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Television Review - ‘Mad Men’ Return to the Office (Forbidden Vices in Tow) - Review - NYTimes.com
Television Review - ‘Mad Men’ Return to the Office (Forbidden Vices in Tow) - Review - NYTimes.com
24 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Season 2 puts Don Draper (Jon Hamm) in his undershirt in a doctor’s office, where he is chided for his blood pressure, two-pack-a-day habit, five-drinks-a-day lifestyle and other forms of dissipation." I have a weird relationship with this show. I almost don't like it because I don't like any of the characters, but I am fascinated by it and keep watching it. - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
It's weird how little advertising agencies have changed :) - leigh himel
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I'm working my way through Season 1 right now, and I didn't realize that I didn't like any of the characters either, but now that you mention it -- I don't! :-) - Dave Winer
One of my favorite shows right now. As far as I can tell (no way I was alive, let alone my parents!) but it looks like everything (cosutumes/sets/dialog) is really consistent and accurate - Clint Ecker via twhirl
I'm the same age as the kids in the show. Everything about it is authentic. - Dave Winer
love this show... my favorite summer shows are 1) swingtown 2) madmen --- love retro. - Jeff Sandquist
Season One is coming to HULU. check out the hint from Aug 1, at http://www.hulu.com/summer . I think that hints about that!! - Paul
On a scale of 1 to 10, from awful to great, I would give The Sopranos a 10; Mad Men a 9; Dexter an 8; Deadwood a 7; and Swingtown a 6. Mad Men is pure magic, perhaps primarily because it recreates a particular time, place and culture with amazing vividness and grace. - Sean McBride
A beautiful, meticulous show. Exposes the underbelly of our consumer society the way sci-fi often illuminates current issues by placing them in the future. This show does it by placing them in the past. Racism, sexism, consumerism, advertising & PR are all shown in an unapologetic state so that we recognize their negative presence in our current lives more clearly. - Dean Terry
It's fascinating to do a Friendfeed global (everyone) search on Mad Men and peruse the results: http://friendfeed.com/search?q... One surveys these pages of items and muses, they are begging to be data mined and massaged. There are valuable patterns buried in there that need to be brought to the surface. (The comments are also valuable as they stand, arranged in reverse chronological order.) - Sean McBride
I will check Hulu for Mad Men. I was born in 1950 it feels just like I remember. I''ve watched Swingtown twice.... it makes me uncomfortable. - Russellreno
Funny how this show was outside my awareness until a recent media tour that must have finally hit all my haunts -- I think I heard a couple different interviews with Matt Weiner. I was hooked instantly, watched it on Comcast OnDemand one right after another. I was born in 54 and find it eerily familiar too. Only anachronism I've noticed is didn't the Twist show up more like 63? - Amyloo
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FriendFeed Blog: Ross's last day
FriendFeed Blog: Ross's last day
FriendFeed Blog: Ross's last day
yesterday at 5:59 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Ross, one of our three summer interns, had his last day today. We were sad, and decided to drown our sorrows in burgers, cake, and candy-filled piñata-goodness. It seemed to be an appropriate send-off for someone who made the office so much fun." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
Liked the day and photos. Un-like that it's Ross's last day. - Dan Hsiao
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Thank you Ross! You've been helpful for me. Good luck and keep up your good work! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Thanks for all the last day love everyone! - Ross Miller
awesome internship - mike "glemak" dunn
Good luck !! Ross *like*d all my ff-feedback :) - Krishna Gade
Are there open positions now? - Colby Olson
I think we all need to play with more pinatas at work. - JMS
Good luck Ross! - Mitchell Tsai
So glad to see that you are feeding Ross!! Thanks, Bret!! - Skye Miller
Looks like fun. - susan mernit
Whoa, did Gary move to California? - niniane
Niniane, I was just visiting. I did not move to California. - Gary Burd
Oh ok. That makes sense. :) - niniane
you didn't know about visiting? they have these airplanes now. - j1m
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Bret Taylor posted a link
24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot - CollegeHumor video
yesterday at 2:07 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
brought back fond memories - sort of ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Crazy thing is that at the rate we're progressing, people in 2015 will look back at us in the same way. - DeWitt Clinton
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Sheila Taylor posted a link
San Francisco to the Wine Country was named one of National Geographic Traveler's 50 Tours of a Lifetime!
Thursday at 5:37 pm - Link
Congrats, Mom! - Bret Taylor
Awesome!! - Skye Miller
Congratulations! - Anne Bouey
Very cool. Congrats!! - Karen Padham Taylor
How cool!!! - Shannon Jiménez
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Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP
Wednesday at 11:22 pm - Link
"REST is Newtonian physics. XMPP Data Services: Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity" - ⓞnor
From the slides: FriendFeed's crawler sent 2.9 million requests to Flickr in one day to get updates for 46K users. "Polling doesn't scale." - Bret Taylor
Nice :). Polling scales just fine though -- it just isn't very efficient (regardless of scale). A good public feed would work just as well for us though, and it would be a lot simpler than xmpp. - Paul Buchheit
"We're spending a huge amount of resources ... for what is really a small trickle of data. we thought about calculating kilowatt hours, and dollars spent on electricity. But we didn't get to it" - let us know if friendfeed ever gets a bill. :) - David Vasileff
Paul - "polling doesn't scale" is definitely a generalization. But, at least in the case of FriendFeed's API, it does present opportunities for incomplete/non-contiguous data streams, which may be problematic for some API consumers. We've been discussing this on the API google group :) - Patrick Lightbody
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FriendFeed Feedback: Alex Popescu posted a link
Is anyone from FF team checking the API groups? There are quite a few unanswered questions.
Monday at 8:09 pm - Link
Well, I must confess that I haven't seen any official comments on the API groups for a while. I hope things will change soon. - Alex Popescu
Alex, thanks for the feedback. We haven't been monitoring the group effectively, and we will improve our behavior. - Bret Taylor
Bret - my experience with open source is that if the project leaders (ie: FriendFeeders) can help seed the initial community, it can begin to take on a life of it's own. So it might just take a little upfront work engaging folks like Karim/directeur, Alex, and me and we can probably take it from there :) - Patrick Lightbody
Patrick is raising a very good point and I much agree with him. Even if it may sound as self promoting, both Patrick and me have managed couple of open source communities before. - Alex Popescu
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WRESTLER JIM 'THE SANDMAN' FULLINGTON CAUSES FIGHT AT CAPTAIN LOU ALBANO'S 75TH BIRTHDAY AT LA LANTERNA RESTAURANT - New York Post
Tuesday at 9:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"A 75th-birthday bash for wrestling icon Capt. Lou Albano turned into a real-life "Wrestlemania" event when "The Sandman" allegedly got drunk and went berserk - and "The Zombie" and "Pitbull" struggled to restrain him as a SWAT team was called in." - hunter walk via Bookmarklet
OMG SO MANY CAPS - Michael
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Wow, I spent many a romantic evening at La Lanterna when I lived in NYC. Funny to think what the place was like after The Sandman ripped through it... - Jennie Lin via fftogo
CAPS LOCK IS LIKE CRUISE CONTROL FOR ASS-KICKING - Ken Norton
INTERESTING ARTICLE - Bret Taylor
Oh, I just re-read the article... different La Lanterna (this one was in Yonkers, mine is in Greenwich Village.) NEVERMIND :) - Jennie Lin
MIGHT NEED SOME HULKAMANIACS TO RUN WILD - Deva Hazarika
Liked only because of the liberal use of CAPS in the title. LOL. - Cesar Cardoso
I especially liked the pop-up that came with this... "The Dumb Test". - Erin
"If you didn't know better, you'd think the whole thing had been staged." hmmm . . . ya think? - Jack Norris
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Former coworker bullshitting on linked in
Monday at 11:58 pm - Link
link? - Jim Norris
You caught me, I wasn't actually Senior Vice President of Awesomeness. - Bret Taylor
assistant *to* the SVP Awesomeness - John Lilly
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Geoff Schultz posted a link
Pew News IQ
Pew News IQ
July 19 at 7:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Well I scored a 97 go me. - Geoff Schultz via Bookmarklet
Me, too... glad I get to wear the cool purple hat. - David Worrell
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I scored 83 (10/12). At least I'm not a total dunce... - Shannon Jiménez
59. had no clue about DNC chair, senate CML, mccains state.. ;/ then again, i'm an australian. so I guess it's ok - Graham Garland
You scored higher, Graham, than I would score on a similar quiz on Australian politics. - David Worrell
ditto what David said. I don't know the first thing about Australian politics. - Shannon Jiménez
Yeah 58 seems very good compared to what i would score on your country's political stuffs - Geoff Schultz
97th percentile. Thanks entirely to FriendFeed posts, probably :) - Bret Taylor
91% for me - got 11/12 correct. D'oh - Tad Donaghe
76 - oops...that's what I get for tossing my TV out the window 2 years ago! and being too busy to tune into news/info more on the 'tubes'! Ok I only missed 3 questions. - Susan Beebe
Susan, tossing your tv probably improved your score!! - Geoff Schultz
69 - not bad for someone who hasn't lived in the US for two years and who has intentionally avoided US news - Amy Tureen
What country you located in now, Amy? - Geoff Schultz
@Geoff, Canada. I'm doing my PhD here and the news channels are blessedly, blessedly free of American news (unless someone does something stupid and mockable, that is) - Amy Tureen
Cool, but isn't there about a 90% chance of that happening at any given time? - Geoff Schultz
@Geoff, we like to save our US news for completely retarded stories, particularly those that have to deal with Americans being undeducated - Amy Tureen
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Bret Taylor posted a message
“Karen brought me to Gary Danko for my birthday tonight”
Karen brought me to Gary Danko for my birthday tonight
July 16 at 7:25 pm - via mail2ff - Link
Belated Happy Birthday :-) - AJ Batac
Yummmmm! - Mo Kargas
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Happy Bday Bret and dayam...good taste Karen - Jini
Very cool. Will you be posting more pictures? We've had several great meals there. - Derek
That's where we went to celebrate my birthday, too. - April Buchheit
That's been the anniversary dinner place for my wife and me the last few years. - Hutch Carpenter
Happy birthday Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
My favorite restaurant!!! Love it. - Clay B.
Happy Bday on your real bday - Bindu Reddy
Happy B'dau Dude.. dont be coding 2nite !! - Peter Dawson
Happy bidet Bret - Daniel Dulitz
Happy birthday!!!!! - niniane
did you have the chocolate suffle? Once you have it at Danko, nowhere else is good enough. - David Jeske
@David: yes, that is my favorite as well, and it was amazing. - Bret Taylor
I'm jealous :) - Sheila Taylor
I'm going this Sunday night! :) - Mike Cassidy
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Thomas Hawk posted a message
“For some reason FF seems to have dropped a ton of my subscriptions. I had to resubscribe to my wife the other day and keep finding people that I was subscribed to that I'm not subscribed to now. Weird. If it looks like I've dropped you on FF it's not me. Something buggy.”
July 17 at 9:57 am - Link
thomas try this http://ff.deasil.com/friendven... - mike "glemak" dunn
Did you break the system? :) I saw someone else comment about this last night (*i think*). Something about FF playing with caps on subscriptions maybe? - Justin Korn
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If it helps, I can check my crawler data from the end of June and send you all the subscriptions I have logged under your user. - atzmon
Thomas, we will look into this. This is disturbing. - Bret Taylor
Liked this not because I want Thomas to have a truncated subscriber list but because FF is so attentive - Brian Sullivan
I have not seen any unusal behvaiour on my part.. expcet that certain sources (FF) seem to have gone under the covers.. (that is, not seeing their posts on my view) , yet I am subed to them. I'll need to get a screen scrap of this when I discover this again. But it could be linked to the above behvaiour too - Peter Dawson
Ok, the tool that mike dunn references is *amazing* -- added a bunch of folks back, I noticed many that I was previously subscribed to were on this list though sam b-r, cmiper, celine chamberlin, Ole Begemann, gfurry, kelco, to name just a few. Not sure why I was subscribed to them before and then the subscriptions were dropped. Just added a bunch of people back though. - Thomas Hawk
It does seem like a greater percentage of contacts dropped were in all small cap names. Not sure if this means anything. - Thomas Hawk
http://friendfeed.com/nybble is the developer btw - mike "glemak" dunn
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Bret Taylor posted a link
Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In | The Onion
July 16 at 10:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
""What America needs right now is not more talk and long-term strategy, but a concrete way to create more imaginary wealth in the very immediate future," said Thomas Jenkins, CFO of the Boston-area Jenkins Financial Group, a bubble-based investment firm. "We are in a crisis, and that crisis demands an unviable short-term solution."" - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
Also, a new poll shows that most Americans don't know what they'd do in hypothetical situations. Thanks, Onion News Network! - Brian Johns
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"But as more and more time has passed with no substitute bubble forthcoming, investors have begun to fear that the worst-case scenario—an outcome known among economists as "real-world repercussions"—may be inevitable." - Chris White
Although it's aimed for laughs, the statement is more true than most imagine. - Roney Smith
oil is the next bubble - Bryan Thatcher via twhirl
oil is the current bubble. I'd bet on euros, defense equipment, or alternative energy companies as the next one. - Jonathan Tang
Nationwide Infrastructure development, they should green light nationwide light rail and solar and wind farms. Make solar and wind power mandatory on ALL new construction projects. - Jason Lowe
how about corn? - nathan
Hello, cleantech - Andrei M. Marinescu via Alert Thingy
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DeWitt Clinton posted a link
Web Services – Last.fm
July 14 at 9:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
How'd I miss that last.fm has an API? That makes up for the fact that Allmusic doesn't have one. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
It is a pretty nice API as well. If I remember correctly, the one downside is some of the feeds don't contain enough info to construct a Flash player for the song, which would be useful for a site like FriendFeed. - Bret Taylor
I understand it better now that I see that it was designed for audioscrobler clients. But the nice part for what I'm looking for is that it has a call for 'album.getInfo' which can be called with either an album title or a musicbrainz id. So if the tag metadata is good then it will work for what I want -- a way to add genres to 130GB of mp3s... Hopefully you can script iTunes with Objective C, I don't really want to learn AppleScript. - DeWitt Clinton
And here we go. The EyeTunes framework: http://www.liquidx.net/eyetune.... "EyeTunes.framework is a Cocoa Framework that abstracts away all the ugly Carbon Apple Events magic and allows you to directly control iTunes from any Cocoa Application. " - DeWitt Clinton
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Benjamin Golub posted a message
“My mini-feed under the new facebook profile”
My mini-feed under the new facebook profile
July 14 at 12:04 pm - via mail2ff - Link
http://www.new.facebook.com/ - Benjamin Golub
I "don't like" - Kenneth LeFebvre
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That's really informative. :/ - Hao Chen
I stopped the FriendFeed app for Facebook from writing to the mini-feed because I reckoned my friends on there didn't need spamming any more than they already are! - Martin Bryant
New Facebook is so horrible it hurts... And who thought it would be a good idea to mix the mini-feed and the wall? Hope they have a legacy view... - Ross Miller
That's like..social sex. - Hao Chen
Good pt. I've been thinking of turning off FF in FB also. - Matt Baron
@Ross Yeah, Wall posts will get lost among the zombie attacks (even if they are highlighted differently). - Martin Bryant
New layout sucks. - Shawn Farner
ugly, I only added a few apps to limit spam, now people won't even see them directly; it looks more like a myspace/twitter redux - clarke thomas
If you click edit, you can change from "one line" to "short"; hoping there's a global setting, though it's def annoying as a default (and that if i change the preference for one entry of an application, it doesn't set it for all) - Dan Hsiao
Short is definitely much nicer. Didn't see that option. - Benjamin Golub
We need to update our mini-feed stories - the titles had a different purpose before. Thanks for pointing this out, Benjamin - Bret Taylor
To avoid duplication, i've long turned off either Mini-feed updates or profile module for all apps. Now under comment integration at facebook, i should devise a new balance. - John Lam
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Shey posted a link
First FriendFeed spammer?
July 13 at 5:59 pm - Link
*sigh* - Glenn Slaven
http://friendfeed.com/goldwatc... - Bwana McCall
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what a shame. - Zee from WeDoCreative
looks like we got the block feature right on time - Shey
Thanks for the heads up Shey... my first block... and his name is John. There is a joke in there somewhere, I think. - Yolanda
FriendFeed spammers? Ruh-roh - possible248
Forgive my ignorance but what's making him a spammer? The only thing I notice is that his posts seem to have the exact same references as most of the people we're all subscribed to? Is it the amount of feeds he has that are reblogs? - Glenn Batuyong
@techsnaps: It's "John's" comments that make it a spammer. - possible248
I haven't encountered FF Spam, but the same cannot be said with Twitter. It seems as though every time I send out a Tweet, some get-rich-quick, lose-weight-fast, make-a-million-a-month user starts following me. Gah!! - David Kemper
good catch Shey, maybe s/he was testing out some XSS foo. but that certainly is spam. I can cleary see the next step, a Bot that just inserted comments on every thread that pops on FF. - Peter Dawson
thanks.. blocked. - Tim Hoeck via NoiseRiver
s/he is also here -> http://friendfeed.com/e/d75126... a pattern emerges ! - Peter Dawson
Thanks Bwana -- blocked as well - Shey
USA 1866 377 8072 :-) - Shawn Farner
Suggestion: start a room to post spammers profiles so we can block them all faster - Glenn Slaven
I saw my first Plurk spam today (not on my personal timeline). Was a real buzzkill. - Craig Eddy
@possible248 Ahhh, I see them now. Ugh, yeah that is definitely irritating. - Glenn Batuyong
I just opened a room to list the spammers so everyone can add to it and block the spammers: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sp... - Robert DeBord
All, the user has been blocked. Let us know at feedback@friendfeed.com if you see more issues. - Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Awesome, thanks Bret! - Shey
Yes! Good job! A super idea, Shey, thanks for saving us! - Cheryl Allin via NoiseRiver
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Bret Taylor posted a message
“Most of my iPhone apps crash or stall a lot, and they have made my phone less reliable.”
July 13 at 9:46 am - Link
I installed Scrabble, Facebook, and that roller-ball game (can't remember the name). The apps stall frequently, and I can't even get back to my phone's main screen for about a minute. Hard resets didn't even work. Very annoying. - Bret Taylor
I like the apps, but my phone is a lot more sluggish now, and I am starting to regret my decision to upgrade to the 2.0 software. - Bret Taylor
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Are you on the iPhone 3G? I just ask because I'm wondering if the older iPhones have trouble with 2.0 software. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
Nope, I am on the original iPhone. - Bret Taylor
I have the 3G and have not had any problems except for one crash. I would try doing a restore. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
I haven't had a stall or crash yet. I'm on the OG iPhone. - Clay Newton
there seem to be some memory issues. I'm using the original iphone with 2.0 and have had many of the problems with crashes, etc. I just did a fresh restore (not from backup) and things seem a little better. Also, if you're having problems with apps starting and immediately crashing....try removing the app from your phone, and resyncing to itunes. It will reinstall it, and it should be fine. Some sort of security thing that's getting hung up. - shaun mclane
It's buggy on the new phones too. Some apps behave better than others. Does the iPhone have preemptive multitasking? It might not. - Steve Rubel
I'm using an original with 2.0 software. It crashes a lot, but the benefits are large. I was just driving around when I parked and opened up "Boxoffice", found out hellboy was playing near me, and now I'm posting to ff outside the theatre. The apps are making this a cooler though less stable world. - Andrew Burd
Give it time, it just came out and I'm sure everything is going to get better. Took years for Windows XP or any OS to become stable/reliable. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver
Interesting, I've installed about 10 apps on my 16GB iPod Touch and haven't noticed any problems at all. I have had iTunes 7.7 crash twice during syncing, but without any ill effects on either iTunes or my iPod. - Michael Connick
In addition to everything said above, my battery life has gone to hell - Dominik Hofmann
bret, i'm having similar issues -- i think i'm mostly chalking it up to the fact that i installed a fair number of apps, am messing around a lot, etc. think once i settle down, and the apps get a little better, life will be better. (hopefully) - John Lilly
I've used yelp, loopt, bloomberg, and aim. Haven't seen any hangs yet, but I have noticed the speaker volume seems lower for me with 2.0. - Chris White
You know what this means right? iPhone == Windows XP. Perfectly fine until you install lots of crappy 3rd party apps. - xero
@xero It feels more like iPhone=Treo 650 - way too many tip calcs, and a few crashes an hour - shaun mclane
Appliances should not crash. A phone is an appliance imo. I really want an iPhone but the battery life issue and stability issues I've been seeing pop up have me rethinking. - xero
I was having the same problem - even top rated apps were crashing everytime. I ended up performing a restore from iTunes and now everything works just fine. - Phil Maxwell
agree ... Apps have been crashing frequently - Nick O'Neill
Brett: just curious, did you go with the preview version on Thursday or the version via iTunes? If the former, you might want to check out: http://www.macrumors.com/2008/... - Robert Seidman
My battery life is terrible because I'm addicted to Aurora Feint. - Amit Patel
My iPhone became unstable when I had too many text messages (I get monitoring messages for servers at work), http://mike.stoppelman.com/200... - Michael
thanks Bret, I was just looking for some reasons... http://friendfeed.com/e/ee0ef7... - Orli Yakuel
o thats bc your using the iphone, simply return it to the steve jobs home address for store credit.....dignity non-refundable. - Anthony
Me too. The jailbreak apps were much more stable and useful; now I suppose they'll die off. Super Monkey Ball is the major cause of crashes on my machine; the Google app is #2. - Daniel Dulitz
I'm noticing many hangups and sluggishness but I have nothing to compare it too (first iPhone). Monkeyball wouldn't start a couple of times either. Turning off and back on again resolved all problems. - James Hull
I have found twitterfic and loopt to be the worse. Many times they will automatically restart my iphone. (gen 1) - Tony
Wait, your phone is more sluggish even when you aren't running the apps? That's weird, because I thought the whole design was that apps couldn't run in the background, specifically to avoid impacting the user experience. - ⓞnor
A complete restore definitely seemed to help. We'll see how it lasts... - Bret Taylor
Apps are cool, but battery life seems worse. - Michael Herf
Try this solution: http://revver.com/video/103308... - Ivan Pope via twhirl
I like Ivan's solution. - David Jeske
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Karen Padham Taylor had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“Bret rocks”
July 13 at 6:30 pm - Link
I suspect my agreement on this subject is for very different, if overlapping, reasons. - Kevin Fox
OK, you have my attention. Why? - Sheila Taylor
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Are those the new pet rocks? - Jim Norris
I wish it was for a better reason, but every time Karen is looking for something on the internet and can't find it, she comes to me, and I do it in one Google search. Apparently working there for 4.5 years makes you really good at constructing search queries :) - Bret Taylor
Oh, I thought you meant Bret of Flight of the Conchords. - Akiva Moskovitz
I heard the Flight of the Conchords character was based on Bret Taylor... - Jim Norris
Even better if she's looking for something and you implement a search engine that can find it. Usually that takes more than a few seconds, tho. - j1m
hahaha. Priscilla and I have same thing going. In college, I was known for my search query prowess among my roommates. - Chad via twhirl
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Brand New: In Brief: Iconography 2.0
Brand New: In Brief: Iconography 2.0
July 12 at 11:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"With today's release of its 2.0 software, iPhone users are about to be clobbered by a new generation of bubbly and glossy graphics for the hundreds of applications by third party developers that are now immediately available for download and ready to, um, be stroked by your fingers." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
any web 2.0 icon resources? - abhishek manocha
looks cool... thanks for the warning! - Susan Beebe
looking attractive - Abhishek Singh
so cool - suso
Gotta give props to my lovely wife, Susan Kare. www.kare.com - Jay Tannenbaum
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Bret Taylor posted a link
Dissident’s Tale of Epic Escape From Iran’s Vise - NYTimes.com