"The notable thing about this is that despite all of the asynchronous events taking place, the code is sequential (nested, but sequential), and that the JSON results of the AJAX call is immediately available to the function that is invoked when the selection changes." - Jeremy Zawodny
You know better than I do Steven, but I believe those who have not fully adopted online communications like those of us here regularly, abandon social media, (and perhaps a lot of internet uses), for more tactile time spend during downturns. I've witnessed folks behaviors changed en mass, directed by circumstances. Could be enough to explain most of that, because I think generally, their more tuned product is accelerating in usefulness. - Ed Shaz/NextInstinct
Unique visitors is an interesting statistic but it's clear that the real value to FF will be engagement. Returning visitors, visits per day, dwell time etc. will show the real power of FF. - AJ Kohn
So what are you doing to help turn this momentum around (goes for all of you above)? - Louis Gray
I think that the craziness of the economy has had an effect... people are spending more time off-line (I know I have) and less likely to be looking for new things. I think it will turn around after a while. - Lindsay Donaghe
I use FF in my email sig, tell friends, drop it in my blog from time to time. - AJ Kohn
Louis: my thesis. People aren't getting enough value out of this and are seeing it as a time drain. Also, I'm seeing people staying away from online sites that cover politics and economic news in order to stay away from mental pain. Those things get better in November. It'll be interesting to see if the line goes back up then. But we need new features to cure the first thing. I think they are on the way. - Robert Scoble
I thinking the same thing as Robert. I also think that many avid users have found that this can be an incredible time sink, and have had to back off a little. - Jeff P. Henderson
could also be attributed to employees spending more time on their tasks and less time browsing FF. - Tsega Dinka
but I also pedict that with winter around the corner and more people spending longer hours indoors, the traffic will be going back up. - Tsega Dinka
Louis, I may have just converted my wife - does that count? ;-) - Jesse Stay
maybe if there were more Joe 6pack examples of the value in the world Joe lives in they would be more inclined to use it. Telling people how important it is won't teach them as well as showing them by example. - Chris Kim A
Friendfeed jumped for me when it became a chat room for popular bloggers and their stalkerish followers. Give me twitter with Twitscoop any day. - Wayne Schulz
Maybe FF would like to give its fans incentives to help them be successful. I keep hoping some company has the guts to try to include their users in the prosperity we create, together. It's a good time for out of the box thinking, no? - Dave Hussein Winer
heck, if friendfeed would consider sharing revenues from ads in the rooms - that would really be something! - Zee from WeDoCreative
Could you layer the stock market graph over the same timeframe? Would there be a similarity in the graphs? - Hutch Carpenter
@Wayne..haha and twitter isn't a chat room for popular bloggers & stalkerish followers...? lol... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Does the drop correlate with the release of the list feature? - todd
If it really is a drop (it's not a drop in traffic btw, just the number of times it's been mentioned on the web, a measure of buzz if anything) it probably correlates to Twitter becoming reliable again and luring back its users, which was a slow process of rebuilding trust. There's absolutely no doubt, looking at the graph, that FF benefited when Twitter was going down all the time. - Dave Hussein Winer
Correction: He wasn't hanged for being a Christian. He was hanged for converting away from Islam (apostasy) which is a punishable offense under Sharia (Islamic) Law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Mo J.
propaganda, not remotely true .. mo j's correction is important, and further, there had to be some cross-over of a social/political norm ... just doing this quietly does not incur threat of death in iran ... the source seems to have a pro-christian agenda ... and the title here is very misleading ... - Gregory Lent
Pro-christian and a "Friend of Israel" as shown in the image on the original post. - Mo J.
Good spot Robert - I agree that while principles should be adopted, beliefs should not be forced upon anybody through any form of legislation. However, this happens in the West just as in the Muslim world. - Paul Johnston
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Apostasy should not be punishable anywhere. And no, this is not limited to Iran, or to the Muslim world (or even to the religious world - think John Connally and Joe Lieberman, who were denied Vice Presidential nominations). Even in the US, changing your religion (or lack thereof) can be difficult if your family or community shares the belief that you are leaving. - Ontario Emperor
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The worlds biggest scam - Religion, we need to get rid of it for good. It IS the cause of the majority of the worlds issues. - SoN9ne
Thanks for correcting the record, Mo J. and G. Lent. I'm feeling warmer towards the Iranian government and less shocked that an individual soul was exterminated for their beliefs. - Christopher Galtenberg
Wow, that's horrible. Has anyone seen Religulous? the new movie? Makes some good points about religion being dangerous. - Sarah Perez
Correcting the record? A month ago, the Iranian parliament voted 196 to 7 in favour of a bill entitled "Islamic Penal Code" which imposes the death penalty for any male Iranian who leaves his Islamic faith ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... - Joel Bennett
I don't think religion is dangerous, but extremism certainly is. You can be an extremist without being religious. Just look at the Soviet Union....? And while I sort of agree with Scoble's comment about beliefs in a social code (e.g. I agree with 1st Amendment) many people's moral beliefs (e.g. do not lie, do not steal, do not murder, etc) come out of their religious beliefs....! - Justin Long
Religion tends to create and fuel extremism, though, in the way that only a "my God says you are UNCLEAN" can do... - Jason Carreira
For the record, Ramtin Soodmand was a Christian from birth. It was his father who was an apostate from Islam. - Ontario Emperor
Religion is neither dangerous nor is it the cause of the majority of the worlds issues. The danger and cause is directly related to people who use religion to generate fear and hate for control and power. The same things that have allowed a person think it's ok to kill a gay person in the name of religion are the same thing that has allowed someone to think it's ok to kill a muslim in the name of national security. We should be prompting understanding and not blaming. BTW the link story is sad. - Shawn McCollum
Some religions seem to be xenophobic, intolerant, violent and imperialistic at the very core, at the root. The evil that they do is not a deviation from or perversion of their core message, but an expression of their innermost nature. - Sean McBride
A person's moral code does not come from their religion. But rather their faith comes from their moral code. - Wensleydale Scoble
Two way street, I'm afraid, Alex. That's proven everyday. - Michael W. May
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when you think you know how things should be there is something terribly wrong - adolfo foronda
Thing is, Robert, people put thier beliefs into 'our social code'. Each person has a 'religion' or better put, a world view. no one, should ever be persucuted for thier beliefs. period. - Josh
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So, if some of the more "extremist" Islamic countries view Obama as someone who has left the faith, how effective will he, and by extension, the USA, be in peaceful negotiations with these countries? http://www.danielpipes.org/art... - Mark VandenBerg
god I wish people would just abandon religion altogether already. I'm to the point where I honestly can't say that religion actually brings ANY good into this world. - LarchOye
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It's not religions that are xenophobic, intolerant, etc... It's people. This is a trait of people. People often misinterpret the teachings of the religions to which they belong and use their religion as a facade to hide their hatred and bigotry behind. Attacking the religion for the people's problems is problematic, b/c it empowers them to fight back by saying that you're being anti-religious. - C. K. Sample III
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C.K. Sample III: I would argue that some ideologies, both religious and secular, are manifestations of the worst parts of human nature. Their xenophobia and hatred of cult outsiders expresses their innermost essence. Ideologies of this kind are essentially tools of domination and control. Any ideology which rigidly divides the world in a fundamental (and fundamentalist) way into us vs. them is probably a scam run by a power mad self-appointed priesthood. - Sean McBride
Alex, I'm not sure I agree with that. Many people are born into a religion and inculturated into it, and develop their moral code on the basis of their religion (e.g. The Bible or the Quran or whatever says...). I remember my first faith moment when I was quite young, about 5 years old. Every moral element of my code originated from religious teaching... - Justin Long
@justin "do not lie/steal/murder" are so very generic concepts. Religion framed those concepts and gave context to common sense ideas, which could have happened without religion as well. In the past if you killed the man who killed your brother was it murder or justice? A religious belief system should have as much right as a non-religious belief system, the problem is that when they clash it turns into a fight rather then understanding. - Shawn McCollum
LarchOye, people of faith do plenty of good things in the world, as a result of their faith. Unfortunately there are also people of faith who do plenty of bad things. And people are not going to abandon their religion. The majority of the world is religious in outlook.... - Justin Long
all: i find Jonathon Haidt's [http://bit.ly/4DAyN8] work on 'inborn moral values' pretty interesting. his TED talk [http://bit.ly/OFIjO] gives a quick summation of what his research sez are the five moral values built into our genetic code. - MikeAmundsen
Shawn, I agree they are generic concepts. My point was that I was taught them by my parents on the basis of our religious code. In my personal life, my moral code came FROM my religious teaching, not vice-versa. Granted that they might have originally come TO my religion FROM an earlier source, I was only talking about me personally. Maybe I misunderstood Alex's comment. - Justin Long
@C. K. Sample III - “I believe that nobody has a clue what really happens after you die. Not the Pope, not the preacher at my folk’s church, not some Tibetan monk who has meditated and pondered all his life - no one! I believe that religion is personal and is for every individual to decide for his or herself. Mostly it’s none of anybody’s business what I believe. I believe that public prayer is for show. It should be done in private and kept between you and your supreme deity, whomever or whatever it may be. I believe that maybe one day we might find some of these answers through scientific experimentation and observation.” - Tabitha Ames, from Travis S. Taylor's "Warp Speed" - LarchOye
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@LarchOye, I would generally agree with a lot of that! as a Christian I'd say that I take the afterlife on faith, that I don't have anything that conclusively proves it to me. I believe - as did Jesus - that faith is personal and a matter of personal decision. I do believe there is a place for public, corporate worship as a way of fellowship, but a lot of public prayer can be for show, as Jesus criticized the Pharisees for (and I could criticize a number of people today)..... - Justin Long
why is there evil in the world? "If there's evil, there is good, if there is good, there you posit a moral law to diferintiate between good and evil, if there is a moral law you must posit a moral law giver..... if there's no moral law giver, there's no moral law, if there's no moral law, there's no good, if there's now good, there is no evil. what is your question?" [ravi zacharias] - Josh
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And there is evidently evil, or Google would just say "Don't be bad" :) - Justin Long
Despite what we think of the current administration, there's one thing we should all be able to agree on: Iran scares the crap out of me. - Fleagle
Iran doesn't scare me. If Ahmadinejad was the Supreme Leader maybe. What scares me is america's posture towards Iran. - Shawn McCollum
Fleagle - why are religious fundamentalists in Iran scarier than religious fundamentalists in the United States, Israel and other nations who are deliberately trying to provoke World War IV and Armageddon? John Hagee is a close adviser to Joseph Lieberman, and Lieberman is a high-level adviser to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Judeo-Christian fundamentalists in the U.S. have access to a huge array of WMDs. I have often heard them declare that we should use them against entire nations in a first strike. - Sean McBride
In India, there are groups (both Hindu and Muslim) that advocate killing of members of the other religion, and often commit those crimes as well. At the same time, there are people of both faiths who would like nothing better than such dickheads to get out of their lives and just let everyone live in peace. These extremists have political representation and the country has had to face communal riots time and again. But once you look at it closely, you see it is not at all about religion. It's just crime. - Vijayendra Mohanty
For me, religious fundamentalists are "scarier" in Iran because (1) there are more of them, (2) they have more instances of mob violence killing individual believers, (3) there is less of a chance of someone in our govt provoking WW4 (checks-and-balances) than there is of Iran instituting draconian anti-religious persecution. What has to happen for us to actually use a WMD? They have to be authorized, and they can't just be authorized by a president - there is a system of confirmations required. - Justin Long
sigh. killing in the name of religion. When will we ever get along? I hope we can all do something to stop this. - Dave Q
@Toby you usually don't it's just i did the calculations wrong...i had alot of white streaks in my hair therefore it looked so candy, instead of deep red,( like i wanted )but this is cool - Caroline
Jessica Rabbit? As in "I'm not bad, I'm just dyed that way?" :) - Ontario Emperor
lmao she says i'm just drawn that way... but i am dyed that way. yes - Caroline
Sharp unveiled their new 9225H full QWERTY keyboard mobile phone at CEATEC 2008; designed by
Softbank, the Sharp 9225H is a book style mobile design that resembles a tiny laptop.
The Sharp 9225H features a 3.5 inch VGA internal screen, multimedia player, 2 megapixel camera, an in built 1seg TV tuner, e-mail functionality, and microSDHC expansion slot for loading up tunes. - Michael Fidler
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Helen, I hope it gets easier for the both of us. :)) - Anna Haro
آخی .. حالا چرا همه کامنت ها انگلیسی شد یه دفعه... من فارسی رو پاس داشته بیدم .... - tookaa
خیلی حال کردم باهاش. یه ساعته دارم می بینمش... یه ساعت... - onoq
That was me on Vista the first time I tried it. - Josh Haley
lol... Is he/she just playing an mmorpg, and got killed over and over again? - Ryo
You know, on Sesame Street, there was a pianist who used to get frustrated and bang his head on the keys. I'm really glad that Sesame Street chose that instead of the image above :P - Adam Lasnik
Like "happy 3 friends cartoons"!!!!!!!!! - Farz∂d Zam∂ni
این خودشو دوروزه داره به فاک میده..خب نجاتش بدید دهه - Emad
Every time I see this, I think of Dave Winer. And a few others, honestly...but mostly Winer. - abacab
Shamim: if you use firefox your problem will resolve. :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi
حال منو داره کامل کامل کامل ..... تا حالا 100000 بار نگاش کردم... - onoq
Cool...I'll be heading there soon myself...MAN, I hate Mondays! - Live4Soccer
reminds me of a Primus song 'funny thing about weekends when your unemployed [or work retail], they don't mean quite so much, 'cept you get to hang out with your working friends' - Bren
:D I think it would be even more awesome if the order of the pics(with the captions) is flipped to read Parah Salin' Sarah Palin :} - vijay
1. Ask her to dance.
2. On windy days, brush wayward strands of hair from her eyes and mouth.
3. When she’s coming down the street, across the room, or up the stairs to meet you, walk towards her as soon as you see her.
4. Kiss her between her shoulder blades when she turns her back to you to go to sleep.
5. Put your arm around her when you introduce her to your friends and family.
6. Grasp her hand when a scantily dressed, beautiful woman walks by. - Mahdi Ebrahimi
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فكرشو بكن اينا رو به مرداي ايراني بگي چي ميگن مخصوصا كيهانيها - saeedeh
ای وای خدا مرگم بده. با منی؟ مگه چی می گن؟ - Soroush
So just "like" her posts on friendfeed is a no no ? :/ - Pascal
@ سعيده: الآن خوششون مياد با اين مقالات سكسولوژي كه كيهان ميزنه! - Farz∂d Zam∂ni
"24. Touch her arm when you leave the table to go to the bathroom. Touch her again when you come back." To this one, I would add, "Wash your hands and make sure she can hear the water running." This is especially true if the girl is Japanese - I have the inside track here :) - Mike Reynolds
These tips seem more fooling than heart melting . Again underestimating women's intelligence ! - enigma
I think its a good list honestly, mostly common sense stuff but definitely things that I think show love/respect towards your significant other. - Nicholas Kreidberg
Personally if I'm being asked to dance for a man , I'll be extreemly angry because I'll feel he considers me as his clown ! there would be no respect - enigma
Good tricks,be sure they will work men:)),but when you love someone you don't have to use tricks,you will do all those offers unintentionally and willingly:) - shamim
goodness the bitterness here...LOL..and we wonder why romance is dead. Sometimes a fella should get an A for effort. Of course using these ideas alone won't do work, but if they are suggestions a guy who is caring and thoughtful in other ways has never considered it will strengthen a relationship. - Ruth Ferguson
"We've only gotten one report of this, which seems a bit odd, but an Xbox Live gamer who goes by Dragunov765 has posted photos of what appear to be in-game ads for Barack Obama.
Dragunov (we know his real name, too) says he came across the ads while playing Burnout Paradise earlier this week and posted them on his Rooster Teeth journal page." - Jason Toney
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