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There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
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I apologize for any lost or unwanted tweets. Please let me know if you spot any other problems.
- Paul Buchheit
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks, Paul. :)
- Josh Haley
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Thanks Paul!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
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we are back
- K.D.
I wondered. Glad you are back!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No problem. Just don't scare us like that again ;)
- Mark Krynsky
Ok otherwise it was going to be an topic on Twitter.
- Madhav Tripathi
I forgive you.
- Vezquex
I thought FriendFeed would have deployed mobile datacenters across the US by now.
- imabonehead
Talk to Scoble about getting you guys on Rackspace :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from Alert Thingy
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
Andy, long time :)
- Micah
Something changed with this downtime, didn't it? All images are now hosted on friendfeed-media.com instead of the old i.friendfeed.com
- Mitch
Mitch, the friendfeed-media change was deployed yesterday and unrelated to the outage.
- Paul Buchheit
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
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Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you ff very good :)
- Nimaa
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
Which Star Wars characters are the 2012 Republican Candidates most like? - Quora - http://www.quora.com/Which-S...
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"Mitt Romney: (robotic, snobby and made of gold)" -- Best. Quora. Ever.
- Ross Miller
from Bookmarklet
Okay... maybe not ever, but it made me laugh.
- Ross Miller
Awesome. C3PO doesn't seem very psychopathic though.
- Paul Buchheit
Graffiti Labs - Jobs - http://www.graffitilabs.com/
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"We're making a browser-based game that lets people build anything they can imagine. It's like virtual Lego, except anyone can contribute a new piece simply by drawing it. The 2D drawings are bounding-boxed into 2.5D objects that can be used to build in 3D space."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Another awesome YC company coincidentally :)
- Paul Buchheit
Young, Black and Frisked by the N.Y.P.D. - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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"These experiences changed the way I felt about the police. After the third incident I worried when police cars drove by; I was afraid I would be stopped and searched or that something worse would happen. I dress better if I go downtown. I don’t hang out with friends outside my neighborhood in Harlem as much as I used to. Essentially, I incorporated into my daily life the sense that I might find myself up against a wall or on the ground with an officer’s gun at my head. For a black man in his 20s like me, it’s just a fact of life in New York. Here are a few other facts: last year, the N.Y.P.D. recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those stopped were blacks or Latinos. Police are far more likely to use force when stopping blacks or Latinos than whites. In half the stops police cite the vague “furtive movements” as the reason for the stop. Maybe black and brown people just look more furtive, whatever that means. These stops are part of a larger, more widespread problem — a...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Horribly sad.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
It's institutionalized racism. It's when you cross the street with your kids because you see a black or brown guy walking towards you, regardless of how he's dressed or what he's doing. When you lock your car doors because the color of the neighborhood changes, regardless of the economic stature of the area. You see 3 or more black or brown guys hanging out and call them "thugs" or...
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- Anika
:(
- Amit Patel
the gun-at-head part can't be legal, can it?
- Joe The Sausage
nice
- Mariya Khan
Considering that only about 5% of stops (regardless of color) result in arrests, it's hard to imagine how they even justify this practice.
- Gabe
ok ok ok
- Ruslan Zakirov
Ron Paul For The GOP Nomination - http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011...
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"I don't believe that any of the other candidates, except perhaps Huntsman, would cut the military-industrial complex as deeply as it needs to be cut. What Paul understands - and it's why he has so much young support - is that the world has changed. Seeking global hegemony in a world of growing regional powers among developing nations is a fool's game, destined to provoke as much backlash as lash, and financially disastrous as every failed empire in history has shown. We do not need tens of thousands of troops in Europe. We do not need to prevent China's rise, but to accommodate it as prudently as possible. We do need to get out of the Middle East to the maximum extent and return our relationship with Israel to one between individual nations, with different interests and common ideals, not some divine compact between two Zions. We do need a lighter, more focused, more lethal war against Jihadism - but this cannot ever again mean occupying countries we do not understand and cannot...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Sounds good. I hope the big media companies choose him.
- Bruce Lewis
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. He sponsored a "life begins at conception" bill (making miscarriage illegal), wants to end birthright citizenship (you have to earn your citizenship?), and wants to eliminate federal environmental regulations (after you die from pollution you can simply sue the polluter).
- Gabe
And his opponents are offering a probable Iran War, an American economic collapse (as the result of that war), the creation of a full-throttle neocon total surveillance police state, and the eradication of much of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Trade-offs, trade-offs.... It all depends on how you prioritize your issues.
- Sean McBride
none of the above.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
The more I learn about Ron Paul, the more wacko he turns out to be. Apparently he didn't actually know that his newsletter was be used as a fount of bigotry and racism: http://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...
- Gabe
If you learned anything about the current administration, you should know this, even if someone becomes president of the USA, they won't be able to do squat unless the rest of the government will back them. RP is so outside the GOP norm that they might treat him like Obama.
- NotdaBOTTurlokin4
Ron Paul would be the Ross Perot of 2012. Interesting, possibly 10 or 12 points interesting, but ultimately not electable.
- Eric
CW said it well.
- Anika
What could be more wacko than making preparations to attack Iran after the multi-trillion dollar failures of the Iraq and Afghan Wars and the overall neocon policies that helped cause the financial collapse of 2008? THAT's wacko. Even former Mossad heads are warning that an Iran War could collapse the American and global economies. Hacking away at the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and...
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- Sean McBride
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - http://www.nytimes.com/2011...
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"Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude. He seemed to be climbing. But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve’s capacity for wonderment, the artist’s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later. Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
That was beautiful.
- WoH: Minding her Botts
What could POSSIBLY make my cable box take nearly 10 MINUTES to boot up?
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Further investigation has revealed that being a piece of shit is what makes it take so long.
- Gabe
Makes sense.
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
if you kick it, will it boot faster?
- imabonehead
i don't have direct experience of cable tv boxes, but i have some of sat tv boxes. mine (sky italia) takes a lot of time (not 10 minutes, but anyway minutes) to apparently boot after a power failure or if it had been unplugged. if i just turn it off from the remote, then on, it's pretty fast. i imagine that since the box is supposed to be always on (e.g. to receive updates OTA) the boot...
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- Alb.
xkcd: Alternative Literature - http://xkcd.com/971/
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"I just noticed CVS has started stocking homeopathic pills on the same shelves with--and labeled similarly to--their actual medicine. Telling someone who trusts you that you're giving them medicine, when you know you’re not, because you want their money, isn’t just lying--it’s like an example you’d make up if you had to illustrate for a child why lying is wrong."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
I wouldn't have understood it was a comic strip about homeopathy without the title text.
- Stephen Mack
That's how I read books, actually. Never underestimate the power of the placebo effect. That medicine works is more important than how it works.
- Paul Buchheit
I somehow disbelieve that Paul has a bookshelf of blank books.
- Stephen Mack
But would believe he's addicted to prescription Placebex(R)?
- Brian Johns
I thought the strip was about deconstructionism before I read the title text.
- Andrew C (✓)
I have many shelves full of unopened books. The pages are not blank, just unseen. I imagine what's written in them :)
- Paul Buchheit
As I recall, the placebo effect not only works, it works really well -- like a placebo injection works better than a placebo pill. Does anybody know if homeopathy works better for people who don't know it's fake?
- Gabe
I am the (1000+) #occupyGoogleReader
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Awesome.
- Paul Buchheit
Prediction: Quora will be bought by Google by February, 2011.
Umut Akyol, Micah, Maitani and 26 other people liked this
Before, or after Twitter?
- Paul Buchheit
Oh before, definitely. I think Google's going to take one more try at building an in-house competitor before they make another serious acquisition attempt. They knew when to throw in the Video towel and grab YouTube, but the hype machine has driven Twitter's perceived valuation beyond what even Google would pay for it.
- Kevin Fox
Then again, maybe Google has a different view on Twitter's monetization potential: http://techcrunch.com/2010... I guess we'll see.
- Kevin Fox
I sincerely hope not. That would also mean that they could not morph/innovate on Aardvark .
- Space Cowboy
What is Quora, and is there a reason I should care about it?
- Gabe
Cristo: Good idea. Do they have a web site?
- Gabe
Cristo, rhetorical question?
- Private Sanjeev
Gabe, I don't know you personally but, I like Quora enough to make me reply. Check out the questions and answers on this page: http://www.quora.com/How-Is-...
- Space Cowboy
Kevin, I'm still betting on Twitter first. Quora will be too expensive for a long time (it will take more than 6 months for the bid/ask to cross).
- Paul Buchheit
I wonder if any big company ever died by being too trigger-happy on acquisitions.
- Private Sanjeev
So, glad this is not true - yet.
- Space Cowboy
mee too.
- ideali
"Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you."
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Not sure where it came from. Possibly Jack Kornfield. Heard it quoted in a song.
- Paul Buchheit
Is that your answer to my question about HGTV?
- Clare Dibble
Before you can program your mind you need to deprogram it, and the best way to deprogram it is to get to the bottom of and master intellectual history -- the invented and artificial but influential ideological tape loops that control collective human behavior among all cultures, and about which most people are entirely unconscious. Fully conscious people create and control cultural and ideological systems and loops, they are not controlled by them.
- Sean McBride
Too much work. Just tell me the answer.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I googled it for Shawn. It's a quote from Jack Kornfield (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) and it's found in Evil Nine's Cakehole (http://www.youtube.com/watch...).
- imabonehead
Thanks imabonehead :) I was being I guess, very lamely sarcastic to highlight that our minds "programming" or its deprogramming comes as a result of the world itself telling us how to. ~ In short, I'd like to thank this quote for telling me how to think, oh shit... kinda back where I started... ~ ~~> Russell's quote, with your 1st link, has much more explanatory relevance
- The Real sofarsoShawn
How to get into Y Combinator - http://samaltman.com/how-to-...
John Clifford, Oguz Serdar, Adriano and 3 other people liked this
"For most startups at this stage, the best predictor of success is the founders. So, the most important parts of the application for me are the questions about the founders' backgrounds and the most impressive things they've done. We're looking for evidence that the founders are smart, effective, and determined. If you can't go through your application and point to evidence for all three, that's bad. Don't be shy about telling us why you're good, but don't write a bunch of meaningless marketing speak either. I view the questions about the business largely as an intelligence test, but I'm always excited to read about a great idea. There should be no obvious holes in your plan--i.e., if you're taking on a huge competitor, have no apparent monetization plan, etc., you need to address it. It's very rare that I read about a brand new idea (and it's likely the startup will change or refine ideas), so I'm looking for deep insights I haven't heard heard or thought of before."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Governme... - http://library.findlaw.com/2004...
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"What if you are absolutely convinced that you didn't do anything to help your former employer and that you are entirely innocent of wrongdoing? Since you have nothing to hide, is it safe to talk? There can still be real danger in speaking to a government agent in these circumstances. To begin with, you are not qualified to know whether you are innocent of wrongdoing under federal criminal law . I have already noted the minimal nature of the act needed to connect you to another's crime if you have knowledge of that crime. But the danger goes beyond this. Not all federal crimes (particularly regulatory crimes) even require criminal intent. Moreover, you and your employer may have engaged in some widespread industry practice, acceptable at the time, which is now under stricter scrutiny. One offhand remark to the federal agent could turn into a damaging admission."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Scary. Unless you're an attorney, I guess.
- Stephen Mack
This advice applies to talking to police in general. When cops come calling, tell them to speak to your attorney.
- Gabe
They should teach a class in high school about exercising your rights.
- Chris Lamprecht
except that public school is all about teaching you to forget that you even have any rights.
- Joe The Sausage
Isn't the term "an army for Christ" an oxymoron?
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I don't know much about Jesus Christ, but I'm pretty sure that he was sort of against the ideas of war and fighting.
- Gabe
We've invented a new character to help explain this: Facepalm Jesus. People need to be told that they are embarrassing Jesus with this army of Christ nonsense.
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
Does Facepalm Jesus have a picture (preferably discerned on a piece of toast or a tree trunk) and a Tumblr? Because I want to subscribe.
- WoH: Minding her Botts
tell that to the "crusaders". In them days, they would call you blasphemy and put u to the stake as an infidel !
- Peter Dawson
if the "crusaders" were around today they'd be suicide bombing left and right.
- Joe The Sausage
Of course if Christians were suicide bombers, they wouldn't be terrorists -- they would just be doing Christ's will.
- Gabe
Chicago has QR codes everywhere. I don't see them around the Bay Area, but they're on 1/3 of subway signs in Chicago.
Count Caturday liked this
QR codes were all over Bumbershoot/Seattle Center too. I'm surprised they're not bigger in the Bay Area.
- Andrew C (✓)
Does anyone there scan them?
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
I didn't see any, no. But if it's anything like web ad clickthrough rates, the odds were against seeing it, esp as they're practically for smartphone users only in North America.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Now who will be the first to buy a carrier, Apple or Google? Sprint market cap is just over $10B (up 8.75% today).
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We can only hope one of them will. Even better: The ATT / T-Mobile merger is denied. Apple buys one of them, Google buys the other. The mobile carrier market needs some serious disruption.
- Tinfoil 2.0
None of them. If anything, Microsoft will become a soft carrier, followed quickly by Apple, then Google. Here are some thoughts I had on that a few months ago: http://fury.com/2011...
- Kevin Fox
bretin arkadası benimde arkadasım sayılır..hey adamım nasılsın?
- Özlem(angiocat)
Someone please. That's where we need real disruption.
- Todd Hoff
Realistically, no carrier has first-class coverage everywhere, and neither Apple or Google would tie their own product image to a single carrier's coverage area (again). Everyone's learned by watching the love/hate relationship users have with Apple and AT&T the past four years. No way they hobble themselves to a single physical infrastructure.
- Kevin Fox
Buying a carrier doesn't mean that they couldn't still sell phones on the other carriers and more than buying Motorola precludes them from putting Android on Samsung devices.
- Paul Buchheit
Would SprintApple still sell Android and Windows phones?
- Kevin Fox
Carriers are so much about commoditized physical infrastructure that I'd have to believe Apple is looking for a way to make them obsolete, rather than buying one for themselves.
- Kevin Fox
Amazon? -- Since they're already using Sprint for the Kindle. Might also make for some interesting Twilio-style additions to AWS
- Ken Sheppardson
Amazon no longer uses Sprint for the Kindle. It uses AT&T. It was the only way to get global coverage.
- Piaw Na
Aha. Got it. Meaning the newer K3 (and K2?) use AT&T? Y'know given the differing radio/network technologies, I wonder if anybody'd want Sprint, with all the inherent coverage limitations.
- Ken Sheppardson
If Amazon would build a pneumatic tube delivery service underneath everyone's homes and businesses (to replace FedEx/UPS/OnTrac), they could also put Wi-Max or LTE in their tubes, so that the Internet would actually be a series of tubes.
- Amit Patel
Tubes have been replaced with solar powered automated driving delivery vehicles. Not quite as romantic, or com friendly, but it uses the existing road system.
- Todd Hoff
I don't think Apple wants any part of a deal to buy plumbing. If they can cover that plumbing in gold plate and sell it as an experience, then maybe. Microsoft, on the other hand, has plenty of cash and doesn't mind being a plumber.
- Eric
Trucks? Tubes? Pfft... Autonomous solar-powered drones that dock at giant floating fulfillment center airships are the way to go. Get around the whole state-by-state tax problem once and for all. Just float over them.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ooh, delivery by airdrop. I like it.
- Amit Patel
Plus you tie this in with an app on your Android device and you'd get a little alert that says "You're package is available for delivery... please step outside"... BAM
- Ken Sheppardson
Airspace tax zones would be sure to follow :-) And I think the economics of lifting goods into the air will have to wait for zero-point energy devices.
- Todd Hoff
Lifting goods is cheap on the space pulley. You put a chunk of asteroid on one side and you put a container of goods on the other side. Make sure the asteroid is heavier, and it will go down as the goods go up. You extract the precious metals out of the asteroid and use that money to fund development of your delivery spacecraft, which is orbiting the Earth at supersonic speeds, picking up goods from the space pulley and releasing them at just the right time to hit Ken on the head.
- Amit Patel
I figure eventually they'll just have fab plants on the moon. Solar power turns moon rocks into whatever you need, and the end products get railgunned out of the moon's gravity well and fall straight to your home with a guided descent with last-minute parachute braking. The fun part is that your Amazon Prime cutoff time will be dependent on the moon's relative position to you, so it...
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- Kevin Fox
Since this conversation looks to be officially derailed, I vote for some form of Wonka-Vision to be the distribution method of choice for Amazon prime...
- Ross Miller
That or skyhooks.
- Kevin Fox
Until I parsed "Sprint" I was sure you are talking about the actual warship, you know, Invincible class carrier is now supposedly on closed auction in UK :)
- Michael Bravo
Well, yeah, I guess that ties in with the Amazon sub-thread nicely. They probably are the most likely to be the first to buy a carrier, e.g. http://bit.ly/g55NKr
- Ken Sheppardson
Although as far as sub-threads go, this'd probably be more appropriate: http://bit.ly/rjNj0i
- Ken Sheppardson
The first thought that came into my head was "Aircraft Carrier" to use as a Datacenter...
- Stuart Woodward
Google+ 1 More: I'm Joining Google Monday - http://blog.louisgray.com/2011...
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Wow! That's great, Louis. Congrats.
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations!
- Vicarbott
Congrats LG, that's awesome! Now about that API ... ;-)
- John
that's fantastic. congratulations Louis!
- chrisofspades
Wait...we all knew +Louis Gray was with the Googs team already, no? Yes. :D Congratulations Louis!! All the best to you!!!
- The Real sofarsoShawn
You can be like the guy in the Dilbert comic. Instead of telling them to make it more "webbish", just tell the team to make it more "friendfeedish."
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations, Louis, this is a fantastic move all round!
- WoH: Minding her Botts
When I first saw this headline, I thought, "hmm, what's Google Monday? Is that like Follow Friday?"
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations Louis! Laura, I thought the same thing. I thought he was inventing a new Google meme
- Tamara
Wow Cong';rats.. another one bites the dust !!
- Peter Dawson
Congrats Louis!
- Ken Gidley
Holy smokes!!! Congrats!
- Kevin Fox
Congrats Louis. Hope you find there what you are looking for.
- NotdaBOTTurlokin4
Congrats! Well deserved! (Does this mean even MORE swag? I can DM my address. :D )
- caj needs a haircut
Congratulations Louis, and Great Move Google!
- John Craft
Congratulations Louis! They're insanely lucky to have you on board!
- vicster
Yes, congrats!
- Eric
Congrats, Louis! First step, you've got to convince them that the real name policy is a big marketing failure.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Congrats!
- Dario Gomez
Congratulations!
- Paul Buchheit
Ok heres your first assginment - tell Google Related to actually relate correct stuff and secondly can it be intregrated with G+ :)-
- Peter Dawson
Congratulations!
- Cristo
Congratulations, Louis!
- Spidra Webster
Congrats!
- ebru
Congrats, Louis!
- Rollin' in the LB
Holy cow, that's awesome! Congratulations LG!
- Que Sarah Sarah
congrats
- Pluto in USA
I knew him back when he was on FriendFeed!
- I like big Botts
congrats!
- İbrahim Mumcu
Well congratulations to you!. All the very best from this died in the wool Mac Guy. I hope you can find the time, sometime, to make that My6Sense available in other apps and contexts outside the My6Sense app itself.
- JSLeFanu
Congrats! You must be super excited!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Congratulations, Louis!
- Ross Miller
Congrats sir!
- SAM
Congrats Louis! Welcome!
- Can Demirezen
from Android
Congrats Louis! Well deserved, what a perfect fit for this job.
- Oguz Serdar
super congrats, Louis! :D
- Cristal Blue Persuasion
Congrats Louis!
- Michael Fidler
:) great!
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Sounds like a great fit. Congratulations!
- Benjamin Golub
I might have to make Louis a t-shirt that says "Google Apps users are people too!" Do you think he would wear it to work?
- Skyler Call
Congratulations! wow, being all poker-faced about it last Tuesday... :)
- Tudor Bosman
Congrats, Louis. Though I suspect we should all be posting on Google+ now since you're the Product Marketing Manager for the Google+ team. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Congrats
- Rodfather
Awesome! I'm gonna have to start using G+ now :)
- Stephen Mack
Yay! Congrats.
- Tiddy Bott
from Android
Cool. Can you send us some of the free pizza?
- The Ghost of Library Past
Congratulations Louis!
- Mark J
Maybe you can inject some FF style goodness and hurry up into the G+ development process?
- Brian Sullivan
Interesting choice....I'm looking forward to seeing how this influences your posts...;)
- Phil Ashman
Cool! You're going to wear a FriendFeed shirt every day, right?
- Amit Patel
Thanks guys! You know I will work to bring the coolness of FriendFeed to Google+. It's a secret mission.
- Louis Gray
Oops. Just revealed secret mission. How do you delete comments? :)
- Louis Gray
Sorry for the poker face, Tudor (and Kevin). :)
- Louis Gray
Are you going to be active on FF?
- batuhan icoz
congratulations Louis don't forget us mortals! we know you are a robot!
- testbeta
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to watching your progress there.
- Anne Bouey
Batuhan, I have a hard time imagining not using FriendFeed? But you've already seen me using it less, in favor of Google+. I think the best solution is for those of us interested in making the move to do so, and/or Google+ learning from the best FriendFeed has to offer.
- Louis Gray
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Congrats, Louis. Of course, this means even less sleep, right?
- Friar Will (:^)
What is this sleep you refer to?
- Louis Gray
The stuff I don't get enough of so I can chat with friends from round the world on FF, :^)
- Friar Will (:^)
welcome aboard !!
- Onur Karaagaoglu
Can I use your employee discount for some Android toys?
- Rodfather
most surprising thing for me is that TNW didn't wrote anything about this.
- batuhan icoz
Strange that I found out about this on Twitter and not G+ or FriendFeed... (Louis, you're now in my Google People circle. Just sayin'...)
- Dennis Jernberg
Congrats, Louis!
- imabonehead
I may be the last person on the planet to hear this news, but Congrats anyway!
- DJ Stevie Steve
++Amit! Ben and Tudor, whadda we hafta do to keep Louis well-wardrobed for the job?
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Congrats! :)
- ciw
from FFHound(roid)!
It's about time! :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congrats!
- ↂGiorgiँ Zarrelliↂ
Congrats - but... but... - it means now I will ignore anything you say about google+ or it's perceived competitors... well, not ignore, but strongly pinch-of-salt it... Anyway, here's to you kicking ass there and making google+ better!!!
- Iphigenie
I LOVE this move. Congratulations. +1 to you!!
- Harold Cabezas
Louis, agree on your comment about Google+ and FF. G+ needs to learn from FF and hopefully everyone here will move over there... then I don't have to jump form one service to the other all the time. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
... there goes the neighborhood ...
- Laura Norvig
WHAT. I completely missed this. Processing...
- Josh Haley
posted as comment on blog: "Dude..... DUDE! Wow. Congrats! Next post has to be something negative about Google, so we know you're keeping it real. Kidding. You're the standard of keeping it real. All the others could learn a ton from watching you. Best of luck and please wear your FFundercats shirt to Google one day and send me a pic of you in it with some amazing Google backdrop. Your assignment is before you. Go and do. ;)"
- Josh Haley
Awesome Louis! Congrats!
- AJ Batac :)
congrads mr gray (dont lose any sleep over it though, ;)
- chaz2b
Google is the lucky one. Forward Ho!, Louis. Exciting.
- Micah
Last friday I taped an iPhone to my head and ran around Paris capturing the most famous sights in a single (somewhat shaky) shot. Here's the video: http://vimeo.com/12906858
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Now we know what that 94 minute video was. :)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
At first look I also thought he became gangsta :p
- deerstep
that explain other FF posts, looking for tapes and where can one upload large video files ;-).
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Yeah, I never did get the duct tape though, so I had to use clear packaging tape instead (with a sock stuffed between the iPhone and my hat to get the correctish angle).
- Paul Buchheit
Patent it NOW
- Josh Haley
Well, this is just genius!
- Eric
When you said you ran you weren't speaking metaphorically.
- Eric
Reminds me of a project I cobbled together a few years back at the Moscone Center Web2expo conference: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Very Cool Paul!
- Jeff P. Henderson
great and inspiring
- Nenko Ivanov
this was perfect, I opened up my Paris map and followed you :)
- ipek aral kişioğlu
I'm surprised you were able to follow. I didn't have a map (my iPhone was taped to my head!) so I made a number of wrong turns, though the high-level route was pretty basic.
- Paul Buchheit
Saw the vimeo on your stream and watched a little of it. Great stuff! Cool to see new iphone vid quality. (er 3gs? quality, hmm) Oh yeah, and enjoy Paris!
- Jay
It's actually a 3GS, not an iphone 4.
- Paul Buchheit
I think I might tape a photo of Paul with an iPhone taped to his head to my head because I want to get arrested for being a menace.
- Akiva
You can fit an iPad on my forehead.
- Josh Haley
Ahhh this explains the "ducktape in Paris" stuff LOL :D (that picture is full of geeky win!)
- Susan Beebe
@Paul just curious how much battery did you have left after you were done recording?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Something like 22%, as I recall. I had put the phone in airplane mode to reduce wireless consumption and also because I'm concerned that an incoming call would stop the video or something.
- Paul Buchheit
Nice idea, OP
- LANjackal
this is definitely on the list of 'quirkiest things ever done with an iPhone'. :-)
- Olivia Lovag
this is so romantic
- τorƍue
awesome, you just needed a gun and it would make a cool REAL-time FPS :)
- Emil Kirichev
oh thanks you soo much!!! I love it!
- Bojan Babic
surprisingly un-shaky
- Sally Relton Shakespeare
Avg. speed: 9.48 km/h (9.23 mi in 94 min, see red track http://maps.google.com/maps...)
- Jérôme
How To Get Rich - http://blogmaverick.com/2011...
kartik vaithyanathan, Suresh S, Amit Patel and Jimminy, CoG of FF liked this
This is the best advice I've ever read on the subject. I love Mark Cuban.
- Jesse Stay
Interesting. I did some of those things in my 20s — worked two jobs, tracked every single expense (even a dollar here or there), found that way too much money went into food, set a goal of $2 per day in food. Used spare time to study stuff that would be useful for current or future work, so that I could get good at it. It helped me tremendously, but I don't know if it works for everyone.
- Amit Patel
And then sell a domain name to Yahoo for $5 Billion... :)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, I don't think Yahoo is even worth $5 Billion. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Some G+ thoughts: https://plus.google.com/1141370...
Tinfoil 2.0, Dan Hsiao, Maggie and 16 other people liked this
+1
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
Like
- Gabe
G+ is not clicking with me because of overall look, feel and functionality. Which is why I am still on Friendfeed.
- Sean McBride
What I have learned from the explosion of social media platforms: the future of personal computing lies in developing smart personal assistants to automatically manage and prioritize all the news and information in the world that is of greatest relevance to each of us individually.
- Sean McBride
Good post, Ross.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Thanks, Stephen! I feel like I'm judging G+ fairly harshly because I want it to act exactly like FriendFeed; just with super-flashy-circle-lists!
- Ross Miller
"Sleep is a waste of time and unproductive." -- Kevin Fox
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Friendfeed's Francisco, Tom Lewis and 55 other people liked this
Words to live by.
- Stephen Mack
ROFL You're awesome, Stephen.
- Anika
I submit the following caption: "I was sent here to kick ass and create new social networks. And we don't need any more social networks."
- Brian Johns
*snort*
- Joe The Sausage
So LG didn't coin that?
- Josh Haley
Josh, hmm, maybe it was Derrick who said it originally. (Or Johnny, as pictured.)
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
"This is such a strange meme." -- Stephen Mack
- Kevin Fox
"sleep is a weapon" -robert ludlum
- Peter Dawson
BTW, Brian, your alternate caption is awesome.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
No, I didn't.
- Kevin Fox
And yes, BJohn's quote is awesome. Stephen should do a remix. I'd be proud of that one.
- Kevin Fox
Oh, I get it now.
- Josh Haley
Peculiar.
- Paul Buchheit
So what we have here is a picture of Paul with a quote from Kevin that's actually Louis' catchphrase? #3fer #crossingstreams #mixingmemes
- WoH: Minding her Botts
WoH: Oh dear, you're right. I messed up. I thought it was Spidra's quote attributed to Steven Perez with a picture of Mike Nayyar.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
"I once shot an elephant in my pajamas... what it was doing in my pajamas I'll never know!"<double eyebrow tweak>
- Mark J
I just threw that into the mix because it makes as much sense as the rest of these comments!
- Mark J
Thanks, Mark. The double eyebrow tweak is a very important touch.
- Stephen Mack
Did Paul change his avatar to this pic (minus the text) just recently?
- Stephen Mack
LOL. Now people let's continue this meme!
- AJ Batac :)
Oh, now THAT is how to rock the meme.
- Slippy
that's epic.
- imabonehead
where is Louis Gray?
- ThinkEzy
Sitting right next to me right now, playing poker.
- Stephen Mack
YOU STOLE MY BIT. By the way, search for that phrase in Google. I own it. :)
- Louis Gray
I think Stephen knew exactly what he was doing, which makes it all the more fun. And Louis? #SULGOMH
- WoH: Minding her Botts
That's a squad suppression weapon.
- Kozan Demircan
"Go ahead and +1 my day"
- imabonehead
"I'd really enjoy unloading my clip into a big ass abutment right about now." - Robert Scoble #idontknowwhatthismeans #abutment
- Mark J
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Moses Mailu Nzioka, Suresh S, Dan Hsiao and 21 other people liked this
MLK apparently - http://www.infoplease.com/spot...
- Paul Buchheit
Platonic.
- Cliff Gerrish
All right, who is letting the fortune cookie writers study holographic string theory again?
- David Lounsbury
Sexual repression / das ding: http://accursedshare.blogspot.com/2008...
- Benjamin Phillips
...in bed.
- Stephen Mack
+1 Stephen !
- Peter Dawson
Mark Zuckerberg is the most popular user on Google+ - http://socialstatistics.com/ #amusing
Dubidu Duppi, Mark Essel, Kaan Biryol and 28 other people liked this
I'm #36
- Paul Buchheit
no circles for Larry, Vic and Sergey?
- @zaps
21k users? It went up fast during the weekend!
- Zu from AOD
from iPhone
I can't wait until Robert hits the friend limit and starts complaining. ;-P
- Jeff P. Henderson
like that
- Shakhawat Hossain
Dear Google+, we were first. Love, Microsoft Windows 95 Plus!
Dan Hsiao, Cristal Blue Persuasion, Alex Kapranoff and 12 other people liked this
I worked on that, coincidentally.
- Paul Buchheit
+1 Paul
- Curdy G
Someone should do a retrospective of brands/products with the word "plus". Seems like there have been a lot of them over the years. Household cleaners and feminine hygiene products some to mind, but I'm sure there are many others.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
+1 Paul
- AJ Batac :)
better for araoud the world
- Shakhawat Hossain
Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal - http://www.gnolls.org/2074...
urdumania1, Space Cowboy, Chuck Kahn and 22 other people liked this
"Complete protein is satiating. Our bodies absolutely require complete protein—but they also have a limited capacity to process protein in excess of our requirement. This shows up as what’s called “protein leverage”: people tend to consume food until they’ve ingested about 360 calories worth of complete protein. All other things being equal, if we eat foods high in protein, we consume less calories, and if we eat foods low in protein, we consume more. Therefore, if we want to sell an addictive and non-satiating food, we should keep it very low in protein (e.g. candy, cookies, potato chips). If it does contain protein, that protein should be incomplete—deficient in at least one essential amino acid—since the limiting factor for protein utilization is the least abundant essential amino acid. Guess what? Corn and wheat, the foundation of chips, crackers, cookies, and over 90% of the breakfast aisle, are both deficient in lysine. And both zein (corn protein) and gluten (wheat protein) are...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"Here’s a startling experiment: rats prefer saccharine and sugar to intravenous cocaine, even after previously becoming addicted to cocaine."
- Gabe
Life can't always be good, but it can always be interesting.
Dubidu Duppi, Space Cowboy, Suresh S and 51 other people liked this
Don't worry Paul, friendfeed will always have a special place in our hearts. You can always beat Google once again.
- mehmet
It was actually a more general thought, nothing to do with FriendFeed. On the topic of ff, my only real complaint is that people haven't copied it enough :)
- Paul Buchheit
I'm sure someone else will do it. :)
- Oguz Serdar
@Paul: Well, don't worry, many of us are lobbying G+ folks very hard to adopt more of the FF feature set.
- AJ Kohn
I want to +1 Paul's comment.
- Louis Gray
I want to +1 on Louis for adding +1 on Paul's comment
- victed
And i want to +1 victed's.
- batuhan icoz
+1.
- Nathan Chase
from iPhone
I hate math.
- Anika
as it's not referring to FF then? How so?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
+Paul
- Que Sarah Sarah
A round of +1s for everyone.
- Micah
Hmmmm
- WoH: Minding her Botts
Rochester police use selective enforcement of parking laws to harass attendees at a meeting in support of woman who was arrested for video-recording a police stop from her front yard - http://www.boingboing.net/2011...
John Lam, April Buchheit, Maggie and 6 other people liked this
"A followup on Emily Good, the woman who was arrested for video-recording a police stop from her front yard: during a neighborhood meeting in support of Ms Good, Rochester Police came out with a ruler and measured the parking-distance of the attendees' cars. Cars that were more than 12 inches from the curb (even by half an inch) were ticketed. Needless to say, the 12 inch ordinance isn't normally enforced with this kind of vigor."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
wonder if somebody recorded the measurement of the 12 inches?
- kartik vaithyanathan
I'm surprised that the person videotaping these cops didn't get arrested, too!
- Gabe
Prediction: Dropbox to be acquired before the end of 2011. - http://fury.com/2011...
NotdaBOTTurlokin4, andrei_c, Alex Scrivener and 2 other people liked this
Did you get that nugget of info out of somebody's dropbox account recently? http://www.wired.com/threatl...
- Brian Johns
by ?
- Ozgur Demir
Will the acquisition require a valid password?
- Neal Krummell
the very first day I saw Dropbox, I said "Facebook should buy this company".
- Ozgur Demir
There is another reason they will be acquired soon. It has to do with the track record of one of their recent hires :)
- Benjamin Golub
But Ben can also trigger IPOs, as was the case at Google :)
- Paul Buchheit
One of these days, I will just follow Ben around.
- Louis Gray
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