I worked with a woman once (late 80s) whose Megabucks numbers won in a neighboring state. she thought she won for several hours. NFC. - Anthony Citrano
"Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone, where a 3rd party server can ping Apple's notification service to your device. It can push badges, sounds, and custom textual alerts (like how SMSs look)." - Jamie
TWiT Live didn't do so well. It crashed at 6250 viewers and it's still down. Wonder if Leo will be staying with Stickam or if he will switch to Ustream. - Mike Doeff
Friendfeed is missing photos though. GIz is doing an awesome job with photos. - Steve Rubel
Why do I say that the World Wide Talk Show is on FriendFeed? Now you know. - Robert Scoble
The app coverage is taking way tooooooo long :( - DC Crowley
mike, ustream can't handle 6250 viewers either... it can barely handle 250 when Calacanis orders his army to come watch him order lunch. - Matt Shaulis
ustream been fine for me since the start, but I think Mac just had a dig at MS - Rif Kiamil
Mac now is hosted a push service via them selfs.. aka AOL v Apple.com => PUSH TO your iPHONE.. via wi-fi and cell network - Rif Kiamil
supporting MS Office documents on the iPHONE - Rif Kiamil
now has parental controls, your mum can take u off youtube - Rif Kiamil
MacroumorsLive is my place, due to a problem with my DSL line, I am getting 135Kbits until my line resyncs (!!!!), so I can't handle refreshing gizmodo every 10 secs for new "high res" photos! :) - Ashley Williams via Alert Thingy
japan's and chinese support, and you can draw the chinese symbols with your fingers.. "one the benefits of not having plasic keys" - Rif Kiamil
has Steve said anything yet about being able to shoot / stream video (other than the videochat)? with the new phone? - Andy Sternberg via Alert Thingy
Is anyone using it? We want URLs damn it, URLs!!! - Robert Scoble
FF is my main source, impressed with Twitter as well.. - Joe Dawson
i feel nervous. video support is a dealmaker/breaker for me. everybody else can build you apps, Steve, what can you do for me?!? make me wait till Christmas? please NO! - Andy Sternberg
Britney: still is freaking fast here. I've reloaded at least 300 times in past hour. - Robert Scoble
Even on a 1Mbits/s it's freaking fast, yes. - directeur
I'm listening to the live UStream feed and watching Engadget and MacRumors - Francine Hardaway
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - krz9000
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris
My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana McCall
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana McCall
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - Here's... possible248!
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson
You do realize tho, that the best way to call someone a cunt is to phrase it like a question. "Hey, Ev, is your mother a cunt?" and then it gets linked on Techmeme or something. /snicker - Eric Rice
Yet another instance where a "Like" is not really the most appropriate signal of interest in the content, but I suppose I really liked your summation of the events. Good stuff, Thomas - you continue to be a champion for quality, effective community management within social media circles. :) - Nathaniel Payne
I'm really down on Twitter after hearing about all this last night. Evan Williams' Twitter responses just come across as obnoxious in my opinion: http://twitter.com/ev/statuses... I'd expect more from someone high up at the company concerned than just weighing in on the debate like that. - Mike
Ok I had to force myself to stop hitting the 'like' .Anyhoot, how about an analogy of this sort- if JohnMcCain can call his wife one (in public) and get away with it. Then Thomas can call Evs moms whatever and the same will hold true with Confessions and Ariel ... The prime issue here is that $$$ and biz is gets higher value then simple true values themselves. This is a very important conversation - the value systems of communitys are at stack ! - Peter Dawson
Note, I'm definitely *not* calling Ev's mom a cunt. I'm just posing the question. We all know that Ariel was called a cunt and a lot worse. Is there a double standard here or would Ev treat his mother the same way? Sometimes I think it's helpful in cases like this to think about how we'd feel if the person being harassed were our mother, daughter, girlfriend or wife. - Thomas Hawk
Not that it makes it "right" but isn't it true that a TOS defines what a company CAN do to remove accounts, not what they MUST do? - Mike Doeff
Mike, sure, the TOS is open to interpretation. From Ev's tweet they don't consider calling someone a cunt harassment apparently. I'm just curious if he'd consider it harassment if it were his mom. Irrespective of "can" vs. "must" Twitter led people to believe that they'd handle harassment like Flickr does and now they are not abiding by it after the fact. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I have to ask, and not to be a jerk, but more to understand where you think the line is drawn., When IS it OK to call someone out publicly, by name, and call them a vulgar and or derogatory term? The Twitter TOS are drawn from the Flickr TOS, yet this post not only calls out the person, but their name, address, and phone#. http://tinyurl.com/ypq3q3 I understand it could be argued that it's your opinion of the guy, but one might argue the same here. Would Flickr be justified in removing your post? - cmiper
cmiper, good conversation point! I think calling someone an asshole once (who assaulted you physically) and in an editorial context is different than the type of attacks that Ariel repeatedly had to endure over a 2 year time frame. If I called Anto Kamarian an asshole repeatedly with my Flickr account for a 2 year time frame I'd say he had a case. If I call him one once in the context of a story about how he assaulted me I think it's something different entirely. - Thomas Hawk
Brian, I don't think the issue here is simply calling someone a cunt. I think the issue is the repeated series of harassment over the course of 2 years. You're missing the bigger picture. Simply calling someone a "cunt" once is not necessarily harassment in my opinion. Repeatedly stalking someone on Twitter as she was is. Context matters. - Thomas Hawk
I was just pointing out how ludicrous your picture post and its provocative title was. I would like to verify the facts before jumping on the Twitter is satan bandwagon. Other than Ariel's blog is there confirmation of this harrassment somewhere else? Twitter has stated that they don't consider Ariel's case harrassment. So who are we to believe here? The fact that Ariel was called a cunt is not enough in my mind. - Brian Sullivan
There's no question about this in my mind. There *needs* to be some way to block Tweets from particular users. - Ryne Nelson
Brian, Ariel says that the harassment happened multiple times and documents it going back to June 2007. She also documents that Flickr actually *did* take action on it. If Ariel did not have this happen to her I'm curious as to why Flickr took action. If the facts are not as she states, Ev has had every opportunity to explain why. The fact is that she documents many of the cases whereas he simply says it's not harassment. I'm all for his side of the story, but where is it? - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, understood, I think we are somewhat in agreement to this point. But, now what if you called him an asshole over 20 times on three different websites? - cmiper
cmiper, I think if I called him an asshole over 20 times that would probably qualify as harassment. I still think that I should have a right to do that on my own domain for instance, but I wouldn't expect to be call him an asshole over and over and over again repeatedly 20 times on Flickr, nor on Twitter under their current TOS. - Thomas Hawk
Evan Williams responded to this post in the comments section on my blog. You can read more on his perspective there. - Thomas Hawk
I think the analogy Thomas makes about thinking about female loved ones is a good one. The other way I looked at it was to ask myself if anyone repeatedly swore and made derogatory remarks at another person in a corporate environment, would it be considered acceptable? Most likely it would be considered bullying or harassment and HR would soon sort it out. I've seen people fired on the spot for doing it once in a public meeting. - Sally Church
It is clear that this person is harassing someone. For Twitter to step back now and say "Oh, did I say that?" about their TOS just makes me feel like they are punking out. However, it is hard to get over the fact that this is happening to an employee of a competitor. - Yolanda
Yolanda, but doesn't the fact that it's happening to a competitor make it that much worse? My point is would Ev and Twitter allow this to happen to a competitor while they wouldn't allow it to happen to their mothers, daughters, wives, etc.. Ariel is somebody's little girl. I know that may sound cheesy, but if someone did this to one of my little girls I'd be pissed. Ev still hasn't answered the question on how he'd handle this if it was his mom or wife Sara. - Thomas Hawk
Personally how I'd handle this if I were Twitter is to say, yeah we made a mistake. We should have taken action by deleting the account harassing Ariel and we didn't. It's now been deleted. We're new and learning. We've deleted the account, are changing our TOS and either will/or won't allow this kind of thing in the future. - Thomas Hawk
Yes, that's exactly how they SHOULD have handled it. I really don't understand their punking out on their own TOS and throwing words out in the air thinking that they are making sense. Was it the Thompson Twins that had that song "Lies, Lies, Lies. Yeah!"? Now its "Words, words, words, yeah!". - Yolanda
Does the "block" feature on Twitter not work? - Kenneth LeFebvre
I am (un)happy with Ev' response" You'll note that Ariel didn't put up any of the screenshots she took of this content. (kosmar: Have you don't the search on Summize? Can you find something? Because I cannot.) " - thats so so lame.. @ev, if you really wanted to see the perps scaper here it is !! http://kosso.co.uk/twitter/con... - Peter Dawson
Kenneth: yes, and no. You can block a specific twitter ID, but in some of these cases individuals just keep creating new IDs. In one that affected me, the person created over a dozen different accounts. To my knowledge, when it became outright threats is when Twitter finally took action. - Todd Jordan
Kenneth - Adding to what Todd Jordan said about blocking... There is a bug (acknowledged by Twitter) in the Track feature that is resulting in track results from blocked users coming through. For example, if I am tracking my name or user id using Track, I might see insults from people who I have blocked. Twitter says they are going to fix this but no timeline has been provided yet. http://snurl.com/27s01 - Mike Doeff
block is not any help here. insults are insults also if you blocked them. and google will find them if anyone searches for your name, right? - kosmar
Peter, your deduction leads to the name of Jonathan Kossmann. But I'm not sure this is right. My understanding would be that Jonathan merely maintained an account that allowed people to post anonymously to Twitter -- not that he was the harasser himself. His site does reference though that he kept server logs of who posted using that account. He very well may know who it is or at least their IP address. - Thomas Hawk
lmao I love how every 20 minutes or so this will pop back up to the top of my feed - Marco
From the "Confessions" site: "This account was set up as a bit of fun. People have used it in ways which were not intended. Therefore I have decided to shut the service down. All IP addresses are naturally stored in the server logs, as with any other web server on the internet. Now. Be good. And I'll see you on Judgement Day!" - Thomas Hawk
Kosmar: Google crawls Direct Messages? Broadcasting to the public timeline and sending direct messages are very different issues, IMO. I was under the impression we're talking specifically about DMs, in this case. If you can see DMs in Google, I'd say that's an issue that should probably be addressed, anyway... - Kenneth LeFebvre
“Regarding the 3G iPhone hype. (1) We all knew it was coming (2) We knew it was coming on or near WWDC. So when Gizmodo get's a magical inside source that states it's coming on June 9th, I can't help but call it linkbat. </rant>”
The tutorial is missing a great feature, though. Highlight text from the article before you use the bookmarklet and it will "quote" it automatically in your share. Nice for picking a part of an article as a snippet. I'll sometimes come in right behind the post and add another comment if needed. - Vince DeGeorge
COOOL idea! Thank you Robert! nice add :-) It's now in my browser! - Susan Beebe
One thing that I don't like about it is that if you want to share a photo, it has to already be on a page. You can't just copy the photo from the direct link to the image. - Corvida
Agree with Corvida. If the URL is of an image, you can't share it. But I love the bookmarklet. - Mo Jawhari
BUG (Mac OS X 10.5.2 Safari 3.0.4): The bookmarket will exit from Picasa back to the first picture in your set IF you don't click fast enough to save the entry. I was getting 80% of my bookmarklets disappearing until I figured out that it was a race. - Mitchell Tsai
Nice tip Vince. I'll try it. - Results: Sometimes it works. - Mitchell Tsai
“I've come to realize that some people are simply not going to make an effort to learn FriendFeed. I'm not going to waste my time with the lazy, stubborn, naysayers. There's plenty of internet out there for you.”
Bwana, that's why we are early adopters. They'll come around eventually. I remember a lot of people bad mouthing Twitter a year ago. Saying it was a "fad", now those same people are all on Twitter. Give it a year, they'll all be on FF next. - Thomas Hawk
And by the time everyone's on FF some early adopters will find new things to well...adopt. It's the way it always is. Hopefully FF will still be able to draw users in by then. - Daniel Spradau
Well I admit that I don't get it yet. I'm finding that I don't have enough time to keep up with FF as well as the few other networks that I belong to but I'm trying. - Vaughn via twhirl
I agree with Mr. Hawk and Mr. Gray. First the early adopters, then the spammers, then the mass market people. I'm sure Yahoo is saying to themselves now, we can do our own Twitter (Yitter?). - Mike Reynolds
hmm. I've learned some of FF. still wonder what/if I missing. I do like, tho. keyboard shortcuts? - rambn
I know many people who use email, yahoo, maybe google and youtube. On youtube they barely now how to hit play. I do not think the masses really care about learning it, even if it would help them. - Rob Diana
Well, if they are not @ lots of social sites (like us crazies) I can understand. Really. But for those of us who are, it brings it all together in a simple, easy to read (and comment) area. - Barbara K. Baker
Ok, I need to re-read my own posts and follow through. I'm going to kick back and enjoy the complaining from the sidelines. - Bwana McCall
FriendFeed seems like one of those thingerate like my grs only the true tech geeks are going to appreciate. I'm trying to imagine someone barely computer-litandmother (who uses it to write email and play Yahoo games) using FF and I can't see it. - Shawn Farner via twhirl
Ok, anytime a new alert goes off, Twhirl totally butchers what I'm writing :( - Shawn Farner via twhirl
That's a big reason why I prefer the website for FF now. The clients still need work. - Bwana McCall
Connecting Friends up is getting hot. I'll be at Google on Monday night to cover this stuff as it's announced. - Robert Scoble
Google may be more restrictive with your data, but that is good for your privacy. Some people won't like Facebook just giving your info away and trusting the site to play nice with it. FB certainly seems to have the upper hand in terms of users though. - Tanath
“I wish there was a way that I could see all of the people who are subscribed to me that I am not subscribed to yet on FriendFeed. I can see everyone who is subscribed to me, but there is no way to filter it that I know of to show who I still might want to subscribe to.”
You can do what Scoble did and just post an open request. For what it's worth, you're not subscribed to me. :) - Nathaniel Payne
I look at it as a recurring process of seeing people's comments, what they blog about, what they share/bookmark. I've also used the friends-of-friends feature a lot for finding new subscriptions. It's a slower process, but each subscription is based on something that clicked with me. A good way to build out your subscriptions. - Hutch Carpenter
Mouse over their name and you can see if they you are subscribed to them yet, or they to you. - Robert Scoble
good point, ff lacks some sort of mass division of people into subscibed/unsubscribed, just as with following/following you. - Iain Baker
Yeah, just like the glowing comment icon, it would be neat if there was a visual cue when someone commented or liked something who was subscribed to you but you were not subscribed to (and/or vice versa). Was the english that I just wrote? - felix
@Nathaniel, thanks! just added you. Scoble I think you are right. That's probably the best way to do that for now, but what a pain. And what happens 3 weeks later when I want to do it again. - Thomas Hawk
Well you can cross me off the list, you're subscribed to me. - Jason Nielubowicz
Sounds like we need something similar to Twitter Karma for FriendFeed. - Morton Fox
Ok, I've subscribed to everyone who commented in this thread now. If there is anyone else who is subscribed to me that I haven't subscribed to yet let me know and I'll add you. - Thomas Hawk
One would have thought this would have happened a long time ago, rather than to keep going on and exhaust both parties both mentally and financially. - cmiper
I find it hard to believe HRC will concede until the DNC at the very earliest. Her self-interest needs outweigh the Democratic party at-large. - Scott Jarkoff
As an outsider....she looks a bit mental doesn't she. That forced smile creeps me out. I'm sure she actually very nice....but eeegggghhhh. - Chris Nixon via twhirl
Yes Chris, the media always picks the *best* photos the can find to represent her. ;-) - cmiper
This just makes me very sad today Right now I only see 1 way I will not vote for McCain in November - sorry, there is just something about Obama I do not trust, and I hope in the next few years I'm not sitting here saying, at least I didn't vote for him just like I didn't vote for his predecessor. :( And, I can assure you I am not the only one who feels this way. - Paula Hawk
I know what you mean Paula. How can you trust someone who refuses PAC and special interest money, has the courage not to pander to voters with a bogus gas tax repeal, and opposed an immoral war from the very start. This guy sounds dangerous. He might actually do something in office. - Leo Laporte
Love the sarcasm, Leo, allows me to see you in a new light and reinforces to me that I've been right all along to keep my viewpoints to myself. So sorry to have gotten involved in this HRC bashing. :( - Paula Hawk
Obama is the only one I trust to do the right thing. HRC will just say anything to get the vote, but she'll continue the same failed politics. McSame will just give us 4 more years of Bush's politics. - Mike Cohen via Alert Thingy
Mike, I see your point with McCain, but in my eyes it is him or throw my vote completely away on Nader.... Those same failed politics you are speaking of worked very well in the 1990s - for those of you old enough to recall, who did we all say was running the White House at that time anyhow? I was working with the federal government during this time, and I recall the amazement at the budget simply balancing! In an article that I read summarizing Obama's appearance on Meet the Press over this past weekend, the first point that was made was that Obama claimed he has the DNA to be the better president, because he is descended from both Caucasion and African ancestors. What kind of crap is that? I couldn't read any further. I only stopped to read it because I knew I needed to get used to the idea that he was going to beat HRC - but no, I can't vote for someone who is going to say that their ANCESTRY makes them a better candidate. - Paula Hawk
I'm sorry you see my post as "Hillary bashing." In fact, it is not. I am sad to see HRC go. I would have gladly voted for her had she won the nomination. My real problem is with the notion that since, for some undefined reason you "don't trust" Obama, you would consider casting a vote for McCain. Set aside McCain's self-professed i
