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QUESTION: What was your favorite movie this year?
Ruchira S. Datta, Molly, "sorry", Kol Tregaskes and 9 other people liked this
Mine: DISTRICT 9. Haven't seen AVATAR or MOON yet, so that answer may change.
- Steven Perez
Hurt Locker
- Derek Coward
District 9 (though I'm in a similar spot for both Avatar and Moon, though I'm more interested in the latter)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Up In The Air.
- cecily
I found District 9 to be a rather very very unique film. I have yet to figure out how much I liked it though. I really liked UP!
- Brent - Loving Life
Hurt Locker
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Metropolitan. Oh, wait.
- s t e v e
Since I only saw two, it's between Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek
- Nurse Katie
I loved STAR TREK, but DISTRICT 9 did more with less money. I haven't seen SHERLOCK HOLMES, though. How was it?
- Steven Perez
The only thing I found lacking in the Star Trek was the humor.
- Brent - Loving Life
I almost answered Sherlock Holmes as my favorite, but it's still so fresh it is hard to tell if that is just current enthusiasm.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Ponyo.
- Alix Whitmire
from iPhone
Ooooh, I've got to catch PONYO, too.
- Steven Perez
District 9 here as well. Haven't seen Avatar though, but MOON will not change your mind. That was some amateur time sci-fi.
- Adrian
Avatar.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Star Trek was the last film I saw in the cinema; it'll get my vote despite its many, many, many flaws.
- Mark H
District 9 Up then Avatar
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Star Trek
- Ale♫nastrorosa
District 9 for me
- Mo Kargas
Gran Torino
- maurizio/videogioco
Hotel for Dogs!
- Joe Pierce
For know I think Avatar (looked nice in 3D and also thought it was funny at times. The Colonel Miles Quaritch was really funny at times). From which I seen I also liked star trek/Hurt locker/ up! (not as much as I thought it would....)
- alfred westerveld
I haven't seen a ton of movies this year sadly. At the moment I'd probably go with Inglourious Basterds.
- Joe Pierce
Up, maybe. But probably Avatar.
- Stephen Mack
I still have a lot of movies to go through but still District 9 for me
- Rodfather
Marley & Me!
- Mellissa Claus
Avatar IMAX 3D
- Beau Liening
none, can't think of anything.
- Richard A.
The Blind Side.
- Mona Nomura
500 Days of Summer.
- Andrew C
Mine was Seven Pounds, but I don't get to the cinema nowadays: http://ff.im/cXRHi
- Kol Tregaskes
Ninja Assasin. Best. Movie. Ever.
- Alex Scrivener
from iPhone
some Japanese film i saw between Singapore and Tokyo. no idea what it was called, but it was about mountain climbers in the first decade of the 20th century who were trying to scale a mountain in Japan that had only been scaled in legend by a monk.
- Joe Silence
I haven't seen too many but out of the ones I have seen, I have to say Ninja Assassin.
- aden
Umm!! Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Ice Age 3 were my favorites followed by District 9. Have to watch Avatar in a couple of days so things can change.
- mridul
Steven, I've seen Moon and Dix9 this week, and I really dislike them. Inglorious Basterds is over the top, followed by Tarantino!
- Eugenio
I haven't seen a lot...I liked Star Trek, Avatar, didn't see District 9 or Inglorious Basterds, I liked Up a lot, but was it my favorite? I don't think so. I'll get back to you.
- Derrick
Star Trek
- Molly, "sorry"
Avatar(3D)
- Ron Thompson
Current windchill: -17C
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Wow that's cold :$
- alfred westerveld
I made our new search service so fast that it scares me to hell :), now gotta plug real time search into platform, exploring Solr on Lucene.
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Unsubbed from all the private bitching rooms. A toxic atmosphere is not my thing. If I wanna bitch about something in my life, I'll do it in my feed.
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I understand the cathartic need to vent. I understand that sometimes you want to vent about something that you don't want anyone else seeing. That's not me, though. If I get that pissed off over what someone does or says, I back away from the keyboard and go do something else for a while.
- Steven Perez
And frankly, the transition of many of these rooms from "damn, THING X in my life is driving me nuts" to "hey, let's all point and laugh at FriendFeeder X and their obtuse behavior" pretty much guaranteed that I no longer give two tugs of a dead dog's cock about what goes on there. Somebody's acting stupid? Great; unsub or block them and be done with that. Piling on the bastard in private like it's the Ides of March and Caesar just walked in is not my idea of a good time.
- Steven Perez
what about THREE tugs?
- Joe Silence
I guess what I'm saying is, if you feel secure enough in the knowledge that someone is acting like an ass, then the proper thing to do is tell them that they're acting like an ass. I'm not much into pointing and laughing, since I've been on the receiving end of that shit sandwich in real life, and I can't imagine doing that to someone else. Even if it's someone I might not ever meet in person.
- Steven Perez
You missed one.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Did I? (Damn Greasemonkey script keeps hiding the Unsubscribe link)
- Steven Perez
Private bitching rooms, to me, are just a place for your "friends" to talk shit about someone but too much of a pussy to do it out in the open.
- Outsanity
It's hard to a keep a room from going in that direction. Even with the best of intentions it gets rough. I'm having an issue where it is not the appropriate time for me to go near those rooms, but people kept making me admin. I feel obligated to poke my head in to chill everyone out, but don't seem to have the energy anymore.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Wow... seems a lot of you guys have private bitching rooms. I'm only in bitchfest.
- Yolanda
Believe me, Yolanda. You are better off as you are.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I actually stay out of Bitchfest (despite everyone cross-posting) as I couldn't handle the negativity because I work really hard to fight it in my own thinking, but it was nice to have a semi-private place to vent about work issues (before I left) where my comments couldn't be easily found by the coworkers who were making my life hell.
- joey
Well said. I have nothing against private rooms or against private bitching, but private pile-ons are lame. And I should know, because I have participated in plenty of them.
- s t e v e
Private bitching rooms? What? And here I've been bitching publicly all this time!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
I steer well clear of private rooms for stuff like that.... *whistles*
- Roberto Bonini
Someone should expose them, Stevie. A member should take screen shots of the shitty comments and post them in another room, a very popular room, under an alias username, so that the rest of FF can see what sort of people really lurk around here.
- Christopher Harley
Regular people.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Well, I would have to start with myself, Mr. Harley. Which is one of the reasons I bailed on the private bitching rooms - because it is way too easy to start piling on some poor bastard. And I've certainly been guilty of that myself.
- Steven Perez
Ugh. The knowledge that there are rooms on here where that kind of stuff goes on is making me sick to my stomach. Good for you for walking away from that, Steven.
- Jim Addz No Value
Really? Here I thought FriendFeed was the one place we could all get along without that sort of toxic behavior. #naiveericaisnaive
- EricaJoy
FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
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Will this mean I'll be able to upload pictures again? EDIT This does not mean I can upload photos now.
- Admiral Anika
Thanks for the update Paul! ;)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim Addz No Value
Does seem very zippy, thanks team!
- Stephen Mack
Time to time, it's slow. Overall fast (again), however.
- Ozkan Altuner
I think the issues were directly related to Cristo's 11 MB PDF upload.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Paul!
- Holly Rae
it looks faster now. thanks
- Hakan İyice
I still see Twitter updates coming in here 10 -15 minutes later
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Paul. Much better.
- Roberto Bonini
Im experiencing extreme slowness ,,,, but then again , Im 53
- johnpiercy
nice also to know your not Boarding up the Windows
- johnpiercy
It did seem a little faster this afternoon.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon.
- Paul Buchheit
The Twitter feed went entirely???? o_O
- Roberto Bonini
It would be great if you could speed up importing of Twitter feeds. The slowness has been an issue for me lately.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got it, Paul. Thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
Nice to know that there is indeed a problem with Twitter importing being slow, and I'm not just going crazy.
- Tyson Key
Awesome news!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sweet
- Josh Haley
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Jay
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks
- zizukabi
Thanks for the info and the update.
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Still seems to be some slowness. The Innovation Management Room (er...Group) hasn't updated for several hours: http://friendfeed.com/innovat...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes
Ah, yes, search is much faster now. Thank you.
- April Russo (app103)
Just looked at node.js and I'm really blown away by how trivial it makes writing server-side code.
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Yup node.js is pretty impressive stuff :-)
- alfred westerveld
Fwd: Added POST capabilities to my continuation-based webserver. A webserver in 126 loc total. Go #python! http://bitbucket.org/ignisz... (via http://friendfeed.com/ignisz...)
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The 7 Rules for Writing World Class Technical Documentation - http://www.developer.com/mgmt...
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"Okay, so here are the 7 Rules: 1. Dry sucks 2. Before you start, be clear about what you want your reader to do after you end 3. Write to a well formed outline, always 4. Avoid ambiguous pronouns 5. clarity = illustrations + words 6. When dealing with concepts... logical illustration and example 7. Embrace revision"
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
:(
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I'm sorry.
- Josh Haley
O.O hide
- Alfredo
O_o
- Mathew™ one of a kind
:(
- Derrick
Dude
- Rodfather
:((((((((((((((
- Melissa Maskevich
From tha windooooooooooooooooow to tha waaaaaaallllllllll !!!
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Duuuuude....not cool
- Neal Jansons
Now that's a bag of nuts
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Disstress balls
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Speed bag?
- Matthew DeVries
... do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow...
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Now we just need a blindfold a stick and 15 fourth graders and everything for Ashley's birthday party is ready
- Matthew DeVries
Now THAT is going to be SOME Teabag party!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
errr... that's not the udder
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
"Swing low sweet chariot..."
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
... now cough
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
McGee gets it.
- Josh Haley
That's a load of bull.
- Robert Kenney
oh shit!!
- ★ Soner Gönül
But I don't WANT a post the most offensive possible while staying safe for work picture with :( as the heading meme! The meme committee forbids it!
- Matthew DeVries
chill out people... hardly a bad pic. :o) had to look twice myself to see what the fuss was, so it can't be THAT obvious lol. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
sorry doesn't cut it JOSH lol *UNSEE*
- BEX
I wish folks would quit commenting on this. Every time you do it bounces back up to the top.
- Chrimmus Tad
Tad - not a fan of bouncing balls, noted
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew - great job making it go back up.
- Chrimmus Tad
The ability of the balls to go back up means the animal does not have a herniated cremaster.
- Matthew DeVries
Had to subscribe to Matthew based on his comment.
- Janet
Proper plums! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
See, now those COULD successfully teabag the white house.
- Ethan
"I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one"
- Chris Rivait
What if I just promise not to bump it?
- Josh Haley
How would you precisely phrase this promise? Let's revise and get that language exactly right
- Matthew DeVries
Do your balls hang low? do they wabble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knott? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a contenental solgier? Do your nuts hang low?
- Fake Elmo
Nuts or balls, Elmo? (I bet that gets said all the time)
- Josh Haley
Why does she seem so amused?
- Outsanity
Why would you do this.
- Mike Nayyar
Rocky Mountain Oysters...
- Fake Elmo
Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but when their held for pleasure their the ball that I like best!
- Jeff P. Henderson
coffee doesn't taste the same after seeing this... DAMN YOU JOSH HALEY
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I like have Dobromir doesn't say whether the coffee tastes better or worse.
- Akiva Moskovitz
OO 00 zomg! :|
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Dang!! OMG that's too much nuts for me(LMAO)
- YoYo_P
"No, honey. Those aren't where milk comes from, either."
- Matthew
GAH! This picture is now engraved in my brain. THANKS JOSH HALEY.
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
...and the tilly?
- Kandeezie
Awww.. she looks so happy. LOL
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
Only now did I notice there are onlookers in this photo. What, indeed, was going on here?
- Josh Haley
That's nuts!
- Christian (Simply X)
these two threads are amazing.
- mjc
Them's good eatin'!
- CAJ, somewhere else
That's what Betsy said.
- Josh Haley
"There is ALWAYS room for a "balls" version - Katie Bird" (Sorry...HAD to bring that Tweet over!)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Does she know what she's touching?
- Michelle McCormack
That's no moon!
- Simon Wicks
8O NOOOOOOO!
- David Cook
Those balls look like shafts....*sigh*...and that was my contribution. :P
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
What's everyone getting so testey about? :-p
- Rick Cogley
Funny pic, but the comments are really making me LMAO.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
DON'T TOUCH THEM! THEY HAVE SWINE FLU!
- Josh Haley
why did you bump this? DYJH!
- Jim Addz No Value
Just trying to cheer Akiva up, maybe.
- Josh Haley
That's no uvula.
- Akiva Moskovitz
^______^
- Josh Haley
WTF!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Haha I knew I was missing something today
- Rodfather
So where does that stand on the whole "size matters" scale?
- Slappy Line
this friggin thread keeps showing up in my feed. damn you haley! lol
- Cee Bee
You can't look away! Admit it!
- Josh Haley
Fine, I can't look away. I'm drawn in wondering WHY IS SHE SMILING???
- CAJ, somewhere else
Look closer at the people in the background. wtf is going on, right?
- Josh Haley
Oh no...I'm not falling for that. No way I'm clickin' through on this one!
- CAJ, somewhere else
You are REALLY testeing my patience!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
+1 minimage.
- edythe
OH MAN, why does this keep popping up?
- Mike Nayyar
lol
- ZOD
Now that's a stimulus package. ;-]
- Michael Burke
I absolutely do support a sack meme. EDIT. do NOT. DAMMIT! IT'S TOO LATE!
- Josh Haley
You were just waiting for Friendfeed to come back up to bump this, weren't you? :)
- Morton Fox
Jeff started it. Kinda.
- Josh Haley
Spidra helped from afar.
- Josh Haley
Again?
- Outsanity
Josh doesn't drink so he's all sack?
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
L O L
- Josh Haley
So tired of this. And afraid it might pop up when I am at work. Gotta hide it now.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Paging Mark Wilson.
- Josh Haley
Those would be far more impressive than the set dangling from the back of my pickup currently. Is there anything more classy than a scrotum hanging from the back of your car.
- Matthew DeVries
this is the thread that keeps on giving whether you want it to or not
- Cee Bee
Um... yeah.
- MicahBear78
So...is someone gonna shop this or what?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
How could this possibly get any better via shopping?
- Josh Haley
By superimposing the faces of Tom and Ray Magliozzi from NPRs nationally syndicated radio show Car Talk
- Christopher Harley
"good times, good times"
- Michael W. May
AIN'T WE LUCKY WE GOT 'EM
- Akiva Moskovitz
one day its gonna burst!
- cysko
شخم
- میر«آرش» موسوی
ffoatse
- Josh Haley
زکی باز یکی اینو شخم زد
- Papak
That's one ballsy maneuver, given a bull's typical demeanor.
- Christopher Harley
Mmmmmm beefy
- Simon Tracey
does it constitute as a moo-teabag?
- MicahBear78
Yikes, this image is becoming an "e-moo-tea-icon"
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
++ chris
- Josh Haley
Gosh....
- Fossil Huntress
Nice kintama.
- 9番
Whaaaaat?
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Dang!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I am certain there are those who are grateful this is not an animated gif.
- Josh Haley
reminds me of that song "ooo you touch my tralala.. my ding ding dong"
- Bora Mesut PALAS
More Jobs needed. Steve is the one to make it happen.
- Josh Haley
Nucking futs!! ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
WTH! And why does she look so happy about this?
- Give 'Em DBizness
damn, does this mean i have to post a sack photo as well? *gets out the razor and foaming gel*
- Joe Silence
It's my birthday, and a nutty flavor is in the air!
- Josh Haley
ahaha
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Haha
- Rodfather
BALLZ
- Joe Silence
I couldnt understand what the pic is about until I saw the image tooltip by hovering mouse over it.
- TrafficBug
I'm not sure knowing what they're attached to helps explain the smile on her face.
- CAJ, somewhere else
نمیدونم چرا هروقت این عکسو می بینم دلم املت می خواد :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
- میر«آرش» موسوی
Happy Birthday, Mark Vandenberg! http://ff.im/96VuI
- Josh Haley
O.o
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
[Edit] Show that beastie a photo looking straight down over the edge of the Grand Canyon and those babies will pull up a good 6 inches!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
It's a good day for a bump.
- Josh Haley
BLOCK
- pea
Yay! Hi pea!
- Josh Haley
I obviously can't respond to your comment as I've blocked you. wait. oh. hmm. SIGH.
- pea
:p
- Josh Haley
=)))))))))
- Ehsan Diary
The gift that keeps on giving
- Rodfather
I'll bet this place serves these all the time! http://bit.ly/yQH8W
- Mark "DerBingle" J
"Fondo Colanco is a private ranch that I visited on the day of the Spring castration. We watched about 30 bulls get snipped and then retired to a barn for the day. We stripped the balls from the scrota, taking them to a giant plow set over an open wood fire for searing in oil, garlic, and chiles before parking them between two homemade rolls for hand sandwiches. The scrota were sauteed...
more...
- Josh Haley
Well, when you put it like that...
- Chrimmus Tad
Did you know that during the end credits of Borat, there is a picture like this, of a different woman in a similar hat cupping a bull's balls? I found that very interesting and now am trying to figure out what the real meaning of it all is.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
the meaning is... wow, never felt balls like it... :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
Hola, jeuvos. Estan bien?
- Josh Haley
In Turkey, we call this thing "Taşşak" :D
- Deli Profesör
No deliprofesör i disagree with you. I call it "daşşak". not t use d. (daha gırtlaktan).
- efeöge
ahaha
- Bora Mesut PALAS
omg!! :#wtf!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Silver bells....silver bells....it's Christmas time in the...wait...what the?!?!?!?! Those aren't bells! ;)
- CAJ, somewhere else
jing-a-liiiiing. hear them riiiiing
- Josh Haley
i always want to like this again when i see it
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
*fist bump to Monique*
- Josh Haley
اردی_خان# یا همون #عر_عر_خان :))
- بنیامین
Here's all the conversations on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/search... (all items with five or more comments). Just for anyone who is looking for a conversation. Me? I'm looking to get smarter. I wish there were a filter for smart conversations because most of these are, while entertaining, not making me smarter about anything.
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In fact, most of these conversations aren't even in English.
- Robert Scoble
While I see what you're lamenting, I haven't seen much better on twitter - especially since the format reflects the idea of shouting into the void 160 at a time.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
so.... not in English= not smart? Maybe you could learn some of the languages. You'd be smarter then!
- Jim Addz No Value
Jeremy: I used to think that too, but then I unfollowed everyone and changed my strategy. My lists are very good now for getting smarter.
- Robert Scoble
Jim: not in English = not making ME smarter unless I translate and, even then, finding good conversations is very difficult. Most of the conversations on FriendFeed are pablum, sorry. For instance, the item underneath this one on my screen reads "Just smashed a finger between a pair of 45 pound plates." OK.
- Robert Scoble
Clearly your definition of 'good conversation' needs revision. If you think that a conversation cannot be 'good' unless it makes you smarter than you have a worldview that's much too small. Yes, that's RAPatton with the smashed finger. If you knew anything about Robert then you might find that post to be significant. You might learn something about Robert and the many, many physical trials he's had to endure in his life.
- Jim Addz No Value
Smart is not in what information you get, who you talk to. Smart is in how you use the information you get,
- Brian Sullivan
Let us not pretend that twitter is not full of inanities. It's not format, it's users. If you want conversations, start some.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
+++Brian
- Melanie Reed
Robert, thank you for sharing that information about smashing up one's fingers. Just the meme presenting itself into my conscientiousness so that it may be drawn up in some future potential accident with my hands may indeed help me by association to avoid it! :) It's not all useless.
- Melanie Reed
Jim: I don't want to talk about everything in the world that's happening to everyone. Maybe you want to talk about Tiger Woods and his problems or how someone smashed their fingers, but I don't. I'm looking for something smarter.
- Robert Scoble
Your request appears to be best handled by Google Wave these days since it is easy to lose threads in most other tools.
- Roney Smith
No Robert you are looking for something Techier which coincidentally does not equal smarter.. Different yes, smarter no. You are starting to act like that annoying person who keeps going to parties just to complain about everything. If you don't want to be here don't be here. I'm getting tired of your weekly friendfeed is dead bash on friendfeed thread.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
robert, what someone... (perhaps louis gray?)... could make is a lazy feed for friendfeed-style conversations. what do you think?
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Google Wave is 100x more noisy and less useful than FriendFeed ever was.
- Robert Scoble
Rasmus: no, that isn't true. I read a wide variety of things. For instance, world news: http://twitter.com/scoblem...
- Robert Scoble
If you read that it's more focused and makes you smarter. Here? I don't find I'm getting smarter. I find I'm spending time having fun, maybe, but not getting smarter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert -- sometimes I think you are just full of it. Have you ever actually used Google Wave?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian: yes. I have hundreds of conversations open in Wave and it totally sucks. If you get value out of it you must either have only a very small group of people you collaborate with (I don't have that luxury) or you must be a better person than I am.
- Robert Scoble
Robert you could not have missed my point more than you did. I'm done though... sorry. I like you but you just do not get it.
- Jim Addz No Value
MIT Courseware is a good place to go to get smarter Robert... http://ocw.mit.edu/ --- since when has FF been a place to go to get smarter... twitter sure isn't doing that either is it?
- Chris Heath
Wave is not for conversations it is for collaboration -- so what you are saying is the way you use it it sucks -- maybe because you don't know how to use it?
- Brian Sullivan
Pffft. Not only do most conversations on here or Twitter not make you smarter, some actually cost you money: "Scoble is an egotistical fatso."
- WorldofHiglet
Brian: even if you know how to use it it becomes noisy very quickly and you can't easily get back to the value that someone left in a long thread. OK, I guess from your message that you only have five people in your Wave. Then it's OK.
- Robert Scoble
Well, some of the stories on that list will probably help expand one's way of thinking... but Kim Kardashian and bed picnics? Knitting Icelanders? Seems there's a relative amount of fluff on that list as well, from the brief glance I gave it. Expand your brain all you want, Robert, it's an excellent idea. But don't discount the play factor in learning... which appears to be kind of what...
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- Bette Cooper
WorldofHiglet: I just sent my $100 to the Food Bank. Was worth every penny.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, if your looking to get smarter then get off the internet and go read a book. Or stay on the internet and go to websites that provided educational material. I'm so sorry that we don't provide you with the knowledge that you are seeking....
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Bette: there's always fluff. But now I don't need to dig through fluff on top of fluff. :-) Here I'm faced with both the fluff (and, sorry, compare the link above to the world news link and you'll see there's more fluff here) but here I need to deal with the conversation fluff too.
- Robert Scoble
When my brother decides to step in the poo, he certainly splashes it all over.
- Alex Scoble
Jim: whatever. You obviously get value out of this kinds of conversation. I don't.
- Robert Scoble
Alex: I love giving people here what they want: a conversation. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Mathew: I read books too (even have a Kindle so I can buy most anybook and read it immediately), but they make me smart about something that happened 12 months ago (or longer).
- Robert Scoble
Robert, this isn't the kind of conversation that most of us are looking for. We are looking for fun or meaningful conversation. This here, is accomplishing anything more then wasting time.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Ok Robert I feel I need a disclaimer here... I was one of the Scobleites that followed you here, I stayed around though since I found it interesting. But yes you gathered a list on world media, that list though is not you or your conversations.... But look at your twitter feed, your conversations are 90%+ tech.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
So where's the guy who wondered where all the conversations have gone? Look at this one... the fine art of avoiding heavy objects, and how to fling poo in a civilized manner. Now that's a conversation! :D
- Bette Cooper
Is this your monthly Friendfeed slam? If so, thanks, see you in January.
- Kenton
Looking to get smarter, or looking to feel superior? I'm allergic to condescension and this post almost killed me :P
- Lo
Lo: :-)
- Robert Scoble
Lo: the thing is the traffic here has NOT been going up and I'm trying to communicate why. Most people look at FriendFeed and don't see the conversations. Then, if they do find the conversations they see a bunch of noise. FriendFeed is fun for my brother, but not for people like me who are looking for something more specific.
- Robert Scoble
Rasmus: my output is mostly tech, because that's mostly what I want to talk about, yes. But my inbound is much wider than that.
- Robert Scoble
I think the specificity is really where it is at. FF is many things. Specific ain't it.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Good luck finding what you are looking for on Twitter.
- Alex Scoble
Alex: I already found it on Twitter. It's easy with lists.
- Robert Scoble
So Robert, in order for some of us to actually learn something; What do you, or any of us, gain by you coming here periodically and posting what is wrong with Friendfeed and the community? It seems to me that if you are looking for intelligent conversation you wouldn't just troll for comments, you'd actually start something worthwhile.
- Kenton
Kenton: it's fun. Oh, so you are admitting that some conversations are more fun for you than others? EXACTLY MY POINT!
- Robert Scoble
And I keep coming here, seeing the noise, and it makes me grumpy. Just like I'm making YOU grumpy! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Why does it make you grumpy? Because you see it as noise and others don't?
- Bette Cooper
Bette: yes. I see noise and not much signal. Makes me grumpy. But, worse, it explains why traffic numbers here have gone down.
- Robert Scoble
Kenton: and, as for starting something, I've already done that: my own filtered feed: http://twitter.com/scoblei... -- I wish I could do something like this here, but FriendFeed never got to it.
- Robert Scoble
TRAFFIC has not gone down! Traffic has gone up! Us American folks don't make a website! The people of the world make a website!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
The reason it makes me grumpy is that I don't appreciate people who drive by and fling insults and tell us all that we're doing something wrong. The community here on Friendfeed works for the people who want it to work. If you're only doing it so you can have fun, have it at someone else's expense. Oh, here's a list of all the conversations (5 tweets or more) on Twitter. Oh, wait, how do I do that? How about Facebook? Oh, hmmm, can't do that there either.
- Kenton
Mathew: that doesn't match the statements I've seen from traffic sites. Would love to see URLs proving traffic has gone up.
- Robert Scoble
Isn't becoming better a nobler goal than being smarter? Smarter as a goal is solipsistic. Better as a goal encourages well roundedness and non means oriented connections with other people.
- Todd Hoff
Kenton: it takes two people to have a conversation. If you don't like the insults, don't pay attention to them!
- Robert Scoble
hmmm one man's turd is another mans gold... As I said before why do you come here if you don't like it and it makes you grumpy. To me that sounds quite masochistic... How are we to gauge your conversations? Conversation by definition takes two.. So what comes in through your lists can't exactly be said to be conversations you are taking part of. Your feed on the other hand can...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Todd: that's cool, but I'm already listening to 1,300 on Facebook, 16,000 on Twitter, and something like 15,000 here. How many more voices do I need to listen to before I become "better?" Me? I'm ready to narrow my focus to people who are actually teaching me something and making my life more interesting.
- Robert Scoble
He likes the site. That's thing. He can't put it down.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Here you go. http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... Now I do want to say that traffic does go up and down. But, it is easy to see that Friendfeed is on a upward trend.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Rasmus: I keep getting pulled back here because some of you take my name in vain.
- Robert Scoble
LOL@egotisticalfattie
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Mathew: Alexa is well known to be very inaccurate. Quantcast is the one that most people use as real numbers.
- Robert Scoble
As noted earlier, also seems language is proximate fundamental limiting factor. Really need Ubiquity add-on or some similar magic to do on the fly translation, (think Aunt Rosy Wavebot style). Seems next major limiting factor on expanding knowledge and integration of global cognition grid is language. This is fundamentally doable with today's tools, but nobody seems focused on making it happen in a way that we can all start teaching the GCG how to translate more accurately, understand slang, etc.
- michael silverton
Well, when I goto Quantcast and see "rough estimate" that doesn't work for me. I want to see something that looks solid. But, whatever, I'm done. No one is going to satisfy you with whatever they bring to you.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Jeremy: truth is, I do like the site, but haven't liked it as much lately because everytime I come here I see noise, even on the lists I hand made.
- Robert Scoble
No, you haven't found it on Twitter because it's not possible to have conversations on Twitter. And I doubt it will ever be possible. Twitter is like the modern equivalent of beepers. There's nothing there. Seriously.
- Alex Scoble
Mathew: 20% of traffic comes from Turkey. I could care less about traffic there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Funny thing is I like what you do on twitter, I even follow most of your lists on there, but the persona showing up here seems so very different.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Alex: really? I have conversations all the time on Twitter. I post a URL to my blog and on my blog I have Disqus, which lets me have conversations. Or, we link here, like we do for Gillmor Gang.
- Robert Scoble
"How many more voices do I need to listen to before I become "better?" - is better defined by information absorbed or actions of quality taken?
- Todd Hoff
I use FriendFeed to start smart conversations - I don't need to find ones to join, but there are those, too. I post them to Twitter, then continue them over here.
- Jesse Stay
You may careless about the traffic there. But those who own and run Friendfeed care about ALLLLLLLLLLL traffic, not just US based traffic.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Alex, Twitter can be the start of the conversation.
- Paul Harvey
Todd: Better is hard to define. Some people think better is having Turkish conversations. I don't.
- Robert Scoble
I call it weeding the wheat from the chaff, Robert. FF is an excellent place for relaxing, for finding stimulating tidbits that lead to other things... and for getting a good laugh after a hard day. Oh... and for taking your name in vain... you make it far too easy. :-p Dude, you get what you give. The way it works. You want good stuff, give it. You want laughs, don't ever change....
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- Bette Cooper
Mathew: the people who own and run FriendFeed don't care about FriendFeed. They run a little site named Facebook. You might have heard of it.
- Robert Scoble
I've had some great conversations with David Recordon, Chris Messina, Dewitt Clinton, Cristo, Otto, Stephen Mack, Atul, Steve Gillmor, and more and I don't have to worry about losing the organization of the conversation over here. There's still nothing better, but it's your responsibility to make those conversations happen. I can't do what I can here over on Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
That's bitterness speaking.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
By definition you aren't having conversations on Twitter. I get way more participation here than I ever will on Twitter even though I'm sending the same stuff there. Twitter just sucks. There's no way for you to say that it doesn't. It's popular, but that in no way shape or form makes it a viable alternative to friendfeed.
- Alex Scoble
You may think that but I don't. And unless you can show be proof to support your statement then I'm not changing my mind. Because if they didn't care about Friendfeed it all it wouldn't be here.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Jesse: true. That's why I link to the Gillmor Gang over on Twitter (I link here).
- Robert Scoble
Alex: you're just as delusional as me. It's a Scoble trait! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Most normal people would say we're both wrong and they point to Facebook as proof.
- Robert Scoble
It's incredibly hard to talk intelligently in 140 characters, and even harder when the conversation isn't organized.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: when I need more than 140 characters I blog and post a URL. It works. :-)
- Robert Scoble
You know what, I'm hiding this post. I'm done, because all it is doing is angering me and wasting my time.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I have intelligent conversations on Facebook as well - see a few of the conversations (not near as many as here) over at http://facebook.com/stay
- Jesse Stay
Mathew: now you know why I bitch. I come here, see all sorts of noise and it makes me angry so I lash out.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, but your blog doesn't thread underneath the Tweet like my responses do here. If I need anything longer than this, then yes, I blog.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: Facebook is definitely becoming more interesting.
- Robert Scoble
If we have to supplement a program to crutch its handicaps, then it is time to stop using the broken program.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Jeremy: I tried for 18 months to get everyone to use FriendFeed. I failed and will continue to do so because most people don't want to have conversations with people they don't know. That's the secret sauce on Facebook. You know everyone you talk with (mostly).
- Robert Scoble
http://www.quantcast.com/friendf... stats, mostly US. And from Compete.com: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- Robert Scoble
Twitter has its place as well - don't get me wrong, and there are many smart people there to learn from, but as far as continuing that conversation, I can have much more intelligent conversation here than I can there. I wish more people used a combination of the two, or at least turned on e-mails so they get responses to their FriendFeed shares.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: email bacn is horrid. I turn off email notification from all social sites.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds to me like you need to prune your feed again Robert so you only get the stuff you like, in the language you like from the countries you like.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
"Better is hard to define" - Better in this context is your personal goals, that is being smarter, not the thread language choices :-)
- Todd Hoff
maybe FF'ers are a bunch of know-it-all type of people.,.... therefore they need not get smarter ;)
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
hey everyone... forget this nonsense... watch the TWiT holiday special with Coulton and Hodgman - http://friendfeed.com/twit-co...
- Chris Heath
Gotta run, gang. Keep up the great work. I'm trying to make this Mozilla Raindrop thing work http://mozillalabs.com/raindro... -- YAARF? (Yet Another Aspiring Relevance Filter) Feedly's doing great, but needs Open Calais rockin' and aforementioned realtime translation. ;-) Onward!
- michael silverton
Jeff: heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, FriendFeed replies aren't bacon - it's the only way I can stay organized.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I would get too many of them to make them at all useful.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, understood, but most people wouldn't, and should keep it enabled. Or find some way to know when people are responding to their posts.
- Jesse Stay
Anyway, I just checked out the link here again that I started this whole conversation out with and, boy, is it exciting! Not. Oh well, see ya again soon for more self loathing.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, sounds like you need to set up some lists ;-) The guys I named are a good start.
- Jesse Stay
The other thing that doesn't make sense with this conversation is you couldn't even do the search you did on Twitter. What would Twitter return if you could track responses to original Tweets that are greater than 5?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: one of the major reasons I keep coming back here is for the search. Twitter is rebuilding its search from scratch, so it'll be interesting to watch in 2010 (so is Facebook, btw).
- Robert Scoble
Jesse: I spent hundreds of hours organizing my lists here on FriendFeed. I find all I need to do is track you because you get involved in almost every interesting tech conversation here.
- Robert Scoble
They'll need to implement threaded conversations for a search like that to work. I'm listening though.
- Jesse Stay
Well thanks Robert - I use it as a tool. I wouldn't be using it if I didn't find it productive, which is why I get involved in interesting conversations. You know all this stuff better than I though so I know I don't need to convince you.
- Jesse Stay
Worried about getting smarter? Read a book. *says the Librarian, in a "the more you know" voice ;)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Archangel: books are nice for knowledge that's 12 months old (or older). It takes that long to publish the damn things.
- Robert Scoble
true. but it's a good in-depth supplement to the quick-hits of 140-character discussions. Plus, political theory - what's currently on the nightstand - isnt exactly on an expiration date (not often at least). ;)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Twitter Trending Topics... Thanks for playing...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
For the record, twitter trending topics are #oneofmyfollowers , #ghettobabynames , #nowplaying , #thoushallnot , Jersey Shore , #p4a , Colts , #DavidArchuletaLive , Xmas , #omgfacts
- Bruce Lewis
Robert, if Jesse's in all the conversations interesting to you, just save this search: https://friendfeed.com/search...
- Bruce Lewis
My eyes sorta glazed over about half way down this thread, sorry... but I just wanted to correct something mentioned above about "traffic" being up. Alexa says "Reach" is up but "Pageviews" are down about 20% since August http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... And that's global stats. US only is a whole 'nother conversation. Whether "traffic" is up or down depends on how you define traffic... and what you're trying to prove.
- Ken Sheppardson
Here's what wolfram|alpha says http://friendfeed.com/ccheath...
- Chris Heath
With each conversation, I learn a bit more about those to whom I am subscribed and I hope they learn a little something about me. I am quite happy with that.
- Michael W. May
There are three major aspects of any social network: Relevancy, Technology and Community. FriendFeed has the best technology, period. The community is also excellent. The difference here is that it has changed from 12 months ago or 24 months ago. When I visit FriendFeed, I am not looking for the deep technical conversations we used to have because the community more accurately reflects...
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- Louis Gray
For Robert, who is a good guy even though at times he can be misunderstood or frustrating, this change in community has decreased the site's relevancy. Couple that with an unclear future, and he is doing what is right for him. I could make some quip about how Robert needs to get smarter more than most of us, but I won't. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, has the community changed or has just a section left? I see people from 18 months ago and my feed hasn't changed much in that time.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, without invalidating the above, I would suggest that you are part of the "new-ish" community that joined after FriendFeed's initial 6+ months. Yes, many of the people Robert and I consider peers and friends who used to engage in the deeper tech talk here have left, but other great folks like you made the place a whole lot of fun. You just have to see what I like or comment on to...
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- Louis Gray
So it has become a little bit more social media than social media...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Yes Louis we all get that... What we don't get is why he keeps returning just to lay a brown one every two, three weeks. If he doesn't like it here, he doesn't have to say so again and again. He can just mosey along and think back on the good times. Being the "biggest fanboy" does not give you the right to then come back and be annoying after leaving. We all heard him the first time, if not second or third..
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Rasmus, I am explaining the behavior, not endorsing it. :)
- Louis Gray
I know Louis :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I don't understand why you think that social networking sites that encourage people to post all the small mundane things in their life is the place to go to find an abundance of intelligent tech discussions. I would think a busy forum whose focus is on tech, inhabited by intelligent people, would be a better place to find what you are looking for. For me that happens to be the forum at...
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- April Russo (app103)
Good recommendation, April - thanks!
- WorldofHiglet
michael silverton (way up this thread ^ ), you mentioned on-the-fly translation tools? - I created them (not in Ubiquity, but Greasemonkey/Greasekit): http://translatorize.com - implemented for Friendfeed, Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca
- Micah Wittman
Back when Robert was 'getting value' out of FF, he mentioned it (the first implementation was for Friendfeed): http://friendfeed.com/fftrans... .... hey, the Scobleizer blog post link is dead! So by my count: Friendfeed *not* dead, blog post dead (Seriously, I looked in the archives, Robert, but I don't see it? Did some stuff get lost when the site was hacked months back?)
- Micah Wittman
Micah, I linked to it from my "FriendFeed's Fine" post - it's here: http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, you're checking the wrong one. It's http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Micah Wittman
Oh, you're talking about one of the ones where he said it wasn't dying. A lot of that stuff got deleted when he was hacked, which is probably the case for that one.
- Jesse Stay
*slow-mo-facepalm*
- Micah Wittman
Why not look to exercise your brain at least rather than having to get "smarter"?
- Michelle Matthews
unexpected connections is what make your brain expand, hearing the same stuff from the same people is enervating...
- WarLord
what a noisy dumb post
- james
Oh vey. It is what it is fluid and alive. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
This thread isn't making me any smarter ;)
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
FriendFeed has evolved, just like every other site out there. Perhaps at one time, it was a forum for techies. Now, not so much. You and those techies went somewhere else to fill that info void. Meanwhile, others joined FF for the social interaction. Not understanding why you keep coming back here to stir the pot. It's not for you any more. That's fine. Let it go. There are discussions here; they just aren't topics in which you're interested. I read lots of spirited political discussions. >>>
- rowlikeagirl
As for the bigger picture, I'm seeing FF turn into another aggregation site. Not a criticism, just an observation. ((((returns to watching Turkish animated GIFs)))
- rowlikeagirl
FF for me, is a way to get away from "learning" yet another "thing"...to learn even one thing takes a lifetime...the intellectuals need to lighten up maybe and have a bit of fun? if not, FF is not for them...
- sally stokhamer
Robert , indeed,you shouldn't be in need to look smarter.I ,and many of your followers think you are smart.Here's what you read : @scoblemedia/world-news-brands .Some more can be added to this list.But your time will not be enough.Keep up the good work please...Thank You,and Best Wishes...
- Dedegi
I just ate a mango. The problem of infinitely multiplying narcissistic minutiae in social media. The solution: ultra-smart news filters and recommender systems. (And a big wave to Akiva Moskovitz, my biggest fan on Friendfeed.)
- Sean McBride
News recommender systems: what are the most important remarks made by the most important people on the topics I most care about? Sort them by priority, please. One wishes that Friendfeed had taken an interest in this technology but, alas, no.
- Sean McBride
"I can always make you smile" http://i171.photobucket.com/albums... :)
- Citronella
Public conversations of every conceivable variety should be able to coexist comfortably in social media space, without any conversation impinging on any other conversation. What we need are the software tools to discover, prioritize and manage those conversations that are most interesting to each of us individually. There is really not much point in complaining about conversations that are not interesting -- simply don't pay attention to them.
- Sean McBride
" I wish there were a filter for smart conversations because most of these are, while entertaining, not making me smarter about anything" ~ http://news.ycombinator.com
- Peter Renshaw
Robert, I have taken it upon myself to help grant you your wish with this hashtag: #HelpRobertScobleGetSmarter
- April Russo (app103)
April Russo (app103) to April's feed, Code Junkies, Coders, programming, Software Development, OpenFF, Appetite
Important message from Michael "Monty" Widenius (creator of MySQL): Help saving MySQL (please share!) - http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009...
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"I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project. What this text is about: - Summary of what is happening - What Oracle has not promised - Oracles past behavior with Open Source - Help spread this information (Jump to 'What I want to ask you to do') - Example of email to send to the commission (Jump to 'send this to:')"
- April Russo (app103)
from Bookmarklet
This guy is a joke. Telling us this after selling out to Sun for the big money.
- Itachi
Besides, who needs this talk from him? MySQL has been forked and open sourced. The superior Postgre SQL is also there. Sorry, but I can't read this without a certain level of contempt for him
- Itachi
A lot of what he is asking for are changes to the license in order to enable forking. Monty is concerned that Oracle will control too much of MySQL, to a degree that puts forks at risk.
- Jason Wehmhoener
From the comments Monty says: "About fork; Yes, Monty Program Ab is actively, together with the community, working on the MariaDB fork. However, as mentioned in my previous blog, under the current conditions this fork is not enough to ensure that MySQL/MariaDB will be kept alive 'forever' and be able to put price constraints on the market, if Oracle would decide that it wants to kill...
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- Jason Wehmhoener
Although I'd hate to see the end of MySQL, Monty knew that selling the project to "any" company was a risk of it's future. I'm sorry but this is not up to the community to decide, all we can do is encourage the owner to keep it alive and hopefully continue with new developments.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I have seen it too many times that a big company buys a competing product or company with the full intention of damaging or killing it, in order to make their own product more profitable. Yes, it is a rather monopolistic practice, but in most cases there is nothing you can do about it. This time is a little different. You can have a say in whether this should be allowed to happen to...
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- April Russo (app103)
Worst case scenario? The code gets forked and a new open source project is started to maintain MySQL. It may have to be renamed, but who cares?
- Jason Huebel
There is actually one such project already: drizzle. It's geared toward web-based applications and cloud computing, but that's what MySQL is used for 99% of the time anyway, right? The other 1% could migrate to PostgreSQL. To be honest, if they need anything beyond what an average website would need, they're probably already using PostgreSQL anyway.
- Jason Huebel
There is also MariaDB (http://askmonty.org/wiki...) which is a community supported and maintained version of MySQL that uses Maria as it's default storage engine (which is an updated version of MyISAM).
- Jason Huebel
Hi Jason H. There's a comment up above from me that is a pasted quote from Monty addressing his fears for the future of MariaDB.
- Jason Wehmhoener
@Jason, ah I somehow missed that. I'm beginning to look seriously at drizzle now, anyway. I like some of the architectural decisions they're making, with the idea of a micro kernel and modularization of most of the features.
- Jason Huebel
First time I've really looked at bzr in use. Interesting dvcs, there.
- Jason Wehmhoener
OpenID on App Engine made easy with AEoid - Nick's Blog - http://blog.notdot.net/2009...
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"I'm pleased to present AEoid, a new App Engine library that aims to make user authentication with OpenID on App Engine simple. AEoid is extremely easy to install, comprising a single piece of WSGI middleware, and its interface mirrors that of the App Engine Users API."
- Michael R. Bernstein
from Bookmarklet
How HTML 5 websockets will revolutionize AJAX and the real-time Web - http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/2009...
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Fwd: JavaScript web workers: use visitors to your website to do background data processing for you. #programming http://github.com/revis... (via http://friendfeed.com/program...)
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Oops. Three people unfollowed me before they had a chance to win an earlier contest. Their loss. :)
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I'll take it
- Mo Kargas
FSlint - Duplicate file finder for linux - http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint...
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"FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem. I.E. unwanted or problematic cruft in your files or file names. For example, one form of lint it finds is duplicate files. It has both GUI and command line modes. For more info please see the FAQ."
- Mike Chelen
from Bookmarklet
automatic link generation option looks like an easy to way to get some of the benefits of a compressed filesystem
- Mike Chelen
Things To Do - Simple Chrome Extension that replaces your New Tab page with a to-do list - http://benhiller.github.com/chrome-...
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"A simple Chrome extension that replaces your New Tab page with a to-do list. You can try the to-do list here. It has all the functionality of the extension, and will work in any browser that supports the HTML5 Web Storage specification."
- Itachi
from Bookmarklet
I'm not liking it very much...and it's a little big for such a small addon 7.5 mb?
- Itachi
Created a simple, Collecta real time search powered, service for pushing news to XMPP clients - http://news2xmpp.appspot.com/
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news2xmpp stopped. i'm using http://jit-news.appspot.com/ instead. or use some winning application: http://blog.collecta.com/2009...
- Stoyan Zhekov
A word from my mentor, Red.
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I actually think at most it was 5 seasons, my have been less. The last couple of seasons dealt with what they did after graduation. I don't know exactly because frankly when Red isn't on the screen the show is 99% less awesome.
- Joe Pierce
Wikipedia says 1998-2006. The last few seasons were "going to college" and "living on their own" and "seeing the world" themed. At least they didn't do That 70's Show: The College Years, That 70s Show: Malibu Sands Beach Club, and That 70's Show: The New Class.
- Andy Bakun
The final seasons were set in the early 80s, I think. I stopped watching long before that.
- Andy Bakun
Ah, Wikipedia says they started in 1976, included 1977 in the first season to hit the Star Wars reference, then slowed time down after that, such that the show time ended at the very start of 1980.
- Andrew C
Time... it's just so damned mysterious! (Any of those brownies left?)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
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- Mo Kargas
Top 10 Real-Time Technologies of 2009 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Fine! I'm not going to talk to you.
Philipp, Jason Huebel, Josh Haley and 31 other people liked this
ugh, I hate the ones that are impossible to read.
- Jason
x8v9q7?g1???
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
ni hao ma
- sofarsoShawn
:S
- nazlı ülker
haha !
- marmulak
Ha Ha Ha!
- Gordon Herd
Great pic, AJ. I've never seen one quite that difficult before. What's even better is when you get one that you can't read, but some idiot hasn't tested the script in anything but Internet Explorer, so it fails miserably in Firefox and other browsers (apparently something causes some captchas to reload themselves when you hit the submit button in non-IE browsers, so you're always wrong).
- Curtiss Grymala
Don t touch my son! - http://meme.yahoo.com/sonergo...
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ohh olsunnn
- ''sewimsizbilgin''
like like like 1000 kere like
- Bora DAN
niye vuruyo ki totoş
- siniradam
kesinlikle az bile..adamıııııı varyaaaa..kabak oyacağıyla oyarlarrrr..ohhh ne güzel vurdu..bu amerikalılar gerçekten arızalı gerçektenn..
- seyrüsefer
yaw niye durdun patlat bir kaç tane daha
- Gürkan Kılıç
iyi vurmus pice
- €Lyaz
o vuruşa şapka çıkartıyorum
- maliforever
Yahu bu hareketli GİF'leri nasıl ekliyorsunuz... Benim eklediklerim hareketli olarak görünmüyor...
- Murat K.-Beyin Ereksiyonu
Murat başka bir servis kullanıp ordan import etmelisin. Yahoo Meme veya Twitpic gibi.
- ★ Soner Gönül
yumruğu yiyen de down sendromlu gibi duruyo!
- YunusYAMANER(CITRIL)
E abi ettim zaten ama yine de oynamıyor anlamadım bende...
- Murat K.-Beyin Ereksiyonu
tam da ihtiyacim olandi :)
- so-do-i
saglam baba olmak lazim.. hem kendin hem de cocugun icin
- Sahin.Toprak
ve de esin icin
- Sahin.Toprak
İyi geçirmiş de tekme ile de ezmek lazım idi beynini.
- Hasan Yasin Turkyilmaz
finish him
- yusuf yorelli
Why did that guy kick the kid in the first place!!??
- Kol Tregaskes
Cause he was on the cell phone and couldn't hear his wife tell him to go pick up her tampons
- Jeunelle Foster
Kol Tregaskes Why not? Kids suck! But then so do people in convenience stores! This video's great!
- Ciaoenrico
I'd probably react the same way if someone kicked Audrey. In fact, that dude got off easy as far as I'm concerned.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What Akiva said.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Agreed, Akiva.
- Nurse Katie
Kendi yaşındakilerle uğraş demiş adam cağız. (fakat illede vurması lazım değildi, şiddette hayır ! arkadaş) ;)
- Aytaç YILDIZ
o adamı orda oyalayın bende geliyoum yandan yara açıcam o mezevenge..
- Arapprensi
Adama bak telefondakine yalan söylüyor muhtemelen çocuk bağırınca foyası ortaya çıkıyor. Kendi kaypaklığının acısını çocuktan çıkartıyor. Ben orda onun gözlüklerine sıçarım dünyayı bombok görür. Tip de tip olsa.ÇIKART LEYN ELİNİ CEBİNDEN!
- Sinan AYHAN
Ya why did the dude kick the kid in the first place?
- Rodfather
The tw*t never heard of manners..? he only had to ask..got what he had coming, I'd have kicked the tw*t in the leg as well.. taste of his own medicine...
- Rob Sellen :o)
i cannot publicly state what i wouldve done to this guy if he touched my kid. i agree, he got off easy.
- Carlos Ayala
although it DOES look a little faked... don't know.. the way the guy leant back as he got thumped..
- Rob Sellen :o)
What in the hell was that guy thinking? I can only imagine my reaction if anyone tried that with my son.
- Fleagle
what the fuck?? WHY WOULD THAT asshole kick a kid??
- eynollah
جیگرم حال اومد زد تو پوزش مرتیکه کونی رو
- Majid
it doesn't make any sense why he kicked the kid?!!
- Darth Farhad Sama
I think because he is married to that fat woman and she is the real target :-)
- eynollah
It does look a little staged. I so no reason for kid kick and then he starts to lean back to take the punch.
- Jerry Perez
Jerry, most people lean away from a punch as it's coming in to dodge/soften the blow.
- Chieze Okoye
iyi koymuş velede valla. helal ediyorum hakkımı. seni de tuttum öbür oğlan. semra kaynanayı çağırın. öf.
- Cenk İlhan Durlu
Yeah, but his hands didn't even come up.
- Jerry Perez
Oh, that's a good point. Hmm, you're right. Looks somewhat staged.
- Chieze Okoye
Judging by the comments, I'm gonna posit there is a hidden message in the animated gif.
- Sean Oliver
If the guy wanted to hurt the kid, I'd think he'd do more than kick the air between the kid's legs (the kid has no reaction at all). I'm leaning to staged. I guess the guy could be a bad aim. *shrug*
- Arlan Koizumi
Having a notion in your mind to hurt a kid is fucked up to begin with. I don't understand the quick reaction.
- Rodfather
It doesn't matter "where" he kicked, Arlan. He should not even think about it.
- Doracula
Why would he even touch the kid?? He had no right to do anything like this, and I'm so happy the kid's father was there!!
- Citronella
insan bazen bu gürültücü veletlere şöyle güzel bir tekme atmak istiyor (bu adam pek atamamış) ama tabii çevrede çocuğun sahibi var mı diye bakmak lazım önce.
- Erkkan
:S
- so-do-i
engelli :] vuruşu...
- Özgür KORKMAZ
adam down sendromlu tipinden belli,arap kardeşimizin biraz dikkat etmesi gerekirdi,araplık etmiş,kötülük etmiş...
- derya sertkan
haketmiş
- Burak Güven (Cimbakuka)
süper
- Alex
ellerine sağlık abim. içimin yağları eridi yemin olsun :)
- Kursat Cinar
El kadar çocuğa tekme atmak nedir ya, benim de resmen içimin yağları eridi.
- Egonomik
I #BlameDrewsCancer for @drew needing a second lymph node removed for biopsy. See his post: http://www.drewolanoff.com/post...
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NOT Like!
- Jesse Stay
yes exactly. NOT LIKE. poor drew. :(
- Blackeyed P
:((
- Rochelle
Do not like :( Wishing Drew the best of luck!
- Tamara
Dammit, I am crossing everything I can cross for it not to be cancer again. :-(
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Bugger. What shitty news. Keeping everything crossed for a positive outcome.
- Andrew Terry
Agree, DISlike.
- Kate
A like I DISLIKE :D. Keep hanging in there Drew.
- alfred westerveld
Cancer sucks.
- Dawn
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Concur.next — Idiomatic Clojure - http://www.tbray.org/ongoing...
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I agree with this: "these guys have internalized the APIs and libraries, and in particular the list- and sequence-processing functions, just like a seasoned Perlmonger or Java-head have internalized those languages’ key APIs. And you’re not really a Clojure programmer until you’ve done that." It's not enough to know the language, you need to know the core API.
- Gary Burd
@Gary - totally agree. Wish I had a project/time to work on learning idiomatic Clojure myself. I've been dabbling for a few months, and I know my way around the syntax and design now, but still haven't come close to internalizing the language yet. FP really is a (refreshing!) break from the usual, though, even as a dabbler.
- DeWitt Clinton
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Apparently just got 'a few' more Google Wave invites ... drop your e-mail below if you wanna play :)
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Please? markows@gmail.com
- Sam Markow
I wanna play :). alfredwesterveld@gmail.com
- alfred westerveld
Make that 16 .... Sam, Alfred ... Let me know how long it takes ... Just curious
- Charlie Anzman
Ok, fine, I'll cave! tinapbeana at the gmail
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'll give it a whirl: slowe64 at gmail
- Steve Lowe
could I please have one ;)? lucaswilson@mac.com
- Luke Wilson
christopherfitton@hotmail.com - thanks in advance
- Christopher
Are random people allowed to play? If so, mmbattle@gmail.com :-)
- Jerry Spiderman
Slow down you guys!!!! Up to Lucas so far :) Chris, Jerry next. (Can I charge money for these ??!! :)
- Charlie Anzman
Hey Charlie, late to the party but thanks for the great offer. If any are left: ghabermann@gmail.com Cheers!
- smoMashup
9 down ... 9 to go (Now THIS is real time ....!)
- Charlie Anzman
omaitargh (at) gmail.com thanks in advance"!!!!!!
- Omaita
@charlie. Thank you very much :) Now I can finally play with google chrome because you hear a lot of people talking about it :).
- alfred westerveld
Mine hasn't come in yet. But thanks a bundle in advance :)!
- Luke Wilson
Nothing yet, but thanks much for the chance!
- Sam Markow
Oh yes, please! ciaoenrico@gmail.com
- Ciaoenrico
Ummm. maybe I am just super impatient but do the invites take a while to process :P?
- Luke Wilson
Luke - Experience from the last round was 1-3 days .... We'll see this time. Mark ... on the way .... 7 left ... Google's definitely getting one of my famous invoices ... they won't pay it ... but they're getting one.
- Charlie Anzman
You're freakin' awesome, Charlie!
- Jerry Spiderman
I know Jerry
- Charlie Anzman
:)
- Charlie Anzman
help a brother out ;) phattpharm@gmail.com
- Kevin Kruger
Done Kevin .... 5 left. I'll hang-out another few minutes to see if we can wipe them out (and wave at each other later or something .... )
- Charlie Anzman
I don't have one (abouey at gmail), but may i ask for someone else; I know my son would appreciate one even more than me, jnorris at gmail (ff co-founder).
- Anne Bouey
Jnorris is a ff co-founder?? Hmmm .... Sent it anyway Anne.
- Charlie Anzman
Yes, he is!
- Anne Bouey
Must have missed the memo ..... but OK. In that case .... he's getting an invoice too (a big one :)
- Charlie Anzman
There are four co-founders: Paul, Bret, Jim and Sanjeev.
- Anne Bouey
Thank you for sending one. :)
- Anne Bouey
Thanks - am I good? Did I make the list?
- Ciaoenrico
anytime ....
- Charlie Anzman
Everyone here did with 4 left
- Charlie Anzman
I'd love an invite russell.gronow@gmail.com thanks!
- Russell G
both ... done .... home stretch (I guess this was fun??)
- Charlie Anzman
Appreciate it Charlie and Thanks again!
- Russell G
No sweat Russ .... Now I really gotta get some stuff done ... Hope I helped a little. (and Hi Carlos!) ... later gang ...
- Charlie Anzman
Sweet, thanks Charlie.
- Mark Trapp
with apologies to Jim Norris (Duh?) http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Charlie Anzman
feexter@gmail.com pls
- Fixter Victor
Gotchya Victor .... For the record .... all out now ... but it was kinda fun. Did someone say FF was dead? I think not! Later crew :)
- Charlie Anzman
fatix54@gmail.com Thanks :)
- fatihdegirmenci
if you have anymore..? thanks! hanshvidberg@gmail.com
- Hans Hvidberg-Hansen
I got a ton more as well....will post soon. If gWave will cooperate.
- Itachi
Please send me an invite: brian.clanton@gmail.com
- Brian Clanton
If anyone has any Wave invites left please send me one palmerm10 (at) comcast.net
- Matthew Palmer
Guess it's taking a little longer than usual to 'lick stamps'. Not seeing you guys yet .... hang in there! FYI - Ran out totally after fatix54. Have fun!
- Charlie Anzman
Yep seems things are taking a while as nothing here yet :)
- Russell G
Russ - First batch I got were received in 1-2 days. Still not seeing anyone here yet Russ ... We'll see what the deal is this week I guess?!
- Charlie Anzman
Yup still no invite. I guess the are rolling them out in time ..... :)
- alfred westerveld
Yeah. haven't gotten mine yet either. But it hasn't quite been 3 days, so I haven't quite given up hope yet :D.
- Luke Wilson
Anyone get one (from these) yet?
- Charlie Anzman
Would love one if possible! Thanks a lot - danielpate@gmail.com
- Daniel Pate
Charlie, Thank you! Just got it over here!!!! ;)
- Omaita
Daniel - Ran out after fatix54 above..... If Google sends a refill, I'll re-post here. Just glad to see the others are finally being received.
- Charlie Anzman
jcunwired at gmail
- jcunwired
damn, story of my life, a post too late :)
- jcunwired
I will add you to my queue JC and Daniel I have 6 left if anyone else here still needs them https://friendfeed.com/ericlog...
- Eric Logan
Thanks for sending me one in the first place!
- Ciaoenrico
i want a google wave invitation can u send it to buntypinky@gmail.com if u have plz
- Ajay
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