Amund Tveit

There are four parts to this video. One of the most interesting developers and ideas for the RealTimeWeb that I've heard yet. I wish FriendFeed has this search engine's capabilities. - Robert Scoble

Hi Susan. Thanks :-) BTW, there are permissions. You can have, e.g., a susan/rating attribute that you're putting onto things, and it's yours - no one else can detect/read/write/delete it unless you let them. OTOH, the underlying database objects have no owner. There are no permissions at that level. So you can put a rating (or anything else) onto any object (that you can find). No-one can stop you. So we're fully writable like a wiki, but with a permissions structure within the object (unlike a wiki). - Terry Jones

Ooooh got it!!! Ok so you're building a core data model (protected) with objects everywhere (open design) which are available to users who are presented with a highly customizable user profile (detect/read/write/delete ) that can call / manipulate said objects to create the user's *own* data set (which has multiple layers of permissions to control sharing, reporting and distribution of data) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Scoble posting about bacon...? *goes off to check the time-space continuum* - Johnny Worthington

And, of course, it's in Portland. Bacon capital of the world. - Rick Turoczy

:) I'm sure she'll appreciate it. - WorldofHiglet

"Good point. The blog.disqus.com URL is quite amusing. If I were running Disqus, I would at least have this redirect to their official blog." - Louis Gray

In soviet russia, etc etc etc yes I beat you wiseacres to the punch. - Eric Rice

I am thinking of Ender in Speaker for the Dead, and the jewel in his ear, and Jane, who is a constant companion. - Christian Burns

wow! this is "spooky" indeed! You are on to something there Eric! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

I skimmed this in the bookstore yesterday. Seems extremely interesting, so I'm going to have my library get it for me. - Anika Malone

The book is dated 1999 but I think it's still relevant. BTW, go read Brave New World revisited, the 1958 edition and read the intro and take a look at today. OMFG. Talk about a recent Nostradamus. Everyone who paid attention to the election might find it interesting. Esp in light of who we are, what we 'do' and how familiar we are with the Orwell theory. - Eric Rice

Oh and then I guess when we're done with all that, we can post about Friendfeed and Twitter's biz model some more /rolleyes - Eric Rice

We can read about FriendFeed and Twitter biz models in "How We Became Post-human..." Somewhere. - Brad

"Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 Alpha 2 introduces several new features: * Support for the HTML 5 <video> element * Initial support for web worker threads * You can now drag and drop tabs between browser windows * Ability to make use of Aero "Glass" in XUL * Support for CSS 2.1 properties: ::before and ::after, and white-space:pre-line * Support for CSS 3 properties: -moz-border-image, word-wrap: break-word, text-shadow, box-shadow and column-rule * Performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support" - Michael J. Cohen (mjc) via Bookmarklet

Underpaid? - Louis Gray

Louis Wins! Flawless Victory! - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Morton: heh, the repetition tells me it's important! :-) - Robert Scoble

oh geez, the wonky YouTube - Friendfeed interface again. I favorited this at least three months ago. - Laura Norvig

yay, we made it to the final 3! - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

Congratulations - Deepak

Congrats! - Patrick Li

Only since you mean it this time. - Chris W

Ooh, wonder what Dave is cooking up with all these API tests? - Mark Krynsky

You could open a new account just for testing, you know. - Morton Fox

There may be several of these as I test the new functions. They will likely be deleted. IMHO -- it's lame to make you go through the API to get pictures to flow through FF with descriptions (like the one you're reading now). Most people can't do what I'm doing to get this to work. - Dave Winer

I still don't understand why this pic and desc is different from any other. What am I missing? Or, rather, what is FF missing? - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

Rah, read this: http://bit.ly/RsuQ edit: just saw you in the comments on that post :) FF is not treating RSS equally or rather RSS is not being used properly by all sites and FF caters to the large sites with large user bases. I think the point is that services like FF should by default support RSS fully (with all the attributes) which will level the playing field, then cater to the larger sites (Flickr) who publish RSS in a non default format. - mojay