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this was really dumb, the folks at Twictionary and Twittonary are trying WAAAY too hard.

Democratus - and if you're curious as to why... feel free to email me at nater@democratus.org

@Steve: If you have an intel mac, you can download the iphone sdk, which comes with an iphone emulator... there's a chance that you might be able to download an app from the app store and run it in the emulator, but i'm not 100% certain on that.

Yeah, it's come a long way in the past two months.

I'm still holding out for Ubuntu mobile. As Brett would say... Android = EPIC FAIL

The thing about buzzwords, is that some people are stupid.

my resume, which i don't actively circulate, but still sometimes gets out, speaks of a level of expertise regarding javascript, web standards, css, accessibility implementation, etc.... yet I have been passed over for a few small gigs / contracts because the person reading my resume told me "i didn't know you 'do ajax and web 2.0'".

granted, i'm not 100% certain that i'd ever want to work with or for someone who only knows to look for the buzz words that they've been instructed to look for. and that's why those specific terms can't be found.

maybe i'll finish putting together and testing hidemail.ws and submit it.... hmm maybe i will.

there's always Swirly MMS http://www.swirlyspace.com/iphone/apps/mms/

@Alpha if you've been reading anything about "Web 3.0", then it couldn't possible be a credible source of information since use of THAT buzzword can at best be described as "reaching".

the idea that any news source can report facts without injecting ANY editorial content is a myth.
most people who have (and still) read the papers, choose the papers they read for a combination of the subject matter that's covered, and for the editorial slant of the paper.

having a wiki that lists the editors and writers for major (and minor market) papers, and their personal slants that may filter into their content and journalism may be a good first start.

any paper, regardless of slant, is going to only try to print what they deem as fact. so having those papers self-check isn't possible. AP & the BBC seem to be the most objective sources available in north america in general, but since bias does exist no matter what. maybe an advertised place where readers can learn about who's serving them their news would be a more reasonable and practical solution.

who wants to do the research? that's the real problem.

Rocks vs. Sucks is a bit drastic. C'mon now.

Maybe the availability of the redesign could have been managed differently,
ie. 10% of users get the new design for a week, then across that week, do some analytics and userpath tracking work to see what is and isn't being used, what works and doesn't work, and then compare that to the same or similar data from the old design.

I wrote Adam Hirsh an email this morning that outlines (in very casual language) the initial thoughts I had with the landing page of the new design. With his blessing, the initial content from that email, with expanded wording and explanation may become a blog post at naterkane.com/blog later today.

The new design / IA neither sucks, nor rocks. It isn't clear what the purpose of the redesign was (from my perspective as a user), and the benefits of the redesign to the user do also escape me to a degree.

Instead of "Sucks" and "Rocks" being voted on by random folks who have happened themselves to this post, how about this... If voting does need to happen. have a poll for each feature / element that is in question and of concern and have users vote "Effective" and "Not Effective" or "Useful" and "Not Useful".

There can't be any value or useful knowledge gained by saying that something "Rocks".... and that "Sucks" ;-)

you left out Clicky.

Clicky is both javascript and image based (for users who don't run js in their client). free to use + cheap for a multitude of "pro" features.

in addition to the link @David shared, there's also this.

cssdrive's version has a few other options when it comes to stripping certain types of comments (to leave in a few hacks folks still make use on occasion) as well as light, normal and super-compact modes for whitespace stripping.

i usually deliver two copies of any style docs with any project (similar to dev and compressed versions of .js files). on large projects, simply removing line breaks can sometimes save 1-2k.

what about Slife? http://www.slifelabs.com/

I just let it run, then I can see chunks of effort as they relate to the various applications i use, and then record my time/efforts based on that.

It's OSX only, but still very much worth a mention.

Slife Teams http://www.slifeteams.com/ is a group version of Slife that I've used in my office to keep track of what everyone's up to, it's great stuff.

what i'm curious about, is why they didn't do this in the first place?

"lets release a platform, wait until users feel abused and mistreated by it (insert obligatory Beacon reference), and then update our policy?"

lame

@CamBeck tactile touch screen displays have dynamic / virtual buttons that appear only over areas that are clickable. there is usually an API that lets a developer tell the screen exactly where the button areas are, and as the interface changes, the raised areas of the screen move and change with the UI.

Whitney,

walking while texting/IMing/emailing on an iphone is dangerous, i won't even get into the extra danger of biking or driving while operating an iphone (duh). when we get to hang out, you'll see me dodge a trashcan or street sign at the last second if i'm trying to multitask.

having a device that you HAVE to look at to operate is frustrating as hell.

i've been concerned about tactile feedback on touchscreen devices since long before this time last year.

In fact, way back in 2007 Nokia released a device with a tactile touchscreen and Immersion has been doing great work tactile feedback touchscreens for awhile.

now the reason why i have an iphone is a long, long (and not expensive at all) story, and my complaints about at&t are worthy a blog post (or at least couple of paragraphs on Get Satisfaction) in itself.

@chris You're so very right. Most of the folks who I've followed over the past year who were very high volume tweeters, and not close friends, I no longer follow now. Mainly just to reduce the trivial noise many (Robert Scoble, Dave Winer, etc...) generate.

Having built what is now essentially a messaging platform that was initially designed as a <abbr title="Content Management System">CMS</abbr> has put quite a bit of strain on their database(s?).

There was a recent article I read, the link escapes me though, that talked specifically about the CMS vs. Messaging platform differences when it comes to Model design, and that relying on Rails' ease of throwing something together, has left a system that is stuck doing more legwork on the Read than on the Write.

since very few people actually read what i write the meta-noise that i generate here is minimal. friendfeed however seems to be the new champion of meta-noise.

When I got there I thought that were was only one table with six people still around! I'm sorry!

Abdur, thanks for the heads up. My overall sentiment on summize for from:naterkane is still "bad", but that just tells me that i need to adjust my outlook and write more posi-tweets.

Being able to prefix a query with from: is a nice feature, maybe providing a legend of what prefixes the API supports on the sentiment page would be a good idea.

Kangax: The copy of Prototype that i was using here, Prototype 1.6.0.2 defaults paramters to an empty string, so I'm not quite sure of where you're looking.

Granted, null makes more sense than either option, but that's another point altogether.

[js num=1157]Ajax.Base = Class.create({
initialize: function(options) {
this.options = {
method: 'post',
asynchronous: true,
contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
encoding: 'UTF-8',
parameters: '', // <-- empty string
evalJSON: true,
evalJS: true
};[/js]

Sean, you forgot (or didn't know) to mention http://iwantsandy.com/ it's mobile, twitter, and email friendly... oh and the site itself actually works too.

A buddy of mine picked up a refurbished iMac for a newly hired employee through Apple last year and his came with 8 Gigs of RAM instead of the advertised two. Though some may be lucky (as my friend was), That is right on, any time I've had to send a HD anywhere (other than a data recovery specialist) I goes up against a subwoofer magnet before it leaves my office.

why do people even use blogger.com? it's like the wordpress.com for lazy people? i of course do understand not spending a couple of bucks a month on hosting in exchange for a hosted blogging platform. but if someone doesn't host their own, i may have difficulty taking anything they have to say seriously. and if i can't take them seriously, then why don't they just post to myspace instead?