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In a few years we will all have one of these in our kitchen! - Joe Dawson

damn i'm living near switzerland, i'll be one of the first to be sucked oO - TiTi

I'm disappointed that there has been no real action, we want meltdown... - Joe Dawson

are there any news? maybe we are already in a black hole and don't know about it yet? - Timo Heuer

I reckon it's all gone wrong, Stephen Hawkins has merged with the LHC and is now destroying France as we speak... - Joe Dawson

Been using this for the past six months: it's great to see where all that time is going. Takes a lot of maintenance at the beginning as you tag things, though. - Mark Trapp

I use this but I cringe when I check my statistics. I need to send less time on Friendfeed and more time working! - JP Landry

I've been using it since it first came out. To me it's still missing some critical things to make it useful for me. It's not fine-grained enough for me. - Rob Neville via twhirl

Desktop client (something like woopra has!) would have been much better! I hate browsing web for the statistics.. - Jigar Mehta

猪刚烈！ - K.D.

这只猪也太爱干净了吧？ - kukoo

lol. seriously! :P - Dan Hsiao

Dilbert creator Scott Adams is one of the smartest brains around. Great Humor. - Muthu Ramadoss

Bret, that's exactly what I thought when I saw the Dilbert strip. - Anne Bouey

@Bret and Anne. Some of the best comedy mimics/copies stuff in the real world. Why is that disturbing? - Simon

Like - more than just hitting 'like' - Charlie Anzman

you're close but there are still a couple things throwing errors from what i can gather - first is those ampersands. - MG Siegler

I added this to my template, but don't see anything. Could it be because I'm running Disqus? - Louis Gray

it didn't throw XML errors for you Louis? - MG Siegler

I haven't seen any. I'm posting again. - Louis Gray

It works! See it here: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

ooh very cool louis, not sure why i'm still getting XML errors, i'll keep plugging away at it later - MG Siegler

silly me, it was the greater than and less than signs, duh. anyways still not quite there with it working yet, but no more errors :) - MG Siegler

OK, I'm convinced ... trying it in an hour - Charlie Anzman

boom. got it. i'll post on the fix later on. check it out. http://www.parislemon.com/2008... - MG Siegler

Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

i am still seeing a conflict with linkbacks i'll work more on it later - MG Siegler

hmmm expanded the widgets and all and I didn't find any of these lines, I think I've just got some many tweaks to the base code - BCK

pretty sure a limitation here is that they have to be recent comments on friendfeed (so they're in your feed), is that that same with the wordpress plug-in? - MG Siegler

Didn't realize that this would work, even if you have Disqus. Will have to try it out. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Yeah - the RSS and JSON has a history limitation, which is why I'm trying to work on a server side solution. It's a bit of a pain, because it means stuff has to get imported to a database. I'd much rather be able to make queries to FF's db thru the api (by the muid?), because I really don't want to maintain another database that mirrors theirs. Seems sorta silly. Not to mention I'm not as good at creating good DBs as them. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Rizzn - For sure, the best solution would be if FriendFeed did this themselves... - Pat Hawks

I believe you can find a greasemonkey script that does this... http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Phil Crissman

I agree! but, ideally, I'd love to be able to expand AND collapse them, so I can see what it is, but collapse it back to hide the really long, ugly ones. - Kenneth LeFebvre

Summize.com has the best implementation of this IMHO. - Daniel Shaw

The "expand" trick that Summize uses would be greatly appreciated - Jamie

Turn on tinyurl preview? - Bwana McCall

What would we learn from this sort of timeline? - Brent Newhall

When Scoble is sleeping or eating BBQ like I am now. - Robert Scoble

I CAN HAS PONY? - Karim

I think better threading on FriendFeed is further down the line. Just not TOO far I hope. - CannonGod via twhirl

I love the networked thing, click here, oh comments went there follow them, hey! nice post there! It's an island in the web - directeur

gives Plurk an ultimatum: become useful or the girl dies. - Noah Carter

I'm already sad for the girl - directeur

Sure a timeline in FF would look cool, but I am still to get the real use of one in FF - Murali

@Brent I don't think we'd learn much but how our days go. To me that's a pretty cool thing to see. - Erica Baker

Trent: Arrington doesn't even use Firefox 3.0 (he admitted such tonight). Why do we want him here? - Robert Scoble

Yes!..Mike will come along with time as FriendFeed becomes the place to be. Its called the resistance trap of the first impression - Joao

Robert: yeah, I saw the post about Arrington not using FF3...what the heck does he use, then? FF2 has become unusable...Safari? Not IE...that would shatter my faith in you A-Listers... - Trent Olson

Would be nice to get an RSS feed of these summaries. - Yuval Atzmon

This is really cool feature.... FFmeme ? - Kevin

@Robert I like your response on Arrington's article about the lost database! - Joe Dawson

Kevin, according to Paul and Bret, it's based on your own subscription list, so it's personalized and a bit different than Techmeme. - Mark Trapp

@Kevin - I created a FFmeme "room" on day 1 of the "room" feature as I knew this day would finally come! ha, ha!! http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fr... - Susan Beebe

Arrington is getting technically *slow* !!! Doesn't seem quite as tech savvy as he once was? hmm why? and he's STILL not in FriendFeed actively? c'mon Mike, the water is fine! Hey do you remember the Borg on StarTrek? "Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." ;-) - Susan Beebe

I love how the top 4 "best" stories on my Friendfeed are about this new FriendFeed feature. Echo chamber. - Erick Schonfeld

Erick -- I noticed the same thing :-) - mathew ingram

Dont necessarily believe the stuff about Michael. He would have said that to upset the Mozilla people. He recommended it to me, I've seen him using it, and he's even written publicly that he uses it...indeed it was FF3 that made him switch from Flock. - Duncan Riley

@Duncan - ok that makes way more sense... I always had the *perception* that Arrington was an early adopter, so hearing he was on FF 2 didn't make sense. Thx! - Susan Beebe

See "Search for best 100 articles from the last day (or 2 days, 3 days...)" http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... using "num=100". I'm finding the 100-item search much more interesting than the regular 30-item search. - Mitchell Tsai

Arrington is drinking the same koolaid as Scoble now, it's in the air, it's in the water, it's everywhere - Bob Ngu

Watch out. - Jason Kaneshiro

I do not want Arrington on FF. He is a Flaming Troll. - Igor The Troll

Great product positioning! The addiction of having to read FF would only get worse. - Winston Teo

Igor The Troll : hide him... oh wait, you can't - directeur

How can we hide Michael the Troll if we Trolling him? LOL - Igor The Troll

I see a motion picture in the making! "The Revenge of the Trolls" Starting Michael Arrington playing himself as a Flamming Troll. Will definitively win an Oscar! Ok, here is the plot. All the people who read his blog for years turn into Trolls and eat Michael Alive. LOL - Igor The Troll

LOL - K.D.

Reminds me of that line in Snatch when someone went missing,"Not like it's a set of car keys or pack of cigarettes. What do you mean it's missing?" - Mark Forman

Where in the world is the Twitter database? Is there a reward for it's return? - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

@MM yeah the reward is good karma at Plurk :D - Mark Forman

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sf... - Brandon

@Mark Indeed. Karma is good. I need good Karma. - Michael McGimpsey

Plurk stole it. - Mark Frost

usual-swap copy ready to go. - marty nickel via twhirl

twitter = killer concept, stinky execution - marty nickel via twhirl

I think I saw it floating down the street here in Minnesota. Oh Wait that was my server I'm being told. Hey wait come back here I didn't say you could float away server. - David Newberger via twhirl

OUCH! - Susan Beebe

I think it might be over here? --> http://Twoorl.com - Susan Beebe

Scoble, you're relentless. Not saying you're entirely wrong, but ease up on these guys already. ;) - Greg

more like Plurk destroyed it and have a much better one. - Josh via twhirl

ROFL - Mitchell Tsai

If they can keep track of their things, they don't deserve to have any. ;) - Steven Van Tilburg via twhirl

somebody pass the bong - Duncan Riley

I think I saw it show up on Craigslist... - felix

+1 Like for Duncan's comment - Hutch Carpenter

giggles...somebody load the next cone "with the database"...giggles - martin ollman

Could you describe the database, sir? - Tim Hoeck

Tower? Rackmount? Blade? Dell? Hp? Sun? You gotta give us somthing to look for. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

@martin so smoking hash tables is legal in California? - Karim

Do a post on Twitter Whale Fail http://tinyurl.com/6nwaq3 Dead Fish Floating upside down in the water! - Igor The Troll

pass them a bowl! or better yet tese them with one see if they get it done faster - Charles Rice via twhirl

Captain Ahab, there she blows! The Sinking Twitter Whale! Get you Harpoon ready and strike! I beg you Strike! - Igor The Troll

Oh! I just gave it to a kid to normalize it.. let me see if he is still around! - Jigar Mehta

LOL - Marcello Del Bono

Lets see.. 100th Normal Form??? - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini

Nightly it. - Lizunlong

yep nightly all the way - Dobromir Hadzhiev

thanks, didn't know about nightly, working great now! - Thomas Hawk

Bah, does it still empty it's cache every time firefox crashes or doesnt shut down properly? Only real reason I'm still using Safari - Beau Giles

Still breaking the majority of my essential b5 extensions so I'm in a holding pattern until the authors have a chance to catch up. - Akiva Moskovitz

greasemonkey works great on it so far with nightly. - Thomas Hawk

Crash: Google reader :( - Lizunlong

I'm talking about FriendFeed and Twitter on Gillmor Gang right now. - Robert Scoble

Actually he's been pretty active recently -- he may have been hooked! - Shey

I think Louis really convinced him Shey. It was a dramatic turnaround. - Bwana McCall

Hey Scoble...is Steve getting *the message* ? convert him to FF! he's gotta see the light by now! - Susan Beebe

Why isn't jaiku the place people go to escape twitter? It seems the closest in functionality and has been around a while. - Shamir Katsu

My guess would be the community is not the same -- not to mention the ability to comment on so many different services here on FriendFeed - Shey

I'll keep beating the drum: People like me, the "average user" and not an A-list or B-list blogger aren't big fans of FriendFeed for two reasons: 1) Building a subscriber base to interact with is too much work, and why bother since 25%-50% of the feed updates on here are Twitter related anyhow. 2) Tracking the conversation on here is not as user friendly as it could be. If someone replied to this comment I'm typing right now, I wouldn't know it unless I made it a point to scroll though the list of my... - Michael Beck

Michael: I agree. I think we need a LOT more choices about how to display items and filter them. I have a whole lot of feature requests. That said, if you are seeing 25% items about Twitter you need to stick around a few more hours. I'm only seeing 1% items about Twitter on a typical day. - Robert Scoble

Michael - Both the reasons you listed are actually harder to do on Twitter than FriendFeed. Also, simply because the majority of content that comes through FriendFeed is Twitter posts, doesn't mean that's where the value is. I hide a majority of Twitter posts unless they have comments or likes. FriendFeed requires effort to learn just as Twitter did. Finding the signal is totally up to your participation..and with that, FriendFeed is not for everyone. - Bwana McCall

Shey, I'm still not 100% sold on it, but since giving it a shot again this week I'm warming to it. It's certainly evolved a fair bit - Duncan Riley

...comments and look specifically for content directed at me. I don't have time for that. On Twitter it's just a matter of clicking the "replies" tab and I can see every instance of @hoopadoo. Twitter is successful in its simplicity. FriendFeed is a feed aggregator first and foremost. The fact that some conversation has blossomed on here, great. But as long as Twitter is around (and online) most Twitter users will stick to where they're at. - Michael Beck

I really hate the layout in FF, it takes too much time to faff about on it. I find it easier to follow and contribute to convo on Alert Thingy - Sally Church via Alert Thingy

I enjoy each for its intended purpose, Twitter indeed for its simplicity, and FriendFeed's extension of that simplicity to create a more informative and enjoyable experience. - JodyC via twhirl

Dammit. I hate how twirl mangles replies sometimes. My point was that FF is inherently parasitic. I would never use it the way I use twitter - far, far to much clutter. It is a nice add on to a info stream though. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

Twitter needs one, so when it's down we can all go see if we can crash Facebook's servers by Twittering within FB. - Jack Carlson

Actually there is a Twitter group http://www.facebook.com/group.... - Alex Sauceda via twhirl

If you've written about FriendFeed on your blog, post it on Facebook. http://www.facebook.com/topic.... - Louis Gray

@Robert your over exuberance is showing again :) while I agree it would be an interesting feature I really don't think it rates the level of being a "killer" - Steven Hodson

Stop following me? Are you saying nobody "likes" me or my items, or just that you're too sloooooowwwww.... - Louis Gray

OK, it's merely "a feature that would continue my excitement of FriendFeed and let me hide all the noise." I'd love a view of all FriendFeed items that have gotten a comment in the past hour too. - Robert Scoble

Heck, and while we're at it, I'd like to be able to set the hour. So, I'd like to see all items that have received a like in past six hours. Past 12. Past 24. Past week. - Robert Scoble

Louis: nah, I just know that between you and a few others (me too) that the number of "liked" items is pretty high. And I am too slow compared to Louis. Which is why I want this feature so I can know how many times I'm getting beat. Not to mention that Louis' "likes" and mine have a very high correlation. - Robert Scoble

I don't know. There are lots of "likes" out there! - Morton Fox

So, what you need are all posts that haven't yet gotten a "like." I like that feature request too! - Robert Scoble

I think showing the most liked and commented items in the past 24 hours would be a "killer" feature on FriendFeed. - Lukadium

How about something like Summize for "likes" on FriendFeed (or for Scoble, 2 "likes")? - Mitchell Tsai

I think so. - Juvenn Woo

@paul try Nokia tablet - you WILL see The Diference (disclaimer - i do work in maemo team, but in this case I just only suggest to try) - silpol

I personally think certain sites, such as Reader and Facebook have a much easier interface to navigate on the iPhone/iPod touch - David Adewumi

The "mobile" version generally puts way too little info on each page and makes you click around too much. This is really dumb considering how high latency mobile is -- I want MORE info on each page. The best "mobile" sites are the ones where I can click on a page and spend several minutes reading it. Reddit works well, for example (because it's just their regular site). - Paul Buchheit

Worst of all are the news sites which redirect me to their "mobile portal" when I clicked through on a specific story. - Paul Buchheit

why - qian

To me, the gReader mobile is superior on my iPhone because it will continually format it for mobile reading. While full pages are nice, it's not much fun on an Edge network. I like being able to click to "Read more..." and know that I'm not going to have to wait 10 minutes for a page to load. That said, a perfect RSS feed is where I can read the whole story in my reader and not have to go to another page. CNN has the worst RSS feed as far as I'm concerned. - Vince DeGeorge

opera mini works well for formatting sites on small devices - Kyle Weller

It turns out that I can get to the real reader by going to http://www.google.com/reader/v.... Unfortunately it doesn't work quite right due to that magic scroll bar. It needs a couple of scroll buttons maybe. I like seeing a lot of content on one page though. Scrolling is not a problem, but waiting for a server round-trip is. - Paul Buchheit

I don't mind using http://www.google.com/reader/m.... All it needs is a hotkey for sharing and I'd be happy. - Benjamin Golub

Though I prefer the to use mobile version of gReader on my iPhone I agree with Paul's criticisms. The interface is click happy and woefully underpowered. I've been playing with running everything through a proxy that also modifies the markup and script en route to add the capabilities I want. - Kevin D. White

I love mobile reader... although, it is annoying that it still can't share with note. Also, I wish it would let you know how many unread there are just like the regular version. - felix

Yes; not knowing how many are unread is an issue. I like to clean my inbox; if I don't know how many are unread then I don't know if I have enough time right now to finish. It's the hint of OCD in me. - Benjamin Golub

BTW, we just launched a more AJAX-y Reader iPhone site (in beta) at http://www.google.com/reader/i that brings it closer to the desktop UI. - Mihai Parparita

Cool, I'll have to check it out! iPhone-specific UIs seem to be an exception to the "mobile sites are awful" rule :) - Paul Buchheit

if your touch is jailbroken, you can download "Feed" from the installer.app. It uses the gReader API, and is amazing. I think it was released yesterday, and it's already my favorite 3rd party app. - shaun mclane

They now also email me new "items" from my friends. - Michael Hocter

Their move and lack of innovation for Photographers (both pro and serious amateur) has turned me off. I have started looking at SmugMug and like what I see especially the integration with Lightroom and the ability to create portfolios. Yahoo wants flickr to become Youtube, which it is not. - Jon Erickson via twhirl

you'd think they would have taken two extra minutes to see which type of"item" or "content" and change the names dynamically, tsk tsk. - Phill Price

And my sets of 100% photos tell me that in each of them I've got x number of "things". Why can't flicker be smart enough to call my photos photos if I'm only using it that way instead of sticking me with cold impersonal generic terms. A big turn off. - Thomas Hawk

Those should all be preferences you can set. - TranceMist

TranceMist, you hit the nail on the head. That's *exactly* what they should do. Simply let the user go back to the old language with a preference setting. That's so simple and I never even thought of that. - Thomas Hawk

I noticed the 'things' recently also. Way to generalize something so personal flickr - Sean Davis

The terminology change to include video. - Russellreno