This dance was amazing!! I think Twitch may win this year. - Rachel L Fisher
Love the song pairing w/ Mia Michaels choregraph - Pokai
are the producers testing for HGH, steroids, or blood doping??? - eviltom
no, but like last season when somebody got a good reaction for no shirt, then it will be a no shirt fest for the rest of season...at least for guys... - Pokai
Any sleuths have any idea what this guy is? Cee Bee, you did a fantastic job identifying the clearwing butterfly http://friendfeed.com/e/7bf272.... Perhaps FriendFeed can offer services as a research unit (to make some money)? - Mitchell Tsai
Now this guy is Funny! Reminds me of me, when I am angry! LMAO - Igor The Troll
It was my first flash flood. The lines for the exhibits were 1-3 hrs long for the popular ones (and it was 100-110 deg). A few of us were sitting outside at a circular restaurant table under a big umbrella to shield us from the sun. When the pouring rain started, we decided not to go inside. Then we started standing on our chairs, and when the water started overwhelming the chairs and we were thinking of climbing on the table, we were like "oh sh--!" - Mitchell Tsai
When the sun came out, the water drained into the ground with giant funnels (like the kind you seem in your bathtub) about 1-2 feet around. Best of all, the lines to the popular exhibits became very short. - Mitchell Tsai
"A critique of Hancock is an essay in irrelevance. It's Independence Day Week, and six times since 1996, that's meant a Will Smith movie — a mega-giga-gigantic hit. Independence Day, Men in Black, Wild Wild West, Men in Black II, I, Robot: He shows up, people line up. Thomas Jefferson used to own this holiday, but now the former Fresh Prince does. So why should critics even bother to review a new Will Smith movie? You'll only go anyway." - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet
@Bret: to support and round out your Will Smith owns 4th of July theory :) - Dan Hsiao
slightly entertaining but disappointing.. it just feels weird and incomplete. Go see it just for the effects and will smith, don't expect too much! - Jing Lim
"The study, given the go-ahead by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will involve treating human cancer patients with white blood cells from healthy young people whose immune systems produce cells with high levels of cancer-fighting activity.
The basis of the study is the scientists' discovery, published five years ago, of a cancer-resistant mouse and their subsequent finding that white blood cells from that mouse and its offspring cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory mice. They have since identified similar cancer-killing activity in the white blood cells of some healthy humans.
"In mice, we've been able to eradicate even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumors," Cui said. "Hopefully, we will see the same results in humans. Our laboratory studies indicate that this cancer-fighting ability is even stronger in healthy humans."
The team has tested human cancer-fighting cells from healthy donors against human cervical, prostate and breast cancer cells in the laborator" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
I <3 science. I'm getting a warm fuzzy feeling every time I hear about (yet another) breakthrough. - Tudor Bosman
Wow... I'm speechless. You always hope to hear about things like this and now, here it is... Wow. - Lisa L. Seifert
this is of a kind with the story Dan Kaplan posted...about the greyhounds... - edythe
how can someone read this and not "like" it? - Chris Hollander
Tudor: tend to agree reg. science, but I must admit after taking an epidemiology methodology course my initial reaction to medical breakthroughs is somewhat reluctant, but I hope this one is great. - Amund Tveit
Wow, I totally agree, Kevin. What an awesome idea! And now I am wishing for a way to "like" this entry more than once. Thanks for sharing that, Matt. - Ragani Harris
I've been witnessing and loving lots of wedding hacks lately. A friend of mine is having a court ceremony anyone can come to followed by relaxed, fun, informal house parties in 5 cities. - Lilly Irani
Using it right now on my iPod Touch. :) - Raoul Pop
@Scoble: let me know what you think. I know you use FF a lot on your phone, and you are quite a power user, so I have a feeling you will have a strong opinion and/or notice things we left out. - Bret Taylor
I know you guys aren't out to compete with twitter directly, but putting that post text box at the top of the interface removes my last reason for twittering. - Robin Barooah
looks great but interested to know why you chose to remove the hide function. It would seem well suited to mobile browsing and removing the noise a little more on the small screen - Jon Dillon
Awesome job; renders well on my phone (a Moto Q9c) too - Benjamin Golub
@Jon: You're right, we should add that back in. - Bret Taylor
renders perfect. clicking youtube videos just work as intended... Here's a quick request. Search is at the bottom and scrolling endlessly to reach is a bit boring. Can you guys insert an anchor for a quick access to page bottom? And another anchor there for teleporting back to top. - Berk D. Demir via twhirl
again, enjoy the pic :) and the interface even more! - MG Siegler
Very nice. I'm also posting from my iPhone. FF lends itself well to mobile use. - Chris Baskind
The anchor to jump to the bottom would be nice. Tip: On any web page you can tap the 'status bar' at the top of the screen to jump up to the top of the page. - Kevin Fox
I don't want to take credit for this or anything, but I just did ask about this today. I'm kidding by the way. - Johnny Baker
This works REALLY WELL in a sidebar or Fluid App site specific browser. WAY better than the googlegadget URL we've been using. This interface in Fluid is my new favorite way to interact with FriendFeed. It's teh Awesome! Thanks! :-) - Josh Bancroft
this is AWESOME - posting from my touch! - Charles Hudson
A much needed improvement. This will be awesome on a 3G iPhone as well. - Chris Rodgers
i'd still like to see the Comment/Like buttons made a little bit easier to hit. They have close proximity to the article link and using a finger isn't as accurate as a cursor. - Jamie
Yeah, I just started using friendfeed today and can't see how you guys/gals did without this spiffy interface. Rocks! - Christopher Medina
It looks fantastic, thanks guys it's a great job. FriendFeed is now even more useful. - fbrunel
I would love the option to run links through the Google transcoder. FFtoGo has that and it's invaluable. - Steve Rubel
You can also use http://tiltview.com to view the iPhone version of the site from your computer or other mobile phones . You need to select iPhone as a mobile type. - seman
Love it! As soon as I open up the MBP I'm going to fire up Fluid.app and make a menu app with the iPhone interface. - Ryan Cates
Seesmic videos could theorically been played on an iPhone. The Seesmic API also provides a link to the video in MP4, that's would be awesome to do that in the FriendFeed iPhone interface. - fbrunel
Why do the "comment" and "like" links the load after the rest of the page? I almost missed them with EDGE's slow data. - Frankie Warren
awesome! Anyone else want a bit more space around the "comment" and "like" links? I mis-poked on my first attempt. - Kelly Norton
So awesome, great work! I love it. I'm sure you're aware but longer (horizontally) posts, such as those with multiple photos, do funky things to the layout. - Jake
@Jake, et al: we will do some work for posts with a lot of media to make it work better. Thanks for the feedback. - Bret Taylor
It looks like the UAT testing with Scoble and team worked marvelously well - nice job Bret!! :*) - Susan Beebe
I am back to the old version too. I miss Everyone tab, Search, and Hide features - Robert Scoble
i agree with one of the comments. why a separate blog to capture comments - get them all using FF. easier to follow discussion. iphone interface looks great - i think i'm going to find myself using it a lot on my phone - naveen
Awsome! It just needs search and it would be perfect!
As far as the old interface went, it was pretty good for the iPhone as well. - darnell
@Scoble: thanks for the feedback. They were known problems, but I think we can find the space to fit them in. Search is at the botto of every page, FYI. - Bret Taylor
Very nice. Much prefer it to FFtogo ... - Patrick Jordan
Very nice. However, on the iPhone it's very easy to jump to the top of the page (just tap the top bar) and very hard to get to the bottom of a long page (lots of scrolling). Can search be moved to the top? - Stephen Mack
Very nice. Makes it much more useful on my iPhone. Like the picture option... - simonpure
I agree with Stephen about "search". It's been quite the workout on the thumbs. - m.0
omg. congratulations. that's huge - and very few people are going to know how difficult that must have been to schedule/achieve. switching to draft full-time for sure now. - Chris Wetherell
Wow, UPS tracking has gotten much better. Where is the baby now? Make sure you're home during the delivery, though. Whenever I'm not, they just leave it at the front door. (Congrats, by the way ;) ) - Vince DeGeorge
What is this? Baby on Friendfeed week :) Between you and Louis...hehe. So does this make Friendfeed an aunt or an uncle? or maybe a cousin? Congrats Paul! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
@Erhan, actually I would like to see the true babies pic and then the a render pic from http://makemebabies.com/. It would be awsome to see how closely the two would match up :)- - Peter Dawson
This is a great ad. Penny's is getting the attention from the online community without having to pay or to deal with the crazys that think it will promote teen sex which takes place without promotion anyway... - Robin Whitson
Wow, this is a great attempt at shifting the perceived JC Penney customer base from 'moms' to 'teens'. JC Penney's brand has gone downhill because of its perception as the place your parents take you to shop when you'd really rather be at Urban Outfitters, Diesel, Anthropologie, etc. It's an interesting gambit, but one they'd really have to follow through on by making the retail experience far more edgy and relevant than they have in the past. - Kevin Fox
Apparently it wasn't approved by JC Penney or Saatchi...didn't think they had the balls for this. - Nicholas Molnar
Thanks for sharing. This was one of the many questions I would have asked you had we sat down for a coffee in Starbucks. And if we ever do... I'm buying. - Kevin C. Tofel
Been waiting for this post TH. Thanks. - Chris Nixon
I am one of the ones that asked for workflow detail -- thanks for the post and info. It would be great to see a Scoble video of this -- I have no doubt that the discussion would enhance the information - Brian Sullivan
Great post! You only shoot with prime lenses? Do you switch them out often? - lisa-k
@Thomas Hawk - I believe you have mentioned it before, but I cannot put my finger on it...why the use of Bridge over Lightroom and/or Aperture. Sorry if it's a repeat question; feel free to point to link if you have previously answered this elsewhere. Thanks! - JA Castillo
JA - I use Lightroom and as I was reading TH post it occurred to me that LR would do all of these steps except Geotag. - Russellreno
JA Castillo, from what I've seen and read, he just hasn't gotten around to converting to Lightroom. - Mark Trapp
Thanks for this article, I like the use of "finished" A and B folders. I'd be curious to see how you worked the sliders in Camera Raw and in what order. Exposure, Recovery etc. Great content for a future PhotoCycle? - Andrew Smith
@Russellreno & Mark Trapp - Thanks! I have been contemplating Lightroom and was curious as to why he's still with Bridge as there are more "creative" opportunities via Lightroom over Bridge. - JA Castillo
Thanks all. Lisa, yes, I shoot 96% with prime lenses. I do have a Canon f/4 70-200 zoom that gets used sometimes, but mostly all primes. I used to shoot with zooms but I feel like I get better, sharper images with prime lenses. - Thomas Hawk
I can't believe how much I've learned about photography just from reading friendfeed. Now, if I can just get myself a tripod (or less caffeine) and a decent camera. :) - Harvey Simmons
JA Castillo. I tried Aperture a few years back. It didn't handle vignette processing back then so I uninstalled it. I'm sure Aperture is a perfectly fine photo editing software package but at this point I'm just more used to Adobe products and I can see no compelling reason to switch to Aperture. I'm sure Aperture is perfectly fine though and sort of view the Aperture/Adobe debate like the Canon/Nikon debate. Both are fine, depends on your preference. - Thomas Hawk
Muahaha, now I will be like Thomas Hawk. My plans for world domination are coming along nicely. - Bwana McCall
some time ago i decided to learn how to use a set of tools and stick with them. I use Dowloader Pro / Bridge / Photoshop. - Mário Pires
In terms of Lightroom, I tried the last beta a few years back out but it was still buggy. I need to spend more time with it though as the best photo processors I know are using it. I'm hoping to spend some time learning it and plan on doing a review of the new upcoming version of it in conjunction with the upcoming version's release. - Thomas Hawk
Seems like my process is quit similar except I started using LightRoom recently. What I don't understand is how you go through 500 pictures in one evening with this process. It took me about 2hrs last night to go through 50 pictures taken and 18 that I processed. Anyway, thanks for sharing! - Justin Korn
Aperture does have vignette sliders now (both gamma and exposure, gamma produces lovely vignetting imo). Check my flickr for examples, I use Aperture exclusively. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo
@Justin Kom: I can run through about 250 photos in a few hours in LR. It depends on what everyone means by 'processing,' I guess. A lot of them just get quick adjustments, and I end up copying and pasting adjustments a lot too, with a few tweaks after. This really speeds things up. - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
Nice. Also, oops, Korn, not Kom. With the font I'm using in Twhirl it looks like "m" instead of "rn." - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
The Beta of Lightroom 2.0 has better vignetting control (an option to add vignette after cropping) and the software is pretty stable overall. I've been a Lightroom user since the very beginning, and I switched to 2.0 as soon as the beta came out. (I've run about 2,500 images through it with no problems.) It plays well with the other Adobe tools, so if you still want to open up in Bridge or ACR, all your settings will be shared across the applications. - Brian Johns
I really like the LR 2.0 improvements, especially the multi-monitor support and the better vignette controls. I stay out of 2.0 most of the time, though, because: "Develop settings applied in Lightroom 2.0 beta are not guaranteed to transfer correctly to the final version of 2.0. This is particularly true for localized corrections." - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
@Donato - I think I need to learn to find pictures with similar lighting and batch process them like you mentioned. @Thomas - I need to learn to like Redbull... - Justin Korn
Thanks for sharing this Thomas! I'd be especially interested to see a follow-up post detailing what you do in steps 4 & 5 to process your images. That is, take an example raw image from the camera, and take us through each of the processing steps until you are happy with it. - John Keyes
Justin, I've gotten pretty good actually at processing images very quickly. I have to as I'm trying to publish 1 million photographs before I die and there's just not the time to spend too much time on any one image -- so I process fast. The jump from CS2 to CS3 was a *huge* breakthrough in my own photo processing productivity. Eventually technology should make the sole limiting factor your ability to mentally process what you want to do. - Thomas Hawk
There are, by the way, some *amazing* photographers who probably spend a lot more time than I do processing their images. merkley, Cole Rise, Kelly Castro all come to mind. - Thomas Hawk
"Typically less than 10% of my photos need additional work beyond camera RAW." -- Wow. This speaks volumes to your enviable talent behind the lens as well as your skillful use of Adobe Camera Raw. Thanks very much for sharing. - Taylor
I got lazy and stopped shooting in RAW....now it looks like I'm going to have to start again... - Snay Trivedi
Making the leap to Lightroom probably cut my processing time in at least half. I think I've used Photoshop about 5 times since I've started using LightRoom 6 months ago! But even so, I feel like I spend just as much time (if not more) processing as taking the pictures. I agree though, some of the most amazing photographers spend WAY more time processing their photos. - Justin Korn
I started using Lightroom about 6 weeks ago, and it has actually encouraged me to shoot more because the workflow is simpler than what I was doing before. I'm glad to hear that vignetting is going to be improved in 2.0. That's my major qualm with the software right now. There are, however, definitely instances where Photoshop is highly beneficial. - Matt
Take away - Use prime lens, compose in camera, shoot raw, process. I need to invest in some prime lenses. - Russellreno
LR processing - On first pass I view all photos in slide room and quickly rate 1 or 4. I delete the 1's and then view and continue to process. If I don't like a 4 on second pass it becomes a 3. Eventually I can say i am finished. - Russellreno
Really brilliant post Thomas thanks v much and I agree with the person who suggested that a Scoble video would help to record the mastery. I've been trying to work this stuff out for ages but never quite applied myself to it the way you have. Now I just have to use the Hawk methodology on about 10000 photos already in iPhoto....oh and learn how to take better pictures...that might be harder! - Anne McCrossan
@Russellreno: I do almost the same thing. I never delete anything, though. @Thomas, do you ever delete your RAWs? - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
While I don't do any processing to any of my pics I found this a good read and really liked the other links in the blog. I am surprised that your everyday bag contains primes and no longer telephotos. - Becca
Donato, I rarely delete any RAW originals, even technically horrible shots or mistakes. These always could be converted into abstracts later on -- and then there is always the case where what seems like a throw away might later turn out to be significant. This was the case in a famous photo taken of Clinton and Lewinsky. I save everything. Storage is cheap. - Thomas Hawk
@Thomas, that's always been my take on it too. I don't delete anything for the same reasons. I'd rather keep them and know that they are there if I ever need them or find a use for them, instead of just deleting them forever. I've very rarely ever said "Oh, I'll never use this." and deleted it, because you really never know. - Donato (ricin) via twhirl
Fantastic article. I really enjoyed reading your links to the older articles also. My process is rapidly envolving, and your article helps immensely. I've got a backlog of 90,000 pics from the past 2 years, and anything that speeds the process is wonderful. - Mitchell Tsai
Another guilt-free reason to go shopping! :) - Erin
Thanks guys. Martin, some dedication yes, but really what did it for me this time was learning something about my body which is only just recently being backed-up by studies. What I learned: When doing a moderate healthy diet/exercise plan, my body will take 3 or even 4 months to show results each time. What this means is that when i start working at it in a manner that is able to be part of my normal live (not working extra hard in ways I can't sustain) I will lose about 10 or 15 lbs quickly and then stop. - Rachel L Fisher
Then over the next 3 or 4 months I will lose at most a half pound, which gets very frustrating and many people, myself included in the past give up after nothing working for about 3 or more months. You can even try harder during that time, it won't matter, you just don't lose weight. Then suddenly out of no where you lose like 8lbs over 2 weeks, not changing a thing. Then it starts again. Another 3 or 4 months and no loss at all. Apparently this is beginning to be found in some people especially women. - Rachel L Fisher
Your metabolism just adjusts to keep you steady for as long as it can. It doesn't care that you are exercising and therefore it should be getting energized, some metabolisms just won't do it. So its a game. You have to have patience and you just have to keep up the small changes that you make in your life. So yes, its dedication but its an awful lot of patience and just keeping yourself from getting discouraged. Sorry about the long answer. Thank you all for the support!! - Rachel L Fisher
Yeah, I just had the same surprise. Looking forward to pictures of the new place! - Jordan Hofker
Congrats!, remember to recycle those boxes. - Mike Fruchter
Yay new office! Hopefully you aren't moving like the last two startups I worked for.. as fast as possible in the middle of the night, etc., etc. - J. Phil
congrats, don't get drunk tonight, or maybe u should - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Well, then... you're not my real friend. Real friends would ask other friends to help move. Not that I'm complaining about not being asked or anything... just sayin', that's all. - l0ckergn0me
@Alex - That was probably the problem. ;) (Usually: Massive = Expensive) - sebmos
Alex: massive, and unfortunately temporary. It was massive because we got an incredible deal b/c they wanted someone to fill the space for 10 months, so they gave us a very good rate on the space. Our new space is more permanent (2 year lease). @sebmos: not expensive at all, thankfully :) - Bret Taylor
The new FriendFeed offices are literally across the parking lot. So if you've ever been to one of their open houses, you can park in the same spot. :-) - Louis Gray
love the graphic at the top!!! keep it up! - Stefan Hayden
congrats on the move! hope I get an opportunity to visit the new office. - David Vasileff
across the parking lot? Is it the eye-fi office? - Patrick Li
I thought the logo was to suggest that by posting items in your feed, you're sending presents to your friends. It was cute! You should bring it back! - Alex Mendes da Costa
You must be all moved in, the Logo's gone. I miss it, kind of liked it. Not that you need to start the Google-like logo of the day, but you might change it around once in awhile. - Victor Ryden
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