Sage LaTorra

Thanks to all of you for helping us get here! We are excited to open it up and move on to some big features we have planned :) - Bret Taylor

Congrats! Looking forward to the big new features. - David Vasileff

Awesome news! - Sage LaTorra

Love it! - Ross Miller

Congratulations, guys! ^_^ - Jess Lee

Congratulations, I'm spending more and more time trawling FF, there's always something new here - Glenn Slaven

Congratulations! - Christopher Black

Congratualtions! 축하합니다. 더욱 더 발전하세요. - zizukabi

! - j1m

Congrats! - Bindu Reddy

Yay friendfeed! I'm so excited for what's to come, although I'd still love the site even if it stayed the same - Emily Miller

Congrats from Belgium too! - Maarten Somers

The original is http://www.susannahertrich.com... but still doesn't explain the methodology. See also http://www.icsu-scope.org/down... (from http://www.icsu-scope.org/down...), less pretty but in a similar vein. - ⓞnor

Even if the stats are off a bit, this is a great visualization. - Adam Barker

Awesome! Esp. since i just played RockBand for the first time last night. :) - Dan Hsiao

Too awesome. Can't wait til it's out. - Wayne

(clarification: I filmed and posted the video. I didn't make the game or the song ;-) - Kevin Fox

(clarification: Kevin also didn't invent rock and roll) - j1m

Is ruby the facebook of programming languages? - Jim Norris

I just cant stand how polluted PHP namespaces are - Benjamin Golub

I happen to like PHP. It powers Wikipedia and most of my own hand-coded websites. It's readily available and is easy to learn. And just for the record, I hate MySpace. - Voyagerfan5761

meh. I like ASP better, to be quite honest. I've been programming in one form or another of BASIC since I was barely a teenager, so it's uber familiar. if PHP is MySpace, what's ASP? (and for the record, I think PHP is more of a twitter: chaotic, lots of wasted time, but ultimately the most widely used in it's space. ASP would be Jaiku. Locked down and invitation only? i dunno. i should probably stop now.). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

any other expansions of "X is the Y of programming languages"? - Amund Tveit

AFAIK myspace uses coldfusion and .net (lol windows) - Alex Mendes da Costa

Python is the Google of programming languages? Simple and elegant - Benjamin Golub

As a Flash guy I find the comment about AS2.0 amusing. How about AS 3.0? - Jason Kaneshiro

"I just cant stand how polluted PHP namespaces are." That's true -- and their function naming and parameter order is incredibly inconsistent. You can't just remember a single rule, you either have to remember all function parameter and naming orders (underscore or not, haystack before needle in parameter order etc.) or always look them up*. On the upside, there is a function for almost anything, and PHP comes preinstalled on many typical server setups (like mine, which is why I use it). *And don't get me started on having to press Shift-4 whenever I want to type a variable, or using $this-> for class members even when the scope is nonambigous! - Philipp Lenssen

"any other expansions of "X is the Y of programming languages"?" Perl is the Digg of programming languages? Everybody's added something. - Sage LaTorra

This wasn't a really deep analogy -- I just thought it was kind of funny. Basically, they are both kind of ugly and unprincipled, but very popular (presumably because they are giving people something they want). As for actual implementation, I seem to recall that MySpace is currently written in ASP.net (just as Orkut was originally), and FB is in PHP (among other things). - Paul Buchheit

So funny - terababy

Wow. That was awesome. The pointer/hand stick was particularly cool. I wish they showed more of the details (the star blocks they flipped over). - Dan Hsiao

Really cool! - Sam Davyson

via http://googlesystem.blogspot.c..., which has an english translation in the comments. - Paul Buchheit