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Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
Ahsan Ali aka. Slick, Daniele, Roberto Orsini and 414 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA
- Admiral Anika
Fair trade for them getting the good view of Niagara Falls I'd say.
- invariant - farewell FF
frickin sweet!
- BEX
LOL
- Tibor Holoda
Yup that's exactly what it looks like from here.
- Barry Sanschagrin
ROFL
- Ethan
So where exactly did Nicholas Cage enter to find the treasure?
- Geoff Schultz
LOL! too funny.
- John Blanton
from twhirl
LOL
- Roberto Bonini
Heh. B. Kliban did a cartoon of this with their pants down. Good job on this, tho :-)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
hahaha, that's funny!
- freedom fighter mom
from twhirl
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
ROTFL, "the other side"
- Roberto
from fftogo
Hahaha. Awesome sight for 'em Canadians!
- Santosh
face down and ass in the air! Love it!
- John Hillestad
Cool, except anybody who's been to Mount Rushmore knows it faces east! So really this is the view from Wyoming.
- Ben Hanten
Ben: Americans have never been known to have a sense of direction.
- l0ckergn0me
Hilarious :-D
- Ace
I literally LOL'd.
- Mike Cefalo
Sarah Palin sees this from the other side of her house.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
awesome
- Nick Humphries
I lol´d.
- Jens Christian Freund
ahahahahahahah
- Adriano Mercurio
LMAO! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
lol ... yup that's just what we see from Canada ... a bunch of asses
- jay macpherson
Well played, jay. Well played.
- Jason Huebel
*access memory: Braveheart battle scene*
- Mo Kargas
Too funny!
- Mark Harai
Haha... I LOL'ed for real too.
- Barbara
wiping away tears. rofl
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
+1 Jay (not really true, but still very funny :o)
- Ken Morley
Hay I am Canadian !.....giggle
- hollyseven
How did I miss this?! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
I think somebody has a wedgie!
- CAJ, somewhere else
The view from Canada is the rock on the left & Lincoln's shoes.
- Wade Dorrell
that is epic. ;)
- Philip "dmouse" Campbell
Hilarious! :)
- Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom
Awesome!
- Timothy Federwitz
hahahaha wtf
- tohuko
That's priceless.
- Todd Libby
Teddy has a nice butt =p
- LouCypher
where do you get this stuff from - Frank loves it
- Kathi Barrett
That is brilliant. B3TA or somewhere similar?
- dannystaple
Hahahah! Mount Rushmore as seen from Canada.
- KyNam Doan
haha ace babes xx
- abigailashleawhitaker
This is an old pic, but is still always funny to see. :)
- John Pyper
Country Codes of the World - http://www.bytelevel.com/map...
Jonathan Jacobs, Melanie Reed, Mike Nencetti and 39 other people liked this
Look how teensy Canada is! ha ha
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Look at how gigantic .cn and .in are.
- l0ckergn0me
l0ckergn0me .cn and .in were shrunk to 30 percent, just to fit!
- Adam
its an interesting idea but...
- Jorge Florêncio
Interesting
- Ethan
Geeky cool and very handy. Thanks for posting. :)
- Bronson Harrington
Google 2084 - http://www.nextnature.net/...
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Murali, Muhammet K. (oceangray) and Iván Abrego liked this
Eyewitness: From Tehran's Streets - Photo Gallery, 24 Pictures - LIFE - http://www.life.com/image...
Murali, Chris Mayer, Michael Mooney and 17 other people liked this
From Tehran's Streets: Hope and Rage As protests and counter-protests unlike anything seen in Iran since the 1979 Revolution roil the country and captivate the world, LIFE presents photographs taken by an Iranian who is there, in the midst of the action. Chronicling days of hope immediately prior to the election and the street clashes that followed, the pictures portray history in the making -- with the outcome still very much in question. Pictured: Defiance in the streets the day after the disputed results of the June 12, 2009, election. Photo: Amir Sadeghi
- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Amir's image is still the best one I've seen so far.
- Robert Scoble
This photo should win a Pulitzer Prize. I never expected to see photos like this one come out of Iran. Amazing: - http://twitpic.com/7c85l
Darren Heydon, Rex Gradeless, Mitchell Tsai and 333 other people liked this
http://tehranlive.org/ is the site that seems to have originated this photo.
- Robert Scoble
I wish I knew who shot the photo. Anyone know?
- Robert Scoble
Absolut!!
- Ronald
No country is one dimensional. That's why I'm so mad at the local media.
- Mo Kargas
Robert: don't think we should unveil them, otherwise they'll be arrested ;)
- Nir Ben Yona
Absolutely incredible
- Michael Krigsman
It is pretty remarkable. It was so good when I saw it last night on Twitter I was afraid it might be a fake.
- Jeff Namnum
It might be Amir Sadhegi. I friended him on FB last night. He's an independent photog associated with Tehranlive.org
- Jill Elswick
I just left a comment for him about the photo...
- Jill Elswick
I'm afraid to think what happened to this brave woman.
- Orli Yakuel
Jill: thank you. Here's his Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/amirpix... and his photo page: http://www.amirpix.com/ Incredible photo, best one to capture the event yet.
- Robert Scoble
http://flickrfan.files.wordpress.com/2009... I like this one
- BryanSchuetz
Robert: You're welcome. Here, also, is a link to the Tehranlive.org "about" page. It lists Amir Sadhegi as the contact: http://tehranlive.org/about/
- Jill Elswick
Very moving - that is a brave person.
- Alex Hellstrom
Front picture of this women: http://twitpic.com/7c6jz
- Orli Yakuel
Alex: the photographer is brave too. Wow, what close work.
- Robert Scoble
Iran "tankwoman"
- K.D.
Robert: your tweet is now the popular here http://iran.twazzup.com/
- Johni Fisher
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
Curt: amen!
- Robert Scoble
I'm not really surprised, Iranians are a lot more empowered than people in the West think. It is *not* Saudi Arabia!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Robert: I didn't even think about the photographer! Thanks for pointing that out. I do believe I'll be looking at all these pics in a different light now.
- Alex Hellstrom
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
Amazing photo - thanks for finding it & sharing it Robert!
- Gurpreet
What happened to her after all?
- Christine Yang
Robert Scoble, Thank you for informing about current news in Iran. We will never forget this. (from Iran)
- Zahra (raoros)
I thought the same thing last night. Maybe the Iranians finally are willing to make some change.
- Tom Searing
@Tom Searing: I hope so, the only way is change...
- Zahra (raoros)
Photo of the year.
- Mike Doeff
moment!
- reality
چی میشه آخرش
- Hamid
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
Curt Mercadante 100+
- Bora Zivkovic
the detail- the untied shoe lace. wow.
- anna sauce
Inspiring. Let's hope the government falls. Because if it doesn't, there will probably be vicious repression.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
روز زن مبارک
- Mir "hamidreza" Mosavi
I am the photographer of this photo
- Amir
It's really a fantastic photo Amir, do you know the woman in the photo?
- BryanSchuetz
WOW. How can you say anything else?
- Sheryl
I love the fact that people start setting up proxy servers for the people in Iran: http://bit.ly/Fiqmb
- Holger Eilhard
Shocking stuff
- Tyson Key
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
Robert: I've only been using friendfeed for about 5 days and I'm already in love with it. I guess I picked a good time to try it out!
- Alex Hellstrom
Amir, what do you shoot with?
- EricaJoy
Cultural differences between the US and the UK
Tanath, Anthony Citrano, Daniel Rowley and 343 other people liked this
The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight.
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Classic...
- Rob Kramer
so telling...
- Brian Appleby
That says it all
- Darrell Bell
So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!"
- April Buchheit
@April... +100
- Harold - Happy 2010
from fftogo
+++April
- Kamilah Gill
Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it?
- Hiro Asari
You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them
- Ryan Gerritsen
It's actually the same app, just different marketing. Yes?
- Mike Beck
What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean?
- Gabe
Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones.
- Tim Tyler
World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?!
- Benoit Cazenave
"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland
- tomavana
I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it.
- thepete
thepete: passed or failed?
- Gabe
that was really great kevin :)
- Alp
Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list?
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hilarious!
- Vera Hannaford
crushingly depressing. ugh.
- daisy
World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that?
- ialla
Hehe
- WorldofHiglet
Excellent catch! :)
- Ozkan Altuner
The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :)
- Ian
sad, but funny
- Rick Cogley
Proud to be an American! LOL
- Susan Beebe
That says a lot.
- Chuck Adams
Yes, it does say a lot. =)
- Zed Darkman
Don't need no stinkin' facts...
- Kevin Pedraja
But it's got a red button!
- Brian Bufalo
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 Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
wavesand liked this....
- 拓 | wavesand
from email
Laugh, sure. But your pounds sterling end up in a California bank account. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
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.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Lol Amanda
- AJ Batac
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.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
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
Economic Update (Monoscope) - http://www.monoscope.com/2008...
Shmoe, oliver gassner, Martino Sabia and 47 other people liked this
"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
+1 @Skye :-) 401(k)(e)(g)
- Doug Bloebaum
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
beer & recycling FTW! :)
- Susan Beebe
so the meltdown is a solution for the homeless?
- Stewart Rogers
Day 4 without Google Search. Not a problem. Even tried 'index.of' searches on Yahoo. Worked fine.
Colide81 (James), Murali, zphaze and Eric Geller liked this
tried this with Ask.com about an year ago. had to get back to google :-(
- Murali
from NoiseRiver
Scrabulous reborn as Wordscraper - San Jose Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_1006...
Murali, Marshall Bose and John Grinde liked this
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
Matrix Ping Pong - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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sergiooo, JohnDu™, AJ Batac and 12 other people liked this
Japanese game shows... lol
- Mona Nomura
well that's just silly (first comment from iphone)
- Justin Korn
my people rock! (watch out for battery drainage.. HA)
- Mona Nomura
I enjoyed that way too much! :D
- Anna Haro
This is one of my favorites, too
- Phil G
Wicked cool
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
WTF... i can't stop laugh...
- JohnDu™
classic !
- sergiooo
10 people you should follow on Friendfeed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Heather Nasca Dulin, Murali and Mike Fruchter liked this
I just found Sarah recently.. im enjoying her thoughts
- Dave Peck
Bollywood Actresses: Who's Google Hot and Who's Google Not? - Aspi's Drift - http://www.aspisdrift.com/2008...
Dan Hsiao, Ashraful Sheikh, Snay Trivedi and 2 other people liked this
FriendFeed continues to grow (Compete.com) - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
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Peter Dawson, MLx, sean808080 and 58 other people liked this
Rock on.
- David Risley
I wonder how this chart competes with FriendFeed's internal data. Paul, do you want to comment on that?
- sebmos
If you compare it to Twitter, you'll see Twitter growing ad a lower percentage but higher numbers despite the recent string of outages they've had. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- Joel Gray
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
@Thomas - I say 9 months
- Bwana ☠
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
- Noah David Simon
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
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Simon Hicks, peter huesken, Scott Bauer and 21 other people liked this
Love it!
- Sol Young
You see what happens when you follow a Troll? lol
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
very cool
- Bryan Hunter
from twhirl
I was at a meeting at YouTube the other day and attended Matt's presentation of this video's premiere. Very cool.
- Tom Guarriello
Matt Harding sitting restfully next to Tron Guy in Boston http://flickr.com/photos...
- Cat Laine
Now that made me smile!
- Christopher Harley
That made my day! (My hot... hot... hot day)
- Lurking Grue
Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000 - http://waxy.org/2008...
Murali, Karl Rosaen, Dobromir Hadzhiev and l.m.orchard liked this
I've totally got this on VHS at home.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
awesome! I tried to find this video last year with no success (even after using the google)
- Karl Rosaen
A list of all your facebook friends phone numbers. good reference. - http://www.facebook.com/mobile...
Heidi Blanton, Alex Lomas, Wil and 9 other people liked this
its kinda hidden in the navigation
- Tyler Gillies
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
I heard Amazon is down because Robert Scoble bought something! he ruins everything online dammit!
Murali, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Kingsley Joseph and 4 other people liked this
Yeah, blame Scoble!
- Mike Doeff
no way
- Raymond
FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes, oliver gassner and 215 other people liked this
Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it.
- Robert Scoble
Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed.
- Ranjit Mathoda
cool beans.
- Anthony Citrano
Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me.
- Alex Williams
Very cool Bret.
- Hutch Carpenter
Very nice.
- Atul Arora
Very nice, indeed
- Michael W. May
Thanks.
- Amund Tveit
Very nice addition. Keep em coming.
- Tsega Dinka
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
@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter!
- Yuvi
interesting idea
- Steven Hodson
uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom..
- sedgewick
Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested?
- Ryan Carson
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 Harwood
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
Oh, now see, this is just awesome.
- Vince DeGeorge
Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :)
- Rob Diana
They should call it A-list juice
- Jamie
Thanks, I appreciate this feature.
- Daniel Backhaus
I want a feed for this feature!
- Marcus
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
Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :)
- Kenichi Matsumoto
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome!
- Kamilah 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
Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu!
- Mike Reynolds
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me.
- Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful!
- Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using?
- Chris Miller
My guess would be comments and likes
- Bwana ☠
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 ☠
Awesome!
- Daniel Spradau
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
great addition to the functionality!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-)
- Slappy Line
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
Bret Taylor is amazing!
- Alex Hammer
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
FriendFeed Apps - The FriendFeed Playground - http://www.ffapps.com/
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Twitter is following down the unhappy path that Friendster vanished on.
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There's no place like 127.0.0.1 If you get this, you are a geek.
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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 can get this on t-shirts as well. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts...
- Louis Gray
Funny :)
- Ray Grieselhuber
you're a big big big geek!
- Thijs Jacobs
No place like /home. Seriously, it ain't /dev or something.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Ah, that's a nice one. How about "~/ is where you hang your head” --Groucho Marx
- Czar
And there are only 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't.
- Alan Cheslow
Finally met my 4-month-old nieces for the first time! I taught them how to say Google, Firefox, and Twitter...ok, well, I tried!
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funny, my 18 month old son says Ubuntu whenever he sees a computer !
- Murali
its like asking 3yr old(Steve) how do you spell your name ? - here how he sez it .." S-T-E-V-E enter" :)-
- Peter Dawson
The IPL Fan Club: A Social Network For Indian Cricket Fans ( http://mashable.com/2008... )
Murali liked this
Cool. but wonder how they would sustain the network once the series is done in June
- Murali
Fitness: Track Your Fitness Progress with Free Tools - http://lifehacker.com/393083...
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"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
hee.
- edythe
It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter - http://www.inquisitr.com/557...
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Cristi, Larry Kless and 26 other people liked this
Is Facebook going after FriendFeed? http://www.toddrjordan.com/thebroa...
- Todd Jordan
Now you've done it Twitter, Duncan is on the warpath.
- Bwana ☠
I hope FriendFeed isn't the one to kill Twitter, most FFers filter out tweets anyway. But if there can be a way to separate Twitter-type conversation from the other aggregated content in FF, then Twitter will be in trouble.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Not one to drop links in comments, and if FF had item permalinks I'd link directly to the FF item I found this at. You can easily import your twitter friends into FF with this little tool. It's rough but works like a charm. http://oxalon.com/product... sorry Duncan, it's PC only now, but if you still have one lying around it's worth it to fire it up just for that program.
- Paul Short
FF items do have permalinks. Click "More" then "Link to this entry".
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
OOH! Thanks a million Shey. You da man! Still a noob to FF so I'll need some guidance while making the transition ;-)
- Paul Short
The link Paul provided - I used that tool, it took four runs to get the entire twitter list imported (following 300). It kept dying at the same place, and I removed the next twitter friend on my list, I would start over, and it would proceed on past its failure point, and then crap out again. I then had to remove yet another person from my follow list until we got through it all. I'm sure that has nothing to do with twitter outages though!
- Christopher Dickens
@shey and that's pretty much what I'm saying. The core twitter simplicity isn't in FF yet, but they have the talent and base to create it and offer it as a Twitter killer.
- Duncan Riley
from twhirl
We know that Twitter is screwed, but aside from FriendFeed who else could build a replacement that meets the criteria of competency, people, scale. The guys a FF know what they are doing, if we had a FF Room but it was a Twitter style message service for those who want it stand alone, and clients can use the API to tap into that...
- Duncan Riley
Something needs to happen - twitter has uncovered previously unmet demand but cannot deliver technically. There is a clear gap for a competitor. One thing with friendfeed is you cannot import your twitter contacts easily yet.
- Kate
@Christopher It worked perfectly for me and I have about 360 followers. I guess I must have hit the program, or twitter, at the right time. @Kate, give that tool a try. No guarantees (see @ to Christopher) but even if it craps out it's probablly still faster than crossreferencing by hand.
- Paul Short
@Duncan That's a good point. Are you thinking they can base a new service off the existing FF architecture? That would speed up development instead of having to re-invent the wheel
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I've moved from Twitter to FriendFeed with help from http://internetducttape.com/2008...
- Thomas Ho
Did you even read the article?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Arrington once said "Demo needs to die," now we have "It's Time for FriendFeed to Kill Twitter." We can't just have "I prefer Brand X" anymore. "It's time for Peter Pan peanut butter to reach inside the ribcage of Jif, eviscerate its still-beating heart and raise it in triumphant exultation before sinking its fangs into the hot, bloody carcass to the stunned amazement and terror of all other brands of peanut butter." Allllllrighty then.
- Karim
But what kind of linkbait would "I prefer Brand X" be? :P
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Jake I Tweeted a FriendFeed hork earlier this evening. ;)
- Cyndy
@Shey Well I assume you're addressing me. And yes, I stand by my point for very good reasons. I'm not flaming for flaming sake here, nor am I some Twitter fanboy. I just think it's ridiculous that for a service which no-one pays for and is obviously very important to most internet user's lives, the online community respect is for it to die. Nice. If this is the reaction to a startup going through hard times due to it's own success, the Web2.0 bubble will burst sooner than expected.
- CannonGod
The "you dont pay so you shouldn't complain" argument doesn't really fly with me anymore. I'm investing my time, my most important resource, in your service so you can build a business model around me in due time. I agree we owe them some patience. But don't they have to be held to an account also? Tell about another significant startup service that has this kind of downtime that's gonna pop this "web 2.0 bubble"....
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Free is not an immune-from-criticism pass. Also, the "startup" excuse is getting old too. Twitter was established July, 2006, they're coming up on 2 years old. If you can't take criticism *when your system sucks*, then you shouldn't be in business. Period. If users didn't care about Twitter, they wouldn't complain.
- Bwana ☠
I agree. Two years is long enough to scale the service... Twitter may have missed its window of opportunity.
- Bill Sodeman
Twitter been around since 2006? Boy, don't I feel all late and junk...
- Outsanity
Great post. Like the FF comment system.
- The Dude Abides
Got to agree with Shey, Twitter wants to be a utility provider but they can't even get that right, and in terms of payment it's their decision to offer it for free + without advertising. Twitter has only one purpose: provide a microblogging service, and it can't successfully do that.
- Duncan Riley
This may be a little harsh, but think of it this way: if Twitter was a dog we would have put it down by now.
- Duncan Riley
FF just isn't sticky to me. It's an adjunct to Twitter, seen 1-2 times a day, whereas I have Twitter on all day, dipping in frequently. Has anybody read this http://twurl.nl/aykym3 or this http://tinyurl.com/6j6bex Both address directly what is going on with Twitter, and how they'll handle it. No need to jump ship and bomb it while you leave!
- Paul Smith
With IM turned off Twitter is noticeably quiet tonight, but is there also strike going on?
- Larry Kless
Sigh. Link bait.
- Jordan Brock
seems to me like duncan is working for friendfeed now
- Olubi Ezra
You know, if Twitter replaced their "Something is wrong..." graphic with a page full of AdSense banners, they'd be gazillionaires!
Rob Williams, JP Moore, Mitchell Tsai and 64 other people liked this
I know i would never click a banner. Now if they redirected all that traffic :-)
- Mike Fruchter
Good idea!!!!!!!!
- Joe Dawson
I doubt Twitter would welcome ads for Jaiku and Pownce on their 'we're not working right now' page... :-)
- Kevin Fox
Title: Twitter's Secret Monetization Plan
- Eric Florenzano
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
Here is my Twitter 404 page http://tinyurl.com/4b63s4
- Kevin Bondelli
LOL Kevin, that is *genius.*
- Karim
Kevin that is to funny!
- Mike Fruchter
Kevin's page FTW.
- Dana Franks
from twhirl
I am waiting for a phone call from Twitter trying to hire me to do their 404s from now on. I think I'll be waiting for a while.
- Kevin Bondelli
And just like that a new business model was born
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@Kevin As long as you're not waiting for a *tweet* with a job offer...
- Benedikt Koehler
@benedikt Touche. Maybe I should start a "Potential Twitter Employees" FF room.
- Kevin Bondelli
Now why didn't I think of that?
- Shawn Kirsch
Kevin, I like that idea. I'm sure that room would be bustling in a week or two.
- Ryne Nelson
Ryne, maybe we could use this room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Benedikt Koehler
lol. Good one.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
FriendFeedLinks: A Memetracker For FriendFeed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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And now also available via twitter , simply follow @friendfeedlinks
- Stijn Wijndaele
This is pretty cool, but I'd like to see the ability to factor in Likes to the equation
- Mark Krynsky
+1 Like for Mark's comment about incorporating 'Likes'.
- Hutch Carpenter
Although it was a typo, I have decided I will now call all betas "beats"
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@hgilchrist FriendFeed has replaced much of what made RSS cool to me. I'm still reading Google Reader, but less.
Murali, Susan Beebe, Dana Franks and 19 other people liked this
I'd have to agree. I am starting to use it more regularly to read my aggregated "stuff" than my feedreader.
- Amie Gillingham
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 Moskovitz
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
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
googlereader + miranda(3 diff IM accounts) and now Alert thingy... this is gettin too much
- Siddharth Mitra
from Alert Thingy
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