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Haha! John Stewart hammers the media for treating Ron Paul like 'the 13th floor of a hotel' even though he nearly won in Iowa. Beautiful!
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I am just curious - How many of my subscribers are still in active mode on FF? I would much rather get a response than a guess. Thanks,
sofarsoShawn ~presque..., Absentee, David Cook and 38 other people liked this
I'm splitting my time.
- Spidra Webster
I'm also splitting my time but not very active on G+
- comix aka martha
I'm as active as I can be on the Internet these days.
- joey
1/3 here, 2/3 over there.
- c.a.j.
Another time-splitter here.
- Mark H
i'm still around
- WarLord
I've been playing with the new toy, but I'm still commenting and keeping up over here.
- Eric - seven eleven
I'm still here pretty much exclusively. I won't hang out on G+ until it's a little more iPad friendly since that's my main way of being online.
- Kisha
Still FF for the most part.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'm still spending more time here than there. I've been slacking on my online time lately, though.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
from fftogo
I'm still 3/4 of my time here, 1/4 over on G+ -- there are still too many awesome content things going on here, and many people that haven't migrated, to really push that a different direction yet.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm semi-active. I make one post each day of my daily sketches, at the very least. I don't like G+ and I'm not using it.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I'm still here.
- imabonehead
from Android
About as active on FF as I ever was, which is checking in maybe 2-3 times a day. But I'm starting to think social media has eaten my brain.
- Corinne L
here, active.
- Marianne
Down to about 70% active as before, but that's because of the slow down. Probably about 50% as active as I should be over there. Still trying to find the ropes. Friendfeed: Active; G+: Semi-active.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I'm here.
- Katy S
As often as possible.
- ronin
Still active, I think. I come here daily.
- Brome
Splitting time. I am not sure what my percentage is at the moment...
- JA Castillo
Active
- Alex Scrivener
active, well as active as I am :)
- Scott. Cat Herder.
I'm still here. Although there's things I like about G+, I just can't quit ff
- Tamara
Still here.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
I'm still active, splitting my time here, there, and elsewhere.
- John (bird whisperer)
Still active, but spread thinner than before.
- Jandy
Still active here.
- CarlC, spelling expert
Wow, hardly the full 600 plus I have but good to know some are still going strong. Connie, I feel your pain.
- Brent - Yes I am
I'm around.
- Heather
Still here.
- Jim #TeamMonique
I'm here more than there
- Elena
yup
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Still here. I won't abandon the place where Scott & I met and fell in love.
- Mary Carmen
Here, there, and everywhere. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Here more than elsewhere.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I am still here...plenty...and likely not going anywhere. The time I spend on facebook will now be split between facebook and G+, because I will not allow it to cut into my friendfeed time.
- April Russo
im still here. lost track of how long I have been here. no plans to leave.
- Mike Nencetti
I'm here, still posting to the bookmarklet, still leaving comments and likes, still simultweeting my posts.
- Dennis Jernberg
Mostly here.
- laura x
Active here and elsewhere.
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm still here!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Here.
- #cryptic
Continuous partial attention ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
I stop many times to check out ff ...I think it's still AWESOME ...powerful site for connecting on ..seems no one is around much these days commenting and liking stuff ...is nice to see lots of comments and likes on this post. Have a great Monday !!
- Rickbischoff
still here.
- Hieronymous Boob
spending time on both . . . much less time on facebook and twitter.
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Present.
- Kristin
I'm here more than there and I can't see that changing so long as FF still exists.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
still around.
- chrisofspades
here and there
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
still here
- Kevin Johnson
o/
- Jemm
Ping! :)
- Pete #TeamMonique
10% here, 10% g+, 110% Summer
- chaz2b
still here - I generally have to use tor or an out of country vpn to get to friendfeed, so that has always slowed down things a bit
- bob
*waves* I'm here
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
I am thinking there is still hope for FF - Yaaaaaaa!
- Brent - Yes I am
I am active on ff and haven't enough time for G+. :-)
- Maitani
I am too busy to figure out the Google+, then heard how Shevonne got blasted for posting questions. So I am here for the duration.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Yeah, I saw that too from Shevonne. Pretty weird stuff for sure.
- Brent - Yes I am
FF all the way, baby
- Le Slip Anglais
Splitting time between here and Gee Plus
- Gunnyman™
It amuses me to have seen so many people in my feed saying that G+ is replacing FF. G+ is just like FB, and FB didn't replace FF. So. Anyway, I'm still here. I just have nothing to say lately. I think I'm burned out on being social right now.
- Hookuh Tinypants
It's still easier to share here.
- Morton Fox
I'm still 99% here though thanks to a FF I do have G+, I haven't looked at it enough to understand completely though.
- SteVe C
Am checking in several times a day. G+ is great, but FF is great as well! :)
- James Stratford
Hah.
- Rahsheen?
Here
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
Here!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Present. Though bouncing between FF and G+.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in vacation mode. Found your post via "Best of Week"
- Bruce Lewis
Back and forth. I'm graduating over but like the familiarity of my FF feed and great peeps
- Fossil Huntress
I'm here...rarely...but I'm here.
- David Cook
Here!
- Anne Bouey
Not actually a subscriber, but I stick around.
- Dennis Jernberg
I am kinda sorta pretty often…? Does that count? ::thunk thunk thunk:: Is this thing on?
- Absentee
What?
- Eric - seven eleven
Brodie Bruce...we had a fun day playing in the pool today :)
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Tsunami dog rescued after 3 weeks at sea : http://www.cbc.ca/news... : http://www.47news.jp/movie...
humanwatch - آرمان, Bünyamin Akseli, پرنیا and 77 other people liked this
great news! ..... wonderful!
- keiko-san
:)
- frasens
:)))))))))))))
- keiko-san
;)
- rowlikeagirl
:))))))
- keiko-san
awesome! great :)
- Ehsan Tarighat
yes, I can't believe ......:)
- keiko-san
I can't stop crying! ....... (:´д｀:)
- keiko-san
yes, I can't believe ......:)))))
- keiko-san
<<Miracle!!>> keep on fighting Japan ^^
- isfendan
yeeeees, I'm very glad to know this news........^o^
- keiko-san
yeeeees......:3D
- keiko-san
http://www18.gazetevatan.com/fotogal... Keiko-san,this photo belongs to that lucky dog's survival news and its from Turkey :)
- isfendan
now it's the 9th photo..pictures keep changing their places don't know why :(
- isfendan
yes! yes!! ..... this one .......
- keiko-san
すご～い！3週間もの間、食べるものも飲むものもなくよく頑張ったね・・・。寒くてどんなにか心細かったことでしょう。このニュースを知ってとっても嬉しい！・・・1日も早く飼い主と再会できることを願ってます。本当に良かった！
- keiko-san
I'm very glad to know this news. He is three weeks, without even taking things to eat, no matter how lonely you will. I think it can not fight back the tears.
- keiko-san
Incredibile!
- keiko-san
yokatta! ..... yokatta~!! ....... ^_^
- keiko-san
Good Luck!
- keiko-san
なんという生命力・・・凄いね！
- keiko-san
amazing!
- keiko-san
:))
- keiko-san
yes, he (she) is very fine! ..... ^_^
- keiko-san
i saw it on the tv and great news
- Şaban Ulutaş
yes Şaban ....... I'm happy with positive news
- keiko-san
Actually incredible... This is very good news :)
- Hndnify
yes Hndnify, ....... This is good news..... I'm so glad!
- keiko-san
played a reunion with her owner today (4 Apr) !! ...... GREAT !!! http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news...
- keiko-san
wow! great!!
- zetaraffix {masteriZed}
yes!! ...... ^_^
- keiko-san
welcome back, Van! ....... ^__^
- keiko-san
سگ چون که میگن... برا اینه
- Amin
:)
- keiko-san
Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on your back-end? Embrace unix and C - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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"Part of knowing a tool is knowing when it's inappropriate. A rewrite in ANY language to "fix" a problem that you don't understand is generally a mistake. Doing things the needlessly complex way doesn't make you a better or manlier programmer. By the way, a lot of these perl and python scripts spend most of their time calling into C libraries anyway, so the performance difference is often negligible."
- Paul Buchheit
Cristo, yes that would be optimal.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
http://www.salmon-protocol.org/ attempts to provide this, though it suffers the same issues in reaching critical mass as any such effort.
- DGentry
Photo: Austria-2 | Leutaschtal album | - http://public.fotki.com/ukath...
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My firewood house is now finished!
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Where are the walls? Where will the firewood hang the plasma TV? How are they going to entertain themselves?
- April Buchheit
April wins.
- Yolanda
Zillow says this is now worth $540k.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
*dead*
- Spidra Webster
Very nice. I have been thinking about building one myself. I just got a full cord of wood delivered today. I didn't think you had a wood stove though. Where are you burning this wood?
- Robert Felty
Are you trying to skill up to compete in the next Survivor?
- imabonehead
wonderful!!! :)
- Marisa Puddu
Is the firewood upset that you made their house out of their dead relatives?
- Dave Roth
The firewood house can be used as firewood!
- Amit Patel
Wow. We just built ours. It is our driveway plus a blue tarp.
- Laura Norvig
Rob, we have a firepit. You'all can hang out around it when you visit. It's really nice.
- Paul Buchheit
Great one!
- Wulfmansworld
Did you build it for only firewood? I can't imagine your house's size. How much money do you earn? :P
- Emre Savaş
Yes, I built it. I also require my children to live there along with the firewood ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Well, it is cute enough that I can totally imagine your kids *wanting* to play in it!
- Laura Norvig
Emre: I don't know how cold it is where you live, but where I live the amount of firewood that fits in that house is only enough for recreational purposes. You could never go the whole winter on that much.
- Gabe
Nice!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Gabe, this explanation is much better than Paul's comment :) by the way I'm living in Istanbul.
- Emre Savaş
Is this a 20% project? :)
- Jemm
Size-wise, that is not a very big wood pile. Our wood pile in Indiana was probably 10 times that. Clare's grandpa in upstate New York usually has about 10 cords around. He goes through about 3 cords each year. (1 cord ~ 4 cubic meters)
- Robert Felty
Rob: Here's my father-in-law's wood holder. It has a tarp "house" built around it with PVC pipe that's not pictured: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Gabe
Order some rounds delivered to your house. Get a splitting maul. Splitting wood is good therapy and excellent exercise. Firewood is a happy by-product
- Hayes Haugen
Rob, the PVC tarp house is nice because my Dad can take it down during the summer. As he only needs to keep the wood dry in the winter when we make fires.
- Maggie
A wooden house holding wood that's headed for destruction by combustion. It's a plant version of Animal Farm.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
Finally! A Bay Area house I can afford!
- Spidra Webster
Four reasons Google is still Awesome - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010...
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Yes, probably my favorite company.
- Vezquex
"four seasons google is still awesome"
- heavy distorted
It's sad that the first comment you received on the blog post was essentially, "I thought you were a hater, but now that you complemented Google, I like you again." The "you either like the things I like or you're against me" mentality, especially when it comes to company loyalty, is really unnerving and you shouldn't feel the need to be apologetic because of that. It's interesting to hear your perspective on Google, whether it's complimentary *or* critical.
- Mark Trapp
I wasn't saying "now that you complemented Google, I like you again." I was more saying "due to your well-founded explanations in this post and the last, I realize that your criticism of Google is logical, rather than emotional."
- Graeme
Graeme, it seems much more reasonable to assume good faith from the start.
- Mark Trapp
Mark, I think it's useful feedback for anyone who writes to hear feedback both from first impressions and from careful consideration, so Graeme's comments are useful. For me, when I started reading this particular essay, it was awesome (the "if everything you do succeeds" part). Then, after carefully reading to the end, I thought it was all awesome.
- Bruce Lewis
I particularly liked: "Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults."
- Benjamin Golub
Which of these four reasons is the one behind FriendFeed no longer authenticating via Google account? :)
- Count Caturday
Lines on 'welcome negative feedback' are good.
- Ash
Google's Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring 2011 - http://mashable.com/2010...
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"So what is causing the delay? The likely culprit is disagreement on the design, purpose and execution of the project. One of our sources told us that he/she has heard “tales of disorganization and too many different teams working parallel or in conflict.”"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Meanwhile, http://techcrunch.com/2010...
- Paul Buchheit
cant wait :-)
- Phil Smirnov
Paul it must be a relief that you can post on these matters now that you are no longer associated with Facebook or Google.
- Shakeel Mahate
Well obviously, they need to throw more people at it :)
- Private Sanjeev
Around the same time you posted this, Peter posted a link to a blog post praising the culture of engineers at Google http://friendfeed.com/peterno... But I think that culture can also be a problem. Engineers can make the coolest products in the world, but do they understand how the masses are using social? How frictionless it needs to be? How, as...
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- Laura Norvig
The Bourne Supremacy vs. Spy Game - Flickchart - http://www.flickchart.com/Default...
Nathan Chase, imabonehead, Turkish Delight and 6 other people liked this
Tough one. I like them both. But I like Redford better.
- Steven Perez
Bourne
- Hieronymous Boob
Personally prefer SpyGame, slightly more cerebral and relevant to current affairs
- Bo Stern
Wow, a lot of Bourne agains here.
- Absentee
topical fiction often has a short shelf life (there are exceptions). if i want current affairs i'll read the news. when i watch a film i want escapism.
- Hieronymous Boob
Hmm...that's tough because Bourne Supremacy is weakest out of the three in that series, but Spy Game wasn't a great movie either.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up." - Clayton Christensen (http://www.anthonyandrew.com/executi...)
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Originally at http://hbr.org/2010..., but mostly taken down in order to sell subscriptions :(
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks for sharing this. An interesting read so far.
- David Damore
Another great line near the end: "Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people."
- David Damore
"Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success." - thanks for sharing
- Bo Stern
I do wish his example was a little more inspiring than "I had made a personal commitment to God at age 16 that I would never play ball on Sunday."
- ⓞnor
...unless those principles are morally bankrupt or flawed, in which case the two percent could be the gateway to being a better and more successful person! All a question of perspective! Cheers J
- Jan Simmonds
Following on from Jan, principles are important but, given that the ones you pick might actually be misguided or flawed in some way, it's probably also important to know when to modify them based on enough evidence to the contrary. Taken to absurdity: "The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday."
- Simon
ⓞnor that is what makes it inspiring.
- Jason McGowan
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combi...
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"We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: he wrote GMail, built the original prototype of AdSense, and came up with the phrase "Don't be evil." After leaving Google he started FriendFeed, which last year became Facebook's largest acquisition to date. He's a good friend as well as one of the world's best hackers; for years we've considered him an honorary YC partner. We hired Harj Taggar earlier this year to work advising startups alongside me. He wasn't technically a partner, but we quickly realized that he was one de facto—that among us his opinion carried as much weight as any of ours—and that it would be mean of us to delay recognizing this officially. Harj's arrival significantly improved how well YC operated. He's a large part of the reason we were able to fund 36 startups in the summer 2010 cycle."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Congratulations, Paul!
- Ross Miller
Cheers Paul. Awesome partnership.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congratulations, Paul!!!
- AJ Batac
Would love if you guys devised a new concept: 2nd-shift startup. Many of us are working jobs we need and/or love, but are trying to build a new thing in the background. Having a bit of money, support, and networking would make all the difference. We're completely alone until we make the big leap. And many with families and bills can't think about leaping into Paul G's YC experience.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congrats, Paul!
- Andrew Terry
Congrats!
- Barbara R. S.
Congrats Paul. Are you going to do that *and* stay at Facebook? And have time for the family?
- Joe Beda
You have to stay at Facebook at least long enough to get that damn search fixed!
- Gabe
No, I'll be leaving Facebook to join YC.
- Paul Buchheit
Also, I made some search changes a few days ago so it should be working a little better now.
- Paul Buchheit
Congrats and best of luck to you at YC. Sorry to hear you won't be able to make further FF tweaks in the future, though!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Paul, was one of the changes preventing people who aren't logged in from searching? I can't believe that would have as much of an effect on search as it may have been.
- Akiva
Congratulations!
- Eric Florenzano
Wow. So much for our hope of Buchheit/Taylor running FB!
- Christopher Galtenberg
YC to acquire FB, circa 2013.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Congrats
- Rodfather
This is fantastic news. You're in the right place, Paul.
- Louis Gray
from Android
Congrats Paul!
- DJ Stevie Steve
congrats paul
- testbeta
Congratulations Paul!
- Atul Arora
Wow, congrats, but I didn't realize you're leaving Facebook. Wow.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
It's interesting. I remember seeing you shortly after you sold FriendFeed and hearing you advise a startup on what they should do. I thought you were great at that, and I guess that is a real passion. YCombinator is an amazing organization, can't wait to see what you do there.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats!
- John (bird whisperer)
Right on, Robert.
- Bruce Lewis
Congratulations on following your heart!
- Kevin Fox
I'm also wondering if this has any impact on FriendFeed. Certainly there's one fewer voice inside FriendFeed protecting the service. I wonder if Paul can tell the community now what he expects to happen to the service. Already a good chunk of the FriendFeed team has left.
- Robert Scoble
Paul: I doubt you can answer this one, either, but I'd love to know what it is about Facebook that is already pushing away entrepreneurial types. It looks like it's becoming a big company, with all the politics and such. I was expecting you to make a much bigger impact there long term than it looks like you've been able to make. Want to come on camera to explain why things didn't work out?
- Robert Scoble
I second that, I'd like it if he could talk. \o,
- Zu from AOD
Congrats! But who will be looking after the Friendfeed servers now? *sorry to be so selfish*
- Eric - seven eleven
Robert, it has less to do with Facebook and more to do with me. I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google. I'd be glad to chat sometime.
- Paul Buchheit
Great news on one hand since you could do so much to help others but, sad news on the other since I felt you were a very positive force in Facebook's continuing development.
- AJ Kohn
Awesomeness!!! Congrats Paul!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Now you can create the next Friendfeed.
- Cristian Conti
Fantastic Paul - Y Combinator is becoming a bigger force. Congrats to you.
- Hutch Carpenter
good luck! :)
- salaros
This seems like the perfect job for you - have fun! (and thanks for fixing the search ... I thought that might have been Ben G. ... make sure he knows how to do it mmmkay??)
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations Paul
- Shakeel Mahate
congratulations, this is huge! :)
- Oguz Serdar
Excellent! Nicely done.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Paul, once we get cottages up, we'd love to house start-up guys for free from time to time as part of our artist in residence program.
- SAM
Congratulations, Paul!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Best news of the day!
- Bo Stern
Paul, congratulations! The excitement is palpable - we're happy for you that your desire and opportunity can be so well matched.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I'm ready for the cool.
- Eric - seven eleven
Congratulation and good luck, tell us something about FriendFeed....
- @zaps
congratulations
- kang
What will this mean for FF? Just curious
- LANjackal
Obi-Ben Kenolub is now our only hope. http://ff.im/pHRhj
- Josh Haley
Not sure LAN, that was my first worry. It's a Facebook property though, so I don't know if Paul can do anything with it now. Not sure.
- Eric - seven eleven
from iPhone
Paul, now I need to share with you my next world-changing idea (seriously). Congrats! (is this the butterfly? ;-) )
- Jesse Stay
Congrats Paul! Right move. You are going to the right place.
- vivekian
Surprise move, nice move.
- Lizunlong
Congrats Paul - hope it goes well for you
- Martha
Congrats Paul!
- imabonehead
+1
- Thomas Amberg
Good on you Paul.
- Daniel Collins
Cheers.,.
- OT
just voted!, and yes I think it's safer than alcohol. http://yfrog.com/eod27j
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Ted Olson To Chris Wallace On Marriage Equality: ‘Would You Like Fox’s Right To Free Press Put Up To A Vote?’. http://thinkprogress.org/2010...
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The new gyroscope on new iPhone really rocks. We're going to see games that let us spin around to control the surfaces.
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Android already has accelerometers. Apple is behind the times.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The iPhone already has an accelerometer... always has had one. Accelerometer != gyroscope.....
- Roberto Bonini
Robert's currently beyond the Event Horizon of the Reality Distortion Field. Cut him some slack ;)
- John Craft
I don't get it. Gyro is kinda cool, but piss-my-pants game-changing? Not really...
- Chieze Okoye
I'm just not sure what functionality a gyro gets you over the accelerometers that are in the phones. Google Sky Maps works wonderfully great with the hardware already in every Android phone.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Also, what Alex said.
- Chieze Okoye
So the gyroscope is there so I can exercise my forearms?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Alex, when you pair a gyro with an accelerometer you can get a decent understand of motion dynamics in real-time, so it gives you even more accurate information on your current location. Probably not the most feasible thing, but it's certainly now plausible.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Ok, so it has a gyroscope. Who cares? The network it's running on in the US still stinks. Time to invest in Verizon and Sprint
- Peter Ghosh
"I'm just not sure what functionality a gyro gets you over the accelerometers" - Sky Maps uses GPS to determine position and direction. I don't think it uses accelerometers. Gyro will give you faster feedback on angular momentum (turning the phone) than GPS. It will be useful for games, if that's your thing.
- John Craft
"It uses the accelerometers coupled with the digital compass' - wait - I'm wrong on the Internet? * hangs head *
- John Craft
Matthew, I'm looking at the setting in Sky Maps - it definitely uses GPS for something. I can see GPS and Compass being used to confirm each other, but using accelerometers to determine the angle?
- John Craft
It appears that it can also use Tower ID to determine general location as well.
- John Craft
What Matthew said.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yo Matthew I like you and imma let you finish but this is the best use of accelerometers OF ALL TIME http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- John Craft
Thanks * downloading tricorder *
- John Craft
Everytime I write an email, letter, fax, tweet, blog post or marketing copy blog, I feel the presence of my Grade 10 English teacher hovering over my shoulder bugging me about sentence structure, length, correct punctuation and story flow... Looks like the old witch got to me :)
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She got to me too
- Jesse Stay
Don't worry, she didn't win completely. This post is one sentence, and it's as long as a freight train. :)
- Ciaoenrico
There's absolutely nothing wrong with a sentence of that size.
- Akiva
There is to those dowdy English teachers. I remember mine - can't remember her name - she had this real bug up her ass - I don't know why - about my inserting too many dashes into my sentences.
- Ciaoenrico
I suppose but I think that might be more of an issue of style than correctness of grammar.
- Akiva
I use waaaaay too many dashes. I <3 dashes - they're the best punctuation ever.
- Jandy
B minus Mr. Worthington. I would have expected a bit more from you. Perhaps you have fallen in with an unsavory crowd of hooligans....
- Morgan
My mom was an English major and then a copy editor and then TRAINED copy editors. Let me tell you that I auto-correct myself when I talk. Ask Jandy, I did it the other day. And I use dashes when I can't decide if I should use a semicolon or a colon.
- Lis
Me, I'm just anal about such things. It's the lingering Asperger's... :p
- Dennis Jernberg
ACTIVE VOICE.
- Hieronymous Boob
*calls Ghostbusters*
- Mo Kargas
Well, that _is_ who you gonna call after all.
- Micah
You should try growing up with a mother who had an English Major and who was a teacher - You just had it for one year. (I feel your pain Lis)
- Brent - Yes I am
i was raised by a pair of English majors who taught the subject at KU in the 1960s. IN MY DNA.
- Hieronymous Boob
Brent - It's funny that I hear my mother's voice in my head and will correct myself two seconds after I say something. It's like a verbal tic. Jandy - you're the "Emglish" major? Not when you're drinking;)
- Lis
A scary vision for sure ... ;)
- Bo Stern
haha if only you knew my 11th grade english teacher,,,,
- Marissa
oooo i have the same problem and always remember my teachers ;)
- §╠╣/~\╠╣R /~\ /\/\ ♛
"Every time"
- Vezquex
The phrase "every time" should be two words. Put a comma after "shoulder". One period at the end of a sentence will do, thank you. Ending a sentence with a superfluous ellipsis is pretentious.
- el Omar
We have transferred FriendFeed to Facebook's data centers, which has fixed many of the ongoing performance problems we have had with the site and will provide us more room to grow.
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We still have a handful of ongoing issues with services like IM, but most everything else should be online. We will update you all here when everything has been transferred.
- Bret Taylor
Thanks to Paul for putting in a lot of hours to make this happen this last week.
- Bret Taylor
THANK YOU
- Josh Haley
Friendfeed rocks :)
- Ali Sözkesen
Thanks so much to all of you for all your work!
- Ruchira S. Datta
I agree. FriendFeed seriously fills a community need that Twitter lacks. Great to hear!
- Dave Friedel
awasome
- giolekva
FF has been assimilated, LOL. Thanks for the update, Bret
- LANjackal
In Bookmarklet we trust
- Majento
:))
- Chris Loft
I can not enter my profile are Bret day :(
- aynebilim
Thanks for the update, Bret, and Paul for getting in the trenches to make this happen.
- Micah
Thanks for updating us.
- Beau Liening
Thank you!
- Anne Bouey
Hopefully
- Özkan Altuner
Sweet!
- Bo Stern
Finally!
- Rey
Thanks for the work y'all have done!
- LB: #TeamMonique
Yes, it's much more responsive! Thanks.
- Mark Layton
Resistance is futile.
- Nicolas Le Gland
This solidifies FF as pretty much permanent, doesn't it? So long as it stays active.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Thanks. It's much faster now
- Xitong Liu
Good news.
- Oguz Serdar
Finally search is fixed! Thanks.
- Burcu Dogan
So why is it still slow? :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Works better for me today than it has the past few days.
- John (bird whisperer)
It's as bad now as it was last night when I gave up on it. Is there something else wrong? Something at my end? Or are others still experiencing poor performance?
- Kol Tregaskes
it's blazing for me.
- Hieronymous Boob
Looks like a few others are finding it slow again: http://ff.im/hYXxl
- Kol Tregaskes
Shortly after my last comment I started having some problems again, both with the bookmarklet and long waits for comments to post.
- John (bird whisperer)
Seems like the problems are actually worse and things slower after the transfer -- so I don't think any performance problems were "fixed".
- Brian Sullivan
Thank you very much! I had been wondering about friendfeed-reservation-02-07-snc1.facebook.com (69.63.180.52) resulting from ping. It seems that SSL https connections are not working -- switching over to plain http for now helps. Is there a plan to somehow integrate FF services with FB? (FaceBuzz ;-)
- Adriano
Is https still broken for you? It was broken yesterday, but was fixed last night at approximately 9:30 pm PDT.
- Tudor Bosman
https was working for me as was the bookmarklet (which seems dependent) - but is now broken again. Just started working again.
- Brian Sullivan
FriendFeed is very fast for me again. Fantastic work. Thanks!
- Meryn Stol
Bret, thanks for the update!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
just, please, don't let this thing die. just don't.
- LaurazetaTL
ummm...things seem to be broken again. I'm seeing comments disappear and I've got people showing up in my feed that I'm not subscribed too and aren't Friend of a Friend (which I've got turned off)
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Yeah just noticed a thread of mine where the comments vanished... after several refreshes they are back but it was still confusing!
- Lindsay
cevdet ne yaptın..ingilizce yaz..thanks bret.
- aynebilim
The disappearing comments are sometimes reappearing, so they're not gone gone...I made another comment on a post that had lost its comments, and they all came back.
- Jandy
... also wondering if the database has changed from MySQL to something else like Cassandra at FB.
- Adriano
Brilliant work guys, thanks so much for putting in the effort!
- Glenn Slaven
thank you for keeping this site up and running
- chaz2b
I'd really love for IM to come back. :/
- Marcel Weiß
Could things like this also be posted to your friendfeed feed on twitter?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I still will not open my account, when you resolve that?
- Profesyonel Öğrenci™
aloooo kime diyorum.. help meeeeeeee
- Profesyonel Öğrenci™
Best FF news in a long time
- Chris Nuttall
Any chance to fix the Photos problem? I get "could not upload" error each time i try to add a photo to my post, for nine hours now. :(
- Maxime
melaba bret
- fındık kıran
The twins at TGI Fridays now that I am back from SXSW.
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Glen, I actually left them at Chili's. They are so mobile, it's no surprise they wandered to TGI Fridays.
- Louis Gray
so cute :)
- Oguz Serdar
Like many of you, I'm on my way to SXSW. In San Jose now, through Denver and arrive late. Looking forward to great content, panels, people.
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I thought you weren't going, Louis. I guess I've been so busy watching videos and humming stupid songs I lost track....#SUWGOMH
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I miss Cristo and who is this Kid Troll?
- Louis Gray
Georgia following in daddys footsteps
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:)
- Josh Haley
I had both of my kids following me around last week with their cameras when we visited Filoli Gardens in Woodside California. http://www.filoli.org/ My 4YO Ethan has a Playschool camera which takes crappy pictures, but he had lots of fun following me around and trying to take the same pictures I did. It was fun to come home and look at his pictures to see life through a 4 YO's eyes.
- Jeff P. Henderson
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Some guy's favorite 200 desktop wallpapers - http://ayesee.imgur.com/backgro...
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I'm gonna have to sift through these. :-)
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Some nice photos in there. It's a shame they lack attribution.
- Seth
"Summer in Ohio is almost here... We can now see the deer moving around." - http://tweetphoto.com/11508640
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no, does!
- Kevin Fox
No-Doz?
- Louis Gray
whose does are those?
- Jim #TeamMonique
those does should knows better
- SAM
doesn't those does have frozen toes?
- Jim #TeamMonique
when does goes where those does goes you gotta knows they got frozen toes... (ok this must end... sorry)
- SAM
Woahz! Don't impose your frozen-does-toes embargoes on those who chose to pose more prose about teh snowy does!
- Jim #TeamMonique
I think Jim wins. That said, y'all should be bros, not foes, and consider this case closed, I suppose.
- LB: #TeamMonique
And thank you all for the "Moses Supposes" earworm! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- LB: #TeamMonique
Who ordered all this snow?! :)
- Susan Beebe
The Buzz/Gmail integration is nice. They should open those integration points to other apps, such as FriendFeed.
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e.g. the ability to have live updating messages in the inbox.
- Paul Buchheit
is buzz a service?
- MikeAmundsen
I think that could very well be coming, but in a slightly different form. That is, Gmail proper is a client for email, but Buzz is a client for social activity. Instead of having another tab for FriendFeed, Buzz would simply and seamlessly sync everything, including comments and attribution, with FriendFeed (and Facebook) via WebFinger/Salmon/ActivityStreams/etc.
- Mark Trapp
No, I mean other apps, not necessarily just FriendFeed variants.
- Paul Buchheit
If the ux is appending elements, then salmon would seem to be the way to do it, though then it needs a permalink to hang off.
- Kevin Marks
That could be a nice baby step toward Wave (or Wave-like functionality) within Gmail. Update threads from XMPP, SMS, APIs,...
- Tinfoil 2.0
Now you're talking! (I almost typed that in all caps.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Paul, ah, like maybe Farmville? :-P Edit: not Farmville. But totally multiple games of Scrabble. Or even document collaboration.
- Mark Trapp
I'd like comments sync'ed between the two but that's a pipedream.
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, are you saying you wan the equivalent of http://friendfeed.com/api... ?
- Kevin Marks
I think they should just add header tags and use SMTP standard to do it. If specific header tags are in place, then Gmail adapts.
- Jesse Stay
I agree though - I could use this in SocialToo's DM e-mails.
- Jesse Stay
No, Kevin I'm talking about the interface integration. I would like to have made FriendFeed do the things that Buzz is doing in Gmail, but of course that kind of integration isn't possible to outside developers.
- Paul Buchheit
It could then use salmon to sync comments from whatever service decides to adapt it
- Jesse Stay
Salmon has nothing to do with what I'm asking for.
- Paul Buchheit
Salmon drenched in butter and onions. Yum.
- τorƍue
I'd like to change friendfeed so that the comments aren't too grey to read on my Mac, so it supports microformats, and the faces are bigger, but I can't do that either (well, not without munging with your sample apps: http://friendlierfeed.appspot.com )
- Kevin Marks
I don't see how Salmon couldn't be used for this. Salmon ideally could be used to push comments into the e-mail, couldn't it? Or am I misunderstanding what Salmon does?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, what if I want to change the message content entirely, not just be stuck within the limits of a comment-oriented ui?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, good point - that does limit to just a comment-oriented structure. Maybe they could use the Facebook API code at http://developers.facebook.com/opensou... to implement Canvas pages for e-mail. ;-) An FBML tag could tell it where to put the message body.
- Jesse Stay
I'd love that functionality in Facebook, too, btw. I'd just take the ability to delete a message via API in Facebook though at a minimum.
- Jesse Stay
The basic idea is that the inbox structure is useful, and as Buzz has demonstrated, it's useful for more than just email, so why not open up the inbox to third-party apps. BTW, we actually prototyped something like this for FriendFeed (open the feed to other apps), but never completed it enough to ship. I think it still has a lot of potential though.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, sounds like an opportunity for competition :-)
- Jesse Stay
You didn't have to bugger off to Facebook you could still be developing Friendfeed right now and competing with Buzz. Google clearly thinks you guys were on to something here and there is money left on the table.
- Mark
They must think there is lots of money to be made in a Friendfeed clone to put it dead center in the middle of their top service.
- Mark
I think Facebook saw that, too :-)
- Jesse Stay
Mark, buzz has a bit of a structural advantage over FriendFeed in that it can integrate with Gmail :)
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah hehe. The truth is though, right now, Buzz is not as good / polished as Friendfeed. But I imagine they have lots and lots of people (probably more than was on the Friendfeed team) working on things.
- Mark
I'll defer to Paul as the expert on this one :-)
- Jesse Stay
Let's call a spade a spade. You can't say this but I can. Google stole your idea! lol.
- Mark
Google steals all of Paul's ideas ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Didn't they pay for some of them Jesse? :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Kevin Marks said on Gillmor Gang today that he was testing Buzz before he left google and that was age ago so they were developing Buzz when Friendfeed was growing and peaking. Suprised they didn't just try and buy Friendfeed.
- Mark
And nobody is saying that FriendFeed could integrate in the same way on Facebook's messaging 2.0?
- Louis Gray
Whilst we were all coming to Friendfeed, they were salivating over the service.
- Mark
Everyone has their Facebooks set to Private though, or the most popular guys have the full 5000 limit so it wouldn't be as effective if they turned on Friendfeed for Facebook :(
- Mark
I read recently somewhere on one of the big blogs that the fact so many people have Private accounts is hurting Facebooks in search revenue potential.
- Mark
Obviously you can't do cool search things if 3/4 of the things people look for are coming from Private accounts and are blocked out of the search systemm
- Mark
Hmm, maybe Buzz is a glimpse of a future Facebook-like app platform in gmail? Google Friend Connect fits in there somewhere.
- Daniel Sims
Mark, everyone has their Gmails set to private as well
- Jesse Stay
Daniel, I think Google is recreating a social network from the ground up. I think they could have just done it starting with Orkut if they did it right. I'm usually wrong though.
- Jesse Stay
What happens if you edit via IMAP an email that is being read in gmail?
- Nick Lothian
from iPod
Sorta defeats the purpose of a "walled garden" if you open up the app to the competition #justsayin
- WarLord
Nice
- TrafficBug
Hey Paul, you guys should look into the Kynetx platform. With one platform you can create extensions across multiple browsers that re-organize the viewing experience. So, even without Google allowing you to alter it, you can allow users to alter it with just a simple install of a Facebook extension for their browser. You guys modify the experience, users get comments in their Gmail for FriendFeed/Facebook, and everyone's happy. No need to wait for Google for that.
- Jesse Stay
If you guys don't create it I will so let me know :-)
- Jesse Stay
Of course they do :)
- Xavier Vespa
Yahoo! Mail supports adding OpenSocial apps. Would be nice to have the same in GMail. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/apps
- David Recordon
David, I'd love to see you guys do a Kynetx app. It could be your first entry into the Information/Action card space. :-)
- Jesse Stay
BTW, I *love* some of the API stuff Yahoo is doing. Their APIs right now are really useful (and work with Facebook Connect)!
- Jesse Stay
This is definitely a good idea. In the near term you could get most of the same benefit by making a friendfeed igoogle gadget. I don't know how many people check their email through igoogle rather than gmail, but I'd be willing to be that it's significant.
- Ryan Moulton
They should probably build integration into their own properties first. Where's Buzz in Google maps? Where's the Buzz iGoogle gadget?
- Julian Bond
@David Recordon -- see http://blog.opensocial.org/2009.... Doesn't come close to covering every use case discussed here, but does, I think, do exactly what you're asking about.
- David Glazer
even the ff team don't care about their services, how do you want it from google? may be google knows the truth that ff team wont develope ff anymore. when will facebook shut down the ff service?
- Ibrahim Ozturkcan
from iPhone
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