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@xurble is sitting under a palm tree, coding.

@xurble is up far too early.

Hmm, that recall's going just great.

Who's that behind her? Emma says he's famous. [EDIT] I think it's Vondie Curtis Hall Captain Prince from Romeo + Juliet.

There's so much to love about Firefox 3 on the mac. But why can't they get the toolbar right? It now has a correct faded look when unfocussed but they still can't get the unified toolbar right. Look where the mouse is. You could (maybe, kinda) forgive them for not making a click at that point a drag action. What you can't forgive is that it is a button click when the pointer is clearly outside the bounds of the button. You'd be amazed how annoying it is. Or maybe you wouldn't.

@xurble hiding from the heat.

So a five minute play with SocialThing makes it seem really promising.

Being able to into easily import all your friends from all your social networks (eventually) and then easily alias them together sounds like it would be awesome.

Sadly it goes downhill really quickly.

Firstly it requires your usernames and passwords. They explain why - to get otherwise unavailable private data (friends only Livejournal posts for example), but it seems unnecessary and phishing-like. What they really need is to do is offer a "publicly viewable information only" option for these services.

Secondly there doesn't seem to be any kind of history. New items push old items off the list and then, poof, they're gone. That's kind of limiting. There's also no feed produced so I can't subscribe to this stuff anywhere else, I have to go to their site.

Lastly you can only see an aggregate view. Having aliased my friends (when I've been fortunate to have two of their posts from separate sites appear on the list at the same time), I can't then drill down to view the activity of just one friend at a time.

Nice idea, but must try harder.

Ill family edition

@xurble hangover plus dentist is not a good combination

@xurble last.fm now scrobbles iPhones - WIN!