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Anthony Citrano to Anthony's feed, Photography United

My Hollywood sign picture - it's been Drudged! - http://drudgereport.com/

August 30 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Susan Beebe, tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Amir and 48 other people liked this

Dubious honor. ;) #lafires #stationfire - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

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Gah. - Derrick

AC, you are all over the Inner Tubes today. - Russellreno

Dubious but still an honour :-) - Mel Buckpitt

Did you get money for it? - Helen Sventitsky

@Helen - yes, AP licensed it (along with a couple others) this evening prior to moving them. - Anthony Citrano

That's a great photo. Fantastic, Anthony! I had no idea it was yours. - Louis Gray

Wow it´s great !!! - horst nigrin

Anthony - did Matt's team get this from your Flickr account? - michael sean wright

@michael - see above; he got it from the AP wire. On that note, if anyone sees it (or any of my others) in their paper(s), let me know. Would be keen to know where it's running. - Anthony Citrano

Great photo - Jason Wehmhoener

thanks guys - Anthony Citrano from BuddyFeed

Nice. - Mona Nomura

[Update: ran in 100+ newspapers, 500+ news sites, and - my favorite hit so far - a half-page in the 9/14 print edition of TIME Magazine!] :0) - Anthony Citrano

Well done, Anthony! (Though to tell the truth I couldn't really tell what was special about the pic until I remembered that it never rains in LA. To me, it looked like simple clouds over a hill - a view I see most days. That's not to say I'm underestimating the impact of the picture or the fire and the devastation that it had caused, just that I forget there are places where clouds are unusual). - WorldofHiglet

Thanks, WoH - although pyrocumulus are quite rare everywhere. I think what made the picture a winner was the clouds + the iconography + the scale. My $0.02. - Anthony Citrano

Even though I knew they were clouds of smoke they didn't look like them at first glance. After a while I realised I had never seen daylight pics of the Hollywood sign with anything other than blue sky. To people from LA it would have obviously been an unusual sight (quite apart from the fact they were pyrocumulus. And thanks - I've expanded my word power today, too! :)). - WorldofHiglet

The other thing is that those clouds are 15 miles away and were reaching heights of 50,000 feet - Anthony Citrano

Again, hard to tell from Canada....:P Okay - I get that the pics are really good, it's just I didn't at first. Next time I'll stick to saying you're wonderful. - WorldofHiglet

That' unreal. - James Stratford

@WoH: I think that'll be fantastic, I love that - Anthony Citrano

Congrats - in this case 2+2 = so much more, for those that have been there - knowing what is behind that hillside and the quantity of smoke - simply makes my jaw drop - very impactful - Steve Hand

Rachel Lea Fox

My First Pregnancy Photo Shoot! - The Amazing Sparky (aka Brian Johns http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) and I teamed up to do a photo shoot of of our beautifully pregnant friend Georgia http://friendfeed.com/georgia who has also been kind enough to let me share the photos. I haven't seen Sparky's awesome photos yet, but his lighting was perfect!...

August 31 - Comment - Like - Share

Kamilah Gill, paniaguai, zizukabi and 61 other people liked this

This shoot was too much fun btw!! - Rachel Lea Fox

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Oh, the third thumbnail is one of my favorites! Such a good shot :) I also LOVE number 22! - Georgia Diehl

Georgia, the third thumbnail is one of my absolute favs too! - Rachel Lea Fox

I couldn't remember which one of you and Nathan you liked best, the first one above and 22 are two of my favorites of the both of you alone with the spot color one. - Rachel Lea Fox

There is a bug with the FriendFeed SmugMug crawl. I'm pushing a fix now :) - Benjamin Golub

cool Ben Thanks! - Rachel Lea Fox

Fixed: http://friendfeed.com/phoenix... - Benjamin Golub

Great job, Rachel & Sparky, these are so amazingly beautiful. - Stephen Mack

Nice work! :) - JA Castillo

Thanks everyone! Awesome subjects and co-photographers make for a fun easy shoot with great photos. - Rachel Lea Fox

Lovely pictures! - Tamara

And as the subject matter, I must add, both Rachel and Brian made the experience wonderful! I don't think the shots would have been so incredible if I wasn't so comfortable around the both of them. - Georgia Diehl

Thanks Georgia! - Rachel Lea Fox

What lovely pictures! I wish I had had some taken when I was preggo. *sigh* - Marci Golub

Thanks Marci & Tamara! - Rachel Lea Fox

what a cute couple - RAPatton

19 and 23 are my picks. awesome job Rachel and Sparky. - Amir Gharaat

I love pregnant bellies. =) - AyDi şeker

Good works :) - Tanju

Omg this is so well done. Very lovely shots Rachel! - EricaJoy

Thank you all! - Rachel Lea Fox

Great shots, Rachel! Looks like all of you had fun! - Anne Bouey

Sarah Lane

A lot of blood, sweat, and beer went into my new website design, & now I need the critical opinions of strangers: http://www.sarahlane.com/blog...

August 30 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Eric Geller, Brian, Amber, Random Time Lord and 18 other people liked this

Man i love it - your iphone helper

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I'm liking what I see so far. It feels very personalized and I like the home page with the tweet word bubble above your picture. Good work! The blood, sweat and beers paid off! :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

sweet - Chris Heath

grays are very new york. color bars at top are very Californian, very simple and modern aesthetic. tag bar is great - "an amazing Sarah Lane creation." "new site, new rules" should be "new site rules" because it does. great work. Squarespace + Final Cut Pro = great new site. - echostreamer

I like the simplicity of the look. It might be good to make the navigation usability match that simplicity a little more. For example, navigation is in two places on home and the top bar on sub pages. That's 3 locations for a new user to remember. This can cause premature exits from your site. I'd make the top nav work on all pages, and maybe merge the two navs on home page into one... more... - Dave Friedel

Any page that starts off with a big picture of you is simply beautiful. So you can imagine my surprise when I clicked your Facebook link and saw my own ugly mug. Your link just takes me to my own home page. Other wise a very nice page :) - Eric Carter

And the links on your other pages, (about, projects, and what not) are taking me nowhere. Not sure if that's my me though. I've been having "issues" lately - Eric Carter

i'm getting sarah's facebook page and the projects links work for me as well - Chris Heath

but i do kind of agree w/ dave about the nav bar - should always be at the top on all the pages - Chris Heath

any why part 1114? - Chris Heath

Looks great! - Renee

Hmm, Now I am getting your FB page. I think the internets just doesn't like me anymore... - Eric Carter

Looks great, nice and simple although the nav menu doesn't stand out enough for me. Actually took me a couple of seconds to find it =P. Once found, works fine though! - Travis Koger

Very nice, but the carpet is sticky. Oh, must be the blood and beer :-) - Slappy Line

Looks good....it screams "Sarah Lane", so I think you nailed it on the design. :) - Chris Luckhardt

Very nice and clean. - Thomas

Nice design, but not a fan of the picture on the front page header. Love the style, just not that head shot. - Otto

I like it! - Fee501st

stylé! - sofarsoShawn

looks really cool. love the twitter, flickr, facebook, delicious, etc. little widget. - Thomas Hawk

LIke others have said I wish that the nav was in place on all pages. the index page without the nav at the top almost feels like its just a page to advertise where to find you on other social networks, which is fine, but i'm not totally sure there is more to this site in that context. Also in the blog and other pages the blocher ads are rather distracting and detract from the rest of the site. Just my 2 cents though. - Rachel Lea Fox

Thx for all the feedback, guys and gals! I tend to agree that the nav should be consistent. I'll try to figure out how that can work into v2. And I'm going to rotate the main landing page pic every so often.. so if you don't like this one, no biggie, it'll change eventually. :) - Sarah Lane

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

August 10 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

(1)Bebekvegebelik, Jason A. Samfield, Srikanth AD and 659 other people liked this

We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Boom. - Louis Gray

Grr! - directeur

Woah... - Brandon Titus

Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva Moskovitz

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes

Lame. - Mark Trapp

great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler

WOW - Bindu Reddy

Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand

wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna

maaaan - Jamie

wowow - Harry Wolff

congrats - brainno722 (Peter)

Nooooooooooooo - Mushin

Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson

oh, noooo - Tanju Yildiz

Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladybug Heather

Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother

oh boy. - Carlos Ayala

I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook. - Ivan Zlatev

it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly

division by zero - Onur Cengiz

OMG - \(*_*)/

"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - Scott of Two Countries

gratz - Ali

My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key

Wow, it's true!! - Kevin Whalen

Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus

O_o - Joe Silence

So it IS true. - Hector

Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove

Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett

Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker

This is just horrible - Matthew DeVries

Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat

Um. - Barry Mitchelson

Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta

Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key

Oh no.... - Ben Hanten

What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod

Terrible fit. - Matthew DeVries

damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez

*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe Silence

FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye

Die. - Zio Bonino

Congrats - Zoltan Szendro

I dont want FF to end - Fee501st

Wow - Shevonne

Oh mon dio ! - Umar

What did you do? WHYYY! - Zachary TG

Ostregheta. - Reloj

Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter

guess there's no way of denying this anymore :( - BCK

Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company...... - Matthew DeVries

Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL

Congrats, but I hate Facebook. - Zachary TG

I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell

"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key

Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor

This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister

Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto

Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase

And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more. - Zachary TG

Wow - Rodfather

wow - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

*Sobs* - Tyson Key

to the dump - Zachary TG

Wow, very disappointed - Randy Pollock

come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez

As am I - Zachary TG

machecazzo - Sba

VERY disappointed. - Joe Silence

horrible decision - Randy Pollock

Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon

i'm not sure i'm happy about this. - Taylan Aydınlı

OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp

Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent

God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls

arg. - Aron Michalski

Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti

@#$& that's all I have to say. For now. - Zachary TG

Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht? - Matthew DeVries

Congrats! - Alix Whitmire

Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten

Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key

I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet : - DarkBls

Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir

Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol

Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego

mommy? - Josh Haley

Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector

FFail - rael

What will happen to my 92 subscribers? - Zachary TG

yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye

Tragic. - Shannon

I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff

congrats! - Jay from ViewPoint

here come the comments - Zachary TG

Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - Zio Bonino

Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta

Wow. - Zachary TG

Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes

i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe Silence

Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result! - Wade Dorrell

Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen

Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st

FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi

Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva Moskovitz

Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien

I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key

i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile

Facefucked or Fuckfeed? - Matthew DeVries

Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn

It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key

Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener

seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe Silence

I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson

There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders. - Matthew DeVries

duh - aybars badur

I HATE facebook - Pedram

this is simply awful. - Joe Silence

If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause - Randy Pollock

Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson

FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key

Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell

Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi

To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir

Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan

Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal

I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - Steve C

I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay Farmington

Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill

+1 Gregor - Tyson Key

accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye

I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls

/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen

And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian

omg - John μller

@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe Silence

I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman

Such great news! - Steve Rubel

Not sure what to think of this. - Matthew Speicher

where is dislike button ? - Osman Üngür

OMG! - Zac Bowling

now where did I put my twitter password - Randy Pollock

big mistake :(( - emresezgin

I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison

Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!! - Jess Lee

Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod

Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key

so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg? - Onur Cengiz

It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le

Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone. - Fırat Can Başarır

Congrats to you. - Evan Travers

Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw

FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes

damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay

not good. - Jacque

Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti

Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - Voyagerfan5761

"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key

Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito

sad... - Marvin

Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it. - Robert Gaal

This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch

Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow? - Matthew DeVries

aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger

please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter

They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days

I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

D: - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman

Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle

Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod

I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini

"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda

Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave. - Wade Dorrell

What a bunch of greedy assholes. - Zio Bonino

So ? - Ercan Bülbül

Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key

:( - Pavlo Zahozhenko

Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller

I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray

I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash

Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta

The End. - Kaan Ertürk

Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase

chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda

Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge

happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio

congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett

I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key

I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp

NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan

Game over. - stark

yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye

Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos

Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that. - Jess Lee

Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - Matthew DeVries

Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim

yeahhh - Çağrı Burak

NO - Cristian Conti

Congrats! That sucks. - Rutger Blom

Where is that evidence Jess? - Matthew DeVries

I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir

What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key

If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah

Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid. - Rutger Blom

I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor

I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod

kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma - Alper Ömer Esin

Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva Moskovitz

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - Zio Bonino

Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes

I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ one of a kind

I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Jim Addz No Value

Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - Zio Bonino

Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak

I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma

http://friendfeed.com/sunipey... - sunipeyk

Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM

Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent

Odd that this thread gets modded? - Matthew DeVries

I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton

Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key

#FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL #FAIL - Jacque

Congratulations! - John Craft

can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal

It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman

Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah

So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh. - Alex Hellstrom

I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton

Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter

WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right? - Uncle CW™

I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur

My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski

AAAAwwwful! - carolh

I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃

"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque

Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas

The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB. - Rutger Blom

damn, damn, damn... - Kemal

One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :( - DarkBls

Woah woah... This is real? - Jason Huebel

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - jcunwired

Now I can break my Internet plan at home. - DarkBls

Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen

wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia

I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ one of a kind

I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett

Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - Elena

Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina

:| - Amin BZ

This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch

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Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock

That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - Peter

Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty

#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark

I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca

It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF. - Rutger Blom

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - sunipeyk

Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye

OMG! - keso

To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton

I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens. - Jason Huebel

Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker

Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman

Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston

#DONTSELLMYFRIENDFEED - Kemal

This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton

this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate DA FF MVP

While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun

I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray

FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun

My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF. - Rutger Blom

Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff

Fail. - Big K

Big Fail! - OnuRC

This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams

wtf ?! - Umut

I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole

http://ff.im/6pQcu - Bahriye

FFail. - rowlikeagirl

I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone

JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan

Wow! - felix

Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested. - Matthew Speicher

Jeremy +1 - F. Batuhan Icoz

so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio

It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner

My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg

furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio

I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM

I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - ashish

integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal

niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM

Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson

Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms. - Rutger Blom

first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM

As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio

Congratulations! - Sam Grover

Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea. - Rutger Blom

rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM

if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio

I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone

Tony, most likely - Rutger Blom

read carefully: http://blog.socialthing.com/2009... - Kemal

I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM

I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun

God help us - Johnny

Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-) - Rutger Blom

Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni

trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM

This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes

Great point, Don. - Rutger Blom

+1 Don - Johnny

Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy

I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM

Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue

LOLI FFAIL - rael

lame. - andy brudtkuhl

This should be good news for Twitter. - Rutger Blom

post the picture to failblog... - Kemal

Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen

+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM

techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM

Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler

Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher

I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance

Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - Thomas Bøhm

ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun. - Rutger Blom

I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM

Drat! - Gee Ekachai

congrats guys! - Elad

Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other. - Rutger Blom

Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang

At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again. - Rutger Blom

/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM

Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key

Don, LOL :-) - Rutger Blom

If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - jcunwired

Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please. - Edward Barnieh

@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio

@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio

Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler

Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - Danli

Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather

Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook. - Harry Toon

Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker

Add me to the fearful group. - beersage

Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key

"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan

Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves

Congrat Bret - Nimaa

Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - Лосось норвежской выделки

Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R

:( - goodmachine

FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton

СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!! - Viktor

hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh

Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton

Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cassidy

Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw

aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman

FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit. - Tomy Thomson

Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:( - Eph Zero

Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk

♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design

Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard

It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - The Count Rob

Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen

Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi

The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - jcunwired

friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi

Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen

I don't like this.... - Zeki Pehlivan

"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Gill

Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key

If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma

and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM

Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris

WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter

congratulations! - Loic Le Meur

Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus

doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.

Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds

Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger

So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos

Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik

*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon

And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave. - Christopher A Carr

:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento

There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap! - Scratch5150

Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta

Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas

What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr

Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr

I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert

It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr

Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit

Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera

I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun

Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura

I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley

So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone? - Scratch5150

Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon

if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen

The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli

Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen

Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli

i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan

I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe

Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan

Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu

RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan

Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - Ebru Baranseli

Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn

Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na

*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry

Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot

Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark "DerBingle" J

Все, блядь, пиздец! - ǝuǝƃnǝ

WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis

Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood

Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM

Sucks big time. - Drea

Sadness - Yasin Jason

I can't believe this happened - Johnny

Suggested name: FailFriend. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière

Friend facebooks feed (FFF) - Filiz Koyuncu

«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci - Claude LaFrenière

So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that - Ethan

Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7

Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate

shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM

Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit. - Scratch5150

Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey

So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire

"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church

This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM

I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift. - roamin

Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko

congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff

Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys. - Cristo

I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM

Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins

congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist

boo. - kelly

The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg

Boo - Amit Morson

Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies? - Christopher A Carr

Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day. - Todd Holmes

BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale

Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou

Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu

Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab

Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra

I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM

judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly

Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - Seo (ignobile) Guru

Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena

Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick

I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel

обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ǝuǝƃnǝ

Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai

Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone

I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio

I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg

Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative. - Alliandre (la Ippe)

How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key

Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power

:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas

congrats! - Ronald

thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram

Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner

Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner

Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader

I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen

I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr

@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah

Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler

sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke

Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce

bad bad bad - kakilang

bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland

Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis

I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore

Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton

NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - sofarsoShawn

Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover

Ozer Wrzl (EN) to Ozer's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

A Chimpanzee Adopts A White Tiger - http://pbh2.blogspot.com/2009...

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You Adopt them, feed them, bring them up only to have them eat you when they grow up. - John D Reasor

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Nice! (Damned, I must be in a "sweet puppy" mood to "like" that) - Zackatoustra

gülüşe bak :) - Coşkun Teber (TeberZade)

How lovely! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Babies are babies and all love to play :D - martha

It'll end in tears. - Rob Haas

Sooo cute! - BEX

Very cute, but I wonder if the Tiger will remember when it grows up. - Rick Cogley

The church will never allow these two to marry. :( - Aryn Corley

Aryn, Hah! - Rick Cogley

Rick, don't see why not: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Tanath

Tanath, thanks, that's good. I was half-expecting it to end with a "and then Christian ate them" type of cruel twist. Good story. - Rick Cogley

Amazing... - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

yeah can't wait to see the story in a few years....."Tiger grows tired of the monkey business, devours chimp mate" - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

LOL! - Tanath

I want the tiger! - Myrna

Nothing good can come of this - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Myrna can you imagine changing that litter pan? Forget the scoop, you'd need a backhoe. - Geoff Schultz

I didn't think about that. I'm too romantic and emotional Geoff. - Myrna

Awww, now I feel bad I ruined your moment. - Geoff Schultz

A great message from the nature to Humans! - Maurizio Pontini

Geoff, no matter, you didn't. Still love that little one. I also love dogs. Have you seen the dogs I post daily? I LUV my special animal choices. :) - Myrna

Maurizio, YES! - Myrna

Guy Kawasaki

The inside scoop on the insides of Twitter: http://om.ly/track/404.html Your traffic from Twitter might be 5x what you think it is.

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Steve Wiebe Sets Donkey Kong Jr. World Record - http://links.laughingsquid.com/steve-w...

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watched king of kong the other day -- great movie - MG Siegler

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This just in: Billy Mitchell Fed-Ex'd a DVD of him scoring "whatever Wiebe scored plus infinity no tags back" - Paul Reynolds

@paul - ha! - MG Siegler

WILL THIS EVER END - Mike Nayyar

love him. - Veronica

Love it. Thanks - http://www.backtype.com/ricmaye... - Ric Mayer

Muneer Mirza

lovin' how FF got rid of the brand icons for other sites. it does a great job of refocusing on the FF brand.

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"refocusing" on the FF brand? - directeur

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How are things up in Seattle, Muneer? - Bret Taylor

Definitely agree. The icons were just visual clutter and potentially confusing to new users. - Louis Simoneau

And on the flip side, they're a key feature lots of folks were using to scan and filter post. I guess you just can't win. ;-) - Ken Sheppardson

I don't agree personally. The icons were a bit of information that some people (including me) used to use. - directeur

That would be an easy setting to add... show/hide source icons - Christopher Galtenberg

The icons gave me a visual cue, especially when wanting to hide items. - kilbuda

"That would be an easy setting to add..." Love those sorts of comments. - jakebf

i miss them alot - Chris Hofmann

I like the service icons a lot more than the people icons. They told me how to interpret the message. - Amit Patel

this is not an improvement. go away grey background. come back icons. - Gabe

It seems like the argument for the new style is to make the life easier for new users, while existing users prefer the old style en masse. The easy compromise is to make the new people-centric view optional, possibly default. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

sorry--refocusing was a silly choice of words. i should have said: "it does a great job of focusing only on the FF brand." - Muneer Mirza

Rex Hammock

I really hate the new FriendFeed design. It reminds me of what FaceBook will look like in six months.

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That is funny! - Robert Scoble

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I nearly spit out my tea when I read this :) Well done sir. - Fraser

I can't wait for Facebook to look like this! I have many more friends on Facebook so start your copy machines now. - Wo

Facebook needs a lot more real estate for all its features. It will never look like this. Personally I really like the new look. Although, I think that we should be able to change the background without any 3rd party coding. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Hasn't Facebook already said that they're working on a realtime feed? - Martin Bryant

You Dinosaur! Wait your name Is Rex. What a coincidence. - Marcus Beagley

Maybe we should set up a Facebook Group hating the upcoming friendfeed design before they implement it?? - Paul M Evans

Facebook has had a real time feed for ages. They've just temporarily disabled it in the new design. - Erik K Veland

Steve Garfield

My Boston Pillowfight video is being Featured on WBZ.com http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Scott Parent

Congrats to @groovemonkey and @mediatrust for helping to raise $6k in one day for MS research!

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How did they do this? - susan mernit

Christopher Smith's (aka groovemonkey) wife Bethany was diagnosed with MS a year and a half ago. She's 33 years old. They have a friend that is doing an Iron Man Triathlon for the cause and a group of staff at MediaTrust banded together and raised some money. If you're interested in contributing, I'd be happy to put you in touch with Christopher. - Scott Parent

Alex Scoble

If your brother's name is Robert Scoble and you follow him on friendfeed, you'll see a lot of noise.

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Especially when he goes on trips to China or to CES. - Alex Scoble

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As opposed to having no brother named Robert Scoble, but I still follow a Robert Scoble on FriendFeed. - Andrew Trinh

Isn't he a good filter? - Amit Morson

Depends on what you want to see. - xero

I'm glad i'm not his brother then. - Uncle CW™

My noise is here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... if you see no value there then you shouldn't be following me. - Robert Scoble

And, yes, Alex is my brother. I follow him, but I see nothing but a lot of noise, just like this post. :-) - Robert Scoble

*chuckle* If your wife's name is Tina and you follow her on FriendFeed, you're going to see some random crap. Sorry Dave! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Alex's noise is here: http://friendfeed.com/itblogg... my noise is here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... compare the two and decide for yourself which one has more value (or none at all). - Robert Scoble

Alex Scoble - Noise you can trust! - Alex Scoble

Not so much noise as complaints about noise eh? - Slappy Line

If this carries on I'm declaring tomorrow FF Scoble Amnesty Day whereby there will be no threads or comments about the relative merits of having Scobles on FF, only the post and comments the Scobles make themselves. That should solve any noise issues anyone has. - WorldofHiglet

One of these days my brother is just going to block me to make a point, but that's OK, I know where he lives. - Alex Scoble

Change your name? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Seriously though, this place would be a lot less interesting without all the "noise"...friendfeed is about finding the "noise" that appeals to you as opposed to letting others determine what "noise" they think you should hear/read. - Alex Scoble

Noise to one person is gold to another and vise versa. - Amit Morson

What Alex said, right there ^ - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Alex: you're just jealous I got Milan to pose with some bacon. :-) - Robert Scoble

Alex, the thing you're talking about then is "signal" not noise ;) - directeur

Seriously though, Alex, what's it like being known as the brother of a surname? - Slappy Line

Alex - would the title still work if you took out "and you follow him on friendfeed" ??? :) - Patrick Jordan

I have no issues with anything emanating from either (or any) Scoble camp. On the whole I enjoy FF and anything I don't gets hidden. Works for me :) - WorldofHiglet

One person's signal is another person's noise. They are the same. By the way, this post was not a complaint...but satire. - Alex Scoble

Damn, I shouldn't have told everyone this post was satire...that seems to have killed the conversation. - Alex Scoble

HAHA! If anyone thought you were being serious then maximum humour-failure has been achieved! I thought it was funny, anyway :D - WorldofHiglet

God help you, there's no escape! - Steve Rubel

Alex - I can totally top that!! I follow 4 freakin' Scobles on FF and ok just you and Robert are really using it... but the Scoble Clan rules the FF kingdom big time!! *bows before her majesty, King Scoble* :D LOL - Susan Beebe

Scoblewatch: there are 4, if you can find them.... - WorldofHiglet

I have collected all four. Still waiting for my prize... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

@Mark - congratulations, you win the Internet! Be very careful, don't drop it. - Will Higgins™

Collecting all four is a prize all on its own, Mark. Feel free to go out and buy yourself a nice big luxury automobile now. - Alex Scoble

@Will. I'll just put it up here on the mantle with the other stuff... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

LOL Alex... I think I'll reward myself with a trip to In-N-Out... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Sure, rub it in that we don't have any in P-Town! Oh well...at least the Democrats won the election. :p - Alex Scoble

And I have collected all the Haley's, as well... Still waiting for my package to arrive from that, too. I'm getting ripped-off by the internet! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Mark: I think that's because you didn't send me your credit card details. I'd be happy to send out the "I collected the Haley's off of FF" and "All your Scobles belong to us" fun packs if you email all the relevant details (including your Social Insurance number, address and birth certificate). - WorldofHiglet

No problem WoH! It's in the mail! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Steve Rubel

Sign of the times- no crowd at Vegas airport - http://jkontherun.com/2009...

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The Apple Room: David Bisset (sn)

iPhoto is Coming to the iPhone! - http://macsoda.com/2009...

January 2, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Get ready to take mobile photo editing to a whole new level! Mac Soda has heard word that MacWorld 09 will bring full photo editing features to the iPhone. From retouching, to cropping, to applying filters, iPhoto on the iPhone will be the next big thing in mobile photography." - David Bisset (sn) from Bookmarklet

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cropping is the #1 thing I want in editing - Courtney Engle from Alert Thingy

i want a better camera before i'l start editing on the iphone - Zee.

+1 Zee. How badly do I need to touch-up my blurry, poorly-lit iPhone pics? - Carter Rabasa

My iPhone has tons of pics from emails and other sources outside my camera. And I would like to be able to brighten a pic or crop a photo before emailing it to a friend or posting on Twiiter. Even if it's not the best pic in the world. A better camera means a hardware upgrade (new iPhone) so I welcome a smarter/cheaper feature (this would be just software) in the meantime. Negativity, yikes. - David Bisset (sn)

Not to mention that 3/4 of the photos i've taken with my iPhone have been good, not blurry. Of course, that's not shaking my arm and taking pictures in good light. But that's another discussion... - David Bisset (sn)

but really David, you've often got an email and though "ooh, not a bad photo - just wish i could brighten it up and crop it before syncing it to my desktop or forwarding it on to anyone..." . I just can't see the point right now - of course, should the iphone photo quality get much better...this is a gem. - Zee.

as cool as I think this is, photo editing is cumbersome on the small screen. it might be good for small edits, but then why would you want such a beasty program for that. I would love to use the event management in iPhoto, that would be cooler than editing. - Thom Allen

Can I have copy paste instead? - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I'll take the wait and see position on this app. I'd rather edit photos on a larger screen using a mouse. - Bob Gannon

Zee, I'd be lying if i said I wished for cropping and such on every or even most pictures i get via email or even take with my camera. I think we are all in agreement this isn't a use-everytime thing anyway. But yes - i have taken pictures that i wish i could zoom before submitting them to TwitPics or emailing. If nothing more than to remove people or background items I don't want included. I don't think this is Photoshop (I agree with Bob), just simple tools. I don't see the big deal honestly. - David Bisset (sn)

What would this mean in terms of battery life? - Christopher Harley

i hope it is free and good like the one on OS X Leopard - TheHenry

iPhoto on iPhone only makes sense if Apple ships a phone with a better camera. The current iPhone sucks more than most 2 megapixel cameraphone cameras. It has terrible low light, appalling colour balance, is fuzzy and has no flash (Note- I'm not comparing it to other 2mp phones here, not good cameraphones like the Carl Zeiss Nokia's, SonyEricsson Cybershots and 8 megapixel Samsungs) - Ian Fogg

This could be really sweet, but I agree the camera really sucks. - Spencer

Have to agree, iPhone needs a better camera and I wonder if this is a clue to an improved version for this year. - Shauns

If it means anything, I think the next iPhone will have a better camera (primarily for video, not to quiet the photo whiners). Hopefully this is the path they are going down, if iPhoto comes to the iPhone in some form. - David Bisset (sn)

David, iPhone camera sucks when shooting anything at distance due to fixed focus lens. This is unrelated to camera shake or megapixels. In fact the only scenario where it doesn't completely suck is portraiture within 10 feet distance. Everything else is not completely blurry, but far from sharp either - mediocre at best. I really hope competition with Nokia (which ships better cameraphones than iPhone) will force Apple to upgrade the camera soon. - andrei_c

Andrei, agreed... not good at a distance but that's why I have my other camera (the one with the better lens) for shots like that. Most of my shots I choose to take with my iPhone are close quarters in good or decent light. Regardless, i hope they do upgrade it but you won't see it until iPhone does video IMO. - David Bisset (sn)

Robert Scoble

It’s a new year, have you backed up? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...

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chethan: yep. I don't see your comment on my blog, though. - Robert Scoble

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Thanks for the reminder - there are a few things that I don't have automated - good time to make sure that it's up to date! - Brad Parler

chethan: I did a whole video on it: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Scoble

planning on it this weekend - in addition to cleaning out my closet. - Jen

Once/week at least. Get into a routine! - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

Not yet, thanks for the reminder ;-) - Mario (wisher)

YES :) everyday...bliss! Need offsite / cloud solution... suggestions? - Susan Beebe

@susan check out mozy or jungle disk with S3 - Aaron Eaton

I just started using Mozy for my home systems and I like it. Had not seen Jungle Disk and I will have to look at it. - Robert Miller

I back-up every morning. It's the only way to get the car out of the driveway. Wut? - MVB (Grinch of FF)

I would do it Josh. I was offline for a couple of weeks and lost 4 months of email do to not having a routine. Not proud of it (ashamed, actually), but that is why I looked into online backup services as another layer. I am also thinking about loading up a Windows Home Server or Linux NAS box. - Robert Miller

Josh: I have not gotten to the point of determining the best solution for a NAS. For my security work, I use OpenBSD, but I have not sat down to go over a NAS build-out. I have put together a couple of Windows Home Server set ups and it is not bad; once you get past the "Windows Server for Dummies" mentality. - Robert Miller

I've been using Linux with a hardware RAID controller to provide NAS service for Windows, Linux and occasionally OS X clients for years. It hasn't let me down yet. It's defiantly not cheap, but you could try the LVM/softRAID setups if you want to cut the cost. (and performance) - matthew john ernisse

Matthew: Interesting thought. I will look at LVM/softRAID, though I am more of a hardware raid person myself. - Robert Miller

Depends on your definition of "good" and how much storage you need. Other than that, should be good. - Robert Miller

That is total space. RAID 5 (minimum I would go) that means a minimum of 3 drives and, yes, that is like Microsoft saying Vista runs on a 1GHz P4. - Robert Miller

Using Mozy daily, but will soon switch to JungleDisk (archive + backup) - You.

@robert years ago I used to use the kernel soft RAID stuff for mirroring for my /home drives. Worked pretty well, didn't fail me. The code has been in mainline since sometime back in 2.4 land if I remember correctly so it should be fairly robust. It is hard to beat the performance of a PCI-X hardware card though :) - matthew john ernisse

@joshchandler try dlink dns323 works quite well with vista and also supports upnp => u can stream media to ps3 and xbox - Shivanand Velmurugan

If I was going for a dlink solution, it would be the dns343 (Four drives) and RAID 5 capable. - Robert Miller

I don't know a lot about the embeded solutions, but I will advocate the usefulness of hotswap & hot spare abilities. In the 5 years I've had a hardware RAID-5 setup I've replaced 3 drives. It is well worth it to invest in something that can do at least hotswap and online rebuilds. - matthew john ernisse

True. +1 hot-swap and online rebuilds. I also prefer hot-spares, but that adds $$$ to the price. - Robert Miller

I have found sparing to be worth it, esp. in a RAID4/5/6 situation. Running degraded sucks, and you are vulnerable to another drive failure taking out all of your data. And it is SO EASY to be lazy and go "I'll replace the drive next paycheck"... (learned the hard way) - matthew john ernisse

well i've had 2 backups to 2 different NAS devices for years but this year i think i'll experiment with the cloud - Fuad Arshad

I bought a buffalo terrastation 2tb raid5 (1.5tb actual after parity) for around $900 about two years ago - next storage device will probably be a drobo. what i really would like to find though is a usb or firewire external bay for IDE drives that loads like the drobo - from the front - hot swappable isn't necessary, but would be nice. toaster style like the esata that @leolaporte has is the dream, but ease of swap is the idea... any suggestions people? - Chris Heath

Backed up and cleaned my car. Do I get a cookie? :-) - Mayuresh Walke

Scott Parent

Happy New Year! - http://www.americancliche.net/2008...

December 31, 2008 from American Cliche Podcast -... - Comment - Like - Share

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The Apple Room: Jules

Apple Newton owners face their final 365 days... - http://newtonpoetry.com/2008...

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Admiral Anika

Viacom's full page ad in today's LA Times

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I'm trying to see if I watch any of those channels, the stars know I haven't watched MTV in years. Don't eff with my Bravo, though. If they got rid of Bravo, me and my homo squad would be down there with picket signs like it was Prop 8 all over again. - Derrick

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Oh wait, Comedy Central? Ok, now I'm pissed. - Derrick

Like I said last night, Noggin is the only thing keeping me sane. But I can always pop in Robotech or Star Wars to shut the kids up while I try to get some work done. - Admiral Anika

Noggin has saved me all year. - adolfo foronda

MTV I could easily lose, but take away my Avatar, The Last Airbender, and I will come after you. - Fleagle

Oh man, I forgot about Avatar. My daughter loves that show. That and Voltron are her two highlights of the weekend. - Admiral Anika

Robert Scoble

Behind The Scenes I - http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008...

December 31, 2008 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Great insight to photography shot with 5D's and Red cameras. - Robert Scoble

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The RC helicopter and Red footage are awesome. - Andrew Smith

Wow... a few toys I'll admire from afar. - Chris Brogan

very cool. - jerobins

Yeah it's great - Michael Krigsman

Thanks for the tip - looking forward to digging through this site. Love the videos. - Cale Bruckner from twhirl

Live4Emma (L4S)

forks in the road... - http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xsXbR1...

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FF challenge: find these signs on Google street view. Ready, set, go. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

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it's gotta be in the south somewhere...Georgia, maybe? - Live4Emma (L4S)

Hey, be kind to Georgia. - Russellreno

I'm going to guess midwest - Mr. Gunn

It's in North Carolina. Finding now. - Brandon Titus

I-73 does not exist so this must be a state or local road, I-29 goes through Missouri, Iowa, S&N.Dakota: http://www.ihoz.com/I29.html 601 is likely a local road. - Bora Zivkovic

They are all state highways except for 73. Interstates usually have blue signs. I'm damn close but I just can't find the spot. - Brandon Titus

http://maps.google.com/maps... - j1m

you are right - this is getting harder and harder! - Bora Zivkovic

Better yet, http://maps.google.com/maps... - j1m

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Bora Zivkovic

sorry j1m. Where's 73 on that map? I'm positive you're in the wrong place. I'd post the link to the location but I'm trying to find this very spot. - Brandon Titus

Ha! I've got it. the signs on the left have fallen over too! - Brandon Titus

I win at the internet. :P It's near Concord NC http://bit.ly/13bSO - Brandon Titus

or is it photoshopped with this: http://maps.google.com/maps... - Bora Zivkovic

Brandon wins the internets! - Bora Zivkovic

Those signs made it a lot easier than I thought. You could tell two were highways and when I searched for highway 601 it showed up in SC so I just followed it until it hit 29 and then saw 73, then found some signs showing bypasses and truck routes and finally I figured out where it had to be on the north side of town. - Brandon Titus

NICE ONE, Brandon Titus! the winnah! - Live4Emma (L4S)

that was fun - j1m

Mo Kargas

Happy New Year 2009 Friendfeeders! You've made 2008 a great year for me, I've found new friends, had great conversations and learned new skills. Thank you to each and every one of my subscribers and followers. Wishing you the best for 2009

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you too, mo! - Live4Emma (L4S)

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Cyber kisses and hugs to you! Happy New Year! - Admiral Anika

Right back atcha Mo! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Happy New year, Mo! - Helen Sventitsky

Happy New Year! Maybe 2009 be fine! - Nurse Katie

Thanks guys ! Looking forward to all your social media shenanigans in 09! - Mo Kargas

*unsubsribes* - Michael Forian

*tears* - Mo Kargas

And to you! - Ron Bailey

Happy 2009 Friendfeeders , thanks Mo .. enjoying the FF experience - johnpiercy

Back atcha! - BEX

happy new year to you too - Cee Bee

Happy New Year Mo! - BeeLing

Happy New Year, Mo!!! <3 - Anna Haro

back at ya bud. - Shawn aka ringking

Mo, Happy New Year, dude! - Pete Delucchi

Work it out, Mo! *fist bump* - Derrick

Happy New Year! :) - Rodfather

happy new year! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

All the best in the new year, Mo! - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Happy New year, Mo! - Igor Poltavskiy

Same to you Mo! - Chris Luckhardt

Happy New Year! Ditto to Mo. Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

Happy New Year!! - Trish Haley

Happy 2009 to you too, Mo! - Carmen

Right back at ya! Happy 2009 to you too! - David Cook from fftogo

Robert Scoble

Here are the reasons people are giving me why friendfeed sucks:

December 30, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Tim O'Reilly said that he liked the news aggregation, but gets too distracted by the comments and likes. You can't hide those. - Robert Scoble

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2. Ross Mayfield said he gets overwhelmed. I figured out that friend-of-a-friend feature is bringing way too much into his view. If he follows just one person, me, he sees hundreds of items every week. - Robert Scoble

Too much Gmail thinking in FF. They vastly improved e individual utility, but lost the ability to scale beyond a single use case - ming yeow

3. Other people tell me that they don't know how to use it, the UI has too many choices. On further pulling what they really wanted was the "best of day" feature but it is hard to find and not very useful unless you've been very careful on following people. - Robert Scoble

I find way more things to like about FF than I do with Twitter. - Jeff P. Henderson

4. Other people tell me that they want more help in figuring out who people are before they follow them. They have a point. I just visited some people's pages and I have no idea who they are, or what kinds of things they are passionate about. - Robert Scoble

I like it but I don't use it as much because I get overwhelmed by noise friend-of-a-friend introduces a lot of people that just don't fit in with what I want to see. I don't think I would care if I was seeing a lot of relevant information to me. - Jimminy Fuller

If I could figure out how to feed Twitter's @replies into FF I'd be all about it. - LA Snark

5. Other people tell me they want to do just see items that have lots of likes. I don't know how to do that for them. - Robert Scoble

Twitter has first mover advantage. I have too many relationships in Twitter that are not on FriendFeed. No easy way for me to sync Twitter followed/followers with FriendFeed and use it as a Twitter client. Then I'd like clean way to dedupe the Twitter stream out of FriendFeed to see the special stuff in FriendFeed. Its not enough to just hide Tweets without likes/comments. - Elliott Ng

It isn't about if it sucks or not, it just isn't for everyone, just like twitter. Twitter is simpler, I can use twitterific on my mac & iPhone. Actually, this does suck. Everytime I hit return to try and add a space, it posts the comment. Beyond 140 characters, you do need white space to be able to read text on a computer screen. - Steve Rhodes

I like FF because it is configurable. You can see as much or as little as you want and you have full control (or almost full control). The other major plus with FF is that it is threaded so you can have actual conversations. - Jeff P. Henderson

6. Other people tell me they want to see a strict reverse chronological view and that I can't figure out how to do that for them either. - Robert Scoble

If I had to stack rank, this would be my #1 tool. Ahead of Twitter, Facebook, strands, and anything else similar - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

7. Ross Mayfield wanted an easy "share this item on my blog" feature. I know how to do that (use the "More" menu, copy the permalink, etc) but that's too geeky and not as nice as Facebook's "share" feature. - Robert Scoble

7. I like how twitter reminds me of birds: cheep cheep - sofarsoShawn

Twitter, like email and Google reader, has a nice "author"/"headline" format that is easy to scan...FriendFeed visually makes you work harder to extract meaning from the stream. - Elliott Ng

It's too confusing because people are following the wrong people and don't know how to filter? As a 'Social Media Expert' you have no clue how sad this makes me... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Fascinating. I can be as negative as or more than anyone else, but I don't associate FF with sucking. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

ming: there are lots of people who tell me they try friendfeed and don't get the point of it and leave. If friendfeed solves some of these pain points in 2009 it will make evangelism of the service a lot easier. - Robert Scoble

Format of the FriendFeed stream is not efficient...seems like a lot of scrolling to get infomation...less easy to scan, show/hide, tag, etc. than Google Reader. - Elliott Ng

Not everyone is going to get every thing. I suppose, though, that it's significant when it's LOTS of people. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Is the learning curve for the UI and information flow really overwhelming for the tech-savvy group it's aimed at? I doubt it. That said it's not a perfect product, and I can see how some people may want their aggregation without a social media aspect. - Mo Kargas

I think #4 has merit. You can somewhat tell what people like by what they talk about and what content they share on various services, but I think FF could allow for a quick "About Me" somewhere on the profile so people would know who you are, where you're from, and what your interests are (other than the internet). - Mark Frost

MiniMage: I didn't say that I thought it sucks, but this is the feedback I'm getting as I show it to others and talk to other people about their experiences. I've heard this feedback enough now to know that these are the roadblocks to adoption. - Robert Scoble

Ooh, I like the idea of a view with a strict reverse chronological order. - Eric Florenzano

FF has great potential for the aggregator but needs a simple grid of feeds in and feeds out for everything. That way I could choose where to make updates and control the flows. Twitter is feeding more than one place for me. I could use FF in some of the same ways as TweetDeck but only if I could make it work bi-directionally with Twitter and as needed with other services. - Lee Herman

Bottom line: if I choose to live inside of Twitter where my relationships are, and I have to go into Google Reader to check feeds, FriendFeed just doesn't add enough incrementally especially since I have my Reader set up with important feeds and it doesn't replace the need to go check Twitter anyway. - Elliott Ng

I pretty much ignored Friend Feed until I saw you mention the live feed a few days ago. Now I'm hooked. Darn you Scoble! Darn you to heck I say! :P - MarkCarras

#8: clients like Tweetdeck are non existent. Same for iPhone apps. - Robert Scoble

You can't DM people. Heck, you can't even @reply someone directly, only comment on their post. - Reuben Thum

I *really* dont like the Friend of Friend feature - Sam Houston

Sam: you know you can turn it off, right? - Robert Scoble

Recall I adopted FriendFeed before you. :) Still like the aggregated feed for myself but haven't become a Kung Fu Master of FriendFeed to make it really work for me. Maybe completely hiding Twitter, setting up more groups, hiding more media types, and adding more people, would make it work for me. - Elliott Ng

So really, most of the complaints could be resolved if some of the folks making those neat Twitter applications made one for Friendfeed or if FF implemented these on their own. Sounds like a great 2009 for FF either way:-) - Brandon Mendelson

This is a feature recommendation list for the FF team. - Gadiel Rivera

scoble: I am just not sure if the world needs friendfeed. I am a big fan of reducing noise as the most direct form of value add (think google), aggregating and then recommending seems a little twisted. Hope I am making sense - ming yeow

Until recently I had hard time understanding how to make good use of FF. It was too noisy and difficult to use as compared to Twitter. However, after seeing your video on 20 reasons for using FF on FastCompany, I am now able to understand it a lot better and making good use of it. Since seeing that video, I have not been able to stop using Twitter and FF. Thanks Robert for producing that awesome overview video. FF team should have created that a long time back. - Amar Shah

So, basically, it doesn't suck. They just don't know how to use it. Everybody is not built to use everything. None of these points raised have much substance to me. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

ming: the world might not need friendfeed but I sure do. Also, it's really the only competitor to facebook out there and facebook needs more competition. - Robert Scoble

FF grew on me - it's organization is a bit off-putting for me but I've managed to wrap my oddly mapped out logic around it. It does help drown out the noise of Twitter. - Renee Hendricks

FF is simply confusing. Not a friendly UI at all. Don't Make Me Think says Steve Krug. FF is making me think and I just don't have the patience for it. - Bora Celik

1UP Rasheen. I do think having a small profile would be nice, but other than that, yeah, I agee with exactly what you said. - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Robert, I guess my problem is..is that I can't find that option :P I'll go look now :) - Sam Houston

Friendfeed has been a fairly fluid concept since I started using it, and the kinds of suggestions you're hearing from Ross and Tim get addressed and fixed all the time. The question is, even if the Friendfeed crew could get every nuance tuned to exactly the specifications people are giving you, would they actually come around and use it, or would there just be another excuse? Sure, it's not perfect, but it's a work in progress -- and they progress fast around here. - Pete Delucchi

I can't stand Facebook. Totally different though. One is all about time waste pokes, super pokes, and other useless crap and Friend Feed is more about networking and sharing actual content and thoughts. Friend Feed is about actual communication. - MarkCarras

Sam: click hide on an item twice. That will bring up the hide options dialog where you can select turning off friend of a friend. By the way, even if you turn off all that stuff you'll still be able to see those items at the bottom of the page. - Robert Scoble

Pete: as friendfeed gets better it pulls more people in. Fixing roadblocks to evangelizing a product DOES pull more people into using it. - Robert Scoble

Lets not forget there is no easy way to follow conversations that you did not originate, I should have the option of being notified when someone else comments on a thread I posted on. FriendFeed is awesome though - Kelly Johns

Mark: I have 5,000 people on facebook and I never get my time wasted through poking or other useless crap. The news feed there is quite good and the social graph is way more advanced than friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Well, maybe I am missing somethings, but everything I have seen at Facebook just bugs me. Maybe I should look at yours and see what I am missing. - MarkCarras

To me, FriendFeed isn't about being a social graph. It's first and foremost about aggregating items I publish irrespective of the source service. The ability to subscribe to a person is more comparable to subscribing to a news feed as opposed adding a friend on Facebook. In terms of subscriptions, FF is basically Google Reader with a proper commenting system. - trextor

Bora, I found Facebook's UI more confusing than Friendfeed's. The difference for me is the more I use and discover the nuances of FF the more I like it, where as Facebook has flat-line. Granted, a component that's hard to factor out (for me anyway) is FB is people-I've-known centric and FF is people-I'm-discovering oriented + grappling with ideas. - Micah Wittman

Contrary to Robert's opinion, I hope FF developers don't start thinking that they need to compete with Facebook. Subscribers != Friends. It's that simple. If anything, they're competing with RSS readers. For what it's worth, many of these same issues also plague RSS readers. - trextor

FF does have an iphone app coming any day now (Friendly). And with some more options with the IM feature (like activating it when you comment on a post like this so then it notifies you when a response is made) then it could become even more conversational. I view this as more professional and higher IQ than Facebook personally. - Amani

I'm with you on that Trextor. Friend Feed is more like RSS style of social networking. Facebook is not. Facebook just doesn't have a focus of info like Friend Feed. - MarkCarras

I have to be honest that I don't use Friendfeed as much as I probably should. They have so much automated features that I don't even bother to login in weeks. - Vlad Zabblotskyy

57 comments and 29 likes in 48 minutes. Interesting! - Robert Scoble

I feel as if Robert is doing an evil (not really) little experiment with us and showing someone else to prove some point ...LOL. - Amani

Amani: I just noted that because it seemed to have touched a nerve. Got a lot of feedback very quickly. - Robert Scoble

Robert, many of those are very valid points and it's easy to see why a new user can get overwhelmed. I know that Brett keeps talking about making the service easier and friendlier for new users. I think they should perhaps offer a 'Lite' version for new users that hides a large number of features which can later be accessed by enabling the 'Advanced' features. Just a thought. - Mark Krynsky

It took me 5 minutes just to figure out where my post was in this huge list of comments! Amani is right, FF will become way more conversational when it notifies you on additional comments on posts like this. Facebook is good at doing this when you comment on wall posts. - Kelly Johns

The 'Send an IM when someone comments on my posts' feature has probably been my favorite of the year as it keeps me very engaged with people that comment on my items. - Mark Krynsky

The 'date of post order' and some sort of basic profile are my 2 highest requested features for FriendFeed. - Kol Tregaskes

Very useful list. - Dave Winer

My biggest problem is that all my real world friends are just now getting onto facebook. a few are moving to twitter finally. it will be a year or more before my network migrates to friendfeed. you have to go where the people are! unless of course you could define a network on one platform and use the features of another platform to view/interact with that network. too much 'friend adding' duplication now. i wish you could treat these tools as readers rather than network definers. - Jeff DiStanlo

UI has too much clutter. Customization support is needed. Post aggregation could use custom filters, - anand

I consider FF the "heavy duty conversationalist". If I want wih a few folks I know for a little convo, FB is great. If I want a little convo with more folks I know a little less and make it public, Twitter is great. FF is about longer, tied-in conversations, holistic. FF needs a mobile client that works WELL with more phones than just the high-end ones else it will be in nichedom for a while." - Patrick Moorhead

It mostly boils down to information overload. Friendfeed needs to invest substantial resources and effort in dealing with that problem before it can appeal to the masses. Friendfeeding is an activity for a small elite at this stage -- for people who can easily process huge torrents of text. - Sean McBride

Robert, re: #8: clients that work with FF include Twhirl and PeopleBrowsr. - Will King

I'm surprised there's not more of an outcry to be able to dynamically filter services in Friend list/feeds (home, list1, list2, etc.). It'd be a lot easy for me to scan these if I can a) filter-out 1 to many services (eg, don't display twitter, flickr, rss on list1) and b) filter-in 1 to many services (eg, display only twitter, only twitter and plurk, etc). - Matt Albiniak

On FF vs FB: I think FB may be a competitor for FF ("ok, I can do this in Facebook" says the mainstream user) but FF is not a competitor to FB ("Facebook is much more fun", says the mainstream user) due to FB's app aggregation. - santiromero

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LOL - funny that the #1 app in the Apple Appstore is now "iFart" with a big graphic on the homepage...hahaha

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$10,000 a day that app is making! - alphaxion

Wouldn't mind having that coming in.... - Roberto Bonini

Why didn't I think of this!? - Jim Goldstein

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Praying to My Higher Self - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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Nissan Stealthily on Track for Electric Car World Domination : Gas 2.0 - http://gas2.org/2008...

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"Nissan is bringing the first of their electric cars to market by 2010 in many locations around the United States. According to Alan Buddendeck, Nissan’s VP for North American Corporate Communications, this car will be priced between $22-$25K and have at least a range of 100 miles. By 2012, Nissan will be bringing an entire lineup of affordable electric cars (sedans, minivans, compact cars, and sports cars) to the world market. This isn’t just some limited roll-out, and they’re beyond serious about it. Their overarching business plan has been re-written to focus on zero emissions vehicles." - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

This is why I said US auto industry only has a few years to go all electric. We need a moon shot. - Robert Scoble

Batteries not included. I'm surprised the article doesn't make much of Nissan's big innovation: you buy the car and lease the batteries. The idea is to keep the car purchase price close to that of conventional vehicles. You'll pay a battery lease on top of that. Actually, it's not an awful idea. - Chris Baskind

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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Command Line Tools - http://lifehacker.com/399468...

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Command Line FTW!!!! - (jeff)isageek from Bookmarklet

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whoa, the green screen bliss! vi editor where are you?! - Susan Beebe

Ah yes, CLI you are my friend - Joe from twhirl

Wow. I actually remember these green screens. Doesn't that make me an old fart (relatively speaking). - Alex von Halem from twhirl

boy, where is sed? awk mentioned only once or twice and only as part of long command... - A.T.

!!! - Mona Nomura

Kinda thought I'd learn something new... No aux or | mention is baffling. For those working the command line here's one that should have been on that list find . -type f | xargs grep -l "STRING THAT YOU WANT" - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

HAHA. WEB2.0 via command line. LOL - obolonskyi

Never knew about `sudo !!` That's awesome, definitely will come in handy :) - Bartek Ciszkowski

blast from the past. only command-line thing I ever do now is "ping slow-website". :-( - Mitchell Tsai

Stupid Blogger (I find it really hard to say that), in zsh at least grep "STRING THAT YOU WANT" **/* - Michael C. Harris

I'm on the command line about 80% of the time while i'm at work :) - imabonehead

dumb idea for windows users to install cygwin in most cases (unless you are installing sshd or something). no love for tasklist, pathping, robocopy? no mention of powershell? linkd? bah. - Karim

I have been waiting for Gazelle to release new version of QDOS since Windows 3.0 came on the scene. - Jeff

No mention of Poweshell? Bah! - Yuvi

got pico? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

"sudo !!" pretty handy. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I can definitely say the mkdir */*/*/* for nested directories is very useful and I've never heard of it before. I'm a major linux fan (but went back to XP after getting the iPhone) and I love the terminal. It's daunting at first but feels like home after a while. - Derick Valadao

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@zappos secret "Companies don’t engage emotionally with their customers—people do." http://twurl.nl/12cnct

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Too true. My favorite companies to work with are the ones with the most enthusiastic employees who bend over backwards to make me happy. - Aaron deMello

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