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Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“I honestly don't see why I would use Chrome over Firefox.”

Tuesday at 12:14 pm - Link

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Check under the hood. Unlike FF, each tab runs in its own process = better memory management & a tab can't crash whole browser. - Kevin C. Tofel

supposed to be a lot faster - Laura Norvig

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+1 Kevin - Chris Martin

Someone needs to put a trace on what Chrome sends back to Google... That should be interesting. - Jim McCusker

No fullscreen, have already seen javascript issues. Its as swift as FF though and with development, will make a nice alternative. At the moment though, i'll pass as I think a lot of other people will. - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Right now, there's probably no reason to, other than the speed, novelty, and interesting stuff for developers (new javascript VM, multithreading, etc.). One big reason to stick with Firefox is the extensions. But I can see Chrome going a LONG way to win over people (like me) who use the web as applications, beyond just pages. - Josh Bancroft

Dave, please elaborate re: performance, security, UI, benefits to browser market (and therefore the internet) - Logical Extremes

Definitely early in development, so it is low on features. For a simple browser though it is very quick. For the javascript sites I have tried (Google Reader, Google Apps, Twitter and FriendFeed the engine is very quick. - Jeremy Hall

Dave, the need for speed! - Dave Martin

I honestly don't see why I would drive a car instead of ride my horse. - tagami

what if you don't use tabs? I usually have 2 tabs open tops. - Jason Kaneshiro

@ Jim McCusker... I'm as paranoid as the next person, but this should b no different from any other browser in that regard. Google isn't stupid enough to open source something that leaks private info (any more than any other browser). I'm sure someone will sniff its traffic today to verify that it only does what its user (and its loaded pages) tell it to do. Incognito mode, dynamic IP, and various anonymizing technologies are all still available to those who wish to be more anonymous. - Logical Extremes

The JS engine is definitely faster but that's not enough to overcome FF's other features and customizations... given some time Chrome might be worth considering but, in the meantime, I'm sticking with FF - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

until they get a FoxMarks plug-in, it's just not useful - Chris Nixon

and it seems to be no better on memory use http://www.tnl.net/blog/2008/0... - Tristan Louis

Google has some work to do before I migrate--if ever. - Niguel Valley

Agreed. But it has piqued my interest. There's a seed planted and I feel like I'll be back in the future. Feels like podcasting in 2004. - trextor

It's a public beta, and already squishes IE6. However, agreed that it can't take on FF and win in it's current form. Fullscreen, addons/plugins, skinning and some UI bits and pieces need to occur before a full release. - Mo Kargas

It's quick and clean, and I spent all afternoon today using it.. I agree I'd be a bit lost in the long term without some of the FF3 addins I'm used to though. - Ian May

Chrome is thin on features, which brings up an interesting question: How feature thin can a browser be and still be compelling? I imagine it depends on the device. - Loren Heiny

I hope that they aren't going to let Chrome languish in the same way that they've done with their Google Talk client. I think my parents would be perfectly happy with Chrome, but I can't see how/why I'd get them to switch from FF. Personally, I wouldn't switch to Chrome, apart from it not being released on the Mac, there's no ad blocker. - Paul Grav

Chrome is so pretty, a nice mix of Safari and Firefox. I would definitely use a theme that made Firefox look more like Chrome. - Vezquex

I see it as a good alternative for my mum, but I need my plugins and Ubiquitous. Lets look forward to Firefox 3.5 with Chrome multithreading - HollowMarkeD

One thing I noticed about Chrome was that I didn't really notice anything at all. Which makes it just fine but I'm in no rush to jump over. Chrome/Firefox = potayto/potahto. - Marie Boran

HollowMarkeD Chrome isn't multithreaded it's multiprocessed ..big difference that being the obvious of course. - JohnBfromMemphis

There are some things, I think, Google Chrome got it right http://bit.ly/DwgE3 - Yung-Hui Lim

Thanks JohnB, that was the word I was looking for. - HollowMarkeD

I was the same - until a FF tab hung and all my tabs died. Simple thing but makes a hell of a difference! - weblivz via twhirl

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“Why Didn't Yahoo launch a browser? Even AOL has one.”

Tuesday at 1:02 pm - Link

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they were too busy spamming all the other browsers with toolbars. - Matt Musgrave

+1 Matt. I was surprised to find that my brother had somehow aquired a Yahoo toolbar, and had no idea how it came in. He also made no attempts to get rid of it - it apparently wasn't 'harming' him. - Yuvi

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+1 Matt. lol - Alan Le

+1 Matt - Kyle Lacy

why do they have to? - PC Easy via twhirl

Don't knock Yahoo! you yahoos! - orionstarr

I would have assumed they would buy flock at some point - Zee at WeDoCreative

Flock is like Firefox except with a bunch of useless extensions. - Gavin

Yahoo had a browser built on top of IE... it wasn't very successful so they canned it - Tristan Louis

Jason Pontin posted a message on Twitter

“Actually: getting up from my Mac so that I can download Chrome onto my bloody, little-loved PC.”

Tuesday at 1:28 pm - Link

Why not run parallels? - Tristan Louis

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“Ok tech heads, go crazy and download Chrome: http://www.google.com/chrome”

Tuesday at 12:56 pm - Link

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Watchout for that EULA... specifically section 11. Does that frighten you too? http://is.gd/29h3 - DJ Lein

Looks like it's not reporting memory correctly either: http://www.tnl.net/blog/2008/0... - Tristan Louis

Richard posted a message on Twitter

“The Future of Blogging Revealed http://tinyurl.com/6hd7b4”

August 4 at 10:22 am - Link

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awesome post. Lots to digest here. The flow of information is transformed. - linkman77

Rick is right. The lifestream angle is great if your focus is your life and the chronological order, but thoughts are different -- they're topical and just because they're 'old' don't necessarily make them out of date (although in some cases they do :) The point of the conversations is 'thinking' not 'doing' (which, BTW, is the antithesis of most online design -- hmmm, haven't thought about that before). - Rotkäpchen via FriendFeed MT Plugin

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Is it the future or is the future of blogging a return to blogging roots, with noise moving to lifestreams? - Tristan Louis

@Tristan - I get what you mean. Many blogs have become pseudo magazine publishing sites (Engadget, Techcrunch) - the personal, communicative element has been totally eroded there. I think sites like LiveJournal are truer to the roots of blogging. ie blog = weblog = web log - linkman77

It's a good article, but it seems like this is more of a fork in the road of the future, rather than the future of all blogging, an alternative or compliment rather than the next evolution. Thought leaders may still want to blog, or have some kind of interactive platform for their voices. If RWW was a lifestream, what would this post have been like? - tinu

I like the idea of a blog based round the Friendfeed stream. I could see things heading more in that direction. The blog showcased in the article highlights one of the crippling drawbacks of Friendfeed, though, which is the lack of a "recent conversation" summary. Also: I don't think lifestreaming is necessarily navel-gazing. Most shares on Friendfeed aren't personal streaming, for example, but links to the articles, photos or videos that a user is interested in. - David Young

Would love to stream my Seesmic comments to RWW! I am a Cannibal and my dinner is Virgins and Middle Class! http://seesmic.com/video/IgWXg... - Igor The Troll via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have done almost exactly the same thing with my site Svartling Network: http://www.svartling.net/ - Svartling

I don't think this is blogging (as some commented), this is more a form of entertainment. It's like American Idol vs. pro singers - JungleG

Excellent post Sarah. Ref Christopher's comment, I have been using Soup.io lately to aggregate my 'lifestream' and thoughts re music, books etc. It's nothing special tbh (I don't have any time to devote to it!), but I have thought of it as re-discovering personal blogging. definitely a work in progress and by no means is the content compelling for anyone but me, but to illustrate what I've been doing here it is: http://ricmac.soup.io/ I do love http://cheslow.com/ , that absolutely rocks. It was kind of what I wanted to do, if I had the time and talent to design something like that :-) - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Check http://chyrp.net its a cool script to made a lifestream with import capacities. - Víctor Hugo Hernández via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hmmm ... I don't think life streaming will replace blogging. Twitter for example is interesting and almost addictive but it has no depth. For myself one of the great things with twitter is when people I am following point me in the direction of a great blog or post they have found. I do however agree there is a need to bring everything together, my blog for example, and especially my about page is a central hub of my Social Network. It links to most things I do online. http://www.stephenbaugh.com/ab... - Stephen Baugh via FriendFeed MT Plugin

I try to logon atleast one a day or so. - Aaron Myers

I have found another example that might be of interest in your example of new types of blogs. Martin Stabe writes a traditional blog for UK B2B magazine Press Gazette but his own blog is actually a list of his choices form Delicious - http://www.martinstabe.com/blo... - like Alan Cheslow uses only friendfeed. Of course it remains a blog since what we read is his recommendations or, put another way, his intellectual journey! - John Welsh via FriendFeed MT Plugin

Christopher Penn posted a message on Twitter

“There's a startling number of teen moms on MySpace whose answer to the question "Do you know who the father of your baby is?" is "I dunno".”

August 4 at 10:50 am - Link

which begs the question: how did you come about finding that tidbit? Anything you want to reveal :) - Tristan Louis

Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“Hope Google sees this (they own Feedburner) "Feedburner hack: how to get 2500 subscribers overnight (video)" http://tinyurl.com/6qg7t6”

August 4 at 10:28 am - Link

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Andy Baio posted an entry on Waxy.org Links

Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa

July 20 at 5:11 pm - Link

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Andrew Dobrow posted a link

Google Images printout proves it’s a Google world » Coolest Gadgets

July 7 at 12:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Absolutely insane - but I like it! - Martin Bryant

borrowed the source for a post. ;) Awesome find, Andrew. - Cyndy

creative! - Thomas Hawk

Cyndy, hope you linked to Coolest Gadgets! I'm a main writer there you know. Glad you liked the post - Andrew Dobrow

Really cool find! I am going to make some to carry around with me to see how the results look. Sometimes I wish I were that creative. - Matt Donders

Russell Beattie posted a link

Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once!

July 7 at 1:04 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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I need a beta code.. anyone? - Russell Beattie via Bookmarklet

You can use: pingyoulater - Turker Keskinpala

Thanks Turker!! - Russell Beattie

That code worked for me... thanks Turker! - Jon Price

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“Pigs!: http://tinyurl.com/6cejd2”

July 7 at 1:05 pm - Link

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That's pretty amusing... - Tristan Louis

Jason Goldman posted a message on Twitter

“In a time of economic distress, runaway gas prices and environmental disaster, the missing ingredient really is more ready access to guns.”

June 28 at 7:07 pm - Link

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l0ckergn0me posted a link

IPhone 2: More Than Meets The Eye

June 11 at 6:33 pm - Link

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Gabe Rivera posted a message on Twitter

“I commented on the "Is Techmeme myopic?" post here: http://is.gd/qbQ”

June 3 at 11:24 am - Link

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nice response, Gabe -- i think you are right that many of the same criticisms could be made of the news media in general - mathew ingram

So the answer is "yes" but so what? - Brian Sullivan

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Kinda. Humans in general are "myopic" (can't see far ahead) but occasionally get lucky and spot something interesting on the horizon. If you read Techmeme enough, you stumble on those bits amid the daily myopia. Hopefully it's as good a place as any to encounter the good stuff. - Gabe Rivera

"arriving at signal will always involve swimming in noise." - Louis Gray

Well I think "Yes but so what" is a good answer - I was just testing to see if that was the gist of what you are saying. People that think there is new media and old media are just as myopic -- there is media and there is media as far as I am concerned. Just like "new" economy and "old" economy. Bogus characterizations or rationalizations as far as I can tell. - Brian Sullivan

Louis: I disagree. Being FIRST to arrive at signal may involve that, but for those who don't need to be first, many places will offer signal without a sea of noise. - Robert Seidman

I really wish I could incorporate all those comments into my own thread on the site :) - Tristan Louis

Tristan -- why not just link to it? http://friendfeed.com/e/aa3db4... - Brian Sullivan

Brian: Duh.. I guess I'm brain dead. Thanks for the suggestion :) - Tristan Louis

Jeremiah Owyang posted a link

Looking to network with other Friendfeed users? Leave your handle here:

May 20 at 12:48 pm - Link

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Hello. @mediaphyter over in Twitterland. Same here. I am predictable. - Jennifer Leggio

chrisrechtstseiner - Chris Rechtsteiner via twhirl

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spaceguy here and in twitter - Tim Chemacki

Aprille here, @eileen53 on Twitter - Aprille

Not sure where to comment here or on the post... I'm in http://friendfeed.com/benhedri... - Ben Hedrington

TNLNYC here... and pretty much anywhere else - Tristan Louis

MichelleBB here and on Twitter - MichelleBB

kevintunis here and over on twitter @tunis - Kevin Tunis

and now this convo is split in two as well, haha! http://friendfeed.com/devahaz and also devahaz on twitter - Deva Hazarika

ha3rvey here. Same name almost everywhere. - Harvey Simmons

OH TO BE CLEAR: Leave your handle over on the blog post...others will see it there. - Jeremiah Owyang

dobata both on twitter and friendfeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl

gotta admit I love the edit button here on friendfeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl

Uh oh, we have handle-posting fragmentation. :) - Morton Fox

@Jeremiah - I don't know if you use Wordpress or not, but if so, you need to get that FriendFeed Comments plug in. It shows the comments from FriendFeed below your blog posts.http://wordpress.org/extend/pl... sure if there are similar plugins for TypePad or other blogging platforms. - elroy via twhirl

Love connecting with new people that share interests @tspeirs on twitter (same here) - Trevor

Always enjoy meeting new, interesting people. Same on Twitter - TDavid

http://friendfeed.com/dhinchcl... :-) - Dion Hinchcliffe via twhirl

Tac Anderson on FF @tacanderson on Twitter and tacanderson on just about everything. - Tac Anderson

My handle is springnet ...@springnet on twitter I like long walks on the beach and to snuggle up with a good social network - paul terry walhus via Alert Thingy

Yes, why not use Friendfeed or Jaiku or something that works. I'm cyberetto all around the place. - Andrea B

kosmar - kosmar

http://friendfeed.com/warhawke - warhawke

heatherdulin here and on twitter. I am liking FF more and more these days... - Heather Nasca Dulin

thx Jeremiah!! :) http://friendfeed.com/marismit... / @marismith - Mari Smith

I'm friendfeed's Tad! - Tad - just Tad

Hi Jeremiah! (@smbeebe on twitter = Susan Beebe on FriendFeed) http://friendfeed.com/susanbee... - Susan Beebe

http://friendfeed.com/scobleiz... - Robert Scoble

Hi, Jeremiah. It's cool that you're doing this. I'm @CreativeSage on Twitter, Cathryn Hrudicka on FriendFeed. - Cathryn Hrudicka

http://friendfeed.com/mikewill... - Mike Wills via twhirl

jcunwired just about everywhere - Jody C

Greetings from the other side of the planet... 6:30am here - catching up with FriendFeed before heading into London - Jonathan Beckett

Greetings from the southern 'burbs of greater Seattle! - Nancy Babyak

twitter = danishkhan - Danish Khan

itafroma here and everywhere. - Mark Trapp

etherjammer here, Twitter, and many other places. - Chris Anthony

shawnfarner here, @shawnfarner there. shawnfarner, shawnfarner, everywhere. - Shawn Farner

akrage - Sean Oliver

morganb across the internets - Morgan via twhirl

morganb almost everywhere - Morgan via twhirl

Despil. Here, there, everywhere. - Roland Hesz

/solacetech - Anthony Farrior

Here I be! - Todd Jordan

@hoopadoo on Twitter. - Michael Beck

Skizzlizzit here and Twitter - David Cook

marlinex here and @marlinex in Twitterland - Marilyn Clark

Adam Rifkin bookmarked a page on delicious

Ned Batchelder: CSS Homer, animated

May 1 at 6:58 pm - Link

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Here's Romàn Cortès' Homer, animated to show the structure. I haven't done anything to Romàn's amazing work other than to annotate the divs with ids and add a bit of jQuery to show them in sequence so that you can see the characters being added one at - Adam Rifkin

Dave Winer posted an entry on Scripting News

Why the press likes Obama again

April 30 at 12:39 pm - Link

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Roger posted an entry on Information Arbitrage

Growing Older is Hard

April 21 at 8:00 pm - Link

my condolences. - Tristan Louis

Frederic Guarino posted a message on Twitter

“GPD08! @centernetworks @jeffpulver @riordan @tnlnyc @ozsultan @adamhirsch @tlimongello and many more ! go to http://tinyurl.com/2vq85n”

April 3 at 8:24 am - Link

Thanks... Some of us are already doing this on a regular basis :) - Tristan Louis