The wording is a little tricky, but it doesn't actually say that she can't be both. In fact where it says "they don't all bring you..." insinuates that Dante's current girlfriend (Veronica) is in fact both.
- Joe Pierce
OK. I've done some calculations along with a preliminary geological survey. The bearing wall is made of basalt. Basalt is among the most dense of igneous rocks. Now, if we drop down approximately 10 meters, the composition of the wall becomes limestone, a very spoon-friendly material. Now I've drawn up plans for an electric spoon, but it's going to cost 4 million candy bars.
- Raphael, Raphael
You've obviously perfected time travel, Johnny, so could you send a time machine to pick me up & take me to the future?
- josh neff, geek at large
Yolanda... As someone who usually has to wait for software and media releases until it's 'x' o'clock US time... NENER-NENER-NENER :P
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny in the future do you all still use napkins or is the mouth vacuum a big hit?
- Rick Schmidt
Mark, Alex and I are clearly interested in different things regarding home theater. Most of what I've learned about it has been in the last year, whereas Alex has built up his lack-of-knowledge over many years. ;)
- Cristo
Akiva, are single quotes used to denote projection? E.g. 'platonic homosexual love affair' :)
- Cristo
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
נתתי לו למצוץ את הפטמות שלי, אם לתת להם לשחק על החוף. לפחות לא כל כך קר על החוף.
- David Gross
from email
@Raphael I am not amused. That's an abuse of an idea that could have resulted in people tagging some of the best educational threads on friendfeed, to filter the best most intelligent conversations to be found here. Don't spoil it, not even as a joke.
- April Russo (app103)
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! YOU GUYS ARE ALL SO GORGEOUS WITH CHISELED BODIES!!!
- sofarsoShawn
I'm just lazy this year. Got invited to a party, but don't really feel like going. I'm planning on spending the weekend over in Santa Cruz, Ca with a long time friend. So I'll make up for the lack of NYE partying a day later....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Come to my place! Thai food, drinks & nibbles, board games, music, nudie run at midnight.
- Mellissa
Man, I've been old for a long time then. I find NYE second only to Valentine's Day for overratedness.
- Kenton
I'm usually not big on partying on NYE either. Normally too wrecked from Christmas/Birthday festivities. Tonight we're going to my mum and dad's because THEY are having a party. But we'll be home long before midnight #3kidsunder6
- Penny
I think the uploader works really well. It's Java, IIRC.
- Raphael, Raphael
Yeah it sucketh big timeth. (on firefox, snow leopard/mac)
- anna sauce
That's nifty how it works for you so well, but it's day two and I'm still having issues uploading images; even using the simple uploader. Lame.
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
it's really not that hard to make the photos private - the stupid thing is that most people's private photos went public with the privacy changes.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
what's sad, is so many of the songs listed here are on my ipod...
- Kamala Whitaker
Don Henley Must Die might get rid of the Eagles fans.
- Cristo
One Week by The Bare Naked Ladies. I now understand what Cristo's doing he's trying to get everyone to leave his party before midnight tomorrow night.
- Jimminy Fuller
I Play Chicken With The Train - Cowboy Troy
- Rodfather
Time to Say Goodbye - Sarah brightman might get people to walk out.. its so over played, that no one, not even babies need to hear this for the next decade.
- CW™
I consider my self a solid second-tier FFeeder. I comment and like a lot, and I share a lot of stuff, but I don't post much original content. To everyone who takes the time to think of interesting stuff to say, I salute you.
On a more serious note, aside from our differences of opinion on politics, I find Alex Scrivener to be a worthwhile member of the friendfeed community.
- Alex Scoble
Your shares make up about 60-70% of what I actually read on FF. It helps, of course, that we share a very similar, if not the same, point of view in multiple topics.
- ryan
Cool, turns out that doing a studio like what Gillmor has (multiple cameras and all that) costs about $15k. Whew. Still cheaper than old school TV studios.
- Robert Scoble
Cost us a LOT more than that. Closer to $50K. Our new studio will probably be double that. Lights, 10K, Cameras 15K, Tricaster 10K, Furniture etc 10K
- Leo Laporte
I would like to learn more about the tricaster...is it ready for prime time or still in dev.
- Jim Posner
Leo Laporte - perhaps I could buy your old studio for pesos on the dollar:)
- Rob La Gesse
Leo: yeah. You have lots of cool toys. I cut my request down a bit from your studio cause I don't need that much.
- Robert Scoble
Leo, don't forget the cost of your bouncy ball
- Mike Doeff
Leo's light panels are $2k each and I think he had three of them.
- Robert Scoble
Coming shortly, sorry for the delay. Takes a while to get everyone wired together.
- Robert Scoble
i wish ustream didnt kill my processor - my fan always runs like mad when i load up a ustream show
- Allen Stern
I'm on Skype with Gillmor, they are trying to fix various things. Please stand by...
- Robert Scoble
We've got three 1x1, 4 minis, and a bunch of micros. And we need more. The new studio will have Kino floods with litepanel highlights.
- Leo Laporte
Allen - hello! Long time. Get a 27" iMac - it's a wonderful machine!
- Rob La Gesse
Calacanis mentioned that he dropped $35K on the This Week In Startups studio. He's also using the Tricaster.
- Gregg H.
Grrrr. Paul Buchheit was supposed to be on, but is sick. I believe the other guest is still on, though.
- Robert Scoble
rob - i don't have money for that! i just look at robert's - that's enough for me :)
- Allen Stern
Gregg: yup. I don't have that much money. I think we can do a pretty interesting studio for about $15k, or a one-camera job for less than $5k.
- Robert Scoble
Will the secret guest being wearing clothes?
- Roebot
i hate to ask this but is there ever a woman on this show?
- Allen Stern
John Borthwick, investor in Twitter among other things is our secret guest.
- Robert Scoble
Allen: good question. We should have a woman on the show sometime. Who should we have on?
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you could steal Gina Trapani from This Week in Google
- Mike Doeff
Tricaster is excellent for the price. We're replacing it with a much more expensive switcher though with more capabilities. (Our current fave is the Broadcast Pix Slate but we're still testing.)
- Leo Laporte
Karoli is still a regular on NewsGang...
- Cliff Gerrish
Robert: Sometimes GillmorGang has a tendency to turn into a NewsGang
- Gregg H.
not so much of that tendency in the recent incarnation, I've noticed
- Amyloo
Gregg: when it fails. Sure. But we try to keep it focused on what's happening tomorrow in technology. That's when Gillmor Gang is much better.
- Robert Scoble
wondering if higher energy costs neutralize the benefits of cheap storage for data centers.
- Jim Posner
I would love to hear what @orli, @noreaster or @padmasree would talk about, all interesing fun women :)
- Deanna McNeil
Who deems what authoritative? Sometimes the news is not the clear authority on the truth.
- beachpig
Roberto, I think it's better all the way around: more regular, stays on topic better, crisper. Part of me doesn't want it to get any slicker, though. It's just right on the slickometer now.
- Amyloo
in-house retweets are HIDDEN when you use twitter.com - basically completely useless
- Allen Stern
Robert: After trying LiveFyre yesterday I think it's a much worse experience for conversation than FriendFeed. FF is just cleaner and more functional.
- Gregg H.
I like that everyone's talking "gestures" these days.
- Cliff Gerrish
I wonder if we will ever see comments as an opt-in feature for twitter?
- Jim Posner
New retweet seems like a simple 'gesture' but it also seems to lower the bar to discovery of new interesting users. It seems like it may also have been an attempt to reduce content hijacking (by making the retweet simpler, and thus more used)
- Nick Wade
It's really a "repeat". By the way, "repeat" is what Status.net/Identi.ca labeled their implementation of retweet.
- Gregg H.
Retweet 2.0 moves it into Twitter's data set. Moving the URL into metadata will do the same thing.
- Cliff Gerrish
Hey LEO! Is the new studio definitely going to happen in the future or is it just an aspiration?
- Mark
82 million bit.ly links clicked on yesterday. Not bad!
- Robert Scoble
sorry - he means "the real time web that bitly sees" not "the full real time web"
- Allen Stern
I want to see Leo and Scoble do a show together
- Mark
I wonder what the average click through rate is per link 1% of followers.
- Jim Posner
No way.....Star Wars was a game changer in movies, we cant watch cartoons all the time. Star wars, special effects, modeling, everything was off the charts!
- beachpig
Is the technology backward compatible..will we see older films run through the 3-D process..that could be very interesting.
- Jim Posner
Seems like home 3-D is going to be the rage at CES.
- Jim Posner
And a nice BattleTech ripoff... Cameron was not original with story and character creation
- beachpig
Has the NewsGang feed (for audio Podcast consumption) been deprecated in deference to video as the base media? Or is there someone that's creates the audio "bootleg" and there's a lag on the last show (or 2?)?
- medavetoo
Dish Network is starting a 3-D channel. But there's not too much content available...
- Cliff Gerrish
medavetoo -- there's a guy named 'Jack' that makes a bootleg feed (that's the 'official' audio feed)
- Cliff Gerrish
Avatar in IMAX 3D was best movie fun I've had in the while.
- Jim Posner
I loved that Cameron underplayed 3-d fx, not pushing cheezy elements into the audience's laps
- r Macdonald
Content is always the first problem with media businesses migrating to a new delivery medium. Someone will win that battle eventually, a la iTunes and music.
- Nick Wade
android phones keeps getting better and better
- Tim Jones
Mike is right, 2-horse race now, Apple & Google; now to crack the carrier issue
- r Macdonald
How's T-Mobile going to stand up under massive internet usage?
- Cliff Gerrish
In a historic pattern: Apple created the modern Personal Computer and IBM eventually responded with the IBM PC. From a sales perspective the open platform sold the most units and drove the most industry revenue. Nexus One seems to the the open PC-like phone/communicator in my estimation.
- medavetoo
NexusOne is unlocked, but it's GSM. So there are only two carriers to choose from.
- Cliff Gerrish
The numbers Apple has generated for iPhone users is impressive but the total number of Smart Phones in 5 years will be 100x those numbers.
- medavetoo
competition in US for unlocked android phones, woo hoo
- Tim Jones
wondering which job will be outsourced next..
- Paul E. Ester
wondering wich job will be insourced next :)
- PierG
Mobile development finally becoming mainstream, CSS3 finally being useful in a large number of browsers, and the launch of the Palm Pre and its use of CSS/HTML/JS to build mobile apps rather than java or objective C.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Seeing that Facebook Connect and Twitter can essentially replace OAuth.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Realizing that Google is trying to re-invent the whole web stack -- I expect to see HTML, CSS, Javascript, scripting, and compiled language alternatives in 2010-2011. And I'm all for it.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Thinking about bigtable database solutions for the highest scalability (and the tradeoffs that come along with the switch)
- Christopher Galtenberg
This year I became programmer to entrepreneur. Started two companies, one fell out, one remains.
- mytweetmark
too many, Google Vincent release with brand effects (yuch!), personalized search, real-time search in Google, Bing/Yahoo deal, site performance a ranking factor, should I go on?
- Arthur Coleman
Java 1.6 on Mac, finally. Node.js shows up and reinvents what it takes to write asynchronous server-side applications (though I haven't used it for anything real). Google Chrome upset the browser extension development paradigms (no longer require a deep understanding of the browsers). Google Web Toolkit improves their run-debug cycle and lets you develop on any browser on your machine (or in a virtual machine).
- Matt Mastracci
John, congratulations! That's a very tough, but rewarding experience!
- Jesse Stay
Visual Studio 2010/ .net 4. Let you know when I think of more.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Balancing paying work and beginning my first 2 entrepreneur ventures with family. Not to mention the ever changing APIs of popular web services.
- Marc Betts
Squeezing into iPhones and watching Java raise the white flag.
- Michael Galpin
from iPhone
Geolocation becoming a real thing, the ability to make money from iphone style app stores, the continued buildout of cloud functionality, NoSQL mindshare exploding.
- Todd Hoff
Leaving Grazr, the company I co-founded to start something new. For programming, completely switching over to using Python for almost all of my web dev.
- mikepk
I can tell you my 2010 big change as well: no longer having to think about IE6 when developing for the web. That'll happen sometime late Q310, I'm sure.
- Matt Mastracci
The cloud left 'cool' status and is on the radar of CTO's
- jeremyoday
Definately the Cloud. Windows Azure came of age this PDC too.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Roberto: have you shipped anything on Azure yet, though?
- Robert Scoble
The cloud was big for us in 2008... we made a big bet on AWS then and it's paid off dividends though 2009 as Amazon dropped its prices. It was marginally better than hosted servers in 2008 and it's now beating it hands-down. I suppose that's a change in 2009 as well.
- Matt Mastracci
Not yet. I'm working on that. Doing my Honors year project on it. Will have somthing in a few months.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Matt: there are two types of programmers in the world: those who use Amazon and those who use Rackspace Cloud. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'd love to consider Rackspace, but it'll take a year without multiple major outages before it goes back into my evaluation pool. We get outages and machine failures on AWS, but they are a lot rarer and shorter in my experience. It might be that the reporting of outages could be biased against Rackspace, too, but without more data it's a big risk for me as a founder/CTO.
- Matt Mastracci
Listen to Jesse. IRC and mailing lists.
- John
from Android
Having my employer fail completely and close the doors. Second time that has happened to me.
- DGentry
Matt: we've had, I believe, three major outages this year, very unacceptable. Two were power outages in our Dallas datacenter. The third was a configuration mistake made by a team at Rackspace as we started to move customers over to our datacenter in Chicago. Yes, because many big web sites like 37signals, Techcrunch, and Mashable are all on Rackspace our downtime gets noticed every single time.
- Robert Scoble
Seeing a 2010 free of major high-profile downtime would be enough to convince me that things are stable. Rackspace should put up numbers on their downtime vs. other providers, even if it's not entirely flattering, so we can see them in the open without the high-profile-site bias. Sorry to derail your 2009 thread here! :)
- Matt Mastracci
2009, the year it became cool to be a geek :)
- Kashif Khan
Matt: the problem with numbers is it's hard to figure out. Even during our three big outages not all of our customers were involved (we have 50,000 servers and 10s of thousands of customers and are the world's largest hosting company).
- Robert Scoble
Have a few: 1) It's been far easier to make money using PHP than C#, 2) jobs on dice are increasingly becoming more javascript/ui focused, 3) starting to understand how to use twitter.
- David Nelson
You know moving all my servers over to Rackspace from Amazon was pretty significant too (and I'm saving a lot more money)
- Jesse Stay
Am I a fuddy duddy for not feeling like the cloud risk is worth the reward? I have a google-fast site with BBG, it's close to bare metal, it's cheap, we have support. I dunno. I'd make the same choice again.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Christopher: that's why we still provide traditional hosting too. Cloud is not for everything. That said, almost all of the new startups I've been interviewing lately have been on either Rackspace or Amazon. There are major cost advantages to cloud (especially for sites with spiky traffic) that more and more are going that way.
- Robert Scoble
I think cloud needs a disaster-free 2010. Then a lot more 'moderates' like myself will bring the big money over.
- Christopher Galtenberg
The cloud risk is worth it in our experience. We have a lot of servers on amazon doing crawling, indexing, API hosting, etc. You're a lot more nimble when it comes to swapping out machines. Our overall downtime on AWS is basically the same as when we had hosted servers. We also pay careful attention to what we shift to Amazon's CDN so our boxes are serving what they serve best. The only Amazon fuckup that affected us this year was losing an attached storage device that we didn't have backed up properly.
- Matt Mastracci
Christopher: I've seen quite a few companies that self host have major problems. Twitter is a good example. Self hosting is not disaster free either. Cloud is actually more reliable in many ways than self hosting is, especially if you do self hosting wrong.
- Robert Scoble
+1 to what Robert said. In 2008, when you balanced out the cloud cost + the time spent managing servers you'd end up very close. Prices have dropped by nearly 50% since then. Major disasters are way more expensive while self-hosting, but you don't see that many of them unless you've got a fleet of a few dozen machines running 24/7. Every company's evaluation of risk/reward is different though - ours tipped over to the cloud though and we're definitely using it as well as we can.
- Matt Mastracci
I became a lover of cloud apps after working on the infrastructure team for a recently famous startup. Not fun to say the least. I don't like babysitting Nagios and fearing database disks failing, 3 year old multi-threaded code you didn't write deadlocking, etc. :-1
- David Nelson
cloud and morphing from ASP.NET to WordPress(PHP/CSS)
- Melanie Reed
I don't know all the niceties that Rackspace offers (Robert could chime in here), but AWS also gives you easy and fast access to S3 and cloudfront for content serving, SQS for job queues and various load balancing features. Having access to some of those little features really does take a load off your mind. I keep hoping that Amazon will start offering giant, hosted memcache instances. That's one thing I love about the cloud: hosted extra features.
- Matt Mastracci
starting to develop for Android, feels like a warm bath after a year of Objective-c for iPhone. Yes the iPhone is hot and sexy, but developing for Android is much easier. Ow, and looking forward to deploying on Amazon's AWS, almost can't remember thoughts of buying hardware myself :)
- Dirk
Dirk: 2010 is going to be a big year for Android. It isn't lost on me that Google is starting out the new year with a big Android announcement (I'll be there).
- Robert Scoble
the one thing Android needs now is an excellent user interface, hopefully close to the iPhone's. User experience is the one thing the iPhone is light years ahead in
- Dirk
Matt: we're working on many of those things and more for Rackspace Cloud too. We have some of the world's experts on database technology (one of the guys who worked on Cassandra, which is Facebook's system, works for us, for instance) and you'll see a lot more from us, as to specifics there are other better places to compare us to Amazon, would love to help anyone figure out the differences, though, if it's not self evident.
- Robert Scoble
Robert I agree with you about 2010 being the year of Android . Also developing for it is awesome . Do you think it will also be the year for T-Mobile ?
- Kashif Khan
Dirk: agreed. Android is getting bettter though and we'll see next week just how much more they have to go. Kashif: I really doubt it, but you never know. Most of the geeks in Silly Valley want Verizon.
- Robert Scoble
The economy of 2009 made business take the cloud way more serious.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Dropbox changed my world this year. All of a sudden users can painlessly get large numbers of files from their desktop or iphone to my site. All the previous options are comparatively awkward: web forms, email, Picasa client, XP wizard. It also upped demand considerably and forced me to turn to cloud storage for help.
- Bruce Lewis
Learning the basics of web programming. Whoa.. there's a whole lotta ways to do the same thing.
- Mark Essel
Robert: cool, re: extra features. I'll keep an eye out this year for new Rackspace features.
- Matt Mastracci
GWT for showing how webapps can be written, Adobe Air for showing how they can be deployed, webkit/chrome for raising the bar really high, cloud services that are almost good enough to host a real business and up and coming DBs like Casandra for saving us from RDBs
- john schneider
from iPhone
2010 will not only be the year of the Android, but also mobile in general (and I'm including 7 inch tablets in that statement).
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
GWT was/is _huge_ but wasn't that 2008? It's really matured in 2009 for sure. Love the new features like code splitting.
- David Nelson
Oh ya, the google plugin for eclipse! Love it!!!
- David Nelson
GWT made huge leaps in 2009. The development experience of 2008 was hosted mode (meaning IE in windows). The GWT 2.0 experience is plugin-based, slicker and much faster. The new plugins also let us debug our GWT-based firefox extension in Eclipse which was impossible before. I just released some of that code as an open-source project (gwt-firefox-extension) </shamelessplug>
- Matt Mastracci
My developer friends ripped me a new hole for suggesting that GWT was good. And I actually tried it - and it was good. They were just being arrogant ignorant jquery assholes.
- Terris Linenbach
Matt - totally agree about GWT making huge leaps in 2009. You think it was because google started using it on more high profile projects like wave and adwords? Perhaps they ramped up development of it?
- David Nelson
It may seem small but my biggest change was my coding font. I went from Monaco to Consolas.
- Andrew Smith
Consolas is a good one. Anonymous Pro is also good.
- DGentry
David, I think a lot of the features that appeared in GWT 2.0 were driven by internal customers (code splitting and the new UI binder for sure). The GWT team is incredibly smart and they were building a lot of the new infrastructure on top of the solid and mature GWT 1.x series. This year was all about solving some of the real-world issues that came up when GWT-based projects started to mature as well as figuring out how to cut out much of the boilerplate.
- Matt Mastracci
For me it was Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, AWS, RDF, re-learning Ruby, Scala, dynamic Virtual Resource allocation/de-allocation, real-time data mapping. Nice to finally get back to doing meaningful work for a change ;)
- Altan Khendup
And yes, moving our org to support mobile technology further. Tablets and encouragement of Android use
- Melanie Reed
Right. GWT team - talk about talented engineers! :-) They do amazing work.
- David Nelson
WPF & Silverlight has been huge for me in 2009. Seems like all the projects I worked on where based on them. Overall though cloud services have changed everything.
- Ryan Lane
To be honest... the Thesis framework for Wordpress and Wordpress MU
- Seth Goldstein
Probably that I became skilled at Scala programming.
- Dave Briccetti
The biggest thing was Solr; it revolutionized how we present data to our clients. Second biggest thing was finding out how flawed Rackspace currently is: Rackspace pre-2009 was much different than it is now. Here's to hoping 2010 is much better.
- Mark Trapp
Growth of Joomla and Drupal,and the ecosystem to support them. 2010: Microsoft, Google and IBM's responses will add to the mix.
- Brian Benz
Also, the announcement Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010. The changes have not been noticed widely - yet, but they will be....
- Brian Benz
Server side JavaScript really picking up steam. JSGI, CommonJS, Web Sockets, Narwhal, Jack, NodeJS, Persevere, Etherpad.
- Raphael, Raphael
The cloud.. Ec2, s3, the entire stack of cloud services provided by amazon.. That's the biggest programming change for 2009
- Jeethu Karthik
from iPod
Realizing the potential in asynchronous, long-running processes and how they could be utilized in different kind of products. Also, everything dev-related announced/published by Microsoft.
- Jemm
A few things: The economy, revisiting my commercial app development roots, my first two iPhone apps (ultimately a joy to develop), my first Android app (frustrating so far, but that's OK - I'm cheering Google on), a hard lesson after getting burned by an enterprise client prospect, my LLC's group health plan cost spiral, getting some mega-zen with Objective-C vs. Java, the cloud, IE6 begone ... and Thesis. :)
- Joe D'Andrea
""They are not supposed to work on campus (although they may attend meetings, etc.) and should not have an office or telephone assigned to them. These contractors are called "v dashes" because the first two characters of their alias/userID are v-. There are no restrictions on how long a "v dash" can work for Microsoft." http://www.edsguild.org/contrac..."
- Raphael, Raphael
Guys, does http://thenextweb.com/uk/ load for you? Whether it does or doesn't, can you let me know what device or browser you're using? (update: thank you SO much for all your help)
*sigh* If this is real, it's cheaper for me to just buyout the remaining year of my T-Mobile contract and pick up a DROID.
- Matthew DeVries
from Bookmarklet
Me too... bit of a bummer. I'm not sure I'm ready for a keyboard-less phone either. That screen and the CPU may seal the deal though. Will definitely have to see it in person first.
- Adrian
Sad. Also sounds like anyone currently with TMO on a family plan will have to shell out full price to get one but folks with a single line can change plans and pay the subsidized price.
- Tenkely
I still have my father's number and my friend Eric who died right before Thanksgiving.
- Derek Coward
I just went through my contacts and saw I have 5 people in there who have died in the past year. It will probably help my peace of mind to delete them.
- Trish R
Nope. Also haven't deleted them from LiveJournal, Facebook, etc.
- Rochelle
I did, but after a bit. I didn't take out my grandmother's number until we had sold the house.
- Jennifer Dittrich
My Aunt has left my Grandfather's name on the phone number, for 20 years now. It's most disconcerting when Caller ID pops up with his name.
- Matthew DeVries
I just cleared out a bunch of dead weight from my contact lists.. granted I don't think any of them were dead.. yet.
- CW™
I still have my grandmother, who died three years ago, in my list. I keep seeing the name and meaning to take her out, but I forget to.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
I left both my friends in for a while and only took them out when I switched phone. Felt it was 'time' to let go. I still have my grandma and grandad set as both their names, even though my grandma has now moved & changed her number.
- Charlotte M
from iPhone
I can never manage to. I'm sorry for your losses, Trish, I had two family members pass this year. Really hoping 2010 is not so rough.
- Alix Whitmire
Yes, I eventually delete the entry. It's sad, but part of the process. You'll know when it's time.
- Chris Baskind
The past few weren't deleted until I got a new phone.
- Yolanda
I had a good buddy who died in 2005, but I do not feel like deleting his info yet.
- Bryan R. Adams
I have three dead friends in my contact list. I leave them on as a memorial. Every now and then I come across their name and pause for a minute and remember them. Then go on with my day.
- veo
No when i see name it reminds me why it was there in first place...
- WarLord
My aunt actually still has a voicemail from a cousin who passed away about nearly a year ago.
- Jimminy Fuller
I have a relative who thought she was getting emails from her sister from beyond the grave because of the way the iphone address book works (even I wasn't sure what was going on at first, but it had something to do with the domain of the email from being the closest partial match to an address book contact).
- Micah Wittman
Yes, after some time, from my phone or email clients. But, probably will have a copy of a contact list somewhere, e.g. a hardcopy stuffed in my bag which is rarely updated, or an .csv file saved in a folder for backup.
- Jackie