Macbook 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM OS X 10.4 - Jason Wehmhoener
I'm multitasking between my eMachines W4885; 2.4GHz P4; 2GB of RAM (Kubuntu 7.10) for web surfing and my Nokia N800 (Maemo) for Skype and IM. - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl
Dobrow's got me beat; MacBook Pro - 2.16GHz Core 2 duo, 2 GB RAM - Lou Paglia
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz - Jason Toney
Macbook 1.83GHz Core Duo, 1GB RAM, OS X 10.4 - JA Castillo
Dell Inspiron 1501, dual-core AMD Turion x86-64, 1 gig of RAM, 120 gig HDD. OS: Vista Home Premium. Currently actually using Ubuntu 8.10 beta because my HDD's had some kind of EPIC FAIL. Urgh. - Cyvros/fyc
A Hipster PDA - and you wouldn't beLIEVE how sore your thumb gets when you have to flip the 3x5 cards 30 times/second to display a Qik video - Micah Wittman
Lenovo Thinkpad Z60t Standard... Stickers are extra. - Lisa L. Seifert
A dying 4yr old PoS. 3Ghz CPU, 1Gb RAM, ~410Gb, etc. - Tanath
well, friendfeed is the new digg....via feedalizr - Mladen Srdić
I think it's a factor of maturity -- innovation is still happening but it's definitely slowed. Mixx on the other hand is growing and doing new things. - Shey
Or was it the more mainstream audience that drove early adopters away? - Aviv
I used to like Digg until it slowly turned into another slashdot. - Akiva Moskovitz
I used to be on Digg all the time. I'm not sure the "mainstream" audience is what drove me away, though. I'd say it was more the kids moving to it or otherwise just "dumb" users. Is that mainstream? - Jordan Hofker
I love digg. I still use it and go there. - Thomas Hawk
Personally, I feel digg has jumped the shark and they should find a buyer asap. - Jason Kaneshiro
I still check Digg a couple of times during the day but for Technology news it's not that great anymore! - Joe Dawson
correct me if I'm wrong, but Digg is failing because to depends on the page to participate with an add to Digg thing. If they created a Java add bookmarklet then Mac Safari users would um Digg it. Digg is a great idea, but it requires too much participation and consent to be involved. Once the initial hype was over it was a small community - Noah David Simon
i agree with @Joe regarding Tech News on Digg. On the other hand i think Digg has much less noise than FriendFeed. - Chris Farrugia
Can the fledgling microblogging service become a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook—or will it be gobbled up? - Chris Farrugia
they have sooo many other avenues to produce income. why that? they need to be more creative. - Josh via twhirl
I wonder how they put them on iGoogle. Honestly, though, a couple half banners surrounding the logo wouldn't really bother me. Everyone's got the right to earn a few billion more. :) - felix
Scoble - don't you hate it when a site gets loaded down with ads? Even after the person said they wouldn't run them? - Dave Hodson
If the display ads from google are every bit as intelligent as the link ads, they'll be fine. I'm disappointed by how this will likely effect the page load times on Google (which are the primary reason I use Google over Yahoo or MSN anyway) - Adam Posey
lets see how this *pushing envelope* ends up... I guess this is classical case of big company taken over by mediocrity step by step, described so many times that it should be recognized without effort - silpol
I guess it was only a matter of time... As long as it's unobtrusive in terms of pageload &&,|| client-side processing I'm fine with it. Could probably add rule(s) to ipfw... - RandaL Hicks
the display ads might be put on Google image search which is all about images anyway, not main .com text homepage - Kevin Gough
If Google manages to get advertisers to clean up their act and create ads that don't slow down/break web pages, then everyone wins. If they let the same ads run on Google that run everywhere else, then Google loses bigtime. - Jason Wehmhoener
Personally, I think the article is trying to stir up unfounded attention. It talks about display ads in general raking in cash for Google, but then the quote from the Google rep talks about ads in image search only. If that's the case, what is the big deal? - Jason Dettbarn
Agree w @Jason and add that people had the same sort of reaction when text ads were introduced. It's not like you're going to wake up one day and it's going to look like the old TW Pathfinder site. - Erik Dafforn
I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean, if Google can display ads that are in fact relevant to me, then I might be interested. I also think that while this idea does suck - it is important to remember what Google is...a public company that has to make profit. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding where all their money comes from....(i.e. who clicks on all those ads anyway?) - Elliott
I also agree with @Jason. The reference to Google.com is like saying "Google.com properties" - (i.e. Image Search). - Elliott
Is Google trying to be the next Yahoo!? Do not like. - darnell
@Joe, I think Raoulpop said that you needed to unsubscribe and then resubscribe your Flickr feed to enable the import of favorites. - roel
@Joe Like @roel said, but I've also found there is a little bit of a delay on when the favs appear in the friendfeed stream. This is really getting to be my most used part of friendfeed, to see what other people fav to discover new photos and photogs. - Jeremy Hall
Watching your Fav stream show up in FriendFeed has actually gotten me to Fav more photos. Having that show up in FF seems like a real bonus. - TranceMist
Heh, I had forgotten I was even streaming to this account. Thanks. - Tim Cooper
@Chris Farrugia, just click through on the link above and you can access a stream of all flickr users on FriendFeed. I go through the stream and look for interesting publishers or favers and then add them as contacts in FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
I didn't even know I _could_ favorite photos in Flickr until I saw it happening on here. - Jordan Hofker
Same here, it's a great source for photography and I really want to get more into it now seeing what others are sharing! - Joe Dawson
@Jeremy Hall How long is this delay? I am waiting nearly 24hours. I agree this is one of the most interesting parts of FF. Thanks. - Scott Kuperus
I've found that faves show up sporadically on FF and never include more than 25 faves. - Thomas Hawk
If you want your faves to show up instantly you can refresh your FF Flickr feed manually. - Ole Begemann
Yep, I just wish to be a better photographer before the Thomas Hawks of the world see my flickr postings! :) - Jody Carbone
I love the favorites too! What a great way to get exposed to new stuff. - Brian
TH - thanks to you for sharing your images, I always start a blog post with an image from someone's favs. - Dave Martin
more like within 2008 looking at the economy. bring on more green tech silicon valley!! - Kevin Xu
@cmiper in a way it's a good thing ... could act as an incentive to move on to alternative energy sources. don't you think? - Chris Farrugia
Chris I don't disagree, and hope it will finally get people's attention. I was just picking on the fact that no matter what the news is, good or bad, it always says that you "liked this" here in FF. ;-) - cmiper
People like this jerk forget that if you're in public, you can have your picture legally taken. The only time they have a leg to stand on is if the picture is being used commercially, then obviously a model release would be in order. By him being a jerk and making a publicly visible spectacle of himself, he opened the door for the photo to be used not only artistically but editorially as well! - Michael Beck
jeremy's blog has been down all day. guess it got a real hammering. - Chris Farrugia
I love this photography blog. I personally like fixed focal length lenses. Why? Sharper and faster and smaller. Plus, force you to think about the image more. - Chris Farrugia
The Facebook-killer may have arrived... - Mitchell Tsai
Nah... its yet another aggregation service... there's gonna be tons more soon so get ready! - Dan Delphin via twhirl
*Cough* Alexa data *Cough* But really, we FriendFeeders probably have a toolbar that is stuffed with valuable bookmarklets, so we're probably greatly under represented by the Alexa "data". - Mike Reynolds
FriendFeed has a lot of "first adopters" of the "first adopters" (FAFAs). Not sure if the current FriendFeed interface will be welcoming for non-tech non-high-imformation-load people. Not enough pictures and visuals. I'd love to get tiny pictures extracted from each blog or article - maybe smaller than the current ones, and off-to-the-right, so we see the same number of articles on each pages. - Mitchell Tsai
As I've noted previously, if you go out on the street and ask people about FriendFeed, most of them will think you're talking about a potluck. - Ontario Emperor
Like Mitchell, I'm not sure of the appeal for the non early adopter or techie info junky and I'd bet no CIO from any Fortune 500 company has used it yet. That doesn't mean there's not something unique here. It will never be Facebook because there just aren't that many information junkies -- but i still think it does something very cool with the "social graph" that not even Facebook does. - Robert Seidman
FriendFeed-like picture sharing could be great with the masses. Likewise recipe-sharing. Anybody want to shepherd a new startup? :-) Being a CEO is exhausting. - Mitchell Tsai
Oh. Oh. This is turning into a SPAM post for new CEOs. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
"My expectation is that someone (Google or Facebook) will acquire them" .... Friendfeed was created by ex-googlers so I doubt they'll be aquired by google :P - Chris Farrugia
Yep, I sure do! I love it! I live in FF :-) Don't you?! <smurk> - Susan Beebe
Ah! Bonus. Now subscribed to Jason Goldberg's Friendfeed. - Ashton
“I faved 22 photos on Flickr in the last 30 minutes. We'll see how many of them show up here. Given yesterday's experience, it'll likely be two or three at the most, and I'll be pissed off again. ”
Mine showed out way out of time-sync. I fave'd this morning, one showed up right away, the others showed up (hours?) later, and they are showing times that are some 12 hours off, they were all fave'd at once. They also have 1 hour gaps between them in the timestamps even though they were minutes apart. :-( - cmiper
I've probably faved a couple hundred Flickr photos over the past 24 hours but very few have shown up in my feed as faves. - Thomas Hawk
Sounds like Bret needs to take the Flick Fave feature and stick it back in the oven. It's not done yet. It's better to not have it available rather than have it working like crap. - Raoul Pop
All of my faves have been showing up, but they show up in the timeline of when the photo was posted. I faved several yesterday, but they were all posted to Flickr weeks or months ago and that is where they show up in my friendfeed. I do think that is a bug and they should show up in the timeline on when you favorite it. Check your old timeline to see if the are showing up there. - Mark Anderson
Mark, that's it, you're absolutely right! They're showing up, but they're inserted in the past timeline, which is a bug for sure. I wonder where they'll be able to pull the right time from though. When I view my Flickr Faves feed in GR, no time is visible except the time when the feed was last polled by GR. Oh well, here's hoping they get it right. - Raoul Pop
Maybe it's due to how flickr hands the info out? Check your RSS for flickr fave's you'll see the date/time the photos were posted, not the date/time you fave'd them. - cmiper
i'd rather have a couple of faves showing up. Having tens of little images on a friendfeed stream would slow down the experience, wouldn't it? - Chris Farrugia
This is an annoying bug, but we will push the fix today. It is a configuration issue on our end, and I am embarrassed it got pushed out this way. Thanks for diagnosing the issue, and sorry for the trouble! - Bret Taylor
Chris, it wouldn't slow things down, because FF only displays up to 7 thumbnails from Flickr at a time. It folds the others in, and you have to click on that little blue right arrow to display them. In terms of loading times, perhaps the page weight will increase, but I'd rather be able to display all my faves and showcase others' great photographs instead of having a slightly lighter FF page. - Raoul Pop
Bret, as an aside it would be great to have the two feeds, a user's own photos and favorited photos distinguished as two separate FF feeds so that you could selectively hide one or the other. - Thomas Hawk
