'This difference between cheap and free is what venture capitalist Josh Kopelman calls the "penny gap." People think demand is elastic and that volume falls in a straight line as price rises, but the truth is that zero is one market and any other price is another. In many cases, that's the difference between a great market and none at all.' - Bret Taylor
"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive ... That tension will not go away." - Clare Dibble
congrats guys. you've built an excellent product, one i became addicted to very quickly. it will be interesting to see how it now evolves with a larger audience. - Carla Thompson
"We can expect the service to grow tremendously, kicking off the next wave of social networking services aimed not at posting busy profiles, but instead, aimed at collaboration, sharing and communication" - Louis Gray
"While FriendFeed has been at times compared with the FaceBook news feed, FriendFeed offers not a dumping ground for application spam, but instead a new way to 'discover and discuss information among friends.'" Nicely put. :) - Dan Hsiao
Dan: yes, the halo comes in those situations. We were debating a bunch of different UIs, and this was the most popular one as of today... Suggestions are welcome :) - Bret Taylor
Most impressed by this one, although for people with a few more friends than I, I could see a need perhaps for some way to group or filter the output ;-) http://worldofslippy.blogspot.... (*lol*) - Slippy Lane
I think it might be better if the halo was always there for friends. You could halo the smiley, too, if one of your friends liked it. - ⓞnor
Also, can I have an "unsubscribe" button on my friends' profile pages? - ⓞnor
Ah, so for Dan foaf is all just a way of being able to have less friends and thereby be more curmudgeonly. - j1m
well, duh! but seriously, this is an upward shift in the ROC curve, so unsubscribing to a few marginal friends is the logical response to keep my f-measure maximized. - ⓞnor
Make the halo show up on all comments from friends, regardless of where the post originated. Comment icon has halo == commenter is your friend. - Tudor Bosman
woo hoo. i only requested this in the group a couple of days ago ;-) (you guys are always one step ahead) - Alex Gawley
As non-addicted user, I'd prefer to have a setting to disable friends-of-friends messages - after all, if I want to get those messages, I'll add that person as my friend. BTW, "dislike" next to "comment" and "like" is also a good idea. - Sergey Chernyshev
Yes, +1 on the ability to turn this off. (I'd keep it on, but I can see how some people would consider it spammy) - Tudor Bosman
Why not a slider? Set the slider at 0 and 0% of your friend-of-friends items will be shown, set it to 5 and 50% will make it, set it to 10 and 100% will be shown? - Benjamin Golub
Can you let us assign a floating-point value to each of our friendships, as input to the slider? - ƃuɐʞ
this feature really needs more options for controlling what I see in my feed, e.g. only show me items my friends liked, or only those they commented on, etc, and maybe from the other side give a user the option to share when they comment or like - Mandi
PS Things that are propogated through friends should only move to the top when that friend or another direct friend comments on/likes it - Mandi
But, @BGolub @kang, how does FriendFeed decide which 50% get shown? I've never figured it out at facebook. http://Multiply.com uses a 0-100 slider to choose posts based on network distance, from no one to everyone; i really like it. - John Lam
Nice feature but a bit overwhelming ;) - Lora Lufark
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. (Is that antitrichotomous?) - Amit Patel
As someone who is paranoid about their privacy, I actually don't want friends of friends to see my stuff. How can I turn this off? Is this going to be a privacy setting? I actually feel the same way about comments, and have been commenting less as I dont want random people to see what I write.... - Elad
People with private feeds don't get their items shared. (Presumably privacy-paranoid people already have private feeds.) Comments are another matter, but those have always been open to anyone who can see the original item (i.e. the entire public, for non-private feeds). - ⓞnor
We have been getting a wide range of feedback, and we will likely be tweaking aspects of this feature a bit based on people's feedback. I will keep you all posted as we discuss our plans this week. - Bret Taylor
In reply to Dan's comment - I actually mean I want privacy for my comments if I set privacy for my feeds. The obvious downside of this is other people would see holes in the threads - e.g. if they are not my friends they would see comments on my comments without my comment. :-) - Elad
Elad, I think that might damage the flow. Maybe when you comment on a public entry, we should include a little bit of text (after the post button?) alerting you to that fact. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, I think this is the reason you can't do this (i.e. bad experience to other users due to "holes" in threads). I think users in general will have to learn that nothing they do on the internet is ever truly private (I met a reporter Sunday who said she follows people twitter and flickr streams looking for stories. Similarly she messages them via facebook I think to get access to their Facebook profile pix - since if you reply to a facebook message you grant access to your profile to the person you are messaging). Maybe it is worth just giving this warning with the first comment people post, and leave it at that? I don't know if you need to warn every time. If I am interpreting things correctly, I need to worry about more then just public entries. E.g. if I comment on a private entry, and a friend of the person with the private entry comments on it and htis persons entries are public, then it sounds like the comment will now become a public comment? - Elad
If the source of the entry you are commenting on is private, it will remain private no matter who comments on it or likes it. The friend-of-friend features only apply to entries that are already public. - Bret Taylor
What Dan said. Private entries stay private, regardless of comments/likes. - Sanjeev Singh
Know what would be interesting? Is if FriendFeed could show "Bret Taylor and Louis Gray and Paul Buchheit and Ionut" shared an item on Google Reader, recognizing it's the same URL... - Louis Gray
i dunno, i like keeping the comment threads separate. but a del.icio.us-style ("also shared by...") link wouldn' be unwelcome - ƃuɐʞ
Interesting. The tv vs movies trend doesn't bode well for movie only on-demand boxes. Also, the article doesn't discuss the convergence of all these media types. Newspapers, radio, books, music, games, video all are available on the internet, so the internet is not really a separate media type. - Chris White
I tried vectormagic on the same image, but the results don't seem as good. Vectormagic after HQ3x (or 4x) would probably do a really good job, though. - Sanjeev Singh
The HQ*x scalers are only one of many: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... (or the docs for recent MAME versions, which include a giant stable of rescalers). - ⓞnor
I love Lenssen's images -- they do such an amazing job of capturing the spirit and flavor of the character, it's almost worth framing on the wall. - ⓞnor
I love Lenssen's images too. And the games they are from :) - Amit Patel
Lenssen's vectormagic images are definitely more museum-worthy than HQ*X blowups :) - Sanjeev Singh
Is anyone up for designing zazzle.com t-shirts with Lenssen's images? - Sanjeev Singh
I would put this up on goodies at CafePress.com, like posters or shirts, but they are pretty strict (probably more than legally necessary) with their trademark policies... but I just uploaded this as SVG for you, so feel free to run with it: http://blogoscoped.com/files/v... (needs some cropping still for some pics to get the original image composition) - Philipp Lenssen
The lookup table bit reminds me of the marching cubes algorithm. - Laurence Gonsalves
small update in regards to Vectormagic approach: first decrease the resolution (without resampling), then increase it using a vectorizer, see image of Marilyin Monroe http://blogoscoped.com/files/v... - Philipp Lenssen
