very funny, i forwarded this to a friend who works at european commission. she answered to me that her unit was responsible for this spot. so little world ^^ - Baptiste Cadiou via twhirl
Baptiste, indeed, please congratulate her for me - Loic Le Meur
Great work indeed. But after the "words", there must follow actions. - Ryo
these elements are very hostile to heterosexuality. frankly. - Noah David Simon
not sure what the tune is, but it sounds really like the collaborations Mark E Smith (from The Fall) did with Coldcut (early cut'n'paste house music pioneers) back in the late 80s ... http://www.mp3sale.ru/track.ph... - Tobias Peggs
So much better than Obama/Clinton, and hits all the right notes. Injects a sense of history and pragmatism into what has been a 'celebrity' campaign. - Bill Claxton
Well rounded ticket that may bring some honor back to the presidency. - Bob Blunk
Let's see, two guys, neither of whom has ever had an actual real job, want us to vote for them to lead the free world. I think Obama sucessfully chose one of the few men in the US senate who is more ridiculous than himself. - eggsy
eggsy, are you freaking kidding me? Bush did great with his business experience. Sheesh, what is with this freaking country! - Dion Almaer
And you should get your facts correct my friend. They have both had very real jobs. Thanks for the ugly smear spam. - Dion Almaer
better watch those credit cards. delaware's biggest industry is going to get even more gold plated. - sean808080
Claude: That's such an awful sentiment. People who complain about the country often care about it more. The easy solution *is* to get out, but the hard and better solution is to stay and fight for what you believe in. - Eric Florenzano
@ericflorenzan what is "fighting" ?... living from another paradigm is more effective .. - gregory lent
ii am trying to help somebody set up their ff account and am short of just asking for the password because that person does not get how to add their feed. I cannot provide a link to it and say HERE enter twitter HERE enter blog because it is js driven. - Nicole Simon
Use something like LogMeIn, log into their machine, get them to log into FF and take over and show them how to set things up. - Kol Tregaskes
Ideally they should have offered a live Hulu stream for the internet-savvy and a prime-time rebroadcast for the rest. They'd be able to charge a lot more per-viewer for the Hulu ads, since they're a much better demographic. - Kevin Fox
@Mark: Hello, I'm No one. Pleased to meet you. - Scott Rollins
As an employee of CBS I can't say "Idiots" but their lack of live is disappointing. Then again sleep > men's swimming live. - Josh Lowensohn
"No one" being a generalization. The maximum ratings available at the overnight hours for USA. I'm up at those hours, too, but you and I aren't enough to subsidize the entire Olympics. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
will be nice to watch the whole thing in the evening, but you have a point - Richard Binhammer
jup it is annoying like other non non standard behaviour. - Nicole Simon
Why is the rant specific to one thing? There are a million usability differences between Windows and OS X. - Parth Awasthi
I imagine it's an iTunes-on-Windows rant. I love iTunes (and use it on Windows at work), but it's definitely a horrible Windows citizen and Apple should fix that. - [self setNick:@"willia4"]
'coz I'm running Safari on Windows now. And when Safari runs on Windows, it should run like it's running on Windows, 'coz it's running on Windows. - Yuvi
@James - it's a Safari on Windows Rant ;) iTunes = I gave up already. - Yuvi
Safari on Windows isn't just a bad Windows citizen, it's a freaking Windows rebel. Eschewing ClearType in favor of its own font renderer? I don't like ClearType at all compared to the Apple font rendering system, but consistency is needed. Safari on Windows will never take off because it's such a user interface jolt. - Jared Smith
I'm told Office 2k8 for Mac and the new Mesh Mac client are pretty good Mac citizens. Anyone who can confirm? - Yuvi
Ah, agree then. Safari on Windows sucks. Everything from the way a pc renders fonts to dialogue boxes is different from a mac - philosophically and technically. Why use it at all? More than that, why did they make it even? Its like Taco bell offering Stir Fried Chicken. - Parth Awasthi
Just great, now they want to publish a book to Garfield's 30th birthday. Aaaaand, they even don't have copyright problems, because Garfield's creator agreed to that and is a big fan, too. - Timo Heuer via Mento
“Please make an option to disable the @user twitter's messages in the FF feed please... is like hearing a telephone conversation from only one side, very annoying... thanks!”
"Bush allegedly ordered the CIA to forge a handwritten letter from the head of Iraq's intelligence service to Saddam Hussein that purported to link the Iraqi dictator to the ringleader of the hijackers who toppled the Twin Towers on 9/11 ... According to Suskind's book, the CIA had been protecting Habbush in the early months of the invasion; the agency persuaded the Iraqi intelligence chief to write the letter in his own handwriting and paid him $5 million.
CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante reported Tuesday that Suskind's sources had seen a draft of the letter written on White House stationary." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
This needs a "wtf" instead of "like". - Sanjeev Singh
this country is being ruled by thugs & crooks since 2000... the story about controlled destruction shown in "fahrenheit 9/11" might as well be true - Krishna Gade
@sanjeev I couldn't agree more. +1 for the feature request - Sacca
Yeah, I also want a WTF button for this and for that laptop theft with all the clear Clear data. - Keith Pelczarski
@sanjeev: +1. Maybe not instead, but in addition to. Next there will be a nice 'Daily WTF' tab together with the 'Show best of' ones - Alex
I consider “like” to be a special purpose tag, which i'd like to see generalized: like, dislike, wtf, conspiracy, whatever. Then like “like”, Delicious or Hashtags, offer a page or feed based upon tags, unions, and intersections. While we're at it, why not provide a Likert scale and build a collaborative filter, instead of the “Best of Day”. Paul? - John Lam
Bush should have been hanged together with Saddam. Will the CIA knock on my door now? - Rutger Blom
Zu meiner Verteidigung: 1 der 3 Seiten ist gar keine eigene sondern entsteht nur weil ich ein greasemonkey-Skript einsetze das die Anzahl der angezeigten Items ändert und in der ff-URL ein ?num=50 oder ?num=100 anhängt. Und der Rest meiner meistbesuchten Seiten ist bis auf Rivva komplett blogwerkbezogen. :) - marcel weiss
Sounds like MS is going for cloud computing. - Tim via twhirl
This is all bullshit. Anyone who knows Windows and Microsoft well is laughing their asses off at these kinds of headlines. Just isn't going to happen. At least not anytime in forseable future. - Robert Scoble
Windows has been closely associated and branded as THE operating system for all needs by MS. It has also become the main cash cow and generator of its revenues during the entire period of its existence. I don't see how can MS shed off the Windows skin all that easily or in such a short time, especially considering that Vista is just out and it has "Windows" in front of its name. - Hayk Hakobyan
Any future successor "non-Windows" operating system will still be branded as Windows. Precedent is Windows NT. The Windows brand is too important to sideline. - Ian Fogg
These same speculations have been going on for years. Just because Microsoft is branching into developing another breed of OS doesn't mean they are going to abandon Windows. - Amit Morson
@Ian - More your area than mine, but Windows is many things including a brand, a product, a paradigm, an architecture and a platform. MS might keep any combo of those five things, but you're right - the brand is the appealing part. - Rob Sterling
"The Cloud" is simply a word for remote services - not a magical mystery future. The reality is that the personal workstation will in some form always be with us. There will always be advantages to having a local (non bandwidth limited) source of computing cycles to enhance the manipulation or presentation of data in a lot of tasks. That workstation will ALWAYS need an OS of some form. - Soulhuntre
Microsoft is aggressively evolving Windows so that it will be capable of supplying that part of the computing chain. Research projects are playgrounds for that. Those folks who claim that the "operating system is dead" are simply not looking at what they are saying from a systems point of view. They are using the term "Operating System" and "PC" to refer to a type of workstation use case... not a technology. - Soulhuntre
Didn't it already "die" and "everything move online"...like...6 or 7 times already? Each time, people realize that there are places where the internet isn't accessible, isn't fast (relative to the desktop), and isn't private enough. Not to say there isn't a place for web services (obviously -- we're on one), but this whole "The desktop is dead! Dumb terminals for everyone!" hype is just pendulum swing nonsense. - Robert Fischer
Weather it happens or not is irrelevant Robert. It's a plan B and a pretty good one imo :) - DC Crowley
You guys are missing the point here. It's about virtualization. Right now with free OSes like Linux you can bascially run as many computers as your hardware has memory to support on a single physical machine. There are lots of benefits to this. One being you can literally take your desktop from one computer to another. Window's licensing won't allow that. They need to come up with this lightweight OS with flexible licensing to compete. - Lindsay Donaghe
Will it get rid of Windows for most consumers and as the host OS for your machine? Probably not. But it will enable you to use Windows anywhere you want to as long as there's a virtualization product installed that can run your VM. Ultimately they might end up getting more exposure through that since people will stop caring which OS runs on the hardware... just which OS runs on their personal VMs. - Lindsay Donaghe
Whatever apps don't end up in the cloud in a few years will end up on your personal VMs. And you'll be able to take those with you wherever you go (we've already got USB drives that are cheap and hold upwards of 16GB). It's the future. - Lindsay Donaghe
I talked to Microsoft PR yesterday about this. This is an incubation project and will NOT replace Windows. Anyone remember Netdocs? That was supposed to replace Office, too, remember? - Robert Scoble
Just another roll of the dice in Redmond's labs. - Bill Sodeman
I don't think it's dice. It's generally a good practice to build something from the ground up to learn what's possible and then take those possibilities into an existing project. If you tried it against an existing codebase you get more "can't do that" then "How can we make this work." I do it all the time, probably more then I should. - Shawn McCollum
When PC's started to become available we [old geeks] flocked away from the dumb terminal en masse. I don't envision us going back there anytime soon. - Jody C
Over the top headlines definitely get attention. Take note: anyone looking for hits might want to post an article called "Apple sees end of OS X era." There are sure to be some patents or dubious screenshots that you could use. - Loren Heiny
That's true. But I compared different services you could use for sending status messages to your friends or to aggregate your status streams and feeds you're publishing on other sites. - Benedikt Koehler
ah, I see. sorry, my fault. didn't look close enough. :) - marcel weiss
I expected Twitter to be that big, I expected FriendFeed to be that big - what I didn't expect is that Plurk isn't a small player either! Still, I think that Twitter is *not* a lifestreaming-service. You write everything you do on Twitter, but only stuff you discover or major stuff on FriendFeed. That's a big difference. - sebmos
@sebmos true, there is a difference between lifestreams and microblogs. but in practice their features tend to converge. you can write what you do on friendfeed and you can post your links to twitter. Also, remember the "friendfeed is a twitter killer"-debate? somehow, they are seen as competitors. what do you think? - Benedikt Koehler
@benedikt depending on your usage they can be competitors. but I'd say that for the most people using one or both of them they're more complemental. - marcel weiss
@Benedikt - Sure, FriendFeed can be used as a micro blog, but it's not really optimized for that, and even though many asked FriendFeed to become a Twitter competitor, that's clearly not on their road map. Twitter is me talking about my life, FriendFeed is discussion. If Twitter is used to discuss things, it's misused. (I think Twitter is misused by early adopters, I don't think Twitter will be used like this by mainstream users.) - sebmos
Sebmos - Not sure what kind of adopter that I am but my trending is just as you described. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Well I think the blogosphere is now afraid of google. Knol seems to have become the No 1 hated object. Cuil was not so cool after all and so Knol is the way to bring google down. I firmly believe that Google will not be naive enough to manipulate the results atleast so early in the knol life - Sidharth Dassani
You know, in my usual role of Internet Heretic -- if I ran Google, I'd sure as Hell rank my source sites higher than others'. That's not even a "corruption of search purity" it's Owners' Perogative, like Mashable referring frequently to other (reasonable) Mashable articles, etc. I just don't see where the big deal is. Google's search results are the GoTo because they REALLY ARE that much better than the shabby, ill-clad competition, even with the tinkering we're all aware they're doing. - Alexander Williams
Alexander, two things are really wrong with this: 1) This destroys the trust that Google has established with the rest of the web, basically saying that no industry is off limits. Google gets treated with fanboyism and kid gloves on a lot of stuff, that will destroy any goodwill for them to pursue this policy. 2) Destroying the purity of their search results degrades the quality, particularly when a lot of it is spammy in nature. This, in turn, will decrease company revenues, which will in turn ..... - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
... will make Google more vulnerable to the rest of the tech community who will be gunning for their ass both in the court of public opinion as well as in a business sense. Keep in mind, Mashable (like most for profit companies) has no moral clauses in their articles of incorporation saying that they shouldn't be evil. Google intentionally held themselves to a higher standard, and are really turning a corner on failing in that regard. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Abhishek: you gotta get Twhirl, then you can be in four places at once! - Robert Scoble
If only you didn't crosspost to FF (which nullifies your assertion). ;) - l0ckergn0me
l0ckergn0me I wish you would spell your name in some way that's easy to type. But, yeah, you're right. I forgot that my identi.ca messages are brought into FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
Except that it posts to FriendFeed - so it's kind of like hanging out someplace with a 2-way mirror ;) - Lucretia Pruitt
LOL - I was thinking the same thing. My wife knows everything I do because of Twitter. She's going to be clueless if I stop posting there. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Try ping.fm. You can say the same thing at the same time at a lot of places. - Rutger Blom
never heard of identi.ca, what is it anyway?? but, being on FF and Twitter at same time using one program is more than enough, I guess.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker via twhirl
Yes.. and without the user database too. It seems to be working well, but personally, I only post on Twitter, Friendfeed, and random stuff at Plurk. - Daynah
I hear ya!! One good thing about having a small userbase :) You can worry less about all of the eyeballs. Unless of course you add the identi.ca account to Frienfeed :)) - Danilo da Silva
Talked my wife into not blogging three times so far ... Whew :) "Why does my husband sit in front of that thing for hours every day .... Does yours?" - Charlie Anzman
I can hang out on Jaiku. No one knows me there. :) - Morton Fox
there goes the (identi.ca) neighborhood [Scobleizer will drive down property values] <g> - ron k jeffries
Well there goes identi.ca . If Leo Laporte gets on it too, we're going down. *snickers* - Candace Holly
I like identi.ca because, as a developer, if anything does go wrong, I can at least have some part in fixing it. Twitter is closed doors, all the way. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Mind if I say that this people most probably aren't "his" people?! (btw he was born in Austria, if we'd only knew *SCNR*) - Michael Klier
Reuters is reporting 200k came to the speech. - Rex Hammock via twhirl
@Ranjit, sorry, but that was a rather stupid comment, +1 to what Michael said - Gina Häußge
if @Ranjit's point is that it's great to see how far humankind has come in terms of racial/ethnic equality, then I agree. But regardless, kind of an insensitive way to put it. - graham mudd
I don't care what anyone says. Both McCain and Bush have to be wicked envious. - AJ Kohn
Have you seen the original size? Almost everyone has a camera! Whoa! - AJ Batac
Hitler identified with the Germanic people, Stalin identified with the Russian people. to me all such definitions are kind of stupid, what with us being 5% removed from the chimpanzee. but such people have always tried to establish boundaries and a monolithic identity within such boundaries. a picture/event like this puts a lie to such separations. i wish people, like Hitler, could see how far the future is from the "truth" they saw - Ranjit Mathoda
graham, i don't think people have come that far in terms of racial/ethnic equality if they are still defining separate races/ethnic groups. i do think we are happy being mostly nicer to people of "other" groups, but that's not quite the same. check out an online dating site and see how many people prefer to date people of a particular group. - Ranjit Mathoda
Throughout the speech there are jabs at the Germans. I'm surprised they were still clapping when he mentioned "Never Again!".... in Darfur. - Sam Pullara
Amazing. looking at it in larger view, and THEN in original view. The reduced views don't cut it at all. - Susan A. Kitchens
Susan is right. Amazing photo and love all the digital cameras. - Robert Scoble
great photo, and EVERYONE was taking a picture of Obama. - Baard (not bored)
The laptop guy is amazing! Great picture. Funny to see most people looking at the screens of their camera's and not straight at the stage - Peter van Teeseling
it would be really cool if those 100000 + people uploaded their photos into Photosynth :) - jeff
I would like to think that these politicians feel humble when they stand before a sea of humanity. I hope they remember that they are supposed to be working for our greater good. I can't imagine standing where he's standing. - Yolanda
Absolutely! A Photosynth database of that event would be awesome! - Soulhuntre via twhirl
@Shawn: If all of us Americans had speechwriters like Obama, we could make it look like we were as passionate about our global image as he does ;-) - Kirk Kittell
@Rex Hammock: Yeppers, i was there and the officials said, that about 250.000 people were there. It was really a very awesome event, hey - 250.000 people came to the Berliner Siegessäule and Barack Obama isn't even yet the next president :-). Don't know what happens after the elections ;-) - Ronald
Man, the brush-lipped Fuhrer is finally gone...this is a sign. - Kamath
It's just so sad. People really want to believe. But Politics is just a dirty game. There's probably no genuine saviour out there. - john conroy
It was more like people were awaiting a 'rock star' ;-) - Ronald
very good :-) (but ... can't wait when frf has an ability to add an arbitrary service (user-generated catalog of services available)) - Nikolay Samokhvalov
what about the facebook status updates? I hope that's coming... - Rahul Das
Nice work with the status, I would like to see DailyMugshot introduced! - Joe Dawson
Great! Just added identi.ca; configuring brightkite too. - Parth Awasthi
Paul, given Identi.ca uses the Twitter API it would be nice if we could respond via Identi.ca in the same way you can with Tweets. I presume implementing it wouldn't be overly hard (where as Plurk of course is another matter) - Duncan Riley
@Rahul FB status would be cool, but there is no public RSS feed. There is a feed, but it requires a key, which would require you to type in your username/password. - Hao Chen
@Duncan +1. i was thinking the same thing - Trent Olson
Integrated identi.ca via RSS feed before. OK, now it's there but it's not that big deal to me. - Ansgar Wollnik
Thanks for the identi.ca support ... Excellent work ! - Christian Farley
AWESOME!! Ok, I might be using Identi.ca again!!! Yippee! Thanks FF team!! - Susan Beebe
Why are the updates called Dents, I'll Dent you later :S - Joe Dawson
i love "status-blogging", but i still think that it destroys the flow of my friendfeed - i also blocked every twitter update from everyone here at ff... - Dieter Schwarz
Yay, more services to add to my profile! ;P - Aaron Myers
I am getting ready for Identi.ca Twitter going down the drain! - Igor The Troll
seems like i need to go get my identi.ca id before its taken ... - Raza
identi.ca is still nothing more than a Twitter clone best I can tell. A step back from FF. Not sure why anyone would want to spend time there when we've got this. - Thomas Hawk
Tease: And even more so in the coming months. Spoke with Evan last night and there are some interesting things on their way. - Austin Hill
I personally think it will be interesting to see what identi.ca does to differetiate itself from twitter - Mike Hamilton
@Thomas - Twitter clone hasn't begun to cover what's possible. I think that's like calling Wordpress a Blogger clone back in 2004. I wish the Twitter guys all the best, but there is a lot of innovation to come in Microblogging, Lifecasting and Activity stream aggregation. Twitter seems to have it's hands full scaling and I'd love to see some innovation on features in the market place. I think identi.ca will be part of that market for innovation. - Austin Hill
Why should identi.ca differentiate itself? It's really about recognizing that federating status updates should become a "taken-for-granted" part of social infrastructure. Next step is Interop with Twitter, not differentiation. - Chris Messina
Austin, but isn't identi.ca a step back from FriendFeed really? Why spend any time there? - Thomas Hawk
I don't want to "like" the post, but I do want to "like" chris messina's comment :) - Karl
I know what it is! David Winer has found out that identi.ca has turned into a wishing well and he's keeping it to himself. I'm going to like this so he remembers who his friends are :-) - Jonas Anderson
"With today's addition to Identica, you can now follow people!" - Bryan Woods
One reason I spend more time on identica and less and less on FF is comments like 'Eh ? It's just a Twitter clone.' - Andy C
evan did say last week that a Twitter-compatible API was on track for this week. Hopefully, that's the news. And it's NOT about a twitter clone; it's about making microblogging an open standard -- like email -- that allows you to use your access method of choice (local client, web, mobile, etc.) Interoperability to microblogging will FREE it! Remember MCImail? cc:mail? Remember Profs? Remember VAX All-in-1-mail? All frontrunners in the email channel. All closed. All dead (or on life support). - Bundini
I am waiting to see who is the first one to fall. After Twitter bo
