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Facebook gets its own Hangouts
Social Hangouts launches on Facebook to offer free video chat with friends

With all the buzz about Google Hangouts, and Facebook’s reply to Google’s attempt at social media, Social Hangouts has launched to offer all Facebook users a chance to video chat with their friends, families and loved ones.

15 July 2011: In little over two weeks since Google unveiled Google+ (plus), there has been a flurry of activity on social video in an attempt to offer a far greater uninterrupted social experience to Internet users around the world. As blogs around the globe compare Facebook’s video chat service with Skype to Google’s Hangouts, Social Hangouts has stepped up to offer the best of both worlds.

A multi-user video chat application on Facebook is now ready to take on the millions of Facebook users in a click of a button. Social Hangouts is a simple, easy to use application; you access the app without ever leaving Facebook, invite up to 20 of your contacts from your friends list and you could all be having a live video chat in no time! This might prove to be in Facebook’s favor, who to-date has managed to stay on top due to application and developers such as these and add to its arsenal against Google+.

While Facebook has also launched a -1-on-1 video chat feature for the browser (courtesy Skype), there do not seem to be any plans on extending this to multiple users in the same chat. Developed by ‘social enthusiast’ developers, Social Hangouts offers the best of both worlds between Facebook and Google+

For those who want to make use of this technology, it is time to connect with Social Hangouts on Facebook.
Love seeing something I've put so much passion into get coverage...something that people working day jobs will never know.
The name "Google" itself doesn't get translated, either.
I've never understood why you can't write secure code using string concatenation. It seems to me like all it takes is a reliable "quote" method (with proper escaping of course), and the discipline to use it on _all_ variables that go into a query. The advantage is that queries are sometimes easier to read and maintain when they're written locally like this, without having to jump down to another line to see what a placeholder will actually contain.

I concede of course that this can't work unless there is absolute discipline in a project to quote absolutely all variables, whether you think they are trusted or not.

Am I missing a key point here?
Facebook gets its own Hangouts
The U.S. market is kinda shrinking (relatively, at least). Do you think the new, rising economies are going to embrace these U.S. rules?

From a purely selfish point of view (European software developer) I say bring it on, saddling U.S. software companies with these ridiculous rules should eventually make my life easier competing against them. I'll quite happily infringe these "patents" and sell my good outside the U.S.
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Isn't this optional? If it is optional, what is the problem? Lots of people voluntarily disclose their location on, oh, Twitter...
I think your example is a bit of a straw man. Yes, they should limit the data they need to keep, but if you are really concerned about your privacy (and I wish more people were!), you can choose not to use the card. Pay for your privacy with a bit of inconvenience.
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Statements like this immediately throw the bozo bit. And then the rest of your statement confirms it.
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Next step: Get the buses to actually follow the schedules.
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I believe that is slated for he update that is due this week. It is one of my "wants" too.

Also, apparently better text chat support is turning up soon which is another of my key wants.

As "version 1"s go, the current Google+ is decent, a few features and tweaks and it'll be great (though not too many tweak please Google, particularly please let keep Facebook keep the 3rd party apps and all the associated scum).

Now if only more of my contacts cared to give it a try...
A lot of things about today weren't obvious in 1990, but they're not on that list. These would have been amazing predictions then:

1. Searching the internet will become perhaps the most profitable and one of the most important businesses in all of technology.

2. Social networking will change the way people interact with each other but "virtual reality" will not catch on. People will end up preferring a loose representation of socialization.

3. Shortened attention span with regard to communication, rise of blogs and then tweets and text messages cutting into and even in some cases replacing traditional media.
In Switzerland every stop has something like this posted: http://online.fahrplaninfo.zvv.ch/pdf/01/ah_01011a/ah_01011a...

Sometimes there is even an electronic sign which states how many minutes until the next bus,tram,train etc.

Also almost all have several of these inside to tell you where you are: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3203/3077018448_0b2162659f.jp...
> Professional mathematicians peak in their 20s, just after they stop solving "shallow" questions, and start poring over "deep" ones.

This is a ridiculous myth. As a truism, person's creative intellectual output is greatest when they are working hardest and have the greatest number of tools of creation available to them. I could go down a long list of mathematicians (famous and not famous) whose most influential work was done later in their careers.
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After further investigation I found out the "My Favorites" link doesn't show projects that were marked for deletion but not yet deleted.
I completely agree with you. There are benefits to me as a user to having access to the information (how much is my travel costing me, when did I go visit that shop out in the suburbs, etc), so you can't blankly say there is no reason to store the data.

However, I agree the data should be kept private. Unfortunately, in the US, you know it wouldn't be; I can't imagine Australia will be, either.

If you do want the privacy, anonymity and cash are still your friends.
But may be soon with all those natural resources!
There were no touch screen phones prior to the iPhone announcement.

Nope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_%28KE850%29, among several others. Apple took an existing idea and executed it well. By your standards, they should be sued out of existence.

Calling this "abuse" communicates to me that you think when it comes to software, people should be able to copy whatever they want.

If by "copy" you mean "create products with similar functionality without copying code", then essentially yes. Otherwise we'd end up with one spreadsheet, one browser, one touchscreen phone, and we'd still be on Friendster.
I think Steve is particularly pissed about Android. Consider that Eric Schmidt stayed in the board of Apple during the development of the iPhone without declaring a conflict of interest while Google were secretly developing Android. I imagine that apple vs android is personal.
Basically google had a head start because of this inside information.
Though inexplicable, there's actually a law dating from 1934 against long distance travel by bus on a regular schedule in Germany.
agree with the guys above...sounds like a pretty easy solution to me. i think there's a lot of positives that can come from a standing desk. more than anything, it's a much healthier lifestyle than slouching over 10 hours/day.
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In fairness, I doubt The Fridge is mission critical for anyone. Probably one of the reasons they're shutting it down.
Where did I say people shouldn't have to innovate? My main gripe is with broad patents on software metaphors. You certainly have a point that Apple has every right to bear the fruits of their years of research and hard work. But what do you know, they already are because they redefined the smartphone market and are leagues ahead of the competition. Their mastery of intuitive and elegant interface design just can't be copied. Copycats can only do so much by emulating functionality. I find Android severely lacking and love my iPhone but shutting them out with patent suits isn't going to give them an an economic advantage beyond what they have for creating a fundamentally better product and it's going to be bad for consumers if we have to wait for these patents to run out before we can see competitive devices or buy devices that are perennially more expensive and inferior due to licensing fees.

I just find the legal framework in place for copyright and software patents out of touch with reality and far from ideal. It just seems that with the way the system currently works, science fiction writers should have a mountain of patents covering the next hundred years if only they would do the paperwork and pay the legal fees. We'd still be stuck in a pre-industrial society if we had current patent laws in the 18th century.
Fans of The Fridge might want to consider Minigroup (https://minigroup.com). It's less about the social and more about communication and collaboration, but we share their idea of private, defined groups.

We'd love to have you :)
I see it more as being a generative nucleus that makes all computation possible.
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Perhaps you should glance at the article before posting - the ad is an individual advertising his own profile.
Thanks, you're right, and I was hoping people would continue to the actual job posting linked from the bottom of my post. This one was more of a personal appeal for partners and passionate product developers and I then have a more technical job posting on the corporate site - nimonik.ca with the stack, our history, growth and other information.

Thanks for the comment.
Software patents and public companies' fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder wealth: two legally-enthroned perverse incentives.
As long as we're here, might as well note 80% of Facebook's functionality was previously found on flickr, MySpace and Twitter.

That's not the point, however - it's how it's presented to prospective users and how the UI works.
Correct. But contracts stipulate the minimum. And I understand that if things go bad, the minimum is all that's necessary. But the credo of "just quit" seems to say that the minimum is al you ever need to worry about. I think taking your employer's needs into consideration (as you did) by giving advance warning or simply expressing desires to change can be enormously helpful for both parties. Employers can see deficiencies in the way they structure their jobs and their communication/observation skills. And employees can leave a trail of good relationships that could help if they ever need contacts or references. Plus, if they become employers themselves in the future, they will be better able to approach the problem of retaining employees or dealing with departures.
It's all about removing dependencies, and y-combinators have the fewest dependencies for accomplishing the greatest number of functions.
What competitor's ads do Google block?

People respond to a story like this because it belies an attitude of weakness/protectionism from Facebook, not so much because of some kind of moral outrage about how things "should" be.
Was in the same position, making money online since high school and people ask 'what do you do?'

My answer really depends on what I want the reaction to be. Do I want to really explain what I do to this person and have a long conversation? Do I want them to just satisfy social norms and move on?

If the former, I would say something like I built such and such which does this and that. (Fill in blanks as appropriate).

If the latter, I would answer online marketing or software development. That generally kills it pretty fast if that was the intended goal and I read the persons interest correctly.
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This argument is based on repeating an easily debunked falsehood.

Apple did not 'copy wholesale the fundamental ideas of the Mac UI'. They paid Xerox for a license to commercialize the technology via a stock deal, and then they spent significant effort refining it to make a consumer product.

So Apple really just wants other people to play by the same rules they do.
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Your example, though "dumbed down", makes no sense to me at all.

What is a pet? It's a subordinate part of a larger whole. I would submit that the vast majority of men meet this description, where society is the larger group. Society demands a man gets out of bed and goes to work; against his sleeping instinct, man complies.

> a pure animalistic instinct of rage

I would like to think that my annoyance that good arguments did not seem to be carrying the day is more than dumb animal rage? If you heard a group of people agreeing that 1 + 1 = 3 then surely you'd also be guilty of an instinctive opposition. Something has to be true.
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In fact, it does greatly help. You are making a strong privacy statement. Just to explain my initial concern, the warning implied that the extension can read my private mails and that is what triggered my bad feelings.

BTW. It would be great, if Chrome extensions would allow to add a link to the privacy statement which is then displayed in the context of the warning.
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Right because Lodsys also transformed the landscape of the mobile industry by selling a revolutionary new device that everyone else is competing with.
Professional mathematicians peak in their 20s, just after they stop solving "shallow" questions, and start poring over "deep" ones.

Citation? Wiles proved FLT at age 40. Perelman proved Poincare at age 39. Richard Hamilton was 50 at the time.

But even with that great mathematicians START doing deep problems early in life. By the time their 25 they've been doing deep problems for a decade at least. Terrence Tao, for example, was doing calculus at age 7. He got a gold at IMO at age 13. These great mathematicians like Tao, Goedel, Neuman have long gone beyond grill and drill math before age 20. So the notion that they just recently stopped solving shallow questions is absurd.
I'm well aware of what the article says, thanks. If I ran a Ford lot, I wouldn't want someone selling their Chevy on it, as it can send any number of messages that downplay the quality and/or relevancy of my wares.

This is business, plain and simple.
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What exactly is more 'open web' about Google+ than Facebook? It seems to be focussed on keeping you on Google properties - not linking different sites together.

It seems to me that twitter are the ones supporting the open web now.
http://code.google.com/u/dborowitz@google.com/ - wow, neat to see dulwich in use for such a big project.
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This is different; Google created an advertisement solution for the entire web and pushed it as such, necessitating that it be fairly open and non-judging.

Facebook's exists solely on their website, and while some will try to argue that Facebook has by and large become "the web" for people, the point is that it's still their site, their rules, their game, and in turn you play by their rules. They don't hide this fact in the slightest.

It's simply good business for Facebook to block these ads.
I believe that until about 1995 there were fewer than 5 bond issuers subject to Chapter 11 proceedings (strategic bankruptcies) that were AAA at the time of the Chapter 11 filing: Texaco and, I think, Manville the asbestos maker. There was also one AAA muni bond that defaulted. There were several cases where issuers like Lilco (Long Island Lighting) were rapidly downgraded from AAA to junk.
> More importantly, Google+ doesn't have to become as widely used as Facebook to be a success.

That is the point! I don't think that this is a winner take all situation. Google has always wanted access to information on Facebook and maybe this will nudge Facebook to open up a little. Having at least three good social sites (I include Twitter) seems like a good thing - some diversification. If in a year's time G+ has even 20% of the active users of FB, I would call that a success.

I am not a typical user so this may not be a valid data point, but: I do use FB but spend just a minute or two on my front page and do this 2 or 3 times a week. Maybe just because it is new, but I have been spending 15 minutes solid on a day on G+.
Great project. Hopefully you're able to collaborate with the metro department to get more stuff like this done.

The swagging tool and bolt cutter cost me $42.37 but it’s ok I returned them later.

I was really disappointed to read this.
You lost me at the last paragraph (otherwise a really nice argument). Launching into a tirade against Viagra ads doesn't do much for your case IMO. I suppose making a multi-billion dollar bid for relevant smartphone-related patents isn't doing enough for your partners? Google never really tried to "make" these phones. You could argue that Samsung, HTC, et al. "fell for it" without realizing all the legal ramifications riddling the platform now that they're fully invested in it. However, while I'm sure Google didn't buy Android based on altruistic impulse, you make them out as a villain straight out of a James Bond movie, "we'll create a 'open' mobile OS based on Linux to sell more Viagra ads. mwahhaha".

Provided these patent claims are valid and honored, from this point on the only end game I can see is the big platform companies racing to acquire more and more obscure patents to play a game of chicken, until they reach a point of mutually assured destruction of "you can't make phones, I can't make phones so there".
Very insightful write-up. Thank you for taking the time to compose it.
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Well, that's an interesting comment because last time I was in London I noticed they've really jacked up the cash price of single tickets on the tube, to the point where you'd be an idiot not to get an Oyster card because using one makes multiple trips much cheaper. Differential pricing like this could be used to effectively buy people's location information.
Apple's claim does sound pretty broad and the court apparently found their claim to be legit.

I have not read a single software patent (and I have read some, if not this one) that was not completely obvious to me, and I am "one of ordinary skill in the art".
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lol. Don't worry I grabbed the ones that were used and returned over and over and over.
He is just retired, not dead---hard to say when his real 'last airplane' will be. It is not like he is just going to stop thinking about flight...
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Oh, I'm curious, are they laminated and attached like mine or are they different. How did they do it?
Armin Ronacher—author of Flask and Werkzeug—pointed out earlier on Twitter[1] that (for better or for worse) it doesn't support WSGI.

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Apple is definitely not opposed to patents. I remember slides from the original iPhone announcement touting how much they patented their multitouch system (which apparently wasn't that well considering how I don't see those patents in any of their suits).
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Why do we not see video game patents? Why don't we see, for example, Rockstar patenting "a mechanism for allowing a character to navigate a three dimensional space" and then suing the hell out of everyone else?
the statement "the British Empire did a lot more good than harm" is a disgusting, privileged statement...

Where was this quote even in the article?
Me too, I thought tool libraries were common in the 'States? Luckily he didn't have to pay to use them only for a couple of hours.
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I don't know about inexplicable. A bit of research shows that it was intended to favor the development of rail and possibly automobiles (Hitler's Volkswagen project was declared in 1933.) It appears it also allowed for an exception when the bus service was a substantial or significant improvement ( wesentliche Verbesserung ) and, just recently, a young business called Yourbus ( DeinBus ) emerged successfully from the court system with a permit because a lower price counted as a significant improvement.

edit: It occurred to me that it was possible what you found inexplicable was why the law was still on the books. It seems from Deutsche Bahn AG's opposition to Yourbus, that interests such as the (now privatized) state rail and other industries would simply lobby for an advantageous status quo. Especially so, considering that Deutsche Bahn operates its own bus service, and has for a while, in a comfortable niche carved out from and protected by that very law.
It's for the better. WSGI is a piece of crap. Try getting a decent stack trace out of it's weird "we hate callbacks so we did nested function calls instead of lists" design.
Not approving ads for G+ I can understand. However Facebook has a history of blocking shares, even through private messages, of any site they don't like, and that's wrong
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I read patent 5,946,647. It's actually a smart patent. It was written in 1996, and it basically describes what the Mail app on my Mac does when it sees a phone number or a date in an email: it automatically detects it and gives me contextual choices, such as move the phone number into my address book (automatically extracting the sender's name), or create an appointement based on a piece of text that says "let's talk tomorrow at 3pm".

I'd say it's pretty smart. I can't guarantee it had never been done before 1996, but if I had come up with that at the time, I would have felt happy to file a patent for it.

That being said, that patent is not critical to Android. Worst case, you can't auto-extract phone numbers and emails from random text. Big deal.