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I love this: "Tamagotchi effect: If you take care of your users, the right investors will rally around you and talented hackers will line up to work for you." Graham +1 ;-) - Erhan Erdoğan

I like that :). And I appreciated this paragraph in particular: "The curious thing is, this elixir is freely available to any other company. Anyone can adopt 'Don't be evil.' The catch is that people will hold you to it." Friendfeed, clearly, has opened up with clear expectations to "be good." People will hold it (and them, the employees) to that standard, and I think that's awesome :) - Adam Lasnik

I wish more nonprofits operated using the Tamagotchi effect as a basic operating principle. - Allan Benamer from twhirl

Be good! Reminds me of E.T, good post I also like their transparency it gives me confidence in their vision and objectives! - Joe Dawson

Take care of this user please and make it so when I jump from the normal search to the advanced search, my search query won't be lost :) [also, please give me the link "Search all of FriendFeed »" even when the other search found some results] - Philipp Lenssen

do you guys need a marketer? Or does that not fall into 'be good" ar ar - anna sauce

@Philipp The Friendfeed Feedback room is your friend :) - EricaJoy

@Paul: Invent a new slogan for FF. You 'll be needing that in future. - Varun Mahajan

"Be Good" produces "make really Good" software applications! woo hoo! Neat article. Very inspiring to see someone take a stand on "Do No Evil" and then go one step further and commit to "Be Good"! - love it! excellent example and role model for aspiring Web App Devs!! Keep up the "good" work!! :-) - Susan Beebe

I don't know why, but when they described PB as "cherubic" I just had to laugh. It was so cute! - April Buchheit

@April - same here! when they described PB as "cherubic" - awesome! angel face!! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe

I find it fascinating that there are no comments on the actual Times Blog post but plenty o' comments here and acknowledgement by well over 100 people. Friendfeed power right there. - Jason Toney

Jason, good point, one of the things I value most about FF is this interactivity. - susan mernit

I finally read this. Nice article, Paul. Good luck. - Robert Konigsberg

It's easy, man. Just get a PVR. Yahoo Go. You'll be glad you did. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I have been off cable for years now, and have never been happier. I got an AppleTV a while back, and while there were some initial kinks, it works quite solidly now. Same with the movie rentals -- serious network problems right after they were released, but now we watch movies on it several times a week without a hitch (I just wish they'd switch TV shows to a rental model, but I imagine it will take a while to get the licensing issues straight). - Joel Webber

It's not hard. I've been without Cable TV for over a year (Moved out). Solution? Download lots from BitTorrent, and subscribe to interesting content from the web (See: TEDTalks, Blip.tv, etc) .. a lot of online shows are not that good (yet) but slowly they are becoming a replacement. - Bartek Ciszkowski

I'm on my sixth year without any preprogrammed video channels (cable or satellite). Do I feel I've missed anything? No. As Bartek mentioned, online video is improving. I watched two seasons of Lost in HD in arguably better quality than DVD. - Jay Collier

I did it. Still here. A little slower but no real significant difference in my case. Back to DSL and DirecTV - Charlie Anzman

I've quit Cable TV numerous times...longest stretch was 3 years and now I am back at it again 1.5 yrs NO REGRETS. I hate force fed programming. CableTV concept is sooo old wow. I am waiting for the day i can just login and drag / drop my own content on my schedule. probably a paid service with a subscription model... fine...just let me control my own time and content with no stinking ads - Susan Beebe

It's called TiVo! I'd probably quit cable too if it weren't for TiVo. There's almost always something to watch when I make the time to watch TV. Of course, a truly non-channel-oriented subscription model would be far better but a DVR makes cable tolerable for now. - Akiva

"unlike" - Mitchell Tsai

another really good headline! - edythe

Akiva is right, TiVo rules. Watch what you want, when you want. It has been years since I channeled surfed. - RAPatton

Try calling your cable company and asking if you can SUSPEND your TV service. It worked for me. I didn't want to cancel (seemed overly harsh). I called and told them I was going to be in Egypt for an extended visit and they suggested the suspend option. (I made up the Egypt story which seemed to help me move forward). That was 14 months ago and the only cravings are for live events. All else can be downloaded or hulu'd. I get a bill every month for $0 which is incredibly satisfying. Godspeed. - Noah Carter

That is a nice tool - RAPatton

Oh, that is nice! Pardon my spam while I tag this everywhere I can. - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

One quirk is the "favor neither candidate" ends up on the Obama side. - RAPatton

I believe it doesn't fully include caucus results, so will skew slightly toward Clinton. - Mike Reynolds

Very cool. It would have been nice to make the size of the boxes proportional to population. - Dror Shimshowitz

If you redistributed all the wealth of the richest 2% evenly, we would each get....$10,000. If you discount the people only millionaires due to their houses, we each get $6,000. Not a lot of money. A good reason why people have killed each other for wealth, and abused poor serfs. If you factor in environmental damage, I'm not sure that humankind has learned how to make wealth yet. See Cap Gemini's 2007 World Wealth Report http://www.capgemini.com/industr... - Mitchell Tsai

If a hypothetical alien landed on Earth and was as wealthy as all humankind, the richest 1 creature would own half of world wealth. Would the rest of us be worse off? Is what matters the relative wealth (in which case we'd be better off after WW3, and everyone lives in poverty) or absolute wealth (which seems to be getting better for just about everyone)? - Amit Patel

Fascinating, though it seems a bit manipulative to section 'Rich Asia-Pacific countries' as its own category. A little bit of selection bias there. I bet there are some other ways of making this data even more interesting, such as animating it over the last 200 years. - Kevin Fox