Urg. There's something inherent to Yahoo that is inherently clumsy and kludgy and bloated. I always associated Flickr with Google's sleek elegant power. Now Yahoo is going to come and Yahoo Flickr up and its all going to be all filled with horribleness. *sigh* Ah well. Maybe Google will do something better (like make a storage facility for Picasa/iPhoto/Something for Linux).
I've noticed these ads too. Because they are text, they don't tend to bother me much, apart from the fact that they are almost inevitably styled/formatted rather than letting the feed reader handle the layout (RSS is content, not layout, and ads should NOT screw with this).
In any case, it shouldn't be too difficult to do a little regexp, because the ads stick out like a sore thumb in the feed code and tend to stick to the same method for inserting them for any given feed. Once you block that div or whathaveyou for that entry, you'll be ad-free for the rest of the feed.
I greatly doubt that Google is going to offer VoIP. Google is a search company. VoIP so greatly differs from any of their other products, mission statements and plans that its quite obvious that either they aren't going to be offering VoIP, or that the new product will have VoIP as the sideline to something else.
And before you say 'Google does communication tools as well, see G-Mail, Groups and so forth', let me remind you that G-Mail's whole concept is the instant searchability of emails, allowing you to store as many as you want without having to spend time organising them. Groups allows you to search intelligently across a decade of Usenet posts. The sending/posting communication aspects are merely natural sidelines.
What about Orkut? Lets you search for people, and the links between them. Blogger? Creates easily searchable content.
The thing that strikes me about VoIP is that it is entirely unsearchable with present technology. It would require an impossibly accurate voice recognition engine that could dynamically sync with a soundbyte. And it doesn't appear particularly useful either.
So, my bet? Either this article is following red herrings, or its not getting the whole story.
No Mac OS X support makes me a sad walrus:( hopefully they'll write a plugin for iPhoto or Portfolio or something or port it. Please Google, Mac users have lots of photos too, whether they are designers or grandparents. Or designers who are grandparents. Or designers who design grandparents.
I think you ARE flamebait. Konfabulator isn't the first widget thingy by far, and Apple's implementation looks much, much more efficient than Konfab's resource hogging.
Just because it sits in the corner, Spotlight is a VERY DIFFERENT beast to launchbar. Its a system wide indexer that lets you instantly search METADATA and FULL CONTENT in both files and database listings, like Address Book and Mail as well as filenames, and it can store smart folders for quick access to saved searches like iTunes does. Launchbar is an APPLICATION launcher. From what I saw, Spotlight didn't care about applications at all, its for files and database entries.
And Oh My God! RSS Aggregation Client! NetNewsWire, please meet OmniWeb, Livejournal, Slashdot, and a billion other aggregation programs. RSS was designed to do just that. Using a standard to do what its intended isn't what I'd call copying.
How about you don't post with your gut reaction? It stinks.
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Urg. There's something inherent to Yahoo that is inherently clumsy and kludgy and bloated. I always associated Flickr with Google's sleek elegant power. Now Yahoo is going to come and Yahoo Flickr up and its all going to be all filled with horribleness. *sigh* Ah well. Maybe Google will do something better (like make a storage facility for Picasa/iPhoto/Something for Linux).
I've noticed these ads too. Because they are text, they don't tend to bother me much, apart from the fact that they are almost inevitably styled/formatted rather than letting the feed reader handle the layout (RSS is content, not layout, and ads should NOT screw with this).
In any case, it shouldn't be too difficult to do a little regexp, because the ads stick out like a sore thumb in the feed code and tend to stick to the same method for inserting them for any given feed. Once you block that div or whathaveyou for that entry, you'll be ad-free for the rest of the feed.
I greatly doubt that Google is going to offer VoIP. Google is a search company. VoIP so greatly differs from any of their other products, mission statements and plans that its quite obvious that either they aren't going to be offering VoIP, or that the new product will have VoIP as the sideline to something else. And before you say 'Google does communication tools as well, see G-Mail, Groups and so forth', let me remind you that G-Mail's whole concept is the instant searchability of emails, allowing you to store as many as you want without having to spend time organising them. Groups allows you to search intelligently across a decade of Usenet posts. The sending/posting communication aspects are merely natural sidelines. What about Orkut? Lets you search for people, and the links between them. Blogger? Creates easily searchable content. The thing that strikes me about VoIP is that it is entirely unsearchable with present technology. It would require an impossibly accurate voice recognition engine that could dynamically sync with a soundbyte. And it doesn't appear particularly useful either. So, my bet? Either this article is following red herrings, or its not getting the whole story.
Oh I saw what you did there. I like the signature file, too, its totally like "LOL LINUS LOL".
Oh my god, I thought I was the only fan of PDQ here!
No Mac OS X support makes me a sad walrus :( hopefully they'll write a plugin for iPhoto or Portfolio or something or port it. Please Google, Mac users have lots of photos too, whether they are designers or grandparents. Or designers who are grandparents. Or designers who design grandparents.
I think you ARE flamebait. Konfabulator isn't the first widget thingy by far, and Apple's implementation looks much, much more efficient than Konfab's resource hogging. Just because it sits in the corner, Spotlight is a VERY DIFFERENT beast to launchbar. Its a system wide indexer that lets you instantly search METADATA and FULL CONTENT in both files and database listings, like Address Book and Mail as well as filenames, and it can store smart folders for quick access to saved searches like iTunes does. Launchbar is an APPLICATION launcher. From what I saw, Spotlight didn't care about applications at all, its for files and database entries. And Oh My God! RSS Aggregation Client! NetNewsWire, please meet OmniWeb, Livejournal, Slashdot, and a billion other aggregation programs. RSS was designed to do just that. Using a standard to do what its intended isn't what I'd call copying. How about you don't post with your gut reaction? It stinks.
Well, I came.