NotesI guess this explains why I don't see Last.fm events on FriendFeed. Funny how it happened almost a year ago: "A number of FriendFeeders complained that Last.fm was showing up too often in their feeds because we tracked every song you listened to. We updated our service so that we will only publish the songs you explicitly marked as "loved" in Last.fm. We hope this will make the Last.fm entries more useful and a bit less frequent."FeedUnfurl
Notes"No more secret handshakes, no more private invites; weāre proud to open the doors to Raptr and share the service in an open public beta! ... Raptr was born out of a stellar team of people who are passionate about playing and discovering games. ... In every case, each game or system seemed to require a separate login before we could even begin to see whether our friends were playing. There was no single place to go to see what your friends were playing - until now. ... Know when your friends are playing ... See how your friends are doing in their games ... Discover new games you might like ... One thing we think is pretty cool about Raptr is that we intelligently recommend games to you that you didnāt even know existed or that you didnāt even know were out yet."FeedUnfurl
NotesI'm on pretty much the same page as Joshua. I was amazed it launched, which is a credit to the remaining team of heroes. It'll be interesting to see what happens nowāgiven a 2-3 year innovation time-debt, a brand-new bespoke infrastructure, and a load of enqueued we'll-fix-it-laters. Selected joshu quotes: "I think the open question now is whether the remaining team will be able to innovate or be stuck in complicated codebase hell. ... I have significant regret over what ended up happening with Delicious. We could have gone so much farther. ... engineering was focused on the rewrite so nobody had time to replace the old search engine ... They had the technology, but the relevant staff had higher priorities."Unfurl
Notes"Realize You Can't Do It All In One Release ... You Can be Date Driven or Feature Driven but not Both ... Don't Lose Track of What Made the First System Successful"FeedUnfurl
Notes"After I discovered Fluid's ability to change browser agents, however, I realized that it has quite a bit of potential to create SSBs for mobile web apps that are a bit more friendly to desktop real estate."Unfurl
Notes"If you want to get all that value, don't destroy the startup after you buy it. Give the founders enough autonomy that they can grow the acquisition into what it would have become."Unfurl
Notes"But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."Unfurl
Notes"It remains to be seen whether Iāll stay at Magnolia. Even though it is functionally and cosmetically superior to del.icio.us, that might not be enough"FeedUnfurl
Notes"Yahoo fell on some hard times but never lost her smile. She still wore her pretty purple dresses around town and acted as if nothing were wrong..."Unfurl
Notes"This is not going to be amazing, but I had to find / write a script like that for every hackday / barcamp I attended so far. Being lazy, I just wanted to create one I can re-use later on."Unfurl
Notes"Unlike other bookmarking services, which simply save a link to a page's location, Iterasi captures the content of a page as it appears at that particular moment in time and saves it in an accessible HTML format with just one click."Unfurl
Notes"Unfortunately, Google has allowed Jaiku to languish and is now suffering a backlash from frustrated users who are beginning to mass-migrate to Twitter, a competing microblogging service. "Unfurl
Notes"CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service. Your browser works like a teleprompter -no extra software needed" The Web 2.0 office suite is now completeUnfurl
Notes"You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you're too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your website needs." True, except that anyone who doesn't admit this is lying.Unfurl
Notes"Scaling happens to be something my company, Automattic, is very good at, and as we started chatting with Tom Werner of Gravatar it became obvious thereās a lot of potential for combined forces"Unfurl
Notes"From the moment Radiohead announced their plans for latest release āIn Rainbowsā weāve been itching to see how you, the listeners, would respond."Unfurl
Notes"Imagine if Google made a more open social networking tool than Facebook all via RSS feeds? Stick that into your RSS feed reader and smoke it!"Unfurl
Notes"Be able to take notes as easily as: + I'm using TwitterNotes and you can even tag your notes: + The fastest way to take *notes* and *tag* them anywhere"Unfurl
Notes"Sure, I'm a veritable genius when I'm on the grid, but am I mentally crippled when I'm not? Does an overreliance on machine memory shut down other important ways of understanding the world?"Unfurl
Notes"The Next Big Thing? Ā· Two fearless predictions: itāll be about a new way to connect to people, and it wonāt show up first on either Techmeme or TechCrunch."Unfurl
Notes"Actually, I'm not going to give five new reasons, I just wanted a catchy title when I responded to this moron who has absolutely no fucking idea what he's talking about."Unfurl
Notes"You see, Iāve fallen into that blogging trap where you start to feel as if you have to write a very long and involved essay in order to post to your blog."Unfurl
Notes"Google says in its user agreement that it will not be held liable for lost data, lost profits or lost revenue, or the cost of buying a substitute product if the Google Apps service fails."Unfurl
Notes"If you refuse to recognize its importance, if you think of people issues as minor annoyances towards a glory of a newly minted era of freedom midwifed by connectivity, your project will fail under load."Unfurl
Notes"This was noted in the Contra 4 DS digg, but it is just so cool everyone needs to know about it. Just use your keyboard to type the Konami Code (Up key, Up key, Down key, Down key, Left key, Right key, Left key, Right key, B, A, then Enter/Return) to expaUnfurl
Notes"And looking over press coverage of the announcement today, youād think it was the late ā90s and Six Degrees had made Flooz its official currency and offered free Kozmo.com deliveries to all its members."Unfurl
Notes"Today, Last.fm was acquired by CBS, a company who had the first commercial radio station in the US, ran a record label (CBS Records), and amongst other things are responsible for several respected TV series (CBS on Wikipedia)."Unfurl
Notes"Iāve been through a downturn. Itās not fun. Without the grace of circumstance, friends looking out for each other, and a working knowledge of Usertalk, the 2001 bust would had been a disaster. Sorry for not being a hard-headed Chicago School sort ofUnfurl
Notes"Give me a chance to play with new technology, a bunch of smart online buddies, some money to pay the bills, and Iām happy. For a lot of us, itās not about the money. It is STILL about the technology and more money floating around doesnāt change thaUnfurl
NotesMeh. "Sure, the advertising buys just roll in. But Michael Arrington, founder of the Valley's most influential news site, is feeling harassed by over-eager startups."Unfurl
Notes"In a few years, things will be beautiful again. The big money will be slumbering away, and the marketing departments will be a distant memory. We can focus, once again, on the technology. And the burgers and beer."Unfurl
Notes"Gmail uses Ajax to accelerate common operations ... but its core look and feel remains very similar to that of a traditional web page. In my view, this is not a shortcoming; itās a smart design decision."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"Iām not a millionaire, and may never be, but there are now hundreds of people making their living using WordPress, and I expect that number to grow to tens of thousands. Thatās what gets me out of bed in the morning, not the prospect of becoming a feFeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"because, um, Digg doesn't really have anything other than these crazy users and they live in constant fear that the party will move on to some other place."Unfurl
Notes"Whether or not it's possible to list Best Practices in this space, I think it most definitely is possible to identify ways in which developers of such systems can maximise their impact on release. Whatever the particular business model or target audienceUnfurl
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