You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Evernote, GCal, checkvist, post-it notes. It's not a very rigorous system.
- Jandy
from iPhone
Remember the milk w/SMS. And at work I use paper.
- Lo the Baker
Wow, I am amazed there's still conversation here!
- Steve Rubel
from email
I still use Google Notebook for my to do list.
- Steven Melfi
Friendfeed (private group) for web to do/notes, Evernote (portable notes and shopping lists), RTM and Google Calendar (not happy with iCal feed delay +6 hours). Also looking at reQall and DropBox for additional mobile options.
- Chris Myles
For my to-do list, I use RTM, reQall, and GCal. Both RTM and reQall connect to my GCal. For notes, reQall is also good depending on the type of note, but most of my notes are in Google Docs, Evernote, and Diigo at the moment.
- Rebeca
Combination of Jott and Evernote. Jott to keep track of things I need to do and tasks and Evernote for knowledge and when I need to capture information for a task. I have them integrated so that Jott can send stuff directly into Evernote as a new note. Here is a Lifehacker article on how to do this integration - http://lifehacker.com/373815...
- Ian Rudy
Quick notes to catch at a moment's notice: the backs of envelopes, freebie notepads from fundraisers, Evernote for articles, Favorites for online stuff I want to remember, read later share, Outlook/Plaxo for contacts, Outlook learn file and go file to keep emails of good article links and events, mobile phone for key personal and business numbers, etc, etc. Too, too many places.
- Barbara Langham
bump. more people answer please. I love this stuff too!
- metalerik
Immediate to-do list is on To-Do's app on my iPhone, longer term but with a specific date/time goes on Google calendar, long term but with no set date is in Evernote and/or 43Things
- Lix
To-do: Outlook tasks synched with WinMo phone via Exchange. Notes: EverNote for the ubiquity of having stuff on PCs, Macs, web, iPhone & WinMo, OneNote for the notes that contain mixed content (since EN can't do mixed type notes).
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Pen & paper. Sometimes I'll send notes-to-self to my email via text message from my phone. But yeah... pen & paper.
- Penguin
Google Tasks extension in Chrome (nifty openable javascript, bottom right corner of webpages) keeps my attention on said to-do 'mechanism'. RTM but I'm not able to do it daily so each time I'm scared to act upon old months-old tasks, and fragmentation of the information between those services makes my pain in information tracing and progress tracking even worse. Love Vitalist, it's a...
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- Zu from AOD
At work: combination of post-it notes, bug tracking software, ad-hoc text files, and my notebook. Non-work: Astrid (task mgr for Android), ad-hoc notes on my phone, plus artfully arranging objects into obnoxious positions that will force me to remember to deal with them.
- Andrew C (✓)
None, I just repeat once what I need to do. Ok, I do use paper but on very rare occasions( when the list is too long).
- Ashish
Google Tasks - part of my Google Apps for Domains -- syncs perfectly on my iPhone. Larger efforts get MS Project (yea, I am one of those people! hehe). I am a PMP - certified Project Manager, so it only makes sense, right? :)
- Susan Beebe
this is great. anyone else want to enable this geek?
- metalerik
Interesting, thanks for tips. For myself, I have used combination of "integrated" task manager in my Nokia phone, Google Tasks integrated to Gmail and GCalendar + few other things. Normally, for saving notes (or pieces of text from somewhere) I write/copy/paste them to new email at Gmail that I will send to myself. I'm able to make it more complete by creating reply to the conversation and saving more details so that things stay intact.
- Daniel Schildt
Alternatively, I just bought my first pocket sized Moleskine notebook last week. And no, it's not digital. ;)
- Daniel Schildt
I came to Friendfeed late in the game (December). Seems the vast majority of folks just push their tweets here now and don't really use it much. Too bad, such a great way to converse.
- Brian Joseph
Hey Steve :) I love FriendFeed, sorta wish facebook would adopt more FF features :) YES, the database is fabulous, the Lists (groups, rooms, etc) are really my favorites. UI is clean too
- Susan Beebe
waves hi to the jets fan - i still like ya though :)
- Allen Stern
I wish Facebook would just remove Facebook and replace it with FriendFeed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I somewhat disagree Kol. Each have their place in the Social Media space. Just don't try to merge the two, it won't work!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Now completely remove Twitter and replace it with Friendfeed and the whole world would be a better place... There is nothing besides "number of people" (OK, and APIs) that makes Twitter really good.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
1 stream for all, i hope it never goes away
- Majento
Mark, the only things I like about Facebook is the FriendFeed features. I could easily live without all the non-FriendFeed features on Facebook.
- Kol Tregaskes
I want a central place for photos and tagging still.
- Holden Page
Sorry Kol, my point was around audience: Public versus Private. Too many of my physical friends are not ready for a FriendFeed style of openness to unknown people. FB would obviously like to change some of that community culture and will have some success but many would continue to prefer a tight private friend-based system. Feature-wise, I agree with you but those features (Games, etc) obviously resonate to a large demographic we don't exactly fit in.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Welcome back Steve, pull up a chair and stay a while.
- AJ Kohn
Steve, it's nice to see you talking FF again. I surely missed your postings. I don't see anything of what you're doing nowadays. While it was really worth following it. Hope to see you more often.
- Ton Zijp
Change of heart, Steve? You were Posterous poster boy.
- ThinkEzy
Mark, that's why I think they should keep FB and FF as separate entities. They have two different purposes and I prefer FF's over FB's.
- Kol Tregaskes
"especially if Google makes some sorely needed improvements to the Market -- a 30-character limit on app titles? Really? And how about a non-Android Web view of the market -- Google of all companies should know the importance of linking."
- ⓞnor
from Android
How is there still no web interface to the market? Ridiculous!
- Larry Greenfield
What Larry said. I really enjoyed developing for iPhone this year, while the Android dev cycle was a bit frustrating for me and my clients. I'm still cheering Google on though! I expect the dev and pub experiences to improve, and I'm confident they'll do what needs doing. Remember, in the end, healthy competition is a good thing. (Accent on healthy.)
- Joe D'Andrea
Joe: I'm curious as to what aspects of Android development you found frustrating. Was it actual development or something in the deployment process? I'm no expert on Android but did find the Eclipse development process to be really easy, mostly just stumbling through the APIs using ctrl-space until I got something working.
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
Joel: This go-round, it was the dev experience. Deployment was a cinch by comparison. Without airing API-bug/IDE-snag/Wrong-documentation nits (which I've raised with appropriate folks), and to put this in perspective, keep in mind I wrote "developing for iPhone _this_ year" vs. last year. Big difference! iPhone's not all wine and roses either, but this year there were some very pleasant dev strides vs. Android. I'm plenty happy when I read of Android success stories. It means there's hope for me yet! :)
- Joe D'Andrea
It's good to know I'm not an idiot. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh, so that was the master plan? 1. Declare friendfeed dead 2. Idiots leave. 3. Enjoy the good stuff without them around any more.
- April
April, that's not a bad plan actually. Finally Robert's master plan is becoming clear ;)
- Glenn Slaven
April: bbbbwwwwaaaahhhhhhhaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaa. Said while rubbing hands together in evil fashion.
- Robert Scoble
Keith: I never left. I've been here almost every day since July. I have reduced the number of hours I spend here from about 10 to 10 minutes, though. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111eleven
- Jim Norris
great to see you back here at friendfeed.. it's still rocking in it's own way.. welcome back and great new year
- Jaap Willem
I've found even if they're not idiots there are some times people that are just so negative or draining you have to block them, at least for a short period. I wish there was a way to do that which wasn't offensive.
- Jesse Stay
Hey Jessie - was hangin' with Damon today and your name came up. Damon ROCKS MY SOCKS.
- Mona Nomura
@jessethey should get indeed like a mute button for 30 days or something??
- Jaap Willem
from IM
Nice to see you still here, Robert. Hope the wife and kids are well.
- Martha
This is serious! I don't think you've ever used the word "pissing" in a post before.
- Vicarbott
I always buy my Smartphones at full price exactly for this reason, I don't like being locked to a duration term for technology that moves much faster than the term being offered for the subsidy.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Of course, my next post might be "two new iPhones! Yay!"
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
fyi slickdeals shows a cheap price if you go refurb on the 3gs
- Allen Stern
We live in interesting times. If you choose, I suspect you can pick up a refurbished or used iPhone for your wife to use for a while and delay the decision. As you note, WWDC will almost certainly usher in a new iPhone, and there are likely a crush of other interesting smartphones coming in 2010.
- DGentry
"Switching to Android would not magically port over the applications and iTunes I have purchased" So we're calling music purchased through the iTunes application "iTunes" now?
- Andy Bakun
Andy, nope. That's me writing fast and taking shortcuts. As for my wife's phone, it sounds like a first-gen iPhone will arrive here tomorrow from a friend, and I will just wait.
- Louis Gray
Oh, I know, just giving you a hard time. Although, I hope it doesn't catch on.
- Andy Bakun
Yes, just wait for the next six months. I have a 3G like you and it is jailbroken which helps. I am intrigued by the Android and the 4th Generation Iphone. I am going to wait patiently. It might turn out an Android and a iPod touch is in my future.
- Amani
Amani - I have an Android and a Touch. I quit carrying the Touch with me - it's a brick if there's no wifi which is most places I go.
- iTad
that is no bueno tad. will there be wifi in future Touchs? Otherwise I might as well stick with my old iPod.
- Amani
from IM
No Amani - it has wifi, but when I'm not in a wifi zone it's a brick.
- iTad
If portability of things like apps and data, from a closed platform like iPhone, are important, then staying with an iPhone, Apple, and AT&T for the next two years only makes that worse. I have not tested it, but it seems Android apps are tied to the google account, so a new phone also tied to the same account would continue to have access to the apps bought. And any sane person would,...
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- Andy Bakun
Side note: If the friend drops off the iPhone (first gen) tomorrow, that makes two iPhones and two iPod Touches I won't have paid for. Hmmm... #disclosethat
- Louis Gray
Wow. IRC is so crazy. I think the story of the decade is surely mobile and email. The iPhone's popularity is huge for this. Google too.
- Elliot Christenson
@Jeff cool, so no aggregators really?
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew Do you do much filtering on Digg? Just the tech areas for instance?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah the Tech page is set as my starting point.
- Andrew
@Caleb, No, I don't like aggregators. Even for blogs, things like Google Reader and Bloglines annoy me.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - One exception to that is Popurls. That one's handy.
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff Interesting. Is there something in particular about them you dislike?
- Caleb Elston
Yeah I barely look at Google Reader any more, it's just like a huge inbox you have to crawl through now.
- Andrew
@Caleb - Readers don't give me blog comments, for one. I also find that the look and feel of a website will help me remember where I first read something. Blog themes are also usually stripped out and made homogenous by readers. Don't care for that.
- Jeff Harbert
I've gotten nearly all my breaking news this year from Twitter.
- Jeff Harbert
I learned about Twitter on TWiT. TechTV and it's spawn are one important story of the decade.
- Jason R
Twitter definitely provides most of the news/links that I click on. I prefer the layout/design of Original Signal to Popurls, just a shame it seems to have been abandoned. Only annoyance is no way to turn off the popups when you hover on a link.
- Andrew
"we have some deep integrations coming with a bunch of different players and big announcements coming up" --Kevin Rose on TWiT
- Andrew Euell
anyone know if traffic on digg.com is still growing?
- Mark
I think the fire alarm is starting to beep more frequently...
- Andrew
Story of the decade is REALLY TWIT. I agree with Jason Robertshaw. I learned of Twitter on TWIT.
- Elliot Christenson
My last employer had a floppy-drive Mavica.
- Jeff Harbert
we had a mavica for a trip to vegas with the family. BACKUPS could be a story of the decade. Digital is now practical because of BACKUPS.
- Elliot Christenson
I know Carbonite is a sponsor but I gotta say their product for Mac really sucks. It doesn't backup video automatically! You have to manually select video files to backup. I switched to Backblaze. We should try to get them as a TWiT Sponsor!
- Ken Wiesner
Am I the only one that thinks location services like Foursquare are dumb?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff hate to disagree, but I think location is actually a core element to be shared. Just like Photos, Video, Text...location is next.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - but it's so transitory. So I check in at a bar - I won't be there an hour later.
- Jeff Harbert
People recommend you for the "Crunk" badge. :)
- Ken Wiesner
@Jeff that's true, but tweets are similarly ephemeral, but we now have much better realtime alerting systems so you can actually know about that right away.
- Caleb Elston
@Caleb - And it also does me no good to know where anyone non-local to me is. Scoble is having dinner at the Ritz - I'm across the country, so what use is that to me?
- Jeff Harbert
@Jeff, bingo - and if you're in a small town, who cares that you just popped down to the gas station in your pyjamas?
- Andrew
@Jeff that might be true for Robert, since you don't really know him, but if it were your son or brother it might be interesting, a conversation starter for the next time you speak.
- Caleb Elston
@Andrew - Exactly, which is why I think these services are dumb.
- Jeff Harbert
@Caleb - I'm actually acquainted with Robert. It still does me no good to know he's having dinner at the Ritz because he's nowhere near me.
- Jeff Harbert
Pet peeve - that's navigation, not GPS.
- Jeff Harbert
Automatic parallel parking is a joke. If you can't drive, don't drive.
- Jeff Harbert
Fully automated cars would be cool though. Real life savers, since most people don't know how to drive safely.
- Jeff Harbert
Robert's is right Microsoft is just not cool anymore
- Kim Landwehr
I'd still like to have a full computer in my car.
- Jeff Harbert
Doesn't the decade begin in January 1st, 2011?
- Héctor
@Héctor - Leo mentioned that in yesterday's TWiG. He said he'd rather get a little email from correct listeners like you than wait a year and get 10x more from people who think it begins 1-1-10.
- Jeff Harbert
Correct. I remember arguing about it 10 years ago, but this time around I don't feel like nitpicking for that same exact reason. Sounds like a good plan.
- Héctor
I don't like the iPhone. I need a real keyboard.
- Jeff Harbert
Thinking of getting a Droid to replace my Blackberry in Sept when my current cell contract is up for renewal.
- Jeff Harbert
Yeah I'm going to drop my BlackBerry Storm - was such a disappointment.
- Andrew
Please stop thinking that electric cars will 100% replace normal cars.
- Jeff Harbert
And btw, good old lead-acid batteries are just fine for electric cars. We don't need a battery breakthrough.
- Jeff Harbert
Thank goodness for holidays - this is the first time I've been able to watch TWiT live, as it's after midday Monday in NZ. Although luckily TWiG falls on Sunday here. :)
- Andrew
If you think about it most people spend most of their time driving to and from work and around town, a perfect use for electric vehicles
- Kim Landwehr
"earthy crunchy" --Leo Laporte on Kevin Rose
- Andrew Euell
@Kim - Exactly. We don't need 350 mile range. 80 is more than enough for most people.
- Jeff Harbert
you DO WANT Rackspace as a sponsor, trust me
- Mark
Blogs aren't history, they've become enhancements & supplements to videos and tweets.
- Jeff Harbert
I like that comment by Leo - why pigeonhole it? It's all content.
- Jeff Harbert
"tough ass particle" --Leo Laporte on the Higgs Boson
- Andrew Euell
great - I could understand all of the previous video vignette's except the bio-tech one ;)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
....and an overpolluted planet with 15 billion people. Something to look forward to.
- Jeff Harbert
what about a cure for sleep, free of side effects of course
- Andrew Euell
@Andrew - or just make sleep more effective. I'd love to get by on 3-4 hours per night.
- Jeff Harbert
Biggest story of the decade - social media. It changed the societal consciousness.
- echostreamer
it's not Facebook per se, but rather the ability of any company to connect that many people on the internet: Orkut, Twitter, Google Groups, etc
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I noticed on the TWiT youtube channel, Windows Weekly is watched 5-6 times more than the other shows
- Mark
Windows Weekly is 12500+ per show. TWiT the flagship is 2 or 3000
- Mark
The different shows all have different user/viewer profiles for live, re-run, download and now youtube. It's amazing to see the variances
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Whoever did the animated intro for the video, it looks amazing!
- Q-tip
It was, but that's the annoyance, Allen. I would prefer that if a change is made, it should be consistent. The graph, already suspect, now has an even bigger anomaly.
- Louis Gray
I of course prefer the higher number, but when it was first changed, that change was a surprise and annoying. For it to be reversed is, in theory, equally annoying.
- Louis Gray
yay robert - now louis will be happy it seems because the larger number is back
- Allen Stern
Whatever it is, please leave it just one way ::gawd::
- Jorge Escobar
Hey now, Allen. See above. I prefer that if it is one way it should stay one way. And higher #'s are always better, if you can make reasons for them.
- Louis Gray
Sadness: Berkeley High School is considering eliminating science labs and the five science teachers who teach them because science labs were largely classes for white students. - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Sincular-Mertens, who has taught science at BHS for 24 years, said the possible cuts will impact her black students as well. She says there are twelve African-American males in her AP classes and that her four environmental science classes are 17.5 percent African American and 13.9 percent Latino.
- Bruce Lewis
Yuck. Yes, our education system is in trouble, and no doubt the East Bay's systems are very much in trouble, but it seems all too often, dollars are pointed away from the gifted and talented students, to aid the lower third.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I think you nailed the issue. This isn't so much about race, but about school priorities. They're measured on dropout percentages, etc., and not on each kid fulfilling his or her potential.
- Bruce Lewis
But even supposing you do make it a race thing, is it really helping a minority cause to have fewer minorities taking AP classes and science labs? We need more minorities at the top if there's going to be more equality. Helping the bottom third is also worthwhile, but accomplishes less.
- Bruce Lewis
More coverage : "The elimination of zero and seventh period labs under the recently formulated Berkeley High School Action Plan has drawn opposition from some members of the BHS community, prompting continued discussion and debate about the provision." -- Berkeley High Jacket http://www.bhsjacket.com/...
- Ken Sheppardson
The bitter fruit of Prop 13 anti tax fever Taxes do have a purpose and cutting taxes has real consequence
- WarLord
From the Jacket article above -- BHS Principal Jim Slemp, who put together the Action Plan with BHS lead teachers, agrees. “There are schools like Miramonte and Tamalpais, schools with great science programs that don’t have labs outside of regular class time,” Slemp said. “When you’re working towards equity it’s all about figuring out how to get that money to help kids who are...
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- Ken Sheppardson
Budget constraints should force us to be choosy about which countries we bomb, not which students we help.
- Bruce Lewis
The headline makes it seem like they're shutting down science labs. From the article it seems like they're eliminating before- and after-school lab periods, meaning that the labs will have to be done during the regular school day. That's better for the lower-achieving students because they're the ones who consistently miss the before- and after-school labs.
- Gabe
It's in the article from the Berkeley High paper I linked to, Bruce.
- Ken Sheppardson
yeesh, this seems to be the problem with trying to enforce "equality of outcome" instead of "equality of opportunity." Why penalize gifted students?
- Jeffrey Canton
I dunno, I did pretty good in HS, including AP physics courses - which, granted, was a long time ago - without any before or after-school extra studies. In fact, I think French AP was the only AP course my HS even offered that had mandatory after-school work. EDIT: OK, we had drop-in computer labs (this was in the days before mainstream internet, if that helps put things in context) that definitely helped me pass the Comp Sci AP test, but that was *completely* unstructured as far as I can recall.
- Andrew C (✓)
That's a great news. Soon, RSSCloud will be fully merged into PubSubHubbub and we'll forget about all this politics.
- Julien
It seems ironic that Dave is being bearhugged in reverse by PuSH. But it is definately progress toward comparing on merits rather than other personal criteria.
- Steve Gillmor
Thanks, Gary. Dave's article lists the #1 reason for CloudPipe's updates (especially "fat ping") as being competitive vs. PuSH, and aiding RSSCloud. Hence my comment.
- Louis Gray
Gary, maybe you should explain that to Dave.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, I heard that from someone who knows lots of execs at Apple. Also, that Steve has personally been involved in this project a long time. I hope he hits it out of the park again. Even if he doesn't I'm still buying one.
- Robert Scoble
that said, i bet apple has plenty of other big projects in the pipeline that are started but wont see the light of day until after he's no longer running the ship.
- MG Siegler
This person told me that Jobs was a lot closer to death than most reported, but is doing well now. I imagine having that kind of experience must change one.
- Robert Scoble
Oh, yeah. I wonder what they will do next year to make the Android chase again. It'll be interesting to see how Apple handles having to react to Google rather than forcing Google to react to it.
- Robert Scoble
It would be nice to have an iPhone with a much higher resolution screen and longer battery life.
- Robert Scoble
my guess: faster, faster, faster. and if they can improve battery life enough we may finally see limited background tasks
- MG Siegler
That would be cool. I'm liking my Droid better. Not because it's a great product (it's not, at least not when compared to iPhone) but because of Google Maps (far superior on Android when compared to iPHone) and Google Voice.
- Robert Scoble
yeah looks like some apps with goog voice are finally reappearing. bet we may see a google voice app soon. but still, google is pretty clearly committed to making its products run better on its own devices now, which is natural
- MG Siegler
Microsoft used to be crucified for those kind of moves...
- Cliff Gerrish
yeah the difference is google hasn't started making crap products...yet
- MG Siegler
but i have started giving them shit for that
- MG Siegler
Cliff: that's because Microsoft had (and still has) a near monopoly on desktop operating systems and used it to firm up that monopoly. Android doesn't have a monopoly (yet).
- Robert Scoble
Android won't have a monopoly, neither will anyone else. That's the last war. The question is whether Google will make products that only work with their own systems and still insist in calling them "open"
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff: when Google says "open" it just means that the Google spider can get to them.
- Robert Scoble
Penned Nov 08: "By Jan 2014... all forms of tangible media will either be in sharp decline or completely extinct" http://www.micropersuasion.com/2008...
Google Tasks (gmail.com/tasks) does a really good job of showing how good the browser-based HTML* alternative to native app development for mobile platforms can be. I've been using it casually for my grocery shopping list for the past few weeks and have been very impressed
... But it wasn't until yesterday that I realized that for all intents and purposes it was functioning exactly like a native app on my DROID, albeit rendered in Dolphin. I'd previously been skeptical of the HTML on a mobile browser hype, but I'm a believer now. At least as long as I have a 3G connection, but then again without that most apps are useless anyway
- LANjackal
I'm not saying platform-specific mobile app development is dead, but Tasks shows that simple apps are probably better coded up in HTML than for a particular mobile OS
- LANjackal
Web apps are good for a lot of things on mobile ... but sometimes I like the apps better. Just depends on the type.
- Kevin Mohr
I don't use RTM, period. I prefer using Google Calendar + Tasks. Not because I don't like RTM, but because GCal and Tasks integrate so well into the rest of my Google services
- LANjackal
from IM
I keep this open in GMail just in case I miss something on Twitter. I still wish FF had taken off. The tools are so much better than that stupid twitter.
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
heh, me too. though I always forget that I can reply via IM like this. It is an amazing set of features.
- Scott Jangro
from IM
You mean Tweets imported into FF are near completely stopped? I've noticed they're 30/hr to 1hr lethargic though at that speed re: Real Time, that is dead.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
not sure of anything but that RSS is dead
- Steve Gillmor
OH hey, yeah you're right, no Twitter updates since yesterday.
- Scott Beale
lets not open that can of worms... :] About twitter, i see one 4 mins ago, but that's less than normal
- Zee.
not a can of worms, an important recognition of fact
- Steve Gillmor
it is important, re: especially my FF desktop notifier is severely behind on comments/likes to my tweets, so much so I had to turn it off, it was no longer relevant ~ FWD'ED to the Feedback room
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Hey, you're right. No tweets since the Twitter outage last night. Bummer.
- Jolie O'Dell
I've been using Twitter intermittently while waiting for the resolution of this legal thing
- Steve Gillmor
cannot add twitter accounts, no tweets, no posting to twitter accounts.
- Patrick
did i read something saying Twitter was opening their firehose?
- Karoli
from IM
dislike: I hate this phrase in tech discussions; "blah is dead". It is almost never true; but seriously overused by every new generation.
- Don Strickland
Why are you so interested in helping improve bit torrent? I bet 95% of all bit torrent usage is copyright violation and the rest is "linux distros". hehe.
- Mark
steve friendfeed was not available this morning...the message refers to that. not seeing any appreciable break in the twitter blockade.
- Karoli
I actually got a complaint from someone who follows me on Twitter about link flooding coming from Friendfeed, so it's good the blockade is there, for now at least.
- Mr. Gunn
Ben, while you're at it, can you fix whatever broke Amazon wishlists? Thanks!
- Michael R. Bernstein
The blockade is in the other direction. If Twitter won't acknowlege it then Facebook is effectively killing the service.
- Steve Gillmor
from iPhone
Give full support and resources to Mr. Golub!! We all want a thing from that post, even without its context 8).
- Zu from AOD
What's up with FF links not showing up on Twitter? It's been that way for about a week. The FF link interface has always confused me. And now it doesn't work.
- A Mitchell
Seems to be working here but Twitter posta are delayed by 20 minutes to two hours due to legal issues
- Steve Gillmor
from iPhone
I have had some problems with pages fully loading since it came back, Home feed and Best of Day in particular. Posts at the bottom of the page are cut off and like, comments, and expanding to read comments is impossible unless I open the individual posts in a new window. Very frustrating.
- April
Links are still not coming through from FriendFeed to Twitter. I'm not making this up.
- A Mitchell