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Dan the Automator has a beer. Tell your mom.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_b...
- Meg V. Meg
It's good.
- Meg V. Meg
I backed the Nifty Minidrive. Think of it as an emergency escape pod for your MacBook. http://kck.st/M2Pwft via @kickstarter
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DiGiorno's Pizza And Cookies Combo Is Watershed Moment In American Obesity - The Consumerist - http://consumerist.com/2011...
Kelly, Elena, RAPatton and 6 other people liked this
"DiGiorno is rolling out a new combo box that includes both frozen pizza and a batch of Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough. While you heat up your pizza, why not also make a side of cookies? The only thing this is missing is a side of lard dipping sauce. Yes, you would dip both products in it."
- James Ferguson
from Bookmarklet
Yet, it will likely sell.
- Derrick
I don't get how this is so bad. Nobody is forcing you to eat the whole pizza and all the cookies in one sitting. The lard dipping sauce is a pointless joke. Gonna heat up the oven, use it for both.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I will try to mix the two.
- James Ferguson
I'm with m9m, this looks highly convenient to me.
- Jandy
i think i just gained 15 pounds by reading this thread.
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
m9m, So a meal which consists solely of carbohydrates/sugar and fat is good? Problem is most people WILL eat the whole thing.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Everybody has a pizza night sometimes. And you can add a salad. And you can eat the cookies another day. Just sayin.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I don't see the big deal either. it's like Papa Murphy's that has the cookie dough for sale right there at the register (for those of you who have Papa Murphy's).
- holly #ravingfangirl
I don't see the big deal. Most people eat much worse for a super bowl party or pizza night. It's not encouraging people to eat it every meal.
- Trish R
There's serving sizes printed on the packaging for a reason, folks.
- Akiva
Nutritional facts label from DiGiorno Pepperoni Pizza: http://www.dietfacts.com/html...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nutritional facts label from Nestles Toll House Cookies: http://www.dietfacts.com/html...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Akiva, who eats only one serving of pizza or cookies?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Perfect case of "This is Why You're Fat", but not because it combines cookies and pizza, but because it plays to the very real notion that there are people who, after making it to the frozen food aisle to get their frozen pizza, can't be bothered to walk the extra 30 feet to the other aisle and buy a box of cookies. "It's so convenient!"
- Mark Trapp
Jeff, I do. I pay strict attention to serving sizes. I've lost over 20 pounds because of it. When snacking, I try to stick to around 100 calories regardless of serving size. So, for example, when I eat some Reese's Minis, I eat half the serving size.
- Akiva
+1 Akiva
- Todd Hoff
Akiva, you are probably in the minority. And congrats on weight loss! I don't think the general population is as adept at counting calories or eating one serving of food. I think that is obvious by the rapid increase in the obesity rate in the US. I have found as I get older it is way harder to lose weight than it use to be. I've lost 8 lbs since 1-1-11 with a goal to lose 22 more....
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- Jeff P. Henderson
I like both these things. Now if they had made a pepperoni pizza on a chocolate chip cookie...
- Jason Toney
Jason, here you go... http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes...
- Jeff P. Henderson
I bought this tonight, except it came with a thing of frozen cinnamon sticks with frosting. I felt GUILTY and also HUNGRY.
- Rochelle
It's my 8th anniversary of moving here. Woohoo! Too bad I can't celebrate with any fireworks because Macy's are jerks who hate Queens and Brooklyn.
Mark Trapp, holly #ravingfangirl, Kelli H. and 2 other people liked this
Maybe 9th?
- Meg V. Meg
I was thinking of taking the LIRR to anywhere I could see fireworks, but then I would have to get home from there.
- Meg V. Meg
Strangest email I've received in a while:
Starmama, Rachel Lea Fox, Larry Hosken and 6 other people liked this
"Dear Mr. Fox, Please thank me for sharing your FriendFeed this afternoon! Please send an e-mail today, and I will chat with you very soon. Love, Mark"
- Kevin Fox
Might be a broken English FF CAPTCHA password reset problem help desk 'call'.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Hey I Just Friended You, And This is Crazy, But I Shared Your FriendFeed, So Thank Me Maybe?
- Kevin Fox
Did you thank him?
- Brian Johns
My reply: "I don't understand what you're talking about."
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, you just killed me.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
from twhirl
For the record, this was not me. I only close emails with "Very truly yours, Mark <3".
- Mark Trapp
My dad in his first office, 1971
Surprisingly Monstrous, M F, Joe "Bad Guts" Silence and 39 other people liked this
We part our hair in the same place? I never noticed that before. Still trying to figure out why his scanned stuff is so small, he says it's as high-res as the thing goes.
- Meg V. Meg
LOVE
- jambina
I just asked my dad who took these pics, and he said "It might have been the alcoholic public relations lady. Love, Dad"
- Meg V. Meg
LOVE
- jambina
LOVE.
- Steele Lawman
LOVE. Also, offices without computers don't make any sense to me.
- lris
There's plenty of stuff you could do in an office without a computer. In fact, some workers are much more productive in an office without a computer. Also: no cubicle land!
- Spidra Webster
Iris, that was my next question to him.
- Meg V. Meg
Yes, I have never had a job without lots of computers around.
- Steele Lawman
*mutters "Whippersnappers!"*
- Spidra Webster
This is so adorable.
- Steele Lawman
I am firmly in the "I don't think I could work without a computer" camp. But I'm also firmly in the No Cubicles camp. Cubicles are the worst. (I take that back, an open office would be the worst.)
- Laura Krier
I haven't heard back from him yet about lacking a computer, he might have thought I was kidding.
- Meg V. Meg
in 1971? No, he didn't have a computer. And if his office was in a room with a computer, then he was the guy in the lab coat making sure it was running ok. Like I've said before, look at the office layout in Mad Men. That's the world your father worked in. He had an office because he wasn't in the typing pool.
- DJF
DJF, I don't think the issue is surprise that he didn't have a computer in 1971. What I wonder is, what did a person do at his desk when he didn't have a computer on it? What did people do all day?
- Steele Lawman
Pushing paper!
- kendrak
Totally depends on the line of business. My father is an attorney and I visited his office reasonably often when I was a kid. He made phone calls, saw clients, attended meetings, dictated things to be typed up by a secretary, strategized... He had his own library of books and then there was the firm's library he could visit as well. He visited clients off-site, had meetings off-site,...
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- Spidra Webster
dang, even *I* worked in a library before there were computers on every desk. ah, the days of slipping and filing cards of books that were checked out (and then in reverse, pulling cards and putting them back in returned books), updating the shelf list/card catalog, shelving. There were a few computers - one that we ran the overdue notices on, ones that our pull lists for books on hold, and some at reference - stuff on cd-rom and the like. AND MICROFICHE!
- holly #ravingfangirl
I am useless to answer this question because although I visited my dad at work regularly in the mid-70s, most of what he did then was putting rats into mazes (for real). Most of what my mom did was slice up frozen rat brains in a cryostat, stain those slices, and then trace the anatomy onto paper using a projection microscope (result: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc...). I do remember my dad doing something-or-other with a PDP-11 when he was still in rats-and-mazes work.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Need I say that I worked in a library with no computer on the desk (for pretty much all the time I worked in a library). Even did lots of programming in such a library. (Didn't have an office in the Library Systems Office, though: only the head of the group had a separate office. Had an office at RLG through most of the good years, before we were, um, enhanced to cubicles.)
- Walt Crawford
PDP!!!!
- kendrak
Heh, the office I'm in right now has no computer. I just have my iPad.
- Victor Ganata
then you are unclear on the concept of 'computer' ;-)
- DJF
I'm just playing to all the people who insist a tablet or phone is not a real computer. ;)
- Victor Ganata
There are people who do that, Victor? Are they unaware that humans went to the moon with less computing power than can currently fit in that little gap under one's fingernail?
- Le Slip Anglais
I think that to people living on the cutting edge of Moore's Law, the 1960s may as well be the Palezoic Era
- Victor Ganata
Hell, my divorce lawyer in the mid 1990's didn't have a computer in his office.
- DJF
We should get this thread back on track to how fricking cute Meg's dad was (and I assume still is).
- Steele Lawman
^^^ I find myself in agreement with the opinions stated herein.
- Le Slip Anglais
He says he had more three-ring binders than I can possibly imagine.
- Meg V. Meg
re-like.
- Steele Lawman
Meg: Trust me on this: It is NOT POSSIBLE to have more three-ring binders than I can imagine (or have dealt with). Now, let's talk about pam-bound Rand reports and what happens when you remove one from a shelf (nightmarish memories from UC Berkeley page days)...
- Walt Crawford
I believe you! Now we're going through all these childhood drawings of mine that are on the back of green bar paper.
- Meg V. Meg
oooh, we used to draw on green bar paper too! :)
- ~Courtney F
I was deprived of green bar paper. However, in its place, I drew on punch cards. #phearme
- Catherine Pellegrino
No computer? What on earth did they do back then? :)
- Morton Fox
adding machine, typewriter, pens and pencils and erasers, LOTS OF PAPER...
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Command and Conquer – Programming an RTS game in HTML5 and Javascript | Aditya Ravi Shankar - http://www.adityaravishankar.com/2011...
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Original Command & Conquer reimplemented in HTML5/Javascript.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
House Stark
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(Okay, okay, I uploaded this photo from my iPhone, not via email, but via the standard website.)
- Kevin Fox
Oh, wow! How did you do that?
- Victor Ganata
iOS 6 beta?
- Cy6erBr4in
Must be iOS6, sweet!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Show off
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
No, I was NOT just blasting Call Me Maybe with my windows down through some sektchy looking neighborhood in West Oakland. That definitely did not just happen. Well, ok, maybe it did and maybe it was awesome. And maybe you should call me...
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WELP. *queues it up*
- Derrick
This is crazy
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Hahaha!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Obama knows what's up... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ross Miller
I see Klout has solidified its stronghold on useless numbers that people use to enlarge their epeen. Someone actually asked me what my Klout number was... which was hilarious and odd. Also, why do they have these three graphs in addition to the identical one on the top of the page. Are these realllly needed? Maybe they'd have a #whitespace problem.
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A little bit of a rant, but I honestly do not understand the value of Klout.
- Ross Miller
I'm with you.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
As soon as someone can explain Klout and its value, I might actually care about it. :)
- c.a.j.
The only times I hear about Klout are from people complaining about it. They have a brilliant marketing program, using people like Ross to spread their brand!
- Amit Patel
They got me!
- Ross Miller
I deleted mine.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
May report: Ok, logged in again and I have a totally bitchin' new high-score. Been doing some fun stuff recently so FB activity is heavy. New question, how did my existing friends on FB give me a higher "True Reach"? Is it that I got a higher percentage of friends to like/comment?
- Ross Miller
June report: Apparently some 500 people lost interest in my activity in the last month. My life must appear to suck these days :[
- Ross Miller
And it still bothers me that they have more or less identical graphs for the influence my network represents, the amplification of my content, and the number of people interested in my activity... how on earth are those even remotely similar when graphed?
- Ross Miller
It doesn't really matter. They got you to pay attention to them! :)
- Amit Patel
It's working...
- AJ Batac
Blame FriendFeed - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
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"Remember: I blame FriendFeed for this, and Robert Scoble, Steve Rubell, Dave Winer, and all the rest of the puppets and ex-Techcrunch analysts who, by appearing to rationally debate the pluses and minuses of FriendFeed versus Twitter, suggest FriendFeed even exists in the absence of Twitter. Nik Cubrilovic doesn’t help either with his cogent (except for the Rails part) analysis of Twitter’s scaling problems. Nowhere in this debate (most of it mercifully hidden forever behind the FriendFeed black hole where conversations go to die) was there a word spoken about the fatal Track bug until Jack hit the Off switch. Now, in the cool clarity of no pulse whatsoever can we begin to rationally approach a solution. Forgetting that Hillary has shown no indication of processing the similar lack of pulse in her White House aspirations, let’s put the blame for all this squarely on the parasite API suckers and their dark master FriendFeed. Good."
- Paul Buchheit
?
- Paul Buchheit
I accuse my parents (a little MST3K humor)
- Mark Dykeman
My guess is that a good deal of folks who are otherwise technology experts haven't yet mastered the "Hide" option, and seeing Twitter in FriendFeed makes them feel it's simply an echo chamber for Twitter. Hiding Twitter, and/or utilizing the many other sources that are not Twitter here in FriendFeed makes it more valuable.
- Louis Gray
Someone pass around what Steve Gillmor is smoking. That is some heavy stuff he's got in his stash. I think I counted 10 words he seriously made up for that post. And why is friendfeed to blame for the XMPP/Jabber shutdown?
- Mark Trapp
WTF? This guy reminds me of Gary Busey, but angrier, if that's even possible.
- April Buchheit
This article simply doesn't make any sense. Please reword for clarity.
- Eric Florenzano
This is very amusing :-)
- j1m
I was afraid when I saw "?" there. And now...no comment... :S
- Erhan Erdoğan
Is he kidding? I hope he's kidding. FriendFeed exists with or without twitter. In fact, I would love to see twitter removed from FriendFeed altogether. Guaranteed there would still be plenty of conversations revolving around the links shared, the pictures posted, etc.
- EricaJoy
I don't follow Twitter at all on FriendFeed. I find it somewhat ironic that one of Steve G's big passions was (is?) "Attention Metadata" and FriendFeed via likes, comments, etc is actually a service that makes great use of attention metadata!
- Robert Seidman
I enjoy that this Friendfeed post has more comments than his post on TechCrunch.
- Mark Trapp
This is the most buzzword-laden web 2.0 rant I have ever read. It's like he is making words up to describe stuff every other paragraph or so. And.. what's this jab at Clinton in the middle? How random.
- Phil Glockner
FriendFeed direct posts are really similar to Twitter in my mind.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Paul can you share the percentage of FF users that hide twitter posts?
- EricaJoy
Gillmor refuses to realize that the comment feature of FriendFeed does indeed add value that Twitter lacks. That's probably the key reason why I MOVED MY conversations to FriendFeed! Also, the sharing feature is the reason why I like FriendFeed! IF I merely wanted the 'stream of consciousness' of Twitter, I would just use Twitter! I think that FriendFeed 'exposes' the 'chinks in Twitter's armor'
- Thomas Ho
from fftogo
It sounds like Gillmor hasn't given FriendFeed nearly enough time if he thinks it's only "Twitter, but slower". I have a great time on here with Twitter hidden half of the time. If anything, let's blame Twitter for so much noise and/or so much conversation due to their issues
- Andrew Dobrow
FriendFeed can definitely make it without Twitter...so many conversations occur without Twitter being involved at all.
- Chris Rossini
That... made no sense to me. Still dazed from the insanity of it all. I see more conversations here on links and such than on tweets. And really, why is FriendFeed to blame for the Jabber shutdown? Seriously!
- dgw
Hilarious
- Aviv
Twitter is probably the least interesting feed I see on FriendFeed.
- Adam Thorsen
funniest ever on tc
- kosmar
This whole article was most undirectional article, I have read in recent times. I read it twice, and can't make out, what he want to say.
- Varun Mahajan
Adam, same here. I personally find the vast majority of twitter messages to be extremely boring and of no use to me.
- Aviv
Where are these "siloed conversation spamyards" to which he refers? You could say that about any chat system (if I understand his rather obtuse meaning) and FF discussions are quite cogent and open. (And seem especially so if you've ever spent any time in the Digg comments.)
- Nicķ
I usually keep the Twitter FF feed open. FF is definitely NOT the only app pulling on Twitter's API. Hundreds of sites, clients, etc?. Twitter had (maybe has) time to distinguish itself. Just 'come clean' with regular community updates. (PR time?) So far it's been lame. In the meantime, there's no doubt Friendfeed will continue to increase it's pull. Twitter put the API out there. THEY need to deal with the results, whether they were ready or not
- Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed is what you put in to it. If you add all your Twitter friends and nobody else, FriendFeed will appear to be Twitter with siloed conversations, but in that case that's exactly what you asked for. If you don't add a thousand people as friends and convince a thousand people to follow you then you won't see any of this 'spam graveyard' Steve talks about. You get what you ask for, and irrelevance is what you get if you add irrelevant friends.
- Kevin Fox
It's also worth noting how much FriendFeed thrived when Twitter had its difficulties this week. That would seem to put a hole in the argument that FriendFeed is primarily a downstream service to Twitter.
- Kevin Fox
Yea Cat fight !!!!
- viki saigal
OK friendfeed is NOT twitter. Its something else, and I like both. (sticks out tongue)...via feedalizr
- Photo Larry
He shouldn't drink before writing for TechCrunch
- Alejandro
man, I honestly care jack shit about what people post on Twitter, but I find FF incredibly useful. Gillmor is seriously off his rocker with this post (which is the least legible I've seen on TC in a long time).
- Chieze Okoye
4 years passed, all the comments are still valid. #humdaybumpday
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Friendfeed Is Going To Kill Google Reader, Not Twitter - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
Jeroen De Miranda, hiroshimo, Dimitar Denev and 27 other people liked this
Interesting. Very interesting.
- Warner Crocker
Very True Loic you made it very clear how easy it is to follow the comments!!
- Paul
FF only works as a feed reader if you like "river of news". If you don't, then it isn't good enough.
- Ian Betteridge
from twhirl
I will not follow you on that one. A think both have very different missions. GReader really is a tools while FF is also a communication device
- Eric Sausse
from twhirl
it has already replaced it for, right now I'm going through some 4 days old posts in gReader, I tend to stop by there less and less
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
from twhirl
With out google reader or twitter, FF would not be what it is today. Remember it's a big circle jerk. I do not see FF killing google reader nor twitter any time soon.
- Mike Fruchter
when will we be able to like comments? :)
- Tim Hoeck
FF certainly doesn't have enough people talking about every single topic I subscribe to. I'm glad you guys aren't preachers at a church, the end of the world would have supposedly been last week.
- Shawn Farner
For me, Google Reader is an even more essential part than Twitter of my FriendFeed experience. So ... as said before... FriendFeed will _not_ kill Google Reader or Twitter, etc. What is happening, however, is that often, the items in Google Reader are arriving after I've already read them via FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
These things always go on through June. Then we have the killing. Or something like that.
- Michael Markman
Eric Sausse, you have a good point, you cannot add just a feed in Friendfeed, they first need to be registered there and added their feed. But FF could add that very easily, adding feeds from people who are not in FF. Then it would put pressure on them to finally jump into the bandwagon
- Loic Le Meur
I agree with Louis & others - GR feeds FF for me.
- R. Ferguson
You can "just add" a feed in FF -- check out the imaginary friends feature
- Brian Sullivan
FF lets you publish your *filtered* google reader shared items, together with other stuff, to make an impression of you and your interests. That's how I see FF: almost a snapshot of a personality. For me GReader is a tool that you can use to filter items into your FF.
- IanBlackburnold
Brian Sullivan, thanks I was wondering the imaginary friend thing! now I know. Here we go, no need for Google Reader anymore...
- Loic Le Meur
yeah, I wont use FF for all of my feeds, I am subscribe to way too many and have already my routine with it. FF is more of a discovery + conversation experience for me
- Gilbert Corrales
from twhirl
Ian, right: I don't want people to form an impression of me based on my subscriptions to D:Listed, TMZ, The Superficial, and Perez Hilton, unless they are really really important, then I'll share the story. And now I've tipped my hand. But anyway: there's a community for feed discovery already: Tuluu. GReader + FF is about what's interesting from the feeds.
- Mark Trapp
I'm with the GReader feeding FF crowd on this one. I use GReader to get the news I want and FF to share it and create conversation. FF is a great discovery tool but I still read a ton of stuff in my feeds before it appears on FF. The UI is set up better for conversation rather than just information digesting IMO.
- Devlin Dunsmore
@devlin I agree... i'm finding it very hard to read pages and pages of link/comments on FF.
- Gaurav Sikka
I hope FriendFeed doesn't kill Google Reader. I find them both vital but I couldn't substitute one for the other.
- Kevin Fox
Again, this isn't going to happen. Services don't always have to exist just to kill other services. Especially ones that do different things
- MG Siegler
its funny season on t'internets
- Jamie
FriendFeed adds much value for me, but the only thing it's killing is time and maybe Scoble's marriage. I wish Loic would work on something more productive like getting Apple to make Seesmic videos work on the iPhone!:-)
- Robert Seidman
We like having a choice for everything we do, but on the other hand, we expect (and sometimes hope) one choice to kill another. No wonder the world can't live in peace all together ;)
- Turker Keskinpala
I never liked Google Reader's UI, but I feel right at home with FriendFeed.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
So true, but time flies too fast when im on friendfeed, i cant stop reading and sending messages! Great conversations though!
- Scott Purdie
going to have to disagree ... couldn't possibly get through all my feeds via FF - just too many for the FF interface
- timepilot
Google Reader is a feed reader, FriendFeed is a feed generator. Sorry, they serve completely different purposes (at least to me). No killing here.
- dgw
friendfeed doesn't allow me to categorize sources, nor can I tag or flag specific feed items in a way that makes it easy for me to refer back to later. for al the hype about friend feed being where the "conversation", it seems like a really poor utility for that. I see that on this blog post alone, the "conversation" is distributed across friendfeed through google shared reader posts, twitter references, disquss comments. The techcrunch "Twitter" post is even a better example. fractured conversation.
- bernie
agreed FF no replacement for reader
- ben rogers
from twhirl
When will folks realize FF is something NEW? IT isnt goign to kill much of the other stuff.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
would love keyboard shortcuts for FF too
- Loic Le Meur
FF is useful as a human filter on the old echo chamber of tech but could never replace a feed reader. gReader shared items into FF is part of the signal for me, but, not a replacement. Much like RSSMeme and it's FF filter. And then there's the twisty bit where I read FF via a feed readier in the first place ...
- Ashton
I'm still new to FF, but I like the search function that Google provides to even the oldest of the feeds. Not sure I would want the number of feeds I subscribe to coming through to FF. I like the combination of posts and conversation along with a few updates from other services like flickr or Digg. I think the 'conversation' would be seriously degraded with the addition of a number of RSS feeds. I would need to see how well FF handles growth before moving from Google Reader.
- Brenda Young
I think you were right. #humdaybumpday
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
YOU GUYS, CRUEL INTENTIONS IS (FINALLY) ON NETFLIX STREAMING.
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Selma Blair FTW
- Chris Z.
God I love that Placebo song.
- Meg V. Meg
Overcast skies on the Yangtze
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Everything's gray.
- Anne Bouey
but it looks so - mystical
- esther
It does look mystical, esther. And the camera pics are a bit better than the iPhone's so I'm hopeful that I'll have some good shots!
- Anne Bouey
Beijing fog fairies on vacation?
- Soup in a TARDIS
Abstract art?
- Amit Patel
Hey guys, are there any dog related websites you check out regularly? I'm doing research and I'm not coming up with a whole lot of good stuff right now.
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Have you met Oscar the Blog Dog? http://lifeofoscar.com/
- Liz Tufte
Ha! Celebrity Dog Watcher also takes care of my guilty pleasure of celebrity gossip!
- Paul Reynolds
Holy links! Thanks folks. ;o)
- Paul Reynolds
what guys - liz is on fire ;)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Corrected!
- Paul Reynolds
This is dedicated to a few of my *ahem* friends with whom I play Ticket to Ride. - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic...
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In the commentary they have a link to this article (http://www.penny-arcade.com/report...) which is a good read: "Days of Wonder CEO explains how iPad Ticket to Ride boosted sales of the real thing": "The way Days of Wonder has managed to close the loop of digital sales is incredibly savvy. The...
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- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
OMG I LOVE CANADA http://www.canada.com/quarter...
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glow-in-the-dark!
- Meg V. Meg
i will get you one
- jambina
OMG I LOVE YOU
- Meg V. Meg
"Photo-luminescent technology that won't wear off means the regular image of the dinosaur on the quarter will transform into a glowing skeleton in the dark." -- so rad.
- Marie
Interesting, non-circulation? You guys have those too?
- Meg V. Meg
yup, lots
- jambina
Oh no, it's $30! Do not get me one! I got distracted by the glow-in-the-dark part.
- Meg V. Meg
How To Do What You Want: Akrasia and Self-Binding | Beeminder Blog - http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia...
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"Many of us have a problem following through on our intentions. And it’s more than just a difficulty in predicting our future desires. It’s not like “Gee, I thought I wanted to get in shape but it turned out there was always something really good on TV!” No, even in hindsight, you regret not doing what you said you wanted to do. It’s not even that you’re merely conflicted about what you want. The trade-off you made — more TV watched, still not in shape — was patently ridiculous. You somehow don’t do what you genuinely want to do."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Danny and Bethany have done tons of work to make Beeminder what it is today. My husband used it to lose weight, and he looks great. I tried using Beeminder when I was pregnant to as an incentive to go to the gym. I found that I vomited (more) on days I exercised, so I abandoned the goal at that time, without feeling guilty. A commitment device helps you find out if you really want the thing you say you want.
- Clare Dibble
RT @jasonmustian: A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Sepia toned pictures of wine.
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rickjafo: Spoiler Alert: The ship sinks! http://getglue.com/movies... @GetGlue @titanicmovie
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If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions.
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We might also be sending you a notification asking for the permissions.
- Benjamin Golub
cool, thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Attachments FTW! :-)
- Jesse Stay
Just keeps looping and I cannot get it to accept.
- Scott Whaley
your app does not work
- Rimtech4
I disabled Friendfeed wallposts a while ago to avoid duplicate aggregate streaming there.
- John Lam
Orpheus' music was so powerful that no one could resist it—not even the fairest maiden. He chose the lovely Eurydice to be his wife. But their joy was brief. As Eurydice walked through a meadow shortly after their wedding, a poisonous snake bit her. She died, leaving Orpheus alone and deeply saddened. Overcome by grief, he decided to travel to the land of the dead to get her.
- Azeem Baloch
how can my feedback well
- Azeem Baloch
Mmmhh, its 2012 now and Friendfeed cannot publish to my FB account since a couple of days. Any ideas how to fix that?
- Michael Hohl
It's been 2.5 years since Facebook acquired Friendfeed. Let's raise a glass for a moment and give thanks that the service is still running. I can't think of another acquired service that has continued on so well in a mothballed state.
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This message motivated by the announcement that AOL is shutting down Brizzly after 18 months.
- Kevin Fox
You guys really designed it well! *cheers*
- Spidra Webster
I wonder how long it will stay open after the IPO exodus?
- Todd Hoff
friendfeed kapanacakmış :/
- feraye
I am still in awe at how well FriendFeed was designed and implemented. Even mothballed, it remains light years ahead of the rest. Well done, Ana, Ben, Ben, Bret, Casey, Dan, Gary, Goutham, Jim, Kevin, Paul, Ross, Sanjeev and Tudor!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Yup. Even with little maintenance, it's still a better tool than anything else out there. Yet people keep going to whatever the "new black" is...
- Spidra Webster
Stephen +1
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
The FriendFeed team are like prophets of social networking interfaces or something and don't seem to get credit for it. It's amazing how all the hot new ish is still borrowing from FriendFeed and FriendFeed's illegitimate children.
- Rahsheen?
Hear, hear. (But let's not jinx it.)
- Steele Lawman
shhhhhh! someone at FB will hear you and remember it's still going! ;)
- holly #ravingfangirl
I'm glad it's still here. I hope we continue, unnoticed in a dark corner of the Internet and the Facebook data center.
- Eric - seven eleven
Stephen, I liked that you alphabetized the employee roster, but you need to swap #2 and #3.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin: Good catch. Fixed.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Excellent.
- Kevin Fox
I imagine it's quite like this: http://bash.org/?5273
- Akiva
ditto Rah.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Love it, Akiva! "We've switched off the datacenters one by one and FF is still running. *shrug* So be it."
- Kevin Fox
I really wish I'd trusted those folks who speculated that things would keep cranking along... I'd actually have suggested FF as a platform for a couple different online communities. You suppose we're at a steady state at this point?
- Ken Sheppardson
Has anybody heard Bret mention FF lately?
- Ken Sheppardson
He sometimes wakes up from a deep sleep with the word 'FriendFeed' on his lips. He's usually covered in sweat. Don't ask me how I know this.
- Akiva
I'm one of the folks who speculated that things would keep cranking along. But I also thought Facebook would succeed in bringing a near-FriendFeed experience to Facebook in two years. I was wrong about that. Today I'm concerned that the original team doesn't use it as much -- Paul comes in and Likes things (April's gone), Bret is barely here. I think it would be easy for FB to let it go. But I'm thankful it's lasted this long.
- Bruce Lewis
Would be pretty killer if they got around to open sourcing the whole thing.
- Ken Sheppardson
YES (all of the above)
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Ken, isn't that Tornado?
- Akiva
FeedBurner? :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, was Feedburner mothballed when it came into Google?
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Mothball would be a fantastic name for a newfangled service.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
It is really amazing. And, AJ, I loved your post.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
What Stephen says. :-)
- Maitani
Akiva: No, Tornado's just part of the system. I want to install a turn-key, behind the firewall FriendFeed system in much the same way I'd install Wordpress or Drupal.
- Ken Sheppardson
FF like service for companies? Groups for projects and depts...
- Me
Yep. I'd kill to have FriendFeed in place of IRC, Campfire, Yammer, etc... Although come to think of it, Yammer might be the closest.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yammer doesn't look like its self-hostable which I know many enterprises would prefer to control and "own" the data.
- Me
Ha-ha, Micah, Mothball is a great name for some kind of cloud storage! As far as FF NOT being mothballed, it may have something to do with Bret having a soft spot for it and his being so high up in the Facebook hierarchy.
- Laura Norvig
I like to imagine the friendfeed servers being like WOPR from War Games 2. Sitting all alone in some remote location, completely forgotten, nobody has any idea what it really is, just chugging along.
- April Russo
I just remember how excited I was when this tool started out. Now I essentially use the e-mail digests to see the latest posts, but haven't had the heart to discontinue them. The service definitely struck a chord with many of us.
- Phil Ashman
Cheers!!
- Count Caturday
Facebook is down (in Europe, at least), but FriendFeed is up. :)
- Jemm
Facebook is up now, so is FriendFeed (reporting from Istanbul :)
- Nevzat
Ken, self-hosted FriendFeed would really interesting for companies. Yes, yammer works (we use it,) but isn't a *great* real-time conversation tool what one would really want? Add to that owning the data and it's a winner. Based on its performance in "mothballed" state, I'd hope the person $$ in administration would be low, too...
- Eric Borisch
Maybe we shouldn't have said anything. Seems flakey today. Maybe they're getting things cleaned up to release it as OSS! :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
We had a couple database issues, but FriendFeed should be back up and running now. Sorry for the trouble.
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Thank you.
- Anne Bouey
Thank you, Bret!
- Melanie Reed
Thanks Bret.. Is it possible the image embeds broke during the glitch? http://ff.im/euME2. I know it worked earlier today!!
- Chris Myles
Had to replace some bad hardware. All should be well now :)
superpultdu, sohbetchat, Chatsohbet and 19 other people liked this
i didn't even notice... i was out for dinner straight from work today. How long was ff down for?
- Chris Heath
FriendFeed API v2 officially launching - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
now.we.play /-)
- Nicolas Voisin
Bret - Think we'd all be interested in a longer list as more apps make use of the API. Great stuff
- Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
FriendFeed Blog: Summer offsite 2009 - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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Are Karen and Jim doing some kind of chicken-walk dance in this photo? http://friendfeed-media.com/eecf2a8...
- Casey Muller
They have mongooses here, instead of squirrels. It's trippy.
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And here is.....
- Yo. Shark Dog.
I'm in Hawaii, on research leave, for...three more weeks now.
- Meg V. Meg
Altho they have replaced squirrels with mongooses in NYC, too.
- Chris Z.
TRUFAX
- Meg V. Meg
mongeese?
- Micah
Those too.
- Meg V. Meg
York Factory Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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pstp PNW hist econ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... "The York Factory Express, usually called "the Express" and also called the Columbia Express and the Communication, was a brigade operated by Hudson's Bay Company in the early 19th century connecting York Factory and Fort Vancouver. It was named "express" because it was not used only to transport furs and supplies but also to quickly move departmental reports and letters. It was the main overland connection between the Columbia Department and the Hudson's Bay Company's headquarters at York Factory. Bulk cargo to and from the Columbia Department was shipped by sea. The express brigade was known as the York Factory Express on its eastbound journey in the spring, and as the Columbia Express or Autumn Express on its westbound journey in the fall. The same route was used in both cases. Its length was about 4,200 kilometres (2,600 mi). To expedite messages the express messengers would often speed ahead of the main bodies...
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Canadian canoe routes (early) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -19 http://artofmanliness.com/2011...
- Thomas Page
The silent film was eventually called The Romance of the Far Fur Country. It was used to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the historic company in 1920. ~ The HBC film crew arrived in Fort Chipewyan, in northern Alberta, in late November 1919. They filmed Aboriginal trappers on the trap-line, travelling by dogsled in frozen conditions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... http://www.returnfarfurcountry.ca/about_t...
- Thomas Page
An Analysis of Minecraft-like Engines « 0 FPS - http://0fps.wordpress.com/2012...
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"When building a voxel game, it is important to choose a data structure for representing the world early on. This decision more than any other has the greatest impact on the overall performance, flexibility, and scale of the game. This post discusses some of the possible choices that can be made along these lines, and hopefully give a better explanation of what sort of technical considerations are involved. In fact, I posit that some commonly held performance assumptions about Minecraft-type engines are probably wrong."
- Amit Patel
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