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Christopher Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“Hard to explain how much I enjoyed my tour of @zappos. It isn't just a company. It's a better way of living.”

8 hours ago - Link

Erica Baker and Min Liu liked this

Ryan posted a message on Twitter

“The countdown has begun...NXE tomorrow! Xbox's are $199! Have fun!”

10 hours ago - Link

Alex Scoble CISSP, Erica Baker and Paul Reynolds liked this

It appears that I forgot to sign up for the preview, so I'm chomping at the bit for tomorrow to get here. Entirely for the Netflix support. - James Williams (willia4)

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Hmmm has there been a gamertag exchange on friendfeed yet? - Erica Baker

I'm willia4 on XBL, though I don't actually play many games. - James Williams (willia4)

I'm AmEricaJoy on XBL. - Erica Baker

erica, probably in the gamer room - Anika Malone

pleasureS on XBL - John Cozen

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Engineers Rule: At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda.

yesterday at 2:59 am - Link

mihun, Chris Lamprecht, E. Sengo Kiruluta and 26 other people liked this

The trick: "You need to give people the freedom to spend and the freedom to make mistakes," says Takeo Fukui, Honda's 61-year-old president. "If management oversight is too strong, then it's difficult to innovate." - Rob Schonberger

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Gem of a post! - Rahul Deodhar

"To be a company that society wants to exist." - Bill Strathearn

Entire industries, and nations, can rise or fall based on their understanding (or lack thereof) of this phenomenon. - Sean McBride

The motto "to be a company that society wants to exist" brings to mind Kevin Kelly's recent post on the near future and whether we can create a vision of collective betterment that motivates people instead of galvanizing them with fear of others: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/... - Keith Pelczarski

I also liked their motto: "To be a company that society wants to exist." - Davide D'Incau

Jess Lee posted a link

Big 3 Bailout - Average Wages for Detroit vs Japanese Transplants

yesterday at 1:52 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Robert Haas, ♣genieyclo♣, Susan Beebe and 9 other people liked this

"For Detroit, [bankruptcy] means release from ruinous wage deals with their astronomical benefits (the hourly cost of a Big Three worker: $73; of an American worker for Toyota: $48), massive pension obligations, and unworkable work rules such as “job banks,” a euphemism for paying vast numbers of employees not to work." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

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Like for the overall idea, not for the political name calling etc. - Erica Baker

I don't know precisely how the proposed bailout is structured yet, but it definitely gives me a scary, icky feeling at first glance. And while I do think that labor costs are *part* of US automakers' problems, it's obvious that they're far from the whole story. - Joel Webber

It's also worth noting that the article's author is Charles Krauthammer, who's hardly a useful source of unbiased information. Some of the commenters go so far as to suggest that US automakers would be fine if it weren't for CAFE standards, which is pretty absurd given that they also apply to companies that are doing just fine. - Joel Webber

Agree with Joel - Krauthammer is very partisan so I expect he gave us the reasons why his point of view is right. - Bindu Reddy

For all the benefits 'big 3' employees get due to union membership, it's the non-union shops operated by Toyota and Honda that have the better track record of not laying off their workers, even in the lean times. - Kevin Fox

Mona N. posted a message

“OMG Custom Made Mini Figs FTW!”

Monday at 6:24 pm - Link

zos, salimeh, Derrick and 58 other people liked this

http://www.thebigtoyhut.com/ca... - Mona N.

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Awesome! Guys, we need to all kick in on custom FFundercats Mini Figs! How cool would that be? - Ladybug Heather

OMG I want it ALL - Mona N. via IM

sweetness! - (jeff)isageek

This is For Mona : 日本最高だ - J.D.

I would be a very happy camper if I could get one of those. - Jamelle

I want one SO bad!! - Mona N. via IM

OMG! - little Angel

Mona, seriously, I <3 you soooooo bad... :) - Johnny Worthington

Yes, Yes this is twisted... You are the best, Mona! - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

Worthington: Dude, FIVE HOURS!! I LOVE YOU and I LOVE YOU GUYS SOOOOO ultra much!! - Mona N. via IM

*swoon* - Johnny Worthington

Mona: http://cgi.ebay.ph/ws/eBayISAP... - Mo Kargas

I know it's ended, but theres a few online - Mo Kargas

I want Joker. Like HELLA bad! - Mona N. via IM

These are awesome! - Mark Martinez

excellent! haha - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl

Adam Lasnik posted a message on Twitter

“ATTN: If you let every lame ad get your goat, you'll be cranky, bitter & dismissed. Save indignation for more important things. #motrinmoms”

Monday at 11:24 am - Link

BeeLing, Michael Hart, John Mueller and 13 other people liked this

I am aghast and concerned about the firestorm over this situation. Motrin pulled the ad and profusely apologized. Was the ad lame and condescending? Yes. But I'm guessing a tiny but very vocal minority would have screamed if had been hilarious and thought provoking, too. IT'S AN AD. Not news coverage. Not a school lesson. And you know what? 90% of ads are offensive in their lameness. Guys are portrayed as stupid. Dads are portrayed as lazy. Kids are portrayed as airheads. There are much bigger travesties in life... like why would any sane Mom pay for branded ibuprofen?! :) - Adam Lasnik

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can I triple like something?? - Leslie Poston

Sometimes social media amplifies an issue well beyond its importance - Hutch Carpenter

Heh, thanks, Leslie! And Hutch, that's the understatement of the decade ;-). Question is, how can we encourage companies to take online communications seriously and also take risks at the same time? How can we teach companies it's okay to say no, it's okay to have a respectful but disagree'ing dialogue? Or perhaps we social-media enthusiasts are blowing this incident out of proportion. After all, vocal minorities have held power outside of social media for ages. Only difference is speed, IMHO. - Adam Lasnik

My goodness, just noticed that Motrin apologized on the *front page of their site* - www.motrin.com. I hate Chevy truck commercials. Wonder how many enraged geeks it'll take to get Chevy to give us a shoutout on their homepage? :) #chevygeeks - Adam Lasnik

You have to wonder how much free publicity they're getting out of this. It's almost as if they would be well off creating mildly controversial ads and then paying someone to be obsessively angry about them. - John Mueller

+1 John - Hutch Carpenter

Tudor Bosman posted a message

“I bought my first pair of size 32 pants today”

Sunday at 5:56 pm - via IM - Link

Zia Syed, Dan Hsiao, Anne Bouey and 7 other people liked this

For most of my adult life, I moved between size 36 and 40. Losing 50 lb ftw :) - Tudor Bosman via IM

Congrats, Tudor! I hope I follow in your footsteps :-) (aiming to lose about 20 pounds) - Adam Lasnik

gratz, I'm at 36 now, tightly, and would be very happy with comfortable 34s - Michael W. May

George Kelly posted a message on Twitter

Sunday at 4:31 pm - Link

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Christopher Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“To be clear, our president-elect called the latest Jay-Z album "tight". Never, ever wake me from this dream.”

November 13 at 11:15 am - Link

Corie "Viper" Jones, Karen Padham Taylor, susan mernit and 23 other people liked this

you think Jay-Z has ever been played on the presidential speakers before? - Mark Foundos

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Obama did say he was putting a hoops court on White House grounds. Hopefully, it will have a system. - Christopher Sacca

I hope he offers to settle international disputes w/ a game of H.O.R.S.E. "That's an E, Putin. Game: Democracy. Looks like those missiles will be going back to Russia." - Mark Foundos

True dat. I'm hoping that Obama will also solve the East vs. West thing once and for all. Think Biggie and Tupac are really being kept in Area 51? - Jason Shellen

Something I learned from Newsweek this week: Obama's 'brushing off the shoulders' move was a direct Jay-Z reference. http://www.washingtonpost.com/... I am not as cool as our new President. - Kevin Fox

Having a president-elect make a pop culture reference that I can identify with is making me feel old. I feel like anyone running the country should be older and more mature than me and less of a contemporary. Not that I'm as old as Obama but you know...... - Mark Foundos

Obama brushing the dirt off his shoulders was smooth and definitely intentional. It makes me happy. Just the other day I was listening to Run DMC's "Raising Hell" CD, thinking that our president elect would approve. It makes me crazy proud just thinking about it. - Keith Pelczarski

@Kevin - If it makes you feel any better, he makes geeky Star Trek jokes, too. - Keith Pelczarski

Yah, he's even geekier than the Newsweek reporter reporting on his Trek cred. (Newsweek: It's 'dilithium crystals' not 'the lithium crystals') - Kevin Fox

heh... I noticed that in the Newsweek article, too. At first I felt smart for catching the error, and then I felt sad for being such a nerd. ;-) - Keith Pelczarski

James Williams (willia4) posted a link

A junior at Dartmouth ran for county treasurer and won, pissing off the incumbant

November 13 at 8:03 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Rob Diana, Erica Baker, Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes and 4 other people liked this

Her biggest campaign expense: a $51 ad on Facebook - James Williams (willia4) via Bookmarklet

Way to screw over the man! - Daryl Burns

I heard talk of doing something like this at my school. The students were a huge percentage of the city's (and county's) population so if they all registered to vote there, they could have taken over. Fortunately for the permanent residents, the students were all far too lazy to organize. ;) - James Williams (willia4)

FriendFeed Feedback: Trent Olson posted a message

“I'd like another option in the IM settings to receive an alert when there are new comments on posts that I've commented on and/or liked.”

November 12 at 8:03 pm - Link

Erica Baker, Kol Tregaskes and Tanath liked this

I wish to get notifications for the comments direct from FF itself like the room invite notifications,at least an option please. - Steve via fftogo

Benjamin Golub updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Just used Gmail Video chat. That was awesome.”

November 12 at 7:08 am - Link

Hutch Carpenter, Erica Baker and Anthony K. Valley © liked this

Quality was very good. Seemed better quality than iChat to me but there are a number of other confounding variables. Didn't seem to be a way to do group video chat though :( - Benjamin Golub

there should be group video chat in future? because gmail video chat technology is based on vidyo which technology mainly used for video conference. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/... - huixing

Jyri Engestrom posted a message on Jaiku

“Glad to see Jaiku used as backchannel at an internal unconference”

November 11 at 3:40 pm - Link

Erica Baker and Adewale Oshineye liked this

Crystal English favorited a video on YouTube

Gnarls Barkley - "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?"

November 11 at 3:44 pm - Link

Paul Buchheit, Serena, Chris White and 2 other people liked this

Amazing. Amazing. - Christopher Sacca

This is my favorite song on that CD. <3 - Erica Baker

James Williams (willia4) posted a link

It was bound to happen: the market is actually giving us the finger today.

November 11 at 2:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

George Smith, Erica Baker and Morton Fox liked this

Or it's a head and shoulders pattern. - Morton Fox

Morton - Thanks for ruining my joke with reality. ;) - James Williams (willia4)

Keith Coleman posted a link

Official Gmail Blog: Say hello to Gmail voice and video chat

November 11 at 1:54 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

chenv, hobbes, catt avery and 38 other people liked this

I've started having a lot of quick 30 second - 2 minute video conversations b/c of this feature. Saves so much typing and waiting. It's actually changed the way I work. Nice job, Sweden & Seattle. - Keith Coleman via Bookmarklet

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"And in the spirit of open communications, we designed this feature using Internet standards such as XMPP, RTP, and H.264, which means that third-party applications and networks can choose to interoperate with Gmail voice and video chat." Come on libpurple! - Erica Baker

Awesome! Where was this last week when I wanted to video-conference in to all the election night festivities from China? :) - Ana

I wish it didn't require installing a plugin though. I'm sure there's a good reason for it but without it working out of the box I doubt I'll ever be able to use it to chat with certain people (my Grandparents use Gmail but I don't think they'd know how to install this). - Benjamin Golub

@Ben Send them to http://mail.google.com/videoch... and tell them to press the big button? - Erica Baker

1/2 Skype + 1/2 Tokbox + Google = death to Skype and Tokbox? - George Lee via twhirl

Benjamin, you're right. And if you have to install something, why not just make it a standalone program? Like an update to the Google Talk client? My mum and sister both use Google Talk but they've never used the web interface of Gmail because they know how to use Outlook Express already. - Tony Ruscoe

no linux support yet =( - Evan Parker

Side-note: When you have Google Update installed as Firefox plugin, then clicking Google's installation button won't trigger a security dialog, but just start the installation. - Philipp Lenssen

@Evan If libpurple can get this implemented, you could just use Pidgin. - Erica Baker

A plugin? Reminds me of the original Google video. Why don't you use flash Keith? - Paul Buchheit

Tony: Updating Google Talk leaves all the Mac users out. Now if I could just get a free VNC client or something that punched through firewalls well on Macs I could install this for my parents now instead of next time I see them. - Brett Cannon

Brett: If you use the listening VNC viewer, you can have your parents make their VNC server connect to you. - Gabe

Mona N. posted a link

Google launches video chat for Gmail

November 11 at 1:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Juliet Hsu, Mike Reynolds, Ranjit Mathoda and 21 other people liked this

You guys, it's a webapp. AWESOME - Mona N.

Bradley Horowitz posted a message on Twitter

“Congrats to GTalk and GMail teams on launching GTalk Video: http://bit.ly/gtalkvid”

November 11 at 1:24 pm - Link

Michael Leggett, Moishe Lettvin, Keith Coleman and 12 other people liked this

Nice! Well timed woot: http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewE... - Erica Baker

exador23 posted a message on Twitter

“@stranahan Obama wouldn't even *exist* if someone hadn't stood up for the right of two people in love to marry.”

November 9 at 10:42 am - Link

Erica Baker and Jason Wehmhoener liked this

Adewale Oshineye posted a message on Jaiku

“Anyone got any tips on running a BarCamp-style unconference?”

November 7 at 7:10 am - Link

Michael R. Bernstein, Erica Baker, Patricia Hanrahan and DeWitt Clinton liked this

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

I'll spend the money on drugs instead

November 6 at 7:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Clare Dibble, Stephen Mack, Chris White and 19 other people liked this

"Do you want me to email it back to you?" - DeWitt Clinton

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That is hilarious! - Erica Baker

This was what I needed :) - Michael W. May

Beyond strange. - Tom Stocky

Cyndy, look - Live4Soccer

I actually LOLd. I almost *never* LOL. - Michael R. Bernstein

Hilarious! - Jess Lee

Cyndy might like this one...it's sorta cute! LOL - Susan Beebe

whoa! Where you goin, little guy? get back up to the top! - Live4Soccer

Need a laugh? Click through. - Michael W. May via twhirl

The site is down. But fortunately, there's Google cache: http://74.125.95.104/search?q=... - DeWitt Clinton

"I realise with hindsight that it is possible you rejected the drawing of a spider due to this obvious limb ommission but did not point it out in an effort to avoid hurting my feelings. As such, I am sending you a revised drawing with the correct number of legs as full payment for any amount outstanding. I trust this will bring the matter to a conclusion." - Paul Buchheit

The important part: "It was silly of me to assume I could provide you with something of completely no value whatsoever, waste your time and then attach such a large amount to it." - Gabe

Replacement link (via reddit): http://www.quoted4truth.com/ar.... - Philipp Lenssen

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“We now include map images and links for entries that includes GeoRSS tags. See http://friendfeed.com/public?s... and http://friendfeed.com/equineno... for some examples”

We now include map images and links for entries that includes GeoRSS tags. See http://friendfeed.com/public?service=brightkite and http://friendfeed.com/equinenow for some examples

November 6 at 6:20 pm - Link

Gökmen Karasu, Lars Trieloff, Nathan Johns and 73 other people liked this

Ah. Nice in fact. Can I suggest a little something btw? Add anchors or a kind of permalinks to comments :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

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Sweet! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Holy cow that is awesome!! - Susan Beebe

I added a feed of my Dopplr trips: http://friendfeed.com/bgolub?s... (find your feed in http://www.dopplr.com/account "Atom feed of all your trips") - Benjamin Golub

Ben - neat!! - Susan Beebe

FF becomes "Lifestreaming Google".:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I wonder when this will first be used to establish an alibi. - Gabe

awesome. - Davide D'Incau

WOOOOOOOOOOOW !!! finally!!! THANK YOU!!!! - silpol

great:) - Baard Overgaard Hansen

Excellent feature. Thanks. - Håkan Dahlström

I guess people would like to know that among brightkite.com they might also need http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ and http://loki.com/my or one of this apps http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/gal... ;) - silpol

Paul and the entire FF crew....cool. Thanks! @Matt Musgrave We might have been close to the 1st to figure that one out. My potential stalker you. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo

Very cool - nice map too ;) Have you considered using the terrain tiles instead I think they work a little better for this as the place names are easier to read with less prominent roads. - James Macgill

Christopher Sacca posted a message on Twitter

“@al_gore Welcome aboard! I am the guy who asked you to sign up at the Current/Twitter party. :) Glad you made it!”

November 6 at 5:15 pm - Link

Erica Baker, Private Sanjeev, AJ Kohn and 2 other people liked this

Next you need to convince him to sign up for FriendFeed. - Atul Arora

Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link

Change.gov - Obama's site just went live.

November 6 at 11:28 am - Link

Tom Stocky, Chris Luckhardt, Eugene Kostylev and 66 other people liked this

as lovely as the ever - Zee from WeDoCreative

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Awesome. Please let there be a Twitter account there. - Anika Malone

"No suitable nodes are available to serve your request" - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

It's so busy, I can't access it. - Lainie

wow, it was fine just 13 minutes ago - Zee from WeDoCreative

I'm sure someone could craft a pretty awesome fail whale out of the Obama logo - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

it seems to be coming up now... albeit VERY slowly - Shawn Duffy via twhirl

Still down at 18:46 - Roberto Bonini

still not loading huh... - Zee from WeDoCreative

President 2.0 - Eric @ CS Techcast

@Shawn that would be awesome. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

just came up for me. took a long time to load though - Jon We Won Lee

error: No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. - AJ Batac

No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. - Nicholas Kreidberg

However, if you don't mind unsuitable nodes, then head right on back to FriendFeed.com. - Ladybug Heather

Well said Heather ;) - Nicholas Kreidberg

down - Shey

He should have run it in the cload... - Bill Pennington via twhirl

or maybe even the cloud.. - Bill Pennington via twhirl

All Your Nodes Are Belong to Us - Micah Wittman via twhirl

No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. WTF? - Lon Cohen via twhirl

Am I the only one that sees something about nodes and thinks Drupal? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

also got an error - Mattb4rd

I just heard that the site is down. No reason why though. - Lon Cohen via twhirl

Unfortunately, his site just went dead - Glen Campbell

It's back. - Vincent X

shouldn't the URL now be changed.gov? - Andrew Smith

naa...no where near changed yet... - Zee from WeDoCreative

changed.gov couldn't possibly launch until at least Jan. 20th - Scott from Canada

Should have checked FriendFeed first. I stumbled across this site and thought nobody else had shared it yet :P - Benjamin Golub

you should know us better than that Benjamin :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

FYI I thing the nodes message was from the load balancer - Bill Pennington via twhirl

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Slashdot | (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks?

November 5 at 9:52 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Erica Baker liked this

"chmod a+x /bin/laden" - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Roshan Vyas posted a message

“On the CNN Holograms: "Who the hell greenlighted this idea at CNN? Get the fuck out of here with this Pixar fuckery. The best comment I got about this shit, though: “B.E.T. should hop on that for the next award show. That way T.I. can accept his award next year from jail.”" via 2dopeboyz”

November 5 at 2:21 pm - Link

Erica Baker liked this

j1m posted a message

“sí se puede”

November 4 at 10:55 pm - Link

Paul Buchheit, Ruchira S. Datta, Erica Baker and Tudor Bosman liked this

Chris Wetherell posted a message on Twitter

“Thousands of staffers, volunteers, voters, and observers crying, laughing, disbelieving.”

November 4 at 9:11 pm - Link

Bindu Reddy, Wally Punsapy, Michael Leggett and 14 other people liked this

Same here in Elko... just a few orders of magnitude smaller :) - Christopher Sacca

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Congratulations, Chris. - Louis Gray

so very grateful. - jenna

Congrats! Great job - Bindu Reddy

Thank you Chris. - Michael Leggett

Bret Taylor posted a link

xkcd - Election

November 4 at 11:30 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

naruter, Berker Peksağ, Michelle Fullwood and 94 other people liked this

The alt text on this one is awesome too. - Jason Chen

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Thanks for pointing out the alt-text. It's funnier than the comic. - Piaw Na

This was already happening on the news last night. Gotta talk about SOMEthing, right? - Josh Haley

Didn't know xkcd had bonus alt text until Jason Chen alerted me in this thread. Thx. - Andrew Meyer

JASON CHEN FROM GIZMODO????? no. i'm soooo let down. - Chris Nguyen

The Apple Room: Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link

Browse iTunes for music, then buy from Amazon

November 4 at 5:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Joshua Schnell, Amanda H., Jason Kaneshiro and 6 other people liked this

Oh wow not a bad idea! - James Cooper

Sweet! I often check Amazon to see if they have the music I see on iTunes. - Cheryl Jones

I don't really open iTunes anymore. Just go straight to Amazon now. - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes

That's cool, now if only Amazon's MP3 store was available in Germany. - Holger Eilhard