Elias Torres

Very glad to see this published. - DeWitt Clinton

The link to the paper: http://sdch.googlegroups.com/w... - DeWitt Clinton

the ppt says 40% compared to gzip, which is really great. - Christian Sonntag

I like this. I'm kind of confused by the domain/path part though. I was about to complain that they were copying the problematic Set-Cookie header, but then none of the examples actually include any kind of path or domain info. It would also be nice to require the content hash in the dictionary url to eliminate any update or caching questions there (new dict requires new url). - Paul Buchheit

I would also like a variant where the client simply says "always sdhc" and the server simply picks the best dict and includes the url of the dict in a response header. This would occasionally increase latency a bit (if you didn't have the dict), but it would be easier for the client to implement because you would cache the dict the same as any other resource and not have to think about keeping a list of candidate dicts. - Paul Buchheit

Also, why not allow differential vs a previous etag? It seems like a straightforward extension, and of course servers would be free to ignore it. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, as written the client sends a hash of each dict, so if the server send a get-dictionary, that means the client's dictionary is stale - Casey Muller

Yes, when everything works, but if you have several servers and they get out of sync, or maybe there's a dumb cache in between, it will cause problems. In general, life is much simpler if new content gets a new url. - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, definitely. It also doesn't help that Example 4 in the doc is wrong, since it still has a get-dictionary in the server's response - Casey Muller

How many servers actually use gzip? - Brian Sullivan

Yes, gzip is inexcusably unused by many sites, but many of us do use it and it makes our sites faster :) - Paul Buchheit

Paul -- any statistics on use that you know of? - Brian Sullivan

I guess what I'm really looking for is to have the protocol simply say "this page is a delta of X", and X could be a previous version of the page, or it could be the URL of a site-specific dictionary. That would make it very nice for feeds or feed oriented pages obviously :) (and that includes a large fraction of the non-search content, such as news) - Paul Buchheit

HTTP rsync encoding? http://rproxy.samba.org/doc/pr... - Mark Trapp

yeah, "delta" or "patch" on the client side would make a real impact. - MikeAmundsen

I ♥ it! :) When? When? When?? - AJ Batac ♘

Likey. - Jonathon

Whoa. - Mark Trapp

Sawheet! "lists" means I can go back to using a single account now, phew! - Jason Wehmhoener

Very Awesome Bret... can't wait. :) http://beta.friendfeed.com/?bc... - Brandon

Totally love the Friends addition. - Chris Baskind

Noice! - Shey

AJ, it's available now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - Paul Buchheit

Pretty sweet. - Scott Bulloch via feedalizr

Paul you just beat me to it.. this is aka just like draft.blogger.com :)_ - Peter Dawson

In beta, wow. HOLY WOW this is AWESOME. Are the poster usernames still goign to be links? - Mona N.

Brandon/AJ: no need to wait: use it now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ and let us know how you like it. - Bret Taylor

so awesome - love the favorites! - Morgan

I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Awesome! - Steve Rubel

Fabulous! Cannot wait! - Abby Martin

It's beautiful. :) - Daynah

Thanks FriendFeed Team. You guys rock! - AJ Batac ♘

Great features, digging the groups - Cains

wow nice job! It's very clean! - Alan Le

It's the Gmail/Reader interface, but w/ the nav on the right side -- shocked I am, shocked! :-) - Paul Wilcox

Wow! Neat. - Atul Arora

It's very nice! All the superlatives have already been used :) - Rebkin

The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)- - Peter Dawson

A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson

Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय

Coming up next: gamma.friendfeed.com - Jim Norris

I /love/ this! So much shinier. - eve shot first

I still want more of a customizable dashboard view, tho. (kudos on the changes, tho...they ARE nice, and I do appreciate them. :)) - abacab

Thank you for the lists. - Paul Arterburn

Good job guys. I am disappointed you used Peter Astley, and not Rick Astley. Lost opportunity. - Louis Gray

looking great :) - sergiooo

My favorite is how the blog has like 2 comments, and Brett's link to it has almost 30 comments. - Dustin

Yummy* Friendfeeding just got better. - Jonathan (Bad Robot)

This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman

OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind

I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz

LOVE IT! - Kyle Lacy

Why not position:fixed the right nav? Like this: http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed... - Michael Leggett

The share button no longer appears in my feed. This is counterintuitive. Otherwise, it's been a great experience so far. - Michael Nielsen

Where's the "me" tab? Everything else I LOVE! - Jennifer Van Grove

Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda

@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao

you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern

@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen

Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen

Try Friend recommendations. - Chris Baskind

I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac ♘

Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind

can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk

Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya

awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk

One word: wonderful. - Brandon Titus

thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons

like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok

It is kind of cool! - Steve

great design!! - ricardo valle

on minor thing: on the main page, Post button and "Show best of: day - week" overlaps if you narrow the browser window. - Dennis Seah

Fantastic! - Mo J.

We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page. - Selim Yoruk

Cool new FF! - Igor Poltavskiy

Time stamps for comments? :( - Marcos Messer

Threaded comments??? - Jigar Mehta

So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference. - Martin Añazco

At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1 - Slippy Lane

Hopefully the Greasemonkey scripts I have installed will work with it. - Big Fat Trouser Trout

looking good friendfeed crew! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Funny that they turned it on when I was flying to Europe. Looks awesome! - Robert Scoble

that is so frickin' sweet! - Jeremiah Palmer

I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P - Patrick Lightbody

please have an option to set font size! - h1ro

It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho! - Justin Long

FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team. - Russellreno

@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp. - Dan Hsiao

IMHO, this is right on. Well, I wouldn't call GAE a plaything -- there's a lot of hard work that goes into building a fast and secure interpreter and a scalable datastore and making it trivial to get started writing webapps. : ) But I completely agree that the Amazon stack can power a whole class of identical or even higher-level computing platforms. - DeWitt Clinton

And, yes! It *would* be fantastic to see someone port the GAE runtime to EC2/S3/SDB/EBS. In fact, I'd argue that would make GAE that much better -- if people know they can easily port their apps away from Google's backend to a third-party's backend, then there is one less reason not to use GAE. I'd rather see people chose Google because it was a great implementation, not the only one. - DeWitt Clinton

Personally I hope that the next thing someone does after reimplementing GAE on top of Amazon's stack is build something that lets you deploy to both environments. That way if Amazon is down you can serve your users via Google and vice versa. - Adewale Oshineye

That would rock -- and we'll also need some sort of data replication feature between the services, otherwise data becomes a form of lock-in, which isn't any better for the consumer. - DeWitt Clinton

The other thing such a platform would enable is for other (non-Google) people to provide new AppEngine services as well as new implementations of AppEngine in a wider variety of languages. - Adewale Oshineye

I'm not sure it'd be as simple as *porting* GAE. But Dare can talk smack if he wants. I feel it's really close to saying: I have 500K virtual machines and plenty of SANs so that must equal having GFS/BigTable and GAE. - Elias Torres

The forks are IBM Lotus Connections, which is based on Roller 3.1 and blogs.sun.com which is based on Roller 4.0. The Sun fork is pretty minimal and Sun committers are still active and contributing to the code base and and mailing list. On the other hand, IBM hasn't contributed anything in almost two years now -- and they're sitting on some nice goodies including distributed search and a nice Abdera based AtomPub implementation. - Dave Johnson

Any idea why IBM isn't contributing, Dave? - Simon Phipps via twhirl

I suspect that they just don't see contributing back as a priority and they have setup too many legal/management hoops to jump through before they can make contributions. - Dave Johnson

Brilliant! - mark ivey

This nails markets. Perfect. - Christopher Sacca

This is what happens if you follow Jim Cramer. - Chris White