There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
Drat on you, Micah! I meant what's a good site to use that is specifically tailored to making photoblogs?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Posterous is all about that these days. Or I can set you up a WordPress install with a choice of themes on one of my BlueHost servers.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Good to know, Mary, and thanks for the offer, but this isn't for me.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Or, really, the dead-easiest thing to do is ourdoings, which does it for you. You upload a bunch of pix to a special DropBox folder and it organizes the shots based on the metadata. Then, go back in and add whatever text you want to tell the story. http://ourdoings.com
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
And it's our own Bruce Lewis - so it stays in the family. We ought to promote that more.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
For public consumption I use Posterous (not actively, lately) http://wittman.posterous.com and Smugmug's API + a PHP app I wrote for private family photos.
- Micah
I've tried Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Smugmug/Flickr/Picasa hackery, Instagram, Zenfolio and 500px for various mutations of photo posting/blogging, and for something public, I'd just just go with Tumblr these days. I think the community trumps any sort of technical whizbangery. Particularly since other tools (e.g. Instagram) will post to it natively.
- Ken Sheppardson
Friendfeed remains a choice, if not a popular choice.
- Andy Bakun
ourdoings seems nice for telling a story, needs nicer skins though (considering calling a favor from a friend to get one done). And it links to FF like nothing else does (and g+ and more). Blipfoto is nice if you want to try to be more consistent and encouraged in taking photos. I have found blip to be easy, friendly, clean. Also, it's a scottish startup. There's also european ipernity, which feels like a clone of flickr except with better support for telling a story/blog around a set of pictures
- Iphigenie
Bruce, Bootstrap looks cool. If you're thinking of doing skins, Bootstrap doesn't look any harder than messing with WP themes*, and that LESS business just about made me swoon. If people want custom skins, I'd be happy to design them! *I can't say I build whole themes from scratch - don't have the php chops for that. It's more like I restyle existing themes - Genesis child themes, or I also have a developer license for Elegant Themes - with client trade dress (type, colors and imagery).
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Bruce, I will ask. Strangely enough Bootstrap was exactly what I was using messing with my skin for my old tired site (wish I'd enjoy that kind of design more, but i dont). I don't know if bootstrap would make a huge difference but I think having a well structured and documented (or self explanatory) template would help, and bootstrap or some other framework would help you in creating...
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- Iphigenie
Happy Birthday Kristin! Happy Birthday Rodfather! (I was gonna say "Happy Birthday to *THE BOTH* OF YOU!" because I know how that annoys grammarians... but I didn't.)
- Mark J Subtly Severe
Happy Birthday, Rodfather! Thanks LB for the well wishes!
- Kristin
I've got the whale sounds, the Mad Magazine one, and an XTC flexi.
- Spidra Webster
Some group (AV? yearbook?) in my 12th grade class did one. I also had the whale sounds one from National Geo. I might still have them somewhere.
- Betsy
McDonald's put one in the news paper when I was a kid. If the crew on the record was able to sing the entire menu, you won the contest. I still remember the entire song, even though my disc wasn't a winner.
- Rah-PM 2012
YES! We had heaps of Solid Gold ones.
- Melly Botts
I still have that McDonalds one that Rah was talking about, and some others. I also remember having to stack coins near the middle to weight them down so they would spin and not get held still by the weight of the arm holding the needle.
- April
i wish i could find my Steve Morse JBL speakers demo soundpage. also, "Trouble At Madame Dong's" from Aphex Systems.
- Joe The Sausage
come to think of it, there's one still bound into a Cherry Lane Craig Anderton book i have. :P
- Joe The Sausage
Yes. I wish I still had my Billy and the Boingers "You Stink But I love You"
- G Dub of the Carolinas
"To most, this is a shower stall. To me, this is a urinal. You might want to shower before I do."
- Your Neighbor Steve
If a household avoids one flush a day, it can save up to 4,380 liters (1,157 gallons) of water annually. So your urinal actually saves water.
- AJ Batac :)
AJ: right, or you could get a slate like so: http://www.amazon.com/Scuba-D... - for me, I think I like the tradeoff of a reusable board more than having individual sheets of waterproof paper.
- Andrew C (✓)
Looks photoshop to me. I can see the pixels from here. :D
- AJ Batac :)
AJ, no, it's legit. My staff has tools that we can use to check these things. We looked into it. There are a lot of fake photos on the Internet but this one is real.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Hmmm. I swear there was pixel that was off on this one. Well, ok then. If you say so. I TRUST YOU.
- AJ Batac :)
I don't watch tv shows when they first air. I typically discover them after they've been off the air for many years (e.g. Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development) or after they are several seasons in (e.g. Fringe). Then I download them and watch entire seasons at once. #instantgratification#SaturdayFF
These things are also true for me, except for the downloading and watching entire seasons part. Usually I'll see a rerun now and then.
- John (bird whisperer)
I don't think anyone watches tv shows when they air as much as they used to in the past. Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, even some network websites show full episodes (Big Bang Theory on cbs.com for example). Speaking of Fringe, hulu shows the latest episode a full week after it airs. Yesterday's episode won't be posted until NEXT Friday.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Sorry to go on a tangent but it goes to show that the audience wants to watch shows when they have time not when the network thinks is best. Having more shows available to the audience on the widest possible devices is ideal. Even with commercials.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
All the good shows are canceled because you're not watching them when they're on! ;)
- Amit Patel
good shows get canceled anyway - because it takes time for awesomess to get established, because mediocre stuff is cheaper, because it's not about the value of the show but if it gets the right demographic in sufficient numbers...
- Iphigenie
Me too. I haven't had cable or satellite since 2006.
- teleken
from BuddyFeed
Botts: Beware of generalizations. Some of us do watch shows when they're originally on: "I don't think anyone" is almost always wrong. And when we watch shows via DVD (three currently), it's one. episode. at. a. time, since that seems most congruent with the makers' plans.
- Walt Crawford
I don't even have a tv any more. Stopped watching back in 2003. Somewhere between then and 2006 a power surge killed my tv and a clock. Replaced tv with another computer. Occasionally download tv shows and watch them on the other pc. I pretty much do what you do, binge on a show till I have seen it from start to finish, every season. Don't like watching things that are still on the air, since I will end up having to wait for the next episode once I get caught up.
- April
That reminds me. I still haven't finished watching the third season of VERONICA MARS.
- Steven Perez
Steven, be prepared for disappointment, though lots of good stuff too.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
6 years works best for me :) (currently discovering the joys of Dexter)
- Ken Morley
*fistbumps Ken* *also makes note to self to check out Dexter* :D
- Kelli H.
I'm now inspired to write a crime noir story. :)
- Steven Perez
"The office was dark and smoky, just the way I liked it. The glass was loaded with 18-year-old scotch, and so was I. My gun had three bullets in it, and so did I. My name was Tracer Bullet. I'm a private eye. And it was time to pay the bills: Bill, my bookie and Bill, my probation officer. Suddenly, she walked in. She walked like oil dancing on the water, her dress as red as the...
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- Steven Perez
That sounds a lot like a passage from my own effort, ("Taggart McFarty's Haggis-Fueled Adventures") except that it doesn't have anything about haggis...
- Mark J Subtly Severe
from Android
Wait, there's more: "'Can I offer you a drink?' I asked, my gravelly voice making the liquid in my glass vibrate slightly. She smiled. "I could use a tall, cool drink," she said, in a voice that reminded me of windchimes tinkling in the breeze. I found the cleanest glass in my desk and poured her two fingers. She accepted with grace and downed the drink in one swift motion. This lady...
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- Steven Perez
OK, now I need to write the rest of this story. Thanks for the inspiration, Georgia. :)
- Steven Perez
"In telling the story of a small-town political fight over wind power, Laura Israel’s fascinating documentary “Windfall” at first seems like another entry in the long laundry list of post-”Inconvenient Truth” doomsayer environmental films. Indeed, “Windfall” has some of the rural, homespun feeling of Josh Fox’s Oscar-nominated “Gasland,” which helped ignite a national debate over the natural-gas extraction method known as fracking. Israel’s film also offers a direct riposte to Bill Haney’s “The Last Mountain,” in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seen promoting wind power as a clean alternative to the dirty and destructive combination of mountaintop-removal coal mining and coal-generated electricity."
- Kelli H.
from Bookmarklet
Maybe a bit of both, depending on where it is and how it's done. I mean, wind is a great resource, but I could see companies siphoning off public subsidies for projects of questionable merit, as in any other subsidized industry.
- John (bird whisperer)
Put windfarms...in wind. How hard can it be. For you Americans, that would be in Washington D.C.
- Mo Kargas
^Brilliant. Why hasn't anyone else thought to put helical turbines in the middle of the House and the Senate?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yep, with all the unlimited windbaggery, you could power the nation and reduce foreign oil dependency!
- Mo Kargas
I have mixed feelings about wind energy. I love the idea of using renewable sources of energy, but, unfortunately, the windiest places are often used by migrating birds. Raptors and bats really get nailed by these installments. There is a wind energy firm that wants to put a wind farm up on the top of one of our mountains. I expect many road bumps and appeals during the NEPA process. I...
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- Kelli H.
Kelli, I agree with you 100%, you never hear about the impact that wind farms will have on small birds/bats etc, as the change in air current/pressure often causes their lungs to collapse and they die. This is something the green energy people never talk about.
- Halil
Would you like to hear about my undergraduate thesis on the efficiency and equity of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965?
- John E. Bredehoft
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- Chris Heath
nope, i am the official thread killer
- AJ Batac :)
Cuz this is killer, thread killer night, and no one's gonna save you from AJ when he's about to strike, you know it's killer, thread killer night, you're fighting for your threads from a killer, thread killer tonight
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
how all y'all all pick the first one with its uneven horizon is beyond me. ;) except Bruce, he gets a pass. COS HE IS RIGHT! (and this may be on of those times when the jesting tone i'm going for is lost in pixel-land)
- Lnorigb
I'd actually like 1 better if backround was totally blurred out. napkins even blurred are distraction to ,me
- WarLord
Heh, Lnorigb, sounds like you like number 2 because it's cropped perhaps?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Two looks technically better then one. more level. more centered. if thats cos it's cropped so be it. but when your shooting multiples of things all lined up you had best triple make sure your horizon is level (or so outta whack I know it's a style thing) cos UGH it.is.so.distracting. *steps off soapbox* =)
- Lnorigb
Or you can fix it with the straighten tool in Photoshop in like 3 seconds. :D
- Lix
@Scoble, Alex Scoble: you don't see the left side of photo is higher then the right? And yr lens is shooting into the corner of the wall instead of straight down the scene? The last sentence could be style but I think it's hand in hand with your uneven horizon and I'll guess it's cos your pawing your camera w those big strong sexay man hands!
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
No, I think the unevenness you are seeing is because the glasses in the background as well as the plates weren't stacked perfectly straight. The two shots were taken from the same angle in that regards, no angle correction was made on either, the shot with the blurred foreground was just taken by pulling the monopod and camera backward a bit to change the point of focus.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Congratulations to all the former FriendFeed staff on the Facebook IPO! I'd sure like to know what the effective valuation of FriendFeed turns out to be post IPO. That is, the collective value of all the Facebook stock held by former FriendFeed employees. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
It'd also be interesting to do the math and figure out how many FriendFeeders are still at Facebook...
- Ken Sheppardson
I did a caculation a last year at about $422.5 million at that point.[1] Basedon the S-1, 10 FF employees, and the most recent sale of 11,052,955[2] * $50[3] = $552.6Million [1]http://ff.im/Anvuu [2]http://ff.im/QobEt [3] A number saw this morning about a post S-1 sale of Class B stock.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
So I wouldn't be surprised if it was around 20-25x post-IPO. Of the 10 Friendfeeders, I assume are Bret, Paul, Sanjeev, Jim, Ana, Kevin, Tudor, and Casey were in that group. There are a few more people, Gary, Ben Golub, Dan, and Ben Darnell(hired just prior to the acquisition so I'm unsure if he would have been included) that I also know worked at FF. Bret and Ben Golub I know are at FB. Paul, Kevin, and Gary I know are not.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
My nephew told his mom today that he got in trouble at school for punching a bullying kid in the face. The reason for the violence was that the bully called the nephew's brother a retard. In the aftermath, nephew's teacher asked if there was another way he could have responded. Nephew's answer:
I'm trying to decide if it would be awkward to send a thank you letter to a gentleman who stopped and called 911 for me, even after I told him to go on. As he was leaving, I asked him his name, so I know his address. Would that be weird?
I sent about 20 cars on down the road, before he decided to stop in the lane with his lights on and wait with me. I didn't know until he left, that he had someone else with him, his daughter.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Aah. Checked your page just in case you'd posted a new picture, and there he is! Laura, Peter is absolutely adorable. What about a photo-a-day project for his first year? (After all, what *else* do you have to do?!)
- Mama Lawson
5:20, 6:30, 7:30. The first one I shut off immediately. The 2nd one I leave the snooze on to bug me every 10 minutes. The last one means I'm late.
- Rodfather
6:30am.... snooze sometimes until 7:40am. >.> I plan my outfits the night before so it doesn't take me long to get ready unless I need to flat-iron my hair in which case I snooze only once. Or twice. ;)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
5:45AM with 15 minutes of snooze and up at 6.
- Alan
Our alarm clock has 2 different alarms you can set on it, so when the twins (high school) are home, my wife uses an alarm set for 5 a.m. When it's just the little one (elementary school), she uses an alarm set for 6:01 (I accidentally went past 6:00, and didn't feel like changing it). On days when I commute into work, I use the 6:01 alarm. On days when I telecommute, I have my phone set to go off at 7:45. On weekends, we usually don't use an alarm.
- Curdy G
6:00am atm on weekdays. Random on weekends, if at all. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
7 am - out of bed sometime after - in the office by 9
- Jason
What D said. I usually set it for an hour before I have to be at work (30 min to get ready, 30 min commute) but I'm typically awake and lying around in bed before it goes off anyway. My internal alarm is set to 7:30.
- Penguin
from iPhone
6:20 - please tell me someones going to throw these into a table and make a graph :)
- Eric Sizemore