Yeah. The fact that the "geek that can hack into the bank and transfer millions to our Grand Cayman accounts" is so common in these shows is what could make for an interesting plot. A normal geek who *can't* do that gets grabbed by terrorists who believe 24, Alias, CSI, etc. are all literally true but insist that he steal them money or die would be a tense, but funny situation.
- J Wynia
"New Super Mario Bros. Wii is one of those games that will leave you disappointed after the first level, slightly happy after the first world, and then you'll be stuck with a huge grin on your face after blasting through the game with three friends. This is a magical game, made even more impressive by how rote it may seem at first. Keep playing, however, and you'll see just how much this title offers. One of the more impressive feats the game pulls off is offering level design that is perfectly fine to play with a single player, but also benefits from having multiple people on the screen at once. If you're a loner, this is still some of the best 2D platforming you can find on the market. If you have three friends who you love/hate... be prepared for something altogether different. http://www.youtube.com/watch... "
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Your first impression may be that this is another safe release in an established series, but once you've given a few hours to playing with friends, and have seen the happy chaos that results, you'll realize that playing it safe may have been a good bet. It's not most graphically impressive game out there, but the level design is impeccable and the surprises will keep you smiling. Expect this to hit the top of the sales charts, and stay there for a long, long time."
- RAPatton
I plan on buying this as soon as I'm not completely broke.
- Jason Huebel
we just bought this for my son, he's gonna love it :)
- acedanger
If you buy the game, try to keep us posted on how well it plays... might have to get this one.
- Harold
Even in my financial broken state, I may still review this before anyone else here. I'm not saving it for Christmas. :-D
- Jason Huebel
Wait, they released a game for the Wii which doesn't feature a 3D camera that constantly swoops around and doesn't require me to stand on my head while swinging my left foot around in a counter-clockwise circle?!
- Akiva Moskovitz
(was: re: there's a reason why the most-played game on my Wii is Donkey Kong.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yet another reason for me to get a Wii (once I get a replacement for my old and now dead PlayStation 2)...
- Dennis Jernberg
This will be the reason I purchased a Wii, I love Super Mario Brothers!!! I still have my old #Nintendo (and I also have an Atari complete with every game made)
- H0llywoodWh0re
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- LogEx
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
- LogEx
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- LogEx
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- LogEx
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- LogEx
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- LogEx
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- LogEx
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
Someone will eventually win this. However, since everyone else will have clicked "Hide" by then, they won't be able to tell anyone about it.
- Mistletoe Glen
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan Haley
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- LogEx
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
dave, looks like you're a Class A No-WWW site (both www. and . work) Class B is my preference (where www. will 301 redirect to . ) http://no-www.org/faq.php
- Chris Heath
[edited your name correctly in previous comment] sorry
- Chris Heath
women, birds and potatoes ... dangerous :D
- tiracconto
Ok, that one pigeon came in like that cousin nobody likes who's always borrowing your stuff and eating all of your food!!! LOL The end was kinda creepy w/all those big pigeons. VERY Cool!!
- Dominique Pryor-Anderson
Yeah, pretty out of the blue. Taking the contract would put me about $400 a month ahead of unemployment (both before taxes) and in theory I could work elsewhere while doing it. It's the finding work that's the question: unemployment is high around here.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Looking at my calendar, I realize I started with this company 3 years ago almost to the day. Don't know what that matters, but it just struck me.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
When i got let go from last design job, I pleaded! I said cut my pay etc. I even made less than the other designer(s) and said cut one of them not me. Still didn't work. Desperate times!
- orionstarr
Yolanda, I thought about that too (the whole going out on my own thing), but I don't know about it yet. I don't want to to websites or design or coding, I'm not good enough at it to be competitive. Ditto photography...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That sucks! In regards to the 3 years thing, is it possible some benefits change then and they are being cheap about it?
- Justin Korn
That sucks Tina. :-( Hope you find something quick.
- Jordan Hofker
I too am sorry to hear this Tina. Its one thing if you can see it coming...quite another when you don't. Good luck Tina, I hope this gets resolved for you quickly. Start making moves girl.
- Carlos Ayala
You said it from the start. Fuck. Sorry you are going through this. I hope things get better for you starting right....NOW.
- Morgan Haley
Not really, Justin. I took a bit of a benefits cut by staying with the company once Boss bought it from the previous owner: I liked the working environment enough that it was worth it. Luckily my health insurance is through Dave's job (but unluckily he works in the newspaper industry).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Brush up the resume and start looking before it all comes crashing in. Easier to make a lateral move... Good luck! xo
- Fossil Huntress
Oh, no. So sorry to hear this, Tina. Hope you find something wonderful soon.
- LAMB
That sux, Tina. Maybe you can find someone with complementary skills to partner with on your own thing.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'll be honest, I'm not all that interested in a lateral move or staying in this industry if I have the option, but the question then becomes where to go if I don't stay where I am. I'd love to get back into training again but I don't know that I can after being out of it for 3 years...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sorry to hear this news. Rooting for you in Vegas, though. :) And it's a cliche, but sometimes these things happen for a reason. You know, when one door closes, another opens. Will be keeping good thoughts for you.
- Joe Bonner
Sorry *HUGS* my advice (if it matters) take the contract while you look for both contract and F/T work and let the universe help you figure it out
- Bastard Operator From FF
Sorry to hear that Tina - it really sucks (like this year hasn't been trying enough!). After the news settles in your brain will start doing it's thinky-thing and things will get moving. There are so many people here that you can bounce ideas off...((hugs))
- WorldofHiglet
Getting laid off is the new black! Not really, but someone said that when it happened to me and it's kind of true. All the coffee shops during the day are filled with us. Come make friends...and learn about all the unemployment tricks. If it helps, everyone I've met in the past 5 months has found new opportunities and are happy.
- Jess
What sort of work do you do? What sort of work are you looking for in the future?
- Scott Magdalein
My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years. I do Linux server admin, Oracle admin, Lotus Domino admin, and Lotus Notes development; I don't do any of it exceptionally well, just good enough. If I leave here I don't intend to stay in the same technologies (or even in tech at all), but other than that I have no clue.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sounds like you're not really digging what you're doing anyways. Look at this as an opportunity for change. Change is usually good. :)
- Mr Saturday Morning NFG
I'm ambivalent about what I do but enjoy who I do it for. Perhaps to be more specific: I don't like what I do enough to be willing to do it for another company (and honestly, I don't have the credentials necessary for another company to hire me to do what I do now).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That bites! Can anyone help Tina find a new gig?
- Shane
here's a secret: you don't have to be *GREAT* to make money. "good enough" is oftentimes good enough to make a living. not saying you should stick with tech if that's not where your heart is. but don't let "i'm not great" keep you from doing something.
- tiffany
I agree, I'm terrible at everything. Oh, but I don't make any money. I guess that is not helpful. Good luck.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Tiffany, it's not even a matter of being good enough: I'd have to go get several certifications to get hired doing what I do now with another company just to meet the minimum qualifications. I don't enjoy it enough to do that.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I am so sorry to hear this news, Tina. I wish you the best in deciding what to do and then pursuing it.
- Anne Bouey
Thanks for the kind wishes all, and I'm sorry for the language. Sometimes, though, foul words are really the words I'm looking for. This is one of those times...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I totally fucking know what you are fucking talking about. Fuck yeah. Sometimes the fucking fucks is all the fucking fuck that fucking allows the fucks to fuck the fuck fuck. Right? Fuck Yeah! So you go girl. Cut loose!
- Morgan Haley
Crap. What kind of work do you do / want to do? I know you were dealing with a couple of servers before (and DNS setup stuff) and that it was somewhat technical. Depending on what you're looking for I could check my network.
- mikepk
I appreciate it Mike, but I'm going hold off for just a little bit. I'm not really certain what I want to do or even if 'want' can come into the picture in this economy. I'm more than willing to telecommute if need be, but moving isn't an option.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So sorry, Tina! :( Hope this means an even better opportunity for you around the corner.
- Ayşe E.
I'm really sorry to hear that, Tina. I hope you get a brainstorm as to which way seems the best way forward. And I hope something really cool you'd very much like to do drops in your lap.
- Spidra Webster
Sorry to hear that and hoping something even better comes along for you.
- adf
Take the cut and start looking...big breaks always start this way.
- claudio alegre
from iPhone
Fuck fuck fuck. Here's looking at you. FF has got your back. Looking for a job as an oil tycoon maybe?
- Mike Nayyar
Tina, you're smart and and you have a good network, one way or the other you'll land on your feet. The short-term uncertainty is teh suck though :(
- LogEx
I took a full time job and lost 40% in pay for the same company; sad thing is that I do a LOT more work now...
- acedanger
Sorry to hear Tina......that really does suck!
- Bonnie Foster
Sorry to hear that Tina. Hope the rest of your time gets filled quickly with rewarding freelance projects or similar.
- Patrick Jordan
Tina: I noticed you said you don't have the credentials to perform your current job for another company ... are you sure about that? Nearly all employers value experience doing something over raw qualifications. You might want to test the waters first before making that assumption
- LANjackal
from IM
Because my current job duties were so varied and scattered about, LANjackal, I never became proficient enough at any one thing to warrant a position in another company without credentials. And to tell the truth, I'm ok with that; the biggest reason I enjoyed my job was because of where I worked, not because of what I was doing. I don't enjoy Notes/Domino/Oracle enough to want to do them at another company. I've got 10 long days to mull everything over in Vegas, so hopefully I'll come up with something =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina: OK, I hear you. I was just asking.
- LANjackal
from IM
Aww, thanks, Tina. And again, I'm sorry. Here's hoping that something better's on the way for you.
- James (!?)
Bummer. Good luck. Do you have any other companies/people in mind that you'd like to work with? If you connect with me on LinkedIn, you can look through my LinkedIn contacts to see if there's anyone where you might like to work... (or I can e-mail you some PDFs). I can also look through my 2nd & 3rd level contacts to see if anyone's interesting.
- Mitchell Tsai
Wow, that's terrible! G-d willing, something better will come from this.
- David C. Cooper
Oh, damn...so sorry to hear that, Ms. Tina. :(
- JA Castillo
Very sorry for you, Tina. Hope this becomes a new beginning for some better opportunities in the future. All the best.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Sorry, Tina. I agree with claudio...I would take the PT contract, spend free time looking for a new job (I have faith you'll find something you like!), and give them 2 weeks notice when the next gig is rdy2go.
- Hao Chen
Sorry Tina :( Are you sure that your company can do that? Are you the only one with this problem or are involved also some collegues?
- Roberto
from fftogo
:-( I'm sorry, Tina. That really is the massive fucking suck. Hmm... hey, Morgan! Do you know whether women get severance whores, too? http://ff.im/3tgPa
- Ladybug Heather
Roberto, there are currently only 2 people at my company: Boss and myself. All of my main job duties revolve around handling our biggest client, so the offer to got part-time contract is so I could take care of their issues when they arise. Boss handles most of the remaining clients But they are all smaller contracts.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Solidarity: I had to go on furlough two days a week starting several weeks ago. Effectively a 40% pay cut.
- DGentry
Boooooooooooooo! Ssssssssss! That sucks, I'm sorry Tina. Chin up, you'll get through it.
- You.
from iPhone
So sorry to hear about that Tina. :( So not cool
- Alex Scoble
Full sympathy Tina -- go pro skating?
- Stephen Mack
LOL! Stephen, I'd have to be able to skate well for that to be an option. I'm good at hitting and controlled falling, but skating isn't my strong point just yet.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"Pro" just means they pay you, not that you're good at it though!
- Stephen Mack
Well, then that takes roller derby out of the question, no one gets paid in flat track derby. Actually, we all pay dues to be on the team...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And the roller derby t-shirt sale profits go to?
- Stephen Mack
They go into the team fund, which pays for renting out the place we have our bouts. It's a new team, no cash right now. Our league is setup as a non-profit, though, so once they have enough capital to cover expenses then profits from our bouts and merch sales will be donated to a local charity (we're actually in the process of picking one). EDIT - I just realized, that might mean that my monthly dues are tax deductible. Dunno...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I see. Ah well. There may be more to explore with the pro skater angle that. Warped Enigma World Skating Tour?
- Stephen Mack
layoff, you will have more time for tweeting, like me. Come to kosovo, like me. Life is cheap here. 50Cents for a Cappuchino.
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Don't give up, Tina. The trick is to turn the set-back into an opportunity. I know for a fact that if I hadn't been laid off at a point in time, I would be still stuck in a crappy cable-tv company instead of where I am now.
- Adrian Scicluna
James, that is very tempting, I'll have to add it to my list of inexpensive places to live =) Actually, if I were willing to move I'm actually now capable of moving to Argentina: even this li'l bit of contract cash would be enough to set Dave and me up comfortably in Cordoba. Hrm....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sorry about the surprise/shock. After the initial shock wears off, do your best to look at the opportunity that has presented itself to you. Namely is there any way you can leverage your time to discover greater value/pay for your efforts?
- Mark Essel
:-( I missed this post. Sorry to hear it Tina. Maybe now is the perfect time to become an entrepreneur? :-)
- Jason Huebel
Doh! That's what "entrepreneur" means! Recently laid off! Thanks, Jason! Much catchier than "consultant" :)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Tina - Would you be interested in applying for this Continental Airlines position? http://ff.im/6S4bZ Continental is my favorite airline & has been making good efforts to relate to their customers. Their rep "CO Insider" has been very active on the FlyerTalk forums, and it feels to me like they "get" internet communication better than any other US airline. "CO Looking to Hire Facebooke'r/Tweeter/Social Media Guru" [Weatherboy, FlyerTalk Forums - 8/15/09]
- Mitchell Tsai
I just read this post - you say "My current job is (was?) a mismash created as the result of me filling in where it was needed over the years." - I'm in the same kind of position and also in layoff jeopardy. No one appreciates the glue until it's gone. I'm sorry.
- Amy℠
{selects "don't like" and clicks mouse}
- Bryan R. Adams
because twitter has more users and use more resources?
- Stalyn☂
Stayly: wrong. Absolutely wrong. Twitter crashed all the time before I even had 1,000 friends.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I think Twitter's model may not be scalable enough....it was fine when the geeks are on it. . .but after the "Oprah" effect everyone from celebrities to the the Tom,Dick and Harry generation....Twitter cannot take it. Correct me if I am wrong, but FF -may- go down that path, but we have yet to see the same number of people jumping on FF like Twitter. Maybe the founders of FF should have an interview with Oprah?
- Wei-Yen Tan
from IM
Twitter hasn't gotten any new features in almost three years, either while FriendFeed has gotten tons.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
At this point it doesnt matter why FF will never be what it was. the only thing certain is its end.
- Stalyn☂
hannahnicklin: that isn't why I joined Twitter. I liked having a blog that was like IM.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I can't see us here having a conversation about FF by next august. FB don't have time to invest on FF the domain.
- Stalyn☂
Prediction: Twitter will be the next Friendster/Altavista/AOL.
- Gary
Stayln I disagree. Lots of things are "dead" but still are popular. Hotmail. Delicious. Flickr. Etc.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I guess, after all plurk still around. somehow.
- Stalyn☂
So long as they use the Facebook social graph., I'm not sure that they would care. They could use FriendFeed as a premium brand under a larger Facebook umbrella.
- Gary
It's all trending. MySpace, AOL, and Friendster are dead, but at least the first two have more users than FriendFeed and maybe even Twitter.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
When Louis Gray did a panel with Bret Taylor, he talked about how when they were at Google how obsessed they were with page load times. It's built into their DNA.
- Stephen Pickering
Twitter was not built to scale. Their infrastructure is not redundant and is not catching up with their growth. FriendFeed has also had the benefit of fewer users, and a smart, experienced team that knows how to build for growth.
- Louis Gray
Maybe Twitter jumped the shark when the celebrities competed for 1M followers. #failshark
- Dennis Jernberg
Devon: totally wrong. Twitter fail whales when it had a lot fewer people on it than FriendFeed does.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Twitter cant manage itself and with out a quick investment soon they will not be able to pay the hosting ,the site is working like shit and they do not care,maybe a deal with Google is done and they just dont publish that
- Johni Fisher
A metaphysical question deals with the underlying nature of reality; neither Twitter nor Friendfeed can have a claim to that.
- barce
from iPhone
Because twitter has been able to capture people's imagination. Friendfeed has/had a much better team/technology/feature set, but one ingredient seem to have been missing. I am not sure why they gave up so early.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
So who's going to come up with an actual "fail shark" pic/graphic?
- George Hall (Australia)
Morton, did not know wolframalpha was still around.
- Liza
I doubt it's money, that's not Paul's style (and surely wouldn't be legal). It'll be fun to watch this comment threat. I'm crap with number games.
- Carter Rabasa
Another puzzle from Paul, this is why friendfeed is fun.
- ashish
It's hard to verify any of our hypotheses since FriendFeed uses nonsequential identifiers for everything. Can't really deconstruct the uuid to see what number it is.
- Eric Florenzano
FriendFeed 181202413 to Facebook. Some here claim this was a 195944173, but I am not among them. I think it is great, and will help bring this technology to a whole new 1554098974 level.
- DGentry
And don't forget your towel. It will be most useful after a proper 4207869677 - Those can be pretty messy at times.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm with jvjannotti. $42,078,696.77 :-). The hex part is purely a coincidence.
- Ken Sheppardson
Adapting a quote from Douglas Adams, "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 16"
- Victor Ganata
Morton wasn't kidding.... In hex it does indeed come out as Facefeed
- Roberto Bonini
I for one welcome our new 4207869677 overlords!
- Travis Koger
I love how when you do a GOOG search for it, "4207869677 in hex", this post comes up as the search result, after the answer is given... nice!
- Travis Koger
FACEFEEEEEEEEEEEEED :) Feed my face - sounds like a new restaurant or something! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
I'm a programmer, yet I couldn't figure out the answer on my own. How did you guys think of just converting it to hex? lol
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
here's a session log after reading "you're idiot". just brute-forcing :) : http://gist.github.com/167573 (idiot tried to divide a prime)
- NaHi
from f2p
Rishabh, looking at your extensive creativity with the "bitter" post, I think your mind probably wandered through too many possibilities. The first things to pop into my mind were simple/obvious codes.
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks, Micah, hopefully I get whitelisted or I don't think it will last long.
- Jimminy Fuller
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 38 bytes) in /home/content/h/i/p/hiphsadmin/html/ff/php/ffriendfeed.php on line 303
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan, I don't know how high it goes, I did 475, and just realized the Subscription Field is broken because I was just testing with 10. O_o
- Jimminy Fuller
Have you considered exporting it to XML/OPML and emailing it to a given address ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Jimminy! For great justice! FTW! (I'm a big fan o' you right about now.)
- James (!?)
I think my export is in an infinitely loop. Tried 682 subs. Seeing this exception: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/h/i/p/hiphsadmin/html/ff/tff.php on line 32 Great work though. Keep at it Jimminy!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ahsan, I hate adding email support, it's always been a pain in my ass, I always screw up the formatting and break it. I did think about exporting in xml though, as Dave Winers subscription exporter was my inspiration earlier today.
- Jimminy Fuller
Sure... Or simply a link to download the .xml file. Just a suggestion ;)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
Brian & Ahsan, it's possible I screwed something up in modifying the FF API fetch-feed code. I'll look into it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Brian, it takes a while to do it 700 probably take about 5-7 minutes, it depends on how many services your subscriptions have.
- Jimminy Fuller
Ahsan, I'll try and do that, but right now I've just got a php script running the API, and it isn't actually hitting my hosting except for bandwidth & memory see where your first error came up. Looks like I'm going to have to modify the code so people with larger groups don't kill the Server.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, from what I can tell, I've got all the service links of all my subs (a little over 500) now! Major props to you for this app, and so quickly released. Awesome!
- Micah Wittman
(I got the line 32 PHP warning too, periodically sprinkled in, but script execution continued on)
- Micah Wittman
Yeah, I know where they line 32 error is coming from haven't found a reason for it yet. It's the foreach loop that extracts the service info.
- Jimminy Fuller
Oh shit, I have work tomorrow. I'll try and add some commenting and get it on git in the next hour, because I'm not going to be able to work on it until after 5.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not yet, I'll post a link to it once I get it there, since it's a community tool, and I'm not going to be able to work on it for the next 20 hours or so.
- Jimminy Fuller
I got the script to execute and finish. Like Micah, I had some line 32 errors sprinkled in, but doesn't seem to have done much harm. Again, great work Jimminy. Thank you. PS - my export of 683 subs resulted in a 528k html file.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Oh one interesting fact about the code, it can be modified to scrape the network and reassemble FF's social web on another network, though I don't think FB or FF would like that.
- Jimminy Fuller
Ah, I see you're using v1 of the api (because they haven't release the php library for v2)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Yeah, sadly, although it is an extended v1. I think I might work on a php library for v2 because I'd love Oauth to be an option.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimmy, it's been a while since I touched PHP, but all you need is a library to fetch the feed. I've just written a ruby script to download my subs, using httparty to fetch the feeds. XML Generation is a #$%^ though :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
The subs aren't that hard to get Ahsan at all. It's the hyperlinking and services, I wanted to make it easy. http://friendfeed.com/api... (Replace USERNAME) is all you need for the basic subscriptions in XML.
- Jimminy Fuller
As of yet haven't been able to recreate the line 32 error I'm assuming it has something to do with my "Super Sloppy Validation," though, so I guess that's what I'll target first.
- Jimminy Fuller
Trying it out with 1107 subscriptions. I have a feeling that it's going to take a very long time to complete the export process, if there isn't a timeout on either the client side, or the server side.
- Tyson Key
Tyson, there might be a memory issue, shouldn't be a timeout and it will probably take about a few minutes 100 takes ~ 1 minute.
- Jimminy Fuller
Matt, it's a web app. And I don't have access to a Mac so I can't.
- Jimminy Fuller
Heh, I lost Internet connectivity, and Firefox locked up, before I was able to complete the process.
- Tyson Key
Tyson, I've begun working on a caching database that should speed this up, while also reducing calls to FF, because as of right now my calls to FF is N+1 where N=Subscriptions. The plus side is the database will slowly mirror that of the current FF user database(users, subscriptions, subscribers, services for all 3) which will allow a good starting user database structure for openFF.com
- Jimminy Fuller
Thanks, Jimminy for that information, and for open-sourcing/releasing this version of the tool. I look forward to seeing and hearing more.
- Tyson Key
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- Uncle CW™