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This is exactly why I love the instant-gratification of Thumbs-Downing web sites just like I do TV shows on my tivo, with stumble upon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) in firefox.

Don't care about your privacy? Let's see if you do or not. Thus far, no one's answered this challenge, let's see if you'll be the first.

In your next post, please include: Your real name, your home and work/school physical address, your home, work/school, and cell phone numbers, all email addresses you use (with no obfuscation), all instant messenger or other communications you use, a link to a recent photograph of yourself, and the license numbers of all vehicles you own.

as i explained i have a health paranoia, not from the government but from corporations (spamming, calling, and mailing me). i also think there is a good chance you would harass me further or some other jackass who thinks they are funny. if the federal government asked for this info, i would give it to them. however, this should give you a good deal of info about me as well as this. oh, before you start thinking im a canadian or canadian lover, this is the shirt im where in that picture.

What has not been publicly acknowledged is that N.S.A. technicians, besides actually eavesdropping on specific conversations, have combed through large volumes of phone and Internet traffic in search of patterns that might point to terrorism suspects. Some officials describe the program as a large data-mining operation.

it implies that the amount of content is too much to monitor so chances are, they dont really listen to everything you say but rather use a filter. not to mention this was communications going in and out of the country.


and yes, i do think you are being arrogant for thinking they may spy on you. there is such a think as healthy paranoia but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

service... StumbleUpon. Yahoo simply acquired the one that's currently more popular. Not for long.

Once anything gets swallowed up by Yahoo, it goes to shit, like when eGroups became Yahoo! Groups.

Check out StumbleUpon. It really is a great service, and it's not corporatized. It's supported by donors.

These extensions also give the message: "Disabled, not compatible with Firefox 1.5"

• Add Bookmark Here 0.5.3
• AI Roboform Toolbar for Firefox 6.5.2
• Bookmark All 1.1.1
• Cookie Toggle 0.8.1
• CookieCuller 1.2.0
• FLST 0.8.3
• Gcache 0.2.1
• Greasemonkey 0.5.3
• MiniT+ 20050216.6
• Objection 0.2
• Permit Cookies 0.6
• Print It! 0.3.6
• Scribe 0.21
• SecurePassword Generator 0.5.2
• StumbleUpon 2.02
• Super DragAndGo 0.2.4
• SwitchProxy Tool 1.3.2
• xMirror 0.2

Wish I would have waited a couple of weeks before I upgraded.

Perhaps Google will buy StumbleUpon next.

StumbleUpon is the next iteration of the evolution of the WWW. It's both addicting as hell, and helps to create content. Don't just be a blogger; be a Stumbler! StumbleUpon:Generica blog::Computer:Television.

Where one of our friends gives a post a +1 moderation which is ONLY seen by his fans, and we can then rank this as something other than +1 if we want mabye. If you agreed with the rating then you could highlight it, and you could

Or mabye I've spent too much time with and would be best served by StumbleUpon

You know, this conversation is really dumb. It's some kind of warped idea pissing match, and I'm not interested in participating anymore.

I think the idea of holding back a text until it's done is interesting and good. I've seen it before. I'm not convinced that I wouldn't like to see text as it's being written, or at least to have the option to see it as it's written.

I'll tell you why.

One day, I was writing a post for the communitywiki. A friend of mine sent me a Skype message; He was just curious about what I was up to, what I was thinking about, how I was doing. I texted back to him: "Well, actually, I'm working on a post you might be interest in." We agreed to open up a gobby session, and I copied and pasted my text into it. I continued writing my post, him looking over my shoulder.

I wrote something poorly, and he asked a question about it: "What do you mean by xyz?" He and I talked a bit in Skype IM, and then I realized the text was unclear. We talked about how to fix it, and then put the fix in place.

While I worked on the text below, I noticed that every now and then, he'd fix a spelling error he'd noticed. He'd also point an arrow and say, "What is this?" or "I don't think I agree here..." Things like that.

It was a good interaction. The classical problem with writing is that you can't get your audiences response to the writing in real time. This problem is now solved. It is rare in the material world that we are physically present with people who will be reading it at the same time. In the online world, this is actually easier to do; Place in the world doesn't matter so much.

There were some problems with the interaction though: It took entirely too long to negotiate gobby to make this a regular thing.

In most of our IRC meetings, we'd like to keep some schematic notes, and a record of the meeting. This requires that we negotiate a transfer to using a whiteboarding app (such as the Coccinella on the Jabber networks,) or to using gobby. There are problems such as so-and-so doesn't have Foo installed, or Bar installed, or whatever. And then there's the time it takes to get a group of people on the same page. Then there's the problem that the people who aren't around when we negotiate a transfer are "abandoned" - when we're talking in gobby, the folk in #onebigsoup on IRC don't see our words.

This is a problem because most of the time, the way we manage to get together and talk together is that 2 people happen to be around and make a conversation, and then later the other members notice that there is activity on the channel, and then tune in to see if they are interested. (I have a general strategy for improving with this kind of conversational tinderwood, I call it "OverHear." If you should happen to think it's a stupid idea, please don't let me know.)

Anyways- when we go into gobby, the "conversational tinderwood" is gone. The other members of the forum would be interested in what was going on, but they simply don't know about it, because they didn't happen to be there when the conversation was happening.

Now, it is of course possible to establish bridges, connectors, link-ups between forums. But in my experience they tend to be "hacky," made available pretty late; For some reason, the bridges just don't seem to work very well. This feeds into my newly revived "platformist" approach (rather than "side-system" approach) to the development of communication systems. The ability to generically extend a given system is always a good thing, but there are things that a given platform is just genuinely not good at. It reaches a fundamental limit, a breaking point. And I think that the world wide web as a platform is sort of reaching that platau point. I can forsee that the webapps on the world wide web are going to continue to grow in capabilities and strenghts. But I think th

This is already out with over 211,800,000 users. It's called StumbleUpon, a social extension for Firefox and IE.

Visit a web page, rate it as good or bad, read other peoples comments Here's /.'s entry as an example and if you want to add your own blog entry/comment you can.

Right clicking a web image adds it to your blog along with your comment.

Over time the ratings you give sites allows StumbleUpon to suggest sites and even other people that might interest you.

Oh, and it also keeps a history of sites you have visited - but more importantly allows you to see those sites you rated good.

So, meh, it's been done - properly - as an extension to Firefox/IE and not as a completely new browser with all the maintenance issues that entails.

This is already out with over 211,800,000 users. It's called StumbleUpon, a social extension for Firefox and IE.

Visit a web page, rate it as good or bad, read other peoples comments Here's /.'s entry as an example and if you want to add your own blog entry/comment you can.

Right clicking a web image adds it to your blog along with your comment.

Over time the ratings you give sites allows StumbleUpon to suggest sites and even other people that might interest you.

Oh, and it also keeps a history of sites you have visited - but more importantly allows you to see those sites you rated good.

So, meh, it's been done - properly - as an extension to Firefox/IE and not as a completely new browser with all the maintenance issues that entails.

Danny Hillis was once a big name in artificial intelligence.

His Connection Machine was an awesome, state-of-the art supercomputer.

Stumbling upon artificial intelligence was supposed to happen Real Soon Now with Danny's thinking machines.

Thinking Machines was the name Danny gave to his ambitious enterprise.

True Artificial Intelligence proved far too hard for Danny Hillis and now he has gone on to less difficult challenges.

Slashdot readers expect more from the Mind of an Inventor.

That is nothing, artists have been doing that for awhile now. Jeff Cliff a semi local musician has offered his music for download freely in mp3 and ogg vorbis for at least 5 years now.

20 Questions is not where it's really at in artificial intelligence.

Mind.Forth is the True AI you're not supposed to know about.

Stumble upon Forbidden Knowledge in artificial intelligence and you could be in danger because you Know Too Much.

Slashdot readers figure out the Hidden Truth for themselves.

914pcbots.com is the Forbidden A.I. Zone where techies discuss installing secret AI Minds in PC-based robots but: Hush! (It's a big secret -- Forbidden Knowledge).

Novamente is another truth-will-out story of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

AGI Mail List is where the l33t heavyweights talk about Artificial General Intelligence.

AGI Secret Archive is where you may eat of the fruit of the tree of the Forbidden Knowledge about artificial general intelligence.

Lasciate ogni esperanza, voi che entrate .

Maybe Mozilla/Firefox could work with Google to implement this type of feedback system...

That already exists as stumbleupon.com and deli.cio.us.

The Memex "trails" could be implemented as personal wikis, allowing linking to interesting pages and adding comments.

Try Stumbleupon http://www.stumbleupon.com/. It's based around a browser plugin that lets you easily record and comment on sites that interest you. The comments and your preferences are used to categorise the sites you visit, and direct other interested people to the sites. You (and others) can also travel back over your personal trail. There's quite a community developing around it.

and simply visiting the suspected domain would clear things up, it wont take many infections before word gets out that its a malicious domain and its marked bad/suspect instead of sitting there for weeks infecting people
of course if the groups members want to see spyware and phishers on their travels let them

it seems like a user rating system but globally, stumbleupon is a similar user feedback concept

Stumbling is the new search. Try it out, it's free, and they provide toolbars for IE, Mozilla, Firefox and other browsers. I've not only ''stumbled'' onto great websites, but great people as well, as they also include a nice people matching system, and I've naturally met people just through the sharing of great links.

Likewise, if this 'future of TV' is in pay-service onDemand categorising, what's to stop a bit of filtering and fine tuning to make sure all those nasty spam commercials go straight to your Junk TV folder on your volition (regardless of some nonexistent social contract), thereby being "modded down", to use /. terminology, and not recommended to friends?

StumbleUpon already provides the social network infrastructure that you're talking about for the net.

Are you aware of the excellent StumbleUpon extension?

1. I have several e-mail accounts to deal with
2. I chat on IRC daily
3. I follow several USENET news groups
4. I routinely post on a variety of message boards
5. I subscribe to Mental Floss, SysAdmin Magazine and Columbus Monthly
6. I read /. and technocrat and fark and El Reg and Something Awful and Google News and Groklaw and The Onion and Maddox and Ars Technica and USA Today and NewsForge every single day
7. I use Stumble Upon to find random, new and interesting web sites
8. ...AND I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!!!

" and that's why we hide ourselves on slashdot and in blogs. "

while mabye you can hide yourself, blogs are a public affair. They allow the world to see what exactly you are, and it allows you to say what needs to be said. Nothing about hiding. Everyone who ever hopes to have any sort of public life these days almost needs to have a blog, politicians, artists, you name it, because that is the way for the world to get to know you and for artists and poleticians you *want* to be known. Everything I say on /. and elsewhere I have a hard held belief that I have every right to say even if it sometimes dissagrees with what my local government feels I have a right to say; in those cases it is the government and the backwards plutocrats who elected them who are wrong; and it is my duty to oppose them. for the record

As someone who is recently starting to advertise (see below), that's one of the things that I'm finding much more difficult to determine.

For instance, advertising on google adwords, I see that my link gets 4,000 or so impressions. Does that mean that the person is even looking at the sponsored links on the side of the page? Taking it a step further, I had one day on google syndication that had 100,000 impressions. Only 60 or so people clicked through. I think a lot more internet viewers nowdays just glaze over ads.

I started doing advertisement by promoting on StumbleUpon. How do I know that the people reaching aren't annoyed with being redirected to a page they have absolutely no interest in? After all, on StumbleUpon, my page ends up fitting under web development. I'm sure all those people who are looking for things like SQL, CSS, or PHP tutorials must love me. 1600 hits. 0 emails. 0 signups. Maybe if they added a hosting section.

I'm thinking of moving my campaign off the internet, and into print / radio. But even then, how many people are just going to glaze through the ad when it's being played on the radio? For how many people I *might* appeal to, how many people will I *not* appeal to?

Ultimately, I guess advertising comes down to how much money I spend, versus how much I get back, relevance be damned. And I guess that's why spammers are around, after all. No, I will not start spamming people. That's just evil. Then again, Bill Hicks said, "Those of you who are in marketing and advertising, kill yourselves. You are satan's little helpers."

I really wish there were a way to just have my ad pop up for people who actually are interested in what I have to offer. Then I can leave everyone else the hell alone.

Check out http://www.stumbleupon.com/

It's not spyware like what you described but rather will allow you to queue pages to your GF. When she hits her stumble button it will show your comment to her then load the page.

It's actually really cool. It does a bunch of other things too. I could go on and on decribing it to you but I wont. Go check it out, you wont be sorry.

Here is my stumble page as an example:
http://emfb.stumbleupon.com/

Check out http://www.stumbleupon.com/

It's not spyware like what you described but rather will allow you to queue pages to your GF. When she hits her stumble button it will show your comment to her then load the page.

It's actually really cool. It does a bunch of other things too. I could go on and on decribing it to you but I wont. Go check it out, you wont be sorry.

Here is my stumble page as an example:
http://emfb.stumbleupon.com/

Stuff that I might not stumble upon on my own.

A good service for stumbling upon peer-selected/reviewed web sites within categories is StumbleUpon. :)

A Firefox extension is even available.

You didn't mention perhaps the coolest one of all (and the one that I use):

StumbleUpon.com

StumbleUpon's toolbar for Firefox and MSIE make maintaining one's own blog *really* easy, the discussion forums are lively, and the community is quite interesting and diverse.

All the interesting bits of the internet will be a cross between bittorrent, boinc, and stumbleupon.

With all the discussion about the fallibility of user tagging, with regards to spam/porn - I can't help but suggest that some of you take a look at http://www.stumbleupon.com/ It gets comparisons to del.ici.ous, and has similarities, but in SU the general tendency seems to be based on auto-classification, with some human oversight where users can update blatantly miscategorised sites. The only problem I've seen so far is a lack of breadth of categories.

I think you mean StumbleUpon

from the site: http://delicious.mozdev.org.nyud.net:8090/ categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

So something like http://stumbleupon.com/ ....

http://shutterbug27.stumbleupon.com/

from the site: http://delicious.mozdev.org.nyud.net:8090/ categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.

So something like http://stumbleupon.com/ ....

http://shutterbug27.stumbleupon.com/

but you have to seriously be more specific. there's probably dumb-ass firefox users, and there's *plenty* of PhD weilding people who, for whatever reason have to use explorer. But if you take the median explorer user, and the median firefox user, you will find that the firefox user is more technical, and the advertising companies do not cater to them, whatsoever, since they only cater to the "lowest common denominator", or, middle-of-the-market-consumer. Speaking of which, If you have advertisements on your site, beyond a bare minnimum (static or low-delta adbar and a few static ads, no more than an 2 inch^2's in area ), I will give your site a thumbs-down for polluting my mindshare.

I'll go you one better: the Stumble Upon toolbar. It's a non-spywarey toolbar that you click and randomly puts you on a site from a list of topics selected... for example, my topics are Jazz, Alcoholic Drinks, Bizarre/Oddities, and Photography. But I could easily add anything from Postmodernism to Nuclear Science to Sufism to Cumshot/Facial. Once you've selected your topics, you hit a "Stumble!" button on your toolbar and you go to a site in the topics you've picked. You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down which will affect the likelihood of future stumblers finding it. You can also comment on the website (sample comment for Slashdot: "seriously, this is for nerds.") and add your review. If you find a new website, you can add it to StumbleUpon's database. It's not 100% bug free but it's pretty darn cool.

Bonus points since it's available for IE, Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox in Windows, Mac, or Linux.

Stumbled upon is also interesting. You can even add topics to narrow down the randomness.

this looks similar to stumbleupon which "lets you channel-surf pages recommended by friends and peers"

Your first suggestion is already possible now, with the great plugin StumbleUpon. This plugin compares your browsing behaviour with other users, and suggests pages from users with similar preferences. Appart from Google, this is IMHO one of the best ways to find new, interesting pages.

Although I haven't downloaded this yet, it sounds like a fun social networking concept to me. Kind of a hybrid of the late Third Voice and the newer StumbleUpon (which I really love)

I came across it on stumbleupon a few weeks ago.

1. Fink - get the GNU POSIX environment on!
2. OSXVNC - get somewhere else
3. OO.o
4. Mozilla / Firefox / etc. - and the plugins:
   • Flash
   • Acrobat Reader
   • StumbleUpon toolbar - it's like having your own personalized fark (not that I read fark, but this is probably why)
5. MPlayer - it handles just about all the codecs
6. WS Manager - Multiple desktop manager. I'm too cheap to pay to upgrade from OS 10.2 to 10.3 for Exposé, even with my wife's educational discount.

1. Cygwin - get the POSIX environment on!
2. PuTTY - the only terminal I've found that handles colors and stuff right.
3. TightVNC - get to some other computer
4. OO.o
5. vim - I'm not even a VI guy, but it's fast and has nice hooks into explorer and I'm too lazy to deal with registering TextPad or whatever. JEdit's also nice, but way too slow for casual use... I usually go straight to emacs for that kind of editing.
6. Mozilla / Firefox / etc. - and the plugins:
   • Flash
   • Acrobat Reader
   • StumbleUpon toolbar - it's like having your own personalized fark (not that I read fark, but this is probably why)
7. Winamp - get the groove on
8. MPlayer - it handles just about all the codecs
9. MultiDesk - usable multiple desktops for Windows... like getting that 10% productivity improvement for having dual monitors without having to pay 100% more in displays. If only it had a visual pager...
10. Windows PowerToys - because every little option matters

More on Linux and MacOS X later, I guess...

It says it doesn't have any, and it doesn;t seem like it does, ad aware didn't see anything after i installed it, and its a pretty small and quick install.

This, theyre right, this is the second best toolbar after google. Avalible for IE and moz, but not opera. :(

I am an admited Opera fan boy. I payed for the browser, not to get rid of the ad (which only said "buy opera today"), but to support development. I have used moz and firebird and theyre certainly better than IE, but i just dont like the "feel" as much. I dont know how to explain it exactly, and it is possible to get moz or firebird exactly the same use and featurewise as opera with enough extensions (about 8) and reconfiguring all the mouse gestures to the same as opera. But i still like opera too much to switch to an OS alternative just for the sake of it being OS. My only complaint with opera is that the stumble toolbar isn't avalible for it.

I haven't heard anyone here yet mention StumbleUpon. It is an evolving social network which is web-based, works with linux, firebird etc, and seems far more useful than huminity. Its not for chatting mind you, but for discovering great websites. I think of it as a cross between friendster and google. Do any other slashdotters here use StumbleUpon?

By your descriptions, you're looking for StumbleUpon, a toolbar which adds all sorts of intelligent website locating tools.

Try StumbleUpon for this sort of functionality.

Stumbleupon seems to follow the article the closest. Surf websites, rate them as good, bad, or great, and once you've built a database of favourite sites, find users that share the same interests.

They have a toolbar for Firebird browser, btw.

The top results don't seem as relevant as googles, even though they don't appear to be commerically biased. Overall, the improvements still don't seem earth shattering. If you want to try a truly new way to surf the web, you should check out stumbleupon. Finding webpages based on personalized, correlated profiles seems to make much more sense than the generic search paradigm that is so common today.