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Bret Taylor

Bret Taylor

CTO of Facebook. Previously co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Programmer, food lover.
Congrats to @greplin (https://www.greplin.com/) on the great TechCrunch article - http://techcrunch.com/2010...
RT @Greplin: We're giving out beta access to our followers first! Follow @greplin to get in before everyone else!
RT @mattcutts: A design doc for how Chrome is going to accelerate rendering using graphics processing units (GPUs): https://sites.google.com/a...
RT @paulg: Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana - Slide Show - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/slidesh...
A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
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Closer integration with Facebook?? - Ahsan Ali
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy. - Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value. - Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))... - Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter. - Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?) - Olivia Lovag from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet. - Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;) - Shawn Zehnder Lea
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly. - Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW! - Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook. - Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the... more... - Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.) - Bruce Lewis
hmmm - Jim Hill
damn that must be fun lol :) - Britttany leigh harner
Could you add this: http://ff.im/oH1ft please.. - Murat Tatar
RT @shitmydadsays: "See, you think I give a shit. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of shit? That's why I look interested."
Thank you message from Facebook employees - http://www.facebook.com/faceboo...
Thanks to the 500 million people who use Facebook from all of us - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Does that include those of us who mostly just use Facebook's little FriendFeed product? If so, you're welcome, and thank you! It's great. - Bruce Lewis
Of course it includes FriendFeed users! :) - Bret Taylor
...scary? - Jeremy Hodges
What's scary? - Bret Taylor
Just in light of the recent legal news, that's all. I am not trying to throw dirt, but that's a lot of ... clout in danger, that's all. - Jeremy Hodges
Congrats. - Eric
Congratulations! - Ruchira S. Datta
an amazing achievement well done one and all - Thomas Power
If Games Had Super-Easy Mode - CollegeHumor video - http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
If Games Had Super-Easy Mode - CollegeHumor video
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Excellent. So glad they included Battletoads - Louis Gray
Agreed. Battletoads was so frickin' hard, especially with 2 players. :) - Dan Hsiao
FUn Game - Srinu
LOL - Andrew David
nice....lol - alghinnah nu'man
we come in peace :))))))))))) - Circle
RT @waxpancake: The Twitter Fail Whale was originally an elephant?! Yiying Lu's 2002 sketch of the Failephant: http://laughingsquid.com/reposit...
YouTube - We Got Acquired By Amazon (woot) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...!
YouTube - We Got Acquired By Amazon (woot)
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We should have announced the FriendFeed acquisition this way. I am now ashamed we didn't have a rapping monkey in our announcement. - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Learning is learning. - Eric
BTW - awesome - Eric
Penny likes it a lot!! - Georgia Diehl
Amazon door desks? Does someone know what that's about? - Eric
This is the most awesome acquisition announcement ever. EVER. - Michael R. Bernstein
OK, this is the greatest announcement I've ever seen. I think this is how people really feel when they get acquired and make a boatload of money. They wanna sing (or rap) about it. I <3 woot! - Jason Huebel
that was cool - Marie is #oohspicy
nice...or, sorry: woot!!! - .LAG liked that
I can't believe how awesome and informative was the rapping woot! monkey. - Micah
LOVE!! - Rachel Lea Fox
When Amazon started, Jeff Bezos used a door laid across a couple of sawhorses as his desk. This turned into a tradition. Also a way to show off Amazon being frugal, sort of thing. - Otto
That sh#$ is funny as hell! - blackChinahand
YouTube - BP Spills Coffee - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - BP Spills Coffee
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"It's encroaching on my map of Louisiana!" - Andy Bakun
Cihangir'deki faşistler izlesin de mizah nasıl yapılır görsün... - Sinan Yüce (miglate)
RT @KatieS: First priority, teaching my family to say "tweet" not "twit", "twitter" not "tweeter". (Hi Aunt Erin!) :)
NextStop has been acquired by Facebook - welcome, Carl, Adrian, and team! - http://www.nextstop.com/fb_info...
Congrats gents. - Jason Shellen
Ben Barry discusses the design around the Facebook f8 conference - really cool post - http://www.designforfun.com/display...
Ben Barry discusses the design around the Facebook f8 conference - really cool post
Ben Barry discusses the design around the Facebook f8 conference - really cool post
A must read for information designers - Ozkan Altuner
In the post Bernard Barry talk about a Processing script to produce graph imagery. Is it possible to have a look at the code of that script? - Fabrizio Giordano
hi, we're trying to reach privacy@friendfeed but it doesnt work! what to do??? its highly important. - Beybin Esen
Understanding Social Plugins - animated video for non-techies - http://www.facebook.com/video...
Why I Sold Zappos - http://www.inc.com/magazin...
Why I Sold Zappos
"But on the five-person board, only two of us -- Alfred Lin, our CFO and COO, and myself -- were completely committed to Zappos's culture. This made it likely that if the economy didn't improve, the board would fire me and hire a new CEO who was concerned only with maximizing profits. The threat was never made overtly, but I could tell that was the direction things were going." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Talk about clueless: "Some board members had always viewed our company culture as a pet project -- "Tony's social experiments," they called it." - Todd Hoff
RT @BPGlobalPR: Safety is our primary concern. Well, profits, then safety. Oh, no- profits, image, then safety, but still- it's right up there.
RT @shitmydadsays: "Look, we're basically on earth to shit and fuck. So unless your job's to help people shit or fuck, it's not that important, so relax."
I don't know how I just discovered this Twitter account. - Bret Taylor
Just now??? - WorldofHiglet
I know, I know, so behind the times... - Bret Taylor
Pfft - anyone would think you'd been busy doing stuff :)) - WorldofHiglet
I want to comment, but I gotta go wipe my son's ass. For reals. - Laurabrarian from iPod
It would have been great if FF caught this in its dedup...Very similar entry by Piaw Na, right below. - Space Cowboy
Desktop Notifications: Now available to extensions in Chrome - http://blog.chromium.org/2010...
can't send you a direct message so commenting instead though my query is irrelevant to the post! how is http://bret.appspot.com/ running is it running on tornado, its appspot so it's on Google App Engine, can we install the tornado directly onto the Google App Engine or a blogging application has to be created first, and are you using Blogger blogging resources for bret.appspot.com? - ffcode
thanks Gary! - ffcode
Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy - http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
This is obvious to me, and I'm surprised that it wasn't already the case. - Tudor Bosman
A New Subway Map for New York - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
A New Subway Map for New York - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
A New Subway Map for New York - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com
Simpler + better Facebook privacy control: http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
RT @BPGlobalPR: New solution: Everybody drive your cars into the gulf with your gas caps open! You'll get a full tank and we'll only charge $20 cash!
RT @funnyhumour: The new version of Pac-Man is so awesome, it comes with a search engine built into it
Epic and Honest Mobile Home Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch...!
Epic and Honest Mobile Home Commercial
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if it's good enough for Errol Morris, it's good enough for me: http://twitter.com/errolmo... - Adam Kazwell
This Nike World Cup video / commercial is pretty awesome - http://www.facebook.com/video...
RT @bradfitz: New Android 2.2 Froyo SDK API: Log.wtf() ... http://developer.android.com/intl... "What a Terrible Failure"!
Right on. - Jeremy Hodges
That's definitely a sign of an epic sdk! - imabonehead
Does one pass in BBQ as a tag or a msg? - Micah
I wonder if there's a UML spec for this from the Object Management Group… - Jim Norris
I hope they implement "foo" and "bar", one day, too :) - Ozkan Altuner
Our cats bring in rats and birds into the house as "presents" via the catdoor. My wife and I are debating creative solutions to prevent the cats from getting into the house if they are carrying something. How do other folks deal with the problem? (Before Karen makes me manufacture the multi-million dollar full-body scanner catdoor she described)
If you block the cat door they just line the back step with the umm evidence prolly better than on kitchen floor ;) - WarLord
Our catdoor only goes into the garage so the gifts are deposited there; then we let the cats into the house...or not. - Anne Bouey
I have an inside cat ;o) - Melly Hagar
I removed the cat door. Now the cats only go in or out of our sliding glass doors, where I can see what they have. I don't let them in when they have a “present”, so almost all the presents get eaten (bones and all). - Amit Patel
Get a dog. The dog will eat the "presents" and possibly get to the root of the problem by eating the cat :). - Gary Burd
Gary, you made me laugh! - Anne Bouey
Have you tried adding something to the cats to make them less effective predators? Bells? Blinking lights? :) - Private Sanjeev
Hey, the cats are just trying to do their part to support the household. Just because YOU are ungrateful doesn't mean the CATS have a problem. :-) I don't have a cat door... I just have to go to the front or back door when the cat is meowing loudly and continually, so that I can praise her and thank you for bringing us dinner until she is satisfied. Then I can scoop up said "dinner" and dispose of it appropriately. - Ladybald Heatherbug
hey, very funny. and i used too have the same problem but then i got a bird and so my cat stayed focused on trying to get that bird. only problem for the cat is that the bird is in a cage, therefore the cat goes out quickly and comes back in when shes done, and consentrates on how she could get this one bird; but she never will ;) good luck!!! - kt nichole
+1 vote for Flo Control. It's been done. - Otto
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