Anonymous proxies and other countersurveillance... great topic to (re)visit on LH! - Logical Extremes
At this point, I really wish I could log some hours of watching grotesque stuff on my account. Perhaps then they'll say it's just "too much information". - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
looks like i'll be doing hard time in some outdoor tent-ed prison in texas soon - Cee Bee
*yawn* all hardcore diggers are pretty much like-minded (not a fan) - Hao Chen
Grave diggers, more likely! Or the Zombie Crew! LMAO - Igor The Troll
Based on the screen shots, users can see like-minded users in the right sidebar along with a compatibility percentage. -- collaborative filtering? - Roger Chen
I'm not a Digger myself, but I like it that this adds more "hard" material to the social graph and attention discussions. Digg can again teach us some lessons, as it did in community management with the infamous "Digg users riots". - Alexandre Solleiro via Alert Thingy
"I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.
The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.
This site is so slow it is unusable.
It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45..." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
This email nails it. So I wonder, if Bill Gates knew and experience the flaws of his own product in 2003, why no action has been taken to improve it? The Microsoft website is still a mess and Windows is still Windows. - fbrunel
Christian, I noticed that, too. But it's strange. I never reboot XP, just put it to sleep at night and it works perfectly. - Sprague D
This is real? I can't believe this is real. This is like every user experience with Windows ever: if the Chairman of the company who makes the software has the problems (and is pissed off about it), and most of the issues he's talking about haven't been fixed after five years, 1) how much power did Gates really wield, and 2) what the hell? - Mark Trapp
http://www.betterdesktop.org/ - If Bill Gates actually sent mail like that every day, there is no way Windows would work the way it does now. Want some cool insight on usability - check the link out. - Tim Hoeck
I'm sure it's real, this is classic BillG. But getting flamed by the CEO is one thing, actually making a giant complicated mess of an organization and a giant complicated mess of an operating system work in a nice simple way is hard. - ⓞnor
If he truely sends emails like this every they, then I think they are falling on deaf ears. - Ryan McCutchen via twhirl
And Gates should be praised for actually USING his products. Some executives don't. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I respect Bill Gates a lot more for reading this. Now all they have to do is do something about it. - Stuart Woodward
@stuart: They did fix some. Try going to microsoft.com and downloading movie maker via downloads. My main annoyance was two pop-ups, one for silverlight and another for a survey. The e-mail is from 5 years ago. - nadim
You see I wouldn't call that a 'rant' or even as Gates titles it, a 'flame'. It is simply honest, constructive criticism echoing the valid concerns of thousands of end users. More power to Gates. What concerns me is that Microsoft have senior people in place who are unable to discern that. This quote is just brilliant 'So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.' You simply could not make it up. - Andy C
I wonder what he thinks of Windows usability in general. I feel it's getting worse. - Philipp Lenssen
@Stuart Woodward I completely agree with you. I'm a Microsoft solutions architect and my respect for MS has just leapt ten-fold - Jonathan Nguyen
it is good to know that Gates has similar issues as me... to bad for him he can't ditch MS for Linux or Mac like I did. - nick carrasco
I'm not entirely sure this email is genuine - but even if it is almost every issue raised has been dealt with... if it was even true in 2003. As someone who uses and supports Linux, OSX and Windows Vista systems both personally and for clients the simple reality is that Vista is a good desktop OS and Server 2008 is a SUPERB server OS. - Soulhuntre
I am not sure how Linux and OSX have better usability than windows.. not the case for me and a lot of people I know.. - Adriano Gonçalves
@Soulhuntre - It's real. What people don't understand is that it's his *job* (okay it _was_ his job) to send emails like that all day. - Jordan Hofker
Go Gmail! "The cost savings are substantial. The Outlook/Exchange platform involved a AU$33 million contract and took four years to go live, although it’s unclear why it took so long. The Gmail/Google Apps rollout, which is being completed by subcontractors, will cost just $9.5 million and should be live by the end of 2008. User storage will increase from 35 MB to 1 GB." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
This is small compared to the rest of Gmail, so scaling isn't an issue. - Paul Buchheit
Has anyone ever played Warcraft and clicked on a sheep until it exploded? That's what I want to do with the "like" button on this link. - J. Phil
My guess is that the Exchange contract involved having many local servers and administrators (managed by Unisys), while the Gmail contract involves just letting Google do all the work in the US with SMS only doing the local integration. This is all fine and dandy until some ship cuts the submarine cable to your continent and your email doesn't work for a week. - Gabe Schaffer
I work tangentially to this stuff.. the next step has to be a Apps rollout (or at least replacing Office with OpenOffice) - Nick Lothian
Of course, if the submarine cable gets cut, email won't work anyways. - Jim Norris
Presumably they're spending millions of AU$ so the students can email teachers and other students. One would hope the Exchange-based system wouldn't require transoceanic cables for teachers to email their students. With Gmail you can't even edit a draft without a decent Internet connection to some Gmail datacenter. - Gabe Schaffer
There may be datacenters in Australia by now. - Paul Buchheit
Australia has something like a dozen undersea cables connecting it to a variety of destinations in Asia and the Americas. Events that would disconnect Australia from the world, or shut down Google's data centers, are so much more rare than Exchange downtime that it's not even worth talking about. There are plenty of valid reasons to prefer locally served email over a hosted solution, but undersea cable cuts aren't one of them. - ⓞnor
Gmail is a great choice, but the funny thing is that Exchange seems like a really awful choice for this situation. To give email to a million students, it seems like some big-ass conventional IMAP servers would be a lot cheaper and easier to manage. Maybe they were sold a bill of goods about how Exchange/Outlook would integrate with educational courseware? - ⓞnor
The problem really comes down to local vs. hosted services. The article techcrunch incorrectly quoted said the email would be hosted by Google overseas, meaning there are dozens more points of failure (a submarine cable being merely one). My guess is that it was Unisys (the low bidder in 2003) that chose Exchange as the platform, and that SMS (the low bidder this year) chose Gmail. I would also guess that there is no SLA in the contract. - Gabe Schaffer
gmail is so much more reliable then anything microsoft could ever manage in underfunded corporate IT environments - why even try and compare - ben rogers via twhirl
What does a GMail/Google Apps "rollout" involve? I'm assuming it must be some sort of customisation/integration? - Mike Gardiner
Gmail may be 100% reliable, but that doesn't matter because the Internet isn't even close to reliable. All it takes is one kid running BitTorrent to make every student in the school (or district) unable to access email. - Gabe Schaffer
Does it frequently happen that you can't get to Google because some kid is running BitTorrent? - ⓞnor
Kids these days are spoiled. I remember using 'ed' and 'mail'. We used to have to get up at 5am and lick the street clean wi't toungue but we were 'appy. - Andy C
Of course, if the University was really clever, they could have secured 1.5 million free Gmail invites and saved a further $9.5 million. - Andy C
@ⓞnor - bittorrent isn't too much of a concern AFAIK in most schools. What is the big concern is the cost of bandwidth. Telstra (the incumbent duopolist) signed a lot of schools up to very expensive contracts with capped bandwidth (esp in remote areas). It's expensive enough that at some schools they disconnect the internet once the cap is reached (although this isn't in NSW AFAIK) - Nick Lothian
@Andy C: Google Apps has features that not possible with unaffiliated accounts: integration with organizaton's user directory, single sign on and more. - Gary Burd
@Gary: I know. It was a weak attempt at humour. Next time I will append a smiley. - Andy C
It doesn't matter whether it's a broken cable, BitTorrent, a misbehaving router, or any of the dozens of other causes that could make the Internet unreliable; the point is that the Internet is inherently unreliable. Anything that relies on the Internet will eventually fail, and at some point it will fail the day before the big project is due or the final exam, and there won't be anything the school will be able to do about it. - Gabe Schaffer
Yeah, but it's all about failure rates. Everything fails sometimes, including Exchange servers. Microsoft themselves, for example, have suffered *weeks* long company wide email outages while they struggle to repair broken Exchange installations. If I cared about reliable access to my mail, I know which one I would pick. And there's no secret mystery failure here: you can just ask people "is it OK if your email is approximately as available as Google?". They know how available that is to them. - ⓞnor
I don't know about you, Onor, but I check Gmail dozens of times each day; I use the rest of Google perhaps 3 times a day. The reason I still use Outlook (instead of forwarding that email to Gmail) is that some mail I need access to even when there's no Internet. - Gabe Schaffer
@gabe: imap with gmail. you can get a local snapshot if you want without the hassle of having to manage an email system. - Ashwin Bharambe
"This year, however, proponents of same-sex marriage have found encouragement in both the California Supreme Court decision and in a subsequent order by Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, instructing agencies in his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. The California court has also rebuffed several challenges to its May 15 decision, made by two conservative legal groups and by Republican attorneys general who fear that the California marriages will lead to legal challenges brought in their own states." - Bret Taylor
The current UK administration defused the issue of same sex unions by the introduction of Civil Partnerships in 2005 linked to an across the board change of relevant laws to provide parity with married couples - with the exception of those with religiious objections (who should really know better) this has gone smoothly and been introduced across the UK. Its not called a marriage but has all the advantages (and responsibilities!) of the mixed sex varaint. - Jican
It makes me very happy to see gay folks entering the light in California. I'm also very amused at how frustrating it must be to the Right. Well, I guess in a few years one of us will be proven right. Either a small percentage of the population of California will be happily married and gay or the country will lay in smouldering ruins and people will be having sex with box turtles. - Tad Donaghe
Tad: I feel a box turtle urge coming on! Hah. - Robert Scoble
@Tad - I had box turtles as pets when I was kid. Never considered that activity with them though... - Hutch Carpenter
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Rick Santorum (Idiot) ex-Senator from Virginia - Tad Donaghe
Dude in the pic with "Bruce Willis" is freakin HYOOOGE! I wonder how many opponents of gay marriage have been pwned by his hand...LOL - Rahsheen Porter
Whoa, don't push Santorum on us Virginians! hehe - Jody Carbone
Oh crap - sorry to pollute Virginia with Santorum! Oops. I wouldn't wish that on anyone... - Tad Donaghe
I hope it "sticks". My boyfriend and I are waiting until after November. To have the rug pulled from under us after enjoying a few months of wedded bliss would be too much for the heart to bear. - Jason Menayan
Congrats to all the new couples, with wishes for many happy years. - Chris Baskind
In my home town in Austria, we had a case of a black man and a white woman wanting to marry, they ended up being refused by the marriage registrar. Of course, we also haven't got gay marriage legalized here. The US have problems, but in some cases, law is way more progressive than in Europe. - sebmos
@Phil: LOL! This has certainly been a momentous (and good) development. But it would be nice to see these kinds of decisions made through the legislative process. The fact that this decided in the courts will make the outcome more contentious than it would have been had the population been forced to have a legitimate conversation about the issue. The more bigoted corners of our society now have a victim card to play - and play it they shall... - Forrest Cox
@Forrest: The genius of our system of government lies in its checks and balances. In particular, an unfettered democracy would be subject to the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Fortunately this is offset by our Constitution and our courts, whose job is to ensure that individual rights are not trampled on, no matter how unpopular that individual may be, for whatever reason. Any bigots playing the victim card are ignorant of basic civics. - Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira I agree. The Cali court is playing exactly its Constitutional role, and it's essentially a conservative and Federalist approach to reconciling changing societal mores and the demands of a minority. As I've commented elsewhere, we are winning this argument, and we're doing it state by state, rather than through a Federal fiat, which simply is not feasible at this time. All good things... - Rick Powell
Tad you didn't delete your comment did you? It was great! - Michelle Miller
I've had several conversations today about gay marriage and at the end of the day, the majority feel as I do. Living is tough enough as it is without finding that one person in life you love and want to share everything with and not being able to do so. No one has the right to deny a mutual expression of love - no one. First Obama - now this? We're on a really good streak of good feelings here about getting past old prejudices. I've got more hope for the future happiness of my daughter than ever before. - Vince DeGeorge
@Vince. Agreed - I'm a longtime Virginia dude who moved out to San Francisco back in 1996. Having been out here 12 years, my sensibilities on things have certainly changed. I wrote this post "Same Sex Marriage in California - What Change Will We See?" (http://tinyurl.com/5kncrl) as a reflection of that understanding. - Hutch Carpenter
Congratulations! It is always a wonderful thing to see two people publicly declare their love for each other regardless of what gender they are. This world needs more love, not less. - Riayn
awww Vince... your last sentence... *sniffles* - Yolanda
I never thought of Gina about been gay (I am, and I really like Lifehacker). You know, just for that stupid thing that I have had to be used: she is a woman, and can be a freak geek tech superb blogger. Now she is more than that, she is a freak geek tech Diva (for me). Wish her (and spouse) all the best! - Fran Correas
would love a review- anyone actually using it? - Dino
I do have a beta, and i dont like it, maybe i am resisting change, but there it is. . - ani625
the beta looks and feels terrible. i couldn't stand using it, so I switched back - Graham Garland
can anybody post screen shots of the beta? what's so different that makes it terrible? - acedanger via twhirl
Well, it does not show one's current bookmarks, only a "snapshot" of the past (sometime in '07); The UI is terrible as Graham has mentioned.. - ani625
Is it clunky or slow or counter-intuitive? What makes it terrible? - Abby Martin
The problem is that the beta is more cosmetic than functional (at least to the users' eye) and it doesn't work with current del.icio.us tools or bookmarks. So you play with it for a while, but can't really bang on it on a day-to-day basis. - Judi Sohn
Since I have Mento, I am waiting no longer. del.icio.us is good as an archive, but that's it. If Yahoo! were able to generate personalized search results from my bookmarks, that might create value for me. - Lars Trieloff
I like the current version. It does pretty much exactly what I want it to do, nothing more and nothing less. - AJ Kohn
The current version is simple and powerful, the new version doesn't really seem to be much of an improvement and in some cases is actually worse. There don't seem to be any new features e.g. delete bookmarks people have sent you without having to save them first, they look pretty directionless to me. I did start writing a blog post entitled "Does anyone care about del.icio.us" but I've never quite got around to finishing it. - Andy Davies
What new features have been promised? I'm quite happy with the current design, even if it is a bit dated....via feedalizr - Richard Bradshaw
I'd rather have the current version than the 'new' beta. The beta doesn't add anything worth having, has a painfully hip design and doesn't sync with the current version so that I can live with it long enough to get used to its foibles. If Joshua really is working on something else then I'll start taking regular backups of my data from now on. - Adewale Oshineye
I love Delicious. I just hope they haven't c**ked it up - john conroy
"As California faces one of its worst droughts in two decades, building projects are being curtailed for the first time under state law by the inability of developers to find long-term water supplies... Water authorities and other government agencies scattered throughout the state, including here in sprawling Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, have begun denying, delaying or challenging authorization for dozens of housing tracts and other developments under a state law that requires a 20-year water supply as a condition for building." - Bret Taylor
For those of you who haven't read it, I'd highly highly recommend the book "Cadillac Desert", by Marc Reisner. You'll never think about water the same way again. - Mike Yang
Water problems have been plaguing CA for a very long time. With the ridiculous rush of new people immigrating in to the state in the last 20 years, they will start to hit their water limits soon. When I left CA in 2000, there was a battle between CA and AZ (maybe NV too) over Colo River rights... the battle for water in the ultra dry and overly inhabited West is only going to get worse! There needs to be better long term planning before they build entire communities. - Susan Beebe
So how's this supposed to work? Seems like water fees for everyone would encourage more conservation than denying new developments, but I guess that's less politically palatable. - ⓞnor
I remember learning a long time ago that whenever you hear of a "shortage," the first question you should ask is "At what price?" ... In other words, if you search around, you'll find that price controls exist somewhere....Remove the price controls and the shortages disappear. - Chris Rossini
It's about time California(ns) accepted reality instead of continuing to be spoiled. I know - I lived there for 20+ years. Now that I'm in Washington (Bellevue), I won't have to deal with drought in the foreseeable feature. I love how I don't even have to water my lawn or plants for 10 months out of the year. :-) - Lawrence Liu
California - land of the hippies and movie stars! Seems like they should come up with some socially responsible way of dealing with this shortage - like going with the all weed lawns. - Matt Ranlett via Alert Thingy
Two of our neighbors, in homes that must be worth $2 million+ have relandscaped to get rid of water thirsty lawns. Unfortunately, instead of putting in drought tolerant plants they put in astro-turf! UGLY!! - Sheila Taylor
Ugly aside, how does it feel on the feet? I wonder if there's good artificial outdoor ground cover, maybe something that doesn't try to pretend to be grass. - ⓞnor
There's one good thing that came out of droughts in California: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z.... They should definitely stop serving water automatically in restaurants like they did in the 70s though. - Chris White
I'd like to see agriculture and business pay the same rates as residential customers. - Amit Patel
I'm sanguine. People are still watering their lawns here in California. We clearly don't have a water shortage. In particular, since farmers pay 1/10th the price everyone else does for water, we have lots of room to make the water market more efficient. - Piaw Na
A UCLA prof says, "Water has been seriously under-priced in California". Water is starting to sound like oil. As prices rise, alternative technologies become more attractive. We're out here next to the Pacific Ocean. How about improvements in desalinization technologies to tap a huge amount of water from the ocean? - Hutch Carpenter
"That's why I'm happy to announce we just launched a feature that helps you find the best stuff your friends have shared recently without sifting through your entire feed. Underneath the search box on your FriendFeed homepage, you now have links to see the "best of" FriendFeed from the past day, week, or month according to the people you're subscribed to." - Paul Buchheit
Is the personalized part just the filter (ie: it only shows stuff my friends have shared, ranked using some global metric), or is the ranking actually personalized too (ie: it figures out which items my friends have shared that *I* will probably like)? - Laurence Gonsalves
Both the selection and ranking are personal. - Paul Buchheit
"We figure out what content was most interesting in your network based on your friends' comments and "likes" and other signals." - What are the other signals? I haven't yet seen an item that does not have a comment or a like in the summary feed. However it does not seem to list all of my friend's items that have links or comments either, so there is some other mechanism to choose the interesting items. This has now become my favorite way to browse ff. - Shakeel Mahate
I'd rather just be matter of fact. Everyone knows that only trolls use three exclamation points. :-) - Robert Scoble
Glad you like it, Robert. I hope Loic doesn't get too mad that I clipped him out of the picture to make it. Yeah I figured you would like having the last word (period). - Lindsay Donaghe
oh, I just realized that Mike posted it! So how did he find out about it if he wasn't watching FriendFeed? That's the only place I had posted it... :) - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay: there's a little thing called email. I sent one to Mike. :-) - Robert Scoble
My wife is teh photoshop goddess...All hail Lindsay, mistress of the pixels. - Tad Donaghe
Whatever...Michael Arrington will come to the dark side eventually. - Eric Florenzano
"Remember: I blame FriendFeed for this, and Robert Scoble, Steve Rubell, Dave Winer, and all the rest of the puppets and ex-Techcrunch analysts who, by appearing to rationally debate the pluses and minuses of FriendFeed versus Twitter, suggest FriendFeed even exists in the absence of Twitter. Nik Cubrilovic doesn’t help either with his cogent (except for the Rails part) analysis of Twitter’s scaling problems. Nowhere in this debate (most of it mercifully hidden forever behind the FriendFeed black hole where conversations go to die) was there a word spoken about the fatal Track bug until Jack hit the Off switch.
Now, in the cool clarity of no pulse whatsoever can we begin to rationally approach a solution. Forgetting that Hillary has shown no indication of processing the similar lack of pulse in her White House aspirations, let’s put the blame for all this squarely on the parasite API suckers and their dark master FriendFeed. Good." - Paul Buchheit
I accuse my parents (a little MST3K humor) - Mark Dykeman
My guess is that a good deal of folks who are otherwise technology experts haven't yet mastered the "Hide" option, and seeing Twitter in FriendFeed makes them feel it's simply an echo chamber for Twitter. Hiding Twitter, and/or utilizing the many other sources that are not Twitter here in FriendFeed makes it more valuable. - Louis Gray
Someone pass around what Steve Gillmor is smoking. That is some heavy stuff he's got in his stash. I think I counted 10 words he seriously made up for that post. And why is friendfeed to blame for the XMPP/Jabber shutdown? - Mark Trapp
WTF? This guy reminds me of Gary Busey, but angrier, if that's even possible. - April Buchheit
This article simply doesn't make any sense. Please reword for clarity. - Eric Florenzano
I was afraid when I saw "?" there. And now...no comment... :S - Erhan Erdogan
Is he kidding? I hope he's kidding. FriendFeed exists with or without twitter. In fact, I would love to see twitter removed from FriendFeed altogether. Guaranteed there would still be plenty of conversations revolving around the links shared, the pictures posted, etc. - Erica Baker
I don't follow Twitter at all on FriendFeed. I find it somewhat ironic that one of Steve G's big passions was (is?) "Attention Metadata" and FriendFeed via likes, comments, etc is actually a service that makes great use of attention metadata! - Robert Seidman
I enjoy that this Friendfeed post has more comments than his post on TechCrunch. - Mark Trapp
This is the most buzzword-laden web 2.0 rant I have ever read. It's like he is making words up to describe stuff every other paragraph or so. And.. what's this jab at Clinton in the middle? How random. - J. Phil
FriendFeed direct posts are really similar to Twitter in my mind. - Hutch Carpenter
@Paul can you share the percentage of FF users that hide twitter posts? - Erica Baker
Gillmor refuses to realize that the comment feature of FriendFeed does indeed add value that Twitter lacks. That's probably the key reason why I MOVED MY conversations to FriendFeed!
Also, the sharing feature is the reason why I like FriendFeed! IF I merely wanted the 'stream of consciousness' of Twitter, I would just use Twitter! I think that FriendFeed 'exposes' the 'chinks in Twitter's armor' - Thomas Ho via fftogo
I think that Mark Trapp's observation is 'priceless' - Thomas Ho via fftogo
It sounds like Gillmor hasn't given FriendFeed nearly enough time if he thinks it's only "Twitter, but slower". I have a great time on here with Twitter hidden half of the time. If anything, let's blame Twitter for so much noise and/or so much conversation due to their issues - Andrew Dobrow
FriendFeed can definitely make it without Twitter...so many conversations occur without Twitter being involved at all. - Chris Rossini
That... made no sense to me. Still dazed from the insanity of it all. I see more conversations here on links and such than on tweets. And really, why is FriendFeed to blame for the Jabber shutdown? Seriously! - Voyagerfan5761
This whole article was most undirectional article, I have read in recent times. I read it twice, and can't make out, what he want to say. - Varun Mahajan
Adam, same here. I personally find the vast majority of twitter messages to be extremely boring and of no use to me. - Aviv
Where are these "siloed conversation spamyards" to which he refers? You could say that about any chat system (if I understand his rather obtuse meaning) and FF discussions are quite cogent and open. (And seem especially so if you've ever spent any time in the Digg comments.) - Nick
I usually keep the Twitter FF feed open. FF is definitely NOT the only app pulling on Twitter's API. Hundreds of sites, clients, etc?. Twitter had (maybe has) time to distinguish itself. Just 'come clean' with regular community updates. (PR time?) So far it's been lame. In the meantime, there's no doubt Friendfeed will continue to increase it's pull. Twitter put the API out there. THEY need to deal with the results, whether they were ready or not - Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed is what you put in to it. If you add all your Twitter friends and nobody else, FriendFeed will appear to be Twitter with siloed conversations, but in that case that's exactly what you asked for. If you don't add a thousand people as friends and convince a thousand people to follow you then you won't see any of this 'spam graveyard' Steve talks about. You get what you ask for, and irrelevance is what you get if you add irrelevant friends. - Kevin Fox
It's also worth noting how much FriendFeed thrived when Twitter had its difficulties this week. That would seem to put a hole in the argument that FriendFeed is primarily a downstream service to Twitter. - Kevin Fox
Whoah, such bitterness. Did someone turn Steve Gillmor down for a job at ff? Or did he post something that nobody read? Me, I think twitter is the one thing that mars my friendfeed experience. - Slippy Lane
I'll repost my translation from Hacker News in case anyone still doesn't quite understand this post: Twitter was down due to a bug in their Jabber APIs. Although FriendFeed does not use this API, I obviously don't know that, so I'll pretend to act smart and smugly blame them for Twitter's downtime. Also, FriendFeed has nothing going for them minus Twitter. Forget about their 34 other supported services, passionate community, and the fact that we already proclaimed them this years Twitter (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...). Yup, nothing. Now if you'll forgive me, I must return to sucking on the teat of my God that is Twitter. In other news, I am high as a kite. - Randy Pang
OK friendfeed is NOT twitter. Its something else, and I like both. (sticks out tongue)...via feedalizr - Photo Larry
He shouldn't drink before writing for TechCrunch - Alejandro S.
man, I honestly care jack shit about what people post on Twitter, but I find FF incredibly useful. Gillmor is seriously off his rocker with this post (which is the least legible I've seen on TC in a long time). - Chieze Okoye
