We picked up an Airport Express on Friday and I followed the directions from the Alex King’s site and now have a very happy husband who’s enjoying Netflix streaming.

The math showed this was going to hit us and cause damage; I believe we changed the molecules by engaging the hearts and minds of awesome networks locally and globally.

An earthquake in Chile in 1960 caused major damage in Hilo and many deaths – this time we had not only precise warning but love and attention.

1. Make sure to turn off the option under preferences “when switching to an application, switch to a space…”
2. Make sure that Firefox is not assigned to any of the workspaces at all. This may still work if it is assigned to 1 workspace. I had problems with it was assigned to all workspaces.
3. Now go to a space and open Firefox.
4. Go to a new space and open Firefox again. You won’t see anything other than the Firefox toolbar come to the forefront. From the toolbar choose “New Window”. This window is a separate instance of Firefox.

You can now switch between both spaces and have separate instances of Firefox running. I think this was the way the author was suggesting to use this feature. You could imagine a Finance workspace where you have a copy of Quicken running along with a Browser window with several tabs (e.g. Wells Fargo, ETrade, Mint).

As it is, I have to run two separate browsers to handle this situation — and let me tell you — A LOT of folks want this fixed internally.

It’s worth nothing that the fact that you can use Google services on your own domain is something that actually keeps the web more open and free — but as such — it introduces a level of complexity that most service providers don’t have to deal with today. My hope is that the work that Google’s doing on this will make a big difference long term, but in the meantime, it definitely creates an unfortunately uncomfortable reality.

The arrival of Buzz, however, has suddenly turned this issue from an annoying quirk into a disaster: because Buzz is tied to Gmail (which, by the way, I personally find absurd), you have to sign up to Gmail, which generates a standard you[at]gmail address which, in turn, is promptly turned into your primary login. Your Apps email address is treated as if it weren’t a Google address at all and is demoted to “secondary” status. The worst thing about this fiasco is that there’s no undo.

I hear Chris Messina’s point about this being difficult to fix. But Apps should never have been set up like this in the first place. Google has just annoyed a lot of what by any accounts must be its most loyal users. And the Buzz fiasco has made it urgent to find a solution to something that should never have happened.

I wonder what’s up with Twitterrific as well. These days I run Echofon on my mac .. seems to be the only app with support for the ‘new’ RT system.

We don’t really have to worry about the winter hours here so we made it to several different wineries. It was a fantastic, relaxing weekend trip and we discovered a couple of new favorite wines while there.

You’ve so made me go attempt this myself.

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As for cross-domain Buzz instances — it’s really up to the domain owner whether to be open and interoperable or not. But that’s in contrast to today’s silos where that kind of cross-posting isn’t even possible. That’s why Buzz is really exciting to me!

I’m guessing Google sees @gmail.com addresses as Google identities, whereas domain accounts all exist only within their own community.

I can’t give you an ETA, but it is a high priority to fix this and gets to the heart of why Internet identity is broken today, and also so hard to fix.

There are also plans to roll out Buzz to Apps for your Domain, but again — no ETA. We’re definitely on it though (it’s still weird to include myself in “we” when talking about Google!).

I use Google Apps for my domain as well, and I have the same problem that you’re describing above. However, on Google Reader, only on my iPod Touch, Buzz does show up and authenticates with my Google Account email address, which of course is still the one that is hosted by Google Apps.

Perhaps this is just a roll-out issue.

Adam

I don’t really get what buzzed is supposed to be. Isn’t it just FriendFeed?

I hate, unplanned changes and, or development; the Google and, or Chromium Developer Teams pretend they are doing much more new things, whereas their Chromium is years behind compared with a mature and well tested Firefox

Firefox: Installed size 29.6M
Chromium: Installed size 40.8M
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