"New release is up and available with CM Updater. This build contains lots of bugfixes and some new visual elements as well as better performance!"
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from Bookmarklet
I skipped, 4.2.7 and 4.2.7.1 but jumped on this one as there were relatively scant horror stories on xda-dev. So far so good! Really digging the app launcher reskin.
- Adrian
Anyone know why my android phone (myTouch) running the latest cyanogen takes so long to get back to my home screen? Sometimes it even gives me an options to forceclose because of inactivity. Besides that the phone rarely lags.
G1 here - had/have the same thing happen occasionally both stock, and rooted. I assume that it's related to memory management.
- John Craft
It's just Android for ya. It's improved for me under Cyanogen, but not cured. Bottom line is... Android was built for 2010 machines, not the ones it is currently on. Those are just previews.
- Adrian
That's what I figured. Thanks for the feedback everyone.
- Ward Seward
Go in to Spare Parts and check of the setting for Holding the home screen in memory.
- Chris Faulkner
Chris, that is the best android tip I've seen so far! You rock my friend. Thank you!
- Ward Seward
haha Yeah, my dislike for Verizon is battling how much I like the Droid.
- Jeffrey Canton
The only thing not to like about VZ in my experience is the high cost of their unlimited plans. I get a corporate discount, but I shudder to think of what those who don't go through
- LANjackal
I stick with T-Mobile for several reasons. 1. Cost - I've rolled over a family plan for 8 years now. No one can be my current plan $. 2. The customer service rocks. Often when I call with a problem I get some kind of loyalty bonus (like free MyFaves). 3. In my area (Chicago area) the coverage is pretty good. 4. I actually really love my MyTouch. 20x better then the first gen iPhone I use to use.
- Ward Seward
Yeah , their customer service is definitely great. I just hope they continue to get new Android phones... they seem to have a tough time getting the GSM carriers to bring all of the latest and greatest their way and I really don't want to be subscribed to the GSM version of Sprint.
- Jeffrey Canton
I love T-Mobile. Seconding what Ward said, they always hook me up when I call. I love my MyTouch and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Leo, yesterday's call about solar power in Madagascar lead me to find this: http://www.rewarestore.com/pockets... - they also have bags with solar panels on the side, and say they're working on a solution for laptops.
- tollie williams
great Twit format. Leo + Dvorak + (insert other regular here) + hipster tech blogger + alcohol + most guests in the studio = Twit is the best network anywhere.
- echostreamer
that was actually TWiT ... techguy is on before from 2-5pm eastern twit is on at 6pm eastern
- Chris Heath
I didnt see today's episode, but the usual format is great with Leo, Dvorak, a couple other regulars talking tech and alcohol in the cottage. Great streams.
- echostreamer
The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites
I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through.
- Kol Tregaskes
Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly!
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team
- Ysabel Legaspi
Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going
- Toby Graham
Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com
- Quackofdawn
Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail
- Jesi
from iPod
neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot.
- Ross Button
Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced!
- jmiguel rodriguez
trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger...
- Trent Olson
lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks!
- Clément Simon
Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks!
- ilteris
Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from email
louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks
- Louis Bourque
from iPod
can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com
- Igor Krstev
If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai
- Andy Bold
Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com
- Alex Scrivener
I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com
- Carlton Prest
Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com
- Jonna Watson
damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!!
- Ross Button
how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :)
- Bonnie Foster
I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com
- andryou
re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : )
- Emad
wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare!
- Wim Mulder
giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration.
- Giulio Campobassi
Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com
- Jonathon
VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account.
- Vimala Vita
Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks
- Jean-Charles
System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver.
- oliv21
How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know.
- marziah
I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it
- Ross Button
@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :)
- François Dongier
I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt
- Ross Button
al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com
- Mohammad Sharifi
Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet.
- Rodrigo
from email
I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail
- Kim
Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you !
- matthieu beauval
If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au
- Daryl Hunt on FF
Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it.
- John
from iPhone
Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :)
- Walt Ruppar
It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available.
- Tyson Key
Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left?
- Jussi Linkola
Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com
- Brian
Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance
- Zehra
firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks.
- Fırat DEMİREL
Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks.
- Vinay | विनय
Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance.
- Yiğit
Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting.
- Kandarp Trivedi
I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive.
- Kandarp Trivedi
rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping!
- Rodger Ballard
really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com
- brandon
I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks
- jose manuel
If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com
- TechKid
In case there is still someone with spare invitations: piotr.byzia at gmail.com
- Piotr Byzia
teeeya@gmail.com - Anyone with a sparee invite and feeling generous! (thank you thank you thank you in advance!!!) :D
- Simply Teeeya
Anyone with a spare would be my hero! Someone bought out my buddy who was going to give me one. robert@idealfusion.com
- Robert Coombs
antonyat AT gmail DOT com If anyone sends me an invite, I thank you greatly - if I receive an invite, I'll make sure to return to this thread :).
- Antony Jepson
allanbesselink<at>gmail<dot>com ... please!
- Allan Besselink
I'll wager that some of the folks on this list have received their invite by now, or no longer want one - I have 16 invitations at this instant. It's probably easier for me if you DM.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
fifiquimbo(at)gmail(dot)com. I would love one, thanks!
- Fifi Quimbo
I have 8 invites to Google Wave, if someone is interested, please DM with e-mail address. Ciao, Andrea
- Andrea Romoli
Echofon allows you to use flickr to share your photos. The URL shortener comes out as flic.kr i believe. Here's the iTunes link - http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
- Kevin Tee
That must be an Echofon pro feature, because I don't have it on my Echofon free app. I'll have to look into that one. Thanks Kevin. BTW... right now I've been using flikr sendr and it works pretty well.. and it's free.
- Ward Seward
If you look in Flickr's tools, they'll give you an email address something like "let##start2twitter@flickr.com" and by sending to that email, you get the photo on flickr and you get it posted in twitter at the same time. In the body of the email you can also type "tags: ..." to add those with the photo.
- Librarienne
Yes, no computer access at work, limited data plan, but unlimited SMS.
- Rui Pereira
from iPod
Just to post when I can't get tweetie to load.
- tomit
from iPhone
I use sms to receive DMs and sometimes to post if edge is down.
- Ward Seward
I did when I didn't have a smart phone with a twitter app, and wanted to send out updates while out and about. also, mymilemarker uses twitter so you can update your gas mileage from the pump, so I used it for that.
- chrisofspades
Before I had the BB, I used it all the time to post updates. Now I use UberTwitter to post but I still have select folks' updates come to me via SMS. Just easier to keep track of friends that way.
- pea
As an interim to better Push Twitter apps, yes. Though why @replies don't get sent to me is a bloody mystery? >:-S
- CannonGod
I use it, yup. I get updates from my local newspaper sent via SMS and the occasional person who I find entertaining/interesting (@badbanana right now).
- Mitch
Rarely. If I'm in a spot where there's nothing else to do, yes
- LANjackal
No. I don't use Twitter on my phone because I'd get charged for everything. Plus a laptop keyboard wins over a phone keyboard.
- Spidra Webster
no, sms is the most expensive form of communication that can be purchased i pay $5 for 200 sms msgs a month and even the $20 per month unlimited plan is a ripoff... SMS should be inlcluded in your plans... #attfail
- Chris Heath
sort of. I use a free SMS API key from Zeep Mobile to send Tweets to my own web server via the Zeep Mobile shortcode. from there my Twitter OAuth credential is employed to post the tweet to Twitter, it also gets sent via OMB protocol to different servers such as army.twit.tv and identi.ca and it goes out from my site as RSS. three of these arrive at FriendFeed, which annoys everyone.
- Brian Hendrickson
No need with SimplyTweet's push notifications on the iPhone. Although on very rare occasions I use SMS to update via HelloTxt.
- Grey Drane
from BuddyFeed
No, not available in Belgium. I would have used it not to update, but to be instantly notified of @ and direct replies. Now the iPhone has push functionalities I have no longer a need for Twitter SMS in Belgium anymore.
- Bart Muskala - AdNerd Sr.
from twhirl
Yes and it serves as insurance in the unlikely event that I’m ever arrested or otherwise in trouble in a strange place. SMS – to SMS can be slow and unreliable between some U.S. carriers (T-Mobile to Sprint, for example) whereas SMS-to-Twitter is more reliable. Last month I was on a trackless trolley, on my way to meet a friend. When the trolley broke down, I sent an SMS-to-Twitter and at the same time sent an SMS directly to my friend. He received the Twitter message first.
- A Mitchell
Cool! I suspect SMS may one day in the not-so-distant future become obsolete as everyone starts using smartphones and the statstream.
- Grey Drane
from IM
"Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts (and more outright downtime). The company is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service (DOS) attack but has not said anything further."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
I'd be happy if it died forever. 140-char limits are the worst thing to happen to conversation in recorded human history
- LANjackal
from IM
yet you were still able to express yourself within the constraints. 120 characters there, lanjackal
- neko
@LANjackal yet your comment was only 120 characters long. (JJ).
- Ward Seward
@Andrew @LANjackal No, I was just thinking thank god for FriendFeed. Although I do have a lot of friends that don't use FriendFeed that I would dearly miss. I suppose they would sign up if there was a Twitter Apocalypse .... I hope =)
- Brodie Beta
Nice. I got xxx-VEG-WARD (I'm a vegan). HA!
- Ward Seward
Robert, do you have a Voice account? If you do, it's easy to change your phone number--costs $10, but there's some really good ones out there.
- Matt Cutts
I was thinking about settings up a private group on FF for the people I work with. I think it would be better than sending tons of emails back and forth, and a great place to collaborate. Has anyone done this? How is it going?
We are doing this, it works... But you need to reach a "critical mass". The contributors/readers ratio is approx. 1/10.
- PiccoloImprenditore
There are only 3 of us (including myself) so it shouldn't be too hard to get them to join. I just wanted to see if anyone else has been doing this.
- Shawn Hickman
piccolo, how many people are currently in your group?
- Shawn Hickman
Mike, I was actually just looking at them. Seems pretty cool. I was trying to make FF my central hub for as many things as possible, so I will see how that goes.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn - gotcha :) Yeah FF is becoming my central hub these days too. It's nice to have a service that can integrate with everything else like FF does. It definitely beats having to go to a bunch of different places on the web.
- Mike Bracco
I just need FF to integrate into a client like Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck so I can have the trifecta of FB/Twitter/FF in one place.
- Mike Bracco
That's what I am waiting for too. I would love to have nothing but FF open in my browser all day. I wonder how Google Wave will affect this.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn, we are 10 + many freelance consultants, depending on the project. What I'm really missing now is a way to "open" single threads to externals (customers). Looks like Google Wave might be more effective for this - that would be a problem because I love FF.
- PiccoloImprenditore
piccolo, thanks for the info. It is going to be interesting to see how FF reacts to Google Wave.
- Shawn Hickman
Alp, thanks. I am looking into both. Do you use any of them?
- Shawn Hickman
Yammer is great. We use it for a team of 6 and it's perfect. I even have it set up to come to my SMS so I am reachable when I'm out of the office.
- Ward Seward
We use Yammer as well, and it works reasonably well for us (w/o the 140 char limit). Yet to figure to SMS it, as most of our use is asynch and not time critical.
- K Srikrishna
Mike B: twhirl supports twitter and friendfeed, still lacks facebook though
- Mike Chelen
We have been playing with this in the group that I work with and it does have some use. We have found that some things like task assignments seem to still work best in email. We do find it useful to have short conversations about new sites that we have found and about designs that we are working on. There have been instances deep within a 'discussion' where we really wish we had some threading features.
- Aaron Choate
from Nambu
I do believe FF could become a very efficient collaboration platform for business, but there are only few known success stories. If it worked for you, please tell us how and why http://friendfeed.com/friendf....
- Jérôme Flipo
Funny you should mention this. The tech team at my church have been considering using FF as way of setting up specific live-streaming ministry communication/collaboration. Let us know how it continues to develop for you. My biggest concern is security and unnecessary feeds dropping in.
- Bill Lunsford
I've had my 3G nearly a year and my screen has no scratches. Being ultra careful is the best way to protect it :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I bought a cover from decalgirl.com that covers the front/ back and includes a clear screen protector. With this you don't really need a case.
- Ron Thompson
I'm using the Zagg Invisible Shield as well. They actually sell a two piece set now that covers the entire device, though I only bought the one that protects the screen. Then I have an Incase slider case which is very unobtrusive.
- Herb Hernandez
A box in a vault, buried under concrete.
- Tyson Key
I personally don't use anything. You're going to get scratches on the plastic case regardless of what you do, and the glass is extremely resistant to normal scratching. The new iPhone 3GS is even chemically treated to resist smudging. I carry around a micro fiber cloth in my pocket, which cleans it up in a few seconds if it becomes especially smudged up.
- Mark Trapp
I only pay for last.fm, netflix, and flickr.
- ·[▪_▪]·
The only subscriptions I have are Netflix, Gamefly, and XMRadio. Not sure you'd call any of them online services, though. I'll probably renew flickr when I can more cash flow, though.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Remember the milk, Flickr and Mvelopes. I've been thinking about upgrading to Pandora One but haven't done it yet.
- Ward Seward
Mike Bracco: What other Mac online backup solutions did you try and what are the features separating Backblaze from others to be the best?
- Berk D. Demir
Berk, I tried Mozy when it was first released and I just found it slow, and backups would fail. Backblaze was slow too (initial backup took 17 days), but once it was finished, it's been well worth the money.
- cecily
Berk: I tried Mozy as well and also played around with a friends machine that had carbonite. I like Backblaze b/c is just works...I literally don't have to ever think about it. It was started by some ex apple guys I believe and it can definitely show in the final product. Very few options - it just backs up in the background. It also stores versions of a file so sequential backups are...
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- Mike Bracco
Evernote, Flickr, Toodledo, BitDefender
- Wei-Yen Tan
Hosting for my blog. Also pay for flickr, but that wasn't really worth it.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Flickr and Remember The Milk. Hosting accounts: Media Temple and Dreamhost.
- Jorge Gobbi
Evernote is my favorite. It is the one application I will not do without.
- Rob Cairns
Cecily & Mike: I've tried Mozy, Carbonite, Backblaze, iDrive and settled with Mozy for no obvious reason. Pretty much they are all the same. A very similar software, same slow initial backup process, versioned backups, easy restore, scheduling and background backup features, bandwidth throttling, being easy with the system resources and close yearly fees: $49.50 (iDrive: 150GB), $50...
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- Berk D. Demir
I must have tried Evernote five times, but can't really get what is SO useful about it. Maybe it's the "how" - can someone direct me to how they use it and why it's useful to them? As far as paid apps, Pandora, Carbonite and Extra Storage on Google. That's it.
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: check out Evernote's blog http://blog.evernote.com/ as well their tumblr blog http://evernote.tumblr.com/ They have some great use cases on both sites. Maybe that will spark some ideas on how to utilize it. It's one of those things where you have to kind of be conscious of it and make yourself use it - then after a while it naturally becomes part of your workflow - at least that is how it worked for me.
- Mike Bracco
Was forgetting Animoto for which I will subscribe very soon
- Bertrand Doux
Thanks for those, Mike, very helpful. I think you're right... I just need to make an effort to get it into my workflow. I think it may work well to document ASP.NET snippets I use often (maybe).
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: Yeah and what's helpful as Evernote progresses is that the service is getting faster and better integrated into the OS - which makes it less obtrusive and easier to work in.
- Mike Bracco
Its got to be Evernote, Flickr and Skype. Noticing a lot of love for Evernote on this list
- Robert Davies
For all you Evernote peeps, if you're not already in it, we have a pretty active room on FF: Feel free to join us! http://friendfeed.com/evernot...
- Lindsay
Remember The Milk, Flickr. Thinking about subscribing to Evernote but not sure I really need the premium version. If they add export option to their amazing recognition tool, I may switch.
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
freshbooks is great for small business invoicing. I use Pandora One also and Remember The Milk. trying Action Method (really good!)
- Julian Seery Gude
from BuddyFeed
Spotify.com, ProvideSupport.com, EverNote.com and soon e-tipi.com :-)
- Elian Chrebor
@elian what does Spotify premium brings? I would subscribe for an offline and/or iPhone feature. E-tipi probably but I hope you won't have to pay ;)
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Can someone tell me what lynda.com does? And what do you get extra with a paid Pandora account?
- Mark Traphagen
Mark: Lynda offers professional video tutorials or classes on pretty much any software imaginable (classes are streamed in browser via QuickTime and range anywhere from 2-12 hours. Pandora One is the pay Pandora account. It offers more skipping per day, double the bit rate quality (192 - huge difference from free account) and also a longer timeout period.
- Mike Bracco
I thought the bit rate quality with Pandora One wasn't going to be a big deal but it's night and day...big difference.
- Mike Bracco
I only pay for one at this point: Flickr. I am considering Evernote as well.
- Adam
Likely Evernote. still test driving it.
- Carolyn Chan
No test driving necessary for me, now a premium subscriber :)
- LANjackal
from IM
giganews unlimited usenet for $25/mo is always tempting
- Mike Chelen
Other than my Web hosting, I don't have any paid subscriptions to online services that I can think of. I tend to gravitate toward ad-supported free services.
- Curtiss Grymala
ah.. I see.... thanks.. I just wondered why there was so many different people doing it all at once.. thought it was my eyes or screen for a minute lol :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
alot of support for it... good to see but not surprising... given the events that have unfolded.
- Rob Sellen :o)
In find it quite funny that an increasing number of my contacts in my address book that I either call, email or text are non-human. Whether it's calling GOOG411, texting ChaCha or emailing Evernote I'm using communication channels that have been typically been only used for human to human interaction.
The ones in my email address book are Twitter, FriendFeed and Tumblr (I think, but I rarely use Tumblr any more). The only one in my phone contacts is Twitter, and the only IM bot contact I have is FriendFeed
- LANjackal
I actually place all my online accounts as separate contacts in my address book with their logo...kind of geeky
- Mike Bracco
I don't know what I'd do without Goog411. Ever since I added it to my address book it has enabled me to take care of business when away from the computer in a way I've never done before. Freedom!
- Miss Elle
@Elle: I forgot about Goog-411, it's been a long while since I've actually had to use any 411 service at all
- LANjackal
from IM
I'd say that might be the plan. If so, it is working, imo.
- Carolyn Wood
Thanks for mentioning ChaCha. I had never heard of that one before. I put it on my phone right away!
- Ward Seward
This is really interesting to think about. I personally don't have this experience at all, but you may be onto something here...
- Zach Landes
[OS Update Image Now Missing]: Is this a sign we are near the launch of OS 3.0? Or just some idiot toying with our minds? My thoughts .."Updating is easy, but webdesign isn't" ...
Looks like a developer pushed out some pages and forgot to upload the new images. I know I've done it once or twice... or maybe dozens of times *grin*.
- Ward Seward
Yep - I'd hate to be one of the ones responsible for the Apple site today. My bet - it'll go down in a few hours.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
They'll push it through iTunes. The images on the server links to instructions to hook up the iPhone to the computer.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Sean, probably saving themselves some tech support calls - yes.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
"The days of the free Internet will draw to a close over the next five years, according to the chairman and chief executive of IAC, the interactive services company which operates a collection of more than 30 Internet sites which produce $1.5 billion a year in revenue."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
Sure. Diller is a great predictor of things to come on the web; I mean, look at all those web properties (i.e. Classmates) he's been able to grow with such insight on what is to come. Good effing grief.
- coldbrew
Wither it is still free or not is one thing. Wither it is AFFORDABLE or not is the real issue. People will find/create a replacement if they try to make the internet something that is not affordable.
- Ward Seward
I think he is partly right. Many sites provide premium subscriptions if you want to access all of their functionalities. I don't think every aspect of it will be paid, but I do see an increase of internet tools and sites that will have paid subscriptions in the future.
- Shevonne
i don't doubt that internet properties will charge. the question is will any of us pay?
- tiffany
Though I should say that I think that paid and freemium content sites (like Consumer Reports, and Cooks) that eschew advertising entirely will be a growing segment. Note that these are publications with deep expertise and analysis.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I would pay for sites and tools that I felt were of some value to me.
- Shevonne
If Diller is right: Internet, RIP.
- Paul
from twhirl
I think many sites will use a pay model but the vast majority will remain free. I think Diller is off base and doesn't understand the mentality of the hardcore internet geek. We come from a land of BBS, Open Source, free software, and information transparency. The onset of pay internet sites will be the catalyst to reinvigorating free content on the web.
- Keith - @tsudo
Aaron: what do you mean worth it? He got it free, remember? ;)
- Ward Seward
I think it's a worthy competitor. Wish the battery life were better. Needs better predictive text. UI and hardware are gorgeous. If you're Sprint, definitely. I bought the new iPhone however.
- Leo Laporte
I was honestly going to make that joke about the pre myself but thought you might be sick of it. It is a credit to you that you can see the humour in it!
- Kevin J Hatton
Leo, I wanted to get iPhone, but I'm going to Iowa State U for PhD, and in Ames, IA... there is no 3G coverage from AT&T :( So, I'm getting a Pre.. and I think I'll know where it stands.
- Divya Mistry
I do, in fact, have a Pre. It wasn't free, it's not a review unit... I paid for it. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I'm just extremely excited about the possibilities after leaked ROM combined with MoJo SDK
- Divya Mistry
Ken, my biggest concern in getting a Pre is surfing the web on that screen size. Do you find it comfortable using it on.. let's say.. bbc.co.uk kind of website?
- Divya Mistry
You won't be unhappy with the Pre. Get the inductive charger. That's cool. USB charging means you can keep the battery topped off. I expect there will be lots of great software and the Palm emulator guarantees compatibility with legacy software.
- Leo Laporte
Did you all notice the structure of Inductive Charger + Pre-cover? It's quite simple to make.. and I'm wondering if I can just make it diy-style for less than 12-15 bucks
- Divya Mistry
Leo: Did you see the Christian Bale vs Leo Laporte vs Mike Arrington with Audible cameo by Calacanis Remix http://www.youtube.com/watch... pretty funny!!!
- Mike Bracco
Divya: I haven't spent much time surfing... but it has multitouch zoom, so you can pinch or stretch pages as you'd like and scroll around. I'm not losing sleep over a missing half inch or so of screen size.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: Sure. I don't own an iPhone.. so i'm not used to the screen size at all.. but just want to know if it is comfortable on eyes :) I plan on surfing may be 20 minutes at a time.. not 2 hours.
- Divya Mistry
Would be curious whether Jono or Randal have looked at the (Linux) Pre boot image at all
- Ken Sheppardson
Indeed.. love drivers on JauntyJ. My old hardware (that i got for free) didn't run too well on IntrepidIbex.. but JJ is awesome!
- Divya Mistry
Could we please have a toggle to turn off the 'x more from <service>' links on lists. It's hugely frustrating, especially as we do not have time on group feeds.
I agree. It's frustrating... especially if you follow someone from Twitter that posts a lot. I want a option to turn the roll-up off and just have them always show up.
- Ward Seward
From what I have heard it is the big wigs at the content companies (NBC, FOX,...) that are saying NO to the content sharing. Tjhe guys at Hulu is all for it. Old school thinking strikes again!
- Ward Seward
I wonder what it is going to take to those "big wings" to understand that they are wrong. They have such a huge opportunity, and they are blowing it. Fucking idiots.
- Shawn Hickman
BuddyFeed has been my favorite for a while now ...
- Patrick Jordan
Nambu works with friendfeed, twetter and ping.fm
- David Foucher
BuddyFeed. The UI is snappier than the iPhone site and I don't need to sacrifice a Safari tab. I wasn't happy with Nambu cuz it sacrifices FF features by trying to do too much.
- David Chartier
I had a similar feeling with Nambu, and also found it less solid (buggy / crashiness wise) than BuddyFeed ...
- Patrick Jordan
I was using MotherFeed but didn't really like it too much
- Simon Tracey
I've just realized you can customize the BuddyFeed toolbar to include Comments and Likes icons. This is so much better now.
- John Francis
from BuddyFeed
Thanks all. I just bought BuddyFeed. It seems to work quite well. Better than Motherfeed or Nambu (which crashes frequently).
- John Collis
I'm using friendfeed.com/iphone and I'm finding it very functional
- Andrew Wielandt
played with buddyfeed beta and nambu. dont really have a favorite
- Isaac Zahavi
just using the iphone version of friendfeed.com
- edythe
BuddyFeed - but there are times the screen doesn't refresh properly -
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I was using Buddyfeed until they brought back "My Discussions" to the iPhone page.
- Rob Haas
Using Nambu. Hoping for new upgraded version soooooon ;) I really wish @peoplebrowsr would release an iPhone app. Please :)
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol
- Cardeen Martinez
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these...
- Zee.
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984.
- Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now!
- Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier)
- Brandon Mendelson
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy.
- Adam Turetzky
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992.
- dthree
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally.
- Bruce Lewis
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary.
- Bob M. Montgomery
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.)
- Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998.
- David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem.
- Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail.
- Tom Horn
Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin.
- Glen Mistletoe
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box.
- Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol
- Sharon McPherson
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet)
- Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times.
- zephyrlily
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything!
- Bryce Campbell
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr.
- Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :)
- Mark Krynsky
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net
- Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server.
- Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular
- Gee Ranasinha
Two at same time, utk.edu for work and hotmail for personal, I actually still use that hotmail acct.
- Brytne
from Nambu
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk
- Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo
- (jeff)isageek
Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good...
- Kristian Salonen
AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college.
- mark
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr).
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com
- Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone.
- Dušan Šimonovič
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now.
- Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail.
- Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you.
- Eric Fisher
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now
- brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox.
- Jess Lee
Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then.
- howard shippin
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net.
- Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP.
- Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around.
- James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno....
- EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995
- Michael K Pate
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net).
- Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back)
- Jorge Escobar
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today.
- Jennifer Mitchell
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it.
- Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky...
- John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not!
- Bonnie Foster
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years.
- Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL.
- John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yes, but I still don't see the use to FFeed
- Steve Weddle
Steve: you don't see why you'd use friendfeed instead of Twitter?
- Robert Scoble
Tbh, Scoble, unless I can find a desktop application with the versatility of TweetDeck, I likely will never become a constant #friendfeed user.
- Michael Owens
When I logged in today, FF gave me the option of subscribing to all my friends on facebook and twitter. I'm assuming that's why everyone is getting so many subscriptions.
- Alex Sommerkamp
MK: hmmm, I understand that. I just use a web browser and keep it loaded here.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed, I can use the import Twitter follower feature almost daily and find lots of new users. Two weeks ago I found perhaps a dozen users who were following our company Twitter account @tinyprints, earlier this week there were a couple hundred.
- Rick Bucich
I have stopped using Twitter and now use FF. I love being able to pull my Twitter people over and put them into lists. FF the best Twitter client ever (IMHO). I do miss FF's imaginary friend feature though. There are Twitter only people I would still like to bring over.
- Ward Seward
I think I'll start using Friendfeed over services like Socialthing, it seems more interactive.
- Shane Tilton
I do not like to link any accounts together. Anyways i am enjoying friendfeed so far.
- ashish
It makes sense in most cases, but then again I would've liked to hashtag some of my comments as tweets without leaving the thread.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
there's a setting where you can automatically post your friendfeed stuff to twitter... under the tools...
- Justin Long
can't really do it selectively because the system doesn't know the twitter account you're replying to, I would guess?
- Justin Long
You're right about the reply confusion, but in the case of a live chat thread there's not really an assumed twitter recipient. I'm just tossing my thoughts into the stream from this thread.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM