Congrats to Paul, Bret, and the whole FriendFeed gang. But I hope you bring a big shot of openness into the Facebook ecosystem, because it doesn't feel that way right now.
NO Congrats or whatsoever "to Paul, Bret, and the whole FriendFeed gang. But I hope you bring a big shot of openness into the Facebook ecosystem, because it doesn't feel that way right now." Matt, dear! You Stole My Words! ROFL :)))) Just curious - is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT ROFLMAO
- Lora Lufark
Besides being closed, Facebook has never adequately addressed serious privacy issues in its past. I strongly distrust them as a company and I'm sad to hear that they're gobbling up a service and a group of people I do trust. But if both services end up being elevated to FriendFeed's high standard then this will be a great day in hindsight.
- Doug Beeferman
Well put doug, I feel same way: I trust FF, I dont trust FB. I'm skeptical this acquisition will change FB enough for me to trust it, but we'll see.
- Evan Parker
from Android
Has anyone got an idea for a friendfeed alternative?
- Ru Viljoen
Ru, I think Hellotxt.com might be a decent alternative to Friendfeed (it can also post to Friendfeed for you so you can keep your feed if you wish). I may start using it instead. Not sure. There's also identi.ca which claims to be adding more features for cross-posting. They use the Opensource Laconi.ca platform
- PurpleZoe
thx for suggestions but looks like those are both exclusively microblogging platforms.
- Ru Viljoen
Identi.ca is mostly a microblog (I hear cross-posting networks should be enabled soon), but Hellotxt.com is a lifestream (you can cross-post and etc across networks) I believe. Unfortunately it's slow at times. I'll miss Friendfeed if it gets sucked into the Facebook network, instead of remaining a stand-alone app. Not at all happy about the acquisition.
- PurpleZoe
3 other possibilities: lifestream.fm, Socialthing.com and possibly Streamy.com
- PurpleZoe
Now might be a good time for socialthing to exit private beta and enter public
- Ru Viljoen
So this is how Terminator gets its start.
- imabonehead
So far as I know there is only one incident of someone being killed by an industrial robot. It was an arc welder, and the person stood in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- DGentry
You can read craigslist in reader as a RSS feed, no?
- Tudor Bosman
Yes and it works very well. I have Craigslist search feeds setup in reader.
- Benjamin Golub
The Big Picture haz them too!
- Jérôme
from iPhone
I often hit u in an attempt to go back to the nytimes homepage.
- Keith Coleman
from iPhone
It's all a conspiracy for world domination by Vim
- Amit Patel
The feeds mostly don't contain the images, so i do have about a dozen furniture feeds set up in Reader but i still have to j through them, then hit V to open ones that sound interesting, i'd rather just j through the original items directly!
- Jenna Bilotta
I have about 30 labels, of which I actually use 3 regularly. I value the others and don't want to delete them, but don't need them taking up real-estate on my screen. Thanks Michael and Gmail team!
- Kevin Fox
I still prefer Postbox over Gmail's UI but I might change my mind if they ever provided me with some way to collapse the left-hand column and, most preferrably, move it to a bar across the top. In other words, make it more like mutt.
- Akiva
Awesome that you can also drag labels onto messages! (to add a label instead of moving a message out of the inbox)
- Dan Hsiao
No, that's the real color of the fish. "The Copper River flows in the state of Alaska. Almost 300 miles in length, this wild rushing river empties into Prince William Sound at the town of Cordova. Salmon that originate in these pristine waters are challenged by its length and its strong, chill rapids. Consequently, Copper River salmon are strong, robust creatures with a healthy store of...
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- Paul Buchheit
A baby, liangcw? Well, you see, a man and a woman who love each other...
- Jack&Cleo
According to my daughter, Hospitals are like baby stores. For weeks after her brothers were born she asked to go back to the Hospital for more babies.
- DGentry
Where are the FF onesies btw? I want one for my newborn.
- Tamar Weinberg
Paul, great picture! Cute son. So, when will friendfeed be on front of Manchester United's jersey? That would be cool huh? I'll take a T-Shirt with my user number on the back if you can tell me what it is in the DB :-)
- Jason Cronkhite
I would like a onesie as well, please have them available for October! :)
- Georgia
Congrats Georgia. If you get your onesie i don't recommend the baby use the elliptical machine in it. I wore my FF shirt on it yesterday and lost 20 lbs in sweat. I did look good of course doing it.
- SteVe C
Georgia: our babby's FF onesie doesn't fit yet, so you might not really need one until next year.
- Gabe
Ok, guess they run a bit big huh? I'll remember to not let her exercise in it Steve :) Just put me down on the list as wanting one... and hey, I can keep it in the closet until she grows into it!
- Georgia
Paul - great picture of you both, very cute!! :)
- Susan Beebe
can someone please explain the "get started" shirt they're selling... am i missing something? EDIT oh I guess Ross got back to me here http://ff.im/46Wdz... still confused tho :)
- Frankie Warren
Georgia: it's not that they run big; it's that the smallest size onesie they have is 6 months. If you have your baby in October, a 6mo outfit is unlikely to fit this year.
- Gabe
You're son is so cuteeeeeeeeee! I became to his fan !
- @Renchin@
In the carbon constrained world of the near future, a crack commando unit was sent for rehabilitation by a military court for a emissions that weren't theirs. These men promptly escaped from a small commune in the San Rafael hills to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government and several large corporations, they survive as bloggers and graphic artists. If you have a problem, if no one else you know can help, and if you can find their facebook group, maybe you can hire... The A-Team.
- immaterial
Wow, comments need karma points, cuz that was awesome!
- Neal Krummell
Immaterial for the win. That picture is hilarious too
- SteVe C
This is awesome. I love how the words are tilted and huge... the "Down" looks like it is floating more than the others.
- Michael Leggett
from Bookmarklet
+! for Skitch. It's one of the best programs I've ever used for any purpose.
- Ted Roden
Can't post to FF from it though. MobileMe, webdav, flickr, sftp, ftp and their own service are the only options. I'd love to see twitpic and FF though.
- Ted Roden
Yeah, I'm continually posting screen-shots. My current process is Command-Shift-4 (on osx), then click "Add: Photos" on FriendFeed, scroll down to the most recent "Picture X" file on my desktop, then double-click that. It would be nice to go direct to FriendFeed.
- Paul Buchheit
With skitch, it's just grab like did. Then "add photos" and drag from the window. No looking around on your desktop or wherever. Still too many steps, but not so bad.
- Ted Roden
I did not know about Cmd-Shift-4. I previously was opening up Preview, File->Grab->Selection, save as PNG, then upload.
- Benjamin Golub
Ben, after Cmd-Shift-4, hit the space bar and you can hover over a window to take a snapshot of the entire window. Doing Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-4 copies the image to the clipboard instead of saving it as a file on your desktop.
- Dan Hsiao
for vista folks, you have built-in Snipping Tool which you can just assign a shortcut key. it's much better than prntscreen and has more options that macos x's cntrl shift 4. but... how many ppl here actually use vista?
- Christopher Chung
use vista and print screen all the time. i completely forgot about the snipping tool
- Elliott
I discovered the snipping tool a few weeks ago and now use that full time :)
- Roberto Bonini
Snipping Tool should be in accessories or something; I read somewhere that earliest versions of Vista may not have it, for some reason. Elliott, use Snipping Tool!
- Christopher Chung
Print Screen and Alt + Print Screen have worked in Windows since at least Win95.
- xero
No, I haven't tried Skitch yet because I generally just want to take a screenshot and post it on ff, and Cmd-Shift-4 is still the fastest way to do that. If it could post directly to FriendFeed, then I think it would be faster.
- Paul Buchheit
Skitch is awesome. Paul, I would think that you have the power to add Skitch -> FF. =)
- jho
I added my skitch feed, but friendfeed won't show images from it. Do we need better metadata standards, or do you want to keep doing per-site hacks, Paul?
- Kevin Marks
MediaRSS works very well Kevin -- I don't think we need a new standard. Skitch doesn't include any media info in their feeds though.
- Paul Buchheit
GMAIL suggestion, lab: how about, in address field, to send dm to Twitter- @dm:<twitteruser>, @tw:(<twitteruser>) to post to Twitter /preset with password/, @fb:(<facebookuser>), etc ... its the new age, right? :]
- pb:
We will be adding MediaRSS info to our feeds for skitch.com for sure. We were not aware this was needed or that was the correct thing to add for images to display in friendfeed. Paul, What kind of direct 'post to friendfeed' is recommended however? (btw, thanks for the heads up on this thread Kevin Marks and Chris Messina!)
- Cris Pearson
Ah, so I assumed MediaRSS could be an extension to atom, which is what we currently support. Should we scrap atom and use RSS + MediaRSS extension? Also, how can skitch become an option in the presented 'add service' UI? :)
- Cris Pearson
re: Gmail Lab Suggest More Recipients ..... well, good... now, how about, Suggest what they will reply with, and, most importantly, am I going to like it?? .. but, that is already a different story ... :]
- pb:
how about now, also for FriendFeed the same, "suggest you might want to post to these groups also" .. ... :-:]
- pb:
This is a dollar bill taped to the floor of FriendFeed's headquarters. It's a bit of social engineering. They figured out it kept people from tripping on the cord cover because people noticed the money on the floor.
- Robert Scoble
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Tony C (Unrated)
@Earl: Consider it a stripper-filter, then. You know someone's a stripper if they trip over it.
- April Buchheit
for some reason i expect a "stripper filter" to be something coded using regular expressions. sad, i know.
- Karim
The message here is that Web 2.0 companies are so ignorant of money and revenue that they even step over a dollar on the floor
- Jason Carreira
from twhirl
Interesting. The photo has been viewed more than 500 times, but has only earned 62 likes and 19 comments. So, for every 1 thing we can see here there's another 9 people hanging out lurking in the shadows.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble the old 90-9-1 rule :) (well almost)
- Naor Mark
You could always just superglue some road kill to those things. Nothing gets people's attention more than a dead opossum.
- Andrew Leyden
Heath And Safety in the UK would not approve....but I do!
- Toby Graham
"but has only earned 62 likes". This currently stands as the most-liked Flickr photo of all time.
- Vezquex
I forgot about that photo. It does work, though. Everytime I visit friendfeed's offices I see the dollar and I'm careful not to trip over it. :-)
- Robert Scoble
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Arawak
Reminds me of the deli counter in grocery store in Scotts Valley across the street from NorCal offices of MetaCreations (the Fractal Design arm of it). Local companies'd go there for lunch daily. PROBLEM: Deli counter pencils (for marking your sandwich menu) disappeared at frightful rate. SOLUTION: Deli affixed pencils with price label. Price: $100.00. Pencils stayed at store. :)
- Susan A. Kitchens
Haha I like that trick for keeping Pens from going missing Susan!
- Garin Kilpatrick
"There's a new feature in Gmail Labs called Sender Time Zone that can help. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable (if it's between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm in the sender's local time zone) and red ones next to those who could be sleeping or out of the office:"
- Atul Arora
from Bookmarklet
Awesome ... this will really save me time.
- Brandon
seriously considering a Kindle ....hmmm
- Susan Beebe
I was very close to buying one of these myself this past week but decided on a full-format DSLR instead. I can't stand the form factor of the Kindle but I really like the idea of being able to get books instantly rather than having to wait for overnight shipping (as an Amazon Prime customer, of course). I will wait until it's full-color and has a touch screen.
- Akiva
Man i wish it was cheaper. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on it.
- Frankie Warren
I think a touch screen is not nearly as important as some people think. It's supposed to be like reading a book, you just need to flip pages. Carrying Wikipedia with me where ever I go is super nice too.
- Pat Hawks
Right, and I want to flip pages with my fingers.
- Akiva
But it would drain the battery. I'd rather have good battery life.
- Pat Hawks
Total cost = cost of the device - there's no charge for the wireless radio. You pay for the content - books are per download; newspapers, magazines, blogs are monthly subscriptions; they offer a service where you can e-mail any PDF to your Kindle for $.10 per PDF (you can do this conversion from the Amazon website and upload via USB for free) - that's it
- Ankush Narula
Once the Kindle for iPhone app arrived with WhisperSync, that was it for me. Bought it a week ago and already read four books. Just bought a fifth while eating lunch today.
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm more inclined to use RTM too. Being able to DM new tasks makes it more convenient than having to wait for reaching PC to update gcal / google tasks.
- embee
Good points guys. I've never used RTM. Need to check that out.
- Hutch Carpenter
You could use a personal Ff room as your task history and a filter to show unfinished tasks.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I used to use it but I started feeling that it may be slowing down Gmail. Not sure it if actually was so I un-installed it. I should try it again
- Bindu Reddy
Is there any benefit vs the built-in apps on Android? Native Gmail is probably my #1 favorite part of the Android phone.
- Paul Buchheit
Dave, the app is amazing. Apps in the Browser are great...good job Google.
- Terry Storch
On android, the native gmail app loads my inbox in <4s from a cold start, <1s from a warm start. The new gmail browser app takes >15 seconds to load my inbox, and that was a warm start (just refreshing the page after already loading it once).
- Evan Parker