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"Going to MSR will allow me to continue the research I do and it will give me a productive, collaborative, interdisciplinary environment in which to do it. There's amazing work at MSR concerning social media and even those at MSR-NE who are not working on social media are more than open to the topics engendered by it and more than ecstatic to engage with me. Being in a room full of scientists might not seem like the most obvious fit, but really, you have to meet them to understand how invigorating an environment it is." - Chris Messina via Mento

Until Facebook allows us to access the News and Mini-feed externally, I doubt many Friendfeed users will go crawling to Facebook as the primary source of aggregated friend updates. - Jonathan Lane

@Jonathan: == :-) - Voyagerfan5761

I agree. It is still usefull to be able to do this sort of thing inside of Facebook. With this new feature I can link my content there without those uninspiring 3rd party apps for these same services. ...via AlertThingy - Rolf Schewe

looks good - but not sure what functionality it will offer over the friendfeed application for facebook? and friendfeed already supports lots more services. will be easy for people who don't already have friend feed account! ...via AlertThingy - ben rogers

Facebook isn't offering many site feeds, surely RSS would have been a good start! ...via AlertThingy - Joe Dawson (beta)

Well, I think their primary concern is people importing RSS feeds that don't belong to them. Then again, Facebook DOES allow you to import your blogs already... so.. who knows. - Adam Posey

"Nuno Mariz has created a very detailed post with step by step instructions on how he created a Lifestream for his own site using the FriendFeed API client and the Django code framework." - Bret Taylor

"But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker, who is also the chaired professor of management science at Insead (a business school with campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore), has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one." - Bret Taylor

I really like how you added a comment with a quote from the article! Ain't friendfeed swell? Did you use the bookmarklet? How did you include a photo? - Tad, Fool

@Tad http://friendfeed.com/share/bo... here's the link to the bookmarklet... theres a good video explaining all of the bookmarklets features lower on the page as well - Ross Miller

Thanks Ross! - Tad, Fool

Wow. "Ask will now focus on finding answers to questions about recipes, hobbies, children’s homework and more, especially when asked by women in southern and midwestern US." - Paul Buchheit

it's not a good news,sorry google - qian

Ridiculous They're done but they just can't admit it yet. - Rob Safuto

Interesting. "We’re also making product management separate from engineering. Matt Cohler [a long-time Facebook executive] will be running it." - Paul Buchheit

It amazes me the divide between PM and Engineering. When I had my say, I merged them under one reporting structure. Google does the same thing, which is where FB probably got the idea from, and as time passes it grows more and more frustrating. I understand why Bret did what he did now while at the plex.. - Derek Collison

Even within a company like Microsoft or Google, different product managers have almost unrecognizably different roles. It's hard to even talk about who they should report to in any particular case without knowing what they do. - ⓞnor

Applications must implement two of five "popular and valuable AIM features." If the app has more than 100k simultaneous users, then one of the features must be AIM advertising. More here: http://dev.aol.com/aim/terms - Gary Burd

That is so lame. Why must AOL screw up everything? - Bret Taylor

Because it's AOL. They also ruined the joy of getting CDs in the mail, and the fun of hating on the new Hotmail UI (because AIM/AOL Mail is just as stupidly slick-looking). - Voyagerfan5761

"Although all the progress bars took exactly the same amount of time in the test, two characteristics made users think the process was faster, even if it wasn't: 1. progress bars that moved smoothly towards completion 2. progress bars that sped up towards the end " - Paul Buchheit

I did a similar type of experiment in my undergrad, but compared existence of progress bar to no progress bar. For certain time spans (less than 5 seconds or so), things appear to take *less* time if there's no progress bar. I love this stuff. - Julian Missig

I always try to be as granular and precise as possible with progress reporting. I never liked progress bars that showed erratic behaviour, not even for relatively short tasks. - Mustafa K. Isik

"Global warming is an issue that my administration is, is very concerned about - deeply. Deeply in a deep, kind of concerned way. It's, uh, I don't - I start my day and I think about the warming of the globe and how we could get it warmer." - April Buchheit

bush: liberals and god-less tax raisers are trying to make me look bad by using such things as "facts" and "scientific data." staff: mr president, you can't say they're using facts. bush: yeah, why? staff: cause facts are real, they can't be disputed. bush: how do you know that? - Chris White

in fact adam and eve drove an excursion - MG Siegler

Send me a jaiku invite sis - efader

I just got a Vudu box, which is really nice, but really lacks selection. The question will come down to selection in my mind -- all those dumb Hollywood restrictions mean that all the on-demand companies have really restricted libraries. - Bret Taylor

I'm tempted to look at this offering vs. TiVo/Unbox and AppleTV. I want Apple to win AND for TiVo to win. Best solution is Apple buys TiVo and I go into entertainment-based convulsions. - Louis Gray

I still don't understand why there is no Apple Mini/TV/whatever with DVR support. Given all the media deals Apple has struck, CableCARD support and time shifting don't seem so unreasonable. You just can't have an all-in-one set top box without TV. It is shame Microsoft of all companies is the only company from whom you can get an OS that runs iTunes and records HDTV. - Bret Taylor

BTW, I am aware the CableCARD requirement and DRM on HDTV is the root of all of these problems -- I am just pointing out Apple has a lot of experience with the media companies and DRM, and there is no way in heck I am buying a Windows Media Center box, so I am asking Jobs to let me sell out to his company instead. - Bret Taylor

"Google trumpets its innovative nature, but its genius is for attacking known problems (web search, e-mail, calendars, etc) with brute force—weapons of mass computing and mathematical algorithms. Mr Williams's passion is solving new problems." - Bret Taylor

Pejoratives aside, the intent of the statement seems to be that Google rarely (if ever) invents a new category of product; its offerings are better versions of existing products. I think that's a pretty fair cop, except that it's true of almost everybody: genre-busting products are very rare. - ⓞnor

From Ev: "I don't think Google tackles problems with "brute force." I think they're best at tackling known problems, but they do so very cleverly." http://evhead.com/2007/12/econ... - Paul Buchheit

So would a fake pole be made of pine? - Louis Gray

link from T. Hammill - thanks tim! - Jennifer Fader

Fast Company's "Bigs of the Blogs" list - Jennifer Fader

PC Magazine 100 favorit blogs - Jennifer Fader