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FriendFeed's real downfall...
polymath22, Franklin Pettit, Laurentiu and 16 other people liked this
Is too many geeks.
- Robert Scoble
Like you! ;-)
- Susan Beebe
Doesn't have a commenting system such as Disqus
- Michael McGimpsey
One of us! One of us! One of us!
- Louis Gray
I'd agree with that. I like the look and feel of FriendFeed, but if I don't want to discuss tech and social media then at the moment there's not a lot here for me :)
- Mike
just subscribe to geeks and you feel that you are not alone! ;)...via feedalizr
- Dieter Schwarz
I actually find Friendfeed to be even harder to explain to the uninitiated than twitter, which is saying something. Anyone got a good elevator pitch? :)
- Brad McCrorey
Brad: just like Facebook's news feed but open to all the Web instead of just the stuff Facebook approves of.
- Robert Scoble
will only come if they forget that they are only ever as good as their user base
- Duncan Riley
friendfeed is the river, where all the streams of information from individuals meet.
- Allison
Brad: "Experience first-hand the artistic process of insightful journalists." or " Get ahead. Hear the news behind the news." or "Easily & quickly hear the fragmented conversation of technology journalists."
- Mitchell Tsai
... is duplicates.
- Tony Ruscoe
fragmentation of conversations..
- Peter Dawson
It's not a bug, it's a feature @Peter Dawson
- Thomas Frütel
lack of a good mobile client and no SMS
- David Jacobs
@Cyvros/fyc: Once communication reaches a critical mass, it needs to be fragmented. Imagine everyone on watching the new Indiana Jones gathering up and discussing the movie in a single place. Won't work. Also, try to have a meaningful discussion in the comments area of some major newspaper's website. Fragmentation gives you a spot to discuss stuff happening with your peers, and not with the whole world at once.
- Thomas Frütel
@davidjacobs: Thinking about it, if FF had SMS, it will be very noisy unless they found a way to send summaries in 160 characters or less
- Tim Akinbo
from Alert Thingy
Scoble, I have no idea who you are, but I have heard your named mentioned more times than my mother's name in the past week. Do you give out free money?
- Howard O'Berry
I'm going to sound like a real fangirl here, but I haven't seen FriendFeed's downfall. This is the most fun I've had online since 1999. I've met more people on FriendFeed who just *get* me than anywhere else. Also, the conversations have been wonderfully intelligent and funny. And it's made me try out new services that I've heard about but haven't had the need to try. If you think FriendFeed is a tech echochamber, you're not subscribing to a diverse enough slice of folks -- we're out there, just look.
- Ginger Makela Riker
A mobile client would be perfect i believe. Besides this if we can name the problem with social aggrerators, it would be better we keep it secret for business.:)
- doruk tokçabalaban
from twhirl
has any of you tried PLURK yet? its like twitter yet 100 times better!
- Live Crunch Blog
from twhirl
I haven't tried it, was waiting to see what the majority opinion was like!
- Joe Dawson
lol@Howard
- Shey
FriendFeed needs more micro-communities -- the Tech comm is strong, of course. There's also a visible Photography community. But it will need more niches. FriendFeed does not need to go mainstream in the traditional sense, kinda like Mixx
- Shey
What's this I hear about Robert Scoble giving out free money? But seriously, I suspect one of FF's problems is that it can seem overwhelming for new users. Until you learn to hide posts that don't interest you, it can be a little weird.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
NO MOBILE VERSION! Notifications are not that great either ...
- Jonathan Greene
Mobile version - http://www.fftogo.com
- Bwana ☠
Is the lack of being able to filter out comments and (friend of X). Sometimes I just want the content from my friends.
- Mark Interrante
@mark, I feed back to FF, it would be good to have categories/tabs to select where a subscription should display. e.g family, colleagues, interest groups etc. - I think that would go someway to helping clear the clutter sometimes.
- Charlie Hope
from twhirl
It needs lipstick & makeup to be attractive to more people.
- shelisrael1
No SMS and can't directly import my Twitter friends.
- Brent Logan
I may be too sensitive to this point, but I think it would be messing with the formula too much and too quickly. Friendfeed has buzz and a growth curve, don't want to mess with that too much. :)
- mikepk
I didn't have time to read the 30 other hidden comments, but in response to the very 1st one, I think geeks are what make FriendFeed worthwhile. I've never felt compelled to comment so frequently, nor have I found so much good content so quickly anyplace else on the web. I hope the geek quotient will always remain high. If the wider world finds out about it, it will become nothing but cat photos and re-recycled net memes. There's enough of that.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
in a just world, friendfeed's real downfall would be the resurrection of Google Reader (sort of a friendfeed+++++)
- McLoughlinPost newsfeed
aside: anyone else having problems accessing/posting to twitter?
AJ Batac liked this
ahahaha
- Robert Seidman
No, not anymore. Small glitches here and there, but mostly stable.
- Don Thorp
i've been having problems posting from twirl, but that's it
- Eric Eldon
LOL, "Who cares"...exactly the way I feel Steve
- Bwana ☠
what's twitter?
- Anthony Citrano
I Plitter .. Plurk+Twitter
- Mardee Thompson
It got slow, but Twitter and Summize stayed up
- Albert Willis
twitter reduced twirl to 10 per hour to compensate for load. you're probably seeing the effects of that latency
- Christian Anderson
isn't that like asking if anyone would like a glass of lemonade on a hot day?
- sean808080
There are some universal truths in our culture. Please list them in the comments below.
Maitani, #cryptic, ronin and 36 other people liked this
Joan Jett loves rock and roll.
- John E. Bredehoft
Clifford is a big red dog.
- John E. Bredehoft
"You" ain't nothing but a hound dog?
- Mark Trapp
The rich get richer.
- Fred Yankowski
This, too, shall pass.
- DGentry
Leroy Brown is the baddest man in the whole damn town.
- FFing Enigma
It's less dangerous with the lights out.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
(for Los Angeles area readers) You're killing me Larry!
- John E. Bredehoft
Some people are asshats. If you let them get to you, they win.
- DGentry
You don't step on Superman's cape.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
There is a light that never goes out.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Every rose has Its thorn
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
The rhythm's gonna get you.
- Eric - seven eleven
Rick will never give you up.
- Josh Haley
There's a little black spot on the sun today.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my...
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- Tyler (Chacha)
All TV and no beer make Homer go crazy.
- Hieronymous Boosh
My brain hurts!
- John E. Bredehoft
I received three submissions via Twitter from @redstickrant (Clifford): ""Never get involved in a land war in Asia." "Why, yes, I do want fries with that..." "History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
- John E. Bredehoft
No means no, and that means no.
- Hieronymous Boosh
No deposit no return.
- John E. Bredehoft
Crazy Gideon is in fact CRAZY! And if you wantacomputer he hasacomputer.
- Anika
"Crazy Eddie, his prices are IN-SA-A-A-A-A-ANE!" (I had to look that one up in Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... )
- John E. Bredehoft
If you need a car or truck, you must go see Cal.
- Anika
LL Cool J needs love.
- Anika
There ain't no place like a hole in the ground.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Cash rules everything around me.
- Derrick
Tomorrow is not only another day, but it's also when the sun will come out.
- Anika
It's always in the last place you look.
- suzanne
Video killed the radio star
- SteVe C
No matter where you go, there you are.
- Bill Bittner
It is easier said than done.
- Anika
Soy milk does NOT make a good White Russian.
- suzanne
Your luggage is almost heavier than you can carry, and most of it you don't need.
- Micah
The lines at Ikea are always longer than they appear.
- Anika
Anika, you mean you have to pay for that stuff?
- Micah
People want it cheap, then complain when the quality is poor or there are long-lasting adverse effects.
- Rick Cogley
Gmail will *always* be in Beta.
- Anika
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
- Glenn Slaven
People crave sugar, salt and lard.
- Robert Hafer
Universal truths are cultural assumptions :)
- Barbara
Change!
- John E. Bredehoft
Everything is in the details.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Most people dont want the truth
- Tony C (Unrated)
You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
- Kenton
There ain't no mountain high enough.
- Anika
Aw shucks, Josh!
- Rick Cogley
In government errors are not punished; only their disclosure.
- Rick Cogley
The most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
- Rick Cogley
Failing projects have magical curative properties and future benefits.
- Rick Cogley
Soylent Green is People.
- Colette
Cadbury bunny poops eggs.
- Arlan K.
You can't always get what you want.
- Brent - Yes I am
String cheese should not be eaten like a stick of cheese but in strings.
- Mona Nomura
We might be vanilla but our labs are chocolate.
- Morgan
People who are always looking for an easy way out are the easiest ones to scam
- Rahsheen?
Farts smell like shit
- Rodfather
Farts have poo particles floating in them. GROSS
- Mona Nomura
The only things open after midnight are Waffle Houses, clubs/bars, and legs
- Rahsheen?
Hey, he who smelt it dealt it
- Rob H.
Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.
- Rob H.
Your actual talent in a specific area is not enough to make you a success in that area
- Rahsheen?
Walter don't roll on Shabbos.
- Rick Cogley
No one puts Baby in the corner.
- SteVe C
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man of good fortune must be in want of a wife.
- Trish Haley
Lol, Steve C, that's Dirty.
- Rick Cogley
People love babies. They taste like chicken. Everything tastes better with Ketchup.
- Rick Cogley
The truth hurts
- Bwana ☠
The heart of rock and roll *is* still beating.
- Anika
Projects with accurate budgets and timeframes never get approved.
- Rick Cogley
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Hieronymous Boosh
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- diego morelli
You can dance if you want to.
- Anika
All rights reserved.
- John E. Bredehoft
Your mileage may vary.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Nobody likes a whistler.
- Liza + = ?
Offer void where prohibited.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Some assembly required.
- John E. Bredehoft
UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
Ron White was correct. You can't cure stupid.
- Joel Robert Perez
Everything counts in large amounts.
- suzanne
The sun always shines on TV.
- John E. Bredehoft
One thing leads to another (♫ ♪ ♫ ♪)
- Nick Humphries
People always ask for absolute truths on social websites.
- Tony C (Unrated)
from email
You can't always get what you want. But sometimes, you just might get what you need.
- Amy℠
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
- Amy℠
Dogs are better to hang out with than people, even when they poop on the floor.
- Bette Cooper
A project wrangler should not be an MS Project wrangler.
- Rick Cogley
The answer to the question of life is 42.
- Colette
Even when summer is ending, Joan Jett STILL loves rock and roll.
- John E. Bredehoft
Time heals all wounds
- Carlton Prest
I am. You are.
- jeff hammond
Choo choo Charlie was an engineer.
- John E. Bredehoft
Love is a battlefield.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
You blink and two years go by. Sneeze, and decades go poof. Then it's close your eyes for that final slumber.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
When you go to Disneyland, you're not the goofy one.
- John E. Bredehoft
The apple does not fall far from the tree.
- Liza + = ?
I was going to add "the sun always shines on TV," but I already did. Oh, what the heck, I'll do it again.
- John E. Bredehoft
All through Amsterdam straight to Italy you can feel the beat of a European thing. Always Europop. https://plus.google.com/#108631...
- John E. Bredehoft
FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...
michelle, urdumania1, Julian and 95 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
- Rahsheen?
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
- Rahsheen?
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 Ferdinand
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
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
@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
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
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
- 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
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 ♥ JS
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!
- c.a.j.
Beaverton, OR
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Waves to Alex...
- Mark Krynsky
Added - Doral, FL.
- c.a.j.
Hi Mark!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Added!
- Jennifer Dittrich
Added :)
- Jason - The Opaque
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 | #TeamMonique
Huh...had to readd. Oh, well. :)
- c.a.j.
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.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
added (i cant get my fish and fish hook to stay pinned, :( ) Va Beach, Va
- chaz2b
Testing out a Twitter retweet using Favorites. First, import your Twitter Favorites into FriendFeed as an RSS/blog feed, using a URL like http://twitter.com/favorit.... Next, tell FriendFeed to post your imported entries to Twitter via http://friendfeed.com/setting.... That's it.
Turkish Delight, Хозяин строки, Rolf Schewe and 26 other people liked this
Once done, in Twitter all you have to do is Favorite something (the star that no one uses). This will get posted in your Favorites RSS feed which will be imported into FriendFeed. Then, FriendFeed will post this to Twitter and will look something like: lancearmstrong: @taylorphinner breaks the US record in the "kilo" going 1:01. As he says, "slayed it".
- Mike Reynolds
Hootsuite will allow you to import RSS in a similar manner and will poll X number of updates per hour (where you can specify the number X) in addition to allowing you to pre-pend additional notational text in front of the tweet (so you can add "RT" for example)
- Chris Aldrich
I recently started to play with my favourite Twitter feed using Yahoo Pipes with the intention of feeding it back to my Twitter account. I used Pipes to add the suffix '#fav', but didn't take it any further.
- Chris Marshall
Very cool Chris and Chris.
- Mike Reynolds
I'm doing this as well Mike - Thanks for the tip
- Bwana ☠
Problem with this is it will add the ff.im link to every tweet. Maybe a better way would be to use a service like Twitterfeed?
- Pat Hawks
I don't mind the ff.im link because I want people to come here to discuss it
- Bwana ☠
I wish the delay were't so long...you lose the instant feel
- Bwana ☠
Does this happen automagically? Can I favorite something on Twitter, and have it autoretweet? Is that the point of this exercise?
- Mike Shields
Yes Mike, that's the idea
- Bwana ☠
ok, that's huge.
- Mike Shields
Still having a little problem with this. How do I create the RSS feed itself?
- Mike Shields
just an FYI @Pat Hawks: you can't use twitterfeed to post back to twitter from your twitter favorites feed.. "Twitter does not allow posting of twitter feeds back to twitter..." is the error message provided by twitterfeed - its too bad because twitterfeed gives you the option to prepend RT: if you could get it to work.. I suppose you could pipe the feed then use twitterfeed to circumvent the restriction
- Bill Rawlinson
kool. i am gonna set this up for myself. thanks!
- (jeff)isageek
I set this up but the retweet didn't happen the way I wanted it so I created a pipe at yahoo pipes to help http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes... put your username in the field, hit "run pipe" then click the "get as rss" link and use the address it takes you to as a service here.. then reshare that service to twitter.. It will prepend the retweeted item with RT: @ so that the original author is cited as normal and the RT: label is present.
- Bill Rawlinson
Not seeing how to reshare to Twitter automatically... :(
- Mike Shields
Thanks a lot like it
- Geris
Is this still working? Mine doesn't seem to be pulling anything in at the moment. ( using http://twitter.com/favorit... )
- Chuck Kahn
Okay, now it's working again.
- Chuck Kahn
Ping.fm vs HelloTxt. Which one do you prefer. And Why?
Stylish Eve, Kimberly J, Kol Tregaskes and 3 other people liked this
I haven't used HelloTxt, but from first impressions of the webpage it doesn't look quite as nuanced as ping.fm - seems more about status updates only. Ping.fm allows blog and microblog posting as well and I like the flexibility. Having said that, there's nothing wrong with doing one thing well.
- David Young
I like hello.txt because I could actually log into it without getting a beta invite. For me, they have first mover status. :P
- Justin Whitaker
Good point Justin, but Ping.fm invite codes are so freely available these days, I don't even know why they're still required
- Rahsheen?
HelloTxt - because it has an SMS gateway.
- Alja Sulcic
Ping.fm - The triggers are very useful
- Bwana ☠
Sounds pretty even right now. Someone should post a feature comparison grid!
- Glenn Batuyong
Hello.txt with SMS gateway; while Ping.fm with IM support. Hello.txt is two way (at least on the web interface); while Ping.fm could only send messages, not receiving.
- Jansen Lu
I'm trying to get SMS working at hellotxt, but it rejects saying that I'm not sending to a "vaild 10 digit code" - ideas anyone?
- Steve Isaacs
Thanks for the updates, everyone. Does either service work well with Blackberry?
- Ryne Nelson
would anyone use Hellotxt as a two-way communication tool? or just treating it as a message broadcaster?
- Jansen Lu
HelloTxt: nicer interface and more services supported, though I tend to use both 'cos I'm a nerd ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol my Ping.fm's interface is very clean and neat, 'coz it's only the gtalk conversation windows :P
- Jansen Lu
I'm leaning toward TelloText though I haven't really given Ping.fm a fair shot.
- Kimberly J
I use Ping.fm and I like it better because they keep adding great new innovative features. And you can use it with many different applications like Twirl, Spaz, etc.
- Guitarguy234
Ok, so what is the term for FriendFeed Post Necromancy? Because this is the poster child for it.
- Justin Whitaker
Ok..i love pingfm..and now im using posterous.
- Dan Kern
Newly hatched Cicada gets pwned by Wasp - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
SteVe C, John (bird whisperer), Susan Beebe and Mark Trapp liked this
Sad day for the Cicada -- awesome find for the Wasp
- Shey
from Bookmarklet
I'm feeling a bit woozy.
- Cyndy
I hate bugs -- I'm glad at least the bigger one is dead :P
- Shey
EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW thanks. ;)
- Yolanda
Great, now I'm hungry
- Bwana ☠
poor cicadas... they don't have a very happy adult life. I saw their little corpses scattered around all over the place when I was in Asheville, NC last month because it was time for them to all die en masse...
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Shey, do you hate all bugs? http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
Poor cicada. And WOW. OLD POST.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I thought Bwana was back for a second.
- Gimminy
WordPress fanboy, huh? Forget the bugs, Dahlin. Changing your screen name to that when I'm so frustrated learning it was a very dangerous thing to do . . . but you couldn't know I just might haz questions.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
@Bruce Yep, pretty much all of them. Some are nice from a distance...
- Shey
Re. Bwana—SO DID I.
- Micah
Yup. Bwana was one of the first people I subbed to here.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
http://friendfeedstats.appspot.com/ it's alive!
Harry Sting, Lola Bean (Penguin), Vasudev Ram and 11 other people liked this
Nicely done. I suppose you POST crawl data into it or...?
- Aviv
Nope, I hit a special URL (using curl via cron from my server) and App Engine does the crawling
- Benjamin Golub
Oh yeah, that makes perfect sense
- Aviv
Yes, and it's crazy fast!
- Benjamin Golub
what about rssmeme? or is there too much crawling involved?
- Aviv
technically with rssmeme you could have the crawl super fast if you add all the google shared feeds to google reader and then have AppEngine hit up Reader (although not sure if urlfetch supports cookies). That should make for an interesting hack
- Aviv
I'm going to look into getting RSSmeme on App Engine next, it's just a "bit" bigger than FriendFeed Stats :P
- Benjamin Golub
After DNS propagates the old URL (http://www.friendfeedstats.com) should point to the App Engine...I hope
- Benjamin Golub
Nice! Looks like it went pretty well. Of course, that means all the data is gone now :P
- Brandon Titus
Yes, it's gone, I could import it all if people get really antsy, but it's not like it was running for very long in the first place. People won't even notice after a few weeks.
- Benjamin Golub
trying to search user gets file not found- must be that missing data
- Nathan Eckenrode
Yup, if it doesn't find you then it 404s, use FriendFeed more often and it will find you! http://friendfeedstats.appspot.com/bgolub... works for instance
- Benjamin Golub
Only my stuff for April is on FFstats now. Will this be fixed?
- Corvida
I'll look into importing the old data from my server to App Engine....but it might be a little while (or never).
- Benjamin Golub
Wow, appengine is turning out to be painfully simple to implement. Congrats on such a quick port!
- Bwana ☠
It's simple to port if you originally developed in Python :)
- Benjamin Golub
Does BigTable prevent you from doing complex db operations? It seems like the inability to join or use "OR" is limiting?
- felix
Ya, it is limiting (and that's why I doubt RSSmeme will be ported to it)
- Benjamin Golub
very interesting
- accexine
Victim of the ugly stick
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Hookuh Tinypants, Kevin Johnson, Mike Bracco and 10 other people liked this
I was searching for something else--this totally derailed me...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
Eye bleach - STAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......*help*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
The Never Ending Story...the bald years
- Josh Haley
What the KCUF!!!!!!!!!!11
- Rahsheen?
I think it's lovely. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
...well there you go, it takes all kinds ;-)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Not real. Art.
- Kevin Fox
Not Real!? (heart broken, confused ...) LOL!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
what the f*ck is that?!
- AJ Batac
Artwork making some sort of comment on the future of genetic engineering.
- jjprojects
OMG HIDE
- Mona Nomura
I'm with you, Mona! But once you've made a comment you can't hide it on your 'comments & likes' tab - and it keeps popping back up, looking at me....*shudder*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Here it is again!
- Bwana ☠
Whom ever made this needs to be shot.....or, better yet.....made to stare at it till the end of his or her days!
- ChiliMac
Awww
- Rodfather
good god, no. I want my eyes from 30 seconds ago back.
- Chieze Okoye
I know what it looks like now! The pigthing from The Restaurant at the end of the Universe (from the BBC production)...noooooooo!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
ATTEMPTING TO UNSEE IN 5 4 3 2 ATTEMPTING TO UNSEE IN 5 4 3 2
- nouhad
Thanks for the Link Glen. I found this on a non-english site so that just added to surreal randomness of the picture.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I still think it's lovely no matter how many of you haters show up in this thread. :P
- Hookuh Tinypants
Awesome.
- Pixie
bump
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I still think this is beautiful. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
Pitch Black vs. XXX - http://www.flickchart.com/4FC8078...
Kol Tregaskes, Alex Scrivener, Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce and 9 other people liked this
Pitch Black.
- Mark H
hahah
- Bwana ☠
Pitch Black is roughly 10x more fun than XXX.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
toughy
- Valley
Pitch Black
- Shevonne
PB was actually a real surprise. I went into it expecting bad Sci-Fi but I left having thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a simple, unassuming film but Diesel's debut as a charismatic anti-hero was very memorable. XXX was just a vehicle.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Pitch black hands down. Although anything with Vin is hot!
- Sparky, lurking
Pitch.Black.
- Mike Lewis
Pitch Black
- .LAG liked that
Pitch Black
- Alejandro
I like the one with Vin Diesel.
- Josh Haley
thanks
- Vin Diesel
lol
- Josh Haley
haha
- Michael W. May
Pitch Black
- Gimminy
Pitch Black for me.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
Hi, five political dissidents were executed last week and 20 more await similar fate. To show your solidarity with the Green Movement in Iran (against dictatorship and bloodshed), could you please ask your subscribers to to join the 1000 like campaign for the feed attached. Thanks http://friendfeed.com/harfehe...
- Erfun
My 3yo even loved Pitch Black!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Pitch Black. No contest.
- Rahsheen?
Pitch Black!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from fftogo
XXX
- .LAG liked that
Did anyone notice this was necro'd, with a spam-ish comment, I support it, about executions?
- Gimminy
Missed that Jimminy... thread was collapsed when I commented
- .LAG liked that
LAG, I understand.
- Gimminy
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
Here it is, my LOLcat with bacon in its mouth frolicking amongst rainbows whilst farting glitter (see here for inspiration http://friendfeed.com/isthiss...). #Echo
Lola Bean (Penguin), chaz2b, sofarsoShawn and 38 other people liked this
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAA!!!!!!!!!
- FFing Enigma
Tina, you win all internet points today.
- Yolanda
This will be my new go-to post when ever I need to laugh maniacally =D
- FFing Enigma
Tina, you are ALL kinds of awesomesauce! As is baconrainbowglitterfartingpoostick kitteh. :-D
- Ordinarybug Heather
That was my nickname in high school Ladybug Heather
- SteVe C
also, http://drop.io/yodrops...
- Yolanda
I'm especially proud of the glitter farts. Very Lisa Frank...
- FFing Enigma
LOL plus extra points for Yolanda
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
ROFL even. Damn Tina, you *ARE* teh interwebzawesomness forever now.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I think this could actually break the internet
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
LOL
- John (bird whisperer)
Way to go, Tina. And +1 to Steve C for the comment!
- asiriusgeek
HAHAHAHAHA
- Bwana ☠
If I'm still somehow on Scoble's 'interesting' list, this should get me banned with a quickness...
- FFing Enigma
oh man, I'm speechles, yet I'm saying something
- Bwana ☠
Is very good, my frendz liked it too :o)
- David Gross
Thank you, David =)
- FFing Enigma
That's going to pop up randomly in someone's Google Image search for "cat" someday, and leave them completely dumbfounded. Which makes it awesome.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, just the thought of that made me almost snarf my icecream!!!
- FFing Enigma
*bump* Gotta bring the cat back in honor of all the "OMGFFIZDED" posts =)
- FFing Enigma
hahaha! awesome! :D
- holly #ravingfangirl
lol
- Josh Haley
would be funnier if it was a gif with moving glittere :)
- David Gross
FriendFeed Is The Signal - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Daniel Rowley, ЕП, Steven Perez and 23 other people liked this
testing ff comments plugin
- Shey
can't wait until there is a ff comments plug in for Blogger. Would love to have every blog post I write incorporate the comments from FF.
- Thomas Hawk
Add your $$ to the bounty, Thomas. I put $250 on the table. It's small, but it's a start. Who wants to add on?
- Louis Gray
Yeah, I'd throw in $100 if it worked well and looked good on my blog.
- Thomas Hawk
Well hopefully someone takes up the offer by you and Louis
- Shey
In case you don't know. Glenn Slaven is awesome. http://blog.slaven.net.au/
- Shey
Agreed, that WP plugin rocks. I feel sorry for the Blogger users
- Bwana ☠
FF plug in for WordPress is awesome
- Thomas Hawk
Excellent post. I am a big fan of Marshall McLuhan's work. BTW, I tried to post on your blog to FF but it asked for my api. Where do I find that?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
FriendFeed API key: https://friendfeed.com/account.... Thanks :)
- Shey
Looks good Shey! Knowing you, you will massage the CSS for the FF plugin until it's perfect.
- Phil Glockner
D'Oh. I guess that I did know that. Thanks, Shey!
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Ah Phil, you couldn't leave me any room for surprises huh? :P
- Shey
It's interesting to see two different comments flow on this same post. One on friendfeed ( http://friendfeed.com/e... ) and another on DISQUS ( http://introspectivesnapshots.... ). I definitely enjoy both of them. Thanks, shey!
- Kenichi Matsumoto
Distributed conversations are great aren't they? :)
- Shey
test
- Tyler Gillies
sweet it worked
- Tyler Gillies
Nice job Shey
- Charlie Anzman
Thanks Charlie!
- Shey
With the arrival of services like Google Buzz, Pip.io, Cliqset, Strandz and other Friendfeed copycats, it seems I was right all along.
- Shey
Just was talking to http://www.friendfeed.com/garin and we came to the conclusion that if you are going to comment on a friendfeed item you should either be first or last. Why? They always are visible. So, here's your chance! :-)
Roshan Ramachandran, Amit Nangare, Jeff P. Henderson and 58 other people liked this
zaloom!
- Kevin Johnson
If we are really cool we'll get on this list http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Kevin is first, who will be last? I just want to be the penultimate commenter!
- Robert Scoble
first and last words are all that matter on the FF.
- rob friedman
Okay. Everyone stop NOW!
- Kevin Sablan
great. now FF is going to be filled up with those annoying ass people that comment "FIRST!" on everything.
- Enrique Gutierrez
ok
- Shawn Snodgrass
Aw crap, I could sit here all night waiting to be last, so may as well comment now.
- Sharon McPherson
8th!
- rob friedman
Any worthy FF thread will engage interested parties enough to read most of the comments.
- iTad
Do I get bonus points if I end up being the thread killer?
- Kevin Johnson
Kevin you could always delete your 1st comment. :)
- rob friedman
Kevin! Yes, and we're having a great time watching this. It will get old fast, but for now it's really fun!
- Robert Scoble
Hey Enrique.. that would suck. Oh... LAST! Oh Jeff... Last.
- Ted Bradford II
That's why these threads just go on and on and on... people just want to have the last word. ;-P
- Chris Heath
Chris: I don't want the last word. I want the penultimate word. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nope, I like the riffng of the conversation. Jump in anywhere. Enjoy the free flow of ideas and worry not about being seen by the scanners. Those who take the time to expand the thread have such a richer experience.
- michael sean wright
if i wasn't so tired i'd play that out Chris (as my last post was truly in jest). Late here in East TN. Gonna go tip a few cows and call it a day.
- Ted Bradford II
Ted: so was mine ... didn't you catch the winky tongue? (i'm on cape fear so i'm soon to bed as well)
- Chris Heath
Good point, unless you're actually using the RT chat aspect of FriendFeed, I guess...
- Andy Werner
Chris- I did, but needed a segue into a cow tipping joke... cause I've never done so before. I do know this, tomorrow I will use the word 'penultimate' and dazzle family and friends. Hope alls quiet on the Cape bro. These storms have been a biotch. Annnnnnd Jeff just trumped us all. Tell him what he's won Enrique... nite all.
- Ted Bradford II
Second to last is always visible on my screen. :)
- Bwana ☠
Clever way to get the most commented upon comment on FF ever....
- Barak B
Ted, if you haven't dozed off- i'll have you know that the coastal winds tend to keep a lot of the storm systems at bay- if you're close enough to the water - a mile or 5 inland can make a big difference some days - and spot t/storms can be localized around here big time - for instance yesterday it rained (for a short period) at my house while i was at work 5 miles away getting no rain - only knew cuz the ground was wet when i went home for lunch... ok - it's really time for sleep now - g'nite FriendFeed
- Chris Heath
so in other words, last is not least?
- Julie Bovee Hill
Barak: check out this idea for a long thread (still nowhere near the longest on friendfeed, but the idea.. ) http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac...
- Chris Heath
Chris: Yes, that is a good one too. This is better though and I predict with end up with more comments.
- Barak B
Yay! I am last as of now :)
- Amit Nangare
lets see how long this lasts for! :)
- Paul Kinlan
Another one of these? From Scoble this time? Wow. BTW, last post.
- Chris Charabaruk
I will be the penultimate commenter!
- Garin Kilpatrick
That way I can be the ultimate one.
- Chris Charabaruk
Nope.
- Barak B
friendfeed should allow for "liking" comments so top comments can be the ones shown, no matter the chronology. And allow the users to watch comments by likes, threaded or chronologically.
- Charbax
A blatant attempt at gaming the FriendFeed statistics for no real useful purpose... Oooh, can I be last, Please Please!!!
- Peter Kelley
No, Peter, you may not be last. That's my position.
- Chris Charabaruk
Last Post!!!
- Richard Hurt
well, the last comment is always changing, isn't this like having your 5 nanoseconds of glory?
- Liviu Lica
This thread is now closed.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
No, NOW it's closed.
- Chris Charabaruk
Or is it? :)
- Liviu Lica
Perhaps now...
- Garin Kilpatrick
thats me! :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
based on what you say, it easier to simply click like :-)
- Orli Yakuel
:)
- Michael Fidler
"Comment on a friendfeed item"? which one? ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Are trying to go for the longest comment thread again?
- Amit Morson
Amit: no, most times one post gets hidden.
- Robert Scoble
In a different timezone you can have the advantage :)
- Rene de Vries
Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
What if you write backwards? Does that help?
- Kieran Daly
It would be nice if we could pick the number of comments shown at the top and bottom, I'd like to see the first 3 and last 3 for example.
- Kol Tregaskes
I usually read all the comments of something I'm interested in. I don't just read the top and bottom ones so I don't care where I come in. I comment on what I want to because I want to say something. It's nice if the original poster reads/responds to it, but not absolutely necessary. Most of the time the most fun/interaction comes from other commenters.
- Molly
Sounds like an online auction...Is there any deadline? Then I'll prepare my winning speech 17,3 sec beforehand.
- Zack Brandit
I'm not falling for your postbait, Scoble! Oh wait...crap.
- c.a.j.
Cow tipping - That's Funny
- Brent - Yes I am
Good point.
- Jack Boyle
I feel sorry for the cows. And the grass. I am weakhearted I guess.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I guess I misunderstood. You were talking about that fat waittress in Crazy Mick's Breakaway Cafe, weren't you?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Fine, I'm in
- Don Bonaddio
Nope
- Jérôme
no
- mjc
Yeah, you were last. Congrats.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
In ur timezone, stealin ur commentz, kthxbye :)
- Peter Kelley
ok, I'll hold on to last place for visablity!
- PaulJohnson
I was going to add something witty, but i got nothing. sorry....
- Mike Nencetti
No problem. Participating is more important than winning, we say in the Netherlands.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
It's the long-tail of real-time
- zeroinfluencer
Excellent point David ;)
- Don Bonaddio
Being last has one drawback. It makes you a thread-killer. I'm not sure some of us like being that. Sometimes I'd rather see the discussion keep going.
- George Hall (Australia)
Do like the suggestion made earlier that there should be bonus points for being the thread-killer...
- George Hall (Australia)
but who wants to be last?
- mcvictor
Ok Robert, please close this thread now. ;)
- Meryn Stol
I disagree, and I'll tell you why below...
- FFing Enigma
We already did this thread, I'll post the link right after Tina's rebuttal
- Rahsheen?
You don't really believe that Robert. Content is key! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
But if I post last, I'm first in the thread on Twhirl! Double win! ;-)
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
amazing
- David Gross
from email
Always happy to be last .... but it probably won't last :)
- Charlie Anzman
llllllaaaaasssssstttttt
- mjc
You'd be right Charlie :P
- Jay
And there is nothing I hate more than reading that first comment that childishly claims "First!" and nothing more. "Last!" (until the next comment comes along)
- Jim Espinoza
By the way, I'm the last commenter in a very participated thread recently started by Robert Scoble, but that didn't gain me almost any new follower. I'm fine with this though, as I'd find silly being advantaged for being the last commenter ;-)
- Opensource Obscure
Agreed :)
- Fabian De Simone
How do I stick my comment to the bottom so that it will always be last? :)
- Jeff Sayre
How long can this go on?
- Tom Landini
Last! ...for now
- Scott
So this if why Scoble goes nuts over realtime feeds - he can be the first to comment.
- Tom Landini
Well, every comment gets to be last for at least a couple of seconds. Or fractions of a second with RT.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
If you want to understand the power of last you need to read this thread http://friendfeed.com/mikenay...
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
"There is no final solution. There is no last word.” ~ Carlos Fuentes
- Sharon McPherson
First is way better, because the last post can always change :)
- Tim McDougall
Easy to be first, harder to be last. Kind of like trying to win a silent auction, you always have to go back
- Lorraine Ball
but what if it took me a while to find the discussion, and i still want to be last? ;-)
- Courtney Engle
Firs...Last.
- Rob
@Rob - in yo' face!
- JoEllen
The one who will comment after me is so stupid I would'nt like to be him :P
- stanjourdan
Yoink!
- Zach Lytwyn
112 comments - but there can never be last comment, can there? Unless there is a FF limit on the number of comments - Paul, is there a limit?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
The current last comment is the next penultimate comment.
- Brian Sullivan
Not everyone is on here to market themselves to infinity. Why people, other than people who actually make money off of exposure, insist on wanting the most friends on ff/fb/ms/tt is beyond me. Not everyone is a Scobilite! Yes I did just make that word up... where do I copyright it? lol
- Jason Williams
Didn't someone blog about tinyurl's dominance a while back - about how they have too much power. Might have been Gillmor or Winer
- Bwana ☠
Winer. I don't think they have too much power
- Steve Gillmor
I'm going for last.
- Derek Markham
I've got last:-)
- Francine Hardaway
instahide
- Edward Zwart
How can we compete against Robert
- Peter Meng
Peter: why compete? Just come in last! :-)
- Robert Scoble
ok
- Kevin Johnson
Just checking. I heard this thread was closed, so I wondered if commenting still works.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
wow that's pretty rad :-)
- Patphelan
@Jeff, it's not spam if you opt in ;-)
- Kevin Johnson
wonder what the value of posting on page length increments are... as people page down your comment is visible ;)
- offbeatmammal
Jeff: do you still get email if you hide a thread? I bet you do. That sucks. Now I know why I don't turn on email notifications.
- Robert Scoble
There is no last. - Mobius Loop
- Robert Couture
to infinity and beyond
- Jonathan Grimes
@Jeff - same here - noworries
- Kevin Johnson
- Rob
This. Will. Never. End.
- Michael Forian
Pay me $10 and I'll delete this thread. (Future friendfeed monetization technique). Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Your comment is always the last! look at mine :)
- Luis Benavides
Welcome to the neverending thread :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: I'll delete it before it ends. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That would be a shame. You'd be up $10 at least though :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
The last shall be last
- Peter Meng
There can be only one.
- Kevin Johnson
I seem to be last on many of Steve Gillmor's posts @techcrunchit, the kiss of death to many a conversation. I should be so lucky here.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
Yes, you should be so lucky :p
- Jesse Newhart
I'm going to change my FriendFeed ID to "145 more comments"
- Mark Traphagen
Getting a piece of the pie... :)
- Jan Ole Peek
I've often found myself to have the last comment. It hasn't benefited me yet that I've noticed...let's try that again.
- Mike Lewis
first is forever....last is a very transient honor indeed.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
and being both is probably meaningless, but I'm still going to claim it
- Kevin Johnson
Do others ever get more than 2 comments on their posts? :)
- Cameron
Doing it!! www.radarla.com
- Drew Lucas
So, if you are last and then someone comes behind you, should you re-comment to be last again?
- T.S. Elliott
Probably so T.S. but it won't last long ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sorry Rob:-)
- Michael Fidler
1
- Robert Kenney
2
- Robert Kenney
As a fine-art platform, as a painting, do you think anyone would be interested in a full-screen image feed animated by Judith Supine? http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- stephen harlow
He who comments last...
- Abbas Haider Ali
comments as:
- Kevin Johnson
Tag- Im it
- Ryan Gerritsen
not anymore you're not ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
zaloom!
- Kevin Johnson
for one moment I could imagine that every comment was Kevin Johnson and his "zaloom!"
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
ANd so I do and then another and another :) Fun huh.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
not really... but hey... whatever
- Chris Heath
So to comment or to like a FriendFeed item is to promote it.. and to promote the promoter. Great great great!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
173rd!!
- Mark Traphagen
Controlled noise...
- Joe Dawson
Indeed it is official :) But not for long let me bask in it's glory for a moment hahaha.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
It was fun while it lasted.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Okay, Thanks. It was taking too much of my time anyway.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Nicholas: Except this thread is far more epic :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
back again...to claim last place!
- Zach Lytwyn
Good for you Zach!
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Cannot. Let. This. End.
- Robert Couture
Have. To.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hit hit hit
- Hans Mestrum
Kol: Cool idea, it would be neat to be able to choose how many of the first and last comments were visible.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Last
- Michael Fidler
I like most anything distilled...information, bait...(distilled bait...is that like the worm at the bottom of the mezcal?)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The difference would be that in this case the worm will stay on the bottom. No matter what.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I am not quite sure about that. But willing to accept it. (Wait! You just called me a worm? The most underrated but valuable animal on the planet, that brings us fertile ground and eats dead stuff? It is a nice compliment, but might be a bit much).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Yesterday somebody asked: 'if you pass the number two in a race, which place are you in?' and I answered wrong. Passing the last one in this race will be hard...
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
The last comment shall be mine! :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Woot, last comment. ;)
- Gimminy
mine
- Michael Fidler
NOPE
- Gimminy
Mmmm. I always hoped I would be last.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from email
Mmmm. I always hoped I would be last.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from email
I think it is hard to be first and even harder to be last.. just look at this thread.. http://ff.im/1hqgl
- David Gross
Last comment?
- Jeff P. Henderson
you mean Twitter Gar1n? You were talking on TWITTER WEREN'T YOU! LIAR "friendfeeed Garin" pfttttt still the same bi-polar
- sofarsoShawn
Interesting comment, SFSS, very interesting indeed. So interesting, in fact, that I think that nothing further needs to be added to this thread. Ever.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
אתם כל כך מלא חרא, אבל זו בעיה שלך, לא שלי :-)
- David Gross
from email
actually i don't know how not to be the last commenter :)
- İ. Emre Kutlu
Me too..
- David Gross
from email
If only I could puncture the depths of Scoble's scratch-the-surface brain fart, techno-vangelizing, then I'd actually care WHOLE HEARTEDLY about this meaningfully retarded thread.
- sofarsoShawn
The only way this thread can be made even more ridiculous and anachronistic is to move it to identi.ca.. Myspace would work, too.
- Tal Shafik
Interesting ;)
- Alex
And since you can't guarantee being last unless you are the originator of the thread or can convince the originator to end comments (but since Robert is AWOL that is unlikely) -- you better be first. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Stuff
- Jonathan Hardesty
Okay, admittedly being the last IS visible...but who REALLY wants to be the thread-killer?
- George Hall (Australia)
apparently, some people http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac... http://friendfeed.com/silas21... http://friendfeed.com/mikenay... (notice 2000+ comments!)
- Chris Heath
I think I remember commenting on one of those threads...and it's STILL going????
- George Hall (Australia)
Hey, this one's from May... it's about to hit its own anniversary!
- Chris Heath
I'm surprised this only has a little over 200 comments.
- Jason Williams
201
- David Gross
don't be so sure about that... there's lots of people who like to be thread killers or last... just wait and watch
- Chris Heath
Sage words Robert - Sage words indeed!
- PaulJohnson
See??? I told you!
- Chris Heath
It doesn't seem to work in the long term.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
http://twitpic.com/6kxxc - sweet dreams
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Велопрограммист Аркадий, Rob H., Maxim Grinev and 48 other people liked this
Thanks for nothing, AJ.
- Steven Perez
:D
- AJ Batac
People always clowning around.... I say, let it float. They all float.
- Absentee
Trying to give us all nightmares.
- John (bird whisperer)
Not CLOWNS :(
- comix aka martha
Look into the deadlights...
- Absentee
Awesome movie. Book was even better.
- Beau Liening
I never finished reading this book...
- Rahsheen?
CLOWNS DIE.
- Steven Perez
from IM
One of the scariest characters in a Stephen King book, which is one of Stephen King's stupidest books (judging just by the end).
- iTad
I saw it when I was 5. Now I'm eternally scared of clowns. :s
- Faraz Mullick
really don't like clowns =(
- Jhoy Imperial
Can't sleep... clown'll eat me... can't sleep... clown'll eat me...
- GeekDads.TV
WHY DO YOU HATE US?!?!?! *faint*
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Hoooo! Mai! Gaaaawwwwwd!!
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
- Anika
farrrrrrk
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Hiding!
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! OMG! OMG! OMG! HAHAHAHA! This reminds me of this video I saw a few days ago, MUST WATCH! http://www.tjvids.com/the-ama...
- Michael Forian
Gee that's not creepy AT ALL
- Josh Haley
Oh geez, thanks. if you only knew how clowns creep me out. even benevolent-looking ones. ugh.
- Karoli
awesome :)))
- Alejandro
Good Morning Mr Clown! 8oD
- David Cook
I just love Tim Curry. :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
I was waiting for the sudden change of that face, scary:(
- K.D.
Still creepy.
- c.a.j.
am hiding the clown now. it keeps showing up at the top of my feed like Stephen King's monster. ugh.
- Karoli
i want to hide just because its creepy
- Tyler Gillies
My wife is terrified of clowns. I have an evil bone that wants to show this to her. ahahahahah >:)
- Bwana ☠
Nobody enjoys a circus any more.
- John Hardy
I met this guy last night. Is it good?
- Maxim Grinev
eff yeah
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Windows 7 Beta Testers - Do you miss the FOLDER UP button in Explorer? YES or NO?
Jason A. Samfield, Alex Scrivener, Roberto Bonini and 9 other people liked this
Definitely miss the folder up button in Win7.
- Jennifer Dittrich
It was gone in Vista but if you're a keyboard type (like me) you can use Alt+Up Arrow to go up a directory level.
- Michael Lehman
backspace does the trick.
- Sasha Kovaliov
YES! I was just bitching about that 5 min. ago.
- Anika
Twitter says 15: YES / 10: NO (so far)...I'm not sure if anyone answered here who didn't cc: to Twitter
- Sarah Perez
yes ı do
- sabrican zaim
YES
- Arthur Guy
I'm used to Backspace, so no I don't
- Bwana ☠
Now I've got YES: 17 / NO: 12
- Sarah Perez
No. it's just ui clutter because you can just use the breadcrumb.
- Alan Le
No, backspace is the key ;p
- Zu from AOD
Backspace doesn't work for me. I just use the links on the bar above to get back to folders. OT: I also wish there was a friggin' refresh button. Why do I have to go back, then forward again to get a refreshed folder?
- Anika
I don't miss it at all.
- Akiva
I miss the explorer of old, you know the one that actually let you browse your folders and network.. the one that didn't get in the way and try to hide your shit in folders you didn't want them in. When I open up explorer I don't want to be in my documents, I want to be in my computer so I can see my drives!
- alphaxion
at first I really missed it but now I am getting used to it. but I still vote yes I miss it.
- John Ford
no.
- vijay
Definitely don't miss it, but then again I've been using Vista since day 1 of its release, so I'm used to it by now. But I can't recall missing it back then either.
- Hookuh Tinypants
@Anika: you can always right-click and select Refresh from the menu. Granted it's not as nice as having that button there to click, but it's easier than doing the backward-forward dance. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
Isn't it missing in Vista too? EDIT: after reading all comments, yes folks, this isn't a new thing!
- Ryan
See people...this is what you get when you crap on Vista... :P You woulda been acclimated by now...
- Hookuh Tinypants
I'm a keyboard guru (and on Vista) so I don't miss it for me, but do when trying to help my mouse-only relatives & friends.
- Surferbill
Don't really miss it. The Breadcrumbs are good enough.
- Johannes W.
I still haven't gotten completely used to using breadcrumbs and I've been using Vista for awhile. I use a Tablet PC a lot so the keyboard shortcut doesn't help me all the time.
- Loren Heiny
Not really, no.
- Roberto Bonini
Yes I miss the up button.
- Keith - @tsudo
Nope, I did when i first started but i dont even care now, i just use the link bar to travese up the folder tree
- John McBride
from twhirl
yes
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Update on the Twitter results: YES: 19, NO: 15
- Sarah Perez
@Ryan: No one said it's a new thing, but the fact that it went missing in Vista is what led some people to believe that it would "return" in Windows 7
- Sarah Perez
Note to anyone else replying to this thread: send your reply via Twitter to get officially counted. :) Thank you!
- Sarah Perez
Yes i do
- Ufuk YAYLA
Almost a year later and I'm still not used to it. I switch from XP on my netbook to Win7 on my husband's computer and find myself still annoyed. I've been working around it by just exploding my folder view.
- Anika
No at all.
- Roberto Bonini
it's built into the path bar.. click on the folder and you go back to that folder.
- alphaxion
What is your XBox Live gamertag?
urdumania1, Kevin (aka ThreadKilla), Andrew Trinh and 11 other people liked this
I've just signed up and mine is koltregaskes. My profile is is on http://live.xbox.com/member.... #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
Add me if you like. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone got a gamertag?
- Kol Tregaskes
I just sent you a request
- Anika
Kerjo
- Jordan Hofker
Thanks, Anika.
- Kol Tregaskes
Pretty Mattie K
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Susurrant Echo. Just sent you a friend request. :)
- Jandy
bizsumpark182, I'll be looking for your request.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Actually I just went ahead and sent you a request.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Matthew I'm going to send you a request.
- Anika
Ack one day I'll actually get my XB360 hooked up to the LAN. Wish there were more hours in the day. I even have 3 mos of the "Gold" as part of the HD promo.
- mikepk
Thank you all, I've added and requested you guys.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm ricin97. http://raptr.com/ricin
- donato
"podcatcher". Question to ponder for the weekend: what's the significance of the tag? ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
NoNameNoSlogan
- Rob H.
Keep 'em coming. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
pretty sure mine is ahr19
- Amani
ITBlogger Glad to see you bought a 360...you won't be disappointed. I sent you an invite.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Actually I added everyone else too...so if you see a request to add ITBlogger, that would be me. Hopefully one of you has a higher gamerscore than me...I need a new goal. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Amani, there was certainly a user with that username, added. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
unto
- DeWitt Clinton
Alex, added, thank you. Yes Xbox is great, my brother and I have been playing co-op Call of Duty, shame we have to start from the beginning every time - how can the publisher/developer have omitted that feature.
- Kol Tregaskes
Alex, cool! Just got your request, and will respond as soon as I get back to the dashboard. :)
- Jandy
Jandy, you can do it on the Xbox 360 web site too: http://www.xbox.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
I've added you all. Here's my profile: http://live.xbox.com/member...
- Anika
shreddies
- Joe Dawson
I like shreddies for breakfast, but I don't have an Xbox :)
- Ian May
Thanks, Anika and Joe. Ian, you *need* to get an Xbox, shreddies are no replacement. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Rjcc
- Richard Lawler
Thanks, Richard.
- Kol Tregaskes
I added you too Kol :) - lonelycoo
- Simon Wicks
Lofty Donkey
- Kevin Bondelli
ahr19 is mine.
- Amani
Rodfather74
- Rodfather
Don't have an XBox, but I do have a gamertag...which I can't remember..
- Rahsheen?
My Gamertag is shreddies
- Joe Dawson
JemmFI
- Jemm
Enchanted Dream, but I hardly ever play
- Neya
Added you all, thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nuvalo
- Bwana ☠
bulletRidN
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Thanks, Kevin. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Added you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for doing this Kol. Good idea.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
dgrove21 -- This may solve a problem -- only one person I know who has an XBOX 360.
- Danny Groveman
Added a few of you peeps last nite. Don't be shocked by the random invite.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I don't have an XBox but I thought it was the same as the windows live thingummy.
- Ian May
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
I just added a few more people and thanks for bumping the thread. There were a few names on my Xbox that I was wondering who was who. Turned out I had Mathew and Andy totally confused.
- Anika
OutsanityCrazy. I don't even have an Xbox but I somehow have an account
- Outsanity
13,000 people think Facebook is going to start charging in 2009. Please DO NOT invite these folks to FriendFeed. Idiots.
Daniel Rowley, Paolo Rossi, Olivier Brisson and 49 other people liked this
Uwe: yeah, I just think it's funny that some people will believe the lamest crap just because it's on the Internet.
- Robert Scoble
You can count me in for not inviting them over here!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Robert these 13000 people would not know what to do on Friendfeed and leave in less than 5 minutes of signing up.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
this isn't the first or the last group like it, it's a good indicator of which of your friends are morons.
- Richard Lawler
Eldon: I hope I don't have that many idiots following me. :-)
- Robert Scoble
How about emails like these: "Bill Gates/Nokia/whatever will donate <something>, if this message is sent to 1000000 people". When I get something like this from some friend, I get disappointed on him/her...
- Jemm
there are 100 of these groups each week... everyone ignores them (well everyone important anyway ;))
- Thomas
Funny thing is - facebook is probably worth $3.99. Although I notice the French says $3.99 per month which would be a bit steep.
- Matthew Neale
but wait, i thought hotmail was closing the free service unless 2 million people add group Z ?
- Matt Randles
These groups are as old as Facebook itself. All they do is prove: heavy Facebook users = lemmings. :p
- Chris Charabaruk
I love you, Robert!
- Ordinarybug Heather
There will always be a VIP group of sorts... back when Facebook started it looked like early adaptors were joining over there. Then came Twitter, now Friendfeed. If Friendfeed gets too mainstream (if that's possible) I'm wondering what's next.
- David Bisset (sn)
Why would they do that? They are already getting tons of money from sponsors and advertisers. Duh!
- Shevonne
@David: In the Web 2.0 world, there's bound to be something new and already in the works. I wonder what it is too, but I'd be surprised if it's not currently under construction, or even ready to launch.
- Chris Charabaruk
I wouldn't call them idiots. If they believe it, they believe it. So if it happens are the non-believers idiots? Hmmm
- Bwana ☠
:/... I doubt it will happen. They get enough money from advertising surely.
- ralphsaunders
This was the funniest quote I've seen microblogged in a while! Of course how many of these people use to (or still do) pay for Classmates or Reunion, so naturally they believe this garbage.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Reminds me of the false rumors a few years ago about AOL, Yahoo, and MS planning to charge for email to eliminate spam. Move on - nothing to see here.
- Mike Doeff
It's already 39,265 members in that certain group…
- Daniel Schildt
One thing to notice in this compared to older rumors is the amount of speed people notice it.
- Daniel Schildt
I might join and post something saying "Suckas!"
- Shevonne
40,000 now. Wow. I kind of enjoy the silly little worries of people.
- Daniel Zarick
wow. morons. Everybody knows that friendfeed's not gonna start charging until 2010!
- Jim #TeamMonique
@Jim - Facebook
- Shevonne
Shevonne... yes, I know. I was referring to Scoble's original post where he urged us not to invite them over here.
- Jim #TeamMonique
@Jim - We should. We would probably scare them from ever using the Internet. hahaha
- Shevonne
Shevonne -- good point.
- Jim #TeamMonique
These are the same idiots who are worried about being charged per email. I don't think they'd know what to do with friendfeed even if they were invited.
- Mr. Gunn
I wonder how many are over the age 0f 17. How many of voting age are in the group of 13,000.
- Franklin Pettit
I swear that first sentence just made my blood pressure shoot up 20 points. The second sentence rapidly lowered it. I have a few people added who unfortunately take everything forwarded to them as fact. They will never get an invite. This is my hideout from the people who shouldn't be allowed online.
- ilene
Chris, the group is not about pro features. They claim there will be NO free access to FB after Dec 31. Quite a different thing...
- Ray Metzen
And the group has 56,000 members now! Amazing... :(
- Ray Metzen
More than ever… 91,481 members at the moment of writing.
- Daniel Schildt
LOL, yes! Go go go!
- Chris Charabaruk
Amen
- Tyler (Chacha)
Hmm... I'm not sure which disappoints me more... People being overly anxious over the idea that Facebook will supposedly be charged for use. (This evidentially isn’t true) Or the knowledge that a number of people I don't care to count are here on FriendFeed discussing those that have joined groups concerning Facebook fees as if they are second class citizens. Take a good look at...
more...
- Jamie Howlett
funny thing is people not wanting to pay when there getting new games and apps that can keep you entertained if it did cost (which it never will) i sure would pay the Cheap $3.99 month
- Luke Moers
Of course Facebook is going to start Charging people money! Everyone knows it! By the way, did you hear Obama tried to move Christmas to January 8th? (its a fb group too so it must be real!!)
- Rebecca
I'm Louis Gray recommended! http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Mo Kargas, Justin Rains, Amani and 26 other people liked this
Graphic blatantly stolen from Bwana: http://bwana.posterous.com/i-made-...
- Michael Hocter
To be exact, it's a Mike Fruchter recommendation on Louis' blog... Thanks so much, Mike! http://friendfeed.com/fruchter
- Michael Hocter
Congrats!
- Bwana ☠
totally jealous
- sofarsoShawn
very nice
- (jeff)isageek
nice
- andy brudtkuhl
No, that's another guy, this Louis Gray is...is...amaaaaaaazzzzzing
- sofarsoShawn
Same guy: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Josh Haley
Fake beard? Hey! I've been working on that thing for months in secret!
- Louis Gray
I totally thought it was real.
- Michael Hocter
from fftogo
stop. please.
- joanne devault
Stop what, joanne?
- Michael Hocter
Scary
- Charlie Anzman
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Someone Needs To Stop Tripping Over The Power Cord At Rackspace - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Kim Landwehr, Anthony Citrano, Patrick Jordan and 3 other people liked this
SRSLY
- Bwana ☠
My experience is it gets tripped over pretty much every week, mostly on a Monday or Tuesday. DFW is effectively down right now, at least for the cluster my sites are on. It is becoming every week like clockwork, except in a far from positive way.
- Patrick Jordan
I wonder how the developers feel about their investment in the FriendFeed platform. Share your thoughts? Has today's announcement changed the way you feel?
Gimminy, "Sedat", "Serhat Ozan" and 15 other people liked this
TIRED —And I rarely feel so when I code for fun. The best eg. might be NoiseRiver which I made in a single month with people watching over my shoulder, _THAT_ was fun.
- directeur
sitting looking at hours and hours of personal code now nothing but digital dust
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
At least it might be around for a while.
- Rob Diana
Given the choice, would you develop for Facebook or FriendFeed? I would think Facebook
- Bwana ☠
Now, you have to choose FaceBook. Would you invest time in a site where you don't know what will happen? (Outside of thinking that for any startup of course)
- Rob Diana
I had a few hobby projects I was working on: no incentive to continue working on them. There's next to zero chance the API will continue in any situation; Facebook has its own platform. Facebook's platform wasn't appealing to me the last time I looked: maybe I'll go through it again.
- Mark Trapp
I'm annoyed, I was seriously considering fixing up the FF Comments plugin because a few people had asked me to, but I just don't see the point now
- Glenn Slaven
Personally as a developer, Not FF, this deal means that all the time and effort I put into my experimental personal projects may one day actually pay off. Not a waste of time after all. FF have shown that the dream is still alive, and congrats to them for doing it in this dreadful downturn.
- Bryan Whitehouse
And thank you for that Glenn.
- Anika
Bwana - I suppose the same (maybe) that MANY Twitter developers felt over the weekend ... Don't put all your eggs ..... ?! We still don't know if FF will stay autonomous to some extent. Lots of conclusions being jumped to here.
- Charlie Anzman
+1 @Charlie
- .LAG liked that
Whoa. I got me a +1. (Thanks .LAG) Can I get some sleep now? Seriously ... People have Twitter Consulting businesses (some are actually real :). Can you imagine the 'new' client? "Hey you told me to tweet and then it got attacked ?!". The FF crew has always been extremely responsive. Have a question ... beef. POST IT! ... Maybe they and Zuck will read the Feedback Group??!! Why change now?
- Charlie Anzman
The acquisition funding model isn't new. I'm thinking Twitter is envious about now.
- Mattb4rd
Friendfeed's API is a dead end and Facebook's "API" (I put that in quotes) is the worst I've ever tried to work with. Lose-lose :(
- Carter ♥ JS
from iPhone
I think I'm done developing tools for proprietary APIs. Between Twitter turning off features last year and this shift in FriendFeed's direction and business model, I'm tired of not having control. From here on out it's all about open standards and tools that work with multiple systems. (see also http://friendfeed.com/feedtech)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken++. Take a look on NoseRub...
- Marcos Marado
FeedFace?!!?!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!! (Edit: Thanks Brian)
polymath22, "Sedat", "Serhat Ozan" and 196 other people liked this
I wanna laugh but can't!
- vijay
come on... really?
- Andrew Smith
Feedface more likely
- Brian Sullivan
lol Feedface!
- Fee501st
it's facefeed
- ben bloch
:D
- zsafwan
Updated. :)
- Bwana ☠
:(
- Josh Haley
damn that pic really describes what i feel lol
- Edgar Rodríguez
Could be a good thing, just hope they don't change much.
- David Bain
I just clicked 'like' but I can definitively say that I truly 'unlike' this development.
- berchman
"Damn you Salazar!" - not sure why that quote popped into my head with this pic.
- Rob Diana
The first social site where I really feel comfortable... *sniffles*
- Yolanda
I think this is a good thing for both FriendFeed and Facebook, and bad for Twitter.
- Kirkland Reynolds
@berchman I like the "NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" ;)
- taline
Seriously, my jaw is still open
- Bwana ☠
s'cuse me, i gotta go vomit again.
- Hieronymous Boosh
still sitting here stun and confused
- Kim Landwehr
I bet the API will be taken down as well.
- David Bain
Already named by Bwana. LOL
- Michael Fidler
the worlds cats association stages a strike over this buyout... am sooo joining it!!
- Gtp19
My reaction.exactly!
- Krishnamoorthy
That is me right now.
- Lurking Grue
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH it's a bit hard to laugh :-(
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's why I pulled out the cat Dobromir. We need to laugh around this :)
- Bwana ☠
OMG i just read this and am freaking out... . *gasp*
- Susan Beebe
XD I mean >___<
- Neya
ADS! here they come ! waaaaaa
- Franc, a rememberer
First I was like :o then I was like :/ then I was like :(
- Jemm
Oprah, Aston and Demi! I can't wait! NOT! Bwana: You'd have got a like from me if not for the cat pic.
- Dale
Doubtful it will be good...
- Rick Cogley
Funny cat picture, tho.
- Rick Cogley
Hez took the wordz outta my mouth
- sofarsoShawn
"If FriendFeed becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.". Given the chequered history of Facebook and user data I think we should all be vigilant to ensure this happens.
HollyHobby, Ron Thompson, Amir and 17 other people liked this
I'd like more than notice...I'd like options.
- joey
Dart in your neck!
- Bwana ☠
Well your only option is to delete your account I think. Under current policies it would be completely gone. But the policy doesn't say what kind of notice or how much time they will provide so a simple FF post or blog entry followed by an immediate change would satisfy the requirement so you may not have time.
- Brian Sullivan
dang.. good catch.. now its time to see what happens.. we all know what FB does to private users information .. remember the recent Court Order from Canada telling FB that users information should be deleted and not retained !!
- Peter Dawson
good luck on the data retention thing.
- Hieronymous Boosh
since not a lot of people know about this, maybe this *bump* will put the spotlight back on this again...
- vijay
http://friendfeed.com/about... is where this is quoted from
- Brian Sullivan
A very important point indeed. Well spotted.
- Andrew Eglinton
In light of the above, current inability to export one's contributions prior to leaving the no-longer-FF, it becomes even stranger when, in response to just such a complaint, one of the FFounders refers a rank-and-file user to the API: http://friendfeed.com/ianf... ?Why? because the API undeniably is t.h.e.r.e.
- ianf ⌘
Also observe the date of that quoted [FriendFeed Privacy Policy Last updated: September 26, 2008] »FriendFeed takes your privacy seriously. We respect and protect the privacy of our users and take appropriate steps to safeguard your personal information. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) explains the types of personal information that we receive and collect when you use the FriendFeed website ("Site") or the services offered by FriendFeed ("Services"). […]«
- ianf ⌘
Yup, your privacy/personal information was part of the deal no doubt; i echo joey's sentiments and call for options
- sofarsoShawn
Fine print "Comments, photos, videos posted on our site become our property!"" to be used/ sold at our discretion..." You can delete your account but they keep your data!
- Ron Thompson
from iPhone
Anyone know if these are good for podcasting? usb 250 logitech
Alex Scrivener, c.a.j., Ha3rvey #teamMonique and 5 other people liked this
I think I used similar stuff when I did my appearance on ffundercats. I think that everyone heard me.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
thanks alex. if anyone else has any comments let me know. thx!
- (jeff)isageek
This new design is supposed to have great audio. Highly rated. http://share.skype.com/sites...
- Robert Kenney
I recently saw that Skype released these http://shop.skype.com/headset... but haven't heard anything about them. Those Logitech's look better though.
- Mark Krynsky
I've never had issues with Logitech's for Skype convos... for a podcast though, I would go for a condenser mic eventually. There are some relatively affordable USB ones out there.
- Bwana ☠
I agree with Jason. Another good condenser-type is the Blue Snowball but it runs around $80-100.
- BRҰANSAҰS
I have a Plantronics DSP-400 (runs about $40-50) that I use mostly for VOIP but I assume they will be good for podcasting as well.
- BRҰANSAҰS
So did you use these for the latest social geeks podcast Jeff? How did you like them? I'm in the market for some USB Mic/Headphones but don't want to spend much. Bwana you got any recommendations too?
- Mark Krynsky
mark yeah i used it for the social geeks podcast as well as the ep 41 of the ffundercats that I was on. I really like them..and the quality sounded good i thought.
- (jeff)isageek
When Leo Laporte and crew are trying to make sure guests who are going to be on TWiT shows have a quality setup for calling in via Skype, they send them the Plantronics DSP 400. Their review/reco : http://thisweekintech.com/picks...
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, thanks for posting that. I may pick up a pair of those.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Feedly is changing the way I read news on the Web. - http://www.feedly.com
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what do you like better about feedly then friendfeed or others? just curious. I'm trying to cut back, not add more tools, great s they might be. i'm exploding!
- washwords
Can I like this 3x. Thanks for a GREAT recommendation, Bwana. My new fave Firefox extension.
- Leo Laporte
Wow, even the screensaver function is cool...I might be leaning to feedly and away from greader...
- Anthony Farrior
Revisited based on a few 'endorsements' here on FF. Wow. Easy, fast, just cool.
- Charlie Anzman
What are the implications of "no thanks"? Same as "Mark as read"?
- Andrew Smith
@cecily if you get a chance, go to the feedly dashboard (through dashboard link at the top right of the screen) and click on the star next to the sources you like the most and see if the what's new page looks any better. The other option is to click on the "cover" icon on the top left on the nav bar and see if that view is more diggestable. If you have specific ideas on how to make the interface more appealing let us know!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@andrew no thanks = mark the article as read + let the feedly recommendation engine know that you did not like this recommendation. This metadata is then used with other criteria to unfluence future recommendations.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@Edwin, thanks, good to know.
- Andrew Smith
@Bwana Where is Feedly video, I love Bwana TV more than Scobleizer TV : ))
- Erhan Erdoğan
Hmm... have speed dial already loaded upon feedly install and cannot find feedly anywhere
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Mati likes it! :):)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I'm in love!
- Angel Smith
I installed and uninstalled all in 1 minute.
- Aaron Myers
Erhan, thanks :) I need to learn how to utilize it properly before I screencast it...it's coming soon though, I love this thing
- Bwana ☠
Looks promising, but I'm always suspicious of extensions that don't come from Mozilla addons site...
- João Almeida
What do you guys say to the folks who say Feedly crapped all over their Google Reader (adding feeds to it)?
- David Risley
It's in this thread David: http://friendfeed.com/e... We asked for a bigger warning since the one there is easily missed, the Feedly guys chime in as to why they did it that way. It doesn't "crap" all over your feed, it does create new folders, but they are easily removed. They are working on an undo procedure as well.
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana waiting impatiently : )
- Erhan Erdoğan
Oh my lord. I just checked my Google Reader, it's has 2348279384723 new feeds. Thanks Freedly.
- Aaron Myers
want to see converstaion integrated to feedly. then it really rocks. someone out there should get ff and disqus into feedly in an api way.
- kosmar
I was sort of suprised that some were vehement about the "crap". I woke up and still am enthralled.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I love it!!! The only feature I'd add is the ability to customize how my emailed items look...
- Kenneth LeFebvre
@David Risley fixed. feedly has now a better msg and automated-undo http://edwink.devhd.com/2008...
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I'm really liking Feedly as well. We'll see how it goes
- Shey
iGoogle has been my home page for well over a year and what I have found is that via widgets its generally there for me to either click on gmail or to go into google reader - the other widgets are generally worth an odd glance but thats about it - I've put feedly as my home page and will see how this works out - but first impressions is a clean easy to use interface even if you have a few hundred feeds to juggle..
- Jican
Feedly is awesome: I had a few hiccups after installation, but I re-installed, and it has been a real help in 2 ways: 1) motivated me to clean up my feeds and sort them into a major category 2)motivates me daily to actually skim through and read the content that is closest to my current interests. well done!
- Terri MacMillan
LOVE Feedly.
- Fleagle
I want it for chrome. Any chance?
- Erfun
Not dissing Feedly, but didn't experience anything that made me want to give up Google Reader when I tried Feedly a few months ago. Anyone care to explain why I should try again?
- Chris Stevenson
I don't work for them, so I don't see a reason to convince you. Some people like it, some don't.
- Fleagle
Hi Chris: feedly tries to provide a magazine like summary of your google reader. Some users only care about productivity and find the magazine like interface a step backward. Some users like it and use it in concert with their google reader. Some people prefer using the magazine like interface only.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
It cracks me up. Whenever anything changes the vast majority of people scream and yell and gnash their teeth. Humans are a conservative lot
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I went to FF because I didn't like FB - so no I don't like this change.
- Zphotogal
I go where the people go... so I'm on FF and FB and twitter...
- Ankush Narula
Special case: Apple products. People scream with glee. :P
- Kevin
Leo, you were one of those who "escaped" to Friendfeed. How is it good for you?
- DonnaSue
it is not about change, people are already expirementing FB, and FF so it is natural to see people scream at migration (not change)
- abdellah
I would have said 'crazy' lot
- Sidney
Any other company but Facebook and I'd have be ok with it.
- Paul Grav
i was reading another thread and everyone was acting as if they sky was falling and trying to decide which dark corner of the internet they were going to run and hide in...i thought it was kinda funny.
- Sidney
friendfeed is where I find great stories, links and conversations. Facebook is where the girls I knew in highschool talk about their sick kids. So, yeah, not really thrilled with this move, BUT it will either work or all the friendfeed users will just find another service that better meets their needs (and isn't inside a walled garden). Friendfeed users are much more likely to just leave if the service doesn't do what they want.
- John
Leo, do you understand our concerns regarding the ToS? Seriously. That's why I'm worried/concerned. This isn't a new interface. This isn't a new login procedure. This is whether I own my FriendFeed data or is it now Facebook's.
- Bwana ☠
I see this, if anything, as a good thing for FF. It wasn't mainstream enough, but that may change now.
- Mario
I agree with John Hayes' comment above. I think most FF users do not want to muddle the two spaces and will find another service that fills their needs.
- berchman
I doubt they are interested in friendfeed.com. Facebook wants the realtime search technology and expertise.
- Mads Kristiansen
Embrace change!!!
- David Lovekamp
I say it's good for both. Totally fits into Facebook's new strategy and I for one am looking forward to it
- Mosi
I am just sad, I didn't grab the facefeed.com domain..
- Mads Kristiansen
I hope they keep the service going and not combine it to Facebook. I guess I am one of those humans that doesn't like change.
- Lou Griffith
Facebook? Do not want! It's closed and icky.
- Lurking Grue
I don't think that leo is disputing the fact that the merge will take away from the experience from some of the friendfeed users. It seems fairly obvious that without being bought friendfeed has little chance surviving and growing..
- Jonathan Aird
I hope you are ready for Zombie applications, Leo.
- beersage
Coulda been worse: what if Wal Mart bought Friendfeed instead?
- Tom Landini
Change? We fear change.
- Scott
Who moved the social media cheese?
- Jim Goldstein
I was shocked I'm actually seeing the good in acquisition. I wish I had something to be acquired by facebook. One of the most used sites in the world, I would love that chance. Good for friendfeed.
- kenneth glenn
I'm not opposed to change, I'm opposed to BAD change. I can see no upside to this, I can see no way that this could lead to improvement. All roads lead downhill from here. Call me a cynic, but the only difference between a cynic and an optimist is that the cynic is usually right.
- Otto
let's face it, Facebook is noisy and a totally different user experience - if I wanted that, I would spend more than one hour a year there :)
- Valeria Maltoni
When they cut tbe bottom out of the peach basket , I am sure everyone howled:" you have changed the complextion of the game for goodness sake!!! Give it time. I don't think anyone living or dead thinks basketball was ruined by that major change!!
- cheapsuits
from iPhone
Comparing mere feature changes to Walled Garden-loving Company A acquiring open, innovative Company B is a bit misguided.
- beersage
If Twit and Revision3 merged, I don't think many people would be screaming.
- sebastian☆rocket brother
from iPhone
I think Louis Gray summarized this change best in his recent post. I'm happy for them, but worried.
- xero
My issue is that it was Facebook that acquired FriendFeed. If Google acquired FriendFeed, I'd be dancing in the streets.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I think Wal Mart should buy Apple now.
- Tom Landini
Conservative (in your context) people are a loud and angry lot. A vocal minority, I think.
- ben
Agreed.
- Nicholas James
Remember our previous favorite -- Jaiku?
- John Flinchbaugh
Nothing like a good gnash... like the end of the GG...
- Aron Michalski
The thing is, most change here lately has been for the worse.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
more Change I cant believe in....
- John Hillestad
What Bwana said here and April Russo said here http://friendfeed.com/scoblei.... Does anyone know about the content ownership issue?
- metalerik
Okay, okay, Leo. Be the voice of positivity. Someone should, anyway. But here's my 2 cents. I spend most of my time daily on Friendfeed. Facebook is only a small portion of what I share here. Most people fear of course that FB will absorb FF and make it more of what they are providing, rather than what we are already getting from FF. I hope you're right, as does everyone. But based on what FB has shown me, I, like the others, have little hope of this.
- Fleagle
Changes involving larger companies never seems to end up good for the smaller company. There are exceptions, but not a lot.
- James Bailey
It's not about screaming about change. Nothing good will come out of the FF/Facebook deal! I hate Facebook!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I'm with Jannifer !
- TalkToMeGuy
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That's nice. Just random, or in response to something. :)
- τorƍue
Does that mean you got a little sleep?
- Anne Bouey
Good news? People like Paul don't usually get in the office so early especially after a lack of sleep, on a Monday morning, if there wasn't a great reason.
- Louis Gray
this could be big.
- vijay
Aww Man, see now I am not going to get any sleep tonight! DAMN YOU PAUL and your teasing little smiley face. OK, must go and get some coffee!
- travispuk
O.k., I'll smile too :) (and open my ears and eyes)
- Martha
10 bucks says that they add emoticons soon. :)
- Joe Beda
This emoticon makes a little more sense now...
- Stephen Foskett
Guessing this was about the Facebook announcement?
- Ben Hedrington
Cheshire cat?
- Hutch Carpenter
Good for you, Paul. I can't help but feel a little let down, though.
- Matthew Gifford
well done!
- michael sean wright
Congrats! Let us (well, our chef) cook you lunch before you're no longer walking distance! :)
- Don MacAskill
I have the same feeling as Matthew Gifford... Congrats to you, Paul, but I'm not sure this bodes well for the rest of us.
- Lindsay
Congrats, Paul. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
Congratulations!
- Ethan Herdrick
Congratulations to the whole team, Paul!
- Ryan Kuder
yeah they signed away the community :(-
- Peter Dawson
Congrats Paul if they're truely in order :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- andy brudtkuhl
congrats to the team, but to be honest i'm not liking it at all
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Good news or bad news? :)
- Arda Çetin
Congrats Paul! I was really hoping this would happen. Friendfeed and Facebook need each other. Cheers!
- Akshay Dodeja
Now I get it. Congrats on the $$.
- Yolanda
Now I know...and knowing is half the battle
- Bwana ☠
:(
- TiTi
Congratulations!!!! A 'worthy' smiley ... ;-)
- Bo Stern
I think Paul's emoticon was charming and that Louis Gray is either super discerning or super informed.
- Michael Muller
Congrats to the FF team you guys are awesome (keep this place awesome)
- Ryan
WHAT'VE YOU DONE!!!! THAT'S TOTALLY SH*T!
- AlpB.
congratulations, may your road ahead be smooth...
- Nathan Chase
That can imho only mean good things for the FB UI ...
- Bo Stern
Congratulations, definitely.
- DGentry
Congrats to you and the entire FF team. I hope you guys are in it for the long haul.
- Mike Doeff
hey congrats to the FF team! I look forward to seeing what the future holds
- (jeff)isageek
Congratulations Paul & FF team!
- Charles Ying
congrats dude
- Jason Pollock
:(
- Alex Scrivener
Congratulations.
- Antoniu
congratulations.. but liked the whole UI & funtionality of ff than fb!! it'll b gone!!
- Gtp19
You're totally ::stpd::
- AlpB.
its business after all, sell it but get back to make a better product for your old users. dont 4get the users !!
- Peter Dawson
:(
- acedanger
the results of good work
- Juan Pablo Ruiz
congratulations!
- Hareesh Nagarajan
Congrats!
- DS
GZ!
- Sarp
:) we will learn from the process
- abdellah
Paul, will you respond to this? This is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but distracted by Facebook and with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. Middle of the road: Facebook forces its ads into the timeline and friendfeed starts acting like Facebook by ignoring its users.
- tollie williams
@tollie, I imagine Paul's ability to respond is now constrained, which is just one of the changes we'll see coming. There's new management in town, folks.
- Ken Kennedy
scared!!!
- abdellah
Good luck Paul... it's gonna be a great partnership.
- Andrew
Congrat's Paul. Great news, and I'm really happy for all of you!
- Michael Fidler
Congrats to the whole FriendFeed team!
- John McCrea
Way to go Paul - bet you sleep like a baby tonight whilst Biz and Ev scratch their heads once more!
- Jan Simmonds
Sure congrats to you!!!
- susan mernit
http://friendfeed.com/markzuk...... Hold on! markzukerberg?!?!
- Lora Lufark
Congrats!
- fbrunel
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Congratulations Paul - I am very proud of you... no wonder you couldn't sleep! :) Now we know why! As you know, I am a huge fan of your FriendFeed product. I am very happy for you guys and hope you keep your fabulous culture of innovation going strong. This is really amazing.... nice exit! :)
- Susan Beebe
I have been wishing facebook could get more like Friendfeed :) awesome.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Nice job, Paul and team. Congrats!
- Rob Shillingsburg
many congrat. from UK. ;) @GarethWong
- Gareth
I bet you never forget your anniversary EVER ever now.
- Pete D
boo-urns
- Vezquex
:D
- paniaguai
:-(
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Congratulations, great for you and the team.
- Rocky
i like the way the deal was done!
- Siddharth Parmar
G.Z.s
- Ugur Akdmr
"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...
Ben, Mitchell Tsai, William Phillips and 125 other people liked this
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 :)
- Rahsheen?
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 ☠
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 ☠
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
The Friendfeedization Of Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
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"As Facebook continues to roll out the full version of its new user profiles, it’s becoming clear that their primary goal isn’t, as they said in May, to simply create a cleaner user experience and allow developers to have more meaningful engagement points with users. It’s more about highlighting new content relevant to the user and fostering conversations about that content. And the result is that the Facebook home page looks an awful lot like the exponentially smaller activity stream aggregation service called Friendfeed."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
there is ONE thing Facebook cannot replicate from Friendfeed. Speed of execution. FriendFeed will always be better and will always be one step ahead
- Ouriel Ohayon
facebook who?
- Fred Grott
That would be the site with 60m monthly visitors Fred.
- Jamie
Coming from the other side, I’d like to see the Facebookization of Friendfeed (without sucking that is). FF is a great place for content and discussion, but not so much for community and social networking.
- Hao Chen
Facebook's largely self-contained, immersive "social" and "fun" walled garden works especially well for interpersonal relations, and the upcoming facelift improves on those same principles. I'm impressed. That said, it's too heavyweight for active group conversations. FF has far and away the most effective implementation of group discussions, especially around "the rest of the web". It's great to have both FB and FF, each optimized around their use cases.
- Amir Gharaat
The only thing I'm sure of is that Facebook will be unable to recommend the same 9 persons to add as friends to everyone - so hopefully we will still be able to choose exactly who we want to talk to.
- Svetlana Gladkova
Facebook is boring as hell.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, LOL... I always crack up when I see, in any FB thread your "Facebook is boring".
- Juan Pablo González
Friendfeed lays it all out as a stream of posts and comments. It's like reading a newspaper. Just my style.
- David Bennett
Facebook has lost its mojo really fast, I winder if the same will happen to FriendFeed
- João Almeida
from twhirl
@Joao lost its mojo with who? The twittersphere? Facebook was doing just fine before and after they jumped on and off the bandwagon. According to FB, UUs and engagement are up every month.
- Jamie
Almeida: yeah, Facebook is growing as fast as ever and tons of "normal people" swear by it. Just because us early-adopter-inside-the-techie-bubble are over here playing on FriendFeed, don't assume that everyone else is. 110 million are on Facebook, maybe more by now. When I went to Israel all I heard was "Facebook, Facebook, Facebook." Same with my niece and lots of others here in Silicon Valley. Also, its event calendar brings tons more people than others.
- Robert Scoble
Communities are communities.
- Andrew Feinberg
Typical conversation with Real World Friends: "So I saw this post on Friend Feed..." "What's that?" "It's this website where it aggregates everything you do on various social networks" "Social Networks? Like..." "Flickr, Twitter, Yelp..." (Blank Stares) "Websites like Facebook are social.." "OHHH FACEBOOK.. That's the best site ever. *blah blah blah"
- George Smith
Alex Gawley: Seems that Facebook no longer will be closed. "This week facebook will also launch their Facebook Connect product, which is designed to let users get that data back out of Facebook." http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Alex Sauceda
but do you think the average FB user is going to use the "comment on news feed" feature? a quick scan of some of my heavy-user FB friends last week showed no comments on any news feed items, and then a couple days ago i noticed someone's status message was "I hate all these comment tags on facebook now"...
- Trent Olson
LOL @ Friendfeedization
- Bwana ☠
I love FF but all my non geeks friends and family are on Facebook. Seems that it works better for them.
- Alex Sauceda
Keep in mind, that 18 months ago you could not have had this conversation with anyone who was not 1) in the SV echo chamber or 2) in college. Web services start small and some inflect to a larger community and some don't.
- Christopher Sacca
My friends on FB go to Flickr for conversation. None of them are on FF. I add FF contacts in FB to view their bios.
- Russellreno
Louis - Agreed but I think the reason is more that they're trying to do an even better job with targeted ads (to keep the price in check) ... ala GMail. I find my Facebook list growing from my activity on Friendfeed. Hmm
- Charlie Anzman
Was the FriendFeed mini-feed on Facebook axed: no summary, just a note showing something was added? It's doing that for Feedheads too. Is this happening with others folks?
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: Thanks! Does that mean that my friends would need to change this on their end to see more than 1 line? I have a lot of my friends who will stick to the default (i.e. will be overwhelmed by process for changing) and most likely will not see the content of my Google Reader Shared Items and FriendFeed activity. Sucks if that's the case. Thanks again.
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: This is great, thanks!
- Blake N. Cooper
Jim: Is that option retaining the setting - I have it set to one line, short and full, but the new items still seem to default to one line.
- Richard Peat
Funny how one year later we are actually seeing the Facebookization of Friendfeed...
- Jean-Marc Liotier
List your FriendFeed alternative here:
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*blink...blink*
- Josh Haley
Google Reader
- andy brudtkuhl
Facebook LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Akiva
There is none.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chi.mp http://chi.mp
- AJ Batac
SocialMedian and Strands
- Anika
Bonfires
- Rodfather
There's an alternative? That's the problem...today's announcement threatens something that most of us have found to be without equal.
- In Search of Gender
Facebook and twitter. But they don't add up to what Friendfeed is.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
There really isn't one. Maybe Google in a year or so. Google account with Voice, Wave, Reader, GTalk better integrated.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Likaholix http://likaholix.com
- AJ Batac
Google Reader and Facebook have been absorbing Friendfeed features slowly but steadily all along. In 15 years someone will dig up some old screenshots and say "remember all those? heh, yah, things sure have changed, huh?"
- Jason Wehmhoener
I dunno. Tumblr, maybe? Metafilter? Chi.mp? Likaholix? *shrugs*
- Steven Perez
Like Scott said, that's the problem. There *is* no good alternative. FF has been the closest thing I've ever found for using the internet the way I want to.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
LifeStream.fm http://lifestream.fm
- AJ Batac
Google, as it continues to socialize its environment. Also, don't forget about the next big thing we haven't seen or thought about yet. Someone will innovate another service that blows everything else away (like FriendFeed does now).
- Larry Hawes
Posterous + Twitter????
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I may just have to try something desperate... like real-life interaction. I know! It's such a desperate move! :'(
- Ordinarybug Heather
Blellow?
- andy brudtkuhl
Good idea.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Google Wave, right?
- Nathan Chase
NoseRub
- Ken Sheppardson
<Placeholder>
- Bwana ☠
Besides Google Wave, I don't think anything anyone is naming would be even close to the same.
- Rahsheen?
FaceFeed?
- Kevin J Hatton
FriendBook?
- Kevin J Hatton
What Nate said...Google Wave.....it is coming!!!!!!
- Kevin J Hatton
SweetCron http://sweetcron.com
- AJ Batac
ICQ
- Jacque
Good shout, Nathan! Yes Google Wave.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jaiku - It can import feeds. It has threaded conversations.
- Morton Fox
Redux.com? Mostly for entertainment though
- Wang Yip
jaiku is the closest thing - feed import, rooms, conversations etc... - don't see how wave can work like friendfeed without a lot of add-ons / hacking
- Adrian
jaiku's been neglected by google. I've been a member for 2 years and yes, nothing has changed.
- AJ Batac
the closest thing to FF that I know about is the blogoscoped Forums !!
- Peter Dawson
jeffisageek.net and jeffisageek on twitter
- (jeff)isageek
When did Noah build the ark? Before the rain, not after it.
- Steven Perez
Twitter, but it's not nearly as cool as FF. :(
- Kevin Winn
Drum circle
- Rodfather
Friendface http://bit.ly/1LWw
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Useful list:)
- Ozgur Uckan
I've decided to taste some soup.
- Kenton
Bowling league
- Rodfather
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE there is NO freakin' replacement for FriendFeed. *cries*
- Susan Beebe
WoW
- Rodfather
Posterous
- Zulkarnain K.
is Iminta.com still around?
- Nathan Rein
Google Reader
- Mike Reynolds
I think I'll go with AJ's choice above, the closest thing I know to FF is Lifestream.fm but didn't like it the last time I was on it.
- Kol Tregaskes
I didn't even know Jaiku was still a going concern.
- cheapsuits
from iPhone
I've had an account with lifestream.fm for ages but I have not been there for about a year, time to go and have a look then
- M F
google Wave
- Furkan Tunalı
For you guys who says Google Wave, it's not yet available to the public so we can't use it.
- AJ Batac
Lifestream.fm Looks really similar in terms of features, like Kol and AJ said.
- Anton
checked out lifestream... seems alright, I suppose... but not really the same. just what I"m doing. doesn't seem to be very "conversation" based.
- Nathalie
I don't have one. :(
- Christian (Simply X)
from Android
I just found this one from Mark -> http://lifestreamblog.com/create
- AJ Batac
Storytlr is another place to feed in all your different places. People can comment and things, but, how to see all your friends? I think you can add it to GReader. Here's mine: http://yolanda.storytlr.com/
- Yolanda
storytlr is a good one.
- Nathan Rein
AJ: Google open-sourced Jaiku ... they really don't do anything besides host the code now.
- Kevin Mohr
Kevin: Even when it wasn't open-sourced, it wasn't updated.
- AJ Batac
Friendster. And perhaps GooglyfaceFeed? :P
- imabonehead
Unfortunately Jaiku hasn't gotten back the capability for importing feeds. And even in its best days its feed handling wasn't as good as FriendFeed's basic feed handling. This admission is saying something, since I've been such a Jaiku evangelist, until its problems got too big and destroyed the community there. I actually was kind of pissed off at FriendFeed when I first learned about...
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- Cheryl Jones
Considering rolling my own. PubSubHubbub is merely infrastructure; Wave isn't ready; Google Reader is more like digg/reddit, needs more ability to host its own content in addition to discussion; posterous and tumblr are really blogs, and are still kind of isolating; The real problem would be getting people to use a federated, distributed setup: there's a usability and consistency aspect to a having a single destination website where people can congreate; that, and I'm kind of lacking time.
- Andy Bakun
+1 Andy. FriendFeed is a very unique amalgam of features, that once you come to appreciate them, are glaringly lacking on most other social platforms. Agreed that distributed would be a good idea to avoid the cost and control issues we have seen play out yesterday. Who knows, maybe Zuckerberg will surprise us all by making FF (by whatever name) an open building block in the FB ecosystem...
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- Alex Schleber
Here is a new development to possibly add to the list: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Alex Schleber
Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader and Digg
- Joe Dawson
http://enjoy.sthin.gs or whatever its name is written? I'll try it out, just signed up
- Franc, a rememberer
NoseRub, see Identoo: https://identoo.com/koltreg...
- Kol Tregaskes
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