Tad: join our sect. I'll be your guru there! :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da... - directeur via NoiseRiver

Go go social graph. - Eric Florenzano

Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time? - Rahsheen Porter

I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc - Tad Donaghe

I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network. - Rahsheen Porter

I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected - Scott Bannon via twhirl

actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically... - edythe

Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they? - Ryan Sit

i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself. - Jason Toney

it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :) - Larry via twhirl

I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one! - Stefan Hayden

I still think this is like asking GM to make your key fit in a Toyota, cause you only want to carry one key. Most of these services are competitors. No (successful) business makes it easier for you to move to a competitor. - Brian Norwood

Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I don't dispute the truth of your statement, or deny I suffer from sign-up fatigued as well. I'm just saying it doesn't fit any business model I've ever seen to help you easily move to a competitor. What we need is a third party service who keeps track of our info and our friends, then custom shoe horns that stuff into each new service that pops up. THAT would be handy. Open ID is too passive. What we need is a sign up SERVICE. - Brian Norwood

would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time. - Thomas Hawk

Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr - Tad Donaghe

I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new service with your OpenID that service could automagically grab everything for you in the background. I'm not pushing for OpenID as the answer, just saying that's one possibility that wouldn't be overwhelming to achieve. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

I was really impressed with how well swurl worked. - Jason Wehmhoener

concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment - mike "glemak" dunn

I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network. - Amit Patel

Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example? - J. Phil

Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary. - J. Phil

Hutch, you can find an article about them in english on either Drudge or Huffington... forget which one... - Tad Donaghe

Carla Posted it yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/e/e07141... - Mark Trapp

Tad - thanks. Found it on Drudge. Here's an article with more pix: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... - Hutch Carpenter

I feel gifted. My gf is not only a hot chick, but an anime-loving, Japanese/Mandarin/Cantonese/Taiwanese-speaking, videogame playing (to the point of being more agressive in tactical games than I am) geek girl. It has its moments. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver

I can proudly say that my GF is so geeky, she is considered more manly then the guys in our office :-) - Alexander Kucera

what restaurant is this? - peter

Looks different than the restaurants in Guangdong, China that have the live cats in the cages for the Dragon, Tiger, Phoenix hotpot. - Mark Forman

you guys are sick.. - Caroline via twhirl

am i the only one who finds a kitten about to be fork stabbed disturbing? not. cute. imho... - Mona N

Like when we were in North Vietnam, and my wife (who is Vietnamese and loves dogs) says to the taxi driver, "Oh, look at all the dogs on the porches of this town.", and he says, "They are food." - Chris White

btw I'm Japanese, not Chinese.. we'd eat your pets too but goldfish sushi? do.not.want! - Mona N

Chopsticks would clearly be the more appropriate utensil here. - Chris White

@mona disturbing... yes... - Caroline via twhirl

Reality check-many pets are food or pets then food in other cultures. Disturbing maybe. People that eat animals for food are kind of fascinated on how pet lovers spend so much money on an an animal. Not saying either side right or wrong just different. - Mark Forman

Mark: The live fuzzy kitten about to be forked stabbed is disturbing.... not the choice of delicacy <-for lack of a better word =\ - Mona N

Mona-agreed. - Mark Forman

Bowl of kitten every morning, the breakfast of champions. - Morton Fox

similar to nekonabe in japan. see http://weekly.yahoo.co.jp/38/n... - huixing

Chile con Kitteh! - Bwana McCall

oh, heeee! it's still cute!!! - edythe

:-) - Mitchell Tsai

+Like for Rose, not Kevin! He is a copy-paster :-)) - Erhan Erdogan

Success. - Russellreno

Louis, you're making me excited for January when we have our first. Congratulations again! - Akiva Moskovitz

Success. No doubt. ;-) - AJ Batac

OVERWHELMING SUCCESS! :D - Kimberly J via NoiseRiver

Success and awwwww - Sarah Perez

love it! - Jesse Stay

Success - Fred Grott

Seriously, I'd probably block anyone who said Fail Whale. - Ben Parr

love it! - Joshua Smith via twhirl

awesome! - Thomas Hawk

Where are the FF onesies?! :-) - JA Castillo

FFTwins FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll. - Louis Gray

Link bait! :) - Andrew Baron

@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :) - Steven Hodson

awwwww - Michelle Trent

Do they have FF accounts yet? - John Worthington

aww gorgeous :) and the babies too! - Allison

LOL that is alll kinds of win - Mona N

I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-) - Jonathon

So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now. - Rob Diana

Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

wonderful little creatures! I too have a couple of twins (six years old) - marcantonio severgnini

good thing they are always this happy. right! - Tim Connors

I want that shirt! - James Hull

totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet! - Rob Reed

FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day! - Sarah Perez

Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo

@Rob Reed: Awesome! - April Buchheit

Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way. - Randy Hall

The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this. - Russellreno

Congratz. - Bill Bittner

Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;) - Mario Olckers

Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself. - Carla Thompson

No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those? - Jesse Stay

The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa! - Susan Beebe

Wow, they look so tiny. It has been a while since I had a newborn. - Rob Diana

Louis, what's the white thing they are lying in? Is it to keep them from rolling over? - Sprague D

Sprague, that's a yes. We don't want them sleeping on their stomachs, so those are sleep positioners. We put them in on their back or on their side, and all should be well. And Rob, Matthew weighed in at 4 lbs, 11 oz today. Sarah is more like 4 lbs, 0 oz. - Louis Gray

In our culture we oil babies with "olive oil" and make them make some movements to help their muscles grow --and no, I'm not kidding :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Louis, we were advised to keep our kids on their backs or sides as well - this is going back 5 years or so. Good to here that that wisdom is still out there. - Mark Dykeman

Wow, small is beautiful Louis - Sally Church

awwwwwww...a tiny buddle of cuteness .. Some1 should create a babyroom for FF community. I propose that Louis to be open .admin/mod that room, can some1 second the motion ?? :)- - Peter Dawson

Tad: because you don't have any loyalty to that particular blogger and you probably haven't been following that particular blogger. For me to bring you in would pollute the conversation that's going on over there. - Robert Scoble

I have the reverse issue. Sometimes I want to give more depth and "tell more secrets" to my FF friends because it feels more intimate in here. Spreading that back out to the blogosphere is the only thing that gives me pause occasionally. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

It's like if I have a conversation in my living room and there's a bunch of people in my dining room who are having a different conversation. It takes a lot of energy to join those two groups o