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"if the current web page uses OpenSearch to point to a search engine, Firefox shows a blue circle next to the search box. You can add the search engine to your list using only two clicks." I tried this with FriendFeed and it worked like a charm; the UI is nearly impossible to tell that's wha the blue circle means though. - Benjamin Golub

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The discontinuous text works with the FriendFeed bookmarklet too. Nice! - Vince DeGeorge

I just discovered the shortcut for selecting specific tabs. Cmd+1 Cmd+2 etc. I've used Cmd+~ to tab through but HUGE discovery for me. - Andrew Smith

Cmd+# is a cool feature, but not new in Firefox 3 :) - Michael C. Harris

i feel somewhat obligated to point out that IE7 has done this since launch... if the page your viewing supports opensearch, then the little arrow next to the search box turns orange, when you click it, the search provider is there starred, if you click the provider, it adds it to your list of providers. also, Ctr+e puts the cursor in the search box, and ctr+down pops open the list of providers. - Chris Hollander

Funny/sad that the browser I use most, WebKit (nightlies), doesn't support OpenSearch. - DeWitt Clinton

Cool features and shortcuts can be found at: http://i-stuff.blogspot.com/20... - Kevin

Firefox 2 changed the color of the search icon on OpenSearch enabled sites, too - Nick Lothian

When will us Mac users get a version of Firefox that doesn't feel like it was ported from Windows/X11? There still seem to be random mouse-cursor-handling bugs all over the place. Maybe I'm the only one who notices. - Jim Norris

I definitely am noticing some bugs in the way right-clicking is handled (or rather, not handled) on some links - Charlie via twhirl

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Damnit…FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter

June 6 at 12:19 am - Link

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Come on in, Arrington...the water's fine! - Trent Olson

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Trent: Arrington doesn't even use Firefox 3.0 (he admitted such tonight). Why do we want him here? - Robert Scoble

Yes!..Mike will come along with time as FriendFeed becomes the place to be. Its called the resistance trap of the first impression - Joao

Robert: yeah, I saw the post about Arrington not using FF3...what the heck does he use, then? FF2 has become unusable...Safari? Not IE...that would shatter my faith in you A-Listers... - Trent Olson

Would be nice to get an RSS feed of these summaries. - Yuval Atzmon

This is really cool feature.... FFmeme ? - Kevin

@Robert I like your response on Arrington's article about the lost database! - Joe Dawson

Kevin, according to Paul and Bret, it's based on your own subscription list, so it's personalized and a bit different than Techmeme. - Mark Trapp

@Kevin - I created a FFmeme "room" on day 1 of the "room" feature as I knew this day would finally come! ha, ha!! http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr... - Susan Beebe

Arrington is getting technically *slow* !!! Doesn't seem quite as tech savvy as he once was? hmm why? and he's STILL not in FriendFeed actively? c'mon Mike, the water is fine! Hey do you remember the Borg on StarTrek? "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." ;-) - Susan Beebe

I love how the top 4 "best" stories on my Friendfeed are about this new FriendFeed feature. Echo chamber. - Erick Schonfeld

Erick -- I noticed the same thing :-) - mathew ingram

Dont necessarily believe the stuff about Michael. He would have said that to upset the Mozilla people. He recommended it to me, I've seen him using it, and he's even written publicly that he uses it...indeed it was FF3 that made him switch from Flock. - Duncan Riley

@Duncan - ok that makes way more sense... I always had the *perception* that Arrington was an early adopter, so hearing he was on FF 2 didn't make sense. Thx! - Susan Beebe

See "Search for best 100 articles from the last day (or 2 days, 3 days...)" http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... using "num=100". I'm finding the 100-item search much more interesting than the regular 30-item search. - Mitchell Tsai

Arrington is drinking the same koolaid as Scoble now, it's in the air, it's in the water, it's everywhere - Bob Ngu

Watch out. - Jason Kaneshiro

I do not want Arrington on FF. He is a Flaming Troll. - Igor The Troll

Great product positioning! The addiction of having to read FF would only get worse. - Winston Teo

Igor The Troll : hide him... oh wait, you can't - directeur

How can we hide Michael the Troll if we Trolling him? LOL - Igor The Troll

I see a motion picture in the making! "The Revenge of the Trolls" Starting Michael Arrington playing himself as a Flamming Troll. Will definitively win an Oscar! Ok, here is the plot. All the people who read his blog for years turn into Trolls and eat Michael Alive. LOL - Igor The Troll

I'm using Safari. and I love it. Where is the "Blame Arrington" script. Why does Scoble get all the love? I say we go medevil on all the Alist. Equal opportunity sodomy for all social pests. Twitter Killers. feed them to the dogs. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

"Interestingness Filter"... Even if you put a total crap online Arrington their algorithm will still think that it's interesting. I know you won't even read what I'm writing (too "shy" to share with individuals of your kind?) but the fact is it doesn't filter on Interestingness, it does on popularity and this is VERY different. Hear me? Very different :) - directeur

Kevin commented on a story on Digg

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June 1 at 4:53 am - Link

"really col site... i love mosaic..." - Kevin

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Anothr - Real-time News Tracker

May 26 at 10:31 am - Link

"looks pretty cool..." - Kevin

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iPhone 3G Launch Date Confirmed

May 20 at 11:30 am - Link

"wow... most awaited news" - Kevin

Kevin commented on a story on Digg

10 Visual jQuery Tutorials for Designers

May 18 at 2:52 am - Link

"really cool jQuery usage..." - Kevin

Kevin commented on a story on Digg

Digg: New Comments System Released!

May 16 at 10:21 am - Link

"this look pretty cool than previous version... Digged It!" - Kevin

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Breaking: CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion http://tinyurl.com/5rat9o”

May 15 at 7:50 am - Link

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michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“115 CEOs Converge At Microsoft For CEO Summit http://tinyurl.com/3vjmr2”

May 14 at 8:20 am - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@gregkunz nope, FriendFeed doesn't do SMS. It does do Twitter, though, which does SMS.”

May 7 at 9:25 pm - Link

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enjoying friendfeed but doesn't synch on the blackberry for me - PaulJohnson

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So, philosophically, should FF do SMS/IM? I'm torn. - Peter Kahle

No, it should not do SMS. Twitter is a chatter/notifier, so SMS makes sense. FF is an aggegator and is also too noisy to make built-in notifications useful. - Carter Rabasa

i agree with Carter. FF != Twitter. Carter is exaclty right IMO. - acedanger via twhirl

I guess that's all the more reason for a unified friend infrastructure. I want to be friends with the same people on twitter (where I get my IM fix) and FF. But right now, it's all over the place. And when someone joins FF, it'd be nice if I auto-friend them if I'm their friend on twitter (or jaiku, or pownce, etc.) - Peter Kahle

Solution: Twitter's API lets you retrieve your friends/followers. If FF's API allowed creation of imaginary friends programmatically, voila! Instant import, and without the hassle of making your friends sign-up! - Carter Rabasa

I love that Twitter is like the universal SMS api for webapps. If only it worked all the time :) - Alex Gawley

@Carter So, that leads to another question. What happens when an imaginary friend signs up to FF? I'll have to look at the two APIs when I get a chance, see if there's a way to sync the two, and what's missing. - Peter Kahle

they need UI for the iPhone - Dave Hodson

@carter and @peter kahle that sounds a bit like how Socialthing imports everything from everyone using all your services. It's more of an aggregator, and is increasingly annoying. I like the filter of just following the people that I say I want to follow and no one else, regardless of if I'm friends with them elsewhere. Just because a person's my Pownce friend doesn't mean I want them to be my Twitter buddy! I use different services for different things (or personalities, lol). - Jon Gosier

@jon Agreed, but it could be optional for those that want to. I think that's the secret sauce that FF is perfecting, the ability to give you only what you want (think of the granulatity of their hide feature) - Carter Rabasa

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@copyblogger I expect that Google will buy FriendFeed and Twitter within 18 months. Not to mention FlixWagon or Qik or Kyte.”

April 17 at 4:44 pm - Link

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Wow. I actually agree:-) What airport are you stranded in? ...via AlertThingy - Francine Hardaway

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Francine, I'm leaving for the Tel Aviv airport in two hours. Long flight home. - Robert Scoble

Yes, I tend to agree that our FF ex-Googlers with be re-Googlers in the future. - Mike Reynolds

Yeah that would would be great... also, *sooooo* not going to happen. - Jason Shellen

Not interested. Google was ok, but FriendFeed is a lot more fun. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: why? - Amund Tveit

Amund, Google is a big company now. - Paul Buchheit

I thought FriendFeed was going to buy Google. - Amit Patel

How does this mesh with google's business model? ...via AlertThingy - Shawn Smith

Google can buy what they want to get them at the top. Can they buy the whole Internet? - Jack

It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven' ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre

It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven't doen much else. ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre

friendfeed is already a spinoff of google ... what would he do with Jaiku ? and you forgot bambuser qwich integrates gmaps .. ...via AlertThingy - Frédérick 2 Baro

@Jack I am sure they will give it a good try, although they will see it more like shaping the internet! ...via AlertThingy - Joe Dawson

Soulhuntre, in a way i do agree with you, but i don't think that Google has deserted innovation, there's so many development projects running there. I think all this acquisition issue is a matter of economic calculations, instead of holding a special team to develop something for several years they just purchase a company that has already spent the time on R&D and created the product. - Nir Ben Yona

ha. i called this back in october: http://gregcbrownyes.blogspot.... ...via AlertThingy - greg brown

Maybe Google is jsut over-extended. They sat on Jot for years, then ruined it. They haven't done much with Gmail and search is stagnant for them. All they do to generate interest of late is spend money. ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre

@Jack They can't:) - Igor Poltavskiy

They most likely will try. But they won't get too far. - Daniel Spradau

I agree with Twitter and FriendFeed - am a bit biased since they're the only Web 2.0 services left that I am obsessed with. - Jason Kaneshiro

But Google already bought Jaiku. I hope they don't buy FF too soon. I'd hate to see it die under corporate stagnation. - engtech

I agree with FriendFeed - FaceySpacey

I agree...makes sense...one is the search of scrape and link, the other is the search of share and discover = Organise the worlds info ...via AlertThingy - John Kotsaftis

i'm hoping google leverages GrandCentral into the Android platform. that service is too convenient to be left on the back burner. - Matt Musgrave

friendfeed looks like a google service, acts like a google service, is built by xGooglers and is a perfect fit for Google. I agree and would love to see it happen. my only question, why didn't the team build this at Google? - timepilot

@timepilot, I wondered the same thing at first. But apart from the possible entrepreneurial benefits, I'm guessing the freedom of development. They now have complete freedom around where they want to take it without the limitations of a large corporate agenda. - Phil Ashman

no more romours ; ) ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

twitter will be a better fit than Jaiku. Friendfeed is already pary of my Google Reader, but I guess it would help to own it - Michael VanDervort

When will they buy Alertthingy? :) - Michael VanDervort

What would Google do with Twitter after the damage they did to Jaiku and Dodgeball? ...via AlertThingy - Jane Quigley

The difference between Jaiku and FriendFeed is that Jaiku wasn't funded and its founders weren't rich. They sold to Google to collect their bucks, and it was the right decision for them. FriendFeed doesn't need to sell out. So unless Google offers really a lot of money, there's no reason to sell unless Google has plans for FriendFeed. Which I doubt - if they had plans, they'd just developed it on their own. ;) - sebmos

@jane: What damage did Google do to Jaiku? ...via AlertThingy - Niclas Strandh

@Scobleizer agree re: friendfeed+google - mutenewt

Maybe Paul can coin a new phrase, "Don't be sold." - Vince DeGeorge

FriendFeed will be more interesting to Google if it gains mass appeal. - Mike Reynolds

Yeah, I've been saying the same thing...Agreed ...via AlertThingy - John Pretto

google bought jaiku, why should they buy twitter, too? ...via AlertThingy - Timo Heuer

I can understand FriendFeed, but Twitter ... Friendfeed need to add more browsing controls, tag clouds, filters etc.... ...via AlertThingy - Alemsah

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Who would like to write a guest post on my blog? It's one way to get your ego fed by getting on http://egos.alltop.com/”

April 17 at 8:38 am - Link

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Wouldn't mind writing one Robert if you think I'd be good enough ...via twhirl - Tom Raftery

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Sure, just when I posted about your twitter stream being too hard to keep up with. My last post was "Twitter and FriendFeed: Information Overload". That would have been good. - Rob Diana

I forgot all about alltop ...via twhirl - Bwana McCall

writing on your blog about the never ending story of ego .. sure ...via AlertThingy - Frédérick 2 Baro

what topic do you prefer robert ? ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

Love to:) ...via AlertThingy - DC Crowley

Yeah! I am testing it! ...via twhirl - Javier Duro

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“please tell me those of you outside the US can watch videos on PluggedIn: http://snurl.com/24lao”

April 16 at 1:49 am - Link

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it's impossible in france ...via AlertThingy - tintin

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"Oops.The content is not licensed for outside Canada/USA" ...via AlertThingy - David Kaspar

"Oops. This content not license for outside Canada/USA" - viewing from the UK ...via AlertThingy - Ross Bailey

not possible from Germany, same error - Marco Kaiser

cant view - From Malaysia:) - Cynthia Seow

Same restriction here in Venezuela ...via AlertThingy - Omar Vasquez Lima

Not able to view in London! ...via AlertThingy - Joe Dawson

Oops.The content is not licensed fordistribution outside the US and Canada- Australia ...via AlertThingy - WF Fle

the quality doesn't look all that great on that site. ...via AlertThingy - jvon

Not from Holland (via Alert Thingy) - Merijn Terheggen

i'm from india & not able to watch videos. It says "The content is not licensed for distribution outside the US and Canada." ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

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