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There is a great disturbance in the force. Friends of mine tell me that Twitter's new list features rock and are being tested now.
Thomas Power, Hutch Carpenter, Oğuz Serdar and 19 other people liked this
I'll believe it when I see it. Twitter's been effectively stagnant for so long.
- Andy Bakun
I'm impatiently waiting for the new lists. Till then, I'm sticking with Twibes and even trying to get @NaNoWriMo to start a Twibe.
- Dennis Jernberg
Its not stagnant they just sit quietly and let everyone else design build the innovations - nice life actually
- WarLord
The lists won't add much without the ability to effectively follow a conversation. It's 2009, one shouldn't need to work so hard to follow a conversation on a website.
- Andy Bakun
Twitter's beauty is that it +isn't+ a conversation tool. If you want a conversation on Twitter link here to FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I really long for the list feature. I use a desktop client most of all to make groups of interest. It is really useful and makes Twitter an extremely powerful tool.
- Kurai (ff)
Groups that are client-side suck compared to lists that are built in. You will soon see why.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
that's why I look forward for the feature :)
- Kurai (ff)
Too bad twitter is used as a conversation tool.
- Andy Bakun
Not by most of the 4,000 people I follow.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Unless you mean a conversation is only one back and forth.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I am positively surprised to see the full tweet-conversation on twitters web interface. Things seem to be moving forward ^^
- James Kuypers
Is one of those features staying up for more than 24 hours in a row? 'Cause that would be awesome. ;) Seriously though, there are tons of features that Twitter could add (like a geo sort or "select all/follow") that would be non-intrusive but super helpful.
- Aaron Strout
I'd prefer they actually work on performance instead of little features.
- Spencer
I hope there's some money in that list
- Houseofmax
kapoorsunny: Android to grab No. 2 spot by 2012, says Gartner http://ow.ly/15TqRv - http://twitter.com/kapoors...
Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF), Tyler Hayes, Micheal Weihrouch and Kate liked this
I'm always a bit skeptical reading reports from places like Gartner when they claim to know that some company will have "13.7" percent of a market or sell "62.25" million devices two years from now. It is false precision and their willingness to make these numbers up, makes me wonder what else they make up. Anyone ever do a study on Gartner on how far off their predictions actually are?
- Ed Millard
Introducing Google Chrome Frame - http://blog.chromium.org/2009...
Ankush Narula, Thomas Power and Kate liked this
Google Wave in Internet Explorer - http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009...
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Think Progress » Former Bushie: Rumsfeld tried to edit his own ‘Wika-wakka’ page, Rove spread rumors about a U.S. senator. - http://thinkprogress.org/2009...
Joe Silence is not dead, ProsePetals (aka Denise), Kate and 2 other people liked this
"In the new book that is causing “nervousness” amongst Bush loyalists, former speechwriter Matt Latimer reveals some of the dysfunction and disagreements in the Bush administration."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"– Donald Rumsfeld had to be talked out of editing his own entry on Wikipedia, which he referred to as “Wika-wakka.” He was a Drudge Report reader and used to watch YouTube clips that made fun of his press conference performances."
- Steven Perez
"– Bush, when told that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig had been the latest GOPer to be caught in a sex scandal involving boys or men: “What is up with all these Republicans?”"
- Steven Perez
"– While Karl Rove was appearing on Fox News and writing op-eds as an independent political analyst, he was privately smearing Democrats. “Karl spread rumors through the White House that one of Obama’s potential vice presidential running mates — and a United States senator — had beaten his first wife. ‘Karl says it’s true,’ the president assured a small group of staffers. Then knowing Karl, he quickly added, ‘Karl hopes it’s true,” reports Latimer."
- Steven Perez
"– For a commencement address at Furman University in spring 2008, Ed Gillespie wanted to insert a few lines condemning gay marriage. Bush called the speech too “condemnatory” and said, “I’m not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can’t get married.” (Of course, Bush ran his 2004 campaign telling that kid just that.)"
- Steven Perez
"– Bush on Jimmy Carter: “If I’m ever eighty-two years old and acting like that have someone put me away.”"
- Steven Perez
And of course, "Wika-wakka" is already mentioned on Rumsfeld's Wikipedia entry.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The quotes are frikkin' hilarious!
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
This guy Latimer is killing me. The newer quotes just confirm what Julia wrote: "[Republican politics is now] a sinecure for the least lively plutocrat sperm and the people who sucked up to them in college" http://jmhm.livejournal.com/1783168...
- Andrew C
Guidespot: Love is funny: Awesomely BAD engagement photos - http://www.guidespot.com/guides...
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"Every couple has their unique quirks that make them "perfect together" and all of these happens to come out, when they decide to POSE together. There's something about showing love through a camera lense that makes love oh so hysterical. Check it out....."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I actually like the two on the left.
- Spidra Webster
I like how one couple re-created the Spider-Man kiss, the one where Spider-Man was upside-down. It's goofy as hell, of course, even if that movie reference wasn't what they were going for.
- Andrew C
The rickshaw one was just a bad idea all around.
- Andrew C
The two on the left are kind of cute. The one on the right... probably a bad idea.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I like the first one on the left. :)
- Lindsay
How Rapid Growth in Mobile Technology & HTML 5 will Impact Video - http://www.reelseo.com/mobile-...
Mobile browsing—and video-watching—is where things are headed, and at breakneck speed. As more and more people hop on the smart phone bandwagon, it’s only logical that the mobile browsing experience will need to improve.
- ReelSEO
from Bookmarklet
TV Networks Should Be Afraid -- Very Afraid -- of Hulu - http://www.mediapost.com/publica...
Al Stevens, Kathleen Forden, James Ferguson and 6 other people liked this
"If analyst Laura Martin is right, Hulu is the demon seed that will wipe out the network television business as we know it. In a new report, the Soleil Securities analyst estimates that the online video hub will cost TV networks $920 per viewer in advertising if their audiences are cannibalized by Hulu. And she believes the bulk of viewing on Hulu is indeed taking eyeballs from TV."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
I agree with Laura Martin: I came to a similar conclusion the first week Hulu appeared on the net. A few questions: 1. At what price should Hulu be currently valuated? 2. Is Hulu a more valuable property than Twitter? 3. Will Google/Youtube and/or Bing pull the rug out from under Hulu?
- Sean McBride
I doubt either Youtube or Bing have the content contracts to compete with Hulu.
- Andrew C
Maybe Google (Youtube) and Microsoft (Bing) should get into the TV and movie production business.
- Sean McBride
How is Hulu a threat to TV Networks, it's a threat to the people who syndicate the channels through their medium, cable and satellite providers. The networks are the ones who own Hulu, they are making money no matter what, so it can't be a threat.
- Jimminy
Jimminy, that's true, but the ad revenue isn't there. The same spot on Hulu, even if it is the ONLY advertiser on a show or movie is just not commanding the type of revenue that would come from even one commercial on air.
- James Ferguson
True, but it also isn't as costly to broadcast either, you aren't broadcasting continuously even if there is barely anyone watching, once you factor that in, it's a more rational medium, to save money, the networks aren't going anywhere for now, so they will just be syndicating the shows, and are likely to be gaining more revenue that they otherwise would be. You have to figure out how many viewers they have lost to Hulu, and if that loss affects the advertising they provide on their syndication.
- Jimminy
That may be true, but even if the viewer leaves the broadcast and watches an episode on Hulu, where the network still makes money, it's a fraction of the amount they'd make in broadcast. Jeff Zucker, President of NBC, said something along the lines of "I'm trading broadcast dollars for digital pennies."
- James Ferguson
This gets down to the reality that advertisers won't pay very much for online ads (compared to TV or print ads), and IMO this is because the first outfits that sold online ads set the price very low, establishing a mental anchor point that has proven pretty much impossible to move.
- Andrew C
tho, the reality is that adverts on TV are also falling in value. As more people look to the net for their entertainment, you can bet the money spent in advertising will go up as a result. The BBC iplayer, 4oD, ITV online and five.tv on demand are all doing fine, tho they complain about the BBC because they can fund it in other ways.
- alphaxion
But, premium advertising is still a supply and demand business, as Hulu grows, and it's ad positions remain fairly low in their availability, the price will rise higher. I have no doubt that in time these spots will increase, though I doubt they will become as lucrative as the TV ads.
- Jimminy
What role will networks play in a future in which TV and movie production companies can sell their product directly to consumers? Will disintermediation come into play here? Who needs the networks?
- Sean McBride
@sean effectively, they could provide old school "portal" sites such as hulu where people could discover content and pay for high production quality content... As a content producer, I know it's damn hard to get anyones attention, a site with the kinda traffic hulu gets would be great for the promotion (since they're very skilled in that) and featuring of that content. Ideally, I'd like...
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- alphaxion
So: Hulu, Youtube and Bing are already aggregating portal sites. And TV and movie production companies could market and deliver their product directly through these sites, without any intermediaries. Right? Who needs the traditional networks? Am I missing something obvious here?
- Sean McBride
aside from that hulu is owned by the networks. From personal experience, youtube is a festering hole (you should see the comments and messages I get) and since I'm not a well known producer nor do I have a cute kittens only production I don't stand a chance of getting on their featured page. The TV networks have a lot of experience with promoting content, it's a set of skills that are...
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- alphaxion
@Sean - the money Hulu can bring in right now is dwarfed by traditional TV.
- Andrew C
True -- for now. But that picture is changing rapidly. Traditional newspapers bring in more money than their Web incarnations, but it is not likely that they will survive.
- Sean McBride
hmm, unless Hulu makes its own channel, I will see then
- polou/indigo_bow
Selcuk Ergin, Jeremy˚H, Gordon Herd and 7 other people liked this
Is Facebook Preparing To Launch ‘Facebook Labs’ For Experimental Features? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Kate liked this
Thanks Microsoft. Now it's a meme.
Nate Pilling, Diego Barros , James Robertson and 113 other people liked this
lol!
- vijay
Bah, it's only funny if they keep the arm the same.
- Daniel Bruce
I saw this one yesterday and a 4chan one today
- Josh Haley
yep. What Daniel said
- vijay
post them Josh! ;)
- AJ Batac
Well, there's the one I did yesterday too: http://ff.im/7cL1t
- Josh Haley
This same one from yesterday http://ff.im/7d1dn
- Josh Haley
LOL
- AJ Batac
hahaha!
- Carmen
I can't find the 4chan smileyface one, but I did find this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Josh Haley
OK, we have seen the altered version of this MS page for Poland and now we see MS was up to the same tricks for their version of this page for planet Kashyyyk.
- Louis Trapani
somebody please PS Jar Jar Binks!
- topo
I can't stop laughing over Chewbacca sitting there. That one is really well done.
- Joey Gibson
MS should turn this around, use the meme and badly PS a different person for every market
- Erich Zirnhelt
The one with Balmers head cracks me up.
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Crasher squirrel: http://www.huttstuff.com/microso...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Phil didn't do it: http://www.eworm.nl/phil...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
LOL.
- Zachary TG
I think this works. ;)
- Kreg Steppe
Pfft... I bet it's real, and that's Microsoft's way to try to appeal to the citizens of Kashyyyk.
- Otto
Better then Microsoft's 'edit' LOL!
- Jeremy˚H
<3
- l0ckergn0me
He always happy to see me! - http://twitpic.com/bp4yj
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renn: GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 'good morning' tweets globally, over 24h - http://bit.ly/7tbQC - http://twitter.com/renn...
Kate, Eric Gourmet and Bill Hazelton liked this
TWITTER LOCAL: 5 Twitter Geolocation Features We Want - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Facebook Launches Twitter App for Facebook Page Owners http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009...
Tips on Innovation & Entrepreneurship From Jeff Bezos - http://georgedearing.com/tips-on...
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$29 OS X Snow Leopard to roar next Friday, are you ready for it? – Apple / Mac Software Updates, News, Apps | Geek.com - http://www.geek.com/article...
Akiva Moskovitz, Seth Greenblatt, Edgar Rodríguez and 4 other people liked this
"The rumor mill says the software will arrive next Friday, beating Apple’s self-imposed September target."
- ElStewie
from Bookmarklet
Hellz yeah!
- ronin
Hell yea! Something cheap from apple!
- nfan12
booya! I'm allll over it!
- Kamala Whitaker
I pre-order from Amazon, don't know if it will be shipped early
- ElStewie
i wonder if we should follow the MS practice and wait for 10.6.1 :)
- Naor Mark
Data Indicates Facebook Reaching Mainstream Visitor Rate (Compete, Alexa, Quantcast) - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Kate and Thomas Power liked this
News: In case of switch-over, Johnny Worthington and I are going to move in together to a remote mountain range, where we will recreate FriendFeed with pads of paper and pen.
2ndmoon©, minus-one, Harold Cabezas and 103 other people liked this
donot forget to feed The Beard! =P
- vijay
I can just see the two of you, passing the pads between you. <--- why does this read so funny, it must be midnight.
- τorƍue
... and invent fire with a square wheel
- anna sauce
it should be called BeardFeed.
- Jim Halligan @jim
Don't do it, I think it's a trap. http://www.theonion.com/content...
- Eric Logan
No need to add the part about paper and pen because we all know that Johnny isn't all scripty and junk.
- Mark Krynsky
++ Mark :D
- vijay
If you look over each other's shoulders, it could even be considered real-time.
- τorƍue
lol, you guys. See this is why I stay up at night. It's when the good stuff comes out. ;)
- Araceli
You're going to need one hell of a beard, Louis
- Mo Kargas
And soon woods would be filled with "outdoor social media experts".. "10 tips how to get 1000 followers to your tribe in 10 days"
- Jemm
OMG FEELING LEFT OUT
- Akiva Moskovitz
I am finally gonna get those 'Like' moo stickers printed and just walk around 'Liking' random stuff.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Johnny, I love that. Much like during the initial years of my Sims addiction I measured my life by green bars, I constantly want to like things that I see.
- joey
Joey... I'll dig the artwork out tonight and post it here... I also have a Hide one :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Hahahaha I'd be out of control with the 'hide' stickers.
- joey
Nowhere would be remote enough...feral FFers would track you down and then you'd be forced to split them into groups. I mean rooms. No, groups. Er...whatever.
- WorldofHiglet
Akiva, we will write you. The hardest part will be finding a way to send you a DM without Johnny seeing.
- Louis Gray
WoH. using my pieces of paper I would create lists for everyone that showed up. Then, each list would be assigned a certain stick and all those on that list would only be allowed to talk to me once I was holding that stick. If you say something offensive, the stick would then be turned into the block tool at great swiftness. I would draw pictures of my daughter on the walls of a nearby...
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- Johnny Worthington
Louis visiting Johnny on the mount http://ine.250x.com/images...
- Spidra Webster
LG, Johnny and Beard, enjoy the peace that lasts until Scoble finds out and choppers in.
- vijay
LOL, Johnny! You've obviously been planning this for WEEKS!
- WorldofHiglet
Spidra: HAHAHA!
- WorldofHiglet
The problem is, we only have room for 1 Scoble... We will either let you guys pick between Robert and Alex or we will cover them both with honey and the first one not to get eaten by a bear gets in... (My money's on Alex, Robert would be to busy tweeting on his iRock)
- Johnny Worthington
LOL!
- vijay
OMG, I am laughing so hard I'm going to wake the kids! I wish I could draw because it's so clear in my head....
- WorldofHiglet
Although... we might actually get the same level of AT&T 3G connectivity as central San Fran on our iPhones...
- Johnny Worthington
...so, would you have private sticks, too?
- WorldofHiglet
I think they already do WoH ;P
- vijay
Every day would be a Moment of Win.
- Louis Gray
if Robert was on his iPhone, chances are that Alex would be reconfiguring the rocks in the caves to give optimal stereo for his conch recitals
- WorldofHiglet
I'm thinking for DMs we scrunch up bits of paper and throw them at each other. Either that or we... you know... actually talk to each other...
- Johnny Worthington
WUT?
- WorldofHiglet
I know... a bit to radical. Maybe we save that for the 3.0 Beta UI
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah, actually vocal communication might be taking things a bit far. Perhaps some semi-coherent grunts? You know, like listening to FFundercats?
- WorldofHiglet
*SNAP*... Where is my block stick? :P
- Johnny Worthington
*takes evasive action*
- WorldofHiglet
And finally, we would allow Twitter imports... We would throw open the windows and let the little blue bird's song drift into the cabin... Then we would hunt them for food with blow darts...
- Johnny Worthington
That would be great - every FailWhale would feed us for weeks!
- WorldofHiglet
++WorldofHiglet
- τorƍue
+100 WoH!!! :D
- vijay
erm...what happens to Josh....? Or are you assuming the FailWhales won't appear in the beginning...?
- WorldofHiglet
this thread has everything required to make an EPIC video like that Hitler FF downfall vid :D
- vijay
Excellent, vijay, I expect to see it when I awake in a few hours! :) Not that I'm going to sleep. Obviously. Because when you sleep, Louis creeps through your threads and swallows up all your posts and likes and comments, absorbing, learning, *feeding* - the very epitome of friendFEED. I fear for Johhny.....
- WorldofHiglet
I hear goats are easy keepers
- Mac Sharp
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom. Yummy feeds.
- Louis Gray
I WASN'T ASLEEP YET!
- WorldofHiglet
I was avoiding your feed specifically, little Higgles.
- Louis Gray
Most people do, Louis! ;) (and I've never been called Higgles before - that's a new one! Though I know you know that, because you would. With the feed eating and all. Happy nomming)
- WorldofHiglet
ahhh can we all come?
- Thomas Power
There's only one flaw in this plan ... Actually, no, I double checked, it's 100% sound - pure gold. VC funding will arrive in the morning wrapped around a stone with will be hurled in through the cabin window. Godspeed.
- Micah Wittman
I think you are going to need to be somewhere that can accept large mail drops as the comments start flowing in to your new system.
- Travis Koger
What if FriendFeed was done entirely in a Second Life/Sims World and to comment and post you would have virtual verbal conversations. I can only think about the crowd of 50,000ish followers that would be walking around Robert Scoble and then interacting with the other FF big names. The funny thing is that actually we would all need to be on the same island so we could all talk together. Of course then it would be overrun by DEA and FBI trying to take down the cult.
- Travis Koger
FriendFeed in Second Life? Wouldn't it be quickly overwhelmed by flying genitalia, then?
- DGentry
DGentry... isn't it already... no.. wait. Sorry I am talking about something else. =P Oh also you forgot the phrase 'overly large' in your genitalia reference!
- Travis Koger
Will you pile up vinyal records to "attach files"?
- Courtney Engle
from iPhone
At least you won't have to deal with Skype anymore.
- Josh Haley
:-)
- Mitchell Tsai
enlightening thead.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
call it what you want. it won't matter. you'll be wrongly identified and targeted as Taliban supporters. The last thing you will hear is a high pitched screeching sound. Then *poof* - you are gone. 250 miles away, the crew of a US Battleship will mark the mission as a success. Then they will secure and store their new BAE Systems 32 Megajoule Electromagnetic Rail Gun (32-MJ LRG) because 'officially', it doesn't exist. My suggestion: Don't go to the mountains.
- Morgan Haley
LOL....Nice...Wonder Twin Powers....ACTIVATE!!
- Harold Cabezas
I’m not sure what Streamy is, but it’s not FriendFeed - http://www.inquisitr.com/32958...
Iván Abrego, Victor Ganata, Harold and 7 other people liked this
A bit like Hyves, but less crappy?
- Peter
Less? I'd say more :)
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
This is been Streamy's problem for a while - does some good things, but nothing exceptionally well.
- Tech Introvert
I even couldn't get it loaded yesterday from 3 different browsers. Today, when it finally agreed to work with me - looks like crap in Opera 10.
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Crashes for me. Plus, it's just too much on the page. Somehow it's a lot of the stuff I don't care about and then too little of what I do care about and I can't be bothered to see if I can change settings to deal with it.
- Kate
Doesn't work for me - http://piggybankpie.com/social-...
- Sharon Hurley Hall
Too crashy for me.
- Victor Ganata
Hi Facebook, It's Me, FriendFeed. This Relationship? It's Complicated. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Helen Sventitsky, Spaceweaver, Vishy and 135 other people liked this
That was quick! Look forward to reading this one!
- jcunwired
Because just like in high school, sometimes the sweaty jock who doesn't wash his hands after using the john still gets the best girl - while those of us who carried her books and wrote her poetic love letters and timed our walking to go by her locker at just the right time find ourselves on the outside looking in again." You nailed it Louis!
- Steve
Nice post, Louis. Was waiting to see what you'd write. :)
- Kali
well said
- andy brudtkuhl
this is perfect, Louis. Nicely done.
- Jim Hearts FF
Super-poke.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
My immediate reaction was Facebook will push ads onto their users. I think FriendFeed could be seriously screwed up with live moving ads, so that's hopefully out of the picture from a purely usability view. Friendfeed is all about realtime web information. I then wonder how in that case will the monetise the relationship. My guess? Facebook will show live conversations and hopefully they will rip out the poor IM implementation in Facebook. The purchase may be nothing more sinister, I hope...
- Mark Aitken
Well said Louis. This is the big question.
- Mark Krynsky
Okay, so now I'm ready to cry. Excellent post, Louis. Thank you!
- Ladybug Heather
Excellent, you've captured my sentiment very well. Mark - I disagree. FF is an excellent platform for floating ads based upon our behavior, and it is just about the only platform in existence where the algorithms for ad placement could have been done right - and welcomed.
- jcunwired
Louis's reaction is the one I most wanted to see. Thanks for not disappointing us, man!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Very nicely done. Puts feelings across perfectly.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
"FriendFeed is the one that has a 4.0 GPA and had big dreams of an Ivy League diploma. And yet, she ends up with you - the Silicon Valley equivalent of your local state school. When you come rolling in with your heavy car, big wheels and pumping bass, we don't care how much money you say you're worth - we still don't trust your grin when you open the door and say "hop in"."
- anna sauce
I'm *loving* the high school stereotypes as metaphor, btw.
- anna sauce
jcunwired - I hope it's unobtrusive, don't mind people making money, but lets hope it's sensible. My worst fear is FF is seen as a threat and silenced, but I'd doubt Zuckerberg would be so brash..
- Mark Aitken
This metaphor reminds me of the "Forrest Pimp" strip on Sinfest a few years back: http://www.sinfest.net/archive...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
We are watching.
- WorldofHiglet
Nice post.
- John μller
Brilliantly said. Don't think it could have been said better!
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
I just learned about this minutes ago. Louis it's not 4 big companies. there will only be three after Microsoft merges/acquires Facebook and Google buys Twitter. This move makes perfect sense for Facebook and it's what their SocialTV initiative needed to really work. I see big things for it in Facebook's future. I don't know how I feel about it though!
- Michael Fidler
Wow....vicious.... Pure perfect.
- Matthew DeVries
Somebody wrote that this is just about getting FF's tech talent. Don't you love how all these social networks conveniently forget who it is who makes them valuable?
- Dawn
"Me? I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid." – Captain Jack Sparrow
- Matthew DeVries
That was a very enjoyable read :) And the point about bright startups having dim perspectives at the end is alas the truth at the moment: you have to be able to bootstrap your finance, have revenue from the start (membership, affiliates, whatever) that funds your growth. Or find a way to get sold to the big boys (although there are big boys outside the immediate industry that might...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
As always very well said Louis!
- Jacque
Good post and commented on your blog. I need to get back into that habit. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
yes, your comments are treasured on my blog, they will not be sold :)
- Valeria Maltoni
Really great post, Louis.. We all will be watching to see what happens. Interesting if it goes the same way google's acquisitions all have. Seems like when they started buying up apps, they killed them. And so it goes....
- Sheryl
I agree with Sheryl. We'll be watching. In my very quick Tweet earlier, I said this really narrows the choices and flings the door wide open for disruptive competition. In many ways, I see this as proof positive that the winner in the battle royale for microblogging (orwhatever we choose to call this services) is Company X, as yet a sleeper who will disrupt the landscape significantly.I don't think it will be a known player. At least not one known in this space.
- Ken Camp
Louis - that post is awesome... I just laughed out load with that one... nice!!!
- Susan Beebe
I had suggested facebook to buy friendfeed in one my blog post.
- Madhav Tripathi
Terrific article Louis, best I have read on this deal so far.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow! Wonderful blog post!
- Peter
This was one of the best yet, Louis!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Remember Rule #1 though :-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
All true.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Great post
- Thierry Lhôte
The FriendFeed-Facebook relationship will need a healthy dose of Dr. Phil.
- imabonehead
And friendfeed.com ends up like Nola Rice?
- j1m
Life streaming via Friendfeed I always felt like a kind of a partner investing something of me in something greater... Now I discover that this investment counts for nothing. No one was or is committed to keep the style and special features that made Friendfeed attractive in the first place. No one is committed or loyal to the user base and the investment of life talent and prestige...
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- Spaceweaver
CATSTARE - http://www.misrule.org/friendf...
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NO, SIR. I HAVE *YOU* IN *MY* EYE.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from Bookmarklet
Must... hide.... but.... can't... move... hand.....
- Ladybug Heather
Damn I just flipped back to firefox and I got a cat staring at me. I'm now freaked out.
- Chris Rivait
Now that is a cat I'd have
- Mo Kargas
Shhhhh! It's trying to tell me something...
- Josh Haley
EXORCIST!!! aaaaaaaaahhhh!!
- Susan Beebe
holy freakin cow! so funny. :D
- vijay
redrum, redrum. (So much Awesome!)
- AJ Kohn
I have been annoying my WoW guild mates for months in the forums with this avatar. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Yikes.
- Steven Perez
I would like to meet that cat.
- Rochelle
I think that cat has already met you...
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
- Dave Martin
that cat is creeping me out. his eyes go right through me!
- BEX
catstare.gif FTW! This cat has been in our livingroom for an entire week.
- veo
this is why I'm a dog person.
- marthalib
Stares the crap out of that hamster.http://au.youtube.com/watch...
- Will Higgins™
I'd worry when I was sleeping if that cat lived in my house.
- Thomas Hawk
Freaks me out!
- Mike Reynolds
lolwut?!
- ax0n
woah! Have you joined the cat room yet?
- orionstarr
lolcats
- Noah David Simon
"I gonna kill you.."
- Kristian Salonen
I can't help but stare back at crazy kitteh every time this post pops up. Gah! lol!
- Carmen
Seriously. Would you people stop liking/commenting on this? It keeps popping up to the top of my stream and I have to stare at it again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Nothing wrong with that.
- Jordan Hofker
Sorry ^^" ...AGAIN, muhahahahaa!
- Kristian Salonen
Akiva: No problem.
- Chris Baskind
Ok, that would freak me out.
- Jason Shultz
I have seen this a million times on myspace for years... we all have I'm sure. it is just great to comment here because then we can snag new people that are stupid enough to comment. ....you were the one who posted it Akiva. Fresh Fish for the TROLLS... hey Igor... 86 likes here means the bounty is ours. mo ha ha ha ah Fresh fish were looking at the stupid cat.
- Noah David Simon
Let's convert everyone to Trollism! ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
now you know why kitty is paying attention
- Noah David Simon
STARING CAT IS STARING
- Akiva Moskovitz
I've already liked this!
- veo
creeptastic!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Sleep well, cameraman...sleep well...
- Craig Durling
I want to like this again.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
If it just raise its paw, it would be a perfect Maneki Neko (japanese beckoning cat - good luck symbol)
- Gilgamesh
I don't think that this cat wants you to have any good luck.
- Akiva Moskovitz
NOT AGAIN!
- Steven Perez
he is a mesmerist!!!
- Mauricio Businari
Happy Caturday !
- johnpiercy
O_O
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Go away, scary munchkin cat!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Is this a moving image fakery? I think the cat's head is CGI.
- Marg Uerite
"I know he didn't just call me a Ho?!"
- Carlton Hackett
I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood)/ he's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood)/ Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Fee lgood)/ He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
- Christopher Harley
NEVER FORGET
- Akiva Moskovitz
Augh! I hate those round-headed Japanese domestic cat breeds. Bleagh.
- Spidra Webster
*sniff* one of my first animated gif experiences on FF evar.
- Josh Haley
It's the only animated GIF I'll actually tolerate.
- Akiva Moskovitz
but...but...so many gifs!
- Josh Haley
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I want animation on my desktop, I'll grab a window and then whip it around the screen with my mouse.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It seems to be the only animated gif that doesn't crash my browser, too. COINCIDENCE?!
- joey
LOVE IT! Can't believe I missed this back in November.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I feel so guilty about...something
- s t e v e
One of the Classics ,,
- johnpiercy
that cat freaks me out every time!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
STILL THERE!
- Christopher Harley
geezus that's still freaky
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Jason A. Samfield, Srikanth AD, Ozer Wrzl (EN) and 658 other people liked this
We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Boom.
- Louis Gray
Grr!
- directeur
Woah...
- Brandon Titus
Uh. Well, that's the end of that.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret?
- Kol Tregaskes
Lame.
- Mark Trapp
great title bret. well played.
- MG Siegler
WOW
- Bindu Reddy
Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general?
- Dilip Dand
wahhhhhhhhhh
- Myrna
maaaan
- Jamie
wowow
- Harry Wolff
congrats
- brainno722 (Peter)
Nooooooooooooo
- Mushin
Wait... seriously?
- Ken Sheppardson
oh, noooo
- Tanju Yildiz
Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep.
- Ladybug Heather
Seriously?!? .....
- sebastian☆rocket brother
oh boy.
- Carlos Ayala
I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook.
- Ivan Zlatev
it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :(
- holly
division by zero
- Onur Cengiz
OMG
- Onur Gündüz
"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user.
- Scott of Two Countries
gratz
- Ali
My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :(
- Tyson Key
Wow, it's true!!
- Kevin Whalen
Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future.
- Brandon Titus
O_o
- Joe Silence is not dead
So it IS true.
- Hector
Nicely done Bret
- Jennifer Van Grove
Congratulations btw, guys!
- Kol Tregaskes
Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy.
- Michael Leggett
Congrats, Bret.
- Jordan Hofker
This is just horrible
- Matthew DeVries
Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least.
- Irma Vermaat
Um.
- Barry Mitchelson
Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :)
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook?
- Tyson Key
Oh no....
- Ben Hanten
Terrible fit.
- Matthew DeVries
damn here it is... :(
- Edgar Rodríguez
FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd)
- Bahriye
*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots*
- Joe Silence is not dead
Die.
- Zio Bonino
Congrats
- Zoltan Szendro
I dont want FF to end
- Fee501st
Wow
- Shevonne
Oh mon dio !
- Umar
What did you do? WHYYY!
- Zachary TG
Ostregheta.
- Reloj
Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way.
- Hutch Carpenter
guess there's no way of denying this anymore :(
- BCK
Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company......
- Matthew DeVries
Oh no!
- Erdinc YILMAZEL
Congrats, but I hate Facebook.
- Zachary TG
I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think.
- Mark Sorrell
"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :(
- Tyson Key
Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together!
- Sean O'Connor
This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P
- Malte Steckmeister
Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :(((((((((((
- Roberto
Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you!
- Nathan Chase
And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more.
- Zachary TG
Wow
- Rodfather
*Sobs*
- Tyson Key
wow
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
to the dump
- Zachary TG
Wow, very disappointed
- Randy Pollock
come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team
- Edgar Rodríguez
As am I
- Zachary TG
machecazzo
- Sba™
VERY disappointed.
- Joe Silence is not dead
horrible decision
- Randy Pollock
Booo. But, you know, congrats.
- Chris Nixon
i'm not sure i'm happy about this.
- Taylan Aydınlı
OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T
- Alp
Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-(
- Laurent
God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce.
- DarknessFalls
arg.
- Aron Michalski
Good for you, don't know for all of us
- Cristian Conti
@#$& that's all I have to say. For now.
- Zachary TG
Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht?
- Matthew DeVries
Congrats!
- Alix Whitmire
Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes!
- Ben Hanten
Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened?
- Tyson Key
I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet :
- DarkBls
Congrats!
- Moushumi Kabir
Congrats guys. :)
- Meryn Stol
Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook.
- Mike Sego
mommy?
- Josh Haley
Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make.
- Hector
FFail
- rael
What will happen to my 92 subscribers?
- Zachary TG
yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative.
- Bahriye
Tragic.
- Shannon
I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward.
- Harry Wolff
here come the comments
- Zachary TG
Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell.
- Zio Bonino
Yeah, quizzes are EVIL!
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Wow.
- Zachary TG
Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>(
- Larry Hawes
i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result!
- Wade Dorrell
Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars
- Berge Gazen
Feedface or Facefeed?
- Fee501st
FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^]
- TiTi
Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats!
- Sebastien
I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead...
- Tyson Key
i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool.
- jkkmobile
Facefucked or Fuckfeed?
- Matthew DeVries
Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail.
- dorn
It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :(
- Tyson Key
Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook?
- Alex Scrivener
seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck.
- Joey Gibson
There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders.
- Matthew DeVries
duh
- aybars badur
I HATE facebook
- Pedram
this is simply awful.
- Joe Silence is not dead
If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause
- Randy Pollock
Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them.
- Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/
- Tyson Key
Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc...
- Jay Cuthrell
Facebook is going to acquire the web!
- l'Ego di Gigi
To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which..
- Moushumi Kabir
Oh noes!
- Burcu Dogan
Congrats Bret!
- Robin Dindayal
I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks.
- Steve C
I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though.
- Jay Farmington
Where's the "dislike" option?
- Gregor Morrill
+1 Gregor
- Tyson Key
accipicchia che pessima notizia
- massimo mantellini
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_-
- Bahriye
I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ...
- DarknessFalls
/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being."
- Philipp Lenssen
And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today.
- Michael Forian
omg
- John μller
@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Such great news!
- Steve Rubel
Not sure what to think of this.
- Matthew Speicher
where is dislike button ?
- Osman Üngür
OMG!
- Zac Bowling
now where did I put my twitter password
- Randy Pollock
big mistake :((
- emresezgin
I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Harrison
Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!!
- Jess Lee
Oh. Hell. No.
- CannonGod
Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed!
- Tyson Key
so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg?
- Onur Cengiz
It's a win/win! congrats all.
- Alan Le
Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone.
- Fırat Can Başarır
Congrats to you.
- Evan Travers
Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users.
- Aren Grimshaw
FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point?
- Kol Tregaskes
damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken!
- vijay
not good.
- Jacque
Oh. My. Gosh.
- Enrico Lamperti
Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though.
- Voyagerfan5761
"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;)
- Tyson Key
Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?"
- Brian Bommarito
sad...
- Marvin
Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it.
- Robert Gaal
This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever.
- Michael Netsch
Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow?
- Matthew DeVries
aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though!
- acedanger
please don't merge logins!!! please
- earlyadopter
They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them.
- The Complex Days
I hope it works OK to you guys!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet.
- Federico Bolsoman
Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke.
- Rochelle
Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:<
- CannonGod
I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running....
- Roberto Bonini
"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle
- adolfo foronda
Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave.
- Wade Dorrell
What a bunch of greedy assholes.
- Zio Bonino
So ?
- Ercan Bülbül
Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin?
- Tyson Key
:(
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Some people will do whatever their friends request........
- Michael Muller
I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about?
- Kevin Murray
I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form.
- Paul Nash
Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this...
- Tarmo Aidantausta
The End.
- Kaan Ertürk
Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me.
- Ian Betteridge
happy for you guys, but not for all of us
- Flavio
congratulations. this is going to be interesting.
- Dave Beckett
I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed...
- Tyson Key
I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you.
- Ton Zijp
NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see...
- Daniel Morgan
Game over.
- stark
yeah removing feed also works.
- Bahriye
Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall...
- Marcos
Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that.
- Jess Lee
Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Matthew DeVries
Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so.
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Noooooooo......
- Sung W. Lim
yeahhh
- Çağrı Burak
NO
- Cristian Conti
Congrats! That sucks.
- Rutger Blom
Where is that evidence Jess?
- Matthew DeVries
I don't know, Like it? or dislike it?
- Ömer Balamir
What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether?
- Tyson Key
If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step!
- Robin Barooah
Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid.
- Rutger Blom
I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. -
- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users.
- Bret Taylor
I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends...
- CannonGod
kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma
- Alper Ömer Esin
Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook.
- Zio Bonino
Near term future?
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook?
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck.
- Jim Hearts FF
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything.
- Zio Bonino
Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future.
- Yunus Tunak
I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too.
- Vishal Verma
Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio...
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Where the f*ck is this option to undo ?
- Laurent
Odd that this thread gets modded?
- Matthew DeVries
I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry.
- Michael Lynton
Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;)
- Tyson Key
Congratulations!
- John Craft
can't be, shouldn't be...
- Kemal
It is! Change is inevitable, my friends.
- Bill Sodeman
Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook.
- Robin Barooah
So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh.
- Alex Hellstrom
I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it..............
- Kevin J Hatton
Oh No! I don't like this at all :(
- Peter
WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right?
- CW™
I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter.
- Thomas Power
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
- Stephen Francoeur
My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP!
- Evgeni Leshtanski
AAAAwwwful!
- carolh
I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what?
- paula simoes ☃
"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook.
- Jacque
Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed!
- Alex Lomas
The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB.
- Rutger Blom
damn, damn, damn...
- Kemal
One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :(
- DarkBls
Woah woah... This is real?
- Jason Huebel
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though.
- jcunwired
Now I can break my Internet plan at home.
- DarkBls
Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching....
- Rasmus Lauridsen
wow!! dazed and confused!!
- Roberto Arancibia
I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...)
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh.
- Elena
Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes.
- bluretina
:|
- Amin BZ
This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there.
- Michael Netsch
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- лето ближе с каждым днем
Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!!
- Jason Pollock
That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet.
- Peter
Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe?
- Robert Felty
I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now.
- ayca
It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF.
- Rutger Blom
Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys.
- Chieze Okoye
OMG!
- keso
To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done.
- Kevin J Hatton
I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens.
- Jason Huebel
Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users.
- Evan Parker
Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties?
- Federico Bolsoman
Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team
- Leslie Poston
This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea.............
- Kevin J Hatton
this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on...
- Tate DA FF MVP
While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would.
- Andy Bakun
I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook?
- Tom Ray
FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook.
- Andy Bakun
My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF.
- Rutger Blom
Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn.
- Jeremy Buff
Fail.
- Big K
Big Fail!
- OnuRC
This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone.
- tollie williams
wtf ?!
- Umut
I need to install "super PUKE" application !
- Bart LePoole
FFail.
- rowlikeagirl
I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it.
- Vince DeGeorge
from iPhone
JEREMY+++++1
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Wow!
- felix
Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested.
- Matthew Speicher
Jeremy +1
- F. Batuhan Icoz
so what's next? where should we go?
- Flavio
It's been fun here.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake.
- Don Faulkner
My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends!
- Flavio
I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good.
- ashish
integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr...
- Kemal
niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline.
- Ken Sheppardson
Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms.
- Rutger Blom
first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff?
- Flavio
Congratulations!
- Sam Grover
Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea.
- Rutger Blom
rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB
- Flavio
Tony, most likely
- Rutger Blom
read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009...
- Kemal
I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years.
- Andy Bakun
God help us
- Johnny
Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-)
- Rutger Blom
Congrat Bret!! :))
- Cihan Cepni
trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
Great point, Don.
- Rutger Blom
+1 Don
- Johnny
Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now?
- Pinksy
I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us.
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation.
- Tomas Remotigue
LOLI FFAIL
- rael
lame.
- andy brudtkuhl
This should be good news for Twitter.
- Rutger Blom
post the picture to failblog...
- Kemal
Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is...
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- Philipp Lenssen
+1 Kol for the techcrunch article!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so!
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you!
- Michael Fidler
Really saddened by this news.
- Doug
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
- LouCypher
I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining.
- ChaCha Fance
Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long...
- Thomas Bøhm
ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun.
- Rutger Blom
I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this?
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Drat!
- Gee Ekachai
congrats guys!
- Elad
Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other.
- Rutger Blom
Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end.
- Brian Chang
At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again.
- Rutger Blom
/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;)
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;)
- Tyson Key
Don, LOL :-)
- Rutger Blom
If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good.
- jcunwired
Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please.
- Edward Barnieh
@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on?
- Flavio
@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year?
- Flavio
Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around.
- Tim Tyler
Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!!
- Danli
Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive.
- Sean Leather
Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook.
- Harry Toon
Hmm. Interesting.
- Ralf Becker
Add me to the fearful group.
- beersage
Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though.
- Tyson Key
"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq
- Ozgur Uckan
Nothing like an early retirement payout :)
- Owen Greaves
Congrat Bret
- Nimaa
Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :)
- Freylekhe dreydl
Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :).
- Karthick R
:(
- goodmachine
FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =)
- Anton
СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!!
- Viktor
hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate.
- Brian Walsh
Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time.
- Angus Burton
Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that.
- Cassidy
Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder.
- David Gaw
aieeeeeeeeeee
- Richard Akerman
FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit.
- Tomy Thomson
Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:(
- Eph Zero
Well done Bret!
- Alemsah Ozturk
♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪
- All for design
Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye.
- Micah Collard
It was fun while it lasted.
- Mr. Gunn
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter...
- The Count Rob
Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product!
- Michael Nielsen
Whattttttttttttttttttttt???
- Nibi
The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :(
- jcunwired
friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool.
- Nibi
Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you.
- Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't like this....
- Zeki Pehlivan
"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now.
- Kamilah Gill
Same here, Kamilah.
- Tyson Key
If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it.
- Vishal Verma
and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :(
- Don Faulkner
from IM
Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us!
- Joris
WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed.
- Jason R. Hunter
congratulations!
- Loic Le Meur
Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed!
- Rob Kurrus
doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only.
- Mike D.
Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible.
- Mike Reynolds
Congrats guys (and gals) !
- Benjy Weinberger
So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click
- Reyna Carlos
Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :)
- Mustafa K. Isik
*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues...
- Pon
And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave.
- Christopher A Carr
:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location
- Majento
There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap!
- Scratch5150
Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site.
- Manuel Mas
What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that!
- orionstarr
Somebody has to got pay for it.
- orionstarr
I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook.
- Robert
It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol...
- orionstarr
Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for.
- Rajit
Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0
- ManojRanaweera
I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*.
- Andy Bakun
Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :)
- Mona Nomura
I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here.
- Ken Morley
So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone?
- Scratch5150
Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat.
- Brandon
if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it
- Mike Chelen
The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter.
- Karoli
Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does
- Mike Chelen
Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see.
- Karoli
i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed.
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :)
- Susan Beebe
Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY
- Ozgur Uckan
RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!..
- Ozgur Uckan
Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best.
- Ebru Baranseli
Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;).
- Tom Horn
Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned?
- Piaw Na
*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years.
- Andrew Perry
Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all.
- timepilot
Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Все, блядь, пиздец!
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
WOW - very happy for all of you :-)
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors!
- Mike Lewis
Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-(((
- Claude LaFrenière
Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day.
- Threepwood
Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture.
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Sucks big time.
- Drea
Sadness
- Yasin Jason
I can't believe this happened
- Johnny
Suggested name: FailFriend. :-(((
- Claude LaFrenière
Friend facebooks feed (FFF)
- Filiz Koyuncu
«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci
- Claude LaFrenière
So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that
- Ethan
Gimme my OPML export
- Sriks7
Money is the root of all evil
- Shakeel Mahate
shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit.
- Scratch5150
Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though.
- Anne Bouey
So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn.
- Mark Scrimshire
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad.
- Sally Church
This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented
- Mike Chelen
from IM
I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift.
- roamin
Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF.
- Vinko
congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed...
- amelia arapoff
Congrats you guys, well deserved.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys.
- Cristo
I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink*
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Grats, dont spend it all in one place.....
- Robert Higgins
congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies.
- Logan Lindquist
boo.
- kelly
The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?)
- Dennis Jernberg
Boo
- Amit Morson
Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies?
- Christopher A Carr
Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day.
- Todd Holmes
BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck.
- Dale
Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing.
- Paul Papadimitriou
Congrats and good luck..
- Can Koklu
Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now.
- abacab
Goodbye FF, it was wonderful..
- Francesco Cugurra
I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations!
- krzychukula
from IM
judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer.
- kelly
Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!!
- Seo (ignobile) Guru
Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF
- Bernaldo Barrena
Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff!
- Garin Kilpatrick
I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor...
- Alexander Kruel
обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Congratulations Friendfeed :D
- paniaguai
Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao
- valerio fiandra
from iPhone
I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now!
- Flavio
I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work!
- Alexander Gieg
Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative.
- Alliandre (la Ippe)
How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder...
- Tyson Key
Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012.
- Penny Power
:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week..
- Martynas
congrats!
- Ronald
thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next
- Arini dewi muchtaram
Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again.
- Don Faulkner
Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P
- Don Faulkner
Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt...
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
good for you, bad for us
- Zachary Earl Strader
I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together.
- Ru Viljoen
I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation?
- orionstarr
@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love.
- Robin Barooah
Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook.
- Tim Tyler
sad, sad, sad.
- scott willeke
Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well.
- Juan Bruce
bad bad bad
- kakilang
bye bye friendfeed!
- Jonathan Crossland
Why-eee!!! ??? What next?
- Wayne Lewis
I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about.
- Leslie Moore
Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious.
- Andrew Eglinton
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool.
- sofarsoShawn
Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil.
- whatidiscover
It’s not about Friendfeed, It’s about Friends – A Requiem - http://knowthenetwork.com/blog...
Cindy Gan, Tracy Benham, Kate and 11 other people liked this
Well put Mike.
- Garret McMahon
Very nice. FF completely changed the way I spend my time on the internet. By building communities of friends with similar (and different) interests I've been exposed to some of the most amazing people and content, and amassed a good bit of information that I often refer to via Friendfeed search. As an early adopter its been the most amazing of experiences, and I've been wielding a mouse...
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- jcunwired
Yep. Excellent assessment. I've been seeing posts here about the FriendFeed community being migrated over to Facebook, but that really doesn't make any sense to me. Facebook has always been more about people you actually know on a more personal level -- and regardless of whether your friends lists there reflect that, the way the system is designed does -- whereas FriendFeed facilitates meeting a much wider range of people. Both systems have their place, so I can't see Facebook eliminating one or the other.
- Grey Drane
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Microsoft Talk, All Things Google, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43
Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest - http://news.cnet.com/8301-10...
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"the new message indicates Microsoft is getting serious about the effort, digging into many nitty-gritty aspects of the proposed specification. That's important because Microsoft has of late embraced a standard-centric philosophy when it comes to what technology IE supports, and IE is of course the dominant browser on the market. Microsoft declined to comment for this story. Google, Apple, and Mozilla have been trumpeting HTML 5 features in their latest browsers, but Microsoft takes a more cautious tone."
- LANjackal
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Holy shit. I did NOT see this coming. Good development though. Wow.
- LANjackal
Next week: Pope converts to Islam. Stay tuned.
- LANjackal
OOOOOOOnlY the fiRsT ONEEEEEEEEEEE :D FOXY
- آریـوبرزن
And how long will this last until they need to do something special. If they want to be serious in the web they need to stick to standards.
- Rob Cairns
Of course, they'll want to use WMV for the <video> codec.
- Ryan - @magicofpi
I don't buy the whole story. Wouldn't HTML 5 render Silverlight obsolete?
- jcunwired
@jcunwired no. it should in theory, but the real "win" of silverlight is the development environment. a bit like GWT on steroids.
- mjc
"The IE team is reviewing the current editor's draft of the HTML5 spec and gathering our thoughts." They are only at the gathering thoughts stage! FFS. If MS continue to ship their browser in step with the OS, that means that we *might* see something in about 3 years time. Great :(
- Paul Grav
@Paul: Maybe the actual standard is ready by then, anyway. HTML5 is still a draft, so there is no hurry.
- Jemm
The standard not being finalised hasn't stopped other vendors from implementing parts of the HTML spec.
- Paul Grav
The problem with implementing draft standard is that when they change, there will be different implementations everywhere and nobody knows when they'll get fixed.
- Jemm
Again, that argument hasn't stopped Apple, Google, Opera and Mozilla from implementing the canvas tag and the video tag. That's just two examples.
- Paul Grav
So what? No point using them as they wouldn't work on all browsers anyway (video uses different codecs in the mentioned browsers, for example).
- Jemm
The fact that there is no suggested codec has not and should not stop vendors from implementing the video tag. Waiting until there's consensus or a recommended codec would just needlessly hold back progress.
- Paul Grav
I think the W3C couldn't make a choice and threw the ball at browser vendors, so some browsers will support only OGG (while big vendors avoid it), some will support only H.264 and Microsoft probably WMV/H.264 (like Silverlight does).
- Jemm
LAN, you didn't see it coming 'cause it ain't going anywhere. Lipservice/ trial balloon to see how it plays in the bleachers. At most HTML5 with DTD=MSFT, uniformly borked elsewhere.
- ianf ⌘
IMO, I don't think what HTML5 offers in its current incarnation has full feature parity with what Silverlight, or for that matter, Flash has to offer today. And in three years time, when HTML5 becomes a standard, there will likely be at least be two more iterations of Silverlight and Flash. I don't think HTML5 is a serious competitor to RIA runtimes like Silverlight/Flash yet.
- Jonathan Wong
You're quite right there when it comes to functional parity between native built-in parser and third-party runtime enviros such as Flash or Silverlight, HTML5 is not yet a contender there. However, just as practically everything you can do now with client-side Javascript could equally well be achieved with runtime-embedded (e.g.) Actionscript parser of the Flash, there really is no good justification for doing it in this fashion other than, perhaps, for code-encryption reasons.
- ianf ⌘
about time Microsoft cares about standards they haven't in the past and it's created havoc. Glad to have them aboard
- Seth Goldstein
Really, it's in Microsoft's best interests to pay more attention to the standards. This doesn't sound strange to me at all.
- Sung W. Lim
Big news tonight - "FORGET APPLE: Google Voice for iPhone to Reemerge as Web App" - http://mashable.com/2009...
dontgetcaught, SValleyDiva, Soso Sazesh and 3 other people liked this
So I don't (and won't) use an iPhone but this whole rejection confused me from the get go. Google Voice (and Grand Central before it) was always a web app. All iPhones (presumably) have Internet access. So why not just go that way. In fact, that's probably true for most apps that don't really need to be phone resident.
- Sanjay Parekh
Denial of Service Attacks Being Investigated by Google, Twitter, Facebook - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Now, a source close to the situation tells us that Twitter, Facebook, and Google (Google) – all rivals in the realm of social networking – are working together to determine the root of what has been exposed as a deliberate and simultaneous attempt to take down some of the web’s most popular social media sites.
- polou/indigo_bow
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You got my full support: "IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6" - http://mashable.com/2009...
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I just implemented this on my site: http://kennethreitz.com
- Kenneth Reitz
Can we extend this to IE7 ??
- James Tindall
Can we extend this to IE8?
- David
One of the issues in killing IE6 in the enterprise is "Deploying Firefox in the Enterprise" and you do not need to look much further than Mozilla itself http://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterpr... "This page was last modified on 20 February 2009". Michael Kaply http://www.kaply.com has advocated and worked on this issue and as he stated in last December...
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- Stephen Edgar
hehe--according to james t. and david we web folk will eventually boot out all M$ browsers...
- tinym dot com
My sentiment is not specific to MS but is more general - Life is just too short to waste time pulling your hair out in order to support any browser that does it's own thing instead of supporting standards to the extent which IE6 does. IE7 is not quite as bad but it still causes a certain amount of unnecessary pain. Checking a site in development on Chrome, Safari and Firefox is a pretty surprise free process these days - the same cannot be said for IE7.
- James Tindall
ahh...I see & agree
- tinym dot com
I *HATE* the Adobe Updater in ways that the human language hasn't evolved enough to describe.
Tudor Bosman, Brad Fitzpatrick, Dan Hsiao and 55 other people liked this
And so say we all!
- Andy Bold
googleupdate.exe :-( Trying to remove it drove me nuts, until i looked in scheduled tasks.
- Siddharth Mitra
The Adobe Updater tells me it wants to update Acrobat every couple of days, but never manages it. Sounds like my uncle George that will come by to fix the back light.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
And it keeps wanting to install Yahoo toolbar. What possible useful connection could there be between these two products?
- Joel Webber
yeah, not as bad as google update, but still nasty
- David
It's a terrible piece of software. Also essential: there's a really bad Flash exploit they just patched two days ago.
- Nelson Minar
Agreed its on the same level as Clippy
- Jim Goldstein
agreed
- Glen Mistletoe
"Devolved", you mean. There are so many horrible words that I could use for it. It would make your ears bleed.
- Jason Huebel
Hehe I complain about this constantly too. This might help http://blog.stealthpuppy.com/deploym...
- Mo Kargas
How could a company that makes good software possibly make such an ill-nurtured hell-hated death-token!
- Rick Cogley
I do too!!
- Tobias Boonstoppel
@Rick, wow, that's good stuff. *writes down "ill-nurtured hell-hated death-token" for later use*
- Jason Huebel
Jason, pile the insults on here: http://ff.im/6cmc5 :-)
- Rick Cogley
N'arrrgh! Me too! Drives me crazy.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
The adobe updater is the main reason I've switched back to using Preview!
- Rubin Sfadj
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Another reason I like Linux. All of my software is updated through the same mechanism and it isn't annoying like that. :)
- Travis B. Hartwell
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