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What The Customer Actually Wanted - http://www.seenandshared.com/whatthe...

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We had this on the wall of one of our design labs in university. It still makes me smile whenever I see it. - joey

Yup, a true classic. Funny, I've had it forwarded to me in French and Spanish as well, each case seeming to believe it was original. I guess design-by-committee idiocy knows no borders :) - Joel Webber

We had it in a corporate training (and then some more) to instill appreciation of software Requirements, - thequark

LOL - Christopher Harris

Ana

When Gmail stopped working, I just assumed the internet was down. I couldn't understand why I could still load the NYTimes. Figured it must have been some sort of cached version. Never ever occurred to me that it was Gmail that was down.

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It almost feels like the gods are forcing me to use Outlook. Or... punishing me for using it at my new job. - Ana

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right there with you. I actually went upstairs to reboot the wireless router figuring that would fix it. - Rachel Lea Fox

I read about gmail not working this afternoon (that is a few hours ago for me). No problems here, i was mailing all over the place, but now, the world stopped spinning, unable to connect! - Nik

And I thought this had to be my fault in some way... never thought this could happen. :) - Mark Evans

Same here! I went straight to my modem's settings to see if my internet connection was working or not. - Dee S.

Nooooo! Don't use Outlook! It's a vile temptation! #yesgmailisdown - Ladybug Heather

I just disconnected my connection and restarted it, not thinking that gmail is down… - Rob Schonberger

Outlook = evil, Mozilla Thunderbird = less evil - Joe Silence is not Santa

I didn't care because my internet is always down :D - Viva Vida

I suffered from gmail LOS today as well. Did an asteroid take out part of Earth to cause this failure? Outlook is sketchy. Don't ever autoarchive! - David Smith

it feels like the rest of the internet is broken for still being up - ௸ (k2g)

imap and smtp still work - Jason Wehmhoener

David: you made me shoot apple juice out my nose as I read your comment. I never thought I'd see this in my lifetime; we'll need a support group when all this is said and done. :) - Mark Evans

Yeah, same here Ana. Checked my internet connection first... - Brian Remmel

Gmail was down!??! - StuffYerFace

must have been a very bad day for google..the invincible not so invincible.. - Simply Teeeya

I would have assumed the same thing -- oddly I was gone today when it all happened. - Matt Ellsworth

Gmail was down? :-/ - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I felt so lonely and helpless this afternoon while Gmail was down! - Rebecca Sun

Christopher Sacca

Fundamentalist Christians make good project managers because they have unrealistic expectations of what can be done in 7 days.

August 31 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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It is posts like this when I can tell there is something going on with the interactivity decline on FF. Not a single comment or reaction among 6300 subs? - Christopher Sacca

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I think you just validated your assumption. - Omar Shahine

Chris, there's a lot of noise on your Twitter feed in FF -- many @ replies most people could care less about. I'd expect that many of your FF subscribers have hidden your Twitter entries. - Daniel Dulitz

Doesn't that seem like a FF problem then? I mean, Twitter experimented with tuning the reply noise. Maybe FF would do the same? - Christopher Sacca

What sort of reaction were you expecting to this post? - 253 other people

On Twitter and FB there were a lot of laughs, shares, complaints, corrections that it should be 6 days, etc. Just a lot more interaction. It just feels like early on, when I only had a few subs on FF, there used to be a lot more interaction. I feel like Dulitz is probably most right, but there is no way for me to tune the replies down. Both Twitter and FB seemed to get that and filter on them to audiences who might care. I wish we could do the same here. - Christopher Sacca

I think the interactivity in FF has been segregated into many small conversions after FF implemented the groups. - imabonehead

That is likely a factor too. Agreed. - Christopher Sacca

What is a day? Is it the same for all? Large or small? ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I'm agnostic, so I don't have much to say other than that statement is funny. :) - imabonehead

Christopher, lot of the big names (and others, too) on FF totally ignore anything being cross-posted from Twitter. I learned this a while back. If you really want interactivity from FF, you have to post *to* FF, and not just feed it from somewhere else. I was saddened by this, but that's what it's turned into. - Joey Gibson

Chris, it's an FF problem for you (and probably a big reason why FF never took off), but for me it's a selling point. The FF userbase is different than the FB userbase. I subscribe to people on FF for their insight first, and only secondarily for entertainment. I think the average FB comment is very different, more fluffy, less serious. For a good social platform, I think the insight-driven folks and the entertainment driven folks need to balance. I don't know how to get that in FB. - Daniel Dulitz

Christopher: I've noticed a decline in engagement too, but funny enough, every time I bring it up I get engagement again. :-) - Robert Scoble

It is because there is a crowd following you Robert. - Mathew A. Koeneker

I haven't noticed any fall off on FF. - Internet's Tad

Well, I thought it was funny. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

You get engagement when you talk about engagement declining on FriendFeed, because everybody here is interested in FriendFeed. Probably fewer people are interested in project management jokes; sorry. - Bruce Lewis

You must be buddies with Rob Sellen. - Rochelle

LOL Rochelle - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) from iPhone

I think I can now confidently state that I now only get engagement when Scoble comments on my stuff. :) - Christopher Sacca

dude, you should be honored when he comments on your posts. :P - imabonehead

Heheh. I didn't start commenting on this until after you got engagement. - Robert Scoble

Made me chuckle - Herb Hernandez from iPhone

Daniel, you nailed it. For me, FriendFeed is a superior interface for reading discussions about issues and news stories of interest to me and my contacts. So far I've found Twitter to be nice for reading status updates and witty epigrams, but bad for having substantive discussions. When I see a "Twittery" post on Friendfeed or vice versa, I don't know what to do with it. - 253 other people

Chris, another thing to consider is that you have 150 times as many followers on Twitter as you have subscribers on FriendFeed. So, after normalizing for that, I believe FriendFeed is winning :-D - 253 other people

Robert Scoble

Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More (via feedly) - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

August 31 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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τorƍue

Historic Feynman Physics Lectures Available Online - http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS...

August 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"An acclaimed lecture series by the iconic physicist Richard Feynman is now freely available to the general public for the first time on a new Web site launched by Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates." - τorƍue from Bookmarklet

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His books are wonderful as well! His brilliance spanned a much larger realm than just physics. My favorite is "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out." - Mark "DerBingle" J

AWESOME!!!! - Jeannie Choi

Unfortunately those are only available with Silverlight… - Mathieu

I wish they'd make video podcasts of them available. Would be great to watch 30 minutes every day on the bus. - Thaths

Ha, maybe on Zune. - τorƍue

Thaths: have you looked on YouTube? I'm pretty sure they've been up for ages. - Gabe

The lead researcher on the World Wide Telescope project showed us this a month ago when I was visiting Microsoft Research. I kinda forgot about it, cool stuff. I need to watch. - Cornelius Toole

@Gabe: Thanks. I had not thought of YT. Still, I would prefer a means by which I could view it off-line. - Thaths

EricaJoy

The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

August 17 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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April Buchheit

Note to self: Don't 'friend' your boss on FB and then bitch about your job.

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Owned. - Johnny

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El. Oh. El. You gotta be some sort of stupid to friend your boss before your probation period is up. Fired in front of friends and family? PRICELESS. - Admiral Anika

She's a f*ing idiot. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine at an ad agency, who accidentally texted "my boss is a fucking cunt" ... to her boss. She didn't get fired or reprimanded, but she freaked out about it. - LANjackal

It floors me how much people openly vent about their jobs on public feeds like FriendFeed. Even if your boss isn't a direct contact, how are people so sure that a boss or co-worker won't stumble across it? - Mike Doeff from iPhone

If I have complaints about work, I try to mask them as much as possible or make them more about me personally than the job itself. At the same time, I really try to stay mum about any job I have.. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Mike and how are you so sure that other people don't know who you are talking about? There's a person here on FriendFeed who complains about their coworker. Even though I live in a different city, I know that coworker. - Admiral Anika

+1 Anika. I generally refrain from talking bad about my employer/coworkers ANYWHERE online. Even on anonymous accounts. You just never know who might freak out and file an unmasking court order. It's happened before. - LANjackal from IM

It also doesn't matter if anyone sees it when you write it, because The Google sees it and records it for anyone looking for it years from now. - Trish R

Maybe the more general rule that comes into play here is to never say anything about someone you wouldn't tell them to their face. - Ken Sheppardson

Well said Ken. - Benjamin Taylor

What an idiot... When people claim we don't need guidelines for employees using social media, I just have to point out cases of extreme stupidity like this... - Badger Gravling

Ouch! Hope she learned the lesson. And +1 Ken, this is the simplest rule not to forget at any point. - lelapin

this is huge! - Loic Le Meur

OH those lessons learned the hard way. - anna sauce

This is great! Don't bite the hand that feeds especially if you're friends on FB. - Gabe Diaz from iPhone

Why friend your boss in the first place, especially if all you do is complain about the job? - Adrian McMillan

Ouch… :P - Daniel Schildt

Well someone has to make room for other people! From the sounds of it, she was probably already canned anyway. - Robert Fisher

Well that was a bit dumb. The thing about social media is it's just so much a part of our lives. We are encouraged to pour our views and feelings into it but we have to remember who is going to be reading it. In the end we have to censor ourselves so as a result our lifestream is a watered down stream. There are no directors cuts. - Parvez Halim

Absolutely priceless! - Robert Couture

Oh and I forgot the LOL. - Parvez Halim

this is something that may occur very often. More than we think! - Rui

@Rui I remember a colleague of mine did a similar thing. Luckily they got away with a written warning and no pay rise for that year. - Parvez Halim

HUGE! - Nathan Guetta

Interestingly, every time I consider complaining about my job via any social media platform, I stop and think "how can I make my job better? how can I improve myself?" and then end up writing about that instead. It has made me a much happier person. Really. - mike fabio

OMG ! this is awesome - Franck Nouyrigat

OUCH! - Retno Nindya

.. and that's why I'm private. I'm pretty good about not talking about work, but never know when I may say something completely stupid - Rodfather

I think there is a serious point here: Your on-line social network pals will be supportive of you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. That's what friends are for, kind of. All the boss does is let in a bit of reality. - sjjh

Maybe she wanted to be fired by her boss? Just questioning... - Torsten Eckert

Splendid. Too bad the story isn't real. OR IS IT...? - Francesco Balducci

I do so love the false sense of anonymity the Internet instills in people. - matthew john ernisse

haha! - orionstarr

Where did you get this? I'm trying to verify that it is actually a real event. Looks too 'perfect' and to generate this much hype I believe it is just two friends that wanted to laugh about how stupid the world is... - Brian J. Reeves

I wondered the same myself. The language suggests it's from the UK - LANjackal from IM

... or somewhere else where the British style of speech dominates - LANjackal from IM

April - you can't imagine how many people e-mailed me screenshots of this :) - Charlie Anzman

I wish I was here in order to press the "Like" button. - Clément Cailly

social media and your boss don't mix well :) - Dave Q

Zing! - Nick Mutton

Louis Gray

Reminder: The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior (See Stage 4: Entitlement) - http://louisgray.com/live...

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"At this point, often in part due to favorable feedback from the service's authors, the early adopter feels a sense of entitlement, that the product absolutely must be architected in the way they say so, even if to move in that direction wouldn't serve the larger installed base. Now, instead of suggesting quick ways the service could update, the calls are more like ultimatums, and if not quickly seeing a response, the early adopter can get extremely frustrated, at times, seeing this annoyance bubble up to the same degree their first comments on the product reeked of praise." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

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Re: This. http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... The feedback is predictable. - Louis Gray

I get the feeling the Robert has jumped the shark a little bit here. I hope he apologizes to Kevin for his uncalled for ad hominem. - Brian Sullivan

This is great, but I think it ALSO applies to less than diplomatic responses from early adopters that I go back to Twitter, ha. I don't take it personally, but your point is a nice reminder that it is not about me. - Liza

science. - Josh Haley from iPhone

I may be the only early adopter that doesn't feel entitled to anything - Bwana ☠

Then again, I'm not your average human - Bwana ☠

Ever since I posted this, I'm self-aware about potentially slipping from a 3 to a 4, so I think twice about posting criticism without knowing the deciding factors. - Louis Gray

I for one am appreciative of evangelists especially ones that are willing to reevaluate their perspective, tech or otherwise. - Eric Logan

Hah! Looking in mirror. Seeing egg on face. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I feel entitled to type in this box and push the button named "comment." Sorry, I thought that was what FriendFeed was designed for. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I don't know that entitlement is the right word. For me, at least, it's more frustration. Here you have this great product. I want more people to know about it, but I'm having issues, be it my tech, user error or just loss of features, it's frustrating. If I'm having these issues, then there's no way I'll be able to explain to my friends and family why things are why they are. When you... more... - Admiral Anika

One point to the one above. I know that many companies who offer free service will or should charge for use at some point. I'm okay with that, but when they mess with functionality it's hard to justify paying for it. When your users are asking for the same thing over and over again, especially when you're in beta, don't give them a useless feature that offers nothing much to usability. At that point, it's hard to justify the ongoing use of something, let alone paying for it in the future. - Admiral Anika

Is it entitlement or ownership? People support what they help build, right? So maybe it is partly a sense of ownership... - Liza

Great conversation thread... Rule #1 if you do not own it, then do not falsely allow yourself to believe your vote will ever - or should ever - count. Sometimes the developers listen to your sound words of device, but in my humble findings often this waxes and wanes. Rule #2 is that step 5 is your alternative. Rule #3 is always see Rule #1 when you begin to think your opinion matters ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Robert. No harm, no foul. :) I'm just glad I wrote this one already last year, so I don't have to do it again. - Louis Gray

its a pretty graph and perhaps it is true, i have experienced it myself through mmos, beta testing, but did you actually have numbers or is this just instinct? - Robert Higgins

By the way, I'm ACTIVELY still in the promotion phase. I'm showing FriendFeed to EVERYONE as everyone I met in Boulder last week can attest to. That's one thing that Louis' graph doesn't understand. I go through all of these phases IN PARALLEL. Not serially. So, deal with it. :-) - Robert Scoble

The graph is simple. People are not simple. :) The downside to acting like a #4 is dorks looking for an excuse tend to use it as an excuse. Just wait. (Not even Scoble likes FriendFeed any more... he says... "x") So don't give the bastards any ammo. :) - Louis Gray

Louis what is the oldest service that you still use that you didn't migrate from and why? - Robert Higgins

Interestingly, those seeking to distill life into simplistic terms can be dangerous. Like those dorks who spout off non-sensical rules ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

I do think it is used as ammo, which stinks, b/c a discussion we should have (UI on FF) becomes a territorial battle. There were great points made, but also a lot of juvenile comments which I hope are ignored. As I learned in my first online attack, "don't feed the trolls". They are everywhere and not unique to specific networks. - Liza

for me the oldest service i still use is hotmail. - Robert Higgins

Robert: you didn't ask me, but I'll answer anyway: Outlook/Exchange. Although that has changed a lot over the years but I first started using whatever Microsoft called it (MSMail?) back in 1993. Regarding newer web services? Flickr. Wordpress. Google Reader are probably the ones that have had the longest staying power. - Robert Scoble

Louis: yeah, but if I worried about what dorks think I would just stay off the Internet. :-) - Robert Scoble

thought about why and the stages of the graph. while i still use hotmail, for family and things i have migrated to gmail mostly. I personally never did step 4 with hotmail, but i did get buddies on it a long time ago before they even had their own computers. It was cool to promote hotmail and messenger in the 90's felt hip to chat with people in China when I lived in USA. I still like sky-drive for the free 25 gigabytes of online storage, so will probably never migrate. - Robert Higgins

Robert, I still use .Mac mail, and have for a very long time. (Some day I may move to GMail, but not yet). I have stuck with Mac OS through all its iterations from System 6 or so, so I assume that counts. I've been on FriendFeed longer than Twitter, and Facebook longer than FriendFeed and Google Reader longer than Facebook. - Louis Gray

thats interesting, but in term of early adopter and stages where are you now with Mac OS for example. - Robert Higgins

I would say Stage 3 with Mac OS. I don't feel like they need to change anything to reward me for my loyalty. I've never been a Stage 2 user for Twitter, so I hang out in Stage 3 or 4, it's just a utility, as is Facebook. I am Stage 2 and 3 with FriendFeed and Google Reader. I will always push FriendFeed and Google Reader, even if I know they could improve, because I get great value from both and trust the teams. - Louis Gray

Louis: I was through all five stages with the MacOS by 1993. Started over again in 2003. Heheh. I forgot that I still use Hotmail and have for a long time (I remember waiting in line for StarWars #4 overnight with the Hotmail founders and thinking they were pretty cool). - Robert Scoble

you are such a geek scoble waiting in line overnight for Star Wars #4 with hotmail founder - Robert Higgins

Robert: that is true, but, as waiting overnight for the iPhone proved, the line itself was more fun than seeing the movie or getting the phone. In Silicon Valley these things turn into impromptu barcamps. Several companies had tents and it was an all-night party. My son did both with us and they were among the best things I've ever done with him. Good bonding time. :-) - Robert Scoble

Higgins: if I remember right one company even paid for a T-1 line so they could provide wifi to everyone. In Silicon Valley we take these things seriously! :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice bell curve, this typically represents most things - I can be in different stages at different times! - for example - different features of the product (ie I can discover a feature, then promote, etc). Not sure about Migration phase, I would prefer to call it Withdrawal - Geer

I think this post was bad form. I have experienced the same problems with admiring the power and brilliance of the features and simultaneously being confused by their counter intuitiveness. In any case if the graph is accurate Robert's activity would have already slowed and will continue to slow down until migration. The bad form is explicitly referencing Robert. - Ru Viljoen

Ru: thank you. Truth is in just the past week I was in all five phases of FriendFeed and even Twitter. I never liked this post by Louis' even though there's some truth to it and I'm still trying to figure out why. - Robert Scoble

It's a post more human behavior centric than tech focused. Of course i'm interested in HB and how the brain works. I object to the generalization. We all have unique patterns of usage. There are probably hundreds of tools I use a day and am unaware of - Mark Essel from iPhone

Ru, I know FriendFeed is not perfect. But pound for pound, they have the best talent in the business. I also read and enjoyed the exchange in Robert's piece, but didn't "like" it, as he says he didn't this one. Robert and I have a long history of agreeing 95% of the time, and have a mutual respect that lets us exchange ideas this way. I personally would not have approached the issues in the way he did, explicitly referencing Kevin, for example. - Louis Gray

Louis: Kevin runs design at FriendFeed and he's a guy I've judged that is able to take a huge amount of criticism (earned or unearned) and keep his cool and tell you why he's doing what he's doing. Like you said, they have the best talent in the business. Kevin proved it again yesterday. - Robert Scoble

My 2 cents about FriendFeed interface design: Overloading/hiding of controls is often used to present a simpler UI. It's difficult to find a balance, and often testing things on novice users is better than on veteran users to get a fresh response. One difficult example (which I don't know if I could improve) is Canon's cameras (of which I've used 4 cameras). Canon had a standard way of... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Sometimes interface design can be complicated with people at various stages of behavior. Yahoo! tried to change their interface after a few years and got a "New Coke" response (e.g. focus groups, testing, etc... before release). The new interface worked better & made more sense, but they got 1,000s of e-mail complaints from older experienced users - ended up staying with the old... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Oldest services I still use: MS-DOS (1981), Unix (1982), Mac OS (1984), MS Word (1984), MS Excel (1985), MS Powerpoint (1987), MS Windows (1987), HTML (1993), Yahoo! (1995), PriceWatch (1995), Post.Harvard.edu (1995), Slashdot (1996), MapQuest (1996), Google (1997), Amazon (1998), MS Outlook (1998), Internet Explorer (1998), PriceGrabber (1999), SECInfo (2000), Network Solutions (2000),... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Goodness me Mitchell - Thomas Power

Indeed. Outlook 98 is the devil :) - Roberto Bonini

Thomas - It's interesting to see what "stands the test of time". Used HotBot for search 1996-2000, but Google's cache won me. MS Multiplan was my 1st spreadsheet (not a Lotus 1-2-3 fan), but Excel beat out many better spreadsheets. MS Outlook won me with color e-mails, shared calendars, & event coordination. Google Maps still hasn't beat MapQuest IMO. I'm still resistant to using GMail... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Considering I'm on stage 4 right now, I wonder how much I stand to make from the sale of Friendfeed? - Andrew Smith

Louis, Robert: It makes sense to me that a service would be forced to field speculative criticism and that the criticism should be answered on the merits of the argument. In this instance I thought that Robert insightfully pointed out the problem with the UI and then must have been totally side swiped by an unrelated personal criticism from someone who is well regarded. I hate to see... more... - Ru Viljoen

It's Interesting that you posted this last night, before the friendfeed/FaceBook announcement! Good intuition! - Michael Fidler

Ana

xkcd - Working for Google - http://xkcd.com/192/

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how would a cake shaped like the internet be shaped? - chaz2b

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Google would argue that the internet is shaped like the Chrome logo. Data topologists would have a fit - LANjackal

Since this is xkcd I would assume it looked either like http://xkcd.com/195/ or http://xkcd.com/256/ - Kevin Fox

@Kevin: Since those two representations are at different levels in the networking stack, I'd expect a multi-layer cake. - Manas Tungare

@chaz: like this? http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009... - John Fu

alt text: "I hear once you've worked there for 256 days they teach you the secret of levitation" - Robert Felty

chaz: it's a bow tie. Keep it quiet though. - Matt Cutts from iPhone

Not so much levitation really but that's how it ends up looking to the untrained eye. - EricaJoy

when he did visit google I had hoped the cake would be http://xkcd.com/195/ but they baked one with this comic on... http://googlified.com/xkcd-go... - Kevin Marks

The Google Reader team represented the internet in design doc diagrams as a cloud filled with dancing hamsters. - Ben Darnell

Ben - that is awesome!!! dancing hamsters FTW! :D - Susan Beebe

Paul Buchheit

Sheeple - http://xkcd.com/610/

August 3 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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The alt text is pretty good too :) - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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xkcd captures what goes through everyone's head. - Matt Ruiz

Yea the alt text usually is pretty good .... almost always :) - Bhowmik Shah

This comic is genius. - Josh Haley from iPhone

friendfeed should pull the title text through. please :-) - Alex Gawley

Yes, it should, at least for xkcd :) - Irrational homeophobe

At first, I was like, ...., but then I looked at the the alt text, and I LOLed - Kamilah Gill

Jess Lee

What World of Warcraft players desperately need - http://graphjam.com/2009...

July 30 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Brett Kelly, Christian (Simply X) and 14 other people liked this

awesome sauce. - jack

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the wow themed mountain dew comes with an in-game pet :) (dan made me post this) - Henru

Clearasil/Oxy/Proactiv should be on this pie chart. - jack

I always thought they need more role playing, which is a lot different from collecting xps and money. - Marco Mariani

Meh, I exercise daily, get plenty of sleep, have knitting and reading for hobbies, and I'm married. :P Still... not a Mountain Dew fan, but the in-game pet was cute. :D - Alix Whitmire

Rachel Lea Fox

xkcd - A Webcomic - Estimation - http://xkcd.com/612/

July 19 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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LOL - Micah Wittman

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hehe - WorldofHiglet

OH MAN, this is SO spot on! - Josh Haley from iPhone

I LOVE XKCD!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

haha this is awesome - Mitch

That is one of the funniest xkcds I have seen in a while. Hilarious. - Bret Taylor

Classic. - Neil Saunders

My cheap-ass GPS... %) - Ted Russ

genius - James Tenniswood

That's perfect. Love it! - Rick Cogley

Rachel Lea Fox

xkcd - A Webcomic - Sheeple - http://xkcd.com/610/

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"Hey, what are the odds -- five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention." - Clare Dibble

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I swear there's a term in psychiatry for this specific type of delusion. - Victor Ganata

Solipsism? - Jim Norris

Eh, I guess there's no point in responding, there's nobody else out there to listen. - Jim Norris

LOL. - Victor Ganata

Haha. At some point this said :) So-and-so and 4 other people liked this. - moo. bye.

Would Randoids take public transport in the first place? - Thaths

Paul Buchheit

The FriendFeed R&D lab

June 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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This is where we do our UI design. - Paul Buchheit

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Well, that explains the gray background then! - Akiva Moskovitz

And now the world needs to know who was sat in the empty space in the middle about 10 seconds before the camera came out :-D - Andy Bold

Each colored group of bricks are in a separate namespace. Don't mix them. - DGentry

I used to have a giant cardboard box with identical contents. I miss it terribly. - Daniel J. Pritchett

OK! I think I can finally apply now for R&D. ;-) - AJ Batac

I think I can see the namespace space, too - WorldofHiglet

why a Blue Snowball mic? - Joe Silence is not Santa

Where are the motors and microcontrollers? - Gabe

Sans mad scientist! Oh wait, he was taking the picture! - Rick Cogley

you g33k guyz :) - Alp

WIN - Josh Haley

I think you guys need more lego pieces. - FORA.tv

Oh... don't worry FORA... that's what's in those gray tubs :) - Ross Miller

Release early, release often :) - Micah Wittman

You guys got any job openings?? :) - Roberto Bonini

@Akiva: I'm glad this set of Lego had the grey "floors" and not the green ones! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

OMG MY EYES - Akiva Moskovitz

I loved LEGO and I am still thinking that it influenced my wish to study natural science, which some others might have thought, too - http://portal.acm.org/citatio... - joergkurtwegner

That looks remarkably like my kids' playroom when they were small (with the addition of some pink, white and lavender Legos)! - Anne Bouey

Now that's my kinda lab! Where do I sign up? - Jeff P. Henderson

http://friendfeed.com/about... - Benjamin Golub

OK, I'll start to compose my resume:))))) - K.D.

I need to learn Python :( I keep meaning to, but work happens. - Neal Jansons from IM

Heh, so that's how you built the FriendFeed server farm so quickly? Lego! ;) - Tyson Key

Watch Facebook will have the same lab in a month. - Robert Scoble

Nice $50 Walmart chair. I just replaced mine today with a different Walmart junk chair. That one broke. Those plastic armrests are fragile! See how I had fixed it temporarily: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Dusty Wilson

Omg are you guys hiring??? I cook and clean! :) - Mona Nomura

Building better apps the unconventional way ! ..why now, where is additional keyboard shortcuts ?? under the carpet? .... isn't this overflow ideas cool-off roomlet containment? .... no! it's Google's 1 day - work on whatever project you want ..they got 2 grey bins, for binaries, i guess ... is it public access, though? - Petr Buben

Hmmok - Uygun BODUR

No one can afford to lose this job. - ashish

Lego Heaven - Kevin J Hatton

Wanted to make some R&D - Ozkan Altuner

Blue Snowball mic........someone must podcast? Decent mic, for what it's intended to do. - Gabe Taviano

Looks a little like my last office .... :) - Charlie Anzman

This is really cool. - Bryce the Screencaster

FriendFeed R&D needs more money Twitter R&D has more toys - Michael Mooney

What makes you think this is the sum of our toys, Michael? - Ross Miller

Not enough legos. - Steven Perez

Now we know the truth: http://www.servicedesigntools.org/tools... - Andrés David Aparicio

I knew html5 development processes were going to be weird - dthree

Dion Almaer

Authors@Google: Donald Knuth - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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l0ckergn0me

Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.

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HAHAHAHA - Admiral Anika

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Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say. - invariant - farewell FF

frickin sweet! - BEX

LOL - Tibor Holoda

Yup that's exactly what it looks like from here. - Barry Sanschagrin

ROFL - Ethan

So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure? - Geoff Schultz

LOL! too funny. - John Blanton from twhirl

LOL - Roberto Bonini

Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

hahaha, that's funny! - freedom fighter mom from twhirl

What? There's another view? Please post. - Ken Morley

I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere... - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

ROTFL, "the other side" - Roberto from fftogo

Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians! - Santosh

face down and ass in the air! Love it! - John Hillestad

Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming. - Ben Hanten

Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction. - l0ckergn0me

Hilarious :-D - Ace

I literally LOL'd. - Mike Cefalo

Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

awesome - Nick Humphries

I lol´d. - Jens Christian Freund

ahahahahahahah - Adriano Mercurio

LMAO! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses - jay macpherson

Well played, jay. Well played. - Jason Huebel

*access memory: Braveheart battle scene* - Mo Kargas

Too funny! - Mark Harai

Haha... I LOL'ed for real too. - Barbara

wiping away tears. rofl - Capn' One Eye - adrift

+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o) - Ken Morley

Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle - hollyseven

How did I miss this?! HAHA - Mona Nomura

I think somebody has a wedgie! - CAJ, somewhere else

The view from Canada is the rock on the left & Lincoln's shoes. - Wade Dorrell

that is epic. ;) - Philip "dmouse" Campbell

Hilarious! :) - Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom

Awesome! - Timothy Federwitz

hahahaha wtf - tohuko

That's priceless. - Todd Libby

Teddy has a nice butt =p - LouCypher

where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it - Kathi Barrett

That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar? - dannystaple

Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada. - KyNam Doan

haha ace babes xx - abigailashleawhitaker

This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :) - John Pyper

April Buchheit

Whip It Out Comedy: Awesome. - http://www.whipitoutcomedy.com/2007...

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"One of our favorite Kevin Smith stories is the one about how when Dogma was released and Catholics were busy protesting the film, Smith himself went out to a local Jersey theater and protested the movie - figuring that none of the protesters would recognize him. Ironically, he wound up being interviewed for a local news piece as a "protester" and apparently the original video of that news report has now surfaced online. Praise Jesus." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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It's too bad they recognized him -- it would have been a lot funnier if they thought he was just some random guy protesting the movie. I wonder if the other protesters knew who he was? - Paul Buchheit

Paul: The sort of people who protest movies are the sort of people who would never see them, let alone know what the director looks like. - Gabe

This reminds me of part of Sicko, where Michael Moore says that the owner of one of the biggest anti-Moore web sites has to shut it down to pay for his wife's medical treatment. Then Moore shows the $12,000 check he sent anonymously to keep the website going. - Gabe

I know people hate Moore, but he comes up with some pretty funny stunts. - Paul Buchheit

People (possibly including Moore) just don't realize that the movies are actually mockumentaries, like This is Spinal Tap. - Gabe

Ana

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity - The Onion (Workplace Issue) - http://www.theonion.com/content...

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"According to a groundbreaking new study by the Department of Labor, working—the physical act of engaging in a productive job-related activity—may greatly increase the amount of work accomplished during the workday, especially when compared with the more common practices of wasting time and not working." - Ana from Bookmarklet

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"Jon Halper, a Baltimore-area small-business owner, claims that people used to laugh whenever he told them that the key to worker productivity was not checking friends' MySpace pages for hours at a time, but rather working. "After this study, I feel vindicated," said Halper, who believes working is so important that for years he has required all his employees to work throughout the day." - Ana

I can't believe they didn't even once mention "working from home" ;) - Ana

"The control group engaged in normal workplace activities, such as standing around and talking, staring vacantly at the computer screen, and surfing the Internet." - Andrew C

Um, does working include tweeting and posting on FriendFeed all day? - Rick Cogley

It defInately does!!!! - Roberto Bonini

Well, then I guess the FFers are going about it all wrong with these 3 martini lunches and margarita Fridays. :) - April Buchheit

Mona Nomura

Conventional Logic vs. Religious Logic --just sayin'

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Definitely true. - Trish R

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hahahhahahah Reminds me of FF the past few weeks. Oops, did I say that out loud? :P - Mona Nomura

HAHAHAAH!!!! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Brilliant, Mona! Thanks for sharing! - Matt Harwood

Oooh, great! :) Can I try?? - Jemm

Matt: Anytime. :) @Joni: TRY WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?! HUH HUH HUH?!? ;) - Mona Nomura

Ahhhahah. Mona you always make my day better - Kyle Lacy

@Mona: Sharing something.. related ;) - Jemm

Kyle: Stop trying to butter me up. What do you want? ;) @Joni: ;) - Mona Nomura

oh you will know Mona, you will know - Kyle Lacy

i can has bacon! - imabonehead

@Mark, I think his wife is running for VP... - Jeff P. Henderson

perfect - Arash

"Amen." - l0ckergn0me

I clearly need to get to bed because I saw this at the top of the page and thought, "Wait. It's Sunday already? Where did the week go?" ooph. - ♥patricia♥

Conventional logic holds that people don't carry baseballs around with them. Conventionally, would you think a person with pockets full of baseballs as "normal"? Do you carry everything you own in case you have to logically prove to someone that you own it in the event that some conventional debate arises? - Darian Rawson

Omg I found it. Derrick, one more! :) - Mona Nomura

Ha! Yeah, a little bit. - Derrick

Hahahahaha - Kamath (नमः)

Are you familiar with "Russell's Teapot?" : "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion... more... - Christopher A Carr

I've never known a christian to react like that when someone asks to prove Gods existence. If someone is sincerly asking the question we'll usually talk about why we believe. If someone is being hostile I'll walk away. - ChiliMac

ChiliMac, on a serious note, it's really dependent on the parties conversing. I've openly had many discussions on religion. It's also helpful to comprehend the other party's(ies') views and backgrounds, to have amicable discussions. :) - Mona Nomura

Mona: You are absolutely right, it does depend on the parties. I believe most people still know how to and are polite and respectful of one another. I was having this conversation with a friend from my church the other night. His roommate had criticized him for reading books by Dawkins. We disagreed with him. We should understand those who have different opinions then ours and be respectful to one another. - ChiliMac

I love it. Did you draw this, Mona? - Jess Lee

Oh, no way. lol! - Mona Nomura

"There's no such thing as a baseball. There's NO SUCH THING AS A BASEBALL." ;) - Tyson Key

like again - Arash

could also be titled "conventional logic vs evolutionist logic" or "conventional logic vs global warming logic". i see more unfounded dogma from these two groups than any other. - Brooks Bayne

So true. - Ethan

Yeah, Brooks... or "conventional logic vs. round Earth logic," or "conventional logic vs. heliocentric solar system logic." I'm sick of dogmatic round-Earth liberals! If the Earth is so round, why don't Australians fall into space? Eh? Answer that secular libs! - Christopher A Carr

Definitely something Richard Dawkins would approve of! :) And @ChristopherCarr - the Celestial Teapot was the first thing I thought of when I saw this. - jack

hahahah that is hilarious - Nicholas Kreidberg

Josh Haley

No.

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I use windows, sure, but come on... - Josh Haley

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NO! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

My eyes! - Jorge Escobar

I sure as hell hope that's photoshopped! - Melissa R. Weintraub

H..how do you reset a house? - Joe Pierce

put on blue curtains to complete the effect - Alfredo

"Keeps crashing" would bring a whole new level of frustration here. - Kamath (नमः)

LOL - CW™

Love it :) - Jemm

They should use different color drapes to create the box logo. - Davis Freeberg

Ewwww! - Vijay

what version? =P anyway, the construction is impressive. - vijay

haha...wow! - JA Castillo

Nooo! What happens when you have to reboot the house? - Rick Cogley

WANT... the clothes and hairstyle that go with this house. - Christopher Harley

I hear one bedroom's wall is a BSOD. - Kevin Fox

Clever photoshop work but should have covered the smudge tool tracks. - EricaJoy

That's just sick! :) - Diego Barros 

At least it's not in the shape of an Apple. The would mean the house would only have one door and they would need to approve anything that goes in it. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Heh, at least it would be a high-quality door that didn't squeak or jam up on you. :-) - Rick Cogley

Windows! - Charlie Anzman

Rick: LOL, but it costs twice the price. I can see the "Door Hunter" commercials now.... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Personally, I would like to hire security guards for my residence and pay them extra to wear penguin suits. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Automatic updates? - Jorge Escobar

The house will need to be rebooted every couple of days or so. - imabonehead

House probably has lots of bugs in it and a very poor security system. - Jason Huebel

@Jason, they can always get a firewall ;) - Jorge Escobar

Intel inside? - darwin|1q84

Epic house. Would get mortgage again. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Notice there are four pillars holding up the house: | Excel | Outlook Calendaring | QuickBooks | Inertia. Wow, which I had joke to insert here :S - Micah Wittman

that is some funny shiat :) Be aware of the blue screen of death. - Ubuntu101

so cool. but the curtain does not hang down straight as gravity would dictate. - Vezquex: God of FF

wow - cuneyt karakaya

Not even Bill Gates is that devoted to his product! - Derick Hewetson

ROFLMAO it's kinda clever thought - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Nice - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Bret Taylor

Jon Stewart on Sanford's affair: "Another politician with a conservative mind and a liberal penis."

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It had me cracking up like crazy ... he was definitely on his game today! His Kim Jong Il piece was also pretty hilarious ... - Bo Stern

lol! - vijay

that is funny. a liberal penis. i get it - Christopher Chung

Ross Miller

xkcd - A Webcomic - Game Theory - http://xkcd.com/601/

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Bret Taylor

Netflix Boss Plots Life After the DVD - WSJ.com - http://online.wsj.com/article...

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"But Netflix's chief executive officer, Reed Hastings, thinks his core business is doomed. As soon as four years from now, he predicts, the business that generates most of Netflix's revenue today will begin to decline, as DVDs delivered by mail steadily lose ground to movies sent straight over the Internet. So Mr. Hastings, who co-founded the company, is quickly trying to shift Netflix's business -- seeking to make more videos available online and cutting deals with electronics makers so consumers can play those movies on television sets. His position offers a rare look at how a CEO manages a still-hot business as its time runs out." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Good move on his part. Even though we still have a Netflix account, we only use the Instant version and haven't seen any red envelopes in months. - Louis Gray

+1 Louis. My Netflix account is solely for watch instantly. - EricaJoy

How is he going to compete with cable companies who already have the delivery infrastructure, the connections in Hollywood and many times more subscribers. - Amit Morson

Cable companies don't have the monopoly on channels, fortunately. A netflix+hulu merger would be the death of cable co's everywhere. I welcome it though I don't think it would ever happen. - EricaJoy

The funny thing is that Reed and I discussed this about 10 years ago. At that time, I said to him, "You know that those plastic discs still contain more data than your typical home connection will be able to handle for a while..." His response: "You know that, I know that, but the investors don't know that." A couple of months ago, Reed and I had another chat over lunch, and this time,... more... - Piaw Na