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Good morning. I'm shocked no one has built a real-time Twitter search and trends for just the people you are following. More here:
Chris Martin, Kirill Bolgarov, Maria Grineva and 30 other people liked this
I don't really care about stuff that's outside of my friend group. My friends are already pretty good at bringing me good stuff from outside the group anyway.
- Robert Scoble
will miss you.
- Zee.
Zee: huh?
- Robert Scoble
re "be right back"
- Ken Sheppardson
wrong thread Zee?
- Amit Nangare
This would get rid of all spam and bad actors. Or almost all, assuming you don't follow spammers.
- Robert Scoble
Robert's initial first comment was "be right back", as a placeholder to keep the first slot while he composed his real first comment. Zee was responding to that
- Ken Sheppardson
And it would bring back Techmeme-quality results because it would be based on people you follow and verify. Oh, and even better? The new list feature in Twitter will let you build different kinds of searches.
- Robert Scoble
Ken: oh, I get it now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
By the way, FriendFeed still has a better way to have conversations with your friends than Google Wave. :-)
- Robert Scoble
cant wait to try google wave to tell how much it sucks
- Muneeb Hussain
By the way, everyone complains about Twitter's spam but I get 100x more spam and more destructive spam on my blog's comments.
- Robert Scoble
i cant comment till i actually try it .... comon google
- Kashif Khan
I wish I had more invites to hand out.
- Robert Scoble
I suspect most people are following few enough people on Twitter that they're capable of tracking "trends" themselves.
- Ken Sheppardson
Scoble thank you for coming back
- ffcode
Ken: absolutely not true. I'm watching nearly 5,000 people now and most of those are following thousands.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: You're not "most people"
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: but the people I'm following ARE most people and most of them are following too many to keep track of trends themselves.
- Robert Scoble
Most of the 5,000 people you're following are following thousands? I'd love to see the actual numbers behind that... you've done some analysis?
- Ken Sheppardson
want a screenshot of your feed how it looks like?
- ffcode
agreed - that type of search filtering would not only be useful, but the whole point of social network information sharing - using my friends as my distributed search engine for things I am interested in
- Arthur Coleman
ffcode you want me to send you a screenshot?
- Robert Scoble
Ken: informal analysis. I hand followed each of the people I'm following and looked at their following behavior. It is rare to find someone who is following fewer than 200 people now. At least amongst early adopter tech influencers that I like to follow.
- Robert Scoble
Hm... There's an API call to retrieve a list of users a given user is following... would be simple to do a full-blown check....
- Ken Sheppardson
to build a list is also difficult as i have learned from the little experience i have had
- ffcode
Ken: you're welcome to do that.
- Robert Scoble
StatusSearch did a non-realtime version of this, but they appear to have scratched it at the moment.
- Steve Farnworth
With viewpointapp.com; we are doing real time relevance and filtering within the people you follow. Search and trends sounds like a great idea. We will see what we can come up with!
- Jay
from ViewPoint
It would be interesting to see if the trends differ than the trends posted on the Twitter home page. I'm sure it would correlate to the size of your sample.
- Mattb4rd
I might, Robert. Also, I hope the voice you hear in your head when you read my comments here isn't snide and snarky. I'm genuinely curious about this from a tech standpoint. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I've wanted something like this for a long time. I guess I just assumed that it was obvious enough that someone (maybe even Twitter) would already be working on it. Maybe we'll take it up as a side project.
- Ryan Kuder
I think this would be very useful. Twitter Times is going in this direction but right now it doesn't have search or trending topics. Their main focus now seems to be aggregating links/stories (techmeme-style) that are popular among the people that you're following. Here's my personalized Twitter Times page: http://www.twittertim.es/mdoeff
- Mike Doeff
re trends for just the people you are following, it's right here: http://friendingtopics.com/
- Mike Lizun
What is being overlooked here and to which I believe I heard mention that Twitter was building in-house was the ability to trend against any topic/individual in the network. Perfect for gaining market feedback on competition outside of your network.
- Gregory Hanson
Granted, it's a little off topic as the main point of the thread was for people you follow, but building an open trending app would broaden market appeal.
- Gregory Hanson
That would be a good tool. But wouldn't it be cool if you got a pair of tech guys, built it out and returned to raise VC money yourself? :) Stop giving away your free ideas!
- Louis Gray
I would love a Twitter-like Top 10 Trends (or 20 or 25) here on FF. I'd be curious to see the difference. Though I'm still pretty new here but people told me you can sort of simulate trends for yourself?
- Chris Nunz
from FreshFeed
Louis: I tried building new app at NPR last Friday and I decided I suck at it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Louis, hush! I want more free ideas.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I've been enjoying the "search my timeline" feature in the Tweetie 2 iPhone app -- looking forward to the desktop client getting that feature as well. Totally agree with Robert, though: It seems like search/trends among the people i'm following has an incredible about of value to a user. A user like me.
- Ryan Sholin
Mike Lizun: Works ok though it'd be better if you made trending topics at least 2 words (trending topics always seem to be 2-3 words). I get a lot of one-words that don't give me much. The trend should follow a longer duration of time as well. I am following 2000+ and only see a few tweets for certain trending terms.
- beersage
yeah, i built out the search concept but saw Twitter announce they're doing it. decided to stick to other concepts and chase the $ elsewhere. thanks for the validation of a good idea though
- Gregory Hanson
Wouldn't something similar be interesting on FB or any social network for that matter? Is Twitter more interesting due to the volume of tweets?
- Dave Hodson
Twitter needs to incorporate this in the API, IMHO.
- Dennis Jernberg
Sounds to me like something Facebook would do if they implemented trends.
- James Harnedy
Good idea about the "Trending" element, Robert. As far as search, really FriendFeed got pretty close if only their import of Twitter friends could have been more complete (not just those already on FF). Stands to reason that the FF guys could have added a trending functionality, Alas... BTW, I just noticed that at ~ 2,500 subscriptions on FF, the "Add To List" pop-up craps out. No more...
more...
- Alex Schleber
BTW, been saying that Twitter needed search on one's friends/following stream for months: http://alexschleber.posterous.com/my-comm...
- Alex Schleber
Yeah you r right, there exists no twitter trends just for your tweet stream/tweet inbox (tweets you receive from other people).
- TrafficBug
Actually we have. http://journotwit.com - take a look at the Tag clouds. Also running http://uktjpr.com for the UK technology journalists and PR community so you can see what's happening right now in UK technology.
- Dan Monsieurle
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Boom.
- Louis Gray
Grr!
- directeur
Woah...
- Brandon Titus
Uh. Well, that's the end of that.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret?
- Kol Tregaskes
Lame.
- Mark Trapp
great title bret. well played.
- MG Siegler
WOW
- Bindu Reddy
Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general?
- Dilip Dand
wahhhhhhhhhh
- Myrna
maaaan
- Jamie
wowow
- Harry Wolff
congrats
- brainno722 (Peter)
Nooooooooooooo
- Mushin
Wait... seriously?
- Ken Sheppardson
oh, noooo
- Tanju Yildiz
Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep.
- Ladybug Heather
Seriously?!? .....
- sebastian☆rocket brother
oh boy.
- Carlos Ayala
I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook.
- Ivan Zlatev
it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :(
- holly
division by zero
- Onur Cengiz
OMG
- \(*_*)/
"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user.
- Scott of Two Countries
gratz
- Ali
My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :(
- Tyson Key
Wow, it's true!!
- Kevin Whalen
Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future.
- Brandon Titus
O_o
- Joe Silence
So it IS true.
- Hector
Nicely done Bret
- Jennifer Van Grove
Congratulations btw, guys!
- Kol Tregaskes
Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy.
- Michael Leggett
Congrats, Bret.
- Jordan Hofker
This is just horrible
- Matthew DeVries
Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least.
- Irma Vermaat
Um.
- Barry Mitchelson
Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :)
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook?
- Tyson Key
Oh no....
- Ben Hanten
Terrible fit.
- Matthew DeVries
damn here it is... :(
- Edgar Rodríguez
*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots*
- Joe Silence
FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd)
- Bahriye
Die.
- Zio Bonino
Congrats
- Zoltan Szendro
I dont want FF to end
- Fee501st
Wow
- Shevonne
Oh mon dio !
- Umar
What did you do? WHYYY!
- Zachary TG
Ostregheta.
- Reloj
Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way.
- Hutch Carpenter
guess there's no way of denying this anymore :(
- BCK
Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company......
- Matthew DeVries
Oh no!
- Erdinc YILMAZEL
Congrats, but I hate Facebook.
- Zachary TG
I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think.
- Mark Sorrell
"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :(
- Tyson Key
Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together!
- Sean O'Connor
This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P
- Malte Steckmeister
Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :(((((((((((
- Roberto
Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you!
- Nathan Chase
And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more.
- Zachary TG
Wow
- Rodfather
*Sobs*
- Tyson Key
wow
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
to the dump
- Zachary TG
Wow, very disappointed
- Randy Pollock
come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team
- Edgar Rodríguez
As am I
- Zachary TG
machecazzo
- Sba
VERY disappointed.
- Joe Silence
horrible decision
- Randy Pollock
Booo. But, you know, congrats.
- Chris Nixon
i'm not sure i'm happy about this.
- Taylan Aydınlı
OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T
- Alp
Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-(
- Laurent
God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce.
- DarknessFalls
arg.
- Aron Michalski
Good for you, don't know for all of us
- Cristian Conti
@#$& that's all I have to say. For now.
- Zachary TG
Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht?
- Matthew DeVries
Congrats!
- Alix Whitmire
Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes!
- Ben Hanten
Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened?
- Tyson Key
I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet :
- DarkBls
Congrats!
- Moushumi Kabir
Congrats guys. :)
- Meryn Stol
Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook.
- Mike Sego
mommy?
- Josh Haley
Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make.
- Hector
FFail
- rael
What will happen to my 92 subscribers?
- Zachary TG
yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative.
- Bahriye
Tragic.
- Shannon
I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward.
- Harry Wolff
here come the comments
- Zachary TG
Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell.
- Zio Bonino
Yeah, quizzes are EVIL!
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Wow.
- Zachary TG
Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>(
- Larry Hawes
i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again.
- Joe Silence
Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result!
- Wade Dorrell
Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars
- Berge Gazen
Feedface or Facefeed?
- Fee501st
FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^]
- TiTi
Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats!
- Sebastien
I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead...
- Tyson Key
i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool.
- jkkmobile
Facefucked or Fuckfeed?
- Matthew DeVries
Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail.
- dorn
It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :(
- Tyson Key
Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook?
- Alex Scrivener
seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger.
- Joe Silence
I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck.
- Joey Gibson
There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders.
- Matthew DeVries
duh
- aybars badur
I HATE facebook
- Pedram
this is simply awful.
- Joe Silence
If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause
- Randy Pollock
Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them.
- Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/
- Tyson Key
Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc...
- Jay Cuthrell
Facebook is going to acquire the web!
- l'Ego di Gigi
To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which..
- Moushumi Kabir
Oh noes!
- Burcu Dogan
Congrats Bret!
- Robin Dindayal
I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks.
- Steve C
I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though.
- Jay Farmington
Where's the "dislike" option?
- Gregor Morrill
+1 Gregor
- Tyson Key
accipicchia che pessima notizia
- massimo mantellini
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_-
- Bahriye
I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ...
- DarknessFalls
/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being."
- Philipp Lenssen
And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today.
- Michael Forian
omg
- John μller
@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision.
- Joe Silence
Such great news!
- Steve Rubel
Not sure what to think of this.
- Matthew Speicher
where is dislike button ?
- Osman Üngür
OMG!
- Zac Bowling
now where did I put my twitter password
- Randy Pollock
big mistake :((
- emresezgin
I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Harrison
Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!!
- Jess Lee
Oh. Hell. No.
- CannonGod
Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed!
- Tyson Key
so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg?
- Onur Cengiz
It's a win/win! congrats all.
- Alan Le
Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone.
- Fırat Can Başarır
Congrats to you.
- Evan Travers
Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users.
- Aren Grimshaw
FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point?
- Kol Tregaskes
damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken!
- vijay
not good.
- Jacque
Oh. My. Gosh.
- Enrico Lamperti
Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though.
- Voyagerfan5761
"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;)
- Tyson Key
Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?"
- Brian Bommarito
sad...
- Marvin
Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it.
- Robert Gaal
This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever.
- Michael Netsch
Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow?
- Matthew DeVries
aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though!
- acedanger
please don't merge logins!!! please
- earlyadopter
They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them.
- The Complex Days
I hope it works OK to you guys!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet.
- Federico Bolsoman
Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke.
- Rochelle
Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:<
- CannonGod
I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running....
- Roberto Bonini
"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle
- adolfo foronda
Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave.
- Wade Dorrell
What a bunch of greedy assholes.
- Zio Bonino
So ?
- Ercan Bülbül
Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin?
- Tyson Key
:(
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Some people will do whatever their friends request........
- Michael Muller
I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about?
- Kevin Murray
I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form.
- Paul Nash
Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this...
- Tarmo Aidantausta
The End.
- Kaan Ertürk
Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me.
- Ian Betteridge
happy for you guys, but not for all of us
- Flavio
congratulations. this is going to be interesting.
- Dave Beckett
I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed...
- Tyson Key
I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you.
- Ton Zijp
NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see...
- Daniel Morgan
Game over.
- stark
yeah removing feed also works.
- Bahriye
Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall...
- Marcos
Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that.
- Jess Lee
Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Matthew DeVries
Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Noooooooo......
- Sung W. Lim
yeahhh
- Çağrı Burak
NO
- Cristian Conti
Congrats! That sucks.
- Rutger Blom
Where is that evidence Jess?
- Matthew DeVries
I don't know, Like it? or dislike it?
- Ömer Balamir
What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether?
- Tyson Key
If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step!
- Robin Barooah
Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid.
- Rutger Blom
I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. -
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users.
- Bret Taylor
I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends...
- CannonGod
kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma
- Alper Ömer Esin
Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook.
- Zio Bonino
Near term future?
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook?
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck.
- Jim Addz No Value
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything.
- Zio Bonino
Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future.
- Yunus Tunak
I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too.
- Vishal Verma
Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio...
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Where the f*ck is this option to undo ?
- Laurent
Odd that this thread gets modded?
- Matthew DeVries
I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry.
- Michael Lynton
Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;)
- Tyson Key
Congratulations!
- John Craft
can't be, shouldn't be...
- Kemal
It is! Change is inevitable, my friends.
- Bill Sodeman
Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook.
- Robin Barooah
So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh.
- Alex Hellstrom
I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it..............
- Kevin J Hatton
Oh No! I don't like this at all :(
- Peter
WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right?
- Uncle CW™
I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter.
- Thomas Power
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- Stephen Francoeur
My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP!
- Evgeni Leshtanski
AAAAwwwful!
- carolh
I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what?
- paula simoes ☃
"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook.
- Jacque
Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed!
- Alex Lomas
The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB.
- Rutger Blom
damn, damn, damn...
- Kemal
One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :(
- DarkBls
Woah woah... This is real?
- Jason Huebel
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though.
- jcunwired
Now I can break my Internet plan at home.
- DarkBls
Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching....
- Rasmus Lauridsen
wow!! dazed and confused!!
- Roberto Arancibia
I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh.
- Elena
Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes.
- bluretina
:|
- Amin BZ
This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there.
- Michael Netsch
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Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!!
- Jason Pollock
That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet.
- Peter
Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe?
- Robert Felty
I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now.
- ayca
It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF.
- Rutger Blom
Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys.
- Chieze Okoye
OMG!
- keso
To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done.
- Kevin J Hatton
I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens.
- Jason Huebel
Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users.
- Evan Parker
Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties?
- Federico Bolsoman
Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team
- Leslie Poston
This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea.............
- Kevin J Hatton
this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on...
- Tate DA FF MVP
While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would.
- Andy Bakun
I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook?
- Tom Ray
FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook.
- Andy Bakun
My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF.
- Rutger Blom
Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn.
- Jeremy Buff
Fail.
- Big K
Big Fail!
- OnuRC
This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone.
- tollie williams
wtf ?!
- Umut
I need to install "super PUKE" application !
- Bart LePoole
FFail.
- rowlikeagirl
I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it.
- Vince DeGeorge
from iPhone
JEREMY+++++1
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Wow!
- felix
Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested.
- Matthew Speicher
Jeremy +1
- F. Batuhan Icoz
so what's next? where should we go?
- Flavio
It's been fun here.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake.
- Don Faulkner
My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends!
- Flavio
I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good.
- ashish
integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr...
- Kemal
niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline.
- Ken Sheppardson
Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms.
- Rutger Blom
first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff?
- Flavio
Congratulations!
- Sam Grover
Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea.
- Rutger Blom
rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB
- Flavio
Tony, most likely
- Rutger Blom
read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009...
- Kemal
I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years.
- Andy Bakun
God help us
- Johnny
Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-)
- Rutger Blom
Congrat Bret!! :))
- Cihan Cepni
trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
Great point, Don.
- Rutger Blom
+1 Don
- Johnny
Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now?
- Pinksy
I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation.
- Tomas Remotigue
LOLI FFAIL
- rael
lame.
- andy brudtkuhl
This should be good news for Twitter.
- Rutger Blom
post the picture to failblog...
- Kemal
Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is...
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- Philipp Lenssen
+1 Kol for the techcrunch article!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you!
- Michael Fidler
Really saddened by this news.
- Doug Beeferman
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
- LouCypher
I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining.
- ChaCha Fance
Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long...
- Thomas Bøhm
ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun.
- Rutger Blom
I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this?
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Drat!
- Gee Ekachai
congrats guys!
- Elad
Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other.
- Rutger Blom
Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end.
- Brian Chang
At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again.
- Rutger Blom
/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;)
- Tyson Key
Don, LOL :-)
- Rutger Blom
If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good.
- jcunwired
Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please.
- Edward Barnieh
@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on?
- Flavio
@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year?
- Flavio
Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around.
- Tim Tyler
Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!!
- Danli
Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive.
- Sean Leather
Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook.
- Harry Toon
Hmm. Interesting.
- Ralf Becker
Add me to the fearful group.
- beersage
Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though.
- Tyson Key
"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq
- Ozgur Uckan
Nothing like an early retirement payout :)
- Owen Greaves
Congrat Bret
- Nimaa
Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :)
- Лосось норвежской выделки
Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :).
- Karthick R
:(
- goodmachine
FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =)
- Anton
СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!!
- Viktor
hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate.
- Brian Walsh
Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time.
- Angus Burton
Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that.
- Cassidy
Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder.
- David Gaw
aieeeeeeeeeee
- Richard Akerman
FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit.
- Tomy Thomson
Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:(
- Eph Zero
Well done Bret!
- Alemsah Ozturk
♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪
- All for design
Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye.
- Micah Collard
It was fun while it lasted.
- Mr. Gunn
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter...
- The Count Rob
Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product!
- Michael Nielsen
Whattttttttttttttttttttt???
- Nibi
The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :(
- jcunwired
friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool.
- Nibi
Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't like this....
- Zeki Pehlivan
"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now.
- Kamilah Gill
Same here, Kamilah.
- Tyson Key
If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it.
- Vishal Verma
and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :(
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us!
- Joris
WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed.
- Jason R. Hunter
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed!
- Rob Kurrus
doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only.
- Mike D.
Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible.
- Mike Reynolds
Congrats guys (and gals) !
- Benjy Weinberger
So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click
- Reyna Carlos
Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues...
- Pon
And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave.
- Christopher A Carr
:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location
- Majento
There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap!
- Scratch5150
Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site.
- Manuel Mas
What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that!
- orionstarr
Somebody has to got pay for it.
- orionstarr
I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook.
- Robert
It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol...
- orionstarr
Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for.
- Rajit
Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0
- ManojRanaweera
I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*.
- Andy Bakun
Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :)
- Mona Nomura
I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here.
- Ken Morley
So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone?
- Scratch5150
Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat.
- Brandon
if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it
- Mike Chelen
The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter.
- Karoli
Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does
- Mike Chelen
Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see.
- Karoli
i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :)
- Susan Beebe
Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY
- Ozgur Uckan
RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!..
- Ozgur Uckan
Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best.
- Ebru Baranseli
Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;).
- Tom Horn
Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned?
- Piaw Na
*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years.
- Andrew Perry
Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all.
- timepilot
Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Все, блядь, пиздец!
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
WOW - very happy for all of you :-)
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors!
- Mike Lewis
Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-(((
- Claude LaFrenière
Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day.
- Threepwood
Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture.
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Sucks big time.
- Drea
Sadness
- Yasin Jason
I can't believe this happened
- Johnny
Suggested name: FailFriend. :-(((
- Claude LaFrenière
Friend facebooks feed (FFF)
- Filiz Koyuncu
«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci
- Claude LaFrenière
So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that
- Ethan
Gimme my OPML export
- Sriks7
Money is the root of all evil
- Shakeel Mahate
shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit.
- Scratch5150
Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though.
- Anne Bouey
So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn.
- Mark Scrimshire
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad.
- Sally Church
This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented
- Mike Chelen
from IM
I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift.
- roamin
Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF.
- Vinko
congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed...
- amelia arapoff
Congrats you guys, well deserved.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys.
- Cristo
I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink*
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Grats, dont spend it all in one place.....
- Robert Higgins
congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies.
- Logan Lindquist
boo.
- kelly
The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?)
- Dennis Jernberg
Boo
- Amit Morson
Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies?
- Christopher A Carr
Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day.
- Todd Holmes
BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck.
- Dale
Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing.
- Paul Papadimitriou
Congrats and good luck..
- Can Koklu
Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now.
- abacab
Goodbye FF, it was wonderful..
- Francesco Cugurra
I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations!
- krzychukula
from IM
judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer.
- kelly
Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!!
- Seo (ignobile) Guru
Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF
- Bernaldo Barrena
Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff!
- Garin Kilpatrick
I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor...
- Alexander Kruel
обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Congratulations Friendfeed :D
- paniaguai
Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao
- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now!
- Flavio
I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work!
- Alexander Gieg
Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative.
- Alliandre (la Ippe)
How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder...
- Tyson Key
Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012.
- Penny Power
:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week..
- Martynas
congrats!
- Ronald
thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next
- Arini dewi muchtaram
Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again.
- Don Faulkner
Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P
- Don Faulkner
Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt...
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
good for you, bad for us
- Zachary Earl Strader
I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together.
- Ru Viljoen
I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation?
- orionstarr
@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love.
- Robin Barooah
Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook.
- Tim Tyler
sad, sad, sad.
- scott willeke
Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well.
- Juan Bruce
bad bad bad
- kakilang
bye bye friendfeed!
- Jonathan Crossland
Why-eee!!! ??? What next?
- Wayne Lewis
I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about.
- Leslie Moore
Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious.
- Andrew Eglinton
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool.
- sofarsoShawn
Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil.
- whatidiscover
Are Genius and Madness Related? Contemporary Answers to an Ancient Question - Psychiatric Times - http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/display...
Ever since antiquity, thinkers have associated creativity with psychopathology--the classic idea of the "mad genius." By looking at historiometric, psychiatric and psychometric research one can conclude that exceptional creativity is often linked with certain symptoms of psychopathology. Nevertheless, this relationship is not equivalent to the claim that creative individuals necessarily suffer from psychopathology.
- Jay
Give yourself a gift this holiday season - create a FriendFeed List that contains key FriendFeed searches. Just pipe your FriendFeed search URL's into a public Google Reader tag/folder. Then create an imaginary friend in FF and use the tag/folder URL as "Blog". Then dump into your FF List.
news2me, Meryn Stol, suelibrarian and 35 other people liked this
whoa. that's some nifty trickery.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Indeed, trickery. The cool thing is that adding new keywords only involves adding the FriendFeed search results URL to the proper Google Reader tag/folder. Results then automagically appear back on FF.
- Mike Reynolds
Would that be niftery?
- Lisa L. Seifert
Whoa indeed.
- Juan Pablo González
Good idea Mike, I was trying to figure out how to bring ff searches into a list, but of course, they don't allow their own feeds to be put into rooms/lists. This should solve the problem! The ff search is very powerful.
- Kelly Johns
Yes, the benefit is having key searches available with one click.
- Mike Reynolds
I did that for FOOD - my own "search" dumps as an imaginary friend - my "food" buddy --- dumps into a ROOM....yummy place
- Susan Beebe
Clever, Mike. I've been searching for something like this.
- Sean McBride
Don't feel bad Gregory. While I generally understand why something would be useful, I wish I were geek enough to do actually implement these fancy things myself. http://www.growmap.com/can-a-q...
- Internet Strategist
By the way, I dropped into this conversation from a search at http://www.ffholic.com
- Internet Strategist
I drop into quite a few Friendfeed conversations via FFholic Most Discussed and Friend Best of Day feeds fed through Google Reader.
- Sean McBride
Very clever!
- Jay
Thanks for this Mike. Works well. I'm trying Google Alerts as well.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chris - I'm tracking hundreds of things via Google Reader. Good for trend spotting. One thing I track is the theme park industry trends given that I work for Disney Parks, with Twitter being the ultimate resource. In economics, I like to track "gdp projections", "inflation" and "deflation". And how about you?
- Mike Reynolds
Wired 6.12: HotMale - http://www.wired.com/wired...
Sabeer Bhatia started his company on $300,000 and sold it two years later for $400 million. So, is he lucky, or great?
- Jay
I was driven mad by the Chinese education system - http://en.chinaelections.org/NewsInf...
My father said: "If you can't gain acceptance into a top tier university, you might as well die and I won't shed a tear at your funeral." I thought about suicide, but I couldn't let the Chinese education system drive me to insanity. I hate my father, but not really. What I hate more is the Chinese education system and how it drives parents and relatives to measure people solely by grades and numbers.
- Jay
Anyone else forget it was Friday?
Steven Perez, Rob Brammeld, Akiva Moskovitz and 11 other people liked this
me.. it is like monday today for me:)
- onur özen
When I'm not working, I have absolutely no sense of what day of the week it is.
- Rochelle
Was just thinking it feels like Sunday.
- Yolanda
No.
- Helen Sventitsky
Yesterday felt like Sunday. Kept thinking I had to get up for work. But, alas, I didn't!
- Nurse Katie
weird, huh...no complaints though, i love the extra days off!
- Susan Beebe
I'm not really accustomed to 'real' weekends. 2 days without really working nor thinking about some projects.. today 's like monday
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
yup, right here
- Jay
Nope, I just woke up. =D
- David Cook
Seeing as I am still at work, YES.
- Steven Perez
Social______? fill in the blank.
tony, Jesper Lind, Jay and 4 other people liked this
interaction
- Mike Fruchter
median
- Mike Fruchter
studies
- Mike Fruchter
disease?
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
engagement
- J. D. Ebberly
There is no right answer. Lets have some fun.
- Mike Fruchter
twittering
- J. D. Ebberly
dysfunction
- Mike Fruchter
intersection
- J. D. Ebberly
media
- Mike Fruchter
nexus
- J. D. Ebberly
podcast
- J. D. Ebberly
ly inept.
- Christopher Harley
bookmarking
- J. D. Ebberly
communities
- Mike Fruchter
ly viral
- J. D. Ebberly
networking
- Mike Fruchter
or anti
- Mike Fruchter
stigma
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
computing
- Mike Fruchter
marketing
- Mike Fruchter
blogging
- J. D. Ebberly
microblogging
- J. D. Ebberly
security
- Mike Fruchter
security
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
schmocial
- Louis Gray
statistics
- Mike Fruchter
graph
- Mike Fruchter
media communities networking to increase interaction while computing their median
- Jay
media
- Summer
applications
- Mike Fruchter
e (in Italiano :)
- Valeria Maltoni
phenomonan
- Mike Fruchter
distortion
- Mike Fruchter
signals
- Mike Fruchter
Opportunities
- Ian May
aggregator
- Mike Fruchter
failure
- deepikaur
services
- Mike Fruchter
hierarchies
- Mike Fruchter
entrepreneurs
- Mike Fruchter
analytics
- Niv
incompetence
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
sciences
- Mike Fruchter
policies
- Mike Fruchter
research
- Mike Fruchter
enterprise
- Mike Fruchter
development
- Mike Fruchter
Welcome to it...
- Johnny Worthington
Geek
- Jesse Stay
behaviour online should be just as offline
- Rob Sellen :o)
Friend.
- Igor Poltavskiy
New search-by-style options for Google Image Search - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
Igor Poltavskiy, Tom Stocky, Amit Patel and 6 other people liked this
So I'm talking to a technical lead from the IE8 team in 30 minutes re standards. any questions you'd like me to ask him?
Franci Penov, Mihalcea Razvan, Amber, Random Time Lord and Robert Scoble liked this
Ask the IE8 team about speed and why they don't do what Chrome did: go with one box for both URL's and search.
- Robert Scoble
What order winners does IE offer to a user who could be using Firefox, Chrome, or Safari?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Ask them how they deal with all the negative talk that surrounds IE in general and the steps they are taking (if any) to rebuild their image.
- Jay
when will they allow Grease Monkey scripts?
- William Harryman
ha. was going to type, "ask him when are they gonna come out with a patch for the damn 0-day that's out there now" but it looks like it's scheduled for tomorrow: http://isc.sans.org/diary...
- Karim
What plans does IE8 have to push forward microformats in the browser and make them useful to user.. e.g. Links to maps from hcard
- Ben Hedrington
I wish I had seen this earlier. I'd love to know why they don't plan to support canvas. They didn't answer that question at Web 2.0 Expo NYC.
- Matthew Gifford
@Robert Scoble IE6 used to have only one box for both URLs and search. then Firefox came out and everybody started asking for a dedicated search box in IE. :-)
- Franci Penov
from twhirl
Yeah but the IE6 search didn't default to google or include the cool ? operator linked to ctrl-K.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Michael Phelps to release iPhone game...in Spring 2010 http://www.mediabistro.com/mobilec...
Jay, Sarah Perez and David Ward liked this
I wonder if he'll ever get back in the pool and compete?
- David Ward
What pool?
- Jay
No, I won’t follow you back… - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
divya, Kol Tregaskes, Louis Trapani and 33 other people liked this
LOL
- Jay
Is https://www.backblaze.com/ any good on Windows? Anybody using it on OS X as a tester yet? Looks like the one to beat.
Matt Harwood liked this
Websites that have auto-playing videos deserve death.
- Akiva Moskovitz
+1 Akiva
- MikeAmundsen
how old do you think that brick is?
- Jay
TABLEIZER! -- Spreadsheets to HTML Tables Tool - http://tableizer.journalistopia.com/
MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, Ray Metzen, Jay and Dominic Jones liked this
A quick tool for creating HTML tables out of spreadsheet data
- Morton Fox
good find
- Jay
This is now my favorite picture - it's my new wallpaper:http://jessestay.smugmug.com/gallery...
Jay, Susan Beebe, Uncle CW™ and Jemm liked this
Is This The Craigslist's Most Expensive Car Listing? - http://www.bornrich.org/entry...
Carrie Leber, Travis Parsons, Mona Nomura and 30 other people liked this
"I won’t be surprised if it is, as we are talking about Bugatti Veyron here. Up for sale on Craigslist is a 2006 Bugatti Veyron, which has gone just 874 miles. The superfast car is listed on the Los Angeles CL site and is located upstate in Benicia, just north of San Francisco. With a stunning blue exterior and Bardo interiors, the car with 1001 horsepower can sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 2.5 seconds and go past the 200 mph mark in a mere 24 seconds. While a new Veyron goes for around $1.4 million, it’s interesting to see that this 2006 Bugatti Veyron is listed with an asking price of $1.3 million. It looks like credit crunch hasn’t hit everyone. The name Bugatti exudes exclusivity, luxury, elegance and amazing design, and this listing on Craigslist is no exception."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from Bookmarklet
Ugly.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Love - this - beast!
- vijay
Droolz!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Mmmm...Veyron... I feel like it's being sold at the Flea Market by being on Craigslist. I mean, it's the fastest and most powerful production car in the world...
- xero
Wow, Craigslist is moving up in the world if this is for real.
- Kenton
Maybe we can go in on it with fractional ownership? I'll buy 1 horsepower.
- Todd Hoff
Love the Veyron. Am guilty of actually going to the Bugatti web site a few months ago and doing the "configurator" and everything. *sigh*
- Anthony Citrano
damn that car is awesome.
- Jack Lhasa
Just another VW.
- Brian Sullivan
can i get it in candy-apple red? i'm ready to buy, but the color is important to me
- Morgan Haley
F*ck the color Morgan. Just ask them to knock $199 off the price, since Earl Scheib is such a bargain. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
A few months ago, I'd seen a Triumph TR-7 in British racing green, and was drooling over it. I related to a coworker, "I would slee-- I mean, I would do *anything* for a ride in that car." Alas, he caught the slip. I would do *anything* for a ride in THIS car. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Earl Scheib this car? I don't think soooo. Plus, I need to get to over 200 mph faster than 24 seconds. This 'slug on wheels' just isn't what i'm looking for I guess... :-)
- Morgan Haley
Dang, I want one of these!
- Gwen Sutton
Morgan: Earl Scheib was JOKE! Holy cow, man!
- Ladybug Heather
Buy this and I think you might be required to get a cape and cowl, and go rooftop to rooftop fighting crime.
- mikepk
xero, that video is badass.
- mikepk
Dang! where is that towel? Never mind a napkin ... that will not clean up this drool!
- Robert Couture
Sexy look, horrible gas mileage
- Jeff McNeill
from twhirl
lol. supercars aren't supposed to have good mileage. wtf??
- Cee Bee
lol gas mileage..
- Jay
I Turn My Back for 30 Seconds...
Pete Delucchi, Thierry R. Andriamirado, Mattb4rd and 60 other people liked this
This can't be good for him, can it?
- Louis Gray
from email
its door swing time!
- Allen Stern
LOL @ the look on his face -- it's like he knows what it is, thinking Hmmm, some day . . .
- Trish R
DON'T DO IT LITTLE MAN!
- Josh Haley
Nicely played w/ the Stella Louis :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
At least I wasn't the only one that did this...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Remember, don't drink and crawl. Oh, and I'm suddenly reminded of the Mike's Hard Lemonade "Dad's oversight at Tigers game lands son in foster care" ordeal http://www.freep.com/apps...
- Micah Wittman
There's a similar pic of me like this in the family photo albums... I even remember that I was holding a wiedemann beer. mmmm beer, you gotta get 'em young.
- Heidi Blanton
just as a note, this is why i had to let him go from CN... i can't have drunk employees on the job!
- Allen Stern
Advice - don't let Scoble take him to Vegas. :)
- Ontario Emperor
thats for Santa ,, little guy
- johnpiercy
Wait a second. Louis doesn't drink but his babies do? That's weird.
- Robert Scoble
look like he aint letting go to quick ... either
- johnpiercy
That baby is drinking the same beer I'm drinking right now. You have good taste in alcohol, kid.
- David Wilson
careful these days a photo like this could get you in trouble....LOL
- R. Ferguson
All babies love beer - dont know why, they just do.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
from twhirl
Ummmm... Louis isn't a drinker right? Or have you learned the art of alcohol?
- Chrimmus Tad
LOL taking after daddy???
- Adriana
KLAXON SOUNDING! KLAXON SOUNDING! Allen, that's a serious HR violation! Oh, no, the fighting will begin again :O [aside to Pete: write EVERYTHING down!]
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Matthew and I will get along JUST fine. Sooooo can I babysit? ;)
- Mona Nomura
Ahh...can Pete write, yet?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
No babies or alcoholic beverages were harmed in the production of this image...
- Louis Gray
Real geek:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Good taste in beer.
- Dominic Jones
Oh - beer makes you pee. I hope Matthew's potty trained.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you do realize you're harming your chances of getting a babysitting gig, if you don't even know that a baby who can't crawl (last time I checked) cannot use the potty ;).
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
How do you know Matthew can't crawl yet, MiniMage? It's LG's kids. I wouldn't be surprised if they're already blogging hahha
- Mona Nomura
I don't, actually, it's been weeks since Louis posted the video of Matthew trying to crawl and failing. I wouldn't be surprised if the kiddo got the hang of it while I wasn't looking :) [edit: "failing" sounds so harsh; how about "not quite succeeding?"
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I love the Youtubes of Sarah 'talking'. I can't believe how BIG they're getting. <3
- Mona Nomura
I'm telling his Bishop
- Jesse Stay
hahhahahhahahhahha
- Mona Nomura
What's the Bishop gonna do? Deny him communion wine?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Personally, I suspect that Matthew's programming by now. Perhaps he and Sarah are developed Android applications. :)
- Ontario Emperor
Well, at least he has good taste; Stella FTW!
- Lis Miller
@Mona and all: Neither Matthew nor Sarah are crawling yet. Both roll front to back. Sarah rolls back to front and rolls everywhere. Matthew is a chubster and hasn't figured that out. Both are great at balancing and standing while leaning on me, so we figure we just might as well get them walking ahead of crawling... but when they do, you will see.
- Louis Gray
As for the alcohol, it was courtesy of a friend of my wife at a holiday party tonight. Nobody in our family drinks. Note the female hand on the bottle and my wife's smile in the top right.
- Louis Gray
I was nine months old before I could sit up. I couldn't walk until I was nearly 2. My maternal grandmother gently informed my mother that I was [obviously] retarded. Things I did later in life hid the truth of how right she was!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
he is off to a quick start!
- Jay
No kidding, Jay; I was thinking Matthew ought to get the hang of walking before he's pulled over and told to walk a straight line ;) (no, of course that would never happen; he's a good boy)
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Like a good marketeer, I refused to take the photo until the label was properly displayed.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I was wondering. It was sooo perfect.
- Victoria Plautia
geek question...how many tabs have you got open right now?
Kol Tregaskes, DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE, seanb and 5 other people liked this
3. I can't stand having too many tabs (or even applications) open. Guess it goes back to my Windows 3.1 days, when having two apps open at once was just an invitation to a crash.
- Ladybug Heather
only 2
- Stephen Pierzchala
8
- Alex Haar
Just 12
- Nir Ben Yona
4: FF, Twitter, Facebook, and a Twitter search results page.
- Steve Isaacs
3.
- Rochelle
Just 4 at the moment, but about to open a couple more. I'm with Heather, can't stand to have too many open at once.
- Penny
It's a little low right now... 10 in Firefox, 4 in Safari.
- LogEx
just asked the same question on twitter...best reply was "About a thousand. All at different bars" LOL... :)
- Zee.
18 in 3 Firefox windows
- Alexandros Georgiadis
12. and then tons of windows
- Patricia
6
- Sonya Smith
3
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Just 4 right now.
- Ms. G.Warbucks IYN
One right now, but I normally have 3 or 4 open at one time. :)
- Molly, "sorry"
20 + across three browsers...
- Mona Nomura
Same as Miss Molly.
- Nurse Katie
i'm on 46! organised using "tab groups" extension...firefox handles it very well for me. Not slow at all fortunately...
- Zee.
Just three.
- Derrick
19 in Firefox and 11 in Chrome...IE's down for the count
- Mark Krynsky
Oh yea, I use the Session Manager extension for Firefox too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Mark Krynsky
Five, but that's in Mobile Safari. So convert it to desktop tabs before comparing.
- David Wynn
hmm, yeah Mark- i should start using that more...although i'm loving firefox 3.1b2's restore manager
- Zee.
5
- Thomas Hawk
I haven't installed 3.1 Beta for fear of add on issues. But I might have to go ahead and do it.
- Mark Krynsky
9 only at the moment. Usually I go from 20 to 30.
- Niki Costantini
the one i'm really missing is ubiquity - doesn't work on it yet :(
- Zee.
hey lovely photo Niki
- Zee.
two browser windows (on two screens) - three tabs in one and eight in the other
- Frederic
anyone using split browser?
- Zee.
4 windows. On my iPhone.
- santiromero
5 windows
- Randy Ksar
from twhirl
12 in this window, 14 in the next window, but I'm writing a research paper.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
12
- Paola Bonomo
9 across 3 windows: 2, 4, 2
- Clay Newton
only 8 now, but usually 20 or more
- stark
4. I with Ladybug heather. I can't stand having too many tabs open as well.
- Alan Le
6
- Jay
3
- Steve Rubel
17
- Susan Beebe
5
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
from fftogo
6
- ComicList
6.
- Igor Poltavskiy
4. Usually I have 10-100 tabs, but I'm about to log off.
- Mitchell Tsai
3, been open for the last 2 days, can't get to to end of them
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
2... it's a weekend, a weekday would get better results :)
- Tai
just 3 at the moment
- Alessandro
8, one more than usual. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
6
- Adriana
Barry Sanders, Jr., Can Run in a Very Similar Fashion to His Father, Barry Sanders - NFL FanHouse - http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2008...
"Barry Sanders is, in my mind, possibly the greatest running back of all time. Certainly there's a case to made against me suggesting that, since I'm under 30 years old and wasn't cognizant of much more than drool for the majority of Walter Payton's prime. But, hey, I saw Emmitt Smith. And Sanders was way better. So it shouldn't be surprising that his son, Barry Sanders, Jr., is pretty decent. Enjoy the touchdown run."
- Mathew™ one of a kind
from Bookmarklet
He's a Freshman in high school. So no older then 15.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Error - washingtonpost.com - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Ladybug Heather, Darren Heydon, Jay and Dominic Jones liked this
clever.
- Dominic Jones
from twhirl
ha
- Jay
The world's smallest optical mouse - http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008...
Phil G, Darren Heydon, Kenton and Jesper Lind liked this
"The Z-Nano is the word's smallest optical mouse, about just as large as your fingertip. When not in use, it can be stored in your ear canal or nostril. $60."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from Bookmarklet
How exactly is this even USABLE?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Midget Ninjas
- Johnny Worthington
5 button?
- mikepk
What, no scroll wheel? Bah!
- Kenton
lol @ kenton
- Jay
Coding Horror: My Scaling Hero - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog...
Jay and Daniel J. Pritchett liked this
Markus Frind's story is awe inspiring. The whole process he went through to get his site to where it is today is amazing. The scaling lessons adds to the list of things we can learn from his experience.
- Jay
Anybody else having their browser crash a lot lately (FF & IE). It feels like Flash is the culprit, but have not confirmed.
Flash doesn't play well with FF on mac either.
- Jay
Sandwich Board Guy Gets A Job - http://clusterstock.alleyinsider.com/2008...
Kol Tregaskes, Steven Perez, Andrew Trinh and 18 other people liked this
"Feel good story of the day: Josh Persky, a laid-off MIT grad who wore a sandwich board advertising his services has found a job. According to peHUB, Persky will take up work as Weiser LLP, an accounting firm. Good news for Persky, but he's not the only one out there looking for a job this way. In November, we wrote about "Paul", who depressingly advertised that he had been laid off and was almost homeless. Erin Griffith suggests this is probably not a good longterm strategy for job seekers, since the shtick gets old quickly. And in fact Persky was mainly hired because of his blog on finance and accounting issues, which you can read here."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from Bookmarklet
So apparently sandwich board + blog = PROFIT. I KNEW IT!!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Sometimes rediscovering older technologies, or ways of doing things can get you noticed.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
i don't know i might have too much pride to parade myself in a sign all day like that and literally lose my integrity. the squeaky wheel gets the grease i guess
- Cee Bee
@Tina you are on to something big!
- Jay
I got a sandwich and a blog..will that do?
- Kamath (नमः)
Kamath - YES... apparently that's the ticket!
- Susan Beebe
I gotta get me a trick like that
- Noah David Simon
From 2005. My favorite blogging-related cartoon, probably http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveabl...
Jay, Mohamed J, David Álvarez and Andy Carroll liked this
Great!
- David Álvarez
haha
- Jay
Beaten NYC immigrant declared brain dead - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic...
Daniel J. Pritchett and Cee Bee liked this
"An Ecuadorean immigrant was declared brain dead after being savagely beaten by attackers who shouted anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs at him and his brother, who were walking arm in arm, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, was still clinging to life following brain surgery at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, said one of his brothers, Diego. "He's not dead. There are some decisions that need to be taken. We are brothers and we do not have the power to make that decision," Diego Sucuzhanay said, adding that their parents in Ecuador were involved in the decision. But the law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Jose Sucuzhanay had been declared brain dead and that a death certificate had been signed. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation continues."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
from Bookmarklet
i heard about this, but wasn't aware of the details. happened near me. super fucked up. and to think prosecutors/cops were hesitant of even labeling this a biased crime at first. the people who did this are the lowest of the low.
- Cee Bee
What a shameful act
- Jay
just like a month back another ecuadorean immigrant was beaten and stabbed to death in town on long island. time for people to rise up and strike back imo. http://www.newsday.com/news...
- Cee Bee
People just suck. I don't even know what to say anymore.
- Michelle Martinez
tragic and so pathetic....Sigh
- Susan Beebe
SnapShot of inquisitr.com (rank #6,015), techmeme.com (#7,893) - Compete - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/inquisi...
Jess Lee, Igor Poltavskiy, Steven Cains and 38 other people liked this
we're a bloody lot more than 300k, but its a nice milestone on a chart though
- Duncan Riley
Congrats, Duncan =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Good grief, and all done from a deck chair in Melbourne too ;) Nice one Duncan.
- jjprojects
Congrats mate :D Long live Inquisitr !
- Mo Kargas
nice numbers boss
- Steven Hodson
Congrats, Duncan!
- John McCrea
Thx Tina, Mo, JJ, Steven and John.
- Duncan Riley
bloody brilliant Duncan
- Zee.
thx Zee
- Duncan Riley
Congrats Dunc! w00t!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
thx AJ
- Duncan Riley
Awesome, Duncan! and Congrats!
- George The Writer
Principal race.:) Congrats!
- Igor Poltavskiy
Wooo Hooo Duncan - that's a nice looking growth chart!! nice work!
- Susan Beebe
Right on, way to go Duncan!
- Alan Le
Now if only you had a sports channel... ;)
- Paul Montgomery
Greg lol! Awesome Duncan. But don't relax yet, fly high, sky high.
- vijay
/applaud
- Carolyn Chan
What's inquisitr about anyway? I can't access it from work, it's blocked as a "video sharing" site.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Congrats Duncan!
- Jorge Escobar
Wow, awesome, congrats!
- Sarah Perez
Congrats! The addition of entertainment news doesn't hurt, of course. Check out this chart: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/inquisi...
- Phil G
congrats!
- Jay
Entire class fails computing exam by submitting in Word format ⢠The Register - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...
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ouch!
- Jay
I just posted "What Twitter Needs" in reponse to @chrisbrogan 's ideas http://carter.awarenessnetworks.com/default...
Re http://bit.ly/rbaD: I like the short code idea; with a service like twitter its important to keep it short and simple.
- Jay
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