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We added a 1-click login for Twitter users, so now it's easy for all your friends to try http://friendfeed.com

May 5, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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To RT, click http://twitter.com/home... It uses OAuth, so no password is required, and it automatically finds your Twitter friends on FriendFeed! It also imports your profile and picture. Big thanks to http://friendfeed.com/bgolub for making all this happen! (also, existing users can go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... to find Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail friends) - Paul Buchheit

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fan bloody tastic! So we can post here and Twitterers can comment away without any complaints! The only think you need to try and do is bring in comments (about a share) from twitter into here! :) - Zee.

This is great...should help new users quite a bit. - Mark Krynsky

Bravo!!! Very nice! - David Cook

nice - Joe Azzara

thanks for making it effortless - Vedran Agovic

That's fantastic! Keep it up guys!! :) - iTad

I'm hoping this will help to entice people over here. I'd much rather talk to people via FF than Twitter - WoH: Minding her Steves

FrF + OAuth. Like. - tobe

Refresh your FriendFeed to see an updated first comment from Paul, including a link to RT this news: http://twitter.com/home... - Dan Hsiao

OK, I admit I'm dense. As an existing user will this help me find the folks I follow on Twitter? - Laura Norvig

Cool, is it possible we could have the ability to bulk import or non-FF Twitter friends as private feeds so we can track them in FF? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Laura, existing FriendFeed users should just go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... and click on the Twittter (and Facebook and Google) icons to find their friends. Kol, not yet, but I'm hoping to add something like that soon (improved imaginary friends). - Paul Buchheit

Thx, Paul - guess I haven't been to that page since the launch. btw, I'm definitely coming around to the new friendfeed (colors notwithstanding). - Laura Norvig

Great to see the standards working -OAuth fro Gogole and Twitter login on Friendfeed - Kevin Marks

That's a great tool, Paul! Found a few from Twitter and Facebook I didn't realise were on FF...:) - WoH: Minding her Steves

Oh man, that is suh-weet. Works really well. - Laura Norvig

Paul, that would be wonderful, thank you. I'm keen to use FF as a kinda Twitter client. I'd love the ability to import my group I've created on Tweetvisor too but that would additionally require exporting facilities from Tweetvisor, and from asking them they've told me it's low priority (which is fair enough). - Kol Tregaskes

That's fantastic! Sharing with all of my not-yet-friendfeedified twitter friends. Thanks, Paul! - Eric Johnson

This IS good. Thanks for the hard work, Benjamin Golub. - Micah

this is fabulous!!! - Angela P.

It's so convenient for new comer like me! - tsssimon

Just tried it and it works great. - Iván Abrego

i have tried this too and am richer by 33 Twitter friends - jagannath rao

Nice work. Keeps getting better around here :-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

WOW! 313 new Twitter people! Amazing what the OAuth did. Amazing. That just completely Rocks! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

That was just too easy, and found a bunch of Twitter people. I just subscribed, but I hope they participate. I'm sure I'll have to trim later. - Eric - 100% Choice Cuts

Thanks for everything Benjamin and the others, that is really great. :) - Alp

I was subscribed to exactly 100 of the people I follow on Twitter. Added 93 more. Funny, this is actually helping me find people I *don't* want to follow in either place. - Laura Norvig

I'm looking forward to the "advanced imaginary friends" section which lets me as an existing FriendFeed user view all the twitter updates from people that don't use FriendFeed. - Brian Sloane

很好，继续努力 - Kunshou（困兽）

Sweet! - Don Strickland

Just posted this to my stream then saw this, Cool stuff Paul - Charlie Anzman

Some time ago I spent lots of time in removing my Facebook-Friendfeed integration, and didn't succeed, Facebook refused to remove it. Since that - no info about any other my services to Facebook, ever. - orie

Happy to hear that there will be an improved imaginary friend option! - Jacob

The improved imaginary friend feature will be great. No need to visit Twitter much then! - Pinksy

FriendFeed is constantly bringing new value to the service. I'm loving it! - Amie Gillingham

its relay cool - Kaspar Minosiants

great idea - andy brudtkuhl

Oh Thanks i was looking for something like this - Asahi

Is the imaginary friends feature completely disabled for the moment? Or am I just not looking in the right place? - Mark Jacobs

Mark: imaginary friends have been replaced by groups. - Robert Scoble

When is OpenID coming up? - Mohammad Abdurraafay

This feature is AWESOME :) Bravo! - Iain Baker

I just imported 8,000 new Twitter friends. Worked MUCH BETTER than last time. - Robert Scoble

Smart move guys. A quick way to grow FF users is to tap into the current hot properties. Can't believe other Social Networks are so slow to respond. - Neill Adamson

Paul, is there a way to sync it so that people I no longer follow on Twitter are unfollowed on FriendFeed? - Jorge Escobar

Great news on the advanced imaginary friends. That plus the ability to comment back to Facebook posts as easily as we reply to Twitter would be killer. - Kevin Kuphal

Finally! :-) - Richard Joerges

Not sure why this wasn't implemented a while ago but it's a welcome addition. - Jason Williams

None of my Facebook contacts are on ff. - JECO Photo

So how do existing FF members use it? - Tiffany Monhollon

Ca passe 50 fois par jour ce truc là sur FriendFeed ! C''est pas possible d'arr^ter, j'en ai marre de le voir franchement ... ^^ - Jean-Marie Gall™ from twhirl

Tiffany, existing FF members should go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... to find their Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail friends. - Paul Buchheit

Encore ?? C'est pas possible ! ;( - Jean-Marie Gall™ from twhirl

RT'd ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

@Robert cannot seem to do that with groups. What I want to do: Concentrate different RSS feeds (e.g. newswires) which do not necessarily have an account in any other social network into one imaginary friend's collection of feeds. - Mark Jacobs

Mark, "groups" (formerly "rooms") are able to import feeds just like regular users (and imaginary friends). See https://friendfeed.com/xoogle-... for example (imports the blogs of all known xoogle startups). The only thing special about imaginary friends is that they don't have usernames (or rather we assign a random 128 bit username). - Paul Buchheit

Paul, the DM option on imaginary friends should perhaps be removed. Also, imaginary friends do not show up on the search dropdown list when you type in their name in the search box. - Kol Tregaskes

Paul, is it possible to automatically create "imaginary friends" from twitter following list? What I would like is to read all my Twitter in FriendFeed; many of twitterers though are not on FF, so I have to create them by hand which is tedious. Also, it would be nice to allow to add them to some special list. - Ihar Mahaniok

Ihar, see my comment up in the middle and Paul's reply. Looks like FF are working on it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Nice tool, discovered some more contacts ! - François Granger

love this guys wonderful - Thomas Power

This must be the reason for all the new follows I've been getting over the last few days. Congrats! - Michael Fidler

That's actually quite useful. Thank you! - snapixel

Still would like an imaginary friend than making bunch of Groups to simulate peoples that doesn’t use FF. BTW, unlike the Facebook Connect login, when I tried logging in using Twitter, it made a new account for me on FF instead of opening my own (which also has Twitter activity added). - Natsuki Seika

ditto to natsuki... - Steve Austin

Wow, real nice and simply to add my Twitter friends :O - Rosenkrieger

Good move! - Lantrix

Is it possible to add this to a wordpress blog? - Arturo Pelayo

@Arturo: http://wordpress.org/extend... - Saxtus

hi me sid m new member of dis site......... - Sidra Kanwal

Hi...Iam new member of dis site...I like it...! - Nima Tamang

Jesse Stay

Hey FriendFeed, I'd love to know a little more about what you are doing in Javascript to get real-time updates. Are you polling regularly? Do you have a syncronous connection of some sort listening for new updates? I'd love to learn more about your technique.

April 20, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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And yes, I'm too lazy to look at the underlying code myself. :-) - Jesse Stay

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From the FriendFeed Blog: In our new, experimental real-time view, comments and posts will appear at the top of your feed as quickly as they arrive. This is accomplished by a technique called long polling, where our server doesn't respond to your browser's request until there's something it wants to send. This is great because we can show your FriendFeed faster using far fewer requests than before. (URL: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...) - Mark Trapp

From Wikipedia: Long polling is a variation of the traditional polling technique and allows to emulate information push from a server to a client. With long polling, the client requests information from the server in a similar way to a normal poll. However, if the server does not have any information available for the client, instead of sending an empty response, the server holds the... more... - Mark Trapp

So are they using a service like Cometd, roll their own, or what are they doing to do the long polling? - Jesse Stay

I briefly looked at beta.friendfeed with FireBug turned on, and it seems like they've rolled their own long polling solution. - Steve and 3 other people

Anyone have experience with Cometd? Any idea how scalable it is? - Jesse Stay

I've read a bit about it -- feels over engineered to me, which is why I suspect many people are just rolling their own long-polling solutions. Google for "bayeux protocol" and read up. You'll see what I mean. - Steve and 3 other people

Robert Scoble

Who has the best SEO/SEM info? Post URLs here:

April 19, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Google webmaster blog is well-known as reputable: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/ - Matt Cutts

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Live has a good webmaster blog too: http://blogs.msdn.com/webmast... Their most recent post about getting out of the penalty box is quite good. - Matt Cutts

It is important to get back to the basics once in awhile and I am rebuilding my blog from the foundation up, which is why I am asking. - Robert Scoble

Is SEO/SEM still relevant? - Mona Nomura

Google also just started a video channel for webmasters: http://www.youtube.com/GoogleW... Over 30+ videos already up to answer common questions. - Matt Cutts

I'm a big fan on http://www.seobook.com (Aaron Wall) and http://highrankings.com (Jill Whalen) - Jason Kane

Thanks Matt! Does anyone have a good checklist? - Robert Scoble

The Yahoo equivalent is the Yahoo! Search blog: http://ysearchblog.com/ - Matt Cutts

SEO Book: http://www.seobook.com AND SEOMoz: http://www.seomoz.org - Vinny

http://blackwaterops.com - Brandon Wirtz

I am not shocked that a Google employee was the first to answer this, by the way. - Robert Scoble

@Mona: ...can you expand on your question? What has made optimizing content and Web sites for search engines less relevant? - .LAG liked that

The only SEO that has been able to show me actual results is http://NowSourcing.com - MarkCarras

SEOmoz for sure. - mjc

@virante.com (http://www.virante.com/seo-too...) - Mark Traphagen

Mona: yes. Techcrunch tells me 60% of it's traffic comes from search. - Robert Scoble

http://centuryhouse.net/ upcoming SEO Blog - Robert Enriquez

This post will open the floodgates. Another vote for SEOMoz here however - Mo Kargas

Let's see. There's my blog of course: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ . For search news, Search Engine Land is quite comprehensive: http://searchengineland.com/ . I often check Google Blogoscoped http://blogoscoped.com/ or Google Operating System http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/ for other interesting news. - Matt Cutts

Robert -- while not a one place checklist, visit http://forums.digitalpoint.com/. I've implemented some of their recommendations thus far and I feel like it's already making a difference. - Aanarav Sareen

I've recently heard Google changed their algorithm, plus with aggregating sites indexing for us (FriendFeed, Facebook, Twitter), there are many outlets and methods of people reaching our media -- that is, if we remember to segregate to keep various audiences interested. ie: staying away from ping.fm like services. - Mona Nomura

And then there's the HTML documentation that we offer for webmasters: http://google.com/support... plus our help forum http://www.google.com/support... - Matt Cutts

Thanks, Robert. - Mona Nomura

I'll let other folks suggest additional outside info. There's everything from Eric Goldman who talks about legal aspects of search http://blog.ericgoldman.org/ to SEO by the Sea http://www.seobythesea.com/ which talks about patents related to SEO/SEM/search. It's a really broad field. It's almost like asking "What are some good sources for information about blogging?" :) - Matt Cutts

What a timely question Robert :) I'm just studying up on this whole subject for my own site, and didn't really know where to start. Nice - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Yes, another vote for SEOmoz here. This checklist is pretty comprehensive: http://www.seomoz.org/dp... - Craig Bailey

Must read SEO blog: http://www.thegooglecache.com/ - Mark Traphagen

"Does anyone have a good checklist?" We wrote an SEO beginner's guide at http://googlewebmastercentral.... that I proofread before it went live. You can also do searches like [wordpress seo guide] and there are several good resources in the search results. - Matt Cutts

http://delicious.com/search... - Jay Neff

Mona, Yes. something like 90% of all traffic starts with a search engine, so unless you are a destination site ,you rely on search to send your traffice. There are times when RSS Subs can be more valuable, like when you are doing loyalty building, but generally NEW users are finding you through a social media or through search. More people are in search than social media..Ergo its still relevant - Brandon Wirtz

Aanarav, I would recommend some caution regarding Digital Point. Some of the more aggressive stuff that gets pitched in corners of DP can get you in trouble. - Matt Cutts

I am a fan of Search Engine Guide http://www.searchengineguide.com Great advice and solid writers. - Ross Dunn

The sites listed here are (mostly) excellent for sure. I'm also kinda partial to the SEO Success Pyramid (since I wrote it). http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/the-seo... - Matt McGee

I'm adding all these to http://delicious.com/jayneff... thanks! :) - Jay Neff

TR: http://www.seoteknikleri.com , http://delicious.com/wolkanc... - Volkan Yılmaz

Of course Google is going to be the Dali Lama of SEO but there are many gurus of interest: http://www.searchengineacademysc.com - Laurel LaFlamme

Not that I'm biased, but LinkMoses http://www.ericward.com/article... and the Link Building Best Practices QandA http://www.ericward.com/bestpra... are on my must read list. - Eric Ward

@seomoz great docs, great tools, and a fun and informative blog & community - Julie Bovee Hill

Interesting how few SEOs seem to hang out on FF. On Twitter this would be a massive swarm of link dropping. - Matt Cutts

For WordPress I recommend http://www.yoast.com - Erno Hannink

Matt: this went to Twitter too. I have good PR's on both friendfeed and Twitter. - Robert Scoble

What about excellent content? Is that still important? I mean, useful material for human beings? Shouldn't that be well ranked by search engines? And of course, a usable and web standards compliant site. - Alexis Bellido

me - chaz2b

Thanks Scoble! I've been looking for this info myself, actually. - Adam C.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog for technical specs on SEO and http://www.seobook.com/blog for business insights in relation to SEO - Dave Fuentes

Thanks for this list. It finally showed me that value of FriendFeed over Twitter and Facebook. Good answers. Rock on. :-) - Martin Seibert

I just want to mark this for building43 which I just did with this comment. Oh, I wish I had invisible comments to add metadata/metatags to items like this. - Robert Scoble

Leather: I never liked delicious. It isn't setup to have a conversation like what happened here. - Robert Scoble

Leather: when I search friendfeed for building43 I want this post to come up. Here, take a look: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... No need to create another item in delicious. - Robert Scoble

www.SEOmoz.org, www.SEObook.com , www.SEOquake.com and also www.webpagefx.com is quite useful. - Hayk

As Alexis Bellido says, "a usable and web standards compliant site." I recommend http://www.w3.org for brushing up on the compliance side of things (even if it gets a bit technical). It's the standards by which the web runs, from the horses mouth, so to speak. - David August

You may want to try #Neil_Patel & his #Quick_Sprout outfit http://www.quicksprout.com/about... See his post: "How to Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines" http://bit.ly/JeXq1 - informative & good free advice. I've been digging into this subject myself for the benefit of a product one of my companies is incubating and this chap and his firm keeps rising to the top of my list. I am also fairly certain that he will advise you for free in return for a good word to your "subjects" ;) @AAinslie - Alexander Ainslie

This post and more importanly the timeline of the replies are in and of themselves useful as a measure of which SEO/SEOm firms are paying attention online. Not that this is an automatic measure of capability or quality, but you gotta question how good any site is that doesn't link drop on this particular post, be it a self drop or otherwise, given who the author was/is. I*'m, amazed there haven't been more. This might be tell us a thing or two about FF and the SEO community. - Eric Ward

Just a comment regarding Digital Point, they commonly recommend greyhat/blackhat techniques, and offer lots of stupid stuff for a price. The same advice can be had for free on BlackHatWorld.com. Information wants to be free. ;) - Lee Ingram

http://www.seobook.com with Aaron I rate highly, digital-point is probably a good place for short term success on splogs but nothing sustainable long term for a proper business. - Mark Edmondson

If this is about your blog vs SEO in general, that's a bit different. For blog SEO you might try Aaron's lengthy article on SEO for bloggers, http://www.seobook.com/blogger... Joost DeValk's Blog http://www.yoast.com or Matt Cutts favorite commentator: http://www.wolf-howl.com - Lee Odden

Some of my favorite WordPress SEO recommendations are from Yoast: http://yoast.com/article... - and this is an outstanding presentation on WordPress Blog SEO: http://wordpress.tv/2009... - Don Campbell

Eric, thanks for your offerings. I think that maybe the lack of SEO people here may be down to the fact that we are all working hard implementing all these techniques for our clients. There are plenty of SEO companies who merely do the work, rather than write down what they are doing and share with the rest. http://dragonsearchmarketing.com/blog... , the shop I work at part time is running really hard right now, with 3 new hires in the last 2 months. - Mark Zip

As to the reflection on the Ff community, perhaps that is because FF is bleeding edge and most work in the trenches of SEO is being done short of the bleeding edge, where there are more "regular" folks. - Mark Zip

Just joined StomperNet . Not a plug as I am still new with them (1 Week) http://stomping2.com/ and would like to know how others view them. They provide very detailed info through video. Seem to have an impressive staff on board. They are a paid subscription but think it is worth it so far. Would especially like to hear what Matt Cutts has to say about them. Should I cancel my subsription or not? - Jonathan

Jonathan: I know some of the StomperNet folks, they are very smart. - Robert Scoble

It does feel special to be using this service and be so connected in such a varitey of topics. Just tried the similar search (after reading comments on Matt Cutts ff) and did my usual search to see how a system works. http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/images... Need to get more non naked pics going :) - Jonathan

Jonathan, that would be a longer conversation than the FF textbox has room for. - Matt Cutts

Confidential SEO Secrets Book (down to earth and real). ;-) http://www.allenharkleroad.com/Home... - Allen Harkleroad

Matt Cutts, should i use them or not? Are they doing harm? I am trying to learn but not move into the black hat. - Jonathan

Various guys: Seobook, seomoz, www.searchandsocial.com - Il gareth in Milano

Black hat is an attitude. - Il gareth in Milano

http://yoast.com/article... - Sprague D

Killer SEO / SEM info for Small Businesses http://www.flowtown.com/blog :p - Ethan Bloch

SEOMoz is good, Seobook is good, I would also recommend WebmasterWorld as well. Supporters area on WebmasterWorld has some of the best minds hanging out there... - Bill Hartzer

Robert - The most recent article I did on free SEO resources is here: http://anzman.blogspot.com/2009... Hope it helps! Charlie - Charlie Anzman

Here's a bunch. http://www.seomoz.org, http://www.seobythesea.com, http://www.mattcutts.com, http://www.searchengineland, http://www.searchenginejournal, http://yoast.com, http://www.seobook.com, http://www.seoptimise.com, http://www.thegooglecache.com, http://seo2.0.onreact.com, http://wiep.net and of course http://www.blindfiveyearold.com or look at my delicious bookmarks http://delicious.com/ajkohn2... - AJ Kohn

I found http://www.waferscale.com as the best website which provides meaningful and easy to understand articles on SEO - Xelios

now if you have a CIALS site the above would be like a fart in a Gail,not much of an impression. - tomartomartini

bitkisel alışveriş www.reyonist.com - trktu

http://www.seohocasi.com/ Seo Hocası the best seo site. - Kaan Gülten (SeoHocasi)

http://www.seoaktif.com - Kaan Gülten (SeoHocasi)

this two site in TR (Turkey) - Kaan Gülten (SeoHocasi)

http://forum.turkiyemuzik.net korg pa800 yamaha roland - turkiyemuzik

http://www.eglenceli.net eglenceli - turkiyemuzik

G3 Creative Solutions http://www.g3creative.co.uk - G3 CREATIVE

http://sor.seohocasi.com/ - Kaan Gülten (SeoHocasi)

http://www.bilgispot.blogspot.com - Gamze Ozturk

http://www.pctekno.net - Bilgisayar Haberleri

http://kiloalmayontemleri.blogspot.com/ - Fullnet

Alanında uzman seo eğitmenleri tarafından sürekli olarak yeni tekniklerin paylaştığı seo üzerine tam anlamıyla uzmanlaşmış kişiler tarafındano oluşturulan http://www.seohocasi.com/ adresini seo hakkında merak edilenleri ögrenmek istiyorsanız tavsiye ederim. - Mustafa Söner

Türkiye Süper Lig maç özetlerini takip edebilirsiniz. http://www.eglenceli.net/kategor... - eglencelinett

Check out http://forseoinfo.com/ a useful resource for search engine optimization tactics and strategies. - Matt Morgan

Randal Schwartz

Finally, people will have a reason to stop using MySQL and switch to something sane like PostgreSQL #oracle #sun

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Have you had a FLOSS weekly show on PostgreSQL? if not that would be a good one.... i don't know who you'd need to contact tho - Chris Heath

That would (edit: WILL) be nice. MySQL just doesn't "tickle my fancy" anymore. Heh. - David Ford

César Soplín Sánchez

¿Es Menéame un fracaso? - http://www.ventanazul.com/foros...

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Microsoft to open source: Please don't compete on price! - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13...

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Marketing para elegidos medievales: 1. Abramica. - http://www.cristalab.com/blog...

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Mike Reynolds

Dilbert comic strip for 04/16/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. - http://dilbert.com/strips...

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Why does Wally have PHB's haircut? - Kevin Fox

Anna Haro

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DERRICK!!!!!

April 15, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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:-D sources: http://www.flickr.com/photos... http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Anna Haro

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Happy Birthday my friend! - Nicholas Kreidberg

The kids are flipping out over seeing you on the computer. The both offer up their birthday wishes...actually, they're singing 'Happy Birthday' to you. - Anika

Anika, give the kids some hugs and kisses from me. And what the hell, give Adrian one too. ;) - Derrick

(as seen on Twitter) and while ppl worry about getting their taxes in on time tonight, I'm celebrating the birthday of my buddy @geekandahalf. bitch, you old! *snap* #sassygayfriend - jbrotherlove

生日快樂, Derrick! - ronin

Happy Birthday gorgeous :) - Vicky

Thanks again, everyone. I'm humbled and touched by all of this. Thanks. :) - Derrick

Happy Birthday Derrick! When are you coming up to SF so we can celebrate properly? - Jeanine W.

Feliz cumpleaños a ti! :) - JA Castillo

lol... nice. thanks for using my photo - Melissa

lol...Melissa, sorry, I would have linked it to your stream. I just picked it from D's FB pics. - Anna Haro

Happy birthday! Great camera cake... - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Birthday my friend...now get your booty over here to receive my bear hug. - Mark Krynsky

Nice! It's a full format camera cake. - Akiva

Happy birthday Derrick man, one of my favorite friendfeeders no doubt - Zee.

Happy happy happy! - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

that is an awesome cake. Is it red velvet cake? and, even though I don't know ya, Happy Birthday.. I hope it rocked as much as the cake. - Bill Rawlinson

Happy Birthday, Derrick! - David Cook from fftogo

Derrick Happy Birthday! You own my "best of" page on friendfeed! - Robert Scoble

Happy Happy Happy Happy Birthday to you!!!!! - Martha

Whew such a HOTTIE!!! Happy Birthday!! - BEX

Happy Birthday! - Adriana E. Reyes

Happy Birthday!! :) - Susan Beebe

Happy B, Derrick! - Micah

Happy birthday and that is a "picture-esque" red velvet cake! - Melanie Reed

I hope you've had a great day, Derrick. Happy Birthday, my friend. <3 - Anna Haro

Happy Birthday! - Elena

You're cool. - anna sauce

this photo really should be your avi. you've got that come-hither look that drives boys and girls wild. - BEX

happy b-day!!! - Duane

happy birthday! - alphaxion

happy bday D! in bed by 9pm - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Argh I missed it! Happy belated birthday, my friend. - Phil Glockner

Johnny

IBM tightens budget by cutting tea and coffee for staff - http://www.news.com.au/busines...

April 13, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"IN a move that would make even the most miserly budget airline operator wince, IBM has cut tea and coffee from the office budget worldwide to cut costs. IBM Australia sent an email to staff last week telling them it would stop subsidising employees' home internet connections from May." - Johnny from Bookmarklet

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Unsurprisingly, worker productivity also suddenly cut in half. - Akiva

I know, you'd think the one thing you wouldn't cut costs on in a tech company is caffine products. - Johnny from IM

I am so glad this got out into the public arena :-) - Threepwood

++Akiva. I've seen the brain imagery; that will happen ;) - Michael W. May

hol. bajoley. - anna sauce

*backhands IBM* You don't EVER do that. Ever! Cut an exec instead. - Mo Kargas

Just mindblowing. I've often wondered what would happen if companies like this set aside 5% of their execs' yearly compensation for a sanity/coffee fund? Assume average 5 million salary for top 20 execs (and that is WAY conservative), that's $5 million a year. Am I missing something or 1) would that not pay for coffee worldwide for IBM offices? 2) would not the increase in productivity likely increase the worth of the execs' shares by more than 5%? - Adam Lasnik

Amazing. IBM doing something stupid, stodgy and not in the interests of employees or anyone else? Whodathunkit. - Chris Charabaruk

"Employees who put in long hours of unpaid overtime to help push the tech giant's profits up 12 per cent to $US4.4 billion ($6 billion) during its final quarter of last year have received the news as a slap in the face. .... They'd put a coin slot in the toilet door if they could." - David HC Soul

Actually, it's a smart move. They cut something they knew the employees would be willing to supply, themselves. It's likely that various departments will all chip in and send someone to Costco to get it. - April

Any strongly profiting company can afford a bit of bloody coffee. - Mo Kargas

Smart? Maybe - The Highest Level Of Douchebaggery? Hell Yes - Johnny from IM

I think you're wrong, April. Somebody working unpaid overtime walks up to find a coffee vending machine to be reminded they have to pay for the benefit of working OT. I think the person looks at the machine... goes back & spends 5 minutes cleaning up and leaving whenever it is not a case of firing being directly on the line. If firing is directly on the line, then the looking for the first opportunity to defect is moved to the forefront. Times turn and guess how much loyalty has been strengthened? dumb. - David HC Soul

April, doesn't matter how smart a move it is on the books. It's a backwards move. These people are busting their asses so the company makes even more money than before, and _this_ is what they get in return? - Chris Charabaruk

Nothing a minor office revolt won't fix. Question is are they united enough to pull it off? - vijay

Were I in the position of these people, I would revolt. Hell, I'd probably lead my coworkers in a riot before giving my boss a full moon and walking out the door, never to return. That's just bullshit management. - Chris Charabaruk

It just goes to show that numbers on a page isn't always the best decision markers. - Johnny from IM

Damn right, Johnny! - Chris Charabaruk

Another Australian news report highlights the cutting of company-funded home internet access: "Although home-based staff have been invited back to the office to work where internet access is available free, staff say office real estate is short. The problem with that is there is a severe shortage of desk and real estate space and prior to this directive it was almost impossible to find a desk to sit at," another IBM Australia employee said." - David HC Soul

I have worked at a lot of places that didnt supply coffee, and never found it outrageous. I know people hate it when a privilege is taken away but isnt this better than another 200 or 2000 job cuts that could be yours? - Iphigenie

Joelle, even a very rough estimate puts the cost of company caffeine at about 0.2% of a worker's direct compensation. Probably less than that. Someone who cares more than I do could figure out the loss in morale and productivity as workers start having to go out for coffee... It really seems like a giant case of penny wise and pound foolish. - Andrew C (✓)

Yes, I can agree this sounds very petty, (but 0.2% times 400000 is probably still 100 jobs... and i bet it doesnt count maintenance contracts etc. around coffee) but so does people talking of office revolt. Truly this cannot be the worst thing in working for IBM, and if you were going to organise to fight to improve your working conditions is coffee really the first thing that ought to... more... - Iphigenie

But IBM will still lay people off in the future. I really don't think this is being done to spare a few jobs. And the thing about cutting down IBM subsidies of home networking makes me think a while earlier down the line, some bright exec figured out they could cut the property and furniture budget by encouraging workers to telecommute. Now they'll all be heading back into the offices, negating the original savings, if any. - Andrew C (✓)

And no, it's probably not the worst thing, but (1) people are very attached to their caffeine intakes, so I suspect they'll take it harder than a purely rational look at the economics would have it, and (2) an accumulation of slights piles up and finally companies that treat their workers so shabbily find that their "number one asset, their people" _really were their number one asset_, but only after most of the good ones have left. - Andrew C (✓)

I do agree that it seems silly from the point of view of the company, savings in the wrong place. But it does also seem very frivolous to get so wound up about a few cups of coffee a day. PS: I suspect this will happen more, as a)not everyone drinks coffee b)there is always the fear that one day coffee will be shown harmful and people will sue their employers - Iphigenie

so what? as long as they don't shut down the friday happy hour, I don't see the big deal. (wait, they did that already? no more happy hours? those sons of...) ;-) - tim

I work for a small company and there isn't even a communal coffee pot in the office. But, the office is in Harvard Square, so there are many coffee shops to choose from close by. I wonder how much these 'coffee outings' ultimately cost the company. I bring my own tea in, because I'm a insufferable snob. - stretta from twhirl

I refer to Dilbert for my response http://dilbert.com/strips... - Yant

That's a nice looking coffee. - Mike Reynolds

ditto on the coffee. - anna sauce

Nothing like a flat white - David HC Soul

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A Virtual Assistant can help you track medical claims and insurance, so you never miss a payment!

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Veronica

Maybe spellcheck before submitting your ad to Google.

April 13, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Yay. I would never 'dowonload' that kind of protection, whatever that means :) - Alexis Bellido

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How do i Do won Load? - Fee501st

That and 'erasing sensitive data' is not usually something I look for. I want to block online PC threats that erase sensitive data. Also: Product name? Bullet points are verb, verb, noun, verb, noun, noun. This is such a mess. I wonder what the comments in their code look like? - Kevin Fox

And a magnifying glass looking at a 'do not enter' sign? Does the software help you find things that protect you? - Kevin Fox

LOL! Here's the link if you're interested... http://bit.ly/2EY1sP - Veronica

that lady is awful happy about her Privacy software - Fee501st

Don't you think it's a voluntary typo? That's a good way to attract attention - the reason why you're posting this ;) Maybe none of us will buy it, but... who knows? - Jérôme

Stock market tips? "Dow onload Now!" - Ken Gidley

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Wow, Obama realmente levantó la restricción sobre Cuba http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo...

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Why Do Christians Insist That Hitler Was an Atheist? « Proud Atheists - http://proudatheists.wordpress.com/2009...

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