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I'm leaving beta.
Mayuresh Walke, Roberto Bonini and Tony Ruscoe liked this
I think I'm going back into Beta. Easier to cover my faults that way.
- Warner Crocker
I'm not convinced.
- Gabe Rivera
@gaberivera - is there a way with your search function on techmeme to see how many leads a specific writer received in the last 24 hrs? thx
Atul Arora liked this
Is this what you are looking for http://techmeme.com/search...
- Atul Arora
oh interesting thanks atul - how do i make it search for the author i want to do a lookup on?
- Allen Stern
You need to know the author name. You can find various options in Advanced Search.
- Atul Arora
Just DM'ed you a screenshot on FriendFeed.
- Atul Arora
thank you
- Allen Stern
LOL
- Gabe Rivera
can anyone tell me more about the secret society within google comprising its top engineers and some sort of robe ceremony?
Mark Trapp, Rahsheen ™, Morton Fox and 5 other people liked this
looking forward to the blog post
- Gabe Rivera
You've seen Eyes Wide Shut, right? ;)
- Paul Buchheit
gabe, check out paul's comment -- i think we got the blog post set. now, to find the right screenshot
- Eric Eldon
from IM
Paul is right, great movie.
- Brandon
paul's right, except the robes are red, blue, green, and yellow
- Gabe Rivera
The thought of some of Google's top engineers wearing a robe... or nothing at all... will now haunt my dreams. Thanks, Paul.
- Tudor Bosman
I actually have a picture of that somewhere Tudor. It kind of looked like a cult.
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah, we had to do the picture differently the next year. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
i ask a serious question, i get even more serious answers. i feel like i'm in a dan brown novel or something.
- Eric Eldon
from IM
@Eric: You'll know something's up when the pianist is forced to play blindfolded.
- Brandon
The password is fidelio. Say that and you'll get all the answers you need
- MG Siegler
But may I ask, what is the password for the house?
- Brandon
+1
- MG Siegler
a source tells me they were "lab coats" and not a "secret robe ceremony." i see: a secret lab coat ceremony
- Eric Eldon
from IM
Daniel: but I noticed that you still decided to be a robe-wearer that year anyway :)
- Simon
was that source wearing this? http://www.socaldesignco.com/images...
- MG Siegler
*i* was wearing that (shhh)
- Eric Eldon
from IM
ahh yes, the source may have been more like this http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- MG Siegler
Eric: Did a tux and a black coat with a hood accompany your ensemble?
- Brandon
yes. and the weird part was that we were in silicon valley and not san francisco. boy, did i learn something about stereotypes today
- Eric Eldon
from IM
i cannot get this movie out of my head right now. thanks eric. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- MG Siegler
and god are youtube comments awesome: "Kubrick's take on an Illuminati boner convention getting intruded upon by that pesky scientologist kinda makes me think of Max Mosley meets the after dinner party of the Bilderberg group"
- MG Siegler
that is possibly the cleverest youtube comment i have ever read
- Eric Eldon
from IM
Eric, one quick question since this conversation occurred last night. Did you remember to return the mask?
- Brandon
After MG's coverage of the goats... a screencap of the hazing scene from... http://www.imdb.com/title... might be more applicable
- Jay Cuthrell
my social media strategy: keeping it real
Yusuf İBİLİ and Paul Buchheit liked this
I think you could be realer still
- Gabe Rivera
hey, it's a work in progress
- Eric Eldon
i prefer the robe approach we were discussing last night
- MG Siegler
as was just pointed out to me in spanish, i used to have a half-decent accent, now i can't remember basic words. argh.
I never forget "taco" and "burrito".
- Gabe Rivera
Your iPhone 3G S Is Here. But You Can’t Get It Until Friday. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Yep. I got that too. :-(
- Gabe Rivera
Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
davehollis, Thierry R. Andriamirado, Ryo and 52 other people liked this
required reading once again
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
I'm surprised no one has created a site yet that tracks Twitter outages and builds community around that. :-)
- Jesse Stay
It's a TweetDownTwitastrophe! Everyone hold your tweets!
- joebrooks
It's called Friendfeed, Jesse. :)
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
"When Twitter is down, it's even harder to explain to people" :D
- Jérôme Flipo
17. Hang out with your cats in an awkward social silence wishing you could share the moment with your followers
- Jay Cuthrell
from BuddyFeed
Adam, awesome, but they could totally do better - I want graphs with dates of when Twitter is down, places to discuss, things to do when it's down, etc.
- Jesse Stay
Actually Jessey, that site doesn't work anymore. http://istwitterdown.com takes you to an index of files. yes is one of them. I agree that a site dedicated to that would be fantastic!
- Adam Jackson
So much for that whole "support the situation in Iran" thing! Too bad FriendFeed is blocked by the sekrit polees as well!
- Stephen Foskett
a tip we just got: "You're TechCrunch. You probably already know. But just in case, Twitter is down right now. For the record, I'm just completing Step 7 of MG's 15 things to do while Twitter is down list."
- MG Siegler
wonder if twitter's down because iran is attacking?
- bbebop
No, Iran is attacking its people because twitter is down.
- jcunwired
Nope, a North Korean missile just hit Twitter HQ.
- Gabe Rivera
not sure if twitter is doing the scheduled maintenance right now...but, when you get sensational headlines like this http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009... , you're pretty much gonna go down with the ensuing traffic spike.
- mike
@bbebop - I was thinking the same thing. LOL. Just take out the data center air conditioners and the whole thing cascades into Fail Whale.
- Rob Sterling
I shaved and do look fantastic now. Kind of. :-)
- Zalt Woo
Does anyone else think that Twitter will go down unintentionally soon after it is back up due to all the pent-up and back-logged tweets? Let's hope it does not, but I get a feeling from reading all the posts, comments both here on FF and elsewhere, that in couple of hours after it is back up, we will see a fail-whale.
- Dilip Dand
let's say i started listening to a lot of classical music. would that define me as old?
I already define you (and myself) as old, but that would make you seem younger IMO.
- Gabe Rivera
Wow watching my landlord spray RoundUp around the yard 4 next renters. Aghast- can't believe people, young people in portland, still do that
Oh, that piece of news definitely interests non-reporters.
- Gabe Rivera
Okay, maybe not so fast on that move to Safari. Anyone else noticing it just hang on things sometimes? I just had to put her down, again.
Veetrag, Amiroo, TheHenry and 4 other people liked this
Yeah, this is a common problem with the beta. Is it still happening on shipping code? Is that out yet?
- Robert Scoble
It's just the "world fastest browser" doing it's thing.
- Adi
Hmm, maybe that's why my browser was always hanging, causing me to consider giving up on Macs altogether until Chrome is done.
- Gabe Rivera
I always figured the full name of the app was Safari (not responding).
- Louis Gray
+1 Louis ;-D
- Larry Hudson
@robert, yeah shipping version is out and hanging just like the beta
- MG Siegler
It doesn't like certain SIMBL plugins. I had to get rid an old Safaristand bundle before Safari 4 would behave.
- Nick in Manila
Nightly Webkit build works great for me
- Jesse Stay
Sure you don't have any plugins installed? Those were killin me on the beta. Had to remove a few and wait for updates before reinstalling them.
- David Chartier
I don't have any plugins (other than Flash) and I'm getting a LOT fewer hangups than the beta. I couldn't use Google Reader for more than 15 minutes without crashing before. Since I've installed, I've only gotten 1 beachball (for about 10 seconds) but none of the dreaded "not responding"
- Bwana
I've spent a few hours in Safari 4 coming from the last Beta as well, and so far I've not had any hanging issues, not that I had them in Beta either. The only plugin I use is Saft, and I continue to use it in the final release as well.
- Ryan
No plugins here. World's fastest browser just repeatedly crashing into a telephone pole. Back to Firefox.
- Matthew Speicher
Hangs have pretty much disappeared since I installed the release version. It was however a bit slow during its first launch.
- Paul Grav
It just crashed on me when I clicked on my Friendfeed bookmark
- Jim Walton
I spoke too soon and I was mistaken about plugins - I have Flip4Mac installed..it prompted me to upgrade..I said upgrade... Safari 4 crashed :)
- Bwana
Matthew: There's gotta something wrong with your setup or system. Reliable crashes like that are rare. I *do* have a few plugins installed that I know were updated specifically for Safari 4 beta, and Safari 4 official is running perfectly fine with them.
- David Chartier
Another note: I average 1-2 crashes per day on Firefox... (some days I have 5 or 6) but so far I've had 1 crash with Safari. We'll see how it goes
- Bwana
I run Webkit on top of the Safari 4 release and it seems quite flawless to me. No crashes yet and no hangs.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Some tech news happened today. And http://techmeme.com/ has a rather handy roundup of that news.
Hutch Carpenter, Ryo, wowfreeze.blogspot.com and 16 other people liked this
Really, who bought Techmeme?
- Steve Rubel
Steve: No-one bought TechMeMe...Gabe is saying that TechMeMe has the round up of Today's Interesting Events
- Nicholas James
Or in today's case, a wrap-up of everything apple (perhaps to the point of exhaustion).;-)
- Brandon Mendelson
wut?
- Gabe Rivera
@Nicholas I know - it was a joke.
- Steve Rubel
News history: nyc's journal-american reporters used to carry guns, listen to police radio & go assist in arrests
Panayotis Vryonis liked this
Nobody's stopping tech bloggers from carrying guns. I recommend that they do in fact. Just common sense.
- Gabe Rivera
These beans will be chilli tonight! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Too bad you're not smoking your chili with mesquite: http://www.flickr.com/photos... Pathetic, in fact.
- Gabe Rivera
Yeah, yeah that looks great. I do have 13 beans vs your two, but bacon and smoked mesquite probablty does win. If you're one of those trendy bacon people, gabe.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Any browser not giving each tab its own thread is not fit for the modern web. i.e., all Mac browsers are broken.
Daniel Rowley, zsafwan , Marcel Weiß and 18 other people liked this
Hence why Chrome for the Mac needs to get finished!
- Alex Wilhelm
Multiple processes is an alternative. Currently the Safari 4 beta uses a separate process for the History and Top Sites previews. Anyway, the Stainless browser for mac has a separate process per tab: http://www.stainlessapp.com/
- Thomas Bøhm
So time for me to ditch Chromium then. Oh - wait a second...
- Andy Bold
I like the idea of parallel sessions in Stainless. Chrome needs that.
- Kenton
Yeah, I tweeted that to underscore the urgency of the Mac Chrome and multi-threaded Firefox projects for me. Thomas: I didn't know about Stainless. I really need a fully featured browser, but that project looks interesting.
- Gabe Rivera
@heathr again not trying to ignore feedback; want to get accurate sample not just most vocal / least vocal.
Nothing you ever wrote offended me the slightest bit.
- Gabe Rivera
Wait, my last comment was almost an insult.
- Gabe Rivera
I am still wondering why people do conferences on a sunday and second question is why that many people show up. I must be too european.
Harscoat, Tomas Nihlen, Musa Yılmaz and 4 other people liked this
Yes, you are too European.
- Gabe Rivera
I'm not European, but I don't think that anybody can be *too* European. European culture is very lovely.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
You'll never see that in Salt Lake - come on out here Loic! :-) The south as well...
- Jesse Stay
It could be that people don't want to miss work. Conferences that are M-W or M-TH are a big chunk of time.
- Louis Gray
The answer is because the busy life of the rat race leads to godless heathenism.
- Pete D
Gabe commenting on Friendfeed? I must be seriously dreaming.
- Loic Le Meur
You can answer your 1st question with the 2nd
- TC Wright
Yet you showed up
- Jeremiah Owyang
I'm wondering why days even matter
- randulo
the real question for me tonight is at what time I set the alarm clock. @gaberivera what's your recommendation for the first sessions?
Hah, I just took a look. Let's just say I'll get up when I get up.
- Gabe Rivera
it has been a week of shoeleather reporting with no scoops to show... yet.
well, show us your shoes then
- Gabe Rivera
Friendfeed is irresistibly useful now. Recent features add up to a really compelling product. Really hope Twitter never chokes 'em.
David Berrebi, Peter Efland, Tim Moore and 129 other people liked this
Saw this immediately thanks to notifications.
- MG Siegler
Saw your comment immediately.
- Gabe Rivera
BTW, that was my first FF comment since August '08.
- Gabe Rivera
Like a virgin.
- MG Siegler
Welcome back then Gabe!
- Simon Wicks
I'm tellin' ya. FF's back. Just bookmarked their iphone friendly site.
- Mario Sundar
you don't say ;-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
The day FF will launch real-time, the earth will stand still.
- Jérôme Flipo
Jerome: wut? I myself will lurve saved searches AKA track AKA Gillmor's Grail
- Gabe Rivera
I meant every smart microblogger will have to move to Friendfeed. Time will only run on Friendfeed!
- Jérôme Flipo
Gillmor may spontaneously combust if track hits FF before it restarts on twitter
- Adrian
I'd love to hear a list why its "irresistibly useful" for you, Gabe. I'm still quasi-resisting, although I do find it useful.
- C. K. Sample III
I will repeat here: it would be great for users if Twitter and FF merged their capabilities. One completes the other.
- William Mougayar
William, what does Twitter do that Friendfeed doesn't?
- Jérôme Flipo
Hey Gabe - great to see you here
- Hutch Carpenter
what recent features excite you
- @baratunde
CK, baratunde: essentially, its capacity to extend Twitter in very useful ways. Creating small friend lists here (to track separately from your main feed) is easier here than with Twitter desktop apps, and the results come in in real time. I also turned on IM notifications for select friends. Remember Twitter had IM? They took the feature away.
- Gabe Rivera
There goes the neighborhood! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The last couple days on Twitter have brought me back to FF as well
- Costa Walcott
Gabe - any plans to add services like FriendFeed/Backtype/Reddit etc to Link Search option in Techmeme. Tried Link Search on top headline i.e. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... and got zero results from Google Blog Search/Ask and IceRocket returned 5.
- Atul Arora
Atul: huh, putting a URL in FF search does come up with useful results, so I think I'll add FF to the link search list. If those other services have backlink search currently available, please list sample query urls here and I'll take a look. (BTW, to see what Atul's talking about, click "Preferences" on Techmeme, then click "Show Link Search".)
- Gabe Rivera
Backtype aggregates across Reddit, YCombinator and FriendFeed - See http://www.backtype.com/comment...
- Atul Arora
Gabe bit.ly also does link search and returns FriendFeed, Twitter and Backtype results for all bit.ly version of that URLs e.g. http://bit.ly/info/8XNa4. Since @TechmemeFH and @Techmeme are both using bit.ly the link search is simply adding the + after the URL i.e. http://bit.ly/8XNa4+ for the bit.ly based link search.
- Atul Arora
Gabe, here's a link to our connect feature which shows all the conversation around a link (digg, reddit, twitter, friendfeed, hacker news, and posts that link in): http://www.backtype.com/connect...
- Mike Montano
Mike - so what is bit.ly using to show comments from backtype. It shows zero comments. Is it filtering comments so that it only shows comments from the blog page?
- Atul Arora
Thanks Mike, Atul. I will take a close look at this later and probably add some more link search links.
- Gabe Rivera
Atul, yes they're using a method that only fetches comments from the page being queried, though full connect functionality would be a nice addition imo.
- Mike Montano
Hey look Gabe is back! :)
- Susan Beebe
I agree, except that it should be easier to add an external feed other than through the cumbersome creation of an "Imaginary Friend".
- Derek Mahar
My mustache is more lustrous and thick after switching to FriendFeed. I have a lot more energy. Even my wife has noticed certain improvements in my usefulness around the house. Thanks FriendFeed! [I BLUSH]
- Jay Cuthrell
I'm still going to say that I think links to friendfeed discussions on blog posts belong on Techmeme. ;)
- Thomas Hawk
Wait, is this sarcastic Twitter Gabe or normal Gabe? What persona have you decided to adopt on FF? :)
- Matt Cutts
No idea whether it's of use to TechMeme, Gabe, but FriendFeed's API will give you a list of all the entries that link to a specified URL. http://code.google.com/p... You can see it in action with http://ffcheck.com
- Ken Sheppardson
I agree I like Friendfeed simplicity.
- LaShea Miller
Friendfeed just gets better every day (and is incredibly responsive to user feedback!)
- Charlie Anzman
like the notifications air app ... been trying it out.
- Julian Lukács
FriendFeed FTW!
- (jeff)isageek
@mattcutts: hah, no I'm serious here. FF's current feature set now offers great value to me. I suspect FF still has a major challenge offering a compelling and differentiated product to the Oprah crowd, but that doesn't concern me (and FF may nail that eventually).
- Gabe Rivera
@thomashawk: noted. :-)
- Gabe Rivera
IMHO Twitter is on the way out. has been for a long time and the current crush of non-tech savvy to twitters shore will be its death knell. Their servers are painfully lagged. They lack the features of FF and others. They're closed source. They're heading towards being interesting foot note in history.
- Freemor
I have already noticed a massive increase in followers on friendfeed recently. Anecdotal evidence indicates friendfeed is growing (I find it has a higher utility as well)
- Jordan Willms
Agree, great improvements!
- Tim Moore
I wonder if there's a good way to automagically discover people I know on Friendfeed.
Lu Tao and Mark Trapp liked this
Friends box -> Browse/edit Friends -> Find / invite friends -> many methods to choose
- Gabe Rivera
The best part of the discovery tool is find/import friends from Twitter and Facebook. If only many of those friends also had friendfeed accounts!
- Mario Sundar
Like Gabe mentioned: http://friendfeed.com/friends... is the location
- Benjamin Golub
Landed in Bucharest. Beautiful clear sky (for real this time unlike London).
Dani Radu, Darren Heydon and AainaA-Ridtz A.R liked this
what are you doing in Balkans Loic?
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I second Dobromir's query.
- Gabe Rivera
Interesting. What are your plans?
- Alex Popescu
I'm not sure I can put into words how much I fucking love it when Comcrap Internet goes out every night at this time. Fucking love it.
Darren Heydon liked this
Comcrap cares.
- Gabe Rivera
Reddit’s Ad Experiment Is Good News for Condé Nast. Maybe for Digg, Too. - http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2009032...
"I didn’t speak up simply because Techmeme has sponsored content. I remarked because of your suggestion that it’s news that content ads formatted like content succeed in news aggregation. I’ve known that personally since 2006. Yes, it is interesting that that it works for Reddit too. I’m sure Digg is paying attention."
- Gabe Rivera
Meet The Top Techmeme Tipper: Atul - http://www.centernetworks.com/techmem...
Charlie Anzman, Bill Romanos, Daniel Rowley and 6 other people liked this
"Oh yeah, Atul's tips have impressed us, and he is indeed the top tipper currently. I've never met or contacted the guy, but I imagine he's always stayed on top of tech news, and has just worked tipping Techmeme into his regular news flow. I would not be surprised if over time more people did this. Overall, I think Techmeme is better for it. I can share some stats: to date 196 headlines hitting Techmeme were tipped prior to appearing, and 89 different people have tipped. There are dominant tippers, but the tail, naturally, is long. You're right that tips to most of the obscure blogs are passed over, but most of those posts aren't so good for Techmeme and unsurprisingly are tipped by the post author. It should be clear that there's no tip we love more than a link to something truly newsworthy on a lesser known blog. (Some examples: http://www.techmeme.com/090211... http://www.techmeme.com/090208... )"
- Gabe Rivera
Atul's always had great stuff, but he's really turned up the volume lately :)
- Susan Beebe
ParisLemon : You stay classy, Engadget - http://parislemon.com/2009...
"Heh. They're just upset that your Google source knows where the company is headquartered: http://twitter.com/gaberiv..."
- Gabe Rivera
Re: New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter - Techmeme News - http://news.techmeme.com/090128...
Brad Kligerman liked this
"Why not @techmeme chicken?"
- Gabe Rivera
Re: New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter - Techmeme News - http://news.techmeme.com/090128...
"Not yet!"
- Gabe Rivera
Re: New way to get on Techmeme: send tips to Techmeme via Twitter - Techmeme News - http://news.techmeme.com/090128...
"Yep, "#tip @techmeme" works."
- Gabe Rivera
Uh Oh. Now You Can Suggest Stories To Techmeme Via Twitter - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
"Jason happens to be correct here. Fascinating talking points though, Dropacid. Let’s review: Techmeme > TechCrunch + Twitter A little complicated, but I’ll try this pitch out on people."
- Gabe Rivera
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