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can I have one please - bogen

one please ;) - Rohit Srivastwa

Forgot to give you my email address: ramibotros@gmail.com - Rami Botros

Plz send me at vinayshah_007@yahoo.com ... thanks - Vinay Shah

So, your mom was right! And your wife is gorgeous! Congrats! :) - directeur

Congrats! - John μller

Congratulations, Tony. - Micah Wittman

Congrats Tony! - Martin Rix (Mrrix32)

Congratulations! - Herb Hernandez

Yay! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

congratulations ! - Luka

Congrats Tony, Your wife is indeed tall & gorgeous! - Rohit Srivastwa

Wonderful news! Welcome to the club! :) - Matt Cutts

congrats - Erbabic

Congratulations!!! - Amit Morson

Thanks everyone! :-) - Tony Ruscoe

Congratulations! You both look very happy together. :) - Josh Haley

Congrats! - Sebastian

Congratulations, Tony! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Congrats, you both looked great! - Toby Graham

No. Signed, The Help Desk - ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)

**FACEPALM** - AJ Batac

I love this. [wtf] - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

The sad part is that this is quite representative of the average user. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Where is *my* InterWeb Official Number? - Admiral Anika

#helpless - Mitch

eek, please don't... *hides* - immaterial

seriously? surely this is a joke! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

As Akiva says. You can hide by one person or hide from all people. - Louis Gray

Wow! thanks, that was fast & effective. Now I can breath freely on FF - Rohit Srivastwa

:((( and how to unmute it???? - Rohit Srivastwa

Because, I find it easier to follow on Friendfeed, with threaded conversations, and filters, etc. Probably more importantly, I like to see their Google Shared items, Delicious bookmarks, etc. that they don't always tweet about. It's essentially following their lifestream since Friendfeed is an aggregator, rather than just following their tweets - a more richer experience! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Oh, and unlike Twitter (and it's various clents), here I actually see everyone's tweet replies to their followers irrespective of whether I'm following their followers or not. Friendfeed brings back the discovery feature that they removed from Twitter! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

it actually makes sense. and one isn't restricted to 140 characters :) - Harini Calamur

Welcome all :))) ..and there's more, wait! Another suggestion: try to look at home feed or people you are subscribed to and if you like the post, click 'like' or comment. Something magical will start happening. - Myrna

I would go a little further and encourage people to at least have a friendfeed account with twitter n blog integration so that it does become easier to follow them better. - Dhananjay Nene

Myrna: My turn to :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Dhananjay, will try that too! - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Mahendra, You are invited to look at my page. I just posted some beautiful photos. And I'm supposed to tend to my blog. I think I'm addicted to FF. - Myrna

The thing is you have to show people value, warm connection and caring. Where have I heard that? - Myrna

Myrna, I think I perfectly understand the addiction to FF! Yeah, I'm finding FF to be 'warmer' than Twitter for some reason. Feel like there are real people here, unlike the mktg/spammers/bots out there. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

yep i agree .. atleast people bother to reply back . i seem to find that on twitter there are far less people who will bother replying back. Again i think this has to do with how friendfeed is structured and the kind of people it attracts as its userbase. - Bhowmik Shah

Yes! And I liked fb because of the artists(art) and now I see FF has many and it feels more upscale(broader sense) if that makes sense.(no pun) Look at this and say something. http://ff.im/580aF - Myrna

Bhowmik, click the link in the last comment. If you'd like to say something, please do. I know Robert Scoble is going to smile when he sees it. - Myrna

The only problem I face is too much tweets spoils the FF feed and you know that some of your friends tweet a LOT. goodmorning, goodforenoon, goodafternoon, thinking of having tea, final having tea, goodnight. - Rohit Srivastwa

One good solution is indeed to block their twitter feeds, but then you completly loose them, i move these kind of people into a group in tweetdeck & visit them once in a while - Rohit Srivastwa

Rohit - rhymes with me! I found that those tweets were too distracting, but I didn't want to lose the connection either. So I'm still using that tweetdeck group when I can. :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

Grm, I ought to sleep. I misread that as "...I will prefer following people on Friendfeed if they have an accident..." just now. :( - Tyson Key

Michael, certainly a lot of it is. If you look at statcounter, you can see the MSN and Live search traffic switch over to Bing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#search... and then the MSN and Live search traffic flatlines. - Matt Cutts

Michael - it is probably moving traffic from live to bing but net gain of bing+live is still quite huge month over month. - Atul Arora

Wrong comparison. Why would you compare a search engine with Digg and CNN? - Ionut

It's actually hard to see (from compete) what is "bing + live"...users who went to *both* sites in a month. But this could easily explain why the "live" curve doesn't decline as fast as the "bing" curve increases. Guess we'll know the actual result in another month or two. - Michael Herf

It's just an XML feed I put on my server as I didn't figure out how else to get animations playing right on Friendfeed! Whenever I uploaded an animated GIF as a message here it wouldn't autoplay. Now when I want to include an animation I can just paste it in the XML. Not sure if there's an easier way... - Philipp Lenssen

So your animated gif is now a series of individually-linked single frames? - ianf ⌘

No, the animated gif is indeed just an animated gif... Friendfeed does allow such animated gifs when included as a feed item thumbnail... - Philipp Lenssen

Frames are little fast, a little slow would have been much better - Rohit Srivastwa

"i have a program where i enter your ip and you're dead" - I'm going to use that as a threat whenever someone annoys me on an intertube - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

That was funny.. :) - Derek Collison

i want that program too ;) - Rohit Srivastwa

bitchchecker: Quit (Ping timeout#) - Tobias Boonstoppel

next means next. if it's in two days, it's the next one. Unless you say "Next week Wednesday", then you skip a week - Josh Haley

i would assume that it would be the one in 8 days and not the one coming up. if someone met the one in 2 days, they would just say 'Wednesday'. - Admiral Anika

tho it gets a bit tricky like this... if today is monday and someone says "see you next tuesday" they mean a week from today - not tomorrow! - Allen Stern

it would be in the next week Wednesday. for Wednesday 2 days away it will be "this Wednesday" - Rohit Srivastwa

PS: I meant the Wednesday in *9* days. Not sure though if there's some rule that you're only supposed to use "Next" this way in German if it's exactly 8 days. I never really understood this phrasing. - Philipp Lenssen

We are in the process of transitioning our servers this afternoon to accommodate the new feature, so there may be a hiccup or two in the meantime :) - Bret Taylor

Here we go! - Andrew Trinh

woohoo!! - Tim Hoeck

Where is Rick Astley? http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/245621b... - Andrew Trinh

Fantastic! This is a huge, HUGE deal. Looking forward to seeing it in action. - AJ Kohn

OH yes! Thank you!! - Mona Nomura from fftogo

awesome - i see it :) - Zee.

I'm wondering how it decides which entry to show and which to collapse. - Andrew Trinh

really cool... it's working now :) Is there any kind of priorities? Like FF entries take priority over Blogs, etc.. or is it first come, first served? - Tim Hoeck

hmm. first off, I <3 friendfeed. But I am kinda sad to see it go the way of all software getting more and more popular, it gets more and more complicated. I love the elegant simplicity of the V1 and hope that you guys can continue to improve the service and features while still maintaining the "light" and simple feel. I know we all struggle with it, but with every V2 product release I'm reminded of this general pattern in SW design. - Jenna Bilotta

I don't get how the duplicate feed works. If you look at the feed items for the two stories attached to this story, they don't have related links. Do they only show up on the home feed? Or does only the first story get the related links section? - Mark Trapp

The entry with the most recent discussion activity goes on top. - Bret Taylor

we don't need to use beta anymore :) new feature is totally awesome. thanks guys. - Baturalp Torun

(channelling corvida ...) awesomesauce! - Rob Diana

Better of discussion activity, having being put in the related entries will definitely kill that. - Andrew Trinh

Bret, awesome. Any chance of seeing this feature in contexts other than the main feed, like on profile pages and rooms? - Mark Trapp

What's the time length for dupe aggregation? A day? A week? A month? All time? - AJ Kohn

The feature will go live in profile pages and rooms soon. Rolling out this feature 100% will take a day or two, so right now, you will only see it on your home feed and friend lists, but we are actively working on transitioning our system so it is available everywhere. - Bret Taylor

Interesting: if you have something hidden, let's say all Google Reader entries without likes and comments, and that's the most recent activity for the link, the entire discussion goes from visible to hidden. Edit: cool, thanks Bret. - Mark Trapp

When will it be in the API? (I know, always the one with the stupid API questions) - Dustin

so this means on those rare days ping.fm actually works, i won't dupes in my feed? - Admiral Anika

Cool..very cool - Dave Peck

Very cool feature, only problem will be Twitterers and their love for tinyURL - Steven Cains

Cains: it detects tinyURL and other URL shorteners. It also groups reshares: *swoon* - Mark Trapp

Jawsome! - Phil G

Now that is impressive (Finally Calacanis will only take up 1 space when he makes an announcement) - Steven Cains

+1 Cains - Zee.

who does upgrades in the middle of the day? anyway, seems I am warming to the new layout pretty quickly. - Stewart Rogers

Hot damn - Christopher Galtenberg

What is the flash embed that is in the middle of the left hand side? - Thaths

Duplicate Detection - Yay! - Derek

Duplicate detection is nice,it will cut down a lot of noice - Steve Chou

Biggest question is why? Why didn't Google get actively involved with Mozilla? - Deepak Singh

I think it's the industry's best chance to topple IE. - l0ckergn0me

I'd love to take it for a spin. Is there an ETA for the public release yet? - Ray Metzen

I read the comic book twice, and despite my Safari leanings, I think this one has legs. Question is... if iPhone trumps Android, does Google port it to the iPhone? - Louis Gray

That's not the point. I use Firefox, and want to know why Google, which has a good relationship with Mozilla (apparently) chose to go the Not Invented Here route, when there was an established open source platform to work with. The only thing I can think of is that this is to get a good mobile browser since webkit has proven itself on the iphone. - Deepak Singh

Please let Google release it as an app for the iPhone with Gears, Flash and Java enabled. And please let Apple let them do that! - Tony Ruscoe

I'm still curious about the firefox usage aggrigation project mentioned in the first half of the year, had a techcrunch article but has gone strangely quiet ever since. Some are claiming it'll cover only interface stats and others actual traffic data. - alphaxion

first release will be sep-02. it now seems clear that APIs like safebrowsing [http://bit.ly/3QvWL7] and gears [http://bit.ly/4amra2] were all part of a longer-term strategy to change the game for their app set. - MikeAmundsen

Deepak, the most logical explanation seems to be that Google wants to take Chrome in a direction where Mozilla doesn't want to go. What exactly that is remains to be seen when the thing is released... - Ray Metzen

Deepak, it may be that the Webkit codebase is simply easier to work with. I haven't looked at either in years, but Firefox used to be quite a beast. - Paul Buchheit

Sounds great to have new players on the browser field. But how will the support from Google to Mozilla be affected after Chrome? - Christian Van Der Henst

Ray/Paul, fair enough. I am not saying that the choice is wrong, but I would like to know why. The mobile future is my guess, but it's only a guess. - Deepak Singh

omg been waiting for this forever! - Kyle Weller

Deepak, that's probably a good guess. Another reason might be that Google apps are more deeply integrated than Mozilla would be comfortable with. - Ray Metzen

On the code question: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Paul Buchheit

Paul .. thanks. That's an interesting thread in itself - Deepak Singh

Wow is IE about to go the way of Netscape? :-) - Jim Stewart

Predicted this 3 years ago - http://schlerplotti.typepad.com/squirre... - Mike Reynolds

I think everybody has the same question. Why Chrome when we have Firefox? Why can't Google extend support to FF? - Rohit Srivastwa

That's bad news for Firefox. The early Google Chrome adopters are likely to be the same people that jumped on early FF as well. But what's more important, I think the idea behind Chrome is to build and position it as an application platform, which FF failed to achieve. - Franci Penov

Looks like a webcast starts at 11 a.m. Pacific: http://bit.ly/3f32hG - Matt Cutts

Looking forward to it. My designer isn't happy though, yet another browser to test not that IE is going away anytime soon. - Angsuman Chakraborty

Paul, thanks for the link, that's illuminating. - Jason Wehmhoener

...and streams a Pandora/Last.fm station instead - Kevin L

Fergie, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, club music. - Steve Isaacs

Or you could just ignore music you don't like. - Mathew™ one of a kind

SingleMichelle was taken :( - Michelle Marie Miller

to bad Michelle that tis gone, but I do heart you and follow U. Yo post /share interesting things.. not just some stupid Linky :)- - Peter Dawson

YES. SingleMark is mine! http://twitter.com/singlemark - Mark Trapp

wondering if SINglePETER is available :)- - Peter Dawson

Single Peter? Who's being subtle now? -:) - Mark Forman

Mark, the subtly is only with the ALL caps letters.. figured it out ? :)- - Peter Dawson