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Facebook Memology: Top Status Trends of 2009 #fb - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
I think the only real meme on that list was FML, which is kinda "fail". =) http://knowyourmeme.com/
- Kari Silvennoinen
I was actually expecting a lot more Copenhagen stuff. Many of my friends sure went overboard on that one.
- Vincent van Wylick
Yeah, but that study was just about U.S. status updates.
- Kari Silvennoinen
I damaged a tooth headbangin' on this song back in '93 http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...
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I definitely remember getting neck cramps from it, but I haven't reached your headbanging cult-status :)
- Vincent van Wylick
It seems there are never any discussions on FriendFeed. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?
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Unfortunately, discussions here have gone south... Vocal users have moved to twitter, but there discussions are lost. And then, there's facebook -IFAIC, I try to keep it "private"...
- Panayotis Vryonis
Nope, *plenty* of discussion here. It's when you're not around that you miss it.
- Itachi
There was an article about how FF's quality has gotten better recently. I don't see it either, which brings a tear to my eye. We had some great, deep discussions on topics over here. That was Friendfeed to me, it was deeper engagement.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
And I can't give Scoble all the credit but clearly he was part of that...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Where DID Scoble go?!... things have gotten awful quiet.
- Thom Kennon
He fell in love with Twitter Lists and gave up on FF after Facebook acquired...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
*wonders if he has transformed into chopped liver*
- Morgan Haley
What kind of discussions are you looking for. We've been talking about the best Robin Hood all morning!
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
I agree. Little discussion here and every one I generate takes root elsewhere. I occasionally join one here, but conversation on FF has dwindled in everything I see.
- Ken Camp
See here's the problem I see here: There are people that I have rarely, if ever have seen in this thread. Dave Winer is a guy who is famous in the social media world. People often sign up and follow the feeds of Winer, Scoble, and the like and that's all they see. When Scoble leaves and others, they agree with them for saying FriendFeed is dead. However, to the contrary, it's very much...
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- Itachi
I think for some of these people if you aren't a techie, your conversations aren't that important. That's one thing I've noticed that has changed on FF. There is less of some things, but a lot more meaningful interaction among the people who have remained. The people still here are the ones who value a different type of personal interaction. FF is still very active and alive.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
dave - everyone moved to social median
- Allen Stern
I think there's a big difference between "tech" and "social media". People like Scoble often mix this up. There is plenty of "tech" discussion on Friendfeed. And I agree, with Junebug on that respect as well.
- Itachi
Dave, Jesse blogged this http://friendfeed.com/jessest... + http://friendfeed.com/jessest... . DeWitt is back http://friendfeed.com/dewitt... and Glen http://friendfeed.com/dewitt... is going strong. Also, Itachi (mohomed) has a good points.
- Micah Wittman
Maybe we just aren't talking about what you want to see? Your FriendFeed != My FriendFeed :)
- Johnny Worthington
Once again, the color of the speech bubbles are very telling here. Morgan, Micah, Johnny, Allen have blue. People I'm subscribed to. Names I recognize. The rest of you? White. What are you guys subscribed to, exactly?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Bingo, Rah. The less than active tend to be subscribed to only the A-listers of social media who they are familiar with. And who, alas, aren't active on Friendfeed.
- Itachi
the italian section of friendfeed is quite vocal...
- Alb.
The problem is Dave that many of the tech influentials, CEOs, programmers, journalists, etc spend their time elsewhere now. There are conversations but they are dramatically different than what were happening six months ago.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I think Itachi said it best earlier. The influentials and the like were the common glue (or routers so to speak) that joined various circles together. The routers are now gone, so now we are left with disconnected LANs. Each hold their value to that island but there much fewer bridges any more at least for the technical community.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
There are still some very interesting conversations that happen here - you just have to be subscribed to the right people. Follow some of the OpenID guys (Micah mentioned a few) - there is still a lot of conversation in that area that goes on here. It's a great conversations medium, much better than Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
I would argue many of the developers and programmers who used Friendfeed are still on here. Just because it's not the hot fad of the season doesn't mean it's dead. Slashdot isn't covered much by the social media kings, yet it's still alive and well.
- Itachi
Entries on my home feed with 3 or more comments: http://friendfeed.com/search.... You're welcome to modify the number to come up with your own definition of "discussion"
- Benjamin Golub
my FF has slowed down recently - people I used to have regular discussions with are either not as active, or not at the same time I am... as a result I use it less, and it probably trickles like that
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I think those people who formed a unique community on FriendFeed are noticing less of a change because their community is staying here. Those whose community exists outside of FriendFeed and merely uses FriendFeed as one channel of communication may find more volatility because it's easy to shift to the latest thing. Dave, as someone deep in the tech industry filled with early adopters (and early abandoners) your FriendFeed may be more adversely affected than others like myself.
- Kevin Fox
Dave subscribes to only 122 people -- maybe he needs to broaden his horizons?
- Brian Sullivan
My feed has never been busier, and I'm getting new subs every day. Of course, I'm not very techy so if you are, our paths might not cross.
- Derrick
Building on Benjamin Golub's search: here's the same thing, but for friends of Dave Winer: http://friendfeed.com/search... Looks like a bunch of discussions, several in the last couple of hours.
- Mark Trapp
I think everyone nailed it on this one... FF is no longer the holy land of social media zealot discussion, but has retained a very real connectivity to it surrounding non-tech and some-what tech individuals. IMO, Scoble and the like are not the celebs of current FF, but true wonderful characters like Derrick are becoming them in their absence. If left alone long enough this place could really be cool.
- SAM
Not all discussions are in the main feed either. There's a ton of active groups.
- Rodfather
Kevin should win an award or something for clarity of thought. And to throw in my two cents behind many of the others here, my feed is nuts. I often have to rely on a subset list along with RSS notices just to keep up. Also, unlike the last few months, I'm starting to see a lot of new subs recently. My guess is that FriendFeed is not dead; it was just tired after a long squawk. Seems to be perking up quite nicely now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
+1 Rodfather. Group discussions don't show up in the main feed unless someone cross-posts to their personal feed. Also, techy discussion is fairly limited these days, for the reasons previously mentioned. Mostly it's discussion about our personal lives, work or some article that may be about tech gadgets, but isn't really a technical discussion.
- Jason Huebel
Oh, and for one, I would like to see more tech-oriented discussions here. Sure, I'm all about the hyper-hangout that FriendFeed has become but I also miss the hardcore geek-outs that used to occur here. And I just seriously can't get my head around people having the same quality discussions about tech on Twitter that we used to have here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah, it's not possible to have a discussion on Twitter. I've posted some tech-oriented things recently and I'm beginning to move more toward geeky stuff in general, but a lot of my geekier discussions are in groups that don't make it into the main feed.
- Jason Huebel
I actually think the conversation streams and peeps have diversified from more hardcore tech to more cultural, art, cooking! not a bad thing. just a different tone and nature of the conversations. i still like that quote from a FF denizen who said "Facebook is where i hang out with people i already know. FriendFeed is where I hang out with people I'm getting to know." Speaking of FB -...
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- Thom Kennon
Dave, let's back up here... Looking at your feed, 99% of your posts are just imports from other services (mainly Twitter). Then you hop over to FriendFeed and say "why doesn't anyone discuss anything anymore?" It's because you aren't participating here. Gotta give something to get something. Commenting on your own Disqus imports isn't participation, either. I think the fact of the matter is that people don't feel an obligation to feed the geekeratti egos now that they've all but abandoned the service.
- Jason Huebel
The last reply you made to a post that wasn't your own was back on December 1st (http://friendfeed.com/chrisme...). Two weeks ago! And you haven't even replied to this post, which you made 3 hours ago.
- Jason Huebel
I also appreciate the fact that a large majority of users are having discussions in languages OTHER than English.
- Johnny Worthington
It's an elegant social network for a more civilized age.
- Goran Zec
Johnny, why?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Because it counters the thinking (or lack of thinking) of a few social media experts that places like FriendFeed and Twitter and other social networks only exists in western, English speaking countries...
- Johnny Worthington
Not everyone has an iPhone, not everyone can watch Hulu, not everyone can play Foursquare, not everyone has unlimited (uncapped) bandwidth, not everyone wants to know the news the second it happens, not everyone cares who someone reads and not everyone wants to talk tech 24/7. I like it outside the bubble :)
- Johnny Worthington
Maybe I do need to follow more people, but with the same number of followers there used to always be something interesting in FF to read about and comment on.
- Dave Winer
I also love the non-English. gives the place both a global feel - and reality. I have peeps, clients, etc. around the world and FriendFeed is our agreed great leveler.
- Thom Kennon
People you used to follow here have moved on to Twitter. Not many techies around these days. This leaves the rest, regular guys talking about regular stuff. But maybe this kind of discussions don't interest you.
- Jordi Soler
It's like a garden, if you don't tend to the garden bed, weeds will grow. If you don't prune your roses, you just have dead twigs.
- Johnny Worthington
@Thom and Johnny, I participate in the non-English posts fairly often. It's easier with FF Translate, even though I can only reply in English (and hope they can read it). Hey Micah, any chance you can make a translate thingamajig that goes the opposite direction? Translate my English to the language of the post?
- Jason Huebel
Jordi there are still a lot of Techies - follow Dewitt Clinton, myself, Chris Messina, Dave Recordon even some times participates. Then there's Paul, Bret, Benjamin, Kevin, etc. of the FF Team. Cristo's a techie. I could go on and on...
- Jesse Stay
In fact I probably participate with more techies than non on here.
- Jesse Stay
There are a ton of conversations here and some are tons more interesting than others. This one is interesting. The question is though if you are not having a conversation here - where are you hanging out lately?
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dave, I've been following you since at least 1995, and long before Friendfeed and Twitter. It was because of you that I heard about and joined Friendfeed and I regret the fact that it's lost its momentum since being absorbed into Facebook. There is still no substitute for what FF used to be. But the circus has left town now and there is no way of bringing it back. FF will continue and...
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- Tim Ostler
@Jesse: Perhaps I don't follow the right people then. Anyway, it was not a complaint, it was just a theory of what has happened to Friendfeed recently. More international content (myself) and more "social" posts. Which does not mean that there aren't any techies left. I'll follow your recommendations, thanks!
- Jordi Soler
I blame Facebook for all problems related to any lack of participation over here (j/k)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Although "blame" is a harsh word, the Facebook acquisition was a significant turning point. Whether that's a downturn or not is debatable, but that's when most of the tech-elite skipped town. I admit to feeling down-in-the-mouth occasionally because I miss the technical involvement of the FF devs. But there is still a lot of good discussion here. It's just not as technical in nature.
- Jason Huebel
Discussions are not missing. They're just harder to find.
- Louis Gray
Jason, it's worth a good hard think and discussion. Posting translated text is a thornier issue (thinking form the POV of the tool maker). It commits to record an imperfect source, with any successive translations further degrading the signal (copy of a copy). Maybe I'm overly concerned about it, but like I said - needs more discussion. Thanks for getting the ball rolling :)
- Micah Wittman
@kr8tr tried to hold a 30 min real-time Q&A yesterday via Twitter on "What's it like to be Scoble's boss". I bailed because little way to follow. Twitter search on "@kr8tr" kind of worked but you had to keep refreshing. Google search a little better. But it would have been ideal had he announced it on Twitter (where everybody is) and then pointed to Friendfeed for the Q&A. Not sure there's a better platform for that kind of rt discussion.
- Nick in Manila
Another prob with Twitter in above context is everyone is using different Twitter apps that regurgitate the firehose at different rates so some people see comments much later that others. On Friendfeed, the sequence is at least consistent across participants.
- Nick in Manila
Dave, you might need to broaden your interests.
- zeroinfluencer
Nick: I agree. One little datapoint, though. Since Facebook bought FriendFeed I've gained 14,000 followers on Twitter. That is more followers than all but five people on FriendFeed have. The reason Twitter is popular is, well, it's popular. I'm sad that FriendFeed lost out, but it did. Oh, and Facebook has similar threading to FriendFeed only you have to refresh the page to see new...
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- Robert Scoble
Robert, with the 14,000 new followers, is that a spike or did it follow natural upward trends?
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny: it's definitely going up faster lately due to new list feature.
- Robert Scoble
So do we assume conversations are "dying"? (Hate the word, every once in a while something "dies" in the internet...)
- Jordi Soler
It would also be helpful to evaluate the level of conversation that was here and has now left. Quantity != Quality
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
For each of us it depends who we are following and who is following us, and whether people with interests in discussing certain things overlap in time sufficiently with you to get a conversation going - I guess I need to change my follow profile
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:D
- ★ Soner Gönül
There's 59 comments and 32 likes on this thread. What are you looking for exactly? That said, I tend to read only the 1st and last comment in these long threads.
- Vincent van Wylick
Vincent you got me there. Of course I knew there would be 33 likes and a zillion comments on this when I posted it. I am such an unreasonable person and you could see that! Your mother must be so proud of her little Vincent. :-)
- Dave Winer
thats why i am out of here and spending my time in boredom ,reading or sleeping
- ffcode
Vincent, the reason there is so much activity on this thread is because the topic is Friendfeed, specifically lack of activity on Friendfeed. People will flock to a topic if they can prove it wrong.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
@Jason, that's a kind of cynical view, don't you think? This is a topic that's of common interest to everyone on FF. Most other posts are only interesting to smaller groups of people. That's not a bad thing. I think there is just a wider array of topics to talk about on FF now that tech evangelists have moved on. So the activity is spread out.
- Jason Huebel
And again, looking at your feed activity, you spend very little time interacting with others on FF. Most of your activity is importing from Facebook. So your experience isn't going to be as good as someone who actually shows interest in the posts of others here.
- Jason Huebel
I wasn't saying there aren't conversations to be found but I'm talking about his experience. He wasn't seeing any interactions on his posts until he posted about FF. Make your own conclusions.
- Jason Williams
Which is why I said "again". Dave Winer's interaction with other people's posts is minimal as well. He comments on his own posts all the time. But you'll never start a conversation if you only talk to yourself.
- Jason Huebel
Dave has obviously not visited the Life Scientists room :)
- Deepak Singh
it's a hard sell when you can't engage with your own content, for sure. I'm trying to be better at adding commentary as to why I thought it important enough to (re)post what I (re)post rather than leave it to a bunch of bots to aggregate/shovel it out.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
But he did start a conversation, it's just that it was about Friendfeed so others joined in. Go look at best of day at any time and you'll find multiple items about Friendfeed. It doesn't bode well for a service if the most popular activity on that service is about said service. If you looked at Twitter and saw half of the trending topics looking like (Twitter fail, twitter is dead,...
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- Jason Williams
Jason, I don't comment on my own posts. That's the second time you said it, and you're wrong. I hooked up my Disqus feed to FF so you're seeing my comments there echoed here. Stop being such a wiseass, you're not half as smart as you think you are.
- Dave Winer
Ah, nice. Name calling and insults. But you've just proven my point. The "comments" are also coming from somewhere else. You expect to have people interact with you but you invest very little time in FF yourself. If you put even a small percentage of effort into FF that you do other services, you might actually see results. It's no longer good enough to import one's feeds into FF and expect people to pay attention. That ended when many of the tech elite left the service back in August.
- Jason Huebel
The truth is, the people left here on FF are mostly "little fish" when it comes to tech. So one really can't expect to get 1000 likes and 2000 comments on a post anymore. None of us have a "fan base" that can support that.
- Jason Huebel
I don't expect anything -- I asked a question.
- Dave Winer
I think Friendfeed is evolving into something quite different of what some people predicted a while back. But it's not dying, no way.
- Jordi Soler
Except when I'm addressing the issues I've pointed out with your feed, when I say "you", I'm using that as people in general. I can change all the you's to "one", if that will clarify. (Done.)
- Jason Huebel
Jordi, what is your definition of dying? Is it different than people leaving en mass (with the exception of non-english speaking countries) and the talent behind the service bought up by a mega-site all the while people arguing weather the service is viable/dying?
- Jason Williams
Good point. Dying as in "Geocities dying". But I see people talking about many things everyday. Just not the same topics there used to be.
- Jordi Soler
OK wait, Dave. First you claim that there are no discussions on FF. Then you say you don't comment on your own posts. The way I was brought up was that a discussion is when you say something, then other people respond, then you respond back, and so on. FF, like most anything else in life, is what you make it. If you don't interact with people here, then you have little basis for complaining (sorry, _observing_) that there are never any discussions here.
- vicster is...
vicster++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I don't understand why people think the convo on friendfeed has gone down hill. It is the same if not better then it was before. If you don't like the discussions from the people you are following then find some new people to follow.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
i dunno about other people, but my FF is jumping so fast lately that i can barely keep up...and now it's mostly things i DO want to read about.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
vicster+++ I just skimmed, but this dude sounds like he hasn't been skiing for three years and says "how come no one ever skies anymore?" If you came to the FF mountain once in a while, you'd see my crazy ass every freaking day. I use FF more now than I ever have, more than I ever dreamed I'd enjoy. Now maybe you think the mountain has been taken over by hooligans, and that may be a fair point, but the caliber and content of my discussions do not make them non-discussions.
- Lo
My conclusion, based on this thread, is that there is indeed some discussing going on on FF. Mostly of the "Neener neener" variety. :-)
- Dave Winer
You can't base your conclusion on one thread of conversation with a topic like this. Why don't go and look for other people to follow and you'll see some activity.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Well, sure. You called us out. So there's going to be a bit of that. But in all honesty, there's a lot of good people here with a lot to talk about. You just have to seek it out.
- Jason Huebel
@Dave: "Neener neener" is the response your comments require lately.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Of course you don't see any conversations taking place...you aren't even subscribed to me.
- Alex Scoble
+1 Alex, the Scoble of FF.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
When I said "Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?" I was (in case it wasn't totally obvious) looking for suggestions not lectures. I'm now following Alex Scoble. I check FF many times each day.
- Dave Winer
Woo! I finally hit the big time! Seriously, though...thanks for the subscription, Dave. Much appreciated.
- Alex Scoble
Dave, what type of topics are you most interested in?
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
If the FriendFeed community were not so oversensitive, one of the 100 comments above would have answered Dave's question by pointing him to the advanced search form, specifically the "at least _ comments" field and the saved search feature. Then he could quickly find discussions on his favorite topics every visit.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Bruce: That was the 23rd comment, from Benjamin Golub. How more/less oversensitive does that make us? ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Good point, Ken. I searched for "advanced", "comments" and one other term, but didn't find that one. It makes the community 34.7% less oversensitive.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Sweet.
- Ken Sheppardson
Friendfeed and Twitter lack the depth and breadth of Facebook, no matter which way you slice it. Gather the best minds of our generation, in many fields and areas, on Facebook, and you will not have to complain. Friendfeed and Twitter are, however, useful as secondary feeds into Facebook.
- david beckwith
FriendFeed still saves my stuff, unlike Facebook where my posts are lost in the ether, but I do miss the more active FriendFeed of times past. I think once "best of" became a standard feature, FriendFeed shifted to more family, personal life, etc... discussions rather than "tech" stuff (for better or for worse). Even for techies, new/lost jobs, new/old romances, etc... generated more feedback & discussion than most tech topics.
- Mitchell Tsai
Facebook, seriously? "Upgrade" my privacy settings from "Old Settings" to "Everyone"?! Sure, why not.
hear, hear!
- Vincent van Wylick
For the first time I findi myself thinking that the kids singing that song weren't even born when it was released - unlike me. Fuck.
welcome to my world, kid.
- Vincent van Wylick
10 Adobe AIR Apps That Simplify Our Lives http://bit.ly/5P9HvM#mb
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Love the ORA time / expense tracking app.
- Vincent van Wylick
Dropzone – A great way to get things done? - http://thenextweb.com/appetit...
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Wish I could find this kind of stuff for Windows.
- Eric Geller
+1 Eric
- Wang Yip
Fresh (http://www.ironicsoftware.com/fresh...) is a similar app and feels a little more intuitive. At a keyboard-click, it shows you the most recent files you worked on, also allowing you to keep a drawer of your favourite apps and files below it.
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Maybe it's just a bad dream? - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"I love this part from Ars Technica: "The document trove makes it clear that scientists communicate on three levels: in common and emotional terminology during personal conversation, which gets translated to detached and technical terms when writing papers, which (ideally) is phrased in cautious language and analogy when presented to the public. The hackers have basically short-circuited that process, and given the public a window into the messy world of day-to-day scientific communications. " It's kind of like they're talking about the exciting world of penguin mating habits: "Penguin calls (vocalizations) are individually identifiable, allowing mates to recognize each other and also their chick. This is important because members of a large colony of penguins are nearly indistinguishable by sight." (actual quote from Seaworld) I think Ars Technica is over-analysing this and the basic fact is that these types of communications should've never happened via email. I don't communicate my..."
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Maybe it's just a bad dream? - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"This is even a better quote from Seaworld.org: There are three main kinds of penguin calls. • The contact call assists in recognition of colony members. The contact call of emperor and king penguins can be heard one kilometer (0.6 mi.) away. • The display call is the most complex of all the calls and is used between partners in a colony. The call must convey information on territorial, sexual, and individual recognition. • The threat call is the simplest and is used to defend a territory and warn other colony members of predators."
- Vincent van Wylick
@ksilvennoinen totally agreed!
My favourite behavioral data, though, would be poker data. Too bad it's almost impossible to get. I'd almost be willing to kill to get some.
- Kari Silvennoinen
Shouldn't be hard at all with so many games being recorded and shown publicly. Just hire an intern to go through all the footage and get rich writing the book!
- Vincent van Wylick
The interesting stuff is not public.
- Kari Silvennoinen
Hotel room in Lux. hitting all my sweet spots: it's small but big bed, it's cheap, & it's got free wifi (and breakfast).
can't do grammar while traveling. Small * Room
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Google's Building Maker and the importance of fun - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"except for the fact that we use Google Maps/Earth as a supplement to real life, while in Snow Crash it was a substitute."
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : The Retro Problem - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"yeah, but that sounds more like wysiwyg programming, which I guess is what we should be moving towards or are probably (not an expert) already there in some cases. The retro idea as proposed by Sivers was more about forcing people to solve problems in order to get things done. It sounds like these problems still exist, it's rare that I deal with non-Macware for instance and don't have problems like my latest corrupted external harddrive, for instance. The Mac is definitely a representation of what the future, of hardware at least, should look like… whether that's for the worse or the better (my opinion is known)."
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Google's Building Maker and the importance of fun - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"i.e. mobile GPS and augmented reality in mobile phones. I see a very different (parallel) future ahead of us than envisioned in Snow Crash, although I wasn't kidding about *watching this space.*"
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : The Retro Problem - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"And there I thought I'd made a convincing argument that retro is dead :)"
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Google's Building Maker and the importance of fun - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"Making an awful big jump from Snow Crash to Google Maps, I think… but maybe you're right and eventually we never have to visit anywhere again and can still experience it. *watch this space* as I'm starting a company focussed on just that. :)"
- Vincent van Wylick
Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? — Times Labs Blog - http://labs.timesonline.co.uk/blog...
Via @kottke: "Fascinating data assembled by The Times Online, indicating that music artists are making more money in the post-file-sharing era than before, because of a big jump in live performance revenue. The only group that is making less revenue is the record labels."
- Vincent van Wylick
What does "organic" mean in regards to retweets? I hope it means they can be killed with fire.
another word for evolved naturally? Considering Twitter is so featureless, pretty much everything can be considered organic.
- Vincent van Wylick
actually, "organic" seems to be "traditional" in this case, ie. manually writing RT etc and not using the button that no-one yet has. A great euphemism, really.
- Kari Silvennoinen
So You Wanna Do It Like Amazon? | Get Elastic - http://www.getelastic.com/like-am...
Spool explores the hidden secrets that every ecommerce professional should pay attention to about what makes Amazon so successful.
- Vincent van Wylick
Anyone else think Gmail IMAP doesn't play nice with Apple Mail? Every time a new mail arrives it seems to get archived from the Gmail Inbox.
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that's set in Settings in Gmail
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
for pop yeah, I didn't see a setting for imap
- Vincent van Wylick
*shrug* sorry, @vincentw
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
odd, it works for me pretty good... once I made sure all settings were as Google wants them. Make sure you have Gmail's recommended settings http://mail.google.com/support... and activate Advanced IMAP Controls in Gmail Labs so you can fe. hide All Mail in Apple's Mail.
- Kari Silvennoinen
advanced IMAP controls were already enable and just changed the recommended settings, though I didn't see anything that would affect the mails in the inbox. Just downloading the 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard, so let's see if that changes anything.
- Vincent van Wylick
FYI, that didn't work, so back in Entourage, which doesn't exhibit the same behaviour.
- Vincent van Wylick
Feature request: would like a 'refresh ALL' button for the services imported in FriendFeed. It happens more than once that one or more service doesn't update (I've been refreshing Netvibes manually since August) and centralising the update would save a lot of time.
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useful analogy: you have multiple mailboxes in Mac Mail and you press the button "check for new mail for all accounts." I want the same in Friendfeed.
- Vincent van Wylick
So what's the best way to extend the life of the battery on my MBP? Charge to full, let it drain completely, repeat? I heard keeping it plugged into the wall all the time has negative effects.
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best thing is to minimise the power used on your laptop. So, turn down the screen as much as possible, turn off wifi/bluetooth if possible, and turn off cpu-intensive apps. Many people don't realise this, but having a browser open with 10+ tabs and especially if using flash, are running the equivalent of a game on their computer. So try to stick to a max. of a few apps at a time and no more than 2-3 tabs in your browser. My Macbook (not pro) runs an average of 4+ hours when I do all of this.
- Vincent van Wylick
you normally have to callibrate your battery only once every few months, no more. The more you charge & recharge, the more you kill your battery as it has a limited amount of cycles it can do that. Also, having a second battery and using them on alternate weeks helps a LOT (doesn't work with the new Macbooks of course…)
- Vincent van Wylick
Vincent has said everything I would've said! I do the complete discharge thing once a month, though, but I guess it's down to how often you part-use part-charge it, which, for me, is everyday.
- Timothy Griffin
~ to note now that it's fall & winter approaches, cold saps battery life quickly so don't leave it out in the car or exposed to the cold because you will not get the same performance & this is exacerbated by the colder the temperature is. (goes with cell phones, iPod's & really almost any electronic device)
- sofarsoShawn
Thanks for the input everyone... I am a little worried that I can't swap the battery out of this machine, but hopefully it will last me long enough to make it worth it. The advice I got from you all will help me out with that.
- Frankie Warren
FYI I've got a non-swappable battery and am on 81 cycles with 99% battery health remaining.
- Timothy Griffin
Install smcfancontrol 2.2.2 - http://www.eidac.de/?p=134 - and set up 3 profiles: one for the lowest fan speed, one for around 4000 rpm and one for maximum. Set up the prefs so when you are on battery the fan drops to low. When you're on AC power, shift your fan to medium or high.
- Bill Sodeman
It's a Lithium Ion battery...your best bet is to let it go to about 40% charge and then charge it...You never want to let a Lithium Ion battery get to empty as it reduces their lifespan, or so I've read.
- Alex Scoble
pretty interesting trick, that smcfancontrol. What I also noticed makes a massive difference is using Flux (http://www.stereopsis.com/flux...), which you can set to change the colour temperature of your screen. When it runs, I get like 20% more battery life. However… there's no way to make it run all the time, unfortunately, just when it thinks it's night.
- Vincent van Wylick
Apple’s support boards suggest Magic Mouse is not so magic - mirror.co.uk - http://www.mirror.co.uk/news...
gotta love the internets. Your site points to another site, which points to TUAW, which point to Apple's support forums… as long as the news reaches us, I guess.
- Vincent van Wylick
lol, I just post them from where I get them. :)
- Joshua Schnell
RT @embee: good coffee should be included in an employer's package "We provide dental and coffee" Will put it in my mission statement now
I've been told that the tax authority in Sweden almost decided that coffee at workplace is a taxable benefit. The added bureaucracy would've meant that were would not have been any free coffee at workplaces anymore. There was a huge revolt and that decision was never made. Pretty much every other benefit (even parking places) are considered taxable benefits over there, though.
- Kari Silvennoinen
isn't the rhetoric for taxes that there is an environmental cost? I understand the argument for parking, not so much coffee.
- Vincent van Wylick
not for employee benefits. There the idea is that employer/employee don't try evade taxes by employer paying for stuff instead of paying salary.
- Kari Silvennoinen
Droid Battery Life Requires New Charging Habits - http://www.pcworld.com/busines...
Mike Reynolds and Rodfather liked this
"Until battery technology changes to double or triple capacity, you will have to change your charging habits to fit the needs of the smartphone. Instead of charging it every few days, or only charging it overnight, you need to charge the phone basically whenever it isn't being used. Driving in your car--charge the phone. Sitting at your desk--charge the phone. Sleeping at night--charge the phone."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
That's just plain ridiculous.
- Vincent van Wylick
That hasn't been my experience. I made it all day yesterday without having to recharge. I didn't recharge overnight either. And my phone kept going with quick little car charges throughout the day today while I was running errands. Battery life isn't any worse than the iPhone.
- Jason Huebel
And they say "change habits to fit the needs of /THE/ smartphone". So they aren't saying that this is limited to the Droid. Phones are eating up more and more power as they essentially become hand-held computers.
- Jason Huebel
I think the more intelligent strategy is to better optimize your power management on your device. For instance, I manage which features are enabled (GPS, wifi, email syncing and screen brightness) using Android's Power Control widget. Just adjusting the screen brightness to 50% (which is still very readable indoors) makes a huge difference in battery life.
- Jason Huebel
FTA: "One site did a review specifically on the battery life of the Droid. For the study, the Droid screen brightness was maxed out, the screen was set to 'Never Sleep', MP3's were loaded and the media player was turned on to 'Repeat All Songs'. They even threw in an hour of Google Navigation usage while all of that was going on and still managed over 7 hours of battery life. Let's see...
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- Jason Huebel
As someone who has has many Smartphones (PalmOS and WinMob, soon Droid this week), I have come to expect poor battery life with the standard battery. BUT this is the key to removable batteries. A larger battery will come to the Droid, they usually add some weight and a little bulk but have never truly ruined my experience (besides the quest for the perfect case).
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
On my iPhone I use this (http://bit.ly/3ZEfsF) to double the capacity. Droid needs a similar external battery, that preserve the internal battery, that will works only when that is empty (and physically detached)
- Roberto
from fftogo
I hope some of these ideas work. I got a droid and it is killer to batteries... but perhaps it just needs to go through some cycling to get it to work better.
- Matt Ellsworth
@Matt, the best thing you can do is have the screen turn off sooner and adjust the screen brightness to stay at 50%. Unless you use your phone outside a lot, you won't need it any brighter, IMO. But if you do go outside, the Power Control widget allows you to increase the brightness to 100% with a single tap. Then when you go back inside, you can adjust back to 50% with a couple more taps.
- Jason Huebel
@jason -- cool I'll give that a shot - I tried to turn on the auto screen dimmer thing - not so sure about that... and have the screen set to turn off after 30 seconds instead of 1 min.
- Matt Ellsworth
kind of of a weird macheist.com deal, they are giving everything away for free? How does this benefit developers… at all?
you probably can't upgrade to a new version w/o actually paying. Also, they have companion iPhone apps.
- Kari Silvennoinen
sure, but I see no reason to ever upgrade Writeroom, so that's lost income right there. As for the other apps, not very interested anyway.
- Vincent van Wylick
Is there any way to know, other than by the number of likes & comments, how many people actually read your content (and don't have it hidden away in some never-read list)?
Alex Scrivener, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and Kol Tregaskes liked this
Count of eyeballs that your post has passed through. I think they could put a "mark as read" thingie which could then count how many people marked as read.
- TrafficBug
kind of interesting how Twitter gave the ability to make lists public. More of a marketing gimmick, but at least it's something.
- Vincent van Wylick
I think this would be a wanted feature in twitter too. With people following hundreds of people, their attention span is limited to the first few tweets that they seem to eyeball, so it would be good to know just how many eyes' visibility span your message has passed through.
- TrafficBug
If all @Google's major innovations came from 20% time, why not give everybody 5 different 20% projects and wait for the magic to happen?
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That's crazy talk Mr Gray. You have broken the logic quota for today
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
/hangs up logic hat on rack and retires.
- Louis Gray
If all the tasty stuff of a cake comes from the sugar, why not use all sugar and no flour, eggs, or milk? ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit the chemist, ladies and gentlemen.
- Josh Haley
Because then no one would be on FriendFeed :-P
- Jesse Stay
because part of great ideas come from having them, a larger part comes from carrying them out.
- Vincent van Wylick
And because public business are in it to make money predictably, not from sporadic ideas that could potentially turn the whole business-model around.
- Vincent van Wylick
Because the inspiration often comes from the perspiration of the 80% work. Most people are not able to be inspired 100% of the time, though there are a few at Google who are.
- Bill Strathearn
Now how many people thought I was 100% serious on this question instead of just 20%? I'm getting a lot of 100% answers.
- Louis Gray
Do all Google's major innovations come from 20% time? I guess we'd have to start by agreeing on what those major innovations were.
- Cristo
FriendFeed?
- Jesse Stay
Twitter?
- Jesse Stay
Is "innovation" the emergence of new competitors from that time? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Maybe Google should give all of their employees 100 1% projects. Then they'd really have a bunch of new ideas. One exception, though; one person gets stuck modifying Gmail to let you see your mail in an unthreaded date plus time received order.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Neither Twitter nor FriendFeed came out of Google 20% time, as far as I know.
- Cristo
The all sugar cake is not only sweet and tasty; a big tablespoonful of it swallowed quickly, at the right time, often cures hiccups.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
LOL
- Thomas Power
I'd bet there are plenty of people at Google who do work this way.
- Kevin Gamble
I share this sentiment. There are services that need to be maintained but if you look at the new goodies being developed, it's all about freedom and creativity. Ok that's it I had to add you Louis to my tiny input stream on Twitter. Listing and group following you here wasn't enough. This tweet sealed the deal!
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Tech IT Easy : The lowest common denominator online: the written word - http://www.techiteasy.org/2009...
"wow, I didn't know that (I use ca. all the time). Thanks Ockely!"
- Vincent van Wylick
Tech IT Easy : Why Android will suck - http://www.techiteasy.org/2008...
"Actually, I was talking about the hardware+software combination, which varies from phone to phone. I don't know about the "everybody agrees that it's better than the iPhone" part either, but I do agree that from what I've seen it rocks."
- Vincent van Wylick
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