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Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall
Friends, Friends With Benefits and the
Benefits of the Local Mall
05/29/2004 10:54 PMWhatever happened to teen romance? Life inside the under-age sexual
revolution.
Friends of T. Rex?
Friends of T. Rex?
06/14/2004 09:32 PMResearchers have brought the evolution of the solenodon, a shrewlike
insect-eating animal, into sharper focus.
I'll get by with a little less from my
friends
I'll get by with a little less from my
friends
11/19/2003 01:36 AMHow does the music industry believe they can improve customer's
perception of value? Value added CDs? Na....how about shorter albums!
That's the ticket!
Fox & Friends
Fox & Friends
07/28/2004 06:40 PMfoxnews.com/story/0,2933,95063,00.html
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"Friends"
"Friends"
05/09/2004 09:14 PMBest Friends
Best Friends
05/08/2004 05:00 AM
Social software for the
party animal. Net-Friends-1.02
Net-Friends-1.02
01/11/2004 11:41 PMNet-Friends-1.03
Net-Friends-1.03
01/11/2004 11:40 PMNet-Friends-1.01
Net-Friends-1.01
01/11/2004 07:09 PMNet::Friends 1.00
Net::Friends 1.00
01/11/2004 07:58 AMA Perl extension for interacting with a GPSDrive friendsd server.
With Friends Like These...
With Friends Like These...
07/12/2004 05:44 PMOkay, so maybe it wasn't the proper choice of words, but you would
think that somewhere between this Australian man and woman meeting
online and then meeting in person where she proceeded to tie him up,
ransack his home with another man and steal his property, the two
would cease being "pals" as described in the headline of
the article. Not that writing headlines isn't a difficult enough job,
but this is a pretty typical scam (unfortunately) and has little to do
with (as the headline suggests) people robbing their friends.
Friends in the End
Friends in the End
04/28/2004 02:35 PMAccording to this lawsuit,
Friends writers frequently pantomime
masturbation, express desire for anal sex with Jennifer Aniston, and
speculate about Courtney Cox "having dried twigs in her uterus." Now
are you sorry it's ending? (04-28)
Friends
Friends
06/11/2004 10:24 PMview.airbeagle.com/friends
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Net-Friends-1.00
Net-Friends-1.00
01/11/2004 07:09 PMWhy I have friends.......
Why I have friends.......
03/19/2003 10:25 PMLet's just clear the air here k? I am the biggest baby when I'm sick!
I whine like nobody's business...
Who Needs Many Friends?
Who Needs Many Friends?
10/29/2003 12:12 AMI've recently hit a bug in the iChat AV: I've been trying to add a new
buddy, and it replied...
enrich his friends
enrich his friends
05/05/2004 01:09 AMNew York Times ..
Krugman
nytimes.com/2004/05/04/opinion/04KRUG.html
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Readers and friends
Readers and friends
08/02/2004 11:50 AMWhen you write for a magazine, explicitly or not you adjust your style
to match your readers' expectations. And, if you don't, your editor
will do it for you. No matter how diverse the demographics of the
readers, their expectations are usually quite precise, including how
much profanity to use, how much description, the number of people
interviewed per article, how conspicuous the author herself is in the
story, the type of vocabulary, and the nature of the narrative. In
short, there is such a thing as a New Yorker article, and you can
recognize one even if it's not...
DVD Rippers for all my Friends
DVD Rippers for all my Friends
08/09/2004 08:30 PM321 Studio's may be gone but that do not despair you can still find
software to protect your fair use rights which will allow you to copy
DVD's you have. Thanks to Dan Gillmor for the link. [Super DVD Ripper] [DVD to X] [DVD Rip] [DVD Rip Guides]
Netflix Friends
Netflix Friends
12/19/2004 03:45 PMAs the wags are fond of saying, and Flickr is fond of demonstrating,
social networking is a feature, not an application. Thus, Netflix
Friends. That's actually pretty useful. Thanks to Hacking Netflix for
the link....
Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up
Who Needs Many Friends: Follow-Up
04/09/2004 04:01 PMI have posted a while ago about iChat's "Feedbag Error 17" message
that iChat gives me when I try to...
Writing about your friends
Writing about your friends
08/09/2004 10:24 PM
Over the years I've become quite friendly with many professional
journalists. It's interesting that two of my best friends are
journalists and they both have told me, "the only bad thing about
becoming your friend is that I can't write about you any more." As a
blogger, I don't think I have any trouble writing about my friends if
I explain my relationship. The issue of professionalism aside, I think
the first person tone of blogging makes it easier to write about your
friends in the context of providing information. It's probably much
harder or impossible to write about your friends objectively in third
person.
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MJ bailed out by friends?
MJ bailed out by friends?
01/16/2004 11:26 AMthe financial mess may well force Jackson to make the changes the
legal mess hasn't yet inspired
Friends With Benefits
Friends With Benefits
08/12/2004 11:21 AMIn the current issue of
Wired magazine, a piece I wrote on
social swap nets:
Think of them as eBay crossed with Napster, then injected with
Friendster DNA. The newest social networking services merge three
powerful Web functions - auctioning, file-sharing, and
friend-of-a-friend socializing - to build digital barter economies.
Unlike first-gen social networks, these communities are about more
than getting laid and getting paid. These "social swap nets" help
like-minded members pool digital resources - music, movies, games,
even hardcover books.
Mediachest and SongBuddy are two early examples. They're still small
(and size matters when it comes to a well-stocked "sharing pool"), but
their very existence points to a new era in networked transactions,
one in which online exchanges become more useful.
Here's how they work: Members browse one another's collections online
using filters such as friend groups, geographic location, or other
affinities. This isn't file-swapping in the old outlaw Napster sense.
They can access one another's stuff, but the original copy literally
traded with others, rather than downloaded and duplicated via P2P.
Getting hold of the goods is mostly a low tech affair. Members often
mail or hand-deliver items.
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Too many fake friends
Too many fake friends
05/04/2004 07:45 PM
Too Many Fake Friends
By Jim Louderback
May 4, 2004
It probably started with instant messaging—technology's
insidious redefining of personal relationships. My AIM buddy list is
over 50 people long, with most of those actually coworkers. And while
I value and respect each and every one of them, I'd hardly call many
of them buddies. And I'll bet most of them feel the same about me.
A buddy's one thing, but a friend is so much more. And social
software, which lets you leverage your friends to make new friends,
really has me really concerned.
Back in the second grade, my best friend, Jay Keese, had a killer
Hot Wheels collection. A BMOP (Big Man on Playground), he still liked
me, for which I'll be eternally grateful. My other friends were
accidents of geography—they lived in the neighborhood and we
played together out of convenience.
As I grew up, I developed a small set of good friends—mostly
those too weird to be accepted by the tough guys or the fast crowd.
Later, I discovered that Dead Heads love everyone, so I promptly
became one too. But I've never doled out friendships easily. I have a
wonderful set of acquaintances everywhere, but real friends are less
common.
But the new and oh-so-exclusive Orkut system, started by a Google
programmer, has changed all that. It has redefined "friend" just as IM
redefined "buddy." Now I've got more than 50 friends—some of whom
I barely even know.
Like the ancient Prieure de Sion secret society, you have to
be invited into Orkut. New members describe themselves, and then
create networks of friends. They can then join groups built around
shared interests, send each other messages, rate existing friends and
search for new ones. My buddy Chris Pirillo—the Lockergnome, an
ex-TechTVer—invited me in. But as I signed up, Orkut presented me
with a metaphysical question: Was Chris really my friend?
Hmm. We'd worked together at TechTV. I had a blast attending and
speaking at his Gnomedex conference last year. I've learned a lot from
him and we've shared drinks and dinner. Is that a friend? Well, given
that I wasn't going to get into Orkut without saying yes, I threw
caution to the wind and said "Yes."
Since then I've received many invites from Orkut members asking to
become part of my growing circle of friends. Some, like Robert, John,
Brooke, Cathy, and Rosie, really are pals. Rosie's actually one of my
oldest buddies still talking to me—we've known each other since
we were 15. Others, including Oliver Muto and Marc Canter, are folks
I've respected and admired for years, but never been actually palled
around with.
The Orkut style of friendship reminds me of Dr. Phil's recent visit
to the Late Show. Letterman, clearly uncomfortable by the Doctor's
insightfully personal remarks, shifted gears by asking Dr. Phil to be
his friend. Let's go out and get some steaks, he pleaded, and drink
some beers at the bar. Let's be friends.
Is that what friends are? Partners for brewski guzzling and cow
chomping? Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of guzzling and gobbling
with my chums. But I think it's more than that. There's a sense of
shared experience and trust.
And that's all sadly lacking on these social networks. Instead,
friendship is being co-opted for more insalubrious purposes.
Take Steve. Looking to break some inane record of superficiality,
he's personally contacted hundreds of Orkut members, asking to be
added as a friend. Is his esteem so low that he craves the chimerical
kinship of many he's never even met? I don't know, but like a complete
sap, I accepted his offer of friendship, before realizing I was just
being used.
Canter, the founder of MediaBand and what became Macromedia, is
another Orkut slut. Marc's currently helping us launch a new version
of our gaming site 1up.com, so I had a
chance to find out the real reasons behind his apparent affability.
"It's all about marketing, baby," he chortled. "More names for my
list!'
I was crushed. And I thought he actually liked me. Instead, I was
just another peep ripe for the spamming.
But the worst was yet to come. I recently uncovered an even more
disquieting situation. It appears that a friend of mine who will
remain nameless had been harvesting my other friends to artificially
boost his own circle. Take "Tom," for example. There's absolutely no
way this "friend" would ever know Tom. Yet there he was, perched
smugly inside my other friend's network. This so-called friend of mine
was stealing my real friends to feed his own nefarious schemes.
Is this a cheapening of friendship? Or an expanding? I find it hard
enough to be a good friend to the 10 or so folks I really cherish.
With all this newfound comradeship, I think I'll be spreading myself a
little thin.
I've been getting five or ten invites a week, though, to join up
into someone's circle of friends—whether on Orkut, the
business-oriented LinkedIn, or a wide range of other social networks.
I used to just accept them all—like I did Steve and Marc, but now
I'm not so sure. I rejected a few, but then I felt guilty about it for
days. What if that poor lonely soul really considered me a true
friend? Could I have just crushed a fragile, needy ego?
Well here's a message to everyone I've rejected, and will reject.
It's really nothing personal. It's not that I don't want to be your
friend, because I really do. I'd just rather we became acquainted the
old fashioned way. So if you send me an invite to join your network,
please don't be insulted if I turn you down. It's not that I don't
like you. I just have an old-fashioned concept of what makes a
"friend."
Although if your invite happens to mention a super-neat collection
of Hot Wheels, I just might reconsider. Especially if you're going to
share.
What's a few thousand between friends?
What's a few thousand between friends?
09/05/2004 11:13 AM<I>(Editor’s note: Michael Simon is currently taking a (much
deserved and long overdue) vacation. Consequently, this will be his
last post until Monday, Sept. 13. He thanks everyone for reading and
apologizes for not personally responding to any notes.)</I>
It seems that there are two kinds of Mac fans — those who buy (or want
to buy) simply based on aesthetics, and those who honestly weigh form,
function and price, and are content to watch from the sidelines if the
specs don’t add up. With Apple, price is, and will likely remain one
of the principal drawbacks to true mainstream acceptance.
To break it down, it seems that Apple’s latest wonder always seems to
be priced just out of reach of <I>really</I> affordable.
While it may not seem so from first glance, the G5 iMac may very well
be the most affordable professional Mac to date. While it certainly
won’t pack the punch of a Power Mac (especially since they’ve gone all
dual) but the new iMac is no slouch. Like when it was first
introduced, the iMac now shares the same processor as its professional
counterpart.
It took the iMac more than two years to see a G4 chip, but in 1998,
the low-end professional model and the iMac shared speeds. Of course,
the line between consumer and pro has become much more defined over
the years, and it’s interesting to see Apple put a G5 into its
consumer model after just a single Power Mac revision. With IBM’s
yield troubles, though, it could be a while before the iMac goes much
higher (though a 23-inch, 2GHz version <I>would</A> be
nice).
Right now, a 1.6GHz G5 Power Mac (which was available through the
Apple Store for $1,799) just can be had for a little shy of $1,600.
The iMac G5, with a 17-inch widescreen monitor, can be yours for
$1,299.
There are a few pundits out there who insist on comparing the price of
the iMacs — which has not changed from its $1299 base in more than six
years. While it’s certainly worth noting that the low-end iMac costs
the same as it did in 1998, I fail to see how this is a sticking
point.
And the 20-inch display still sells for $1,299 by itself and the
previous 20-inch iMac sells for $2,199. Now, it’s just $1,899 with a
bigger hard drive, better graphics card and more RAM potential.
Speaking of RAM… what are they thinking?!! How can they expect any
self-respecting consumers to run OS X, iMovie and iTunes — not to
mention help power a 20-inch display — without <I>at
least</I> 512MB of RAM… And then charge another $75 for a simple
upgrade? C’mon guys…
And Airport and Bluetooth should definitely be standard. (Though
here's something you may have not seen: for just $100, the iMac can be
configured with a Bluetooth module and an Apple Bluetooth and Mouse.
So we’re really talking $2,000 for a full-featured top-of-the line
iMac, still cheaper then last month’s model and the same price as the
closest <A
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pComputers">alternative</A>.
Plus, it comes with iLife, Quicken, World Book and Panther.
While Apple is touting its thinness, the iMac may very well be the
most affordable professional computer ever made by Apple, and while
creative types across the world busy themselves with their G4 Power
Macs, dreaming of an upgrade, perhaps it’s time for Apple to switch
itself — from strictly marketing iMacs to consumers, that is.
AlstraSoft E-Friends
AlstraSoft E-Friends
03/06/2004 01:49 AMStart
You Own Social Networking Company: For $280!.
Start Your Own Social Networking Company: For
$280!
Why are the venture capitalists investing millions in social
networking startups when you can start your own SNA service for $280
(with 1 year updates, no less), courtesey of the nice folks at
AltraSoft:
AlstraSoft E-Friends - Run your own online social
networking community just like Friendster. Members create their own
personal friends network, meet new friends, dating and join
groups
AlstraSoft E-Friends
Cost (single license): [was $600] $280 (with 1 year updates)
Language: PHP
Platform: Unix
Release: Feb 15, 2004
Current
Version: v3.0
Last Update: Feb 15, 2004
Product Overview
AlstraSoft E-Friends is an online social networking software that
allows you to start your own site just like Friendster and Tribe.net.
The E-Friends software allows members to connect to people in their
personal networks and community, creating a new online interactive
resource that is based on a trusted network of friends and associates
on the internet.
Members can use this abundant network to make friends, find their
love ones, locate jobs, buy and sell stuff, locate a roommate, and
accomplish much more with the help of groups and individuals who they
know and share the same interests.
Start your own social networking community just like Friendster and
Tribe.net in minutes with AlstraSoft E-Friends now!
How does E-Friends work?
Once members are registered with E-Friends, they will be able
invite people they know to join their personal or professional
network. A member's friends will come to E-Friends and invite their
friends. As the network grows, members will have more opportunities to
interact easily with people they know, make friends, and use the
E-Friends network to enrich their social life."
This is absolute proof that we have reached the bizarro stage of
the social networking exponential buzz curve. [Get Real]
With Social Networking systems available for $280 - what's next -
free, open source social networks?
Oh yah - that's what we're working on - it's called the PeopleAggregator.
I sure hope E-Friends supports FOAF!
"enrich his friends."
"enrich his friends."
05/05/2004 09:39 AMFoo Camp Friends
Foo Camp Friends
09/14/2004 12:03 AM Had a wonderful time at Foo Camp this year, described as "A
Face-to-Face Wiki." Seeing how the first Foo was an experiment in the
simplest thing that possibly work and somehow did, there was no way to
top the...
"Friends of Saddam"
"Friends of Saddam"
04/23/2004 10:58 AMSix Stocks for Six Friends
Six Stocks for Six Friends
04/30/2004 11:56 AMYour sitcom Friends may be leaving, but winning stocks sing "I'll be
there for you" forever.
Farewell to Friends
Farewell to Friends
05/07/2004 08:57 AMThe hit NBC show moves on but parent company General Electric will
fill the shoes capably.
Phone friends
Phone friends
09/27/2004 04:41 AMUSA Today Sep 27 2004 9:01AM GMT
Should I be better friends with my
ex-husband?
Should I be better friends with my
ex-husband?
04/01/2005 11:04 AMAfter six years there's still a lot of tension.
Web Exclusive: A Little Help from Your
Friends
Web Exclusive: A Little Help from Your
Friends
04/22/2004 05:02 AMForget online dating. Online business networking is where the really
sexy stuff is happening.
Googling old friends
Googling old friends
06/24/2004 02:47 PM
Googling old friends. Searching for old pals online can be
emotional (not everyone joins
Alumni
or
Friends Reunited)
and it can lead to a re-assessment of your own life and were its
going.
Here, Pamela Ribon writes up her discoveries and it's one
for few pieces I've seen which perfectly evokes the feelings which can
develop. [As my source
John says,
make sure you read the comments as well.]
Jelly Friends 1.0
Jelly Friends 1.0
11/10/2003 11:30 PMFreeware Icons for Mac OS X.
Baboons Need Friends Too
Baboons Need Friends Too
11/14/2003 04:42 AMCBS News Nov 14 2003 3:24AM ET
34 Million Friends
34 Million Friends
07/18/2004 08:06 PM
34 Million Friends
was founded by
Lois Abraham and Jane Roberts to gather private
contributions for the
United Nations
Population Fund, and had gathered $1,957,613.31 in gifts and
pledges as of July 4. For the third year in a row, the Bush
administration is
withholding $34
million in aid because of
accusation
s that UNFPA supports China's policy of coercive abortions,
despite
evidence to the contrary. UNFPA estimates the money could have
helped prevent as many as 2 million unwanted pregnancies, 800,000
abortions, 4,700 maternal deaths, and over 77,000 infant deaths.
Grok Description matches for NBC.com > Friends
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Millions to watch Friends finale
Millions to watch Friends finale
05/06/2004 11:40 AMMillions of fans of US TV comedy Friends are awaiting the show's
emotional finale on Thursday.
Friends finale draws record 8.6m
Friends finale draws record 8.6m
05/29/2004 06:37 AMThe last episode of long-running sitcom Friends is seen by a record
8.6 million audience, Channel 4 says.
Never forget your "Friends"
Never forget your "Friends"
05/07/2004 10:29 AMBreathy hype and uninspired finale aside, "Friends" will still be
remembered as a fresh, intelligent snapshot of the times.
Sea and Sand, Fun and Friends
Sea and Sand, Fun and Friends
05/10/2004 05:36 PMThis weekend I........... walked on train tracks over water in the
middle of the night heard seals bark in the...
Screening for Friends
Screening for Friends
07/21/2004 10:51 AMMaking friends
Making friends
06/17/2004 01:45 AMUSA Today Jun 17 2004 6:26AM GMT
References for TeX and Friends 0.3.6
References for TeX and Friends 0.3.6
06/21/2004 07:36 AMHelp/Reference files for LaTeX, etc.
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