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Iron Man, 300 bores me, I prefer movies leave me wanting more so 300 while it's story was great is too complete. Iron Man& The Incredible Hulk left me wanting to see Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers. - Jimminy Fuller

I hope 300 is complete, because there is nothing that can come after it. You can't have 301 or 600 or anything like that. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Iron Man. - Derek Coward

Mathew, I understand that, but there are ways that films can leave you wanting more of the story by leaving a bit off, but 300 didn't have much choose in leaving a little bit open even just to mentally imagine where the story could lead, which is one of the things that I love about a truly great story, it can leave you wanting and the continuation never has to come. - Jimminy Fuller

IRON MAN. - Steven Perez

I wanna say that I coulda swore I saw something recently about Miller writing a prequel to 300 and Snyder already has dibs on the film rights. - Derrick

You did. - Derek Coward

I saw that, too. Then again, I'm still waiting for Miller to write that awesomely bad Batman/Osama bin Laden crossover. - Steven Perez from IM

Personally I want the story to be complete, but to each their own. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I haven't seen Iron Man yet, but I thought 300 was a really good movie. I am a big fan of the visual themes in Frank Miller's movies. - Curtiss Grymala

I hate being led on by Hollywood and their incessant need to not complete a story. Especially something genre-y, or from comic books. Only made worse when the initial film tanks, and there is no sequel, and it feels even more incomplete as a movie. But that's the movie business for you. - Derrick

Mathew - you and my wife would get along great. She gets seriously upset every time she watches a movie that doesn't have an ending. I've got so used to it, it doesn't bother me anymore. - Curtiss Grymala

while 300 was very very good. Iron Man wins for me too. - Joe Pierce

Iron Man, though I have friends in '300'... Robert Downey, Jr. can act, man. - T. Brent, technopeasant

I meant incomplete as so far as the story could continue even if the film's story is complete. Think about The Lord of the Rings, there is a life for the characters after the main arc is over, the characters could actually go on to have adventures together or by themselves. It provides room for your imagination. 300's ending just leaves the 3033 charging off to another battle where most... more... - Jimminy Fuller

There's a difference between ending a movie with a setup for a sequel and leaving a movie open-ended. One is a blatant setup for studios to cash in, the other is trusting the audience to either imagine further stories or interpret the ending as they see fit. That's what Jimminy's talking about, I think. Most of my favorite movies are open-ended to some degree - I dislike it when the filmmakers feel like they need to connect all the dots and tie off every conceivable loose end for me. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Thanks, Jandy. I think you expressed my point much more succinctly than I myself did. - Jimminy Fuller

Iron Man for me. I would say it's the best superhero movie I've seen so far. Looking forward to the sequel. - Kol Tregaskes

Iron Man. Because 300 was approximately how many IQ points I lost watching that tripe. - Mark H

Iron Man, hands down. I do not like Frank Miller's writing at all, and while 300 was pretty, it was insanely dumb. Iron Man, on the other hand, didn't try to be more than it was, and certainly had better writing throughout. But that's just my two cents. :P - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Jon: at the risk of being 'too' topical, what did you think of Sin City? - T. Brent, technopeasant

Dreihundert. - Parth Awasthi

nein - T. Brent, technopeasant

T, I found Sin City to be less obnoxious and better written...although at times over-written. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

"...and these mitts." - T. Brent, technopeasant

But I would have to say that 300 looks far prettier and much sexier than Iron Man. :P - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

300 for me. It was just so different from everything before. - Alex Scrivener

300, definitely. Iron Man was really good, but 300 is easily better in every way. - Jason Huebel

300 even gave the straight boys #instaboners. I still say Iron Man is the more complete movie. - Derrick

Actually, 300 made me laugh, in a way I usually do when being presented with someone else's repressed gay fantasies. (The Spartans *didn't* practice pedastry? Really?) - Steven Perez from IM

I laughed some during 300 as well. But I laugh a lot at over the top movies, because the overthetopness is just so crazy and fun. Especially Crank. - Mathew™ one of a kind from iPhone

30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 - Will Higgins™

Mathew™ one of a kind to Mathew™'s feed, Appetite

Which do you think is better? Instapaper or Read It Later?

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I've only tried Instapaper. Can someone list the Pros & Cons of each? - Bryan Lee

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I only use Delicious - Mitch

I've never tried either. - Akiva Moskovitz

Well, that doesn't help. :/ - Mathew™ one of a kind

Yeah, sorry. What I meant was that I haven't tried either but I'm also interested in what people have to say about this. I like the fact that Instapaper is currently supported by Feedly. I do not like the fact that Read It Later requires a username for signing up. I hate choosing usernames. It's 2009. Let us log in via an e-mail address. - Akiva Moskovitz

I have just been copy pasting the urls I come across to be read later as text for later reading in my note taking app. As I go through each url I complete reading, I remove or delete that entry from the note taking app. - TrafficBug

But, I like to save things that I will want to go back to multiple times. I use Taboo with Firefox, but I'm going over to Chrome and I'm trying to find a solution to replace Taboo or at least hold me over until Taboo has a Chrome extension. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I have a separate node in my note taking app for this - things that I will want to visit often (daily), weekly, once in a while, when I have the time. etc. If you find the need to visit particular urls often then I will move the url to this list in my note taking app. - TrafficBug

I just tag my bookmarks with read later in delicious which bypasses the app duplication - sofarsoShawn

Mathew is this the reason you had this post http://thenextweb.com/appetit... - Bryan Lee

In a way yes, because it reminded me that Instapaper was out there. - Mathew™ one of a kind

I've tried both but the reality is that neither really help. I tag #todo on feeds as well as on delicious as tags and since these todo lists just kept on piling up. I never ended up doing any of it - for the GTD theory you should just do it. I have however found it useful when you integrate todo lists with gcal - by using an iphone app called Informant. See screenshots: http://seeminglee.posterous.com/informa... - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Nobody using Laterloop? http://www.laterloop.com - similar to Instapaper, although their experimental "Read Offline" feature is currently broken. - Niklas Pivic

Instapaper and teir iPhone app worked well for me. I now use Evernote. - Dave from BuddyFeed

Steven Perez

Clerks vs. Kill Bill Vol. 2 - http://www.flickchart.com/4FDC692...

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Clerks - Mitch

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Clerks :) - MafiaX

Kill Bill. http://ff.im/d8NhT - Christopher A Carr

I gotta go with Clerks as it accurately describes an 8 year period of my life. - Rob Haas

Clerks, absolutely. - Nathan Chase

"Clerks" is a clever little movie. "Kill Bill" is a huge genera geekgasm. - Christopher A Carr

Steven Perez

Die Hard vs. Reservoir Dogs - http://www.flickchart.com/2B46E4A...

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Reservoir Dogs - موسوی Hamid Reza میر

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I would go with Willis. - Mitch

Die Hard. - Mark H

ohh hard one but bruce willis:) - MafiaX

Die Hard, no question. - Brome

Tough. Reservoir Dogs is a a little better. - Christopher A Carr

Not even close.... Reservoir Dogs by a miracle mile... - Christian (Simply X)

DIE HARD. Easily. - Nathan Chase

Reservoir Dogs - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Die Hard! (What are you people, communists??) ;) - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Die Hard. - Derrick

Reservoir Dogs - T. Brent, technopeasant

Reservoir Dogs, altho I dont think you can really compare them - Mary Carmen

What MC said. Rez Dogs is crime fiction. Die Hard is cops and robbers on steroids. - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

... which is not to say that I didn't enjoy Die Hard - MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS

Die Hard - Kevin Fox

Die Hard. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Reservoir Dogs - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Mary - any 2 movies can be compared. I even made a website to prove it. :) - Nathan Chase

Mitchell Tsai

ER•20 High Fidelity Earplugs [Etymotic Research] - http://www.etymotic.com/ephp...

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I have theses. They are really nice. But do tend to create a vacuum in my ears when a bit stuffy. - Uncle CW™

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I'd love to own something like that. Even more, I'd like to own the musicians earplugs. - Spidra Webster

Never saw the musicians earplugs before, but they look cool. I ordered the ER-20s when I purchased some Etymotic Research earphones, and they are ok. Still I like to hear the music live, so I very very rarely use them. - Mitchell Tsai

I wear regular earplugs at concerts and have ever since high school when seeing The Jam at Perkins Palace had my ears ringing well into the next day. I like music too much to be patient about losing my hearing due to too much machismo at the volume control. I first heard of musicians earplugs about 15 years ago. - Spidra Webster

Sweetwater has them for $12 with free shipping (unlike the $6 shipping at Etymotics) http://sweetwater.com/store... I wear earplugs at really loud concerts. Many of my band/crew musician friends have lost a lot of their high-end hearing, but I'm more a Folk-Rock, World Music kinda person, so the volume levels are not as high. Even when I use the ER-20s for 5-10 min, I almost always like it better when I take out the earplugs. - Mitchell Tsai

$7.84 at Amazon (in some colors) http://amazon.com/Etymoti... http://ff.im/d8Xgy - Mitchell Tsai

Shipping on these is great if you order right from Etymotic. - Mitch

etymotic charges $6 shipping, so Amazon seems to have the best pricing. Here's a FatWallet collection of reviews http://fatwallet.com/forums... - Mitchell Tsai

I think you'd be surprised. I'm also more of a world music/folk person these days. Yet even with my wearing earphones at almost every concert I've attended since I was 17, I've still lost high end hearing. There's just an awful lot of noise pollution in daily life if you live in a city of any significant size. - Spidra Webster

dB chart at Ear Plug Store http://ff.im/d8XmL which confirms my experience that they aren't musically flat (but better than my regular ear plugs). - Mitchell Tsai

Who knows? I may have already lost hearing. But I spent a lot of time performing in live orchestras and with African drums, so I enjoy when the music is very loud by most people's standards (and I enjoy pianissimos unlike some big thumpy-music enjoyers). - Mitchell Tsai

Modifying the ER-20s http://www.head-fi.org/forums... - Mitchell Tsai

I just meant that shipping from Etymotic is really fast. - Mitch

My sister, who's only two years younger than me, can still hear the 'mosquito' ringtone, that 15000 Hz or so tone. I can't hear it at all, though my hearing in lower frequencies is still pretty sharp. - Andrew C

Amazon has free 2-day shipping with the Amazon Prime trial - Mitchell Tsai

Fanboy - Mitch

BlueProton sells them through Amazon for $5.95 + $3.99 shipping http://amazon.com/ETYMOTI... I ordered 2 from Amazon at $7.84 each (with free Amazon Prime 2-day shipping) http://ff.im/d8Xgy http://amazon.com/Etymoti... because I ordered my sister a new GPS - the Garmin 265WT for $149 ($349 list... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Call me Bronco

HEY EVERYBODY LET'S SPECULATE! or not. I'm going with not.

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Back In The Day: Before the weirdness claimed his legacy, Michael Jackson understood his talent--and what he was willing to do for it--better than we ever have - http://www.gq.com/enterta...

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"of all the things that make Michael unknowable, thinking we knew him is maybe the most deceptive. Let's suspend it." - Andrew C from Bookmarklet

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I'm going to throw in a few YT links that the author more or less references. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - the Billie Jean home demo he talks about. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Bruce Swedien playing an unprocessed vocal from "The Way You Make Me Feel" at an audio engineer conference. - Andrew C

Speaking of legacy... Yesterday I heard the funniest MJ joke yet: What's the difference between acne and Michael Jackson? Acne doesn't come on your face until puberty. - Mitch

And here's the Motown 25th anniversary Billie Jean performance. You can find a better quality clip elsewhere, but this includes that bit the other doesn't, where he addresses the audience to introduce it. Also, you can get a link to "part 1", which was the Jackson 5 performance that immediately preceded this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Andrew C

And the "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" demo the author referenced: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Andrew C

Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Tune! - Kol Tregaskes

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I love the way this opens - Mitch

It doesn't play in the UK, tsch. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, it doesn't?! I didn't know YouTube had georestrictions. Boo on that. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Yeah I get it a *lot*. :-( At one point they blocked *all* music videos. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, Music, entertainment

What is your album of the year?

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I swayed on this, particularly in the last few weeks, Florence and the Machine - Lungs was the top record for me until recently. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns and Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! were exceptional records too but for me it's got to be The XX - The XX. I love every song on the album, brilliant! - Kol Tregaskes

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This one. - cecily

Cecily, you have good taste in music. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This Immortal Coil's The Dark Age of Love. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yes, I do. :-D (thanks!) - cecily

XX is definitely in my top 5... good call (saw them a week ago, sounded great live too!)... and while I'm not actually sure on the order... for me Neon Indian, Grizzly Bear, Girls (and lately) Atlas Sound would also be up there... - Jeffrey Marsh

Metric's Fantasies - Mitch

Raekwon "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2" - Adrian

Metric - Fantasies; my second is Ladytron - Velocifero - JA Castillo

Phoenix-Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Steve

Fantasies by Metric - RAPatton

I thought you might say that, Robert. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

JA, I think the Ladytron album came out last year? - Kol Tregaskes

Journey has a new "Live in Manilla " with there new singer Arnel Pineda ... pretty much rocks out anything Ive seen - johnpiercy

I'm really happy it's not just me or likes the XX, it felt like I was. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kol...oops, you are right! I just bought it this year. ;) - JA Castillo

Hehe, JA. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I just picked up The XX after hearing 'VCR' on the radio. What a great album! - Kyle Hebert

I just found out about The XX a couple weeks ago! I like them. As for my album of the year that would have to be Crash Love by AFI. - Mathew™ one of a kind from iPhone

Good to hear more are finding The XX. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

XX, Grizzly Bear, Decorate Decorate, White Rabbits, Fading Colours. - Red Label

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster - Raphael, Raphael

Oh no, surely not. - Kol Tregaskes

So hard to choose, but I did enjoy "The Fame" as well. - Bryce Roney

Sprite

@GeekMommy What an awesome baby! Congratulations! http://twitpic.com/tncmk

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What kind of dog is this? Pure husky? - Mitch

I believe it is Husky. Beautiful pup more... - Sprite from email

joey

Need to fix my hair, seriously.

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Aw. It's cute! - Spidra Webster

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I'm growing it out so I don't want to re-blue it, but my friend isn't ready for his corrective colour class, so mostly I try to cover it up. - joey

any time I see 'blue' as a verb, I think of Tobias Funke. - Andrew C

super cute picture =] just dye the hair a darker color. - Marissa

Marissa, it will ultimately go back to a dark reddish brown, but I want to have a professional do it since I'm six months away from my wedding :) - joey

Your couch looks like my pants. - Mitch

adorability incarnate - Matthew DeVries

I know what you mean. I let mine go a long time. Just fixed it last week. Not sure yet if I'm happy with the cut though. But it seriously felt good to have the color fresh!! Do it! - Rachel Lea Fox

Tudor Bosman

Once again, DO. NOT. WANT.

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Australians are probably laughing at my fear of "tiny" spiders. - Tudor Bosman

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I'm with you Tudor. But is that one outside? I'm good with them outside, just not inside. - Rachel Lea Fox

where is that? - VAL D. Zone

Right outside our door (Mountain View, CA). I left it alone. - Tudor Bosman

Previously (this was inside): http://friendfeed.com/tudor... - Tudor Bosman

it's an orb weaver. harmless.. actually good for the yard as they eat mosquitoes and such. - Jenna Bilotta

hide. Hide. HIDE!!!! I fear spiders like Madoff fears his cell mate. - Morgan Haley

KILL WITH FIRE! - Rasmus Lauridsen

outside I leave them alone, but beside the door I kind of shimmy as far from all of those legs as possible to get inside! - Rachel Lea Fox

Unless it's doing it's job, preferably somewhere far from me, it get's a three count before it does, a horrible, squishy death. eeeeekkk!!! - Bette Cooper

Orb Weavers are beautiful spiders. We have them all over around our house. Here's a Golden Orb Weaver we had last summer: http://picasaweb.google.com/jhuebel... - Jason Huebel

NOPE. - Derrick

+100 Jenna. Love the fact she knows it's an orb weaver. Is there anything Jenna can't do? - Louis Gray

The PNW is positively replete with orb weavers in the late summer and fall. They eat many metric shit-loads of mosquitoes and flies. - Christopher A Carr

Yes, I think of Portland as Spider City. I don't mind spiders because they do eat all of those boatloads of pesky insects, but I don't like it when they surprise me. - Eph Zero

There's a spider there? Ohh ! Pff, micro. - Mo Kargas

Do not fear it. Actually embrace it. You'll become the next Spiderman. :P - imabonehead

HOLY GROSSNESS. - Mona Nomura

Oh hi little guy. What's his name? - Will Higgins™

The "eek, nuke it from space" meme has grown tiresome. - Christopher A Carr

We have one that builds a web across our driveway every night. I'm scared of it but we've left it alone, it's not doing any harm there. If it built a web across our porch? Different story. - Mellissa Claus

Spiders don't bother me. Little known fact: It's virtually impossible for a spider bite to kill you. Many are poisonous, but spiders simply don't produce enough poison to actually kill a healthy full grown person. However, they can cause severe damage at the bite scene, including necrosis and such, but this is often treatable (and/or highly painful). - Otto

Knowing the facts doesn't make me any less scared. Phobia = unreasonable/irrational fear. Eg, I am scared of the huntsman, which is virtually harmless; but not red-backs, which are venemous. - Mellissa Claus

I must confess to once allowing an orb weaver to stay in a corner of my house. I even fed it -- interested to see if I could get it to live through the winter. - Christopher A Carr

That looks *just* like a golden skulltula from Legend of Zelda! - Mitch

Itachi to Itachi's feed, Chrome Extensions, Chrome

Chrome extensions are basically awesome right now. Install in seconds, no restarting like Firefox, and you can manage from a quick url/bookmark. The only thing I wish for right now is a way to order them on the top of the window or to choose which ones show up as icons and which don't. Otherwise, basically perfect.

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You sum up my feelings pretty well. The official gmail extension is very buggy for me though. - Mitch

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I actually prefer the One Number extension, since it's Gmail+Gvoice+Gwave+Gcal all in one, haven't seen any bugs yet. I use the Send from Gmail extension with no icon to set GMail as default email client - Itachi

I disagree. Can't get Adblock+ to work or block anything on my end. Oh, and I much prefer Fx's lower RAM usage to Chrome's speed - LANjackal

I use AdThwart, but I agree, it's not on-par with Adblock of Firefox - Itachi

Oh yeah, and since Fx now has the Multifox extension that enables multiple simultaneous logons (albeit using different windows), my main reason for using Chrome in the first place is gone - LANjackal from IM

Chrome has a much lighter system footstep on this end than Firefox, and one of the best things things about how they've been implemented imo is how each extension has it's on process; one borks up, the whole program doesn't go up in flames - Itachi

Should be really interesting what develops from the Jetpack API for FF, since it sounds like it could transform FF extensions to a pretty similar model of Chrome's - Itachi

In the end, I think it'd be awesome if some sort of model was developed that was similar on both browser families and allowed for more conversion to ultimately one model for extensions - Itachi

Paul Jacobson

Nexus One Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ to Merry's feed, Funny Funny, Fun Stuff, Funny Pics and Videos

You've been naughty this year, boy.

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Good lord. - Spidra Webster

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Not good for the mustache crowd's image, either - Mitch

Nasty. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

that dude needs a good kicking. - Joe Silence is not Santa

douchebag! - T. Brent, technopeasant

haha asshole :D - ozztrojen

Someone did this to my "beans n' franks" in a crowded bar back in college. For the longest time I wondered who the girl was that did it. Only years later did it occur to me that the perpetrator may not have been female! Oh my God! [Edited] - Mark "DerBingle" J

yeah like the *image* of men needs to look any more douche like. - Scott

omg Mark. lol! - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Classy... :\ - Christian (Simply X)

LOL!!! - Jeff P. Henderson

You stay classy, Ireland fan. - Jeremy (on vacation)

Oops! I said "beans n' franks"... I meant "beans n' FRANK." (I only had/have ONE, y'see.) - Mark "DerBingle" J

you mean NOW you only have one! - Joe Silence is not Santa

NOPE. - Derrick

This is Ireland we're talking about here. The seediest pub in Sydney, Australia is an Irish one called "Scruffy Murphys'. Even I got my tit grabbed there, and I'm a dude. - Will Higgins™

Louis Gray

My current "Share With" folder in Safari is full of bookmarklets. Any I should add here that I am missing?

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pearltrees, twine.. interesting! I think you're good, ever used zootool? I always keep it somewhere, even with my low usage, their system rocks. Do you have a subscribe to reader option? Have so much BMLs, have to organize all that with the years, ffcheck, very good. Yep, do a check in mind, there's maybe other services you're missing. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

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You don't have StumbleUpon, Soup.io, Digg, or Google Bookmarks. - April Russo (app103)

Why not replace them all with a bookmark to Shareaholic? - http://www.shareaholic.com/tools... - Cory

April, that is correct. I tend not to submit to StumbleUpon or Digg unless the post requests it, and even then, not often. - Louis Gray

Cory, that's a good idea. But I bet Shareaholic doesn't have many of these. It's not always about sending content somewhere. Often it's about finding data around the content. - Louis Gray

I used to be a rather heavy SU user till I ended up forced to use a browser that their toolbar didn't support (k-meleon on a 12 yr old, 233mhz, 64mb RAM machine) - April Russo (app103)

Shouldn't "addthis" replace virtually all of these? I've never used it before, but I see it has a bookmarklet. - Mitch

*GASP* yes, & you of all people. You're missing subscribe in Google Reader...amongst a few others, but I go nuts with my bmarklets & have sh*t loads; of mine these would be most relevant/useful to you: MapThis, Bookmaplet, Easylistener, TwitterReactions, BugMeNot, getASIN, WordPressComments, Readability, RemoveBloat, CliptoEvernote, SubscribeinGoogleReader, & then you got your pipes: friendfeed, flickr, tumblr, ShortenURL, - sofarsoShawn

Shawn, the "Subscribe in Google Reader" is replaced by "Add Feed to Toluu". Toluu not only adds it to Google Reader, but makes that addition public. - Louis Gray

Mmm... Shareholic maybe has one.. this is one saver of the type, got it as a Chromium Extension though... a demo perhaps of the services.. http://friendfeed.com/zjemily... - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Hmmm. Anyone got an invite code for toluu? - Nick in Manila

Nick, I am sure I do. Send me an e-mail to louisgray@mac.com and I will send you one. - Louis Gray

I've got one for check with compete which I use to see how well someone is doing - though that's not sharing but like some of the other items on the list. - Richard Cunningham

You have bookmarklets for services I wasn't even aware existed: gawkk? playgrub? - DGentry

Louis, let us know what additional services you'd like to see Shareaholic support -- happy to help. We support many non-sharing services as well. jay@shareaholic.com - Jay Meattle

Paul Buchheit

Many criticize social gaming as pointless and boring, but with nearly seven billion players, "Earth" must be doing something right.

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Meh. It'll never catch on. - Mistletoe Glen

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There are more players than people online? Oh wait. You're talking about the offline versions? I'm guessing there are plenty of the world's population that don't play games at all. Infants in Africa, for example. - Cristo

Chris, you're not getting it. This _is_ the online version :) - Paul Buchheit

No, I'm not getting it. But then I'm on the second glass of wine tonight. Is FriendFeed the online version? Did you guys get more subscribers recently? :) - Cristo

Imagine a much more sophisticated version of farmville that takes up to 100 years to play... - Paul Buchheit

*knocks on art students next door to get some weed* :) - Cristo

No point, Cristo, *someone* has already smoked it all.... - WorldofHiglet

Earth is like Monopoly meets Risk. - Morton Fox

Different game. Earth plays the reproduction game, which isn't all that boring :-) - Todd Hoff

Earth is a more complicated game than can ever be described in metaphor. - Mitch

Status update: "Paul has just grown tomatoes in his backyard". - Louis Gray

What makes something a game vs life? Is all life a game? Is there any reality outside of the game? - Cristo

I assume it's recursive Chris. - Paul Buchheit

First Life is highly overrated. - Jason Huebel from Android

So we're still left wondering who bootstrapped the Lisp system that runs the whole thing. - Cristo

Reality according to XKCD: http://xkcd.com/224/ - Mitch

Or maybe PHP... - Paul Buchheit

PHP? Please say it ain't so! - Gabe

Well, it started as this simple little game, and it just kept growing, and now there's so much code that it would be impractical to start over in a better language. - Paul Buchheit

Still the same simple game, the rules may have gotten a tad more complicated though. - Todd Hoff

FriendFeed has 7 billion users? (Starts writing...) - Jesse Stay

life is like calvin ball, you make your own rules =D - Mike Chelen

Or maybe he's suggesting that Paul is God? - Jesse Stay

or we're all being scammed? - Jesse Stay

I don't so much find it pointless and boring, I'd say more like pointless and incredibly depressing. - SuezanneC Baskerville

Very deep, Monsieur Paul. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Who has teh cheat codes? I'll buy for lots of karma points in gold - Itachi

*bans for hacking* take that kind of thing to another server =D - Mike Chelen

Nick Bostrom from Oxford University explains the Simulation Argument - http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulat... - Luke Stanley

I'm not playing until we all agree on the rules! - Mark "DerBingle" J

A process without fixed rules is not a game, it's mediation. - zeroinfluencer

So if an unstoppable force hits an immovable object, who will handle the exception? (throws UnstoppableImmovableInteractionException). - Fırat Can Başarır

... - ★ Soner Gönül

No fair not counting non-human players. Most of our social games don't need much intelligence to play, right? Kill for food (wealth), find mates. - lawrence wang

I hear they're planning a new expansion named mars. - Private Sanjeev

The resolution and level of detail is incredible, but the graphics design is often severely lacking. Only in a few places did they even attempt to make things look good. And, of course, those are all the bits you see in the trailers.. - Otto

Frame rate could be better. - Kevin Fox

Can I re roll? I'd like better stats. - Dario Gomez

Corvida

Twitter really needs to do something about these racial trending topics. The latest is perpetuating the wrong stereotypes about my race.

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You want to censor? That may not be as bad as racist-tending conversation, but it's not too good for society either. - Mitch

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@Corvida I didnt notice any racist topic, perhaps they don't show up over here. Censoring might not be the answer, but fighting most definitely is! Let's make noise ;-) - Lui(gi) ►► from iPhone

Another thing - there are no right or wrong stereotypes. All prejudice should fall under the "no-no" category. - Mitch

The trending topic at the time was #ifsantawasblack. I don't think Twitter should sensor them at all. I think Twitter should drop trends all together at this point. - Corvida

popurls

The Most Badass Cop EVER [PIC] - http://pop.is/y19

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Bacon! - Mitch

Mahdi Ebrahimi

Random - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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This is what everything looks like with my glasses off - Mitch

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That's how I once explained to someone what it looks like when I don't wear my glasses. "it's out of focus" I'd say - but they still didn't get it. so I took a photo similar to this. to which they responded "oh. that sucks!" - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

بي نهايت اين جور عكس ها رو دوس دارم! آرامش بعد از يه شب با شكوه! وقتي اشك تو چشاته و غبار خستگي ريخته روي نگاهت - Moghamer

sometimes my eyes see like this but i never use glass :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi

کاملا موافقم مقامر جان حس خوبیه - Mahdi Ebrahimi

غير اين احوالات، عرض جان نثاري خالصانه ام را پذيرا باشيد!!!!!!!!!!هه - Moghamer

قربونت مقامر جان - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Yes, this is what i see too without my glasses! On another point, does anyone else see the diffraction of light, ie rainbow, around artificial lights and the moon? I do all the time, with and without my glasses! Its kinda beautiful and surreal at the same time! - Halil

M F to M's feed, Places, Fotograf, Photo Gallery

20 Beautiful Castles Photos - http://gallery.xemanhdep.com/2009...

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sweet, thanks - Mitch

Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Drivers bring three lanes of highway traffic to a halt to rescue cold kitten in Calgary | VANCOUVERITE - http://www.vancouverite.com/2009...

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I would not so much like to discuss this article as the disclaimer on the bottom. "Use this article on your blog or website for just $5. News organizations pay $25. To reproduce or distribute, " - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF from Bookmarklet

Good thing they can host the article at their expense and we can link for free... - Mitch

Mitch

Stuff I Do Online Part 1 - http://paramountance.wordpress.com/2009...

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I might just add that map to "my maps" - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

Dam Fishing. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

:P - Mitch

Mahdi Ebrahimi

Time is too slow for those who wait. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

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great pics - Mitch

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hi Mahdi. beautiful pics ^_ - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

Rebecca Tabor Armstrong is awesome!! I've got her in my contacts and love seeing her work! - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

She is one of my favorite photographer. she has a fan page on facebook you can be a fan of her in FB, Nathalie. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Hello Ocurro, Thank you. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Paul Jacobson

I have a Nokia N900 to test for a couple weeks. I'm using a FriendFeed embed to comment on my exp as a I go for anyone who is interested

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My first real experience with the N900 was using Nokia Maps on the device on my way home. The UI is fairly different to the UI on my N97 but it located me very quickly! - Paul Jacobson

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The N900 runs Maemo 5 which is a Linux-based operating system. While some of the application icons are the same as S60 devices, the UI is very different and I am slowly getting used to how to do stuff on the device. - Paul Jacobson

There are a couple things I really like about the N900: email handling (presets for various email services and easy mail account setup), conversations view for IM and SMS (combines both into a seamless messaging flow) and the fact that I can run Firefox with Weave (can't figure out how to make that my default browser though). - Paul Jacobson

The N900 now is a little like the iPhone in its early days. There isn't nearly the wealth of apps you see on the iPhone or Android devices and not even as many as I have available on my N97. That being said, there are quite a few apps available although clearly with a tech/geek bias. - Paul Jacobson

I moved a couple .mp4 and .mov files across to the N900. It picks them up but won't play them for some reason. - Paul Jacobson

That's certainly a turnoff. Tell us about the screen and keyboard :) - Mitch

The screen is great. The viewable area is roughly the same as an iPod Touch/iPhone. The resolution is pretty good too. I have seen video playback on the N900 and it looks great too. I don't know why these videos are not playing. I thought the keyboard would be a bit difficult to use after the N97 but aside from getting used to a different layout, I find it to be pretty easy to use. I have also enabled the onscreen keyboard and it works well too. - Paul Jacobson

Now if only I could figure out how to change ringtones ... - Paul Jacobson

Paul .. change ringtone on your N900 .. http://karoliinamaemoblog.blogspot.com/2009... - Marius

As a Linux person I would love to get my hands on a N900 .. have been playing around with the Maemo 5 SDK and development environment .. - Marius

the .mp4 and .mov not playing is a codec issue .. since those are both licensed formats you will have to add the codecs yourself ... Nokia are not allowed to distribute it by default .. - Marius

Marius: Thanks for the ringtone link. I didn't notice that I could scroll down to expose the other options. How would I add the additional codecs to the device to support mp4 and mov playback? - Paul Jacobson

Although I realise the N900 is Linux based, I am not familiar enough with Linux to understand whether other Linux apps would run on the device and, if so, which ones. - Paul Jacobson

will see if I can find link to the mp4/mov codecs .. Maemo is just Debian with another GUI .. like Ubuntu is Debian with Gnome .. apps that does not use a GUI (ie command line) can mostly be used as is ... other apps needs slight changes to run .. you can add the maemo-extras repository and then have lots of other maemo based apps to install ... lots of extra apps is added each day ... crap .. I need one of these to play with ... - Marius

Oh, wait, I saw something about enabling the extras repository somewhere ... In the meantime, I am transferring some media to the device now using Salling's Media Sync which can also be used with other devices. - Paul Jacobson

It isn't a very easy transition from S60 to the N900's Maemo interface, at least not from my N97. I can imagine it could be that much harder to transition from an iPhone (assuming anyone would want to make that transition). - Paul Jacobson

i am more interested in the fact that it is a linux device which would mean it would interface much better with my linux desktop/notebook than other devices - Marius

Marius: Well that is an interesting prospect. I don't know nearly enough about how Linux works to appreciate how the N900 would interface with a Linux machine. It would be pretty cool if the N900 somehow sync'd with your Linux machine on your desk, allowing you to use the N900 as a sort of hub away from your office. - Paul Jacobson

I have this persistent feeling that no matter what my impressions of the N900 are, I am just grazing the surface of what the N900 is capable of. In a way it feels like the N900 is wasted on me! Haven't been able to say that about a mobile device before. - Paul Jacobson

i think since at the base the n900 is the same as an other linux machine, it would interface much better than say a Symbian, Windows, iPhone or RIM device ... I only just have to look at how easy I find to to move stuff between my laptop and other linux based machines. But then I am speculating here since I cannot try it out and it looks like we in SA will not get the n900 - Marius

The battery life on the N900 is terrible. i am barely making it through a day (as in daylight). - Paul Jacobson

ouch - Mitch

I just switched back to my N97 while the N900 charges. Just want to see what it feels like to go back to Symbian ... - Paul Jacobson

I switched back to my N97 again this evening while the N900 charged (notice a pattern?) and I'm back home, about to switch back and I'm feeling a little reluctant. When I use the N900 I miss Google Maps, better Nokia Maps, working Exchange sync and Gravity. On the N900 I really appreciate a better UI, better geotagging for photos and video, better shared services integration and much better Web browsers ... - Paul Jacobson

Louis Gray

Compete reports FriendFeed traffic now is below last year's numbers. Down 21% month over month as well.

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Via http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf... - Louis Gray

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: ( - michael sean wright

I'm still here damnit! - Glenn Slaven

Not me! I left a long time ago! (p.s., I can quit whenever I want) - Louis Gray

The lightweights left. Good riddance. - Spidra Webster

Figures. FF may have jumped the shark when it sold out to Facebook. But at least we diehards continue to stick around... - Dennis Jernberg

my feed is jumping more than ever. something in those stats must be broken or skewed. - Joe Silence is not Santa

"... this is when we opened the real time beta and when the beta rolled out to the main site... oh and this is when we announced the Facebook aquisition..." - KyleHase

Everyone's experience is different, Joe. I believe, in aggregate, that these numbers are correct. That doesn't impact my own behavior, of course. - Louis Gray

I've been getting a rather healthy influx of new subscribers. - Mark Davidson

Yes but I think the quality of information here is much better. The people that left were producing noise. Thank god Scoble took them with him.. - Uncle CW™

definitely less noise - holly

oh, yes. - Joe Silence is not Santa

ff's dying:( - Igor Poltavskiy

Compete or Complete? just wondering? - Bill Heslin

not so Igor - Mitch

Compete.com is Incomplete, Bill. :) - Louis Gray

it's not dying, Igor, it's just losing the "flavour of the month" people who like to talk to the mirror. - Joe Silence is not Santa

lol...ty Louis...after I typed it I said ....Ooooh god...I'm an ass...no one needs to agree... - Bill Heslin

I've been hit with a bunch of new followers lately. I'm still doing the same ole thing, I think. Plus, I found the librarians (or maybe they found me?). - Derrick

@Derrick: in the end, The Librarians find us all! - Joe Silence is not Santa

well, that's not entirely true. - Joe Silence is not Santa

I've still got around my librarian at my U...it's a catholic u...I thank my spiritual friends...lmao - Bill Heslin

Derrick - it was a mutual thing :) - holly

Well, FF is probably the best of the last round of linear conversation and aggregation tools, largely thanks to the lack of overhead and fluff (the users contribute plenty). Whether you use it in a bare-bones, flat way -- or have mastered an elaborate orchestration of API hooks and fiddlizations -- there is plenty of value to be had in the way FF handles its business and lets the user handle theirs. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

This matches my observations as well and is a major reason why I've spent less time here. Chris: the problem is that most people tell me that Facebook has enough conversations for them. One of Zuckerberg's items a week ago had many thousands of comments. - Robert Scoble

That still doesn't mean anything for me - it's still a very productive tool. I'm at an advantage by using it. - Jesse Stay

I'm still here on FF too! - imabonehead

quantity != quality - holly

Compete is about as wrong as Alexa was in the old days. Seriously, I have numerous benchmarks where I *know* the traffic and Compete is often off by serious margins. Instead, I'd use Quantcast which shows a major drop off in September, but with the bottom falling out the numbers have started to trend back up again. http://www.quantcast.com/friendf... - AJ Kohn

I agree only Quantcast is accurate-ish. - Thomas Power

@Thomas: Yes, I'm not saying Quantcast is always right, but it's usually more right than the others. - AJ Kohn

Alexa is a relative measure it's relatively right http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... the top sites look right-ish to me http://www.alexa.com/topsites when compared to Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/top-sit... - Thomas Power

Thomas, that looks pretty up and to the right to me, in a long-term sense. It's fun to look at the short-term, but we're seeing no sense on a long-term scale of FriendFeed losing traffic. Great point on the Alexa and Quantcast (assuming we even need traffic graphs to keep us on here) - Jesse Stay

Thx J x - Thomas Power

@Robert, I'll never argue that Facebook isn't more popular. All the cute that it offers (which isn't nearly as bad as it could be) seems to make it approachable enough to a much wider audience than a tool like FF. I get that you can filter out the fluff and minimize the Facebookishness of it, but then you're stuck with their interface and color scheme (unless I'm missing something). I guess I really see them as being different corners at the same party. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

whatever it is.friendfeed still has it's unique user group's. i am happy to be here - İbrahim Ot

I see more interaction on my items now than in the pre-Facebook days, but I may be an outlier. - John (a.k.a. dendroica) from iPod

Well, I don't care what the numbers say. I get much more out of Friendfeed (in terms of discovery, engagement *and* enjoyment) than I ever have from Facebook - and I should point out that, with 2 or 3 exceptions, I've met everyone on my Facebook friends list.. Friendfeed demonstrates that it doesn't require a cast of 350 million to make a great community. - Andrew Terry

hear hear Andrew - Thomas Power

looks like FriendFeed was the first to be kicked by Facebook changes.. wich is not so bad since the service belongs to - Frédérick 2 Baro from Yoono

Somehow I feel the Compete state are not correct! - Sampad Swain

I'm not going anywhere! - Jason Hill

To get a good experience, friendfeed has always required you to put in a lot of time. So many active users comment on a thread and Hide it when they no longer have anything to say, if you come by a few hours later to comment you're just talking to a wall. friendfeed has never been very rewarding for casual use, in my experience, and that is doubly true now. - DGentry

Awe man.... - Alternating Reality Books

You can't argue with Metrics, but my own feed is very active - RAPatton from iPhone

What RAP says. I don't think this could ever be determined, but I wonder if certain language groups have dropped off their use while other language groups have maintained? - Rochelle

You can Hide Stories? Really? Well, damn, so you can. - Jason Hill

*yikes* that explains the lethargic Home Feed; less users = less interaction/activity = the lethargic(boring) feed - sofarsoShawn

I check FF as much as I ever did (though I should prolly post more) - Iain Baker

*quoting mode on* Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein. - Citronella

Do not like ... - Charlie Anzman

not a good news - Ted GUO

:-( - Kol Tregaskes

Traffic Statistics: fascinating if you like numbers; otherwise it's just classic ePenis-waving, pointing, and gloating, and not really important if you're happy. - Mark H

Without ads, how does friendfeed pay for itself? - T. Brent, technopeasant

That's a shame seeing as FF is better than all the other social sites. I'll continue to use it until I can't. - Araceli

All you frowny faces need to go read through the thread - FriendFeed's just fine - up and to the right even. I'm not sure why Louis felt the need to post this. See this thread, much more accurate: http://friendfeed.com/jessest... - Jesse Stay

Note that November was the month Scoble announced publicly he was leaving Friendfeed (FTMP) - Jesse Stay

T. Brent, FriendFeed doesn't need to make money (although I'm sure they will) - they're owned by Facebook, which is already profitable and cash-flow positive - Jesse Stay

Yet, keep in mind FriendFeed is part of Google's deal for real-time content :-) I bet there was money there. - Jesse Stay

Thx, Jesse. - T. Brent, technopeasant

"Q: Why doesn’t Compete’s estimate of site visitors match my local analytics (e.g. Google Analytics, Omniture)? ... A: ... Compete measures only US activity." -- http://www.compete.com/resourc..., while the Alexa chart Jesse posted in his thread showing up-and-to-the-right growth reflects global activity. There's no real disconnect between the two charts. Which one you think matters more probably depends on what argument you're trying to support. - Ken Sheppardson

What's friendfeed? - veo

Ken, exactly - Jesse Stay

veo: the matrix. you're in it. you just don't know it. - Itachi

Interesting. I was just thinking that FF has started to die. The activity amongst my friends and friends of friends has decreased considerably in recent weeks. - Jason Toney

oh that's not cool wonder what's going on!!! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

still here - Mike Nencetti

successful exists do not always equal successful products once acquisiiton is complete. - susan mernit

...still here. Still like it. Still find it useful on many levels. The thing about FF is that even at its peak, its traffic and usage wasn't even in the same league as Facebook, Twitter, or even MySpace in steep decline. The raw user numbers never (or should I say, optimistically, haven't) reached any kind of critical mass. Outside of the early-adopter and sophisticated info junkie/informavore crowds, Friendfeed, just isn't that relevant. - .LAG liked that

Quoting Jeniffer Aniston: This is so uncool. :-( - Olivia Lovag

why I should trust only compete's data? where is guarantee they are not biased due to some unknown reason? now if you would go to e.g. quantcast for another opinion http://www.quantcast.com/friendf... and switch between 3m, 6m, 1yr and "all"... do you see difference? yes, I know quantcast doesn't have access to data, only estimate, yet... Ok, let's try alexa.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinf... - and they also show compeletly different trend... so, WHY we should trust compete's graphs? - A.T.

A.T., be sure to also see my article here that agrees with you: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

How many people here use FF for work / project dev - or do you use it for just link sharing with friends? - zeroinfluencer

@zeroinfluencer I use it for conversations, along shared links and not necessarily bound for them. I can't discuss my work in public at all, apart from very generic details, hence question about using it for work/project _is_ irrelevant for me. But rest is just goes here - twitter is very far behind friendfeed for me. And facebook complements friendfeed pushing it even further. - A.T.

zerioinfluencer I use it for both - Jesse Stay

@AT @Jessy - I use FF a lot for project dev with distributed teams - the mix of chat and sharing in private groups has proved amazing. Even team members who have never used FF before have been going "wow" why the hell haven't we used this before? - zeroinfluencer

To my point - FF has not really been presented as more than a Twitter style app - it's far more than that IMHO. It's a swiss army knife for the web. - zeroinfluencer

I am new so this read well. I am one of those - why the hell wasn't I here before now. I used to Icq a LONG time ago. Then did nothing for a while. Joined a fan site - LonghornNation.com and met tons of people that many are still very important friends to me - I blogged, read and interacted on forums, met tons of people at real life events. Then that site was shut down and some moved to... more... - Paulette Garcia Morris

@zeroinfluencer I use it for both too - .LAG liked that

I'm still in love with FF as my web swiss army knife too. What should we move to when it disappear? What about Feedoor? - Opensource Obscure