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Cleaner FriendFeed (04/29/09) | userstyles.org - http://userstyles.org/styles...
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Chatsohbet, Jenny H, FALOB and 32 other people liked this
Update (04/29/2009) -- As suggested by Kristian Salonen (http://friendfeed.com/krisu), now using Data URI. The new FriendFeed logo isn't transparent.
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I'm going to have to try this. I use Chrome and know nothing about greasemonkey scripts, but I'm going to give it a shot.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I've used AJ''s script from almost since I joined FF. I don't know how anyone can use FF without it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hmm, Firefox isn't picking up the new version when I click "Find Updates".
- Rochelle
Rochelle, please use the new one. ;)
- AJ Batac
It's not wide screen!
- Rochelle
Rochelle, the next one on my feed is the widescreen.
- AJ Batac
Rochelle, here -> http://userstyles.org/styles... :)
- AJ Batac
YAY! Thanks.
- Rochelle
Thanks... AJ... liking this a lot better... I was starting to look for something to replace friend feed... still going to look, but it doesn't have to be found tonight.
- Harold
I like this style except that it makes the fonts small.
- Vezquex
Nice - loading it now
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Ok, - this is very nice, except for the bouncing that happened in firefox on first use of script (screen bounce, firefox, vista) otherwise, this is nice.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Nice AJ it's like coming back Home again. Haggis Chrome? Why am I not surprised :)
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
PShaw, next you'll be hat'n on MAC's when everyone knows they're virus proof ;) #Chromechini
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
Sean, awesome! Nicely written tutorial. :)
- AJ Batac
Woo hoo! going to give this a shot.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Tried it and it didn't work. When I relaunched chrome, it launches to an error page (Oops! This link is broken) with this in the search box "enable user scripts 475k". Sure I'm doing something wrong. Just can't pinpoint it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
I think I found my mistake. Going to try again.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Great tutorial Sean! My problem was that I was copying/pasting your "–enable-user-scripts" line from IE which put it in as an odd hyphen rather than a double dash. When I typed it myself, it worked fine. It was looking at your screenshot that clued me in.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
The cleaner FF style is a little clunky when it refreshes from page to page. Does anyone else notice this? Or is it just in Chrome?
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
AJ, great tutorial on enabling scripts on Chrome.
- Mike Reynolds
Mike, It was Sean for the Chrome tutorial. ;)
- AJ Batac
In that case, thanks Sean!
- Mike Reynolds
Polly, to enlarge the comment section and sidebar font sizes (this is just rough), edit stylish script as follows: [CHANGE]: .main ul li a, .section ul li a { font-size: 13px !important; } [CHANGE]: .info,.likes,.comment,#footer,.pager,.bottom,.hidetoggle { font-size: 13px !important; } [ADD after ".searchbold" line]: .content {font-size:13px }
- Micah
Wow, does this using this on FireFox 3.5 make a world of difference. FriendFeed is actually easily readable. Thanks so much for this!
- nadezhda
This is an old script, check out the scripts with theme support here: http://userstyles.org/users...
- Kol Tregaskes
AJ I just found this room. Your User Style scripts are awesome!
- Gunnyman™
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
birhan yel, urdumania1, Thomas Amberg and 49 other people liked this
Will "my network and friends" work too?
- JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Thanks!
- georgeker
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
this link might help [http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008...].
- MikeAmundsen
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either.
- MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =)
- Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all?
- MikeAmundsen
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :)
- Charley M
FB status is gone!
- Lonnie Robinson
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason - The Opaque
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
does not work
- Valdas A.
as for 2010-04-30
- Valdas A.
Apparently Paul Buchheit is the only thing standing between Robert Scoble becoming evil
Zu from AOD, Oguz Serdar, imabonehead and 8 other people liked this
Good thing he created FF. Ok, now I'm just having fun. His wheel is here: http://www.google.com/search...
- Mark Krynsky
Actually, it appears that he's standing between not being evil and Scoble. So really, Buchheit is preventing Scoble from becoming good.
- Vezquex
AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007...
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Rishabh Mishra (p248), Mike Chelen, Tweet Feeds and 5 other people liked this
Anyone try this? Is it actually good?
- ⓞnor
I've played with it a bit but haven't had the chance to do much. I invested in it last summer because I love the idea and think the founders are really smart.
- Paul Buchheit
As an IT teacher, I find this to be a very good and quick "test bed" for my students. They can learn the Web development paradigm through immediate "try/error" iterations. Thumbs up!
- Claudio Cicali
I really love the site and the idea. Especially for devs like me, who don't have money or people to work with. Still, I'm having to go with Google App Engine, just on the offhand chance that my idea works so well that it has to scale higher. But for someone building a free app with a small-med-sized audience, I'd be extremely open to AppJet.
- Christopher Galtenberg
appjet has unfortunately shut down, but the technology lead to the lovely http://etherpad.com and the much of the server software was open source allowing replacements such as http://apps.jgate.de/
- Mike Chelen
Christopher: one nice thing about appjet was that it was possible to download the source .js to a private server host and run on any of several server side javascript engines, including the one released by appjet. this is similar to google app engine, because the python or java code is portable, although both platforms include special storage libraries
- Mike Chelen
Farewell Google.. It has been a great ride!
Jérôme, Tweet Feeds, Louis Gray and 4 other people liked this
Where to next?
- Tudor Bosman
Joining up with Mark and Vadim..
- Derek Collison
from iPhone
Research question 3: Spam this thread. Why should I follow you? Convince me of your greatness. What makes you different, interesting, worthy of my attention? (yes, you are) #smresearch
RAPatton and Tweet Feeds liked this
nothing really
- Tweet Feeds
I wouldn't say greatness; what I offer is a numerous articles about science, comics, film, food and fashion. I avoid politics. My feed also is lifestreaming with pictures and stories about my family. My feed skews somewhat feminine, because I like girls and I'd rather talk to them than most males.
- RAPatton
I am unfollowing idiots like @techstartups that send auto DMs. I +hate+ that practice!
Morton Fox, Tweet Feeds, Ahmet Soyata and 6 other people liked this
tag it up with #endautodm
- sean percival
please give an example. they randomly send DM's?
- Mark
Mark: they autoDM when you follow them. I got a "thanks for following me" DM. Really lame.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh.
- Mark
when I sign up for a website I get a thanks for registering email though
- Mark
Jesus, I haven't had a beer in a month and I just drank one bottle with some chips and I am virtually drunk.
- Mark
What If Gates Were An Unrenowned Jewish Black Woman?,Nathan Lewin (via feedly) - http://www.jewishpress.com/pagerou...
Tweet Feeds liked this
Why yes I am up at 6AM on a Sunday morning because B is on call. Think about that the next time someone tells you to marry a doctor.
Yolanda and Tweet Feeds liked this
I was awake at the time this morning, at least you have a good reason, I don't
- M F
The groom just toasted his mom for adopting him at age 8, and I got teary-eyed again.
Tweet Feeds liked this
git is like a bad boyfriend: problems committing, demands to go over your history constantly, wants to be called "master"
Ashwin Bharambe, Tweet Feeds, Nathan Howell and 33 other people liked this
And what is Perforce like, then?
- Andrew C (✓)
@Andrew: Death.
- EricaJoy
Erica- you mean you can rely on it and it's peaceful? =) There's at least two products I can think of that are far worse than P4.
- Andrew C (✓)
I like perforce. Back in the late 90s, you could tell which startups had good technical people because they were all using perforce.
- Piaw Na
Nothing is certain but Perforce and Taxes?
- Amit Patel
check out Eric Sink`s blog for common pitfalls of Git... http://www.ericsink.com/
- ersan bilik
Common pitfall #1: Deciding to store your source code in it.
- ⓞnor
You definitely shouldn't store your source code in a bad boyfriend.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Oh no, there were plenty of startups not using perforce in the 90s. :-)
- Piaw Na
Ersan, nice blog suggestion. Thanks. So hands on with the technical discussion and the writing quality itself is superb. I'm subscribing now.
- Micah
Maybe there's a reason he called it "git" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joel Webber
FriendFeed Beta Service Icons for Greasemonkey - http://userscripts.org/scripts...
HealingBrush, The Fat Oracle, Svartling and 79 other people liked this
Inspired by zoblue and Ken Sheppardson, here is a Greasemonkey script that dynamically adds the service icons to each post.
- chrisofspades
from Bookmarklet
zoblue was headed in the right direction here (http://beta.friendfeed.com/zoblue...), but had the limitation of needing a CSS style created for each service. I was able use the API to grab the service icon dynamically.
- chrisofspades
Ken's discussion here (http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...) led to the placement of the icon.
- chrisofspades
Cool, I don't suppose this can go with AJ's CleanerFriendFeed scirpt? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Feedback and suggestions please!
- chrisofspades
Good work. Does it cache the icons?
- James Myatt
Kol, installing both shouldn't be an issue. AJ's is actually a user style, so the two don't conflict.
- chrisofspades
Ah, brilliant. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
James, it pulls the icon from friendfeed, so if friendfeed caches it then yes.
- chrisofspades
Awesome! I love it :D Installed! I'm glad it was done better, the CSS was cumbersome
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
There we go. Nice. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Super, thanks very much!
- Simon Wicks
çok güzele benziyor.
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
Installing
- Bwana ☠
Installed
- Holger Eilhard
Could this be standard in FF - without installing anything?
- Frode Stenstrøm
This isn't working for me in Chrome (v2.0.172.1). Any ideas?
- Kol Tregaskes
dont show at all for me.. chrome too.
- Rob Sellen :o)
Me neither, although CleanerFriendFeed does.
- t0rx
doesn't work for locked accounts
- Davide Leonelli
Davide, locked accounts?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yan, yep same here.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I think Davide means that it doesn't work on private feeds. I'm using FF's public API so it won't work for private entries. I'll take a look at the Chrome issue.
- chrisofspades
well I figured out why it doesn't work in Chrome (http://dev.chromium.org/develop...), but I can't find a fix. sorry guys.
- chrisofspades
"Could this be standard in FF - without installing anything?" LOL, it is standard in the old friendfeed!
- Mr. Gunn
Maybe this could be added to beta.friendfeed as a new feature??
- Chris Loft
Installed! awesome!
- Justin Korn
OK, thanks, Chris.
- Kol Tregaskes
johnpiercy wins the intertubes
- mjc
Amazing!
- Sweyn Venderbush
♥♥♥♥♥
- Pixie
Chris (chrisofspades): http://beta.friendfeed.com/micahwi... Thanks!
- Micah
OK, this is a good example to resume the lost favicon~
- K.D.
I love Greasemonkey.
- Robert Scoble
Between this, AJ's Cleaner Friendfeed, and pausing realtime, it's actually starting to become usable for me. Just need to work on easily finding everything I want and I'll be all set. (don't worry, I am working on that one myself)
- April Russo
Yay. I gotz in the screenshot.
- zeroinfluencer
Added it to http://friendfeed.com/rooms.... Anymore out there?
- zeroinfluencer
chrisofspades is working on a new release with some code I contributed to get the icons insertion working in realtime. Stay tuned!
- Micah
Updated to include realtime support! many thanks to Micah. Note: There will be a popup if you install this version that says you don't have the current version. Just ignore that for now. This should be accurate for any future versions though.
- chrisofspades
Right on!
- Micah
Misconfigured scriptId value - please don't install until amended. A new comment will update the status of the fix. Thank you for your patience. UPDATE: FIXED!
- Micah
UPDATED again to fix error in Micah's comment above
- chrisofspades
UPDATED to work on new live site. no more beta!
- chrisofspades
<cry> I can no longer see them in the iPhone feed, but at least this script, updated to look at 'regular' url still gives the fix needed for full service use !
- David HC Soul
Works well with Cleaner FriendFeed :) Thanks!
- AJ Batac
Weirdly for me it doesn't always include icons for twitter posts. For many it just has a lock icon on twitter posts.
- Quasar
Quasar, all twitter posts? it's possible some of them are coming from a private feed.
- chrisofspades
Can't believe it's come to this to get back an important visual clue when trying to process a real-time stream of updates. C'mon, Felicia Day says she wants the icons back. That's good enough for me! http://ff.im/2x34Z
- Ryan
Ahh. It's not all twitter posts where the icons don't appear, its just all posts made from imaginary friends (no matter what service it comes from). Can't remember if that was true pre the new FF.
- Quasar
UPDATED by Micah for greasekit compability and better performance.
- chrisofspades
This should be a standard option in FF (along with CleanerFF) - toggle on/off options??
- Allan Besselink
This has started becoming intermittent on FF :( :sad panda: is it the themes?
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
which theme are you using zu? and which version of the script?
- chrisofspades
I'm using the Flowers theme, along with AJ's "Cleaner FriendFeed w/themes support" but the "FFbeta Service Icons" script doesn't mention a version number
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Finally! Service icons even if its a script. One feature I sorely miss from the old FF. Why the reluctance to bring it back?
- The Fat Oracle
Zu, try uninstalling the one you have, and updating it with the one here http://userscripts.org/scripts..., or with Micah's latest version here http://ff.im/3ibSK
- chrisofspades
How do we edit links in posts after they've been posted?
Fake, Jérôme, Isha (Marysia) and 3 other people liked this
Unfortunately, that is broken right now. We will fix it ASAP.
- Bret Taylor
Cool, thanks!
- DeWitt Clinton
How quick is ASAP - it's still broken and it's nearly a week later?
- Isha (Marysia)
Still broken. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Bret, what do you mean by "broken"? When the new bookmarklet appeared approx. 2 weeks ago, post urls were fully editable (unlike earlier version), amendable, replaceable. WHICH WAS PERFECT. Then you changed back to previous behavior by the looks of it, decoupling title string and link and "protecting" the latter from our grubby hands. Is that what you call broken, and thus full editability is coming back?
- ianf ⌘
Links are still not editable in entries shared from the bookmarklet...
- Jérôme
(w/link): My suggestions for how news orgs can organize, add value to the new ecosystem of news emerging in Iran. Yours? http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009...
Tweet Feeds liked this
In a story such as Iran, the live blogs are superior to articles: process v. product. The new atomic unit of journalism rises.
Tweet Feeds, Stanton Teters and Brandon Mendelson liked this
We just launched a "Secret email address" service that makes it possible to post to groups anonymously from any email address. This is a bit of a power-user feature, but it's a very useful for automated posting from scripts, forwarding email (e.g. customer service email), etc.
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Goro Prask, Rammeh Belkis, Monique Wooten and 202 other people liked this
Here at the office, we use it to forward all of our mercurial changelog emails, server push notifications, etc to a private group. That way, we all see what's going on in real-time (thanks to the notifier: http://friendfeed.com/setting...), and can easily discuss them from the FriendFeed interface. To add a secret email address, click on "Import a service" in the "settings" dialog of any group. For regular posting, you should continue to use the normal email interface though (share@friendfeed.com or groupname@friendfeed.com, see http://friendfeed.com/share... for details). Thanks to Tudor for writing and launching this!
- Paul Buchheit
Shhh! This is very sekret!
- Andrew Trinh
Interesting. My secret FriendFeed toy.
- phil baumann
I'm in my Private Group, but for the life of me I cannot find this option. Wouldn't it be under Edit Settings?
- Nick in Manila
Ah. NOW I see it.
- Nick in Manila
I am loving this feature idea... Very savvy for business use. Thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Matthew: No. Your home feed only shows things that you're subscribed to. Of course, if you're a member of a group whose admin allows anonymous posting, and you have that group on your home feed, then the anonymous posts will show up there -- but then, you can always leave the group or remove it from your home feed.
- Tudor Bosman
oh this is genius. there's so many use cases that can leverage this. platform +1
- Sameer
Groups already allow "anonymous" posts -- if you (as an admin) add a service to a group, posts originating from that service will show as belonging to the room, not to any particular user. You can think of anonymous posts (whether imported from RSS services, or posted by email) as being the responsibility of the group admins -- it's their job to police them if they deem necessary.
- Tudor Bosman
I see this working for the Confessions room. What else?
- Josh Haley
Sounds like the email can be sent from any arbitrary email address, not necessarily one registered with FriendFeed for an account? So the secret really needs to be kept secret to valid potential posters only.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Logical Extremes: Yes, that is the point; it doesn't matter what address you send *from*. Sometimes you can't control the address that mail gets sent from. A few examples: your datacenter can notify you by email of any problems affecting your servers, but you'd prefer these notifications to go to a FriendFeed group. You are subscribed to a low-volume distribution list, but you'd rather...
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- Tudor Bosman
Paul has explained how we use this feature internally at FriendFeed. If one of us checks in a change (we use Mercurial for source control), Mercurial sends an email to a secret email address for a private group (that all FF engineers are subscribed to); the others see the change immediately, and we can discuss it in comments.
- Tudor Bosman
Cool! Very useful for room owners. If you don't have instructions, it's very hard to find. "Sekret"
- AJ Batac
LD: I don't understand. To which of my examples are you referring?
- Tudor Bosman
Oh yeah. Laughing uncontrollably. WOW.
- Webferret
It sounds like a pro-spam feature. Have you thought through all the consequences?
- Tim Tyler
Tim: the group admins should keep the address secret and only share it with trusted services. If the address gets leaked, then the group can get spammed, in which case the group admins can delete it or change it (which prevents all future mail to the old address from being posted to the group). We believe it to be reasonably secure, but please let us know if you notice any problems.
- Tudor Bosman
Matthew: :)
- Tudor Bosman
Ahsan, that's a bug that already existed with how searches handle imported content in groups (not specific to this release and already on our list, thanks).
- Dan Hsiao
LD: You're right, you can't reply from within FriendFeed. You could have the contact form send email to both the internal group and a regular email address, which you can then use to send a reply.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: btw. regarding mercurial, what's your experience using mercurial in friendfeed vs perforce in google?
- Amund Tveit
Tudor - what I really like is the business use cases you're laying out here, including your own internal engineering ones. Good stuff, as my e2.0 buddy Sameer above says.
- Hutch Carpenter
using this feature to post blog uptime statistics for several blog to blog owners
- Jeroen De Miranda
Its a good feeling when you know that the people behind a certain product know what there doing. Dont we FF Team?
- Webferret
Use case? How can one use the best readily filtering system available (Gmail filters) with best of breed group collaboration (Friendfeed). This is GOING to become the best in its class. I can drop so many business tools(that i pay for) for just FF Private rooms
- Webferret
Already is Webferret, already is...
- Chris Heath
sweet
- D Lets
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007...
- Webferret
Amund: Mercurial works. We use it in a mostly-centralized setup (one central repo that we sync to very often). Can't really compare performance -- our repositories are tiny compared to Google's. We can take this offline if you'd like to discuss this in more detail.
- Tudor Bosman
That's a great add-on. Slowly, FF is going to be our "life center"
- Özkan Altuner
So this is kinda like when you posted the "advert"? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: not quite; the "shameless self-promotion" showed up as an entry in your home feed, without any user (or group) name attached to it. Entries imported into a room (via RSS or via email) show up as being in that room.
- Tudor Bosman
OK, Tudor. I'll give it a test later. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is a cool idea, but it only seems to import the mail subject title only. Is that right, if so, how do we get the content of the mail in, or is it not meant to do that?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Keith: it works for me. The subject goes in the main post (FF thread title?) and the message appears as a comment to the thread. Maybe you are sending an HTML e-mail?
- alieb
Cheers alieb, I just tested it by forwarding the first mail in my inbox and that didn't show anything up. Creating a mail and adding some text to the mail body works correctly. Thanks for the help.
- Keith Bennett
I just figured out a new use for this feature and it goes in line with Kevin Rose's idea for an Open Source security system. http://www.facebook.com/video... He was talking about having a neighborhood watch like program. Well each neighborhood can have a private room here in FF. If someone tripped an alarm in your house, it would send an email to the secret email for the private group and everyone in the group could be notified via email,IM,SMS,etc.
- BRҰANSAҰS
I think this secret address should be reminded somewhere in each group settings window.
- Zackatoustra
@Bryan Lee. shhhh lol
- Webferret
Zacaktoustra: group admins will see the address in the "services" window (click "add/edit" under Services in the settings dialog). Other group members will only see the words "secret email address", as, well, the address is supposed to be secret and only visible to admins.
- Tudor Bosman
could we have this for home feeds as well? some 3rd party messaging services will send from various addresses. great feature, thanks!
- Mike Chelen
I'm blonde so maybe need to tell you what I'd like to do and see if it works: I would like to have my ATT mail, my Yahoo mail AND my gmail all feed into a FF room so I could read it all at the same time (ATT and Yahoo are partnered so you can't sign into both at the same time. Both go through Yahoo's sign in page.) Is this possible to create? Having ATT and Yahoo feed into my Gmail through FF would be okay as well, btw. I get FF feeds through GMail already.
- Molly
Molly, what you're asking for is totally unrelated to this thread. If i was you I would set up gmail to receive the mail from your other email addresses. It's a bit complicated but can be done. Try reading this lifehacker gmail article first: http://lifehacker.com/374610...
- Chris Heath
Well said Heath
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Heath, thanks. I told you I'm blonde. :-P I tried your suggestion already and so far haven't been able to hook ATT and Yahoo to my Gmail (both being POP accounts) w/o paying extra. Will work on it again later. It's not THAT much trouble to check all three accounts from different sources.
- Molly
from email
Molly, another option (if att offers it - i know yahoo does) is to set up forwarding so the email is automatically forwarded from ATT and Yahoo to your gmail address. Then once in gmail you can use filtering (by the to: field) to separate out the emails
- Chris Heath
I think that's the paid service from Yahoo. At least it was when I investigated it a few months ago. Thanks for thinking about it for me, though. Us techblondes need all the help we can get re: setting stuff up. I'm kind of on hold right now anyway (trying to recover my domain name and identity....... long story and boring to all but me). Molly
- Molly
from email
Wow! This is awesome! Thanks.
- Svartling
cool neat improvements, gotta like this shit.
- Dorothy Mercredi
ffcheck Bookmarklet - http://ffcheck.com/
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"The ffcheck bookmarklet gives you a quick way to find out if there are any existing items on FriendFeed related to the web page you're viewing. Simply drag the bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar, then whenever you click the link a list of FriendFeed items will be overlaid onto the page you're viewing. For a demo, just click the "ffcheck" link. You should see a list of all the items related to this page. [Note that as of 3/19 all the existing FriendFeed items point to http://www.kshep.net/ffcheck] ffcheck The bookmarklet executes the JavaScript found at http://ffcheck.com/javascript, which in turn passes the URL of the page you're viewing to the FriendFeed API (http://friendfeed.com/api...). It parses the JSON returned by the API, populates a list, and adds a <div> containing that list to the current document. As of 3/18/2009 the bookmarklet is only 12hrs old and has only been tested on Firefox 3.0.7, Chrome 2.0.169.1, and the Safari 4 Public Beta 528.16 (all on Windows XP). "
- Susan Beebe
from Bookmarklet
ffcheck Bookmarklet is an awesome idea!
- Susan Beebe
w00t, great job Susan, I wanted something with that particular flavor.
- Zu from AOD
Feedly firefox plugin does something similar. It gives you the most popular FF conversation about the current page.
- Meryn Stol
awesome idea!!! very useful!
- AJ Batac
Meryn - I agree, this is very similar to Feedly in function, but only scratches at the surface. Feedly does way more.
- Susan Beebe
Great idea! I would love to see this functionality included in the FF core application
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I wish Feedly worked in Chrome. FFcheck is a nice alternative.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is awesome :)
- Andrew Davis
Holy crap, Feedly looks frickin' awesome! I may start using Google Reader again.
- ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
I like this bookmarklet and have used feedly mini before. Feedly doesn't do a good job in finding entries on friendfeed because it only searches on title (I think). This bookmarklet uses the link itself and somehow also works with shortened urls.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Excellent way to prevent multiple posts!
- Jacque
Has Twitter Killed Blogging? Scoble Hasn't Posted In 5 Days!!! - http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt...
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Twitter improved blogging by providing a way to share great articles. Twitter didn't kill blogging, Scoble might have killed blogging by being called a top blogger. He rarely publishes anything good, yet many people call him a blogger. He is also killing FriendFeed by explaining it as some kind of forum/message board. Scoble is still stuck in Web 1.0 thinking and spending so much time...
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- Tweet Feeds
Interesting. To me there's still the issue of control and ownership of content when it comes to leaving a blog behind for social network sites, and the other issue is: Why would you need to post frequently to maintain your status?
- Brandon Mendelson
It's certainly interesting that Scoble publishes less and less. But i have to wonder (Since I haven't known Robert very long) is it twitter and friendfeed that slows his articles, or his fascination with video (that seems to grow).
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Cultural differences between the US and the UK
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The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight.
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Classic...
- Rob Kramer
That says it all
- Darrell Bell
So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!"
- April Buchheit
+++April
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it?
- Hiro Asari
You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them
- Ryan Gerritsen
What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean?
- Gabe
Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones.
- Tim Tyler
World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?!
- Benoit Cazenave
"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland
- tomavana
I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it.
- thepete
thepete: passed or failed?
- Gabe
that was really great kevin :)
- Alp
Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list?
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hilarious!
- Vera Hannaford
crushingly depressing. ugh.
- daisy
World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that?
- ialla
Hehe
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Excellent catch! :)
- Özkan Altuner
The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :)
- Ian
sad, but funny
- Rick Cogley
Proud to be an American! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Don't need no stinkin' facts...
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
But it's got a red button!
- Brian Bufalo
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
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- 拓 | wavesand
from email
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Lol Amanda
- AJ Batac
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
“I visited Kevin Marks at Google today. Here's the video of what he showed me: hhttp://www.blip.tv/file... -- how to make your blog more social by adding FriendConnect to it. More details shortly here:” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
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This is the kind of video I'd like to do for Building43. Wonder whether you like more how to videos, like this one? I think this will be an important part of what we'll do on Building43.
- Robert Scoble
this is a good thing, forget the mystery stuff, this is good stuff, but am sure the genius/bozo that is paying for building 43 wants more than this. This is the correct thing to do, its on point and not mainstream, but is potent. we want more of this type of videos, more how tos!!!
- Tweet Feeds
I didn't get to see the VIDEO! Someone STOLE it :)
- Sheryl
No video in oz either?--Maybe steve J grabbed it!
- Bob Heath
The video was removed from blip tv? Is it available elsewhere?
- Web Pixie
I don't know why this video disappeared off of Blip.tv but it's also up on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Robert Scoble
What's the point of installing a game onto the Xbox hard drive if you still have to insert the game disc every time you want to play it? #ass
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faster seek times id imagine
- sean percival
You don't have to hear the DVD drive while playing the game and games load much faster, but yeah I agree it's lame. Content management lameness.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What games do you have?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I don't see how you can be negative on something you couldn't do at all until six months ago. Of course, you could always play just downloadable games.
- Richard Lawler
Anthony just bought his 360, Richard. It's all new to him.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@richard - there are undoubtedly a lot of pointless things I can do now that I couldn't have six months ago.
- Anthony Citrano
except, it's clearly not pointless. @alex - how long have pc games installed and still required the disc? The question is what, 15 years late?
- Richard Lawler
Richard, on the PC it's very easy to turn off that requirement. Not so on the 360.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@richard - back when i was on the Wintel platform, I can't recall a time when I had installed a game (or any application, for that matter) on the HDD and still needed to insert the DVD/CD every time I wanted to play/use it. but it's been a while, so maybe they've since gone stupid. i've also never encountered this on a Mac.
- Anthony Citrano
I think it was a requirement for Diablo II, for one example, but it was so easy to negate that requirement by dropping a replacement executable.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I really don't think you never played a game with a disc check Anthony, unless you never played PC games. Sim city/The sims? Half Life? Quake? Starcraft? Theme Park? .....pretty much any game that ever shipped on CD. Yes you could hack it, but it was still there. The same thing existed for mac games. Maybe you didn't know it was a disc check?
- Richard Lawler
@richard: Maybe I'm just forgetting. Never played any of thise -- the last PC game I played was Empire Earth. Don't remember a disc check on that. Anyway, it's still dumb. Apps should not do this (and thankfully, the vast majority of them don't.)
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
*shrug* at least in this case, you have the option not to install altogether. In the vast majority of history of PC games and in the case of some PS3 games, it requires an install and a disc check. Playing disc based games without the disc? not on consoles yet.
- Richard Lawler
This is the illogical world we live in thanks to media studios.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@cristo - that's my point; imagine if every time you launched an MS Office app you had to insert the DVD. (p.s.: games *are* software) ;-p
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
*facepalm*
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Richard: I hear you, but might quibble with your "vast majority" statement.. In the "history of PC gaming", optical media (which this practice seems to be uniquely tied to) has only been around for about a third of it. But to your point about consoles, yes, in the old days, the idea of playing a "cartridge" game without the cartridge was unheard of.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Ehh, anthony I don't know, although I was talking about just disc games this kinda thing existed on older games too, albeit even more easily beaten. All the games I played as a kid were cracked, but I didn't realize it until I was older.
- Richard Lawler
Chris - I completely agree, there's no one lazier when it comes to discs than me. My #1 love of Netflix streaming is the lack of discs and/or hard drive space for storage. But I'm looking forward from the persepctive of "we're stuck with this antiquated disc delivery system this generation, at least there's an option to let them load faster if I want to do it" instead of looking back from a disc-check free future I haven't had the pleasure of experiencing -outside of Steam- yet.
- Richard Lawler
Another reason this sucks is if you have an Xbox like mine that likes to carve rings into DVDs and ruin them... (see: http://friendfeed.com/home-th... and http://friendfeed.com/home-th... )
- Anthony Citrano
I feel your pain, Mr. Citrano :-/
- Richard Walker
There's nothing sexier than a woman who's into physics and astronomy.
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I can think of a few things, but any woman that has an enthusiasm for anything can be intoxicating whether it is astronomy, music, poetry or daydreaming
- RAPatton
Yeah, I might be exaggerating a bit, but still...
- Michael McKean
I wouldn't go so far as 'anything', RAP.
- Andrew C (✓)
Doh! Now I know what I did wrong!!! ;)
- Sheryl
"There's nothing sexier than a woman who's into physics and astronomy... and me." Fixed!
- Absentee
I don't think a woman being into James does anything for me.
- Andrew C (✓)
Well, I'll settle for 2 out of 3.
- Michael McKean
Took four minutes of walking around before someone offered me weed.
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Golden Gate Park?
- Paul Buchheit
Twitter "head" quarters? http://twitter.com/al3x...
- Karim
I'm guessing: http://www.phish.com/tourdat...
- Benjamin Golub
It's a good time to remind everyone that all my photos are in the public domain. Here's more details:
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You can use them for any reason without giving me credit.
- Robert Scoble
I do this as my gift. I spend thousands of dollars doing my photography, but feel it's important to give them away because this industry gives me so much.
- Robert Scoble
Credit too goes to my employer, right now Rackspace, but previously Microsoft, Podtech, Fast Company, because they subsidize my efforts here.
- Robert Scoble
And we thank you very much :)
- Simon Wicks
That's a very 'Scoble-like' thing to do. Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
Wish Scott Bourne did the same, he is a real tight-bastard when it comes to his photographs.
- David Lloyd
I'd say that is a very Google like thing to do. Now if we only knew what your secret sauce was... :-)
- Ivan Stegic
Ivan: Yeah, but if it had been Google, the pictures would all be in beta!! :)
- Jim Connolly
Wow! So will you ever give your equipment away for free too?
- Andrew Acomb
Andrew: nope. Keep in mind that almost none of my photos have been processed. 60% of the beauty of Ansel Adams photos was done in the darkroom so you can, indeed, consider my work "beta."
- Robert Scoble
You shall be henceforth known as "Noble Scoble" in my books ;). Seriously, thanks for your generosity.
- Colin Clarke
Is there a link to your photos? I'd love to check them out!!
- Brian J. Reeves
I don't really know that your shots need much processing. You have good equipment, so things are always razor-sharp, but you also have a natural eye for composition. Plus, you tend toward the editorial mode of expression. In fact, irrespective of who's paying your way, I could make the case that you're a journalist - as much an honest evaluator as Mike Arrington or Dave or Louis. So...
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- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I love the public domain!
- Steve McLelland
Brian: http://www.flickr.com/scoblei... is where my photos are.
- Robert Scoble
awesome, that's the right spirit, thanks for doing the decent thing.
- Tweet Feeds
Gee thanks...and this is why we get crap like this https://friendfeed.com/rodfath... I should stage a friendfeed protest against Robert's photo copyright policy.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Nice!
- Hutch Carpenter
Robert, very generous! Thanks!
- Scott Loftesness
All I gotta say is OHRAH Scoble! I'm in the Navy and its good to see the Navy getting all the great support. :)
- Colide81 (James)
from fftogo
James: when great organizations open up their greatness is revealed. I'm glad I had this opportunity.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I went out on a similar trip to yours about 10 years ago - USS Constellation CV-64 - now retired. A former captain of the Connie took us out - we got the red carpet treatment! He commanded the Connie at Yankee Station during the Vietnam War - from January 1966 - December 1966. I'll never forget the COD landing - and departure - and the night landings out by the "meatball". Like you, I came away with a new found respect for all on-board. An amazing experience! Fly Navy Jets!
- Scott Loftesness
Scott: one of the people who was touring with us was a former F-18 pilot who flew on the Constellation. He had lots of stories and added a lot to the tour.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: This is truly a great thing, and this thread clearly shows just how much your efforts are appreciated.....Well done mate!
- Clifford Kennedy
thanks your photos are wonderful
- Patrizia Filippetti
Robert: That's great to know. You do great work in that regard, and its good to see how much you give back to the people who appreciate your work. I've know a few great bands who did things like this, and I have to say, they were (are) some of the best marketers ever. Nice Job. :-) Thanks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
It would be nice if Flickr actually allowed you to put them into the public domain. Why Flickr does not have a public domain option by the way: http://www.flickr.com/help...
- Thomas Hawk
Rob and Tom are good blokes
- David Lloyd
Good move. Thanks, I did not know but I appreciate it.
- Eric - seven eleven
Why public domain and not Creative Commons? Just curious.
- Blake
Where can all your photos be found scoble? Are they all on your flickr page? thanks!
- Jason Pollock
Jason: yup, all on Flickr. I am paying for a SmugMug account too, but haven't moved them over there yet.
- Robert Scoble
My account is http://www.flickr.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I used one of your photos that you took at TechCrunch HQ for a blog post I did (I didn't ask you though). Just though I might let you know, and that I really appreciate that you're doing this :-)
- Michael Forian
The only photos I don't let everyone have are one's in newspapers, magazines, clients websites... it's a contractual thing. Then again - they don't belong to me either - even though I took them. Oh, one more thing: I'm not a professional photographer - so it's not like anyone wants my photos other than to share a picture of themselves! *giggle* Feel free to take, use, abuse, and enjoy any of my photos here, on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
- Arleen Boyd
Arleen: I even give my photos to the newspapers. My photos of John Edwards with his mistress could have sold and brought me some nice change, but I gave them to them too. That photo has been on TV dozens of times. Ole: in America you are allowed to use photos of people you take in public for non commercial reasons. So, if someone wanted to use these photos in an ad they would need to...
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- Robert Scoble
You and your crazy get-rich-quick schemes, Rob!
- David Lloyd
You should at least get credit! check this out: http://worldsgreatphotos.blogspot.com
- Lawrence Jose Sinclair
Good stuff - I just looked at your Flickr stream and posted 4 of yours here: http://godsgolfball.blogspot.com - that's Capt Beefhearts music prod. co name!
- Lawrence Jose Sinclair
Dudes in tight jeans...stylish or not?
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I think so. Baggy jeans aren't really me. I guess I'm a mix of regular and tight.
- Michael Forian
Just 'cause something's in style doesn't mean it looks good :-/. To wit, really skinny guys in really skinny jeans.
- Sue Radd
Dudes in tight jeans...not stylish
- Tweet Feeds
Depends on the dude.
- Rochelle
which dude? pics please ;)
- BEX
"Can't wear skinny jeans cuz my knots don't fit."
- c.a.j.
I totally have skinny jeans and thus far most ppl like them on me.
- Justin Yost
Sweet jesus no.
- Soup in a TARDIS
What Sue said. The rehashed skinny jeans look does not look good on anyone. It actually looks worse than the overly baggy and saggy pants. Now just tight jeans...it depends on the guy and situation for them to be "stylish".
- Anika
Depends.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
depends on the ass.
- Nathalie
oh. you said stylish. uh. well. not really.
- Nathalie
form fitting but not tight. comfy.
- MicahBear78
Ditto Abby M.
- Ayşe E.
If a dude can where really tight jeans, you gotta wonder where he's putting his junk.....so what, I'm 12. Sue me. LOL.
- Rahsheen?
Depends on the hair. Particularly, Def Leppard hair to make it a win.
- Adrian
For me, every day is in tight jeans... *sigh*
- Johnny
I'm thinking about doing a podcast that brings together policy, society & culture, with some tech and business sprinkled in. Interesting interviews, etc. I'm curious - other than instant audience, is there any other reason to team up with a terrestrial radio station or network?
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Good question. If you are looking for funding outside of your home office style podcast, Often terrestrial media exposure can help. If you are looking at grants, having an intent to distribute in old media can help as well. Just make sure to be clear about what your goals for the purpose of the podcast are. Are you filling a need (or fixing a pain, to use the sales/Management perspective) or are you playing to your own vanity?
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
thanks, Gina. Don't care about $. The goal would be the same as it has been with several of my online and realspace ventures: to curate and catalyze transdisciplinary conversations among very interesting people.
- Anthony Citrano
The biggest issue you run into is infrastructure. Radio stations tend to have hardware to allow for multiple types of inputs (phone lines, Skype, ISDN from other studios). Having the ability to only record on one input (say Skype only) leaves you at it's mercy. For example, Leo Laporte on TWiT, if Skype quality is unreliable, he can have the guest call in by phone.
- Johnny
We talked about this (the interview issue) in another thread, Johnny - there is some very reasonably priced hardware out there that will let you mix these types of inputs pretty nicely. See: http://friendfeed.com/acitran...
- Anthony Citrano
Thanks Anthony, I'll check it out
- Johnny
Well, there's no guarantee of an instant audience. That should be said (I blog for a major metro paper and speak from experience.) Second, the benefit is the credibility you get. If you pitch to someone as a BTR Host and then as a host with a traditional radio station, you are way more likely to be given access to guests and review items. This is changing, but not fast enough. Since we live in a trust economy, credibility is everything.
- Brandon Mendelson
@Brandon, thank you for that. In my instance I'm not worried about access to guests. (By that I mean: I understand that it's critical but I don't anticipate having any big issues in that regard.) But generally speaking that's excellent advice for any upstart podcast.
- Anthony Citrano
Thank you Anthony. I look forward to seeing what you come up with for the podcast.
- Brandon Mendelson
Well, Brandon, it may end up as nothing - but I've been threatening to start another conference of late, and this may be an easier way to scratch that itch.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Do it!
- Michael Fidler
I have little patience for people who might catch a few minutes of network news every once in a while and who've never cracked open a book since high school, yet somehow believe that they are still "informed" about the world around them.
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And don't even get me started on these dolts who've never left the safety of the same town they've lived in their whole lives, yet seem supremely certain about how people living in other parts of the world should live, especially when their entire world travel experience consists of a weekend down at the beach.
- Steven Perez
What's the best setup for recording landline (not VOIP) telephone interviews for later use / editing in a podcast? Envisioned situation: interviewer uses a Snowball USB mic at a Mac Pro wearing headphones. Remote interviewee just talks on regular phone like a normal human. I imagine it'd require some kind of mixboard + a phone jack??
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use skype out? You can also use a softphone on a PC or Mac to call any landline phone and record at the computer end.
- Alex Scrivener
Alex - thanks, man - but as I said I'd really prefer to stay away from VOIP. As cool as we geeks all think it is, in my experience, the voice quality is unpredictable, unreliable, and low-grade. (Unless one springs for commercial solutions, that is.)
- Anthony Citrano
I can't think of another way without dedicated recording hardware. If you are willing to get some new hardware, they make phones with recording built in.
- Alex Scrivener
or http://www.callcorder.com/ It's PC only and I have no experience with it.
- Alex Scrivener
@Alex: I know it will require dedicated hardware, that's why I mentioned a mixboard. ;) I'm wondering *which* mixboard... 8-p
- Anthony Citrano
BTW, gotta love FriendFeed - I solicit ideas for a non-VOIP, Mac-compatible, dedicated hardware solution ... I get, in order: a VOIP suggestion; a PC-only suggestion; then a warning that this might require dedicated hardware. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
@Glen - thanks.. re: VOIP, no reasons beyond what I already said, which admittedly reflect only my own experiences... but I've had Vonage service forever and it's pretty bad, and the last time I gave Skype any real chance (about a year ago) it was merely passable.
- Anthony Citrano
Go to RadioShack (or any Electronics store) buy one of the old-school suction-cup phone microphones that sticks onto the back of the phone headset, plug it into your recorder. Voila.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Why not a modified solutions: call your interviewee on a landline and then three way in to a recordable conference call.
- FFing Enigma
It's pretty weird/interesting that there doesn't seem to be an elegant solution... I mean, radio producers have been doing it flawlessly for almost fifty years...
- Anthony Citrano
If you choose to drop 10k+ on a broadcast level solution, I'm sure there's an elegant one out there =)
- FFing Enigma
@Tina I doubt it would require $10k, and I haven't seen one suggested here at any price.
- Anthony Citrano
Perhaps because none of us so far have worked in a radio production environment. Why not place a call to your local public radio station to ask what they use?
- FFing Enigma
@Tina - perhaps I will ring up a radio friend.. but there are radio and other media people reading this right now who are too lazy to sign up for FF and comment. You know who you are! ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Ahhh... Now that's a different problem altogether.
- FFing Enigma
Here is one device recommended to me by a media friend who (like many) is too chicken to post here: http://www.bswusa.com/prodite...
- Anthony Citrano
Chris - I want quality, though & I'm betting the DropIO bridge will sound like crap.. also, folks, another good recent tutorial: http://podcastanswerman.com/jkaudio...
- Anthony Citrano
Something like this will take your pull your phone audio out, then bring that into the Mac... http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...
- Christopher Aloi
Face recognition comes to Flickr | Webware - CNET - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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Without any big fuss, a face-recognition feature has been added to Flickr. The new feature was launched recently by Swedish start-up Polar Rose. It lets users import all their photos from a Flickr account to an account on Polar Rose, where the images are then automatically assembled into groups dedicated to various individuals. As with similar features in Google Picasa and Apple iPhoto, names eventually show up next to faces in the photos once the user has identified the faces. The labels then get sent back to the Flickr account. Polar Rose, founded by Swedish mathematician Jan Erik Solem in 2004, intends to license its technology to numerous Web sites.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
I wonder if it'll work any better than the crappy face recognition in iPhoto...
- Shawn C. Reed
trying this at Polar Rose right now. Not sure how well it's going to handle my trying to import almost 24,000 photos into the site.
- Thomas Hawk
I saw Hakan Dahlstrom use it and thought "FINALLY"
- Shevonne
it's still "processing" my images after several hours now. I'm not so sure this thing is going to work for me.
- Thomas Hawk
I think I will wait till Flickr implements this internally. Surely they will have to implement it at some stage.
- CJPhoto
Google should have developed a face recognition system out of Picasa Web Albums. An API or something. They could have offered a way to identify faces on your PC, on Google Image, on FriendConnect-enabled websites and even Street View 2.0.
- Jérôme
Giving it a try now. Estimates 30 minutes to process my 900 photos.
- Andy Roth
No estimate for m 24,000 photos. simply a "processing your photos" progress bar with no progress indicated.
- Thomas Hawk
There aren't any faces in my Flickr stream, however I do use the face recognition in Picasa Web Albums and it works very well.
- Kenton
I'm alpha testing the face.com Photo Finder in Facebook, and that process seems less complex (at least to the user). Rather than explicitly telling you that Facebook photos are being exported to a separate account, Photo Finder allows you to appear to remain in Facebook as your photos are being processed.
- John E. Bredehoft
Same here... hours later, and still processing. Hmmm.
- Herb Hernandez
Herb, how many pictures do you have?
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
24,000 pictures at once ? going by Andy's estimate, 13 hours worth. plus (hopefully) a 100% penalty for being silly enough to do so many at once.
- martin english
my ff crashed & facebook account would not let back in 4 now, thats ff's problems, I need 2 try w/Windows. I was using Kubuntu, one of the flavor of Ubuntu.
- polou/indigo_bow
so far Polar Rose has performed poorly in recognising other instances of the same person, though it generally knows when there is a face in the photo (although it also spends quite a lot of time asking me if rocks, lights, twigs, shadows etc are people)
- Ned Baker
so far I'm very unimpressed with Polar Rose. I checked it today and it only imported about 2,200 of my 24,000 photos. Worse than that though, performance on the site is awful. I keep getting a Firefox error message about an unresponsive script taking too long. They don't segregate out which of your photos have people in them vs. photos that do not so you are paging endlessly looking at thumbnails that are way to large to try and even find a photo you've got with a photo in it. Not at all user friendly.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm wary of apps like these now. I tried out Fotonaut several weeks ago and the app silently deleted my tags.
- jho
Tried again on Win7beta, hmm, face recognition r precise. I am mixed about these kinds of recognition unless they r used for login or security or confirm friendship purposes??? What do u folks think??
- polou/indigo_bow
What do I think? Disclosure - I am employed in the biometrics industry. However, I assert that the possibility of Big Brother ganging up on the populace is remote. For example, after 9/11, it took YEARS for the FBI and DHS to exchange data.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I believe the military has been doing this for a while.
- anna sauce
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