If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
"So are you a bit more convinced now that Lost's final season is going someplace amazing? The Desmond-centric "Happily Ever After" recharged our faith in the "flash-sideways." Here are 20 cool things we learned last night. Spoilers ahead, brotha... The L.A.-verse is devoid of love. Desmond's "flash-sideways" involves him being happy and prosperous - but loveless. And indeed, it turns out to be significant that all the other main Losties are also missing out on their major love relationships. (Except for Locke, who's got Helen. Interesting.)"
- RAPatton
"Eloise knows something about all this. Just as Eloise was very concerned that Desmond stay on his path while he was skipping through time, she's very keen for him to avoid upsetting the balance of things now that he's universe-jumping. Assuming that events prior to the H-bomb going off remain the same, then she remembers killing her son Daniel - and she knows that this won't happen to...
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- RAPatton
"The literary references continue. Penny's last name, in the L.A.-verse, is "Milton," aka the author of Paradise Lost, the story of how we were ejected from the Garden of Eden. And the rabbit who's scheduled to go through the E/M test is named Angstrom - a nod to Rabbit Angstrom, the hero of John Updike's famous tetralogy beginning with Rabbit, Run."
- RAPatton
"It may come down to a choice between love and life. Charlie can have a timeline where he and Claire loved each other - and he's dead - or one in which they've never met. (Or, of course, he can do the sensible thing and track Claire down in this universe.) Likewise, Daniel and Charlotte are both dead in the timeline in which they were in love. (And we never really knew if Charlotte...
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- RAPatton
can't wait until there is a ff comments plug in for Blogger. Would love to have every blog post I write incorporate the comments from FF.
- Thomas Hawk
Add your $$ to the bounty, Thomas. I put $250 on the table. It's small, but it's a start. Who wants to add on?
- Louis Gray
Yeah, I'd throw in $100 if it worked well and looked good on my blog.
- Thomas Hawk
Well hopefully someone takes up the offer by you and Louis
- Shey
Excellent post. I am a big fan of Marshall McLuhan's work. BTW, I tried to post on your blog to FF but it asked for my api. Where do I find that?
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Cristo: Sun is gone now. Stop kicking the corpse.
- DGentry
Nope. Applications have to run on something. Layers and libraries serve very important functions for user experience and interoperability.
- Tinfoil 2.0
LogEx I'm not declaring the operating system dead. Just as the web is a layer on top of the operating system, I'm simply declaring a new layer on top of the web with the article I wrote on staynalive.com
- Jesse Stay
"It will take about two or three years for the ext4 filesystem, that has been adopted as the default by some community GNU/Linux distributions, to be routinely deployed on production systems, according to senior Linux kernel hacker Theodore Ts'o."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
"He talks about filesystems with flair and passion. "People fail to appreciate how long it takes to make a filesystem production-ready. For instance, Sun had something like 12 people working for five years on their ZFS before they released it in 2005. "The first release was not trusted on production systems for quite some time. It is only over the last two years that it has been...
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- imabonehead
"The swine flu outbreak was a 'false pandemic' driven by drug companies that stood to make billions of pounds from a worldwide scare, a leading health expert has claimed"
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet
"If you’re a GNOME Do user, you will have probably heard of Docky when it was introduced as a theme in Do 0.8. Docky has split from Do into a separate project and has become a full featured dock."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I'm a big fan of AWN, any big advantages over AWN?
- Mitchell McKenna
I'm currently using Crunchbang, so I can't speak to how well it works.
- Steven Perez
"More importantly to a VC, imagine funding a startup whose offering depended on the use of a service provider’s last mile. Without net neutrality, there would be no guarantee of a free and open market and by extension no guarantee of the delivery of goods and services. Such an environment would hinder, not foster, innovation and economic growth — core principles of capitalism and venture capital investing. Startups need the ability to buy services from providers on a fair and level playing field — even if their services may compete with those of the provider itself."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"It's not elegant and it's not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell's Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait. Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll's original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton's Book of Needlework. [...]"
- ianf ⌘
from Bookmarklet
Right now these machines cost a bundle, but, with economies of scale, can "One Hour Bookstores" be far behind? Goodbye print-on-demand, welcome print-on-a-whimsy cottage industry!
- ianf ⌘
The great question is why order from Amazon, when you could pop in and have it made up for you, whilst you wait.
- zeroinfluencer
Perhaps. It rather depends on the range (breadth) of genres and back-order titles in each venue. Traditional publishing is in many senses a license to print money, and so the industry isn't too keen on giving it up. If "Expressoed" copies turn out to be as costly as traditional ones, prospective buyers may opt for better "offline" quality from the big A. Then again, they may not... book...
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- ianf ⌘
Amazon has been using print-on-demand at their processing centers for a while to handle low-volume titles, the logical next step is for it to move out even closer to the end users. Its very similar to the fax machine actually: initially FedEx installed fax machines at their local offices and offered fax as a premium service, sending the fax across the country to the nearest FedEx office...
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- DGentry
Denton, indeed. Thus on-demand is not a product; imagine the use case: I'm about to take a journey. book a flight, it's long haul, so I order a book (profile & recommendations); the book stand at the airport prints it up for me ready for collection on the way through to departure lounge (or collect at departure as business service).
- zeroinfluencer
Yes, Denton, but there always will be that £175.000 threshold such a machine costs, which will limit frequency of their occurrence. Amazon may yet end up the winner, because of the economies of scale in distrubution, esp. if/ when beleaguered traditionals elect to lower their prices to stay afloat. It's tricky business really.
- ianf ⌘
Think of the remix capabilities too. Selection of chapters from different books. Pick and Mix editorial in a book format, lovely. Just in time + bespoke = everyone's happy.
- zeroinfluencer
You can dream, David, but this won't be happening for a long time yet. Simple reason, copyrights. As with daily newspapers where you have to buy it all, but nobody expects you to read it cover to cover, so books are largely made up of parts you will read, those that you might, and those you'll perhaps browse through (all too often, I am afraid). Publishers will not permit selling of just some topical chapters of interest to you, you'll have to buy all the "superfluous" ones as well. Alas.
- ianf ⌘
Bad analogy, also American-parochial one I'm afraid. You do not "subscribe" to chapters of books floating by, you buy a book whether you only intend to read the tasty bits on pages 92-101.
- ianf ⌘
I've been playing around with FriendFeed and this http://www.tabbloid.com/, to get nice productions as PDFs. The source of 'content' will depend on the open licence of creative commons BY-SA, and artists are getting to understand that. Stephen Fry on Twitter for example.
- zeroinfluencer
Consumption/use habits are based upon what the technology of the time allows/affords. DRM tried to play havoc with the watching experience.
- zeroinfluencer
Good concept but, unless you can freely mix-and-match, and you'll never be able to provide just that to general public, a niche product. Even if well executed one, as this seems to me. That said, I dislike PDFs just for the reason that they make potentially dynamic information static, and kowtow to absolute page extent aesthetics even on a screen.
- ianf ⌘
I've read about these "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008" which is a niche product with an enormous production cost-to-distribution ratio. Author never says what they charged for the 1000 numbered copies, but I bet it was a bundle, £39.95? Only when there are fully automated tools to do that (perhaps a suitable application for Wolfram/Alpha?) could this become of use for the public @large...
- ianf ⌘
They never charged for the paper - it was an experiment / proof of concept - I've got a copy - it's lovely. Yes, nice inclusion for Alpha.
- zeroinfluencer
Nice (badly hidden envy), but it makes it even more of a vanity project. Tried to look it up on ebay (0 items found), and google for a copy for sale, without much success <http://google.com/search...>
- ianf ⌘
I live VERY CLOSE to this store. If I try it out, I'll take pictures and post!
- Zach Landes
Here's a movie of the EBM 2.0 in action <http://www.youtube.com/watch...>. Perhaps, for a change, you should just walk in, cup in hand, and ask for an "Espresso"? (refill optional). Then curse them loudly for misinforming the public (and photograph that instead!)
- ianf ⌘
I am actually seriously considering doing that. Good idea, ian
- Zach Landes
What would make this a real bonus is when they can come out with the color edition. Ok, so I am thinking comic books here, but what an awesome way for a small comic artist to do on demand comics.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Dan, all dandy, except it won't be happening, not in this iteration of EBM. It's strictly publisher-controlled selective-backlist only, no option to come in from the street with print-ready manuscript in hand and do a small print run. Or, should that eventually be on offer, it will be prohibitively expensive.
- ianf ⌘
Hold on, I need to amend the above. In the video at around 50 secs mark, it is claimed that the client CAN upload own file, either electronically or from a CD. That information hasn't been mentioned in any press report about it that I've read - so the EBM can be made to accept non-list matter, but perhaps it is up to the actual machine's owner (in this case either Blackwell's or some...
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- ianf ⌘
Meanwhile, there's a better quality (same as above promotional) video here <http://www.boston.com/video...> and a Boston Globe report of a local Espresso installation says this: »[the bookstore] wanted the new machine to connect the store’s customers to millions of book titles. That part of the business has developed slowly,...
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- ianf ⌘
[^*] an euphemism for "the publishers are demanding extraordinary sums for us making it possible for them to make money off their back catalogs. In effect they want us, the franchiser of the EBM, to commit to sell a minimum # copies/year of each title @ current in-print prices (or some such)."
- ianf ⌘
David, thanks for keeping me posted. It's not a light read though, so, before I embark on it later in the week (alas), could you please express it in High-Concept terms, e.g. what [physical size/ quality] "newspapers" you have in mind; and what this your "service to help people make their own newspapers" will be servicing: a single-point electronic drop-off box perhaps for client material - out comes a pack of 20-or-so 16-page tabloid papers prewrapped for dropping off a van at a stand?
- ianf ⌘
Hey Ian, It's not my project, I just know the guys behind it. (Sorry for the confusion - I mentioned it above as an example of what I was talking about - the process is dissimilar from Purefold). No idea how it's going to roll out - but it's a fine experiment to follow via their blog.
- zeroinfluencer
[December 2] Following up on a post from 27th of April—the Expresso Book Machine [aka #EBM] is prominently featured in this week's BBC World Click programme, a video of which is available for international online viewing, all 11m40s of it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... “[Click: 27 November] How printing on demand services and the internet have enabled anyone to publish their books. Plus, a look at the latest eBook readers.”
- ianf ⌘
Thanks! Weirdly, I was thinking about this thread last night. How are you Ian?
- zeroinfluencer
Hi, my name is Johnny. I’m here to tell you about a social networking site so good, Facebook bought the people who designed it. What is that service you ask? It’s called FriendFeed. That’s right, you may have heard of us before. We have been called a rival to Twitter or Facebook etc but that’s not really [...]
- Johnny
Hi there, Johnny! And hello everyone. I'm internet star Chris Charabaruk. You may remember me from such sites as Twitter, reddit, and my new service Taskerrific. And I'm here to say that Johnny is absolutely right. FriendFeed really is a great place to hang out and be cool. But don't take my word for it! We have super internet specialists who can explain it all in detail for you.
- Chris Charabaruk
(Sorry, Johnny. That crooked muse of my just took hold and wouldn't let go. No promises it won't happen again, the damn thing chooses when to make me strange. Great article, though!)
- Chris Charabaruk
Great post, Johnny! I will be sharing it. One thing, though - shouldn't my "friends" be pulling their heads out of their butts instead of the other way around (right after you discuss imaginary friends)?
- Curdy G
Noticed that... Decided to leave it in cause it made me giggle :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Mission accomplished, then. It made me chuckle a bit, too, picturing someone trying to pull their butt out of their head. :)
- Curdy G
Johnny, (and Chris, great co-hosting) this takes high concept yet practical to a new place. You leveled up, sir. Wow. Don't care if I look like I'm fawning right now, because it's so good at several levels. Sincerely, Me.
- Micah
I'm gonna send this to my friend who doesn't get friendfeed yet.
- Amani
Johnny - You are like the brother I never had! (except for Sean and Josh that is....) But YOU ROCK!
- Morgan
Morgan. You're like the brother of the brother I always wanted :)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Nice, Johnny. Maybe you could do a Part II -- "But didn't Facebook buy FriendFeed? Doesn't that mean FriendFeed is dead? Why should I start using a dead service?"
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I was going to address this but my objective is to get more users. I'm confident that FriendFeed will be around for a significant amount of time and it's our job to build a user base to a point where we're 'to big to fail'.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Yeah, I suppose that makes sense... you don't really hear people talking about how FF's "dead" until you start using it.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's only dead if we let it die. Facebook has given no indication that they will do so. FriendFeed is only dead to those who sought to be on the cutting edge. The early adopter wave has crashed over the beach of FriendFeed and we're all now just enjoying a day out paddling in the water.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Twitter is slowly but surely catching up to Friendfeed in features. Re-tweets stand in for FoaF aggregration. There have been many attempts by 3rd parties at threading and displaying images and videos inline. Search is going the outsourced route, to Bing and Google. The character limit is still an obstacle, though. But luckily we don't have to wait and use a bunch of hacks, because all of this is built into Friendfeed already.
- Vezquex
Vezquex; My major issue with Twitter is the infrastructure has to be built into the message. Until I can use the full 140 characters, I don't see much hardcore use outside of the occasional message.
- Johnny
It was fabulous. And I did post it to FB. I figure they're my best shot at new peeps - especially the ones from AdGabber, the first socnet I was ever on.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
from iPhone
YO JOHNNY, IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT...BUT...BUT, N-MIND YOU GOTZ DA BADDEST-ASS SHADES OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME!!!
- Josh Haley