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nice to hear it in offical way, thanks Bret. - Serbay Arda Ayzit

@Bret, tell us approx. # of ff users from Turkey :) - Serkan Ünsal

auto-translate (server side) is the next killer feature - translations aren't always perfect i know, but it's better than nothing (or learning all the other languages) - Chris Heath

Please just keep FriendFeed up, don't let it die. This is absolutely the best thing you can do for Turkey. - AlpB.

leave friendfeed alone!!!! - sera aktüre

#hebelek - Umut Gökbayrak

Thank you Bret. - Dedegi

I read an article about Turkey in Psychology Today recently. It seems the population in general is very forward-looking and eager to prove their modernity to the rest of the world. Like :). - LANjackal

bret gardaş biz olmasag FF batardı ha. Bizede bi sakal atarsın artıgın feysin verdiği manilerle ? - Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama

F for Friendfeed ! - yicit

uvv very provoking :) we love sharing :) - Taylan Demirkaya

Kıymetimizi bil Bret, biz sana bazen kızıyoruz ama senin iyiliğin için onlar. FB'deki sarışın oğlana tiggat et, iyi şeyler duymuyorum onunla ilgili. - mcd

Funny how some countries just take over some social networking sites. Like Orkut in Brazil and FriendFeed in Turkey. - Gabe

I love Bret's Turkish fan club! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

we are a veeeeeeery communicative nation, that is all:) and we love sharing:) - Neşe

ah bi de konuşsan neler söyleyecen ama, tek laf yok. teşekkürler de Alah razı olsun de, milletçe bir tepki koyduk mu facebook geri satar valla.... - Serbay Arda Ayzit

FYI and as a side-note to my earlier comment about translation; gmail offered to translate Serbay's recent comment as it came through my email notifications... here's the turkish > english translation: "What you talking ah bi de söyleyecen, but not a single word. Thank you also get consent Alah, the nation do we put a response back to facebook sells valla ...." --- i'm guessing there's... more... - Chris Heath

:D I really don't know what to say (: - mcd

@chris :) please do not use google translate, it makes a horrifying translation, probably because the Turkish syntax is very different than English. Yet, it is very true that there was a lot of slang in Serbay's comment, no translator algorhythm would solve:) he simply was commenting on the fact that Bret did not really say anything about or commented on the situation, he just presented it:) apperantly serbay was expecting a thank at least, on behalf of Turkey:) - Neşe

Bret, come visit turkey and we will show you the best food around :) and also you might find some really good tech startups. ps. did you know every startup in turkey has a belly dancer ? it help keeping the spirits up :) - denizoktar

@gabe zoruna mı gitti - Emre Savaş

Neşe, thanks for the summary. And I did notice the poor quality of the translation, and that is part of why I posted it. I just found it cool that the option was right there in my email. Google noticed that the language was not english, realized that it was turkish, and then offered to translate it for me all in one simple click. With these types of features and capabilities that we... more... - Chris Heath

Today at lunch at Facebook, a good friend reconfirmed Turkey is still in top 10 countries globally for Facebook - Aydin Senkut

Turkey is the biggest user of FriendFeed on the planet ;) - Orlando Pozo

Onur, interesting. - Orlando Pozo

turkey is huge for us too.. but.. the female to male ratio from turkey is like 1/100 :( through turkish men seem quite motivated, using translators to talk in any language - t toring

the issue though is that turkish women participate WAY less resulting in an imbalance. i havent run the numbers but i can safely assume 95% of the turkish traffic is male. is this typical? - t toring

umm... well no because browsing around clearly the turkish men are not engaging with other males but women from other countries. when i say "assume" i mean without running reports.. simply browsing around.. so its not really an assumption. just like when u walk into a bar you can tell whether its frequented by a particular kind of people, you dont need to actually do a count or survey - t toring

Remember Google's mission? To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Facebook deliberately keeps lots of information away from Google. Users can't make their profile information searchable - even if they want to. Facebook is not playing on Google's side. - Tim Tyler

This is no surprise. Google's goal is to get you off Google's site and to where the information lives. - Piaw Na

Congratulations! :) - JA Castillo

They absolutely do :) - Aydin Senkut from email

Congratulations! I imagine you got to watch a recorded "welcome" video message from President Obama. I became a US citizen in 2007, so I was welcomed by GWB :) - Tudor Bosman

Woohoo! Well done1 - Ross

Congratulations! My day was April 21, 1999. A big event for me. - Dimitrios Diamantaras

Aww congrats!!! I've spoken to people who after NINE years are still working on becoming citizens - Becca

Becca: it took me 9 1/4 years from the time I first set foot on US soil (as a student on a F-1 visa) until I got my US citizenship. It was a long process but not very difficult in my case: work visa (H-1B) after I graduated and got a job offer from Oracle, then they applied for my green card (thankfully before 9/11). Once I got my permanent residency (green card), all I had to do was wait for 5 years (the law requires you to be a permanent resident for 5 years before being eligible for citizenship). - Tudor Bosman from email

Thanks ! I waited 10 years from my eligibility, 19 years from my first entry to the US :) It really was special A - Aydin Senkut from email

And what would happen if you were a member of the communist party? - Paul Grav

If your a communist... you disappear - Steve Sill

Congrats, Aydin! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Congratulations! - Spidra Webster

congrads, dont let it ruin your heart, :) - chaz2b

Congrats! - Matt Cutts

Welcome to the madhouse. - SteVe C

Congratulations! Now please choose a side and start screaming. <Kidding... Mostly.> - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Congratulations! That is great. My father's best friend was naturalized 10 years ago. He is originally from Wales. - Nile Flores

Congratulations! - Ruchira S. Datta

congtats! did that myself few years ago. - Vadim Zaliva

Mazel Tov! Becoming a citizen is a great thing to be. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

congrats, great job - Tweet Feeds

Congratulations! I wonder if you could write long blog post how did you do it :) - Ihar Mahaniok

Congratulations, that is just awesome! - (dot)lizard kelly

congrats your profile pic seem to sync with the moment - testbeta

Congratulations, enjoy the freedom! - N.G. Gordon - RadarSync

Congratulation, welcome to a wonderful if slightly nutty and disorganized country - Kim Landwehr

Congrats Aydin! We're bad-ass. - Arawak

congratulations! - Trish Haley

aw...congrats... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Congratulations!! - April Buchheit

Congrats Aydin, welcome to this world Henry! - Ilan Abehassera

Is there any hospital that doesn't use that little hat? - Gabe

Congratulations! - Simon

Allah Anali Babali Büyütsün - Handem

Congratulations! - Mustafa K. Isik

He's very cute, congrats on the addition to your family. - Derrick

Huge news. - Paul Buchheit

lonut...your comment dont make sense? - Rob Sellen :o)

omid is iranian :) - Mil∂d

In other news, reporters have stopped researching anything. From http://www.google.com/intl... "Omid Kordestani has decided to hand over the reins to Nikesh Arora, currently President of International Operations, and take on a new role as Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO and Founders. Continued growth is essential to our future success and no one is better placed to advise on new revenue opportunities than Omid, the business founder of Google." - EricaJoy

Yeah, "leaves" is the wrong word, but it sounds a lot like partial retirement at the very least. - Paul Buchheit

I'm not quite sure that counts as "leaving Google." - EricaJoy

Erica, don't forget that big moves like this are sometimes done slowly. That may not be the case here, but it might be. - Paul Buchheit

wow, that is news! - Moushumi Kabir

Current re-orgs were all pointing in this direction as all new promotions were dotted line reporting to Nikesh - still it's sad to see this change, I remember [a decade ago] when I received my Google offer from Omid, and he's been an amazing role model for all those years... - Aydin Senkut

Still, the headline makes approximately zero sense. If Omid does leave someday (which would of course be very unfortunate), then that headline would be appropriate, but as it is it's just wrong. - Joel Webber

Omid is actually turning into an alien zombie werewolf. Note: big changes like this are sometimes done slowly. That may not be the case here, but it might be. - Jim Norris

Yah, they updated the story after I posted this: "Google spokesperson just emailed to let us know that Omid is staying on with the company in a full time capacity and is still on company’s operating committee." - Bret Taylor

When I first saw Nikesh Arora speak at our sales conference a few years ago, my co-worker and I turned to each other and said: "This guy is the next Omid." - Ginger Makela Riker

Little known: Omid studied electrical engineering, and wrote Fortran code on punch cards in his early days. - Amit Patel

Big change, interesting move - still laughing over Jim Norris' comment ;o) - Susan Beebe

Omid is great, but honestly I think he'll be better for Google in a more strategic role. Nikesh is a master tactician. - Daniel Dulitz