It's really sad to see such a great service as FriendFeed not really taking off. As has been said, the service is probably a bit overwhelming for new users simply because of the amount of data coming in from each of your friends and rooms (even if you follow just one or two people). I also have to agree with most of the points Lewis Gray wrote about how to improve FriendFeed to open it up to new users. I especially have to agree with "FriendFeed Needs to Better Define What It Is and How People Use It". It has tons of features but every time you hear "FriendFeed", someone else mentions Twitter and a comparison starts. Even if the two of them are not really comparable, in my opinion. For example, I registered on FF soon after it went live and all I used it for was content aggregation. I knew that I could also use it for commenting on stuff and much more but never really used it that way.
Read more about "FriendFeed and new users" ...Archive for 2009/01
-
FriendFeed and new users
-
Barcamp Klagenfurt 2009: Ein paar Details
Für all jene, die es noch nicht wissen: Am 7. und 8. Februar gibt's wieder ein Barcamp in Klagenfurt. Georg hat heute einmal zusammengeschrieben, was derzeit Stand der Dinge ist und ... da hab ich eigentlich nichts hinzuzufügen ;-) Falls ihr nicht wisst, wie man nach Klagenfurt kommt: das findet ihr auch dort neben Information zum geplanten Veranstaltungsort, den Anmeldeformalitäten und der kommenden Frühjahrsmode.
Wie man aus dem Posts von Georg et al. entnehmen kann, gibt es das Barcamp Klagenfurt natürlich auch auf Twitter, Facebook und Flickr. Zusätzliche werde ich auch noch versuchen, die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten in unseren Raum auf FriendFeed zu stellen :-)
-
Farewell, 1UP.com crew
What a day. The first thing I read when getting up yesterday morning was that 1UP was basically going down with most of the people I really liked there losing their jobs. It's not like we didn't all see the takeover by UGO coming, but I never would have expected it hitting that hard.
For the last nearly 3 years the podcasts and shows by 1UP were a fixture in my weekly schedule. Sitting in the Mensa and listening to the latest thing Shane was the biggest fan of on the whole wide world... Not to mention all their great features esp. those about the TGS and the hilarious Broken Pixels. While Garnett Lee already indicated, that there might still be a 1UP Yours, it hardly will be the same. But as a friend told me: Everything eventually comes to an end.
It just was so sad to follow Ryan O'Donnell's twitter feed when he and the video crew cleared their offices. Now all I can do is wish the whole former 1up-crew good luck and that they will ASAP find a new job they enjoy as much or even more as their previous one.
P.S.: You can find a small collection of links about this on my delicious account
-
Some tentative Palm Pre excitement
Last night I did something really stupid: I started watching the Palm press conference about the Pre at 01:30 in the morning. Well, 45 minutes later I was tired as hell and had one gadget more on my watchlist ...
While the hardware looks really nice all around (USB mass storage, standard earphone plug, built-in keyboard, ...), I guess the most exciting aspect of the Pre is the new platform for it called "webOS". It offers things like gestures and a unified contact management and communication interface. According to Palm basically every application for it is written in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript.
Read more about "Some tentative Palm Pre excitement" ... -
Free Sackboy-knitting instructions
Remember issue 49 if Simply Knitting and its great tutorial on how to make your own Sackboy? Well, me neither. If I was living in the UK I'm quite sure I'd have bought that issue, but since it is not available here I had to keep on living without my own handmade Sackboy. I was looking all over the place for alternatives but, honestly, importing something like that all the way from Hong Kong felt kind of ridiculous to me.
I never would have guessed that the original instructions were also available for free on the Sun's website, though ... and ever since new-year's eve 2008 :D
[via Kotaku, image from the PDF]
-
Star Wars: Retold
Ever wondered what Star Wars looks like if you have only seen bits and pieces of it? Joe Nicolosi asked his friend Amanda to recap the plot for him:
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.That's the definitely the funniest Star Wars-related video I've seen in a while :D
[via Leah Culver]
-
Gitready for your daily knowledge-dosage
Need your daily dosage of "perhaps learning something new"? Why not improve your git-skills at the same time?! On gitready.com Nick Quaranto offers a really nice collections of tips the powerful SCM grouped by skill-level (beginner, intermediate and advanced). Want to contribute a tip? There is also a submit form for you :-)
[via github.com]
-
Prince of Persia: The buggy edition?
Last Thursday I got my copy of Prince of Persia for the PS3 and so far I'm really enjoying it. They story isn't bad at all, I love the characters and the whole jump'n run action is just pure entertainment. But: This is definitely the buggiest "big" game I've played in a very long time. Even the first 30 minutes had one really big issue that someone has to have noticed during QA ...
Read more about "Prince of Persia: The buggy edition?" ... -
EuroDjangoCon site online
SiuDesign just launched the official website for the European DjangoCon this May in Prague, Czech Republic: http://euro.djangocon.org/. The big news is the exact date: 4-6 May. According to the official announcement the venue has already been fixated and information about that will be released shortly and registration will start on February 6th.. If you want to give a talk, there is also already a submission form up.
I, for one, can't wait to be there. Tech conferences are just always so much fun :-)
-
Prince of Persia
Every once in a while, I get a game more or less by chance. Back when I was a kid this happened quite a lot but now I only very rarely get a game without thinking about it for weeks. So happened just a week ago with Prince of Persia for the Playstation 3. Amazon.co.uk had a sale back then I thought it couldn't be not worth EUR 23. It's not like it got bad reviews or something but its developers definitely made some controversial gameplay decisions.
Read more about "Prince of Persia" ...
