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Will California become America's first failed state? | World news | The Observer - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world...
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"California's education system has become so poor so quickly that it is now effectively failing its future workforce. The percentage of 19-year-olds at college in the state dropped from 43% to 30% between 1996 and 2004, one of the highest falls ever recorded for any developed world economy. California's schools are ranked 47th out of 50 in the nation. Its government-issued bonds have been ranked just above "junk"."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
really surprised, wasn't california the smartest place in the world?
- fakedave
Was "California is on the verge of becoming the first failed state in America." written by the same Kenneth Starr that was responsible for the Lewinsky scandal?
- Gabe
Gabe, I think the article is wrong. I think it should say Kevin Starr who is a professor at USC, wrote a California history and said California is on verge of being a failed state. Don't think Kenneth Star the lawyer and Clinton prosector did or said any of these things :)
- Ed Millard
Living in California, Paying Taxes, Supporting a College Student here.. I say it is a serious failure..
- SCS Watching the Sun
Ping! is an instant messenger exclusively for iPhone users - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
denise, xavier vespa, zsafwan and 10 other people liked this
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Translate your website with Google: Expand your audience globally - http://googlewebmastercentral....
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Enjoying http://translate.google.com/transla...
- Sebastian
Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child - Broadsheet - Salon.com - http://www.salon.com/mwt...
Don Wood, David Kennedy CISSP, Larry Hernandez and 5 other people liked this
That was very necessary. This is not the time to pull punches or tip-toe around the issue. Screw this guy. And by that I mean make sure it's done by professionals in prison who know how to do it right. I don't care if the guy is 90. He deserves to die in prison a lonely and broken man.
- Fleagle
Just another day at the office trollcat | Trollcats - http://trollcats.com/2009...
Helen Sventitsky, Rene Wirtz, Valley and 6 other people liked this
Hello...
Rob Cooke, Richard pancakhaus Walker, Jesper Kjær Hansen and 111 other people liked this
Heeeeeere's JOHNNY!!!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
OMG!!! NEKKKED JOHNNY!!! At least in the face.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
clean johnny is clean?
- Alfredo
[LIKE!!!!!!!!!]
- Rochelle
Hello! awesome :)
- Mycaptain
HEY! WHO SAID YOU COULD SHAVE YOUR BEARD?
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
:O (the only post that could top this one tonight would be Akiva announcing his new avatar...)
- Kamilah Gill
I love that I got the first comment.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
And there goes the beard -- gone! The suspense is over.
- Dennis Jernberg
/hide, <cries>, etc.
- Louis Gray
o_O
- Harold - Happy 2010
GROW IT BACK! GROW IT BACK!
- Mike Nayyar
*sob*
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Look at how cute you look!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
now grow an afro
- Alfredo
It's like the end of an era.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
DO ANYBODY NO WHO THAT (NEKKID FACED) MAN IZ CLAIMING TO BE JOHNNY?
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I'm a little sad, I have to admit. But..well done, sir, well done!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Welcome back!
- LB - all new for '10!
Now you need to get a normal goatee thing going.
- Tad
Who's dat???
- Bill Heslin
it's already coming back...and with a vengeance!!!
- David Rodriguez
DID YOU KILL IT WITH FIRE? THE SHORN HAIR?
- Josh Haley
Okay, who's that good looking man in the picture? *looks around to see if Rachel is reading* :P
- Molly, New Ears :P
Yay! Rachael will kiss me again!
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
it looks like he shaved 10 years off.
- Harold - Happy 2010
YOu mean he didn't donate it to the wig thing. what is that? where people donate their hair for wigs? Would make a very interesting if not kinky wig...lol
- Bill Heslin
Sad about beard, but cheeks are good. *pinch*
- Ayşe E.
I got my Johnny back
- Rachael Worthington
from iPhone
Awww! Yay, Rachael!
- LB - all new for '10!
Hey Rach... Wanna go make out?
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Hahaha!! Gonna be a good night for you I think Mr. Worthington... :)
- Bill Heslin
And you too Rachel... *wink*
- Bill Heslin
Rachael even
- Bill Heslin
Wait a minute, isn't your Grandma there?
- Glenn Slaven
Glenn... We'd go neckin' near the point
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
WooHoo!! Look at the cuteness that is Johnny! You look years younger too :)
- Penny
Now that it's shaved with the clippers...get some shaving cream on your face and a razor and make it really smooth for Ms. Rachael...Probably a bit much there eh?
- Bill Heslin
fair 'nuff
- Glenn Slaven
lol
- Bill Heslin
Who the hell is this baby-faced pansy?! Where the Eff is Johnny Worthington?!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL...
- Bill Heslin
It's the new enhanced Johnny Worthington..Rahsheen
- Bill Heslin
Very nice!
- Michael Fidler
The more it pops up...lol...the more it looks like you should pose for Australia's next top model...Nice pic...heheheheh
- Bill Heslin
That's not Johnny. Doesn't look anything like him...
- Jason Huebel
Shock and awe tactics? ;-)
- Rene Wirtz
It's a mixture of horror and amusement.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Hehehe, it's Johnny in the rough!
- Alex Scoble
The beard is gone, All hail Queen Rach :p lol
- Rachael Worthington
from iPhone
Wow! There was a human being under that beast!
- David Cook - 2010!!!
from fftogo
Noo
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
اين بابا فكر ميكنه خيلي خوشتيپه هي از خودش عكس در ميكنه !
- دردا ©
So...who the fuck is this?
- sofarsoShawn
Make way! Let it breathe! Let it breathe! Johnny's Chin, can you hear me? You're free now. Damn, we're losing it, I have no pulse! Oh man, IS THERE A CHIN DOCTOR IN THE CHATROOM?????
- Brome
You have a chin?
- Threepwood
ta da
- barbarars
Somewhere in the Australia there is a happy bald guy with a new rough hair...
- Jemm
I recall when I shaved mine off after several years... the next day my wife asked me to grow it back! (She's so subtle.)
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
WOW!
- Mellissa
I remember you! ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
*pretends I don't see clean shaven handsome Johnny since I am impartial to the scruffy look*
- Mona Nomura
Did anyone record the stream? i just woke up!
- Simon Wicks
Awesome and WELL DONE. You're a good guy Johnny...but I wont tell any one ;-)
- Shannon
Looks awesome, I only started following you while bearded so this is very very different. Hope the collection is rocking and rolling.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Wow.
- Chieze Okoye
Whaa? Whose this?
- Adam Helweh
One unfortunate side effect of beard loss is the ability to once again feel slaps.
- Joe Pierce
DUDE!!!!!!!!
- Zee.
Well, no more food getting caught in it?
- Ladybug Heather
i favor beards and would have one if I were male....but it becomes you, without it!
- Marg Uerite
:o
- chaz2b
The beard! It's gone! it's gone! but why?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Now that it's gone, I miss it
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
wow !
- Mattb4rd
lookin' good JW.
- Jim in Real Time
Caddyshack - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Jordan Brock, Haggis (Sean Loyless), Geofferic Brown and tinypants - Hagitha of FF liked this
Jason A. Samfield, Burçak Çubukçu, chaz2b and 85 other people liked this
GREAT SHOTS
- Mo Kargas
when do you shave it off ? for the #blameathon
- johnpiercy
Friday night (my Saturday morning) on FFundercats
- Johnny Worthington
COFFEE TABLE BOOK!
- Joe Silence disconnected
DS just made me spew coffee through my nose! DYDS!
- Jim in Real Time
You'r a funny man.... *LOOOL* Nice pictures :O)
- Jeannette Høvring
wow, i've been damned via acronym on FF! does this mean i have arrived?
- Joe Silence disconnected
DS... You were already here
- Johnny Worthington
Will there be video? Does Australia have video capability?
- Kevin Fox
Yes
- Johnny Worthington
i want to see these reproduced as busts in crystallised Marmite.
- Joe Silence disconnected
I think it may be time to trim the beard.
- Jason Nunnelley
2 days left, beardio.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Eeekk
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Seriously jealous.
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss... You to can have a beard like mine in only 6 months!
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny - Not me. My beard only grows to a certain point and then quits. I guess I could get Rogaine and rub it on my face. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
quite think one you got there..arent you uncomfortable with it?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Seriously awesome series of shots!
- Amie Gillingham
Y'know, with that face and that beard, it's almost a crime that Johnny wasn't the guest of honor at the Gnomedex thing. All he needs is the pointy red hat!
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Lurve these.
- Ayşe E.
1 MORE DAY
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Flip. Book. FLIP. BOOK. NOW.
- Mona Nomura
grrr!
- sean808080
TODAY'S THE DAY.
- Kevin Fox
Font Squirrel | Download Hundreds of Free @font-face Fonts - http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontfac...
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I Wish You Enough - http://poundingheartbeat.com/2008...
Live4Emma (L4S), Ladybug Heather, Shendy Patricia and 24 other people liked this
"At an airport I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane’s departure and standing near the door, he said to his daughter, “I love you, I wish you enough.”She said, “Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Daddy.” They kissed good-bye and she left.He walked over toward the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, “Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?” “Yes, I have,” I replied."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
“Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?” I asked. “I am old and she lives much too far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is, her next trip back will be for my funeral, ” he said. “When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?” He began to smile. “That’s a wish that has been handed down from other...
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- Anna Haro
“When we said ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with enough good things to sustain them,” he continued and then turning toward me he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory. “I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright. I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more. I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit...
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- Anna Haro
What a wonderful thought.
- Kenton
sweet!
- .LAG liked that
:')
- Ayşe E.
Thank you for taking the time to post that story.
- Karma Martell
siva s, Banda, Ben Hanten and 18 other people liked this
好可愛的小baby:)
- Vista
Awesome - being a dad is the best thing I've ever done!
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
какое чудо! :)
- Banda
Dooce's washer saga - http://www.dooce.com/2009...
Jordan Brock, Steve and Barry Mitchelson liked this
3 years ago I proposed to Megen and she said yes. Picked up some necessary items to celebrate tonight
Mitchell Tsai, Elyse, Robyn Hawk and 64 other people liked this
Enjoy! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Heyyy, congrats! Have a nice anniv with your loved one ^.^
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
ben you've sold, time to upgrade to veuve clicquot
- sean percival
Congrats Benjamin! And after you get married she'll expect you to remember this date as well as your wedding anniversary.
- Jesse Stay
Congrats!
- Keith Bourgoin
Congrats!
- Bret Taylor
Congratulations!
- Micah Wittman
Congrats Ben, have a good night.
- Travis Koger
woo hoo!!!! congrats!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Congratulations!
- joey
Congrats, Ben and Megen!
- Anne Bouey
Awwww that is sooo sweet, how nice!! Congratulations!!
- Susan Beebe
awesome, congratulations buddy
- Zee.
Enjoy to the utmost!
- Pilgrim Five
Congrats!
- Ruchira S. Datta
Have fun! Correction; it's been 12 hours, so I hope you had fun!
- Michael Fidler
Wheres the RedBull and Viagra? JK Grtz!
- Rich Weaver
congrats!!!
- Betül
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook - 2010!!! and 194 other people liked this
16,000 down, 984,000 to go.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Not long to go!
- Andrew Trinh
And what a fine one it is! Congrats
- Michael Fidler
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
That is a great photo
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow and Congrats!!
- Vox
Dude, you're a machine.
- Zee.
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well!
- Michael VanDervort
from twhirl
Perseverance furthers.
- Michael Markman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Congrats!
- J. McConnell
beautiful, congrats!
- Carmen - Happy 2010!
Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks!
- Susan Beebe
congrats Thomas!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Damn that is all kinds of awesome.
- Mattb4rd
<3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow, quite an accomplishment!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Great job Thomas. Keep it up.
- Andrew Smith
Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :)
- Juan Pablo González
Congratulations Thomas!
- Holger Eilhard
Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis.
- Dave Martin
Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark!
- Muhammad Ahmed
Amazing image ,,, TH ...
- johnpiercy
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk"
- johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Beautiful!!!!
- Rafael Montilla
awesome!!
- Rhoda Meek
For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode.
- Jay Cuthrell
wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now.
- Thomas Hawk
And only 971,000 to go ... :P
- Rene Wirtz
That's Awesome!
- John Holzer
Keep 'em comin' Thomas!
- Charlie Anzman
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ?
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
Uncanny parallels between Avatar and Delgo - http://www.movieline.com/2009...
Joff, Duncan, Tont Coles and 3 other people liked this
these screengrabs show a striking similarity
- Andy Baio
I think its saddening proof of how horribly formulaic fantasy/sci-fi has become. :(
- Tont Coles
Our son - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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hakuna matata [PIC] - http://alejandroz.posterous.com/hakuna-...
Jordan Brock, Miguel, David Monroe and 5 other people liked this
How to get TomTom for the iPhone for 20% of the official price: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Franz Sittampalam, Joshua Schnell, Jordan Brock and 3 other people liked this
Arnaldo M Pereira to Arnaldo's feed, The Apple Room, Appetite, All Things Apple, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech
Quake Live now live for the Mac | Games | Game Room | Macworld - http://www.macworld.com/article...
Petr Cervenka, Urbansheep, Yuri Vilnid and 7 other people liked this
"Quake Live is essentially a reworked version of Quake 3 Arena, designed for free play in a Web browser using a plug-in. Users create an account and play against each other. The game features more than 40 arenas and five game modes. You can play against other gamers or practice and compete on your own against “bots,” or computer-controlled players. The game first went online as a public beta version earlier this year, but only for Windows users. Id Software’s Marty Stratton noted that Quake Live for Mac was a top priority when he posted about the status of the game’s developments to Id Software’s forums this past May."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
Well, that's the rest of my day gone then.
- Jordan Brock
Jordan: Oh, dear.. Me too. Worst. News. Ever.
- Brad McCrorey
Hm. Not working for me :(
- Brad McCrorey
Ah. Safari only. Cool. Signing up now \nn/
- Brad McCrorey
Played it using the lastest WebKit release and it runs super smooth even on my Mac Mini
- Mac64
FriendFeed did WHAT?! - http://pikchur.com/t30
Chris Hofmann, Amir, EricaJoy and 179 other people liked this
A picture is worth a thousand words and this is no exception. Well "said" Rah.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
About the only laugh I've had today. Thanks Rah! I needed that.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
this picture rocks
- Violet Mae Lim
Amen.
- Yolanda
++ Rasheen.
- Jimminy Fuller
Totally excellent!
- Warren Butler
lol, I know right
- Wayne Sutton
Your reaction is priceless :)
- Jeunelle Foster
The iconic Rahsheen face. Good for a number of occasions.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yes...definitely applies for various occasions :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
That's the face :)
- Micah Wittman
Hahaha
- Rodfather
that picture kills me LOL! :D
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
What's weird is he's wearing a shirt!
- anna sauce
lollllllllllllllllllllll
- Mellissa
If RahRah is wearing a shirt, hell must be freezing over!
- imabonehead
Rah needs to do a video like I did.
- Outsanity
best avatar eva!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Love that expression man :D
- Praveen Vasudev
ahahahah :D
- Sinan İŞLER
ahaha excellent expression!
- Jacque
*bump* This is so perfect.
- Andrew Smith
hey man this is really perfect =)
- Ahmet UZUN
Retitled: 2 Social Networks and a cup, reax
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
I gave this a "like" yesterday, but every time I scroll past it I have to laugh all over again! Great shot!
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
HUH ?
- johnpiercy
OH MY GOD!! that look is priceless. I know that look!
- Scratch5150
Love it! Great face!!
- Mitchell Tsai
hahaha man that facial expression is damn priceless !!
- Bora Mesut PALAS
Jejeje
- Stalyn☂
They took the 50 mil and went to San Mateo without us.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
...but I LOVE this pic!!!!
- WorldofHiglet
Seriously - it makes me LOL everytime I see it!
- WorldofHiglet
Jon Stewart Owns Glenn Beck on Healthcare Hypocrisy (Video) - http://www.indecisionforever.com/2009...
John B. Osborne, Steven W. Kelly, G. Sigh and 5 other people liked this
I'm always glad there's somebody digging up these examples of stupidity. Now if only the people that talk out of both sides of their asses had to reply to them publicly when pointed out...well, we'd pretty much not have time for anything else.
- jbean
Timeline visualization of global media scares - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visuali...
Jon Gosier, massagin, Kirill Tikhonov and 3 other people liked this
from Y2K to swine flu
- Andy Baio
For a lot of these, knowing about the issue can help preventing it, which in turn can make it retrospectively seem minor (Y2K, flus, ...) -- even for issues where that may not have been the case. So a chart like that, on its own, doesn't really seem to reveal whether something was a "hyped scare" story or not.
- Philipp Lenssen
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
"Serhat Ozan", kang, HealingBrush and 249 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Neat feature, but it's more focus on big shiney new features, while ignoring the glaring issues in need of polish in the site we currently have.
- Matthew DeVries
Very cool. I like how you give us the OPTION rather than sending a daily/weekly digest like other sites *cough* LinkedIn/Facebook *cough*
- Johnny
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
Love it.
- Zachary TG
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
Great way to keep up with those you're most interested in; things you don't want to miss.
- Diego Barros
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
howardlindzon: wow - congrats $14 million raise for MINT.com and just busting ass in a tough/crowded space http://bit.ly/tQCju $$ - http://twitter.com/howardl...
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Yay for Mint.com!! I love to cheer on hard-working, smart startups!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I'm not sure if it was part of their plan from the start, but I love how a company that provides a service in one area (eg personal finance) can now have a perceived value as a market research company, by virtue of doing a great job in their main area of expertise. Also, pls hurry up and add some Australian banks :(
- Jordan Brock
Maybe now they can expand to Canada too
- Jan Ole Peek
Now when you expand a conversation, we add an "Add comment" link to the bottom so that you don't have to scroll back to the top.
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heh just was gonna say something
- MG Siegler
Sweet!
- Mark Trapp
I'm first. :P http://ff.im/6tDGj
- Oğuz Serdar
Why add this even thought your going to close down the service?
- Matt Ruiz
Yes! Thank you!
- Diego Barros
hey, that's me in that grab.
- Christian Collins
You're quick Qguz!
- Paul Buchheit
nice its quite useful .. :)
- Bhowmik Shah
Exxxcellent, sir. We've been asking for this for awhile now. With this taken care of, how close are we to being able to collapse comments that we've expanded?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Thanks !!!
- Eric Logan
It's too late.
- Matt Ruiz
Let's call that a $50 million feature ;-)
- Laurent
+1 Akiva, was thinking the same thing - Also, thank you much! Been hoping for this. :-)
- Matthew Horton
Good to see development on FF hasn't stopped, Paul. I thought the FF API v2 post was the last FF update we'd ever see. This warms my heart :)
- LANjackal
it's not too late, personally alot my post-FB fears will be allayed if dev continues on FF.
- Joe Silence disconnected
Very cool! Keep bringing the cool features!
- Dakota O'Neill
Great!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Akiva, so how's your faith feeling tonight? now?
- Myrna
I just clicked add comment, and now I have nothing to say. :D
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Myrna, a band-aid might help but it certainly won't cure.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I had to refresh the page to see it initially.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Akiva :) So what would it like if it wasn't just a band-aid?
- Myrna
Myrna, I am unable to parse that sentence.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sounds like a good addition. I was thinking about that today.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Thank You, Thank you!
- Jeff P. Henderson
I'm wondering how Paul is feeling tonight a day after signing. Toward his friends here also?
- Myrna
Me like.
- 1x29
Lol at Laurent $50 million dollar feature
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
Keep proving me right, Paul. You guys are awesome!
- Jesse Stay
CYBERHUG! (platonically speaking!)
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
+ Jesse in every way.
- Myrna
very nice - please keep pushing on your features! Keep making FF great.
- Tobin Truog
awesome! definitely makes sense.
- Dusty Edenfield
Yep. I just noticed it. Then looked for the post ... and here it is.
- Kevin Mohr
Suggested this a while back. Glad to see it added.
- Manuel Mas
Much wanted feature.
- ashish
Cool!
- Anne Bouey
I just noticed that! Very nice!
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
Me like new link. Very convenient.
- Dennis Jernberg
Yay, you guys added my "add a comment" button feature (sorta). thank you :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
fftogo mobile version, or is there abetter one?
- jcunwired
nice!
- Marg Uerite
Another great new feature. Thanks, Paul!
- ha3rvey (business time)
Genius!
- R1CC1
digging the feature but I'll keep Micah's script around a bit longer since it also has a "like" link
- chrisofspades
Maybe it was the absurdly long discussions of the FB purchase, but I was wanting this feature yesterday. Woot!
- Tom Horn
nice
- Gaith
can you please add one at the bottom of the page, too? i keep having to hit About then the friendfeed logo, and finally back at the beginning/top :)
- mike
Let me guess, the 500+ message thread about FB buying FF brought this on. Like!
- Evan Parker
Matthew, Laurent, Akiva Roflol. This is like the bouquet you get when you're the girl and he messed up. Louis, you were right. ;)
- Melanie Reed
:) thanx
- Ali
hey cool feature thx PB
- Thomas Power
ty
- paniaguai
that's great! thanks
- Jay
Excellent!! Thanks, Paul.
- Kol Tregaskes
cheers
- outofmyarse
Perfect choice of screenshot
- Alex Kapranoff
Very nice improvement, me thinks you were listening. I remember seeing someone request this feature yesterday.
- Keith Rowland
makes sooooo much sense
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Probably a five-second feature to reassure everyone ;-)
- Tim Tyler
Thanks it is useful :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Great
- Химия и Жизнь
In Soviet Russia, comment posts you!
- Mark
Yay!
- DGentry
While you are at it, add a "Keep classic FriendFeed alive forever" -link. kthx! ;)
- Jemm
Very clever, and very easy.
- Evan Travers
It does not appear until certain number of comments are made. This is really nice because if it appeared twice in proximity it would not look nice.
- ashish
Now, can you add a collapse comments feature? I hate having to scroll up or down for what seems like miles and miles of comments just to get to another post.
- April Buchheit
+2
- Jim Norris
We really wanted this when we were conference blogging--will be great for next time.
- Ruchira S. Datta
+1000 April - yes, i've wanted that for a while, too ... please :)
- Susan Beebe
Nice start. That means I can almost uninstall the Greasemonkey script that had been doing this for me for the past month or so. Now could we also get a link to collapse the comments again. Pretty please? Oh, and why no "Like" link at the bottom as well?
- Alex Schleber
ooh yes, a link at the bottom to re-collapse comments would be great. or maybe even every 30 comments or so there could be a re-collapse link. sometimes i expand and regret it in short order.
- Felicia Yue
Happy to see this :-) and happy for Myrna too
- Majento
hell yeah!!! Friendfeed rulz ever, please dont fusionit with FB xD
- Francisco Espinoza
from BuddyFeed
nice!
- αяf
i am (maybe not an addict)
- Anand Sharma
I'm with April
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
quetest haha
- ethan meccage
I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...
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It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Haha. ROFL
- Roberto Bonini
is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better?
- Craig Shipp
I'm with you Leo.
- Oracio
It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway)
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people.
- Dan Lessard
I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last.
- Ken Bauer
And we keep following Leo all over the place!
- Robert Scoble
Long live Leo
- Randy Pollock
When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken?
- Nate Pilling
so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams)
- abdellah
Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner!
- Elizabeth K. Barone
I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction.
- jcunwired
Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service.
- Ken Sheppardson
But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making.
- Bill Rodman
The wave of the future is wave
- Randy Pollock
Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means!
- Matt Cassem
I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments
- Mark
Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me.
- Fleagle
Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in.
- Leo Laporte
And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet.
- Leo Laporte
Yet being the operative word.....
- Roberto Bonini
sounds like a country song to me
- gavin
As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts?
- Craig B.
I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible.
- Louis Gray
^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out.
- jcunwired
Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come.
- jcunwired
The only way to have control is to use your own URL
- Craig Shipp
Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =)
- Cynthia Yildirim
what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out.
- Jordan Brock
from BuddyFeed
What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me.
- Craig B.
yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them
- Thomas Power
Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for.
- Rachel R.
Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;)
- Daynah
Play this thread off, keyboard cat.
- Fleagle
You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo.
- Dave Winer
Screw you, Friendfeed!
- Andrew Leahey
Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :)
- Mrinal Desai
I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.)
- oliver gassner
Love Stinks.
- shelter watch
I'm quite surprised that you could keep track of all that!
- Robert Alex
Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated."
- Randy Shapiro
Damn thats complicated
- drmacintosh
Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them...
- Steven McGurn
so where do we go now?
- Brian Appleby
I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later!
- Amy Flynn
very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one
- Bryce Campbell
Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again!
- Arleen Boyd
Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening.
- Anthony Marco
You all just have ants in your pants :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P
- Sam Ehsan
Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior.
- Paul Chaney
lmfao, its so true leo, so true!
- Derek Bender
Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"...
- Dennis Jernberg
And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL
- Sandra Large
I think it's back to the TWiT Army!
- Paul Salzman
It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A.
- Steve de Mena
it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative.
- Denise Young
the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-)
- Thomas Lee
People are talking a lot about Streamy today. Might be an alternative.
- Caio Cesar
Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho.
- Rick Cogley
Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good!
- Kenneth Reitz
No mention of Microsoft Vine?
- Robert MacEwan
yep. welcome to another episode of; As the Stomach Turns. one big soap opera.
- Scratch5150
I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way...
- Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better??
- Craig Shipp
Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side.
- John Flinchbaugh
from IM
Social Networks are sluts?
- TheDiva Rockin
It sure is.
- Jason Hill
I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go.
- DogPatch
Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog...
- Kenneth Reitz
It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Lea
More like "As the worm churns"
- Houseofmax
한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :]
- HealingBrush
One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time...
- Aviva Gabriel
Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit...
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- Jan Simmonds
I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man".
- Molly, New Ears :P
@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be...
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- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
@Jan You're an asshat.
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better.
- Casey Petersen
looooool =))
- ★amin.m★
Haiku Laporte
- Outsanity
that was cute! :O)
- Jeanne
@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you!
- Jan Simmonds
Maybe they're just not that into you.
- Elizabeth Johnson
Wait... who's on first?
- Michael Rosenau
Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce
- SpionKopRed
wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues!
- Justin Bradshaw
there there, Shawny's here...
- sofarsoShawn
I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Brooklyn's Most Expensive Apartment Is In a Clock Tower - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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Sharing just because I think it would be really cool to have a big clock as your window. More photos here: http://www.nytimes.com/slidesh...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Whoa, the glass-walled three story elevator is the business.
- Andrew C
and those shadows are the seller, :)
- chaz2b
I must admit, The Shadows are quite impressive, it would be interesting to see a Night Shot, too see if the Shadows are still there with a Full Moon!
- Herman D. Lawson
the clock window seems very Batman villain like.
- Roshan Vyas
It sucks to hear the bell every hour, though :-P
- Andre P. Siregar
Wow... looks like a gorgeous place to live.
- Yolanda
Looks a bit like the set of "Birds of Prey".
- Spidra Webster
Nice one. It looks like having two big clocks as windows.
- Bernie Goldbach
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...would drive you crazy!
- Anne Bouey
ok. I'll take it off your hands for $23 mill. Deal?
- Jordan Brock
You don't need to spend more for a clock on your wall :P
- Emre Öktem
it look great
- 535
I'd like to reiterate my call for Facebook to open source the Friendfeed codebase (as AOL did when it bought Netscape). A federated OpenFriendfeed is the best for users - and fits Facebook's move toward an open social platform. I'll pay to run a server. Would you?
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I agree with this fully.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I can't imagine that the terms of the acquisition would permit this to happen. Oh, wait... Facebook take FriendFeed open source? Maybe in two or three years after they squeeze every bit of life out of it, ala Google/Jaiku
- Ken Sheppardson
Would that mean there would be dozens of Friendfeeds all trying to get us to come to them?
- Mark
I support this fully
- Ryan
yes what about a free GAE
- abdellah
Oh I agree. But with Facebook's record? HAHAH! Oh god, I need a mint.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I'll file this away under "Never Gonna Happen"...
- Andrew Terry
Jaiku is not dead. It was bought for a reason, and yes, it will resurface soon. you just wait n see.
- binmugahid
yes
- andy brudtkuhl
I agree with Andrew...
- Suril Amin
I don't think I'd pay, but I'd love to have it open source
- Jake Anderson
Worked for AOL. We got Mozilla and they got a much improved Netscape.
- Leo Laporte
Leo, I think you have a little too much "hope" on this. Maybe you're just thinking if Facebook was smart, then they'd do that.
- Mark
Facebook is much smarter than you're giving them credit for. I think.
- Leo Laporte
great idea Leo, i'm 'cautiously optimistic' at this point in time about the future of FriendFeed... lets hope for the best people
- Chris Heath
There is no value in that to them. Why open source something that give them a competitive edge.
- binmugahid
I do not agree. It destroyed netscape. let Facebook use the best features of FriendFeed in it. Keep the talent like the four ex-google founders. Open source is not the answer to everything. sometimes Closed Source is better for the users as well. Just keep the innovations coming and it will be fine
- hasanahmad
They've got the Friendfeed team. That's probably what they really wanted. Getting the open source community working on the FF codebase and contributing it back to Facebook is a win for everyone.
- Leo Laporte
On the other hand, I ike to see Laconica (identi.ca) getting more like ff.
- Chanux
Wow did this just happen today?
- bravestface
yesterday
- Chris Heath
Open-sourcing Communicator may have ultimately destroyed Netscape as a brand but without that move, I suspect we'd all still be developing for IE6. Great call, Leo.
- Jared Smith
Excellent idea Leo.
- Adi
I just can't stand Facebook. To many people I let in from my youth that I don;t want to see
- bravestface
Yes.
- .LAG liked that
You're assuming that Facebook bought the company JUST to get the developers, and not because they want to integrate many/most of the features into their service. If they want the features, they don't want a bunch of clones competing with them.
- Joel Bennett
I'll send you a hefty donation for that Leo.
- jcunwired
bravestface: That's not FB's fault you let them in. sheesh.
- Gus
when will twitter be back up any 1 know
- daveccorey
There already is an open source clone of twitter - see identi.ca and laconia or whatever it's called
- Doug Holton
True. very True Gus. My own fault. Perhaps I need to setup an Alias account that encompasses what i really want
- bravestface
I already run a Laconica server at http://army.twit.tv - I don't think we need another Twitter clone. We need something more like Friendfeed. Or maybe Wave will be the answer.
- Leo Laporte
hay hay hay, sin duda un tema un tanto escabrozo, pero entre Facebook y Google, esto no lleva a nada bueno.. i'ts a hard theme, no doubt about that, but between facebook and google we are going to hell !!!!!!
- Đoи яамoη
Or Pushbutton?
- bravestface
This would be amazing.
- Adam Teece
The Wave *protocal* might be a part of the answer... or just giving yourself over to whatever Google wants you to use might work (i.e. Wave, Reader, Gtalk, etc.)... but I don't really see Wave asdirect 1-for-1 FF replacement.
- Ken Sheppardson
Too many systems in place
- bravestface
They open sourced the Facebook code base (fbopen)... the license is very restrictive, however. FB owns all code modifications. Probably be the same license for FF.
- Kurt
In know people that have replaced their email with Twitter....that just isn't right...we need one locator that many systems can reach
- bravestface
Great idea Leo. Now let's see what they do, if they're listening.
- Kelly Mitchell
Leo - your last comment is why I think Facebook bought Friendfeed: "We need something more like Friendfeed. Or maybe Wave will be the answer." This is going to be a product they will launch in opposition of Google Wave. It will surface Q1 of 2010 and will have some of the same features that Wave has - but be closed sourced to Facebook.
- Jeff Vreeland
I see what you mean. Facebook and Google though don't really open source their web apps
- Doug Holton
Facebook doesn't seem to have a good reputation with those kind of thing. Facebook promised to open their chat/IM system via XMPP. More than a year has passed since they announced this XMPP system it still did not happen. We still have to rely on screen-scraping methods to implement Facebook chat on third-party IM systems (like the 3rd party Facebook chat plugin for pidgin called pidgin-facebook).
- Gideon Guillen
I would love to see friendfeed become opensource. Mostly as a developer I would love to see the code. See how friendfeed works.
- mikemcmullan
An "open FriendFeed" could be Facebook's chance to get something lined up to compete with Google Wave. Without it, Google and Twitter are going to own the real-time communication space.
- Derek Gathright
Completly agree!
- Jamie-Lee Mclean-Davis
from Nambu
Absolutely.
- Ian Littman
OS FF would be awesome, but making it a federated service is an entirely different ball of wax. Just ask the Wave guys. They said during the original IO presentation that federation was one of the harder parts (though FF would be easier w/o the real time editing piece, but still).
- Patrick Sullivan
OS FF
- Malcolm Bastien
I think a integrated RSS/FB/FF/GW/Twitter client will be an interesting real time inflection point
- Jim Posner
I totally agree Leo. I can't help but think that this deal is going to be a massive success or a massive flop - nothing in the middle! It's simple things like opening the FF source that can help make it a massive success IMHO.
- Chris Cathcart
I would just like to see the real-time commenting open-sourced.
- patrick
wow Leo you sure know how to get a topic started
- Joe Geeting
I actually was hoping Twitter would be the one to grab it up. Seems like a natural progression for Twitter to make. I just hope Facebook doesn't bury it and they actually use it. As far as open source it? Could be interesting.
- Michael Bower
In a secure and closed environment it could be a powerful communication/collaboration tool for businesses. Features of a chat, but persistent. Ability to share photos & files...
- Ken Bauer
definently
- Ryan Peach
Right-o
- Myrddin Emrys
I would love for this to happen. Federated Friendfeed servers would be quite fun and is the logical step for a great Internet service which aggregates disparate information from all over.
- rob friedman
You know what, Jaiku was open sourced. And nobody uses it anymore. The fact that "it" (FB open sourcing FF) will happen or not is completely irrelevant. Because you will all be hopping on the next early adopter miracle train (read:service) anyway. So stop whining and move on. Federated this, federated that. identi.ca tried that. Again, no users. It's nice to talk the talk. Especially at times like this. You just gotta walk the darn walk afterwards. Which people usually forget to do.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Whoa... you should enhance your calm. Communities are finicky things and sources like Microsoft that are poo-pooing Open Source IMHO is the real problem. Me thinks that a better source of education to dissipate the FUD floating in the global porcelain bowel instead of modern political tactics are are needed to solve real problems.
- Myrddin Emrys
very good proposition, i'd pay
- Brian Appleby
Leo, like this idea.
- Kol Tregaskes
adoption of open standards such as OMB, which is used by laconica, would allow federation among servers
- Mike Chelen
It will one hell of a start, I doubt it though...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
It would be a good thing, but not sure it it will ever happen
- Thomas Lee
I support this as well.
- Carlos Ayala
Now this is something I would fly out to support at the launch...
- Johnny Worthington
Another reason why Leo kicks ass
- Mo Kargas
If FriendFeed went open source identi.ca / lamonica would be dealt a serious blow. FriendFeed could become even more powerful if the people could tinker with the code and add many features that remain missing, or strengthen features that currently are weak. It will be interesting to se how FB utilizes their newest acquisition...
- Randy Shapiro
FYI, there's already an open source alternative: http://www.fftogo.com/e...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
absolutley ;)
- Kenneth Reitz
i would pay
- cheapsuits
ive all ready got a amp for 5 bucks 4 twitter that was suspsose to help twitter run better guess what it dont
- daveccorey
no definitely not. it would shift everything to Chinese government... Damn, millions would have their rest life in prisons.
- xiawinter
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