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You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Forex Berza, Ahmet Alpat, ᏓᏰ #team Monique and 258 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Mark: http://friendfeed.com/bret...
- Casey Muller
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Gimminy
I still get them.
- AJ Batac
I get these every day.
- Me
i get it
- solncee
I still get it
- AJ Batac
*jealous* I no longer get anything but subscription emails.
- Bruce Lewis
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
superpultdu, Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath and 65 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April Russo
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
The word "cray" needs to die (unless you're referring to a particular brand of supercomputer). "Crazy" has two syllables, and they are "cra-zy", not "cray-cray".
Jeanette Bosman, Nils Sandin, Louis Gray and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
How do you feel about "craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy"?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
cray-zay?
- Meg V. Meg
What you order? Fish fillet?
- Benjamin Golub
Fuck Big Bird. I just realized PBS makes This Old House and New Yankee Workshop. Shit just got serious. NOBODY fucks with Norm Abram
Dario Gomez, MoTO #TeamMonique, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and 10 other people liked this
Except for Roy Underhill. IT'S A WOODWORKING SMACKDOWN!!!
- kendrak
Before we THROW DOWN, I'd like to take a moment to talk about smackdown safety. Be sure to read, understand and follow all the safety rules that come with your weapons. Knowing how to use your weapons PROPERLY will greatly reduce the risk of personal injury. And remember this. There is no other more important safety rule... *points to glasses* ...than to wear THESE... safety glasses... Right, let's do this thing
- Johnny
Johnny, you see... Roy Underhill doesn't believe in safety. Just look at his hands! WHY BE NORM-AL (ok... so here's where i confess to reading message boards where woodwright shop/underhill fans made lots of bad puns and digs about new yankee/abram/power tools.)
- kendrak
<3 This Old House
- Benjamin Golub
I've never gotten much out of New Yankee Workshop lacking most of the Workshop but still love me some This Old House.
- SteVe C
So, who do we have to thank for FF coming back? Ben or Sanjeev probably? Or someone else we don't know about? Regardless, whoever at FB fixed it, thank you very much!
Mary B: #TeamMonique, Thomas Page, Anne Bouey and 73 other people liked this
Yes - thank you :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Sanjeev.
- Tudor Bosman
A million thanks!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
THANK YOU SANJEEV!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I owe you a few drinks of your choosing, Sanjeev!
- Meg V. Meg
YAY Sanjeev.
- Rochelle
yes, thank you!
- ellbeecee
Much appreciated, Sanjeev!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
Thank you! If ever you are near my location (Canada), I owe you a drink!
- AJ Batac
AJ, you're in Canada??? Do you know my friend Ben? =)
- Andrew C (✓)
Sanjeev is, as always, AWESOME!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
*votes* In best FF form, a FF Thank You Rent Party?
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Thank you, Sanjeev!
- John (bird whisperer)
*fist bump* Sanjeev
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
+108 thanks for Sanjeev !
- Adriano
Cuz it's nice
- sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
This morning it was Sanjeev guiding me through the steps on the phone. I happened to get into the office first.
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks Ben, Sanjeev.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
+1 Ben and Sanjeev
- Todd Hoff
Many thanks to both of you!
- Meg V. Meg
Yay Ben, thank you!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I might, Andrew!
- AJ Batac
+1,000,000 Ben and Sanjeev!
- AJ Batac
Woot woot.. not mark zuckerberg ??
- Peter Dawson
Thanks Sanjeev and Ben!
- Kevin Fox
I know you two have bigger problems (like outages) but can you look into the password reset? I would love you even more forever. - joey posting from her husband's account
- ben
A big thank you also from Italy. In the past two days a bunch of hundreds italians were wandering the internet like lost souls, crying "what now!?" and trying to find a decent substitute (impossible task). This even led to some activity on Diaspora!
- naltro
Grazie! :)
- MisterQ
thanks a lot! if you ever come to Milan, I'll be happy to have you both as guests at dinner :).
- manuela
Thank you soo much
- Karin
Thank you
- Minciaroni™
Thank you!
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Thanks a lot!
- Giovanni Sarbia
many thanks also from me!
- .mau.
thank you!
- quel *** di Luca I
Thanks Ben & Sanjeev for bringing back FriendFeed!
- Mitchell Tsai
Thank you, thank you...a thousand times, THANK YOU!
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
from Android
Thank you sooooo much!
- [Wasabi] Pea Bukowski
Thanks a lot :)
- catepol
Thanks!
- frasens
Thank you!
- ratavolòira
not for bugging too much, but https://friendfeed.com/a... seems lost :-( [I wanted to hide all people's delicious entries, btw] Could something be done?
- .mau.
Thank you, folks!
- Federico Bolsoman
Thanks!
- Sean McBride
[Sorry, not sure where to post this] Is there anything Ben & Sanjeev can do to fix search, which is no longer working since a few weeks?
- naltro
... and I'm done with the US elections. http://t.co/3jAvK4aE
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AyseA, ello fizgherard, John (bird whisperer) and 3 other people liked this
wish i could be.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Unfortunately this didn't come directly from the Simpsons :(. The originally headline from this episode was "Old man yells at cloud". Still good though.
- Benjamin Golub
I'm very excited about the @TiVo Stream. Stream or download shows from TiVo to iOS and Android devices. http://online.wsj.com/article...
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junrxu, imabonehead, Winckel and 9 other people liked this
Thanks, Kevin! We're excited too.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
There's a video review at WSJ as well: http://live.wsj.com/video...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Looks awesome.
- Benjamin Golub
Dear engineers, it's not that hard: function plural($qty) {return ($qty==1)?"":"s"}
Juan Pablo González, Betsy #TeamMonique, Micah and 3 other people liked this
You have earned 1 credits for this tweet.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Your 2 childs have seen the 5 fishs being eaten by gooses.
- Amit Patel
Plural is even harder when localizing :(
- Amit Patel
Yeah, you'd think there'd be a standard library for pluralizing English by now or something ;)
- Victor Ganata
I had written something long ago but now there's http://pypi.python.org/pypi... . I don't know how many exceptions it has in its library.
- Amit Patel
I'd prefer "Dear engineeri".
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
We had some pretty good pluralize code at FriendFeed. Even localized strings.
- Benjamin Golub
I bet teens today are like "Why does it say 'self'? What does that mean?" http://twitter.com/kfury...
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Kelli H., Surehy Breter, Iván Abrego and 10 other people liked this
I was telling my kids how there used to be people who pumped our gas, washed the windows and top off the radiator when I was little. They were completely stunned and kind of jealous.
- Anika
The co-op here still does that.
- Stephan Planken
This thread makes me happy to live in Oregon.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I believe they still do this in New Jersey.
- Benjamin Golub
I love not having to pump my gas.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Python noobs probably wonder the same thing.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Yup, we still have full service here in NJ. Apparently we can't be trusted to pump our own gas without setting ourselves on fire or blowing something up.
- ronin
I love how people turn not having to do something in to a negative.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It's not exactly a chore: hang the hose in the filler neck and sit and relax. :)
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
There's a full-service station in town. If I didn't have Mechanic!Neighbor, they'd be my mechanics, too.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I just got 4 free tickets to see Ani Defranco this Thursday. That was a nice surprise.
Corinne L, Gimminy, SteVe C and 14 other people liked this
NICE. She is absolutely fantastic live.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Congrats!
- Anika
Awesome!
- Kelli H.
Woo hoo, she's my hero, you'll love it
- SteVe C
And it is at Mountain Winery so it's a nice smallish venu. She was on our short list of concerts to see but she didn't make the final cut originally. But then suddenly Mountain Winery emailed me and said that because I was a loyal patron they were offering me free tickets for Ani. Know one else I know who has bought tickets there got one. But we have been going for 3 or 4 consecutive...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm listening to her now on Spotify to get educated for tomorrow :) Megen's a *huge* Ani fan
- Benjamin Golub
Ben, we are going to have so much fun! Megan's reply to the invitation was so cute. You could tell how excited she was!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Image uploads to a Friendfeed post are missing a proper content-header, so when you click the image to see the original size the browser downloads it instead of displaying it in a new tab. Is something up with the FF API that corresponds to its Amazon S3 upload module?
oxay, patarakin, Russian Space Lizard and 59 other people liked this
I was about to ask if you had an example of an image directly uploaded to Friendfeed. Then I thought about it.
- Gimminy
I'm not sure what the bug is conditional upon, yet, but I've only ever observed this problem in the last few days.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Thank you!
- Meg V. Meg
Ben Golub, you're our only hope.
- Micah
I was about to inquire about this, glad I'm not the only one with this problem.
- Colette
Help us Obi Ben Golubi.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
I thought nobody is touching the code any more. The content type could not have been changed by its own.
- ؛ patrick
This is an intentional change.
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben. What is the reason behind the change?
- Headless Gnad Kicker
It seems broken -- can no longer click on the picture in my FFHound posts to enlarge the image, it just downloads the image instead. (See http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and click the image.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Ben, thank you for the quick response. Was the change to cut down on hot-linking?
- Micah
It's actually a site security improvement to keep us all safe :)
- Benjamin Golub
Ahhh, ixnay ethay executables way. *nodding*
- Micah
Heh, and I was thinking about posting a regression bug to Opera. Thank you.
- Michael W. May
Well, I threw caution to the wind, so here's a browser extension I wrote to view a full size image in a new tab: http://friendfeed.com/fftools...
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
@glenc, Ben is from FF. Read his comments.
- ؛ patrick
While I understand that this is an "intentional change" to "keep us all safe", is there a reference for exactly the problem this is meant to solve is? I'm sure I can make an educated guess, but I'd rather understand it more fully.
- Andy Bakun
Still broken...
- Mitchell Tsai
No one has a reference for exactly the problem this change was meant to solve, for our safety?
- Andy Bakun
It really sounds like "It's not a bug, it's a feature" :)
- Yusuf Arslan
And I can accept that, if I knew what the feature actually was.
- Andy Bakun
Security features.
- Gimminy
thanks for explaining this odd behaviour. maybe you should report to..facebook staff
- marco barsotti
Marco, Benjamin Golub is the FB Staff that is care taking the FF website.
- Me
One solution is to use Opera to browse friendfeed (it leaves you the choice to open the file anyway). And that fits well, a dying social network on a dying browser.
- StM
Any clue as to what I can search for to find out what the exact attack we're being protected from is?
- Andy Bakun
Andy, and for all we know the attacks could have been observed against Facebook's interface and Ben et al saw that Friendfeed simply had the same vulnerability.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
The care taking of this site by Ben is well appreciated for those who still love this service.
- Eric - seven eleven
I remember a while ago someone posted an animated gif which was apparently coming from an external host and my (and some other people's) anti virus system started showing that as a treat. The worse part is that, there are many Iranian activists here and for the Ciber Army of Islamic Republic this was the easiest way to find their IP's. We have chosen FF because it's the most free and secure environment in the net. FF didn't do anything about the spammers, at least this was a good move.
- ؛ patrick
Looks like some old images don't need a download any more.
- ؛ patrick
What's interesting is it's only for new posts media. All the old posts, prior to the update, still work fine.
- Gimminy
I was thinking "I want the new Macbook Air" until I saw the MBP update. I now want the new MBP :)
Amit Patel, Rodfather, Bren and 7 other people liked this
Diablo III has been updated to take advantage of the new MBP retina display.
- Tudor Bosman
boo, new power adapters
- Tudor Bosman
GigE, finally
- Tudor Bosman
I'm a bit skeptical and waiting to see some reviews. Here are the resolutions it supports: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels. Default mode is 1440 x 900 per http://www.anandtech.com/show.... Does that mean it's crunching 2880 pixels or 1440? Can the GeForce 650M really push that many pixels?
- Benjamin Golub
But I bought a new Air immediately for Megen; she's still on one of those older all white Macbooks!
- Benjamin Golub
Every once in a while, I think that. Then I realize my Chromebook is awesome and I stop thinking silly things. :)
- Louis Gray
I wrote a thing: What we will and won't see at Apple's WWDC 2012 http://fury.com/2012...
Marcel Weiß, hewoilsneed, Tinfoil 2.0 and 7 other people liked this
I'm always impressed by your depth of analysis, and in previous years, your accuracy. But I sure hope they rev the Mac Pro tower and WWDC would be a great place to do it. Also, a Steve Jobs memorial iPhone turtleneck. Like the old iPod socks, but black, and for your phone. Collector's Edition.
- Brian Johns
Bravo. I'm curious how siri will perform with many more applications in play.
- Todd Hoff
Really hoping for new MBPs. Megen and I are still on 2008 Macbooks at home. They are starting to show some age :P
- Benjamin Golub
I am intrigued by your thoughts and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
- Louis Gray
Louis always wins. *takes ball and goes home*
- SAM
*bump*
- Bruce Lewis
</3 oncall
Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Louis Gray and Benjamin Golub liked this
Only 14 hours left in my shift :)
- Benjamin Golub
I got next.
- Louis Gray
Red Dot Forum - Leica M Monochrom Review - http://www.reddotforum.com/content...
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Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, Adrian, Kelli H. and 3 other people liked this
"When I heard the rumors about a B&W-only digital M camera body a few months ago, I was a bit skeptical. Who would want such a thing when it is so easy to convert M9 images to B&W in a matter of seconds with LR, Silver Efex or (insert favorite image processing software here)? I chalked it up to just being one of those far-fetched rumors that never materializes into a real product. As May 10 approached, the rumors were still going strong for this B&W M9. Leica’s none-too-subtle hints tended to support it as well – the name of the event, Das Wesentliche (translation: The Essentials), the B&W image promoting the event, the avant-garde location of Berlin. But, I resisted drawing any conclusion until the actual announcement."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
Are you considering one?
- Benjamin Golub
No, but I'd consider begging coworkers to let me borrow theirs :)
- Tudor Bosman
Also: this will be the hipster-est camera ever.
- Tudor Bosman
The lack of a Bayer filter (?) on the sensor gives it genuine cred, though. I'd reserve 'hipster' camera for lomos, Holgas, and the like.
- Andrew C (✓)
I don't think most hipsters could afford it.
- Akiva
Surely anyone who can afford this can also afford an extra one for me. ;-p
- ronin
Add Frontier Communications to the list of companies with piss poor hold music.
Dudes...if your hold music sounds like complete ass on a stick, what do you think that says to your customers?
Hostages, not customers.
- Gimminy
That they have a stick up their ass?
- Spidra Webster
Thanks for the moral support as always JWo.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
My first job out of college was at Frontier Communications
- Benjamin Golub
It's not that bad. My bet is that Alex hates Fantasia, too.
- Gimminy
It's not the quality of the music that I'm talking about, Jimminy, but the sound quality. When I was on hold the music was so broken up by static and drops that it was pure agony on the ears.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
http://www.316networks.com/member... : Alisha complete 316 Networks profiles
- andrewbrent
Ah I didn't have that Alex, it did occasionally get quiet, still playing, but less volume.
- Gimminy
Some new Nikon D600 specs... 39 AF points, 5 fps, 2 SD card slots, GPS, HD video... The sensor inside the D600 will probably be 24MP, entry level full frame camera. Auto DX crop mode. The price of the D600 is rumored to be very low - maybe as low as $1500 -- http://nikonrumors.com/2012...
chaz2b, Russian Space Lizard, Amit Patel and Eric - seven eleven liked this
Feels a bit like the D7000 replacement and good backup option for D800 owners. Might be time to sell off some gear and get ready to pre-order...
- Ken Sheppardson
Another full frame option. I've been telling myself I will stay in the DX sensor camp, but they are making that a harder decision.
- Eric - seven eleven
Yeah, it's not getting any easier. Since everybody with a phone basically has a camera now, their entire business sorta has to shift to getting people to upgrade. It's no longer "how do we get you to buy a camera', it's "how do we get you to buy a newer, BETTER camera". Phone owners to Powershots, Powershots to 1, 1 to DX, DX to FX.
- Ken Sheppardson
May be the camera I ditch my D90 for...
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I'm wondering about my D700. Will it keep it's resale value? It certainly was more expensive than $1500 but if these rumors are true the D600 will basically be everything my D700 is except for the lack of a motor (which doesn't bother me in the slightest).
- Benjamin Golub
You can already grab a D700 for under $2K on eBay. It's not hard to imagine that a $1500 D600 would drop that down to $1200-1300...which is a pretty crazy price for a full frame camera. I'll bet there are a few D3 owners who want to stick with CF who'd grab a(nother) D700... and a D700 + 50mm f/1.8D kit for under $1500 seems like a pretty slick art/photography student/purist option.
- Ken Sheppardson
What's your favorite way of preparing asparagus?
Calogero Mira, Harold, Vaughn and 21 other people liked this
I'm facing steaming fatigue.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Roasting in a hot oven with olive oil, s & p and fresh minced garlic.
- Derrick
Roasted with olive oil, salt, pepper.
- holly #ravingfangirl
from iPhone
having someone else steam them for me
- MiniMage
i like Derrick's method.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Went with Derrick's suggestion. But I generally prefer MiniMage's method. :)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Cook them in a bit of water, then saute with garlic, S&P and a splash or two of soy sauce, sesame oil, hoisin sauce and sesame seeds.
- Adrian
BBQ'd on a grill
- Rodfather
ooh, Adrian's idea is nice too. imma write these down for when i can eat food again!
- Hieronymous Boosh
What Derrick said ... and sometimes I'll add some fresh parm on top.
- Kristin
Similar to Adrian's method, but with butter and garlic.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
++ to the parm.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Ooh! I don't have any parm but I could grate some gruyere. Wait, do I have a cheese grater?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
No :(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
you could always just fine dice the cheese.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Sounds like work. *turns up nose*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
work that leads to deliciousness!
- Hieronymous Boosh
Whoa, I do have some parm, aged three years -- left by the ex when she cleaned out her place and dropped off all her crap here.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Kelli, I usually simply steam with a little butter.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
grilled, w/ lime
- chaz2b
Either roasted with a drizzle of meyer lemon grapeseed oil and a sprinkle of sea salt and pepper (goes excellent with fresh prosciutto and mozzarella if you don't want just a big plate of asparagus), or I cut them into bite-size pieces, boil for a couple of minutes in salted water just to take the raw out, then toss them in a modified carbonara (no pancetta). I only steam if I'm having them as a side dish (no butter or mayo, just S&P).
- Hookuh Tinypants
Steamed for 4-5 minutes with little butter on top
- Sir Vali
Grilled. Olive oil, salt, pepper.
- Benjamin Golub
oh yeah, those are great. that reminds me that Burgerville has them right now.
- holly #ravingfangirl
stir fry with beef or chicken in black bean sauce.
- imabonehead
I like Eric's method. I also drizzle with olive oil, add salt and pepper and grill them. Then add some grated Romano cheese.
- Mary Carmen
I also like them roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper. I bought some truffle butter and keep it in my freezer and sometimes put a pat or two on there as it comes out of the oven. It's really good.
- Trish R
yep, that roasting method is spectacular (as is broiling or grilling the same simple way)
- Michael W. May
Never had grilled asparagus. I have a grill now, AND an asparagus bunch, but I won't attempt it cos if I fuck it up I'll be mad with no asparagus! What I usually do is stir fry it. I used to make something like a pot pie with asparagus & ham in a cheesy cream sauce with frozen pie crust on top. That was my favorite but I lost my storage some time back & my recipe file is gone forever.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Old photos from Maker Faire - a set on Flickr - some of the items inside the Rocket that now sits on Pier 14 in San Francisco. Posting these since the inside is no longer open for viewing. :) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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FYI: its a photo set, there are 8 photos total there. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Neat! I didn't know there was stuff in there.
- Benjamin Golub
Ben, it was really cool inside. You and Megan have to come to Maker Faire this year, you wil love it!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off | The Verge
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Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off
- Leo Laporte
Gah, I hate how Pinboard doesn't import the link. Here it is: http://www.theverge.com/2012...
- Laura Norvig
It should import the link but Leo has "Display entries as messages (no link)" checked for some reason. He should probably turn that off...
- Benjamin Golub
One lets you store data, while the other lets you store data. Yet one lets you store data.
- Fleagle
Was momentarily pissed at Google 2-Step verification because the 30 days expired while I'm abroad. Had to enable roaming on my iPhone and got about 40 texts before I got the one with the code. Was annoying but I figure it's < $10 insurance for extra protection on my Gmail account. Should remember to make a copy of my 10 one-off codes for next time.
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Install the Google Authenticator iPhone app. It works like an RSA token and needs no Internet connection or cell service.
- Benjamin Golub
from iPhone
NICE! Thanks, Ben!!
- Dan Hsiao
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions.
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We might also be sending you a notification asking for the permissions.
- Benjamin Golub
cool, thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Attachments FTW! :-)
- Jesse Stay
Just keeps looping and I cannot get it to accept.
- Scott Whaley
your app does not work
- Rimtech4
I disabled Friendfeed wallposts a while ago to avoid duplicate aggregate streaming there.
- John Lam
Orpheus' music was so powerful that no one could resist it—not even the fairest maiden. He chose the lovely Eurydice to be his wife. But their joy was brief. As Eurydice walked through a meadow shortly after their wedding, a poisonous snake bit her. She died, leaving Orpheus alone and deeply saddened. Overcome by grief, he decided to travel to the land of the dead to get her.
- Azeem Baloch
how can my feedback well
- Azeem Baloch
Mmmhh, its 2012 now and Friendfeed cannot publish to my FB account since a couple of days. Any ideas how to fix that?
- Michael Hohl
We added a few features you might have missed recently: support for imgur.com thumbnails (http://friendfeed.com/search...) and "Best of" for users/groups on the iPhone (http://friendfeed.com/iphone...)
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Rumors of FriendFeed's death are greatly exaggerated. (Thank you, Ben!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks, guys :)
- Franc, a rememberer
Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Thanks for the update Ben
- AJ Batac
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, I'm not sure we know that.
- Jesse Stay
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
ffcode: you can do that. Here is the "Best of week" from one year ago: http://friendfeed.com/summary...
- Benjamin Golub
ITS ALIVE!!!!!!! MUH HA HA
- Roberto Bonini
I'm excited! - Another Nikon D700 vs. Nikon D800 high ISO comparison | Nikon Rumors - http://nikonrumors.com/2012...
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Wow! I assumed the D800 would be worse than the D700 due to the pixel density but that new sensor must have some new magic voodoo.
- Benjamin Golub
I had heard it was going to be sweet but I wasn't sure I could believe it since the D700 is so good. But this is impressive.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Nice. Would be nice to see the same shots with a D7000 :-/ I'm contemplating the move to full frame, and paralyzed not just by the D700 vs D800 choice, but also the speculation that the D400 might be full frame... sigh...
- Ken Sheppardson
Going full frame was one of the best decisions I've ever made as far as cameras go. I adore my D700.
- Akiva
Yeah, that kind of sentiment from full-framers is what makes me want to upgrade, as content as I may be with my D7000. I keep thinking the D700 would be fine, cause I really just want the IQ/low light still capability and might just keep the D7000 as a backup and for video, but then there's the D800, which could replace both of them, or just hold off and see what the D400 looks like... me -> can't decide.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's like any other technology: you'll never be able to keep up and there'll always be something potentially more awesome on the horizon. My friend Sparky one time gave me the greatest bit of photography advice: 'bodies are temporary; glass is forever'. You buy lenses for life; you buy bodies for years. Go with whatever meets your current common needs at a price point that makes sense....
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- Akiva
We shall have to have a high-ISO shoot-out once your camera arrives. D800 vs. Canon 5-DII
- Brian Johns
I think the low ISO was the only thing that the D700 had over the 5-DII but I'm happy to take you on with my D800 Sparky (aka Brain Johns for others)!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
For what time do you set your alarm clock?
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I don't.
- Soup in a TARDIS
06:40
- Mark H
I generally don't.
- Tinfoil 2.0
4:30
- Eric - seven eleven
6am on weekdays.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
from FFHound!
6:35 (anti-snooze backup at 6:40)
- Micah
5:30AM.
- Rochelle
Violet is a fairly reliable alarm clock.
- Tudor Bosman
6:30am
- Victor Ganata
8am
- Pixie
5:20, 6:30, 7:30. The first one I shut off immediately. The 2nd one I leave the snooze on to bug me every 10 minutes. The last one means I'm late.
- Rodfather
6:30am.... snooze sometimes until 7:40am. >.> I plan my outfits the night before so it doesn't take me long to get ready unless I need to flat-iron my hair in which case I snooze only once. Or twice. ;)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
6:15
- Elena
4:00 am.
- ᏓᏰ #team Monique
5:30 a.m. (edit) I don't hit the snooze button, but I may stay in bed and listen to some NPR Morning Edition until 6:00.
- Russian Space Lizard
6:45 and I don't use the snooze
- Gunnyman™
6:30 (start waking up), 6:42 (wake up), 7:00 (wake up the kid).
- chrisofspades
I don't have to get up at the same time every day, so it changes.
- Derrick
6:40 plus snooze until 7
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
You mom sets my alarm clock. I hit her snooze.
- kendrak
6:30 or 7:30 depending upon the day.
- SAM
I haven't used an alarm clock in ... 20 or 30 years? I just wake up. Usually around 6:00 or 6:30.
- Laura Norvig
5:20 am
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Depends on what time my daughter decides to wake up. No later than 6am but often earlier.
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
6:00
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
0600, 0615, 0630, Monday thru Friday.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
6:something weekdays.
- LB: #TeamMonique
6:30am on weekdays. $NULL on weekends.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Don't need to. The brain wakes up promptly at 5:30 every morning.
- Steven Perez
10min before appointment(s), ;)
- chaz2b
6 am, then I hit snooze 3 times. :)
- Kelli H.
06:45
- imabonehead
6 AM these days. No snooze :)
- Eivind
6:15 on my phone, 6:30 back up on the clock radio.
- Pete #TeamMonique
5:00 am
- esther
5:30. And the watch at 5:35.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
5:45AM with 15 minutes of snooze and up at 6.
- Alan
Our alarm clock has 2 different alarms you can set on it, so when the twins (high school) are home, my wife uses an alarm set for 5 a.m. When it's just the little one (elementary school), she uses an alarm set for 6:01 (I accidentally went past 6:00, and didn't feel like changing it). On days when I commute into work, I use the 6:01 alarm. On days when I telecommute, I have my phone set to go off at 7:45. On weekends, we usually don't use an alarm.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
5:30am
- Kevin Johnson
8.30am Eastern
- t-ra: not givin up
6AM
- AJ Batac
9AM so I wake up at 8AM
- Gimminy
6:30, 6:39, 6:48, 6:57, 7:06, 7:15. Yeah, my snooze button lasts 9 minutes.
- Le Slip Anglais
5:40am
- Benjamin Golub
7:40am
- ronin
6:00am atm on weekdays. Random on weekends, if at all. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
7 am - out of bed sometime after - in the office by 9
- Jason
What D said. I usually set it for an hour before I have to be at work (30 min to get ready, 30 min commute) but I'm typically awake and lying around in bed before it goes off anyway. My internal alarm is set to 7:30.
- Lola Bean (Penguin)
from iPhone
6:20 - please tell me someones going to throw these into a table and make a graph :)
- Eric Sizemore
DATA: 0400,0430,0500,0520,0520,0530,0530,0530,0530,0540,0545,0600,0600,0600,0600,0600,0600,0600,0600,0601 ,0610,0615,0615,0615,0620,0625,0630,0630,0630,0630,0630,0630,0630,0635,0639,0640,0640,0645,0645,0648,0700,0700,0705,0730,0730,0740,0800,0830,0900
- Micah
Earliest: 4 AM. Latest: 9 AM. Average: 6:20 AM (huh, median also happens to be 6:20).
- Micah
7am
- Headless Gnad Kicker
It depends, but my body seems to like 7.46 AM.
- joey
That's EXACTLY the time my semi-conscious brain drags my still-sleeping body out the door in the mornings. Who'd a thunk it?
- Le Slip Anglais
I don't know the right answer!!!
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Am I the Benjamin you voted for?!? /flattered
- Benjamin Golub
But... Klout is Lame!
- Louis Gray
How else do you get free stuff?
- Eric - seven eleven
You don't. You opt out.
- Louis Gray
You don't anyway - every time I go there, there's nothing available.
- Jesse Stay
I'm patiently waiting for the Nikon D800 announcement within the next few hours. [/I'm /Im/]
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I jsut read about it on a Canon rumors website. 36 Mpixels! Time to buy more cards!
- Brian Johns
fstoppers.com already posted info about it.
- Juan Pablo González
It releases tomorrow? How much for your D700?
- Eric - seven eleven
The coolest rumor I heard was a D800-E version with no anti-aliasing filter. As a Canon 5-D shooter, that teases me a lot.
- Brian Johns
Brian, yep. that bit's all but confirmed. It's amusing that it's rumored to cost several hundred *more* for the model without the AA filter. Presumably because it's a smaller production run, or to inhibit the clueless form buying the wrong one and complaining about moire patterns.
- Kevin Fox
Eric: Can not have! I've been waiting patiently for years to get Rachel's D700 as a hand-me-down! :-)
- Kevin Fox
MAN!
- Eric - seven eleven
So D800 or D4? I think the D4 is a lot more interesting. The D800 sensor is just too dense IMO.
- Benjamin Golub
I lost patience a year ago. They better get it out here RIGHT NOW!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Heh, you've lost patience? How do you think us 5D2 users feel? ;-p
- ronin
ronin, 5D2 users have had video in their camera and a good deal more pixels since 2008. The D700 came out a month before that and we haven't had an update with video in a high end camera since.
- Rachel Lea Fox
As a Canon user, I love that Nikon is making a camera with these specs. (all except the megapixels) I hope Canon tries to copy them all to stay competitive!
- Brian Johns
@Rachel Ah, you're right. For some reason I was always under the impression that the D700 came out later. I think I was enamored w/the AF system and high ISO IQ. =) Anyway, at least your wait is now over. It's official: http://bit.ly/xtzlVE
- ronin
The pages with the sample images seem to be loading very slowly... http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup... and http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup...
- Brian Johns
None of the samples show ISO > 640 which is kinda disappointing.
- ronin
post the pre-order!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
B&H has the D800E: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...
- Benjamin Golub
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
Not sure where this goes, but friend's wife (age 27) just died of cancer, month later he's diagnosed w/S3 cancer. I'd refuse treatment, too.
:(
- Benjamin Golub
Why does Brees always lick his fingers?
sofarsoShawn and Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
I think most QB's do that, actually.
- Derrick
It probably gives them better grip by keeping their fingertips from drying out.
- Chris Topher
Nearly every QB does it.
- Benjamin Golub
Plus, tasty.
- Eric - seven eleven
He gave up biting his nails for 2012
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
KFC
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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