He just saw the opening credits for Barbarella... sound effects: *AOOOGA! AOOOGA!!* - Tad Donaghe

wtf? - Anna Haro

Any sleuths have any idea what this guy is? Cee Bee, you did a fantastic job identifying the clearwing butterfly http://friendfeed.com/e/7bf272.... Perhaps FriendFeed can offer services as a research unit (to make some money)? - Mitchell Tsai

Now this guy is Funny! Reminds me of me, when I am angry! LMAO - Igor The Troll

Looks kinda like Larry King. - Jody Carbone

O HAI...IM IN UR FORESTS, EATIN UR UNDERGROWTHS. - Josh Lowensohn

jody carbone: Hee!! - edythe

Yeah I like the Larry King comparing! Very witty! I would like to pick on George W. Bush but it is just not the look. lol - Igor The Troll

LOL @ Jody for "Larrylizard" - Iain Baker

The really, really, really awesome part about Friendfeed is that there are dozens of ways to use it. Not everyone is using Friendfeed to replace twitter as a bandstand to opine about social media. - Mark Trapp

Your point is well taken, though. Handing out likes to run up your stats or get attention runs counter to FF's potential as a smart content filter. - Chris Baskind

I can't resist good irony. (Pointedly, however, I agree. Though if it's ONLY media, it's still instructive ... We just need a Jaanix-like feature extractor to figure out which people we most agree in likes with. Then if someone who likes every bit of media on FF and, say, me, who only likes a few wouldn't be too tightly considered for mutual recommendation.) - Alexander Williams

Hey Alexander, Hutch Carpenter started a movement to figure that out, called the likes compatibility index. Check it out here: http://friendfeed.com/e/f41a03... Lots of interesting analyses generated off of it from Yuvi, too. - Mark Trapp

@alexander I think the new Digg recommendation system does exactly what you're desiring and could be applied to FF in simpler terms - Julian Baldwin

Sorry, I'll try to calm down! - J. Phil

There are lots of systems which are trying to use expressed preferences, keywords and/or tags to try and figure out recommendation dynamics. I'm for it! I just mentioned Jaanix as the one I use most often. I think we'll see them moving into a lot of other spaces because they "just work." No need to give them lists of keywords, or people, or anything except say, "Yup" or "no," which is about the level of interaction I like. - Alexander Williams

@j. phil you're fine, it's certain others who may as well be unconscious at the mouse from time to time and I lose respect for their credibility until they wake up - Julian Baldwin

We could classify this as a pathetic liker ? Please coin the term for my list! http://friendfeed.com/e/a44805... - Mike Fruchter

Better yet a "Drive by liker" - Mike Fruchter

I like the way you phrased the statement here.. so when people say "there is no wrong way to use friendfeed" you can say "I'm not saying you are using friendfeed wrong, I'm saying you aren't worth watching" ... I like it! - J. Phil

@mike lol, you've coined this one correctly @j. phil exactly - Julian Baldwin

but what if we really like a lot of stuff? ;) - Sarah Perez

Afraid to either like or comment now... - Cyndy

@sarah that happens to all of us, but sometimes you know damn well someone is only hitting like to appear present - Julian Baldwin

That kind of defeats the purpose of the "like" link, doesn't it? - Lucretia Pruitt

@lucretia yes, liking everything on the screen defeats the purpose - Julian Baldwin

I would really like 1-5 star type liking. Also, perhaps a "private-like" which allows me to save stuff for my own viewing without contaminating the main feed. If FriendFeed would add "themed"/keyword liking, then it would be easy to exclude topics/pics/songs/videos you weren't interested in... It would be really nice to see FriendFeed with/without the tech articles... Some people like RAPatton have only subscribed to 20 people, but are very active. - Mitchell Tsai

Julian's just mad because I "liked" this: http://friendfeed.com/e/204d08... - Mark Trapp

P.S. If you see the speed of the Everyone feed, no one here even likes 1% of the media which flows into FriendFeed. I doubt that Polly, RAPatton, and I combined are even tapping 0.1% of the incoming picture flow... - Mitchell Tsai

haha, I'm happy you like that! I wouldn't be happy if you liked that and ALL items before it - Julian Baldwin

LOL. Space Camp Barbie... - Mitchell Tsai

I 'liked' this but not for ironies sake. Well said Julian. - Steve Spalding

I suppose it depends, if it's a prolific news day there can be a lot going on. I am kidding, liking a story for the sake of it has no benefit. I post more than I like as it adds more and shows that you are reading and participating!! - Joe Dawson

he is right. - DSaad69

I'll never dictate to someone how they should use a service. If I don't like it, I'll unsubscribe / unfriend / unfollow. - Shey

Maybe they "like" a lot of things so they can find them later. - Corie Allison

In many ways, I agree. Liking a post for the sake of some perceived payoff in karma/stature/etc is damn fools game. - Kevin Donahue

@ Corie, that's exactly what I do if i'm in the office and don't have enough time to comment, or read the story at that time. I can catch up later. Keeping those stories as "liked" means i can also easily locate them when showing them to friends... - Iain Baker

I wonder what would change if there was a "mark" or "note" button, too. Sometimes I "like" things just to refer back to them later. - Harvey Simmons

I didn't know about the faxing.... cool! - Mike Wills

I like this. Simple and easy to use! Great tip! - Winston Teo

Good for video too. - Mike Doeff

Really interesting registration method, too. So simple and quick, yet effective. Smart guys. - Bryan Landers

have you checked dropbox.com? - Zamil A. Safwan

Dropbox is similar but requires registration - and invitations... - David Young

omg buy a Zipit? What the hell is a zipit? - Chris Lamping via Alert Thingy

Argh! The video is so .......... blargh! - Mário Pires

That's horrible. I guess I'm old. It was about - BISQ via twhirl

Oops. Hit enter by mistake...it was about <insert lengh of video> too long. - BISQ via twhirl

This is what you are going for when you say "you want traffic to your blog." - Robert Scoble

I must be in the wrong demographic. - brian junyor

Oy vey! Annoying is an understatement. Glad someone invented the escape button. - Larry Kless

aaaaaaaarghhhh :( - Iain Baker

I really like Fred. He's infectious. Nicely edited too -- quick'n'fast. - john conroy

The guy is a total genious - Joakim Hilj

Hysterical - Diane Ensey

WOW... just about 3:01 mintues to long (yes I added an extra second... cause of the inflatable toy abuse) - John Worthington

ok you guys just saved me a lot of time...thanks - Susan Beebe

Just great! He's a genious indeed! I feel young again now I know I like kid's stuff! :-) - Ton Zijp

Fred is an example of video editing that is not just eyecandy...it actually makes a stupid video brilliant. I love Fred!! - Art

I'm not sure something could be any more annoying than this. I want my 3 minutes back - Jim Goldstein

I wonder, who would win? Chris Cocker (leave Britney alone) or Fred? - Robert Scoble

Robert, I second that question. I'd like to know too. But I wouldn't like to watch it. Blech. - Raoul Pop

This is EXACTLY the kind of inscrutable content my 13-year-old and all his friend adore on YouTube. The LA Times got it right. Internet video means every demographic is going to be superserved. Nothing wrong with that. - Leo Laporte

sweet jesus that was terrible - adolfo foronda

Is it wrong of me to wish that he can only speak like that with the help of helium... and in doing so... had to injest a lot of helium that is now replacing the oxyden in his brain, as helium is prone to do? - John Worthington

Funny for the first few seconds, then I just had to end the insanity. - David Risley

If you were a 13 year old girl you'd think he was da bomb. I'm not and I don't. - Sprague D

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow....ow. Even with all of the comments I didn't think it would be /bad like that/ bad yes, but not like that.... ow. - xero

My daughters (9 & 11) have been watching Fred videos for a while now. Interesting how the topic intersects across our social spaces on the web. - Sal Distefano

Can some young person explain the appeal? I'm just not getting it. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Yikes. @Mark it's semi-funny... um no I give up, I can't explain it - Brian Carter via NoiseRiver

Is it that much different than an episode of the Ninja? Similar editing style. Jokes and content are just written to appeal to a younger demographic. I actually thought it was pretty funny. Of course when my kids were young I used to watch Pee-Wee's Playhouse and thought he was funny and inventive. I did children's magic shows for years. You have to think like a kid to get them to laugh. As my wife is fond of telling me, I never advanced past 7 mentally. - Kevin Shannon

That would be supercool. - Brian Carter

I'll be the dissenting voice and argue that we don't need yet another walled messaging system. Is something wrong with existing systems? Why not something open and interoperable. E-mail, anyone? - Aaron B. Hockley

Greasemonkey has a firefox script that allows you to tweet from inside ff. Here: http://internetducttape.com/20... - Jay Tannenbaum

I'm all for it. - Chris Rossini

YES - Jeremy Toeman

Perhaps use what's already there - some kind of ad-hoc private room that exists for the duration of the conversation. - Colin Walker via fftogo

FriendFeed already allows you to add a google talk account, though I'm not sure what updates it shows (maybe status?). Rather than building another messaging system, what about allowing adding other IM services and having FriendFeed provide a gateway to directly contact someone on whatever their preferred service is? (Users would probably have to prioritize their accounts, and there would be some need for the reverse path to be traversed but those could be dealt with...) - Andy Tinkham via twhirl

Yes, so people joining my feed and I can message each other, and so we don't have to toggle back and forth between FriendFeed discussions and other socnets to send private msgs. If FriendFeed just added private messages and a profile feature, it would be really helpful and would keep people here. That may be one reason why some people don't like FF. Being able to add a photo to profile would be good, too. - Cathryn Hrudicka

I would prefer a profile where I could post e-mail and instant messaging addresses. I do not want FriendFeed to become yet another inbox to check. - Robert Seidman

I also dont need another inbox added on top of all the others. - Andru Edwards

YES!! But perhaps to speak to Andru's concern we could have an "on/off" option that would tell other users "Andru does not accept private messages" or something along those lines. - melmcbride

Why not a profile where you can say how you want to be contacted? An internal message via FriendFeed could be one option, for those young'uns that don't use email. - possible248

I am with Andru, I don't need another inbox to keep up with. - brian junyor

definitely don't need another inbox. something over xmpp would be lovely so that I can just route it to Google Talk - Jamie

no featuritis pls - Wolfgang Luenenbuerger via twhirl

The solution is very easy. Hook up XMPP to Google Talk so we can have instant messaging. Hook up email to Gmail so we can all message each other with a robust messaging system. Please do NOT add another lame messaging service like the one that Facebook and Twitter have. Thank you! - Robert Scoble

Definitely. - Matthew Vaughan

I use google chatback quite heavily across my blogs, and it's great: plus, it takes your status updates from gmail, so you can choose when you'd like to interact with others - if this sort of app was on FF, I'd certainly use it - Iain Baker

I agree with Scoble. No bacn. Give me ham via IM. - Steve Rubel

agreed - rambn

No no no, this is open social. Not close circuit... - Hakan Dahlstrom

First comes IM support, then we'll want to use to read email, then we'll be considering as a replacement for emacs... - Kevin Johnson

NO THANK YOU...unless there's an option to turn it off. - Mona N

I agree with Scoble as well. I have completely disabled the Facebook chat and would probably to the same with FF. A connection to Google Talk is the way to go... - Justin Korn

I think you should be able to do @ responses to Rooms only, not on main posts - Justin

yes. - Thomas Hawk

Oh yes, that would be great! - Mirko Zorz

Yes, a direct message API would really help me move my fledgling Twitter app. - Andy Murdoch

I'll join the chorus and say yes to DM to gmail, gtalk or within Twhirl. I don't always use the web interface. - Larry Kless

No inbox in FF! However, easy solution is just show my e-mail for my friends. After that we will talk as usual. - Бозон Хиггса

Yes! Some people on FF don't connect a Twitter account or any e-mail. I rather not "comment on some random item in the feed" when sending them a message. - Mitchell Tsai

Yes 100% - Mike Fruchter

That would be nice, but moderated use of it is advised... say, if this is implemented along with a block feature... Plus I do not want to have sevral email boxes to check, one is already too much :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I would like to see a messaging system - doesn't have to be private. Maybe just a Twitter like timeline on the right side of the screen would do. It would have to be separate from the rest of my feed - otherwise the time line would get thrown off. - Frederic

Before a DM-System, it's more important to have SMS and IM. I don't see a big point for DM. There is a solution called E-Mail for that ;) - Ryo

Absolutely - Christian Burns

Never missed not having one, so no - Deepak

How about a simple "E-mail this member" form? So if someone on FriendFeed wants to drop me a note AND I have not disabled the "Allow members to e-mail me," I'll receive that person's note in my (regular!) e-mail box and can choose to reply or not reply. - Adam Lasnik

Ben -- I noticed it early this morning.. the link is actually a video.. but yeah, I think if you link to a MP3 it gets hooked up. Let me try it with the Elite Tech News Podcast... Update: Apparently not that simple. If anyone else has any ideas... - J. Phil

so, what makes them play it inline? Does it place inline player if I have link to mp3 file anywhere in my blog post ? - Jigar Mehta

need to tell her to get Wii stripper pole instead :-) http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/nu... - JackRyanBauer via twhirl

Pretty cool new feature - Patrick Lightbody

I wish it would honor RSS enclosures, then my FriendFeed podcast room would be.... awesome. - Bwana McCall

FriendFeed doing MP3 via RSS would be super sugoi cool. - Mike Reynolds

Friendfeed seems to play MP3s inline when they are included as enclosures, but not when they are included as direct links. - Jason Wehmhoener

Jason - agreed. The link above has an "alternate MP3 version" as an enclosure. - J. Phil

+1 for doing mp3 via RSS - Iain Baker

Haha...you guys totally hijacked this item with your conversation. - Mark Krynsky

Yeah, I would have no problem with Pro accounts (not sure what functionality would be limited, number of rooms? number of friends?). Nor would I have any beef with injecting text ads into the river - as long as they flow down the page, not pinned to the top. I wouldn't have problems with banner ads either, outside the main content area. - felix

I think that you will see a continuos process of standardization in the whole realm of "social networking" and "aggregation" (data portability) and that it will become in the end a standard service of the internet, like i.e. email or ftp some time. At this point MySpace, Facebook and even FF will prolly not die, but maybe become providers for this networking service, like Gmail and Hotmail are providers for email today. And then - same monetizing as usual :) - Sebastian Küpers

@Yuvi: flickr is getting only 3% (TBV) of the money back from premium...wouldn't call this "worked"... - Luigi Centenaro

I would go for sponsored rooms and in a softer than facebook beacon model... - Luigi Centenaro

There is definitely an opportunity for partners and sponsors to do some engaging activities in FF Rooms. The Rooms feature are a great staring points for virtual communities within FF for users (and potential customers for partners/sponsors) with specific interests. - tekspectator

@Luigi: Yes, I was wondering the same thing. 25$ a year isn't goanna keep something as big as flickr running... - Yuvi

Paid access to additional privileges. Things like a profile bio, perhaps a directory of users or a directory of FriendFeed Rooms. Things pro users would be interested in. - David Risley

Current 11 Page Limit/Lowered Like/Comment Limits for Non-Pro folks? - Yuvi

Getting theend users to pay for what is essentially a communications service I believe is not something that the masses will open their wallets to. The service has to appear to the end user to be "free", either subsidized by partners/sponsors engagements or user action/context based ads (even though Fb Beacon doesn't seem to take off). - tekspectator

Ads from aggregated content? Think of FriendFeed as a scraper that scrapes content with creators' permission. ;) - Mike Abundo

@pixelsebi sound like a reasonable assessment. Google Connect in someways provides that layer of social features. The interesting part is how they (in theory) can harvest attention data coupled with context of virtual communities with special interests. A bunch of e-gaming companies are already doing just that with larger poker communities for instance for customer retention. - tekspectator

Perhaps offering the service to be used within a corporation (customize it) and charge for it. Bring Social Media within an organization? - tanya