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Short URLs shared on Friendfeed now reveal the re-direct if you hover over them.
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great find Steve - btw, would it be ok for to drop you an email? Just a short one don't worry
- Zee.
Like this. +5 more points for FF.
- Amani
Steve, I love that I made a cameo in your post. I only wish my short URL was more inspired.
- Scott Gatz
Finally! Yay! Wish Twitter had this a long time ago. That's the reason I never use full links that get converted. I change the www. to w3 .website.com and that way everyone can see the full link still and copy and paste it if they want to view the site. I got annoyed at clicking on duplicate TinyURLs.
- Adam
@Adam, Just try out the grease monkey script, it will let you see all the tiny url's. http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf
- Dennis Goedegebuure
Nice feature add. Keep them coming!
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Nice feature enhancement!!
- Susan Beebe
What Mohomed=genieyclo said! Thanks, FF crew. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
One small nit. Does not work in comments. Try this link - http://tinyurl.com/5wduxf
- Atul Arora
@Atul Arora Right! First thing I noticed. I also wonder with how many shortening services does it work with...
- Nikos Anagnostou
This is awesome. Hopefully this can be added to twhirl too
- Guy
This should be definitely exported via API
- Alex Kapranoff
Finally!
- Mr. Gunn
This is an awesome feature!
- Nicholas James
Lovely!
- Mitchell Tsai
I use the greasemonkey script tinyurl-ru at http://kapranoff.ru/friendf... but it only covers tinyurl.com and tinyurl.ru | Maybe we should do a community project that keeps updating that script with all those url-shorteners out there. | Alex, are you game?
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
Is this a feature that friendfeed removed? Because it's not working in Chrome.
- James Poling
I don't see any short URL's in FriendFeed anymore. all are automatically expanded.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
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- James Poling
18-Year Decorated Air Force Veteran to be Discharged for Being Gay - http://www.towleroad.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes, Richard ¿digame? Walker, sean808080 and 55 other people liked this
Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the longest combat mission in his squadron's history. On that infamous September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties above the nation's capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho, where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with what anyone would agree was...
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- Derrick
O_O
- sofarsoShawn
Great way to make decisions, military.
- anna sauce
When will people realize that your sexuality doesn't define you? He was gay, ok...but look at his, um...accomplishments? All that's negated because he's gay?
- Derrick
The policy makes so little sense and hurts so many people. America is now LESS safe because this man isn't allowed to continue his service.
- Jennifer Dittrich
homophobic heads of military who believe this somehow lowers morale of the troops or creates an environment that's not conducive to military objectives. bunch of BS
- Cee Bee
:(
- Tracy Benham
Did you all see the John Stewart commentary on this (discharges of gays in the military)? It was spot on.
- mikepk
I can't wait for the lawsuits for re: this & there better be
- sofarsoShawn
What makes it worse is that he's made a decision to be a member of the armed services. Chris Rock said something to the effect of "Saddam Hussein could be riding down Flatbush Avenue in a tank...I ain't fightin'". I would throw a rock and then run and hide behind something. This dude is obviously honorable, committed, and is excellent at his job.
- Derrick
Ridiculous.
- Michelle Martinez
par for the course, no? these clowns have been making sh!tty decisions for decades.
- Carlos Ayala
If your willing to fight for my freedom and protection I don't care who sleeps next to you in the bed. This is Bull.
- Tony
Just wondering - anything Americans can do other than bitch on FriendFeed? I have no Idea, 'coz I ain't one. Write to someone or something? Something that can have a 'real' effect?
- Yuvi
this has been an ongoing issue with many people voicing their displeasure. issues like these fall on deaf ears because the power players are too stubborn and conservative to open the doors for any real change. besides, this country is fractured, broken even
- Cee Bee
Very despicable, it makes me sad. Maybe this will be the high-profile case that gets enough people angry to bring about change. Nah, we'll have to wait until it's a Senator's son.
- Owen
fuckers! So stupid and so wrong.
- BEX
Thanks for sharing this. This is so sad, and so wrong.
- mark
ahhhhhh so pissed !!!
- Caroline
Wow, that's bullshit.
- Andrew VanderVeen
I have no words.
- Nine
I think that's a right decision. In Turkey, if you are gay, you are discharged automatically. it happens so much that nobody cares about it anymore. I can't think of an army full of gays. Sorry :(
- Onur Gündüz
So if you don´t say it or show it how does the Turkish or US army tell ? Gaydar ? See, it´s actually the act of being open about it that is punished, not actually being gay, even if you have have been protecting everyone of your nation and ensuring they can pursue happiness regardless of colour, opinion or orientation. This makes it even more despicable and hypocritical IMO.
- Thomas Bøhm
The military kicked out 90% of their Farsi/Arab language translators because they were gay. It was the main reason why we were so behind on our "fight" with Al-Queda. Do you think they learned ANYTHING from that debacle? The only way this is going to change is if the people on top stop being threatened by anything they don't know crap about. Which is probably not going to happen anytime soon.
- Helen Sventitsky
Onur: that would be the problem right there; the banality of evil so to speak when a society becomes habituated to discrimination so that "no one even cares any more" something's definitely wrong with that society, it also begs the question who's next? As Helen pointed out discrimination can happen to any one. However to this post, it proves sexual orientation doesn't factor in to performance on the battle field.
- sofarsoShawn
Thomas: I think army officers has to be educated in a different way. Army is not really a place for any conflicts. You can't bring a communist soldier and a racist soldier together and want them to fight together for their country. They both love their nation, but they won't fight together. We need a homogeneous system in Army. And I don't see it as 'punishment' If you are different...
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- Onur Gündüz
Time for this to change. I've known many gay service men and women...didn't change a damn thing about their abilities...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Onur, A homogeneous system is impossible. Do you have any idea how many different backgrounds soldiers come from? I served with people from everywhere, and I didn't always agree with their outlooks, but it's just like any other job, you deal with it. There is not a homogeneous system now, nor will there ever be one. DADT is stupid and needs to be changed.
- Michelle Martinez
Here is the best quote I have seen about this from vetvoice.com: "But here is the most egregious facet of this case: DADT supporters argue that open homosexual service is detrimental to unit cohesion. Which damages unit cohesion more? A homosexual serving in a military unit who has not allowed his sexual orientation to interfere with his professionalism or his career, or removing a decorated fighter pilot and combat leader with 18 years of experience from his unit two weeks before deployment? "
- Michelle Martinez
Michelle: I actually don't know much about US or any other army. I'm speaking for Turkish army, here army officers usualy don't have different backgrounds. We have private army schools over here, from primary school to college like academies. and you must graduate from one of them if you want to be an army officer. Being a soldier is obligatory. Law says, every Turkish men has to serve...
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- Onur Gündüz
Onur, I can assure you it will never happen here. Never. And I don't want it to happen.
- Michelle Martinez
Michelle, I hope it doesn't happen in your country. But this is middle-east, you know? :)
- Onur Gündüz
Gotcha.
- Michelle Martinez
check this pic ,Same Story?For Vietnam veteran http://img.yawoot.com/971cee5...
- Amir
Same story, different chapter. That pic (which is powerful as hell) is of a Vietnam vet, this story is current.
- Michael W. May
Amir, thanks for sharing that. Like MWM said, that image is very powerful and really points out they hypocrisy on this matter.
- Derrick
F---ing shameful
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Nothing against the linguists, because they're important when a country is fighting two wars - but I suspect this will get more traction, because dude was a fighter pilot.
- cecily
While I agree the policy doesn't make sense, it *IS* policy. By not adhering to it, he gave the goverment every right from a legal standpoint to "fire" him. He signed a contract. Does it make his achievements smaller? No. Will I get flamed for this? Maybe. People tend to overlook the fact that the policy is known and that it's basically a breach of contract.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Onur, perhaps it is different in Turkey, but the US military has made people from different backgrounds fight in the trenches with each other for ages. The US Armed Forces were forcibly integrated in 1948, in the midst of some of the most despicable racist acts that this country had ever seen. Women were allowed to serve in combat roles in 1994. Sometimes it takes *real leadership* to force institutions to make a change. I'm looking DIRECTLY at you, President Obama.
- cecily
Alan Jackson: Agreed. However... It is a policy maybe 10% of the soldiers, both enlisted and officer, I served with agreed with the 10yrs I was active. It is a policy that has, at the least, questionable civil rights issues. It is a policy that like any before it which discriminate can only be helped through protest actions like this.
- Michael W. May
Cecily - of course some of that forced diversity wasn't always positive. In WW I, for example, new immigrants (who weren't citizens yet) were drafted into the military. Many of them knew little to no English (a small part of my dissertation discusses them). The military arranged for literacy education for them so that they could learn to follow orders (as in, they were never expected to be in a position to give orders). But, in many ways the military has been more successful at integration.
- Katy S
Cecily - also, I agree with what you said regarding the fighter pilot getting more attention than the linguists. He is in a traditionally masculine part of a masculine institution.
- Katy S
I just find it interesting that those who are in a position to essentially protect the civil rights of a country's citizens don't fall under the order of having their own rights protected.
- Derrick
Derrick - agreed. It's a ridiculous law (as are some others).
- Katy S
This is ridiculous and sad
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Dislike
- Hutch Carpenter
Liking this for the commentary, not for decorated veteran who has already proven himself being kicked out for the stupidest of reasons.
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Michael, I just want folks to realize that the government is releasing him not because he's gay but because it's against a policy. If people focused on the need for a policy change instead of saying the government is stupid or whatever, then something more productive might happen. Talk to your congressperson. Act! That's how to prevent things like this from happening in the future.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Of course it wasn't positive, and I think we'd be crazy to think this change will be positive either. What I'm talking about is having the courage to make the change despite your own personal misgivings. I know Obama's not all that fond of the gheys, but Harry Truman didn't like black people either, and he still integrated the military.
- cecily
Or rather , the change *will* be positive, but the reaction to it probably won't be. I do have a brain, it's just on vacation over in that MLK/Spielberg movie thread.
- cecily
Cecily - Yeah, my brain is stuck in my dissertation right now (I was just working on that military-related section, so that's where I went). Ultimately, a lot of imperfect people have made changes that are ultimately for the better. Hopefully this is one more area where there will be positive change soon.
- Katy S
disgraceful!! the miltary's policy of dont ask, dont tell but if we find out youre out is stupid beyond words.
- Mel Buckpitt
What's the Military's official policy on this? I've never heard what the reasoning is behind DADT, other than some vague references to "fraternizing."
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Do not like. :(
- Carmen
Such a shame.
- Nation Hahn
Outrageous .. Im sure the Lawyers ,, are gathering at the door .. what a distinguished career ..
- johnpiercy
guy haz Mad Skillz
- johnpiercy
But the military will bend over backwards to keep and promote hetero male soldiers who harrass and rape female soldiers. LOVELY.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
If you fight the Taliban for the US Army in pink underwear though, you get commended by Robert Gates himself and a promotion;) http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
- Thomas Bøhm
I'd like to hear someone explain the "foxhole" hetero paranoia to his face.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
just read mike arringtons post about Robert Scoble and influence... attention isn't the same as influence http://furrier.org/2008...
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Robert has a balance between influence and attention so he still has influence but blogging is a better way to maintain influence. That being said Robert's asset in friendfeed and twitter are valuable to his blogging.. i say don't give up friendfeed&twitter Robert.. just balance it
- John Furrier
Oh No! Everything Is Dead Let’s Microblog About It - http://www.inquisitr.com/6263...
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Must...resist...liking just for title.
- Bruce Lewis
Phew, it was a good read too.
- Bruce Lewis
Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008) - http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500h...
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Buffett (2003): Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.
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Jens Christian Freund, Matt Hamilton, and 110 other people liked this
Very old sale adage we used in my early days. Very true.
- tagami
<3
- Anna Haro
Aw, Abby. So where do you want me to ship the macarons? ;) @tagami: I love the composition of this photo, too. :) @Anna: tilt your head to the right. It looks like an ice cream cone!
- Mona Nomura
Can't deny 'tis true.
- Ayşe E.
This made my night. Words to live by.
- Mark Wilson
If you want to be interesting,relax:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Igor: ?
- Mona Nomura
seconded
- Aaron Krug
@Mona We're more natural(interesting) then relaxed
- Igor Poltavskiy
Neat.
- elissa
Should be titled: How to win at friendfeed! :-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
If you want to be Liked, ummmm... Like? :D
- Ron
Igor, what about "if you want to relax, be interesting"? :) P.S. Mona is interesting independent of any definition !!
- Hayk H.
Um... that would be a big, fat, NO!! ;)
- Mona Nomura
if you want to be interesting, be interested to someone who is interesting for other people
- امیرعباس
Nay, Amir.
- Mona Nomura
"Interestingness," if i may, is not a direct result of being interested. Interestingnesss can be described as a perceived value - whatever that might mean - of a person. The person however has to spend time and efforts to "build" that value, which then serves an attraction factor or sign of being interesting. Being interested -> learning new stuff, experiences -> increasing value. Sorry for somewhat scientifically rendered para :)
- Hayk H.
i changed my mind. if you want to be interesting, be close friend with someone who is interesting for many people. it's my own experience
- امیرعباس
ops..:) did i again give the final push to kill yet another thread?!
- Hayk H.
Amir and Hayk: Your reasonings, simplified, is "interested" and varies per individual. :)
- Mona Nomura
sure Mona!!!! - good evening to you! - i tried to distill a desciption based on my own experience!!
- Hayk H.
Doesn't everyone, Hayk?! Hello to you too!!!
- Mona Nomura
I did try to make it sound more scientific, hence universal ;) LOL. Doesnt necessarily mean that i succedeed :)
- Hayk H.
Meh. Whatever.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
HAHA
- Mona Nomura
I've now found a reason to want to be more wealthy: business class. 9 hours sleep in a near flat bed on a 14-15 hour flight. It was a points upgrade this time, but I'd love to be able to afford it outright in the future
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Have you checked out those really cool, expensive cars? They live up to their billing.
- Andrew
Andrew, I've only just got back so I haven't grabbed the video yet, but I did a Beverly Hill celeb tour on Monday and we went past this house with 9 Ferrari's and RRs, all brand new (they were being washed). Nope, I'd just be happy with one Aston Martin :-)
- Duncan Riley
OMG I flew first class to Argentina and couldn't even bear to LOOK in coach! The last time I priced tickets to Buenos Aires, the $ difference between first and coach was about a grand. Sounds like a lot, but I'd be willing to pay it in order to not have a crick in my back the whole vacation.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I won't fly to Asia without it.
- Brad Nickel
Too bad they don't have the upstairs lounges in 747's anymore ... That was cool ... now they're filled with seats
- Charlie Anzman
@stupdblogger I only wish that was the difference on the AUS-US trips, it's closer to $2-3k extra off a base which is already $2-3k.
- Duncan Riley
I recently flew on the all business class Singapore Air flight from Singapore->Newark. 18 hours direct. I can't imagine doing a flight like that in coach. It was well worth the 160,000 miles it cost me ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Tom Wentworth
Growing up overseas I got to do this a few times through my Dad's miles. I don't think I appreciated it as much back then as I would now.
- Jesse Stay
Flew Upper Class across the Atlantic a few times recently for work. I'll never be able to afford it on my salaray though, which makes me feel really guilty - my poor wife
- Michael Moran
I fly business all the time to Asia, and with points fly Upper Class on Virgin(bed, masseuse, in-flight bar) to UK. Today it's Singapore Business home, will be a nice relaxing flight. It's one reason in particular to have American Express, just transfer points.[I've flown Continental EWR-HKG and back 2X and won't put up w/ that again]
- clarke thomas
I can't afford to pay for the upgrade either. I asked and it costs $8,000. Yowza. Of course if you COULD afford that you'd be looking longingly at the next level of luxury: owning your own plane. Bad thing about humans. We are never happy with what we have. Hell, those of us in coach have it better than ANY rich person 50 years ago. Think about that one!
- Robert Scoble
Take me with you!
- tj hanton
For $8,000 a ticket, it almost sounds like that the luxury level ladder goes coach->owning a plane->first class upgrade. Obviously not the same thing, but once you get past $15-20k, you're looking at the price of a used Cessna or Piper Cherokee.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
You might be able to pick one up cheap but don't forget about the running costs the fuel for example and where are you going to park it?!
- Arthur Guy
I know, which is why it's not a one-to-one comparison, but at those shockingly high prices for tickets, you hafta wonder when it'll be cheaper to own than rent a seat.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Agreed Greg. Prices go up, but rarely come down. Even when market conditions change, as is the case in Aus. Fuel goes up, so we pay more for food. But when it goes down, we're still paying that 'inflated' price.
- Mo Kargas
I hear ya on that! It's the only way to actually enjoy traveling. Otherwise you just feel like cattle in coach crammed between someone with a questionable odor and somone else that keeps invading your already limited space.
- Shannon
Is Social Media Useful or just Ego-Boost? - http://www.inquisitr.com/2672...
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Ego-boost.
- Robert Scoble
Can it be a useful ego boost?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ego boost and echo chamber apparently.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Useful. I learn something new and 'meet' new people everyday! :)
- Mona Nomura
Stupid: of course. I learned what you all thought about Hillary's speech tonight.
- Robert Scoble
A mix, sometimes I learn, sometimes I stroke my immense ego. Sometimes the latter blocks the former.
- Mo Kargas
Both. Social Media is just a medium, in the same way that blogging or RSS is a medium. It's how we communicate and engage to find new information and people. It's not the medium, it's the message.
- Louis Gray
Mona: you WOULD say that. After all, we all met you here. And fell in love with your "Likes." Proves it's an ego boost. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I don't think you're really going to see people who use it as an ego-boost admit that it's an ego boost.
- Mark Trapp
Those who pooh-pooh "social media" today remind me of those who dissed the early Web in 1994. And believe me, I fought lots of non-believers at that time. "The Web is just a frivolous distraction," was the main point of those who did not see the tsunami coming. The Social Web is as big a wave.
- John McCrea
Well I think it's what you make of it. It can be both useful and an ego-boost. Linkedin has been very useful for me too, in terms of getting work, without too much effort on my part either.
- jjprojects
John, she doesn't pooh-pooh social media in the article, but the culture surrounding it. It's a demented social hierarchy that props up things that feed people's egos over really useful social media tools.
- Mark Trapp
Mark. Sorry, my comment was not specifically directed at her, but rather at the provocative question in the title.
- John McCrea
RTFA. :D
- Cyndy
This reminded me of Alexander Van Elsa's post.. how do you monetize off of all that data: http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008... - but the fact of the matter is, businesses are just looking for whatever service will get them the most views. In the end, it's all about the traffic. The difference is social sites can later (hopefully) be targeted for core audiences of a product and/or service.
- Tim Hoeck
Robert: I share things I like and am excited about and FriendFeed is one of the rare places I interact with those that have the same broad interests as me. I love the conversations and exchange of information. It has nothing to do with 'ego', Robert. If I wanted my ego boosted, I would be barhopping and clubbing. :)
- Mona Nomura
ego boost for now, but I've got a plan to make it very valuable, and I can't be the only one.
- Jason Carreira
Mona: I thought this WAS the adult equivilent of barhopping and clubbing! More fun, less rejection and no hangover! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Brian: I just subscribed to you. How's your ego now?
- Robert Scoble
Oh come on Brian.
- Kyle Lacy
Ego boost until the buzz-words vanish. First to drop should be the "social" precursor to media.
- Andy Angelos
Robert: I'm female, single, and live in San Francisco, where - mind you - the ratio of males to females is almost unfair... Rejection almost never happens, if you fit in any of those categories ;)
- Mona Nomura
Think of it like high school. Let's see who's successful in 10 years :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm aging, married, male, live near San Francisco, so you can see my different worldview. :-)
- Robert Scoble
both. useful and ego-boost. bottomline: just like most things in life, it's how you intend to use it.
- ~C4Chaos
@Robert I don't know about you, but there has been a number of times I wake up in the morning with a FF hangover.
- Tim Hoeck
Hah, Charlie: I like that. Who's going to marry the Facebook cheerleader?
- Mark Trapp
HA! Hence, the ego-boost factor. To each their own, but don't make judgments or assumptions about me, please ;)
- Mona Nomura
If I was Mona's age again ... I'd WOULD be barhoppin' and clubbing (not dukin' it out with Robert :)
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I am secure with myself and who I am. I haven't required an ego boost since I was in middle school. :)
- Mona Nomura
ego-help
- adolfo foronda
Useful AND Ego-Boost?
- Igor Poltavskiy
For me, ego boost
- Francine Hardaway
San Francisco guide to New York neighborhoods | overstated - http://overstated.net/2007...
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"wherever giuliani put it."
- James Miao
Thank you TWITTER for making a tool that has allowed me to find and meet so many new friends, for that I will never be able to repay u !
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Usain Bolt Celebrates Early ... Very Early - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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ESPN - Matos faces lifetime ban after kicking referee following match - Olympics - http://sports.espn.go.com/oly...
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"Cuba's Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend that he be banned for life."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
Lifetime ban? Holy cow
- Kyle Lacy
The expression of referee ... priceless... poor guy, but again, the expression... priceless
- Alemsah Ozturk
Pure Dead Brilliant
- Roberto Bonini
Yeah, lifetime ban sounds reasonable for that.
- Alex Scoble
From article: "We didn't expect anything like what you have witnessed to occur," said WTF secretary general Yang Jin-suk. ... in other words: WTF?!?!
- M. Donaldson
Maybe some imprisonment time as well for aggravated assault?
- Internet's Tad
And before reading I'm guessing that Cuba will complain that it's not fair...
- Internet's Tad
Imagine there is a FF referee and banning people for bad jokes, trolling etc. Like Soup Nazi ;)
- Alemsah Ozturk
He should face assault charges.
- Carolyn Chan
Perfect example of poor sportsmanship from an Olympian competitor. I hope kids will not follow his example.
- imabonehead
Just read the article - they're banning the coach as well. Great. No official response from Cuba in the article, but the coach was totally unapologetic and said that Matos' opponent must have bribed the referee...
- Internet's Tad
Oops...
- friendfeed
that's kinda awesome
- Cee Bee
Call it: bad sportsmanship.
- Pete Delucchi
no video link?
- Arash
Outrageous. The ban is appropriate. Cuba will apologize.
- Chris Baskind
What a jerk.. too bad he got just a ban. Not worthy for martial arts.
- Jemm
At least the judges noticed this kick ;)
- Chris Nixon
http://www.youtube.com/watch... i fond the video link
- Arash
The word 'douchebag' seems appropriate here.
- TDavid
thats amazing
- Arash
That's not a man... it's some sort of animal.
- Internet's Tad
Ridiculous! Complete lack of sportsmanship and grossly inappropriate behavior for an Olympian.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
really wild
- Arash
Should get multiple lifetime bans just like court.
- Dave Ploch
He deserves what he gets. Deliberate, un-sportsmanlike, potentially deadly, generally and ass-hat type of thing. Boo. :(
- Mathew A. Koeneker
LOL @Tad Donaghe, I going to go out on a short limb and assume, if this guy was a lighter shade, your comments would have come off a lot less KKK-sounding. But wow..."animal" and no one called you out on how incredibly racist that sounds? Okay...
- Anika
Did Matos go mad?
- Ekin Özçelik
Faboo: I only know Tad from his online rep but that was not a racist comment. That individual allowed his more primitive or "animalistic" behavior patterns to over-whelm the training that I know that he has had. I only made it to brown belt but it was instilled in us from the beginning to have respect for the referee and your opponent ie. the 2 bows prior to all matches.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Lifetime banning is the least Matos deserves. Hopefully Cuba has something else in mind. To faboo mama, the word made me squirm, but I don't recall TD doing anything else to make me wonder. On another note, if my roundhouse looked like that, I'm pretty sure Master K. would have told me to twist my torso more.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Woah - Faboo - I never even considered the color of his skin. What does that have to do with his behavior? Does it really smack of racism to call a black man an animal based on behavior like this?
- Internet's Tad
@faboo welcome to FriendFeed, a wonderful place where we call stupid stupid no matter who brings it to the table. enjoy your stay.
- idnan
@FaRzAd II (aghafarzad): Sadly, this IS how some athletes behave. It's unacceptable for all, but an Olmpyian who dares should be given sufficient cause to regret it.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Gmail on Day One - http://fury.com/article...
Ross Hill, Diana Valerini, Dan Liebke and 62 other people liked this
It's really interesting how the current UI, not having undergone any "Wow it's all different" iterations, is so similar yet different from where we started.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
It reminds me how much I dislike JPG for screenshots :)
- Paul Buchheit
It took me a while to figure out what was going on here, until I realized you'd Bookmarket-ed a blog post from *2004*! That's ancient history, man!
- Paul Wilcox
Great to see you had a Prius label in 2004 :)
- Roshan Vyas
I am so glad it hasn't changed.
- Steve Rubel
There's something to be said for good clean design. Tweaks are fine but not major overhauls all the time. I've always liked this layout.
- Al Stevens
it would be fun to see one of the early caribou screenshots for additional historic context :)
- Natala Menezes
Natala, http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Paul Buchheit
Archive is nice :D it is very interesting to see the evolution. Thanks Paul :)
- Harun Baris Bulut
I love the fact the delete button wasn't introduced yet. I tell people about this and they don't believe me
- Derek Coatney
not being able to delete was a bit strange, I remember.
- Josh Haley
Delete was there from day one -- it was just in the "more actions..." menu.
- Paul Buchheit
Is there any important feature in today's Gmail that hasn't been envisioned from the beginning?
- Ionut
That's an interesting question. I guess it depends on your definition of "important" and "beginning". In the very beginning, the only definite vision was to make something "better". However, pretty much everything in there today had been prototyped or at least talked about well before launch (see the chat integration in http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-cont... for example). As usual, coming up with the ideas is easy, but fitting them cleanly into the product is hard.
- Paul Buchheit
The funny part about this is I was being sort of snarky but didn't really mean for Kevin to post the thing about the bandwidth. I had a legacy server in the Google datacenter from the Blogger acquisition that I was using to host shellen.com and evhead.com. Kevin went ahead and made screenshots of that thread anyway. :) I got a few angry comments from people on my blog that I was 'stealing from Google'. This is why the internet needs a sarcasm mark.
- Jason Shellen
Yeah, I actually recalled that faux pas when I reblogged this now. 'Oops!' Psst, you don't still have that server in a Google datacenter, do you? FriendFeed could always use some free bandwidth...
- Kevin Fox
I just assumed FriendFeed was being hosted from servers in a Google datacenter anyway. They wouldn't really miss the bandwidth anyway, would they? ;-)
- Tony Ruscoe
iPhone Add On for Live Streaming Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ross Hill, mike "glemak" dunn, Dennis Jackson and 4 other people liked this
Joking aside, the real Qik for iPhone is hot.
- Christopher Sacca
Briiiillliiaant!
- Dennis Jackson
from twhirl
here is a test from the iPhone i just made with Qik. Works awesome http://qik.com/video/112226
- Ouriel Ohayon
I just added my FriendFeed page (http://friendfeed.com/duncanr...) to my email signature. I bet others will be as well in the coming months. Much easier than a list of blogs and other services
Justin Kerr-Stevens, Ross Hill, Wil and 16 other people liked this
I've rigged up a Friendfeed dashboard on my blog at http://billso.com/friendfeed - works just as well.
- Bill Sodeman
from twhirl
I once had Twitter in my signature, but it has basically died for me. I currently have LinkedIn, but I think FriendFeed will replace it.
- Ben Parr
@billsodeman nice
- Duncan Riley
I already added it to my signature as well.
- Robert Scoble
Did that a couple days ago as well (+ LinkedIn, + my blog).
- Hutch Carpenter
I've had my blog and LinkedIn, adding FriendFeed manually the last few days, just now added to signature.
- AJ Kohn
sounds like a huge win for friendfeed - normally people pay to remove ads from email signatures (hotmail, yahoomail, etc)
- cayley vos
I haven't tried putting such social networks information in my signature before. I wonder what the effect will be, considering that I interact with non-geeks most of the time, and the geeks I interact with already knows I am on FriendFeed.
- Winston Teo
Hmm.. that's a good idea. I currently have my i-name (=wil) as my .sig but maybe I should point that at my FriendFeed profile.
- Wil
I recently put it on a resume for the school newspaper here. editor wanted to see some writing. I pointed him here
- BCK
I will never join BrightKite. Ever. It's not for me. Believe it or not, I actually value aspects of my privacy. I'll let you know where I am, but not through that kind of service. As far as you're concerned: I'm at home in front of my computer.
Chris Nixon, Mario Olckers, Ross Hill and 30 other people liked this
Using BrightKite would only serve to highlight how little we move around. I can see it now. Louis is at home. Still at home. Still at home. At work in his cubicle. In a meeting. Back to the cube. Back to home. Who cares?
- Louis Gray
Louis, have you been looking at my Brightkite? I go from one end of town to the other. It always says the same thing. ;)
- Cyndy
BrightKite is a great idea for people that want to share their information. I'm not going to say "I'm at home (123 Anywhere Street, Anywhere, USA)" because I don't want random people showing up at my house. I do thought let people know when I've made a week run to Starbucks or my favorite pizza place. I don't see anything wrong with that. If you can hunt me down and find me in a crowd of angry coffee-lovers, you deserve to find me.
- Aaron Myers
If I hadn't chosen the name "Ontario Emperor," I'd probably never explicitly blog about my city of residence. You can bet I'd never publish "I'm at 123 Main St., Ontario, CA 91760" - unless I was at Oracle OpenWorld or the Grand Ole Opry or some such.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
all this nonsense about wanting to let people know our movements every second of the day and what we are thinking or doing every moment of the day reminds me of a post I wrote last Sept - http://www.winextra.com/2007...
- Steven Hodson
Bright who?
- Bwana ☠
I agree. Lotsa love to ya all, but I feel tracked enough without broadcasting my minute-by-minute whereabouts.
- Chris Baskind
This is why I'm not joining BrightKite: *http://chris.pirillo.com/2008... (understand?)
- l0ckergn0me
I've started to be okay with it (usability and other issues aside). I don't publish (or tell Brightkite about) my street address, but if I'm heading out to a town or city or somesuch, I'll pop in my zip code. Who knows? Maybe someone I've met online is where I'm heading and I can take that relationship offline. I do agree with Louis though; I think 95% of my check-ins are going to be "home" or "work." I'm not a very interesting person, travel-wise, for most of the year.
- Mark Trapp
I could see a definite value for someone like Gary Vaynerchuk or Robert Scoble or Ryan Block or any of those chic bloggers who travel around a lot. "I am here" instead of 100 tweets trying to remind people that you're going to be somewhere or are at somewhere.
- Mark Trapp
I started to use it to help me fill out my expense reports for mileage, but it didn't work. I kept forgetting to use it.
- Kenneth LeFebvre
from fftogo
Think I'm glad I didn't ask for an invite. Another couple of days and I should be through the curve on HTML 1.0
- Charlie Anzman
If I used it, 99% of the time people would go comatose from boredom.
- Mark Dykeman
It really makes it tough on us omnipresent, non-local, eighth circuit types. Always trying to monadify the goo.
- david beckwith
Charlie, want an invite? I have a bunch. ;)
- Cyndy
(Even though I used it), I don't really buy the "nobody cares about where I am" argument against Brightkite. That was the same line people used about Twitter: "Nobody cares what I'm doing all the time they'd be so bored." It's just another vector to tell people, who are ostensibly interested in you, a little more about yourself.
- Mark Trapp
You may not join, but how will your kids feel about joining?
- Ranjit Mathoda
I think I'm ready to cancel my account. Thanks guys.
- Alex Sauceda
from fftogo
Ranjit, I foresee the joining by kids as a great incentive for parents to join! Finally, a way to really keep tabs on them.
- David Tallan
As my travel increases, I've found folks coming to a Panera I'm temporarily officing or pinging me for a meetup later in the day. I'll agree it gets kinda boring around home, but it's great for on the road.
- Mike Sansone
Definitely agree with you.
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
I used BK for a little bit, then stopped. The privacy concerns are valid. Why not just hang a poster on your door and say, 'hey, whackos I live here, come harass me'.
- Susan Beebe
i live on an island in the middle of the ocean so you're gonna have to spend some serious dough in air fare money to stalk me
- Tyler Gillies
I thought Twitter was useless too. Guess what? People are angry Twitter is down. These are just tools.
- Russellreno
Aside from security concerns, I'm not a member of the target audience for this app. It seems to do its job well, with a few quirks in the UI, but it is going to find its audience among those who travel frequently and don't mind being tracked like a UPS parcel. Letting your boss/spouse/kids know where you are might play a valuable part of your relationship. At least BK gives you the...
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- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm loving the thinly veiled insults: "it's not for me. I value my privacy. Maybe you are an idiot who doesn't care about his or her privacy and you'll love Brightkite. But I'm so smart, and I won't use it. Just my opinion, you know, that you're crazy for using Brightkite. Just saying why I don't use it."
- Mark Trapp
Bright who? :)
- Bwana ☠
Kenneth Lefebvre's attempt to use the service is fascinating, even if he forgot to use it half the time. It shows how people find unanticipated uses for tools.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Cyndy - I've got enough misc invites for the next two weeks but thanks. .... Charlie is in his home office. Charlie is on Friendfeed. Charlie is buying gadgets he doesn't need. Charlie is back in his home office. Charlie is on Friendfeed. Charlie is buying more junk he doesn't need. Charlie is home. Charlie is on Friendfeed. ..
- Charlie Anzman
Politicians should use BK. Not moment to moment, but at least daily, the major appointments. The president is our employee, they work for us. There's no reason they shouldn't account for their time. Authors could use BK to promote their book tours, comedians their appearances.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
my two issues: no immediate support for pics on the iPhone (you have to save individually, so no impulse use) + having to do it all the time. Maybe with iPhone 3G it might have some more appeal, but despite giving it a shot I didn't find it compelling...yet
- Duncan Riley
Good point, Louis. It would only show, that I don't leave the house, the whole day. How boring.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
one thing that brightkite does well is allow for pictures. I like seeing what my friends are doing when I cant be there, not just reading about it on Twitter.
- Micah Baldwin
I like the app. It has filters as well as has work-a-rounds to "protect" those who really think that there is much "privacy" left in today's society. 1984 is here and now. We are not that far behind the UK in putting a camera on every corner.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
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