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LOL - Micah Wittman

HA! - Dave Martin

maybe he was thinking, "at least we still have http://copainsdavant.linternaute.com/ !" - Marshall Kirkpatrick

A big conference able to crash twitter all by itself :-) - Brian Schwartz

Did the guy wander into the wrong conference? - David Damore

Post to your Facebook Page - he'll understand that - Jesse Stay

Damn. Conference hasn't even really started properly and the LeWeb gang are crashing Twitter. - Tom Morris

Well, Robert, this is another fine mess you've gotten us all into. - Dave Martin

I posted to Facebook too. :-) - Robert Scoble

Someone needs to build a Twitter proxy service that'll hold tweets until the service is back up online and repost them. - Tom Morris

There is a major problem with Twitter. Tweets from people you are NOT following are appearing in your stream. These are NOT Twitter ReTweet either. - David Damore

It wasn't LeWeb's fault. No one is even here in the hall yet. The conference starts in 45 minutes or so. - Robert Scoble

What time is it there Robert? - Brian Schwartz

Certain social media people have egos big enough that they like to think that they could crash Twitter. ;) - Tom Morris

Brian: 0818. - Tom Morris

Robert, how is the conf, so far? - Dave Martin

perhaps it's time to switch to SkyRock or Trombi! ;) - Marshall Kirkpatrick

MK - it's the default of the stars - friendster - Dave Martin

Tom, hmmm...Seesmic should do that - but Loic's busy running LeWeb right now ;-) - Jesse Stay

Friendster? I've still got an Orkut account... - Tom Morris

You could all use Google Wave for LeWeb. Watch each other type and then watch your browser crash a few minutes later. - Brian Schwartz

irc - Dave Martin

Still messing around with Twitter?!? - Adrian

"Responding to unscheduled downtime 1 second ago We are working to respond to a disruption in service that stated approximately 10 minutes ago." - David Damore

That is on http://status.twitter.com/ now - David Damore

irc.freenode.net #leweb - Tom Morris

Brian: it's 8:28 a.m. in Paris. - Robert Scoble

http://gsnap.com/scoblei... <<-- I am curating LeWeb in real time here. - Robert Scoble

word of the month: curate. Me? I just tweet, surf, read, share, blog when I have something to say. - Karoli

The Twitter is back - Dave Martin

Looks like it is back now - Stephane Bourzeix

Karoli - check this - The Content Strategist as Digital Curator by Erin Scime via A List Apart http://bit.ly/5PuQT0 - Dave Martin

Spoke too soon. Twitter not exactly back. Latency issues. - Dave Martin

Dave, I know there are tons of posts about curation. It's the hot term right now. I hate it, mostly because it's...the hot term. :) - Karoli

Karoli, hear you. Still, the item is worth your attention, maybe ;) - Dave Martin

Hayes, have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch... Taking old vacation pictures and finding out what the buildings are. The good stuff starts about 4:30 minutes in. :) - Matt Cutts

So he taking pictures of his computer using his phone, finding out what the object is, then going back to the computer and typing it in? Something seems terribly inefficient about that ;) - Amit Patel

Amit: my point is that by the time I start the app, take the picture and get a false hit it's faster to just recognize the object myself and search on it (with my phone). - Hayes Haugen

Matt: like I said it does cool stuff sometimes but as a general purpose tool for identifying the things I run across it has not done well. I'm not claiming anything other than how it's worked for me. Suggest people use the product instead of watching promo videos! And I'm not crapping on the concept - looking forward to its evolution. - Hayes Haugen

True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?) - Louis Gray

why is LazyFeed invite only? - Damir Zubović

Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone. - Louis Gray

Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia. - Damir Zubović

Your password's too short :-P - Jesse Stay

the word "password" is too short? - Louis Gray

:) :) - Damir Zubović

Louis, yes. - Jesse Stay

BTW, what screen capture software are you using? - Jesse Stay

I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse. - Louis Gray

Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one? - Jesse Stay

but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that? - Jesse Stay

Snapz Pro X: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti... - Louis Gray

Very nice - thank you sir. - Jesse Stay

More video demos == good, btw - Jesse Stay

Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start - Joe Dawson from iPhone

We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often. - Ethan Gahng

greta video - got straight to the point :) - Riaz Kanani

Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks - Jane Finch

Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks - Mo Hall

why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF? - Thomas Power

Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time. - Louis Gray

cool thank you - Thomas Power

LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you! - Lazyfeed

I will have to check this out. I admit that the point of it was not immediately obvious the first few times I used it. - Bill Kinney

Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Awesome demo, finally got a chance to watch it. - Bill Kinney

Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue. - Liza

Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks. - Ethan Gahng

Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas? - Liza

How did you know I would guess the first one? - Jon, the Beartato of FF

It is a trick, they are both Louis Grays, different aspects of the same form - RAPatton from iPhone

lowthl - Josh Haley from iPhone

I will change my name immediately! - Louis Gray

Did someone finally succeeded in cloning Louis? - imabonehead

Ahhh hahah! :D - Micah Wittman

The top set of twins: much more adorable. - Micah Wittman

Who is Louis Gray? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

See-ming I am Louis Gray - Jesse Stay

@Akiva Moskovitz I like your icon. I always do. Your icon and http://flickr.com/malefi 's flickr icon gives me smile every time I see it. That's the right direction in identity design. - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

@Jesse.Stay If you are Louis Gray, who is @Louis.Gray then? - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

@louisgray is me - Jesse Stay

Which one asks "Can we talk?" THAT'S the one who's committed to social media. And talk about an early adopter...REAL early. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

See-ming, thanks! I like strolling with a purpose. - Akiva Moskovitz

Ha! - Charlie Anzman

No I'm Louis Gray and so is my wife! - Johnny Worthington

Will the real Louis Gray please stand up? - imabonehead

Get outta my head imabonehead!!! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Ouch. There's a costume that takes more than a few hours. - Aron Michalski

Interesting idea. I have a 'lifestream' bundle and share some of my posts that way. Unfortunately you have to delete them once FF imports them back, but not too much of a pain. - Kol Tregaskes

Chris, what embeds would you share from there? I imagine sharing individual entries would be good but not sure what could be shared from the embed page? - Kol Tregaskes

Kol.. It's more of a hack to show people where you came from, and gives you (and those you share with) a quick place to check your FF updates within reader. Since the image auto-updates, it's perfect!! - Chris Myles

GROUPS: You can also embed groups but not directly. Just change your username to the group name.. width is a cool option as well!! http://friendfeed.com/embed.... - Chris Myles

BTW: this is ONE of the MANY reasons I think FriendFeed kicks ass.. Most products aren't even thinking about embedded versions of their content, let alone dynamic images for sites that don't support iframes (or when javascript is disabled). It just adds to the flexibility and power of the platform.. (Facebook.. hint hint)!! - Chris Myles

Just tried this in GR and it works. Thank you Chris. - Polly Potter

No worries Polly. I saw yours in Reader.. You might want to make it wider to get more goodies in the same height. I set my width to 600!! BTW Where are you getting feedback from the Reader team? I've got a some stuff logged into their help site.. haven't heard a peep from anyone (some stuff has been sitting there since last November). http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Chris Myles

Fixed FF widget in GR to 600 as you suggested and it looks a lot better. Thank you. - Polly Potter

Chris, if you are referring to the comments of Jenna Bilotta that I shared in GR, I found them in FF and parked them in GR for ease of finding again. - Polly Potter

Green with Canadian Envy I am, hope it was a good time and time well spent. - Owen Greaves

I like your shirt dan! - Jeannie Choi

What a bunch of good lookin' guys! - Rochelle

It's a Tech Geek Posse! Stand Back! - Martha

I still say you guys need more estrogen. Ana rocks and is fully capable of handling you guys, but if you really want FF to succeed you should get more girls. <ahem> - Felicia Yue

What Felicia said (granted, i was too lazy to drive down...) - anna sauce

Dangit Anna - you should make the next one. - Hutch Carpenter

well for one, kinda found out about it 1 hr beforehand. Where was it posted? - anna sauce

Anna: email Ana for an invitation. - Anne Bouey

I took a nap after reading this post and had a dream about meeting Ana in a public bathroom which was decorated with fine silks and satin. Hmmm. - Rochelle

Thanks Anne. I think I may start a "dream room" because I am endlessly fascinated by these. - anna sauce

Oh, can't DM people who aren't sub'd to me. I'm feeling like this is an invite-only thing, which is totally OK. - anna sauce

anna, you've been added to the list! - Anne Bouey

Nice Anne! - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch, hope she sees this! - Anne Bouey

Aaaah..that's what FriendFeed DM was made for! I'll shoot her one. - Hutch Carpenter

thanks! - anna sauce

Am I the only person that actually thinks plain text email is good? - Cristo

probably. I personally think plain text email is horrible. Also, one of the things I liked the most when I switch to gmail from yahoo was the ability to thread "conversations". Honestly, I don't understand why there are still people using Hotmail or Yahoo or any other email provider that don't show them their messages threaded. Wave is taking that to the next level and I love it. Now if... more... - Claudia Petrilli

Here's my bet: In 5 years, nobody will be using or talking about Google Wave any more than they are using and talking about Orkut now. - Cristo

Here's my bet: In 5 years, everybody will be using or talking about a real-time, collaborative, multi-media, web-based, decentralized platform as much as they are using and talking about Facebook/Twitter now. - Jérôme Flipo

Jérôme, yeah and it'll be called the web. - Cristo

You curmudgeonly old Luddite, Cristo... ;-) - Christopher A Carr

That's good news about Google performance. But Matt, when Google Sidewiki toolbar can be applied at Google Chrome browser? I like ir very much. Thanks. - Michael Dadona

@Michael Dadona, It hasn't exactly had the warmest embrace, so who knows if we'll every see anything out of it.... http://bit.ly/1ZNQRx - Nathan Snyder

Whatever Matt, any comment is justly like a fruit to make more progress. I am not a computer geek to make comment on its 'technical' part and only able to join on its positive sides wherever available. Frankly speaking, Matt; what I know now is to work harder and smarter for how googlebot and robot.texts crawl, group, and rank whatever article of writing I wrote on internet. I think in... more... - Michael Dadona

Given that Chrome is built for JavaScript-heavy apps, I'd try that. - Matt Cutts

What should i use under Mac OS? Chrome isn't fully featured yet so i am definitely going to expect hiccups and Firefox 3 is just crazy - Bhowmik Shah

The dev version of Chrome on Linux is plenty robust; I've been using it for quite a while. I think the dev version of Chrome for Mac is pretty stable too. - Matt Cutts

I've used the dev version of chrome on Ubuntu, Fedora 11 and Mac - all three are very stable. - Matt Mastracci

Wave is very JS compute centric, so that could be a factor. By my benchmark (http://api.timepedia.org/benchma...) chrome is 3x-6x faster than JS compute heavy code (in particular, OO code with lots of abstractions that tends to arise from GWT) - Ray Cromwell

Why not Safari? - Mark Trapp

How so, testbeta? The folks behind reCAPTCHA are a solid team, in my experience. - Matt Cutts from iPhone

I'm not calling them desperate, but they do try very hard to keep growing at a respectable rate, which is hard when you're so big, I don't think this helps them much nor does it hurt them, the biggest benefit is what they point out, they can get assistance with expanding and cleaning up smudged text in Google Books. - Jimminy

+1 to Matts question. How is this desperate? - EricaJoy

What a clever idea. I had never heard of reCAPTCHA before, but I like the way they think. - Joel Webber

any guess about the price? i'm so curious :).. i think not that much, less than 4M$ - fakedave

Oh goody..... - Roberto Bonini

Am I the only one who feels this is sort of a Pyrrhic victory, in the sense that an incredibly enormous scale was needed to eek out a profit? It's certainly good news for the long term stability of the company however, - Ray Cromwell

@Ray, Pyrrhic? I don't really think so. It's a sizable investment, alrite, but if they can maintain real growth without having to invest hugely again, it's a win. Long-term win, but still a win. - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

They can't maintain current user growth much longer since the Internet population has limits, so either they have to increase engagement, decrease costs, or come up with a better monetization strategy, it just seems like inefficient to me, and and risky too since alternatives could undermine them at some point, eg Twitter - Ray Cromwell from Nambu

You mean, like changing a variable from TWEET_LIMIT = 140 to TWEET_LIMIT = 512? :) I think Facebook Lite, FriendFeed, et al have shown the value of these networks is more in communicating and following rather than social apps. F8 was a great attention getter than separated FB from the pack, but outside of some games, it has taken a backseat to FF/Twitter-like functionality IMHO. And I think the games industry would be better served by a social platform tuned towards the needs of games anyway. - Ray Cromwell

Plus, by combining WebFinger, PubSubHubBub, FOAF/XFN, and some other stuff, you might be able to totally federate the bulk of what FB and Twitter do today, commoditizing them and stripping down their walled gardens. That's the looming threat. - Ray Cromwell

A good example of FB's cost reducing efforts is "haystack". Don't worry, we are working on it (: - Ozgur Demir