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Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

FULL OF WIN - Jac Falcon

"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version? - Jesper Lind

"Y Combinator alum Crocodoc is launching an HTML5-based version of its online document viewing service today. The software reads in any kind of document and renders it in HTML5 in real time on web sites. Web developers just have to drop an HTML tag for each document uploaded to Crocodoc’s servers into their site’s code to add Crocodoc’s widget to their site. Users can then scroll through the documents as soon as they are rendered. A lot of other companies have tried to kill off the practice of sending around attached documents. It can be a pretty big hassle and everyone has to have the same software to access the document — like Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word. So there’s something to be said about not having to install that expensive software on a lot of devices if users just use it to read documents. The quality is pretty good — it’s hard to tell much of a difference between the original document and a reconstructed version on the site. Crocodoc’s HTML5-based version of one document... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Wondering how is it different from their earlier venture, WebNotes? - Shakeel Mahate

"1000Memories, a web service that helps digitally honor the memory of a loved one, has announced that it has closed a $2.5 million series A round of funding from Greylock Partners. 1000Memories gives friends and family an online destination to memorialize the recently departed. Its founders started the company after experiencing the impact of a death on Facebook and realizing that it wasn’t a sufficient or effective way to remember loved ones. The company, originally funded by Y Combinator, has attracted a great deal of attention since its graduation from the startup accelerator’s program. Not long after its debut in August 2010, the company raised a $500k angel round from an all-star list of investors including Caterina Fake (Flickr), Paul Buchheit (Gmail, FriendFeed), Ben Ling (Google), Keith Rabois (Square, Slide), Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Chris Sacca and others. Its $2.5 million series A was not long after, a deal that closed in late 2010." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Will be great for genealogical work. - Josh Haley

I built something similar at Caring.com. Based on my experiences, I can see a clear pathway to success for 1000Memories. - AJ Kohn

mavimi o oceler =) - Murat Kaya (mrtky)

mavi evet :) - ems

zavallı ıtır benim test objem :) - sosyalmekan.com

The content I have shared on FriendFeed (especially photos, etc.) is more valuable than any other network. To find a way to accomplish this would be great. - Louis Gray

I see that Facebook has a newsroom option (via PitchEngine), is FriendFeed next? - Bryan R. Adams

"We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: he wrote GMail, built the original prototype of AdSense, and came up with the phrase "Don't be evil." After leaving Google he started FriendFeed, which last year became Facebook's largest acquisition to date. He's a good friend as well as one of the world's best hackers; for years we've considered him an honorary YC partner. We hired Harj Taggar earlier this year to work advising startups alongside me. He wasn't technically a partner, but we quickly realized that he was one de facto—that among us his opinion carried as much weight as any of ours—and that it would be mean of us to delay recognizing this officially. Harj's arrival significantly improved how well YC operated. He's a large part of the reason we were able to fund 36 startups in the summer 2010 cycle." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Cheers.,. - OT

This may get me switched back to using Seesmic but will @loic release a iPhone app? - Vinko

Might be late... but how is the Facebook acquisition going to effect this? I can't stand the way that app takes over Friendfeed. - Arleen Boyd

"Optimizely is a dramatically easier way for you to improve your website through A/B testing. Create an experiment in minutes with our easy-to-use visual interface with absolutely no coding or engineering required." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Don't make me choose! - LB so u no it's real

these are awesome johnny - Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど from Android

Impressive - M F

I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both... more... - erik weisz

A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark Krynsky

Neat. Added myself. - Otto

holy shit... - Rafael

old wives tale http://www.inquisitr.com/34819... - Laura Norvig

1. Tree-oriented data structures are usually a bad idea. Every branch means you're chasing a pointer to some completely unrelated area of the memory, likely a cache miss. - Tudor Bosman

It's funny that this keeps coming up yesterday. I posted this to Haiping's wall not too many hours from when you wrote this: http://www.facebook.com/notes... - Keith Adams

Congratulations guys. That is excellent! - Bradley P Simmons

Thanks, Brad. And you too, Karthick. ;-) - Gaston Keller

Brad, we could use a few pictures from your visit to Venice last October... ;-) - Gaston Keller

We use scalable magic ;) - Paul Buchheit

WoW I even inspired the creators of Happy Feet, I"m just unstoppable!!! :) - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

not mine. - Vicarbott

I love how friendfeed, with all of the love and effort that all of us have vested in it, gets to keep on reaching new places, even if it's not *exactly* FF. Nice one. - Iain Baker

I am also waiting to see how apple tablet looks like.. Releasing on Jan 27th :) - Karthick R

Lovely device; Now can I fold it and put it in my purse (or some other bag). - Hanan Lutfiyya

"There it will build an Apple Store that project developers referred to in planning documents as "a new prototype for the company." The facade will be entirely transparent at ground level, vast skylights will flood the store with natural light, and trees will grow inside, fed by the sunlight from above, according to a proposal submitted to the city's architectural review board. The building at 340 University Ave. is an 86-year-old structure best known as the longtime home of Liddicoat's grocery. More recently it housed Z Gallerie furniture store, and it has mostly stood vacant since that store closed several months ago." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

very interesting move, should be fun to watch - Susan Beebe

You know, Mike... this is like _preaching to the choir_... all the people reading the Message Board are probably the ones actually attending the meetings. =P - Gaston Keller

haha, you are probably right! - Michael Tighe

I'm not sure if I agree with every piece of advice, but it's a good read. I also read the article that the author of the presentation recommends: _Technology and Courage_ by Ivan Sutherland. Highly recommended! - Gaston Keller

Good slides. The paper was a fun read as well. - Bradley P Simmons

ha nice! - Wesley Barrow

You look not unlike Bill in that photo. - Kevin Fox

"Steven Colbert will win the 2016 election -- the left will think he's joking, the right will think he's serious, and both sides will think that they are tricking the other" - Bret Taylor

I like Nr. 9 most, including the video about Thorium! - George Moga

"What I notice is that my peers are progressing to more and more complicated and convoluted designs. They are impressed with the flashiest APIs, the biggest buzzwords, and the most intricate of useless features. They are more than happy to write endless unit tests to test their endless refactoring all the while claiming that they follow XP’s “the simplest thing that works” mantra. I’ve actually seen a guy take a single class that did nothing more than encapsulate the addition of two strings, and somehow “refactor” it to be four classes and two interfaces. How is this improving things? How can more somehow equal simpler? This should never be the case. These are the actions of an expert. These experts are very smart, capable, and skilled, but they are too busy impressing everyone to realize that their actions are only making things worse for themselves. In the end all of their impressive designs are doing nothing but making more work for themselves and everyone around them. It’s as if... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

It's a great analogy, but in reality, the martial arts stuff is mythology. Wing Chun proponents often talk about simplicity of the art, but they'd get their butts kicked in a sloppy street fight because invariably, most real world fights are messy, quickly go to the ground, and result in grappling and choking and eye gouging. Bullshido has lots of examples of this. The 80 year old guy... more... - Ray Cromwell