New video: my talk at TedX London: the future of intellectual property and copyright http://www.mediafuturist.com/2010... please RT - this is important stuff.
Our baby boy, 4 weeks early, is going to hang in the NICU for a bit. I left the hospital so Kristine could sleep. I wish I could give you pics of the kid (and not me), but this is what we'll start with.
- Louis Gray
Good news is that Braden is just over 6 pounds. That's big for us, and amid all the other 1.5 KG babies in the NICU, he is a monster. So he'll probably be coming home soon.
- Louis Gray
Yay, baby! He was just taking a page out of your book, Louis. He was ready to be productive!!
- Yolanda
That is true, Yolanda. I was 2 months early myself and weighed 4 pounds, back when that was unsafe.
- Louis Gray
Despite my comments, I hope she is sleeping. Worn out of course, but we avoided a C-Section this time, so that's a huge win.
- Louis Gray
How are Matthew and Sarah, excited to have a new brother? Who is there to help you?
- DGentry
Your timing in starting new health insurance is impeccable.
- DGentry
at least now you have time to get him an ipad before he comes home!
- Allen Stern
So glad to hear things are going ok, and I hope you and Christine get lots of sleep.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
And 6lbs.! That's a whopper for you guys (as well as for me)! Congratulations!! Looking forward to meeting the little guy.
- April Buchheit
Happy Birthday to Braden! I'm glad that he was 6 pounds. That should help him get a good start in life. Congratulations to you and your wife, Louis!
- vicster
Hugs for the Gray family! Hope everyone is home together soon.
- Anne Bouey
Denton, we have plenty of help right now. My mom drove in last night. In the evening, the kid's best babysitter pulled an extra shift. She's back from 9 to 1 today as well.
- Louis Gray
Glad to hear that all is well, Louis. Good thoughts going your way.
- JCunwired
Congratulations! Hope he will be home soon.
- Elena
LANjackal, hard look? That's how I roll. No prisoners.
- Louis Gray
Congratulations, Louis and Kristine! Knuckle bump to Kristine for avoiding the c. High five to your mom. Moms rule. Oh, and so do dads who wear NICU armbands. :)
- Trish Haley
Congratulations on your new baby. Seem like you need some sleep yourself ;-) cybergirl2010
- MysteryGirl2010
Sleep is unproductive and a waste of time. :)
- Louis Gray
Congrats! How did I know you guys weren't going to wait four whole weeks to join the FF baby party? Seriously, though - sounds like six pounds is well past the trigger weight for Kristine, if there is such a thing. A month from now Braden would have been Moose.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
This is a puzzle. The wristband allows to take the baby out of the building, but you must not touch the baby. I'll get back to you with a solution soon.
- Josh Haley
you might want to include a note that Google Reader's "suggested user list" helps pump up at least one of those blogs - i'm not sure of the others.
- Allen Stern
Allen, as mentioned on the blog, I did say some of these RSS feeds are no doubt bundled. I did not highlight Google Reader's bundles, but that is possible that some are impacted here.
- Louis Gray
thanks Louis - it's interesting that while twitter's SUL gets a lot of chatter - other default lists like GR bundles go basically unnoticed.
- Allen Stern
nice extra !! the part of your article mentioning feeds without images reminds me of google image search or something like it.. some key words or tags in the feeds can be search keywords on those image search engine, and first or second image found can be used for "collection".. umm.. copyright issues.. :)
- RICK CHOI
The shame in all this is that Twitter gets by-passed and doesn't make a cent from the transaction. At some point, Twitter needs to make some dough or it will go.
- Bettina Tizzy
that logic makes no sence Bettina. Should Google get a cut of the action if you use your email address to sign up to a service? Should facebook get a cut of the action if you sell your car on it to one of your friends? Maybe friendfeed should get paid if Robert posts a cool application review, we all click "like" to promote the thread, and some of us go buy the app.
- Mark
Oh I heard about that on Colbert! I hope twitter isn't held responsible when people start using it for illegal purposes.
- Californian
Oh, it's not a matter of logic. It is just my desire to see Twitter finally make some money. Twitter should buy TwitPay.
- Bettina Tizzy
well couldn't they knock up a twitpay clone in a few days instead ;)
- Mark
Cool to see an Atlanta Startup Weekend project get this kind of attention
- Daniel Sims
Fantastic coder, Fantastic mind, Fantastic friend, and a Hodgkins survivor. 1 year and he's clear. Got the word on Friday. Total Rockstar and I'd be lost without him.
- drew olanoff
SWF output, effects, builds, animations, transitions, free and pro editions - Allows to create animated Flash banners and ads similarly to how you create a PowerPoint presentation
- Robin Good
We just launched a "Secret email address" service that makes it possible to post to groups anonymously from any email address. This is a bit of a power-user feature, but it's a very useful for automated posting from scripts, forwarding email (e.g. customer service email), etc.
Here at the office, we use it to forward all of our mercurial changelog emails, server push notifications, etc to a private group. That way, we all see what's going on in real-time (thanks to the notifier: http://friendfeed.com/setting...), and can easily discuss them from the FriendFeed interface. To add a secret email address, click on "Import a service" in the "settings" dialog of any group. For regular posting, you should continue to use the normal email interface though (share@friendfeed.com or groupname@friendfeed.com, see http://friendfeed.com/share... for details). Thanks to Tudor for writing and launching this!
- Paul Buchheit
I am loving this feature idea... Very savvy for business use. Thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Matthew: No. Your home feed only shows things that you're subscribed to. Of course, if you're a member of a group whose admin allows anonymous posting, and you have that group on your home feed, then the anonymous posts will show up there -- but then, you can always leave the group or remove it from your home feed.
- Tudor Bosman
oh this is genius. there's so many use cases that can leverage this. platform +1
- Sameer
Groups already allow "anonymous" posts -- if you (as an admin) add a service to a group, posts originating from that service will show as belonging to the room, not to any particular user. You can think of anonymous posts (whether imported from RSS services, or posted by email) as being the responsibility of the group admins -- it's their job to police them if they deem necessary.
- Tudor Bosman
I see this working for the Confessions room. What else?
- Josh Haley
Sounds like the email can be sent from any arbitrary email address, not necessarily one registered with FriendFeed for an account? So the secret really needs to be kept secret to valid potential posters only.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Logical Extremes: Yes, that is the point; it doesn't matter what address you send *from*. Sometimes you can't control the address that mail gets sent from. A few examples: your datacenter can notify you by email of any problems affecting your servers, but you'd prefer these notifications to go to a FriendFeed group. You are subscribed to a low-volume distribution list, but you'd rather...
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- Tudor Bosman
Paul has explained how we use this feature internally at FriendFeed. If one of us checks in a change (we use Mercurial for source control), Mercurial sends an email to a secret email address for a private group (that all FF engineers are subscribed to); the others see the change immediately, and we can discuss it in comments.
- Tudor Bosman
Cool! Very useful for room owners. If you don't have instructions, it's very hard to find. "Sekret"
- AJ Batac :)
LD: I don't understand. To which of my examples are you referring?
- Tudor Bosman
It sounds like a pro-spam feature. Have you thought through all the consequences?
- Tim Tyler
Tim: the group admins should keep the address secret and only share it with trusted services. If the address gets leaked, then the group can get spammed, in which case the group admins can delete it or change it (which prevents all future mail to the old address from being posted to the group). We believe it to be reasonably secure, but please let us know if you notice any problems.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, you said: "posts originating from that service will show as belonging to the room, not to any particular user". But the posts /do/ show up as belonging to the admin user in a _search result_.
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan, that's a bug that already existed with how searches handle imported content in groups (not specific to this release and already on our list, thanks).
- Dan Hsiao
LD: You're right, you can't reply from within FriendFeed. You could have the contact form send email to both the internal group and a regular email address, which you can then use to send a reply.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: btw. regarding mercurial, what's your experience using mercurial in friendfeed vs perforce in google?
- Amund Tveit
Tudor - what I really like is the business use cases you're laying out here, including your own internal engineering ones. Good stuff, as my e2.0 buddy Sameer above says.
- Hutch Carpenter
using this feature to post blog uptime statistics for several blog to blog owners
- Jeroen De Miranda
Its a good feeling when you know that the people behind a certain product know what there doing. Dont we FF Team?
- Webferret
Use case? How can one use the best readily filtering system available (Gmail filters) with best of breed group collaboration (Friendfeed). This is GOING to become the best in its class. I can drop so many business tools(that i pay for) for just FF Private rooms
- Webferret
Amund: Mercurial works. We use it in a mostly-centralized setup (one central repo that we sync to very often). Can't really compare performance -- our repositories are tiny compared to Google's. We can take this offline if you'd like to discuss this in more detail.
- Tudor Bosman
That's a great add-on. Slowly, FF is going to be our "life center"
- Özkan Altuner
So this is kinda like when you posted the "advert"? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: not quite; the "shameless self-promotion" showed up as an entry in your home feed, without any user (or group) name attached to it. Entries imported into a room (via RSS or via email) show up as being in that room.
- Tudor Bosman
OK, Tudor. I'll give it a test later. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is a cool idea, but it only seems to import the mail subject title only. Is that right, if so, how do we get the content of the mail in, or is it not meant to do that?
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
Keith: it works for me. The subject goes in the main post (FF thread title?) and the message appears as a comment to the thread. Maybe you are sending an HTML e-mail?
- alieb
Cheers alieb, I just tested it by forwarding the first mail in my inbox and that didn't show anything up. Creating a mail and adding some text to the mail body works correctly. Thanks for the help.
- Keith Bennett
I just figured out a new use for this feature and it goes in line with Kevin Rose's idea for an Open Source security system. http://www.facebook.com/video... He was talking about having a neighborhood watch like program. Well each neighborhood can have a private room here in FF. If someone tripped an alarm in your house, it would send an email to the secret email for the private group and everyone in the group could be notified via email,IM,SMS,etc.
- BRҰANSAҰS
I think this secret address should be reminded somewhere in each group settings window.
- Zackatoustra
Zacaktoustra: group admins will see the address in the "services" window (click "add/edit" under Services in the settings dialog). Other group members will only see the words "secret email address", as, well, the address is supposed to be secret and only visible to admins.
- Tudor Bosman
could we have this for home feeds as well? some 3rd party messaging services will send from various addresses. great feature, thanks!
- Mike Chelen
I'm blonde so maybe need to tell you what I'd like to do and see if it works: I would like to have my ATT mail, my Yahoo mail AND my gmail all feed into a FF room so I could read it all at the same time (ATT and Yahoo are partnered so you can't sign into both at the same time. Both go through Yahoo's sign in page.) Is this possible to create? Having ATT and Yahoo feed into my Gmail through FF would be okay as well, btw. I get FF feeds through GMail already.
- Molly
Molly, what you're asking for is totally unrelated to this thread. If i was you I would set up gmail to receive the mail from your other email addresses. It's a bit complicated but can be done. Try reading this lifehacker gmail article first: http://lifehacker.com/374610...
- Chris Heath
Heath, thanks. I told you I'm blonde. :-P I tried your suggestion already and so far haven't been able to hook ATT and Yahoo to my Gmail (both being POP accounts) w/o paying extra. Will work on it again later. It's not THAT much trouble to check all three accounts from different sources.
- Molly
from email
Molly, another option (if att offers it - i know yahoo does) is to set up forwarding so the email is automatically forwarded from ATT and Yahoo to your gmail address. Then once in gmail you can use filtering (by the to: field) to separate out the emails
- Chris Heath
I think that's the paid service from Yahoo. At least it was when I investigated it a few months ago. Thanks for thinking about it for me, though. Us techblondes need all the help we can get re: setting stuff up. I'm kind of on hold right now anyway (trying to recover my domain name and identity....... long story and boring to all but me). Molly
- Molly
from email
@Ninh I think jon said it best: "i like storytlr too but they own your data. amplifeeder is self hosted and you can do what you like with your data. plus the storytlr themes are pretty poor compared with amplifeeders. just sayin…"
- Paul Kinlan
@paul wrt storytlr, we don't own your data, it is yours, you can even download a backup of the whole thing in CSV format and soon we'll support DiSo. If you think about it, your web host owns as much as we do. Unless your server is in your basement of course. Yet, we are happy to see cool new activity in the lifestream space. Good luck Amplifeeder, nice job ! (I'm the dev of storytlr).
- Eschnou
looks promising; I'd been looking at SweetCron, so this is good to see - I will definitely try it on one of my domains when there's a LAMP version...
- Anthony Citrano
The web is growing so incredibly fast — it’s so dynamic and has so many new tools. Keeping up with the web and figuring out how to use it in a practical way for businesses is difficult. We see businesses struggling to understand and implement the latest social media tools and technology: “How do I use Twitter? How do I use Facebook? Do I need to develop an iPhone app? What technology am I not using that could help grow my business?” These questions are just the beginning, and that’s why building43 came to be.
- Jim Connolly
Isn´t Building43´s About page describing the services of the dreaded ... (shrug) Social Media Expert (!) .. ? ;) At least they´re not calling themselves that I guess.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
These are important question which I'm sure many people have. Hopefully building 43 will help some of them find answers.
- Michael Fidler
Thomas: It's 'very' early days yet and it remains to be seen what the project will develop into.
- Jim Connolly
Michael: Absolutely. Businesses are REALLY struggling to get the idea of what some call web 3.0 and others call the 2010 web. Many businesses are stuck in the 'broadcast' mindset - rather than communicating and developing / contributing.
- Jim Connolly
I wouldn't be surprised if the answer is somewhere between.
- Michael Fidler
I was thinking along the lines of "convergence", the Holy Grail of the electronics industry.
- Michael Fidler
Whatever the answer is, it's great to be part of the Internet right now. Exciting times.
- Jim Connolly
It would have been nice if Robert had the time to ask Mark Zuckerburg about what Facebook’s plans are with Social-TV. They started experimenting with it for the Obama inauguration, but it didn’t stop there. They’ve been quietly but not secretly, continuing to develop it. You’re right; it’s a very exciting time.
- Michael Fidler