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The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mike Chelen, Daniel Chow, anarcher and 242 other people liked this
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
This is awesome!
- Christopher Chung
with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive!
- michael sean wright
:O
- Josh Haley
Amazing, thanks for that!
- dkb
According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :)
- Bret Taylor
Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?)
- Kathy Fitch
very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action?
- berchman
Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross
- goutham
Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on
- Shane
That's priceless. Great job, guys.
- John Craft
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
Great project!
- Anne Bouey
AWESOME!
- Kevin Fox
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That is so awesome
- Glenn Slaven
happy-making!
- Felicia Yue
I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :)
- Arvind
Wow!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Excellent!!
- Kol Tregaskes
That's great!
- Devon Govett
Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury
- Benedetto Vacca
неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет?
- atner
Lots of handshaking I see :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha very nice stop motion and music!
- Alex Huinchucleffy
BUMP
- Roberto Bonini
FULL OF WIN
- Jac Falcon
Daft Punk / DJ Hero - http://www.joystiq.com/2009...
Jesper Lind and Mihai Parparita liked this
Great trailer video
- Nelson Minar
Facebook should let me have filters on update stream.. -quiz -twilight -"status has OMG!" -"status.length < 3" -"status.consecutiveDotCount > 6" -"status.alphabetCount < 8" -"x took the test" -"app request" -"x has requested you to join" I wonder how much I will miss after that.
George Moga, Tracy, Keith Bourgoin and Mihai Parparita liked this
new plan, don't upload over a running jar while on a bus.
Mihai Parparita liked this
OTOH, liking from a plane seems to work.
- Mihai Parparita
RSS is a Protocol, not a User Experience. It is what you make of it.
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick, Mahendra (SkepticGeek), Daniel Rowley and 12 other people liked this
Exactly!
- Nick Halstead
well exactly!!
- Bill Masson
Jesse: I think a lot of people use "RSS" to imply the reader or reading experience. We're geeks so we get that RSS is the protocol, not the reader. But we're weird. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Well, I think it's up to us to dispel that myth. Google Reader != RSS. FriendFeed != RSS. Both Google Reader and FriendFeed are RSS Readers though. RSS is still the backbone to many of the things people are saying are "replacing RSS". I'm trying to get RSS out of people's minds - it's not RSS that's dead - it's the poor lame old interfaces to RSS of 2 years ago that are dead.
- Jesse Stay
In an ideal world, you won't even know "RSS" is powering what you are reading - it will be a beautiful, real-time interface with no visibility to the user that there is any sort of protocol powering that interface.
- Jesse Stay
Yet, RSS will be even more powerful than ever.
- Jesse Stay
It all depends on the source feed, if you get inventive with styling your feed then it will blend in with the rest of your site.
- Bill Masson
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie), Morton Fox, amelia arapoff and 111 other people liked this
Welcome, Ben!
- Kevin Fox
Right on! Congrats, Ben.
- Micah Wittman
Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him!
- Jason Shellen
Data storage and scalability rock. :)
- Louis Gray
Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell
- Bret Taylor
Congrats, Ben! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah Ben!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris...
- MG Siegler
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- Petr Buben
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
It'll be funny if Google buys FF!
- Peng-Toh
Woohoo! Another Googler :)
- Tim Hoeck
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Ben 2.0 ;-) Good luck in the new role!
- Andy Bold
you're building a friendfeed army there :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats
- Ozkan Altuner
Howdy Ben! Great career move
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine.
- Mike Reynolds
gratz Ben!
- timepilot
Welcome Bret!
- Michael_techie
So, Facebook...?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers.
- beersage
Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into
- Glenn Slaven
Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme?
- Raphael, Raphael
I don't know.. but it is awesome! :)
- Tim Hoeck
V. excited about my friend's new job. His competitors should be pretty concerned. Also: I can't wait to use what he helps develop.
Jim Norris, Brandon Titus, Tudor Bosman and 10 other people liked this
happy/sad.
- Jenna Bilotta
too insidery
- MG Siegler
i'm gonna go ahead and guess that someone from the Greader team just got a job at FriendFeed?
- MG Siegler
hope things work out well!
- Terry Brown
Bumping!
- Kevin Fox
If users habituate to UI changes, why do I still go to the 'File' menu to quit an app in OS X? It's been *nine years*!
Jeff Smith, Karthick R, Mohamed J and 20 other people liked this
I never thought of that, but you are right on. I still do that too.
- τorƍue
That took *years* to condition in our employees when we switched to OS X. I think most of us just grew to use Command+Q instead of figuring out where it is. It never did make sense to be in the File menu, though.
- Mark Trapp
you guys are old school, i generally use right click on dock, Command Q is too risky :)
- Yunus Tunak
I mix it up with new 1337 & old sKEWL by quiting out using QuickSilver ;)
- CannonGod
Yunus, Apple's HIG requires applications to warn before quitting if there's unrecoverable information. What applications have scarred you by not following that guideline?
- Mark Trapp
in early days migrating from windows proximity of alt+Q for @ and command+Q... that was a traumatic experience :)
- Yunus Tunak
What version of Firefox has the Quit option in the File menu? I'm on 3.0.12 and it's in the Firefox menu where it belongs.
- Brian Johns
That's my point, Brian. The image shows where, as a 20-year mac user, I expect the Quit setting to be. (I photoshopped it in.)
- Kevin Fox
You'd think there'd be a Firefox extension for that.
- Mark Trapp
Oh - I get what you're trying to say now! When I saw your image I thought "How the hell did that get back there???"
- Brian Johns
command-Q always... but what really chaps my hide are apps that don't let me command-H hide the app (Photoshop, I'm looking at you)
- LogEx
I thought the whole point of the Mac interface was that you're never supposed to quit applications anyway? I still get irritated whenever I use Windows, close all the windows of an app, and end up having to relaunch.
- Victor Ganata
I always hit Command Q and don't even think of it being in the file menu.
- Louis Gray
Louis: I'm with you. Guess I've been doing it that way since long before OS X.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Because what else do you ever use the <App Name> menu for?
- Jim Norris
Victor: that's not entirely accurate; the distinction between "close" and "quit" is to allow users of document-based applications (like for example, Safari or Word) to close out of the document they're working on and open a new one. Non document-based applications should quit when you close the window (like System Preferences). The idea being that the user only ever wants to quit an...
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- Mark Trapp
Because it just made me subscribe to your feeds! How about that?
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
I'll admit I got my app-quitting habits from owning an ancient PC and living in Task Manager (well, Process Explorer to be exact). Anyone else using Spirited Away to auto hide programs for mac? ~ http://drikin.com/spirite...
- CannonGod
Neat application, Jake: I know someone who'd really benefit from its use. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Bruno Kammerl jumps - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Alejandro, Kazutaka Ogaki, Matt Cutts and 12 other people liked this
There's no way that this is real, though I wish it were.
- Kevin Fox
My favorite comment from the YouTube page: "You guys are all crazy. This is real. It is obviously a well-thought out plan, and took a long time to build and calculate all of this - and has anyone taken the time to notice that he was wearing a helmet? That surely would have protected him from any harm if he was a little off-target, so there goes the "he could get hurt" theory floating...
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- Kevin Fox
Awesome. This would be so much fun to build and play with :)
- John μller
So how was it faked? I agree it's gotta be, but it's very well done.
- Stephen Mack
How it was faked: http://www.juicetheblog.com/2009...
- Gary Burd
Great link, Gary, thanks! Per the comments on there, viral marketing campaign for MSOffice 2007 in Germany.
- Stephen Mack
This would be pretty amazing if it were real. But what in the heck does it have to do with MSOffice? Does associating your brand with a crazy video that has nothing whatever to do with your product make sense? Now I just think MSOffice - the crazy, irresponsible, fake office suite....
- Mike Koss
Just a little Downfall remix I threw together: Hitler finds out about Facebook buying FriendFeed. - http://itafroma.tumblr.com/post...
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Kol Tregaskes, paniaguai, Andre P. Siregar and 63 other people liked this
I haven't laughed so hard in quite a while :)
- Bret Taylor
You know you've made it when they make a Downfall parody about you. :-)
- Kevin Fox
So great.
- Chris Duffy
Wow, that's great.
- Brian Johns
If even fake Hitler's angry about it, you know you did something great. Glad you guys liked it. :-)
- Mark Trapp
"There's a hitler remix for that"
- Matt Mastracci
That's hilarious.
- Ken Gidley
Very well done.
- Darren
Awesome, Mark!
- Stephen Mack
This was great, Mark.
- Louis Gray
awesome! love it, Mark! :)
- holly
my thoughts exactly, mark! even with all the fucking bacon posts, i'm still gonna miss this place.
- Ňicķ
So brilliant.
- anna sauce
This was pretty much the most awesome video I've ever seen on the internet :)
- Ana
Great work, Mark :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Absolutely awesome!
- Shannon Jiménez
*mwah*
- Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
At the very least, tr.im should port the redirector to AppEngine and leave it running. 1 table + 1 servlet should do the trick.
Adewale Oshineye, Manas Tungare, Amit Patel and 2 other people liked this
Google Listens, Gives A Friend-Only “Likes” Option In Reader - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Ron George, Meryn Stol, Mihai Parparita and 10 other people liked this
Definitely turn this on, everybody! Makes the likes feature actually useful.
- Brett Slatkin
Totally disagree. What if you had likes only for friends here on FriendFeed?
- Louis Gray
Depends on how you're connected. I only have two contacts that share GReader with me. I'm much more interested in global likes than friend-only!
- Scott of Two Countries
Me too, I want global likes. But not only, I want Google Reader to give me item recommendations (within my subscriptions or globally) based on people that like that same types of stories that I like.
- Charbax
For me it's the public/private divide. FriendFeed is primarily public data and comments, Reader is mostly my personal friends with lots of embarrassing comments, etc etc.
- Brett Slatkin
It is interesting that you think of Google Reader and FriendFeed that way. It is more or less the opposite for me.
- Bret Taylor
So what I meant is, I only really want to see the likes of my closest friends in Reader. I go to FriendFeed or other trending sites for most popular stories. For me Reader is all about sharing all of the funny tidbits people find on the net that aren't top stories.
- Brett Slatkin
Bret: If I could better control which friend groups I shared items and comments with in FF, I'd use it for both in this way. The UX around picking share groups is complex, though.
- Brett Slatkin
The greatest joy -and- noise on FF comes from tangent "Likes" but I've managed this effectively via FF Groups. The tangent "Likes" do have a value.
- Jay Cuthrell
Oh yeah they're great. I love the diversity of what I see on FF. It's great for that. Reader is more like a gossip channel for me, and I'm happy all the comments are private to a smaller group.
- Brett Slatkin
The snark factor on Reader is why I revisit at least once a week. :) But consider that (presently) adding a "Note" supplies a UX that implies the equivalence of /enter snarky comment here/.
- Jay Cuthrell
Reader for iPhone still doesn't allow you to Like something, altho it displays them. Always the tease, that Google
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Maybe Reader with Likes for iPhone will be available elsewhere if Google Reader API moves from unofficial to uh... more official?
- Jay Cuthrell
I disagree that this is useful. I have no other way to find people who might be interesting, other than their Likes on things that I also like.
- DGentry
Check out @shellen introducing Brizzly right now! http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
Rachel Lea Fox, Louis Gray, Mihai Parparita and 2 other people liked this
Looks like the first Twitter client that seems like what Twitter.com should just be.
- Kevin Fox
Exactamundo.
- Louis Gray
I dunno. I've thought of Friendfeed as being the twitter client that Twitter.com should just be :D
- Adam Lasnik
last day at google! and my birthday! crazy times.
Joel Webber, Rob Schonberger, Amund Tveit and 5 other people liked this
What's next?
- Gary Burd
chartbeat.com
- Kushal Dave
Take some extra Google cookies in a doggy bag?
- Charbax
Taking extra Google cookies would have been evil. And Kushal is not evil.
- ana
I did not know. Fare well and good luck.
- Robert Konigsberg
Good luck, and don't forget to rest a bit in-between if you can. That's always made me happier between jobs.
- Joel Webber
True dedication: @dolapo went to his exit interview, then came back to get a few last changelists checked in. Reader will miss you. :'(
Joel, Matt Cutts, Neil and 5 other people liked this
Where's he going to?
- Tudor Bosman
He's off to work with cw & shellen @thinglabs. So he'll still be "in the family" so to speak :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Is anyone left on Reader?
- Paul Buchheit
ahem!! what am *I*?! chopped liver? ;)
- Jenna Bilotta
Wait, who are you again? ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, don't be mean. Jenna is sensitive.
- Louis Gray
hee. it's just cause I gave paul a *really* hard time at sxsw this year for not knowing me. :) There *may* have been alcohol involved.
- Jenna Bilotta
btw, this tweet is about dolapo, not me.. redirecting comments to be about how awesome dolapo is.
- Jenna Bilotta
What's a dolapo and is it anything like a dollop? ;)
- Jonathan Terleski
Gray code at the pediatrician's office - http://blog.plover.com/2009...
Josue Santos Martin, Paul Buchheit, Mihai Parparita and 3 other people liked this
That is incredibly clever.
- Joel Webber
Louis Gray, Jason Shellen, Amit Patel and 3 other people liked this
what are you doing next?
- Jess Lee
Hopefullly something neat and new; right now that means joining a startup in San Francisco that we've renamed Thing Labs and making a few web apps (most likely) or maybe something else. All we've done so far is make a splash screen at http://thinglabs.com/ but we're unclear if making a single splash screen is useful enough to go to market.
- Chris Wetherell
There are 3 classes of Twitter users; celebrities, fans and people who are both. Is it a problem if Twitter's creators use it as fans? Why?
Mihai Parparita and Adewale Oshineye liked this
Fun With Box Shadows « Markus Stange’s Blog - http://markusstange.wordpress.com/2009...
Mihai Parparita liked this
Neat things you can do with CSS box shadows. Firefox 3.5 supports more stuff than Safari.
- Amit Patel
Next: An Excellent Way to Read Blog Posts - http://makingitlovely.com/2009...
Mihai Parparita liked this
Thank you Google Reader. I love you!
- Tessa MacDuff
Tinkering with Objective-C a bit. I'm getting a little overwhelmed with all the square-brackets and message sending code. Hard on the eyes.
Mihai Parparita liked this
Notice - I just made an app for avid Google Reader users. I'm opening a (very) limited Alpha. If you want in, @rizzn me and let me know.
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Igor Varyvoda, Kol Tregaskes and 21 other people liked this
yes please!
- Robert Scoble
Bring it on, Mark.
- Louis Gray
yes please, but with a question - for mac? or win?
- Jordan Brock
It's a web based app that syncrhonizes either your GSRI category *or* a tag of your choosing to your Twitter account.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
from IM
so, it's a mechanism for sharing google reader articles with your twitter feed?
- Jordan Brock
Heavy FF fans may not want to forgo the setup they already have, but there are a few benefits to this that I'm writing into the app (as opposed to simply copying and pasting or using FF to syndicate to Twitter)...
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
from IM
For instance, there will be a small toolbar that you'll be able to turn on and off that will include your comment (if any), and instead of linking to an interstitial page from Twitter, it'll go directly to the source.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
from IM
just something I made to simplify my own sharing habits, but thought others might be interested in trying.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
from IM
Yes, please, I am an avid Google Reader user and sharer
- Douglas E. Welch
from twhirl
Yes, me to.
- Pierre Beugnot
+1
- Adi
I am a heavy Google Reader user, please !
- Jim Braux-Zin
Can I test your google reader alpha thingie? :)
- Andre
Cool deal - I'll send invites (hopefully, assuming I get these last couple bugs squashed) tomorrow via FriendFeed direct message to everyone who left a response above this comment. We'll call this the Alpha, and if things work fine, we'll open it up again to some more users. Thanks for your interest, everyone!
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I use Google Reader and share/tag big-time. I'd like to add one feed.
- Wallace
i want to play!
- michael sean wright
I spend about 4/5 hours a day on GReader, can you send me an invite? Thanks! :D
- Francesco Marconi
I'm as avid as they get! I'd love to try it!
- Michael Fidler
Count me in, very avid Google Reader myself.
- Tyler Brownfield
Sure, why not. There isn't a decent greader app out there now. Hook me up!
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
i'd be interested as well, i live in greader and need a better way to access it without having to run a full browser instance...
- Thomas V. Fischer
BTW, if you're interested in being in the Alpha, you'll need to add me back to get the DM from me.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Interesting. yes please....
- Roberto Bonini
Would love to be involved. Big fan of Google reader and daily user
- Jamie Vidamour
would love to use it too
- Bailey McCann
Yes thanks..
- Peter
I'd like to take a peek at that please.
- gabo
Yes please.
- Kate
I'd appreciate if you would include me.
- Lawrence Di Stefano
from Nambu
Please? I hit about 4,000 items a week.
- Alex Scrivener
I would like to try it out. I have been using byline and am not impressed.
- Drew Lucas
I would love to try it out.
- Phillip Harrington
*puts hands up* ME! ME! :)
- Chris Clayton
me me me meeeeeeeeeeeeeee please. GReader is a part of my morning tea ...
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
from twhirl
I want in on your app please:)
- Nicholas James
I am trying it on my azentrepreneurs account, because my shared items already feed to Twitter from the hardaway account and I forgot how I did that originally and thus can't turn it off;-) How tech savvy am I?
- Francine Hardaway
haha. Are they being syndicated through FF, perchance?
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
from IM
Yes please!
- Sally Church
OK, everyone else that I haven't sent an invite to either through Twitter or DM here, send me an email to guesswho@rizzn.com. The DMing and @ing on Twitter is getting out of control, so I need to move it to a place where I can actually manage the flow a little bit. Anyone who doesn't email me before midnight tonight won't get in until I do the next round.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Does this do the same/similar thing to Twitter Feed?
- Simon T Small
Can I have in please, Mark? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And can I have one, please? :)
- Igor Varyvoda
I'd like if you still have a place for some tech-hippie. *)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Helpful suggestion from an engineer: "we have servers and stuff, so you just need to make a query."
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Google's architecture through the eyes of a 4-year-old - http://matthew.gray.org/2009...
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Google Shared Stuff to Be Discontinued - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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