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Web Series Tied to ‘Blade Runner’ Is In the Works - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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"On Thursday the film’s director, Ridley Scott, announced that a new division of his commercials company, RSA Films, was working on a video series called “Purefold.” The series of linked 5- to 10-minute shorts, aimed first at the Web and then perhaps television, will be set at a point in time before 2019, when the Harrison Ford movie takes place in a dystopian Los Angeles. Mr. Scott, his brother Tony and his son Luke are developing the project in conjunction with the independent studio Ag8, which is run by one of the creators of “Where are the Joneses?” a British Web sitcom that solicited storyline suggestions from the audience. Similarly, “Purefold” will harvest story input from its viewers, in conjunction with the social media site FriendFeed."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Also see http://friendfeed.com/purefol...
- Paul Buchheit
CC noted it will be released under a CC licence http://bit.ly/w1psB
- Jorge Acosta
Really looking forward to this! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, this sounds great.
- Ton Zijp
"... “Purefold” will harvest story input from its viewers, in conjunction with the social media site FriendFeed ..." ~ Is this a sub? ~ http://paulgraham.com/submari...
- Peter Renshaw
Peter, not sure what you mean; no PR agency is involved and no press release was, erm, released - we've just explained the basics to the project to 2 reporters. We have also talked to many people over the past few months about what we aim to acheive. We'll be blogging about the past 9 months development and the forthcoming outputs soon. PR may be used to brief in more 'mainstream' magazines in due course. (And glad to see a Paul Graham essay used as referenced - I'm a big fan)
- David Bausola
Hi David, I was just noting that Paul B. posted without naming FF is working with this idea & Purefold. What information is *not included* is just as important as what *is included*. A quick acknowledgment from the boss might have made this fact clear. The Sub reference comes from *quietly* slipping in info into the conversation w/o explicitly stating why. That's all. Aside from that...
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- Peter Renshaw
Hey Peter, I see. We haven't explained the novel way of how we're using FriendFeed yet, there's a few concepts we need to explain before we do. I've had unloaded all the project details immediately there would have been mass confusion on how to use/participate Purefold.
- David Bausola
"... We haven't explained the novel way of how we're using FriendFeed yet, there's a few concepts we need to explain before we do ..." Write it up: how Purefold & Friendfeed want the process to work. When you do post it somewhere prominent (Purefold discussions?). Should make interesting reading. Never assume a lack of information will somehow make things clearer. I'll take the info-glut every time.
- Peter Renshaw
Hey Peter, you and I both, but I'm presuming many cant. We'll add a 'features' as we go, then I suspect I wont face mass confusion. Purefold is designed as a large system, using lots of FriendFeed Groups to mix streams of material. If anything, at this stage, we're getting feedback on the basic concept, clarifying, and them moving forward. I think when we explain how we'll be using FFeed API, you'll 'get it' quickly.
- David Bausola
Cool. That would be great. I never understood why there is no Bladerunner II
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
This is one of my all time favorite films... being a Nexus 6 myself....
- Fossil Huntress
Hey Fossil, Nexus 6 cant exist before 2015 (they have a 4 year lifespan, so the movie tells us). Are you lying about your model number ;-)
- David Bausola
I keep hearing about how the Friendfeed API is a key piece of this. I have some ideas how that might happen, and I think that it is exciting for a few reasons. (1) It's groundbreaking work for Purefold (in the sense that it will pave the way for other projects using Friendfeed in their own ways) (2) It will show how Friendfeed can become a platform. (3) When I think about this then I...
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- Andy Bold
Andy - you're on target. Wave did catch our attention, but it's nowhere near ready for a commercial property like Purefold (Google dev teams have known about Purefold since March). FFeed has possibly the smartest team in this area - and the software is rock solid and very clever for integration. I managed to put a smile on Paul B at FFeed face when we talked about our objectives - I...
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- David Bausola
zooeydeschanel:
pinakyu:
bitchville:
I got a chance to watch this movie at the Sydney Film festival on Sunday. Great indie flick.
I love you Zooey :)
Great Poster - http://joffi.tumblr.com/post...
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I am excited for this film
- RAPatton
Asian Poses - The Definitive Guide to Asian Poses - http://asianposes.com/
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Simply smiling in a photo is so boring, why not strike a pose? Asians are notorious for their quirky and cute poses and this site focuses on documenting these poses. To help you recognize various poses, visual aids will be provided courtesy of popular Korean, Japanese, and Chinese models.
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
awesome site! I feel more educated now. ^_^
- Bryan Lee
"yo what happened to peace?" after browsing the blog (which happens to be full of really pretty women), the peace/v sign was the first mentioned. i feel vindicated
- Cee Bee
I've been told off all my life for pulling faces, or making expressions in photographs.
- Ian May
Cee Bee, yeah the V sign is permanently ensconced in the #1 position.
- ronin
CUTE
- Yuvi
Lol what a great blog. I'm guilty of always doing the V sign, but my excuse is that I'm half Japanese and my DNA tells me to do it.
- Jess Lee
BAM BEST WEBSITE EVER! ggg
- Chris Hofmann
Cultural differences between the US and the UK
Tanath, Anthony Citrano, Daniel Rowley and 345 other people liked this
The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight.
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Classic...
- Rob Kramer
so telling...
- Brian Appleby
That says it all
- Darrell Bell
So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!"
- April Buchheit
+++April
- Kamilah Gill
Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it?
- Hiro Asari
You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them
- Ryan Gerritsen
It's actually the same app, just different marketing. Yes?
- Mike Beck
What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean?
- Gabe
Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones.
- Tim Tyler
World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?!
- Benoit Cazenave
"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland
- tomavana
I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it.
- thepete
thepete: passed or failed?
- Gabe
that was really great kevin :)
- Alp
Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list?
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hilarious!
- Vera Hannaford
crushingly depressing. ugh.
- daisy
The top app at Android Marketplace in Europe is "The Weather Channel".
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that?
- ialla
Hehe
- WorldofHiglet
Excellent catch! :)
- Ozkan Altuner
The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :)
- Ian
sad, but funny
- Rick Cogley
Proud to be an American! LOL
- Susan Beebe
That says a lot.
- Chuck Adams
Yes, it does say a lot. =)
- Zed Darkman
Don't need no stinkin' facts...
- Kevin Pedraja
But it's got a red button!
- Brian Bufalo
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
wavesand liked this....
- 拓 | wavesand
from email
Laugh, sure. But your pounds sterling end up in a California bank account. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Lol Amanda
- AJ Batac
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
i'm all for renaming swine flu to 'bacon flu'. bacon flu sounds far less scary and slightly tasty
Jerry C Mancuso, Gerald Neo, Kol Tregaskes and 33 other people liked this
HAHAHA that's a knee slapper - NOT
- Christopher Melo
I really hope this 'bacon' craze gets squashed by the threat of swine flu. Food that slowly kills you is not 'cool', nor has it ever been. Carl's Jr. wants us to basically have sex with their hamburgers, so that we will forget about the fact that they are selling death between two sugared buns. Truly sad. I recommend EVERYONE go and see "Food, Inc" when it hits your city.
- Fleagle
That's not funny. Bacon flu killed my uncle five years ago, you insensitive pig.
- Dawn
@Fleagle ... that's fine and all, but the consumption of bacon has nothing at all to do with H1N1.
- Christopher A Carr
And if we combine swine and bird flu we can have "bacon and egg" flu which is even tastier - if the flu don't getcha the heart attack will
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from Nambu
The Pork industry will still not be happy with "bacon flu"
- Christi
HAHAHA @ Nicholas. That is the funniest thing I've read all day.
- JCLeftie
Bacon flu still sounds distasteful. Maybe we should call it 'bacon bits'. A high school 5 miles from my house (San Jose) closed down for a week today because a student was confirmed to have bacon bits.
- Kevin Fox
How about oinker flu?
- tojfs7931
Gee, Christopher. Really? Bacon had nothing to do with it? That's fantastic. Anyway, my point is, this recent 'bacon craze' is really just another internet craze that usually dies out after a few weeks, Related or not, it's just my hope that the onset of swine flu could kill the fad, mainly because it's annoying as hell. It's a stretch to relate the two, but who cares? It's worth it if I don't have to hear about how friggin' cool bacon is anymore. I'm sure it won't, but I can always dream.
- Fleagle
@Fleagle: lol, it's just "another internet craze that usually dies out after a few weeks" that's been going on for months at least, possibly years.
- Chieze Okoye
Months? Maybe. Years. Not really. The 'spike' has happened quite recently, as others have caught on and decided to wax poetic about the pork product in all it's glory. Sure, people will always talk about bacon, but not quite as much as they do right now.
- Fleagle
@Fleagle: I see what you're on about, but if this influenza outbreak ends up knocking down the *yummy bacon* internet meme you find so annoying, it will be evidence of mass ignorance and/or stupidity. Bacon has nothing to do with this virus. I suppose I have a hard time cheering for stupidity -- even in the service of reducing *evil bacon* consumption.
- Christopher A Carr
I'll chime in once more, then I swear I'm done. Yes, you are correct in that it would give evidence of a mass ignorance or stupidity, but really, would anyone be surprised? Of course bacon has nothing to do with the virus, but you can see how this recent 'pandemic' can immediately put people in a mass panic. Most people react with little or no information whatsoever. It's the sensasionalist media mentality that rules supreme.
- Fleagle
Fleagle, I can honestly say that you are literally the first person I have ever met that is this righteously angry at bacon.
- Chieze Okoye
And besides, it's been proven that bacon cures hangovers, so maybe the bacon flu isn't so bad after all :)
- Kevin Elliott
it's bacon fever in spanish. THat's the translation, so why not go for that
- Eric
So when you get a fever, you can say that you're fried?
- John E. Bredehoft
LOL Liked for Chieze's comment. o_O
- Robert DeBord
Haha, ditto. What did Kevin say again? I'm too busy watching Chieze and Fleagle go at it.
- Charles Bihis
Yes, actually bacon is the antichrist.
- Fleagle
Fleagle is right. Bacon ate my puppy, drank all my bourbon, and shit on my pillow.
- Christopher A Carr
The Many Faces of Zooey Deschanel - http://zooeydeschanel.tumblr.com/post...
Darren Heydon, Michael W. May, Joost Schuur and 3 other people liked this
looks like debra winger here
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
a little bit
- RAPatton
5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley | Gato Island - http://gatoisland.com/archive...
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Loving your Delicious bookmarks. Heck, love that you use Delicious! Added you to my network. Keep on linking!
- Ryan
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Marisa Tomei at the Oscars - http://www.seanpercival.com/blog...
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hot!
- sean percival
HAWT!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
100 Applications and Services I Use Daily - http://paulstamatiou.com/2009...
Mike Martin, Derryl Beukes, philos and 9 other people liked this
Majento, Nathan Chase, Mike Fruchter and 29 other people liked this
I sent that link to my backchannel faster than they could check their email. SPINJA I SAY! /me toddles off to install
- Eric Rice
also, FIRST
- Eric Rice
Another fine product of yongfook.com
- Bill Sodeman
installing
- nouhad
:: grabs the popcorn ::
- sean percival
um, i forgot to register my domain... suggestions, guys? :|
- Mona Nomura
pretty sure its xmas, cuz im one getty fool right now
- sean percival
Downloading and uploading... This is one awesome day!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
sean, are you gonna be first?
- Mona Nomura
You guys, I need help choosing a domain :|
- Mona Nomura
its uploading now via FTP :) spin race me
- sean percival
Dammit: I was just posting this. Beat me to it. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
SweetBacon.com
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monaftw.com
- Morgan
spin, sean, don't forget screen caps! ...i'm holding off until i come up with a domain :)
- Mona Nomura
there are a lot of files in this bad boy!
- sean percival
Mona, we need a sweetcron room here....
- Baard @ Pixum
mushimushi.com is taken :(
- Josh Haley
Sean: Whee! No kidding. Lots.
- Chris Baskind
sweetkron.com
- Cee Bee
MonaCron.com
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WONT LOAD, OH THE HEARTBREAK
- sean percival
KornOnTheCron.com
- Josh Haley
LOL @ JOSH
- Mona Nomura
"The configuration file config.php does not exist."
- Josh Haley
Same as Josh :( *frowns at Mona's virtual BF*
- Mo Kargas
Josh, I don't have a registered domain yet... I just imported the Google Groups docs in the sweetcron room :)
- Mona Nomura
checking read/write rights
- Josh Haley
Josh: try this http://code.google.com/p...
- Mona Nomura
this its an issue with this server, trying backup
- sean percival
k, can't wait to see the hotness on your site, sean!
- Mona Nomura
thnx!
- Josh Haley
This is sweet! I have temp version up and running. It took me less than 10 minutes to create a database, change the config files and install the application. I have NO idea how to change the randomly generated admin password, though.... Set it unskinned at http://anthonykvalley.com/sweetcr... I'll move it to a real directory later. I just wanted to see it.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
http://sweetcron.svenbilt.com/ is where mine is at :)
- Bjorn Stromberg
We can all be Sweetcronies now :) http://brandonpartridge.com weeee!
- Brandon
This is srsly one of the coolest things :D
- Brandon
memymona.com
- Brandon
brandon, did you get it up? post a link in the room, omg!
- Mona Nomura
i'm getting errors =( anyone care to help me out? thanks
- nouhad
@mona yes i got it up :) http://brandonpartridge.com -- will post in room now :)
- Brandon
@mona ... did you decide on a domain yet?
- Brandon
very sweet I've been on the market for this :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
when i see sweet cron i want some sweet corn :)
- (jeff)isageek
Downloading it.
- Roberto Bonini
Mona, u seen this domain? EarlyBacon.com is available
- Majento
TiVo's Day of Reckoning Approaches - http://blog.wired.com/busines...
DGentry, Mo Kargas, mjc and 6 other people liked this
Go, Tivo, Go!
- Josh Haley
I'm a huge fan of TiVo and wish them all the best. It seems that their case has merit so it will be interesting to see what happens.
- Jim McCusker
The question is... will this be an opportunity to buy/sell TiVo stock?
- Louis Gray
Big TiVo user since day one, but I fear for them. They are running out of partners, options, etc. Hopefully they can find a way to survive.
- Dean Terry
Huh, I was just thinking about getting a Tivo HD
- Jason Carreira
I'd be sad to see TiVo go. Their DVR beats the pants off of Comcast's offering.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Louis - Might make a bounce if they win but TiVo still needs better penetration into the marketplace. I love my HD unit with Verizon CableCard, but it's a shame that the CableCard isn't bi-directional yet, thereby making On-Demand and Pay-Per-View impossible.
- Jim McCusker
I recorded the entire olympics in HD, on a DISH network DVR, the 722. it rules
- Brian Hendrickson
I really liked TiVo and was rooting for them big time. They are in a tough spot though. Top technology that a lot of people don't see as enough better than the generic cable/satellite DVRs on the mass market side and competing with Microsoft Media Center on the higher end. Best advice is to sell to Apple who might have the muscle to market them. AppleTV needs a DVR badly anyways.
- Thomas Hawk
IMO, Tivo has a pretty good product, but will die a slow death unless they can either get major traction with the cable companies (ie, Comcast deal) or are able to monetize their IP. Most consumers won't pay the premium to get a Tivo when the local cable co offers an alternative for $10/mo.
- Jim
Oh, and I'm getting increasingly irritated with Tivo's inability to ship software that is full of blatant bugs that I encounter _every_ time I use my Tivo... and they refuse to fix several of these, as they have endured several software updates. :( Very disappointing...
- Jim
I guess I'm just grateful that our TiVo HD doesn't randomly decide to delete everything we've recorded like our old Comcast DVR did.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Tivo needs to become the software provider (as the idea behind their deal with Comcast) ... having seperate hardware that doesn't play well with cable and/or satellite is going to kill them. Oh, and lower prices. I love my Tivo.
- Tim Hoeck
That's the thing... I've seen the DVR I can get from TimeWarner, and it's just CRAP. Somebody has to make and sell a good one, and if it's not going to be Tivo, then who? I still think DVR's are in an early adopter phase. I think people will get tired of the DVRs from their cable companies and upgrade.
- Jason Carreira
Just shows you how stupid people can be... $10 a month adds up pretty quickly when TivoHDs aren't even that expensive. Refurbs on woot a couple days ago for $160, for example. Normal price at Costco is around $200, iirc. Tivo's even offering lifetime subscriptions on units again, making the service even cheaper. Sure, a lot of this is upfront money and a barrier to buy for a lot of people, but the math is solid... if you have the cash, you're a bonehead for renting. Nevermind non-Tivo boxes are 99% shit.
- abacab
(all that said, we have three Tivos in our house--2 Series2s and 1 Series1--and love them. At the same time, though, I'd almost rather just drop cable and torrent the shows we watch. It's not like we watch anything live anymore anyway, so the wait for a good torrent download isn't a big deal at all.)
- abacab
Dish has always been a second tier satellite provider, IMO. DirecTV has them beat hands down. I was very sad though when DTV decided to drop Tivo in exchange for their own equipment. I really miss the interface on Tivo and it's recommendation feature. Plus, I felt the search feature was better on Tivo. But, at least the DVR functionallity on DirecTV is nice, unlike what most if not all the cable operators have.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Agree with Jason - the Time Warner DVRs are truly awful. I've swapped devices, tried getting the "newest" ones (almost all Motorolas) and they are world-record awful. Time Warner couldn't give a shit. Is there an elegant way to use Tivo or other good DVRs on TW that I don't know about? I wonder if Apple will figure out a way to make this work. Although they need to fix this iPhone disaster first.
- Anthony Citrano
I've heard that the Tivo HD's with Cable Cards work with TW... anyone who's tried it, feedback would be appreciated
- Jason Carreira
Jason - I have Tivo HD and it's amazing. But I use it with bunny ears as a small protest against Comcast and their stupid fees for cablecards. Separately... I thought Tivo and Comcast had a partnership in which the software would update on Comcast boxes "any day now" for some regions?
- Patrick Lightbody
I am one of those 100k that unsubscribed to TIVO, after 4 years I decided that breaking up with TIVO and TV in general was a good plan. Both are gone. Netflix+Roku+Web all we've been using since June.
- Mark Interrante
@Mark, but that doesn't have current seasons of TV shows, does it?
- Jason Carreira
@Mark, Wow, bold move. The best I could muster was to eliminate cable and go w/ bunny ears. @Jason, you can get current TV shows via Hulu and other websites. It works fairly well except that: A) it doesn't display on my TV, and B) it doesn't work for sports events and such, though going to a bar works well enough.
- Patrick Lightbody
How's the Roku, Mark? Any complaints or nags about it?
- Josh Haley
Great, my kids love bars :|
- Jason Carreira
I'm missing this year's shows. Except for the Daily Show which stream all their shows. The rest, I'll watch them when they hit netflix. I love Roku, it has a reasonable selection of back catalog, and they continually add more movies. The Roku was trivial to setup and has wifi and hdmi. Patrick, I know that I have the bunny ears configuration if I decide to get some TV.
- Mark Interrante
Phew: Cute iPhone Factory Girl Didn't Get Fired - http://gizmodo.com/5041901...
edythe, Dani Radu, Joost Schuur and 6 other people liked this
"A Foxconn rep told a Chinese newspaper that "she is definitely not fired," and that the pictures were test photos "accidentally" left on the iPhone."
- Victor Ryden
from Bookmarklet
I figured they were test pics since so many have been popping up. You never know with these iPhone production plants whether they're super strict (fire people for forgetting to delete the test photo) or just normal.
- Brandon Titus
Rodrigo Jaroszewski, JP Habaradas, Charlie Anzman and 81 other people liked this
LOL... scary! haha
- AJ Batac
It just won't stop. Please, make it stop.
- Andrew Trinh
awesome =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Am I missing a reference?
- Yuvi
Auuughhhh that's freggin scarry
- Bwana ☠
wild!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
awesome
- mike "glemak" dunn
Yuvi, the movie Exorcist.
- Yolanda
O M G
- Mladen Srdić
@Yolanda - Darn, still don't get it :( Guess I'll look it up tomorrow..
- Yuvi
You have to watch that Yuvi. It's a classic. ;-)
- AJ Batac
The movie is about a young girl who is possessed by demons. In one popular scene, her head spins around... very similar to the cat in the pic. But, yes, you should see the movie. :)
- Yolanda
hahaha!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I can't stop laughing at this
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
ha! But, I was sort of expecting some green projectile-vomit action. :/
- Anna Haro
That cat has to be part owl.
- Admiral70
I wonder what show she was watching...
- AJ Batac
that does not look like a real kitty
- Anne Haynes
Cats are teh evil
- Jason Carreira
GYAH!
- Mo Kargas
Silly cat! : )
- Erhan Erdogan
interesting, this video doesn't play on the iphone
- Thomas Hawk
What, no puke?
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LOL, I can't stop staring at it!
- DJ Lein
Ahhhhh!
- Charlie Anzman
Love it and am sending it to everyone!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
creeeeeeepy
- Phil G
holy crap
- Kyle Lacy
whoa! weird kitty!
- Susan Beebe
Matt, this one was reshared from the original, which was posted via the bookmarklet. Perhaps it is only animated gifs that are uploaded directly that do not work?
- Phil G
FriendFeed Blog: Preview the new FriendFeed design - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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Nicholas James, Aditya Banerjee, John Prieto and 220 other people liked this
This is awesommmmmmmmme !!
- Peter Dawson
I ♥ it! :) When? When? When??
- AJ Batac
Likey.
- Jonathon
Whoa.
- Mark Trapp
Sawheet! "lists" means I can go back to using a single account now, phew!
- Jason Wehmhoener
Very Awesome Bret... can't wait. :) http://beta.friendfeed.com/...
- Brandon
Totally love the Friends addition.
- Chris Baskind
Noice!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
AJ, it's available now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/
- Paul Buchheit
Pretty sweet.
- Scott Bulloch
from feedalizr
Paul you just beat me to it.. this is aka just like draft.blogger.com :)_
- Peter Dawson
In beta, wow. HOLY WOW this is AWESOME. Are the poster usernames still goign to be links?
- Mona Nomura
Brandon/AJ: no need to wait: use it now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ and let us know how you like it.
- Bret Taylor
so awesome - love the favorites!
- Morgan
I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Awesome!
- Steve Rubel
It's beautiful. :)
- Daynah
Thanks FriendFeed Team. You guys rock!
- AJ Batac
Great features, digging the groups
- Steven Cains
wow nice job! It's very clean!
- Alan Le
It's the Gmail/Reader interface, but w/ the nav on the right side -- shocked I am, shocked! :-)
- Paul Wilcox
Wow! Neat.
- Atul Arora
The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)-
- Peter Dawson
A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !!
- Peter Dawson
Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will.
- Vinay | विनय
Coming up next: gamma.friendfeed.com
- Jim Norris
I still want more of a customizable dashboard view, tho. (kudos on the changes, tho...they ARE nice, and I do appreciate them. :))
- abacab
Thank you for the lists.
- Paul Arterburn
Good job guys. I am disappointed you used Peter Astley, and not Rick Astley. Lost opportunity.
- Louis Gray
looking great :)
- sergiooo
My favorite is how the blog has like 2 comments, and Brett's link to it has almost 30 comments.
- Dustin
This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll?
- Bill Sodeman
Yummy* Friendfeeding just got better.
- Jonathan.Rivera
OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live!
- Chris Baskind
I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now)
- Wayne Schulz
LOVE IT!
- Kyle Lacy
Why not position:fixed the right nav? Like this: http://limpid.nl/lab...
- Michael Leggett
The share button no longer appears in my feed. This is counterintuitive. Otherwise, it's been a great experience so far.
- Michael Nielsen
Where's the "me" tab? Everything else I LOVE!
- Jennifer Van Grove
Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
click on your name Jennifer, above right
- Tibor Holoda
@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too.
- Dan Hsiao
you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :)
- Allen Stern
@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI.
- Michael Nielsen
Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post...
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- Philipp Lenssen
Try Friend recommendations.
- Chris Baskind
I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :)
- AJ Batac
Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends.
- Chris Baskind
can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- Thomas Hawk
Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great!
- Aditya Kothadiya
awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site?
- Thomas Hawk
One word: wonderful.
- Brandon Titus
thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward
- Travis Parsons
like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout...
- Baron M.
It is kind of cool!
- Steve Chou
great design!!
- Ricardo J. Valle
on minor thing: on the main page, Post button and "Show best of: day - week" overlaps if you narrow the browser window.
- Dennis Seah
Fantastic!
- Mohamed J
We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page.
- Selim Yoruk
Cool new FF!
- Igor Poltavskiy
Time stamps for comments? :(
- Marcos
Threaded comments???
- Jigar Mehta
So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference.
- Martin Añazco
At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
looking good friendfeed crew!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Funny that they turned it on when I was flying to Europe. Looks awesome!
- Robert Scoble
that is so frickin' sweet!
- Jeremiah Palmer
I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P
- Patrick Lightbody
please have an option to set font size!
- h1ro
It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho!
- Justin Long
FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team.
- Russellreno
@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp.
- Dan Hsiao
nice design, keep on!
- Alexander Oelling
I just can't imagine investing the time to categorize folks that is why I have not switched to beta yet.
- R. Ferguson
Are Independent Studios The Future of Gaming? - http://www.inquisitr.com/2493...
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games like deBlob, Flow, Flower (just announced) sure are good advocates! they won't overthrow the giants, but they're occupying a well placed niche in the market which grows from one year to the next.
- stefan
Flow was bought by Sony wasn't it? That makes me think now that it's not that the independent developers are going to have to prove the concepts, but the major publishers are going to have to buy them up to really make any major difference.
- Evan
@pkedrosky Will it be possible to elect a US President that doesn't at least pretend to believe in God in my lifetime? I think not, alas.
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does the world want an aethist for a US President ? (just asking)
- David Pascoe
The majority of citizens polled say they'd rather elect a gay than an atheist. I'm guessing at least 3 more presidents before we even elect an agnostic (maybe he'll/she'll be gay!)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm 33 and don't imagine we'll elect a non self-described Christian in my lifetime.
- Michelle Jones
At least we're moving in the direction where it doesn't seem so impossible anymore
- Herb Hernandez
very sad, but you're probably right, Leo.
- Anthony Citrano
That's a stupid thing to say, Leo.
- David Risley
Well, we are a christian nation. At least according to an abc poll 83% of americans claim to be christian.
- Steve Helder
from twhirl
John, you've just shown you know absolutely nothing about what this country was founded on.
- Jeff Jones
Jeff, I disagree, John is right. I've studied our history and we are founded on the Bible...
- Douglas Porter
from twhirl
doubtful considering the constituents, though perhaps a non-christian president in your lifetime.
- xero
John, Douglas, please reread the Constitution. Nowhere will you find a reference to Christianity or the Bible. At best the majority of the founding fathers were deists. Then read Jefferson's writings from that period. These days he'd be considered a non-believer. BTW-"In God We Trust" was added to coinage and paper money in 1954 as a reaction to the Communist threat.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
@Jeff Jones, I have to agree with @John Head. Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA. However, they felt tolerance of other religions (mainly other denominations) was important. Very few of the founding influential would even publicly consider atheism as viably PC at the time; the populace just wouldn't have it. If those governing the public did not answer to anyone other than themselves, the public would have felt the system corrupt. 1st amendment must be read in concert with the constitution.
- xero
@Jack Carlson, privately deist perhaps (many were mason's after all), but publicly Christian en masse, at least in legislative writing. You'll be hard-pressed to find a reference to "a god" or "whatever god" except when speaking specifically cross-religion. You'll find "God" and "our God" on many more of the public documents they wrote. Given, our fear of communism did change many things we see today to include a reference to "God", such as the coinage and pledge. Good point btw, and TJ was an exception
- xero
Quote seen on http://www.netalive.org/topics... "Deism says it is rationality and reason that leads to God. To the Deist, the evidence is the creation and the idea of what brought about the evidence is the Creator." It seems that, like an atheist, a deist is also an anti-religious rationalist, only having reached a different conclusion. I once called 18th century deists "the athiests of their day" and after reading some more about deism, I think I still stand by that.
- Pierre Houston
Tell me about it. But in reality it makes sense. Only about 4 out of a thousand people in the U.S. identify themselves as Atheist, 5 more of the same thousand identify as Agnostic. That doesn't serve well for democratic elections.:)
- Dereck
we have trouble electing non-protestant christians (exactly one catholic: john f. kennedy has been elected president). baby steps leo. baby steps. ... @xero, "God" and "our God" doesn't mean "Christian." it just means believer in God.
- tiffany
... and someone please explain what values you are defining as "Christian"
- tiffany
"God" is the basic Christian/Jewish god, why not "god(s)" or "Allah" or "Shiva" or "Zeus" or "the Creator(s)" or even better, why even bother mentioning a deity or creator? Given, references are mixed, but they really didn't need a reference at all, ever.
- xero
A better question might be to speculate whether the United States will still be around at the end of our generation. Ina form we'd recognize, at least.
- Chris Baskind
To those asking if one would want a non-Christian president: One does not need to be a Christian to have Christian values - or, indeed, the values held up by any religion.
- Christian Leonard Quale
from twhirl
One advantage to being publicly identified as an atheist; neither party likes you very much, they tend to leave you alone. Dem's are as theistic as Rep's.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
If this were my world, then the 3 best Rugby Front Rowers would form a Trinity of Political Power, making decisions for everyone. These decisions would consist of Meat Pies and probably copious amounts of Ambrosia (or "beer" as some people would call it). We Aussies know how to make good pies.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
For those claiming the US was founded on Christianity and the Bible, please show me more similarities between the Constitution vs. the Bible as compared to the writings of Thomas Paine.
- Jason Carreira
personally, i think we may be confusing being Founded On The Bible to being founded in the context of Christianity. and +1 Jason Carreira
- idnan
All this religious stuff is bullshit. What a waste of time. Why don't we start talking about investing in the infrastructure in this country instead of Iraq, education, healthcare, Mcain's 10 mansions @xero; Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA? Really? So enslaving people, killing off an entire race of people, and making money are Christian values?
- PC Easy
@PC Easy: Actually, making money is one of the more highly-regarded Christian values. Google 'Puritan Ethic'. Or visit a cathedral.
- Derrick Burns
Why is it that there are people who, regardless of religious background or belief, do not accept that the Judeo-Christian morals and values are what drove the writing of the US Constitution? "Thou shalt not kill" is a basic tenet of the US legal system, is it not? Do you have to be a member of a Judeo-Christian religious group to believe it is wrong to murder someone?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from twhirl
@Mark VandenBerg - Whoa, so are you saying that you need to have "Judeo-Christian morals and values" to believe that murder is wrong? Maybe I missed your point, but I hope that's not what you're saying.
- Herb Hernandez
No, that wasn't what I was saying. That murder is wrong is widely accepted as a Judeo-Christian tenet, and also accepted as morally wrong in the US. I made a (poorly worded) co-relative observation. Other societies have the same stance. Can we agree on those two points? If we can, is it a stretch to say that the morals and values of Judeo-Christianity have influenced the US society?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from twhirl
Influence? Sure.. However, that's quite different than saying we were founded on those beliefs.
- Herb Hernandez
As I wrote, "poorly worded." It's early, lack of coffee, yadayadayada... I'll reword my question: Why are there people who adamantly refuse to accept that the norms, mores and values in the US society today have been influenced by past religious-based regimes such as (but not limited to) the Roman Catholic Church which ruled most of Europe for centuries? I don't see the connection...
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- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from twhirl
@gregory lent More importantly: Why are there such factious lines, politically, in the US that the religious beliefs of an elected official are of any more than limited importance? If the the values of the society itself were originally influenced by Judeo-Christian religious institutions, doesn't the society in general have the same base of values? Why is it abhorent to some that an...
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- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from twhirl
abhorrent to have an elected official be religious? There's only a handful of federal elected officials who are NOT! Why is it abhorrent to the majority to have an elected official who is NOT religious? Can they not separate morality and ethics from religion and see how someone could be moral and ethical without being religious? Freedom of religion should mean freedom NOT to believe, as well, but so far not in this country.
- Jason Carreira
@ Jason Carreira Exactly! The corollaries are almost always true, and I was remiss for not stating so. I share your lament that, apparently, the average person can not seem to make the distinction that you worded so precisely. That the average person is so shallow philosophically is demonstrated by the elected officials put forth by this society, and especially by the ineptness of those very officials!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@gregory lent You had me until the whole "...being religious should bar one..." statement. Now who's being narrow minded? Of course the values of a particular society evolve with time. No one could argue that the two presidential candidates currently running for office in the US could not have done so 100 years ago simply because of this issue . But I agree with everything else in your post. (and always enjoy some good snark!)
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Advertising: A Ruling May Pave the Way for Broader Use of DVR - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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why does it take like an hour to get a rental on xbox live while apple tv can get it already right away?
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One is an Apple product, one is a Microsoft product. Any questions?
- Louis Gray
its actually been well over an hour now, and still no option to play at 30% done, it makes me wonder how they'll do the netflix 'watch instantly' thing...
- MG Siegler
It's buggy as all hell on the xbox. Blogs keep touting this as the next greatest thing but I don't think any of them have actually tried running netflix on the xbox. I spoke with netflix and they have even said they recommend against it bc media center does not properly communicate with their servers causing accounts to lock up.
- Brandon
Louis explained it the best it can be.
- Parth Awasthi
Peter Dawson adds: http://peterdawson.blogspot.com/2008...
- Louis Gray
Different file compression techniques is my guess. You probably won't get to watch until it hits 70 or 75% downloaded.
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm happy with my PS3 rentals and the overall process of shopping in their store. Yeah, it's not Netflix or Apple TV, but hey, rentals are disposable.
- Eric Rice
Louis nailed it!!
- Susan Beebe
Do you use both products on the same connection, or are you only guessing Apple is better? XBox Live rentals are typically ready in 3 minutes or less in my house (No fancy connection, 3Mbps cable, in Idaho where infrastructure sucks and choice of broadband is very limited.)
- Wade Dorrell
Sometimes, instead of doing something constructive or creative, I find myself refreshing FriendFeed over and over and over and over and over...
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I keep secretly wishing I hit some sort of usage limit so I have to walk away. Damn you Friendfeed and your scalability!
- Mark Trapp
It's a lot harder for me to walk away from FriendFeed than Twitter.
- Michelle Martinez
F5 = crack
- Hutch Carpenter
Welcome to da club?
- Yuvi
I find FF more interesting as well.
- J Allen
I resent the implication that ever-refreshing FriendFeed is not constructive!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
lol@Hutch Indeed
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
It's gotten so bad that I have to regulate myself. I use a plug-in for FireFox called Leechblock that you can use to limit your time during the work day.: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Dan Kaplan
huh? F5 just blips my Mac's little sound level at me.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas F5 = Command + R on a PC. Refresh.
- Parth Awasthi
Yes, FF is the new internet addiction. F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5...
- Internet's Tad
The only way to solve this problem is for you people to post quicker ;)
- Moved to Facebook
Use LeechBlock, limit yourself to 5 minutes an hour, you won't be sorry. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- Jason Wehmhoener
@Jason you essentially just told Amy Winehouse she should check herself into rehab - how likely do you think we are to match your show of discipline? lol ; )
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
At some point we just need FF to auto-refresh every second and include a pause button so we can stop the action to read stuff that catches our eyes. That would be pretty freaky, huh?
- Internet's Tad
it has been eating into my reading and sleeping time
- RAPatton
What? Reading Friendfeed isn't constructive or creative?
- Tom Landini
like right now, for example
- Sarah Perez
Sometimes I interrupt what I'm doing (re-reading the manual for Twilight Struggle) just to check for new FriendFeed action. Totally addicted.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I do that too. But now we're going to see the Incredible Hulk.
- Robert Scoble
F5=Crack. Crack is Whack. Flickr = Crack. FF is the new Flickr.
- Russellreno
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... It helps if you don't notice the walls of the maze aren't very high and there are these people looking down on you.
- Karim
RusselReno, I had to double-check to make sure that you weren't Steve Gillmor
- Todd McKinney
@Todd rofl
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
+1 rofl for Todd. And good one Russell.
- Hutch Carpenter
and sometimes you just can't help a 'likey' even thought you didn't click ... right? :)
- Charlie Anzman
a bigger screen real estate could mitigate this problem
- Ramesh Ramloll
from twhirl
Yeah it's addictive :)
- JegerPhil - Phil
from NoiseRiver
Wait that's not normal???
- Mona Nomura
FrF cries for TTS ;)
- A.T.
time consumption is simply the manual behavior. Get an auto refresher and save a micro second. ;) then again, if you want to remain aware, you have to read everything!
- thecolor
use twhirl and updates come automatically to your desktop... no need of refresh, layout is awesome (discussions, etc)
- Gustavo Munoz
from twhirl
If we could get paid for using FriendFeed, wouldn't we all have our own private islands?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
More like one palm tree, a couple of rocks, and a sewage outflow.
- Akiva Moskovitz
FriendFeed Addiction:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Nice discovery
- saee:Dsharif
F5 FTW!
- Susan Beebe
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