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December 3 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"That was my first reaction too: How does this affect 30 Rock?!" - Patrick Lightbody

Almost nobody understood my earlier webapp idea, so I'll try again. Imagine you were looking at a website such as FriendFeed and you wanted to create a near pixel-perfect copy but in a way that you could move things around, adjust shadows, etc. I want a tool that makes that easy.

September 5, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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And without taking screenshots or copying the html, since the point is that it should have the power to quickly create something that looks just like our current ui. Also, it should be web based, because then fonts, etc will be right, and also I hate installing things. My previous attempt at explaining this: http://friendfeed.com/e... (Balsamiq is not what I want). It does not need to produce html though, so it can cheat anyway it likes. - Paul Buchheit

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So you wanna something like "html to png/psd"? Editable graphical interface with layers and stuff? - Selim Yoruk

No, not at all. My point is that you could look at the the FriendFeed ui (with your eyes) and then create something that looked just like it. - Paul Buchheit

Fireworks is pixel perfect, correct font sizes and previews image in browser. Yes/No? - Toby Graham

Are you looking for something like what is mentioned in this article - http://www.labnol.org/interne... - Atul Arora

Are you want something like web-based rich page editor which works with objects in manner the human see them and want change them? - gmarketer

I guess it's difficult to explain something that doesn't exist :( - Paul Buchheit

thats piracy!!! - Arjun

Paul, I like the idea, it's got merit. There's plenty of tools that do half the job, that is, snip the page. The second part, i'm not overly familiar with the tools out there. The manipulation. I guess you could snip the page, and embed into your tool a js library, like scriptaculous, and attach special event significance to the controls/tags, for moving, dropping, dragging. - Stu Andrews

I think I get what you mean now and I agree. That's not very helpful but hey. In the mean time you could edit the page live using firebug maybe? - Toby Graham

It seems to me like you want the Visual Studio Win Forms designer for web apps hosted and served to designers as a web app. Drag and drop elements onto the page and adjust their properties in a property grid. Then send a link to others so you can share your concept. - Eric Schoonover

For this, I use simple vector graphics editing app, like Xara or InkScape - I just make screenshots and use them as raw building blocks - usually I cut out from them small elements like controls/text-blocks/images/etc... In vector graphics enironment managing such kind of blocks is much more easier than in photoshop. - Phil Smirnov

remembers that this idea has been described by David Siegel in 1997 in his book : Creating Killer Web Sites (http://tinyurl.com/5skw63) - Oaksun

Paul, i think the edit-page command on ubiquity with the ability to: visually edit css and publish the changes is close to what you are describing. - Ian

Eric pretty much nailed the description of the dream tool that I think Paul was asking for. In my dream the web app is truly collaborative and has an active GUI. So you can adjust those properties using a mouse or tablet and anyone else on your design team can watch as you do it so they can make suggestions and modifications as you work. - David Muir

Let's say you want to make a mockup of FriendFeed called "FriendFood". You want it to generally have the same layout, only the top blue bar will actually have a background made of lasagna and a font that is made of French fries, and what shows on the page is everything people write about food on the regular FF, like "pasta OR bean OR potato OR steak". But you'd like someone to be able to do that from the web and without messing into much coding. Is that it? - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

http://blogoscoped.com/video... - Philipp Lenssen

I use OmniGraffle for this purpose. - Jason Wehmhoener

Could you achieve it by using Firebug and tweaking the CSS? - Shakeel Mahate

So something with the usability of say, omnigraffle, but that only used webkit for its rendering. With text controlled and positioned by actual css so that line spacing etc were correct, although again with a simpler UI than CSS has. - Robin Barooah

Paul - I _just_ came across a site that did exactly that. Unfortunately, Safari's browser history is failing me and I can't find it anymore. Doh! - Patrick Lightbody

Paul, not sure if you're still reading, but are you looking for interaction design changes as well, or just appearance? - Mark Trapp

Did you try "PENCIL" an add-on for Firefox http://www.evolus.vn/Pencil/ - Francois Lamotte

I had never heard of Pencil, but it sure looks a lot like what I think Paul is describing. - Jason Wehmhoener

I use ScrapBook Firefox extension to capture the page as is, and then edit that using Firebug. - Jughead

Paul, I totally got you first time - anyone who thinks it's not a good idea has plainly misunderstood :-) It's the next step up from sketching out your UI on paper, n'est pas? - Slappy Line

Thanks @Francois. Pencil looks quite promising... - Ashwin Bharambe

Firefox Webchunks? Does only the snipping part though. Perhaps an add-on to webchunks that will let us use all those chunks together. - Vamsee

it'd be kind of like pushing edit on a wiki, right. like, firefox would have an edit button then you could visually redo the page - Coleman Foley

There's also Axure RP, something I found a while ago. http://www.google.com/search... - Jauder Ho

Dosen't ASP.Net do that already??? - Roberto Bonini

One quick tip in Photoshop is to turn off anti-aliasing and use your various web fonts (Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, etc.) and use your preferred font size in pixels/points... This will provide you with screen accurate font appearances and sizes. The biggest problem with a "pixel-perfect" browser rendering is that it will never be consistent from browser to browser. They all render ever... more... - Nathan Chase

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"I’m much more curious at how long it’ll take for the tea baggers to start ripping on the new medical marijuana policy, despite the fact that it is exactly what they claim to want (less Fed, more state)." - Patrick Lightbody

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"To Be Nameless, You’re an idiot, plain and simple. I have no problem personally attacking you and your views because, quite frankly, you and they are asinine. And unlike you, I won’t hide behind anonymous post. This is my blog and you’re welcome to contact me directly to discuss this further if you’re afraid to discuss it in public. My email address is patrick at lightbody dot net. While there may be some valid arguments against gay marriage (most of which stem from religious viewpoints), yours are ridiculous. To compare gay marriage to drunk driving is beyond the pale. If people with your intellect were making decisions for the USA for the last 250 years, African Americans would still be slaves and women wouldn’t be able to vote. Laws change and our Constitution was designed with that in mind. I won’t bother to respond to your other questions, except to note that if you had even a shred of intellectual curiosity you would have researched it and have found plenty of sound, logical,..." - Patrick Lightbody

FriendFeed Feedback: Kevin Whalen

The Facebook Friendfeed app is not consistently updating the FB Wall. It has authorization to do so. Is this going to be fixed?

November 8, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Facebook limits applications to 10 updates to your Facebook wall per day. If you're still having issues try visiting http://friendfeed.com/connect and/or remove and reinstall the Facebook application. - Benjamin Golub

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Ahh, I think I am running into the "10 updates to wall per day FB restriction". I just joined FF and was testing this functionality out this morning. So removing/re-installing the FB app (which I tried) won't do anything if I have already passed the "the 10 updates per day" restriction? Thanks for the feedback!! - Kevin Whalen

That's correct. - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin, I might have gone over 10 updates, but is it possible that the last one of the day arrived to FB and a previous one did not? Would it be possible to add a feature to choose which services send to the FB wall and which not to? - Flavio

So do only FF messages post to the FB wall? Or will messages from other services (ex. Twitter) that post to FF also post to the FB wall? - Kevin Whalen

All services go to FB (excepted those from FB itself). That is why I would like to choose: FB already imports Flickr, YouTube, Digg and more, so they are duplicated, while entries from FF or services not supported by FB might stay out as over quota. - Flavio

I didn't see my twitter post on FF show up on my FB wall, but I think that's because I was already over the quota. - Kevin Whalen

I'm now testing regular Facebook updates (no 10-item limit) coming from Twitter through another application, coming finally from FriendFeed updates sent to Twitter. - Rodrigo from IM

@Rodrigo: what application? - Flavio

Right now, TwitterSync, but there are other ones — just make a search for applications using the keyword "Twitter". :) - Rodrigo from IM

@Rodrigo: thanks, but I want my tweets to appear on the wall, not to update the FB status. The original twitter app used to do it but stopped long time ago. - Flavio

Ben - I tried uninstalling the app, but now I can't find the option to reinstall it. Something about not having the right "Pages" whatever that means. - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick: sometimes Facebook gets into a funny state after you uninstall an app where it thinks you still have it installed. Try visiting http://friendfeed.com/connect. - Benjamin Golub

Just can't seem to get FF to post to the FB wall. - Kevin Whalen

The FF tab in FB works great! The wall updates with FF posts are just sporadic. - Kevin Whalen

I'm only getting 1 update a day to my wall. This kinda defeats the point of friendfeed. I put all my settings to allow posting big items automatically, and I've removed and readded friendfeed, but no luck. This sucks. - Sean Straus

My tweets go through friend feed to post onto my facebook wall, and it has been working great, until today when it just stopped. The tweents are on my friend feed but not my fb wall. So i thought it might be the 10 post thing. except i tested it and posted the friend feed, and that DID post to my wall. when i twittered. it appeared on my friend feed but not my fb wall... - Steven Keevil

This is still a problem. Fairly new to Facebook, added the FF app, got a updates from FF to FB, then they stopped. I have given all permissions, etc. I don't believe I'm close to a 10 item limit, I don't see 10 FF updates total for the past week on FB. - Ken Gidley

I just tried the remove FF app/re-add it - I got at least one update that way, I'll see how long I keep getting updates. - Ken Gidley

Facebook shut me down...oh my only 10 updates to my wall? My wall has crumbled....:( - bcultral

And I'm again not seeing any of my FF posts on my Facebook wall. Very frustrating. - Ken Gidley

Is anyone at FF working on this problem? I've tried removing/re-adding the FF app to facebook several times, it doesn't seem to work anymore at all - I never get anything on my wall from FF now. - Ken Gidley

I found this post on Facebook - hopefully the bug fixes helped: http://www.facebook.com/apps... - Ken Gidley

Not working again. It seems to work for a few days and then stops updating the wall altogether. Sigh. - Ken Gidley

Mine gave up the ghost yet again a few weeks ago and stopped posting anything after only posting about 2-3 of more than 10 updates a day. I'm trying the offline access now but have little hope after it never really working over the course of almost a year. - Sean Straus

Robert Scoble

Twitter is down. Oh, what will the SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts do?

August 6 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Come to FF! - Simon Wicks

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Give Friendfeed a shot? - Rubin Sfadj

Hopefully they don't come to FriendFeed :) - Robert J Taylor

Hang out on FF - Roberto Bonini

they will spam friendfeed instead? - Denis

They are so freeeking out. - SolidSmack

I couldn't tweet about it, so I told my wife instead. - Patrick Lightbody

I tried retweeting that. *sigh* - Andy McIlwain

Big ups to the FriendFeed massive! - Josette Torres

Call them to join friendfeed, and make - Madhav Tripathi

Hopefully FF won't get killed by the Tweeters flocking over here. - phil baumann

ok.. here ya go..twitter being down has forced me here. Haven;t tried FF yet so... - cheapsuits

just like ya possibly twiddle their thumbs... - Baba

I suspect the bots will rejoice.... - walidmREALTOR

Let's see where these so-called "social media experts" go to fill the void of Twitter. - Christian

I can't open twitzap.com - ybs

Can FF servers manage such a massive movement? - Samuel Goëta

since bots supply at least 25% of Twitter traffic, should we feel the worst for them right now? - Kevin Norman

write a post about twitter being down as a threat to humanity, may be?:) - Nikos Anagnostou

Twitter down... can't post on Facebook,,. so it's FriendFeed! - carrotmadman6

So your're not responsible for that ? Strange... :-) - Enikao

lay on the floor and spin in circles - SolidSmack

Maybe the SocMedExperts will go back to Plurk since Scoble likes Friendfeed. :) - Jay Gilmore

thank God, now we can get back to work - E.P. Scott

if they are the experts they claim to be then they should be here! - Mark V. Fusco

Facebook seems frakked too. - Gregg Le Blanc

I get tweet trough tweetdeck... - Giorgio

I need serious help with FF. For an idiot like me this isn't so intuitive really. Help section is nice but I need someone to hold my hand ..bleeech. Don't get me wrong I am sorry I was reluctant to try FF before - cheapsuits

I blame Scoble. It's always his fault :-) - Keith Barrett

but how am I going to tell the world I need a cup of tea???? nooooooo - Rachel Clarke

Giorgio - I'm seeing some activity through the Twitter API, too (that's what TweetDeck uses, I believe); not a lot, but some - Robert J Taylor

I thought it was just my connection. ;-) I'm also having problems with Facebook today. - Timothy Federwitz

yeah, it seems the web interface is down but the api is working.. - Giorgio

I think the social media experts are going to spend the next hour talking about Twitter being down - Keith Barrett

Maybe read a book for a change? - Yiorgos Adamopoulos

Scoble's followers where the glue keeping Twitter together! now that he's 'pulled the pin' and released them all, Twitter has fallen down and can't get up. - MikeAmundsen

Seems to me like some sort of an (DDoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook. - Jari Hakkarainen

I'm so lost this morning without my cup-o-Twitter - frank barry

You broke it Bob! All this follow/unfollow madness. - ZuDfunck

They'll comment on it, much like I just did. - Marlin Forbes

Man imagine if this had happened on #followfriday... - Rob Paller

Yiorgas: read a book for a change? I do that anyway, but only about 10/month. need more twitter time to balance it out - Rachel Clarke

Facebook is copying twitter too closely...even to going down at the same time - Robert Littlejohn

Does Twitter have what it takes to be a big player? We've been working with their API on a project and every time there is something out of whack. Anyone else have the same issues? - Chris Nadeau

twitter is really down, I think twitter itself should have a site that tweets when it's down :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik

They will use FF to inform their friend that twitter is down - Didier Girard

They'll use Identi.ca ;) - Nicholas James

No actually the blog: http://status.twitter.com/ ("We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly.") - Patrick Mackaaij

Show up here I'm thinking. :-) - Dion Hinchcliffe

Huge exodus to FF! - akihito

We will start feeding friends and keeping up our identi.ca 's - JuneM

They're probably crying so loud right now that they can't do a thing ;-) - Caio Cesar

What's been the longest twitter outage on record thus far? - Dusty Edenfield

hmm at least they found a solution with a blog :) - Ata İsmet Özçelik

I don't understand why you maintain an account when you have such contempt for Twitter & those who use it. - Liz

they will cry in their soup - Bobby Griffith

holiday - Ronald

Well Robert, where will you go when they all come here? - Tokyo Dan from iPhone

it's back up. made ya look - Kevin Norman

Strangely, search.twitter.com is up. - Marlin Forbes

Tokyo: I already have a private group setup. Sort of like a bomb shelter in case the rats take over. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

i noticed that twitter is down... anyone know how facebook is ssOOO slow 2...???? - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Just noticed it... - k00pa

do not waste time and do their job :D - Roldano

twitter outage and news of the PubSubHubbub feature in Google Reader (http://is.gd/24YvH) make FF look pretty good right now. - Dusty Edenfield

facebook too! i guess i'm going to have to do something like "get a life" which is abhorrent to me... ^_^ - Kayce Maisel

friendfeed is having some issues but for the most part is still up and going :) - (jeff)isageek

find another medium such as friendfeed ;). - rick

Roger, Mr. Scoble! - akihito

@Sebastian they connected somehow... ahhh scary :) - Dani Martínez

good. so not the only one with issues with FB.. wel atleast is FF is going strong.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

what we all are going to do??? =) but if seriously i remember this video on youtube - trouble with twitter: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - obolonskyi

They will all sit in their chair and stare at their monitor! - Gabe Diaz

@Dani, who knows... the might merge or something... explain the strange twitter is pulling fb down 2.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker

Did Scoble bring Twitter and FB down as he unfollowed everyone ? winks -) - Del_

This is still up... even this FF tweet. http://search.twitter.com/search... - Johann Chiang

In the event that twitter goes down I tend to frequent FF more. - © b e e n s w a n k

This is very interesting that it is impacting more than one social network ... can't even speculate what the cause is yet. Not getting much work done today I'm afraid, going to be following these conversations.. - Joe Magennis

I haven't been on twitter for days. I guess I picked the wrong morning to jump back in. - Jeff Stannard

Robert: The most important question>> How many new sign-ups for FF today? - K.N. Ajit Narayan

...and who wins? FF great :) - Dani Martínez

Was just able to post to Facebook but took several tries. Wow. FF FTW! - Tom Guarriello

so!! - abdellah

The smart ones will go to FriendFeed ;) - Helene

The spammers should go to MySpace... - Dennis Bjørn Petersen

Tweeple will come to FriendFeed! - LauraLee Dooley

That's why I joined FF a while back. Then I found all the useful features- and the bonus is having Scoble here to show the way. - Brenda Young

No, the smart ones are ALREADY on FriendFeed :) - Susan Beebe

and? - abdellah

@obolonskyi nice. vid.. ROFL... never seen it before... - Sebastiaan van den Akker

GUILTY ! I have had a FF account for awhile just never used it-- - cheapsuits

What the celebrities like you do. Talk about it on Twitter. - Tad Chef

This actually made me laugh out loud, because I was thinking the same thing! - Dan

This kind of reminds me of a line from Office Space: "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail." - Jari Hakkarainen

haha lets get FF down also :D - Salim Sarımurat

Could this mean that CNBC was right??? Nooooooooooo! - Travis Koger

I was planning to unfollow a bunch of followers due to Twitter's follow limit rule kicking in at the ~#2000 user level. I have to wait with that then... ;) - Martin Lindeskog

FF FTW - Eran Even-Kesef

Is the Twitter bubble bursting? - Travis Tasset

Let's see how well Friendfeed handles this Twitter outage :) - Rene Silva

Re previous comment of mine, 'Nooooooo!' was for CNBC being right, not that twitter is dead. ;) - Travis Koger

life goes on - Eran Even-Kesef

Hey don't tell anyone about this FF thing, its our little secret - Jeff Wiant

Twitter better be back up by the time Rick Sanchez is on CNN this afternoon or he won't know what to talk about ;) - cjcubs

telnet 80 twitter.com ? - Gordon Joly

@gordon wont work - k00pa

FF was down for me for about 10 min just now. - Dusty Edenfield

Blogger's having some trouble as well - Crispin Heath

No address associated with nodename (twitter.com) - Gordon Joly

If friend feed ever gets as popular as twitter were will everyone go to to avoid the popular crowd? - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy

Panic? - Dean Clark

@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro

Panic? Aren't we all used to this already? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

if this is the North Koreans with a coordinated attack I WILL laugh - cheapsuits

@scobleizer I'm seeing issues with twitter and facebook. Social website attack? - Michael Fierro

Robert, please follow back 106,000 and everything will be ok))) joke =) - obolonskyi

I can not play 140mafia!!! This sucks sooooo bad :( - Sam Beckett

Twitter outage is causing issues with both facebook and friendfeed. I guess we know where everyone is going instead of twitter. - April Russo (app103)

facebook? no way :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

Twitter being down is a a relief to me this morning! Now I can stay OFF it rather than fitting it into every 30 second change of task! n - Arleen Anderson

at this rate they will have to start sending out junk mail via the post office again... oh the humanity - Terry Bruce

Let's all chat on Friendfeed - johnpiercy from iPhone

Nothing seems to work, I think it will be the Friend Feed greatest traffic boost ever - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

guys, is it Ddos attack? or smth like that? as I understand twitter is hosting somewhere and this datacenter is down. am i right? - obolonskyi

FriendFeed traffic is rocking now... - Jacob Kobi Gamliel

social media "experts" might need to actually find other work to do. - Luis Sandoval

thanks God, Youtube is working - obolonskyi

More info needed. Where is there an alternate feed to real time news? - SenderOK

seems unlikely I'll do anything productive in the interim - WarLord

Friendfeed is an excellent choice :) - Hunt from BuddyFeed

http://theloopzilla.blogspot.com/2007... - Gordon Joly

Hopefully they will move to FF :) - Martynas

it could be ff provocation - obolonskyi

I feel like we are all stranded on a tropical Island together - Jeff Wiant

was afraid for a moment that out IT blocked all social networks or something horrible like that. Thank god FF came back up quickly. This might have gotten me to use FF more. I often neglect it. - Ryan Cummins

Wondered why tweetdeck wasn't loading anything. actually got some programming work done. lol - Justin Long

friendfeed rules! - Kevin Dolan

twits will move, but only until twitter is back online, then there will be a mass exodus. Remember during all of the 2007/2008 fail whales users still flocked back to it regardless. - Travis Koger

Twitter, Facebook, now Posterous... 4chan organize an attack or something? - Sam Harrelson from IM

Thank goodness FF is still working. :) - 3Cinteractive, L.L.C. from twhirl

http://status.twitter.com/post... - Martin Lindeskog

Friendfeed + Facebook :) - Rafa Lacerda

http://whentwitterisdown.com/ - Josette Torres

From status.twitter.com: "Site is down 1 hour ago. We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly." - Martin Lindeskog

Having issues with Facebook as well as Twitter. Can sign into FB but unable to go to anyones profiles- process just hangs - outofmyarse

chinese attack? :) - Roldano

Touché Robert, Touché - Jeff Woelker from twhirl

"We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly." from Twitter Status - Kurt Jarchow

North Koreans I tell ya.... - cheapsuits

took inordinate amount of time to get into ff today as well - A Zmaj

Hmmm DoS attack...someone wanting a ransom from Twitter? - Mike Gargano

Guess they'll have to either pick up the phone or do some work :) - Graham Bunting

Can someone with 94k followers really mock the the celebs and experts devoid of Twitter? - Augie Ray

Hey, no bogus follow messages in my inbox for a while! ;-) - Julie Barrett from twhirl

This is teaching us something about the framework of the current Internet traffic patterns. We're watching cascade scale problems from one major Internet program going down. - Melanie Reed

Facebook is giving up the ol', "Transport error (#1001) while retrieving data from endpoint `/ajax/inline_comments.php': A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet" message now. - 3Cinteractive, L.L.C. from twhirl

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com - Martin Lindeskog

I think this is bigger than Twitter and FB... I think it's some interweb routes or something. I had a VoIP call going with a party local to me and two across the country and I lost the two across the country, but maintained the local party. And others are commenting on other sites showing signs of outages. - Timothy Federwitz from Alert Thingy

Twitter is Down....panic..run.,,SOS! - Veetrag

Yeah, had all the characteristics of a DDoS attack. What do perpetrators of such attacks get from doing that, I've never understood. - Jari Hakkarainen

What will they do? Use FriendFeed! - Chuck Huckaby

It's official. Twitter's problem is a DoS attack per twitter/status. - Roger Jennings

http://status.twitter.com/ - giuny

shhhh they'll come here - andy brudtkuhl

The real bummer for me is, now I actually have to listen to the radio to get the word of the day! - Travis Owen

is twitter connected with FB or Friendfeed? I am having page errors with both, Ajax issues with FB intermittently , I am no tech geek so I have no clue whats up and come here to learn - lisa coultrup

Maybe Ev's interview on the BBC last night didn't go down well with the Iranians! - Andrew from iPod

Status Blog says "We are defending against a denial-of-service attack." Mmmm... http://status.twitter.com/post... - akihito

Friendfeed it is then. - Aren Grimshaw

Now, It's up! - Martin Sliacky

Posterous isn't working properly either, at least for me. - Steven Melfi

http://status.twitter.com/post... We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. - Zalt Woo

What does DoS mean? - Kimberle Kelly

denial of service - Justin Long

I meant what does denial of service mean? (dumb blonde here sorry) - Kimberle Kelly

If it's true..or is it propaganda? - Alex Schleber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Zalt Woo

It's down, again. - Martin Sliacky

Tracing route to twitter.com [168.143.162.100] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 172.16.1.1 2 25 ms 29 ms 28 ms lo1.br57.fra.de.hansenet.net [213.191.64.45] 3 24 ms 24 ms 23 ms ae1-252.prju01.fra.de.hansenet.net [62.109.64.13 7] 4 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms fra32-hansenet-3.fra.seabone.net [89.221.34.61] 5 120 ms 119 ms 195 ms ash1-new50-racc1.ash.seabone.net [195.22.206.2] 6 125 ms... more... - Zalt Woo

Thank you :o) - Kimberle Kelly

Ev coming onto the BBC last night and saying that they were asked by the US Goverment to keep Twitter up and running during the Iranian protests cannot have gone down well in Tehran! - Andrew from iPod

DoS on large portions of the internet. Is this 4Chan... Chinese... N. Korea... durkadurkastan... - Ryan Cummins

now having trouble getting to Friendfeed - Justin Long

look, few days ago Clinton back home with two imprisoned american journalists from North Korea and today Korea is attacking twitter? it is revenge))) - obolonskyi

maybe Robert's great unFollowing crashed the servers... no loss! Go FF - Jay Shapiro from BuddyFeed

some government is DDOS'ing the real-time internet to cover up something :-) http://leeprovoost.posterous.com/the-twi... - Lee Provoost

hmmm - abdellah

As I said, I predict a baby-boom in 9 months... wait and see! - Jordi Soler

SEO Experts can analyze their charts, celebrities and wannabe's can entertain us with video (maybe some cool Twitter Whore like stuff) , and social media experts can quickly become Fail Whale Experts. - Michele Lorito-Chase

@Lee Provost don't you thing you're going to be a little apocaliptic ? :-) - Filippo Ronco

Twitter downing has to be a lesson for all of us. if sometimes gmail or even google will be down. what we all are going to do in that situation??? - obolonskyi

@Filippo i've been suprised many times that reality is often more wacked up than the conspiracy theories of geeks :-p - Lee Provoost

I'm hoping the social media experts go away and do something useful. - Parvez Halim

@Lee this is true too :-) - Filippo Ronco

@Jordi LOL, considering that there are a vast amount of single male computer geeks out there in the twitter community, baby boom effect might be negligible :-D - Lee Provoost

what is bad here? here doesnt exist reply button =( - obolonskyi

@Lee single male computer geeks - LOL)) - obolonskyi

The realtime updates of the comments is great. FF rulez. Would be better though to have the comment link not on top - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

Go back to MySpace? - Juliana

Maybe some will switch to FF if twitter is down for a while - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

The twitter bots are rebelling - Charles

@Flynn, go check out this Greasemonkey script, solves it: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Alex Schleber

Come here and moan about it! - Kami Huyse

Read post on 100k unfollow - I love how people are commenting and blaming Twitter being down on that! lol - Helene

@AlexSchleber: thanks, great :) - Flynn (Michael A. Volz)

AAANND.. it's back. At least for a moment I guess.. - Alex Schleber

AAANND it's GONE! ..Again. At least I managed to send out a quick FriendFeed SOS, as in: "Still think you shouldn't have all of your favorite tweeps in a "backup system" on FriendFeed? Join here: www.friendfeed.com/alexschleber " - Alex Schleber

Either collapse or back to use their phones in voice only mode, do some shopping, get eye to eye contact ... Blame god, and then. Give a serious try on FF ;p - Marco ILLESCAS from iPhone

They will still be able to Tweet to themselves - not sure if they will realize it is down until it comes back up. - Phil Harrison

I hope everyone will be ok...lol - April Mendez

Hey, can I hang out here on FF while my Twitter is down :) - Kevin Krewell

Welcome to FF Kevin! You can tweet from here too! - Arleen Anderson

Thanks Arleen. I hear all the kool kids hang out here now - like Scoble and you! - Kevin Krewell

I'm glad I joined FF yesterday, great timing! - CodeSamurai

I also micro-blog or create my own Twitter, but in more than 140 characters. - polou/indigo_bow

FF and Tumblr are working fine! :-) - Tim Moore

A good FF day- new familiar faces on this thread. - E-Advocate Network

What will the blackhat SEO experts, the SM spammers, and the social media experts do during a widespread outage? The answer is obvious: While sitting out the crisis they're fine-tuning their methodology. Seriously, your question offends me. There's a gazillion of SEO experts out there who do not abuse social media. - Sebastian

Sebastian there can't be a gazillion SEO experts! What's 10,000 keywords times 20?? (and that's being generous!) - Arleen Anderson

Would a social media expert consider it to be a crisis? If they rely so heavily on just one or two tools that it's enough to throw them into a tizzy, their expert status would seem to me to be ... questionable, at best. - Gord McLeod

Agreed. - Greg

Arleen, 10,000 keyword phrases times 20 is a tiny fraction of the search terms that are worth optimizing for. Think of the long tail. Also, consider lots of webmasters and even publishers / site owners / bloggers / Web developers ... SEO experts who are able to optimize their stuff quite successfully but don't sell or publish their expertise. Many of them, and even many SEO consultants, do make sensible use of social media, as plain users. - Sebastian

Gord, in a social media spammer's book 2 hours of outage, IOW 2 hours w/o sales from sneakily distributed links to questionable sales pitches, can sum up to way more than a good day's beer money. ;) However, "crisis" might be a term too strong for this potential loss. - Sebastian

+1 Sebastian - Bill Sodeman

I'm hung up on hop 12! - bev

I love FF! - John Giglio

come to Friend Feed? Not - Rob Cairns

You must be dying of laughter now Robert! - Arleen Anderson

Arleen: yes, reading this is fun. Sebastien SEO types are so easy to wind up. ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Gotta love it... @RobCairns says "come to Friend Feed? Not" and then his page shows ONE POST from Twitter in the past 18 hours! And that one talks about how Twitter seems to be slowing down again! (Sorry Rob, but that's just too good to let pass!) - Mark "DerBingle" J

Robert, admit it, you broke Twitter by massively unfollowing people. The DDoS attack reports have just been a ruse to cover up the fact that you were the backbone of Twitter all this time. - Louis Trapani

Louis: that is true. I pissed the bots off. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Keep running into the wall a few times then find alternate outlets such as ff, linkedIn, etc... - Kirsten Mitchell from iPhone

Looks like the devious plan to move everyone to FF is working well. LOL :) - Geer

Ha! The whole Facebook Twitter slowdown may have been just people clicking on spam (not a DDoS botnet). How funny! Manual DDoS. See Bill Woodcock's theory at CNet, AP, SF Gate, and The Register http://ff.im/6gLmO - Mitchell Tsai

There you go again implying the only ones that use twitter is SEO experts, the celebrities, the spammers, the bots, and the social media experts - This is definitely SPIN. Perhaps you should join CNN also LOL - RetiredTeacherD

Ironic, given your status as a celebrity social media expert who constantly spams about bots... :-P - David Kettler

Now they'll have time to shower and do their laundry! - Ron Hagenhoff

Robert Scoble

Life keeps getting weird: tomorrow night we're meeting with Obama's CTO. What should we ask him?

August 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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Chief Technology Officer of the United States, Aneesh Chopra - Robert Scoble

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Standardization. - W. Kirk Crawford

do you use friendfeed yet? - Rob Sellen :o)

Does he have a job for me? ;) No, I'll think of something more appropriate in a few - Melanie Reed

He's supposed to be on Buzz Out Loud too. - Kevin Arth

Will we have a broadband (or whatever) plan for rural areas something akin to Rural Electrification? Have fun! - Ayşe E.

"Will we have a broadband (or whatever) plan for rural areas something akin to Rural Electrification? Have fun!" - Ayşe E. Spot on!! Yes, ask this one, Robert! Thanks, Ayşe E! - Melanie Reed

Ask whether the new IT project dashboard will have a material impact reducing project failures and cost overruns. Transparency alone won't do it, since the GAO has been cataloging failures for years. - Michael Krigsman

Is he making sure that obama can tweet from airforce one :) - Ruchit Garg

Rural broadband is a good one. - Luke Kilpatrick

+1 for rural broadand. - ashish

what are some of his plans in regarding IT within the healtcare system, patient records, devices, communication tools, etc - Shai Goldman

@Melanie :) - Ayşe E.

Melanie: I wonder when AT&T will have 3G in Silicon Valley that works. - Robert Scoble

More APIs for getting at government data. When and can we vote on which? - Aaron Brethorst

Robert: shouldn't that be a question to AT&T's CTO? - Luke Kilpatrick

Ach! Robert, If ye be gettin' the missing talent out of the rurals, ye might get the inventor stuck out here who will make it work for ye. Scots are great engineers of a tradition....and they need the country life as inspiration. ;) - Melanie Reed

Standardize "open" for docs..e.g.USDA FNS reserves right to materials I produce but then collects them as PDF files. Useless to others. - MI Nutrition Network

Where's all the NOW interaction we heard about? Am I missing something? - Tom Guarriello

Ask him how he will stop IT employees moving to other industries (like they do every downturn) and decreasing the talent pool available when the economy recovers - Robert Littlejohn

Why does he not have the White House on Politics4All.com? With 40 different political parties in over 30 different countries represented it would be a great place to keep in touch with the politically minded. - Thomas Cook

There is no such thing as the CTO of the United States. And all you people asking about trains-run-on-time totalitarian goodies and MITI-style industrial policy should be ashamed of yourselves. - Rob Sterling

Rural Broadband +1 ... Have heard the VA hospital system has one of the best IT, electronic records systems in the country, if true, why reinvent the wheel, just standardize/update? - PXLated

Of course, I have no idea what the CTO of the USA is really in charge of :-) - PXLated

Suggest he should host a virtual and/or regional Federal Gov't Bar Camp and/or Unconference on Social Media with practitioners (as opposed to consultants who are learning SM on the Gov't's dime) who are already attempting to break open the SM space inside Executive Branch. With broad participation from Senior Executive Service, GS-10s through GS-15s along with contractors like me. SM... more... - Dutch Driver

What's the admin's stance on net neutrality? - Eileen Spiegler - Eileen Spiegler

When is the government going to offer a cloud computing platform? - Tal Broda

Ask him why most govt. employees are forced to use IE, only recently upgraded to IE6, and are not allowed to download anything. - Laura Norvig

What are his top three agenda items and what makes these things important and difficult? - Michael Krigsman

Robert - I'd ask about what they are doing to better deal with "21st century government", which requires running websites just as well as Facebook or LinkedIn can. The Cash4Clunkers website crashed, which effectively means a $1B business wasn't put through even basic load testing. More thoughts on my blog: http://blog.browsermob.com/2009... - Patrick Lightbody

Yeah, like Dutch Driver said! - Tom Guarriello

Luke: of course that question is for AT&T's CTO. He has no clue, though (I asked him before the 3G came out and he thought their system was ready. So, I figure I'd just throw that out there. Heheh. Laura: great question. Governments move so freaking slow. - Robert Scoble

Please ask if his administration will push for open Internet. Beg them to bring the web to Americans less fortunate than us anyways they can think of. - Kemp Edmonds from iPhone

Agreed,Laura: good question. - Melanie Reed

Tal, I think they are on their way to doing that. Article just a day ago - Melanie Reed

My Question: what steps will you take to minimize redundancies, streamline efficiencies and avoid conflicts between you as the White House CTO and the CTOs working in/across various government agencies? - Christian

what is being done (budget, projects, staff) to get gov't data on the web and searchable/mashable? if additional legislation is needed for this, what needs to happen there? if no leg, just presidential directives what is needed to get that done? if projects are in the works now, name them, get progress reports, and timelines. if this stuff is stalled somewhere in the congress who do we badger to get things going? - MikeAmundsen

My question, seriously: What ever happened to bills being online 72 hours before a vote for the public to read? They are ramming so many bills through so fast, and they have completely forgotten that promise. I want to know what became of a new era of government transparency. - Sam Guzman

I'd tell him that if he's not capturing this stream he's a real moron. - Tom Guarriello

Tom: the reason I asked people to do this on FriendFeed is so I could easily email it to him, and/or show it to him on my iPhone. - Robert Scoble

Thank you, Robert!! - Melanie Reed

Then you won't need ask what I said ;o) they will be like.. can you sort that out for us! ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

@scobleizer - It would be cool to show this to him... good stuff. - Robert Freeze

Second Question: According to your job description, the Chief Technology Officer will oversee the development of a national, interoperable wireless network for local, state and federal first responders as the 9/11 commission recommended. What are the steps you need to take to realize this critical directive, and how soon do you foresee this being implemented? - Christian

There is a part of me that would want to ask him how difficult it is to be the CTO and promote technology when government workers can't even use firefox - Kim Landwehr

What is his charter, what can he do, what is he working on, what has he achieved so far? - Alan Gray

I second asking questions about standardization and increased internet access (including plans to expand broadband and muni-WiFi). - Katie Bishop

Robert: I was being facetious! The responses are so rich. Of course YOU would be capturing it; you asked the question, after all. - Tom Guarriello

Ask him when he is going to do his second tweet. He did his first one over 100 days ago. (https://twitter.com/aneeshc...) I'm going to the Churchill Club event tomorrow to hear him. I hope he has something interesting to say. Some people are saying that he may have been hired for his presentation skills more than anything else. - Michael Leonard

For god sakes, do not ask him about his birth certificate! - Lucas

Have we moved past Lichtenstein or whatever tiny country that we were behind in terms of broadband internet access yet? And how are we getting there? - mrpotter

Ask him why he's not a czar...yet. - Ed Sweeney

Thanks for asking for questions Robert! Rural Broadband has been asked about, but I'd like to see if there's any way to lean some of that access onto some of the rural community radio stations that spread the word to folks with dial-up access and none at all. - John Button

Ask him how the Billions of ARRA funding for Smart Grid are going to reduce energy consumption and save the consumer money on their energy bills? Are we going to see a bigger push for real time pricing driven by the Feds? - Tony Vota from iPod

I say, ask him about what is being done to allow government entities to share data amongst them in a clear and accurate way. Is the US worried about digital terrorism? If so, what are we currently doing to protect our most valuable assets? If I think of more I'll post them later. - guribe

1) Why is the website redesign of Recovery.gov costing the tax payers $18 million? - Shaun Hess

Shaun, probably the old 'the bigger the client, the bigger the bill'. - Travis Koger from iPhone

I second Shaun's question... thou would state it as $9million up front, with up to $18 million total after options (which everyone knows they are going to do...) - Philip Evans

When and how are medical records going to be digitally available in all instances and is this part of the health care initiative with any specific plans for implementation? - Tom Bunzel

Will there be an open standard for Medical records/EHR, similar to clinical trials data like CFR Part 11? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Ask him why it takes $18 million to create one website. I'll do it for a tenth of that. http://bit.ly/rFJ9o - Mike Shields

Ask him how far he's willing to go to move the government to digitize its myriad array of forms and move away from printouts for everything. Ask him what he's going to do to standardize the technology options between agencies. Ask him how "buckets of money" methodology is affecting the employees they serve. Ask him if he's willing to offer exit packages to those whose technological... more... - EricaJoy

Patrick Lightbody

We Americans (and the news media we readily consume) are idiots. Is the top story REALLY that Obama said "acted stupidly"?

July 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Not being in the US, I don't get the point. Please enlighten! - Mark Ferguson

This: http://www.cnn.com/2009... - Patrick Lightbody

Benjamin Golub to Benjamin's feed, Dog Lovers, Tim Costantino, Michelle Vo, Megen Vo

Toby and Loki, separated at birth?

July 19 - Comment - Like - Share

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We call this maneuver "frog dog" - Benjamin Golub

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One of my dogs does that every now and then - Herb Hernandez

Gaston did that, too. Is Toby a westie? - Marci Golub

Yes. - Benjamin Golub from email

My dog, Chewy, (a Shih-Tzu) does the frog dog too. I think it might be a little dog thing. - Patrick Lightbody

One of my large dogs does this a lot! We just call him frog legs when he's doing it. So cute! ❤ - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I think this is Toby's favorite position, especially after a hard day of walking to the local Starbucks. - Tim Costantino

Bret Taylor

Supreme Court reviewing Oregon and Louisiana policies to not require unanimous verdicts - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

July 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Oregon is one of only two states that does not require juries to reach unanimous verdicts in criminal cases. Like Louisiana, it allows convictions by a vote of 10-to-2. In a pair of decisions in 1972, the Supreme Court said that was all right, that the Constitution does not require states to insist on unanimity. But the decisions, one each from Oregon and Louisiana, were badly fractured and internally inconsistent. They discounted the historical record and made assumptions about jury behavior that have been called into question by more recent research." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Poor headline. The Court hasn't decided to review this case. Until and unless it does this is just another guy with hope and prominent amici. I hope they do grant cert though - would be neat discussion. - Daniel Dulitz from iPhone

@Daniel - I'm definitely hoping they agree to review these cases. This is something that I'd like to see consistent in the justice system from state to state. - Jennifer Dittrich

I live in Oregon and didn't even know that was how our system worked. You learn something new every day! - Patrick Lightbody

Oregon has many strange features ;-) - Brian Ahier

Patrick Lightbody

Indiana soldier to auction rare piece of history - http://news.yahoo.com/s...

June 15 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Very cool of the auction house to waive their 20% fee. - Patrick Lightbody from Bookmarklet

Paul Buchheit

Have you added the FriendFeed widget to your blog yet? If not, why not? http://friendfeed.com/embed

August 28, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Because I'm not my own host and WP doesn't support it :( - Mona Nomura

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if we could embed our entire friendfeed page onto our site & have one click signup for non-friendfeed members. That would be superb. - Zee.

Paul - because WordPress templates frighten me. - Patrick Lightbody

Paul - did you fix the word wrap issue for comments? e.g. on my blog comments cascade across the column into the right margin - http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/reef-ta... not a big deal at all. just wondering. great work on the beta btw. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

you know what Paul - ignore what I said....apart from letting people sign up directly via the widget. Then my friends/family who aren't on friendfeed can comment directly plus you get a whole bunch of new 'non-techy' members. - Zee.

What Mona said. I suggested to WP that they add FriendFeed to the "trusted javascript list"; they responded promptly saying that they would add it to their "candidate library". - Neil Saunders

DITTO what Mona said .... - johnpiercy

Does WP allow iframes? - Paul Buchheit

I tried a couple of times to get it to work, but even with setting the width, the comments still sprawled outside the border of the widget and looked ugly. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Still using the original script on the front page, but did add 'Share on FriendFeed' to the Blogger post template today. Awesome. - MLx

I created my own widget using feedburner's RSS setup and some CSS code, so as I can get my entire lifestream, as set up on FF, to show up. Since I'm a crappy web designer, I may end up using the FF widget, after all... :/ Can we also use Yahoo Pipes on the Widget? I'm thinking of using Rasheen's duplicate removal setup, once he gets it to work... - Helen Sventitsky

i haven't because i'm trying to figure out where to put it on my blog. - Morgan

Not sure Paul. I'm using Chris Pirillo's Social Media theme. Not a WP guru myself. Willing to test though. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

FYI: Adding the widgets (other than the "Share on FriendFeed" link) to self-hosted WordPress requires zero knowledge of WordPress templates. You login to WordPress, click on "Design", then "Widgets", and add a "text" widget and paste in the code. - Benjamin Golub

No because my blog sidebar is too narrow and changing the widget width cuts the text off mid-line. May redesign my blog one day when I'm bored. - Deborah Fitchett

I did, before Godaddy lost the location of my blog they host and I can't get it back :( - Johnny Worthington

I had it on my old site design, just added it to my latest. Thanks for the reminder. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I just did the other day when someone posted the link here on FF. It rocks, thx. - Victoria Plautia

Yes - to http://www.ad2025andbeyond.com - with summary feed from 3 friendfeed rooms I can easily share links to. - Justin Long

I'll check it out after work! Thanks! - Ron

can you remove the border from the widget? And is there a way to make the background of the widget transparent? - Zee.

I did it. I would like some CSS options right in the widget editor--colors, fonts, etc. :D - Josh

how Josh? - Zee.

remove the border: .friendfeed.widget { border: 0 !important; } - Benjamin Golub

No JS http://faq.wordpress.com/2007... and no iframes http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic... on WordPress.com Sadly no flash embedding support either unless WP.com adds support for a site: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006... - EricaJoy

I have, well, not my blog, but my "main page": http://www.xs4all.nl/~pkleiw... - Peter

I have had it on my blog for ages and it is great see http://www.loiclemeur.com - Loic Le Meur

awesome, thank you Benjamin. No way to make the background transparent is there? Or is that not poss? - Zee.

To answer the question, yes I do, but I haven't switched to the new one. :) - EricaJoy

Zee: try .friendfeed.widget { background-color: transparent !important; }. Anything's possible :) - Benjamin Golub

Last time I tried to fit it in a 160px sidebar I couldn't make it look good. Is it time to retry? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I like the old one better :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF

hell, yeah! both on the main page and a dedicated page :) http://www.c4chaos.com/hyperst... - ~C4Chaos

dang, no luck - thanks all the same Ben - Zee.

I didn't like what it looked like. - Andrew Leyden

For some help, see http://friendfeed.com/e... - Peter

I just added mine to http://www.virtualbirdseye.com - don't know if I like it or not... We'll see how I can fit it in better. - Virtual Bird's Eye from twhirl

Used it as an experiment in the 'blog that posted itself' recently. Great. Now I'd like to use it in sidebar as widget. Can't change text size tho'. Too big. - Kate Foy

Ditto Loic - but switched to the newer wider one. Would love to be able to do like 7 or 8 in instead of 5 OR 10. Try to keep the stream clean there for others. Think 7 would be perfect but one size doesn't fit all :) - Charlie Anzman

you can do different numbers, just change the num= variable. I use num=12 - Justin Long

@Peter thank you! - Zee.

I don't feel like my friendfeed content meshes very well with my blog. I enjoy friendfeed quite a bit, but I don't really feel the need to try to get more people to look at my friendfeed. I did try it a couple months ago before it was really public, when I noticed it on your blog, Paul. I do use the friendfeed comment plugin. Maybe I will add a share on friendfeed button. - Robert Felty

Yup,http://scabr.com/ - Igor Poltavskiy

Nope - hosted wordpress.com doesn't allow widgets - Hutch Carpenter

Absolutely, I've had the widget on the blog for about a month. KnowtheNetwork.com - Keith - @tsudo

nope, because I made my own version ;) - Pascal

I did install it but I don't really like its size. I'd like something narrower and with a smaller font. I don't know if this is something I can fix with CSS magic, but that's not my thing. - Robert Konigsberg

From my point of view: How exactly would it help the readers of Blogoscoped? What's the problem it would solve? Not everything I say on Friendfeed is relevant to the content of Blogoscoped. Now, give me a widget that I can customize to make it be relevant just to a single specific blog post and I will give it a try perhaps... an RSS feed for "comments on URL xyz" (where I can make xyz be a Blogoscoped permalink of a new post) would be interesting :) - Philipp Lenssen

+1 to Philipp. The only widget I have on my blog is delicious tags, and I'm not even sure that's useful to my readers. - Amit Patel

It works perfectly! scott-paterson.com - Scott Paterson

It works great!!... mcirilo.com - Aaron Cirilo

I've been using Evan's widget but it seems to have stopped updating... (see http://www.cosmictap.com) - Anthony Citrano

Word wrap issue for comments. Will that be fixed? - Dennis Metzcher

thanks @Benjamin Golub for the removing of the border code. worked great. - Thom Allen

I would use it if only for one thing: the word wrap issue with comments. - Ryan Stanley

Just added it to www.woodysworld.tv under What's the Word. Carries my Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and Pandora. Customized CSS. I'll be changing title to "My Friend Feed" - Jim W

When will the fact that the comments do not wrap when using the widget on my site be corrected? Please update us. :) - Dennis Metzcher

Dennis: that is by design so that long comments don't cause the widget to be super long in narrow places. You can make comments wrap with this CSS: .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment { white-space: normal !important; } - Benjamin Golub

Yes, but I just moved it to the sidebar (it was on the bottom, because the comments weren't wrapping). I am not fond of the background color, and I don't know what to do with the CSS. http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

when i use the css to wrap comments, at the beginning of each line of the comment there displays a different 'comment' symbol. very weird. - Patrickometry

I've just learnt of this today and already adapted it to my Google Blogger, but I find I can't embed it on wordpress.com blog. Pity. It's something that would greatly add to blogs. - George Hall (Australia)

Hi George: you should be able to embed the image versions of our widgets on your wordpress.com blog. Just pick "Image" as the format. - Benjamin Golub from email

Building43 is going to go even further than a simple embed. More later. - Robert Scoble

I'm in the middle of developing my personal site but here is my embedded widget - I customized a bunch of the CSS as well - http://mikebracco.com/aggrega... - Mike Bracco

I've added Friendfeed widgets to the About pages of coverbrowser.com and sketchory.com ... it's displaying feedback in regards to the site. - Philipp Lenssen

"Why not?" Good Question. No blog is The Answer. - ianf ⌘

See Real Time Blogging with FF -> http://getanewbrowser.com/2009... - andy brudtkuhl

I would like my Friendfeed page to sit in place of my blog on my website, but none of the widget styles are close enough for that (and iframing my Friendfeed page is a little much). - Glen Murphy

This is back? I have my FF profile on the blog. An embedded widget would likely take up too much space. - Louis Gray

I wanted but simplicity matters, so took it back. - Burcu Dogan

Not sure. But I have helped others embed (example http://bebepool.com/arthur ) their own feed into one of my online services (http://bebepool.com - which, over the past 3 months, had 4% of new pool accounts try to use the ff embed feature. The success rate of signing up for ff then plugging in the new user account into their bebepool settings and also not marking their account Private... more... - Micah Wittman

The widget pretty much *is* my homepage: http://thomas.wittek.me/ - Thomas

@Thomas very cool homepage - Peter

Yep, for ages now. - Kate Foy

because it's style is not letting to change, My blog is not blue :) - Okeane

Patrick Lightbody

Trouble Ahead For Blip.fm? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

May 15 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

I have faith Blip can pull through. The guys over there are awesome! - Patrick Lightbody

Robert Scoble

OK, I'm sold on Tweetie for Mac. Not sure I'll stop using TweetDeck, though, but very nice! Get it: http://www.atebits.com/tweetie...

April 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Looking forward to giving it a go when I get home to my Macbook. - Martin Bryant

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I'm liking seesmic desktop for the multiple accounts feature - Adrian

Tweetie also supports multiple accounts. - Martin Bryant

Tweetdeck used to be my favorite client, but lately they have just added features at the expense of stability and usability. It came to a point I could no longer use it, and I am 0.01% as prolific twiterrer as you. Can't imagine how you can use it at all! Tweetie still has some growing up to do, but this is a stellar 1.0 release! - Juan Pons

Yeah, it's great. AIR apps and I don't get along, but this rocks. Sold. - Chris Baskind

From the features it seems like it has a notably larger resource footprint than Twitterific? - Parth Awasthi

The "repost" functionality doesn't use the familiar RT syntax known from Tweetdeck. Little confusing. I also don't really fancy the separate "pop-up" window to type a new message. Better have the textarea slide out of somewhere. - Meryn Stol

I'm only using tweetie on my mac and tweetgrid.com on my pc, tweetie is fast and simple. Once you learn the keyboard shortcuts it will increase your tweet speed :) - Wayne Sutton

did you try out www.nambu.com? they have a free Mac client for twitter. In beta but works ok. some crashes on my MBP. - Davide D'Incau

I'm liking Tweetie for Mac already. I'm finding it useful for managing the accounts I control that aren't my main account, because it's so easy to flick between them. For my main account, I unsurprisingly use Twitterfall. - Jalada

u reckon? what do you like so much about it Robert? For the mac, i personally recommend nambu or eventbox - Zee.

Also, Meryn: I believe @atebits has a thing against 'RT' because it's not any form of 'official' syntax, and via is more human-readable. I think he's fighting a losing battle though because of the increase in characters used. - Jalada

I don't like that there are no popup notifications, or keeping searches in the sidebar like Seesmic desktop. Seesmic has come the closest so far to looking Mac like in AIR (but it's still a bit far off of course) - Richard Goodwin from twhirl

Eventbox Twittet support is not great. Ignore all memory-bloated Air crap. This leaves Tweetie and Nambu-try them both,they are v different - Bob Walder from BuddyFeed

It does rock indeed.. with a lot of possible workflow options. But the Seesmic is getting close as well for me though.. - Jaap Willem

Anxious to get home to the Mac and give Tweetie a shot. After using Seesmic for a while I wasn't as excited about it as I was initially. It's going to be a TweetDeck vs. Tweetie battle. - John Spyers

I'm missing Growl integration, but that might come. - Rutger Blom

Tweetie is not going to win any battle without groups - Zee.

Zee - exactly - TweetDeck is king due to Groups - Susan Beebe

Someone added a Tweetie hack to add Growl support: grrrrreat! http://niw.at/article... - Peter van Teeseling

I removed TweetDeck from my dock and replaced it with Tweetie. - Louis Gray

Yes, what about groups? I don't see how it can be the best without groups. Explain how it can be please. - Amani

I've been using Tweetie since it's release and haven't opened TweetDeck... still trying to figure out why - Bwana ☠

I like Tweetie because it ISN'T adobe AIR. I run Mac Native Apps whenever I can.. (posted from Camino) :p - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

i'm with Zee, Susan and the others...where are the group abilities? i much prefer the tweetie interface, but w/o groups i still find myself going back to tweetdeck... - Jeffrey Marsh

Nambu: Like TweetDeck but OS X native. Also has FriendFeed support (but locked in the Beta). Nambu for iPhone has FriendFeed and Twitter support. I use Tweetie and BuddyFeed on the iPhone since BuddyFeed supports friend lists. - Paul Reynolds

Tweetdeck just started driving me nuts, but I didn't realize it until I started using Tweetie. TD is just too intense to be a part of a normal workflow (ie: contributing to society) lacking the necessary UI patterns to filter and condition information. - Brad Kligerman

Although it's still only in beta, I thought that http://bit.ly/Bj0dC looked very interesting - Peter Guillam

peter: twiggler looks real solid, like the search functionality a lot - Matt McCarty from twhirl

I've switched from Tweetdeck to Seesimic Desktop, couldn't get Mac Tweetie to work very well for me. - Chris Pugh

+100 for Nambu. - EricaJoy

I like Tweetie on Mac as it's fast, but I don't like the fact it doesn't support groups or saved searches. These are essential for me. On iPhone I prefer TwitterFon. On the Mac at the moment I mainly use Nambu, due to the above features, however it's not as stable or quick and smooth as Tweetie. It strikes me, having read some of the atebits forums and blog posts, that the author has a... more... - John Collis

Prefer Nambu, desktop and iPhone - John C Wesley Barker from Nambu

Tweetstack for the iPhone is worth a look. You can group your stacks from Tweetdeck. - Janet Fouts

what is your twitter iPhone app of choice? - MoRiza

Before you dive in to Tweetie, have you tried Nambu? I'm using both b/c their multi-account support is weak but I prefer Tweetie - Patrick Lightbody

Should also note that Tweetie uses up WAY more API calls due to how the UI is built. Nambu is much more efficient 4 power users - Patrick Lightbody

Tried it and Nambu but now I'm waffling between Seesmic and Tweetdeck. see http://janetfouts.com/twitter... - Janet Fouts

I have been primarily using Tweetie on my Mac. I also use the iPhone client. I have tried all of the others (seesmic, destroy twitter, lounge, tweetdeck) but keep coming back to Tweetie! - Jason

I just wish Windows could get a native Twitter app as good as Tweetie. I just don't like Adobe Air apps. Tried blu for Win but it is lacking in some areas and a memory hug as big as Air apps. - Manuel Mas

Tried all the clients on OS X and Nambu is my fave. Same for iPhone. - Ryan Miller from Nambu

Gotta give Nambu a try too...but TweetDeck still rocks as of now - Thomas Chai

John Gannon

Haut Tec » SaaS: More FUD on Multitenancy - http://blog.sciodev.com/2009...

April 30 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Nice find John - really good, well thought out writeup! - Patrick Lightbody

Paul Buchheit

The new iPhone gmail interface is buggy and very slow. The 'plain html' ui is still better - https://mail.google.com/mail...

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It looks nice, but I think the iPhone browser may not be ready for this amount of JS, offline support, etc. Having to wait 30 sec for everything then getting an error half the time is not a great experience. Also, why doesn't the iPhone rotate sceenshots properly? - Paul Buchheit

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Yeah, the Gmail support in Android is great -- it's my favorite part of the phone. - Paul Buchheit

Paul - the 30 second wait might be just Gmail. It's been getting slower and slower for me over the last few months :( - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick, try the html version, it's still very fast and works fine, even while the iPhone ui is super-slow and giving me errors: https://mail.google.com/mail... - Paul Buchheit

Paul - thanks for the reminder about the HTML version. I'll have to check it out when my desktop rich UI experience is acting up so I can see if the slowness is still present (I imagine it would be). Have you been seeing general Gmail performance problems in the last few months? A quick search on Twitter suggests I'm not alone. - Patrick Lightbody

Paul, I've never got an error in the new UI. A little slow, but the features are worth the wait IMHO. It's just loaded in 12 seconds. - Jérôme Flipo

Hmm, it's been working fast for me, and I'm a heavy user. Odd. - Daniel Dulitz

The new Gmail in browser on the G1 is also very slow and sometimes painful to use :( - Jennie Lin

I've had no issues with it. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Gotta disagree. The "floaty bar" feature alone makes it worthwhile for me. - Matt Cutts

The new UI is faster than the old one for me. Have you restarted your iPhone or cleared its cache recently? - Paul Wilcox

Perhaps it requires an empty inbox or something. I just timed it -- 18 seconds just to load the ui, and 34 seconds total before I actually saw my updated inbox (first it loaded js + old email, then it goes and looks for new). The html ui loads everything in about 5 seconds (and the Android native app loads in about a sec and already has my latest email). - Paul Buchheit

I had 80 emails in my inbox and when i went to Gmail on my Android in the browser it was slow as hell and the bar just didn't help things. They need to improve the native Gmail interface in Android, but I don't think the iphone/android browser gmail version is good when your inbox is full. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

I've noticed it takes a long time if there are a lot of changes to the inbox. EG: I archived everything from inbox on my laptop, then refreshed in the iPhone and it took an extra long time to show me "no new messages". (on wifi) - Ryan Stanley

I have ~100 messages in my inbox and it's fast. Hmm, I wonder if this is related to the "Google Maps is very slow" issue. I do have that... - Daniel Dulitz

Ryo, The actual Gmail App on the Android is fast as hell, but accessing Gmail through the android browser is not. - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

The New Gmail app on Android 1.5 is so.... much better than ever before, also the web interface is fast too with chrome, but I dont care for the floaty bar, am I the only one? - Kyle Weller

Robert Scoble

After reading this article I've decided that 79% of TechCrunch readers really don't know what they are talking about. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

April 13 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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TechCrunch's comments are suffering under the "Digg Syndrome." Lots of heat and fury but not much in terms of real understanding. There are some, there, though, that get this stuff at a deep level but you have to dig through a bunch of crap. The real money is coming and even Facebook hasn't nailed it yet. See http://scobleizer.com for my post about business and social networking. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

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lol 79% eh - Zee.

i'm 96% sure you made that percentage up - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

noise without filters :) - Frankie Warren

I like your accurate calculation there, Robert. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

I haven't read TechCrunch comments in months because of their decline - BCK

New marketing slogan for FriendFeed - 79% less crap compared to TechCrunch commenters. - Mike Doeff

AJ is 99.999999% right. - Robert Scoble

I prefer Mashable and especially ReadWriteWeb. - Kol Tregaskes

it's probably the commenters that don't know what they are talking about :) - Shane Grant

the first paragraph tell a lot about the nature of the rest "FriendFeed is actually a lot closer to Facebook these days. You know, that service that 200 million plus people use. They’re doing a lot of similar things — only FriendFeed is doing them better" - abdellah

why is everyone so impressed with the %? It's only to one significant figure, and has no standard error of the mean calculated. - Matthew DeVries

Jason: MG knows very well. - Robert Scoble

The real money is coming and even Facebook hasn't nailed it yet. - Robert Scoble

they say 90% of everything is crap Robert. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Robert, of course! The TechCrunch staff doesn't really know what they are talking about either. Consider that they recently compared Saleforce.com's 1K servers to Amazon's 100K servers and acted like SF was 10,000% more efficient :) - Patrick Lightbody

I'd be worried when TechCrunch don't know what they are talking about. I'm used to read *cough* comments already. - ilter

TC is a great traffic driver. I've only commented on a few of their posts but to this day the biggest single-day spike I ever got was from posting a quick link to my related post high up in the comments thread for a hot TC article last year. I do OK at avoiding the dark side of the force, honest. - Daniel J. Pritchett

And anyone who says otherwise is obviously stupid, right? - Tony, Paradox of FF

79% of TechCrunch writers don't know what they are talking about either. - Alex Scoble

I saw one of the comments saying FriendFeed had copied Facebook. I think the level is much higher then 79% of the readers and I agree with Roberts opinions that Facebook is going to start to make some real money soon, as its gathering user data and can then use that data to help brands advertise to customers. - Nicholas James

Tony: if they can back it up with an interesting conversation, no. If they just say I'm full of it, yes. :-) - Robert Scoble

Ok, we've laughed about the 79% thing. Now, why are the writers of this wrong? I agree that FF does everything facebook does, but better, and without vampire bites. - Matthew DeVries

I commented on it btw. - Pico Seno

I wish people would stop trying to compare Friendfeed, Twitter, and Facebook to me they are use for different purposes. Facebook is where I keep up with my family and friends from college, Twitter has become broadcast method. Friendfeed has become a way to follow conversations on subject that I am interested in with people who I find interesting. It is important that they remember their audience - Kim Landwehr

Matthew: because Facebook is different than friendfeed. Facebook comes at the world from a PRIVATE context. That's why my wife likes it. You can't see her photos unless she adds you as a friend. Friendfeed comes at the world from a PUBLIC context. That's why I like it. You can see everything I do unless I explicitly mark it as private. Which will make more money? The public context. That's why Facebook is changing. - Robert Scoble

what took you so long, Robert? - Jim Addz No Value

robert, yes FF is more open and more public then FB, and FB s at mile behind FF, but there is also something that FF lake and with is Open acess hope that they will move in such direction, FF have to grow his users base in order to Face FB. - abdellah

Not all as you say, but i guess everyone just feels the urge to comment on the top blog.. just for the heck of it. Why not put up constructive comments that add diversity/argument to what the writer discusses.. - Sardar Mohkim Khan

Alex: true that re: the writers! :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Because that article doesn't cover the philosophical aspects behind the migration of these glaciers, doesn't negate the fact that feature and implementation can be used to rally each platform to their cause, and thus bring about the philosophical shift. - Matthew DeVries

TC is almost like the editorial section in old school newspapers. They can present interesting information about a topic, but be wrong about the interpretation. Or maybe not wrong, just not in agreement with your own thoughts. Occasionally I do see they make a good point. ;) - Manuel Arroyo

I read a great quote on Twitter (sorry, no cite) where TC employees said that if they were 75% sure about a story, they'd run it, because they could always correct it. If was from a reputable source, but it's still second hand, so take this with a grain of salt. - Stan Scott

Ahhhhhh! Robert was dissing the Posters, not the article author!!!! I understand now finally. - Matthew DeVries

Steve Rubel

The easiest way to search the people you follow on Twitter is to roll them up on Friendfeed.

April 13 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Wouldn't you have to manually add all your Twitterfolk? - Dan Byler

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@Mohomed Thanks, that's helpful for those who are on FF. Still, most of the people I follow on Twitter aren't on FF. It would be nice if FF would automatically create "Imaginary Friends" for all your Twitter follows. When they join FF, it would just convert to a "real" friend - Dan Byler

+1 to Dan's request about FriendFeed auto-creating imaginary friends from Twitter for those not on FF yet. - Patrick Lightbody

+2 to Dan's request - Pinksy

Steve, I agree, am doing this for some months now; this makes it possible to keep the number of people I really want to follow reasonable, and makes it possible to follow them using the standard browser (instead of TweetDeck or similar tools). The 'high volume' twitter users I want to follow just now and then are rolled up in FriendFeed. - Jeroen De Miranda

+43 on Dan's request, I have been searching for this for a long time - Robert

Is there a way to turn off the Twitter posts with @ replies to people I don't follow as there in within Twitter? - Gregg Scott

Patrick Lightbody

It's hailing in downtown Portland!

April 13 - Comment - Like - Share

Wow, it's hailing REALLY hard. Poor kids at the elementary school across the street just got slammed :P - Patrick Lightbody

Robert Scoble

You Will Be Using FriendFeed In The Future — But It May Be Called Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

April 13 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

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"Um, I’m not paid by either Facebook, Twitter, or friendfeed and have no investments or other compensation from either." - Robert Scoble

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IMO, Facebook will make a run at buying FriendFeed later this year, just like they tried (and failed) at buying Twitter last year. They need the ingenuity of the FF engineers and in order to do that, they should not replicate, but instead buy. - Rob

Rob: Microsoft or Yahoo should be making the most serious run. Think what that would do for their search efforts! Get four superstars from Google all in one fell swoop! - Robert Scoble

If FF does turn out to become FB, I will jump ship, I dislike FB... - aerobroken

At what valuation? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I agree! - BASEnet

aerobroken: I am not a FB fan either. FF is good and getting better. I look for a big player to try and get FF. - Chris Gardner

Would Bret, Paul, Sanjeev, etc really want to go work at Facebook? I got the impression they are working on FriendFeed because it's their passion. I don't believe any of them really need a "job", least of all at Facebook. - Patrick Lightbody

Brian: I think most people will say friendfeed is worth about $20 million right now. It's going to cost Microsoft or Yahoo a LOT more than that to get Paul and Bret interested. They don't want to work for anyone else when I've talked about this. - Robert Scoble

Patrick: you're right. They walked away from a lot of money at Google to do friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

Brandon: disagree they are both invaluable. I go to FB maybe once a month these days. If it disappeared my life would still be complete. FriendFeed is on the cusp of being invaluable to me, but it needs to bridge my friend lists better (imaginary friends just doesn't cut it). - Patrick Lightbody

My reason for not liking FB is because I am a writer, and public about my virus, so I like to be anonymous for my safety. There are people that don't like my being open and sharing my knowledge of having AIDS for 25 years and being honest and not a whiner. I also write what I feel and my mind. So I rarely use FB for that reason. - aerobroken

Patrick: It's all relative. I find Facebook Connect to be a very useful service. And 3/4 of my colleagues use Facebook as their primary social networking site. - © b e e n s w a n k

Patrick Lightbody

Speaking of taxes, I've decided that the way ISO stock options are taxed is crap. Hopefully my old company can actually go public soon!

April 13 - Comment - Like - Share

Rich. Fantasy. Life. - Stephen Pierzchala

Haha, that's not a good sign. Give me a wink-wink-nod if you've heard anything :) - Patrick Lightbody

Balsamiq

I just realized that there are people in the world who still don't know about http://www.charlesproxy.com/ - essential dev tool! :)

April 8 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks for sharing the Charles Proxy link. I built my own HTTP/HTTPS proxy for Selenium, but their Flash stuff could be useful! - Patrick Lightbody

Good to see Karl getting some love for Charles. - Mark Derricutt

FriendFeed Feedback: Patrick Lightbody

Question for FriendFeed users: what do you do about the fact that your Twitter friends is not synced with your FriendFeed friends (especially those not on FriendFeed)? I tried creating imaginary friends but it was far too tedious.

April 10 - Comment - Like - Share

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I created a few for the ones I'm most interested in. If there were a better, automated way to do this, FF would be the *best* Twitter client. - Pat Hawks

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Did this just today: http://twitter.com/skriv... - Edward Zwart

@Edward - I tried that for a while, but it's still too much work. I want FriendFeed to be _the_ place where I organize my friend lists, so that's enough work for me. Selling my friends on the service or creating imaginary friends puts it over the limit of "too much work" :) - Patrick Lightbody

And when I add someone as a friend on FriendFeed, I want it to follow them on Twitter too. Right now I can only handle one social network, and it tends to default to Twitter over FF, FB, LinkedIn, etc. - Patrick Lightbody

Remember, if you create an imaginary friend with the same twitter nick, it will be unavailable to them when they /do/ sign up on FF. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

yeah, i use imaginary. i also usually pull in their blog or other feeds, too. - MikeAmundsen

Patrick Lightbody

Oh - and I love the new beta FriendFeed. Just wish there was an AIR app for it so I could sandbox it from my normal browser activities!

April 10 - Comment - Like - Share

Since I'm a web developer, I end up opening/closing my browser window far too often to allow for the realtime FriendFeed UI to stay consistently up on my desktop. I want Adobe AIR or a "sandbox" feature for Safari - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

I would use FriendFeed 10X more if it could just merge my friend lists from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. "Imaginary friends" are no fun

April 10 - Comment - Like - Share

I tried creating imaginary friends for a while, but it was too boring and too manual. What do you do? - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

First steps with Lightweight Test Automation Framework - http://blog.codeville.net/2009...

April 1 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"If the Java requirement is your main beef, you might be interested to know that Selenium 2.0 is the product of a merger between WebDriver and Selenium. The result will be no intermediate “server” component unless you truly need true remote control capabilities. Perhaps you’d like to join us as we build it out?" - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

Transparent Comet with IceFaces - http://ajaxian.com/archive...

March 28 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"Given that Joe Walker is working on Bespin with you guys, I would assume DWR is high on the list of frameworks to work with. It certainly is my first choice when it comes to AJAX and Comet." - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

Get Ready For Java On AppEngine - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

March 26 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

My prediction is that this is announced/released April 7 :) - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

The Efficient Cloud: All Of Salesforce Runs On Only 1,000 Servers - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

March 23 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

"I love TechCrunch. They even let my company (BrowserMob) present at their recent cloud computing roundtable. BUT… The folks at TechCrunch need to get educated about the “cloud”. It was evident by the moderators at the roundtable, and it’s evident now. As the other commentators have pointed out, website != platform != infrastructure. Comparing SF.com or Ning or Facebook to Amazon EC2 is absurd. Both groups are definitely changing the game, but please understand that they are doing it in VERY different ways. Doing so would make your reporting that much more valuable to many of us That said, keep up the otherwise great work!" - Patrick Lightbody

Patrick Lightbody

The Makers of Things - http://www.randsinrepose.com/archive...

March 23 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Cool story about how the Brooklyn Bridge was made. - Patrick Lightbody

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