my history's a bit off, why the spike in the 1800's? - Rahul Das
@Rahul: lack of competition until the formation and early domination of Standard Oil from 1860 to the beginning of the 20th century explains the early volatility; eventually competitors moved in and equilibrium was established in the market until OPEC came in during the 1970s and removed the 'free' from the 'free market.' - grant
I'm sure many would be interested in what FF search platform looks like, given your collective background. If you can share it, that is. - Ray Grieselhuber
If Galactica had search, could it find Earth? - Mark Dykeman
I guess Galactica doesn't have The Google either. - Jason Kaneshiro
I want to do the same search in Battlestar Galactica room. - ahmet bulent
How can I join a public room if I am not invited? - ahmet bulent
Found it. You have to search for it, but there is no search for rooms. I realized there is no easy way to join rooms like a link in "rooms" tab or "rooms directory". - ahmet bulent
Am I confused? Can you set up feeds to power a room? All I see is posting individual items to a room. - bill giltner
bill: right now, you can only post directly to rooms. - Bret Taylor
I saw Into the Wild but the soundtrack didn't register (in my mind)...now that somebody has recommended it...I guess I'll go listen to it...This is why I love Friendfeed. - Space Cowboy
Server troubles. We're still investigating exactly what triggered it. - Paul Buchheit
I reckon it was a case of Murphy's law's third addendum: "If something cannot possibly go wrong, and it is the weekend, that thing will go wrong.". I propose a revision - Murphy's law's third addendum as applied to startups - "If it is the weekend, and everything is working, nothing will go wrong, but it will still cause a system outage." - Slippy Lane
i had a problem this morning where ff was taking ages to load the "Comment - Hide - More" panel but it seems to have gone now - Ian Rathbone
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer kids? - Morton Fox
I'd feel left out if I didn't join the bandwagon on this one. I've never seen so many "Likes". Man I wish I'd been able to get my phone camera to work the morning I saw the plate that unintentionally said 490BEY. Andre the Giant would approve. - Kamilah Gill
I just spent some time looking into the new window problem. It turns out to be an iPhone/Safari bug. I think I figured out a work-around, but I'm going to wait until tomorrow to release it (because I should be asleep, not pushing lightly tested code). - Paul Buchheit
Are there plans for a fuller UI on mobiles? I miss not being able to like or comment from my phone (Windows Mobile) - Colin Walker
what is iphone URL of FriendFeed? I'd like to try it on my S60v3 Nokia phone ;) - silpol
Really-Like, Ubber-Like, Rockstar-Like, Love-it, Worship could be better names - Super-Like sounds like something a 14 yr old would say. - martin ollman
: ) @m.ollman interesting thought you have! And now that s my turn: "Super-Like +16" : ) We need a AdultFriendFeed in near future i think :)) - Erhan Erdogan
Even better, charge us $1 to use it and put the money in the kitty for a beer fest. - Robert Scoble
I've been going back and forth whether we should include a "hate" feature - or, more accurately, an "acknowledge" feature. For example, if we read a compelling story about family abuse in Austria, I feel bad saying that I "like" it. - Ontario Emperor
what does one do when he encounters a story that is worth sharing, but doesn't "like" the premise of it? how about a customizable "like," sort of a fill-in-the-blank (i.e. grantfox laments/abhors/loves/super-likes/etc.)? if i have to "like" another red sox story i might go on FF strike... - grant
It's a step in the right direction but - only if you and the other 3 founders agree - you really should (I think) build out the stats features. You have a variety of small tools to filter out noise, but no good quick way to slice and dice posted information, especially in terms of popularity etc. Even a rating/feedback system (which I realize might turn into a popularity contest which would defeat the purpose) might be one option. - Alex Hammer
i like it, will you be able to do downgrade a superlike to a simple like if something you superlike more comes up? - MG Siegler
@Ontario Emperor: I've the same conflict myself. Perhaps 'Appreciate'? - Akiva Moskovitz
Super-Like feels like McDonaldization of FriendFeed. - Atul Arora
While reading an item on Scoble´s Friendfeed page regarding Marissa
Mayer trying to kill Google Reader (one of the products I really use a
lot) I noticed that i had a problem with this "like" feature in
Friendfeed; I find this news about Marissa Mayer "interesting" but i
was somehow hesitating to give it a "like" in Friendfeed.
And very few of the others did "like" this news either. The Friendfeed
tag could be renamed to "interesting" (along the lines of Flickr´s interestingness). - peter huesken
I would definitely add a "like" to a couple of the comments. A customizable tag would be cool but probably impractical. So I think (as someone mentioned) marking a post/comment as interesting or appreciate has a better semantic connotation. - Phil Ashman via twhirl
ooo... then you could sell likes, and they could be like little icon gifts, and... er, nevermind :P - Adam Lasnik
What about commenting on likes and super-likes ? What about permlinks for comments ? What about threaded comments ? - peter huesken
I'd like "Like" - "Love" - "Hate" ... Hate works like "like," but something you disagree with. | edit: eh, "Hate" may be too strong... how about "Dislike" - Vince DeGeorge
Ok this counts as 1 of my SUPER LIKES :-) (feature must include a BIG happy face :-) - Susan Beebe
Well, basically you want a rating system. How about "Like it", "Love it", and "Genius"? - possible248
@edythe Guess smthg, how many people will subscribe to you at the adult one ? : ) I think Arrington or Scoble won't have any chance at this :D - Erhan Erdogan
How about a VOTING system with 5 stars - you can click 5 stars for awesome! - Susan Beebe
Stars are too much work. I have to do those over on FastCompany.tv and I far prefer the simplicity of a link I click on. Plus it works on iPhones. Stars? Too difficult on that UI. - Robert Scoble
I dunno, I think it's kinda so-so. Maybe I like it, a little bit. sorta. - Jason Wehmhoener
That's what you think! Super-Like x1000. In yo' face! - April Buchheit
Yeah..yeah..and when you super like 10 others, you get a whole new set of super-likes with little cute characters! Invite 20 people to super-like and unlock 5 super-likes a day!!! Oh wait..this isn't Facebook. Make it so. - Bwana McCall
Nice feature as long as we can get a "top super-likes" page. - Mike Reynolds
I guess that if you don't "like" the item, you can just make a comment. It has the same effect. Being able to reply directly to a comment would be great, the conversations would be easier. I'm not a fan of the "stars" system, though. Report as SPAM. That would be nice too. - Alejandro S.
Why don't we just admit Orwell was right and start using "good," "plus good," and "doubleplus good?" Or count the number of "likes" something gets. You could call it a "digg" instead of a "like." - Karim
@erhan erdogan: i'll bet you cash money that Arrington and Scoble would *both* get better prospects than me on Adult FriendFeed! and I am with @Aviv about an "LOL" button on Fridays. Because it kind of made me LOL. - edythe
@Aviv: ha. Erhan Erdogan thought there should be an r-rated (x-rated?) version of FriendFeed -- if you go through all the comments on this post, you should be able to follow the thread. I think he's actually gone out and bought the domain. :) - edythe
one thing i was thinking about the other day was separating out the 'like' and 'share' functionality a bit. the combined functionality worked really well when the network was smaller, but i feel like i get a lot of items in my feed that people 'liked' rather than 'loved'. (and i just end up muting them which is a shame as it sidetracks my new item discovery a bit..) maybe super-like (aka love) could over rule like hiding preferences... - Alex Gawley
I think 'super like' sounds weak, maybe go along the lines of 'highly recommend' ! - Joe Dawson
The problem with super like is keeping all the comments in continuity. At first you super like jumping over tall building, but later you decide to super like flying. - RAPatton
That sounds cool - I'd also like to request a don't like... There's been a couple of times I could have used that - Paula Hawk
Levels of liking-ness (this has gotten very abstract) can be annoying to manage. Separating "like" from "save" or "star" might work. You can like something but not enough to hold on to it? Users could filter out stuff from other feeds that isn't liked by a threshold of people or saved or starred by anyone? It's worth exploring the thought in general, as all of these low-barrier-of-posting services can reach deluvian proportions quickly. - Justin Duewel-Zahniser via twhirl
@Paula you could hide the story if you don't want to see it! - Joe Dawson
Thanx Joe, It's not that I want to hide it, just want another way to voice my disapproval! :) - Paula Hawk
"Star This" would be great because I always lose a blogable(?) link I saw earlier but couldn't find later... - Anthony Farrior
How about keeping Like the way it is, but creat a Hot 100 page of the most liked and commented on based on a rolling 24 hour period. Perhaps Casey Kasem could count them down. - RAPatton
A couple thoughts. If someone super-likes something, I assume that means other users should understand that of all the content to read, the super-liked content stands above it all. Time-constrained members could focus only on the super-likes? Right now, the number of likes and comments serves that purpose in some ways. Also, if there's any notion FriendFeed has of creating some sort of "what's hot" list, would super-likes count more than regular likes and comments? - Hutch Carpenter
Maybe after you "like" something the "like" button would change to a "double like" so you could express more liking of the content... counts as an extra like... maybe you get a platinum smiley? - Ross Miller
Honestly, I'm not a fan of the concept. Unless you're using it to rank/sort posts. - Bill Bittner
how about this feature - I wanna put my friends(selected) likes as my likes. I mean likefeed [ subscribe to likes ] - Nayan
how about key board navigation for FF...... - sirish
super-like sound so facebookish. I'm sure that'll raise a younger crowd! - Alex von Halem
Agree with Alex, it sounds like 'super-poking' and all similar other facebook stuff - Ronald
How about multiple likes for the same item - Jason Kaneshiro
Most of the users of FF are so advanced and probably high profile. I don't think they (we) will bother with super-like, send-me-super-like, send-your-friend-super-like or any other Facebook style features. :) Alex is right, it sounds so facebookish. - Arda Kutsal via Alert Thingy
@Arda: I would hope that one goal of ff is to get to the masses, a la other successful social networks... I for one am still waiting for Tila Tequila and Obama girl to get their feeds started. - grant
http://spock.com tried a fancy "Spock Power" thing...would give Scoble even more weight! I like Scoble's simple is easier answer (esp for mobile phones). At last night's Silicon Valley Innovation Institute http://svii.org, I was asking BrightIdea's CEO if his business clients preferred only "likes" or both "likes/dislikes"(It varied), and discussed "liking systems". http://brightidea.com Evening's discussion was Social Networking as used by businesses. Dreamfish http://dreamfish.com was also there. - Mitchell Tsai
I think I like systems with just "likes." If there were "dislikes" they'd just be used by jerks to try to hurt other people. I don't think it'd reduce noise in the system. It'd be like building a roadway with potholes. - Robert Scoble
We had a discussion of how "likes only" seems to support brainstorming, but evaluation phases of innovation might need "rating systems or like/unlike". I wonder if REALLY popular FriendFeed threads might be able to use a "moderator"; e.g. just the Top 10 threads of each day or Top 100 threads of the month... (perhaps you could turn the moderation feature on/off depending on your mood). There was a "Second Life" book which talked about "un-like" wars on newbies. "Like/unlike" gone crazy in "Second Life". - Mitchell Tsai
As soon as I see "Like" and "Really Like," I'm going to start using one or the other. "Really like" waters down "Like," turns it into a pale, bland complement. Why would I use "Like" if I can "Really like"? I vote to keep the current, simple system. - Brent Newhall
Brent: I "really like" your comment. Good point. What I'd rather have is a filtering system so I can see only those items that have two "likes" or more. I guess that already is a "really like" system. It just requires two people to be involved. - Robert Scoble
How about a Slashdot-like system where you can set your personal threshhold to (A) 0-5+ "likes" (B) 0-5+ "comments" (C) ignoring/include comments written by the "poster" (D) temporary hide-lists #1-10 which you can select from a pull-down menu (E) semi-permanent black-list? - Mitchell Tsai
Or have a way to search on most commented/liked stories in a set range 0-12, 12-24 etc for a set period as well. Otherwise you would have old stories continually bumped to the top! Edit just seen by @Louis Gray that FriendFeedMachine serves this purpose! - Joe Dawson
I like this idea. This could be a great "noise cutting" feature. - Brandon Titus
I like it the way it is. I don't like the idea of having something like a "superlike" that you have a limited number of. - Tanath
That's what you get when you ask early adopters for their opinion, 100 cool nasa-like solar powered, infinite proof mathematical algorithms to be able to annotate you enjoyed a particular piece of content. I'd be very careful what you ask for Paul ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
I'd love to hear what people use for watching movies at home. I've switched from the blockbuster store to netflix to blockbuster online to xbox live to amazon unbox through tivo...i think the important factors for me now are 1.) availability of titles 2.) HD 3.) speed from purchase to viewing and of course 4.) cost. - grant
We use Netflix and also play old classic movies (recorded from TV) on our Macs, and we love it. I got my parents to use AppleTV, which I've set up to stream movies from their iTunes library, and they love that. - Raoul Pop
DVD player w/ Netflix. Occasionally I use an old laptop with Windows to watch Netflix streaming. Will be so happy when it comes to the Mac. Not sold on Apple TV yet, although I think internet delivery of HD is the future: http://mathoda.com/archives/16... - Ranjit Mathoda
Downloading movies through Amazon on your TiVo works really well. - RAPatton
If the rumors about Instant-play downloads from Netflix to the XBox 360 are true, then I'm completely sold on that. - Kevin Fox
My husband is constantly streaming movies from netflix through his laptop to our big screen TV - it works pretty well actually - Andromeda Edison
We occasionally download movies from Amazon on our Tivo, but find the download to be slow (usually several hours-- much more than would be expected with our cable internet connection). Also, we don't like the lack of subtitling options. - Shannon Jiménez
I've started using an AppleTV at home, and I really like it for the movies it *does* have, though the choice is pretty anemic at the moment (from the article, it sounds like this is being dealt with -- I'll be completely happy when I can get obscure eastern European movies like "Black Cat, White Cat"). I'm definitely sold on rental over purchase, as my 0.5TB hard drive is rapidly filling up with TV shows from iTunes... - Joel Webber
pretty cool: "Look for the camera icons next to your directions — the camera means that Street View is available at the intersection. Click the camera icon and you'll be transported to that intersection, with a giant arrow showing you what to do." - Tom
It is great to see the science behind reward and motivation. Georg Franc wrote an great article back in 1999 entitled "The Economy of Attention" where he posits a similar view w/o the scientific support. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/arti... - tagami
This seems to make sense intuitively too - once you take care of basic needs, isn't cash primarily just a means to higher status? - Brian Glick
It's interesting that it works even when the status is pretty obviously bogus. It's tickling some part of the brain -- people aren't making this trade-off logically. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, this article is my favorite when pondering the brain and how it perceives 'good' vs 'bad' ... http://www.boston.com/bostongl... ... in short ... what you believe ... overrides what your senses tell you. So if you believe something is good (money) even if it brings bad things (depression, lack of balance) you will always believe. - Tim Bauer
There are some games from my childhood (Super Mario Bros 3, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Zelda, Contra) that are so ingrained in my head it is kind of scary. If you go into any sufficiently 80s-generation room and say "Up up down down left right left right," the entire room will finish it for you. - Bret Taylor
For me it's Tecmo Bowl and Super Tecmo Bowl. Bret - you should also check out this hilarious Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/conten.... And Tyson was/is in LA. - hunter walk
I always wonder if Billy Crystal ever did his impression of and for Mike. - Russellreno
@Bret: so basically what you're saying is that you guys are working on a web-based MAME port that will post user high scores on FriendFeed. Awesome! - grant
I admire how ubiquitous various cheats became despite the lack of Internet back then. I mean, we all knew up up down down. Truly viral. - Sacca
Did you ask him why he has never had the courage to fight MMA? ;-) - Christian
@sacca: ditto the high pressure blowing into the cartridge and pressing it up and down fifty times until it worked again. - Bryan Power
Hahahaha. Blowing into the cartridge. I had a couple of educationally underachieving buddies for whom that was the only principle of physics they understood: heating up the contacts increased likelihood of proper functioning. - Sacca
@sacca i liked to call it "heating up my game" - Bryan Power
... A phrase which, though with a different implication, would not seem out of place these days - Sacca
@grant: I believe the 68% stat and supergrid example were simply meant to show progress -- i.e., there's a shift happening and more people are starting to consider climate change an important issue worth addressing. Regarding your other points, you've clearly given this a lot of thought. My only hope is that more smart people start working on solutions to the problem. It makes me cringe when these issues are politicized to the point where facts are discarded based on the political party of the person saying them. - ≠ bloggers
@≠: if they were both to show progress, then why not show progress from what? for example, 68% today, from XX% two years ago. They were misleading points that didn't clearly convey the entire stories. Personal beliefs aside, let's not forget that Mr. Gore was (is?) a career politician. - grant
At first Francona thought the txt was from his daughter, until "at the end of that message, Ortiz addressed -- in a good-natured way -- Francona with a naughty word, one that he had a hard time imagining would come off the text message fingers of his daughter Jamie." - Tom
Francona should put his 14-year old daughter in instead of Ortiz. Maybe SHE can get a hit. - grant
Ortiz went 2-for-5 tonight ... but yeah, no doubt he's slumping. Maybe this will work to his advantage and pitchers will underestimate him. =) - Tom
any pitcher that would underestimate a hitter like ortiz is headed to the farm. - grant
"Selam!~Hi!" Here in IST, Turkey; 11°C Mostly Cloudy Wind: N at 3 km/h Humidity: 90% ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
Let's choose a "day's topic" for every day ?! And also Paul Buchheit; please add a "topic today" button like "friends - me - everyone". Hmmm? How it is Chris? - Erhan Erdogan
Yeah, I think that's a good idea. I think the topic today should just be called 'Chris'. :) - Chris White
Sixers got shafted tonite,we could talk about that... - Anthony Farrior
You know what's funny, Chris? I said exactly the same thing a few weeks back, and look at what I did? Blathered about FF in FF recently. : slapping self with e-noodle : - Adam Lasnik
I twittered that I was blogging about friendfeed. Now I have nothing left to say - Slippy Lane
Doesn't mentioning FriendFeed contradict your statement? :) - Alejandro S.
Wait, what is this "other stuff" you are talking about?? - felix
I heard a rumor that it was something like real life - what ever that is - Steven Hodson
@jim: Begging forgiveness for being a n00b, but what does the 'bbq' part of 'omgwtfbbq' mean? I can only get a definition of the first six letters. - Voyagerfan5761
April says that the crack on my side of the picture implies that I'm somehow cracked, a crack-head, or maybe a crackpot, or at the very least flawed. I think she's crazy. Thoughts? - Paul Buchheit
Yah, it is awesome that the crack goes right through your head. If we have roles, you are definitely the "crazy one," so I think it is appropriate. - Bret Taylor
Congrats on the article, though I am sure there is even more to come. Hope news items like the BusinessWeek article help you to break into "the mainstream". Btw, "messy"? I perceive ff's UI as pretty clean, guess this is a fairly subjective matter - and my personal perception is the final truth of course ;) - Mustafa K. Isik
Will this be in the paper version of BusinessWeek too? - Philipp Lenssen
one of the things I like the most about FF is the amazing speed of the service at getting new content in from other services. Really good stuff! - Davide D'Incau
(I think the wall is cracked. :-) Regarding “messy”, though i like clarity and elegance, FriendFeed could be visually/graphically simpler by using less text and smarter layout and style elements. Compare Reddit, Hacker News, and http://preview.delicious.com (though i prefer the old Del.icio.us). I think that's what they mean. - John Lam
Philipp - yes, page 54. Congrats on the article! - Aviv
Last night I figured this entry would likely end up having 100 Likes, and I couldn't go to sleep until this was done - http://friendfeed.com/e/46eba5... - always wondered who else around here was into a particular post. Btw, when you get a chance - I would love to know the answer to the bug (or is it?) I mentioned in the comments of that entry - Aviv
