I made a new list called "Twitter Clone" and will slowly migrate folks to more frequently viewed lists. Check out the new feature here: https://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Louis Gray
Mona, that only is true if I'm active on a ton of other friends' activity. Theoretically, unless my total activity per day increases, you won't see a change, just new people!
- Louis Gray
I actually don't want to sync them. I follow people on FF for different reasons than Twitter.
- mikepk
The only downside is that it also sent 184 subscription requests to private feeds. So that means when those private subscriptions approve the request, it hits the home feed. Then I have to move the new adds to the lists manually. And they can accept at any time.
- Louis Gray
Lost count but maybe I saved myself some future work. I added new ones on a separate list just in case I want to see later what I've got in there :)
- Carlos Lorenzo
40 new friends and two requests (private feeds? ick!)
- Chris Charabaruk
how do you honestly filter all these information flows? What king of filters features would you like to be able to set up? would you like APML based recomndation?
- duprat julien
I should have done what Louis did. I just added everyone to Home feed, and now sorting it out is a total mess. Oops. :|
- Chris Charabaruk
My number was similar. Now come all the e-mails showing they followed back.
- Jesse Stay
as mentioned above, by several people, add these people into their own list, before moving them across to your 'main' lists. Also, running this script / feature needs to be done on a regular basis to keep up with your new followers
- martin english
I added 240 and put them in their own list like Louis until I decide what to do with them
- Sally Church
Just checked that out. Funny thing, is none of those people, save one guy who I thought I was subbed to here, are actually active on FF. Which is why they are either in my Dumpers list or I unsubbed from them.
- Anika
I just did this, started a new list for these... but how do i see how many it was? can't see that anywhere?
- Rob Sellen :o)
Rampantheart just create a Twitterimport Friend list and then you can sort them out from there. (Imported 183)
- Keith - @tsudo
I added 887, now I'm subscribed to over 1500. I'm putting them into a list for now, til I can sort them out a bit better.
- jjprojects
for me more like ... 50 or so? a nice number anyway
- Snipergirl
Olá sou willian su brasileiro , bom dia!!
- Willian
I just added 176, now I see loads of tweets asking what's going on with all the new FF subs :)
- Nicola Quinn
happy to see that feature. Also happy they did not ask for my password :)
- funkyboy
from Posty
I only added 40, that is either good in that I was following the people already, or bad cause that was not a lot of people. I'll go with the good bit. :-)
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
I did that too. Now I am wondering how to organize it.
- Martha
This is something that should have been done a long time ago, but I am glad it is now available. Would be nice if they ran it for you every N days. If I follow you on Twitter auto add them in FF.
- Scott Watermasysk
I added a whole bunch... my FF lists need to be revisited
- Bwana ☠
"CNN: I watched the special last night, and I noticed that you did a lot of jokes about John McCain ... but not so many about Barack Obama. Is it harder to make fun of Obama? Chris Rock: He's just one of those guys, you know, like Will Smith. There's no Will Smith jokes. There's no Brad Pitt jokes. You know, what are you going to say? "Ooh, you used to have sex with Jennifer Anniston. Now you have sex with Angelina Jolie. You're such a loser." What do you say? "Ooh, your movies are big. You make $20 million." There's nothing to say about Brad Pitt. ... It's like "Ooh, you're young and virile and you've got a beautiful wife and kids. You're the first African-American president." You know, what do you say?"
- Christopher Chung
from Bookmarklet
Something old. Commenters: "Maybe not, but at least Google returns your queries." ... "Google may return your queries but does it give you answers?"
- Christopher Chung
from Bookmarklet
Well the beta has sunk in and it's mostly just rearranging things that were already there before the beta. FF is still missing some things that are perplexing that would be super-easy and would make it much nicer as a reading and writing platform.
First thing -- I publish feeds with full text, so why doesn't FF pick that up and do something nice with it. Look at this view of my latest blog post. http://beta.friendfeed.com/e... Why do people have to go to my site to read the post? This is a feed reader, right?? Why not have a plus sign or a wedge and allow me to expand it to read the essay in place. As an author I have to believe a lot more people would read it. I'm getting comments from people who I know haven't read the piece. That would be less likely if they didn't have to go to another site to read it.
- Dave Winer
Second -- do a ping server. What's the big deal. I would make it so my tools can optionally ping FF. There's already a well-established standard here, all the major blogging tools could instantly be configured to support it.
- Dave Winer
Third -- give me a command in the popup menu for a feed that allows me to say "fetch it now" -- I'd do this when I know I just posted some pics to Flickr or added some items to my Netflix queue. Sure someday all this will be efficient, but for now you have humans who would be willing to do this for you, so why not take advantage of it.
- Dave Winer
Actually, the 1st one is a great way to use all that blank white space on the right, you could view it in a frame like G Reader instead of clicking through to the site. That would increase productivity for sure.
- Sally Church
Awesome. I have a lot more where that came from. Here's one. I want to be able to add my own commands to the popup menus. I have no how idea how that would work short of you implementing a scripting language, which I'm sure is doable. I want to shoot things from here to other places, that's usually waht I want to do. Twitter doesn't have the same capabilities as FF, but that's where most of the people are.
- Dave Winer
I agree with Peter Friend Feed is not a feed reader! It's a blogging platforum, it's away to get a message out, basicly away to communitcate and be heard. A feed reader is ussually one sided, and boring. Friend Feed is not boring.
- Colide81 (James)
Dave: there is the ability to 'fetch it now'. Add/edit items, select the service in question, click the 'refresh feed' link in the lower right corner of the box. It updates on command.
- FFing Enigma
Peter: Wouldn't be great if FF become a great feedreader at the same time,maybe we could spend less time on Google Reader.And I bet it rocks!
- Steve Chou
Dave, we do monitor both the google and weblogs.com ping servers, so any ping sent there should be picked up by FriendFeed within a few minutes. That said, we should probably just create one of our own as well.
- Paul Buchheit
#1 Idea rocks. A long time ago, I said FF is a blogging platform and can't wait till we see it evolve even more! I would rather have my blog here than any place else, but the text boxes are too limiting. Please add a new "blog" post type so we can add a 1 page blog piece (obviously it can't be too long). Next, we'll need a user profile page for bloggers (premium user)
- Susan Beebe
FF is not a feed reader (but I agree with Dave -- it should be -- if it had an option to expand posts a la the iGoogle Google reader gadget it would be perfect). FF is also not a blogging platform (but it should be) -- let FF posts be multi paragraph, longer than currently allowed and allow inclusion inline of pictures and it would allow real blog like posts (for those of us who don't or no longer blog).
- Brian Sullivan
Sounds like Dave wants to make FF into Pownce with #1.
- Lindsay
This is the second old post I've seen revived today. Very cool feature.
- Russellreno
I disagree, the comment function allows substantial elaboration of a post & you can add numerous pictures. There's no reason why FF should be yet another blog reader when there's such thing as tabbed browsing, but should rather be an index or resource for favorite subscriptions/blogs you'd like to read in depth further & elsewhere.
- sofarsoShawn
At the rate they're delivering these things, I think SVXs are more exotic. And yeah, lasik seems to work well but the procedure smells really disgusting.
- Richard Chen
Subtitled: "The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong." A thorough rebuttal.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Liberal orthodoxy, but not much more. The "appeal to consequences" logical fallacy at its best.
- Antonio Piccolboni
@Antonio, the article is full of facts in support of its position. The only way that could be characterized as "liberal orthodoxy, but not much more" is if you accept the characterization of liberals as the only "reality-based community".
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Antonio, the only thing that might remotely be called an "appeal to consequences" is the characterization of "blaming poor minority homeowners" as "offensive". But, this is incidental and not used at all in the actual argument. Did you actually read the article at all, or are you just commenting on my comment?
- Ruchira S. Datta
Appeal to consequences: "poor minority homeowners didn't cause the credit crisis because that would be offensive." Appeal to ignorance and prejudice: "poor minority homeowners must have caused the credit crisis, since saying so is offensive and pisses off liberals."
- Jim Norris
@Ruchira: if credit is available, you don't have to take it. If lenders don't ask you any documentation, you should run. I am not saying that borrowers are the only culprits, but the article you pointed to is particularly one sided, opposite but equal to the WSJ editorials. Everybody needs to be responsible for one's own actions, be him the investor, lender, borrower or regulator, and the color of the skin doesn't matter either.
- Antonio Piccolboni
Those sudden spikes are a really inefficient way to trade -- somebody is losing a ton of money every time they do that, just because they can't be bothered to make many small trades instead of a few big trades.
- ⓞnor
I was wondering why intrade pricing was so off compared to the other markets. @nor if their goal is to manipulate the price over the short term, then large amounts are the way to go. They *want* the price to be impacted.
- Sanjeev Singh
"This is the exact mirror image of the Obama trading" - no, actually, it isn't. Clinton trading has three drops in the marked period; Obama trading has two. Obama peaks at Sep 23 5:54 PMPDT at 50.5/2000; Clinton has 1600 shares traded spread out between 5:17 and 5:32. Yeah, you can talk this into something, but ...
- Jutta Degener
Yeah, by "exact mirror image" he seems to mean "vaguely similar pattern of two or three large orders placed during a day". The times aren't lined up or anything super obvious like that. Sanjeev, yes, possibly it's optimized for manipulation, though I'm not convinced of that.
- ⓞnor
It doesn't help that the time periods in the two graphics aren't aligned, and cropped to suggest a periodicity that isn't there in the larger frame... The other thing is - 100$ intrade = 10$ US; so the trade volume is smaller and grainier than what y'all probably think it is, and, yes, very much subject to manipulation by the malicious or stupid. Still, valuing Dem win so much more than Obama win *is* weird; I figured overestimated likelyhood of catastrophic events, but don't really have a good explanation.
- Jutta Degener
Google claims that its data centers get an average of 1.2 PUE (20% overhead for air conditioning, battery backup, etc.), much lower than the old expected value around 2.0 (100% overhead), and that one of their data centers got 1.15. PUEs are going up in the graph because cooling needs are higher in summer. The EPA expects that with improvements, by 2011 the average data center will reach 1.9, and the very best data centers will get down to 1.2.
- Amit Patel
“In the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than we will use to answer your query.”
- Sanjeev Singh
One thing that no one ever writes about is how "costly" it is to move electricity, versus how efficient it is to move light/bits.
- Christopher Sacca
I'll have to sit down and really read this article later. Looks like somebody's really paying attention to power utilization (and its twin sister heat)
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
from fftogo
@Sanjeev: I wonder if and how they're amortizing the offline processing that takes place beforehand in the calculation of "energy...we will use to answer your query". But in any case, kudos!
- Ruchira S. Datta
They don't mention if the crawling or indexing, let alone networking (switches, routers) are taken into account when determining how much energy is used to answer a query.
- Gabe
I don't think the crawling/indexing is included in that comparison, but It's still pretty amazing if true.
- Sanjeev Singh
Gabe, the switches and routers probably take negligible energy compared to the servers.
- Sanjeev Singh
"We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that’s $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands — losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” People should have known better but in some way’s it’s unavoidable with markets: “People should always know better. … I mean people — people don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is, and he’s doing these things, you know, and he’s getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing — pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. And that’s what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Can someone please engrave this on a plaque somewhere? Maybe we could have it etched into some tablets from the mountaintop and have churches predicated on these words.
- Christopher Sacca
Right on! Yep, i am very "silly" ...not a jonesy type anymore.... we gave away much of our "cool stuff" and now have a mimimalist home ...MUCH BETTER and the best part, no stinking debt, except house and 1 car. The bank was all too ready to sock us deep into debt. We decided against that and are very happy with our decision to borrow only half what was offered (more realistic with cushion to $pare)
- Susan Beebe
Unsure imitators and idiots don't simply continue on their merry way under bailout.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ all the bailout does is buy time. We're merely delaying the inevitable, I think. If the imitators and the idiots keep doing what they're doing, we'll just be right back here again, except probably even worse off.
- Victor Ganata
A lot of people have criticized Paulson, here's what Buffett says: "I don’t think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson … he knows markets, he knows corporations’ work, he knows money, and he’s got the interests of the country at heart."
- Sanjeev Singh
This is a good article on the growth of conspiracy theories of late: http://www.spiked-online.com/index... "Sometimes it appears as if Western societies have regressed, adopting a medieval attitude towards calamitous acts."
- Andrew Leyden
It's a shame that they don't talk about 'attribution' in the article. It's pretty obvious and well understood that human minds recognize patterns in pretty much whatever we look at. A conspiracy theory arises when people attribute a particular pattern to a group of identifiable, intentional actors, without evidence that the actors themselves exist. For example - it's clearly not a conspiracy theory to say that a group of investors were working in concert to undermine the economy, so the pattern is real..
- Robin Barooah
...it only becomes a conspiracy theory when people say "a group of investors were working in concert to undermine the economy because they are part of a conspiracy to enslave americans, (or whatever).". The part that is shaky is that there is no evidence that the group has such an intention or even identifies itself as a group.
- Robin Barooah
OTOH, mature pattern-finders has learned that society doesn't take their skills for granted and tend to explain *irregularities* not with coup'detat but ignorance, complacency and common stupidity ;)
- A. T.
"The assignment to Iraq or Afghanistan of a service member who is the son or daughter of a president or vice president does not make sense. No matter what the young person's desires are, they are of little importance compared with ensuring that our leaders are able to stay focused on the nation - and not worrying about the fate of a child a world away."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
I'd have to agree with this. Even though many feel that the politicans at the top level should have more empathy for military soldiers lives and deaths, I think the Commander-In-Chief must still maintain certain distance from the ground troops in order to lead well.
- Rob H.
The British had to pull Prince Harry out of Afghanistan for the same reasons: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadl.... It puts the other troops around them at risk in addition to the national security concerns.
- Bret Taylor
"A female soldier driving a truck along a major highway can be blown up by a roadside bomb." Either there's a weird touch of sexism there or the male penis does more than I was led to believe.
- Soup in a TARDIS
@soup, i think his point is that even female soldiers (who aren't supposed to be in combat positions) can be injured or killed in a war zone, so there really isn't a "safe" place to reassign someone.
- Jessie
What about John S. McCain, Jr. taking command of U.S. forces in the Pacific while his son was a POW in Hanoi? It's a very different circumstance but brings up some similar issues.
- Jim Norris
@Jessie, Ah perhaps you are right. I hate that division personally, but that probably is what he is referencing.
- Soup in a TARDIS
@soup, i hate that division too, and i think eisenhower could have written that line better to make his reference clearer.
- Jessie
700 Billion!! *lightning cracks* Ah! Ah! Ah!
- April Buchheit
It'd be a little funnier if he'd been counting the dollars one by one (i.e. "699,999,999,999; 700 billion!!") and he looked all corroded and ready to keel over from exhaustion after all that counting....
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
boy, we had that thing doing for very long - one guy has been working ONLY on boot time for more than year, and few others were helping him... bottom line is that 5 sec is possible but at certain moment you do it at expense of functionality/usability/reliability... I've seen those bootcharts printed into pile. But anyway bottomliner was impressive.
- A. T.
"FriendFeed's turning one! A year ago today, Bret, Jim, Paul and Sanjeev put our site and service out there and invited some folks. Soon, more people joined—as users, coworkers and friends. The rest, as they say, is history. Although not particularly ancient history."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
It's been a year already? Blimey. Happy Birthday!
- Tony Ruscoe
Congrats. Trumpets and blowguns to get the rest of us non-FF slimes. Still have those weapons handy. +1 DeWitt, bring in some gears! Got some nice design in mind. +1 Shivanand and the like, how come it never existed before is beyond my understanding, that's how web services win I suppose. Great foundation to build for the future of 'social media'.
- Zu from AOD
Thank you for building my home on the web... Was waiting for a long time. Worth it :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congratulations Friendfeed and Happy Birthday to you!!!
- AJ Batac
I <3 ff! Thanks so much for providing such a great community of wonderful people and great information. :-)
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Happy Happy Birthday Friendfeed, best of luck for the future!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear FF, Happy Birthday to you...and many more!!
- Admiral70
CONGRATULATIONS... It has taken me most of the year to figure out how to use and make the most of friendfeed, and now dont' want to live without it....
- amelia arapoff