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Casey Muller › Comments
My desktop notifications from the FF desktop Notifier are dancing (scrolling) up my screen.
Nispell, Stylish Eve, Penguin It's Cold Outside and 2 other people liked this
Kinda hard to 'like' anything when everything is bobbling up the screen. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is really annoying. No one is getting any likes today. I didn't realise how much I rely on the desktop notifier.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is still happening! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
No fix coming then? :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I've reset it again and reinstalled but the notifications still float up the screen! :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi Kol, what OS are you using? Can you send a screenshot to feedback@friendfeed.com ? Thanks.
- Casey Muller
Casey, Windows 7.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks Kol, I'll have to find a Windows 7 machine somewhere and see if it happens for me too.
- Casey Muller
OK, thank you, Casey. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It's only started doing this in the last few weeks btw.
- Kol Tregaskes
New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day - The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/content...
Mitch, rowlikeagirl, Zio Bonino and 9 other people liked this
"Social media experts said they're not surprised so many people have subscribed to the exciting new site, as it's the only online service in which users can post a major multivolume epic in the morning, and have it read, critiqued, and reNovelled by thousands of other people around the world before lunch."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
I see that denouement is trending on http://mynoveller.com/
- Casey Muller
My mom always nags me about my prolific use of the second person, too. Dang moms not understanding our music, tense.
- Mark Trapp
Plight of the Modern Man - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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The line for Southwest was so long it stretched into the international terminal. A little bit of rain resulted in a 4 hour delay, so I decided to make this video while I waited. Nothing compared to the 24 hour delay I am currently experiencing.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
That sucks, hopefully your employers will understand.
- Casey Muller
Well my boss is kind of a pain in the ass, but I think I can get him to understand.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Unless I missed it, I didn't see the Queen of Sheba arrive. I am therefore disappointed.
- Antosh
Yeah the battery on my phone died right before the Queen arrived so I didn't take a photo. She was pretty spectacular. I was more excited to finally get on my plane so I didn't wait to get an autograph.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
European privacy conference requires you to hand over your passport to get a translation headset. #privacyisironic
Karen Padham Taylor, грязный лайк, Christian (Simply X) and 3 other people liked this
That is so awesome!
- Ana
That is so stupid.
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that that is actually ironic. Unlike this black fly in my Chardonnay, which is merely annoying.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
Maybe they're going to randomly swap all the RFIDs.
- Casey Muller
Slippy, come on, she was being ironic by not being ironic ;)
- LogEx
+1 LogEx. 'Isn't it Ironic' is an excellent title because 'it' is a self-reference to the song's title which refers to a song which is not at all ironic. Which is therefore ironic.
- Kevin Fox
Can someone explain to me why Buffett has kept BRK.A so expensive and not split it? What does Berkshire Hathaway have to gain from it? - http://www.google.com/finance...
Roney Smith, Jérôme Flipo, Dan Hsiao and 5 other people liked this
I understand it keeps smaller, "inferior" investors out but I'm not sure why you'd want this.
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
It also keeps trading down - which apparently has kept Berkshire Hathaway from entering the S&P 500 because there is a minimum trading threshold. I can't really think of a negative to being in the S&P 500. There are probably some short turn positives though (any index fund tracking it would have to start purchasing BRK and drive up the price a bit)
- Benjamin Golub
“Were we to split the stock or take other actions focusing on stock price rather than business value, we would attract an entering class of buyers inferior to the existing class of sellers,” Buffett wrote in his 1983 annual report, when the Class A shares traded for about $1,300. “Would a potential one- share purchaser be better off if we split 100-for-1 so he could buy 100 shares?...
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- Ken Sheppardson
...based on what I've read and seen, I think your first impression is right: it's about keeping out the smaller "inferior" investors. i don't think he's exactly a man of the people. two uninformed cents.
- .LAG liked that
Yeah I read that too (which is where I got the "inferior" in quotes from). I think at some point you just can't ignore that ridiculous price though. (and I think that point has come and gone long ago :P)
- Benjamin Golub
"Buffett has long been opposed to stock splits for Berkshire’s class A shares...Buffett’s opposition to the move stems from his theory that investors should think of themselves as partners in a company and not short-term traders" from http://blogs.wsj.com/marketb...
- Shea
Well, keeping the price high keeps volume a whole lot lower and probably dampens out a lot of volatility that really doesn't have any benefit to the company. It's really more of a "private" company with an open pool of investors than a "public" company.
- Ken Sheppardson
If I owned a single share I wouldn't feel like a partner. I'd feel like a prisoner.
- Benjamin Golub
I'll bet if you owned a share you'd probably have enough money that you'd never actually think about it. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
...ha! One share, at $100K+ ...yeah, that would make you feel like barging into a board meeting and demanding changes... I mean, the $100K part. And then, you realize: you only hold ONE share. jeez!
- .LAG liked that
Holding a BRKA also grants you admission to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, which is supposed to be awesome. If you want to buy less, there are brokers that let you buy fractional shares, like sharebuilder, and mutual funds that hold a lot of BRK, for example BTF: http://www.boulderfunds.net/BTF%20H...
- Casey Muller
Benjamin - Why don't you buy BRK.b? http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/compab.... 1/30th price but 1/200 the privileges :)
- Atul Arora
Casey, what's supposed to be awesome about the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
- Dan Hsiao
IMHO, the liquidity advantages of B shares are a selling point.
- Sean O'Connor
Sergey Brin: "As much as some people mentioned that it appears unattractive to investors, it appears it benefits us marketing-wise for our end-consumers to see the financial success of the company by virtue of a higher stock price (...) Google won't rule out a split in the future" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
- Jérôme Flipo
Dan, I've heard it called the woodstock of investing, that kind of thing. And all of the BRK subsidiaries have a big fair with discounts for shareholders.
- Casey Muller
Oops! Since my Canon S90 order at Amazon was backordered, I placed one at J&R Music where they claimed it was in stock, planning to cancel Amazon if J&R came through. Today within 10 minutes of each other I got shipment notifications for both. Anyone local want to buy one new in box for cost?
Josh Haley, Ken Sheppardson and Benjamin Golub liked this
Would Rachel use it?
- Benjamin Golub
It wouldn't surprise me if Amazon just gave you pre-paid return label for it if you explain what happened to them.
- Ken Sheppardson
Or just refuse shipment on the Amazon one. I did that once. Got a refund in about 2 weeks no problem. But you have to be at home (or have someone at home) ready to refuse the shipment.
- Benjamin Golub
Actually I think you can just leave a note saying you refuse the shipment.
- Casey Muller
I think if you're not home and they leave an InfoNotice, you can just call in and have them return the item to the shipper.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yep. Can even do it through ups.com... "If you have received a UPS InfoNotice after one delivery attempt has been made, you can change your delivery options on ups.com. Your options are ... Return to Sender: Return the shipment to the shipper" -- http://www.ups.com/content...
- Ken Sheppardson
Kevin, I do know someone who may be interested.
- Cristo
$429.95, Kevin? (http://www.amazon.com/Canon-P...). Or $429.99? (http://www.jr.com/canon...) That .04 difference may be a deal-breaker!
- Stephen Mack
Arbitrage opportunity.
- Ken Sheppardson
I might want it if no one else has claimed it. Let me know.
- Michael Leggett
from iPhone
I bid 85% of cost. :-P
- Daniel Dulitz
Having just biked all the way to Best Buy, who claimed to have them in stock but did not, I hereby bid cost plus lunch at the establishment of your choice next week. :-)
- Trisha
Whoops, I left an appliance on last weekend while traveling:
Mitch, صبا, Felicia Yue and 18 other people liked this
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
Thanks, taken care of.
- Casey Muller
wow, y'all are fast.
- Andrew C
http://ff.im/8IPbo think that i've written in false category but anyway i've a got spam issue too, please check it out.
- supertivo
Federer is amazing. This is the coolest shot I have ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Eiso Kant, Dave Martin, Jamieasp and 53 other people liked this
On SportsCenter they made it seem like Nadal had done it the match before though. I dunno if they were messing with the timeline.
- Casey Muller
Although Nadal lost the point.
- Casey Muller
This was great. It reminds of a backwards between the legs alley-oop pass Syracuse point guard Sherman Douglas once made
- Cristo
OMG!
- v per vitzbank
Amazing! He tried one like that at Match point in the fourth set of the 2005 Australian Open final against Safin - it didn't work, and he went on to lose the match in the fifth set...
- Michael Nielsen
I only saw it because I tuned in for 60 Minutes early. Not really a tennis fan, but I can certainly appreciate that shot.
- Tom Landini
awesome match. I've seen federer put a few of these winners in before, so awesome.
- Art
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG PIE LOLLIPOPS!!! http://www.luxirare.com/search...
Jeanette Bosman liked this
Wow, amazing looking.
- Casey Muller
I feel like the filling-crust ratio would be off on these . . .
- sara
Yeah, she mentions needing to get the crust really thin if you don't want to be eating pie-dough-on-a-stick
- Casey Muller
You couldn't pay me to make them, though. Covering each stick with tin foil?
- polly hall
OMG People is dying! Somebody found a method to post to FF for any user via email! He or she can post in the name of other users. http://friendfeed.com/selcuke... AND http://friendfeed.com/mserdar... These users reported this issue!
Thomas Amberg, Mike Chelen, Kim and 11 other people liked this
A big security vulnerability. They must be using share@friendfeed.com http://friendfeed.com/share... Something is also wrong here: http://ff.im/7YcW0
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Good. Now I can blame all my dud posts on Nayyar.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
A true story. OMFG!
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
think bigger MVB... now 'you' can post duds in Nayyar's feed ;P
- vijay
Ooh vijay! Good lookin' out, man!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Bret is pwned, too: http://friendfeed.com/bret...
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
LOL MVB and vijay
- Josh Haley
We're working on it right now. Email posting is disabled until the problem is fixed.
- Casey Muller
Thanks.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Email posting is back up, the bug has been fixed.
- Tudor Bosman
Good to know the FF team is still there to fix the bug! Thanks guys. I really hope Facebook does something useful with the platform so all is not lost.
- Kris
OMG OMG OMG
- joshed
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog - http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
Bryan Tsai, Sebastian, Thierry R. Andriamirado and 292 other people liked this
We have open sourced our web server. Download it at http://www.tornadoweb.org/. Check out the Facebook announcement at http://developers.facebook.com/news...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
See a live chat demo: http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/
- Casey Muller
*have no idea what I am looking at*
- Joe
Wow! Thanks so much, Bret and co!
- Doug
this was very interesting; good job
- RAPatton
neat
- anna sauce
I wonder what the engineering decision was to not use a WSGI interface.
- mikepk
mikepk: it supports WSGI, but it is not WSGI by default because WSGI does not support non-blocking I/O for things like hanging connections. See http://www.tornadoweb.org/documen....
- Bret Taylor
This actually is a very good piece of code! Thanks folks!
- directeur
cool, Bret, thanks :) I was just heading through the docs now.
- mikepk
Thanks for doing this, Bret! That's some pretty cool stuff.
- Keith Bourgoin
that's great. thanks..
- Onur Gündüz
oh man, this is so awesome, thanks guys!
- Charles Ying
Is "tonado" a typo?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I'm hacking my own python web framework at the moment, so now the choice on whether I want to switch gears to this or not. I'm liking what I see so far.
- mikepk
Bruce: Yes
- Casey Muller
Wow.. Thanks!! pretty much makes my day.. which is scary in it's own rite.
- Chris Myles
Great news! Cheers to the FF team!
- Egon Willighagen
Nice new title Brett.."Facebook Director of Products".. a good sign of things to come!
- Chris Myles
very very glad to hear this bit: "Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain."
- Chris Heath
Great work
- James Myatt
does this have any implications for friendfeed.com in terms of competition and shelf-life?
- Franz Sittampalam
Franz: enables widespread adoption which leads to greater influence of the technique
- Mike Chelen
So excited this is out. So many personal projects I have been wanting to build with it :)
- Bret Taylor
Bret, do you have a set of coding conventions you use? E.g. looks like you use mixed case for classes and underbar separators for methods.
- Cristo
Fantastic, Bret (and team)!
- Micah Wittman
A very good project!...you know if will be possibile to use Tornado with other technogies except Python (such as JEE, Ruby On Rails, etc.)?
- Nicola Junior Vitto
Cristo: we tried to use the official Python coding conventions, though we may have inadvertently strayed. Those conventions are: ClassNames, method_names, variable_names
- Bret Taylor
Brilliant! I hope you can provide very valuable input for the next round of #python WSGI, which desperately needs a next round ;)
- Uche Ogbuji
Re: WSGI needing help, see http://www.b-list.org/weblog...
- Uche Ogbuji
grt
- Xitong Liu
"Facebook's opensource technologies" link is broken on tornadoweb.org ..
- Onur Gündüz
Onur, worked for me - and still works now
- Chris Heath
Very cool, in case someone needs a high-end Web Server for a project, FriendFeed just open-sourced theirs, & apparently, it screams..
- Alex Schleber
Nicola: there is a Ruby example - http://gist.github.com/184760
- Mike Chelen
thx Mike, but this is a kind of eventmachine (that sounds good) for Ruby, not a Tornado client or wrapper...isn't it?
- Nicola Junior Vitto
Excellent! Thank you. Was eagerly waiting for the day to come after looking this just 1 month ago; "changeset: 5afb8a445cad / date: 2009-08-11 16:34:48 / description: Initial open source packages" http://changelog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- NaHi
from f2p
Chris, yes it is fixed.. I swear it was broken ..
- Onur Gündüz
Good catch, NaHi. :)
- Micah Wittman
Thanks guys. Really appriciated.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
That's great. thanks Bret :-)
- Nimaa
Nice job on the non-blocking stuff Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
"We have open sourced our web server" @bret took over a year but is worth the wait. thx for the follow through ~ http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
- Peter Renshaw
Ohhh, ummm, btw, your underhanded behind the scenes sell out still rankles my human decency, & a lot of others too, as should yours...thumbs down/dislike x 47.5 million dollars, however not being bitter of course, keep ignorance & bliss
- sofarsoShawn
As I expected :) brilliant
- FFTornado
that's the sound of I believe 100000000? or so hands clapping...& giving you the BOOOO-URNS if I'm not mistaken...
- sofarsoShawn
oh you sonsabitchez this fscking rules! why so badass, ff? thank. you. :)
- mike
So, can we say; Python is the future?
- Ozkan Altuner
Nice code. Started to look at it today. Thanks for doing this. Now to start testing this on some projects I had been working on.
- Altan Khendup
What OS do you guys run FF on?
- Diego Barros
Diego: we run on Linux.
- Bret Taylor
from email
@bret just out of curiosity - what would necessitate usage of such an engine for a *personal* project? :)
- Michael Bravo
Michael: it is a nice framework to use for any project in my opinion (though I am clearly biased). If you are doing anything real-time like the chat demo, something like Tornado is certainly necessary/useful regardless of the size of the project.
- Bret Taylor
from email
@bret and for little-sized hardware? should have try it on Maemo based :)))
- A.T.
@silpol I kinda fail to see Maemo devices being used for servers (unless it's some kind of satellite-based or other covert server maybe :) )
- Michael Bravo
from IM
@mbravo you never know... there are some unusual (and cool) apps for web servers, granted you abstain (on purpose) from classical models, e.g.server farm somewhere there and herds of clients connecting to it...
- A.T.
Bret: Cool, thanks. Just out of curiosity, which flavour of Linux is preferred by FriendFeed?
- Diego Barros
I think this is the best answer for the ultimate question: "Does python needs yet another web framework?" While most of us would say why, when one come across this, a real world proven technology, serving zillions of pages a day, one would say, well, why not. actually, why not even take it an try to integrate out next web app with it? great job! seems like joining FB won't do you any harm ;-)
- Tzury Bar Yochay
We've seen tornado vs twisted, how about tornado vs rails? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Tzury Bar Yochay
http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/ It doesn't work. I'd like to see chat.js :)
- Анатолий Шарифулин
FriendFeed's web server, open sourced? This is great! Welcoome, Tornado!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Bret: how do you proxy long-living connections through nginx? Vanilla nginx buffers everything.
- Alex Kapranoff
nginx has a configuration option to turn off buffering.
- Tristan Seligmann
I've recieved about 8 duplicate emails saying the same user has subbed me in the last hour
Kol Tregaskes, SmiteMe (I <3 elitists) and anna sauce liked this
same bug http://ff.im/7Ybw3
- Hüseyin Mert
I had 6.
- Barış (beyn.org)
I had 5, hey that's important!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
I've received 6 consecutive "Best of Your FriendFeed" emails
- Brad Williamson
i had 7.
- Yusuf Güzel
You guys are Well Snubbed: such an honor :--) I get thin skinned types blowing off all the time.
- ThatDBD
Sorry everybody, for a brief period this afternoon we were sending out duplicate emails. The problem should have been fixed, please let us know if you received any duplicates after 3pm Pacific.
- Casey Muller
You may want to give a look at http://friendfeed.com/friendf... http://friendfeed.com/bret... -- submitting it here since AFAIK you guys get notifications from this channel.
Kol Tregaskes liked this
We're working on it right now. Email posting is disabled until the problem is fixed.
- Casey Muller
What is the right method for fetch room feed in api v1? $feed = $friendfeed->fetch_user_feed("friendfeed-api", 0, 0, 30); doesnt work though $feed = $friendfeed->fetch_user_feed("any user name here", 0, 0, 30); does. fetch_feed also doesnt work. Note that this is php.
In v1 there are different methods for fetching users and rooms. User: http://friendfeed.com/api... Room: http://friendfeed.com/api....
- Benjamin Golub
beersage, if you open up the friendfeed.php file and find where fetch_user_feed is defined, you can copy that function and replace each place where it says "user" with "room" to get a new fetch_room_feed function.
- Casey Muller
Or it should work to just do fetch_feed("/api/feed/room/" . urlencode($roomname), null, 0, 30)
- Casey Muller
I keep getting a foreach error both when I try to change user to room or try the 2nd method you mentioned. I must need to change the code elsewhere but am not sure how? Here's the code: http://groups.google.com/group...
- beersage
Sorry, let me correct. I get "Fatal error: Call to undefined method FriendFeed::fetch_room_feed()" when I switch user to room
- beersage
beersage: you have to define the function fetch_room_feed if you want to use it. Or just follow Casey's other advice. It should work.
- Benjamin Golub
I foolishly misinterpreted Casey's advice before! It worked even with the private feed however it stalled for a long period (2 mins) and then I refreshed and it worked fast. is v2 faster for authentication?
- beersage
Feed fetching should be on the order of 100s of milliseconds, not minutes. Try the curl command I posted in http://friendfeed.com/friendf.... I just did it on a private feed and it returned in 400ms (will vary based on where you live and your internet connection).
- Benjamin Golub
Using the XMPP service - Google App Engine - Google Code - http://code.google.com/intl...
Fulaan, inna Hebel, 'Like' robot (frɐnc), Eiso Kant and 23 other people liked this
"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
Robin Sloan's Google Adwords experiment for naming fictional characters - http://www.kickstarter.com/project...
Chris Prince and Benjamin Golub liked this
testing to see which names are most compelling to random Google users
- Andy Baio
The names he chose to test are very similar: Annabel Strange, Annabel Spring, Annabel Sketch, Annabel Scrape, Annabel Start, etc. It would have been more interesting to pick some really different ones.
- Casey Muller
Denote: the easiest way to email yourself notes from the iPhone - Little Itch blog - http://littleitch.com/blog...
berchman, Robin Barooah, Antosh and 5 other people liked this
"Denote version 2.0 is now available on the App Store for $.99 USD. This version makes it even easier to use your email inbox for notes and reminders on the iPhone and iPod Touch. The most exciting new feature is that notes are now sent without leaving the application for a faster, smoother experience. This change also makes it easier to send multiple notes in a row. In addition, the email subject intro text, which still defaults to “Denote:”, can now be changed to any value, including setting it to be blank. Even the application icon got a little polishing."
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
from Bookmarklet
"I hope you enjoy these new features. Let us know if we can do anything to improve Denote. Juana Molina’s Un Día was the unofficial theme for this release. The title translates to “one day” which is how long we wish releasing software took."
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Direct App Store download link : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Direct iTunes Album download link : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
I can't wait to try this out. The first version made my life easier in very key moments.
- jonathan
Very nice. Is there any way to pick which email account the mail comes from so I don't have to change it every time I send a note?
- Casey Muller
That's a global setting on the phone. You can change that in the Settings app, in the "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" section, change the "Default Account" setting.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
The one I want for Denote is different than the one I want to send most mail from, but thanks.
- Casey Muller
Cool - the ability to change the intro text means I can use it to send tasks to omnifocus
- Robin Barooah
Oh.....99 cents!
- Michael Muller
I still think that's too little, but I understand it.
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Thanks for mentioning Juana Molina.....I created a new station on Pandora and "Un Dia" came up after a while. I especially liked the rhythm. And it was great to see all the artists new to me on that station. I am so conservative, just the same old Julieta Venegas and Shakira.
- Michael Muller
Her entire discography is amazing. We saw her live a few weeks ago; incredible show. If you get a chance to see her, I highly recommend it.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Fwd: Spam/Warez guy (via http://friendfeed.com/welovea...)
Thanks, taken care of.
- Casey Muller
F U, Penguin: Telling Cute Animals What's What: Matthew Gasteier: Books - http://www.amazon.com/Penguin...
Fulaan, inna Hebel, Michael Muller, Anne Bouey and 5 other people liked this
Buy my friend's book! Guaranteed to amuse!
- Casey Muller
from Bookmarklet
All my Google searches end badly and misdirected....
Every search result, when clicked on, sends me to something completely different than what I was seeking. "Facebook company overview" results sent me to apartment finders and insurance agents. This happened in Mozilla and IE.....I tried various security settings but doesn't seem to help.
- Michael Muller
Is it possible there is some piece of spyware/malware installed on your machine Michael?
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Can you link to the search and the link?
- Casey Muller
Thanks for commenting. I can't link any search. Malware must be it. Especially since I periodically get sudden audio broadcasts and they are in IE even if I'm using Mozilla. Saw this on Task Manager. Panda doesn't seem to get rid of this. I downloaded new IE since I couldn't even open IE before and I need it for Windows updates. Now works but lotsa problems.
- Michael Muller
http://www.google.com/search... .........and then........http://www.bullz-eye.com/...
- Michael Muller
Try this: http://www.xdelbox.com/how-to-... or I bet your nephew works on software that will fix this.
- Casey Muller
I tried the Combo Fix and it seems to have worked. It took this whole while and was too complicated for most people. Thanks for the tip.
- Michael Muller
Nikon unveils S1000pj - the world's first projector camera - http://www.dpreview.com/news...
Tony Ruscoe, Mike Reynolds, ǝuǝƃnǝ and 9 other people liked this
I can't believe it took so long for someone to do this. I mean, all you have to do is run the image sensor in reverse to let all the captured photons out through the lens, right? ;)
- Ben Darnell
I wonder if they point in the same direction and can operate at the same time, that would make for small and light multitouch projects.
- Casey Muller
Cool!!!
- p3p3
What is happening with progress to make a videophone a reality?
- Michael Muller
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kazutaka Ogaki, zeroinfluencer, Joe Silence is not dead and 92 other people liked this
Amazing job Ross and Dan!
- Benjamin Golub
Awesome!
- Casey Muller
Really cool!
- Rutger Blom
Nice! Good actors too. :)
- Gus
Awesome, as you once said yourself, in lego.
- Simon Wicks
You and Dan did such an AWESOME!!! Job!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks, Rachel!
- Ross Miller
We should totally build the "Open FF" out of LEGOs. BTW, superb video!
- Jemm
Really awesome! Thanks Ross and Dan!
- directeur
No thank you directeur. It's the amazing FF community that inspired this video.
- Ross Miller
If there were an 'awesome, ultra-mega, super kick-ass' button, I'd click it.
- April Buchheit
April: Haha... I would click that button all the time :)
- Ross Miller
OK you screw us on the facebook deal, but those things make me love this place
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
ahhhh...now I understand all the lego pictures!
- Jini
Jini: And you thought we were just goofing off :p
- Ross Miller
from iPhone
Who wouldn't want to play with legos?!
- Jini
This is clearly the highlight of your awesome work at FF!
- Anne Bouey
This is teh awesomesause!
- AJ Batac
Why is "I wonder how this site works?" a question? Do you? Why are you asking us?
- Andy Bakun
you should be proud, It is great...
- amelia arapoff
I could watch this 50 times. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Glad you liked it, Robert!
- Ross Miller
I could watch this over and over again all day. Really.
- April Buchheit
It's definitely fun to watch. Thanks, April!
- Ross Miller
fantastic
- mjc
wow. i'm snagging this to store offline.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Fwd: Woman Reveals How Law of Attraction Transformed Her Health And Lets Her Live The Life of Her Dreams - http://www.mindyourvibes.com (via http://friendfeed.com/parenti...)
Spamming the Parenting room.
- Rochelle
Thanks, taken care of.
- Casey Muller
Fwd: I Kissed A Girl (via http://friendfeed.com/phish-f...)
Marci Golub liked this
It looks like Phish is singing "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry. Hilarious if it's true.
- Benjamin Golub
Well, they probably have.
- Casey Muller
Custom FriendFeed themes and a way to show them off - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Jason A. Samfield, Nick Mutton, Aram Zucker-Scharff and 236 other people liked this
"Starting today, people who visit your profile will see it in the theme you've chosen... We've [also] added an option that lets you create a custom theme by uploading a background image and choosing a few colors."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
This is all for MG: http://friendfeed.com/parisle...
- Bret Taylor
See FF is not dead...yet. :)
- Bryan Lee
Cool, thanks Bret!!
- Kol Tregaskes
MG?
- Kol Tregaskes
Huzzah!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Dude... 1) I called it... 2) Why do it if your not gonna be around long............ Unless...........
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
MG Spiegler?
- Bryan Lee
Ah, thanks for the edit there, Bret. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Rolling out these features pretty darn quick
- anna sauce
Awesome!
- Robert Scoble
Cool!
- Anne Bouey
Anyone else have a duck scrolling across your screen that you can shoot?
- Sam Houston
Sam: I made FriendFeed News duck hunt despite the objections of almost everyone in the office :) http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Bret Taylor
I LOVE IT!!! I'm going to have to "greasemonkey-remove" the borders around the box titles.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
thankyou, done deal & it looks good, thanks again, :)
- chaz2b
Haha, cool. Thanks for the answer Bret :) BTW Congrats on the acquisition earlier this week. Fantastic news for a great team and great product :)
- Sam Houston
Zul, hold on that a sec...
- Kevin Fox
Oh my! WILL DO! *holding pattern commenced*
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
(Deleted: Nevermind. Sorry Kevin, Bret.)
- Meryn Stol
Must be Bret's theme, Sam.
- Kol Tregaskes
Meryn: you can do that by clicking "Settings" and then un-check the "See other people's themes" checkbox
- Bret Taylor
Yay! Let's party like it's 2004 and we're customising our Myspace profiles!
- Martin Bryant
from iPhone
Bret: is this to help usher in branded pages for companies, celebrities,etc?
- Bryan Lee
Called it! ~ http://ff.im/5aLBG ;)
- CannonGod
Bryan: yep, that is one of the goals.
- Bret Taylor
So silly. :)
- Louis Gray
Duck hunt is awesome! Tell Kevin to go sit in the corner for a while. :-)
- Robert Scoble
But what if I don't want to see other people's themes? There's a reason I avoid doing that on Twitter. Can we make our theme the default at all times?
- Captain Bubbles
yes, finally. hot dog theme.
- MG Siegler
Anika, you can turn it off in your settings. Both others' seeing yours and/or you seeing others'.
- LogEx
Nice! (especially "See other people's themes" config option)
- Micah Wittman
Hot dog? No way man... BACON!
- Mark Krynsky
thanks Bret, I'm working on it :)
- MG Siegler
not sure if I am happy about this one :) Thanks for the updates though!
- Tim Hoeck
Zulema, the box-border bug is fixed now. Thanks!
- Kevin Fox
very nice! - to see profiles with theme selected by owner, not our own ...
- Petr Buben
I was hoping for long time to see this =) Thank you people.
- Durukan Duru
So FF is sticking around? I'm confused. When will we know of the future of FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Tim: Uncheck both checkboxes in the settings dialog and the feature will go away completely for you.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: on my page, my name is fading into the background. Any way to control the color of that text?
- Robert Scoble
Oh no, celebrities. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
ah, I figured as much there would be a setting, thanks Kevin! :P
- Tim Hoeck
Thank you, LE. It wouldn't have killed me to check that first, but I'm super tired.
- Captain Bubbles
Robert: If you change your theme's background color to black (even though it won't display because of hte tiling) the links will turn white.
- Kevin Fox
Robert, that's too much green monster for me. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
to your guys' credit you make it pretty hard to make this as hideous as you can make Gmail
- MG Siegler
You're doing pretty good MG
- Casey Muller
Slouching towards MySpace?
- Christopher Harley
@ Chris ..well, how about to make this personal themes showing through an option? /quick button, no need to go to settings - that'd be too far :] .. option for viewer, not for author
- Petr Buben
Ok so I'm shooting ducks here. is that part of the custom pages open to all?
- BairdWilliamson
I'm sorry, but this is the lamest thing FF has done (besides sell to Facebook, perhaps). This should not be default, especially when there's a theme that sends a duck flying across pages distracting you from reading them (it's like 1997 all over again). The only upside is that you can turn it off. It's a neat gimmick the first time, but after that it's just lame and becomes a...
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- Tanath
I'm sorry, Tanath, but I 100.000% disagree with you. Don't like it? Turn it off. Me? I love it.
- Stephen Mack
Already have - but it shouldn't be default behaviour.
- Tanath
Why not? I bet more people love it than hate it.
- Stephen Mack
Look, I'm excited that FF is still being worked on too, but this is arguably a step in the wrong direction. There's reasons why MySpace is going down the toilet, and different themes on every page is one of them. I'm inclined to take that bet, just not at this early point because it's mostly die-hard FF addicts that even know of the feature's existence.
- Tanath
As long you guys don't f*** with it, I can't see a problem. Why should FF staff avoid a feature only fearing its possible misuse? I'd rather see an option inside FF to explicitly hide user themes, if they get disturbing.
- David Schmidt
On or off, I can't see any themes on friendfeed except what I have in my browser's usercontent.css file. It would have been nice to include an "advanced user" feature that could have allowed us to enter in our own custom CSS for designing our own theme, sort of like how LiveJournal allows. That would have not only allowed customizing on friendfeed, it would also fix the problem with...
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- April Russo (app103)
David: you can hide other people's themes in your settings (top right of the page)
- Bret Taylor
April, that is a good idea.
- joey
The Coolest and Creative FriendFeed Theme http://friendfeed.com/yusuph... (http://friendfeed.com/burakdo...)
- Yusuf İbili
Bret: There ya go, you guys are fabulous and amazing. Nothing to complain about here on FF.
- David Schmidt
@joey It was something I suggested over a month ago as a one possible solution to a problem I discovered. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- April Russo (app103)
Comparisons to MySpace seem off, since custom themes involve only four possibilities (background image, background color, bar color and box color) -- no widgets, no custom HTML, etc. And first and foremost, they can be switched off. How many times do you visit someone else's page on FF anyway? Most of the time is in your home feed or different lists. I just don't get the negativity, when it's a fun and optional feature that you can opt out from ever seeing again in about two seconds.
- Stephen Mack
I don't know if I consider customizing a few basic settings is really a "Theme".
- Steve de Mena
The correct analogy is to twitter.com user pages, right?
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, that was our thinking internally, though we also give a bit more control with the checkboxes.
- Kevin Fox
Forcing themes on others is bad. This needs an opt out. Glad I use custom CSS.
- Michael W. May
Michael: It DOES have an opt out. If you don't like it please opt out! Click Settings in upper right, you'll see two prominent check boxes regarding theme display.
- Stephen Mack
Kevin: Thanks! You're right, you did twitter one better by letting people opt out of seeing customized themes entirely.
- Stephen Mack
Michael, just uncheck the "See other people's themes" checkbox under settings and you won't see anyone else's theme.
- Dan Hsiao
Stephen's right. Read Bret's comment further up: "[Y]ou can do that by clicking "Settings" and then un-check the "See other people's themes" checkbox" - Bret Taylor
- Micah Wittman
i really like this.really really :-)
- dwightboozer
If this is any indication of what is to come, congrats :) Absolutely gorgeous!
- mySingapore
Thanks to the FF staff, this has been a long awaited request =) Ya'll rock!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What's the next? I guess "FF background creator tools" will come out nowadays. :)
- Oğuz Serdar
To begin with, is "Themes" really a necessary feature? Still, great to see the new features coming. =)
- Winston Teo
sytycd = best theme ever!
- Jen Liao
Winston: yes. I've been waiting for this for a long time. It lets me put some personality onto my home page and that is, believe it or not, important. Very important for brands, too, if this is going to become a business.
- Robert Scoble
love this :)
- Edgar Rodríguez
Bret u rock!
- orionstarr
from iPhone
I'm really enjoying the custom themes. I didn't expect I would but it's nice to use FF with the look I want. Good job :)
- Lindsey is Fierce!
I had not noticed the steampunk theme. Awesome.
- j1m
@Stephen Mack so it does, thanks, and apologies. I shouldn't comment before mocha, I know this.
- Michael W. May
It's great ! My new theme : http://friendfeed.com/allford...
- All for design
@All for design: Nice theme. Only the blue of the logo sticks out like a sore thumb.
- Peter
Can you guys stop adding awesome new features, please? Otherwise, no-one else will have a chance to catch up and it'll be an even greater disappointment when it goes. ;)
- James Myatt
Hurrah! I just themed my page along the lines of Twitter and my web page [ http://www.achean.com - shameless plug, but I need the hits! ]
- achean
Check Out My Theme;)
- ALPER DURUKAN
Is it possible to make the background image resolution neutral... It is spoiling my lulz --> http://www.friendfeed.com/jworthi...
- Johnny Worthington
I changed my background, but how do I let others see? when I click Bret's page, I still see my own background...I assume this is similar to twitter's custom theme where every user has a different background when their link is clicked. (I'm on friendfeed.com/bret, but still seeing my own background). -edit-Nvm...I guess I have to log out to see it...
- brainno722 (Peter)
@Kevin, thanks for removing the borders <3. @Peter he probably doesn't have a theme set for his own profile...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
issue uploading background. hangs on firefox & safari. tile image checkbox is greyed out.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
how can i change the font color of "my name"?
- Bahriye
Another flooder: http://friendfeed.com/heydude1
Kol Tregaskes liked this
Thanks, blocked
- Casey Muller
file not found :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Online Market Flourishes in China - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
'Like' robot (frɐnc), Justin Arnold, Cassidy and 12 other people liked this
"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
This user: http://friendfeed.com/heydude1 is just spamming. FYI.
Kol Tregaskes and Daniel J. Pritchett liked this
Thanks, blocked.
- Casey Muller
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
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You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Neat feature, but it's more focus on big shiney new features, while ignoring the glaring issues in need of polish in the site we currently have.
- Matthew DeVries
Very cool. I like how you give us the OPTION rather than sending a daily/weekly digest like other sites *cough* LinkedIn/Facebook *cough*
- Johnny
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
Love it.
- Zachary TG
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
Great way to keep up with those you're most interested in; things you don't want to miss.
- Diego Barros
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
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