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I think I was passed by the @googlecar today and took some video. http://www.youtube.com/watch... notice the spinning camera on top at 70 mph!
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Skyler Call, Tomas Nihlen, anjelina and 10 other people liked this
What's even funnier is they probably had their cameras out taping the Scoblemobile as just as fascinating an attraction ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Huh-uh - I guess someone is going to appear on Google Street View. :)
- Olivia Lovag
What is the normal turn around time from the car taking pictures to appearance in street view?
- Brian Sullivan
Other pictures I have seen of Google transport carrying out shots for Google Maps Street View have had the Google logo on the vehicle... I have never seen any of them in the UK yet. Heh
- Geoff Jackson
My brother saw one in Manchester, probably a year ago. I suspect that Google are taking a more incognito approach these days after all the objections from the general public: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- James Myatt
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
Darren Heydon, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, rowlikeagirl and 118 other people liked this
Yay Leo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well played, sir!
- Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious.
- RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk!
- Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest
- Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!!
- Mona Nomura
go leo!
- sean percival
That's awesome
- Jesse Stay
lookin good ..
- Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top.
- Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years!
- Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo
- Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine.
- Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo!
- John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol
- Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff!
- Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now
- Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD*
- Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P
- Mol, Santa Claws
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
Closing huge deal today at a top-secret meeting--life changing. Will announce the new deal Friday's This Week in Startups at TWiSTup! #twist
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Did you sell another company to AOL?
- Cliff Gerrish
Go Jason! :) Curious..
- Tomas Nihlen
Can't wait to hear the good news. Good luck.
- Lonewolf
Ah jason, if two people know about it (in this case half #twitterville), its not a secret. :)
- Roberto Bonini
BOOTIE BERLIN "Opening Night" with Party Ben this Friday... - http://www.mashuptown.com/2009...
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Here is my chronicle online for those of you who can't find the paper :) http://www.metro.se/2009...
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@binero You should follow the people that follow you on Twitter, otherwise you can't send direct messages.
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I am still wondering why people do conferences on a sunday and second question is why that many people show up. I must be too european.
Harscoat, Tomas Nihlen, Musa Yılmaz and 4 other people liked this
Yes, you are too European.
- Gabe Rivera
I'm not European, but I don't think that anybody can be *too* European. European culture is very lovely.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
You'll never see that in Salt Lake - come on out here Loic! :-) The south as well...
- Jesse Stay
It could be that people don't want to miss work. Conferences that are M-W or M-TH are a big chunk of time.
- Louis Gray
The answer is because the busy life of the rat race leads to godless heathenism.
- Pete Delucchi
Gabe commenting on Friendfeed? I must be seriously dreaming.
- Loic Le Meur
You can answer your 1st question with the 2nd
- TC Wright
Yet you showed up
- Jeremiah Owyang
I'm wondering why days even matter
- randulo
@ImpressiveWebs you are currently #6 at TopFollowFriday.com ... track your #followfriday rank! Who is endorsing you? http://ow.ly/FV3 - http://twitter.com/topfoll...
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The Icelandic government has publicly condemned Israel's military action on Gaza.
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I think that is a brave and good symbolic action. More governments should do that.
- Tomas Nihlen
from feedalizr
is (now!) even more into organic baking after reading http://www.adlibris.com/se...
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The Google economy, indeed - http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008...
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Google is the advertising agency to turn to when you're on a budget. Makes sense to see a spike when the economy goes down. No need to stop marketing, just alter the approach (away from pricey print)
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
Google Android: T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review - http://gizmodo.com/5062977...
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If you're interested in the financial meltdown in Iceland, check out this article in the Financial Times http://www.ft.com/cms...
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How to be "social media cool" http://willvideoforfood.com/2008...
webosapien (Burcu Tüzün), Ed Terpening, Tomas Nihlen and 3 other people liked this
@tomcarmony I like FriendFeed's UI. It's ugly, yes, but damn fast and once you get used to it, very addictive.
Bryan Landers, rob zand, Niv and 44 other people liked this
I also find FriendFeed's UI very effective. I would not say ugly, but rather minimal. Clearly it is not flashy...
- Antoine Bertier
I tweeted about liking FF tonight, if you look at my Tweetstream. :-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
It will be very useful if FF will refresh automatically. For example every 2 minutes
- obolonskyi
Yes, FAST. And, weirdly, when my ISP's DNS went out a coupla weeks back, even tho every other site (including Google) was unreachable via an URL, friendfeed still worked. Guess I refreshed it so much that it never cleared from the cache ;)
- Yuvi
Ahh, so you do agree that the UI is ugly. heh But I'm getting use to it. The graphics on the iphone version looks slightly nicer though, which I think is funny..
- Daynah
I also think that the normal web-based FF is ugly, but the iPhone version is great.
- Bob Blunk
Not sure whether aesthetics really matter. It is functional and clean and therefore suits the purpose. OK, so it isn't the prettiest site I have seen...
- Nancy Williams
from twhirl
FF has too much whitespace, newlines, and text. Impossible to read. Like the Web in 1997.
- Ben Turner
@Misha, I believe friendfeed either uses ajax to add new shares to the top of the page, or refreshes every 2 or 3 minutes.
- Rob Diana
@Rob Diana: "Dear administrators, why FF doesn't refresh automatically” - I asked, and they replied: It does: every 2 minutes, provided you're not watching a video, listening to an audio sample, or writing a comment. - Mark Trapp
- obolonskyi
Strangely enough I think FF UI is very well thought out -- leading seems just right. Indenting just right. Width of reading line just right. Sparse, not flashy though -- I hate visual "design" just for "design" sake. The greying of comments seems just right on my monitor as well(though I understand that on some devices it is too light). Most of all it seems to work well.
- Brian Sullivan
Totally agree with Brian. FF UI is very well polished. It is an example how the web service should look like IMHO. It does exactly what is needed. No need to use decorations :)
- Jan Horna
I also liked simple and efficient web services, I don't disperse my attention on different, unuseful spam:). But this white space on the right trouble me a lot. It is very nice "wall" for advertisement((((. If there are advertises, FF functionality will down((, but i hope it never happens.
- obolonskyi
White space on the right -- size certainly depends on the monitor you are using -- the text width is fixed. But based on optimal line width and font size choice there has to be white space somewhere. Left, right or split -- I think most UI studies say on the right is the correct place.
- Brian Sullivan
I have been extremely impressed with these guys - they have done an amazing job identifying which factors are most important to users, ensuring that those things work reliably and rolling out "non-essential" features as they are able
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I've been really impressed with the use of color. I wouldn't have thought gray for comments would be effective, but it works really well
- Nathan Rein
I love how responsive it is. It loads quickly and shows me the information that I want to see.
- Michael
and it looks even better in Alert Thingy
- Tomas Nihlen
from Alert Thingy
It's nice looking...but then again I check out reddit and yc.news/hacker-news most days and they're fairly sparse.
- Rudolf Olah
another nonflashy UI: Google.
- John LeMasney
I didn't care much for FF's design at first; too minimal, too much whitespace. But after using it for a while, I've come to feel that that minimalism does a lot to make the torrent of information processable. I'm afraid if they go too far in the direction of 'good design', we're going to be faced with compete visual overload.
- Derrick Burns
I read my friend feed through twhirl, so it looks pretty!
- Richard Kannegieser
from twhirl
I don't think the UI is ugly, the feed itself is nice and minimal, but the logo, that's what causes the overall ugly impression i think
- Tibor Holoda
Yes, agreed. The focus is on the person's writing or pictures and not on the site.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I now use Google Reader to browse most of my Friendfeed feeds -- it is a radically more efficient interface.
- Sean McBride
Google Reader is much more efficient than Friendfeed for intelligent browsing of new Friendfeed items. Simply subscribe to Friendfeed feeds for users, rooms, topic searches, best of day, etc. from within Google Reader, prioritize the feeds, and skim over the flood of cruft. What a relief. Fresh air.
- Sean McBride
I agree, hated it at first, but now don't even notice it really. Still would prefer my pretty background photo used on twitter!
- James Tenniswood
I don't find the UI ugly at all. A site like flickr doesn't have much more than text and whitespace either - aside from the photos. There might be many opportunities for better UI functionality. Content could be grouped differently, large amount of comments could be shown differently (don't know how of course). But for me it can stay as "plain" as this. I like it better then the gmail colors for example.
- Meryn Stol
There seems to be a minor UI gaffe in the "Recommended" section of my friend settings -- in that once you add one new contact, it narrows the field, presumably based on their contacts that FF is guessing would be interesting to you. You have to click back on the topnav "Recommended" link to get the full set again. But this is what surprised me -- even though I'm a stickler for UI, I didn't mind, because it's so damn easy to use and responsive. Big fan. PS -- any recommendations for good UI / UX blogs?
- Marko Bon
I'm testing out Social Median: http://www.socialmedian.com/scoblei... what do you think?
Charlie Anzman, David Petherick, Tomas Nihlen and 13 other people liked this
What interests me about socialmedian is the filtering. In my post about the conversational Web, I disagreed with Jeremiah Owyang, who suggested, information on the social web needs to be sorted around people, not content My thinking: Jeremiah is a smart and interesting guy. I follow him on Twitter and FriendFeed, but I’m not really interested in what he ate for breakfast (not that he...
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- Christian Anderson
Oh, geez, socialmedian.
- Robert Scoble
Not sure about the snips, clips digg thing?
- Andrew Smith
Still very beta. When not logged in, most links point to the registration screen (including all external links, as far as I can tell). Can't tell if functionality is any more than a subset of FF.
- Ozan Onay
Prior coverage: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Louis Gray
My page with 3 months' activity: http://www.socialmedian.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
My activity for roughly 3 months too: http://www.socialmedian.com/christi...
- Christian Anderson
Social Median doesn't seem too different to me from Twine. Essentially you form conversation networks and clip articles, which based on that data, algorithmically figures out what news you like and don't like. But it's good to see that the next wave of innovation is in personalized social news aggregators... Now we just have to see who emerges from the pack as the frontrunner.
- Jonathan Wong
It looks nice and it's easy to create a profile and join relevant networks, although most of the active ones seem to be social networking-related at the moment. Seems similar to Twine in that it's clustering content around topic-based networks. I'd probably use it to find and share interesting content on Friendfeed and other blogs. But how many niches are available for social news sharing sites like this?
- David Young
from NoiseRiver
Interesting, but when you click on any link it always sends you to the login/registration page; and this can be a turn off….
- Joao
And here's mine: http://www.socialmedian.com/nishith...
- Nishith Shah
So far socialmedian has proven valuable to me. I've been turned on to stories I would have otherwise missed. Similarly, I seem more valuable on sm than here on ff. My own shares on sm have been clipped more than any of my shares on ff have been liked. A lot more. So that in itself encourages me to use it more. There aren't many conversations on sm that I can see, however, which is why I use ff, as well, despite often feeling like I'm wasting my time.
- Rick Powell
@Rick. I realize I'm digressing from the topic, but I've found that I get more Likes and Comments on FF if I share stuff to rooms, than just to my feed. I guess because rooms are focused around specific topics and they don't have as fast a turnover as individual feeds. Once you're subscribed to 20+ people, especially power users, your Friendfeed has a ridiculously fast turnover, meaning you may not see a share unless you use it constantly.
- David Young
hey all. reading the posts and wanted to reply about the registration requirements. Truth is we wish we were able to enable users to do more without registering but just weren't able to get that done in time for beta and didn't want to hold back public beta because of it. Will improve over time.
- Jason Goldberg
I share racier, queer-er stuff to one of my rooms, and film stuff to my new Cineaste room. But no comments or likes. Passive readers?
- Rick Powell
here is me on socialmedian - http://www.socialmedian.com/tomasni...
- Tomas Nihlen
from Alert Thingy
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