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Very happy FriendFeed stayed up and fast through the WWDC. Good work, everyone at the FriendFeed HQ!

June 9, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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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

can we have some traffic stats please? - Ivan Pope from twhirl

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

#bretbunabak - @barisunver #beyn.org

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

Thomas Hawk

What Are Your Photography Goals for 2009? - http://thomashawk.com/2008...

December 31, 2008 from Thomas Hawk's Digital... - Comment - Like - Share

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"My own long-term goal is to publish at least 1,000,000 photographs before I die." Good long term goal. My husband is a subway photographer and has nearly 18,000 photos of trains only on his website as accumulated over the last few years. I wonder if he'll get even close to 100k! - Tamar Weinberg

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Simple, to start up again. I've not had time to do anything since getting my new job in July. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

I'd like to do at least one time lapse, light painting, and stop motion project. Besides the goals of getting the 5dmkII and 100-400L - Andrew Smith

@Tamar, that's a lot of trains. I like the size of that collection! And I don't even have 500 mannequins published yet. - Thomas Hawk

take more pics - dedrick

Ummm I want to figure out how to use a point & click - The Real sofarsoShawn

My only photography goal is to start taking pictures again. I stopped for some reason as I started getting distracted by my other interests. :( - James (@willia4)

I commented on Marc's post as well: http://www.silberstudios.com/blog... - Justin Korn

Just to get better. I hope I'll have more time taking shots too. - Chris Nixon

GET a real camera without my husband freaking out about the price tag!, learn how to use it, post fabulous photos on Flickr! which dump over here - Susan Beebe

Sell my Leica Digilux 3, and just get the most out of my new Leica D-Lux 4 while documenting the first year of my daughter. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

Take tons of pictures of my kids and go to a photography show of some kind - Shevonne

to finally pursue my lifelong dream of taking up photography lol - Cardeen winedrunk

I want to break into the pornography industry ~ hear it's a big money maker! - The Real sofarsoShawn

To try and round up some freelance work and get more involved in the local gallery scene...and always looking to refine, re-invent, and learn. - Susan Dennis

Take less pictures, but with higher attention to quality. - David Cook

Considering taking a photography class. I'd love to really learn how to work with film. -

My two photography goals for 2009 are 1) Actually learn the non-auto functions of my camera besides manual focus and "No! Don't Flash at distant things" and 2) Get better at low light and lunar photography. - Daniel Cornwall

To be better than I was a year before, to hopefully have a proper dSLR, and to have made some spending money from my photos. And to have fun. - Grant Bierman

To have a camera I could shoot a gnat from 100 yards with. and to take some classes so that I can use it. Ok, 50 yards... - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

take 4x the photos I took in 2008 and publish once a week to flickr - Mark Interrante

To take enough photos in 2009 that I fill all the hard drives of my new Drobo. - Bob Gannon

learn what ISO means - Michael W. May from twhirl

I have a new camera, so first learn how to use it properly. After that, remember to use it regularly and not just grab my iPhone. - Rochelle

I want to shoot more with Thomas Hawk. I also want to edit more of my photos. - Robert Scoble

Get geared up with my 5D, learn some good lighting skills and start taking my food pics to build my portfolio. - Derrick

Build a Macro Studio and take better food photos for blog. Meet with the local photographer photo-walks. Play with my new UV filter. - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau

Getting a quality camera and developing my skill is one of my retirerment plans; a don't think that will happen in 2009. - Robert Hafer

To meet more photographers in real life and go on adventures with them. - Trey Ratcliff

Get more out of my 5D...sometimes I feel I took better pics w/ my old 350D..take a look http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Vincenzo Cosenza

I want to continue to get better with my camera. I've only been shooting really for a little over a year so I'm still learning. I also want to shoot some studio sessions as that is something very new and challenging for me. - C.C. Chapman

Thanks to this thread, I took out my Canon Powershot S1 manual (three years old) and figured out how to 1) Take pictures in sepia, 2) Successfuly work the delay time to take a photo of myself and 3) Use the successive photo feature. I used the last on my cat, but I couldn't get him to move, so not worthwhile to see. I look forward to trying a few different things a month and seeing what happens. Thanks for starting this thread! - Daniel Cornwall

Robert Scoble

Want some inspiration? Watch this, and learn how I discovered it because of today's plane crash:

January 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog... - Robert Scoble

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I learned about this because of Janis Krum's blog. He was the guy who took the photo of today's plane crash and posted it to Twitter. His blog is here: http://www.janiskrums.com/ -- want some inspiration? Think things are hopeless? Watch that video and see if don't find some inspiration. Thanks TIm Ferriss and Janis! - Robert Scoble

The paths we find things through are pretty weird. I know Tim personally but haven't had time to get to my RSS feeds lately. But, they come to me anyway. One of the lessons I've learned in my "media snacking" journey. - Robert Scoble

That confirms it. I SUCK! - Ron's Home And Hardware

I got to Janis' blog from his Twitter account. His photo today made me wonder who he was. - Robert Scoble

Really cool video. Even cooler back story as to how you found it! I'm starting to get this FF thing! - Troy Malone

✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ This is precisely what I'm talking about, Robert. Thank you. - michael silverton

there's this kids 15 minutes of fame... - Terry O'Fee

Terry: because of Twitter our fame allotment has been extended to 19 minutes. Didn't you get the memo? - Robert Scoble

This was meant for me today. right now . next week. next year...next lifetime...thanks - bcultral

I don't know if traditional market models can ever catch up to these phenomena. http://friendfeed.com/e... - michael silverton

Robert - this is the first time you have made me cry - great find, thanks for sharing it. - Ben Shoemate

Great find Robert, Nick speaks at our church all the time and all over the world, he hangs out after he speaks and he greets every single person who waits in line and gives everyone a hug. Here is Nick's site http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ - Kelly Johns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... There's a video floating around of his whole presentation and it's pretty awesome. - Paul Reynolds

Wow. Thanks Robert. - Nicola Quinn

Amazing! - Amit Morson

I'm just grateful all survived so CNN breaking states! PTL! - Melanie Reed

Still crying after watching this video and so angry at my self-absorbed life complaints. Today, right this very moment, this video has changed the way I view life. - Janet-The Bottley Crue

Very inspirational. The guy has done amazing things, and I definitely get the message - right up until he starts in with the evangelism. Is it just possible he could have achieved the same things on his own - or with a support system that didn't carry the Jesus branding? - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Hi Mary, a heavy duty topic worthy of it's own thread, IMO http://is.gd/g3Ik - michael silverton

Mary, I don't think it is a matter of Jesus "branding", it is his testimony, it is a genuine explanation of how he's been able to overcome his circumstances. I don't think Nick would be the man he is today if he would have "done it on his own" - Kelly Johns

Moving, thanks! - Alexandros Georgiadis

Tears in my coffee cup. Good way to start a day of opportunities for those with more. To whom much is given, much is expected. Thanks for sharing...awesome. - Carl

Kelly, I suspect you're right. Especially since he's a preacher's kid. And I really do get that it can take a huge spiritual foundation to overcome big obstacles. But just once I'd like to see an inspirational story that doesn't turn out to be a lead-in to a Christianity message. Are we - as a culture - as Americans under the First Amendment - saying that nobody can overcome great obstacles who is not a Christian? - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Let's see some examples of great inspiration from the secular world - or the other religious and spiritual traditions. For instance - Stephen Hawking has lived decades longer than anyone with ALS normally would. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Mary, Please rewatch this video, no where was this pushing a Christian message. I heard God, witnessing God. I believe this was more a faith in God, which is not exclusive to Christians. :) - Janet-The Bottley Crue

True. I made the mistake of watching a second video. And - the language in the first video is the lexicon of the Christian brand: witnessing, faith, God's plan. Witnessing and the idea of God's plan for a person or a community don't exist in, for example, Judaism, and the concept of faith in Judaism is rather nebulous, at least in the Reform tradition. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Just saw this post randomly. Hope things are well. - Janis Krums

Paul Buchheit

Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer...

August 17, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;) - Paul Buchheit

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Facial discrimination? - Jason

Impressive. - j1m

Can I get one for the body as well as the face? - Dion Almaer

Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it. - Brady Brim-DeForest

It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :) - Lindsay

@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?). - Lindsay

Right one looks more dumb... - philsmirnov

Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips. - FFing Enigma

@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird. - Lindsay

They are different women! Blame Paul! : ) - Erhan Erdoğan

impressive - accexine

Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing. - FFing Enigma

That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software. - Jim Goldstein from twhirl

I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty. - arty

This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be! - Claude Betancourt

Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)" - Charlie Anzman

Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;) - Joe Beda

without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference. - Zee.

Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :) - felix

I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...) - Rui Pires

+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

do i sense another manga-style meme starting? - anna sauce

So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.) - Kevin Fox

The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di - xero

stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential". - xero

I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people! - Benedikt Koehler

Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this? - xero

@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :) - A. T.

I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse - Dave Q

@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A - Jason

this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people. - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles. - Hayes Haugen

Chris' comment is sooo tempting - Charlie Anzman

This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed. - Spidra Webster

I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?! - ambidextrous

it's long gone. - Joe The Sausage

It's down :( - Burcu Dogan

cannot open this link,404 is there~ - 阿石

Mitchell Tsai

102 FriendFeed Picture Groups & 3 Video Groups [Last updated 3/3/10 - most of the room counts are from 8/10/09] - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...

May 31, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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The Apple Room (5,672) http://friendfeed.com/applero... Funny Pics and Videos (2,100) http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... iDesign (2,033) http://friendfeed.com/idesign Persian-cam (1,941) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Photography as Art (1,371) http://friendfeed.com/photogr... - Mitchell Tsai

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Photography United (1,161) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Fotograf (1,063) http://friendfeed.com/fotograf Typography (1046) http://friendfeed.com/typogra... Crazy Gadgets (990) http://friendfeed.com/crazy-g... DSLR (971) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Creative Design (936) http://friendfeed.com/creativ... ART ROOM (888) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Lovefest (840) http://friendfeed.com/lovefest Decork ::: Home Decoration (785) http://friendfeed.com/home-de... Funny Funny (767) http://friendfeed.com/funny-f... - Mitchell Tsai

Ideas & Inspiration (728) http://friendfeed.com/ideas-i... All Things Apple (640) http://friendfeed.com/all-thi... Photographing (497) http://friendfeed.com/photogr... Web Design Inspiration (433) http://friendfeed.com/web-des... Photoshop (409) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Photo Gallery (409) http://friendfeed.com/photo-g... Love-pic (400) http://friendfeed.com/love-pic Graphic (370) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Architectural & Interior Design (355) http://friendfeed.com/isunix Flickr Central (351) http://friendfeed.com/flickr-... - Mitchell Tsai

Dog Lovers (315) http://friendfeed.com/dog-lov... Illustration (311) http://friendfeed.com/ill Arts and Culture (303) http://friendfeed.com/arts-an... Ads of the World (283) http://friendfeed.com/ads-wor... Science News (282) http://friendfeed.com/science... - Mitchell Tsai

It seems Persian-cam is in top Ranking !!! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Yep! Persian-cam is the popular photo room on FriendFeed! You guys find the best pictures. - Mitchell Tsai

Thank you Mitchell for collecting data from all FriendFeed photo room - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Photography Tips, Tricks, and Know-How (280) http://friendfeed.com/photogr... Design (Tasarım) (280) http://friendfeed.com/tasarim CoolPics (274) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Cat Lovers (272) http://friendfeed.com/kitteh Comic Book Goodness (259) http://friendfeed.com/comic-b... - Mitchell Tsai

عکس (irphoto, 251) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Beautiful Women (221) http://friendfeed.com/beautif... Nature (204) http://friendfeed.com/nature Photographers sharing links, photographs,and tips! (198) http://friendfeed.com/brandyl... IRANIAN photos & photographers (189) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Parenting-A-Go-Go (189) http://friendfeed.com/parenti... Persian Pictures (174) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Wallpapers (140) http://friendfeed.com/amazing... Fashion (Moda) (130) http://friendfeed.com/fashion... Legos (117) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

FAILpics (110) http://friendfeed.com/failpics Graphics 'N Design (109) http://friendfeed.com/the-gra... ستاره شناسی (Astro-fa, 108) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Photo Walking (101) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Contemporary Art (101) http://friendfeed.com/contemp... - Mitchell Tsai

British & Irish Residents (101) http://friendfeed.com/brits-i... Animals (96) http://friendfeed.com/animals Fun Stuff (90) http://friendfeed.com/the-fun... Architecture (87) http://friendfeed.com/archite... Question of the Day (82) http://friendfeed.com/questio... - Mitchell Tsai

Cool! (74) http://friendfeed.com/coolness Silver Screen (71) http://friendfeed.com/silvers... Vintage Photos (69) http://friendfeed.com/oldphot... Fine Art (63) http://friendfeed.com/fine-art BabyFeed (59) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Art - painting (55) http://friendfeed.com/art-pai... The Solidarity Project (53) http://friendfeed.com/the-sol... Classic Novel Challenge (51) http://friendfeed.com/classic... Oh So Cute (49) http://friendfeed.com/oh-so-c... Movies (41) http://friendfeed.com/movies - Mitchell Tsai

Places (38) http://friendfeed.com/places Coming up NOW (35) http://friendfeed.com/enginee... Lovemetender (34) http://friendfeed.com/lovemet... furniture design (30) http://friendfeed.com/furnitu... Motion Graphics (29) http://friendfeed.com/motion-... - Mitchell Tsai

FRIEDFeed Hall of FAIL [sic] (28) http://friendfeed.com/friedfe... Digital Photography (27) http://friendfeed.com/digital... Fails (25) http://friendfeed.com/fails Digial Photograph [sic] (22) http://friendfeed.com/digial-... Squashy Frog Photography (21) http://friendfeed.com/squashy... - Mitchell Tsai

FFrooms (20) http://friendfeed.com/ffrooms About books - quotes, etc (16) http://friendfeed.com/about-b... Redl1ne (16) http://friendfeed.com/redl1ne Fotos (16) http://friendfeed.com/fotos The Photogenics (14) http://friendfeed.com/the-pho... - Mitchell Tsai

Masaüstü (8) http://friendfeed.com/masaustu Kinda Funny Pictures (7) http://friendfeed.com/kinda-f... Uphaa - Odd Things Around the World (6) http://friendfeed.com/uphaa-o... Web & Teknoloji (6) http://friendfeed.com/web-tek... Simply Life (3) http://friendfeed.com/simplyl... - Mitchell Tsai

NSFW rooms: NSFW Stuff (145) http://friendfeed.com/nsfw-st... i love your beautiful ass (142) http://friendfeed.com/i-love-... Nudes, artistic view (+16) (136) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... NSFW Posts - Images, Videos and Messages (136) http://friendfeed.com/nsfw-im... sexy moments in pix (+18) (128) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

NSFW rooms: Polysexuality (19) http://friendfeed.com/polysex... Side boobs (18) http://friendfeed.com/side-bo... Big Boob (10) http://friendfeed.com/big-boob I Like That (NSFW) http://friendfeed.com/i-like-... Hotts http://friendfeed.com/hotts nancydancy http://friendfeed.com/nancyda... - Mitchell Tsai

[Video] Funny Pics and Videos (2,100) http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... Best of YouTube (368) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Interesting Videos (74) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Defunct rooms: Funny Pics (was 91 - doesn't exist) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Thomas Hawk (60 - not used since 6/20/08) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Flickr images (17 - last pic 8/10/08) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Mitchell Tsai

Truly impressive. :-) - Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)

Also, here are ~50 people at FriendFeed with cool pics (remember to check their likes & comments) http://ff.im/Bd3L http://ff.im/BqOL This page was motivated by Thomas Hawk's "What is your most viewed set on Flickr? Mine is my my 10 faves or more set" discussion (5/24/08) http://friendfeed.com/e... I finally made myself a "Picture Rooms" list. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

[Update Wed 9/16/09 2:46 am ET] Fashion photography (378) http://friendfeed.com/fashion... Technology News (105) http://friendfeed.com/alt-new... Big Pictures (74) http://friendfeed.com/thebigp... FriendFeed Art (10) http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Mitchell Tsai

[Update Wed 3/3/10] Tattooz http://friendfeed.com/tattooz (59) Fine Art Photography () - Mitchell Tsai

Robert Scoble

Why Dominos video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch... is going to be textbook:

Why Dominos video response at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6AJ49xNSQ is going to be textbook:

April 16, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. They did it in video. THAT is the way to respond. Not text. Video says MUCH MORE than text can. - Robert Scoble

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2. They went overboard with the response. They closed down the store and "sanitized it." - Robert Scoble

3. The CEO did it and repeated that nothing is more important that our trust. He demonstrated he understood the issue. - Robert Scoble

4. He thanked influencers for helping Dominos understand the issue and making sure that others knew about it. - Robert Scoble

5. He responded while the issue is still "hot." - Robert Scoble

6. He responded on YouTube, which is where the crisis started, not on their own video platform. - Robert Scoble

7. He communicated that there was "immediate" action including arrest warrants, and people getting fired. - Robert Scoble

Impressive. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

He didn't look straight into the camera, however - as pointed out by Steve Garfield. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

8. He knows that the real problem is that they hired idiots and are "reexamining" all hiring practices. THAT is the best way to make sure you get a good brand. - Robert Scoble

9. He used personal language "it sickens me." Not marketing speak. - Robert Scoble

Interesting mix of being apologetic and totally pissed at the same time. Overall thumbs up from me. - Mike Doeff

10. He is working to "regain our trust." - Robert Scoble

Is there anything else he could have done to answer this crisis? - Robert Scoble

He didn't offer us a coupon to make us feel better. I didn't feel condescended to. - Kevin Fox

Good lead, Robert. Glad to see discussion around the response. - Valeria Maltoni

Now if he could just work on making the pizza not taste so bad. - Dave Roth

Fantastic job, I thought. - Matthew Freeman

I don't mind that he didn't look straight into the camera. That shows he isn't "slick" or "overcoached." - Robert Scoble

Yes, it would have been better if he had looked into the camera, but given that a teleprompter is an expensive item, and rigging a two-way mirror with a magnified view of a printed script is a hassle... I think the minor shortfall can be forgiven. All seven of Robert's points remain absolutely valid. - David Muir

Matthew: Here's the background: http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash... - Robert Scoble

Textbook is the best way to go. Swift and done. Now in time, people will forget, crave cheap, fast, and delivered food, and it's over. - Mike Lewis

Very well handled. I agree with you, Robert, this will make its way into textbooks alongside Tylenol's response to the poisoning crisis three decades ago. - Stephen Mack

Matthew: I already posted a link to the background. http://beta.friendfeed.com/thomash... - Robert Scoble

Or here if you wanna go straight to the source: http://consumerist.com/5210648... - Stephen Mack

They just taught a lot of clueless PR people how to handle a crisis like this. Well done. - Inside Alaska

I think theyve been handling this like pros from the getgo. Good job - Rasmus Lauridsen

Pretty slick. Many can learn from it. - littlegingerkid

The woman is also a registered sex offender apparently: http://ncfindoffender.com/details... - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

so far this year, that's, what, rats in the peanuts, perchlorate in the babby formula, prescription drugs in the drinking water, snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again? - Karim

Bravo, Dominos. Nicely done. Speak up or be spoken for. - kevin j higgins

But he's using a teleprompter. He's evil. - tehKenny

tehKenny: I don't think he was. I bet that he was looking at some notes, though. It didn't come across like he was reading. For someone not experienced with a teleprompter you can not use one and not come across like you're reading. - Robert Scoble

Their response was appropriate and in a timely manner which is key now. - Christi

Anyone who has ever used a teleprompter realizes how hard it is to use one and how hard it is to look natural doing it. I bet he had someone off to the side of the camera he was talking to who was holding notes up to remind him what to talk. - Robert Scoble

I wasn't there, obviously, but watching the CEO look off-camera yet speak as if to a person made me think he was looking at a person to stay "real" and "personable" and not canned or offering a performance. - Bloom Seed

It's just pizza - Ari Braginsky

Carmen: "W" had a LOT of media training and a team of people to tell him how to do it. I doubt this CEO has had much media training. - Robert Scoble

rewatching it makes it clear that he's reading notes (his focus starts at top, moves down as recording proceeds). Still, though, comes across as a real person. Not everything needs professional actors, producers, makeup, sets...imperfect may be the new perfect, as far as communicating genuineness. - Bloom Seed

Comes across as very heart-felt, and almost makes me want to order with them (I'm not sure we have them here in this town)! Shouldn't they have added something like "We'll now be installing cams in all our kitchens streaming direct to Ustream, making us the ONLY food delivery you can trust to not mess your food"? :) - Philipp Lenssen

Philipp: well, that would certainly be cool but would be way beyond something they could deliver on in two days. - Robert Scoble

I mean, I'm not a big fan of Dominos, but this helps them establish themselves as giving a crap. Good PR move. - Mike Nayyar

Great video response straight from the company president. As for watching food getting prepared, the Papa John's locations that I've been to are open and you can basically see them making your pie. Not sure if Domino's has stores like that... - Doug

Carmen, it's the "polished" vs "timely" tug of war: http://fftogo.com/e... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

solid performance-- came across naturally and believable, blend of professionalism and good ole fashion ass-kicking anger. It was smooth but not overly slick; no suit or tie and shot in store surrounding. Content was solid too, assuring customers everything that could be done was being done. One minor tweak: he doesn't appear to be looking directly at the camera. - mark ivey

I wonder if they thought about making it a response to "that video" on youtube to get the eyeballs needed to make this count.. - Tom Masiero

Ari - it's more than "just pizza" - it's the livelihood of 125k employees. We are focused here on a textbook response, but this is also a clear demonstration of the power of leverage that SM holds: two idiots can do major damage to the brand, the company, and by ultimately to the employees. Hat's off to Mr. Doyle and his advisers. - Bill Sanders

good response for sure, way to go - sean percival

Rewatched it and yes he is reading it. Regardless, I think it was handled pretty appropriately. - Jay Neff

good job. small nit: next time they need to move the teleprompter (or cue cards) either over or under the camera. - MikeAmundsen

Video is good if Good Messenger (which Domino's guy IS) But also put the incident on my radar screen, which hitherto I was unaware of. - JimmyJet

Wasn't aware of the incident but sure feel bad for the independent operator.. - MiaD

The woman in the Wendy's chili fraud case ended up sentenced to 9 years in prison and her husband (who bought the finger off a co-worker who lost it in an industrial accident) got 12 years. http://www.bluemaumau.org/wendys_... - Kevin Fox

I wish that he was looking at the camera instead of a telepromter. Just sayin. - Andrew Baron

Andrew: he's not looking at a teleprompter. I bet someone is holding a notepad with an outline on it for him. - Robert Scoble

I haven't had Domino's in a long time. But, I'm happy to see that they put up this Video response to the malicious destruction of their Brand and business practices. - rob friedman

good job. that was a classy way to 'avoid the noid.' - grant fox

Hey Robert, can I use some of your reasons in a blog post in writing up about the Domino's issue? - Kenneth

Kenneth: yes, feel free! - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert! - Kenneth

"Everyone else is doing it right." Yeah, right. [What are the odds of that?] - Craig Brownell

I kept hoping he'd actually look into the camera. - James Miao

I agree with James. I was hoping that he would look at the camera like he's talking to his customers. I get that he needs to make sure he says exactly what needs to to said, but the way he kept looking away from the camera made it seem a little "stiff". - Kenneth

like when dirk diggler looked into the camera during his documentary. that was powerful stuff. - grant fox

Kenneth: that's a mistake someone who isn't media trained makes. I actually don't mind that because it makes it less slick. - Robert Scoble

My guess is that they're multiple cameras and he's looking at the expensive one - Bwana ☠

Robert: Really? If corporate heads are on camera, they should NOT look at the camera especially if they're not being interviewed? It looks natural not to look at the camera? You're definitely right...I'm not media trained. :) Looks like he was reading off of a script and didn't notice a camera at him. - Kenneth

Kenneth: the only time you should look at the camera is when you want to speak directly to the viewer. You are right that he should have been speaking directly into the camera. Knowing where to look is part of media training. A good PR team could have helped (IE, one that had worked a lot with video before) but I can't really blame him. I still have trouble figuring this out. When I was on the BBC it was very difficult to look into the camera (it was aplate on the wall). - Robert Scoble

i just have to say, that by him not looking in the camera, or really doing any of this before it seems adds to his character that he's a regular guy, not some PR trained monkey doing a dance for us. - rob friedman

I dunno, I think it's more important that the response seem unrehearsed. I'll bet he did it in one take. - Ken Morley

Well done Robert: not a surprise to see this crew recognizes excellence when they see it. Dominos did virtually everything right on this aspect of its response. having seen a few crises, this example is among the best. blogged it here: http://www.mediadeluge.com/post... - Christian Anderson

Just to let folks know: the teleprompters I am familiar with allow the newscaster or talking head to look directly at the camera AND read the script. The result is like a HUD (heads-up display) for those familiar with video games or jet fighters. - David Muir

Right David, but there are all kinds of "teleprompters" some low tech and some higher tech. the point is he was reading. It was okay, he did a great job in one take. It would have been better if he hadnt read it and looked directly at the camera, but because everything else was so well done, the reading gets a pass - Christian Anderson

Not a fan of their pies, but kudos to Dominoes for the forthright reply and apology for the miscreants who brought this upon them. Hope they rebound well from this. - JA Castillo

Very lucky that they had a CEO that even was willing to talk for YouTube in the moment; let's not now criticize him for his media training, or none will ever have the guts to do it again. - Francine Hardaway

Rich: This is deadly serious for him. He's right to take it seriously and I'm sure he genuinely does. - Michael Krigsman

So the real question is, who feels comfortable enough to order Domino's this weekend? - Chris Bartow

I do Chris, even more-so now than before. This weekend will be the cleanest in the franchise's history :) - Bwana ☠

@Karim: "snot in the pizza... what was safe to ingest again?" Years ago, I ordered a pizza (not from Domino's) and was surprised to see a piece of broken glass in it — and this particular glass shard had part of the pizza company logo on it! When I phoned them about it, they replaced the pizza in record time; of course, they asked for the broken glass back, too, so I couldn't keep the evidence. - Victor Panlilio

Victor *shudder* i think i would have just given up eating pizza after that :-D - Karim

The comments on You Tube are negative I don't agree with them, what is your opinion abut them? (They say Doyle is not sincere) - Maurizio Goetz

Rule #0 - Youtube comments have the value of a single molecule of feces - Bwana ☠

+1 Bwana!! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

His response was right on and pretty smart for doing it via a video. It's sad but we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food. :-( I kind of feel bad for the kids because what they did shows a complete lack of intelligence. It would be nice if they took responsible and apologized in some sort of public forum. - John McCullough

@John McCullough "we are at the mercy of people that prepare our food" and people who pilot the planes we fly in, treat our municipal drinking water, etc. I daresay we only appreciate them when things go horribly wrong. - Victor Panlilio

@Chris White "The founder of Domino's supports Right to LIfe and Operation Rescue, which IMO, is worse than putting farts on sandwiches" Really? Watch the video at http://www.abortionno.org/ and see if you can stomach the idea that we dispose of unwanted human beings so cavalierly. - Victor Panlilio

Victor, your comment as well as John's above you, reminds me of that line in Fight Club: "We do your laundry, cook your food and serve you dinner. We guard you while you sleep. We drive your ambulances..." - Aaron Kurtz

@Aaron - almost everything we take for granted in "civilized society" depends on the everyday goodwill (and conscientiousness) of anonymous others. I've always thought that we need to become more mindful of the benefits we daily receive from these enablers of our well-being. Count your blessings, etc. - Victor Panlilio

Victor, I couldn't agree more. - Aaron Kurtz

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

You now get FriendFeed direct messages (and replies to direct messages) via email. You can also comment simply by replying via email.

April 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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This is the first of a handful of direct message and email enhancements we have lined up - feedback is appreciated! - Bret Taylor

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woott - Tyler (Chacha)

Great job, Tudor! (Tudor did all the hard work on this one: http://beta.friendfeed.com/tudor) - Bret Taylor

nice work! - Cee Bee

I love u guys :D - Johnny

So.. how? - Rochelle

Rochelle: if someone sends you a direct message (http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter...) or replies to a direct message you send, you will get an email, and you can reply by email as well. - Bret Taylor

Nice! - AJ Kohn

Bret, so there's no option to turn it off? - Rochelle

Rochelle: there is an unsubscribe link on every email, or you can go here: http://friendfeed.com/account... - Bret Taylor

NICE!!!! - FFing Enigma

That's awesome! - Parth Awasthi

Awesome! now we can also do it by SMS right? (not IM) - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

Bret, how do you get to that URL if it's not typed in directly? Where is the account setting? - Rochelle

I was wondering what happens when I send a DM to someone who doesn't use beta. I guess after today they will get an email? - Laura Norvig

Rochelle: at the bottom of every email that you get, there is a link - "Unsubscribe from FriendFeed mail" - that takes you to the link that Bret posted. - Tudor Bosman

I'm stunned. Cool. - Micah

Tudor, there should be a link in the settings to change that. You shouldn't have to get an email to get a link to it. - Rochelle

seems to work well. jut tested it out with someone - Cee Bee

Rochelle, there will be, once we convert the settings page to the new UI, possibly before that. - Tudor Bosman

Rochelle: the email settings are also at https://friendfeed.com/account..., but the Beta is catching up with the account settings UI still. It will be in there imminently, just rolling things out progressively. - Bret Taylor

Okay, excellent. Thanks for the update! - Rochelle

Sweet! - Michael Fidler

Awesome! - Robert Scoble

Nicely done, Tudor. - Anne Bouey

If an entry is sent directly to you and as well as other feeds will it come via email? This can be a little ambiguous in my opinion with the potential for people to respond to direct messages that aren't private. I think its a great step though! - Frankie Warren

Why can't Twitter do this? Oh, yeah, their engineers suck. - Robert Scoble

Cool... Now my mailbox will seem more full ;) - Bindu Reddy

How did the DM feature work before this? There were no emails sent when someone DMed you? - Bindu Reddy

nice - mike "glemak" dunn

Bindu: this is correct. DMs would only show up in your feed (and in the "Direct messages" filter). - Tudor Bosman

On the DM feed, does a >> icon indicate privacy or just the fact that it is a DM ? - Ahsan Ali

>> indicates that it is a DM. All DMs are private (unless cross-posted to a public feed, or to public rooms). - Tudor Bosman

I posted a DM to a room ... that's the same as doing a post really, isn't it? I think it disappeared from my DM list. - Laura Norvig

Yes, a "DM" to a room is the same as a post. Rather, the other way around: if you "post" to another user, we call that a DM. - Tudor Bosman

What!! than it was not really a DM till now...;) Good work. Did our chat at B&B inspire any of this or was this in the works already? - Bindu Reddy

Bindu: we've had this (and "a handful of direct message and email enhancements") working internally in some form or another for about 2 weeks. - Tudor Bosman

@Tudor I see, so the >> indicates DMness, but not necessarily privacy. Do you think we need a privacy icon - like the one we have for private Feeds (rooms) ? - Ahsan Ali

Got it. Congrats! Good stuff. Though I am not totally sure about sending emails on the comments. It makes total sense for the 1st DM message - Bindu Reddy

Ahsan: Let's say that you receive a message from me. You can look at the list of recipients. If it says "Tudor Bosman to you", it's private. If it says "to you, Tudor's feed, and FriendFeed Feedback", it's not (it's crossposted to my (public) feed and to the (public) FriendFeed Feedback room). - Tudor Bosman

@Tudor Right, thanks. - Ahsan Ali

Tudor: i guess it's similar to checking if people were cc'd on an email... but at the same time i think the potential to mess up is higher. especially since the feed paradigm takes some getting used to in the first place. - Frankie Warren

Mark: not right now. (The message isn't formatted in a way suitable for 140 characters...) - Tudor Bosman

Frankie: agreed. We may change the way locks and ">>" are displayed to reduce some of the confusion. - Tudor Bosman

Mark: SMS is not email. Twitter's DM sucks compared to friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Excellent - I depend on email notifications for DMs from Twitter. Great to see it here. - Hutch Carpenter

Great! Thanks Brent! - AJ Batac :)

Why Facebook can't get this right is beyond me. Thank you for resisting the urges of noreply and donotreply email addresses :) - Jay Cuthrell

Thanks for all the love! If you notice any bugs (especially related to replying by email -- missing, incomplete, or incorrectly formatted comments) please let us know by forwarding a few affected messages (including full headers, if possible) to feedback@friendfeed.com. Thanks! - Tudor Bosman

Really good feature for email api, now it's true usable. Thank you. - Альянс-кульман from fftogo

OK... so the structure of the email address is 'ignore.<username>@friendfeed.com'. Does this mean in the future I will be able to DM someone by emailing something like 'message.<username>@friendfeed.com'? - Johnny

Johnny: I wouldn't know :) - Tudor Bosman

Neat.. way to go, Tudor! - Balaji Raghavan

Thank you! Any plans to add it to the FF Notification tool? - Josh Haley

Bret, thanks! And Mark, as a workaround re: wanting to get DMs via SMS, it's pretty easy to set a forwarding filter on one's e-mail to [number]@tmomail.net or whatever your carrier's SMS gateway is. Okay, that's minorly geeky, but IMHO not much of a hurdle at all :) - Adam Lasnik

You can configure multiple email addresses on your account page (http://friendfeed.com/account/); for now, we'll send mail to the one you designate as "primary". You can set [number]@tmomail.net as the primary address and we'll happily send mail to it, which should be delivered as SMS; however, the email messages that we sent won't be properly formatted or clipped to 140 characters, so they may look ugly or get split over multiple SMS messages (and so you may get charged more if you pay per use). - Tudor Bosman

Adam that is exactly what i did. its very easy - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from fftogo

Thanks again Tudor! - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from fftogo

Now I just have to solve the problem that nobody cares about me enough to send me direct messages. - Bryce Roney

Bryce++ LOL - Rah-PM 2012

This feature really rocks. I'm glad it's built into the system here instead of having to be provided by a 3rd party as is is on twitter. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

wow, finally! - orie

Replied from my inbox .. it appeared on the DM by the time I switched back to FF ! Amazing :) - Ahsan Ali

Well done FF!! DM to a room can be really useful! Bryce LoL, Scoble Rotfl.. - CantorJF

All sounds good, Bret. Next up IM alerts please. ;-) I'm trying to cut down on email. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Please develop a decent mobile/iphone interface - Frank

amazing! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Great news. I admire your profession on e-mails. - Alp

+1 that the lock and >> icons need a bunch of work (rethought?). The emailing is a very nice thing to have, though. But could we also possibly turn it off please? :) - Karl Knechtel

Wow. VERY cool! - Iain Baker

New to Friendfeed but this looks like a great feature! Thanks - Medical Alarm Concepts

this is very cool - Peter Efland

Tudor ftw! - Rick Cogley

Robert Scoble

Why is paper not dead? Answer CEO of Levenger here: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

March 11, 2009 from Robert Scoble - Comment - Like - Share

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I am talking to Steve Levenger CEO and co-founder of Levenger http://www.levenger.com (his blog is http://blog.wellreadlife.com ). He is trying to convince me that paper is not dead. He has some great ideas, but needs more. Leave them here. - Robert Scoble

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I ♥ Levenger. There will always be people who like the high-touch pleasures of reading well-typeset books and writing on fine papers with high-quality writing instruments. I'm waiting for an order in the mail as we speak. - Tinfoil 2.0

Not sure what it's like in the US, but here in Australia a lot of government regulations still require paper based records to be kept. Add to that the fact that only a few companies are setup to distribute letters and bills electronically. Also junk mail / paper-based advertising is a big part of the reason paper is still not dead. - Jason Cartwright

Answer: electronic alternatives are not ubiquitous and universally accessible. it's making great strides, but not quite there. Also, universal wireless has something to do with it as well. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Index cards will ALWAYS find a home http://i.friendfeed.com/797be3c... - Dave Ferrick

Hah. He said friendfeed makes paper look boring. - Robert Scoble

The interface is both intuitive and ubiquitous. Paper's lighter in small quantities and the form factor is more adjustable. Also, most things that destroy paper will take out a computer as well. - Terry Robinson

Bring back the Circa Compact organization pages (ToDo / Goals), Steve!!!!!!! Paper is dead if you quit supplying great products for the medium! - Jack Collins

Ask him why Levenger doesn't accept Paypal. I'd buy a lap desk this second if it did. - Kent

Unfortunately, I can't agree, would love to hear Steve's points. I feel that the soon to be released flexible OLED devices will take the place of current newspapers, electronic forms are replacing paper forms, electronic medical records are replacing filing cabinets of patience history, digital media storage are making library contents accessible from almost anywhere in the world. Yes, this means that we are placing reliance on digital media, but weren't our forefathers placed faith on stone tablets - Vinko

Vinko: the point he made that stuck with me is that things on paper that are signed are worth more. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, there's no such thing as a digital original. - Tinfoil 2.0

auditors. auditors want more then just electronic proof. first they screw up accounting; then we pay them to fix it (SOX); then they make us have dupes of everything in paper. - clarke thomas

Brian: you are absolutely wrong there. Paper is MUCH more expensive. - Robert Scoble

I love Levenger, Moleskine, and Franklin Covey stuff, but I have this mental block where I'm not willing to "mess up" the nice stuff, so I end up writing on index cards instead. - Jon Adair

What I really love about paper versus digital is that, especially with index cards or loose sheets, I can spread things out and see much more at once than on my phone or even my laptop. I'd love to see someone make a really good Moleskine-like sketchbook that really opens up flat. And would it kill anyone to make journals, sketchbooks, etc. that have a built-in slot for a full-sized pen or pencil? - Jon Adair

People who don't have computers (especially those that don't have easy access to computers, either) need paper. - Rochelle

Both! I love physical notebooks. I also love the NET. I've debated this keep notes on paper or digital for ages. I've a little symbol system that has 'hyperlink' symbols from the NET (e.g. Google Doc) to the physical notebooks and a filing system (based on Star Names) that covers both. As a filing system it's bizarre but as a context in which I know I'm putting everything in a findable place it works well for me. I often start a note online, and continue it in one notebook and finish it in another. - Julian Edward

Leave a comment here on why paper is not dead? I think I'll just mail the guy a letter. Where's my quill? - shelisrael1

Several reasons come to mind: First the effective resolution of paper is much larger than that on a computer screen. (Of most screens, anyway) It's much easier to look at a big drawing, long chunk of text or pagefuls of equations on paper than on the computer. Second electronic ink input options like the Tablet PC are decent but very far removed from the actual mechanics of writing on paper. The PC is heavy and expensive and the format of the Windows electronic notebook is not portable in editable format. - Jiahao Chen

For people like me who have to think carefully before buying gadgets, it's hard to beat the cost of pen and paper. Third, you don't have to power up the paper before writing on it. You can write notes on a bus where you'd fret about ruining a HDD. Fourth, if you drop paper or spill on it, it's usually no biggie. Try saying that for your laptop! Fifth, and most importantly, the current state of hardware and software is well-suited only to the input of ASCII (and some limited Unicode) text entry. - Jiahao Chen

It is an incredible pain to work with information that is not easily notated in text form. Drawings are ok, but try working with chemical structures or mathematical equations on a computer. It's often an exercise in frustration reading documentation and/or shelling out lots of money for specialized software to deal with these data. Sixth, I write and scribble pretty fast, so much so that the time lag for Tablet PCs to process what I'm doing with the stylus is noticeable and distracting. - Jiahao Chen

Sometimes Windows will hiccup and part of a scribble will disappear off the input buffer while Windows deals with disk paging or something like that. Having said all that, computers are great for many things, especially for typesetting documents and page layouts for things that are ready to show to other people. However they are still far from ideal media to play around with ideas and words, and scribbles often do a far better job than dealing with the intricacies of data entry on a computer when thinking. - Jiahao Chen

OK, sorry for the terribly long answer and possible abuse of medium, but paper and pen works far better for me when jotting down ideas as they are forming, and are usually better than the computer for organizing these ideas as they coalesce into coherence. Once past that stage however, computers are far superior for producing legible output that you wouldn't be embarrassed to show people. BTW I love Levenger stationery! If I could afford it, I'd buy it all the time. Too bad I'm still stuck in grad school. - Jiahao Chen

Remember Minority Report where Tom Cruise rearranges information on a big board in front of him? You can do that today with paper products. - Bruce Lewis

I love the Levenger catalog!!!! Really nice, high quality paper / pen / ink products. Geared towards execs who remember the virtues of writing - Susan Beebe

I confess, I am a Levenger addict. I am also an IT professional, who uses many paper based systems for managing GTD, as well as a paper based planner, which is wrapped in Levenger's Bomber Jacket leather. I have several notebooks with Bomber Jacket leather, and for some reason, it adds to the enjoyment of putting pen to paper. I also use "The Hit List", which is a Mac GTD app, but honestly, the feel of good paper, with a good pen can't be beat. Instant archive, and no worry about media failures. - Bruce Garlock

It's just a flesh-wound! ;) - Meryn Stol

I don't want any time-sensitive information via paper, it's too old. However I like paper for portability, longevity, tactile sensation and smell. Moleskines, post-its, notepads etc are all part of my daily life. BTW, love Levenger.com . I'm an old customer in Australia. - Cait

I dispute that paper is always more expensive. Digital storage requires data conversion (if it's old), redundancy (if it's important and you want to keep something for a long time), hardware, monitoring and eletricity. But yes, sometimes it's more expensive. - Cait

I do the vast majority of my work in digital form, but I also love paper, a fountain pen, good ink. Each tool has its place. - Rob McNair-Huff

Paper can do so much more than computers can at this point. Try making a 3-D tactile model with a computer in just a few seconds. You probably don't want to see how far your computer can glide, unless you're mad at it. Paper is easier on the eyes than most monitors and screens at this point and even the ones that are getting closer to a soft medium for viewing paper is quicker. Paper is extremely cheap for area and the ability to write multiple contextual ideas down. Paper has at least another 20 years. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

It's not dead because my parents and my wife still use it. It is going away though. - Jesse Stay

It's also not dead because there are still art-forms that revolve around it. I will always still love drawing and painting on paper or canvas. - Jesse Stay

i hate paper clutter. i am forced to collect them in order to document write-offs for taxes. it's unfortunately still a necessary evil. - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq

blackfeathers, check out Evernote - I've gotten rid of most my paper through them. - Jesse Stay

I'm sure when Guttenburg first published his books, some people clamored for scrolls. Humans tend to be sentimental about technology. It's only a matter of time until paper is gone, and I say bring it on. - Ian Wright

Dunder Mifflin will be pleased http://www.dundermifflin.com/ :) - Jim Connolly

It's simply a massively entrenched technology. People joke around about stone tablets, but clay tablets really were the dominant medium for information storage for probably almost 4,000 years. Modern paper has been around for less than 2,000 years. I'm thinking its probably going to be around for a least a little while longer. - Victor Ganata

Still always handy having some nice, solid records. Assume a worst-case scenario, if we had it ALL electronic...one decent, world-sized electro-magnetic impulse, there goes the entire planet's accumulated knowledge in one hit. Those ancients at least still have their stuff around 4000 years later because clay tablets and other solid mediums LASTED the distance. - George Hall (Australia)

Wow. I'm awed by the dialog in response to Robert's question about paper. We are living in interesting times as so many of us seek and find new balances between old technology and new--balance points that are themselves in a state of flux. We feel it's our duty at Levenger to side with paper and help it evolve in the face of the tremendous evolutionary pressure from advancing technology. If ultimately paper goes extinct, let it be a gradual and noble death. - Steve Leveen

One bit of advice that I gave to Robert and I'd like to share with all of you. In the waning days of the Golden Age of paper-based books, grab hold of the books you cherish and write in the margins. Write in the front and back and everywhere in between. History has shown that the most valuable books of all are those written in by famous people. And you are all famous to your family and descendants. Actual ink leaving physical impressions on natural paper in your own hand--it will never come again. - Steve Leveen

One curious little followup to this...I took a look today at the Twitter hashtags #vicfires and #fireupdates. NO tweets from #fireupdates showed up, even though it was a busy hashtag during the Victorian Bushfires. #vicfires only goes back to 30 days ago. Very good example of the IMPERMANCY of the electronic form. Any of us wanting to refer back to February 2009 for historical data on the Twitter record now really have nothing to refer to. Makes me wish I'd done my February 2009 tweets on clay tablets - George Hall (Australia)

Bret Taylor

A new design for FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

April 6, 2009 from FriendFeed Blog - Comment - Like - Share

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Tour: http://beta.friendfeed.com/about... and FAQ: http://beta.friendfeed.com/about... - Bret Taylor

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Great job! - Robert Scoble

Nice job friendfeed! - Kevin Mohr

Awesome work! - Aaron Draczynski

realtime by default now eh? nice - Karl Rosaen

I hate it. I love it! I haven't even scrolled down to the bottom yet. Hold on.......ok, it's good. :-) - Jeff Eddings

Cheers Bret & team - it's feeling pretty good so far (which includes initial gut reaction) - Christopher Galtenberg

Nice job. I can at the very least say it is a big improvement aesthetically. I haven't finished checking everything out yet, but so far so good. - Rolf Schewe

why there is no Re-share function? - Tony

I miss the ability to have a Firefox sidebar setup that just had my list of items scrolling past and nothing else along the side like this view: http://friendfeed.com/realtim... - Justin Yost

Reshare will be back. Just an artifact of beta-testing, didn't make it in for this morning - Bret Taylor

don't like the grey background - Moses

Any new comment can not move up this item? - Tony

Our settings vary to prevent things shuffling around excessively. We bubble up when someone you are subscribed to comments. - Bret Taylor

also wish i can add links/pics/embed in the "comments"...for example, i'd like to include an image of my email from http://www.emailcover.com, but it only shows up as a link - brainno722 (Peter)

thanks, it looks awesome! - Dani Martínez

Congratulations guys on a job well done! - Thomas Hawk

Love it, but needs a floating Pause button. - Barak B

+1 Barak - Kenton

Barak, very good idea - Kol Tregaskes

The filter is great! But any filter can not output to friends. - Tony

+1 Barak - Tony

what filter? - Iphigenie

adding a filter sucks, things like has comments from should ajax populate :( - Stuart Evans from twhirl

you can create filters when you click "filter" - Tony

The anticipation was high, but so was delivery! Great job FF team. - Micah

Awesome! - Iván Abrego

Like it! Facebook import (notes & link, not status) seems broken though... - Alex Lomas

A keyboard shortcut for Pause, maybe? - Micah

Thanks, Alex, we will look into it, - Bret Taylor

Can you open an existing conversation in a new window? - Barak B

1st look is good, like the real time...didn't make it to the bottom the first few minutes. Also the comment box drops down as I am commenting now...message got off screen ;) - Sanne Buurma

please add keyboard shortcut for play/pause feed - Ouriel Ohayon

Agree with Andy, dislike the fugly grey - Sally Church

Barak: click on the timestamp to open a conversation in a new window. - Kevin Mohr

Barack B : you can click the time and select open in new window. - Simon Wicks

refresh the page would move up the item which have newest comment? - Tony

sad grey: why don't you let everyone choose the colour of the background? - Davide Leonelli

Grey or not, rather think about what the beta has to offer in functionality - Sanne Buurma

Please, bring back service icons near each post — it's very hard to scan information flow without them. Also hope you'll do something with new subscription module — it's unuseful while managing a lot of imaginary friends. - Yury Vetrov

Nice. Good job guys. - Peter Kruit

The colouring needs looking at for sure. Unless, of course, you are going to redesign the logo? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

dislike the grey, sorry - Manuela

Agree on colouring - but hey its a beta. Thanks Bret. - Roberto Bonini

perhaps highlighting your own comments in the flood of comments (easier to scan/find)? - brainno722 (Peter)

agree, gray background is bothersome. - AJ Kohn

Wait, is the frequent shifting up and down of items I'm reading (i.e. the items in view) really supposed to work out well? I suppose you guys tried it for a while and you just got used to it? - j1m

Peter, yep but thankfully the Cleaner FriendFeed GM script still works in Chrome and FFox, which does this for you. - Kol Tregaskes

Don't like: broke my Blocks list, Block not available from Hover Menu - Will Higgins™

Why Will Higgins have a superscript of "TM"? how typed in? - Tony

it keeps the bad low-contrast grey on white text for comments that deters me from reading it. You made the main text bigger, now make the comment text black. - Kevin Marks

Fantastic job guys ! - David Berrebi

can't see source of posts and comments - Moses

Will: block will be back, just missing today, but it is not something we are removing (just something we didn't get in for this morning) - Bret Taylor

I think you guys should really embrace the idea of hashtags. Let us add them to other people's posts, having various services auto-tag imported items, let us search on them using filters. Tagging is one great way for us to get a handle on the volume of information here. - Kevin Kuphal

What's with the orange and the green on the side? Its a bit ugly if you ask me. Also, is there a way to change this, as well as make the beta permanent? (I like living on the cutting edge). - darnell

I too like the orange and green. It's the blue I'm not sure about. :-) - Daniel Dulitz

I like the FF blue - nouhad

Yeah, but it clashes with the logo. Either Friendfeed needs to change their logo, or get rid of the colors. Or (even better) allow users to change the colors. :-) - darnell

Looks horrible to me, I think we should have a customizable interface more like iGoogle, I like the idea though, just more customization, like sidebar customization, friend lists, realtime widget, chat widget, all movable and arrangeable, there sure is enough space etc... - Kyle Weller

I'm with Kyle and Darnell - I like being able to customize my GMail colours, and having that feature on FF would be cool - nouhad

Ignoring 71 previous comments... I really like the new design! One request: allow the pause button to follow my cursor as a scroll down the page! - Chris Messina

+1 Chris Messina. That would be an awesome feature. - Beau Liening

Add a floating "COMMENT" feature at the bottom of each thread, so I don't have to scroll up to click "comment"... this is a weird experience in new beta UI - Susan Beebe

@Ari: This is why I really think tagging is what they need to focus on. If we could each add #ffbeta or something to our own posts as well as others, you get the trending and other features that twitter already has. Combine this with filters and you really get some killer information management features. - Kevin Kuphal

I really like having one UI instead of different modes (normal, realtime, miniwindow), but to support the old "mini window" experience, perhaps allow the right hand side bar with filters and subscriptions to be collapsible? - Karl Rosaen

@Karl: API is key here. Twitter isn't massively popular because their website rocks. Twitter is massively popular because there's a massive layer of applications built on top of it. Build that for FF and you have the same potential growth - Kevin Kuphal

I wish it could use more of the screen real estate of my monitor, given my normal window size, it has large amounts of unused space on either size of the content due to the fixed layout. Maybe a multi-column mode? - Ray Cromwell

Nice job! but, where are my rooms?? - Krishnamoorthy

@Krishnamoorthy rooms I believe have changed to feeds beta.friendfeed.com/[room_name] - Lou Paglia

the new design works better for me. I am sure there will be glitches, but so far so good. - Sharon Hurley Hall

Is there a way to change my prefs over to to the beta so I don't have to keep entering beta.friendfeed...? - Ryan Stanley

UI suggestion: there's a link to expand all comments, there should be one to collapse them as wel. - Ryan Stanley

UI suggestion: after expanding comments you scroll all the way to the bottom reading the thread, then you have scroll all the way back up to click the Comment link. Why not have it at the bottom of the thread too. - Ryan Stanley

Feature suggestion: FF needs a built-in way of referring to people publicly, just like Twitter's @. Perhaps use the same convention. But there needs to be a way people to address each other in public threads, so a user can make sure to be informed when people are talking or referring to them. - Ryan Stanley

going to read through faq - roadmap of what made beta & what's going away would be nice - big concern for me is the lose of ability to expand lists to see individual participants - i find that one of ff's strongest features - that and block but i see from earlier in this thread that its will make it in later in beta (whew)... - mike "glemak" dunn

Um, Twitter much? - Christiana

A Pause button that follows you on page scroll could be more distracting than it's worth. But how about something like it appears upon a white space mousedown/mouseup event. - Micah

You guys should use this userstyle: http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac... - Kyle Weller

Curious about how the new design will affect the iPhone version of the site...? - Chris Messina

welcome qwerty. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Hmm, I tried to read this thread, but I never got to the bottom, because the unexpected shifts of the text just became too much after a while. Fundamentally, if the page keeps shifting up and down unexpectedly, it's hard to see how anyone's ever going to read it -- hence the many requests for a floating pause button, which would help. You could also imagine pause on hover. Being able to read down the page without having the text disappear seems to me like the #1 use case of ff. - j1m

I like it. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Of course, it's not really like you want Pause -- the real-time updates are great when they're below wherever the eyes are :-) - j1m

Bret - Great job! There are certainly things to clean up before this interface goes to the main page. Rooms should REALLY be on the subscribed list on the right hand column. I would LOVE to be able to put Blank Lines in comments. I don't care if they count for a whole lines worth of characters (as opposed to a more common one character for the cr/lf) Blank lines make comments more legible and clear than just a runtogether paragraph. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I don't like how the interface STILL loses my place if I subscribe to someone while posting a comment (or even reading it!) I should be able to subscribe to YOU while I read YOU and not lose my page place. The Page should need to be refreshed to reset everyone because of the new subscription. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I don't know about the queued items, I like the real time feed, having selectable speeds instead of "over-caffination required mode" would be good. Most discussions this is irrelevant, but the discussion on tis new beta this morning (i.e. on scoble's feed) showed how insane that can be. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The real-time-only feed in the beta is causing Safari 4b on my MacBook use up a lot of CPU cycles, hence depleting the battery faster. I'm sure FF3 will too. Please consider an "ECO Mode" similar to the current standard mode, which only refreshes once every few minutes, for those running their machines on battery power. Without such an eco-mode, and with the rapid-fire pace of live updates, I fear that I won't be using FFeed much at all. Certainly not leaving that tab open for hours on end like I used to. - Siddharth Deb

I don't know if I've done something, or you guys did, but when I look here, I only have a few services setup in the account, when I go to the old interface I have a LOT more -I'm not certain that everything is feeding through? (i.e. I have Digg and Disqus set up, I see the correct list of icons on the old interface, but on the beta "settings" popup, No Dice. Even if this is irrelevant to the actual data flow, please fix this to make me sleep well at night. ;) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

One more thing - Could we have a character counter in the comments? It would be REALLY nice, if my account is setup to post this comment to my twitter account, and it's going to post the link to this discussion, please Add the number of characters in the link (plus a space) to the total character count. That way I won't be truncating the comment and/or the URL when it gets to twitter. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Another thing: I used to be able to click the "More" next to a single discussion, and "Link to this discussion" Where is that? If this is an outmoded way of thinking please let me know. Otherwise, um...can we have that feature back? - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Rob: the timestamp ("9 hours ago") is the permalink - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin: You rock! Thanks! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

do you need a techno dunce to help the average joe make sense of this?? haha...i love it... - Lauren Shanahan

Very twitter like. But better due to nice conversational. - xia

I actually kinda like the grey... though it does look like it's an opportunity to let companies brand the background in some way. - Frankie Warren

For cc to Twitter functionality, can the number of characters be a count-down instead of a count-up? - Winston Teo

I'd like to second the notion that there should be a way to address an individual within a thread...the agreed upon "Rob:" works great, but maybe could be clickable so that there's no confusion as to which Rob or which Scoble you're talking to ;) (i.e. maybe a CTRL-Click or something on the person's name after their comment to start a new comment with their name at the beginning? ) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

The grey background looks kinda dullish, and it looks like someone ran out of ideas for colours.. - Winston Teo

IMO avatars occupy way too much real estate now, I liked the smaller ones better. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

thsi is nothing on the new design, but after being on here all night with no attention to a down twitter, I am reminded of this: It would be nice if I could set the post to twitter for comments and likes a) permanent b) off or C) on a per comment/like basis -twitter users say this "yeah, when ppl I follow flood me with FF spam ... I usually unfollow ... even block if it irritates me enough." And I would like to be able to be easily selective of what gets put through, and it would get more GOOD attn for FF - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

please, for the love of god, move the "comment" link to the BOTTOM of the list of comments. seriously, am I the only one who can't believe this hasn't been fixed for so long? - Dossy Shiobara

I like it - Cristian

Great stuff! :-) FriendFeed does it better than Facebook. Please go real-time all the way for subscription requests and confirmatoions too. - Nenad Nikolic from twhirl

I dont like nofollows on friendfeed and links are moved to urls very bad :( - Turkey banned Bloggum :(

I like quick stats on user feed on top right of screen. - Turkey banned Bloggum :(

Love the new friendfeed! - Chris Martin from Nambu

It's not bad, but I prefer the smoothness of the old one to the lines and edges in this new one. - scott willeke

I love the new letter-counting post widget in the beta though. - scott willeke

at first glance, find it much more readable than the old one. Pity there still isn't "my items that were liked or commented by others" - Stephanie Booth from twhirl

Bret: all the videos are now up at http://scobleizer.blip.tv -- thanks for inviting me and for all you do. - Robert Scoble

I like this beta - Bannka

Stephanie: comments:1 likes:1 from:sbooth - Justin Long

stephanie & justin - that is in the catch all http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter... - i went and liked/commented on something from each of you that had no other activity - you should both see that bubble up in /discussions... - mike "glemak" dunn

LOVE THE NEW BETA ! the new filter is so powerful, more powerful if you could add "language parameter"!! - foxmachia {山石}

still waiting for direct-to-room links on the right column, is it planned? (with lastupdated timestamps if possible) - Kemal Hadimli

Nice. - Thomas Chai

MG Siegler

i, for one, freaking love the new FF live speed. why slow down information? speed up your intake.

April 6, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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or filter stuff, of course :) - MG Siegler

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This realtime thing is crazy... - Alexander Marktl

You must like fast cars and roller coasters too. - Steve Rubel

it's like chatting - Alexander Marktl

Yeah. This is crazy - Varun Mahajan

of course i do steve :) i feel the need. the need for fast friendfeed. - MG Siegler

FriendFeed on 2 monitors. One for the discussions and one for the Public Feed ;-) - Alexander Marktl

It's like chatting with everybody you know at the same time. :-) - Ken Sheppardson

i feel this rapid succession of messages is going to cause me to trim the amount of people i'm subscribed to by a lot - Cee Bee

is that such a bad thing cee bee? - MG Siegler

Because I can speed read and filter a page faster when it's standing still. - Graham English

not necessarily though it might lead to missing out on some good things being posted ocassionally - Cee Bee

there is a pause button you know - MG Siegler

Where will it end up? In a public Chatroom ;-) - Alexander Marktl

what do YOU do with this information? Just stare at it and smile? Ans yes, there's a "pause" button, I know :) - directeur

i stare at everything and smile :) - MG Siegler

gotcha, thanks. i was not aware of the pause button. i got on about 2 minutes ago - Cee Bee

I'm getting a little motion sick - anna sauce

i still find myself manually refreshing at times to get more. - MG Siegler

I like it because I click really fast on article I want to follow, by liking them, and on second screen have my discussion open, where it is slower. - Tyler (Chacha)

I like it too - using Lists is the best way to manage flow control. Gotta play more with the filters too - Susan Beebe

I have to follow you simply based off this post. - Michael

fair point kevin, fair point - MG Siegler

Robert Scoble

No @drylight my friendfeed video is embargoed until either @techcrunch breaks the embargo or 9 a.m. Monday morning, whichever comes first.

April 5, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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TechCrunch hasn't broken the embargo yet even though I thought I heard Mike say he was going to post his screenshots up before the embargo. I think it's nice that he has not yet. - Thomas Hawk

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I think Mike went home and decided to post about Twitter/Google instead to take his mind off FriendFeed. - Ken Sheppardson

I am sure there will be plenty of buzz tomorrow when the news breaks officially. Enough buzz for everyone. - Paul Jacobson

I'll be at work when the embargo is over so I wont be able to play until night. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I'll be on an airplane when the embargo is lifted. I'll have to post via magic. - Louis Gray

@Louis Or you could change your flight to Virgin and tweetblog it out from 33k feet! Just sayin. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

boy thomas isn't that sad that you have to say "i think its nice that he has not yet"? - Allen Stern

Brian, Louis doesn't need to do that - he has little twin babies doing his work for him. It's magic. - Jesse Stay

Wait, is there still time for me to make something in Photoshop so I can "scoop" everybody else, even though what actually gets released has nothing in common with my Photoshop mockup? :D - Wirehead

I bet Louis will have it up 1st using his magic.. FTW - Wayne Sutton

Wayne, assuming I write anything (which I haven't yet), I would have to save it as a draft and beg Jesse to post it for me. :) - Louis Gray

Nicholas, I have one post set for 9 and one for 10 so far. More coming. - Louis Gray

I am in Holland on business and the time difference has me all screwy. I've been patiently waiting, but have another five hours :-\ back to work... - AJK

Some of us are up at 6 and will not be able to see video later (alas, the firewalls in healthcare are challenging to say the least) - Loretta Donovan

a little more than 3 hours to go - AJK

I'm expecting we'll see a change here on Friendfeed and not need to read the overconfident techchruncher's tabloid - paul mooney

The videos are five parts, are about 5 gigs to upload, will take 120 minutes to upload. I just started uploading them. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Wow! That has to be lot of detail about the new UI. I'm excited. - Anthony K. Valley © from fftogo

Hi Robert, will the videos only be available in full HD or will be more bandwidth friendly versions available? - Paul Jacobson

Paul: they will be up on my Blip channel at http://scobleizer.blip.tv -- can you see those there? - Robert Scoble

Too bad Louis is on a plane and missed the new embargo time. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Louis has posts scheduled to go up at 9, 10, and I think 11. - Ken Sheppardson

Dan - I agree, I miss Louis' input and enthusiasm. - Susan Beebe

so Robert what about that video. how long will it take to upload? - Alexander Kucera

I'm having a LOT of troubles with Blip. The file sizes are too big. I'm having to make them lower quality. This really sucks, sorry. - Robert Scoble

I see. Bummer. Well, we will have to wait then. No problem. - Alexander Kucera

I guess we know which one came first. :) - Sarah Perez

sarah was the embargo broken? (i was outside) - Allen Stern

Will we be able to see the FF show soon on scobleizer or on listen on gillmor gang? - JRblog

Damian: They are filtering on "friendfeed" so will see your comment. (I'm doing the same, which is how I saw this one). - Robert Scoble

has it slowed down for you guys since pre-9am - Andy Fox

Andy: the feed is going WAY faster as everyone discovers a "new shiny thing." But the speed of reloading pages has gone down as traffic here has gone up. - Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble

Thank you friendfeed for verifying that I made the right choice. I am stunned and can't wait for Monday. Wow.

April 2, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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you're a big tease. :( - Karoli

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Oh come on Robert, throw us a bone, something!? Is it still blue? ;) - Glenn Slaven

Robert needs to change his nick from Scobleizer to Teaserizer :D - Mo Kargas

Wrong, Wrong, Wrongity Wrong. - Kreg Steppe

spill - Josh Haley

Robert: you are really good at this teasing game :-) is it going to be much much better than twitter + facebook? - Edwin Khodabakchian

The thing is, I bet Robert is busting to tell us almost as much as we are to see it... - Johnny

Quick, to the time machine! *looks* Oh crap. I broke it. Tell usssss! - Jonathan Hardesty

I have the best video of the whole press event. I can't wait to put it up. I bet Arrington gets his up first. - Robert Scoble

Thanks. Now I can't wait either:-) - Francine Hardaway from twhirl

Edwin: yes. But the Koolaid they served us is still affecting my judgment. - Robert Scoble

http://ourdoings.com/roberts... - Scott Breakall

Stephen: an all-new friendfeed enters beta on Monday. - Robert Scoble

Robert is trying to tell us through this secret message that friendfeed will "verify" your threads on the "right" and make your "choice". Then "stun" people that "can't wait" until "monday". and will also add World of Warcraft features to friendfeed. - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from fftogo

Patiently awaiting the Monday stunner. - Bernie Goldbach

I'm not sure why, but for some reason they let me in tonight. Robert went above and beyond the call of duty and has high def video of the whole thing, pretty much start to finish, up close and personal. It might be a few days until the video can go up, but in the end you won't miss anything... thanks to Robert. - Ken Sheppardson

When will http://beta.friendfeed.com be activated? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

You guys all have to wait through the weekend. Not everybody will like it. And that's how products evolve. Feedback. But I bet a ton of you will find it valuable. - Louis Gray

Brian: Monday morning, 9AM Pacific. - Ken Sheppardson

I'll have to like it Louis... I just bought another FriendFeed shirt... - Johnny

Damnit, Robert! You're such a tease. I can't wait until Monday to find out what's got you so excited about the upcoming changes! - Chris Charabaruk

:) - Mona Nomura

ok, this just isn't right. I'm actually looking forward to Monday. - metalerik

I can't wait for Monday! - Keith - @tsudo

I am excited about new FF beta release on Monday - wooo hooo! So glad I loved and stayed with FF, just proves how smart I am huh?! :P - Susan Beebe

Susan yep :-) - Richard A.

and i also wish for an official iphone app for the stunning new design on Monday. - Philip Lei

ok i am really excited!! - (jeff)isageek

jeff: me too. I can't sleep. Philip: this new UI works on iPhone (I asked) but it still doesn't have an iPhone app coming out. There will be lots of goodies to come after this UI is done, though. - Robert Scoble

Sounds good and looking forward to checking out the iPhone compatibility - Joe Dawson

Nah Nah Nah. My access is better than your access :-P - Keith Barrett

I just hope CADIE wasn't involved in the UI design. :) - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

Robert, just dont cry. ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

that'll be Monday evening in Europe, it's just not fair! :) I hope they finally give us profiles - Gaby K. Slezák

you know, if you move a mouse more actively, time flies quicker - cea

Robert Scoble

Anyone who says that Twitter isn't a great way to get info from people you trust about products you're looking to buy hasn't seen my replies

March 22, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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cataloging/liking 'objects' (fb phase 6&7) is a pretty big idea. Interesting how @timothypost = only commenter to zero in on it. - Will DeLuca

true enough- if a good% of the people you trust are on twitter! That's been my challenge, getting my circle of friends to tweet! - David Silvernail

No matter how hard I try I still haven't been successful in getting my friends on twitter. Everyone I follow are people who's tweets I've found that actually seem to be interesting and informative. - Angelo Rodrigues

Robert Scoble

Our social media marketing experiment is underway at http://www.flickr.com/photos... -- Maryam and I have an announcement! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

Our social media marketing experiment is underway at http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/ -- Maryam and I have an announcement!

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More on Gillmor Gang in at 3 p.m. Pacific Time http://live.twit.tv -- we did this experiment two years ago and it'll be interesting to see how the marketers pick up on this announcement this time. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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Hey, congratulations Robert! - Mark Trapp

Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Nir Ben Yona

Congrats Robert :) hope you and the family are donig okay, and Congrats. again! :) - Ahmed

Congratulations!! - Anne Bouey

Congrats to you both! - Thomas Hawk

you might wanna check that link Robert... - Aron Michalski

Congrats! - Eric

Aron: I fixed the link to http://live.twit.tv -- thanks! - Robert Scoble

Congrats :) You are catching me up! SXSW was a hoot btw. - Benjamin

Congratulations there! Very enthousiastic photo indeed, the smile is contagious; made me smile over here :-) - Patrick Mackaaij

Robert, congratulations to you and Maryam! and Patrick and Milan, too. :) - Karoli

Congratulations! - Verena Fuchs

Patrick: yeah, we're having fun! We'll have the family on the Gillmor Gang shortly. - Robert Scoble

I don't know how to type it with the Farsi characters, but Maryam will understand it: Moubarak! :) - directeur

Congratulations and good luck. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Congratz Robert :) - Timo Heuer

My son Patrick's reaction? "Have you ever heard of protection?" Heheh. - Robert Scoble

That is nothing new I heard that here too. - Dan Krivolavek

Congratulations. - Rachel Clarke

congradulations!@ - chaz2b

Congratulations! This means even more noise in the world of tomorrow - sdfx

Congratulations, Robert and Maryam!!! - David Sifry from twhirl

Congratulations. :) - JA Castillo

Congrats Robert, Maryam, and family! That's awesome. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Congrats! - Jeremy Brooks

Congrats Robert and Maryam! Health, wealth and happiness to you and your family. - AJ Kohn

congratulations to you and your family - Jeff Sandquist

oh Robert that's wonderful news. love to you both - Erin @queenofspain

Congrats! - Jay Neff

Hope this time you have a girl:-) - Francine Hardaway

Congratulations! - Loren Heiny

Congratulations, Maryam and Robert!! This is really exciting news! - Cathryn Hrudicka

Congrats, Robert! Milan will have soon somebody to play with. - Jordi Soler from twhirl

Congrats!! That's so exciting! - Just Katie

Congratulations...exciting!! - Moushumi Kabir

Thanks everyone! We're just trying to keep up with the Grays! :-) - Robert Scoble

Awesome! congratulations - Martha

Congratulations! - Paul

Those look like ultrasound pics...congratulations! - Catherine Novak

Congrats! :) - Rochelle

Ahh, now we are in my *social media comfort zone* Posterior placenta, about 10-13 week gestational age by viewing. Nice extremities and profile with nasal bone visualized already (soft marker for Down's when absence of nasal bone). Nice job! - Janet-The Bottley Crue

Congratulations! :-) - Daniel Rowley

Wonderful, congratulations - Bill McFarland

Congrats to both of you! - Sandra

Congrats. You must really enjoy sleepless nights :) - Paul Bainbridge

congrats..!! good wishes =) - Praveen Vasudev

Congrats! And ENJOY every minute of it! It passes qucik!! - David Slater from twhirl

Wow! I hope I didn't spoil it earlier. I was totally just guessing. Congratulations Robert and Maryam!!! - Jesse Stay

Congrats to you both :D - craterdweller

Not the first, and certainly not the last, but by God the most sincere Congratulations! - Bob Stewart from BuddyFeed

Twitter says, "you are unable to father more people. Please read about our fathering limits." :-D Mazeltov! - Karim

You will join a very exclusive group that will have twittered the birth of two children :) - Christian Burns

Wooooo congrats!!! - Simon Wicks

Congratulations Scobles :D - Johnny

awwwww... congratulations to you and your family. - Yolanda

congratulations! - Anna Lynn M.

We did same here, maybe same day, but no photos...the little "bug" needed a macro lens & the sonogram operator couldn't find one. Not polite in public what she did use but it is an internal device, an alternative to the belly transponder, and said shape is usually known by another name. Rather surprising in the further context that the sono operator was a very cute, young blonde. Confusing day. Russians (wife) keep such announcements secret until the second trimester, so I'm not allowed to speak. - Douglas Hopkins

Douglas: yeah, we kept ours quiet until week 12 and also Maryam had a test to make sure the baby doesn't have Downs. - Robert Scoble

Congrats Robert! - Hutch Carpenter

Whoa! Congratulations you guys!!! - Charlie Anzman

congrats! many good wishes - Pico Seno

Congratulations!! - Daniel Brusilovsky

congratulations are in order, you two! - Micah

Wow congratulations to you both! - Sally Church

Congrats! Great news. A lot of changes lately. - jjprojects

wow congra...! - mohammadk

Regarding "marketing experiment" - I forget where I read it, but someone said that the most successful advertising is the stuff that doesn't look like advertising at all, because it does such an outstanding job of meeting your needs. Valid points in your post, and there's no reason why smaller services can't try to meet their users' needs also. For example, look at all of the fuss over how services suggest users. What if your personal suggested users on Twitter were to suddenly include pediatricians? - John E. Bredehoft

Mazal Tov!! - Orli Yakuel

Congratulations are in order! Good luck with the upcoming baby. - Colin Charles from twhirl

Tabrik migoyam! تبریک می گویم - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Let me add my congratulations to everyone's! Cheers! - Steve Lowe

gratz!! - timepilot

Mazel tov! - Alan Chamberlain from twhirl

Congratulations Big Daddy! Congrats to Mom also! - Tony C

Best wishes and congratulations :-) Greetings from Norway! - Hanna Wiszniewska

No matter when the children come. Congratulations!!! - Moses Kpetigo

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Jim Connolly

Congratulations! Best wishes to you both! - Tamara

Congrats big guy!!!!!!!!!! please twitter any diaper related questions to @answers ;-) - Jason Calacanis

Robert Scoble, growing Friendfeed one user at a time :) congratulations! - Christian Anderson

Congrats Robert and Maryam. Best of Luck to you both..... - Alex Marrow

Your baby is a celebrity even before he/she is born. Congrats! - Alekkus

Congratulations from Italy! - Cristian Conti

Awesome! 3rd BABY Scoble on the way! Cheers to you and your family!! How blessed you must feel right now. You've been through quite a bit of positive change lately - impressive!! Can't wait to hear more :) - Susan Beebe

Congratulations!!! Solo parent duty this weekend and missed the announcement. Of course tinyprints.com would like to step up to the plate when the time comes. - Rick Bucich

MG Siegler

Apple previewing iPhone OS 3.0 at an event March 17 - http://venturebeat.com/2009...

March 12, 2009 from VentureBeat - Comment - Like - Share

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I don't see a source? :S - Jalada

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Whats in it????? Push????? Copy and paste????? Over the air sync???? - Roberto Bonini

Maybe it'll support MMS. =) - Daniel Bruce

Set expectations accordingly or you'll be disappointed. Why do I bother, people never listen and are always disappointed - Bwana ☠

Who CARES about copy and paste. BACKGROUND, PLEASE. - Mona Nomura

and maybe folders?? would be nice as well.. - Jaap Willem

We need to move away from MMS - why save media locally, when we can e-mail? Cloud? MMS is backwards thinking, imho. - Mona Nomura

Sure, ignore a technology "everyone" (at least here) knows and uses, for the promise of some other non-obvious, probably not well known (and as a result, harder to use), not universally supported tech. That's good business practice. =p - Daniel Bruce

MMS don't care. Copy/Paste don't care. iDisk app, now, that'd be nice. - Paul Grav

I'm backing Mona up with 1 MILLION JIGAWATTS! We need to ditch MMS and move forward. - vijay

I want a stable browser. I fear I'm setting my expectation too high. - Bwana ☠

MMS is also backwards compatible with many, many millions of phones which don't support email, either at all or well. Not supporting it is just embarrasing. - Ian Betteridge

Sorry Jalada, source was a good one: Apple :) - MG Siegler

+1 Ian, my point exactly. None of the non-smart phones have good, or any, support for email, much less the cloud or the internets. If I wanted to send a pic to any of my friends or family, I can't zap it into the cloud and magically expect them to be able to access it (they can't, none of their phones have e-mail or internet support worth a damn). With MMS, however, I can send it to them, pretty much without exception. It's a complete show-stopper. - Daniel Bruce

mms is for grandmas. I don't know anyone that uses it. - zio bonino

How about Apple Store 3.0 with reduced restrictions and deprecation of capricious app banning? :) - Ray Cromwell

+1 Mona; here's hoping for Background Apps, which will allow some innovation by app developers to improve upon what MMS and SMS offers. Background Apps also need improved battery life == new hardware hopefully. - Bob Hitching

There are many free services that enable picture emailing, without logging into the services. Facebook and Flickr are the two most common. With Docs to Go coming for all mobile platforms, why do we need MMS? (to add, I've personally never MMSd documents but someone in another thread said it was common) - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Because there's like 100 million phones that can receive MMS, and 90 million of them have really sucky web browsers, application environments, and slow network speeds. - Ray Cromwell

But what would you be using MMS for? If multi media is your number one need, get a multi media phone. And most multi media phones have native SNS apps. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

And another MMS question: wouldn't you want to view and save media via desktop w/out flashcard adapters and cables? The future is simplicity. Minimal chords, attachments, basically accessories that get tangled up and hog up USB or FireWire holes. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

The simplicity for me is taking a picture and sending it asynchronously to a phone number without having to care what kind of phone it is. There are far too many legacy phones to ignore MMS. Your assumption is that everyone upgrades to the lastest phone, I know quite a few people with 3+ year old phones. And I bought my Nanny a "free" Nokia media phone, an old Series40, which can't run squat. - Ray Cromwell

So let me get this straight: because MMS has been the standard to share media since 2003, naturally, more phones support MMS. Because more phones support it, and most people still have older phones, there is still a need. Ok, that is fair. So if you have a need to instantly send your Nanny pictures then why choose an iPhone? And I still stand by my statement that MMS is backwards thinking. Apple and AT&T made a bold and perhaps game changing move omitting MMS. I agree with their strategy 220%. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

I heard Nova excludes MMS, too. All hear say until Pre and 3.0 is rolled out. Bottomlime: I'm all for fewer accessories and peripherals, moving on to other options. I wonder if there's a way to exclude MMS from my plan to get the people I correspond with in the habit of checking where I aggregate my media in lieu of hardware dependence. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

There's something to be said for interoperability and standards. And the use case is really other people sending me MMS . The iPhone doesn't support vCard or iCalendar either, again, eschewing standards that have been in place for a decade. I honestly don't see forcing someone to launch a browser and synchronously load photos as an improvement over an asynchronous push technology that works without a gazillion web based UIs, chewing up extra battery life and memory. - Ray Cromwell

??? I email my photos or upload to various sites. People who do heavy business activities on their mobiles all have phones that support the various oulets I aggregate my media. All others, access them via desktop/laptop. As for Vcard and calendar, that is a whole different topic, but I have found my work arounds. The resources are there. It's just new and different. - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Either which way, my bottomline is: the future is minimalistic simplicity, and omitting hardware dependency. Once you lose your phone, the MMS media is lost with it. As is data you didn't get a chance to sync. How are solutions to that NOT forward thinking? - Mona Nomura from fftogo

If MMS is to be replaced with cloud storage, then define an OMA/IETF/3GPP REST API for this that is standardized and can be adopted by hardware, applications, and sites. Simply replacing it with a website just fragments everything and makes mobile implementations less efficient. MMS is about instant-photo sharing, not snapping photos and asking people to look at them later when they get to a desktop - Ray Cromwell

If I extend your argument, we should replace SMS with gazillions of Twitter clones. How does 20 proprietary interfaces improve user experience over a single one? The vast majority of people using these devices for media sharing aren't as tech-savvy as you think. Create a standard, then get MobileMe, Flickr, Picasa, FaceBook, MySpace, et al, to adopt it. - Ray Cromwell

LOL Ray I think we see different big pictures. I stated my point and you stated yours, clearly we are not going to see eye to eye. It would be interesting to re-visit this thread two to three years down the road. - Mona Nomura

Robert Scoble

Happiness monster - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

March 12, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Go ahead and try to have a bad attitude after meeting Milan. He's my happiness monster. Eats up stress and spits it out with a smile. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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Munchkin! But really there's no such thing as a happiness monster. Your son? - The Real sofarsoShawn

Yeah, that's my son. Lots of fun. Except at 1 a.m. when he wants to play. :-) - Robert Scoble

איזה מתוק!! go translate this... ;-) - Orli Yakuel

Absolutely Adorable!!!!! :-) - Pat Graham Block

Pat, thanks. He is edible, isn't he? This should point to here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert Scoble

What's his name? - The Real sofarsoShawn

Milan. - Robert Scoble

Heya Milan! Always good for a smile :D - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Ahh I can't stay grumpy when I see that face :) Beautiful child, Robert ! - Mo Kargas

Beautiful shot! Happy children reflect the good, safe, loving environments provided by their parents! Well done! :) - Susan Beebe

WANT - The Real sofarsoShawn

Cute! And good piccy... - Mark Aitken

so cutteeee :D - Zafarali

µscoble - stretta from twhirl

祝你生日快乐，Monster! - 阿石

He gets his smile from his dad - have you ever seen Robert Scoble not smile? - Jesse Stay

This is a great picture. Children doing cute things always makes the day go by faster. And keeps you smiling while it does. - Angelo Rodrigues

Jesse - You're 100% right - Robert is a happy dude, Milan totally emulates that! :) - Susan Beebe

I wonder how Socbelizer, no offense here, could pop out something so wicked cool! Must've come fron Maryam... - The Real sofarsoShawn from fftogo

Cute. Should be proud of yourself Robert. - Roberto Bonini

Man, that is a cracking photo - Zee.

what a cutie patootie! - Anna Lynn M.

Awww..adorable!!!! - MiaD

heheheeeee, back atcha!!! - The Real sofarsoShawn

Robert Scoble

I'm starting a trip to Austin today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...

March 12, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'll be there from March 12th until March 20th. See more in my Dopplr profile. - Robert Scoble

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So am I! I leave in a couple of hours. - Kenneth

bye we'll miss you! *tear* - The Real sofarsoShawn

Safe journey - 'be seeing you' there. My soundtrack for the trip there - http://blip.fm/nicefishfilms Looking forward to hearing your notes Robert. - michael sean wright

I'll be flying to Austin next month, then driving to college station to Texas a&m for corporate fire school at TEEX. - Beau Liening

Bring back presents!!! - The Real sofarsoShawn

I'm en route to airport on my way to Austin as well. Where you plan on going tonite Robert? Pre-sxsw FF meetup perhaps? - Mark Krynsky

Robert Scoble

@gregcollier my job hunt was over before I quit my old job. But my new job will be announced on Saturday on Gillmor Gang @stevegillmor

March 11, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Awesome, that is nice to have things all lined up nicely like that. Of course, that's not due to just luck.. you're a very talented and smart guy with a crazy amount of industry connections and good will. You're a good example of career networking... very cool. Can't wait to hear what opportunity you landed! Cheers! <insert bottle of wine> - Susan Beebe

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Congrats! True talent cannot hide, even in a recession. - Martha

congrats! - Jay

What is really funny is I wasn't looking for a new job at all because I had a contract that ran until next January. I am glad everything worked out, though, and can't wait to tell you what we are working on. - Robert Scoble

I'm impressed. I have my same ole job since '97. Since I've heard of you first on 2006 that's your third or fourth job. - Oliver Widder from BuddyFeed

i could make a few bets on what robert's new job is - Allen Stern

Thats terrific - good luck Robert. - Vernonkell

Outstanding and I'm looking forward to your announcement as well. Cheers! - ka3drr

Allen - DM me! LOL I can't wait - way too curious! - Susan Beebe

Mona Nomura

It's official. I am now a Twilight fangirl. Can't WAIT to read the books. #LateToTheParty

February 23, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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No worries, I was late, too - they're remarkably good, even if you're over the age of 14. ;) - Cheryl Allin

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I started reading the first chapter and had to put it away. I can already feel myself getting hooked. - Mona Nomura from IM

Yes, block out many hours as you won't be able to put them down...I have managed to avoid downloading the pirated version of her latest, even tho she posted it to her own site since it was leaked. I'll wait... - Cheryl Allin

I have about 50 to go, on the final book, I can't bear the thought of finishing it :) - Vicky

I just finished the second book, and I am really enjoying them. - Bryan Clark

That's the one thing I'm afraid of: finishing. - Mona Nomura from IM

Yeah, it's sweet because they're so well written and trigger your imagination and bitter because you get to the end, wanting more. <grin> - Cheryl Allin

Cheryl - my friend who NEVER reads read the book 3 times and even bought the audio books. Who does that? HAHA - Mona Nomura from IM

Hahaha - yup, you're in trouble now! <grin> They're just *that* good ;) - Cheryl Allin

Ya - I caught a glimpse of true Twilight fangirlism and I am scared. They are planning a trip to Fork... my friend even e-mailed the Chamber of Commerce and they are in their late 20s. Pathetic LOL - Mona Nomura

My daughter lives in Port Angeles just north of forks...Forks is a teensy little town - I don't see why anyone would want to visit it. LOL Unless you like loggers and gun racks. - Cheryl Allin

Oh noes! hehehe My coworkers got me reading the books. They were addicting - Tamara

Another one bites the dust.... - Just Katie

I'm already on page 102 - I don't think I'm sleeping tonight LOL - Mona Nomura

Alan - that is hilarious. My best friend whose known me for 20+ years, says I will most likely end up falling in love with Jacob. I am still on page 102, will keep you all posted. :) - Mona Nomura

Yay Team Jacob! <3 - Tamara

lady friend just finished book 4 tonight (having started book 1 only 2 weeks hence). Given your gift for gab, perhaps a bit of stream of conscious chapter-by-chapter live blogging would yield some interesting results - I'd for one would certainly enjoy reading about what makes the story/characters so irresistible/addictive - Will DeLuca

My roommate just got into them as well and has highly suggested I read them when she's done. I'll join you at your party, Mona. :-| - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™

Paul Kedrosky

AIG Countdown to Annihilation - http://paul.kedrosky.com/archive...

February 23, 2009 from Paul Kedrosky's Infectious... - Comment - Like - Share

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Mona Nomura

"If you fail, try again. Fail again. Fail better," - Samuel Becket via Forbes "The Key To Risk: It's All About Emotion" http://www.forbes.com/2009...

February 23, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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"Booms are fueled more by optimism than by logic. They become bubbles when optimism gets too far ahead of logic. Conversely, fear--fear of loss--dominates the landscape now, despite the frantic efforts of governments and firms to restore confidence. Everyone is taking, if anything, too little risk." - Mona Nomura

Paul Buchheit

Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Add your location to your signature - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...

February 11, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"To try it, turn on Location in Signature from the Labs tab under Settings, then go to your signature preferences and check the box next to "Append your location to the signature." It'll use your public IP address to determine your location, so it may not always be that accurate. For example, if you're at Heathrow airport, IP detection may put you in Germany. If you want more accurate location detection, make sure your browser has a version of Gears that supports the location module. That way, Gears can make use of wi-fi access point signals to recognize that you're actually in London." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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This is pretty cool. I had wanted to add a feature to Gmail that would instead show the location of the people sending you email by geo-locating the source-IP in the "Received" headers (most non-Gmail services expose your computer's IP address). - Paul Buchheit

Doesn't seem to be working well in Linux and Comcast. Thinks I am in Sacramento not Los Altos. :-( Linux deperately needs better location based services. - Zaki Manian

I don't get why it's not using Google Latitude. If I manually set my location in Latitude, I don't want Gmail to say I'm somewhere completely different. - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo

Maybe it was developed before Latitude and the teams didn't coordinate. - Ionut

@Ionut It's a Gmail Labs feature. That usually means it was done by one engineer in his/her 20% time rather than by a 'team.' - Adewale Oshineye

will be good to have the location in my GTalk Resource JID part. - Stoyan Zhekov

Will this work on the iPhone???? - Roberto Bonini

Roberto, I think Gmail Labs features are powered from the front-end, so it would only work on the iPhone if you could use the full Gmail AJAX interface (which I don't think is possible). - Tony Ruscoe

looks like that <s>developer</s> technical writer behind this feature wave us *hello* -- see that _second_ picture with typed text "Mishutka von Wald" ? that's аllusion on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - A. T.

It seems not to work perfect in China. Maybe the ip library of China is not quite correct. - nAODI （ANNDI）

I'm impressed by all the recent Gmail updates. Make me want to abandon Mail.app for good. - Sebastian

neat stuff but it makes me wonder if it's good thing for people to know where you are though... - Ridzuan Ashim from twhirl

So when is gmail going to get HTML-enabled signatures (without using an extension)? - Jandy

to Paul: do you still receive e-mail from providers other than gmail? :) - Ihar Mahaniok

+1 Jandy Please. HTML already. I don't give a crap where you are emailing me from. - Sarah Perez

Silpol you win, finally someone got the reference to the bear Mishutka :) - xyz

Robert Scoble

10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...

February 11, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Good points but what about smaller companies? - Daniel Schildt

Struggling with this myself -- especially #10 (and btw Daniel most of what is there I think applies to small companies as well) - Brian Sullivan

Steve Rubel

Google Reader should have a ton of smarter features, here's why...

February 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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I love Google Reader, but given the number of users and feeds it has and the smarts of the team it should be able to: 1) Tell me what other items in my feeds link to the same story: help me manage my attention. 2) Support smart folders: Outlook and Newsgator have 'em. Gmail (via Quick Links) does too. Why not Reader? 3) Search unread items: you can search read items now, but not unread. I want to be able to say search for all items about X and mark them as read. What else? - Steve Rubel

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Agree and I have to add that the social features suck currently: sharing by making chat contacts is @#%&*. - Nikos Anagnostou

I would like it to de-duplicate posts that somebody shares which I am already subscribed to. They should mention "this has been shared by ...." on one instnace of the post instead of showing me the post N number of times. - Brian Sloane

I like Reader, but the folks over at Feedly are doing much more to extend and improve the product than the folks at Google. - Robert Clockedile

Problem is, Rob, you need a plug in. - Steve Rubel from IM

Agreed. It won't work for everybody, but it's got an excellent (and growing) set of features, including beta Ubiquity integration. - Robert Clockedile from twhirl

...I know, I know...another plug in. - Robert Clockedile from twhirl

This is probably a silly question but is there a way to see a list of every reader-article that I've emailed out to either myself or friends?? - Will DeLuca

I love Google Reader. I would like to be able to choose my page view. When I click to read an article the page is adapted for mobile phone, I would like to view in HTML. I know of no way to change this. It would be nice to be able to choose. - Elizabeth Muskrat

Google has a Digg competitor right in it's midst. I should be able to see most stared and most shared stories for the day, week, month etc. - Tim

The one thing I want with Google Reader is the ability to hide shared items from specific sources (source of that wishlist item? FF, of course). - Tamar Weinberg

I also love reader, but I would *love* to be able to setup rules to mark feeds with certain tags read once they become so old. For instance, I have feeds tagged as news and news-slow. Anything in news is stale after about 6 hours, anything in news-slow after about 2 days. I want to setup those preferences in Reader and have it mark those items as read for me, because going through yesterday's breaking news is a pain in the neck. - FFing Enigma

I like those suggestion Steve! Some of them are also applicable to feedly and the crowd we are catering. Thanks for kicking off this conversation! (Rob thanks for the support!) - Edwin Khodabakchian

I would love for Google Reader to flag duplicate news stories as well, Steve. - Liana Lehua

I wish they'd add Gtalk like in gmail. And adding friends/sharing has to be improved. I've also been unimpressed with search in greader. - Graham English

Merge Google Reader and Google Bookmarks ! - stanjourdan

Hmm, I wonder if Google Bookmarks is dying too. It was integrated with Notebook. - Steve Rubel from IM

My guess is that google has hired the founder of delicious to try to do something big and consistent around tagging and bookmarking. Something that could tie together Chrome, Android, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader. At least this is what I am hoping. The fragmentation is pretty painful for the end user. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Bookmarks sync is central to Chrome so somehow I think it will survive and become more social - Steve Rubel from IM

greader and gmail should merge. Both emails and feeds are easy to manage and access with the help of filters and labels. Email is a good tool to share with a wide variety of social networks. - Xavier Vespa

the shared items doesn't have the proper rss feed format. Can't use it elsewhere without it getting all monkeyed up.. Also a mark as unread option. Themes seems a direction it should soon incorporate. A piping feature like Yahoo Pipes offers. - Mike Skramstad

I love reader, but duplicates haven been driving me NUTS recently. I've recently started using Yahoo Pipes to combine some of of my feeds that commonly duplicate stories into one feed and remove duplicates. - Steve Boerner

one of my most desired options is to be able to sort my feeds by unread count, regardless of what folders they're in... so I get just a big list of all the feeds I'm subscribed to in order from feeds with 1 or 2 unread stories all the way to the feeds with 1000+ unread - I mentioned this to Edwin at Feedly and he seems keen to add into their product soon: http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly... - It's amazing to me that Google Reader doesn't offer that option already. - Nathan Chase

Getting the duplicate stories out will be a little tough - especially if the feed you subscribe to doesn't link back to their source - but it can definitely be done... would just have to do some regex/fuzzy logic-type querying of post title, content, and outbound links on the page to determine a percentage of similarity. You could then have a similarity threshold slider to adjust your "duplicate filter". - Nathan Chase

Are there perhaps other readers which do some of these? - Iphigenie

I use reader heaps, but I'd still love more features! - Will Higgins™

I, too, would like a pony with my gReader. - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

I would NOT want gmail and greader combined, but better social features in the sidebar would be nice. Also improve tagging and let me set time based rules. I like yahoo pipes, though I'm not sure google would want to add something like it as a feature of reader, but I would like a pony. - John

I agree, the pony seems obvious, and it's certainly within Google's power to provide one for everyone. - Michael C. Harris

The ability to offer 3rd party features is exactly what the purpose of the soon_to_be_launched "Google reader API", as discussed by Niall Kennedy, is. His post: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog... There is also an unofficial reverse engineering project here: http://code.google.com/p... - coldbrew

Duplicates within Reader are annoying. There is a script that helps with this but it's not great. It's certainly one problem with GR that needs looking at. - Kol Tregaskes

On my Google Reader wish list: 1. smart recommender system for news of personal relevance 2. incremental search of subscriptions in left column 3. incremental search of unread items in right column, both for All items and in each folder 4. rename folders 5. delete folders 6. easier moving of folders and feeds from one location to another (perhaps cut and paste) 7. seamless integration with Friendfeed. - Sean McBride

I'd like greader to be smart enough to know I already read a post - at the site, via an aggregator or ... No time for ponies - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

Plus could it stop letting me subscribe twice to the same feed :) - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

@mcwflint if you are a firefox user and install the feedly extension, you can configure feedly mini to mark articles as read in Google Reader when you visit websites directly. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Thanks. I'll try it on the non iPhone days - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

This one would be useful: "search for all items about X and mark them as read." I like the search feature in Google Reader. When I notice an interesting news about a subject, I immediately search for it to read what has been said about it in my other feeds. 2 or 3 articles are usually more than enough to know more about it, so it would be really useful to be able to mark all the others as read. - Mehdi Trimech

I'm loving Feedly so far. The fact that it is a plugin is very beneficial when you are generally surfing (not reading RSS), and you auto-discover the relevant conversations to join in on. Obviously Google will do something soon that will take me back to Reader, but for now I'm going to use Feedly - Paul Grant

Feedly's picture grid view is awesome, but the fact that I can't mark items as unread keeps me from using it fulltime. Some innovation in the way feeds are displayed would add a lot to Google Reader. Here's some idea - picture grid (ala feedly), timeline, contextual view (grouped by content like videos, links, etc) - Ashish Bogawat

Robert Scoble

Post cool friendfeed advanced searches here:

February 3, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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More than 400 likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... (only one item). - Robert Scoble

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Items with word sex in title with more than 20 likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Items with word "bacon" in title with more than 20 likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

400 comments, 300 likes, one item: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Tyler (Chacha)

Items with word "awesome" in them that have more than 20 likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

comments: 13 likes: 37, making 1337 posts: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Tyler (Chacha)

How much do we like our economy? http://friendfeed.com/search... or http://friendfeed.com/search... - Michael Forian

The item with the most comments can't be read by me, buttressing Robert's "FriendFeed is worldwide" argument: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Ontario Emperor

You can see all the items that someone likes and comments on. Here's all the items that Dave Winer has both "liked" and "commented" on: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Lots of "pissed off" titles: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Meta: Items which have "friendfeed" in the title and more than 40 likes - there are a LOT of them. http://friendfeed.com/search... - Brian Roy

Free Today (likes:3+, comments:2+) http://friendfeed.com/search... - Micah

Want to track any of these searches as a persistent feed you can subscribe to in your reader, and get new results as they happen? Just add "&format=atom" (without the quotes) to the end of the search URL, et violå! :-) A tasty feed for your aggregator. - Josh Bancroft

Meta: Items with the word "twitter" in the title and more than 40 likes - still a LOT of them. http://friendfeed.com/search... - Brian Roy

And my last contribution: Everyone Dave Winer has Hugged: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Brian Roy

All posts with 10 or more likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Robert Scoble

Ego search for Louis Gray (excludes his posts, plus items he's commented on and/or liked) - http://friendfeed.com/search... - Ontario Emperor

Just realized it would be great to have a range for likes... I wanted to an "eclectic" stuff I Liked search... but you can only search for stuff with more than X likes or X comments... - Brian Roy

Inspiration, with 10+ likes: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Christopher Galtenberg

We still need more features for managing, analyzing, filtering, manipulating, visualizing and getting a handle on Friendfeed search results. I would like to see a single hard number for the total results at the top of the results. List view of results. Multi-column list view of results. Incremental searching/filtering on results (quick views on sub-results). Calendar/date navigation through results. Sorting results by various criteria, including number of comments and likes. Etc. - Sean McBride

I'd like to see the option to search on anything *apart* from your feed. That'll be useful. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, the GOOG does that. - atul abraham from twhirl

Items with 50+ likes, containing a misspelling of the word "the" (teh) http://friendfeed.com/search... - April

Food porn: http://friendfeed.com/search... - James

video searches http://friendfeed.com/e... - David Lynch

Paul Buchheit

Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

February 3, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Four executives of Google begin trial Tuesday in Milan on criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation in regard to a video posted on Google’s Italian site. The case involves a three-minute cellphone video, posted in 2006 to Google Video, in which four youths in Turin tease a boy with Down syndrome. After an Italian advocacy group complained that the video was objectionable, Google quickly removed it from the site. Prosecutors argue that the video should not have been published at all. The four executives charged were not involved directly in handling video from Italy. They include David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president and chief legal officer; George Reyes, its former chief financial officer; and Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, according to a Google spokesman. The fourth executive worked at Google Video in London, the spokesman said, declining to identify him." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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this is so dumb it's not even funny. And somewhat a shame for us (italians). - dario

this is a very very sad story. I wish new technologies would help putting a stop to teasing among kids, instead they tend to amplify the problem. - Davide D'Incau

Davide, I doubt that the technology caused the teasing. It more likely helped expose it, and therefore stop it to some extent. - Paul Buchheit

that's a dangerous precedent to set.. does this mean, should google lose the case that all sites wishing to operate within Italy must now hire staff to review submissions a la Revver? Because there isn't any other way of preventing this kinda content from being uploaded. - alphaxion

Hopefully they will use this as an Opportunity to Expose the Hypocrisy of the Catholic Church + All Religions!! ;)) Peace* - Billy Warhol

Let's see how many sites prevent Italy from sending content, if they are declared "guilty" in this case - Jemm

whats up with italy lately? not only is the political system almost 100% corrupt (mafia prodi in the south, sungod berlusconi in the north) but now they want to fuck up private businesses too (google, foreign foodshops). id say it time for a reboot - Chris Hofmann

Agree Chris, Italy is an ARSE backwards country run by arse backwards twits. - Will Higgins™

Thanks Will, mate. Let's start calling each other names, it'd do a lot of good, eh. - dario

Very good analogy Chris White. I hope that Google doesn't lose. It could set a terrible precedent. - Robert Felty

As a lover of Italy and things Italian, I am disappointed to see Italy go down this road. - Sean McBride

bnoise: I think you could say that for the politicians of any country. - Davide D'Incau

Chris Ofmann: you seem to have a very superficial understanding of the situation in Italy. You are trusting stereotypes. Have you ever lived there or even visited? - Davide D'Incau

WTF? - Tyson Key

Paul: you have a very good point. In a sense this also put an end to it. But I wish it would not have to come to that point to be stopped. - Davide D'Incau

Manas Tungare: the applicable law already has a "safe harbor" provision. The problem is that the prosecutor believes Google doesn't qualify. - Gabe

davide your right my view is very narrow. i only spend around one month a year in north italy and dont get that much of political life, but my colleague in office who is a north italian tells me lots of things. well maybe he has an agenda...but thats the closest info i can get. pls tell me how it is in your point of view. - Chris Hofmann

This is ridiculous. that is all - Susan Beebe

Chris: the overall situation there is not that great. IMO, the root cause is found in decades of poor if not missing government with missing long term view of what the world would have become and how italy needed to change. But that has little to do with this specific case I am afraid. Also, I think that it is unfair to say that "they want to fuck up private businesses too" as you said in your comment just because of this case. These things happen everywhere in one form or another. - Davide D'Incau

As an Italian I am grateful for the deep analyses of the Italian situation. I think this twitter-level scolarship has already helped Italy. - Antonio Piccolboni

Chris Messina

Top 10 jQuery plugins for Form Usability « Steve Reynolds - http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009...

February 3, 2009 from Mento - Comment - Like - Share

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"As we’ve discussed in previous posts, form usability should be extremely high on your list of things to do to convert potential users, to actual users. A form can make or break the success of your application, so do your users a favour - make it as easy as possible to fill in. Below are 10 great jQuery plugins which can help you on your way to live validation of inputed data, and greater functionality from basic form elements." - Chris Messina from Mento

Mona Nomura

Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

February 1, 2009 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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"I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Mona Nomura

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Jordan FAIL. :-) - Louis Gray

The stats were made up but still one of my favorite Jordan commercials - Rodfather

What do you mean the stats were made up? - Mona Nomura

<3 - Anna Haro

I remember Jordan talking about the commercial and all the numbers he mentioned in the commercial, he didn't write. - Rodfather

I agree, Haro. Jordan = love. Rodfather - I still don't get it... :( - Mona Nomura

the missed game winning shot stat is true :) - Fred Grott

Paul Buchheit

My experimental prototype FriendFeed UI: http://paulbuchheit.github.com/xfeed... These are just some random ideas I'm playing with. See http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009... for details.

January 22, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes please :-) - Majento

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Now i'd like to make the same for rooms and my own feed, what do i need to change? http://www.majento.com/Majento... - Majento

It feels kind of twitterish, that's not necesssarily a bad thing btw. - Mathieu Ayel

Actually I really like the box appearing on the right hand side with view/share/like. It unclutters the UI. Also like the fact that the items on the stream are separated by a line. It makes visually easier to digest the bites... - Mathieu Ayel

"perhaps I should do a post on "20% time" at some point..." Yes. Also an idea, license your blog under Creative Commons. - Philipp Lenssen

That is good fun, http://www.chrisloft.com/myFF... - but I have to brush up on my css a little bit to incorporate this onto my page. - Chris Loft

Just cool :) - Charlie Anzman

Cool. - Tyson Key

meh. I *does* feel Twitterish which is not a good thing in my book. Interesting as a FriendFeed To Go embed maybe. - AJ Kohn

feels a bit too web2.0, with the larger fonts and rounded look... it has so few controls, one wonders what to do with it... - Christopher Galtenberg

This would work very well if it used lists, etc. But for those of us with big followers' lists, we're pretty much toast. :-) - Louis Gray

I miss the view of the conversations. - Ontario Emperor

for twitter fans i guess... - Chris Hofmann

Yeah, it has a lot of problems with high volume posters. I actually had to temporarily unsubscribe from Scoble so that other people would show up as well :). This started off with me wondering if our realtime view (http://friendfeed.com/realtime) could have some kind of threading added in. It doesn't really work in a lot of cases, but by putting the code out there I'm hoping that it will inspire other people to come up with interesting new interfaces (and also show how easy it is to use our API). - Paul Buchheit

@Peter: A sticky post that remains at the top until I decide otherwise would be fantastic. I'd also like the ability to change the number of items I see per page. @Paul: Kudos on the realtime and for the API. - AJ Kohn

This API is absolutely simple and easy to use - but the styles interfere with my css and my poor coding is not up to sorting them out so that I can add the FF-UI to one of my pages rather than put it on a separate page. Heaps of fun to use. http://www.chrisloft.com/myFF... - Chris Loft

Ack!! It looks like Twitter!!! - Lindsay

not really diggin it to be honest. as an optional or additional way to view ff it could work for those who choose, but i think the one we have currently looks a little better - Cee Bee

Actually, looks kinda like Tumblr. - Yolanda

yeah - i prefer this. its instantly recodnisable as FF. the prototype looks more like Twitter. - Roberto Bonini

I will get used to whatever UI you put on top of FF, so I'm not to worried about what sites it does or doesn't look like. This approaches what I would really like for FF, which is to set a rate of information flow (maybe even have some sort of dial). There are already recommended friends, which would be smarter when I have time to waste than surfing "everyone", but I could dial it way back on busy days. This would also help with discovery because I could add people to my home feed if I like their stuff. - Clare Dibble

Been checking it out with my own name replacing yours..it's an entirely new perspective on FF. Could be good...not sure yet. Thanks for posting. - Josh Haley

I just realized that it looks surprisingly like a chi.mp site. I.e. http://sunla.mp/ - jho

It looks a bit like twitter, I think we could utilize a couple different ui designs in "settings" - Kyle Weller

it's interesting, not sure I like it. - mikepk

I do like the "roll your own with the JSON" approach though. Tried to do something similar with our stuff back in the day. - mikepk

Where "back in the day" means 1-2 years ago. :) - mikepk

mixed feelings.. does look like tumblr - rawwell

Mona Nomura

Uh, Google? - http://www.google.com/

January 27, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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What IS this mess? LOL - Mona Nomura

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its called art. i think - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

This is horrible LOL - Mona Nomura

jackson pollock's birthday, maybe? - Trent Olson

Click it - Bwana ☠

na just play along and pretend it isn't - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

Yes, it's Jackson Pollock's bday - but Google's logo is MESSY. - Mona Nomura

anybody figure out the messy art yet? :) Jason Pollocks birthday!!!!!! - Susan Beebe

The weird thing is? This looks better than the new favicon. - Jandy

++ Jandy! HAHA - Mona Nomura

I can make out Google in it... with stick figures and happiness and sadness, and death, and babies, and playful children in antartica - Bwana ☠

messy is good ;) - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど

If that is art my 3 year old is Picaso - Brian Roy

Artistic? Sure, if you say so random authority. - Mike Nayyar

i like it! - Duane

MAMA I MADA MESS - sean percival

His art was really popular because no one had ever seen something like this. Plus the people Pollock knew and was around helped out a lot. - John

+1 @ Jandy - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

Look up the section on "Lavender Mist"..here http://tr.im/d87e ... might give some insight as to why this is considered "art" - Sriks7

It looks like complete shit, so it has to be something to do with pollock. Blue poles is the worst piece of art I've ever had the misfortune of viewing. - Duncan Riley

WTF? Throwing paint and scribbling is considered "art"? - Tyson Key

Does anyone else think this looks like white noise? - Tyson Key

It's art if I say it is. - Pete Gilbert

okay, so what is it again? - Russell Holliman

1. This isn't the original piece, it's a joke by Google (their name is clearly visible). 2. Sweet to see the little ones confused by some marks on canvas (or screen in this case). If it makes you cross, look away! - Pete Gilbert

Worst. CAPTCHA. Ever. - Stewart Heys

Nice one Stewart! - Simon Wicks

It's lightweight encryption/steganography! - Tyson Key

A tribute to the great Jackson Pollock? (Of course it is -- just caught up with all the comments before mine.) Some of us are fans of abstract expressionism. This is the visual equivalent of cosmic white noise bands like My Bloody Valentine. Pollock was ahead of his time. - Sean McBride

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