Thanks dude. Good look, and impeccable timing. It's like you knew I was opening my browser at that moment (Saw it at 0 seconds ago! :))
- Mike Kogelman
this product is interesting.. but sort of confusing and kind of limited. hmm, I'll give it some more time. (i also couldn't connect my twitter account.)
- Jenna Bilotta
Rochelle, it's real-time blog search by topic, not by author or source.
- Louis Gray
Just signed up for it. Figuring it out as I go. This looks interesting.
- Jonathan Hardesty
connected twitter, delicious and my google reader shared items blog...... now...time to be lazy
- Bwana
Just refreshed the page and it seems to have worked.
- Kol Tregaskes
It keeps telling me that's an invalid code
- Jill O'Neill
"This promotional code has expired. However, we will let you know through this email when we open as public. Thank you for your interest!" =(
- David Cook
Dang. Sorry Jill, George and David. That's why I put it on FriendFeed 40 minutes before Twitter. Hmmm...
- Louis Gray
Jesus Louis why not 300 or 400? They'll already gone.
- Matt ❖
Unfortunately I don't keep a friendfeed window open at work, and I missed it.
- DGentry
101??? For me??? Just kidding when can we expect more to be available?
- Cody Heitschmidt
You gotta be kidding! I was late for techcrunch's and yours Louis. Is it really worth a hype around it?
- Sasha Kovaliov = ♂♥♫☺
That's the second time today I missed it. I'm watching Arrington and Robert discuss friendfeed live right now. They're talking about the mob issue on friendfeed. This should be interesting.
- Michael Fidler
Hi there. We'd love to get Posterous added to Friendfeed. I know that it's just as easy to add an RSS feed, but you've added support for Tumblr, Skyrock, Livejournal and other blog platforms too. Not asking for special treatment. We're gonna do autopost integration on our end too, though. (coming soon) -Garry, cofounder, posterous.com
There's a lot of good stuff that people are sending to Posterous - users include Mike Arrington and Guy Kawasaki. Surprised there's not support for it yet.
- Sachin Agarwal
Posterous support would be appreciated.
- Jeff Benner
Garry: From a user perspective, Posterous is really slick. All the best to you guys.
- Nick in Manila
*bump* -- I have just imported a posterous of mine as custom atom/rss, but the resulting FF entry kinda sucks. Please add Posterous as a supported service!
- alieb
ty! we had a last minute glitch with the name - a late entrant is proving more formidable than we imagined so we are having to weigh the two finalists against one another hmmm will it be Oprah Talula Nunez or Madonna Cher Nunez...such tough choices
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
ah - just found your posting of it as I was catching up on FriendFeed - yea, spreading the word on this for sure
- Mike Taylor
Thanks for this. I'll keep a look out, and I wonder if it was anything to do with some recent failed attempts to gain access to one of my machines here via SSH (I've since applied IPtables filtering on TCP port 22).
- Tyson Key
While this is very interesting and good to echo (I have as well). If it turns out to be some "cover-up" that could be even more interesting. Who's important enough to need to start a rumour like this in order to save face?
- Kenton
Steak, it's what's for dinner: First pic is what I use to prepare my steak. You'll notice that I brush some olive oil on first, then pepper and spices. 2nd pic is raw prepared steak. 3rd and 4th pics are of steak on the warmed grill. Grill on medium heat for 8 minutes flipping once (with cover closed of course) to get medium rare.
I went with a Char-Broil for the gas grill. Weber has great quality and a nice line-up I don't think you can go wrong with a Weber.
- MVB
When compared to the quality of the usual suspects at Costco and Home Depot you'll notice two things that make the Weber a winner. The thickness and heft of the cover (keeps heat in) and the stainless steel grills. If you can find a cheaper grill that has a comparable "heat chamber" and a stainless steel grill, then save your money. When I looked I couldn't find those in anything but...
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- Alex Scoble
I agree, Alex. I think putting steak sauce on a steak is just wrong somehow.
- Rahsheen ™
The best marinade for me has always been italian dressing. Haven't found anything that tastes better yet.
- Jesse Stay
Coolio, thanks. Also, I like a bit of sauce, not overdone. A good quality sauce like Smith and Wollensky's sauce.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I can't say it's wrong, Rahsheen, since I'm marrying a person who likes steak sauce.
- Alex Scoble
8 Minutes on Medium eh... interesting. I like my steak rare, if it's good, I wonder if a medium heat would allow for that?
- Will Higgins™
Which is why we see only one place setting, right? She must have been shopping for some A1 when you cooked that. ;)
- John Rubier
8 Minutes gives you a medium rare steak...you would have to go shorter for rare...
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Heh, no, she's in Salinas visiting with her family, hence the lack of another place setting
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I'm with Bwana 95% of the time. Every once in a while I want a crazy spice rubbed cajun steak, but that's not the usual.
- Matthew DeVries
Steak question as we're meat cooking rookies - Which steaks or meats do you beat the crap out of with the mallet before cooking? Which steaks do you not?
- Steve C
That's one of the saddest things I have ever seen. One lonely steak. Where are his friends? :(
- Josh Haley
LOL @ Josh, I was thinking the same thing.
- Jason Huebel
The other three steaks of the four pack were eated last week, Josh. :)
- Alex Scoble
So, are there any real changes? What did gmail (or we) do to deserve this?
- TobiasVerhoog.com
no questions - !GREAT job on Earth ...... now, couple shortcuts are still missing, and lately I came to think it might be better to have subject box exposed by default ...
- Petr Buben
I was hoping they'd have figured out how to let users delete chats by now.
- Rohit
I reckon they did it because its best as it is for using with wave.. not that I have used wave. ;o) I wish :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
If you check the "Labs" tab in Gmail settings, you'll notice the Back to Beta option: "Soothes the soul by putting the familiar beta sticker back on the Gmail logo."
- Amir Gharaat
That is pretty bad if you can't cope without the beta label!
- Mark O'Neill
Yay for GMail! I wonder how I lived without it, after using many inferior e-mail services over the years, before receiving an invitation from a friend in India, registering and forgetting about it for ages, before making it the only e-mail service I use.
- Tyson Key
Heh, is the "Back To Beta" option in Beta itself? ;)
- Tyson Key
The Linux desktop I was programming on just melted down. Sparks and smoke out of the back and everything. Paul's reaction: "It just couldn't take your productivity."
Nothing like the smell of burning plastic in the afternoon to set the atmosphere for the office...
- Bret Taylor
You must have forgotten to fsck your filesystem before recompiling the kernel so that you could attach a new keyboard. Or something like that.
- Joel Webber
It's a testament to Linux stability that this didn't happen sooner.
- Bruce Lewis
Sounds like a hardware issue to me. What does the OS have to do with it at all?
- Robert Felty
awesomeness. I remember a friend's gig when his bass amp had flames shooting out the back before it completely blew. blaze of glory.
- Laura Norvig
Apparently it didn't get the "Linux never breaks" memo ;) Now, off to the apple store like a good lad!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
When your computer melts, that's a great time to take an ergonomic rest break for a few minutes.
- Matt Cutts
I think the problem is you worked your computer to death.
- imabonehead
Unless there are flames and the risk of severe personal injury, a little smoke and sparking is no excuse to stop programming. Back to work.
- Jack Carlson
Wow, that's too funny!! You might wanna ease up on the coffee! I like Matt's recommendation of an ergonomic break. I think the fried computer was trying to tell you that you're working just a little bit too hard :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Nothing matches the smell of electronics burning and plastic melting, except the code that you might have lost between the last save. I trust the hard drive is still good.
- James Stratford
I've had this happen. In Korea, in a room with some 110V outlets and some 220V outlets. I chose poorly. mmmzzzzzzBAM!
- Rick Cogley
No internet radio has not been saved not by a long shot. Once the labels notice that companies are adhering to the new royalty rates and starting to turn a profit, they'll moan and groan and say that they're still not getting enough. It won't be long and they'll be asking for another royalty percentage hike. It'll be a cold day in hell before I let anyone take 25% of my company's profit. I don't care what business I'm in either.
- John Blanton
okay then, saved until at least 2015, there is an agreement in place.
- MG Siegler
I'm very happy with 6 years. That's a long time for digital media to evolve and take its place as legitimate leader in music (and video) space.
- manielse
Know my dad will be extremely happy to read this.
- Angel Smith
Its great to see the guys at Pandora turning the corner, not too long ago there was a lot of worry that the service would continue. Great to se that it has! Pandora rocks!
- Matt Martin
I'm glad for Pandora -- I wish people outside the US could tune in again :)
- Ehren Cheung
Gainesville.com: "Dana Carvey will perform at this fall's Gator Growl, a choice that organizers hope will satisfy critics of recent headliners." - http://www.gainesville.com/article...
He's still performing?! Well, it might get the wife interested in attending this year.
- JA Castillo (جاسون)
He could probably get away with re-hashing lots of old stuff, like the Retro-80s music acts do. Everyone over 35 would laugh at old favorites, and everyone under 25 would hear it for the first time.
- Rich
His quote: "My guess is that it lets him search in his “techy” social graph. FriendFeed lets you search only your friends that are registered to the website."
- Louis Gray
He adds: "In Status Search you are able to search all your friends on facebook which probably includes your family, childhood friends, non techies friends and so on. Types of people you probably would not find on FriendFeed."
- Louis Gray
But Status Search only looks at Facebook and Twitter right now, which are in parallel, different sets of social people.
- Louis Gray
And FriendFeed is just as versatile in terms of who I can be connected to as Facebook or Twitter. So why are you assumed to be "techies" and those on Twitter are not? It seems like he just dismissed the entire community.
- Louis Gray
Louis, if he wants to see just how techy I am, please point him in the direction of my feed. Or have him do a FF search on "tacos".
- Derrick
In writing about Status Search last night, which I thought was a positive article, I of course mentioned FriendFeed because it too has a very powerful social graph.
- Louis Gray
I saw that and couldn't believe it - you give him traffic and attention and a great review and he starts attacking your favorite network. I'm thinking twice about trying it out now.
- Jesse Stay
I'm not a techie, and I love you man. :)
- Steve C
That's being "fair and balanced" as a writer. So why dismiss an entire community to make your product look better? Are not your updates just as valid as those from my family and friends on Facebook?
- Louis Gray
And Status Search only searches friends that are registered on Twitter or Facebook (the same argument he uses against FriendFeed). Seems limited to me.
- Louis Gray
Woo-hoo! I'm a techie now! ...yeah, I don't think so.
- Anne Bouey
Yeah, I'm not a techie, I'm a LOLcat waiting for a caption.
- Alex Scoble
Louis, your article was very fair, and painted them in a good light. His response changed my mind.
- Jesse Stay
I am not sure I have the expertise to call myself a "techie" but OK!
- Josh Chandler
Right, Jesse. His blog post, while positive up front, almost seemed like a rebuttal. He also said that I only covered the status updates portion of the site. But that's all that was available last night! (They introduced new features today)
- Louis Gray
I guess the jig is up. I'll stop pretending to be your friend now. ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Sounds like he's just a young, inexperienced entrepreneur. I'll give him credit for that - we all learn.
- Jesse Stay
sorry if I was misunderstood Louis. I thought your review was great. I just tried to point out the difference between FriendFeed Search and Status Search. I am sorry if it came out as an attack. It absolutely wasn't.
- lior
Thanks for stepping in, Lior. Your response definitely had me wondering why you would assume one audience was more valuable than another. It made sense to me to reference FriendFeed's search on this social graph to compare the two, or I wouldn't be doing my job as a blogger.
- Louis Gray
And I do want to see the new features, but they were, of course, not available last night when you introduced me to the site.
- Louis Gray
i have no friends, i just have followers
- Allen Stern
you are right. I guess it's my poor verbal English skills that caused the misunderstanding( I am from Israel). My intention with the blog post was just to add up to what you said, not to attack you or something like that.
- lior
Thanks, Lior. I wanted to highlight the discussion because it is something I do hear sometimes. I hope if you do take a look at the content in the feeds of some of the people who have commented here, you can see the diversity of people, who are not all techy. My mom and my wife have accounts on FriendFeed, and I expect many more friends and family will with time.
- Louis Gray
A lot of what we do as early adopters of sites like FriendFeed is get there first, and we can help evangelize the rest to join us. Thanks for your follow-up.
- Louis Gray
Let me say that. I hope Status Search would be as successful as FriendFeed.
- lior
Lior, why private feed? I want to look first :))))
- Myrna
So Louis I am interested in your thoughts about how this field of social graph search engines would evolve. Do you see any major feature that we should add in the near future?
- lior
I'm not a "real" friend, but I'd like to be. Heh.
- Elliott Ng
Lior, one item I noted on the post was that it was not clear how much data was being searched or how quickly it was indexed. Twitter Search gives the illusion of real time, as does FriendFeed. It seemed that Status Search's polling was slower, as I would search for terms I knew were in Facebook, but could not find them.
- Louis Gray
Also, I would assume broad searches for words like Google or iPhone, etc. would go well into history so there would have to be a limit, but that wasn't clear.
- Louis Gray
Maybe, if you logged in, you could see what was trending amongst just your friends, and not all users?
- Louis Gray
And support for more accounts (like Friendfeed, etc.) would be good.
- Louis Gray
yea no doubt Status Search is currently slower then twitter search and friendfeed. We're just two guys but we're working hard so we'll get there. You are able to see what's trending among your friends. Check out the sidebar on the right (http://twitpic.com/9ecp8).
- lior
we're looking into integrating Friendfeed as well. Any other service that comes up in mind?
- lior
I think if someone is big advocate of Friendfeed it would make sense that a lot of their family are on Friendfeed. Several members of my family are on Flickr and Twitter because my Dad and I have advocated it. That said, almost everyone I know my age is on facebook and I don't think I have ever advocated it.
- Richard Cunningham
Louis I've been thinking a lot over the last few days about that trending amongst your friends idea. That's how Facebook does it (the highlights on the right), and thus far I have not seen anyone game it in anyway. I'm wondering if Twitter ought to consider a similar approach.
- Jesse Stay
Lior, thanks for showing the "trending among your friends" note. I assumed that was more broad, and was wrong.
- Louis Gray
yea it's great to know what your friends are talking about. You can also take off words that you prefer not to have in your display.
- lior
I wish there were another word besides "friend" when it comes to social networking. I think it cheapens the word. Not that you can't be friends when you've never met in person. I have very close friends I've never met in person, going back many years. But am I friends with Louis Gray? No. Friendly, I hope. I'd like to think so, and I have nothing but respect for him. But we're not friends.
- Dawn
I would definitely hold your hair back while you had a spew in the toilet, Louis.
- Johnny Worthington
You aren't 'friends' that is not the correct term. You are 'networkers' because they are all part of your social network.
- Sandra Large
Steve: Still trying to sort out on Posterous how you insert an image at the *start* of the post, as you did with this photo of CrunchPad. I can easily add images as attachments, but by default they seem to go at the end of post. Any tips?
- Bryan Person
this why I love Friendfeed more than Twitter. Thanks BNO, You Rock
- zsafwan
Is it over? I'm messing around with downloading the stupid plugins!
- Jan - @wordsforliving
It's mostly over, theyre just getting the guy ready to put in the ambulance, and you have to restart your browser after the plugin installs
- Bob Roche
Maybe a little too twittery but I like it! An easy way to quickly share searches. I would like to see it somehow encompass multiple word searches though.
- Brandon Titus
See! Paul is _SO GOOD_ he just says... "I'll do it later today". Well done, sir.
- Louis Gray
so can we get a combo on the search. .search only "comments" {y/n}; "tag" (y/n") ; "title" {y/n} ? In that manner we can SearchRT in various methods of text in and byitself.. !
- Peter Dawson
Somewhat confusing - some # tags go to FF some go to Twitter.
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian: tags that go to Twitter are posted from Twitter
- LouCypher
so will imported tweets containing hashtags link to twitter search or friendfeed search? in the past I think they linked to twitter
- chrisofspades
LouCypher - yes and I block Twitter (but it does still show up in real time searches/filters) -- that combined with the fact that it is not easy at a glance to identify the source of the posts makes it confusing.
- Brian Sullivan
O.K. I'm impressed. So much for the theory that you guys are releasing things slowly. I think you completely destroyed that today. Nice work!
- Michael Fidler
Shouldn't we be able to tag posts directly - without using a comment to do so? Comment - Like - Share - Hide - Tags? "Tags" should show you existing comment tags - and allow the adding of new ones.
- Tim Tyler
I'm with Tim. Genuine tagging would be a Good Thing.
- Chris Lasher
I'd love 'real' tags, but do I see the utility of leveraging hashtags, especially w/ all the tweets that come into FF. If they linkified twitter hashtags, and then also built their own tags system, it'd a) be more work for little more reward, and b) be confusing for some users, as there would effectively be two tag systems in FF. Lesser evil, and all that. *grin*
- Ken Kennedy
Brilliant! What happens to tags in tweets? Weren't they linked to Twitter searches?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, given that hashtags in tweets link to Twitter Search, hashtags in other types of content should link to FriendFeed search, but WITHOUT the hash sign in the search term. But I agree that "real" FF tags would be even better. Maybe when you type a hashtag, it could get automatically converted into a real tag?
- Grey Drane
Really great improvement guys! It would be i nice feature to see the most popular tags. #improvement
- Jan Friman
Congrats on this awesome new feature Paul but what about #hashtags with hyphens? For example: #real-time only linkifies #real. :(Twitter has the same dilemma)
- @GarinKilpatrick
Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it?
- Ian Wilker
Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust!
- Jorge Escobar
WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement.
- Frankie Warren
@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track"
- Jesse Stay
The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track"
- Frankie Warren
Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track.
- Jesse Stay
That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track
- Jesse Stay
/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful.
- Chris Baskind
Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :)
- Frankie Warren
BTW, integrating this into my blog right now
- Jesse Stay
Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned
- Daniel J. Pritchett
this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :)
- Tim Hoeck
It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way.
- Ted Gilchrist
Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;)
- Brandon Titus
I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems.
- Chris Lamprecht
I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please?
- Marg Uerite
You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that...
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- Mike Doeff
Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad.
- Jesse Stay
Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track.
- Jesse Stay
Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code.
- Dan Hsiao
Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different.
- Mike Doeff
Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts).
- Mike Doeff
Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :)
- Rick Turoczy
Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track".
- Jesse Stay
I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks!
- topo
The first step in a storystreaming platform!
- Kevin Sablan
Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team.
- Micah Wittman
Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work.
- Ferruh Mavituna
OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:)
- Michael Fidler
Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :)
- Ross Miller
WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :)
- alfred westerveld
Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more?
- Matt Cutts
two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;)
- Franc ☺
We are there, in the battle against Twitter
- Michael_techie
I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01.
- LPH™ and his dog P™