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As suggested by Bindu :) http://friendfeed.com/e/480075... - Paul Buchheit

See Dustin's note on Facebook too http://www.new.facebook.com/no... - Susan Beebe

im already excited :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

This is really exciting .... I expect big news on this - Susan Beebe

Hey Paul! I suggested a Friendfeed version of Yammer!! Save this link for your next post --> http://friendfeed.com/e/953e0f... : ) - Erhan Erdogan

Getting out while the getting's good - Jason Carreira

"Facebook really is That company. Which company? That one. That company that shows up once in a very long while -- the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. That company where large numbers of stunningly-brilliant people congregate and feed off each other's genius. That company that's doing with 60 engineers what teams of 600 can't pull off." -- Rosenstein, 2007/6/15, http://paul.kedrosky.com/archi... - j1m

Can't wait to see what Justin writes about his new promised land! :) - Adam Lasnik

“There's so much work to be done in the area of making things harder for people at work. We're passionate about hiding and omitting the very things we all need to be more productive. Whether it’s work output or the collective knowledge of an organization, we’ve got to make it become less searchable and less relevant. For enterprise developers, we’ll nurture an ecosystem that makes it easier to create and deploy underwhelming business apps that reveal the tragic lameness of your co-workers. At the same time we plan to remain oblivious to all acceptable standards of user experience.” - Noah Carter

this marks a great step in taking pokes and pie throwing into the enterprise. :) - Mukund

Well, you know, a little sheep-throwing would lighten up the enterprise. - j1m

Akiva's brother or who else? anyways that's necessary thing so be luck with him ;) - silpol

I spend way more time in FF than I ever do in FB. Heck, I only check FB about once a week nowadays. - Ian Hussein Maverick May

I had a similar suggestion for CompanyFeed http://friendfeed.com/e/e8a4ce... - Shakeel Mahate

I'm buying this. Glad they got the design right finally. - Robert Scoble

Its too bad they need that lame keyboard. I would love to see a multi touch keyboard on this. Can you blog on it? - David Jacobs

It looks cheaper than the original, but BGR says it feels sturdier than the original and has a metal backing. For the little I read magazines, and the convenience of books (also given that I only read or reference one book at a time), I still haven't figured out a personal use case for the Kindle. - Mark Trapp

Bah - where's the larger form factor version? - Tad - the Meme Maker

I'm not sure this is something that'd make me think about upgrading.. - Tad - the Meme Maker

MUCH BETTER! gen 1.0 looked lame to me, so old school looking - Susan Beebe

I'm bummed... I thought it was going to be bigger (the screen). I don't know if I like the redesign much better than the original... and why the heck did they get rid of the SD slot?? That doesn't make sense. - Lindsay Donaghe

I am surprised they left out the SD slot...bummer - Susan Beebe

I'd have to disagree with what was said about it looking worse then the original. I think it looks better. Although, the screen does seem smaller to me. - Mathew Ballard

meh. did the screen actually get *smaller*, or is that an optical illusion from the larger bezel? the next sony reader has a touch screen + onscreen keyboard. the Plastic Logic device will blow them both away. assuming anyone can afford it :-) - Karim

Where's the LCD side strip from the original? It was a brilliant way to compensate for the update latency of the main display. And the rubberized back of the original seems like it would be more comfortable to hold than the metal back. And no SD slot? I was waiting for 2.0 but I think I'll be getting the first one after all. - invariant

I'm anxious to see if Amazon will do a decent trade-in deal. I bought the Kindle earlier this year and love it. But the 2.0 looks way better - clearly they took in all the feedback and improved the model. - Mari Smith

I still don't see why - I can read books on my iPhone if I need to. Why do I need a Kindle? - Jesse Stay

i love my kindle but the one problem I would really have with this model is the loss of the SD card. I have an SD card on mine and the thing is chock full of books right now. - Justin Long

Invariant, the LCD stripe is the menu selector. When you rotate the dial a little light goes up and down the LCD stripe to pick the option from the menu or select the line of the text you want to highlight. - Justin Long

I'm not fully convinced about switching to e-book readers in general (a larger selection of books would help with that), but this does look like something I could buy. It is a big improvement. - Roberto Bonini

The loss of the SD slot is a real deal breaker for me right now with this version. The only thing that would change this is if this new reader was much cheaper. Unless there are also major software overhauls on Kindle 2 I'll watch for deals on Kindle 1 as 2 comes closer to launch - Bryan

I don't know. Design is ... rounder, a bit sleeker. Still don't see a mainstream business for this though. A solution to a problem that doesn't exist. http://usedbooksblog.com/blog/... - AJ Kohn

Well, it's a solution for MY problem, which was how to get access to books where I live in Southeast Asia without having to buy and paying to have them shipped out here. Also, how to carry around a stack of books on planes. I love my Kindle. I rarely go anywhere without my Kindle. :) - Justin Long

you guys should look into the sony reader. it's pretty nice - Cee Bee

I love my Sony Reader. - dkb

Yeah this "upgrade" is all kinds of terrible. That joystick seems flimsy and the design is super ugly but that isn't the really big deal. Loss of the SD card slot is the killer here. I'd like to see how Amazon will explain that one away. - Erica Baker

Save the books! - Jen

IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle http://tinyurl.com/4rmqdt "It's official: The iPhone is more popular than Amazon.com's Kindle. And not just in the obvious categories like listening to music, browsing the Web or the other applications where Kindle barely competes. Now, the iPhone is also muscling into Amazon's home turf: reading books." - Sean McBride

Love/Hate situation here hahaha.... I like the redesign but it just looks bigger and has a smaller screen, why Amazon ..why? - Gadiel Rivera

while the iPhone I'm sure is a great and capible device for e-books, the battery life I would think would make it hard to use it for reading, music, and as a communication device. I see the iPhone handy for notes and quick reference, but a e-book reader as a chance to move from paper to digital - Bryan

Are we sure this is real? Is it a final version? Cuz I'm just not seeing the value-added here over the original. - Eric

Same here. I stopped blogging since May. What about writing an AI app to automatically blog for you? :P - imabonehead

Code is much cooler than blog text. Maybe just post the code to the blog? :) - Chris White

I like the model of start-ups that the way to get them to be popular is just to stick with them. (Maybe I got this formulation from Paul Graham.) I'm not sure that's meaningful, but at least it's prescriptive. - j1m

make your code your blog, two birds with one stone, lots of new readers - Gregory Lent

Thanks for any and all shares, Bret. Love to see. I really hope at some point the team feels comfortable to talk nuts and bolts architecture, so we can learn and provide great products like you do. I think you could do the equivalent good of a Jesse James Garrett, talking even in the abstract about what a modern architecture means. - Christopher Galtenberg

congratulations on all the value creation. nice hockey stick on growth. you've got a unique view of socialweb services, including when adoption gets traction. would love to look at analytics from your data exhaust, if you're not comfortable showing direct numbers. - mark silva

Jason - it's not about the features. It's about the users. Twitter's getting the network effect, pulling away from everyone else. - Hutch Carpenter

i would be sooo disappointed if it has. My main issue with Twitter is the inability to have a real three (or more) way conversation - unless i'm missing something, it's near impossible. There is soo much more thats possible without losing the heartbeat of the service. - Zee from WeDoCreative

There's ways around that. - Jason Carreira

I think it is the most likely to go mainstream. It has a couple of million users I read somewhere credible (can't remember where sorry), and it's becoming more stable at last. One of it's major pluses is that it's the first network to realy be mobile. I use it on my mobile all the time. - jjprojects

Yes - Mike Doeff

Jason, it's interesting to me that Chrome sports less features to attain stability and Twitter is bagged on for stripping out features to attain some level of stability. I suppose it is all in the setup: To never have had is easier to swallow than having had and having it taken away! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

FriendFeed has a big chance. Lots of journalists told me this weekend that they are checking it out. - Robert Scoble

lets hope so - i'm getting concerned about this place now. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Getcher "I was on FF before it was cool" t-shirts right here, folks! - Daniel J. Pritchett

I think twitter won this war along time ago. The only real problem I saw was reliability. It seems they have finally **knocks on wood** fixed the issues. - Jayson

@ChangeForge and Chrome had a big splash and is now hardly used again... until they add more features - Jason Carreira

...it was on HULU earlier. - JA Castillo

I don't love SNL most of the time, but this was priceless. - Squirrel Girl

Video is available on NBC Web site. - Rod Bauer via twhirl

Wish I would've gotten this before the taken down... what gives. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

This is a great quote from this article: "Vote for someone smarter than you. Vote for someone who inspires you. Vote for someone who has not only traveled the world but who has also shown a deep understanding and compassion for it. The stakes are real and they're terrifyingly high. This election matters. It matters. It really matters. Let me say that one more time. This. Really. Matters." - good stuff. - darodave

I agree with Michael. - Graham English

I'm getting the feeling that all of this making-Palin-the-story is actually helping the McCain campaign. - Andrew Grumet

it is. Most Americans don't view the world through smart people's eyes. It is the economy stupid wins. This stuff fails. - Robert Scoble

@Robert: If it is the economy. Or more to the point, the pocketbook, then why shouldn't Obama win? His income tax plan puts more money into more people's pockets. Or is the point that Obama needs to hit that point again and again and again? - AJ Kohn

It is the economy stupid versus It is the Palin stupid. I'm not at all sure who will prevail. Palin is something new. The media like new things. - Benedikt Koehler

@AJ: Actually McCain means a more stable economy and in the long run means that people will maintain their lot in life. It is the fear of the unknown that drive voters away from Obama. His policies have the ability to move America is a better direction, but also will certainly shake things up a bit. This scares the shit out of the average Joe American. - Bob Blunk

Based upon the first paragraph of this article, I think there is a third category: the "responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, remotely serious", and civil individual. HuffPost just lost credibility with me when you post an article that starts off as crude as this one and then doesn't offer anything but one-sided, hot headed opinion. - Greg Lato

@Bob: By stable, you mean he's not going to do much to it, right? Then yes I agree and yes, plenty of folks are scared of change. But ... the economy is in real trouble. More than I think people really understand. Home values are still way out of whack versus historic trends (see Case-Shiller), personal debt is very high, savings at zero, the dollar is weak and inflation is growing. And the inflation and GDP numbers aren't really accurate: http://www.chrismartenson.com/... - AJ Kohn

I haven't watched this but am so thankful you have prepared me to know how idiotic I am if I do like this interview. I do agree with darodave in that this electinon really matters. I am just certain that I want neither candidate in the office of the commander and chief. One wants to offer change without describing how that will be accomplished with the help and resistance of the american people who make up the macrocosm that is the economy of the U.S of A and that interacts with the global economy dealing with simple things like geopolitical, religious, and humanistic paradigms. The other is a liberal version of the same conservative administration that lead us into a misguided and criminal war. The truth may lead to much more powerful and infinitely more insidious prinicipalities above the figureheads these candidates represent. Long has been the time when I personally felt anyone involved in government (or in corporate America for that matter, but then that isn't their role and they have never pretended it - Curtis "Winer" Cross via twhirl

It's about time someone wrote what a lot of people are thinking. - Jeff P. Henderson

OK, I very much want to actually -see- this. - Jaemi Kehoe

For some reason, I expected it to be shinier. - Dan Fitek

I think you're right. I've been ready to bolt from Ffox for a while now... I did bolt for a little while but there's no viable alternative, IMO. If Chrome can do like Ffox only faster, I'm there. - Jim Jannotti

Besides Mozilla, other companies should monitor Google's Chrome. ie "To fight malware and phishing attempts, Chrome is constantly downloading lists of harmful sites." This would be a problem for companies that sell malware & phising protection. - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

AJ, interesting question, and if the screenshots floating around a real, it might be a browser seriously dumbed down. However, consider presence and speed as two driving factors. Chrome will be marketed heavily, and FF users are more likely to give it a shot. Second, Webkit is super fast, if they've ironed out the safari bugs I'd switch tomorrow, it's that quicker - Duncan Riley

Makes perfect sense. I think it's not just Mozilla who should be afraid of Chrome, but also other browsers struggling to get a piece of the browser market. Chrome seems to be particularly bad news for Opera. - Ray Metzen

Ray, I wouldn't think so, because Opera's core business is mobile and niche stuff like the Wii. Chrome doesn't appear there from what I can gather so far. - Duncan Riley

Oops, I meant Opera for the desktop platforms. I agree that their mobile business is probably safe, at least for a while. - Ray Metzen

It'll be interesting to watch, particularly since it would continue to feed its search business (much like toolbar). This is actually one of the few recent Google initiatives that seems to dovetail with it's core business. - AJ Kohn

I'm personally extremely amused to surf their descriptions and see that their memory management methodology borrows heavily from Erlang programming. Perhaps my functional programming and distributed processing bretheren have finally found a killer ap. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

Mozilla has the most to lose in the browser market. What about Mozilla's Prism, or Adobe AIR? Does Chrome's inclusion of Google Gears factor into the discussion around platforms that run "rich internet applications?" - Kevin Sablan

Ah thanks. I think this should be available via the list "settings" link too tho, like in that "Add to friends list" action box. Kind of like the "Remove label" feature of the "More Actions" box in Gmail I guess. - Philipp Lenssen

@Philipp - I agree, and I happen to implementing that now :) - Bret Taylor

@Bret, yes thats something to do, the add /block is confusing . verbiage change to unscribe ? - Peter Dawson

One minor thing, in the gray "Add/ remove friends" box on a friends list page, there's no undo option when you remove a friend by clicking their avatar image. (By the way is there as better interface metaphor for removing someone than clicking on their avatar image?) - Philipp Lenssen

This is an interesting way to find out that people should remove me from their home feed. ;) - April Buchheit

@Peter, I thought "blocking" and "unsubscribing" were two different things. If you block someone, you'll never see their posts again, even on the "everyone" tab or in rooms (I've actually blocked one person, that's how I know.) - Laura Norvig

@Laura, its not the same, Block/subscribe buttons are available on your profile, when I click username. That is, b'coz I am not following you. However, with some1 that I am following, there is only a unscribe button. There is not block button. So for my followers, it just scribe /unscribe and with others I can Block/Subscribe. - Peter Dawson

Uh oh Paul, why are you removing April? - Jim Norris

@Jim: I know! Why does he hate me so much? I must post too many baby pictures. - April Buchheit

I immediately asked WHAT why is Paul removing April - bad example dude! LOL and NO we won't remove April...never! - Susan Beebe

April, are you being obstreperous again? - Gabe

I wanted to use Beta, but I missed my tabs. Had to make something happen...LOL - Rah™

whoa that really was quick! - James Cooper

Brilliant!! Just brilliant!!! - James Fridley

Let me know if you guys notice anything weird going on. I didn't do much testing :) - Rah™

Just installed it, but I like it 150% more than the Better FriendFeed mark 1 - James Fridley

cool.. I had to make my own real quick to get the highlighted comments back.. there needs to be some changes to the css classes. - Tim Hoeck

Hrm...they work for me. Are you in FireFox? - Rah™

I'm talking about the highlights for Cleaner FF.. your Better FriendFeed Beta seems to be working fine.. that doesn't highlight, does it? - Tim Hoeck

Rah: I'm using yours :) - Mona N.

no highlights :(? - Naor

Better FriendFeed does in fact "include" Cleaner FF features. Access the options panel in Tools->GreaseMonkey->User Script Commands->Better Beta FriendFeed - Rah™

checking it out....thanks! - Susan Beebe

You are the best! Please make more =) - ChaCha Fance

I ♥ it! :) When? When? When?? - AJ Batac ♘

Likey. - Jonathon

Whoa. - Mark Trapp

Sawheet! "lists" means I can go back to using a single account now, phew! - Jason Wehmhoener

Very Awesome Bret... can't wait. :) http://beta.friendfeed.com/?bc... - Brandon

Totally love the Friends addition. - Chris Baskind

Noice! - Shey

AJ, it's available now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - Paul Buchheit

Pretty sweet. - Scott Bulloch via feedalizr

Paul you just beat me to it.. this is aka just like draft.blogger.com :)_ - Peter Dawson

In beta, wow. HOLY WOW this is AWESOME. Are the poster usernames still goign to be links? - Mona N.

Brandon/AJ: no need to wait: use it now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ and let us know how you like it. - Bret Taylor

so awesome - love the favorites! - Morgan

I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Awesome! - Steve Rubel

Fabulous! Cannot wait! - Abby Martin

It's beautiful. :) - Daynah

Thanks FriendFeed Team. You guys rock! - AJ Batac ♘

Great features, digging the groups - Cains

wow nice job! It's very clean! - Alan Le

It's the Gmail/Reader interface, but w/ the nav on the right side -- shocked I am, shocked! :-) - Paul Wilcox

Wow! Neat. - Atul Arora

It's very nice! All the superlatives have already been used :) - Rebkin

The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)- - Peter Dawson

A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson

Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय

Coming up next: gamma.friendfeed.com - Jim Norris

I /love/ this! So much shinier. - eve shot first

I still want more of a customizable dashboard view, tho. (kudos on the changes, tho...they ARE nice, and I do appreciate them. :)) - abacab

Thank you for the lists. - Paul Arterburn

Good job guys. I am disappointed you used Peter Astley, and not Rick Astley. Lost opportunity. - Louis Gray

looking great :) - sergiooo

My favorite is how the blog has like 2 comments, and Brett's link to it has almost 30 comments. - Dustin

Yummy* Friendfeeding just got better. - Jonathan (Bad Robot)

This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman

OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind

I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz

LOVE IT! - Kyle Lacy

Why not position:fixed the right nav? Like this: http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed... - Michael Leggett

The share button no longer appears in my feed. This is counterintuitive. Otherwise, it's been a great experience so far. - Michael Nielsen

Where's the "me" tab? Everything else I LOVE! - Jennifer Van Grove

Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda

@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao

you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern

@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen

Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen

Try Friend recommendations. - Chris Baskind

I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac ♘

Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind

can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk

Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya

awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk

One word: wonderful. - Brandon Titus

thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons

like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok

It is kind of cool! - Steve