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Mary Had a Little Lamb http://goo.gl/doodle/3aEE

Works on my Android phone too, even the keyboard (Motorola Droid). Can't press the record button though.

They also say "Netflix cannot be the first word in the application name. It can be used in the naming of an app as “x for Netflix” or “x with Netflix”, “x’s Netflix Manager”, etc." http://developer.netflix.com/docs/Branding

In their approved App Gallery are apps with names like "My Netflix" and "Search for Netflix"

Thanks! I designed it so that the site can be used even if you don't have a Netflix account, but maybe that's a very small use case I can drop.

Ideally the page would be full of your friend's ratings, but yeah, I should fill that empty space with something if that's not the case.

Do you limit the number of photos? Seems like if the number of photos in the pool far exceeds the number of votes coming in, each photo would only ever have a handful of battles. I've build a similar voting system before but the purpose was to find a winner amongst all entries.

http://feedscrub.com is such a service

I moved noisy feeds out of Google Reader and into FriendFeed. I use the FriendFeed notifier http://friendfeed.com/about/notifier to have items popup on my screen in real-time. If you follow a few key people & feeds on FriendFeed, all the interesting news should reach you.

It's mostly invasive, and now I don't have to constantly check anything and I don't feel like I'm missing anything either. If it's important it will probably popup more than once. In fact, it's how I noticed this post http://friendfeed.com/newsyc

Here is the Facebook Developer blog post: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=246

I look forward to the day Facebook can totally stop managing passwords. That means my grandmother will be using OpenID.

Interesting that the results are given as an image: http://ff.im/2W5UQ You think they did that to stop screen-scraping?

I used this http://decafbad.com/2009/01/twitter-friend-faves-opml/ to create an OPML file, and then edited it so it contained status feeds instead of favorites.

I just stumbled up on this too, which is probably a better idea: http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?p=408

On my own blog, I almost went so far as to offload all comments to twitter. Basically, each blog entry would have a corresponding tweet that you would @reply to. But then I concluded that most people don't want their comments on blogs filling their twitter stream.

You can also add twitter feeds to Google Reader (Google apparently does not have to adhere to API limits). I do this for any twitter accounts <s>I stalk</s> that I don't want to miss.

Only if I needed instant notification would I follow something in Twitter instead of a RSS reader (a steady news feed probably fits twitter better). It's actually much easier to miss a particular post on Twitter as the stream quickly flows by.

I constantly had times where server load was going through the roof, bringing my site to a crawl or unavailable for hours. Support was responsive, but the problems never went away. Use it for a personal site or maybe a test project, but nothing more.

Even if Twitter Search somehow becomes useless due to spam, Twitter itself will continue to be useful.

Nice. Maybe they saw my comment?

I wanted to check out tapinko.com, but they block Chrome browsers. Is that what they meant by taking on Google?

And when and if you do get that huge growth, all these cool features don't always scale well. I think scaling issues is what really slows down innovation with the big guys.

At first I thought "No", but now I'm leaning toward "maybe". If you can't reply in 140 characters, provide a link to more info. If you get the same question over and over, add it to your FAQ and tweet the link so that all your followers can see. It may be tough to keep up with it all, but if your customers know you are listening, they will keep the feedback coming.

A good compilation of programming podcasts at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology...

I enjoy Geek Speak for basic tech news discussion: http://geekspeak.org/

This American Life is not science or tech, but I love it: http://www.thisamericanlife.org

I would say that, at first, most people do NOT know that greyed-out boxes can't be changed. They only know after attempting to click on it a few times.

The key is to make it not look like an edit box, then people won't think they can interact with it. You can see it in practice here at HN: edit a submission and you can see that the URL is not in a text-box, so the text can appear like any other text on the page.

In general, making things harder to read can't be good, and should never become a standard.

whiskey = (fellow == jolly_good) ? clear : piss_on_em;

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What if they allowed duplicate names? Navigating to twitter.com/username would then display everyone with that name (like how Wikipedia handles it). The chances that you are following more than one person with the same name is pretty slim. If that does happen, then you pick which one gets your @ replies.

Contact information should not be an identifier. It's like when a B&M store uses your phone number to ID you. I don't want them calling me and I don't want your website to email me.

The URL is simply a pointer to my identity, which is all I should have to give. The different formats the providers use is what makes it confusing (example.com, username.example.com, example.com/username, and now username@example.com)