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I was really stumped by this one. Didn't 2.5 just come out with a lot of oompah?

I just set up a site for my girlfriend - yup, still going strong, hence the recent silence ;) - and I'm not looking forward to spending time on this.

Sure, it's not rocket science, but think of Murphy. She needs the site to be live 100% from next week because she's got a booth at some big fashion fair, and all the press, PR and invites are about to go out... I think I'm skipping this, or at least waiting a couple weeks.

Although, I do like that Google Gears feature... and that quick post feature... and...

/*heads to wp.org and begins download*/

;)

It's like with the economy: if you stop believing, it'll fall apart. Still, I'm not sure what else is there. Twitter going down would see a lot of people migrating to Friendfeed, a couple perhaps back to Pownce or Jaiku.

True about the iPhone though. I don't have one, but I'm not aware of any microblogging platforms that are designed for it. Perhaps if the Google/Android or the Nokia/Symbian/Plazes thing takes off, we'll see a big shift there.

That said, I agree that Twitter was never engineered for generating traffic, and expecting that from it is an unrealistic position.

Of course, Twitter doesn't seem to be engineered for anything at all. It doesn't even seem engineered at times, so perhaps, if it tumbles (which I wouldn't like), what of it?

A bit late to join this perhaps, but

Final words of warning to everyone: stay away from Joomla.

Kudos and points for that my man. I hate Joomla with a vengeance.

As for the issue at hand, I've always liked WP (both the CMS as the .com service) and set up some sites with it that aren't blogs and, out of the box, it "worked for me" — as Kami says.

Tried Texpattern, looked at MT and heard lotsa good stuff about Drupal — it's Belgian and Dries is from my home town, so there's some pride mixed in that :)

If there's one thing I dislike about WP is that a lot of people seem to rave about it because it's WP and because Mullenweg seems like a cool guy. That reeks of ego worshipping and of "trying to be cool by liking WP because everyone says that's what you should do" more than anything else.

I never expected Adobe not to be serious about anything. They've been on a roll with AIR and while Photoshop Express did take some flak from the critics, they're certainly headed in the right direction.

Still I think this war over the RIA and the online collaboration tools is far, far from over. I especially wonder whether companies are in fact ready to switch to yet another mode of file and document sharing (given that they've even embraced the idea altogether).

I don't see my boss, who's slowly accepting that Live or Google do have their merits, saying: "K folks, quick, all moving over to Acrobat.com now!"

As a web and tech geek, I do love what's going on though. It's a-movin and a-shakin!

The funny thing is that Twitter's almost become like email or IM. Most of its heavy users have it on all day, rely on it and get Cut-Off Syndrome when it's down.

There really hasn't been a service like that before. Even if Facebook were to disappear tomorrow, it'd be Twitter we'd all be talking about it. Without that, it's like the cable guy disconnected your internet — deep space.

So, while I have no idea how they'll fix these troubles they've been having, I'm sure from a user perspective, people are willing to put up with a lot more before they flock to somewhere else.

Twitter, it's like the new cigarettes...

Recently, Hype Machine. I have it open almost all day, discovering and listening to new music.

Hey, there. Not a problem. I don't always reply to points either. But it's true, the message system could be worked on. I know I hardly ever use it because of that.

And, indeed, note bumping may not be frowned upon over here all that much (within reason, I suppose) but it's not always something you're prepared to do.

But I did just notice the profile pages are looking great now, so I'm sure features will be added soon enough. Cheers!

Not sure, but the latest Flash update has upset quite a few people.

Have you tried reverting to a previous, non-buggy, flash version?

I wrote this post regarding the matter. It's mostly about the issues I was having (w/sound) but it seems there is a lot more that's wrong with 9.0.115.0... Hope it helps.

If it does have to do with previously unnoticed bugs, this is quite disturbing. A lot of people are going to want to have an eye-to-eye with Adobe....

That's probably Arrington getting back at Le Meur?

Here in case you missed what I'm talking about.

Have you added everyone in here yet?

That said, actively? No, 'fraid not.

Ha ha, I guess you're right about that. Sometimes you just need to yank out the plug and step back.

Perhaps we need an app that doesn't just group all the stuff but says something like: "Hey, it's been a while since you checked out x's Flickr stream but he just put up this pic now that got quite a few comments by some of your other contacts".

I know I need one of those.

I heard. I wonder how much "Google" there still is in there. They have a Blogger blog, which might be a coincidence, but which isn't regarded as a very "corporate" thing to do — unless you're Google anyways.

But like I said, I do like it so far.

Well, it went into public beta today.

My first reaction was "oh no, not another one" but I already like it and there's a lot I haven't discovered yet.

Not to toot my horn or pimp my wares, but for those unfamiliar with it, I just posted a rather exhaustive review.

But you can also just do a Google Blog search, because this thing is blazing.

Here's my FriendFeed stream.

Glad you like it.

Me too lovinnit.

Newspond is the type of site you check in 3-4 minutes to find out whats going on

See, that's what I meant. I get lost in Digg and Techmeme these days — because I'm busy, not because I'm old LOL!

I'm actually glad the RSS is still dodgy. Makes me actually go there and look at the pretty things.

I'm writting this on an Eee PC on the train

That's priceless. Thanks for adding to the Note Ian.

Like I said, if that "AI" they have, this "Buoyancy Rating", does the job, it might.

Of course, within a few weeks it may be as big a mess as Technorati is of course. Only better-looking :D

Perhaps I should sleep over it and see how it looks in the morning.

The sheer volume, the high technicality at times, the update speed... No idea really. Just that those sites always seemed, well, just too much to cope with. This seems... quieter?

LOL, I suppose they just did a great job to make it look... attractive. Because, indeed: great job for just two guys. Then again, there's only three of you and look at all the awesome content you're churning out on how many sites is it by now.

Also true: Digg killer it won't be; perhaps just an alternative to the hype. And if their AI does the job well, why not?

Just some of the basics I'm afraid:

Adium (IM)
Camino (browser)
NeoOffice (seconded from Hrafn)
GIMPShop (GIMP for Mac)
Smultron (HTML/CSS editor)
Conversation (IRC)

iTunes? :)

Just a couple I use, not necessarily the best. And they don't look for houses, so sorry.

I'm mostly an online guy, though; don't have many apps...

But have a browse through the Apple downloads page. There's tons there.

Been using Pidgin for about three days now and I love it.

Of course, I don't use IM other than for text messages, not Skype or other voice.

I also don't get how I appear to others sometimes, but I suppose I still have to figure that out.

I've always found Trillian to be rather ugly and, to be honest, not very intuitive. So when checking out alternatives this weekend, I actually decided to go for Pidgin at work. I'm installing it tomorrow, instead of GTalk.

At home, of course, it's Adium, but I noticed the two link to each other so to me that sounds rather promising.

I'm on several machines and OSs so I use GReader exclusively.

Tried Vienna once, looks great, but yeah, no sync with work so that sux.

As for not being able to auto-update, I've no problem with that: counter's eternally stuck at 1000+ unread items so I always have something to read.

Same here.

Someone asked me once isn't the sun a planet?

These vids would be mandatory and weekly if I was in charge!

Maybe it also has something to do with preconceptions clouding our perceptions as we grow up (apart from inevitable egocentricity and the failure to see what's right in front of us).

I saw something on TV the other day I thought was funny.

In Holland they asked little girls the same age of the now four-year old crown princess there, what would the princess become in the future.

Instead of thinking years and possible societal upheavals ahead - and replying "queen" - one of the little girls answered quite rightly: five.

We boring grown-ups don't think like that anymore.

Certain FF addons do crash when used with GMail. I know of Firebug and Flashblocker but no doubt there are more.

I tried to do a quick search for a list but wasn't that successful, sorry.

That would mean, you'd have to read through all of the Mozilla documentation or switch them all off and try each one separately...

Or maybe some FF Ninja will come along here and just help you out. I'd definitely not be surprised, however, if that turned out to be the issue.

@Noel: no, in Windows, as far as I know, when you need anything beyond Prt Scr, you need an app.

I used ScreenHunter for a while and was happy with that. Also, there is SnagIt, by the fine people of Techsmith, but that costs 40 bucks. I hear it's great and obviously you'd get support, but unless you need all sorts of high-end features (and some video support), I'd go for ScreenHunter.

Update: also, SnagIt works with Vista, ScreenHunter doesn't appear to yet.

Well, I actually have this from Hrafn, but if you press Cmd+Shift+4 and then hit the space bar, you select the active window only. Then click and you have a perfect window screenshot, neat rounded corners and all.

I can't remember what I used back on Windows but there are tons of good little apps on download.com...

Update since Rich posted at the same time I did: this just leaves you with a pdf or png you still have to resize or upload of course. No fancy Flickr integration.

Thanks, that link looks great.

I subscribed. No, wait... d'oh!

I need that button. The past few days, I've been seeing nothing but 1000+ in my feed reader. Glad Google doesn't show the exact number of unread posts once you hit the 1K mark.

Feeds aren't e-mail? That's an interesting concept. I should remember that.

So, did you press it?

Here's a link to Matt Cutts unboxing the thing. Looks pretty good. And I love the OS design.

It has a Dock they call the Shelf.

I want it.

Did it? I just want the mouse to be grey. And furry. With nipples. That's not off topic, is it? :-)

@techmalaya That's kind of odd. I use my del.icio.us network and my Google shared items for that.

Then again, no one actually reads those, I guess, so putting them on a tumblelog makes sense.

If only Tumblr would just incorporate search (without having to add whatever code).