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Steve Rubel posted a link

Something interesting going on here??

June 8 at 7:18 pm - via Reshare - Link

Diana Valerini, Dobromir Hadzhiev, mojay and 11 other people liked this

That might be fun to watch but it will probably be FAR too noisy. - MG Siegler

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It is awfully noisy, true. But it's fun to feel like a part of that community! - Brian Partridge

What could be interesting is that possibly Twitter noticed that MG and others will be live blogging right here on Friendfeed?! :) - Charlie Anzman

The key thing for WWDC is finding a reliable blog or two that is live blogging. Per Charlie, I'll be on FriendFeed as one source. I'll also tune into FriendFeed and Summize to see the conversation. - Mike Reynolds

+1 for Charlie's comment! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

@charlie - i THINK they were planning on this before, but you never know :) - MG Siegler

MG - Looking forward to seeing how it lays out here, as opposed to individual blogs (and saving jet fuel ... maybe a little sleeping in between :) - Charlie Anzman

Jesse Stay shared an item on Google Reader

Bill Clinton updates Facebook profile to say "It's complicated" with Hillary [Facebook]

June 6 at 10:30 am - Link

Bradley Lautenbach, Mitchell Tsai, dave mcclure and Alen Teplitsky liked this

so how does one become friends with a former president on facebook? - Alen Teplitsky

Just request to be a friend - it's probably not Bill himself though. It's most likely a person in his administration managing it. - Jesse Stay

Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations

June 5 at 11:46 pm - Link

oliver gassner, Erik, Diana Valerini and 215 other people liked this

Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it. - Robert Scoble

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Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed. - Ranjit Mathoda

cool beans. - Anthony Citrano

Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me. - Alex Williams

Very cool Bret. - Hutch Carpenter

Very nice. - Atul Arora

Very nice, indeed - Michael W. May

Thanks. - Amund Tveit

Very nice addition. Keep em coming. - Tsega Dinka

We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor

@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor

Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora

Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble

Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble

How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray

@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

interesting idea - Steven Hodson

uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom.. - sedgewick

Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested? - Ryan Carson

perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - Chris Hofmann

Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky

Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood

This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano

hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith

This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson (beta)

Oh, now see, this is just awesome. - Vince DeGeorge

Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :) - Rob Diana

They should call it A-list juice - Jamie

Thanks, I appreciate this feature. - Daniel Backhaus

I want a feed for this feature! - Marcus Puchmayer

Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix

Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe

Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill

Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer

Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai

Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... - Mitchell Tsai

Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu! - Mike Reynolds

Excellent - Jason Kaneshiro

Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio

wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez

This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris

My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana

Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov

What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana

Awesome! - Daniel Spradau

Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel

I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe

@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur

Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai

Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo

This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter

great addition to the functionality! - Jeroen De Miranda

Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane

Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini

This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott

awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling

Bret Taylor is amazing! - Alex Hammer

I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248

Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor

Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson

Baratunde Thurston posted a message on Twitter

“New blog post: NY Times Cool Interactive Data On Clinton vs. Obama Voters http://tinyurl.com/6lfvyq”

June 3 at 4:23 pm - Link

Bradley Lautenbach and Kevin Moore liked this

I was going to blog this. Brilliant. - Kevin Moore

Elliott posted a link

Google Confirms Plans To Put Display Ads On Google.com - Silicon Alley Insider

May 9 at 8:02 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Bradley Lautenbach, Jordi De Groof, terry radford and 6 other people liked this

"We've argued that a full load of display ads on Google.com could add $3-$4 billion in annual revenue." Holy Cow. - Elliott

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This is sad. One of the differentiators of Google is its advertising. Now they just are going for the profits. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Like they're not making enough money. What they're doing is working. Why change? - David Risley

do no evil, indeed. - Chris Hollander

worst...idea...ever. - Morgan via twhirl

they have sooo many other avenues to produce income. why that? they need to be more creative. - Josh Mings via twhirl

I wonder how they put them on iGoogle. Honestly, though, a couple half banners surrounding the logo wouldn't really bother me. Everyone's got the right to earn a few billion more. :) - felix

Scoble - don't you hate it when a site gets loaded down with ads? Even after the person said they wouldn't run them? - Dave Hodson

If the display ads from google are every bit as intelligent as the link ads, they'll be fine. I'm disappointed by how this will likely effect the page load times on Google (which are the primary reason I use Google over Yahoo or MSN anyway) - Adam Posey

lets see how this *pushing envelope* ends up... I guess this is classical case of big company taken over by mediocrity step by step, described so many times that it should be recognized without effort - silpol

i wont believe this until i see it. - Chris Farrugia

Isn't this the same as with Wordpress ads (only for Internet Explorer?). Power-users probably never see the Google homepage. - Meryn Stol

Really bad idea. - terry radford

I guess it was only a matter of time... As long as it's unobtrusive in terms of pageload &&,|| client-side processing I'm fine with it. Could probably add rule(s) to ipfw... - RandaL Hicks

the display ads might be put on Google image search which is all about images anyway, not main .com text homepage - Kevin Gough

If Google manages to get advertisers to clean up their act and create ads that don't slow down/break web pages, then everyone wins. If they let the same ads run on Google that run everywhere else, then Google loses bigtime. - Jason Wehmhoener

Personally, I think the article is trying to stir up unfounded attention. It talks about display ads in general raking in cash for Google, but then the quote from the Google rep talks about ads in image search only. If that's the case, what is the big deal? - Jason Dettbarn

Agree w @Jason and add that people had the same sort of reaction when text ads were introduced. It's not like you're going to wake up one day and it's going to look like the old TW Pathfinder site. - Erik Dafforn

I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean, if Google can display ads that are in fact relevant to me, then I might be interested. I also think that while this idea does suck - it is important to remember what Google is...a public company that has to make profit. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding where all their money comes from....(i.e. who clicks on all those ads anyway?) - Elliott

I also agree with @Jason. The reference to Google.com is like saying "Google.com properties" - (i.e. Image Search). - Elliott

Is Google trying to be the next Yahoo!? Do not like. - darnell