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6 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"What is TweetDeck? TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that is currently in private beta." - Kenichi Matsumoto via Bookmarklet

Duncan Riley posted a message

“Have FF rooms jumped the shark? Just visiting my subscribed rooms, at least half haven't been updated in a week. Found a list of top rooms I'm not subscribed to, same number, and even then all but a dozen or so I hit with more than a couple of posts in the last week.”

yesterday at 3:01 am - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto, Mike Fruchter, AJ Batac, Jeremiah Owyang and 23 other people liked this

perhaps people rushed in too quickly in setting them up? I'm just as guilty on the Inquisitr Fun room as well. Need to start updating it more - Duncan Riley

the rooms have never had a use case. for example im in "auto-junkie" room - firstly i already tag the item in delicious and it comes thru friendfeed i dont want to tag it again. if i do tag it for my "autojunkie" room it doesnt show up in my normal friendfeed feed so no1 sees it. basically FF rooms dont work and wont unless its changed; ideally when i shared an item in google reader or tagged it in delicious it autotagged or i classified it to a friendfeed room, then content niches could form.. - ben barren

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I had a feeling they might be like facebook groups. - jjprojects

I don' - Dave Winer

They were a novelty at first but they have their uses. I'm going to use a FriendFeed Room so friends and family can follow my adventures in Japan in a few weeks' time. It might make a few of them stick around here too. http://14sandwiches.com/2008/0... - Martin Bryant

The identi.ca room's pretty busy :) - Charlie Anzman

Haven't really used rooms much after the initial launch experimenting. But I think that's just because I don't need this feature at the moment and there may be many use cases for others for this. I guess Friendfeed has the real usage stats on their server... hey FF, care to share? :) - Philipp Lenssen

I've found that rooms are not that useful - but what would be really useful for me would be to be able to assign different people to different groups (or rooms) so I could separate social from business topic from political, etc. Then being able to watch three or four feeds side-by-side rather than have to choose between tabs. - Craig Thomler

Of course every user could choose to group people together in the way that made sense to them - which makes these groups fundamentally different to rooms - which are the same for everyone in them :) - Craig Thomler

rooms may be better suited to private use. i know small groups using them for work collaboration - rob zand

I've only just started to use rooms, so I'm not sure whether they've got staying power. It seems one subscribes to people for themselves but rooms for topics, and that seems like a useful distinction to me. - Michael C. Harris

Yeah, they jumped it. Same syndrome as creating too many subforums on a bulletin board. Fragments the conversation. FF'll need Rooms when the rest of the world turns up here later. - laurence timms

Rooms are a weird concept for subscribed content. If I go to a bar with only people I know and like, why would I put some of them in a room? Why not just stay in the bar? - Cait

Cait, I see it as the difference between going to a bar with people you like - you'll have a good time even if the bar is crap - and going to a bar you like on your own - you might meet some like-minded folk. - Michael C. Harris

No, they've just finally dropped to normal levels of a post-launch. Just like every other product. Now you weed out the bad room and keep the good ones. - Ben Parr

I think the real problem is lack of (easy)discoverability for public rooms - Brian Sullivan

I periodically step through the rooms I am subscribed to and leave the ones that look dead. - J. Phil

I think notifications would help, or some way to integrate new items into or beside your regular feed. That way people would see when new items were posted and jump in. That and some sort of rooms directory. - Josh Lowensohn

I think the rooms are pretty useful for "private" groups where you're focused on collaboration but maybe not so much for general use. The public ones are good for discussion of new stuff (Identi.ca) or for sharing (the Invites group) but it's easier just to post to your main feed for other stuff, IMO. - Lindsay Donaghe

Rooms have some really good use cases for business (lightweight collaboration) and special events (Apple conferences). As specialized discussion places, their usefulness is decreased a bit due to the nature of FriendFeed: your subscriptions determine the content you see. People that would really be into say, knitting, don't need a room. They just do their normal thing here and others decide whether to subscribe to them or not. - Hutch Carpenter

I left a bunch of rooms because they were just spammed. The rooms I moderate are slow but steady (I need to import some feeds). Even FF itself recognizes that they need to do a lot with rooms to make the more usable so I'm sure we'll see improvements soon. - Jennifer Leggio

I grabbed a couple of rooms and haven't yet set them up ... lots of potential, just no time. - AJ Kohn

Most of the rooms that I am subscribed to or moderating are pretty slow. I still think they have huge potential. I think part of the problem is FF doesn't currently offer an easy way to discover these rooms. Some room directories (not hosted by FF) have popped up but these haven't gained much traction as far as I can tell. - Mike Doeff

I'm in a ton of rooms but I just haven't gotten into them yet. I think I need to get rid of 99% of the rooms I'm in and focus on one or two rooms. Bootstrapping community is very tough work. The only way these things will get popular is for one person to really care about a room and tend to it daily. That's the kind of work that I just don't have time to do anymore. - Robert Scoble

That's not what "jumped the shark" means - Bjorn Tipling

yup - Gary Dobkin

Bjorn, "jumped the shark" in the context of past its peak. Happy Days reference. Mind you, they may still come back again. - Duncan Riley

I have not even looked at rooms, I just don't see the point. - Cait

Duncan, it requires some ridiculous event like Fonz jumping over a shark, that signifies desperation. Something past its peak might never have jumped the shark. - Bjorn Tipling

Great, now I'm getting room spam... and I can't report it... rooms doomed to fail - Cait

Rooms seem like a feature that should have come out later. - possible248

A "Search for a room" feature will help bring them back... ;-) - AJ Batac

I've used ff rooms to replace 37signals Campfire chatrooms for ongoing private one-on-one conversations. That's worked very well. We like the appearance of the ff rooms versus Campfire and the ability to group our formerly random chatting into topics. Campfire itself is a great product, of course. - John Murray

Raoul Pop favorited photos on Flickr

15 hours ago - Link

mhmazidi, Mitchell Tsai, Michael W. May, edythe and 9 other people liked this

gorgeous choices! - Kenichi Matsumoto

Awesome - Mahdi Ebrahimi

that one of the creamy coral and orange roses is beautiful. - edythe

Kenichi Matsumoto posted a message on Twitter

“@kenmat plurk見に行き、改めて再放置。正式に再放置。”

7 hours ago - Link

公式に。 - Kenichi Matsumoto

Mathias Pastwa published photos on Flickr

June 29 at 12:02 pm - Link

Mike Fruchter, Kenichi Matsumoto, Shayan Shahand, Mahdi Ebrahimi and 4 other people liked this

Love the shot of the stairs! - Diane Ensey

what beautiful pictures you take of colors. - edythe

sweet - Kenichi Matsumoto

Mathias Pastwa favorited photos on Flickr

Tuesday at 10:01 am - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto, farbod, Shayan Shahand, navid and 5 other people liked this

Mathias Pastwa published photos on Flickr

June 29 at 5:03 pm - Link

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“Is there a way to set a timezone for an account?”

Thursday at 2:10 pm - Link

Kishore Balakrishnan, karen2, Kenichi Matsumoto, LouCypher and 2 other people liked this

If there isn't, I'd like to make a feature request. Background: I am using friendfeed's RSS in my sidebar and keep getting asked why I am twittering in the middle of the night. :) - Chronistin

Hm, times in FriendFeed's RSS all seem to be in UTC and I think that's a good idea. Time conversion should be performed by the user of the data, i.e. you. - Ole Begemann

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I know could convert the feeds "published"-Date, but not the timestamp used as a permalink, because these are just some numbers within the "content" part. Or am I missing something? - Chronistin

Now I see what you mean, Chronistin. Sorry I misunderstood. The funny thing is that for me those times in the permalinks actually seem to be in the correct timezone (CEST, 2 hours ahead of UTC). If I log into my web server (which is in the US) and request the same feed from there, the times change to the server's time zone. I don't know how they do it but FF seems to get the requesting computer's timezone (from the HTTP request or the IP address maybe?) and deliver the feed in that timezone. - Ole Begemann

Interesting observation! You are right, here on ff times are displayed in my timezone when I'm logged in, for the page as well as for the atom feed. My problem seems to be that the server parsing the rss does not have a timezone set according to phpinfo. - Chronistin

I'm still not clear what the source of the timezone info is for FriendFeed. Can anybody from FriendFeed shed light on this? All FF has is the HTTP request header and the IP address and AFAIK the client's local time is not part of the HTTP request header. - Ole Begemann

The 'T' cookie passes your timezone offset in minutes. For RSS feeds, we should probably do something smarter, since the cookie will most likely be absent. - Paul Buchheit

Thanks, Paul. - Ole Begemann

Thanks, I'll wait patiently. :) - Chronistin

Vince DeGeorge posted a link

火垂るの墓 - Grave of the Fireflies live action movie

yesterday at 9:00 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Mitchell Tsai, RAPatton, edythe and Kenichi Matsumoto liked this

"If you have never seen the original anime “Grave of the Fireflies”, I strongly urge you to buy, borrow or rent it ASAP. It is one of the best animated films ever made. The live action remake looks like it’s following the anime storyline and if I were in Japan, I’d be heading to see it this weekend. It premiers on July 5th." - Vince DeGeorge via Bookmarklet

Easily the saddest movie I have seen in my life. - Vince DeGeorge

Vince, I also love this story, The anime is really touching. But I'm pretty skeptikal about this one could overcome the original anime. Anyway, this is a great story and every summer we cannot live without watching this anime! A MUST watch for everyone, for sure :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

Kenichi Matsumoto commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: 携帯とインターネットと歴史

18 hours ago - Link

"その修正したところが重要で、そこのところの距離感を見極めることが大切なんでしょう、現実でもオンラインでもそれは同じことだけど。それで全体を長い目で見て大局を把握し自分の立ち位置をある程度客観的に眺める視点を持ちながら、熱狂するべきときにはレッドゾーンまで振り切れるかどうか。ま、あんまりむずかしく考えてもしょうがないんだけど、常に"中道"を忘れるべからず。露天ぶろ行ってあほみたいに口開けてぽかーんとそらを眺めてくるわ。　　　じゃ！" - Kenichi Matsumoto

yanz published photos on Zooomr

Tuesday at 1:19 pm - Link

RAPatton, Mrsth and Kenichi Matsumoto liked this

やあー！お久しぶりです。zooomrの写真、すごく良いです :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

こちらこそご無沙汰です．ffを本格的に使い始めたのは最近なので訳がわからず．おおこんなことろからコメントできるのかｗ - yanz

yanz published photos on Zooomr

June 29 at 2:14 pm - Link

Mathias Pastwa, Mahdi Ebrahimi and Kenichi Matsumoto liked this

David Teter favorited photos on Flickr

"she usually cried once a day, not because she was sad, but because the world is so beautiful and life is so short"

Tuesday at 6:46 am - Link

Cee Bee, Mike Fruchter, Kenichi Matsumoto, Mladen Srdić and Michael Hocter liked this

David Teter favorited photos on Flickr

Thursday at 9:30 pm - Link

Eric, Mike Fruchter, Kenichi Matsumoto and Michael Hocter liked this

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter

yesterday at 9:57 am - Link

Karen Swim, Kim, Gerard Barberi, William Spaetzel and 9 other people liked this

Kenichi Matsumoto commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: ping.fm 経由でブログポストを日本語で行う場合の注意点

yesterday at 7:53 am - Link

"なんでも書き殴ってみてください:) CSSに民族フレーバー注入してかっこいいのやっちゃってよ、もう！" - Kenichi Matsumoto

Kenichi Matsumoto commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: ping.fm 経由でブログポストを日本語で行う場合の注意点

yesterday at 7:47 am - Link

"それで今ここに飛ばされて自分が付けたコメントがたった５日まえだったことにびっくり。もの凄い前の気がしてたんだけど、なんだろ、最近また怒濤の新サービスラッシュに片っ端からどんどん手を出してがんばって英語でバシバシコメント付けたりしてたから、時間の感覚がおかしくなってるんだろうね。しかし、このさあ、webの進化の速度を以前にも増して体感してるけど、うちの女房とか職場の若い子たちの様子を見てるとそんなのまるで興味ないじゃん。twitterなんて聞いたことないってな。おもろいなぁ。" - Kenichi Matsumoto

Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com

Threading Some Trends Together

yesterday at 2:30 am - Link

Mike Whaling, brian junyor, Charlie Anzman, Brian Sullivan and 7 other people liked this

This is important stuff - great work, Chris! - Todd Mundt

Hey Chris. Great blog post. i think personal brands and company brands (like Forrester) mutually benefit by mixing the brands together. - Rodney Rumford

My business partner (at the time) stopped renting offices in 1997. Since then I have worked from a home office, participating in various enterprises, building personal brand and generating income. So for me this is a reality -- but I am in an knowledge based industry that lends itself to this style of business (and it suits my personel style). Many businesses and people though couldn't work this way. - Brian Sullivan

Long one but well worth the read and some dialog! - Charlie Anzman

Kenichi Matsumoto posted a message on Twitter

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Thursday at 11:19 pm - Link

なんだこりゃ。まあいいか。 - Kenichi Matsumoto

Lindsay Donaghe posted a link

San Francisco in Jell-O

Thursday at 10:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

(steve isaacs), Jared Radosevich, Alan Le, Igor Poltavskiy and 11 other people liked this

Beautiful, fascinating, cool and yummy at the same time. How can you beat it? - Lindsay Donaghe via Bookmarklet

Now we just need a cute lady with big feet to step on all of it. Oh yeah baby! - Tad Donaghe

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GODZILLA FTW - Mona N

Watch it wiggle... See it jiggle... When is the next big one predicted?? ;-) - Lisa L. Seifert

makes me want to wrestle - RAPatton

I would think that a jello city would be earthquake resistant. Now hungry vagrants and small kids would be the new termites :D - Earl E Morningwood

triple like!! - edythe

i've seen this in person. the artist then lets the jello naturally decompose and mold giving it the appearance and analogy of an old(er) urban center. looks real pretty when lit up - Cee Bee

cee bee: wow. cool. - edythe

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

"Stockholms tunnelbana, is the metro system in Stockholm, Sweden" [jchip8, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 9:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Amir Beitollahi, Kenichi Matsumoto and Mahdi Ebrahimi liked this

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Emily Chang published photos on Flickr

Thursday at 10:01 pm - Link

J. Phil, Kenichi Matsumoto, Prolific Programmer, Tris Hussey and 2 other people liked this

I like the building and palm tree shots with the tattoos.. together they have a busy edginess that speaks to me. - J. Phil

Beebo Wallace favorited photos on Flickr

Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door.

Thursday at 10:18 pm - Link

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Mitchell Tsai posted a link

"Bryce Canyon" [starboardside, PIxdaus]

Thursday at 10:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Amir Beitollahi, Cee Bee, Nick, Zoe and 15 other people liked this

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

I wonder if Bryce 3D was named after this canyon. - J. Phil

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J Phil: you would wonder correctly :) - Mark Trapp

I've been there! :) Pretty desolate place - very interesting looking. - Tad Donaghe

Took a trip there over Thanksgiving week a few years ago. What a wonderful trip. Cool, crisp air, beautiful views and great hiking. - Hutch Carpenter

Here's a view from below the rim. Made it there a few weeks ago. Fabulous place! http://www.flickr.com/photos/r... - Jim Stanger

My parents are scheduling our 2009 family vacation for Brice Canyon, Grand Canyon, and some other Canyons. We were just talking about this, but I've never been... Looking forward to it. - Mitchell Tsai

Great shot Jim. Looks familiar from the hiking. - Hutch Carpenter

Its on my "must-see" list - looks breath taking! - Nick Lewis

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

Tree of lightning (during a sunset, wow!) [skip, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 10:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Barak Begleiter, Bec, Amir Beitollahi, Christopher Perry and 32 other people liked this

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Woah. - Tad Donaghe

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When do you ever get the timing to shoot lightning during a gorgeous sunset! - Mitchell Tsai

Any photoshop experts? Is this a blend of 2+ shots? - Mitchell Tsai

Beautiful. I added it on weheartit.com... http://weheartit.com/entry/693... - Vincent X

Mitchell-I would guess it could be but don't know how to prove it. - Mark Forman

I don't think words can describe this pic really - BCK

Awesome. Doesn't really matter (to me) if it's a mashup, it's a beautiful composition :) - Bob Kingsley

that's really lovely to look at. - Cee Bee

WOW! - Jon

@Jon For some of my favorite pics from the past 3 days, try http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... - Mitchell Tsai

Kenichi Matsumoto posted an entry on kenmat's posterous

Shinto Shrine

Thursday at 6:53 pm - Link

Shinya ICHINOHE, Victor Ryden, Cee Bee, Vince DeGeorge and 2 other people liked this

Nice photos-what is your hometown? - Mark Forman

Thanks, Mark Forman & Mark Trapp!!! My hometown is a tiny island floating southwestern part of Japan :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

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Nice :) - Shey

Thanks, Shey! What's more, I enjoy using posterous. You just attach some pics and send 'em via e-mail to create this slide show. Done! - Kenichi Matsumoto

Great pictures and you share my wife's maiden name, which automatically makes you cool - or possibly and in-law. - Vince DeGeorge

Hi, Vince. I'm Matsumoto and I'm proud :) A few hours ago I just came across another Matsumoto which, I guess, is somewhere in Hawaii! Also a nice shot. http://luissala.posterous.com/... - Kenichi Matsumoto

Of course, there is always Matsumoto Kyoshi as well - http://www.matsukiyo.co.jp/ Being an American, ANY Japanese last name is "unique" to me, so whenever I ask my wife if she's related to [random name] Matsumoto, she just rolls her eyes at me. - Vince DeGeorge

Ahh just checked the kanji-Root of the pine-nice. My office close to bamboo pine road - Mark Forman

One of my life's dreams is to visit Japan... - Tad Donaghe

nice photos. that looks really peaceful - Cee Bee

Thanks Tad, Cee Bee! I love being this shrine where I played all day long in my childhood. And I'm looking forward to coming back to my hometown in August! ( we call it "Obon" in Japanese ) Here's another pic of my own. http://www.flickr.com/photos/k... - Kenichi Matsumoto

Matsumoto Kiyoshi is famous in US too ? wow! :-O - browneyes

There might always be Matsumoto Kenichi anywhere on the web, hopefully :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

browneyes - I used to live in Japan, so I wouldn't say that it's famous in the US, though my wife would be extremely happy if there was one in Louisville. - Vince DeGeorge

Vince DeGeorge posted a link

Fu-Ki Sake

Thursday at 6:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto and Mark Trapp liked this

"This superior quality Sake is made from the finest of sun-nurtured rice and contains 16% alcohol. Fu-Ki Sake enhances the flavor of food by cleansing and sensitizing the palate. Fu-Ki Sake may be consumed with the meal or used in food preparation and cooking. The traditional way to enjoy Sake is slightly warm in a small Japanese Sake cup or wine glass. However, Fu-Ki Sake is equally delightful at room temperature, chilled, or on the rocks. Sake complements both Western and Asian style meals." - Vince DeGeorge via Bookmarklet

My favorite - getting started right now. - Vince DeGeorge

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*sigh* - Robert Sanzalone

HOT SAKE = DO NOT WANT chilled ftw - Mona N

True, quality Sake should be chilled, which this is not. As far as "my favorite" - don't take this as my favorite "brand" that I've drank only that Sake is my favorite drink in general over other liquors, beers and even wine. I picked it up when I was picking up some Absinthe out of curiosity - oh which I doubt I'll be drinking tonight. - Vince DeGeorge

Best sake I've had is Iichiko-yummy! - Mark Forman

Fu-Ki sounds goooood. Chilled sake is delicious, especially the Nama Oganic from Takara sake. - lisa-k

Tad Donaghe posted a message

“Cool - FF comments now have time stamps! When you mouse over someone's name the tooltip tells yoiu how long ago the comment was left. Neato!”

Thursday at 6:53 am - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto, Alex Sauceda, Patrick Jordan, Joe Dawson and Richard Bradshaw liked this

It's not doing that for me :-/ Unless I am doing something wrong - Jennifer Leggio

Just put your mouse over someone's name for a second. Check http://friendfeed.com/e/53a10a... - Alex Sauceda

browneyes posted a message on Twitter

“マツリノヨカーン - mobile”

Thursday at 5:30 pm - Link

Kenichi Matsumoto liked this

七夕まつりか！ほんとの祭りか！ - Kenichi Matsumoto

ホンモノでーすｗ　ちょっとｗｋｔｋ - browneyes

FriendFeed Feedback: Tyler posted a message

“add posterous support please :)”

Wednesday at 3:30 am - Link

lauren, Dieter Schwarz, Antonio D'souza, Shahrukh and 24 other people liked this

+1 - quanmengli

I want preposterous support! - Andy Murdoch

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Me too. - K Welch

I want posthumous support. - Earle Martin

It would be really nice if posterous posts were imported with image thumbnails. - Jason Wehmhoener

Yes, please... add posterous support! We'd love to do anything it takes to help FriendFeed add Posterous as a supported feed. You name the API, we'll make it happen in 48 hours or less. -garry (cofounder, posterous) - Garry Tan

++ - Bem

showin' support - mark rampton

Yeah yeah that would be perfect, especially the image / thumbnail ! - Chris Darling

Yes - photo, video, .mp3 and also : )) .doc and .pdf support please for only Posterous : )) - Erhan Erdogan

+1 - Mark Interrante

YES please do this - Rahul Kumar

do it - Vezquex

Posterous is great. Please become an early adopter of what will change the world. - Blaque Saber

Right on, Garry! I really enjoy using posterous for now. Keep up the great work. http://kenmat.posterous.com/ - Kenichi Matsumoto

+1 - Reder

I totally love Posterous... signed up the first day it was released [thanks to Arrington], and I'm there to stay! http://rebkin.posterous.com - Rebkin

I got a great responce to this post. Thanks :) Posterous rocks! http://friendfeed.com/e/8d1239... - Kenichi Matsumoto

+1 - Ross McKillop

Yes, I too would like to see posterous support on FriendFeed :) - AlanLB

me tooo! - browneyes

yay posterous! - Stefan Winopal

Posterous is great, I add it as a blog but native support would be fantasticer - Andy Roberts

Yup, I want :D - Dave Pook

me wants http://andersabrahamsson.poste... (ITMT I have added it as Misc feed) - Anders Abrahamsson

Yes, please. - Zeph Green

+1 Posterous support, please - Jon Price

I support this request - Pierre-Philippe Martin

Posterous is awesome, please add support here :) - Nick