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December 15 - Comment - Like - Share

Lysender, Diego Barros , Ibrahim El Issaoui and 15 other people liked this

holy fuck - دکتر فی‌ دل احمدی‌نژاد

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result? - "Fikret" the Çevirgeç

so?.. - Batu

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Nice left claw hmmm - Onurhan ÖZER

HOLY! This does not end well. (btw, not funny) - AJ Batac

WTF! - Uğur GÖK

The whole video is on youtube, the mahout had a severe laceration on the arm and lost three fingers http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Greg Guitarbuster

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Cute and really great monsters of Travis Louie - http://muitolegalblog.blogspot.com/2009...

December 16 - Comment - Like - Share

ebru, Page Down Not, Creative Photography and 16 other people liked this

awesome pics! - MB Linder

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FlockDraw - http://flockdraw.com/

December 1 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Arnaldo M Pereira liked this

FlockDraw is the most seamless realtime collaborative drawing tool ever. - Sysop

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November 24 from Picasa Web Albums - Comment - Like - Share

Michael W. May, rowlikeagirl, Haggis (Sean Loyless) and 10 other people liked this

<333 - Anna Haro

You should do these up in different colors... ala Warhol. :D - Yolanda

lol, Yo, I want to do that for the house. :D - Anna Haro

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit

April 19 - Comment - Like - Share

Elenius, Jim Huller, Faraz Mullick and 719 other people liked this

LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

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That poor cat looks so confused. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan Haley

FEED ME A CAT - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

I think you mean a LIVE cat… - Mistletoe Glen

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

اخي...گناهي - noonii

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Nia

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks

Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - JSNFLMNG

¡Excelente! - Marcos Vicente

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - JSNFLMNG

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - Petr Buben

Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - Petr Buben

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - Petr Buben

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - Petr Buben

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Try rolling the cat through a press first. Flat cats fit into the fax easier. - Bob Blunk

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ok, over the top now. - Greg Guitarbuster

Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini

I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - Steve C

Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - Kevin Pedraja

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - sofarsoShawn

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - Steve C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

пиздец как! - getalifejerk

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes

My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik - getalifejerk

did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - H.M.Nasrabadi

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - sofarsoShawn

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - sofarsoShawn

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - sofarsoShawn

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - sofarsoShawn

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - JSNFLMNG

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

Most liked FF post ever? - Kristian Salonen

One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis

Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes

ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - JSNFLMNG

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - Petr Buben

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - Petr Buben

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme Flipo

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - sofarsoShawn

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - sofarsoShawn

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie_Thankful

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it will - Seltoon

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - Kris Roley

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - sofarsoShawn

OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

try harder! ; )) - Didier Lahely

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Caturday is tommorow ... Fax Cat on Saturday .. - johnpiercy

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - JSNFLMNG

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - Matteo Scotuzzi

and it got resurrected once again! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Waldemar Schott to Waldemar's feed, Google Chrome OS, Funny Pics and Videos

Windows to Chrome OS in three step (via @ajaxian) on Twitpic - http://twitpic.com/9oskb

July 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

رضا, ~~MiM~~, Kittyburgers and 27 other people liked this

haha thats great!! - Sandra Rode

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Cool! :) - Svartling

sweet! - esther ♥ ♫

ahaha fantastic! - Roberto

Original article: http://ajaxian.com/archive... - Waldemar Schott

MS still has the more esthetically pleasing "flag" design. I can't associate the Google "clump of whatever" with anything tangible. - Kittyburgers

Original link http://www.onecomics.it/12... - OneBlog Responsabile

this picture is "total" :) - Laurentiu

Kol Tregaskes

Evolution GIF - Changethethought™ - http://koltregaskes.soup.io/post...

August 8 from Kol's Soup (without imported... - Comment - Like - Share

Gluek, Figbar, Henrique and 125 other people liked this

Wow! - Kol Tregaskes

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Beautiful. - Mycaptain

Cool - M F

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cool, I think I have seen this before somewhere - outofmyarse

Me too, I'm sure I've see a colour version but can't remember where. - Kol Tregaskes

This sequence is from DePalma's Mission to Mars. - Graham Sergeant

interesting - 蓝无忧

Thank you, Graham. - Kol Tregaskes

I don't agree with the notion that life on Earth originated on Mars (or any other planet). I think it started and evolved from chemical reactions right here. Still, love this graphic out of context. - Kamilah Gill

Kamilah: I'm not sure what to believe about where it started but the conditions would have had to been right - outofmyarse

Very Cool! :) - TheHenry

there is still a chance that it was carried here from other sources (comets from other systems etc). The only thing we can say is that it's here :) - alphaxion

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

At some point we've all come from outer-space, we're all stardust. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Helium flashes / supernova creation / and we are star dust /// #haiku - Chris Loft

Creation out of / nucleosynthesis is / stars taking deep breaths /// #haiku - Chris Loft

WTF... - Ufuk İŞMAN

But how can that happen all within 6,000 years....? - Baffled

This used to also be in a Guiness commercial I think - Bill Rawlinson

Ah, I remember that one, Bill. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Very funny! This theory is a comedy. - HasanCivelek

cool - echostreamer

Bindu Reddy

Try writing code when you are drunk...it can be a whole lot of fun

November 20 - Comment - Like - Share

Adrian Scicluna, Cristo, Helen Sventitsky and 14 other people liked this

Tip: don't check in your code. - Cristo

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Drunkaholix.com? - Louis Gray

What are you writing? - Gary Burd

Gary, some basic php form handling code but I am getting all screwed up with the CSS. Louis - it's not bad enough that is is called Lika "holix" :) - Bindu Reddy

Cristo, I have a deadline.. So have to finish.. but the chicory stout from Dogfish head totally rocks :) - Bindu Reddy

Thinking about your problems in a different light is always a good thing. - Hayes Haugen

One way of looking at it. I have made no progress on the code..I have just been fooling around on FF and twitter - Bindu Reddy

I used to consume quite a bit (for me) of the Midas Touch Golden Elixir from Dogfish Head. I love the story. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Bindu, oldest known fermented recipe, Turkish, drinking vessels from Midas' tomb. Good stuff! http://www.dogfish.com/brews-s... - Gregg Morris

I thought this was meant to be the main lesson of freshman year of college. - Clare Dibble

Wouldn't it be "alcoholix"? - Gabe

Gabe, That reminds me of Asterix. Did you read any of those comics. Gregg, thanks for that I am going to try the midas touch next. Am beginning to love DogFish head more and more :) - Bindu Reddy

Bindu, is this what you were coding? http://likes.com/ - Gary Burd

Yup... I have been debating whether to post the article on friendfeed :) - Bindu Reddy

I will take care of that for you. - Gary Burd

thanks... - Bindu Reddy

Bindu Reddy

Is apple making the same mistake that it made with desktop computers with the iPhone app plattorm with it's cumbersome approval process. One big reason Macs didn't get a bigger marketshare was that they were simply not as open as Windows was.

November 10 - Comment - Like - Share

sofarsoShawn, Pavan, Luca Perugini and 4 other people liked this

It seems so. - Arnaldo M Pereira

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The approval process is cumbersome alright, but it doesn't affect the end-users that much. If you ask the end-users a good majority of them don't even know about the process. In the geek-world, of course it is a big deal. The only thing Apple can loose out of this is the developers run away to another platform.. which actually is not happening yet. - Pavan

I agree with Pavan. Currently it's just not an issue to the vast majority of iPhone users. If and when a realistic competitor hits the market, things might change. - Soup

Yes i agree it is not affecting the end users that much at the moment... However, there are some really cool apps that are coming out on other platforms (free turn-by-turn for example) that Apple is missing out on since it refuses to let any apps that compete with it's core apps in. - Bindu Reddy

My bet is if it really starts to hurt, they will change things. - Pavan

Personally I don't see turn-by-turn being a deal breaker (although I know it's just an example). There are so many alternatives to using your phone for GPS stuff. - Soup

Paul Buchheit

There was a lot of chatter about the future of FriendFeed this weekend. The short answer is that the team is working on a couple of longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world. Transformation is not the end. Consider this the chrysalis stage -- if all goes well, a beautiful butterfly will emerge :)

October 19 - Comment - Like - Share

Alfredo, Fabrizio, david beckwith and 243 other people liked this

What is transforming... FriendFeed, or the idea of FriendFeed? - Christopher Galtenberg

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Thanks for the update, Paul! - Anne Bouey

THANK YOU! - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Fabulous News :) - Susan Beebe

Noticed the "leaked" Facebook UI screenshots and the groups blog post today, and both seem FriendFeed inspired: nice to see Facebook trying to bring the stuff we like about FriendFeed to a larger audience. - Mark Trapp

To Robert Scoble: I told you so ;-) - Jesse Stay

Sounds like they're adding some of FF's features to FaceBook. yay - Chrimmus Tad from fftogo

Mark - got link? - Susan Beebe

Thanks Paul :) - ashish

Devil is in the details: "couple of longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" == Facebook projects with FriendFeed-like elements == no work on FriendFeed itself. - EricaJoy

Paul, FriendFeed rocks as Gmail does ;) - Orlando Pozo

Thanks for the update, the more you communicate, the less we have to speculate. - Peter Hoffmann

The fact that these improvements are coming to Facebook and not friendfeed will not sway those who like friendfeed but dislike Facebook. - Alex Scoble

Thank you Paul for bringing "FriendFeed goodness to the larger world" -- THAT sounds awesome!! - Susan Beebe

integration with facebook? - Rocco Galluzzo

@Alex Scoble: That's true - Jorge Escobar

Susan: http://blog.facebook.com/blog... and http://mashable.com/2009... - Mark Trapp

I hope out of the chrysalis emerges an infested Kerrigan. That'd be awesome http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki... - Ivan Kirigin

Thanks Mark, much appreciated... I'll check those out - Susan Beebe

+1 Ivan :) - Benjamin Golub

But we knew this was the deal the moment the full details of the purchase of friendfeed by Facebook became public. - Alex Scoble

Yeah, I don't give a crap about Facebook. I want to know about FriendFeed. - Rochelle

Is it the interface people dislike about Facebook or the people they're friends with on Facebook? I can imagine being able to import all your subscribers from FriendFeed and have them in a separate group that doesn't interact with other groups you may have on Facebook. - Cristo

sadly, no one with any power seems to care about FF anymore. - Joe Silence is not Santa

I'm glad to hear this. I prefer FriendFeed to Facebook any day of the week. - Nathan Clayton

And the answer for me would be some of both. I have real life friends and family that I don't necessarily want to get into the same discussions with as I do with people here. - Cristo

And there's your answer, Rochelle. friendwho? friendwhat now? Oh, you mean Facebook! (No I mean friendfeed) friendwho? (rinse, lather, repeat) - Alex Scoble

there are some ui differences (and i tend to prefer friendfeed in those cases) but i have friended quite a few FF people in FB and the experience is remarkably similar in many ways. - Jason Wehmhoener

Another big difference is I don't think you get the same FOAF interaction on Facebook as on FriendFeed. - Cristo

yep - Jason Wehmhoener

I hope my FaceBook peeps are ready for the FriendFeed firehose ... past experience would say that they're in for a shock. - Crutis

Thanks for the transparency on the Friendfeed "ghost town" matter Paul. Much appreciated. - Alex Knight

Thanks Paul... bring the special sauce to Facebook: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife... - Andrew

I like the "chrysalis stage" analogy - sounds cool.... goes an looks for FF goodness butterfly! - Susan Beebe

Good to know that FriendFeed still has some fight left; hope that translates into a viable and sustainable platform/utility for the masses (though I quite enjoy the close-knit, uber-geek community that it's become). - Christian

I don't like the chrysalis analogy. The butterfly emerges from the chrysalis and buggers off leaving the shell. Of course, it might then also get eaten by a bird. Tweet, tweet. - Mark H

Mark LOL nice, ... haha - Susan Beebe

Note that he didn't say that FriendFeed.com was going away, only that they're diverted to bringing it to a much larger audience - Jesse Stay

The problem is Scoble (Robert) and MG both just sent half of FriendFeed away so most of those that would benefit from this announcement won't even see it. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, I didn't get that from Paul's comment. I read that some of the friendfeed ideas will be going into FB. I like that idea, but I still prefer FF to FB because of the different conversations here that I don't have with friends and family. - Travis Koger from iPhone

Yeah, Paul's statement won't help friendfeed. This will just either give people more reason to go to Facebook or find another service entirely. - Alex Scoble

What Alex and Rochelle said. This sounds like a "we're bringing FF to Facebook" announcement, and I don't give a damn about Facebook. I want to know what's happening HERE. And Cristo, both, but more the interface. I care about the friends I've made here, and I'm connected with many of them now on Facebook as well, but I prefer to interact with them here, because I like it better. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Travis, he didn't say that - you read that, but he didn't say that. I'm willing to bet FriendFeed.com will not go away. - Jesse Stay

As much as I agree about Scoble and MG driving people away, they have also effectively flush out some comment from the FF team. - Travis Koger from iPhone

Travis, there are better ways of getting the FF team to comment - Jesse Stay

:( I quite liked the caterpillar. - Nick Lothian

I think it's the opposite, the butterfly is becoming this crawling caterpillar :) - Jorge Escobar

Oh I don't think FF will go away, and damn will hope it doesn't either! - Travis Koger from iPhone

What I do see is more Facebook integrated into the FriendFeed environment - I think that's a good thing - Jesse Stay

The critical difference between Facebook and FriendFeed is the social model. With Facebook as it is today, you need to be mutual friends to see each others content. There is a "fan page" model but it is oriented toward "publishing/celebrity" rather than information sharing. FriendFeed has an asymmetric model like Twitter, where you can easily discover someone's content without any "friend" gesture whatsoever, and you can follow without friending. This makes the converation more discoverable, and useful.. - Adina Levin

Agree Adina. - Travis Koger from iPhone

If the integration is bringing public/asymmetric to Facebook, then it will be very useful indeed. If the integration is to add FriendFeed-style service integration into the symmetric/private Facebook model, it will be much less useful - it's more of the same - I'll be able to more easily share updates from youtube or last.fm or delicious to my friend network, but be unable to discover new people and infomation. - Adina Levin

Adina: And unless Facebook goes radically toward that model, it won't suffice for me. I could not care less about their upcoming redesigns. - Christopher A Carr

@Jesse - I can't see any sign that they are working on FriendFeed at all. All the indications are that the FF team is now working on Facebook, and only Facebook. That's great for Facebook, and I'm sure they will do wonderful work there. But don't delude yourself that FriendFeed is going to get anything more than critical fixes, and maybe the occasional thing done in someone's spare time. - Nick Lothian

Butterflies look totally different than caterpillars and they also fly away - Melanie Reed

Crickets chirping... is this site alive?? :) - Christopher Galtenberg

+100 Adina. The things I like best about FriendFeed (easy content/people discovery, FoaF, asymmetrical following and being followed) are completely opposite to Facebook's core model. That's why as much as people keep talking about Facebook adding FF-like features, I don't see the REAL FF core features making it over, because the mindset is different. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I don't see this announcement as anything new, or as reassuring. We knew from the time of the acquisition that there would be would be some movement of FF capabilities into FB. The real question is whether this means absorption of FF into FB or attracting the FB user base into FF. The comment about "bring[ing] FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" still leaves that question open. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

+1 everything Alex Scoble has said. Friendwhat? What's a feed? Who uses RSS anymore? We've got PubSubWTFOMGBBQ now! - Mr. Gunn

Agree with Jandy on +100 Adina. - Amy℠

Also, I agree with Jandy and Adina's comments. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Nick, Paul just said they're working on other projects right now. That still doesn't mean FriendFeed is going away. I'm not deluding myself at all. I'm telling everyone else they're deluding themselves by assuming it's going away. All the FriendFeed team is still using FriendFeed, and Paul just tried to give us comfort not to worry. For some reason we all don't want to believe him. It's actually kind of amusing. - Jesse Stay

I wonder what the powers that be mean by "FriendFeedy goodness"? Is it understood what WE like about it vs. FB? - Amy℠

Paul - Wishing you all the best as you tend your new butterfly garden :) I'll be here to enjoy them! - Susan Beebe

Jesse: "For some reason we all don't want to believe him." <-- Don't want to believe what? He didn't really say anything. - Christopher A Carr

This is not the news that Friendfeed fans were looking for. - Raphael, Raphael

The issue isn't belief that they are going to do something. The question is what they are going to do, and whether that will continue the core value of FriendFeed, which is not just information aggregation but discoverability. - Adina Levin

I know more about the "Last Days" and heaven than I know about what's going to happen to FriendFeed as we have come to know it than was given in your rather cryptic answer, Paul. :) And while that may not be a fair comparison (God actually gave details and signs), there is something definitely not forthcoming about your response. A person usually withholds details that affect another... more... - Melanie Reed

Melanie, in other words, Paul works for a technology company in Silicon Valley that doesn't disclose future features, products, and services until they are ready. - Cristo

Hopefully this helps to quiet all of the "friendfeed is dying" talk. Because this thread proves ff is alive and well. - Garin Kilpatrick

@Jesse - I read it differently to you. To me, Paul is saying "We are taking what we were working towards on FriendFeed, and trying to bring that goodness to a bigger audience". No one is claiming they are going to shut down FF. - Nick Lothian

@Jesse - Want to make a bet on the number of new features added to FF before the end of the year? - Nick Lothian

You read my mind. Having seen a few acquisitions, I am wondering if FF staff was told to put the site in bugfix mode. - EricaJoy from IM

Cristo, to deliver some straightforward talk is not about giving away company details. If you have a product that is original and stands on its own, you don't need to refer to it as a "butterfly". Many companies even promote something new and upcoming especially to their loyal user base. It gives a signal. A proper one. It tells your users and future users enough so that they can make an informed decision about what they want to do instead of keeping them on tenderhooks - Melanie Reed

"the chrysalis stage in most butterflies is one in which there is little movement" (via wikipedia) So if you follow that metaphor then eventually FriendFeed will go through a metamorphosis -- that means it's not dead... really how hard can it be to get what he's saying? - Chris Heath

Its pretty hard :) The burning question is if they are putting FF goodness in to the walled gardens that are Facebook or are they bringing FF openness to FB too. I think the people here want the open forums that are FF not the closed ones that are FB. If FB is going hybrid with both walled gardens and open forums that would be OK too. People on FF want open forums... like Twitter and FF... without the crude interface that is Twitter and without the uncertainty that is FF now. - Ed Millard

Facebook is gonna have to rip off much of the privacy to maximize their product in the real-time web world. I am going to assume FF goodness is going to be applied to FB :) *crosses fingers* - Susan Beebe

Just a thought... why does "longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" JUST mean facebook.com? What I get from this is that they are working on a range of things, maybe bringing the FriendFeed sauce to a range of sites, powered by the Facebook back end. Who knows what that means. A FriendFeed service powered by FacebookConnect? Also to...... more... - Johnny Worthington

LMFAO. Johnny++ - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

FB needs to leave the privacy for the walled garden and the inner circle. Their current user base likes that. They just need a second feed that is an open forum and you can talk there without it bleeding in to your inner circle feed. - Ed Millard

Seems like the inner circle is breaking down some now, what with parents and other relatives friending teenagers. I'm guessing the information posted on the walls these days is not as private. Is there a way on FriendFeed to limit what on your wall can be seen by particular people and groups? - Cristo

Yes, but blocking doesn't work so well since you can just use Chrome's Incognito mode to get around it. - Alex Scoble

Translation: if you haven't switche to Facebook yet, you better do it now so you can get a good vanity URL. - David Chartier from iPhone

I don't know what all the fuss is about. But could we have the long answer too, please? - Laura Norvig

Although I'm interested, FB != FF. I don't see how the two mix in a way that makes me feel otherwise. Mixing audiences is not a good thing for me (with a few exceptions) and I know others share the same thought. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Did anyone notice that Robert Scoble didn't comment on this thread? What does this mean? Does it mean Robert Scoble won't exist soon? He must be working on a Monday afternoon, no? ;) - Cristo

Paul, will FF be here in 1 year, 5 years? - Robert Higgins

Robert, will you and I be alive in 5 years? - Cristo

Thanks for the update Paul.. - Chris Myles

Cristo I am funking nobody, I would like Paul to quantify his post. Simple. Will FF be here in 1 year? Will FF be here in 5 years? - Robert Higgins

Robert, I was trying to make the point that he might not know and can't predict what will happen over time. - Cristo

IMO friendfeed shoud attract more general audience... Facebook and twitter are having more general users. Most of the FF users are tech bloggers or those who needs aggregation services... I dont know it's just my feeling or not . but this is my impression on FF. but it's great service.. the features are too good... but we will roam were we meet our friends... thats most of the people are into twitter and FB. - Sarath

Sarath, is there a place you can get away from tech bloggers? :) - Cristo

Ohhhh a perrrttty butterfly, I'm moist with anticipation. - sofarsoShawn

Glad to hear it, Paul. - WorldofHiglet

Cristo: i almost made the same observation an hour or two ago when i first read through this posting and its comments. I was skimming and kept seeing alex, alex, alex... and thinking to myself... where's Robert!?! - Chris Heath

Great news. Thanks! friendfeed team. :D - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

@Sarath - I have a lot more in common with the people I've met here on FriendFeed than FB or Twitter. Twitter is too hard to search, and FB (and Twitter to a good extent) is driven by the people you know in RL (and unfortunately I don't have nearly as much in common in RL with my family, co-workers and acquaintences as I do with people scattered all over the world who I have met on FF).... more... - Fa La La La Lindsay

I think that in his cryptic statement he means, and a lot of people here agree with me, that more Facebook's going to get more FriendFeedy. Which doesn't mean that FF still isn't dead or doomed. After all, he works for Facebook now. FriendFeed=open forum, Facebook=walled garden, totally opposite master metaphors; but I don't think Zuckerberg gets it, and FF belongs to Zuckerberg now. So this is really about FB; FF's still in limbo. Still, some FF people friended me at FB, and I put them in a special list. - Dennis Jernberg

@FF-team keep on rocking :). BTW I also think it's really cool you guys open-sourced tornado. - alfred westerveld

+1 what alfred said, and good to hear words like "longer-term" & "beautiful" coming straight from The Walrus - keep that vision strong. Hope all goes well for FF team doing some good re-inventing the Octopus Garden of FB - seems you've got your work cut out for you there! It would be so nice if any way to keep a "simple & pure" form of FriendFeed alive (maintained and developed - more open source?) for us to enjoy, but no worries .... you've simultaneously raised the bar and paved the way for the rest! - Dan Freeman

Good luck with the development Paul! Hopefully Zuck has some positive insight. - Garin Kilpatrick

I like butterflies. - Harold Cabezas

Paul: If someone offered me a bag of money to do what you guys did, I would have done exactly the same (probably a lot faster too). However, it would be nice if you spent an hour answering some of the questions here. It might also give people like me a little more faith, in what used to be your primary project; Friendfeed. You made the best platform on the planet - why not use it to let us know what the heck's going on? - Jim Connolly

I'm assuming that Facebook wants to keep their roadmap quiet. I respect that but leaving you community in the dark for a brand that the applications stand for community building is rather ironic. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

SUPER!! I don't Blame ya 1 Darn bit fer Dumpin' FacePOOP Paul!! ;PPP Wait FacePOOP is the Maggot Stage!! ;)) - Billy Warhol

If I can still have all my friends that I have here on friendfeed and share things with them the exact same way, I don't care what "www" address I have to type in to get it. I just hope i don't have to give up any of FF's awesome features! Thanks for the update Paul! - David Cook

The problem is I don't know whether to wrote an app on your API or not because i'm not sure whether it will all be dropped in the "transformation". Imagine speding late nights and weekends coding something up only for it to be dropped suddenly. Need a decent long term picture. Looking at Cliqset. - Steven Livingstone-Pérez

Good point Steven - and one of the reasons many of us are spending so little time developing our networks here. - Jim Connolly

waiting.... - ffcode

ffcode: Good luck with that ;-) - Jim Connolly

So the changes are at Facebook not FriendFeed, Paul? - Kol Tregaskes

And good luck to all of your team - Ozkan Altuner from iPhone

This is a truly disappointing/concerning post and I think it would have been much better to hold comment until something more tangible could be discussed. Thanks for adding to the confusion/drama Paul. - Nicholas Kreidberg

yemezler - MobilAdam

I do care about what happens next, but this is the best news of the day nonetheless ! thanks for giving us updates at last ! and I do hope FF will awaken again ! such a great tool, but letdown since the announcement of the buyback by FB - laetSgo

will I see this post in my "best of week" email from FF? - Kirill Bolgarov

If Facebook is going to get fixed, please remember that it needs fixing politically, not just technically. It needs to give people the option to open their data to Google - for instance. A walled garden where the walls are fixed in place sucks. - Tim Tyler

@Paul, or perhaps an Alien will erupt forth from its stomach? (kidding, kidding!) - j1m

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The bear says hello!

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I'll take the small blond guy, a leg of that guy and some fries. - Santa CW™

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AAAHH Cute. Hang on wheres my arm! lol - Kevin J Hatton

And the research says "New underwear please!" - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

I soooo would have wanted to give it a kiss on the nose!!! - The Catz Meow

Careful! You don't want to get stuck in there, do you? - ققنوس

Paging Dr. Darwin.... - Robert Kenney

WOW! - Dominic Yang

"Did someone order a pizza?" - Gilbert Harding

HEEEEELO :D - MAS

!!!!!! - Private Sanjeev

@The Catz Meow - it totally wanted to give you a kiss on the nose too! - Peter Butler

اینجا سیبریه ها!نگفتم فرناز به خرسها هم رحم نمی کنه آدم حتی اینجا! - pope "1st lefthanded"®

oooops:-) - pinkpackrat

Wow! That's one big uninvited guest. - James Stratford

That there bear is HUGE!! - Mark "DerBingle" J

Oh my! - Will Higgins™

I've been out on the tundra on one of these tours, I would have LOVED to have a bear stick his nose in and say Hi. They're such beautiful and incredible animals - Will Higgins™

"Okay guys, who left the window open again?!" - Holger Eilhard

amaaniiinnn:D:D - Seda

wow! - RokhSaare

Aw! He just wants to be friends! - Kamala Whitaker

Reminds me of this quote: "Prof. Jerry Hathaway: You still run?, Chris Knight: Only when chased." - Santa CW™

and mr urine says hello too. EHGAAHD! - mikepk

Great, they come in cans, now! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

...this reminds me of the Far Side comic where two polar bears are hovering over igloos, and one says to the other: "I don't know what you call them, but I love eating these things... they're chewy on the insides." - .LAG liked that

wonderful!!! - irem

Ohh my GOD! - Scorpio

How Awsome! - ترانه لایف

میخوای رکورد بزنی؟ :))))) - علیرضـــــــآ

Wow! - jz0f

داود : رو چند تا بستی؟ به چند میخوای برسونی؟ - علیرضـــــــآ

I WANT my CHANGE! - bob phillips

I want my 2 dollars! - Jim Goldstein

I'll have a large pizza with an extra topping of photographer - Jim Goldstein

شخم - علیرضـــــــآ

اصلا شخم - علیرضـــــــآ

ااصلا اصلا شخم - علیرضـــــــآ

اصلا ااصلا اصلا شخم - علیرضـــــــآ

#friendfeed でこの人追ってると、いろいろな写真が他から飛び込んでくる #photo - jz0f

علیرضـــــــآ +))))))))))) - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

جالبه :ی - Amin BZ

این چه نکته جذابی داشته اینقدر لایک خورده ؟ اسمایلی حسود - گل باقالی

wow - میر Ellie موسوی

آقا بیاین ده تا لایک پای این بزنین بشه دویست تا - گل باقالی

8? - گل باقالی

:D - گل باقالی

چه خرسیه خرسه:D - blind_owl

:))) - گل باقالی

Medad Rangi: You are the 200th person who likes this image ;-) - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

ouch!! :)) it's cute :D - Starfish

محض رضای خدا یه لایک بزنید برسه به دویست - شاد کردن دل مومن تو رمضون ثواب داره - علیرضـــــــآ

علیرضـــــــآ =))))))))))))))))))))))) - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

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207 :D - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

here i just see just 205 likes:D - علیرضـــــــآ

علیرضـــــــآ: There might be people whom you have already blocked! - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

hmm yeah, i have blocked some impolite users - علیرضـــــــآ

aye vall - Behnam Mirmiran

:) - Afra

hello - elyas

@elyas: hello hello :D - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

شخم:))))) - علیرضـــــــآ

. - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

Dios mio! Quizà que miedo tiene ese hombre! El oso tiene una cabeza tan grande como l'hombre! - Alessandro Marocchini

سلام کن خلاص... - مصطفام

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How do we experience time? Timescapes of the Network Society by Robert Hassan | Fast Capitalism - http://www.uta.edu/huma...

September 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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This paper discusses a central element of this change through globalization that has so far received relatively little attention - our relationship with time and how this is changing, in turn, the nature of power and politics. (...) How do we experience time? What is the nature of time in the network society? How does it contrast and compare with our relationship with clock time, an abstract and empty social construction that has dominated our relationship with time since the industrial revolution? And, finally, what does "network time" portend for what Barbara Adam terms "timescapes" - times that interpenetrate and permeate our lives but have been displaced, marginalized and sublimated by industrial clock time? (...) Perhaps an easily comprehended way to think about timescapes is to think of an array of temporal features - flowing durational "scapes" - that exist in lived reality, in us, in our cultures and in nature. Each feature, or temporal scape is implicated in all the others... more... - Amira

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“(...) From our contemporary perspective, it is difficult to appreciate the extraordinary effect that clock time has had upon modern and modernizing societies. And it is difficult to remember, so deeply has its logic impregnated cultures and societies, that it is not "time" at all but a social construction given the seal of scientific truth and validity through the revolution in... more... - Amira

“Think of the Internet. Its technical capacities and our own human capabilities ensure that this is an inherently asynchronous space. Nothing occurs instantaneously, or in real time. There is an open-ended spectrum of temporalities within the network, measured from a picosecond (one trillionth of a second) upwards.(...) Éric Alliez argued that capitalism couldn't exist without the... more... - Amira

very good article indeed , thanks - Wildcat

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What Is It Like to Be a Baby? Alison Gopnik investigates the infant mind - interview by Jonah Lehrer | Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gopnik about why babies might be more conscious than adults, the benefits of having an imaginary friend and why play, not necessity, is the mother of invention. (...) As adults when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness. In fact, attending carefully to one event may actually make us less conscious of the rest of the world. (...) Babies and young children are much worse at intentionally focusing their attention than adults. Instead, they seem to pay attention to anything that’s unexpected or interesting – anything they can learn from. We say that children are bad at paying attention but we really mean that they’re bad at not paying attention – they easily get distracted by anything interesting. And young brains are much more... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"One of the big new ideas about how babies learn is that they use what computer scientists call “Bayesian inference”. That means that you imagine lots of different possibilities and test how likely each possibility is. When we have a theory of the world, we can not only say what the world is like now, we can also explore what would happen if the world was different. We can ask what... more... - Amira

Memories before 3, I have a lot of them : they are much more like either pictures or better said ambiances, atmospheres. May be the same impression that you get looking at an art painting. - bellegarde-webb

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A Google Map of FriendFeeders - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps...

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If you click on Edit you can add yourself too. Original created by Mark Krynsky: http://ff.im/5rwh #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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I can not edit? :( - Matt Ruiz

I see ThenWang:) - K.D.

Matt, do you have a Edit button at the top-left of the page? - Kol Tregaskes

Very Cool! Just added myself! - TheHenry

i add myself too. - Semih Masat ™

If you don't see an "Edit" button, you have to log in and add it to your own maps first. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

To add your picture instead the default blue marker, you have to click on the blue marker at the top-right, click on "add an icon" link and type the url of your avatar - Roberto

Excellent, thanks for sharing - lelapin

I thought there were a lot more FFers in LA than is shown on that map. - Spidra Webster

Cool!:) - Patrik Johansson

FYI.. your picture can be: http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... - Tim Hoeck

Thanks for that, Roberto. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Finally I understand the coolness with Google Maps:) - Patrik Johansson

I see I'm not the only one accidentally editing the title. Today I learned how to make a custom icon for Google Maps :) - Nick B.

I did that as well, I think :) - Tim Hoeck

Nick, I've edited the title and description, don't touch. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, it seems pretty simple to edit the title by mistake. - Patrik Johansson

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

done - RAPatton

i can't do it....every time I try, I edit the title... - laetSgo

Yay! Scott and I are on it now. :-) - Ladybug Heather

Cool! - Kol Tregaskes

D'oh! It wasn't showing me, so I kept adding. I ended up with three markers after I logged out and back in! - Laura Lou Who

Oops. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is pretty cool.. We need more scandinavian FFeeders though :) - Anton Tanderup

Anton, perhaps post something here: http://friendfeed.com/ffdirec... and copy in: http://friendfeed.com/europea... - Kol Tregaskes

I'm on! (and sadly, the only one in Calgary - nice to see a few in Red Deer, though) - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

I added it, but the photo looks rather large. Just used the url of my profile pic. Very cool! thanks for setting this up! http://www.friendfeed.com/lizaspe... SF, CA - Liza

K, I'm on there. - David Cook

I should be there now... - Alejandro

Added myself. :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Adding myself now. - Evan Travers

Added! :) - AJ Batac

Finish & Finito - Something Like that Just Added my Name to the List - Ray Marr aka Knatchwa

hmm, it works - A.T.

Nice job... Way to go Kol! - Mitchell Tsai

Just added myself, nice idea. - ialla

Probably being a bit thick here. Can add placemark, but how do I get it to appear in the list at the side with a link to it? - Gordon Herd

if you've added a placemark, then it is on the list - at the bottom of the last page. - Joel from IM

I find the UI horribly confusing. No idea how to add. - Stephen Mack

added :) - Mert Alemdar

Okay, surely I'm not the only one from Hawaii? - Ryan - @magicofpi

Cool！ - mingqing

This is a cool service! Search Feature is too gud. - eva

Thanks for adding yourselves. Mitchell, it's actually Mark Krynsky's map: http://ff.im/5rwh - Kol Tregaskes

Note everyone, we can add this as a layer for Google Latitude/Maps on our mobiles. - Kol Tregaskes

Why my changes are lost after saving and refreshing the map? I just click edit, saved and done: where's my mistake? - Roberto

from izmir ;) - Ali Bahşişoğlu

added - Thomas Power

added myself =) - Seyhan Çelik

Roberto, so you click on Edit, add your marker, hit Save then Done? - Kol Tregaskes

Just added myself to the map. The Google placemark positioning tool sucks, too. - Tyson Key

The larger icons are smashing the smaller ones. Oh well. - Bradley Farless

@Kol Yes, my name appear in the list, but the marker is missing in the map (tried with and without the avatar). - Roberto from fftogo

anyone finding difficulty to add yourselves on the map? 1.click on the map-this will bring you to google map site 2.you have to sign in your google account to get the edit button on the map 3.then click on the edit button and add yourselves on the map. cheers. - Hamid Mat sain MD

Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar - Thierry R. Andriamirado

done - Bogdan Costea

done! - Rick Cogley

Just added myself, although, I slightly moved my placemarker, just so people don't know where I live :) - MλTT

From what I've noticed: When I'm at the first page of 2, I only see those markers on the map...from the people that are on the first page. Do you know what I mean? I'm added on the second page, so when I browse through the first page I won't see my marker on the map...only when I go to the next page. I don't know if this makes any sense hehe. - Patrik Johansson

hey, i'm feeling alone i my north of quebec ;) - BotchChiKii

Added myself with little icon. I am so proud! - Gordon Herd

added my self also - Demetrios the Traveller

Cool! - Kol Tregaskes

Here be I, woo. - Tsali, The Native of FF

Thanks, Patrick! - Roberto

Added - Michael Fidler

Done - M F

added myself :) - Baard @ Pixum

Added - very neat to see pins all over the world. - Alex Hellstrom

Excellent Presentation! - Naseem Ahmed

I'm in! :D - CannonGod

just added myself - Bill Rawlinson

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Added :) - Sergey Juchkov

wow - Ahmet Soyata

Whoa, great job reviving this project Kol. Awesome to see all the new users! - Mark Krynsky

No worries, Mark. Thanks for the map. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Quite surprising how many of the US states are empty. The word has yet to spread inland. - Nick B.

Okay I'm in too. Thanks for the map, great idea! - Paria Sabooki

Added. Hope to see more North Carolina markers added. Surely I'm not the only one? - cdogzilla

added myself too... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

The map! I'm on there! :-) - James (!?)

it starts to load and i can see an edit button, but before even clicking it another old custom map of mine comes up instead o_O - Mike Chelen

Added my pin :) - Simon Wicks

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I forgot I was on this! - Martin Bryant

Somehow I managed to not be on this, fixed now! - Glenn Slaven

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

I added myself, plus I got to learn how to make a custom icon for Google Maps. - DGentry

Cool. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in! - metalerik

Cool! - Kol Tregaskes

Any more for the map? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ta-da! - Timothy Griffin

anyone can find me from now on right ;) - Burçak Çubukçu

added! - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I had temporarily, accidentally "hijacked" the title...it's fixed now... - Ciro

cool - Brent - Loving Life

Added! - Simon Curran

Can't believe I'm the only one in Belgium ... - Irma Vermaat

Siavash to Siavash's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

Demotivation - wheelchair sign by *pallottili on deviantART - http://pallottili.deviantart.com/art...

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"I saw this funny wheelchair-sign in piazzale Roma (Venice), in front of the new bridge on Canal Grande." - Siavash from Bookmarklet

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That's a holy disability sign. - Nurse Katie

you're doing it wrong. >< - pitlord

1970's Hair Salon parking only? - Slappy Line

it's a monkey! - mikepk

Spartan parking only - AJ Batac

People with snake on head only - AJ Batac

Long-curved-backwards-pointing-arm syndrome parking only? - Slappy Line

Ejection seat parking - Nurse Katie

Maybe we're looking at it upside down. It's a 'headstand in wheelchair required' sign. - Bill Mason

Looks like that guy has a badass mohawk! - Cassidy

Ah, got it. Inspired by Bill Mason - Parking reserved for Mork from Ork. In a wheelchair. - Slappy Line

Eric Logan to Eric's feed, Cool!

Looking like the nautical cousin of a stealth bomber and moving with the speed of an offshore racer, an 88-foot experimental military watercraft is generating double takes among boaters in Florida Keys waters. The Stiletto is in Key West preparing for operations with the Joint Interagency Task Force South.

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bad. ass. - andy brudtkuhl

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A link! http://www.mshipco.com/militar... - Daniel J. Pritchett

"Although not intended to become operational, the Stiletto was deployed to Colombia to help fight the U.S. war on drugs and made a high-speed, shallow-water drug interdiction that resulted in the capture of 1,800 lbs. of cocaine." - Daniel J. Pritchett

"The Stiletto, a twin M-hull vessel, is 88 ft in length with a 40 ft beam, providing a rectangular deck area equivalent to a conventional displacement craft 160 ft in length. The vessel's draft fully loaded is 3 feet and is designed for a speed of 50-60 knots." - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thanks, Daniel, I should have more pictures of this thing taken locally later today :) - Eric Logan

lots of room for photovoltaic here, would make a fine electric boat, on a smaller scale, say a ferry or watertaxi, or even a vacation rental! - daviza

I thought stealth boats were being dumped. - Slappy Line

It's not really stealthy at all, just a cool hull shape. The headine is misleading. - Daniel J. Pritchett

It could possibly be stealthy under cloak of darkness otherwise its attracting all kinds of attention. I don't think that drug smugglers are using radar to detect interdiction boats yet. Not sure what advantage low radar signature would have in this instance but, you never know. - Eric Logan

Nah, I just didn't read it properly. What is that, five hulls? - Slappy Line

Two "M" hulls mm - Daniel J. Pritchett

I predict in the future of maritime craft that the number of hulls will increase on a par with the number of blades in a gillette razor. Eventually, there will be so many hulls and so finely spaced that designers will realise the most efficient hull design is the Viking longboat. - Slappy Line

Live4Emma (L4S) to Live4Emma's feed, Nature, Vintage photos, Photography United, Fotograf

Mount Vesuvius Erupting in 1944 - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...

August 24 - Comment - Like - Share

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"It was 1944 and the Second World War was raging. In Italy, American airmen were stationed at Pompeii Airfield when the debris started falling, but this was no ordinary wartime air raid. The cinder and rock dropping from the sky were being sent forth by the volcano dominating the horizon: Mount Vesuvius. Overhead, bombers wheeled in the air, their pilots’ minds turning from the threat of flack to an altogether more pervasive menace – but the damage the planes would be dealt was on the ground." - Live4Emma (L4S)

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This is the first time that I've heard about this. Thanks for sharing it! - Michael Fidler

no worries Michael! :-) I seem to remember hearing about it before but never saw pictures from the event.... - Live4Emma (L4S)

Great article and pictures. I was in Sorrento a while ago and I was amazed by how Vesuvius dominated the landscape. - Gordon Herd

Nice one Gordon! I would love to see it in person, one day! - Live4Emma (L4S) from iPod

Robert Scoble

I just spoke with FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit. Did you know that he promised family that FriendFeed would continue? More:

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He told me they messed up by not communicating better last week. The deal happened so fast that they didn't pay attention to everything. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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I like how this is starting - Robert DeBord

o0o0o0 - Mark

Promises ? - johnpiercy

as its own service? - Lee

you are the one who keeps proclaiming its death - Mark

That's what Compaq said when they purchased DEC. (for those of you old enough to remember) - RobinDotNet

A promise is not a guarantee. - Amit Morson

Such a tease, Robert. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

More smoke-blowing. I don't care of Paul swore on the graves of his ancestors. Actions speak louder than words. Some vague promise to a group of people I'm excluded from doesn't do much to assuage my unease. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, you're right, but it's not smoke. - Louis Gray

Okay, Louis, true. I retract that first sentence. The rest of it, however, I'm sticking by. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva: well I feel a lot better about things today. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Continue just as it is? Or with key changes? - Karma Martell

I would expect them to post more on this topic soon - on their personal blogs. - Louis Gray

If that's what Paul wants to promise us, he needs to release some kind of official statement, not send a message through Robert. - Rochelle

Soon. - Louis Gray

I bet you as part of the contract, its in there not to shut this down - Stephen Pickering

Rochelle: there are too many unknowns to make a definitive statement yet. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

keeping my hopes up. but i do remember working at a few radio stations that were bought, we'd get a memo saying 'the format is not going to change' about three weeks before we switched to spanish. i think there is just too much here for ff to vanish. keep the dream alive! - michael sean wright

How can he when it`s lost all of its autonomy? Supplanted by Facebook, bought outright no? - sofarsoShawn

It couldve been part of the deal not to let the site die - Stephen Pickering

Robert, like you said, one can hope. However both of us know how corporates work and it takes one small decision from share holders to close down the service, no matter what. - Nir Ben Yona

They want to get to Facebook and get those unknowns nailed down first. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Holden and Rochelle, etc., let's be patient. If you see the post I put up last night and add Robert's comments here, we should be feeling a lot better today than we did on Monday. - Louis Gray

Robert, all right. Well, after my initial freak-out over this, I've gone into complete wait-and-see mode. More of these vague promises and 'coming soon' messages don't really do much for me. When someone say something definitive, then I'll be there to consume it. The rest of this just doesn't add up for much. - Akiva Moskovitz

That was a great post Louis - Stephen Pickering

Thanks, Stephen. I thought it was important. - Louis Gray

Akiva, exactly, waiting for official word. - Kol Tregaskes

Nir: the way it was told to me contractually it can't be closed down anytime soon. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I hope they don't change it so you have to have a Facebook account to use it. I have one, but share it with very few; I use Twitter and FF for everyone. I want to be able to use it the way I do now. - RobinDotNet

Like any takeover/merger, some details just take time to work out. Hopefully FF can stay around in some form and help make FB better. We'll just have to wait and see. Thanks, Robert, for the info. - Mark Edwards

I agree, we haven`t seen anything substantive in the way of contract etc but fingers crossed. - sofarsoShawn

But doesn't mean it won't be shutdown at some point? - Kol Tregaskes

And, Louis, I didn't see your post from last night but I'll read it as soon as I get back from the store. - Akiva Moskovitz

was Pownce a bit like Friendfeed? I never used it - Mark

I can't get my hopes up when Facebook is in the picture. :-( - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I am very happy to hear that! I hope it gets bigger than Twitter. It's a much better service. - Sam Guzman

Stable Door and Horse comes to mind. - Kevin J Hatton

The fact that the FF folks haven't yet said "This is how we want it, so this is how it's going to be" is just evidence that they don't have the final say on the matter. If it's subject to some additional authority/approval, nothing is certain at this point. - Ken Sheppardson

Kol: it won't be shut down anytime soon. He was quite clear about that. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Kol, the truth is they work for Facebook now, and therefore, FriendFeed can/will change, and it may not change 100% how you and I want. It may be part of Facebook's site later, and it may not. But Facebook is changing from what we know of it now to something new where they overlap. - Louis Gray

In other words that was in the contract. Makes sense, since they were hesitant anyway - Stephen Pickering

Robert, OK but maybe at some point though. - Kol Tregaskes

I sure would like it if FF continued indefinitely. - Jason Nunnelley

Kol: nothing in life is guaranteed. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Patience is a good thing. That said, if FriendFeed wasn't growing at a rate much higher than it has been, something would have to change. You don't bottle up such talent and experience and have it work on a product that was losing. - Louis Gray

Robert, What about death and taxes? - RobinDotNet

Good to hear. I am sure they will take time to decide what exactly to do with FF. How to integrate them together. What to do etc. FF the R&D for FB I think it could be - Robert Anderson

Robert, true. All a bit vague still though. - Kol Tregaskes

Scoble: encourage Facebook to keep FriendFeed as a premium brand. Let them tie it to Facebook data or whatever, but keep the system separate. - Gary

Louis, right, this gives them legitimacy and exposure - Stephen Pickering

Kol... if they wanted to grow they way they "deserved" to grow, this place would have changed underneath your feet to something you might hate. This is one way to put real capital and people behind the site as it is now. - Louis Gray

So what? Do they continue try to grow friendfeed as an individual product? Or do they just leave it alive for those of us who actually use it? - Sam Guzman

If this thing grows by leaps and bounds, FB is not going to close it - Stephen Pickering

Mark: anytime a blogger says something is dead ALL that means is that it is less interesting than yesterday. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Over time, we will learn, Sam. It's a classical marketing/engineering decision. Do you build for the current user base, or the potential user base? With change. some were bound to leave anyway. - Louis Gray

Louis, not arguing that at all. My point was about shutting it down or not. I'm at the wait-and-see stage, waiting for more news from FF. - Kol Tregaskes

And any time I write a headline that says it's NOT dead... maybe I know what I'm talking about. :) - Louis Gray

But this service grows more useful the more users there are - Stephen Pickering

Something needs to happen. Twitter is useless now - maybe a new denial of service attack. I would love to see the Friendfeed technology spread to the mass user base that Facebook has. - Frode Stenstrøm

Yeah, I understand. Maybe some of the extra publicity from the acquisition will lead to an increase in users...curious people signing up to see what it's all about. - Sam Guzman

Well, at least he acknowledged they messed up. - Rodfather

oh sweet, I just spent ages adding friendfeed people, setting up privacy and setting up FF to stream to my FB....now this might be a waste of time? - Franz Sittampalam from IM

Frode: that was what Paul told me too. He wants the tech here to be used by everyone. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I don't understand why Google didn't buy it instead. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Rod, FriendFeed has no PR or Marketing. Maybe if they did, this would have been handled differently. Some things come naturally, and others are hard. But I bet you will see a lot more soon. - Louis Gray

I've heard the same from another founder, Robert. - Anne Bouey

Franz, no official word, just wait for an announcement from FF. - Kol Tregaskes

They didn't want to work for google again. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Makes you wonder about a due diligence ckecklist and the speed of getting this deal done - courtney benson

Kinda why they left. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Right, look at Google Reader. They don't know how to do social - Stephen Pickering

It's all wonky and hard to understand - Stephen Pickering

But GR is going in that direction. - Kol Tregaskes

Companies come and companies go. They can go by closing their doors or by being acquired. Only time will tell whether FriendFeed has come and gone. - Jeff Sayre

Google Reader is nothing like FF. No one really uses the social features. - Sam Guzman

GR is trying, but its all wonky and totally un understandable - Stephen Pickering

Oh. I just don't trust Facebook at all and can barely stand using it after being here. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Jannifer, I think we have to look beyond the caricatures of people like Zuckerberg, and recognize that he too may want the same things we do. Facebook is growing up and I bet FriendFeed and its team is a big part of that. - Louis Gray

Louis, hope so. - Kol Tregaskes

courtney: Paul talked about that too. He said once the team made the decision they knew it had to be closed overnight to prevent it from leaking. - Robert Scoble

Louis I think its a perfect marriage, genius engineers + genius Marketers - Stephen Pickering

Real real time would be awesome in Facebook. I really hope it comes soon. - Sam Guzman

Well, he didn't quite say "prevent it from leaking" but he said "it's important to do it all at once." I knew what he meant, though, that it had to be done fast to keep things from getting crazy, like they do once decisions like this get taken into public sphere. - Robert Scoble

I am sure paul is truthful in that he would like for it to go that way, but this is a M&A situation, and even if it is written into the agreement, there are a million ways around it. At the end of the day, shareholders make the rules in a majority vote. If ff isn't integrated in fb somehow, I fail to see how it benefits fb. - Erik Boles from iPhone

Kol: Paul was emphatic that Facebook is a far more interesting company at this time in both company's history. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Somehow this doesn't sound too convincing. If Friendfeed has been losing a LOT of regular users because of their deal with Facebook, they'd be concerned. Friendfeed is likely to get you to speak on their behalf, since you are their most popular user. Maybe Paul is trying to convince you, so that he can indirectly convince others too. That might save an early end to Friendfeed brought on by the rapid loss of users. - K N Ajit Narayan

I totally agree with Paul, by the way. Facebook is a much more interesting company to join right now than Google is. - Robert Scoble

Facebook = Microsoft 2.0 - scott anderson

Robert: Did he mention anything about Mashable reporting an acquisition had been talked about since `07? - sofarsoShawn

YAY! thanks Scoble for letting us know - i feel alot better today! - Chris Clayton

Hey, Microsoft had a decent run - Stephen Pickering

Louis: yeah, Zuckerberg is a lot smarter and a lot more down to earth than most of the press gives him credit for. He's always been straight up with me. Much better than other companies have treated me. - Robert Scoble

And that's even including getting kicked off of Facebook for 24 hours. - Robert Scoble

@ Scott, LOL Facebook = Microsoft 2.0! I see your point, but it far surpasses Microsoft Live attempt at a social network. - Nakeva Corothers

Erik: technologies that have great audiences don't get killed. If anything will kill it, it will be us. By leaving. - Robert Scoble

Robert, cool. Well if they can ditch a lot of their annoying features, like this FB Lite might be, then I might be interested in moving over with all the FF features implemented but I just can't work with FB in it's currently state. I had another go this weekend and still didn't like it. But I'd be even happier if FF stayed here. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

this is gonna be an interesting story to follow for sure. For now I am just using friendfeed the way I have been and see what comes out down the road. life is about changes. - (jeff)isageek

sofarsoShawn: I don't know what you're talking about regarding Mashable. - Robert Scoble

Maybe I missed it earlier in this thread but why can't they just come out and say something directly to the community? Obviously a lot of people are concerned and anxious about it... Why do we have to hear second-hand? And why has it all been so vague? No news is not necessarily good news in cases like this. - Fa La La La Lindsay

Robert, Leo called himself Leo Scoble today because he deleted his 5000 FB friends and moved them over to his fan page - Stephen Pickering

jeff: yeah. Visiting Facebook is going to get more interesting. He also said that the first month at Facebook (which starts Monday) will be all about learning about Facebook's code. So, no new features will come quickly. - Robert Scoble

Ok. I hope Facebook changes a LOT so it's more tolerable. Although I don't like it, I need to set up a good Facebook page for business so I can remain competitive. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I hope they do right by you. You brought them to the party. I hope that gets recognized somehow monetarily. - Jim Posner

Saying that it might be shut down at some point doesn't tell us anything new, though; after all, any site might be shut down at some point due to going out of business etc. - Tristan Seligmann

When anything comes out of this it was always going to be long term. - Kol Tregaskes

Can i just add - Paul never said friendfeed was going to die in the first place... instead they said the complete opposite - "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." - Chris Clayton

I'm not sure why everyone dislikes Facebook. What's wrong with it? - Sam Guzman

sofarsoShawn, yes, Facebook had been talking to FriendFeed since 2007. - Louis Gray

Lindsay, I bet the FriendFeed team has a very busy week and maybe you hear from them on all this soon. - Louis Gray

Robert: "technologies that have great audiences don't get killed..." oh, come on, you know better than that! My dad worked at IBM so I've been seeing tech companies kill great stuff that their customers liked for most of my life!!!! - Fred Davis

Jim, Scoble has gotten no money from FriendFeed (nor have I). Neither one of us expects to, as that would change the relationship. - Louis Gray

He said FF would continue operating normally "for now". That was what freaked people out. But I'm glad to hear that Paul and company have plans to keep the service running for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't want to wake up one morning and find my favorite service was shut down. - Jason Huebel

Fred, right, the Innovators Dilemma, but in this case its cost of running a website is halving every year - Stephen Pickering

Louis: yes, but Paul told me that when I last was in the office they hadn't yet decided to go to Facebook. Everything happened in the past two weeks. I think you even walked in on one of their key decision points. He said they worked all weekend long on the agreement. - Robert Scoble

Fred: nothing in life is guaranteed, yeah, you're right. But there's no business reason to turn this off anytime soon. If we all leave there will be. - Robert Scoble

Robert: e.g., consumer company changes focus to biz or gets acquired... new company direction leads to consumer products getting killed despite popularity... that's just one of many ways that good tech gets killed all the time!!! - Fred Davis

No disagreement on that at all, Robert. I know I walked in on something big, and that was my mistake for not calling ahead. - Louis Gray

Seems their valuation stood on Roberts shoulders to some degree. At the least, a public thanks would have been nice. - Jim Posner

Jason: i know, thats what got me freaked out too - i just thought i would add it in incase anyone missed it :) and because im a little bored! lol - Chris Clayton

If FF were Twitter, we'd be screaming bloody blue murder about how they don't "get" user communication, etc., etc. - Chris Baskind

Fred, can you give any examples? Any software I used to use that is no longer available was replaced with something better. - RobinDotNet

No business reason that WE understand... 'cuz we don;t go to Facebook board meetings ;-) Facebook may have their own agenda... in fact, I assume they do... - Fred Davis

Jim: I do this because I love it, not because I expect thanks or goodies. - Robert Scoble

Why even bring this up if they can't talk about it? Nothing has changed just more innuendo and smoke and mirrors and a lot of 'what ifs'. Wake me when there's something concrete. - Derrick

Robert: when you talk to paul next, can you push him into doing a public announcement on it all? Just give him a nudge in the right direction! :) - Chris Clayton

RobinDotNet... god, too many to count! First one I was bummed about was in '85 when Musicworks was the best MIDI program on the Mac... got acquired by some jerky game company that decided it wasn't a game and stranded all the users! Yeah, eventually new better stuff came along... but that didn't do the users of the current any good at that time... - Fred Davis

Derrick: sorry, I totally disagree. I didn't know that contractually they can't kill the service anytime soon. - Robert Scoble

Derrick, there is more than smoke. - Louis Gray

It makes sense, they had leverage to make that deal - Stephen Pickering

Fred -- Okay, so that was one that was 24 years ago. Have any more recent examples? If you can't think of any, then they obviously weren't that important. - RobinDotNet

Because they were hesitant, they had the leverage to make that part of the deal. Makes total sense - Stephen Pickering

Um, apple buys leading music sequencing package and kills of PC version because, um, they want to force you to use a mac... come on, the list is endless!!! Companies screw customers by killing good products for their own reasons all the time.... - Fred Davis

Sorry, things are moving fast in this thread. There's a contractual obligation on FB's part to keep FF running? - Jason Huebel

Fred, you keep saying the list is endless, but the only one you can name is one that came out about 2 years after the 1st Mac, 24 years ago. I'm just saying.... - RobinDotNet

Fred, but what if part of the deal was not to kill it? - Stephen Pickering

This whole "Friendfeed is dead" mantra is, has, and always will be nothing more than an attempt to get attention. Friendfeed is successful and Facebook would never do anything to destroy that. - Paul L. McCord Jr.

Derrick: believe me, Louis and I have been talking and concerned about the messaging coming out of this deal more than anyone. We both invested a lot of our time/careers here. Louis has been talking with the team too and that's where his post came from yesterday. I suggest you read it and read between the lines too. - Robert Scoble

Understand Robert, Really not about your motivation, just good manners in my opinion for Friendfeed to thank you publically. Maybe they have and I missed it. I think you did more for promoting the service than the founders. - Jim Posner

now, what facebook decides to do with friendfeed... who knows... Yahoo kept Flickr going... so far... but that seems like the exception... no one's really using jabber any more, but it lives on in the upcoming Wave and as XMPP at Google... - Fred Davis

agreed scoble promoted the service in a big way - Franz Sittampalam from IM

Jim: thanks, appreciate it. Paul did thank me in the interview I did with him right after the announcement was made. - Robert Scoble

If there is a contractual obligation on FB's part to keep FF running, the obvious question is what does this contract state and does it give a duration. Hopefully we'll hear more later. - Kol Tregaskes

Why? What would be the point? I respect you two enough and all that you do in the world of social media and that's fine. I want a place I can converse, post my pictures, air my gripes, and continue to establish the friends I've made via Friendfeed. Will I be able to do that or not? I'm so tired of the conjecture. Some of us, are just people who love the service and more than anything, very simply, we just want to be able to utilize it. - Derrick

Kol: I call it the "Paul is sleeping on the couch for a month" clause. ;-) - Robert Scoble

LOL, Robert. - Kol Tregaskes

For a company like Facebook, I would imagine that the consolidation of branding advantage would lead me to suspect that even if Friendfeed is kept going in some way, it will be re-branded as Facebook... just like Longs, Wamu, and Wells Fargo are going through right in Facebook's backyard. - Fred Davis

Derrick, this is the place to do that. :) - Louis Gray

"For now". ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Throws sheep at Kol - Louis Gray

Hehe, Louis. - Kol Tregaskes

The other main issue I have is that, now we are creating content for Facebook. Facebook owns our data. For some reason I didn't mind Paul and his team, they were blacksheep. If I wanted to make Facebook richer I would type in Facebook in the URL. I dont want to make Facebook richer. - Robert Higgins

What are the alternatives to FF? Isn't there Streamy, Plurk, SocialThing? - Eric

Louis, I'll be counting sheep soon, need sleep. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Eric, we've been evaluating alternatives in the CloneFeed/OpenFF room. None of them really come anywhere close to what FF offers. - Jason Huebel

Eric, none of those services are really similar. SocialThing is closest, but FF is still quite a bit different. - Sam Guzman

Of course, since I'm hoping Grabbit will replace Friendfeed for most people, I'm more than a little biased, and that makes me care a lot less about what happens to Friendfeed... even though I love the service, and hope Facebook keeps it going. We're already planning to support Friendfeed in Grabbit, and the new Friendfeed API is awesome, so who knows what the extent of the disruption... more... - Fred Davis

Sam, I know there is something. I am upset, because I wanted to buy FF someday! :) - Eric

So the word now is that FF will be around for a while AND Paul's mentioned the possibility that parts of FF might be open sourced. Any idea what parts? - Jason Huebel

There has to be an alternative. - Eric

Jason: too early to know that for sure. I'd start with the API. From what my friends are telling me who are good developers the API is actually very well thought out. - Robert Scoble

Eric: Not really. Make one. - Sam Guzman

There was an alternative, but I think it shut down. - Eric

There is no need to replace FriendFeed. That there are options to decentralize our info is great, but I'm not going anywhere. - Louis Gray

It was called SocialThing. - Eric

Fred: I just don't like Facebook's service for WHAT I DO. For my wife? It's freaking awesome. And the execs there have always treated me very well (Zuckerberg walked around Davos with me, while every other journalist was drooling over the opportunity to do that -- he's a lot nicer and smarter than most people give him credit for). - Robert Scoble

SocialThing got bought by AOL, and it wasn't as good as FF anyway. You could see people's activity, but there was no real interaction. FF is what it is because of the interaction. - Sam Guzman

Eric & Jason: my new web thingie Grabbit, will do everything Friendfeed does and more, so much more... it's still in alpha, and the beta won't be out until next month... but already the alpha features better Facebook and integration than Friendfeed, IMHO... so, check out grabbit.net and ask to be on the beta list, and we'll keep you posted... - Fred Davis

@Louis, I'm not going anywhere either. But this acquisition not only scared people that FF might go away but also that their data would go with it. So there is /some/ need for alternatives. - Jason Huebel

It was called Rejaw, and it was shut down. - Eric

Fred: can't wait to see more about Grabbit. - Robert Scoble

Robert: Hey dude, I TOTALLY agree with you about Facebook! I've been telling people for a while that I think Facebook is in the process of Yahoo-ing themselves... and that ain't no compliment! - Fred Davis

FriendFeed family or real family? - Mona Nomura

FF is crazy to sell. They should've sold to Google, what were they thinking? - Eric

I think someone needs to create a web dashboard like FF, but that somehow integrates e-mail. - Sam Guzman

louis i agree with you. i am not going anywhere either. this is the place i love and think is awesome - (jeff)isageek

Robert, is Paul referencing his FriendFeed family or real family? (not expanding thread - too long) - Mona Nomura

Mona: real family AND FriendFeed family. They are one and the same if you look at it the right way. - Robert Scoble

Sam: what do you mean "intergrate email" friendfeed already has email features so it depends on what you mean... - Chris Clayton

Same here, Jeff. If FF is still around I'm not budging. It it goes FB on us then it's bye-bye. - Kol Tregaskes

Google Wave is like FF? - Eric

Sam, got that in Grabbit... email, RSS, blog alerts, news alerts, and more... plus the coolest friend management stuff to help you sort all that out, not just the messages, updates, and alerts... - Fred Davis

Mona: if you want me to do something for you, talk Maryam into it first. :-) - Robert Scoble

Fred: Then I am really excited to try it. - Sam Guzman

Eric: just like the others you mentioned, it has 1 or 2 similar features, but completely different! - Chris Clayton

and twitter, facebook, friendfeed, etc., of course... we're starting a signup on grabbit.net... - Fred Davis

I used to use FeedEachOther which was like FF. - Eric

Chris: Like the friendfeed stream, you could login and see all your friend's activity, but also see your latest e-mails (Could be easily accessed with a sidebar link, like direct messages). By commenting on an e-mail, you could reply. Just like FF direct messages, but it would send a real e-mail response. Does that make sense? - Sam Guzman

Now there is Google Reader. - Eric

Google reader is improving, but still has a long way to go. On the social side. - Bluesun 2600

That's the one thing I've always liked about FriendFeed - the founders (and staff) interacts with the community, as do their family members. The community members were treated like family, too. :) Whatever which way, hopefully Facebook will integrate FriendFeed's functions to carry on the "feel" over there as well. Personally, I have the more the merrier approach! BTW see you Thursday, Robert! Gnomedex sold out! - Mona Nomura

I'm not up to speed with this discussion, but FB must have bought FF to merge FF tech into FB. FF for everybody, not just Scoble and tech friends. - Zato Gibson

...would continue as independant application or as zombie inside "failbook"? ;-/ - Claude LaFrenière

Sam: i was actually looking for a way to have the subjects of my emails show up on my friendfeed dashboard awhile ago - do you mean like that? Because that would be awesome! - Chris Clayton

i would love to see friendfeed get a killer mobile app...maybe improve on fftogo a little more - (jeff)isageek

Google Reader is my current alternative btw. I've found the share box today and now using it like FF's share box. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Google Reader is great, but it's not built to replace FriendFeed. It's not an aggregator, for one. - Louis Gray

one thing is I don't think you can share images from pages as easily as FF's share. - Bluesun 2600

Life2front has anyone heard of it? - Eric

Chris: Yes, maybe have a subject show up in your feed, and clicking would expand to reveal the full e-mail. Reply's could be generated by commenting on the e-mail. I'm sure FF won't integrate this, but I'm just throwing it out there. It's something I wish some social service would integrate. Either that, or make e-mail inboxes more social. Kind of like Yahoo e-mails new features, but better executed. How cool would it be to login to your e-mail and be greeted by a FF like social stream. - Sam Guzman

i think you can look at two services that were bought up and never really changed all this time in flickr and delicous so hey maybe friendfeed stays around as it is...maybe just integrates a bit more or something with facebook - (jeff)isageek

Well you can put your services into a folder then create a bundle and share it. But no not quite like FF. It lacks a lot of features and Comments view is awful. - Kol Tregaskes

and look how long google had grand central before they really even started doing anything with it. - (jeff)isageek

I guess what I'm saying is, don't keep e-mail so separate from the rest of your online social activity. It should be more integrated than it is now, in my opinion. Why not include it in a service like FF? - Sam Guzman

So Friendfeed stays on as a side project instead of being abandoned. Does that really make a difference in the grand scheme of things? The service isn't going to grow by leaps and bounds either in audience or functionality now. I guess a slow death is easier for people to deal with than a quick one. - Dare Obasanjo

Sam: i love that idea... email services dont have RSS (not that i can find anyway) i was looking for 5 hours for one afew months ago so i could put it in a private group to show up on my FF stream. but i ended up being dissapointed! - Chris Clayton

I hope we all converge over to Google Wave and that some clever sod codes a FF-type service built on the Wave protocol. :-) GWave is great fun to use! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol: are you going to send me a download link? :P im still waiting for it from the 'sneak peek' survey i filled out AGES ago! - Chris Clayton

Whhhhhhat how`d you try it already? - sofarsoShawn

Dare: there are lots of things that don't get many new features but are still very popular. FriendFeed still has way more features and is better technology than anything else I've seen in the marketplace. Maybe someone will eclipse it, but that won't happen soon and, yes, a slow death is definitely better than a quick one. Why? Cause you can make plans and change your behavior. - Robert Scoble

Download link for GWave? Don't work like that. ;-) Just wait until 30th September, Chris. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Chris, yeah, and I think what I'm describing would take more than just RSS integration. But Kol is right, maybe Google Wave will be the answer :) I can't wait to try it! Especially if other services can be integrated like in FF. - Sam Guzman

Kol: but september is too long to wait :( blame scoble for making me a social media addict! :) - Chris Clayton

Hehe, it will fly by. - Kol Tregaskes

Robert: if this is just about whether they'll shut off the servers or not then why is this even causing hubbub? Given the complaining of a vocal set of users I'm sure that even if they planned to shut off the site, it'll keep going for a while. However it seems obvious that all their innovative ideas and day time hacking should be filled with innovating on Facebook not here. - Dare Obasanjo

As both Louis and I have said - these guys have been nothing but actions thus far and haven't let us down. I see nothing changing from that yet, so I suggest everyone continue that trust. They have done nothing to break that trust yet. And like I wrote about, Facebook needs them as much as they need Facebook - Facebook wants to change into something more of what FriendFeed is, from what I've seen and read. - Jesse Stay

It's not about shutting the servers off for some (most?) folks, it's a matter of how you reconcile FriendFeed and Facebook's views on content licensing, ownership, and privacy; whether we'll continue to see innovation at a pace faster than what Facebook's user base has historically been comfortable with; and whether we'll see a continuation of Friendfeed's openness towards third party developers and the open source community. - Ken Sheppardson

And as I've said over and over again, Jesse, I think most of us trust the FriendFeed folks as individuals, but that trust doesn't necessarily transfer to Facebook as an institution. - Ken Sheppardson

I second Ken. Zuckerbergs plans/dreams are also a kind of wild-card here. They could be favorable to us FriendFeed users, or not. Up till now, Zuckerberg hasn't done much favorable for me. That sucks. I wish it were different. - Meryn Stol

Say what you want about Facebook but Zuckerberg and/or Facebook has revolutionized the Internet by forcing people to be real. (not real-time) It even reflects on Youtube - the commenters aren't as moronic as they were say three years ago, since more and more people are using their real names and identities. - Mona Nomura

It's always like this and it never turns out the way Paul says it will, though I believe his intentions are honorable. At some point you no longer work for the old company and you start working for the new one. My guess is this has already happened. Soon people from the old team will have their new assignments, and then one day the server will go down. They'll bring it back up, but... more... - Dave Winer

Damn, Dave. And I thought that *I* was a cynic. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I've been through it myself, and been in Paul's position. - Dave Winer

Dave, I don't doubt that at all. It's just amazing from my perspective to see it put so honestly. Well put, sir. - Akiva Moskovitz

Only when I was in Paul's position, I had a simpler situation cause we were developing shrinkwrap software and our mission was supposedly unchanged. We didn't have servers that had to be kept up 24-by-7. Even so, six months after the merger, the whole thing was turned upside down and the team had all-new priorities and tons of people had left, including the top guy (me!). I would get... more... - Dave Winer

Well put, Mona! - Jesse Stay

Dave, I expect it to change, but I also expect that Facebook is doing this for not just the team they just acquired. I think Facebook really wants this technology. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, that may be true but they'll want it for Facebook. And if you're a fan of Facebook, that's great, Facebook's going to get better. But if you're not? If you're a a fan of FriendFeed? Then all you're going to end up with is a bastardized FriendFeed with lots of dipshit apps. - Akiva Moskovitz

Jesse: I'm not so sure. The technology will need to be rebuilt for the Facebook infrastructure. That's one reason why Paul doesn't have good answers for us yet. He said he needs a few weeks to really dig into Facebook's code base before he even has a good idea of where he and the FriendFeed'ers can really add value. - Robert Scoble

Akiva, I'm a fan of both. And you know you can ignore those apps - that's not something you can do on FriendFeed or Twitter. FriendFeed would have gotten just as bad as it grew. - Jesse Stay

Dave: thinking back on why I joined FriendFeed, it was because I expected that the team would do something interesting in the future. That reason has now been fulfilled and now that these guys are at Facebook it'll be interesting to see what they do. - Robert Scoble

Jesse, where is the button to ignore the apps? I want to ignore all of them, all the time. Instead, I have to click hide on every single bloody one of them and still get notifications from people wanting me to add apps. I'd tolerate Facebook better if there was a magic "no apps, ever" button. - Rochelle

Somewhat selfishly, I have just gained a whole load of new friends on Fb, here and on Google Reader and have learned loads about sharing and subscribing for which I thank you all :-) I will just watch and wait now, but I do agree that if everyone dashes off somewhere else and deserts FF, it could well hasten its demise. Best to try and use all the services and interlink them if we can. - Julia Ault

Rochelle: I want you to install the FriendFeed app. :) - Louis Gray

I am sure that FB was not happy if FF was going into MS hands or Google hands ,they bought it and now they will be the most important live and live search player on top of the best social community,,I am happy for them and for us as well ,they will keep our home and thats great news - Johni Fisher

Jesse, this is true. I guess my real point is—aside from the easy-as-punch Facebook app snarking—that the very philosophies on which each service was built are essentially different. I'm not saying that these divergent ideas can't be unified. I'm just not convinced that they're compatible enough to be integrated without irritating one group and overwhelming the other. I'm sure the... more... - Akiva Moskovitz

Wish I was a millionaire like him :/ - Mark

"I'm just not convinced that they're compatible enough to be integrated without irritating one group and overwhelming the other. " - very well put, Akiva. - Meryn Stol

Akiva, who says they will become one site? Why not enable the two communities to remain separate if they want, under the Facebook brand? I don't think we know yet what will happen. - Jesse Stay

Good news because I love friend feed in it's current format. - Rob Cairns

Robert, yes, we don't know for sure, but then again we don't know for sure - I don't see reason to change too much of our trust until something actually happens. I do know Facebook wants to open up more, while still retaining your right to privacy. The privacy thing is something FriendFeed (or Twitter) doesn't have, and I think would be a welcome addition. - Jesse Stay

Rochelle, you have to do it either by app, or individual (unless I've missed the option). That said, I would kill for the ability to do that on FriendFeed or Twitter. They don't even have that. - Jesse Stay

Jesse: FriendFeed doesn't have apps, so I'm not sure what exactly you're referring to; if you mean the ability to hide posts aggregated from a particular service, that's already there. - Tristan Seligmann

Last I checked, Jesse, FriendFeed didn't have MafiaWars or Superpoke. - Akiva Moskovitz

(If you click on "Hide", and then "hide other items like this one", you get a whole list of options) - Tristan Seligmann

FriendFeed has a finite number of things to hide ("all items from Bob", "all Flickr posts", etc.). That's much more easy control than the thousands of apps on Facebook. It's like playing whack-a-mole over there. It feels like the more I hide, the more they appear. - Rochelle

Akiva, Tristan, it's only a matter of time before the auto-dm apps appeared on FriendFeed. So long as FriendFeed grows, they will come. So long as it doesn't grow, it *does* disappear. There's no "hide all from the app that generated this DM" option on FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, and, with all of the hide options already present on FriendFeed, you don't think the devs would have had the presence of mind to include something similar for any supposed FriendFeed apps? - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I trust that they'll add that as much as I trust they'll continue to fight for FriendFeed at Facebook. - Jesse Stay

They don't even need any extra options; you can already hide direct posts based on the application that created them. For example, if you hide this post of Robert's, you'll get the option to hide all posts by iPhone. - Tristan Seligmann

Jesse, I think no-one doubts that *they* will fight. The question is if they win. They're just employees now. - Meryn Stol

Again, I'm surprised that my own cynicism—legendary in its own right—is being beaten about the face and neck in this thread. - Akiva Moskovitz

Meryn, I also know the Facebook team - they're just as competent as FriendFeed's. Their original audience started different than FF's, but they too have to expand. - Jesse Stay

Holden: engagement. - Robert Scoble

It's hard for innovators to stop innovating, and for entrepreneurs to lose the total freedom and self-reliance that drives them. Every entrepreneur that I know personally (only a few, alas!) who has sold for the big bucks has eventually gone on to create something else. - Kathy Fitch

Jesse, as I said earlier, my lack of knowledge on the plans of Zuckerberg is the problem. Do you know Zuckerberg? In the end, he's gonna decide what appears on Facebook or not. Also, it's not so much a matter of competence than it is a matter of vision and taste. - Meryn Stol

I'm sure the FB engineers are competent. - Meryn Stol

And wouldn't it be fascinating to have a gander at the kinds of separation agreements folks who leave FB must sign? Almost as interesting as seeing the acquisition agreement in this case. - Kathy Fitch

It's totally unclear if future conversations we might have on FB will ever be indexable by Google. (or any other search engine) That all depends on Zuckerberg's final say. I can't look in the guy's head. - Meryn Stol

Sure seems like you're scrambling, Robert, to place yourself in the center of this when you were completely blindsided by the sale. Justs sayin' - Mattb4rd

Louis, nope! Those are two separate worlds for me and I intend to keep it that way. - Rochelle

Once you stop owning something you lose the ability to make promises about it. Good intentions or no. One hard headed business decision like FF is not earning its keep or we need the resources elsewhere and it's done. Been on both sides. - Todd Hoff

The only thing that would make a real difference in this case would be an unambiguous statement from Mark Zuckerberg himself. Let him address the FF community and actually say what he will commit himself to. I suppose he's a man of his word. - Meryn Stol

Good news. Doin' the right thing! - Rob Schieber

Yeah sure! Promises Promises!!! - Jose Luis Santos

Hmm. A whole lot of the sale was in stock options. Takes awhile to get fully vested. The next few years should prove very interesting. - Kathy Fitch

How can you live up to that promises when you no longer own it? - John D Reasor

....hmmmm, we got the wrong impression then? - Mark Essel

Nevermind, I'd feel a helluva lot better with an unattached open social media where I could rely on keeping contacts and connections however weak for as long as I chose to continue using the service. - Mark Essel

Actions speak louder then words, and the key is the final decision is no longer up to him. I am sure Paul means every word he says I just not sure he is going to be able to keep it. - Kim Landwehr

I don't expect FF to go away right away. I just expect things will definitely be different. I do hope that FB does improve, but I am also branching out given the sale. - Kevin Whalen

"Promises are a bourgeois invention and, anyway, they're meant to be broken." [V. I. Lenin quoted from inexact memory] by - ianf ⌘

@louisgray's »If you see the post I put up last night...« <http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...> If you cared for others to read that post, you'd have included a direct link to it. It's the essence of hypertext, and any "Silicon Valley early adopter, tech geek blogger" worth the name would have done just... more... - ianf ⌘

It would make some business sense to keep FF as some kind of separate site/module, if just to stop another site taking it's place and becoming another competitor. - Robert Littlejohn

Hi Ian! I get what you are saying, but sometimes, dropping links to my own posts in other people's threads looks like spam. I also believe a good number of people saw it, and know how to get it otherwise. That said, it's right here: http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Louis Gray

Robert - To say Facebook is more interesting to work for than Google may be a stretch. While Facebook is growing exponentially and has challenges, Google faces HUGE challenges just staying Google ... while exploring new areas of growth. Keeping the index relevant is a big challenge in itself. On the other hand ... the 'FF guys' have worked there already and know how they feel about what direction they wanted to go ... which .. I think ... makes a little more sense? - Charlie Anzman

Charlie: remember most of this team already worked at Google. Facebook is pre IPO. Google is not. The potential rewards are much larger at Facebook and the potential to have an impact is much larger at Facebook too. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Posting links (references) to one's other posts "looks like spam"? That's news to me, and a lame excuse. In any event, given main difference between worlds of analog and digital publishing being ability in the latter case to refer back to source in unambiguous and granular fashion (rather than, as in analog, to indicate issue, chapter, page, verse, line, etc - if at all), not including... more... - ianf ⌘

ianf, I agree, but it feels like spam when you're doing it. Encourage him nicely. - Bruce Lewis

i suspect that, if FF were to survive relatively unchanged it will be through an open-source effort. i doubt FF will survive as a stand-alone site w/ Fb paying the freight. - MikeAmundsen

Why don't the FF founders release an official statement saying how long the site will continue and what we can expect if we stay? - Tomy Thomson

Keep in mind that despite the best intentions, nearly half of all sincere promises end in divorce. - April Russo (app103)

Robert: I agree that the technology with great audiences don't get killed off, but the name of the game to the shareholders is money. It makes a ton more sense for facebook to integrate friendfeed into facebook, an already monetizable model, vs. leaving it as a de-coupled technology that has to have a new revenue model built for it. - Erik Boles

like x1000 - Raphael, Raphael

With so much money still on the table in the form of stock options, there's certainly plenty of motivation to make FB stellar. If FF ends up being treated well, too (for whatever reason--a promise, a warm fuzzy feeling, its potential role in helping to make FB stellar), then I'm all for that. - Kathy Fitch

There is a way to argue keeping FF going makes sense to FB: The important thing in social software ISN'T the software, it's the people who use it. If the people who use FF are sufficiently different to those on FB, then it could make sense to keep both services. Possibly they may end up using the same software, but have different brands. Think of VW group in cars (SEAT/Skoda/VS/Audi are... more... - Nick Lothian

That makes me feel better about trying to switch mainly to Friendfeed. - Hunt from iPhone

Interesting thread. I think that Paul has the best intention and he will do everything he can to keep the existing service up. Dave Winer has a good summary of the forces he will have to fight against. Making a Facebook vs. Google vs. Microsoft decision was probably a hard one. I am wondering if Twitter was in the race too...Twitter + Friendfeed could have been a great team to go... more... - Edwin Khodabakchian

Why the outreach now and not earlier in the week? Has something spooked the FF team? Seeing people looking for alternatives, and poking around Google Reader, Streamy, SocialThing, perhaps? Robert said it himself, if people leave here, FF dies, and the team doesn't have a whole lot to sell to FB (yeah, arguably) and that could scotch the whole deal. So I'm just wondering why the outreach now? - Dominic Jones

ianf: don't you know, links are dead? ;) - Tristan Seligmann

read it from the begining, I'm happy FF crew is beginning to acknowledge the questions, Dave definitely has a point, but all-in-all I thought death was near, it looks like it gets delayed for some time. The main thing is ppl are still here although reader is the new playground...unfortunately the communication with their team isn't all that good... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Dobromir, "read [297 more comments] from the begining" is not a good advice for anything, least of all here, in the Kingdom of Perpetual Constant Fragmentary Attention Overload, where realtime fly-by comments are the rule. - ianf ⌘

Robert, thank you for sharing this info. I hope everyone got the message clearly. Wonderful news! - Michael Fidler from iPhone

Ok, I hadn't time to read all the comments on this thread. But this sure sounds promising, and I do trust Robert and Louis when they're saying something. So I'm hopeful:) - Patrik Johansson

It is not whether Friendfeed lives or dies. It's whether our free-wheeling, anarchic, community-driven approach will be replaced by the bland family-oriented guidelines of Facebook. Will we still be able to chuckle of Asian men on a beach, for example? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

hey all, we can't return to the past, what happen has already happened, now the question is this one, may a micro community survive inside a large community, the answer is YES, FF community can and may have the same social behaviour it has here, and when move to FB, we need just to preserve our connections, and to maintain the same behaviour. that all, but even ancients tribes don't survive without scarifying some of their tradition. - abdellah

Will Friend feed just get - morphed into Facebook now? clearly they want to take on Twitter. I noticed that I tryed to remove my Friend feed from facebook recently because less techy friends complained that I take over there Friend feeds...! But I can't... mmmm - PRBristolco.uk

FaceFeed. Nom nom nom. - Marlin Forbes

My goodness, there needs to be a way to search comments...I scanned to see if Paul had chimed in, but didn't see that. - Chad Gesser

Scobe: I hope he does chime in. I think he needs to since you broke that. - Chad Gesser

Chad: I think he'll say more after he has a little time at Facebook and can give definitive answers as to what the FriendFeed team is going to do there. He told me that will take several weeks. - Robert Scoble

no i didnt know that - Chris Nwakalo

if so wonderful news - Ronald

Facebook is genuinely interested in best in class customer experience. I can't yet envision what features or practices are incorporated or left behind, but it seems a positive move for users. There is always a die-hard loyal following that doesn't want to see their Freind (feed) go away. Heck, I still record The West Wing on Bravo. - Jeff Marmins

Yeah i sure hope so robert. . i really rather not be on facebook. - RamirezG

Chad, to aid in scanning, you can do a Ctrl-F (or equivalent) and search the current page for "- Paul Buchheit" and/or install my user script that adds a mini avatar to the beginning of each comment http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Scoble, why do you think FriendFeed won't get sacrificed by Facebook management? Most sensible thing, to me, is to get FriendFeed integrated as a feature of Facebook, then eliminate the individual brand. Fact is, it's Facebook's decision at this point, unless the FriendFeed guys got something in writing to the contrary (which likely didn't happen). Sometimes you've got to go with your... more... - Jason Nunnelley

Jason: it doesn't really matter. I've been on Facebook all morning and they already have a lot of FriendFeed's features. Soon the rest will be moved over too. And the servers won't get turned off anytime soon, based on conversations with FriendFeed and Facebook. So, for now, use it and be happy. Me? I've already been spreading out my social networking time just in case. - Robert Scoble

and before he disappears into a part of the web that I can't find.....how do you say his last name? Boo-Kite? Buck-heat? Really, I don't know and I wanna know. Just so I know, You know? - Morgan Haley

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Check out this beautiful 360 Aerial Panorama of New York. You need to have QuickTime to view it, but if you want the best quality use the plug-in on the site. It’s amazing with the plug-in loaded! http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr...

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is there a link to the orig? I think the FF image is static - Keith - @tsudo

OK, it should be up! - Michael Fidler

wow! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Let me know if it works. I think the best view is from Governors Island or the from Downtown with the view pointing up. - Michael Fidler

Over-the-top amazing! - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

Awesome. Like taking the helicopter ride I've been too cheap to pay for... - Mitchell Tsai

Here's another one of London. Amazing! http://bit.ly/qjf6M - Michael Fidler

Here's an amazing one. I just let it go, rather than control it; http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr... - Michael Fidler

It appears the plug-in is no longer necessary. I'm running it in Chrome without one. - Michael Fidler

That is pretty amazing. - Gordon Herd

Nice! - Kol Tregaskes

This is awesome. - Mark Krynsky

The viewer appears to be Flash not Quicktime, - Brian Sullivan

Brian, they changed it since this was first posted back in May. It used to require a VR plug-in which worked with QuickTime, but now it doesn't require anything, However, it looks just as good as before. The images are truly amazing! - Michael Fidler

New York, New York!!! - Myrna

Michael - didn't notice the post date-- "Doesn't require anything" -- Flash must be installed so something is required. The Flash viewer seems to crash a lot though (or at least in Chrome) -- still a great pano. I wonder how it was done -- from a helicopter no doubt but beyond it would be a mystery. - Brian Sullivan

I just tried it in Chrome and recommend Firefox instead. It didn't crash on me in Chrome, but it didn't run smoothly either. - Michael Fidler

Brian, I would love to know how these are made. I know some are done from a helicopter, but if you check out the one from Downtown, it's clearly stationary. I can't even see the reflection of the camera in the building windows when it's turned around 180 degrees. I've posted links to others above. I wonder if I should repost this to a room and if so which one? - Michael Fidler

Here's the link for Sydney http://bit.ly/aFFbZ and I'll grab a few more. - Michael Fidler

I know generally how to make these 360 panos but the only technique I know is shooting from a tripod where you have control of the leveling of the camera and control of the angle of shooting. You have to manipulate out the tripod out of the picture after shooting -- these I have no idea, http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028... is a QTVR one of my living room - Brian Sullivan

A fisheye lens helps ;-) - Slappy Line

All the fisheye does is cut down on the number of shots you need to take -- if it goes 180 in both directions two shots are nominally sufficient on a full frame camera - usually 3 though but that is only if all are shot with the same horizon and with precise angular placement. How you control this in a moving helicopter is beyond me. Maybe more than one camera ? In shots like these where parallax is less of a problem maybe that is the method used - Brian Sullivan

I only said it helps. There's all kinds of other equipment one can use for stabilisation and alignment, including using software after the fact to fix focal points and map the rest of the image around it. - Slappy Line

Google Street View? - Rutger Blom from email

This must be shot completely differently than a stationary panoramic. I'm familiar with the 8 shot method, but the camera needs to be on a tripod as Brian mentioned. If you watch these images load slowly, they look like plates. It sort of reminds me of photosynth, but connected somehow. Now, I really want to find out how it's done. - Michael Fidler

I think regular stationary panoramas are loaded as "plates" (at least you export them that way to edit them) as well so I am not sure that is a clue as to how they were generated. - Brian Sullivan

If I email them, do you think they'll answer? Hi, I was just curious; what’s your secret? You never know. It might be worth a try:) - Michael Fidler

Here's one of U2 (on one of their smaller tours), and I don't think they had a helicopter with them to shoot it. http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr... - Michael Fidler

That one is done from a tripod or monopod of some type it appears -- you can see if you look down the footprint has the logo on it. - Brian Sullivan

Ya, I noticed one that had the logo above it. May they use it when photoshop doesn't do the job perfectly. - Michael Fidler

Logos like that are used to hide the footprint of the tripod or other -- sometimes it can be a lot of work create a shot to cover the spot (or to fill it in using a bitmap editor) so it is just masked. - Brian Sullivan

OK, check out this one http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr... and go into planet view. It's the P next to the directional controls. I wonder if that has something to do with it. Shot off a reflective globe maybe. - Michael Fidler

Michael: So you like "Little Planets"? :) http://www.flickr.com/search... - Holger Eilhard

The "P" gets you the "polar view" -- a standard view that can be created from any 360/180 panorama so that is not a clue as to how it is done either from what I can determine (http://www.flickr.com/groups... is a flickr group dedicated to such polar views) - Brian Sullivan

I've seen them many times before and wondered how they were made, too. This guy has some examples and apparently he uses a 10.5mm lens and then maps them into shape: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Michael Fidler

STUPENDO! Io ci torno il 18 Settembre - PICCHU

Yes the 10.5 is a Nikon fisheye lens -- I use a Peleng 8mm fully manual fisheye -- more suited to my budget. When shooting with tripod you need a parallax correction jig as well -- I use the Nodal Ninja -- which is a reasonable quality low end device. - Brian Sullivan

I was on the Hugin site a few months ago and I found a video that demonstrates how to use the jig. It didn't mention helicopter shots though. In fact, the video was very particular about not having any movement. I think it's time to ask them. - Michael Fidler

Yeah I have seen a number of these panoramas that seem to defy logic. Peter Murphy (who is a pioneer in this type of stuff) has a number of puzzling ones - http://www.mediavr.com/manlyai... (needs Quick time) for example. His weblog has tons of others as well _http://www.mediavr.com/blog/ - Brian Sullivan

@briansullivan I went to an event last night where I came across something that might explain how these are done. If you check out the picture I shot of the equipment; it uses a reflective dome to capture the entire shot all at once and then processes it almost instantly afterwards. http://bit.ly/qD0dn . It basically comes out looking like a globe or a planet before it is processed. Once processed it look like a full panoramic just like the ones here, but in lower resolution. - Michael Fidler

I haven’t seen the digital version yet, but the guy who owns this company told me they would be much sharper than the prints which they give out at the event. I also asked him about the helicopter shots, and he wasn’t sure about compensating for movement, but he didn’t see it as a big problem either. Mystery solved? - Michael Fidler

I don't see this lens/device as "the" answer. Other similar devices have a reputation for low optical quality and low resolution. Peter Murphy almost certainly does not use such a lens. No serious panorama photographer that I have heard of uses anything like this. - Brian Sullivan

I guess the search for an answer continues... - Michael Fidler

http://ff.im/5Hqwp - Marg Uerite

Hi - I own Pixelcase and shot the tour of Sydney aswell as all development. Glad you like my work. - pixelcase

Thank you, I'm glad you found this. I love your work. Based on the number of likes and comments for this post, I think it’s safe to say, I’m not the only one. It would be nice if you could enlighten us with some details about how these are made. - Michael Fidler

Paul Buchheit

Tweeting :)

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Funny! - Robert Scoble

too true - James Miao

Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-) - Robert Scoble

A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse. - Christopher Galtenberg

Heh - Charlie Anzman

Hey! I resemble that remark! - Chris Messina

funny and true :) - Ali

Very clever. - Nicholas Kreidberg

LOL - Steve Chou from fftogo

apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing - Katy Barrilleaux

I love that!! :D - Susan Beebe from iPhone

ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos - Zax Stevens

LOL :D - zsafwan 

That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)! - Chris Myles

Go Chris! - Charlie Anzman

ROFL! - Darren Heydon

Haha! I have this on my facebook :) - Joe Dawson from iPhone

: D - Taylanov

Awesome! - Ladybug Heather

Haha! - muratt

ahahha! brilliant - Jacque

That's about right. - Josh Haley

thats funny lol.. where did u find it - Nicholas Skinner

that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :) - Peter Renshaw

I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/ - agent x

agent x, I like you. Bookmarked. - Dennis Jernberg

Zee. to Zee.'s feed, TheNextWeb Forum, The Bloggers Discussions

Woohoo! We're way past Techcrunch Europe on monthly uniques now...Making us the most popular tech blog in Europe! So chuffed. A long way to go though...(updated: this is old. They've caught up this month, but not to worry, we'll surge ahead again soon! :) )

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Well done, Zee. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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congrats Zee! - Leandro Ardissone ⍨ from IM

congrats :) - alphaxion

Nicely done, Zee. I've watched you grow this site over the past year, and I'm very well impressed.. - Bradley McSpinn

thanks Bradley, much appreciated - Zee.

Congrats Zee. I've enjoyed being able to contribute a piece every now and again. Great progress! - Ken Camp

Well done! I must say I didn't really know about TNW until I subscribed to you on FriendFeed, and now I'm really impressed by your content. So congratulations :) - Jalada

congratulations Zee! - Jeroen De Miranda

We'll see. - Mike Butcher

Good work! They need competition. I hope Mike appreciates what you're doing for him. - Dave Winer

Congrat's. Well deserved! - Michael Fidler

Well done Zee - Amit Morson

nice one - Allen Stern

: ))) pushing that line up is a lotta work. way to go Zee. - vijay

I really enjoy TNW, so well done man! :) - Nick

Congratulations Zee! Doing great work! :-) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/uk... - Mike Butcher

Congrats! - Kevin Mohr

:) They've caught up this month, we've all been on holiday - but its all good. No excuses, we'll step it up a gear :P - Zee.

congrulations zee, bc u have perfect content - Aykut Karaalioğlu

Bret Taylor

Packing up the office for our move to FB headquarters... So many memories in this place.

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*sniff* - Bill Heslin

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C'est la vie Friendfeed HQ - Bryan Lee

*sniff sniff* :'( - CannonGod

:'( - April Buchheit

:((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( - AJ Batac

Is there going to be a Lego room at the new FF/FB HQ? - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

You guys are gonna be the little fish in the big pond :( - Bryan Lee

Too sad... - Luka

:( - Anne Bouey

:( - Shannon Jiménez

Ooh! I see the bouquet of flowers I sent to Ana. It turned out nice. - April Buchheit

Moving day is always a bit bittersweet. - Dan Hsiao

This *is* pretty surreal. I usually have a month or more to mentally prepare for a move. - Kevin Fox

Bryan, they are going to be the little fish that clean up that Big Pond and make a free flowing Sea. *crosses fingers* :) - Bill Heslin

April, Ana's OOTO, but if she were here right now she'd tell you how much she liked the flowers. They're awesome. - Kevin Fox

Ana DM'd me. Thanks, Kevin! :) - April Buchheit

Bill: One can always dream - Bryan Lee

you guys are amazing!! - victed

That was fast. - Robert Kenney

Who's gonna take that office over? - David Schmidt

That is sad. Good luck @ FB. Hopefully, the entire team sits together! - Shane

Make sure you don't unplug the servers! K? LOL - Bill Heslin

Bill, they're in the CLOUD. CLOUD9. - AJ Batac

Good luck ff team - Nimaa

:( - OnuRC

What happens to the old place? - τorƍue

Don't forget to turn off the lights as you leave, and good luck at Facebook - Kim Landwehr

Make sure to play a big game of broom ball in the empty office! - Stephen Mack

Job well done, good luck at FB. n btw, thanks for creating such a great product.. - Gtp19

Good luck with everything af Facebook. - TeraDyne Azurepaw

Good luck and keep up the great work! - Moushumi Kabir

Paul, will you continue wearing your Google shirt at FB? :) - Sebastian Kanthak

You guys should use the empty office to bone up on your RipStik skills. I hear they're all the rage at Facebook. http://www.ripstikusa.com/ - Jason Kincaid

Hmmm...in this day and age you'd think you'd be able to work remotely :P - 1x29

Must be weird. But I think you'll soon feel right at home. In any case, if I was a regular Facebook employee (other than - say - MZ himself) I'd be in awe. :) (with which I mean that any regular facebook employees who are NOT in awe to see you are plain dumb - just tell them that I said that :P) - Meryn Stol

I noted Paul's Google shirt as well. I have that one. (And some FriendFeed shirts) So... gang? Facebook shirts are a must! - Louis Gray

Best technology acquisition Facebook has EVER gotten! We're expecting more greatness - good luck! - Mike Koss

Good luck at Facebook. I hope you can do great things there. - Alex Hellstrom

Alex, no doubt about that. Facebook will be in good hands. - AJ Batac

Wow, things move fast. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

You were supposed to fill up all those chairs before moving… - Amit Patel

I'm tearing up. This really makes me sad. - Anne Bouey

A little office is always better than big headquarters.. Good luck for all.. - Fırat DEMİREL

What a good work you have done there ... - papachan

I hope fb allows pinata cams. - Ginger Makela Riker

Guys,just keep it real.... - Chad Gesser from BuddyFeed

take tons of pictures. They'll be fun to watch in the future. - lelapin

Ooh.. FB really can't wait for you guys to join them. =) - Winston Teo

Waaaaaah. :(...... This is all happening way too fast!! Yikes! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

donkey balls, man. - Josh Haley from iPhone

:(((( - Arda Çetin

I think this is the most the team has posted on FF as a group, ever. The veil of secrecy is off? Or you're not as busy? - anna sauce

always keep the eye on you，add oil! - 阿石

:-( *cries* - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Have fun! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

you did it Bret ;) Good Luck - fatih (tish-o)

Good luck, folks; thanks for giving us such a great platform. Now, go and weave your magic at Facebook! - Andrew Terry

bret: great memories indeed - i guess things are moving really fast. hope the new place is just as good as this one - goutham

i can see the my former desk in this pic :) - goutham

:( - Peter Kruit

i bet it looks just like the old place! - Thom Kennon

50 million reduces the sting of any move! - Moved to Facebook

You will never have the fun you had in here. But that's the nature and beauty of progress. Keep up the good work. Glad you made it up to here. - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu from Android

Step in the building by using your right foot. Its believed to bring luck! (Turkish tradition) - Jacque from fftogo

Doh! - Ozkan Altuner

good luck at new office. - Tanaydin Sirin

Keep doing great things and please make FB a better place! Good luck! - Alfonso Pace from iPhone

:((((((((((((( - Roberto Bonini

Good luck @ FB! - Dwayne Watson

well done guys great job big hug from London - Thomas Power

good luck - nick tadd

And so many friendfeeders' memories. - Federico Bolsoman from iPhone

Good luck guys. - Emanuele Guicciardi

all the best, good luck, enjoy the success and the money :) - onderkiremitci

Hope you guys can continue the open houses over at Facebook. Those were great fun. - Hutch Carpenter

Bret: With so many people fearing the worst about FriendFeeds long term future, I'm guessing there's NO WAY you will tell us here, now, if we are wasting our time carrying on as FriendFeed users? ....I'm not gonna get an answer am I - Jim Connolly

Nope - Roberto Bonini

Hey, give the guy time. He genuinely cares about the community here - ya never know. - Jim Connolly

I hope that the FriendFeeders take over Facebook, kick Zuckerberg, and creates the Total FriendFeed! :p - Patrik Johansson

:(( Good luck there! - Nia

Yes, good luck. Congratulations on your phenomenal work and success! - Rob Schieber

Aww, they're throwing you folks out, already? :/ - Tyson Key

+1000 Patrik - Tyson Key

***** - Ahmet Koldaguc

Kevin Fox

Shutting down computer to pack up desk. I'm trusting you to behave yourself while I'm gone, Internet.

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KEGGER AT KEVIN'S COMPUTER PASS IT ON - Stephen Mack

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I promise to be nice. - Arnaldo M Pereira

Don't do it. Last time I shut down my computer, Friendfeed got acquired by Facebook. - Laura Norvig

LOL Laura! - AJ Batac

:( - Anne Bouey

So soon? - EricaJoy

Kevin, the internet is just a feature of Windows -- it's off when your computer is. - j1m

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Shadow and Light

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Robert Scoble

Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996...

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No info about the financial aspects of the deal for now. - TiTi

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Ithink that tey have to do it now, or never - abdellah

"committed to supporting the needs of FF user community" - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Nice :) Thanks Robert - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

^^until FB shutters FF - jcunwired

nice scoop! - Marc Ostrick

@Brian How many times have we heard that line before? :( - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

I hope they made a bunch of money, because they SOLD US ALL :( - Zio Bonino

Robert, was this really posted 5 hours ago? - Daniel Chow

Robert: Say "cool" less! - Stephen Foskett

I was thinking the same thing. Count how many times you said "Cool" Robert ;) - Andru Edwards

This acquisition is most likely going to suck for users, but congrats to the FF team. Once Google announced Wave, selling to Facebook was probably the only remaining exit strategy worth the money. - Chip Ramsey

last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook - Jacopo Gio

I don't know if i'm excited by the possiblities of this move, or frightened by what this could mean. - John Czwartacki

I hope they don't spoil it for us. I just want to keep coming to Friendfeed.com - Mark

If they had no plans of shutting down FriendFeed and rolling features into Facebook they would have said so right away to avoid speculation and to reassure FF users. I am trying not to be suspicious, but I am. - Inside Alaska

I'm in the same camp Alaska - Keith - @tsudo

Andru: it was about 100 degrees outside where I was doing the interview. I was trying to think cool and keep my cool. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

Maybe now we'll be able to integrate Facebook feed with FF & twitter - Justin Long

Faceborg...Googlebook...time to move back to StumbleUpon? Guess we should have seen this coming when FriendFeed got integrated into FeedBurner. - Internet Strategist

This interview is pretty funny... the person interviewing sounds like he just wants to ask questions for the sake of asking questions...;-) ... thanks for the insightful interview but.. - Sherif Mansour

In the interview, it was said that FriendFeed was not in immediate danger and could have continued for a number of years on their own. I'm not quite sure if that is true, because FriendFeed didn't develop their own business model. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

About integrating the social graphs, my social networks on FF and FB had different purposes. I don't have any friends on FB whom I haven't personally met, whereas I subscribe to some people I don't know on FF just because their feeds are interesting. On a related note, the FB graph is undirected and the FF graph is directed. - Ruchira S. Datta

@Scobleizer interviews Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed RE acquisition by Facebook. - Deano @ Byron New Media

Rough transcript: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

Paul and Brett jumped at the chance to increase their user base a thousand-fold. Whatever comes out of this is going to be huge. - Raphael, Raphael

You are right vzx - Nicolas Gosset from IM

"tremendous opportunity" is so vague. Opportunity for who? What opportunity exactly? Or is it just the opportunity to allow the friendfeed employees who weren't already rich to get rich? - Laura Norvig

Laura: it's every engineer's dream to change the world of 300 million people instead of a few hundred thousand people. That's why this is a tremendous opportunity. - Robert Scoble

Sigh. I guess. It's just very hard to think of Facebook as a life-changing venue. - Laura Norvig

Robert: Thanks for this - some information at last! - Jim Connolly

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Rocky View

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