"Researchers discovered a genetic link between physical pain and social rejection. Psychologists at the University of California in Los Angeles have discovered that the human body deals with emotional stress in exactly the same way that it reacts to physical pain - by releasing a natural painkiller. Scientists believe their findings suggest that the experience felt by people is the same regardless of whether their body is injured. The researchers measured levels of a gene used by the body to regulating the painkillers. Researchers collected saliva samples from 122 participants to assess which form of the OPRM1 pain gene they had and then measured how they reacted to different senarios."
- RAPatton
"She said: "Because social connection is so important, feeling literally hurt by not having social connections may be an adaptive way to make sure we keep them. "Over the course of evolution, the social attachment system, which ensures social connection, may have actually borrowed some of the mechanisms of the pain system to maintain social connections." The same portion of the brain...
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- RAPatton
"This is the first time that it has been proved that genes involved in physical pain are linked to mentally painful times like social rejection and breaking up with a lover, she said. The findings back up a previous study by the University of Queensland that indicated that descriptions of the agony of rejection as like a knife being thrust into the heart are more than just metaphors. Dr...
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- RAPatton
Part of the reason Twitter succeeded was that they didn't have many super-smart engineers who rushed to add a bunch of features. They were almost forced to keep the site simple for many years..
There are techniques out there to slow things down if you have too many super-smart engineers. If three-martini lunches don't work, try making them use PHP.
- Bruce Lewis
for 3 years and they are making subtle changes.
- ashish
I think he's saying they didn't have too many really good chefs in the kitchen making you too much food.
- Mattie Kenny
from fftogo
Does that mean that super smart people tend to make changes in the system?
- ashish
Your comment sounds like a fact, but it's just an opinion right? I don't think the site's simplicity was an accident or just a case of Twitter not having enough SSE power. There's a post from 2005 from @Ev, with rule #1 "Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful." http://evhead.com/2005... Seems like Twitter's gone out of their way to uphold that rule from the start.
- Adam Kazwell
This seems like a simplification of what could have happened..I feel simplicity was the only option because they were busy getting their back-end infrastructure right...resolving all those fail-whales in the initial stages must have taken a ton of effort...
- Mahesh CR
Adam, agree it is just an opinion... not fact. I should rephrase that. Mahesh, my point exactly if they had some backend engineers they would not have that much trouble with the backend infrastructure...
- Bindu Reddy
You use friendfeed don't you? That's got a lot of features and hasn't evolved that much since the beginning.
- Richard A.
I dunno, its probably lucky more than anything the Twitter development team always struck me as ad hoc and accidental about features.most real innovation ie replies, hashtags etc driven by users and other things like retweets messed up when "coded"
- WarLord
Richard, when FF was being worked on there was a lot of iteration and change. I suspect the FF team is not working on it right now....
- Bindu Reddy
I think they were too busy trying to keep Twitter online to worry about new features. Fail to the Whale.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
WarLord - yes you are right about the Twitter innovation being driven by users
- Bindu Reddy
My impression was that Twitter started off as a proof-of-concept project that blew up way beyond what the creators initially envisioned.
- Victor Ganata
Pet rocks and hula hoops also succeeded. I'm not sure anyone has figured out the formula for what will be popular at any given point in time.
- Cristo
Victor I often speculated that Ev was playing when he came up with Twitter and thats why the selling thing is such a dance - really just his hobby that got out of control...
- WarLord
Cristo - agree. I am just making an observation /stating my opinion after the fact.. WarLord, I thought Jack Dorsey was the guy who came up with twitter
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, you're likely correct I thought it was ev and biz
- WarLord
Originally, I thought Twitter was just one of many incubation companies that Evan Williams was funding. He stepped in when it seemed like it was becoming successful. I wonder what happened to the others.
- Cristo
The others were not successful or probably were abandoned to focus all efforts on Twitter? Randomly speculating :)
- Bindu Reddy
Pity not having Super Smart Engineers didn't work well for friendster. :-)
- Piaw Na
Some things succeed despite not being great, and others fail despite being great. A lot of it is timing, but I wouldn't aim to emulate the success of things that succeeded despite not being technologically advanced. E.g. Just because Windows was a huge success, doesn't mean you should create bad user interface in order to succeed. It wasn't the element that caused it to succeed.
- Cristo
Piaw Na - Ha, the standard confusion between co-relation and causation :))... Cristo, completely agree with your point..
- Bindu Reddy
I'm liking this post because of Bruce Lewis's first comment, not because I endorse the belief that Twitter's engineers aren't super-smart :)
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor - this is my lame attempt at posting a rant about super-smart engineers :)
- Bindu Reddy
Cristo, Not a super-smart engineer....
- Bindu Reddy
You're just saying that because you want to be successful like Twitter. ;)
- Cristo
Biting off more than you can chew and being the lucky one who was able to chew through all the crap doesn't make you sucessful, just lucky. Twitter isn't sucessful yet. It's still in a fad stage. It only got there because some people with names started using it and it became hip. Fads come and go, let's see if Twitter is still sucessful in 12 months before giving them a smilie stamp on the hand.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Cristo - yes I am trying desperately to understand and replicate Twitter's success :) But Johnny says they are still a fad. So I guess my attempts are meaningless anyways.
- Bindu Reddy
I by no means implied that their experience shouldn't be studied or admired, just it's they are still a boat rocking on the sea of trends looking for a harbour. If you want to be infamous, make something simple and get a lot of celebs to use it... Beyond that, I got nothing
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I just want to emulate Johnny's success. Still trying to grow a beard I can shave, and then I'll do a radio show on social media. ;)
- Cristo
Doh! It never occurred to me until now.. Of course you have to make something really really simple if you want celebs to use it. :)
- Bindu Reddy
If you can't get a celeb to answer what something is in a soundbite to Oprah, you have to do it the old fashion way... which takes longer. Souffles are lovely but collapse when out of the oven to long... Christmas cake lasts for years...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Yup. Probably Likaholix is too complicated for Ashton Kutcher. Need something like Older-womenholix. :)
- Cristo
If you really want to know, here is the secret. Write on a whiteboard the word 'Why'. The underneath write three words 'Hardcore', 'Casual' and 'Walmart'. Now, under them write a single sentence for each telling them how they would use it and why. Depending how many of the three you can explain, that's your audience. If my wife (Casual) and my sister (Walmart) can understand it, you have a winner. 1 sentence each...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Twitter blew up in mid to late 2008... before that, I don't think anyone was talking about Twitter's success.
- Andrew C
from Android
I will say this: people say that if you have more users than your system can handle, it's "a good problem to have". I think Twitter should serve as a cautionary tale that it's not always a good problem to have; Twitter spent a lot of time and engineering effort dealing with scalability problems brought about by their success. They did emerge successfully, and maybe this is proof that...
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- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, you may be right or you may be wrong about it being a cautionary tale. It's possible that playing hard-to-get is a good strategy for cementing user loyalty. It's possible that twitter outages had the same psychological effect as someone playing hard-to-get. I don't know how one would go about testing that hypothesis, though.
- Bruce Lewis
I think what's interesting is why other similar services that existed before Twitter failed and no longer exist. Was it really just the complexity of those services? It really does seem like it was a timing issue. I'd rather be lucky, than actually good, I guess :D
- Victor Ganata
And Victor, there were social networks before Facebook. Heck, there was Sixdegrees long long before Friendster and Myspace, but Sixdegrees died like a dog. Timing definitely matters.
- Andrew C
I think behind the scenes, the work Evan Williams, Chris Sacca, Fred Wilson and others have done to make strategic decisions and evangelize to celebrities and traditional media is paying off. The service is what it is, but I think it's been highly (and intelligently) leveraged.
- Cristo
Andrew, I don't think it's a matter of timing, Friendster had crap engineers, as did six degrees. None of those sites scaled. Ebay had outages early on as well, but the business kept going and growing anyway.
- Piaw Na
Has Friendster failed? It's actually still continuing to grow in Southeast Asia if you believe the numbers.
- Victor Ganata
Yes, it has failed in the none of the initial investors/employees got anything like the payback they hoped for.
- Piaw Na
That, again, seems more like a timing issue. The new investors seem to be doing OK. And as far as I can tell, it still looks like the same technology.
- Victor Ganata
I think Friendster managed to get a handle on their scaling eventually. It was too late in the US by that time, though. I don't remember Sixdegrees very well. I used it too infrequently to notice outages...
- Andrew C
Friendster was unusably slow for a while. It didn't just have outages. If Twitter had those kinds of problems, I think we'd be talking about a different micro-blogging service today.
- Cristo
no actually they had very smart engineers , who understood the concept "less is more" , same here in FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
I've always thought Twitter embodied the philosophy of doing only one thing, and doing it well (or at least trying to.) But I really think--as in most cases of technology--that the social phenomena and their implications are much more significant than the underlying tech itself.
- Victor Ganata
I think Cristo's and Victor's thoughts are square on. One thing to add: the role of the SMS features shouldn't be underestimated (remember the twitter get's protester out of jail type stories that cross-over into mainstream news.) So, twitter had the mind-shared and evangelism of the SXSW crowd which helped create a critical mass of a certain fervent breed of user and it fanned out enough to get influencers in the politics/news/celebrity business.
- Micah Wittman
ahhhhhh.. I see that some1 remembers the SXSW luanch. On that day it was said the nay sayers said "oh no-- not another micro bloggin tool" !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
It's not clear to me that Twitter did one thing only well -- obvious scalability issues aside, I think a lot of Twitter's success can be chalked up to timing, although I will give them credit for the 'follow' feature which distinguished them from many other sms-to-web gateways that existed before. Still, I dislike a huge volume of human communication taking place over a proprietary...
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- Ray Cromwell
Nice. At least Peet's has normal sizing language, in addition to better coffee.
- Cristo
I was at Tully's in the Burbank airport last weekend and was surprised to see that they've taken up the 'Tall / Grande / Venti' nomenclature as well. Le Boulanger also has Grandes.
- Kevin Fox
Tully's has had that for as long as I remember. They took over Spinelli's in SF in 1998. It was my corner coffee shop and I've been subjected to it for years. It must be a Seattle thing.
- Cristo
Left to right, as if you didn't know already: Dan Hsiao, Casey Muller, Ana Yang, Jim Norris, Tudor Bosman, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit (with Camilla), Sanjeev Singh, Kevin Fox.
- Tudor Bosman
That's why I love today's web : you can talk with the people that build the next web, and see those who build your current web. Congrats guys!
- Zackatoustra
FriendFeed Team, I love you !!!! Thanks to you all, I'm very happy everyday!!!
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
So that was the TGIFF ("Thank Goodness It's FriendFeed") party? Perhaps slightly off-topic, but if Camiila hasn't been betrothed yet, have I got a grandson for her ;-))
- ianf ⌘
TGIFF was excellent. Great event and great people.Thanks for the invite and hospitality.
- AJ Kohn
Louis, thank you and thank you to the FriendFeed team for making a killer product and hosting a great open house!
- Brian Solis
(bump) Ana and Casey are now married. Here's a pic of them on the left, between Ross and Jim. Congratulations to Ana and Casey! (per http://friendfeed.com/jessica...)
- Louis Gray
علی حجوانی تو روحت، ای واسه چه موقعیه؟ :)))
- Mehran
:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم
- Aly
"Speaking of Alexander Skarsgård, will we actually ever see any of Lafayette's dreams with Eric? [Laughs] I think I heard Alan Ball say there might be a scene or two... Why, do you want to see that? You wanna see me and Alex getting it on? [plenty of slash-fic screams/applause from the audience]"
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Has the show caused much controversy in the American South? I think so. We've been banned in Shreveport, Louisiana, from shooting in certain places, because they're morally against the message the show gives. So, there are some places in the South where I think there's some controversy. Who are your friends on the set, and who would you like to work with again? I'm probably the closest...
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- RAPatton
"How did you come up with the Lafayette character? It was a collaboration. We all threw in some ideas. The scarf thing, is 'cause my momma used to wear a lot of scarves. I think there's some Prince influence in there. We did research, went to a whole lot of gay clubs, we'd go down on the strip, so we just came up with it. We also threw in some ideas into this stew of his wardrobe. Especially his head-wraps."
- RAPatton
YES. YES IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY. *cough*
- cecily
LOL, I'm like half a milimeter away from being a full on LARPER myself... at the Ren Fest last year I was trying to justify buying a cape and wearing it around DC.
- Jason
All the talk about standalone GPS/navigation companies going away... I say there are a lot of creative ppl at those companies and they will find great products to sell. Their creativity is now freed from need to preserve existing revenue streams.
With expensive roaming data plans, a standalone gps is still cheaper. Unless Google implements pre-caching of routes on google map/navigation.
- Peng-Toh
Sanjeev, that is sometimes the way it works: everyone who ever said "best thing that ever happened to me was to quit or get fired." Peng-Toh, for people who roam that is a good argument. Not sure how many such folks exist.
- Daniel Dulitz
Data roaming is VERY expensive. If you going on a vacation in foreign land, it'll be far cheaper to buy a Garmin map. Or do without GPS. Or rent a car that comes with GPS.
- Peng-Toh
Or buy a prepaid SIM card for data roaming. Or find a wifi access point to get the directions. But anyway, GPS/nav companies will not stay in business selling gadgets to people who would otherwise use data roaming. They will stay in business because they'll remake their business.
- Daniel Dulitz
Disruption does have a cost. Plans are scuttled, investment is wasted. Garmin's headquarters are in Olathe, Kansas -- if the company can't make it, employees may have trouble finding similar employment nearby, and families may suffer. The eulogies are premature in any case -- but what would you do if you were in charge of Garmin, Daniel?
- ⓞnor
Perhaps I should have gotten a prepaid SIM card with data while I was in London for a month. My voice calls cost me US$2.20/minute. Ouch! I don't even want to know what the $/kb roaming rates are. But I made do without data access since I didn't drive there. Otherwise, I would have picked up a Garmin map instead.
- Peng-Toh
If I was Garmin, I'd build a unit that cached all of Google maps over wifi or on a cable.
- Piaw Na
I bet the map images are less important than the routing info.
- Andrew C
from Android
And Google's routing algorithm still sucks if you're a cyclist. Garmin will continue to dominate the outdoor space.
- Piaw Na
Isn't that way, way smaller than the car gps market?
- Andrew C
from Android
Yes. From Garmin's 2008 annual report (the latest available), they made $323 million in aviation, $204 million in marine, $428 million in "outdoor and fitness", and $2.54 *billion* in automotive. Good news for Garmin: they will continue to dominate the industry that represents less than 15% of their current revenue.
- ⓞnor
Caching google's images would violate copyright? It is possible on a jailbroken iphone.
- Peng-Toh
Garmin will have to innovate in the car gps market as opposed to milking a cash cow. For example, voice plus HUD would be nice. So is a faster locking GPS plus faster updates. My PerformanceBox locks in a few seconds and updates 10 times a second.
- Peng-Toh
ⓞnor, I would focus on avionics, marine, ruggedized and water-resistant consumer units that can take lots of abuse, low-power units, emergency beacons to put in your trunk or your kid's lunchbox, inertial sensors to deal with dropouts, WAAS in every unit. Personal avalanche kits for skiers. Large screens with specially-designed antennas for maximum coverage/reliability. Devices to track...
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- Daniel Dulitz
Yeah, but that 50% profit margin from selling maps? That's going to go away no matter what. They will never be as profitable as when they could sell you a piece of plastic (or a chip) for $100+. And worse, charge you again for the same data whenever you upgraded to a new device. They lost a lot of customer goodwill with that move.
- Piaw Na
I use OnStar in my Buick, IMO far better than GPS for routing wiith road side assistance and talk to a real person for things like restaurant suggestions.
- WarLord
Maps? I never buy maps. There's enough good free maps :)
- Peng-Toh
ⓞnor, I don't know what you're talking about. Navigating by train and bus is a huge, huge market -- I don't know anyone who uses a car.
- j1m
PT, you've obviously never tried to find all the small roads that get you from one place to another in Europe. Michelin maps rule!
- Piaw Na
I think expectations get confused. An income of $323M + $204M + $428M would be considered very successful by some standards, so it's not like the whole company will vanish when they're still pulling in over a billion annually. Any business will eventually find that some sectors become less profitable. The newspaper industry, for example, can still make quite a bit of money, even if it...
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- Mr. Gunn
Wondering whether discovery engines like Twitter will result in users searching less and less.. So for example if I already know from reading my twitter stream that iPhones are better than Palm Pre would I bother to go search for "cell phones" on google before buying one.
Well I definitely would do research on Google... Now I don't. Another example - I recently ordered business cards. Normally I would search for "business cards" on Google, find a site that looks decent and order some. Now thanks to my newsfeed and such... I went directly to "moo cards"
- Bindu Reddy
I would use google to research about a particular model (or range) of a Nokia, for example.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I think that depends on who you're following. From my faboomama account, I wouldn't take cellphone info from anyone, only because I work in the telecom industry and have different standards and knowledge of what's going on. From our biz account, that a different story.
- Captain Bubbles
And then again, people seem to rush after the bright and shiny, provide it's made by Apple. There's a bias, a lot of ignorance and too much me-tooism to take anyone's opinion seriously in regards to 'tech'. This based on who I'm following on my faboomama account. Most people I follow on Twitter are political activists, but they lean left. Even still, before I RT, I do my research, because there's a bias.
- Captain Bubbles
i find myself using google and wolfram|alpha mainly... i have some xmpp tracks set up with twitterspy and identispy by @dlsspy -- if i search twitter it is usually to find out what other people are saying to someone i'm interested in... For Instance: today i saw @leolaporte tweet about moving to only mp3 for audio downloads of the twit podcasts (saw it here in ff)... i then searched...
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- Chris Heath
i would add that twitter, and friendfeed offer serendipitous discovery, while google and w|a offer purposeful discovery
- Chris Heath
i'm not sure why mark thinks that searching for news is something that people did. is that something people did? i don't think i've ever searched for news. you turn on the tv and flip it to the news channel... that's not searching for news, you don't search for a newspaper, do yous search the internet for news? no. you click a button and go to the news. -- he is right about 1st hand (or eye witness) reports
- Chris Heath
I don't really see Twitter as much different than advertising. TV/Radio/print were the authorities of the past who brought new "info" to you, but if you are a smart consumer you take that info, and research before you buy. If not, you buy strictly based on the "ad". Now, sources you follow (or who retweet other RSS sources) "advertise" links to you. The situation is the same, either you...
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- Ray Cromwell
@Chris Agree... I don't believe anyone searches for news. I think the larger point however is that discovery sometimes eliminates the need for intent-based searches... Though I wouldn't pick news as an example.
- Bindu Reddy
Ray, that's the right way to be thinking about this! & Bindu, yeah you're right.
- Chris Heath
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock." Congrats to Kevin Scott and the other folks I know at AdMob.
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Akiva could be played by the neighbor on Home Improvement
- Alan Simpson
Like the adults on Charlie Brown? Oh, that reminds me, I'll be portrayed by a pair of legs wearing stripey socks ala Nanny on the Muppet Babies.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
Do I even get a role? I nominate Paul Giamotti as myself.
- Phil G
I assumed you would actually play the role of Paul Giamotti.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Mellissa, yes. I've been known to read many books. I do this weird thing. I buy them, and then I give them to other people after I read them. Sometimes I give them to Goodwill. Nowadays I try to buy all my books through Kindle.
- Cristo
In fact, I enjoy reading books like Grapes of Wrath, which many librarians apparently find difficult/boring to read. I'm just a layman though. ;)
- Cristo
lol, Cristo, I didn't mean that the way it sounded! I meant have you stopped reading, or do you buy them instead.
- Mellissa Claus
I don't hate libraries. In fact, I actually used to enjoy them. But it doesn't fit into the instant gratification world I live in today, and I like reading books on Kindle while traveling. I'm not carrying library books to Europe.
- Cristo
I can't remember who shared this the other day on FF, but according to Strange Facts librarians have 5.9 random sex partners per year. That surprised me. http://twitter.com/Strange...,
- Jess Lee
Cristo, don't look, but there's one librarian behind your back watching you type, right now.
- Jemm
Jemm, I know. I'm one of her random sex partners for the year. ;)
- Cristo
Hey, that conversation was about two of us who didn't care for GoW when we were younger. The one who just reread it now likes it quite a bit. The one writing this comment has yet to reread it because she's currently writing a dissertation on part of libraries' public service history. As for other research, there's quite a bit relating to how library users interact with libraries, with...
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- Katy S
Katy, more importantly, are you above or below the 5.9 random sex partners per year?
- Cristo
Nice try! No comment. Anyway, I don't work in a library as a librarian - I just have the grad degree in LIS - so my "activity" doesn't affect that stat.
- Katy S
Katy, you never gave a credible answer to the original question.
- Cristo
I'm not sure what the answer is. It's true that LSW definitely has a presence here, and I'm sure that's why some people are here. Others might have come because they knew people who were already here. A few prominent library bloggers have feeds here, so that could attract some, as well. Tech and social media is part of some librarians' jobs, so they might have originally checked it out for those reasons. The reasons probably differ for all of us.
- Katy S
Hey, can I get a librarian over here? I don't know what LSW means. Also, I'm glad social media is part of a job. I've been under the impression its sole purpose is wasting time.
- Cristo
LSW: http://friendfeed.com/lsw As for wasting time and social media, some librarians/libraries get reference questions through social media services. Some use sm to contact other librarians regarding professional issues. Some use it for fun.
- Katy S
Because librarians are sexy, and all the sexy people are on FF?
- Lo is a Quitter
I'm making a fake SXSWi style convention for social media "experts" and need some panel ideas. I have a few so if you have any dumb ideas let me know! It is for graphic design class.
blogging vs lifestreaming - who gives a shit?
- Andrizzle Gizzle
"I'm making a fake SXSWi style convention" -- Isn't this redundant? ;)
- Cristo
I was thinking I could take 50% of the panel names from the real panels they offer.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
"Will social media experts use of social media to discuss social media result in infinite recursion". You get this breeding SXSW with an ACM convention.
- Ed Millard
Social media expert population explodes. Marketeer habitat threatened. Extinction inevitable. This one is a cross with a Greenpeace convention
- Ed Millard
I have sat on this since Kevin posted this... But I can wait no longer........... "der ner ner der ner ner ner... Foxy Lady"
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
"On September 22nd the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium welcomed three big and healthy African lion cubs. These two little girls and one boy were bred as part of the AZA's Species Survival Plan for African lions. Over the past twenty years African lion populations have fallen 50% due to human population growth into their native habitat."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
You should reply and say, "Man if only you'd called me a couple of days ago I would have been able to do something with you. Now? Well, sorry, you just missed your chance."
- Kenton
ha ha.. are they looking to give you a job or get you to hire them on behalf of FF.
- Bindu Reddy
Presumably they are offering their services to recruit staff for friendfeed. You're just an entry in a mail merge database, as far as they're concerned.
- DGentry
HAHAHAH That is epic!! tooooo funny :D
- Susan Beebe
"An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - after she went into labor at her wedding. Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven, Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce girl."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
""I'm not going to play with toys anymore - I have a new toy now," Kordeza told reporters as she showed off little Violeta."
- Jessie
"The family planned a three-day Roma wedding so Kordeza and Jeliazko could be married before the baby arrived. But Kordeza went into labor on the second day. "I had been having pain in the morning and a couple of hours into the wedding, it got worse." She was rushed to hospital and gave birth 20 minutes later."
- Jessie
I got tired of trying to take a decent, respectable, trustworthy, don't-look-stupid profile pic for my employment sites. So I took a MySpace-y photo to say hi to FriendFeed instead. Hi!
Things I note in this picture: the "MySpace angle" makes my eyes look baggy. And it's time for a haircut, though perhaps I'll cheap out and just have someone gimme some bangs.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What's wrong with your Friendfeed picture? The seriousness gives a touch of personality.
- Jordi Soler
you have a very sexy and intense look to you. Your eyes are way intense-in a very good way....
- Morgan Haley
I'm not trying to replace my FF profile pic, Jordi. I'm trying to get a decent new pic for my 'official' profiles used in my job search. Right now they have the default goofy face (which is better than most of the shots I took, trust me!).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And Morgan, that's my "I DARE YOU to ask me to sell insurance!!!" look. Well, almost: I'm missing the snarl.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
For official profiles try one with glasses on (fake glasses if you don't use 'em). The sexy-dirty-secretary look is a winner!
- Jordi Soler
LOL! Jordi, that was the problem with the pics I took: I had my glasses on and either kept getting reflections in the lenses or inadvertantly crossing that dirty secretary look. Not what I wanted!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
i wouldn't dare try to sell you insurance....no way....but a rice cooker? Hmmm, maybe I'll try...
- Morgan Haley
The proper profile pic is important! The pic on my LinkedIn page is NOTHING like any of my other profile pics. I think you did a great job.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I'm still without the proper profile pic, Tutivillus. This was me giving up and taking a shot for FF since the profile shots all made me look like a doofus. I are not a doofus! Wait...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
this is way too awesome to be myspace-y.
- Jim Hearts FF
Tina, if you can get your hands on a polarized filter for you camera, that'll solve your reflection problem with your glasses.
- Jason Huebel
I'd say that's like 4 on the richter scale of MySpacey photos :)
- anna sauce
I know, Jason, but the polarizing filter I have isn't for the camera I have. If I had a job I'd buy a new one, but then I wouldn't need the filter to take the picture if I had a job. Catch 22s suck...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I still don't have a pic on LinkedIn. Tina, I'm no photographer, but I bet if you had a little fill light you could de-emphasize the bags under the eyes. (I notice this with myself, because I am incredibly vain. And have giant bags under my eyes, even if I have enough sleep, etc etc)
- Andrew C
I'd say raise up your chin a tad, sit up straight, and place the camera on a pile of books with a liht source- lamp, etc. eye level and off to the side. It would lessen the bags and make it a little less MySpacey, also think of something funny and don't worry about averting your eyes. This is really done best by someone else- it's *so hard* to take a good self-portrait.
- anna sauce
OT, but how come FB doesn't have a portrait "style" like Myspace does?
- Andrew C
Andrew- it does, it's called "me and my kids" or "just my kids" or "me in foriegn country" or "me with a girl/boy cut out because we broke up" lol
- anna sauce
The picture I use practically everywhere is from my brother's wedding reception. I cropped out the Black and Tan beer I was drinking. That wouldn't be very professional. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Wow, that's uncanny. You and I share no friends on FB AFAIK and yet you just described most of them.
- Andrew C
Just to clarify: this isn't one of my profile photo attempts. This is a cell pic taken with no light other than what's coming in a dirty window. Sad part is I wound up looking way less douchey in this than in my the actual attempts =P I think the profile photo will be tomorrow morning's challenge: take advantage of the morning light since I won't have to be at a farce of a job interview.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
srsly. this should be re-posted to the 'beautiful women' group. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
So what were you coding at the time you took this pic? In BASIC, you say? How very relevant!
- WorldofHiglet
In fact, I was attempting to hone my photography skills, as a portion of my research on the state of the unemployed in today's economy. Very deep stuff...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I look forward to your white paper in due course.
- WorldofHiglet
Random Passerby in the Cube Farm: WHO'S THAT; Me: That's my friend Tina, now go away; RPITCB (drooling): SHE'S PURRRRTY; Me: GO AWAY
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
We all know you rock Tina .... Can't understand why you haven't be 'scooped up' yet ..... Keep pluggin' !
- Charlie Anzman
Barry, that's freakin' hilarious! Tell them that if they stare too long I'll eat their soul or something equally weird and see what they do!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
very neat, intelligent glamor look site! ... too bad it's married - to Faith Bough. ..why can't ff have profiles just as mySpace, or ..similar big social sites ? has the development stopped again? ,
- Petr Buben
Wow, I just saw this today, sorry I'm late. I think it's a great pic for employment profiles. You've got an utterly beautiful face, Tina, and you certainly don't look like a douche in this pic. Good luck with everything!
- phil baumann
Hi Tina, don't know ya, but this is an ABSOFREAKINLUTELY great pic...those eyes, WOW!
- Samuel Ancira Jr
Way too many hormones in this thread's comments. Really, guys, come on, behave!...
- Zackatoustra
careful what you wish for pea, we may never see you again!
- Carlos Ayala
you keep warning me but I gotta tell you, I've taken on some seriously challenging kids and survived to tell the tales so, bring it on. i ain't scared! ;D
- pea
pfft. has she ever broken into anyone's home? broken some stranger's sunroof? gone to bed with every knife in the house under her pillows because she's a ninja? shoplifted when she was 3? :D i got this.
- pea
give her time. she is only two and is currently only throwing forks and knives at her mother while saying "shit" 'cuz she missed. but when she connects she reaches out to dad for a high five. trust me, there is much evil brewing within this one. the force is definitely strong with her.
- Carlos Ayala
lmao @ reaches out to dad for a high five.
- nakachi
Great pics. I wonder if Cletus will ever calm down enough for stuff like that.
- Matt Hilton
What an adorable pair. I just can't take the cuteness + her awesome shirt. <3
- Carmen