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yup, over desktop apps in general pretty much - sofarsoShawn

I never quite understood the point of AIR in the first place. What does it offer that desktop applications do not? - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

The Facebook AIR app on my PC lasted about an hour before I noticed it taking up well over 100 megs of my RAM. The Craigslist app wasn't much better. I really like Tweetdeck's columns, but if I can figure out how to do the same thing in Seesmic web then I don't know why I'd need a web app for it. - Bryan Zirkel

I'd be happy to use browser-based apps over AIR apps if they provided notifications like AIR and native apps offered. I'm also not a fan of having to install additional notifier apps to use with browser-based apps (Meebo, FriendFeed, etc). - Cory from Nambu

Hot tip!! Greasemonkey + "Google Reader Filter" + "Google Reader - Mark until current read" = large reduction in stress.!!!! I currently go through around 3000 articles a day from multiple sources meaning that not only do I get alot of articles, I get alot of the same articles. This mix really helps. I find it funny that I am so addicted to RSS hat I come to friendfeed to relax... - James Fridley

http://friendfeed.com/e... - mikepk

Shameless self promotion,mikepk! Shameless! ;) - Mona Nomura

Mona, I do actually feel guilty about talking about our product in these contexts (I've drunk the koolaid :) ). But in this case it's something I feel passionate about. When people complain about the anxiety they feel on this issue I tell them find a "river of news" that works for them. Read/unread is not the right way to deal with reading hundreds or even thousands of feeds. The fact people complain means there's something fundamentally broken with the model. - mikepk

I subscribe to about 1,000 feeds in Google Reader (including Friendfeed feeds), and don't feel the slightest stress or pressure about keeping up. I prioritize the most important 30 feeds in folders by groups of ten, read whatever items time comfortably permits, and ignore the rest. Information overload is a product of lack of prioritization. Of course, if you don't know your own priorities, you are in trouble on the Internet. (I discovered this item in my GR feed for FFHolic Most Discussed.) - Sean McBride

@Sean Exactly. I do the same. - Shevonne

LOL love this entry! & am in the same place w/ Sean&Shevonne ~ there's no exam! - sofarsoShawn

The new Google favicon reminds me the Madagascar's banner ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I liked the one by Lucian. - Shawn McCollum

I love that you are so passionate about this, Mona. And I'm with Shawn, I like that one by Lucian. - Yolanda from NoiseRiver

It's just a logo, meh - Sally Church

Because Marisa Mayer said so. - The Fat Oracle

It's not just a logo, Sally. Google's design (favicon, holiday / special occasion logos) is a part of their brand, the Google package. As a Google fan, it (the heinous favicon)'s quite offensive. - Mona Nomura

Mona, I was being facetious as a marketer myself. I'm a Google fan too and I like it so not everyone finds it offensive. It's much better than the plain G's they had before. It's all a matter of taste. You can see where they're going with the branding when you link it with Chrome, so it makes a lot of sense to me. - Sally Church

For someone who is always looking all around her computer screen, that favicon is distracting - Shevonne

I didn't get all that from "It's just a logo, meh" Sorry, Sally. - Mona Nomura from IM

And it's really distracting because of the bright bold colors. What a terrible design choice.. - Mona Nomura from IM

I love it because of the bright bold colors. Very eye catching, makes it very easy for me to find Google in a mess of tabs. - Jason Wehmhoener

Sally I didn't see the part you added. What do you mean by linking it with Chrome? - Mona Nomura

The new logo matches that of Chrome - Johnny

Mona, no worries British tongue in cheek understatements don't always translate on paper :). I agree with Jason's comment. - Sally Church

Saying Google's favicon isn't a part of Google's logo is like saying BMW's black isn't a part its brand. It's all about the details! And Sally it's not fair you keep editing your comments - it's hard to keep up via IM!! LOL!!! - Mona Nomura

Ya - I saw that on Twitter and yesterday's thread but it's still the same hideousness to me :( - Mona Nomura

i agree, mona, on the "why?" I don't like the favicon at all. despite using the four "google" colors it does not bring to mind the google logo in the least. there is no white space. it's all green. - edythe

And there were four really subtle, pretty ones but they chose to go with the busiest. :( - Mona Nomura

Ohhh I see it now...blech - Shey

I'll say one thing about it, it pops. Even on my wide screen, when a google tab is to the far right, it stands out (as in distracting) in my peripheral vision. - ·[▪_▪]·

If I think of the new Google logo as a bit of abstract colorburst, it doesn't bother me nearly as much as if I try to make out the 'g' in the middle. - Phil Glockner

You can't make out the g at all. It looks like total crap, IMO. - Mr. Gunn

I hate the new favicon, so I did a test. Showed it to two geek types. One hated it, the other was neutral. Showed it to two arty types (not web designers, but painters/graphic artists). They both loved it, esp the offset "g". Go figure - Deepak Singh

I don't like the new one, they should have gone with the design by Lucian - Majento

They go with the same plain favicon for 8 years and now change twice in less than 9 months. And the final pick is this one...? Don't like it. - Ricardo Vidal

There's no accounting for taste, is there? - Michael Krigsman

They should hold a poll. Or allow us to customize favicons or something. They're Google. They can figure it out. If you look at favicons, they are unobtrusive, simple, and bland - to omit distraction. Favicons are always in our peripheral views. - Mona Nomura from IM

They were really only made for bookmarks... wern't they? IMO they were... just for quick BRAND ;o) Like mine is. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

"If you look at favicons, they are unobtrusive, simple, and bland - to omit distraction." Clearly you have not seen the "spinner" favicon. ;) - EricaJoy

Because it's temporary and they're going to do another round of designs soon? - Richard Crocker

In my home the network is called LeechNet. And on my girlfriend it's called "chupala gil". - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

You know what? This would make me never visit their establishment again. Ever. - FFing Enigma

Mine is OmgWhoKilledKenny. - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

Mine is "chupacabra". - Steven Perez

Clever idea, but annoying to customers I'm sure - Tom Mack

Mine is Bitemeorgetoffmynetwork! HAHAH!!! - Paul

Honeypot - Shawn McCollum

yeah sure..and here are my coordinates and this is my login passkey. - Josh Haley

you cannot be serious Josh... - Zee.

I want to call mine "TastyYellowSnow" but I may get some weirdos - Bwana ☠

have you ever war-walked through a city centre? I've seen plenty like "hoth", "bitbucket", "deathfromabove" and a personal fav "fuckoff". - alphaxion

There's a network in my dorm called "BloodyStoolSample". Don't know who it belongs too but it's weird. - Brandon Titus

Jesus. - Zee.

Tina said it all. - Jim #TeamMonique

Resembles something like WiFiMage - MiniMage

The all-time classic thread: http://www.netstumbler.org/f4... - My favorite is "Stoplookingatmyssid". - John Craft

Because we are all out to get you Josh... ;) - Brian Bufalo

I love this kind of back-channel messaging system: at one company I worked people used to maintain IM-type conversations within iTunes by constantly renaming their shared libraries. I notice some people do this here with their nicknames. - Tim Ostler

"WHO FARTED!?!?" - Brad Williamson

Something meaningless and abstract that hopefully doesn't give away any information about me, the router type or the location that might be used by a casual hacker to gain entry. Of course any seasoned hacker wouldn't care about the SSID anyway. - Troy Forster from twhirl

thepasswordisboobs - Benton

And one for the bluetooth names you've seen http://friendfeed.com/e... - alphaxion

I go with a Disney theme. Right now, EPCOT. - Eric - seven eleven

Scott's HotSpot - scott anderson

Wow, schoolboy error from me there - sorry! Webmail and IMAP, webmail needs to look nice (we're vain), tagging / folder system, archive (a la gmail) or similar, conversation-style listing (not a big one), calendar integration also preferred. Thanks guys! - Matt Frog

you need to just go back to mail.app frankly - there's definitely no slick webmail...the closest thing is yahoo i reckon. Zimbra isn't too bad - but again, not really slick. - Zee.

I think I agree with you to be honest, Zee. After scouting around there isn't too much on offer. I want to be able to only sync certain tags to IMAP (like "All Mail") but I can't as apps doesn't include the "Labs" feature. Which just reinterates the point! Thanks for the input lads, much appreciated - Matt Frog

oh Matt, mine does. You need to change your country to the US version in settings and also go to your admin for apps and enable advanced/test features (something like that), Labs will appear soon after... - Zee.

You can add the features to Gapps. In the "manage this domain" go to "Domain Settings" then at the bottom you'll see a heading with "New Services and Features", click the checkboxes, save and your gmail will be just like eveyone elses. Actually I think it took a day to switch over. - Shawn McCollum

Mothering Mary, I don't deserve to be called a web worker. Thanks Zee, Matt and Shawn - just did the switch. Nothing changed yet, but hopeful! - Matt Frog

Very cool. - Hutch Carpenter

A feature that probably will come in hand. :) - Bruno Miguel

I'm not clear how well a regular Google search feed will handle the chronological element of search feeds. That is, let's assume a search feed for "Kindle" will return the top 10 Google hits in a feed. Tomorrow, the top 10 results are likely to be exactly the same (how often to the top results for any given query change?). So what will a feed show? All new results (likely to be way more than 10)? Some mix of relevant new results? It's a tougher problem than it seems on the surface... - Josh Bancroft

@Josh, it sounds like it's based on the alert system, so it will be a list of new pages matching that query. So the search feed shouldn't return the top 10 google hits but the 10 newest hits. If it supports link: and site: it will be pretty cool. - Shawn McCollum

That is totally awesome! - Clay Newton

Great to know that. Would be a great feature! - Chetan Bhawani from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Sweet! - Anthony K. Valley ©

@jabancroft good point, i've been thinking about that too. what i think is: Isn't Friendfeed a search engine that delivers results in chronological order? the results it delivers are different than google's because its universe its different. it'll be interesting to see how FF's search offer evolves - Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarri

But will the results of the feed go past 1000? - Tanner Hobin from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I'd like not only site: and link: searches, but maps/local and google.co.uk but just plain old google.com will be a good start. - Andy Murdoch

"Bobby Tables" never gets old. Never! - Daniel J. Pritchett

FReakin hilarious - Rahsheen?

that sound you heard was this going over my head in mach 5. - Anika

AWESOME - Josh Haley

Faboo Mama: Drop Table is a SQL command. It deletes the table specified. The No.1 rule in databases is to screen input to prevent this. - Roberto Bonini

The next time someone does a web report like "who are all the 9th grade students" the search will stop when it gets to Bobby and then delete all student records at once. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I thought the first rule was not to talk about SQL? - Josh Haley

this is SUCH a classic..! luv it! - Kim from NoiseRiver

I gotta print this out and stick it on my database textbook.... - Roberto Bonini

This literally cracks me up every time I read it... - iTad

uber-geeky and hilarious!! - Sarah Perez

thats a good one - (jeff)isageek

So funny! Always sanitize EVERYTHING in your programs. Bit-flips in computers can always cause data to go bad. Check ALL your inputs. - Mitchell Tsai

This is probably the best webcomic of the year for me. - Phil Glockner

OH! I gets it! DROP TABLE! Hahaa! Because...it's, like, a table....of...data, or students...with...wait, I don't get it. I think I was the guy on the other side of the phone. Seriously, I was a teacher for 5 years because I never had to learn about SQL database calls or DBA or any of that "high tech" stuff. Although the fact that I know what SQL and DBA are, I give myself ten points. - Pete D

It's an example of SQL Injection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - xero

OMG... laughed til I cried. - Cyndy

i've been rereading this all day long and i think i get it. the clue is in ');DROP TABLE Students;. and that's how the student records got lost. BWHAHAHAHAHA - Anika

Faboo - yep, that's correct! bye bye data! - Susan Beebe

That was on purpose because Zune came from X-Box which always tries to distance itself from the rest of MS. - Kevin Goldsmith from twhirl

I got my son one for his birthday last month. he loves it especially that he doesn't have to connect it to the computer to get new stuff. the new version has games so he'll like that also. I'll probably get my wife and daughter one so they can share a zune pass to get any song they want. - Shawn McCollum

If I could afford one right now, i'd get one - Zune is starting to get on the right track... can't wait until Zune 4 comes out. - Les Zaldor

I updated this morning and it is pretty cool indeed. The radio / song grabber stuff is very cool and coupled with a ZunePass makes life pretty interesting. The social stuff is coming along as well. When they get it fully Xbox tag integrated it will get even better. I am waiting to find the promised Audible.com mechanism though... - Soulhuntre

*yawn* - Susan Beebe

I care a bit. I've heard some negative things about the headphone amp stage in the latest iPods and sound quality is very important to me. Zune doesn't exactly thrill me though as it doesn't support FLAC natively. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I'm really liking the Zune software. MixView is sweet. - Jordan Hofker

After the recent iTunes 8.0 debacle, I'm going to try Zune Marketplace for DRM-free mp3s. If it's good, iTunes is on my PC is history. - Sprague D

I wonder what it would really take to knock the iPod off its pedestal. Is it really all about features or is good marketing and a solid lead in the marketplace all that Apple needs? - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

I'm so happy for Zune 3! I love the new software. It's a vast improvement over past permutations. - Mattie Kenny

Sadly, we're locked into iPod/iTunes. While we could switch, I have 5 devices I'd have to get rid of, including 2 new nanos. Zune might be good, but too late to the party. Now, if there were good software to convert Apple files to high-quality mp3s en masse. . . . - Steve Lowe

@steplow, there is software but it's not legal since it shreads the drm to convert the files to mp3. - Shawn McCollum

I've seen those around, but obviously try to avoid as much as possible. Thanks, Shawn. - Steve Lowe

I have the new Zune's here - but if you are just looking at the hardware, then you are being short-sighted. The stuff that the Zune team has built into the Zune SOFTWARE, that is where the innovation is. Far and away better than what iTunes is doing for music. - Andru Edwards

@steve - why a paperweight? Both my phone and my Zune are completely upgradable. Hell, the Zune 3 software still runs just fine on the initial Zune hardware. If these things converge I will get many of the benefits via an upgrade... at least I have so far. - Soulhuntre

I still have never seen a Zune in the wild. I'm not kidding. - Mike Doeff

I've been looking for additional games for the zune. The whole "the social" thing is really starting to grate on my eyes. - Shawn McCollum

so... i can now buy a song. that i heard on FM radio. via free WiFi from Wayport. while at McDonalds. [http://bit.ly/SWnof]. that's a joke, right? - MikeAmundsen

@solhuntre, audible wouldn't allow things in the Marketplace so you have to use their software to "sideload" Audible content into the Zune. The top menu for audiobooks should then appear. - Bryan

I picked up a Zune in May and have really loved the feel and function of the device. Only downside I've ever felt is looking at all the iPod compatible speaker docks and sadly realized my device won't connect. This is minor as there are other ways to connect to a home stereo with my Zune. I will say of the updates this month between iTunes 8 and Zune 3, Zune did impress me the most with what it added to it's existing device legacy. - Bryan

i really like it...i use it way more for music than my iPhone. I've got the Zune pass for unlimited music which i think is the best thing since sliced bread - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

@jeff do you use the zune pass with more then one zune? how well does it work? any restrictions? - Shawn McCollum

ok, i'm already spending too much time playing Hexic. - MikeAmundsen

@Mehrdad: if the battery drains, there's a 'magical dance' that must be followed to get Zune back up again. this might help. it did me: http://forums.zune.net/1... - MikeAmundsen

I won't buy any audio/video player that locks me into any OS or program and definitely nothing with DRM music. - Ian May

+ for shawns comment - Roberto Bonini

Oh boy, shots are not fun. My 3 month old just got her second batch of shots recently. I think it hurt me and her mom, more then it did her. - Mike Fruchter

We were lucky with the first set, he didn't seem to care at all. The more recent ones have NOT gone so well. - David Knight

Don't hesitate to pre-medicate with infant Tylenol. - Lisa | #TeamMonique

The shots are complete. Kids lived, and are at home, probably eating or sleeping. And that's a good thing. - Louis Gray

I don't know about the rest of you, but I really don't think it's a good idea to be drinking with your babies. Doing shots at that age will probably stunt their growth. Just my two cents. - James Ferguson