God is it that easy? Can someone make an app where I can put in 3 characteristics of an insect and a zip code and it will return all the possible type of insect it is, with pictures (call it wtfisthat)? /me waits for someone to say its coming in the next x weeks. - Erica Baker
Seriously though, I've got a solution I've been working on for Drew's problem. Just waiting on the design now and we're mostly done. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Because I'm not my own host and WP doesn't support it :( - Mona N.
if we could embed our entire friendfeed page onto our site & have one click signup for non-friendfeed members. That would be superb. - Zee at WeDoCreative
Paul - did you fix the word wrap issue for comments? e.g. on my blog comments cascade across the column into the right margin - http://blog.infinitelymeta.com... not a big deal at all. just wondering. great work on the beta btw. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
you know what Paul - ignore what I said....apart from letting people sign up directly via the widget. Then my friends/family who aren't on friendfeed can comment directly plus you get a whole bunch of new 'non-techy' members. - Zee at WeDoCreative
What Mona said. I suggested to WP that they add FriendFeed to the "trusted javascript list"; they responded promptly saying that they would add it to their "candidate library". - Neil Saunders
I tried a couple of times to get it to work, but even with setting the width, the comments still sprawled outside the border of the widget and looked ugly. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
Still using the original script on the front page, but did add 'Share on FriendFeed' to the Blogger post template today. Awesome. - Marianne Lenox
I created my own widget using feedburner's RSS setup and some CSS code, so as I can get my entire lifestream, as set up on FF, to show up. Since I'm a crappy web designer, I may end up using the FF widget, after all... :/ Can we also use Yahoo Pipes on the Widget? I'm thinking of using Rasheen's duplicate removal setup, once he gets it to work... - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy
Yepp, works flawless :) (both widget & bookmarklet) - Kemal Yaylali
i haven't because i'm trying to figure out where to put it on my blog. - Morgan
Not sure Paul. I'm using Chris Pirillo's Social Media theme. Not a WP guru myself. Willing to test though. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
FYI: Adding the widgets (other than the "Share on FriendFeed" link) to self-hosted WordPress requires zero knowledge of WordPress templates. You login to WordPress, click on "Design", then "Widgets", and add a "text" widget and paste in the code. - Benjamin Golub
No because my blog sidebar is too narrow and changing the widget width cuts the text off mid-line. May redesign my blog one day when I'm bored. - Deborah Fitchett
I did, before Godaddy lost the location of my blog they host and I can't get it back :( - John Worthington
I had it on my old site design, just added it to my latest. Thanks for the reminder. - Jack Carlson
I just did the other day when someone posted the link here on FF. It rocks, thx. - Victoria/Plautia
Used it as an experiment in the 'blog that posted itself' recently. Great. Now I'd like to use it in sidebar as widget. Can't change text size tho'. Too big. - Kate Foy
Ditto Loic - but switched to the newer wider one. Would love to be able to do like 7 or 8 in instead of 5 OR 10. Try to keep the stream clean there for others. Think 7 would be perfect but one size doesn't fit all :) - Charlie Anzman
you can do different numbers, just change the num= variable. I use num=12 - Justin Long
I don't feel like my friendfeed content meshes very well with my blog. I enjoy friendfeed quite a bit, but I don't really feel the need to try to get more people to look at my friendfeed. I did try it a couple months ago before it was really public, when I noticed it on your blog, Paul. I do use the friendfeed comment plugin. Maybe I will add a share on friendfeed button. - Robert Felty
I did install it but I don't really like its size. I'd like something narrower and with a smaller font. I don't know if this is something I can fix with CSS magic, but that's not my thing. - Robert Konigsberg
From my point of view: How exactly would it help the readers of Blogoscoped? What's the problem it would solve? Not everything I say on Friendfeed is relevant to the content of Blogoscoped. Now, give me a widget that I can customize to make it be relevant just to a single specific blog post and I will give it a try perhaps... an RSS feed for "comments on URL xyz" (where I can make xyz be a Blogoscoped permalink of a new post) would be interesting :) - Philipp Lenssen
+1 to Philipp. The only widget I have on my blog is delicious tags, and I'm not even sure that's useful to my readers. - Amit Patel
Wow... I would love to know how he feels about his sons in uniform now, our current torture policy, and particularly how most of what was done to him doesn't officially count as torture. Looks like that will not happen. - Clare Dibble
Wow. See, the thing is I can understand being pissed off and tired with all the media and the grind. Yet, that's the job and it's not going to get easier when you're president. Secondly, pick your spots and know who you're talking to. Do this to ... a low-circ newspaper or blogger, but to Time? - AJ Kohn
Maybe the dude is just trying to sell more books. (I haven't turned to the weekly news magazines for news in ages, but isn't Time the one that is considered to be generally slightly right of center? Shouldn't it be home turf for McCain, relative to Newsweek?) - Chester
More than anything, he sounds exhausted. He'd better get some sleep before the convention! - Heidi Moon via twhirl
Describing the interview as "prickly" doesn't seem completely accurate if you listen to the audio. The interviewers' questions were a little on the pointed side (confederate flag? pre-marital sex?) -- and while McCain didn't come across as effusive or garrulous, this is not the same thing as "prickly." :-) - Karim
Worse, the transcript appears to have some errors that make McCain look bad -- after the confederate flag question, the transcript says McCain, quote, "[Does not answer]," when to me, on the audio recording, it sounds like *somebody* replies, "No." Also, the transcript says, "[long pause]" where there is, in fact, NO long pause, making it sound as if his answer is evasive, or not forthcoming, etc. - Karim
I am *not* a McCain supporter, but it seems unfair to describe him in this interview as "abrasive" when it just seems like he's being direct and to the point, or to say he was "determined to stay on message" as if that was a bad thing. It seemed a bit like they were baiting him, and they were disappointed that he didn't bite. - Karim
@Karim, agreed about the audible "no" to the confederate flag question. However, the media is accustomed to McCain's charm, particularly in one-on-one interview sessions where he's historically shined (evidence the "do I know you?" crack.) Taken in the context of how McCain usually handles interviews like this, "prickly" is accurate. - Ken Norton
Another example of that damned liberal media bias. - Chester
I guess. He just seemed pretty normal to me, and reluctant to get suckered into answering dumb questions, which I thought was commendable. He seemed cordial enough. My idea of an "abrasive," "prickly" interview is more like this one with Lou Reed (http://nymag.com/daily/enterta...) where he responds with a few choice expletives and then walks out. :-D - Karim
So this guy This (hah) wants you to cook the eggs for an hour instead of 10 minutes? That's not going to go over easy. I'd say the yolk's on him. Let me know if you agree, I'm walking on eggshells here. It's a fertile area for discussion, though, and he may be eggsactly right. - Stephen Mack
Stephen, I'm sure you meant say that wouldn't go 'ova easy' right? - Kevin Fox
From the source: "
Next, This turns up the oven thermostat to 67°C, or 153°F, and after waiting a while for the eggs inside to reach that temperature—again, he's casual about the timing—he retrieves a second one: "The 67-degree egg!" At this temperature the yolk has just started thickening up—some of its proteins have coagulated, but the majority have not. "Look, you can mold it," he says, scooping out the yolk and manipulating the pliable orangey-yellow ball like fresh Play-Doh. He tries to mold a heart, then settles for a cube.
"Try one," he says, taking a third egg from the oven for me to play with before turning up the heat to 158°F (70°C). The 70-degree egg, when it is finally done, has a moistly set yolk and a very tender white. "So you see, you can adjust the temperature depending on what you want," says This. If you prefer a firmer egg, cook it at 167°F or 176°F. Bear in mind, though, that the most copious of the egg-white proteins sets at 184°F—hence the rubbery results of the 212-degree bath." - Erica Baker
Given the information above, I want to see pictures of what each egg looks like at each temp. Kevin, can you post photos of your results? - Erica Baker
"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want." - Paul Buchheit
Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top? - Erica Baker
FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps. - Cesar Cardoso
For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
me again - it seems not to be picking up my default CSS values like the other widgets - it still insists on showing up as a white background black text. See http://pflix.com for example. - Mark Bean
Mark, the white is div class = friendfeed widget and needs to have the background overridden, it's set to white (obviously). The classes in the nested divs below it should inherit the new BG color. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
55 pounds?! The people that come up with these things are people who failed at math in grade school. Take away _one_ fare and you've lost double that weight. Idiots. - Erica Baker
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. - Steven M. Cohen
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
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
A link to a stock photo of my ride: http://tinyurl.com/chromepista -- I now rock it with bullhorns, and toe clips. Put on a front brake, but, I never use it. Legs = stronger brakes, for the win. - Do You KNOW Clarence?
I ride a Raleigh Detour 3.0. 21-Speed Urban Cruiser. That said, I'm thinking about picking up a nice schwinn for when I want to ride like the wind. Update Linkage: http://www.raleighusa.com/bike... - Jason Toney
Still old school steel ('89) Bottecchia with Campy. Likely upgrading as Christmas present to myself. - AJ Kohn
I ride a Gary Fisher Mamba. Black/white/yellow. I think it's heavy and the wheels are smaller in diameter than, like, everyone else's bike that I've seen. So I'm working harder than many riding it on the pavement, but since I've put some money into it, I'm loathe to ditch it. - Erica Mauter
Bianchi Strada, mountain-bike handlebars, Shimano brakes. - George Kelly
Nice, nice; lovin' a view of everyone's rides. What type of mileage are you putting in? My regular commute on my fixed-gear is 7-10 miles round trip depending on my routes, and I usually get an additional 10-15mi rides in with some other cats late nights. - Do You KNOW Clarence?
I was just thinking about how I need to get my bianchi volpe fixed up and get riding again. It's a beautiful dark metalic green and black with purple cow tape on the handlebars. I'll have to take a photo. - Goldie Katsu
Trek Navigator 3.0 - http://www.trekbikes.com/ca/en... - not quite a "bike shaped object" but close. It's slow as the dickens, but my knee problems meant I had to downgrade to this model from a hybrid with road tires. - Cecily Walker
