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Happy 3 Year Anniversary, Bret!
Josh Haley, Thomas Hawk, Mac Sharp and 46 other people liked this
Happy Anniversary, guys!! :)
- April Buchheit
Happy anniversary!
- Tudor Bosman
And congratulations to you both, Karen, for all the big news in the last few months!
- Louis Gray
happy anniversary!
- Jessie
Happy Anniversary to both of you!
- Anne Bouey
Happy anniversary!
- joey
Happy Anniversary!!!!!! It's my sister and brother-in-law's 3rd anniversary today too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Happy anniversary, guys! We love you.
- Sheila Taylor
Happy Anniversary Karen & Bret!! :)
- Rob Miller
Happy Anniversary you two!
- Lucy Zhang
Awww how sweet! FF romance :) Happy Anniversary Bret & Karen!!!
- Susan Beebe
Have good times ahead! \o,
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Happy Anniversary
- Bindu Reddy
love you both! happy anniversary!
- amelia arapoff
Happy Anniversary !
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
Happy anniversary guys!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Happy Anniversary guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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.
TheHenry, Misha, Eric Johnson and 128 other people liked this
Exactly.
- EricaJoy
Very sad day I think.
- Travis Koger
Congrats!
- Daniel Brusilovsky
+100 Matt
- Jorge Escobar
congrats indeed, but damn, this seems like it's going to be bad :(
- acedanger
exactly
- mike "glemak" dunn
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
lots of truthiness in that statement.
- Sushubh
I am sad. No congratulation at all.
- bellegarde-webb
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
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
Facebook is a cult
- Joe Dawson
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
no congrats, but I agree with the rest.
- Kamilah Gill
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
Agreed.
- PurpleZoe
only a matter of time before someone is killed by one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Tim Tyler, Ajay Thampi, Moved to Facebook and 33 other people liked this
That is frightening
- Amber, Random Time Lord
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
Dude...that IS scary.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
That bot has mad handles
- Rodfather
When it can do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... I'll be impressed.
- Robin Barooah
WTF O_O
- Danny Minick
I could totally do all that, but I don't wanna.
- Louis Gray
OMG!!! It's over. Humans, RUN!
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Robots scare me more than clowns.
- MR
Good
- Mo Kargas
I, for one, welcome our robot over...Oh nevermind.
- Kevin Arth
that reminds me of my cockatoo.... play with your toy and then when you're done, just drop it on the floor.
- Lindsay
Could we defend ourselves by running a ddos attack against them?
- Laurent
Why so complicated as a ddos attack, all you need it to pull the plug ;-)
- lelapin
Those guys do have batteries ;)
- Laurent
I assume by now - a couple hours later - they have found a way to charge themselves with nuclear power. Probably they are assembling one another and upgrading as we type. Doomsday. #robotsex
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Ever tried to use the Gmail/Google Reader shortcuts j & k on a blog or other webpage? It's a minor but real letdown.
Steve Rubel, Peter, MikeAmundsen and 11 other people liked this
I do this on craigslist all the time. I wish they would just implement the reader frontend for browsing furniture/apartments.
- Jenna Bilotta
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 Flipo
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
Constantly. I do J K on FriendFeed, and on other forums, like http://www.athleticsnation.com.
- Louis Gray
Is there a way we could implement this? Just U, J and K.
- Peter Stuifzand
Most of Google Reader's keyboard shortcuts also work in Feedly. :)
- Tanath
That's the essential reason I always edit with Vim. It feels great when keep touch on keyboard.
- Juvenn Woo
from fftogo
all the damn time. and yes its annoying.
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Yay for vim keystrokes finding their way out from under the neckbeards! :)
- Brett Kelly
Julie and I got engaged... Epic Win!!
Jing Lim, Rob Haas, Lindsay and 27 other people liked this
Congrats, Mike!
- Bret Taylor
Congratulations!
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Congrats! There is a saying in Turkey. "Darisi basima". It means i hope something similar will happen to me too
- Onur Baykal
Congratulations!
- Jim Norris
Congratulations!
- Ladybug Heather
Congrats, Mike and Julie!
- Darren
Congrats!
- Private Sanjeev
Congrats!
- timepilot
To each other?
- Steve C
congratulations!
- Daniel B. Honigman
Congrats, Mike! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats!
- Benjamin Juang
Camilla Shopping for Model Airplanes
Paul Buchheit, Kamilah Gill, Daria and 10 other people liked this
I hear Obama is trying to discontinue development of the F-22
- Robert Felty
I hear Camilla bought the F-35 instead.
- Keith Coleman
My post on the Google Blog about Gmail labels: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Todd Jackson, Ryan Anderson, Jenna Bilotta and Keith Coleman liked this
Gmail labels: drag-n-drop, hiding, and more. Rolling out today: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Vlado Handziski, Keith Coleman, Greg Santos and 16 other people liked this
Great improvements!
- Bret Taylor
nice job. great post.
- Jenna Bilotta
Thanks! There is another post coming to the Google Blog later today that talks more about the evolution of labels over the years.
- Michael Leggett
cool! I'll save my sharing for that one. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Official Gmail Blog: Labels: drag and drop, hiding, and more - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Dmitry Pupkov, Alexey Ivanov, tobe and 17 other people liked this
Yayawesome!
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
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 Moskovitz
Awesome that you can also drag labels onto messages! (to add a label instead of moving a message out of the inbox)
- Dan Hsiao
It's Copper River salmon season!
Ovidiu Predescu, M F, Keith Coleman and 10 other people liked this
Sushi!
- DGentry
ooh that's what I'm talking about! None of that dyed stuff.
- BEX
YAY. It's a good time to be a Seattleite.
- Rochelle
Alas, here in the Midwest, the best we can get is Pewter River salmon.
- Gabe
are they enhancing this fish orange ?
- Geer
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
T-shirts
HealingBrush, Felicia Yue, Ibrahim Tarlig and 99 other people liked this
babby friendfeed
- Yolanda
where can i get one?
- liangcw
A baby, liangcw? Well, you see, a man and a woman who love each other...
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
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
There's always the stork.
- Brian Chang
How is babby formed?
- Gabe
I can't have one, I suppose. In order to make us better, more efficient employees, we can't accept ANYTHING from vendors. Not that I'm bitter. #UcanbanmyWinMocapafterIburymybootNyourUknowwhat
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
OMG a BABY, wait.. paul who? there's a guy wearing what? ....oh.. right....
- Caroline
My boys are so handsome! :)
- April Buchheit
Where are the FF onesies btw? I want one for my newborn.
- Tamar Weinberg
April, i hope your son has his dad's smile. great smile
- Caroline
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 Diehl
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
Bringing him up right. :-)
- Jason Huebel
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 Diehl
Paul - great picture of you both, very cute!! :)
- Susan Beebe
start him on a Friend Feed account now!
- Geer
Caroline: He has my smile, actually - right down to the smiling eyes. :) -- http://i.friendfeed.com/44525a6...
- April Buchheit
Doesn't look like anyone has posted the link to the store yet, so here ya go: http://www.cafepress.com/friendf... .
- Ross Miller
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(Reina)Wang
2 more days until Thomas' birthday!
- Louis Gray
Mine should be arriving very soon! :)
- Diego Barros
Frankie: Read the last item on http://friendfeed.com/about... to learn more about the "get stared" shirt
- Benjamin Golub
Can I torrent one of those bad boys? I'd look sexy as hell in a FriendFeed shirt.
- Brad Williamson
Sorry Brad, direct matter transmission via Bittorrent is still a ways off.
- DGentry
The A-Team, downsized.
(jeff)isageek, Keith Coleman, Jason Toney and 83 other people liked this
:)
- Johnny Worthington
Looks amazing. I want one!
- Toby Graham
Sweet!
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm pretty sure B.A. couldn't even fit in there! :)
- felix
Or mr T :)
- Roberto Bonini
i pity the micro-foo!
- bora "head" basman
Imagine the A-Team van crashing through obstacles with this little guy following right behind in its wake. :D
- Internet's Tad
in a carbon constrained world :)
- Aykan
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
thanks, my biggest laugh of the day
- Lane Rapp
Picasa just got blazingly fast. Use arrows to flip thru slideshows at light speed: http://picasaweb.google.com/elatabl... Fast is our favorite feature!
Prakash, Michael Leggett, Tom Stocky and 8 other people liked this
Long exposure shows Roomba cleaning path | Doobybrain.com - http://www.doobybrain.com/2009...
anil madamala, Felicia Yue, Ryan and 6 other people liked this
RT @TechCrunch: Stuck On Hotmail or Yahoo Mail? Gmail Just Made It Incredibly Easy To Switch http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Daniel Dulitz, Derek Coatney, Andrei M. Marinescu and 3 other people liked this
Gmail -> Google Apps for Domains migration? :-) :-)
- Kevin Fox
Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from other accounts - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Benjamin Golub, Shailesh Nalawadi, Keith Coleman and 7 other people liked this
Haha. I remember in May 2004, when I was already the Gmail product marketing manager, but still personally using Outlook, and telling Paul that I couldn't switch to Gmail 100% until we had this feature. Paul agreed that it was reasonable. And now, 5 years later, we have it :)
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
So are you finally going to ditch Outlook now?
- Dan Hsiao
Anyway, this new feature does not work for old users, since they have stayed in Gmail for years
- Xitong Liu
So the "emergency meeting with Larry" turned out to be a surprise party... You guys got me good... ;-)
Adam Lasnik, Tudor Bosman, EricaJoy and 2 other people liked this
Awesome messaging in an underground parking garage by Axel Peemoeller (Hat tip @ireneau) - http://de-war.de/eurekac...
bar07, Keith Coleman, gib and 14 other people liked this
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
Web Searches In Gmail Now Feature 100% Less Leaving - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Keith Coleman liked this
Sweet PDF-style previews in gmail for PPT and TIFF. Hope this superfast viewer comes to the desktop. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Keith Coleman liked this
Ok, thanks to mspaint running in vmware, here's my Gmail suggest (see http://beta.friendfeed.com/keith...)
Mark Douglass, Sardar Mohkim Khan, Brian Daniel Eisenberg and 18 other people liked this
I am honored to be included in your Gmail suggestions.
- Gary Burd
Paul, try Skitch (skitch.com) to take screenshots and edit the images easily. And it's free.
- Diego Barros
Skitch looks pretty nice Diego. Does it support posting images to FriendFeed?
- Paul Buchheit
+! 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
Benjamin, I've found this mac keyboard shortcut cheatsheet helpful: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Micah Wittman
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
Paul, you can just drag an image from Skitch. So you can place it on your desktop, for example. In the non-beta version of FriendFeed you can also just drag from Skitch on to the "Browse" button when you're entering a comment and want to add a photo to a FF post. The drag does not work on the FF Beta, because there's no browse button on the page, just the "Add Photo" link. So for the Beta you'd need to save the image by dragging from Skitch to the open file dialog shown when you click "Add Photo".
- Diego Barros
Paul: Still, the process is quick to go from screen shot. Annotate the screenshot (if you wish). To adding it to your FF post.
- Diego Barros
Did you end up trying Skitch, Paul? If so, liked it?
- Diego Barros
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. =)
- Jauder Ho
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? :]
- Petr Buben
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 ... :]
- Petr Buben
how about now, also for FriendFeed the same, "suggest you might want to post to these groups also" .. ... :-:]
- Petr Buben
A dollar bill taped to the floor of friendfeed's offices: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Monique, Pat Hawks, Erik S and 152 other people liked this
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
Hahaha, now that is brilliant stuff. Awesome.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
This is a fantastic idea.
- Jeremy Botter
Wouldn't last long in my office.
- Ralph Whitbeck
Amazing.. think I could use this idea in a few places.
- Roberto Bonini
Clever! i love it.
- Kurai (ff)
from twhirl
Simple, clever, great idea. That FriendFeed crew is a bunch of smart fellers!
- Brandon Wood
My employer is too frugal to do that.
- Jonathon
Inexpensive risk management.
- Dave Pelland
Ha! Very clever.
- Brent Newhall
brilliant
- mjc
Wow! I'm speechless.
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
nice
- Mike Collett
The dollar bill trick doesn’t work with strippers though ;)
- Moved to Facebook
@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
Genius!!!
- Joe Dawson
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
wow, that's funny smart!
- Susan Beebe
I stubbed my toe on that dollar.
- Michael Muller
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: God of FF
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
That's dumb. Why couldn't they afford to run the cord somewhere where it wouldn't be in the way in the first place?
- Robert Peña
As an IE I can state that's definitely not something to publicize. Definitely not OSHA Kosher.
- Adi
Great idea will have to remember this.
- Laura Gonzalez
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
YouTube - Slow loris loves getting tickled - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sarah Cosentino, asiriusgeek, Harscoat and 7 other people liked this
props to adam goldberg for this link
- Brian Rakowski
from Bookmarklet
or so Keith claims
- Jim Norris
Thats possibly the cutest animal I have ever seen!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Sender time zone - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Bruce Lewis, Keith Coleman, Roman Zolotarev and 3 other people liked this
"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
Brilliant
- Mitch
Awww yeah http://twitpic.com/30cxb
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Erick Jimenez, Bindu Reddy, Deepak Singh and 20 other people liked this
you'll enjoy it... it's completely changed my reading habits... meaning i read much more than before... congrats
- Ankush Narula
What is the total cost of ownership for the device, services, etc. ?
- Jay Cuthrell
Ditto, Ankush
- Pat Hawks
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 Moskovitz
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 Moskovitz
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
@Ankush Interesting. Your thoughts on the concerns of this link? http://k.indled.com/The-Ama...
- Jay Cuthrell
Finding myself starting to use Google Tasks more. Biggest hurdle is making it part of my daily routine. It's happening though.
kang, Keith Coleman, Alex Williams and 3 other people liked this
@Hutch, I like using the Remember the Milk plug-in into GMail, been using that as a system for a few weeks now pretty effectively.
- Lou Paglia
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
Enhanced Gmail and Calendar web app for iPhone and Android. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Keith Coleman, Kevin Whalen, Mike Bruder and 3 other people liked this
Was just testing this out on my iPhone and even on Edge it is snappy - works well.
- Tony
Yeah, it's been working very well.
- Kevin Whalen
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
A new design for FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Sharon McPherson, cshirk, Anthony K. Valley © and 325 other people liked this
Great job!
- Robert Scoble
Nice job friendfeed!
- Kevin Mohr
Awesome work!
- Aaron Draczynski
Indeed, very good job. Gives me some ideas on Nambu integration.
- Gersham Meharg
realtime by default now eh? nice
- Karl Rosaen
I hate it. I love it! I haven't even scrolled down to the bottom yet. Hold on.......ok, it's good. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Cheers Bret & team - it's feeling pretty good so far (which includes initial gut reaction)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Nice job. I can at the very least say it is a big improvement aesthetically. I haven't finished checking everything out yet, but so far so good.
- Rolf Schewe
why there is no Re-share function?
- Tony
I miss the ability to have a Firefox sidebar setup that just had my list of items scrolling past and nothing else along the side like this view: http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
- Justin Yost
Reshare will be back. Just an artifact of beta-testing, didn't make it in for this morning
- Bret Taylor
Definitely not looking for attention here, but I just don't like it.
- Nick
This real time integrated updates is pretty kick butt. Especially for comments.
- Gersham Meharg
don't like the grey background
- Moses
Any new comment can not move up this item?
- Tony
Our settings vary to prevent things shuffling around excessively. We bubble up when someone you are subscribed to comments.
- Bret Taylor
I like the updating comments, but when it shifts what I'm reading out of the frame it's a little distracting. Overall, great work!
- Derek Coatney
also wish i can add links/pics/embed in the "comments"...for example, i'd like to include an image of my email from http://www.emailcover.com, but it only shows up as a link
- brainno722 (Peter)
thanks, it looks awesome!
- Dani Martínez
Congratulations guys on a job well done!
- Thomas Hawk
Love it, but needs a floating Pause button.
- Barak B
+1 Barak
- Kenton
Barak, very good idea
- Kol Tregaskes
The filter is great! But any filter can not output to friends.
- Tony
+1 Barak
- Tony
what filter?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
adding a filter sucks, things like has comments from should ajax populate :(
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
you can create filters when you click "filter"
- Tony
The anticipation was high, but so was delivery! Great job FF team.
- Micah Wittman
Awesome!
- Iván Abrego
Like it! Facebook import (notes & link, not status) seems broken though...
- Alex Lomas
A keyboard shortcut for Pause, maybe?
- Micah Wittman
Thanks, Alex, we will look into it,
- Bret Taylor
Can you open an existing conversation in a new window?
- Barak B
1st look is good, like the real time...didn't make it to the bottom the first few minutes. Also the comment box drops down as I am commenting now...message got off screen ;)
- Sanne Buurma
please add keyboard shortcut for play/pause feed
- Ouriel Ohayon
Please, remove the gray background. Any color, but not gray.
- bnoise
Agree with Andy, dislike the fugly grey
- Sally Church
Barak: click on the timestamp to open a conversation in a new window.
- Kevin Mohr
Barack B : you can click the time and select open in new window.
- Simon Wicks
Just bring back the filters to the main feed. Other than that, it looks awesome :D
- Gerardo Curiel
Agreed, the grey isn't that great.
- Gersham Meharg
refresh the page would move up the item which have newest comment?
- Tony
sad grey: why don't you let everyone choose the colour of the background?
- Davide Leonelli
looks awful for me - http://www.flickr.com/photos... - do not like the gray or the wasted space
- Nick
Grey or not, rather think about what the beta has to offer in functionality
- Sanne Buurma
Please, bring back service icons near each post — it's very hard to scan information flow without them. Also hope you'll do something with new subscription module — it's unuseful while managing a lot of imaginary friends.
- Juras Vetrau
Nice. Good job guys.
- Peter Kruit
The colouring needs looking at for sure. Unless, of course, you are going to redesign the logo? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
dislike the grey, sorry
- Manuela
Agree on colouring - but hey its a beta. Thanks Bret.
- Roberto Bonini
But Bret, picking a nice background colour is basically free (although I guess you should really be testing 41 variations :-))
- Alex Gawley
perhaps highlighting your own comments in the flood of comments (easier to scan/find)?
- brainno722 (Peter)
agree, gray background is bothersome.
- AJ Kohn
Wait, is the frequent shifting up and down of items I'm reading (i.e. the items in view) really supposed to work out well? I suppose you guys tried it for a while and you just got used to it?
- j1m
Peter, yep but thankfully the Cleaner FriendFeed GM script still works in Chrome and FFox, which does this for you.
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't like: broke my Blocks list, Block not available from Hover Menu
- Will Higgins™
Why Will Higgins have a superscript of "TM"? how typed in?
- Tony
it keeps the bad low-contrast grey on white text for comments that deters me from reading it. You made the main text bigger, now make the comment text black.
- Kevin Marks
Fantastic job guys !
- David Berrebi
can't see source of posts and comments
- Moses
Will: block will be back, just missing today, but it is not something we are removing (just something we didn't get in for this morning)
- Bret Taylor
I think you guys should really embrace the idea of hashtags. Let us add them to other people's posts, having various services auto-tag imported items, let us search on them using filters. Tagging is one great way for us to get a handle on the volume of information here.
- Kevin Kuphal
What's with the orange and the green on the side? Its a bit ugly if you ask me. Also, is there a way to change this, as well as make the beta permanent? (I like living on the cutting edge).
- darnell
I too like the orange and green. It's the blue I'm not sure about. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
I like the FF blue
- nouhad
Yeah, but it clashes with the logo. Either Friendfeed needs to change their logo, or get rid of the colors. Or (even better) allow users to change the colors. :-)
- darnell
Looks horrible to me, I think we should have a customizable interface more like iGoogle, I like the idea though, just more customization, like sidebar customization, friend lists, realtime widget, chat widget, all movable and arrangeable, there sure is enough space etc...
- Kyle Weller
I'm with Kyle and Darnell - I like being able to customize my GMail colours, and having that feature on FF would be cool
- nouhad
Sorry, I don't like it. Real-time makes me nauseous still and the design is terrible.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Yes, bring back service icons, somewhere. Also, the bigger font in entries doesn't look good.
- bnoise
Ignoring 71 previous comments... I really like the new design! One request: allow the pause button to follow my cursor as a scroll down the page!
- Chris Messina
+1 Chris Messina. That would be an awesome feature.
- Beau Liening
Add a floating "COMMENT" feature at the bottom of each thread, so I don't have to scroll up to click "comment"... this is a weird experience in new beta UI
- Susan Beebe
@Ari: This is why I really think tagging is what they need to focus on. If we could each add #ffbeta or something to our own posts as well as others, you get the trending and other features that twitter already has. Combine this with filters and you really get some killer information management features.
- Kevin Kuphal
I really like having one UI instead of different modes (normal, realtime, miniwindow), but to support the old "mini window" experience, perhaps allow the right hand side bar with filters and subscriptions to be collapsible?
- Karl Rosaen
@Karl: API is key here. Twitter isn't massively popular because their website rocks. Twitter is massively popular because there's a massive layer of applications built on top of it. Build that for FF and you have the same potential growth
- Kevin Kuphal
I wish it could use more of the screen real estate of my monitor, given my normal window size, it has large amounts of unused space on either size of the content due to the fixed layout. Maybe a multi-column mode?
- Ray Cromwell
Nice job! but, where are my rooms??
- Krishnamoorthy
@Krishnamoorthy rooms I believe have changed to feeds beta.friendfeed.com/[room_name]
- Lou Paglia
the new design works better for me. I am sure there will be glitches, but so far so good.
- Sharon Hurley Hall
Is there a way to change my prefs over to to the beta so I don't have to keep entering beta.friendfeed...?
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: there's a link to expand all comments, there should be one to collapse them as wel.
- Ryan Stanley
UI suggestion: after expanding comments you scroll all the way to the bottom reading the thread, then you have scroll all the way back up to click the Comment link. Why not have it at the bottom of the thread too.
- Ryan Stanley
Feature suggestion: FF needs a built-in way of referring to people publicly, just like Twitter's @. Perhaps use the same convention. But there needs to be a way people to address each other in public threads, so a user can make sure to be informed when people are talking or referring to them.
- Ryan Stanley
going to read through faq - roadmap of what made beta & what's going away would be nice - big concern for me is the lose of ability to expand lists to see individual participants - i find that one of ff's strongest features - that and block but i see from earlier in this thread that its will make it in later in beta (whew)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Um, Twitter much?
- Christiana
A Pause button that follows you on page scroll could be more distracting than it's worth. But how about something like it appears upon a white space mousedown/mouseup event.
- Micah Wittman
You guys should use this userstyle: http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac...
- Kyle Weller
Curious about how the new design will affect the iPhone version of the site...?
- Chris Messina
welcome qwerty. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Hmm, I tried to read this thread, but I never got to the bottom, because the unexpected shifts of the text just became too much after a while. Fundamentally, if the page keeps shifting up and down unexpectedly, it's hard to see how anyone's ever going to read it -- hence the many requests for a floating pause button, which would help. You could also imagine pause on hover. Being able to read down the page without having the text disappear seems to me like the #1 use case of ff.
- j1m
I like it.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Of course, it's not really like you want Pause -- the real-time updates are great when they're below wherever the eyes are :-)
- j1m
I love the new UI! I'm a big fan. It feels a lot cleaner and more organized. The real-timeness doesn't bother me. It seems pretty clever about when and when not to refresh. Great job, guys!!! : )
- Jess Lee
Bret - Great job! There are certainly things to clean up before this interface goes to the main page. Rooms should REALLY be on the subscribed list on the right hand column. I would LOVE to be able to put Blank Lines in comments. I don't care if they count for a whole lines worth of characters (as opposed to a more common one character for the cr/lf) Blank lines make comments more legible and clear than just a runtogether paragraph.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't like how the interface STILL loses my place if I subscribe to someone while posting a comment (or even reading it!) I should be able to subscribe to YOU while I read YOU and not lose my page place. The Page should need to be refreshed to reset everyone because of the new subscription.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I don't know about the queued items, I like the real time feed, having selectable speeds instead of "over-caffination required mode" would be good. Most discussions this is irrelevant, but the discussion on tis new beta this morning (i.e. on scoble's feed) showed how insane that can be.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The real-time-only feed in the beta is causing Safari 4b on my MacBook use up a lot of CPU cycles, hence depleting the battery faster. I'm sure FF3 will too. Please consider an "ECO Mode" similar to the current standard mode, which only refreshes once every few minutes, for those running their machines on battery power. Without such an eco-mode, and with the rapid-fire pace of live updates, I fear that I won't be using FFeed much at all. Certainly not leaving that tab open for hours on end like I used to.
- Siddharth Deb
I don't know if I've done something, or you guys did, but when I look here, I only have a few services setup in the account, when I go to the old interface I have a LOT more -I'm not certain that everything is feeding through? (i.e. I have Digg and Disqus set up, I see the correct list of icons on the old interface, but on the beta "settings" popup, No Dice. Even if this is irrelevant to the actual data flow, please fix this to make me sleep well at night. ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
One more thing - Could we have a character counter in the comments? It would be REALLY nice, if my account is setup to post this comment to my twitter account, and it's going to post the link to this discussion, please Add the number of characters in the link (plus a space) to the total character count. That way I won't be truncating the comment and/or the URL when it gets to twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Another thing: I used to be able to click the "More" next to a single discussion, and "Link to this discussion" Where is that? If this is an outmoded way of thinking please let me know. Otherwise, um...can we have that feature back?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: the timestamp ("9 hours ago") is the permalink
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: You rock! Thanks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
do you need a techno dunce to help the average joe make sense of this?? haha...i love it...
- Lauren Shanahan
Very twitter like. But better due to nice conversational.
- xiawinter
I actually kinda like the grey... though it does look like it's an opportunity to let companies brand the background in some way.
- Frankie Warren
For cc to Twitter functionality, can the number of characters be a count-down instead of a count-up?
- Winston Teo
I'd like to second the notion that there should be a way to address an individual within a thread...the agreed upon "Rob:" works great, but maybe could be clickable so that there's no confusion as to which Rob or which Scoble you're talking to ;) (i.e. maybe a CTRL-Click or something on the person's name after their comment to start a new comment with their name at the beginning? )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The grey background looks kinda dullish, and it looks like someone ran out of ideas for colours..
- Winston Teo
IMO avatars occupy way too much real estate now, I liked the smaller ones better.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
thsi is nothing on the new design, but after being on here all night with no attention to a down twitter, I am reminded of this: It would be nice if I could set the post to twitter for comments and likes a) permanent b) off or C) on a per comment/like basis -twitter users say this "yeah, when ppl I follow flood me with FF spam ... I usually unfollow ... even block if it irritates me enough." And I would like to be able to be easily selective of what gets put through, and it would get more GOOD attn for FF
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
please, for the love of god, move the "comment" link to the BOTTOM of the list of comments. seriously, am I the only one who can't believe this hasn't been fixed for so long?
- Dossy Shiobara
I like it
- Cristian
Great stuff! :-) FriendFeed does it better than Facebook. Please go real-time all the way for subscription requests and confirmatoions too.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
++ Nenad Nikolic
- Darren Heydon
I dont like nofollows on friendfeed and links are moved to urls very bad :(
- Turkey banned Bloggum :(
I like quick stats on user feed on top right of screen.
- Turkey banned Bloggum :(
Love the new friendfeed!
- Chris Martin
from Nambu
It's not bad, but I prefer the smoothness of the old one to the lines and edges in this new one.
- scott willeke
I love the new letter-counting post widget in the beta though.
- scott willeke
at first glance, find it much more readable than the old one. Pity there still isn't "my items that were liked or commented by others"
- Stephanie Booth
from twhirl
Bret: all the videos are now up at http://scobleizer.blip.tv -- thanks for inviting me and for all you do.
- Robert Scoble
I like this beta
- Goofy2
Stephanie: comments:1 likes:1 from:sbooth
- Justin Long
stephanie & justin - that is in the catch all http://beta.friendfeed.com/filter... - i went and liked/commented on something from each of you that had no other activity - you should both see that bubble up in /discussions...
- mike "glemak" dunn
LOVE THE NEW BETA ! the new filter is so powerful, more powerful if you could add "language parameter"!!
- foxmachia {山石}
still waiting for direct-to-room links on the right column, is it planned? (with lastupdated timestamps if possible)
- Kemal Hadimli
Nice.
- Thomas Chai
Gmail Search Autocomplete - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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Rami Botros, Keith Coleman, immaterial and 5 other people liked this
Pretty neat
- Bindu Reddy
nice how it knows about (all?) the special fields like subject:, etc :-)
- immaterial
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