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We may be the youngest people here. Where am I now?
Alfredo, Tyson Key, Darren Heydon and 9 other people liked this
are we going to guess from your iPhone? This is why we need to be able to edit entries to add photos... :)
- Tim Hoeck
probably gonna need one more clue at least ...
- Laura Norvig
Silver Lake in LA, CA. LMAO
- Anika Malone
It's too late for the Blue Plate Special. I'm stumped.
- Christopher Harley
Florida?
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
Bingo?
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
Chukchansi?
- Rodfather
Arizona?
- Jordan Hofker
Maternal ward?
- Larry Hudson
A tomb?
- Andrew C
Retirement home.
- Rochelle
The past?
- Vince DeGeorge
Hint: it's an event in the bay area.
- Paul Buchheit
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Symphony? Opera?
- Jim Norris
A crossword puzzle tournament?
- Gabe
+1 Jim
- Karim
an art museum?
- Clare Dibble
Dinner boat?
- Alex Power
some kind of niche music event.
- ashish damania
A bridge tournament?
- Robert Felty
graveyard
- sridhars
Not where you were.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Senior lunch program?
- Rahul U
2 hours and we still don't know? Must be fun hanging with the seniors :P
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
Bingo Night?
- Hutch Carpenter
A different place then you were yesterday.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
We just added a "Best of day" link at the bottom of the page. The best part is that it works for friend lists too, so you can have a "Best of day from family", etc. Thanks to Matt Cutts for the suggestion (http://friendfeed.com/mattcut...)
Bruce Keener, Zachary TG, Sebastian and 128 other people liked this
awesome, but pls bring this to the iphone too... i really miss best of day on the iphone
- Zee.
Suggested Tuesday, implemented Thursday. #wonderful
- Mitch
Nice! I was just thinking about this today, but it'd also be awesome to have a "Best of" link for user profiles as well, so it'd be easy to see which of a users (or yourself) updates/posts were the most popular
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
This is huge news for me, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
What Sean said. It will also be useful to decide whether to subscribe to a user or not.
- Vishy
I agree -- soon I hope.
- Paul Buchheit
The "by list" portion is very important. Well done.
- Louis Gray
*falls on floor*
- Johnny Worthington
w00t! I got a "file not found" error on the iPhone, but I'm hoping that's temporary. This is rocking--thanks for adding this feature!
- Matt Cutts
You guys are full of incredibleness today
- Charlie Anzman
Boy, you're just cranking the improvements out! Amazing stuff!
- Rick Cogley
sweet
- Alfredo
this is good. how about also adding best of week and month and putting the same tool on searches as well?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome...I've really missed this since the redesign.
- Mark Krynsky
And guess who comes up twice as soon as I click this new feature...? Paul Buchheit!!! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This is great but hopefully will be expanded to groups, users and saved searches too? And agree with Thomas about best of week/month too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed, you ROCK!
- alfred westerveld
I found the link long before this post. Very cool.
- Russellreno
Can we get email/IM alerts for "Best of Day" for lists? I would love to get these pushed to me. Thx.
- Steve Rubel
WOW I love you guys I missed the feature sooooo bad!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
One more thing: All of our iframe embeds (including search) support a css=URL parameter to enable custom style. We haven't documented it yet, but see http://friendfeed.com/buildin... for an example and howto, and http://www.building43.com/ to see it live.
Bruce Keener, Tyson Key, Dimka☂ and 75 other people liked this
Amazing
- zsafwan
I was wondering how they did that! Thanks
- Frankie Warren
But how do I customize the title so it's not the long search string?
- Jesse Stay
We're going to fix that very soon Jesse.
- Paul Buchheit
Could that (improper instancing of by louisgray.com) be the cause of http://ff.im/4J6lp ?
- ianf ⌘
Thanks Paul - that will make me feel much better about keeping it there. :-) I've got some huge community improvements coming soon that I'm hoping to integrate FriendFeed with.
- Jesse Stay
I may be missing the howto, but developed my own way awhile back using object tag, and placed in a drupal block.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
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Freaking GENIUS.
- Jason Huebel
Paul, first tried to embed in the post, but did not work out. Then I embedded the search in a sidebar widget, that worked: http://www.amsterdam20.nl - any tips how to make the embedding working in a regular WP 2.8 post? Or is this not possible b/c it is an iframe? TIA!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Ah this was what i was looking for.
- Burcu Dogan
Nice - very cool.
- Cliff Gerrish
Is there any chance of losing the scroll bar? I know you can manually increase the height but would really like this frame to automatically grow on my site. Or is this technically impossible atm? Either way, a very cool feature. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul.. thanks for the "undocumented update".. it's nice to have such open access to what's happening at FriendFeed. I'm used to the "Wall of Silence" from Google and THAT gets old and extremely frustrating fast.
- Chris Myles
Cool. I just discovered the embed flag yesterday. I like loading the feeds in the firefox sidebar.
- Peter Warnock
Kol, I think you are a little out of luck.. since an Iframe is just a "window" to another URL, the main page needs to define the size. Without it the browser would need to load every iframe page just to determine how to render the main one. However It would be nice to have an embedded option that allows the "N more comments" concept (more details here http://ff.im/4fGzH), it takes up...
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- Chris Myles
Chris, so the iframe is not the way forward? What alternatives could achieve this? I don't mind putting in some code to embed my FF posts properly (with a frame).
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I'm not sure where you got the impression I don't think Iframes are the way forward, I was addressing your issue of "losing the scrollbar". An Iframe is the only way to get "real time" updates.. you could always roll your own javascript, ff API , DOM based utility but it would only get you the content at the time of the API call. If the FF team thought http://ff.im/4fGzH was a good...
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- Chris Myles
So there is no other way to get real-time updates without an iframe? Once we can get rid of the scrollbar then I can use it on my site.
- Kol Tregaskes
FF can only update pages they own! BTW in its current form I think the benefits of an embedded FF post (or group etc) far outweigh any minor side effects of a scrollbar. I'd love to use friendfeed as my entire blog commenting system, I'm just waiting for a couple of things (http://ff.im/3TfED) to automate the process.
- Chris Myles
Telephone booth
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Demetrios the Traveller, Beth K, Barbara and 6 other people liked this
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- Paul Buchheit
The Tardis from an evil universe?
- Amit Patel
All recipients must be 501(c)(3) public charities - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"A public charity, identified by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as "not a private foundation," normally receives a substantial part of its income, directly or indirectly, from the general public or from the government. The public support must be fairly broad, not limited to a few individuals or families. Public charities are defined in the Internal Revenue Code under sections 509(a)(1) through 509(a)(4)."
- Paul Buchheit
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Brave New Foundation is a cutting edge non-profit that makes and distributes new media to support and amplify progressive social change. www.bravenewfoundation.org
- Myra Donnelley
But not necessarily old with 3 or 5 years of audited accounts? IslandsFirst.org is young, small, aiming and reaching high with policy and diplomacy work in the UN. Support for them promises best social return.
- R Andreas Kraemer
I would suggest you look into funding local legal aid organizations specifically to create and develop private fundraising. It may cost a legal aid program $150 to $1500 to prevent a family of four from becoming homeless. If they become homeless it will cost the community anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 in government benefits and social services to rehabilitate them. Domestic violence?...
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- Samuel M. Prince
I proposed a cool new way of giving.. if you have an interest in brain cancer, there are about 150 charities that serve the brain tumor community. Most do good work... so how do you choose which one to give to? I set up a collaboration of brain tumor charities so we could all work together instead of against each other. So far, we have over 50 brain tumor charities as members, working...
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- Al Musella
[Another Spammer]: http://friendfeed.com/silntru...
Is he posting anywhere besides his own feed?
- Paul Buchheit
Good question Paul. I was watching the everyone feed and saw this. I see the comments from Casey that you are only blocking accounts that spam groups or comments.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
A few people have been complaining about "troll"comments on FriendFeed (and I believe the word "syphilis" may have been thrown around), but the comments on my posts never seem to sink below the level of "amusing". What am I doing wrong?
Hutch Carpenter, Susan Beebe, Nicholas James and 51 other people liked this
Maybe you're just not easily offended. Some comments in your posts have been a little out there IMO.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Not enough Scoble, I guess. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Yes, some of them are out there, but those are more often amusing than offensive.
- Paul Buchheit
Nice comment @Scobleizer ;)
- David Damore
I think there are people here who call anyone who thinks differently a 'troll'. I see it all the time.
- Anika Malone
You clearly haven't implemented the right features to get the uncov folks here. Get back to work!
- Bruce Lewis
You're just not feeding in the crazy. Crazy Feed ACTIVATE!
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Ignore Anika. She doesn't really see people like that. She's just trolling. ;-)
- Bruce Lewis
Post a volatile topic regarding politics or religion and then get back to us. :-)
- Trish R
Well, you aren't an a*hole negative nancy, like some people who use the word syphilis. :)
- Sean MacDhai
Trish, are you subscribed to Paul? He's posted plenty of those.
- Bruce Lewis
*glares at Bruce* See, Paul! Ban him!!! PLEASE! ;P
- Anika Malone
Yeah, I've noticed that just about anything I bring in from Reddit will lead to a somewhat more contentious discussion (presumably in part because Reddit headlines are evolved to be sensational).
- Paul Buchheit
I'm looking at the first 13 comments and seeing total TROLL FAIL.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, yeah, I am, but nothing has stood out for me as trollish, either.
- Trish R
Paul, maybe it's cuz you work at FF and folks are scared to be banned? :P
- Curtis Jackson
I think the formula is: (followers + friends + foaf's / controversial likes + comments)*herding behavior = trolls
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Curtis, being blocked by several people isn't too different from being banned, so it doesn't really matter whether the troll victim works at FF or not.
- Bruce Lewis
Typically, you reap what you sow. Since you are above board, kind and helpful, you get that in return. Others who are more bombastic see stronger responses.
- Louis Gray
Louis, you're above board, kind and helpful, but I troll you sometimes.
- Bruce Lewis
Speaking of stupid, I can't think of many situations where politics _are_ discussed politely and intelligently, and that include in-person with family, etc. I think the topic is simply too emotional for most people and the group-affinity parts of the brain completely take over and shut down all logic and empathy.
- Paul Buchheit
(Link removed since EricaJoy has provided a superior search URL immediately below)
- Mike Reynolds
Try this search: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- EricaJoy
Switching into serious mode for a moment, I've been impressed at certain discussions on FF where the topic would normally lead to charged conflict, but a constructive discussion ensued instead.
- Bruce Lewis
Maybe after a certain number of comments on an entry (or if certain words enter into the discussion), we should automatically append ;) onto every comment :)
- Paul Buchheit
Wait, I thought the problem was that you weren't seeing enough troll comments. That feature would do the opposite! What are you thinking?!? :)
- Bruce Lewis
I know you weren't serious, but I'm starting to think you could actually implement something similar.
- Bruce Lewis
It would be a milder form of blocking. If you find someone trollish, this semi-block would automatically add a smiley to any comment they make on your items. That would be hilarious! It would probably be abused a lot when it first came out, but in the long run it might prove useful.
- Bruce Lewis
Yeah, I don't see a lot of trollish behavior, just a lot of lame attempts at bad sarcasm and the odd person who doesn't know how to read.
- Alex Scoble
Bruce, I guess it all comes down to the definition of "troll". There's a difference between playing "devil's advocate" and just being an ass. I don't mind having my brain tweaked with an interesting opinion. Compulsory ;) for Paul.
- Curtis Jackson
Paul: I'd like to keep certain threads of mine from popping back up into everyone's view. In fact, I'd like to have a lot more control over the whole view thing anyway. Tim O'Reilly doesn't want to see comments, for instance. I'd love to give him the view he desires. Other people want strict reverse-chronilogical view. I want that too. As an option. But I think you're onto something when you say that politics rarely brings about constructive conversation.
- Robert Scoble
Paul: I keep telling people that this is like cheering for your sports team. If you hate the Yankees you won't be rational about it. You'll jeer anytime one of their stars comes on the field. Group-affinity parts of the brain take over there too. So, we need to have ways to both identify with groups (like the #tcot hashtag) as well as retard the devisiveness (maybe having a warning on a thread that has too much hateful language).
- Robert Scoble
Paul - Aside from pulling the service Favicons (an offense for which I'll curse you till my dying breath), I have nothing but great things and experiences from you. Most nice people don't get called shameful bacterial pet names. I can call you Yersina if you'd prefer though.
- Matthew DeVries
Mention you're quitting FriendFeed or you love Twitter and you'll see it
- Jesse Stay
Stop being such a nice guy, be more suspicious of others, and drop some flame bait for others to ignite.
- rob friedman
Jesse - Mentioning leaving isn't enough, there's been countless "Sorry FF isn't for me, find me here" posts (Spidra comes to mind as one) that get the "Miss you, hope you come back" and end. It's the ones that are "I'm fucking leaving this shithole of a site and here's why!" then they proceed to name everyone on the FFholic top 100 active users, and leaves a cleveland steamer on their chest, only they forget the saran wrap. Those people get trolled like Montauk.
- Matthew DeVries
Threaded comments would hide some of the more heated comments as well (I mean threaded w/i the comments)
- Jesse Stay
Did he say you can get an STD from Friendfeed?. Everyone quick .... use protection.
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie... are you suggesting we 'wrap the post' before we 'press the post'???
- Johnny Worthington
Jesse, I've yet to see an implementation of hierarchical commenting that I would choose over single level as it succeeds on ff. Of course, I'm open to innovation :)
- Micah Wittman
I'm so with Micah on this. Flat conversations are what make Ff good, because people literally can't get off on tangents. They have to stay on topic or the thread sputters. It's nicer that if people see the tangent, they say "If you want to talk about Crystal Meth lab design here: http://friendfeed.com/dariusm... so we don't derail the thread"
- Matthew DeVries
Yeah, I agree with Matthew, I really like yellowtail (hamachi) nigiri and eat it every chance I get. It's totally delicious.
- Alex Scoble
Paul - you can change your display name to Paul Yersina Buchheit.
- Matthew DeVries
I don't know, but I must be making the same mistake.
- Michael Fidler
Back in the day (don't know if they still do it) Fark and Something Awful would just delete any and all references to each other regardless of context. Like they were trying to keep their populations from knowing the others existed. I wonder why site owners stopped that kind of lock down.
- Matthew DeVries
If you want more troll comments on your threads just say the word. We can make that happen.
- DGentry
I'm always amazed when 9/11 truthers pop up in some random thread. I recommend posting something inflammatory about 9/11 or truthers and maybe you'll see some fireworks.
- Gabe
wake up sheeple!1!!
- Philipp Lenssen
That's because you misunderestimated the very word "troll." It's deployed automatically whenever someone runs out of [no longer even in-]coherent counterarguments, and thus the only course of action open to them is to "go personal." Usually easy to begin with, questioning the grammar etc., later with ex-cathedra pronunciation of one's opponent's "trolldom" As a rule, anyone whose first...
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- ianf ⌘
Screw you Paul Buchheit. That wasn't so hard. *gets ready to get booted of friendfeed*
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Try using #troll in the future for easy to find real-time troll talk :)
- .Garin Kilpatrick.
loving confrontation........
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- Paul Buchheit
no clue. what did i do? seriously confused. guess i posted to the wrong thread?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
inadvertent post? please don't delete me :)
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Embedding FriendFeed like we do here on building43 - http://www.building43.com/web-too...
Kevin Tunis, Johnny Schroepfer, Marg Uerite and 26 other people liked this
What is the benefit of using the iframe nested inside of an object tag? I believe that a simple iframe should work fine in all browsers.
- Paul Buchheit
The post said it was because of IE, is that not the case?
- Mike Bracco
It said that the iframe was for IE, but I think the iframe should work for all browsers, so why bother with the object tag at all?
- Paul Buchheit
My research led me to believe that the object tag was the standards-compliant tag to be using, while iframe is "on its way out."
- Michelle McGinnis
Paul: hmmm not sure - speaking of IE - did you see this cartoon, pretty funny http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Mike Bracco
Unfortunately I didn't capture where I read that but it was freaky enough (implying that iframes would be stripped due to iframe attacks on sites) to make me wrap the iframe in an object tag. I'll keep trying to find the source.
- Michelle McGinnis
Michelle, I very much doubt that the iframe is going anywhere. I actually didn't even realize that the object tag could be used to embed an iframe :). As for security, anything that would strip iframes would most likely strip object tags as well, though if there's any difference I'm curious to learn more. (do frame breakers work inside object tags?)
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: True 'nuf. I need to do more research. Most of my coding for building43 was done under a normal (aka crazzzzy) deadline and I was accepting the stuff that worked at face value. I'll see what I can find out and amend the post as needed. Thanks again for all your help with the styling!
- Michelle McGinnis
Michelle - Great article by the way - we've all been wanting it since we saw it last week. I think it's a great tool, and a great way to integrate Friend Feed.
- Robert Freeze
For people who use Squarespace as the platform for their site. They are releasing some pretty nifty lifestream modules soon - http://lifestreamblog.com/squares... I am curious as to whether I will keep the FF widget or use what Squarespace releases.
- Mike Bracco
Cool the FF Team just put out the embed widget at the bottom of the page here :: http://friendfeed.com/embed ... it was not there this morning :-) .... thanks @Brent and FF Team.
- Jason Cronkhite
Glad to see it posted to the community :D. Thanks FF team. Stylesheet usage is new to me!
- Mark Essel
Brilliant! Thanks very much for this.
- Andrew Eglinton
Michelle - Nice work, thanks for being kind enough to share.
- Jim Connolly
Yeah I finally upgraded the embed widget last night on my site: http://chrisheath.us - took a bit of css tweaking and some hair pulling, but eventually I got it working - my main problem is that I want a fluid design - if anyone has suggestions on how to better code my page please contact me via the feedback link on the site
- Chris Heath
IFRAME isn't on its way out: it's part of HTML5 and XHTML2, and it's not deprecated. The only reference I could find to its possible non-use was from 1997, when the W3C said its initial introduction was "arguable" since there was already the OBJECT tag: http://www.w3.org/TR...
- Mark Trapp
Daniel Rowley, حسن حسینی, Mike Chelen and 127 other people liked this
How did you get Kevin to agree on tags?
- Shakeel Mahate
Maybe a little too twittery but I like it! An easy way to quickly share searches. I would like to see it somehow encompass multiple word searches though.
- Brandon Titus
Good point. I'll add comments later today.
- Paul Buchheit
awesome!
- Alfredo
what about multiple word queries?
- Frankie Warren
Sneaky!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
See! Paul is _SO GOOD_ he just says... "I'll do it later today". Well done, sir.
- Louis Gray
so can we get a combo on the search. .search only "comments" {y/n}; "tag" (y/n") ; "title" {y/n} ? In that manner we can SearchRT in various methods of text in and byitself.. !
- Peter Dawson
AWESOME!
- iTbay
fine new feature. congrats.
- metageoff
it's getting better and better by the minute. Thanks Paul. Well done
- zsafwan
Excellent feature! But seems like hashtag linkifying works only for FF posts, not imported content... Though maybe it's better this way =)
- Anton
Is there any control / logic / params / api to tweak the sort order for real time results?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Now I'm crying
- Bwana
I noticed that earlier - didn't realize it was new. Awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Hey Paul, Nimaa is right, linkifying for other languages apparently doesn't work: http://friendfeed.com/genieyc...
- Mohomed Abdullahi
Friendfeed does not need that IMO
- Stanislas Jourdan
Somewhat confusing - some # tags go to FF some go to Twitter.
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian: tags that go to Twitter are posted from Twitter
- LouCypher
so will imported tweets containing hashtags link to twitter search or friendfeed search? in the past I think they linked to twitter
- chrisofspades
LouCypher - yes and I block Twitter (but it does still show up in real time searches/filters) -- that combined with the fact that it is not easy at a glance to identify the source of the posts makes it confusing.
- Brian Sullivan
linkifying?
- Charlie Anzman
I thought I was done with hashtags after leaving twitter. Ugh
- Rodfather
Great add on the comments Paul. Native hashtags + Twitter hashtags. Awesome.
- Hutch Carpenter
Sweet.
- Shey
Very nice.
- Micah Wittman
O.K. I'm impressed. So much for the theory that you guys are releasing things slowly. I think you completely destroyed that today. Nice work!
- Michael Fidler
Cool! So: what are the most popular #tags? The most popular #tags recently? Perhaps http://www.ffholic.com/ will get on that...
- Tim Tyler
Shouldn't we be able to tag posts directly - without using a comment to do so? Comment - Like - Share - Hide - Tags? "Tags" should show you existing comment tags - and allow the adding of new ones.
- Tim Tyler
I'm with Tim. Genuine tagging would be a Good Thing.
- Chris Lasher
I'd love 'real' tags, but do I see the utility of leveraging hashtags, especially w/ all the tweets that come into FF. If they linkified twitter hashtags, and then also built their own tags system, it'd a) be more work for little more reward, and b) be confusing for some users, as there would effectively be two tag systems in FF. Lesser evil, and all that. *grin*
- Ken Kennedy
Brilliant! What happens to tags in tweets? Weren't they linked to Twitter searches?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, given that hashtags in tweets link to Twitter Search, hashtags in other types of content should link to FriendFeed search, but WITHOUT the hash sign in the search term. But I agree that "real" FF tags would be even better. Maybe when you type a hashtag, it could get automatically converted into a real tag?
- Grey Drane
Really great improvement guys! It would be i nice feature to see the most popular tags. #improvement
- Jan Friman
Congrats on this awesome new feature Paul but what about #hashtags with hyphens? For example: #real-time only linkifies #real. :(Twitter has the same dilemma)
- .Garin Kilpatrick.
Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Timo Ukkola, Tyson Key, Adrian and 365 other people liked this
Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time!
- Paul Buchheit
cooool
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
coooool
- zsafwan
GREAT !
- Stanislas Jourdan
Eeee. Awesome.
- Mark Trapp
via iPhone
Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it?
- Ian Wilker
YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust!
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement.
- Frankie Warren
Twitter Killer!
- David Schmidt
Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work!
- Leo Laporte
hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1
- Peter Dawson
Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though.
- Paul Buchheit
Track is back! This is a gamechanger.
- Mike Doeff
via iPhone
Track is back!
- Christian Burns
via iPhone
Excellent news.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
via BuddyFeed
I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me
- Jesse Stay
Wow, great work!
- Meryn Stol
I stand in awe of your hackfullness.
- Ted Gilchrist
Good work. Much-anticipated.
- Louis Gray
@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track"
- Jesse Stay
you guys rock.
- Karoli
...wowsers! Very nice!
- JA Castillo (جاسون)
The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track"
- Frankie Warren
Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track.
- Jesse Stay
That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track
- Jesse Stay
/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful.
- Chris Baskind
Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :)
- Frankie Warren
BTW, integrating this into my blog right now
- Jesse Stay
Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned
- Daniel J. Pritchett
this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :)
- Tim Hoeck
It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way.
- Ted Gilchrist
awesome!:)
- m.0
kewl!
- phil baumann
Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;)
- Brandon Titus
I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems.
- Chris Lamprecht
I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Wow you guys rock!
- Alfredo
I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please?
- Marg Uerite
You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that...
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- Mike Doeff
Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad.
- Jesse Stay
Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track.
- Jesse Stay
Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code.
- Dan Hsiao
Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different.
- Mike Doeff
Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts).
- Mike Doeff
Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :)
- Rick Turoczy
Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track".
- Jesse Stay
BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/
- Jesse Stay
for my italian friends: stica...
- Alberto D'Ottavi
via fftogo
Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
via IM
Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though.
- Jesse Stay
just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event)
- Jeroen De Miranda
My #laterzheenu tags can be of some use nao. Like right nao.
- Mohomed Abdullahi
Yeah
- Brian Sullivan
FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!!
- Harscoat
I think I'm going to cry
- Bwana
awesomesauce!
- Simon Wicks
This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team!
- .Garin Kilpatrick.
Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result!
- Anne Bouey
HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!!
- Harold Cabezas
I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks!
- topo
The first step in a storystreaming platform!
- Kevin Sablan
Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team.
- Micah Wittman
Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work.
- Ferruh Mavituna
OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:)
- Michael Fidler
Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :)
- Ross Miller
WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :)
- alfred westerveld
How can we embed FriendFeed search?
- Mike Reynolds
Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar.
- Mitch
A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box.
- Mitch
Thanks Mitch!
- Mike Reynolds
Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe>
- Mike Reynolds
Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output.
- Ferruh Mavituna
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- tabbr
Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon?
- Tim Tyler
very good!
- standin
Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more?
- Matt Cutts
two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;)
- Franc ☺
We are there, in the battle against Twitter
- Michael_techie
Best search engine became better :)
- Chirag Chamoli
I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
It's amazing!
- Lizunlong
I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is great. Well done, guys.
- James Myatt
Awesome :D
- Praveen Vasudev
great!!
- Mike Chelen
For April: Customizable Clothing: Unique 120-Zipper Dress Design | dornob - http://dornob.com/customi...
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I love it! I love convertible clothing and anything with lots of zippers and buckles (even if they are extraneous).
- Jess Lee
This is like the new new bandage dress.
- Jess Lee
Nice.
- Paul Buchheit
I can see the crime scene now. "OMG , it looks like she tried to get into that zipper dress while drunk ... so ... much .... blood".
- Tom Horn
Jess, do you play Final Fantasy games? (I ask because the character designer for the most recent ones is often criticized for sticking zippers and belt buckles everywhere...)
- Andrew C
Wax regularly, because first time ya catch a pube in that? Yeouch.
- Suburban Oblivion
Cool! But I wonder how much this dress weigh?
- Buyruk
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Gone. Thanks
- Paul Buchheit
Facebook | Someone please make a Solar Realms Elite Application - http://www.facebook.com/group...
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“A group to get some programmer to adapt the popular BBS game, Solar Realms Elite (SRE) to get his shit together and make an SRE app. I've been jonesing to acquire some more territory since 1995.”
- Amit Patel
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Ha, what silly comments — “seriously.. why the hell isn't this made? they can put a man on the frickin moon but no SRE?”
- Amit Patel
Seems like a great idea. Are you going to do it?
- Paul Buchheit
Asynchronous games like SRE do seem like a good fit for Facebook. But I have lots of other projects I want to do :)
- Amit Patel
FriendFeed Debuts Real-Time Search Spanning 50+ Social Sites - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
"Best of all, the service isn't asking you to change the way you do searches, and all saved searches on FriendFeed work, but they now execute in real-time and continue live updating as new entries are added to the service. For example, I could now embed a vanity search in my blog and see it in real time, thanks to FriendFeed."
- Paul Buchheit
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How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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"FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other diverse social media sites. If FriendFeed wants to step it up to the next level and challenge business-class conversation trackers, we believe there are four steps the company needs to take."
- Paul Buchheit
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'Stay classy, Fox News guests: "The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." WHAT?! Come again?' - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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What can you comment to something like that?
- Dan Woods
The reddit comments are kind of amusing: "I'm really really hesitant to blame another person's political views on psychological problems, but that's the only conclusion I can reach with these guys. When you've come to the point where you are actually saying "I want people to die, so that I can be proved right that if we don't do something, people will die" this is now a mental illness....
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- Paul Buchheit
Anytime someone uses the phrase, "Stay classy", I automatically have to like it. It's like in my biology.
- Derrick
Somewhat more seriously, I think there are some people who believe in the necessity of perpetual war, and for those people an attack on the US (such as a city getting nuked) would obviously be a good thing. I remember at the end of the cold war these same people were fretting about the need for a new enemy. Luckily for them, they found/created one.
- Paul Buchheit
Holy crap. That guy's talking out of his ass!
- Joey Gibson
A vulnerable country > the country they want. (That's even if I accepted that the country would be less vulnerable under them, which I don't)
- Matthew DeVries
Wow....I thought the democrats were the ones who want the turrists to win.
- EricaJoy
'9/11 ended up making this country safer then ever. The only way to make it more safe would be to undergo another attack.' That's basically what he's saying, right?
- Kevin Fox
"...an attack on the US (such as a city getting nuked) would obviously be a good thing." Can we pick the city?
- Chris Sparno
Yeah, how are we ever going to get rid of all these pesky freedoms if we don't have a big war? It's like these guys thought 1984 was an instruction manual.
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul, We have always been at war with East Asia. || We have always been at war with Eurasia. (Orwell, 1984)
- Joey Gibson
Ah Fox...they really should drop the "news" from their title. Propaganda might fit better? [And THIS time they really went too far.]
- Abby Martin
wha ...
- Khaled A
I have no words to describe what I think about that, scratching my head WHAT?
- Karen Swim
Good lord. Add Glen Beck to Rush Limbaugh on the list of treasonous talk show hosts. Disgusting.
- Leo Laporte
Being liberal is unpatriotic? Compared to that I'm a freaking nationalist!
- Heather
the scary thing, really, is not that someone would say this in public, or that Glenn Beck found someone to say crazy things on his show, but that the person saying it is *Michael Scheuer,* who was chief of the bin Laden desk at the CIA. he is a best-selling author, and currently a news analyst for CBS News. he's somebody who has the ear of government officials and the media. he is not just some loon Beck picked off the street, and that is cause for concern.
- Karim
My favorite reddit comment: "I was just stunned. I asked, "You hope Americans die by the thousands so that you can prove to me that we need FISA-less searches of everyone???" He answered with a straight face, "Yes". I tried to explain to him how he and Osama bin Laden had reached a point of consensus in wishing the United States harm, but he would have none of it. "It's all for the greater good of America!", was all he said."
- Gabe
one hopes Scheuer will claim he "misspoke" and does not really wish harm. or, it could be that he is Cap'n Ahab and bin Laden is his Great White Whale, and the failed pursuit is driving him crazy. and you thought "war is peace" was satire...
- Karim
I am going to have to add, that while Glenn Beck is a loony, treasonous sellout, Michael Scheuer is most definitely not some off-the-deep-end right wing, Fox shill. That guy is 100% legit and knows what he is talking about. I thhink that clip might be taken slightly out of context, but if Scheuer is concerned, so am I. But I already know too much about the shortcomings of our Federal Government...
- JonathanJoseph
@Kevin. ..9/11, per irrefutable scientific evidence, was an inside job, a controlled demolition. ..is there somebody here who still doesn't see this? ..... its the biggest story of our time .. itl bring very grave consequences for the country ..and yes, another war , attack would keep the bad empire of war within America in power, unchallenged, undiscovered, unremoved, untoppled and uncollapsed - its the old thing, when in trouble, bring on war .............. http://ae911truth.org
- Petr Buben
Its Fox soooo ... no surprises here.
- Brandon Mendelson
The only chance we have as a country is for blowhards to stop starting wars with other countries so that we can pretend that we don't have problems of our own.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yeah, Kevin, irrefutable scientific evidence!
- Gabe
no ..JUST LOOK how they fell ....are we all idiots? ... 10 floors per second pulverized ....they exploded and pulverized into pyroclastic cloud. http://911Blogger.com - http://911truth.org ....
- Petr Buben
@Jennifer .. As a country, we have thousands of chances, and choices .. all have truth, peace, justice spelled in them ... insohenceforth, the possibilities and the future of America will are to be unlimited .. just like of any other democratic, peaceful country ... now lets face the facts ... and yes, bad empires do fall ..we have seen it before // other question might be, if official media wont touch 911, should techno geek websites do it ??.. who will break it to the open sunshine day light, officially ?
- Petr Buben
9/11 was an inside job? Yea, right, and we all know steel doesn't melt, right ROSIE?? What ba bunch of clowns, ha, ha, ha!
- Don Smith
Stay classy? Right. It's REALLY showing a lot of class when you can't make a point without dropping the "F" word ... really classy, Buchheit!
- Don Smith
That was a quote from Reddit Don.
- Paul Buchheit
Don: Also, see sarcasm.
- Kevin Fox
I didn't know that Fox was now the "F" word.
- Gabe
Sorry Paul, I should have credited your quote to Reddit! I apologize for that.
- Don Smith
Leo, just curious ... why do you think Rush and Glen are "treasonous"? I like Rush, but Glen IS sorta "out there" sometimes. I stopped listening to and watching him quite a while ago. I don't, however, see how either could be considered treasonous. Just sayin' ...
- Don Smith
WTF????
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Don, I don't know if you're trolling... but, if my friends wants me to die so that our enemy cannot kill me, I think my friend clearly betrays me.
- Jérôme Flipo
"They are not saying they want it to happen"? I quote Michael: "the only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to detonate (...)". I'm not a native English speaker, but come on! Also, can you guys keep the discussion respectful?
- Jérôme Flipo
Seems like Munchausen Syndrome. Sad.
- Rick Cogley
I'm giving this thread the *facepalm* award for attribution errors, conspiracy theories, and trollish commentary. Not to mention the Fox "news" segment that festers beneath :) http://friendfeed.com/ffacepa...
- Richard Walker
I love how you all hate Fox New but never watch it. You are told to hate it so you do, but you will watch the piece of crap network MSNBC and CNN.
- Ryan Ellerbe
Ryan: I love you you purport to know what I watch because you disagree with my views.
- Kevin Fox
Fox News is an oxymoron. That is my story and I am sticking to it!
- Martha
Related: How much of something do you have to watch before you can decide you hate it without being accused of letting other people make up your mind for you?
- Kevin Fox
I thought we all agreed we were going to write it Fox News (R)
- Matthew DeVries
so basically what this guy is wishing for is for 100's even thousands of american to be hurt and wounded just so he can say told you so, wow what an egotistical jerk
- Kim Landwehr
Once again He was saying Osama would be stupid to do it right now. Our elected class is doing a good job destroying the USA and if he attacked us now we would be united as one. We would then stand up to the elected class and tell no more. Again I ask you to all crawl out of your holes and wake up. Its common sense people.
- Ryan Ellerbe
Ryan: Why is Osama our only chance? Why can't the CIA do it like they did on 9/11?
- Gabe
LOL the last time they attacked we galvanized around the idiots and gave them cart blanche, thus if they attacked again, it would solidify us around our leaders again. LOL I love people who observe data and conclude that if the same thing happened again, the exact opposite would happen. LOL LOL LOL LOL Do you forget the Patriot Act? Wireless Wiretapping? It's because we gave a bunch of dipshits a blank check cause we were skeered.
- Matthew DeVries
HAHAHA under your logic, we would have impeached Bush and Cheney right after 9/11
- Matthew DeVries
WHHHAAAAAAAA???!!! That is sooo stoooopid I can't believe we have idiots like this in US ...augh!!
- Susan Beebe
Jérôme: I never said I agreed or disagreed with Scheuer. The only things I've disagreed with are that Beck and Rush are "treasonous" talk show hosts and that 9/11 was an "inside job." The only other point I've even hinted at is that anyone who has to resort to profanity to make a point is just showing their own ignorance and immorality -- and the pattern here is that they all seem to be liberals. If we can't disagree without cursing and calling each other names, we're definitely in a world of hurt, folks!
- Don Smith
So in order to defeat terrorists, one must welcome terrorism??
- Mo Kargas
More like, in order for everyone to like Republicans, one must welcome terrorism.
- Robert Haas
Need to keep the fear machine well oiled.
- Will Higgins™
Yeah we have a lot of idiots. Idiots who voted for Hope and Change from Obama. All we have so far is more and more debt and no change. Well we have change for the worse.
- Ryan Ellerbe
Ryan: What would Change look like to you?
- Gabe
Mainstream media is ALL the same. A bunch of idiots trolling and egging on their competitors. As long as there is government, there will always be a created enemy to allow excessive force. Open your eyes people, there is only one political party in this country......Corporations/Banks.
- Mike VanLare (slayerboy)
+Mike. They're all trolls.
- Will Higgins™
And who knew, all this time the ANTS were taking over the world! Welcome to our new ANT overlords!
- Richard Walker
What I really liked was what came after that line. We're safe from OBL's attacks because he already thinks we're melting down just fine as we are, thank you very much.
- Andrew Skretvedt
""I was just stunned. I asked, "You hope Americans die by the thousands so that you can prove to me that we need FISA-less searches of everyone???" He answered with a straight face, "Yes"" So why are some people still stone deaf to those who point out the clear evidence that Sept. 11th 2001 was a false flag attack?
- Marg Uerite
Then you ask why the rest of the world thinks Americans are stupid. You keep the smart ones quiet and give airtime to idiots. That "person" should be sued for inciting to violence and betrayal to the country.That's what would happen if the guy was a Democrat...
- Alexandre Gamela
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Power makes people insane. Losing it does the same.
- Alexandre Gamela
via twhirl
Newsmax, a leading neoconservative propaganda outlet, has been seeding and cultivating the notion for several years now that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are going to detonate a nuclear weapon on American soil. Think about it. Newsmax has also been in the forefront in exploiting 9/11 to push forward the neoconservative agenda. Two words: watch out.
- Sean McBride
This kind of thing gets me very worried. VERY. What is wrong with people?
- Eric @ CS Techcast
where should we start eric lol
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Scary.
- Mike Reynolds
This is like the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
- Shawn Whitmire
Fox News - We Distort - We Decide!
- ScottBourne
"We Distort. And Deride." "We Lie. You Comply."
- Marg Uerite
We demolish skyscrapers. ..what the heck were we thinking?
- Petr Buben
via IM
Petr: you're saying Fox did 9/11?
- Gabe
no, Im not ...we don't know who did it - The Biggest Story of The Century - .... we don't know who did it yet, but we know for fact that it was an explosives aided controlled demolition
- Petr Buben
Petr, why explosives? I know that some explosives were detonated at/near the base. But I believe the speed of disintegration and the absence of a realistic remnant pile obviously imply something other than just explosives.
- Marg Uerite
Anyone who thinks it was kerosene fuel (jet fuel) from a "commercial plane entered the building" on a top floor, really has to "look closer." As far a Michael Scheur, It's called "revelation of the method" You're being told straight to your face and if you don't get it, you're nothing but complicit. He was "chief of the [']bin Laden['] desk at the CIA he is a best-selling author, and...
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- Marg Uerite
"9/11" = Murderous Hoax, "War of the Worlds" = Hoax, "Project Northwoods" = Leaked Plans for Similar intelligence operation. Why people have no imagination for this? = "Big Lie" cf "Mein Kampf"
- Marg Uerite
@ Marg ..it was a high tech high explosive nanothermite. per conclusive evidence. you can paint this stuff on the walls. it will bring down a building in a nice controlled demolition ... but maybe also something else, some other explosive ... but not nuclear weapon or fission explosion .. there is no evidence of that ... http://ae911truth.org - http://911blogger.com ...... /funny, recently, vice pres Joe Biden was handed papers in Los Angeles with this evidence, and asked about controlled demolition
- Petr Buben
FriendFeed Adds Real-Time Search Results - http://mashable.com/2009...
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"the coolest aspect of FriendFeed’s real-time search might be that you can extend it to your own website via an embeddable widget. To embed a search, you can simply click the “Share / embed search” option that accompanies each search result and grab the embed code"
- Paul Buchheit
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[FFFeedback] Error in FF-iframe rendering on louisgray.com (right now!)
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That's not FriendFeed's fault. That's my fault, and I am trying to get the template fixed.
- Louis Gray
It appears that the script tag made it into the title. The screenshot is actually of someone who bookmarked the page with delcious, and so the <script> tag is actually part of the delicious title: http://friendfeed.com/ordizia...
- Paul Buchheit
Paul is correct. It's been that way for 2-3 days and I am fixing it now.
- Louis Gray
Impressive speed in reporting and responding, isn't it? [see: http://ff.im/4J5ki - all posted within 5 minutes of one another]
- ianf ⌘
BTW - I just talked with Rick Klau over at Blogger. This is a known bug and they're happy I got caught with it, so I can work with them to fix it.
- Louis Gray
FriendFeed introduces real-time search | VentureBeat - http://digital.venturebeat.com/2009...
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"Given the large amounts of data that people already share on FriendFeed — whether from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr or dozens of other sites — and given FriendFeed’s low-latency, easy-to-use interface, this is one of the most useful ways yet to get genuine real-time information."
- Paul Buchheit
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FriendFeed Makes Its Search Results Real-Time Too - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
"Ever since its redesign a few months ago, FriendFeed has been one of the standard-bearers of the real-time web. That’s because while a lot of sites claim to be real-time, FriendFeed is one of the few that actually updates continuously as data comes in. Starting today, any search you do will also get that same real-time treatment. Enter any query into FriendFeed’s search box and you’ll see a constantly updating stream of items related to it. It works for advanced searches too. Best of all, it also searches through comments left below items. And these results can even be embedded in other blogs, as you can see right now on the FriendFeed blog (or below in this post)."
- Paul Buchheit
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Nutrition 101: The Basics That Will Keep You Healthy - http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2008...
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"But civilizations have thrived on diets of varying macronutrient proportions throughout history. The Inuit ate a diet of almost no carbs and mostly fat with no ill effects. The Masai drink cow blood and milk and eat meat like it’s going out of style. As the nutritionists gasp, I’ll mention that the Masai achieve prime health too. The diet on the island of Okinawa is heavily weighted towards vegetables and rice with some fish and little meat, high in carbs, low in fat. Again, very good health; Okinawans have excellent longevity. So it’s not so much about the macronutrients, as long as you’re getting enough protein and fat to allow the body to function properly. It’s about the types of food being consumed. Dr. Weston Price noted that traditional civilizations thrived until they were introduced to processed grains and sugars, at which point, health declined markedly. Have you ever known someone that dutifully follows a low-fat diet or low-carb diet by eating every processed product in...
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- Paul Buchheit
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So true. I do prefer fresh food than processed food.
- BeeLing
This source is a very un-nuanced view of nutrition: "Steak - Deliciously real food, straight off the cow." It makes no distinction between grass-fed and grain-fed beef, or addresses the problems involved with feedlots or concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). It's also important to note that causality cannot be proven with observational (epidemiological data), but requires a...
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- Bill Koslosky
"Okinawans have excellent longevity" and the latest generation is the first to live less than their parents. But it's not just about food. Longevity is the union of food, exercise & human social connections (and probably genetics) ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item... & http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Peter Renshaw
Interesting information. Would be interested in a good modern review/book on dietary effects over generational time frames (30-40years). It's a challenge to get that information. Maybe a self documenting social crowd sourcing site could accomplish what standard research has not.
- Mark Essel
Stripped fruit trees have unique taste.
- Nikolai
See Dr. Daphne Miller's _The Jungle Effect_ http://drdaphne.com/thejung...
- Ruchira S. Datta
We all know that it's speaking English that kills you: http://phocks.org/stumble...
- Piaw Na
So much for the high-carb food pyramid.
- τorƍue
Spaghetti may not grow on trees, but it sure is tasty. Screw longevity...I don't want to live a couple years longer if it means forgoing delicious processed foods!
- Doug
Doug: what do you mean spaghetti doesn't grow on trees? Here's proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Gabe
Sharing this post in Get Fit room - http://friendfeed.com/fit
- SportyGeek (Tracy)
The Masai walk more distance in a day than an average American walks in a week. Exercise is a big part of health.
- Thaths
Bill, if you insist on causallity and good science, you'll undermine the whole diet industry.
- Robert Hafer
via iPhone
Maybe I need to participate in this community to actually get comments on stuff :)
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Also, making your profile public will help.
- Paul Buchheit
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Thanks Paul!
- Andrew
Big changes to Gmail labels. - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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"But in Gmail, labels were stuck in a box below Chat — almost like we were telling people, "you don't want to use these." In testing, we discovered that it worked best to remove the terminology altogether and just place custom labels right under the system labels (e.g. "Inbox")"
- Keith Coleman
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Sweet.
- Paul Buchheit
I don't have it yet though.
- Paul Buchheit
Keith, dude, this blog post is too long. I can't figure out what changes you've made (complicated by the fact that I don't have the feature yet)!
- Ana
It is seriously wordy. I think the new feature is that they added a red line to the graph ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Maybe they A-B tested "label" vs. "move to" and move is about to win Thunderdome style
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Here's the "what's new" post: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009... The link I posted above is to Michael Leggett's overview of how we got from original Gmail labels to today's labels. It includes the interim changes that we launched a while ago.
- Keith Coleman
I'm glad that the settings let me hide them all, even Spam :)
- samgrover
Great information. Good use of Friend Feed.
- Bob DeMarco
I like the changes. It makes adding labels a lot easier.
- John
When implementing keyboards shortcuts in JS, include something like "if (e.altKey || e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) return;" to avoid eating existing browser shortcuts. For example, I can't Cmd-Left to go back from a Picasa page, because Picasa steals the event, forcing me to mouse over to the back button.
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The most annoying one is when a site steals the tab switching shortcut. I'm flying along a bunch of tabs and then it's like I hit a wall. Gmail is a major offender.
- Jared Mehle
I've never run into it with Gmail. Flash seems to steal the kb by default though, so YouTube etc all cause problems if you've given focus the the player.
- Paul Buchheit
FriendFeed steals the Firefox's Quick Find / (slash) too. ;)
- AJ Batac
I've learned to use Cmd-[ because Cmd-Left depends on context: if you're editing a field it acts as "go to beginning of line". Cmd-[ always works.
- Ethan Herdrick
(I've done some remapping so I might have the details of Cmd-Left wrong.)
- Ethan Herdrick
...it's much better than it ever was -- and I'm a fan of you've done with Gmail -- but there's so much JS and AJAX-y shii, (and with HTML5 coming, video and databases, etc.) going on in browsers these days, could we be approaching the limits of what can be done with the humble Web browser?
- .LAG liked that
I hate that ctrl-t in Flash/YouTube doesn't open a new tab.
- Matt Cutts
@Matt Cutts -- I'm right there with you.
- Miss Elle
You lost me at Wh
- Steve C
BTW Paul you have corrupted me — I now use Cmd-J, Cmd-K to switch tabs in Safari, Camino, Firefox, Terminal, and … Emacs. You might tell me that I should've used Cmd-H, Cmd-L, I already use hide and location bar, and I didn't want to change those too.
- Amit Patel
So I asked Aardvark, "Why does the United States give several billion dollars a year to Israel?"
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First response, from someone in Israel: "That's a good question. USA helps Israel, I'd bet the official reason is USA "wants to promote democracy and peace and such" (same reason they're in Iraq, etc), but the real reason, or one of them, is that Israel is in a great strategic spot in the Middle East for the USA, and if USA can Americanize Israel, and turn it into its own ambassador of policy, then USA wins."
- Kevin Fox
That's a difficult question -- you better try WolframAlpha.
- Paul Buchheit
Second response, from someone in San Diego: "Israel is the only normal country in the middle east. Also 10% of US senators are Jewish?"
- Kevin Fox
Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input.
- Kevin Fox
I think the real answer is that Israel has nukes and everybody surrounding them wants to destroy them.
- Gabe
The USA 'gives' several billion dollars a year to lots of people.
- Will Higgins™
*checking my bank account*
- Jérôme Flipo
I read somewhere it was to keep them from fighting with Egypt . Apparently Egypt gives us a 33% discount in exchange for not fighting with Israel. 1/3 of all foreign aid is split between these two countries.
- Eric Logan
resubmit!
- Brad Lauster
It's politics. There are better ways for us to represent ourselves in a region than giving oodles of money to just one country. Thinking from a UX point of view - I can imagine the flow would change if emphasis was changed a bit. ;-)
- Nida
Nida: Isreal is surrounded by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. Which want Israel to exist?
- Gabe
From Aardvark: "Good question. As an Israeli myself, I honestly don't see the logic behind it. Not any more, at least. My understanding is that there is a very powerful pro-Israel political lobby in the United States. This does not necessarily just mean Jews, in fact, the largest component of this lobby is actually Christian fundamentalists who seek to return all the Jews to Israel to...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Wow I think the poster above is right. The political lobby for Israel is intense. We are a christian nation at our base, so just keeping Jerusalem open to pilgrims is huge.
- Dario Gomez
Another good answer: "The US gives military aid an assistance to numerous allies including Columbia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Phillipines, and Israel. Aid is a way to support friendly countries overseas. Assistance to Israel has roots in the cold war when Israel was a bulwark against the spread of communism in the Middle East. That aid was increased in the 1980s as part of the...
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- Jérôme Flipo
Here are my choices for charities: (re: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...)
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1. donorschoose.org: having been a teacher for a low-income area myself, I can identify with a lot of the teachers who sign up requesting for donations to fund lessons and classroom materials.
- April Buchheit
2. pancan.org (or other Pancreatic Cancer research organization)
- April Buchheit
3. http://www.2ndharvest.net: I just heard on NPR that with the current economic situation, demand on food banks are at an all-time high
- April Buchheit
4. Palo Alto Jr. Museum & Zoo: http://www.friendsjmz.org: I was a summer Zoo camp director for one summer and I found their summer camp programs to be very worthwhile (also it didn't hurt that the children and I had a lot of fun).
- April Buchheit
6. UCSF Children's Hospital (but I think we've already donated enough to them)
- April Buchheit
8. Hydrocephalus Association: http://www.hydroassoc.org
- April Buchheit
My concern with most of these is that the cause is obviously good, but I don't know anything about the org or their actions. Some could even be counter-productive by advocating the wrong solutions.
- Paul Buchheit
To which orgs are you referring?
- April Buchheit
Most of them. How do I know what they will do with the money?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that is a general problem with charities that I'm not sure crowd sourcing will help: most people don't know the mechanics behind the charities that nominally promote the causes they support.
- Clare Dibble
Someone knows Clare, which is why having more people involved helps.
- Paul Buchheit
I'm not denying that someone knows, but I don't see how knowledgeable votes count more than uninformed ones. Maybe I don't understand the voting system.
- Clare Dibble
Clare's right. Like in most elections, most people will vote for the name they're most familiar with.
- Gabe
I also vote for #8. :)
- Louis Gray
I second donorschoose.org. You help teachers fund specific projects that benefit typical and inclusion classrooms.
- shirli
Paul, even crowd sourcing isn't going to really give you a picture of what these organizations do with the money. If you are involved with the organization you get a better idea, but everyone is generally looking for fulfilling their own needs and not at the back end. You only end up with part of the picture. Foundations have processes set up that often include site visits, interviewing...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Fwd: Curious if the Embedding FriendFeed article on building43 applies to the hosted wordpress.com site, because I have yet to figure out how that would work. (via http://friendfeed.com/michtu...)
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should work fine if hosted wordpress supports raw html
- Mike Chelen
Would I do that in the Appearance area and edit the CSS? I guess that's where I'm getting hung up.
- Michael Turner
is there some kind of option to add blocks? it should be similar to adding any other widget. editing CSS is optional
- Mike Chelen
Looks like the closest thing is Widgets, but they are pre-determined and Friendfeed is not one of them.
- Michael Turner
Ok, figured it out with the help of the wordpress forums and your idea of the block. Wordpress has a text widget and if you paste the image version of the Friendfeed widget it will work. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.... Thanks for the help!
- Michael Turner
There might also be some pure HTML option, similar to other hosts such as Google Blogger. Glad to hear it worked out :)
- Mike Chelen
Does Wordpress not support iframes? (if not, why not?)
- Paul Buchheit
Good question, I'd love to know why not too. I did try putting the realtime widget into the text widget, but it looks as though it strips out the iframe piece. On one hand it makes sense for security, but when there is something legitimate it is annoying.
- Michael Turner
It's definitely an iframe thing because neither my zune card or my xbox card worked either and they both use iframes. They need image alternatives like friendfeed!
- Michael Turner
Facebook suspended my app! Deservedly so.
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Why?
- Paul Buchheit
Violation of this: "[applications] cannot notify any user that another user has removed him or her as a friend." That's all the app did!
- Ethan Herdrick
Anyway it was really a vehicle to explore the FB platform. Mission. Accomplished.
- Ethan Herdrick
Bug: This saved search stopped working today: https://friendfeed.com/search... (You need 3 Lists A-listers, B-Listers and Bloggers/Writers to run this)
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It seems to choke on the '-' in the list names. It was working fine till yesterday.
- Ahsan Ali
Hi Ahsan, sorry for this bug. We've fixed it and it should work again shortly.
- Ana
Ahsan, it should work now.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, Ana. It works now.
- Ahsan Ali
I didn't know you could search via list. Nice!
- Josh Haley
Josh, it's very powerful. For example, setup a list of friends who tend to share great videos, and do a list:thosefriends service:youtube
- Ahsan Ali
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