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Tools used: DOOM Cinematic Tools/Extreme Injector v3, IG Photo Mode, DET Cheat Engine Table, SRWE, Lightroom color correction custom preset.
Thanks to sandelion for pointing out an interesting fact to me about Microsoft's new search engine bing. I blogged about bing earlier this week and have been using it as my default search engine instead of Google all week. Apparently Microsoft has decided that part of their job with the new search engine is to become the world's new censor.
At first I couldn't believe this. Why would Microsoft think limiting the information provided in a search engine to be a good thing? But then I tried it myself. You can try it too. Just change your location preference in bing from the U.S. to India and try searching for the term "sex." Yes, Microsoft has decided in their infinite wisdom that Indians should not be allowed to search for information about sex. In Microsoft's words, "The search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms." That's right, there's no, "okay, I'm a big boy, go ahead and show me my results" button next to this Microsoft error message, there is simply a message telling you to change your search term. It's like an instant trip back to the Victorian age.
Now in fairness, it seems that people in India could always just change their country preference from India to the U.S. to get these search results, but it's still super lame that Microsoft would deem it necessary for people to have to change their country preferences to look up something as universal as "sex." And many people of course won't think to do this.
Google, by the way, has no problem with people searching for the term "sex" in India. I guess that's all part of that whole "organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful" thing that they seem to be after. Since bing supposedly stands for "bing is not google," maybe Microsoft should adopt their own mission statement for bing. It could be "censoring the world's information and making it inaccessible and useless."
This sort of censorship is a really stupid decision on Microsoft's part. It's the biggest reason yet I've heard for why I won't use bing anymore. Censorship sucks Microsoft, don't you know that yet?
More here.
Disclaimer: If you are not familiar with FriendFeed this post may not make so much sense to you. If you are familiar with FriendFeed, congrats to you, you're on the cutting edge. If you're not familiar with Twitter, what the hell rock have you been hiding under, time to stop taking so many photos and spend a little time on the internets no?
An interesting post over on FriendFeed by Steve Gillmor asking a simple question, "what is the delay between tweets and arrival in FriendFeed?" Steve is talking about how long it takes for a Friendfeed user's tweets on twitter to show up on FriendFeed. It's not the first time that Gillmor's raised this issue.
For those of you unfamiliar with FriendFeed, it is the current mother of all aggregators. It %*$*%ing rocks. FriendFeed pipes in all of your various playgrounds on the internet (Twitter, Flickr, Zooomr, Google Reader, your blog, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, etc. etc. etc.) into one easy to consume feed. It's been the most interesting thing to come out for a while. It's a better way to follow your flickr contacts, a better RSS reader than anything else you might be using right now, and one of the best communities currently on the web.
FriendFeed also though is probably the closet thing Twitter has to a real and viable competitor. As a photographer, the simple fact that FriendFeed offers visuals whereas Twitter is entirely text based alone is enough for me to call FriendFeed the superior platform. Essentially you can do anything on FriendFeed that you can do on Twitter but, well, better. In addition to posting real time post updates on FriendFeed (that are not limited to 140 characters) you get a far more complete run down on what your friends are up to.
The thing is though, one of the things that makes FriendFeed work so well is that you can leverage the existing larger communities elsewhere on the web at places like Flickr and Twitter. This is all possible because of cool things like open APIs and the whole culture of sharing kumbaya stuff that Web 2.0 (for lack of a better name) is supposed to be about. All our data belongs to us. All our data ought to be portable. Companies are able to thrive in 2.0 because they put our (the producers) best interests above theirs. You know the speech.
Unfortunately though, one thing that I've noticed in the past month is that my tweets that used to be instantaneously posted from Twitter to FriendFeed seem to be slowing down sometimes. I'm not sure why this is, but a part of me worries that maybe Twitter is doing something to slow down the firehose from Twitter to Friendfeed because they are afraid of FriendFeed as a competitor.
Last month Dave Winer suggested that the reason that FF isn't overtly challenging Twitter right now is because if they do, "they might find their firehose slows down or develops gltches it didn’t used to have." And, well, that's what it feels like may be happening. Do keep in mind that Winer did not accuse Twitter of this or any other wrong doing, he merely suggested it as a huge "if" as a possible scenario.
Now I have no idea if the reason why tweets do not seem to be posting as fast to FriendFeed as they used to has anything to do with Twitter. For all I know there could be a technical problem on FriendFeed's end causing this. But I think the fact that tweets have slowed down on FriendFeed deserves a conversation about the causes.
Of course two of the things that may raise FriendFeed as a greater competitor in the eyes of Twitter could be the recent move that FriendFeed made to allow people to auto subscribe to their Twitter contacts on FriendFeed and to automatically post their FriendFeed postings to their Twitter accounts. Every one of these FriendFeed updates posted to Twitter includes a link back to FriendFeed. This is probably a very useful tool for constantly reminding the Twitter community that a better way to do lifestreaming exists over at FriendFeed.
As an interesting side note, Robert Scoble suggests that in Twitter's recent move to begin "suggesting" Twitter users to new and existing subscribers that they seem to have bypassed the two FriendFeed users with the most followers, Scoble himself and Leo Laporte. Both of these users have been active on FriendFeed and Scoble probably more than any single other person has been instrumental in promoting FriendFeed as a service online. "I think Twitter is being threatened by friendfeed. The two most popular users of friendfeed (Leo and me) were left off of the twitter recommended friends list over on Twitter," says Scoble in the Gillmor's thread.
If you'd like to follow my updates on FriendFeed you can do that here. If you'd like to follow my updates on Twitter you can do that here too.
Microsoft seems to know that its error messages are sometimes difficult to understand, so when we installed our Alephino library system, M$ decided to deliver empty error messages.
I was always wondering this about Google Answers too. The whole web 2.0 thing isn't just about pastel colors and avatars and tabbed interfaces, it's also about transparency and accountability and personality. We'll see.
Its funny how many views you can get when your pictures are used on other websites without your knowledge..
At 9 a.m. this morning, FriendFeed launched a new user interface at beta.friendfeed.com/. The new beta site will run in parallel with the current version of FriendFeed at friendfeed.com at least for a while.
The biggest difference between the old version of FriendFeed and the new version is the introduction of live scrolling updates. I had early access to the new beta site over the weekend and spent some time playing around with it.
Here are my initial thoughts.
1. Live Updating. I tried playing around with this and have mixed feelings about it. Sometimes I really like it. It feels more intuitive and interactive. Other times it's harder to put into words why I don't feel like I like it, but the word that keeps popping into my head is seasickness. A lot of the problem here is that I'm following a ton of people (over 6,000) and so the user interface just scrolls too fast some of the time. Too fast for me to read on my main FriendFeed page. It feels chaotic and I can't keep up. I found that late at night it is slower and more manageable but during prime time it was too fast.
Fortunately for me (and others) there is a pause button which allows you to turn this feature off and manually refresh the page like you did with the old version. Live updating works much better on my smaller lists. I'm sure there are some that will really digg this new feature though, especially since most people are not trying to follow over 6,000 like I am. I'm interested in hearing Robert Scoble's observations about this feature as well as he follows even more people than I do. This new feature is turned on by default.
I suspect that most of the time I'll have live updating turned on but that during especially busy times I'll turn it off.
2. A new design and interface with much more emphasis on your avatar. I have to say I love the new UI. I think the new UI looks much cleaner -- beautiful looking with easy on the eyes rounded corners and the what not. I'm assuming Kevin Fox deserves some of the kudos for this new design, but whoever worked on it, hats off to you.
I think one of the things that hurt the old version of FriendFeed was that it just felt too complicated and even a bit clunky. Even though I never thought it was too complicated for me, I heard that complaint from people a lot. All of the little service icons could be intimidating.
Now FriendFeed has dropped the service icons and focused much more on the individual user avatar. It feels a bit more like Twitter now in that regard. I actually like this and think that it will make FriendFeed much less intimidating to people. I also suspect that females with attractive avatars are likely to see a significant spike in followers on this new version. ;)
3. Direct messaging comes to FriendFeed. With this new user interface, FriendFeed has now introduced direct messaging. This small but super powerful new feature is much bigger than I think people will realize at first. I think FriendFeed direct messaging could eventually replace a lot of my email personally. Some of the people behind GMail are on the FriendFeed team so I expect good things from their direct messaging service. It's nice how FriendFeed shows you a little number next to your Direct Mail menu, much nicer than "YOU'VE GOT MAIL!" But the real power of direct messaging in Friendfeed is that it really incorporates a whole new way to communicate via email. It's far more collaborative with the live updating.
One of the things I hate about email is that once I send a message it's gone. Frequently I'll send an email and then realize I made a typo or misspoke or wish I could in some way edit it. With FriendFeed you can. You just go back into the message and change whatever you meant to say. Because all of the messages are grouped together it's much easier to follow and track conversations directly than traditional email.
Direct messaging on FriendFeed almost feels more like a chat/mail hybrid than anything. I found that just using this new service for one day that it was one of the stickier things I've seen on FriendFeed. I've seen very little spam on FriendFeed so far and FriendFeed's direct messaging feels a lot more fun than regular old email.
4. Filters. Filters rock. One of the most exciting ways to use FriendFeed is to filter interesting ways to view all of the vast repository of information and data it has become. One of my favorite filters is scanning FriendFeed for entries with the word "photography" in them with five likes or more. I've found some super interesting photographers and photography related stuff on the internet that way.
In the past I actually just made a bookmark for this and would go to the bookmark myself. It's nice to have it built right into my main FriendFeed Interface. It will be interesting to see the FriendFeed community builid and share custom filters over time. I suspect that there are many hidden gems out there that we don't even know about yet. But in the meantime, check out a few of these filters that I've already created for myself personally: all Flickr posts, all Zooomr posts, all posts on FriendFeed with 5 likes or more, all Flickr posts with 5 likes or more, posts mentioning the word neon with 1 like or more. These are just a few examples. The sky's the limit here really. If you've got some great filters yourself please leave them in the comments.
5. Profiles. Although they are very rudimentary, FriendFeed has now added the ability for you to add a description to your profile page. I've been a big proponent of profiles coming to FriendFeed for a while. Initially I was a bit disappointed with the profile description because earlier yesterday in the beta it was limited to 50 characters. I set my original profile description as "I hate 50 character limit profiles." But then after I direct messaged Bret Taylor, one of the FriendFeed Founders, about this, Bret extended the character limit and so now I'm able to fit the same tagline that I'm using on Twiter: "Quiet Observer of Modern Nihilism with Box that Captures Light." Thanks to Bret and the team for giving us a little bit more room for our profile descriptions.
I do think it would be interesting to see FriendFeed add a city or zipcode field in the profile info as well that could then be used to create a list of suggested users in your geographic area.
Overall I'm very happy with the new FriendFeed. I think it represents a simpler more elegantly designed user interface and a huge step forward for the service and for the company. I think this new interface will give FriendFeed much more mainstream appeal and really shows that FriendFeed is the clear leader in the microblogging and lifestreaming space right now.
If you would like to follow me on the new FriendFeed beta you can do that here.
I reached this error after attempting to log in on day 9 of the Obamacare roll-out. I have not yet been successful at logging in.
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Your identity wasn't verified.
You won't be able to submit your application for health coverage until your identity is verified.
Call the Experian help desk.
Call (866)-578-5409 to verify your identity over the phone. You'll speak to someone who'll ask you additional questions.
Well, it could be even better configured. I admit that for quick opening of URLs I have Epiphany configured in my feed reader. This is on Ubuntu Breezy, Gnome desktop.
I'm not fond of overloading the UI with widgets and icons. Adblock isn't visible from here, and a number of bookmarklets (WordPress "blog this", shorlify, NYT permalinks etc.) are simply in the "Bookmarks" menu. I use Session Saver, but don't have it save automatically. The "snap back tag" function comes in handy.
My photo which is sold in Getty was used for this website.
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So yeah. I started making videos. I have just uploaded my second video, check it out!
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The keyboard is extremely responsive. It doesn't autocorrect your typing, but it does provide multiple suggestions (in an extra bar that appears along the top of the keyboard).
The letters on the keys are in uppercase because the Shift key is engaged (that's why the small indicator light within it is lit green).