"Web 2.0 was created so that people could publish cute photos of their cats. But this same cat dissemination technology has proved extremely helpful for activists, who’ve turned these tools to their own purposes." - Ethan Zuckerman (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog...)
: ) - "Twitter lets Robert Scoble tell me what he’s doing 200 freaking times a day… but it also lets me know whether Egyptian activists have been released from the police station when they go in for questioning."
- Sarah Miller
Happy 16th Anniversary, Laura. Thank you for pouring out the love in your heart over and over again. For our kids, for me, for the life we have together.
its weird to be on here again... this use to be my main hang out. Brings back lots of memories and makes me think boy Google+ and Facebook sure did take a lot of stuff from FriendFeed
- (jeff)isageek
they have a FFcommunity on G+ ?? then they are all traitors to FF - off with their heads !!
- Peter Dawson
The G+ communities do not seem to work on my ipad. I tried safari and chrome and the g+ app. I had to use my mac to join or see anything. Hope they fix that soon. FF works fine.
- Mike Nencetti
I'm trying it out. It's the first time I feel like Google+ is getting close to becoming that thing I can use daily. Plus, some rooms here have only crickets left.
- Eric - seven eleven
I know the Facebook group got started because we were having a lot of outages a while back that got us worried Zuckerberg was really pulling the plug, but now we have the Google+ community too. I think I'm just experiencing notification overload.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, just turn the notifications from G+ off, there is a button just below the FF community logo.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you, Rob, for making your music available at a price we all can afford (even me). I have had your cover of The Rain Song on repeat for most of the day, using it to help get rid of a really bad headache. I am feeling much better now. :-) - http://store.atmosmusic.com/track...
Awesome!! Thanks for listening April. Hope your headache is long gone.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Yes, it is. The music soothed me to sleep and back to sleep enough times for it to go away. (some day I may have to publish an ailment/music guide)
- April Russo
I haven't traveled internationally since I was a kid but customs in TSA-era travel is dos muchos. The agent was couldn't fathom that I traveled alone, etc. Why is that any of his business? It took all I could do to not hit him with the, "Bitch, I'm grown."
- Derrick
"The only reason I'm travelling alone is because none of those hot Italian men agreed to come home with me."
- DJF
Also, I think that the TSA only hires people who don't actually travel.
- DJF
Almost every damned one of you. I'm bitter, cynical, and defeated which leads me to underestimate just about everyone I know. Yet every time that black tide rises, you lot are there in an instant with sandbags and undivided compassion.
Just imagine what will happen when you're down here in the Bay Area and many of us can exert our evil influence over you in person...I mean, er...stuff.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Fat kitty who likes belly rubs is pushed up against me legs all stretched to the heavens head turned back in full belly ecstasy. Skinny kitty on lap who doesn't let you near her belly staring down at her with a look that says "you dirty whore. you damn dirty whore. i am embarrassed to be of your species."
you'd think after 9 years together they'd be used to each other, but nope the unspoken tension between them is still a daily occurrence. Actually fat kitty couldn't give a hoot but the jealous rage lives within the heart of skinny kitty. Free entertainment.
- SteVe C
Wow. I had no idea there was even camping on the Wall. I have a sci-fi story around here where they camped on the Wall. I thought it was pure fantasy.
- Anika
Rebecca said some friends had told her you can either go with a formal camping-on-the-Wall tour group, or you can just sort of stay behind with backpacks and sleeping bags after all the buses back to Beijing leave. ;-)
- Jessie
Let's hope the Mongols don't know about this section :)
- Eivind
from Android
"In the thousands of blog posts I've added to this site, I've covered hundreds and hundreds of unique services. There are the rare ones which are so clearly innovative and inspire real community that demand loyalty as FriendFeed did. For those who opted out of the FriendFeed experience, you missed out. For those still hanging on, it's maybe time for a group hug. The small team accomplished incredible stuff, and surprisingly... it's still here. I wonder if it will stay on another five years."
- SteVe C
Happy Birthday, FriendFeed! Louis, I like your word choice. In many ways FriendFeed reminds me of the Pioneer (and Voyager) probes. Primary mission accomplished, they continue on with a skeleton crew, without a new mission or upgrades, built to last, to persevere.
- Kevin Fox
Great explanation of what's special about FriendFeed's technology.
- Bruce Lewis
I think there's a link in there that needs fixing: "The initial gut-wrenching response to the acquisition" links to a post about real-time, not about the acquisition.
- Laura Norvig
I love you guys. I say it a lot but it's so true that it bares repeating. Often. Going to catch a few minutes of sleep. I am better for knowing you all. Have an awesome day and a big smile
That's a very good choice, travelling is always better than buying things in my opinion. I still remember many details of the holidays I had in Italy 11 years ago. I don't remember which phone I had though.
- M F
buy an iphone from the Italian flea market ;-)
- Halil
I can't believe this is really happening.
- Derrick
As my little sister likes to remind me, experiences >> stuff :)
- Victor Ganata
Did you remember to add a stop in the UK? ;-)
- Heleninstitches
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
I want a mac mini for my home theater since I don't have cable. I wanna watch netflix and hulu and listen to my music over the main speaker. sigh but I just bought my macbook. I keep wanting more! Leo, I'm jealous!
- Lise
This all started because I was fed up with the AppleTV. But it's ending up costing considerably more.
- Leo Laporte
It has DVI - easy enough to convert.
- Leo Laporte
you should have gotten the minidisplayport adaptor to HDMI monoprice sells it
- Comptr
Every computer has gigabit ethernet, and circuits are cheap. Always wished that graphics and sound cards included them for distribution
- Keith Barrett
Man, I was wanting to buy the AppleTV. what didn't work for you?
- Jim Williams
It's underpowered and it seems to freeze up a lot. I want to be able to do more, too.
- Leo Laporte
leo can you give us a review on the HDMI to ethernet adaptor when you get it. I have been in the market for one.
- Comptr
Leo, can a solo core run this system or do you think a new mini is requisite?
- Jason L Berman
Definitely looking forward to the full details on your blog.
- Mike Dotta
Sorry, changing this post (it's my first post here). The feeds go down, like a book, not up like a blog! doh! Anyway, I have no powering problems with my Apple TV and no freezes. Both the music and movies sound great on the Bose system! I wish I could set the Apple TV as a wireless base...
- Jay
Wii Remote, RemoteBuddy and Mac Mini = HTPC bliss.
- Jack Zimmermann
I really like Gefen stuff...I like how they seem to build no-compromises full force stuff. How are you going to remote control the Mini? With a hackintosh running Screensharing/ARD? ;)
- Mike Ma
Why not use a Harmony? I've been using a Harmony 880 with my macbook pro (dvi -> hdmi, toslink adaptor to receiver), and it controls everything, including front row, boxee, itunes, not to mention the tv and audio.
- Paul Ward
aah just what the doctor ordered, is there something which also extends the TOS link for sound?
- Jebu Ittiachen
A Vista Media Center computer and an XBox will give you HDMI and a whole lot more functionality, like cable card, dvr, etc. Windows 7 MCE is even cooler. I install this setup all the time for customers.
- Mike
any recommendations on a MCE config. I attempted to put together one with old hardware PVR-150, MCE XP, everything worked except IR Blaster with DirectTV STB (D11-500). Couldnt find a ir code that would work and MCE would not recognize the IR Blaster
- Mike McCrary
Check the Htguys podcast. They just did an update on the new macmini as a home theater component. I believe it was two weeks ago.
- james
@Mike McCrary, did you give thegreenbutton.com a try http://thegreenbutton.com/search...? Are you using a USB MCE remote with a green MCE button on it? Connect the MCE USB IR recvr to the PC, then connect an IR bug from the IR recvr to the DirecTV box. Now all you need is the codes. You can use a Global Cache IR reader to read the codes from the DirecTV remote then program the MCE remote.
- Mike
I wonder if he was inspired after the caller from last weekend needed one for his school?
- OFU
Looking forward to the information on the final build
- Kim Landwehr
Baluns came. Require dual CAT-6 cables for 1080p. I don't Jennifer is going to like this.
- Leo Laporte
Will you be using Boxee? XBMC? Do tell.
- Gunnyman™
I'm planning on trying Boxee, XBMC, and Plex - although Front Row with the EyeTV plugin (PyeTV) is also tempting.
- Leo Laporte
I could not get into Plex after using Boxee. The interface for Boxee works better but Plex looks nicer. I just wish Boxee would implement UPnP for my PS3 like Plex can.
- Mark Ogley
I skipped the AppleTV and went right for the Mini, more expensive but haven't looked back. Jumping out to use Safari (with zoom) on a plasma TV is great, especially for community surfing with friends and family. I tried Plex, Boxee, XBMC. Like Boxee features but keep going back to Plex - it just looks so much better.
- James Nobes
Building a linux htpc based on ubuntu, running xbmc, maybe boxee, whichever ends up being better. Looking for ideas on a remote control. Any takers?
- Josh Haley
I'm also putting together an htpc. I'm a Linux guy, but I keeping considering a Mac Mini because most of the software I have in mind runs on either. I ma end up with a Linux backend and a mac mini front-end
- Keith Barrett
My Ubuntu MythTV backend and Mini frontend works well
- James Nobes
RT @brentweeks: Got an email from a "fan" outraged that a novel I've been working on for two years, six days a week is $13 in ebook. Enjoy your $4 coffee.