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update: link to the plugin

There's a plugin to display friendfeed comments on the appropriate blog entry.

Dave, who doesn't miss your point?

Actually, I am Belgian and living in the UK nowadays. The reason why I chose to spend 4 years of my life in Germany was to try to figure out why people still where brainwashed with the errors made by their family members, members they even might not have known.
And to live with my partner. A jewish woman living in Germany. So yes, sympathy might go deeper than one comment can express.

My other grandfather was shot in 1944, during the landing in Normandie (D-Day).
No, I'm no German.

It was the most dangerous parallel to create, especially by _continuing to blame_ the actual generation for what happened. I did not do anything, nor did the German you might meet at the next conference. Actually we all (hopefully) learned what not to do wrong in the future.

Let's learn. Let's not blame todays neighbours.
But most of all, let's try to avoid and repel people, or an entire country, for what 20 people created and was demagogically very popular. And timely welcome Actually did you know that German soldiers who did not want to participate to the Holocaust merciless got shot? I have met grandchildren of some of those soldiers. What about them?

And let's try to avoid statements such as:
_It must suck to live in a country that was so cruel to your ancestors._

They are dangerous. Not just controversial. ;)

I get what you mean with your entry. I see the parallel.
Still I think it is a very delicate thing to mention the Holocaust.

The US can do better and hopefully the next President will be able to change things. Maybe, hopefully, A More Perfect Union will become part of the history of the USA.
I am not American, but I do endorse Obama, specifically because of the topic of this thread. :)


I do not think their is a way to come to grip with those things. I am ashamed for what my grandfather did in Congo, I am ashamed for what the British people did in the US and I am ashamed for how people are treated all over the world. Today and in the past.

_But it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger. And as so many generations have come to realize over the course of the two hundred and twenty-one years since a band of patriots signed that document right here in Philadelphia, that is where perfection begins._

_What if my country hadn't fully expressed its shame over burning my ancestors in ovens. Treating them like animals. Implementing a "final solution" on my race that somehow left me living. What if they expected me to love that country the same way the ancestors of the people who destroyed my ancestors do?_

This is SOO wrong, still today education in Germany does things the wrong way: kids are still brainwashed with shame for errors family members they might not even have known anymore have made. Germany is fully aware of the damage provoked and still hasn't really moved on. Before I went to live in Germany, I still meet young Germans in Belgium and the Netherlands who were ashamed for what happened. People should not be traumatized with it anymore. They have apologized, as far as an apology is possible. They should not forget what went wrong.

BUT, today no one is responsible for it anymore. Being from Belgium, with a grand father who was instructor of the Belgian paratroopers in Congo, I feel bad what we have done there. Dave, being American you should feel bad for what you guys have done in Ruanda aso aso.
But does it mean we have to live in shame for what our ancestors did? No, we have to show that we have learned from their mistakes and that we are better.

I have lived 4 years in Germany and although Nazism has very deep root, especially in economically poor and undereducated areas of the Eastern, let me assure you that Germany fights racism daily and much harder than the US does.
Germany doesn't need a speech for Race. They try to oppress racism sooner and it is time that both education and the world move on now.

1939 is part of everyone's history, just like the very racist Crusades were. It's something to learn from. Not something to be ashamed for, because chances that history will be repeated are rather big. Let's just look at Tibet.

I think tumblr actually already offers most of this, minus the 140 chars restriction and geotagging. And although many apps made it on to my iphone, the twitxr app seems pretty useless since it is really easy to take a pic and then email it. And there are enough of other utilities to even email songs, so overall tumblr is the winner here for me.
And a feedmaster too.

Saddest about twitxr is that although they seem to focus on iPhone users, their platform even doesn't auto-recognize Mobile Safari. Ever tried to post on the twitxr site with an iphone? Who made that text field 4 (landscape) screens wide?
Even though beta, especially when releasing a platform with an iPhone specific app, this had to be taken care off before releasing.
Considering the competition is pockettweets for twitter.

This blog once was fun. Then politics came.

Dave, next should be the obvious: UI and clear documentation.
Then I would give it a marketing twist and throw it out at the WordPress (blogging) community as the _ultimate thing to publish a photoblog_.
I reckon that could be a good move to hit virality.

Let the community do their thing. They decide if a platform gets adapted and if your code and hooks are easy enough it will.

After that, move on and build a similar thing for the already existing HD video sharing platforms. Integrate a search and you've just created the _user content generated Joost_ for HD.

Shelley, I presented FlickrFan to our team (we're in online banking security). One third saw potential for FlickrFan. In an online world where 'everything almost exists' I reckon one third, without having a great documentation about what all could be possible, is not bad at all. Think RSS immediately was considered great by 1/3 and there were no competing products at that time which could be considered 'doing the same'.

The hype only is because all those people have time to follow techmeme and echo it.

Mathew (correctly spelled this time) :S

Sorry for the word silly, too harsh probably as a term, but being in the development camp I couldn't think of another word. Hence why the italic styling.

It is obvious that engineers and reporters read feature lists, platforms options differently. And here I have to agree with Dave.

It would be great to see this develop and maybe become the next great thing.
That said, I think the same for HD online video would be more timely.

Mattew, one of the problems of tech journalists/bloggers is that they do not see everything. This entry is just as silly as Duncan Riley when he proclaimed the new Hotmail should have been released with Silverlight, only 3 days after the presentation of Silverlight.

Never possible!.

In this post you don't see several things:
- We're speaking about an 0.33 beta release to start with. Be happy if any version before 0.5 (let's be realistic and say 0.7) is widely usable, has an acceptable UI and is cross-platform.
- Go read the feature list. I'll wait here. We're speaking about a free two way platform, completely open source, to flickr (and some more). Yes, this COULD become revolutionary. Think of the possibilities that it even might be turned in to an iTunes plugin and more. (I have no Apple TV and MBP is not linked to TV so couldn't say how easy it is to display HD pictures on TV).
Imagine browsing your pictures/slideshow/screensaver/whatevah. They are backed up nightly in a folder monitored by Windows Media Player. By just dragging and dropping you can upload them to Flickr. Or better even, Dave also created XML-RPC, and already called this Real Simple Photo, so you can bet he might even implement the option to publish the pictures directly to a gallery on your blog. Actually I can see that this might already be possible on Mac (with Expression Engine CMS: I can easily have a folder which is regularly synchronized via Transmit FTP client and the EE photo gallery can be set to automatically import picture.) W00t, I just discovered how to painlessly backup my flickr account twice all while at the same time showing them off on our company's intranet.
- Twitter, I bet soon also tumblr aso. All this can happen automatically if things work out well. (Dave, can I have some folder monitoring please with auto-upload to XML-RPC for new pictures, please? This could be awesome for a photoblog.)

I digress. Both Marshall and Robert are hardcore RSS freaks, Marshall could even be called an evangelist. I'm sure they immediately noticed the potential of two way and how RSS (and OPML for that matter) can be used.

Yes it's a big deal, options are endless, and who knows if Dave can pull it off once more? And he calls it a platform in his blog announcement. Open source. ;-)

Let's just not forget this is version 0.33.

Someone's got an invite please? amifamousnow [ATT] gmail.com

Nope, it won't be going through feedburner anymore. During the next 30 days FeedBurner will redirect the feed to any feed URL you've specified, thus allowing every aggregator to catch up.

But I agree with you, Scoble (did I just write that?). You might loose the feed, because most webmasters don't know how to setup the subscription link or how to configure the feedburner feed correctly.

Thing is: never let them subscribe to feedburner directly. let them subscribe to your redirected feedurl. Also set in the feedburner options (optimize) the original feedurl to subscribe for. Works like a charm when properly configured. Is a nightmare for every stats h0 when not and the feed changes one day.

I documented the whole thing at Performancing.

Lets jsut say no one is wrong here. It can be done without losing subscribers, but in most cases damage is done without knowing and subscribers will be lost when changing the feed.

Nice entry, I couldn't agree more.

It must be pretty annoying to be A-Lister and have to launch your regular whine every now and then, just to make sure you still get the attention you want, because most of time your content isn't the best one or that compelling anyway.

As a long term subscriber, I would have been very upset if last.fm would have switched off the stream today.
And certainly after weeks of server problems, I would have cancelled my subscription.

Is it a dubious move? Maybe, but I think there's an interesting comment from Russ in the by Duncan linked forum thread
We're unable to participate because it may compromise ongoing licensing negotiations. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, it annoys me too.

Could there have been a backlash for last.fm by participating? Last.fm since months tries to agree new deals with labels, deals to bring old features (such as combined tag streams) back. And also to obtain every song ever released.
Objecting royalties IMHO doesn't seem the good way to reach those goals.

Honestly, what do we expect? Germany, a country reknown for it's privacy standards requires that ISPs keep the logs 2 years long.

Who cares about sites keeping data, if the ISP must keep everything by law anyway? And that's more than only cookies.

Facebook now has all the power to do what MySpace has done to PhotoBucket.
More than 130k signed up for iLike so far, how many have visited iLike and how many will if facebook pulled the plug tomorrow.

Zuckerberg is a master strategist. He is about to build a new Yahoo [platform].

Interesting is that FB didn't invite last.fm. Too large?

If this gets ported to Google's blogsearch it might mean the end of Technorati. Especially if it would get a prominent link in Google's new navigation.

Now this is great linkbait. Well done!
And then SEOs wonder why Jake Average doesn't like them.

Shoemoney as a TS. How could anyone beat that? =))

Validation links have become annoying if you ask me, anyone really interested in site validity uses HTML Validator.

I am often annoyed by blog navigation. At the top of entries often I have a next/before navigation. But sometimes entries are long and have many comments. Arrived at the bottom : What now? Oh and that bothers me as well on guru=blogs.

I don't like the header navigation at the bottom tho, but think there are other options. Lately I have been implementing footer-tag clouds on certain sites.

Usability shouldn't only aim at/be restricted to the header. If there is no more navigation in the footer (at least next/forward), give my my Top anchor back.

I hate IE 7.
I hate <strike>I</strike>E. ;-)

c’mon, it’s a damn browser
He?! You really think (for MS) it is a damn browser? Try deinstalling it (and I mean the complete implementation of IE, so first deinstall IE7, afterwards go clean go registry of IE6 rests).

Check now what works and what doesn't work anymore of the eplorer structure. IE is just an add-on for Explorer, much like Windows Explorer is. Just type in a URI in Windows explorer address bar and you'll notice how thight everything interacts.