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无忌图片论坛 - 闪电

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Lighting in Beijing - Sean Wong

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If You Want To Create a Mashup, Just Ask Your Browser. Mozilla Labs Launches Ubiquity.

Wednesday at 12:50 am - Link

This is awesome! - Sean Wong

Sean Wong commented on a story on Digg

Portable Cygwin

July 16 at 2:12 am - Link

"It works. However, you should unzip cygwin along with the 2 .bat files into the USB root directory rather than the "Cygwin for USB" mentioned above. Secondly, X.bat needs to be modified a bit. Well... I managed to make it work" - Sean Wong

Evernote posted a message on Twitter

“We just released an updated version of Evernote for Windows. Make sure to check for updates.”

July 9 at 6:01 pm - Link

Linda Shaul, Mark, David Worrell, Sean Wong and 4 other people liked this

The upgrade process was super easy. I was worried about another 50 mb download. - mrshl

Completely hooked on Evernote.Nice and clean update. Do have timeline to add the thumbnailview to the Windows version? - Mark

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李开复：有用的创新才更重要

July 9 at 6:47 pm - Link

“完美的工作我认为有三个标准：是否给自己学习成长的机会；自己是否喜欢；是否最大化的发挥自己的影响力。” - Sean Wong

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“Wimbledon ladies' semi - J. Zheng v. S. Williams”

July 3 at 7:13 am - Link

Failed at the 1st serve too many times! - Sean Wong

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[养生主] 每天八杯水，真的需要吗？-华尔街日报

July 2 at 7:41 pm - Link

没有结论，只有争论。看来也不太可能有定论。就我个人而言，还是觉得有好处的。 - Sean Wong

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“'Block User' is live -- use it wisely”

June 15 at 5:08 pm - Link

Diana Valerini, Mitchell Tsai, Timo Paloheimo, Arjun and 79 other people liked this

good advise! - Susan Beebe

big advise! indeed :) - directeur

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Hey Paul questions: if I block a user I stay subscribed to him? It means it is a polite way of unsubscribing to someone? Why not just unsubscribe? Thanks - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

Isn't that too close to "Unsubscribe"? - João Almeida

You get a warning message after you click Block - Bwana McCall

Unsubscribe to a user this will still make that user's contributions visible if he/she's a friend of a friend. blocking him will make him disapear like a shadow in the night - directeur

Loic, it's a two way block. You can't see them, and they can't see you. Posts or comments. It's much more powerful than Unsubscribe. It's mainly for abusive users and trolls. - Bwana McCall

ah I understand from the message the user won't get anything I post so it does not let him subscribe to you anymore, what does the user get as a message then? - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

So far, I've used it twice. I don't think I'll need it anymore. I can quit anytime I want. :) - Harvey Simmons

Paul ! Humanum "Documentus" Est! :) Please explain us the feature - directeur

what does block do ? is it just UI Based or does it also filter the RSS feed (4 blocked user) plus the email alert for that user too ? plus I echo Loic's question !! - Peter Dawson

Not sure Loic. The exact message from the warning is: "After blocking this user, you won't see any of their posts or comments on FriendFeed, and they won't see anything you post. If they're subscribed to you, that subscription will be removed." - Bwana McCall

It's a much less polite way of unsubscribing, Loic. It's closer to a restraining order :). The idea is to create mutual disengagement -- enable people who don't get along to stay separated. For example, if there is someone who posts rude comments on your feed, you may want to block them. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: But, say, if he still insults you on your posts (when he's blocked) others will his comments? - directeur

Blocked users can't see (or comment on) your posts, directeur. - Paul Buchheit

I wonder - when someone will make a "who'se blocked me on ff" application. : ) Is it possible technically? - Erhan Erdogan

Paul, thanks, but I was wondering if they have that possibility through an other app using the api for eg. - directeur

What I really want is just the ability to say that I "Didn't Like" something. Don't want to block people, just let FF know better about what I don't like. - David Recordon

Reputation and feedback features on FF would be great, but block is a start. - Bill Sodeman

Block is cool, but I agree, if FF could learn what I like and what I don't -- even better! - Eric Hamilton

Please @TweetJeebus: no reputation features. They all suck. - Chris Baskind

I tried to thank Tudor for this but he said I should thank you, Paul. So thanks! - Erica Baker

thanks Paul, I see, it is like "divorce" :) - Loic Le Meur via twhirl

BullShit you Blocking out Knowledge! Go Back to your Cave if you do not want feedback! - Igor The Troll

But comments don't happen on posts exclusively, it will also be on tweets, and diggs and stumbles and shared items - blocking someone out really isn't a sensible filter - Andy Beard

Andy is very correct! Blocking someone will just infuriate them against you! - Igor The Troll

wow "56 other people liked this" - Tyler Gillies

Used it twice so far; I hope I don't need to use it more. - Benjamin Golub

Now only removing contacts in Linkedin is missing. - Amit Morson

thanks - just used it, and feel I like it ;) - silpol

It seems to me the two-way nature of this feature makes the "A-listers" (and anyone else for that matter) that much more powerful - they can essentially decide who gets to participate in insightful discussions taking place in response to items they shared (but not necessarily created, such as a blog post written by them). Many great discussions tend to develop around shared items of the more "popular" folks on FF, and as a result blocked users would be left out of entire conversations and those comments created by users other than the blocker. In no way am I trying to protect those abusive users who rightfully earn their blocks, but what happens when a person decides to block someone simply because they don't want to see that user's posts? As it happens, that also means the blocked user (who may have done nothing wrong but post too frequently for someone else's taste, etc.) will be left out of FF discussions -- and without even realizing it. Is this a concern FF is aware of? Any thoughts? - Aviv

@aviv - Does FF have A-listers in the usual sense? I mean, I look at my feed, then look at the "everyone" tab and there is zero overlap. If there were dominant A-listers I'd expect them to fill the "everyone" feed. Instead FF seems to be creating a graph consisting of disconnected cliques. Which is a good thing, in my opinion, but I'd love to see the data to back my hypothesis up. - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt - I think it does to some extent. Look at your Best Of for the day and tell me what you think :) - Aviv

@aviv -- What do you mean? My Best Of right now contains ... let me check .. Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Kevin Fox, Mike Arrington, Jeremy Zawodny, Matt Cutts. Oh wait. : ) - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt - that's exactly my point. Say you love discussing anything-FriendFeed, but Bret and Paul seem to think you're being too sarcastic in your comments around FF. They don't think you're abusing the service, of course, but they prefer not seeing your stuff for a while, and so they block you. Does that mean you should be left out of FriendFeed discussions that develop around their items or even FF announcements they make? Because as it happens, their posts get great exposure and generate many comments. What do you think? ADDED MORE: Let's ignore for now items created by the blocker - I'm more concerned about random shared items (say, del.icio.us bookmarks) that due to the great exposure of the person sharing the item - the discussion happens around their item, even when 100 other users in your network share the very same item. What should happen then? - Aviv

@aviv - Bret and Paul probably will start ignoring me -- my S/N ratio is very low. : ) But they wouldn't block me, they'd hide me. Block is more drastic -- it could have been called "report abuse". Which might have been a better name to avoid confusion about when and where it should be used. Re comment stream aggregation across similar urls: I can only imagine this hasn't been exposed yet because of the UI challenge, not because of technology or philosophy. - DeWitt Clinton

Wouldnt it be good if Block link is available on small popup as well that shows up on hovering person's name? - Jigar Mehta

DeWitt - still I'm sure less FF-savvy users will take the consequences of the blocking feature more lightly. Going back to my original concern - does this leave too much power in the hands of the "A-listers" (or subscriptionally-gifted individuals ;)? I'm not trying to criticize any of them or their intentions obviously, just trying to see if this is a concern FF considered when the blocking feature was still in the lab? Ultimately my question is this - is it okay for a top-FriendFeeder to leave a user they personally dislike (again, I'm not talking about abusers or trolls in the sense that we all agree on) out of hot 100-comment discussions that develop around FF items that weren't even created by the blocker to begin with? - Aviv

Jigar - not necessarily. I would imagine FF expects each user to carefully consider the consequences of a Block, and so it would make sense to force you to first see a user's actual feed before making a decision. This could prevent blocking that's based on emotions raised by a single recent comment you stumbled upon. I think. :) - Aviv

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Kung Fu Panda kicks way to top of box office

June 10 at 3:13 am - Link

I am gonna watch it. - Sean Wong

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June 8 at 9:39 pm - Link

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栽培讀名校家長月耗四萬 - Yahoo! 新聞

June 8 at 8:00 pm - Link

天哪，投资也忒大了吧！ - Sean Wong

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四長跑好手跑步上北京(Run from HK to BJ)

June 6 at 10:53 am - Link

What?! Wow... It's a long long way to run from HK to BJ. How long will it take to finish this 2500KM marathon journey? - Sean Wong

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Basic Instructions: How to Insult Someone Without Offending Them

June 5 at 12:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Emily Miller, Amber, dave mcclure, Andrei M. Marinescu and 25 other people liked this

Somebody nearly owed me a new keyboard. That is made of awesome! - Harvey Simmons

Lol, poop - Andrew Dobrow

"poop poop" Double-LOL - Harvey Simmons

Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations

June 5 at 11:46 pm - Link

oliver gassner, Erik, Diana Valerini, David Adam and 214 other people liked this

Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it. - Robert Scoble

Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed. - Ranjit Mathoda

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cool beans. - Anthony Citrano

Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me. - Alex Williams

Very cool Bret. - Hutch Carpenter

Very nice. - Atul Arora

Very nice, indeed - Michael W. May (Joffi)

Thanks. - Amund Tveit

Very nice addition. Keep em coming. - Tsega Dinka

We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor

@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor

Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora

Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble

Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble

How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray

@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter! - Yuvi

interesting idea - Steven Hodson

uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom.. - sedgewick

Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested? - Ryan Carson

perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - krz9000

Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky

Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood

This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano

hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith

This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson

Oh, now see, this is just awesome. - Vince DeGeorge

Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :) - Rob Diana

They should call it A-list juice - Jamie

Thanks, I appreciate this feature. - Daniel Backhaus

I want a feed for this feature! - Marcus Puchmayer

Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix

Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe

Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill

Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer

Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai

Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... - Mitchell Tsai

Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu! - Mike Reynolds

Excellent - Jason Kaneshiro

Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio

wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez

This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris

My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana McCall

Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov

What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana McCall

Awesome! - Daniel Spradau

Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel

I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe

@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur

Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai

Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo

This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter

great addition to the functionality! - Jeroen De Miranda

Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane

Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini

This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott

awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling

Bret Taylor is amazing! - Alex Hammer

I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - Here's... possible248!

Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor

Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson

MG Siegler posted an entry on VentureBeat

Google launches Gmail Labs tonight

June 5 at 2:03 pm - Link

wakao, Calvin Lough, mr-mojo-risin, Heidi Hansen and 60 other people liked this

I would like to thank FriendFeed for help me find my comment since Twitter, you know, has no search. - MG Siegler

i'm excited to see what they roll out for gmail. there has to be a time they take it out of beta though right? i mean 10 million users and still in beta, really? - Morgan

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well i know what the friendfeed is gonna look like tonight - Anthony

snake? really? ok, yes, I will try it :) - Tim Hoeck

They have way more than 10 million users Morgan. - Paul Buchheit

Ooh, this is cool. Google really knows how to cater to their power users. - Eric Florenzano

I think this is huge - not just for users, but I think it'll really inspire Googlers to do a ton of really great stuff. And thus innovation is born! - felix

A bit underwhelming at launch but I could see a lot of potential in this. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo

looks like the 10 million figure was from Techcrunch....."There are currently about 10 million active Gmail users." - Adam Kazwell

I'm curious about this... - Kemal Yaylali

still don't see it on my main account, but all lesser accounts now have it - MG Siegler

I see it but I'm still wonder what all the "excitment" is all about - Steven Hodson

looks like they're still rolling it out - doesn't show in any of my accounts yet. The official GMail blog has the announcement up now, though: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/... - Frederic

I still don't see it. - Morton Fox

Steve Hodson - the excitement I find in this is Google moving the evolving edge of the engineers' 20% time out to the market while the paint is still wet - to more directly involve the participation of the user-base as to the evolution of the product. It is a more direct-democracy, a more intimate relationship with the evolution of the software.. a decentralization and greater inclusion for the decision making process. - sedgewick

Its already available - See here - http://myblogposts.com/what-is... - Diana Valerini

Mine has shown up, 11pm pdt - Anthony Citrano

@sedgwick .. wow does that ever sound like marketing speak .. well if that is the case I sure hope they are using their 20% time to come up with something a little more eviolutionary that random signatures. That one must have left the engineer with at least 9% left of his/her 20%. - Steven Hodson

Steven - really? marketing speak? ...perhaps I should apply for a job. ;p - sedgewick

but if you don't like the 'signature' schtick.. perhaps, others wont, it wont gain traction, and wont evolve, fall to the way-side.. better they get feedback regarding it's stupidity now then after they've invested more time and resources to it. the free-market strikes again.. - sedgewick

wish the labs functionality was available in google apps for domains though - Chris Jones

Evernote posted an entry on Evernote Blog

The Evernote Widget: Notebooks To Go

June 5 at 7:51 pm - Link

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evernote gets cooler everyday. i like when this happens... - maique

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谷歌爱心小天使

June 5 at 6:53 am - Link

果然带点儿北京味儿！ - Sean Wong

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Scribd Introduces Effortless Email Attachment Viewing

June 4 at 6:51 pm - Link

Tried and encounter some problem. Scribd couldn't find my registered email and created a temporary account for me instead of using my existing account. After merging the temp. one with my existing one, all the converted docs are still sent to the temp account. - Sean Wong

Evernote posted a message on Twitter

“We've added drag-n-drop to Evernote Web. Read all about it: http://twurl.nl/4h1qvn”

June 3 at 10:05 am - Link

Shey, Henry Burger, Susan Beebe, Akiva Moskovitz and 2 other people liked this

Nice feature! - Sean Wong

How can we work in any app without drag-n-drop ??? - Sanji (Jean-Daniel S.) via twhirl

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Google spotlights data center inner workings | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

May 31 at 10:26 am - Link

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Lots of numbers about Google's machines, architecture, storage, etc. - Amit Patel

The numbers are pretty arbitrary though. It's like saying how many processes are running on my server (182) -- too little info to reveal much. - Paul Buchheit

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Banning Websites in Offices Can Make Employees Less Productive

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