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After signing the papers :)
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- jcunwired
What's with the fists, Paul? :)
- April Buchheit
congrats Paul
- Zee.
I thought it would make a funny picture April.
- Paul Buchheit
Secret backyard meetings FTW. :)
- EricaJoy
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:)
- Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up?
- Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair
- Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :)
- Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with.
- Jesse Stay
Congrats. Happy for you guys.
- Tsega Dinka
Must have been exciting, congrats.
- sean percival
Congrats, and thanks for having us here. Much success in whatever comes next.
- Chris Baskind
Yeah, wishing you guys all the best, its been good fun hanging around here thanks!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Congrats to you guys!
- Jack Wilson, K4SAC
Congratulations you guys!!!! I love the Teak Conference Room table :)
- Susan Beebe
:-(
- Jim Is Not Smart
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal?
- Mitch
Mitch, feel free to use the photos.
- Paul Buchheit
where's the ...friendfeed shirts then?? ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
SWEET!!! Congratulations!
- Chad Lester
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this.
- .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
- Jeff Stannard
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :)
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money!
- laosan
Congratulations guys!
- Diego Barros
I think the Tiger suit would have been more appropriate! But hey....shorts in a backyard is pretty cool too.
- Drea Lester
Congrats!
- Christopher Golda
Whatever the outcome, Friendfeed is terrific. Congratulations.
- ashish
LOL, click through if you want to see pics of newly rich geeks in casual wear.. ->
- Alex Schleber
Hahaha! Funny Alex..
- Bill Heslin
congratulations! keep the innovation coming...
- ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team.
- Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward!
- xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF.
- Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :)
- Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :)
- Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats!
- Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational -
- mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made?
- seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news
- Nayan
Congratulations!
- Made Adi
++Mark
- David Cook
Awesome! Congratulations!
- michael silverton
hey, congratus Friendfeed team!!!
- K.D.
+Lindsey
- Kamilah Gill
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders"
- Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters.
- Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge?
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they?
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations to all of you!!
- Steve de Mena
The FB/FF deal rocks. Total win for users and developers.
- Steve Gillmor
Facebook announces the acquisition of FriendFeed http://facebookmania.net/en...
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations guys.. and good luck! ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations Paul. I hope for nothing but the best for you and FF.
- Martha
We should start a PhotoShop meme on this.
- Ben Hanten
Millionaire meme
- Bill Heslin
Lindsey, I'm with you completely. Bad timing. Too bad there weren't photos of money being thrown in the air.
- Ben Hanten
++Ben
- David Cook
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :)
- Chris Loft
Congrats! The hard work paid off
- Becca
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb.
- Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow.
- Keith Pelczarski
http://friendfeed.com/against...
- Mathew™ one of a kind
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nicely put, guruvan.
- Anne Bouey
What I wonder is ... a 50-million dollar deal and no one has a camera capable of taking a clear photo? :P
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Congratulations
- Steve C
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell.
- Shane Gibbons
LOL! ♫ ♫ "ooh, take the money and run"!! ♫ ♫ ;)
- Vincenzo Piromalli
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done.
- Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
Grats. :)
- Joshua Schnell
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Congrats -- may the FF UI stay alive!
- RateBrain
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne?
- Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now !
- Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely.
- Ovidiu Predescu
Enjoy!
- Paul Mayne
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out
- Ric Johnson
Congratulations! :)
- İdris Cin
hayırlı olsun
- Sinan İŞLER
:O :(
- ★amin.m★
congratulations to both parties. intuitively, it feels like the right move.
- ray
Congratulations guys :)
- Yalcin Parmaksiz
So the deal was done at night in someone's back yard. Weird.
- Andy C
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the FF team. Your smiles are priceless!!
- Mohamed J
Hayırlı işler...
- Onur Selek
Congratulations gentlemen!
- Mutimba
Congratulations Paul. Yes, I do hope Friendfeed users and community are "treated right".
- Paola Bonomo
shit all FF VC's and CO-FOUNDERS! YOU DID THE SHIT! you can safely accept all spam "app" invitations on FB.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I'm disappointed to even be on the same service as you and I really can't wait until you leave.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats! Maybe you'll make FB usable again...
- Eran Kampf
from iPhone
cngrtlti.ons I hope you will understand what i mean!
- Atif UNALDI
Great vibe :)
- Sharel
from FriendFeed API Example
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Ahmet: I hope this helps with your inquiry -> http://friendfeed.com/about...
- Clifford Kennedy
@Clifford, haha LOL.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Bilseydik biz alırdık :)
- Hamdi Yaman
wohoo, lets celebrate that ff owners for selling the land they have hired us - now we have to find another place
- MobilAdam
very nice FF! Amazing team! - @RecruitingDiva
- Sangeeta Narayan
valla kelepire gitmiş, fotoğraflardan belli..
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Who took the pic?
- Marco Massarotto
from iPhone
@MobilAdam + 1.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
@Mücahit +1 :D
- Hamdi Yaman
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin
- Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler?
- mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over".
- özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim
- MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor...
- Zeki Pehlivan
tebrikler.congratulations.gratuliere !!!
- muratt
Sorry but as an FF user, I've just tried to express my thoughts about this acquisition: http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs46...
- İbrahim Özdemir
Congratulations! :)
- Ruben Sanchez
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF.
- frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina ++++
- Shevonne
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple
- Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym
- Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed.
- lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still.
- Robert Schultz
Congratulations, Paul!
- Bill Sodeman
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future.
- David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys!
- Jason Pollock
congratulations guys!
- Liam Daly
congratulations from me, too! mind to stay (y)ourselves. ;)
- Valentina*
L-O-V-E the attire, guys. Did you end the evening with a nice barbecue and a dip in the pool?
- Giulia B.
Yeah yeah, you worked hard, you got the payout, well done guys. Now. Down to business....where's OUR share? ;-)
- Slappy Line
"Hi my name is Mark, I do $50m deals in my shorts!"
- Simon May
Congratulations. I'm sad for us and extremely happy for you and your team.
- Arleen Anderson
congratulations...can't wait to see the success of the collaboration!
- Katy Barrilleaux
We better run away!
- Constantine
Congratulations. I'm sure that this acquisition will be beneficial for both parties.
- Volkan Özçelik
the one in the green shirt is hawt. just sayin'.
- Jessie
eew, that causes diseases
- Jim Norris
congrats Paul & evereyone !
- Thomas Mader
Is that Mel sitting on Paul's left? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- j1m
CHA CHING!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
congrats guys - well done!!!
- Gerd Leonhard
supper!
- Ahmet Koldaguc
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns
- frank burns
Intel's nerd rockstar ad - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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arunthampi, Mario Romero, Ashwin Nanjappa and 9 other people liked this
the way it should be! sadly, Intel hired an actor to play Ajay Bhatt
- Andy Baio
Funny but Andy, yeah, would have been cool knowing Ajay was the real guy
- Kamath (नमः)
Great ad. But yes, I had hoped it was the real guy and not an actor. Disappointing.
- Louis Gray
Why on earth would they use an actor? That compromises the whole point!
- Kevin Fox
I wish he were real!
- Christen
Designing cities for satellite imagery - http://www.rezzing.com/2009...
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One downside of being at a startup is that I am totally behind in music. How did I miss out on Santigold? http://www.youtube.com/watch.... Her whole album is awesome. It is like MIA meets the Pixies or something.
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Odd, that link went to a 4:20 themed playlist... "4/20: Spring Is In The Air" : )
- DeWitt Clinton
Try this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Bret Taylor
Just edited the entry. I don't really understand Songza. I think this was the video it was pointing to.
- Bret Taylor
I'm pretty late to this awesome CD as well. First heard her on Jimmy Fallon's show.
- Mark Krynsky
They seem to be having a huge gathering in Golden Gate Park right now... On the other topic, someone *really* needs to get the rights to do a bookmarkable music service. Lala offers one free play per song and has bookmarks, though they are rather hard to find: http://www.lala.com/song...
- DeWitt Clinton
Thanks for sharing
- Harscoat
It's SantOgold and she kicks lama's a$$. :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
She changed her name! no more SantOgold, it's Santigold from now on (she's doing a Diddy)
- Iain Baker
You don't work the startup. The startup works you.
- Louis Gray
Bret, you have to get out more. Just sayin'
- anna sauce
@Nenak, Iain is correct. Santigold had to change her name, as a result of a lawsuit brought on by this infomerical star from the '80s, also known as Santo Gold. http://www.idiomag.com/peek... Last I heard, he still wants money. http://knoxroad.wordpress.com/2009...
- Helen Sventitsky
cool live version of that song - http://www.youtube.com/watch.... i <3 youtube for all the live recordings
- Ivan Zuzak
@Helen Didn't know that! Thanks for the enlightment. BTW, it's Nenad and you read it like you spell it, and Santigold is almost like that. ;-)
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
Thx to your very post here, I now listen with pleasure to "Lights out"/Santigold & I grasped the value of Friendfeed in a very concrete manner... this chain of streams of people selections (trying to give value: info, humour, tips, likes... they "point" us at relevant/good things, or encourage feedback loops) can definitely lead to many small good things... and the coumpond interest of these may go far.
- Harscoat
Also liked Santogold. Other new(er) music I've been listening to: Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (best party music made in years), MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (pop Bowie/Beck/acid), The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Springsteen if he were good).
- Chip Ramsey
This remembers me Young Marble Giant. Cool.
- António Teixeira
The new Depeche Mode "Sounds of the Universe" CD is now on iTunes. Much awaited! http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
Helen Sventitsky, Morton Fox, Mark Krynsky and 2 other people liked this
I have abandoned iTunes for Zune software (not the player just yet).
- petar vucetin
Only $3.99 at Amazon...but only for another hour or so http://www.amazon.com/Sounds-...
- Mark Krynsky
Everything you need to know to start civilization. - http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post...
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NBC’s immortal Supertrain. This 1979 would-be blockbuster took place on an enormous nuclear-powered passenger train that could whisk from New York City to Los Angeles in 36 hours. Not only was this train fast, but it was like a luxury resort on rails—it had a pool, a discotheque, gym, all kinds of stuff. (via TV.com: It Seemed Like a Good Idea:... - http://blog.codery.com/post...
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Express to Terror!
- Raphael, Raphael
I love it! A train big enough that Americans will want to ride. It's brilliant! In reality, not TV show form.
- Jesse Hattabaugh
Man, I wonder why this wasn't a success. They should bring it back.
- Celeste Lindahl
Why Can’t I Use My Cell Phone On An Airplane? - http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs...
Anthony K. Valley ©, Karen Padham Taylor, Aaron Hood and 15 other people liked this
The real reason authorities don’t want you flipping open your mobile phone has less to do with crashing your plane and more to do with crashing the cell phone network.The Federal Communications Commission has determined that mid-flight calls have a direct impact on cell phone service on the ground.
- grant fox
from Bookmarklet
A personal reason is how annoying it will be to have someone chatting away on the phone the ENTIRE plane ride.
- Shevonne
excellent point Shevonne. it's been a lot more peaceful since they took out the credit card phones.
- grant fox
I think this would be were texting would really come into play and work quite well! I always dislike listening in to other cell calls in public and then to not here both sides of the convo sucks. I think the real reason is that your actually closer to the stratosphere and you would be getting a much better connection then those on the ground, but then I have never down that much work in that business but my ex-wife was the guru in that technology.
- aerobroken
Reminds of a ride I once took on Amtrak where a passenger spoke on a cell phone from Albany to New York City. They were talking to the person they met on the platform. Imagining 100 simaltenous conversations, I'd rather walk than fly I think if that were the case.
- Patrick Boegel
when I take the Acela from NYC to DC it is nothing BUT cell phone conversations, not to mention everyone is talking loud because everyone is talking loud. Good thing they have a quiet car.
- grant fox
I don't buy that there's any actual cost to me to having other people on the airplane talking on the phone. Or any good reason not to allow it.
- j1m
I cherish the time when I'm flying and therefore unavailable via cell phone. when i'm not flying, there's always something 'urgent' that apparently only I am able to get done. the cell phone is the first member of the new family of machines that will be called 'productivity enhancement devices'. Just try turning your phone off for 12 hours straight when you aren't flying. Betcha can't do it!
- Morgan Haley
If they allow cell phones on planes I would only want texting and data. Like everyone else, I don't care to hear someone talking the whole way on a three hour flight.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
could you imagine taking a red-eye and having the person behind you having a loud and annoying conversation?
- grant fox
Photos of Mars canyons beamed back to Earth - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth...
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"Some of the clearest pictures ever of the surface of Mars have been beamed back to Earth from a European Space Agency probe."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Do you reckon they will find life, if there is water there then it's highly likely!
- Joe Dawson
Here comes another RAPatton news blitz (not complaining)
- Toby Graham
Almost done for now, Toby!
- RAPatton
@joe if there is no real atmosphere, life can be *disinfected* by space radiation (alpha- and gamma- particles)
- A.T.
I'd love to terraform mars, but I suspect when the time comes their will be a preservationist movement that will seek to stop it.
- RAPatton
@RAPatton, Maybe we should terraform it regardless. I think one day it will be necessary to give the human race's chances of continued survival a boost. The cost may prove cheap one day.
- Mo Kargas
I am all for it! Start dropping comets on Mars ASAP as far as I am concerned.
- RAPatton
Wow - these photos are simply astonishing.
- Sean McBride
like Sean said. amazing pictures
- Nathan Rein
I'm shamelessly grabbing this for my Mento feed. Wonder where the Telegraph got the photos; I don't see anything like this on the Phoenix site.
- Nathan Rein
The images are from the ESA's Mars Express, not from Phoenix.
- RAPatton
The colorspace is very 1960s/1970s. It almost feels like these were taken during the Mariner program
- Mark Trapp
Probably Mars haven't changed very much since '70s?
- 9000
Nice!!!
- Mitchell Tsai
@9000 Not been much development in that area? ;)
- Ian May
That is amazing...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
The Raconteurs' Antiques Roadshow-esque teaser - http://www.boingboing.net/2008...
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I like the "You know how much this is worth?" bit. Nice 1:00 video.
- Will Higgins™
Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose | mathoda.com - http://mathoda.com/archive...
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"We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that’s $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands — losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” People should have known better but in some way’s it’s unavoidable with markets: “People should always know better. … I mean people — people don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is, and he’s doing these things, you know, and he’s getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing — pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. And that’s what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Can someone please engrave this on a plaque somewhere? Maybe we could have it etched into some tablets from the mountaintop and have churches predicated on these words.
- Christopher Sacca
Right on! Yep, i am very "silly" ...not a jonesy type anymore.... we gave away much of our "cool stuff" and now have a mimimalist home ...MUCH BETTER and the best part, no stinking debt, except house and 1 car. The bank was all too ready to sock us deep into debt. We decided against that and are very happy with our decision to borrow only half what was offered (more realistic with cushion to $pare)
- Susan Beebe
Unsure imitators and idiots don't simply continue on their merry way under bailout.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ all the bailout does is buy time. We're merely delaying the inevitable, I think. If the imitators and the idiots keep doing what they're doing, we'll just be right back here again, except probably even worse off.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor: Sadly, I agree.
- AJ Kohn
Warren gets it, and he's a pretty straight shooter. These are the kind of heartland values politicians should be espousing.
- LogEx
@Susan - we also just bought a house (closing on Tuesday) for half what we were pre-approved for.
- Robert Felty
Warren: "And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.”
- carolh
Paul, I've posted the video of the full interview- http://nicefishfilms.com/blog... Charlie Rose's site is being hammered with traffic today.
- michael sean wright
A lot of people have criticized Paulson, here's what Buffett says: "I don’t think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson … he knows markets, he knows corporations’ work, he knows money, and he’s got the interests of the country at heart."
- Sanjeev Singh
Buffett for President?
- Admiral70
Here is my new motto, <geek>Live below your means, but get enough technology to have some fun.</geek>
- Joe
To have my blog post distributed on Friendfeed by The Paul Buchheit is pretty damn cool. Thanks :)
- Ranjit Mathoda
Buffett (and Charlie Rose also) two of the smartest minds I've heard
- Alex Hammer
How our digital lives are spreading out - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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OK, just for the heck of it I'm adding a comment here, but it exemplifies my previous post regarding things that work well enough being "enhanced" to the point of being unusable by all but the experts, or requiring yet another layer of software to manage.
- Mac Beach
couldn't agree more. FF makes all those services more usuable. After only a few days, FF has already become one of my key web apps. haven't been to facebook, since I started using FF.
- timepilot
Pretty interesting theme for your NextWeb-talk. Shows some good self-awareness ;-)
- Johannes Kleske
Love the theme of your next talk...let me pose an interesting question/observation about this issue of the "Friend Divide" - I am a full time finance executive and entreprenuer that does his very best to stay up to date with social networking technology, I have a twitter account, Facebook, Meebo, Google Reader (too many RSS feeds!!!), LinkedIn account, iGoogle home page, Flickr, my own...
more...
- Bob DeCecco
@timepilot - yep. Everything is becoming more distributed. Yet it is also becoming easier to centralize because sharing is now an absolute ground floor requirement. That is why FF is so important and why tools like it will kill the social country clubs (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo,...etc). FF thrives on sharing. The country clubs can't be completely open.
- Kevin D. White
You cant comment in FeedReaders on blog postings. FriendFeed understands that...the blog platforms do not. I can't even see comments in the feed when I read a blog posting in a feed reader. Yes, you can get the individual comments in an RSS feed, but the conversational experience is lost. This seems like a simple fix for the RSS generator code of a platform...Wordpress listening?
- Brandon Watson
I don't have a blog, so maybe that's why I don't get it, but why is it necessary to have the comments in the blog? You still have the control over the design, the length of the posts and the kind of topics you talk about. Why do you need the comments there? I really like how FriendFeed works. You have the links to everything, and you can comment right here. I even think the "what are you doing?" question is better answered here, because you can comment below the post no matter when it was made.
- Alejandro
I think people are too scattered. They have too much content all over the place. Loic had a good idea when he said he wants his blog to be the central place of all things internet.
- The Dude Abides
Safe travels Robert. I left a bigger comment on your blog itself.
- Elliott Ng
makes total sense. if we're going to preach distributed content to media folks, etc., then why shouldn't we ahve distributed community? also, i agree...blogging a ton less because of flickr, twitter, link sharing, etc.
- don loeb
Do you think the filtering all these other services have done makes your blogging more focused and effective?
- VibeMetrix
from twhirl
@Scoble: Question - why can't a FF post function as the comments section for a blog? Can't they just be embedded? Wouldn't that get them indexed into the search engines?
- Morgan Warstler
Dave Morin, head of. Facebook's platform just asked me "who is Louis Gray?" oh, just a guy who is a badass user of bleeding edge stuff.
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Dave = FAIL
- Kyle Lacy
Man, he does not know Louis? WTH?
- ※Fu※
They pay this guy money?
- Charlie Anzman
Louis, shut off his access.
- Shawn Farner
LOL. Thanks guys :)
- Dave Morin
WAIT! you are on friendfeed and you do not know Louis Gray? lol
- Kyle Lacy
Can't expect everyone to know. I had no idea who he was until I got on FriendFeed.
- Candace
Wow. He's gotta be really out of it.
- Eric Florenzano
Dave doesn't know who Louis is? you've GOT to be kidding...srsly! Dave needs to step away from facebook a sec and hang out here on FriendFeed more!!!! :*)
- Susan Beebe
Maybe Dave was being sarcastic
- imabonehead
We know Louis. We are just having some fun in a taxi in Boston
- Robert Scoble
Lol.. I love the outrage.
- Kyle Lacy
Wish I were there! Have a drink for me, guys.
- John McCrea
Hi Dave, I didn't know who you where until just now, but nice to meet you. PS: I think Robert has a Bromance with LG! (which is completely understandable)
- Geoff Schultz
You got asked that in the shower? Dude, you have to disconnect *sometime*.
- Pete Delucchi
LOLs, lulz, and WTFs!
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Dave - Assuming you noticed Shawn's post http://friendfeed.com/e... (heh - have fun guys :)
- Charlie Anzman
Oh, Dave and Louis MUST meet. We need to get Louis using Facebook more. Dave, send Louis a Facebook shirt, too - he needs some FB love.
- Jesse Stay
need a Gray / Morin meetup!
- Susan Beebe
Okay, let's have Louis and Dave meet on our next episode of http://thesocialweb.tv! What say you, Dave and Louis?
- John McCrea
You guys are nuts. I can't even give the kids naps without some kind of drama. :-)
- Louis Gray
Louis, FriendFeed + drama is way better than reality TV :)
- imabonehead
John, you know I'm open to it and you know how to reach me, BTW
- Louis Gray
Louis, just sit back - we've got you covered ;)
- Jesse Stay
Jonathan, he's davemorin on FF
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
I don't know who Louis Gray is either. Oh, wait...
- Tamar Weinberg
John/Louis, I'm in!
- Dave Morin
Thanks Jesse!
- Jonathan Kong
What has Louis Gray ever done? Does he have a Facebook app?
- Sam Pullara
echo... echo... echo... echo...
- Jason Carreira
I've heard of both of them (most have)
- Alex Hammer
whenever I'm looking for top blogs in any niche, I use the methods outlined in this post http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... but I still miss Technorati
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I have been thinking about this lately too. I am not entirely sure what a good solution might be, but I have some ideas. I just need time to execute on the ideas.
- Rob Diana
google still has the coolest founders. Re: Android launch: "Sergey wrote an app that lets you throw phone up in the air, measure how many seconds until you catch it or it hits the floor."
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That is awesome.
- Bret Taylor
Totally awesome.
- David Sifry
from twhirl
BTW, won't that also tell you how high you threw the phone, assuming you're throwing it straight up...
- David Sifry
from twhirl
but when it hits the floor and shatters, how will you get the data?! better call in Geek Squad.
- MG Siegler
@Chris, I think accelerometers measure acceleration, and there's no change in acceleration at the top of the throw. (Then again, I made it to class exactly once during three quarters of physics in college.)
- Jim Norris
A must app. Even though that it is crazy…funny *smile*.
- ivanandersson
Of course there is acceleration during the throw... constant acceleration.
- Mario Romero
That is so cool. Someone write this for the iPhone, please. Though whether I would actually throw my iPhone in the air is another question entirely.
- Roberto Bonini
I once left my phone on my car's roof. I wonder if this app could be hacked to prevent that (or at least prevent me from driving off) :-)
- John μller
Great app... should incrementally increase phone sales as people smash their phones and have to replace them.
- Jason Carreira
Jason: I think that is the point: I'm beting I can throw my iPhone higher than you can throw your G1.
- Roberto Bonini
I love it - brilliant and insane!
- timepilot
Bret Taylor on FriendFeed's Road to Monetization, Early Missteps - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"I attended the session and took notes via laptop, so all quotes are "best effort." <--your disclaimers = epic.
- Mona Nomura
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
Bret's presentation via Loic - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mohamed J
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
"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
Great article Louis, thanks
- Toby Graham
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/video-a... and just saw this and posted a link to your story. I really wish I could have gone to this event.
- Mark Krynsky
Next time ... zoom lens ... geesh :)
- Charlie Anzman
yes!!! i have cleared my feeds. god that feels good.
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I know that feeling...I miss that feeling... :)
- Sarah Perez
now you may pass go, collect $200 and go home :)
- Allen Stern
that's my plan allen.
- MG Siegler
If you pressed Mark All As Read, you have to pay Allen $200.
- Louis Gray
The Superbowl of Startups - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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My answer to Chris Shipley, who ripped me a new one on her blog tonight (she runs the Demo Conference).
- Robert Scoble
Stumbled it. Loved this response...
- Dennis Goedegebuure
Holy cow..OK so I didn't agree with the post that started this but to fire off the guns in blog posts shouting Scoble sucks! ..is just stupid. Yeahh so you didn't agree. That's fine. I'm still going to read your blog and what you have to say. One out of how many posts..I didn't agree with? Not bad odds if you ask me.
- Candace
Its a great response. By challenging others to live up to the the standards they say Scoble failed, Scoble just makes everyone look like idiots in the first place.
- Roberto Bonini
can you please stop posting your delicious links to your blog? (you know who you are.) delicious splicing is OVER
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And Diggs and "Tweets for the day." Thanks! Edit: I see FriendFeed removed "post as reply to Twitter." :-(
- Mark Trapp
Elaborate?
- mrshl
I post a daily collection of delicious links to my blog and my readers are consistently thanking me for them. I'm not so arrogant that I think my blog is the only one that should be read. I like to share the stage with other news in my blog's area of focus.
- Douglas Karr
from twhirl
I used to do posts that highlighted the "best of" Google Reader shared items, but eventually figured if people wanted them, the shared feed had RSS.
- Louis Gray
I use my Delicious bookmarks both as a placeholder and as a share of interesting links. They also represent who I am..
- Ernie Oporto
To clarify, I was just having a moment of irritation there. Who I am to tell you what to do with your blog? Do as you see fit. However, as a voracious RSS reader, I simply can't subscribe to any blogs that splice...I don't have the time. It just makes me sad because I see some good blogs doing still doing this...I don't want to have to unsub. but as of today, I am definitely making some changes about who stays in the reader.
- Sarah Perez
And your threat of "unsubbing" is designed to do.... what? Sorry. But it's amusing when bloggers talk about unsubbing if demand X is not met. Unless you write the people you are unsubbing, they won't even know. And are even far less likely to care.
- Allan Jenkins
I get where you're coming from Sarah. I sometimes feel the same way. But I've actually starting looking at what individuals are bookmarking on their blogs. Thomas Vander Wal comes across some nice enterprise 2.0 posts I don't see.
- Hutch Carpenter
Pet peeve eh? yep. I got this one too.
- Elliott Ng
@Allan - It's not a threat. As I clarified in my comment here, I'm really not trying to demand anything of anyone. I just had a moment of irritation and posted a tweet. So many of my "unread" items says "Links From..." *sigh*. I try to follow a lot of feeds, but it's too much to thoughtfully look though all the links posts. @Elliot pet peeve? Heck yeah! ;)
- Sarah Perez
curious how sharing del.icio.us links in a blog is any different than google reader shared links. i think it's up to the publisher - and if you follow publishers through ff, you could just hide del.icio.us or j through them quickly if you ff thru greader. 2 cents.
- Steve Long
I actually use my delicious links as separate blog posts into my Tumblr blog. Lots more people read that blog than read my FriendFeed.
- mrshl
Ratatat tickets Fillmore San Francisco, CA, Directions, seating chart. Official Ticketmaster site. - http://www.ticketmaster.com/event...
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Ratatat Fillmore, San Francisco, CA Mon, Sep 8, 2008 08:00 PM
- bob
from Bookmarklet
but seems to be highly soldout - does anyone have an extra ticket theyd like to sell me?
- bob
Probably my favorite music discovery so far this year.
- Vincent X
StubHub?
- Paul Buchheit
stubhub doesnt have any, i looked - looked on craigslist too and it seemed people looking severely outnumbered those selling, tho i emailed one guy a bit ago
- bob
I'm going on 9/15 to Stubb's here in Austin (assuming I don't have to be in Mountain View the next day)... they were amazing at Neumo's in Seattle back in July.
- Moishe Lettvin
FriendSync for the iPhone - http://www.omnigensolutions.com/friends...
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Very cool. FriendSync displays your friend's Facebook profile pictures when they call on your iPhone.
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
Now if I only had an iPhone..
- Mike Lewis
This is awesome! But does it save all their photos to your HD? Where do they sit?
- GregHay
چقدر جالبه. وقتي كسي از دوستان فيس بوكتون زنگ ميزنه اين اپليكيشن(فرندسينك) عكس اونو تو ايفون شما نمايش ميده. واوووو
- mhmazidi
Darn, thought it was for FriendFeed.
- Ernie Oporto
Looks interesting. Who wants be the guinea pig?
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
I thought you gave up on AT&T Steve?
- Noah David Simon
no use with damn facebook - i need it for twitter and really useful services ;)
- Dieter Schwarz
It sort of works, I think it looks for contact info in FB to match to your contacts, so if you don't have your friends email added to their contact info or they don't list their phone number in their FB profile it doesn't work. Ugh... now I've got more to add to my contacts.
- GregHay
argh! I need an iphone
- Sarah Perez
Know what would be really cool? If it would grab all of your Facebook friends' contact info, and add it to your local address book (pic and all). I'd use that app.
- Josh Bancroft
works! nice find :-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
I'm with Josh. That would be a great.
- Rex Hammock
Really, nice idea, but not worth paying for surely?
- James Tenniswood
i can haz Spore
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not 'til Sunday...
- Trent Olson
on sale in Australia today (Thursday). Installing now :-)
- Duncan Riley
what? i thought you aussies were supposed to be *behind* the curve? :)
- Trent Olson
i just bought a (non-laptop) computer, i will has spore next week :x
- Nathan Howell
Oohh yeah, the rare, but welcome benefits to being Aussie.
- Mo Kargas
GOSH. *sigh* Lucky!
- Mark Trapp
OMG SPORE IS OUT?!?!?!?!?!
- Zach Landes
do want!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
did you know Chrome can also be synced with your coffee machine? Sick technology
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Also, I heard it was based on Batman the comic.
- Mario Romero
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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Wonder if they'll also force AdSense links onto a section of the application over which you have no control? Of course, being Open Source you could always comment that out. :)
- Craig Eddy
I wonder why Google would want to open that can of worms? Google should worry about content and services and leave the browser to, well, somebody else.
- Roberto Teixeira
from twhirl
Isn't it obvious? Google wants to move into the OS market but is testing the waters a few bits at a time. Look at it's work with Android, Docs, and now this. Even if it isn't the case with all of the pieces done it wouldn't be too far of a step for them to try.
- Bryan
can't understand how is this a good thing: wouldn't it better if they used the same resources to help improve firefox or something?
- Marcos Marado
@Bryan .. EXACTLY. While many view Android as a another threat to Microsoft in the mobile ads department ... It is an OPERATING SYSTEM -- which is probably being developed in such a way to be conducive to porting to desktop machines. And with the impending "cloud," browsers are becoming an even more important part of the equation. Watch out Windows and IE!
- Kevin Sablan
from twhirl
This is simply a step forward in a natural progression of advances that started years ago when the Operating System disappeared from relevance. The browser market hasn't kept up with the advances needed to make a final push off the desktop and Google has taken it upon themselves, starting with Gears and now Chrome. WebKit makes sense since it's a large part of Android. +1 for interest and affirmation -1 for relevance since this move was foretold years ago...
- Kevin Cearns
Am I the only one not excited with all this "we use processes for each tab" approach? It's like "we don't care if the code is buggy and we have memory leaks, we just trash that process and that's it"...
- Marcos Marado
We just hit 100,000,000 Facebook users!!!
Kol Tregaskes, Diana Valerini, Torsten Eckert and 43 other people liked this
sez who ?
- Peter Dawson
Congrats, man! That's a magic number.
- John McCrea
Congratulations. Is that registered, 30-day active, or what?
- Paul Buchheit
Is thee anyway to validate that number?
- Scot Duke
Congrats!
- Bret Taylor
Paul that must be registered.. with about 20-25% getting reactive after they made their UI upgrades
- Peter Dawson
Mazel Tov! Now print out that social graph.
- Phil Wolff
that's awesome dave, very exciting stuff
- joshuabacker
I guess that means they will be shutting Facebook down in 6 days.
- Alex Scoble
I guess now its worth $20B .. :)_
- Peter Dawson
but isn't facebook just a little bit sort of boring these days?
- Thomas Hawk
Hahah +1 Alex
- Kyle Lacy
Facebook is still the most useful new web project for me. I keep up with all of my old friends and current friends there. It's only boring to people who like to be on the cutting edge of the web.
- Andrew
Holy Cow!! Congrats on reaching 100,000,000 Facebook users - that's simply awesome!! yeah!! very impressive milestone!! :)
- Susan Beebe
That's fantastic. Congrats!
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
Congrats to Facebook!!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Seriously... Buy the 100,000,000 member a Facebook hummer.
- Kyle Lacy
Sweet! Congrats guys.
- Jesse Stay
Kyle, what's a Facebook Hummer?
- Eric Eldon
I realized... Yah. Facebook Maserati?
- Kyle Lacy
Just so long as it wasn't a fake account ;)
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Haha. A Spammer wins the Facebook Maserati!
- Kyle Lacy
maybe there's a "drive a maserati" app i can invite them to? that's pretty similar, right?
- Eric Eldon
+1 Eric. haha.
- Kyle Lacy
More than MySpace?
- Igor Poltavskiy
Great! Now I'll just sit back and wait for 100,000,000 invites to take the 80's Quiz Challenge! I am so stoked.....
- jerry
Preview the new FriendFeed design - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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Sun Small and Medium Business - Guy Kawasaki on Innovations - http://www.sun.com/solutio...
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"Make a little progress every day. I used to believe in the big-bang theory of marketing: a fantastic launch that created such inertia that you flew to "infinity and beyond." No more. Now my theory is that you make a little bit of progress every day--whether that's making your product slightly better, increasing your skill in one small way, or closing one more customer. The reason the press writes about "overnight successes" is that they seldom happen--not because that's how all businesses work". Guy is a great mentor!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
from Bookmarklet
I'm trying Feedly after tons of people recommended it to me. On first look it's very impressive, especially for Google Reader addict like me
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Honored. Please let us know if you run into any bugs. We will be happy to try to help.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Ooh, I just looked at its features... sounds interesting! Will give it a try later! :D
- BeeLing
Yeah, i gave it another try last week and definitely impressive - but a couple of important glitches & bugs to fix
- Zee.
Edwin: there's no way to share the items I'm seeing, is there? That's a HUGE reason why I use Google Reader (so I can share items and get them into FriendFeed).
- Robert Scoble
Zee: it would be great if you could let us know what problem you ran into so that we can try to address them: http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly thanks.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@Robert If you just click on 'Recommend' that's what they're calling 'sharing'.
- Zee.
Oh, I have to click on each item to recommend it? That's lame. I should be able to recommend an item right from the home page without having to click twice, just like here in FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
it amazing!
- Svartling
@Edwin sure, will do. Mainly just sometimes posts don't load and j/k to scroll down will occasionally miss a post or not go all the way to the bottom of the page. When I select "unread only", often it still shows posts I have read. The two most frustrating things: I can't tell easily which categories have unread posts in and finally - I was really excited by the river view because I heard you could view by categories from that page - which is unfortunately isn't the case...
- Zee.
If the sources could be arranged into categories like they would be in google reader, that would be a big plus.
- Zee.
@Robert - yeah, you need to click 'more' on the homepage view to get the option to recommend. They could easily fix this with a 'thumbs up' button permanently next to the post titles though
- Zee.
I really want to like the app, so I'm hoping they really keep working hard on it & hopefully make it more than just a firefox extension & also create some way to have the same kind of facility on the iphone.
- Zee.
just use the google reader shortcuts to use it. Alt+s to share.
- Svartling
you Can also choose the river of news view an easily go through feeds with the keyboard
- Svartling
the keys J and K to go up and down and Alt+s to share. Just like in google reader
- Svartling
robert: recommend will add the item to your shared feed. as mentioned by svartling, you should be able to use the GR keyboard shortcuts (they works specially well in the river view - second icon on the top). The part that is missing is "share with notes". Which should be there next week when we merge the concept of feedly annotations and GR annotations.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: wow that sounds cool! Merging annotations with GR notes i mean.
- Svartling
Zee: thanks for the feedback. Created a ticket on get satisfaction to track down and fix those issues http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly...
- Edwin Khodabakchian
robert: when you sent us your OPML a few months ago for performance testing, you had just two categories (normal and favorites if I remember). Do you have more now?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin: nope, I still have the same.
- Robert Scoble
ok. so the magazine view is probably not adding too much value in your case. The new wall which will go out next week has some of the things you have been asking for a long time: compression of multiple recommendations, filtering based on min number of recommendations, etc..(http://www.flickr.com/photos...) That and the current friendfeed and google search integration might be places were we can create value for a user like you. Does Maryam read RSS feeds? (she is more of our target!)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, I have no doubt you've thought this through a thousand times - but since you need to a) use firefox and then b) install an extension to use feedly....Do you not think it's going to be super-difficult to try & reach the non-geeks out there who aren't passionate users of google reader? "Most" non-geeks I know hardly ever install firefox extensions, let alone install firefox...they just use whatevers open or put it front of them
- Zee.
Zee.You are right about firefox. But the extension installation process is getting simpler and people through iphone, facebook and firefox are getting used to the concept of "installing an application". Stumbleupon is a good example. The feedback we have collected so far is that our problem currently with more mainstream user is not the add-on but the first configuration experience and the need to further simplify the UI. We have a parallel project called "feedly mini" to try to cracks those two nuts.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, awesome. Yeah, I didn't mean to sound like I was giving you pointers on a business I'm sure you're thinking about day & night....I just wanted to give my two pennies & also say that us geeks really love the product too, so don't forget about us! :)
- Zee.
I've been using it exclusively for a week now. With the FF integration, I don't think I could go back to the gReader interface.
- Chris Nixon
twhirl+ff is really opening my eyes to these services. Kudos. I'm off to take a look at Feedly.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
I am definitely enjoying my current switch from GR to Feedly. I like the fact i came accross Scobles twitter in Friend Feed because i was reading an article through feedly and ended up here as a result and discovered this. I enjoy loading up Feedly at lunch time to browse aimlessly, and i struggle to do that with Google Reader as i feel i have to stick to one subscription at a time and i end up getting put off. I dont feel overwhelmed when i use feedly.
- Rowan Evenstar
is there a feedly for the iPhone?
- Colide81 (James)
Embarassed to say I downloaded and signed up a few months ago but have been too busy to use it.
- Sally Church
Edwin, many people are still on Firefox 2 for obvious reasons. Isnt there a version for it as well?
- Hayk H.
There is no feedly for iphone. But because feedly syncs in real-time with google reader, you can use/continue to use Google Reader on the iphone and it will just work!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Hayk: It was a hard decision but we really needed the extra security of windows.postMessage to mash services together more securely. Hopefully by the time feedly gets out of beta, more users have upgraded to firefox 3 (which is an *great* upgrade) and this will slowly become a non-issue. In the meantime , we are sorry to not be able to be more help.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I'd really like to try this out, but for whatever reason I live in IE mostly. Yes, I have Firefox installed, but I'm unlikely to start it just for Feedly... Switching completely to Firefox is not an option for me here. I'll give it a whirl, but until this can be done in IE as well, the market is limited to tech savy people... though that might be enough.
- Matt Wollnik
Matt: we are a small team and decided to focus on firefox first to increase our chances of building something people like. Once we have a winning recipe we will look at porting it to other browsers.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Note to Robert: If you end up wanting to rollback some of the shared feeds feedly might have imported into your google reader account, simply go to http://www.feedly.com/feedly#... There is an automated way to undo all the changes.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
what do you think of the keyboard shortcuts?
- Örjan Lundberg
Mixed reaction on Feedly here. I go to the river mode in Feedly and see all kinds of useful looking activity but when I click on the orange button in the FF toolbar I see a mostly blank screen with message: "This page is empty. Please connect your feedly to a set of sources and a set of social connections first. " -- this needs to go away. How to start at the wall or other mode instead of this empty placeholder page?
- TDavid
Did not appreciate the hijacking of my reader. I do use it and finding I use it more than my reader at this time.
- Admiral70
TDavid: Can you please open a bug with a screenshot and url of the page with the "page is empty" message and we will try to help address the problem. http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly
- Edwin Khodabakchian
@Edwin - no thanks, it doesn't seem like something I'd use anyway. I took time to describe the bug for you here, that's your bug report. Copy and paste, mon :)
- TDavid
TDavid: the reason I asked for the screenshot is because it would have allowed us to understand if you have sources defined but all of them are read or if an error happened during the welcome process or if there is somehow a problem fetching the content. Re the wall. In the more (at the top right) > preferences there is an option to change the start page. If the experience does not end up working of you, here is the 5 step un-install procedure: http://edwink.devhd.com/2008...
- Edwin Khodabakchian
We just need to get you on Disqus now ;)
- Jesse Stay
@Edwin - thank you for the uninstall link. Done.
- TDavid
Feedly looks cool but becomes simply too difficult to navigate IMO. The navigation just isn't great for a lot of feeds.
- Brandon Titus
Brandon: have you tried the latest river view? It was designed to help simplify the navigation for people who read a lot of feeds. It would be interesting to know if in your view, river + the ability to inline an article inline address par of the navigation issue you are raisin.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
HAIL - The Return of the Sun - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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this is directed by the guy allegedly doing neuromancer
- Eric Rice
cool! didn't know they where doing a neuromancer film
- Mario Romero
all i did in college was sniff packets.
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