Just arrived at my mom's after visiting the doc. Looks like Penny will arrive TODAY! I was 3-4cm dilated, and 100% effaced!! Wish me luck, these darn contractions are starting to hurt a bit!
- Georgia Diehl
Heh heh, I've refreshed Georgia's feed soooo many times.... I bet she'll send out a text message long before either she or Nathan can get to FF, though.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, if you get a text, let us know!
- Rochelle
Will do! Rochelle, you really ran into Georgia at Stanford this morning?
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, that was me who saw Georgia this morning. I had a physical and apparently Georgia's doctor is in the same offices as mine in Los Altos. Her doctor told her to come in when she called them about having contractions 10 minutes apart. I was checking in at the desk and suddenly I hear RACHEL!!!! I look around and there is Georgia bouncing. It was so cute!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Heh, thanks Rachel -- my reading comprehension was way off.
- Stephen Mack
That's okay, our names are very similar. I've actually won raffles where I don't realize it is me they are calling because they will say Rochelle. Rochelle may have similar experiences.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I WANT TO KNOW!!! Has anyone heard anything from Georgia?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Got a TXT from Nathan... "her water has broken, she's in hard labor now [9:45pm], she's doing AMAZING!!!"
- Roger Nang
Wow... okay awesome. Thanks for the update. Having seen her this morning it somehow made me more anxious to find out what stage she is at. I personally think that Penny is holding out for midnight so she can have an October 1st bday!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I told her to tell Penny to wait till October 10th.. for 10-10-10 b-day next year, but apparently, she didn't get the memo. :)
- Roger Nang
You've got to tell her to hold off 'till midnight! With a name like Penny she *has* to be born on the first!
- Kevin Fox
Gah, 10 days of labor would suck! I'm with Kevin, she needs to be born on the 1st. Just two more hours Georgia!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yeah.. why don't YOU text that to her. or better yet, have Nathan relay that to her.. I'm sure she'll be very receptive to that! :)
- Roger Nang
Umm... I don't have Nathan's cell number.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Stephen, delete that comment. How can a girl get out of sending a text they don't want to get if people are going to ruin her excuses? ;-)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Roger, it's getting awful close to midnight... heard anything new?
- Rachel Lea Fox
No :(... I texted an hour ago with our support! But I didn't expect a reply :)
- Roger Nang
I'm sure they are rather busy and you will likely get a text not too long after actual birth. I think there is a good chance she has an October 1st bday though!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Penny, I hope you are happy and healthy and out here in the world with us taking good care of your mom and sleeping soundly through the night!! Can't wait to meet you!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Bump. Hoping to hear an update today! :)
- Rochelle
Hard to type on FF with a beautiful sleeping Penny in my arms. :) thanks for posting Ken, it was a very long and intense labor, but we are both happy and healthy! Love to everyone!
- Georgia Diehl
from iPhone
Georgia, I think Audrey must have sent Penny a message. Audrey, too, was born after 25 hours of drug-free labor. :D
- Rochelle
Wow! Congratulations! You did it! Now get off the interwebs and enjoy that beautiful baby of yours!
- Meredith
Congratulations Georgia, Nathan and Penny!!!!!
- Kevin Fox
@Rochelle... Tell Audrey I'm happy that both her and Penny arrived safely and healthy after 25 hours, but in the future, I would prefer a bit easier of a time :) Penny ended up arriving face up, so not only was it a long labor, it was back labor, and then two hours of VERY hard pushing.
- Georgia Diehl
Georgia, Audrey was face up, too! They BOTH need to give us easier times next time. :)
- Rochelle
Wow, how funny our labors were so similar!!
- Georgia Diehl
So cute! So much hair! Amazing to think she's been hiding in there all this time. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Let us know when you are feeling good and wanting visitors. And if you need anything!! And no hurry, whatever is good for you and Penny! :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Gawrsh! She's so beautiful, I'm speechless! Congrats! 25 hours of labor totally worth it...
- Stephen Mack
Wow, look at all that hair! :) How cute.
- Rochelle
Hello baby girl! *soft and tiny pinches to her tiny cheek*
- Yolanda
They're actually very nice. They tell me stories. I find it easier and easier to do the tasks they set for me. KILL. Haha! I don't know why I typed that! KILL. Hahaha! Haha! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!1!!
- James (!?)
(19 photos) Today our four adorable kittens are having their little operations and then they come back to us for another week for recovery. In honor of their little snip snip I am posting a set of photos that Kevin took of me giving the babies their first bath about 3 weeks ago. Poor poor kittens, the water is going to get them! In order of appearance: Moxie (Black & White), Boomer (Grey & White, Denali (Brown Tiger), Nonny (Grey). - Photos all by Kevin.
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
Looking back at these I can't believe how small they were only about 3ish weeks ago.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm surprised your hands weren't bleeding a LOT by the end. :)
- Ken Gidley
Ken, I had some pretty good scratches from these guys early on, but not too much from the baths. We actually gave them another bath a week later but didn't take photos then. They were not happy, but they trusted me pretty quickly (fools) so they complained but weren't too bad with the claws. I got them so young this time and I really think that helped with a lot of things. These guys...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Yeah, it's really surprising how much they've grown over the last three weeks, both in size and personality. They were actually really good. They didn't like it, but I think they were too young to feel entitled to a dry world. If momma tells them it's time to get wet, "Hey, I'm the new guy. You tell me I need to get wet and soapy? I'm not gonna like it, but I won't argue much." A few weeks later and they're all, "Hey, that's not how the world works and you know it so let me down!"
- Kevin Fox
Okay, off to pick up the babies from their surgery. House has been so quiet without them. Hopefully they are all doing just fine and don't even have any idea what just happened to them. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yup, quite tired... It's also just the aches and pains associated with your last month. My muscles and joints hurt, and I keep running into stuff with my belly!
- Georgia Diehl
This is why you're on maternity leave! Doctors orders are: Soak your feet in the tub, take long naps on the couch, eat lots of yummy fruit and veggies for Penny, and play Beatles Rock Band.
- Stephen Mack
Really? I actually thought the previous one was better than most apps of its complexity. Well, maybe you won't like this one either, but I'm curious to hear your feedback.
- Kevin Fox
is it compatible with 2.x? or do you need 3?
- Jim Hearts FF
I've only played with this one for a few minutes, but it's leaps and bounds better than the older one, Kevin. My problem was that it would hang on stuff and the functionality would be borked. Good job, there sir. GOOD JOB.
- Derrick
I'm pretty sure you need 3. Oh, and I had no hand at all in this product btw. I just like it.
- Kevin Fox
Yep, just replaced it, and it fixes everything I hated about the old one. So far, anyway.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It says I have no updates in the app store :(
- Georgia Diehl
Oh, well whoever handled it did a hell of a job.
- Derrick
The old FB app was top-flight when it was released, it's just that FB has dramatically redesigned the main site in the last X months and the mobile app was completely outdated. Finally we can actually interact with most of the core FB features.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
It's pretty cool, although I don't have much use for being this connected to Facebook. The news feed section is what native FriendFeed apps should be aiming for: it's a great experience. Only thing I'd have liked to see it do is have inline comments/commenting: that seems to be avoided on all of these lifestream native apps, and I'm not sure why. Seems to work fine on the iPhone version of friendfeed.com.
- Mark Trapp
Facebook comments are a lie, duh. It is pretty weird that random uncommented blips from streams get printed but the comments people actually take the time to make on others' stuff are hidden behind a jump.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Hmm, not showing an update available in the app store...
- Brett Kelly
Brett: it's not available for upgrade, but if you uninstall the app and redownload it from the app store, it'll download the new version. Don't ask me why it does that.
- Mark Trapp
I like it, for Facebook. But it still pales to FF iPhone interface for convo.
- Josh Haley
It still secretly changes your privacy settings in some cases, I was hoping they'd fix that :(
- LogEx
Even if you see "no updates," you can search in the App Store app for Facebook, install it normally, and it will update your previously installed version.
- Stephen Mack
I'm shocked it didn't get denied like all the other apps I'd actually use!
- Ace
Agreed. This is a vast improvement over it's predecessor. I'd go as far to say that it sets the bar much higher for other apps in it's class.
- Andrew Terry
from iPod
We now foster for two shelters, Palo Alto Animal Services and now the Humane Society of Silicon Valley. This is our first group with HSSV and they are just adorable. We decided to take on HSSV also because, well they asked. They were desperately looking for foster parents as they have had too many kittens this year, and Palo Alto has had a light year so I talked with everyone involved and so now we work with both. I hope it won't be too much to keep everyone's different rules straight and all, but everyone is so wonderful at both places that I think it will work out fine. These 4 were just picked up in a lot in San Jose, their mother is rather feral and ran off so these guys got brought in and I got called. Woo hoo!!! This is exactly what I needed to fill the little hole in my heart that Orion left behind. Seems to be 2 boys and 2 girls, but more updates will be coming soon I'm sure. My guess is that they are about 3.5 or 4 weeks old. We will have these guys at lest 4 weeks, maybe more.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Some folks wish their cat would always be a kitten. You kinda get that wish come true.
- Spidra Webster
SO CUTE! Exactly what I needed at the end of the hard day....
- Georgia Diehl
how do you all do it ?? I wish I could do the same.. have a foster home. Keep up the good works !!
- Peter Dawson
God, following Rachel is better than cute overload.
- anna sauce
Spidra, we do kind of get that. Except we also get the heartache of giving up each set so it does have it's price. Worth it though!! - Georgia, me too!! - Peter, it's awesome, and difficult and so rewarding. Thank you! - Aden, seriously, right!? - anna, AWESOME!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
The first one is soooooooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- RAPatton
from iPod
Aden, well right now they are all super timid and not so sure about me, but I keep taking short breaks from work and popping in on them and giving scritches and talking to them and they are getting interested. The all grey one looks like he will warm up first, the black and white girl (i think) is currently the most unhappy with me and the grey and white boy (i think) is an ostrich wanting to bury his head anywhere he can. It will take time, but they will warm up.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Lucky muthda fru.... *grumbles like Muttley from Wacky Races*
- Johnny Worthington
Katy, totally... the all grey one looks a lot like Indy did when she was a baby too, except Indy's eyes were grey too! Here is our first litter of kittens with baby Indiana in it: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Rachel Lea Fox
Poor Johnny kitten... how will he ever get socialized?
- Rachel Lea Fox
These are all from the same litter? What a variation in coloring! You are going to have so much fun! Actually, you are already having fun, aren't you?
- Anne Bouey
Anne, yup, all the same litter. You can get some wild variation of kitten markings in a litter as not all the kittens in the same litter always have the same father. Here is a photo from a litter of 5 where there were also three looks, black and white, tiger grey and bermin white (one kitten is missing in the photo) http://www.flickr.com/photos... And yes, I am having a great time, even with work intermingled in.
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's a lot of work Rachel, to keep all those kittens for nothing. God bless you.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc ☺, not for nothing... the love you get from the kittens, and the laughs when you are stressed out or upset, seriously, you can't stay upset when a kitten runs up to you or purrs on your lap. And it makes our kitties more playful and happy as well. Yeah, it's work, but it's so worth every bit of it. We love it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
so true - awesome insight on pets phoenix
- Ubuntu101
from IM
Rachel, that linked pic was great. Oops! I had not considered different fathers!
- Anne Bouey
OMG, so cute!!! I'd love to find out more about your fostering experience, especially how you handle having existing cats in the house. BTW, don't you just love the new HSSV facility?
- Rachel Garb
Lovely and beautiful! When can Jeanette and I stop by to snuggle the little fuzzballs? :)
- Tudor Bosman
Rachel, the new HSSV facility is amazing! Feel free to ask me about fostering any time. I'll post more about our process at some point. Currently the kittens are on quarinteen as they just came off the street today. When they meet our older kitties varies, but our older kitties are used to Orion now so the transition should be easy this time, but these are also much smaller kitties and...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Tudor, DM me about when you guys leave. The kittens need a day or so to adjust a little but we can work something out.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I can't DM you -- you're not subscribed to me :|
- Tudor Bosman
Just got my finger bitten rather hard a few times... these guys were still nursing at least part time up till today. You can see the stains from the mothers milk on the chins of the ones who are white there, and they are kind of unsure what to do with food. So I've been using Tina's suggestion of feeding them on my finger till I can lead them to the bowl. They are doing well but do seem...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
huh, I swore I was Tudor... well I am now.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Finally got grey and white boy to eat, but I had to make kitten gruel to get him to do it. all grey and tiger have accepted me as their momma cat, black and white is considering it and grey and white is still reluctant but isn't fighting so hard since the gruel. Going well. These guys are showing signs of closer to 3.5 weeks old, so I think I will be getting up to feed them in 4 or 5 hours, just till I know they will eat enough.
- Rachel Lea Fox
OMG - they are adorable - especially the little tuxie - love love love tuxies!
- Bash
I adopted my dog Chase from HSSV. It was a good experience. He was classified as special needs due to being very afraid at the shelter. The foster family had taken really good care of him.
- Lani
from iPhone
Lani, his he still very afraid or has he relaxed. Any shelter can be hard with all the barking and people everywhere, very unnerving, but the foster homes can do so so much for the all of the animals!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh so cute...I want one! I especially like the gray kitteh with the white nose.
- Alex Scoble
He is a real sweetie Alex. He was shy at first, would bury himself under the other kittens so you wouldn't see him, but now he ready for love and getting somewhat social.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Chase is still afraid of various things when we are out. Low rumbling noises from trucks for one. But he seems to be happy and secure most of the time. He recently starting singing along with sirens. It is so cute.
- Lani
from iPhone
Lani, I just put this in another post for someone else, but might also be useful for you. Not sure if you have tried Feliway before but it is kitty pheromones which calm the kitty while in stressful situations. Might be helpful. http://www.feliway.com/gb...
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm in love with the little gray one. I want one, but then Louis wouldn't be able to breathe. Hmmm.
- Kristine Gray
Kristine, they little grey boy is a little spitfire, he is rather awesome. It of course depends on how allergic he is. If he is mildly allergic sometimes exposure reduces it, it did with Kevin. His tolerance for other allergens is lower for having cats, but he doesn't have to medicate anymore. If he is a little worse than that, getting a russian blue cat could work as they have a...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks Rachel. I didn't know that about Russian Blues and they are beautiful kitties. Must get Sarah to give Louis big google eyes at him and convince him of the need for feline companion.
- Kristine Gray
Kristine, put little kitty ears on her, and little eye liner whiskers and teach her to say meow! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
ok so whats the names - did you finally settle ? Then we give em the baptism rite.. and sprinkle a little water on their foreheads !!
- Peter Dawson
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- مصطفام
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh
The bride didn't get to have nearly enough fun with that!
- Rachel Lea Fox
awww... (did anyone else get a little misty-eyed watching that, or was I the only one?)
- Andrew Terry
Andrew: I definitely started to tear up a bit. It just looks like they are so happy!
- Benjamin Golub
What a sweet idea. Definitely unforgettable.
- April Buchheit
I got super misty eyed. I loved that they had so much fun with their entrance.
- EricaJoy
Hrm....nice, but now it makes me wanna do the Thriller dance up the aisle....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I *always* cry at weddings, even with something this fun and whimsical.
- Derrick
I wonder how many wedding rehearsals they had to have.
- Gabe
I have seen much more dancing at a baptist church service.
- EricaJoy
from IM
Sean: It might be completely appropriate for them, their beliefs, and the people they invited to their wedding. Not to mention that I'm sure the church knew about it before hand and was ok with it too.
- Benjamin Golub
Interestingly enough, when I showed this to my boyfriend, his response was "they aren't taking their wedding seriously." He couldn't answer me as to why serious equates to solemn in his head. I suspect it has something to do with his Catholic school upbringing. He denies that, of course.
- EricaJoy
I was in a wedding where the entrance to the reception was kind of like that. The whole bridal party (except for me and the recovering alcoholic) was totally trashed. The wedding party thought they were really funny. Their friends found them mildly funny. The relatives were not at all amused.
- Robert Felty
Speaking as the son of a man who got married on a carousel (I carried a Snoopy doll carrying a pillow with the rings on it) I thoroughly approve. Houses of worships encompass the breadth of society, and celebrate the diversity of the human condition. To say that they should cast even our most joyous occasions as serious and solemn is to be far sillier than this wedding was.
- Kevin Fox
Meh. Your wedding should be what you want it to be.
- Kevin Fox
++ Kevin a wedding should be about the couple and who they are. It should be about them joining their lives together. If that means they join in dance, then why shouldn't that be part of the wedding? Kevin and I took photographs of each other, our wedding party and our guests from the alter. Photography is a huge part of who we are together and we wanted that as part of our ceremony....
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Yes, no one else should even THINK of trying to determine how others should get married, unless he/she's asked for his/her opinion. That's THEIR day. Why people think weddings should be dull events in uncomfortable clothing is totally beyond me. You'll have the rest of your life to get shoved into conformity.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Oops, now *I'm* doing it, sort of. People, I want to say I completely support your right to have a dull wedding in uncomfortable clothing, even if I can't comprehend it. Have fun! -- er, or no fun, you know, whatever makes you feel truly married :)
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This was so fun. It reminded me of a friend's wedding last fall. The bride and her father did Devo's Safety Dance as the father/bride dance. It was instantly clear where the bride got her dance moves as well as her sense of humor.
- Sarah Miller
Wrong Roger, oh so very wrong!!! My whole family says she looks very relaxed and serene. It must be comfy in there with a placenta pillow!
- Georgia Diehl
Today, Google engineers announced a technology called PubSubHubbub that makes RSS/Atom more real-time, and they deployed the technology on FeedBurner. FriendFeed also added support for the technology, so if you have a FeedBurner feed, your updates should show up in FriendFeed within seconds rather than minutes after the feed updates.
To enable it for your FeedBurner feed: go to Feedburner, click on the "Publicize" tab, and then click on "PingShot" and enable the PingShot service. That will enable PubSubHubbub and send your feed to a number of ping services.
- Bret Taylor
Once step closer to being able to build an open distributed twitter like system!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
this has been done already by superfeedr.com - google's behind the game on this one, but def takes it mainstream.
- Scott Magdalein
I don't understand. Updates won't appear on Feedburner in realtime, so what's the point?
- Peter
Peter: most blogging platforms ping Feedburner when you post a new entry, Feedburner pulls down the feed, Feedburner then pings the hub, then the hub notifies FriendFeed :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks Benjamin. Alas, my feeds are not that sophisticated.
- Peter
We're still working out kinks so if you have any issues please send me a message!
- Brett Slatkin
You lost me at "Today" I shall now just smile and nod politely
- Steve C
If I understand correctly this essentially turns any site with a feedburner feed into a real time publisher? But to read it in real time you need what?
- BryanSchuetz
Since this is a Google thingie, does it work on Google Reader already?
- Tarmo Aidantausta
FriendFeed can receive the pings *RIGHT NOW*
- Brett Slatkin
guys, how long are we really talking before it should appear here? Seconds or minutes?
- Zee.
The Reader integration is a prototype; more to come soon!
- Brett Slatkin
no way, so Google Reader could technically go real time??
- Zee.
is that SUP's role take up by those rss accelerator? or SUP is losing a chance to propagate in this field?
- huixing
Huixing: we plan to support all widely adopted real-time standards to make FriendFeed better. We are not tied to SUP only.
- Bret Taylor
from iPhone
Brett, why didn't you use the weblogs.com ping protocol? Your comment there about RSS, right up front, really captures the whole philosophy -- right? Let's just reinvent stuff that already works, so... Why? To break everything that already works? It won't happen that way. It'll only make your adoption curve steeper.
- Dave Winer
Is this working for anyone else? Anyone getting near real time publishing to Friendfeed with feedburner?
- Zee.
from iPhone
Would you ping me (dave dot winer at gmail dot com) when I can use RSS with this system. I'll be happy to evaluate it and provide feedback if necessary, and endorse it if it works. Thanks in advance.
- Dave Winer
Alright we've fixed in the spec Dave. Sorry for the mistake. Followed up.
- Brett Slatkin
I had enabled from way before, let's see if the post I'm about to publish works. I'll DM you Zee if it does!
- Jorge Escobar
can someone please let me know if they've managed to get this working?
- Zee.
There's also a WP plugin I wrote that does the same thing. This might be a good option for anyone who's not using feedburner. http://wordpress.org/extend...
- Josh Fraser
Zee, I set this up for my Empoprise-BI blog, wrote a blog post (using Blogger), and six minutes after posting I haven't seen anything in Google Reader or FriendFeed yet. So if you're not getting advertised response, you're not the only one. I'll test again at a later time.
- John E. Bredehoft
cool...just want to be sure it isn't me alone
- Zee.
Update - seven minutes after posting, the post showed up on FriendFeed (both in my feed, and in a group that receives the blog feed). Nothing in Google Reader yet.
- John E. Bredehoft
John: The Reader integration we demo'ed was a prototype; more to come in the future!
- Brett Slatkin
yeah, it seems 7 minutes is about how long its taking me for too (to arrive in friendfeed)
- Zee.
Could you DM me the feed URL? I'll look into the details and figure out the issue. Like I said before, we're still working out a few kinks (the FeedBurner integration is initial support right now). So thanks in advance for your help in making it super fast!
- Brett Slatkin
If you're looking for another implementation of PubSubHubbub, I'd suggest you give a look to our http://superfeedr.com ;) Thanks for your time and feedback!
- Julien
Heh, what's the idea behind the crazy name? ;)
- Tyson Key
does self hosted wordpress natively ping feedburner?
- Tyler Gillies
Nice to see XMPP more and more used on the web! It's a nice environment, also for cloud computing!
- Egon Willighagen
Nice tech, strange name though. Wonder if Google has a projectname generator, feeds it some foundation words, and then watches it spew out 1,835391 suggestions in 20-sized chunks? Too bad they didn't pick up PubSubBuzz instead, rhymes better. Also, what was EVER WRONG with PubSubHubris? (fresh and full of promise).
- ianf ⌘
This tech has been around for ages. It's getting much needed promotion right now, but it's not new. The name comes from XMPP's pubsub mechanism, with hubbub on the end. The option for PingShot has also been in Feedburner for months.
- Marlin Forbes
I think that unless you have installed the pubsubhubbub plugin for wordpress, that feedburner still polls your content. It pushes your content out to other interested parties using the new mechanism, but it will still poll your feed. Correct?
- Marlin Forbes
How did you shoot Glitter? zoomed all the way in, purposefully out of focus?
- Tudor Bosman
My guess is that Rachel twisted the focus ring during a half-second or so exposure. That's one of our funner techniques. This was the first year that I shot exclusively with a fixed lens (105mm) and played more with exposure settings than focus. It added a nice dimension and let me catch shots in a way that I hadn't seen before.
- Kevin Fox
oh my gosh! those are amazing photos!!!! :) how fun!!!
- Erin "Wifey" Johns
Tudor, I'm really not sure exactly which things I did to get Glitter. Unfortunately I can't record exactly what I do for each one, I really wish I could, it would help a lot. Glitter is one of my favorites from this set and I have to say I have not gotten one close to like that before. I'm going to have to try and replicate that one at some point. What I can tell is that I was playing with the focus and moving the camera around in the air in addition to: ISO 400, f8, shutter 1.3sec, 300mm zoom.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Stephen, funny thing... for a short time I was holding my iPhone to video the fireworks in one hand and my Nikon D700 in the other hand actually taking photographs. It was fun, but I couldn't pull that off for very long.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Everyone should go to this page (http://bit.ly/tuotL) and preemptively set up password recovery. If your account were ever to be hacked (God forbid), you will thank me.
- Michael Leggett
What? There's another view? Please post.
- Ken Morley
I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere...
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
""Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo."
- Christopher Sacca
from Bookmarklet
There is also this version with 21 mentions, also grammatically correct: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Buffalo: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo, buffalo."
- Brandon
INSTANT pick of the week on FFundercats!
- Josh Haley
I'll take the center square for—oh. even number of rows :)
- Micah Wittman
Ah sorry Nir, missed that comment. I saved them in the order i wanted them so i knew which one to go first, then uploaded each one in order starting with 1. I had to do a few tests to get the width right as it seems to depend on the picture width as to how many it posts on one line.
- Simon Wicks
Christopher, My cells were 150x100 if thats any help. You can try with other sizes like 75x75 and get 7 across, same as when Flickr imports.
- Simon Wicks
awesome. got this from that flickr set right? looks great
- Alfredo
Alfredo, nope. I was inspired by this post by a friend http://friendfeed.com/al86sha... even though the pictures aren't joined. Just had the idea. I only remembered about that Flickr one after doing it. :)
- Simon Wicks
"Zoo Basel's children's zoo welcomed eight miniature piglets this week or, as they call them, mini-schwein. While not exactly exotic, the tiny piglets are the size of small puppies and have proven to be an absolute delight for the Swiss children lucky enough to see them. Pigpile!"
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
I just love the little pink nosed piggie in the first photo!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I think there's something telling here - players are focused on hoisting up threes, working just inside the line, or layups. There's that conspicuously dark middle ring (I'm guessing 5-10 feet from the basket) that there are far fewer shots from. Either these are the hardest places to get a shot off (because of defensive schemes), or players aren't exploiting these areas to the fullest capacity.
- Mike Nayyar
The dark middle ring is where you have to deal with the most defense AND you're less likely to get a foul call than driving for a layup
- Roshan Vyas
Right. I think the inner peak are layups and if you're not getting that close you're better off with less pressure a few steps out where you can get a good arc.
- Kevin Fox
I'm suprised about the corner 3s tho... that's a tough shot.
- Roshan Vyas
I'm also guessing they're measuring release point, since a player's feet leave the ground farther out than most of those inside shots.
- Kevin Fox
Corner 3's are where shooters camp out, and they're also the shortest 3's.
- Dan Hsiao
The corner 3's are the highest percentage shot (both taken and made) because it's the shortest 3 pointer available. The best teams will exploit the hell out of that shot.
- Mark Philpot
oh goodness I just really looked at this picture. it so fits me right now becuase i am trying to stay awake until the season premiere of House
- R. Ferguson
Hahahhahaa And a few months later, this is *still* me!
- Mona Nomura
...and you're still a lovely couple :D
- WorldofHiglet
Hahaha! Looking at all the older posts is making me nostalgic. My feed is now boring filled with Tweets. I'm going to start posting fun stuff again.
- Mona Nomura
fan bloody tastic! So we can post here and Twitterers can comment away without any complaints! The only think you need to try and do is bring in comments (about a share) from twitter into here! :)
- Zee.
This is great...should help new users quite a bit.
- Mark Krynsky
OK, I admit I'm dense. As an existing user will this help me find the folks I follow on Twitter?
- Laura Norvig
Cool, is it possible we could have the ability to bulk import or non-FF Twitter friends as private feeds so we can track them in FF? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Laura, existing FriendFeed users should just go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... and click on the Twittter (and Facebook and Google) icons to find their friends. Kol, not yet, but I'm hoping to add something like that soon (improved imaginary friends).
- Paul Buchheit
Thx, Paul - guess I haven't been to that page since the launch. btw, I'm definitely coming around to the new friendfeed (colors notwithstanding).
- Laura Norvig
Great to see the standards working -OAuth fro Gogole and Twitter login on Friendfeed
- Kevin Marks
That's a great tool, Paul! Found a few from Twitter and Facebook I didn't realise were on FF...:)
- WorldofHiglet
Oh man, that is suh-weet. Works really well.
- Laura Norvig
Paul, that would be wonderful, thank you. I'm keen to use FF as a kinda Twitter client. I'd love the ability to import my group I've created on Tweetvisor too but that would additionally require exporting facilities from Tweetvisor, and from asking them they've told me it's low priority (which is fair enough).
- Kol Tregaskes
That's fantastic! Sharing with all of my not-yet-friendfeedified twitter friends. Thanks, Paul!
- Eric Johnson
This IS good. Thanks for the hard work, Benjamin Golub.
- Micah Wittman
Love that you guys are making the entry more enticing. What about refining what FriendFeed is further? Like: Twitter + conversation. For new people who don't get it and most without the time to get it, simplifying the message or experimenting further with your "first impression" on your splash page might be worth a try. Example: wouldn't it be cool to have a live conversation streaming to show just how FF has a leg up on the scattered Twitter stream?
- kilbuda
WOW! 313 new Twitter people! Amazing what the OAuth did. Amazing. That just completely Rocks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That was just too easy, and found a bunch of Twitter people. I just subscribed, but I hope they participate. I'm sure I'll have to trim later.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Thanks for everything Benjamin and the others, that is really great. :)
- Alp
I was subscribed to exactly 100 of the people I follow on Twitter. Added 93 more. Funny, this is actually helping me find people I *don't* want to follow in either place.
- Laura Norvig
I'm looking forward to the "advanced imaginary friends" section which lets me as an existing FriendFeed user view all the twitter updates from people that don't use FriendFeed.
- Brian Sloane
Just posted this to my stream then saw this, Cool stuff Paul
- Charlie Anzman
Some time ago I spent lots of time in removing my Facebook-Friendfeed integration, and didn't succeed, Facebook refused to remove it. Since that - no info about any other my services to Facebook, ever.
- orie
Happy to hear that there will be an improved imaginary friend option!
- Jacob
The improved imaginary friend feature will be great. No need to visit Twitter much then!
- Pinksy
How do we give virtual bucks to Paul, oh I see a like button here. Off to work on the influence funnel, who cares about dollars, I want eyes ;)
- Mark Essel
FriendFeed is constantly bringing new value to the service. I'm loving it!
- Amie Gillingham
I just imported 8,000 new Twitter friends. Worked MUCH BETTER than last time.
- Robert Scoble
Smart move guys. A quick way to grow FF users is to tap into the current hot properties. Can't believe other Social Networks are so slow to respond.
- Neill Adamson
Paul, is there a way to sync it so that people I no longer follow on Twitter are unfollowed on FriendFeed?
- Jorge Escobar
Great news on the advanced imaginary friends. That plus the ability to comment back to Facebook posts as easily as we reply to Twitter would be killer.
- Kevin Kuphal
Personally, I am having problems logging in and logging out of friendfeed. I receive the following error: Access Denied The resource you requested is private. You may be able to access it if you sign in to a different FriendFeed account, or there may just be an error in our service. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you see this error happening a lot, please let us know in our support forum. Return to the FriendFeed homepage
- Bryan Penczak
Then, I am forced to log back in, where friendfeed says that I have not given access to twitter/facebook. I log in with my friendfeed account, and at first it didn't work, but now it does. The only way I was able to log back in to friendfeed was to have myself logged back in to twitter or facebook within the same browser. Something's weird.
- Bryan Penczak
Not sure why this wasn't implemented a while ago but it's a welcome addition.
- Jason Williams
None of my Facebook contacts are on ff.
- JECO Photo
Ca passe 50 fois par jour ce truc là sur FriendFeed ! C''est pas possible d'arr^ter, j'en ai marre de le voir franchement ... ^^
- Jean-Marie Gall
from twhirl
@Robert cannot seem to do that with groups. What I want to do: Concentrate different RSS feeds (e.g. newswires) which do not necessarily have an account in any other social network into one imaginary friend's collection of feeds.
- Mark Jacobs
Mark, "groups" (formerly "rooms") are able to import feeds just like regular users (and imaginary friends). See https://friendfeed.com/xoogle-... for example (imports the blogs of all known xoogle startups). The only thing special about imaginary friends is that they don't have usernames (or rather we assign a random 128 bit username).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, the DM option on imaginary friends should perhaps be removed. Also, imaginary friends do not show up on the search dropdown list when you type in their name in the search box.
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, is it possible to automatically create "imaginary friends" from twitter following list? What I would like is to read all my Twitter in FriendFeed; many of twitterers though are not on FF, so I have to create them by hand which is tedious. Also, it would be nice to allow to add them to some special list.
- Ihar Mahaniok
Ihar, see my comment up in the middle and Paul's reply. Looks like FF are working on it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Still would like an imaginary friend than making bunch of Groups to simulate peoples that doesn’t use FF. BTW, unlike the Facebook Connect login, when I tried logging in using Twitter, it made a new account for me on FF instead of opening my own (which also has Twitter activity added).
- Natsuki Seika
Fn-Shift-F11 to do a print screen while running Windows 7 in Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro. Obscure enough for ya ;-). It took me awhile to find this.
- Alan Le
Ctrl-Alt-Down - works only if the Intel Graphic Media driver is installed, though. It turns your desktop upside down, use Ctrl-Alt-Up to reverse the effect.
- Ray Metzen
@vijay: I tried it and the lights turned off next door. Neat!
- Jemm
Ray, left and right arrows work, too. There's a checkbox in the Dell video driver settings to enable/disable it. We used to get tons of calls at the helpdesk until we started disabling it. "MY COMPUTER IS TURNED SIDEWAYS!!!"
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Jemm, that IS "neat". But it's supposed to do other stuff too. Oh well, as long as it didn't rain Pink Elephants everyone's fine I guess.
- vijay
Ctrl < and Ctrl > for moving through emails in a folder in Outlook.
- Alex Scoble
ha3rvey - yep, works in any direction. I've found though that the effect on unsuspecting users is best if you turn it upside down ;)
- Ray Metzen
Ctrl UP/DOWN for talking to xbacklight. Sweet tweak!
- Kevin Gamble
Oh, and dare I mention gmail's (& readers) j & k & n & p. Those are probably my most pressed buttons.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
@Kevin, thanks for the last one, it's much better now!
- Имплантант
it's actually: cmd+shift+4 space – takes a neat screenshot of a window with all mac's shadows and stuff. really great feature for a designer of any kind. I miss autoscrolling within the window while screenshoting, though.
- Имплантант
alt+cmd+esc ... or shift+s on boot-up so I can run applejack ... (mac)
- Brandon
j/k on web apps that supports it. CTRL+T and CTRL+W on ff browser. ;)
- AJ Batac
Windows+Pause/Break, brings up system properties. =p
- Daniel Bruce
ctrl-shift-T to undo close tab on Firefox. It works in Chrome as well.
- Alan Le
control-. (period) in Visual Studio to bring down the smarttag dropdown to add references, etc
- Paul Whitaker