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The Bloom Box: a power plant for the home (video) - http://www.engadget.com/2010...
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Surprised Kitty (Original) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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awwwww. love this!
- Ebm
I'm on a Mac (I'm on a Boat spoof) ft. PC-Pain - SwitchToMac.com - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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MagicPrefs Is Like Pixie Dust for the Magic Mouse (A Must Download) [Apple] - http://gizmodo.com/5432264...
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The Ctrl+Alt+Del Tool #shareit - http://www.techeblog.com/index...
acedanger, tuhuayuan, Ashish and 69 other people liked this
"Do you always need to reboot the computer and/or start Windows Task Manager? Look no further than Ctrl+Alt+Del, a handy tool which does just that and nothing more."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
hahahaha :))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Is it sad that I've been Ctrl+Alt+Del for over 15 years I never thought to use the delete key by the number pad? on a mac now, so I guess I have an excuse, but wow...
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
lol i want - i also want a windows-e version plz
- Allen Stern
WiseYoda, or the one-handed Ctrl+Alt+Delt, is the Ctrl+Alt on the right with the closest Del button. Gosh, I'm such a geek. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, that's the one I use, unless I'm already typing.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
I always control - shift - escape - it's like the karate chop of death!
- Rich
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Has anyone invented a little handheld tool that orders a Mac?
- Your Neighbor Steve
:)
- just ZONED
I always love a good analog solution!
- Ciaoenrico
This is going on my Xmas list now! :-D
- Phil Harrison
Are u still using this combination for freezing Windows Operating system :) ahahahahaha
- Bahaeddin [ MacinLife ]
Do not start with your comparably crappywise OS7,6 of same days !
- Acharad Sami
This is pretty funny. Oh, and I had no idea that that using the numpad '.' for del overrode the Num Lock when doing CTRL+ALT+DEL. Interesting. I can already do the one-handed three finger salute quite quickly, though. Plenty of training and all.
- Chieze Okoye
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
CSS Injection in Google Docs Forms - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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Watch Live TV And Recordings On Your iPhone With Elgato’s New EyeTV App - http://appadvice.com/appnn...
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sweet. will report back tomorrow when I have this set up.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
from BuddyFeed
And it's officially awesome.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Yeah, it worked. Here's me never upgrading to a new version. :)
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Feeding my friends, one post at a time.
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Wow. Twitter and friendfeed? Impressive.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
from iPhone
I'm working on combining my DNA with that of an octopus or Vishnu.
- Tim Holsopple
Always Remember, Your Employer Can See What You Post on Spacebook [Humor] - http://gizmodo.com/5358838...
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Newest member of the family (this is what happens when you leave the iMac & Macbook Pro together alone...)
Yolanda and WiseYoda (aka Patrick) liked this
Congrats!
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Ah, now I see why you were out sick today - had to charge the new baby every 2 hours... listen, you can bring him in if you want, we won't tell anyone.
- Tracey Zimmerman
I Can Has Happy: Top Sexy Geeks - http://icanhashappy.blogspot.com/2008...
Владимир, David Steer, Парадокс Смейла and 88 other people liked this
Dames!
- Phil Glockner
Hey, where am I? :P
- Mona Nomura
Agreed, where is Mona :)?
- trextor
HAHAHHA
- Mona Nomura
ditto George and Matt :)
- Joel Reyes
Ok...so I believe there is nothing sexier than a beautiful woman who is also a geek or is beautiful and knows how to work on cars or beautiful and loves sports, or is amazing in a courtroom. Am I missing anything fellas? Ok...so Mona needs to be on there. Mona where is your picture!!
- Adriana
hahaha I was just kidding! I would rather be offered a guest spot on Gizmodo. ;)
- Mona Nomura
I say you can have both! ; )
- Adriana
o m g. Talk about a gigidy-gigidy overload. Used to think Oliva was the hottest geek, but there's so many of them. God bless the internet. I think I need a kleenex. :-|
- Matthew Horton
This warrants a giggity giggity -> http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Matthew Horton
Ok. Not sure about this. Is it post-modern and therefore ok to think objectification of women is cool? Plus, you have my fav Felicia Day in there, which confuses the matter even further. I either need to have more to drink, or something....
- WoH: Minding her Steves
You may watch Lala on sevenload. http://en.sevenload.com/shows... ;-)
- Erhan Erdoğan
Didn't Wired do this sexy geeks thing a year ago, same people pretty much? It gets traffic, no doubt about it. Isn't that what this is really about for those involved? It works.
- jjprojects
agreed...if they had mona on there I would have so had her pciture up on the post :)
- (jeff)isageek
Bah, they missed ALL the FF beauties! Pfffft!
- FFing Enigma
tina agreed!
- (jeff)isageek
olivia....
- Cee Bee
The question is; do we like them because they're sexy or geek?
- M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
cuz they are geek!!
- ahmet kakıcı
yeah i'm into olivia because she knows the difference between amd and intel. right
- Cee Bee
My night is complete. Thanks :)
- Charlie Anzman
*starts loading up her spellbooks and component pouches and grabs her best sword*
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
So let me get this straight, just because "she" has a podcast she is a geek? Most of these I can get, but I'm not so sure some of these are a stretch.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
We like to pretend that humans are enlightened, but we're still just animals at heart.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I was scrolling down waiting, waiting, waiting and there at the very bottom was Amber McArthur, the cutest geek of them all. And did you notice she had all her clothes on? Very impressive.
- DB - Just DB
always a good post to come back to from time to time :)
- (jeff)isageek
yum, yum, yum!
- Brian Felix
Smart women exist, I don't think this is so surprising!
- ★Kristy
this is almost to my 100 likes club :) would be # 3 for me.
- (jeff)isageek
T'was only a matter of time, to which I say it's about time.
- Mike Lewis
They don't seem nerdy enough to be hot to me... and I object to the blatant gender discrimination! nerdboyfriend.com :)
- Lo the Baker
iPhone OS 3.0 Now Available in Torrent—Tested, It Works [Apple] - http://i.gizmodo.com/5284779...
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Phil Schiller back on-stage
Dobromir Hadzhiev, WiseYoda (aka Patrick) and Roberto Bonini liked this
iPhone is amazing, blah blah blah
- Anthony Ha
yeah...... we know about that......
- Roberto Bonini
2/3 of all mobile browsing is done on iPhone or Ipod touch
- Anthony Ha
15 minutes left? Done with desktop and 3.0 software talk...?
- Ken Sheppardson
Android store approaching 5,000 apps, BlackBerry just broke 1,000 compared to 50,000 apps in iPhone
- Anthony Ha
Someone once told me that one of Phil's nicknames at Apple is "Barney The Dinosaur". I've never been able to listen to him talk since then in quite the same way :)
- Ian Betteridge
I want to be able to do 2-way videoconferencing with Skype. Come on, give us a new iphone!
- Stephane Groud
Hmm, how come he didn't put the number of WinMo or Nokia apps up there?
- Ian Betteridge
It's a shame they're touting # of apps. Should celebrate quality, usability, etc first & foremost. 80% of my iPhone app usage is within a small handful of very useful apps
- Dan Byler
Because there is no cohesive, unified WinMo or NokiaApp store
- Jonathan Disher
Or maybe because Apple's number wouldn't look that impressive next to them :)
- Ian Betteridge
i have to say, using winmo apps on my old phone was a royal pain in the ass. jailbreaking my first iphone was easier and more convenient.
- Jonathan Disher
Feeling Silly? There's An App...Er...Web Site For That. - http://www.ismashphone.com/2009...
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Superdog - http://alejandroz.soup.io/post...
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Burak Sırrı, Yu-kai Chou, Mathew A. Koeneker and 258 other people liked this
dayum.
- Nakachi
Nice work
- Robert Kenney
Just whoa!
- Rick Bucich
K9 to the rescue!
- alieb
fearless!
- Violet Mae Lim
training exercise
- AJ Batac :)
K9 unit doing exactly what it should...
- FFing Enigma
Nice hops!
- Michael
vaoov !! super
- akdenizhan
I love this video...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Never Fear! for Wonder Dog is here!
- Charles Alden
Now, lets see this dog do that with a SUV which is what any good suspect is going to take.
- Wizetux
Holy cow....Or should I say, holy canine.
- Just Katie
Dude clearly didn't play enough Wolfenstein
- Christopher Galtenberg
Wolfenstein, LMAO! Looks like a training exercise if you look at the padding around his chest. Still a great video though.
- Hugh Hawkins
++ D.I.
- Brent - Yes I am
can't .... stop.... watching...
- SteVe C
what a brave animal!
- JoEllen
Is the "suspect" wearing padding and a face mask? It looks like it.
- JoEllen
It was on digg.com.
- Ashish
Go doggeh!
- Rodfather
Wow.
- Joey Gibson
دمش گرم سگه رو O_o
- Papak
this is so crazy! i cant believe the dog jumps over the car like that! i just retweeted this.
- Jason Pollock
The cops came around the bowling alley after all the customers left and ended up doing a training exercise with the dog. Someone put on a sleeve. It was awesome!
- Rodfather
WOW
- YoYo_P
Amazing WOW!
- Jose Luis Santos
Awesome! I got to share this!
- Jessica Lee
Where can I get me one like that? Super dog to the rescue!! Hehe... xD
- Wilfredo Guerrero
absolutely fabulous action photo - love to know the story!!
- Mark Conrau
that really is SuperDog!
- Narayanan Hariharan
Damn! What a leap! :)
- Mahesh CR
Am just glad my neighbors don't have a dog like that :)
- Asfaq
superbbbbbbb
- Abhishek Tiwari
Whoa! What they put in his MilkBones?
- Anika
damn I wanna like this again and again
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
nice!
- Carlos Leiva Burotto
And this my friends is why Dogs > Cats
- Mark Krynsky
it is a pitbull.
- ali
really cool, but this was just training. original vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Trey Philips
that is awesome! never fear underdog is here!
- (jeff)isageek
wow, that's pretty amazing...Super dog indeed, braver than a gun huh :o)
- Aline Ohannessian
WOW
- aqfery
Proving, indeed, that "Dogs Rule!"
- Bill Hewson
and that is exactly why I try to send "happy vibes" when walking past a fenced-in raging dog
- Kathryn Martyn
awesome.
- Zee.
Dogs are amazing animals.
- Wayne Smallman
One amazing dog! Take out the shooter in one mighty leap!
- Rob McNair-Huff
Bones and chewtoys for a month! Well, other than the one he got here...
- JonT
that is absolutely nuts
- Chieze Okoye
And this, my friends, is why cats are smarter than dogs. You think a cat would be so dumb as to charge an armed man? No.
- thepete
Wow! Super dog!
- Carmen wBabby
Oops !!! are you sure that is dog ??? :)))
- CRASH3R
That's incredible. Not one iota of hesitation.
- Rick Cogley
training exercise but that dog would do the same in real - and a few bites are better than a bullet even for the perpetrator.
- Iphigenie
although the dog should go for the gun arm, no?
- Iphigenie
Okay, just spent like an hour or so being distracted by various links on your site. Thanks a bunch! ☺
- mark zero (Jason)
I love dogs!
- Michael Fidler
I want - http://fit-pc2.com/wiki...
OnuRC, Tyler Ham, Ben and 144 other people liked this
"Introducing fit-PC2 CompuLab introduces fit-PC2 – the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC to date. fit-PC2 architecture is what sets it apart from other nettop PCs - fit-PC2 is designed around the Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz and the ultra low power Intel US15W system controller hub, rather than the Atom N270 and 945G used in other nettop-PCs, thereby reducing power consumption by more than two thirds. US15W incorporates hardware video acceleration. This allows fit-PC2 to run Windows XP or Ubuntu Linux at just 6W and to play full HD 1080p H.264 video using less than 7W."
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
some limitations of the fit2pc: no n wifi, only 1gb ram & is soldered, reader is not sdhc, no wol, hdmi still needs sep audio line. if it could remedy those, then it would be more awesome than i originally thought it was. still cool idea. (edited to add: forums say hdmi does not support hdcp. boy, lots of surprises in what it *can't* do. almost a parody of an 'efficient' device.)
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Got error when clicked the link. Actually I thought I could show the screenshot, but ff can not add images to comments.
- ThinkEzy
Where and when can we buy this ??
- @LarsenTweet
Very nice
- Amit Morson
as sweet as a purring kitten
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
awesome. when do they start production?
- Chris Rutili
from BuddyFeed
And here I was waiting for netbooks to get better performance and instead we see the same low performance spreading from the mobile world, where it made sense, to our desks. Crud. It's nice that it's got low power requirements, but that seems to be it.
- Henrik
When do they start building the computer into the keyboard?
- Brian Sieker
I need a small, very low power consumption system with two ethernet ports to replace a home server. The fit-PC2 is so tantalizingly close; I'd have to add a USB ethernet dongle, and those are teh suck.
- DGentry
"Want" is a serious understatement. I could do some evil, evil things with that!
- ax0n
Very sexy! I can imagine having three or four of these with SSDs around my house.
- Barry Biddlecomb
from twhirl
With more HDMI ports and built-in blu-ray this would be an excellent choice for HTPC. Here's a better link to the data sheet http://www.compulab.co.il/fitpc2...
- JCunwired
For the right (low) price, even with it's flaws it could be a great little media server. And here I was wishing upon an eee-box-star.
- thepete
sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq: Thanks for those helpful pieces of info. Please consider using punctuation and capitalization in the future. I know it's not cool, but it serves a purpose (e.g. it helps knowledge transfer, the supposed reason for commenting in the first place) :P.
- coldbrew
I want this as well.
- Doug Slater
I doubt that 1080p H.264. is watchable. Need some proof. It would be a key factor for me.
- Dmitriy B
I want one of these.
- Robert Gregory Browne
The newer boards use a dual-core Atom and NVidia 9400M chipset. Even has CUDA support. I believe it could decode 1080p. http://mini-itx.com/2009...
- Rodfather
Looks great. I want also. I'll wait for Windows 7.
- Scott Kraatz
Smaller than a MacMini. I'll wait for Windows 7 too.
- Randy Caldwell
I'd love to attach this to the back of a monitor and hang it on a wall
- Camden
Brian Sieker: Asus already started stuffing the whole pc inside a (nice looking) keyboard, take a look at the Eee Keyboard http://gizmodo.com/5124985...
- Rui Pires
I wonder how well this will run Boxee.. Is it the perfect boxee box?
- raf
I'm always skeptical about the 1080P claims for nettops.
- Ryan Whitwam
Just got sling iphone app (I know, I know... $30 for wi-fi only is a rip but I couldn't help myself) works like a charm with my Slingbox AV.
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crazy beatboxing... wow. http://www.facebook.com/login...
Vezquex, Denise Howell, "Joey" and 3 other people liked this
for the love of god watch this... NOW
- mjc
just watching this now - fucking nuts! I'm off to post it. Where did you get it?
- Zee.
a friend on facebook :) I think the beatboxing is better than the flute though so far
- mjc
found the youtube version
- mjc
Linky?
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
My friend showed me this yesterday. The best is the last minute or so
- Shevonne
yeah same :) just posted it here: http://friendfeed.com/zee...
- Zee.
Indeed.
Andrew, Morton Fox, Mona Nomura and 4 other people liked this
Ryborg, Mike, and I as kids growing up... what a great photo of all of us.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
Guess which one is Ryborg!
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
nah, he's on the right. I remember taking this picture, that was a fun day
- Ebm
Someone's got bony hands.
- Morton Fox
Bluesun 2600, Neya, Anthony Citrano and 12 other people liked this
ah...I see you have discovered yves.lecoq as well! Intriguing works...
- JA Castillo
brilliant stuff
- M F
@Castillo Its brilliant work and one of the more creative collections I’ve seen on Flickr.
- Michael Fidler
butt what?
- Michael Fidler
:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael Fidler - no doubt; as many interesting artists & photographers as I have come across on flickr, Yves is quite unique.
- JA Castillo
@JA Castillo Do you know if he updates his stream often? If he does, I'll add him as a contact!
- Michael Fidler
He has become a little more frequent in posting; I would definitely recommend adding him.
- JA Castillo
I did anyway:-)
- Michael Fidler
Thanks, btw!
- Michael Fidler
My newest Endeavor http://pa-ementor.org/
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Working and retired adults and mature college students serving as online career mentors for students -- helping them plan and prepare for college and career success.
- Andrew
My good deed for the day is signing up for this
- Andrew
I hope they can find you a good mentor. I'm pulling for you.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
har.
- Andrew
this is definitely the earliest ive ever been drunk :P GO PENS!! :D
Morton Fox and WiseYoda (aka Patrick) liked this
I had a beverage called Sparks. Tastes like an energy drink, but definitely alcoholic! :)
- Phoenix
Twitter Caps Following Limits, Denting Auto-Follow Services - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Moses Kpetigo, fouad, Mike Fruchter and 53 other people liked this
Twitter seems to be all over the place on rules. First they turn off automatic follow, then they create a "suggested" list based on followed counts, then they turn off unfollow on Kutcher and CNN, then they grant Oprah (who only has 10 tweets) "suggested follow" status, and now they limit following to 1000/day (after they aready participated in the biggst following game in their...
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- Keith Barrett
Why does this -taste- wrong to me? They 'pimp' celebs with the "Suggested User" list, parade Kutcher and CNN to drive up their numbers, but somehow want to limit how many I 'can' follow? FriendFeed looks better every single day.
- Alyx
Honestly, WHO needs to follow more than 1,000 each day? http://status.twitter.com/post...
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Ed, here's an example. Let's say you have 12,000 followers. Many people do. You currently follow 400. You see notes saying people want to DM you but you're not following. (happens all the time) So you choose to let them DM you by following back. It will take 12 days. Alternatively, you just use a 3rd party service (until today) that catches you up.
- Louis Gray
Alyx, yes, I see that exactly. I don't get why they want Kutcher to follow 93 and be followed by 1+ million. Is he using Twitter correctly? Is that why ev follows less than 1,000 but is followed by 500,000 and biz follows less than 200, but is followed by more than 400,000? I think they believe this is the "right way". It's an ego thing.
- Louis Gray
Louis: maybe that is the model for people like Kutcher who anyway has tons of people interested in what he does and uses twitter in a way that fits with his needs. Then there are less well known people who want to use twitter for different reasons and therefore might have more balance in followers vs friends ratio.
- Davide D'Incau
I think you hit it right there Louis. One more ego-based decision in a recent barrage of them This will not serve them to continue doing business in this fashion.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Louis: this model was caused by Twitter's decisions. Yes, that is exactly what they are saying: that we should use Twitter the way that they are.
- Robert Scoble
Rob: bull. They have Oprah and are now mainstream. They don't care about anyone but celebrities anymore.
- Robert Scoble
... 'cause none of the applications or services we're talking about have any real impact on their growth or success. They're not in the infrastructure business at the moment.
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert: I know they don't CARE, but will it SERVE them. I don't think it will.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
3rd party application developers have had a huge part to do with their success. if the developer community hadn't supported twitter, they would not have gotten to where there are. This is a matter of biting the hand that feeds them. And while the dog may not give a damn who it bites that does not mean it's going to get fed from the same hand tomorrow
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: Twitter regularly bites the hand that feeds it. So far it hasn't hurt it one bit.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Fads die as quickly as they come. Especially in the entertainment industry that Twitter has chosen to make itself part of. Without the applications that made twitter they would be nothing. and if they continue to drive developers away, and to consider alternatives, the fad will die down. It may not be overnight, but it won't last forever.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
They don't tend to bite the hands that feed them users, traffic, or press.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: totally wrong. I know several such hands that Twitter has bitten.
- Robert Scoble
Come on, folks; by using caps, twitter is _protecting_ the social graph! If everyone was linked to everyone else, there'd be no useful information to mine. Like who you should follow to reach your follow limit.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
Andy: The limits that they're using are dead wrong to achieve their stated goals, and the goal you're suggesting
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Robert: Yeah, I got carried away there for a minute :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
guruvan, I know (that was sarcasm). -- Can we get some sarcasm metadata flag, FF? COMEON!
- Andy Bakun
from IM
<sarcasm> </sarcasm> lol! gotta use the tags sometimes
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Twitter caps - OPRAH KNOWS ALL ABOUT TWITTER CAPS
- Chris Loft
Nice chrisloft.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
:-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Just as we "ordinary" people are leaving all forms of commercialized media in droves to have a media space of our own so we will leave Twitter the more commercialized and "celebratized" (just made that word up, sorry)it becomes. If the auto follow feature had never existed in the first place you wouldn't have millions of people gaming the system to amass bogus followers for no other...
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- Mike Elliott
Mike, if that's how Twitter wanted it they needed to remove the need to follow in order to DM someone, or give us the option to have anyone DM us if we want that.
- Jesse Stay
I understand why they'd want to impose some limits. If there weren't some controls in place, the spammers auto-creating accounts and auto-following people would get out of hand, for example. but the way they've selectively changed their rules for folks like @oprah and @aplusk is the clear hint that it's not going to be a level-playing field... (cont'd)
- .LAG liked that
...(cont'd) OTOH: the service is currently FREE, so since no one is paying to use Twitter, how much can you expect for NOTHING?
- .LAG liked that
Therein lies an obvious issue, .LAG. If we should expect nothing from Twitter, we should all leave now, right?
- Louis Gray
Well, Louis, that's a tough one: where would we go? ;-) ...and I fully acknowledge that I'm responding on FriendFeed, so I'm already here.
- .LAG liked that
...I mean the 'collective' we, the vast un-washed mass, the mainstream
- .LAG liked that
LAG: Spammers and such will 'always' find ways around the limits. Sort of like how DRM doesn't/didn't hurt the pirate, it hurts the consumer and the industry. But if Twitter wants to become one more E! or TMZ type joint, so be it. at least They should be honest about it.
- Alyx
Besides- not everyone you follow is active so just because your numbers may be high, the stream may not be overwhelming. And that is where the API and developers come in- develop apps that make Twitter more valuable.
- Alyx
From a databse designer's point of view, knowing the maximum load on the database is very helpful in tweaking your database design. Its performance related. How ever, in saying that, once they get through whatever isses they have, the time is ripe for new features (and it helps having a solid databse to work with).
- Roberto Bonini
Robert Scoble, not only are they mainstream and will cater to Oprah, Ev essentially claimed during the Oprah interview that celebrities get to pick their username, if it's already taken or not. This would have been better if it was backed up by some reference to trademark enforcement, but it wasn't, it was presented as a "celebrities are cool, screw the users". I just can't get over this point in the interview.
- Andy Bakun
Current Oprah update: 4 days and 429,602 followers and 13 tweets
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I wonder if Oprah can only have 1000 followers a day.
- Brian Newman
For her, I'm sure they just MIGHT, MAYBE make an exception, she's currently at 10 followed
- The Real sofarsoShawn
isnt that some of the reasons the cool kids are on FF?
- Peter Efland
with good groups and search (on peoplebrowsr) and lists & filters on FF, I think I see more much than 3% (following 2k tweeps + 350 on FF) What I don't see is all the tweets that go by while I'm not in front of them. but even those, I see many through search & filters. Based on what I know (and have learned) from Robert Scoble I think that a person can pluck the value out of 10s of thousands of people's tweets. The average person isn't doing this, but with better tools could be.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Brian: this issue is not how many can follow oprah, but how many she can follow back in a day. I've seen her pull in at least 50K followers in 24hrs.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
twitter does seem to be a bit schizophrenic on this, they celebrate in fact promote Ashton getting to 1 million and have a suggest list, then they limit me to 1,000 follows a day, seems consistency is not Twitter strong point
- Kim Landwehr
I really don't see an issue with this, why would anybody seriously want to follow more than 1000 per day? Please explain?
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Keith, it has to do with Twitter killing the ability for their larger users to auto-follow. Those are really the only people this affects - Britney has more than 1,000 people following her daily, as does Ashton Kutcher, CNNBrk, Oprah, and even Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble are getting close to this. Now they have no way of allowing their followers to DM or communicate with them directly. The point of this is Twitter is dictating how people can use its service, along with killing developers along the way.
- Jesse Stay
It's also related to the fact that "Follow" means different things to different people. To some it means "I want to read everything this person says." To others it means "I want to see this person's updates in the stream of tweets that flows across my third monitor running TweetDeck that I glance at now and then." As Jesse mentioned, it's also necessary to "Follow" someone if you want them to be able to send you a direct message.
- Ken Sheppardson
The original model for Twitter was supposed to be an "interactive" site to communicate with like minded others. It seems to be moving further and further away from that.
- rob
It seems that Twitter wants "Follow" to mean option 1) Read everything this person says -No suprise that Twitter thinks this. This is how @ev and @biz obviously use their accounts. Unfortunately they are as out of touch with their userbase as they could possibly be. Almost no heavy users of Twitter use it in this way. And with the amount of "personal" conversations going on between those people I am in fact interested in, I certainly don't want to read every tweet. But that doesn't mean I want to not see em
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Further, the DM model is broken, and does require massive following. I've been looking for a job, and can't really afford to miss the possible DM from recruiters and potential employers. Too many of them don't realize that rule in the first place. (and ask anyone interested to DM for more info which doesn't work of course)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ok, appreciate what you guys are saying but can you honestly tell me you are following over 1000 new users EACH and EVERY day? I personally have auto follow off purely due to the spammers, but I can understand why you don't. I'm just not sure the argument stands up that the 1000 limit is wrong. I'm not defending them, I'm just trying to understand the reasoning.
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
I'm not following but the few who follow me (personally) But, for example, @britneyspears appears to be attempting to follow all of those who are following her. She is LIKELY to get more than 1000 followers in a single day. Furthermore, since she's only following about 400,000 out of about 1.1Million at 1000/day it will take her a very very long time to catch up. I do NOT believe that a new user should be allowed to follow 1000/day. I believe a ratio would be appropriate.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
If Twitter were to allow new users 200 follows, and then require them to stay within 10% that would be fair to big users and little users alike. Britney would be able to follow 40,000/day now, and that would save a lot of load on the Twitter server farm (from the max rate at which her auto-follow proveder could process). New people could follow 20/day at first, and 100/day at 1000 followers. I believe any more than that ratio is very spammy indeed.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I see my new follows thru rssfriends.com, and get account creation dates from them When I see that a new user has followed to many users too fast, I simply block them because I regard it as careless and spam. 1000 follows in one day, I don't even look at the profile or the tweets. I just block. If they have followed 10,000 in under a month, unless they are somewhat famous, I block as well.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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