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Huge soap bubbles | Oriens - http://theoriens.com/huge-so...
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Anna Haro, Brian, Bill Scherer and 11 other people liked this
OooooOOOooooooo
- Alix Whitmire
Spaceship of the future
- Adrian
What a cute cake! I can't eat it! - http://www.rakuten.co.jp/milesto...
imabonehead, Mister Groonk, Andrew C and mlazopoulou liked this
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook and 194 other people liked this
16,000 down, 984,000 to go.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Not long to go!
- Andrew Trinh
And what a fine one it is! Congrats
- Michael Fidler
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
That is a great photo
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow and Congrats!!
- Vox
Dude, you're a machine.
- Zee.
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well!
- Michael VanDervort
from twhirl
Perseverance furthers.
- Michael Markman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Congrats!
- J. McConnell
beautiful, congrats!
- Carmen
Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks!
- Susan Beebe
congrats Thomas!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Damn that is all kinds of awesome.
- Mattb4rd
<3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow, quite an accomplishment!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Great job Thomas. Keep it up.
- Andrew Smith
Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :)
- Juan Pablo González
Congratulations Thomas!
- Holger Eilhard
Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis.
- Dave Martin
Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark!
- Muhammad Ahmed
Amazing image ,,, TH ...
- johnpiercy
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk"
- johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Beautiful!!!!
- Rafael Montilla
awesome!!
- Rhoda Meek
For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode.
- Jay Cuthrell
wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now.
- Thomas Hawk
And only 971,000 to go ... :P
- Rene Wirtz
That's Awesome!
- John Holzer
Keep 'em comin' Thomas!
- Charlie Anzman
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ?
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
Turtle feasting - http://i31.tinypic.com/2zj9840...
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John Field, ProsePetals (aka Denise), Kittyburgers and 11 other people liked this
is this real ? :)
- Göksel Şirin
some turtles eat meat as well.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
this turtle is very fast, I have never seen that kind of turtle :)
- Göksel Şirin
nasıl ya?
- Aykut Önen
Freaks me out every time I see it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
哇哦，是真的吗？会捕食的海龟
- 老巫师
fake hadi fake tamam ben söyliyim yine :p
- Erhan Yazıcı
There, I solved it - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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George Papadongonas, Amin, James Stratford and 12 other people liked this
Twitter Down: Twitter Doesn’t Know Why - http://mashable.com/2009...
Svartling, Kol Tregaskes, Daniel Rowley and 46 other people liked this
isn't a joke!!
- abdellah
Glad we can talk about this and see the info via FriendFeed - I almost resorted to my bookmarks to check out Mashable and TechCrunch :)
- Robert J Taylor
reboot
- Kevin Norman
Is it inevitable because of their architecture that they will continue to have these problems until a massive rewrite?
- Dusty Edenfield
The world is collapsing for a ton of people right now ;-)
- Caio Cesar
i dunno - they were coping quite well with all the growth. They did do a lot of work after thier last set of probloms. Pesonally i think its a data centre failure. Enough of the system ( or just the important bits) got taken down that its useless.
- Roberto Bonini
there's always identi.ca
- Imabug
Facebook is having issues for me to post, could it be some form of ajax update that was posted that broke things?
- Thomas Vincent
it caused by unfollowing 106,000 people by Robert Scoble)))
- obolonskyi
Scoble with his mass unfollow created a "disturbance in the force"..Twitter's servers had gotten used to that load profile and went insane upon the recent change :) Looks like Twitter took down FF with it for a moment as well (for me at least). "Twitter is down" shout outs overload? Or something about the feed input to FF hanging/bursting/etc. ??
- Alex Schleber
It's been having reporting problems for the past week, for me at least, unless I missed some new decision to reset the tweet clock. my 9000+ tweets and dwindled down to just the most recent ones
- Melanie Reed
i'm feeling really bad for the bots right now, since they are 25% of Twitter's traffic
- Kevin Norman
@cerveau / obolonskyi Haha - we were thinking the same thing simultaneously..
- Alex Schleber
Twitter's blog does mention the reporting problem. I guess this implies I don't have a legitimate account?! ;)
- Melanie Reed
Twitter/status reports they're fighting a DoS attack.
- Roger Jennings
New to Twitter? Don't treat this like texting to friends. Open up. Add a lot of people. Interact. What you give is what you get.
caitlyn starr carrington and Mister Groonk liked this
Can the media SHUT UP ABOUT MICHAEL JACKSON and start covering North Korea's July 4th plans to launch a long-range missile?!
Kol Tregaskes, Anne Bouey, Adam Martin and 21 other people liked this
No, that would make sense and why should they start now ( making sense)
- Kim Landwehr
Ratings it's all about ratings and that is what sells adspace
- Russ Jackson
If only they could. Of course, NK can't keep a missile aloft much less feed the people that built it.
- Mister Groonk
it's unlikely because this is fuelling sales of the music.. Michael Jackson is making money again, tho for the wrong people. Why would they mess that up with some real news?
- alphaxion
Amen.
- Ethan
nope...its all about the ratings...shame on them! bummer -_-
- Ferwin
Yup. MJ is the first artist to sell more th\n a million tracks on iTunes :)
- Roberto Bonini
Michael Jackson
- Henri Watson
Be patient, Chris. Now go get your MJ CD's out and practice the moonwalk. :)
- Steve Council
I just turned off the tv for a week and dont hear a thing, I use my pc for "filtered media", let the media do whatever they please, I could care less lol
- Kyle Weller
thats the media's job, to keep our brains busy by bombarding it with useless information and sadly they are winning the war .... sigh*
- Nakula Levy
Real-time FriendFeed in Firefox sidebar
Victor H, HealingBrush, laura and 45 other people liked this
(1) install All In One Sidebar extension; (2) right-click navigation toolbar to add a new bookmark; (3) add the URL http://friendfeed.com/realtim... and check "open in sidebar"; (4) that's it.
- Neil Saunders
As if I needed more distractions ;)
- Lars Juhl Jensen
Nice, but I'm with Lars, that smacks of productivity killing ;)
- Daniel Swan
I did the same thing back in October when real time came out so I could compare the two versions of FriendFeed - "standard" mode and "real time" mode. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Susan Beebe
Can you do this with Chrome as well?
- Aaron Strout
This is great advice on getting a Friendfeed realtime feed in a sidebar. I've just tried installing the All In One sidebar on Flock 2.5, resulting in an error. On Firefox 3.0.11, it works great! I guess it makes sense to run Twitter in my Flock people sidebar, and Friendfeed realtime in my Firefox All In One sidebar.
- David Ing
Eatphabet
Food Network Canada, Shevonne, Mahdi Ebrahimi and 2 other people liked this
Eatphabet by Luiza Prado. Choose a letter for your dinner here.
- alexxandra
from Bookmarklet
Finding La Dolce Vita: Swine Flu Cookies - http://findingladolcevita.blogspot.com/2009...
Mister Groonk, Cee Bee and Noosha liked this
very funny
- Cee Bee
ha
- Daniel Krech
POLL: Does your best friend use friendfeed? (if yes, who?)
王士奇, cyberpunk soul, Philip Lei and 57 other people liked this
Nope.
- Alp
No
- Shevonne
0% of my friends in real life use friendfeed regularly. it sucks.
- Frankie Warren
Nope, she's a die-hard Facebook fanatic.
- Jennifer Dittrich
0% of my friend in real life know what means friendfeed!
- Hassan
The only people I know who have set up FF accounts haven't done anything with them since setting up their feeds. They're missing the best bit!
- Martin Bryant
No. And I'd like to keep it that way. :)
- Helen Sventitsky
Nope.
- Michael McKean
It seems most of our friends don't use ff.
- Alp
She has an account but doesn't use FF. She's active on twitter and facebook. But it's only a matter of time...
- Violet Mae Lim
from fftogo
None of my friends uses Friendfeed, they're all on Facebook.
- Diego Espinoza V.
None of mine either :(. They all are little late in responding to the buzzwords :)
- Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
no
- bifurcafe
Nope :(
- Deepak Prakash
Nope
- Roberto Bonini
Yes...both Mike Maurer and Chris Greene use friendfeed.
- Alex Scoble
no, but he watches me use FF at his house
- Amber, Random Time Lord
One but so rarely that I probably shouldn't even count him.
- ♥patricia♥
my oldest son uses friendfeed regularly
- mike "glemak" dunn
gets me. it is accurate.
- Mycaptain
no
- ‾\ (о_О) /‾
Nope, my best friends never use twitter, facebook, ff, etc. They are real people with real local social networks.
- Burcu Dogan
Imaginary friends are the best.
- Berge Gazen
No. My best friends have absolutely no interest in technology whatsoever. IRL friends and on-line friends are two completely different worlds for me.
- Martha
Friendfeed IS my best friend
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Yes. Akiva. :(
- Rochelle
No, but some of my very, very close friends do.
- joey
Nope. Pretty much all my friends here are strangers.
- Ginger Makela Riker
yes. but not actively.
- mjc
nope
- Alan Simpson
Nope. Never met another FriendFeeder IRL
- Dennis O'Neil
Nope. He barely uses Twitter as it is.
- Zach Flauaus
my only friends are internet friends
- BEX
bex: you need a :( at the end of that to sell it ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
I only know 3 people IRL on FF, two have just joined and all hardly participate (though that might change). And no, no specific best friend here, you are all my best friends! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
None of the people IRL are on FriendFeed. I've suggested it to a few, but none of them have tried it as far as I know.
- John Collis
Yes he does. But he kind of dropped off my feed some weeks ago. Never really asked him why. He has a life I guess. Here's his feed: http://friendfeed.com/manoj11
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
no.
- PaperDoll
No. I would love to have more friends on friendfeed. :(
- Faraz Mullick
No, but my close friends are just now ramping up on Twitter and they still use Facebook a lot. I've told them about FF.
- Heather
我很想朋友都来用！
- 王士奇
Tacos Al Pastor with Roasted Pineapple-Habanero Chile Salsa - http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes... (via http://friendfeed.com/e...)
Mister Groonk, Casey, Akiva Moskovitz and 4 other people liked this
You had me at "Hello" ...
- Laura Norvig
These are all done in Pencil.
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rowlikeagirl, martha, Ardvisoor and 243 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Nia
I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic!
- Kristian Salonen
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm with Rah
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
want proof
- Jérôme Flipo
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real.
- Joe Breen
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- tomit
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Crispy Hash Browns Recipe | Simply Recipes - http://www.elise.com/recipes...
April Russo (app103), Derrick, Mister Groonk and 6 other people liked this
We have potatoes we really need to use ... but now we're talking about going out to breakfast. I like the tip in here about squeezing the water out of the potatoes, though.
- Laura Norvig
yum
- RAPatton
My hash browns never come out like this, ever.
- Michelle Martinez
Ditto. Mine always come out charred in parts, chewy in others. I'll have to try this method.
- Jordan Hofker
Nutella Self-Frosting Cake « Carmen Cooks - http://carmencooks.wordpress.com/2009...
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shamim, Laura Norvig, Mister Groonk and 8 other people liked this
"I didn’t have a chance to make this week’s TWD - the chocolate amaretti torte. I just didn’t have time to make my own and couldn’t find them in any of the stores I checked. Please visit TWDto see everyone else’s! It sounds as if everybody really enjoyed it and I’ll definitely make it in the future. A few years ago, these nutella self-frosting cupcakes were all the rage in the blog world. It was a basic vanilla cake recipe with nutella swirled on top before baking. It was one of the first recipes I ever baked from a blog, years before I ended up having my own. My husband and I are moving. To a place we’ve never lived (and never in a million years thought we’d live) and that is very different from any place we’ve ever been. It’s all sorts of things - it’s a bit scary, a bit anxiety-inducing, a bit stressful and well, a bit exciting. The idea of packing up and moving somewhere completely new where we don’t have any roots makes me feel a bit like an adventurer (and anybody who knows me knows that I’"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
مهدی نفس من بیده به انگلیسی چی میشه ؟ :))
- Noosha
AJAB SOLAHAY SAKHTI MIPORSI HA:))))
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
:)) اوکی اوکی
- Noosha
AMA MITONI BEGI YOU ARE MY SOUL YA YOU ARE MY BREATH :D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
:)) حالا طرف بنده خدا خیال ورش میداره فکر می کنه با اونم گناه داره جوون مردم
- Noosha
:D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Loving the new FriendFeed - it's the new Twitter. I'm looking forward to learning how to use it better. http://friendfeed.com/?bc=1.
Keith Barrett, Comptr, Kevin and 49 other people liked this
now, if only there is a better client, both on iPhone and Desktop.
- Rom Feria
Already learned, easy as riding a bike in a tornado :-D, nah as easy as snowboarding when you're a skier :-), just takes some getting used to :-)
- Richard A.
Having just signed up to it, I find that it has a steep learning curve but I am loving being able to comment!
- Stephen Heron
Hey Leo thanks for the Tweet about this site. Very nice.
- Michele
Stephen: Are you using www.friendfeed.com or beta.friendfeed.com? I'd strongly suggest just starting with the beta if you're new.
- Ken Sheppardson
The beta shows up very nice on my iPhone
- Steve Sill
to quote vader...nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- xero
I was using the original but I am now trying the beta and it is much easier to use!
- Stephen Heron
This is the dawning of the Real Time Web. From now on, streams become as important as documents.
- Jayson Elliot
Still too entrenched on Twitter, no way I'd leave it behind. Too many people I follow don't use Friendfeed at all.
- Jens
Aw yeah, the fire-eating Laporte man is on board
- Bwana ☠
Leo: By the way, like Twitter, you can only DM people who are following you. (hint hint)
- Ken Sheppardson
YES! FriendFeed is the new Twitter! This is Sooooo much better! Threaded conversations in real time! Can anyone popping over from Twitter see this new FriendFeed? http://beta.friendfeed.com/
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Pretty Cool!
- Alita Holly
Totally +1 . I'm liking it much more than the old 'face. Seems like what we would have always wanted Twitter to be like. BTW, It's past 21:00 UTC but your live interview is not on yet, and you are streaming a recorded show with no audio :s I was looking forward to that interview with the Friendfeed team, hope it's coming.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
i will say, twitter does beat friendfeed when it comes to ease of use, but it looks interesting. Can't wait to give it a whirl
- Chris Grimm
It looks basically like Twitter which is good and bad i think.
- Michael
Im with Leo
- Adam Hubbs
It's like Twitter on steroids!
- Adam Hubbs
and i hope you will me TWIT all you know :)
- mark
i still like twitter better. :P
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
I hated Twitter the moment I heard of it! FF seems like it will be more fun to watch.
- Adam Hubbs
Think its easier to catch comments on the old real-timefeed though...
- Peder Stray
Twitter is simpler...
- Scott Hubble
key word for me is Discovery .. best way to discover new ideas
- Joe Magennis
from twhirl
twitter is really great for quick buzz. FF is the bomb for more in depth conversations. and facebook is a great place to keep track of friends life doings. I really like having all three together. I can't even imagine what I did with myself before all this
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Let me be the one to say this...WELCOME TO THE FREAKING PARTY LEO! WHAWIEDWQIJD09
- Mike Nayyar
FriendFeed is "the new black"! ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Excellent summary, Rob!
- Doug
hmm this is pretty neat
- Joe
This is pretty slick! I think I'll hang out here a bit.
- Aaron
Gmail. You are 5 years old. Happy Birthday. I love you. Now STOP BEING IN FUCKING BETA.
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Kevin, dafire and 26 other people liked this
5 years old...is that why it's not working today?
- Jordan Hofker
time to wear the big boy pants and grow up.
- Kim Landwehr
Kim: Exactly. LET'S DO THIS.
- Steve Isaacs
Even Susan thinks the Beta is too fast
Victor Ryden, Helen Sventitsky, Morton Fox and 11 other people liked this
Awesome pic!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
She's let her hair grow out a bit http://bit.ly/18HAh4
- Joey Gibson
Wow Joey, I wouldn't have recognized her.
- adf
liking for the blast from the past
- BEX
LOL Powter!
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
She came out of the closet and no one alerted the media dammit?!
- Matthew DeVries
Tech TV Host Cant Stop Laughing - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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SUSAN J SPAULDING, Mister Groonk and Mattb4rd liked this
he can't stop, man, why can't you stop?!?
- Mister Groonk
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National Zoo Announces Rare Clouded Leopard Birth - http://www.zooborns.com/zooborn...
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AWWWWWWWWWWWWW
- BEX
SCI FI Channel To Change Name - http://www.buzzfeed.com/rchemel...
Dave Dugal, Marcus McCurdy, Jon, the Chilled Beartato and 21 other people liked this
word is getting around
- Josh Haley
Wy?
- Kevin Fox
yea lamest thing ever, nice job on alienating their core audience
- Fee501st
What exactly does Siffy mean?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: according to google, Siffy: infected with syphilis
- Fee501st
oh, I see what they did there. They could have imagined greater than that.
- zeroinfluencer
hate it
- Veronica
Well I'm glad BSG is almost over. :o)
- Paul Reynolds
So terrible. Fitting seeing how Sci-Fi hasn't shown much sci-fi in years.
- Kien Tran
SciFi is to Science Fiction as MTV is to Music
- Matthew DeVries
Sylly
- Stephen Mack
Eh.. no so thrilled with this, its like WTF.
- Keith Hobin
ow That's better.
- Onur Gündüz
tell me thys ys a jok(e)!
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
Lame. I'll assume "broader programming appeal" is what has been keeping Science Fiction off SciFi.
- Alan
I never see the point of these name changes. Costs loads to make up new logos etc and the effect is well...underwhelming. Syfy = lame.
- Amy
Apparently geek cred isn't good enough and they want to be more. While alienating their core audience.
- Araceli
Their core audience was already alienated. I mean geeks love aliens, right? You're groaning, but it's my nature. See #1: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad...
- Kevin Fox
I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean on Sci-Fi last night and kept thinking "Why are pirates on Sci-Fi?" Sure, there is the supernatural element but cursed pirates != aliens do they?
- Jared B. Luther
That reminds me of why is WWF on SciFi?
- Araceli
They're doing this precisely because a lot of their content isn't strictly scifi (and hasn't been for a long while). Also, it's easier to branch out into new sub-brands with the new name, eg. SyFy Kids.
- Paul Wilcox
Araceli, as far as I know they have late night wrestling on Sci-Fi because, frankly, it pays the bills.
- Paul Wilcox
After Battlestar is off SciFi I'll only have Dr Who and I can torrent those months before SyFy (yech) get around to them. Terrible move.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
Jason: The new network name is to be pronounced "Siffy" that is why there's articles coming out of Europe today about how they're changing their name to a slang for V.D.
- Matthew DeVries
Well, at least then they wont have to explain why they keep passing off crap like wrestling and "ghost hunting" as SciFi...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Press release (http://scifiwire.com/2009...) says, "By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider range of current and future imagination-based entertainment beyond just the traditional sci-fi genre, including fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure."
- Stephen Mack
So it's still pronounced Sci-Fi. I can see why they want to have a name they can trademark. But no one seems to like this.
- Stephen Mack
.... a rose is still a rose by any other name......
- walterh
Translated: We want to show more wrastlin', MMA, and other baseline, lowest common denominator entertainment cause all yall's too stupid for real sci-fi.
- Chrimmus Tad
It sounds kind of different, but it isn't really, because we want to keep our core audience, but not really, cause we want to branch out...I swear to god, if this is Ben Silverman's idea, I'm going straight to NBC Universal and punching him in the face.
- Mike Nayyar
Incomprehensibly lame.
- Michael
Perhaps it's part of the economic recovery effort. In this case, putting really lame branding agencies to work.
- Kevin Pedraja
Its a shame a la carte programming will never catch on among the cable companies, because SyFy is definitely a channel I would be getting rid of.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
syfy.com states the new naming "creates an ownable and extendable brand for the future." This actually makes sense. 'Sci fi' is too too generic a term to receive trademark protections as they venture in to new areas, so they had to come up with something unique. I don't like what they ended up with, but I understand why (and how, since at least this change is only a visual change. The linguistic name stays the same.)
- Kevin Fox
#web Create Photo Mosaics Online - http://www.picartia.com/#
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Why the news media shouldn’t use images from Google… (look closely) **updated with video thanks to @LouCypher** - http://www.zee.me/blog...
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Seriously!?! LOL!
- Meredith
LOL! Someone is gonna be fired...
- AJ Batac
LOL
- CW™
whoops, i shared this too :) took me awhile to see what the fuss was about
- sean percival
epic!
- Adam Matthews
well...those donuts must be very good
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
OMG that is too freakin funny
- Angela P.
they are some pretty good donuts, i dunno...
- Melissa Maskevich
BWAHAHAHAHA!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I know people doing that without donuts being involved. O_o
- Derrick
How did that make it past proof reading
- Chris Johnston
Oh my god!!!!
- Nurse Katie
There is no way a wheat donut is that good.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
You gotta admit, her face is like, "Dick? In my mouth?"
- Admiral Anika
Eric, the KK wheat doughnuts were pretty damn good. Tasty kinda like brown sugar, in doughnut form.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Are most donuts... wheat donuts??
- Alix Whitmire
Too Funny!!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
oh MAN if that's for real and not shopped..... looks real to me this time....
- Kamilah Gill
LOL +1 Anikia
- Zee.
Not on FAILblog yet, I noticed....
- Bora Zivkovic
They are so good, if I told you right now they had crack in it, you'd go "I knew something was up, I knew these donuts were too damn good, man. Got me knocking on the window at 2 o'clock in the morning. 'Come on man, open up man, give me one more donut. I'll do anything!'"
- Victor Ganata
I personally love when decisions makers don't realize that graphics people put goatse.cx in their pictures http://img528.imageshack.us/img528...
- Matthew DeVries
can i like this twice...
- Wallace
LMAO
- Herb Hernandez
lol @ Derrick, Anika
- Karim
Anika!! ++
- Yolanda
lol
- j1m
LOL wow, just wow. The look on the anchor's face in the still, oblivious yet still seems right. LOL
- mikepk
Hard to believe it just snuck in there. Are we sure it's not a photoshop?
- Jason Williams
No pic. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
from Disqus
@Kol: Didn't work me, either (IE8). Try the source: http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfac...
- Jemm
oh my - oh my
- Janet
How good is that donut??
- Sean
+1
- Ambar Pansari
LOL
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
ROFL
- Mister Groonk
they glaze them with crack. That's why.
- Jacob
OMG that is not good
- Susan Beebe
wow just wow
- Alfredo
LMAO. FabooMama Wins!
- Parth Awasthi
They even have a convenient hole to stack them on you know what...
- Kevin Trotman
Found the video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch... It's from 2 yrs ago
- LouCypher
LOL!
- TheBuzzMachine
Lou you Legend!
- Zee.
LOL, I was just curious :p
- LouCypher
Why didn't they check the picture before displaying it?
- Nicholas James
your guess is as good as mine Nicholas
- Zee.
So, maybe she was really trying to tell us something?
- Fleagle
awesome...
- Frank Jurden
friggin. awesome.
- PalMD
omg, this is unbelievably funny!
- Chieze Okoye
omg, umm wonder how long it took them to notice?
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
knowing how stations work behind the camera, they noticed & much laughter ensued almost immediately except for the anal retentive news director, but by that time the damage was done...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Too freakin' hilarious!
- Stephanie Zimmerman
iPhone and iPods are Banned at the Bill Gates Household - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Is this different than my Mom not allowing anyone to smoke in her house (except my Dad's father, the single exception)?
- Matthew DeVries
Or the every annoying people who make you take your shoes off when you come inside?
- Matthew DeVries
And we would presume Stevo isn't using WinMo phones at his house... So...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
My only observation is that when a competitor's product is better than yours sometimes it is a good idea to have some people you trust use it, get comfortable with it and tell you why... or better yet WATCH them use it for about a month... You might learn something.
- Brian Roy
Except that Mr. Gates stepped away from that sort of thing over a year ago, Brian, and probably MS (and Apple) have large teams devoted to analyzing competition.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
MVB - I'm aware. The only reason this is news, however, is because Bill = Microsoft. If I banned iPods and iPhones at my house would it get written up? Nope... The large teams are sometimes the problem - many/some/all of those folks did/were involved in the design of YOUR product. How objective do you think they will be. Watching your kids use it is personal... not a Power Point from the UX team.
- Brian Roy
Do you think Jobs has a Zune and uses an HTC phone?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Nope - but I bet he would if they were clearly superior to his offering (I know I would). At a minimum I bet he would try to find legitimate fans of those products/services and try to discern why they are fans. I'm not saying support your competition - I'm saying that when they are better... learn and evolve.
- Brian Roy
Hrm... When I managed a Jeep dealership, I never owned a Land Rover, but I knew a lot about them.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
And I bet if you had a relative/friend who had and LOVED a Rover you would spend some time trying to figure out why... that's all I'm saying.
- Brian Roy
True, Brian, I would. But not in my driveway.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
as long as he's being a grown-up about it. *rolls eyes*
- Mister Groonk
from twhirl
Well, I guess I won't be visiting the Gates' household then!
- Neil Bernhart
NOW I know why I've never been invited over for dinner! :-)
- Robert Scoble
yeah :) that must be it for me too Robert. :)
- Zee.
leave your weapons at the door?
- bob phillips
Mr. Gates, would I be invited to dinner at your place if you knew I owned a Zune?
- Janet
What a brilliant way to create publicity... for the iPhone and iPod...
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Hell No! Let me in with my ipod or ill kick your ass!
- nfan12
from Alert Thingy
I said Bill should use an iphone to know how good it is, but on 2nd thought, it's a no win either way for him. If he uses it, people will say, "even Bill will not use MS products", if he bans its from his household, he gets branded as ignorant. Guess it is better to be branded ignorant, than to let people beleive that Bill doesn't think MS is #1. Take one for the team, Bill :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
"Hey, kids, sorry to bum you out. But know what - let's visit some less enlightened people and release a jar of Zunes in their home -- who wouldn't benefit from that!"
- Micah Wittman
Good for him i am not a fan of apple either ( since he's microsoft i can see why lol) and would only use their products if maybe(and that's a big maybe folks) given one but i'd never actually BUY it.
- Angela P.
Who would want to even GO into that goobers home?????? I'd probably CRASH! lmao
- Scott W.
LOL +1 Scott
- Zee.
A better question would be who "wouldn't" want to go to his home. The guy is amazing and is doing a lot to help the world through his foundation.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I don't care if you fake follow me. I don't define myself by who follows me, but I define myself by who +I+ follow! I follow smart people who teach me things and put interesting stuff in my view. If you stop, or prove to be a jerk or a troll, then I'll just unsubscribe.
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All I can say to that is, you better enjoy a lot of good German brews while you're there. It's non-sequitor, and that is what you should expect from me.
- Pete Delucchi
Wait. Isn't Robert Scoble just Alex Scoble's older brother?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Pete, the correct spelling is "Mississippi." And Robert, "The Metro" and "Take My Breath Away" are really good songs. And I think you'd agree that the content that you obtain from your subscribees is more important than your subscribee count. It's a content game, not a numbers game.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Akiva: yup, Alex is my younger brother. You can't really blame him for how he is. I used to beat him up. Of course, he gave me my issues with authority. He told mom. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Pete: Rocky already found a bar that has hundreds of beers. I have a feeling we'll be seen there once or twice between now and Sunday.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, he seems to be doing all right so far!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Great example of being quality-centered instead of market-centered... do what you love and a market will find you...
- Justin Long
@Akiva, yeah, robert scoble uses his last name to get by on alex's gig.
- Morgan Warstler
Akiva- You are the man...that's the funniest stuff I've seen since the whole Korn of the Blog thing.
- Alex Scoble
[courtsies]
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Pete - I just want you to know that your non sequitur above ended up inspiring dozens of non sequiturs on FriendFeed this evening. I hope you're Melvin about that.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
LOL@Akiva!!!!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
That's one of the many things I like about FriendFeed: how many people follow you isn't displayed at the top level. I hope that doesn't change. I think a lot of people on Twitter (and other social networks) only obsess over their followers/friends just because everyone else can see it. I also think that's why a lot of people don't like FriendFeed... you've got to give substance to get substance.
- Paul Reynolds
@Ontario I've stopped shaking my fist, just so you know.
- Pete Delucchi
Agreed - I don't think I'll ever "fake follow". I'd rather just unsubscribe - those I follow I try to pay attention to.
- Jesse Stay
How does one 'fake follow' a person? Is it hard? Is it fun? Can I do it?
- Michael Moran
I agree with you Robert as I don't see any valid reason for me as an individual to fake follow anyone!
- Joe Dawson
Yeah @robert, how or whats "fake follow" ?
- Arjun
Agree on this, though I think from a feature perspective it's a smart one!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
That's my take on it 100%
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
NEW (February 25): Of course two weeks ago I started auto following again. Why? Cause Direct Messaging on Twitter is broken. But here on friendfeed I have a different philosophy. I am using lists to follow specific people and segregate those out from other people. So I can keep the geeks who talk tech separate from my brother, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
That said, I assume everyone is smart until they prove otherwise. :-)
- Robert Scoble
i just wish people would stop talking about following in general :P
- Terry O'Fee
This would have more credibility now Robert if you protested the capping of manual follows at 2000 until you get followers of that number and can move on now. You got to autofollow with abandon; today normal people are capped on manual follows. Unfair.
- Prokofy Neva
Holy hell, this thread is 6 months old!
- coldbrew
Who's this Goon posing as you? http://friendfeed.com/e... imitation is the finest form of flattery?
- sofarsoShawn
I would agree with Garin, followers/following is not important, but discussion is. BTW, Loic is very good a starting this type of arguments (must be his French side).
- Jeremy Chone
This level of necrophilia is just gross dude. Internet threads are not fine cheeses.
- Matthew DeVries
dont worry, matt. there's about five or six conversations of the same discussion now.
- Terry O'Fee
I feel like I should invite friends over and serve wines with threads like this "tonight, we'll be sampling a 2003 SA thread about iPods, a 2007 flickr thread about EXIF data, and something really special a 1994 ISCA BBS thread about where the clitoris is"
- Matthew DeVries
lol - I really enjoy your posts and convo - I learn many things - and thanks for the laughs too : )
- Mark Harai
I'd respond to this thread but necro-posting creates zombie threads and zombie threads eat Brrraaaiiinnnnsss! :P
- MarkCarras
Robert you have alot to teach and you seem teachable also-sign of a good journalist.
- earlewallace
LOL
- Terry O'Fee
*rolls eyes* This thread was a whole president and 2 inaugurations old, quit using it.
- Matthew DeVries
lol
- Arjun
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