Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox

Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah

Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen

Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray

Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell - Bret Taylor

Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler

Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-) - Kevin Fox

well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that is the first page on the planet! .. i'l be darned. ..... then, lets boost them blogging facilities ! ... i mean, how hard internet programming could be ??? - pb:

Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :) - Simon

Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team. - Anne Bouey

Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck

Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;)))) - K.D.

That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;) - Josh Haley

Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting - Roberto from fftogo

you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats - Özkan Altuner

Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds

gratz Ben! - timepilot

Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie

So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage

Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven

Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex

I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck

Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox

I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not. - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

OH HAI! - Eric - seven eleven

Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was! - Kevin Fox

It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs* - Jimminy IS Everybody

I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today. - Ben Darnell

Here, let me save future spammers some time: Hello my name is ____ and I am an attractive young ____ _____ and I would like to contact with you so that together you and I can ___ with ____ while _____ in a highly ____ manner. Please to be responding as soon as is practical. Without your help, the _____ in U.S. dollars will go unclaimed, and the herbal ______ remedy will wither and die. Yours in all urgent seriousness, _____. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

:D, Stephen! - Anne Bouey

so sweet))lol - solncee

Awesome Photo :) - Adi Prcike

Which shows up more, this pic or the Asian gentlemen on the beach? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from iPhone

bret neler oluyor dostum? kardeşi kardeşe kırdıracaksın canım ülkemde!!! işinin başına dön lütfen.. - aynebilim

testa di cazzo se arcasca tutto te veniamo a cercà e non saremo teneri come i musulmani - Francesco M.

kime dedin onu francesco? - aynebilim

Bence de Friendfeede sahip çıksın artık... - Koleksiyoner Ali

Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox

#timewarp - WoH: Professor MOTHRA