Possibly awesome? Being made by the same team that created and produced 'The Riches' which I'm enjoying due to Hulu. (And I'm braced for my tiny film of the same name to get bumped farther down the result pages by this. Should've named my effort: You Know, That Time Someone Got Hung.) - Chris Wetherell
Wow, neat! Group created. So Ben (don't know him? he created the feed platform for Reader) is raising the bar of what to do while sabbaticizing. Awesome, but I'm sure I just read somewhere that the root of sabbatical is [slack {slak} n.] ... right? - Chris Wetherell
!!! Nice work Ben. I'll give it a try. - Jason Shellen
very nice....testing it out right now - Adam Kazwell
Can someone post screens? I don't want to waste a registration if I don't like how the interface plays... - Bwana McCall
there is no interface....just group your friends in a text box and the app generates an RSS feed for GReader for that group - Adam Kazwell
It just uses your existing GReader and FF credentials. It's nice but it just makes me realise that the grouping of 'friends' is a feature that belongs in FF itself. - Adewale Oshineye
@Allen That'd be great, but it's currently used for going to the next subscription. - Cyvros/fyc
D'oh, I always use Shift-J/K for moving in subscriptions. Forgot about Shift-N. BTW, Chris, the ? help screen seems to be broken in FF 2.0.0.14 on Mac. - Allen Hutchison
I would say Shift-N unless you could free up n from it's current role. I don't think it's necessary to have the shift before since you can always simply close the resulting window. --Edit-- But since Shift-N is already taken I guess you could go with w or Shift-w for "write". Probably too much of a stretch though. Sorry Scoble, I think that Shift-S-N is too many keys. I like to be able to use one hand on these kind of things. - Brandon Titus
We were thinking of Alt-Shift-S to build on the existing share shortcut. Too many keys? - Mihai Parparita
What about detaching notes from sharing a post? You could replace "Share with notes" with "Comment" or "Add note" and expand a small box the same way you do for "Email". This way you could also delete the comment or edit it later. The shortcut could be "c". - Ionut
Before realizing there was no shortcut, I tried Shift-N this morning. I guess that would be my vote. kthxbye - Thomas Han
Looks like it's going to be Shift-D (which is next to Shift-S), since Shift-N is taken, and Alt-Shift-S doesn't work in IE. - Mihai Parparita
I find it depressing that you can "share with note" a post that has all already been shared and you can do it multiple times, creating new copies. - Ionut
Slightly off topic but ditto what Ionut says, although "depressing" is a bit strong... It's a bit odd that the original feed item also doesn't appear as being shared, which I'm guessing is because it created a copy to share with the note. And if I then search Google Reader for that post, I get multiples - i.e. the original post and a copy (or copies) with my note(s). Couldn't you do a sneaky link / replace of the original post with the newly created noted copy? - Tony Ruscoe
Shift-D now works in Reader. You can select an item and use the shortcut to launch the note form. - Chris Wetherell
Yup the permalinks are intentional. Working on making that more useful right now. - Chris Wetherell
This is one of at least five discussion areas for this item. Most of the discussion is taking place in Kevin Fox's shared items feed. The topic? Duplicate discussions. http://friendfeed.com/e/9f312d... - Ontario Emperor
Don't forget RSSmeme! Chris really made this pretty easy to get the notes out of the feeds. There is a small bug left to overcome when someone shares someone elses note (see here: http://friendfeed.com/e/8c7154...) - Benjamin Golub
Ok, the permalinks for Reader notes now point to something. Thanks due to Mihai. (Thanks, sir.) - Chris Wetherell
I find myself revisting this gallery every few days. I'm especially appalled and fascinated by Gerda's tired, exhausted near-death statements. The entire exercise provokes me in ways I prefer to avoid. A preference I'm interested in confronting now rather than, well... - Chris Wetherell
This worries me the hell out of me. Security budgets and expenses for independent journalism aren't small. I don't want the enterprise of efficient, elegant syndication on the web to sit on the sidelines while good resources in investigative journalism bleed out. There has to be a way for us to help. - Chris Wetherell
Purva Naresh has created a short, delightful little film about a traffic jam. Only viewable at Filmaka.com but I thought it was worth a click. - Chris Wetherell
I'm a new grad, working at Google, in the sync team. I think we're building stuff people want - Neil Dunn
I hope your project is a little more specific than just "sync". Super-general projects are usual disasters. - Paul Buchheit
I love this quote: "The 3,398th web site that lets you upload and download files to a place on the Internet. I'm so excited I might just die." - Alex Gawley
I think the first time you lose your phone and have to try to remember the names + numbers of all the people you know is when you realise that you really need a sync tool that backs up your phone to the cloud. - Adewale Oshineye
Just one nitpick about the article: Companies *should* be building stuff that customers don't ask for. Lots of times customers don't know they want something until long after they see it. Lots of times customers don't know they don't want something until after they see it. Companies won't know until they try it. - Amit Patel
