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.
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
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)
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
We had some networking issues that were causing packet loss over the past couple days that (we think) have been resolved. If you noticed the site being a bit sluggish, it should be improved now.
bret neler oluyor? hani ben yaşadığım sürece ff kapanmayacaktı..hani ff'yi benim üzerime yapmıştın..nedir bu dedikodular???
- aynebilim
Bret yavşaksın olum sen. 2009'dan beri hiç mi siteye girmez lan adam. Olum ne Fb merklısı bir adammışsın lan sen. İnsan merak eder ne var ne yok diye girer de bir selam yazar. Senin amk lan ben. Siktin gül gibi siteyi şimdi de kapanacak diyorlar. Kapatacağına biz Türk kardeşlerine devret kardeşim. Biz domain falan alırız, sokayım boktan domainine. Yönlendireceksin sadece panelden. Ne dersin Bret? Hadi kardeşim bir düşün. gerçi girmiyorsun di mi sen buraya. Hay mk ya.
- EG
Hi Bret, we recently heard that you're shutting down Friendfeed - is this true? Please clarify this for the sake of FF Turkish Community :)
- DenizTuran
The only <a href="http://www.debtfree.ca/en...">bankruptcy grande prairie</a> currently has in stock is sitting in an abandoned warehouse full of zombies. If you need some for your project, you had better go prepared to bust some heads.
- Lana DelRey
My <a href="http://abledentalgroup.com/">dentist in Lethbridge</a> introduced me to friend feed. Thanks for running this place, it's great. Now just to track down my friends!
- Thiago DaLuz
“Studies have found that in general, the optimal temperature for sleep is quite cool, around 60 to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. For some, temperatures that fall too far below or above this range can lead to restlessness.”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
I can believe this. I much prefer a cool room, whatever the season.
- John (bird whisperer)
Definitely have to have a cool room to sleep properly. Few things worse than waking up in the middle of the night sweating (and no, not in a good way...)
- FFing Enigma
I don't want to be baking hot, but I can't sleep if I'm too cold. I get cold easily, and then my hands and feet go dead and white.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I was just talking about this to a friend who asked me to split the cost of a hotel room. I had to explain how I always keep the room cool, while bundled under the blankets.
- Anika
Side benefit of sleeping in a cold room: Wife is much much much cuddlier.
- Wirehead
For those who, as I did, wondered how cold you feel at 60-68° F : its's a temeprature between 16° Celsius and 20° Celsius.
- Zackatoustra
Yes! I love sleeping at about 65/66 degrees. Like LLL, I like to use the big comforter. I feel more comfortable and relaxed if I can breathe the cooler air.
- Katy S
Sent this story to my wife, who likes it a bit warmer for the kids.
- Hutch Carpenter
I thought it was just me. My sleep is much worse at 76-80+ temperatures. Normally I like 72-73 indoors, so 60-68 seems cool. Maybe it is better for sleep. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Hmmm,I normally keep my house around 68 but then I'm British and used to cold old drafty houses
- Sally Church
i think there is also cultural preferences/biases. when we lived in the UK we were amazed at how almost everyone turned their heat off completely at nite, thru-out the winter. when we came back, we began sleeping cooler, and love it.
- Thom Kennon
Good point Thom, I find American houses far too warm and stuffy in the winter.
- Sally Church
Sally, I'm with you: 68 is good, but 65 in the winter is AOK for me as well. I can wear socks and a snuggly shirt for less than I can heat the house to 70.
- FFing Enigma
So there is a reason I use my ceiling fan at full speed at night. Interesting.
- Ryan Massie
Ryan - indeed. love a good sleepybreeze. although your comment reminds me of how many hotel rooms and other rooms I go into where the ceiling fans are set incorrectly... I used to work in a lighting store so I notice such things. ;) [it's supposed to blow DOWN during the summer and UP during the winter]
- Anthony Citrano
I'm always frustrated by the fact that hotel rooms do not have ceiling fans. I have trouble sleeping without the breeze.
- Dennis O'Neil
I seem to be at the 68 degree end of the range, while my wife seems to be closer to the 60 degree end of the range for our optimal sleeping temperatures. :)
- In Search of Gender
LOL, silly Scott! In summer, the thermostat goes to 74 at night. In winter, I usually set it for about 67 during the day and 65-66 at night. Bundling up in blankets and comforter FTW!
- Ordinarybug Heather
You forgot to include Leif Parsons' name on the artwork for this webpage.
- Jon Craig
Jon, you joined FF just for that? The photo credit is proper on the linked NYT page. This is just a share. If sharing on the internet concerns you, I'd say you have your work cut out for you.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Simply tell them you're to busy caring for your children to worry what they think and suggest they try doing the same
- Johnny
from iPhone
That woman's kids have avoided those illnesses not because of superior diet, but because all the other kids they know have been vaccinated.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
She doesn't even have kids! Hahaha. I should have asked her if she vaccinates her dog.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
She's having another go at me today: " i neve be vaccination and dont get sick, can anyone tell me what in vaccination? i'l know kids who has vaccination and are all way sick, and there been kids who hav'nt had vaccination dont get sick that much. vaccination work for some baby, but some baby boby can't tak vaccination. so there two sides everything. so where do people get off judg people who dont get there kids vaccination, lean fact first."
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I think her lack of proper letters has revoked her right to civilized discourse.
- Jennifer Dittrich
It's a bit scary. And I understand that someone can read the same research and information and come to a different conclusion, but they really need to have correct and good quality info in the first place. In Australia the AVN (Australian Vaccination Network, who say they are pro-choice but don't have a single thing to say in favour of vaccines) are doing a very good job of skewing data and scaring the public with misinformation, and it makes me so mad.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Apparently posting links on FB to articles you agree with is judging people who think differently.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
AVN have been on MediaWatch before, they are a junk science, bogus organisation.
- Mo Kargas
I need a SomeEcard that says the whole "If you don't like what I post on FB, then fuck off" thing.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I don't want to look like I've deleted her just because she has a different opinion than me though, because that's not what it's about.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Not sure if being condescending or saying she feels sorry for you can be called a differing opinion.
- Mo Kargas
Good point. Though she's not upsetting me, more annoying me. I've basically said if she wants to leave it at that, I'm more than okay with that, but I'm not forcing her to read my stuff, so I don't understand why she's still commenting. No response. I will probably just ignore any of her comments from now on because we keep going around and around in circles.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Elgg classic was very good, now elgg one is much better. And it was a software intended for social nets, not a converted =)
- Arturo Servin
from twhirl
Andy Peatling will be talking about BuddyPress (WP-based social network project) at WordCamp SF on Saturday... good timing.
- Mark Jaquith
from twhirl
It will be interesting to see if BuddyPress can compete in the enterprise social networking space.
- Nick Martin
Sarah, I didn't know about the Action Streams plugin, but I liked DavidRecordon website so much that I did my own c# script to generate something like that. http://www.alexsauceda.com
- Alex Sauceda
Thank you very much for such a good article. I just build a new website and build up my own social network too.
- Kenn Nguyen
Thank you very much for such a good article. I just build a new website and build up my own social network too. I'm the founder of http://wweo.net
- Kenn Nguyen
With Paul's departure from Facebook today (November 12, 2010), I've heard several FFers talk about who's still at Facebook. I've seen various different numbers, none of which I think are accurate. This is my attempt to be more accurate. Information comes from publicly available sources where available. I drew on the list of FF employees from http://friendfeed.com/about... and http://blog.friendfeed.com/.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of November 2010: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 8 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Jim N., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 5 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
OK, took some editing but I think the above is accurate. If anyone knows where Ross M. or Goutham P. are now, please let me know!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Updated Jim's entry. He's apparently left Facebook. (I think I remember him confirming this when I had lunch with him last month!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of May 2012: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 7 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, Goutham worked at RockYou for a bit in 2010 and now works for Google. Also, how have I not seen this thread before?! I remember you taking that picture at Kitchen Table - fun times :)
- Ross Miller
now this is creepy.. some1 is stalking all the former employees of FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Stephen, also Goutham was a summer intern the year before the Facebook buy. He did not transfer to Facebook. Ross did you transfer to Facebook, I can't remember.
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh and I think Ben D. has left AOL. But I can't confirm that, I just seem to remember something about that. *shrug*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anne, AeroFS looks cool! Congrats Jim!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Overall status as of May 22, 2012: Of the 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees plus 2 interns, 6 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.), and 2 were interns who never went to Facebook (Ross M., Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of June 15, 2012 (updated on September 13, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 5 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 7 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
So basically we're gradually losing FF advocates within the mothership. :-(
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
So clearly we need to either recruit current FB'ers to start using FF or get FF users employed FB, or both.
- Andrew C (✓)
13 Sep 2012: what was the cause of the outage? But perhaps more importantly, *who* kindly fixed it (and from where) ? [If FB open sources FF, who would be willingly to maintain it?]
- Adriano
And whoever it was, I'd happily buy them a nice dinner.
- Meg V. Meg
I think Sanjeev is most eligible for a FF Rent Party of sorts. More of a FF Thank You party.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
bump just to immortalise this pix and the start-up crew !
- Peter Dawson
Ana left Facebook, no more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks Tudor -- I updated her entry. Overall status, as of September 20, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 4 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 8 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks Tudor and Stephen for the update.
- Meg V. Meg
Casey left Facebook as well (which, as he's Ana's husband, is no big surprise :) ). No more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Not sure how I missed Tudor's update back on October 2, but I have now updated Casey's entry.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of October 2, 2012: There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M. and Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above. So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 3 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 9 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Casey M., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., and Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
An update of sorts, which I guess is in and of itself creepy. I was reading a recent piece on Google Reader, and I was struck by the fact that Darnell jumped from Google Reader to FriendFeed (there are similarities between the two orphaned applications, when you think about it). Then I saw that Darnell made his move right before the Facebook acquisition. After reading subsequent...
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- John E. Bredehoft
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
Here, let me save future spammers some time: Hello my name is ____ and I am an attractive young ____ _____ and I would like to contact with you so that together you and I can ___ with ____ while _____ in a highly ____ manner. Please to be responding as soon as is practical. Without your help, the _____ in U.S. dollars will go unclaimed, and the herbal ______ remedy will wither and die. Yours in all urgent seriousness, _____.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
What in the world? Looks like you're about to make a movie... Pulp Feedition
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
oh God help us yes u look like Hugh Grant...em shades er are they D& G...l like
- Pam Gwenzi
This is still making me laugh. What were you drinking last night, Mr. Gray?
- Martha
Martha, I don't drink anything more toxic than Diet Coke. This was the Jon half of the Jon and Kate costume pair. I didn't have much opportunity to look Korean, however.
- Louis Gray
It is a most excellent costume and you pull off the lips beautifully. I like the pair pose as well.
- Martha
In the Liberal case, the hyperbole loosely matched the ideology. Today, not so much.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I don't think ridiculousness is partisan.
- Derrick
That if Obama didn't get elected, they'd move to Canada?
- Akiva
I don't think they've really looked at moving to Canada, it's not easy.
- Todd Hoff
There was a lot of "move to Canada" talk from liberals in the Bush days. But the joke here would have been if they'd threatened to move to someplace like _____________________ (insert country that would be a conservative nirvana).
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Obama as a democrat, in theory back then, was a step toward policies resembling some Canadian ones. It's still a tiresome, meaningless rant in either case.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Back when the NDP were elected in British Columbia, many Conservatives were threatening to move to Alberta. Maybe that's where they're going. :)
- Ken Morley
Kevin: Somalia. The only land left with liberty & freedom for all. The true libertarian/conservative nirvana.
- Walt Crawford
It may comfort you to know that you will remember that moment forever.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Micah, I had a similar moment when my (now 13-year-old) daughter sprained her ankle recently. I had to carry her to the car and it struck me how much she had grown.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
I feel this way a thousand times a day. Bitter. And Sweet. Bittersweet.
- Martha
Mine are four, too. Right there with ya. Just appreciating the moments by being in them. The memories are always with you, and there's always something to look forward to ... the stuff like Little League and that first hit. I was a handful as a teenager. To CW's point, I'm hoping karma short-circuits before I get my due.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
When all things are considered Friendfeed was the best social network ever. I would like to say IS but it is very quiet at the moment. I've tried many places , was briefly keen on some but this is the only one I still feel like visiting after many years. Art by Modigliani.
it is quiet, but quiet or noisy there is no other social network as ff. if anyboy wants to invest some money here, ff users would be able to make a huge return
- svinhufvud
I'm still posting quite a bit although I'm beginning to rethink it because I feel like I'm posting in a void sometimes. (Me likey Modigliani.)
- Spidra Webster
Good to know so many of you are still around, nearly enough to fill a restaurant or a bus. After all we know that it's quality and not quantity that counts.
- M F
Friendfeed was my favorite, but people pay attention to me on the evil FB
- MiniMage
Dude, I can't even remember what happened to me last week much less in kindergarten. But yeah, he's lying. Although it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was something that wasn't memorable to him.
- ronin
It was the other kid who elbowed me in the face. So I slugged him. I don't remember getting into serious trouble. I do remember my dad laughing his ass off when I got home, at my expense
- Victor Ganata
I still remember incidents that happened to me in elementary school... vividly. If that sort of thing is a casual incident not worthy of remembering, he's clearly got a lot more cluttering his "incident" list. (Or perhaps he's just very dismissive of times when he has traumatized others on a whim.)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Not much fazes me. Dropped a cup and it broke? Oh well, it's just an object. Bad driver cuts me off? Just get out of the way, maybe wave and smile. But Outlook is one of the few things in this world that can just drive me into a FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU rage.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I was definitely amused rather than enraged on this one. IT says they've fixed it. We shall see!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Helen, I hate ribbons. It would normally be hidden but they had to give me a brand new profile today to solve an unrelated problem. Have I mentioned I despise Outlook?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
"New York bred Hip-Hop trio, The Beastie Boys, were formally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, where festivities kicked off with a concert paying tribute to the newly elected members. Appearing with one less member, as Adam “MCA” Yauch is currently ill, the Beastie Boys Michael “Mike D” Diamond and Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz watched as The Roots, Kid Rock, and Travie McCoy rapped through several of the Beastie Boys most popular songs, including “Sabotage.” The Beastie Boys class of fellow inductees includes Guns N’ Roses, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, Laura Nyro, The Small Faces/Faces, The Crickets, The Famous Flames, The Midnighters, The Comets, The Blue Caps, and The Miracles. Freddie King received the “Early Influencer” induction, while Don Kirshner, Cosimo Matassa, Glyn Johns, and Tom Dowd were all elected as side men. The induction marks the celebration of a highly eventful career for the rap trio that built its name early on with help of Russell...
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- Eric - seven eleven
from Bookmarklet
Not that the Hall of Fame is purist by a long shot but how is hip hop rock?
- Spidra Webster
In the Beasties case, they started off as a punk band, and they've utilized rock influences throughout their albums, either through samples or playing instruments. They've also done funk and jazz instrumental one off eps and albums. They are very much more than just a hip hop and rap crew.
- #cryptic
Plus, rock in it's original form and hip hop are all about rebellion and self expression. Not that either match that anymore, but well...
- #cryptic
I'm sure they use bits of it. I'm just wondering where the line is drawn. It seems like a genre almost to itself. Early on it seemed to rise from funk but now it just seems to be its own thing and very separate.
- Spidra Webster
And yet Jethro Tull still isn't in there.
- April Russo
Well, Jethro Tull is in the Agricultural Hall of Fame, at least.
- Spidra Webster
Tull isn't in there? That's a travesty ... Like Milli Vanilli getting a Grammy instead of whoever really important was getting famous that same year (I forget because I wasn't really paying attention, so I won't pull any Auntie crap.)
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
There are loads of arguments to be had in who's in the HoF and who's not. It's probably worse than who gets Oscars....
- Spidra Webster
Mos Def has also done entire rock albums (with mere hip-hop undertones) under various guises and bands. Would he be eligible? What about Saul Williams? Or the Roots?
- Adrian
Nah, HipHop was the reincarnation of Rock and roll, right when it was needed.
- Eric - seven eleven
from iPhone
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.
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
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
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
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
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
In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
Yes, Mo asked to participate in the Ass Roasting. I wasn't really serious about it until Mo asked. Then I had to make it exist.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LMAO, Kamilah so awesome, but you missed Sean's half-stache and goatee. Those would have made it even more awesome.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
aw, shoot. I checked, but I wasn't sure about the status of his facial hair.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
This is THE. BEST. THING. ON. THE. INTERNET. EVER. *weeps for joy*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I'm tempted to lie about it just to see what I'd look like in one of your illustrations
- chrisofspades
oh, though sketch is good, ever had an exhibition?
- testbeta
I always knew it. The first time I saw Mo Kargas on FF, I knew he could roast asses with his eyes.
- Joshua
Thanks, everyone :) I don't know that I can sell the original sketchbook, it's really my personal journal. As I say from time to time, though, my goal is to do some larger drawings and paintings, and eventually I hope to sell those, I just need, like, 48 hours in a day to get everything done... it's going to happen somehow, soon. I have had some of my work exhibited at various times,...
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- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, you're here! You should subscribe to me. :)
- EricaJoy
What happens if I subscribe to you, Erica? Is something in particular happening over on your feed?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Nothing interesting happening on my feed but I bet $100 I could make your day. :)
- EricaJoy
By the way Kamilah? I want the MoBot on a t-shirt.... Pleeeaaaasssseeee???
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Yes, giant robots are made of win. I dunno, Barry... last time I tried to make a t-shirt, people got all excited but no-one bought it (DYSP!). I might just make a design but not bother to try setting up a Spreadshirt (or whichever one it was that I used) for it. I'll have to see.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I could do that somehow, I guess. I've taken payments through PayPal before. I wonder what pose the MoBot should be in? Have some source material I could work from?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, you are truly Princess Wave! Awesome, totally awesome!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Also, when was the last time I've seen photos of these children? When did Sarah get all of that hair?
- Akiva
Sorry Braden has dominated photos of late. Youngest always wins! Sarah has had a few haircuts, but it is quite long now! (And Matthew loves his Google hat)
- Louis Gray
Actually, what I'm saying is that I don't think any photos have been filtering over to here lately. This is the first photo in a LONG time I can remember seeing at all.
- Akiva
Of course, I could be just missing stuff; I have been rather preoccupied lately.
- Akiva
No matter what... Matthew and Audrey are destined to be together.
- Louis Gray