Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
12.23 (844 / 69 ) I guess I take my likes seriously ;)
- Chris Myles
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
When I first saw this: 1.91 Sept 28: 1.94
- MiniMage
536 comments in the last month has me at .8736...still creeping toward 1.00
- Bren
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
0.87 (3770/4312), so I'm either getting more commenty or less likey. [0.74 (1970/2667) was what I previously reported back in June]
- In Search of Gender
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny H
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
0.75 (38,250 comments / 50,175 likes) (My entry above from 2 years ago said I had 10,782 comments and 7,666 likes for a ratio of 1.41. I've been busy, and my pattern seems to have changed.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/
- Miss Elle
...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait.
- .LAG liked that
apparently the girl was 16 years old. love how the media is covering this up
- NoahDavidSimon
Thanks. But let me ask you a question. Would you rather have him not look at all, and be fake, or be himself and look? BTW, it's uncertain what caught their eye. This is even more cropped than mine http://friendfeed.com/mikerob... The guy on the right is almost laughing. So, I'm wondering if there is something amusing about this situation that we cannot see. I don't care either way, He's a man, and there's nothing wrong with looking. Is there?
- Michael Fidler
I'd rather him be honest. he isn't. it was a bunch of different shots. different moments. very obvious what is going on. there were people there as well. the combined photos tell a story where if Obama isn't in on the joke he isn't turning to Sarkozy and telling him this is unacceptable in public
- NoahDavidSimon
at the first juncture you turn to Sarkozy and tell him to knock it off. but notice he didn't. there was a little frat party going on. two different women. lame that you are saying this wasn't the truth. you show your bias.
- NoahDavidSimon
part of the reason that white people voted for Obama is that they feel bad for black people. I think black folks are capable human beings... that are more then capable of being great enough for the presidency. sadly I don't think the left agrees and voted in a buffoon. in an unrelated note: strangely enough a website in Africa had a second page claiming that Obama was born in africa today. it was put down when the GOP circulated it around
- NoahDavidSimon
Women who complain this much are usually just plain jealous.
- Kevin J Hatton
I think that is the point of the song Kevin. the point of the photo is a lot of the asshats on friendfeed were stupid enough to vote for this man. this same perv who is threatening to put political dissidents in camps
- NoahDavidSimon
And when they showed it from a different angle, it was shown he was looking at something else. Why do you pretend that isn't so?
- MiniMage
because if you can see the rest of the images then you realize that this happened more then once http://ff.im/565Ct
- NoahDavidSimon
The other photos of this incident showed he wasn't looking at her bum, but if you want to spin it, I can't stop you. As to the other photo, if he looks at a grown woman's parts when they're jutting out at him unnaturally, I couldn't care less. You'd look, too. So would I, and I don't like women's butts.
- MiniMage
it was Sarkozy's girl's bum. he did it over and over again at the event. there can be no spin. it was a news story.... the spin in lame stream media was that Obama was punked... yeah but how many times? don't deny it. it is 16 years old ass. he should have a cell shared with Lawrence Taylor. they would make great pair.
- NoahDavidSimon
show me the 16 year old girl that Obama stares at! make Lawrence Taylor jealous.
- The Black Book
friendfeedCommentAnchor [v0.1.0] - http://wittman.org/project... - A user script, a bookmarklet and an alternative configuration userscript (has autoCommentAnchor turned ON). To add a permalink to each comment. The hyperlinked text default is "#" (you can change it in the Configuration section to "permalink", "linky", etc in the user script). Works in single post and stream modes. Tested on Firefox and Safari.
- Micah
Special Note ~ Post image: NOT A HASH TAG :)
- Micah
I started the group ffhacks to house a concise listing of user scripts: http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks . If you have a script that works on the current version of FriendFeed, and you're its author, write a comment on http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks... with the link and I'll share the original friendfeed post to the group.
- Micah
Does it only work to other users with the script enabled?
- Andrew Trinh
The anchor is the comment <div> container id which has been there all along; there simply has not been a user interface to conveniently access it. So yes, a URL with the anchor will work for anyone regardless of script usage (tested in Firefox & Safari).
- Micah
ianf, yep. I try anyway. I remember one or two conversations you had anchors - I've wanted access them for a while too. Cheers!
- Micah
#hashanchors should have been there by default, so that you could spend your time on more creative things rather than fixing FF. In fact, absence of this key element of hypertext, granular addressability, tells me that FFeeders really do not care for comments - they're ffodder to the OPs, which are the only ones that rank anything in the hierarchy of submissions around here. I don't...
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- ianf ⌘
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
Tell them, tell them the stories. Tell the children about the great social network. Let them learn and build a better future. #soapbox
- Eric - Too Hot
In Pic #3, I am holding my youngest brother (picture in 1984). In pic #4, I am with my younger brother who was a year behind me. He is sporting one of our Superman capes.
- Louis Gray
These remind me of Chris Pirillo's kid pics. Do glasses predestine you to become a geek? :) I think I'll ask the government for millions of dollars to study that question. Fascinating.
- Dawn
Adorable !! Thanks for sharing :) I wish I had more pics of my childhood (they're all at my Mom's house!)
- Susan Beebe
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
This is one of my Ambient Noise tracks. It's called "Haunting Wind", & it's from my Album "Afraid Of Silence". The music is inspired by the Artist Tim Hecker. Although the track is from 2006, I wanted to post it here on FriendFeed too
Thank you! :) I will post some other tracks later :)
- Svartling
Perfect background track for the 3D space scene I'm modeling right now, excellent work Svartling
- Mo Kargas
You can use it if you tell the world it's me who made the music :)
- Svartling
Of course, I will :) ( I mean - I will try to tell my friends of your music :)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
The sonic structure of my sound is somewhat destroyed by the low compression though (128 kbit/s). It sounds a lot better uncompressed.
- Svartling
But don't get me wrong, the noise should be there :)
- Svartling
To hear all the sonic noise I want you to hear you must use headphones. My music is headphones essential! :)
- Svartling
I made this track with audio only in Ableton Live. I have not used any MIDI at all.
- Svartling
I worked with the envelopes for weeks. I wanted every mili-second to sound exactly as I wanted.
- Svartling
I've released all my tracks for free to download. You can use it or play it on some radio channel if you want, but you must always refer to me when you do. I will post more tracks here on friendfeed from time to time.
- Svartling
This picture (album cover) for my album "Afraid of silence", is actually made for my track called "Black Rain", but I thought it would fit for my music style on this album too.
- Svartling
Anyone ever play the movie game? (Name a film, then an actor in that film, then another film that actor was in, etc. without ever repeating any.) I used to play with friends, but now don't have any that will. :/ I remember one thread that went for WEEKS. We had a spreadsheet by the end to keep track of what had already been said. We = dorks.
Why not start here? Spaceballs, Rick Moranis
- Jimminy
Yeah, LogEx, exactly like that, except without the need to get to any specific point in a limited time. Six Degrees stresses me out (though we used to do that too, but not with Kevin Bacon - just pick two people and see how many close we could get them). How do you do it with music?
- Jandy
Rick Moranis, Ghostbusters. (gonna put the previous one in, so we don't get confused if there are overlapping comments.)
- Jandy
Jandy, either find a path from one song to another (via artist, title/cover, bandmates, etc., valid parameters to be agreed upon), or string together a playlist by changing only one element each step.
- Tinfoil 2.0
What's the penalty for getting one wrong?
- Tinfoil 2.0
Uh....we never had one. We just went back to the last correct one when someone called us on the wrong one.
- Jandy
Can we do tv shows, too? Because then I can play!
- Lis
By the strict rules, no - only movies, and only actors/actresses. We used to play house rules, though, that let us do TV shows if necessary and other crew if necessary. Not, like, going on IMDb and using the third grip, but you know, directors/screenwriters, that sort of thing. Well-known people. I have no problem with using TV shows, but I'd like not to get stuck in TV world - i.e., use TV actors who also have decent movie credits.
- Jandy
Zoe Saldana - Crossroads (Please let me be remembering this right, I can't lose on my first turn!)
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
IMDb vindicates you, Joe. But I don't know the film, and I'm not clicking through and cheating, so let's see if someone else knows what to follow that with.
- Jandy
I've never seen it, but I looked up Zoe after Star Trek...for research
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
Uh-huh. Is that what they're calling it these days?
- Jandy
Glen, not sure we've established the rules for strip movie game yet.
- Jandy
Oh man, if we were doing TV shows I would have an awesome one...someone else can field the next Troyer flick though...2 easy ones come to mind immediately.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
Way to go, you picked potentially the only person in the film that I couldn't immediately think of a follow-up for. Especially if we're allowing TV shows. See if someone else can, though.
- Jandy
I can think of at least 3 right off hand! But the one I would use probably Would kill it dead.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
I have, but I can't remember the girl in it. Any of them. It didn't really make that big an impression on me. :/
- Jandy
I know the plot, he had to go 40 days and 40 nights without having any of the sex...I think
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
40 Days and 40 Nights - Shannon Saussaman(spl)
- Jimminy
Joe, yeah he takes on a bet, with his friends for Lent, it goes up on the internet and he falls in love with a girl who is a net nanny, so she eventually finds out.
- Jimminy
Sam Rockwell - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
- Jandy
Drew Barrymore - Donnie Darko. [And with that I'm out for the night; see y'all tomorrow! Feel free to keep going, I'm curious to see how long this can go.]
- Jandy
Vincent Price- The House on Haunted Hill (b/w)
- Jenthemum
LOL - you guys did a lot while I was sleeping and gallivanting around town today. Not to be strict, but I think we need to go back to Mary McDonnell, because we already used Independence Day. (Also, Goldblum's The Fly and Price's The Fly are two different films.) Unfortunately, I can only go to a TV show from Mary McDonnell unless I cheat. Anyone else?
- Jandy
What was that one she did with Robert Redford?
- Bonnie Foster
I know.......Mary McDonnell - Sneakers!
- Bonnie Foster
Haha, does that mean I can safely go Sneakers - Robert Redford?
- Jandy
Sure! Robert Redford - Butch Cassidy and the Sundown Kid.....oops.....Sundance
- Bonnie Foster
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Paul Newman
- Jandy
[doesn't want to do Witherspoon because she wants someone else to pick a certain movie so she can go do the next one; but the likelihood of this all working as planned is miniscule, so....carry on]
- Jandy
>.< I can name 3 tv shows he has been on, but no movies that aren't named Pulse.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
DAMNIT, we were counting you to get us out of this! I did look him up to make sure he wasn't a dead end, and he's been in two or three well-known films.
- Jandy
Shall we allow a TV show? I know of at least one that will get us back into movies quickly.
- Jandy
Yeah, that's about the only way to do it at this point. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about The Hole, so I can't continue this from here anyway. :)
- Jandy
I brought it back up. I think I found it by looking for either Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. Noticed Scarlett hadn't come up with a quick find.
- Jimminy
Wait...we all knew +Louis Gray was with the Googs team already, no? Yes. :D Congratulations Louis!! All the best to you!!!
- sofarsoShawn
You can be like the guy in the Dilbert comic. Instead of telling them to make it more "webbish", just tell the team to make it more "friendfeedish."
- Laura Norvig
Well congratulations to you!. All the very best from this died in the wool Mac Guy. I hope you can find the time, sometime, to make that My6Sense available in other apps and contexts outside the My6Sense app itself.
- JSLeFanu
Sounds like a great fit. Congratulations!
- Benjamin Golub
I might have to make Louis a t-shirt that says "Google Apps users are people too!" Do you think he would wear it to work?
- Skyler Call
Congratulations! wow, being all poker-faced about it last Tuesday... :)
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats, Louis. Though I suspect we should all be posting on Google+ now since you're the Product Marketing Manager for the Google+ team. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
congratulations Louis don't forget us mortals! we know you are a robot!
- testbeta
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to watching your progress there.
- Anne Bouey
Batuhan, I have a hard time imagining not using FriendFeed? But you've already seen me using it less, in favor of Google+. I think the best solution is for those of us interested in making the move to do so, and/or Google+ learning from the best FriendFeed has to offer.
- Louis Gray
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Congrats, Louis. Of course, this means even less sleep, right?
- Friar Will
Can I use your employee discount for some Android toys?
- Rodfather
most surprising thing for me is that TNW didn't wrote anything about this.
- batuhan icoz
Strange that I found out about this on Twitter and not G+ or FriendFeed... (Louis, you're now in my Google People circle. Just sayin'...)
- Dennis Jernberg
Congrats - but... but... - it means now I will ignore anything you say about google+ or it's perceived competitors... well, not ignore, but strongly pinch-of-salt it... Anyway, here's to you kicking ass there and making google+ better!!!
- Iphigenie
I LOVE this move. Congratulations. +1 to you!!
- Harold Cabezas
Louis, agree on your comment about Google+ and FF. G+ needs to learn from FF and hopefully everyone here will move over there... then I don't have to jump form one service to the other all the time. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
... there goes the neighborhood ...
- Laura Norvig
WHAT. I completely missed this. Processing...
- Josh Haley
posted as comment on blog: "Dude..... DUDE! Wow. Congrats! Next post has to be something negative about Google, so we know you're keeping it real. Kidding. You're the standard of keeping it real. All the others could learn a ton from watching you. Best of luck and please wear your FFundercats shirt to Google one day and send me a pic of you in it with some amazing Google backdrop. Your assignment is before you. Go and do. ;)"
- Josh Haley
Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago.
- michael sean wright
Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way.
- Kyle Lacy
Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me)
- David HC Soul
are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent.
- michael sean wright
Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees....
- David HC Soul
you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.)
- michael sean wright
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out.
- David HC Soul
I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one....
- David HC Soul
sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare.
- michael sean wright
Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?"
- David HC Soul
man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong.
- Unholy Joe Silence
for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days!
- michael sean wright
Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you!
- michael sean wright
oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m
- michael sean wright
I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them.
- michael sean wright
Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine Ferdinand
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.
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@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ JS
#SaturdayFF When I was 4 and my brother was 3, we used to live in LA. Not the greatest part and not the worst part. We were poor, and my dad was attending med school trying to get his degree. My mom was at home with the two of us and pregnant with baby 3. At night we used to take walks with my mom, but my brother would race on ahead...
Often he would be out of sight, going over the top of a hill in the road. No matter how my mom would push him to stick with us, he wandered ahead, and as she got more pregnant, she couldn't keep up. Despite warnings that he could get hurt or worse, he always wandered up.
- Louis Gray
One night, same story... the three of us are walking and my brother crested over the top of the hill and my mom and I stayed back. We went over the hill and to our joint surprise, found my brother being chased round and round a tree by a man dressed in black, with a mask over his face, wearing gloves.
- Louis Gray
My brother was yelling in terror, and my mom commanded, "Leave my boy alone!". The man, in shock, turned and ran in the opposite direction. My brother never wandered off again.
- Louis Gray
Years later, when we retold this story,we were told that the bad man was actually my dad in kidnapper's clothing. While my brother was in terror, my dad was scared out of his wits that a 3rd party would intervene, and it would all be a mess. My parents were successful in their scheme.
- Louis Gray
And your brother has been traumatized ever since?
- Anne Bouey
Before the big reveal, was gonna ask if the man in black had a 6-fingered glove.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Anne, he's not traumatized. Just obedient. :) He's now 32 and has 3 kids himself, two boys and a girl (just like me as well as like my mother after she had baby 3). I think he survived.
- Louis Gray
sometimes a little reality helps.It happens all too often nowadays.What I let my kids do years ago I would not even let them out the door now.
- VALZ/TT/TM
Finally got my finish time: 00:43:04.10 with a pace of 13:54. Faster than my last race, so yay, but that's to be expected since there were no hills and I didn't stop to take pictures. Adrian and I were joking yesterday though, I may be the only person who runs slower than I walk.
- Anika
"Earworm, a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a portion of a song or other musical material that repeats compulsively within one's mind, known colloquially as "music being stuck in one's head". Use of the English translation was popularized by James Kellaris and Daniel Levitin. Kellaris' studies demonstrated that different people have varying susceptibilities to earworms, but that almost everybody has been afflicted with one at some time or another. The psychoanalyst Theodor Reik used the term haunting melody to describe the psychodynamic features of the phenomenon. Another scientific term for the phenomenon, involuntary musical imagery, was suggested by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in 2007."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from Bookmarklet
These days, it's the freaking kids music. (i.e. Hello Everybody, Trot Old Joe, Train Song, etc.)
- Steve and 4 other people
bump for Kevin. My top five ear worms: 1. Theme song from "Robot Chicken." 2. Sheena Easton's "Morning Train." 3. "It's A Small World." 4. "Popcorn." (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) 5. Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Dude, that term totally came from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan! Wikipedia lies!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Strangely enough, the Wiki article does mention the worm at the top: "Not to be confused with the creature depicted in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
hey, i'm Martyyyy on Realpics. about it being a story, some dude asked her for nudes, and she said no. and he called her a pussy if i remember correctly. so she defended herself by saying she used to be a stripper, and then the rest of it is right in front of you.
- Martyyyy
It's pretty retired to lunch into a asspletive attack when you bearly read end rite OMFG ... poor thing has a future full of *facepalm* ahead of her!
- Richard Walker
One of the latest comments from her Profile "Hey RDS, hows that hooked on phonics coming along? Clearly not working, inquire about a refund."
- Jimminy
Duuuuuude how in the world did you find this Jimminy?!
- Mona Nomura
Mona, search was working pretty well at the time, can't remember what I was looking for though. Edit: I searched for "pussy comments:jimminy" trying to find a post from a week or two ago where I posted "P is for pussy, that's good enough for me." Didn't find it though. Embarrassed.
- Jimminy
Micro Four Thirds Cameras Can Now be an Entire System » Photography Bay | Digital Camera Reviews, News and Resources - http://www.photographybay.com/2009...
"The Olympus EP-1 has become an exceedingly popular camera. Besides the mass amounts of media coverage that one sees/reads, they’re very hard to get your hands on as the units move very fast. But besides being able to take pictures, this camera and its relative the Panasonic GH1 shoot video: good quality video too. One of the criticisms of the system is not having lots of lenses available for the system. That criticism is very, very untrue."
- Mel Buckpitt
from Bookmarklet
Awesome. When I saw that you could get an adapter for Nikon F-mount lenses, I was really excited that this camera wouldn't have to require its own set of lenses. Can't wait to get my hands on one of these...
- Cheryl Jones
This might just become the 2nd camera for most DSLR users
- Mel Buckpitt
Could be... The LX3 seems to be the P&S of choice for many DSLR users, but the E-P1 is getting a ton of positive press. The E-P1 really reminds me of a DSLR version of the LX3, actually. Its feature set, including the different film modes, is similar. That's part of the draw for me. :)
- Cheryl Jones
I was thinking the same thing Cheryl. Basically a LX3 that can swap out lens.
- Rodfather
Well, it's noticeably larger than the LX3 which works in that it's easier and more comfortable to operate. But if portability is your ultimate goal, you'll probably want to stick with the LX3 or its more recently rumored successor. Yes, there are a whole slew of lens adapters out or coming out for it but you lose AF and other info unless you stick with the regular or micro 4/3 lenses.
- ronin
@Rodfather: Yeah, the only thing I wish the LX3 had is a longer zoom. Doable with interchangeable lenses. :)
- Cheryl Jones
I'm keeping my eye on the Panasonic GH1 micro 4/3's. I was blown away at the video footage here: http://vimeo.com/4405518. It can record video at 1080p or even 720p @60p. Here's his first impression: http://philipbloom.co.uk/2009.... It's too expensive for me right now though.
- Rodfather
Yeah, when I saw the GH1 a while back I was quite interested in its video capability. But considering I already have the LX3 and D90 which can take take 720p video, I thought getting the GH1 would be unjustifiable. But the E-P1 is totally justifiable. And I totally want one, even if I have to wait for Christmas and beg my family to just give me money to put towards it. :)
- Cheryl Jones
from BuddyFeed
The AF is fine for most purposes. It's not the fastest AF but I haven't had it hunt much to obtain focus unless there simply wasn't enough contrast for it to work. I haven't noticed much shutter lag. Olympus apparently put in some effort to get it down to DSLR range and it works fine for me. Overall it feels a little faster than the LX3 but the LX3 wasn't a slowpoke to begin with.
- ronin
@Cecily: You were probably asking about the speed of the AF on the E-P1, but as far as the AF on the LX3, it's pretty fast in general, unless you put it into macro focusing mode. The LX3 has several different AF modes including a high-speed, 1-area mode for sports-type shooting. So it bodes well that the E-P1 is (or feels) faster than the LX3. The D90's focusing when in live mode is...
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- Cheryl Jones
Heh found this thread. Totally forgot about it.
- Rodfather
It's almost as if some people believe that if you aren't in the top 1% of society, then you are worthless and shouldn't find happiness or success or healthcare or anything. Good luck with that.
There are also a lot of people who don't think the top 1% are justified in being the top 1%.
- Kenton
Plenty of people don't deserve their lot in life...this is also true for some at the top.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Like Mo points out, it's all well and good until the 1% starts telling the 99% to eat shit and die. That's exactly what makes people start building guillotines.
- Victor Ganata
To hearken back to one of Alex's other posts, the price of being in the top 1% is having to keep the other 99% from wanting to decapitate you.
- Victor Ganata
Apparently, some of them would rather be decapitated than have to deal with the 99%
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Never mind the last time that happened. Looks the French are about to warm that shit up all over again. :D
- Steven Perez