It's a two-day cat eating festival is sunny Canete, Peru. Locals believe eating cats is good for you. Naturally, animal advocacy groups are livid. - Chris Baskind
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So, what do you think were contributing factors to the spike in March? - Louis Gray
I think that is around the time we started talking about it. I can't be 100% sure, but I think that's when the first round of Twitter vs Friendfeed debate started picking up real steam. - Steve Spalding
If I remember correctly that might have also been the month when twitter seemed on the verge of a complete meltdown. - m.0
well for one thing, private beta ended end of February... - Gaby Benkwitz ☼
Sorry I didn't get see you after the session - would have liked to say hi. Hopefully see you at the next Open House! - Bret Taylor
Mona - I agree completely. Love him or hate him, Scoble (among others) arrives, brings the crowd with him, and then leaves once the crowd has become too large and the static too loud. - Jonathan Beckett
Bret, it was a good presentation - and I've met you before, so no need, honestly. I didn't want to compete with Kara's camera. I was hoping to say hi to Loic, but to stand in line, with crying twins at home, I had to bail. :-) (And yes, I changed the headline from Missteps to Surprises, as that's more accurate) - Louis Gray
That was a good read, great insight into the on goings of a start up. Thanks for attending and taking notes. - Tsega Dinka
I don't leave many services. I just get a lot less enthusiastic about them sometimes. - Robert Scoble
"We are working on relevancy now. It's reflected in the different ways that people use a feed reader, as some see it as a new e-mail box and others ask to show the things that are interesting right now" - Shakeel Mahate
I think that just the fact that monetization is being discussed as openly as possible and is in the forefront is uber healthy and is a signal that FF is in good hands, - Brian Sullivan
monetize the zemanta way, mouseover ads - Gregory Lent
"But so far, the team is still playing catch-up. Bret added, "For the one year or so we have existed, we put less into relevancy and more into filtering tools. We are working on relevancy now."" Relevancy, relevancy, relevancy. Automatically push to the top of the queue what is most interesting for each of us individually. And amp up the discussion features. (Great article by Louis Gray.) - Sean McBride
Relevancy issues: attention matching, attention profiling, clickstream mining, personal profiling, ranking by interestingness, recommender systems, similarity ranking, statistical machine learning, text mining. Google recommends websites. Netflix recommends movies. Amazon recommends books. Friendfeed should recommend people, news and discussions. - Sean McBride
I'd love to read or learn a bit about FF *architecture*. I'm sure you guys learned so many lessons, and there are several of us that would like to build equally scalable, true www services. FF is such an inspiration, I'm just bursting to build something complementary. - Christopher Galtenberg
Nice article Louis. I posted my thoughts based on the Kara Swisher video interviews on my site http://lifestreamblog.com/vide... and just saw this and posted a link to your story. I really wish I could have gone to this event. - Mark Krynsky
Hee. @willia4 and I actually got to "do" the skit at the Ikea restaurant the other day. (His tray was set, see. And so was mine. And so was the next person's. We iz dorks.) - Bran Mydwynter
“"Your estimated wait time is - 5 minutes. If you prefer to hold without music, please press the # key now." -- first time I hear this option anywhere. Love it”
so what personal hold music did you queue up and what tech did you use to listen to it? i.e. right now I would go for something like Pet Sounds radio on Last.fm. - Jon Price
