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Yup. That's the purpose of existence, and tr.im save 3 chars over bit.ly - Andrew Baron

For instance, http://tr.im/jPVu vs http://bit.ly/1aflgR [i.e. 17chars vs. 20chars]. Also, tr.im seems to be faster. - Andrew Baron

Hee hee. The reason they're shorter is that they haven't handed out as many URLs. And this will be the death of nearly every URL shortening service -- as they accumulate users & success, there will always be some new guy who's "better". The only solution is to acquire some totally vacant TLD. - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

Size is not all that matters. The purpose of existence is quickly becoming stat tracking, not just having a short url. Besides, http://u.nu/ is shorter ;) - Daniel Sims

It really is all about stat tracking. And bit.ly needs to improve there as well. The web UI is still not as easy at HootSuite. And getting quick at a glance stats requires a lot of clicks. If HootSuite got rid of the IFrame that would be great. For now though, I'm sticking with bit.ly. - Josue Fontanez

what about http://cli.gs? I like their analytics and the developer is super responsive to product feedback - Derek Coatney

Been using tr.im for months now and it's great. Links are about as short as technically possible. They did have a prime-time multi-hour outage last week, though, that I'm still waiting to see an explanation for. - Sean O

if you have $250k to burn you could grab your own 1 character tld when icann opens it up ;) - alphaxion

Ironically I had this link saved in bit.ly before I switched to tr.im. Now that tr.im is closng down it's back to bit.ly and good bye to all my tr.im URLs. - Matthias Zeller

Well, what are you going to use now? - Zachary TG

El. Oh. El. You gotta be some sort of stupid to friend your boss before your probation period is up. Fired in front of friends and family? PRICELESS. - Admiral Anika

She's a f*ing idiot. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine at an ad agency, who accidentally texted "my boss is a fucking cunt" ... to her boss. She didn't get fired or reprimanded, but she freaked out about it. - LANjackal

It floors me how much people openly vent about their jobs on public feeds like FriendFeed. Even if your boss isn't a direct contact, how are people so sure that a boss or co-worker won't stumble across it? - Mike Doeff from iPhone

If I have complaints about work, I try to mask them as much as possible or make them more about me personally than the job itself. At the same time, I really try to stay mum about any job I have.. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Mike and how are you so sure that other people don't know who you are talking about? There's a person here on FriendFeed who complains about their coworker. Even though I live in a different city, I know that coworker. - Admiral Anika

+1 Anika. I generally refrain from talking bad about my employer/coworkers ANYWHERE online. Even on anonymous accounts. You just never know who might freak out and file an unmasking court order. It's happened before. - LANjackal from IM

It also doesn't matter if anyone sees it when you write it, because The Google sees it and records it for anyone looking for it years from now. - Trish R

Maybe the more general rule that comes into play here is to never say anything about someone you wouldn't tell them to their face. - Ken Sheppardson

Well said Ken. - Benjamin Taylor

What an idiot... When people claim we don't need guidelines for employees using social media, I just have to point out cases of extreme stupidity like this... - Badger Gravling

Ouch! Hope she learned the lesson. And +1 Ken, this is the simplest rule not to forget at any point. - lelapin

this is huge! - Loic Le Meur

OH those lessons learned the hard way. - anna sauce

This is great! Don't bite the hand that feeds especially if you're friends on FB. - Gabe Diaz from iPhone

Why friend your boss in the first place, especially if all you do is complain about the job? - Adrian McMillan

Ouch… :P - Daniel Schildt

Well someone has to make room for other people! From the sounds of it, she was probably already canned anyway. - Robert Fisher

Well that was a bit dumb. The thing about social media is it's just so much a part of our lives. We are encouraged to pour our views and feelings into it but we have to remember who is going to be reading it. In the end we have to censor ourselves so as a result our lifestream is a watered down stream. There are no directors cuts. - Parvez Halim

Absolutely priceless! - Robert Couture

Oh and I forgot the LOL. - Parvez Halim

this is something that may occur very often. More than we think! - Rui

@Rui I remember a colleague of mine did a similar thing. Luckily they got away with a written warning and no pay rise for that year. - Parvez Halim

HUGE! - Nathan Guetta

Interestingly, every time I consider complaining about my job via any social media platform, I stop and think "how can I make my job better? how can I improve myself?" and then end up writing about that instead. It has made me a much happier person. Really. - mike fabio

OMG ! this is awesome - Franck Nouyrigat

OUCH! - Retno Nindya

.. and that's why I'm private. I'm pretty good about not talking about work, but never know when I may say something completely stupid - Rodfather

I think there is a serious point here: Your on-line social network pals will be supportive of you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. That's what friends are for, kind of. All the boss does is let in a bit of reality. - sjjh

Maybe she wanted to be fired by her boss? Just questioning... - Torsten Eckert

Splendid. Too bad the story isn't real. OR IS IT...? - Francesco Balducci

I do so love the false sense of anonymity the Internet instills in people. - matthew john ernisse

haha! - orionstarr

Where did you get this? I'm trying to verify that it is actually a real event. Looks too 'perfect' and to generate this much hype I believe it is just two friends that wanted to laugh about how stupid the world is... - Brian J. Reeves

I wondered the same myself. The language suggests it's from the UK - LANjackal from IM

... or somewhere else where the British style of speech dominates - LANjackal from IM

April - you can't imagine how many people e-mailed me screenshots of this :) - Charlie Anzman

I wish I was here in order to press the "Like" button. - Clément Cailly

social media and your boss don't mix well :) - Dave Q

Ammended: Disruptive companies that assume you're locked in don't listen to their customers. - Michael Markman

The thing is, they didn't get rid of the old functionality when they did the redesign. The virtual rolodex is still there, the UI is just different. - Victor Ganata

the only thing i really disliked abt the new look is that the font's a tad too large n takes up too much real estate... i do prefer the earlier look. - Pratish Menon

Apple's the same way. Otherwise, we'd have a tablet with a floppy disk running Newton OS. - Louis Gray

I think it's important to listen to customers, but you have to listen to the *right* customers. The average customer of any product can almost be expected to be willing to hold on to the old version of a product. I can remember myself (figuratively) swearing at the redesign of Delicious. Now it's all fine to me. Also I think that Zuckerberg just like Jobs listens to himself really well. He figures that if he likes, other users will like it eventually too. - Meryn Stol

"Design by committee" doesn't work that well. - Meryn Stol

So, be your company's own customer. "Eat your own dog food." (except if you're actually producing dog food of course :P) - Meryn Stol

Users are good at noticing what they don't like and telling you what they dont want, but not that good at telling you what they need. I think its very important to watch your users though, and pay good attention to how they use your application. A great quote by Henry Ford comes to mind: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Lasse Johnsen

When you end up listening to people complain all the time, you probably eventually learn which complaints are actual issues, and which complaints are just people grumbling about having to deal with change. Only one class of complaints are really worth listening to. - Victor Ganata

The trick to solve information overload in the stream is to make people explicitly select of which of their friends they want to see updates. This would be functionally equivalent to Twitter, except that there's also a "friend relationship" which keeps the "phone book functionality" intact. - Meryn Stol

Does Facebook have any customers (maybe advertisers?) -- defining customers as those who directly provide revenue. - Brian Sullivan

He'll listen to them when the traffic falls off. Want to chase users away? Keep hitting them with 100 items a day from quiz and easter candy apps that they don't want to see while no longer showing true updates from friends like "Joe added Pete" or "Sara uploaded a photo" or "John joined AnInterestingGroup". I'll be using http://m.facebook.com until they fix the main feed. I realize a lot of users just hate change, but there are real problems with this new update. - Jon Adair

i reckon lets keep them! :) - Zee.

Yeah but, I don't know if I would have "loved" that picture of Mr. T and Chuck Norris, I mean I liked it but...I just think we should be friends. - Joe Pierce

so lovely :D - MAS

More love is always good! - Luke Addison from twhirl

although i must admit - it is slightly distracting! :) - Zee.

Is this "love"-fest just for Valentine's Day? - Lisa Finder

This is great!! - Robert DeBord

i think so Lisa - Zee.

Just logged in for the first time and saw it... it's lovely! Maybe they should have it always... like next to 'Like' so we have the option to like or love something. - Dee S.

hmm, what about posts i like, but don't really love? - Charly

There should be an option for interesting, for instance I don't like placing a smiling face (or heart) next to bad news, I might find them interesting but they don't make me smile and I don't particularly love them either - M F

so agree should make a lil pop down menu for dif reactions - eric

true - when someone notable passes away, you don't "love" the news, but are glad to know. But I'm loving this "love" it for other kinds of things. - Lisa Finder

These little hearts everywhere are really cute!!!!! - Susan Beebe

A "Loathe" link, anyone? ;) - Tyson Key

Hmm, an "Express Interest" link? Although it doesn't seem as catchy... - Tyson Key

It's Complicated - adam garrett

<3 it - Michael Fidler

just for valentines day? or permnantly? - Lorraine Ball

"Appreciate" would be most versatile. - Tim Ostler

true Tim - Zee.

or "interesting" - Adam Matthews

It is still the wrong word. Need something more like interested... - James Fridley

Hmm, a "Thanks"/"Bump" button? - Tyson Key

yeah . it's great :d - DANG3R

These are quite beautiful. - shelisrael1

Aren't they? I looked twice to make sure they were real. So ... imagine a hot air balloon tour of Holland when the tulips are in season. - Chris Baskind

Wow - Michael W. May

Imagine a world covered with tulip farms and salt ponds : http://www.flickr.com/search... - Ken Sheppardson

Good link, Ken! We need to find more ... - Chris Baskind

Is this where they grow plasticine haha??? - Joe Dawson

I've always loved tulips. I would LOVE to fly over & see something like this. I'll have to check whether anything like this can be seen on Google Earth. - Kamilah Gill

Way Cool. I'd love to see them up close. Believe it or not they used to grow bulb flowers like that in Fremont California of all places. But the fields and greenhouses are now long gone, replaced by condos and high tech office buildings.... - Jeff P. Henderson

Breathtaking! - Nicholas Kreidberg

I think the tulip is the most underrated flower. - MG Siegler

WOoOW! Tulip is one of my favourites. - Maryam Ardakani

oh my god. no way! wow. - edythe

fantastic - Greg

If I were an alien, this is where I would choose to land my spaceship. Clearly a sign of an advanced civilization. - Karim

Amazing colors - johnpiercy

That's really nice. - Nicholi from twhirl

That's pretty impressive stuff - things that most people would never see or dream of. Thanks for sharing. - Benjamin "Zeus" Heide from twhirl

That's amazing. - Sawyer

That's a beautiful photo. I love tulips. We visited Keukenhof when I lived in The Netherlands and it was extraordinary. - Trish R

that's fantastic !! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Very pretty. - Alex Hammer

I remember how fascinated I was as a child when we drove through tulip farms in Holland. It was amazing. - ※Fu※

We've got some big tullip farms around Holland, Mich, not far from here, but like that is only a town mimicing a country, those farms do not compare to this - Michael W. May from twhirl

There's a similar patch of bliss in Lompoc, California *just north of Santa Barbara. - Susan Beebe

My favorite. We put in 1K bulbs in our beds for a spring display. - Mrsth

A thousand bulbs? Wow. I hope you post pictures the next time they're in bloom. - Chris Baskind

All sorts of gorgeous - Dominik Hofmann

Wow that's really cool stuff. - Robert Occhialini

Oh wow. Thanks for sharing those. Gorgeous! - Kimberly J from NoiseRiver

Great stuff - Jeduan Cornejo

awesome. don't we have some tulip farms somewhere in the States? - Pete Delucchi

Yeah it really is kind of sleazy the way they tout in TV commercials that the phone is cheaper, when in reality over the life of the contract, it's actually more expensive, particularly since there's no free text messaging. Speaking of which, what's up with companies doing unlimited data service but not throwing in the text messaging. That's pure profiteering right there as the text messages use almost no bandwidth and really are almost 100% profit in the pockets of the cell service providers. - Alex Scoble

At the end of the day though, it's just a freakin' phone. Most people (90%) would be better off getting whatever free phone is available for AT&T through Verizon. Blackberry Curve anyone? - Alex Scoble

Who is Alex Scoble and what has he done with Robert? - Eric Schlissel from twhirl

There's definitely something weird going on with battery drain. Sometimes my phone will be dead if left to sit overnight, other times it's practically fully charged. - invariant - farewell FF

Why isn't there a voice guided turn-by-turn application already available? I read somewhere that in the iPhone SDK terms-of-acceptance, it says that you are not allowed to develop voice guided turn-by-turn. Is that true? - oregon_tony

Interestingly none of those reasons apply in the UK. The monthly cost is the same (both data and voice/sms), but many more minutes & sms are thrown in now. The handset one-off price is much cheaper. O2 are doing deals to enable 2g iPhone owners to upgrade before the end of their 18 month contract. The O2 3G network is OK (not good, but OK), and the O2 Edge network is crap. Because network coverage is better, the phone does not need to work so hard, and so the battery issue is much less of a problem. - Ian Fogg

I upgraded my iTouch and immediately noticed the poorer battery life on that device too. If I use wifi the device is lucky to last 2 days. If I turn that off and stick to my music/podcasts, I can get several days without needing a full charge. I also wonder how much extra power the different apps use. Games like Super Monkey Ball and Labyrinth and the NYTimes app, or Facebook or any of the others that rely on wifi/data connections? Think I'll stick to my Nokia E90. Cheaper with more benefits and software. - Stephen Cropp

Ian - having upgraded last week I have found the battery performance disastrous. The 3g network in London is patchy to say the least. Power managment within the OS seems inefficient. Some form of activity monitor is required - there are times when you know that an app is running in the background and draining the battery yet you cannot confirm or control the process. The GPS without... more... - Mark

Same with my Touch (2.0). Then again, I use the wi-fi quite alot at home. the games drain the hell out of my battery. Although Apple made fun of Task Manager in WM6, I'd much prefer it if there was one to use on my Touch. - Roberto Bonini

I think i like my Nokia phone and will stick with it and not go crazy about iphone - Vidya

I used my Blackberry (and now iPhone) as an alarm clock. My usual routine is to charge it every night if the battery is low enough. I'm pretty diligent with conditioning my batteries. Occasionally, I'll have to do an afternoon charge because I'll let it discharge well below 20%. I wonder if people are complaining about battery life because they have to charge it once per day? I keep bluetooth off, everything else is on. It seems to auto-switch WiFi off in standby and flips it back on when wakes up. - Paul Reynolds

i gave four good reasons nearly two months ago: http://bit.ly/3hFVm3 - Rob Shields from twhirl

I have to agree with Thomas. I'd like to note that A-GPS is rather unreliable as it often doesn't work (at least in my case.) I've made the decision replace my iPhone 3G with the N95-3. - © b e e n s w a n k

If you turn of the push feature, then you get much better battery life. I did it and now it much better. And here in Sweden the 3G / HSDPA network is quite good. - Svartling

I had a ATT Samsung 3G phone for about a year prior to buying a 1st gen iPhone. The Samsung would also occasionally just drain the battery even in sleep mode. I suspected it was something to do with the 3G radio and its behavior in poor reception areas, but couldn't reliably reproduce the problem. - Steve Wilhelm

Another theory on the 3G battery life is the radio power is cranked up right now to compensate for the weak coverage and it can be adjusted remotely by the carrier. I forgot to mention I turned "push" down to every 30 minutes. - Paul Reynolds

Just switched over last week after about 7 yrs of BB devices. Certainly has "cool factor", form factor and UI, but BB still better for power user of basic email and phone services without the bells and whistles of iPhone. That said, I think iPhone is a worthwhile investment and good device to have to monitor what is happening with mobile devices and device convergence. Mobile commerce and communication will be important elements to many business strategies. - Fred Neil

I'm very tempted by an unlocked 2nd hand gen 1 iPhone. Being tied to a carrier doesn't work for me no matter how compelling the device - James Clarke

Well James, unlocking for a different carrier is great, but don't expect any good apps in the jailbroken installer. Nothing but stupid themes. - Dennis Jackson

BOOOOO. But thanks. I'm waiting until my contract runs out and it's literally been killing me. At least this helps cool me down a bit. - Sarah Perez

Sometimes it might help to 'get Bold' instead of following the wisdom of the crowds :) - Mrinal Desai

Agreed. As I posted elsewhere, there is nothing compelling enough for me to spend an extra $30 per month. My beat up edge version works beautifully and mine was free! - Brad Nickel

What bugs me is that everyone is saying to turn this feature off or that feature off to preserve battery. What's the point of having an iPhone 3G if you have to turn all the features that make it different from the original iPhone off? Hopefully Apple will work on better battery life. For now I'm sticking with the 1st gen. - Dennis Jackson

Seriously, if you're worried about 3G battery life in your car, you might want to invest in a $20 car charge adapter for your $199 (or $299) phone. - Ernie Oporto

whoa, the green screen bliss! vi editor where are you?! - Susan Beebe

Ah yes, CLI you are my friend - Joe from twhirl

Wow. I actually remember these green screens. Doesn't that make me an old fart (relatively speaking). - Alex von Halem from twhirl

boy, where is sed? awk mentioned only once or twice and only as part of long command... - A.T.

!!! - Mona Nomura

Kinda thought I'd learn something new... No aux or | mention is baffling. For those working the command line here's one that should have been on that list find . -type f | xargs grep -l "STRING THAT YOU WANT" - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

HAHA. WEB2.0 via command line. LOL - obolonskyi

Never knew about `sudo !!` That's awesome, definitely will come in handy :) - Bartek Ciszkowski

blast from the past. only command-line thing I ever do now is "ping slow-website". :-( - Mitchell Tsai

Stupid Blogger (I find it really hard to say that), in zsh at least grep "STRING THAT YOU WANT" **/* - Michael C. Harris

I'm on the command line about 80% of the time while i'm at work :) - imabonehead

dumb idea for windows users to install cygwin in most cases (unless you are installing sshd or something). no love for tasklist, pathping, robocopy? no mention of powershell? linkd? bah. - Karim

I have been waiting for Gazelle to release new version of QDOS since Windows 3.0 came on the scene. - Jeff

No mention of Poweshell? Bah! - Yuvi

got pico? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

"sudo !!" pretty handy. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Try viewing is flickr photostream using piclens... it's AMAZING - David Silvernail

Piclens Rocks! - Thomas Hawk

Beautiful...Wish we could get Flikr unblocked here in China - lonnie b hodge

It would be nice if PicLens worked on Friendfeed. - Jauder Ho

Piclens support on FriendFeed would be awesome. - Thomas Hawk

dropbox and humyo - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

Scoble did you sink the Twitter Whale? LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

mediafire - Richard Lawler from twhirl

mediafire, zshare, dropbox, and wuala - Mona Nomura

wuala. - Chris Chua

my.opera (old school hehe) - Michael W. May from twhirl

Not free, but I use S3 and RapidShare - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

dropbox, like it's extreme simplicity - Dorian Tireli

box.net, fast and simple. - Xavier Moisant from twhirl

Not free but dirt cheap... S3 - Ray Slakinski from twhirl

humyo & boxstr - Cee Bee

drop.io and dropbox - Dennis

box.net - Jason Shultz from twhirl