FTP and Flickr access are borked here at LPCH, so keep your fingers crossed for Mail2FF! My wife and I will likely get some good pictures of Sarah tonight. Matthew has been with us the last two days, and we get to have both with us full-time tomorrow. The one picture of Sarah was taken with a friend's cell phone... and if you look, you can see one of the youngest advertising medium's Google's ever tried! - Louis Gray via mail2ff
Again, many congrats to you and Mrs Gray! - Aaron Brazell
Oh! Look how TEENY! Mine were all monsters... smallest was 8#7 and Matthew and Sarah just look like little dolls! Keep 'em coming. Nothing I like better than vicarious babies. ;) - Cyndy
Meet the first kids to grow up on FF. - Russellreno
Congrats Louis. See you in 3 months. :) - Bwana McCall
oh. how. adorable. So tiny, I'd be afraid I'd lose her in the blankets! - Ro (Lilyhill)
Bwana: Louis is on a mission to prove you wrong! Perhaps Yuvi can come up with a "Louis Gray Participation Index" and chart it for us for the next 90 days. - Robert Seidman
Kids growing up online? My son's already got an email address and flickr acct...he's due in two weeks. - Jay Martin
Wow, Jay, you may have out-geeked everyone with that. ;) Louis, they are adorable. - Jack Carlson
Sorry about the misuse of the apostrophe on "mediums". I'd delete, but nah. - Louis Gray
See? How life is nice? You lost your dog, and now you have not one baby, but two! :) Congrats!! - directeur
That's wonderful, Louis! Congratulations! - Eric Johnson
Sarah is in the top left photo. She is now 4 pounds, 1 ounce. Matthew is 4 pounds, 13 ounces. - Louis Gray
Awwwww...and already wearin' the schwag! So adorable! - Sarah Perez
wheres the cn stickers - you just said you support the little guy and then you stick the kid in google gear? :-P do we have any trend data yet? - Allen Stern
They're gorgeous! And the Google onesie is too perfect. - Carla Thompson
Allen, I have the CN stickers, and the camera. You will not be overlooked in favor of the Google overlords. - Louis Gray
Oh, if only I could Like, Like, Like them! - Diane Ensey
If the markets were open, I'm pretty sure Google's stock would be up 4% due to that advertising partnership. Did you get a snide letter from Ballmer or Icahn yet? - Mark Trapp
Double Like! Such beautiful little faces! Looking forward to our first playdate. - April Buchheit
zOMG!!! How adorable! Good luck and I hope you registered their domain names. When will they be on FF? Congrats and all the best! We also have two, but we had them in different years! - Christine Cavalier
the real question is - what's the link to their ff accounts? - Allen Stern
Congrats, Louis. I found that that kind of thing puts what we do online into perspective. - David Risley
Well they really need their own FF room so that both of their streams will be aggregated in one place. - Erica Baker
So tiny, so cute! Congratulations. Just amazing. - Abby Martin
Congrats! We recently had a little boy also. (June 13) - sergiooooooo
BEAUTIFUL BABIES!!!!!! soo tiny and sweet!! I am laughing at the Google baby outfit...dude, you're way deep into Tech!! LOL .. that's what you get from living in Silly Valley!! You're kids are already NERDS! awesome!! more pictures............:-)........ - Susan Beebe
I could get used to it. It kinda looks normal to me already... - Tony Ruscoe
Though the two "g" are also expressing more conformity now... perhaps they're ducking from the suppression of the big "l" (which, as some conspiracies have it, is the green dollar bill shown from the side ;) ). - Philipp Lenssen
@Orli: I quite agree. What's with this trend of site names starting with lower-case letters? digg, reddit... even Flickr, Tumblr and FriendFeed if you just look at their logos. - Cyvros/fyc
The most amazing part is that this is not a self-playing level. I see times when the creator had to jump, and I suspect that the walk/run speeds are modified, meaning that the sudden speed boosts were actually a result of hitting the run button. - terababy
What he doesn't know: the boat and storm part are true as well. But it's not the interview, that's your first day. - Neil Kandalgaonkar
I was thinking to myself "wait, Charlie's doesn't have a slurpee machine". - ⓞnor
I thought the fast-track interview process bit was a bit odd but the boat bit made perfect sense. I simply assumed he was interviewing in Zurich. - Adewale Oshineye
Well, since it's rapidshare, I wouldn't be surprised if they made it very difficult on purpose - frustrate the users enough to make them give up and get a paid account. Low, but again, it is rapidshare. - Aviv
Captchas failed, actually. Gmail or hotmail accounts cost $40 for 10000 over here. Sad. - Alex Hussein Kapranoff
Am I the only one who remembers Kitty Captcha? Why don't more sites use that? It's a relatively secure way to fool bots, I'd think. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Hilarious - may all come to pass before 2018. - Todd McKinney
Love it. But 2018? I'd except to be able to get Friend.com directly through the HUD in my flying car by then... Only silversurfers (like us) would still use "web browsers" in 2018. - Tony Ruscoe
Twitter feed not available? That may come to pass at 10:30. - Bill Bittner
And what's up with "low karma comments"? I thought the karma thing left us in the seventies... but yes, everything comes on cycles... - Alex von Halem
You've got the Google thing backwards :) - Paul Buchheit
Hey, I just noticed I'm in the screenshot. :D @Paul: ? What's backwards, where? - Voyagerfan5761
Actually, it missed one important thing - a HUGE ad, taking up the top half of the screen, for a substance that is just as effective as Viagra (which was banned in 2011). - Ontario Emperor
I think Paul's saying that in 2018 ff will own google - j1m
It's comforting that hitting monkeys will still be as popular in 2018 as they are now. - Ginger Makela
One thing they got wrong: by 2012, Paul will have started his own country southwest of Alaska on an artificial island. It'll be called Free Festivusland, and it'll get the top-level domain “ff”. FriendFeed will then be http://ff/ — no dots or coms or nets or orgs. - Amit Patel
I think the web will be voice and audio driven in 10 years, or at least it will be available. There's even some startup now that can sense nerve pulses to the vocal chords to know what you'll say before you actually say it. - Mike Reynolds
I think comments won't be replaced by nested commented, just like @ in twitter, many people like this. - terababy
Mike Reynolds, now I'm scared. Very scared. I'll get myself in trouble before I actually hear what I'm saying (rather than after). - Ontario Emperor
I'm seeing the same stories over in over (e.g. Story X shared in Google Reader by one contact, linked directly by another, and so on), spread into separated discussions. Just merging dupes seems not easily possible as everyone has different threads subscribed to depending on their selection of friends. It also makes you wonder on which of the many threads you want to add a comment if you want to share your view on Story X. - Philipp Lenssen
We're definitely thinking about the right way to handle this. - Paul Buchheit
Well, in blogsphere, people use trackbacks to gather all comments together into the original post. Maybe it will also considerable to solve this overload duplicated content problem. - Yuancheng
The issue isn't duplication but seeing the pile-on as memetracking. Friendfeed should have a way to view based on this kind of convergence. If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know. - Stowe Boyd
"If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know." And then how can you comment on the meme/ story? Because you have potentially five different comment threads (which seemingly can't be easily merged either -- you can merge the story, of course, but these five threads are personal to you, others may have different combos). - Philipp Lenssen
Is it more about the agglomerated stream or some discrete aggregation of those streams? - Andy Taylor
Also, what about duplicates within my own feed... Lets say I find something good in google reader, share it, stumble it, digg it, twitter it, and a couple other new verb its... that seems like a more manageable thing to reduce to just one item (such as Nathan Dugg, Shared, Stumbled and whatevered "this story" instead of reporting it 6 times. - Nathan Manley
Philipp, Newsvine has a neat feature, mostly unused. It lets readers break comments out into specific groups and among friends, away from the main comment thread. …and yes, @e3r, it uses tabs to do it. @NathanManley, i agree wholeheartedly. - John Lam
@Nathan, John: Reduction++ for me. I see the same story reported over and over in my feed. It will probably have to be based on the URL of the story (rather than the Stumble page or the Digg page or whatever), but I think that's already available so it shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps in the case of multiple friends sharing the same link, condensing those would also be useful... - Voyagerfan5761
@Voyager... Yea, it seems that most of those services you should be able to get the URL of the originating story from...of course if friendfeed is scraping the info from the different sites it would almost have to wait to publish it to your feed to see where else you put it (and how long should it wait?). - Nathan Manley
@Nathan: I don't think it should wait. If you do something on another site with the same URL, it should just update the one story. So "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon" could become "Voyagerfan5761 Rated "Blah" on StumbleUpon and Dugg it on Digg". See where that's going? I'm sure Kevin, Paul, and the rest of the FF team would have a better way to do it, but... Yeah. - Voyagerfan5761
