Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

happy 27th! - Vezquex: God of FF

Happy Birthday, Ahsan. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy Birthday! Busy day for blowing out candles on FF! - jcunwired

Happy Birthday! - joey

Happy birthday, Ahsan! - Micah Wittman

Bon anniversaire! - rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu

Happy Birthday, Slick! - Josh Haley from iPhone

11-06-79 here. Ack. 30. Have a good 27. - Jeremy

Happy birthday Ahsan! - Maxamad (Amazigh)

Thanks All :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Happy Birthday Jeremy (presuming that is mm-dd-yyyy) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Ooh! Happy belated birthday Ahsan - Mo Kargas

Hi Ahsan! Happy B. (or the resting 1hr of it) :) - Bicentennial (Franc)

Happy Birthday, Ahsan! - Anne Bouey

Happy birthday! - Anika

Happy Birthday, Slick! - T. Brent, technopeasant

Nope. Twitter needs official groups at least. Plus the 140 character limit is never going to beat FF. - Kol Tregaskes

Boy am I glad to see those replies .. for a moment I thought .. FF was ___ ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

No. FriendFeed is real-time, shows multimedia. No limit. Cool design. - Одни подкастеры в стране

Exactly, I can't see how Twitter could compete in any way atm. - Kol Tregaskes

images in FF facilitate connection across languages. Having items bubble up as they get filtered via network of "likes" and comments makes time spent on FF more gratifying - Twitter seems very flat, almost one-dimensional in comparison. Maybe they'll figure it out in a few more iterations ... - Dan Freeman

FriendFeed is different to Twitter and even with lists they are still very different services - Nicholas James

Reddit is a worthy competitor - it follows the same question + answers format in one page. But I do admit friendfeed is easier to read and follow. - TrafficBug

scoble is writing an apology to technosailor and arrington about why they were right about ff ten months ago... it should be out on his blog real soon (he teased it on twitter a bit ago) - i'm not sure what he's going to say, but it better be something good or i'm done listening to him for a while... he's been losing touch or something lately - Chris Heath

Seriously, it's hard enough for me to stay below FriendFeed's character limit, let alone that annoying 140! - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

lists definitely help twitter to catch up with friendfeed, still it has a ways to go - Mike Chelen

The issue with Twitter is that it's very hard/nearly impossible to surface OTHER people's conversations & then participate. This is purely a UI issue as the data exists in principle. Twitter Search has it (mostly, but the conversation expand link there may miss tweets that for one reason or another broke the "in reply to" link), and Tweetdeck at least at one point could surface conversation on demand for @-reply type tweets. - Alex Schleber

Of course the number of @ replies from your "following" stream you could see dropped dramatically after Twitter took that option away. If you're not following the @username in the reply you will never see that tweet. FF actually has been a way, albeit cumbersome at times, around that, if you had imported a good number of your Twitter peeps (for some of the ones you really wanted to follow but weren't on FF, manually). - Alex Schleber

My main gripe with Twitter was noise, and being unable to organize my subscriptions. Lists solves it to some extent ... but it can't hold a candle to FF's discussion or search abilities... Not to mention real-time! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

FriendFeed has been missing reply to comments/nesting, making long comment streams harder to follow and read. Of course now we know we'll never see FF upgrade to those features. Mini version of the avatar for each comment would also be helpful to anchor the eyes and make user participation more obvious at a glance (e.g. if you saw a comment thread dominated by Scoble, that would be your sign to either run or step closer... :) - Alex Schleber

Twitter really needs a feature where with 1 click I can see an ongoing conversation between two or more users surfaced, which can be done in Twitter Search simply by inputting 2 or more user names - no @ symbol. Crude but 95% effective, unless both are Twitter celebs, then it can create some false positives from 3rd party tweets. But it's too cumbersome to do and should be automatic instead, and of course with the proper "to:a from:b from:a to:b" search criteria. - Alex Schleber

And don't forget that Git seems to be gaining steam as well. - Roberto Bonini

Oh I love git, but the developers I'm dealing with found tortoisegit too complex. I need something simpler..... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Then SVN it is. - Roberto Bonini

Perforce is quite good, and free in certain circumstances. - Bill Scherer

not sure svn and tortoise svn is that much simpler than git - sure, checking out is one less step, but apart from that... but as long as you dont do too much branching and everyone is always online when working, svn works very well - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I'm not sure that Git works very well on Windows machines. Might be worth checking out (no pun intended) Mercurial. I find it hard to recommend SVN since it requires a server to be running, and merging is a major PITA compared to merging with Git. - Paul Grav

I should also mention that these developers have never used a SCM before! :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick