Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
Seriously folks, I think we've found a great new service. I hope you all at least give it a fair chance (when you get your invite of course). It's very slick, it's very FriendFeed-friendly (very similar to our beloved FF) and has users, lots of them and they are all interacting with each other and posting on all sorts of topics.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, but all I see is the same useless noise (crap) wrapped in a new candy wrapper. Slightly better features is fine, but unless it exponentially improves what has been said, it's just pixie dust on a dog turd
- Johnny
I was impressed how well the hanging out feature worked.
- Mike Nencetti
Waiting for Google to honour the invite i was sent.... grrrr
- Roberto Bonini
I'm waiting for importing and exporting. And for the folks with a terrible combination of ADHD and OCD to get sick of it and leave, or to calm the hell down.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Johnny, I see no noise. I use Google+'s circles (which are just FriendFeed-like friends lists).
- Kol Tregaskes
Victor, I can't see that happening. It's all native and I think Google will stick to that. Possibly a good thing as it avoids everything simply importing their tweets, leaving and not using the service. You actually have to be active on Google+.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol. I have lists/circles set up too. I just see the same stuff there that I do here. And I'm not going to do all the work for no real benefit. And they better do something about import cause if it's just Google native, i don't want it. It has to be a central hub, not a closed garden
- Johnny
from iPhone
I can't wait to get an invite! It's about time someone else gave Facebook a run for their money, they have become complacent and arrogant and have had no competition up until now.
- Technogran
You know, perhaps you guys are right and should just stay over here( please). Victor, make sure you give your customary block when you there. Jesus.
- Joe
from YouFeed
The feature missing is the ability to import from any random site (using either custom importers or RSS/Atom). Without that, it's just another gated-garden (not quite a walled-garden, but G+ wants you to create your content on G+ it seems). I create content all over the internet, not just one one site.
- Andy Bakun
FF's import feature is nice but when I look back on the best conversations I've had at FF, they're the ones that started on FF (or the bookmarklet), not the ones imported from Twitter/Tumblr/Flickr/Reader/etc. The imported items seem to generate less interesting conversations.
- Amit Patel
One major flaw is that not even Google Reader (which is a major source of interesting conversations for me) imports into Google+, which just seems absurd. I don't see the benefit of moving from Facebook to Google+ if it's going to be more of a silo than Facebook is.
- Victor Ganata
But they'll definitely import from Buzz some time, no? And Buzz does import from whatever else..
- Ruchira S. Datta
I hope so. The potential for Google to tightly integrate all its products seems like it would be a huge selling point, but the beta certainly isn't there yet. Google+ doesn't even have search!
- Victor Ganata
Honestly, it feels like a real beta. Not a Google beta where they just leave the label on, but a real, not-ready-for-prime-time beta.
- Alex Scrivener
+1 Alex... they're actively seeking feedback and releasing changes as they code them
- Jorge Escobar
Very much agree Victor. Google reader is a big source of interesting conversations. I'm much less likely to read something in GR and then manually go to G+ and post a link. The browser note facility isn't perfect, but it's simple and immediate.
- Todd Hoff
I have a feeling Google+ is going to have search. Intersecting search with circles may be tricky and has to be done perfectly...
- Ruchira S. Datta
I think it's too early to say "it doesn't have this and that and therefore it's of no interest." The question is are they committed enough to G+ to improve it and add some of these requested features (which they didn't do with Buzz). The things they've done so far they've done quite well, which is promising. A better share mechanism from GReader and other sites would be great (could be...
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- Jandy
Oh, Google+ is certainly compelling. But is it going to make me abandon Facebook/Twitter/Friendfeed given its current feature set? Most definitely no. The devs seem to be way more responsive to suggestions compared to Buzz, but I honestly can't remember a major Google product that wasn't almost completely perfect out-of-the-box. I supposed I've been spoiled because of their previous misuse of the term "beta" :)
- Victor Ganata
G+ is very good, but I still find myself comparing it to FF. And while dev here has stalled for the last year. It just goes to show you how strong they were before that both FB & G+ are emulating large portions of FF's environment.
- Bluesun 2600
FF (like Soylent Green) is actually made of people. Just add your FF into an FF circle and pretend it's the new beta. Re: Twitter, NOVWL.
- Goran Zec
I still find FF's UI (Helvetica theme w/ adblocked banner) superior to anything. And the real time stream is crazy impressive years later. And it seems bug free and the search works these last few months. But material up to 2009. no longer seems accessible through search, there is no archive, animated gifs should work from anyplace and not just soup.io and new social services are not being added. It's decaying gracefully thanks to good engineering, but it's dead nonetheless.
- Goran Zec
OMG you were a little cutie! (sorry, wife and I are a little baby-crazy right now...pagans in spring who have to wait till after grad school to spawn and all that)
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Now in a game helping Roger to stick his photo to the top, so that "his girl" will see it when she first comes to ff:)) || 玩游戏中,帮Roger把裸照置顶,希望“Roger的女孩”来访问friendfeed时能够看到这张裸照,够浪漫吧!!:))||ゲームで今すぐにRogerの写真を頂上でおもいです!! Meanwhile, we are testing the new "add comment" feature :))
- K.D.
годы будет расти количество проектов по проектированию и дизайну мобильных приложений, так что цифры и различная статистика очень пригодятся. Пока это набор чисел и пруфлинков, на основе которого соберется что-то вроде статьи. Будет здорово, если кто-то подкинет материалов. Хочется сделать несколько
- R093r-
@Sober welcome to join our game:) we are helping Roger to stick his photo to the top, so that "his girl" will see it when she first comes to ff:))
- K.D.
ظاهرا" این فید فقط قصد کش اومدن داره حالا کامنت با ربط یا بی ربط :)))) به دخترت بگو باعث و بانی این کار خیر ایرانی ها بودن :)) شاد باشی جناب راگر :)
- Saghee
حالا خوبه یارو اینهمه زور زده که ملت و بکشونه اینجا براش لایک بزنن آخرشم دختره وقتی وارد فرندفید میشه اول از همه عکس محمد صالح و ببینه :))))))))))
- Saghee
صالح من باید برم بعدا راجع به تهدید هایی که سر اون قضیه شدم بهت میگم ... از بروبچ بالا ... اسم مون رو تو رادیو امریکا گفته بود به حامد هم نشون دادم ... ما کلا صلواتی کار میکنیم
- *مطلع*
آقا من قصد اینها رو فهمیدم! می خوان کامنت ها رو به 1000 برسونن! می خوان از فید دختر مردم پکرم کرده جلو بزنن!!! بیایین کامنت هامون رو پاک کنیم ببینیم چی می شه!
- خیزران
ThenWang@ we can mange a informal relation between our government and Americans will not understand what we do, please say your governor that some hardliner Iranian need bomb and we will pay 3 time more than it costs, them u can separate its pieces and end it in guitar boxes and we assemble it again,
- خیزران
we are all following our leader's line / we all attack on enemies line / there is no God, just Allah / only he exist and there is no contributor in his goodness / ما همه پیرو خط رهبریم، بر صف دشمنان حمله می بریم، لا الا لا الا لا اله الا الله، وحده وحده وحده وحد، لا شریک، لا شریک لا شریک له //// ترجمه اش کردیم!
- خیزران
میستر امروز هاو آر یوت چباید اخلاق مدار بود و مسائل جنحسام مطهریسی رو به صورت عمومی مطحالا من تبلیغ وبلاگمو میکنم حال همتون گرمن میتوانم به شما در مورد حجاب اسلامی توضیح بدفته شرح نکردطوره ؟ نقاشحالا چرا همتون چیکرصالح تو بهمن شماین کمونیت بیشعور داره فحش میده ترجمه کردم اینو زدها را دوست دارم من میخواهم شما را هدایت کنم ش گفتی ای لاو به من ربطی نداره خودت جوابشمن رفتمبسشه دیگه به اندازه کافی اسکل شدو بدهپه برو لباست رو تنت کننی می نویسیدخوشتون اومده هیت روز به روز بهتر میشه ها
- Baiyssy
from email
حسنی نگو بلا بگو، تنبل تنبلا بگو....موی بلند، روی سیاه ، ناخن دراز، واه و واه و واه....نه فلفلی نه قلقلی نه مرغ زرد کاکلی هیچ کس باهاش رفیق نبود....تنها روی سپایه نشسته بود تو سایه
- maral
请使用其产品的高品质....پیام اخلاقی :لطفا کیفیت محصولات خود را بالا ببرید
- maral
المفاجئات التي وعدتكم بها ...سوف تبدا من الان ...الان في عرض البحر ...في مقابل بيروت...البارجة الحربية العسكرية الاسرائيلية..التي اعتدت علي بنياننا التحتية و علي بيوت الناس و علي المدنيين..انظروا اليها تحترق و ستحرق و معها عشرات الاف من الجنود الاسراييليين الصهاينة...هذه البداية و حتي النهاية...كلام طويل و موعد قليل ...السلام عليكم جميعا و رحمة الله و بركانة
- غلام یحیی
سخنراني سيد حسن نصرالله كه وقتي سخنراني زنده ميكرد از تلويزيون تو جنگ لبنان همزمان با صحبتاش دستور زدن ناو اسرائيلي رو داد و ناو اسرائيلي رفت رو هوا
- غلام یحیی
راحيل خانوم شما دستور پخت كله پاچه رو به ايشون آموزش بدين
- غلام یحیی
طريقه ذبح گوسفند : نخست به گوسفند آب ميخورانيم و با ساتور شاهرگ گردنش راطوريكه خون از آن فواره بزند در 30 ثانيه ميبريم .... الي آخر
- غلام یحیی
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- Baiyssy
from email
کامل بازش گردم بخونم یادی از گذشته بکنیم! ای تو روحت مرتیکه چش تنگ! :| با اون روزنامه کمونیستتون که برای طرفداری از جمهوری اسلامی مقاله نوشته! :)))
- dRHossein
Wow, vaya ola poliglótica! Amor, toneladas de comentarios, bombas Atomicas?? , web 2.0. ... Y un comentario en Español! Hi everybody!
- carlinux
from FFHound!
Sweet, i was thinking of doing that, but i've got some really good space bg's already...
- Chris Heath
I like the part where Scoble the Hulk pops up in the grey box in the corner about 200 times every day to say hello. Hi little green Scoble! Now, sit down, I'm trying to work here.
- Sheree Motiska
Maybe it's time for a "you know you're addicted to FriendFeed when..." meme. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Don't believe Steve. He's got other desktops with Posterous and GMail themes that he uses when he claims he's in love w/ them. ; )
- Rex Hammock
Funny, I just saved that same background image to my desktop. Just need to shrink it a bit from its 18,000x18,000 dimension :)
- Jan Ole Peek
I love FriendFeed so much that I created my very first Greasemonkey script for it just now to improve the usability: "Sidebar Tweak" fixes the sidebar in place despite scrolling, which alone is worth its weight in gold. I use the Helvetica theme, and the rest of the changes are meant for it, to tighten up things to show more items, as well as highlight the user's own comments in light-blue: http://userscripts.org/scripts... Try it and let me know what you think.
- Alex Schleber
I like that script, very useful! I changed position of the sidebar in my version to right:50px instead of left:900px so the sidebar does not cover the content area on smaller screen. Also the headers of the sidebar items was weird on the grassland theme i'm currently using. I fixed it by removing botton-margin on the .box-bar.
- Jesper Lind
Oh yeah, a nice blue box on my comment, thanks for the script!
- Jesper Lind
"The new Nexus One is a sleek, awesome handset, but the most important ingredient in touchscreen smartphones is software. The screen is just a canvas that software paints on, and Android 2.1 is a work of art. Coming from the chunky G1, the thin and flat Nexus One hearkens back to my iPhone days. (In my pocket it doesn't make my thigh look fat, and it doesn't require a holster—it gets lots of vanity points there.) The screen is huge and crisp; the dual noise-canceling microphone action is sweet; the true headphone jack is much-appreciated, and the glowing trackball is a nice touch."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
"Programming Google App Engine is a new book from O’Reilly, written by Google’s Dan Sanderson. The App Engine, despite all its downtimes, is an interesting (Python/ Java based) environment with a focus on being scalable. And even if you already have a domain and server elsewhere, you could write the front-end on that server and have a JavaScript app on it communicate to a Python JSON API back-end over at the App Engine."
- arnaldostream
from Bookmarklet
"all its downtimes"? It's down once a month. My old web provider would go down several times a week.
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The only things I usually notice are the datastore timeouts - which happens all the time when dealing with large chunks of data. When dealing with fragmented data, the timeout rate decreases a lot, sometimes even approaching zero.
- arnaldostream
"Based on popular demand (and after 6 weeks of intense private testing), we are excited to launch Feedly for Chrome" (4.0 Dev Channel)
- LouCypher
from Bookmarklet
That's great, but what they should really focus on is giving people the ability to reply to Facebook messages via email. I hate having to log on to Facebook to reply to messages.
- Shevonne