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For first time in history, TV ownership declines - http://www.kansascity.com/2011...
Iván Abrego, Hao Chen, Stephen Mack and 5 other people liked this
"The decline was not trivial, either — from 115.9 million TV households in 2011, Nielsen estimates that only 114.7 million homes in the U.S. will have a TV set in 2012. That’s a decline of almost 1 percent at a time when the total number of U.S. households continues to grow."
- Eric
from Bookmarklet
Yep. Things are changing. Time will see if the independent producers of content will manage to scrape by in the future, though. We need a new way of funding, new ways of working together...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
How much of this is truly due to a paradigm shift, and how much of it is the fact that the economy is still in the crapper, I wonder?
- Victor Ganata
A bit of both, probably. But traditionally TV sales have held up well during recession http://www.tvweek.com/news... but maybe the depth of this recession is having an effect at last. However, I don't think we can discount the fact that a whole generation is growing up used to everything on demand. Month by month online viewing figures rise and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I think it's hard to compare, because the last time we had a recession of this duration and severity, TV hadn't been invented yet.
- Victor Ganata
Well, technically it had...but yes, it had not been widely adopted. #pedant
- WoH: Minding her Steves
They just got a whole lot bigger
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Is it possible to love your FF friends? I have connected with people who I'm likely never to meet, people have given money, donated time, fought for the cause, helped me get into library school, crashed at my house and have had my back when others have not? I feel like I sincerely *love* y'all.
Hao Chen, David Cook, Harold Cabezas and 99 other people liked this
Is that something we could've imagined, that despite connecting people around the world with this internet thing, that deep connections would be established? That it wasn't just an experiment? The things you think about...
- Derrick
Yes. I love you back, D. <3
- Jenny R
I mean, I never would have thought about library school. I never would've moved to New Orleans. I never would've gone to Portland and had dinner with Bren and Rochelle, Akiva, Alex, SAM, holly...I never would've bopped around LA with Monique at Roscoe's and Pea at Yogurtland. I just...I think it's fascinating.
- Derrick
Love you, love your show, D! <3
- Tamara J.
Yes, definitely. Love you back. I would never have found Scott were it not for FF.
- Mary Carmen
I've always thought there was so much to the name FriendFeed. We met friends who really do feed us. Love you too, Boo.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
:)
- just ZONED
<3
- holly #ravingfangirl
You love me?
- Cristo
<3
- Shevonne
*running tackle hug*
- SAM
Yes, love is possible here :) I would not have got to Chicago were it not for Sarah G, and would not have had so good a time were it not for Robin, Kirsten, Barry, Abigail, and Zee :)
- Pete
It makes me wonder if other are connecting, getting close to people, formulating relationships via other networks, and in other places (and if they seem to be as strongly connected as we are).
- Derrick
Oddly enough, Chris, yes. I'm not crazy about some of the stuff you've pulled over the years, but you're part of the fam, for better or worse.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
MaryB, I'm pretty crazy about most of the stuff I've pulled over the years. :)
- Cristo
I don't hate Cristo.
- Derrick
You don't love me. You just love my doggy style. Wait, nevermind.
- Rodfather
Derrick, not hating is not the same as loving. We've worked on this for years. You're almost ready to break through. Now... just say it. ;)
- Cristo
Hahahahah Rod, I was TOTALLY thinking that. Haha
- Shevonne
I think Derrick is the bee's knees
- SteVe C
Well, that's the difference between a youngish rake and a Midwestern old bat. I'm not saying I wouldn't check your story with three sources before lending you money.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Anyway, I was just thinking about that. :)
- Derrick
MaryB, I'm not pretending to be a Midwestern old bat on this account... today.
- Cristo
And I'm not pretending to be a youngish rake.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Derrick, there are at least 4 other networks/boards I've been on that have formed friendships as close as what's on FF. It's definitely possible. I think the actual architecture at FF here just adds to the whole thing, though.
- Spidra Webster
And I've formed close friendships with Spidra on all of those boards and networks. As different people, of course.
- Cristo
Derrick, there are some people on FF I feel genuine, actual, platonic love for, though I will never meet them. You're one of those people. In fact, you were probably one of the first. Not bad for a random assortment of pixels on my screen. :-)
- Slippy
Funny, Cristo! Were you "Jesus Chrysler" on SFNet?
- Spidra Webster
D - it happens. This is the second community I've found like this. I love you, too.
- Lix
I feel it's definitely possible to love people you've spent time with and watched their lives here on FF. <3
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
actaully I feel platonic lov to every1 that I interact with on FF.. be it a good convo or a heated one..I still belive(I am naive at times), that ALL people are good and need to be loved !
- Peter Dawson
Spidra, is that a trick question?
- Cristo
I don't know what I'd call it but I definitely feel a strong connection to the people here and the community in general. You guys were there for me when I lost my job. You were there for me when my wife nearly died. You were there for me when she lost her job and we didn't know how we were going to make ends meet. There is a core of people here that I truly consider friends whether we ever meet in real life or not. I think that's love.
- DB - Just DB
It's totally possible to love your FF friends :)
- Soup in a TARDIS
This is real life. This is not a drill. (This is also not a pipe, but that's beside the point right now.) Love you, D.
- Your Neighbor Steve
D, I agree. There's a lot of authenticity on FF and a willingness to help that makes me proud to be here. I've now met 3 FF'ers in person and look forward to meeting more, including you.
- Corinne L
{{hugs}} we never would have met and you wouldn't have given me one of my favorite nicknames. :) Yeah, you can definitely love people you've not physically shared space with. I know this for a fact.
- peamageddon
Internet friends are great. My closest friends now are people I first met on the Forever Knight mailing list in 1993 or '94.
- Betsy
I love y'all, so I definitely think it's possible.
- LB so u no it's real
<3 I've been thinking about this as well. I have friends here. I wish we could actually spend time offline together, but, this is good. So much better than not having you all at all.
- Yolanda
I love you D. And so many others here. I've connected in real ways with people thru blogging, a parenting website, & now friendfeed. Y'know, real recognize real, and I'd like to think the reason we're all having the same kind of positive experience is cos ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE GOOD FOLX. Love shines thru even online <3 <3 <3 <3
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Haven't read all the comments, but I dare say I agree with most of you, FF is a strange place, it has redefined the terms/boundaries of friendship, more so than any other social site. It's a place where we all look out for each other and have each others backs, yes there are the provocateurs/trolls on here, but that's life they are everywhere. I♥U all too! New FF plan is to convince a...
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- Halil
I held off commenting here until I could get my thoughts together coherently. My two cents: Derrick, it's entirely appropriate that *you* posted this. The first time you and I met, it was if we had known each other for years. In truth, we had. You are one of my best friends, dude. You are among a group of people I'd do anything for. I have my moments of social ineptitude, but I love meeting you people IRL. Not only is it possible to love FF friends, it's easy to love some of them.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Also, my family has joined me at 2 different meet-ups, and their reactions have been the same both times. They understand why we're friends. We still talk about the Rudy's BBQ meetup in Arlington, even though it was months ago. The meetup at Sarah's in Austin seems like last weekend. That's real.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
I want to go to a meetup and meet you guys. I can't wait for you to meet the wife either. I think she's gradually warmed up to me spending so much (virtual) time on here over the years. You guys liking her yummny kreations hasn't hurt. When we talk I mention you by name (or handle) and don't even have to say from FriendFeed anymore. It's just assumed. Happens all the time now.
- DB - Just DB
Nine and I talk about you guys as though we know you. You are our mutual friends.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Scott and I just said last night that we wish all of y'all could be at our wedding.
- Mary Carmen
^ live streaming?
- Jyl Bit
I gave Mrs. 3 a package of cookies. BOOM. :)
- LB so u no it's real
LB, I believe you were described as "the sweetest thing ever"
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
*blush*
- LB so u no it's real
MC, you know we'll be there in spirit. Remember Alex and Cassie's wedding? We got blow by blow descriptions ... or was it livestreamed. Felt like we were there. Joey's too.
- Laura Norvig
My best friends today are mostly people I've met online. That includes FF, Twitter, Second Life, and mostly Seesmic. I have moved so many times, and friendships dwindled along the way. Social networks changed that for me, and I'll always be grateful.
- Que Sarah Sarah
from iPhone
Some of my very favorite people in the world are here on FF. My love is real.
- Fikisha
I don't have to add to this. I just need to love you all back. Both the folks I've met and have not met.
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
We really have to figure out a way to stream it. I am also counting on the folks who are able to be there will share their pics with everyone.
- Mary Carmen
I love D. I'd let him seduce me any day. I love all of ya'll. You make me who I am, encourage me, keep me going. I may not be around a lot, but I love you just the same. For realizes.
- Mike Nayyar
aretha franklin's hat on flickr - http://www.flickr.com/groups...
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urdumania1, гуакамоле, Kevin L and 117 other people liked this
This made me laugh out loud.
- Sonya Smith
The hat looked better on Aretha
- Bob Gannon
lmao
- Michael W. May
Tupac! [THUD]
- Anika
Actually thought Tupac was able to pull it off quite nicely.
- Mlibrarianus
silliness!
- Sarah Perez
OK, this is hilarious!
- Jeff P. Henderson
OMG She's started a trend of FAIL pics
- The Real sofarsoShawn
that first dog is very william wegman.
- Karim
quick glance threw me for a loop i thought #1 was Worthington!
- Carlos Ayala
It isn't Johnny?!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
hahahhahaha EPIC!
- Mona Nomura
Is this gonna be memefied ? :D
- Mo Kargas
Hrm...I want one now
- Rah-PM 2012
Check out my twitter and facebook :O) Man, that was such a good hat!!!
- Will Higgins™
Must. Reshare.
- MLx
I need to make some of these.
- Sullivan
:D
- Mo Kargas
...this was over a year ago, guys - WHERE DID THE TIME GO?!?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
aahahahahahahah. its very funny. i love the hat. iam new to friendfeed. could u please suggest friends for me. This is my link jolamps.blogspot.com
- KINGSLEY OSEVWE
great scott :)))
- @geekgirls
"I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything." http://t.co/A7RkqH6
Jenny R, Hao Chen, Neya and 13 other people liked this
"Why don't G+ blocks actually block anyone?"
- Joe The Sausage
Why is the sky blue?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Why does it hurt when I go like this?
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
- Do you mind if I sit on your face? - No. - Good answer, you guys really know your stuff.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
What will happen if I press this button?
- John (bird whisperer)
What is the matrix?
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
New @Gmail design is opt-in: Mail Settings > Themes > Choose the "Preview" theme – should be available to everyone now.
Stephen Mack, Hao Chen, Anne Bouey and 6 other people liked this
So white! So bright! Google Calendar too! This will take some getting used to.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks! This is only the beginning... the end state looks much better. :)
- Michael Leggett
So big! Even the "dense" theme doesn't display as much as the current default theme
- Benjamin Golub
Audrey just threw the book "Hands Are Not for Hitting" at Toby. Perhaps we now need "Books Are Not for Throwing".
Hao Chen, Brian Johns, Brent and 17 other people liked this
Yolanda, Oguz Serdar, A. T. and 60 other people liked this
Double cute!
- sergiooo
Great pic's!
- Dan Boggs
Is it just me, or are all baby clothes in either FriendFeed or Twitter colors? I was noticing in my baby boy's clothes today that I had half of web 2.0 in his wardrobe.
- Jesse Stay
:)
- mhmazidi
Wonderful photos. Congrats and enjoy!
- Larry Huffman
yeah it is all nice and happy now - give it 12 months and the inner demon comes out... Nice time though, when they are small and cute :) Enjoy it.
- Dave Gray
The best part at this age is when they fall asleep on your chest.
- Russellreno
Looks like Sarah is trying to push Matt away... saying "Hey dude! We are so out of the womb! Shove over!!"
- Yolanda
I wuv babies!
- Shey
awwww how adorable!
- Jessica
I think the baby sleeping on my chest thing was one of my favorite moments when we had small babies in our family. Thanks for sharing.
- Jeremy Kunz
Sweet pics.
- John McCrea
how adorable..your little ones are soooo cute.. thanks for sharing!
- MiaD
sooo cute!
- Sarah Perez
Bump.
- Louis Gray
FriendFeed Smiley :D #FriendFeed
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niloo, Aykut Karaalioğlu, گاما and 221 other people liked this
خیلی خفنن!عالیه میدوستمشون!:X
- Fereshteh
عکس شماره 9 رونوشت به علی و علیها :))
- Nimaa
مرتضی تیریپ این دهن بشقابی هاست دیگه :)))
- Nimaa
=)))) عکس 8ش هم رونوشت به خودت سرطانی :)))
- I /-\li
علی عکس آخری رونوشت به خودت :))
- Nimaa
چشه خب؟ با یه کم ارتدونسی درست میشه :دی تو برو یه فکری به حال همون شماره 8 خودت بکن که شونصدتا عمل زیبایی هم کمشه :)))
- I /-\li
آرماگدون بریم بفروشیمشون پولدار میشیم :)))
- Nimaa
یه 15 20 دقیقه ای شد ولی باحاله همه وقتی میبینن لبخند میزنن این مهمه :))))
- Nimaa
آلان هم هست ولی سر گیجه گرفتی با من نیست :))) http://friendfeed.com/public
- Nimaa
<3
- yagami
:)))))))))))))
- خان دایی سیا
:)) ايول نيما
- ♣ ♣ ♣
:))
- Sahandram
هاله نور هم داره :))
- جـوان ایرانی
Ok, these are AWESOME.
- Mona Nomura
نیما، سیدکامیار هم پسندید :))) دست مریزاد.
- سیدیوسف
خیلی بامزه ان.. خلاقیتت منو کشته :))
- Saghee
ممنون از همه لطف دارین پس همگی شاد شدیم بادیدنش :به به :دی
- Nimaa
:))) باحاله :دی خوشمان آمد
- یک بابک
شخم :دی
- Nimaa
:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
- parazitt
لاااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااایک :))))) چه خوشگلن! آواتار بعدیم رو از بین اینا انتخاب میکنم :دی
- Saop
=))))))
- Saop
ساناز اتفاقاً اینا نسخه های متفادت تو هستن :)))))))) تولدت هم مبارک
- Nimaa
عالی بود
- Zahra
آره :))))) حالا هی انتخاب میکنم حالشو میبرم =))))) تولد شما هم مبارک :ط :دی :))
- Saop
به به ساناز ط ط :))
- Nimaa
ط ط ط ط ط ط ط ط ط ط حتی :دی
- Saop
=))) ساناز پهن شدم
- Nimaa
شخم :D
- Nimaa
کاش فرفر یکاری میکرد که یه همچین عکسهایی روی سایت باشه که بشه ازش استفاده کرد لازم نباشه خودمون آپلود کنیم :دی
- یک بابک
بابک فعلا اینکارو نکرده ط هم برات بعدش خودش دستی بزار خب تنوع هم داره توش ط
- Nimaa
حالا باید سیو کنم هنوز سیوشون نکردم خب :پی
- یک بابک
راستی اون آخریه اسمایلی عصبانیه؟؟؟
- یک بابک
نه اون ماله اون قومی هست که بهشون میگن دهن بشقابی میدونی کدومو میگم دیگه؟ اسمایلی انسان دوستی حتی :))
- Nimaa
ایده فرشته ست اون مهربونه خیلی
- Nimaa
=)))))))) دهن بشقابی =))))))))))) آره میدونم :)))))
- یک بابک
بابک ط
- Nimaa
ممنونم فرهاد راستی ساب کردمت
- Nimaa
فرهاد شکسته نفسی میکنی خودت استادی این کشدنش کاری نداره یکم تمرین کنی میشه بی نظمیش هست که قشنگش کرده
- Nimaa
:O خیلی جالبه ! ایول داری پسر :) تو الان مرز خلاقیت تو فرفر ترکوندی
- SokooteDel
سوکوت دل جان اینجوری نیست :)) کدوم رو برای خودت آلان ورداشتی؟ چه حالی هستی؟
- Nimaa
من اون دومی تو ردیف اولم :دی
- SokooteDel
سوکوت دل آلانه که دعوامون بشه اونم من ورداشتم حالا برای تو :))))
- Nimaa
نیما، لایک برا اون دو تا که زبان کوچیکشون (حلقشون) از خنده و تعجب معلومه... دقتت رو بخورم.. :))
- امیروفسکی
امیرررر ایول دقت تو عالیه اونی که تعجب کرده زبون کوچیکش یکمی پریشون تره از اونی هست که تو ردیف اولیه آره؟ :دی
- Nimaa
=)))
- امیروفسکی
مرام ِ تو پهلون :دی
- SokooteDel
چاکریم :دی
- Nimaa
WIN
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Cute!
- John (bird whisperer)
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- Mostaf@m
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
Awesome
- Josh Haley
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh
فرشته چه دقتی :)))) ایول
- Nimaa
不是一般的棒
- xywf
ایول ایناست :دی آره آواتار بعدی قطعاً از بین همیناست :دی اگه فری گیت بذاره. خیلی نازن :))
- Saop
ساناز شماره 12 بود زدی :)) قشنگ شده
- Nimaa
ایده یه مقداریشو برای خودت وردار اسمایلی یه آدم بخشنده :دی
- Nimaa
شخم :)
- هادی خ
رونوشت به مسعودک :D
- Nimaa
ايول !! بيا بالا
- حُسین آفلاینـ
شخم مناسبتی. یکی از خارجیای فرفر چندتا از این اسمایلی ها را برداشته گفته خودم طراحی کردم بعدش این لینک را بهش نشون دادم فیدشو پاک کرد
- Nimaa
aahahah çok güzel olmuş :)
- fatoş
Çok teşekkür ederim :)
- Nimaa
عکس بده جنازه تحویل بگیر نیماا. همین الان میرم دنبال کار ویزا و اینا برم سربختش
- I /-\li
FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...
urdumania1, Julian, DB - Just DB and 96 other people liked this
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
or just list location...I'll start...Chatsworth, CA
- Mark Krynsky
I would but I won't
- Outsanity
near Chicago
- Tinfoil 2.0
How do I add myself?
- Mo Kargas
Grayson, GA
- Rah-PM 2012
Puyallup, WA
- Bren
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
erm...Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Mo Kargas
Sydney, Australia.
- Andrew Trinh
Yeah, I don't see how to add anything to the map
- Rah-PM 2012
But you already have Rahsheen.
- Andrew Trinh
Well it's working because I see others are adding themselves...Make sure you are logged into your Google account.
- Mark Krynsky
After most have put their placemarks on, don't let anyone edit it because there's always someone out there waiting to fuck shit up.
- Andrew Trinh
This guide may help http://local.google.com/support...
- Mark Krynsky
@Andrew...good point. I just changed it from public to unlisted which only makes the map available to those with the URL.
- Mark Krynsky
Even so, last time we had the Confessions account details on FF it was tinkered with.
- Andrew Trinh
I added mine, but in the process of learning I think I nudged the Sydney, Australia points off a little. Sorry.
- Rob H.
Ok, think I did it!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Added myself. Verona, Italy
- Stefano
Added. Sydney, Australia
- Jay
Added. Doha, Qatar.
- Mohamed J
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Athens, Greece added, too :)
- George Tziralis
Added.
- Atul Arora
Ace idea, I've added mine in Kent, England.
- Kol Tregaskes
There's no spot for "Hell, Eternity" ... *sigh* I'll have to give in to my worldly location...
- Kyle Brady
Asia's letting the side down
- Toby Graham
added, North London, UK
- Rory
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
Done ! Waterloo Belgium
- Jacopo Gio
@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Great idea!
- Alan Le
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
Am I the only FriendFeeder in VA?
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Oooh, now that's a really great idea.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
I'm there :)
- Alejandro
Yay Alejandro...first South American..and my old stomping grounds in Argentina no less :)
- Mark Krynsky
Added!
- Shey
Neat. Added.
- Rodfather
Added.
- michael sean wright
Alright Shey! We finally have a Canadian...let's see if your fellow compatriot Mark Wilson joins the fray.
- Mark Krynsky
@NiceFishFilms, your pushpin seems a bit off up there in Russia. Dana Point is thousands of miles from there :)
- Mark Krynsky
Oh, I see now...you added 2. You're a pushpin litterbug :)
- Mark Krynsky
Another snowflake pushpin *waves to Shey*
- Micah
whoo hoo! Canadian snowflakes FTW!
- Shey
Added.Hi from Russia.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
How do I add myself again? How do I add my ff to my gmail account?
- Amani
Cairo, Egypt
- Hayk
reykjavik, iceland
- siggimus
Cologne, Germany
- Holger Eilhard
Carcavelos, Portugal
- Ricardo Vidal
Added New Jersey but boy, it took a while to get the Pin logo on the screen, not so obvious
- Sally Church
London EC1 UK
- Joe Dawson
Added
- Michelle M
Added
- Bwana ☠
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Added! I'm the first in The Netherlands :-)
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Added. First in Japan!
- rawwell
I think I added me. HOpe it worked
- Amani
added!
- matthew john ernisse
This is truly awesome!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Added myself in Shenzhen,China.
- Steve Chou
courtenay, canada - http://friendfeed.com/ernieya...
- ernie yacub
added me. Coimbatore, South India
- vijay
Added Bangalore, India.
- Mahesh CR
Added
- Glenn Slaven
Added
- Youngmin Kim
I'm added now, too.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Nice! I'm the only active FriendFeeder in Montreal: Quebec represents FF! I could be a French Canadian FF ambassador or something. =)
- Zu from AOD
Added
- ThenWang
Added
- James Myatt
Added. I am now an icon :^)
- Nick B.
Added =)
- ChaCha Fance
Added.
- Bonnie Foster
Added
- Michael Fidler
Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Finally me too :) Greetings from Ankara Turkey :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Bringing it in to 2010!
- caj needs a haircut
Beaverton, OR
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Waves to Alex...
- Mark Krynsky
Added - Doral, FL.
- caj needs a haircut
Hi Mark!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Added!
- Jennifer Dittrich
Added :)
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
Added EastSide of St Paul (use the edit button)
- WarLord
Egads. I had not updated my location since my days in East Oakland... Yipes!
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Huh...had to readd. Oh, well. :)
- caj needs a haircut
Yeah, there's a few people who've moved since they added themselves here! I haven't. Same old, same old.
- Jandy
Wow you guys revived this old school post...heh.
- Mark Krynsky
Added.
- rochelle rochelle
added (i cant get my fish and fish hook to stay pinned, :( ) Va Beach, Va
- chaz2b
College Girl's Unbelievably Racist Video Rant - http://jezebel.com/#!57816...
Hao Chen, Steven Perez, imabonehead and 23 other people liked this
"A woman who purports to be a UCLA student has released a video that went viral over the weekend, wherein she makes various racist claims about Asian-American students. The university has called the video "repugnant.""
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"It certainly is. Her screed (transcript available here) is so un-self-aware — she refers to herself as a "nice American girl" even as she's uttering a ridiculous mockery of some unspecified "Asian" language, and repeatedly talks about "manners" while exhibiting a catastrophic lack of them — that some have questioned whether it's a joke. But it's not at all funny, and if it's a parody,...
more...
- Jessie
Transcript: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011...
- Jessie
WTF?????
- Jessie
Stuff like this makes me think UCLA needs to offer a class in "How the Internet Works." Also, "How Not to be a Racist Idiot."
- Jessie
she's failed already.
- Joe The Sausage
her shirt failed worse than her slander.
- Josh Aaron Willis
"So we know that I'm not the most politically correct person so don't take this offensively. I don't mean it toward any of my friends I mean it toward random people that I don't even know in the library." Well, that makes it better.
- Kristin
LOL, this bitch.
- Derrick
It's even sadder because I've witnessed this many times. We have a very big asian community at our school and I've had many classmates who have been blatantly racist towards asian students in our class. The stereotype they've created in their minds are disgusting and sadly not very different than what this girl is saying. I've heard much more meaner comments than those in this video. It's truly disturbing and heartbreaking.
- D. Eda Goze
For the record, the people that have annoyed me in the library were annoying regardless of race, creed, national origin, etc. *shrug*
- Derrick
I can't wait to see what wrath of god treatment gets rained down on her by denizens of the intarwebs. Because if there's one thing we know for sure, no deed goes unpunished. And then we'll hear on the news all about poor sad Alexandra Wallace and how she's being so mercilessly harassed and she didn't mean to be a racist! She just wanted to get the word out about using cell phones in the...
more...
- Hookuh Tinypants
Well, if Asians weren't so annoying, she wouldn't have had to make this post. It's not her fault! [carnival music]
- Akiva
Well, I can't say she didn't have it coming. "**Update: If anyone in The Dirty Army wants to let Alexandra Wallace know how they feel about her racism, feel free to contact her at 916-747-8670 or you can email her, awallace421@gmail.com." http://thedirty.com/2011...
- D. Eda Goze
Has the university proven she is Alexandra Wallace? As much as I would love to see her chewed out for this, I would hate to see some innocent person with that name get harassed because someone else posted a video claiming to be her.
- Jessie
I'm speechless after seeing this comment. Apparently, "she's standing up to the asians" wow, just wow. It must be hard living with so much hate in your life. http://d.pr/huHb -oh my god!- http://d.pr/wJ5Y
- D. Eda Goze
She says she is studying Political Science. I wonder if she's gotten to the coursework on diplomacy...
- Andy
yeah but she has a point "So, thanks for listening, that was my rant. I just -- even if you're not Asian you really shouldn't be on your cell phone in the library "
- Peter Dawson
++Akiva !!
- Peter Dawson
I wish I could get Akiva doing that on video. Carnival music included. That's straight genius comedy right there.
- Josh Haley
I could never make my breasts look so pretty.
- Akiva
She's pretty hot.
- Spencer
Someone should let this bimbo know that the city of angels belonged to the native American tribes for thousands of years, then it was discovered and taken from them by Portuguese and Spaniards, then it became part of Mexico. It was only after the Mexican-American war that via a treaty US purchased Los Angeles (purchased California). Chinese had started their migration into Los Angeles...
more...
- سيما كيا Sima kia
love da last comment above..."Political science my foot" !!
- Peter Dawson
She done goofed.........................................
- Jonathan Hardesty
I feel like this is just some kind of prank, and that this couldn't possibly be real. A prank done in poor taste and judgement...but still...this feels so unreal. :(
- Jonathan Hardesty
the chancellor responded with a written statement and a video: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal... he says nothing about what will happen to the student (which is the correct response I think)...
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I assure you that this is not a prank. US has more than a few like her. She, most likely, is a god loving and god fearing good Christian person too. When I first came to US, I wondered how they made it to the moon.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
Yeah, Jonathan! Don't you know ANYTHING about America?
- Akiva
I sense a remix video will come soon.
- Rodfather
Saturday Night Live should be good this weekend.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
I think someone already autotuned "Ooooh Ching Chong Ling Long Ting Tong, Ooohhhhh." You could do a remix with Rush Limbaugh making fun of the president of the PRC.
- Victor Ganata
I agree with the above statement and I don't think she should be sacked from school. She was exercising her rights to freedom of speech and expression and say what is in her mind. But the sad part is everyone now knows what is in her mind. She should have exercised that right wisely. It is unfortunate that some believe freedom of speech means say whatever you want to say and don't think...
more...
- سيما كيا Sima kia
I think she's funny and hot. And annoyed and stupid.
- AJ Batac :)
On a serious note, the one good thing about ignorance is that it can be corrected: people can learn. There are a lot of assumptions going around about this girl's intelligence but all the IQ in the world won't help you when you've been miseducated by people you grew up with and/or trust.
- Akiva
Ey voy!
- Dracula
She was only, like, about to reach, like, an epiphany. What a flaming mess.
- Corinne L
Rodfather, she's already been dub-stepped. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Josh Haley
Alternative dub step: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Josh Haley
And the hip-hop remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Josh Haley
http://ohhchingchonglinglongtingtong.com That was quick!
- AJ Batac :)
This one has a great hook http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Josh Haley
Can I, like, reach through my, like, computer and, like, smack her?
- Elena
So apparently UCLA has determined that the student is in fact Alexandra Wallace, and she sent the following apology to the school paper: “Clearly the original video posted by me was inappropriate. I cannot explain what possessed me to approach the subject as I did, and if I could undo it, I would. I’d like to offer my apology to the entire UCLA campus. For those who cannot find it within them to accept my apology, I understand.”
- Jessie
At least she didn't give a "I'm sorry people were offended" non-apology. And this will probably follow her at least through graduation, and will likely impact her job prospects in the future. And I hope she'll be thinking of this every time she sits near her Asian/Asian-American classmates, because I'm pretty sure they will be.
- Jessie
U dick!
- Akiva
If she plans to have a career in politics, then this situation may have hampered it a bit at least with this video of record.
- CarlC
Apparently she's receiving death threats now. What the hell, people? Crap like that transforms her into a victim instead of a perpetrator.
- Soup in a TARDIS
I am wondering how UCLA accepted her.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
Each action of idiocy will be met by an equal or greater reaction of idiocy.
- Akiva
Why is everyone taking this girl so seriously? She is obviously an ignorant fool. It is often best to just ignore the fool in the corner.
- Jeff P. Henderson
NO ONE PUTS FOOL IN THE CORNER
- Akiva
[dance number]
- Micah
Because "Do you maintain racist opinions?" wasn't on the UCLA application?
- Soup in a TARDIS
[does the Watermelon Crawl]
- Akiva
Unless they put themselves in the corner...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Oooooohhhhhhh!
- Josh Haley
I PITY THE FOOL IN THE CORNER
- Victor Ganata
I think the woman is going to pay the price for the remarks she made. May this be a lesson for those who abuse freedom of speech and expression.
- سيما كيا Sima kia
okay. well first of all her boobs are about to fall out of her shirt. Not attractive. Even less attractive than her fried, blonde hair. Not to mention she sounds stupid. She has that voice that makes everything sound like a question. This video pissed me right off. I wonder if shes aware of how many people could make a video stereotyping "girls like her". People are idiots.
- Marissa
Could you guys hear anything she said? cause I was just gawking at her tits.
- ♕Dr. Eynollah شایگان ♕
It's always fun to watch other girls react to girls like her.
- Akiva
wow! unbelievably moronic!
- Gur-Khan
It's not worth commenting on her appearance, honestly. There's enough stupid flying out of her mouth to criticize. And it's not like she planned to get dressed up for this - I imagine she would have worn something different if she were expecting anyone beyond her close friends to see this.
- Jessie
I think here are double stds here. if it were Lou Dobbs or Glenn Beck, it would be awsomely ok ?? but if it was a generic student its awsomely bad and rascit ??
- Peter Dawson
Peter, unfortunately, for every girl like this there are probably ten other people just like her who are silent in their bigotry. Lou Dobbs, Glenn Beck, people of their ilk, they're popular because people agree with them but having people agree with you doesn't make what you're saying right or good. Racism is racism whether you've got a TV show or just a webcam.
- Akiva
@Akiva. agree with your views. "Racism is racism whether you've got a TV show or just a webcam."
- Peter Dawson
It's for the best...
Hao Chen, Carrie Thomson, Josh Haley and 46 other people liked this
ROFLMAO!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
OMG I just died laughing. That is the best, Johnny.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
LMAO that last pic <3
- Penguin
More Wang talk!
- SteVe C
Last frame sad Johnny is sad.
- Micah
Is that a giant cupcake behind you!?
- Rochelle
GIANT CUPCAKE COOKIE JAR™ ftw
- Micah
:)
- Derrick
EPIC!
- Rick Schmidt
We'd never interrupt the sport.
- Stephen Mack
<3
- I like big Botts
*consoles Johnny in the corner*
- Sparky, lurking
lol
- Tamara J.
I <3 Johnny
- Just Katie
Love it!
- Elena
Winning!
- Outsanity
RT @ashrewdmint: One does not simply SSH into Mordor.
Tudor Bosman, John (bird whisperer), Turkish Delight and 8 other people liked this
Because you first have to punch a hole through the Black Gates.
- Wizetux
Sauron has neither public keys nor fingerprints.
- Kevin Fox
Because, if you can't keep track of a ring of power, he probably couldn't keep his private key safe either.
- Wizetux
One token ring to rule them all, one token ring to find them, one token ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
- Mark Trapp
Its logic gates are guarded by more than just dorks. There are processes there that do not sleep(9). The great I/O is ever watchful. It is a Barrens waste LAN, riddled with firewalls, bash, and disks. The very Macbook Air you breathe is a poisonous zune. Not with sixty-five thousand, five hundred and thirty-six memes could you do this. It is full of fail.
- Stephen Mack
And then there are the daemons.
- Private Sanjeev
I suppose one could finger Mordor and take a look at its .plan.
- Kevin Fox
YOU SHALL NOT P- oh, sorry, what? You have an encrypted key? Oh, may bad. Please come on through.
- Josh Haley
Meatless Monday: Twice-Baked Potatoes - http://www.ezrapoundcake.com/archive...
Tom-Yum (الی), Anna Haro, Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart and 22 other people liked this
That looks good!
- Katy S
We had those tonight
- I like big Botts
Sprinkle a little bacon on it and I'm in!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff, not kosher!
- Rochelle
Bacos!
- Akiva
turkey bacon would work just fine
- Katy S
Oh, I didn't know it had to be kosher... Turkey bacon would work just fine then.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Bacos, Jeff - I'm NOT kosher, but if you're doing it right, you're also not mixing the turkey with the cheese.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Jeff, I'm also vegetarian, so no turkey bacon!
- Rochelle
Dang, your no fun! ;-P
- Jeff P. Henderson
Ah, I momentarily forgot about the cheese as I was focusing on bacon substitutes.
- Katy S
ohh! Twiced baked potatoes are the best! Delicious!
- Anna Lynn M.
Just saw an "Old Guys Rule" license plate holder. In the vast majority of countries, this is the case. #unintendedirony
Hutch Carpenter, Rachel Lea Fox, Jeanette Bosman and 8 other people liked this
"Happy 65th birthday! Here's your silver discount card, your AARP card, your mandate to vote no on everything, and a moderately-sized country to rule with an iron fist. Have fun!"
- Mark Trapp
Thing 1 and Thing 2 http://twitpic.com/42c4kv
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Hao Chen, ciw, chaz2b and 13 other people liked this
Where's the hair?
- John E. Bredehoft
FriendFeed Comments MT Plugin Test Entry - http://mt-hacks.com/mt41...
nvrshrdta, HealingBrush, Kol Tregaskes and 4 other people liked this
Here is the first test comment to kick things off. This comment was submitted via the blog's comment form.
- Mark Carey
Cool plugin Mark.
- beau
The WP plugin came first (by Glenn Slaven), though there are a few differences: http://mcurl.net/wpff
- Mark Carey
mark, this is great stuff. nice work!
- Michael Sippey
The plugin has now been officially registered as a FF client, so "via" messages should show up for comments made via the blog comment form and cc.ed to FriendFeed.
- Mark Carey
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Oh yeah, I should do that too eh?
- Glenn Slaven
Yes, you should ;) That comment was my first test of it, works well...
- Mark Carey
Good work mate, that looks great
- Glenn Slaven
lets see if this shows up :)
- Adam Ostrow
Love this! What versions(s) of MT does the plugin support?
- femme bot
The plugin should work with MT4 or higher. Tested with 4.1 and 4.2 release candidate.
- Mark Carey
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I'd love if something like this was developed for Drupal too.
- Koray AI
This has been a test of the ...
- dug
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
good plugin!
- Stefano Peppucci
testing FF
- Tom Keating
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
just another tester :)
- Anil
Testing commenting in Twitter and friendfeef on mt-hack's blog
- Hans Mestrum
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
this is a test, of course. But what if I comment on the blog?
- .mau.
and this comment is the other way round.
- .mau.
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Comment 2
- Rachel James O'Reilly
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Kol Tregaskes, Stoyan Zhekov, Nick Taylor and 26 other people liked this
doubtful
- Jason Carreira
I'm still wondering why no one ever talks about Elgg when it comes to creating a niche social network site.
- FFing Enigma
Good call on the disparate social graphs.
- Hao Chen
Agreed... building a social network right now built on WordPress for our local twitter community -> http://dmtweetup.org
- andy brudtkuhl
@Stupid Blogger - Elgg is pretty cool
- andy brudtkuhl
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
bolog and ne
- adolfo foronda
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
For those of you mentioning Elgg, you may enjoy this older post where RWW interviewed the Elgg founders: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Sarah Perez
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
Fourth of July resolution - 5 days without mentioning Louis Gray in a blog post
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Rishabh Mishra (p248), Ontario Emperor and 16 other people liked this
Dislike.
- Louis Gray
Just testing
- Charlie Anzman
Did you win?
- Louis Gray
It's hard Charlie, it's hard...
- Hutch Carpenter
You could just write about Cyndy and use my name instead?
- Louis Gray
Louis isn't really a person. He's a 'bot'. Mention his name. With 22 seconds, he's there. Faster than TechMeMe
- Charlie Anzman
You got lucky, this time, Anzman.
- Louis Gray
Yeah, I think that's my new policy. Anytime I link to a profy.com story, it's automatically going to say, "Louis Gray posted some interesting..."
- Hutch Carpenter
Cyndy's been getting way too much attention lately what with the DJ stuff and all. How 'bout, 'You should really check out Friendfeed on Saturday night. It's Saturday Night Live - Live Worldwide'
- Charlie Anzman
Think I just sounded like Scoble
- Charlie Anzman
..."Live Worldwide Talk Show"
- Hutch Carpenter
He couldn't do it! A new kind of (Mini) Venture Capital was 3 days later. http://tinyurl.com/6p8ggr
- Louis Gray
Louis is the man!
- Thomas Hawk
oh, hilarious. lol!
- Sarah Perez
I'm counting down the days until a Chuck Norris-styled Louis Gray website pops up. Here I'll start you off: Louis Gray didn't invent the internet - he invented Al Gore.
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Marco: just registered LouisGrayFacts.com :-P
- Mark Trapp
LOVE IT - now we need a Louis Gray Facts room so we can centralize the facts lol. 50 years from now Louis Gray will be talked about by the Gen Y's children's children as a mythical digital being
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Once you create the room, let us know...I got a couple brewing in my head region :)
- Bwana ☠
All set: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... Should create a Twitter account too, could get all integrated with this.
- Mark Trapp
Louis Gray doesn't type. His keys duck out of fear.
- Shawn Farner
Slippy: don't be silly. Chuck Norris doesn't need to think. Ideas beg his brain for a place :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Hey, you guys! I'm typing in an EPIC THREAD!
- Hao Chen
Who is this chuck norris guy I keep hearing about? I am too lazy to google him, so friendfeed should do the job for me :P
- Yuvi
Too lazy to Google something? You're in trouble, Yuvi.
- Shawn Farner
@Shawn: Notice the (:P). I just figured that Chuck Norris is some kinda celebrity that I needn't need to bother knowing about till it's thrust into my face. :)
- Yuvi
Poor, Yuvi :( You were a deprived child!
- Hao Chen
@Hao: Guess I was just born into the wrong part of the world :P
- Yuvi
Louis is the new chuck norris? Neat!
- Corvida
louis is trying to be scoble 2.0 - please stop now :)
- Allen Stern
@Yuvi you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you ;-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's it! You're right Allen. I'm not mentioning Louis for at least 5 days ....
- Charlie Anzman
@Dobromir: Is it from russia? :P
- Yuvi
ive done facebook-free week and twitter-free week, you are doing gray-free week, i should counter with scoble-free week
- Allen Stern
Allen - It's kinda like 'fasting'. I finally cheated
- Charlie Anzman
Bump.
- Louis Gray
Bump Back ..... Almost 2 years ?! .... Wow!
- Charlie Anzman
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
urdumania1, Thomas Amberg, Xitong Liu and 50 other people liked this
Will "my network and friends" work too?
- JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Thanks!
- georgeker
Thank you !
- Joan Dossetto
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
this link might help [http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008...].
- MikeAmundsen
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either.
- MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I spent like half an hour last week trying to find my custom feed URL so I could import FB status into FriendFeed. No luck. =(
- Darren
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =)
- Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all?
- MikeAmundsen
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :)
- Charley M
FB status is gone!
- Lonnie Robinson
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
does not work
- Valdas A.
as for 2010-04-30
- Valdas A.
IZE SORRY I ENDANJURED U - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008...
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LOLing.
- Clay Newton
I'm in
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Here comes the man hug express! *hug*
- Andrew Dobrow
Luk atz mai uid!
- Yuvi
I guess this is technically an LOLHuman.
- Andrew Dobrow
awww
- Bryn Youngblut
Panda's are quite possibly the most absurd looking animal second only to the duck billed platypus. It is for this reason that I <3 dem.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Kungfu Panda is showing his sensitive side! :)
- imabonehead
*bump*
- Micah
TweetDeck: New Twitter AIR App With Summize Integration, Groups - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
CannonGod, Hao Chen, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 13 other people liked this
what is this twitter AIR app #1000 :) those things things mate more the bunnies!
- (jeff)isageek
Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me. I dig it.
- Louis Gray
im just trying to be funny...hehe good post btw.
- (jeff)isageek
Wow, twhirlscope down -- gotta try this out
- Shey
ah! and I was wondering why my twitter vanity search hit on that topic as I do not like the air apps. but grouping actually would be a reason to try it out. problem: as long as twitter decimates the request rates it is unreliable, but a first step in the right direction. will download it now ;)
- Nicole Simon
Louis, I think you're right - there is still innovation happening around Twitter, fortunately. The fact is there is still a huge audience on Twitter and that audience still has the potential to be monetized. I'm even building something around Twitter at the moment. There is still that threat though, that developers could leave if Twitter keeps neglecting them - it's in the back of the mind
- Jesse Stay
"feels" like Twhirl. Wish it had FF support...if it does it wasn't obvious from the website. I agree with others that I'd really like to see these Adobe air apps with some better skins
- Rob Neville
from twhirl
"Now, now, Jeff. I mentioned in the article that I typically prefer native apps or Web apps to AIR apps, but this one is very interesting, at least to me." - That's part of why I like the platform so much. Most people like native apps but AIR apps are pretty easy to build so there's bound to be a few that people really like. (Ryan - rstewart@adobe.com)
- Ryan Stewart
Bump, for good times
- Jesse Stay
The 8 Phases of Dating - http://divisibleby0.com/dating...
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positive.
- Bren
This is SO cute haha
- Mona Nomura
"THPPBT"
- Carlos Ayala
Lord, not I said the fly. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Lol. The last one with all the babies is the funniest.
- Alan Le
Sounds an awful lot like my daily high school life, I swear. :)
- Zach Flauaus
Wow thats definitely depressing and most certainly not how I get down.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I know yours mostly are, but is this SFW? I'm a little scared to click... :s
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LOL, Kamilah they are. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Thanks... it's *semi* safe, it does include some f-bombs. Wish I could easily shrink it down a bit more. Anyway, it was kinda sad :( I keep hoping things won't go that way... this Exciting Phase has lasted for a solid 6 months so far...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Reminds me of the joke about the phases of sex... The 1st kind of sex is Smurf Sex. This kind of sex happens when youfirst meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face.The 2nd kind of sex is Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been withyour partner for a short time and you are so horny you will have sexanywhere, even in the kitchen.The 3rd kind of sex is Bedroom Sex....
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- Tinfoil 2.0
HAHAHAHAHAHA...LMAO!!!!
- Anna Haro
Scary...
- Mark Aitken
from fftogo
LOL I think i'm stuck in a phase 1,2,3,6 loop
- ·[▪_▪]·
Getting to 1 is a struggle for me, oh my life. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
AWESOME!! ROFLMAO!!
- Susan Beebe
Omg I shared this almost a year ago!
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
Wow, talking about ressurecting a zombie thread. 8^P
- Chieze Okoye
I'm super stoked I connected wiht the artist!
- Mona Nomura
Recently my cousin's head was run over by a car. This is what's left of her helmet. My cousin completely survived because of this helmet. Please think of this before riding a bike without a helmet next time!
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I've ridden only once without a helmet in as long as I can remember. Felt vulnerable!
- Adam Loving
from StumbleRead
It's true. They work.
- Andrew Feinberg
wow... that's amazing. how old is your cousin jesse?
- dave mcclure
dave, my cousin's 30, just 1 year younger than me
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
You can read her story, in her own words here. I'm inspired: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
This happened to a friend of mine at the beginning of the month. He didn't do so good in the accident, but the helmet obviously saved his life. Thankfully is on his way home tomorrow: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit...
- Steve Lacey
I used to ride my bike without the helmet even though it is mandatory in Chennai, India. But after reading this I am not even going to the next street in my bike without helmet.
- Sudar
I never wear a helmet. When hearing things like this, I always think of this article.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1.... In the Netherlands no one wears a helmet. It seems safe to me.
- Peter Stuifzand
I was hit while riding to work in summer 2006 & did not want anyone to touch my helmet at all costs. If my brain was scrambled, I did not want anyone to touch my egg:) I highly recommend a helmet especially if you think you will not need one! Mine was almost the same color too & manufacturer, but there is no conspiracy there:)
- Roney Smith
Bicyclists/motorcyclists that don't wear helmets are better called future organ donors
- Brian Sullivan
that's incredible...
- Jamie Allen
from twhirl
Wow, glad to hear your friend is doing well after that. I agree, helmets save lives. Regardless, I've many intentional close-calls by drivers who don't want to share the road. Unfortunately, this is the common attitude where I live (southern US).
- pete
we wear helmets for everything: mtb, snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding & even surfing - skulls are fragile why not put a protective layer around it (i also try real hard to not ride on streets - a high percentage of drivers are oblivious to bike riders)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
I always ride in my helmet and stay to bike lanes as much as possible. Nice to know the safety tools work. Now, if I can just avoid that NYPD cop with a penchant for knocking people off their bikes. Hopefully, he won't transfer to LAPD.
- Jason Toney
Peter Stuifzand, my cousin would be dead if she did not wear her helmet. That article is BS. Wear your helmet!
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Point blank. You are a moron if you ride without a helmet. Sorry, but that's true and you're just going to play into Darwinian theory should you continue to ride without one. Any 'real' cyclist (e.g - you've been hit by a car - and yes, I have been) will tell you this without reservation. Helmets work without a doubt.
- AJ Kohn
I survived a nasty motorcycle crash in my youth and would also be dead without that helmet - which cracked in 2 like an egg (that would have been my head, as the nurse aptly put it!).
- Susan Beebe
A friend who's a cop refers to motorcycles as donorcycles whenever she sees someone riding without a helmet. I figure that applies for bicycles, too.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
I was on the way to work Monday morning while it was raining, when the third car in front of me spun out of control and flipped twice into a ditch. When I pulled over to help her out she was just fine. She only had a scratch on her left shoulder from the broken window and was not hurt anywhere else. THE REASON: She was wearing her seat belt. It's nice to hear that these devices are actually helping us!
- David Cook
Wow! I wear mine! Didn't for years - I was lucky I guess. Thanks for posting that!
- matthew hunt
OMG... Jesse, do you have a link other than here on FF? I have friends whose kids refuse to wear theirs, and seeing this may help.
- Cyndy
Cyndy why not just link here - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
Dutch don't wear helmets and they don't get killed by cars http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterd....
- Peter Stuifzand
Actually they do get killed by cars. But culturally they are not inclined to wear helmets.
- Brian Sullivan
Cyndy, with this being dug out of the grave, I just noticed your question. That particular picture is from my cousin's blog here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... You can read the full story here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... Search for "run over by car" and you can read about her entire ordeal.
- Jesse Stay
My brother would not be alive today if he did not wear his helmet while riding his motorcycle; please wear a helmet!
- Sandra
man
- Shey
If it's nice enough to ride, I probably won't be bothering with the human-powered bike any longer. I always wear a helmet on my gas-powered bike.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
As long as we won't have mountains, we Dutch will not wear those things. Otherwise we won't be able to recognise the tourists on bikes.
- Ton Zijp
Thanks for sharing - I had a mishap with a car, wasn't wearing a helmet at the time, was lucky. If they don't see you, it doesn't matter either way. Wear the helmet!
- Rick Bucich
This isn't as extreme as this but when I fell off my bike onto a sidewalk and broke my arm, I thought I was fine for a while. Later, my dad noticed that the whole front of my helmet was all scratched up and the visor in front was torn off! I realized that if I wasn't wearing my helmet on the 2 minute trip down the road, I probably wouldn't be typing this comment right now! Not that I'd be dead but I would have suffered some head damage, limiting my ability to do most things.
- Kevin Lyons
Helmets for cyclists are mandatory in Australia. Still gives me the shudders when I'm travelling and see bareheaded bicyclists on the roads.
- Kate Foy
Breaking Up a Traffic Jam! MUST SEE - http://www.metacafe.com/watch...
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"Sometimes a single driver can vastly improve traffic."
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
I always leave a large gap in front of me.
- Michelle M
I think I'll do this from now on
- AJ Batac :)
I had heard about something like this a while back. I try to do it as much as I can but jackalopes are always cutting in the space. Oh well.
- caj needs a haircut
Continue what you are doing Curtis. Don't mind those jackalopeseses
- AJ Batac :)
This philosophy collapses when you have real gridlock though; if all the lanes are clogged with stopped (or very slow moving) traffic and you try to employ this technique, you just end up pissing off the cars trapped behind you because you are going 5mph while everyone else is going 10.
- Phil Glockner
It's simply courteous and defensive driving. There should be space between cars for safety. And there's no reason to close ranks to not allow others in. We're all going in the same direction with the same goal. If you'd like others to be courteous, always be courteous yourself.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Living in LA has totally colored how I drive now. I remember going back home to SD to see my folks and I was agog at how much more aggressive I'd become. :(
- Derrick
It's not cheating, it's just optimal timing :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's the rocket scientist like this that causes wrecks behind him and road rage. Slower traffic keep right is the law (for good reason). He demonstrates why he should stay in the far right lane, go about his business, and stop trying to "fix all of the traffic around him". What an ego.
- Robert Kenney
the most important part is really the end, where he says how this style of driving is actually calming and altruistic instead of infuriating and selfish.... geez, if everything felt that way we'd have less problems once people got out of their car, all frustrated and pissy.
- Nicķ
Simple math.
- Mike Reynolds
This is absolutely brilliant. I think I just found a pick of the week and it's only Tuesday.
- Josh Haley
This is the dude who did the zero cost steadycam using a tripod. Good stuff.
- Rodfather
I gotta check that out, Rodfather. I could put a steadycam to work. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to...
- Josh Haley
I received a 404 error. There seems to be a traffic jam on the server as well.
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
It's kind of obvious.. stop and go causes problems (and wrecks), even if it does take you longer, it doesn't FEEL longer because you aren't gas/break/gas/break, so less stressful drive. On the flip side, you think this guy driving slow (and not keeping the traffic pace) will cause someone else to slam him in the rear?
- Tim Hoeck
It might cause more disruption with cars behind him moving into the other lane to pass him. Honestly, I can't stand drivers who leave a huge gap in front during a traffic jam. Josh, it's basically just extending a tripod and holding it in the middle :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Rodfather
Interesting: "Governor Bush vetoed 2005 SB732, which would have reserved the left lane for passing, saying that drivers blocking the left lane are 'cautious and careful.'" - from "State keep right laws" http://www.mit.edu/~jfc...
- Micah
So, his basic tactic, albeit in a single lane, is similar to what I see highway patrol officers do when they want to SLOW DOWN traffic -- the highway patrol car swerves back and forth from fast to left to right lane and back and forth, lights ablazing, effectively doing two things -- creating a BIG GAP between the cop car and the rest of the traffic in front of him, and second SLOWS...
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- Pete D
A few people already mentioned it above, but let me also say that this technique will not work in heavily trafficked roads. I've spent time in cities like Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and you just can't leave a large gap between you and the car in front of you. First they will get filled by other cars really really quickly, and second you will just piss off the cars behind you.
- Andre P. Siregar
My wife and I debate this, because I sometimes do this myself. Stop and go traffic seems silly, when throughput would be higher if people left enough space between cars to absorb some of the braking. The website at http://trafficwaves.org/ is interesting, especially the link to http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304... that claims single-lane jams would be radically reduced if >=20% of cars had adaptive cruise control.
- Matt Cutts
Meh. I just do whatever gets me to my destination fastest #aggressivedriver
- LANjackal
kinda like why people are requested to exit in an orderly fashion during a fire. The only hindrance to this is getting over the feeling of being taken advantage of by the jackasses who ignore the order. But no pain no gain and you have to live with that for the greater good.
- vijay
I practice a type-A version of this in non-stop-and-go traffic, I'd call "driving Parkour", basically, I tend to drive over the speed limit, but I leave large gaps, and when I need to slow down, I avoid hitting my brakes and try to led friction/drag slow my car down before I have to hit my breaks. I look far ahead and try to plot out if I need to switch lanes in order to maintain speed...
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- Ray Cromwell
Clarkson eluded to this in his unique crass manner, don't brake and drive clever. Save everyone money.
- Toby Graham
the biggest cause of traffic jams are the idiots who don't get in lane and bimble along in the middle lane without any plan to actually overtake anyone. I've seen people when there has been nothing on the inside lane and yet they won't pull into it as they should. This is even more obvious when you consider that articulated lorries aren't allowed to drive in the outside lane, meaning...
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- alphaxion
( ++ alphaxion for 'bimble'. Loving that :D )
- vijay
The roads imho would be better if more drove this way. I was, however, waiting for some kind of shocking thing to happen in the video.
- Rob Schieber
I agree ashish. I "liked" this just so I could watch it later on my laptop. shouldn't have to do that.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
This is actually an impressive use of game theory/backward induction to determine an optimal strategy. If this guy isn't a mathematician or work for the highway department, he should be.
- Mark Trapp
i do the same here in Rome/Italy since 1998
- FullSite
Great to see this taken up again - I've been doing this since I first read his site years ago...
- Kevin Marks
I always keep lot of room in front of my car for my safety but I think it takes lot of room and creates longer line.
- Ashish
While the line may be longer the actual distance you travel isn't any greater; you use less gas; your breaks will last longer; you're less likely to be involved in a crash and in fact it has an almost negligible affect on your travel time. Yes it is "slower" but on my 50 mile commute the difference is maybe a couple of minutes.
- Eoghann Irving
I agree Eoghann Irving. Wish everybody thought like this.
- Ashish
+1 Pete Delucchi. I do agree it's probably better for your mental health to drive this way. Assuming you don't mind the "insult" of everybody cutting into to your lane.
- Matsis
Drivers behind me may get annoyed but there is always room at the front ;)
- Ashish
I used to drive like this, until my commute changed to one that had more traffic lights. Then I realized that letting cars in front of me didn't make 1 second per car difference, it could make 10's of minutes, because I'd often miss traffic light cycles. I wish it wasn't the case - I guess it's going to depends on your commute.
- Nick Lothian
for the most part this will work; unless you're in the NYC area or such.
- clarke thomas
Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996...
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No info about the financial aspects of the deal for now.
- TiTi
Ithink that tey have to do it now, or never
- abdellah
"committed to supporting the needs of FF user community"
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Nice :) Thanks Robert
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
^^until FB shutters FF
- JCunwired
nice scoop!
- Marc Ostrick
@Brian How many times have we heard that line before? :(
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
I hope they made a bunch of money, because they SOLD US ALL :(
- zio bonino
Robert, was this really posted 5 hours ago?
- Daniel Chow
Robert: Say "cool" less!
- Stephen Foskett
I was thinking the same thing. Count how many times you said "Cool" Robert ;)
- Andru Edwards
This acquisition is most likely going to suck for users, but congrats to the FF team. Once Google announced Wave, selling to Facebook was probably the only remaining exit strategy worth the money.
- Chip Ramsey
last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook
- Jacopo Gio
I don't know if i'm excited by the possiblities of this move, or frightened by what this could mean.
- John Czwartacki
I hope they don't spoil it for us. I just want to keep coming to Friendfeed.com
- Mark
If they had no plans of shutting down FriendFeed and rolling features into Facebook they would have said so right away to avoid speculation and to reassure FF users. I am trying not to be suspicious, but I am.
- Inside Alaska
I'm in the same camp Alaska
- Keith - @tsudo
Andru: it was about 100 degrees outside where I was doing the interview. I was trying to think cool and keep my cool. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe now we'll be able to integrate Facebook feed with FF & twitter
- Justin Long
Faceborg...Googlebook...time to move back to StumbleUpon? Guess we should have seen this coming when FriendFeed got integrated into FeedBurner.
- Internet Strategist
This interview is pretty funny... the person interviewing sounds like he just wants to ask questions for the sake of asking questions...;-) ... thanks for the insightful interview but..
- Sherif Mansour
In the interview, it was said that FriendFeed was not in immediate danger and could have continued for a number of years on their own. I'm not quite sure if that is true, because FriendFeed didn't develop their own business model.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
About integrating the social graphs, my social networks on FF and FB had different purposes. I don't have any friends on FB whom I haven't personally met, whereas I subscribe to some people I don't know on FF just because their feeds are interesting. On a related note, the FB graph is undirected and the FF graph is directed.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Scobleizer interviews Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed RE acquisition by Facebook.
- Deano @ Byron New Media
Rough transcript: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
Paul and Brett jumped at the chance to increase their user base a thousand-fold. Whatever comes out of this is going to be huge.
- Vezquex
You are right vzx
- Nicolas Gosset
from IM
"tremendous opportunity" is so vague. Opportunity for who? What opportunity exactly? Or is it just the opportunity to allow the friendfeed employees who weren't already rich to get rich?
- Laura Norvig
Laura: it's every engineer's dream to change the world of 300 million people instead of a few hundred thousand people. That's why this is a tremendous opportunity.
- Robert Scoble
Sigh. I guess. It's just very hard to think of Facebook as a life-changing venue.
- Laura Norvig
Robert: Thanks for this - some information at last!
- Jim Connolly
Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Spaceweaver, Vishy, Anthony Farrior and 120 other people liked this
That was quick! Look forward to reading this one!
- JCunwired
Because just like in high school, sometimes the sweaty jock who doesn't wash his hands after using the john still gets the best girl - while those of us who carried her books and wrote her poetic love letters and timed our walking to go by her locker at just the right time find ourselves on the outside looking in again." You nailed it Louis!
- DJ Stevie Steve
Nice post, Louis. Was waiting to see what you'd write. :)
- Kali
well said
- andy brudtkuhl
this is perfect, Louis. Nicely done.
- Vicarbott
Super-poke.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
My immediate reaction was Facebook will push ads onto their users. I think FriendFeed could be seriously screwed up with live moving ads, so that's hopefully out of the picture from a purely usability view. Friendfeed is all about realtime web information. I then wonder how in that case will the monetise the relationship. My guess? Facebook will show live conversations and hopefully they will rip out the poor IM implementation in Facebook. The purchase may be nothing more sinister, I hope...
- Mark Aitken
Well said Louis. This is the big question.
- Mark Krynsky
Okay, so now I'm ready to cry. Excellent post, Louis. Thank you!
- Ladyepiphanybug
Excellent, you've captured my sentiment very well. Mark - I disagree. FF is an excellent platform for floating ads based upon our behavior, and it is just about the only platform in existence where the algorithms for ad placement could have been done right - and welcomed.
- JCunwired
Louis's reaction is the one I most wanted to see. Thanks for not disappointing us, man!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Very nicely done. Puts feelings across perfectly.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
"FriendFeed is the one that has a 4.0 GPA and had big dreams of an Ivy League diploma. And yet, she ends up with you - the Silicon Valley equivalent of your local state school. When you come rolling in with your heavy car, big wheels and pumping bass, we don't care how much money you say you're worth - we still don't trust your grin when you open the door and say "hop in"."
- anna sauce
I'm *loving* the high school stereotypes as metaphor, btw.
- anna sauce
jcunwired - I hope it's unobtrusive, don't mind people making money, but lets hope it's sensible. My worst fear is FF is seen as a threat and silenced, but I'd doubt Zuckerberg would be so brash..
- Mark Aitken
This metaphor reminds me of the "Forrest Pimp" strip on Sinfest a few years back: http://www.sinfest.net/archive...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
We are watching.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Nice post.
- John Mueller
Brilliantly said. Don't think it could have been said better!
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
I just learned about this minutes ago. Louis it's not 4 big companies. there will only be three after Microsoft merges/acquires Facebook and Google buys Twitter. This move makes perfect sense for Facebook and it's what their SocialTV initiative needed to really work. I see big things for it in Facebook's future. I don't know how I feel about it though!
- Michael Fidler
Somebody wrote that this is just about getting FF's tech talent. Don't you love how all these social networks conveniently forget who it is who makes them valuable?
- Dawn
That was a very enjoyable read :) And the point about bright startups having dim perspectives at the end is alas the truth at the moment: you have to be able to bootstrap your finance, have revenue from the start (membership, affiliates, whatever) that funds your growth. Or find a way to get sold to the big boys (although there are big boys outside the immediate industry that might...
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- Iphigenie
As always very well said Louis!
- Jacque
Good post and commented on your blog. I need to get back into that habit. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
yes, your comments are treasured on my blog, they will not be sold :)
- Valeria Maltoni
Really great post, Louis.. We all will be watching to see what happens. Interesting if it goes the same way google's acquisitions all have. Seems like when they started buying up apps, they killed them. And so it goes....
- Sheryl
Louis - that post is awesome... I just laughed out load with that one... nice!!!
- Susan Beebe
I had suggested facebook to buy friendfeed in one my blog post.
- Madhav Tripathi
Terrific article Louis, best I have read on this deal so far.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow! Wonderful blog post!
- Peter
This was one of the best yet, Louis!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Remember Rule #1 though :-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
All true.
- Eric
Great post
- Thierry Lhôte
The FriendFeed-Facebook relationship will need a healthy dose of Dr. Phil.
- imabonehead
And friendfeed.com ends up like Nola Rice?
- j1m
Life streaming via Friendfeed I always felt like a kind of a partner investing something of me in something greater... Now I discover that this investment counts for nothing. No one was or is committed to keep the style and special features that made Friendfeed attractive in the first place. No one is committed or loyal to the user base and the investment of life talent and prestige...
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- Spaceweaver
"FF connected me with new friends that I would never have known. FB connects me with old friends I could have done without. :(" - jcunwired http://friendfeed.com/jcunwir...
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Exactly
- Shevonne
The best comment I've heard today!
- Bonnie Foster
its actually quite easy to ignore someone you could have done without. *sigh*
- Sidney
Wow. Some of you apparently live terrible lives, filled with terrible people you seem unable to avoid, with the possible exception of this one website, I feel terrible about that.Of course, it's also possible you've wildly overestimated the difference between the people you know here and the people who know you in real life.
- Richard Lawler
Or it could be, you're wrong.
- Bwana ☠
Nope, you're the ones who keep saying everyone you know and everything you do on facebook sucks. That must be terrible.
- Richard Lawler
Yes Richard because clearly I can make friends from all over the world on my daily stroll through the park. Or not.
- vijay
Yes, it's confirmed. You're wrong.
- Bwana ☠
bingo
- Jim Goldstein
My life wouldn't be the same without vijay
- Rodfather
If everyone you've physically encountered sucks, the problem just might be you.
- Richard Lawler
Hear, hear. This news sucks.
- Arawak
Oh Lord....not this guy :)
- Rah-PM 2012
I like this post, but I love all my social networks equally lol.
- Ryan Peach
Luckily, unlike so many here, I can keep using any website I want the same way I did before without devolving into a baseless bitchfest about what might happen someday somewhere. Or, I could have kneejerk reaction based on irrational fear. hmmm
- Richard Lawler
And you're very good at keeping your assumptions to yourself
- Bwana ☠
On the bright side, I can have a kneejerk reaction on FB and remove baseless bitches from my friends list. :)
- JCunwired
Except, they haven't really said anything. So thinking anything will or won't survive is premature. If Facebook perfectly met everyone's expectations there would be no need for war, sickness or evil deeds. Every online community is the same as every other one, if friendfeed, for whatever reason, doesn't keep doing what you want ti to do, you'll use something else. It hasn't ever been perfect and it never will be.
- Richard Lawler
I told you Richard. You're wrong. "Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority." http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Bwana ☠
Well, you told me what techcrunch's opinion is, because that's what I wanted to know. Thanks! (there's sarcasm there)
- Richard Lawler
Ok let me slow it down for you. The team is splitting. The product is going to merge with Facebook. (No sarcasm)
- Bwana ☠
I can wholly identify with JC's statement.
- JA Castillo
Wow Bwana...you are really bitchy in this thread...I think Richard is making some good points. If you are having issues with the people you 'accept' on Facebook there really is only one person who you can point the finger. You. Facebook makes it quite easy to NOT get involved with any person.
- Sidney
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback.
- Bwana ☠
I accept friends in Facebook because if they took the time to want to be friends with me, I feel obligated. I'm also not one to hurt a person's feelings by turning them down. That's what its like in a closed community like Facebook. Friendfeed is totally open - I can read, share, participate and like without having any obligation whatsoever to the people I interact with.
- JCunwired
Same here. Wisely said!
- Neya
I couldn't have put it better myself. Just got back and saw the news. Still digesting it.
- Charlie Anzman
Well said guys!
- Susan Beebe
LOL
- Thomas Power
It's interesting to see ho people use different networking sites - for example - I use FB for personal connections and family and the rest are business related.
- Graham Bunting
I like my friends, but you are definently right. I just got on friendfeed any advice on making friends?
- Ryan Peach
Smart!
- Martha
Great insight!
- William Phillips
So far I'm finding that one of the worst things about cancer is telling family and friends that you have it.
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I know; you feel like you want to spare them the shock. And then you have to reassure them that you're taking care of it.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Exactly! I have found that having a positive attitude really helps others cope.
- Michael McKean
Heh.. with FAQ!
- Michael McKean
Michael, a friend who had cancer asked one friend to be the go-to for updates, news, well wishes, etc., because it really is exhausting answering everyone's questions, hearing their concerns, soothing them and yourself (not that these things aren't done out of love and concern). Before you're into your treatment, you might want to talk about this w/ a friend or family member who might fill this role for you.
- Ayşe E.
That's an excellent idea since I have no idea how I'll be feeling in the coming weeks and months. Thanks!
- Michael McKean
My husband just went through treatment for leukemia, and he blogged his way through the experience. Some days he couldn't do it, but when he did it was wonderful for everyone involved. It was theraputic for him and a great way to keep those at a distance informed. And it kept me from having to update people constantly. And good luck with everything. I know it won't be easy, but you have a lot of positive thoughts with you. Hold on to them.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
from iPhone
I've been telling everyone to go to Twitter or FF if they want updates. It makes it easy to let people know what's up quickly.
- Michael McKean
Don't be! :) Life has its ups and downs. I thank God that I am alive. I have a new appreciation for my own life and the lives of others. And all of you have helped out tremendously!
- Michael McKean
You are an inspiration.
- Mona Nomura
Oh man, you are my hero!!
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
:-( I'm sorry, Michael... and I can imagine how hard that would be. Cancer is scary stuff, and people say such thoughtless things.
- Ladyepiphanybug
I try to overlook what people say... I can understand to a certain point. My main concern is making people feel comfortable.
- Michael McKean
good morning :-)
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- Live4Emma (L4S)
Morning!
- Shevonne
morning
- Anne Haynes
Morning!
- Abhishek
morning everyone! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I love it!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
ESO! :-D
- Anna Haro
Eat a live toad first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to either of you the rest of the day.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
True Robert....I'll leave that strategy to ensuring good mornings to you and you ALONE! o_O
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
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