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Robert Scoble

At friendfeed watching my friends' feeds (photo): - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

March 4, 2009 from Robert Scoble - Comment - Like - Share

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Now I am at EyeFi. Cool stuff. Wifi from your camera. - Robert Scoble

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Stop by when you're done at EyeFi. - Paul Buchheit

EyeFi is a killer idea - andy brudtkuhl

Ask when eye-fi APIs are coming out (client and server) - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Nice. Now we're talking. Much better than that Facebook stuff. - Thomas Hawk

#nostalgia - Bruce Lewis

Bret Taylor

Turkey: The land that embraced Facebook, FriendFeed and startups - http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010...

January 23, 2010 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Cansu ÖZYILMAZ, muhammet çakır, Caglar Cokcetin and 174 other people liked this

While the Alexa numbers are not accurate in absolute terms, it is true that Turkey is now officially the largest source of traffic for FriendFeed by all metrics (unique users and page views) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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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. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

leave friendfeed alone!!!! - sera aktüre

Dear Bret, I couldn't get my pay check this month. Is there a problem or something else? Looking forward to hear from ya. Love, another turkish user keeps INTERNETS alive. - Bahriye

#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 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

Indeed, that's sad. Turkey has one of the greatest social web consumer market in the world, and still we got no producers, and no products. Just consuming, and that sucks. Turks always cheer up when they are in some top 10 list, but that doesn't change the fact we are still far away from building a FriendFeed-like site. I don't mean we are just consumer idiots, there are brilliant... more... - deerstep

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

Well, half of the population in Turkey is under 25 years, so yes... Turkish men is quite motivated :) Since Mahir, Internet is the most convenient method to find a partner in Turkey :D - deerstep

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

No, it is not typical. I guess the ratio is almost 50/50. You can safely assume that you were heading to a gay bar :) - deerstep

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

In touristic places that's probably typical in any country: Local people engage with people from other countries, but in general... don't think so. Maybe you should spend some 2-3 months in Istanbul if you want to understand how Turkish men engage. - deerstep

Onur i think you misunderstood.. i am talking about the traffic on a site i run.. - t toring

Onur seems quite motivated to convince you ahah - Fikret

Toring, ah I see, but it is not typical even on a web-site. For example, Turkish User profile on FriendFeed is quite different from what you assume. And Turkish users on Myspace are quite different than here, and it goes ... From your assumptions I can tell, you are running a dating site which is popular among Turkish men, but not women. - deerstep

well, most of turkish ff users are not able to reach to friendfeed from this afternoon bret :) we do not know the reason yet, but i can tell it is an isp related problem. we (i) use tunnels or ultrasurf kinda patchs to reach friendfeed atm. - Bahriye

Peter Fenton

It amuses me to no end when the press says "market down on heavy selling". There is no heavy selling without heavy buying!!!

February 4, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Me too. Yet there's something to it. Often when a security drops in value it's because volume of *new* sell orders was greater than the volume of *new* buy orders. The difference was made up by buyers already willing to buy, either existing limit orders or market makers, or by opportunistic buying attracted by the lower price. The sellers were the more proactive. - Ethan Herdrick

Bret Taylor

I am looking forward to playing board games on the iPad while travelling with Karen. This is the first device I can really picture two people using at the same time, which seems like an opportunity for some truly new types of software.

January 28, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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With mice and keyboard, two people at the same time on the same device doesn't really work well. Touch screen seems like a really cool opportunity. - Bret Taylor

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I always wanted something we could use for a board game on an airplane in particular. - Bret Taylor

Oh yes. Great idea - Johnny from iPhone

oh! 2 player touch screen air hockey!! - Nathalie

I thought to myself I could have used this when I would play chess with my little brother, and he would get mad and sweep the pieces off the board. I figured it'd be pretty difficult to do that with an iPad. Then I realized what he could have done to the iPad... - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Yeah - I keep thinking of how popular this is going to be on road trips with the family - Jesse Stay

Taking turns. Like handing a crossword puzzle or magazine back and forth. Plus a swipe for changing posting accounts. - Hayes Haugen

Does this mean you're getting one? - Shannon Jiménez

Shannon: yep, definitely getting one. If for no other reason than to write a couple apps for it. - Bret Taylor

Bret, same thought here - I can think of some uses, but as a developer I want a new toy to play with and innovate with :-) - Jesse Stay

Cool-- that means I get to play with it :) - Shannon Jiménez

Is it just me or does that still seem a bit small for two people to have their hands on at once? - Richard Lawler

You know. I totally missed this use case. I don't play board games enough, so this would be great for me. - Roberto Bonini

I don't know who the makers are of touch-screen tablets that already do this, but I've seen one in action: http://ourdoings.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

Chess, checkers, go, Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, chinese checkers... and I think it will also be a great platform for war games. - Brome

So do i brome. BRING ON RISK - Roberto Bonini

So instead of iPhone Mega, it's Surface Mini? - ⓞnor from Android

^LOL - LANjackal

You're going to drive that accelerometer nuts with two people, you know that don't you? :) - JCunwired

SMART idea - that's why I like you - out of the box - excellent eye for various use cases - neat! The iPad has a lot of potential. I have been wanting what I call an iCouch tablet for web viewing, this i really great. I can't wait till i get one! - Susan Beebe

Nathalie, air hockey was my first thought when they said it worked with two people. That would be cool. - Todd Hoff

Wow that's true- I didn't really get the iPad until I thought of 2-player games. Now to develop Catan for the iPad. - anna sauce

Will be awesome for board games. - Scott Cederberg

Todd and Nathalie, an air-hockey type game (maybe more like Pong) is what people are playing in the photo I linked to in my previous comment. I sympathize with whoever the manufacturer is, in that the perception is that it doesn't exist until Apple ships it. - Bruce Lewis

Hey I want an I pad, but they said the 3g version isn't available till April, mmmm. How can I get one sooner??? - amelia arapoff

I have to admit it's a wee bit more portable than Microsoft's Big Ass Table™ - Richard Walker

Never thought of this possibility. For the first time I can begin to see myself possibly even buying one - assuming the software is there to make it worthwhile. - Andrew Perry

Share option of friend-feed cost me a call from my wife yelling at me "who the hell is this Karen you are playing with on the train to work? I am gonna kill you both!" She simply saw it on my facebook feed never realized it is a FW. (http://friendfeed.com/tzury...) LOL - Tzury Bar Yochay

not sure about this, the form factor may still be too small to be comfortable for two players simultaneously looking at it, or touching it. Now with blue tooth connexion between two iPads, I would see lots of opportunities for boardgames, including games where each player need to keep some information secret (his hand of cards usually). - Antoine Bertier

Hmm nice idea. Checkers, Domino, Backgammon would be all excellent - Özkan Altuner

I just downloaded SDK and am working with another programmer on the Catan version. Bret you inspired me! - anna sauce

Yay for social devices! - Адский Блондин

Anna, you know there's already a Catan for iPhone, right? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009... - Ken Gidley

So.. you wanna buy a improved GAMEBOY oh geez. - Bahriye

but he will HAS a TOUCH SCREEN that 2 people can touch at the same time! - İyi Aile Çocuğu

Thanks Jason- I'm very excited about it! - anna sauce

Ken- yeah - anna sauce

board game app ---> http://www.gametableapp.com - Ryan C

Exactly. I am foreseeing to see FarmVille on that! - Sarath

τorƍue

Taj Mahal: Largest LEGO Set Ever Created - Geekologie - http://www.geekologie.com/2008...

September 1, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Michelle Jones, Aydin Senkut, Pandu ● IT Optimizer and 2 other people liked this

Dwarfing even the 5,195 piece Millennium Falcon, comes LEGO's newest, and largest, set ever: The Taj Mahal. Weighing in at 5,922 pieces, the $300 set ships mid September. But the thing that gets me is that it's only 20" wide and 16" tall. That's not very big. - τorƍue from Bookmarklet

Paul Buchheit

Tweeting :)

August 13, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Cy6erBr4in, Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど, gmarketer and 242 other people liked this

via http://www.reddit.com/r... - Paul Buchheit

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Funny! - Robert Scoble

too true - James Miao

Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-) - Robert Scoble

A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse. - Christopher Galtenberg

Heh - Charlie Anzman

Hey! I resemble that remark! - Chris Messina

funny and true :) - Ali

Very clever. - Nicholas Kreidberg

LOL - Steve Chou from fftogo

apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing - Katy Barrilleaux

I love that!! :D - Susan Beebe from iPhone

ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos - Steven J. Ram

LOL :D - zsafwan 

That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)! - Chris Myles

Go Chris! - Charlie Anzman

Haha! I have this on my facebook :) - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Awesome! - Ladyepiphanybug

Haha! - muratt

ahahha! brilliant - Jacque

That's about right. - Josh Haley

thats funny lol.. where did u find it - Nicholas Skinner

that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :) - Peter Renshaw

I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/ - agent x

agent x, I like you. Bookmarked. - Dennis Jernberg

Bret Taylor

This was the alternative photo for the blog post. I think it is awesome, but I was in the minority :)

August 10, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Şenay Şen, TheHenry, MG Siegler and 60 other people liked this

I like how Jeanette is FriendFeed. :) - EricaJoy

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wow where is my comment!! - abdellah

I have to say... very cool picture ... that is funny. - Marika Dye

abdellah: no homophobic comments on my posts. I delete them. - Bret Taylor

oh god!! it wasn't homophobic - abdellah

@abdellah It seemed that way. - EricaJoy

I think abdellah's original comment was asking why the couple WASN'T same-sex. - Brian Chang

so please take note of the following, first it wasn't intended to be homophobic I was just to make a point that not all couple are hetero, second point accusing my comment beeing homophobic without refrefing to me in dm or something else is abusive. - abdellah

can't we all just get along - Gabe Diaz

@brian you get it, but what can I say, I think that some jump to earlier to conclusion, @bret hope that as you deleted my comment you will edit or delete your owns refering to me as some one who make homophob comment thank you. - abdellah

Hide. Its a stupid effin pic anyway. - JCunwired

haha, cute picture!! it's complicated! - Susan Beebe

misunderstanding much? - Rah-PM 2012

I agree, it is awesome! (not biased, whatsoever) - Jeanette Bosman

@Erica!! really all what I saay was "why the pic wasn't a pic of a homo couple a man and man) damn FF is too masculin to be shown as women that all, for me there is nothing homophob in my sentence, but accusing me beeing homophob is really sad. but now I have to ask a question is it homophob to replace the pic above by a pic showing a homo couple, this is really sad, for me it is the... more... - abdellah

abdellah, if you don't mind my asking, is English your first language? I think part of what may have caused the misunderstanding is that, at least in the parts of the United States where I have lived, the term "homo" is almost always used in a derogatory sense. - Brian Chang

ha ok, yes english is my 2 language, homo is a french terms= gay, there is nothing degratory in saying homosexual. - abdellah

Told you it was a misunderstanding...LOL - Rah-PM 2012

awesome bret! luv it! - Jason Pollock

I've been dying for FB to drink some of the FF cool aid!! Let's hope the integration or technology transfer goes smoothly. Can't wait to see what comes out of it. I think it is a testament to the FB team that they saw and appreciated the same power off FF we all did. - Phil Ashman

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

August 10, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Boom. - Louis Gray

Grr! - directeur

Woah... - Brandon Titus

Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes

Lame. - Mark Trapp

great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler

WOW - Bindu Reddy

Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand

wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna

maaaan - Jamie

wowow - Harry Wolff

congrats - brainno722 (Peter)

Nooooooooooooo - Mushin

Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson

Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladyepiphanybug

Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother

oh boy. - Carlos Ayala

it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly #ravingfangirl

OMG - deerstep

"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - S of 2C

gratz - Ali

My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key

Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus

O_o - Joe The Sausage

So it IS true. - Hector

Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove

Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes

Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett

Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker

Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat

Um. - Barry Mitchelson

Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta

Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key

Oh no.... - Ben Hanten

What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod

damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez

*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe The Sausage

FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye

Die. - zio bonino

Congrats - Zoltan Szendro

I dont want FF to end - Fee501st

Wow - Shevonne

Ostregheta. - reloj

Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter

Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL

I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell

"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key

Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor

This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister

Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto

Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase

Wow - Rodfather

*Sobs* - Tyson Key

wow - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez

machecazzo - Sba (stolto birrafondaio)

VERY disappointed. - Joe The Sausage

Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp

Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent

God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls

arg. - Aron Michalski

Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti

Congrats! - Lix

Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten

Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key

Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir

Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol

Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego

mommy? - Josh Haley

Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector

yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye

Tragic. - Shannon

I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff

congrats! - Jay from Cadmus

Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - zio bonino

Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta

Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes

i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe The Sausage

Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen

Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st

FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi

Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva

Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien

I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key

i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile

Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn

It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key

Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener

seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe The Sausage

I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson

duh - aybars badur

I HATE facebook - Pedram

this is simply awful. - Joe The Sausage

Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key

Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell

Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi

To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir

Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan

Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal

I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - SteVe C

I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay 'Farmington'

Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill

+1 Gregor - Tyson Key

accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye

I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls

/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen

And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian

omg - John Mueller

@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe The Sausage

I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman

Such great news! - Steve Rubel

OMG! - Zac Bowling

big mistake :(( - emresezgin

I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison

Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod

Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key

It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le

Congrats to you. - Evan Travers

Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw

FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes

damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay

not good. - Jacque

Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti

Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - dgw

"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key

Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito

sad... - Marvin

This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch

aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger

please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter

They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days

I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

D: - Chris Charabaruk

+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman

Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva

Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle

Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod

I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini

"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda

What a bunch of greedy assholes. - zio bonino

So ? - Ercan Bülbül

Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key

:( - Pavlo Zahozhenko

Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller

I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray

I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash

Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta

Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase

chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda

Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge

happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio

congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett

I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key

I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp

NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan

Game over. - stark

yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye

Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos

Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim

yeahhh - Çağrı Burak

NO - Cristian Conti

I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir

What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key

If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah

I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor

I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod

Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - zio bonino

Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes

I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Vicarbott

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - zio bonino

Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak

I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - sunipeyk

Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM

Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent

I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton

Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key

#FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL - Jacque

Congratulations! - John Craft

can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal Y.

It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman

Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah

I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton

Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter

I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur

My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski

AAAAwwwful! - carolh

I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃

"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque

Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas

damn, damn, damn... - Kemal Y.

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - JCunwired

Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen

wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia

I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - axolote

Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina

This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch

чатег номер два - старина хэнк

Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock

That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - ˈpɛbə

Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty

#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark

I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - sunipeyk

Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye

OMG! - keso

To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton

Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker

Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman

Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - Kemal Y.

This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton

this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate

While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun

I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray

FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun

Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff

Big Fail! - OnuRC

This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams

wtf ?! - Umut Balkan

I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole

http://ff.im/6pQcu - Bahriye

FFail. - rowlikeagirl

I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone

JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Wow! - felix

Jeremy +1 - batuhan

so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio

It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner

My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg

furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio

I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM

I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - Ashish

integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal Y.

niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM

Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson

first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM

As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio

Congratulations! - Sam Grover

rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM

if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio

I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone

read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009... - Kemal Y.

I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM

I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun

Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni

trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM

This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy

I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM

Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue

lame. - andy brudtkuhl

post the picture to failblog... - Kemal Y.

Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen

+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM

techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM

Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler

Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher

I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance

Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM

Drat! - Gee Ekachai

congrats guys! - Elad

Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang

/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM

Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key

If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - JCunwired

@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio

@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio

Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler

Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - DanDan

Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather

Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker

Add me to the fearful group. - beersage

Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key

"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan

Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves

Congrat Bret - Nimaa

Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - Count Caturday

Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R

:( - goodmachine

FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton

hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh

Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton

Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cass

Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw

aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman

Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Iphigenie

:( - Eph Zero

Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk

♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design

Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard

It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - count

Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen

Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi

The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - JCunwired

friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi

Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I don't like this.... - Zekeriya Pehlivan

"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key

If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma

and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM

Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris

WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus

doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.

Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds

Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger

So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos

Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik

*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon

:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento

Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas

What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr

Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr

I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert

It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr

Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit

Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera

I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun

Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura

I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley

Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon

if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen

The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli

Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen

Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli

i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe

Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan

Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu

RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan

Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - miocaro

Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn

Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na

*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry

Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot

Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark J

Все, блядь, пиздец! - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis

Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood

Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM

Sadness - yasin

Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7

Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate

shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM

Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey

So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church

This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali

cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM

Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko

congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff

Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey

I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - Friendfeed's Francisco

Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM

Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins

congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist

boo. - kelly

The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg

Boo - Amit Morson

Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale

Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou

Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu

Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab

Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra

I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM

judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly

Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - ''Ignobile''

Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena

Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick

I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel

обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ

Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai

Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone

I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio

I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg

How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key

Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power

:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas

congrats! - Ronald

thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram

Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner

Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner

Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali

Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali

good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader

I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen

I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr

@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah

Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler

sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke

Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce

bad bad bad - kakilang

bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland

Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis

I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore

Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton

NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - The Real sofarsoShawn

Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover

Friendfeed is not as huge as Facebook but you're doing such terrible work on it. Friendfeed is facing so many many problems these days though facebook doesn't seem to have one. Why? - Sing For Absolution

+ - حُسین‍‌ آفلاینـ

Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu to Özer's feed, Fotograf, ART ROOMََََ, Photography as Art, Photography United, Persian Cam

80 Stunning Examples Of Macro Photography - http://www.instantshift.com/2009...

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Ok it's official FriendFeed and Facebook are buddies now :)

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Paul and Mark just became "friends" on facebook - awesome to watch this unfold :) - Susan Beebe

Paul Buchheit

Search teams find Air France bodies - http://english.aljazeera.net/news...

June 7, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"French accident investigators said the cockpit instruments were receiving conflicting speed data at the time of the incident. Air France said on Saturday that it had accelerated existing plans to replace airspeed-monitoring units in its jets. The airline said it began noticing "incidents of loss of airspeed information during cruise flight" on its twin-engine A330s and four-engine A340s in May last year. It said it informed Airbus of the problem. The device in question is the Pitot probe, usually on the leading edge of a wing, which measures the force of the air through which an aircraft passes. Dominique Bussereau, France's transport minister, said it was too early for investigators to identify the most likely cause of the crash, but confirmed that Airbus jets had experienced problems with speed monitors. "Too low a speed can cause the plane to stall, or too high a speed can lead to it ripping up as it approached the speed of sound, as the outer skin is not designed to resist such speed," he said." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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So tragic! - April Buchheit

I always thought it was a Pinot (like the wine) tube, not a Pitot tube. Here is the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Clare Dibble

:( - AJ Batac :)

This is wrong: "France's transport minister ... confirmed that Airbus jets had experienced problems with speed monitors." Regardless of the cause of accidents, problems on COMMERCIALS JETS should not be left unresolved for over a year! That is irresponsible and unacceptable. Scary. - Christopher Chung

Louis Gray

Bing vs Google vs Yahoo: the Blind search engine test - http://www.istartedsomething.com/2009060...

June 7, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Weird. According to the twelve tests I just ran it seems I should be using Yahoo for best results and that's actually the one I'm least inclined to use. - Mark H

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Here's the test I did between Bing and Google. Bing is absolutely horrid: http://friendfeed.com/jamespo... - James Poling

So far, I've picked Google a little more than the others, but not by much. - Louis Gray

Current results: "Google: 46%, Bing: 34%, Yahoo: 20% | 6905 votes" but I worry a little bit about self-selection bias--a MSFT employee (Michael Kordahi) did this, so some of those votes are perhaps a little more likely to be MSFT employees. Barry Schwartz did a similar comparison a while ago, but the comparison had more granularity because people could rate search results from 1 (bleah) to 5 (really relevant). Here's more info: http://www.rustybrick.com/rustyse... - Matt Cutts

"more granularity because people could rate search results from 1 (bleah) to 5 (really relevant)." Not sure that makes a big difference, with enough votes you still get 1st, 2nd and 3rd positions, including granular percentages (and you may accumulate votes faster this way as less thinking is required). Of course if you're looking for data on how often a search engine REALLY screws up, this method may not work well. - Philipp Lenssen

"a MSFT employee (Michael Kordahi) did this" Didn't know this, added an update at Blogoscoped. "so some of those votes are perhaps a little more likely to be MSFT employees" Why? (Not that I'm doubting it, but it's a blind test so you can't just vote for Bing results, unless perhaps you hack the thing...) - Philipp Lenssen

Philipp, the nice thing is that with Rusty's poll, he provided a downloadable spreadsheet afterwards. For each row, I think he had the query, the result, and the relevance rating (1..5). That's much easier to dig into. Philipp, MSFT employees have been using Kumo/Bing for the last few months, so my guess is that they're more likely to prefer Kumo/Bing results. The fact I first saw it on... more... - Matt Cutts

Matt: "MSFT employees have been using Kumo/Bing for the last few months, so my guess is that they're more likely to prefer Kumo/Bing results." But why, considering it's a blind test? (I have some guesses as to why but I'd like to hear your opinion.) And by that reasoning would you also say that everone who's been using Google for the last few months and beyond is, for that reason, more likely to prefer Google results, even in a blind test which does not show the logo? - Philipp Lenssen

Yahoo went from 20% to 35% in just a couple hours and continues to rise. Seems like a large coincidence, but who knows? :) That's the problem with this sort of self-selecting poll; you're not sure about the demographics of who is voting. - Matt Cutts

Yup, Yahoo went from 20% to 40% in ~2-3 hours. I believe this poll has been astroturfed. :) Did someone invite 4chan into the party or something? - Matt Cutts

The app doesn't use any captchas so maybe it's abusable (not that captchas would stop 4chan, as we saw with the Time poll!). - Philipp Lenssen

Yahoo jumped from 40% to 44% in the past few minutes... - Simon

Yahoo went from 35% to 42% in 20 minutes. I have a hard time believing that's organic. Ooh, now it's at 46%! Whee! :) - Matt Cutts

Funny thing is, I could tell which one was google simply by the results. It was hard to find a search that I couldn't tell which one was google. I'd like to see the experiment replay with bogus headers half the time and blind the other half. It was suggested in a test (I think maybe Louis wrote about it?) that if google's name was placed on search results, they would prefer those, not matter whose search results they were. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Kevin Fox

Cultural differences between the US and the UK

May 10, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight. - Kishore Balakrishnan

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Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ? - Kishore Balakrishnan

Classic... - Rob Kramer

That says it all - Darrell Bell

So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!" - April Buchheit

@April... +100 - Harold from fftogo

+++April - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it? - Hiro Asari

You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them - Ryan Gerritsen

What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean? - Gabe

Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones. - Tim Tyler

World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?! - Benoit Cazenave

"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland - tomavana

I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it. - thepete

thepete: passed or failed? - Gabe

that was really great kevin :) - Alp

Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list? - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

Hilarious! - Vera Hannaford

crushingly depressing. ugh. - daisy

as a dual national US/UK, I can safely say I'm glad to live here. - wannagot from twhirl

World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that? - ialla

Hehe - WoH: Minding her Steves

Excellent catch! :) - Özkan Altuner

The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :) - Ian

sad, but funny - Rick Cogley

Proud to be an American! LOL - Susan Beebe

Don't need no stinkin' facts... - The original Kevin

But it's got a red button! - Brian Bufalo

One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :) - Richard Walker

well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars - Richard Akerman

wavesand liked this.... - 拓 | wavesand from email

My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't. - Hookuh Tinypants

Lol Amanda - AJ Batac :)

To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise. - Hookuh Tinypants

I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants. - Stephen Mack

got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness - Lane Rapp

Eric Eldon

@owenthomas using twitter to discuss dotcom bubble matters... prepare to have your tweets tipped to gawker in, oh, just a week or two now.

May 11, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Bret Taylor

Omid Kordestani leaves Google (edit: Omid is leaving his role to be an advisor) - http://gigaom.com/2009...

April 16, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Wow, this is surprising. Omid has been at Google forever. - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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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

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Robert Scoble

Hanging out at Qik where they are about to announce some new stuff and saw this slogan: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

April 13, 2009 from Robert Scoble - Comment - Like - Share

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What could it mean? - Steven (optionshiftk)

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You will see at http://www.qik.com/qiknews at around 5 pm. - Robert Scoble

Can't hear the volume - what are they announcing? - Jesse Stay

Maybe qik app for the iPhone! - TheHenry

Okay, may help if I turn off the mute button, but still not getting much of a signal. Qik announcement FAIL? - Jesse Stay

Robert, if that's you behind the camera, your laughing is deafening. Anyway, the quality on Qik isn't that great. They should've broadcasted it on Ustream ;) - Michael Forian

You would think that Qik themselves could get the stream right for their own PR announcement. - Steven (optionshiftk)

Henry, there is already a Qik app for the iPhone. You need to get a special invite to use it. Apple will not approve it, it does some voodoo to get video out of the iPhone camera. I expect the app to be approved when the new rumored iPhone comes out. - Steven (optionshiftk)

I helped beta test their original iPhone app and they won't even give me access to the final version. I'm a little ticked, honestly. I was a huge supporter of theirs until they started giving preference to the really big guys. - Jesse Stay

It is now up on Techcrunch too. - Robert Scoble

iPhone app. Please! Please! Come on. - David Parry

@Steven: I agree! What are they getting at with "..not broke?" - David Moore

Kyte ftw! - .LAG liked that

"Go for Broke" ? - DGentry

Maybe it means you can soon use the Qik for iPhone without Jailbreaking your phone. I currently have qik on my iphone and was one of the reasons for me jailbreaking it. - Paul Wade

The roaming data rates are still not competitive in Germany. You can get a pre-paid SIM (www.simyo.de) and use 3G at just $0.32/MB (or $0.032/100 KB). The rates quoted for Germany are $0.47-$2.56/100 KB, and most other countries are at that same $2.56 level. Over 100x higher than rates they are able to provide in Germany! So when will the other providers finally realize that lower prices can enable customers to use mobile data services? - Nils Sandin

Paul: nope Qik is not going to be available on iPhone until version 3 comes out. - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert, I haven't done my research, but will Qik be on the Palm Pre? - Bwana ☠

Bwana, not sure Palm Pre will have video capability at first release. - JCunwired

Loic Le Meur

"By the late 2020s, nanobots in our brain will create full-immersion virtual-reality from within the nervous system" http://digg.com/d1oVwo

April 13, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Arrington, Seqway, Calacanis, Crunchpad -- all in one photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

April 12, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

The knees belong to Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan, founder and CEO of http://fusiongarage.com -- which is doing the engineering work on the CrunchPad, the Tablet PCs that TechCrunch is making. Mike Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, is Twittering while riding his new Segway. Calacanis is Twittering too. The rest of the office is trying to get some work done. By the way, I met my wife in this office 10 years ago when I helped interview her for a job. The office also is where Doc Searls had his marketing company (the beginnings of Cluetrain Manifesto came from here). - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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haha. nice one Scoble. This pic should go to an art museum or something for the future people to see what was it like in 2009 - Nikos Kouremenos

Is it just me, or can you attach a keyboard + mouse to the CrunchPad (if this has been openly pointed out before, my apologies). - Michael Forian

Wow ... Hallowed ground, indeed! - Prosemonkey

Gob. - dpurrington from BuddyFeed

Maryam and I worked right about where Heather is standing. By the way, this used to be Palo Alto's Mortuary. Off to find info about that. Bummer, not much info about this office is online. - Robert Scoble

Didn't he say he'd kick your ass if you showed any Crunchpad pics? I got your back though, no worries. Btw, he's totally fug. - The Real sofarsoShawn

Slightly off topic: Using a Cannon 5D mark II in a well lit room? Almost seems like a waste. Sometime when you are in the northwest we need to go see a band play at one of the dark dive clubs I take photos in. I want to see how it works in that situation. - MarkCarras

Mark: yeah, shooting at 6400 ISO too. It is an awesome camera. Used my 24 mm F2.8 prime lens. - Robert Scoble

If only Scoble was in the pic that would be the nerdiest photo ever. - Jonathan Coffman

sofaroshawn: I'm not too worried about Mike. Anyway, me thinks he really wanted the PR for the CrunchPad. :-) - Robert Scoble

Just now realizing that I live almost next door to the new techcrunch office. pretty sweet place! - Blake

Scoble: What is this colorful display on the table? - Rafael

Rafael: those are the prototypes of the CrunchPad. - Robert Scoble

Yeah, this office is on Lytton in Palo Alto at the corner of Ramona. - Robert Scoble

Uhm, thanks! Beautiful and attractive. - Rafael

I saw the CrunchPad when I was there that morning as well and was sworn not to mention/blog about it. But it looks like that didn't last long! :) - Louis Gray

Dave McClure was first to post images from that day, so you guys are probably all just fine. :-) I don't think it's much of a secret any more. - Jesse Stay

Intel Atom, you say... wish'em luck - they will need it... - A. T.

Louis: I didn't agree to any embargo. And, anyway, it's TechCrunch. You know, those guys who don't agree to embargoes anyway! And I only posted this after Calacanis posted his own pictures. So there. :-) - Robert Scoble

Are you guys seriously worrying about breaking a TECHCRUNCH embargo? Techcrunch doesn't seem too worried about embargos on their blogs. - Jim Connolly

Awesome, Mike reminds me of Job on Arrested Development. Does he have his title stitched on the front of the bag? - Ryan

Kevin Fox

People choose boring colors for cars - http://www.carlist.com/blog...

April 11, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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And auto makers too often only offer boring colors for cars. It's a chicken and the egg problem, but is a big problem as I want to get a factory paint job in a striking color. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

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My car is a luxury (Acura RL) colored white, with a gray trim. Take THAT, conformity! - Mike Nayyar

Boring colors stand the test of time for those who keep their cars longer, avoids getting sucked into what's fashionable this year but dated-looking next year. White and black are hard to keep looking clean, thus silver and gray tend to dominate. It's like "relocation beige" carpeting in a house. - Tinfoil 2.0

I have wanted a copper orange car badly for the last 4 years! *sighs* - Rachel Lea Fox

one of my favorite weird colors for a car is burnt orange, like the 40th anniversary lotus - http://twitpic.com/376pu - mjc

"The designers meet with three different paint houses, we go to fashion shows, we read magazines such as the Trend Union, a bi-annual trend forecasting book that shapes colors and lifestyles for seasons ahead." Wow, they read a *magazine*? That's advanced design methodology! - ⓞnor

If you've ever seen a big parking lot on Google Maps (or MS's Live Local or whatever they call it), you've seen how boring car colours are. Though in fairness, those photos might not be as saturated as real life. - Andrew C (✓)

Anyways, it's a shame. - Andrew C (✓)

I am so tired of seeing mostly white, black, silver, gray, and gold cars on the road. So boring. - Anne Bouey

Yet another reason I like my green Mini :) - Joel Webber

I'm only half boring, with a red car. - Amit Patel

I like silver, so bite my shiny metal ass. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

I used to have a funky colored beetle five years back.. before it finally aged out - Sardar Mohkim Khan

its 2009 when it the changeable paint going to arrive? Click a button your car is orange. Tire of orange? Switch to green. Then blue. Formal event, Black sounds good. - gfurry

love any color as long as it's black - Carlo B. (Brodo)

Rachel - the Chevy HHR makes orange. I'd guess it's not very popular since 99% of them seem to be owned by Avis. Rental car lots are great places to see some more experimental colors not often seen on the road. - Sarah Miller

Sarah - thanks!! This is actually the exact car I want: http://images.cars.com/main... Mazda 3 in burnt orange copper. They sold it as an anniversary edition about 4 years ago for one year only. According to salesmen, it is continually one of their more popular colors and if they get one in used they can't keep it very long. You would think they would learn from that and bring it back!!! But no, the 2010 colors are released and no orange. :( - Rachel Lea Fox

Ours is silver. Sometimes makes it hard to find in the parkinglot. - Lix

martin varsavsky

Engagement party in Marrakech pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/varsavs...

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Paul Buchheit

Sleeping like a baby...

April 12, 2009 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Why do I feel like this should have been followed by "...oh...wait..." - Rah-PM 2012

Eren Soydaş

İMK'dan yepyeni, fırından yeni çıkmış, sıcacık bir organizasyon daha. Laf Arası Kariyer (sevenleri onu LaKLaK diye çağırıyor), 14-15 Nisan'da İTÜ Maçka Kampüsü'nde!

March 30, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Programı yakında açıklıyoruz. Sıkıcı kariyer etkinliklerinden uzak, az katılımcısı olan ama daha eğlenceli, oyunlu, yönetimle ilgili çarpıcı belgeseller olan farklı bir kariyer deneyimi. Çeşitli alanlara dikkati çeken bir etkinlik olacak. İnternet sektöründen Secretcv.com'un katılması kesinleşti. İnovasyon grup çalışması olacak. KPMG geliyor, bazı firmalar kesinleşmedi, onları sonra açıklarız ;) - Eren Soydaş

Elinizden geldiğince katılmaya çalışın lütfen :) - Eren Soydaş

hunter walk

Disney, YouTube Announce Clips Deal For ESPN, Disney/ABC | paidContent.org - http://www.paidcontent.org/entry...

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Paul Buchheit

Tuesday afternoon and the apple store is packed. Amazing. Unfortunately the wait to see a 'genius' about my iphone is almost 3 hours, so I will be sticking with the android.

March 10, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Someone needs to get this message to Apple, seriously. If a store can't handle the load, build another one nearby or SOMEthing. :p - Josh Haley

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Agreed. They also need to fix the battery life problem. As of yesterday I've gone back to Blackberry for all of my primary communications as my iPhone was dying from low battery life every day by 7pm. Still keeping the iPhone with me because I'm an Apple guy at heart. But, looking forward to their next innovations in miniaturized battery awesomeness :) - Dave Morin

Apple stores are always over crowded at the genius bar. On the upside though they have free internet there and FriendFeed looks really cool on one of this gigantic monitors that you can just hop on and use while you wait. - Thomas Hawk

++ Josh, to Apple: handle the load please. ;p - Zu from AOD

+++ Take Amazon as customer service Benchmark, where they go so far as to improve processes of other vendors selling on Amazon network - or send their own trucks to suppliers to make sure popular items are always in stock... - Aydin Senkut

Well, Amazon doesn't offer local service counters where you can drop in and get help with your products. I suppose T-Mobile does, though I'm not sure how helpful they are. - ⓞnor

Paul, you need to hire a tech to handle all that stuff for you. :P - EricaJoy

What's wrong with making an appointment? I don't see the issue here - Bwana ☠

Making an appointment means planning ahead Bwana. I happened to be on University Ave so I decided to drop in and try to get my iphone fixed. More than anything though, I was just impressed at how many people were there. Apparently nobody told them about the depression :) - Paul Buchheit

You think it's not just unemployed folks killing time, Paul? - Ken Sheppardson

I also saw people outside loading computers into a car. Palo Alto is still its own world for the moment. - Paul Buchheit

Oh. - Bwana ☠

Yeah, you need to make an appointment you know? Duh? - The Real sofarsoShawn

Robert Scoble

Google's Schmidt: I Didn't Diss Twitter (GOOG) - http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-b...

March 5, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Eric still seems like he doesn't get what's going on here. That's very good news for Facebook who really is going to run away with the prize this year. - Robert Scoble

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Robert - agreed. Still glad you wrote the afterword for our book? :-) We've got a second edition in the works. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: yeah. Twitter is still very important. Competiton is good! Even if I think they are messing up in a lot of ways. - Robert Scoble

Either google has something big up their sleeve to counter twitter, or they are going the way of MS (as with search). I did like eric's view on regulating companies that are "too big" to fail. I wonder if that'll apply to google in the online mktg space? Hmmm - Shivanand Velmurugan

I believe Schmidt when he says he did not diss twitter because I think that he either understands it very well and are getting ready to crush twitter or does not understands it at all. Either way, not his fault. "Stay the course" :) - Antonio Altamirano

Atul Arora

FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: When Will Voters Blame Obama? - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009...

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50% of economists expect the recession to be over in six months? Does the start of a depression mark the end of a recession? - Paul Buchheit

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A cop watching COPS. http://twitpic.com/1uhy5

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New Facebook Homepage Coming VERY soon - preview here #fb http://www.facebook.com/login...

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Paul Buchheit

Case-Shiller: Bay Area Home Prices Plummet Again | Redfin San Francisco Sweet Digs - http://blog.redfin.com/sfbay...

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"According to the Case-Shiller index, as of December home prices in San Francisco have “rewound” nearly seven years. This is easily the furthest into the past that prices have gone in any of the eight cities Redfin serves." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Wonder if it's consistent across zip codes in SF - Aydin Senkut

and when I say San Francisco I mean all of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties. - j1m

I doubt it. They have another post with "discounts vs asking price", which doesn't tell you about decline in value, but is probably somehow correlated, and it shows a lot of variety (94123 is still selling above asking, for example). http://blog.redfin.com/sfbay... - Paul Buchheit

In Palo Alto I think prices are still going up... - Paul Buchheit

Paul: I seriously doubt that, especially since Facebook isn't providing a housing subsidy anymore. Anyway, every other area around Palo Alto has started to fall so Palo Alto will too soon, if it hasn't already. There are foreclosures in Palo Alto, too, and where those happen housing prices fall. - Robert Scoble

Facebook employees don't have enough money to buy a house in Palo Alto (at least not the ones who would care about a housing subsidy), so they shouldn't be affecting the market much. The problem with Palo Alto is that it's somewhat unique and there's a lot of unmet demand. - Paul Buchheit

I'm hoping for it to go down btw. If I ever find a nice lot at a good price, I'll probably buy it, which is why I keep my eye on the market there. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: too bad friendfeed is a bit too far from Half Moon Bay. There are a bunch of nice homes for sale here. Will keep a look out. Certainly there is a lot of Silicon Valley wealth that's keeping Palo Alto higher than other places, but I would be shocked if Palo Alto doesn't feel it at some point. Even San Francisco's good neighborhoods are feeling it now. - Robert Scoble

I'd like to see them drop to where they were in the 90's. So far they haven't dropped at all. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: it's good for me that they haven't fallen yet. I live in a neighborhood that appeals to wealthy Silicon Valley types, so if Palo Alto stays stable it means my house won't drop much more. - Robert Scoble

Paul -- what other sites / blogs do you use to keep an eye on the market? - Michael Leggett

Paul Buchheit

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...

February 27, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

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"Increasing the number of shards is similar to changing the backend infrastructure, but simpler. Downtime obviously isn't acceptable, so when switching from one system to the next, we have a period during which we write to both so that it is safe to read from either one. Other schemes could be used for resharding, but this is simple enough and also works for other changes, and in practice we've changed the schema more often than the number of shards. Also, keep in mind that it is ok to have more shards than you really need (multiple shards can run on the same machine, for example), so resharding needn't be a common operation." - Paul Buchheit

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