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Michael Fidler

These are all done in Pencil.

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Impressive - M F

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Great work! - Nia

I reshare this to Ideas & Inspiration room :) These are so realistic! - Kristian Salonen

I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:) - Roney Smith

I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right! - Jasmin Smith

I don't believe it. Too amazing. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I'm with Rah - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Only the lion looks like its drawn - embee

The bear and rhino look drawn, too. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography. - Gabriella Sannino

These are amazing, were they done by you? - Angelo Rodrigues

Nice photographs - Rafael Robayna

@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link - LouCypher

Link please? - Jason Wehmhoener

wow - Carolyn Chan

being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin - Enrique Gutierrez

they're beautiful, but skeptical as well - Jennifer Van Grove

Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell. - Luke Addison from twhirl

Stupefied. - Parth Awasthi

want proof - Jérôme Flipo

Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art. - Kol Tregaskes

Michael, who is the artist? - Kol Tregaskes

wow, cool! - Sarah Perez

you cannot win on the interwebs. draw some crap it doesn't get noticed. draw something amazing in pencil and people say it's not real. - Joe Breen

I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too. - Michael Fidler from fftogo

O_O WOW...Stunning - Anna Haro

Wow, these are stunning!! - Susan Beebe

Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright." - Melanie Reed

Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job! - Enrique Gutierrez

HOLY CRAP. - Chieze Okoye

no way! - Mister Groonk

Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks! - Michael Fidler

Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo. - Chris Loft

These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them? - Shannon Jiménez

Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-) - Michael Fidler

Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good. - Burçak Çubukçu

I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close! - Michael Fidler

Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing. - Michael Fidler

Wow, amazingly realistic - Threepwood

@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure? - Burçak Çubukçu

That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak... - Burçak Çubukçu

dont look like it - Prakash

@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :) - Burçak Çubukçu

@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-) - Michael Fidler

@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks - LouCypher

WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil" - sofarsoShawn

LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that. - Michael Fidler

nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :) - hasin hayder

These would be great even for photos. - tomit

i'm not able to comprehend - Varun Shenoy

More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment... - donato

I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes... more... - Michael Fidler

Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these! - LaFern Cusack

Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009... - Michael Fidler

Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set. - Michael Fidler

Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists. - Kol Tregaskes

Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ... - Linda Zeek-Bobinski

fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil - james foor

Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package. - The Wimp

A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store, - Melanie Reed

Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice... more... - Michael Fidler

Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have... more... - Michael Fidler

wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful. - liladreams

Veronica

How Fanboys See Operating Systems - http://75.101.183.223/rd...

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lol, im Flight simer, i almost have that set up in the middle pic! - Fee501st

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What's up with the IP addresses? The link will break in history... - Dave Friedel

I don't know. - Veronica

Buzzfeed always been that way, show up like that in my Feed aslo - Fee501st

And what if I fit in the boxes diagonally? - Dave Friedel

then you should be on Hollywood squares - Fee501st

ok, that chart sounds about right :) - Carlos Urrutia

looks right to me too. - Jerry Perez

Shannon Jiménez

States and countries I've been to:

September 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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I used this tool: http://douweosinga.com/project.... I need to visit Africa and Asia :) - Shannon Jiménez

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Inspired by this: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... and this: http://friendfeed.com/pea73... - Shannon Jiménez

good for you. I invite you to come Iran and visit our country :) - آریـوبرزن

Come to China Shannon. - Dallas Cao

Actually, you have been through most of the northern states--we drove cross country when you were 3 months old from Pittsburgh PA to California. - Sheila Taylor

Africa and Asia are countries? - Thaths

Uh, no Thaths, but I haven't been to any countries in those continents. - Shannon Jiménez

Mary Carmen

Cancer free, peeps!

September 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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w00t! - josh neff, geek at large

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great news! - JSNFLMNG

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Thanks, y'all. Royce, I'm totally claiming that hug in Maryville! - Mary Carmen

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Thank you, everyone! I AM OVERWHELMED WITH LOVE & HAPPINESS! - Mary Carmen

I'm not sure what happened, but I'm glad to hear you're well, hon'. :) - Dan Messer

Dan, I had a very painful biopsy yesterday. Got the results back this afternoon, Im in the clear, or as my onco said, "You won't die." - Mary Carmen

well, you _will_, but not of cancer, this time. - DJF

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Major Congrats! Be well! - Pilgrim Five

I want to like this again. - Jenica

Great news, Mary! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jolly good :).. what, I'm *English*, that's how we roll when we're very happy about something - Pete

Thanks for sharing the great news! - James Stratford

That is worth Shouting Out Loud!!!! ;-D - Robyn Hawk

Duane-PreppyDude

@inspiremetoday everyday I wake up above ground is a chance to put my best foot forward

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Ross Miller

iTunes Home Sharing is simply awesome. I'm using it right now to copy/sync all my music to my new laptop and it's working great. It's exactly how I've wanted iTunes to share all along.

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Step Into My Office Baby... - Louis Gray

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I love it when software updates introduce a tool that I actually use :) - Ross Miller

I love that too! - AJ Batac

How is this different from sharing the library the way it used to work? Or is this more useful for when you want to disconnect the network and still have access to all the music? - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin: exactly. It works like the transfer purchases feature on iPods and iPhones: you don't have to be connected to the home network to play them, because the files are copied to your computer. - Mark Trapp

Wait, you can finally use the songs you buy on more than one computer without having to jump through hoops? My boss would've loved this feature five years ago. Explaining DRM to him was not fun, he just wanted his $1 songs to be playable on all of his PCs. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Ben, the main advantage is that you can set it to automatically sync the libraries so that a copy of new purchases is on both computers. I'm just using it to copy my whole library to a new computer. - Ross Miller

So is it possible for me and my wife to share music, on each of our computers, bought on different accounts, before and after we have gotten married? - Rasmus Lauridsen

Rasmus: I doubt it. This feature, and all the features in the iTunes/iPod/iPhone ecosystem, only allow one active account. - Mark Trapp

and of files you haven't aquired via itunes? - alphaxion

But you can activate more than one account in Itunes... I have mine + my wife's two accounts authorized. But yeah it's probably going to be another case of having to still do it manually - Rasmus Lauridsen

Alphaxion, it just copies them over like any purchases from iTunes. When you open the home sharing center, there's a view to 'only see songs that are not on this computer'. You just select which songs you want to copy and hit import. - Ross Miller

On a related note, something I've been wondering about recently is the best way to share a library between two Windows user accounts on the same machine. Seems silly to sync them when the files are on the same machine, but I'd like new purchases to appear automatically. Is that possible somehow? - Tony Ruscoe from iPhone

Tony, I think you can do that by changing the 'iTunes Media folder location' to be the same destination. Just choose which /Music/iTunes you want to use and set them both to that one. You can change the location from the Advanced tab in Preferences. - Ross Miller

Thanks. I think I'll have to try that. I did wonder about doing that but wasn't sure whether that would just copy the files to the same folder, leaving the libraries out of sync though. - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo

"...wanna give you the job, the chance for overtime." - Josh Haley

Tara Hunt

Did the scruffy cute French waiter just stroke my arm in that je ne c'est quoi way? And did I spell that wrong?

September 4 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes, and furthermore likewise, yes. - Alan Chamberlain

...je ne sais quoi... Vraiment? (Really?) :) - Pilgrim Five

Tudor Bosman

My Leopard is now Snowy

September 4 - Comment - Like - Share

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Benjamin Golub

3 years ago I proposed to Megen and she said yes. Picked up some necessary items to celebrate tonight

August 25 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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Enjoy! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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Heyyy, congrats! Have a nice anniv with your loved one ^.^ - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

ben you've sold, time to upgrade to veuve clicquot - sean percival

Congrats Benjamin! And after you get married she'll expect you to remember this date as well as your wedding anniversary. - Jesse Stay

Congrats! - Keith Bourgoin

Congrats! - Bret Taylor

Congratulations! - Micah Wittman

Congrats Ben, have a good night. - Travis Koger

woo hoo!!!! congrats! - Rachel Lea Fox

Congratulations! - joey

Congrats, Ben and Megen! - Anne Bouey

Awwww that is sooo sweet, how nice!! Congratulations!! - Susan Beebe

awesome, congratulations buddy - Zee.

Enjoy to the utmost! - Pilgrim Five

Congrats! - Ruchira S. Datta

Have fun! Correction; it's been 12 hours, so I hope you had fun! - Michael Fidler

Wheres the RedBull and Viagra? JK Grtz! - Rich Weaver

congrats!!! - Betül

Louis Gray

Reminder: The Five Stages Of Early Adopter Behavior (See Stage 4: Entitlement) - http://louisgray.com/live...

August 9 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"At this point, often in part due to favorable feedback from the service's authors, the early adopter feels a sense of entitlement, that the product absolutely must be architected in the way they say so, even if to move in that direction wouldn't serve the larger installed base. Now, instead of suggesting quick ways the service could update, the calls are more like ultimatums, and if not quickly seeing a response, the early adopter can get extremely frustrated, at times, seeing this annoyance bubble up to the same degree their first comments on the product reeked of praise." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

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Re: This. http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... The feedback is predictable. - Louis Gray

I get the feeling the Robert has jumped the shark a little bit here. I hope he apologizes to Kevin for his uncalled for ad hominem. - Brian Sullivan

This is great, but I think it ALSO applies to less than diplomatic responses from early adopters that I go back to Twitter, ha. I don't take it personally, but your point is a nice reminder that it is not about me. - Liza

science. - Josh Haley from iPhone

I may be the only early adopter that doesn't feel entitled to anything - Bwana ☠

Then again, I'm not your average human - Bwana ☠

Ever since I posted this, I'm self-aware about potentially slipping from a 3 to a 4, so I think twice about posting criticism without knowing the deciding factors. - Louis Gray

I for one am appreciative of evangelists especially ones that are willing to reevaluate their perspective, tech or otherwise. - Eric Logan

Hah! Looking in mirror. Seeing egg on face. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I feel entitled to type in this box and push the button named "comment." Sorry, I thought that was what FriendFeed was designed for. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I don't know that entitlement is the right word. For me, at least, it's more frustration. Here you have this great product. I want more people to know about it, but I'm having issues, be it my tech, user error or just loss of features, it's frustrating. If I'm having these issues, then there's no way I'll be able to explain to my friends and family why things are why they are. When you... more... - Admiral Anika

One point to the one above. I know that many companies who offer free service will or should charge for use at some point. I'm okay with that, but when they mess with functionality it's hard to justify paying for it. When your users are asking for the same thing over and over again, especially when you're in beta, don't give them a useless feature that offers nothing much to usability. At that point, it's hard to justify the ongoing use of something, let alone paying for it in the future. - Admiral Anika

Is it entitlement or ownership? People support what they help build, right? So maybe it is partly a sense of ownership... - Liza

Great conversation thread... Rule #1 if you do not own it, then do not falsely allow yourself to believe your vote will ever - or should ever - count. Sometimes the developers listen to your sound words of device, but in my humble findings often this waxes and wanes. Rule #2 is that step 5 is your alternative. Rule #3 is always see Rule #1 when you begin to think your opinion matters ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Robert. No harm, no foul. :) I'm just glad I wrote this one already last year, so I don't have to do it again. - Louis Gray

its a pretty graph and perhaps it is true, i have experienced it myself through mmos, beta testing, but did you actually have numbers or is this just instinct? - Robert Higgins

By the way, I'm ACTIVELY still in the promotion phase. I'm showing FriendFeed to EVERYONE as everyone I met in Boulder last week can attest to. That's one thing that Louis' graph doesn't understand. I go through all of these phases IN PARALLEL. Not serially. So, deal with it. :-) - Robert Scoble

The graph is simple. People are not simple. :) The downside to acting like a #4 is dorks looking for an excuse tend to use it as an excuse. Just wait. (Not even Scoble likes FriendFeed any more... he says... "x") So don't give the bastards any ammo. :) - Louis Gray

Louis what is the oldest service that you still use that you didn't migrate from and why? - Robert Higgins

Interestingly, those seeking to distill life into simplistic terms can be dangerous. Like those dorks who spout off non-sensical rules ;-) - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

I do think it is used as ammo, which stinks, b/c a discussion we should have (UI on FF) becomes a territorial battle. There were great points made, but also a lot of juvenile comments which I hope are ignored. As I learned in my first online attack, "don't feed the trolls". They are everywhere and not unique to specific networks. - Liza

for me the oldest service i still use is hotmail. - Robert Higgins

Robert: you didn't ask me, but I'll answer anyway: Outlook/Exchange. Although that has changed a lot over the years but I first started using whatever Microsoft called it (MSMail?) back in 1993. Regarding newer web services? Flickr. Wordpress. Google Reader are probably the ones that have had the longest staying power. - Robert Scoble

Louis: yeah, but if I worried about what dorks think I would just stay off the Internet. :-) - Robert Scoble

thought about why and the stages of the graph. while i still use hotmail, for family and things i have migrated to gmail mostly. I personally never did step 4 with hotmail, but i did get buddies on it a long time ago before they even had their own computers. It was cool to promote hotmail and messenger in the 90's felt hip to chat with people in China when I lived in USA. I still like sky-drive for the free 25 gigabytes of online storage, so will probably never migrate. - Robert Higgins

Robert, I still use .Mac mail, and have for a very long time. (Some day I may move to GMail, but not yet). I have stuck with Mac OS through all its iterations from System 6 or so, so I assume that counts. I've been on FriendFeed longer than Twitter, and Facebook longer than FriendFeed and Google Reader longer than Facebook. - Louis Gray

thats interesting, but in term of early adopter and stages where are you now with Mac OS for example. - Robert Higgins

I would say Stage 3 with Mac OS. I don't feel like they need to change anything to reward me for my loyalty. I've never been a Stage 2 user for Twitter, so I hang out in Stage 3 or 4, it's just a utility, as is Facebook. I am Stage 2 and 3 with FriendFeed and Google Reader. I will always push FriendFeed and Google Reader, even if I know they could improve, because I get great value from both and trust the teams. - Louis Gray

Louis: I was through all five stages with the MacOS by 1993. Started over again in 2003. Heheh. I forgot that I still use Hotmail and have for a long time (I remember waiting in line for StarWars #4 overnight with the Hotmail founders and thinking they were pretty cool). - Robert Scoble

you are such a geek scoble waiting in line overnight for Star Wars #4 with hotmail founder - Robert Higgins

Robert: that is true, but, as waiting overnight for the iPhone proved, the line itself was more fun than seeing the movie or getting the phone. In Silicon Valley these things turn into impromptu barcamps. Several companies had tents and it was an all-night party. My son did both with us and they were among the best things I've ever done with him. Good bonding time. :-) - Robert Scoble

Higgins: if I remember right one company even paid for a T-1 line so they could provide wifi to everyone. In Silicon Valley we take these things seriously! :-) - Robert Scoble

Nice bell curve, this typically represents most things - I can be in different stages at different times! - for example - different features of the product (ie I can discover a feature, then promote, etc). Not sure about Migration phase, I would prefer to call it Withdrawal - Geer

I think this post was bad form. I have experienced the same problems with admiring the power and brilliance of the features and simultaneously being confused by their counter intuitiveness. In any case if the graph is accurate Robert's activity would have already slowed and will continue to slow down until migration. The bad form is explicitly referencing Robert. - Ru Viljoen

Ru: thank you. Truth is in just the past week I was in all five phases of FriendFeed and even Twitter. I never liked this post by Louis' even though there's some truth to it and I'm still trying to figure out why. - Robert Scoble

It's a post more human behavior centric than tech focused. Of course i'm interested in HB and how the brain works. I object to the generalization. We all have unique patterns of usage. There are probably hundreds of tools I use a day and am unaware of - Mark Essel from iPhone

Ru, I know FriendFeed is not perfect. But pound for pound, they have the best talent in the business. I also read and enjoyed the exchange in Robert's piece, but didn't "like" it, as he says he didn't this one. Robert and I have a long history of agreeing 95% of the time, and have a mutual respect that lets us exchange ideas this way. I personally would not have approached the issues in the way he did, explicitly referencing Kevin, for example. - Louis Gray

Louis: Kevin runs design at FriendFeed and he's a guy I've judged that is able to take a huge amount of criticism (earned or unearned) and keep his cool and tell you why he's doing what he's doing. Like you said, they have the best talent in the business. Kevin proved it again yesterday. - Robert Scoble

My 2 cents about FriendFeed interface design: Overloading/hiding of controls is often used to present a simpler UI. It's difficult to find a balance, and often testing things on novice users is better than on veteran users to get a fresh response. One difficult example (which I don't know if I could improve) is Canon's cameras (of which I've used 4 cameras). Canon had a standard way of... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Sometimes interface design can be complicated with people at various stages of behavior. Yahoo! tried to change their interface after a few years and got a "New Coke" response (e.g. focus groups, testing, etc... before release). The new interface worked better & made more sense, but they got 1,000s of e-mail complaints from older experienced users - ended up staying with the old... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Oldest services I still use: MS-DOS (1981), Unix (1982), Mac OS (1984), MS Word (1984), MS Excel (1985), MS Powerpoint (1987), MS Windows (1987), HTML (1993), Yahoo! (1995), PriceWatch (1995), Post.Harvard.edu (1995), Slashdot (1996), MapQuest (1996), Google (1997), Amazon (1998), MS Outlook (1998), Internet Explorer (1998), PriceGrabber (1999), SECInfo (2000), Network Solutions (2000),... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Goodness me Mitchell - Thomas Power

Indeed. Outlook 98 is the devil :) - Roberto Bonini

Thomas - It's interesting to see what "stands the test of time". Used HotBot for search 1996-2000, but Google's cache won me. MS Multiplan was my 1st spreadsheet (not a Lotus 1-2-3 fan), but Excel beat out many better spreadsheets. MS Outlook won me with color e-mails, shared calendars, & event coordination. Google Maps still hasn't beat MapQuest IMO. I'm still resistant to using GMail... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Considering I'm on stage 4 right now, I wonder how much I stand to make from the sale of Friendfeed? - Andrew Smith

Louis, Robert: It makes sense to me that a service would be forced to field speculative criticism and that the criticism should be answered on the merits of the argument. In this instance I thought that Robert insightfully pointed out the problem with the UI and then must have been totally side swiped by an unrelated personal criticism from someone who is well regarded. I hate to see... more... - Ru Viljoen

It's Interesting that you posted this last night, before the friendfeed/FaceBook announcement! Good intuition! - Michael Fidler

Arleen Boyd

Changed my status on Facebook today to engaged and now all I get are ads "The Wedding Planner" and "The Wedding Diet!" I'm eating some cheese and crackers drinking some wine ROFL!

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Arleen - Many, many blessings! - Pilgrim Five

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awe thanks Pilgrim! - Arleen Boyd

Congrats :) - Leslie Poston

Congrats, Arleen, even though you are now bombarded with the cheesy Facebook ads - Helen Sventitsky

Very cool. Re: Engagement, not the new ads ;) - David Damore

Congrats on your engagement Arleen. keyword engaged = all things weddings so I guess you'll be seeing all the related product and service offerings for it on Facebook. :)) - James Stratford

Philipp Lenssen

Friendfeed 1995

July 24 - Comment - Like - Share

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That is great :) - Bret Taylor

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Love the URL too :). Except back then it would most definitely have been cwru.edu :) - Benjamin Golub

Philipp was actually one of our first beta testers... - Kevin Fox

b65152.student.cwru.edu if it were my computer. - Paul Buchheit

Hillarious! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

We nixed Gopher access at the last minute because we found our gopher servers couldn't handle the load. - Kevin Fox

Ha! I saved a copy of the Trojan Room Coffee Cam page, complete with captured picture (which I then had to view offline, as I could not configure the Lynx to display in parallel ;-)) - ianf ⌘

Thanks to non-caching of css files, archive.org's first record of FriendFeed isn't all that different: http://web.archive.org/web... - Kevin Fox

LOL - Dobromir Hadzhiev

gotta check the wayback machine now.. :)- - Peter Dawson

Someone needs to turn this into a Theme - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

NEEDS MOAR ANIMATED GIFS - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I LOVE the Metacrawler part. Nice job. - Admiral Anika

Damn I forgot how much screen real estate browser toolbars used to eat up, especially with those huge buttons. - Ray Cromwell

I was using friendfeed when I was 10! ;) - Frankie Warren

I remember when they first implemented real-time feeds; boy, it sure wreaked havoc with my 1200 baud modem. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

This should be a Theme for FF. - Matt Ruiz

Those were the days. I especially like the "powered by Metacrawler" link in the corner! - Chuck Adams

Simply Awesome! - Nicholas James

A more accurate URL would have been k2.cwru.edu/~ptb/index.html - Gabe

Needs moar BLINK tag. - Rick Cogley

Great - Charlie Anzman

My first website looked like this. But with less graphics :) - WorldofHiglet

the '1994' internet of Robert ;-) - Jeroen De Miranda

If we knew then, what we know now! - Donna Payne

Speaking of which, I always wondered at the default gray background choice of the first Netscape browser(s). It looked too sophisticated to have been accidental. In hindsight, however, someone there must've misunderstood basic usability, e.g. optimal contrast ratios? [And then a year later someone had that unbright idea of turning homepages black for a day's web protest against some... more... - ianf ⌘

ianf: The gray background was the default in Mosaic, so Netscape was just keeping the status quo. The black background protest was against the Communications Decency Act, which would have made lots of innocent speech illegal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Gabe

Heheh, so true. - Amir

Obviously fake. :) The menu bar entries are anti-aliased. - Andy Bakun

Ray Cromwell, with the pixels being so much bigger back then, I suspect that the continued need for button bars was the impetus behind increasing screen resolutions. - Andy Bakun

hahaha brilliant - Nicholas Kreidberg

If this was supposed to be March 5, 1995, that was before Sun announced Java, so the coffee pot needing Java joke wouldn't have made sense yet. - Gabe

Aren't you missing the point Gabe? Friendfeed did not exist in 1995 to begin with. - lelapin

Damn, just by me "viewing" the image that mentioned Java, I got a "Java Update Available" window. I'm not kidding, it popped up the second the image loaded... I hate Java. This is a great parody though, good work. - Joel Strellner

http://ff.im/5TaJQ :) - cyb

Arleen Boyd

=) @TheRevCoach Mahalo is more than Thank You. It gives the breath of one's life spirit with respect, honor, & admiration.

July 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Leslie Poston

/Message: How Will Twitter Be Governed? - http://www.stoweboyd.com/message...

June 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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"So, here we have the same revolution, come home again. Twitter's world -- its conventions, meaning and use -- is our artifact: we have built it, 140 characters at a time, just as the Twitter developers have been building the platform underneath our feet. But it is our dancing that makes the house rock, not the planks and pipes. It is us that makes Twitter alive, and not the code." - Leslie Poston

Susan Beebe

Wow! A Language Translator for Twitter! Global conversations in twitter are now useful! XLHit.com - Translates Real-Time Search - http://www.xlhit.com/

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Akiva Moskovitz

Audrey's First Seder

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This is Rochelle giving Audrey her first taste of wine. Yes, Audrey loved it and, yes, this was taken with the new D700 with my 50mm lens at factory standard settings. I love my child, I love my wife, and I love this camera! [Hey, this is me after four glasses of wine...] - Akiva Moskovitz

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Now we're watching The Ten Commandments. - Akiva Moskovitz

Already in a Bumbo! Nice! =) - ronin

Cosy dining area! - nouhad

You have a great family AND I love your D700 too. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Thanks, Eric! - Akiva Moskovitz

That's a great slice of life capture, Akiva!! Thanks for sharing. :) - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Munch & KIN! Chag Kashruth Pesach! - sofarsoShawn

Just lovely. You go boy. - Derrick

Lovely photo :) - BeeLing

<3 - Carmen - Happy 2010!

:) - Michelle Martinez

:) - edythe

and i like your seder plate. - edythe

Congrats, and on the camera too. - Robert Kenney

Thanks, everyone! It was, by far, our longest and most 'complex' seder. Each year that passes, we get progressively more orthodox. Doubt we'll ever stop using computers and TV on the Sabbath, though. - Akiva Moskovitz

Chag Semach! - Victor Ryden

Hevenu Shalom Aleichem - Josh Haley

Admiral Anika

Thanks, to Lifehacker, Rainmeter and DeviantArt, I have a new desktop.

April 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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The background is by angel69light: http://angel69light.deviantart.com/art.... The Rainmeter skins by Chaebi69: http://chaebi69.deviantart.com/art... - Admiral Anika

Where is the life hack article about that, I'd like to set it up. - Whit Scott

The Lifehaker article just pointed me to the pieces I needed: http://lifehacker.com/5158878.... From this, I learned where to get Rainmeter (http://code.google.com/p...). I just searched DeviantArt for my background, anyone will do I guess, and searched DA for the Rainmeter skin by Chaebi69. The Rainmeter skins can be moved around to your liking & there's other features I didn't employ in the screen shot, like the to-do list. - Admiral Anika

Erhan

Heheheh "loser" :-))

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LMAO! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

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Would a FriendFeed 'room' be analogous to a Facebook 'group'? - Ladybug Heather

New design looks like frienfeed also. They're losers but less than %1 FB users know friendfeed, so who cares. - İbrahim Uzun [ j ]

mail2fb.com is empty !! : )) - Erhan

that is funny!! - Susan Beebe

where the hell is "ability to search like Friendfeed"? in 2010? damn!!! :P - Goktug Gedik

"like" on Facebook doesn't bump the entry to the top. Not quite the same thing. However, you do get notifications on FB items that you "like". - Morton Fox

soooo true - Dobromir Hadzhiev

great! "HO" rulez! - Sinan Ata

It smells competitive (!) like Internet Explorer and Firefox. BTW I'm still using my operating systems default web browser. - A. Kıvanç Tanrıkulu

Oh this is good. *tips hat* - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Paul liked this at Facebook http://friendfeed.com/e... - Erhan

tesekkür ederim - stefan m. seydel/sms ;-)

Now someone should do what they copied from Twitter. - Corvida

You can hide now... I think search is the big one they're lacking. - Frankie Warren

Where's the ability to not get hit with a slew of stupid, annoying invites / requests as soon as you login??? - Patrick Jordan

most of my friends are using facebook only, these two sites should merge closer - classic

stefan: Do you like Turkish? I'm suggesting you a friend of mine, /directeur. ; ) - Erhan

Ha! and here I am! 14 seconds after you called my name :) - directeur

directeur: Did you write a greasemonkey script for your personal buzz? :-) - Erhan

:D No, not yet, should I? :) It was the first entry I saw and I read my name in it. Also, I have a very fun and smart idea for my next project (will tell you more on you know where :) ) Oh btw, how was Baku? - directeur

directeur: Baku was great, we should visit there again. They have awesome meals, songs, people... I wrote a post in Turkish about Azerbaijan at webrazzi.com. Try to read. :-)) - Erhan

I will try! Thanks! :) Oh, tell me btw, you didn't forgot to bring a nice gift to you know who? I hope you didn't forgot!! ;-) - directeur

todo facabook MUAhuauUhauUauauUUauUAhU - Jordi Rivero

directeur: I'll answer all of your questions at FB chat. :-)) - Erhan

- The ability to undo actions like FriendFeed - LouCypher

mjc

OHAI! everyone welcome Colette to friendfeed! she's smart and hilarious. :D - http://friendfeed.com/littlem...

March 28 - Comment - Like - Share

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Unlike comcast, I can't be funny on demand. :P - Colette

you seem to do OK with situational hilarity. - mjc

tinypants - Hagitha of FF

My message to all you people who cared more about the size of your housing peen rather than the feasibility of your financial venture...

$C:\Users\tinypants\Desktop\038.JPG$

March 23 - Comment - Like - Share

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THANK YOU for fucking me over. The credit card I worked my ass off to earn that I was so proud to get and had a great high limit that worked well for my being able to do festival business...my limit's been lowered to SHIT because the issuer is worried about allowing me to have such a card. Apparently a credit score in the 700's and a solid history of paying on time means jack now. FUCK. YOU. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

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That's totally messed up. I would think about getting a new card. I've never owned a credit card myself, except the tiny credit stuff I've done on my Debit Card, like using it at Taco Bell. I really never needed one and I hope to never have one. - Ken

If I had a job, or a good job, I would probably get one. My Grandparents never even had a checking account. LOL They paid everything with cashier's checks. - Ken

Preach it , Sister!! Oh, and, AMEX Corp. cards still have some pretty high limits. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

what's a housing peen? - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Forget AmEx: they're specifically courting people they've had previous issues with. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

You should check on that. Congress made that sort of thing illegal last month. - Admiral Anika

Tina? Enlighten me if you would be so kind? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Me, Mark. I've had issues with AmEx (long story, lots of my credit got fouled up in college). I received an offer from this last week saying for a low fee of X per year they'd like to welcome me back into the fold. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I'll take that under advisement and not be so quick to reccomend them. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

@Chris ? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Chris, being a mother deux shnozzle? Knock me over with a feather...... - Matthew DeVries

More credit card use = more credit ratings. More credit ratings = higher amount you can borrow. - Ken

Chris, when you start with no credit, and you take out a small line somewhere, then a larger, then a larger, etc... each time paying on time or early, it's referred to as 'building credit' and for people that start low, economically, it takes work. Amanda did the work, did nothing to harm her credit, and yet the credit provider has lowered her ability to borrow, seemingly arbitrarily. It seems punative. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Her credit rating is already 750 Ken, read the thread. - Matthew DeVries

I wasn't talking about her, I was trying to show Chris that yes, people do work their ass off. (edited) - Ken

Mark - Save your pixels. - Matthew DeVries

Maybe you should give AMEX another shot. My mom worked for AMEX and if you are persistent and can get a hold of a competent and caring person they will work with you more so than alot of the other companies. - adf

I'm not entirely surprised that Chris showed up to lambast me yet again. He can do no wrong and I apparently have a target glued to my ass. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Chris - When you delete every single post after starting a flame war, you get to enjoy that kind of plausible denyability. - Matthew DeVries

And as far as my credit card is concerned. I don't regularly pay for things with credit card when I have the cash to do so. I do try to use my card now and then to show I'm a responsible debtor who can pay off a reasonable balance. Starting in February of every year, running through August, I put considerably more on my card because of the festival I run. I use my card to pay for... more... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

I realize I'm lucky that I still have a job, a roof, food, clothing. But goddammit, this is still a bunch of bullshit. Just like all of the other innocent bystanders during this shitty economic period, I'm being punished for the actions of those who were thoroughly irresponsible. That is what pisses me off. It's a general outrage I feel. This credit card issue was just the catalyst for me. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

@Lindsey - that's actually why I got the card in the first place! All I wanted was a modest limit for emergency purposes. I used my card periodically to show that I was interested, and over time my limit was raised due to good standing with the creditor. When I first got the card, the limit was $3000. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

*facepalm* - Matthew DeVries

$435? Shit Amanda. It's like they ate your Girl Scout cookies too. Yeah, time for a new card because that's some bul shite. - Admiral Anika

I had the same thought when I tried to refi, only to be told that thanks to all the neighborhood's flop houses that the illegals had emptied out and had ended up as either short sales or bank sales, our appraisal would come in at less than what I paid for the house 5 years ago (with > 20% down). So it wasn't just people driving hummers, it was mostly illegals abandoning properties that they financed through Hispanic brokers, who then sold those crappy, no-doc mortgages upstream. - Craig Eddy

I strongly suggest that you check out credit unions in the area. They tend to be a lot less douchey. - Alex Scoble

Credit cards were never invented to benefit consumers though were they? They're only a way for the banks to be able to make huge profits with scam-level interest fees. Miss a payment and they want to take the card away or levy punitive penalty payments. Of course, now the banks have been caught out at proving how incompetent they are at running their businesses, they're scared, so they're treating card holders as if they've all defaulted, before they have. - Ian May

All I have to say to the banks is that you can stick your cards up your asses. I don't have any credit cards, as I don't want to be party to your excess profits, and I can happily live without them. I use you instead. I' save my would-be credit card payment as a savings amount each month, and YOU pay me interest instead for my emergency fund. Works for me, assholes. - Ian May

Ian mentions an interesting angle. Perhaps the entire CC industry won't implode? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I understand that the whole banking system revolves around lending at a percentage, and paying interest to savers at a lower percentage. No problem with that. However, the gap is way too big, as the banks are way too greedy. - Ian May

Yeah banks and CC companies are finding more and more risk exposure right now. But this should be illegal. - Ken

What's even worse is that other banks can and will use this against you too. - Alex Scoble

you stole how I tell people they are number 1!!!! - Zehnchu

Cathryn Hrudicka

ExecTweets - http://www.exectweets.com/

March 23 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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A "curated" collection of executive tweets on Twitter. You can recommend executives at this point. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Tad

Is anyone else completely uninterested in March Madness?

March 19 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Hiding this in...1-- - .LAG liked that

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I'm mostly uninterested. There's a couple teams I'd kinda like to see win, but mostly..... meh. - Ladybug Heather

Yes. And guess whose boss is watching video of said event right this very minute? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Yeah, I was never a big bowling fan. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

March, huh? - Kelly W.

Don't care a bit (and I have teh gai – coincidence?) - Mark Shoemaker

Does that have something to do with a professional sport? If so, then yes. - LogEx

couldn't care less about it. - Thomas Hawk

Not my thing. - ronin

what is march madness? - Jim in Real Time

I'm interested in it for work... and for my pools... but I don't know much about college basketball. It's fun to watch a bunch of games come down to the wire though. - Ted Roden

March Madness? ;) - SK is in fucking love.

I don't care too much for sports. But, I especially loath the commercialism of college sports. - Neil Bernhart

I thought baseball started in April. - Steven Perez

-1. Hide. Sorry Tad. I'm a fanatic. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Logical Extremes - technically NCAA basketball is amateur sport. (hee hee, couldn't quite keep a straight face.) - Andrew C

I'm am 100% uninterested in basketball. Doubly so for march madness. - Jeremy Brooks

Wake me when football's back. - Derrick

No! Bring it! - Rodfather

i don't watch sports so I can care less. - Angela P.

I'm completely uninterested in March Madness, and in North Carolina, that's very unpopular. - Dave Roth

<<<gone mad - Richard Lawler

What is March Madness? - Kol Tregaskes

I normally dislike sports...but locally it is a big deal. I like the social aspects of the MM part of the season, even though I could care less if the team I am supposed to root for wins. (Tons of free beer and big screens) - Amber, Random Time Lord

are you kidding march is one of the best months of the year - chrisofspades

for those unfamiliar with this march madness thing.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Neil Bernhart

March what?! - Katie is STILL hungover

I was born without the Sports Gene. I have no interest in any of them. I can follow but don't care really. - CW™

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better pay attention to the NCAA Tournament." - King Kaufman ( http://www.salon.com/sports... ) - Andrew C

What is March Madness? - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

It just makes me mad because it makes me think of Midnight Madness and I don't own that on DVD yet and it makes me feel like less of a human being. - Akiva Moskovitz

I can't stand basketball, so the whole March Madness thing just annoys the shit out of me. - Joey Gibson

@Kol @Glen: serious? March Madness -- a trademarked term, btw -- covers about a 3-week period in March, when the NCAA college basketball championships are decided. It's madness because, including the individual conference championships all over the country to set the field, there's hundreds of basketball games -- almost all televised -- compressed into a short amount of time, that lead to determining the eventual best team in the nation. It's crazy, it's mad! It's the best tournament in sports. HTH - .LAG liked that

I'm very interested, watching a game right now at work through the power of the internets. - Mathew™ one of a kind

SOOOO uninterested. - Lisa L. Seifert

You couldn't pay me to watch basketball on television. I would rather do my taxes than watch sports - live or televised. There are very few things I find more boring or pointless. - Nathan Chase

@Nathan: watching sports is no different than watching a TV show, or going to a play, a music concert, or the opera. actually, there is one difference: the outcome of the sporting event is not pre-determined. some people find the build-up to that uncertain outcome interesting and dramatic... but whatever floats your boat. no need for high horses. - .LAG liked that

zactly. You couldn't write better drama. You get to watch people who've trained their whole lives to do one thing either succeed or fall short in what is still "amateur" competition over the course of a couple weeks. - Richard Lawler

blasphemy - Lou Paglia

Just to be clear - i don't hold interest in basketball against folks. :) Love of any particular sport is no worse than any of my hobbies. :) - Tad from fftogo

.LAG, I don't live in the US and have no interest in basketball, hence why I don't know anything about "March Madness". Thanks, for the info. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

the new Spring lines are already on sale? Cool! - MLx

Darren Heydon

Is friendfeed just a popularity contest?

March 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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not for me. - Yolanda

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What's the prize? - Rodfather

Let's vote! - Chris Baskind

Not for me either. - Jenny Morman

Nah... - Helen Sventitsky

Doesn't feel like it. Feels more like a forum of days of yonder to me. - Mike Nayyar

Is *life* just a popularity contest? - Meryn Stol

Is this an A lister question? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

it's not for me... but for some i think maybe - Angela P.

no - AJ Kohn

the INTERNET is a popularity contest - anna sauce

If it is, I play to lose. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Akiva LOL - Ted Roden

I'm the captain of the football team - sofarsoShawn

Depends what you want out of it, if numbers is your game, sure. - Mo Kargas

Yes, and if you fall off the radar for like a week, you are forgotten. I guess I'm sharing on FF for myself. I'm not complaining anymore--I wrote about this about 6 weeks ago. - Tamar Weinberg

No, It is a news source, an education source, an amusement source and a place to have great conversation about finance, soup or gardening. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Tamar, same here. I'm probably the least popular one in FF. :) There were periods where some FFers were arguing like spoiled high school students. Nowadays I use FF mainly for myself also. - imabonehead

Jason, did you notice my absence? ;) I think it may differ from the REALLY active on FF versus the others who try but don't have 100+ likes/comments per week. I dropped from about 30 of each to less than 10 and there was little/no engagement on my shares when I did try to participate. - Tamar Weinberg

Is life just a popularity contest? EDIT: Meryn Stol appears to have beaten me to it. Great minds think alike. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

@Rodfather lol - Darren Heydon

Blame it on SXSW ;) I actually noticed since I responded to you on a previous thread and you never actually got back to me. It's hard to keep track! - Tamar Weinberg

No. - Anne Bouey

Huh? - Mona Nomura

If people talk about really interesting stuff and that makes them more known to the FF community (aka popular), then so be it. So I guess my answer is: Depends on the mindset of the person posting. I'm just here for the bacon. - Brad Butner from twhirl

Bacon! - Mona Nomura

Yeah, have you tried posting bacon? - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Hehehe... whatever what, whenever needed. Props to the interest. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

I don't think we've had a bacon post in a while! Off to my reader! - Mona Nomura

There are those it is. - CW™

The internet is a popularity contest. :) - matthew john ernisse

Nope, I don't give a crap who's reading my crap - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

[backtype] "Someone said my blog is "impossible" to read because of the background. What do YOU think? (http://ping.fm/L91cY)” Someone does care at least a lil bit. - sofarsoShawn

Gosh, I hope not. - Derrick

Uh... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

If it is, why is that a bad thing? - Johnny Worthington

To some, probably. But to those folks, life is a popularity contest. :) In other news, does the fact that I have my own tiara mean I can opt out? Although, I could use a sash. Oooh! and a baton. Wait. What were we talking about again? :) - ♥patricia♥

Hi Johnny, it's not a bad thing at all, i just wanted to know what people thought - Darren Heydon

Pea++ :) - Darren Heydon

and Derrick, yes it's all about you!! lol - Darren Heydon

lol @Mona with the bacon digg - Darren Heydon

Good stars, I hope not. IRL, BORING -----> - Derrick

bollocks! - Darren Heydon

I'm a Moskovitz! - Rochelle

Yes, though not too the degree Twitter is at all. If it wasn't there wouldn't be the features of a "suggested followers list" or "Best of Day" and especially a running list of most popular users at ffholic; though the contest is only as important as you make it. As per me: no. - sofarsoShawn

Rochelle: attention seeker! - Darren Heydon

sofarsosean, this is exactly what I mean - Darren Heydon

sorry, you mean... - sofarsoShawn

""Best of Day" and especially a running list of most popular users at ffholic; though the contest is only as important as you make it." - Darren Heydon

gotcha - sofarsoShawn

Never - Nia

no. - .LAG liked that

No - Niki Costantini

No more of less than life is. - Jeff P. Henderson

Looks like you could use a CUPCAKE! - Steven Perez

Thats what she said! - Darren Heydon

It's more like a beauty pageant, and I rock the swim wear portion because of my huge basket. - sofarsoShawn

Also, is blogging just a popularity contest? - Meryn Stol

@Rodfather - Does Scoble Money count? ;) - Tyson Key

nope. but it is a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll. - Thomas Hawk

I don't think so, though often times it does seem like there's a "My e-peen is bigger than yours!" contest going on... :-\ - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

It isn't for me!!! - Emma

not for me. it's my way of finding new (serious and funny) stuff that makes my day. - AJ Batac

Yes: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Hutch Carpenter

FriendFeed wasn't "Hate Magazine", erm "Heat Magazine", last time I checked. ;) - Tyson Key

Not for me but i'd like to declare victory on principle anyway. YEAH ME!!! - Steve C

Yep. - orionstarr

No, but some people *think* it is. - Susan Beebe

No doubt it's a popularity contest for some. Before now, the thought never really crossed my mind. Like many quasi-free-form tools, FF is what you make it. For me, it's a semi-social diary, recommendation engine, hub, and backup tool. - Jason Nelson

I use it to bookmark shizz - sofarsoShawn

It is pretty much, if u think it's not then u are in the popular group - orionstarr

Isn't all of social media? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Wait, what was my answer? No? Yes? - Mike Nayyar

Don't think so - Bindu Reddy

For some people. - Katie is STILL hungover

Paul Buchheit

Have you installed the FriendFeed notifier yet? https://friendfeed.com/account...

March 18 - Comment - Like - Share

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The notifier is my favorite new feature in a long time. Try it out and let me know what you think. (it works on OSX, Windows, and Linux, btw) - Paul Buchheit

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Yes, it is pretty darn great, especially when you have it focus on a short list of people you really must interact with in almost realtime. With it turned on to too many people, it is an overlapping chore. Thanks for the cool apps! - Josh Haley

I try it ones, but no. Somehow I have come to dislike notifiers... Not my thing, I ratherly use sidebar on firefox :) - Kristian Salonen

I just did. Thanks for the reminder! - Robert Scoble

So Did I! - Helen Sventitsky

Wow, this is slick. Turning off gtalk now - Christian Burns

Yes, and <3... wish it was resizeable, though. excellent otherwise. - .LAG liked that

Nope. Adobe Air sucks huge resources. My Mac only has 4G of RAM and I can't run Air Apps. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

I love it. It's the least intrusive Air App I've seen. I would like the ability to add my comments and likes and a list. That would really make it easier to keep up with conversations. :) - Andrew

LOL@4G RAM. My main laptop has 512MB - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Glen, Air can be a resource hog, but the notifier seems to use less memory that some other Air apps (on my computer, TweetDeck has a 283MB resident size, by the notifier is only 54MB). - Paul Buchheit

air... ick... installed, but not too hopeful - anna sauce

man, i'm wishing i hadn't downloaded. i already have growl notifications and mail notifications ... overwhelmed. - Lynne d Johnson

This tool is usefull, but not my need. I don't like to be disruptted. - pastas9 from BuddyFeed

You can have FF and Twitter on your desktop with one app: Thwirl. And, with Thwirl you can turn off ALL notifications. - Phil Essing from twhirl

Yes, but only works sometimes and when it works, it's updates popups hell. :) - Rui Pereira

@JoshHaley I agree, great for a small subset like coworkers or family, but not for your entire feed. - karl dotter

Ok, a couple thoughts. Once I installed the app I had updates constantly, often one over another so this means #1) I am missing way too much good content, #2) I have a very rich experience on Friendfeed since I seem to want to ignore most Twitter updates but want to click into most FF updates, and #3) if I left this thing on I would get zero work done. This application is too dangerous for me. Sorry guys, i had to turn it off. Good to see you are making the experience flexible for all though. Thanks. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Oh and +1 for using Morton's Duran Duran post for the app! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

The problem I have with AIR is that it wakes up the CPU constantly. air apps + battery life = fail. - mjc

Phil, Thwirl is a full desktop client, which is great if that's what you're looking for. The notifier is just a very simple and lightweight notifier, which makes it very easy to passively keep up with what's happening on FriendFeed in real-time. - Paul Buchheit

I liked Eliza more :p - Rodfather

wish you could disabled comments...otherwise, not bad really not blown away i'm afraid - Zee.

I installed it. It works just as intended. Then I uninstalled it. Not my cup of tea. But it works great and the installation was flawless. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Love that notifier. - Francine Hardaway

...it seems to work best--and less noisily--if you make a list of favorite FF content (people and/or rooms) and set the notifier to that... - .LAG liked that

I keep meaning to ask people what they're going on about a FriendFeed notifier. Installing this as soon as I get home. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I use twhirl for FF notifications, works well because I also use it for Twitter when my Tweetdeck api requests run out, and for seesmic - AJ Leon from twhirl

who's running old google deskbar? - John Fu

Yeah I'd love to use it but Air is a resource hog I just can't deal with. - EricaJoy

Another thought, I think the X button on the top right could be bigger. I seem to be accidentally opening liks quite a bit when I'm trying to close the pop up. - Andrew

No, not yet - thank you for the reminder - Susan Beebe

No, I haven't yet, quit nagging. ^_^ - Ron Bailey

I did, and promptly removed it after getting pop-ups every second. - Mathew™ one of a kind

My ADD ass wouldn't be able to handle the distraction. - Brad Williamson

I installed it but with Twhirl sending me twitter updates and that popping up it get's really confusing of what's going on. Plus Twhirl works fine for me. - Patrick from twhirl

would be like @_@ - Will Higgins™

I like it on my 24" display, but not on the 10" EEEPC. Long (vertically) messages aren't displayed very well at 1024x600 - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Just tried to install it but the link doesn't open anything. Strange (XP w/ Firefox) - Keith - @tsudo

Used compiz to make some adjustment to opacity, gamma values of the friendfeed notifier and now it is as sexy as jaunty native notifier - Zaki Manian

That guy's a rafa benitez clone. Amazing - Martin Liechti from fftogo

Somebody should do one with Silverlight 3 (beta) with out-of-browser -support. That I could try :) - Jemm

Martin, yeah I've noted this before, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yes and I've made some observations and suggestions here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Kol Tregaskes

Yes, but don't really keep it on. The sheer amount of activity is so high that notifier is a major distraction from whatever I am doing. I only turn it on when I'm browsing FF fulltime. - Parth Awasthi

I need another popup like a hole in my head. - TranceMist

Not really interesting. Friendfeed is getting kinda boring tbh. - Spencer

it's the dreaded ADOBE AIR. avoid it like the plague! :) - Zio Bonino

Notifier without actual interface=useless to me. - timedalkat from twhirl

Just installed it but notifiers without filtering options = popup hell - MiaD

I like it. It's like the real-time feed without having to take up a whole tab or sidebar. But I could never have it active at work - far too distracting. At home when I can keep an eye down in the corner while doing other things, it's great. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I have. And I like it so far - Martin Liechti from fftogo

its great! - Luigi Centenaro

In pop up heaven - how am I supposed to do any work? - Jan Simmonds

不错的小工具，赞 - 阿石

Tried it, liked it but prefer the IM / XMPP interface, that doesn't cost me CPU since I already have a client running, and also gives me more control over the level of distraction. - Robin Barooah

<3 using Twhirl - Patrick from twhirl

Still prefer to use Twhirl for my FriendFeed updates... It has a Me tab and a Friends tab and a Everyone tab and a tab to share stuff. - Patrick from twhirl

My first impression? I "like" much! - Karoli

I tried it and it's fun but I realized that all the real-time-ness I need I get from the real-time view in a separate window without the distraction. - Sam Grover

Simon

A Chinese poem consisting of one repeated syllable - http://jhorna.wordpress.com/2008...

March 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"« Shī Shì shí shī shǐ » Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì." - Simon from Bookmarklet

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Translation: "« Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den » In a stone den was a poet Shi, who was a lion addict, and had resolved to eat ten. He often went to the market to look for lions. At ten o’clock, ten lions had just arrived at the market. At that time, Shi had just arrived at the market. He saw those ten lions, and using his trusty arrows, caused the ten lions to die. He brought the... more... - Simon

English doesn't quite have the number of homophones and homonyms, but there are some goofy examples. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki..., and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ray Cromwell

Ni ma ma hui chi ma ma? (Does your mother ride a horse?) - marko

にわにはにわにわとりがいる (ni wa ni wa ni wa niwa tori ga iru) here are two chickens in the yard. - KyleHase from twhirl

German has this perfectly correct sentence: Wenn Fliegen hinter Fliegen fliegen fliegen Fliegen hinter Fliegen her. - Philipp Lenssen

They look almost the same when written in Pinyin, but very clear in Chinese characters. - K.D.

That's just plain music too my ears...I love it when you speak Chinese to me. - sofarsoShawn

While Jim had had had, Bob had had had had had had had had a better effect on the English teacher. - moo. bye.

Who polices the Police? Police Police. Who polices the Police Police? Police Police Police police Police Police. - Glen, Bespectacled Elder

Louis Gray

Matthew and Sarah Show Off Their RSS Street Cred In Shyftr Wear.

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You can find Shyftr at http://www.shyftr.com - Louis Gray

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The schwag magnets strike again. - Louis Gray

You are shameless, sir! - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge

Love this, so cute!! They are adorable Louis! :) - Susan Beebe

Matthew!! You are too young to be flashing gang signs!! - Yolanda

Oh, they have matching angel kisses on their heads, too! - Admiral Anika

They are cute. I love the second one, it's almost like they are saying "What?!" - Sarah Peterman

Yeah, love that second pic too.. they're so cute! - Aviv

You are truly blessed, times two !!! - Eric Logan

Now that's a beautiful thing :)! - Dave Stanley

Jeremiah Owyang

Some bloggers are arguing about how much 100,000 twitter followers is worth http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... I say earn trust, not buy it

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The metric for trust is engagement. I'm engaging with you because I trust/like/value you. That's the really hard stuff to earn. - Robert Scoble

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You're buying reach - it's a chicken or the egg scenario - do you get reach first or trust first? I think it's easier to get trust with a smaller audience. - Jesse Stay

The number of followers only partially measures the reach. - Mike Chelen

Mike, it depends on your definition of reach - Jesse Stay

Buying 100,000 followers may initially fare well, but in the long run people see through it. - Kevin Elliott

Reach should be number of eyes reading a post. One follower may read every single post, while another sees one in ten. - Mike Chelen

Earn trust over time. Buy placement when the time comes. Both can amplify. - Andy Wibbels

Scoble wins this thread big time - totally nailed it. When will people learn that relationships are not products they can buy; but rather, they must cultivate and nourish those relationships with genuine engagement which builds trust and establishes your network. We must add value and not resort to youthful playground antics of attempting to buy friends with some lunch money. - Susan Beebe

All good points, learning from experimenting with those features makes it in the end. As it could simply mean dealing with understanding the most concepts by interaction and getting the supplies needed to keep going on in this domain of expertise. - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

Twitter sucks. (Follow me at http://www.Twitter.com/Brad_Wi... ;-) But seriously... it sucks. - Brad Williamson

Cathryn Hrudicka

Scent of jasmine, purple princess flowers, budding wisteria in lilac hues and the smell of freshly cut grass in the flickering twilight...

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Are you peeking into my garden? - Admiral Anika

Shey, Jamaican of FF

I think it's pretty cool to see a certain Friendfeeder (he has a protected feed) learning a different language and getting support from the community.

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I would LOVE to learn Spanish one day. How about you? What language would you want to learn? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

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I started a biblical Hebrew course last September, and did exactly one lesson. I still need to learn my aleph-beth. :-) - Ladybug Heather

hindi, then arabic, spanish! :-D - browneyes

I would like to learn Hungarian/Romanian because we've been talking of moving into my MILs apartment there. I'll be stranded, linguistically speaking. - Admiral Anika

Spanish and Mandarin. - Amit Morson

I tried Spanish, but I guess was tired of learning new ones back then, maybe should try again - Dobromir Hadzhiev

@browneyes My sister is learning Hindi - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@Shey Oh, I'm also learning Devanagari by myself for now. Gambare to your sister! :-) - browneyes

زبان فارسی و هستم - میر پرت محمد موسوی

persian language :) - Sina

Spanish, Sign Language and Hebrew - Justin Korn

Every year I learn a language for two weeks - M F

Spanish because I could use it on a regular basis (and I already know a little), French because I like the way it sounds and then I could watch French movies without the subtitles. - Jeremy Brooks

Italian. - Kevin Pedraja

I actually need to learn spanish because my wife and her family speak it. I can only catch some words, so I definitely need some help. - Rob Diana

@Rob How are you planning to learn? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Definitely Shey! :) - directeur

I am still trying to learn Korean, but haven't seen any Korean friendfeeder :( - Onur Gündüz

You probably meant that "directeur" guy, didn't you? :) If so, I have to say that the turkish people who are helping me are DELICIOUSLY kind! I'd advise y'all to give it a try! Über cool! - directeur

directeur, Aslanım benim :) - Onur Gündüz

@directeur yes, that's who I'm talking about :) - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@Shey, I have no idea. I have tried audio CDs, but they really do not work for me. Lately, I just have not had time for books either, but that is typically better for me. And there is nothing like practicing with a native speaker. I am going to try the 300-word method as well, where you learn the 300 most popular words and go form there. - Rob Diana

Memnoun Storyline! Poetry like Omar Khayyam's one? :) - directeur

yes, learn persian to understand the meaning of literature - خیزران kheyzaran

wow like 4 directeur :)))))))))))))) - mohammadk

hey i made a spanish room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Alfredo

@Rob Diana Have you tried the Pimsleur method? I'm using it for Mandarin. - Christopher Harley

I always thought Omer Hayyam was Turk. All wine houses here named after him. - Onur Gündüz

@mohammadk, I actually read it in french some years ago, wish I could read it in Farsi though :) @Alfredo: Way to go! :) - directeur

@Alfredo Nice! I joined - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Onur, well he's very known for his poetry about wine! ;-) - directeur

Christopher, I am not aware of the Pimsleur method, I will look into it. - Rob Diana

@Rob I've got the Pimsleur audio courses for Spanish. Without breaking out the media, it looks this link http://www.scribd.com/doc... is an accurate transcription of the first 30 lessons. Note that Pimsleur is all audio so these notes are not part of the course. It looks like this person just felt compelled to transcribe them. - Christopher Harley

I want to learn German. - Paul Grav

FF helps me a lot to improve my English ;-) Also learning Japanese, just started (and I think FriendFeed will be useful at this too, later =)) - Anton

@browneyes : Devnagri is just the script Hindi is written in. Also, I will be more than happy to teach Hindi to anybody who likes to. - Varun Mahajan

@Varun Mahajan: Yes I know. But comparing hindi text book (at least in Japan), noticed better text books tend to show hindi words only in Nagari scripts. So I've decided to learn them first. :-) And great if I have someone native hindi speaker for asking some odd questions! FF Indian pps are so kind. yay! - browneyes

I would really like to learn Farsi and/or Arabic. - Bren -- Making Contact

I'm going' to study French in a few months and I also want to learn mandarin and Japanese. - George The Writer

I want to learn Italian so that I can stay on track with my master plan of retiring to Tuscany. - Martha

My friend joined the Peace Corp and they just left him in Costa Rica, he learned Spanish quickly. - Robert Hafer

i speak three languages fluently. that said, i'd love to learn Aramaic or Japanese. - Carlos Ayala

oooohhh... what 3 Carlos? I'm guessing one is english? ;) - Yolanda

All I have to say is summed up nicely here: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008... - mjc

Michael, of course I DISAGREE. I am white (yes, my avatar is Coltrane and he's black, but he's the man I wished I was) I'm white, fair and silk hair and green eyes... but I speak 5 languages (plus good notions of another one), and I'm learning a 6th one currently (actually Shey was referring to me) So I really disagree. I actually disagree about all "generalizations". It's like saying that black people don't know anything but robbery, crime, whining... see what I mean? - directeur

@Yolanda English, Spanish and Portuguese. I have a good working knowledge of Italian and French too; I can nail those accents effortlessly. :) - Carlos Ayala

Brian Solis

When Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Etc. Say: ‘Feed Me’ - http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

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Paul Boutin discusses Brian Solis on FriendFeed and how it channels disparate activity into one place. - Brian Solis

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