I'll swap for a friendfeed one - email me at rich.bradshaw at gmail. - Richard Bradshaw

:-) - Mitchell Tsai

CONGRATULATIONS STEVEN!!!! woo hoo! =) Get cranky!! - Susan Beebe

thanks everyone - Steven Hodson

Congratulations Steven, great to see your being recognised for your work! - Glenn Slaven

Loving the move, and yet still waving my independent pirate flag... - Louis Gray

great stuff - Duncan Riley

awesome - Mark Dykeman

Congrats! That's an achievement! - Winston Teo

Congrats! - Jason Kaneshiro

Congratulations to mashable, they picked a winner! :) - felix

What do you have to be cranky about you old fart? You're famous! ;-) - Sprague D

Congrats again Steven! Your a friggin rockstar man! - Corvida

Congratulations Steven, hope this will be a rewarding experience for you :) - Svetlana Gladkova

Despite your worried feelings that the little guy might not be heard - it appears you've sounded off - congratulations Steven! - Julian Baldwin

awesomeness! congrats! - Sarah Perez

Great stuff Steven :) Couldn't have happened to a nicer, crankier guy ;) - Colin Walker via fftogo

Steven, congrats :) - Mo Jawhari

Belated congrats... Nice job! - Mitchell Tsai

Seriously one of the most awesome things I've read all day. Welcome to the neighborhood, Jeremy! - DeWitt Clinton

Congrats! - Harvey Simmons

Congratulations! - Atul Arora

Jeremy, that's AWESOME. Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing you more in SF!!! - David Sifry via twhirl

I didn't see anybody predict that! Great news. Should be interesting. - Louis Gray

good luck! - Chris Harris

Congrats. - Russellreno

all the best! - Ron Emrick

Congrats! :) some people were expecting you here on FF... - directeur

Congrats! That seems like a great company to be a part of. - Jeremy Brooks

Wow, that's great news. Congratulations! - Lee Odden via twhirl

Jeremy I'm right there with you! - Randy Carranza

Congrats, Craigslist is a shining star. - Jason Kaneshiro

Congrats, real good choice that I am sure you will enjoy - Fred Grott

@Louis yeah, I was tempted to mess with people and post pics of myself at FriendFeed and various other places, but decided to come clean. [Note: I still think FriendFeed would be an awesome gig too...] - Jeremy Zawodny

Congratulations! - Ernest Prabhakar

Nice move Jeremy - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

wow...that's great. congratulations!!! - don loeb

Congrats, Jeremy - Bret Taylor

Congratulations! Is this a long-term thing or just a casual encounter? - Jim Norris

JZ4CL - Kevin Fox

congrats! good luck with that commute! - Jeremy Toeman

awesome. Great move. - Keith Teare

Congrats and good luck! - John Frost

seems like that would be a great place to be. congratulations. - edythe

Cool! Congrats! - C. K. Sample III via twhirl

I see this feature just now~~really cool! - K.D.

nice - Caleb Elston

Excellent, a great way to get the content of a room going. Nice work. - AJ Kohn

Great Improvement Bret!!! wow, this could be Bloggers' Central in no time!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe

Great addition. Also, how about a way to pipe in search results for one or more queries? I suppose until a more native solution is available, a room admin can simply add a feed for a particular search query and have the results added as entries - Aviv

Nice! Just what I was hoping for! - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Aviv - I imagine there will be plenty of summize feed based rooms popping up shortly - Bwana McCall

Nice! Added all RSSmeme tagged stories on my blog to http://friendfeed.com/rooms/rs... - Benjamin Golub

What's funny is I was looking for this feature when I created a room earlier and realized it didn't exist. Great minds!! - Shey

awesome. - Jason Kaneshiro

not bad but here's a simple question .. how the hell do I delete a Room. I created one that I thouhgt I would play around with but would like it gone however I don't see any obvious way to delete it - Steven Hodson

Yeah, I'd like to drop some rooms too. - possible248

Hey guys, next we need furniture in our rooms! =) Just think of all the fun we could have with that! Virtual tweetup on FF!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe

What a cool feature! - Eric Hamilton

where are we supposed to add the site to the room? It must not be something obvious cuz I don't see it - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

JohnB: it is only available for room administrators. Click "Share something" and then "import" or "Edit/add" on the RHS of the page. - Bret Taylor

so it doesn't work for existing rooms? it should - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

sorry I see it where you were talking about now Bret . .had to logout and back in again ..Thanks!! - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

Great feature!! Love it when you guys work with the community. - Frankie Warren

I'd like the feeds to still keep the names/authors of the feed...if a room has multiple feeds from different authors it would help distinguish them. I'd also like to see room posts on the frontpage off-colored so they stand out: like a light yellow background or something. - Paul Arterburn

Awesome! Love it! - AJ Batac

Good stuff! - J. Phil

My first idea was to allow all room members to stream their feeds to the room, but that would make most larger rooms extremely noisy, so this is perhaps the better solution. - Thomas Frütel

Degrees of similarity and dissimilarity, from most similar to most dissimilar and everything in between, should be relatively easy to plot. The algorithm would be closely related to metrics of personal interestingness and relevance for items, links and comments. - Sean McBride

Sounds like you guys are looking for recommended friends... http://friendfeed.com/settings... - Ross Miller

@Ross: The recommended friends page says, "The people below are popular among your friends," but nothing about comparing any of the other above criteria. Does it behind the scenes, without mentioning it? - Voyagerfan5761

Thought: the scoring and ranking algorithms for personalized recommendation systems should be totally transparent -- the user should be able to see what is under the hood and understand precisely why particular items are being prioritized in particular orders. - Sean McBride

Hey Paul questions: if I block a user I stay subscribed to him? It means it is a polite way of unsubscribing to someone? Why not just unsubscribe? Thanks - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

Isn't that too close to "Unsubscribe"? - João Almeida

You get a warning message after you click Block - Bwana McCall

Unsubscribe to a user this will still make that user's contributions visible if he/she's a friend of a friend. blocking him will make him disapear like a shadow in the night - directeur

Loic, it's a two way block. You can't see them, and they can't see you. Posts or comments. It's much more powerful than Unsubscribe. It's mainly for abusive users and trolls. - Bwana McCall

ah I understand from the message the user won't get anything I post so it does not let him subscribe to you anymore, what does the user get as a message then? - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

So far, I've used it twice. I don't think I'll need it anymore. I can quit anytime I want. :) - Harvey Simmons

Paul ! Humanum "Documentus" Est! :) Please explain us the feature - directeur

what does block do ? is it just UI Based or does it also filter the RSS feed (4 blocked user) plus the email alert for that user too ? plus I echo Loic's question !! - Peter Dawson

Not sure Loic. The exact message from the warning is: "After blocking this user, you won't see any of their posts or comments on FriendFeed, and they won't see anything you post. If they're subscribed to you, that subscription will be removed." - Bwana McCall

It's a much less polite way of unsubscribing, Loic. It's closer to a restraining order :). The idea is to create mutual disengagement -- enable people who don't get along to stay separated. For example, if there is someone who posts rude comments on your feed, you may want to block them. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: But, say, if he still insults you on your posts (when he's blocked) others will his comments? - directeur

Blocked users can't see (or comment on) your posts, directeur. - Paul Buchheit

I wonder - when someone will make a "who'se blocked me on ff" application. : ) Is it possible technically? - Erhan Erdogan

Paul, thanks, but I was wondering if they have that possibility through an other app using the api for eg. - directeur

What I really want is just the ability to say that I "Didn't Like" something. Don't want to block people, just let FF know better about what I don't like. - David Recordon

Reputation and feedback features on FF would be great, but block is a start. - Bill Sodeman

Block is cool, but I agree, if FF could learn what I like and what I don't -- even better! - Eric Hamilton

Please @TweetJeebus: no reputation features. They all suck. - Chris Baskind

I tried to thank Tudor for this but he said I should thank you, Paul. So thanks! - Erica Baker

thanks Paul, I see, it is like "divorce" :) - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

BullShit you Blocking out Knowledge! Go Back to your Cave if you do not want feedback! - Igor The Troll

But comments don't happen on posts exclusively, it will also be on tweets, and diggs and stumbles and shared items - blocking someone out really isn't a sensible filter - Andy Beard

Andy is very correct! Blocking someone will just infuriate them against you! - Igor The Troll

wow "56 other people liked this" - Tyler

Used it twice so far; I hope I don't need to use it more. - Benjamin Golub

Now only removing contacts in Linkedin is missing. - Amit Morson

thanks - just used it, and feel I like it ;) - silpol

It seems to me the two-way nature of this feature makes the "A-listers" (and anyone else for that matter) that much more powerful - they can essentially decide who gets to participate in insightful discussions taking place in response to items they shared (but not necessarily created, such as a blog post written by them). Many great discussions tend to develop around shared items of the more "popular" folks on FF, and as a result blocked users would be left out of entire conversations and those comments created by users other than the blocker. In no way am I trying to protect those abusive users who rightfully earn their blocks, but what happens when a person decides to block someone simply because they don't want to see that user's posts? As it happens, that also means the blocked user (who may have done nothing wrong but post too frequently for someone else's taste, etc.) will be left out of FF discussions -- and without even realizing it. Is this a concern FF is aware of? Any thoughts? - Aviv

@aviv - Does FF have A-listers in the usual sense? I mean, I look at my feed, then look at the "everyone" tab and there is zero overlap. If there were dominant A-listers I'd expect them to fill the "everyone" feed. Instead FF seems to be creating a graph consisting of disconnected cliques. Which is a good thing, in my opinion, but I'd love to see the data to back my hypothesis up. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt - I think it does to some extent. Look at your Best Of for the day and tell me what you think :) - Aviv

@aviv -- What do you mean? My Best Of right now contains ... let me check .. Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Kevin Fox, Mike Arrington, Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Cutts. Oh wait. : ) - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt - that's exactly my point. Say you love discussing anything-FriendFeed, but Bret and Paul seem to think you're being too sarcastic in your comments around FF. They don't think you're abusing the service, of course, but they prefer not seeing your stuff for a while, and so they block you. Does that mean you should be left out of FriendFeed discussions that develop around their items or even FF announcements they make? Because as it happens, their posts get great exposure and generate many comments. What do you think? ADDED MORE: Let's ignore for now items created by the blocker - I'm more concerned about random shared items (say, del.icio.us bookmarks) that due to the great exposure of the person sharing the item - the discussion happens around their item, even when 100 other users in your network share the very same item. What should happen then? - Aviv

@aviv - Bret and Paul probably will start ignoring me -- my S/N ratio is very low. : ) But they wouldn't block me, they'd hide me. Block is more drastic -- it could have been called "report abuse". Which might have been a better name to avoid confusion about when and where it should be used. Re comment stream aggregation across similar urls: I can only imagine this hasn't been exposed yet because of the UI challenge, not because of technology or philosophy. - DeWitt Clinton

Pfftt, someone please school the AP goofs on how the rest of the web works - Shey

They want oblivion, they'll duly receive it :) - 9000

It's only about the web in that the web is new medium. It's about Fair Use and case law. - Michael W. May via twhirl

What gets me is that they are going beyond fair use. What's worse is that they know it. This is particularly interesting in the light of their iPhone app. They are just trying to stay above water in the web 2.0 world , but going about it in the wrong way. They need to embrace it, not swim against the tide - that's called drowning. - Roberto Bonini

Wow, that's a great article. - Ashwin Bharambe

eric i disagree with your assumption that most bloggers disagree. - MG Siegler

I like your take on the cultural differences of the sites. I think a lot of social media gets lumped together as one in the same thing. I like to think of sites and different cities or neighborhoods. Anyone know of any good cultural overviews of the top social sites? I'm always curious why a person may choose Bebo over myspace, or whatever. - Ginger Makela

Do we have short memories???,we've seen this growth and promise with Yahoo! back in april 2000 , Checkout this article from the MOtley Fool Yahoo!: Built to Last http://www.fool.com/news/2000/... .. where is YAhoo now? "Starting with usage metrics, Yahoo!'s unique users increased to 145 million versus 120 million in December. Even more impressive, the company's database of registered users grew to 125 million, up from 100 million in December and only 47 million a year ago. The personal information in Yahoo!'s user database allows it to offer highly targeted online advertising. Next, daily page views soared to 625 million -- a 36% sequential improvement, representing the strongest sequential gain in a year and sure evidence that Yahoo!'s users are making Yahoo! an ever-increasing habit in their lives. - D 'gadget' Domingo

I added this to my template, but don't see anything. Could it be because I'm running Disqus? - Louis Gray

it didn't throw XML errors for you Louis? - MG Siegler

I haven't seen any. I'm posting again. - Louis Gray

It works! See it here: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

ooh very cool louis, not sure why i'm still getting XML errors, i'll keep plugging away at it later - MG Siegler

silly me, it was the greater than and less than signs, duh. anyways still not quite there with it working yet, but no more errors :) - MG Siegler

OK, I'm convinced ... trying it in an hour - Charlie Anzman

boom. got it. i'll post on the fix later on. check it out. http://www.parislemon.com/2008... - MG Siegler

Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

i am still seeing a conflict with linkbacks i'll work more on it later - MG Siegler

hmmm expanded the widgets and all and I didn't find any of these lines, I think I've just got some many tweaks to the base code - BCK

pretty sure a limitation here is that they have to be recent comments on friendfeed (so they're in your feed), is that that same with the wordpress plug-in? - MG Siegler

Didn't realize that this would work, even if you have Disqus. Will have to try it out. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Yeah - the RSS and JSON has a history limitation, which is why I'm trying to work on a server side solution. It's a bit of a pain, because it means stuff has to get imported to a database. I'd much rather be able to make queries to FF's db thru the api (by the muid?), because I really don't want to maintain another database that mirrors theirs. Seems sorta silly. Not to mention I'm not as good at creating good DBs as them. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Hulk Norton ftw! - Mark Forman

I was wondering why in the hell I had 10 pownce things I never posted, and half the people I follow had the same thing :p this explains it all. thanks for the update, I manually deleted the entries either way - BCK

That's not exclusive to Pownce. Apparently my feeds have the same problem (but that's down to my writing)... poop happens as my dad used to say... - Chris Wright via twhirl

Why does no one listen to Egon? Don't cross the streams! It would be bad... - Jim Stanger

Thanks for the note, made me just check *my* shared pownce items ... and delete them. - Mustafa K. Isik

Ok, it is fixed. May still be minor issues throughout the night, so let us know if you see problems. - Bret Taylor

Can it tie my shoes while it's at it? Or at least clean my Roomba? - xero

xero, you need help cleaning your automatic robotic cleaner? you just made me realize I need to step my game up a notch! :) - felix

Well done Caleb, congrats :) - Shey

Awesome job. Congrats to all involved. - Dan Nimtz

Great job! Toluu has introduced me to a bunch of great feeds. - Chris Rossini

Thanks and congrats! - J. Phil

Congrats Caleb. Thanks for the quick responses and help. Toluu's got me to clean up my feeds and easily find new ones. Keep it up! - Nick Munson

Paul: Just sent! - Caleb Elston

Thanks everyone for the kind words, it is so great interacting with you all and seeing what you are reading and finding new feeds I now love! - Caleb Elston

good to hear Celeb, wish you happy scaling ;-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Fantastic and Congratulations. I also appreciate how responsive you've been to getting invites out. It was a warm welcome mat to have you personally find my post and send the invite. Great work and Thank you. - tsudohnimh via twhirl

Congrats Celeb, well deserved! - Mike Fruchter

congrats dude. Now you set the bar to keep jumping over... - Micah Baldwin