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Chromium nightly build adds memory-saving 'phantom tab' support - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...

January 22, 2010 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Mona Nomura, Beau Liening, Roberto Bonini and 4 other people liked this

looks like the implementation that Chrome OS was using - Chris Heath

John, Speed Dial; Google Mail Checker Plus if you use Gmail; history2; and Chromed Bird. I'm still patiently waiting for 1Password extension. - Akiva

I use Google Mail Checker Plus, Digg for Chrome, Feedly, Google Translate, gPDF, RSS Subscription Extension (by Google), Xmarks, and Aviary Screen Capture - Sarah Perez

Doesn't look like this works in OS X. - Akiva

Akiva: OS X impl is usually 4-6 weeks behind the windows impl. - Edwin Khodabakchian

My Blog post re 40 power extensions for Chrome --> http://www.susanbeebe.com/tools... - Susan Beebe

Awesome Susan! - i've been sticking to the full release version, so as soon as extensions come to it i'll come right back here to find your post again and load up my favorite extensions - Chris Heath

goat? what? "whoosh!" - Chris Heath

yeah... my version doesn't even have that 'feature' i can't right-click on the processes... is that special for the dev version? - Chris Heath

..... riiiiiight ... - Chris Heath

so, Chrome (main channel) upgraded to version 4 overnight for me - anyone else? I'm grabbing some extensions this morning based on Susan's blog post linked above. Any other suggestions? - Chris Heath

One Number sounds cool - Google Reader, Voice, Wave, and GMail notifier https://chrome.google.com/extensi... - Chris Heath

Louis Gray

Good News and Bad News About Christmas Decorations... (via my younger brother)

December 3, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Iván Abrego, Derrick, Jason Williams and 14 other people liked this

"Well, there is good news and bad news about my Christmas decorations this year Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever. Great stories. But two things made me take it down. First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by. Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard..." - Louis Gray

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"Kind of feel like I gave in to the man by taking him down but my neighbor did confirm two near miss accidents on the busy street next to my house. I think I made him too real this time So it was fun while it lasted." - Louis Gray

Above is via an e-mail forward from my brother - not his house. - Louis Gray

That's great. - SAM

This is a great xmas decorations story! - Freddie Benjamin

That's awesome! - Beau Liening

Too funny. I just may have to try this. - Chris Nalty

that is not nice although a voice recording of some yelling would have helped too - Allen Stern

Rick Turoczy

"Hey, I just added you to my Mafia family." What a coincidence. I just add you to my shit list.

September 27, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Matt Neznanski

What do Lake Wobegon and journalism’s ‘golden days’ have in common? - http://mattneznanski.com/2009...

September 1, 2009 from The nth degree - Comment - Like - Share

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Marshall Kirkpatrick

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... (frust. w/ Friendfeed, tr.im & twitter could = innovation)

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

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Being someone who is actively thinking about a solution and someone who is somewhat disappointed in ff sale if it ends ff. The issue with self hosting is aggregation and discussions. Yes it would be pretty easy to import all data but where will the discussions, likes, discovery and sharing take place? Blogs are great but unless you have decent traffic no one will see this stuff and... more... - Darren Stuart from FriendFeed MT Plugin

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Short answer: Yes. - Gina

As Dennis said, Opera seems to be working on a browser-based implementation of distributed social networking. I think Mozilla Snowl is also a step in this direction. I imagine Google Gears might be a plausible means to store data in the browser as well. I'm pretty sure that identi.ca has an open source self-hosted option and so does Reddit. These are steps in the right direction.... more... - thegeniusfiles from FriendFeed MT Plugin

The future of social networking is git-based. I'm just not sure how, yet. - Panayotis Vryonis

Nice post Marshall. I sure hope this gets a movement going but I'm not holding my breath. There's some pretty big hurdles to overcome. P.s. I like your use of Thomas' Lifestream screenshot for the post. I'm guessing you saw that in my latest custom Lifestream gallery post yes? :) - Mark Krynsky

or emacs. META-X-POST-KITTEN-PICTURE - mikepk

i have outlined how distributed options could work in old threads here - after all, irc, laconi.ca/identi.ca, newsgroups and jabber all work perfectly well in a distributed manner - transparent to the users but sharing/splitting the load across dozens or hundreds of machines. Protocols like that give people the option to host their own, use something provided by their ISP or local providers, and yet interact with everyone. - Iphigenie

In a comment i made over on dave winer's scripting.com, i referrer to a rrw post from a while back regarding standardizing url structure: http://www.scripting.com/stories... http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... I was always fond of that concept and it seems apropos here and now. Many ideas will be... more... - sull from FriendFeed MT Plugin

YES - Dobromir Hadzhiev

We will all be assimilated in the wave.. ;) - Andy Ciordia

Sarah Perez

Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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

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Oh Sarah .... no no no :P - Chris Saad

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@Chris: oh yes, yes, yes! Please read. - Sarah Perez

we're all swooping in now! - Jim the Blatant

joining... - Jemm

I signed up a while back and encountered errors while trying to sign in. I just tried it again and still getting that same error. No Streamy for me. - Yolanda

in - andy brudtkuhl

I'm joining, if just to see what's going on in there. Same username. - Jennifer Dittrich

Well, I gave it my email address 20 minutes ago, and I've just tried with another email address. Still got nothing back. - Mark H

interesting... - Grey Drane

Hmm... commenting on FF from streamy? Where does it show up? (this is a test...) - Grey Drane

holy crap this is what FB should have been IMHO....this is what I imgine maybe FB+FF might look like? - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

OK, not sure. It's a cool idea, but it's like a slower, less optimal interface for your various social networks. All in one place, sure, but I'm thinking I'd rather keep separate tabs open than have everything crammed into one site. - Grey Drane

yeah I see what you mean...not sure.....definitely lacking importing of services though for more stuff. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ from IM

seems too busy - andy brudtkuhl

Ooooooo Shiny New Thing....... - Roberto Bonini

Finally got 3 emails turn up all at once, signed up, and... 500 Internal Server Error. I get the message. It doesn't want me. - Mark H

I got the 500 Internal Server Error too... :( - Seth Gray

you all killed it! lol - Sarah Perez

500 internal server error, could't not be my FF replacement for the moment ! - David Foucher

can't say i agree, but i like the effort ;) - Gunther Sonnenfeld

Was just finishing the sign up when it died on me. - Willem (@wim66) ☠

I hope they've improved performance. When I first got on a couple of months ago I thought it was wicked but then it started breaking on me. - Justin Whittaker

Signed up a while ago but didn't spend too long. I'll go back and see what the fuss is about. - Kenton

Just tried to sign in and it crashed (twice). Doesn't look promising. - Jill O'Neill

Let's blame Scoble (the Robert one) since he seems to be gone from FF now anyway. - Kenton

Streamy should be back online and working nice and fast. Whole team was out the lunch when we got a flood of new users, but things are smooth now. Sorry everyone! - tuxboo

Sarah, brilliant post, thank you. It's hugely valuable to see a side-by-side and to have your opinions on what needs work. We'd definitely like to make FriendFeeders comfortable on Streamy. We'll be back with updates. And hey, Chris, my friend. Don't hate ;) - Don Mosites

Which Chris? :) I'm not hating, I'm just suggesting that we need to stop making the same mistake over and over again - crowning 'winning tools' - the winning platform is the web - the tools should leverage open standards to create web-wide distributed social networks. Blogs are the right place to start - tools like streamy are great ways to aggregate the community - but not HOST it - Chris Saad

Opera browser support please. Other than that, it looks pretty good. - Alejandro

Just joined! Seems to be promising. - Joao Alves

Been using it for months. I must admit it's the best Twitter "in the cloud" client that I've used. Far better than Seesmic Web Client, at least. - Jordi Soler

Thanks Sarah! Was looking at Streamy earlier today. Just joined and happy to give it a try. Also want to check out AmpliFeeder. Not bailing from FriendFeed yet, but feel the need to investigate alternatives. - Larry Hawes

This really looks like an interesting concept:) - Rob Cairns

Joined Streamy today. Oddly, its FriendFeed feed isn't showing this thread... - Dennis Jernberg

Oh, *there* it is. I see this thread right at the top of my Streamy FF feed now. Commenting from Streamy. - Dennis Jernberg

Checking it out ... - Tom Horn

"Invalid image type. Provided image/png" I like my PNG avatar ... - Tom Horn

No but it's still a nice project... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

there is also lifestream.fm but not so useful - Ahmet Soyata

Joined! - Anthony

too slow!! - Miketrevis

Joined but could not figure out how to add FriendFeed acct - Jacque

ha! dumb errors :-L - Ac0n (former Franc)

it would be nice if you could opt out of the 'ping every network' but still link your accounts. I haven't seen any settings for that in squirmy, I mean streamy. - hollyrae

Facebook won't buy this - ThenWang

I still think it's a nicer UI than socialmedian - Ac0n (former Franc)

For some reason it isn't letting me log in anymore. I remember when people were anxiously awaiting Streamy, and then with all the delays, it seemed like people just forgot about it :P - Angelo Rodrigues

If the rumors come true it will be a sad day indeed... this alternative looks interesting though....thanks' - Bill Masson

That was a very thorough review. - Amani

Thanks Sarah. Great review. - Iván Abrego

Couldn't even log in...I really hope there's another friendfeed clone out there that is easy to use... - brainno722 (Peter)

Don't think they're ready... - Brad

no, they're not ready yet... but can they be by the time the need arises? I think it's in there. - Jim the Blatant

Hey all, we made some fixes to avoid the crashes you were experiencing on Streamy. Be sure to check back in again soon. Thanks for trying us out! - Don Mosites

nice ... thanks for the update. Any news on some new features coming up in the future? - Amani from IM

I tried it last night. It's wonderful. But the loading speed wasn't that good. Or is it only me? - Erfun

not just you. - Jim the Blatant

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