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Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah

Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen

Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;) - alieb from iPhone

Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray

Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell - Bret Taylor

Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler

Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-) - Kevin Fox

well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that... more... - pb:

Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :) - Simon

Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team. - Anne Bouey

Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck

Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;)))) - K.D.

That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;) - Josh Haley

Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting - Roberto from fftogo

you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats - Özkan Altuner

Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds

gratz Ben! - timepilot

Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie

So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage

Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting. - Ken Sheppardson

Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven

Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex

I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck

Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox

I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped. - Stephen Mack

Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

OH HAI! - Eric

Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was! - Kevin Fox

It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs* - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Affirms my recent decision to get back in the gym at Google. :-) - Jeff Eddings

Yes, exercise is rewarding and reduces stress. This shouldn't be news to anyone :p - Charles Bihis

that's because running is an escape to reality, and not the opposite - thomas marban

It's been shown over and over again that one of the best ways to build a strong mind is cardiovascular exercise (see: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2008...). Yet our offices and schools aren't designed around that! - Piaw Na

Wow, I've never seen comment spam like that here before. :-( - Ruchira S. Datta

@ev Hi Evan..I went to school with you at Columbus High School...I can't figure out how to send these tweets..I keep trying..let me know if it works. I just heard about what you have done..Cami and you lived in Lincoln, and that was the last I heard from you..I'd love to hear from you...I can't believe what you have accomplished:-)! Michelle Loseke - Michelle Loseke

Best. Comment. Ever. - Kevin Fox

That is awesome. - Akiva

#YAY ! :D - !lker yoldas. )°(

Baby!! <3 - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android

Oh, I didn't label this one. This is Baby Athena. She is 3 days old here - Rachel Lea Fox

So true. I just don't know what she thinks about how big it is! - Rachel Lea Fox

Looks like she likes her new throne. - Katy S

He gave SAM a call. - Brent

Good ol' SAM. - AJ Batac :)

SAM would have painted it, but red offended his sensibilities. Scott is the best. - MoTO Bott

This post and thread makes me so happy. You's don't even know. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

If'n it weren't for his big 'ol mouth, T-Rex don't get NO RESPECT! - Mark J

This is making me laugh every time I see it. Then makes me think of Kevin Willis and I laugh some more. - Rodfather

Paint the house side side! - chrisofspades

Thanks, guys :) - Friendfeed's Francisco

Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome! - Jesse Stay

Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that. - Stephen Mack

I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it. - Stephen Mack

Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both. - Jesse Stay

I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it. - Josh Haley

Thanks for the update Ben - AJ Batac :)

Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

Bruce, I'm not sure we know that. - Jesse Stay

Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here. - Bruce Lewis

not enough, best of day should be like a stream that can be traced back - ffcode

ffcode: you can do that. Here is the "Best of week" from one year ago: http://friendfeed.com/summary... - Benjamin Golub

thanks Benjamin - ffcode

How very creative. This is very fluid and cool. - Louis Gray

OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool. - Kevin Arth

Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!! - Chris Myles

Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) ! - Ahsan Ali

This is awesome! - Christopher Chung

with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive! - michael sean wright

:O - Josh Haley

Amazing, thanks for that! - dkb

According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :) - Bret Taylor

Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?) - Kathy Fitch

very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action? - berchman

Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross - goutham

Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on - Shane

That's priceless. Great job, guys. - John Craft

This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too! - John W Lewis

Great project! - Anne Bouey

AWESOME! - Kevin Fox

I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO? - Bret Taylor

i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels - patrick

"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :) - Susan Beebe

Genius, how much time did that all take? - Wayne Hornsey

Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

That is so awesome - Glenn Slaven

happy-making! - Felicia Yue

I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :) - Arvind

Wow!!!!! - Mona Nomura

Excellent!! - Kol Tregaskes

That's great! - Devon Govett

Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury - Benedetto Vacca

неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет? - atner

Lots of handshaking I see :) - Nicholas Kreidberg

hahaha very nice stop motion and music! - Alex Huinchucleffy

BUMP - Roberto Bonini

Nice! Friends, please send me recommendations :) - joey

Excellent feature, gooood idea! - Susan Beebe

Very cool =) - FFing Enigma

Cool stuff. - Mike Bracco

gr8 - حاج مهدی ©

Uh, it tells me that Scoble, among others, could use the recommendations. WTF? Perhaps I have too few subscriptions for this to work. - Fred Yankowski

more good stuff - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Finally a better recommendation - directeur

I'd still love an "e-mail this item" feature, similar to Google Reader. - Jesse Stay

great idea! - Edwin Khodabakchian

Cool! Beats the heck out of #followfriday!! - Larry Hawes

What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else. - FFing Enigma

Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you. - Bret Taylor

Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible. - FFing Enigma

Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it. - Bret Taylor

At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about? - Liza + = ?

Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like.... - FFing Enigma

I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug. - Meryn Stol

Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog. - Bret Taylor

User-driven...I like. - Josh Haley

Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us? - Fred Yankowski

@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender? - Roberto

Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed. - Ross Miller

Roberto: yes, they see who recommended - Bret Taylor

Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical) - Meryn Stol

Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant. - FFing Enigma

and can I see who has accepted my recommendation? - Roberto

Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender. - Ross Miller

Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn) - Fred Yankowski

Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations - Bret Taylor from email

Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :) - Meryn Stol

hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life.... - Bob DeMarco

I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot. - Ben Hanten

Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily. - Natsuki Seika

Definitely better than #followfriday. - Bernie Goldbach

As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user? - Kol Tregaskes

awesome organization! - Marie

W00t! - LB shining from Android

ooh. if i did glass lamp work, i'd steal this idea. - tiffany

Yay! - Lix

That looks great, Shannon! - Anika

Thanks! I didnt count all those tubes but there are a bunch of them ... more than twice my original storage space and I figure I can do the same thing on the other shelves if I need too (sadly there are no empty tubes now ... just enough that each color has a home, and a few are stored between tubes) - Shannon - GlassMistress

Orion Slave Girl Ammy!!! - Kevin Fox

Oh man, I didn't even recognize Ammy! Hair lightening and belly embiggening will do that. - Spidra Webster

I know Spirda, it can be hard to recognize her. Especially since Ammy always said she was never going to have a baby. Life changes though. :) - Rachel Lea Fox

I'm also so pleased that this is the first time I've been able to do effects this complicated in Lightroom without having to switch to Photoshop at all. It used to be that Lightroom was only general photo work and mild-moderate enhancements, not more major ones like these. Now if they would just provide a rubberstamp tool in Lightroom instead of just the spot remover I might never use... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

The Alien is coming!! i know none of you know her, but i'm excited! - Rachel Lea Fox

I changed my FriendFeed name to "You" once and it wrecked all sorts of havoc. They asked me to change it. :-) - Brian Johns

+1 Brian. I remember that. - Louis Gray

I just tried it again and they have code to prevent that now. - Brian Johns

But there is still mischief to be made! - Brian Johns

^ Apparently not, it says "You" on my screen, Sparky. - Stephen Mack

Oh, you're "- You" - Stephen Mack

:-) - Brian Johns

I remember that. - Akiva

How sad is it that, after looking at that image, I clicked on the Friendfeed logo to get back home? - Kevin Fox

I just wanna know what list I'm on. Actually no, don't tell me. I can't handle the truth. - Que Sarah Sarah from FFHound!

I know I'm on A list. - Kevin Fox

Nah. You're on FriendFeeders. - Louis Gray

FriendFeeders is a list. - Kevin Fox

The shortcut to filter the feed by clicking on a service icon is something I miss from this design. - Ross Miller

I loved that feature! (and service icons on posts) - Tinfoil 2.0

Now I'm curious what would have someone begging for it. - Trish R

How and why are they trying to steal it? - Anne Bouey

Trish, my gmail address is the same as my FF account name. I don't know why people beg for it but the first year of gmail I got about 30 emails with people telling me that my email would be the perfect birthday present for their wife, or how this animal has always meant so much to them and it would just be wonderful if they could have it for their gmail account. There were lots of... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

Wow. I can't believe people are that crazy over an email address. - Trish R

Thanks for the explanation, Rachel. What a pain for you. :( - Anne Bouey

Wow! That's terrible! I'm glad you've got Google on your side. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

Rachel, I get a few of those too. One person (whose name I deduce is "Edna Stephens") really was persistent in claiming the estephen@gmail.com address is hers. She's signed up on dozens of mailing lists as me, so I get all sorts of odd mail for her. She recently did the Google escalation too -- not just once, but three times. I'm not sure why Google let her repeat the claim that it was... more... - Stephen Mack

Yuck Stephen. I'm sorry, that is horrible for both you and the woman who thinks that is her email. Luckily mine are never the same person for very long. They all know it isn't their email, they just want it. I have had numerous people typo and accidentally put my email as their return-to email. People end up sending their replies to me instead of them, but those all seem to be that they... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

Sorry you have to deal with that. You should have a sensible name, like mine :) No one ever tries that with me :) - WoH: Minding her Steves

My first email address was pastor@somedomain.com For many years, this was fine...until more of the world started using email. Since the mail client for the email service would post-pend @somedomain.com to any address written without a domain, To: pastor would get me an email. So would Pastor John, Pastor Fred, Pastor Joan, etc. I was getting confessions (some to crimes), questions on... more... - Ryan Kaisoglus

You could always get upset about them. - Akiva

You could always just not say anything in the first place. Yeah, you're free to comment, and I'm free to delete your comments (though I really don't like to do that) or even block you (which I also have no reason to do at this point). Really, though, just... consider your contribution and consider who you're talking to? Maybe? Some folks love to joke around, I suck at it because my first instinct is to take things seriously. Maybe you think that's funny. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

I was just playing around, Kamilah. I'm snowbound and feisty. I won't keep messing with you, though. I'm just in a good mood. - Akiva

And the comments on my posts? I'm giving them all away for free. - <3Heather<3

Well, I'm headachy and moody, even though I had a great day yesterday. I'm having a slow time getting started on stuff I need to be doing. It's almost 2:30 pm here. I haven't wasted this much time on FF in weeks. #procrastination - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Thanks Kamilah and Heather. They may not be originals, but I take what I can get. - Bruce Lewis

Don't listen to Heather. She loves it when I comment on her posts. She LOVES it. That time I asked whether her parents were dead? Hoo boy. What a riot. - Akiva

Kamilah, it's all good. No harm no foul. - Akiva

Of course she does, Akiva. But she's also generous. - Bruce Lewis

Source: http://www.theonering.net/torwp... - Stephen Mack

Release date (per http://www.imdb.com/title...): 14 December 2012 - Stephen Mack

have you watched the trailer? eeeee! - holly #ravingfangirl

Ingredients * 4 ounces (1 cube) of butter, room temperature * 1/2 cup of powdered unrefined sugar, such as coconut sugar, rapadura, maple sugar or sucanat. * 1/2 cup of cocoa powder (I use full-fat, high-quality, free trade chocolate) * 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract * 1/2 teaspoon unrefined salt * 3/4 cup of flour of choice (see options above, I used a combination of rice flour and sorghum) * 2 cups chocolate chips, I recommend dark chocolate * 1 teaspoon mint extract * 2 tablespoons butter or coconut oil - SteVe C

Gluten Free suggestions too - SteVe C

And yes thats my hint for someone to make me the gf version - SteVe C

I do a similar thing with white buttered bread... It makes awesome crouton cups to fill with ceasar salad - Johnny from iPhone

Great idea. - teleken from BuddyFeed

Oh wow. - Betsy

pie dough/creamed chicken - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Oh. - Lix

Oh, it's on. What an easy way to impress folx with your dessert skills! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

I can't wait to try this. - Tamara J.

:o, what rhymes said - chaz2b

nice - Azhar Iqbal

I have a chocolate shortbread recipe somewhere that is especially good for this, as it doesn't spread while baking. - April

What a great idea! - Anne Bouey

Oh god, just what I needed. - Kevin Fox