Someone should totally hack twitter's "twitter is down" notices with a "why not pop over to friendfeed instead" redirect. - Slippy Lane
I have to concur with "Moan Cone." I'm following fewer people on FF so I feel like I'm stepping into a mostly empty pantry. I have my favorite cereals but no chips or hearty Chef Boy Ardee meals. - Cam
Twitter down. 3 million tweeple working again. Economic indicators jump. - Mike Lizun
It's funny. I'm in FF now because of the "Moan Cone" and all i can think of is "look at all the potential people I can follow on Twitter". I need the "Betty Ford" equal to Twitter addiction. - David Bisset
No need for interventions, David! Better to follow people here and you get their tweets plus all their other lovely activity, too. YouTube, blogs, flickr, memes, songs, podcasts.....so much content..... - WorldofHiglet
so why do DB maintenance in the middle of the day? - Steve Mann
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Yea I mentioned that too -- Who does DB maint during peak hours? I doubt this was planned. - andy brudtkuhl
How do you tweet that Twitter is down when Twitter is really down? :-) - Zoli Erdos
I seriously doubt this was a "planned" maintenance as they would have posted a message well in advance... this is an UNplanned event, like most twitter outages. - Susan Beebe
Best way to avoid this reality is, make your wife and your brother a FF user too. :) - Olcayto
It's just weird in that there is a certain ambient level of conversation and then it just jumped off a cliff. I don't *feel* like I'm doing anything different. - Dave Slusher
Same thing happened to me yesterday. Rest assured, I read everything you post. I just don't have anything to add sometimes. - Paul Reynolds
I guess it's like in a restaurant when everyone just stops talking all at the same time for no real reason. - Dave Slusher
LOL...I was actually away from computer most of the weekend for a change. - Ken Kennedy
"Talking to yourself is a sign of impending mental collapse." <- Infocom - Kreg Steppe
same thing happens to me sometimes and my son is on friendfeed, you'd think at least he would feel bad for his pops and throw the me a comment ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
I'm just working 12-14 hours a day lately and can go 3-4 days without much "slack" time. - J Wynia
and you are? ......sorry, had a David Spade SNL itch to scratch... howdy - Morgan Haley
woah Matt Cutts on friendfeed - nice to see you on here! :) - Zee. Just Zee.
I just saw the voice search is turned off by default for non-U.S. users. To turn it on, click "Settings" and slide "Voice Search" to the ON position. - Matt Cutts
this app is really great. g did an amazing job. - felix
felix, glad it works well for you! I'll pass the feedback on to the team, but they probably read here anyway. :) - Matt Cutts
I've been trying various addresses and it works pretty well with them too though sometimes if I pause too long while saying the address the search starts too soon. - Loren Heiny
Loren, after some practice you start to get a feel for what timing works best. - Matt Cutts
this app just made 5 or more apps I was using obsolete! - Kelly Johns
the local search aspect of this is amazing, it knows your location so you just speak the listing you are looking for and it appears on your iphone, brilliant! - Kelly Johns
agree with Kelly. I wouldn't use it for regular search queries but for local search its great. Saves opening up Maps, hitting the locate me button and then typing your query. - Jamie
Android is the elephant in the room here. Will the G1 be getting a voice search app soon? - David Erickson
From the page: "Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations. It requires no upfront commitments and is a pay-as-you-go service in the same style as the other Amazon Web Services. " - andy brudtkuhl
"Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations. It requires no upfront commitments and is a pay-as-you-go service in the same style as the other Amazon Web Services." - andy brudtkuhl
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"In a memorandum sent to the company’s staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40, said he would hold the post until the board names his successor, a process he said he would participate in. The Yahoo co-founder said he would then return to his previous job as “chief Yahoo,” a corporate strategy role, and would remain on the board." - andy brudtkuhl
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Mr. Cuban swiftly fired back, accusing the regulator of “prosecutorial misconduct” and alleging that he was the victim of a political vendetta by the agency in the waning days of the Bush administration. - andy brudtkuhl
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"Easily add full video capabilities to any site at little or no cost" - Chris Messina
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I saw this at wordcamp NYC.. I dont really understand the advantage outside of hosting your video at places like blip, youtube, vimeo, etc.. the interesting thing is how it allows users to cut and remix videos out of other people's content.. but Im also unclear about protections available for those who don't want their content re-tooled outside of their initial intentions. - sedgewick
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From the page: "A small-scale form of blogging, generally made up of short, succinct messages, used by both consumers and businesses to share news, post status updates and carry on conversations." - andy brudtkuhl
From the page: "Enter Andy Brudtkuhl and his consulting firm, 48web, and his new resource, SocialCard.me. Andy describes it as a way to bridge the social networking gap between offline and online interactions.
It's a simple, user-managed, personal-branding resource for social media users to share all their content in one place. Here's my site: YouMetZane.com." - andy brudtkuhl
"Enter Andy Brudtkuhl and his consulting firm, 48web, and his new resource, SocialCard.me. Andy describes it as a way to bridge the social networking gap between offline and online interactions.
It's a simple, user-managed, personal-branding resource for social media users to share all their content in one place. Here's my site: YouMetZane.com." - andy brudtkuhl
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Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe. - Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet? - Costa Walcott
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see? - Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed! - Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder. - Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks? - Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for. - Roberto Bonini
Hello =) FriendFeed, as you can tell, is quite the amalgam of people, places, and views. If ever there was an opportunity to dip your toes into social media, this is it. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Louis, the Doctor called and the results are in. Call me ASAP! - Josh Haley
Hello and yes, this sort of workflow works. Instant collaborative feedback with mobile options, searchability, and threaded discussions if needed. Welcome to the future... - Glenn Batuyong
This brings to mind an old old Tonight show episode.... Johnny was talking with Arnold Palmer's wife and asked if Arnold had any superstitions that he followed before big rounds... to which she replied: "Oh yes, I have to kiss his balls before he starts." Without missing a beat, Carson comes back with " Wow, I bet that makes his putter putt" - David HC Soul
"You do more ball handling in half an hour than Larry Bird does in an entire game!" — John Candy, from "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" - Victor Ganata
THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS!! (sorry, had to be said) - Marko Bon
"This isn’t really a secret, but in case you haven’t heard - bloggers love links. Not purely for SEO reasons, we dig links because they are recognition. And, used properly, they can inspire us to action." - Mike Fruchter
This is actually very helpful, thank you. ;) ... I'm developing something for the iPhone and I don't even have one. lol - Brandon
"1. Don’t Use a JavaScript Library or CSS Framework... 2. Load Page Fragments Instead of Full Pages... 3. Don’t Build for Just One Device... 4. Optimize Everything... 5. Tell the User What is Happening... - jfayel
Wrox: Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari by Richard Wagner is another great resource if you want to learn how to create iphone web apps. :) - Daynah
"There is no singularity that can be described as "THE Cloud." There are many clouds, they're not federated, they don't natively interoperate at the application layer and they're all mostly proprietary in their platform and operation. They're also not all "public" and most don't exchange data in any form. The notion that we're all running out to put our content and apps in some common repository on someone else's infrastructure (or will) is bullshit. Can we stop selling this lemon already?" - andy brudtkuhl
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