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This message motivated by the announcement that AOL is shutting down Brizzly after 18 months. - Kevin Fox

Maybe we shouldn't have said anything. Seems flakey today. Maybe they're getting things cleaned up to release it as OSS! :-) - Ken Sheppardson

#represent - Eric - seven eleven

hawwt - sofarsoShawn

"Don't be evil" left when Paul Bucheit left. - Piaw Na

absolutely splendid. - Pi that I can

"But ask any startup around what they really do need right now, and the answer is clear — great technical talent. Star­tups of all sizes are competing for a small pool of highly skilled candi­dates, and in startup hubs like San Fran­cisco and New York the compe­ti­tion for engi­neers is fierce. This scarcity has persisted despite consis­tently high national unem­ploy­ment rates. And because it has become so easy and cheap to start a star­tup, convincing great engi­neers to join an existing startup has gotten much harder." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Well, you could locate in Mountain View. :-) But startups aren't doing that, which leads to twitter's situation, for instance. http://piaw.blogspot.com/2011... - Piaw Na

let's see if anyone here notices... - Nelson Minar

No. FFHound works well though. - ronin

Just when I was thinking Twitter isn't doing anything re: features (for sometime) they launch this awesome re-design. Wow, congrats! - Space Cowboy

a fantastic introduction to getting started with python stuff. I wish most languages (hello Ruby and JavaScript/node.js) had a document like this - Jeremy Zawodny

Wow, your review piqued my interest even more. Thanks. - Space Cowboy

"Besides the potential financial gains of getting out and coming back, there is a more important aspect, in my opinion, of getting a new job, career or opportunity and that’s learning new ways of doing things, new methodologies, new work styles, new technologies, new work environments, etc. It’s much harder to know how to improve your city if you only lived in the same place your entire life. Once you lived in multiple places, you start to form a much better understanding: what’s important, what’s not, what could be improved, what you like and what you don’t like." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Wow, thanks a ton for sharing this. - Space Cowboy

Google veterans will recognize a lot of this in a project that was launched and then killed. - Piaw Na

And I am not even a Googler! That's how closely I follow Google. ;) - Space Cowboy

Facebook doesn't have to worry, but Twitter does. - Piaw Na

I still find the Tweetdeck acquisition mildly confusing, in that the speed of app updates has slowed to a crawl since. Shouldn't Twitter want its app team to keep the app up to date? - Andrew C (✓)

I do, as does, I suspect, anyone else who doesn't wish to live in a fish bowl. Facebook makes it hard to share and view sublists, Google+ makes it an integral part of the experience. - Tinfoil 2.0

Friends, not acquaintances, basically come in two flavors: one, they're interested in you for what you mean to them regardless of topic; two, they're interested in you for what you share in interest(s), i.e. topics. With circles one can deal with that division well. - Sharon Stevenson

"Complete protein is satiating. Our bodies absolutely require complete protein—but they also have a limited capacity to process protein in excess of our requirement. This shows up as what’s called “protein leverage”: people tend to consume food until they’ve ingested about 360 calories worth of complete protein. All other things being equal, if we eat foods high in protein, we consume less calories, and if we eat foods low in protein, we consume more. Therefore, if we want to sell an addictive and non-satiating food, we should keep it very low in protein (e.g. candy, cookies, potato chips). If it does contain protein, that protein should be incomplete—deficient in at least one essential amino acid—since the limiting factor for protein utilization is the least abundant essential amino acid. Guess what? Corn and wheat, the foundation of chips, crackers, cookies, and over 90% of the breakfast aisle, are both deficient in lysine. And both zein (corn protein) and gluten (wheat protein) are... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

"Here’s a startling experiment: rats prefer saccharine and sugar to intravenous cocaine, even after previously becoming addicted to cocaine." - Gabe

Don't worry Paul, friendfeed will always have a special place in our hearts. You can always beat Google once again. - mehmet

Hmmmm - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Such talent! Good catch! - Anne Bouey

Such a cutie :) - Kelly

Looking forward to the next post in the series. - Paola Bonomo

The first two are so classic. You are great at capturing people's stories in the moment. - Laura Norvig from iPod