What? There's another view? Please post.
- Ken Morley
I'm pretty sure it's in the collection "Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head", published back in the early/mid 70s. I know I've got it around here somewhere...
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I saw so many of this kind of photo with my own eyes yesterday,I was there when they beat us,our people, to death just for yelling out where's our vote?!!
- TaaTaa
from fftogo
None of this reporting -- None of it -- would be possible without online tools. Robert -- there's the 2010 Web! I seem to remember your earlier question (a few months ago) about the definition of journalism. This is it. It's not up to the "paid journalists" at the NY Times or Chicago Tribune anymore. It's up to you, me, people like @jamesbuck, and the person who took this photo and put it online.
- Curt Mercadante
I'm not really surprised, Iranians are a lot more empowered than people in the West think. It is *not* Saudi Arabia!
- Iphigenie
Thanks for getting this out. It's so easy to get lost in tweeting about our silly mundane lives that we forget how important images like this can result in making people aware and helping to make a difference in the world.
- mrsha
Curt, right, after listening to Scoble on a panel about the future of Journalism, and he was the only one "journalizing" it via Kyte, I wrote a post that the future of Journalism is a video camera or in this case a camera. I remember that it was the camera and video camera that stopped Vietnam for instance
- Stephen Pickering
And, putting aside for a bit whether or not CNN ignored the story -- we're now getting news that NBC's Tehran office may have been raided and the BBC has been told to "get lost." Under oppressive, censoring regimes like we have in Iran, North Korea and China -- citizen journalists empowered by new communications tools will be the ONLY way we get accurate news from these regions.
- Curt Mercadante
If anyone ever doubted the revolutionary, real-time impact of Social Media, this photo easily dispels those misconceptions....
- John Fenzel
Amir: you have a fan for life. I hope you do win the Pulitzer Prize. I think you got the iconic photo of the election protests. This one should hang in Newseum's Pulitzer Gallery. Can you tell us how you shot it, and give us more details about what was going on in your head as you pressed the shutter button? To everyone else, don't you love friendfeed?
- Robert Scoble
Amir: when I took photojournalism at San Jose State University one quote stuck in my mind from all those classes over the years "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." That quote was from Robert Capa, here's an article in Time Magazine about it: http://www.time.com/time... You have gotten close enough. Congrats, I can't even imagine trying to get this close. I hope all comes out well for your country and you.
- Robert Scoble
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
"If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left. With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000. With AIG, you would have less than $15 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash. Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle...""
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I'll be the buzzkill: recycling refunds are based on the deposit fee that is built into the price of the beer. So, based on the numbers above, you are simply returned the $214 that you gave as a deposit on the cans and, on the $786 you spent on the beer, you get a 0% financial return, though you get tons of beer. Also, at 5 cents per can, $214 in refunds equates to 4,280 cans...and with a $1,000 purchase price, that translates to 23 cents per can. Barring wholesale costs, WTF beer costs 23 cents/can?
- Chester
you can call it your 401-keg...or in Chester's example above...a 401 - keg fail...
- Skye Miller
A more damning "investment" comparison is that: you could have bought a Hummer last year and it would have retained more value than the stocks listed above. For that matter, one-year-old beer would probably have retained more of its original value than those stocks.
- Chester
Chester, not a very effective buzzkill. ~2000, I had a friend who used to joke that he had outinvested everyone else with his "*non-interesting-bearing* checking account"
- j1m
Well, anyone with a non-interest-bearing mattress is looking pretty good for 2008.
- Chester
I went 100% into cash Apr 2007. The lousy 4% interest is looking pretty good now. Waiting to cost-average back in... Since I was in private equity in Feb 2000, I saw the loss of traction in deals, and also exited the market except for $20,000 ($2,000 in 10 stocks). Missed the internet crash also...
- Mitchell Tsai
Since I started investing just after graduating college in 1986, I saw the 1987 crash first-hand and have a healthy respect for economic downturns. When I feel the market is too risky, I exit... Maybe I'll miss some gains. That's ok by me.
- Mitchell Tsai
I'm making more money from the interest on a savings account than I would if I put it in a CD (of any length of time). These are weird times.
- Andy Bakun
Stephen Colbert might be onto something by investing all his money in cans of soup.
- Constantinos Michael
Less than two days after Scrabulous was yanked from Facebook under threat of a copyright suit by Scrabble-creator Hasbro, Scrabulous' developers are back with something a little different.
- Leo Laporte
We need a room in FriendFeed to display growth stats and info on breakdown of new users entering FF arena. Of course we'd need Bret / Paul to supply the data and visualization chart info, etc.
- Susan Beebe
prediction. Within one year FF has more unique visitors than Twitter.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas Hawk: Having used FF for a few days now, the only way I can see Twitter growing is if it is acquired by a larger company (Yahoo!?).
- Jake (aka Jawee)
from twhirl
I love FF, but I'll take you both up (thomas & bwana) on that prediction, unless Twitter completely implodes and loses significant portions of it's userbase, I don't think FF will catch up within a year.
- felix
It's hard to say, but IMO Twitter is better suited to the less-technical folks. FF puts a lot of information (potentially) in front of someone and I can see that being confusing to a large cross-section of users. Of course, FF may (hopefully will) continue to add features that might help cut down the noise for those that do not want it which could lend weight to @Thomas' prediction.
- Joel Gray
I'll truly believe in the growth of FF when the conversations aren't about FF.
- William Beem
that looks like a level off. I think ff loses a lot by not feeding vanity. good for me though, but it chases off the twitter whores
- NoahDavidSimon
I agree with Joel Gray and think FF serves more of a niche than Twitter.
- Mike Reynolds
is growth defined by number of Visitors or number of new users ?? I actually thought there could be decline .. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Peter Dawson
Yeah, I just discovered it last week. Sneaky! Would be good if they have the same thing for your FB friends' email addresses. Or is that something I missed too?...via feedalizr
- Shannon Low
Wow thats tricky. Didn't know I could get that
- Katie
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues.
- Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction.
- Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30
- Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here."
- Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments.
- Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes.
- Louis Gray
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :(
- Chris Hofmann
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level.
- Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy!
- Matt Frog
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever.
- Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one
- Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want!
- Joe Dawson
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :)
- felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :)
- Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome!
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed.
- Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days.
- Mitchell Tsai
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :)
- Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :)
- Bwana ☠
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make.
- fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!!
- Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML.
- directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0)
- Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work!
- Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better.
- Michael Carter
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting.
- Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-)
- Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one
- Alexander Oelling
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice.
- Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance.
- Dave Hanson
That's one of my favorite bumper stickers. For those who don't know, http://127.0.0.1 will take you to your home machine (er, local machine). If you have a Web server running on your laptop, for instance, it'll get that server to show you something. So, there's no place like "home."
- Robert Scoble
"You don't need to plunk down $90 for a Wii Fit to track your progress toward a healthier body—even if that downhill skiing game looks mighty fun. If you're trying to curb unnecessary calories and stick to an exercise plan, there are tons of free applications that want to see you succeed. Whether you're facing a fast-food menu or polishing off a light entree, you can log, track, and make healthy decisions from your desktop, or just as easily from a phone."
- edythe
Those only help you accomplish your goals, but owning a wii fit always you to pretend you are cool
- RAPatton
maybe a 302 temp redirect to friendfeed, people need to communicate what do u know
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
from twhirl
Now if someone hacked the Something is Wrong page to redirect to FF, that would be something
- Kevin Bondelli
That page should just re-direct users to FriendFeed automatically....save me a click!
- Susan Beebe
"Looking for Something is Technically Wrong? Try www.xyzzy.com" "Something is Technically Wrong - now 50% off!!! (click here)" "Something is Technically Wrong - Now with FREE SHIPPING" "Discount on Something is Technically Wrong, no prescription required" "Widest Selection on Something is Technically Wrong" "Something is Technically Wrong - Safe, Proven, Guaranteed Quality" "50+ Flavors of Something is Technically Wrong to choose from - Factory Direct"
- Karim
some kind of homeostatic equilibrium. if they're down, they make gazillions and buy new servers. then they're up and continue to grow until the new downtime...
- Benedikt Koehler
I'm still using Google Reader far more. FriendFeed... well, it's interesting, but too much noise, not enough signal.
- Ian Betteridge
This is so true, I find that I am checking friendfeed before google reader now.
- Adam Posey
I stopped subscribing in gReader to folks who are in FriendFeed, but that hasn't made a huge impact on my reading yet. It will be interesting to see how it affects stats...since it appears that FeedBurner reports FriendFeed as a bot, so only counts if the item is loaded in browser, not as a subscription, right?
- Judi Sohn
Do you use the imaginary feature to pull feed into FF that aren't already there? Also, I just discovered the power behind the "Like" link. It's like staring or sharing something in Google Reader! Sweet!
- Ward Seward
FriendFeed has become primary to me but I still read plenty of feeds as well. Can't imagine putting tech blogs or whatever in my FF stream.
- Akiva
I still use google reader as I find it looks a lot better when reading at work
- Ryan
from Alert Thingy
I'm still reading GR, too, but skim it ever most quickly.
- Mike Reynolds
my google reader has seen a lot less of me lately since friendfeed + twhirl
- Morgan
from twhirl
I read friendfeed in gReader. Best of both worlds. FF aggregates well, gReader keeps track of what is unread and presents in chronological order.
- James Polley
FF cannot replace my google reader. Gredr allows to pull in my feeds into neatly organised folder - each with relevant tags like GTD or Internet or Markets etc .... so I dive into whichever folder fancies my mood and then skim thru pretty quickly. So I guess the ability to customise my data structure appeals to me the most
- viki saigal
google reader still is the main source of information, because FF has only the early adopters
- Florin Grozea
I'm contemplating turning FriendFeed off in Twhirl and placing it in gReader.
- Shawn Farner
from twhirl
FriendFeed replaced Google Reader for the popular stuff, in other words: It replaced Techmeme. I'm still using Google Reader for all the stuff that doesn't come through here, but not Techmeme any more.
- sebmos
Delicious already has a major social component in your personal network, and ability to send items "for" another person. But it's clunky, and quite hidden. Still rules for me though - it can repost links lists easily to my blog as daily summary posts.
- Ian Betteridge
from Alert Thingy
FriendFeed is awesome for social media. I still use RSS and Google Reader for pure info research. It isn't as functional for following the social side.
- Michael VanDervort
FF is cool, but I don't want to ONLY rely on others to filter my news - too much bias / echo chamber danger. Read WIDE
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
FF is nice and social, but Google Reader is still more efficient at browsing lots of info at the same time I think.
- Elliott Ng
I might be the only one, but I have my FF summary e-mailed to me so it doesn't get lost in my RSS feeds and allows me to catch up if I don't have time to monitor twhirl. Although i'm spending more time in FF, I need to find a balance. I've certainly become more interactive, but not sure if I've become more efficient.
- Phil Ashman
didn't think it would happen to me, but friendfeed is slowly taking over my google reader time
- Murali
FriendFeed's website needs some serious work though. It's hideous and a pain in the butt to use. still prefer Google Reader personally.
- xxdesmus
from twhirl
googlereader + miranda(3 diff IM accounts) and now Alert thingy... this is gettin too much
- Siddharth Mitra
from Alert Thingy