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Same as me. Did you use my page to help you sign up to all the services? http://ruscoe.net/google... - Tony Ruscoe

Sure I did! I wouldn't have discovered/registered to all those services without it. - Jérôme Flipo

mine is not as saturated, but it begins to be difficult to remember every services... - Luka

Plus it will have lots more (Google) Services added to it :-) - Martin Rix (Mrrix32)

@Steve I don't think it means Twitter is shutting down. I think it means Twitter will bar FriendFeed from using its feed ;-) - Rubin Sfadj

This is too kewl - Peter Dawson

Hilarious - may all come to pass before 2018. - Todd McKinney

Love it. But 2018? I'd except to be able to get Friend.com directly through the HUD in my flying car by then... Only silversurfers (like us) would still use "web browsers" in 2018. - Tony Ruscoe

Twitter feed not available? That may come to pass at 10:30. - Bill Bittner

And what's up with "low karma comments"? I thought the karma thing left us in the seventies... but yes, everything comes on cycles... - Alex von Halem

awesome. - Tobias Boonstoppel

You've got the Google thing backwards :) - Paul Buchheit

Hey, I just noticed I'm in the screenshot. :D @Paul: ? What's backwards, where? - Voyagerfan5761

Actually, it missed one important thing - a HUGE ad, taking up the top half of the screen, for a substance that is just as effective as Viagra (which was banned in 2011). - Ontario Emperor

I think Paul's saying that in 2018 ff will own google - j1m

It's comforting that hitting monkeys will still be as popular in 2018 as they are now. - Ginger Makela Riker

One thing they got wrong: by 2012, Paul will have started his own country southwest of Alaska on an artificial island. It'll be called Free Festivusland, and it'll get the top-level domain “ff”. FriendFeed will then be http://ff/ — no dots or coms or nets or orgs. - Amit Patel

@Amit P. ROFL .. very funny - Steven Hodson

@Jason lol :D - Voyagerfan5761

I think the web will be voice and audio driven in 10 years, or at least it will be available. There's even some startup now that can sense nerve pulses to the vocal chords to know what you'll say before you actually say it. - Mike Reynolds

I think comments won't be replaced by nested commented, just like @ in twitter, many people like this. - terababy

Mike Reynolds, now I'm scared. Very scared. I'll get myself in trouble before I actually hear what I'm saying (rather than after). - Ontario Emperor

WFT? It's been 10 years? Wow. - Arda Çetin

Definitely my favorite logo ever! - Shannon Jiménez

very nice. i think you could add a bubble explaining the reference to Matrix with a mouse over - Ouriel Ohayon

may have been 10 years to you :o - chaz2b

great! - K.D.

and people still ask me why I LOVE friendfeed, sign... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

想不到都10年了，好快 - Kunshou（困兽）

Ok, not just me seeing that. Nice job Kevin. - Andrew Smith

Oh my. It's official, I'm old. Eeeeeniwayyyy... Glad to know it wasn't my mind going when I rolled over the logo. - Andy Kruger

This has to be FriendFeed's best logo yet! - Nicholas James

Wow! That is neat! I LOVE creative people! :-) - Pat Graham Block

A very cool logo! Keep up the creative work! - Sanne Buurma

Very cool logo you guys! :) Like Nicholas said, best and most creative one yet! - vijay

How about change the color of entire background next time? - Ray Chen

Gosh - ten years have passe me by - no one told me where to run . . . - Chris Loft

Chris: those are Japanese characters, but yeah, I thought the original matrix logo had numbers, but might be wrong. - Robert Scoble

@slayerboy - agree totally / "Show that you have no respect for those that built you, and you'll wonder why you were just a fad." lots of proof of that... - Ben Watson from twhirl

sorry - twhirl jumping around got my think in the wrong drink ... oops - Ben Watson from twhirl

This is so sweet! - Brandon Titus

Kevin, this logo rocks!! hahaha - love it!! "Take the Red Pill" !! OK :) - Susan Beebe

Very nice, you should do something for the 30th anniversary of 'Alien', too. - Michael R. Bernstein

Great logo! - Jorg Jansen

rick sanchez approves! - Cee Bee

Great Stuff! - Sidharth Shah

The film used a combination of hiragana, numbers, Latin characters and some reversed characters. I opted to just go with hiragana for a specific reason... (Matrix screenshot here: http://thefuturebuzz.com/pics...) - Kevin Fox

So AWESOME. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I was very pleasantly surprised to see this. Awesome job, FF! - nadim

geez has it been ten years? - Justin Long

My 9-year old son has been asking to watch this with me and I really need to make the time for us to do that. This is one of my favorite movies of all time (and he is one of my favorite persons) - Alan Cheslow

What a great movie. Always think about it when I get deja vu :)! Love the logo. - Ruth Helfinstein

I can't believe it has been that long! - Gary Stiehr

@Gary, I know! I was in high school when the first one came out. - Brandon Mendelson

The coolest and I would have missed it if Jeremiah Owyang never made a post about the Best of Day content (I found it in the BoD), which included a filter from FFing Enigma (aka Tina) and finally brought this post to my attention. The lengths I will go to for good content! - Michael Fidler

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

I like Heroes... it was one of the few good series on the "big 3" last year. - Lindsay

I like it too. Looking forward to watching it tomorrow night. - imabonehead

I liked it, but I was unhappy with last season and didn't mind that it was seriously abbreviated by the writers' strike. I'm waffling about watching it tomorrow. - Nine

I've only seen the first season but i LOVED it - Lindsey is Fierce!

The quality has dropped off big time. After season 1's finale, I was severely disappointed - Bwana ☠

agreed Bwana - Vicky

I really enjoyed the first season but agree with the others that season 2 was somewhat of a let down. Still looking forward to tomorrow's epi. - Vaughn from twhirl

Akiva's just joking, of course he loves good TV like Lost and Heroes. He's just in a mood or something. - Josh Haley

I'm always in a mood. (And I don't like Heroes or Lost.) - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm actually looking forward to the weekend ending so that it is time for the premier on Monday! - Walt Ruppar

I'm a Heroes fan.....looking forward to the show starting again. - Colide81 (James)

I hear this season's gonna be way better. I'm willing to give it a chance, can't wait to see it on Tuesday morning (i have no cable) - Nate True

Looking forward to it tomorrow evening :) - AJ Batac

I am, I am! :D So happy the show is back! - Daynah

It's the only TV show I used to watch when it was playing... Looking forward to the new season! - Vincent X

I started watching Heroes because back then there was no good TV shows on, and then got hooked into it due to the mystery and suspense. - imabonehead

I loves me some HEROES. - Steven Perez

I can't wait for S3... The only other show on Television that I like is ... The office... and that comes out this week too. - Brandon

I'd rather watch The Unit or Criminal Minds or Boston Legal - Alex Scoble

I like CSI, NCIS, Heroes, and The Unit - imabonehead

me - @baratunde from twhirl

watched the first season now and then - hated the 1st finale and never went back - Frederic

I am. - Steve Lowe

they lost me after the end of season 1 as well. - Carlos Ayala

Still have a lot of episodes to catch up on - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Abby, that's exactly what it is :) - Bwana ☠

OK. I admit to watching way too much TV... but I am a Heroes fan and agree that last season was seriously disappointing. However, the Season 3 premiere episode is (supposedly) back up to Season 1 standards. - David Muir

Hero's r0x - Kyle Weller

I like Heroes; I just can't remember to watch it. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Yep, love it, though don't know when it's next on here :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Love it! Last season wasn't the best, but I'm eagerly awaiting the season premiere tonight. - Cheryl Jones

Brian on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/bdr - Louis Gray

congrats Brian! - Ross Miller

Congrats on the great article, Brian. - Bret Taylor

this aint gonna happen and here is why http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008... - John Kotsaftis from feedalizr

awesome... I just wonder how much microsoft is going to fight back against the onslaught - James Campbell

Choice FTW! - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe

That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew

Internets are the new rock'n'roll, Andrew, didn't you hear? - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye

Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi

"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim

Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim

/likes Karim's comment - Philipp Lenssen

Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot is heard. - Capn' One Eye - adrift

After a pause, Sergey is satisfied Darin is dead and attempts to continue explaining his plan, only be interrupted by Darin again, who says indignantly "you shot me! You shot me right in the arm! Why did you-". Darin sentence is cut short by a second gunshot, which proves to be the end for him, as the hatch is heard to close. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/austin_...) - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Guys, if you want Google-related pulp fiction, check out this choose-your-own-adventure game :) http://blogoscoped.com/googlea... - Philipp Lenssen

awesome! - April Buchheit

this entry is the most liked of FriendFeed in last 24 hours (based on ffholic.com data) Congrats! - FFholic.com

This entry is in the most liked list of ffholic.com! Congrats! :) - FFholic.com

lol, plug plug. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog http://sachendra.wordpress.com/2008... - Sachendra

I review chrome...need alot of work. see details on my blog http://trustseo.com/blog... - CeoSeo

The point of Chrome is the same point one would make about the iPhone. Will iPhone outsell Nokia worlwide in total number of phones sold? Not a chance in hell! Has it changed the face of mobile phones forever...absolutely. This is where I think Chrome is a fantastic concept. By open sourcing D8 Google has literally empowered every other browser including Safari and Firefox to be Windows... more... - John Kotsaftis from feedalizr

I haven't been able to find many details about the V8 design, but it's apparently a straight JIT (no interpreter) with inline caching of property accessors. I didn't see anything about HotSpot/TraceMonkey-style optimizing compilation, and it doesn't seem to use any intermediate language. (http://code.google.com/apis...) Is this the future of dynamic language runtimes? Am I a nerd? - Jim Norris

Nice to see Wired putting out a great article in a timely manner for a change - rather than spend page upon page talking about minor internet celebs and how they gatecrashed gawker media parties to build their fame. - Jonathan Beckett

I LOVE application icons. Chrome + Gmail is what I've wanted for years. - Bradley McSpinn

I love FriendFeed since I get to vicariously hear about Chrome, here... - Mona Nomura

I just don't get it. Why are people freaking out about the unification of search and URLs? Hasn't Firefox done this forever? And Opera, too? The first thing I do in any fresh install of Firefox or Opera is get rid of the extraneous search bar. - Akiva Moskovitz

+1 Akiva. - Olivier

Akiva for some reason I never did that. This is the first browser that forced the issue. - Robert Scoble

OK, I'd like Gmail Redesigned skin back, and also Remeber The Milk Gmail plug in.. I make real use of RTM, and it's good to have it in the mail. Beats MS Bloatware anytime, and it's in the cloud too :0 - Ian May

But, Akiva, this is GOOGLE doing it. Now stop resisting, you know that "resistance is futile". (where have I heard that before...?) ;-) - Sprague D

my firefox only has one box for searching and urls. when i want to do a search i type "g" first if it's on google, or "a" if it's on amazon, etc. - Ranjit Mathoda

Robert, interesting! I just assume that all geeks look for customization options within 10 minutes of installing an app. Perhaps that's one reason why I am very reluctant to embrace Apple: they don't allow me to customize. - Akiva Moskovitz

browsing from chrome now... it's amazing. - Brandon

apart for some of the UI which is innovative, chrome best part resides in its core (multi threading, multi process) and the V8 javascript VM. The webkit rendering engine is already used by safari. We can only hope that potential rendering bugs will be solved quickly. And as they are using the same engine on Android they will certainly provide some simple way to sync everything between a desktop and a mobile platform (history, bookmarks...). - Olivier

Hmm, Chrome almost runs a little too fast on bomomo.com :) - Philipp Lenssen

Is it just me, or does the "Show best of: day - week" placing look a little messed up. - Michael Forian

I think it has to do with the size of the screen? I have a 19" monitor and when my chrome is maximized (or wide enough at any rate) the "show best of" is in the far right column. as you reduce the width of the screen, the "show best of" can move into the text box area. - Justin Long

Akiva, IE since at least IE4 or 5, you can search in your toolbar. - Admiral Anika

Sigh, just went to FF in Safari (all webkit, right? w3c standards, right?) well FF renders fine on safari, but as evidenced above chrome doesn't get it quite right... which puts me back in my, sigh, another browser to support and billions more (aggregate) out the window to support it frame of mind, i think that will be close to 10 configurations my company's QA team now has to support testing for... though a browsing dream this is my development/testing nightmare - James Ostheimer

I only use firefix's "awesome bar." love it. Can't wait to try google. - Andrew Warner

I don't get application icons. What so great about them? I can make Gmail look like a separate application, but isn't it more convenient to have it just in one tab inside browser?.Now, when I want to look at something in the Internet while reading gmail, I would need to start another browser. Or I am just missing something obvious... - Peter

@Peter, for something like Google Documents which can even work offline thanks to gears, application icons make sense. - Rahul Das

@Rahul : application icons are just a shortcut to chrome without location bar & buttons. and they are like .url file which are native on windows or shortcuts to a website in Program group. So what is the point with app icons ? Gears ? they built it for other browsers too - Olivier

I think the app icons are a nice touch because they pick up what the site is in a pictorial way. I don't have to pause to read anything, I can just point and click on my desktop. - Justin Long

http://www.thebeerbelly.com/ - Alex Gawley

I've seen both these products. They're great! - Tony Ruscoe

@Alex Gawley the Beer Belly looks like a CamelBak worn, well, backwards. The WineRack would be a bit more of a challenge to make a home-made version. - Ragani Harris

They talked about this on an episode of QI (it's a British panel/trivia show). I didn't know they'd actually *made* one... - Bran Mydwynter

I am :) - Benjamin Golub

Awesome job Benjamin - i'm confused though, so you don't work for Friendfeed? I thought I saw you as admin in the beta.friendfeed.com feedback room? - Zee.

I'm doing some consulting for FriendFeed: http://groups.google.com/group... - Benjamin Golub

oh i see, i guess i should mind my own business :) Great job again with fftogo. - Zee.

congrats on your app. i'd be your best friend if it worked on my phone (samsung instinct) - Admiral Anika

Awesome app ben! - Kyle Lacy

Thank you! I use your app each and every day. - Jordan Hofker

Damn. You sir are amazingly fast. (I guess you probably already new about it though) - Brandon Titus

very kool. my first thought after seeing the beta look was oh will fftogo be updated...i should not have wondered :) - (jeff)isageek

Something exciting in the works? - ⓞnor

LOVE it. - Aether

下了 - bluesyouth

Facial discrimination? - Jason

Impressive. - j1m

Can I get one for the body as well as the face? - Dion Almaer

Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it. - Brady Brim-DeForest

It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :) - Lindsay

@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?). - Lindsay

Right one looks more dumb... - Phil Smirnov

Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird. - Lindsay

They are different women! Blame Paul! : ) - Erhan Erdogan

impressive - accesine

Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software. - Jim Goldstein from twhirl

I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty. - arty

This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be! - Claude Betancourt

Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)" - Charlie Anzman

Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;) - Joe Beda ()

without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference. - Zee.

Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :) - felix

I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...) - Rui Pires

+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Isn't this something these Japanese photo booth do since years? - Tobias Boonstoppel

do i sense another manga-style meme starting? - anna sauce

So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - l0ckergn0me

You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.) - Kevin Fox

The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di - xero

stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential". - xero

imagine if this were available in real-time installed into special glasses. sober beer goggles. - Jess Lee

I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people! - Benedikt Koehler

Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this? - xero

@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :) - A.T.

I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse - Dave Q

@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A - Jason

this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people. - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos

Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles. - Hayes Haugen

...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

oh dear god, when will it end?? - Anthony Citrano

holy Heath ledger sighting at the olympics! - Morgan

Why soooo serious?? - Daynah

Reminds me of my grandfather. He makes these kinds of faces all the time. He has Alzheimer's. - Jeanette Bosman

a little captions can't hurt, of course. http://img244.imageshack.us/img244... - Alvin Woon

Yep! Thats Dubya, arite! @Alvin thats awesome! seriously this is turning into a caption contest! - FallStreet

+1 Jeanette LOL - AJ Batac

Dude, why is he waving the flag in all the other pictures. his ego afraid no one will notice him or know what country he's the Pres of? - Summer

/me speechless - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

+10 Alvin. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

there are no words... - vicster

That's pretty cool that the president got to meet Bill Gates, though. - DeWitt Clinton

Brillaint alvin!!! - Roberto Bonini

for clarification, I didnt shop that :). A friend of mine point me to the link. - Alvin Woon

Sorry to say this, but I have to: at least our crown prince Willem Alexander looks slightly intelligent when he's enthousiastic about somebody's Olympic medal. - Ton Zijp

That's our president. Aren't you proud? /sarcasm - Summer from twhirl

Is it too late to trade Bush for Brett Favre? - Chris Baskind

Bush has ADHD Please show some respect for the Retarded person! lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Is he giving the "old white man's" gang sign or indicating his IQ (3 fingers and a zero=30) - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

where's his flag pin! - Nathan Rein

"It's only this big." "No, it's this big. I swear!" - Chris Baskind

At least Dubya is aware of his current approval rating. - Marvin Smith

"That Chinese diving team is HOT." - Trish R

Bush reminds me of my ex's alcoholic father... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

God, I hate him. - Ayşe E.

ahaha Jason that was very funny. Now just be aware the Secret Service may be visiting all your asses shortly. - Nathan Rein

dang, it's hard to imagine how they could be more goofy and unappealing in a photo - Mark Schulz

Hey guys keep an eye on @amandachapel on Twitter I think the new persona is not Brian Connolly the Failed PR blogger but some usa government watch group! Watch your Asses! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק