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FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
Great!!!
- YungSang
from FriendFoo
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Thanks God it is New API.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
cool : )
- Gurkan Oluc
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath, Nir Ben Yona and 68 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you ff very good :)
- Nimaa
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
The End. No Steve.
Susan Beebe, Keith Bourgoin and Anthony K. Valley © liked this
:(
- zsafwan
Absolutely no mention of his name or anything, as noted by Paul Boutin
- Anthony Ha
thanks for hosting
- Tyler Gillies
I know they said the S stands for 'Speed' but anyone else think it really is a tribute to Steve?
- JR
walt: could be
- Tyler Gillies
Terrific job, Anthony! Thanks for being there for us.
- Eric Johnson
Great job, Anthony! Thanks for the coverage.
- Keith Bourgoin
thanks for the coverage
- Sudha Jamthe
Thanks for keeping us all up to speed!
- t0rx
How much do I love Friendfeed? This much - I made my desktop match the theme!
Jimminy, CoG of FF, M F, Friendfeed's Francisco and 33 other people liked this
wow. you really do love it.
- Zee.
Now don't move the browser window.
- Louis Gray
Sweet, i was thinking of doing that, but i've got some really good space bg's already...
- Chris Heath
I like the part where Scoble the Hulk pops up in the grey box in the corner about 200 times every day to say hello. Hi little green Scoble! Now, sit down, I'm trying to work here.
- Sheree Motiska
Maybe it's time for a "you know you're addicted to FriendFeed when..." meme. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Don't believe Steve. He's got other desktops with Posterous and GMail themes that he uses when he claims he's in love w/ them. ; )
- Rex Hammock
Funny, I just saved that same background image to my desktop. Just need to shrink it a bit from its 18,000x18,000 dimension :)
- Jan Ole Peek
I love FriendFeed so much that I created my very first Greasemonkey script for it just now to improve the usability: "Sidebar Tweak" fixes the sidebar in place despite scrolling, which alone is worth its weight in gold. I use the Helvetica theme, and the rest of the changes are meant for it, to tighten up things to show more items, as well as highlight the user's own comments in light-blue: http://userscripts.org/scripts... Try it and let me know what you think.
- Alex Schleber
I like that script, very useful! I changed position of the sidebar in my version to right:50px instead of left:900px so the sidebar does not cover the content area on smaller screen. Also the headers of the sidebar items was weird on the grassland theme i'm currently using. I fixed it by removing botton-margin on the .box-bar.
- Jesper Lind
Oh yeah, a nice blue box on my comment, thanks for the script!
- Jesper Lind
lovely :) #browsermeme
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Friendfeed is coming to Seesmic Desktop and web, says Loic (see comments)
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This may get me switched back to using Seesmic but will @loic release a iPhone app?
- Vinko
Vinko: yes. Loic told me he's working on iPhone app too.
- Robert Scoble
Now if only socialscope would put it in their client for Blackberry's.
- Sheryl
Here's another vote for a Seesmic iPhone app!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I still haven't met a FF application I could stand to use for more than a few minutes.
- Craig Eddy
I saw an early alpha of the iPhone app. Looked good. I also saw an early alpha of Seesmic web and the way it advanced between the alpha and launch was dramatic - so I expect the iPhone client will track the same way.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Robert that's really great. I definitely will consider switching back when the Seesmic iPhone app arrives.
- Vinko
Will get me,too, switched back to using Seesmic ;) Looking forward to hear from Loic soon
- Ali BULUT
hurray
- Thomas Power
This might just tempt me away from Tweetdeck...
- Andrew Terry
If they add friendfeed to the web app, I'll maybe use it instead of PeopleBrowsr. But then again, peoplebrowsr has implemented friendfeed in a very good way already.
- Svartling
Great News !
- Jean-Charles
You gotta keep an eye on Yahoo homepage. They have FB integration and someday may integrate Twitter (they have the 'what are you doing now'). Seesmic is way ahead, but Yahoo has mainstream adoption
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, I agree. The new Yahoo homepage is impressive.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Im not sure it's impressive, as it's evolutionary, not revolutionary. When Wave comes out, it could dash the shine that Yahoo has.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I like ff's web design
- kang
Android app, please? :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Where do I sign up! I'm praying your web app will make my life of FF, FB, Twitter ETC more manageable!!!!! W/out crashing my puters AND still let me see my Home feeds!
- Arleen Boyd
I'm thinking that this is the type of post that would be good reason for FriendFeed to have a "Love" click option next to the "Like" click option so that we can register better levels of our emotion towards news we read in others' streams!
- Chris Aldrich
good news!
- Jeroen De Miranda
I have been using Seesmic from the beginning this is GREAT news!
- Robyn Hawk
Great news. Been looking for a good Friendfeed app
- Barry Howell
I'm quite excited for Seesmic's FriendFeed iPhone app.
- wiredgnome
yes yes yes
- Loic Le Meur
Don't forget Android when developing mobile apps!
- Travis B. Hartwell
I agree with Vinko; this would be a good reason to switch back to Seesmic
- Anne Mai Bertelsen
Might be late... but how is the Facebook acquisition going to effect this? I can't stand the way that app takes over Friendfeed.
- Arleen Boyd
Announcing Tornado 1.0 - Tornado Web Server | Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/group...
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Nice to see this find continue living and find a home! Good job guys!
- Chris Aldrich
Great stuff
- Charlie Anzman
Hmm, just saw that it runs with Python 2.5 and 2.6 and wanted to know if there is any chance to run it with Python 3 in the near future. Just found this stackoverflow posting http://stackoverflow.com/questio... which pointed out that they don't have any test suit for it! And this seems to be really the case. Just have a look at the repository at githut. The...
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- Konrad Förstner
Great to see this still going strong. :)
- Keith Bourgoin
Hey that is cool, congrats on keeping that cool project going!
- Susan Beebe
Yup, despite the lack of tests. It's fast, it's Python, it's opensource! Nice!
- Konrad Förstner
Sunset on the Erie Canal - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Anyone know where I can buy a fez hat in the South Bay? Fez hats are cool.
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we can call a couple costume stores. I'm not really sure where else we could go though.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I wonder where the Shriners get theirs?
- Steve and 3 other people
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they have them at Debbie Lyn's Costumes in Sunnyvale.
- Cyrus Lendvay
Fez acquired!
- Kevin Fox
Steve, there are special Shriner supply shops. Most of them have probably moved online now, though. I've got an old Shriners fez encrusted with rhinestones. So when do we see pics, Kevin?
- Spidra Webster
And Kevin, was it Debbie Lyn's? You have to answer your own question! (And you also have to wear your fez to poker tonight...)
- Stephen Mack
I do know that they're at Universal Studios park in Florida... I guess hardcore Potterites like to wear them because the actor who played Harry Potter wore one when he visited the park. Congrats on finding one!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Is there a service that lets me subscribe to a set of bands and alerts me when they're coming nearby? Must be not-iTunes dependent.
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Also check http://www.songkick.com
- Paul Kane
AndFeed
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Custom buttons is a go.. Still working on the photos, work in progress. Will need beta testers soon. Sign here.
- Tim Hoeck
Room open at: http://friendfeed.com/andfeed
- Tim Hoeck
I'm very curious to see how this turns out. It's looking great so far, just based off of what I'm seeing in the pics.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I'd be interested in beta testing also. Would be interesting to see intents published from andfeed to other apps, as others have stated. E.G. it would be obvious to have the 'share in..' itent (ala Beelicious/Email/SMS).
- Eric Sinclair
Eric, if you have thoughts on what should be provided, let me know.
- Tim Hoeck
A thought from the pictures, I might prefer having the bottom icons appear when pressing menu rather than always using screen real estate. Looking forward to a beta/release/whatever.
- DMKrow
Yes, I eagerly await using this. I hope development hasn't slowed because of the FB purchase.
- Andy Bakun
No Andy, I will definitely still be releasing this, most likely in the coming weeks. Development slowed because a) I converted to v2 of the api, b) I moved last week :) and c) I have to hustle on finishing my ADC2 entry, which I only have about 10 more days to do, and I am only one person working on this
- Tim Hoeck
News about this? Screenshot are really interesting, but I would like to try the app ^__^
- A!ndrea
I'd also like to try this if possible.
- Rodericus
I would like to try the app too. Any news?
- Smeerch
is there anything i can do to try ?
- siniradam
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
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Will "my network and friends" work too?
- JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Thanks!
- georgeker
Thank you !
- Joan Dossetto
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
this link might help [http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008...].
- MikeAmundsen
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either.
- MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I spent like half an hour last week trying to find my custom feed URL so I could import FB status into FriendFeed. No luck. =(
- Darren
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =)
- Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all?
- MikeAmundsen
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :)
- Charley M
FB status is gone!
- Lonnie Robinson
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
does not work
- Valdas A.
as for 2010-04-30
- Valdas A.
What if I had bought Apple stock instead? - http://www.kyleconroy.com/apple-s...
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Do both! :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
What if I had bought a lottery ticket with the numbers 19 26 28 37 52 18 (http://www.calottery.com/Winning...) instead? My $1 spent on that Gary Numan song from iTunes would instead be worth $191,000,000.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen has a point.
- Louis Gray
1 UP Stephen.
- Micah
Hindsight is perfection. The blog post is a pretty good illustration of opportunity cost, though. All I know is the "Are 'Friends' Electric?" (after hearing it played during a key scene with Peter Weller on an episode from Fringe two weeks ago) was worth every penny.
- Stephen Mack
There may be a slight difference in utility between the two also. Is there a FriendFeed port that runs on AAPL stock certificates?
- Tinfoil 2.0
If you bought Google stock instead of that Gmail account when it came out in 2003 you'd -- oh, wait. You'd have nothing. :-)
- Kevin Fox
I did buy Apple stock instead. But I always sold it.
- Louis Gray
I bought Apple stock in 1993 and it tanked. I was a poor college student made all the poorer for my bad decision.
- Kevin Fox
Methodologies are like training wheels -- they can be helpful when getting started, but will get in the way later.
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In this day and age, caching effects outweigh most algorithmic gains (for most data sets that you're likely to encounter). The cost of a cache miss can be disastrous -- going to main memory is roughly 200 times slower than hitting in your L1 cache. This is why...
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1. Tree-oriented data structures are usually a bad idea. Every branch means you're chasing a pointer to some completely unrelated area of the memory, likely a cache miss.
- Tudor Bosman
2. High-performance server code is hard to write in Java (as opposed to C/C++). You can't embed objects in each other; every object reference means following a pointer, likely a cache miss. Also, objects are huge -- they contain a vtable and a lock and all sorts of other crap that you often don't need.
- Tudor Bosman
3. You get surprising behavior with C++ STL data structures. It's often faster (for small-sized data sets accessed infrequently) to store them in a vector and do linear search than to store them in a std::map (which is a tree) and do binary search.
- Tudor Bosman
Every programmer should read this. http://people.redhat.com/drepper...
- Tudor Bosman
This, by the way, is why I don't like Java. Write most of your code in a high-level language (Python, PHP, Javascript, Lisp, whatever floats your boat), which is easy to write, read, debug, and deploy, and the performance-critical parts in C++. Java is trying to sit in the middle, but doesn't do either "ease of use" or "high-performance" particularly well.
- Tudor Bosman
Techniques originally designed to minimize disk seeks now make sense for data held in RAM. For example, btrees can be faster than red-black trees on modern machines: http://idlebox.net/2007...
- Ben Darnell
Coincidentally, I found this just now, linked from Reddit. http://msinilo.pl/blog/?p=614
- Tudor Bosman
I'd critique this assertion on a few grounds. One, while you do not have control over object embedding, there is nothing preventing it, and indeed, there are tons of papers on "object inlining" compilers, in much the same way that escape analysis can allow automatic stack allocation. It is true that current JVMs don't do this, but it is not prohibited. Secondly, compacting garbage...
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- Ray Cromwell
I feel the same way about Java being in the middle. If you only pick one language that might be the thing to use. But if you're using two, a combination like C++ and Python seems better than C++ and Java, or Java and Python. It may be true that JVMs *could* inline objects, but they don't, and that's what matters to me as a programmer (not a compiler writer). However I think there could...
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- Amit Patel
OT, but "When it comes to operating-system-specific details and solutions, the text exclusively describes Linux. At no time will it contain any information about other OSes. The author has no interest in discussing the implications for other OSes. If the reader thinks s/he has to use a different OS they have to go to their vendors and demand they write documents similar to this one."
- Andrew C (✓)
Some would that a high level language that requires programmers to specify object allocation and layout is basically not a high level language. HLLs tend to defer such design decisions until later, relying on the compiler, because early optimization could inhibit later reuse (e.g. declaring a method 'final' in Java for 'performance') The dismissal of the JVM's current optimizations...
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- Ray Cromwell
Related, it has already been implemented in HotSpot (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...), 9% average to 51% speedup. Also, JDK6u14 has experimental escape analysis, but not full stack allocation yet, however, IIRC the IBM J9 VM has had automatic stack-allocation for non-escaping objects since early 2000s.
- Ray Cromwell
back in 99-03 we had rather opposite problem -- we had to reduce capacity/bandwidth (on now obsolete pentiums :) yeah, we had also to keep it running 99.999% reliable, hotswappable, on _minimal_ hardware support, and what not else. The Decision we made to make it _that_ capable was to drop C++ & C mix and write it plain C ;) Moral of story -- don't over-engineer :D
- A. T.
I don't know what datasets you use, but it only takes a few thousand or so nodes to make an O(log n) tree algorithm faster than an O(n) list algorithm, even when a node access it 200 times slower than a list access.
- Gabe
Are you suggesting that a O(n) algorithm is better than O(log n) because the O(log n) has a constant factor of 200 (or even 1000)?
- siva
I am suggesting that a program that uses an O(n) algorithm might be faster than a program that uses a O(log n) algorithm under the circumstances. I'm not comparing the algorithms, but their implementations on real hardware.
- Tudor Bosman
and with real-world data sets. Depending on your application (say... videogames), they might in fact be quite small.
- Andrew C (✓)
It's funny that this keeps coming up yesterday. I posted this to Haiping's wall not too many hours from when you wrote this: http://www.facebook.com/notes...
- Keith Adams
What's awesome about your life right now? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Great thread.
- τorƍue
My yard is in full springtime glory. Tons of redbuds and our cherry tree is full of blossoms.
- Aaron Schaub
from iPod
#1: FF is still online!
- Thomas Amberg
I like Google's commitment to improving their Office tools, and their humility in saying 'we're not as good at individual authoring as MS Office, but we're getting there, and we're much better at collaboration.' - http://techcrunch.com/2010...
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I agree, Google's humility and openness to criticism will ultimately put them ahead of Microsoft.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
"We can't do much, but we can do it together" ??? ;-)
- Brian Johns
It's getting better all the time...
- Kevin Fox
I used to get mad at my school.
- Josh Haley
Pretty sums up what I feel @ google. they can't edit a file with 500KB. pufffff.
- ThinkEzy
I spent most of this morning working with regular expressions. When I'd get a complicated one right on the first try I felt like I held the world in the palm of my hand and anything is possible (http://xkcd.com/208/). Then I'd bang my head against the wall for 20 minutes on the next
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I know that feeling!
- Lindsay
sounds like me and songwriting.
- Joe The Sausage
regular expressions are a wonderful thing once you really grok them. Lots of headbanging in that process, though.
- Keith Bourgoin
from IM
Our dinner was also having dinner
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eeeeeeeeeee ww
- Kevin Fox
It was delicious :) I'm not sure why the cherries were there though
- Benjamin Golub
They were going to be the fish's dessert until he choked on the broccoli.
- Kevin Fox
Love the fact that Adobe tells me it can't be updated because of an open Adobe application and then goes on to tell me the name of the application is "Applications that are using Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat." Yes, that is very helpful... Despite closing everything and restarting it's still a no go...
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Have I mentioned how much I like http://www.youtube.com/citizen...?
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Thanks for the link! Forgot this was today.
- Keith Bourgoin
from IM
"The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan"
Stephen Mack, nadim, April Buchheit and 15 other people liked this
So true...
- Keith Bourgoin
from IM
I dig that quote... so very true.
- SAM
release early release often
- Mick
FriendFeed is a very finely crafted thing with many beautiful details.
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like?
- t toring
The way it clusters multiple shares of the same article, for instance. I also like how it manages the information flow. Very nice. On the other hand, those features aren't enough to get me not to switch to Buzz as soon as I can get everyone migrated over. :-)
- Piaw Na
Two-stage hiding. The promotion semantics of Like and Comment. The visual design. When the realtime updates happen and when they don't. The way pagination works. One-paragraph comments. How it decides which names of likers to show. But the craft is not in the features, it's in the thing itself.
- Daniel Dulitz
Totally agree. FriendFeed innovated in ways that will never be fully appreciated by most. In a way, it's like that Postal Service album. I'm kinda glad there wasn't a sequel, because where it froze in time was just perfect.
- DeWitt Clinton
Agreed. The release of Buzz really underscores the attention to detail in FF and makes me appreciate the many design decisions that they got right. It's sad that the inovation had to stop after the acquisition.
- Chip Ramsey
Agree. I feel strong information overload in buzz. Visual design of buzz is very ugly. Full of useless frames and icon. Why did google release such a immature prototype to the public?
- Ted GUO
I've said it before: it's an elegant social networking site for a more civilized age.
- Goran Zec
What really sets it apart is how clean it feels. I use it with the Helvetica theme (but Deja Vu Sans and banner hidden through adblock , since I dislike Helvetica), a greasemonkey script to color-code my friends' comments. It's all whitespace and well-formatted content.
- Goran Zec
There's a FriendFeed in my Gmail. Sweet! :)
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not mine.
- Vicarbott
my Gmail died a year ago.
- Joe The Sausage
they even stoled the "like" smiley :)
- Claudio Cicali
Full circle?
- Josh Haley
:/
- AJ Batac :)
Why not bring FF to the Facebook homepage? (public content plz) Without login, as the homepage.
- Jay
Congrats ans condolences in equal measure Paul :)
- Roberto Bonini
Why condolences Roberto?
- Paul Buchheit
Not mine yet.
- Morton Fox
Everyone is saying FF is dead. :) I sure hope not, but just in case :)
- Roberto Bonini
For Paul, I assume there is an incredible amount of self-satisfaction. Buzz has really brought the FriendFeed experience to a new audience, regardless of its name. Thanks for all your contributions, Paul.
- Louis Gray
I really like Buzz, very cool... glad to see Google release something that integrates a ton of their existing portfolio of products together! Buzz is truly a game changer... wow
- Susan Beebe
Flattered at least Paul?
- Christopher Galtenberg
+100 Louis!
- Susan Beebe
Buzz totally copied FriendFeed LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
We'll see :D
- Özkan Altuner
Friendfeed should live on.
- Ashish
+1 Louis
- Jay
Maybe we should all agree to just go use Buzz, let them shut down FriendFeed, and Paul, Bret, et al can concentrate on Facebook... ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
It must be bittersweet. Well put, Louis. Well put.
- Akiva
I've had a FriendFeed gadget in my Gmail left column for ages ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
+1 Louis. Gmail, FriendFeed, Facebook.. Amazing job and ideas, Paul!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
@Fatih, it's a joke
- Özkan Altuner
Three times and it's true.
- aldenoneil
I guess I care more about ideas than specific instantiations. Hopefully they'll make the ui more like FriendFeed though :)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul - I hope so too!
- Susan Beebe
I agree with Paul.
- Akiva
Agree Paul - current UX a tad clunky.
- Hutch Carpenter
I want a FriendFeed in *my* Gmail ;(
- Rah-PM 2012
Buzz even captures the Friendfeed comments and displays em in Gmail. whoa.
- chrisofspades
Facebook(Gmail(Friendfeed(YoDawg())))
- Micah
Rahsheen, be sure to reload Gmail -- it doesn't show up automatically (or at least it didn't for me).
- Paul Buchheit
Buzz is being rolled out slowly, over the next few days for the "non social media elite" (yes, sorry, it's true)
- Christopher Galtenberg
You gotta be kidding me. I was the FIRST person Robert followed on Cliqset. I'm a social media god!
- Akiva
chrisofspades, how are you getting Friendfeed into Buzz?
- Kenton
Not in mine, yet.
- DGentry
Kenton, it just showed up as one of the sites I could connect. maybe because I have my friendfeed connected to my Google profile?
- chrisofspades
Yeah, I just noticed that that is how it picks those sites. I've added FF to my profile and I'll see if it comes through.
- Kenton
Akiva - LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
I WANT a FF in my gmail. How do I get it?
- Claudia Petrilli
i can use it on phone, but not on PC. LAME
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
I was watching the announcement with my brother and I kept saying "just like Friendfeed", "just like Friendfeed", "just like Friendfeed" ...
- Alejandro
STILL not showing up in mine!!! It does show up on my iPhone. I've been playing with it for the past hour, but really wish I could see in in a real web browser on a real computer!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff same problem here. Very frustrating!
- BRҰANSAҰS
its like Pauls child FF reunion with its elder brother gmail :)
- sirishkumar
Very funny post, Paul!
- Michael Fidler
Not quite FriendFeed but close. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, one thing that I am sure to miss on Buzz is, not being able to see all the awesome Googler's and Xoogler's feeds that I see here on Friendfeed. I wish there is someway Buzz remedies this. Really bummed about this. :(
- Space Cowboy
Paul, same feeling here, but now that I see buzz map in iPhone/web app, that's pretty cool stuff.
- Orlando Pozo
Paul, we need something like buzz map for friendfeed ;).
- Orlando Pozo
Paul, Gbuzz privacy settings really suck, even blocking and reporting people as spammers don't work :S
- Orlando Pozo
from iPhone
Paul, did you know Google was working on Buzz when you sold FriendFeed?
- Richard Cunningham
I love how friendfeed, with all of the love and effort that all of us have vested in it, gets to keep on reaching new places, even if it's not *exactly* FF. Nice one.
- Iain Baker
My Citi card APR just jumped 19% to 36%. I don't carry a balance but that's a shocking increase
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Call and threaten to cancel. It'll go back down.
- EricaJoy
Good idea
- Benjamin Golub
True
- Rah-PM 2012
I'm surprised 36% is even legal!
- Shannon Jiménez
Oh no. I hope mine hasn't done anything similar. :( I *do* carry a balance. I might need to check it soon.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah: the only reason I knew it happened was Mint sent me an alert. If I didn't use Mint I'd probably never have noticed
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, this is technically illegal now, since August 2009 credit lenders must give you at least a 45 day notice before they increase your rate. "Credit card issuers must give you 45 days notice if they intend to raise your rates. Further, they must allow you to “opt out” of the rate increase and pay your existing balance under the old rate terms." From: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy: they might have notified me. I am not good at reading mail :P
- Benjamin Golub
I have Mint, too, but I don't check it often enough. Maybe I should have a look.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
woah, that's steep!
- Vicarbott
Don't threaten to cancel. Just cancel. Get another card.
- DeWitt Clinton
That would be annoying. I'd have to change my number all over the place.
- Benjamin Golub
It'll happen eventually for one reason or another. Stolen card, expiration, changing banks. Still, you should send them a strong signal that this was just not okay. Not that 19% is either, but hey.
- DeWitt Clinton
Just got off the phone with Citi. They have a bug apparently that is causing people to see very high rates. The rep kept telling me my rate is 17% despite it saying 36%. When I asked how I'm supposed to know when the bug is fixed she said I should check the website daily and then check my statement. When I told her that is terribly inefficient and they should notify customers about the issue and notify customers when it is solved she said that would be great but we can't.
- Benjamin Golub
yeah right!! the bug is a human error that has bumped you into the 36% bracket. I wonder why you still want this card open ;-)
- kartik vaithyanathan
Cancel the card, Ben. They're playing you.
- DeWitt Clinton
Karitk and DeWitt are correct. Ben's not the only customer having this issue - http://www.businessinsider.com/citi-cu....
- imabonehead
Maybe, I'm busy at the moment but I'll call again later
- Benjamin Golub
from iPhone
If you do switch, I've been happy with Schwab, both for brokerage and for checking. Maybe open a new card somewhere else, migrate all the places you use the old one, then cancel?
- DeWitt Clinton
Isn't 17% still high? Agree with DeWitt about Schwab too.
- Todd Hoff
Most cards in the UK are ramping their rates too. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
whoa
- just ZONED
Benjamin: That is unreal, how were you notified about the change?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I still have no clue what is going on. The next rep I talked to said it was because I had a foreign transaction fee which brought me up to the default rate. Then I spoke to the supervisor and she said that field on the website now tells you what your maximum rate could be and I should refer to my statement for my real rate. It's all very confusing. If my next statement doesn't say 16.99% I'll just move on. I don't maintain a balance so it doesn't matter much I suppose.
- Benjamin Golub
Ben, how long have you had the card? One factor of your credit score is the average length of time across all cards you possess. Another factor it would influence as well, would be decreasing your Debt/Credit ratio, though this could be remedied with another card. As it seems you don't keep a balance maybe just stick it in a drawer or chop it up, if they change the rate.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Yeah that's the other reason I don't plan on canceling; I'm just not going to use it. This is my oldest card and represents most of my credit. Canceling would probably cause damage to my credit score
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, switch to USAA credit card - you'll get a much, much lower rate. (hopefully this wasn't USAA) They're also very good at negotiating to lower rates.
- Jesse Stay
Yeah, my USAA card has a great rate. But the rewards aren't as good.
- Benjamin Golub
Credit card companies can borrow money at just over 0% and yet they claim they're justified in raising the rates of cardholders to these exorbitant levels just because they can? I'd walk. And don't look back. The only way they'll begin to get the message is when more and more people do so.
- Mark J
BTW - Doesn't something seem very very wrong when you feel that canceling is too great a risk, yet they're also jacking up rates to 36%? What's wrong with this picture!?! (Benjamin, I'm directing this generally, not at you specifically. Just pointing out how whacked the FICO system has become.)
- Mark J
Benjamin, I get 1% back on all purchases I make with my USAA card. I've found that to be better than most points systems. I'm curious what you've found is better.
- Jesse Stay
My USAA card has a tiered system. You get 1 point for each dollar but if you cash out a smaller amount of points you don't get 1% back. It takes something like 20000 points to reach 1%. Before that you are getting more like .8%.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin, tell them you have a friend getting the 1% rewards card system on USAA and ask if you can get it too - I bet they'll give it to you.
- Jesse Stay
Credit card companies are going to bumping up a LOT of rates in the next week to beat the Feb. 1 deadline when the new federal rules take effect. After that, it will get a lot harder for CC companies to suddenly and arbitrarily bump up rates.
- The original Kevin
My APR is magically back to 17%
- Benjamin Golub
App Engine does not make it easy to bulk add a property to entities. I hacked it and made a handler that looped over them all and update them. What do people with large datasets do?
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how long does it take with a 1M datasets?
- Fabrizio Giordano
I don't know, a lot of requests. I only had 41 to modify
- Benjamin Golub
from iPhone
1m dataset without timeout seemed impossible to me, I use remote_api for such situations.
- deerstep
Shopping at Zappos is always a pleasant experience. I slipped and fell because my shoes have no tread left. Free overnight shipping plus the shoes look cool
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http://twitter.com/Zappos_... that's good service too
- Benjamin Golub
Wow! That _is_ good service. I'm desperately in need of new shoes, so I think I'll be checking it out tonight.
- Keith Bourgoin
Um ouch! but cool new shoes!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Always pillage before you burn. The ordering is very important in this case.
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I think you'll need a FactoryFactory to make sure :)
- Micah
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My passive-aggressive message for the email forwarders in the office. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/my-pass...
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I love this woman, and I don't care who knows it!
- MoTO Bott
I should put that message in my email signature. Kamilah, I think you're a genius.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Isn't she though? Maybe I should try something like this instead of my usual replies. Then on the other hand, people have stopped sending me bogus email "bulletins"
- MoTO Bott
Got a hoax message from someone that claimed the laptop giveaway was verified by Snopes. Some info from the site was pasted into the message, supposedly so the recipient wouldn't have to check. If you check, however, you learn that only part of the info is seen, and that Snopes lists it as a hoax. Then there was the one who emailed me a hoax and asked me if it was on Snopes, instead of checking it, herself , like I'd told her before.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
lol Kamilah I just got through sending Snopes.com again to some individuals. I have used it before to stop the spread of virus scams. They thought it was a political site for some reason. ;)
- Melanie Reed
I'm stealing this idea for sure. :) I hope you don't mind.
- Laura (hear me raura?)
Snopes is my BFF.
- Carmen wBabby
Just send them a copy of this: http://readmyemail.blogspot.com/2009...
- April
April, that one's pretty awesome. Thanks.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Remember, before you buy that pc from pcdepo, check Snopes! *wink* Maybe they know something about them. Or maybe we need to add this SPAM to the list on Snopes.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Hahah...so true. I often send the snopes link to those folks.
- Mark Krynsky
Problem with making the chain-mail-sending clueless snopes-aware, is that they will then send their chain-mail WITH a snopes alert. I've seen this. Good grief.
- Rick Cogley
Brizzly and Tornado Web Server « Thing Labs, Inc. - http://blog.thinglabs.com/2010...
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Awesome Ben! "Along the way, we have made a number of improvements to Tornado, many of which make it easier to migrate from one framework to Tornado or mix two frameworks in one app. These changes are now available in the Tornado git repository and will be available in the next release."
- Paul Buchheit
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