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Tour Through Reality - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Luis Martín Vallejo, Kishore Balakrishnan, Rob Hoeting and 6 other people liked this
The big picture. <3 it!
- Michael Fidler
A tour through surreality more like it.
- ianf ⌘
Makes me want to go watch Pi again! "If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge"
- Rui Pires
After signing the papers :)
Ozer Wrzl (EN), can catalyurek, Pelikan® and 499 other people liked this
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- jcunwired
What's with the fists, Paul? :)
- April Buchheit
congrats Paul
- Zee.
I thought it would make a funny picture April.
- Paul Buchheit
Secret backyard meetings FTW. :)
- EricaJoy
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:)
- Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up?
- Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair
- Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :)
- Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with.
- Jesse Stay
Congrats. Happy for you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Must have been exciting, congrats.
- sean percival
Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next.
- Chris Baskind
Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Congrats to you guys!
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :)
- Susan Beebe
:-(
- Jim Hearts FF
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal?
- Mitch
Mitch, feel free to use the photos.
- Paul Buchheit
where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
SWEET!!! Congratulations!
- Chad Lester
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this.
- .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
- Jeff Stannard
Don't forget: http://www.labnol.org/wp...
- Altan Tanrıverdi
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :)
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money!
- laosan
Congratulations guys!
- Diego Barros
I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too.
- Drea Lester
Congrats!
- Christopher Golda
Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations.
- ashish
LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. ->
- Alex Schleber
Hahaha! Funny Alex..
- Bill Heslin
congratulations! keep the innovation coming...
- ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team.
- Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward!
- xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF.
- Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :)
- Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :)
- Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats!
- Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational -
- mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made?
- seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news
- Nayan
Congratulations!
- Made Adi
*cough cough* Douchebags!
- Mark Wilson
++Mark
- David Cook
Awesome! Congratulations!
- michael silverton
Ouch . . . just a tad bit of salt in the wounds of some of your more loyal users. I've got a poker if you want to inflict a little more pain
- Lindsey is Fierce!
hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!!
- K.D.
+Lindsey
- Kamilah Gill
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders"
- Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters.
- Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge?
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they?
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations to all of you!!
- Steve de Mena
The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers.
- Steve Gillmor
My comment is because they can see by the flood of responses people are not happy and this post is just a smidge tacky. People are upset and feel betrayed and they haven't addressed that, not that I expected them too. This is pretty much inline with the way they've handled every other major change but before you only had a handful of disgruntles users whereas this time I'd say the majority are upset.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en...
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF.
- Martha
We should start a PhotoShop meme on this.
- Ben Hanten
Millionaire meme
- Bill Heslin
Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air.
- Ben Hanten
++Ben
- David Cook
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :)
- Chris Loft
Congrats! The hard work paid off
- Becca
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb.
- Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow.
- Keith Pelczarski
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nicely put, guruvan.
- Anne Bouey
What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations
- Steve C
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell.
- Shane Gibbons
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done.
- Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
Grats. :)
- Joshua Schnell
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive!
- RateBrain
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne?
- Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now !
- Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Enjoy!
- Paul Mayne
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out
- Ric Johnson
Congratulations! :)
- İdris Cin
hayırlı olsun
- Sinan İŞLER
:O :(
- amin.m
congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move.
- ray
Congratulations guys :)
- Yalcin Parmaksiz
So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird.
- Andy C
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!!
- Mohamed J
Hayırlı işler...
- Onur Selek
You're laughing after doing that? Fuck. This sucks so much.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Congratulations gentlemen!
- Mutimba
Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right".
- Paola Bonomo
Fuck!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again...
- Eran Kampf
from iPhone
cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean!
- Atif UNALDI
Great vibe :)
- Sharel
from FriendFeed API Example
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Clifford Kennedy
I think you guys don't have a clue what this means. You#re just handed over to some very suspicious gold digger. It's over for Friendfeed.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
@Clifford, haha LOL.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Bilseydik biz alırdık :)
- Hamdi Yaman
wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place
- MobilAdam
very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva
- Sangeeta Narayan
valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Who took the pic?
- Marco Massarotto
from iPhone
@MobilAdam + 1.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
@Mücahit +1 :D
- Hamdi Yaman
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin
- Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler?
- mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over".
- özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim
- MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor...
- Zeki Pehlivan
tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!!
- muratt
Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46...
- İbrahim Özdemir
Congratulations! :)
- Ruben Sanchez
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF.
- frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina ++++
- Shevonne
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple
- Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym
- Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed.
- lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still.
- Robert Schultz
Congratulations, Paul!
- Bill Sodeman
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future.
- David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys!
- Jason Pollock
congratulations guys!
- Liam Daly
congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;)
- Valentina*
L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool?
- Giulia B.
Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!"
- Simon May
Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team.
- Arleen Anderson
congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration!
- Katy Barrilleaux
We better run away!
- Constantine
Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties.
- Volkan Özçelik
the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'.
- Jessie
eew, that causes diseases
- Jim Norris
congrats Paul & evereyone !
- Thomas Mader
Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- j1m
CHA CHING!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
congrats guys - well done!!!
- Gerd Leonhard
supper!
- susuzkuyu
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns
- frank burns
clouds
Anton, NaHi, Rachel Lea Fox and 14 other people liked this
Did you photograph that?
- Tudor Bosman
no unfortunately thats not one of mine :P
- bob
Carrots
Renchin Wang, Rob Hoeting, Jay and 22 other people liked this
Looks like a baby to me.
- Yolanda
This. is. Awesome.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Rabbit: skinning and preparing with Mark Gilchrist - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Cristo, Clare Dibble, Gabe Rivera and 3 other people liked this
its surprising how easily the skin seemed to come off (also the guts)
- bob
Video of some of the biggest photos you'll ever see: http://blip.tv/file/1913723 Tour of SmugMug's headquarters and look at first SmugMug user group meeting last night.
Daniel Brusilovsky, jcunwired, Kevin Fox and 21 other people liked this
This is my first video I did with my Canon 5D MKII. Sorry for the bad audio noises here and there. I need to work on my camera technique. It's very hard to focus while doing a video on that camera.
- Robert Scoble
I shot this right before the user group meeting. You see Don MacAskill, CEO of SmugMug and his dad, Chris, talk about the large photos that Chris made. Multi gigapixel photos.
- Robert Scoble
Canon 5D!! That's one of my dream cameras. How would you rate it?a
- Alekkus
That pic is really impressive both because of the shoot but also because of the printing rendering. Would like one like this.
- Pierre Beugnot
That would be a really cool company to work for.
- Jesse Stay
Alekkus: 12 out of 10. Freaking awesome camera. First time I'm getting images off of the sensor that are close to what I want.
- Robert Scoble
I would love to work at SmugMug, sucha cool service and cool people working there
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
At the Huntington Hotel [http://www.huntingtonhotel.com/] (SF--across the street from Grace Cathedral) there is an amazing panoramic photo set of the Bay area from the late 1800's. No bridges, horses and carriages, sailing ships in the bay, no development in Marin Cty...amazing
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Yeah, there's no doubt about it. I could see the details of the giant photos that you filmed. Awesome!
- Alekkus
Bill: and even better you can walk to friendfeed's headquarters and have lunch with them, too!
- Robert Scoble
Alekkus: I wish I could figure out how to upload this video to SmugMug. Says there's a 512MB limit there. Hmm, gotta talk to Don about that.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Deal, now get me a job @ SmugMug!!! :-)
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Bill: you have lots of competition. They just hired a rocket scientist who built Yahoo News, among other smart people. Don told me he's seeing talent on the street that he never imagined he'd be able to hire.
- Robert Scoble
Nice to see what my SmugMug fees are being spent on.
- Andy Roth
Robert, you should just upload it to Facebook, mark permissions for everybody, and you have full HD. SmugMug's another good alternative - I like Facebook because I can control permissions (like on Family videos and pictures, for instance). I use SmugMug as my archive, and Facebook as my viral sharing tool.
- Jesse Stay
Andy: what I like is they print lots of their customers photos all over the offices too. They also use these images to test printers. Chris knows more about printing than most humans. He talked about how they chose the printers they decided on for their pro service (they had double-blind tests). He showed us some of the tests and that they studied how he can pick prints from some of the photo labs just by looking at them. If you want to know more about how to make your photos better, this is a good group.
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: I shot this one at 640x480 so it's not HD. SmugMug actually lets you upload 1080p videos, but I don't get how they can do that if they only limit you to 512MB. The file sizes on 1080p get ridiculous.
- Robert Scoble
Oops--I commented on the subject--not the tools. Ha!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Robert: Yeah I know, great companies attract great people and SmugMug is super smart about growth and keeping it small, which is exactly why I want to work for them! Not that I don't love my current job but combining photography with tech would be a dream job!
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
Rob: I've seen that image, it's mondo cool. Did you know that Ansel Adams did panoramas for Kodak for advertising in Grand Central Station? He built a special tripod to do those. I bet he'd trip out if he saw what was possible now.
- Robert Scoble
Don kinda reminds me of Conan O'Brien
- Daniel Sims
Very cool! Thanks for this!
- TranceMist
Didn't mean to come off sounding so negative. I'm actually a fan and customer of smugmug and think those photos look cool
- Andy Roth
The 5d mark2 making these new videos much more watchable.
- Zach Scott
Zach: imagine what it'll be like when I figure out how to use it! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Ya the focusing is an issue. I love the quality though. I so wish i had 3grand laying around
- Zach Scott
I love smugmug. :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Man I love working for a photo company with huge walls! Nothing like filling them with 200dpi goodness at 150 inches tall. :-)
- Chris MacAskill
Chris: love your photos. Inspiring me to do some of my own. I still wanna know how much these cost to print out.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, Leo Laporte mentioned this a few months back in one of his podcasts - he may be a good source of info.
- jcunwired
The description you got of photographing Duomo di Milano was fascinating.
- jcunwired
Excellent Crisis of Credit Video http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Geoff Denning and Rob Hoeting liked this
excellent visualization, and decent explanation... but i'm not sure I agree 100% with the explanation. basically, this explanation puts a significant portion of the blame on two factors: 1.) "sub-prime" borrowers defaulting en-masse, and 2.) "prime" borrowers just outright deciding that they're not going to pay their mortgages anymore. I find both of those relatively tough pills to swallow. I think the elephant in the room was the constant artificial inflation of mortgage amounts.
- Chris Hollander
25 things about me - http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009...
Tom Stocky, Rob Hoeting, Shakeel Mahate and 24 other people liked this
hahahaha'
- Shevonne
Time Lapse of a 9 mo old at play. Worth the minute to watch http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Rob Hoeting liked this
“That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.” – Joel Spolsky, http://www.inc.com/magazin...
Alex Sauceda, Rob Hoeting and Paul Buchheit liked this
Holy Web!: The longest exposure - http://holy-web.blogspot.com/2009...
Bill Romanos, Eric Matas, Jonas Lindberg and 18 other people liked this
"One of the world’s longest exposures ever. For 6 months between the winter and summer solstice, Justin Quinnell left open his homemade pinhole camera. The lowest arc shows the first day of exposure on the winter solstice, the top curves were captured in the middle of summer."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
That's a nice idea. Six months of light falling into the box, have to be patient :-)
- Richard A.
More photos here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Benjamin Golub
Impressive. Wonder how he managed not to get a completely white photo.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Ryo: the paper isn't developed. Over extended periods of time the sunlight etches an image into the emulsion of the paper, discoloring it. The discolorations are scanned in, and you get your negative. There is no developing step.
- Gabe
Whoa!
- Jauder Ho
At least one of my neighbors doesn't like photography very much -- they called the police! The police were nice enough though. I suspect that it was the guy who stopped to ask me what I was taking pictures of (leaves and junk), and then asked if I was doing this for Google.
Jesper Kjær Hansen, Igor Poltavskiy, Internet Strategist and 65 other people liked this
Apparently he doesn't like "street view" very much. (I wasn't wearing Google clothes or anything -- it was totally random) The police said that people are worried about robbers, and I guess the 5d is what many people imagiine a robber would use to "case the joint" :)
- Paul Buchheit
Next time wear one of these: http://twipphoto.com/archive...
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, the price of that t-shirt is a crime.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
This was your own neighborhood? Wow!
- Gabe
Gladys Crabbits in da hood
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Google Leaf View, coming in 2010
- Christopher Galtenberg
what a strange person. does he where a tin foil hat??
- Terry O'Fee
wow, didn't realize this sort of thing happened to white folks -- and to think, Obama hasn't even been sworn in yet! </joke> Paul, maybe they Googled you? "What did you say your name was?" [type type type type] "Are you doing this for Google?" :-D
- Karim
OMG how lame... and I thought my neighbors were weird...gees that is BAD. I feel for you guys... "for Google" ROFLMAO!! yeah right! Some people just don't get photography do they? Maybe show them your photos and they *might* get it?? sigh
- Susan Beebe
I can't find a "fear of photography" on http://phobialist.com , but there is Photoaugliaphobia "the fear of of glaring lights". Did you happen to be using a large flash attachment?
- Micah Wittman
Remember, the next time this happens, your name is Thomas Hawk, and you're just following orders from Scoble.
- Karim
Haha, welcome to my world.
- Thomas Hawk
Gee, when people don't like my photography they just tell me my color balance is off, or I'm not positioning subjects with the rule of threes when I should. Nobody's called the police yet.
- Bruce Lewis
Slightly-off-topic link (for Thomas) http://carlosmiller.com/2008...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
What did the police say to you? "We got a call that XXX was happening." where XXX is what?
- Brian Johns
a Vin Diesel movie? http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Karim
Gabe, they didn't know that it was my own neighborhood :). Brian, I don't recall the exact wording, just that the neighbors were scared.
- Paul Buchheit
Goofy neighbors, really. I guess I should be glad I was a bit cautious about photographing horse farms from the road while out on rides. I suspected people were paranoid goofballs.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
"Well, excuse me! I was just taking pictures about your shower curtain for my Flickr set, not about you! Btw, better rinse that shampoo off now."
- Jemm
Yeah, cuz interesting leaves are ALWAYS in people's bathrooms!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Oops, missed the leaves -part. ;)
- Jemm
Further evidence that anybody who does a lot of photography will get into a lot of altercations; it doesn't require being conspicuous or agressive.
- Gabe
I worry about my daughter since she does "night photography" sometimes. She has been caught and given some funny looks, but so far nobody has called the cops on her, thankfully. I know if I saw someone laying down on my front lawn scooting herself under my decorated tree in front of my house, I certainly would call the cops.
- April Russo (app103)
Paul, when the guy stopped to ask you what you were taking photos of, you didn't tell him you live in the neighborhood?
- Gabe
Life Balance is Overrated - http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog...
Nathan Howell, Andy Breeding, Jens Best and 14 other people liked this
a worthy challenge to the concept of striving for balance
- Brad Coy
Nice writeup and very true! Trying to balance many things while trying to drive one challenge ahead just leads to being completely unsatisfied with nearly everything.
- Arnd Gronenberg
key quote "Getting out of balance, gives you the momentum to set a new balancing point for life" with change, life will always feel unbalanced.
- Brad Coy
I've often wondered about this tension, only I phrase it more as contentment. How does one reconcile being content with what one has when those who really make a difference are the ones who constantly thirst for more? I find the lack of common ground between the two to be very... unsettling to say the least.
- David Wynn
from fftogo
In my opinion, there is the healthy and the unhealthy. Being present or content with where you are at and what you "have" can exist while still being engaged in being productive towards a goal (this would be healthy.) Never being satisfied and trying to fill a void for ego's sake can be very unhealthy. Unfortunately, the later is one that I witness far to often.
- Brad Coy
"Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn."
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“You may delay, but time will not.”
- Paul Buchheit
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Paul Buchheit
Delmore Schwartz, Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, btw.
- Paul Buchheit
Was wondering if you had just become a "quotator". (Just coined that word, and just kidding :) Good quotes !
- Vasudev Ram
thats how i roll :P
- bob
great quotes! lovely for start of the new year! very cool :) thx
- Susan Beebe
on the other hand, "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in" — Henry David Thoreau
- David HC Soul
♫ don't waste your time / or time will waste you ♫ -- Muse, "Knights of Cydonia"
- Karim
I've always wondered, how does Yahoo compute temperatures as "High: 51°, Low: 49°, (Current:) 41°"? Shouldn't current always be in the range [high, low]? (And shouldn't current in San Francisco be higher than this?)
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Yahoo's weather source also does not distinguish between many cities in the bay area ignoring the micro climates that require you to add or subtract a sweater or rain jacket when you travel between different sides of the bay.
- Bill Strathearn
Google weather will do the same thing. I always assumed it was just data pass-through from a forecast computed independently of a current temperature measurement. (And in the case of SF, the forecast might be predicting some sort of overall average temperature, vs. whatever specific thermometer is providing the current measurement.)
- ⓞnor
http://www.forecastadvisor.com/Califor... is sort of cute in the "probing at the black boxes" sort of way.
- ⓞnor
I believe High and Low are National Weather Service forecast, while the current is actual. Sometimes the automated feed fails to update, and an old forecast gets reported.
- John Lam
@John: That makes the most sense of any explanation I've heard. This has always kind of driven me crazy -- wouldn't it just make sense to normalize these before display, as in "T is not in the range [low, high], so let's just expand low or high to fit"?
- Joel Webber
It might be worth knowing that the forecast has turned out to be totally wrong, so you can change your expectations accordingly.
- ⓞnor
"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" -- not actually Mark Twain, but funny nonetheless.
- Joel Webber
I think the 41 is Celcius
- j1m
true, true
- j1m
yeah, i'm not even sure i've ever been in 41 celsius. Certainly not this time of year :-)
- j1m
The interview of the year: Tim O’Reilly - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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At 17:42 he covers why he doesn't use friendfeed. We'll get him eventually!
- Robert Scoble
of for those with shite ears! :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Great that you're using wireless mics. Now if we can just get you to up their levels, you'll be super top notch, RS!!
- James D Kirk
Just watched it, as expected, Tim provided great insight, one question though, was there any kind of democratic voting system used, what selection criteria used to selecting Tim from your great list.
- cryptmod
Please provide a transcript for those running Ubuntu or other OSes where this particular codec works poorly.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: the one on the web page is Flash. Can you download the video and try it from there?
- Robert Scoble
I don't even see a video on the web page. I downloaded the mp4 and Ubuntu said it needed "bad" codecs for it. Then it played, but very slowly and without sound.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: bummer. I wonder what kind of codecs it needs. We're doing pretty standard stuff and created these with FinalCutPro.
- Robert Scoble
interesting interview, looking forward to part II
- Philipp Mertens
works for me on Ubuntu. Firefox sometimes doesnt display flash videos, i have to restart firefox to get it working.
- Varun Shenoy
About the mp4, the movie player says H.264 / AVC.
- Bruce Lewis
I truly look forward to the day Tim joins FF conversation!
- Susan Beebe
@potamus: Try new 64bit flash10 player, if you have an x64. They fixed the 'gray-box' problem.
- Onur Gündüz
By far, the best Top 10 of 2008 I've seen is this one from Merlin Mann - http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post... #humor
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Balloon
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santa baby!
- Jeanette Bosman
God's Christmas Gift: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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God put a punctuation point on today's Christmas by giving us a stunning sunset in Half Moon Bay, CA (taken from the Ritz's 18th green). It looks nice and sunny but it was freezing and cold. Hope you all had a great holiday and we'll be back at the tech thing tomorrow when we visit 12seconds.tv in Santa Cruz.
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Beautiful picture. Today was a great Chrostmas here in Floirda!
- Michael VanDervort
Wow - beautiful end to a great day. Thanks for sharing Robert!
- Tim Ake
One thing: all my Flickr photos are straight off of the sensor. No Photoshop or anything involved. If I did that this would turn even more spectacular.
- Robert Scoble
Other photos are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... including one of Steve Jurvetson's house. He invested in Hotmail. What a view he has from his windows.
- Robert Scoble
Gorgeous! Thanks for posting. @swoodruff
- Steve Woodruff
That's a stunning picture! :)
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Lovely! -- I hope you and the Scobles are having a lovely holiday.
- Chuck
Chuck: one of the best in recent memory. I think the economy is forcing me to look at the gifts we have, rather than the gifts we want.
- Robert Scoble
That said, imagine what this would have looked like if I had a new 5D MKII. :-)
- Robert Scoble
We didn't buy any family gifts this year, except stocking stiffers. Donated to charity with meals and teen/kid toys. Had family breakfast and dinner. Best Christmas in a decade
- Michael VanDervort
Perfectly captured!
- Cheryl Smith
Wow, great shot!
- Tyson Key
Gorgeous...totally worth the frozen buns! hahaha
- Susan Beebe
What wonderful breathtaking nature that God has provided to us. Thanks be to God!
- Alvin
Great picture! I hope you and your family had an amazing holiday! :)
- Justin Levy
Effulgent Shekhinah
- Mason Lee
Great shot!
- Michael Fidler
I like your previous shot just a little better, Bob. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mitch
American christmas should snowing？The Hollywood Movis alway give me this impression。But your picture so wonderful and peaceful！Thank you scoble！
- jedorstar
@jedorstar - The Hollywood Movies are awash in false or contrived information about America.
- Rob Sterling
Thanks @scobleizer. I love it.
- Jillian Ada Burrows
Demo of Aptana Cloud, web dev toolset http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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Tilera: "The Startup To Watch" - http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2008...
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A multicore breakthrough? Tilera recognized as "the startup to watch" Looks very interesting: http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2008...
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Melissa Etheridge: The Choice Is Ours Now - On Rick Warren - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa...
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I told my manager to reach out to Pastor Warren and say "In the spirit of unity I would like to talk to him." They gave him my phone number. On the day of the conference I received a call from Pastor Rick, and before I could say anything, he told me what a fan he was. He had most of my albums from the very first one. What? This didn't sound like a gay hater, much less a preacher. He explained in very thoughtful words that as a Christian he believed in equal rights for everyone. He believed every loving relationship should have equal protection.
- Andrew
from Bookmarklet
He struggled with proposition 8 because he didn't want to see marriage redefined as anything other than between a man and a woman. He said he regretted his choice of words in his video message to his congregation about proposition 8 when he mentioned pedophiles and those who commit incest. He said that in no way, is that how he thought about gays. He invited me to his church, I invited him to my home to meet my wife and kids. He told me of his wife's struggle with breast cancer just a year before mine.
- Andrew
Tim O'Reilly answers FriendFeeders http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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OMG so good to see that somewhere, someone remembers AWK. *grin* And the Hemingway quote; "You can leave anything out, so long as you know what it was." Grade A biographical.
- Bernard (ben) Tremblay
thanks Robert for bring us brilliant people, like Tim, and current information :)
- Susan Beebe
Great answer from Tim on XBRL. Thanks for asking him.
- Dominic Jones
from twhirl
Very interesting.
- Philipp Lenssen
This is wonderful
- Andrew
i loved that interview. always wondered what the animals were about! thanks scobleizer!
- Kahlil Lechelt
from twhirl
Hard Work and Practice in Programming - http://radar.oreilly.com/2008...
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Wow, quite a read! But that was certainly inspirational, maybe I should learn a new language.. objective-c is tempting.
- Scott
Interesting excerpt "One aspect of practice that is really important that I think is worth mentioning is that most true creativity comes from people who have done a lot of work in their field. (See Explaining Creativity by Sawyer and On Intelligence by Hawkins). Most of that work is "practice" - getting to a level of expertise so that we can think more abstractly about whatever the...
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- Rob Hoeting
K. Anders Ericsson has done a lot of fairly controversial research on this topic and he points out that it's not just about practice. It has to be the right kind of practice. He called this "deliberate practice" meaning it's guided, challengng, goal-oriented and measurable
- Adewale Oshineye
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Turn an email into a Google doc - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008...
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The new "g-w" keyboard shortcut to create a Google doc saves me so much time.
- Keith Coleman
from Bookmarklet
This thing came out of left field. I hadn't seen or heard about it until now. Love how fast we're moving lately. Woo hoo!
- Michael Leggett
I found out about it when I was looking thru the code and saw an experiment with a useful sounding name. We'd talked about adding something like this a while ago -- thank you to Jeremie for just doing it :)
- Keith Coleman
I love these Gmail Labs addons, but I really wish non-Googlers could write them. :)
- Ray Cromwell
The Gmail platform, when it arrives, is going to be amazing :)
- Ashwin Bharambe
Who was it that said all software expands until it supports email?
- Amit Patel
But now it's "until it supports Google Maps"
- Bay Chang
@amit, Jamie Zawinsky, but he didn't say anything about email supporting word processing
- Ken Norton
The Secret History of Silicon Valley - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The history on Wikipedia is pretty interesting, too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Tom Stocky
Absolutely worth watching. (watched per your recommendation.)
- Robert Konigsberg
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