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I think the Google Chrome browser logo is a rip off copy of the 1970's "Simon" electronic game. What do you think?
urdumania1, Bella Khan, Olga Safonova and 85 other people liked this
its pretty close.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
You should send this totallylookslike.com
- Mike Nayyar
guitar hero is a heavy rip off of simon says too, pretty inspirational game
- Yunus Tunak
Mike - I might just do that!
- Susan Beebe
The device name is not "Simon Says"...just Simon. "Simon Says" was on of the modes of play on Simon. </ComicBookGuy>
- Josh Haley
Yep.
- Eric
That's why it looked familiar
- M F
@Josh Haley - Thanks! I just corrected it... much appreciated
- Susan Beebe
i remember that game. god, how i hated it.
- Nathan Rein
in the other news ... http://www.youtube.com/watch... ;)
- A. T.
and little more chrome 80s styled http://www.youtube.com/watch... :)
- A. T.
I bet kids today have never seen the "Simon" electronic toy... makes me feel old!
- Susan Beebe
I saw my name mentioned a few times, things ok over here?
- Simon Wicks
Pft, it's obviously a pokeball
- Daniel Bruce
I loved that game!
- JA Castillo
hahaha!
- Susan Beebe
omg, totally!!
- Sarah Perez
I knew it reminded me of something!
- Mary DeSive
since you put it that way, yeah ;)
- Doug Schumacher
Lots of folks saying the Google Chrome logo "makes them want to play Simon" - LOL
- Susan Beebe
to me it looks like how a non-computer-using artist type would design a trackball -- either that or they are trying to get a HAL vibe without creeping everyone out
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Uh-oh, Google, you've been caught with your hand in the electronics bin!
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
I got my son a travel version of Simon, so there's at least one kid who's seen it. (He needs hand-eye coordination practice.) This does seem very, very similar.
- Fikisha
from BuddyFeed
I remember it ! :-)
- Roberto
from fftogo
I get the Simon apps for my phones. WinMo and iPhone.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Not sure why I didn't mention that I still have my old Simon.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
exactly! awesome idea :) congrats!
- Alihan ÇETİN
:) @Doğuş lol This is more than same :D
- Alihan ÇETİN
its more than the ordinary. new to friendfeed. This is my link jolamps.blogspot.com
- KINGSLEY OSEVWE
Ageism is becoming an issue for me - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Akiva, Bill Anderson and Kris liked this
Heck, ageism is becoming an issue for me at 39.
- Michael R. Bernstein
However, I'll take issue with this point: "it's the one insult that's considered socially acceptable." That's just not true. Fat people are demonized to an even greater degree.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Christopher, you may not see or hear much in the way of "He's just fat", but I bet you hear a lot of people complaining about being forced to sit next to some fat bastard on the plane. Or what all those obese people are doing to their insurance premiums. OTOH, nobody actually *blames* anyone for getting old.
- Michael R. Bernstein
FestivusFeed: Start Festivus right with the traditional Airing of Grievances.
Jimminy, CoG of FF, hollyrae, Moses Kpetigo and 91 other people liked this
Image borrowed from a super old post. http://blog.louisgray.com/2007...
- Louis Gray
Grievance: There is no longer an official Festivus Feed.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: That we discussed this back in August as well. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
"I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you're gonna hear about it."
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Sean Percival! Your hair is too straight and too long, and you are too thin.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Rahsheen! All your topless pictures are posted and yet, it does not encourage any women to do the same!
- Louis Gray
Ha! Double Ha! in fact.
- sean percival
Grievance: Anne Bouey, you are too kind to everyone. I want to know what you really think about Facebook.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Cecily, you carry on the stereotype of the stern librarian who does not approve of shenanigans! Live it up every once in a while.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Friendfeed didn't buy Facebook and declare it *dead* :D
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Grievance: Haggis! You are the lamest poker in the world I have ever seen. Pathetic.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Adrian, you couldn't man up and get Anika to take your last name like a true patriarch!
- Louis Gray
Oh man... I lost the armwrestling match that was supposed to decide that. :(
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I trained for weeks too!
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
OMG *gets out p-whip*
- Anika
Grievance: Spidra, your avatar looks like Rosie the Riveter meets Archie from Archie Comics. Let's see the real you!
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Anika, you have not told us all the dirt about Mark Krynsky that you really know. It's time you told us. Everything.
- Louis Gray
Jaime Hernandez was very influenced by Archie Comics. I doubt I'll change my avatar, but (and this gets to *my* grievance) I have posted quite a few pics of me in my feed - that so few of my subscribers read, like or comment on. :-P
- Spidra Webster
Grievance: we haven't seen enough of LG bragging that he's whipped someone in Scrabble or Mario Kart. Especially that he's mercilessly beaten his mother.
- Spidra Webster
lol
- Brent
Grievance: Jandy, if you were truly the ConcertMaven of FF, how come I have #1) never been invited to a concert you attended, and #2) you have not yet organized a concert made up of FriendFeed performers?
- Louis Gray
Spidra, I try to remain humble. I would never bore you with such triviality. :)
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Louis, your most fun posts are only seen by insomniacs.
- Bruce Lewis
Grievance: Bruce, OurDoings has not yet been acquired by FriendFeed or Facebook and is far too obscure, requiring much more visibility.
- Louis Gray
Obscure? The user group http://friendfeed.com/ourdoin... has 13 subscribers. That's gotta be about half the active FriendFeed user base, if the pundits are to be believed.
- Bruce Lewis
Louis, #1) Consider yourself invited to every concert I attend; all you gotta do is come down to LA! #2) I'm waiting for Spidra to move back down here, then I will organize said concert with her in the lead. And you're invited. :)
- Jandy
Hmm. We can take over the Rose Bowl and have a huge festival. What will we call it? Ffunderstruck?
- Spidra Webster
Sounds awesome! I'll get started on the booking arrangements! :p
- Jandy
Well, Louis, to tell you the truth, I've never been on Facebook!
- Anne Bouey
Anne, your truthfulness pleases everyone. :) Carry on.
- Louis Gray
Festivus used to be about grievances. All this cheerfulness is ruining it! ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
Where the hell did I put my pole?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Grievance: Chris Pirillo is not lifecasting in 3D, so I don't feel like I know him well enough.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Mahendra's sharing preferences on Google Reader and Twitter are dramatically different than the posts he selects for Techmeme while on his shift.
- Louis Gray
LOL...is that a grievance?!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Grievance: Atul Arora is remarkably mysterious about his full-time work life, and is seen as a full-time link sharer.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Jim Norris complains often about struggles with attracting a date, yet he is cute enough and successful enough that I would be happy to pass his name along to potential partners. :)
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Louis Gray won't stop hitting on me.
- Jim Norris
In your dreams, Norris -- LG only fantasizes of RSS feeds ;)
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Jim's and Mona's hilarious comments make mine look really lame by comparison.
- Bruce Lewis
Grievance: I didn't follow the thread format, which probably leveled up LG's grievance. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Bret Taylor hasn't publicized the fact Toby Gerhart lost the Heisman Trophy award after weeks of unrealistic hype.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: People post their mugs way too much up in here! #getaroom
- Mona Nomura
Grievance: Mona's everyday drinking behavior makes college students feel like underachievers both in the classroom and at their frat houses or sororities.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: WorldOfHiglet has not posted her novel to FriendFeed as a PDF to download.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: Stephen Mack toils away at TiVo for a decade and hasn't ONCE posted promo codes for lower-cost units. He also won't tell us if there is anything beyond the TiVo XL.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Track down Louis Gray using this http://www.phonedetective.com/PD...
- Thomas Power
Grievance: Johnny Worthington isn't Australian enough. Secondary grievance... the Skype connection to FFunderCats is complete rubbish.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: Thomas Power runs a successful social network and his three children somehow all still managed to become FarmVille addicts.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: I have no housemates to annoy with my loud cackling at this thread.
- Spidra Webster
bah humbug
- Thomas Power
Grievance: Louis Gray made me snort my tea when I read his comment about my novel...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Grievance: Akiva and Rochelle Moskovitz go to bed way too early.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Grievance: Louis Gray has not been listening to my audiobook podcast
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Grievance: Kol has a last name that nobody can pronounce, and a first name that should be short for something, but nobody has any clue.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Trez-Gas-Ges ... I can
- Thomas Power
LG, it's short for "Koldkockya"
- Spidra Webster
Ouch that sounds painful Spidra. This is what LG stands for http://www.lgblog.co.uk/wp-cont...
- Thomas Power
LOL, Louis. Kol, short for Kolin, i.e. Colin. Tregaskes: say like Tree-Gas-Kes. Easy. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Grievance: I never get invited to all the great meatbag parties
- Mo Kargas
Grievance: I never go to bed. Wait...Another Grievance: I'm always late to these parties.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Grievance: All my network is on Twitter instead of FriendFeed. Bastards!
- Justin Whitaker
Grievance: this video won't edit itself.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Grievance: LG's not on FF right now. Which leads me to believe he could only be sleeping. I'm disillusioned.
- Spidra Webster
Grievance: FriendFeed got hijacked by Facebook - bah! I think they should switch places. I mean, declare FB dead and switch all those accounts over to FF --- now, that would be AWESOME!
- Susan Beebe
Grievance: Not enough chocolate over here, that's cuz I ate most of it already :P *sad santa*
- Susan Beebe
I'm glad you aired out these grievances, Louis, They were starting to stink before, all boxed up like that.
- Stephen Mack
I don't get a Grievance? Woo hoo! I win!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Grievance: Spidra does not recognize I can be off FriendFeed and still not asleep at the same time. A rarity, but true.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Susan Beebe dutifully listens in to every Gillmor Gang, but has yet to be invited on as a participant.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Kamilah Gill is still doing her daily sketches and has yet to switch to oil-based paints.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Stephen Mack has no resemblance to the line of trucks which bear his name.
- Louis Gray
Grievance: Paul Buchheit has not yet singlehandedly made Facebook as cool as FriendFeed or GMail.
- Louis Gray
:P I'm going to! and I have done tons of oil painting. That's how I got my art degree. Ah, that's better. Happy Festivus.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Grievance: Stuart Miniman won't admit that the vast majority of people who interact with him don't really get the full benefits of Fibre Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE).
- Louis Gray
Greviance.... Apple not letting Google Voice on the iPhone
- Roberto Bonini
Grievance: It is still only Christmas Eve, so I cannot partake in the (completely made up by me) tradition of spending as much of the day as possible in my Christmas pajamas.
- joey
Grievance: It's Christmas Eve day and I'm at work :(
- Brent
Greviance: Jet lag is screwing up my sleeping patterns.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Grievance: I wish you could all be eating Turkey here with me. Instead I have to type on a keyboard to try to feel close to you.
- Jorge Escobar
Greviance: Transporter tech hasn't been invented. See above.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Cristo: You tried that on Alex yet??4 ;)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Grievance: No one on my FF feed or FoaF has yet made a YouTube video of their Feats of Strength
- Spidra Webster
Spidra: not even Rah??
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Spidra, I may have a photo of mine a little later. No video, though.
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
WoH, got link? ha3rvey, I'm sure we all look forward to it!
- Spidra Webster
HA HA! I totally escaped the Airing of Grievances.
- Steven Perez
Grievance: DYSP.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
TOO LATE. YOU MISSED THE CUTOFF.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Belated Grievance: I missed the cutoff.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
The Twitter/FriendFeed Connection Goes Realtime Once Again - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Anne Bouey, Kris, Johnny and 2 other people liked this
TOILET PAPER ROLL SCULPTURES - http://www.loudreams.com/2009...
Esen, Emre BAHADIR, Eceulgay and 12 other people liked this
n'aparken aklına geldiyse artık:))
- katharsis
from Bookmarklet
ortaya çıkan suratlara bakınca ne yaparken aklına geldiği belli gibi :)
- Murat Kaya (mrtky)
yaratıcı hemoroid:)))
- katharsis
:)) haha.. hep tavuk döner dürüm böyle olur insan :) çorba iç çorba :D sulu şeyler tüketmek lazım ...
- Murat Kaya (mrtky)
Galactic Truth Surfaces as President Obama Finally Reveals Himself as Jedi Master [Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo - 9/16/09] - http://gizmodo.com/5361303...
CannonGod, Janice, Mark Layton and 3 other people liked this
Appreciating SPARQL CONSTRUCT more | bobdc.blog - http://www.snee.com/bobdc...
Kris liked this
In SPARQL, SELECT is actually known as a query form, and another is CONSTRUCT. According to the SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Recommendation, CONSTRUCT returns a graph—a set of triples. I had thought of CONSTRUCT as a way of pulling a set of triples out of a triplestore, especially a remote triplestore, but while reviewing some TopQuadrant training material I realized how handy CONSTRUCT can be to create useful new triples. (...) CONSTRUCT provides a nice example of how SPARQL is more than a query language; along with extracting data using queries, you can create useful new data as well.
- cyberlabe
Commenting just changed for bloggers with JS-Kit Echo - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
Hoop, Johannan Edelman, Mac Sharp and 14 other people liked this
I always figured FriendFeed would get something out like this first with some kind of auto-embeddable widget. Echo looks great though, and I can't wait to get in on http://punchingkitty.com
- Mike Flynn
I love the idea, it looks like a great resource
- Scott Klauminzer
I just wanted to say that this Echo uses alot of CPU cycles. I am using Google Chrome and every time the page updates I get lag. Maybe its just my system?
- Mark
it's very slow - and fails out when trying to login with Google Profile
- andy brudtkuhl
its a wonderful service, but, yes, seems a little slow. Clicking on the emoticon box caused it to have a minor stroke on my pc
- Mark
@Mark please email me details about your PC setup (browser etc etc) to chris@js-kit.com so we can track down the issue for you
- Chris Saad
Seems a great idea and really works well. Nice functionality! However, I only think it could be useful for news sites (e.g. techcrunch that are commment-insensitive. Realtime matters for them.
- Kris
It will probably get a bit quicker as time goes on
- Robert D'Alesio
speed was an issue for both disqus and intense debate at various points in their history.. it does seem a bit slow to load at first but looks like its cached after. Given this is the first site and its not completely launched it sounds like they might have some work to do on performance?
- Riaz Kanani
but after it is cached pulling in a long list of comments is speedy..
- Riaz Kanani
Right ? or Left ?
David Cook, Moontears, Brian and 9 other people liked this
I'm confused.
- Valley
correct?
- MicahBear78
How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory - BusinessWeek - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
Many companies, says Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, can skirt downturns entirely by coming up with innovations that change the game in their industries—or create new ones. (When asked if Google's strategy would change as the economy heads into a likely recession, he replied: "What recession?") In a recent interview in a tiny meeting room next to his Mountain View (Calif.) office, Schmidt told BusinessWeek Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Robert D. Hof how Google manages the tricky process of innovation.
- Hutch Carpenter
"Innovation comes from places that you don't expect. "
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
I'm seriously considering killing my Delicious account and moving it all to a FriendFeed Room. I just wish FriendFeed had tagging!
Mark Davidson, Zach Holmquist, dgw and 4 other people liked this
thats what I'm saying! keywords instead of linked hashtags...
- Frankie Warren
Frankie I've been saying that for a long time, but no one listens. :-( Delicious pioneered this concept.
- Jesse Stay
I could never lose my Firefox delicious plugin though.
- mikepk
Mike, I can do the same with a simple bookmarklet on FriendFeed, and include images with my shares/bookmarks, across multiple browsers, along with attach files with it. Kills anything Delicious can do.
- Jesse Stay
As long as the bookmarklet can do completion on previous tags I have used, that would be interesting.
- Travis B. Hartwell
But it also needs to have an interface for easy browsing of prior bookmarks, that's the true value of delicious
- Travis B. Hartwell
The plugin is so seamless though. Tag completion / suggestion along with the sidebar that pops up for searching, etc... You might be able to mimic some of the functionality, but it wouldn't be as integrated. If someone put together a Firefox plugin to make it work I might consider it. :)
- mikepk
Travis, that's what FriendFeed rooms are for. Organize how you like, by room. Tagging would be nice, too though.
- Jesse Stay
So a room for each tag?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Mike, but Firefox isn't seamless. :-) And I don't use Firefox.
- Jesse Stay
Travis, that's my thought, at least until FriendFeed creates a tagging infrastructure of some sort.
- Jesse Stay
FriendFeed's search is powerful enough tagging almost wouldn't be necessary if you just used common words in each bookmark
- Jesse Stay
But seriously, the only thing I use Delicious for nowadays is for saving past mentions of my blog posts. I could do that in FriendFeed rooms pretty easily, and with graphics, using the FriendFeed bookmarklet.
- Jesse Stay
I still use delicious heavily for keeping track of things I want to go back and refer to.
- Travis B. Hartwell
But this would be an interesting experiment, let me know how it goes. :)
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis you could do the same with FriendFeed. I think the FriendFeed search is more powerful.
- Jesse Stay
And more social.
- Jesse Stay
Hrm
- Travis B. Hartwell
I wonder how hard it would be to write something to import bookmarks from delicious into FF
- Travis B. Hartwell
Since they both have APIs
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, not hard at all, but I'd wait for FriendFeed to support tags, first. Either that or convert them to hashtags.
- Jesse Stay
And by rooms, you mean Groups, right?
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis, on FriendFeed, they are Rooms.
- Jesse Stay
Maybe I'm being blind...I can't see Rooms mentioned anywhere....on my right sidebar I'm seeing a box for Groups, like building43. How do I create a room?
- Travis B. Hartwell
The terminology is different all over friendfeed, but they're the same thing.
- Jesse Stay
get the best of both worlds... let people enter hashtags... but when submitted, convert them to tags, and remove the ugliness!
- Tim Hoeck
Travis: your guess was correct... "Groups" used to be named "Rooms" but friendfeed changed the terminology to alleviate confusion. It's kinda like how i still call facebook "thefacebook.com" to show I'm old school ;)
- Frankie Warren
The natural phenomena - lava - http://delightnature.com/volcano...
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Rick Kaiser, Durukan Duru, Emma and 9 other people liked this
Hitler
Angelo Rodrigues, Bill Rawlinson, gonzoff and 3 other people liked this
love it!
- ★ Soner Gönül
that middle finger looks crazy long. I wonder if it is just the angle? Great photo
- Bill Rawlinson
Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world (video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Maciej Matyjas, Kris, Mo Kargas and 6 other people liked this
Sooooooo beautiful and peaceful, I could watch it for hours!
- ★Kristy
from Bookmarklet
the light, woah... loves it!
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Friendster founder on social networks: I invented this stuff - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol...
Jordi Rivero, Andre P. Siregar, Kris and Dimitar Vesselinov liked this
Meet Crazy Cat Lady Artist Alison E Kurek - http://blogs.catster.com/the-cat...
Emma, Hanna Wiszniewska, Samuel Ochanji and 3 other people liked this
IBM and The Internet of Things - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Francesco D'Orazio, Nilesh, Peter van Teeseling and 3 other people liked this
"IBM is involved in some very interesting projects at the intersection of two big trends we've been tracking in 2009: The Real-time Web and Internet of Things. They have a website devoted to this topic, called A Smarter Planet. As the name implies, it focuses on environmental matters such as energy and food systems. Sensors, RFID tags and real-time messaging software are major parts of IBM's smarter planet strategy. The catchcry for the site - Instrumented, Interconnected, and Intelligent - is about outfitting the world with sensors and hooking them to the Internet to apply the 'smarts.'"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
What a 140-char message looks like in RSS - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
(jeff)isageek, Mohamed J, Susan Beebe and 42 other people liked this
One thing. Twitter's value isn't just in the messages, it is in the following/follower graphs. And all the metadata that sits outside the message.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
But I like where this is going.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Very clever. So would the 140-char message itself BE the link? So the mp3 would be accessed by clicking the message rather than a seperate URL taking up some of the 140 chars?
- Mark
You've seen the Google Social Graph API though yeah? With XFN and FOAF it's easy to declare and determine relationships in a decentralized way. Right now it only works for public relationships though.
- Brett Slatkin
from email
Scoble, and the follower/following graph is the hard part - messaging + the format is nothing without a transport / platform that knows where to push those messages. And when like twitter you have users with 1+ million followers - that is a massive technical challenge that nobody has solved in a distributed fashion
- Nick Halstead
People with 1-million-plus followers are going to have a hefty Amazon EC2 bill. As they should. (Or they can use Twitter, if they can find a way to pay for everyone who uses it.)
- Dave Winer
that will go down well :)
- Mark
Scoble the follower graph would be OPML as it always has been.
- Dave Winer
Why is there a GIF screenshot of text on this page?
- Andy Bakun
I was thinking "What can I do that would really piss off Andy Bakun?" and this is what I came up with. Just curious -- did it work? :-)
- Dave Winer
Good way to show code
- Mark
Is anyone going to build a tool that I can export who I follow on Twitter as OPML?
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Christian - Ironically enough, I did something similar the other day for a diff reason. Completely random, über-beta, but - http://twitteravatar.appspot.com/apps...
- Damon Cortesi
Why do you want an OPML for Twitter? Where do you want to import it?
- Dave Winer
I think OPML could be good for importing Twitter to Snackr (The latest test version can be synced with Google Reader using OPML) I like using it for the casual glance @ the ticker tape while I work. It's not as immediate (feed refresh is slow) but it would cut down the time suckage if I still wanted to keep a slightly less frenzied eye on twitter.
- BairdWilliamson
Really?! A spammer on FF?
- Paul Puri
what spammer? ;-)
- Chris Heath
Ooooooh.... Maaaagic!
- Paul Puri
The first thing I noticed was how the surrounding XML seemed larger than the message itself. :)
- Ray Cromwell
I wrote a quick and dirty OPML exporter for Twitter. I'll put a little polish on it in the morning and put it up as a web app.
- Dave Winer
I may/must have missed something vital, but there's one thing I don't get. Since the ensuing Twitter-length RSS-item, message + envelope, is well above 140 characters, and thus can not be displayed as-is as an SMS (which, among other things, once was one of Twitter's killer features), why continue with that artificial limit at all? It's not as if the Cloud, be it RssCloud.org's or other, will not support messages where the <description> part is more than that. So what's the justification here?
- ianf ⌘
Awesome TYVM Dave!
- BairdWilliamson
SMS support for twitter is going to be a dead issue soon enough, glad to see people thinking about metadata and enclosures. I wish all url shortening services would go away, terrible idea which unfortunately got popular despite all the downsides.
- Dave Evans
I barely use Twitter, but I always felt that the very audacity of building a SMS-length global instant messaging service was sheer genius. I understand the cellphone push never worked (or not for long) outside USA/ Canada and perhaps the UK. But the possibility of using SMS for input has a lot of merit whether Twitter streams are then delivered to cell phones, or not.
- ianf ⌘
@Dave Evans. what makes you say that ("SMS support for twitter is going to be a dead issue soon enough")? In contrast to that, here's what one "VC from NYC" has to say about it: "I believe that Twitter's native implementation of sms is an important part of its success. The 140 character limit was driven by the 160 character limit of sms and the initial design of the service put sms...
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- ianf ⌘
ralfrottmann Posted a FriendBoo: Mon Jul 20 20:53:47 2009
Kol Tregaskes, Harold Cabezas, Kris and 2 other people liked this
Thanks - did it work as expceted?
- Paul Kinlan
Absolutely.
- Ralf Rottmann
any recomendations or just keep it as is?
- Paul Kinlan
Seems to work well...keep it and make more.
- PhilTaylor
Sounds great, Ralf!
- Dan York
Thanks! You gotta help these guys getting local access numbers to spread their services internationally. Might also expose Voxeo to more and different type of devs. :-) Ralf
- Ralf Rottmann
from email
Look out ladies, Matthew is in the house!
Yolanda, Charley M, Maggie and 49 other people liked this
Unbelievably cute!
- joey
Should I copy Tokyo Dan?
- Louis Gray
So cute! He was definitely flirting w/ me.
- Ayşe E.
Love their onesie couture!
- Trish Haley
from iPhone
Wow!! That little boy is so coming out of his shell! Go Matthew!
- Rachel Lea Fox
adorable!
- Anna Lynn M.
This is shameful...
Tanath, Jimminy, CoG of FF, akihito and 35 other people liked this
FriendFeed is not a broadcast medium, like Twitter is
- Jorge Escobar
I used to think the same, but some people just sign up and leave. Looks like he did too.
- Josh Haley
It would be great to have him back. He is an awesome machine on Twitter (with almost all links to Alltop, of course).
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Meh. People spend too much time focusing on superstars. (I assume he's a superstar?) I'd rather focus on people who actually interact. But that's just my take on it.
- Derrick
Yeah, I don't think we mind. I meant it's shameful that Guy, who's supposedly a social media guru doesn't see how much more value he could get out of those 10k subscribers.
- Jorge Escobar
I would only find it shameful if he were reporting on FF when he's obviously not actually using the service first hand. If he's not reporting on it, then he can do what he wants with his feed.
- FFing Enigma
From what I can tell all or most of his Twitter posts are automatically generated as well. (BTW who says isn't or can't be as good as or better broadcast medium than Twitter?). I think he is free to use it that way and we are free to ignore him.
- Brian Sullivan
I guess I looked up at Guy because of his work. But now I admire Louis Gray and Robert Scoble 10x more, because they are using the tools right. There is value in putting your thoughts and getting instant feedback. I learn from blog comments equally or more than from the blog post itself. Of course, this is my own opinion, and that's why I'm posting it only in my feed.
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, why thank you!
- Robert Scoble
Lots of people just like to use the aggregation feature (is this wrong?). Their loss if they're not doing more, but are you mad at Guy that he has such a following? Mad at people for tapping into Guy's aggregated information?
- Stuart Miniman
Wow, now I'm mad (?) I'm just saying it's a shame for Guy not to use FriendFeed to its full extent. He can do whatever he wants.
- Jorge Escobar
Apostol -- you're wrong. There is value interacting with 10k and even more with 100k. You just need to use smart filtering.
- Jorge Escobar
well, whatever the reason, his subscription on Friendfeed generates interest even when he is not using it allegedly as effective as you may want. but then it IS effective all the same!?
- Ashish Tiwari
Ashish, Robert Scoble (in FF) has 44k subscribers. Guy has 10k. Guess who's more effective?
- Jorge Escobar
Nobody posts about Robert Scoble having less or more subscribers, but you did about Guy. So he is still as effective in grabbing your attention.
- Ashish Tiwari
I'm talking about effectiveness
- Jorge Escobar
One thing to note is that as it becomes easier to synchronize followers from Twitter and Facebook, those who have popular accounts elsewhere will appear popular here as well, even if they were not subscribed to specifically on FriendFeed for the value they bring.
- Louis Gray
"It’s called SOCIAL media, but the social part is often forgotten by people who just want to advertise themselves and their products. I think that social media is a great way to market a brand or product, but it’s not effective if it’s annoying and one-sided. Use social media to meet new people and engage in meaningful conversations. Large corporations are finding that outlets such as...
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- Jorge Escobar
Guy Kawasaki? Unless he build bikes I don’t know him. What makes him special?
- Remo
You have to look at it as a matter of time investment. Social networking is definitely useful, but there comes a point where the amount of people following you means you can no longer carry on a rational, useful conversation with all of them. Also, some people just use FriendFeed as a way to see ALL activities of people they're interested in in one place, not necessarily as its own conversation medium.
- Trent Hamm
Take me, for example. Most of the time, if I see something interesting on FriendFeed, I carry on the conversation on Twitter. Why? More people are there - the conversation has more relevance.
- Trent Hamm
Trent: that's horrid decision making on your part. Why? Conversations on Twitter go away cause their search sucks and because you can't permalink to an entire conversation (like you can to this one).
- Robert Scoble
Who is he anyways? Except a HEAVY Twitter user who tweets to collect followers.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Guy was an exec at Apple and wrote a bunch of popular books about marketing.
- Robert Scoble
Like most of these services, I think the boundaries around the right and wrong ways to use them are pretty broad. And if you think about it, FF is even MORE of a broadcast and aggregation service than Twitter because of its built-in (and original purpose, might I add) support for piping in your content from nearly 60 other services.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
David, no offense but FF is all about aggregation and nothing about broadcast. Plus you're forgetting we can comment, rate and search on any of the items piped in from all those services, so there's the value add of threading and human filtering and bubbling of good content, which Twitter seriously lacks.
- Jorge Escobar
I don't see the what the big deal is. If he's not using it the way you'd like him to then tune him out. friendfeed is not on CNN every night like facebook and twitter. If you're using social media as a place to market then you have to stick with the most populated places. Don't get me wrong, I love how friendfeed aggregates all this great info, but my audience is not here, so why would...
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- Jonathan.Rivera
Yep. that's really bad.
- anna sauce
I see Guy as a "broadcaster" (if he does use FF) and if I were subscribed to him, which I'm not, I wouldn't be interested in following. I am interested in who follows these guys. Don't you want a conversation? Are there 10K "listeners" out there?
- anna sauce
I have a sense he is someone who doesn't know how to use FF (like Louis & Robert) and thus doesn't get it. At least he's not claiming it's syphillis, despite his ignorance.
- anna sauce
I tend to view Friendfeed as more of an aggregator first and as a social tool second.
- Bill Rawlinson
@Bill that's a 100% correct assessment
- Jorge Escobar
@Bill, I agree
- Jonathan.Rivera
Bill, +1
- anna sauce
If he takes the same approach that he does on Twitter, I'd rather he just stay there. It's all broadcast and he usually tweets things days after they're posted elsewhere. It's basically his way of driving traffic to Alltop. No real value there.
- The original Kevin
Agree, I like the pipes function for aggregating. Not sure how to use or of FF value beyond that. Kawasaki is into presence. Asked eight months ago to RT something, fell on deaf ears. Nothing in it for him (LOL). He was early adopter, built huge base, does nothing unless it directly links/builds Alltop brand. I guess that's 'marketing' and seems counter-intuitive in social media.
- Denis Campbell
I say Bullshit. I'll bet I can find each of you on another social network that's not active but have a profile. Guy (and everyone else) can do what they want on any social network. We shouldn't feel obligated.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah is usually good in his comments. This time, no such luck. I do have Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn (is that social?), Triiibes, Bitacoras, Plurk and probably 2 or 3 more I don't visit anymore. Twitter is the other social net I use, and it's all echoes from what I do in FriendFeed. The fact that Guy can find us in other places, doesn't mean he's using Social media to its...
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- Jorge Escobar
Hmmm...just weighing the opinions on this.
- Peter Thayer
You can visit Guy's website: alltop.com
- wiredgnome
Amazon: We Won’t Remotely Delete Books Again - http://mashable.com/2009...
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These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books…When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers’ devices, and refunded customers….We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers’ devices in these circumstances.
- Leo Laporte
Good! Sounds like they learned their lesson! This action was no different than if Amazon had gone and broken into my house, taken two books off of my shelf and left cash in their place. It constitutes breaking and entering and theft, regardless of what their TOS said this was just wrong.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Well the biggest mistake with this whole situation is that all the issues that were present with DRM riddled music stores are now rearing their ugly head with the kindle. Amazon need to do more that just saying "we won't do it again", the problem is that they CAN do it.
- Chris Lloyd
Amazon could come to my house and give me money for my books. I'M BROKE
- Tom Barton
What, if anything, did Microsoft announce? (Scripting News) - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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"In the podcast we talked about a river of realtime news. The analogy fits these pseudo-events in the following way. Sometime in the past weeks Microsoft held a private event, trying to build a dam on the river, hoping to blow the dam at a predetermined time earlier today, thereby creating a rush of news that would impress everyone. It didn't work because apparently the dam developed a leak in the middle of the night and the water rushed down the river of news while everyone was sleeping. No one was impressed. Sad Microsoft"
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
According to the people I talked to over the weekend, there should've been more than what was announced.
- Daniel Bachhuber
Friendfeed introduces “disabled commenting”. Very close to becoming the ultimate live-blogging app. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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More Pubsubhubbub feedback - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
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Today, Google engineers announced a technology called PubSubHubbub that makes RSS/Atom more real-time, and they deployed the technology on FeedBurner. FriendFeed also added support for the technology, so if you have a FeedBurner feed, your updates should show up in FriendFeed within seconds rather than minutes after the feed updates.
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To enable it for your FeedBurner feed: go to Feedburner, click on the "Publicize" tab, and then click on "PingShot" and enable the PingShot service. That will enable PubSubHubbub and send your feed to a number of ping services.
- Bret Taylor
what, right now? i mean immediately? From today?
- Zee.
Zee: yes, right now!
- Benjamin Golub
Zee: yes, from today, though the technology is very much "in beta," so I am sure there will be hiccups.
- Bret Taylor
Excellent, thank you Bret and FF, will switch this on now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
WOW.
- Zee.
Nice - thanks Bret!
- Jim Connolly
RSS is back in the game... then
- Yann Ropars
This is very cool
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Once step closer to being able to build an open distributed twitter like system!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
this has been done already by superfeedr.com - google's behind the game on this one, but def takes it mainstream.
- Scott Magdalein
I don't understand. Updates won't appear on Feedburner in realtime, so what's the point?
- ˈpɛbə
Peter: most blogging platforms ping Feedburner when you post a new entry, Feedburner pulls down the feed, Feedburner then pings the hub, then the hub notifies FriendFeed :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks Benjamin. Alas, my feeds are not that sophisticated.
- ˈpɛbə
We're still working out kinks so if you have any issues please send me a message!
- Brett Slatkin
You lost me at "Today" I shall now just smile and nod politely
- SteVe C
Where's the spec?
- Dave Winer
Dave: http://pubsubhubbub.googlecode.com/svn.... Edit: Brett beat me by nanoseconds!
- Benjamin Golub
If I understand correctly this essentially turns any site with a feedburner feed into a real time publisher? But to read it in real time you need what?
- BryanSchuetz
Since this is a Google thingie, does it work on Google Reader already?
- Tarmo Aidantausta
FriendFeed can receive the pings *RIGHT NOW*
- Brett Slatkin
guys, how long are we really talking before it should appear here? Seconds or minutes?
- Zee.
The Reader integration is a prototype; more to come soon!
- Brett Slatkin
no way, so Google Reader could technically go real time??
- Zee.
That would be cool, wouldn't it? =)
- Brett Slatkin
I stopped reading here: "RSS isn't supported for simplicity." Laughing. Out. Loud.
- Dave Winer
I better make sure i get post titles right the first time round.....
- Zee.
Brett - any chance i could ask you a couple of questions via email or dm?
- Zee.
Hey Dave that's my mistake. We support RSS! http://code.google.com/p... I need to update the spec.
- Brett Slatkin
is that SUP's role take up by those rss accelerator? or SUP is losing a chance to propagate in this field?
- huixing
Huixing: we plan to support all widely adopted real-time standards to make FriendFeed better. We are not tied to SUP only.
- Bret Taylor
from iPhone
Brett, why didn't you use the weblogs.com ping protocol? Your comment there about RSS, right up front, really captures the whole philosophy -- right? Let's just reinvent stuff that already works, so... Why? To break everything that already works? It won't happen that way. It'll only make your adoption curve steeper.
- Dave Winer
Would you ping me (dave dot winer at gmail dot com) when I can use RSS with this system. I'll be happy to evaluate it and provide feedback if necessary, and endorse it if it works. Thanks in advance.
- Dave Winer
Alright we've fixed in the spec Dave. Sorry for the mistake. Followed up.
- Brett Slatkin
Dave you can use rss feeds http://code.google.com/p...
- Darren Stuart
I agree why didn't ff just implement a ping server and just let people add it to their blogs?
- Darren Stuart
Darren: you can use our public SUP in that way: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Benjamin Golub
Zee- there are some debugging tools at the bottom of http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/, which I think is the hub you're using. For example, I don't see anything here: http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/topic-d...
- Casey Muller
Ping this, ping there. What's so great about it?
- Burcu Dogan
Benjamin: thanks that just saved me a little work. Should be linked on the api page I think. ;)
- Darren Stuart
Just enabled this myself, glad to be on the bleeding edge for once !
- Justin Long
Awesome. Just enabled it. Thanks for the details Brett.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, can you let me know if it works for ya?
- Zee.
@Casey i can't seem to get it working
- Zee.
Darren: it's linked from http://code.google.com/p... but yeah we should do a better job of exposing it.
- Benjamin Golub
I had enabled from way before, let's see if the post I'm about to publish works. I'll DM you Zee if it does!
- Jorge Escobar
can someone please let me know if they've managed to get this working?
- Zee.
There's also a WP plugin I wrote that does the same thing. This might be a good option for anyone who's not using feedburner. http://wordpress.org/extend...
- Josh Fraser
Zee, I set this up for my Empoprise-BI blog, wrote a blog post (using Blogger), and six minutes after posting I haven't seen anything in Google Reader or FriendFeed yet. So if you're not getting advertised response, you're not the only one. I'll test again at a later time.
- John E. Bredehoft
cool...just want to be sure it isn't me alone
- Zee.
Update - seven minutes after posting, the post showed up on FriendFeed (both in my feed, and in a group that receives the blog feed). Nothing in Google Reader yet.
- John E. Bredehoft
Josh Fraser - nice!
- Micah
John: The Reader integration we demo'ed was a prototype; more to come in the future!
- Brett Slatkin
yeah, it seems 7 minutes is about how long its taking me for too (to arrive in friendfeed)
- Zee.
Could you DM me the feed URL? I'll look into the details and figure out the issue. Like I said before, we're still working out a few kinks (the FeedBurner integration is initial support right now). So thanks in advance for your help in making it super fast!
- Brett Slatkin
Ready? Go!
- Jorge Escobar
Nope, nothing... published at 4:34pm EST
- Jorge Escobar
Brett, the one i'm testing it on is http://zee.me/blog and the feedburner url is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/zblog1
- Zee.
4:42pm, 8 minutes after I published and the article still doesn't show. My blog is at http://jungleg.com and the feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/jungleg
- Jorge Escobar
Looking into it now, thanks!
- Brett Slatkin
Thanks Brett!
- Jorge Escobar
Cheers Brett - i'm itching here... :)
- Zee.
If you're looking for another implementation of PubSubHubbub, I'd suggest you give a look to our http://superfeedr.com ;) Thanks for your time and feedback!
- Julien
Heh, what's the idea behind the crazy name? ;)
- Tyson Key
does self hosted wordpress natively ping feedburner?
- Tyler Gillies
Try it for yourself! http://friendfeed.com/pubsubh.... My test took only 8 seconds. Amazing (via http://friendfeed.com/brett)
- Jérôme
Nice to see XMPP more and more used on the web! It's a nice environment, also for cloud computing!
- Egon Willighagen
Nice tech, strange name though. Wonder if Google has a projectname generator, feeds it some foundation words, and then watches it spew out 1,835391 suggestions in 20-sized chunks? Too bad they didn't pick up PubSubBuzz instead, rhymes better. Also, what was EVER WRONG with PubSubHubris? (fresh and full of promise).
- ianf ⌘
This tech has been around for ages. It's getting much needed promotion right now, but it's not new. The name comes from XMPP's pubsub mechanism, with hubbub on the end. The option for PingShot has also been in Feedburner for months.
- Marlin Forbes
I think that unless you have installed the pubsubhubbub plugin for wordpress, that feedburner still polls your content. It pushes your content out to other interested parties using the new mechanism, but it will still poll your feed. Correct?
- Marlin Forbes
you can have wordpress ping feedburner under settings->writing add http://ping.feedburner.com
- Tyler Gillies
great to see you talk today bret, thanks
- sean percival
appreciate that
- Hans Kainz
My feedburner feed updated in real-time but the blog post is still not published here on friendfeed?
- Svartling
didn't work for me on last post....and i have the ping shot on
- Bob DeMarco
Just wanted to let you know it worked for me yesterday. Almost a minutes after I posted on my blog it was up in FriendFeed
- Jorge Escobar
Great!
- Brett Slatkin
Comet McNaught Between Fireworks and Lightning [Antti Kemppainen, NASA - 7/5/08] - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...
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Mucho Gracias to Andrew Baron for the #1 most-liked post ever to hit FriendFeed (302 likes, 56 comments as of Thu 7/17/08 2:13 pm PDT) http://friendfeed.com/e.... If you're one of the few people who hasn't seen this yet, head over to Andrew's link & "give him some love". Way to go Andrew! Incredible find... :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
NASA picture of Comet McNaught between Fireworks and Lightning - Antti Kemppainen. Large (1,744 x 600) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod... Small (1,337 x 460) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod...
- Mitchell Tsai
Sometimes the sky itself is the best show in town. In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... gathered on a local beach to watch a sky (Quadruple sky over Great Salt Lake) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod... light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... celebrations.
- Mitchell Tsai
On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught (Magnificent Tail of Comet McNaught) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod.... The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes.
- Mitchell Tsai
Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework.
- Mitchell Tsai
Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos.
- Mitchell Tsai
Andrew Baron's comet post has hit 300 likes!
- Mitchell Tsai
301!
- Shey
315
- Mitchell Tsai
Prediction: MySpace will become retro-cool, and all of the hipsters will switch to it for the ironic value.
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Lol. I predict it will die...
- David Schmidt
Is this inspired by the new FriendFeed themes? :-)
- Jesse Stay
Prediction: Myspace will fall to the demise of Facebook.
- Matt Ruiz
ha. maybe in 2020.
- MG Siegler
Ooh, time to open an account now and beat the trend. Wait, what?
- Ryan Massie
hmm... it's still active for musician to musician talk. but beyond that? will be a hard road for them.
- michael sean wright
Now what ever happened to that account I set up...lol
- Don
i like the ring to hipsterspace
- MG Siegler
It's the new bell bottoms!
- Bwana ☠
i still like myspace personally, no one is ever on anymore though... maybe if myspace were to open up the feeds a bit they could get more users back... facebook is too boring.
- Wesley Robin Guerrero
Myspace is a psychedelic trip compared to FB, or to anything else for that matter.
- Russellreno
well I don't know about MySpace in particular, but good prediction, things *like that* probably will happen. some old run-down neighborhood infested with rats and junkies gets adopted by hipsters, and next thing you know, there's an Ann Taylor next to the Pottery Barn next to the Starbucks... web gentrification?
- Karim
So MySpace is the new "Look at this f*cking hipster?"
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
from BuddyFeed
MySpace is varied and ethnic- in my opinion vibrant. Just read a paper about the digital class divide. It also contained a study between MySpace and Facebook. The general profile leaving MySpace is white, American, 30's, higher income. The general new user of MySpace is not. You may want to consider what type of person are, before you consider MySpace a ghetto. Just saying...
- E-Advocate Network
no comment :)
- sean percival
Can you eleborate it. We were harping on to Facebook till just recently. Do you want, Myspace to copy your idea and everyone harping on it?
- ThinkEzy
actually, i was thinking of updating my MySpace the other day. does that make me a hipster?
- Christine Lu
Given it's the goto place for anyone in music to have an easy site to stream their stuff that has name recognition and gets traffic, it already is cool.
- Michael W. May
It'll switch to message board format and usher in the new some thing that already exists but everybody will name it as if its just been discovered for the first time.
- Patricia
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