Chuck Lawson

mmm...tasty 2.0-ness - Simon

nice mockup - Duncan Riley via twhirl

What? How? Who? When? Photoshop? - Matt Hooper

Not a mockup. :-) - Louis Gray

How did you pull this off? I want! I want! - Michael Beck

Give up the goods, pimp! I gots to have that sweet setup. Share :) - Rahsheen™

Greasemonkey? - Tanath

dont be a tease, if it's not a mockup, share!!!! :-) - Duncan Riley

Not greasemonkey - Louis Gray

LOL... nice screenshot. ;) - Matt Shaulis

So Matt, care to tell them how this works? - Louis Gray

Que es? - Hutch Carpenter

Three hairs from a wild boar mixed with a frog's eye and some dragon blood. Mixed in a cauldron... brought to the highest peak of the widest mountain... oh wait.. it's not all the magical at all, is it? - Matt Shaulis

I'm confused. What do you want, Michael? It's Google Reader with the Friendfeed header. I took this as a snarky commentary to the amount of Google Readerness on Friendfeed. I'm missing a joke, aren't I? I do that all time time. Damn. - Mark Trapp

As a sidenote: what a pain in the ass it is to add people's shared feeds to your google reader account. Why do I have to have a gmail account and add people from there? - Mark Trapp

Mark, it's not a joke. It's a bookmarklet that puts Google Reader into FriendFeed. More details soon. - Louis Gray

1) Google Domain or 2) a theme for google reader ? (DOH!! Louis gave the answer while I was typing) - martin english

Louis, thanks for the clarification. I'm not getting it; anxiously awaiting deets. - Mark Trapp

excellent mashup! I can haz copy of UR kode? - Susan Beebe

That sounds quite awesome. As another sidenote: anyone know of a bookmarklet or something to add feeds directly to Google Reader? - Rahsheen™

@Rahsheen you can get that through Toluu, I'm pretty sure. - Matt Shaulis

Rahsheen: http://googlereader.blogspot.c... - Mark Trapp

nice hack! - Wil

Your Google reader looks broken. It doesn't say (1000+) :) - Andrew Smith

@Rahsheen: If you use Firefox, there's usually a feed icon (orange radar-type thing) in the address bar you can click. Firefox should offer to let you add it to Google Reader or iGoogle. I think there's a setting somewhere if it doesn't... - Tanath

Ah! I did notice that today. Thanks, Tanath! I'll give that a shot. - Rahsheen™

Well, a lot of us nerds don't drink or don't drink that much anymore. Too busy building robot girlfriends since the real once won't flirt with us. - RAPatton

You've never heard of BarCamp, I guess. That's a "bar" for nerds. - Robert Scoble

http://www.scienceclubdc.com/ - ⓞnor

Will you please move back to ATL before opening this bar? I promise to get hammered there as often as possible :) - Joel Webber

Robert Scoble, that you would even mention BarCamp is soo nerdy! - edythe

erica, i'm telling you, i think it's a winner. write up a business plan. - edythe

these are fun: http://www.sciencecafes.org/ - hisherness

Not really a bar, but I'm a fan of the Linux Caffe in Toronto -- good coffee, good eats, good art, and they'll toss you an Ubuntu CD if you need one. - Trent Olson

who needs a bar when you have FF for all you need. I don't drink and drive, so there is no use for me to go to bar!!...via feedalizr - Paul

We have a bar called "Science Bar" in DC - Andrew Feinberg

"Hey baby, photosynthesize often?" Oops, can't believe I just planted that there :P - Adam Lasnik

hee. photosynthesize. obscene! - edythe

I can't wait! - Sarah Austin

I'm stoked... the only thing is whether we can use the BB way of typing or if I get stuck with the iPhone way of typing. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart via twhirl

Muhahaha :D - Mithandir

Where did *THAT* come from? (and: what is it?) - Alex von Halem

Removed due to copyright. Oh well. - Bwana McCall

Removed due to insanity, more like. Glad I was on FF and got to see it b4 it was removed. Actually: I'm not sure I should be so glad. Some things are better kept under the rug. - Alex von Halem

That was great - Lee Stranahan via Alert Thingy

Another copy here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - cmiper

They are taking them down as soon as a new copy goes up. Try here, maybe NSFW ads. http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - cmiper

love it! - sixbit

Ok, that was pretty funny. Pure frustration. - Bwana McCall

Gawker has re-posted the video http://gawker.com/5008668/bill... - Scott Beale

That was great. (thanks for the link Scott) - Alejandro S.

Also see: http://www.npr.org/yourturn/om... - Atul Arora

Dang it, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. asserted a copyright claim with YouTube before I got a chance to see it! - Michael Beck

Is this hosted somewhere else? - Steve Lynch

It's on the College Humor site still... http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - cmiper

Goes to show: you can't remove something from the internet. If you act like a douche in front of a camera, you're going to have to live with it. Thanks for the laughs, Bill. - ben bloch

Really. What a douche. - Alex von Halem

The mouse-over text isn't right though... - Laurence Gonsalves

Yeah, that's one of xkcd's "things", You should click thru to the site to see the mouseover. I only discovered them after I'd been reading xkcd for a few weeks (how slow am I, lol) and it brought a whole new level of understanding to the whole thing for me. - Slippy Lane

WOoOW! - Maryam Ardakani

always loved xkcd! - Selma

Love XKCD. Hate FF breaking the mouseover. - James Polley

... breaking the mouseover makes you click through to xkcd though... right... I mean otherwise you'd miss the hidden message! - Ross Miller

بچه‌هاي فرندفيد: اقايون/خانوما. بياين حال اين خارجكيها رو بگيريم و تو اين كامنتدوني شروع كنيم در مورد اين تصوير كامنت بگذاريم.لطفا نظرتون رو در مورد اين تصوير بگين - mhmazidi

ترجمه کامنت قبلیم: واو! سمایلی مگه ما سادیسم داریم؟! :دی - Maryam Ardakani

@mhmazidi اتفاقا این وب سایت رو خیلی وقته که دنبال می کنم...کمیک های خیلی خیلی جالبی داره...فقط یک کمی سنگینه و گیکیه به قول خودمون ...چیز جالبیه بهش سر بزنید گاهی ... (اسمایلی این هم سهم من در کامنت فارسی) ه - Selma

it would be nice if friendfreed could perform some basic translation if the user set it that way ;) - Hernan Garcia via twhirl

Ich "mag" Hernans Kommentar. [Translation: I "like" Hernan's comment.] - Philipp Lenssen

hehe ...i think we have managed to provoke some curiosity :D - Selma

@mhmazidi می تونم هدفتون رو از این حرکت بدنم ؟ - Navid Kashani

haha, you're totally right @Selma - Hernan Garcia via twhirl

new methods in cooking - atalmatal

Is there any decent automated Farsi <-> English translation system available on the web? - Jim Norris

I believe that's Farsi, not Arabic? - ⓞnor

Yes it is Farsi (Persian) language ...and no ...as a professional translator I have not seen any efficient automated translation system for it yet (some students here are working on that), especially since the lines here are written in a broken informal style which makes it even more difficult to convert. - Selma

Selma, care to comment on the general jist of the conversation that took place in this thread? - Mark Trapp

Oh lol…definitely... sorry! Dr. Mazidi just commented there to share the picture with the Persian Friendfeed users as well as letting the English users know we do need a translating system ;) … I commented on the fact that I have been regularly following xkcd (I'm not a geek…it's just a phase that I'm going through :D) and advised others to do so as well… Navid was wondering why we were commenting in Farsi … we were also wondering if it might tickle other people's curiosity … our experiment proved effective! :p - Selma

I love this!! Thanks Bret!! who created this? too cool! - Susan Beebe

down with xkcd - niniane

I see what you did there, niniane. - Slippy Lane

Haha, thaks Selma. I was wondering what was going on :) - Mark Trapp

Am I the only one who finds it annoying that this story is constantly being pushed up due to comments? I understand the point, but I've seen this on my FriendFeed every day for the past week and a half - Bartek Gniado

bart: my subconscious had the exact same reaction. I love xkcd but I was getting sick of this one. I guess it's time to start using the hide function. - Alex von Halem

I didn't like this "feature". I'd rather see the Digg link first and see the context; e.g. how's the Digg community liking the article. Ideally, we could get BOTH links (1) direct to article (2) digg link - Mitchell Tsai

Yeah. Links to both would be best. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Agreed, If I read a story I want to be able to digg it without hunting it down on their site. - Stepan Mazurov

I just saw this message randomly. I visit FriendFeed once every other week. So I guess that tells you something. I basically put my feeds up because, if other people want to follow me here, I see no reason not to let them. (also because I was curious, I guess) So far social media strikes me as particularly self-oriented. Conversation? What conversation? - Richard Moriarty

I love your "old media's got some things right" riff lately - hilarious - Scott Breakall

Thanks Scott, I wish it wasn't so depressing though. Heh. - Eric Rice

blah blah blah blah comment comment comment. ;-) actually i check it at least once a day, usually more like 4 times. - Sarah Vela

I'm spending more time on friendfeed lately because I've been working behind a corporate firewall that blocks twitter. - Rob Safuto

@rob until FF is blocked heh. - Eric Rice

Eric, this is much different than something like Pownce, (where I do just dump all my feeds). This is evolving conversations. - tagami

@eric indeed. My backup is an ipod touch that can pick up twitter via hahlo.com. - Rob Safuto

@ted IF it is used as such. Like Twitter, it kinda got ganked into a chat room by some (me included). It's VERY easy to import crap here (inline,like jaiku) and never come back. Also, look at how scattered and dysfunctional all the commenting is now. You can comment here on a blog post (cuz i pipe it in), but guess what? You aren't part of my blog's convosphere. That's why I'm pondering if this is a dumphole. The only reason this conversation exists here is because I'm forcing it to start here, as a test. - Eric Rice

I was thinking something similar to Eric earlier. If I reply to a Tweet here, does it use the Twitter API and the fact I have authenticated my Twitter account to turn that into a proper Twitter reply? And what about threaded replies? - David Owens

Nothing wrong with having a separate community. If they don't see your reply, fine. Someone else will, and you can discuss it with them as well as others. If you must have that functionality, then SocialThing is your best bet. Some people don't want to have a separate discussion outside of the original realm. In that case, FriendFeed is not for you. For me, I actually enjoy it. - Bwana McCall

Eric, is it such a bad thing to have many different conversations happening, out of view of the original creator of the content? I'm starting to think that the notion of one big comment thread for all to see is feeling very outdated. - Mike Doeff

@mike not a bad thing per se, but it increases the time we spend finding all the conversation (IF the tools are easy enough to use to do this for us). It has a bit of disorganization vibe to it. @bwana yeah I agree, I have many communities that don't even touch things like twitter etc. But I think that's a context/topic reason, not a scattered workflow one :) - Eric Rice

@david social thing is working on that where you can reply from one place to all. - Eric Rice

I'm curious if you would have gotten more feedback on this on Twitter or your blog in the same time period. - Bwana McCall

@bwana blog no, twitter maybe. This is a FriendFeed exclusive conversation. And if I had done it on Twitter, I'd have two places to follow the conversation, Twitter, here, and also Jaiku since I think it ports there. I *never* check Jaiku anymore at all. A comment there is like a comment to the wind. - Eric Rice

I listen on a number of info streams and just respond where I saw the item - but yes, the tipping point for me will be the first site that cleanly implements oauth. then I will be able to have only one active read stream and it will handle the writes as I don't think I will ever have all my friends on a single site. - Mike Taylor

interesting. yeah. like this. maybe... thanks, eric. - Barbara K. Baker

No but i do not check it as often -- maybe using this as twitter + client hmmm... - John Anthony Hartman

I'd like to integrate it with my Main Blog eventually, but I'm a n00b atm. So far, I just need time to set it up, after that I think I actually will use the app. its kind of like onXiam but more interactive. TY for turning me on to it Spin! - TheDiva Rockin

@bwana actually to reply again to your question, maybe more feedback, but as meaningful and coherent? hmmmm. - Eric Rice

@thediva the other way to use this is to totally import feeds and leave. For Consumers Only. And consumer-onlys are important, too. :) - Eric Rice

@eric First off, the comments here aren't limited to 140 chars which is nice. Second, it's Pownce-like. I like Pownce because you can post a subject and have people reply to it, just like here. However, FF seems to read in your feeds whereas Pownce doesn't. SocialThing (which is down at the moment) seems to do more because you can talk directly to the services with your login/password. It'll be interesting to see how this all shakes out. EDIT: Apparently putting a newline in a comment doesn't work :P - Michael Gaines

@eric hmm....so comments are limited in size. The last thing I was going to say is that I dont' like the layout of FF. It needs work to organize everything better. - Michael Gaines

There is a weird stigma about turning off comments, because DIY social type media is "so democratized". Turning off comments is often perceived as anti-(that hustle). At least, thats what "they" tell me. Marinate. - Do You KNOW Clarence?

@dykc yeah I'm not buying that 'no comments/yes comments' hype anymore. It's your site, do what you want. If you aren't plagued by spam or idiots, already. We see what digg.com and YouTube brought us with the 'democracy'. More like anarchy. - Eric Rice

I personally don't really like forking the conversation. For the moment, I've dumped all my stuff in FriendFeed, connected to friends, but other than that, not using it. (yet?) - Stephanie Booth

thanks eric, opening up friend feed to me in a way i never knew possible.. jeez that sounds contradicting, not meant to be.. - danny payne

Pretty interesting how the @ symbol has made it's way over to commenting in friendfeed. Shows the strong influence Twitter has had on people. It would be nice to have @'s pushed back to twitter if that's at all possible. - Rob Safuto

Rob, I think it's more of an irc thing. A flat conversation style needs a name preceeding a statement to create context. Twitter kind of got that from irc imho. - Bwana McCall

I'm still not sure about services like Friendfeed and Socialthing... I already get most of the info from their blogs/facebooks/twitter-->and then it gets circular...I do like Socialthing on my iPhone though; I've been using that lately. Will probably end abrubtly. - Schlomo Rabinowitz

Thanks for clarifying Bwana. I'm not familiar with the irc etiquette. - Rob Safuto

I'm loving this backlash on social media and re-embracing of the old virtues of old media : ) - Prokofy Neva

Threaded commenting in FriendFeed is the glue many socnets need. - Bernie Goldbach

We are working on it, I promise! Seriously, my name is next to it on the whiteboard :) - Bret Taylor

Ah, the redundancy question. I've been wondering about that myself. - Richard Hemmer

@Bret: Do you guys have a whiteboard like the one we've seen pictures of at Google? - Voyagerfan5761

I felt the same pressure to *not* favorite this video, for the same reason, but then decided that FriendFeed does not control me. In soviet russia I control friendfeed. - Bay Chang

We're definitely thinking about the right way to handle this. - Paul Buchheit

Threading seems to be the most complex feature of this site, but it's being handled very well thus far. - Patrick Veverka

Umm …what threading? - John Lam

Well, in blogsphere, people use trackbacks to gather all comments together into the original post. Maybe it will also considerable to solve this overload duplicated content problem. - Yuancheng

The issue isn't duplication but seeing the pile-on as memetracking. Friendfeed should have a way to view based on this kind of convergence. If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know. - Stowe Boyd

"If five of my friends are writing about (or just linking to) the same thing, I would like to know." And then how can you comment on the meme/ story? Because you have potentially five different comment threads (which seemingly can't be easily merged either -- you can merge the story, of course, but these five threads are personal to you, others may have different combos). - Philipp Lenssen

Tabs? :) - ⓞnor

It's so tempting to want to repost this as "How will Friendfeed deal with duplicates?”, but I wouldn't do that. Nah. - Louis Gray

Heh. - Philipp Lenssen

Is it more about the agglomerated stream or some discrete aggregation of those streams? - Andy Taylor

Also, what about duplicates within my own feed... Lets say I find something good in google reader, share it, stumble it, digg it, twitter it, and a couple other new verb its... that seems like a more manageable thing to reduce to just one item (such as Nathan Dugg, Shared, Stumbled and whatevered "this story" instead of reporting it 6 times. - Nathan Manley

Philipp, Newsvine has a neat feature, mostly unused. It lets readers break comments out into specific groups and among friends, away from the main comment thread. …and yes, @e3r, it uses tabs to do it. @NathanManley, i agree wholeheartedly. - John Lam

@Nathan, John: Reduction++ for me. I see the same story reported over and over in my feed. It will probably have to be based on the URL of the story (rather than the Stumble page or the Digg page or whatever), but I think that's already available so it shouldn't be a problem. Perhaps in the case of multiple friends sharing the same link, condensing those would also be useful... - Voyagerfan5761