Kevin Fox - Likes - FriendFeed

1.05 (670/633) - Micah Wittman from Bookmarklet

Can you remind me again where to find those stats? - Brian Johns

Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion. - Micah Wittman

0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here - mikepk

I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week! - Brian Johns

1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page) - Micah Wittman

OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals... - Brian Johns

3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like. - Cyrus Lendvay

FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in. - Micah Wittman from twhirl

0.79 - Brian Roy

0.77 - Eric @ CS Techcast

0.67 - Nine

0.77 - Shey, Jamaican of FF

0.76 - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

1.39. - Rochelle

1.80 - Brian Sullivan

1.61 - I only 'like' when I want to throw my support behind a topic but don't have anything constructive to add. - Bjorn Stromberg

1.12 - LogEx

1.41 - WorldofHiglet

5.08 (3181/626) ! - ◄ani625Ξ

2.41 - William Harryman

0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem. - Bren, Photophobe

0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments - Cee Bee

1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief! - Her Lindsay-ness

@Cee Bee I think you meant 0.62 - ◄ani625Ξ

1.27 (902/705) - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

yes, thanks for the correction. lindsay, you're making me feel bad. lol - Cee Bee

0.8576, I only like mostly when I'm going to comment - Mol, Time Warping

1.55 endlessly repeating. This Like/Comment included. - Dana D

before this comment: .69 I kid you not. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both) - Micah Wittman

CSV_A: 1.05,0.75,1.44,0.81,3.74,0.79,0.77,0.67,0.77,0.76,1.39,1.8,1.61,1.12,0.141,5.08,2.41,0.66,.39,0.62,.62,1.27,0.8576,1.551,0.69 - Micah Wittman

1.83 - Grant Bierman

I tend to like allot of photos which really don't need comments. - InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)

InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks! - Micah Wittman

.37 1002/2708 - Michael Fidler

this is what scobes walls would like if he didnt have FF - sean percival

I haven't seen Marc Canter's fabled fence (just heard about it), but I imagine this but on wood pickets :) - Micah Wittman

This week: 2.48 (1162:467) but this is not the norm, my likes usually match or are higher than comments, overall: 0.95 (14228:14846). - Kol Tregaskes

Thanks Michael, Kol! I'll recalculate average/median when we build up some more data points here. - Micah Wittman

1.03 748/723 - Keith - @tsudo

.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link. - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots) - Micah Wittman

1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up. - Tyson Key

*bump* - Micah Wittman

0.51 - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Thanks, Mark! - Micah Wittman

Thanks Spidra! - Micah Wittman

0.95 (1520/1604) - it's 2+ months later, and my ratio flipped (more Likes by .05) - Micah Wittman

.7 (1204/1724) - before this comment at least. - Rachel Lea Fox

Thanks, Rachel! - Micah Wittman

3.46 (3665/1057) before this comment and like. - Kevin Fox

Thanks, Kevin. 3+ is quite the comment on your commenting activities :) - Micah Wittman

I've got stuff to say. - Kevin Fox

3.98 (900/226) - Richard Lawler

1.02 (3538/3484) for sofarsofarshaun - Micah Wittman

.34 (600/1747, not counting this comment) - Michael Hocter

Thank you, Siavash and Michael - Micah Wittman

.52 overall, but .68 this week. - Rebecca

Nice, thanks Rebecca. - Micah Wittman

1.31 - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

0.56 - imabonehead

Rah and imabonehead - rock on! (Richard too!) - Micah Wittman

0.16 - Anne Bouey

1.39 - jcunwired

4.62 (287/62) -- Yikes! I'm chatty. - Ted Roden

Thank you kindly, Anne, jcunwired and Ted. - Micah Wittman

2.63 - Bryce, Low in Sodium

Thanks for joining in, Bryce. - Micah Wittman

.15 all time, .13 this week. - Alix Whitmire

.52 - David HC Soul

Thank you, Alix and David! (and Alix, you're tied with Siavash for the Highest Like ratio. Wow). - Micah Wittman

2.94 - j1m

Thank you, j1m. Ok, I'm gonna roll this up into a csv and call it a night. - Micah Wittman

CSV_B: 0.95,0.7,3.46,3.98,1.02,0.15,0.34,0.52,1.31,0.56,0.16,1.39,4.62,2.63,0.15,0.52,2.94 - Micah Wittman

this week = 0.45%, alltime = 6.43% - chaz2b

CSV_B Mean: 1.49 (previous mean for CVS_A: 1.27) - Micah Wittman

Of course the numbers can easily lie, but I'm gonna say it anyway: "We're getting more conversational, people!" - Micah Wittman

0.49 (493/988) - Bluesun 2600

816 / 2502 = 0.326139089 overall | 50 / 233 = 0.214592275 this week I like much more than I comment. (maths via google) - Chris Loft

3026/5013 = 0.6036 - Roger Chen

0.107 probably the lowest here - Nicholas James

chaz2b, Bluesun 2600, Roger, Nicholas — thank you! - Micah Wittman

.76 - jamar78

5.25 but I don't know what this *means, yet. maybe I'm just stingy with my "likes" compared to others? - Marg Uerite

Thanks jamar78 and Marg! - Micah Wittman

A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology.... - David HC Soul

My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39 - David HC Soul

*bump* - Micah Wittman

1.26 (2965/2346) - Micah Wittman

1.37 - Glen Campbell

1.74 - ♥patricia♥

Thanks, Glen and pea! - Micah Wittman

Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others). - Micah Wittman

.38 - Ryan Dadey

Ryan, I have to say, that's one high caliber ratio ;) - Micah Wittman

An update it's .44 which is an improvement from .36 - Michael Fidler

2.00 - Anthony Citrano

0.97 - Willem (@wim66) ☠

1.5 exactly - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

2.94 1040/354 I have likes set to post to twitter automatically, so I'm careful with them. :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

0.85 - Steven Perez

0.73 up from 0.66 on Jan 08 - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

0.37 for the week past, 0.45 on the whole. - Parth Awasthi

Michael, Anthony, Ahsan, guruvan Steven, sıɹɥɔ and Parth - thanks for dropping in your stats! - Micah Wittman

5.81 i'm not using it as does everyone else here. that is fer sure. - Marg Uerite

But remember, the comment counts also includes comments imported from other services. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Ahsan, huh, I'd never considered that. - Micah Wittman

17942/30571=.59 - Alex Scoble

Alex, thank you, sir. - Micah Wittman

ALmost 2:1 exactly. - Amani

Much obliged, Amani. - Micah Wittman

3062/5777 you do the maths. - Will Higgins™

.53 (3062/5777) for Will Higgins #math-on-demand-services - Micah Wittman

Thank you, amin/gnu - Micah Wittman

2671/12333=.21 - Darren Heydon

7.16 - Ken Sheppardson

*bump* (SEE ALSO http://friendfeed.com/jungleg... ) - Micah Wittman

1.45 (4374/3026) - Micah Wittman

1.73 - Aron Michalski

0.92 now. I think the movie reviews have been getting me closer to a 1 to 1 ratio. - Steven Perez

0.77 - Mathew A. Koeneker

Steven, yep, you were a 0.85 in April. - Micah Wittman

2.10 now ... - Amani

0.97 now. - Eric Johnson

Amani, so your comments have climbed a bit. - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Eric. - Micah Wittman

yes, but i am not consciously "not liking" things - Amani from IM

Probably, just chattier then :) - Micah Wittman

I'm down from 7.16 to 6.94 :-) - Ken Sheppardson

the live NBA playoff threads have ALOT to do with it. - Amani from IM

Ken, the FCC may be interested to explore how your "I'm down" may be offensively self-deprecating ;) - Micah Wittman

.56 eeep, must try harder - Threepwood

4.52. I don't bother to like things I've commented on, since commenting already flags it as interesting. - Andy Bakun

0.46 (1698/3638) - Glenn Slaven

Threepwood, Andy, Glenn - thanks (Andy, that's my mo too; then I'll Like if it warrants a "double vote"). - Micah Wittman

1.31 (4,471/3,401) - Karoli

Thanks, Karoli. And the both of us have a _very_ similar ratio and absolute numbers. wow. - Micah Wittman

1.15 ! Noisy... need more liking, I guess. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Thanks, Ryo! - Micah Wittman

Darn - 0.52. I guess I need to say why I like something a little more often :-) Liking this thread because I was wondering the same thing recently. Has anybody worked out the average from the numbers here? </islazy> - Andy Bold

Andy, scroll upward and you'll see a couple calculations from before (January: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81) - Micah Wittman

In March the Mean was: 1.49 - Micah Wittman

1.021276595744680851063829787234042553191489361702127659... via Wolfram Alpha - tom murphy

Thanks, tom. And though a bit verbose, your friend Wolfram is resourceful :D - Micah Wittman

0.55 (254/444) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

Thank you, Willem. - Micah Wittman

In April you were 0.97, so you're liking more / commenting less. - Micah Wittman

1.88 (779/414) - Ton Zijp

Thanks, Ton. - Micah Wittman

0.43 (3597/8305). - Parth Awasthi

0.74 (1970/2667) - Scott of Two Countries

And thank you Parth, Scott. - Micah Wittman

Parth, compared to your April numbers, you've been consistent. - Micah Wittman

2.12 is my ratio. - Rick Cogley

Thanks, Rick! - Micah Wittman

Np Micah. What is that photo? - Rick Cogley

.54 (4148/7674) Updated! - Michael Fidler

Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!) - Micah Wittman

1.82 from 798 comments / 438 likes - David Damore

Thanks, nivé and David! - Micah Wittman

2027/1594 = 1.27 - Brome

0.58 - Marc Dong

2.9 (3,242/1,116) mhhh.. time to straighten my use of FF a bit.. thanks for this entry - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Brome, Marc and Thierry - thank you! - Micah Wittman

Thierry - yeah, 2.9 is fairly high - got to pick the pace on like side :) [but hey, whatever works for you is fine] - Micah Wittman

Stats Update: Last time I commented here my comment to like ratio was 0.107 it's increased to 0.645 ;) - Nicholas James

1.91 - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

Thank you Nicholas and MiniMage! - Micah Wittman

Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas. - Micah Wittman

.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good! - Michael Fidler

1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me. - Micah Wittman

It's that time again. - Micah Wittman

.50 - Laura B needin' waders

Thanks, Laura! (you're a 50-caliber gal!) - Micah Wittman

0.64 - Imabug

Thank you, Imabug. - Micah Wittman

4.67 (I'm greedy :p) - directeur

0.99 - Steven Perez

About 1:2 comment to likes at this time - RAPatton from iPod

1.06 - Jim Hearts FF

.81 - Brent - Long Live Rock

.63 - metalerik

Thanks Imabug, directeur, Steven, RAPatton, Jim, Brent and metalerik! - Micah Wittman

.83 - Jimminy

0.78 - Pete Delucchi

.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments. - Bren, Photophobe

.11 - The Bohemian Penguin

And thank you Jimminy, Pete, Bren and Penguin! - Micah Wittman

2.47 as of right now. - Jonas, Leper of FF

Micah, are you doing something with these numbers? If so sounds interesting. - Jimminy

0.58 - James (!?)

Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it. - Micah Wittman

Jonas, James and Kurt - thanks you! - Micah Wittman

You're welcome. I hope the results do some good. :-) - James (!?)

.31. I have almost 4 times as many likes as comments. - edythe

.86 - Eric Logan

Thank you edythe and Eric! - Micah Wittman

195/245 makes 0.8 rounded not including this one which would be 196/245 making 0.8 unrounded, - tom murphy

Thanks, Tom. - Micah Wittman

1.98 (588/297) - Bryan Zirkel

1.67 (19,550/11,684) - Mitchell Tsai

1:2 - Jeff P. Henderson

Bryan, Mitchell and Jeff P. - thanks, guys! - Micah Wittman

1.18 - it's always been close to 1, since day one, for some reason. - Laura Norvig

Wow, Penguin is a prolific liker! - Laura Norvig

2.67 (875/328) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Thank you, Nathalie! - Micah Wittman

2.18 - Spidra Webster

1.29 - Mark Jepsen

Thanks, Spidra and Mark! - Micah Wittman

0.49 - Jammy Lee

0.825 - Mathew A. Koeneker

Jammy and Mathew, thank you very much. - Micah Wittman

2.16 - SuezanneC Baskerville

I don't know I just like that picture - Brian Hendrickson

.40 - Ben Hanten

Mine was exactly 2:1 about a week ago. Did a screenshot when I had 2,000 comments and 1,000 likes. - Joe.... from iPod

SuezanneC, Brian, B E N and Joe - thank you all very much! - Micah Wittman

Joe, it's like see the odometer click through a nice round number - it's just inexplicably engaging. :) - Micah Wittman

1.40, nearly the square root of two. - Vezquex: God of FF

0.58 - Andy Bold

Thanks, Raphael and Andy! - Micah Wittman

1.15 (6777/5873) - JA Castillo

12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;) - Chris Myles

1.63 - Serkan Mutlu

Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!! - Chris Myles

.87 - Nine

Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine! - Micah Wittman

0.89 (17818/19913) (Somebody better make a cool ass graph of all this data!) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments).. - Chris Myles

1.78 (8529/4782) - Micah Wittman

Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever. - Micah Wittman

0.9009 (6055/6721) - Jason Huebel

OK, so statistically, what ratio results in better interaction on FF? - Jason Huebel

I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience. - Micah Wittman

So I'm fairly balanced, it appears. I would imagine it's because I try to comment on every post I like. That's not always true, obviously. But mostly it is. - Jason Huebel

Just clicking "Like" seems too easy. I feel like I should say something, too. - Jason Huebel

383/372 - ashish

'Just clicking "Like" seems too easy' — Jason, that's because you're from the Chatty-ite tribe :) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, ashish. - Micah Wittman

wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff) - chaz2b

chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered? - Micah Wittman

When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94 - MiniMage, sheeple of FF

536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00 - Bren, Photophobe

.64 - Shannon Jiménez

Thanks, MiniMage (2x participant!), Bren (3x!) and Shannon (your inaugural visit!) - Micah Wittman

Thank you, SustainedEuphoria. - Micah Wittman

I 'liked" this to change my ratio! (1.22 1040/850) - Mark Jepsen

Thanks, Mark. - Micah Wittman

1.45 - Brett Kelly

Thanks, Brett :) - Micah Wittman

5.67 all time. Second highest ratio on here. Woot! I love to talk. - Kevin L

0.125, I need to talk more ;) - mridul

Thank you both, Kevin and mridul (the two of you balance it each well :) - Micah Wittman

1.80 (10,189 / 5,666) [compared to Likes, my Comments still continue to rise] - Micah Wittman

1.02 (10323/10161) - Bren, Photophobe

.5666 currently (30,084/53,093) - Alex Scoble

Thanks, Bren. - Micah Wittman

Thank you, Alex :) - Micah Wittman

that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while... - Bren, Photophobe

Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically. - Micah Wittman

true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better. - Bren, Photophobe

1.8 - Sarah is Novembery

4.26? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Thanks, Sarah, Tutivillus. - Micah Wittman

1.19 - Joe Bonner

Micah this is like 11 months ago, I see you have almost doubled your rate. lets make a graph for everybody now, :) - Mahmood Padura

Quick, someone write a greasemonkey script to inline some google charts! (tap-tap-tap...wut? don't look at me ;) - Micah Wittman

Thanks, Joe. And you thank you, Mahmood :) - Micah Wittman

1.66 - Glen Campbell

Thanks, Glen! Your comments in the ratio have gone up too. - Micah Wittman

1.70 (it was 1.41 on Jan 8) - WorldofHiglet

WorldofHiglet, thank you :) The comments are strong in this one. - Micah Wittman

0.64 (2,589/4,051) - Chieze Okoye

0.58 - Thomas Page

Chieze and Thomas - thank you! - Micah Wittman

*bumpage* - Micah Wittman

So, Micah, we never did find out what you were doing with this info.... - WorldofHiglet

2.21 (2,812/1,275) - Rene Wirtz

0.27 (5637/20234) - I only see a couple people lower than me. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

4.06 (747/184) - Jan Ole Peek

WoH, World Domination. - Micah Wittman

Rene, John and Jan - thank you, all three! :) - Micah Wittman

1.94 - آقای تلخک

2.74 (4,446 / 12,204) - J. Abdul-Qahhar

0.97 (6,694/6,929) - Jimminy

Thank you J., Jimminy and آقای تلخک :) - Micah Wittman

2.23 - Paola Bonomo

0.71 (8,200/11,551) updated - Michael Fidler

0.67 - Artemko

J. Abdul-Qahhar LOL 4,446 / 12,204 = 0.36 - Artemko

0.03 (284 / 10378)! - Daniel Rowley

A brighter video of our haunted house. The group is not as energetic as the 6 preteens in the other video, but the video camera I used was much better. - Rachel Lea Fox

We are so lucky to have such awesome actors for our haunt! - Rachel Lea Fox

They were indeed awesome! - Stephen Mack

Our Sunnyvale, CA yard haunt put on across two yards for local trick-or-treaters and anyone with a love of a few screams. hauntedfoxhollow.com It's a little dark, but you get the idea. - Rachel Lea Fox

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This is looking reallly scary! There is one such haunted house (owners decorate their house every year for Halloween) in Pleasanton, CA. And we never miss it. - Petek(UCB)_

Petek, I might know them. There are a lot of yard haunts around and sometimes we get together and work on projects together. Ours is a little scary, but not gory and geared towards the kids!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Rachel, this house that i talk about is really scary for children-even i myself got scared when I was chased by the Saw Guy!:)) and I guess it was a real saw.- the smell -... But this Halloween, i think it was a fake one:)) but people were still screaming and running around as the saw guy was chasing... i entered the House last year and i could not help screaming a number of times. Anyway, they are close to Valley road in Pleasanton. - Petek(UCB)_

I'll have to ask who is in Pleasanton at the next meet-up. I hate chainsaws in haunts. It's a personal hate. It can be a real chainsaw, all you have to do is take the chain off and it is safe. I know this and yet it still scares me like crazy. - Rachel Lea Fox

Saturday bump for video of our haunted house. Another video that is brighter will be coming up sometime today. - Rachel Lea Fox

How much scripting was done ahead of time for each section? - Dario Gomez

We put almost all our efforts into set design. The actors were given roles but no scripts. They made them up on their own as they went. Our friends are awesome. - Kevin Fox

“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night,” Mayer jokes. “I do code all night! I am the stereotype, but I also break the stereotype.” - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

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Oh yeah - another developer to add to my Twitter list. I like adding girl developers. - Jesse Stay

*holds up sign* MARRY ME MARISSA MAYER - Mo Kargas

Mo, you might be too late, she is already engaged. - Rachel Lea Fox

Mo, you're too young for her. Me, OTOH... Wait! She's engaged, Rachel??! - directeur

Well the Paparazzi have photos of her ring all over the web. I just hope whatever she decides to do for her wedding she can keep the Paparazzi out. - Rachel Lea Fox

Well, then... she's not really beautiful nor smart or with a funny and delicious laugh anyway... - directeur

I'm sorry directeur. :( - Rachel Lea Fox

Mo and directeur, here you go... skip down to Love: http://www.style.com/vogue... - Rachel Lea Fox

Ha! Thanks Rachel! — I like that "skip down to Love" phrase! That'd make a great jazz tune! :) - directeur

*bottom lip trembles* - Mo Kargas

Mo, you put too much motor-oil in your metalic jaw :) - directeur

Mo & directeur you are both too cute!! Geek Crush!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Oh, I love her shoes:)) Who says engineers do not wear high heels ?:))) - Petek(UCB)_

Thanks, Rachel! :) Petek, I DON'T wear high heels! NEVER DID, and WON'T :p - directeur

Directeur, I live on my high heels and I will ;))) moreover, I am an engineer:) - Petek(UCB)_

Petek, I'm a 1m85 tall engineer ;-) - directeur

Directeur:))) this explains all...I am only 1m68;) - Petek(UCB)_

Petek, heels or not, hala çok güzelsin :) - directeur

Directeur, this is very nice of you:) Tesekkur ederim... - Petek(UCB)_

Directeur. hard to believe she has two sons. - Ozgur Demir

Petek, rica ederim! :) Ozgur, Absolutely! You'd think that she's their sister! :) - directeur

k, i'm confused... who has 2 sons? - Rachel Lea Fox

Ozgur and Directeur:) Thank you- cok naziksiniz...Happy Friday night! - Petek(UCB)_

amanın bir insan gördüm sitede Petek iyi cuma akşamları sana :) bana da günaydın :) - stuck in the sky

Rachel, Petek has two handsome sons. - Anne Bouey

Sorry Rachel, I guess we caused confusion in your feed. - Petek(UCB)_

Ahhh... okay. Thanks Anne. No worries at all Petek, I was just confused. - Rachel Lea Fox

don't be confused .. this is Turkish style of talking :shock: - stuck in the sky

:))) Rachel. All in all, women engineers can be both smart and good-looking as opposed to stereotypes.. I know a lot of them who can balance their personal and work lives and take good care of themselves at the same time...Thanks for sharing the link. - Petek(UCB)_

we have lots of good-looking engineers here in Istanbul .. don't we? somebody here in this feed has to support me :) Petek .. i am just now talking to u .. Petek? where r u? Petek .. Peteeeeeekkk!!! - stuck in the sky

Yes stuck..I guess so :)).. Unfortunately, I am not in Istanbul. - Petek(UCB)_

but as a guess u can also say something about turkish pretty (!) engineers :) how long have u been there Petek? i will come to join u there sooner :) - stuck in the sky

Stuck, I have been here for a while...You know what all my engineer friends are from Ankara! and yes my classmates are all nice and pretty ladies...and they are smart too... - Petek(UCB)_

petek .. i was born in Ankara .. what a surprise .. hmmm .. tell me if i am wrong .. u graduated from ODTU .. didn't u? or Bilkent like me .. rachel gets more confused with every passing post eheheh .. - stuck in the sky

yup, I am an ODTU graduate.. - Petek(UCB)_

then we won't talk to each other anymore petek .. i am from Bilkent hehehe .. - stuck in the sky

Alright, so nobody will ever talk to me again after my confession: I am from Bogazici -neither Bilkentliler nor ODTU'luler like us- :)) but I definitely support your cause stuck, woman engineers in Turkey/Istanbul/Ankara ... are smart and beautiful..Yes we all are! - Hande

Hande :))) this is cute:))) Btw, i have many friends from both Bogazici and Bilkent so i talk to everybody...I totally agree with you and moreover, women engineers, all over the world are smart and beautiful-We rock! - Petek(UCB)_

hande .. i like ur school .. it comes after Bilkent in success u know .. i don't hate ODTUlüler but one day when i was a master student in my uni, they did not let me in to join to the fest in their uni .. this is why i do not prefer the engineers in ODTU :) moreover .. i had a girlfriend in ur uni .. the atmosphere in Boğaziçi was catastrophic (perfect) during those days .. i hope it is still like that ,, isn't it? - stuck in the sky

as my confession .. i have lots of friends from ODTU .. what a shame :) - stuck in the sky

The atmosphere is all the same as I hear from old friends..I miss the cats, the gorgeous Bosphorus view, watching films outside at night on 'Gunes meydan' with blankets and hot drinks,all my friends from Music Club..I miss every bit of my undergrad years.. - Hande

may i ask u a q hande? whr r u now? - stuck in the sky

Cats, and dogs and the amazing view!! i love the Bogazici campus....i used to go to the alumni house almost two-three times a week when i was in Istanbul...and whenever i went there, i also sat by the "Manzara" and watched the ships go by:))) - Petek(UCB)_

watching the ships .. it seems interesting :) - stuck in the sky

yeah we ODTU people are just very interesting, stuck! i sat there, and just watched it....... - Petek(UCB)_

I am a Turkish girl in Boston trying to finish her phd and a miyendis..:)) - Hande

then we decide that the campus of Boğaziçi is the best .. then bilkent of course and tail ender is ODTU .. heheh - stuck in the sky

I bet it's the most beautiful campus in the world.. - Hande

i am planning to move to miami in a year .. do u have any info about there? asking both of u .. - stuck in the sky

when you say phd, Hande, i must study!!!!!!! goodnight all:))) you know what you are jealous of our campus, Stuck- i dont like all building campuses..But yeah Bogazici campus is very beautiful-however it comes after Berkeley campus where you can also watch the ship go by in the Bay under biggggg red wood trees ;)) sorryyy.. - Petek(UCB)_

petek .. do not escape from the conversation .. come on!!! dont go anywhere .. u r kiddin .. - stuck in the sky

tell me what u know bt miami .. - stuck in the sky

I've never been there yet..The answer also depends on why you are coming and in what way you are asking this question..I have friends in Florida state uni. and I guess there is a somewhat big Turkish community (scholars) there..They say the cost of life is much cheaper than here in Boston-New York area and the weather is better..That's all I know. - Hande

Petek. Disagree.. Boun campus has a waay better view than Berkeley. - Ozgur Demir

Stuck, i really do not know much about Miami but if you ask about SF and California- i can be more helpful:) - Petek(UCB)_

Ozgur, have you been to LBNL up in the hills? - Petek(UCB)_

@Petek. yep.. I've... still (: - Ozgur Demir

in the spring? - Petek(UCB)_

hmmm .. i am coming there for business purposes u know .. not for taking anymore education .. - stuck in the sky

let me try to remember.. as far as I remember, it was beginning of spring.. yeah... - Ozgur Demir

i should search for an area which is going to be safety and comfortable just for surviving myself .. :) - stuck in the sky

Petek. Btw, personally I don't adore Boun at all... I am just talking about the view (: - Ozgur Demir

Ozgur, I am thinking about the overall campus.- Berkeley has a better campus for sure but yeah, view is i guess better on BOUN. but i really get good views from around Berkeley..have you been to Indian Rock, btw? - Petek(UCB)_

Not sure, one of our friends was escorting us (she was a student there) I am not that familiar with that area. So maybe yes, maybe no (: don't know. - Ozgur Demir

skip the views of campuses guys :) tell me bt miami ahahah .. what a selfishness - stuck in the sky

Ozgur, Go to Indian rock to watch sunset:))) and have your dinner with you:)) you will thank me:)) - Petek(UCB)_

Anybody from Miami??? i have never been to that part, @ stuck.. - Petek(UCB)_

@stuck. Miami sucks dude.. California rocks in all means. http://sozluk.sourtimes.org/show... - Ozgur Demir

Ozgur senin de her soyledigini eksisozlukle desteklemene bitiyorum:)) - Hande

then maybe rachel will help with all her confusion ahahah - stuck in the sky

@Hande. zamaninda hep konusulmus seyler bunlar (: - Ozgur Demir

özgür kötü davranma bana .. rachelın iice kafası karışacak türkçe konuşmayın ahaha - stuck in the sky

Ya sozluk prototipinde degilsek ne olacak? Aman neyse bir feed nerden nereye gelebilir aci sekilde gorduk bu gece:)) - Hande

@stuck. a nice experience to see someone telling "don't speak in Turkish" in Turkish (: - Ozgur Demir

not night for me morning hande :) - stuck in the sky

Any eksisozluk reference to the last 'nice experience' Ozgur? I don't believe you without the credentials :)) - Hande

özgür .. what can i say .. i am a gentle turkish guy from bilkent :) - stuck in the sky

i should leave u guys .. nice to meet u but i have to go to Ağva for my weekend :) - stuck in the sky

take care .. all of u .. especially the ones don't know any idea bt miami :) - stuck in the sky

Me too! Good night/day everyone! - Hande

:) Stuck enjoy your weekend:) You take care tooo:)) Ciaoooo!and goodnight all:) - Petek(UCB)_

özgür .. i am gonna add u to my list .. do not be surprised ;) - stuck in the sky

The flying car and our lack of them. GO! - Joe Pierce

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Rant about your brother, that always seems to work! ;-) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I HATE PLASMA! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

It seems that FB has a lot going on over there! You could log in as me for a bit ;) - joey

Spill it toots! - sofarsoShawn

i'd like to rant - the fact that cameras and video cameras should have the same video formats so it would be easier to chuck on a dvd without having to buy another software package! *grumblegrumble* ;) - Terry O'Fee

Open a can of __________ instead. - Micah Wittman

the flying car? they have till 2015. that's when i start to rant ;) - Terry O'Fee

Yeah, that's what we want...A bunch of idiots that can't drive a car getting behind the wheel of a car that can fly...No thanks. 50,000 9/11s a year is not a good idea. - Alex Scoble from IM

blame BTTF for my obsession - Terry O'Fee

BTTF? - Alex Scoble from IM

Back to the Future - Joe Pierce

Ahh, hehehe. - Alex Scoble from IM

What's wrong with 50,000 911s? - Cristo

ROFL, Chris, I'm talking about the tragic events that happened on September 11th 2001...not about the Porsche 911. - Alex Scoble from IM

Wow, I was going to post a 911 comment but promptly slapped myself but okay "If you think we'll ever get flying cars I have two 110-story buildings in lower manhattan to sell you. - teh Dork Knight

The question is, will these flying cars be air-cooled? - Cristo

See, I don't want *everyone* to get a flying car. Just me and a small elite set of my friends whom I trust. - Joe Pierce

Become rich :) - Alex Scoble from IM

rage against the machine dude ;) - Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock

Joe, SEE Russian space program. - Micah Wittman

People have those. They're called G5s. - Cristo

2009 was the best year ever in our little Fox Hollow haunted yard! Not only did we expand, more than doubling our size, by continuing a full U-shaped path into our co-conspirators yard (The Awesome Lendvays), but we also added 15 actors throughout the haunt... - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

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Oh, video will be coming soon! - Rachel Lea Fox

It was such an awesome night. Our friends really brought the haunt to.. life. - Kevin Fox

Great blog post, Rachel -- saw a lot of details that I missed when visiting. Great job. - Stephen Mack

Very cool! Had a fun walk thru on Friday with Lisa, she jumped at least 3 times. :) - Ken Gidley

It was a lot of fun! I don't understand how you raised more money the first night vs the second? That is strange. - Dario Gomez

We think it's a shifted perspective on Halloween itself. Off Halloween, you're a guest viewing a presentation someone has put together for you but on Halloween you're going around door-to-door collecting stuff from people. We also didn't push donations hard at all. If we just made the box more visible we'd probably collect a lot more. Nevertheless, the main point was entertainment, not fund-raising, so it was okay. - Kevin Fox

Perhaps it was more friends/family on Friday, who have a more personal connection to Kevin/Rachel and know about the kitten fostering they do, too. - Ken Gidley

Another excellent point. - Kevin Fox

Amazing job, guys. It's obvious how much effort you put into this. One year i'll make it! - Ryan Kaisoglus

Ken, I think you are right about the focus. Also on Halloween we had mostly trick-or-treaters who aren't carrying money around. Some of them had parents who might be, but not all parents went through, they just waited out between the driveways the way that they would if the kids were just going up to ring the bell. So they didn't see the donations bucket. Also at one point we... more... - Rachel Lea Fox

Thanks all!! Ryan you totally need to come out!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Many parents don't carry much besides keys and phones while chaperoning their trick-or-treaters. Did your notice about the event mention donations for the kitties? I don't remember. - Anne Bouey

Anne, some did and some did not. We weren't pushing the donations real hard or anything. We were just looking at why Friday raised more than Saturday. People out on Halloween just aren't thinking about giving donations. - Rachel Lea Fox

Sorry if I'm gushing and bumping but I still can't believe how well this year came together!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Gush away, Rachel! It was awesome! - Anne Bouey

More photos later, but here are a few from our trip yesterday!! - Rachel Lea Fox from Bookmarklet

A giraffe stable (!!) - Mona Nomura from iPhone

Mona, yup we met 4 giraffes in the stable here and there were 3 others in there we didn't meet. It was their feeding time, but often they are out on the 500 acres this place has. - Rachel Lea Fox

I don't know what that is, but since you love it, I love it too!! - Mona Nomura

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Mona, you are so cute. It's a wildlife reserve up near Sonoma. We went there yesterday (my sister, brother-in-law and I) and we got to pet Giraffes among other animals. It was amazing!!! I just posted photos: http://friendfeed.com/animals... - Rachel Lea Fox

Wow! The things we learn on FriendFeed...I had no idea such a place existed and I can't believe there are giraffes in California!!!!!! Sounds like I need to take a trip home and tuNis for sharing! I'm still obsessed by Antarctica, btw. :) - Mona Nomura from iPhone

Do you think this would be a good place for a 2 year old? We are going up to that area on Friday and are looking for something to do. She likes the zoo but she does have the attention span of a 2 year old. - Carl Haynes

never mind just saw this on their site: Good to Know: Please note..our wildlife drives are 2 1/2 to 3 hours long over bumpy and rugged terrain and best suited for children over the age of 3 years old and may be uncomfortable for pregnant women. - Carl Haynes

Carl, we just did the behind the scenes tour, we didn't have time for the safari. More expensive, but it was a private tour where we got to feed a lot of animals, and Lyndsey has always wanted to pet a Giraffe, her favorite animal. Only about 45 minutes , but really really personal with the animals. You can find the tour we took here: https://safariwest.com/p200701... - Rachel Lea Fox

<3 :P - Jon, the Beartato of FF

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Love you back!!! - Mellissa Jane

I want to think those tongues are sticking out at me, but I fear there is another who is the intended recipient. ;) - Josh Haley

:p - chaz2b

Actually Josh, they are at everyone. No one person defines the service nor does one person define what is acceptable content. I poke my tounge at you sir, not to insult but in recognition that we are allowed to get silly and not take ourselves to seriously :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

That was truly a phenomenal haunted house. - niniane

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I agree! - Stephen Mack

Thanks Niniane! We have so much fun doing it! - Rachel Lea Fox

The haunt will be open on Halloween too! More info here: http://hauntedfoxhollow.com - Rachel Lea Fox

Three quick iPhone snaps from http://www.hauntedfoxhollow.com tonight. Can you believe this is actually the first time I've ever uploaded photos to Flickr? The Flickr iPhone app is pretty, and not bad to use. Slow, though. - Stephen Mack

I posted the second one in the "noir" color scheme separately @ http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and the third one was posted separately @ http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... - Stephen Mack

Rumors of FriendFeed's death are greatly exaggerated. (Thank you, Ben!) - Stephen Mack

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Thanks, guys :) - Bicentennial (Franc)

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

ITS ALIVE!!!!!!! MUH HA HA - Roberto Bonini

Apparently in this movie a bunch of philosophy majors became strippers and then zombies became the "in" thing so they became zombie strippers. And then two of them had a strip duel. I wonder why this never got theatre time... *lol* - Rachel Lea Fox

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and then this zombie shot ping pong balls and poll balls out of her you know what!! GaaaaaaaHHHHHH!!! OMG this is bad!! - Rachel Lea Fox

This sounds like the parties I always heard about but somehow missed.. - Michael W. May

Michael, I hope not... they were very whacked, and I never want to see a zombie in a pastie again!! - Rachel Lea Fox

I think it was in theatres briefly, actually. I remember when it was being made. Maybe just in major cities or festivals, though. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Rachel, it's not this 'Zombie Strippers', is it? http://www.imdb.com/title... - Starring Jenna Jameson and Robert Englund in an awesomely over-the-top role (yes, even more so than Freddy Krueger) - Ryan Kaisoglus

Ryan... yup that is it. we jumped in part way in and Jenna wasn't live when we saw her. Jandy... really. I can't believe anyone would go to see this in the theatre. - Rachel Lea Fox

You'd be surprised, Rachel - hardcore horror/cult film fans love stuff like this. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

This comment is useless without pics. - Jim Norris

couldnt agree more - sean percival

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I wonder how long he means when he says that. 5 years? 3? Less? - Diego Barros 

I don't know, I was with my first company for 4.5 years. That still made me kinda the new guy, as a lot of employees were there 20 to 30 years. I guess it depends on industry. That was the insurance industry, and as long as there was a way up I was happy with that company. Now working in dot coms, working at a place more that two years is impressive. In some ways I don't necessarily... more... - Dario Gomez

I was at my last job 8 1/2 years. In that time, Facebook and Twitter were started, Google grew up, and Bush started two wars. Maybe I stayed too long. - Louis Gray

I'd rather my longevity at a company be determined in terms of achieving some goal. If it does not look like I will be able to accomplish something interesting, novel, or useful then I'll bail. Idiotic politics usually short circuits that game plan though. - scott anderson

I've never worked a job for more than 2 years. I like finding new levels of experience. If they kept it a learning experience I would stay longer, but never found a company that did that. - Jesse Stay

Scott, your reasoning led to my longevity there. I wanted to reach an end, be it M&A, IPO or something else. But it eventually became time. - Louis Gray

Louis: The goals I set are more personal and typically are not dependent on what the company and/or my division achieves. I have been fortunate in that I have always been able to drive the projects or sub-projects that I have worked on. That said, politics and the agendas of other individuals still find a way to mess up the best of intentions. - scott anderson

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Hayes Haugen

++ scott. I agree with, "If you’ve been in your job for awhile, you should quit. Google was really comfortable. I knew all the people. It’s important to do things that will make you uncomfortable." with the caveat that it is important to find a place where you can accomplish something and stay there long enough to give it legs or cut it loose. I hear overnight success takes a long time. Otherwise you are just uncomfortable for no good reason. - Clare Dibble

Bold advice in hard times. - Tim Tyler

great advice for people who don't have a mortgage or a family - Terris Linenbach

+1 Terris - Bill Hooker

Terris, I have a family of 4 kids and a mortgage. As I said I've never had a job longer than 2 years. As for going out on your own, it's difficult, but very possible. It involves a lot of sacrifice though. - Jesse Stay

Going out on my own was the one of the best decisions I ever made in my life (even with a mortgage, family and a new baby at the time). I ended up back at a company, but this time I had founded it. There are many ways to make your life work on your own. If you really want to do it, just step off the cliff. You'll figure out a way to make it work. - Matt Mastracci

Matt, funny how that happens - my wife was pregnant when I went out on my own as well. I still don't know how we managed all that. :-) I agree though - it was the best decision of my life. I may end up at a job again at some point, but as Paul said, at the time it "sounded like the right thing to do". I've learned so much from being on my own, and the freedom is priceless. (Paycheck, much of the time is not so priceless) :-) - Jesse Stay

Actually it's a great advice for people who have mortgage and family and are taking it responsibly rather then being complacent in hope their current employer is here forever. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

eugene, yeah - one thing I've learned more than anything is that control is a good thing. Even if I work for someone else I always want to be sure I've got my own thing of some sort going that I could resort to at any time (a book, side-business, blog, investments, advisory roles, etc). Of course you have to be careful about that at the same time in that your employer knows of such things and is okay of you owning that IP. - Jesse Stay

To be clear, if you have kids, etc, find a new job before quitting your current one :) - Paul Buchheit

It was such a pleasure to be in the audience for this! - Jay

Paul, how long do you think is too long? - Diego Barros 

Whenever you get "too comfortable" :o) - Susan Beebe

Yeah, the correct answer obviously depends on your situation (how much you will learn at the new job vs the old), but in general I'd guess that "too long" falls in the 5-10 year period, though if your job is bad, "too long" may happen much sooner :) - Paul Buchheit

Totally agree with this, esp the quote at the end "It's important to do things that make you uncomfortable". IMO, people grow the most when they are forced out of their comfort zone - Dave Hodson

It's important to do things that will make you uncomfortable because.......??? - τorƍue

Growth and flexibility. Obviously not all uncomfortable things are good though. - Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit is Sarah Palin? - Jim Norris

One of my friends has been at Apple for 10 years. She's a brilliant engineer (I've known her since college). Her reason for staying: "I've got 3 kids. They need lots of care and nurture, and they're providing plenty of challenge in my life. I don't need more." My mom sacrificed her career for her 3 kids. Her sister continued pursuing her career, since she only had one. When looking at... more... - Piaw Na

That's very reasonable Piaw -- I agree that good parents are more important than good toys or schools. The "quit your job" advice was more for people looking to start a company or something. - Paul Buchheit

Paul agreed - entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. My dad tried it, decided it wasn't for him, and he'll be retiring in about 10 years or so after years and years of building a very successful career in the professional world. If it's for you, there are ways to make it work and provide for a family - it involves a lot of work though, and make sure you're prepared when you do it. (I sold... more... - Jesse Stay

@Scott Anderson - absolutely - I'll leave when the job is done or the politics make finishing what I need to do impossible. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

@Jesse It's not about providing for the family. I'm sure entrepreneurs manage to do that or they go out of business very quickly. It's investing time in the family that's usually the missing ingredient. I know, since I did have a largely absent entrepreneurial father. - Piaw Na

hahahaha - MG Siegler

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haha - Daniel Brusilovsky

I've been having fun watching the Facebook employees do that today as well - lol - Jesse Stay

Is there a group "I Just plain hate Facebook"? I'd like to join. - Jeff P. Henderson

Scary thing is I think a lot of people are actually taking that group seriously. - Tony, Paradox of FF

Hhahhahaha!!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

LOL at Mark Zuckerberg joining. That's hilarious. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

laugh out loud. - Micah Wittman

LOL!! Yes they are, Tony - that makes it so much better. :-> - Kurt Starnes

It's killing me - check it out :-> http://www.facebook.com/search... - Kurt Starnes

I just love how some people have joined, completely ignoring the description of the group and showing the type of people they really are. I don't *love* the changes, but I will get used to them and someday soon I will not even remember the old way it was done. Change is good... long live change! - Travis Koger

hahha that is too funny!! :D - Susan Beebe

Classy! - Tyson Key

ROFL - Roberto Bonini

I HATE THE NEW FACEBOOK HOME PAGE, UNTIL ITS NEXT FACELIFT, AFTER WHICH I WILL BITTERLY COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW PERFECT THIS LAYOUT WAS. - Rebecca Sun

Yes, Rebecca, exactly. :) - Dan Hsiao

just joined - johnpiercy

Touché Facebook Employees, Touché. - Navarr

ahahahaha:D - beybinesen

Try http://lite.facebook.com/opozo, the simple the better, but not simpler. - Orlando Pozo

Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! - Piaw Na

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Yay! - Shea from iPhone

Still want to know when it will come to the UK though. - Travis Koger from iPhone

I like this very much. - Kevin Fox

"Note: Sprint is currently rolling out the ability to enable free call forwarding. Until that is completed, this feature may not work or you may be charged every time someone leaves a voicemail." I'll give it a shot and see what happens. - Benjamin Golub

Yeah, I'm going to need to look into T-Mobile's call forwarding rate. I'm sure there will be one. - 1x29

Sweeeeeeeeeet! - David Cook

How about using Google voice in Canada? - Shey, Jamaican of FF from iPhone

Yeah, how about that? - Jan Ole Peek

Sprint users beware: https://www.google.com/voice... - Ted Gilchrist

I like this very much, but it's missing paths for visually interesting ethnicity and unusual names with even more unusual spellings. - Kevin Fox

I'm happy to add to / update - figured I wouldn't capture everything - suggestions are welcome! - Ryan Kaisoglus

You made this?? Awesome!! - Kevin Fox from iPhone

Lol, so true. Don't forget about "Were you recently in a physically debilitating accident?" and "Do you need this show in order to escape your dead-end existence?" and "Are your grandparents here?" - Rebecca Sun

+1 Rebecca. I hate to sound heartless, but sob stories don't make great dancers. Sometimes they just pull votes away from more deserving dancers. - Jason Huebel

Next time call ahead for a period-correct Molly Ringwald BMW! - Richard Chen

Rich you are killing me! I would love to have borrowed a good old 325i or maybe you have a spare Porsche 944. Next time indeed! - Jason Shellen from iPhone

where's the review? - Piaw Na

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There's the story of a woman jumping down the street, head looking up at the sky, shouting "SIX! SIX! SIX!" with each jump forward. A man walks by and stops, watching. He asks her what she's doing. "Try it. It's fantastic. Here, stand next to me, look up to the heavens and jump along with me, yelling with each jump." She's cute and clearly having a good time, so he agrees. They both... more... - Kevin Fox

Love Kevin's story in this context! :-) - Jason Wehmhoener

I wouldn't mind seeing this adapted into a PC and Mac commercial, with John Hodgeman as the girl. - Kevin Fox

Mac OS 7! - Louis Gray

Windows Me on my laptop upgraded last week ! yea!!! - L Stephen Cleary

So far, it looks shiny and works well, except for download speeds which went down to 4Mbps from 16Mbps. I'm now downloading (slowly) a few updates (including an update for my network card driver) and will play around with various TCP settings. - Tudor Bosman

So it turns out that the networking problem had nothing to do with Windows 7. It had everything to do with our two piece of sh*t switches (both Netgear GS605 v2; stay away from them -- and from now on, I'll avoid all Netgear products). It turns out that my network card ran at 100Mbps under XP and 1Gbps under W7, and the switches slow down to a crawl if 3 or more of their ports are at 1Gbps. - Tudor Bosman

I couldn't believe it so I reproduced it in different configurations, using either the two switches in turn or together (daisy-chained), and using XP, Windows 7, and Snow Leopard. The transfer rate is fine if two of the ports run at 1Gbps (and the others at 100Mbps); once the third port goes 1Gbps, the point-to-point transfer rate goes down by a factor of 6. - Tudor Bosman

Replacing the switches with D-Link switches (DGS-2208) solved the problem. And the D-Link switches are sweet: 8-port 1Gbps switches, with 9K jumbo frame support, for $60 at Fry's. - Tudor Bosman

A label maker is your friend. - Akiva Moskovitz

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A label maker and a time machine. - Cristo

Someone else to do the labeling would help too - Kim Landwehr

I'd settle for an industry standard for labeling voltage, amperage, and plug polarity. Seems like they label the adapter close to 100% of the time, but only put the specs on the device about 80% - Ken Sheppardson

I have a tried the label maker but the labels come off all the time... I should just resort to the metallic Sharpies I think. - Her Lindsay-ness

Cristo for Power Adapter czar - Shey, Jamaican of FF from iPhone

I want wireless power for everything. - Louis Gray

But Ken, I don't want to have to try plugging it into different devices to find out which one it goes with or if I even still have that device. - Cristo

Louis, unfortunately, that's not practical. Tesla never did figure out how to transfer power through the air (unless you mean by wireless, laying devices on a surface). Plus, there's already too much RF interference as it is in my house. - Cristo

I am not a fan of practical. :) - Louis Gray

a tekkeon battery helps with lost ac adapters - Rodfather

I think Ken has the right idea, but I'd go a little further and standardize plug size/shape that matches voltage & polarity. That way, only the correct voltage/polarity would fit into the device's socket. Then all comparable wall warts would be universally interchangeable with no requirement to read tiny low contrast diagrams in low light conditions (often in awkward positions) - Jason Wehmhoener

the tekkeon stuff looks pretty cool - Jason Wehmhoener

Ya they have enough juice to power & charge a laptop. Very handy - Rodfather

Eric, I'd prefer you just make your point here. I'm actually doing stuff right now, and don't have time to "do research on Tesla." - Cristo

I use a glass scriber, which is sort of like a power-less engraver, to just write the name of the device into the plastic. I used to use a metallic sharpie, but that wore off after a while. The labels someone used to stick to some of the power bricks that I inherited are still going strong, though. - Miss Elle

Eric, nope. You still haven't gotten the hang of it. Type. Words. Here. - Cristo

Tesla did figure out how to transfer power through the air (He did not have to lay devices on a surface) - Eric Logan

Eric, thanks for that. You were right, and I was wrong. I'll head down to Radio Shack now to get my wireless power adaptors. - Cristo

Yeah, Tesla figured out how to transfer power through the air... He was in the process of building a tower funded by J.P. Morgan that would have tested it when Marconi was successful in sending a telegram across the ocean via wire and Morgan decided to pull out: "Tesla could not find any more backers and most of the site's activity had to be shut down in 1905. Newspapers referred to it... more... - Her Lindsay-ness

The fact that no one has picked up Tesla's work since then makes it virtually impossible for me to use it as a solution. (The possible exception being me picking up his work). Given that no one has done it yet, it's certainly plausible there are impracticalities of using this today, including power degradation between the source and target, and RF interference with all the different... more... - Cristo

I don't know if that's a good idea for you, Robert. You might be better off making a clean break from FriendFeed. - Bruce Lewis

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Thanks Robert, that's great news! Paul, hope you feel better... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Bruce: FriendFeed=Facebook. So, I'm interested in what he's doing and I'm a big fan of Facebook's. Twitter needs some competition. The Fail Whale is getting to me. - Robert Scoble

Another reliable update. - ashish

I know it's a stretch but can we gather specific questions for Paul to answer? - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

When other sites like twitter come out with new features, you want to be at the front of the excited crowd. FriendFeed will make you into that curmudgeon who's always saying, "So what? They did that two years ago at FriendFeed." - Bruce Lewis

I guess the rusty wheel gets the oil... - Cjay

Cjay: I've been working on this interview since before Facebook bought FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble

manielse: well, the interview isn't on 100% yet and now that I've talked about it in public who knows what will happen? But if it does happen of course we'll get you involved. - Robert Scoble

Cjay: I might be a rusty wheel, but remember two things: 1. I put many many thousands of hours into FriendFeed before the sale, bringing my audience over here at great risk to my personal brand. Lots of "experts" like Mike Arrington told me I was wrong to do that. 2. I'm still here. - Robert Scoble

OMGAWWWWW he still has "it" - sofarsoShawn

oh im sorry Robert thats "The squeaky wheel gets the oil first" hehe, wasnt saying your are getting old or anything. - Cjay

I hope Paul gets to feeling better soon. He's a great guy. - Phil G from iPhone

sofarso: I never lost it. :-) - Robert Scoble

But yes I would agree that allowing and or resting your personal branding on a service thats based on a cloud application with it's roots depending on a social network model is very risky. - Cjay

Cjay: actually it's not. It just looks risky. - Robert Scoble

To those giving Scoble crap for being on FF, aren't you tired of that? You all have been doing that for at least a year. Enough. For us on FF, we'd love to see an interview, thanks. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Paul, get well soon - Shane

Well, I'm done for tonight. Thanks you Robert for the chat... - Cjay

Good luck for the interview, Robert and thanks for the update. Hope Paul gets better soon. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Thanks everyone. I'm actually not "very sick" though, just "kind of sick" -- it's mostly messing up my sleep. - Paul Buchheit from iPhone

be well! - Laura Norvig

Chicken soup - but stay away from those soul books ;) Hope you're up to speed soon, Paul. - Micah Wittman

Looking at the time-scale, doesn't that actually answer the question? You don;t wait THAT long to deliver good news or to debunk a false rumour that killings your platform (well, Zucks platform). - Jim Connolly

Paul - sorry to hear that! (it's 2:30 am here, I can empathize with your sleep problem) - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

Eric, sorry if it sounded like I was giving him crap. That wasn't my intention. I think Scobleizer has a serious career decision to make: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin... - Bruce Lewis

The problem i see is that social network cloud applications seem to live in peoples heads rent free. - Cjay

Hope you feel better, Paul. - Kol Tregaskes

That will be an interesting interview, thanks for posting this update. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Can't wait for the interview!! Thanks to you and Paul for keeping us updated!! - Rosemary Sorg

:? - CW™

Robert, you will never leave FriendFeed as long it is here:) - Patrik Johansson

+1 Patrik - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Robert, do you think Twitter is too unreliable or do you think the competition is healthy? - John Cass

Feel better soon, Paul! - Ruchira S. Datta

The walrus has eaten the oysters: http://bit.ly/nJrdl - Michael Slattery

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