But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
I just opened the link and I'm kind of astounded. I had no idea what a deep influence Paul had over at Google. Created GMail? I am in awe. That plus Friendfeed and many other accomplishments. Happy birthday, Paul. I know we get fussy here sometimes about you, but that's only because we love so much what you helped create, and we're terrified at the thought of it vanishing.
- Kamilah Gill
They Photoshopped the *heck* outta this grub (not caterpillar), but I have to admit that the smaller version here had me fooled momentarily.
- Kamilah Gill
Interesting, Brian. Goliath beetle grubs come close, but the grub in this picture is still too large. I think that's more impressive since it's real. I'm stealin' it :] Thanks!
- Kamilah Gill
+ nakachi, that's how I feel about going to the Amazon
- Lo
Ben, by commenting, you insure that the item cannot be hidden. (at least not in My discussions) :)
- Cristo
True, now it's just mostly hidden. It won't show up in any list view (including the home feed). I got this notification via email because I am subscribed to you and I have it set to email me when a friend comments on anything in "My Discussions" but the picture doesn't appear in the email so I'm ok with that :) The only place it will continue to show up is in "My Discussions". But I never visit that feed
- Benjamin Golub
from email
Isn't that what Paul said FriendFeed is right now?
- Jesse Stay
Thank "Brian Johns" for the info. It's the Larvae of Giant Scarab.
- Acharad Sami VanJoulee
This one is too large. I posted the real one.
- Kamilah Gill
from email
Mr. Gunn, I'd rather e-mail. That's my central hub for notifications.
- Jesse Stay
It always has been mine as well, but I'm trying to transition away from that. I think twitter's good for notifications, email's good for direct correspondence with a higher actionable value than a tweet, and RSS for the rest!
- Mr. Gunn
Mr. Gunn, my problem there is that Twitter is based on proprietary technologies. Twitter goes bust, so goes your notifications and other data. With e-mail I will always be able to be contacted, no matter what. E-mail will always be the more reliable method.
- Jesse Stay
Yes, that's certainly true, which is why the more actionable stuff I still have going to email. Things that are valuable to me on twitter are the relationships, and most of those will remain even if twitter goes away.
- Mr. Gunn
But your comment illustrates the importance of federated services vs. centralized ones. That's the value I see in Wave, too.
- Mr. Gunn
Why? What do you do with that information?
- AJ Kohn
how about an RSS feed of a user's lists?
- Mike Chelen
I don't know why this irks me so much, but I can't stand this.
- Jenna Bilotta
guess that's what I get for having a real name as a twitter handle. (@jenna) I don't have this issue with my private account @pinkestblack. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
This happens to me too. (Also using my real name @rebeca.) However, in my case, the offenders are not only teens, but also older Latin American people.
- Rebeca
now the teens think I'm stalking them, cause they don't understand that they ar BROADCASTING PUBLICLY! *tear*
- Jenna Bilotta
though, I also do get the occasional VERY RAUNCHY tweet meant for jenna jameson. (@jenna seems to be a blessing and a curse)
- Jenna Bilotta
Maybe it's Twitter that's broken, shouldn't they just send the msgs to the right 'jenna?'
- Cliff Gerrish
no, they do it all through sms, so there is no real way other than actually understanding how the feature works. If you go look at the three girls in question, they say stuff like "How can she see your tweets if she's not following you" and stuff like that. and now they think I'm stalking them because they don't understand that any @jenna replies essentially come to my "inbox"
- Jenna Bilotta
Covers his eyes -- can't bare to read no mo'
- Jorge Escobar
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Hearts FF
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
I just love how some people have joined, completely ignoring the description of the group and showing the type of people they really are. I don't *love* the changes, but I will get used to them and someday soon I will not even remember the old way it was done. Change is good... long live change!
- Travis Koger
Oh it had already happened by the time I got there. I helped them with a redesign of their Page Creator, Site Creator, and file management tools. The glory that is GeoCities design was entirely of its users' making. GeoCities was made of people. The original MySpace.
- Kevin Fox
We were your competitors over at FreeServers. My Uncle founded Freeservers.com :-)
- Jesse Stay
BTW, for some odd reason Freeservers is still up (owned by United Online, owners of NetZero, etc)
- Jesse Stay
We used to talk about creating what would now be called a social network at Freeservers. Not sure what happened to that. I guess it's no surprise we didn't see anything considering they're owned by the owners of Classmates.com :-)
- Jesse Stay
Of course the big thing back then was becoming the next "Portal"
- Jesse Stay
Yeah. It was ironic that when I started at Google they were very wary of becoming the next 'Portal' where portal meant 'walled garden'. In actuality, a portal is a thing that you go through to get from where you are to where you're going, and in that context Google was already more of a portal than any of the other major players, but terms shift...
- Kevin Fox
yeah, funny especially considering iGoogle, etc.
- Jesse Stay
Well, that was way before iGoogle. But even then the idea of a dashboard was more appealing to Google than a walled garden of content.
- Kevin Fox
Rock on, Kevin. Looking forward to your next big thing. twss.
- Josh Haley
XKCD's View Source is classic. Sample: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="QBASIC">IF $BROWSER = "IE" THEN GOTO 50</SCRIPT>
- Stephen Mack
First, FriendFeed is _not_ going away. (in fact, we're working on switching it to new servers) Second, I know everyone wants to know what the team is working on, but we don't pre-announce things, so for now all I can say is that there's good stuff on the way. Re: http://friendfeed.com/jworthi...
Paul, working on friendfeed.com stuff or facebook.com?
- Kol Tregaskes
I like the first sentence. The rest is just gravy.
- Derek Coward
I'm totally happy if we just reside on decent servers, and get occasional IT help... We'll keep the rest of the ship running :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Paul - is that why it's been slower lately vs.pre-fb ?
- Allen Stern
Paul please repeat it in re-phrased form: Friendfeed is NOT going to repeat destiny of Jaiku? Y/N
- A.T.
Can't wait... **Fingers tapping desk impatiently**
- AJ Batac
But what does "going away" mean, Paul? And what does "team" mean? And when you say "pre-announce", are you talking about the Palm Pre?
- Ken Sheppardson
Allen, the slowness is due to growth (more users and more data), but I put in a few fixes yesterday that should speed things up a bit.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, sometimes when I open up threads I get the Opps... error. Is that related? It has been happening more and more these last few days.
- Kol Tregaskes
Still better than twitter and facebook. Thanks for the update!
- Mike Nencetti
Paul, thanks for the incredible work with FriendFeed. Please, keep it alive! and most importantly keep it FriendFeed!
- Ciro
as long as FF doesn't go dark or fall to pieces due to lack of maintenance, i think most ppl would be appeased.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Does this mean that the sky is not falling and we should stop running around screaming GODZILLA! and pointing in the direction of FB?
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
also, thank you for making such a great service in the first place!
- Joe Silence is not dead
Thanks for the update! Would like to know if there will be actual development done on FriendFeed in the future (other than bug fixes/minor updates) but I understand if you can't really talk about that too much.
- Brandon Titus
Paul: so still no answer from you as to if your 'good stuff' is being developed for FB or FF? The silence suggests it's FaceBook you're working on, or at least transferring FF into an 'add on' for Facebook?
- Jim Connolly
Kol, fb platform and openness, primarily.
- Paul Buchheit
i made a post here - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf... - one interesting note - maybe FB keeps FF running nice and smooth to keep the early adopters happy as it's a great way to get new features out to them via this channel... just a thought.
- Allen Stern
Wow. I've had to eat my words before but these are the best-tasting ones yet!
- Akiva Moskovitz
from BuddyFeed
Akiva, just add salt. You know which kind :)
- Micah Wittman
These are the best words I could have expected by Paul. There is obviously a cultural difference between the two platforms and audience and I'm assuming both the former FF team and the FB team recognize that and are sensitive to the community. Thank you Paul and I hope you are feeling better....
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Allen, you're in good company on that thought - there were musings on that concept right after the buyout.
- Micah Wittman
I feel a few "I told you so's" coming though... :-)
- Jesse Stay
Thanks Paul. Glad you're working on maintaining/improving performance. I've definitely seen issues here. Looking forward towards your influence and changes over at the blue giant.
- Mark Krynsky
Paul - thank you for letting us know, and I do hope you feel better!
- Jennifer Dittrich
The big question though is will FriendFeed continue to add new features? There's a difference between that and it going away. (and hence my argument w/ Scoble the other day)
- Jesse Stay
Paul: Seriously weird that you're there reading this, and totally ignoring each relevant, yes no question. No one's asking you to pre announce anything - just genuinely concerned (and increasingly so) that they do NOT include developing for FF.
- Jim Connolly
Jesse: Paul answers that question - BOOM - rumour mill dies and we finally get something positive to say. Ya know what - we won;t get an answer though. He's reading this, he knows the answer, but he won't.
- Jim Connolly
Jesse: For now, FF has more features than any other platform for this type of niche. There's some catching up to do before I'm worried about new features.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
AWESOME!! Thanks for helping to quell some concerns Paul. Looking forward to what comes next, but hope that FF never dissappears also.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Shouldn't we be asking the facebook guys, and let Paul keep working? Or is he wearing many hats (friendfeed head honcho and facebook openess builder)?
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Paul: I'm right, right? There's something stopping you from saying that you are no longer adding new features to what 'we' know as Friendfeed?
- Jim Connolly
Not for nothing, but I took my friendfeed embed off my tiny blog for a few weeks after the facebook buy out. There was just this empty spot on my eyesore of a website, so I put the embed back. We care because we like the connections we've made here and don't want to lose them. It's personal for us to.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Paul: Amazing how quickly you guys have adopted the Facebook attitude to silence. Pity.
- Jim Connolly
Paul: blink twice if you will add new features to FF. I won't tell anyone, honest.
- Edward Zwart
FWIW he did just upgrade servers. My e-mail notifications are almost real-time. Sounds to me like they're still improving the service.
- Jesse Stay
Jim: Don't blame Paul on that, it's not fair. He's only allowed to say so much at this point but I'm very satisfied on what he said.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Jesse: The questions not if they keep the servers running - we want to know if this is a dead platform.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: in Paul's defense Facebook's PR is more controlling than FriendFeed's was. I'm sure he's having to consider the effects his words will have on other people inside Facebook. But, I'm VERY HAPPY that Paul is here giving us hints as to what's coming. I wish it had happened six weeks ago so we wouldn't have lost so many people, but maybe that would happen anyway.
- Robert Scoble
Jim, there may be a few new things, but as I said, the team is mainly working on fb platform and openness, so it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff (except maybe one that I've been thinking about for a while...).
- Paul Buchheit
Did the Walrus think about Feed Splicing? :-)
- Robert Scoble
Paul: Finally - THAT'S what we were wondering.
- Jim Connolly
Cool Dude: Need it to have a classier forum than the parent; Parent is still good but the options here make it just a bit nicer.
- ThatDBD
Paul: Pity. At least we now know not to expect any developments or improvements. Thanks for answering the question. Whilst it confirmed my fears, it's good to know what's happening.
- Jim Connolly
I have no problem with FB integration (notice my drool above). Hoping for good friend conversion tools to bring subscribers over as friends or fans on Facebook from FriendFeed. (Connect.registerUsers FTW!)
- Jesse Stay
As a result - Jim has left the platform.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: this is a change from last week, by the way. My sources were telling me that we weren't going to get any new features and now Paul is refuting that and saying we might get one new feature here.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still drooling - anyone have a towel?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I'll buy you a virtual one over on Ning.
- Robert Scoble
personally, i would be happy just to have FF not fall apart and die. given the post-acquisition situation, anything beyond that is gravy!
- Joe Silence is not dead
Robert, I heard Ning is dead - care to send me one on Facebook? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Robert, think of it as 20% time. If there's a feature I want, I'll just add it :)
- Paul Buchheit
Thank you for the clarification, Paul, and hope you are feeling better.
- WorldofHiglet
a communication channel that will be around and getting improved no matter what happens, our blogs :D I'll be commenting on yours Jim. 20%, that's a helluva light better than 0%, that's actually much more than I expected. Could we crowd source funding to buy you more %?
- Mark Essel
Even if there no new features in Friendfeed, I am happy with Friendfeed just staying on.
- ashish
how many users are there on friendfeed is there any chance we could buy it out (and get a full time dev staff back)? This platform rules, the dev team is incredible (albeit on facebook stuff now).
- Mark Essel
Paul, if you wanted me to bake you some cookies, all you had to do was ask, GEEZ.
- Derrick
Question: how many facebook bucks do we have to buy in total to get Paul and team working on friendfeed more of the time (100% ;)
- Mark Essel
Twitter doesn't accept cupcakes any more (just check Foursquare when at their offices). How about FriendFeed? :-)
- Jesse Stay
Mark, I'm okay with better Facebook integration. There's a lot of power in that (hence my drooling).
- Jesse Stay
I've got mixed feelings Jesse. I have friends on facebook. Then I have people that get excited by the same stuff that I do on friendfeed
- Mark Essel
Mark, I'm really hoping it ends up the best of both worlds - that would be really cool
- Jesse Stay
im going back to efnet - i got a bus for 7pm - anyone want on? :-P
- Allen Stern
I don't think you can mix the two sites at all. This has been repeated over and over. FriendFeed's technology might be portable, the concept, no.
- Jorge Escobar
Is it too late to do something about it. If it's a question of funds, can't we raise some? I mean this is the best communication platform I've come across yet. Facebook could be, if they just handed over the reigns to Paul, but its unlikely that sort of shift could happen.
- Mark Essel
Is the user perceived need of a full time devoted dev staff a fallacy?
- Mark Essel
I think you could make the case that some sites and services can in fact be "done" at some point, and simply require resources to keep them up and running.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: That's a potential advantage of turnkey application-level hosting such as App Engine: the resources to keep them up and running are almost entirely outsourced. ~All costs are variable costs, monetization improves over time, variable costs decline over time, so services that are "done" can literally just coast.
- Daniel Dulitz
They could open up something like friendfeed. Distributed social networks, with many servers would make search more challenging (search like status could help). The Internet keeps on chugging, it's a distributed information network that's been alive for many years. Our social networks should live, as does the underlying Internet.
- Mark Essel
Nice Daniel, I've been having fun playing around there (frankensearch.appspot.com). I'm using it to get to learn a little more about scala and lift now.
- Mark Essel
might be a full-time job times 2 or 3 for any fresh devs - safe to say Paul's got a bit of a head-start which changes that equation significantly! .... Also maybe almost as important is simply keeping spammers in check - that makes the difference between a ghost town vs the happy place here we want to keep coming back to enjoy ...
- Dan Freeman
Istanbuldan buyuk bir eferimi hakketti bu cocuklar, bizim icin calisiyorlar
- MobilAdam
from fftogo
Yes, this helps a lot. Thank you, Paul. We were beginning to fight amongst ourselves over these things.
- Kamilah Gill
I bet a good contextual advertising box off to the side could generate 35-50million dollars in 6 months with a user base of 1 million people. The assumption is that the average user spends 100-200 bucks on the site making purchases they'd normally make anyway and the affiliate percentage goes to the social host.
- Mark Essel
Friendfeed's health needn't be measured by the team's willingness to add new features. Shovels haven't changed in hundreds of years, but nobody is running around saying shovels are dying. A shovel is a great tool --a simple one, at that. If anything, I'd take away features on FF, but that's just me. Thanks for jumping in, Paul.
- Chris Baskind
Chris: the problem is that a shovel doesn't get more utility the more people that use it. FriendFeed does.
- Robert Scoble
I think the problem is that some people feel extra messianic some days (which is perfectly okay), and then refuse to see/believe/accept when others don't feel the same way AND point it out. The refusing part is not really okay, I guess.
- Michael Bravo
Thanks for these reassuring words Paul. Have been working hard to get more Flickr users over here after the recent rash of censorship there. Friendfeed's TOS and lack of censorship is a breath of fresh air compared to Flickr.
- Thomas Hawk
I wouldn't say lack of censorship, but community moderated filters. ;)
- CW™
I think you're unnecessarily complicating the discussion by adding new vocabulary, Robert. Now you're talking scale, not features. A product needn't expand its feature set to remain useful. Feature creep is the devil, anyway. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
You can’t predict what the future of technology will bring; so trying is a fool’s game. You can only adapt to the new realities as best you can. Paul's word is that it is still worth the time to invest in FF the tool. The tool may stay in this form but that's still a better design for me than Twitter. If FF is a shovel, Twitter is a spoon feature-wise. Audience volume-wise, it is the reverse.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Ok here's an example of what the social media + contextual ads could like like (sorry can't embed iframe twitter they go full screen so I showed it with friendfeed). But the idea is clear: http://victusmedia.com/social-... This works by sending your tweet stream to zemanta, and then does some backend stuff (which we're working on improving) to get relevant ads from amazon
- Mark Essel
I've been rough on you guys in some comments around, but I'm VERY encouraged to see that you guys see a future for FF. Thanks for shining some light, Paul.
- Scott of Two Countries
A respectable amount of information. Thank you.
- Matthew DeVries
Chris: Pownce had more "features" than Twitter did, yet it died. So did other aggregators like Jaiku. It's not "features" that matter in social software. Well, at least not completely. It's a combination of features with crowds that matter. If the crowds leave FriendFeed has a lot less utility to everyone than if they flow in. Look at this item here. Why is it interesting? Because there's people here talking about it.
- Robert Scoble
take your time PB Bear take your time
- Thomas Power
This is definitely more of the answer we were looking for. Thanks, Paul.
- Alex Scoble
All I can say is "thank you" for letting us know what's going on. I'm glad to hear FF will be around for the foreseeable future. :-) LONG LIVE FRIENDFEED!
- Jason Huebel
I can't find any wave that is even remotely comparable with friendfeed's conversation, if you found one will you invite me? (muzzle at googlewave)
- Emme Ci
Great news, I await the new functions eagerly
- Mo Kargas
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best thing I've seen ALL day!! woo hoo!! Thanks Paul :) {{{ HUG }}}
- Susan Beebe
Just a few words of assurance go a long way, Paul. Thank you for finally giving us something more solid to stand on. It's been frustrating for a lot of us waiting for the other shoe to drop and this news makes it much easier to keep investing time in FriendFeed. Please don't be shy about reaffirming that it's not going away on a regular basis because it's always good to hear.
- Her Lindsay-ness
I will say it for the least time! Friendfeed kicks ass :). The rest who is saying friendfeed is dying. please SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
- alfred westerveld
"As a result - Jim has left the platform. - Jim Connolly" - Was this guy ever on the platform?! A quick glance at his most recent posts [first page] show pretty much 100% of posts made from other platforms. Cut him and his blood runs blue. Twitter blue :)
- 1x29
IF you glance over the Right Wing guys publications-there is some serious Terrorism encouragement from those sociopaths. This looked like a real strong example of what they are encouraging their followers to do??? Been saying we need to pay attention they are respectable foes to intelligence and their agenda is to win at all costs. Dudes they are great foes, need to,got to, have to pay attention to what they are doing. Peace love your neighbors dudes.
- ThatDBD
@ThatDBD I think you're responding to the wrong thread...
- Her Lindsay-ness
It's fascinating that so many people seem worried about new features. Until recently Twitter added almost no features at all and yet it continued to grow in popularity. FriendFeed's recent slump is all about perception, not tech.
- Eoghann Irving
these conversations take too much time for narcisists with tight schedules (stars). Publicity skyrocketed Twitter to the limelight. Friendfeeds champions are tech geeks, and folks that love chatting and sharing. There aren't many of us though. Give us time, or let us own the platform with a public ipo /buyin from facebook. Free friendfeed!
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Looks like it's official then: FriendFeed lives! On new servers, even! (At least for now...)
- Dennis Jernberg
This is great news! Thanks, Paul, for the update, and if you get a hankering for a feature, great! I'm fine with the tech being your personal sandbox in exchange for keeping the service alive. Robert, I hope this means we'll see more of you and your family - and hear from the ones who have mastered the art of rolling over. Johnny, thanks for having the courage to ask the hard questions (and Louis for helping you frame the issues.) wow - life feels good again!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
This is brilliant news from Paul! Now can we put this FriendFeed is dying business to rest please? It's a self fullfilling prophecy because by saying FF is dying, folks begin leaving, causing a downward spiral which would then cause it to come true!
- technogran
Wan't it to stay? Then begin spreading the word! Get others to use it! At the moment its not mainstream so encourage ordinary users to use FF! The more popular it becomes the less likely it is to fold.
- technogran
technogran: sorry, today you see what's going on. Bing? Displays your Facebook and Twitter tweets. Google? Twitter. Where's FriendFeed in this equation? Now do you get why FriendFeed is destined to be a tiny niche player and why the real action is on Facebook?
- Robert Scoble
Robert, if FF gives me what I'm looking for, why do I care where "the real action" is? If FF serves its niche well, what's the downside?
- Scott of Two Countries
Robert, do you mean that Google doesn't index Friendfeed posts? Friendfeed is the first site that comes up if you search for my name.
- Victor Ganata
Excellent point Victor - but FF only imports a small % of twitter's posts. Ergo Google is still not getting Twitter.
- Roberto Bonini
@Scobleizer - this item is not interesting because of the conversation. it's interesting because of who it's from, and what he said. The fact that there's a conversation around it and that conversation is easy to find and read is a bonus (a feature) that sets this service head and shoulders above others (IMHO). There's really not much interesting in the comments here, if you ask me. You could get rid of all the comments that aren't Paul's and the value of the entry doesn't diminish that much.
- Chris Heath
That isn't to say that conversations around items aren't ever useful or valuable (or interesting as robert says)... but in this case i would say it's who it's from and what he said.
- Chris Heath
Chris: you nailed, in a single paragraph, why Twitter is winning. You now can choose who shows up on your screen and under what context. Well, I can because I have list support. Everyone else will get that next month. Victor: Roberto is right. I barely see ANY of the good stuff I see on Twitter come over here. Well, it comes here because of my favorites feed, but that isn't in nearly as useful a form as it is over at http://www.twitter.com/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you keep saying that's the reason Twitter's winning - I can do that in Facebook and FriendFeed as well.
- Jesse Stay
Well, the problem is that Google doesn't seem to index tweets as well as it indexes Friendfeed posts. And Google has never been able go inside Facebook's walled garden. Hopefully that will change.
- Victor Ganata
(and I have been able to for the last year or so)
- Jesse Stay
Victor, that changed today - see ReadWriteWeb's post. Facebook is opening up public status messages to search engines now.
- Jesse Stay
Why is Twitter/Facebook/FriendFeed a zero sum game? I use both Twitter and FriendFeed a lot - they have different strengths - and they feed into each other. Facebook I use less, but that's a personal issue because I simply like it less. Why does there have to be a winner? And +1 Scott, if I'm in the niche market that FF is serving and I'm happy with it, why should I care if "the real action" is on Facebook? If that's the case, I'll take FF's "fake action," thank you very much.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Paul: Thank you for letting us know status as much as you are able. The fact that you took time to write anything says a lot. So thank you for that. And thank you for FriendFeed in general. It truly does rock. Have a great day.
- Morgan Haley
Why don't you just give us all Facebook accounts for the one's that don't have them and be done with it. But the Turbocharged FF/FB accounts!!
- Gene Williams
@Gene, sorry, you'll have to wait for a FB invite like everyone else!
- Andrew C
@Andrew Oh that sucks, I'm still waiting for my Facebook invite. Do you have one to spare?
- Patrik Johansson
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
You must have respect for wives. That they could see anything other than the geeks we looked like in those days makes you believe in clairvoyance. Of course now you would qualify as a silver fox.
- JR Holmes
from Nambu
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
I have to admit, Ubuntu's pretty snazzy for a Linux distribution. I ran it briefly when I was experimenting with the Linux version of XBMC.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yes. My neighbor with the intel Mac just had a baby and is busy, so i have to wait to make my boot USB drive. :p For now I am using Win 7 on it so I have something to compare.
- Josh Haley
I love it! where can I get an invite?????
- Martha
from BuddyFeed
That enclose in fingers "squeeze your head" trick actually almost works. As in, it almost doesn't look weird that the computer might fit in your hand. TINY!
- Chieze Okoye
An invite to the tiniest computer in the world! They must be selling for at least $80 on ebay right now.
- Martha
Apparently there is no single movie that is harder for Netflix to predict your reaction to than Napoleon Dynamite. From a ratings perspective, it's the most controversial movie they've ever come across. I completely understand this, and personally fall on the 'hated it' side. You?
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
The first time I saw it I loved it. Then I watched it with a friend and hated it. I've seen bits and pieces of it since then and am now ambivalent. Oh how I wish I were making a joke..
- Joe Pierce
Loved It, but don't expect to watch it 10 times.
- Louis Gray
Hated it the first time I saw it. Then fell in love with it after repeated viewings. Now it's one of the most quoted movies around here next to Big Trouble in Little China and Big Lebowski.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'll take Big Trouble in Little China and Big Lebowski over Princess Bride and Monty Python and the Holy Grail any day of the week.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hated so much I couldn't finish watching it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
thought it was massively unimpressive, but not hate-worthy by any means.
- Bren, Photophobe
It was OK. But isn't the problem here that we're rating on a linear scale? People like different movies at different times for different reasons. Context is important. Who are you watching the movie with? I have long believed that Netflix would get a lot more mileage out of their star ratings if they augmented them with some qualitative measures. Of course, that is easier said than done.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Ah yes, the Monty Python problem. Quoting movies to the point where previously good movies become annoying.
- Rob H.
I did not like actually watching it, but people quoting it later can be kinda funny. Also, I'm pretty convinced that LaFonda is supposed to be a dude in drag, but no one else ever sees that.
- Clare Dibble
Liked it way more than I thought I would. I had consciously avoided it, but then a friend convinced me to finally see it, and certain absurd bits of it crack me up every time I think about them. Not a great movie overall, but worth it for those bits.
- Kamilah Gill
Apparently I have the exact opposite sentiment as Akiva re: Princess Bride & Monty Python. As for Napolean Dynamite, it had its moments but is kind of depressing IMO.
- G. Sigh
lol, I liked it. It ALL has to do with what frame of mind you were in when you watched it.
- Will Higgins™
Loved it completely and watched it over and over -- a big part of the humor and sadness in these (and perhaps an explanation for the love-hate gap) may be the film's style itself emulating the non-heroic "trying & failing" theme of its protagonists (as opposed to heroic trying & failing, which causes drama), i.e. plot elements & jokes & more which purposefully fail to deliver to...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Funny enough I treat Napolean Dynamite kinda like Shakespeare. I didn't particularly like but was happy to have seen it because of all the cultural references. Strangely I've never seen the big Lebowski or Big trouble in Little China and don't really hear references to them day to day. IMO the three must see films are Monty Python and the holy Grail, Princes bride, and Army of Darkness.
- Dario Gomez
Are u kidding me? They Gave You the Nobel Peace Prize? Really? Sorry to ask Mr. President, but Do you even know the definition of the word "Peace" sir? Just Look At Your Face In The Mirror And Ask Yourself how often you Really Think About Other People in other Countries? You Can't even Get Your Troops Out Of Iraq and the whole world is wondering whether you guys are just staying there 4...
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- Holy Killer
Especially when you know he is responsible for the murder of Hundreds of My innocent Brothers And Sisters… Just Because You're preoccupied with the Oil in Iran And Fear they might make an atomic bomb one of these days and pass it on to Hamas & Hizbollah to use against Israel doesn't give you the right to remain silent. You know what Mr. President? I Don't Believe in your Audacity of...
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- Holy Killer
Totally agree with Holy Killer. now that you have won the prize, you can at least start doin somethin to show you deserve it.... and that somethin better be good Sir ;-) you see... the world needs to be reassured...over and over again!
- Miss Self-Abort
Hey Mr. President! I'm not agree with Holly Killer and the others. Now would you grant me a green card for being nice and supportive? :D
- AutoBioFeeder
حاج مهدی سلام . خوبی شما؟ به انگلیسی از اوباما بپرس جریان اختراع دینامیت رو می دونه یا نه :دی
- وانا
بچه ها ندید بدید بازی در نیارین...حالا فک می کنه رییس جمهور آمریکاست مرتیکه
- MilaD
آن که نامش بود باراک ، هست بی عرضه و با چاک
- وانا
بچهها ببینم میتونیم یه کاری کنیم که جمیعا از اینجا پرتمون کنن بیرون و بلاک حتی :دی خیلی علاقه دارم از جانب یه سیاستمدار برنده جایزه نوبل بلاک شم حتی :دی
- Miss Self-Abort
Interesting that the vast majority of the discussion in this thread concerning an American president's acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize is in Farsi.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
يعني يه سيخ و منقل هم پيدا نميشه! اينا كه كلي ادعا دارن...! شام هم كه ندارن! حالا نگفتيد باراك چه كاره است؟ تو مايكروسافت كار ميكنه؟ اسمش آشناستها...
- hadi kh
that's cause Iranians are a huge majority on the net Mohomed ;-)
- Miss Self-Abort
Mr President when ever you want to answer me just call me and tell my secretary you won Nobel !he will let you go through my private line!
- phouzhan
Hi Mr President, I am great Iranian political analyst and I want to help you.(One of my works is predicting Iran election that you can find it on my blog). My mother say I one day become a great person and I think that day is come. for more information make comment in my blog. I will contact with you.
- Darieh
میشه دوستام رو هم بیارم؟البته اینا بر میگردن،اما من می مونم،میشل جان خوبن ضمناً؟!بچه هم قد ما هم نداری ازدواج کنیم! می دونی ازدواج یه ارانی تر تبار با یه آمریکایی آفریقایی تبار باعث میشه بچه اینا با هیچ کدوم از این نژاد ها نجنگه!تو فیلم روبان قرمز می گفت به خدا!//جناب مترجم کبابت می کنم اگه سانسور کنی!
- aka "lefthanded"®
بعد اینکه من می دونم این پیام منو پخش نمی کنید! اما ما از مدیران آب و فاضلاب شهرستان هردنبیل آباد می خوایم به آب و فاضلاب اینجا رسیدگی کنن،آسفالت هم نداریم،من هم ی کارم!
- aka "lefthanded"®
all of that comments just kidding,happy times,bye ;)
- aka "lefthanded"®
تجمع اعتراضآمیز به همدستی رژیم اشغالگر نروژ با استکبار جهانی فردا 10 صبح از روبهروی منزل آقای شریعتمداری به سمت دفتر کیهان برگزار میشود
- Darth Farhad Sama
دوستان کارمون تمومه فید اوباما رو خراب می کنید فردا بهمون حمله می کنه اون موقع باید احمدی نژادی بشیم :دی
- hozeh
the majority of Iranians hate A.N. and that's why we don't think President Obama deserved this noble cause he closed his eyes to all recent incidents in here
- Darth Farhad Sama
We didn't close our eyes to anything - only Iranians can change their government - not us.
- Joe
ای ملت رئیس جمهور ندیده :)))) بابا اکانت توییترش را کسی اضافه کرده به فرندفید حالا ملتی به شما می خندند که اینها چقدر جدی گرفته اند
- farzaam
then stop negotiating with our criminal government!
- Darth Farhad Sama
فرهاد جون عالیه...بحثو به جای منم ادامه بده
- blind_owl
Stop complaining and continue to attempt make a change in your own country.
- Joe
@فرزام: چقدرم ملت جدی گرفتن!!! بابا دهن فید رو سرویس کردیم با این مدل کامنت ها!
- علی آقا
We're already doing that Joe, risking our lives going to streets and protest in every available event! what else do you expect? start an open war with 100000 fully armed IRGC military force with near 2.500.000 Basiji militia?!
- Darth Farhad Sama
u r in the road that carter was before
- Liquid Soul
Hey joe what's wrong with you? Hah?
- Mr.Chocolate
Thank you PEOPLE of America! but we're not talking about people ! it's your President who is now helping A.N boasting about major political victories and helping our government divert the point of attention away from the Crisis at hand
- Darth Farhad Sama
You are talking about the person we elected to represent us.
- Joe
OK. Obama is so much better that Bush... but the question is: does he really deserve the noble prize?
- علی آقا
The question is : does he deserve all the disrespect people have shown him on this thread?
- Joe
so do we of ours for Mousavi and Karoubi! it's our lives at stake here and your elected president started a peace talk with a criminal and illegitimate dictatorship government!
- Darth Farhad Sama
Obama did nothing to bring the peace to the world? He just talked about the peace... but what happened? are the U.S Troops out of Iraq and Afghanestan now?
- علی آقا
دمت گرم مستر شکلات عزیز...داری با طرف بحث میکنی که نوبل حق کروبی بود:)))
- blind_owl
اي بابا... ولي خودمونيمها، اين جايزه نوبل مسخره تر از اين حرفا شده! حتي حيفه كه به يكي مثل كروبي اين جايزه رو بدن! همين كه به يكي مثل اوباماي تازه كار دادن، خودش حسّابي اين جايزه رو خز كرده!
- hadi kh
یا االله ... یا الله . خانوما چارقدشون رو سر کنن ، حاج آقا جنت مکان اومدن واسه سخنرانی
- وانا
خداييش ديگه اين يارو مترجه "چارقدر" رو نميتونه ترجمه كنه! =))))
- hadi kh
DrHussein you Arzeshi bros are always amazing! although I support Palestine too it doesn't mean you have to kill someone to support another! stop with your 30 years of nonexistence enemy of IRI already!
- Darth Farhad Sama
جناب هادی خ @ دست کم نگیرید این ملت جاسوس را . اینا حتی میدونن برو خونتون کنایه از چیست . مثل ما نیستند که برای علافی فرفرگردی کنند
- راحیل
اوباما جایزه صلح نوبل میگیرد، دقیقا بعد از اینکه تصویب میکنند نیروهای آمریکایی فعلا در عراق و افغانستان بمانند :) / چه جايزهي مسخرهاي، چه جايزهگيرندهي مسخرهتري!
- hadi kh
فحش ناموس هم می شه داد؟ سلام منو به دختر خانوم کلینتون برسونید
- مرحوم محمدمسيح
آلفرد نوبل زمانی که برادرش لودویگ فوت شد، روزنامهها اشتباهاً فکر کردند که نوبل معروف (مخترع دینامیت) مرده است. آلفرد وقتی صبح روزنامه ها را میخواند با دیدن آگهی صفحه اول، میخکوب شد: "آلفرد نوبل، دلال مرگ و مخترع مرگ آور ترین سلاح بشری مرد!" آلفرد، خیلی ناراحت شد. با خود فکر کرد: آیا خوب است که من را پس از مرگ این گونه بشناسند؟ سریع وصیت نامهاش را آورد. جملههای بسیاری را خط زد و...
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- hadi kh
It's funny how an Iranian is counting himself among the Americans and referring to them as us....
- Miss Self-Abort
But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women, and all Americans, want to build -- a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents. And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes. And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action -- a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century.
- Buddy press
آخه این چه رفتار زشتی بود که با جو داشتین آخه .می خواستم جورش کنم بیاد منو بگیره که دور بعدی بتونم به میس تر پیس -اسپلش:پی آی دابل اس - رای بدم.. نامردا خدا ازتون نگذره!
- Mahsa
ما بازم دیر رسیدم ولی دریافت جایزه نوبل رو به جناب اوباما تبریک عرض میکنم و البته من هم با آقای متکی موافقم! دریافت این جایزه برای آقای اوباما زود بود و بهتر این بود که این جایزه رو به احمدی نژاد می دادن به پاس جنایات و فجایع قبل و بعد انتخابات
- Mohammad Mirzaie
I just like this writing but i do not understand what they mean! cool but atleast i can read and understand f.ahmadinejad, which is funny. hey! visit my site http://www.vinonagroup.com
- VinonaGroupServicesUSA
آقا مبارکه Congratulation Sir فقط but لطفا pls حمایت کن از دموکراسی support democrasi :D:D
- Jan Valjan
Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama - good. Now the goals --- 1. stop Iraq devastating costly colonial occupation war. --- 2. stop Afghanistan occupation war. --- 3. Cut US military budget of $1 trillion to $300 billion a year. http://costofwar.com. China military budget is $60 bill a year .. China has a surplus of $2 trillion, US, by wild capitalism de-investing and industries...
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- Petr Buben
Looks like the patent was granted on October 7th.
- Kevin Fox
The barcode is in Code-128 and decodes to Googleg.
- Mark Trapp
Tooltip says 'Invention of the barcode'
- Glenn Slaven
Ahh. My tooltips in Firefox broke when I upgraded to Snow Leopard (no idea why). Now when I read xkcd I have to look at the image properties to get the alt text!
- Kevin Fox
Just saw this on Google. It's one of their better logo's:)
- Michael Fidler
Well at least bar codes are older than I am! Happy birthday Bar Codes!
- Mark Jepsen
57 years old today and they don't look at day older than | || || |||| || | | ||
- Stephen Mack
"The now inescapable bar code celebrates its 57th anniversary Wednesday - a milestone unmissed by Google, which replaced its home page logo with a bar code "doodle" that translates to "Google.""
- Tim Tyler
Hahaha :) Very cruel indeed. Curious to see if this is adopted, corporate users who have IE may still be unable to even install a plugin... but at the very least this still lowers the barrier to HTML5 enabled pages.
- James Kuypers
It is not even fork, it is inside piracy... this is provocation ;-)
- Thierry Lhôte
Do the people who don't have permissions to install a non-IE browser have permissions to install plugins?
- Sean O'Connor
Sean, think of enterprises who have IE6-only legacy internal apps. CF lets them build _new_ internal apps to HTML5, so that someday they can leave IE6. Otherwise they need to dual-target _all_ their apps to IE6 and modern browsers before they can switch. Painful. Also, many enterprises who feel it's too disruptive to move from IE6 may be okay with installing CF, because it's default-off. Let's say half of all enterprises do. Now the need to support IE6 goes down even more.
- Daniel Dulitz
Fantastic hack but won't take off. Fix the core issue and get people to upgrade or switch, enough with the band-aids.
- Dave Evans
Now what about a firefox plugin? Is this open source chromium or chrome...
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Dave, the core issue is that enterprises with IE6-only legacy internal apps don't have the resources to run a modern browser. CF fixes the core issue.
- Daniel Dulitz
Dave hit my issue dead-on. Installing a plugin is a cheat when the real issue is educating people on why more modern browsers are better.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
from iPhone
"education" is typically the worst solution to a technical problem.
- Paul Buchheit
yes, education is a slow solution, because most people tend to resist change. better show them there is a better way without forcing them to change anything :)
- George Moga
I'd actually love to see the opposite: IE8 running inside Chrome, just like the IE Tab plugin for Firefox. I use Chrome for almost everything, but Outlook webmail looks and works so much better in IE8, and I doubt that Microsoft will be working very hard to fix that.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, yeah being able to choose the browser type for a tab would be really cool for testing websites.
- Cristo
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
This reminds me of a song my mom used to sing to me (and I now sing to my kids): I have two hands - the left and the right/ Hold 'em up high so clean and bright/ Clap them slowly one, two, three/ Clean little hands are good to see. :)
- April Buchheit
Welcome Baby Ryan!!! My baby Ryan (17 years!) and I are honored to welcome another superstar to our planet! Love, hugs, and lots of kisses to Baby Ryan, Mommy Maryam, Dad Robert and big brothers Milan & Patrick and of course Grandma!!! My guess on Ryan's arrival (predication) was only 23 hours off. I thought he would arrive on Friday, Sept. 18th at 11:45 pm. Love to all, Kelly & Ryan Kim
- Kelly S. Kim
What a moment, eh? I remember when my daughter came into this world, it was so exciting there were no words for it. Congrats on your wonderful baby boy!
- Michael J. Carrasquillo
Congratulations! Welcome to the world, Ryan. :-)
- Yvette Ferry
Congratulations Robert and Maryam! And welcome Ryan. If I was having a baby today, I'd begin a blog for him/her straight away as an online diary they could look back on when grown up.
- Sandra Large
الهــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــی چقده ناز نازیه.اینو فارسی نوشتم مریم جان بخونن ....راستی به باباش که نرفته:)) خوشگلتره:)) پس به شما رفته
- joupy
I was a c-section six week preemie in an era when that was seriously life-threatening, they didn't know if I would make for the first week. It always gets me a see a c-section / preemie come howling into the world. Welcome, little guy!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
Beautiful baby! Congratulations daddy man :)
- Gary
:) Congrats Robert... best wishes to your family! Get her name in twitter and ff!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Right ON! I am so happy for you. I have 4 kids of my own and they are my greatest joys. Take care and I hope all goes so smooth for him and mom.
- Robert Anderson