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Paul Buchheit

Obviously I can't provide a lot of detailed plans and guarantees, but I can tell you that I'll do my personal best to ensure that the FriendFeed users and community are treated right. I love this product too, and don't want to see it disappear.

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That's great to read! - Diego Barros 

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Thank you, Paul. - joey

:) - Chrimmus Tad

I hope so. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Good of you to recognize. - Bill Kinney

Thank you, Paul. Hearing something is always better than hearing nothing =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I think this was a smart move fore FF and FB - Joe Hall

What about the service? - Amit Morson

Ok - Matthew DeVries

That's a start. Thanks for reaching out. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks Paul. - sean percival

Thanks Paul - Mike Doeff

We don't want it to go either. - Yolanda

I would not expect any less from such a cool guy like you, thanks! :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Please keep it going for as long as you can or until you can make Facebook actually work. - AJ Kohn

That's heartening, Paul. Thanks. - Admiral Anika

Thanks Paul! - Darren Heydon

We love you guys and FriendFeed.. we are just a little hurt and worried.. just please give us details as soon as possible. - Tim Hoeck

FriendFeed lets me use people as filters to turn data into information. Facebook doesn't. Until it does, please, Please, PLEASE keep FriendFeed as a destination alive. - AJ Kohn

congrats guys! facebook needs what you got! - Lorna Herf

I'm sorry that I haven't said more about this. As you can imagine, it has been an extraordinarily busy day (and I've barely slept in the past week). - Paul Buchheit

I'll add my plea to the chorus: Please don't take FriendFeed away from us. And don't make us go to Facebook (because we won't). FriendFeed means a lot to a lot of people and the thought that it will dry up and blow away shortly is very disturbing. - Fa La La La Lindsay

It's still great to hear from you Paul. Congrats on that new swimming pool full of cash. :D - Chrimmus Tad

Simply glad you're here now. You've always been a very responsive and transparent team. As much as I cringe at the thought of FF going away, I *am* happy for you and the team. - AJ Kohn

Thanks Paul. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Thank you kind sir. - Andrew Smith

I request you make it to the next scheduled FFundercats podcast to talk to the community. This announcement deserves a live appearance to the community. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Have been dealing unsucessfully with Twitter for two days, trying to get logged in...Their password reset page says"Snap we can't find you." I keep writing to Tech Support at Twitter and get their helpful auto-generated Twitter Trouble shooting email. My problem is not there. =( Hope FriendFeed does not get that blaise about helping users. @EV - SashaKane

If FB can't keep the service running, would you consider open-sourcing the thing, so we can? - Christopher Galtenberg from iPhone

Hi Paul, thanks for the assurances. In the future, I would highly suggest that you make this sort of statement shortly after the initial merger release. Thanks again. - Alex Scoble

Thanks for keeping the passion! - Shane

Nice to hear Paul. Thanks. - Mark Krynsky

I would like to give you a hug right now Paul. However, that would be awkward and April might beat me up so I will just say thank you and press the like button. - EricaJoy

Best news I have heard today. - Angus Burton

Thank you for affirming that. Much appreciated. - Karoli

A few more points that would be nice to have addressed soon. Ability to export data, tool to import friends to Facebook, and will ff.im urls continue to function? - Mark Krynsky

Amelioration?? - heretic_twit

Those that like friendfeed as is should be most pleased with this statement, as it probably means maintenance to keep the current system as is, without as much attention to new features. It's also good news for all those who like both friendfeed and facebook, as facebook will likely adopt the better features from friendfeed - Ivan Kirigin

That means an awful lot to me. - James (!?)

This has been quite a day! Can't wait to hear what is next! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Thank you, Paul. Thank you for coming out from behind the curtain and finally giving us some communication, some semblance of hope. - Akiva Moskovitz

Thanks, Paul. - Mistletoe Glen

So we can expect a Facebook adaption of this? I like this technology over everyone else! - Shaggy Jenkins

Eric, my schedule is still a little uncertain at the moment, but I'd be glad to appear on a future FFundercats. - Paul Buchheit

That would be a good thing Paul. Thanks. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Cool :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone

I like this. - ashish from iPhone

Thanks for making FriendFeed what it is, and lets hope it stays that way, though there's slim chance of that - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Now that I think about it: are you kidding me? They've already stated that FriendFeed's going to be absorbed into Facebook. What kind of sleight-of-hand are you trying to pull now, Paul? - Akiva Moskovitz

@EricaJoy: I have nothing against hugs. :) - April Buchheit

Thanks! - Vincenzo Piromalli

Thanks, Paul. I've been getting more and more depressed thinking about the bad ways this could go. The reassurances help a bit, at least. In fact, just hearing you speak on the point is encouraging - the open lines of communication between the FriendFeed team and its users has always been one of the great things about FriendFeed that I'm afraid will be lost with the Facebook buyout. And yes, a FFundercats appearance would be a great idea. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I don't want to read too much into this reassurance but the "personal best" remark made me think like there is not a united FF anymore and that it's up to your personal efforts to prevent it from being eaten by FB :) - Turker Keskinpala

you can sell the tech but the community can not be bought sold transferred or merged - Robert Higgins from f2p

Turker, I do believe that this deal was the right decision -- I'll write a bit more about that when I get a chance. I say that I'll do my "personal best" because I will -- it would be misleading to make promises on other's behalf :) - Paul Buchheit

Hoping so... practicing patience - Majento

Paul: I'm hopeful that this will be the best for both Facebook and Friendfeed. What you and the staff at FF have done is amazing, with only 12 people! I love the service here. I also enjoy Facebook (one I ignore all quizzes and stupid apps), but in a different way. Hoping some coolness can be brought to both. Good luck to you and your team! - Travis B. Hartwell

this echoes star wars galaxies, incredible unique community. but they upgraded it to be like world of warcraft. this is a replay of the devs soothing messages. the forums were livid the community evaporated. - Robert Higgins from f2p

When socialmedian was acquired by Xing they left it alone. I hope the same happens here. I'm sure you will do your best though! - Michael Fidler

http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Akiva Moskovitz

On behalf of the Dutch citizens our Queen wants to let you know: Thx Paul. - Ton Zijp

Don't know what to say, so lets start with big congrats! from one hand, as an early member of Friendfeed I think we've created here a very cool, collaborative and tech-savvy/passionate community of great people that all probably wish to stick around as much as possible. From the other hand, I know how corporates work and it takes one small decision of share holders to close Friendfeed... more... - Nir Ben Yona

My first reaction is disappointment. I don't believe big corporations do better than small ones. Facebook is inferior to FriendFeed, although it's user base is much larger. Clearly FriendFeed won't survive in the long term, unless it is open sourced. Why not open up and embrace the wonders of the GPL instead of joining forces with the Walled Garden no #1? Facebook don't even operate with permalinks,. - Morten Blaabjerg

Thanks for the explanation Paul. Of course, I congratulate you guys. I think anyone would do the same thing if they were in your shoes :) - Turker Keskinpala

Very bittersweet clicking [Like] on this one. - Nicholas Kreidberg

A big congrats for you guys.. However, I feel kind of sorrow :) - Ozkan Altuner

good to hear - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Thank you - but I would very much like our content to stay intact. :) - Mona Nomura

Of course it is, Ryo. - Christopher A Carr

Ryo: if you delete your account everything goes away. I totally disagree with you about Facebook, but that's OK. - Robert Scoble

Good to hear. Unfortunately I think Facebook are going to download the brains of all FriendFeed staff then kill FF. - Michael McGimpsey

but Paul it is going to disappear - Facebook bought FF not for the site but for you guys. So obviously once its integrated into Facebook, development on FF will stop - Anthony Feint

If FriendFeed and all of it's functionality get integrated into Facebook I'm all for it. - Hugh Isaacs II

Thank you Paul! Congrats on the deal! - Garin Kilpatrick

Paul - that's great news. It surely can't cost a lot to keep this place running and it's a good place to try out ideas before they move to FB. - Martin Bryant

what about improving the product and making sure it gets more users, not only supports those who stay? - Ihar Mahaniok

Ihar - unlikely. Facebook bought FF for the developer talent, not for FriendFeed itself. - Martin Bryant from iPhone

Martin - I also think so, and it is most likely. But I could still have a hope - Ihar Mahaniok

Paul, please - underpromise & overdeliver...they say it works. - A.T.

Nice to hear. Too bad you don't call the shots anymore. - jcunwired

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! (nice name for Facebook skunkworks) I'm sure everyone would love to see FriendFeed itself stay around, even if the innovations that happen are geared towards implementation at Facebook. Thanks for this note Paul! :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

There are a few promises and guarantees that you SHOULD be able to provide. Like, that our network of friends will remain intact and that the features that make this site great will remain. If you can't make those promises, then you shouldn't have done the deal. I sure do hope that the real-time search engine wasn't the centerpiece of this deal (it probably was), because that certainly... more... - Brad Williamson

Paul you did such a nice job with friendfeed, and I so want to believe you, but I'm not sure I can. Not because of you, but because of your new employer. Because your new employer is no longer you, and while I have kind of come to trust you, I do not trust your new boss. Not at all. Please prove me wrong, if they'll let you. - Jim Addz No Value

Paul - thanks for that reassurance. PLEASE stick to that! I was in the middle of reading and participating in a lengthy discussion off of a Robert Scoble post yesterday ... then I came up for air and saw your news. Congratulations - I have no idea what that feels like or how pumped you must be. There are so many things FF does that I LOVE...I know you know that. Please Please PLease dont' go away! Thanks! - Tobin Truog

Thank you, I think everyone here loves Friendfeed. :) - Hunt from BuddyFeed

Thanks for the personal note Paul. - Mike Reynolds

Phewww..relief ;-) - Ritu

This is nice to hear, and I really hope that FriendFeed will keep on living. I still have some pain in my stomach because of this :/ - Patrik Johansson

First zombie/mafia request and we're all outta here.... - Fossil Huntress

+1 Fossil Huntress The partitioning of the networks between friendfeed and facebook was a major feature that many people made use of, lacking appropriate controls for who sees what. Merging the two groups of friends isn't going to work, at all. - Mr. Gunn

It doesn't sound like you understand what has people worried. I wrote this to help: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

And we'll appreciate this man! Try to do your best to help FF :( - FFTornado

Maybe Bruce analysis is too imaginary, but the question is THE question nobody answered: why did you do it, Paul? - Luca Sofri

I left a response on Bruce's entry (http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...). I'll write more about this on my blog when I get some free time. - Paul Buchheit

Thanks. - Bonnie Foster

we all know what needs to happen. the question is, where? ... FB needs, - apart from being/it is, a large, general, open application platform, - 1. Smart keyboard shortkatze - and Im a kbsCzar to go to, 2. Aggregating facilities, smart /RSS/ .. 3. Full blogging facilities, capabilities, not 140 chars. 4. Full real time comments facilities, capabilities. 5. Real time, live, but ALSO... more... - Petr Buben

I hope you're being open and honest with us. This time. :( - Kamilah Gill

Good to know , we´ll see :) - Yahya

Thank you! I am sure you will do great things at FB. I just hope that the great app you built here isn't destroyed. I don't know of any other aggregation app that I can embed into my site like this one! - beersage

Congratulations on your successes, best wishes for more. And thanks for continuing to look out for us loyal, addicted FFanatics! - Rob Schieber

I hope it continues, i'm a new user and absolutely love it (wish i knew the value of it before)! Congrats! - Luis D. Santos

As nice as it sounds I'm sorry to say that as a, now, Facebook's employee I'm afraid you'll have to comply to whatever your new boss tells you. Didn't MZ make it clear? - lelapin

and let me add second, obvious, "Facebook needs" - Friendfeed bookmarklet, and Friendfeed tools - widgets, embedding - real time and not - of posts, and groups ...to embedd, to inject oneself into this thing called Internet ..... so, if FB listens to FF engineering long enough, they are going to get it .. right - Petr Buben

Paul, what I am worried is not that you're brainwashed, but that there's simply no business need for Facebook to improve FriendFeed from now on, period. - Ihar Mahaniok

I have confidence Paul. While some of the comments were probably uncalled for, covering an investment (of time and money) in these times to move on and hopefully provide even 'better stuff' makes sense to me. It's pretty obvious there are a LOT of people that don't want to 'lose' Friendfeed. (I wouldn't hold a town hall for a few weeks though :) - Charlie Anzman

Congrats, Paul. It's sad that people have to make these uncalled for hatred comments about Facebook though. Why can't both sites work together. I think Facebook will do better with FF and vise versa. Take the good features of both services. Don't boycott FB, enjoy it. I'm sick of the negative comments going on, that's all. :( - Molly, "sorry"

Molly: What makes you think there's going to be a "vise versa?" - Christopher A Carr

Because I don't think Paul and the other FF developers would allow FB to do anything. I'm sorry, I am not going to think negative here like some here are. I guess I'm a fangirl for FB. - Molly, "sorry"

Finally something about the changes on the horizon that isn't all d0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0om and whining. Thank you, Paul! :D - Christian (Simply X)

The time to think about how you could do your 'personal best' to ensure FriendFeed continues to exist was prior to the discussions with Facebook. Not after. - Andy C

Paul, what about the content scam that FB T&C is, does it apply to Friendfeed now? Should we all start writing scripts to retroactively delete all content ever uploaded to Friendfeed? Elaborated a bit here - http://friendfeed.com/mbravo... - Michael Bravo

We know you'll try your best, Paul. But sometimes, you just can't win the dark side... - Winston Teo

Thanks Paul for all your efforts. Founders often want the best, but acquiring companies often have people with political/power issues or different/limited visions. - Mitchell Tsai

*throws a sheep at Paul* is that a good thing? - Joe from iPod

Yeahhhhhhh BOoooiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

yes, thank you, Sergeant Paul ... well, good to hear we go on ... because if not, how about starting www.anotherFeed.com ... or, www.Letsgofeed.com ...... anyway, lets boost blogging capabilities, post more than current amount of chars, lets have TOP POSTS / clicks count list at the head of each group, some stats, lets index group headers, lets have MORE keyboard shortcuts .. - now ...... more... - Petr Buben

Paul Buchheit

After signing the papers :)

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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 Addz No Value

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

Dave Winer

FB buying FF is bad news for FF users.

August 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Agree totally Dave - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

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Why do you think so Dave? - Tim Akinbo

10000% agree, its dreadul and the big boys like Leo and Scoble cant seem to see it! - Mark

Leo laporte says "This is a big step toward an open Facebook. This has been their goal all along: a distributed Facebook." What a Crock of SHITE - Mark

They bought the people! - Mark

yeah... but it is also a smart move, they got the team.. - Rob Sellen :o)

I'm trying to give the FF team the benefit of the doubt...but I'm having a hard time with it as well. - Ken Kennedy

Born to be sold, we were used to say in the new economy era. - Federico Bolsoman

They bought the people. We Stick with that. FF guys are Smart/fast and have deep Google knowledge - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

Woah. I step away from the computer for a couple hours and this is what happens? - Travis B. Hartwell

I agree an independent Friendfeed might be preferable for we few brave FF users. But the writing was on the wall. For most users it's Twitter or Facebook or nothing at all. Aligning with Facebook is smart long term thinking if FB is planning to open up as I am convinced they are. - Leo Laporte from BuddyFeed

Let's hope that FB doesn't block people from using the 'competeition' while on FF. - shelter watch

Seems everything's headed for an autumn war Facebook <> Google Wave - Jordi Soler

At first I like the idea of FF & FB, but now I'm starting to think it's bad for FF - Ray H

hmm, an open, new version of FB that uses all of what makes FF great would be nice. - Dusty Edenfield

Leo's got the right idea, and independence is a myth - Steve Gillmor

Well, how could it possibly be a good thing? - Fleagle

Agree, I'm not a Facebook fan although I try but.. I'd definitely take FF over FB anyday. - Sharon Dexter

I prefer a FriendFeed folded into Facebook versus a FriendFeed that quietly fades away, which is the direction this was going. - Mike Doeff

Totally agree - facebook is so tedious and slow. FF is wonderful. - Zphotogal

+1 mike - Riaz Kanani

We imagine FB with the SEO juice of FF, thus intercepting search traffic... - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

I can certainly see the best ideas from FF being folded into FB but not sure what that says about the future of this site and the data it contains - Keith Harrison

Except for the whole FriendFeed dying slowly in the obscure ghetto of the digirati part. As Mike said, FF in FB is better than no FF at all. FriendFeed users are far better off having it than watching it its gradual anemia grow worse and worse until one day it vanishes. - Curtis Schweitzer

While this may never happen, consider it a possibility - your entire FB feed now available in FF. - Tim Akinbo

It is really hard to see how FB will do more than incorporate staff and ideas from FF. FriendFeed's design of being a very open aggregator is very different than FB's walled garden ethic. I also think part of what attracted me to prefer FF over FB is the clean interface, as opposed to FB fire-in-a-bordello presentation style. I hope FB really listens on the UI side and not just on the aggregator side, or works just mines out the staff. - David Lounsbury

This is a good thing for FF and FB both. This will lead to a more open FB and steal Twitter's thunder. - Tim

"the writing on the wall?" ... that's just hyperbole, Leo. Paul Buchheit himself said in his interview w/ Scoble that they could have kept the service alive "for years"...there was no financial issue forcing this, like tr.im or something. And while I suppose there are those that believe the most popular site/music/art/people are always the best, I think that's both a shallow way of... more... - Ken Kennedy

Like 4 Ken - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

What I care about most is having a Facebook profile that is *actually* public, viewable by non-users. - Andrew Roche

I definitely DONT LIKE IT grmphhh ! - laetSgo

@andrew that's one thing FF team is very good at: climbing Google :) - Marco Massarotto from iPhone

DOnt like it either. I'm off to a self hosted http://sweetcron.com/ or wait for a http://kakuteru.com/ invite. - Mario Valente

One thing that can be said about social communities - its the people who build the product. Had we not given excellent feedback to FriendFeed developers in creating our perfect world FB wouldn't have had an interest. Its our fault. :( - jcunwired

i'll agree to wait this one out before being totally devastated about Facebook buying FriendFeed - Chris Heath

Let's leave "en masse" - Giorgio Burlini from iPhone

Motion carried, motion passed. - Zachary TG

Facebook is banned from my work computer. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Live *open* BadHair podcast in 8 minutes. (347) 843-4661. Call in if you have a comment or question re FB/FF. Starts in 3 minutes. - Dave Winer

Wait and see ... - Kate Foy

It means you'll have to share. wahhhhh - Andrew Smith

I think it is a bad idea. I don't like to use Facebook except for frivolous reasons. FF has been good for reliable information. I suppose I'll stop using it so much now. We'll see. - Barbara K. Iverson

I want to see where this is going but definitely my favorite social site just got folded into my least favorite. - Braden Douglass

It depends entirely on what direction FF would have taken next (and what direction it will take Dave). Think most of us that have been around FF since almost the start (when it was a MUCH smaller place) miss that but this actually might be a good thing. - Charlie Anzman

Agreed if they lose the FF interface. - Wei-Yen Tan

If we put all our faith into a single platform or a single solution [Twitter/FB/Goog] then we lose touch with people, processes and where history is taking us. In this case, we’re headed more in the direction of where .tel and Identi.ca are stumbling, consciously or not: towards a non-web-centric, permission-based polycephalous set of systems, where discussions and messaging transpire... more... - A Mitchell

Google Wave is coming to replace all this stuff. And Google Reader will get more social features including item recommendations through comparing users likes, and so Google will win this. Good time to sell. - Charbax

Interesting convo we had there dave, thanks for letting us call in and participate. - Chris Heath

But the real question is who will take over who? Isn't there a possibility that FriendFeed will takeover Facebook! I hope FB make it work as I like the idea of FF but it doesn't have the critical mass of people talking about what I am interested in! - Phillip Molly Malone

Very bad I'm sure there will be some changes - Annika from Nambu

I agree it's probably bad news for FF users.FF has reliable info. I don't want it to become chatter. - Leigh Marriner

I'll admit to being a recent convert to FF but it was the best social site I have used yet (and I have used them all). I am sorry to see it lose it's independence. This will not end well for FF groupies. But my reading of the tea leaves is that FF options as a standalone service were not good. I guess this is a sign of a maturing market. Can a Larry Ellison acquisition be far behind? - Michael Liss

simply but clear - Gioia Feliziani

I agree with Dave's original assertion. I'm struggling to imagine the value Facebook could add to FriendFeed, and I can certainly imagine the downsides. Having an aggregator that sits independently on top of the commercial pile, while fleeting as a free service, is a valuable one. - Allred

disagree. - Gus

I have my suspicions too. But Facebook have been wanting to open up more for some time (e.g., they're eliminating regional networks), and I'm guessing they see FF as the key. I'm betting they'll fuse the two services soon. But let's hope they use FF to improve FB. But there's always a big chance FB will ruin FF. Stay tuned... - Dennis Jernberg

+1 for A Mitchell's insights. If tr.im and FF have taught us anything, it's that no matter how many open api's there are, a closed platform is still a closed platform, and it can disappear overnight. We need a decentralized yet federated way to do all that FF did (and more). If it's not decentralized, we don't have redundancy. if it's not federated, we lose community an conversation. - Don Faulkner from BuddyFeed

another +1, Don and A Mitchell. I just finished a blog post along almost exactly the same lines, Don...decentralization and federation are both key. Good news is, this is historically how things go...nerds only, then mainstream joins, but centralized (think AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy...services and email that couldn't talk to each other). As the systems mature, then value of decentralization becomes apparent. This week could actually be an important milestone in speeding up that process *here's to hoping...*. - Ken Kennedy

But Facebook buying friendfeed is great news for the 250+ million fb users! (And most ff users have fb :) - Garin Kilpatrick

It would have been better (slightly) if they were acquired by Twitter. I'm not a Twitter fan, but I think FF would bring more to twitter, it would be a better fit and the users and the interface would have a better chance at "integration" - Mario Valente

I've read its good for FF, it's bad for FF. It's better than being sold to google, it's better than being sold to twitter. Myriad variations on a theme, which leads me to conclude we haven't got a clue what the future will bring. - Mark

FB will better integrate FF than Google or others ever would -- one hopes. let's see what happens and go from there. Good news is that it will generate a ton of news for you peeps to report on. - Gavin Adams

It's simply time for a distributed story for this type of application. You shouldn't need to rely on any providers who can be down or might be bought. - Christian Scholz

"Google Wave is coming to replace all this stuff." And lock you into yet another platform owned by one company. - Ian Betteridge

@Ian...Wave is a federated, decentralized, (to be) open-sourced solution. It's complicated, but it's at worst an architecture lock-in (ie, it might be hard to move a large corpus of Wave-annotated data out of the Wave infrastructure). Unless Google is pulling a flat-out lying fast one...there won't be any reason why you can't run your "own" instance of Wave and connect to the rest of the Net. So not standard company lock-in. - Ken Kennedy

Ken, to be honest, I'll believe it when I see companies other than Google taking the code and running an equivalent service. Flat out lying? No, probably not. But "only able to do something useful if you're connected to Google in some way"? Probably. - Ian Betteridge

@Ian, I hear ya, but I've read enough of the technical specs to lay my money on the other side of that bet. - Ken Kennedy

At least Google is one company that's not likely to turn coat on its social community and sell out. - jcunwired

Really? I think the old Jaiku community would disagree with you on that. And the people who stored their bookmarks in Google Bookmarks, too. - Ian Betteridge

why? - Thomas Power

Sorry - I meant Google Browser Sync rather than Google Bookmarks. One is dead, the other alive and well(ish). But the point is that Google has a track record of killing or abandoning services when it suits. - Ian Betteridge

True, Ian. Google's "do no evil" doesn't keep them from killing things that aren't panning out for their world domination strategy. They're marginally more saintly than Facebook. - Sean Gallagher

Is it because of the Facebook ad approach that Dave W and Scoble are looking to jump ship on FriendFeed? - Sean Gallagher

Sean: I'm not jumping ship. But I will follow early adopters wherever they go. - Robert Scoble

Or Google Notebook. Even given that and Jaiku, though, which did do a blow to my faith in Google, I would rather a Google-FriendFeed than a Facebook-FriendFeed. Mostly because I think they'd let it do its own thing rather than assimilate it. They left YouTube pretty well alone. Oh well. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

disagree with FF and LI nxt year bottled up inside Facebook this forces Google MS and Apple to get seriously social and start playing rather than just watching. Google-Twitter, Apple-Facebook versus Microsoft-Bing now that's a battle I want to (socially) watch with all you guys. Oh what fun. Can't wait. - Thomas Power

I'm not sure Facebook or FriendFeed are entities whose well-being I value so highly; users, I care about, and having FriendFeed developper work their magic, their talent and their stand for open standard to benefit 300M people sounds more important to me then having them spend more time tailoring the digerati's private network. I'm far for believing you can't improve FriendFeed, but I'd... more... - Bertil Hatt

@Bertil_Hatt: if there's one thing that FriendFeed isn't it's a private network. Facebook is the one who, on the other hand, operates like a "walled garden" or a private condo. - Miguel Caetano

Only if you believe the FF has a sustainable business model? - Gary Walter (gwalter)

FF is F'ed - Shivanand Velmurugan

LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, FriendFeed Talk, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43, The Facebook Experience, All Things Google

Does anyone else see Google Wave as the logical destination for a FriendFeed Refugee Exodus?

August 11 - Comment - Like - Share

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But what do we do in the mean time? - LogEx

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Something that uses the protocol, certainly. - Kol Tregaskes

absolutely. It's not only awesome but it's open so I don't have to deal with bullshit like what's going on right now. - vijay

http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... - Kol Tregaskes

That's one of the questions raised in my mind: is it going to be a replacement for all social environments? - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

I have a feeling it will be worth the wait............... - Kevin J Hatton

FriendFeed's not gonna disappear overnight. So far I haven't seen any timetable as to the when it will be completely folded into Facebook. I'm pretty sure both services will still be around on September 30 when the Wave invites go out. I mean, I have more faith in FB (having been a member since 2004) than the average person - I remember when it was a small, personal service like... more... - LANjackal

Yes i definitely see it the agents make for me make more sense then the current ff concept (e.g. publishing comments ...) - Gerd saurer

Google Wave will be good, no doubt. But I still think 1) It's much too hyped and 2) It's not intended to be a replacement for social media/networking but rather for collaboration. - Adam Reyher from Alert Thingy

Just thinking of the business matters here, wouldn't Facebook buying FriendFeed mean that Facebook will be our replacement for FriendFeed? I mean I like Wave, but I feel Wave and FriendFeed are far too different to be used for the same thing. - Hugh Isaacs II

Yep, FF will be integrated into FB at some point. - Kol Tregaskes

Hugh, it's a protocol, you could build whatever you like on top of it. I see huge similarities to each. - Kol Tregaskes

I know Wave is a protocol (XMPP, etc...) but the initial product won't be a FriendFeed replacement. Maybe Wave injunction with it's apis and the embedding feature we'll see a FriendFeed replacement, but the product alone is too far in another direction to be FriendFeed 2.0 - Hugh Isaacs II

Yeah!!! hope that google wave release a.s.a.p!!!! - Saiful Izham Hassan

But how do we get onto Wave? Is there a public beta coming? - Jason Remnant from iPhone

Yeah go to the site and request an invite - LANjackal from IM

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Coming Soon: Self-Destructing E-mails - http://www.appscout.com/2009...

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"Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed Vanish, software that will disappear your encrypted e-mail messages after an allotted period of time." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

OBSERVE: fully voluntary, and just as well, can not be used against explicit wish of the recipient: »[…] Once [specified] time has passed, the software automatically re-encrypts unencrypted messages. The New York Times explains: "The pieces of the key, small numbers, tend to 'erode' over time as they gradually fall out of use. To make keys erode, or timeout, Vanish takes advantage of... more... - ianf ⌘

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How Apple.com Would Have Looked in 1983 #apple - http://gizmodo.com/5316974...

July 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"How Apple.com Would Have Looked in 1983" - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

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RSS feeds in 1983!! wow. 1983 is no longer like 1983 huh? =P - vijay

I love the color scheme. It's modern-retro. I hear that's in right now. ;) - Joshua Schnell

Cool, although that 'iPhone' is from the second half of 1984. ;) - Nicola D'Agostino (nda)

I still have my Lisa! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

nullun lee noticias

Financial Times editor says most news websites will charge within a year - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media...

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Loic Le Meur

augmented reality twitter viewer / locator on iphone http://www.youtube.com/watch...

augmented reality twitter viewer / locator on iphone http://bit.ly/utLmY

July 13 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Looks like fun. Watch it go wild at a conference - Mark Essel from iPhone

Paul Buchheit

The FriendFeed R&D lab

June 19 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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This is where we do our UI design. - Paul Buchheit

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Well, that explains the gray background then! - Akiva Moskovitz

And now the world needs to know who was sat in the empty space in the middle about 10 seconds before the camera came out :-D - Andy Bold

Each colored group of bricks are in a separate namespace. Don't mix them. - DGentry

I used to have a giant cardboard box with identical contents. I miss it terribly. - Daniel J. Pritchett

OK! I think I can finally apply now for R&D. ;-) - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

I think I can see the namespace space, too - WorldofHiglet

why a Blue Snowball mic? - Joe Silence

Where are the motors and microcontrollers? - Gabe

Sans mad scientist! Oh wait, he was taking the picture! - Rick Cogley

you g33k guyz :) - Alp

WIN - Josh Haley

I think you guys need more lego pieces. - FORA.tv

Oh... don't worry FORA... that's what's in those gray tubs :) - Ross Miller

Release early, release often :) - Micah Wittman

You guys got any job openings?? :) - Roberto Bonini

@Akiva: I'm glad this set of Lego had the grey "floors" and not the green ones! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

OMG MY EYES - Akiva Moskovitz

I loved LEGO and I am still thinking that it influenced my wish to study natural science, which some others might have thought, too - http://portal.acm.org/citatio... - joergkurtwegner

That looks remarkably like my kids' playroom when they were small (with the addition of some pink, white and lavender Legos)! - Anne Bouey

Now that's my kinda lab! Where do I sign up? - Jeff P. Henderson

http://friendfeed.com/about... - Benjamin Golub

OK, I'll start to compose my resume:))))) - K.D.

I need to learn Python :( I keep meaning to, but work happens. - Neal Jansons from IM

Heh, so that's how you built the FriendFeed server farm so quickly? Lego! ;) - Tyson Key

Watch Facebook will have the same lab in a month. - Robert Scoble

Nice $50 Walmart chair. I just replaced mine today with a different Walmart junk chair. That one broke. Those plastic armrests are fragile! See how I had fixed it temporarily: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Dusty Wilson

Omg are you guys hiring??? I cook and clean! :) - Mona Nomura

Building better apps the unconventional way ! ..why now, where is additional keyboard shortcuts ?? under the carpet? .... isn't this overflow ideas cool-off roomlet containment? .... no! it's Google's 1 day - work on whatever project you want ..they got 2 grey bins, for binaries, i guess ... is it public access, though? - Petr Buben

Hmmok - Uygun BODUR

No one can afford to lose this job. - ashish

Lego Heaven - Kevin J Hatton

Wanted to make some R&D - Ozkan Altuner

Blue Snowball mic........someone must podcast? Decent mic, for what it's intended to do. - Gabe Taviano

Looks a little like my last office .... :) - Charlie Anzman

This is really cool. - Bryce the Screencaster

FriendFeed R&D needs more money Twitter R&D has more toys - Michael Mooney

What makes you think this is the sum of our toys, Michael? - Ross Miller

Not enough legos. - Steven Perez

Now we know the truth: http://www.servicedesigntools.org/tools... - Andrés David Aparicio

I knew html5 development processes were going to be weird - dthree

LPH™ and his dog P™

[SteroidFeed]: Here is my new way of watching feeds on FriendFeed. I call it SteroidFeed but it is also a "Multi-Talk" style interface ... the file sits locally and allows me to view multiple topics. I've attached a copy of the simple html. Feel free to modify the html but please leave attribution and share your changes. Leave a URL if on Internet.

SteriodFeed.html 1 KB

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Of course, the version I uploaded does not include my own entries but instead has the iPhone entry as an example. My local copy uses "from:lph" so I can see my entries and add comments quickly. (e.g., this comment is added through steroidfeed.html and not through the site. - LPH™ and his dog P™

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If Adrian Veidt had FriendFeed instead of just satellite TV, this is totally how he would have read it. - Andrew C

There is a danger, Chrome has trouble with this many connections to FF. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I borrowed it here, LPH. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

I've changed this file a bit so that a fourth column is available, and this holds a rowspan of my own entries. This makes tracking easier. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I should state that the fourth column is an embed so that I can add comments, photos, files, etc. - That code is similar to the one on my personal blog: http://www.layneheiny.com - LPH™ and his dog P™

SteroidFeed 1.01 is now available: http://friendfeed.com/lph... - LPH™ and his dog P™

Really cool! - matiasjajaja

hey i like this! - Susan Beebe

Have fun Susan - LPH™ and his dog P™ from iPhone

Interesting use of Iframes for this, gonna play with this, really cool LPH and his Dog. Thanks! - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

Thanks! I'm trying it out now. - Mark "DerBingle" J

Let me know Susan, Mark, and Dan. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Ah! I like. Thanks. - Christopher A Carr

You are most welcome Christopher Carr - LPH™ and his dog P™

Trying this on a 1024 x 768 resolution, 12-inch notebook - and it is fine with all four columns. - LPH™ and his dog P™

OK - so are you asking - can I span this across multiple monitors? -- because Elvis used to watch multiple t.v.s at the same time. - LPH™ and his dog P™

(Veidt's TV setup: http://skew.dailyskew.com/uploade... ) - Andrew C

that's great! - PaperDoll

Keep it comin' :) - Charlie Anzman

I have made a meme of friendfeed embeds here: http://ff.clipotech.com/ - Svartling

Svartling - yes - your setup is nice. I've gone back and forth between 3 and 4 columns. My desktop setup can handle 4 but the notebook (1024x768) can only handle 3. Therefore, http://www.steroidfeed.com is only sitting at 3 right now. I'm also missing the instructions on how to make changes for anyone not familiar with FF. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Yes I was thinking of make 3 columns but I decided to make it 4 because my web stats shows that most visitors have a resolution at 1024x768 or higher. Maybe I will change to 3 columns. Hmm.. - Svartling

Really appreciated man, one of the best things for my following attitude - Amiroo ™

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W3C dumps XHTML2 to concentrate on HTML5 - http://www.w3.org/2009...

July 3 from Hacker News - Comment - Like - Share

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Funny Pics and Videos: iwfx!

Fwd: Fwd: Censorship (via http://friendfeed.com/tortilh...)

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F.W.T.

Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

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Paul Buchheit

Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana ☠

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - Garin Kilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Jenna Bilotta

Also, the Friendfeed real-time updating is much more awesome when your own stuff is real-time updating with awesomeness (as opposed to watching other people's getting all the awesomeness in real time :).

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Adding awesomeness.... - Ross Miller

awh, shux! thanks for the awesomeness! - Jenna Bilotta

Paul Buchheit

Robohug

June 25 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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I think I found my new profile pic - April Buchheit

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too cute! - BEX

is it good? - liangcw

"It occurs to me with all this animus existing against Mechas today it isn't just a question of creating a robot that can love. Isn't the real conundrum, can you get a human to love them back?" -- Female Colleague, "A.I." - Karim

I hope Paul isn't jealous - Jini

That's pretty much how Paul hugs me, too. :P - April Buchheit

I remember http://battlestargalactica.me :-) - Mehmet Ali Osman ELBUZ

that looks....fulfilling. - j1m

Can you sue a robot for sexual harrassment? - Gabe

Thanks for sending this in during the party last week! This is my favorite photo from the night. - Luke Francl

"That's pretty much how Paul hugs me, too." --- That explains everything, that robot is Paul!!! - τorƍue

The Apple Room: Bill Sodeman

TechCrunch says "Apple, your Mighty Mouse sucks. Please fix it." - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

April 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm not a fan of the MM, either. - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

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I really enjoy using mine even though I've found I need it less than I thought I would. - Kevin D. White

me too, I love only logitech mouse... - OmarCaf

I'm using the Mighty Mouse but I really want Apple to release a new mouse.. - Peter

Okay, I really don't have a problem with the MM in general. As long as it's working, it works for me. I say "As long as it's working" because, if it gets too cold (and by that, I mean, not THAT cold), it slows down to a crawl, which can be very frustrating. - Fleagle

It took them how many years to build a mouse with more than one button? - xero

I finally gave up on my battery eating, too easily clogging Mighty Mouse. I now have a Logitech MX6 I love it. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

My MM's scroll is wazoooed too :( - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

I fell in love with its shape, but had to sold it before I break it in my anger - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Mm blows - Isaac Zahavi

The MM is the best mouse I have ever owned! I love it! - TheHenry

I love the mighty mouse. Though I wish apple would release just a USB Track pad because I prefer using a trackpad over a mouse. - Corey Harris

I hate the MM, I much prefer a good solid logitech with no less than 16 buttons :) - Danny Cohen

I tried to like it but I ran out of patience about 15 minutes into it. I replaced it with a Kensington Slimblade. - Akiva Moskovitz

My scroll wheel had gone out on my wired MM, which was two months past warranty. I took it to an Apple Store last night, they cleaned it to no avail and handed me a new one, no fuss, no muss, no paperwork. - LogEx

Again, much like Apple's products, it is not meant to satiate everyone's needs and wants. Especially when it comes to mice, there are so many products out there that a little bit of research would help you decide if the MM is for you/not! - Guru Panguji

The concept is good. (The scroll-ball is a great idea) The implementation sucks. I found the scroll-ball would eventually get clogged with dirt, but unlike a traditional ball mouse, you can't open the mouse up in order to clean the scroll-ball. The left-clicks work fine, the right-clicks are often hit-and-miss. I do love how it connects via bluetooth and works with hardly any configuration. - Paul Grav

Beauty over use. It's been ages since Apple released a good mouse. - Pedro Rodrigues

MM drives me crazy, anyone find a good replacement for it that replicates its functionality? - Gordon Corte

lmao! - Zafarali

Logitech's VX Nano is pretty good. It isn't bluetooth but the usb dongle is tiny. - Paul Grav

Agreed. Damn you Mighty Mouse. Damn you. - Garin Kilpatrick

I've gone through 2 MM's that became unusable due to broken scroll wheels. No more. - Chrimmus Tad

While I don't think much of TechCrunch; I have to agree with this post wholeheartedly. I like all (read: ALL) things Apple. Minus the Mighty Mouse. - Diego Barros 

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Genio japonés ha inventando un ringtone de celular que hace crecer los senos de las mujeres. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

June 22 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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3.0 Jailbreak now live! http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post...

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This is the low down on our tools for use with the 3.0 firmware from Apple, read the whole post in full before attempting anything. Because of some bugs and unexpected changes this will be a multipart release, starting with the release of PwnageTool for Mac OS X. QuickPwn for Mac OS X and Windows will follow sometime soon, please don’t bug us about it, we are working flat out to get everything finished to release them. - Simon Wicks

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Who's doing it right now then? - Simon Wicks

this dude --------->--------- edit: not yet. Windows tool yet to be released it seems. - vijay

Win! - Simon Wicks

YES! - Cee Bee

OK... so what are the top three Jailbreak apps that every adventurous iPhone 3G user should install first? - Andy Bold

Praise the Lord and the dev team! - Josh Haley

I need to try this on my 2G. - Kevin Whalen from email

Andy, Qik and SBSettings. Then Cycorder if you wanna do videos too. Cant think of any others at the moment. - Simon Wicks

I cant download the torrent. I just get 'qprJcnTb.torrent(2).part' come down when i hit the link? - Simon Wicks

They've fixed it now :) - Simon Wicks

Already over 5000 seeds! Its oooonnnnn - Simon Wicks

Dev team have released easter eggs in this version. They have stephen fry saying different things when you trigger different action. Easter Egg #1 - Hold s + f + click the Pwnapple in "About PwnageTool" box.He says ' i love you iphone dev people, i love you so much it hurts' - Simon Wicks

W00t! W00t! Now I have something to do while waiting for blasted #Fedex to arrive! My prediction was wrong for Sunday... See, what the heck do I know? - Walt Ruppar

I guessed it would be today. :) - Simon Wicks

Need Windows version, as I am Mac-less. :( - Josh Haley

Awww, sorry Josh. What you need is a mac, not a windows version though :) - Simon Wicks

Is it just me or does the headband really round out the pineapple logo nicely? - Joshua Schnell

+10 Joshua :D - vijay

My phone is now pwned, currently restoring my backup... - Simon Wicks

What are the advantages to jailbreaking an iPhone? - John Ford

John. Lots of stuff Apple wont let you do. Themes, apps which they have said no too, live stream to the internet, video for the iphones which dont nativly have it now, and a whole load more stuff. :) - Simon Wicks

iPhone now offically running a compleatly un-official version of 3.0. Welcome back my beauty! - Simon Wicks

++Simon - Josh Haley

I see a new icon on my springboard called Icy... i ticked it in the setup not knowing what it does though, so, my fault :) - Simon Wicks

that's the replacement for Installer.app which RIPdev has killed off. - vijay

Ah right. never used that one anyway :) - Simon Wicks

Now to get rid of that damn second battery meter i have and get everything back on - Simon Wicks

PwnageTool keeps crashing on me:( - Shawn Hickman

did you drag it from the dmg to the desktop? - Simon Wicks

Wow, the torrent downloaded in ~3 minutes w/ a 75k max... Almost 6000 seeds now. Can't wait try it! @iphone_dev ROCKS! - Walt Ruppar

And it worked flawlessly... Some pics in my blog post: http://holgr.com/blog... - Holger Eilhard

Simon, yea. It crashes as it is creating the ISPW - Shawn Hickman

i still don't understand the reason they won't allow themes officially... but yay for this! - Robert de Castro

Dont know then Shawn im afraid. :( - Simon Wicks

It's ok. I will wait until later and then try again. Thanks. - Shawn Hickman

Qik wont load on mine, goes back to the springboard after i launch it. Anyone else having this problem? I've restarted a few times, all the same. - Simon Wicks

Been waiting a couple of days for this to drop, today I had to be away and then they release it. I swear they waited until I left the house! All done now, sync in progress, can't wait to get MY phone back. Thank you iphone_dev team - Keith Bennett

All sorted, everything is now back as it was before i updated to 3.0. except from sms borders i had :) Taken all evening, but worth it. - Simon Wicks

Hmmm, previous steps I used didn't seem to work... used AptBackup and I don't think all apps were ready for 3.0. I have a 8GB paperweight right now... LOL! Here's some tips for others: http://thebigboss.org/2009... - Walt Ruppar

Being lazy, so ... Bring on ultrasnow. - Jeff Gamble

Finally got the Jailbreak to work. Found out that PwnageTool was crashing because I have a PPC, so I borrowed my brother's Intel Mac and finished it up. I am a happy man:) - Shawn Hickman

My Visual Voice Mail isn't working with the jailbreak. Any one else having the problem? - Shawn Hickman

Lasse Johnsen to Lasse's feed, User Interface Design, Web Devs

40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...

June 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"If there is a commonly reoccurring need for a particular solution, there is a great probability that someone has - by now - solved that need and has finished the legwork involved in researching and constructing something that resolves it." - Lasse Johnsen from Bookmarklet

Paul Buchheit to Paul's feed, FriendFeed News

We just launched a "Secret email address" service that makes it possible to post to groups anonymously from any email address. This is a bit of a power-user feature, but it's a very useful for automated posting from scripts, forwarding email (e.g. customer service email), etc.

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Here at the office, we use it to forward all of our mercurial changelog emails, server push notifications, etc to a private group. That way, we all see what's going on in real-time (thanks to the notifier: http://friendfeed.com/setting...), and can easily discuss them from the FriendFeed interface. To add a secret email address, click on "Import a service" in the "settings" dialog of any group. For regular posting, you should continue to use the normal email interface though (share@friendfeed.com or groupname@friendfeed.com, see http://friendfeed.com/share... for details). Thanks to Tudor for writing and launching this! - Paul Buchheit

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Shhh! This is very sekret! - Andrew Trinh

Interesting. My secret FriendFeed toy. - phil baumann

I'm in my Private Group, but for the life of me I cannot find this option. Wouldn't it be under Edit Settings? - Nick in Manila

Ah. NOW I see it. - Nick in Manila

I am loving this feature idea... Very savvy for business use. Thanks! - Susan Beebe

This won't be happening in the main feed will it? Anonymous posting destroys services. - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: No. Your home feed only shows things that you're subscribed to. Of course, if you're a member of a group whose admin allows anonymous posting, and you have that group on your home feed, then the anonymous posts will show up there -- but then, you can always leave the group or remove it from your home feed. - Tudor Bosman

oh this is genius. there's so many use cases that can leverage this. platform +1 - Sameer

Groups already allow "anonymous" posts -- if you (as an admin) add a service to a group, posts originating from that service will show as belonging to the room, not to any particular user. You can think of anonymous posts (whether imported from RSS services, or posted by email) as being the responsibility of the group admins -- it's their job to police them if they deem necessary. - Tudor Bosman

I see this working for the Confessions room. What else? - Josh Haley

Sounds like the email can be sent from any arbitrary email address, not necessarily one registered with FriendFeed for an account? So the secret really needs to be kept secret to valid potential posters only. - LogEx

Logical Extremes: Yes, that is the point; it doesn't matter what address you send *from*. Sometimes you can't control the address that mail gets sent from. A few examples: your datacenter can notify you by email of any problems affecting your servers, but you'd prefer these notifications to go to a FriendFeed group. You are subscribed to a low-volume distribution list, but you'd rather... more... - Tudor Bosman

Paul has explained how we use this feature internally at FriendFeed. If one of us checks in a change (we use Mercurial for source control), Mercurial sends an email to a secret email address for a private group (that all FF engineers are subscribed to); the others see the change immediately, and we can discuss it in comments. - Tudor Bosman

Cool! Very useful for room owners. If you don't have instructions, it's very hard to find. "Sekret" - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

LD: I don't understand. To which of my examples are you referring? - Tudor Bosman

Oh yeah. Laughing uncontrollably. WOW. - Webferret

It sounds like a pro-spam feature. Have you thought through all the consequences? - Tim Tyler

Tim: the group admins should keep the address secret and only share it with trusted services. If the address gets leaked, then the group can get spammed, in which case the group admins can delete it or change it (which prevents all future mail to the old address from being posted to the group). We believe it to be reasonably secure, but please let us know if you notice any problems. - Tudor Bosman

Tudor, what is that group, so we can get the engineers working on putting the service icons and service sorting back without having to hack the service with scripts? - Matthew DeVries

Matthew: :) - Tudor Bosman

Tudor, you said: "posts originating from that service will show as belonging to the room, not to any particular user". But the posts /do/ show up as belonging to the admin user in a _search result_. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Ahsan, that's a bug that already existed with how searches handle imported content in groups (not specific to this release and already on our list, thanks). - Dan Hsiao

LD: You're right, you can't reply from within FriendFeed. You could have the contact form send email to both the internal group and a regular email address, which you can then use to send a reply. - Tudor Bosman

Tudor: btw. regarding mercurial, what's your experience using mercurial in friendfeed vs perforce in google? - Amund Tveit

Tudor - what I really like is the business use cases you're laying out here, including your own internal engineering ones. Good stuff, as my e2.0 buddy Sameer above says. - Hutch Carpenter

using this feature to post blog uptime statistics for several blog to blog owners - Jeroen De Miranda

Its a good feeling when you know that the people behind a certain product know what there doing. Dont we FF Team? - Webferret

Use case? How can one use the best readily filtering system available (Gmail filters) with best of breed group collaboration (Friendfeed). This is GOING to become the best in its class. I can drop so many business tools(that i pay for) for just FF Private rooms - Webferret

Already is Webferret, already is... - Chris Heath

sweet - D Lets

Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007... - Webferret

Amund: Mercurial works. We use it in a mostly-centralized setup (one central repo that we sync to very often). Can't really compare performance -- our repositories are tiny compared to Google's. We can take this offline if you'd like to discuss this in more detail. - Tudor Bosman

That's a great add-on. Slowly, FF is going to be our "life center" - Ozkan Altuner

So this is kinda like when you posted the "advert"? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kol: not quite; the "shameless self-promotion" showed up as an entry in your home feed, without any user (or group) name attached to it. Entries imported into a room (via RSS or via email) show up as being in that room. - Tudor Bosman

OK, Tudor. I'll give it a test later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is a cool idea, but it only seems to import the mail subject title only. Is that right, if so, how do we get the content of the mail in, or is it not meant to do that? - Keith Bennett from BuddyFeed

Keith: it works for me. The subject goes in the main post (FF thread title?) and the message appears as a comment to the thread. Maybe you are sending an HTML e-mail? - alieb

Cheers alieb, I just tested it by forwarding the first mail in my inbox and that didn't show anything up. Creating a mail and adding some text to the mail body works correctly. Thanks for the help. - Keith Bennett

I just figured out a new use for this feature and it goes in line with Kevin Rose's idea for an Open Source security system. http://www.facebook.com/video... He was talking about having a neighborhood watch like program. Well each neighborhood can have a private room here in FF. If someone tripped an alarm in your house, it would send an email to the secret email for the private group and everyone in the group could be notified via email,IM,SMS,etc. - Bryan Lee

I think this secret address should be reminded somewhere in each group settings window. - Zackatoustra

@Bryan Lee. shhhh lol - Webferret

Zacaktoustra: group admins will see the address in the "services" window (click "add/edit" under Services in the settings dialog). Other group members will only see the words "secret email address", as, well, the address is supposed to be secret and only visible to admins. - Tudor Bosman

could we have this for home feeds as well? some 3rd party messaging services will send from various addresses. great feature, thanks! - Mike Chelen

I'm blonde so maybe need to tell you what I'd like to do and see if it works: I would like to have my ATT mail, my Yahoo mail AND my gmail all feed into a FF room so I could read it all at the same time (ATT and Yahoo are partnered so you can't sign into both at the same time. Both go through Yahoo's sign in page.) Is this possible to create? Having ATT and Yahoo feed into my Gmail through FF would be okay as well, btw. I get FF feeds through GMail already. - Molly

Molly, what you're asking for is totally unrelated to this thread. If i was you I would set up gmail to receive the mail from your other email addresses. It's a bit complicated but can be done. Try reading this lifehacker gmail article first: http://lifehacker.com/374610... - Chris Heath

Well said Heath - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Heath, thanks. I told you I'm blonde. :-P I tried your suggestion already and so far haven't been able to hook ATT and Yahoo to my Gmail (both being POP accounts) w/o paying extra. Will work on it again later. It's not THAT much trouble to check all three accounts from different sources. - Molly from email

Molly, another option (if att offers it - i know yahoo does) is to set up forwarding so the email is automatically forwarded from ATT and Yahoo to your gmail address. Then once in gmail you can use filtering (by the to: field) to separate out the emails - Chris Heath

I think that's the paid service from Yahoo. At least it was when I investigated it a few months ago. Thanks for thinking about it for me, though. Us techblondes need all the help we can get re: setting stuff up. I'm kind of on hold right now anyway (trying to recover my domain name and identity....... long story and boring to all but me). Molly - Molly from email

Wow! This is awesome! Thanks. - Svartling

Fast Company Magazine

Herman Miller Debuts Its Newest Office Chair, the Setu - http://www.fastcompany.com/node...

June 10 from Fast Company - Comment - Like - Share

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Pay-what-you-want ad agency - Springwise - http://springwise.com/marketi...

June 5 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Clients begin by submitting a work request form with Agency Nil. Drawing from its pool of recent grads and between-jobs business and advertising professionals, the agency gets the work done by the deadline requested. It's then up to the client to decide how much the work is worth—the only charges required to be paid are those agreed upon ahead of time for travel, proprietary research tools and production. If a client decides not to pay anything, "it's not likely that we will do work for you in the future," Agency Nil explains; then again, "we've yet to have that happen, ever." Revisions and further work are arranged once a client has valued and agreed to pay for the first assignment." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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You get what you pay for... - Uncle CW™

I dunno, CW. Ya never know... they might have a handful of talented people over there who can whip up some magic. - Brad Williamson

Kinda like the idea, would be interesting to see what they look like and how successful they are in say a year or so, and if the model can survive in a "good economy". - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

I can't say I like the idea of letting clients decide the price, but curious to see how this pans out. - Andrew Davies

Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ to Merry's feed, Appetite

Gmote > Android Remote - http://www.gmote.org/

June 3 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Gmote turns Android into a remote control for a computer, allowing users to run movies and music at a distance. It supports all of the standard remote control features such as play, pause, rewind, volume controls etc. It also has a built-in file browser that lets you select what to play." - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ from Bookmarklet

I'm using it now. :D - Steven Perez

My husband did this months ago. I have to admit I was impressed. The G1, actually had a use. - Admiral Anika

Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ to Merry's feed, Appetite

Adobe BrowserLab: New web service to test your web pages on different browsers and operating systems - http://www.allanjosephbatac.com/blog...

June 3 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Adobe BrowserLab is a new cool web service that helps you test your web pages across a different web browsers and operating systems. Adobe BrowserLab currently supports Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on both Mac and Windows XP. Just enter the website’s URL and it will take screenshots of your web page on different browsers and platforms. It displays the result using 1-up (on its own screenshot), 2-up (side by side comparison) and my favorite Onion Skin View (as shown below) where you can quickly pinpoint differences." - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ from Bookmarklet

onion skin is really impressive - Yunus Tunak

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Hulu Desktop Is the Future of TV - http://gizmodo.com/5272139...

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Now we know why they're fighting Boxee tooth-and-nail. - Aaron Crews

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it's not the future.. but it's cool - andy brudtkuhl

"it" might not be the future, but "it's concept" is. - Geoff Schultz

Apple was too bent on selling overpriced downloads via iTunes. - Geoff Schultz

Bryan, i don't see that happening. The kind of hardware that would be required would add significantly to the price tag of the television. - Geoff Schultz

And probably still only available in the US? - Peter Stuifzand

yup Peter - Zee.

Well, iTunes (AppleTV) is pay-to-view while Hulu has ads, it´s a different model. What´s funny is that Joost (remember them?) went from desktop app to web app, and now Hulu does the opposite. - Thomas Bøhm

Boxee on the AppleTV , Roku, Netflix on Xbox360 thats the future. Not this bloated Flash app which crashes constantly. - Isaac Zahavi

Some says; "it's just a browser which plays Flash", so is it the future? - Ozkan Altuner

While visiting a friend, we tried to figure out his Apple TV. After 10 minutes of getting lost in the menu's, we wound up watching the first episode of CSI - grainy picture and Japanese sub-titles. All we wanted was to watch TV....I think the future of TV is TV. - Mike Nencetti

I love LOVE hulu but the app needs Linux support for the self starter tiny Linux media box. But it's a great start and I'm happy it's here! - Arvin Dang from BuddyFeed

shouldn't be long until this comes to AppleTV (not officially of course). would be a nice addition. - Bryan Massingale

Kevin Fox

I hope I like Wave when I get to play with it but (and this isn't specific to Wave) I hope designers understand that if someone has 100 contacts, they'll identify the contact's name faster than their buddy icon. 50x50 icons (with 25x20 faces) are too small to trigger the brain's facial recognition unless you're staring right at them.

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/wonders if (strongly colored) cartoon faces enhance recognition time - Philipp Lenssen

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It's no accident, Philipp. :-) - Kevin Fox

In that case, I find it interesting that FF introduced 50x50 icons in addition to the names in the main feeds. Were you for or against that decision? Or is *who* posted each item not really that important? - Tony Ruscoe

In truth, when people use the same buddy icon on multiple services, their friends aren't recognizing the face in the icon; they're recalling the icon itself. So it makes sense to make an icon that's more unique than the high-spacial-frequency real-face pics, so it's more easily recognizable. - Kevin Fox

Tony: I have no problem with the icons in addition to names. They increase social bonding and sense of familiarity, but their usefulness is more for their expressive capabilities rather than as the primary means of identification. - Kevin Fox

That makes sense. I think it also holds true that seeing a real photo adds some credibility to your opinions. Of course, you don't really have that problem because you're known around here... ;-) - Tony Ruscoe

question for you kevin, where did you get your portrait from? - Wang Yip

Totally agree. I'm art directing the creation of an icon library for the company I work for and I am constantly reminding people that text is much faster to interpret than any visual representation that is limited to a few dozen pixels. Icons won't solve all your problems. - Jason Wehmhoener

I'd argue faces are better for some tasks, particularly those that involve scanning (E.g., if you're looking for a recent wave from a particular person). But I agree that having both would be helpful. - Jonathan Terleski

Jonathan: Are you assuming that the user is scanning for a particular person based on recognizing the face or recalling the buddy icon? In the former, I think the faces are just too small to allow for a fast linear search (or any non-linear 'pop-out' search). In the latter, I'd agree, though it's contingent on the icon both being easily recalled by the person before the search begins,... more... - Kevin Fox

Wang: It's my XBox Live avatar. :-) - Kevin Fox

Let's get a cognitive scientist up in this thread already. :) FF feature request: ability to suggest someone pay attention to an item (e.g. "Jonathan thinks you might like this."). Anyways ... yes, I'm talking the latter case, but even in the former, there's studies showing people can recognize faces they've seen before in like 6x6px. Interested to hear from someone that knows what goes on in your brain when viewing a field of faces vs. Just one, though.. - Jonathan Terleski

Jonathan, got some link for that 6x6px study? - Philipp Lenssen

You can click 'share' and direct-message the item to someone, or grab the shortened url and send it however you like. Back to the topic at hand though, I'm not disputing that you can recognize a person in a small picture, but that there's a higher bar for being able to find someone via a 'pop-out' search. Our brains perform pop-out searches for words all the time, but don't do it as... more... - Kevin Fox

@Philipp: first attempt to an answer... 6x6px by computer: http://www.isalliance.org/index... 7x10px by humans: http://web.mit.edu/bcs... - milivella

What's missing from the discussion about facial recognition is that in online contexts people often have only one picture as their basis for recognition. If you've never met the person you have only one or a handful of images with which to build a mental model of their appearance. In that context you're not looking for an icon with Sylvia's face on it. You're looking for Sylvia's icon.... more... - Kevin Fox

That's interesting Kevin, and explains why I get so confused when my online friends change their icons/avatars - it takes me a while to determine "oh, that was so-and-so, they changed their icon". If I didn't have the text in many cases, I'd be completely lost. I guess that's a good argument for NOT regularly changing our icons. - Ken Gidley

A roommate of mine in college did a similar study: navigating through a hierarchy of folders to find a file while relying only on filenames was significantly faster than looking at icons. We can read words faster than we can recognize images. - DGentry

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