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Google Reader Shitstorm

marcell mars — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:35:43 GMT

The 'Show me the data' approach usually will point you in the right direction. But without 'Show me the data in context' it can end up in a shitstorm. A small group of people got pissed off and these few people are able to share items with notes. Here is the summary:

Storified by marcell mars · Mon, Nov 07 2011 11:35:43

UPDATE: This is single best introduction and reflection on Google Reader story. You should read it before the other references:

There’s been some interesting critical discussions of some design and product changes within Goog...

There’s been some interesting critical discussions of some design and product changes within Google Reader recently and I’ve kind of stay...

I just had to start with my own comment :o)

1.welcome RSS feeds from authors 2.kill interoperability of RSS world 3.make g+ walled garden 3. exploit & be evil 4. profit #googlereader
— marcell mars · Mon, Oct 31 2011 17:34:59

#occupygooglereader #wearethe99percent #99percent #googlereader #google (Taken with Instagram at Google Inc) · knittinglizzie

"The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased. [..] Displeased is actually not a strong enough word to describe these sentiment. These people are pissed, and they're fighting back. (There are already protests plannedoutside of Google offices and a petition--using Google Docs, of course--to save Reader's social features.) The dissenters divide into two camps: Iranians and the Sharebros."

The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader

The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are ver...

"Believe it or not, the outrage over the new Google Reader design is leaking out of the Sharebro circles and becoming rather deafening. [..] In the meantime, this all-caps tweet says it all: "MY GOOGLE READER JUST CHANGED AND I AM SO MAD. UGH GOOGLE I QUIT YOU."

The World Is Even Angrier Than Before About the New Google Reader

Believe it or not, the outrage over the new Google Reader design is leaking out of the Sharebro circles and becoming rather deafening. As...

"Yesterday, I got an email from a good friend with a subject line that needed no further explanation: "Google Reader." It was sent to a group of mutual friends, bemoaning the recent changes to Reader's interface, thereby kicking off a lengthy discussion thread. [..] It may not have been an overwhelmingly huge number of people that were using the "Share" and "Share With Comment" buttons on the old Google Reader, but those that did were doing so on a regular basis, probably for several years."

How Google Reader's Overhaul Betrayed and Irked Its Most Passionate Users

Yesterday, I got an email from a good friend with a subject line that needed no further explanation: "Google Reader." It was sent to a gr...

"Google released the previously announced set of changesaround G+ integration and UI updates today, and boy is it a disaster. [..] the old interface wasn't perfect either, though it wasdesigned around satisfying the primary use case of reading. In any case, I only have so much time, and need to save my rage for the next section of even more egregious changes."

*" style="display: block; width: 100px;" />Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision? - >*

Full disclosure: I am an ex-PM on Google Reader, and I worked on comments and the last round of sharing changes. I also left Google in Ju...

"I give the new Google Reader user experience an “F” for Fail. On the overall changes as well as the unhelpful response from Google to its user base I give the new Google Reader a big, fat “E” for Evil"

The Google Reader Redesign is an Ugly, Lonely User Experience - Forbes

So Google finally went and killed off the social features in Google Reader. They also gave it a face lift, apparently in an attempt to ma...

Dear Google, You have messed up #GoogleReader for the last time. Goodbye.
— idcmp · Wed, Nov 02 2011 20:05:23

"I care a lot about free network services. Recently, I have been given lots of reasons to be happy with the progress the free software community has made in developing services that live up to my standards. I have personally switched from a few proprietary network services to alternative systems that respect my autonomy and have been very happy both with the freedom I have gained and with the no-longer-rudimentary feature sets that the free tools offer."

Slouching Toward Autonomy :: Copyrighteous

I care a lot about free network services. Recently, I have been given lots of reasons to be happy with the progress the free software com...

"Hearing radio silence from Google, self-identified Google Reader fanatic (also known as a Sharebro) Francis Cleary decided to take things into his own hands. Cleary tried using Google+ a bit but says it didn't feel right. So over the past ten days, Cleary has been devoting every minute of his free time to building his own social RSS site that will keep Reader's dying features alive. For now, he's calling it HiveMined."

The Sharebros Are Building a Google Reader Replacement

One code-savvy, soon-to-be-former Google Reader user would rather create a new site for the RSS-feeds than switch to Google+. Last Friday...

Quality Investment Fraud

marcell mars — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:53:06 GMT

Frauds usually have not high production 3D videos with references to Fight Club and whatnot. Quality Investment did exactly that but also managed to end up in jail. For me: good story to be storified :)

Storified by marcell mars · Wed, Oct 26 2011 23:23:17

Quality Investments

"These are simple, transparent concepts offer the best concrete returns on previous forecasts" - Frank Laan founder of Quality Investments

Dutch Authorities Arrest Four Over Fraud Scheme

AMSTERDAM-Dutch authorities have arrested four Dutch citizens following raids across seven countries over an allegedly fraudulent $200 million investment scheme, the Dutch finance ministry said Wednesday. The arrests are part of an investigation into allegedly fraudulent investments in U.S. ...

Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from any actual profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation.

Egypt vacation is here mostly to have pyramid photo on the top of the page. Still, it can start a mind game: why Egypt?!? :)

Egypt Vacation 6 · Wat Doen Wij Met NL

Check out http://edwingardner.com/ who told me about the story and and the video introduction to Quality Investments.

Spektar naivnosti o tehnologiji proteže se od vjere da će ona rješiti sve probleme do vjere da se bez razumijevanja iste

marcell mars — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:52:22 GMT

Kao i do sada gotovo jedini način da nešto napišem je direktni upit s jasnim pitanjima. Tako će biti i ovaj put. Skupio sam na hrpicu stvari o kojima sam pisao ili su me pitali. Standardne teme: WIkileaks, pirati, tehnologija & društvo.. Meni, a i onima što pitaju podsjećanje i kontekstualiziranje...

Storified by marcell mars · Wed, Oct 26 2011 23:31:15

Intervju za tportal u zenitu otkrivanja Wikileaksa.

Wikileaks je izmislio wikileaks korisnika · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Intervju za novossti.com nakon što su radikalni desničari pokušali iskoristiti popularnost wikileaksa i startali wikileaks.hr.

Wikirati.exyu · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Intervju sa standardnim pitanjima o problemu restriktivnog režima intelektualnog vlasništva, kakav je uopće odgovor alternativno licenciranje i hoće li umjetnici imati kruva da jedu.

Vratija se barba u Ameriku! · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Iz: someone is wrong on the internet.

nesporazum kreće iz poimanja pojma vlasništva · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Iz: kakav tweet takva i diskusija (na facebooku).

..jer diskusija na twitteru.. ... .. nvm...

spektar naivnosti o... | Facebook

Marcell Mars wrote: spektar naivnosti o tehnologiji proteže... Join Facebook to connect with Marcell Mars and others you may know.

Iz: someone was wrong again.

iz reply_trackera mejlom u wordpress.com · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Kad god mogu ja gurnem ovaj dokument jer bi rado da se ljudi zainteresiraju, pa da mogu kasnije vezati i nastavak.

Vladajuće klase studij · kiberkomunist.posterous.com

Stonewall riots

marcell mars — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:11:43 GMT

sometimes it gets worse before it gets better...

Storified by marcell mars · Wed, Jun 06 2012 18:11:43

East Coast Cats and Christopher Street Boys · illdoc1

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Stonewall riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

Stonewall 40 years later- Gay rights-1/3 · iwantdemocracynow

Stonewall 40 years later- Gay rights-2/3 · iwantdemocracynow

Stonewall- 3/3 + Trans day of action!!!! · iwantdemocracynow

Dropbox is killing Dropship is killing Dropbox is killing...

marcell mars — Sun, 08 May 2011 02:16:29 GMT

Storified by marcell mars · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:51:38

Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project - Slashdot

Meskarune writes "Dropbox is trying to kill the Dropship project, a useful program that allows users to import files into their accounts using hashes and bypassing the need to make files public. Dropbox sent out fake DMCA requests to all parties involved, and is banning and censoring the program."...

Hacker News | Dropship — successor to torrents?

zacharypinter 13 days ago | linkwaterlesscloud 13 days ago | linkantimatter15 13 days ago | linkjoshbaptiste 13 days ago | link

The Cloud Has Us All In A Fog

Ever heard of Dropship? It’s an open-source project that “enables arbitrary, anonymous transfers of files between Dropbox accounts.” Dropbox hopes you haven’t; they tried to squelch it this week, and even accidentally reported that it was subject to a DMCA takedown notice, with predictably futile results. I’m mostly sympathetic: I’m a huge fan of their service, Dropship was a clear violation of their terms, and for obvious reasons they don’t want to turn into an anonymous peer-to-peer file-s...

Dropbox snuffs open code that bypassed file-sharing controls • The Register

'Torrent successor' Dropship drop-kicked By Cade Metz in San Francisco • Get more from this author Posted in Music and Media, 26th April 2011 18:04 GMT On Demand Webcast : Making the decision on hosted apps - What’s the risk and reward? Dropbox – the San Francisco startup that offers a free service for sharing files over the net – has suppressed a fledgling open source project that lets anyone use the service outside of its control, saying the project exposed Dropbox's proprietary protocol a...

Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project | Razor Fast

Yesterday morning I woke up much earlier than I wanted. Instead of lying in bed, wishing I was asleep, I decided to get up and check out Hacker News. Better to waste my time reading industry news than lying around. One headline in particular caught my attention: “Dropship — successor to torrents?“. The name was an obvious reference to Dropbox and the suggestion it could replace torrents was enticing. Data storage and distribution has been a long time interest of mine and I can’t resist readi...

Dropbox's vulnerability for piracy purposes | Forwardfeed's blog

Have you ever dreamt about the ability to download new movies in a super fast, safe way from distributed network? Are you intrested in being always seeded, in downloading with maximum bandwidth wherever you are, 24/7, with super safe connection and being extremly anonymous — read below (NOTE: This article is about THEORETICAL ability to use Dropbox to other purpose. It has been done by laanwj. I have never done it before, because I just didn’t know how to do it — reverse engineering of PE/EL...

Dropship - future of file exchanging | Forwardfeed's blog

Alternative for torrents? Millions of users, ready to share with their files? Fast, anonymous, cipher way to download files? Always accessible seed? Everything you need to do that is Dropship — connection of Dropbox and application created by Wladimir van der Laan. — is written in Python. It allow us to download to our Dropbox any file, which description we got in JSON format (similar as description propagated in .torrent files). After my article about Dropbox’s public folder scaner, my theo...

Dropbox – public folder | Forwardfeed's blog

Jak publiczne są dane w katalogu Public, który jest udostępniany przez Dropbox. Okazuje się, że leży tam wiele danych i powinny one być raczej chronione.

Pomplamoose, Jack Conte & Nataly Dawn

marcell mars — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:35:29 GMT

U svom stanu sviraju, snimaju video dok snimaju audio, stave na YouTube.. Genijalan par. Kao par. I svatko posebno. Uf...

Storified by marcell mars · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:52:07

Pomplamoose: Making A Living On YouTube : NPR

Nataly Dawn and Jack Conte of the YouTube sensation Pomplamoose are making a living as a successful band, but they've never had a CD printed. The story of their success reflects the changing nature of the music business, as well as artists' ability to survive without the backing of a major label.

Michael Jackson - Beat It · PomplamooseMusic

The Way It Was Before - Jack Conte · jackcontemusic

Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright · natalydawn

Write an app for RedHat's OpenShift Express in Pyramid

marcell mars — Thu, 05 May 2011 03:19:34 GMT

I successfully installed OpenShift Express Client Tools. Here is the follow up with documentation for writing Pyramid app at freshly set-up http://mmapp-marcell.rhcloud.com/.

Storified by marcell mars · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:53:43

Deploying a Pyramid application in a virtual Python WSGI environment on Red Hat OpenShift Express | Red Hat Openshift Forum

Pylons Project : Pyramid : About

Pyramid is a very general open source Python web framework. As a framework, its primary job is to make it easier for a developer to create an arbitrary web application. The type of application being created isn’t really important; it could be a spreadsheet, a corporate intranet, or an “oh-so-Web-2.0” social networking platform. Pyramid is general enough that it can be used in a wide variety of circumstances. Pyramid is developed using the following tenets. Pyramid takes a approach. This mean...

Pyramid Quick Tutorial — The Pylons Project Documentation Site

This tutorial is intended to provide you with a feel of how a Pyramid web application is created. The tutorial is very short, and focuses on the creation of a minimal application using common idioms. For brevity, the tutorial uses a “single-file” application development approach instead of the more complex (but more common) “scaffolds” described in the main Pyramid documentation. At the end of the tutorial, you’ll have a minimal application which: provides views to list, insert and close tas...

OpenShift Express -- Deploy to the Cloud · MakaraCloud

watching

marcell mars — Wed, 04 May 2011 23:05:37 GMT

Storified by marcell mars · Thu, Oct 27 2011 01:53:52

watching · marcell