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This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
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Thank you very much, Casey! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you ff very good :) - Nimaa
Nicely done :) - LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services... - Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo. - Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription. - Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF. - ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :) - Benjamin Golub
Nice - Grant Bierman
that's great! - K.D.
LIKEY. - Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job! - Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t! - David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-) - Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME! - April
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images? - chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help. - Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;) - chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately. - Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul. - chrisofspades from email
12 feet from the president
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What's he like in person? :) - Stephen Mack
Poke him - Johnny
throw a shoe at him - G Dub of the Carolinas
What about Obama though? - Louis Gray
LMAO at Gunny. - Jimminy, CoG of FF
Lot of blue and gold at the Staples Center
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holy shit, are you there right now?! - Ryan
There's a lot of green in the garden
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www.jamglue.com 2006-2010, R.I.P. (commiserating: http://www.facebook.com/search... and http://search.twitter.com/search...)
So sad :( - Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret :-( - Casey Muller
Dislike :( - Tudor Bosman
Sorry to see it go. :-( - Kevin Fox
Thanks guys - Casey Muller
When shall we see such a tool again? Alas. - Michael Muller
I shall wear my t-shirt tomorrow in memoriam. - Jon
sad :( - Ashwin Bharambe
:( Still have some bumper-stickers left... - Sean O'Connor
What is [was] it? - Gabe
Gabe, it was Casey's old startup. - Paul Buchheit
House Season Finale Filmed Entirely with Canon 5D Mark II - http://www.petapixel.com/2010...
House Season Finale Filmed Entirely with Canon 5D Mark II
"The season finale of the popular TV show House, which will air on May 17th, was filmed entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
Thank you for this voicemail transcription, Google Voice:
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Wow. What was the actual message? - Michael R. Bernstein
I love Google Voice, but the transcription skills are uh lacking - Bryan R. Adams
Well, in this case the last three quarters is some kind of busy signal, so it's a trick question :-) - Casey Muller
Hillarious :-) - Shahaf Abileah
Yeah their transcriptions are atrocious - LANjackal
I've found them to be just awful or spot-on. Then again, I've seen the same with Gmail's spam filter. Some accounts are terrific at blocking spam and others are pretty bad. - Kevin Fox
It's fascinating what comes out of statistical learning when something goes wrong. I just got a transcription that said "Hi. See you later." The audio was just a couple of clicks. But those phrases make sense statistically, if you assume the caller must have said *something*. The good news is that it will most likely get a *lot* better over time, as more training data becomes available. - Joel Webber
Joel: sounds like a pretty accurate translation to me. - Jim Norris
Secret lover trying to spit it out - Will Higgins™
"Please take your name off your phone number, my wife went through my messages. I'm in deep doo doo" - Bryan R. Adams
lol lol lol lol *BREATHE* lol lol LOL LOL - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Don't forget to donate bad voicemail transcriptions: http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2009... Given that Google Voice respects your privacy, providing voicemails as training data has to be an opt-in decision. - Matt Cutts
Bears-49ers game
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blimp casey - David Smith from IM
Whoops, I left an appliance on last weekend while traveling:
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Or maybe somebody comes and steals your electric while you're away from home. - Gabe
What do you use to generate this? - Benjamin Golub
How do you monitor your daily energy use? - Philippe
Seriously, where do you get this energy use graph? - AJ Kohn
PG&E has daily and hourly graphs on their website actually; they're very web 2.0 - Casey Muller from iPhone
Yes, available for anyone who has the new smart meter installed. - ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
Kewl! Now if only smart meters can be deployed here in my country :-/ - Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Hope it wasn't the blender! - Adrienne
Using the XMPP service - Google App Engine - Google Code - http://code.google.com/intl...
"With the introduction of the XMPP service to App Engine, it's now possible to write an App Engine app that communicates with users - or even other applications - over XMPP, otherwise known as Jabber or Google Talk. In this article, we're going to walk through an example that covers all the basic functionality of the XMPP API." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
In Gotham City, the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders and *Motherfucking Batman*. These are their stories. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
In Gotham City, the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders and *Motherfucking Batman*. These are their stories.
I feel like replacing Mike Logan from that era with Batman was the right move. - Jon
F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What: Matthew Gasteier: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Penguin...
F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What: Matthew Gasteier: Books
Buy my friend's book! Guaranteed to amuse! - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
Custom FriendFeed themes and a way to show them off - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Appreciate it. - Vezquex
Nice background, Casey. - Louis Gray
Online Market Flourishes in China - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Online Market Flourishes in China - NYTimes.com
"Though just six years old, Taobao — which means “to search for treasure” in Chinese — already has 120 million registered users and 300 million product listings, and generated nearly $15 billion in sales last year. The company says that sales through its Web site are already larger than those of any Chinese retailer. And this year, analysts say, its online sales will double, surpassing the expected $19 billion in sales by Amazon.com." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
Egads: "“I work in an O.E.M. factory that produces laptops and electronic devices for Sony,” said a seller who called himself Mr. Feng, referring to an original equipment manufacturer, which produces for global companies. “We have Sony’s core technology and exactly the same raw materials and components, so we set up our own store selling netbooks and laptops on Taobao.”" - Richard Chen
yeah - that's quite a statement! - Robin Barooah
I love how they're so matter-of-fact about knockoffs. Just run the production lines a little longer and produce extra units, slap on different label, and done. - Ray Cromwell
seriously - what did people think was going to happen? - Robin Barooah from IM
Fallout LARP pictures from Russia - http://sdmobile.livejournal.com/18969...
Fallout LARP pictures from Russia
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Wow, lots of nice little touches- a Cat's Paw book, Brotherhood of Steel logos, a shrine to the Vault Dweller, etc. - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
I think I found the guy who stole the office billy
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Meanwhile, if you're wondering where the expression "got your goat" comes from: http://www.zyra.org.uk/getgoat... - Ana
Too bad this isn't an actual FriendFeed prank, in the spirit of Harvard-MIT :) - Ana
Great nytimes quote: "[Bill] Clinton still stays up late ... playing Oh, Hell, a card game Steven Spielberg taught him in 2000" - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Great nytimes quote: "[Bill] Clinton still stays up late ... playing Oh, Hell, a card game Steven Spielberg taught him in 2000"
From last month's magazine. It's such a great game; my respect for both men is through the roof. - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
I wonder if they play with the no trump option. - Jon
I doubt it, but they should try; it adds a fun wrinkle to the game. - Casey Muller
We used to play that with my dad's boss and his wife when I was growing up, but we called it Oh, Heck. :) - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Fun game. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
Honey, I killed the superbug | The Australian - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...
"Some bacteria have become resistant to every commonly prescribed antibacterial drug. But scientists found that Manuka honey, as it is known in New Zealand, or jelly bush honey, as it is known in Australia, killed every bacteria or pathogen it was tested on." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
The quirky genius of the Dos Equis ad campaign. - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
The quirky genius of the Dos Equis ad campaign. - Slate Magazine
"Grainy footage of outrageous exploits (bench-pressing Asian women, splashing down in a space capsule, performing trick billiards shots for turbaned companions) is accompanied by a sequence of boastful one-liners: "The police often question him just because they find him interesting," "His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man's entire body," "His blood smells like cologne."" - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
I love these commercials, I can't believe he only gave them a B+ - Casey Muller
Yeah, these commercials are great. - Ross Miller
My favorite beer ads, althou never had a bottle of Dos Equis - 齐达外+
trivia: The Most Interesting Man in the World played the guy the guy guys were trying to break out of custody in Die Hard 2. - Andy Bakun
"Most Interesting Doctor in World Warns 'Staying Thirsty' Could be Sign of Diabetes, Recommends Vicodin Over Beer" - Karim
My first time on a caltrain without power: "Engine and brakes work, doors may not. PA battery is low, so this may be the last announcement"
Wolfram|Alpha: are you skynet? - http://www57.wolframalpha.com/input...
Wolfram|Alpha: are you skynet?
LOL - Derrick
Hah! One of the first questions I posed was "are you HAL 9000. Guess what - it wasn't sure what to do with my input. - JCunwired
Hellhole: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
Hellhole: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
"Commissioners are not powerless. They could eliminate prolonged isolation with the stroke of a pen. So, I asked, why haven’t they? He told me what happened when he tried to move just one prisoner out of isolation. Legislators called for him to be fired and threatened to withhold basic funding. Corrections officers called members of the crime victim’s family and told them that he’d gone soft on crime. Hostile stories appeared in the tabloids. It is pointless for commissioners to act unilaterally, he said, without a change in public opinion." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
Cage the Elephant – Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - http://www.last.fm/music...
Cage the Elephant – Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - http://www.last.fm/music...
Cage the Elephant – Ain't No Rest For The Wicked - http://www.last.fm/music...
Pressefotografforbundet: Too much Photoshop? Judge for yourself - http://www.pressefotografforbundet.dk/fotogra...
Pressefotografforbundet: Too much Photoshop? Judge for yourself
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"But the RAW files [do] not remove the judges' suspicion of excessive use of Photoshop. In particular three images invoke the judges' anger. ... After a short discussion [they] agree to vote the series out." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
All three examples look okay to me, but of course they can set their contest rules however they want. - Casey Muller
The best Big Picture in a while: http://www.boston.com/bigpict...
The best Big Picture in a while: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/human_landscapes_from_above.html
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Awesome pictures. Love getting a different perspective on things. - Garin Kilpatrick
A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but only if you're right-handed) - http://scienceblogs.com/cogniti...
A quick eye-exercise can improve your performance on memory tests (but only if you're right-handed)
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"Several studies have confirmed this bizarre proposition: If you're taking a test of rote memorization, like words from a list, move your eyes from side to side for about 30 seconds before you start. Really." - Casey Muller from Bookmarklet
Did they control it against stuff like closing your eyes for 30 seconds, I wonder? - Robin Barooah
I buy this. Moving your eyes from side to side activates both brain hemispheres. Left-handed people get plenty of left brain stimulation anyway. Right-handed people may not get plenty of right-brain stimulation. I'd be interested in seeing the breakdown by gender. - Daniel Dulitz
I wonder how wide the error bars are on the graphs, and what confounding factors have been controlled for in the samples. The second graph seems to indicate that, without eye movement, strongly right-handed people have more than three times the false alarm rate as non-strongly right-handed people. - Simon
Dang - I'm a strong lefty. Won't help. - Hutch Carpenter
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