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Saw your comment immediately. - Gabe Rivera

BTW, that was my first FF comment since August '08. - Gabe Rivera

Like a virgin. - MG Siegler

Welcome back then Gabe! - Simon Wicks

I'm tellin' ya. FF's back. Just bookmarked their iphone friendly site. - Mario Sundar

you don't say ;-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

The day FF will launch real-time, the earth will stand still. - Jérôme Flipo

Jerome: wut? I myself will lurve saved searches AKA track AKA Gillmor's Grail - Gabe Rivera

I meant every smart microblogger will have to move to Friendfeed. Time will only run on Friendfeed! - Jérôme Flipo

Gillmor may spontaneously combust if track hits FF before it restarts on twitter - Adrian

I'd love to hear a list why its "irresistibly useful" for you, Gabe. I'm still quasi-resisting, although I do find it useful. - C. K. Sample III

I will repeat here: it would be great for users if Twitter and FF merged their capabilities. One completes the other. - William Mougayar

William, what does Twitter do that Friendfeed doesn't? - Jérôme Flipo

Hey Gabe - great to see you here - Hutch Carpenter

what recent features excite you - @baratunde

CK, baratunde: essentially, its capacity to extend Twitter in very useful ways. Creating small friend lists here (to track separately from your main feed) is easier here than with Twitter desktop apps, and the results come in in real time. I also turned on IM notifications for select friends. Remember Twitter had IM? They took the feature away. - Gabe Rivera

There goes the neighborhood! :-) - Robert Scoble

The last couple days on Twitter have brought me back to FF as well - Costa Walcott

Gabe - any plans to add services like FriendFeed/Backtype/Reddit etc to Link Search option in Techmeme. Tried Link Search on top headline i.e. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... and got zero results from Google Blog Search/Ask and IceRocket returned 5. - Atul Arora

Atul: huh, putting a URL in FF search does come up with useful results, so I think I'll add FF to the link search list. If those other services have backlink search currently available, please list sample query urls here and I'll take a look. (BTW, to see what Atul's talking about, click "Preferences" on Techmeme, then click "Show Link Search".) - Gabe Rivera

Backtype aggregates across Reddit, YCombinator and FriendFeed - See http://www.backtype.com/comment... - Atul Arora

Gabe bit.ly also does link search and returns FriendFeed, Twitter and Backtype results for all bit.ly version of that URLs e.g. http://bit.ly/info/8XNa4. Since @TechmemeFH and @Techmeme are both using bit.ly the link search is simply adding the + after the URL i.e. http://bit.ly/8XNa4+ for the bit.ly based link search. - Atul Arora

Gabe, here's a link to our connect feature which shows all the conversation around a link (digg, reddit, twitter, friendfeed, hacker news, and posts that link in): http://www.backtype.com/connect... - Mike Montano

Mike - so what is bit.ly using to show comments from backtype. It shows zero comments. Is it filtering comments so that it only shows comments from the blog page? - Atul Arora

Thanks Mike, Atul. I will take a close look at this later and probably add some more link search links. - Gabe Rivera

Atul, yes they're using a method that only fetches comments from the page being queried, though full connect functionality would be a nice addition imo. - Mike Montano

Hey look Gabe is back! :) - Susan Beebe

I agree, except that it should be easier to add an external feed other than through the cumbersome creation of an "Imaginary Friend". - Derek Mahar

My mustache is more lustrous and thick after switching to FriendFeed. I have a lot more energy. Even my wife has noticed certain improvements in my usefulness around the house. Thanks FriendFeed! [I BLUSH] - Jay Cuthrell

I'm still going to say that I think links to friendfeed discussions on blog posts belong on Techmeme. ;) - Thomas Hawk

Wait, is this sarcastic Twitter Gabe or normal Gabe? What persona have you decided to adopt on FF? :) - Matt Cutts

No idea whether it's of use to TechMeme, Gabe, but FriendFeed's API will give you a list of all the entries that link to a specified URL. http://code.google.com/p... You can see it in action with http://ffcheck.com - Ken Sheppardson

I agree I like Friendfeed simplicity. - LaShea Miller

Friendfeed just gets better every day (and is incredibly responsive to user feedback!) - Charlie Anzman

like the notifications air app ... been trying it out. - Julian Lukács

FriendFeed FTW! - (jeff)isageek

@mattcutts: hah, no I'm serious here. FF's current feature set now offers great value to me. I suspect FF still has a major challenge offering a compelling and differentiated product to the Oprah crowd, but that doesn't concern me (and FF may nail that eventually). - Gabe Rivera

@thomashawk: noted. :-) - Gabe Rivera

I have already noticed a massive increase in followers on friendfeed recently. Anecdotal evidence indicates friendfeed is growing (I find it has a higher utility as well) - Jordan Willms

Agree, great improvements! - Tim Moore

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