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9 Tips to Make the Most of Google Search - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
This article was originally written by me for a newsletter that is mostly consumed by non-techie business audience. You may know most of the search techniques that are described in this article. I have not been able to cover everything due to word limitation. If I have missed something interesting, do share it in [...]
- Saad Kamal
Facebook Status Trends 2009 - http://www.saadkamal.com/social-...
Facebook status updates are a way for facebook users to share what’s on their mind (or what they are doing – similar to a “tweet”). Recently facebook has released some amazing data which are harvested from anonymously tracking millions of Facebook status updates throughout the year 2009. Facebook is calling this Facebook Memology, which is sort [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google’s Holiday Gift: $20 Million To Charity - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Every year Google sends out holiday gifts to their Adwords & Adsense users. However this year, I received an email from Google instead. It reads like below: As we near the end of the year, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for the time, energy, commitment, and trust you’ve shared with us [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Browser Size – Web Usability Tool - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
If you are a web designer or developer, you are definitely going to appreciate this tool that google has came up with – Google Browser Size. What is Google Browser Size? Google Browser Size is a web usability tool that will help you understand how your visitors view your website. According to [...]
- Saad Kamal
URL Shortener by Google – Goo.gl - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
After facebook just launched their url shortener, Google has also joined the party with their own version of URL shortener – Goo.gl. The Google URL shortener currently doesn’t work as stand-alone service as you can’t use it to shorten links directly (like you do with bit.ly). However Google URL Shortener is available from the Google [...]
- Saad Kamal
Facebook URL Shortener – FB.me - http://www.saadkamal.com/social-...
Facebook has launched their own URL Shortener – FB.me. If you go there it will basically redirect you to Facebook.com. So if your Profile URL is say – http://www.facebook.com/Starbuc..., now you can even write it as http://fb.me/starbucks and it will still go to the exact same page. Facebook currently doesn’t allow you to make any short [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Bites on 72% of US Search Market - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Hitwise has recently released the search market share report for United States. It looks like Google had a pretty steady month with 1% increase in market share, making them number 1 again with almost 72% overall US search market share in November 2009. Yahoo and bing’s share fell by 7% overall where as ASK’s market share [...]
- Saad Kamal
Facebook Adds Privacy To Each Post - http://www.saadkamal.com/social-...
Sometime later today Facebook has planned to launch some new set of privacy feature for its 350 million users. The good thing is, with this new privacy feature implementation – Facebook users will be able to choose exactly who they want to share their status update, photo, video, or any other piece of content posted on [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Goggles - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Google has just launched a new application for Google’s Android based mobile phones that will allow people to search for more information by simply pointing their mobile camera to the object and taking a photo using the Google Goggles App. Google Goggles has been developed to recognize popular tourist attractions, famous paintings and even company logos. [...]
- Saad Kamal
What is HOT on the WEB? - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Do you want to know what is hot on the web? Well Google’s recent real-time web search initiative has also made them to add a brand new section in Google Trends called Hot Topics. Basically Google’s HOT Topics will show the most common topics people are publishing to the web in real-time. According to Google’s [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Brings Real Time Search - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Google has just introduced real-time web search, a way for Google to use it’s relevance technology to meet the real-time web search need of today. In the past, Google has been criticized for not keeping up with the real-time conversations that has been happening all over the web. But it seems like, Google’s this new addition [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Launches Free Online Dictionary - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
I’m not sure whether this is something new, but apparently Google has an online dictionary that lets you find definitions and synonyms in almost thirty different languages, pulled from a scope of different sources and impressively fast. Previously, Google used to offer up an automatic definition from various third-party sources like Dictionary.com or Answers.com. However, now [...]
- Saad Kamal
HOW TO: Setup Google DNS - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Google has just launched Google Public DNS, a free public DNS resolver hosted & maintained by Google! I am sure previously you may have heard of OpenDNS – which is another popular public domain name resolver trusted by many individuals, corporations & even big ISPs. But it looks like Google will eventually end up taking [...]
- Saad Kamal
7 New Features in Google Analytics 2009 - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Google has recently sent out a newsletter highlighting some of their new features they have included inside Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a great tool that every webmaster should use in order to monitor a site’s traffic and keep tabs on things that happens behind the scene. Other than just giving raw figures, analytics goes far [...]
- Saad Kamal
Chrome OS will help kill Silverlight and other non-open tech, preventing msft and others from recapturing the web. (though I expect that it will support Flash by necessity)
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Charles Frith, Vladimir Yashnikov and 149 other people liked this
Good point.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it doesn't. After all we need good media delivery platforms.
- Swaroop
Including GNASH - the open source alternative - would solve that problem
- Bogdan Costea
yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it.
- Zio Bonino
Chrome OS might be a compelling case for SVG/<canvas> + <audio> tag replacements for flash. Dunno what SVG's perf is like on WebKit tho.
- Matt Mastracci
Microsoft will port it. It's all about codecs & DRM. Ogg Theora isn't all that great.
- Rodfather
Is that Steve Jobs disguised as Zio ?
- Swaroop
@Swaroop Yes, we do. Like HTML5.
- Benjamin Dobson
@Swaroop eh eh, I've got flash disabled on all my systems :)
- Zio Bonino
@Benjamin I'd prefer HTML web apps over native apps anyday. But it'll take time for it to mature
- Swaroop
Rodfather, I don't think that will be an option for msft :). If Chrome is built the way I would do it, there is no installation per-se -- everything runs in the browser and the config in stored in the cloud (and cached locally). The computer is a pure appliance.
- Paul Buchheit
@Zio You're the real Steve Jobs
- Swaroop
Microsoft moves much too slow to force new standards these days.
- Louis Gray
@Louis: IE8 flunking ACID test :)
- Swaroop
What about more standard codecs like h.264? That isn't open and is in hardware already.
- Rodfather
h.264 is established and must be in there, but it's not a platform like Silverlight is.
- Paul Buchheit
I know some of the guys behind silverlight. It is some great technology. Too bad it's from Microsoft and is closed.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
A world with no Flash and Silverlight. I can't wait.
- Paul Grav
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't open-source it. This stuff with Mono is silly -- if you want to make a real standard you need to make the real implementation be open.
- Paul Buchheit
MS are about 10 years too late with Silverlight. And they'll most likely be dragged kicking and screaming into supporting HTML5.
- Paul Grav
Zio sez (hopefully humorously): "yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it" -- have you ever watched a single YouTube video in your life? Like seventeen gazillion other people across the wired world. yeah, you're right, nobody needs Flash. ha!
- .LAG liked that
Remember Dave Clark in 1992, "We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
- Guy Vander Heyden
.LAG: most YouTube videos are playable without Flash now. My iPhone plays most of them and it doesn't have Flash. Certainly by the time the Google OS came out YouTube would be converted completely to non-Flash capability.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: The youtube flash application helps read the flv files on Youtube's servers and provides a UI (decoder too).
- Swaroop
Even Google admits they're not sure I'd bit for bit html5 video is less bandwitj consuming than flash. And flash isn't just media delivery, also interesting games and apps like tonepad, splicemusic.com's online sequencer, etc (I'm musically inclined, so most of my examples will be along that line) and please don't suggest we redo it all in java
- Ed F
from Nambu
Does this mean the next Silverlight release is codename Seppuku?
- Jay Cuthrell
Maybe we'll see commercials encoded in movies if everything is open.
- Rodfather
Flash is too established to kill off right now, so I'd be surprised if Chrome didn't include flash support. It will take many years to get rid of that thing. First they need to fix the standard browser to not be so broken (lack of video, multi-file upload, etc), then they need everyone to switch to the new html5 solutions.
- Paul Buchheit
Scoble ...that may be true, and YouTube plays on my Pre without Flash (yet)...but that doesn't mean that "nobody needs Flash." really? what would replace it?
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So Google's NaCl http://code.google.com/p... (now integrated within Chrome/Chromium) was just a temporary workaround, right?
- Jérôme Flipo
Use HTML 5 instead!
- Minh Bui
Is it just me or does Native Client (NaCl) remind you of the Microsoft Active X approach?
- Daniel Chow
But who prevents Google from taking over the net?
- Andreas
youtube videos play on iPhone/iPod Touch as they are higher res mp4 files NOT flv files. It was a big deal when Steve negotiated that deal with youtube.
- vijay
You have Moonlight to run Silverlight applications in Linux. Not perfect, but then an application made on Silverlight is "not perfect" by definition
- Marcos Marado
The point here is that Google has no motivation to include Silverlight on these machines, and installing software likely won't be an option (it's a web appliance), so it will be absent from a lot of netbooks, just as it is absent from iPhones. That cuts into market share, which is a bad thing for a platform that is trying to compete with more universal tech like Flash and HTML....
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- Paul Buchheit
@DanielChow: NaCl has very little overlap with ActiveX, apart from running native code. It runs in a provably safe way, and explicitly does *not* allow it to access arbitrary host APIs. But it can be quite useful when you need to run code that would be too slow in Javascript (even on v8): e.g., heavy encryption/decryption, possibly codecs, definitely game physics, and so forth.
- Joel Webber
There is a time and a place for Flash and Silverlight so I hope it will run it. There are simply some things you can do which aren't possible, or practical in html/css/javascript.
- Steve Temple
Paul: why wouldn't Chrome OS come with Moonlight? And if not, why wouldn't you be able to just install it? And third, why the hell would people want Moonlight for? I never installed it and not even once felt the need to!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
because of moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlig... the potential userbase of silverlight is greatly improved, agree that projects which don't consider compatibility are limiting their potential
- Mike Chelen
@mindboosternoori Ryanair site uses silverlight: http://www.ryanair.com/site... that's the only website I know that uses it - for this you would need moonlight :)
- Ihar Mahaniok
Flash is needed for the google os to be useful in education. Many education based websites are flash based.
- Willowdale
@Paul "Google is probably paying OEMs to ship with this OS, so instead of paying $x/machine to include windows XP, they will get paid $y/machine to include Chrome." - paying present tense, already? Isn't it enough for OEMs not to have to pay hefty licenses to Redmond, etc., while being able to ship with a free, stable OS+browser combo; they need to be paid to do that as well?
- ianf ⌘
I sure hope so. I think the wide array of JavaScript libraries have been killing Flash for years. Silverlight was never really a player. The only think keeping Flash afloat is video
- Scott Radcliff
I don't know what's under the hood of Silverlight (nobody knows), but Flash is basically a sprite engine controlled by Actionscript, which is basically an adapted version of Javascript anyway. It's nicely packaged though, and has an army of developers, so it won't go away that easily, at least not until there are Flash-to-Canvas/ HTML5 porting tools/ translators and the like.
- ianf ⌘
to follow that logic...photoshop is needed as well
- Chris Hofmann
somebody call me when http://playboyarchive.com is working in Chrome OS (it's currently implemented in Silverlight)
- Karim
If it gains any traction at all, MS will just make Silverlight version that will run on Google OS. Sure google could block it, but they haven't done so with the Chrome browser.
- Jeff Weber
Interesting. I doubt the Google OS will get that big anytime soon though.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
Silverlight doesn't have a chance now...I wonder what would Adobe Air do.
- Saad Kamal
not really, if google want to be open then they will need a plugin architecture for it and then MS could just port for it. I really don't see this troubling mainstream users any time soon.
- Darren Stuart
Though I agree with the view that MS monopoly may erode as alternative devices get adoption over PC/Notebook, and these devices will mostly run on open source OS, but it may take years to create a significant change in every day usage of normal users. In the end, OS choice is mostly done by manufacturers, and they would be happy to get paid by open source vendors for putting their OS on...
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- Kaan Bingol
People want media. Hulu, Netflix, Kindle, iTunes, etc. They need to address that or they are DOA.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, what makes you think it will lack media support?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't think it will lack licensed media support but what deals they are able to make will be crucial.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, i thought you were going to say that Netflix was using Silverlight. ;-)
- Karim
Yes, they are, what is their deal with MSFT? Can they do non Silverlight distribution?
- Hayes Haugen
i believe the Netflix non-Silverlight distribution is a format called "DVD" that works over the "Snail Mail" protocol. ;-) but clearly if Google is paying OEMs to install Chrome OS, they can pay Netflix to go back to Flash which Chrome OS will probably support "by necessity" ;-)
- Karim
How can Google make money from Chrome OS? Or does it want to make money from it except through advertisement? I still can not imagine that all software and service are free and sponsored by advertisements.
- Derek Wei
All Chrome OS questions are answered by today's Fake Steve Jobs ;)
- Hayes Haugen
Is there a need to make money? If more and more people eschew desktop offline applications in favor of online web based apps, it means more pageviews, more eyeballs, more advertising inventory, plus has the side effect of undermining a big competitor's cash cow.
- Ray Cromwell
That's the key, Google wants everything online. They figure the more people online, the stronger they become, and the more money they make. At least that what was said at the Chrome launch.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
I'm amused that the "backwards compatibility" argument against alternative operating systems has slowly turned into "does it support flash", and when you unpack that it really means "does it play YouTube". I suspect Google will make sure ChromeOS cna play YouTube and they don't need Flash to make sure of it.
- Nick Lothian
Is it possible that Microsoft will write Office for the Web using Volta instead of Silverlight? Could be a showcase announcement for their attack on GWT
- Ray Cromwell
I think Microsoft is going to focus less on the front-end of the web and more on the back-end, middle tier and database sides. Azure is a big deal that consumers aren't talking about because it's not flashy but will be pretty important to developers (and especially enterprise-level applications) when it's finally ready because everything becomes an interface to the cloud. Microsoft is...
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- Fa La La La Lindsay
Azure looks really cool. Hint: so did Blackbird.
- Michael R. Bernstein
lol blackbird (scary redmond flashback) - a good example of azure platform utilization can be seen via jon udell's elmcity project - http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Nosense, I want silverlight, flash, html and any other technology in my desktop & mobile phone. Silverlight? yes, there you can develop under Python, Ruby et al, instead of the outdated javascript.
- Sebastian Wain
It looks like with Native Client, you should be able to write your Chrome OS app in any language you feel like. So far, they have some examples in C/C++, but one of the things they ported is a Lua interpreter. If Adobe isn't going to invest heavily in fixing the show-stopping bugs on non-Windows versions of Flash, it's inevitably going to die, and there's really nothing either Google or Apple can do even if they wanted to support Flash better.
- Victor Ganata
...ActionScript3 is ECMASCript-compliant. I know nothing about standards bodies, and shii like that, but what if Adobe dropped ActionScript and said, "You can now use pure Javascript to build Flash applications..." It wouldn't be a big leap. I'm pretty sure that would shut-up all the Flash haters. And to the folks who say Flash is hanging around just because of video...well, video is...
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- .LAG liked that
Actionscript is just the glue for the more advanced what-iffy graphic functionality of Flash. They can not drop it for Javascript, because it contains additional graphic primitives that JS lacks. But it's not the JS-or-Actionscript that makes it a target for hate, it's other things. Nobody denies that it's pretty capable, but it is also badly written, eats up memory like no other, makes...
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- ianf ⌘
I like this post!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
from iPhone
I honestly don't know how necessary Flash is. Apple seems to be doing fine without supporting it. But certainly Gnash and Swfdec should be implementable on Chrome OS. The fact is that without Adobe's full support on a given platform, Flash apps will always be second class citizens on alternate platforms, and so far, there's no indication that Adobe is interested in fully supporting any platform other than Windows.
- Victor Ganata
ianf ...you bring up great points about Flash's detriments, as does Victor, but until there's a better way to bring video to the Web, I can't see it disappearing. Adobe seems to keep improving the Flash VM, hopefully they'll address those CPU-hogging issues and make a more efficent runtime. Yeah, I hate hearing the fans kick-in when visiting a Flash-heavy site too. <sigh>
- .LAG liked that
alternative to flash video such as ... html5 :) (requires ff3.5) http://www.dailymotion.com/openvid...
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Ed, only??? thats one of the main reasons cited for the continued requirement of flash on popular sites like youtube
- Mike Chelen
Ed, those other uses can be accomplished through pure Javascript, video was the last remaining stumbling block
- Mike Chelen
Still waiting on non-Flash recreations of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Well aware of how someone mentioned higher up how you can combine javascript and svg to get nifty flash-like effects. I want apps like that though ^ Only real alternatives I've seen are Java-based ones, and those runs even slower than Flash.
- Ed F
Pardon me, but the OP is a ridiculous conclusion. For that to be the case, Chrome OS would have to kill Windows, OS X, etc altogether. Paul, I understand your viewpoint as being an ex-Google person, but that's just NOT going to happen. Right now the video specification from HTML5 has been dropped because of an impasse, meaning that we may be transitioning from 1 closed-source boss - Flash - to another - H264. Good luck.
- LANjackal
But why do these type of apps have to be written in Flash at all? You can easily do the same thing in C, C++, ObjC, Python, Ruby, etc., with the Native Client API that they're building for Chrome. http://code.google.com/p...
- Victor Ganata
I'm just saying, it's not like Flash is the end-all/be-all. As Apple well demonstrates, some people can live quite well without it.
- Victor Ganata
Victor ...i think the answer to the 'why do these have to be written in Flash at all' question is because Flash is installed on such a significant portion of Web browsers. But I recall that Adobe Flex had a competitor, Laszlo/OpenLaszlo, which compiled apps to SWF or to Javascript. Who's to say that Adobe doesn't have the same capability of making SWF apps into JS ones? On one hand, it...
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- .LAG liked that
Ed, such apps are possible with Javascript and HTML5 multimedia features, the question will be how difficult developers find it, and whether the performance is fast enough
- Mike Chelen
LANjackal, there is a question of degree in that Flash + H264 uses proprietary software and codec, while HTML5 + H264 requires only the codec. while OGV is no longer part of the spec, it can certainly still be used to have completely open video formats, and recent comparisons have shown it performs well http://people.xiph.org/~maikme...
- Mike Chelen
Silverlight's 3 is looking pretty impressive today but tend to agree
- Charlie Anzman
What everybody seems to be missing about Flash is that it works because there is one implementation which is mostly backwards-compatible and the same across platforms. It beat Java because, among other reasons, Java just didn't work the same across JVMs and platforms. The problem with HTML5 is that it will have a different implementation for every browser, and that means your app/game...
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- Gabe
Paul, don't you prefer brutal competition SL vs. Flash vs. standards bring to the table by definition? Or are you more into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - 2020 Google Union - type of ideology?
- Kari Honkanen
Kari, I don't understand your question. Competition is good, but with open-source we get that -- no need for flash or SL.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, no, we don't get the same level of competition with open-source only. As long as there's an opportunity for big gains (like in this case to bridge the gap before html 5 era...to satisfy demand), there will be innovations driven by that. I believe we all benefit from a free market economy that includes commercial, closed source, innovations. I am more scared of the possible future...
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- Kari Honkanen
I wouldn't worry too much amount multimedia. By exposing WebGL, (and hopefully OpenCL), you can offload a lot of compute intensive stuff onto the GPU via GPGPU techniques, and NativeClient is there to take up the rest of the slack, but the for the vast majority of iPhone-like games, I'm willing to bet V8 Javascript on a modern processor is more than enough. That leaves licensing issues...
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- Ray Cromwell
Paul, so are you saying that Google will block both Flash and Silverlight from ChromeOS? That's a new take on 'open.'
- Cliff Gerrish
MSFT next smart move: get Chrome OS (it's BSD licensed), inject IE9 and Silverlight into it and go benchmark against Chrome :)
- Claudio Cicali ♋
MSFT sucks Claudio :)
- Orlando Pozo
Something feels contradictory about a system touted to 'kill' competitors being 'open'. Sounds almost predatory to me.
- Karoli
I'm not opposed to non-open software, but for OS, browser, etc I prefer that it be open. Cliff, Google isn't going to "block" anything, but they can certainly choose what to include, and my guess is that they won't include SL. As Claudio points out, MSFT can make their own version of ChromeOS that includes SL, which is why open source software is nice (it can't be crippled too much or else someone will fork it).
- Paul Buchheit
I have heard somewhere that Fash uses it's own port where Silverlight works over the HTTP port. That's why Netflix works so well. To that, Flash costs more on a sever side because providers can charge more for that port traffic. Could it come down to who is cheaper? (I am fully prepared to be wrong).
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, they both use HTTP -- there's no difference there.
- Paul Buchheit
Is Chrome OS BSD-licensed? I thought it was using a Linux kernel.
- Victor Ganata
@Paul - well, Flash can do P2P stuff over non-HTTP posts, but that is very new (Flash 10 I think). The cost isn't affected anyway.
- Nick Lothian
My understanding is that netbooks would have to be absurdly popular for Chrome OS to make a dent in the popularity of Flash or SL.
- Gabe
it is possible to have smaller groups for open source software, such as google's own gears api http://code.google.com/apis...
- Mike Chelen
How is HTML 5 going to defeat Flash and SL? I haven't used it, but I don't see anything in the spec that looks like it could compare.
- Gabe
@Gabe - what do you think HTML5 is missing? It does video, drawing, local storage, "threading" via WebWorkers. The biggest hole I'm aware of is the lack of access to webcams & microphones. What have I missed?
- Nick Lothian
Nick: When you say HTML 5 has "drawing", are you refering to the Canvas element? I would not consider an immediate-mode procedural raster drawing library to be much of a competitor to retained-mode declarative vector libraries like SVG or Silverlight. Programming with the Canvas tag is sort of the equivalent of programming in assembly language for bitmaps.
- Gabe
@Gabe: I think you've got it upside-down. A Canvas-style API is the fundamental basis on which you can build a retained mode structure like SVG, et al. If a platform includes a retained-mode library as a convenience, so be it. You can build SVG on Canvas, but not the other way around (hacks like IECanvas notwithstanding -- they have horrible performance characteristics and are a nasty abstraction inversion).
- Joel Webber
So, if Moonlight (Mono) runs on linux -- Will google make sure it doesn't work on Chrome OS?
- Cliff Gerrish
Joel: I don't think you said anything contrary to what I said. I just don't understand why any programmer would want to waste time writing an app using a low-level library when I could use a high-level library that implements everything for me.
- Gabe
@Gabe - I agree, and people are implementing those libraries now. See http://raphaeljs.com/ for example. Also, don't underestimate the convenience factor. I don't own any Flash development tools, but my text editor works pretty well for Canvas+JS based stuff.
- Nick Lothian
Nick: Didn't the author of raphael have some massive rant about how bad the Canvas element is? And I don't have any Flash dev tools either, but I use a text editor for most of my Silverlight development. It is incredibly convenient to be able to type something like <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding tabledata}"/> into a text editor and not have to create the data grid myself.
- Gabe
Why is Flash a "necessity" for an OS? I enjoy what flash can do, but it is like putting pimped out leather Oldsmobile seats in a Ferrari. It would definitely be nice, but certainly not a necessity.
- Dan Douglass
Early post goof up. To your original point, I agree. I like how Google is approaching the internet space with web apps that can be run with out a bloated browser.
- Dan Douglass
Dan Douglass: Flash is necessary because so many web sites rely on it. How many people would want to get a netbook that couldn't play FaceBook games or watch YouTube videos? Of course Google is in the unique position of being able to make YouTube work on ChromeOS without Flash, but they probably can't do anything about Hulu, Vimeo, or any of the other video sites out there that require Flash.
- Gabe
Anyone else think Joy is Spam?
- Chris Myles
already reported it yesterday :)
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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Google – Lets Look back in Time - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
In late October, Google UK’s YouTube channel posted an amazing video that brings back Google’s past 11 years to life with some really cool animation. The video mentions some of the most interesting events from Google’s history. “From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Commerce Search - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
Google is slowly trying to tap into the online commerce market by launching yet another product for this specific niche (after Google Checkout) – Google Commerce Search. So If you’re running your own online shop, this brand new Google Commerce Search may be worth looking at. Google describes this as a “search [...]
- Saad Kamal
Trakkboard – Google Analytics for Desktop - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
If you work with multiple Google acocunts to Track many different Google Analytics profiles then you already know that its a very clumbesom process. Signing in and out of various Google accounts multiple times in a day can be a real pain if you are dealing with a lot of websites of your own or [...]
- Saad Kamal
The international language of online marketing - http://www.saadkamal.com/review...
It has quickly become a commonplace that the internet has made the world much smaller than it ever was. Friends, family, and businesses based thousands of miles across the globe are just seconds away through email, facebook, or skype, just to name a few of the many examples of online communication. However, international businesses, [...]
- Saad Kamal
Google Dashboard - http://www.saadkamal.com/google...
If you have been using internet for a while then its very likely that you use quite a number of Google services. For instance, my net life is purely surrounded by Google – starting from my email (Gmail), IM (Google Talk), documents (Google Docs), search (Google Serch), photos (Picasa), Feeds (Google Reader), Calendar (Google [...]
- Saad Kamal
MSN Portal Revamped – Now Clean & Sleek - http://www.saadkamal.com/microso...
Microsoft has recently revamped their old school MSN portal and gave it a very clean and sleek look. I must say that it does look a lot like Yahoo because of the way the site has been structured and also the blend of social features (twitter, facebook & email) right at the homepage. This is [...]
- Saad Kamal
Twitter Radio - http://www.saadkamal.com/twitter...
If you are too lazy to read your tweets, you might want a service like Twit Radio – Thats reads your tweet out loud. Currently the service only works with search thus you can search for a keyword or phrase and twitter radio will tune in to that channel and start reading out every [...]
- Saad Kamal
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
Darren Heydon, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, rowlikeagirl and 118 other people liked this
Yay Leo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well played, sir!
- Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious.
- RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk!
- Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest
- Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!!
- Mona Nomura
go leo!
- sean percival
That's awesome
- Jesse Stay
lookin good ..
- Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top.
- Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years!
- Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo
- Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine.
- Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo!
- John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol
- Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff!
- Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now
- Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD*
- Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P
- Molly, "sorry"
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
Get invitation to try Yahoo! meme Microblogging service - http://www.sizlopedia.com/2009...
Yahoo's Twitter Clone - Yahoo Meme invite
- Saad Kamal
Yahoo Image Search Now Shows Points of Interest - http://www.saadkamal.com/yahoo...
Mitch liked this
If you are a frequent traveler then you would appreciate this brand new feature of Yahoo image search that lets you refine your image search results by points of interest when a user is searches for a particular travel destination or location. For example, if you search for Rome, Yahoo Image search automatically shows up a [...]
- Saad Kamal
11 Sexy Photos Totally Ruined by People in the Background http://www.11points.com/Dating-...
Jacob, Jarrold Ong, Kol Tregaskes and 123 other people liked this
WIN!
- TheHenry
The last one is the funniest, IMO. :-D
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Scooby and Shaggy LOL
- Mona Nomura
and Scooby Doo, if you pull through, you're gonna have yourself some Scooby snatch!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
i got to check if i've ever ruined any sexy pp's lol
- K.D.
The floater takes the cake.
- Adrian
Ya that picture ALWAYS grosses me out.
- Mona Nomura
I feel sorry for the kids >_<
- Jess Lee
I think some of these are totally photoshopped.
- Mona Nomura
The one with the baby at the door just doesn't look real to me.
- Kisha, Well Conditioned
from BuddyFeed
the one with the little toddler locked out on the patio while mommy gives us a crotch shot (and i do believe it's real) really makes me upset. :|
- Joe Silence is not Santa
omg ze floater
- sean percival
wait is that hurley in the one on the right?
- Bastard Operator From FF
hahah the floater had me LOL!
- Diego Barros
The one with gramps in the back makes you wonder what went on before the sexy shooting... :-| No, unthink, UNTHINK!
- Rick Cogley
love the one from the right more..lol
- Saad Kamal
Good cropping works wonders.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
hmmmmmmm...yeahhhhhhh...hawwwwt
- sofarsoShawn
the kid in the window....hysterical!
- Kevin Pruett
that floater. O_o
- Valley
Every time someone says "floater" I remember the strange juxtaposition of sexy and, er, "waste product" and I DON'T WANT that association in my brain!!!!
- Rick Cogley
best ever ever
- Luigi Centenaro
The floater one is truly disgusting and some of the ones involving kids are funny/maddening (having sex in the car with your kid in the backseat?! Really?!), but the creepy ginger kid behind Kate Beckinsale takes the cake.
- Rebecca Sun
haha
- Nicholas Kreidberg
HOW TO: Change Facebook Username - http://www.saadkamal.com/social-...
Not long ago, I wrote about how you can setup your own facebook username (a.k.a Vanity URL), so that your facebook profile URL is like - www.facebook.com/yourusername rather than the very long url that facebook provides by default. Initially, Facebook mentioned that they won’t let anybody change their username once its already set. Thus everyone gets [...]
- Saad Kamal
louisgray.com: Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search - http://louisgray.com/live...
Iván Abrego, Deepti, Ethan Gahng and 6 other people liked this
After a few days of playing with Lazyfeed, my official opinion is that it is frickin' cool! I am starting to get how it can be used as a research tool that more than nicely supplements Zemanta (the in-blog research aid). It's also fun. It adds a new dimension to surfing the Web that I didn't even know I was missing.
- James (!?)
from Bookmarklet
Any invites available? Would appreciate one if there are.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jack, we are talking about LazyFeed right on with Louis and Wayne on TheSocialGeeks podcast for this week, recording now
- Chris Miller
@Jack Carlson -- So sorry, man. I wish I was able to give invites out, but the fact is that I got terribly lucky and had my birthday at just the right time (apparently) and was smiled upon.
- James (!?)
Looks good..I'm waiting for this service to open to public..or if someone has an invite code that you are not using...pls do share. Cheers.
- Saad Kamal
I have my invite and I think I might have even registered, but I haven't played around there yet.
- Derrick
@Jack Carlson and @Saad Kamal -- Follow @Lazyfeed on Twitter. They give out invites there. :-)
- James (!?)
@Derrick and @Holden -- I'm really enjoying it. Drilling down the tags is 1/2 the key to happy discoveries, the other 1/2 is linking your Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, blog(s) to it.
- James (!?)
I played around with it for a bit, it's interesting and useful. I think is more focused on contents and less on people with regard [in comparison with] FriendFeed.
- PierLuca Santoro
Spot on, @PierLuca Santoro. ^_^
- James (!?)
I'm tired of reading articles about the iphone. I don't have one, therefore I am not interested. I need to find a way to filter those out.
Saad Kamal liked this
You just gave away a nice idea for a twitter app/client that will automatically block/hide tweets from your stream if it contains certain words/phrases.
- Saad Kamal
LOL, I'm a font of ideas. I have lots every day. Just wish I could act on all of them. Hope u make a fortune if u use that one. :)
- Donna Fontenot
Ok, I have 5,061 subscribers. Seems crazy high for the engagement I see on my stream. Let's see how many of you actually exist around these parts: Comment plz! (Remember when I got called out a few months ago for not participating enough on FF? It worked!)
Chris Luckhardt, gia wunderlich, Adam Sherk and 136 other people liked this
Hola.
- Mike Bracco
I do not exist
- Ryan
Hello hello!
- Aaron Draczynski
boo
- Mark
fine, i'll bite
- MG Siegler
I know I'm around here somewhere
- Brian
I'm just not that engaging.
- Leo Laporte
Go Sarah! :)
- Adrian
but I'm not a subscriber :) You can't really know, because as people comment this entry, all their followers get the "friend of a friend" item in their feed. Go figure who among those participants are subscribed to you.
- Jérôme Flipo
ping
- Alexander Kohlhofer
Oh, great, Jerome. Way to screw up the project! ;)
- Sarah Lane
I subscribe. I'm located in So. Cal.
- Ivan
I'm real!
- Justin Rains
/wave
- Devin Baines
I don't subscribe to you, but one of my friends does and commented. that seems like it breaks the counting here
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Sarah: have you checked out http://www.feedstats.info/sarahla... - it gives you some great stats on your activity.
- Mike Bracco
Everyone else subscribes to you, so I don't have to. Nice of all these fine folks, innit?
- Justin Whitaker
Hi Sarah!
- Chris Luckhardt
hello
- Alfredo
Hola.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
*waves*
- Christian Cable
Hi there. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Hello
- Norm Corriveau
Mike B- thx! first time i've checked out feedstats.
- Sarah Lane
I refuse!
- Matthew DeVries
Namaste.
- Kamath (नमः)
Wow, I only have 57
- Zachary TG
Present!
- Steve de Mena
from iPhone
I just signed on, so I don't have to comment - Oh wait ...
- Brent - Loving Life
spammer in disguise
- Tate DA FF MVP
What can I say, I'm a lurker.
- Ghworg
Sarrita - You do realize you're going to pull more than just your subscribers right? We're blasting this out to all our friends of friends too.
- Matthew DeVries
Feedstats is pretty cool. I dig it.
- Otto
No comment
- Christian (Simply X)
from Android
I <3 U, Sarah Lane.
- Dave Friedel
I have to admit, it's pretty fun to watch you guys comment in real-time. Good thing I have nothing else to do all day. Matthew DeV- yeah, I know, not a perfect system. I guess my point is that FF sub numbers are misleading, there are a lot of DOA accounts!!
- Sarah Lane
Loved you on AOTS1000. How was the Chalula?
- GMar
present and accounted for
- Patrick Janidlo
Hello Sara. Love listening to you on the TWiT network.
- Richard
okay
- Katy Barrilleaux
Not a subscriber, but I'm alive. Real-time FF is open all day.
- Ben Reierson
She said my name! I'm never washing this thread again.
- Matthew DeVries
This is... a comment!
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
wutwut
- Rodfather
Hello, Sarah.
- Christopher A Carr
90% of people who subscribe to me on FF are neither bots nor marketing arseholes, which sure isn't the case on Twitter.
- Christopher A Carr
If a FriendFeeder posts on a feed and no one reads it is it still a post?
- Adam Turetzky
Hi! /waves hand
- Adrian
So you will double your subscribers most likely thru friends of friends - I'm in for sure
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
But, I don't feel like commenting.
- Jimminy Fuller
Could this be another "True or Poo"? ;) j/k How's it going Sarah?
- John Blanton
Sarah - Can this somehow reach Martin c/o Sarah? http://www.stagetwoconsulting.com/wordpre... (actually I found out about it from Veronica's feed)
- Matthew DeVries
I feel Marty thinks TWiF is getting to be a real pain in the butt. Maybe you could all convince Leo to move it to San Fran? I'm sure he'd get even better guests/hosts to move to a 24/7 format...?
- Jude
Hello Sarah. I think yours was the first feed I subscribed to when I joined FF.
- Thomas
just so we're clear on this... i'm not commenting because you asked... i'm commenting because i want to
- Chris Heath
Matthew DeV- I'll pass along! Jude- hmm, I'll think about that one. Chris H- FINE! BE THAT WAY!
- Sarah Lane
I'm here.
- Chris Gardner
Hello from the centre of the currently rainy weather in Norway.
- Thomas Bøhm
Hi Sarah. Yes, I remember, we talked about it on our podcast.
- Josh Haley
Now I'm a subscriber
- Lee Skarbek
from iPhone
Shout ;)
- Robert Burgin
Oh hai!
- Simon Wicks
gronk
- Byron Servies
Josh H- just discovered ffundercats! Very cool idea for a show!
- Sarah Lane
Hiya!
- Oracio
questioning people's existence? hmm. a bit different than people that just import all their feeds in here?
- John Wang
I seeeee yooooouuu!
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Well I'm not hanging on every word, but I enjoy your stuff.
- Chris Menning
I am alive and well, how are you doing?
- Gary Oswald
Thanks Sarah. You have a standing invitation to be on our show and just chat about whatever happens on FriendFeed, tech, etc. DM me if you are interested and we will make it happen. (also we have a room/group on FF http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... )
- Josh Haley
FFundercats: Diggnation minus the cult of personality?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel - there's a live thread (Real time FTW) with the podcast, and direct interaction with that thread. I usually have Friday plans, but when I don't it's a supremely fun time.
- Matthew DeVries
Here.
- Nation Hahn
Hurrah! Nice to see you posting here, even if it isn't for anything interesting.
- Kenton
Hullo there...you are still in my main feed... :)
- JA Castillo
John W- oh, I'm sure they exist somewhere, just wondering if it's here, too. ;) Chris M- casual enjoyment is enough for me! Kenton- oh please, this is riveting stuff! (I'm subscribing left and right due to this conversation, so thanks for speaking up and helping me find you!)
- Sarah Lane
I'm up the road in Canada :)
- Owen Greaves
Hi there.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
bonjour
- Justin
Hello :)
- 1x29
I don't subscribe to you.
- Alex Scrivener
hi
- anna sauce
G'day
- Lee
Hi there!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Let's get the comment count OVER 9000!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Bryan Lee
First, to 100
- Zachary TG
I find most people don't engage at all or have you in a list they don't check.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Awake....just.
- Clifford Kennedy
from iPhone
Bryan L- that video is going to haunt me in my dreams tonight, and it's all your fault!! ;)
- Sarah Lane
Woot
- Mike
Me here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hello
- The Letter M
Here is a comment. Howdy.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
now 5080 :D
- Roldano
Engage, engage, engage!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
I'm here :)
- tiracconto
I am not the square root of minus one (ask a mathematician, they'll know). :-)
- Jillian Ada Burrows
aw :p
- chaz2b
Keep up the good work!
- Timo Ukkola
BTW, don't think I haven't noticed Scoble's absence in this thread. Not even in the top 100! For shame! :)
- Sarah Lane
This is why i like FF more then Twitter :D
- Fee501st
hehe didn't think the video would have that kind of effect but I'll take it. :)
- Bryan Lee
oh hi there.
- Brett Kelly
Hej!
- Thomas Carrington
what's this now? engagement?
- michael sean wright
Afternoon, miss. I've seen you on the Internet TV, but never had the gumption to say hello.
- Mark Czerniec
Sarah, in this friendfeed realm, the Eye of Scoble (vanity filters) sees all. :-)
- Christopher A Carr
hello Sarah, keep on entertaining us
- Gary Taylor
Oh Hai!
- sofarsoShawn
I talk to myself a lot on friendfeed and twitter, but to the best of my knowledge I do actually exist.
- Eric Carter
My existence is debatable.
- Slappy Line
Hola
- Alejandro
hi.
- Mike Nencetti
Comment
- Robert Kenney
wooo
- andy brudtkuhl
There, Sarah, now you have 117 of 5K haha
- anna sauce
I exist...
- Tyler Sid
Yes, I remember when you got called out a few months back for not participating. It was me that called you out. I refer to that, now deleted post, as "The Emperor's New Clothes" post. After I was condemned for daring to ask why cewebrity accounts on FriendFeed were given such an inordinate amount of attention considering there's no reciprocation on the part of the poster, my question...
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- Christopher Harley
Sarah - I've enjoyed your posts as I see them float down the stream :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
O HAI SARAH
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Hello!
- Herb Hernandez
hey there
- Patrick
Please define the word "exist"... :)
- John Ruth
Holla back, whoop! whoop!
- Steve Wilson
I like bread.
- Steven Cogswell
Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssssup. :D
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
...so it goes...
- Mitchell Schneider
Commenting right.........now!
- David Cook
Greetings
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
from iPhone
no, i won't comment. you can't make me!
- jccalhoun
Hello there...
- Brian Sloane
I've just subscribed to your FF and Twitter. :)
- J. D. Ebberly
G'Day
- Johnny Worthington
I exist, but do I get to choose which of your parts I exist around?
- Tim Keeney
Howdy, I am an existing FF.
- Kelli Perez
Hello!
- Kevin Fox
wow. that's a lot of comments
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
jccalhoun- you see what i did there?
- Sarah Lane
She's a popular gal... :)
- Thomas
I may or may not being an automatic spam bot. Also, I thoroughly enjoy TWiF. But, what does that count for?
- Mike Nayyar
I exist only in my own mind
- Gary Prechtel
Mike N- it counts for a sub from me! Although the first thing I saw was a post about your laptop, your mom, and porn. Let's see how this relationship goes. :)
- Sarah Lane
Yet another try at creating the longest thread on FF? ;)
- Holger Eilhard
I'm listening, but I don't know what to say.
- Donald Forth
Sup
- Geoff Schultz
What's good in the TWiF hood, homeslice?
- Eric Geller
Here!
- David Monroe
Hello. I am here. :-)
- Paul Franz
Well, this is certainly a nice hefty thread... but I think I've made the point that clearly the large majority of my followers aren't actually paying attention (for example, my BFF Kim Kardashian). :)
- Sarah Lane
She is just jealous that you get to hang with Martin on Fridays.
- Eric Geller
That is, unless you double-book.
- Eric Geller
Yo!
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
from fftogo
made the best of day.... who the hell are you?
- Noah David Simon
Sarah Lane is the wife of Leo Laporte of Twit Live. Her son is Kevin Rose of Digg fame. And she is only 30.
- Mark
...and I'm supposed to know that? how can her son be of Digg if she is 30?
- Noah David Simon
Only if you've used the internet for more than 8 minutes in the last decade.
- Matthew DeVries
twif rocks, U & sargent are halarious. ive been watching since techTv days. Martin's cadillac RIP
- echostreamer
all I know is this woman has issues that people are following her... and I wasn't following her till she had issues. what a paradox! ....wait a minute... she sounds like a feminist!
- Noah David Simon
If that's all you know, then that's all you read, but there's more to know and you've just decided not to assimilate it. Say Luh Vee.
- Matthew DeVries
Hello! As well as hi!
- Jay Farmington
martins lobster tweet was hilarious and so was your calling him out. Also "who Tila Tiquilla?" was great line. been watching since techtv. follow me if you'd like on FF and Twitter @echostreamers
- echostreamer
yeaux!
- Veronica
Jay Farmington wins for best bio!
- Sarah Lane
Hey Sarah, whats up?
- Randy Shapiro
Yoooo.
- Andru Edwards
Why?
- W. Kirk Crawford
Hullo Sarah
- Tom Horn
Hahaha Sarah Lane wins for noticing my bio!
- Jay Farmington
Hi there.
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
Greetings earthling
- Kim Landwehr
love to listen to your on Twit network. Since I installed FF on computer, I see your streams more. usually I click on links that people post if it seems interesting to me. usually don't comment though. keep it up!
- kent williams
Hola!
- Ahmed
Heya!
- Mo Kargas
Sarah who?
- Luis D. Santos
True or Poo: Sarah Lane uses FriendFeed.
- Randy Shapiro
Hi - I think I knew your sister, Lois -/
- Chris Loft
Yep, Lois, Penny and I are all doing well, thx. ;)
- Sarah Lane
Subscribe to you on Twitter and read your Tweets.....good to finally see you here on FF interacting!
- Bonnie Foster
dunno I know you...?
- sofarsoShawn
Sorry, missed you 5 hours ago, Australia was asleep. We're here now though.
- Edward Coffey
No. :)
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
Hello.You've been on my favorites list for a while now. I'm just sparatic about my interaction, and often get distracted by stuff like Sims 3 and WoW when at the computer.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
after looking at the bios in this thread, if every1 in this thread started a tech company together, im pretty sure it would replace google tomorow. im not sure i am even qualified to be in this conversation
- echostreamer
Eva
- sofarsoShawn
Uh, hey. How's it goin?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
<Participation/>
- Mitch
heyo
- Mark Essel
from intelligent media manager test
watching, waiting
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Howdy!
- Andrew
Ok, now I *have* to go participate in a Current TV happy hour. Boo hoo, unlucky me. Will check back later. Thx to everybody who reached out so far. It's great to have those of you not already on my radar, on my radar. :)
- Sarah Lane
Im here, Im here!
- Sean Simkins
Hi Sarah :)
- Randy Allen Bishop
tell tila tequila i said hi ;)
- echostreamer
Hey Sarah!
- Colin Hendricks
Checking In, Sarah!
- Patrick Hall
You officially have more comments on this post than I've ever had on my whole podcast.
- David LaMorte
following... :)
- Rick Reynolds
hello.
- Zee.
Howdy! .. :)
- Art Stanton
Ms Sarah, I'm not subscribed, but I'm commenting also, anyway ..... I'm your average next-door group guy.
- Petr Buben
Greetings!
- David Gaw
Ahoy!
- Mike Shulman
Sarah, Love TWIF. Keep up the good work.
- Saad Kamal
Hi
- Bora Zivkovic
I've just subscribed. Hi!
- Tyson Key
Well, now you have at least 5,062 subscribers.
- Jordan Hofker
gogogo.
- mjc
Kiaora
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I think i'm just a monkey :-P
- Sean Creasy
I lurk therefore I am.
- David Imielski
Natural born follower
- Don Sanborn
present
- Fabio
Here.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
sarah's got to be at the general rank in the twit army by now... i'm just wondering how many stars
- Chris Heath
I think, therefore I exist.
- Trent Hamm
from iPod
Hey!
- Chuck Drake
Last!
- John Brazel
First!
- Christopher A Carr
Hello :)
- Eric Logan
Hello.
- Dennis O'Neil
Have we met?
- Mistletoe Glen
Hi, found you from a friend from a friend from a friend from a friend of FF!
- Joel Robert Perez
Yes, Glen, we have (we'll always have Skype *sigh*). But not on this thread before. Oh. HI, Sarah Lane :)
- Micah Wittman
Hi there
- Dave de Roos
Hey
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I think it's safe to say that this was a success
- Steve Poland
Gus- I don't want to get rid of you! Silly Gus.
- Sarah Lane
Keep up the great work with TWIF
- Magnus Tait
Hey mon cheri teckie.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
count me
- Smith
Hello from Alcatraz.
- Ranger Craig
hello sarah
- Steve Mott
Hey hey hey
- Mark Carrozza
It looks like you've picked up a few more since making this post. I like even number's, so I'll make it 5,142!
- Michael Fidler
Make that 5,143. Odd number's are okay too.
- Michael Fidler
that's a lot of comments
- Federico Hamelius
Hey there, Sarah Lane!
- Nick
Hej!
- Peter
Hey... Just commenting, :)
- Thomas
Great idea! See who is paying attention. Hi Sarah.
- Andrew Vincent Cahill
Hi. I am with you
- Nitin Nanivadekar
Am here tooooo ....
- Jeff
Sarah, you're my preffered fragment of my imagination.
- Jean Sebastien Dussault
from twhirl
I comment, therefore I exist...or something like that.
- Shaun William
hi there
- Kiran Patchigolla
from Nambu
Sarah Lane rocks :)
- Sam Houston
You guys are the best. Ok, I have tons more folks to subscribe to tomorrow, but for now, I gotta rest my eyes for a bit!
- Sarah Lane
time difference has to be taken into account :)
- Iwan
Holla!
- Rob Haas
G'day!
- Darren Heydon
Greetings...
- Anoop Mathew Alex
Insert witty comment here.
- Greg Morgan
wassup!
- Aaron
ok cool Sarah, HI or Aloha as we say here in Hawaii. I myself have been on ff for 2 mos and have never had a personal message.
- Ron Hagenhoff
You are in one of my FF Groups so you show up when someone in my Home feed Likes or Comments (presently).
- Jay Cuthrell
Hi from Norway
- Odd Inge Teige
konichiwa hajimemashite yoroshuku onegaishimasu
- Robert Higgins
Not following you yet, but: "hi hi!"
- Daan
Hi Sarah, Just subscribed! Cheers!
- Evgeni Leshtanski
14 hours late but present and accounted for.
- invariant - farewell FF
Hello!
- Pavel Senko
so.... Hi! :) Hello.. Hola.. Oi.. Aló..
- Cesar Sanchez
quiet plz! :)
- ozan
I'm here!
- jvinelaguna
morning
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Hello from Missouri. Just want to say TWIF FTW~! Anyway keep up the good work and stay awesome!
- Shawn aka ringking
although I live on another continent I do exist :P TWiF out
- Anton Tanderup
from BuddyFeed
I pinched myself, it hurt, it must be real
- Mike Center
hi from Athens
- Baboon
Hello, I'm a new subscriber.
- Iván Abrego
I'm commenting, and I'm not even a subscriber.
- DGentry
Hola
- Edgar Rodríguez
sup
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I'm not sure I can commit right now... I mean, you're nice and all, but... oh COMMENT. Oh. AWKward....
- Brandt Krueger
Oh hi :)
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
I'm not in your stream, your not in my stream, and still everything is lively.
- Amit Morson
I am not a subscriber, nor do I have any idea what your normal content is like, but I can imagine that some percentage of your subscribers did so purely because your avatar is an attractive woman (and you have a females name). I'm not saying this to belittle your contributions; just sharing an observation of male behavior. -- huh, I just went and looked at your profile (I had never heard of you). I'll add your celebrity status as another reason people might follow without planning on engaging.
- Bill Rawlinson
I exist :)
- Geoff Jackson
I'm here
- Michael_techie
Buenos dias/Good morning. See, you're not crazy. We do exist.
- Acevedo Oscar
Yo.
- Adam Karl
hi
- Thomas Hawk
comment
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Here's one more from Malaysia!
- Andrew Lim
Hello from the land of the rising sun!
- Carlos Brefe
Greetings from NL
- Marcel de Jong
HAI!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
My hovercraft is full of eels.
- George Brickner
Hi Sarah. Glad to see you here.
- Courtney Engle
Wow 303 comments. and 120 likes? Amazing.
- Zachary TG
Hello!
- Mathias Staricka
why does it matter if we exist?
- Jeff Martin
Bonjour ! from Montreal .
- Christian Farley
Which has a louder Tweet Beat...'Sarah Lane fans' or 'drinking from cans'....?
- Rooney
Hi Sarah. Greetings from Missouri. Love your shows.....
- R Daily
I exist.
- Ben Hanten
Hello! We love you Sarah. :)
- Carol Levesque
The show where lizards grow.
- Frank Jonen
Hey Sarah!
- Martin Johnson
Hello there double-booker
- W_B_K
Hi
- Alan Le
Hello. I'm not a subscriber, but since someone I follow commented, I felt the need to say "Hi" too. Hello from Washington, DC. The only times I comment on FriendFeed are: 1) it's funny, 2) it's about dogs, 3) it's about cutting-edge tech. Since you called out the "lurkers" on FF, I'm here. ;)
- Ken & Kiyomi
It's a small world... ;)
- Tyson Key
\m/
- Tanath
hey sarah! just wanted to say hi
- (jeff)isageek
Wanted to wait to be commenter 321, but it looks like it ain't gonna be. (Edit: Heh - got it anyway :) )
- Andy Bold
howdy
- timepilot
Whew! Just catching up on all your lovely comments. Thanks everyone! Now, we're only missing about 4,600 folks. Send out the search party! Kidding, kidding.... I was just really curious as to who was actually around and paying attention. >^__^< <----- my first ASCII cat ever
- Sarah Lane
<'((>< ...Fishy
- Josh Haley
Just sitting here existing away.:p
- Dale
ping
- Kevan Emmott
Im commenting. I love your hipster wayz :p
- Scott Graham
It's times like these I wish FF had a comment link *below* the comments :)
- Thomas
Thomas, an after-market product: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... (user script hack to add a Comment and Like links below threads :)
- Micah Wittman
Well played, Micah. Well played...
- Thomas
It does if it's the only post in the feed. Click the timestamp. But you already know this, prob. :p
- Josh Haley
Thanks Micah :)
- Thomas
No prob :)
- Micah Wittman
I am also a guilty non-participant in FF; really need to get here more often.
- Natallini
i'm fairly certain I exist
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
WOW that's a lot of subscribers. I'm real at least I was a minute ago. ;-P
- Kelli Perez
Hi Sarah. Like you on net@night. Cheers!
- Ken Morley
..and now you have more subscribers.
- rob
Thomas, http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... or http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... will have comment boxes at the bottom always so you don't even need to click - opening the entry/item in it's own window is the key (clicking the timestamp like josh haley said will do that) then if you want the clean embed version you just add ?embed=1 to the url, or click the timestamp again - it's that simple
- Chris Heath
The only way to follow someone is if you follow fewer than 5,061 'people'
- Terris Linenbach
Hello from Cambridgeshire, Englandshire. Now, where do I put the stamp on this thing?
- Ben Aldhouse
Terris- no, that's the number of people subscribed to me... I can't imagine following 5,061 people! Think of the real-time scrolling! Aaaah!
- Sarah Lane
Well, it *was* the number of people subscribed to me. A few more now.. hi everyone!
- Sarah Lane
OH HAI
- Jay Cuthrell
Hi Sarah! I think I'm in love with you.
- Dave Friedel
"And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear"
- Jay Cuthrell
Hello there, I think I am a human not a bot or anything like that
- Ahmad Rashad
Sarah: R. Scoble manages - http://qik.com/video/1622325
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher: it burns, it BURNSSSSSSS
- Sarah Lane
hehe
- Christopher A Carr
I'm here, it's twit.tv fault.
- Dave Hoffman / N3PRO
from twhirl
I think I exist but since the Internet isn't real is hard to tell xD
- Ronald Erazo
we are here
- Simon Bryan
I belive in Leo, therefore i exist!
- Björn Fritz
from Nambu
5,258 now. Hi...
- Mitchell Tsai
Just subscribed to you simply out of curiosity after seeing this discussion :)
- Adam Sherk
Greetings!
- Shawn K. Smith
Howdie from Alabama!
- Martin Howell
Hey Sarah! I have always never been here, so I guess I shouldn't be here!
- Jeff Stanco
Present! and not a spambot
- Denis Sweeney
Holla! Hi from San Diego.
- Peggy Gartin
I'm commenting now. Just read this in ma email. I don't have a lot to say...ever...so I don't usually talk...but I like and I listen.
- Aaron M. Clay
This thread is like Cher's career. It never ends.
- Dave Friedel
this comment is the 364th comment made on this thread (just sayin) 365 any1?
- echostreamer
beuler?
- Chris Heath
366th !
- Dave Friedel
Tell us about the beginning of this FF post grandpa! Well kids, when I was a young man, Sarah Lane posted a question about having five thousand followers... (long old man story) ... and the post survives to this day, in the year 2074. Back when this thread started, the machines hadn't taken over yet...
- Dave Friedel
Hey there from the back woods of British Columbia
- Trent Shields
Nobody here but us chickens.
- Bob Mills
When will it end? Oh, uh, DOH!
- Dave Friedel
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