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Droid Incredible review -- Engadget - http://www.engadget.com/2010...
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"Let's just put this out there: the Droid Incredible is the best Android device that you can purchase in America right now. It's better than the Droid, better than the Nexus One, and certainly beats the pants off of any previous generation handsets like the Eris, myTouch, or Cliq. It's not just a very, very good Android phone (though it is); it's also an excellent smartphone no matter how you cut it."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Yeah, but how's the sound quality and signal strength?
- Gabe
OWo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Caroline Sousa
Want. Australia?
- Will Higgins™
But what will I do with my Droid if I get one of these? Turn off the Verizon plan and use it as a very tiny iPad?
- Rob Shillingsburg
Subtext: It comes in a family of phones. Also included: Droid Pretty Good and Droid Acceptable.
- Louis Gray
The Droid Pretty Good and Droid Acceptable would still be a better choice than a closed-sourced iPhone. ;-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
What's next? Droid Awesome? Droid Awesomer? Droid Amazing? Droid Uncanny?
- Piaw Na
Just how much more awesome is it than the Nexus One? Cause if I was in the market for a new Android phone right now I would be leaning towards the N1 just because I suspect Google would be better about issuing OS updates for it.
- Andrew C (✓)
Droid Ludicrous.
- ronin
Soooooo excited!!!!!!
- Shevonne
Looks nice, shame it's not coming to the UK.
- Kol Tregaskes
What comes after Droid Ludicrous -- Droid Plaid?
- Gabe
Why do hardware specs never mention RAM any more? And choosing the N1 screen and Sense UI are mistakes.
- Vezquex
uh?
- Caroline Sousa
from email
Por favor leaim! O povo brasileiro precisa acordar!!!
- Caroline Sousa
from email
Glowing trees could light up city streets - tech - 25 November 2010 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
Robert Felty, Thomas Amberg, Turkish Delight and 4 other people liked this
"Nature is full of glow-in-the-dark critters, but their shine is feeble - far too weak to read by, for example. To boost this light, the team, who were participating in the annual International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM), modified genetic material from fireflies and the luminescent marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri to boost the production and activity of light-yielding enzymes. They then made further modifications to create genetic components or "BioBricks" that can be inserted into a genome. The team managed to produce a range of colours by putting these genes into the Escherichia coli bacterium. They found that a volume of bacterial culture about the size of a regular wine bottle gave off enough light to read by. "We didn't end up making bioluminescent trees, which was the inspiration for the project," says team member Theo Sanderson, who is studying genetics. "But we decided to make a set of parts that would allow future researchers to use bioluminescence...
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- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Bioluminescent trees would be useless as streetlight replacements, but they'd be great to line twisting country roads!
- Gabe
Kids first time riding ny subway. 500 identically dressed chearleaders from macy's parade got on at 42nd. Me:"it's not usually like this"
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Download Your Information from Facebook - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ruchira S. Datta, Jesper Lind, sandeep and 35 other people liked this
Okay. So it saves to relatively linked HTML files?
- Micah
cool idea, i don't know of any other social network that provides this service - nice!
- Susan Beebe
When does this get rolled out to include other Facebook properties? :)
- Louis Gray
? @ Louis... Like Park Place and Boardwalk?
- Micah
not yet in my account - (6 days already)
- Tzury Bar Yochay
<3
- April Buchheit
is this feature available to *anyone* yet?
- no name
The Acceleration of Addictiveness - http://www.paulgraham.com/addicti...
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"My latest trick is taking long hikes. I used to think running was a better form of exercise than hiking because it took less time. Now the slowness of hiking seems an advantage, because the longer I spend on the trail, the longer I have to think without interruption." -- nice one, Paul... BTW, did you really start tweeting after a certain interviewer teased you recently at a YC event ;-? Here's an "unverified" Twiiter paulg account with your photo and URL: http://twitter.com/paulg
- Adriano
just noticed that CNN encodes my Facebook user ID in the URL of stories. That's one way to track who's sharing your links.
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Do you think Friendfeed development will continue or we'll stay in this limbo until Facebook decides to shutdown the service?
killeader, دکتریـن, Thomas Amberg and 12 other people liked this
Limbo
- Alex Scrivener
Ok, Limbo! http://www.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/~pettit...
- Napolux
there will only be development if it is absolutely needed... what development do you see that is needed?
- Chris Heath
I don't need anything at the moment, but I'd love to see friendfeed improved with new features, an official iPhone app or stuff like this...
- Napolux
they decided that they didn't want to do an app (i think)
- Chris Heath
as far as i can tell the ff-team (now at facebook) will only be doing fixes to stuff that breaks... they have deemed friendfeed a mature service that does what it does very well and while there could be some improvements they just aren't going to have time for it... maybe sometime down the road (years) we'll see more work done on friendfeed ... but i would only expect fixes not new features (or at least not any complex new features)
- Chris Heath
limbo
- Maurizio Mazzanti
@Chris thanks... But I would like to see, if possible, an official response from ff-staff :)
- Napolux
this subject has been talked about and talked about for a year since ff was bought by facebook - you may call it limbo, but i think they might call it a plateau or something more stable than limbo
- Chris Heath
for instance, paul has told us that he promised his family that the site would stay up and available... that doesn't sound like limbo to me
- Chris Heath
In the online tech world where things change very quickly standing still is moving backwards -- I think "in limbo" would be a generous characterization - I would describe it as in decline.
- Brian Sullivan
Totally agree
- Napolux
just call Caronte then!
- giulia massera
i disagree brian, it maybe be in a decline in usage, but not in any technical decline... it's definitely at a plateau or peak if you assume there will be no more advancements
- Chris Heath
I agree with Brian and Napolux, this is Limbo, and it's not good. But I don't think ff-team can do nothing, unless someone else tells them to develope.
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
limbo implies uncertainty and if you're uncertain about friendfeed's future then you've not been paying attention - stagnation would be appropriate but i prefer to not use that term because of its negative connotations
- Chris Heath
I agree with Brian and Napolux, and I'd like to add that it's not economically rational to leave a good service without a continuous development, nowadays. I mean, it would not be economically rational if someone was thinking about a future. And that is a shame, for two reasons: 1) a social network is not just the structure, but also the people who meet there. And there are some of the...
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- Haukr
Stagflation?
- Camillo Miller
alexpriest: The Chipotle iPhone app is the best thing any restaurant has done. Ever. Just sayin. (@ Chipotle) http://4sq.com/ECwrb - http://twitter.com/alexpri...
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RT @mikeloukides Using iPhone/android to monitor & control your house: It's coming http://earth2tech.com/2010...
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Video: A demo of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine http://www.youtube.com/watch... I love the Computer History Museum. One of our treasures.
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Fascinating to watch (and to listen to)...
- Andrew Terry
Wow, Bret promoted to CTO at Facebook - smart, great guy. Congrats! http://techcrunch.com/2010...
Bojan Babic, Susan Beebe, Thomas Amberg and 32 other people liked this
Thanks, John :)
- Bret Taylor
@Bret. Congratz Bret..
- Ozgur Demir
Bret, well deserved! You're perfect for the position.
- Jesse Stay
Super happy for you - incredibly well deserved. But I still want to get you working on another startup! Want to find something to do together. Looking for board stuff for you, too.
- John Lilly
from email
Congrats, Bret!
- Mark Trapp
Now to see if Bret can take that confusing Facebook interface and make it into something nice like, for example, friendfeed.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
The Facebook "Lite" version helped simplify the interface, hopefully some of those concepts will make it into the standard design.
- Mike Chelen
TechCrunch called it the Friendfeedification of Facebook. That can only be a good thing. Congrats!
- Eric - seven eleven
Congratulations Bret!
- Atul Arora
BT and FF did 'open' in the healthy, right, & honest way. Here's to bringing that positive force to a pretty unhealthy & confused company. Serious congratulations! Now... what would you do if you were CEO, Bret? That's what you need to do, starting today.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congrats, Bret!
- Kol Tregaskes
Good on ya, Bret!! :)
- Skye Miller
Congrats Bret!
- Bojan Babic
BotMill adds the LC Mendel 3D Printer to it's line of products - http://twitter.com/BotMill...
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RT @roidrage: So wait, basically the Diaspora guys want to build a CouchDB clone with encryption? Why not use, um, you know, CouchDB?
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iPad overheated and autoshutdown after reading on it for 30 minutes in sunlight. Lame. I put it on eBay. Kindle++
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Boo! None of my FriendFeed Saved Searches are working. :-(
rowlikeagirl, Nispell, Thomas Amberg and 8 other people liked this
So much for those new Facebook servers. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't know what the real stats look like, but it sure feels like seach works no better than 20% of the time over the last few months.
- Ken Sheppardson
a bit slow, but working now at least
- Chris Heath
Still down!! :-( Anyone at FriendFeed? Any idea when search will work?
- Kol Tregaskes
still working for me... hmm weird
- Chris Heath
Down again for me.
- Ken Sheppardson
Still down. FriendFeed, I'd like to have my searches back please?
- Kol Tregaskes
takes a long time to load, but still working for me
- Chris Heath
have you tried today? seemed to be quicker today
- Chris Heath
Nope. Just sits there spinning until I get a "service unavailable". Maybe I'm doing it wrong. Or is there a schedule posted for which days search is supposed to work?
- Ken Sheppardson
Mine are not working either.
- Joe Bonner
mine are
- Bart LePoole
Still not working.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've mailed FF to find out what is going on. Search not been working properly for me for nearly a week I think now. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
And I mentioned the spam in this group too.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's so good to have search back, thank you, FF team! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Reading, trying: "Yaler - access small devices from the Web" http://yaler.org/
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Kostik_Y2K: Wow, can't believe Brad Abrams goes to google from MS. He was *the* man behind .NET, I learned a lot from his blog.. http://bit.ly/9cO1wv - http://twitter.com/Kostik_...
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What's the point to saved searches if they don't freaking work? #ThisIsBroken
Michael R. Bernstein, Thomas Amberg, Steven Perez and 3 other people liked this
canım arkadaşım benim de başıma geldi..biraz sabret geçecek..
- aynebilim
I use saved searches a LOT, so it's very frustrating to have this appear whenever I try to use them. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Odd. They usually work for me.
- Akiva
I encountered this prob too.
- Abhishek
I have several saved searches. Most of the time, the simple searches work but the more complex searches give the "service unavailable" error.
- Rochelle
For example: Works - http://friendfeed.com/search... Doesn't work - http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Rochelle
It was from this saved search: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- April Russo
Foursquare should invite me over for some lessons on scaling ...as long as I get a special "Architect" badge!
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;)
- A. T.
RT @terrycojones Until 2001, the encyclopedia told everyone about the world. After that, everyone told the encyclopedia about the world.
Thomas Amberg, Ricky Arnold, Francesco Magnocapello and 3 other people liked this
That's why I agree with @chrissaad that "Open is not Enough. Interoperable is next" - http://blog.areyoupayingattention.com/2010...
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If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
birhan yel, urdumania1, Thomas Amberg and 49 other people liked this
Will "my network and friends" work too?
- JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Thanks!
- georgeker
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
this link might help [http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008...].
- MikeAmundsen
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either.
- MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =)
- Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all?
- MikeAmundsen
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :)
- Charley M
FB status is gone!
- Lonnie Robinson
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason - The Opaque
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
does not work
- Valdas A.
as for 2010-04-30
- Valdas A.
Linux is open, Windows isn't. Windows is open, iPhone isn't. iPhone is open, Motorola RAZR isn't - why Open is a meaningless descriptor
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Well, at least according to that, Linux is still open. : /
- DeWitt Clinton
One of Microsoft's smartest ( @brada , who did lots on the .NET compiler) leaves. Now THAT is a guy who will get to do whatever he wants!
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Why I have faved 18,456 Tweets (why Twitter is dominant in tech industry) - http://scobleizer.com/2010...
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"Because my favorites are part of my content streams on FriendFeed and, now, on my blog here. It lets me get some value out of my reading time. Plus, over on FriendFeed I can search through all of them, something I can’t do anywhere else." OMG!!! He said something NICE about FRIENDFEED! I see a flying pig!
- Lindsay
Why does my history stop back at my 630th post from now? Was it written somewhere I hadn't looked in? Was I noticed and I simply wasn't listening?
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+1
- Thomas Amberg
It actually stops at 600, which is 20 pages, that's just a limit to their pagination on site. If you have something past that you need to head use search, the data is there, you just can't see it from paginating backwards.
- Gimminy
Unfortunately, search is not enough if you'd like to get your data out of FF for backup or other reasons.
- Thomas Amberg
Thomas, the API goes back fully, which is the optimal tool for getting data out. I've managed to extract my personal posts, 7k+ in their entirity.
- Gimminy
Nice! Didn't realize that. Thanks.
- Thomas Amberg
I need to do that myself. I'd like to see when my very first post, comment, and like was since I somehow lost my registration e-mail.
- Akiva
File:Plutonium ring.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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April Buchheit, Thomas Amberg, M F and 4 other people liked this
"A weapons-grade ring of electrorefined plutonium, typical of the rings refined at Los Alamos and sent to Rocky Flats for fabrication. The ring has a purity of 99.96%, weighs 5.3 kg, and is approx 11 cm in diameter. It is enough plutonium for one bomb core. The ring shape helps with criticality safety (less concentrated material)."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
The precious is heavy.
- τorƍue
I wonder if there's anything engraved on the inside surface..
- Paul Buchheit
one ring to rule them all
- Jerry Schuman
more like one ring to bomb them all
- Chris Heath
"Why isn't food free? Can we have ad supported food? Can't I just eat logo-nuggets?"
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