Might just be a market correction. Starbucks is certainly reaching a saturation point and this might just be a natural reaction. - John Denver
maybe they should do what Disneyland did when they plateaued in 1994...come out w/ all you can drink passports!!! $40 all you can drink (except holidays) - Pokai
Wow - 600 sounds like a lot of stores - Wayne Schulz
Just don't close the one on the way home from my work. pretty please? - Marianne Lenox
I don't think Starbucks really thinks about where they put stores. We have 3 in a less than 3 mile radius and 2 of those stores were built within the last year. - Heidi Hansen
In Vancouver, they had two stores across the street from each other! - Pokai
In Bellevue, WA there are 8 stores within a 2 block radius - Rick Huizinga
Not the economy, simply the hubris of a company that thinks it is cooler than it really is. - Sean Oliver
Wow theres a lot. ...a lot of a lot ... the likely cause was the other day when what's his name pointed his Nokia at his monitor, giving an infinite picture-in-picture of the stream he was running on qik - Dan Covington
All: an API client malfunctioned or intentionally spammed with these comments. We disabled that API client to prevent the problem, and we are reaching out to the developer. - Bret Taylor
"There has been much talk of Twitter users moving over to FriendFeed since Twitter replies were down for the majority of last week. Twitter announced that they were back on Saturday in their blog, but seeing as the outage may have inspired some users to flock to FriendFeed, I decided to take a look at the 3rd-party applications and scripts that enhance the FriendFeed functionality.
For those of you moving on to FriendFeed’s greener pastures, here are 13 essential tools for an organized, “noise”-free experience." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet
I thought about making NoiseRiver a closed alpha (by invites) actually. But then told to myself: to hell with hesitation, let's make it and face bugs together! ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Directeur: Have you check you inbox for all your new followers lately? - Russellreno
@Russellreno : ouch! It's full! I'm subscribing to many of them, maybe I'm skipping some but I'll definitely see that again :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Thanks Patrick! Actually without the great feedback from you folks that wouldn't happen... The first 20 minutes of the launch were really HOT :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
D: BTW there is a GM script that will help you subscribe. Google "Better Friendfeed Subscribe to me". After you load it you go into your "People who scribe to me" tab. It adds a superscribe button. - Russellreno
Thanks for the info Russellreno! I'll download it now :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
“The "me" tab on friendfeed should not only show content you've originated in your feed, it should also include any content that you've commented on as well.”
I agree with Bwana -- I like it the way it is. I can easily see any comments/likes for things I have shared and am only one click away from being able to revisit things I have liked and commented on. - Robert Seidman
I'm jumping on the "ok as it is" bandwagon here. I like the separation of content I created vs my comments/likes. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
I tend to agree that the extra click is worth it to keep things separated. perhaps user choice? - Frankie Warren
I think that as well, it would make sense! - Joe Dawson
I agree, but would also like a little toggle for my content, my content and likes/comments. - AJ Kohn
Definitely. That way you keep track of the conversation - Simon Bisson
that is what i thought it did? was surprised it didn't, change that please Ff - Globecode
the thing is that clicking on "comments" is not intuitive. In fact, I'd never even thought to do that (as crazy as that sounds) and I'm a pretty heavy user. If FF is going to appeal to the mainstream it will need to be much more intuitive than it is today. Better to include commented items in the me tab and then give advanced users a way to filter out just their own stuff vs. how it is now. - Thomas Hawk
Hmmm... I think it should be easier to track "conversations" in general. For example, if I wanted to follow the comments on this message for a day or so, maybe there could be a 'track' or 'follow' button, which would then add a new tab to the friend feed page just for it. Or perhaps there could be a tab for "Conversations I'm Following". Sometimes I'm looking for new info in my FF, but sometimes I'm looking to follow discussions I'm participating in. - Brian
There's more than one way to skin a cat -- how about you click on the "Me" tab" and get sub navigation defaulting on "things I've shared" tab and also have "my comments" and "my likes" as sub-tabs? (in the actual navigation instead of a small link off to the right) - Robert Seidman
I'm not sure that the Friendfeed UI is intended for the "mainstream" user. Is Gmail for the "mainstream" user? I probably wouldn't recommend either service to my parents. - Jason Wehmhoener
I agree with original ask by Thomas. - Jigar Mehta
Agreed, that was my assumption already. Didn't know until a few days ago that "me" didn't include my comments. Would be a nice way to track conversations -- I don't want to be rude and miss a conversation that warrants a follow-up comment. We could just visit "comments", but then again "me" should be self-explanatory. - Mike Reynolds
What I am thinking is, if I promote 'me' page with my network (who has not yet joined friendfeed!), they dont get to see other stories where I have commented! If they could, they can even jump in and start participating.. FFers should seriously think about this.. - Jigar Mehta
Even Me page doesnt show the content which is originated by me but in some room! Dont you think my submission in some room should also appear on my me page? - Jigar Mehta
Ahhh, the "See Both" link on the right. I had no idea, thanks TranceMist! - Joel Gray
Woo.. I dint know about this.. So, /discussion would list content I originated + all posts where I commented + all posts which I liked + all my posts in particular rooms ?? - Jigar Mehta
separation of content and comment a goodly thing - Ashton
I agree that the comments and the content should be seperated. Could FF put a "recent comments" widget somewhere?? - Roberto Bonini
Yeah Thomas, I saw those COmments and Likes links but missed the Discussion link there! I think Discussion link is fine except it doesnt list my discussions in 'rooms'.. - Jigar Mehta via bTT
This is currently my number one annoyance with friendfeed. - Zach Landes via twhirl
Sending favorite threads to their own tabs would be useful, sort of like stickies on a forum. Likes and Comments do help though (now that I've read the thread) - sergiooooooo
Another executive departure will be announced today at 2 PM. Dr. Usama Fayyad, Yahoo’s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research & Strategic Data Solutions is leaving the company - Bret Taylor
I guess he came to Yahoo from Microsoft.. So, where is he going now!! ? - Jigar Mehta
did I understand previous message that Yahoo came to current troubles via "too many executives, too little doers"? - silpol
So this would be a good time to get in on Yahoo!'s ground floor. In a few weeks, you'll be 2 degrees from the CEO! - Louis Gray
@Louis Yeah, but someone could have said on the Titanic, go to the bridge and in a few hours you can be two degrees from Captain Smith! Course, ship will be underwater by then too. - Chris Reed
I would like to thank FriendFeed for help me find my comment since Twitter, you know, has no search. - MG Siegler
i'm excited to see what they roll out for gmail. there has to be a time they take it out of beta though right? i mean 10 million users and still in beta, really? - Morgan
well i know what the friendfeed is gonna look like tonight - Anthony
snake? really? ok, yes, I will try it :) - Tim Hoeck
They have way more than 10 million users Morgan. - Paul Buchheit
Ooh, this is cool. Google really knows how to cater to their power users. - Eric Florenzano
I think this is huge - not just for users, but I think it'll really inspire Googlers to do a ton of really great stuff. And thus innovation is born! - felix
A bit underwhelming at launch but I could see a lot of potential in this. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
looks like the 10 million figure was from Techcrunch....."There are currently about 10 million active Gmail users." - Adam Kazwell
still don't see it on my main account, but all lesser accounts now have it - MG Siegler
I see it but I'm still wonder what all the "excitment" is all about - Steven Hodson
looks like they're still rolling it out - doesn't show in any of my accounts yet. The official GMail blog has the announcement up now, though: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/... - Frederic
Steve Hodson - the excitement I find in this is Google moving the evolving edge of the engineers' 20% time out to the market while the paint is still wet - to more directly involve the participation of the user-base as to the evolution of the product. It is a more direct-democracy, a more intimate relationship with the evolution of the software.. a decentralization and greater inclusion for the decision making process. - sedgewick
@sedgwick .. wow does that ever sound like marketing speak .. well if that is the case I sure hope they are using their 20% time to come up with something a little more eviolutionary that random signatures. That one must have left the engineer with at least 9% left of his/her 20%. - Steven Hodson
Steven - really? marketing speak? ...perhaps I should apply for a job. ;p - sedgewick
but if you don't like the 'signature' schtick.. perhaps, others wont, it wont gain traction, and wont evolve, fall to the way-side.. better they get feedback regarding it's stupidity now then after they've invested more time and resources to it. the free-market strikes again.. - sedgewick
wish the labs functionality was available in google apps for domains though - Chris Jones
ahhaha, didn't know twitter had an office in Russia, makes perfect sense though - Dobromir Hadzhiev
what i like is the guy going nuts and everyone didn't leave, the woman who got hit my the monitor was STILL in the room and no one called security. - Outsanity
i'm willing to bet this will go much wider too, expect a flurry of "I was in THAT office" or "I was the woman who took a monitor to the face" stories in the next few days.... - Iain Baker
This is Chris Nuttall of the Financial Times showing my his new journalistic tool which also is the coolest gadget I have seen in a long time. - Robert Scoble
Don't miss this guy and this video. This thing is awesome. He's a technology journalist at the FT. - Robert Scoble
I saw one of these in the wild last week- looks awesome! - Larry Rubin
I just convinced a friend of mine to buy one for her boyfriend for his birthday. But now that he'll have one, I'm so jealous that I think I should get one too... - Trent Olson
For 150 bucks, this pen better have a bottle opener! Seriously though, I played with it last week, and it's really sweet. - Brian Chaikelson via Alert Thingy
I'm too much of a pen nut to use some random ballpoint pen. When can someone develop one of these that works with an arbitrary pen (e.g. my Namiki Vanishing Point?) - Jason Ziglar
This looks incredible, seriously. I want one but I don't think the software works on mac ;( - Tony via Alert Thingy
I can't wait to get one... when they have a Mac version. - Daniel Shaw
Not a fan of tha paper-based ones. There are ones out there that don't need special paper. Still, novel idea but only works for some. - Alex via Alert Thingy
But you have to use special paper, right? And it's got a gigantic long cord on it. Can't see myself ever using something like that. - mathew ingram
Very cool. If it could be used in conjunction with voip audio conferences, WITHOUT having to use speakerphone, it would be a killer tool for me. - Jody Carbone
Wouldn't do me much good -- my handwriting is now so scrawled (after 30+ years of neglect -- using computers and keyboards) that I probably couldn't read my own notes anyway -- but interesting none the less - Brian Sullivan
don't want to ruin the party - but it's not a great app in my opinion - the interface needs a lot more work. The ratio of information per pixel is too low. It doesn't show if a story has been liked, commented on etc. unless you mouse over it. Resizing the app only makes the fonts bigger... Alert Thingy looks a lot more promising. - Frederic
@Frederic True, but I actually like that you have a separate window for comments and likes, in order to save screen space, though I wish that particular section had the ability to resize the font also. - Corvida
Resizing is a problem - but I scan my Friendfeed items by specifically looking for 'likes' and comments - bTT doesn't help me there. It's a good effort - just hope it gets better :) - Frederic
I really wish you could go the the link of an item without having to select it fist, then clicking 'www' - Glenn Slaven
Points taken, thanks :) There are plenty of possibilities and we want to further develop it based on your feed-backs. @Frederic We will add symbols to show if an item is commented/liked in the main flow. @Corvida we wanted to add a slider for the font sizing in the panel but we were afraid it would be too much. We will try again. @Glenn, the difficulty was to make it generic for all services, we will check what is possible. - Francois Bochatay
I installed it two hours ago. It did not bring any activity. - Russellreno
@Russell Limprecht, make sure your login name is in all lowercase and that you've used the correct remote key. - Corvida
Speaking from a country with so many CCTV cameras and demonstrable proof that it has not had a big impact on arrest rates, this is beautifully funny. - Ian Nock
