Alvin Woon - Likes - FriendFeed

June 10 at 3:45 pm - Link

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"what it can do for now: login, get alerts, befriend/decline, create new plurks, read plurks, respond to plurks" - Bwana McCall

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Let's see what comes up :) - Andrés David Aparicio

expect huge queues of people waiting for it! whooo hoo! :) - directeur

yay! its a long shot hope, but twhirl has alreadly done friendfeed, maybe some plurking is in order - BCK

Ok :) If plurk did it I can too... I mean, where's the "innovation" in Plurk? Seriously... - directeur

Plurk is just a newer, cuter Twitter replacement that doesn't do anything cool. It's like a baby. - possible248

so why do I see all this excitement? I myself had my idea on it since the 1st time... - directeur

Good on them for getting an API out there. Let's see what happens. - Caleb Elston

Can we have a time please so Benjamin, Caleb ... don't have to stay up :) - Charlie Anzman

Bwana wants a Plurk API so he can bring his dancing bananas over here into Friendfeed..... Nooooooooooooooooooo! - Susan Beebe

Developers will be on this like a fat kid on cake. - Mark Frost via twhirl

Bwana McCall posted a message

“Twitter loses a database, then Plurk goes down. Waterfall effect.”

June 5 at 7:02 pm - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Mike Reynolds, Boca and 16 other people liked this

But I still have FriendFeed *GROUPHUG* - Bwana McCall

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*dances about merrily* - Evan Sims

*backs away*....... :P - Shey

LOL - Bwana McCall

Awesome! - Michelle Martinez

is Plurk using an alien technology with twitter api? - directeur

I hope they find that database they lost ;) - Caleb Elston

Jaiku is still up. - Morton Fox

I think the headless Plurk dog took it - Bwana McCall

Oh my! Where am I going to post short snippets of my life!? Wait... let's see... Ahem - "I just ate some ice cream. Yummy :)" Nope, it's just not the same. - Vince DeGeorge

With what Bwana? No head means no mouth. And even headless dogs have yet to evolve paws with opposable thumbs. Sheesh! ;-) ;-) - Joanmarie

Just think if Twitter and FriendFeed went down. Oh my. - Bwana McCall

See? Everyone forgets about Jaiku as an alternative. :) - Morton Fox

Gueeesh. It's simple. It just Plurked - Charlie Anzman

Jai-who? :) :) - Bwana McCall

@Bwana Don't even go there. - Michelle Martinez

"@Vince Ice cream? Awesome! What flavor?" (Sorry, couldn't resist! That said, I like Twitter. The ice cream talk has its place.) - Joanmarie

I dunno - quick, everyone, post your phone numbers we can get on conference calls! @Joanmarie Ben and Jerry's Pistachio - not exactly what I should be having during my diet, but... well, it's ice cream. Whatcha you gonna do? - Vince DeGeorge

oh plurk, how little we knew thee. And now we hath thine headless dog broketh on the altar of social media web two point oh. - Eugene Huo via twhirl

Bravissima! Eugene - directeur

A good first test of Plurk's scalability. Grade: fail. - Christopher Penn

I think i'll go to the post office and send some old fashioned mail! - Sanjay Subrahmanyan

Pony Express is faster...;-> - Zena Weist

ama...wait for it..wait.. zing... amazing! - Britney Mason

I hear the cries of a thousand databases...off I go to pownce no jaiku invite for me :( - BCK via twhirl

Plurk/Twitter shared hosting ? :D - Mo Kargas

mokargas: nah, plurke uses twitter api - directeur

I'm not going to lie, I hope that the spillover just kills Plurk forever. It's gotta be the most annoying UI ever. - Eric Florenzano

chris dalby posted a message on Twitter

“wondering how long this story on plurk started by @jennybee will run for http://www.plurk.com/p/3kcn”

June 4 at 9:34 am - Link

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Plurk is down

June 1 at 10:18 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Andrés David Aparicio, Robert Scoble, Charlie Robinson and 2 other people liked this

WTF? Only one hour after people started using it? - fbrunel

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Leo linked to it today. Then I linked to it tonight. It didn't withstand either thing. Fail. - Robert Scoble

Plurk got Plucked - Delete Me

it was a beta service, running on dev hardware. someone failed, but I rather suspect it is the A-listers who think they are special because they can take down a beta + development setup :) - David Petar Novakovic via twhirl

well, every service is in beta, don't understand why their public front end runs on a dev. hardware. - fbrunel

doesn't jive with the first word of this post on their blog (http://blog.plurk.com/2008/06/...) and then they start making excuses. - Delete Me

Scoble is more Lethal than Mel Gibson to shiny web objects... :D - Mark Forman

yeah I read that: "You can rest easy knowing that every facet of Plurk is built with scaling in mind from day one." — 2033 actives users is not a big peak. - fbrunel

Wondering now if I still will have to try it out once they are back - too soon to be down - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl

@Svetlana -- you're not missing much, don't worry. - Trent Olson

it's happened to aduco as well:( - shandiz

I totally lost my account there,ridicules :( - shandiz

HAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHA HAAAAAAAAAA - Baratunde Thurston

Seems like they emulated ALL the features of Twitter! - David Sim via fftogo

Except that the Twitter fail screen is a LOT nicer! :) - fbrunel

teehee, they're moving servers.. so I hope this will be fixed soon! - Daynah

@David Haha, seems that way! - Joe Dawson

Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Office Space - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta

March 27 at 7:32 am - Link

Bryan Tsai, sirish, Igor Poltavskiy and 21 other people liked this

I think I like the scene where they were pounding on the printer better. - April Buchheit

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that movie rocks! - (jeff)isageek

All the Android guys watched this together the week before we went to Google. - Chris White

Did it inspire you to go to Google, or make you question the decision? Historically, there is a correlation between my watching this movie and soon quitting my job. - Paul Buchheit

Well, we kind of did quit our jobs, and got slightly different ones at Google, but it was all good. :) Did you watch this before you left Google? - Chris White

Yes, and also before quitting Intel to join Google back in '99 (right after Office Space was released). - Paul Buchheit

if you're on the fence about leaving a job, watching office space definitely makes you lean towards leaving. it's such a funny movie, but can be quite sad if you're in a bad job or a have a lumbergh for a boss. - David Vasileff

I watched it at least twice during my leave, along with another movie I won't mention that helped me make up my mind. - Kevin Fox

My favorite scene is the gridlock sequence in the beginning, where the skinny white guy is gangsta rappin - Thomas Gundersen

Thomas, I love that scene too. Kevin, now we're all suppose to guess? Brazil? - Chris White

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Advanced glow effects in Photoshop

February 18 at 1:37 pm - Link

Thomas Kjær Nielsen, Shakeel Mahate, Alvin Woon and Jess Lee liked this

Cool stuff for inspiration - Kevin Fox

I learned 7 new Photoshop tricks from reading this one tutorial, thanks! - Jess Lee

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The most import thing to understand about new products and startups

February 17 at 4:22 am - Link

Greg Coladonato, Soyapi Mumba, Stephen Foskett and 25 other people liked this

"Even if you aren't the smartest person around, and your product is kind of ugly and broken, you can still be very successful, if you just build the right product. YouTube and MySpace are both fine examples of this." Ouch, I hope the founders of YouTube don't read that :) - Huy Zing

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Humility? I always thought the 3 traits of good programmers were impatience, laziness, and hubris ;-)... seriously, nice blog. - Rob Hoeting

...and a preference not to use perl, of course ;) - Alex Mendes da Costa

The #1 story on RSSmeme as of 6pm EST: http://www.rssmeme.com/story/5... - Benjamin Golub

FriendFeed does a great job of paying attention to user feedback and seeing what works. But a lot of the time, users don't really know what they want or will ask for things that turn out to suck. I'm curious if any user asked for GMail conversations or if that was an innovation that the team came up with on its own. - Jess Lee

Yeah, it's important to understand that "listen" is not the same as "obey". "Observe your users" might be a better way of putting it, but that sounds so formal, and slightly creepy. - Paul Buchheit

I agree with both Jess & Paul's comments. Build what people will want, not what they say they want - Chris White

If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse. - henry ford - paulm

"I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be better if it searched over their email instead of mine." lol. - j1m

i like the point about humility...i would take it a step further, in fact, and say that the key word is "service". this word encompasses both a personal attitude (serving others, with humility) and a market-based/need-based outlook rather than a product-based outlook (providing a service to potential users). that way you're focused on addressing an issue, rather than making a super spiffo whizbang product...addressing issues and needs is, in the end, what "service", whether it's "a service" or just "service", is all about. although i guess a super spiffo whizbang product under the hood helps. - Mike Massey

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What an Economist gets his Wife for Valentines

February 14 at 1:20 pm - Link

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Jess Lee favorited a video on YouTube

I Reckon I'll Take You to School

February 8 at 10:10 am - Link

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owned. I thought it was funny. - Chieze Okoye

Appropriate background music -- Teardrops by Massive Attack - April Buchheit

Bret Taylor favorited a video on YouTube

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

February 2 at 4:19 pm - Link

Syed F Ahmad, Benjamin Golub, Shannon Jiménez and 12 other people liked this

yes, young urbanites in their 20s and 30s definitely can! - ƃuɐʞ

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The speech itself talks about the founding fathers, slaves and abolitionists, immigrants, union workers, and other subjugated classes changing their world for the better. While none of those groups are young urbanites, I do feel pretty disenfranchised by our government over the past few decades, so from that standpoint I guess it is about young urbanites, and that's fine with me. - Kevin Fox

kang: Giudiani was going to produce a similar song called No You Can't, but then he decided that he couldn't either, and he withdrew. - j1m

kevin - i support obama over clinton, the orig. speech was great, etc. etc. i just think it's funny that will.i.am didn't cast any old people in his video. - ƃuɐʞ

Ahh, fair enough. :-) I feel old for not recognizing most of the people in the video. - Kevin Fox

kareem abdul jaffar is not in his 20s or 30s - Shakeel Mahate

i imagine a music video message is also targetted primarily at those in their 20s and 30s though, right? - Dan Hsiao

There is another version targeted at jazz fans in their 50s, but it's an instrumental - j1m

first time I have felt inspired by a politician in my lifetime - Derek Coatney

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An ex-Yahoo's instructions for Microsoft [Comments]

February 1 at 3:17 pm - Link

Frederick Akalin, Adam Kazwell, Alvin Woon and 5 other people liked this

wow, super bitter. - Jess Lee

I have first hand experience since I sold my company to Yahoo and saw it acquire a bunch more in the 4 years I was there. And I must say everything this guy said is 100% accurate. I remember when Yahoo put a guy from AltaVista in charge of Inktomi (the basis of Yahoo's search engine) -- how insulting it must have been to all the managers at Inktomi who had built a superior search engine to AltaVista's. Some of the key Inktomi guys now work at Google. - Thai Tran