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Henk de Kruyff › Comments
PREDICTION: The problem FriendFeed will have is when it will be very popular (mainstream if you want), there will be so much content that you won't be able to see eevrything. A page refresh and tons of content is published. We will for sure miss tons of good stuff.
Tyson Key, testbeta, ovigia and 37 other people liked this
a page shows say, 30 entries, between two refreshes, say there's 2000 new entries by friends and friends of friends... you see what I mean?
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
We need some way to lens ACROSS content, to view things based on value / ranking / medium, etc. Already there's more content in even my shallow feed than I can comfortably follow, and few of my friends even use FF.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
One word: BLOCK ;)
- Mona Nomura
I expect we'll see more than you realize. Likes and Comments keep stuff bouncing to the top until you get a chance to see it.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'm liking and commenting just to bounce ya twice. ;)
- Internet's Tad
Best guess is that hyper growth is already being foreseen with numerous solutions. These guys are good!
- Charlie Anzman
only if you subscribe to everybody under the sun. I'm sure scoble aleady has that problem here and on twitter
- Brett Kelly
Block and Hide aren't nearly good enough for the things I want to do when updates hit several tens per second. I, really, want things like Boolean filters of near arbitrary complexity, feedback learning, and flexible presentation ranking, just to stay sane.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
I'm telling you guys - Lindsay totally pegged it. FF is the site that just DEMANDS an Intelligent Agent to sift through the volcanic soil to expose the rough diamonds. If the FF devs have half a brain, they have a genius or two slaving away on that right now.
- Internet's Tad
I agree, lots of stuff falls through the cracks through out the day. I think the 'best of' was added for this reason. I haven't really used it that much though.
- Tsega Dinka
but all the good stuff is reshared... personally my eyes are trained to scan content quickly and efficiently. it weeds out what i'm interested in and not. if all else fails, there's always the "BLOCK" or "HIDE" options...
- Mona Nomura
Resharing is data-cluttering, as I see it. I want a system that unifies references to URLs, for one. It tells me where that reference is made from (Rooms, friends, likes, whatnot), but only gives me a single thing to look out for any given referent. The actual rest of info is just useful metadata for building lenses out of.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
You ask the wrong question with your prediction my multi-lingual friend -- the question is not whether we will see too much, but whether we will see enough? FriendFeed (with or without NoiseRiver) is an extremely good model for seeing "enough". NoiseRiver will allow the "noise lovers" to see even more :-)
- Robert Seidman
As more people join, simply being good at managing who you follow will be more important and should keep the noise down.
- Martin Bryant
Surely people like Robert Scoble are already at that level, he manages fine!
- Joe Dawson
:-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Joe's right. Bring it on!
- Robert Scoble
Especially if one uses small screens and apps like twhirl to view the feed...
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
We'll just need a CloseFriendFinder app to sit on top of FriendFinder
- Craig Thomler
I don't see the problem if there is the right method to represent the contnet, in a away that the fruition of it by the user would be easier...
- Edoardo Piccolotto
from twhirl
Yes. There is the potential for much more clutter here than twitter, for example. FF needs enhanced filtering tools.
- Ian Fogg
It's already happening for me. Need tags. Plus likes and comments only go so far. What if I like stuff only a few others like? How do I find that?
- Larry Huffman
if more of my friends were on FF I wouldn't be subscribed to so many people I don't know
- Samuel Bostock
the average user isn't going to be subscribed to that many people. and the mainstream will be much less "active" in terms of generating content than the hardcore early adopters. In short, I don't buy the argument.
- Jamie
The average user doesn't use the majority of features present on mobile phones. In Portugal owning a expensive phone is a status statement, but most of them could use the cheapest mobile in term of features used. With software and web services it's the same, people use just a subset of the features, and they have to be in front of them. Power users and all it's likes and dislikes are useful to test the limits of a application, but besides that are not the voice of God.
- Mário Pires
This is where the top posts of the day/week/month will come into play. I sure that someone will comment or like a post before it flits away. It does bear consideration though, put some brakes on the speed of posting perhaps?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
Maybe a combo of FriendFeed and Digg? people could set to only receive posts with X number of likes/comments...or based on the rep of the person posting...
- Craig Thomler
If i could create "groups" of people by subjects relevant to me perhaps it would be more manageable.
- Mário Pires
so there will be meta services (think summize). Cool. no problemo.
- john conroy
Just look at the Everyone feed. Only imagine articles with 1,000 likes (ala Digg) and 500 comments (ala slashdot). Some people may want the raw feeds, we'll need new filters/views/trails/signposts/guides/topics etc...
- Mitchell Tsai
@Mario Agree. GM script for Friends / Groups http://ffapps.com/filters/
- Hao Chen
I think we'll just end up hiding a lot more stuff
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I have the feeling that the FF staff will roll with the punches. Scalability!
- Steve Isaacs
@Robert Scoble: you WON'T be able to manage that noise. It's simply a mathematical fact. Say, you see 30 post, and between two refreshes, 20.000 entries are posted. The next page will show the last 30 of these 20.000 new entries. You will miss the entries in between. Liking or commenting from FOAF won't help. Because the flow will run... fast.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Prescient in Twitter's case. For awhile it was so for FF too. I don't know about now however; things are slower.
- Maxamad
Phew! Who bumped this??! :)
- directeur
That would be me sir.
- Maxamad
Hi, mohomed! That's so old, how did you find it? :)
- directeur
I was looking for a post with an mp3 attached to it from awhile ago that I needed, but couldn't find it. It's some soft of new jazz from Turkey. A bald guy with blue was attached as an image holding some sort of instrument. But I stumbled across a bunch of good other old posts.
- Maxamad
Could it be Mercan Dede?
- directeur
You continue to amaze me monsieur http://friendfeed.com/directe... Thanks so much!
- Maxamad
Thank you! Tout le plaisir est pour moi, Dhanaan! :)
- directeur
Some great film tips on films you may not have seen yet. Even some freely available (public domain) films. If you need some ideas to accompany your bag of crisps this evening...
- Henk de Kruyff
tdaonp podium - http://www.noisepollution.nl/podium...
Multimedia stuff from the delicate art of noise pollution. Some pretty photos and some funny video's. While a way a couple of minutes on your break.
- Henk de Kruyff
tdaonp scratch pad - http://www.noisepollution.nl/scratch...
Opinionated? Yes. But that's what some blogs are for: they make you think and agree of disagree. At least they get those grey cells moving.
- Henk de Kruyff
tdaonp hub - http://www.noisepollution.nl
Free e-books and links to more free reading material. It's a hub site pointing to lots of free content to enjoy.
- Henk de Kruyff
Sarah Palin claims to be a Christian but lies outright with the sole, cynical intention of inciting violence and hate. Not Christian at all.
On the contrary: that's what many Christians have done for 2000 years. They're human after all.
- Henk de Kruyff
Do you eat the first and last slice of the bread?
Mahdi Ebrahimi, Chris Luckhardt, Kreg Steppe and 38 other people liked this
Yes - usually with something like a tuna melt or open-faced sandwich.
- Jennifer Dittrich
When I could eat bread, yes. Another tip, flip it so the crust ends are on the inside and make your sandwich, no one will be the wiser.
- Janet
yep
- anna sauce
what do you call them in english?
- Alfredo
No, hate it. In Dutch we call them 'kapjes' (that's plural).
- Ton Zijp
nope.
- vijay
I call them "heels" and usually don't eat them.
- CAJ, somewhere else
We fight over the heels of the bread in our family... I like them best toasted, buttered, and dipped in milk.
- Trish Haley
Yes. And all the ones in between, that's my problem =)
- Micah Wittman
The heel is the best part!
- Josh Haley
I leave them on the loaf to protect it. The heels dry out, but the inner slices stay fresher.
- LogEx
i like them too. we call them suegras
- Alfredo
Yes, especially if it's cinnamon or raisin bread.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I'm so badass that I eat them both at the same time.
- Jim Hearts FF
Not I
- Jorge Escobar
hell yeah. And they are definitely the best pieces for toasting.
- Andy Bold
Yes, they are my favorite!
- Carmen
Never!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Not if I can avoid it.
- Roger Benningfield
i think people that don't like crust, won't eat these two slices.
- Alfredo
Nope. I like the insides best, and I don't eat very much bread, so by the time I would get to the outsides, the bread has gone bad anyway. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I call that the booty of the bread, and no.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Can't stand them but my husband pics the ends first.
- BEX
Nope.
- Kenton
Only if I have no alternative. The crust is my least favorite part of bread, useful only as a handle for a slice of bread.
- Scott of Two Countries
The basset hound would object if I ate them, so no.
- Heather
I used to not do so. But, I do now, just not as part of a sandwich.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
no.
- edythe
Yep, but only together. They are always the last two pieces in the bag.
- nakachi
Yep, with three kids someone has to and I'm not throwing them out.
- Heather Solos
Nope, give them to the birds. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yep .
- Steven Perez
Only if I have to. @LE, I always leave them on, but I never realized they keep the loaf fresh. Neat!
- The Bohemian Penguin
Only if I am really hungry
- Shevonne
I'm sorry,but that will always be the booty of the bread to me. And no.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
When I eat bread
- RAPatton
I don't eat the heels of the bread unless I'm desperate
- Lindsey is Fierce!
i eat the heels as the last pieces of the loaf if they haven't gone stale yet... when i was young, my mother would put the heels in her cookie tin to keep the cookies moist a tad longer
- Chris Heath
Yeah
- Nicholas James
I do. Although I have been on this flat-bread kick as of late.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Yes. They're the first pieces to go.
- Mike Smith
Yes. I love it. My family avoids it like the plague so I know it's always there for me.
- Emilio_M
NEVER! That's the bad part!
- Brian Bufalo
yes... i love them!
- Tamara
Yes, they're the best parts (especially of fresh bread).
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yes
- David Cook
yes toasted slathered with butter or peanut butter they are so good
- martha
I flip them over like jlt.
- Anne Bouey
I'm with LE about leaving them on to help keep that outside piece of "real bread" fresher.
- CAJ, somewhere else
No, I give them to my dog.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
yes, but I don't eat that much bread to be honest
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Yes!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I'm the only one in my household that will, otherwise they will get thrown away. Such a waste.
- Nick
throw some peanut butter on it and its as good as the rest.
- mike fabio
Only when the normal slices are gone
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No way. The only time is when someone tricks me and flips it inside out.
- Joshua Schnell
Yep. Well most of the time. Sometimes it depends on how hungry the chickens look. dry it first before feeding it to birds though. Otherwise they get the, well you know, they need to run to the loo a lot. Oh, wait chickens don't do that.
- Henk de Kruyff
We used to throw the heels away but now we feed them to the ducks in our apartment complex.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Was walking back from Polling station to be met by 1 of my dogs coming down the road. She had climbed out of an open window. Sheesh !!
Must be a terrier! Is it?
- Henk de Kruyff
Same-sex couples fight for immigration rights - CNN.com - http://edition.cnn.com/2009...
Iván Abrego, Giancarlo Angulo, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and Jess liked this
same-sex couples are forced to move to another country. what do you think?
- Alp
from Bookmarklet
I think it's sad they have to move. But it's not new. People have been changing countries to protect their rights for centuries.
- Jess
Scandalous that is. People should be free in their choice of partner. In all countries.
- Ton Zijp
Sad state of affairs. Institutionalized discrimination is still rampant in many countries. Whether because of sex, religion or colour. Whatever declarations of freedom may say, in practice small minded parctitioners of hate wring their hands in glee over how the real world works. Prop 8 showed how people really think when asked point blank about the non-issue (as in non-of-your-business...
more...
- Henk de Kruyff
Obama Pushes for $50 Billion for Automakers, Oversight Czar - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008...
Daniel Rowley, sofarsoShawn, J. D. Ebberly and 7 other people liked this
If we give automakers a bailout I want something MAJOR in return. Like 40% electric by 2012.
- Robert Scoble
The automakers will agree to any strings attached to a bailout. After they cash the check they will have the funds to pay their lobbyists to find a way to justify weaseling out of such an agreement.
- scott anderson
@ScottAnderson Nice, hadn't thought about that weasly li'l loophole. Will be interesting to see how much Obama's rhetoric of no-lobbyist-in-my-administration is true. The world would be a better place without these unscrupulous greedy lawyers and PR spin gurus.
- Adam
Agreed Robert.
- David Cook
+1 Robert
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Ludicrous. Give them a loan, fine. Iacocca did it and did well, but don't bail them out!
- Mattb4rd
ditto: after making the obscenely large SUVs that put them in that position today
- sofarsoShawn
Silly. Run your business badly, get bailed out: there's a bad theme here. Agree with the "give us electric by 2012 in return" or some other major change in clean propulsion technology. And stop making cars that can house a cow herd with room for the bull and start making sense.
- Henk de Kruyff
With all of these industries asking for a bailout from debt, I wonder how long it will take for American citizens to demand their bailout from this downturn. If this money is going to change hands for auto makers then we need some incentive from them that they are making a serious effort to try and drive America from it's current oil dependence.
- Bryan
Detroit doesn't deserve to be bailed out. In the long term, I doubt they are going to survive against overseas competition anyway. Instead, why not invest the money in new technologies to get us off our dependence on foreign oil? Electric/hybrid cars, fuel cells, mass transit, etc.
- wrecks
I am not at all into bailing companies out. Once you use the government to prevent failure you are killing the necessary darwinian pressure capitalism counts on. Ont he other side, what government CAN do is remove the current laws forcing the car companies to be at the mercy of their unions in many states. It does put them at a disadvantage.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
I also don't like the idea of the government bailing them out but attaching big strings. The last thing we need is the government intimately involved int he day to day operations of major industries. If the govt wants to offer incentives to develop otherwise not economically attractive technologies, fine... the companies will either re-organize to win the incentive or they will fail. The last thing we need is a de-facto nationalized auto industry.
- Soulhuntre
this morning i was thinking what about the retirees of these auto companies. so not only would their employees and the companies that do biz with them be in trouble but folks who worked for years would be screwed if they go belly up.
- R. Ferguson
but then again i heard on NPR yesterday that the foreign car makers based in the US is doing fine.
- R. Ferguson
USA today increasinglky reminds me of UK in the 1970s. We spent millions over 20 years in successive bail-outs for no-hope car manufacturer British Leyland because no-one could face the truth that they were a lost cause. The end result was just the same -- they went bankrupt after 20 years -- people still didn't want to buy what they built.
- Tim Ostler
It sucks, but bad companies who make stupid decisions need to go out of business. That's the only way we all win in the long run.
- David Risley
I think the big lie here is that this is a "bail out". What it is is a temporary stay of execution
- Brian Sullivan
There is a case for assisting the automakers. But, like Robert says, some hefty strings are going to be attached. Electric to normal is one stick. But the re-hiring of auto workers would do wonders. The government needs to do more to encorage people to buy american. That's what's going to really help GM and Ford and the rest.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto: the government can't convince people of that. Wrong goal. The right goal is to make the US Auto industry the most innovative again. Do that and the consumers will buy again. I know I would. I just drove a brand new Ford Flex. Awesome car except it got 17 MPG. Turn that electric and I'd buy one tomorrow (if priced reasonably).
- Robert Scoble
Well, yeah Robert. Thats the only way to do that. But the foreign car companies that will undercut even the most innovative electric ford force consumers to look at alternatives. I'm Not saying that the US should go all protectionist, but economic health and stability is a national security issue.
- Roberto Bonini
GM cost to manufacture $78 per hour, Toyota in US, $43. One is failing, one is not.
- Robert Hafer
What if GM went into a bankruptcy to reorganize, shed itself of retiree pensions/healthcare ($1200 per car), union mandated employment rules and compensatiion levels. Would GM become a lean, effective company, building consumer-driven products, or would GM continue to build lackluster crap but sell them cheaper?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Roberto: The *only* way any auto company "bail out" is going to save any American auto company is to immediately impose tariffs and barriers to foreign cars and car companies and effectively force Americans to buy inferior product. Doing that would have a whole set of new consequences. All the "bail out" will do is delay GM. Ford and Chrysler death by a year or so. It will allow the companies to "put their affairs in order" as the euphemism goes.
- Brian Sullivan
Electric-Powered Future Two Years Away? - very interesting article - http://tinyurl.com/6jb2dw - the main issue is of course getting all the stakeholders to "invest".
- SnakeDoc
@Robert hafer: let's look at the difference between toyota and gm and what they pay labor wise per car and that would be a large part of the difference in the cost
- Jonathan Jesse
It would have serious reprecussions, yes. But letting them go under also does. At what point do we draw he line? Do we let hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs? And , BTW, make things worse in the wider economy in terms to machine tools, steel, rubber, etc. It's a choice to two evils. And it is impossible to think that globalization can be reversed.
- Roberto Bonini
The elephant in the room: The world needs a Global, Financial Reset but no one is brave enough to push the big, red button...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Roberto - these thousands of people are going to lose their jobs regardless -- all the bail out could do is give them time to prepare
- Brian Sullivan
A discussion on American cars vs. foreign cars and US auto industry bailout should also address the "inner layers" - here is an example - the Chevrolet Equinox, which is assembled in Ontario, has an engine made in China and a transmission from Japan, which brings its domestic content down to 55 percent. The Chrysler PT Cruiser is assembled in Mexico, has a Mexican-made engine and only 37 percent domestic content.... there are scores of other examples....
- SnakeDoc
For a while the Toyota Camry was the top of the list of domestic content. 97%. Ford F150's are assembled in Mexico. Then there is the NUMI assenbly plant that is a joint venture between Toyota and GM...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
It really won't matter if the government bails out the auto industry or not, because the US population will not have the money to buy the new products. This money needs to go to the US population so that they can start putting more back into the economy.
- Wizetux
I would rather see the consumers helped in a more meaningful way now and rather morph away from auto dependence. We need to look to office virtualization expansion now that we have the collaborative (video and audio) technology to do that. When we can minimize the amount of travel, this helps minimize a number of parallel and tangential problems we face now. Our families should be our main concern right now. We are falling behind in that area in America.
- Melanie Reed
One of the many advantages we have yet to tap its full potential with technology is to reverse the trend of putting the concern of business over that of family. There is much more to be said on the intangible infrastructure damage to our society this has caused but there is not enough space for that here.
- Melanie Reed
how about 100% electric fleet by 2018
- Erik Weese
Yeah, 100% at least by 2018. We need an Apollo project type approach. I want to be able to buy electric for my next car. In my lifetime.
- Rolf Schewe
How about a car purchase tax credit? That way maybe I could afford a car. A subsidy for the wealthy leaves me without a car.
- Chuck Baggett
chuck there is a car purchase tax credit if bought B4 end of the year.
- R. Ferguson
listening to "do you have a little time - dido" - http://blip.fm/~3xj7n
Starting to respect dido more and more.
- Henk de Kruyff
from Blip.fm
My first computer MEME: Acorn Electron - what was yours? #shareit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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And yes I had the extra ROM cartridge on the back of it. Exile was (at the time and on this computer) and amazing game. Technically so much better than anything else. Post your MEME links here if you like...
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Oric-1 here. Later with a 10cm (yes, cm) wide 4-pen plotter... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Alexandros Georgiadis
First programmed on Apple IICs IIEs TRS-80s. First machine in home was a Tandy 1000TX. First console was an Atari 2600.
- Andrew Badera
Sinclair ZX81. Started programming in Basic, later on a little assembly. Oh the days of cassette tapes as storage device! I learned how to adjust the tape heads even before I became a studio engineer :-)
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Wow, someone still remember it. Never took off outside the UK.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
The best game on the Acorn Electron (and my favourite game ever) is Bug Blaster. What is yours? (My best game MEME is here: http://friendfeed.com/e...).
- Kol Tregaskes
I bought my first computer in 1983, when I was 13. It was a VIC-20, with the cassette tape drive and a supply of 10 minute tapes for storage. I used a 9" color TV as the monitor.
- Joey Gibson
The Macintosh/Macintosh 128K
- Soup
IBM PC-AT 286 compatible, 1991. I was late to have a computer.
- LouCypher
trash 80, followed by commodore 64.
- grant fox
Apple IIe
- Jennifer Dittrich
Coleco Adam. Because the Commodore 64 was so popular I couldn't find it in stock anywhere and I was an impatient brat back then. Thing was horrible. Think it turned me off on computers until my Macintosh IIsi in college.
- ronin
TRS-80 Color Computer with 4k of memory and a cassette player to load/save programs. My friend later got an Atari 800 which was a really nice machine so I spent a lot of time at his house!
- David Ward
My uncle had a TRaSh-80 monochrome terminal/computer with cassette player, but I was the primary user. The first computer that was purchased specifically for me was a TI 99 4a.
- Peter Ghosh
@ Joey Gibson - My first was also a Commodore Vic-20.
- Mike Reynolds
Tandy 1000 FTW!
- Carter Rabasa
IBM PCjr, 128K, 1985 (RIP). My daddy bought it for the family, and it was top of the line back in the day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- rowlikeagirl
Commodore 64 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- J.D. Deutschendorf
I had an electron too (could not afford a BBC Micro) but had a ZX81 first.
- James Macgill
Started with a Sinclair ZX80 (our neighbors) then moved to the US and got some odd "Interact Computing" machine. Then back to UK and got a ZX81, Dragon 32. Back to US and got a Commodore 64...
- Warren Harrison
Gosh some really old machines here. hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
My mom had a computer before I was born (1979ish?, I was born in 1981), but I didn't get my first computer which I alone owned until I was 7, a Zenith word processing laptop.
- fn (fairnymph)
I started on a Texas Instrument computer, it looked something like this one: http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a...
- Danielle Closs
Lock Picking (THIS IS INSANE!!) - http://www.metacafe.com/watch...
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Paul Grav, James, netrider11 and 58 other people liked this
that's just cool man!
- frank barry
Now what am I going to do with all those bic pens?
- Troy Forster
from twhirl
So that's why lock-picking tools are illegal.
- wrecks
This guy picks 7 locks in just under 2 minutes!
- Joe Bland
OMG, alarming oO
- Dennis R.
looks like I could do that too
- ★ Esther Rudolph
Heheh, and after picking the locks he's faced with a very large hound looking him straight in the eyes and a terrier jumping for his b$lls... Somehow I think the locks are the least of his worries.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Lock picking tools are illegal?? What about crowbars and bolt cutters?
- Paul Grav
All burglary tools are illegal. If they think you are carrying crowbars and bolt cutters to break in somewhere, they can arrest you. Of course, there are legitimate purposes for those tools, too. Lock picks are just for picking locks, so you better have a really good reason for carrying them if caught (e.g., you are a locksmith).
- Brian Hawthorne
lockpicking tools are illegal because it's so damn easy to open for expamle a samsonite suitcase or a bicicle lock. - and the guy in the video is really well trained, a newby takes 3 to 5 minutes to open his first lock.
- pm10
I always wanted a set of those tools when I was a kid watching private eyes breaking into bad guys' houses. :)
- Steve Lowe
Carrying bolt cutters is a little more obvious than these few tools. He should throw in a third minute showing the liquid nitrogen trick and the bic-pen bike lock trick.
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Wow, this makes picking a lock look far too easy... He even picked a combination lock?!?!?!
- Walt Ruppar
Just confirms... locks are for honest people. :-(
- TranceMist
I saw him pick Loch Ness. Now that was effin' wild! Then he picked his nose and that was kinda gross.
- Christopher Harley
this is really pretty appalling to watch. i assume standard dial combo locks are harder to pick. as for the tools, meh. making them illegal is hardly sufficient to protecting users w/ these types of locks.
- MikeAmundsen
Why aren't guns illegal then? It's absurd that lock-picking tools are illegal. Mere possession shouldn't prove you're ready to break the law.
- thepete
The combination lock was the easiest. Under one second. The last one required three tools and was a little more fiddly than the rest, which were all done in a couple seconds. Scary. In other words, you can't really put your trust in locks. Makes you wonder what kind of locks you _can_ trust, if any.
- Rick Cogley
@Rick: first lock was a keyed 'door'-style lock, not a combination lock.
- MikeAmundsen
What should be the first book on my Amazon Kindle?
rowlikeagirl, Patricia F. Anderson, Dutch Driver and 28 other people liked this
Kindle for Dummies
- Jim Hearts FF
what about something you could read to milan?
- Allen Stern
Ender's Game
- Franklin Pettit
Allen: that sounds good, any suggestions?
- Robert Scoble
how about "Naked Conversations?"
- imabonehead
Anathem
- Internet's Tad
A walk in the woods (edited)
- CW™
I wanted to do "Team of Rivals" because I have the hardcover and it's too heavy to carry around at sxsw.
- Tom
cat in the hat? i have no idea!
- Allen Stern
Max Quick Book 1: The Pocket and the Pendant : http://tinyurl.com/cchv2z (granted I am biased :) )
- Mark Jeffrey
Since we're all in the same "noisy" boat, I say "Wordy Shipmates", Sarah Vowell.
- Chad Fjelland
I'd say my books, but I can't convince either HappyAbout or O'Reilly to publish my books on the Kindle :-(
- Jesse Stay
Zen and the Art of Motorcyle Maintenance - just finished it and loved it.
- Damien Franco
@Robert: Can you embed links in ebooks for Kindle? If so, you should write one: "Scobleized: the Best of Scoble. Interviews in Tech 2000-2010" and cover the cover with names.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
"Where the Wild Things Are". For your little one.
- Josh Haley
A Briefer History of Time, read it to Milan. ;)
- xero
Something by Peter Drucker, especially since your on the business side of things. He'll turn your world upside down and then in and out.
- Stephen Pickering
Wow, I haven't had my old Kindle for a year but this one has all my old books on it. Awesome!
- Robert Scoble
Fast Track Photographer by Dane Sanders, it's a quick read. He makes some amazing points about branding that are applicable to other industries too.
- Meredith Williams
Outliers. If you haven't read it. Otherwise, might I recommend Dune?
- Mike Nayyar
Confessions of an Advertising Man by Ogilvy. It's a fun, quick & informative read that's still relevant.
- barce
A People's History of FriendFeed by Howard Zinn. That'll totally blow your mind.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Twilight? LOL!
- Meema Esguerra
"The Art of Computer Programming," Volumes 1-4.
- imabonehead
Ezra Pound's "Cantos"
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
imabonehead, those books are so dense, it'll require two Kindles.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Two Kindles?! Perfect! One for each hand! Double the reading.
- imabonehead
The Bible of course.
- Dale Harper
Heh, I love the suggestions for the Bible when Robert is technically Muslim. ;)
- xero
Goodnight Moon is a good one for reading to your child I think - or at least my daughter loved it from very young. Grown-up choice - Tender Is The Night.
- Patrick Jordan
from BuddyFeed
The bible was actually the second book on my Kindle, and I'm an atheist.
- Nine
three books you should read (take your pick) [http://friendfeed.com/e...]
- MikeAmundsen
Farenheit 451.
- Martha
First ebook i read was on my Newton 100 (110?). Heart of Darkness.
- Hayes Haugen
The Kindle Manuel. Well I hope its on the Kindle. If they printed it out then I would wonder how much they believe in their product.
- CW™
Alvin Toffler's "The Third Wave"
- Keith - @tsudo
for Milan - Beatrix Potter tales. For you, Iain Banks' Use of Weapons. Great book and only $1 right now!
- neil roseman
Enders Excile
- Christian Burns
Dune
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Jennifer
How I wasted 2008 (and the early part of 2009) by Robert Scoble
- Bob Sonin
I get my Kindle tomorrow and my first book is ordered: "The Pardoner's Tale" by Morgan Ferdinand (AKA "Nine"). Next up: the Bible (King James of course) and Shakespeare. Essential classics. And yes, I'm an atheist. Maybe also "UR" - the book written for Kindle by Stephen King, about an e-reader.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
For the language of course. And because it's the version everyone quotes from. Rumor has it that Shakespeare contributed to it; the editors hired poets to rewrite "Psalms."
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I guess I'd say Eastern Standard Tribe, but that's becuase I selected it for a bookclub http://kindlebookclub.mobi/
- Bastard Operator From FF
"How To Become Rich Enough To Own A Kindle"
- ::Kristen::
The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- Stephen Grant-Jones
The Groundswell
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
from twhirl
The Lord of the Rings
- Michael Fidler
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He assassinated on February 21, 1965. R.I.P.
- Mikael Pittam
from twhirl
I'm trying to read 'Snowcrash' on the iPhone. It's not working out well. May have to grab a Kindle :p
- Rodfather
Scoble for Dummies. Or was that Dummies for Scoble?
- ld
Janet and John..being the 1st
- Terry Jones
I'd vote for Harry Potter, but you've probably already gotten your 1st book :)
- Phil G
1984, George Orwell. Becoming more topical by the day.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Harry Potter is not available for the Kindle
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Well, make sure it is nothing from Mr. Roy Blount Jr. as he just penned on op-ed in the NYT about Kindle 2 not paying for audio rights. o_O
- coldbrew
How to use Social Networking by Robert Scoble lol
- Rob Cairns
Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" to read to Milan (beyond the story, no trees were cut down for the Kindle format?)
- Maryam
maryam - that was my mothers book to me
- Allen Stern
How are the illustrations in the Silverstein book(s) on the Kindle? My son loved his books - still does (and he's 25).
- Brian Sullivan
Allen, it's especially beautiful then :)
- Maryam
"The Book Thief" was a great book. Read it on my Kindle v1.
- Daniel Norton
Farenheit 451 :)
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Looked for Ender's Game (was suggested by another as well as in here) - but it's not available!
- James Hull
facebook by Mark Zuckerberg
- sofarsoShawn
The Kama Sutra
- Derrick
I am sure this was said but Naked Conversations.
- Steve Rubel
Your Childhood Favorite
- bcultral
Finishing Brian Tracy, How to Master Your Time (audio) - do good confirmations
- Daniele Beta
13 Things That Don't Make Sense
- E.P. Scott
would be nostalgic to have in your collection: neuromancer, pattern recognition, best of 2600, art of war, and frank herbert's dune (if any of these are available for the kindle)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
The Republic by Plato Allan Bloom Trans.
- sofarsoShawn
I was going to tell you to read my book, "Foundation and Endowment Investing", but I don't even know if it's available on the Kindle yet.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Paris Hilton Confessions of an Heiress ~ changed my life fornever
- sofarsoShawn
a book against DRM....
- Terry O'Fee
"Foster Mom," by Francine Hardaway, so you learn something else about me:-)
- Francine Hardaway
"Walden" ;)
- Steve Isaacs
heh, Steve
- Kamilah Gill
One of the Common Craft "In Plain English" books.
- Nate Pilling
from twhirl
"Grown Up Digital" by Don Tapscott: http://bit.ly/xw3AU - an excellent book about the social ramifications of the web and modern technology on society
- Nathan Chase
Farenheit 451 - the classic about book burning
- Chris Loft
Find "Steal this Book" on BitTorrent and have the Kindle read it to you aloud.
- Ken Sheppardson
"Catch 22" or "On Bullshit" by Frankfurt
- Hayk H.
Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
- Melvin Ram
kylehase: the cool thing is that my Kindle came with several books loaded on it from my first Kindle. I am buying a bunch of books, though, based on this thread. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
One thing I never understood: What's the diff betw "rain" and "showers?"
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Showers are lighter and finer... and I think are accompanied by sun?
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
I always thought showers were a subtype of rain.
- Victor Ganata
O, here we go: http://is.gd/kvh0
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Showers are intermittent, rain persistent.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Rain = wet hair. Shower = frizzy hair.
- krug95
Showers are intermittent and unpredictable, rain occurs all f-ing day.
- Mark Edmondson
Will we ever learn? - http://thewayoftheweb.net/2009...
Good post. And apart from what you wrote: what ten million?
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
If it turns out there's no hope for the world economy, I hope we invest our last $100 billion in really good drugs for everyone.
Seth, Wally Punsapy, Ladybug Heather and 4 other people liked this
:) So true!
- Fernando
Carthago delenda est and then begin again. Bit of mind expansion might help, though.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Sometimes I think that when my PC crashes in the middle of a game it's telling me to get a life.
John Freddy Vega, Nathan Chase, Fred Hsu and 30 other people liked this
I'm fairly sure that when computers crash what they are telling you to do is improve you skills in cursing.
- Joe Pierce
I believe, at this point, my cursing skills are finely honed...
- John Reynolds
@Joe Yep, my PC made me a master of cussing. @V What game was you playing?
- Fee501st
Just for comparison, who exactly has more life than you Veronica? Job, education, interests, house plants, dental plan, stable relationship. If you don't have a life, then who really does?
- Matthew DeVries
+1 Sergei
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Wait... Veronica has house plants?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I do have plants!
- Veronica
Synthetic or real? :)
- Jonathon
I call it job security
- Mike
Are you sure that when your PC crashes in the middle of a game that it's not just telling you to get a Mac?
- Thomas Hawk
I swear to god, one more person tells me to get a Mac, and I'm going to flip my lid. I'm on a MBP right now, you silly gooses!! But I game on a PC :)
- Veronica
@Veronica But they're probably really tough plants, like Snap Dragons and Tiger Lillies, right?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
no, they're plants that cats don't like to eat.
- Veronica
Please don't make Veronica go insane! :D
- Fee501st
Hahaha
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
PC's aren't that smart. Now, maybe a Mac. ; )
- Phil Boiarski
If you all need me I'll just be over here, taking cover. Just in case.
- Joe Pierce
Now, Veronica, of course you know that a $50 dollar video card in a Mac costs $250 to replace :-) (by the way, Mac fanboy, just not for gaming).
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
I game just fine on my iMac. Don't understand what I'm missing, I guess.
- Phil Boiarski
It's not that you can't game on a Mac. PC Gaming is for the Hardcore because you can tweak a PC for gaming a lot, I guess Veronica is Hardcore.;)
- Fee501st
or get a bigger newer computer!
- Pokai
Facebook Now Owns Literally Everything You Put on Facebook. For Ever. Seriously. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Aleksandar Cocek, Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF), Josh Haley and 23 other people liked this
:/
- embee
Damn You Facebook!
- Tyson Key
Facebook sucks anyway.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
These new TOS's should be challenged in court. Are they reasonable? I don't recall agreeing to the new TOS's at any time recently (Although I did agree to the original ones). This might make them un-enforceable. As one commentor said "Supposing they added a clause saying they could come to your house and cut down your shrubbery. Obviously this would be thrown out of court. So do the new terms breach "The Shrubbery" test?"
- Gary
Zee, having server trouble? Not loading now. .
- Simon Wicks
you know i think this story has broken the bloody site. Have got the powers that be looking into it
- Zee.
Facesuck? ;)
- Tyson Key
i'm not a fan of facebook. Not worked out why, just something about it. This is utter crap. Nothing really stopping them from making an iStockPhoto duplicate, selling your images. Of course this thing wouldn't stand in court, didn't agree to it for one.
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
Seriously considering getting off Facebook. It's doing nothing for my business and only adds to my frustration. There's one more blogpost in it: My experience in getting off facebook.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
@Henk, loving the one more blog post remark
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
To be fair though FF has what appears to be similar wording in its TOS -- http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
Not liking this .. will use FB less ,
- johnpiercy
i like more and more to NOT be registered on facebook :) i'm the only one among my friends and even familly (funny thing is that i'm definitively more geek & online addicted than them) who made this choice, for various reasons. Maybe even just for challenge, and i'm glad too. Day after day this is more & more fun not to register in this evil service who is directed by money, no more by...
more...
- TiTi
I'm going to edit my signature to include 'property of facebook' :P
- Joe Dawson
Do they own my FriendFeed posts, my stuff on Flickr (It's Creative Commons licensed!), my Tweets, my last.fm profile content, and bunch of other random stuff that I've piped through Facebook in the past, now?
- Tyson Key
I thought this was common knowledge by now ?
- Bwana ☠
Note that FriendFeed has similar (though not as explicit) language in its TOS http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
YouTube - tdaonp's Channel - http://www.youtube.com/tdaonp
The delicate art of noise pollution channel on YouTube. You will find here the Geek Streak, various short video's with Lego (tm) builds and other bits and bobs.
- Henk de Kruyff
tdaonp hub - http://www.noisepollution.nl/
The central site for all activity by Internet content creator Henk de Kruyff, known on the net as tdaonp: the delicate art of noise pollution.
- Henk de Kruyff
Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs. TweetDeck - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Helen M Overland, Adrian, vb100 and 90 other people liked this
i still like tweetdeck better :)
- Rodney Rumford
I can't stand tweetdeck :)
- Nick
I'm sure Twhirl is fabulous and I really appreciate @Loic and his engaging method of development, but I just can't beat TweetDeck's multi-column layout. It's ideal for a 30" cinema display but equally at home running full screen on MBPro
- Conor Ogle
TweetDeck uses too much memory for my computer, so I use Twhirl
- Qbat
Neither, I still prefer Twitterific on a Mac. If I had to decide between these both: probably Twhirl, even though I hate their scrolling implementation.
- Holger Eilhard
I like them both but prefer tweetdeck for single account mgmt. Twirl works well for multiple account mgmt
- Tim FitzGerald
I go back and forth between the two. TweetDeck: love the multi-column group management, but hate the memory usage and inability to sync group lists across machines. Twhirl: I like the FriendFeed and Seesmic integration, but I miss the group list management offered by TweetDeck. To TweetDeck's credit, they are soliciting input on what issues to tackle next; group sync and memory issues were on the list.
- Brian Shoemaker
I prefer the Tweetdeck interface but am using Twhirl because I need to manage multiple accounts.
- Herb Hernandez
At home, Tweetdeck. What about when mobile though? I used tweetdeck on a UMPC at MBC09 (saves my mobile phone for other duties!) and will have a bunch of mobile PC devices at SXSW to do the same (i'm testing them) Seems to me that Tweetdeck + powerful browser on the go would be perfect for microbloggers.
- Steve 'Chippy' Paine
I prefer to use clients that extend beyond twitter.. Preferably Friendfeed and Facebook as well. feedalizr is good. Any other alternatives?
- Abhishek Kumar
from feedalizr
Twhirl feels clunky and it's UI is too complex. Twitterific is perfect for day to day personal use, but Tweetdeck is great for corp accounts.
- Giovanni Ghignone
I use TweetDeck primarily, but it needs Twhirl's lookup feature in the worst way. That one feature keeps me going back and forth. Oh yeah, and multiple accounts. Love Twhirl for that.
- Gimme Blu Frog!
neither of them, They just don't feel right to me. I developed my own which has what I need.
- Darren Stuart
I use Twhirl more, just got Tweetdeck a day ago, like the layout for management. I love Spaz though, sorry!
- Jay Cameron
I started as a big Twhirl fan, til the day it wasn't working. I desperately seek for an option and tried TweetDeck. It was too big in my screen, too annoying with its sound alerts, but then, ok: it got me! groups features became very handy and good to use Twitter for working tasks. I still think TweetDeck could benefit from some Twhirl features - specially after Seesmic acquisition, but can't see myself going back to it anymore.TweetDeck is my favorite one! =]
- May
iam sticking with twhirl for now...
- Stephan Linzner
@ninjamonk which tool did you develop?
- Abhishek Kumar
from feedalizr
i'm liking the new twhirl has some great features and looks like the tool for seesmic users for sure, tweetdeck would be my pick if i was following loads of people
- Adam Gersbach
@Abhishek Kumar I did crowdstatus.com and have built an AIR client based on it but its still not ready as I am in an arms race :p
- Darren Stuart
I use Thwirl 'cause they support Identi.ca, and I can use Identi.ca to post on twitter too. Otherwise i think TweetDeck is a better client for Twitter.
- Norbert Evenich
from twhirl
I use both. Twhirl allows both of my accounts open side-by-side and it's integration with Seesmic is VERY cool. Tweetdeck's layout has superior advantages - especially "sub-groups" and topics to follow.
- Stan Dubin
Twhirl
- Vishy
TweetDeck + real-time FriendFeed in a small browser window: best way to waste time on teh net.
- bnoise
I like Tweetdeck but recently added a second Twitter account so now using Twhirl. If Tweetdeck had multiple account functionality (and Friendfeed connection) I would switch back.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
I'm using Friendfeed Realtime and Tweetdeck if I'm not on my Samsung NC10 Netbook.
- Marius Quadflieg
http://twtpoll.com/r/jaqtnw still, more people use Twitter from the web...
- Orli Yakuel
I love Twhirl, but it only lacks the groups of users feature of Tweetdeck. I love Tweetdeck, but it lacks the notifying popup for each twit of Twhirl.
- americanm
Tweetdeck on my personal laptop (usage times vary - not always on). Last night app wasn't working right!
- Susan Beebe
I prefer Tweetdeck. Don't ask me why, call it design or robustness but I like it better.
- Carlos Lorenzo
Some sort of hybrid of the two would be perfect, until then I use both.
- Iain Baker
I really agree with this :)
- Liviu Lica
I can't decide, I like Tweetdeck because its nice and big and love the muliple colums, but I like twhirl because I can pick up Friendfeed, Seesmic and TWitarmy.... hard to decide
- Kim Landwehr
I use tweetdeck because of the groups. I have a tab for my favorites and one for people in my country/language (Netherlands). I don't care much for other features like video or integration with other services. Ideally tweetdeck would have the possibility of one column with tabs and save groups and searches.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Robert, this goes back to your recent "real-time web" post: how do you gather together the outcomes of discussions on the various sites? Someone could post a great comment on the post at scobleizer.com, but it wouldn't show up on your FriendFeed unless you or someone else did an equivalent of a re-tweet. What's the preferred reply etiquette these days?
- Paul Robertson
Tweetdeck, for the groups.
- Chris Luckhardt
Twhirl for the simplicity and minimal space hogging.
- Candy Schwartz
twhirl, far better
- Richard A.
I had thwirl, but never really used it much. I did switch to tweetdeck a while ago (for the second time and have grown to like it a lot. However, I use mobile apps most (slandr/twitstat mobile).
- Arne Hulstein
Tweetdeck is lifesaver by allowing groups.
- Kenley Neufeld
I don't use any Twitter clients. I use Twhirl for Laconica
- LouCypher
While my first choice is still the Web, for TwitApps I am a Twhirl Girl.
- Martha
I would love to have all in real time browser windows. Think about FF meets socialthing - having friends not only from FF but also importing them from each service you have an account on.
- bnoise
twhirl will always rule for me until someone else allows me to do ff in the same client. Although Tweetdeck has some great features, the future of client apps is clearly in supporting multiple networks, which only twhirl does, so it's no contest.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
If TweetDeck handled multiple accounts, I'd probably switch back. I like grouping folks so I'm not forced to unfollow those who leash bouts of Twitterrhea ;)
- Carolyn
I switch between both depending on the mood of the day.. The one feature I am waiting on is the group feature in Twhirl.. then hard to judge..
- Bill Moore
from twhirl
TweetDeck :)
- Nicholas James
I love Twhirl. This may seem weird, but tried TweetDeck and it seemed too masculine for my tastes.
- Julie Bovee Hill
Tweetdeck hands down
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
I still just use the web interface, or Cellity Tweeter or one of the WAP/mobile web-based clients, if I'm Twittering on my phone.
- Tyson Key
TweetDeck. No doubt.I love groups and searches for monitoring things. Especially once I wrote backup/restore scripts so I could move settings between machines.
- Scott Kingery
Twhirl, because A) I don't have the money/extra hardware to donate to using tweetdeck full screen, and it annoys me to horizontally scroll and B) because I find the group function useless. I don't want to see every last tweet I just want trends, so groups just add more columns to watch. Only thing I liked about tweetdeck was twitscoop, great for watching for events.
- BCK
I rotate between Twhirl and the Firefox add-on, Friendbar.
- Doug
DestroyTwitter is a really nice program as well.. and fast...
- Jaap Willem
from twhirl
Twhirl does FriendFeed, laconica, and seesmic too. Support bit.ly + api for stats. winner hands down.
- Glenn Batuyong
Will have to try the new Twhirl, but if its anything like the old, then I will probably still prefer Tweetdeck's multi column interface
- Peter Efland
Until Tweetdeck supports multi account I won't even consider leaving Twhirl
- adolfo foronda
I just tried twhirl again and shut it off immediately and went back to tweetdeck. I like the groups in tweetdeck a lot. It allows me to follow a group more closely as it lowers the noise for that group.
- Shamir Katsu
Alert Thingy just made a new release too. TC wrote them up. From the post, "...AlertThingy has added support for six more services: Ping.fm, Basecamp, Huddle, TwitPic, TwitterSearch, and Yammer. That makes for a total of 13 services, which already included Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Jaiku, TinyURL, Tumblr, and Twitter."
- coldbrew
Here's the link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- coldbrew
I use twhirl 4 multi-accounts and tweetdeck 4 main account. I also use 3 monitors running on the same computer & tweetdeck dedicated to one.
- Moses Kpetigo
I like twhirl because it supports identi.ca as well as FriendFeed. If TweetDeck supported FriendFeed, I'd make the switch. Oh, multiple accounts - Twhirl does that, TweetDeck is lacking
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
Mind share on Twitter for both apps http://www.trendrr.com/a... Tweetdeck vs. Twhirl (Number of Matching Twitter Posts per Day)
- mediaeater
tweetdeck is broken for me right now... not sure why. Only displays @replies and searches; NO feed and no DMs (not complaining there!)
- Susan Beebe
I use both
- andy brudtkuhl
twhirl. The Tweetdeck interface is too imposing.
- Brendan Cooper
from twhirl
sounds like the stupidest war ever
- sean percival
They're both unfree. Don't use either of them. Use a free one. If there is no free one, then don't use one till there is.
- Gregg H.
Gregg: what do you mean? I haven't paid for either one.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed- both are free. Who is paying? I think twhirl is great for general use and multiple services (as you pointed out), Tweetdeck is good for those that really, really want (or need) to organize their stream. The interface is daunting however and I found Tweetdeck was slow to update. Now if you are talking iApps- Twitterfon FTW! I also love the "get more people to talk about it!" line- Scoble continues to tell it like it is.
- Alyx
from twhirl
Robert: Free, as in freedom. But, I suppose if you're using a completely user subjugating OS that has no respect for your freedom like Mac or Windows, then one more little freedom killing app like this won't matter anyway.
- Gregg H.
Tweetdeck it is for me ... sadly it just got borked and refused to work on my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop
- Murali
TweetDeck is my choice as well.
- Darrell Madore
falling in love with Alert Thingy... similar than Tweetdeck and more usable
- Luca Filigheddu
Robert - interesting post but it doesn't sound like a war to me. Aren't both clients offering solutions to different problems?
- Iain Dodsworth
Now, if AlertThingy would work on my machine, I'd give that a try, but unfortunately, it doesn't populate the window with posts on my end. :(
- Alexander Kucera
I am still trying to figure out which one I like best, but for the most part I think twhirl is best for sending and TweekDeck is best for viewing.
- Chris Patterson
I use them both but mostly use Tweetdeck. It would be great to have better picture submission with Tweetdeck and a reduced memory footprint as I have to shut it down regularly as it becomes sluggish.
- Kirti Vashee
Just stumbled upon this post and want to add, that I found a way to sync TweetDeck groups betweed different machines using Dropbox and junctions. Just put the Appdata Directory of TweetDeck into Dropbox as a junction and on the other machine make a junction from the Dropbox directory into the Appdata directory. Quite geeky I know but that's how I keep different apps' settings in sync and it works well :)
- Dennis R.
twitter is so down... (just for me?)
Nope, its looking deader than disco for me too
- Mauricio Reyes
I'm having difficulty accessing too.
- Yung-Hui Lim
Mauricio, that's quite an interesting way to describe it :)
- Orli Yakuel
I think it sleeps. Facebook is in site maintance for my account too. I better work, it's a good chance!
- ilter
down from Belgium too.
- Guy Vander Heyden
me2，can't login
- Roamlog
i'm getting 'something is technically wrong' page now
- Yung-Hui Lim
got his now : Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
- Guy Vander Heyden
Something is technically wrong
- Roamlog
BTW, did you ever check the public timeline?
- Orli Yakuel
Yep, public timeline can't be opened too
- Roamlog
down for me too.
- natadd
Its been a looong time since I've had this feeling of twitter loss :'-(
- Mauricio Reyes
down here too.
- Robert Scoble
thank god....you too? i can't get into it at all anywhere..still down for you?
- Tresha Thorsen
it went down just as i linked to twistory...history of charity/water twestival tweets..you?
- Tresha Thorsen
Seems so weird! :-S
- MaryLou Tzempelikou
I feel like the cafe we hang out every day is closed, and we had to go to another one nearby. But coffee here is not the same...
- Panos Karageorgakis
Yeah, same here. Feels good not to be alone!
- Josh Shabtai
yeah. it's down. making me sad.
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
Here's something that you can't find in Twitter search, people that are talking about Twitter goes down...
- Orli Yakuel
Been down a while...come back Twitter!
- Pete Gilbert
from twhirl
"Twitter is currently down for database maintenance. We expect to be back in about 30 minutes. Thanks for your patience."
- Panos Karageorgakis
Yep down. (The Netherlands)
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
Imagine that poor DB guy sweating, adrenaline levels exploding...
- Panos Karageorgakis
I hope at least they had a DB backup so we won't have to start over!
- Panos Karageorgakis
INTERNET WILL EXPLODE! STOP TWEETING!
- ilter
...and it's back to normal
- Orli Yakuel
I wouldn't call it normal. Really slow.
- Panos Karageorgakis
woo hoo!
- Mauricio Reyes
Panos, that's because scoble is still awake...
- Orli Yakuel
We need to tranquilize him!
- Panos Karageorgakis
BLAME SCOBLE!!!!'
- Roberto Bonini
Got locked out of my Twitter account because Twitterdeck used the wrong password. Couldn't even log in via the web interface. Still stuffed.
Strange. Did you meen tweetdeck (never heard of twitterdeck but that might be my ignorance)? No problems with Tweetdeck here (yet).
- Henk de Kruyff
Websites upated Starting with http://www.noisepollution.nl I have updated all my websites (four in total) to one uniform look. They are now clearly related and part of the same blogging empire. Have a look. Comments very welcome!
- Henk de Kruyff
There Are Two Phones In this World: iPhone and Not iPhone - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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This post made me laugh, but is so true.
- Justin Korn
bah... there are better phones out there than the iphone. show me the iphone mk 3 or 4....
- Terry O'Fee
There are two phones in this world : ones with good cameras and ones with 2 mega pixel camera?
- Alastair Montgomery
@Alastair, almost all the photos on my SmugMug were with the iPhone. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... Look great to me!
- Louis Gray
I dont call something a phone unless it is used 50% or more as a phone.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Louis, true they aren't bad but when most other cell phones passed the 2MP barrier a while back seems a bit of a lapse to me. One thing we can thank the iPhone for is raising the design bar for other cell phones.
- Alastair Montgomery
The appeal of the iphone camera is not in quality but in immediacy. A proper camera takes proper pictures. An iphone shares pictures on the internets, location and all - without hassle. Companies would stop marketing specs and features to us if only people would stop being guided by them. If only "users" would take a moment to observe their own actual use of those feature ridden devices.
- Alexander Kohlhofer
@Alexander, I thought you couldn't send pictures over MMS with the iPhone, doesn't sound like easy sharing to me?
- Alastair Montgomery
It's about software. S60 reminds me of Windows 3.1. Add a fat processor and graphics card, you're still using a clunky interface.
- Rodfather
Am I the only one who actually likes using S60?
- Tyson Key
The new lineup of phones from Nokia, Samsung, and Sony devices can do all iPhone does and in some area's with better specs.. and Android is not a phone, it's a platform ;) ..only thing Apple does better then the others is marketing and creating a hype around thin air.
- Pascal
How many people use there 'real' 6-8 MP cameras on full quality? I would venture that most drop the 'quality' to save memory and drop the resolution to somewhere equivalent to a 2-3 MP camera anyway (not all you tech bloggers of course). The main issue with the iPhone is the lack of video, which is becoming more apparent with the uptake of services like qik
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Once you have used an iPhone or an iPod Touch, Symbian looks so 10 years ago. (I have an E61i)
- Zio Bonino
Like Bud guys' said, "True, true..." Same confessions we all had i guess http://tinyurl.com/5o3j3h
- Olcayto Cengiz
Are developers excited to write apps for anything other than the iPhone or Android? I don't see anything like Ocarina on other phones. OSX on the iPhone is the most exciting platform I've seen in a long time.
- Rodfather
Jobs does not care about developers. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- scott anderson
True dat. The attention to detail And User Experience are light years ahead of the rest of the pack.
- vijay
Apple fanboys. They're always good for a giggle..
- Terry O'Fee
@Terry heh - somehow I am managing just fine without one and will continue to do so. I would like an iPod Touch, however. :)
- Mattb4rd
I am an Apple fanboy but bought an Nokia N82 recently. Why? Because an iPhone sold by, in my case, T-mobile is not an iPhone yet. I wait till Apple finalises the iPhone and sells the finished product in the Apple store.
- Henk de Kruyff
smacks of kool-aid to me; love the iphone, love it but a closed/controlled environment is no way to win if you're confident you're the best; the bulk of people will stick with whatever nokia / the carriers are incentivised to push and first and foremost they want a phone, for now
- Bob Sonin
Well written argument on how not to be a doofnutt and own a Blackberry( which I do). So I'm a doofnutt, now what happens? Hahah
- Terence
I have to admire a man who dares confess his love of the iPhone to those who just can't get past the apple juice. Integration, ease of use, sheer elegance and panache are not appreciated by those with other priorities. Intangibles to personalities not in tune with subtleties. It's the software, stupid.
- Phil Boiarski
I'm 28 years old, I have never owned a cell before the iPhone. It us now closer to me than my right hand LoL.
- Kevykev
Hmm. I think 99% of people I know love the iPhone for the features also found in the Touch. They just don't prefer to carry around a separate phone. They also mostly hate AT&T. Lots of iPhone love, but it's almost entirely for the non-phone-related features they can get with a Touch. Lots of frustration, too, though, mostly phone-related.
- abacab
We have an iPod Touch (shared with the wife), and I do like it a lot. We also have cellphones with AT&T. It would be nice to have one less gadget to carry around, so the next time we replace the cellphones it will probably be for two iPhones.
- DGentry
Meh. I love my Android G1. It does everything I need and then some. And it has a better camera than the iPhone (at least we can do macro photography without having to buy a special case with a lens enhancement), we can type more easily on the full keyboard, and we have a nice trackball to make fat-fingering a lot harder to do. You can keep the iPhone and AT&T (AT&T is the main reason I didn't get one before the G1 came out). I'm happy with my Android.
- Her Lindsay-ness
I am loving my iPhone - my new office phone (plugged in of course)... awesome!
- Susan Beebe
Flash News: The World != The US. That said, I'd not take any phone which won't let me develop for it without paying someone else.
- Yuvi
I ditto everything Lindsay just said, especially the part about AT&T =P
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
With all of the things my iPhone does not have such as a high quality still and video camera, digital compass, background notifications for all my apps (especially Facebook and Google Talk) and maybe a digital TV and radio tuner, I still don't care for any other phone. I show it to friends and family and they are instantly sold. The latest update by Google Maps for public transit is just killer.
- Rolf Schewe
I loved the post, and totally understand...for me it's more important to get quality out of what I could create with an N97, than the quality of the phone itself when I demonstrate it to people...but that's a fairly unusual perspective by the looks of things...I like the iPhone, but would love N97 functionality with it!
- Badger Gravling
Others may not agree with my conclusion, but every time I see a "non-iPhone" now, I know people are selling themselves short. And every time there are new applications developed for the platform, Apple's lead gets bigger.
- Louis Gray
I stopped in to a Verizon store to try out the Storm. I walked out about 30 seconds later thinking the exact same thing... there's 2 phones. iPhone and not iPhone.
- Fraser
@Fraser: I haven't had a chance to try out the Storm yet. What did you not like about it?
- Jay
@Jay - they removed the things that used to make the BlackBerry a BlackBerry (and a good alternative to the iPhone in some people's eyes) and tried to make a phone that could compete head-on with the iPhone. The touch screen felt like a toy, clicking to select a key was odd, the UI was not intuitive nor natural for a touch screen, etc. By going down this path they open a direct 1:1 comparison with the iPhone. Which is a brutal mistake.
- Fraser
Having purchased my iPhone just a short 3 days ago, you are preaching to the choir of the converted Louis. Now lets see how long it takes me to migrate my computer from PC to Mac :)
- Mark Krynsky
wait... more coming
- jfayel
more like old school economics, the have's and the have not's..
- Sai
A co-worker inadvertently washed her daughter's iPod (kids fault for not checking pockets per family rules). Of course not covered under any warrenty but the family had a fire 10 years ago. Fire ins folks told her to freeze dry any electronics and she had success with stuff water damaged. She successfully can charge the iPod and hoping continued...
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was able to get the iPod to hold a charge in three days of freeze drying. Anyone ever do this?
- Janet
The trick is to get the water out before powering up the device. If you power it up, there could be a short which causes damage. But if you manage to dry it out first, then you will have better luck. You could probably leave it out on a table for a couple days and get the same results.
- Ryan Twomey
I've dropped an HTC wizard in the toilet (after the courtesy flush of course) -- Immediately powered off and popped out the battery, sat for 3 days to dry out -- worked perfectly. My fiancee ran my 1st-gen iPod nano through the washing machine -- same deal, let it sit for about 3 days in the sun and worked perfectly up until i got my iPhone. Immense patience required, but it pays off.
- Mike Kogelman
Operative word there: sun... what sun? ;-)
- Henk de Kruyff
In replacement of sun, leaving it on top of an oven set at its absolute lowest setting (maybe a tad higher) works as well.. DO NOT PUT INSIDE OVEN :)
- Mike Kogelman
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