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There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
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I apologize for any lost or unwanted tweets. Please let me know if you spot any other problems.
- Paul Buchheit
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks, Paul. :)
- Josh Haley
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Thanks Paul!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
hello dear my name is Becca, am new to this site and am looking for a relationship. i will like you to write me here with my mail (beccadd15@yahoo.com ) so that i will send you my pics and also tell you more about my life style. reply me here ( beccadd15@yahoo.com ) i will be waiting you in my mailbox ok
- becca
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
..и ещё раз помыла голову, Adam Spring, Kevin Mohr and 110 other people liked this
Welcome, Ben!
- Kevin Fox
Right on! Congrats, Ben.
- Micah
Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him!
- Jason Shellen
Data storage and scalability rock. :)
- Louis Gray
Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell
- Bret Taylor
Congrats, Ben! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah Ben!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris...
- MG Siegler
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Woohoo! Another Googler :)
- Tim Hoeck
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
you're building a friendfeed army there :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats
- Özkan Altuner
Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine.
- Mike Reynolds
gratz Ben!
- timepilot
Welcome Bret!
- Michael_techie
So, Facebook...?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers.
- beersage
Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into
- Glenn Slaven
Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme?
- Vezquex
I don't know.. but it is awesome! :)
- Tim Hoeck
Wow, looks like somebody bumped this!
- Kevin Fox
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
OH HAI!
- Eric
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
hello dear my name is Becca, am new to this site and am looking for a relationship. i will like you to write me here with my mail (beccadd15@yahoo.com ) so that i will send you my pics and also tell you more about my life style. reply me here ( beccadd15@yahoo.com ) i will be waiting you in my mailbox ok
- becca
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Thanks God it is New API.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
cool : )
- Gurkan Oluc
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
cnet has us outnumbered here. six of them to our three.
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Yeah, but we have more people *per site*, right?
- Anthony Ha
i see you wore your fancy tie today, anthony
- Eric Eldon
Well Eric, if Steve shows up, I want to be dressed for the occasion. Plus I needed something to match Paul's cowboy hat.
- Anthony Ha
and i wore the new shirt my mother bought me.
- Dean Takahashi
getting closer!
- Susan Beebe
Louis Gray to Louis's feed, Paul Buchheit, Bret Taylor, Kevin Fox, Benjamin Golub, Jim Norris, gburd, Dan Hsiao, Ross Miller, Tudor Bosman
FestivusFeed: Start Festivus right with the traditional Airing of Grievances
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A festivusfeed theme, would have been awesome.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I wonder what ever became of the pole?
- Kevin Fox
The pole was lost in a 2008 accident. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
The FestivusFeed icon remains: http://friendfeed.com/static...
- Louis Gray
When do we get FestivusBook? Can we make it available once a year through the Konami Code?
- Jesse Stay
BUMP
- Spidra Webster
Yay! When is the airing of the laundry? #doesntwatchSeinfeld
- WoH: Minding her Botts
LOL It's the Airing of Grievances. I like laundry better, though.
- Anika
who bumped this ?? I have a grrivance for bumping old old threads !!
- Peter Dawson
I have a grievance that LG posted this and yet he's hardly here anymore. I challenge him to a feat of strength.
- Spidra Webster
I am always here, Spidra. I have a grievance that you assume the inaccurate.
- Louis Gray
can we get a logo change up in here?
- Laura Norvig
FriendFeed Traffic Is Actually Up Since The Facebook Deal; Thanks Largely To Turkey - http://techcrunch.com/2011...
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Gobble Gobble.
- Louis Gray
Oh, it's time for another round I see.
- Micah
Who? What? Johnny, did you hijack my account? :)
- Louis Gray
And I'm sure Greenland enjoy all those biting jokes that reference the colour green.
- Micah
I am waiting to see all the new tablets at CES this week and then for iPad 2 before buying anything new.
Alessio Jacona and MG Siegler liked this
Heading to the GOOG for lunch today. Nostalgia, ho!
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My parents and grandparents.
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The loins that sired friendfeed!
- Goran Zec
Camilla: "Grandma's a princess!"
- April Buchheit
RT @ded: omg! http://☃.net
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That's disconcerting.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Very happy FriendFeed stayed up and fast through the WWDC. Good work, everyone at the FriendFeed HQ!
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rock solid
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Go FriendFeed!!!! EPIC WIN!
- Steve Isaacs
FriendFeed was rock solid throughout. Way to go Bret, Paul, and the rest of the FriendFeed team.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I never had any doubts. Nice job, guys.
- Louis Gray
Love Ya Friendfeed!
- Parth Awasthi
from twhirl
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks)
- directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway.
- Bret Taylor
yay scalability!
- Neha Narula
Bret: Big! Congrats! You've done a very nice job ! :)
- directeur
I guess that I will be hanging out with ya'll for the rest of the day. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
FriendFeed FTW!
- mathew ingram
unlike the oh so much stress Twitter will be having FriendFeed will be up and running
- Outsanity
I'd like to second this notion: well done Friendfeed, you guys have your shit together and I respect that.
- ryangraves
Rob (Radez) actually just said the same thing. Good work, guys!
- Gabor Cselle
Even wordpress hosted sites are down! FF is well hosted and manged!
- Lakshman Prasad
from twhirl
Me think FriendFeed cousin Googawl...
- directeur
It rocked... simply the best place for live updates.
- Vince DeGeorge
FF rox!
- anna sauce
This was great! FF had updates faster than the folks liveblogging the event.
- Jennifer Dittrich
ya, man, FriendFeed Rocks!
- Ralph Poole
from twhirl
Kudos..It was your stress test
- Varun Mahajan
nothing beats FF!
- Dieter Schwarz
FriendFeed triumphs yet again
- Shey
well done! friendfeed deserves all the hype it can get!
- Chris Hofmann
Does it count as hype if it's true?
- Amit Patel
pity we cannot say the same for twitter :)
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Amit: A wise man once said it isn't bragging if it is true.
- Russellreno
brat sana dm atamıyorum!
- aynebilim
aynebilim sen bana sor takmaz o seni :P
- Gökhan. (Guru fasulye)
:D iyiki layklamışım, gece gece kahkaya boğulurum şimdi.
- batuhan icoz
puhahahahhaha
- mehmetkose
adam bunlar kim noluyo falan diyodur şimdi, translate'den çeviriyodur falan :D
- mehmetkose
aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh merdaaaa, aaaaaaahhhh mmmmmmerda!
- 1Co
hazır tanış yok diye brat'e yazıyorum..hemen doluyorsunuz yahu peşimden:))) brat seviişelim mi?
- aynebilim
ayn çok ayıp!!!
- gzmozz
filiz'e sorsaydım keşke:(
- aynebilim
haha adam ff'i kapaticak sizin yuzunuzden
- Gökhan. (Guru fasulye)
hiç peşinden dolarmıyız ayıp sana.
- mehmetkose
Four reasons Google is still Awesome - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010...
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Yes, probably my favorite company.
- Vezquex
"four seasons google is still awesome"
- heavy distorted&DenizOral
It's sad that the first comment you received on the blog post was essentially, "I thought you were a hater, but now that you complemented Google, I like you again." The "you either like the things I like or you're against me" mentality, especially when it comes to company loyalty, is really unnerving and you shouldn't feel the need to be apologetic because of that. It's interesting to hear your perspective on Google, whether it's complimentary *or* critical.
- Mark Trapp
I wasn't saying "now that you complemented Google, I like you again." I was more saying "due to your well-founded explanations in this post and the last, I realize that your criticism of Google is logical, rather than emotional."
- Graeme
Graeme, it seems much more reasonable to assume good faith from the start.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, I think it's useful feedback for anyone who writes to hear feedback both from first impressions and from careful consideration, so Graeme's comments are useful. For me, when I started reading this particular essay, it was awesome (the "if everything you do succeeds" part). Then, after carefully reading to the end, I thought it was all awesome.
- Bruce Lewis
I particularly liked: "Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults."
- Benjamin Golub
Which of these four reasons is the one behind FriendFeed no longer authenticating via Google account? :)
- Count Caturday
Lines on 'welcome negative feedback' are good.
- Ash
Well that's amusing. I'm surprised that an os with approximately zero users would have so many fans. For the record, I'm a big believer in the "instant on, cloud-based os" future, but that platform will be known as Android (and iOS).
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I'm on your side Paul! :)
- Oguz Serdar
It's certainly a strangely positioned product, but having used one, I find it oddly "good". It's much less crufty than my Android phone. Very clean and simple, and that can speak volumes.
- Steve and 3 other people
There are some who call it... Tim.
- Christopher Galtenberg
I didn't read any of those articles. Did any of their authors seem to be "fans"?
- Gabe
No, but many of the comments were from people who said that I "didn't get it", or that I'm ugly.
- Paul Buchheit
I don't get that Paul is ugly. Wait. What?
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Google fans are at times, and increasingly, more insufferable than Apple fans ever were. It must be weird to have an off-hand comment on FriendFeed blown into such a huge story. Unless that's what you were intending; if so: well played.
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, I've had innocuous posts blow up like that before. It usually starts with a single person tweeting the post with a @techmeme at-reply, and it snowballs from there.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: someone actually used something you said a year ago as a flame on the initial TechCrunch story: http://techcrunch.com/2010...
- Mark Trapp
Oh shit. Okay Paul, apparently the Internet has decided that IT IS ON between us. Fight!
- Kevin Fox
The irony is that I'm currently working on the Open Web Apps initiative at Mozilla Labs, which if wildly successful will mean that apps are installed and used across devices irrespective of the device's OS, rendering the difference between a tablet-sized ChromeOS and a tablet-sized AndroidOS device largely moot.
- Kevin Fox
I'm looking forward to the days of moot.
- Micah
New TechCrunch headline: "Mozilla working on Chrome OS killer"
- Mark Trapp
Micah, if I had some butcher paper I'd make you a Jump to Conclusions mat with a single 'moot' square.
- Kevin Fox
New TechMeme headline: "Mark Trapp newest editor at TechCrunch"
- Kevin Fox
Forget stock pumping-and-dumping: social media pump-and-dumps are where it's at. Quick, someone who used to work at Google say I'm Steve Jobs's successor! It'll have to be true!
- Mark Trapp
Why are you eating popcorn, Johnny? You're supposed to me MCing this momunental showdown!!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
The name of that "instant on, cloud-based OS" does not matter. What matters is the application model and the glue between those applications. Are you saying that in the future developers will be coding Java Apps, using a proprietary markup, no URLs, no introspection and searchability?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I wonder how long before people realize that the cloud is just the mainframe of the future and decide that we should own our apps and data...
- Gabe
my thoughts :) http://techcrunch.com/2010... great discussions, BTW. except for the shots at TC :)
- MG Siegler
wow, MG Siegler is still on FF. that's huge. BTW, you were amazing @LeWeb! :)
- Oguz Serdar
I prefer the more web-based development model, but that will undoubtably be supported by Android.
- Paul Buchheit
My favorite is the one that calls you "gmail's daddy" o_0
- Laura Norvig
Laura, that's it. I will now solely refer to SJobs as the 'Mac Daddy' (And David Atkison, and Larry Tessler. There are a lot of Mac Daddies.
- Kevin Fox
It's an obvious branding issue, but what I'm not sure about is the enterprise market. Releasing with citrix support was a surprise, not that I think our current network system can support that.
- Todd Hoff
The question is native apps or no native apps. If Android loses its native apps, it could as well be called ChromeOS. But maybe the Android brand wins. Me personally I'm more fond of the Chrome brand, also because it's available without special hardware on Windows and Mac. Much like Kindle.
- Meryn Stol
BTW I don't believe Android will go away any time soon. It's a great competitor to iOS. Heck, I wouldn't exclude the possibility of Android coming to pc's. Google has plenty of developer resources available to please *any* constituency, whether they like a traditional OS like Android or a "web os" like ChromeOS.
- Meryn Stol
What would be logical if both iOS and Android gain the ability to make web apps first-class citizens of their OS. Much like Fluid on the Mac, and the new taskbar pinning of IE9. I think there comes a time where only geeks can tell the difference between native and web on these platforms. ChromeOS would by definition have less apps than Android, because it lacks the native Android apps, but less than many is still a lot. And still enough for many. :)
- Meryn Stol
Meryn: that already exists in iOS. Mobile Safari allows users to create icons to web apps on the home screen that act just like normal app icons, and Mobile Safari takes full advantage of everything that makes HTML5 apps "apps". A perfect example of an app taking full advantage of what Mobile Safari has to offer is Glyphboard: http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post... After "installation" there is no difference between it and a regular app.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, I didn't know. Actually got my first iOS device today (iPad). But, making icons is only the very first step. For example, would a web-app be able to use iOS multitasking api's? I think not. That would need to be supported by Safari (one hell of a challenge I would guess... practically rocket science). I'll check out glyphboard. I have much to learn. :)
- Meryn Stol
Meryn: actually, they do. Web apps have all the support Mobile Safari has, including multitasking. The web as a platform on iOS enjoys first-class support from Apple, and is currently mostly limited to people's imaginations.
- Mark Trapp
I wonder if Apple would let Chrome on iOS? If my analogy with Kindle is correct, Google would want Chrome everywhere. There, they can add support for their app store. But I think Apple would hate that. I think Amazon has been forced to do payments through Safari.
- Meryn Stol
Now I don't understand what your point is, other than to move the goalposts. What does Apple allowing Chrome on iOS have to do with making the web a first-class citizen? Mobile Safari arguably has better support than even Android's bundled browser, and allows web apps *now* to interact with much of the device.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, actually nothing. I was addressing two different subjects at the same time. My bad. Both Apple and Google are the only ones able to make web apps seem native on their respective mobile platforms.
- Meryn Stol
But the competitive landscape that is emerging in my head looks very interesting... I really wonder what Apple's web strategy will be... They can't simply let Google have it all in the future. They'll need to try to be a middle man on the web too. They're positioned fine...
- Meryn Stol
In the short term, they might be content with just people buying through the chrome web store. But long-term? OTOH I think Jobs has claimed that the app store is not a profit center for Apple. I'd be fine with Apple in the long term receding to making just absolutely superior, "lickable" hardware.
- Meryn Stol
Apple's been at the forefront at pushing the web forward: they spearheaded WebKit and were telling developers in 2007 the future of apps was the web. It wasn't until much later that they built the App Store after developers insisted that apps were the way to go. The App Store turned out to be wildly successful, but there's no doubt the web is incredibly important to companies like Apple...
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- Mark Trapp
I agree. But I'm still wondering about whether Apple sometimes does want to be a middle man. They had beef with Amazon (and perhaps others?) re in-app payments. I don't know the details of the story though.
- Meryn Stol
There is no evidence to suggest, and Apple has published everything one could possibly publish to the contrary, that they want to get in the middle of the user and the web; they regulate the App Store, iOS, and the physical devices for their business interests and quality control. In app payments are exactly that: payments within apps that have been distributed through the...
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- Mark Trapp
I'm just thinking that maybe Apple's beef with Amazon was a fairness consideration. Jobs has said that they take a cut from app purchases to pay for the app store infrastructure (and sponsoring the free apps). Kindle app is free, so would be sponsored, yet each install would probably result in substantial money flows (one book is more expensive than a lot of apps). Maybe they should...
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- Meryn Stol
Paul is right. I don't see how Chrome OS can get anywhere. It's like they are trying to solve a 1999 problem. Too bad it's 10 years too late. Now, leave me alone while I play with my connected watch and my new Nexus S.
- Robert Scoble
don't know what to say
- testbeta
I love lamp.
- Mark J Severely Corny
remember android too wasn't taken seriously by many in its initial stages it was expected to fade away, but then google gave nexus with help from manufacturers, chrome os comes with a hardware it mght be difficult but lets see how laptop companies see it do they bring out chrome os based notebooks? because it ight actually cut costs, a chrome os notebook is expected to be cheaper than usual win or iOS based notebooks even netbooks lets see how asus sees it
- testbeta
.@blockbuster, this is why you're going under: the one time you get me in the store for a $5 rental (what a rip!), you're all out. The end.
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Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I don't want my contact information to be my identifier. I shouldn't have to give a website my email address, just like I shouldn't have to give a store my phone number.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, I think it just takes the form of an email address, but does not in fact have to be one (or could be a "throw away" account).
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if we could get our act together (as an industry) and make this stuff happen. I'd also like to see ENUM deployed to the point that my phone number can be linked to my identity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joe Beda
This is a bad idea in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
- April
If a site wants my email address, it's probably in order to spam me. It's usually a bad sign. If legit sites ask for my email more, it will make it harder to identify the spammers.
- Tim Tyler
Do gmail users seriously still have problems with spam? I don't.
- Robin Barooah
Personally this sounds great - as long as it really doesn't force you to use your actual gmail address.
- Robin Barooah
I loved finger.
- j1m
Does this mean I can have a .plan again?
- Benjamin Lee
Sounds like the .plan which is (again) accessed via an id in email format and returns different information/metadata about a person depending on who's accessing it. Email id is used to do a DNS lookup in order to discover URL for the XRD file (accessed with a HTTP GET) containing the metadata about the person being, er, WebFinger-ed.
- Nenad Nikolic
it is like user authenticating, having two three ids won't hurt ;) well i don't want to be identified, they are going same as gravatar
- testbeta
It's so curious to me that people have concerns that WebFinger would lead to more spam, and yet don't like the "format" of URLs for IDs. Personally, as far as OpenID is concerned, I don't care what the identifier looks like as long as people can remember it — typically email seems easier to recall than URLs (for most people in today's world).
- Chris Messina
Some users who have an email account with Google, myself included, have oodles of incoming mail both standard and secure so it fits the bill to increase security for both vendors and marketers.
- frank burns
I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :(
- J. McConnell
Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned...
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- frank burns
If your FriendFeed to Twitter publishing isn't working, go to http://friendfeed.com/setting... and login again. Twitter disabled HTTP Basic Auth, so we can only publish your entries if you've gone through the new OAuth routine.
حمادة عبد الجليل خشبه, Oliana W. Flora, Ümit Uzun and 117 other people liked this
Thanks, Paul.
- Micah
Yes, thanks!
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
oooh that's right, thank you
- Susan Beebe
Yay!
- Rollin' in the LB
thanks, Paul!
- holly #ravingfangirl
Thanks.
- Guy Vander Heyden
The real problem is Twitter to Friendfeed not Friendfeed to Twitter. Friendfeed doesn't import my Twitter entries. Friendfeed to Twitter now is working, thanks.
- catepol
Please fix Twitter to Friendfeed (with private Twitter account like mine Friendfeed doesn't work since Twitter decided to change OAuth settings)
- catepol
No problems with FriendFeed to Twitter. Real problem is Twitter to FriendFeed. Trying to create a new Twitter service (or to refresh the old one) on FriendFeed, it says me the Twitter account was not found.
- Maxime
Same as Maxime.
- Niki Costantini
Same here.
- Ale♪nastrorosa
Ditto - when I try to set up FF to post my Twitter posts, I get this message: http://m.friendfeed-media.com/c5b7577...
- Ciaoenrico
BUMP
- Johnny
Thanks Paul. Just done that.
- Roberto Bonini
TWT 2 FF => FAIL+1
- /sg
I can't add my Twitter again, either. I get the same message as Ciaoenrico.
- Michelle M
Thanks a lot, Paul! They did this in the middle of my microblogging the Human Microbiome Research Conference last week, but hopefully this will fix it in time for the Lake Arrowhead MIcrobial Genomics meeting.
- Ruchira S. Datta
BLOCKED USER: sicola narkozy
- Skyler Call
Yup---FF to Twitter is fine but T to FF it says my open account doesn't exist.
- Hedgehog
Thanks much, Paul. Friendfeed is still too great a product to let fall into disarray. The world will catch on eventually, I hope.
- Sean McBride
Yep, I can't get Twitter to import to FF, either. I tried opening my Twitter to do it, but that didn't seem to matter, so I re-protected.
- Lix
Yep, same problem for me as everyone else. FF publishes to Twitter fine, but won't import Twitter. Now FF can't even find my Twitter account, says it's not found.
- Jandy
++Skyler
- Ruchira S. Datta
bump.
- The Ghost of Library Past
I don't exist either :)
- Deepak Singh
Thanks
- Andrew David
FF publishes to Twitter. Ok. FF doesn't import Twitter. I've removed my Twitter account on FF. I want to add it again and now FF can't even find my Twitter account, says it's not found. (yes I have a private account on Twitter).
- catepol
I don't exist either :(
- Federico D'Ambrosio
TWT 2 FF => FAIL+1
- l'Ego di Gigi
don't work!!!
- Antonio Vergara
Exactly the same as catepol. FF now says that my Twitter account does not exist...
- LaZiaElena
we all want to import our twitter posts into friendfeed as before
- catepol
same here: FF can't recognize my twitter account. It was made to share my kindle clippings, and I want to forward that feed here. Please fix it - we all love FriendFeed and want it fully working :)
- PaperDoll
any fix here on this issue yet?
- Richard Binhammer
«We could not find the given account». [http://ff.im/qBz36] Why?
- Sei Dee già Pulp
Fix it.. pleeeeease !!
- Robert
publishing to Twitter stopped working again, i've signed in and out at the publishing preferences page several times and checked my publishing preferences. :(
- Ruchira S. Datta
Oh /that's/ what happened. Silly Twitter!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from FreshFeed
I try to add my legitimate #Twitter account to Friendfeed but keep getting the message "We could not find the given account" every single time. Why is it so?
- Maqbool Bhat
Twitter to Friendfeed don't work. :(
- MarioMiX
Twitter to FriendFeed doesn't work, and I guess this is a tactical decision so that people would use FF to post on Twitter, but to be honest, I will give up FF if that's the case!! and simply stick to Twitter..
- HDG Ticaret
Same here I can't FriendFeed to find my twitter account... rather annoying
- Bren @ Headlines-Today
late to the party on this one but i am no longer found when trying to add my twitter
- Angela P.
What everyone else said. Need to go FROM Twitter TO Friendfeed.
- Derrick
likewise -- twitter -> FF borked.
- Darrell Berry (site)
+1. Getting the "We could not find the given account" error when trying to connect and import my Twitter posts into the FriendFeed.
- Южное Тушино, мкр 11
same problem as above - "We could not find the given account" - any idea what's wrong or more importantly, when it'll be fixed?
- dorwardmedia
same problem here Twitter to Friendfeed don't work
- Ozan Zırhlı
I have the same problem too - was told it couldn't find my twitter account. So when will Twitter to Friendfeed finally work for us? We seriously want Friendfeed to become more relevant in our social networking lives!
- Jenny Teo
It's really sad.. :/
- Alessio Maffeis
+1
- Roberta Lippi
I also cannot get my private twitter account to publish to friendfeed. Please fix
- librarianhope
I'm having the same problem: when this first cropped up, I removed my Twitter, tried to re-add it after signing in using OAUTH, but now it says "The given account is not found..." How do I fix this?!
- Meredith Sweet
I did that x3, & still no FF to Twitter posts happened. FF to FB publishing has quit for me, too. So I have discontinued using FF to post anywhere for now & will give a new try another day down the road. (So the help tickets I submitted are irrelevant now.)
- ShamanicShift
Also: I, too, have seen the error message that FF cannot find my Twitter account when I attempt to refresh -- and when I removed it to re-add it (as something else to try), it took MANY attempts (before my Twitter was back on the list of services),
- ShamanicShift
Same problem (my twitter account isn't even private). Stopped tweets importing 3 days ago.
- Ashalynd
same issue as above "We could not find the given account"
- Mardetanha
+1. Getting the "We could not find the given account" error when trying to connect and import my Twitter posts into the FriendFeed.
- Ben Dalton
+1. Getting the "We could not find the given account" error when trying to connect and import my Twitter posts into the FriendFeed.
- tweetingpli
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- حمادة عبد الجليل خشبه
I'm authorizing app, and getting redirect back, but have no posting to twitter again. It's always "To post to Twitter, you need to sign in first."
- Ivan Larionov
Also often getting "Service Unavailable" from FF.
- Ivan Larionov
It's sad that the Windows Mobile funeral was so poorly attended.
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I couldn't get signal...
- Akiva
That was their idea.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
That's because Windows Mobile is not really dead, as long as we remember it. The needs of the many users outweigh the needs of the few, or the one terrible mobile platform.
- Mark Trapp
Photo of the crowd at #twdev. Almost all of them have developed a Twitter app according to a show of hands http://yfrog.com/0lnq5tj
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http://friendfeedstats.appspot.com/ it's alive!
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Nicely done. I suppose you POST crawl data into it or...?
- Aviv
Nope, I hit a special URL (using curl via cron from my server) and App Engine does the crawling
- Benjamin Golub
Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense
- Aviv
Yes, and it's crazy fast!
- Benjamin Golub
what about rssmeme? or is there too much crawling involved?
- Aviv
technically with rssmeme you could have the crawl super fast if you add all the google shared feeds to google reader and then have AppEngine hit up Reader (although not sure if urlfetch supports cookies). That should make for an interesting hack
- Aviv
I'm going to look into getting RSSmeme on App Engine next, it's just a "bit" bigger than FriendFeed Stats :P
- Benjamin Golub
After DNS propagates the old URL (http://www.friendfeedstats.com) should point to the App Engine...I hope
- Benjamin Golub
Nice! Looks like it went pretty well. Of course, that means all the data is gone now :P
- Brandon Titus
Yes, it's gone, I could import it all if people get really antsy, but it's not like it was running for very long in the first place. People won't even notice after a few weeks.
- Benjamin Golub
trying to search user gets file not found- must be that missing data
- Nathan Eckenrode
Yup, if it doesn't find you then it 404s, use FriendFeed more often and it will find you! http://friendfeedstats.appspot.com/bgolub... works for instance
- Benjamin Golub
Only my stuff for April is on FFstats now. Will this be fixed?
- Corvida
I'll look into importing the old data from my server to App Engine....but it might be a little while (or never).
- Benjamin Golub
Wow, appengine is turning out to be painfully simple to implement. Congrats on such a quick port!
- Bwana ☠
It's simple to port if you originally developed in Python :)
- Benjamin Golub
Does BigTable prevent you from doing complex db operations? It seems like the inability to join or use "OR" is limiting?
- felix
Ya, it is limiting (and that's why I doubt RSSmeme will be ported to it)
- Benjamin Golub
very interesting
- accexine
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Jeanette's working on a new project...
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Expected to ship mid-July, 2010 :)
- Tudor Bosman
Congratulations!
- joey
Congrats!
- Kenton
Nice, congratulations!
- Mark Trapp
best project i've ever seen . . . congrats
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Congratulations!
- Anika
We've been bursting at the seams waiting to tell :)
- Jeanette Bosman
Best wishes on your upcoming call to Fork().
- no name
Congrats, Tudor and Jeanette!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Oh wow you guys, congratulations!!!
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Congrats you guys!
- AJ Batac :)
Jeanette's post: https://friendfeed.com/jeanett...
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Congrats to both of you!
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Con'grats !!
- Peter Dawson
nice work congrats
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Congratulatiosn!
- Sheila Taylor
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette!
- Anne Bouey
How is babby formed?
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congrats!
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yeah! congrats!
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Wow! Congratulations to Tudor and Jeanette!
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations!
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Congrats!!! =D
- David Cook
ooooh great jeanette :)
- Valentina*
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! You are both certainly invited to use my just-for-fun http://bebepool.com site if you were planning on having friends/family prognosticate about babby's arrival :) Cheers!
- Micah
congrats !
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congratulations!!!
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squirrel?
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Beautiful code :)
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From the Master Coder! Awed!
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Great! Congratulations, I'll be a nice, young grand-pa!
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CONGRATS (:
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We're MAKING that! I get a huge grin on my face every time I look at the picture :)
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats!!
- Georgia
Update: http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
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