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Also, we now import Zooomr favorites, and IntenseDebate should work again (they changed their username scheme). - Paul Buchheit

Thank you. :) - Hao Chen

very good :-) (but ... can't wait when frf has an ability to add an arbitrary service (user-generated catalog of services available)) - Nikolay Samokhvalov

Awesome! - Glenn Slaven

When can we have newsgator clippings support for us non-google reader users? - Glenn Slaven

It's official ... from the big guy himself - Charlie Anzman

Is there a Skype status feed somewhere Chris? - Paul Buchheit

igor, I think we'll figure that out once they get federation working (which is supposed to be soon). - Paul Buchheit

Great. Now I can hide identi.ca feeds without having to hide the blog of the respective user. Thank you. - Lars Trieloff

Great job! - Rutger Blom

what about the facebook status updates? I hope that's coming... - Rahul Das

Nice work with the status, I would like to see DailyMugshot introduced! - Joe Dawson

Great! Just added identi.ca; configuring brightkite too. - Parth Awasthi

Paul, given Identi.ca uses the Twitter API it would be nice if we could respond via Identi.ca in the same way you can with Tweets. I presume implementing it wouldn't be overly hard (where as Plurk of course is another matter) - Duncan Riley

@Rahul FB status would be cool, but there is no public RSS feed. There is a feed, but it requires a key, which would require you to type in your username/password. - Hao Chen

@Duncan +1. i was thinking the same thing - Trent Olson

Quick poll. Who's using Plurk? - Larry Kless

Any chance of adding Qype for us non-american review writers (aka non-yelpers)? - Liron Tocker

Woohoo! Identi.ca! - ◄ani625Ξ

Integrated identi.ca via RSS feed before. OK, now it's there but it's not that big deal to me. - Ansgar Wollnik

Thanks for the identi.ca support ... Excellent work ! - Christian Farley

AWESOME!! Ok, I might be using Identi.ca again!!! Yippee! Thanks FF team!! - Susan Beebe

Why are the updates called Dents, I'll Dent you later :S - Joe Dawson

i love "status-blogging", but i still think that it destroys the flow of my friendfeed - i also blocked every twitter update from everyone here at ff... - Dieter Schwarz

Yay, more services to add to my profile! ;P - Aaron Myers

I am getting ready for Identi.ca Twitter going down the drain! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

seems like i need to go get my identi.ca id before its taken ... - Raza

Fantabulous ;) - Yung-Hui Lim

yay!! - Sarah Perez

I am all set! Please follow me! http://identi.ca/igorthetroll - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

ahhh cool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Now people can stop doing status updates with FF every time Twitter is down ;) - Alejandro

shark jumped ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Ha! "I will 'tweet' about this in a minute." - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

The FriendFeed folks may need to reach out to the USA Today writer. It seems his perspective of FriendFeed is extremely limited (or was edited out substantially). - Robert Seidman

The first guy commenting on the USA site is not much of an early adopter! :) - Stephan Osmont

twitter... what is that? - Noah David Simon

It's interesting to see the few comments already. I still don't see the mainstream adoption of Twitter. (Then again I don't know exactly why MySpace survives either.) The FriendFeed comment is just wrong as anyone who has used FF could attest. - AJ Kohn

There are more comments here than on USA Today. - Russellreno

Quick, someone write up a blog post entitled "Is Friendfeed killing USA Today?" - Mark Trapp

USA Today was just deleted on twitter... some woman accused the news of stalking... I mean following - Noah David Simon

The Internet is certainly not a boon currently for Gannett: http://ap.google.com/article... - Robert Seidman

:) mark. ha. - edythe

seriously, how much did they pay for this? Corporate propaganda with no negatives. And FriendFeed was set up to service Twitter? WTF x 1000000 - Duncan Riley

agreed. it is time for friendfeed to get a divorce from twitter. we need options to also reply to other services like identi.ca and youare - Noah David Simon

I thought it was going mainstream in about 2012, WTF? - Iain Baker

One day later. http://friendfeed.com/e... ; ) - Erhan Erdogan

Just read the article. Best part right here: "A cottage industry of websites — including TweetScan, FriendFeed ..." - Thomas Hawk

Here's the reaction that I think most newbies would have: "I read the article. Never heard of it. Seems like a total waste of time." - AJ Kohn

My favorite part was the comments. Apparently, none of us have anything to do and are a bunch of idiots. - Ryan Kuder

One of the social phenomena occurring here is how it takes interactions over time before mainstream type users reach out and ask someone close to them "what is this Twitter thing I keep hearing about?" The first or second time in the press, their eyes glaze over. But, after hearing a co-worker mention it, seeing it on TV, and hearing about it on the radio. They finally ask about it more engagingly. Those around for the start of blogging will know recognize this. I think FF will follow the same trajectory. - Christopher Sacca

Hmmm...who could you be referring to here...?! (I seriously doubt those few still involved with the KKK have internet.) - Dennis Bjørn Petersen from twhirl

the KEY difference: FB is internal activity, FF is external. For example, I know "Drew Olanoff is no longer listed as "single." but I don't know the latest from his blog via FB. - Duncan Riley

I dunno. I haven't looked that far into it, but a couple of apps (like twitter and ff) posting to the timelines have started to make the view from within facebook appear relevant again. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

You can add things like Flickr and Last.fm feeds to your Facebook feed. How long before they support any RSS? - Martin Bryant

Martin, they already do. Though I think you can only add one RSS feed. - Jamie

Really? Excellent! I'll have to do that then... - Martin Bryant

I'm not seeing RSS in my friend timeline though. It's still no FF. - Duncan Riley

If you were not chasing a cheap headline than KKK crap would not be in the comment would it? - Fred Grott

I port my friendfeed into my Facebook feed. By default, it shows my twitter flickr and last.fm feeds among others. I also use twitter to update my Facebook status. The fail whale is NOT my friend. - Helen Sventitsky

Anyone else unable to see the new Facebook? www.new.facebook.com just redirects me to the home page. - Alexander Carlill

Helen, in the new version, all I see is "added an entrty on FriendFeed" on my feed. Funnier still when you click on it, it's classic fail whale - Duncan Riley

Thats the annoying thing about the new FB design, you need to expand each FF item to see the content, if only you could change the default setting. - Arthur Guy

@Arthur they are tweaking it as the descriptions are coming, Last.fm Loved songs are a mess but I expect they will shortly display properly - Joe Dawson

Completely with you with this Duncan...and frankly, it was friendfeed who imitated Facebook in the first place with this friendfeed idea. - Zee.

Zee: Almost no idea is original - what you do as an entrepreneur is build upon previous and existing ideas. Facebook was NOT the first to come up with the concept of a lifestream or news feed, but it was the first one to popularize it - FriendFeed decided to improve the concept. - Ben Parr

When I do blog, I get zero comments on the site but plenty here. It's still feedback. - Candace

What I'm seeing: http://www.louisgray.com/graphic... - Louis Gray

I'm trying to convince our tech guy to integrate FF comments. Editorial's all on board with the idea, just convincing the biz side to add yet more code that doesn't increase bottom lines may be a hard sell. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark : I think it just means there are more people interested in their friends seeing what they're saying than the Mashable audience specifically. Which, really, makes sense. I mostly care more that my friends see something interesting I feel like saying something about than a group of strangers unless we're talking about a very, very niche topic. (I wouldn't force FriendFeed to read... more... - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

Yeah, ok...this is cool. - Jason Bentley

I think it's a really interesting use of Twitter. And this guy is no amateur. He's a published novelist. (His last novel, "Hooked," was a bestseller.) - Leo Laporte

Is this the first use of Twitter in this way? - Jason Bentley from twhirl

@dlangendorf was working on something like this for a while, as were others. There need to be lots of creative experiments with emerging social media, not just talk about the platforms themselves. Artists often show us the most interesting, non-obvious aspects. In mobile this is certainly the case. - Dean Terry

Start from the first post: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gr6sf - will killian

I read it yesterday, am following it today (with SMS updates, no less) and I have to say I find it a bit, er, derivative. - Gregory Cohen

Really? Derivitave of what? - Leo Laporte

Great List! - FaceySpacey

top list - Duncan Riley

Brilliant work! - Allison

that sounds really useful. when will it be available? i cant see it on your site ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I should have it released in the next hour or two - engtech

It lives: http://internetducttape.com/2008... - engtech

You are a coding machine! - Phil Ashman

haven't been able to get it to work. it installs fine, but when i open the "friend feed importer console", after a few seconds it displays a bunch of errors ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I'll try installing it on a clean machine and see what happens... I might have a missing dependency - engtech

Ah, it breaks on machines that don't have the HOME environment variable set. I'll release a fix. - engtech

We have a winner: http://internet-duct-tape.goog... - engtech

w00t it works :) Installed fine, and is currently doing its thing. Thanks a bunch I was just thinking the other day how useful a tool like this would be. Whats it mean when it says "Can't find social graph" though? ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I put more discussion about the social graph stuff in the blog post. I'm using XFN/FOAF stuff to find the connections between people... doesn't always work well. - engtech

it is running now but is there a way to produce a simple output instead of subscribing? I am now subsribing to some people I really did not want to subscribe to. ;) or better, if that thing could just produce two lists (twitter friend / friend feed twitter list) i could do a very neat comparison in excel myself. ;) - Nicole Simon

hm okay. ran it but have no idea if it aborted or not, but given the amount of friends i haev in both, it seems like it. a pause button at the end might be a good idea. :) waiting for the next version. ;) - Nicole Simon

superb! If only it was a web service.... - zeroinfluencer

nick, a holodeck can simulate and interstellar spaceship. perception is everything. in fact, it's the only thing - @baratunde

@eric curious as to why you're posting statements directly to friendfeed. - @baratunde

I don't want to blog this stuff, my audience is more diverse than web nerds. Also, I have a full post on why I think Google is building a holodeck framework, but I'm just baiting at this point. heh. - Eric Rice

that's cool. also twitter is down. again. will be interested in your post - @baratunde from twhirl

the thing is, the holodeck only simulated stuff that you couldn't do because you were stuck on a spaceship. if you're actually on earth, why not really go whitewater river rafting or whatever, in actual reality? (shit, i'm gonna answer my own question here: sex with celebs and fake time travel.... duh. (though they did the latter on STNG a lot, for some reason they never did the former)) - Ňicķ

Proof! Proof! :) - Alejandro

@nick that's present day things. I can't go back in time. And, I can't be everwhere Right Now. Let's go hang out in the Alps...ooh crap, can't gotta pick kids up from school. ;) - Eric Rice

I'm with Eric on the simulate thing. Tons of things I can't do and places I can't visit due to reality constraints. - Todd Jordan

Start with the Now. Google has a mapping/earth engine that contains relative proximity based information, in all media formats. From Street View to the laser scanning of buildings for 3D. Microsoft also does it, but they are uncool and probably can't figure this out yet hehe. So first step is to look at the current offereing and how robust it is. - Eric Rice

I mapped/toured Tokyo before I went, affecting my real state of presence there. When I got back, they actually improved the mapping, so every 3D building is rendered. I'm going to try this someplace like Paris next. I can also see the experiences of other 'patrons' via photo/audio/video... - Eric Rice

The notion of being in a rendered place (and being aware you in a rendered place) does not take away from a social experience and a spatial awareness. Ask anyone who plays Warcraft, Second Life, Halo, GTA, etc... seemingly normal things (by the dollars anyway heh). Sense of place is sense of place. - Eric Rice

My theory is that our minds are being conditioned to think in that dimension. What Google is building is essentially the pre-historic framework for that. For kicks, look on Xbox for the 'making of the museum of human history', the fictional documentary of how the diorama was built. - Eric Rice

We just don't have the absolute immersive interface.. YET. Look at what people can do with accelerometers and motion sensors and cameras and infrared on game consoles alone. - Eric Rice

Let your minds wander and don't think about next week, thing about next decade. And then think of how Microsoft could be the winner if they were smart enough to stitch things together internally. Heh, doubtful. :) - Eric Rice

But we wouldn't be able to interact with that environment, right? - Alejandro

Addendum: Google doesn't know they are building a holodeck. heh - Eric Rice

@alejandro that depends on the interface device. Take a basic game like GTA, you can interact; take one of the PS EyeToy games (aquariums and the Tori-Maki painting), you can interact... Haptic and tactile stuff has a long way to go; this winter we're getting our hands on EEG interfaces (wearable)... Hence why I made the disclaimer at the top: 'framework'... interfaces are still coming - Eric Rice

this reminds me of that old simpsons episode where lisa imagines VR helmets in school, she puts it on and genghis khan appears saying: "Hello Lisa, I'm Genghis Khan. You'll go where I go, kill who I kill, eat who I eat!" Now that would be something! - Ňicķ

If I had a holodeck I'd simulate a desk with a computer on it that got FF. - Geoff Schultz

I have my own holodeck in Second Life - does that count? (it's actually pretty cool!) - Chrimmus Tad

Oh sure it's all fun and games till you ask the computer to create a Professor Moriarty smart enough to challenge Commander Data. - Geoff Schultz

Yes, but will it save our health records? :) - Morton Fox

Using your health records it will create a "virtual you" to kill you over and over in cyberspace. - Chrimmus Tad

sex with celebrities! - edythe

What if Google can scan people with lasers (in public) to create a 3D representation of YOU. Overlay that with all the data you (and your contacts) produce. Would one be able to recreate basic facets of personality (16 of them) based on the nuanced data and clues provided by you and your network? Then you have an avatar that is strong AI that could live for generations; talking with your gr-gr-great grandchildren. Yay for sci-fi! - Eric Rice

Yes but does it have real estate yet? - Prokofy Neva

hmm let me think what that would be good for... oh yeah. porn - Noah David Simon

"Mom! Grandpa's weird AI ghost is having sex with Penelope Cruz in the holodeck again!" - Ňicķ

@prokofy yes of course, I have some land for you, just pay me and I'll send you the coordinates - Eric Rice

Good luck keeping up. :) - lilbyrdie

Yeah, thanks for subbing me. I really enjoy your photos and I might never have seen them otherwise. - Akiva Moskovitz

thomas - how long did it take to add em all? did you have some script do it for you? - Chrimmus Tad from twhirl

That's some serious adding. I find that it's not terribly easy to reciprocate after the fact. What methods did you use? - Bwana ☠

TH - love your pics and your favs too - Dave Martin

Sweet, you are following ME now! Now who is the mouse and who is the cheese! - Phil G

Wow - I use Friendfeed the opposite way. - Steve Rubel

why would you do that? Seems like way too much... I've been moving in the opposite direction - removing people I've been following so I can have far less noise - Jonathan Greene

I went from 10 to 100 a little over a week ago and it certainly made things significantly more interesting. FriendFeed is taking a lot of my attention away from Techmeme, and providing a much broader view of what's going on out there. - Larry Rubin

Tad, it took me a long time, maybe 3 or 4 hours. I don't have or know of a script to auto add reciprocity. I think Scoble had one for Twitter but I don't know of one for FF yet. Basically I went to who subscribed to me and then cmd-clicked them all into new tabs and one by one went through adding people. - Thomas Hawk

Jonathan and Steve, there is no need to remove anyone when you have the "hide" feature. If someone is too noisy you just need to hide whatever is causing the noise. I'm discovering lots of new interesting people this way. I love it. Even when someone twitters in a language I can't read for instance I can hide their twitters but still get their great flickr photos or flickr faves. selective hiding by service rocks. - Thomas Hawk

Want to add your Twitter follows to Friend Feed? Use Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer. http://tinyurl.com/4rr2fl I am looking for a scrip that will check FF against my Twitter follows. - Russellreno

Welcome to myself!! Mmm, that didn't sound right. - D.

That is _A LOT_ of followers. I just hit 1,500 total, and it took me more than a day and a half! - Louis Gray

Sounds like a job for iMacros - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah from twhirl

please add me - www.FriendFeed.com/vmjr - thanks! - Victor Ryden

I"m still not sure how you can possibly keep up with the information blitz that comes from 1000+ contacts. I get Scoble's meme about 'noise' over 'news', but I don't know how you sort out the useful nuggets from the rubbish. - Daniel Norton

Daniel, you can't, not when you're subscribed to that many. It's like a firehose. The info just keeps coming. I honestly have no idea why Thomas and Robert and others do this to themselves. You'd need to do nothing else all day but to watch the FF or Twitter page if you wanted to keep up with it all, and even then I think you'd miss a lot of updates from people. - Raoul Pop

I don't follow thousands of people on FriendFeed or Twitter, but even with the hundreds that I do follow, I feel like I'm dipping my toe in a rushing stream. Luckily, there is search. And in FriendFeed, comments and likes keep things bubbling. - Ontario Emperor

Is there an easy way of doing this in bulk, or did you click subscribe on 1000 accounts? - Duncan Riley

At what point does it become too much to handle? - Morton Fox

Ok, I answered my own question. Having used it, I can see the ease of use. It's pretty easy to create them and track the results. - Bwana ☠

LOL, half of twitter is not answering the polls in the right format. This is going to be challenging and fun. - Bwana ☠

what is the right format?? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

You @reply with either a number (1|2) or a single keyword defined by the poll creator. I have my first one here: http://bwana.strawpollnow.com/ - Bwana ☠

so ... "@bwana 1" or "@bwana (1)" ? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@bwana 1 and then a reason like. "@bwana 1 because I said so". The keyword version is kinda confusing but I believe it's like "@bwana hancock because Will smith blah blah blah" - Bwana ☠

So what happens if you answer yourself or tweet about other stuff? I'm afraid to test it on my first poll... - Voyagerfan5761

i hate the way @replies work.. its a pita to figure out what the reply is about.. assuming you DO want to know. What is wrong with attaching the @reply to the original message, so you see them in the order the occurred, with the msg they were about? Isn't that how forums work and have worked for some time? If it ain't broke, don't mess with it. - Tim Hoeck

Well, the @ link is approximate. Oft times, it points back to the wrong thing. - Jauder Ho

Agree -- it's more confusing than helpful in my mind. - Charles Barthold

it'd be nice for less ad hoc method to arise. @ replying to multiple people is kind of disfunctional, for example. - felix

LOVE the way @replies work. it is finely tuned to show me EXACTLY what I want to see... conversations within my Twitter social graph. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS but explain it better... - Elliott Ng

@ works fine for me -- just wish Twitter web would pick up @s anywhere in the tweet - Shey, Jamaican of FF