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Twitter hires Alexander Macgillivray from Google - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Susan Beebe, Benjamin Golub, Simon and 24 other people liked this
"The startup has hired Alexander Macgillivray, deputy general counsel for products and intellectual property at Google, to be its general counsel, according to a person with knowledge of the hiring." I worked with Alex a lot at Google - an impressive hire for Twitter.
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I've worked with Alex, too, and I like him a lot - sad that we lost him! =(
- Darren
absolutely - if true, a great hire for Twitter. Amac is rock solid.
- hunter walk
Where's my dislike button?
- Piaw Na
Like, for amac's career; he's a good guy. Dislike for Google.
- Joel Webber
Happy 1st Birthday, Thomas!
shirli, Susan Shepard, BEX and 69 other people liked this
<3
- April Buchheit
Happy Birthday!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Birthday.
- Admiral Anika
Happy Birthday!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Happy Bday
- Steve C
Happy Birthday!
- Tudor Bosman
Happy Birthday, Thomas!
- Gabe
Happy Birthday!
- Ruchira S. Datta
Aww happy birthday! I can't believe he's already a year old
- Becca
Happy bday, lil thomas!
- imabonehead
Happy birthday, Thomas!!
- Karen Padham Taylor
aww.. Happy B-Day little guy! :)
- W_B_K
Happy Birthday Thomas!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Happy Birthday!
- Clare Dibble
Happy Birthday...
- Emma
what a cutie patootie
- Anna Lynn M.
Happy birthday, Thomas!
- Louis Gray
Yay, Happy FFirthday Thomas!! Thanks for a year of absolutely adorable pics!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
- Robert Felty
Happy birthday! :)
- Alex
so sweet.happy birthday!
- AnnSu
happy birthday, 小P孩儿:)))))
- K.D.
好健康啊 才一岁啊 真结实！ 生日快乐
- 佛陀
Happy Birthday Little Man! :) (I almost missed it!)
- Jeanette Bosman
Happy 1st Birthday, Thomas! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Birthday, Thomas! 생일 축하합니다. 토마스군 :D
- zizukabi
For he's a jolly good fell-ow... ^_^
- Ron Bailey
Happy Birthday, my new superstar !
- Renchin(Reina)
Happy Birthday!
- Tyson Key
congrats to @btaylor for new friendfeed beta! looks great; gotta think about how usage will change for me.
Peter Fenton liked this
Oops, Tesla S-Class sedan photos released early | Up to Speed | Los Angeles Times - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospe...
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Roshan Ramachandran, Jérôme Flipo, Nikolay Samokhvalov and 10 other people liked this
"One thing that Tesla has announced is pricing -- $57,400 for the new sedan. "
- Karen Padham Taylor
from Bookmarklet
So pretty looking.
- Bret Taylor
The S-class makes for great eye candy. There seems to be a fair bit of uncertainty as to whether Tesla will manage to successfully bring it into production given the company's financial challenges. Most baffling to me is their choice of manufacturing their own chassis - surely there was a more cost-effective solution for bringing this vehicle to market.
- Andrei M. Marinescu
Really pretty... Bret's next car??
- Shannon Jiménez
They may not be in business by the time they say they will make it, it will probably cost more than they say, and there will probably be a waiting list. So... probably not. But one can dream :)
- Bret Taylor
here are some 3 more. interiuer and "real" shots :) http://www.spiegel.de/fotostr...
- Alexander Rode
Tesla will be in business when this is produced. The sportscar was sold to help fund the creation of this car.
- Nicholas James
Beautiful. WANT!
- Dread Pirate PJ
swoopy. i can has $2,000 Tata version?
- Karim
karim++
- jacek
LynnVisible - Polyvore - http://www.polyvore.com/lynnvis...
Peter Fenton and Ginger Makela Riker liked this
We're running a contest on Polyvore for author Julia DeVillers. The winner's name and outfit will be featured in her upcoming book LynnVisible. Yay, Polyvore is being immortalized in (tween) literature! : )
- Jess Lee
from Bookmarklet
(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...
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John Lam, Chris Prince, Amber and 24 other people liked this
Left by a Seattle P-I employee on their way out today - http://www.techflash.com/venture...
Jon McAlister, marko, sirishkumar and 26 other people liked this
And obviously Jefferson valued the newspaper more highly than radio, television or the web because if he thought any of those were as important or could replace the np, he'd have mentioned them... right?
- Ken Sheppardson
Jefferson should have said "journalism". I don't care if we have newspapers, but we need journalism.
- Nick Dingle
It's a sad day here in Seattle today.
- Rochelle
Papers were the Journalism of Jefferson's time. If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they'd propagandize on the web. The Bill of Rights would be full of hyperlinks, and Ben Franklin would be very, very old, indeed.
- Chris Baskind
Well said, Nick.
- Mr. Gunn
Just walked back from Bourbon St. Lots of people out for 3:30 am :)
Mitchell Tsai, Derek Collison, Tom Stocky and 10 other people liked this
Thanks for the pic! New Orleans was the 1st place I ever got into a bar (age 15).
- Mitchell Tsai
Watching V for Vendetta again. I love watching this movie for some reason. So visually interesting and well paced despite its flaws.
Amber, binic, Adam Kazwell and 13 other people liked this
I still haven't seen it. Time to Netflix it
- Benjamin Golub
Me too... just rented it again last night... at the self-realization part, outside in the rain. ;)
- Brandon
Is it released?
- \(*_*)/
Just noticed it's on blu-ray ... into the shopping cart it goes ... good counterpoint to 5th element.
- david koblas
Visually it's a great movie. I'm tossed/torn by the plot turns, but overall it's a good movie, I think.
- Mike Lewis
10 Questions .... Russ Cucina, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine and Associate Medical Director of Information Technology for the UCSF Medical Center - http://medschool.ucsf.edu/gme...
Jessie, Soup, Peter Fenton and 3 other people liked this
"The VA system is not an option even though it is possibly the best inpatient clinical system around. Because it’s from the VA, it doesn’t do pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, or billing, which means it can’t be installed at a general hospital. It is also written in a now-obscure programming language called Mumps for which it is very difficult to find programmers." For some reason this just cracks me up.
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
You've been reading The Daily WTF, Jim? :) http://www.google.com/search...
- Tudor Bosman
It's weird that coverage of pediatrics and ob/gyn are considered fundamental features of a software system for hospital administration. I would have thought that any such system would be generic enough that if you decided to open a Spleen Center treating only diseases of the spleen, that it could deal with that, even if no other hospital has a Spleen Center. In other words, why are assumptions about the basic categories care is divided into baked so deeply into the code?
- ⓞnor
I guess pediatrics and ob/gyn are a little different. In obstetrics, new patients are literally appearing in the hospital, which might complicate the admissions procedures somewhat. Pediatrics is special because, uh, there is always a guardian who is managing the patients' care? But that will be the case in other departments as well, so... yeah, I don't really understand what kind of otherwise complete system couldn't be expanded to handle pediatrics.
- ⓞnor
All about MUMPS, the programming language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.... It seems like learning MUMPS the language should be pretty trivial for a decent programmer compared to the vastly larger task of becoming familiar with the giant code base and incredibly intricate requirements that any clinical software system must involve.
- ⓞnor
ⓞnor: I don't know what the special needs are in pediatrics or ob/gyn. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to add support, but maybe there are so many particulars involved that it's impossible for a single institution to accomplish that. I'd guess that MUMPS wouldn't be hard to learn, but who would want to spend their day writing code in a dead language for a huge legacy system like that?
- Jim Norris
I dunno, who wants to spend their day writing code in a live language for a huge legacy system like that? Seems like you'd mostly want to slowly whittle the legacy system back to core "business logic", treating it as a sort of very fancy SQL stored procedures, and add surrounding interfaces using fancy modern hotness, like J2EE portlets. That way you can pull down a fat stimulus-funding healthcare-payola paycheck and also pad out your resume.
- ⓞnor
I would think there would be a huge amount of work integrating any existing system into an actual hospital. Are pediatrics departments really more different from other departments than individual hospitals are from each other? I dunno, I just get the sense that the guy isn't actually that clever about IT, or doesn't really want to explain all the details, but has made up his mind that sticking with the GE contract is the right thing to do and needs some easily understood reasons to justify that.
- ⓞnor
Maybe the regulatory issues are what's common between hospitals and what's hard to code around. And you could imagine all kinds of regulations specific to pediatrics and ob/gyn. Anyway, I like how it's clear in the article that everyone absolutely hates UCare.
- ⓞnor
what a small world, I just met with the company providing the VA system to the broader market, Medsphere. They deliver the VA system for hospitals with all variety of needs, and are based on opensource business model. It of course threatens the legacy providers (GE) who can take the doctors golfing and to strip clubs to help them make their purchase decisions. They delivered this system at Midland hospital at 1/5th the cost of something like the GE system
- Peter Fenton
It never surprises me when the UCSF administration does something inefficiently.
- Melinda Owens
Love is all you need - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, Vishy, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 55 other people liked this
iPhone users keep loving with yellow face though :)
- Huseyin Savas
pala: even after working at FF for 9 months, I'm still not convinced that Bret actually sleeps.
- Tudor Bosman
Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Couric / Palin Open - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
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webosapien (Burcu Tüzün), Jonathan, Nada Amin and 39 other people liked this
I love when she goes "pew-pew" near the end -- soooo cute. lufff tina fey
- Brandon
I watched the actual Couric/Palin interview second. I was shocked that the actual interview seemed so much like the parody.
- Jeremy Hylton
I thought the same thing Jeremy. Here's a site that puts both interviews next to each other for comparison: http://twincitiesminnesotablog.com/2008...
- Akshay Kapur
You mean, the pic on the left isn't the vice presidential candidate? o_O
- Yuvi
Those outside the US can watch here: http://www.nbc.com/Saturda...
- Stuart Woodward
This was the greatest. Kinda sad that a comedy show like SNL, when creating parodies, uses direct and complete quotations from the subject.
- jcunwired
@Jody - I think the writers realized there was no way they could write anything crazier or off topic than Palin's own answers. I loved Amy's Couric impression - understated, yet hilarious.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics -- Printout -- TIME - http://www.time.com/time...
Alex Lomas, Peter Fenton, Jérôme Flipo and 8 other people liked this
"Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. ... As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax...
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- Paul Buchheit
I hate this article and commented on it here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... Where is the dislike button?
- EricaJoy
If you want good economics, you should've supported Paul. Politicians will always use tax dollars to placate people. This was the case in Rome before it fell and has happened throughout history. Democracy will only last until the people realize they can vote themselves treasures from the public coffer.
- Kevin L
I've always supported Paul. You did mean Paul Buchheit, right klecu?
- Gabe
FriendFeed Blog: Embed FriendFeed in your blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
John Prieto, mjc, bangjihyun and 135 other people liked this
"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want."
- Paul Buchheit
Find your embed widgets here: http://friendfeed.com/embed
- Bret Taylor
YAY yayayay!!! - Edited to add: thx for linking to the CSS too, will make integration easier.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
it was necessary to develope these widgets. but as Mark said, there must be tidy versions. I want to use in my blog with my css.
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Mark: the CSS is completely documented, so it should be easy to customize: http://friendfeed.com/embed...
- Bret Taylor
You can use your own css, the details are here http://friendfeed.com/embed...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Doh, dup post with Bret. Bret wins, obviously ;)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top?
- EricaJoy
FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps.
- Cesar Cardoso
For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It is live on my site now. http://www.louisgray.com/
- Louis Gray
http://benjamingolub.com to see the badge in action :)
- Benjamin Golub
Mark, the white is div class = friendfeed widget and needs to have the background overridden, it's set to white (obviously). The classes in the nested divs below it should inherit the new BG color.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Live on mine http://www.isthisstupid.com but currently unstyled.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Would be a nice option to have one without Javascript
- richrecruiter
Paul, Bret and Team - you guys really rock my day! nice work!! keeeep it up!! woo hoo!
- Susan Beebe
thanks Brett. I added to my blog
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
Where is the Flash and Picture version?
- zgjie
Great, we really needed this! Thanks :)
- Sébastien
Enjoying new FF badge http://scabr.com/ :)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Nice work! Can we please have a "all services except blog" option on the Feed Widget to cut down on the echo over at my blog?
- Richard Chen
Thank you, I like the clean Friendfeed look. It's, friendly!
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
Great work Paul and the team, just decorated my Blog with the widgets and it felt like Christmas!
- Joe Dawson
nice work....will add soon to my blog
- Arjun
Nice but as others have said, those of us not self-hosted (e.g. wordpress.com) can't use js widgets
- Neil Saunders
I was thinking about replacing my blog with an api app... this will do the equivalent without any work on my part :D
- Tai
Totally brilliant implementation, many thanks indeed, especially for the room widget
- Chris Nuttall
nice
- bangjihyun
Enterprise Software Blog » Blog Archive » Yuil, the New Search Engine from Yahoo - http://enterpriseblog.net/a...
Peter Fenton liked this
This guy is confused.
- Sam Pullara
from Bookmarklet
A couple songs that have been making my late night programming more entertaining
Karen Padham Taylor, JingHan, sike and 4 other people liked this
That Tokyo Police Club song has been stuck in my head for days. I am not sure why I like it so much.
- Bret Taylor
Skinny Love is great.
- Casey Muller
What about that song we listened to with the ridiculous lyrics?
- Benjamin Golub
+1 for skinny love.
- Graham Garland
We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Dan Hsiao, Peter Fenton and Bartek Ciszkowski liked this
This is actually a brilliant idea. It'll be hard to go anywhere with it but if it did, wow that'd be awesome.
- Bartek Ciszkowski
For some reason I read this as "Dead Simple Web Toilet"
- Jim Norris
It already exits. Unfortunately you have to pay AT&T $60+ per month to use it. And it runs Safari, not Firefox. :-)
- Dave C
the intersection of the set of guys who ride recumbent bikes and the set of old guys with beards is the set of guys who ride recumbent bikes
Paul Buchheit, Oliver Deighton, Christian and 2 other people liked this
same for the set of guys who ride unicycles and the set of 40 year old men who dress as storm troopers at least once a month.
- Christian
Gloomy Bear - http://www.polyvore.com/cgi...
Ңesam, MaSHa, Geoff Schultz and 13 other people liked this
اساتيد صاحبنظر:بنظرتون در اين ست چه چيز زيبايي براي لايك كردن وجود داره؟ اسمايلي سوده-نيوشا
- mhmazidi
شرط می بندم طرف چینیه:دی
- Shandiz
اون خرسه!
- Maryam Ardakani
@دکتر مزيدی:))))))) اعتماد به نفس و خلاقیتش! اسمايلی احترام به حقوق شهروندی و تشویق
- Soudeh
@Amin کارکن توییتر بیشتر میاد بهش
- Soudeh
تو در قلبنمی
- azimullah
I had a friend who speaks Farsi translate the comments. 1) The pink, bloody bear is called Gloomy Bear. He's a 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans and is supposed to be the antithesis to cute, cuddly characters like Hello Kitty. 2) I work at Polyvore, not FriendFeed.
- Jess Lee
You mean the cute cuddly bear isn't supposed to be?
- Jim Norris
Nice, but shoes is no so hot...
- PooYa
این چیه
- atalmatal
Wait, those are your replies to the xlated comments?
- j1m
@j1m: Yes. A few of the comments are wondering what's up with the bloody bear, and another comment said that I worked for FriendFeed.
- Jess Lee
FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes, oliver gassner and 215 other people liked this
Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it.
- Robert Scoble
Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed.
- Ranjit Mathoda
cool beans.
- Anthony Citrano
Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me.
- Alex Williams
Very cool Bret.
- Hutch Carpenter
Very nice.
- Atul Arora
Very nice, indeed
- Michael W. May
Thanks.
- Amund Tveit
Very nice addition. Keep em coming.
- Tsega Dinka
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues.
- Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction.
- Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30
- Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here."
- Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments.
- Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes.
- Louis Gray
@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter!
- Yuvi
interesting idea
- Steven Hodson
uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom..
- sedgewick
Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested?
- Ryan Carson
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :(
- Chris Hofmann
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level.
- Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy!
- Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever.
- Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one
- Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want!
- Joe Dawson
Oh, now see, this is just awesome.
- Vince DeGeorge
Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :)
- Rob Diana
They should call it A-list juice
- Jamie
Thanks, I appreciate this feature.
- Daniel Backhaus
I want a feed for this feature!
- Marcus
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :)
- felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :)
- Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :)
- Kenichi Matsumoto
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome!
- Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed.
- Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days.
- Mitchell Tsai
Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu!
- Mike Reynolds
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me.
- Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful!
- Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using?
- Chris Miller
My guess would be comments and likes
- Bwana ☠
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :)
- Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :)
- Bwana ☠
Awesome!
- Daniel Spradau
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make.
- fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!!
- Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML.
- directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0)
- Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work!
- Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better.
- Michael Carter
great addition to the functionality!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-)
- Slappy Line
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting.
- Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-)
- Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one
- Alexander Oelling
Bret Taylor is amazing!
- Alex Hammer
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice.
- Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance.
- Dave Hanson
I never 'like' posts. There is something about the term that doesn't resonate with me. Can I please 'flag' posts as interesting instead?
Peter Fenton liked this
How much money do you need to be happy? Hint: Your sex life matters more » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk - http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006...
Satish Thomas, Ginger Makela Riker, edythe and 9 other people liked this
"Unfortunately, people are not good at picking a job that will make them happy. Gilbert found that people are ill equipped to imagine what their life would be like in a given job, and the advice they get from other people is bad, (typified by some version of “You should do what I did.”)"
- Jim Norris
"It’s simple, proven advice, but few people take it because they think they are unique and their experience in a career will be different. Get over that. You are not unique, you are basically just like everyone else."
- Clare Dibble
Question: how much money do you need to have a sex life?
- Amber
Not much... many people have a sex life on a college budget...
- Ross Miller
Is that really why few people take that advice? Do very many people even hear that advice often enough to separate it out from the heaps of other advice they get? Don't get me wrong, its excellent advice: switch careers early and often, you'll find that some make you much much happier than the first one you try. But it's good advice because, ahem, people are unique.
- j1m
“It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.”
- Evan Parker
“Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” Well, I guess that answers that question.
- ⓞnor
penelope trunk kind of reminds me of niniane
- Neha Narula
Firstly, I thought there was some recent research that revealed more money actually does result in more happiness, and the earlier "diminishing returns in salary increase after basic needs are met" was faulty. Secondly, I wish the article would clarify what they are categorizing within "sex". Thirdly, why does Penelope Trunk remind Neha of me???? Though I do wish I had a name like Penelope Trunk. Damn that's a good name.
- niniane
I guess you both have the made-up-name thing going on...
- Jim Norris
Is her name made-up? Anyway I've been reading her blog for the past 15 minutes. At first I liked her style of writing. But then I realized I haven't laughed once. Her blog isn't funny at all. It's anti-funny. So now Neha's comment offends me. Fuck you Neha!
- niniane
This one is pretty good though: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007...
- niniane
@Niniane: yes, her name is made up: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007...
- Tudor Bosman
“All we really want is to get paid and get laid.” ...thats the last line and theonly thing in the entire blog that resonates with me - all else is pure tripe
- viki saigal
We need a Wikipedia for data - http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
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What is your take on efforts such as infochimps.org, theinfo.org and freebase?
- Aviv
I had never seen the first two. They look interesting. How are the data sets edited and updated? Freebase doesn't interest me from what I can tell. They seem more focused on the relationships between data items than the data itself because of all the "semantic web" stuff, and most of it seems to be relatively uninteresting data from IMDB and other existing web sources.
- Bret Taylor
Unfortunately they rarely get updated and most data sets cannot really be used reliably. theinfo.org is essentially an indie scraper's paradise and the intended use is controlled lab experiments. Perhaps a fresh, well-publicized effort will stand better chance.
- Aviv
Google already has access to at least 5 of the data sets you listed... sure, licensed and all, but at the end of the day shouldn't face great difficulties bending arcane usage restrictions. Let developers play with the data inside the cloud...
- Aviv
Right. The big obstacle would still be the whole issue of usage restrictions and copyrights, and as you said in your last point, it won't work without the backing of big companies. Developers can have access to such valuable data sets today - simply by scraping. It's far from ideal, but it works, and it can be kept up-to-date with extra effort. But then how do we go about using the data - and actually telling people about it? :)
- Aviv
And we have a new record for fastest new blog to reach TechMeme! http://www.techmeme.com/#a08040...
- Louis Gray
@Bret you should talk to Freebase. This is precisely what they're trying to do. It may not look how you want it to now, but I think a conversation between the two companies makes a whole lot of sense.
- Carla Thompson
"The most important part of an environment that encourages innovation is low barriers to entry. The moment a contract and lawyers are involved, you inherently restrict the set of people who can work on a problem to well-funded companies with a profitable product. Likewise, companies that sell data have to protect their investments, so permitted uses for the data are almost always explicitly enumerated in contracts." -what memories ;)
- David
Getting an error message at http://bret.appspot.com now, reads "Server not found"
- Philipp Lenssen
It works for me. But that is annoying. Blame Google App Engine, not me ;)
- Bret Taylor
Jump Rope Dogs - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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wow, that was pretty cool!
- Chieze Okoye
the last dog in the video does double dutch super fast, it's pretty amazing.
- Jess Lee
hahaha ..ok that was pretty cool..
- tagami
Zelda Girl Seeking Link On Craigslist, I'm In - http://www.geekologie.com/2008...
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Bird Poops In Mouth - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Poop is always funny.
- Doug Rathburn
Firefox/Mozilla is NOT going to IPO — here’s why - http://lilly.tumblr.com/post...
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My new status message: I love the FriendFeed bookmarklet! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2007...
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How does commenting work
- Bindu Reddy
What do you mean, Bindu?
- Bret Taylor
Was just testing the commenting feature on FF. Did not realize that I could not delete my comment, once I posted it...
- Bindu Reddy
He he, yah, a much requested "feature" :) Sorry about that...
- Bret Taylor
I suppose she could lobby you to delete the whole item
- j1m
So, when is search coming? :-) The share bookmarklet + searchable feeds would nicely replace del.icio.us for me...
- Kevin Scott
are u guys gonna write crawlers for every interesting site out there ?
- Parashuram
Parashuram: an API and more generic feed processing is definitely in the future... We will keep you posted.
- Bret Taylor
you can atleast give out a way to add RSS feeds...most sites have activities as RSS
- Parashuram
like it a lot. any plans to add a filter to my feed so that i could see a page of stuff that i shared using the tool? (like Google Shared Stuff)
- Alex Gawley
Alex: just tack on &service=internal (swap internal for whatever service you want)
- Benjamin Golub
Oh, not sure I understood what you wanted 100%, if you wanted a filtered feed, then you can do what I mentioned...
- Benjamin Golub
Sweet thanks benjamin
- Alex Gawley
Thanks for the invite! So far, so happy! I'm bitter at Plaxo for creating a beautiful feed that I can't post anywhere else.
- Seth or Alexa
I was expecting some alerts config ..when i get comments or like's !
- Swaroop
including the "Comment" in the feed would be helpful.
- Swaroop
The bookmarklet is really nice - much nicer integration than the Google "Share Stuff" pop-up. Well done.
- Thomas Korte
Looks like you want to take over delicious with better usability. Nice.
- Patrick Chanezon
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