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well I've got Google+ but I don't see a way to invite people. if anyone knows how, let me know and then I'll start inviting folks.
Tapio Kulmala, Rah-PM 2012, SAM and 11 other people liked this
well this won't work very well until more people I know have access.
- chrisofspades
It looks like you can't invite quite yet: http://www.google.com/support...
- Jennifer Dittrich
I remember begging for a Wave invite... sigh.. the woes of the early adopter stuck on the bottom of the ladder.
- MicahBear78
I found Louis Gray!
- chrisofspades
ah thanks Jennifer. hopefully more of y'all get invited soon.
- chrisofspades
I found Chris of Spades!
- Louis Gray
Augahahha, where's my invite.
- AJ Kohn
I'm going to experience Google+ vicariously through Louis since my stream is pretty empty right now, heh.
- chrisofspades
ooh, if you do get invites, well, yeah, put me on the list.
- Laura Norvig
What is Google+? [been offline for 2 days]
- Kol Tregaskes
Google+ is not Facebook.
- I like big Botts
Kol, it's basically Google's next evolution of Buzz/Wave. their latest social play.
- chrisofspades
I really want in on this crap but, once again, Google has snubbed me. I guess I haven't been paying much attention online.
- Rah-PM 2012
I think I got in only because I know someone who works at Google.
- chrisofspades
Scientists Closer to Reading Words From Your Brain - http://singularityhub.com/2010...
lera, bifurcafe, Tim Costantino and 2 other people liked this
"The 16 microelectrode array is very small, seen here against a US quarter."
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet
Oh, yay!
- Amy
Wondering why the heck the powerpuff girls are trending?
Tyson Key, Tim Costantino and MafiaX liked this
Where are we now Jesse?
Lumino_GmbH, Jesse Stay, Xitong Liu and 8 other people liked this
My answer to anything Ben does is Phish!
- Louis Gray
What did you fold?
- Kevin Fox
The concert. Duh. Hope you got a rain check.
- Jim Norris
Gary wins again. Was the "Jesse" hint too obvious? Salt Lake City was beautiful
- Benjamin Golub
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Gary you really need to find a way to monetize your skill :)
- Private Sanjeev
How did I miss this??? Dang - sad I missed you (and looks like you were checking in on Places too). You are at Sundance, I believe.
- Jesse Stay
Ben just had to get the first checkin on Places in Utah, didn't he? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
What Happened to Yahoo - http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo...
Red Label, Playing Well with Others, Альянс-кульман and 45 other people liked this
"Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example."
- Benjamin Golub
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Best essay I've read in a month.
- Stephen Mack
What I don't understand is why a profitable company is considered such a loser? I don't expect yahoo to disappear anytime soon. I question their past acquisitions more than anything.
- Dario Gomez
Dario, I think this is why: http://finance.yahoo.com/charts...
- Stephen Mack
Good points made in the essay, but any description of an organization is by necessity an oversimplification. Would love to hear Glen C's take on this.
- Bruce Lewis
Ben. What ever happened to the goofy Yahoooooo commercials? ( at least they were better than the Ask.com commercials) barely.
- Ricardo Vidallon
Ironically, Yahoo! seems to be the *ONLY* company (compared to the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon) to host *public* (open) HackDays for developers in India!
- Space Cowboy
Can we come to this conclusion that a successful software company needs a talented hacker as its founder as in Google, Microsoft etc.? I think we cannot, I am lazy enough to think why.
- İnanç Gümüş
Good point Stephen. Though if you compare a lot of companies to google you will see the same if not worse trend. I'm not saying yahoo is great and secure in the space, but they are not dead yet.
- Dario Gomez
Sunset on the Erie Canal - http://www.benjamingolub.com/e...
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Lumino_GmbH, Tim Costantino, Nimaa and 8 other people liked this
Kermit's Mug Shot - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Tim Costantino, Antônia, Micah and Rachel Lea Fox liked this
Legal ...
- Antônia
Megen got me Planet Earth on Blu-Ray and a Blu-Ray player. This is my first time using it and somehow our TV automatically switched to the correct input when I put the disc in. I didn't expect that, very nice!
April Buchheit, Kol Tregaskes, chaz2b and 5 other people liked this
My TV does that with my PS3: does your TV have HDMI-CEC/AnyNet+ support? If it does, you can actually set it up so the blu ray player will turn off the TV when not in use or have the blu ray player turn off when the TV is turned off, if it's not set up that way out of the box. Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Mark Trapp
I guess it must. I have an older Samsung: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung...
- Benjamin Golub
Ah yeah, that's the TV I have, too.
- Mark Trapp
It's pretty common nowadays for TVs to automatically switch inputs.
- Gabe
Buzz by Benjamin Golub from Buzz - http://www.google.com/buzz...
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Buzz @ 1266000462
- Benjamin Golub
zzzzzzz
- Ruchira S. Datta
Moonstruck chocolates for our 6th anniversary - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Antônia, Tim Costantino, Susan Beebe and 3 other people liked this
It may not be sunny, but Provo, Utah is beautiful in the snow. Pictures from this morning outside FamilyLink.com headquarters.
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hollyrae, Cindy Gan, Iván Abrego and 6 other people liked this
My old house used to have a view of that entire valley - there's a huge lake on the West side of the valley
- Jesse Stay
Louis, welcome to Utah! How long you sticking around?
- Tim Costantino
Tim, it was a one day stop. I flew in on Tuesday in time for dinner and left SLC before 8. I am in Sunnyvale at home now.
- Louis Gray
I predict Apple is going more open source and standards this week. Apple will open up much more.
Jeff P. Henderson, Jimminy, CoG of FF, Bruce Lewis and 7 other people liked this
You mean like WebKit and Darwin and Bonjour etc... http://developer.apple.com/opensou...
- Louis Gray
Louis, I mean much more than that - Safari itself is not open source. Neither is the iPhone. Neither is OS X. And I see it going further than open source - I predict them embracing open standards, opening up their app store, and more. This week will be just the start.
- Jesse Stay
would be nice for sure
- Mike Chelen
I understand your position, but often the take is that they are 100% closed, when they are not. They also forge industry standards in a big way... like USB. Good stuff.
- Louis Gray
I agree Louis - the responses I've seen are amusing in that people think I'm ridiculous in thinking this is possible. I think it's very possible.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, you make me laugh at the mention of them opening up the app store. Maybe, they'll open up iTunes, so it will work with non-proprietary devices as well. And I'm not saying they haven't done open-source projects and embracing standards, because I would be lying. I don't think they'll be opening up any of their proprietary work though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy, your response is exactly my point to Louis :-) Apple is much more known for being open than people give them credit for. Keep in mind the original App store was intended to just be web only, until user demand pushed them otherwise.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I don't assume them to be completely closed, I give them about 30%. I'd be willing to side with you on Safari, the iPhone will become more open, the OS will remain proprietary, and the App Store will be looked at, but ultimately won't open up.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
+1 Jimminy
- LANjackal
The only thing I see is putting iTunes completely in the browser for on-demand streaming of your library.
- Rodfather
Let's see what the shareholders have to say about that. While a move towards openness would be welcomed, it's hard to believe that they'll do a complete 180 on one of the most characteristic things about the company - their closed, secretive nature.
- Mr. Gunn
Maybe Your CEO Shouldn’t Blog. - http://www.newcommbiz.com/maybe-y...
Tim Costantino and ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift liked this
Perhaps not as "The voice of a company"...but hey, as a person? (incognito)...go for it!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
World's Most Talented Man - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Fabrizio Giordano, Tim Costantino, Ashish and 2 other people liked this
The running up walls segments look like a Jackie Chan movie, very well done.
- DGentry
Hello, Nexus One.
Louis Gray, EricaJoy, John Mueller and 3 other people liked this
Very pretty.
- Tim Costantino
I wonder, is it better then IPhone?
- Bahadır ARSLAN
I've never had one, so I can't say. The screen is bigger and the cpu faster (I think). I can tell you for certain that it's a hell of a lot better than the G1. Also, I like T-Mobile a lot more than AT&T, so I'm very happy overall. The screen is just gorgeous and the 3d wallpaper is very pretty, if 'excessive bling'.
- Keith Bourgoin
If your name is Benjamin Golub and your lawyer's initials are DLA I'd consider finding a new one. She's mistakenly sent me 3 emails w/ personal information about your case. I've contacted her on each occasion and she has apologized but it doesn't seem to stick.
Kol Tregaskes, April, Ruchira S. Datta and 14 other people liked this
Wow. That's scary.
- Anika
Novermber 13 and June 9 were the other dates: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
That happened to me for a while, only the chick (same name) was trying to send sensitive corporate documents to HERSELF. She got her own e-mail address wrong.
- Lo the Baker
Jeebus H.
- Ayşe E.
onoes...
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
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The best blog post of the week, courtesy of Fake Steve Jobs, discussing AT&T: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
Thomas Power, Brian Wingenroth, Sheryl and 3 other people liked this
Vehicles have several ratings: MPG, emissions, safety, etc. It is in the best interest of the car manufacturer to improve those ratings to get more buyers. I think some estimate of total cost of ownership, specifically repair costs, should be made available. This would force manufacturers to design cars that are reliable and easily serviced.
Thomas Page, Bruce Lewis, Kol Tregaskes and 8 other people liked this
I remember replacing the water pump on my old Cavalier was extremely expensive because like half of the engine needed to be removed to get at it so the labor cost was very high.
- Benjamin Golub
TCO is a metric that is available, usually determined by third parties (like MPG, emissions, and safety are). Edmunds and JATO are ones I know that do that. Some vehicle manufacturers do advertise their TCO (or at least relative to others in their class); Lexus and Hyundai come to mind.
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, but it's not on the sticker on the window of the vehicle or on the website and it's usually not known for newer models is it?
- Benjamin Golub
That's true, it's not right there on the sticker. I believe you can get it for newer models; they base it off of standard/recommended maintenance schedules, how much maintenance was for earlier or similar models, dealer prices, etc.
- Mark Trapp
Motortrend does it too, it seems. Here's one for a 2009 Lexus IS250: http://www.motortrend.com/cars...
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, if you know where to look for the information you can certainly find it. But if it were a standard metric then there would be more incentive for it to be improved. I also think most people purchase without thinking about repair costs. But if it were a standard they'd make it part of the purchasing process.
- Benjamin Golub
I don't know if you can make it more simple; the only metric that would work is dollars, since all of the contributing factors to TCO are measured in dollars. You put two prices on a car, people will look only at the higher price. Which is what you want, but given how volatile the auto industry is to market changes, I don't know if you could justify an apparent $7,000-$10,000 increase...
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- Mark Trapp
Yeah that is problematic but I think it can be solved. Here's an idea off the top of my head: It doesn't need to be in terms of dollars. It can be distilled to a scale based on other cars of the same type/class (ie it doesn't make sense to compare the cost of owning a ferrari vs a focus). For example: 6/10 TOC compared to vehicles X, Y, Z over N years. Some people could definitely ignore it (leases especially)
- Benjamin Golub
I'm curious if there's an actual link to performance on metrics and sales? Presumably if that were true those would be featured and competed on.
- Todd Hoff
Todd: MPG and safety ratings are definitely shown in advertisements all the time. I assume they wouldn't bother mentioning those things if it wasn't worth while but I don't have any data on it.
- Benjamin Golub
GM is very bad with their overuse of highway MPG in advertisements to try to say that their cars are more efficient than Toyota and Honda when Toyota and Honda cars routinely get better AVERAGE mile per gallon ratings. False advertising.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I thought MPG was legally required (at least on the sticker), but it should really be GPM. TCO is impossible for a new model or significantly redesigned model.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yes, GPM is easier for people to understand intuitively, but MPG is still a valid comparator. And yeah, LogEx, Consumer Reports usually doesn't talk about TCO until a specific model version has been out for 3 years.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
LogEx: I don't think it's impossible for the manufacturer to figure out the TCO on a new/redesigned model. They can estimate it. In fact I'd be *very* surprised if internally they didn't already estimate it. The point is that it isn't public information so there is no real incentive to improve it.
- Benjamin Golub
They could estimate regular maintenance costs pretty well, but the variation of repair costs/timing on substantially new parts is problematic.
- Tinfoil 2.0
TCO is easily available via fueleconomy.gov for gas. Repair and maintenance costs vary based on the provider, so publishing them wouldn't be very helpful unless you want a price listing for parts
- LANjackal
Anyway I think a lot of you skipped way past my original point and got ahead of ourselves. Yes estimating TCO would be difficult; both to get right and make useful. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it :). A great way to improve on something is to measure it first. And an even better way is to measure it and make it public so consumers can cast their vote with real money. If a correlation between TCO and sales doesn't occur then oh well. But if it does you'd probably see more emphasis on improving it.
- Benjamin Golub
My local ISP (Time Warner) DNS server is consistently faster than both Google and OpenDNS. All three are very fast though: ~20ms (local) vs ~30ms (Google and OpenDNS) for google.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, and friendfeed.com. I wonder where the closest Google data center is to me.
Adriano, Mona Nomura, Imabug and 5 other people liked this
Of the 3 Google is the only one that doesn't hijack though.
- Benjamin Golub
Speed isn't the only concern of course. Reliability and security are important. And I trust Google above the other companies in those departments.
- Benjamin Golub
What do you mean by hijack?
- Chris Heath
and what is your opinion of OpenDNS?
- Chris Heath
also, I didn't know that Google had DNS servers...http://code.google.com/speed... for those interested
- Chris Heath
Chris: Visit something like fdnksalfndkslafnkea.com after setting up OpenDNS. They redirect you to a branded page with ads that earn OpenDNS money. Time Warner does the same thing. Google does not.
- Benjamin Golub
thanks, yeah i should have known... my time warner doesn't do that (that i know) i've been on opendns for about a year
- Chris Heath
guess i'll give google a try... do you know when they started the public dns?? must be new... i just saw a digg.com submission hit their front page pointing to that same google code link
- Chris Heath
So I won't be using Google or OpenDNS instead of my ISP DNS. But I will use Google DNS when I travel. I've found that most wifi hotspots are slow because of DNS and switching to OpenDNS in the past has helped a lot. The only reason I see to use Google instead is the IP address is way easier to remember :)
- Benjamin Golub
Yeah, over the last couple years i've committed the opendns server ips to memory, but the google ips are super duper easy to remember - I assume you're staying with your isp because they're faster, right?
- Chris Heath
Confirmation: 209.18.47.61 is my local DNS http://chart.apis.google.com/chart.... via http://code.google.com/p...
- Benjamin Golub
Well uh, yeah... Your local isp is physically WAY closer and thus able to receive your dns queries and send back a response in less time... Unless the dns server itself is overloaded, or it's implementation of dns is less efficient than google's or opendns- (in which case processing your request might take longer), there is almost NO chance that a more distant dns server will ever resolve queries to common domains like the ones you tried.
- LarchOye
Larch: http://code.google.com/p... tries a lot more than jus those common domains. Anyway the reason I tested this is a lot of people changed to Google or OpenDNS just because it's supposed to be faster. I'll be in SF later this week; I'm guessing it will do much better :)
- Benjamin Golub
Anyone who tells you that something has zero risk is quite obviously really trying to sell you something.
Manantsoa, Tim Costantino, Chieze Okoye and 7 other people liked this
Using friendfeed has zero risk...as does eating a small bag of carrots!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
zero risk? boring!
- Morgan
+2 photophobe, ;)
- chaz2b
Paging my Googler friends out there: Google Chrome on OS X stores its cache in ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache. The "OS X approved" location is ~Library/Caches; Time Machine won't backup anything there. Please use it, I was wondering why Time Machine was constantly backing up 200+ MB every hour.
Richard Chen, Kenley Neufeld, arunthampi and 10 other people liked this
http://code.google.com/p... to track the bug
- Benjamin Golub
For those that use Time Machine and Chrome: just add ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome to the exceptions in the meantime.
- Benjamin Golub
Hmm. I just have ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cached Theme Images (which is empty). No .../Cache
- Uche Ogbuji
What version? I'm running 4.0.249.4 (now 4.0.249.12 since I restarted Chrome). I know this is a dumb question but are you using Chrome? I'd imagine the cache wouldn't exist if you weren't using it :)
- Benjamin Golub
I'm running 4.0.249.12 and I see the cache in there. Adding a Time Machine exclusion now.
- Matt M (inactive)
Uche: apparently this has been fixed but older users will continue to use the old cache, so you must have installed it after the fix landed. Matt: just delete your cache dir and it should start using ~Library/Caches instead.
- Benjamin Golub
I had to delete both "Cache" and "Media Cache" for it to switch over.
- Matt M (inactive)
I was really just hoping DeWitt would see this :) (and he did)
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben - I did see it, but it was picked up by the Chrome team even before that.
- DeWitt Clinton
Yeah, I was really happy with how fast they triaged the bug. Great job
- Benjamin Golub
I think @Isaac Hepworth may be the person that made that happen.
- DeWitt Clinton
True, it might have been me who sparked the response. But really kudos goes to the Chrome team for being so on top of things and generally awesome.
- Isaac Hepworth
How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin? - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009...
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"So, one way to look at this is that Palin gives Obama an approval rating bonus of about 3 points: if Obama can defeat a Generic Republican with an approval rating of X, he can defeat Palin with an approval rating of X-3."
- Benjamin Golub
Who is officially unemployed? - https://news.fidelity.com/news...
Tim Costantino and Ashish liked this
It's sometimes hard to tell who is employed/unemployed/not in the labor force.
- Benjamin Golub
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Living in a browser - http://diveintomark.org/archive...
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The Cupcake Dreamery family - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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wfh (working from home) « Flickr Blog - http://blog.flickr.net/en...
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Okay that's it. I'm takin' my shoes off. Any of my deskmates got a problem with that, they can talk to Golub.
- Kevin Fox
I approve.
- Benjamin Golub
Also the correct response to a coworker posting "wfh" is "wtf". It happened a lot in the internal FriendFeed group.
- Benjamin Golub
FTW
- Jim Norris
The wtf in response to wfh is a joke from Google days and a mistake that someone made in their email to the team.
- Ana
Thanks for clearing that up. I just thought it was fun :)
- Benjamin Golub
Great pics! Kitty and PJs :)
- Susan Beebe
Great shot!
- Charlie Anzman
What Startups Are Really Like - http://www.paulgraham.com/really...
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See also: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle...
- matthew john ernisse
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