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Ahmadinejad Re-Elected; Protests Flare - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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"The authorities declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the official winner of Iran’s presidential election on Saturday afternoon, but opposition candidates and their supporters insisted the election had been stolen, and riot police officers used batons and tear gas against thousands of demonstrators in the worst street protests in a decade."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
it's a chaos!
- Mohammad
its a shame
- Onur Baykal
i'm in tehran now.police is everywhere.mobile network is down
- Mohammad
could these lead to a revolution?
- Onur Baykal
i don't think so since the protests are limited to tehran and a few large cities
- Mohammad
We haven't free access to friendfeed.com now. It is banned by tehran regime.
- آدمیرال
amiran1, how can you get to FriendFeed if it is blocked?
- Rochelle
Do you think the elections are legitimate?
- Onur Baykal
it is not blocked through university network.even gtalk is blocked in some parts of the city.they are blocking all routs of communication
- Mohammad
This is really a shame. :/
- Obayoo
@Onur That's the question, isn't it? I don't know the answer, but it's crazy to have such riots result from a legitimate election, if it was one.
- Chris Lasher
election is stolen.we all beleive it.there are obvious facts
- Mohammad
Mohammad: Will anything change because of these protests? Does it matter that the election was stolen? Or will things go back to the way they were in a few weeks?
- PC Easy
from twhirl
@Mohammad: What facts? Really great to have someone "on location" who doesn't work for usual news media! Thanks for your insights!
- Holger Eilhard
PC:some groups have requested for election to be renewed.but officials haven't approve it and ahmadinejad has spoken on tv.i dont think there will be a major change but people are really angry
- Mohammad
And when there were protests in the US when the election was stolen in 2000, did they change anything? No. And here too there were obvious facts (not the least of which was the beginning of part 2 of the then-new president's father's war in Iraq) It is truly a shame that Iran hasn't apparently had fair and free elections, but really, where are such things held?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Holger:the pole results was biased with a linear function!!we found it using MATLAB!and the officials were silent till afternoon although the results were declared in the morning.they themselves are not sure about the results
- Mohammad
guruvan, are you suggesting that the election of President Obama wasn't fair and free?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ah shit...
- Mike Nayyar
Akiva: I specified the year 2000, so in that statement, no I did not suggest that. I suggested that the election of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney was not fair and free. (But, I have my opinions on the current administration as well)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
So you're not talking about the current election in Iran, then, but an election held in 2000?
- Akiva Moskovitz
I am suggesting that elections in most places are not fair and free, so we should not be surprised that an election in Iran was not either.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I hear beeping.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Beeping?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I really wish my friend Key would come back home from Iran.
- Kay Designer
It's very unfortunate that Iran feels the need to block communications. This is, to me, far worse than stealing an election.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Oh NOooo!!! very sad
- Susan Beebe
you should see what happend here today to see the real SAD!they were hitting everyone.everyone in range
- Mohammad
I'm really impressed with you guys, Mohommad. No matter who gets elected it's people like you who have the power to change the country and your future. Hope things calm down over there and more innocents don't get hurt or worse.
- vijay
Mohammad - Please be eyes and ears for us while you can. I heard alot mobiles were not working anymore. and I cant get any email in to Key at all. (2 months now!)
- Kay Designer
mobile comunication are down from 20:00 local time.and even internet services are almost down in some parts of the city based on latest news from friends
- Mohammad
kay:everything was ok till yesterday.your email problem is probably not related to this
- Mohammad
:( That truly is sad. Violence is always an unhappy thing in my book. I'm very glad that you can still communicate with us Mohammad. Thank you.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Shouldn't this say "allegedly" re-elected?
- Missionary Broadcasting
a bunch of dramatic photos and video here: http://friendfeed.com/sober
- Cee Bee
Although I didn't vote Ahmadinejad but I approve official results. The election was really clear. These are young people who hate Ahmadinejad and can't accept the results.
- Hassan
حسن واقعن فک میکنی اگه واضح بود این اعتراضا پیش میومد؟
- Mohammad
I'm agree with Hassan too ;)
- I /-\li
Mohammed. NIce to hear from you! What I meant is. Her box is on Yahoo (which is based in USA or Europe(?). But, I don't think she can get to it anymore from Tehran (is Yahoo blocked there?) Otherwise I would have heard from her by now. Once the mobile lines clear, I'll try to reach her via cell... I just don't think this is her new number there...
- Kay Designer
if she can access an internet connection she can reach yahoo with no problem.hope you can reach her via phone
- Mohammad
Mohammad. Well if all else fails, I have you there to help me find her. Thanks again :-)
- Kay Designer
yeah.sure.i would be happy if i can help:)
- Mohammad
Mohammad - Many thanks! Keyv is my god-sister, so that means alot to me! Main thing is, right now today, for YOU to take good care of yourself! Don't get hit with a rock or bottle like that photo above - if things get going real crazy!
- Kay Designer
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do" - attributed to Joseph Stalin ( via http://www.worldofquotes.com/author... )
- ianf ⌘
so very true ianf... :(
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sorry world, we tried. The oppression and injustice imposed on the Iranian people for the past 30 years needs to stop! Ahmadinejad doesn't represent the will, desire or future of Iran and Iranian people.
- Kasra
@Kasra "the oppression and injustice imposed on the Iranian people..." - you forgot to insert "self-imposed." Not salting the wounds, but this isn't the first time in history when the oppressed sought release from one kind of injustice/ despotism in another kind, the self-imposed religious one, thus far more insidious than the former.
- ianf ⌘
better than no elections, right... I never take a chance to vote. you know, I'm Chinese.
- xiawinter
No, I didn't, and you're wrong. It is IMPERATIVE that people vote, even in rigged conditions. 20 years ago, when your fellow countrymen were being massacred in Tiananmen Square, on the very same day, 4th of June 1989, the Poles voted the communist system out even though the election rules agreed in talks with non-parlamentary opposition/ the Solidarity trade unions and Church...
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- ianf ⌘
This is my country :(((((((
- αida®
Oh my motherland is burning in fire :(((
- Zahra (raoros)
I'm relieved that my country doesn't recognize the outcome. I hope that something can come of that to effect some sort of change in yours. :( I hope that this change can be one of peace.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It's very disturbing to me when not only is an election apparently stolen but the opposition leaders are placed under arrest. The arrest certainly lends credibility to the belief that the election was rigged.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Reacting to the riot is the regular process every country takes against one
- Seltoon
Yes Muhammad, I think the election was free and clear. We had a very hot election you're angry now and I understand you. Hope things calm down in next few days.
- Hassan
It's hard to tell with the jumble of second hand sources pouring in whether the election was rigged or not (and it will be very hard to tell unless something enormous comes forward). However, regardless of the election reliability, it is a bad sign for a free democracy in Iran to have politicians arresting their opposition.
- Brandon Titus
Yes Brandon, Unfortunately It's a bad sign...
- Hassan
arresting the opposition is only a rumor, it's not confirmed
- Seltoon
Good to know. I just hope everything is sorted out and Iran can be a stable democracy in the future. The results look fishy to me and the reports of arrests and heavy handed action by the government don't help the case. Hopefully stability will come soon.
- Brandon Titus
problem with the elections is that simple majority wins (e.g. 50%+1 vote); but in cases of narrow elections minority is actually more powerful (in terms of aggressiveness, effectiveness and so on; i.e. it leads to instability); i think landslide (like 2/3) majority must decide an election - if there's 50/50, then both candidates have to withdraw ... (or something needs to be done about this in any case)
- minus-one
While I cannot confirm the ownership of the twitter account, a tweet was sent allegedly form house arrest. In many other cases a single tweet has carried a great deal of truth and weight - but we shall see. It's hard, though, to make up 100s of arrests. This seems to be something that could be verified
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
seltoon اینجا هم دست از دروغ بر نمیدارید؟دستگبری تاج زاده و نبوی رو که ایرنا تایید کرده!
- Mohammad
Islamic Republic News Agency(IRNA) has confirmed the arrests
- Mohammad
http://www.irna.ir/View...
- Mohammad
LAT Middle East Bureau Chief http://borzou.com is filing frequent analysis updates from Tehran at http://latimes.com/iran
- Andrew Nystrom @ LAT
Thanks, Andrew.
- Anne Bouey
Join us on FriendFeed as well for news discussions and updates around the clock from BNO News: http://friendfeed.com/breakin... !
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FriendFeed is perfect for discussing @BreakingNews :D
- joebrooks
What joebrooks said.
- Phillip Stewart
Are you addicted?
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Kol Tregaskes, Nicholas James and 40 other people liked this
seeing that I read this whilst on the loo with iPhone I guess I am!
- Matt Stevens
matt: LOL
- Tyler Gillies
+10 Matt :)))
- Nir Ben Yona
well, i bring a laptop into the restroom.
- David H. Chu
that makes two of us reading iPhones in the loo.
- George Hall (Australia)
David: Ha. I can definitely understand the iPhone thing, but taking a laptop into the loo is something that probably requires other arrangements, eh.
- Nir Ben Yona
A modern way to check you mail in the loo: http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry...
- Jokin Lacalle
Yes I am, do it all the time
- Veetrag
Jokin: interesting concept.
- Nir Ben Yona
couscous is a wonderful thing
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Hello! Yes couscous if fab. FriendFeed is strange. Shout if you ever see this.
- Elliot Tucker
Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Chriz, Paul, Elliot Tucker and 8 other people liked this
Encore!
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
Twitter isn't down. We're on the new Twitter right now.
- Stephen Pickering
Applauding Stephen
- Mark Traphagen
Thank you, Mark :)
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen, awww. ;-)
- Holly Rae
Hey, you posted this last time they had maintenance :-) I like this post.
- Mike Lizun
Thanks MG. Oh, and I had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch. Could you pass that along to everyone I usually tell via Twitter -- because it's down, you may have heard.
- Rex Hammock
Oh good, this is where I can do my Twitter stuff now? "Launching paper clips into the next cubicle. ROTFL!!"
- Mark Traphagen
Re: 3UK are on a mission. In other news, I almost beat the crap out of the mainstream media today. - http://www.smstextnews.com/2008...
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"Tempting Jay, tempting...."
- Ewan MacLeod
Keyboard Skins for Photoshop, Aperture, Final Cut Pro, and more at The Photojojo Store - http://photojojo.com/store...
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"You know that photoshop whiz kid friend of yours? The one that plays his keyboard like a Steinway as he dodges and burns his way to photographic perfection? That could be you. Be the pinball wizard. But for Photoshop (or Aperture, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, After Effects, or Logic Pro)! You wouldn't learn how to type on a keyboard with no letters on it, why try to learn keyboard shortcuts without the shortcuts right on your keys?"
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
...in case anyone's wondering, I am not affiliated with them. Thanks.
- Mona Nomura
nothing for lightroom :(
- Justin Korn
...or Premiere.
- Roger Benningfield
reminds me of the tasty keyboard overlays that came with Word Perfect.
- Elliot Tucker
Looks like a Fisher Price my first computer.... or Hooked on Phonics HA
- Mona Nomura
really nice, but...when you're playing a Steinway -or Photoshop, for that matter- you should never look at your hands ;)
- dario
Nude climber craze tipped to take over Britain - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
Duncan Riley, Elliot Tucker, Lisa L. Seifert and 16 other people liked this
I chose the strategically covered image of the three to make it sort of safe for work.
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Nude climbing? Really? I can think of few better things to do sans clothing :)
- RAPatton
Hey! I saw climbing shoes on that third one. :) Doesn't count! ;)
- felix
[like] :)
- edythe
Remember the Seinfeld epsiode about Good Vs. Bad Naked. Totally Bad Naked.
- Kyle Hebert
"So she coughed." "Coughing? Naked? It's a turn-off, man." "Everything goes with naked." "When you cough there are thousands of unseen muscles that suddenly spring into action. It's like watching that fat guy catch a cannonball in his stomach in slow motion." "You spoiled spoiled man. You know how much mental energy I expend just trying to picture women naked?" "But the thing you don't...
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- RAPatton
Unfortunately, in real life, the naked people probably don't look like what's in his calendar.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Simply.. WOW! Will we have Nude Programming soon?
- Winston Teo
Why just girls?
- Yuvi
"Naked hair brushing - good. Naked crouching - bad." - classic, thanks RAPatton
- Toby Graham
nice photos, but frankly this seems like an even worse idea than clothed rockclimbing.
- Nathan Rein
How about Nude Internet Surfing! This should be a hot Meme! Symbolic for transparency.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
my father's been getting these calendars for years
- Benton
hee. yuvi, you're complaining??!
- edythe
@edythe: Just wondering. I'm supposed to be a kid, and kids are supposed to be innocent 'n all.... ;)
- Yuvi
ha, innocent and yuvi=two words that don't necessarily go together! ;)
- edythe
I would love to do this.
- Anna Haro
Anna, we'd love to watch you do it
- RAPatton
@Rapatton --streaming live right now! ;)
- Anna Haro
I wish!
- RAPatton
A fair way to get the 15 minutes of fame. I hope they at least enjoyed the process.
- 9000
Kol Tregaskes, Elliot Tucker, Nick Humphries and 29 other people liked this
It would be nice if I could favorite pictures directly from this page too.
- Jauder Ho
How far ahead of the world are all of us? When I showed researchers at HP my live Qikking cell phone they couldn't believe it.
Dimitar Vesselinov, Phil Wolff, Susan Beebe and 40 other people liked this
Well, sites like Twitter still have about a year before true mainstream acceptance. Something like FriendFeed is probably 18 months or more from mainstream acceptance, and it would need more filtering capabilities to get there. Video on a mobile is probably a little closer, but not sure about the publishing aspect.
- Rob Diana
Rob: try again. Blogging still is barely mainstream and it's been out for 10 years now. Facebook just got to 110 million users. How many people in the world are there? Six billion? Funny how we consider things "mainstream."
- Robert Scoble
Well, if 110 million users isn't "mainstream", then yes, I will change my estimates :) I think twitter (or microblogging) will go mainstream soon because it is so simple, and IM-like. "Real" blogging requires too much work and thought, and that is probably why it took so long. That and the tools have not been around for the full 10 years. Not sure when things like LiveJournal and WordPress really came about.
- Rob Diana
LiveJournal was out in late 90s, I remember seeing it 2001 and I'm sure I wasn't early. WordPress came out shortly after that. Probably around 2003. Yeah, microblogging will probably be more popular than regular blogging. I'd agree with that, but it has a long way to go. Twitter has, what, a million or two users, not all of whom are active?
- Robert Scoble
What's amazing is it seems that you guys beat the mainstream by days, not hours- for example, Andreesen/Facebook
- Dino
LiveJournal, early 1990s? Try 1999, as late 1990s as it gets. ;o)
- Fraser Smith
Sorry, I meant early 2000's. I'll fix that.
- Robert Scoble
you are talking about heads down researchers from the nihs hp though robert :-p
- mike "glemak" dunn
LiveJournal is huge in Russia, apparently. And the biggest search engine there is something called Yonex (useless info 4 the day alert)
- john conroy
For me, I've gotten used to think in terms of mainstream for techies and mainstream for the general public.
- Joey Lo
@Rob Diana - You're wrong - FriendFeed does not need more filtering to become mainstream. Mainstream users don't filter, they expect it to work and that's it. You're also wrong about FriendFeed becoming mainstream anytime soon. People don't use many services, therefore FF is useless for them. Not even blogging is mainstream, and probably won't ever at a scale like Facebook. Most people haven't got interesting things to tell.
- sebmos
I still find it amazing that people continue with Twitter (myself included) despite it's hilariously fragile state.
- Jonathan Beckett
I'm no techie, compared to some of the folks around FF anyway. I know "just enough to be dangerous," according to my wife's IT dept. But I rely on posts from folks like Scoble et al. to expand my knowledge of the tech world. FF is invaluable for that, but even though I signed up for it months ago, I didn't really start using it until the last 4-6 weeks. I think new sites and apps take a little getting used to, esp. if you're not really "out there" in terms of knowledge and know-how.
- Steve Lowe
steplow - like your comment, very reality based :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
This says more about the researchers being out of touch than it does about social media.
- Sam Pullara
I use my father and brother as 'touchstones' for mainstream. My dad, at 71 is an attorney who uses the computer for work only, doesn't regularly use email for personal reasons (but does for work) and can use the internet (he tracked down my twitter!) but doesn't see the need for it. My brother, at 44 is a judge who majored in CS & Psych in undergrad. He's a computer geek, but more into gaming than SocMed. They keep me from buying into the 'echo chamber' - yes, we are that far ahead.
- Lucretia Pruitt
The Fins sold us the phones. So maybe we're not that far ahead. :-)
- Dave Winer
I agree with Scoble,blogs, twitter, friendfeed, plurks won't be mainstream for a while. There is actual nothing in them that would give people a reason to hop on them in droves. E-mail yes, IM yes, static webpages, forums yes. And that's all.
- Roland Hesz
I asked a bunch of people I work with regularly about Friendfeed and 1 person knew what it was. I work in the web industry. Maybe I was asking the wrong people.
- Kate
Our focus is different. I don't know jack about sustainable architecture, for instance, but my friends who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. "Ahead" is a relative term. My dad is on FriendFeed, but he just sees it as another way to follow what I'm...
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- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
I like what Steve Lynch replied, re. his friends/other people having a different focus, especially the bit re. his friends "who don't give a damn about blogs are all about green energy, sustainable city planning, etc. That's something that a lot of people on FriendFeed don't understand or care about. 'Ahead' is a relative term." I see that in my own communities of interest, where people are comfortable with forums (ew!), have made tentative forays into FB, but don't get blogs, much less Twitter, FF, etc.
- Yule Heibel
This discussion is a bit self-congratulatory, wouldn't you say? I would frame it a different way: how out of touch with the mainstream are we? The answer, of course, is very much so. Another question: are we out here on the cutting edge or just hunting snipe?
- Juan Aguilar
I doubt Twitter will ever go "mainstream" if we define mainstream as a majority of the people who are online via computers or cellphones. Blogs, wikis, RSS, none of that is mainstream. Browsing, email, SMS...those are mainstream.
- wrecks
now that it is mentioned, SMS reached mainstream pretty quick.
- Ruben Llibre
@Jua Aguilar Hunting snipe. It's not in any way a cutting edge. It's just a way to pass time.
- Roland Hesz
@wrecks: Good point. Maybe it would be better to talk about functionality rather than platforms, then. I'd say that social networking and IM are mainstream. I think real-time video on cellphones (for example) could go mainstream in a few years, but it wouldn't necessarily mean that "Qik" goes mainstream. I think wiki-like functionality will become more common... because it is very...
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- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Lots a of great points, regarding Robert's original post I think that online video is finally taking off in a big way thanks to YouTube and that speaks more to the mainstream than any of the social applications we use to create and share content and conversation. Live mobile video broadcasting is still relatively new but video chat with Skype seems to be reaching a mainstream audience thanks to Oprah using it on her show and recent New Earth web casts. How much does the generation gap play into this?
- Larry Kless
I just started work at fav.or.it, Nick is working to bring at least blog reading and following to the masses. but its hard work.
- Tim Hawkins
R U KIDDING ME!!!!! OMG no wonder HP is not in touch anymore..dang!
- Susan Beebe
@titanas: tech people are way ahead of the journalists, by the way. I spoke to a group of journalists and none are using cell video. Sigh.
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The BBC have tried some mobile video in the last couple of months, Rory Cellan-Jones has a post up about it here http://is.gd/A6F (even includes a link to you Robert)
- Mat
For US TV broadcasts (over the air) I seem to recall there is a requirement/regulation that XX% of your broadcast be of a certain 'broadcast quality' level and only YY% be of a lower quality (i.e. camcorders or cell phone video).
- Andrew Leyden
this is much more about cost containment than lack of desire for some robert - cnn has been doing cellular video reports for awhile
- mike "glemak" dunn
Mike and Mat: yeah, I know that there are some exceptions. But this was to a future of journalism conference. There should have been more. And a Nokia phone is a VERY CHEAP way to get photos and videos on scene at stories. So, if cost containment is a big deal, they should be handing these things out like water in the desert.
- Robert Scoble
don't disagree regarding cheaper and should be handing out but when you look at the scale and day-to-day issues in media companies - cost containment is always an issue unfortunately - mit media lab is doing a very interesting project called civic media focused on this exact issue
- mike "glemak" dunn
Shame and it's so easy to use Quix - even politicians can do it - like this: http://qik.com/video/114722
- Craig Thomler
Robert - "future of journalism conference", in that case, Sigh++
- Mat
Tools and techniques are just that, got to put them to good use if they are going to be useful. In that respect, perhaps Journalists will be better at that when they learn how to use them.
- Mário Pires
AFP has been using the N93 for over a year now. We have about 40 deployed throughout our network. Some journalists shoot, edit and FTP to Paris right off the cell. Some shoot and return to the bureau to edit and transmit off their desktop.
- Jon Dillon
I think that's just a quality issue Robert. Qik does not look good at all on a T.V.
- Erik Weese
You should talk to @dkiesow at http://nashuatelegraph.com in New Hampshire about what his newspaper is up to with N95/Qik.
- Ryan Sholin
"Tech" people should be ahead of journalists w/ tech stuff, that's what they do. Plus I wouldn't call Qik a fully fleshed out "cell video" service. Basically, you have one phone N95 (plus iPhone). Many tech people--early adopters still complain about the N95 flakiness.
- Pokai
Understatement of the decade from AsiaAfrica.com "Mugabe's Record not unusual... - http://pownce.com/conor...
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35,310 Lego Star Wars Mini-Fig Army - http://gizmodo.com/5020703...
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"A group of Lego UK employees built the 35,310 Star Wars Clone Trooper mini-figs in just six and a half hours to raise money for The National Autistic Society. The National Autistic Society is a british organization dedicated to helping 'people with autism and Asperger syndrome live their lives with as much independence as possible.'"
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Had to look up what George Carlin's 7 words were. Yup, I use all of them on a daily basis.
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Yet Another 16 Ways to Make FriendFeed Even Better List, Whew! - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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The one thing that I think would massively improve FF is the duplication of items; say once from a blog and then again from GReader. If they can crack that, well I'd be a happy bunny!
- Fearghas
One major concern is whether there really needs to be a messaging feature. There are messaging systems already like Twitter or even that slow thing called email.
- Rob Diana
I'm not so sure about that Fearghas. I'd agree, but only if the post didn't have comments. Lets say someone blogged about something and I hid that. Someone else might blog it and it might have a great conversation attached to it that I'd miss. This would be a good feature but I'd like to filter it by with/without comments.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas you're awesome, great post
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Thomas- yes that's a good point. Now if it could combine them together...
- Fearghas
good stuff man
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Thomas: I think you can filter unless comments are made. @louisgray blogged about it somewhere.
- Sally Church
from Alert Thingy
Friendfeed friendly post : ) Heheh... Congrats Thomas!
- Erhan Erdogan
A way to separate spheres of interest - Right now I've only invited friends to subscribe to me who want to talk about social networking & geeky stuff. If I pursue friends to talk about health & philosophy, for instance, wouldn't they find my current comments irrelevant and want to shun me?
- Mark Arend
Good point Mark, I've thought about that with regards to DMU, a group where I post on Flickr. That place is *way* too crazy of a place -- and if I posted here like I post in there, all but about 20 people would probably hide me. Maybe the thing to do there is to create two FF accounts. Regular Thomas Hawk and Crazy Thomas Hawk for instance.
- Thomas Hawk
I agree with everything except the direct messages. About the duplication of items, maybe they could be clustered together but indicating which have comments, so we can participate in them. Another thing I would like is to embed songs from Songza or similar services. That would be cool. ;)
- Alejandro
Alejandro - I like that idea. I'd really like to perma-link to those "clusters" as well. Since my blog is currently on Tumblr, I link to the blog post when it appears on FriendFeed to allow for comments. If I could link to a cluster, that'd be even better.
- Jordan Hofker
@Sally, you can filter for posts that only contain likes or comments. It's here: http://tinyurl.com/6h37zl
- Louis Gray
Thomas - #8 is what I'm looking for. I'd *love* to be able to invite someone to "take over" their current imaginary version. It seems like something that would really increase FF users.
- Jordan Hofker
The ability to make your imaginary friends private would also be good. I created two for my children (so I could see their activity on other sites) and people started subscribing to them. Not what I wanted.
- TranceMist
@TranceMist - your imaginary friends aren't private?? I could swear mine are... @Thomas oh dear, talk about fragmentation! Making a split personality in FF?? I wouldn't want to have to create a FF account for my separate interests... Might work for some services but not for twitter or my blog where I post whatever I like. It would be a lot more of a burden on users to insist on that. Give us filters instead so people can just not see the stuff from you they don't like and keep the rest.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
@Fearghas - regarding the duplicate links showing up in your FriendFeed stream. Check out Bret Taylor's post on this and see what you think. http://tinyurl.com/6zw4rp
- Hutch Carpenter
Added a link to yours from mine! That's 32 now team FriendFeed - I hope you are listening.
- Jeremy Toeman
@jowyang if you can't say it in 140 chars.. is it worth saying? and who needs more than 640k of RAM either :)
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New post: Charity Muggers ("Chuggers") have dumped their clipboards and got mobiles http://www.smstextnews.com/2008...
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Twitter is down...the converastion is moving here. This is a real threat if they don't scale.
Ph, Russellreno, ideali and 20 other people liked this
They were down yesterday too. Does anyone know exactly what is the source of the scaling problems over there? Is it all RoR stuff?
- Will Eisner
Given that FriendFeed has there own message posting system you wonder whether Twitter can really differentiate with this many outages.
- Rob Diana
It's as if Twitter scheduled its own Twit-Out. But FriendFeed needs some more love before it can be an outright replacement.
- Jennifer Leggio
I'm starting to like FriendFeed, but the one thing I will miss from Twitter is the actual sending of SMS status updates when my close friends tweet
- Alexander Falk
from twhirl
As I told Mike, I wasn't planning on using FriendFeed except for feed aggregation but now it's super-frustrating to keep trying to log into Twitter :(
- Mario Sundar
@Alexander - get the mobile side sorted (mobile web and SMS) and FF can be a contender but it needs that extra support
- Colin Walker
how will all my followers (over 5,000) find me here?
- paul terry walhus
You nail it!
- Jan Tielens
If FriendFeed gets the following that Twitter has, how do we know it won't buckle the same way? Maybe stability is ensured by being the runner up rather than the prom king. We'll have to see. I still don't think it's a replacement.
- Jennifer Leggio
is it just me or does the commenting feature for FF via Twhirl suck majorly? I wrote two better comments that are now toast, thx to Twhirl (I think)
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
Non-early adopters are just now getting into Twitter, I don't know if they are ready for FF.
- Kevin Bondelli
Jennifer L - I get the sense of security knowing that the same guys who developed Gmail and Google Maps, helped build FriendFeed. They know a thing or two about scalability. But like you said, we'll have to see.
- Bwana ☠
Jennifer V.G. - It needs major improvement. I'm sticking with the website for now.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana - Agreed. One other improvement - away to notify people of comments, likes, and messages directed toward them. Easy for it to get buried if you walk away for a few.
- Jennifer Leggio
Twhirl will change the focus while you're typing a comment. It's absolutely ridiculous and annoying.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
is this some sort of preparation for Twit-out?
- Iain Baker
I think this is the Twit-Out. But Twitter just stole the power. heh. jk
- Jennifer Leggio
@jason - yes the team maybe from google, but the app is built with ruby on rails. This leads to the question /debate which is not scalable RUBY or Rails ? more data here http://highscalability.com/scaling...
- Peter Dawson
Twitter is really making me mad lately. Such a love/hate thing going on
- Sarah Perez
FF seems to have more of a "point" and is probably easier to explain to folks who don't get tw. Aggregating as well as micro-blogging makes sense.
- Elliot Tucker
@Kevin Bondelli - I'm a non adopter of Twitter and I get FF just fine.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
@Geoff Longman - I guess I am thinking about some of my friends in politics that have a hard time with it
- Kevin Bondelli
I don't know about you, but twit out or not... my twitter bookmarks are moving out of the way for friendfeed bookmarks. that says something more then anything
- Noah David Simon
Twitter Exodus - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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The FF servers are trembling. This is my first of the night.
- Bwana ☠
I've never seen that before in my life!
- Shawn Farner
NOOOOOOOO!
- Andrew Dobrow
Please don't let it be like Twitter.
- Morton Fox
Oh....my.....God.....
- Kevin Bondelli
We need more power!!! Divert all power to the deflector shields! Chewy! *RAWRNNGGGH*
- Bwana ☠
Relax. It happens. Doubt you'll see that too often.
- Mohamed J
Every system has the potential for instability. Even Gmail crashes every now and then.
- Nathaniel Payne
watch FF being bombed with sever load as the convo moves from twitterland to FF property !!
- Peter Dawson
this is good. if one service doesn't work then the other is good to go. fair!
- Noah David Simon
If they both go down is everyone going to hop over to Pownce? This is like moblogging musical chairs
- Kevin Bondelli
What happens if ff and twitter are down at the same time, heh? Jaiku, Pownce?
- jjprojects
on noes!!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
if both sites are down, it's Wii time... for me anyways
- Outsanity
That has to be Photoshop'd....Because that's utterly impossible! :)
- Chris Rossini
I don't know about you, but twit out or not... my twitter bookmarks are moving out of the way for friendfeed bookmarks. that says something more then anything
- Noah David Simon
twitter's down again. will the friendfeed sign ups increase today?
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