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Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them - Fake user interfaces - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5418342...

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Boom - http://mokargas.soup.io/post...

November 29 from Mo's Stew - Comment - Like - Share

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That scared the CRAP out of me when I first saw it. Still scares me - Shevonne

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*ghoulish grin* - Mo Kargas

We weren't allowed to watch it when it first came out. I was okay that because even in 5th grade, I thought of it as propaganda. Finally I watched it in college for a class and it was...amusing. - Admiral Anika

Excellent yield, Mo. Excellent. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

WHERE'S YOUR MISSILE SHIELD NOW?! - Mo Kargas

To quote EPMD: What a way to go out, out like a sucka... - Adrian

Good lord, what is this from? - Derrick

This is what happens when you wear Ugg boots in public...don't say I didn't warn you - Mo Kargas

Documentary on the future of Los Angeles, I think (smuggled back through time by resistance fighters) - Adrian

LOL - Mo Kargas

ouch! - echostreamer

It's what happens when I drink milk before a flight. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Made me uneasy too when I watched it several years back. - Ron Bailey

you are right about the Ugg boots Mo - VAL D.

Mom wouldn't let me see it way back when, and I still haven't seen it. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

You can see it now you're all growed up! - Mo Kargas

If you've lived in Los Angeles, at least one of your thoughts in seeing this is, "THAT'd sure clear up the morning traffic! Can you imagine how cleared up the 405 would be?" - Ciaoenrico

"The Sara Connor Dream" → http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Marshall Im

hbomb ftw!1 - Onur Gündüz

Now imagine if you hadn't applied SPF 45. That will sting the next day.. - Micah Wittman

Sting, like 1 gigazillion irradiated hornets - Mo Kargas

I was going to say stings like a Police song that shouldn't be in hot rotation but is. - Micah Wittman

Yeah that works - Mo Kargas

I don't know what that wuz, but I don't want to see that again. - Martha

It's from a popular movie. - Mo Kargas

Now I want to watch Terminator 2 again... - Jemm

scary.. - ★ Soner Gönül

i find this sped-up GIF actually scarier than the scene in T2. seems more surreal and horrific when the kids drop to the ground like they've had their marionette strings cut. - Joe Silence is not dead

WHOA! - AJ Batac

I had a dream like this the other night... seriously. - Jim Hearts FF

Ah. James Cameron. What a guy. - Jeremy (cropmarks)

I agree. Marionette kids plopping to the ground, spooky. GREAT scene. Way more fun sped up. - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I've had recurrent nightmares about this scene. What really creeps me out is that it's STILL a possibility, with or without Skynet. - Victor Ganata

What's weird is I am watching this gif animation while listening to Angels We Have Heard On High by Mannheim Steamroller. Gave it a whole new WTF meaning. - Danny Minick

@Danny I like that combination - Mo Kargas

Hmm, looks like 2012 : ) - Asım Taş

It's from The Day After. - Admiral Anika

I think it's actually from T2, isn't it? - Bren, Not Grinchy from iPhone

Don't forget to Duck & Cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch... "It may knock you down hard and break windows all over town." Thank God I got the "happy turtle" version of this when I was a kid. :P - Ken Morley

It's Sarah Connors dream from T2. Marshall Im posted the video further up this thread - Mo Kargas

mayalar bizi uyardıydı :D - mstfygc

That's pretty sick - Fulaan, inna Hebel

No fate but what we make - Morgan Haley

And I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. Then the kings of the... more... - James Artre

:( - راه من راه سبز امید است

Ah, ok, I thought it was from The Day After, which I wasn't allowed to see. I saw T2, I'm sure. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

great energy... i d like to die that fast, painless; shortest way to death. haha - Ümit Orhan

@Ümit I wouldn't say painless or short. Ask the Japanese after WWII - Mo Kargas

I was allowed to see the Day After and that looked as if that screen capture came from that movie too, although a bit more "reddish" looking. I thought that movie was damn depressing. - Helen Sventitsky

@Mo: it seems extremely fast. but you might be right, i am not sure and i havent asked this question to the japanese. - Ümit Orhan

Very enlightening to talk to people who's parents or grandparents actually suffered a real nuclear attack - Mo Kargas

If you're close enough to ground zero, it should be pretty quick and painless. But if you don't get instantly vaporized by the explosion, you get to die from burns, the brute force of the shock wave (which, if you're lucky, will snap your neck or cause you to impact against something solid), or radiation poisoning, which has got to be one of the slowest, most excruciating ways to die. - Victor Ganata

i live close enuff for the quick & painless, :( - chaz2b

badda beeg boom! - Joe Pierce

thanks @Victor @Mo; it is also enlightening to talk with you. - Ümit Orhan

Victor cheered me right up, yo - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Louis Gray

I TCP/IP but mostly IP

October 9, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks to Ana and the FriendFeed team for the baby tech gear! - Louis Gray from email

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haha Brilliant BRILLIANT! - Zee.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha - Mona Nomura

awesome - Yolanda

How can you not Likey this? - Charlie Anzman

Awesome! Got one in an Adult XL? - Anthony K. Valley ©

:D Adorable - Mo Kargas

beautiful baby - johnpiercy

We've taken to calling Matthew "Bubba". This outfit, though still a bit roomy, is a 6-month outfit. He's just past three months. Hog. - Louis Gray

totally freakin love it - Dustin Harris

Get the outfit here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts... - Louis Gray

Best post title today. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

It's when you check for "packet loss" that there's an issue. - Chris Brogan

"Technology doesn't solve everything - humans do!" ;-) - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Yeah, heart feels like it's smiling. - michael sean wright

THAT IS FUNNY!! very cute indeed! IP ...ha, ha!!! - Susan Beebe

Thanks for that - I needed a laugh this morning :-) - Tim Chemacki

I am still giggling about this. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Hehehehehehe. - Roberto Bonini

FFundercats moment of win tonight :-) - mandyvan

I LOVE this. - Mona Nomura

Oh holy crap. FFundercats hoooooooooooo! - Akiva Moskovitz

LOVE - Johnny Worthington

I tried to re-LIKE this. :-D - Lisa L. Seifert

can we talk about a hand me down program for these shirts for me in a few months? :D - sean percival

TCP/IP. What's THAT? *non-tech type here* - Derrick

The source. I bow. - Josh Haley

Derrick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Rochelle

What? This one is back? :-) Here is an UPDATE: http://www.thegrayeffect.com/2008... - Louis Gray

This was raised from the dead in order to have you accidentally participate in the FFundercats Moment of WIN... - xero

Tonight's ffundercat podcast "moment of win" - Michael W. May from twhirl

Louis, do you listen to our podcast? - Josh Haley

bad louis --retroactively - Amber, Random Time Lord

:) - Josh Haley

I have seen this in person - Jesse Stay

the "technology generation" :) lovely baby! - HollyHobby

imabonehead to imabonehead's feed, Appetite

IEEE Spectrum: We Come to Bury IE6 - http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom...

September 29 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"While sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Digg inch closer to dropping support for IE6 and Microsoft itself urges customers to upgrade, a coalition of Web sites organized under the moniker IE6 No More has already decided not to waste any more effort on the ancient browser: "As any web developer will tell you, working with IE6 is one of the most difficult and frustrating things they have to deal with on a daily basis, taking up a disproportionate amount of their time. Beyond that, IE6's support for modern web standards is very lacking…." Or as IEEE Spectrum Twitter follower The GT put it: "Loathe IE6 with a passion. As a web developer, too much time & $ wasted on IE6 hacks & security precautions. Bad for Web 2.0."" - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

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*readies the shovel with intense enthusiasm* - Mo Kargas

die, IE6, die! - imabonehead

Requiescat In Pax - FFrancesco

IE6 occupies the brains and minds of web developers by generating them nightmares of support. But there simply is no chance that IE6 is going to go away anytime soon. Because many corporates in America are still using it for their intranet browsing. - TrafficBug

Social Media: Jansen Lu

Ping.fm vs HelloTxt. Which one do you prefer. And Why?

August 6, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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I haven't used HelloTxt, but from first impressions of the webpage it doesn't look quite as nuanced as ping.fm - seems more about status updates only. Ping.fm allows blog and microblog posting as well and I like the flexibility. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with doing one thing well. - David Young

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HelloTxt. It has more services, also from other countries. - Baard @ Pixum

http://weblog.techdad.net/2008... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I like hello.txt because I could actually log into it without getting a beta invite. For me, they have first mover status. :P - Justin Whitaker

Good point Justin, but Ping.fm invite codes are so freely available these days, I don't even know why they're still required - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

HelloTxt - because it has an SMS gateway. - Alja Sulcic

Ping.fm - The triggers are very useful - Bwana ☠

Sounds pretty even right now. Someone should post a feature comparison grid! - Glenn Batuyong

Hello.txt with SMS gateway; while Ping.fm with IM support. Hello.txt is two way (at least on the web interface); while Ping.fm could only send messages, not receiving. - Jansen Lu

I'm trying to get SMS working at hellotxt, but it rejects saying that I'm not sending to a "vaild 10 digit code" - ideas anyone? - Steve Isaacs

Thanks for the updates, everyone. Does either service work well with Blackberry? - Ryne Nelson

would anyone use Hellotxt as a two-way communication tool? or just treating it as a message broadcaster? - Jansen Lu

HelloTxt: nicer interface and more services supported, though I tend to use both 'cos I'm a nerd ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol my Ping.fm's interface is very clean and neat, 'coz it's only the gtalk conversation windows :P - Jansen Lu

I'm leaning toward TelloText though I haven't really given Ping.fm a fair shot. - Kimberly J

I use Ping.fm and I like it better because they keep adding great new innovative features. And you can use it with many different applications like Twirl, Spaz, etc. - Guitarguy234

Ok, so what is the term for FriendFeed Post Necromancy? Because this is the poster child for it. - Justin Whitaker

Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Funny Pics and Videos, Funny Funny

LAUGH OUT LOUD! Woman accidentally uses Facebook status updater, instead of messaging system, to thank a man for the incredible sex they recently had! HAHAHA! CLICK IMAGE TO READ

August 22 - Comment - Like - Share

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DOH! - Brad Williamson

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Fake ? - DarkBls

You wish. People are actually stupid like that. - Giulia B.

Oh come on, Dark... don't be THAT guy ;-) - Brad Williamson

The love cave between my legs....OMG .....Roflmao - Jeunelle Foster

oops:) - Daryl Hunt on FF

This is way too funny. - Vaughn from BuddyFeed

Ouch! - Rene Wirtz

ROFL!!! Someone look these people up on FB and see if they're real... - rowlikeagirl

I like Jeff's comment: "Nice" - Wayne Smallman

@rowlikeagirl: http://friendfeed.com/the-nex... - Jemm

So it says her status is "Engaged". Still true? - CAJ, somewhere else

probably hacked as her sister said - Cihan Cepni

Funny, yet tragic. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Sometimes it pays to read the directions..funny but I'm embarrassed for her. - Scratch5150

I still can't stop laughing. It is sweet in many ways and it is a private and intimate exchange but come on! Next time I might suggest some more discretion ! lol - Kevin J Hatton

its very funny and stupid:)) - Mycaptain

ahahahaha her status now is "it's complicated" :)) - Roberto

Actually this one is rather funny too http://thenextweb.com/wp-cont... - Jeunelle Foster

status might be: "no more cave". - Mycaptain

Michael has won lots of new followers after this... - Alexandre Gamela from twhirl

Roflmao yeah right - Jeunelle Foster

Juenelle: that was scary funny:) - Mycaptain

@Mycaptain....I just hope that this doesn't go into copyright infringement but it is scary fun, I doubt it's true. - Jeunelle Foster

It is a fake - Roldano De Persio of FF

Yeah, an exploit in one of FB dating applications was used by 4chan to bring some 'entertainment' to Facebook... http://www.reddit.com/r... - Marcos

this is a good reason to make high attention when we choose web services that can access to our FB password (specially a dating application) - Roberto

puaauahaa - Melis(CherryBlossomGirl)

Ah. The "love cave" bit did seem a bit much. Not cool, 4chan. I wonder if potential employers can appreciate the subtlety of a situation like this? Tracy didn't write this, yet it has her name and picture on it. Can Facebook remove all traces of a hacked account like this one and then set a person up with a fresh one? (I doubt it.) - Kamilah Gill

Ah, 4chan. - j1m

:o, burn - chaz2b

Another reason NOT to be on FB. - Joe

Times like these, I'm glad I'm not on Facebook, though Twitter has its own problems. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

...you had me at "mounted." yeah, real people talk about f**king like that... in the 1950s! .LOLz! - .LAG liked that

And this is why I don't have FB - WarLord

You can have FB without making a fool of yourself, actually. - Giulia B.

Yup. Hacked and they really went to town...not just Facebook. http://thenextweb.com/2009... - Zee.

She was hacked by 4Chan. Read this http://thecoffeedesk.com/news... - Chris Martin

"The unnamed Christian dating service I mentioned earlier had an exploit in the website that allowed the entire list of usernames and passwords for the site to be exposed." WTF? Uncool. - Andrew C

If you're responsible for a website in 2009 and you store plaintext passwords, you should not only be fired, but not allowed to touch a computer professionally for half a decade. - Andrew C

bcrypt, people, bcrypt - Jim Norris

Relationship status engaged hahahaha - Joe Dawson

hahahahahah - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Burada ilk defa böyle gülerek yorum yapmak istiyorum müsaadenizle.. muauhaauauahuahuaua - el burrito

Hacked account or not, this made my day. :-) - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

yazık yaa.. sağlam "hack"lemişler.. http://www.facebook.com/jesuslu... - Hürol Öztürk

oh my gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwd....LOL...I should feel pity, but I just can't .....XD - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

Its call disccretion lol lol - Rob Cairns

Wow the ultimate FB Poke eh? - Janet

I still think the picture is funny - in the sense of how NOT to use the update box. I'm torn a bit - because I feel that people should be responsible about passwords and what online services they use, so she holds some of the responsibility. But Scott's right. This was a 4chan hack-job, and should come down. Her privacy has been compromised - even if the image does still make me laugh. - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

Um... what's this "other pussy" she's referring to? #INOLONGERHAVESEXEVER!# - Mark Jepsen

Oh that is super sad and funny all the same time, whoops! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I dunnoI'm gonna un-like now that I hear that it was a hack I think personal details should be redacted or it should come down #justsayin - WarLord

++WarLord. - Kamilah Gill

Funny, saw this in Reddit yesterday. Now FriendFeed. Content always seems to start in Reddit lately. - Adam Singer

SOME content, Adam.... - Kamilah Gill

classic - Kevin Nunez

Why she posting our affair like that? -

People, read The previous comments. A Christian Dating site was hacked by some people in 4chan (you can actually download a file with their login and passwords). Many users use The same passwords in many services, that's why some Facebook profiles are now like The one in the picture. Facebook was not hacked. - Gianluca Neri from iPhone

This fake is supposed to be submitted to Digg and get a lot of Duggs. - Guilherme da Rosa

first hint it might be a fake... she commented on the status a minute before she posted it - Bastard Operator From FF

Kol Tregaskes

Lifestreaming 101: How to Put All Your Content in One Place with Google Reader - http://www.labnol.org/interne...

August 14 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Learn how Google Reader can help create a lifestream feed by merging multiple feeds into one. It’s easier than combining feeds in Yahoo Pipes." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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This sounds very interesting. - Kol Tregaskes

I'll set this up later today. - Kol Tregaskes

I don't know if my thinking on this is right. I wanted to post my FF items to a Blogger blog in order to save them in case they "go away." I thought there was some way I could do this automatically, but I can't figure out how. Second, I set up a posterous and put that in the reader. That works fine and I put my new, so far empty blog in the reader. I guess I just need to know how to get stuff onto my blog from FriendFeed. Any ideas? - Kimber Scott

Shame I cannot use my user-friendly URL, e.g.: http://www.google.com/reader... instead it's http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

One thing you cannot add to this is your GReader Shared Items. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

BTW, here's a long list of GReader users, why not add yourself here: http://ff.im/6mh5s - Kol Tregaskes

And then read these tips from Svartling here: http://ff.im/6mh5s (the main one being to add everyone to a group so they can see your shared items and are allowed to comment on them). - Kol Tregaskes

Done mine, see entry here: http://ff.im/6Ci0P - Kol Tregaskes

I've just added GReader Shared Items via a FF search. I couldn't think of a better way to do it. - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad this doesn't work with Google Reader for Mobiles : ( - Andrew Currie

:-( - Kol Tregaskes

I've created a lifestream bundle here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

Me too here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling

sounds like an easy way to create a "clipping" service for an intranet minus all the hassles and money - Glenn Batuyong

careful with that functionality: if you publish the link to such a tag/folder, and people go to that link's share page (the typical google reader share page) and choose "subscribe", they won't get 1 feed, they will get a new folder with all these feeds automatically subscribed. Not what I would have expected! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Yep, you can see the feeds by clicking on the + button at the top. - Kol Tregaskes

my bundle is here http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Hofmann

Thanks, Chris. - Kol Tregaskes

Zee.

"Hey we're taking a photo here.." (in NY accent) http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-sh...

August 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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That makes the picture much more memorable, though. :-) - Jason Huebel from iPhone

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Isn't that just typical!!!! - Kevin J Hatton

One in a million. I love it. - Adam Reyher from Alert Thingy

That's insanely lucky. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

seriously this is not photoshopped? oh this is too funny, it's like that annoying kid that always jumps in front of the camera. - R. Ferguson

LoL. This is a true once in a life time shot. - Bluesun 2600

the caption could be: "forget the other 2 ... animals back there, I'm the star here". ^_^ - lelapin

precious! - Tammy Hoeck

LOL! Adorable! - Kevin Winn

LOL I love it! - outofmyarse

Quelle jolie photo!! Très originale, j'adore;-) - Gate53

Fantastic! - Rick Cogley

Cool - Bob Lyr

uhuh, just excellent - TiTi

I think that must be the 'mini-wanker' the lake is named after. - Ken Morley

I love how the camera focuses on the squirrel rather than the people - Stephanie_Thankful

That is too funny for words. Leave it to animals to make something so cute. - Ray H

This shot is hilarious!! This is a totally gorgeous spot. been there once. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Begging to be captioned ~ http://img.ly/2tG :3 - CannonGod

That's one photogenic little critter. <3 - Sung W. Lim

haha @ Jake Fudge. spot on! - stefan

ROFL! - Kaan Ertürk

It's so cute! It almost doesn't look real. Loving it!!! - Jennifer Medlin

So awesome - Mitch

RUN - Caroline

http://www.demotivator.org/index... - Will Higgins™

love how its head lines up exactly with the horizon line. *So* much better than it would have been. - Kamilah Gill

Unbelievable. - Ramene Anthony

Canadian Squirel known to be very photogenic and also very friendly - johnpiercy

lovely :))) - گل باقالی

See more about this story in CBC news http://www.cbc.ca/video... - Carloe Stamp

I laugh ever time I see this. It is so great. - Jim Williams

^^)b - YungSang from FriendFooV2

Reporting Live from Lake Whutzthafukit this is Rocket J Squirrel - Scratch5150

lol ( in NY accent :) ) - pinkpackrat

Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/ - Miss Elle

excelent - Rui

...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait. - .LAG liked that

+.LAG - Kamilah Gill

haha cute....family picture? lol just kidding =] - Marissa

What family doesn't have a bit of squirreliness? (Squirrellyness?) - Mark Jepsen

funny the same guy got into one of my WaterFalls shots ,, imagine that http://www.flickr.com/photos... - johnpiercy

Steven Perez to Steven's feed, Bitchfest, US Politics

Dear wingnut relatives: Thanks, but I DID read the bill. AND THERE ARE NO "DEATH PANELS" ANYWHERE IN THEM. Nor are there any other of those crazy things Rush told you about. But please, feel free to festoon my e-mail with your banalities. I can't wait to "discuss" them with you at the next family reunion. Regards, Me.

August 15 - Comment - Like - Share

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oh hell, i do feel your pain on this one. i try to not talk with that part of my family. - Joe Silence is not dead

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It's hard isn't it, if you find your family members are not all *that* clued in. - Rene Wirtz

I took care of these emails by replying with a Hammer and sickle images saying how I thought the world was too open still and I would be reporting them at my next meeting. The emails soon stopped. - CW™

Omigawd - thank you for speaking out for me! I've taken to mass-deleting email fwds daily! - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

well said. for all the insane comments i hear, i feel like asking them "can you show me where in the bill that particular item is?" and watch their blank stare... - Glenn Batuyong

*taking notes for next tactical maneuvering with otherwise beloved family members* Thanks Glenn! ;) - ProsePetals (aka Denise)

just wait for that part of the family to die off due to lack of healthcare. - Steve C

Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Funny Pics and Videos, Funny Funny, RWW: The Future of Tech, Crazy Gadgets, ad gallery

YouTube - Guy Catches Laptop With His Butt - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

August 13 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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This is easily the best video you'll see today. - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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o_O - Glen Mistletoe

I'm going to bump this until everyone on FriendFeed has seen it. - Brad Williamson

It's obviously fake. Homoerotic, for sure! ;) - Kittyburgers

Totally real. - Brad Williamson

You'd think I'd like this. You would be wrong. - Derrick

Don't you think that would hurt after a while? - Janice

So, any bets on whether the laptop bootys up after all that? - John Craft

http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... - Kittyburgers

@Franc The bowels of that dude's ass cavity. - Brad Williamson

Why... - Kamilah Gill

Photoshopped - Zax Stevens

@Brad: no wonder why he's sore right after. ^^ - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Wow! So funny! - Halo Wars

to 's feed, Appetite

DaisyDisk - Disk Visualization Tool #Mac - http://www.daisydiskapp.com/#

August 14 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"With DaisyDisk you can free up disk space by quickly finding and deleting big, useless files. The program scans any mounted disk and displays it on the sunburst map, where segments mean files and folders, proportionally to their sizes. The map is easy to read and navigate. You can also quickly preview any file and reveal it in Finder to delete." - from Bookmarklet

clean interface. there may not be as many developers for the mac as other platforms but at least existing ones really put some polish and thought into the user experience - Glenn Batuyong

Dave Winer

"we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." http://www.scripting.com/stories...

August 11 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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yes!:) - K.D.

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A crowdsourced company. Don't we call that the government? ;) - Sean Powell

Dave... we have been considering this idea for a number of years, but I think that pulling it together requires more than a geek-army or an open-source collaborative ethos. 'Open' is a mind-set, not a movement... and great egalitarian strategies are possibly best not to be collectively authored, or you can find yourself in the middle of a mega-committee. Its a conundrum... But we are happy to share insights. - Simon Edhouse

Dave/Simon: someone will do it. Why not get started now? - Jason Cronkhite

Totally agree... the core idea that Dave is putting forward has been my 24/7 passion since 2006... and maybe Twitter & Friendfeed (RIP) are going to prove to be catalytic forces for this idea. Certainly Dave is a lot more accessible nowdays... ;) - Simon Edhouse

Simon, maybe with Dave's help we can form a community trust and put the thing together. :-) - Jason Cronkhite

Simon it would not be like that. I'll write a follow-up post. - Dave Winer

I would like to understand the financial vehicles to do this. Simon, I also agree that there has to be a structure that allows for users interests to be aligned with business growth for their benefit and the founders. Too often what happens when investors step in for pure financial return is the goal becomes focused on how to turn the company, "the exit", and not on building a sustainable company to enrich lives of the user base. - Jason Cronkhite

well... to quote Robert Burns, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray"... Firstly I totally agree with Dave's other post (i.e. "Rex, you're making it too complicated..") where he outlines the structure of the Public Company... no problem there. I have reasoned out the same model some time ago. - I see it like a series of check-boxes that have to be ticked... and probably... more... - Simon Edhouse

Understand & agree for the most part. RE: BIG IDEA, don't know if it really has to be earth moving all the time but rather something that enough users can stand to benefit from both of using the product and financially. Simon, how about publishing your checklist and trying to get a following around the movement? - Jason Cronkhite

The BIG IDEA is crucial... once you see it, you can't stop thinking about it, and that's what is needed to get massive buy-in. - "get a following around a movement" No... I can't drum that up. I am too small a fish, and not living in a VC hotspot. Dave's the man, if he can control his notorious crankiness (we love you Dave)... However, yes, I can add-value, but who am I? Dave has started to pull together this particular cosmic dust cloud. Let's see if he can truly lead it. - Simon Edhouse

The crowdcorp concept is the way to go, now how do we make it happen? It is tough to manage efficiently the requirements of a community - Alberto Saavedra from Nambu

RE: BIG IDEA, maybe so - maybe not...remains to be seen. RE: you're not the one, it takes powers of 2, lots of passion, determination and as Seth Godin would say a Tribe. Sure, Dave may be one to press the issue forward but this notion requires an ARMY. Dave, maybe you can enlist Scoble and the Building43 community to push this effort. - Jason Cronkhite

[edit] ...There are those on the web that are captivated by their own notoriety, as if being involved in social-networks is a popularity contest. - It isn't. If this project idea falls into the hands of the 'lime-light-seekers', who seem to have short attention cycles, it will rapidly go off-course. (that's my own personal view) - Simon Edhouse

Ah, Simon. I understand you but, this is where the Power of 2 comes in so handy (you need both - the Edhouse's & Scoble's). Keeping people on course and captivated require different talents. Maybe Scoble & Winer are perfect balances. Maybe it's others but more importantly, you need all shapes, colors and credes to do something like this and the power of collective intelligence and influence. - Jason Cronkhite

LOL... maybe we need a Jason Cronkhite too - Simon Edhouse

Its a jigsaw puzzle... but, like those super tricky huge jigsaw puzzle's, to complete it, someone needs to have the picture that encapsulates the final vision. - Simon Edhouse

Agreed Simon! I'm willing to help. - Jason Cronkhite

OK... next we need a money person... who gets it. Someone who can resource this... Its not going to go anywhere much till that person steps up. - Simon Edhouse

They are around. I forwarded a pointer to my piece today with a guy I'm working with on another project. - Dave Winer

Cool Dave. Let's keep the conversation going. I would love to see this happen. - Jason Cronkhite

I have detailed Info-memorandum type docs, and have sent overviews to John Nesheim (http://www.nesheimgroup.com/) who has given the core-ideas his thumbs-up, and offered to introduce me to VCs etc... John is a great guy, very smart and accessible. We had a long Skype chat a while ago... he gets it. - Simon Edhouse

Fantastic Simon! Are VC's really what's needed 1st? - Jason Cronkhite

VCs are probably exactly not what's needed as they (generally) are always thinking of their exit, and being risk-averse by nature they tend to look for 'me-too' plays... (projects that have successful precedents in the marketplace) ... No, an Angel Investor is what's needed. But there still has to be a killer Business Model as money people are always in the business of making more... more... - Simon Edhouse

Not to get ahead of ourselves but, even before an Angel don't we just need a passionate following of people (users of products/services they may want to own)? - Jason Cronkhite

It seems to me what is needed is a platform to evangelize the concept, get people behind the cause. Of course, a financial plan as to how users might contribute to show tangible interest would help in gaining validation and traction for larger investor types. - Jason Cronkhite

well... I instinctively take a different view on that. Not to say you are wrong, I am just really aware of the 'politics' of collaboration, the realities of project 'execution', and the realities and importance of I.P. protection for investors, even if it may become a public company (which by the way is a VERY expensive process to go through and carries with it a raft of responsibilites... more... - Simon Edhouse

point well taken simon, agreed. so, let's see if dave wants to help assemble the core group, open discussion, have a meeting of the minds in-person and push things forward. - Jason Cronkhite

Just opened a private group, "User Ventures" and sent you an invite, Simon/Dave. - Jason Cronkhite

"Jason assembled a great group of heroes, known as the Argonauts after their ship, the Argo. The group of heroes included the Boreads (sons of Boreas, the North Wind) who could fly, Heracles, Philoctetes, Peleus, Telamon, Orpheus, Castor and Pollux, Atalanta, and Euphemus." http://bit.ly/9LTx9 - Simon Edhouse

Very Cool! :-) - Jason Cronkhite

Then we all can start IPO's afterwards :) and sell our life-streams to google. - Chirag Chamoli

Simon, Argo User Ventures is assembled as a group awaiting the rest of the Argonauts :-) - Jason Cronkhite

LOL at the irony of opening a private group for this. - Nick Lothian

Nick, do you plan to contribute? - Jason Cronkhite

Nick, I have no qualms of opening up the group after those who plan to contribute help to establish a framework for the group. Foundations must be part of anything new even user centric organizations. So, if being an active contributor to help users suits you the group needs you and any other user advocate for that matter. - Jason Cronkhite

This company crowdsourced their funding: http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009... - Ray Cromwell

Another axis to think about is whether a particular idea even needs to be owned by a single entity, public, or otherwise. Chances are, if you're inventing another communication protocol/network to piggy back on the internet/web and ship data around, it isn't always necessary to have a single point of failure. Rather, you're taking a fault-tolerant network protocol (TCP/IP) and layering... more... - Ray Cromwell

Ray, just reached out to Charles Armstrong of Trampoline. - Jason Cronkhite

Interesting points Ray, and yes, the technology idea you outline is in accord with some of the ideas we have been building on... but inventing another open protocol does not necessarily a profitable people's Company make. - and Nick, as regards the irony of a private discussion... Sometimes you have to be smart... and being 'smart' is also about being prudent and careful., - Simon Edhouse

I agree, but some things are commodities/public goods and not really something that should be walled off just to try and extract profits. (Which I'm not against, I just think there are plenty of other things to make profits on than setting up more toll bridges) Would RSS have taken off if a single company owned it and all feeds had to be hosted through their domain? Maybe, but I think we'd all be worse off than the current situation. - Ray Cromwell

Yes... I agree, and this is a very interesting area. - Probably the only way I can get us out of this log-jam is to go deeper and state that I am interested in two key symbiotic projects. One being an open platform, and the other being a separate (and at arms length) vehicle to redefine the way commercial contacts between buyer and seller, or advertiser/vendor and viewer/client are conducted. - Simon Edhouse

Simon: you are a jerk if you think I do this to "seek the limelight." I shared OTHER PEOPLE'S posts here more than 21,000 times. That is called sharing. I travel the world and point my camera at OTHER PEOPLE. Building communities is hard work and the fact that you have started this project by being an asshole does not bode well for its future. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I went and looked and Simon never even participated here. Two likes. What a jerk. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Now you're talking Dave. Let's get a publicly owned social media provider. But how? - Mark Essel

Without question I'd like to see something like what Jason and Simon are discussing. I can't help but write about it on a regular basis. Robert I can imagine some who don't follow you regularly may not be familiar with your sharing, constant video/blogging and social media dedication. They could perceive your ubiquity (at least within certain circles) as being a glory hound. I see otherwise. You get it man and we all benefit from your work. - Mark Essel

Mark: I agree, but I won't help a guy who questions my integrity and is a jerk. Maybe if he apologizes. Plus he's already proven he doesn't participate so WTF does he know about building a community? Geesh. - Robert Scoble

If I may... this is a fantastic political opportunity for all of us (bystanders like myself, geeks and users). I can hardly follow half the things you write (although I google most of it), but I watch the process as an experiment on "Open" Democracy through Open Source. My best wishes on its success no matter who partakes. If there is anything a civilian can contribute, please don't hesitate to ... well poke. :-)) - constantinos alexacos

Robert: I'm looking more towards Brian Hendrickson & Dave if this concept is to move forward. I bumped into Brian quite randomly while chatting about open social media, and have been banging my head on some web programming that Brian is sharp enough to explain in a feasible way in short order. If an open crowd funded business is going to develop it'll be on the backs of developers. I hope I get to help out with the movement. - Mark Essel

No, the IPO comes first, before anything else. - Dave Winer

So public buy in before anything to buy into? Seems like tricky timing, but I see the point of that order. Get public ownership and direction driving the business forward from square 1. The IPO legal requirements are pretty involved, can they be met without a business structure? - Mark Essel

Read up on public shell companies. http://www.google.com/search... - Dave Winer

Thanks will do. Jeez this sounds fantastic: http://www.businessfinance.com/public-... The wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Mark Essel

Just to add my two cents: I am a relative small fry here in this big community and have been fortunate enough to have participated in interesting discussions with both Scoble and Dave. Both have found the time (at least to some degree) to engage with me and I have since wondered how they do it (or at least how much time it takes). - Sean Powell

(Part 2) It seems based on these comments that something like this will need EVERYONE to actually be successful. With the advent of these technologies - friendfeed and (dare I say it) twitter - we now how the ability to truly get everyone involved and weigh in on decisions. That is the key here. Then we can help settle questions like: "Who decides where we go? What we do? Who's involved?" That last question should not even be considered. imho - Sean Powell

Gee, calling people "jerks" and "assholes" is just too easy in this kind of forum isn't it? But you know Robert, I did not say that you had no integrity. What I was saying was that, if something like this were to develop in an integral fashion, as in [def:] "...necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental", then its not about obtaining mass publicity first off... which... more... - Simon Edhouse

Simon, you wrote, and I quote "Pleeeeeese.... not Scoble. - Its gonna take buckets of wisdom, and patience and dare I say it, integrity." - Robert Scoble

Dave, the idea of: "...the IPO comes first" baffles me. - IPOs are very expensive, and would only seem to raise the level of risk. - What is the reason that you take that position? - I think great companies are built on great ideas, and without the solid foundation of a 'great idea', I (and other's) would sense that its an ideologically driven foray... Foundations are important. - Simon Edhouse

That, to, me, says you were saying that I didn't have any integrity. - Robert Scoble

Simon: but your last statement is better. I still think your first statement was pretty damn rude, though, and when someone calls you on your rudeness, your first answer should be "I'm sorry." - Robert Scoble

That's what my community website network is all about. See http://Frederick.com for an example. The site is owned by the community. - Craig Shipp

IPO? The IPO market doors have been shut for sometime. Thanks for the chuckle. - cheapsuits

yep... I'm sorry if that offended you, really. Loose words... I don't know you, and you don't know me. Over a coffee, we would probably have a chuckle and find quite a bit of common ground. Please accept my apology. It was an off the cuff remark, poorly executed. - Simon Edhouse

Robert... gee I should have looked at your pic before insulting you! - Lucky I'm on the other side of the planet. ;) (I'm an Aussie, from English stock... fairly reserved, and nowhere near the buzzy west coast of the US. - so on quite a different frequency) - Simon Edhouse

Apology accepted, now we can move on. Thanks! - Robert Scoble

Ok... The trigger for this discussion was Dave's clarion call: ""we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." ~ Its a meme that obviously resonates with many. There's been a shift to user-control, and libertarianism rolling forward for years on the web... and the implied friction-point (which is very real) is the tension between the Web... more... - Simon Edhouse

agreed. - Thomas Hawk

Simon / Robert: Glad you guys made up :-) ... Simon, I am interested in your points of view and think there is a lot of merit to the visioning process with great leadership. I think Robert is one of the best evangelists for technology there is and letting the Scobleizer do what he does best has a time and place and I think Robert knows this and I'm sure he can move forward once there is... more... - Jason Cronkhite

Forgive me if I don't understand, but isn't the purpose of a company to make profits? Why not create a foundation akin to Mozilla or Apache instead? The closest service-oriented foundations I can think of are Wikipedia and Archive.org. It becomes interesting to me if we're talking about a services-oriented organization that provides end-user services built on top of existing and future... more... - Ankush Narula from iPhone

Ankush, I think the differentiation is that users contribution to these companies are not being rewarded. Why can the users as well as founders not be rewarded when they are essentially building the value of the company together. Companies cannot become valuable without customers so, they need each other and if users/customer bring up the valuation of the company why not have the... more... - Jason Cronkhite

But what's the end goal? Rewards or integrity? You have to find a balance in any for-profit venture. However, non-profits are driven largely by vision and integrity (ideally speaking). So let me ask some more questions. If you're laying down your money as a user+investor, won't your interests change from time to time? If you actually take a company like this public who controls the... more... - Ankush Narula

Brian... Wikipedia is a pretty good example of a company that operates for its users and is almost totally dependent on its users. However, it has no real business model, but retains a hugely valid place in most of our lives. - There is however an answer to the current dilemma/stalemate that folks here have been yearning for, and it is perfect and simple. In a nut-shell I would call it:... more... - Simon Edhouse

...and now its 4.00am down under, and I have to hit the sack... G'night fellow travellers. - Simon Edhouse

Simon... if we're talking alternatives to client-server the only one that I can think of is true distributed peer-to-peer. So perhaps a collective of such companies working together under an umbrella would be very effective since we would see many various incarnations of user+investor style companies. Interesting... - Ankush Narula

My only concern there, and its a well researched concern, is about secuity of the core protocol. there's a huge amount that can be 'open' on top, but the base transport protocol, sitting on TCP/IP needs to be super-tight, and solid. best kept as a trade secret, inside an ultimately publicy owned Company, that has rules to prevent corporations ever owning more than 10% of the stock. If... more... - Simon Edhouse

Update, I contacted Charles Armstrong, CEO of Trampoline last night and he's interested to join and learn more about this. He may be popping in soon. - Jason Cronkhite

Simon... Check out this presentation on wuala's architecture if/when you have time: http://www.wuala.com/en... - Ankush Narula

Dave ---- If I may comment about your original post sorry!), I found the post pretty inspiring. I advise on social media for an agency (no flames, please) and one of the things I talk about is "sensible" and "realistic" ROI. What I mean is very clear: we're not going to use bullshit metrics like "awareness" or "impressions" to measure whether or not our work had an effect on the brand.... more... - Michael E. Rubin

Ankush... had a quick look, but immediately I see a big discord with what I've been thinking/planning. i.e. "You can upload any file of any size"... that is a continuation of the situation that has got P2P systems into so much trouble, and stigmatized the technolgy. Its great in one sense, but it invites Piracy, copyright theft etc etc. P2P is THE logical system for the internet, (its... more... - Simon Edhouse

Public shell looks like a good alternative, is it too early to bring VRM ideas to the promised land scenario? - Alberto Saavedra

gee, don't get me started on VRM... nice philosophy, but very naive. (uh oh, 4.24am... damn) Bye... - Simon Edhouse

The users owning it - it's the Open Source model! - Marcos Marado from fftogo

Update after hearing back from a finance friend and reading some more on public shells, they have an history of association of use by folks who abuse the system and they are hidden liabilities (I'm still in the dark on those liabilities). - Mark Essel

We touched on 'GOOG' & 'Business Models' yesterday... my observation about the prevailing status quo paradigm for web-advertising is summarised here: http://friendfeed.com/simoned... - Simon Edhouse

hmmm... ok, if the concept of "Web Advertising" elicits such a nonplussed reaction, reflect on this: Contacts between vendor and buyer, and the drawing of these two parties together via promotion or request, is the basic process that 'Advertising' tries to achieve. However, as Danah Boyd highlighted in her December 2007 blog piece, (Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?),... more... - Simon Edhouse

exactly - sofarsoShawn

Louis Gray

The Friendfeedization Of Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...

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"As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users. It’s more about highlighting new content relevant to the user and fostering conversations about that content. And the result is that the Facebook home page looks an awful lot like the exponentially smaller activity stream aggregation service called Friendfeed." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

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there is ONE thing Facebook cannot replicate from Friendfeed. Speed of execution. FriendFeed will always be better and will always be one step ahead - Ouriel Ohayon

facebook who? - Fred Grott

That would be the site with 60m monthly visitors Fred. - Jamie

Coming from the other side, I’d like to see the Facebookization of Friendfeed (without sucking that is). FF is a great place for content and discussion, but not so much for community and social networking. - Hao Chen

Facebook's largely self-contained, immersive "social" and "fun" walled garden works especially well for interpersonal relations, and the upcoming facelift improves on those same principles. I'm impressed. That said, it's too heavyweight for active group conversations. FF has far and away the most effective implementation of group discussions, especially around "the rest of the web". It's great to have both FB and FF, each optimized around their use cases. - Amir Gharaat

The only thing I'm sure of is that Facebook will be unable to recommend the same 9 persons to add as friends to everyone - so hopefully we will still be able to choose exactly who we want to talk to. - Svetlana Gladkova

Friendfeed = open; facebook = closed; this would be an area i'd be happy to see facebook copy - Alex Gawley

Facebook is boring as hell. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas, LOL... I always crack up when I see, in any FB thread your "Facebook is boring". - Juan Pablo González

Friendfeed lays it all out as a stream of posts and comments. It's like reading a newspaper. Just my style. - david

Facebook has lost its mojo really fast, I winder if the same will happen to FriendFeed - João Almeida from twhirl

@Joao lost its mojo with who? The twittersphere? Facebook was doing just fine before and after they jumped on and off the bandwagon. According to FB, UUs and engagement are up every month. - Jamie

Almeida: yeah, Facebook is growing as fast as ever and tons of "normal people" swear by it. Just because us early-adopter-inside-the-techie-bubble are over here playing on FriendFeed, don't assume that everyone else is. 110 million are on Facebook, maybe more by now. When I went to Israel all I heard was "Facebook, Facebook, Facebook." Same with my niece and lots of others here in Silicon Valley. Also, its event calendar brings tons more people than others. - Robert Scoble

Communities are communities. - Andrew Feinberg

Typical conversation with Real World Friends: "So I saw this post on Friend Feed..." "What's that?" "It's this website where it aggregates everything you do on various social networks" "Social Networks? Like..." "Flickr, Twitter, Yelp..." (Blank Stares) "Websites like Facebook are social.." "OHHH FACEBOOK.. That's the best site ever. *blah blah blah" - George Smith

Alex Gawley: Seems that Facebook no longer will be closed. "This week facebook will also launch their Facebook Connect product, which is designed to let users get that data back out of Facebook." http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Alex Sauceda

but do you think the average FB user is going to use the "comment on news feed" feature? a quick scan of some of my heavy-user FB friends last week showed no comments on any news feed items, and then a couple days ago i noticed someone's status message was "I hate all these comment tags on facebook now"... - Trent Olson

LOL @ Friendfeedization - Bwana ☠

I love FF but all my non geeks friends and family are on Facebook. Seems that it works better for them. - Alex Sauceda

Keep in mind, that 18 months ago you could not have had this conversation with anyone who was not 1) in the SV echo chamber or 2) in college. Web services start small and some inflect to a larger community and some don't. - Christopher Sacca

My friends on FB go to Flickr for conversation. None of them are on FF. I add FF contacts in FB to view their bios. - Russellreno

Louis - Agreed but I think the reason is more that they're trying to do an even better job with targeted ads (to keep the price in check) ... ala GMail. I find my Facebook list growing from my activity on Friendfeed. Hmm - Charlie Anzman

Was the FriendFeed mini-feed on Facebook axed: no summary, just a note showing something was added? It's doing that for Feedheads too. Is this happening with others folks? - Blake N. Cooper

Jim: Thanks! Does that mean that my friends would need to change this on their end to see more than 1 line? I have a lot of my friends who will stick to the default (i.e. will be overwhelmed by process for changing) and most likely will not see the content of my Google Reader Shared Items and FriendFeed activity. Sucks if that's the case. Thanks again. - Blake N. Cooper

Jim: This is great, thanks! - Blake N. Cooper

Jim: Is that option retaining the setting - I have it set to one line, short and full, but the new items still seem to default to one line. - Richard Peat

Funny how one year later we are actually seeing the Facebookization of Friendfeed... - Jean-Marc Liotier

Appetite: Zee.

shall i/we just give up on tags guys? people just generally aren't bothering...feels more trouble than its worth at the moment

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That's a shame, really, tags are very useful. But if people don't tag you can't be sure about your searches. I would say warn them and delete their posts if they are not tagging but sounds like a medicine that's worse than the illness, doesn't it - Cristian Vidmar

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I say yes - Juan Pablo González

I think getting people to use consistent tags is like herding cats (or as Alex Scoble likes to make the distinction, herding FED cats): it's just not worth the energy because you can't get them to meet in the middle. - Lindsay

Herding fed cats or pushing a rope. Too bad. - Russellreno

Zee, what are the advantages of tags over no-tags for searching on FriendFeed? I thought you can find anything with FF's search? - Kol Tregaskes

Push the FF guys to install a real tagging/filtering system so people don't have to resort to #hacks. It's a feature desperately needed here. - Sprague D

yeah, just give up - Ozkan Altuner

It might be hard only because you may forget to add the tag -

I've been using them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

give up zee. It is a good idea, but people don't seem to do it :) - TheHenry

maybe if someone showed others on FF how/where to use them... I still have no idea what you guys are talking about... secret options? Hidden fields somewhere? I know what they are on other sites because they're obvious in the UI but here haven't seen them - Glenn Batuyong

No idea what you're talking about. - Dawn

dawn & glenn: for example, "adolfo, pls remember the #web #mac #iphone #blackberry #mobile tags - Zee." those hash signs [#] plus the "tag" itself to identify something. - edythe

I would not say give up. We needs tags badly for searching. Searching is difficult. even for something in your own feed. Reminders are good and we all need to set the examples. Zee, also a good example or two would help and I think it would catch fire. - Amani

Oh so you guys have been inserting pseudo twitter hashtags? That's all good but honestly I haven't noticed any FF posts with them at all. And where would they go? Title only? In first comment? FF doesn't currently parse them as links so they're pretty useless - Glenn Batuyong

Tagging would be a good idea if the FF UI gave you the option of choosing from a delicious.com style "popular tags" cloud or type your own - Glenn Batuyong

I just modified my behavior to remember to use them. Now you are thinking of doing away with them? - Seth Greenblatt from twhirl

It's too soon to tell Zee. You cant ask those to implement them and then do away with it days later. Give it time, some will catch on, some wont. No worries. - Colby Olson

Tags for what? - l0ckergn0me

Tags are great for any content creating/sharing community - however there needs to be a very clear and immediate motivation for individual members to create and use them. I don't see that happening without support from friendfeed. - Alexander Kohlhofer

Why are these #tags not mentioned in the guidelines? I think that would be a good place to start. Otherwise how are people to even know this is something you want? Personally, I prefer a different way of tagging things, and with more than searching in mind, prefixing the title in this style: [web] [mac] [iphone] [blackberry] [mobile]. My reason is that it sets it off better, visually and scanning down the page looking for what pertains to what you use, is much easier. (am I showing my p2p underwarez?) - April Russo (app103)

April i had them in the header of this page until i removed them this morning. I have given up on the tag idea, it's just too big a waste of my time chasing people up - Zee.

I think that, as long as people CLEARLY describe the link in a comment, it doesn't really matter. That seems to have taken on just fine, btw., people are selective that way ;) - Vincent van Wylick

Now that FriendFeed supports #tags.... ;-) - LouCypher

Lindsay, the fact that you used the distinction of fed cats vs cats is awesome! - Alex Scoble

Yes sir. KISS (Keep it Simple Stupid). - Vincent van Wylick

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, The Apple Room, TheNextWeb Forum

Why a Mac is really the only option. Can your PC do this? http://thenextweb.com/2009...

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watch it - bloody clever - Zee.

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rofl.. i guess my pc can't do THAT - Wang Yip

That's pretty sweet. - Christopher Harley

No but my PC's OS can "possess" any Mac in existence, while the OS X demon is limited to Apple hardware only (without exotic, difficult spells) #RPGhumor - LANjackal

hahaha, awesome.. My friends are tired of me telling why a mac is better.. I need to send it to them.. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

wow, just WOW! - Keith - @tsudo

It's an ad for the new "eletronic advice of receipt" service by La Poste (French national postal service). Send them your email, they'll print it, send it, charge you and email you back the UPU. - Jérôme Flipo

That was great. Amazing. Take that Michael Bay. - David Imielski

Euro RSCG made it. And this one (for La Poste too): http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Jérôme Flipo

No My PC can't do that - you happy? - Brent Smorgen Bleg

HA! Reminds me of the animated gif snail =) - Micah Wittman

No, but I don't want my PC to do that! - Morton Fox

Wow, reminds me of what happens to the money that you spend on a Mac. - Andy Bakun

No, but I wish my car could... though I don't think I want the 'gas' bill. - Grant Bierman

AWESOME :) RT'ed - Susan Beebe

Mine does that ;o) - Seth Greenblatt

Sigh. They started that with the original iBook. My lime green one is still up in the tree outside. - Glen Mistletoe

lol - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

Is the little guy we see the future of the eye-sight camera? :) - Joshua

fun - tomartomartini

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How to activate tethering on any iPhone without jailbreaking | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews - http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19...

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According to MacDailyNews these instructions work better. ----- by gointoscott June 16, 2009 9:01 PM PDT Well I tried this and low and behold it worked! You do not have to downgrade itunes. this is what you do: 1. You also need to download the carrier settings file listed above and save it somewhere ( I chose desktop) 2. then copy this: defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE 3. then open terminal on a mac that you sync itunes with. then paste the copied info into terminal and hit enter. 4. once you have this then you just sync your iphone, then after it says ok to disconnect, then hold options and click restore. 5. It will then ask you to chose what file to restore. search and go to where you saved the att carrier file it is called (att_us.ipcc) it will NOT be grayed out if you run that terminal command. If by chance it is grayed out, run the command again, then go to options restore and it will then be available to click on. 6. Chose the file and restore. It will... more... - Gerard Lagana from Bookmarklet

Has anyone discovered the PC hack yet? - Peter Ghosh

Thomas Hawk

The Flickr desktop uploader sits on your desktop for heftier uploading needs or offline photo management. Drag and drop single photos or videos, or select a whole folder. Even reorder how photos will be displayed in your photostream. - https://login.yahoo.com/config...

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Flickr released a new desktop bulk uploader yesterday. For people having recent problems with photos not uploading in order, double uploading, etc. You might want to try this latest version. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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they finally fixed that? thank GOD. - holly

Not sure if it's fixed or not, but it's probably worth downloading the new uploader and checking it out. - Thomas Hawk

Downloading as I type, thanks for the notice, Thomas. - Kol Tregaskes

crossing my fingers that it's fixed. I will download when I get home tonight and try. - holly

Oh, wonderful. I've been having a lot of problems with the last version. - joey

Thanks for the heads up. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Thanks. I've been having so many problems with the old uploader. - Nick Humphries

I have no idea if this fixes much by the way. I just saw that they updated the bulk uploader yesterday and posted it here because I'm hopeful that it addresses some of the problems that the old uploader seemed to be having. - Thomas Hawk

Are there any solutions that allow me to download my entire photostream so I can back it up? An anti-bulk uploader if you will. - Davis Freeberg

I use flump to download my flickr photos - http://lifehacker.com/400101... - Nick

Guess this will kill the 3rd party shareware utilities. - dthree

Nah, David, I don't think that this will kill the 3rd party apps. I don't know actually that this upgrade really is any big deal except that it may improve some of the specific sorting and double posting problems that the uploader's been having in more recent versions. - Thomas Hawk

nice. i was hoping the desktop uploader would get updated. the flickr upload in iPhoto needs some work (hello, PROGRESS BARS, anyone?!) - Glenn Batuyong

Does it work better? - RAPatton

hopefully. I suspect it will. I'm going to try it out with my afternoon/evening uploads in a few hours. - Thomas Hawk

worked fine this evening. - Thomas Hawk

I use the Lightroom plugin for exporting to Flickr. It eliminates an extra step in my workflow. - Sean Davis

I use the lightroom plugin as well. Seems to work quite well though some of the automation (ie. marking certain tags as private) doesn't seem to work. - CJPhoto

SDBloggers

Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny Character Customization Screens - http://www.siliconera.com/2009...

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Who’s The Next Female Rapper… - http://necolebitchie.com/2009...

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Matt Cutts

Today's webmaster video: Are CSS-based layouts better than tables for SEO? http://www.youtube.com/watch... (short answer: both work fine)

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Bwana ☠

iPhone Users Angry Over AT&T Upgrade Policy - http://apple.slashdot.org/story...

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Did anyone really expect they'd allow early upgrades to be the same as new lines? I'm under the impression the only reason pricing was different before was because the original iPhone was unsubsidized. IF I decide to upgrade, $399 isn't that bad... have to wait and see if 3GS-only apps start showing up on the App store. - Ryan Whitwam

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It really is normal practice... excitement is getting the best of people it seems - Bwana ☠

I respect TechCrunch's post on the topic however, AT&T needs to go above and beyond considering their other shortfalls - Bwana ☠

Ryan, I agree. It's stupid. This isn't anything new. AT&T's policy hasn't changed. It was always this way. They really did just give the original iPhone owners a break when the 3G came out, whether or not it was because the original wasn't subsidized doesn't matter, it was a one-time deal and this is how the process always was. And it's not even AT&T at this point. All carriers do this.... more... - John Wang

Keeping upgrade prices high keeps our old phones' value. That means I can still sell my old iPhone for the same price as I buy a new one. - Jesse Stay

Are you going to sell yours Jesse? - Amani

the policy is lame. i want a new iphone for 199. screw you att - Tyler Gillies

The Telcoms have been doing this for ages: offering sweet deals to attract new customers while not doing squat to show appreciation for long time loyal customers. Call, complain, and switch providers, or, grin & bear it! - Tony C

Amani, I'll probably start with my Wife's so that I can continue with a phone, and we'll sell mine after we get our first new iPhone with that money. - Jesse Stay

The pricing was expected, as this is the usual practice, but one can hope. - 321

But if you upgrade, they will extend your contract for an additional 2 years, correct? So how is the upgrade any different from the new customer wrt the subsidy? To me it just says they value pulling a customer from another vendor much more than they value the existing "loyal" customer. - John Rubier

john makes a good point - Tyler Gillies from email

Because they haven't made their (expected) money back on the subsidy offered on the previous phone. They don't extend the contract for two years, they just restart the two year commitment. - Rob Haas

Lindsay

Halfway through the video keynote about Google Wave (http://wave.google.com/) and completely floored with the possibilities. OMG this is going to be disruptive.

May 28 - Comment - Like - Share

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Disqus and Intense Debate will be pointless, blogging will be as simple as dropping a widget on a web page. Wikipedia would be easy to replicate with better accountability features... Wow, just Wow. - Lindsay

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I'm reserving judgment until I can get a hands on run through. - Mark Philpot

Have you watched the demo, Mark? - Lindsay

A handful of of the shorter clips... I still need to watch the entire preview. I can see applications for collaborative environments (Wikipedia might be a prime example). I'm just skeptical about reaching beyond that... but I'm happy to be shown otherwise. - Mark Philpot

I really like that they've made it an extendable and open source platform... That way it gives the freedom to expand way beyond what we've seen so far. - Mark Philpot

Wiki, collaborative document editing and versioning, IM, photo sharing, brilliant spell check, group blogging, news groups, even RSS feeds... they'll all be replaced. And you can make your own... so I could actually use it for collaboration at work within the firewall. Wow!!! - Lindsay

That last part I really do like. Having tried to use a wiki for collaboration at work, it really is severely limiting. - Mark Philpot

The possibilities for gaming are cool too... you could play "remote" board games with it. - Lindsay

Hmm, I was ignoring all the posts about Wave earlier today but now you've talked me into it. I'm watching the video. - Laura Norvig

Wow, so you can create a wave that will automatically monitor searches for you... For instance, set up a search for your company name on Twitter as a Twave and it will show updates whenever there's a new tweet. Awesome. - Lindsay

Sweet, they even have a bot for it that functions as a bug/issue tracker pointing right back into your task list in a wave! So cool! So much nicer than our bug tracker at work! - Lindsay

very exciting times in the tech area!! - imabonehead

Wow!! A real time language translation bot for IM! That is freaking amazing! - Lindsay

wondering what the implications / overlap is for Friendfeed. And it's open source! - James Beake

I see FriendFeed as more of a people discovery mechanism and this as more of an information sharing/collaboration/communication framework/protocol. It's about communicating with your existing contacts, not finding new contacts... - Lindsay

Ok.. I've gone through more of the demo video... It will be interesting to see how quickly adoption will come. (Mainstream adoption) - Mark Philpot

I wonder if it can be used as a software development/collaboration platform also. - imabonehead

I can definitely see myself "living" in this on a daily basis. So impressed. - Lindsay

@imabonehead - YES, you should see the part about the bug/issue tracker!! And the part about how they built all the different pieces of documentation around a project and then merged it all together to make the specs docs. - Lindsay

Man I want to beta test this! Maybe they'll be so amazed at my poetry skills (http://friendfeed.com/bluecoc...) that I'll get an invite. Yeah, fat chance, huh?? - Lindsay

I am having the hardest time being able to watch this video and it's one I really want to watch damn! - Steven Hodson

I had a hard time earlier today but seemed to be working fine 1.5 hours ago. ;) - Lindsay

grrrrrr :) - Steven Hodson

Realtime web: get used to it, because it's here and it's awesome. That's the real message, whether or not Wave takes off. They've shown so many amazing possibilities for realtime in that presentation that I am still floored. Realtime is obviously awesome on FriendFeed, but I wasn't sure if it had general application. Here's the evidence. - invariant - farewell FF

This should kill Live Meeting - Head Ov Metal

And because the protocol is documented, we'll be able to host waves on our own servers, no? At least we will once the open-source community gets cooking... - Eric Johnson

I totally agree with you Lindsay, this is awesome technology. For those who haven't watched the video, I say do it, it will be 80 very well spent minutes. - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

@Eric, yes, you'll be able to host your own wave servers. That is what will really make this awesome. It will be as ubiquitous as email is now, maybe even more so. And it's yet another step toward my prediction that OSes will be obsolete in about 3 years (I predicted that 2 years ago that that it wouldn't matter what OS you used in 5). - Lindsay

Kol Tregaskes

ShareThis.com Aims to Become A Big Data Platform in the Next Web - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

February 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Have you noticed those little links next to blog posts and news stories that say "Share This"? Click on that link and you get a pop-up with options to share an article on Delicious, Facebook, StumbleUpon or other services. Did you know that ShareThis.com has raised $21 million from venture capitalists for its version of that service?" - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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"If you think that's crazy - you're wrong. ShareThis is a great example of the kind of company that could become a key foundation for innovation in the next era of the web. If it doesn't sell out to advertisers too quickly or too completely. The company released a new version of its widget today and I took the opportunity to talk to CEO Tim Schigel about where the company is headed in the future." - Kol Tregaskes

I prefer http://www.shareaholic.com - Richard Lazzara

Richard, me too. I wished there was a bookmarklet for it though. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Richard, Kol - Jay from Shareaholic here :) thank you so much for your endorsement! please do shoot me a note at jay@shareaholic.com with your thoughts on the bookmarklet. - Jay Meattle

Jay, it's simply just get one sorted. :-) Seriously though I have the FFox plugin, all I'd be after is a bookmarklet version that matches this as much as possible so that I can use it in Google Chrome. - Kol Tregaskes

Jay, I'd say you guys need a bookmarklet too. I'm always telling people to use Shareaholic, but the response back most of the time is, "Oh, it's an add-on." I'm not quite sure why people want cluttered toolbars, but they do. Bonus is that using Shareaholic got 6 bookmarklets off my toolbar. - Admiral Anika

Got it. Look out for one soon-ish! please feel free to email me directly if you ever need help with shareaholic. - Jay Meattle

Cool! :-) That was easy, now what other features from other developers/services I'd like to see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I've been using Shareaholic for the last year, Diigo is the only service I use that it does not have. - M F

Good timing for me on the sharethis new widget. I'm looking into using it soon. - Alan Le

From my understanding, sharethis and shareaholic are similar but offer different functionalities. With shareaholic, end-users install a browser plug-in and share any site they're visiting. With sharethis, the site owner/blogger enables sharing on his content. If you, as a user, want to share something, you use shareaholic. If you're creating a website, you would use sharethis. Am I wrong? - Alan Le

Alan Le, ShareThis has an addon and bookmarklet and works just like Shareaholic. Yes I think ShareThis has those features. I don't think Shareaholic does and as you can see has no bookmarklet... well atm. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I prefer shareholic, it faster & easier, for some posts ShareThis has more choice , https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... - Richard Lazzara

Anika, I have several toolbars, I control them from VIEW and toolbars. - Richard Lazzara

Mohamed Salem Korayem

YouTube - Google Wave: Live collaborative editing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

May 28 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Google engineer David Wang explains how collalorative editing through concurrency control and operational transform work in Google Wave. - Mohamed Salem Korayem

Wow. - Meryn Stol

teh Dork Knight aka Kenny to teh's feed, Bitchfest, US Politics

Chill out about North Korea: if the past 8 years have taught us anything it's that the United States does not go to war with nations that possess weapons of mass destruction.

May 28 - Comment - Like - Share

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Maybe there needs to be a "Snarkfest" room instead... - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

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Or if we didn't learn anything, we take over North Korea and drive Kim Jong-il into his bunker. - Morton Fox

Seriously, though. Hostile nation + WMD + 1963 = Don't dare attack ever because that would be the worst decision anyone has ever made ever. Hostile nation + WMD + 2003 = OMG FIRE ZE MISSELS! - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

1963 isn't really a fair comparison. USSR vs USA = end of the world four times over. Here the worst case scenario is that North Korea gets a nuke off above Seoul and/or Tokyo. At which point we (or China) would wipe North Korea off the map. Terrible, yes, but there's nothing end of the world about it. - Eric P

Tactical nukes are more likely. Going strategic & wiping them out on that peninsula would mean putting a lot of Chinese population centers and the Russian Far East under a fallout scenario. - Adi

anna sauce

CA constitution needs to be rewritten.

May 26 - Comment - Like - Share

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Great Economist article on this last week. Prop 8 & our budget issues are both symptoms of the "masses" deciding everything - anna sauce

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Its going to happen and no one will like the changes made. - CW™

US constitution needs to be ammended. Ammend for civil rights not against. - Jason

"the ungovernable state" http://www.economist.com/world... - anna sauce

It's really amazing that considering how many times the state has literally halted for lack of agreement and lack of funds, no one has really seriously agitated for constitutional reform. Not after multiple 60+ day budget delays. Not after the passage by voters of all sorts of unconstitutional/anti-civil rights legislation, Prop 8 only being the latest. I wonder what sort of crisis will make it inevitable. - Victor Ganata

In the article, Victor, supposedly a constitutional revising committee is slated for next year, and we shoudl have one by 1012 - anna sauce

Yes, I see this as a setback, but I also see it as a constitutional issue w/ CA. Can any crappy group put a prop on the ballot? Yes. Can the entire state vote on it? Yes. Not a wise idea. - anna sauce

It's the kind of bad transparency we were always worried about. I don't want the central valley homophobes determining what I can do in SF. I saw them bashing people on the weekend, in the Castro. i don't need to know what they think of marriage. - anna sauce

The other axe to grind: 2/3rds vote on a budget. What? It hasn't worked for AGES. - anna sauce

Ahh, I see. Earth/USA/CA (not Earth/CA) - Micah Wittman

Not sure I know what you mean Micah - anna sauce

Earth/CAnada :) ~ CA has been the ISO country code for a long time, but the .ca top level domain name has made it an even more commonly used abbreviation. I follow Californian and Canadian news, so I didn't know what the reference was at first, that's all. - Micah Wittman

Ah, I see now! Thnx - anna sauce

Cris

I love how of the ten people holding gay = pervert kind of signs, nine of them are men. #deepdowntheyreprobablygay

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the funny part is, almost all of those arrested for "perverted" crimes were considered straight men - Glenn Batuyong

sofarsoShawn

Official Prop 8 Decision [PDF] ~ the reasoning behind the ruling http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/prop8de...

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The main arguments can be found pg 6ish: "6 In analyzing the constitutional challenges presently before us, we first explain that the provision added to the California Constitution by Proposition 8, when considered in light of the majority opinion in the Marriage Cases, supra, 43 Cal.4th 757 (which preceded the adoption of Proposition 8), properly must be understood as having a considerably narrower scope and more limited effect than suggested by petitioners in the cases before us. Contrary to petitioners’ assertion, Proposition 8 does not entirely repeal or abrogate the aspect of a same-sex couple’s state constitutional right of privacy and due process that was analyzed in the majority opinion in the Marriage Cases — that is, the constitutional right of same-sex couples to “choose one’s life partner and enter with that person into a committed, officially recognized, and protected family relationship that enjoys all of the constitutionally based incidents of marriage” (Marriage Cases, supra, 43 Cal.4th at p. 829)." - sofarsoShawn

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"Nor does Proposition 8 fundamentally alter the meaning and substance of state constitutional equal protection principles as articulated in that opinion. Instead, the measure carves out a narrow and limited exception to these state constitutional rights, reserving the official designation of the term “marriage” for the union of opposite-sex couples as a matter of state constitutional... more... - sofarsoShawn

"By clarifying this essential point, we by no means diminish or minimize the significance that the official designation of “marriage” holds for both the proponents and opponents of Proposition 8; indeed, the importance of the marriage designation was a vital factor in the majority opinion’s ultimate holding in the Marriage Cases, supra, 43 Cal.4th 757, 845-846, 855. Nonetheless, it is... more... - sofarsoShawn

Taking into consideration the actual limited effect of Proposition 8 upon the preexisting state constitutional right of privacy and due process and upon the guarantee of equal protection of the laws, and after comparing this initiative measure to the many other constitutional changes that have been reviewed and evaluated in numerous prior decisions of this court, we conclude Proposition... more... - sofarsoShawn

" Petitioners contend, however, that even if Proposition 8 does not affect the governmental plan or framework established by the state Constitution, the measure nonetheless should be considered to be a revision because it conflicts with an assertedly fundamental constitutional principle that protects a minority group from having its constitutional rights diminished in any respect by... more... - sofarsoShawn

"We agree with petitioners that the state constitutional right to equal protection of the laws unquestionably represents a long-standing and fundamental constitutional principle (a constitutional principle that, as we already have explained, has not generally been repealed or eliminated by Proposition 8). There are many other constitutional rights that have been amended in the past... more... - sofarsoShawn

Phewwwww: in short it says (my interpretation) that while they do not want to in any way belittle minority rights, they see the transgressions as being properly rendered or gone about by the voting process & further is slight enough not to be of grave concern. There are two forms of amending formula's to the constitution the way Prop 8 was established followed those procedures. (I must leave the computer now). - sofarsoShawn

Steven Perez

VOIP reaches end of its proprietary era | Open Source | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-so...

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"News that Skype will go into a new open source FreeSwitch should mark the end of the proprietary era in Voice Over IP, and of telephony in general." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Mark Wilson

I'LL BE BACH - http://vi.sualize.us/view...

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I don't get ........Ohhhhhhh!!!!! - Bwana ☠

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I still don't...DAMMIT! - Christopher Harley

i can't condone this. - Duane

Well then, I am going to be Beethoven. - Janet

I like the jokes about Bach's name, although they are acoustically inaccurate, since the "ch" at the end has to be pronounced the german way, like the russian "x" or the spanish "j". Just sayin'. :p - Brome

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