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"Your Group Stream turns your group’s recent activity into a blog format, creating one place where you can see the most recent happenings in your group and where content is always updating. Your Group Stream will show the full content directly on the page instead of just links to other sections, as Recent Activity currently exists (FYI, due to user feedback, that module still exists on Group Dash). Thanks to Streams, you will be able to do things such as watch a video, see photos, and read the first part of blog posts all from the same page. With your Stream, you will be able to see the freshest content in your group, who added that content, and when exactly they added it. Additionally, Streams come with Filter options so that members can filter out different types of items. Looking to find only the most recent Events? — Just click on the Events icon and your Stream will be filtered so that only Events will be shown." - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

First thing -- I publish feeds with full text, so why doesn't FF pick that up and do something nice with it. Look at this view of my latest blog post. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... Why do people have to go to my site to read the post? This is a feed reader, right?? Why not have a plus sign or a wedge and allow me to expand it to read the essay in place. As an author I have to believe a lot more people would read it. I'm getting comments from people who I know haven't read the piece. That would be less likely if they didn't have to go to another site to read it. - Dave Winer

I disagree, the comment function allows substantial elaboration of a post & you can add numerous pictures. There's no reason why FF should be yet another blog reader when there's such thing as tabbed browsing, but should rather be an index or resource for favorite subscriptions/blogs you'd like to read in depth further & elsewhere. - sofarsoShawn

So it's not me obviously but this happened just down the street from me this Saturday for SF Santacon 2008. - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

"On Dec. 9th, 2008 in order to break up the stresses of fall semester exam week, UNC students flash raved their Undergraduate Library. Without warning to those that were unaware, hundreds of students packed the library lobby and brought it hardcore for over 8 minutes." - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

The cure for what ails is us the Entrepreneurial Spirit of this country. We are a nation of people who encourage , support and invest in those of any and all age, race and gender who will use their ingenuity and come up with a new idea. - Gordon Bowman

'nuff said. - Gordon Bowman

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Carville, after the 2nd debate, on whether Obama will win: ""I think he's gonna win. Absent some unforeseen circumstances, you can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over." - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

Team of Mavericks! - Gordon Bowman

Lil O'Reilly Freak Out - Gordon Bowman

"But something about the American system unleashed more of a potential to human beings over that hundred years so that we had a seven for one improvement in — there’s never been any — I mean, you have centuries where if you’ve got a 1 percent improvement, then it’s something. So we’ve got a great system. And we’ve got more productive capacity now than we ever have. The American worker is more productive than he’s ever been. We’ve got more people to do it. We’ve got all the ingredients for a sensational future." - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

Warren Buffet gives us a little hope at least... - Gordon Bowman

All Facebook on how the new Facebook design is killing many apps. - Gordon Bowman

beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg. A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. - Gordon Bowman

I've heard that one before. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

lol! Gone to my "What to say to the local low-tech tribe" list - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Fred Wilson's thoughts on Calacanis' "Startup Depression" - Gordon Bowman

When Obama spoke about or made a reference to McCain, he generally looked directly at his opponent. McCain, on the other hand, NEVER looked at Obama throughout the night, even when he was making comments directly about him or responding to a point Obama made. Here are the top five reasons why... - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

The Facts of the Google / Yahoo Deal (According to Google, that is) - Gordon Bowman

"What would impress me from Obama? How about this: “The Big Three automakers and the United Auto Workers union want a Washington bailout. The only way they will get a dime out of my administration is if the automakers and unions come up with a joint plan to retool their fleets to get an average of 40 miles per gallon by 2015 — instead of the 35 m.p.g. by 2020 that they’ve reluctantly accepted. I am not going to bail out Detroit with taxpayer money, but I will invest in Detroit’s transformation with taxpayer money, provided the management and unions agree to radical change. At the same time, while I will go along with the bailout of the banking system, it will only be on the condition that the institutions that got us into this mess accept sweeping reforms — in terms of transparency and limits on the leverage they can amass — so we don’t go through something like this again. To help me figure this out, I’m going to keep Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the job for a while. I am impressed with his handling" - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

Interesting background on FriendFeed's early days - Gordon Bowman

Andrew Chen on growing renewable audiences - Gordon Bowman

New features for Group Blogs and The Lounge - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

But think about the Facebook generation. My kids are growing up with the news feed as their start page. Not Yahoo's portal approach and NOT google's search box approach. In time, its entirely possible that feeds will be more powerful than search. So to all the people that say social nets can't be monetized, just look hard at the feed and think of the possibilities. There's money in them thar hills. - Gordon Bowman

"What struck me as I watched the convention speeches, however, is how much of the anger on the right is based not on the claim that Democrats have done bad things, but on the perception — generally based on no evidence whatsoever — that Democrats look down their noses at regular people." - Gordon Bowman from Bookmarklet

“I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to live. You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You’re afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you’re afraid that somebody will stab or shoot or bomb your house. So you refuse to take a stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at 38 as you would be at ninety. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died... - Gordon Bowman

"Wow, absolutely disgusting... yet, still I'm somehow intrigued... :)" - Gordon Bowman

"I agree with many of your points here. The user grouping and friend lists are a welcome addition of course. And I really like the filtering by service options being located directly at the top of individual feeds. But I too work mostly on a wide screen and don't like that I have to travel so far to the right just to get my feed. A quick link in the top left to my own feed would solve that for me. Also, I think you're right, I might also prefer for the sidebar to extend only the length of the links to provide an even cleaner look." - Gordon Bowman

Mashable's coverage of the BlastGroups Launch. - Gordon Bowman

Facebook hits 100 Million, 20% of which have embraced the new design. - Gordon Bowman

Web Worker Daily Coverage on the Launch - Gordon Bowman

"The BlastGroups Blog - BlastGroups Launches Public Beta!" - Gordon Bowman

Article about the 15 Second Principle that states you can achieve all of your goals by dedicating just 15 seconds each day. - Gordon Bowman