link to yours Paul?
- Zee.
my dads is http://frank.kinlan.me and mine is http://paul.kinlan.me my dad is more active with his blogs and flickr
- Paul Kinlan
cool, cheers Paul
- Zee.
@BeauGiles, to quote jon "it's 90% javascript and there are plans to port the last 10% to rails, gae, php to cover 90% of platforms"
- Paul Kinlan
Storytlr (http://storytlr.com) seems to be better. Check mine here http://ls.ninhnv.com
- Ninh Nguyen
@Ninh I think jon said it best: "i like storytlr too but they own your data. amplifeeder is self hosted and you can do what you like with your data. plus the storytlr themes are pretty poor compared with amplifeeders. just sayin…"
- Paul Kinlan
@paul wrt storytlr, we don't own your data, it is yours, you can even download a backup of the whole thing in CSV format and soon we'll support DiSo. If you think about it, your web host owns as much as we do. Unless your server is in your basement of course. Yet, we are happy to see cool new activity in the lifestream space. Good luck Amplifeeder, nice job ! (I'm the dev of storytlr).
- Eschnou
looks promising; I'd been looking at SweetCron, so this is good to see - I will definitely try it on one of my domains when there's a LAMP version...
- Anthony Citrano
Looking at SweetCron too - here are some good examples - http://www.carbongraffiti.com/noteboo... Sticking with FF widget for now
- Mike Bracco
@Eschnou I find it great when devs come out and talk :D I have a storytlr page, will revisit it thanks to your intervention
- Iphigenie
Just to let everyone know. there are some beta invites available to the hosted version we are testing now.
- Paul Kinlan
Create a whippy twitter client in Pidgin with a plugin - http://www.junauza.com/2009...
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Michael R. Bernstein to Michael's feed, NewMexicoWebGeeks, Appetite, webdevelopers, Designer's & Developer's Toolbox
Page Speed - http://code.google.com/speed...
Nathan Chase, Peter Hoffmann, Eric Florenzano and 7 other people liked this
Page Speed is a way-cool tool that extends Firebug with some heavy-duty performance measuring and analysis tools.
- Michael R. Bernstein
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jQuery Ribbon - An Office Ribbon Control Build Entirely in JavaScript - http://jqueryribbon.codeplex.com/
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Mohamed J, arjo, Daniel Rowley and 24 other people liked this
"A ribbon control built on jQuery. It supports grouping, dropdown menus, nested lists theming and more." -- Pretty self-explanatory. It's pretty snappy too. The styling it a little off, but that can be easily fixed since you can style it yourself.
- xero
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Wow! nice! demo here http://vinkr.net/ribbon
- Hasitha
That is way cool - but the Office ribbon takes up too much screen real estate, even more so in a browser (IMHO). Very very nice looking though :-)
- Michael Manning
Good fun wonder what it would be like in a CMS
- Ben
@Ben That was my thinking - in a web browser RTE somewhere in the middle of a page it might be a little big?
- Michael Manning
The ribbon is actually the main reason I don't use the later versions of Office :) Great effort in jQuery though
- Mo Kargas
The ribbon actually takes up the same (sometimes less) screen real estate in Office as the usual set of toolbars people had open did, except you have access to everything with only one toolbar open instead of having to show and hide several. It might be a bit much in a browser though. In a browser, I'd implement it all collapsed to the tab labels, fly out on hover, and put commonly used actions in the quick launch area next to the office icon.
- xero
[..for those that missed it] - SEO Geeks library LIVE - looking for search patents and IR papers? http://www.huomah.com/dojo...
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fluidIA - open source UI prototyping based on jQuery - http://www.fluidia.org/
Ryan Underdown, Nikos Anagnostou, Tweet Feeds and 4 other people liked this
fluidIA is an emerging agile design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. The big idea behind this experiment is whether we as interaction designers, IA's, UX professionals and developers can create our own and better prototyping tool. A working Firefox copy is running over at: http://stage.fluidia.org
- Hüseyin Mert
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Meet Marco Rubio (The Man Republicans Are Pushing Aside) - http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009... #tcot #hhrs #sgp #rush
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Chris Jones to Chris's feed, US Politics, Conservative Oasis, Conservatives, Republican Politics, #TCOT Top Conservatives on Twitter
Obama Administration to Cheney: Request Denied: http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs...
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http://OffiSync.com Brings Google Docs Into Microsoft Word. MS Office Plug-in - http://www.informationweek.com/news...
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100 Amazing Free Wordpress Themes for 2009 - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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thanks @zee :o)
- Aline Ohannessian
FTC Wants Auto Warranty ‘Robo-Calls’ To Stop - http://www.lockergnome.com/blade...
AJ Kohn, Ryan Underdown, Jeff (Team マクダジ ) and 2 other people liked this
Lord, so do I. I think the warranty on my 1994 car expired already.
- Chuck Baggett
Thank goodness. I've called the California A.G.'s office twice about these asshats.
- AJ Kohn
Add a Recommendation Engine to your Website with Google Friend Connect - Let Readers Decide Your Best Content - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
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From the page: "Add a Recommendation Engine to your Site - Let Readers Decide Your Best Content"
- Marko
RT @newtgingrich: Learning IS the most important civil right in the 21st century; it should apply to every american of all ages to compete..
Amiroo ™, Mark Goddard, Jason Miller and 8 other people liked this
That is pure Newt Gingrich manipulation of facts into a politically useful LIE. Learning is not a RIGHT, it is a NEED (like food and clean air) and RESPONSIBILITY (like parenting). Treating Learning as a RIGHT means that IGNORANCE is supported by Freedom of Choice. WRONG.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
The last comment is silly. Gingrich is simply and forcefully supporting education. Even the left wing should support him on this
- Jeff
Wendell that's an incorrect statement. Education (i.e. formal learning) is a fundamental right any way you dice it, independent of what any politician thinks about it. It's perhaps one of the most important rights out there.
- Deepak Singh
You have a RIGHT to be ignorant. you have a RESPONSIBILITY to learn.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
You have a responsibility to make the most of that right to learn. The world goes beyond one country and political opinions on everything.
- Deepak Singh
Who decides what Americans should learn? Who sets the curriculum and who determines if someone meets the level of competency required to "pass" someone to another level?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Or is Newt calling Education an ENTITLEMENT? And when he says "it should apply to every american of all ages to compete.." he's saying we NEED it to compete... we can't opt out. That sounds nothing like a Right.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Reflexively reminds me of John Adams (in McCullough's book) and makes me think more highly of Gingrich, but a bit more reflection (thanks to my liberal arts education) leads me to conclude that Gingrich is saying a politically safe and popular thing as a means to his political end. He's right, in a way (even nodding to Wittler's comments). It should be regarded as a civil right and the civic obligation of all Americans.
- Jason Miller
Learning is a civil right?? Perhaps "access to education" would be consider a "right", but learning? More political fodder, I'd say. Spin and agenda ... spin and agenda ...
- Allan Besselink
Now pretend Obama had written that instead of Gingrich. Would any of you, even the most anal parsers of language, have had even the mildest criticism for the comment???
- Jeff
I'm still gaining my composure after learning that The Newt is tweeting.
- coldbrew
Wendell is a fucking idiot. learn that.
- Morgan Warstler
Regardless of past sins, Newt has had the guts to suggest some "outside the box" ideas to improve education - like paying inner city students who get good grades. Probably not popular with the base but interesting.
- Ryan Underdown
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My kind of tea/coffee/generic cup... - http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfil...
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- iTad
@Cristo: But generics (in .NET) are not ;)
- Jemm
It should be <cup>tea</cup> no?
- Robert Scoble
Cristo: .NET isn't evil! You want to talk evil, go look at Java.
- Chris Charabaruk
@Robert: In programming languages like C# 2.0 you can parameterize the types with that expression. For example: List<T> could hold strings, integers or custom types, while being strongly typed (=better performance than with object-type).
- Jemm
Ok where can I buy one?
- Sweyn Venderbush
Jemm: oh, cool. Now I get why a Microsoft employee liked this. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Why would I want a generic cup of tea :P Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
- Rob Diana
Cristo, you just took all the fun out of a bad joke :)
- Rob Diana
Cristo makes sense. it sa Cup of type T where tea is the type of beverqge we instaniate the cup with ;).
- Roberto Bonini
Does this cup require a Drinker<? extends T>? Any covariance problems with kettles?
- 9000
i really want a cup like this.......
- Roberto Bonini
That's really cool. Where can I get one?
- James Myatt
LOL @ 9000
- Roberto Bonini
‘Anonymous’ Pin-Up Girl Is Runner-Up For America’s Next Top Model | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/threatl...
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"As if we needed further proof that everything is connected to Anonymous, a woman who was a long-ago object of fascination to the notorious griefer collective nearly took the gold this week in the reality TV competition America’s Next Top Model. New Orleans college student and artist Allison Harvard, 21, survived 11 elimination rounds to reach the show’s season finale"
- Brad Williamson
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Did Twitter Just Kill #followfriday? | Stay N' Alive - http://staynalive.com/article...
carl morris, Mathew A. Koeneker, Amie Gillingham and 39 other people liked this
"In a very vague statement today that I guess Twitter doesn’t expect us to understand, Twitter removed, without warning or feedback from users it would seem, any and all Tweets in your stream that include @replies to people you are not following."
- Chris Charabaruk
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Twitter may have just killed the relevancy of twitter. This is a stupid move
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Just one more in a series of them, Rob.
- Chris Charabaruk
from IM
long live identi'ca!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
This will make it difficult to find new people to follow. There will be no hint of their existence. I guess we're all supposed to follow Oprah, Ashton, and Shaq.
- DGentry
I just can't get over how stupid this is...the relevance for twitter is the noisiness and the publicness of the thing...without that, twitter is nothing
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Think about it... Doesn't this also mean the possible death of retweets? After all, if Twitter hides a link tweet because the retweeter mentioned the original poster...
- Chris Charabaruk
I'm thinking that it only hides replies that begin with @. I'm seeing retweets just fine. If so, then #followfriday should work just the same.
- Michael McKean
of course the RT is what's killing followfriday in the first place. No, I think Jesse is probably correct
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Even if that's the case, it's still a bad decision to make this change. Give us an option, that's okay, but just hiding them straight-up is bullshit. I've actually found decent people I never would have known about, because someone I knew replied to them. Now that ability is gone because Biz and Ev decided without even considering the effects on users.
- Chris Charabaruk
me too, Chris. I monitor the conversations of people I admire or am interested in and I'll take a peek if they are conversing with someone I don't know.
- Laura Norvig
Apparently Ev and Biz have decided that we should all only follow people we already know and never find anyone new on Twitter to follow.
- Jandy
no, they think we should do that and follow famous people too. like oprah.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Jandy: Ah, that same stupid decision that Zuckerberg made some time ago?
- Chris Charabaruk
I've never understood why some updates show up in my timeline and some don't. I've had direct replies never show up on my page. when I follow someone, I want to see all their updates.
- Richard Lawler
Chris, I agree. Taking away the option is stupid. I guess they want us to use Twitter as THEY see fit.
- Michael McKean
I suggested the other day, it's a shame when people's dreams stand in the way of others truly realizing and utilizing the full potential of the dreamer's creations.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Biz and Ev need to learn that when you release a social tool, it's not yours any more. It belongs to your users.
- Chris Charabaruk
Not feeling this at all. What's the point?
- Derrick
two notes questions - 1. why wouldn't you want to see *ANY* mention of your user name in the "mentions" tab? 2. could this be something coming from the celebs? no idea just throwing it out there.
- Allen Stern
Is this just a lame excuse to lighten the load on their servers?
- Michael McKean
Michael: This wouldn't lighten the load much if at all. They now have to filter out these messages for _everyone_, not just those who had the appropriate option on. Slightly simpler code, more server load.
- Chris Charabaruk
That makes no sense whatsoever. I have met some great tweeps as a result of a follow up to a hashtag or @comment I posted. I agree with Michael- why wouldn't you want to see/monitor your name mentions. Maybe Chris is correct.
- Karma Martell
I just can't figure out the logic behind this. Perhaps because there isn't any.
- Michael McKean
Karma, Allen: You'll still see mentions of yourself. You won't see tweets which only reference users you don't follow.
- Chris Charabaruk
Agreed, Twitter suddenly makes a really bad move. Cuts out lots of relevant conversation.
- Mike Reynolds
If @A follows @B but not @C, @A won't see posts from @B replying to @C unless @A is mentioned in them somewhere. That kinda thing.
- Chris Charabaruk
This seems fine at first, but when you count the number of times where you've made a good connection with @C when you're @A, it becomes insanely stupid.
- Chris Charabaruk
I think what they're trying to say is, "We think you're too stupid to figure out this feature, therefore we are removing it completely."
- Michael McKean
Chris, thks for clarifying, but still a shame. Seeing the threads is part of the allure.
- Karma Martell
It is a real shame. Because depending on how Twitter does the filtering, this could kill off #followfriday.
- Chris Charabaruk
exactly- insanely stupid
- Karma Martell
really it is killing crowdsourcing
- Karma Martell
Holly: After all their screw-ups and downtime, and FSM knows what else, you want to trust them? They lost my trust long, long ago.
- Chris Charabaruk
Karma: Exactly Holly: the folky who created twitter are the ones making the bad decisions because they don't use their creation
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yes, Twitter just killed #followfriday and any time a person uses @USERNAME in a way other than meaning a REPLY to that person.
- Mike Reynolds
I think this excerpt from Download Squad article http://u.nu/97e5 nails it: "Perhaps the recent popularity of Twitter as a way to contact celebrities -- we're post-Oprah here, people -- made users a little sick of seeing the people they followed replying to celebrities they didn't follow or care about. There's a fairly simple solution to that, though: change the @reply settings...
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- Sharon McPherson
Mike, make them stop. Thank you.
- Derrick
I think it also mean that "If I said some thing like I was talking to @Jesse today" and you don't follow @ Jesse, you won't know that I did that.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: Exactly right.
- Chris Charabaruk
This is stupid, this is preventing me from seeing tweets that I might want to see. Stupid. FriendFeed and identi.ca FTW!!!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
What's weird is that I'm still seeing @ replies sent to people I'm not following - but - only if the tweet is sent from a Twitter app.
- Sharon McPherson
It's possible that the filter change itself hasn't gone live yet; it's simple to pull a checkbox out of an HTML form, but a bit more complicated to change the underlying code.
- Chris Charabaruk
Sharon, heh. If it only filters out web replies, maybe it's not such a big issue? I don't know anyone who doesn't use a client. (I'm lying - I still think it's a big issue.)
- Jandy
AJ Kohn relayed a thought in a separate thread that Twitter is essentially killing the protocol for RETWEETS.
- Mike Reynolds
I just asked one of the client developers what this was going to mean for their application. I'm waiting to hear back on this
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
the API clients may be able to work around the issue in other ways too. the web users are screwed tho (but they need to get off the lousy web site anyhow)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The only method I could see working is pull individual users' RSS feeds, and no doubt there'd be some limit on that. This could end in violence between Twitter and client developers.
- Chris Charabaruk
Even then, if Twitter stops putting tweets starting with @ in the feeds, then we're pretty much screwed to see them. Total fail.
- Chris Charabaruk
depends on what the API is actually pulling...I'm not an expert on that, but yes, RSS feeds would would fine
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Twitter updated the post, so it's just tweets starting with a @reply (mentions elsewhere are okay). Still, it's a bad call. There's a lot to be found by following someone's replies.
- Chris Charabaruk
It sill kills the inadvertent tweet " @soandso said to me yesterday that Twitter, Inc. was elitist" when you're not following @soandso
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris Charabaruk: I agree! As I said in another thread, Twitter is about to get very boring.
- Sharon McPherson
I generally try to phrase those differently so it's not a @reply kind of tweet, but yeah, a lot of people don't bother doing that.
- Chris Charabaruk
Sharon: Charabaruk. Only one C.
- Chris Charabaruk
What a horrible ridiculous #FAIL on Twitter's part. I hope they see the error of their ways within the next 48 hours or they're going to be missing a lot of users really soon.
- Jillian York
Chris Charabaruk: My apologies, edited.
- Sharon McPherson
Thank you.
- Chris Charabaruk
Jillian: It's rare for Twitter to back down from a stupid decision. It's happened before, I think, but I doubt they will over this.
- Chris Charabaruk
what is the way to tell them? and, what is the hashtag to use to discuss this so it trends to the top and gets their attention?
- Bora Zivkovic
There's no good way to tell them, except perhaps in person. I don't think they watch their own replies, or read email.
- Chris Charabaruk
Bora: The hashtag is #fixreplies
- Sharon McPherson
If a ton of people started tweet-boming @twitter @ev and @biz they would hear it
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
OK, I see people are using #fixreplies
- Bora Zivkovic
They don't watch their own @replies? Well, no wonder they have no idea how people are using their service!
- Jandy
Jandy: I'm not certain that they don't read 'em, but if they don't, that certainly explains A LOT.
- Chris Charabaruk
Excerpt from ReadWrite Web article: "This isn't a small change at all, it's big and it's bad. The new setting eliminates serendipitous social discovery." http://u.nu/89e5
- Sharon McPherson
yeah!
- @baratunde
Um, I think #twitterfail is already hitting pretty hard enough. It'll catch bigger media attention than #fixreplies.
- Jillian York
@jillian, you can't stop a hashtag. train has left!
- @baratunde
Doesn't hurt to use both, if you can squeeze 'em in.
- Chris Charabaruk
Chris Charabaruk: I led the team that got LinkedIn to back down on blocking Syrian users. I have faith.
- Jillian York
@baratunde #twitterfail already took off ;)
- Jillian York
I just sent a handfullt of tweets "#fixreplies @twitter @ev @biz blah blah blah"
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Jandy: I've made that point to @ev and @biz on several occasions, and I made it again tonight. How can you make decisions like this whan NO ONE at twitter uses Twitter?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@jillian, according to http://hashtags.org/ #fixreplies is on the top list. no sign of #twitterfail. i'm using both to be safe
- @baratunde
OMG I got great number of retweets on my barrage! wo0t!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
puls a ton of retweets of Jesse's original blog post about killing Followfriday lol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@baratunde shit, now that's just a testament to how fast twitter works. i'm sticking with both too though. and summize is mad backed up as always.
- Jillian York
holly have you tried twitter searches via an API client?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
TweetDeck is actually working fine for me, it seems. I can use it as I used to.
- Jillian York
Hilariously, #followfriday is a popular tag right now based on the fact that people are retweeting this and other similar posts!
- Jillian York
One of the API app developers that I'm in contact with suggested that his app will not be affected by such a change...this leads to me think that the way that API calls get the data, it's up to the app developer how to interpret it. This is something that will primarily affect twitter.com web users. (and who would want to do that anyhow?)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Has it come out yet why Twitter did this? I mean, are they going to replace it with something new and vibrant like they did with the other stuff they took away? LOL.
- Marie Carnes
Heres one: RT @ev Reading people's thoughts on the replies issue. We're considering alternatives. Thanks for your feedback. 14 minutes ago from web
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It would appear that tweetbombing @ev and @ biz DOES have an effect ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, NICE! We did trend pretty quickly with #fixreplies.
- Jandy
I definitely think a good amount of people sent that directly to ev and biz, so they had to notice. hehehe. I love it when a plan comes together
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Marie. awesome
- @baratunde
baratunde, glad you liked it :)
- Marie Carnes
I *can* see replies from people I dont know in Tweetdeck, checking for Seesmic.
- Jacque
I still don't know what follow friday is. I could use a search engine to find out, but that would be cheating.
- Chuck Baggett
lol! Snark alert! haha
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ev and Biz- what are you guys smoking? #fixreplies
- Siddharth Deb
From my understanding (and correct me if i'm wrong) Twitter basically is "privatizing" the whole experience..?
- Aline Ohannessian
That would seem counter to the direction of the rest of the web, and the entirety of twitter, so no, I don't think that's correct Aline. I think, given @biz's bs this morning about the engineering team reminding him this is a technical necessity, that twitter is grasping at straws trying to cut interprocess messaging traffic down in order to stay afloat. While I'm not an expert in the...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I hope so. #followfriday with it's laundry lists of users in 140 characters is SPAM. It's of no value to me at all. Tell me one or two people you recommend and why. I never click on lists of people and summarily unfollow all the people I followed who insisted on this means of promoting others. Think about it. We don't refer or recommend anything in multiples--movies, restaurants etc. Twitter should be no different.
- Gregg Scott
Gregg: you're missing the fundamental purpose of followfriday as it exists today: Get to the Top of the TopFollowFriday list. It's no longer about recommending your followers, but getting enough of them to reciprocate so that you can make it to the top 100 users on the topfollowfriday.com (and similar) lists. Once you make it onto that list, the odds of getting retweeted go up...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thank you for setting me straight!
- Gregg Scott
Agree on FollowFriday - I hate it. No context to the recommendations (unlike seeing all @replies)
- Jamie
I do participate occasionally in recommending people on FollowFriday, but I do it as Gregg suggests is the proper way. I put at most 3 people in a tweet, but only because they are all related to the reason I gave for recommending them. But, I only send out a handful of recommendations. And sometimes I recommend application providers, or even bots. There's a few bots I really like. Oh, and I try to remember to recommend @followmenot he hates being followed. heh.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Lifehacker - VLC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available - VLC - http://lifehacker.com/5251233...
Roberto Bonini, Sepehr Lajevardi, Ryan Underdown and 6 other people liked this
"Our absolute favorite media player VLC is getting dangerously close to an official 1.0 release, meaning early adopters in the crowd can try out VLC 1.0 RC1 right now...."
- Arawak
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Is this for real? The official VLC site still shows v0.9.9 only
- LANjackal
@jackal It appears so. I'm thinking they're holding off posting it on their site until they can release it for all platforms.
- Arawak
I think I'll wait for it to appear on the official site
- LANjackal
Google searching Twitter? OneRiot does it already | The Industry Standard - http://www.thestandard.com/news...
Mark Jones, Sarp, Ho John Lee and 5 other people liked this
"Twitter’s search tool is about to become more sophisticated, CNET reports. The current Twitter search only looks through the text of individual tweets, and sorts results by freshness — newest first. Soon, though, you’ll hopefully be able to search not just the word in tweets, but the content of the pages to which they link, with a Google-like “reputation” ranking on results. So if a lot of Twitterers link to the same blog page about the new Star Trek movie, your search for “trek” will return the blog post, not a bunch of tweets about it. You can try such a search of tweeted links already at OneRiot. The upstart social-network search engine crawls Twitter, follows the links, and creates a database of the content of Web pages and videos linked from recent Twitter updates. Right now, Thursday afternoon, a search for “Star Trek” returns as top result a hilarious Onion parody news report."
- rob
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Twitter Meets Google Street View: Stweet! - http://mashable.com/2009...
Sharon McPherson, Daniel Rowley, Sepehr Lajevardi and 22 other people liked this
"We’ve seen plenty of interesting Google Maps mashups over the years, and Twitter mashups too; but rather than just plotting Tweets on a map, why not go even further and show the street Tweets are posted from?"
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"That’s what Stweet, a fun mashup of Google Street View and Twitter, attempts to do. In an imperfect way, it takes the co-ordinates posted by some Twitter apps, like TwitterFon (location must be enabled), and uses that data to find the approximate street address the Tweet came from. It then overlays the Tweet on a Google Street View image."
- Kol Tregaskes
Big Bro's uh watchin'
- Brad Williamson
Too cool- when you want people to know where you R
- Lisa thorell
This is more than a little creepy...
- Seth Greenblatt
Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Social Media, Social Media Club, Funny Pics and Videos, Media News and Analysis, Twitter, RWW: The Future of Tech
ATTENTION!!! Ashton Kutcher is about to join FriendFeed and he has challenged LOKEI ATIKUS http://friendfeed.com/lokeiat... to a race to 1,000,000 subscribers! LET'S HELP LOKEI WIN!!!
Mike Reynolds, Laurentiu, k vohsen and 17 other people liked this
Subscribe to Lokei Atikus NOW!!! http://friendfeed.com/lokeiat...
- Brad Williamson
I'm good.
- Derrick
Looks like some potential blocks coming up.
- Akiva
Oprah will be here any day now.....
- Mike Lewis
Awwwww, come on! It's a joke!
- Brad Williamson
Disturbing who the hell is that guy on the left????
- Lokei Atikus™®
WOW FRIENDFEED IS SO 21ST CENTURY
- Iain Baker
Well if he participates in discussions, I'll sub but for no other reason. A FF user is a FF user, I have no interest if they are famous or not. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I know this is a gimmick, but I LIKE IT!
- LJo Willy
Instant block. Perhaps even you Brad. <squinty eye> :P
- c.a.j.
He tried to fight me on Sunset Blvd. for bragging rights!!! I told him I've seen every Die Hard movie and I could kick his ass!! He really got pissed then!!
- Lokei Atikus™®
Hehe, Lokei.
- Kol Tregaskes
Aaaawww... Alan! It's all in good fun, man. We're just too bored idiots at work ;-)
- Brad Williamson
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO......... I'm fine w/no celebs in my feed TYVM
- Molly
So if he goes on Oprah again, is she gonna keep her caps on here too?
- phil baumann
Hey there, just wanted you to know I did a blog about gay marriage: drmyers.wordpress.com
- Aaron L Myers
No, thanks. Lokei Atikus annoyed me yesterday.
- Rochelle
what did I say yesterday??
- Lokei Atikus™®
When did Social Media become a "race"??? it's very disappointing.
- Aline Ohannessian
No worries. I was just trying to figure out how to do a <squinty eye> in emoticon and couldn't figure it out. :)
- c.a.j.
Who do I need to block. (Pimp hand Activate!)
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Wow.
- Mona Nomura
Quick Call Dell and get more servers......
- Roberto Bonini
Uh-huh.
- Ciaoenrico
*Update* Harpo just called to book me on Oprah....... should I jump on the couch??
- Lokei Atikus™®
I could never understand that, SEO folk i know are so busy they cant waste time but the AssHats seem to troll all day & cry about stuff 24/7
Ryan Underdown liked this
Use the Open Share Icon instead of the restrictive Share Icon. Here's Why:
Jay Meattle, David Rinnan, Ozgur Gunes and 5 other people liked this
Hmm, will make that change actually
- Mo Kargas
hey this is kinda cool when did they start doing that http://news.google.com/newspap...
Ryan Underdown liked this
I Got an Envelope, Leaving Self-Addressed Stamped Envelopes Public Places - http://laughingsquid.com/i-got-a...
Ryan Underdown, Jason Stajich, Jack&Cleo and Ed Hollingsbee liked this
Viddler.com - Embarassing porn screensaver mishap during a powerpoint presentation - Uploaded by noobus - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Andrew Currie, Ryan Underdown, Jonathan and 19 other people liked this
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