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Team Apart hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00 - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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"Rather than trying to replace Microsoft Office, as Google obviously hopes to do, they’ve picked a niche on which to focus: Team meetings for workgroups much like the Team Apart team, separated by geographical distance but connected by broadband. A Team Apart meeting room can be filled with notepads, whiteboards for freehand drawing, images, web pages, and live video chat windows for participants. The meeting rooms, reachable at teamapart.com but stored in the cloud somewhere, preserve the materials from their last meeting. ss1Without thinking, I instantly liked holding meetings at Team Apart. The lightly-colored default design is simply appealing — it’s got Web 2.0 style without being overbearingly so. The rooms aren’t overbuilt, so they’re easy to operate via the few buttons at the top. My meetings never go beyond four people, so the four-person restriction in the current free version isn’t a problem. And I have the option to use a still photo instead of a video feed as my avatar, for those times I don’t feel like being watched while I eat during a meeting."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
It's only a matter of time for someone does something like this for Wave as an extension.
- Ray Cromwell
Ray, the broadest, most general product isn't always the best or most successful.
- Paul Buchheit
This, to me, would be a logical extension for FriendFeed as it moves into business, with real-time chat on the side.
- Louis Gray
Paul, I agree, but that applies to Friendfeed too :) I love the FF UI, how stripped down and uncluttered it is, it does exactly what I want. But if FF+FB forces me to log into Facebook now and view FF functionality as part of the larger FB UI, I'm not so sure it will be as appealing anymore. I still want to go to FF directly, I'm not really interested in FB features.
- Ray Cromwell
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed???? WTF? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Steven Perez, Mrsth, Joe Dawson and 72 other people liked this
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
No.
- Yolanda
anyone think this is true?
- Thomas Hawk
wah!? The timing would be interesting for me because I just had a big "discussion" with a friend last week about how I won't join Facebook because it's not open like FriendFeed.
- Ben Reierson
What.
- joey
please GOD No!!!!
- Edgar Rodríguez
What?!?!
- Kevin Whalen
hrm.
- michael sean wright
Crazy.
- Eric Florenzano
Noo... please... don't let this be true!
- Hector
To publish this and it not be true would be bad.
- Kevin Whalen
I wonder if this means that photos of nursing women won't be allowed on FriendFeed anymore.
- Thomas Hawk
Acquiring them as their R&D lab?
- mikepk
any guesses on the price? Anything less than $100 million would mean that they sold it for too little.
- Thomas Hawk
Boom! Direct shot to Twitter.
- Jeff Beckham
Holy Fucking Cow. I don't want this.
- Zio Bonino
Assuming it's true.... why would it happen?
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I thought Google was going to acquire FF
- Francine Hardaway
Not giving hits to the Techcrunch asshole, will wait for a responsible media outlet to cover
- Gabriel
Well considering FriendFeed had investment rounds aroung $5m (If I remember correctly) a 20x return would put it around 100m, so that would be a good guess.
- mikepk
WTF!
- Carlos Ayala
If it's not true TechCrunch is not going to look good here.
- Thomas Hawk
don't know if this is good or bad. i hate using facebook.
- Dusty Edenfield
Screw You Arrington!! LOL
- Edgar Rodríguez
If true this can't be good (at least not for FF users).
- Brian Sullivan
daaaaamn
- Tsega Dinka
So what does this really mean?
- Michelle
I hope this is not true and Arrington dives in his own shit. (though it's kinda suspect that the friendfeeders haven't commented yet).
- Zio Bonino
well if this is true, it'll be time to move on. i'll be able to concentrate on some of my projects, thats for sure.
- Carlos Ayala
Oh god, please, no!
- James Myatt
Arrington is definitely not the most trustworthy person in the world, but we'll see
- Lawrence Oluyede
No!
- Niki Costantini
i trully hope not :-((
- Del_
Well, so they bought they R&D department. Was about time.
- Lars Trieloff
:(
- ӊooқ
please keep the platforms separate. wow!
- Stuart Miniman
Curious why so many think this would be such a bad thing?
- Tsega Dinka
Not liking the sound of this so far... Hopefully it won't turn out like the Yahoo - Flickr marriage!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Yahoo Flickr wasn't bad IMO
- LANjackal
This is horrible news.... I can't believe they'd do this
- Matthew DeVries
Maybe I don't know enough about FF, but what is everyone so bummed about?
- Katie Wynne
I think some think that it's a bad idea Tsega because FF represents a *vastly* superior content platform than Facebook and some might be concerned that Facebook would end up killing FF as we know it and trying to assimilate us all into their inferior product.
- Thomas Hawk
You nailed it, Thomas.
- Zio Bonino
there was no "long run" to save FF from financially. It's Founders are loaded. They had the luxury of ample financial backing to run it for a long, long time. It will be interesting to see their reasoning on why they did this if in fact it is true.
- Thomas Hawk
For me, FF and FB have two separate purposes: FB is for communicating with my IRL friends and FF is for consuming and sharing content with everyone else, but then I've been on FB since it was select universities only, so maybe I have an outdated opinion of what FB is. They need to keep both products.
- James Myatt
OMG this is terrible :(
- Ale♫nastrorosa
Also, FB is blocked at work, but FF isn't.
- James Myatt
+1 James
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Thomas: I see where you're coming from. To me though, if anything, this will make facebook a better product over all and hopefully FF will remain what it is with more FB integration.
- Tsega Dinka
once upon a time it was "don't be evil"..
- Cristian Conti
Seriously, Is this true? OMG this would be the worst thing ever!!! This is a joke RIGHT??!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
chances are FF will be nuked. There's not much in it for Facebook to run two separate networks. The wording that Bret chose to use on the blog pretty much paints that case in my opinion. FF is worth so much more for it's potential than for it's users and I think Facebook wouldn't care if they lost 100% of the current users if they get unfettered access to implement the best tech ideas into their current product.
- Thomas Hawk
Jannifer, I wish it were. But it is true. You can read Brett's post here: http://ff.im/6pFNz
- Dilip Dand
crazy crazy stuff.
- Zac Bowling
yeah, the phrase "for the time being" is a scary one.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
As in, "Friendfeed will continue to operate for the time being."
- Ryan - @magicofpi
The team will probably be locked into a 2 year employment with Facebook while their equity fully vests and then will end up jumping ship. This acquisition will likely make Facebook a little bit better, but we probably lose FF in the process which is too bad.
- Thomas Hawk
I was kinda hopin FriendFeed would open source some of their sauce but I guess now that's even less of a probability.
- matthew john ernisse
I don't have a good feeling about this. :-( Why have two services with so many overlaps. FF will be integrated into FB in the long term.
- Kol Tregaskes
Why is the worse company the ones in charge, that is where I'm just freakin baffled. Friendfeed is a better freakin product.....
- Matthew DeVries
gee, i step away from my desk for an hour and all heck breaks loose
- Imabug
you'd better delete any content (photos for instance) you posted in your feed that you don't want FB to own when they get their claws in.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Matthew: FB had the $$$.
- Joe Silence is not dead
When I look at how I used FB and how I use FF (which I am still new to) FBs purchase would actually suck in my world. I only use FB to keep up with my fam and friends and I don't do that very well because I loathe the interface. FF is fresh for a newer user like me. Adds a lot of value in terms of the knowledge sharing that goes on here. To think that this service would get sucked up by...
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- Michelle
Agree with many of the comments on here. I'm concerned Facebook will basically just take all of FriendFeed's great properties and fold it in the large kingdom that is Facebook. A great service, FriendFeed may just become FB's Twitter. (Funny, too, that we're mourning the potential demise of FriendFeed on FriendFeed. Kind of like the newspaper biz writing 1000s of articles about its own demise in its papers.
- Keith Trivitt
But all my extended family is on FaceBook! Where do I hide now?
- Ted Gilchrist
Keith - well, now we know what happens when Facebook gets jealous...
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I give our engineering team a little "20% time" and this is what they come up with: http://thegdgt.com/
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lol!
- Fee501st
TweetDeck is getting uninstalled on my iPhone @westcoastbill asked. Buggy and really lame DM UI bit me once too often. Tweetie a LOT better
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Yeah, it's been pretty useless for me. It crashes consistently. I still have it installed but don't use it. I'll try it again when it gets updated.
- Vaughn
try twitterfon
- foxmachia {山石}
I have tried all the more popular Twitter apps for the iPhone and I ALWAYS come back to Tweetie. it's a fantastic app.
- Michael Koby
from BuddyFeed
It's trying to mimic the UI of the desktop client way too much.
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
Is there ubertwitter for the iphone. its great on the storm
- Shaun Haney
I still like it over te likes of twitterfon and twitterific.
- Roberto Bonini
yeah. same here
- Edgar Rodríguez
I bought Tweetie when it came out and I still like it - both on the iPhone and the MacBook. Haven't been tempted to switch.
- Brian Rendel
Tweetie is easily the best Twitter client for the iPhone.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Is it fair to do the comparison now when there are so many continuing problems with Twitter? Or is this a trial you've been doing a for a while, Robert?
- WorldofHiglet
agreed
- sean percival
I thought tweetdeck was unstable only for me. Good to know it is a general problem so they might actually fix it.
- Davide D'Incau
from iPhone
This Week in Startups on USTREAM: Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis and a rotating group of guest experts - http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
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I saw the show for the first time today and really liked it, was actually surprising, specially the part were you face what most would not ever do least of all live on camera, that takes courage, and really shows a commitment with excellence, great energy and value for your followers, kudos.The set is way to dark I know you might be going for a look that focuses on the speakers, still,...
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- Carlos F. Sam Castillo
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
cool :)
- Siavash
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Oh dear. And now I'm thinking "Command line Friendfeed UI - I can do that - that would be do-able" ;-) Nice work peeps, especially the subscriber list info! :-)
- Andy Bold
Thanks God it is New API.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah Wittman
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
cool : )
- Gürkan Oluç
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex: God of FF
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
The author of the Windows ‘file copy’ dialog visits some friends - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Robert Freeze, John Cooper, Jessie and 27 other people liked this
ROFLMAO That's like downloading a PDF in Google Chrome!
- Admiral Anika
epic
- Bahriye
Awesome.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
hahah!
- Susan Beebe
Here is an explanation for the behavior: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewt...
- Jemm
Rhahahahaha!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Dear Friendfeed, it's probably been asked a million times before, but you should allow for Comment Voting. It's close to impossible to read the 100+ comment threads and equally hard to judge what the valuable comments are in such threads.
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Vincent, have a look at this script: http://wittman.org/project... and these posts for details: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks, but I'm not sure if that was what I'm looking for. More like a digg-like system where each comment receives a positive or negative rating, pushing the good content to the top. So also the way regular Friendfeed content is pushed to the top, for better or for worse ;)
- Vincent van Wylick
Vincent, I see. Well I certainly don't want a thumbs down icon on FF and in theory the "like" is the thumbs up button. But you mean something on each comment, e.g. "likes" on comments? If so, it would be nice but so far there's not been a good suggestion on how to display it. Putting the comments in order of "likes" would be pointless though as it would put threads (and thus conversations) out of order. What are your thoughts?
- Kol Tregaskes
Comment Voting if instituted would be one thing that would make me leave FF. It's that silly/stupid system when I quit Digg, and don't use Reddit, and wish I wasn't banned for life from Fark.
- Matthew DeVries
Yeah, I agree with the design problem. I think that threading + voting probably works well. There are plenty of examples of this, e.g. Disqus, Gawker-blogs (though that only sorts by most popular).
- Vincent van Wylick
Why, Matthew? People already vote on regular posts and I don't see anyone complaining about that.
- Vincent van Wylick
I'm happy to not have it until there is a good way to show it. Like I say ordering the comments per likes is pointless, so it would just be an indicator on the comment icon or similar. Not really a big must-have though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Alternatively, I would be happy if there were threaded comments and you could sort by most active threads. That would be a workaround for the problem.
- Vincent van Wylick
For exactly the reasons Kol said. FF threads are a conversation, not a slew of fools posting their thoughts on the OP. Each one needs to be beheld in it's entirety, not just reading the out of context, out of order "best" posts. That is why I can't stand Digg, top posts are ALWAYS without context and are just there because top posters post them and get autovoted up by followers. On...
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- Matthew DeVries
But there's no denying there's a problem, right? I mean, have you ever tried reading a 100+ comment thread? It's time-consuming and 80% of comments don't have much to add.
- Vincent van Wylick
That is what Best-of-Day is.
- Matthew DeVries
Best of day only measures the main item's "value," not that of individual comments
- Vincent van Wylick
It's not a problem Vincent, it's what the medium is.
- Matthew DeVries
dislike - ff is not digg nor should it morph to try to become the mess that is digg
- mike "glemak" dunn
I really don't get you guys. Maybe you have 5 hours a day to read friendfeed comments, I have 30 mins at most, and would prefer for the good *comments,* not just the main items, to be apparent right away.
- Vincent van Wylick
And it's why I'm here, because I can work a day job without cultivating my online presence for fear of losing my popularity, thus my influence, thus my ability to get my comments seen. I can wade into any conversation here, and contribute, or perhaps more importantly, not contribute, just "like" it and read it, because the people in it have covered everything.
- Matthew DeVries
Just because peope can *like* comments doesn't mean FF will turn into Digg.
- Vincent van Wylick
Then Vincent, perhaps Digg is just a better tool for you? FriendFeed is not going to grow by copying. This conversation style is it's key feature.
- Matthew DeVries
Digg is Digg because of the content that is posted and the absolute lack of personal filters. If you find someone on FF too Digglike, you can unsubscribe, hide, block, etc.
- Vincent van Wylick
The current conversation style is flawed, and as Friendfeed becomes more popular with tons of items with dozens of comments, this flaw is becoming ever more apparent. To me, at least…
- Vincent van Wylick
You say flawed, I say feature. The other thing is, Friendfeed is real time and changing. You don't "catch up" to things on FF, like a river or firehose, you wade in and experience what is happening right now as it's happening, then get out and forget about till you come back. You don't check on old threads and see what is happening. That is what Digg and Blogs and other static sites are for. FF is only for what is now.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, I'm done arguing with you. I read ALL of your arguments and they made ZERO sense to me, except that you seem to be a totally devoted Friendfeed fanboy. Something that promotes information overload is not a *feature,* it's a flaw that should be fixed. I'm happy to hear other points of view, but we are done.
- Vincent van Wylick
I'm siding with Matthew on this one. Karma-like systems promote a type of activity that doesn't belong on FriendFeed. Digg's conversation style is flawed as it's easy to get people to band together to constantly vote down someone's posts and comments, etc. Furthermore, if I block or unsubscribe to someone, is that going to somehow erase any voting that they've done? If not, then...
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- Akiva Moskovitz
No. Learn to skim better or not at all.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Agreed
- Ryan Dadey
How often are the "most valuable" comments on Digg the highest rated? It's usually the most humorous or best ASCII art.
- Rob Haas
1UP Akiva
- Josh Haley
Vincent, unless you can come up with unobtrusive way to do it WITHIN THE OBVIOUS SPIRIT of FF's minimalistic design, and convince the team to implement it, your wish will remain an unanswered prayer. That said, I have a concept for it, but must think about it for a couple more days before possibly presenting it.
- ianf ⌘
You guys don't get it. Digg-style voting is already on Friendfeed, it's called "Likes." The reason it works better on Friendfeed is because it's very easy to filter out content you don't like, by using friendlists, rooms, and choosing who you subscribe to, hide, or block. Implementing Likes on a comment level won't turn Friendfeed into Digg for the same reasons I just mentioned.
- Vincent van Wylick
Vincent, sure but that's per post not per comment. Ordering comments per amount of likes is pointless as mentioned as the conversation will be fragmented. The comments need to stay in order of how they were posted. But that's not to say liking comments is not welcome, it's just that no viable display solution for likes on comments has been suggested as yet.
- Kol Tregaskes
It is hard to wade through rivers of comments and, yes, we need better tools to deplete that flood into manageable... er... rivulets. That said, explicit Comment Voting (=for visualization purposes think "/." which once was at the leading edge of comment-flow handling) could only be used for one purpose - filter-triggered automatic hiding of low-score items in a tree. The user sets up a...
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- ianf ⌘
There's no doubt it's complex. I personally think it's most easily done *after* threading is introduced. And that will, frankly, make browsing one of those very long comment feeds a much more comfortable experience. Alternatively, you could give much liked comments a different glow, so that they stand out, without having to resort to sorting. I don't care how it is solved, but 50+ comments threads, as they are displayed now, are very time-consuming to filter through.
- Vincent van Wylick
I rather doubt threaded (=hierarchical) comments trees ever will come. At some point all online discussions run out of focus, derail whether they are threaded or not, that's their "nature" when conducted by first [amplifying edit: not very "write-rate"] generations of this Global Debating Society. Rather I envision us getting better tools, and greater degree of unobtrusive control over...
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- ianf ⌘
notice how comments by friends begin with a different icon. this could be made more easily visible
- Mike Chelen
check out these greasemonkey & stylish options for highlighting friends' comments: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Mike Chelen
Am I wrong or Philip Seymour Hoffman look exactly like Robert Scoble? Robert you didn't say you've got an oscar.
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haha pretty close ;)
- Saad Kamal
see also: http://gawker.com/tech... (from one of the results of that search)
- Chris Heath
OMG, Robert, you do look like Philip. *lol*
- Mol, Santa Claws
Does that mean an Oscar is a shiny new toy?
- John E. Bredehoft
or maybe he's got a double life, daytime geek nighttime the big oscar winner LOL. That would be interesting if we have Apple WWDC and Oscar at the same time.
- Amiroo ™
I get this all the time! He's my stunt double!
- Robert Scoble
We should chart the number of times this old chestnut appears. Or something. Amusing thing is it always seems to be exactly the same pics used for the example, lol
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
FriendFeed the Movie
- Christopher Harris
twins
- Morgan Haley
I always thought that Seymour Hoffman was Scoble's alter ego. I bet they have never been photographed together. Coincidence? I don't think so!
- Keith Beucler
Pretty close. :) Seymour Hoffman maybe underrated but he's a superb actor.
- jan geronimo
not that you don't get star treatment already ;) but you could walk into anywhere channeling PSH - best tables and autographs baby!
- BEX
Huh? I thought "Robert Scoble" was just PSH's on-line alter-ego...
- Adrian
I have thought that for a long time. Nice.
- Ben Hanten
It's Philip Seymour Hoffman's biggest role to date!
- Joshua M
Ok, to disprove the conspiracy... I propose that this *Robert Scoble* shave his head and appear in public. Although, I suppose PSH could just wear a wig.
- Adrian
I heard they're really twins separated at birth.
- imabonehead
I was just watching State and Main yesterday that "the big secret" had been revealed to me
- Amiroo ™
I am certain @scobleizer was used as a double in Doubt.
- Bernie Goldbach
They are brothers I guess!
- Frankie Gray
You are right they look alike.
- alfred westerveld
Friendfeed activity #1 - Scoble baiting: Interestingly he hasn't taken it yet. Proof that the man does actually sleep.
- John Hardy
I had really noticed this when watching "Synecdoche, New York" ;)
- Jacque
anyone else wondering if philip seymour hoffman ever gets 'you look exactly like robert scoble'?
- siggimus
Yup. i wonder if he does.......
- Roberto Bonini
Yes he does.....I have almost mistaken him a couple of times.
- Kevin J Hatton
Hey I know that photo: http://www.zooomr.com/photos... :)
- Thomas Hawk
Hehe... I've mentioned that to my wife several times. If they ever make a movie about Scoble, Phillip Seymour Hoffman it is (or vice versa).
- LionelatDell
OMG, congrats to Robert Scoble, you have won the Media Master Award for being a FriendFeed cheerleader. LOL.
- Zachary TG
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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"Here’s the shocker, though: in many ways, Bing is better. That’s quite a statement, of course — almost heresy. But check it out yourself. It’s easy to compare the two, thanks to sites like bing-vs-google.com. Here, you’re shown search results from both Bing and Google, side by side, on a split screen. At first, Bing is pretty much Google. Oh, there’s a big National Geographic-y photo on the home page instead of plain white, but otherwise it’s the same deal: a Search box; a menu that offers to complete what you’re typing; and inconspicuous links to Images, Videos, News, Shopping and Maps. Once you hit Enter, however, you can’t help noticing Bing’s more concerted effort to get you answers faster. To minimize the clicking, the hunting, the dead ends."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
I found this amazing: (Bing’s Shopping results also make it clear when you’ll get 1 to 5 percent cash back, courtesy of Microsoft’s Cashback program. In essence, Microsoft passes on to you some of the bounty that it receives from 540 online advertisers, such as J&R, Hewlett-Packard, The Gap and others. Paying you to use Bing for shopping feels desperate and even a little sleazy on Microsoft’s part, but it’s real money, and you may as well exploit it while it lasts.)"
- Ryan
Bing's video search is excellent, much more better than Google's.
- natalia ventre
how much more?
- Chris Heath
I'm biased, but the Health portion rocks!
- Dave Hodson
It doesn't seem to do as well for me when I search for rare information, like domains or projects I own. Google returns them as first link, sometimes on bing, they appear below the fold.
- Ray Cromwell
So... bing does a good job finding things that are already easy to find, and not so good a job finding things that are hard to find?
- Joel Webber
Try typing in Chronoscope. Google returns my project as a top hit. MS returns a very old, ill used, and sourceforge project from 2002. Search for "Ray Cromwell", Google returns my blogs first, then friendfeed 4th. Interesting enough, Bing returns my Friendfeed URL despite the fact that way more people subscribe and link to my blog. It's debatable whether the FF link first is more correct. I prefer direct links first to the domain I own.
- Ray Cromwell
I was all set to not like Bing, but, honestly I find myself using it first,and Google second these days.
- Nimabeckie
Bing's been my primary search almost since launch.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Bing: the best way to google since Yahoo. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
- Lars Trieloff
Does Being Free Cheapen Google’s Brand? - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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"That’s an interesting implication raised by the statement that the Yankee Group just sent out about the announcement of a Google operating system for PCs. The research firm argues that the real winner of the battle between Google and Microsoft is Apple. That may be overstated, but it raises an interesting point about the gaps in what Google has offered consumers. Google is as well-known as any company in the world, and it has earned a reputation for technological innovation. But so far its products are not consistent, easy to use and interconnected the way Apple’s are."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
I think Google doesn't want its products to be strongly interconnected - except for products aimed at businesses. Few months ago, Google decided to kill Notebook: it may have been a wrong decision but at least, Google was in a position where they could kill the product without damaging search, mail and docs. "Google faces far less risk in product development than the usual business...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Jobs in Social Media & Web Development - http://mashable.com/2009...
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TIP: If you're new to Twitter or know someone who is, we created The Twitter Guide Book to help you --> http://mashable.com/guidebo...
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Great interview with Paul Buchheit on Friendfeed real time search, future features and the mobs http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
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man, i can't wait for theming groups...(and being able to permanently block spammers)
- Zee.
the problem that I keep harping on is that the API is seriously behind all this cool stuff and the metadata (appears) to be lost when you get things via IM
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
great interview, good to hear that subscription to search will become available the coming months! makes it easier to implement a private customer support group, as Paul mentioned
- Jeroen De Miranda
Cherry, The Mobile Operator That Doesn’t Care Whether You’re On Wi-Fi Or Not - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"Then the company’s CEO got up on stage, introduced himself, took out his Nokia smartphone, called some random guy in the audience and had him call him back on his phone afterwards. Projecting his mobile phone screen on a bigger screen for everyone to see, he demonstrated how he didn’t need to launch an application and just browsed his contact list to call the other person. Standard functionality, sure, but the cool part of it was the fact that the phone was lacking the presence of a SIM card, which is supposed to identify you as a subscriber of a telephony service."
- Wang Yip
from Bookmarklet
"I was intrigued. By now you’ll have guessed that the calling was done over Wi-Fi, which I suppose isn’t really unique even if it made me wonder how they did it without launching a third-party app like Skype. Looking to learn more, I went to their official coming-out event the evening after, when they presented the newly founded company to a host of local geeks in more detail, giving them the chance to beta-test the service for a couple of weeks to iron out bugs before launching publicly."
- Wang Yip
Seesmic changes direction and Loic Le Meur gives a brutally honest assessment (video) <-- must watch if you're into seesmic, a techie or web entrepreneur - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Definitely the right move. I look forward to seeing the new site as well as the iPhone app when they release it. I know it's more of the norm in web/tech companies but it's really refreshing to have people who run companies and make business decisions communicate those directly to the user base instead of through some PR person.
- Mike Bracco
THIS is what a Company Leader should be willing to do! Bravo!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
if only Loic could refrain from shooting videos of himself and, instead, merely post what he has to say. His accent is unbearable (no improvement since he moved to the bay area) and obviously (but will he ever?) not prepared hence a poor delivery.
- lelapin
i don't think the accents too bad really - heck, its a french accent...not much can be done there
- Zee.
Yeah I must admit his accent has gotten me once or twice. But I quite enjoy it.. Does everyone have to sound the same all the time? On the video, I must say I like his decision and the passion he shows for that decision. Looks like it was tough but he did it.. Kudos
- Rasmus Lauridsen
@lelapin His accent is not CA-based, obviously, but Loic speaks with his heart, not reading a PR. You may see it as not prepared where others would just see genuine sincerity.
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
accent? hey he's french, the things is what he says not how he says. good luck @loic
- alex
Perhaps he should have just given it in French - I love speaking French - It's a lot nicer language to listen to when compared to English. And @Loic, about your accent - never try to loose it.
- Robert Freeze
Yeah I can clearly understand what Loic is saying so I'm fine with his accent. Regarding the actual message, I'm thinking that this is a smart move as well. Starting to build community from ground up and bringing videos back later might be something what we read later from web business related books as an example. Well.. at least if he succeeds.
- Petteri
I remember writing that this wasn't going to work when Scoble et al were singing Seesmic's praises. Geeks often call me an idiot (like when I predicted the Kindle would do well), but I'm usually proven right in the end. This is the problem with Silicon Valley, IMO. Too many of you guys create only for yourselves, expecting the wider world to think and behave like you do.
- Dawn
i guess i'd give more props if they hadn't raised TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS... loic's a fine leader and all, but there's just something amiss with the amount raised and the lack of success on the investment. then again, maybe this'll get them where they need to be... ?
- Jeremy Toeman
i support loic and this move, you people need to be less focused on the funding here.
- sean percival
good for you. you people need to stop lumping us people in with each other.
- Jeremy Toeman
i say that not just to these comments, sorry, but to comments left all over the place on this news.
- sean percival
but maybe some of us feel it is extremely relevant... are we not entitled to feel that way?
- Jeremy Toeman
Wow... I can understand. That has to be tough, but necessary.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Must be a hard move for Loic, but its the right one if there is no growth in video, you can't build and maintain a company based on it. I wish him and his company the best.
- Kim Landwehr
To be able to openly admit your product and direction needs re-thinking is admirable. Frankly, I thought he was a brown-nosing walking cluster of fluff, but this makes me see him in a completely new light. Best wishes to Loic and Seesmic.
- Mona Nomura
He's making the decision that is necessary for the company to move on. Why is he doing that? Hes doing it to protect amongst other things those "TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS" that have been invested. Most companies don't start out making the products that they end up finding competitive advantage in. A good leader is not afraid to take a company in a new direction when it is needed. It looks...
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- Rasmus Lauridsen
@loic Hard move! but the best choice these days; you've got all my support big guy (if needed) ; )
- ledretch
lelapin, maybe we could find you a board titled "really great accents that know nothing about business" you would feel more intelligent commenting on. I am sure Andy Grove had an unbearable accent when he arrived here but thankfully he did not take his accent and his company back to Europe early in the game. I think that to highlight someone's accent and miss the business lesson is the...
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- Chad Harris
I agree. This is the right move for seesmic, and I am happy that it was announced in this fashion. Leaving stuff like this to PR people or some random web site announcement wouldn't have nearly the same impact. With that said, what a great use for video....
- Josh Asbury
Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time!
- Paul Buchheit
cooool
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
coooool
- zsafwan
GREAT !
- Stanislas Jourdan
Eeee. Awesome.
- Mark Trapp
from iPhone
Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it?
- Ian Wilker
YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust!
- Jorge Escobar
WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement.
- Frankie Warren
Twitter Killer!
- David Schmidt
Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work!
- Leo Laporte
hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1
- Peter Dawson
Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though.
- Paul Buchheit
Track is back! This is a gamechanger.
- Mike Doeff
from iPhone
Track is back!
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Excellent news.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from BuddyFeed
I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me
- Jesse Stay
Wow, great work!
- Meryn Stol
I stand in awe of your hackfullness.
- Ted Gilchrist
Good work. Much-anticipated.
- Louis Gray
@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track"
- Jesse Stay
you guys rock.
- Karoli
...wowsers! Very nice!
- JA Castillo
The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track"
- Frankie Warren
Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track.
- Jesse Stay
That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track
- Jesse Stay
/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful.
- Chris Baskind
Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :)
- Frankie Warren
BTW, integrating this into my blog right now
- Jesse Stay
Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned
- Daniel J. Pritchett
this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :)
- Tim Hoeck
It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way.
- Ted Gilchrist
awesome!:)
- m.0
kewl!
- phil baumann
Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;)
- Brandon Titus
I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems.
- Chris Lamprecht
I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Wow you guys rock!
- Alfredo
I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please?
- Marg Uerite
You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that...
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- Mike Doeff
Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad.
- Jesse Stay
Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track.
- Jesse Stay
Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code.
- Dan Hsiao
Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different.
- Mike Doeff
Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts).
- Mike Doeff
Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :)
- Rick Turoczy
Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track".
- Jesse Stay
BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/
- Jesse Stay
for my italian friends: stica...
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though.
- Jesse Stay
just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event)
- Jeroen De Miranda
Yeah
- Brian Sullivan
FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!!
- Harscoat
I think I'm going to cry
- Bwana ☠
awesomesauce!
- Simon Wicks
This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team!
- Garin Kilpatrick
Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result!
- Anne Bouey
HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!!
- Harold Cabezas
I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks!
- topo
The first step in a storystreaming platform!
- Kevin Sablan
Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team.
- Micah Wittman
Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work.
- Ferruh Mavituna
OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:)
- Michael Fidler
Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :)
- Ross Miller
WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :)
- alfred westerveld
How can we embed FriendFeed search?
- Mike Reynolds
Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar.
- Mitch
A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box.
- Mitch
Thanks Mitch!
- Mike Reynolds
Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe>
- Mike Reynolds
Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output.
- Ferruh Mavituna
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- tabbr
Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon?
- Tim Tyler
very good!
- standin
Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more?
- Matt Cutts
two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;)
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
We are there, in the battle against Twitter
- Michael_techie
Best search engine became better :)
- Chirag Chamoli
I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
It's amazing!
- Lizunlong
I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is great. Well done, guys.
- James Myatt
Awesome :D
- Praveen Vasudev
great!!
- Mike Chelen
Creating Order from Chaos with Evernote - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
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Love this application.
- Tehane Wurdeman
Evernote is getting more and more positive buzz. Well deserved...
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Evernote... ahh if only drag and drop on tags would work. (...and that web-clipping thing retrieved my tags too) : P ...
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Was asked on camera if microblogging is the future of online conversation, video here: http://ping.fm/TSIqi
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Official Google Blog: Let's make the web faster. Good discussion topic for Building43. How can we all work together to make the web faster? - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Get rid of Google Analytics :) (actually, you just need to delay load until after the page is finished loading)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul Do pages still load slow if analytics is in the footer instead of the header?
- EricaJoy
Let's remove all this useless design stuff on websites. Remove all flash from the web.
- Charbax
Remove all flash? Errr..
- Johnny
everyone download Google Chrome first!
- iTbay
Erica, putting it in the footer helps a lot, but it will still make the browser animate and potentially delay other js from executing, which will slow the page. External JS and CSS are a big cause of slow web pages.
- Paul Buchheit
Do you think eliminating spam would speed up web traffic? (Kind of like trying to eradicate cockroaches in Texas though)
- RobinDotNet
Get rid of all the hackers and spammers jamming up servers and bandwidth :)
- LPH™ and his dog P™
iTbay: already done that! Paul: we should do a video with you about some of the things you've done at FriendFeed to make this consistently one of the fastest sites I visit.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert I'd watch that.
- EricaJoy
Google needs to add PHP support in App Engine, it'll make all Wordpress blogs, phpbb forums and mediawiki sites faster when hosted for free on that.
- Charbax
Make like the old days ... stop using full URLs internally. (Of course, you 'might' lose a little SEO juice too ?! )
- Charlie Anzman
@robert that would be a great interview with @paul
- andy brudtkuhl
I'd love a tutorial on hacking the Analytics load. It's painful to watch, even in the footer.
- Chris Baskind
Charlie, the feeds need to have full URLs, and it's a pain to use different URLs in pages vs their feeds.
- Bruce Lewis
Yes, I'd like to see an interview with Paul re FF's development. Maybe throw in a few questions about the language(s) and other technologies they use in developing the site.
- Diego Barros
I'd like to know what they use to decode incoming emails. My use of metamail+lv is a hack, and I'd like to know what cleaner tools are out there.
- Bruce Lewis
Regarding Analytics slowing down page loads, I was surprised to see that it's not always its fault. Per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu... the status bar in Firefox does not always blame the correct resource when the page is hanging.
- Mihai Parparita
i'm trying desperately not to be cynical and cringe at all the shiny happy people in the video telling us that they just want to make the web faster because, golly, that's what people want and it will make the world a better place, tra la la -- without mentioning how it might benefit Google financially ("Google Internet! Now with more ad impressions per second!") the Steve Souders quote...
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- Karim
i think there are a lot of good technical ideas already around (e.g. jumbo frames, IPv6) but getting everyone to implement them is another story. so i'm not sure how much "making the web faster" boils down to political consensus-making on existing solutions, and how much of it involves radical changes like replacing TCP/IP.
- Karim
Paul: I just have "0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com" in my hosts file
- Gabe
Making the web faster is a result of building proper web sites. The subject should be "Let's build better websites so they perform faster".
- Gilbert Harding
Ah, but what constitutes "proper" or "better"? There are a lot of subtle details to page (let alone ajax/dhtml) optimization that are not well known, and plenty that is only now becoming well-understood by those of us who deal with it daily. The tools and techniques that Souders and many others are working on should help everyone who cares about making their sites/apps faster. @Karim:...
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- Joel Webber
Paul, Robert: I'd love to hear about the things that Paul and his team have done to make friendfeed super fast. I'm currently trying to grab statuses, then send and receive information from at least a couple of other places in real time. Is language choice important (current plan: scala in lift)?
- Mark Essel
Joel -- if the justification for a faster internet is "glaringly obvious," then why does Google need to mention it on their blog? not only does it deserve a mention, but *research,* quote: "...our research indicates that people prefer faster, more responsive apps." File under "Duh?" News Flash: Google Research discovers people do not like eating excrement. Film at 11. if they bothered...
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- Karim
Amen to those asking for less use of scripting and GA in particular. Scripts are dangerous and GA slows us down. I run noscript on my machine and deny GA as a matter of routine. when I encounter a machine with scripting tuned on I notice the impact on page load times. If hosts provided decent, powerful and pretty stats packages as a matter of course site owners would not have to use GA. @gabe: Null routing google-analytics.com FTW !
- Mark Zip
Off-domain ad networks are even worse than GA.
- Gabe
Distributed processing methods such as HTML5 in-browser database, similar to Google Gears, can make a user's experience less dependent on central server performance and network latency.
- Mike Chelen
Gadget Porn Alert: Palm Pre Calendar Demo (new) -sigh- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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If the Pre works as fast in practice as it does in that demo--I am IN! I am sick of waiting on my (slow) iPhone all the time ( a geeky complaint perhaps--but true.)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
If the demo was of the data, I would have my doubts, but it's the calendar. I'm optimistic, since information is goign to be stored in the cloud as opposed to locally (like the iPhone). I can't WAIT.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
For me--the Calendar is a very big deal. Palm was always great at it--my biggest iPhone gripe has been the slow (local) calendar.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Did you see the accordion like motions? I like it more than uber scrolling like on the iPhone.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, agreed--Palm totally 'gets' calendars--and the whole PDA thing in general.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Jeez, I should hope so - they've been in the business forever haha! RIM should be worried, not Apple.
- Mona Nomura
yeah, thats pretty retarded stuff. love the dragging on the calender. nice improvement over iphone. this thing is really well thought out...
- tommy payne
from twhirl
Dragging appointments on a palm device--a great feature that Palm has had for YEARS.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
LOVE that - makes life so much simpler. Right now I'm using Google calendar because I REFUSE to use MobileMe. GoogleCalendar (love Google) but the unintuitiveness makes me want to Hulk Smash my screen. And can you imagine? No more cables. No more synching. Omg, I am getting excited.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I love how ex-Apple employees are kicking Apple's ass in it's own game. These guys should start an Industrial Design school. They could teach the world a thing or two. Like I said earlier - http://is.gd/jF31 - Pre/Nova UI > iPhone UI.
- vijay
this really shows you what's the value of running multiple apps at the same time. The home button UI on the iphone sucks for multitasking.
- Davide D'Incau
Mona: when you say "since information is going to be stored in the cloud" where is it stored? At Palm? Your Google Calendar?
- Benjamin Golub
after watching this video it made me wonder why nobody has incorporated flight status into calendars? if we can bring in real time weather, why cant we check on flight status and make the necessary adjustments automatically?
- Chad Stoller
When that guy was typing "andr" I immediately thought of Android
- Alfredo
Benjamin: For the Pre, it would be Palm. @Chad - That is a very good question.
- Mona Nomura
While the Palm intrigues me, I'm more interested to see WebOS on a multitude of Palm devices. A Centro or Treo Pro-type device? A horizontal as opposed to portrait QWERTY? WebOS has some real potential behind it.
- Mike Nayyar
Exactly, Mike - I've been saying this from day one. I am excited for Nova, not inclusive to the Pre. If you look at Palm's job search site, they have tons of hardware related engineering opportunities - http://www.palm.com/us... I can't wait to see the next form factor!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
They could even put WebOS on a netbook and call it Foleo 2 ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, idea: Asus is releasing a touchscreen EeePC, right? Put WebOS on that...whoo nelly.
- Mike Nayyar
I love the palm pre and I found a great Palm Pre porn site at http://www.ipinkvisualpass.com
- Suzie Pie
I'm a fan of both the Pre and iPhone, but note that part of the Pre's performance comes from the significantly faster CPU and more system RAM. They're the same specs the new iPhone runs, so they can both be quite snappy. That said, AnandTech did some real benchmarks and the Pre needs some optimization. The iPhone outclasses a bit in web surfing, but a LOT when it comes to app startup times.
- David Chartier
In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World - http://www.sysomos.com/insidet...
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Detailed stats and graphs
- ian kennedy
10 Twitter Best Practices for Brands - http://mashable.com/2009...
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COOL: Google Offers Free Business Dashboard for SMBs http://smallbiztrends.com/2009...
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Google Translator Toolkit launched - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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"Google Translator Toolkit is a new tool being launched today to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I implemented translation memory, etc, for FriendFeed's translation system. Wonder if we can use this easily for our next round of translations. No time to look into it this week, but if anyone outside of Google uses it, let me know how easy it is to integrate with external projects.
- Bret Taylor
Impressive
- τorƍue
awesome!
- Susan Beebe
Sweet!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Bret, I'm not entirely convinced by the translation interface. And depending on the format of your source files, it might not be suitable at all. Unless I'm missing something here, something really important to note is that there's currently no way to download or export your TM from Google Translator Toolkit. If that is indeed the case, I can't imagine they'll get away with that for very long though.
- Tony Ruscoe
from fftogo
I still find it easier to translate using trados on word. Old habits die hard..But given enough time, we might say bye bye to trados and its €xxxx license fees..(Lacks .xls and xml support right now)
- Kenan Atalay
One More Name and this Logo will Implode - Brand New - http://www.underconsideration.com/brandne...
Alex Hammer, Renchin(Reina)Wang, Bindu Reddy and 39 other people liked this
Shared for the title alone :)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Beats PricewaterhouseCoopers by 2 chars. Impressive.
- Richard Chen
starting to sound like a law firm
- ian kennedy
As long as they're bringing all these names together, they might as well put the only surname of the group last. MorganStanleyBarneySmith.
- Justin Whittaker
MSBS
- τorƍue
WHA??? which one is correct? LOL
- Susan Beebe
I vote they just merge 'em all together and become Blarney Citi.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Good suggestion, Tina, and closer to the truth!
- asiriusgeek
The only good thing about whatever they do is that the domain name will probably be available. :) Although I must say, Conan's "youtwitface" (merger of YouTube, Twitter and FaceBook) is a classic!
- Gil Francisco III
They should just go old school and leave it as "ShittyBank"
- Ana
When I did a product demonstration at the Navy Exchange store a few years back, they made a sign for me that announced that I would be there. It read: 'This Weekend - From Zojirushi - MORGAN STANLEY, National Sales Manager, Retail Division - Product Demonstrations - Give-a-Ways! Sat, Sun 9am - 4pm...my name is morgan HALEY....i have photos - i'll bring them to work tomorrow and can share them if there is interest.....ah, the joy of having a 2 girls names as my full name - and i'm a dude.... ;-)
- Morgan Haley
You can e-mail me directly to louisgray@friendfeed.com and they end up in my Direct Messages box. You can even DM yourself...
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Don't forget share@friendfeed.com goes directly to your stream
- Jesse Stay
And, as Louis showed here, you can send it to your stream, and other individuals to "tag" them and ensure they see it.
- Jesse Stay
That's cool!
- Robert Scoble
wow!
- michael sean wright
I use this to send photos to my stream from my iPhone
- Jesse Stay
Didn't know about this, pretty cool.
- 321
The email subject line becomes the ff post title, and the email body (optional) becomes the first comment!
- Micah Wittman
Micah, attach a photo (or multiple photos) and they get attached as photos.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Oh, absolutely. My mentions were just an added point to the discussion of sending pics by email :)
- Micah Wittman
how does share@friendfeed.com know which feed to add to?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, I think it picks your default feed, but I'm not 100% sure. You get an e-mail back with a confirmation link that you can then approve to go out to your stream.
- Jesse Stay
Does this mean you can now DM any of your subscriptions even if they're not subscribed to you? That's cool. Is there a setting to block people from DMing you if you're not subscribed to them? [Edit - That doesn't seem to be the case, actually. I can still only DM users that are also subscribed to me. So was this just a reminder post or is there something new here?]
- Tony Ruscoe
Last time I tried attaching a photo in an email to FF, it didnt work. I will try again. I believe it was user error. so if you are subscribed to me, you may see a few test posts. It's not critical as Twitpic and Flickr photo uploads work fine from my BB Curve. (Picasa uploads link the entire photo-album....maybe more user error) -- no one ever dm's me....
- Mike Nencetti
send pics to username+remotekey@mail2ff.com (works great, I just did it this morning)
- MLx
MLx it also works natively in FriendFeed by sending to share@friendfeed.com. I use that all the time now.
- Jesse Stay
MLx, you beat me to it! I've sent numerous pictures of ducklings from my iPhone. Works like a champ!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Hey, awesome info thanks (haven't spent near enough time tooling up my ff syntactical skills ;)
- Mark Essel
Mein gott...we work at FriendFeed!!!!
- Mike Nayyar
*hands Louis a massive late pass* :) http://ff.im/2s7GS
- chrisofspades
Bret's official post: http://ff.im/2sgJZ
- chrisofspades
How can I get one of those email addresses?
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
you have them Jannifer
- Mark Essel
yeah Louis, chrisofspades said what I was thinking. This is cool but it has been out for a while already. :D
- Josh Haley
http://friendfeed.com/share... has all of the details :)
- Benjamin Golub
Hmmm, so do I even need email anymore? I could get all my mail here. The question is...will it blend? I mean, can I reply?
- CAJ, somewhere else
I can't seem to get this to work for my account sadly.
- Brandon Mendelson
@Brandon Send an e-mail to bjmendelson@friendfeed.com, it should work with all accounts, nothing to set up. If it doesn't work then you could contact FF and see if they can fix it.
- 321
For my Blackberry Curve, the email body is not the first comment, when I email to share@friendfeed.com
- Mike Nencetti
Well, that is I was telling on Facebook... do you work on Friendfeed?
- HECTOR ARTURO
Thanks for the reminder.. I already use the comment by e-mail feature of FriendFeed but forgot to try these other e-mail features. They seem great, as usual ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Awesome, Louis, you're the ultimate
- Juvenn Woo
from fftogo
I know it's late (theoretically). Note there are still folks who haven't figured out the hide function. So when it came up today, I thought I would mention it. :)
- Louis Gray
@321 Thank you. Still can't get it to work but I will ask the FF folks. It's probably something I'm overlooking in my settings.
- Brandon Mendelson
hey louis- im a bit confused about this new friendfeed email thing becuz of the direct message limit that friendfeed imposes... i just forwarded a long email to myself using my friendfeed email address but the only thing that came thru was the subject heading.. so this email thing isnt that effective yet.. right?
- Jason Pollock
Jesse: I'm emailing a photo from mobile to share@friendfeed.com (have also used username+remotekey@mail2ff.com.) Subject (title) and body (comment) arrives fine but the pic doesnt display. Mobile to Gmail is fine as pic displays in sent items but the Gmail to ff route seems to be a problem any ideas?
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Peter I think pictures aren't working right now on FriendFeed via e-mail. They used to work but aren't working for me right now.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse have been in contact with Tudor Bosman about this and he has picked up that some phones send the image with a content-type of application/octet-stream instead of image/jpeg. He says they will add a workaround for this later tonight or tomorrow.
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Danny Sullivan on Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem - http://shar.es/oD7x
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spoofing a RT is pretty low
- ian kennedy
Gizmodo - First Man In Line for Palm Pre Shows Commitment, Mild Insanity - Camping out - http://gizmodo.com/5274174...
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"Given the possible shortage of Pres at launch, we expected to see a little bit of camping out in line. We just didn't expect it so early—the Pre doesn't debut until Saturday, which means this guy's got an awful lot of time on his hands"
- CW™
from Bookmarklet
In another time in my life I might do the same thing.. but I GOT A LIFE AND Can't afford the damn thing now. :( **pout**
- CW™
He has a sign that says "First"
- τorƍue
lol, τorƍue.
- edythe
Big deal. I'll wait until there's a flood of used Pres on eBay for under $25.
- Morton Fox
"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original" - http://www.ted.com/index...
Liza, April Buchheit, Daniel Rowley and 133 other people liked this
it's a brilliant speech eh? Blew me away...i'm leaving.
- Zee.
Thanks for sharing this - brilliant. I just sent it to the board of my kids' high school.
- Leo Laporte
Here is a MUST SEE TED talk that is only 5 minutes long. Why US media is dropping the ball. EYE OPENING http://www.ted.com/index...
- Mike Bracco
wow. tx for sharing this Paul
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
I met Ken Robinson while working at Microsoft and the dude was inspiring to hear speak. One thing that's cool about having kids is to see how they learn: my son learns by trial and error. He tries things hundreds, if not thousands, of times before he figures out what makes them tick. We give them permission to learn that way because they are babies. Too bad we stop being able to learn that way when we're older.
- Robert Scoble
Are you kidding. I've got my I was wrong speech prepared and in my suit jacket pocket at all times =)
- Micah Wittman
that was great.
- Laura Norvig
Paul, wouldn't it be a good time to consider embedding TED's videos? ;-))
- ianf ⌘
Really, Zee? You are not prepared to be wrong [5:44 into Robinson's talk], as this proves <http://ff.im/3dtfY>
- ianf ⌘
I try hard to be open to being wrong. I don't always manage it but at least I give it a hellva try
- Steven Hodson
Being prepared to be wrong implies being prepared to admit it publicly, and without prompts. This is a TALL order for most humanity...
- ianf ⌘
A ted classic. I never get tired of Sir Ken's talk. I have walked in godknows how many times. Always use it whenever I introduce a newbie to Ted.com
- Edward Harran
Interesting talk. I feel like I've been living in a hole (actually, have just been living in Japan!) but what's TED? I'm sure I'll get the idea if I browse around the site but it's interesting to ask here on FriendFeed.
- Rick Cogley
TED is great.
- james
Wow--good shit! The bit about Will Shakespeare had me in tears.
- thepete
Will S. would have instantly choked on a piece of medium-rare mutton had he heard you refer to him as "Will."
- ianf ⌘
This was one of the first TED talks to be published online with help from Google, something like 2 or 3 years ago. I remember it vividly, since I totally and absolutely agree with what Ken Robinson has to say. Remains one of my favorite talks. Ever ;)
- Mustafa K. Isik
play is fearless= adult says = '...nobody knows what God looks like.' girl says 'They will in a minute!'
- Lane Rapp
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