"This is funny for all the wrong reasons. So Verizon gets crap on Twitter for being dev unfriendly. Let me repeat that - Verizon gets crap ON TWITTER for being dev unfriendly. Twitter, that great champion of third party developers. Or, as the kids say, lulz."
- John E. Bredehoft
"If we're going anti-big data by talking about little data, why not go anti-cloud and talk about local storage and ownership of the little data? Rather than having these calculations be made in Apple's or Google's server farms, what would happen if we personally controlled the little data and authorized what the apps could do with the little data?"
- John E. Bredehoft
With Paul's departure from Facebook today (November 12, 2010), I've heard several FFers talk about who's still at Facebook. I've seen various different numbers, none of which I think are accurate. This is my attempt to be more accurate. Information comes from publicly available sources where available. I drew on the list of FF employees from http://friendfeed.com/about... and http://blog.friendfeed.com/.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of November 2010: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 8 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Jim N., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 5 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
OK, took some editing but I think the above is accurate. If anyone knows where Ross M. or Goutham P. are now, please let me know!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Updated Jim's entry. He's apparently left Facebook. (I think I remember him confirming this when I had lunch with him last month!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status as of May 2012: Of the 14 people who were ever FriendFeed employees, 7 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Dan H., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B., Ross M.), and 1 is unknown (Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, Goutham worked at RockYou for a bit in 2010 and now works for Google. Also, how have I not seen this thread before?! I remember you taking that picture at Kitchen Table - fun times :)
- Ross Miller
now this is creepy.. some1 is stalking all the former employees of FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Stephen, also Goutham was a summer intern the year before the Facebook buy. He did not transfer to Facebook. Ross did you transfer to Facebook, I can't remember.
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh and I think Ben D. has left AOL. But I can't confirm that, I just seem to remember something about that. *shrug*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anne, AeroFS looks cool! Congrats Jim!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Overall status as of May 22, 2012: Of the 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees plus 2 interns, 6 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Bret T., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), 6 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.), and 2 were interns who never went to Facebook (Ross M., Goutham P.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of June 15, 2012 (updated on September 13, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 5 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ana Y., Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 7 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
So basically we're gradually losing FF advocates within the mothership. :-(
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
So clearly we need to either recruit current FB'ers to start using FF or get FF users employed FB, or both.
- Andrew C (✓)
13 Sep 2012: what was the cause of the outage? But perhaps more importantly, *who* kindly fixed it (and from where) ? [If FB open sources FF, who would be willingly to maintain it?]
- Adriano
And whoever it was, I'd happily buy them a nice dinner.
- Meg V. Meg
I think Sanjeev is most eligible for a FF Rent Party of sorts. More of a FF Thank You party.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
bump just to immortalise this pix and the start-up crew !
- Peter Dawson
Ana left Facebook, no more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Thanks Tudor -- I updated her entry. Overall status, as of September 20, 2012): There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. (In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M., Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above.) So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 4 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Casey M., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 8 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks Tudor and Stephen for the update.
- Meg V. Meg
Casey left Facebook as well (which, as he's Ana's husband, is no big surprise :) ). No more details.
- Tudor Bosman
Not sure how I missed Tudor's update back on October 2, but I have now updated Casey's entry.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Overall status, as of October 2, 2012: There are 12 people who were ever FriendFeed employees. In addition, there were 2 interns (Ross M. and Goutham P.) who never went to Facebook, per Tudor B., above. So, of the 12 official FriendFeed employees: Currently, 3 of 12 are still at Facebook (Ben G., Sanjeev S., and Tudor B), and 9 of 12 have departed from Facebook (Ana Y., Ben D., Casey M., Bret T., Dan H., Gary B., Jim N., Kevin F., and Paul B.).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
An update of sorts, which I guess is in and of itself creepy. I was reading a recent piece on Google Reader, and I was struck by the fact that Darnell jumped from Google Reader to FriendFeed (there are similarities between the two orphaned applications, when you think about it). Then I saw that Darnell made his move right before the Facebook acquisition. After reading subsequent...
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- John E. Bredehoft
"If it's any comfort, I'm typing this comment on a Windows 7 computer. I wonder if one of the reasons for the "no gadgets for Press" atittude is because, until recently, Microsoft themselves didn't make the hardware in question? While Microsoft has repositioned its marketing to tout its long experience in manufacturing hardware, until now the most critical hardware - the computer itself - was always provided by other companies. For Apple, of course, most of the hardware in Apple's history was Apple-branded. Maybe Microsoft hasn't yet figured out that if you're going to sell your own hardware, you need to give influential people hardware to try out. Dell and HP aren't going to promote Microsoft Surface for Microsoft."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Good points, but I differentiate between slaughter/starvation and disease (with the possible exception of sexually transmitted diseases). While Europeans brought diseases that killed native Americans, that in itself was not an explicit move to kill the inhabitants; it just happened. Slaughter and starvation, on the other hand, are a different matter entirely."
- John E. Bredehoft
"I'm sure the FBI is well aware of it, since I believe some form of the scam existed even before President Mills died (in this form, it was just a son who had money). Of course, things exploded after Mills' death in July. I've written a subsequent post in this blog that describes how the Ventura Police Department has issued a warning about the scam. Presumably other law enforcement agencies throughout the world have done the same thing."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Alli, how dare you say that I've been conned! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to my monthly meeting of the Lance Armstrong Support Society. (And yes, I've blogged about that also.)"
- John E. Bredehoft
"Considering that the scammers have probably sent out about 95 million emails, the share going to each of us would be pretty small. :)"
- John E. Bredehoft
"(NOTE TO SELF: Look up currency in Ghana. Maybe the scammer will charge an exorbitant exchange rate to convert to other currencies.) D.C.G., regrettably all too many people think this is for real."
- John E. Bredehoft
"I assume that the recipient then says "But I can't go to Spain, South Africa, or Uganda!" Maybe it's part of the scam - "Well since you can't meet my son, you'll have to make an extra deposit to show your good faith.""
- John E. Bredehoft
"The test doesn't even have to be that complex. Since the shop has a physical location, they could run the ad in a corner of the shop, and then ask the customers, "What do you think?" Granted this won't support a survey of the customers who have never set foot in the shop before, and it won't provide quantitative data, but it's a start. I've never seen the ad in question (your Google+ profile says you're from Buffalo, and I've never had to pleasure of going there), but your description suggests that the vacuum cleaner shop spent a pretty penny on the advertising, probably "leaving it to the professionals" and trusting that they knew what they were doing. Well, Rebecca Black went to the professionals and ended up with a song called "Friday," and we all know how that turned out."
- John E. Bredehoft
"I'm not familiar with the MindWave, but I'm really looking forward to Simon's next post: "I'll explain how I connected a LEGO motor to the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi and then used my mind to control the motor!" A head can presumably provide more input than a hand controlling a pointing device, or one or two fingers on a touchscreen. It will be interesting to see how far this technology has come."
- John E. Bredehoft
"And there are also advantages from the user having more control of the experience. I wonder how the competitive aspect of Ribbon Hero 2 is executed; do you get Outlook messages saying that Peter just beat you in Ancient Egypt?"
- John E. Bredehoft
"It's a pity that the starting tutorials that are built into many games haven't been adopted by traditional software. I am now a volunteer for a certain national organization, one that has its own website that the volunteers must navigate, and various forms that the volunteers must fill out. Things would be much easier if a cartoon character would guide me through the website and the form-filling process. Instead I have to listen to pre-recorded training sessions ("then you select 'Done' in the lower right corner") that are divorced from the application itself."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Perhaps there are other ways in which comparator logic can be used with a body of enterprise data. As for Bex's problem (the need to update profiles), I was recently reminded that this is a continuous concern at both the enterprise and the consumer level. I recently received a reminder of my father's birthday, but there were two problems with the reminder. First, the birthday date in the reminder was a day off - I've seen this in other reminders from the same contacts list, so I suspect that something is broken here. Second, my father passed away a year and a half ago - obviously I never took the time to remove him from my contact list. I'll grant that my example is extreme, but there is clearly a need to update personal contact lists - people move, change jobs, have babies, etc. This is compounded when I look at the contacts on my Android phone, which takes its contacts from several different sources. If I see errors on my phone, it takes me time to figure out where the original..."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Links work. Bold and italic text is bold and italic. The picture didn't come through, but that's probably a bandwidth issue on my end, not your end (I see that others are seeing the image)."
- John E. Bredehoft
Our cat. Everyday a new live present. He brings them through the window which we have rigged like a cat door. Luckily it is the window to the downstairs half bath, so when I open that door and see a critter, I quickly shut the door.
What motivates a cat to bring these items to a home? Why doesn't the cat just take care of the animal where he/she found it?
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm really not sure he even eats them. Brings them in, plays with them, then takes them outside when we yell at him or (unfortunately with the squirrel), just splits and leaves us to deal with them.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
He is gifting you! You are super awesome in his world! I had a feral cat who would leave mouse liver in front of the deck door. I would make a thank you fuss while gagging.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Here we go again. He has been hanging out in the kitchen a lot today and all night. Very uncharacteristic for him. I assume there is a mouse hiding behind something in there.
- Laura Norvig
Vicster links to blog posts from The Way of Cats and they seem to provide plausible explanations for the reasons behind cat behavior: http://www.wayofcats.com/blog/
- Spidra Webster
"We subsequently received several faxes. Not sure if they were sent from the same number. An odd way to do it, since the cost of faxing is higher than the cost of emailing."
- John E. Bredehoft
"I noted to a friend of mine that if Romney was criticizing Obama for not meeting with anybody, he wouldn't automatically praise Obama if he did meet with someone. Meet with Netanyahu? "It's all for show." Meet with an Arab leader? "Meeting with the enemy." Meeting with a European leader? "Dragging us into the European mess." Literally a no-win situation, and as Dody Gunawinata notes, not much can be done right now anyway."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Dave Barry's fake history of the United States, written in 1988, is as valuable to history as Jon Stewart is to news reporting. According to Barry, we elected Carter in 1976 because we wanted to be led by a weenie who had nice hair like Phil Donahue. In Barry's world, Reagan was the anti-weenie reaction. Probably about right."
- John E. Bredehoft
"Louis, it appears that a number of people are concerned about trusting their data or their applications to some other entity, especially since the terms of many cloud agreements are more akin to "rental" agreements rather than "ownership" agreements. In my view, the tech world bounces back and forth between extremes, like the pendulum on a clock. One day, centralized processing and/or storage is the rage, then all of a sudden the virtues of distributed processing/storage are the new thing, then all of a sudden centralization comes back into vogue again. Clearly today the hot thing is centralization, where you can access your data from anywhere and offload the processing (and all other worries) to your favorite company's server farm. However, within five years the pendulum will change again, and there will be moves to "control your own data" or "harness your own processing power" or whatever. This might be because people distrust large vendors like Apple :) or because Intel wants to..."
- John E. Bredehoft
Not sure if the issue belongs to Friendfeed or Delicious but some time during the last week I started noticing Delicious posts appearing in my FF profile that I did not make, did not show on my Delicious account, and I have no clue where they are coming from or why. It wasn't so bad when it was a few interesting geeky web dev related links, but after finding a bunch of porn links to my Friendfeed account, I decided to cut this off.
- April Russo
I think they have to do with delicious (at least primarily), because posts created by someone else, not him, appeared in my GReader feed of his delicious account, too.
- Maitani