PQ - "One of the things we do here at PhysMath Central (and our sister companies BioMed and Chemistry Central) which not all publishers do is format our full-text articles in freely-available XML and MathML. From a production point of view it makes sense as we can generate html and pdf versions of the article from the same source, but beyond that there are a plethora of possibilities that anyone could exploit due to their machine-readability. However it seems that machine-readable documents have yet to find an enthusiastic audience beyond a few data-miniing specialists."
- Graham Steel
Reel Director has come along and given the iPhone some of iMovie’s most valuable features all in the palm of your hand.
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe.
- Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet?
- Costa Walcott
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see?
- Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed!
- Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder.
- Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks?
- Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for.
- Roberto Bonini
FriendFeed update. Paul Buchheit wrote me and said he's been very sick the past few days. That might explain why he hasn't engaged the way we want. He also offered to do an interview with me to discuss the future of FriendFeed and what they are doing at Facebook soon. We're working that out, hopefully soon (but might not be until November sometime)
Bruce: FriendFeed=Facebook. So, I'm interested in what he's doing and I'm a big fan of Facebook's. Twitter needs some competition. The Fail Whale is getting to me.
- Robert Scoble
I know it's a stretch but can we gather specific questions for Paul to answer?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
When other sites like twitter come out with new features, you want to be at the front of the excited crowd. FriendFeed will make you into that curmudgeon who's always saying, "So what? They did that two years ago at FriendFeed."
- Bruce Lewis
Cjay: I've been working on this interview since before Facebook bought FriendFeed. :-)
- Robert Scoble
manielse: well, the interview isn't on 100% yet and now that I've talked about it in public who knows what will happen? But if it does happen of course we'll get you involved.
- Robert Scoble
Cjay: I might be a rusty wheel, but remember two things: 1. I put many many thousands of hours into FriendFeed before the sale, bringing my audience over here at great risk to my personal brand. Lots of "experts" like Mike Arrington told me I was wrong to do that. 2. I'm still here.
- Robert Scoble
But yes I would agree that allowing and or resting your personal branding on a service thats based on a cloud application with it's roots depending on a social network model is very risky.
- Cjay
Cjay: actually it's not. It just looks risky.
- Robert Scoble
To those giving Scoble crap for being on FF, aren't you tired of that? You all have been doing that for at least a year. Enough. For us on FF, we'd love to see an interview, thanks.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Chicken soup - but stay away from those soul books ;) Hope you're up to speed soon, Paul.
- Micah Wittman
Looking at the time-scale, doesn't that actually answer the question? You don;t wait THAT long to deliver good news or to debunk a false rumour that killings your platform (well, Zucks platform).
- Jim Connolly
Paul - sorry to hear that! (it's 2:30 am here, I can empathize with your sleep problem)
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Eric, sorry if it sounded like I was giving him crap. That wasn't my intention. I think Scobleizer has a serious career decision to make: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin...
- Bruce Lewis
The problem i see is that social network cloud applications seem to live in peoples heads rent free.
- Cjay
It would be so great if something like this were ubiquitous. I'm so sick of comments on N different sites (facebook, friendfeed, personal blog, twitter, etc.)
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
I've followed the MyLifeBits project for years and I'm currently reading Total Recall (Bell's new book), so I'm psyched to finally start wearing one of these. I also have my fitbit on the way.
- Ben Reierson
I want it for artistic reasons. I wouldn't publish everything, I'd scan through it for the best bits. It would be like having my own personal Google Street View.
- Kamilah Gill
@Kamilah I don't actually have one, I'm just saying I'm happy someone's making it a retail product.
- Ben Reierson
@m9m the idea is that the sensecam takes pictures of all the moments that aren't interesting at the time, but can turn out to be important later. Would it be nice to have a picture of the first time you saw your best friend or spouse, or just to locate the last time you had your keys?
- Ben Reierson
I would be selective about when I'd wear it. I couldn't wear it to work when I'm around sensitive documents, of course, and I'd take it off while doing anything private. But otherwise, while driving, walking around, whatever, this would be awesome. You miss so many little things. This gets my artist gears whirling into overdrive.
- Kamilah Gill
1 pic every 30secs -> 2/min. -> 120/hour -> 960 in 8 hours = How do you sort through them all and find exactly what you want. I know there is a timeline you can use but what if you want to find the name a particular book that you looked at but you don't remember when you looked at it, never the less if it was from several days ago!
- Mark Layton
Maybe one day they'll put in some kind of word recognition thing to make it useful for that kind of fine-tuned note taking. As it is, I'd be happy with just being able to skim through the thumbnails to see whether any images for the day stand out.
- Kamilah Gill
@mark ideally you should not have to sort through them, that's basically the point of the mylifebits project. It's all about making software that processes all of your life's data in context and makes it available in a way that works as much like human memory as possible. So if you want to find that book, you might remember it was 2-5 days ago, somewhere in seattle but not at home or work, and the title might have had "Apple" in the title.
- Ben Reierson