Philipp Lenssen

http://www.barebonescoder.com/2011... - Philipp Lenssen

Trying to use search, doesn't work for me today (I'm using a proxy, rest of Friendfeed works). - Philipp Lenssen

No way to tell — usually someone from the old team would speak up (last time it was Bret Taylor fixing misconfigurated rogue servers over the weekend), but now there's no news from either Paul Buccheit or Bret, so it's just repeated cries in the “friendfeed feedback” room, slowly being overtaken by some iranian folks, “iranian programmers can learn you debug”, yeah. - [email protected]

Not so much amazed at how this is physically possible, but more in terms of how Google could approve this. (It's just a demo computer but how can I demo it if I have trouble typing in typical web cafes in typical evening light?) - Philipp Lenssen

For instance, if someone sent me a bank account number some months ago, or a telephone number, that I could search Gmail for [has:longnumber from:peter]. Or is that already possible? - Philipp Lenssen

It probably would. - [email protected]

CSRF attacks will be so much easier - Тринадцатый

How so Тринадцатый? The browser would only download the HTML, and would only look at its title tag. If additional privacy or speed wouldbe needed then e.g. Google could act as proxy for title fetching. By the way, I'm still not saying any of this is a good idea, I just wanted to throw this out for brainstorming. - Philipp Lenssen

I have hundreds of contacts starting with tips@..., info@..., team@..., editor@... etc., but if I want to type "foobar" to contact "[email protected]", it doesn't work. - Philipp Lenssen

This website would take the top headlines from a tech or political site for that day – at first just from Reddit (you gotta start somewhere), but later, from other sites too, in aggregated form, similar to Techmeme, but across different topics you can navigate to from the frontpage (entertainment, politics, technology etc.). It would present them in some sort of list of headlines with a link to the discussion source. Below every headline on the frontpage there’s an expandable chat box window. You log-in once into the site and then you can expand any one of these chat boxes, and see who’s in there, and read the chat log, and join yourself with remarks by typing them in a box, similar to IRC and others. - Philipp Lenssen

In the beginning, the site would perhaps just start by showing the top 3 or so topics for the day, because perhaps not many people use the site yet, and chat rooms shouldn’t be empty. As the site grows, so would the diversity of topics and sites it aggregates for its top topics (and it could be ported to other spoken languages). A browser extension could later be made available to dynamically alert you, when browsing a site like Reddit, that there’s a chat available for the page you’re on, so that you can instantly open it; but this extension wouldn’t be too crucial because it would need a huge number of users to be useful, so the typical starting point for most would still be the Topical Chat site itself. - Philipp Lenssen

Two groups have a text chat using a web interface, arguing about a certain topic. For Group B to reply to what Group A says, each member of Group A proposes a sentence. Then, each member of Group B quickly votes on which sentence of another member of their group they like best. (You don’t have to propose a sentence, and you don’t have to vote on one; both proposing a sentence as well as voting on one are time-limited to just a certain amount of seconds, though.) Then, the highest-voted sentence will be shown to Crowd A as answer. Crowd A now goes through the same process to formulate a reply directed at Crowd B, and so on. - Philipp Lenssen

To join, you can pick any of the two crowds based on reading the chat log, provided this group hasn’t reach its limit of X members (beyond just group size that limit may also depend on how active current members are in writing sentences). If you don’t like what “your” crowd is saying, you can switch groups at any time and then start argue for the other side. (This helps against keeping on defending your previous point of view just to keep face, in other words, you may more easily allow counter-arguments to your old view convince you to change your view.) The lowest number for a group on each side is just one person, upon which the voting process and the time limits will be skipped, and you can just text-chat normally, until another person arrives and joins either group. (If a group consists of just two people, they too skip voting.) - Philipp Lenssen

If during a vote two sentences have the same amount of upvotes, a random sentence will be picked. During voting and when the picked sentence is shown, the person who said it will remain anonymous. - Philipp Lenssen

Firefox 4 Beta works too (via http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010...) - Philipp Lenssen

[via http://www.reddit.com/r...] - Philipp Lenssen

war! never been so much fun - jug

Was looking for a YouTube version of the Tornado tech talk at Facebook but hey, this is the internet. - Philipp Lenssen