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The creepy but definitive list of FriendFeed employees and where they work now. UPDATE: As of May 22, 2012, six still work at Facebook.
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With Paul's departure from Facebook today (November 12, 2010), I've heard several FFers talk about who's still at Facebook. I've seen various different numbers, none of which I think are accurate. This is my attempt to be more accurate. Information comes from publicly available sources where available. I drew on the list of FF employees from http://friendfeed.com/about... and http://blog.friendfeed.com/.
- Stephen Mack
Ana Yang http://friendfeed.com/ana: Places Product Manager at Facebook (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...).
- Stephen Mack
Ben Darnell http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell: DropBox (per Tudor Bosman below, updated 5/22/2012). Previously AOL (Brizzly until their acquisition by AOL in September, see http://friendfeed.com/bdarnel...).
- Stephen Mack
Ben Golub http://friendfeed.com/bgolub: Software Engineer at Facebook (see http://www.linkedin.com/in...).
- Stephen Mack
Bret Taylor http://friendfeed.com/bret: CTO of Facebook (see FF profile).
- Stephen Mack
Casey Muller http://friendfeed.com/casey: Facebook (see http://www.facebook.com/caseymr...).
- Stephen Mack
Dan Hsiao http://friendfeed.com/dhsiao: Unknown. Per Tudor on 5/22/2012, he is no longer at Facebook (see comment below). Previously was Program Manager at Facebook (see bio of twitter feed, http://twitter.com/danhsiao).
- Stephen Mack
Gary Burd http://friendfeed.com/gburd: Managing Director at BeagleDreams per his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/gburd); it previously said he left Facebook in October of 2009.
- Stephen Mack
Goutham Patnaik http://friendfeed.com/gpatnaik (private feed): Google. Summer intern, left on 9/18/2009 (see http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...). Update 5/22/2012: Per below, now at Google. I previously listed him as "unknown."
- Stephen Mack
Jim Norris http://friendfeed.com/jim: AeroFS per his mom (comment below). His FB page is http://www.facebook.com/james... (updated 5/22/2012)
- Stephen Mack
Kevin Fox http://friendfeed.com/kfury: Electric Imp (see http://friendfeed.com/kfury...). Previously Mozilla Labs. Kevin left Facebook in May of 2010 (see below) and announced on 10/27/2010 that he joined Mozilla Labs (see http://friendfeed.com/kfury...).
- Stephen Mack
Paul Buchheit http://friendfeed.com/paul: Y-Combinator as of 11/12/2010 (see http://friendfeed.com/paul...).
- Stephen Mack
Ross Miller http://friendfeed.com/ross: Taylor Engineering in Alameda per his Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/ross...). (Ross was a two-time intern at FF.)
- Stephen Mack
Sanjeev Singh http://friendfeed.com/sanjeev: Facebook (see http://www.facebook.com/jeev).
- Stephen Mack
Tudor Bosman http://friendfeed.com/tudor: Software Engineer at Facebook (see http://www.linkedin.com/in...).
- Stephen Mack
Overall status as of November 2010: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 8 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Jim N., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 5 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack
I will update the above if I hear news.
- Stephen Mack
Technically my first day at Mozilla isn't until Monday. :-)
- Kevin Fox
I will also remove this if any FF employees think it's too creepy. :)
- Stephen Mack
Ross Miller's account: http://friendfeed.com/ross
- Rochelle
You are both thorough and scary :)
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I miss Ana inviting me to FF meetups via mass email, it made me feel more important than I actually am. =P
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
KLevin, tehcnically, this is your last day here and your not part of the FF team !
- Peter Dawson
Me too, Geoff.
- Kevin Fox
Thanks Rochelle, updated! Cristo, no worries, this is just for FF. Kevin F., edited now, thanks. :)
- Stephen Mack
Quora: http://www.quora.com/Which-e...
- Louis Gray
Peter, what? Today is my last day where? And I left Facebook (and the FF team) back in May.
- Kevin Fox
Goutham - http://friendfeed.com/gpatnaik
- Rochelle
Of those still left at FB, I only see Tudor and Ben who are still active here and have contributed to FF fixes since the buyout.
- Rodfather
Kevin mea culpa .. now i remember you want on a summer sabbatical !
- Peter Dawson
No worries. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Rodfather, I'm not active here?
- Kevin Fox
Of those still left at FB. ;)
- Rodfather
I love the iFly photo of us. We are a great big arm rainbow!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yeah, Paul and April were missing from that picture because that was the day Thomas was born!
- Kevin Fox
Rod: Oops, my bad. I saw 'left FB' and missed the 'at'.
- Kevin Fox
Wild AND Crazy
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
OK, took some editing but I think the above is accurate. If anyone knows where Ross M. or Goutham P. are now, please let me know!
- Stephen Mack
Many thanks to people who provided info, especially Rochelle.
- Stephen Mack
Rachel: That's definitely an awesome pic. I had a hard time choosing, you guys had a lot of great events.
- Stephen Mack
Wow that is a great list I should probably try an add a few people. FriendFeed very good micro blogging, thanks.
- Robert Bridge
Thanks Robert! Updated Ross's employer with information Anne B. found on his Facebook page.
- Stephen Mack
He made them an offer that they could eventually refuse?
- Stephen Mack
*snicker*
- Joe Silence
Bump in honor of today's FB IPO. Time to do more creepy digging to see what's up with the FF team!
- Stephen Mack
Updated Gary's entry.
- Stephen Mack
Updated Jim's entry. He's apparently left Facebook. (I think I remember him confirming this when I had lunch with him last month!)
- Stephen Mack
Updated Kevin's entry.
- Stephen Mack
Overall status as of May 2012: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 7 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack
unknown =)
- !lker yoldas. )°(
Stephen, Goutham worked at RockYou for a bit in 2010 and now works for Google. Also, how have I not seen this thread before?! I remember you taking that picture at Kitchen Table - fun times :)
- Ross Miller
now this is creepy.. some1 is stalking all the former employees of FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Peter, I wonder who? Ross, thanks!
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Jim is now at AeroFS.
- Anne Bouey
Stephen, also Goutham was a summer intern the year before the Facebook buy. He did not transfer to Facebook. Ross did you transfer to Facebook, I can't remember.
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh and I think Ben D. has left AOL. But I can't confirm that, I just seem to remember something about that. *shrug*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anne, AeroFS looks cool! Congrats Jim!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Ben Darnell is at Dropbox.
- Tudor Bosman
Also, Dan Hsiao is no longer at Facebook (no more details).
- Tudor Bosman
Goutham Patnaik is at Google.
- Tudor Bosman
And yes, both Ross and Goutham were interns and were never Facebook employees after the acquisition.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks Tudor! Updated above.
- Stephen Mack
Overall status as of May 22, 2012: Of the 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees plus 2 interns, 6 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.), and 2 were interns who never went to Facebook (Ross M., Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack
:-)
- Mary B, VALUE author
from iPhone
RT @pareene: Is Obama the first president who is currently breastfeeding and also the historical Jesus
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Baobab Tree Street : Morondava, Madagascar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Ac0n (former Franc), Nano♂=♀, Only Vili ♀ and 160 other people liked this
amazing!!!
- HearNothing
hello, HearNothing!......^_^
- keiko-san
koko wa saikin nihondemo daibu toriagerarete kiteimasu. nihonjin kankoukyaku ga dondon fuerunodewa? -
- keiko-san
hi, Jackye!.....ohhh,really?.....I didn't know.....^o^
- keiko-san
Madagascar.....here is a precious natural treasure.....
- keiko-san
nice... very very nice :))
- jack of hearts
@Kamilah Reed (K. Gill) ＞hi!.....oh,really?.....wow......I'm so glad!........^_^
- keiko-san
@ jack of hearts ＞hi, jack!......yeeeees, very nice!!......right?
- keiko-san
I want to go once.......
- keiko-san
すごいですね〜、これ。初めて見ました！
- rapisrazri
from iPhone
はい！ここも「パムッカレ」同様、最近よく紹介されていますよ！・・・・マダガスカルって不思議な動物も多くて、面白いところですね。行ってみた～い！
- keiko-san
Let's go to this summer vacation!......^_^
- keiko-san
Good day keiko how are you
- Ramazan Çekiç
@Jackye Chan＞hi, Jackye!.....oh, thank you good info!......this is I know already.....
- keiko-san
@rç＞hi!
- keiko-san
ooooooo my friend thanks love stay you keiko
- Ramazan Çekiç
amazing place
- Aysu Gündüz (ART Niyetli)
@rç＞hi......
- keiko-san
@Aysu Gündüz (ART Niyetli)＞hello!.....nice to meet you.....^_^
- keiko-san
amazing!
- keiko-san
yes amazing sonk say ''ınna'':)
- Ramazan Çekiç
I so, so, so wanted to visit this area when we were in Madagascar but evidently its very difficult to get to and going there would have been our entire trip. We did see baobabs but they were the smaller variety in the south.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Good night you keiko
- Ramazan Çekiç
@rç＞hi.....you say "inna" ?...... what do you means?
- keiko-san
@Shannon ＞hi!.....Madagascar, seems very popular with Western people. This is a very attractive place. I want to go too.
- keiko-san
@rç ＞good-night........^_^
- keiko-san
çok güzelll
- ece özdil
hello!....ece özdil
- keiko-san
amazing trees
- Arsız Padawan
yeeeees.......hai......so~desune........^_^
- keiko-san
Che paese strano!
- keiko-san
Why does not to go this summer vacation?
- keiko-san
ci sono stata! : )
- sara
Davvero? Come è stato?
- keiko-san
hi keiko
- Ramazan Çekiç
hi.....oh, you changed name.....right?
- keiko-san
@Keiko-san: è bellissimo davvero! soprattutto al tramonto....
- sara
ciao, sara!.....Questo è dove io sono veramente strana. Lo sapevate che questo posto?
- keiko-san
fushigi na fuukei desune......
- keiko-san
difference-light and darkness
- StreamAfrica
hello Symon!...
- keiko-san
Cool Keiko...How are you doing...?
- StreamAfrica
hi,Symon......I'm fine!......so, do you live in Nairobi,Kenya?......wow.....I want to go once.
- keiko-san
of course, in Kenya !...karibu sana(welcome)....located where ? keep me posted..
- StreamAfrica
karibu sana!........youkoso! (japanese) ....... ^o^
- keiko-san
beautiful...in which part of Japan? I like the history and development of that country...your motherland ?
- StreamAfrica
Of course! I have been born in Japan think it was good......what about you?
- keiko-san
in Nakuru,Kenya.....
- StreamAfrica
......^_^.......
- keiko-san
hello!......sorry....what do you mean?
- keiko-san
@Levent Elpen ＞Yes, the "Little Prince"........
- keiko-san
そうそう、ここは「星の王子さま」の舞台になったところでしたね・・・・
- keiko-san
この不思議な場所、興味のある方、ご存知の方が多いみたいですね。
- keiko-san
mysterious.........
- keiko-san
今夜の「世界の果てまで行って- Q 」でイモトがここを訪れてましたね。やっぱりここで見る夕陽が素晴らしい！・・・・行ってみた～い！
- keiko-san
Tonight, this place was aired on Japanese TV. Also see here a great sunset!
- keiko-san
to night turkish tv canal D keiko:)=))
- Ramazan Çekiç
hi!......:)
- keiko-san
thank you absent ........:)
- keiko-san
不思議な風景ですね・・・
- keiko-san
l0vez it :)
- Ac0n (former Franc)
Socotra Island (Yemen) : The Beach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Apple TV from the hotel room is pretty damn cool. I'm plugged into the hotel TV with HDMI using an alternative input. Wireless through the Airport Express. Bypass crappy hotel entertainment system and go straight to Netflix Instant. Brilliant!
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I bought the Apple TV to set up at my parents house here in New York, but I'm just "testing it" before I give it to them. ;)
- Cristo
The new Apple TV is great for Netflix. Better than TiVo or Xbox so far. It allows you to browse their whole Instant catalog, as far as I can tell. Doesn't appear to be a preview feature though. I like seeing previews just to see if it's worth watching, even if I don't have to pay.
- Cristo
I'd also like a 'Highest Rated' category, which I haven't seen. And as I've said before, I wish I could turn off their personalized rating system. I'm more interested in what others rated the movies than in what their supposed AI comes up with for me. I'm glad others, like Yelp haven't adopted this rating scheme.
- Cristo
Cristo, the Preview feature for Netflix is similarly good on both Google TV and the Wii of all places.
- Louis Gray
I'm still tempted to pick one up for AirPlay alone. An iPhone with the AV Adapter may do the job when traveling.
- Rodfather
Louis, I would carry neither Google TV nor Wii around with me while traveling. :) Also, what is the main purpose of Google TV?
- Cristo
I would not recommend carrying around the Google TV, Apple TV or the Wii for such trips, although the Apple TV is the best suited for portability. The main purpose of Google TV (so far) is putting Chrome on the TV (aka WebTV: 1995) and seeing what's on by genre and going there directly. Having Twitter as an app on the TV is cute. It will get more useful with Android App support.
- Louis Gray
It depends on the trip. If I was headed to Hawaii for a couple weeks, I might bring an Airport Express and Apple TV along with my laptop. It's nice to be able to watch movies at night in a condo. I wouldn't put them in my carryon bag, but it wouldn't weigh much in checked luggage.
- Cristo
Okay, now I'm checked into a new hotel. Time to see if the Apple TV works here.
- Cristo
Much harder, but I'm like that electronics guy on the original Mission Impossible. The TV is wall mounted with no visible connectors. There was a small serial number / model number sticker, on the back but I couldn't make it out. Just enough room to fit my hand through. So I squeezed my hand behind it and took a photo with the phone. Zoom in, type in the model number, and find the pdf...
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- Cristo
I assume your touch with the ladies is just as skilled.
- Louis Gray
Of course. ;)
- Cristo
Surest way to purge me from your follower list: send a DM like ‘thx 4 the follow! love interesting tweeps.’ #oopsmymistake
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The awkward moment when your SIL calls your house shabby.
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:(
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Uh.
- ωαřмaiden ☆Team O'Otto☆
She's right, but isn't it rude to say it?
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
Um, that's ride and uncalled for and she can go find some other roof to shelter her if she's gonna be that way. I will bundle her off for you, if you require a bouncer. "Bish, my house may be shabby but we have a BOUNCER and dont take any shit."
- ωαřмaiden ☆Team O'Otto☆
It's called "Shabby Chic". It's a Thing.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
She makes a point of mentioning it every visit. Couches it in blaming our landlady for not replacing our carpets or drapes.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
How about that awkward moment when you tell her to go fuck herself. I can't believe the shit that people think it is okay to say to someone else.
- Mary Carmen
Send her to my place, she'll think your place is a castle! Or else tell her if it's not to her satisfaction, she's welcome to do the work on it herself.
- Mellissa
Yes, it's shabby. But I can clean it, and you'll still be a bitch.
- Bubba was a rollin stone
++Bubba!
- Janet
The inner beauty of a Woman ♥♥
Like an oyster in the ocean,
its outer shell so plain and dull,
but when you look inside of it,
there’s a pearl so beautiful.
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The most beautiful women are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depts. These women have an appreciation, sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
- mina_sydney
Cher Mina,beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye:**
- Cera
WOW!<3<3
- Paul
nice
- کوروش
لایک برای تیتر زیبات میناجون:)
- aghah
+++++
- aghah
خیلی زیبا بود مینا جان:-) این سخن در مورد آقایون هم صدق میکنه، فرا جنسیتی است به نظرم. مرد یا زن، زشت یا زیبا در ظاهر، بعد از زمانی چشم به زیباترین یا زشترین عادت میکنه و تنها چیزی که هیچوقت در مقابل چشم آدم یکنواخت جلوه نمیکند زیبایی و حسن درون آدمهاست که البته بس نایاب هست
- "Flo14wer"
Brilliant post & image. Nice, nice and nice again:)
- Sean_Geneva
Thanks Cher and thank you Paul:)
- mina_sydney
merci Rasool:-)
- mina_sydney
Thanks Malik, I'm glad you liked it:)
- mina_sydney
danke Sean:-), merci aghah
- mina_sydney
Flo14wer jan, مرسی خوشحالم که دوست داشتید/ بله درسته خانم و اقا فرق نمیکنه/ اگر ادم ها بدانند که قلب خوب داشتن چقدر زیبا هست اسلن ناراحت بیرونشان نمیشوند چون زیباتر دیده خواهند شد/ مرسی از کامنت شیرینتان:-)
- mina_sydney
mina chera mano unsab kardi?
- hosein.x6
Oh! Did I? I'm sorry:(
- mina_sydney
from iPhone
thanx
- hosein.x6
up+++
- Paul
+++
- Arash
Audrey Hepburn is always my sweetheart, thank you mina
- malekably
++++
- همصدا
Christmas Blizzard: The great snowstorm of 2010 blankets New York ...and beyond
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in 1984 there was a similar snowstorm. i was studying there, and remember people digging in the snow to get to the car. skiing on fifth avenue, etc. after the snowstorm we had a few days of sun and freeze, and new york reminded me of 'the great frost' in virginia woolf's 'orlando'.
- Alb.
hoshii desu
- عباس آقا
@Alp > Really? .... in 1984? ...... I didn't know!
- keiko-san
i'll post photos if i find the slides i took.
- Alb.
I want to see it...... I am looking forward to it.....^o^
- keiko-san
@ تاهارا > hi!
- keiko-san
@عباس آقا > yuki ga hoshii desuka?
- keiko-san
気温は？・・－5℃？or －10℃？
- keiko-san
how much temperature?
- keiko-san
大変そう・・・空の便もだいぶ混乱したみたいですね。
- keiko-san
The last word: Advice from 'America's worst mom' - http://theweek.com/article...
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"I really think I’m a parent who is afraid of some things (bears, cars) and less afraid of others (subways, strangers). But mostly I’m afraid that I, too, have been swept up in the impossible obsession of our era: total safety for our children every second of every day. The idea that we should provide it and actually could provide it. It’s as if we don’t believe in fate anymore, or good luck or bad luck. No, it’s all up to us. Childhood really has changed since today’s parents were kids, and not just in the United States. Australian children get stared at when they ride the bus alone. Canadian kids stay inside playing video games. After I started a blog called Free Range Kids, I heard from a dad in Ireland who lets his 11-year-old play in the local park, unsupervised, and now a mom down the street won’t let her son go to their house. She thinks the dad is reckless. What has changed in the English-speaking world that has made childhood independence taboo? The ground has not gradually...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I've brought this up a few times before. Parents don't even let kids go outside their own property anymore. I understand, but it seems to me exploring is an important part of a kid's development.
- Rodfather
This is a good one. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
- Rodfather
The nation of Flip Flops and bike helmets has lost its mind -Kids 100% safe, 24/7 365 is impossible. we want it! In the next breath we condone 500 million tainted eggs... Really is it all a reactin to Baby Boomer Parenting and will it lead to helicopter velcro parents. So is your kid playing in the park alone about safety or about something else... So no I don't understand why kids can't be kids bu lets be clear its not about them or safety
- WarLord
Thing is, if anything does happen to a kid, the first thing everyone does is blame the parents. There was a kid killed fairly recently at Fort Wilderness (Disney campground) by a bus - and the overwhelming majority of comments were - why on earth was a 9 year old riding a bike without adult supervision? What kind of parent lets their kid do that?
- Pixie
My first thought when reading this story was "how old is old enough to ride the subway alone?" Apparently the rules say 8. But really, I think the parent's judgment is the best bet. I'm pretty sure I walked 4 blocks alone to school when I was in sixth grade (10). I also started riding my bike about 2 miles around that age to pick up newspapers for my paper route.
- Robert Felty
I walked a mile home from elementary school all the time, and it never occured to anybody that it might be dangerous. If I had to cross any major streets, though, things might have been different.
- Gabe
Rob & Gabe: That was before safety was invented.
- April Buchheit
I wish I could remember the details, but either Lewis or Clark as a teenager used to walk across two states, alone, to get to their farm. I remember when I read that little factoid I thought my, how things have changed. That would scare the crap out of me.
- Todd Hoff
I'm surprised by how children are bestowed independence suddenly, rather than being eased into it. I very much believe this to be the root of a lot of social problems. Children are taken to and from school every day, with parents carefully monitoring who they talk to after school, and then when they turn 16 they're given a license and a car (and the freedom that comes with it) and are...
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- Tudor Bosman
I would go further and say that this happens because parents are looking for easy solutions. It's easier to say "don't touch alcohol, ever, and when you're 21, you're on your own, and no longer our responsibility" than to teach moderation (preferably by example). It's easier to say "don't have sex, at least until you turn 18 or until you no longer live in our house, whichever comes...
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- Tudor Bosman
Exactly Tudor.
- Paul Buchheit
I walked to and from school 1st grade to senior year. In middle school I had to walk across town, sometimes without my friends. I never gave it a second though. I was a latchkey kid for many years so I was used to being fairly independent. One half day (high school) I asked my dad if I could go to McDonalds for lunch. He forgot and flipped out at me for going missing. "You could have...
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- Heather Rantypants
I wonder if this is why so many kids aren't ready for the real world when they're 20.
- Amit Patel
Here in PA, it's illegal for parents to give alcohol to their own children. I grew up in a household where, as a small child, I'd occasionally get watered-down wine with meals; better to think of it as something that tastes bad than as something wonderful that only adults get.
- Phil Pennock
I grew up in a household where wine was just a part of religious ceremonies, not a beverage. Every week we'd have a Kiddush cup of wine. It's hard to imagine such a thing being illegal!
- Gabe
Phil: irresponsible parenting mandated by law! That's great.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks to advice from joey I'm giving Scrivener a go. I like it so far - seems really flexible and I've already imported all the chapters with annotations. This should make editing a whole lot easier! It's also got a 30-day trial, so if anyone was thinking about it they can check it out.
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Heh. I thought you were talking about ALEX Scrivener for a moment, and I was all "whut?"
- Slippy Lane
I've heard only good reviews of Scrivener.
- Spidra Webster
I want some! What is it?
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
I can't get their site to respond right now but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Spidra Webster
SLippy: first time I saw someone mention it, I thought the exact same thing :))
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Prohibition in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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pstp bev prohib "The cost of enforcing Prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues on alcohol (some $500 million annually nationwide)[citation needed] affected government coffers. When repeal of Prohibition occurred in 1933, organized crime lost nearly all of its black market alcohol profits in most states (states still had the right to enforce their own laws concerning alcohol consumption) because of competition with low-priced alcohol sales at legal liquor stores. Prohibition had a notable effect on the alcohol brewing industry in the United States. When Prohibition ended, only half the breweries that previously existed reopened. The post-Prohibition period saw the introduction of the American lager style of beer, which dominates today. 4 -14http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki......
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- Thomas Page
from Bookmarklet
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition http://www.leap.cc/cms... , http://healthland.time.com/2010... , http://www.time.com/time... , pstp 11 -26 , 12 -16 http://www.metamute.org/en... , 12 -30...
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- Thomas Page
PROHIBITION is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. http://www.pbs.org/kenburn...
- Thomas Page
1 -12 Alcohol moderated use as food and taste bud cleanser refresher ? Piss poor "drug of choice" long term heavy use. Freedom of choice? Land of the free, home of the sheep - lemmings... Daniel amen on alcohol? http://www.amenclinics.com/brain-s... http://www.quackwatch.org/06Resea......
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- Thomas Page
1 -12 Binge drinking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... treatment vs treatment for Alcoholism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... . Problematic for past treatments in US ?
- Thomas Page
Innovation and Improvement? Drug War Politics: Governing Culture Through Prohibition, Intoxicants as Customary Practice and the Challenge of Drug Normalisation http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi... This article on the American administration’s war on drugs policy uses an interdisciplinary approach to assess the assumptions of drug prohibition. It...
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- Thomas Page
Google+ Announces Drug War Debate via Hangout http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Thomas Page
(posts not always going to feeds) Google+ Announces Drug War Debate via Hangout http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Thomas Page
still not ^ (posts not always going to feeds) Google+ Announces Drug War Debate via Hangout http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Thomas Page
<bingo) sorry for the repeats trying to add to my discussions still not ^ (posts not always going to comments/my discussions ) Google+ Announces Drug War Debate via Hangout ( March 13 at 7:00 p.m. GMT 12pm pdt ) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... , 3 -11 'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed': Legalizing Drugs Breaks Into the...
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- Thomas Page
IT'S TIME TO END THE WAR ON DRUGS https://plus.google.com/1078416... live streaming http://www.youtube.com/versusd... , 5 -3 http://www.virgin.com/richard...
- Thomas Page
♥
polymath22, Absentee, Eoghan - $3 bill. and 150 other people liked this
This.
- Mike Nayyar
Please can anyone tell me what 'Team Frank' is all about? intrigued..cheers
- Jason
Jason, see http://jvjannotti.posterous.com/simple-...
- Bruce Lewis
Thanks, Bruce. I was having trouble with FF search in trying to find the thread!
- Subtly LB
Thank you, Bruce
- Jason
Happy to help.
- Bruce Lewis
This was the first thing I saw when I logged in :)
- Ashish
This is gorgeous. The result of a tatted up cow:)
- Liza + = ?
nice..
- !lker yoldas. )°(
Mee toooooo!
- Mary B, VALUE author
me Three,
- Roberto Bonini
Me too!
- Halil
FriendFeed forever!
- Barbara R. S.
Yup.
- Steven Perez
AFFirmative.
- Kevin Johnson
Hooray!
- Fleagle
FFers Rule
- VALZ asks LB is sublet?
Hear hear!
- Ac0n (former Franc)
Oh.
- sofarsoShawn <Pop-Rocks>
Right now, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting in a dark room, looking at monitors on the screen. A big red button marked "Kill Friendfeed" sits on the armchair to his right. As he giggles menacingly under his breath, his finger hovers ever-so-gently over the button...
- Fleagle
pleather <3
- CarlC
yep!
- Kamil FATSA
++ Fleagle. "And suddenly, a question pops his head. How come, why not here on my own developed turf? He sips the last of his milk glass, raising the finger off the button, and decided to give them another day." -The book of SocNet, 12:10
- Zu from AOD
♥ ♥ ♥
- Ali Yolcu
Good Show Sir: Ray Bradbury's "I Sing The Body Electric" - http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010...
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"Good Show Sir" is a blog of bad SF book covers. For this... fine... cover, they say, "That’s the Bradbury story about an android grandmother, isn’t it? A sweet, family tale? Right, so let’s have either a muscle man or a horse on the cover. Better yet, a muscle man who IS a horse. And so ripped, that even his muscles have muscle men on them. On a wraparound cover."
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
Poor Roger Zelazny: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/tag...
- Stephen Mack
I must have missed the Walt Whitman poems about unicorns with men on their arms, Brent.
- Stephen Mack
Oops, did I get your name wrong?
- Stephen Mack
You know what I like about the word facetious? It has all the vowels in the proper order.
- Stephen Mack
Some good ones in here: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/tag... -- be sure to hover your cursor over the cover for some TITLE comments.
- Stephen Mack
The cover picture here is reminiscent of the infinite hand thing: http://d.yimg.com/gg...
- Stephen Mack
Oh yeah!
- Anika
These Italians aren't have bad at this opera thing. #operanoob #rossini
Kevin Johnson, Stephen Mack, Eric - 100% Choice Cuts and 5 other people liked this
Yup.
эш, Harold, Jimminy, CoG of FF and 76 other people liked this
HAHAHA! It's funneh because it's true!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
*likelikelikelikelike*
- Ayşe E.
This is the most awesome thing I have seen in a long, long time.
- Michael McKean
I was going to put a bandolier on the bunneh and have it say "VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!" but the bunneh was too small. Seriously, though: that bunneh with the carrot bandolier from the PETA ad? PURE WIN.
- FFing Enigma
Bunnehs. Ho! Also, the word bandolier seems underutilized. Oh. right: http://friendfeed.com/pdxcabb... :D
- Micah
LOL
- Adam Turetzky
NOPE.
- Steven Perez
embrace the bunneh, Steven. you know you want to...
- holly #ravingfangirl
YOU embrace the bunneh. I don't want rabies. :p
- Steven Perez
from IM
LOL
- John (bird whisperer)
and the bunneh strikes back...
- Joel Robert Perez
NOPE NOPE NOPE.
- Steven Perez
Yup
- FFing Enigma
SuperDuperMegaUltraAwesome LOVE!
- Ordinarybug Heather
I've realized how I could have made this even better, so I might redo in the future.
- FFing Enigma
LOL You guys ----> always good for taking the edge off a difficult day Thanks :D
- comix aka martha
That bunneh is a pikachu lookalike :) or is it just me??
- Roberto Bonini
I can see it, Roberto...
- FFing Enigma
NOT A BUNNEH. OR A PIKACHU.
- Steven Perez
Pika? Pika-pika? Pika----CHHUUUUU!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
OH HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLL NO.
- Steven Perez
Wait, Steven Perez is PIKACHU?!? I'm so confused! (and prefer Togepi, myself. Togi-Togi!)
- Ordinarybug Heather
*bumpity bump bump*
- FFing Enigma
Bwahahahaha
- John (bird whisperer)
Eek.
- Steven Perez
Ha
- Roberto Bonini
THE PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT ME.
- Steven Perez
lol
- کاوه
o_O
- Steven Perez
hahahahahaha
- Marissa
makes me laugh every time
- Imabug
*bump*
- John (bird whisperer)
IT NEVER GOES AWAY.
- Steven Perez
<3
- Subtly LB
BUMP!
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB - http://inothernews.tumblr.com/post...
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So I had to calculate this out: the HGP estimates that the human genome is about 3 billion base pairs (3Gbp) long (Their count includes 22 chromosomes+X+Y) which can be used as an estimate for how many base pairs are in a haploid gamete. Since each base pair can have 4 different values (A-T/T-A/G-C/C-G) a base pair basically encodes 2 bits of information. So 3 billion base pairs = 6 gigabits = 750 MB. On average, there are about 250 million sperm per ejaculation, so that comes (pardon the pun) to 1.875 petabytes of information. Of course, there's a lot of redundancy in that information, but 1.875 petabytes in about 2 teaspoons of volume is impressive in terms of information density. (Bear in mind, my mathematical skills are fairly weak, and I could've gotten this calculation very wrong.)
- Victor Ganata
Oh. Victor. =)
- Anika
http://xkcd.com/386/ Can you tell I don't want to do my charts today?
- Victor Ganata
Jeez, now that's all I'm going to be able to think about...
- Jack&Cleo
LOL @Cristo
- Mo Kargas
No wonder I feel tired all of the time.
- Akiva
Well, an ATTEMPTED data transfer. Sometimes it's kinda like wadding up a bunch of 1TB USB keys and tossing them in the trash. :D
- iTad
That's just about the coolest stat ever.
- iTad
It's like spamming. You're sending out all that data and only 37.5 MB of it will be used.
- Morton Fox
Another great post! :-) Informational, true, and funny. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I don't think it's possible for me to love this entire conversation more than I do RIGHT NOW. And I love all of you for making it happen.
- SOMEBODY!
EPIC.
- Ha3rvey (F please!)
does a vasectomy result in a lower data density I wonder?
- jeff hammond
@jeff: it shouldn't; the testicles will still produce the same volume of sperm as before. They just won't go anywhere. The body reabsorbs the sperm over time. So...kind of like performing a regularly-scheduled defrag?
- SOMEBODY!
Precisely.
- SOMEBODY!
Aaagh! It's viruses!!!!!!111!!!1111!!111
- Victor Ganata
Sorry, Tad. Major pet peeve of mine ;)
- Victor Ganata
You OK, man? Srsly, here, sit down. Have a beverage. Relax a bit. Maybe read a few entries over at FML or AwkwardFamilyPhotos...
- SOMEBODY!
Isn't the overwhelming fraction of the human genome "junk DNA"?
- Andrew C (✓)
Agreed 137%.
- SOMEBODY!
"Junk DNA" is kind of a misnomer, though. It's more accurate to say we don't really know what they do. Some sequences are pseudogenes, which are evolutionary relics. Other sequences are retrotransposons--molecular parasites that embed themselves into an organism's genome and copy themselves endlessly. But there are areas of non-coding DNA that are involved in the regulation of gene...
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- Victor Ganata
But to answer your question, Tad, apparently a cough can contain up to 200 million viral particles http://www.livescience.com/health... The size of the rhinovirus genome is about 7,000 nucleotides http://blogs.america.gov/science... while the influenza genome is about 13,000 nucleotides long....
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- Victor Ganata
For the record: I just totally hit on my boyfriend using information gleaned from this thread.
- Sparky, lurking
This? Is why I love Sparky.
- SOMEBODY!
p.s. we have determined that we have sufficient enterprise storage capacity to continue with the release.
- Sparky, lurking
I think Petabytes is a very appropriate term for this discussion.
- Kenton
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to ejaculate as often as you cough when you're sick.... Still, you'd have to be sick with the flu and cough 3,000 times to match the throughput of a single ejaculation :D
- Victor Ganata
Oh, jeez. How did I miss this one? I'm pretty sure I was on Friendfeed back then... Actually, I *know* I was on here back then. I started in early 2008. I might not have found Victor yet.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Happy Valentines Day, friendfeed! <3
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I can't help falling in love with you! ;)
- Jenny H
(Can't wait for our friends across the pond to interpret that third image. :P)
- caj
THAT'S A "V," CAJ!
- Jenny H
*whistles innocently*
- caj
What is that...a whole spice shelf behind you?!
- JA Castillo
Love that song!
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
how apropos. right backatcha Ramirez ;)))
- CarlC
I think I've liked every single version of this song ever released, not just UB40's version. And back at you, Ms. Jenny. :)
- #cryptic
Happy Valentine's Day, Jenny!
- Anne Bouey
Thanks!
- Jenny H
Same to you!
- Prolific Programmer
Listening to this again. :)
- CarlC
*bump*
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
awesome :D
- esther
She looks...familiar. :D
- Kelli H., FF Squatter
from Android
<3
- Ms. Nakachi
She looks as cute as she did last year.
- John (bird whisperer)
:)
- ems
<3
- Mellissa
John. :")
- Kelli H., FF Squatter
from Android
So cute. Happy Valentine's Day! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Thank you, Mathew. :)
- Kelli H., FF Squatter
from Android
Same to you, Jenny :)*
- mina_sydney
wow UB40, I feel old...do any Americans understand the meaning behind the group name? Just wondering.
- Halil
That's because they *are* old. :)
- Stephan Planken
Department of Unanticipated Results: In the next few months, 3,000,000 Californians will qualify for state-funded health insurance as mandated by Obamacare. The result? Many doctors are now leaving the profession, as the mandated payments do not actually cover the costs of caring for these patients.
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Doctors would earn less and have to spend huge amounts of time caring for these patients, and many are electing to simply change careers instead. (Source: a neurologist friend of mine sharing some of the back room chatter at a local medical conference.)
- Glen Campbell no really
That's similar to my dad's inability to run his own medical practice profitably due to patients on Medicare and Medicaid who would pay only a % of that which was charged. It's the same story with new names.
- Louis Gray
What about the insurance company's fixed payments system? That seems to continually squeeze the system as well without mandates. Health coverage isn't single payer, even under the new health care law. I'm trying to understand.
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
A doctor doesn't have deal with any of these insurance plans if they don't wish. Just take cash customers. Or barter for chickens like the old days.
- Todd Hoff
Or become a consultant and leave the medical profession, which is what a lot of those top neurologists are doing.
- Glen Campbell no really
There's also a ton of frustration with the bureaucracy as well. For example, if someone comes in with a broken foot, doctors are required to get their full-life smoking history because the feds require it. If they don't get all the forms filled out correctly, then they don't get paid. 20 years ago, my friend spent 5 hours a week on insurance; today, it's closer to 30.
- Glen Campbell no really
Health insurance has always been a crackpot crazy business of trying to squeeze everyone but the insurance company. Just look at my co-pays skyrocketing, premiums, cuts in coverage, and the craziness of trying to get insurance when I was running a small business, and I have all the proof I need. Not allowing poor or unemployed to take part doesn't help much. Just my opinion of course.
- Eric - 100% Choice Cuts
You just can't reap as much profit from providing health care as you used to. There are a lot easier ways to make money. Like working in health care adminstration or for the insurance companies....
- Victor Ganata
The root problem is threefold: (1) calling it "insurance" when it little of it in most cases is actually insurance against unforeeen risk, it's predictable expenses; (2) tying insurance coverage to employers; (3) political corruption between the insurance industry and lawmakers.
- Tinfoil 2.0
PPACA or not, this was always going to come to a crisis point. The incomes of physicians hasn't changed in the last twenty years or so. If you adjust for inflation that means people finishing med school now make a fraction of what they would have before HMOs came to dominate the state. And student debt has only multiplied. A lot of people in my cohort feel like the only realistic option...
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- Victor Ganata
The root problem is that people want something for nothing.
- Victor Ganata
Let's be realistic. The rest of the industrialized world has some form of universal access. People spend a fraction of what we spend and have about the same outcomes. Physicians don't seem to be quitting in droves elsewhere. I suspect plunging the system into free market chaos is not the solution.
- Victor Ganata
^^^That right there.^^^
- vicster
I'll be honest about my opinion: anyone going into this field thinking that they're going to make vast sums of money is a moron, a crook, or both. But the old every-man-for-himself model is dead, dead, dead, and whenever paradigms shift, there are going to be lots of casualties. PPACA is just a stopgap measure to make sure it doesn't collapse entirely and all at once, and that we're not reduced to providing health care on par with the average developing nation.
- Victor Ganata
Okay, sometimes the world is freaky. I got a headhunter email about a job in Kuwait a few minutes ago. THREE minutes later I get an email from AT&T: "AT&T knows that the mobile Internet on your Apple® iPhone® is indispensable to you. That’s why we want to remind you that international data usage is not covered under your existing U.S. data plan."
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WEIRD!
- caj
o_O they're watching your email!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Gas Prices in All 50 States Back Above $3 a Gallon - CNBC - http://www.cnbc.com/...
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"Gas prices in all 50 states this week are back above $3 per gallon for the first time since December 15, when regular unleaded gasoline remained at this level for nearly 10 months. According to the latest data from AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report, the national retail average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in the U.S. stands at $3.48, nearly 12 percent more than a year ago."
- Morton Fox
from Bookmarklet
Are libertarians right in being more skeptical about government than free markets? Aaron Powell addresses this... http://www.libertarianism.org/blog...
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Having found that Clint Eastwood ad so effective & moving, I decided to purchase Detroit. Does Clint deliver?
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Good call, Detroit is cheap right now.
- Alex Scrivener
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
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You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Ac0n (former Franc)
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I still get them.
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
I get these every day.
- Me
Fwd: You can turn Google Personal Results off by default. Go to Search Settings. (via http://friendfeed.com/cristob...)
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From Cristo, who said, "Spread the word to the people who don't subscribe to me."
- Stephen Mack
It was written as an imperative, so I felt compelled to do as he said.
- Stephen Mack
In fact, you could say, the power of Cristo compelled me.
- Stephen Mack
Ah, nice, thanks Zulema.
- Stephen Mack
Damnit! I turned off Google Instant and it was on again! Grrrr!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Oh, you're welcome. :)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
That link doesn't show me an option for turning off personal results :( just me?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Rudi, do you have personal results in your searches? Maybe that feature isn't enabled for you yet? Do you even have a Google account?
- Stephen Mack
I did nuke g+, but have not yet nuked google entirely. I was logged in, and had options for safe search etc. I suspect it's being on an iPad, I'll try this later on the PC.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Public service announcement: Cristo (http://friendfeed.com/cristob...) is a good person to subscribe to. In fact, as WoH once said, "One of the things I appreciate about Friendfeed is Cristo constantly pushing the boundaries of pretty much everything. Without his tireless application of WTF? posts, comments, accounts and rooms Friendfeed would be that much less interesting."
- Stephen Mack
(and yeah, I get personal results. Totally useless. I've been reintroducing myself to bing, and checking out duckduckgo lately)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Sorry, but I'll have to disagree with you, Stephen. I've had Cristo blocked so long that I forget exactly why I blocked him.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I've never felt the need to block Cristo. He's never been mean to me. He deletes his comments though on old posts then it looks like I'm talking to myself. :P
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Zulema, I really can't even remember what it was. I was on the verge of blocking him for a very long time, and then one day he pushed me over the edge, but I can't remember what the specific trigger was. I just remember that he sort of got on my nerves, and then one day I'd had enough.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, that's fine, I certainly don't want to imply that he's for everyone -- and I think FF works best if people use it however they want. But while he can say mean things, he's never serious when he does say them, and once I realized he's just teasing, I now find him to be a very amusing presence on FF.
- Stephen Mack
nice! done!
- .LAG liked that
Only cookie-based though :(
- Tinfoil 2.0
^I noticed that.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
By definition, isn't it a Google Account-based feature (actually a Google+ Profile feature)? It should be a server-based Account setting, not subject to the whims of varying devices and evaporating cookies. UPDATE: As expected, it does not show up as a setting if you are not logged in.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Of course you can turn it off. :)
- Louis Gray
I'm skeptical of your skepticism.
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Prove it.
- Bruce Lewis
Maybe that's what I wanted you to think.
- Steven Perez
Connecticut teachers will now be evaluated mainly on student performance, which makes you wonder what they were being evaluated on before. No, seriously. What were they evaluated on before? [Interesting] - http://fk.cm/6911662
![Connecticut teachers will now be evaluated mainly on student performance, which makes you wonder what they were being evaluated on before. No, seriously. What were they evaluated on before? [Interesting]](http://img.fark.net/pub/topics/interesting.gif "Connecticut teachers will now be evaluated mainly on student performance, which makes you wonder what they were being evaluated on before. No, seriously. What were they evaluated on before? [Interesting]") |
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Age
- Alex Scrivener
from Android
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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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
This is awesome!
- Christopher Chung
with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive!
- michael sean wright
:O
- Josh Haley
Amazing, thanks for that!
- dkb
According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :)
- Bret Taylor
Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?)
- Kathy Fitch
very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action?
- berchman
Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross
- goutham
Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on
- Shane
That's priceless. Great job, guys.
- John Craft
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
Great project!
- Anne Bouey
AWESOME!
- Kevin Fox
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)
That is so awesome
- Glenn Slaven
happy-making!
- Felicia Yue
I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :)
- Arvind
Wow!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Excellent!!
- Kol Tregaskes
That's great!
- Devon Govett
Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury
- Benedetto Vacca
неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет?
- atner
Lots of handshaking I see :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha very nice stop motion and music!
- Alex Huinchucleffy
BUMP
- Roberto Bonini
FULL OF WIN
- Jac Falcon
Improve FriendFeed for your friends by recommending subscriptions - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Laura (goldie), dgw, Mitchell Tsai and 170 other people liked this
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Nice! Friends, please send me recommendations :)
- joey
Excellent feature, gooood idea!
- Susan Beebe
Very cool =)
- FFing Enigma
Cool stuff.
- Mike Bracco
gr8
- حاج مهدی ©
Uh, it tells me that Scoble, among others, could use the recommendations. WTF? Perhaps I have too few subscriptions for this to work.
- Fred Yankowski
more good stuff
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Finally a better recommendation
- directeur
I'd still love an "e-mail this item" feature, similar to Google Reader.
- Jesse Stay
great idea!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Cool! Beats the heck out of #followfriday!!
- Larry Hawes
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
User-driven...I like.
- Josh Haley
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
Definitely better than #followfriday.
- Bernie Goldbach
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
fatma küfür istiyor
- Joan Miro
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Отборнейший бред, Bojan Babic, Taras Brizitsky and 202 other people liked this
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
cool : )
- Gurkan Oluc
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
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