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AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007...
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Rishabh Mishra (p248), Mike Chelen, Tweet Feeds and 7 other people liked this
Anyone try this? Is it actually good?
- ⓞnor
I've played with it a bit but haven't had the chance to do much. I invested in it last summer because I love the idea and think the founders are really smart.
- Paul Buchheit
As an IT teacher, I find this to be a very good and quick "test bed" for my students. They can learn the Web development paradigm through immediate "try/error" iterations. Thumbs up!
- Claudio Cicali ♋
I really love the site and the idea. Especially for devs like me, who don't have money or people to work with. Still, I'm having to go with Google App Engine, just on the offhand chance that my idea works so well that it has to scale higher. But for someone building a free app with a small-med-sized audience, I'd be extremely open to AppJet.
- Christopher Galtenberg
appjet has unfortunately shut down, but the technology lead to the lovely http://etherpad.com and the much of the server software was open source allowing replacements such as http://apps.jgate.de/
- Mike Chelen
Christopher: one nice thing about appjet was that it was possible to download the source .js to a private server host and run on any of several server side javascript engines, including the one released by appjet. this is similar to google app engine, because the python or java code is portable, although both platforms include special storage libraries
- Mike Chelen
California Won't Accept Its Own IOUs - http://www.courthousenews.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, Parry Pon, Ian Betteridge and 30 other people liked this
"Small businesses that received $682 million in IOUs from the state say California expects them to pay taxes on the worthless scraps of paper, but refuses to accept its own IOUs to pay debts or taxes. The vendors' federal class action claims the state is trying to balance its budget on their backs. Lead plaintiff Nancy Baird filled her contract with California to provide embroidered polo shirts to a youth camp run by the National Guard, but never was paid the $27,000 she was owed. She says California "paid" her with an IOU that two banks refused to accept - yet she had to pay California sales tax on the so-called "sale" of the uniforms."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This is hilarious. If it weren't so horrible for the businesses involved.
- Francine Hardaway
Anyone miss Gray Davis?
- Adi
No kidding... I'd vote for a recall to put Davis back in office at this point. Maybe it's not all the governator's fault, but he hasn't been helping much.
- Jim Norris
Is it even the governor's fault? How much of the fault lies with the legislature?
- Gabe
We need to find the smartest man in the world, and then have him solve all our problems :)
- Paul Buchheit
Gray Davis is not the smartest man in the world... and I don't think this problem can be solved by one man, it's past that point. We're so far in the red, something drastic needs to occur---an exodus perhaps---I'll go first. ;)
- Brandon
It's not really the governor's fault, but he hasn't done much of anything to pressure the legislators in his party. I don't know too much about state politics but repealing Prop 13 couldn't hurt, and why not get rid of 8 too while we're at it.
- Jim Norris
The legislature definitely shares the blame, but it isn't like Schwarzenegger is immaculate. The legislature was just as a blame-worthy during the recall days, but only Davis took the fall.
- Victor Ganata
It's one thing to print your own currency. It's another to print worthless paper that's near impossible to redeem and exchange for other stores of value (then again, one could argue that the US Dollar is no longer a store of value one should consider).
- Aviv
Yes, one could argue that... feel free to exchange your dollars for CA IOUs in that case =)
- Jim Norris
Better hold US IOUs than California's own. :)
- Aviv
Paul wins for the followup Idiocracy reference.
- Jay Cuthrell
I suspect the aggregated voter-mandated funding formulas and tax mandates have made the state ungovernable. Neither the governor nor the legislature can balance a budget when 70% of it is off limits.
- DGentry
This is crap... wow. where's the integrity? how can I run a business and have this? I have a budget too.... #FAIL
- Susan Beebe
YouTube - The FriendFeed Whiteboard - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Louis Gray, Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy, bob and 66 other people liked this
High quality version available (on YouTube)
- Dan Hsiao
Smart!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
cool stuff.
- Alan Le
Now refresh the page :)
- Andrew Smith
Whiteboard prototyping FTW!
- Hao Chen
Is it just me or is the most impressive thing about this video is their ability to write in straight lines without a rule?
- Mark Trapp
seeing stuff like that always gets me motivated to draw wire frames.
- Adam Helweh
They filmed themselves slowly erasing it, then ran it backwards. Makes them look extremely steady-handed.
- Dylan Parker
Dan, why do I get the feeling you wear that shirt a lot? ;)
- Christopher Chung
I would definitely need a rule for that!!
- Alex Sauceda
Really well done, guys
- Christopher Sacca
Very cool!! Great work!
- Karen Padham Taylor
Fantastic. I bet that took more than 5 minutes to make though. :)
- Mike Cassidy
Is that how you guys do all your UI mockups?
- Brian Johns
I'm going to have to talk to my UI guys. They're too slow.
- Ryan Kuder
Bubble... Because I love it :)
- Ross Miller
+ the music is really nice
- alexxandra
LOL, who doesn't have a whiteboard these days?
- Zachary TG
CNN massacre day June 24, 2009 tehran baharestan کشت وکشتار بهارستان - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Michael Muller, Sanjeev Singh and Private Sanjeev liked this
The situation seems to be deteriorating :(
- Sanjeev Singh
This is their nature to be miscreants. Only a sick man can do that with people from same origin. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are same person
- WebXiom
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL!
Sheila Taylor, Mike Nayyar, Trish Haley and 38 other people liked this
And happy Beltane / First of May to everyone else. :-)
- Kevin Fox
Happy Birthday Rachel!!!! *Goes crazy Yo Gabba Gabba style*
- Johnny Worthington
Happy birthday, Rachel!
- Admiral Anika
♫ Happy Birthday, Rachel!!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Thank you Kevin! Thank you Everyone!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Me too! Where are you guys? Celebrating in style, no doubt?
- Frederik Goris
Happy Happy Birthday! Have fun at HauntCon :)
- Georgia Diehl
Happy birthday!!
- Karen
Fred - we are in milwalke at HauntCon. I'm currently checking out projection rats before the foam carving demo!
- Rachel Lea Fox
thanks Georgia! It's awesome so far.
- Rachel Lea Fox
W0000000000000000000t!!!!! Happy Birthday!
- Josh Haley
Oooo, can't wait 'til next year's Halloween display!
- Frederik Goris
well you know Fred, you could be in it! :-D
- Rachel Lea Fox
Eat brains!
- Frederik Goris
happy b-day :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
these are awesome birthday wishes! Singing and w00ting and craziness! I don't know what to gabba gabba style is, but Johnny is awesome so his style must be too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
happy bday
- Steve C
Yaaaaay! Happy Birthday!!!!!!!
- Cyrus Lendvay
HBD Rachel Lea! (oooooo, that rhymes...)
- Paul Wilcox
Happy Birthday, Rachel! Enjoy this day doing one of the things you love best!
- Anne Bouey
*trips over the cake*
- Josh Haley
Happy Birthday!
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Happy happy happy haunty birthyday!
- Stephen Mack
Natal felicitations on this happy Beltane!
- Kate Schmidt
Happy Birthday, Rachel! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happpyyy Birthday!!!!
- Thomas Hawk
Wow! So many birthday wishes! Thank you so much everyone. Currently waiting my turn to go through the Wisconsin fairgrounds haunted houses. Just finished watching a very amusing auction. This convention is awesome!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Happy Birthday Rachel! And ⚐☭Happy International Workers' Day!!☭☭☭☭⚐☭☭☭☭
- Jim Norris
International workers day huh? May 1st carries an awful lot of minor holidays! Thanks Jim!
- Rachel Lea Fox
It is called May Day in India and it is a holiday!! am yet to track down the wiki page that explains the origin
- kartik vaithyanathan
Happy Birthday weekend!!
- Trish Haley
Happy Birthday!
- Nicholas James
Kartik, the ancient celts and similar cultures call it may day or Beltane and it's a fratility holiday. There are numerous varients on the celebration. If you are willing to get up before dawn you can go see Morris dancers celebrating in many places including the bay area: http://photo.phoenixfeather.net/gallery... It is directly opposite Halloween, life holiday vs death holiday. I would love to hear more about about how it's celebrated in India.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thank you Trish and Nicholas!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Official Google Blog: Mowing with goats - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
siva s, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Ravi Shekhar S. and 32 other people liked this
“The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.”
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
NCSU Centennial campus had a field with too much kudzu, they also used goats to get rid of kudzu http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts...
- Shakeel Mahate
Here are some nice before and after pictures of kudzu control by goats http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/program...
- Shakeel Mahate
It's a good thing they only have the goats for a week... goats will eat an area down to dirt if you let them. I'm not convinced that goats are cuter than lawn mowers, but they are quieter.
- Clare Dibble
Bring in goats to eat the kudzu. Bring in carnivorous rabbits to eat the goats. Bring in poisonous cane toads to eat the rabbits. On and on it goes. (Maybe I've been watching too much SciFi channel)
- Amit Patel
Or just eat the goats. :)
- Private Sanjeev
@Shakeel - the picture after the goats ate the kudzu looks like the ground is mostly dirt, which doesn't seem like a great alternative (and proves Clare's point)
- Robert Felty
Probably less polluting than lawn mowers too. :-) I wonder whether they are sharded into 5: goats A, B, C, D, and E? That last one's a doozy.
- Daniel Dulitz
@Robert The dirt might actually be because of the shading effect of the Kudzu. I have a herd of goats working in Oregon on blackberries (they are also an invasive monoculture which leave bare earth underneath). Mowing isn't really an option on anything but flat terrain. Goats start looking really cute after you have spent some quality time with a Stihl 250 brushcutter on a steep embankment. And you can eat them or milk them.
- Tracy
Just be careful not to milk the males.
- Private Sanjeev
Robert, presumably there was no grass underneath all of the kudzu since it is such an invasive weed. The field where kudzu was growing rampantly in 2004 is now a beautiful lawn. No more kudzu. However NCSU does not use goats for mowing the lawns.
- Shakeel Mahate
This totally made me smile (both the actual goat-mowing and the blog post. My buddy Johannes and other Google teammates went out on a "safari" and took some great pics which you can see here on Johannes' blog: http://powdercloud.blogspot.com/2009...
- Adam Lasnik
Random thought: Does the cost (carbon-wise) of schlepping the goats to and from Shoreline outweigh the benefits of not using a gas-guzzling lawn-mower?
- Aaron D'Souza
@Aaron goats produce a lot of methane too.
- Seth Gottlieb
Daniel, sharding goats is an advanced goatsourcing technique. the current version of goat will sometimes redundantly attempt to process areas that have already been processed by other goats. Aaron, it's carbon-neutral people like you who take all the fun out of having a 767 party plane :-D
- Karim
18 Embarrassing Game AI Bugs Caught On Tape... and Fixed! — AiGameDev.com
Chris Prince, bob, Sanjeev Singh and 3 other people liked this
“Here's a list of the eighteen best, quirkiest, and most informative artificial intelligence bugs available on YouTube we've collected over the past 12 months. In the spirit of AiGameDev.com, you'll find a bunch of tips & tricks to help fix these problems when/if you see them in your own game.”
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Here is the link: http://aigamedev.com/open...
- denizoktar
Ack, somehow the link didn't go through when I used the FF bookmarklet.Thanks denizoktar!
- Amit Patel
@amit it was interesting to see that people liked it without the link :)
- denizoktar
Denizoktar, clicking on the thumbnail will take you there. We need to make that clearer (or not lose the link when people edit the title).
- Sanjeev Singh
@sanjeev I thought that would open the picture. Yes, making that would be better I am still not very comfortable with the new design.
- denizoktar
the gta one was pretty funny - but maybe it wasnt that the cops couldnt swim, rather the big fall was killing them :P
- bob
@Sanjeev I have a question for you about FF, would you send me a direct msg? It seems I can't before you subscribe to me.
- denizoktar
A shout out to April Russo and many thanks for your help. I contacted two big drug companies and my Dad qualifies for free medications. The paperwork is in progress. My father almost had tears when I told him. This is truly 'friendfeed' at its finest.
Sanjeev Singh, Anthony Citrano, Alix Whitmire and 16 other people liked this
Happy for you and your dad, and kudos to April for helping you out =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So awesome!!! For you and your dad. And for the community to see :o)
- Nurse Katie
:)
- edythe
I don't think enough people know about the existence of these programs. Pretty much every pharma company offers them
- Bill Rawlinson
I am glad he qualifies and I am glad I could help. It's true, most people don't know about these programs and they cover a lot of things that insurance companies with "generic only" policies, won't.
- April Russo (app103)
quick question: best/simplest twitter client for windows?
Sanjeev Singh liked this
firefox
- Jim Norris
Invisible Hand Networks, Inc. - Market Data - http://www.invisiblehand.net/index...
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John Lam, Paul Buchheit, Thomas Brox Røst and 7 other people liked this
Daily average spot bandwidth price at a NYC exchange, 2002 - 2008, down from ~$200 in 2002 to ~$20 (per Mbps-month) in 2008. For comparison, telegeography data shows a substantial (but lesser) drop in prices for transoceanic routes.
- ⓞnor
May 2002: http://web.invisiblehand.net/wp... predicts "[Within] 12 months (by mid-2003), Cogent's price for a 100Mbps wholesale circuit will be near $5,000/month ... other providers' prices will probably continue to decline at the historical rate of 30% per year ... In the meantime, buyers should be aware that there is no such thing in the year 2002 as a Mbps for 10 or 30$/month." I think they were wrong about Cogent.
- ⓞnor
Mar 2007: http://money.cnn.com/2007... describes Cogent (in Fortune magazine) as if their strategy and surprisingly cheap prices were news. I remember the de-peering events they talked about; some of them created substantial disruptions in Internet traffic.
- ⓞnor
Apr 2007: http://www.renesys.com/blog... comments on Cogent de-peering some smaller ISPs in Europe, and discusses their overall strategy. Nothing I've read really explains their anomalous pricing in a satisfactory way. Anyway, I'm done with this curiosity-quest now.
- ⓞnor
Cogent released $10/Mbps pricing in 2003 (I probably misremembered what the sales rep told me about 2000). http://www.net99.net/htdocs... I guess availability of $10/Mbps has spread to more data centers and areas of the country since then, though the price hasn't gotten lower. I'm curious how you found the graph, though. Awesome sleuthing!
- Sanjeev Singh
I found it with a Google search for [bandwidth prices].
- ⓞnor
So this is your yearly post?
- j1m
No, it's just an extended comment on Sanjeev's post.
- ⓞnor
i like that graph just as on object.
- edythe
Sorry to jump in late but I just stumbled across this. I am the person who wrote that white paper about Cogent and also published that graph every month. I think I was right about Cogent that their pricing was unsustainable. Their price didn't go up from $30 to $50, they went bankrupt instead. Here's a follow-up from 5 years later....
more...
- nemo
Wow, fantastic, thanks for the update.
- ⓞnor
James Lovelock thinks global warming is irreversible - http://piaw.blogspot.com/2007...
Sanjeev Singh liked this
whoa, blast from the past
- Jim Norris
Video: Retro computers sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody - http://www.offworld.com/2009...
Sanjeev Singh and Laurence Gonsalves liked this
This is pretty entertaining
- Rob Shillingsburg
Dan is annoyed by loud talkers at cafe.
April Buchheit, Sanjeev Singh, Brian Chang and Dan Hsiao liked this
Flying in this today!
Darren Heydon, Kay Designer, Kevin Fox and 2 other people liked this
Do you have any pics? Sounds like fun. I keep seeing it circle over our building in Critt
- Bill
Pics (crappy iPhone ones anyway) now on my feed. I enjoyed it, might even do it again with visitors from out of town. Or I might take instruction in it -- a morning of ground school followed by a flight from the left seat is available for people who have a pilot's license and a valid medical.
- Daniel Dulitz
Sanjeev Singh, immaterial and omar liked this
The short strap fastened around the leg of a hawk, or the act of applying one.
- Kevin Fox
That word could come in handy :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Gallery of some FriendFeeders I've met IRL
Chris, Taskerrific Guy, ha3rvey (Ho)^3, Jen (SquirrelGirl) and 38 other people liked this
I've met quite a few...and all of them Awesome!
- Mark Krynsky
Woot! Krynsky is badass!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
yo soy muy jealous
- Josh Haley
LOL I just realized Derrick is in every pic except the one with Louis.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm no Pea travels the US but I've done pretty good so far...
- Mark Krynsky
Hell yes, Mr. Jefferson REPRESENTIN!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I've met a couple FriendFeeders, but none of them are really active, and I knew all of them before they were on FriendFeed. I need to meet some of you fine folk in person. Come up to Toronto?
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Derrick hoggin all the love!
- Admiral Anika
Oh yes...I am HOT in that picture in my house. Can I lick my screen?
- Admiral Anika
Oh i should do this.
- ♥patricia♥
Great collection.. DO you win something when you collect more? Who is the most elusive FFer to capture in real life? Is this a Pokemon type of game?
- Santa CW™
Yes I win every time I meet a new FF'er CW.
- Mark Krynsky
next time i'm in California, I fully expect to meet all you west-coasters...
- Nathan Chase
Where is Derrick? I....I....I miss him
- Mark Krynsky
These are great!
- BEX
Just CW, I might be the most elusive FF'er. Other than the Five Guys meetup (third picture) and a couple of Oracle OpenWorld blogger meetups, I don't think I've been photographed in the wild. My wife and I enjoyed meeting Mark (albeit briefly) and everyone else.
- John E. Bredehoft
So when's the next LA meetup? I'll host one at my house if you guys want to visit the porn capitol of the world.
- Mark Krynsky
Where do you live Mark? Which part of LA?
- Amani
Oh hi John. Didn't recognize you without the Ontario moniker. Seems like many are shedding nicknames for real names as of late.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, we were gonna do one at The Stand on Ventura, weren't we? Make those city folk come up to the SFV for a change. Plus, CHILI DOGS FTW. I was just thinking we needed to plan it out...
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy...ok, that sounds good...but I do want all you guys to come out to my house...perhaps after it warms up some more...Pool party baby!
- Mark Krynsky
And to think I consider myself anti-social.
- Derrick
Can I crash Mark's party?? It's only a 5 hour flight to L.A.!
- ♥patricia♥
Shevonne flew out for one of ours so yes Pea - c'mon through. Virgin America is cheap!!
- Amani
BUMP cause it's Derrick's Birthday and I want to show the love...
- Mark Krynsky
BUMP approved.
- Steve C
I hope this works.
Praveen Vasudev, Sanjeev Singh and Alp liked this
Woohoo, got my Ubuntu boot time down to 7.83 seconds according to bootchart: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog... See bottom of post.
Lizunlong, Anthony K. Valley ©, Krishnamoorthy and 10 other people liked this
That's outstanding. Did you anything but throw in on an SSD?
- Stefan Moluf
my Linux mint doesn't do that :(*
- Swaroop
I formatted the SSD with ext4 instead of ext3 to shave a second off the boot time. But most of the win is built into Ubuntu 9.04 by default.
- Matt Cutts
WO ~~~ who could share tips for tweek?
- Tony
From Google to Gone: EMI Boots Digital Boss Douglas Merrill - http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/2009032...
Sanjeev Singh, Bindu Reddy, ana and 8 other people liked this
"Douglas Merrill has today stepped down from his roles as President of Digital and COO of EMI New Music and will be leaving the company."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
Happy Birthday, Gary!
Michael VanDervort, Karen Padham Taylor, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 27 other people liked this
Happy birthday! (Ana, did you remember to fax Gary a cake?)
- Jim Norris
@jim, is the fax machine out of flour?
- Jessie
happy bday, gburd!
- Hao Chen
:-)
- Gary Burd
Happy Birthday Gary! :)
- directeur
Happy Birthday!!
- Bindu Reddy
Happy Birthday :)
- پـرستووو
Happy Birthday!
- Tudor Bosman
happy birthday gary...with best wish for you...and thank bret...
- UP & DOWN
Happy Birthday, Gary! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Birthday!
- Tyson Key
Happy birthday!
- Morton Fox
Happy birthday!
- Bob Sonin
~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARY!!! ~~~ - Thanks for all the awesome geeky code!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Happy bday. :)
- Pedram
Happy Birthday from Raleigh NC
- Shakeel Mahate
happy birthday
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
祝你生日快乐 From China！
- 阿石
Matthew demonstrates the proper I/O architecture for today's next-gen deployments.
mjc, Matthew Freeman, Kenneth Younger and 115 other people liked this
Don't you hate it when they decide to output through their input?
- Bryce Roney
Sarah is off to the side rolling her eyes at her brother. :)
- Yolanda
Bryce, I think that's a buffer overflow. :)
- mikepk
your twins have the best shirts!! ha ha
- Sarah Perez
everybody poops.
- Alfredo
I lol'd at that shirt, awesome :)
- Mo Kargas
Thinkgeek? I love thinkgeek!
- David Knight
The shirt, and MANY of their clothes are from a product manager at the office who was very generous. As for Sarah, she was rolling on the floor from the living room to our room and was 5 feet to the left, so Yolanda was mostly right.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- rampantheart
Kristine has THE BEST taste in shirts.
- Mona Nomura
Remember - and I made a similar point on LinkedIn today - internal processes are important. If one's internal processes are not optimized, then the output will be deficient. Though I should also acknowledge the "garbage in, garbage out" theory that makes us pay attention to quality input.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
I just bought one of these for my nephew.
- Steven Perez
Best baby shirt ever
- Keith - @tsudo
brilliant
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
cool! :)
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
What about the productivity then :)
- Burcu Tüzün
Awesome! ;-)
- Rutger Blom
LOL! Ontario :)
- Nicola Quinn
First copy/paste, now this...Louis, you HAVE TO find a way to produce and sell these :) The t-shirts are great, the models are far cute...
- Olcayto Cengiz
So cute!
- Nia
Geek in the making.
- Roberto Bonini
I've been calling our daughter 'Our Little FIFO Module'.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Right now my little one has a stomach bug so it is LIFO around here.
- Martha
10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up for FriendFeed - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Clay Newton, Benno, Nate Koechley and 215 other people liked this
I wish there was a AIR client for FF though.
- barl0w
Twhirl works well for FF and it's an AIR client.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
Great article. I want to learn more about the dumping the RSS feeder part. You should share some tips with that. Good stuff.
- Amani
Love seeing FF through the eyes of someone who's not a traditional techie =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks Bob!
- barl0w
A big part of why I wrote this post and have it running in my number one photo spot on Flickr right now is because I want more of my photography friends to sign up for the service. I *love* seeing photos here on FriendFeed and there are so many talented photographers who are not here yet who need to be. If we can get more of them to sign up, you guys will love their work. Of course there are many great photographers already on here but still a lot more who could join.
- Thomas Hawk
I had to re-share this with all my FB friends. :)
- Kelly W.
Still trying to figure out this whole friendfeed experience. I've had the account for a while and see lots of my twitter friends posting via ff
- Demetri Mouratis
great piece!
- mashable
Hi Demetri =) Different people use FF different ways because they want to get different things out of it. What are you hoping to get out of it?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thanks for the tip. I had FF but really never 'got' what it was for. This helped!
- Molly Nichelson
from twhirl
Great work.
- Nation Hahn
Nice post Thomas.
- Paul Wade
TH - for those photographers that are not on here, I put their flickr id into my Flickr Imaginary friend and see their images that way. However, it would be nice to get more photographers on here with their reader shares and such...
- Justin Korn
This is definitely the best "Why Friendfeed" post I've seen.
- Nick in Manila
Justin, agreed. I have a bunch of imaginary friend accounts for Flickr/Zooomr users as well. But it is nicer when they actually have accounts here, their work can be liked and commented to the larger FF community, etc. It seems like a few new people signed up today based on this post so I'm happy for that. Thanks Nick!
- Thomas Hawk
I have AlertThingy FriendFeed Edition as well as AlertThingy v2
- Outsanity
Well said, Thomas. :)
- Josh Haley
Nice list of reasons, all well thought out. While I'm at it, I wanted to tell you that I really like your new blog design too.
- Karoli
Good point on getting a domain you like.
- Kevin Whalen
Do most folks use FF in Standard or Real-time view mode?
- Scott Loftesness
Only ever real-time.. it sits nicely on the second monitor as a Chrome App.
- Greg Gannicott
Realtime here...
- Chris Gulker
Did you just reformatted your post, Thomas? It a lot easier to scan through now.
- Alan Le
Alan, a lot of times I post first and edit later. I probably shouldn't do that, but yeah, after posting I broke up some of the paragraphs better, bolded a few things etc., to make it easier to read.
- Thomas Hawk
That's great. Make sure to check out Windows Live Writer for formatting blog posts if you haven't already yet. By the way, I love the new blog design. It's much better than when I helped you with the html way back. http://thomashawk.com/2006...
- Alan Le
Barlow, Im currently developping an Adobe AIR tool for FriendFeed: we comin' !
- David Guyon
Y'know... I must've spent two months randomly Tweeting things like "Will someone PLEASE explain to me why I should be using FriendFeed?" ... And then two days ago I start using my account (I'd had one for a while)... and NOW someone finally makes a post outlining why I should be here. You're two days late, Mr. Hawk, two days late. :P
- Lou
actually, there's no search for Russian word forms on Frf. For me that looks as if there's no search at all
- orie
hmmm.. I didn't know that orie. It seems like there is a lot of international users on FF, that's surprising to me.
- Thomas Hawk
I've been trying to make sense of FF for months now, but every time I come away confused. As it is I feel like I'm drowning under all the social networking sites available. I use Twitter, Plurk and Facebook the most, and I use Ping.fm so I only have to post status updates once. How can I integrate FF into this without making things even more confusing?
- Chris Taylor
oooh! I found the zooomr version of this post with no formatting and I whined somewhere else in my FF feed. This one with all the formatting is better :D
- Tamar Weinberg
Friendfeed rocks!
- rampantheart
I really liked how you did a post on Flicker
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
All good reasons but #10 is my #1 reason :)
- Mark Krynsky
Mark - agreed. Also, Thomas ... very nice blog. I like.
- Amani
Good post Thomas. I was thinking it would be hard to find 10 points, but I agree with all your points, and am sure there are probably many more.
- Peter Efland
@Tamar, the unformated text was a problem on the Zooomr image. Kristopher's fixed that bug now so text in descriptions on Zooomr photos should format correctly now.
- Thomas Hawk
I wasn't using FF, but signed up after your post. Now let's see if it is really so useful ;-)
- Marcel Körner
@Marcel also take into consideration who you are subscribed to. Aside from maybe four on your current sub list, they are not very active at all on FF. This will affect your experience here.
- Carlos Ayala
Didn't know there was a "Porn" room on FF (see screenshot)...
- David Young
how did you see that they are not active on FF?
- Marcel Körner
David, the "porn" room on FriendFeed isn't all that active actually. I'm not really interested in porn per se, just thought it was a good group name to claim in the great FriendFeed land group name grab of 2008.
- Thomas Hawk
@Marcel by their numbers, and the fact that i know most of them and can tell you first hand that they are not. (if you hover over people's names you will see their numbers)
- Carlos Ayala
I just added 1,382 new friends on FriendFeed by synching up with Twitter. The new feature launched today. - https://friendfeed.com/setting...
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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
*GULP*
- Josh Haley
Oh lord. I need a separate list for you and Robert and all your FoAFs... :\
- Mona Nomura
Just added 904 :)
- Michael Forian
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
Added 184, nice feature
- Tejas Patel
Added like 51 I believe!! ;)
- Paul
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
just added 302 subs
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Sweet, finally! Now for the FF team to add syncing for other connected services too.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This is great. Thanks for the info.
- Bill Romanos
Thanks again, Lou.
- Bryan R. Adams
40 new friends and two requests (private feeds? ick!)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
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, Taskerrific Guy
My number was similar. Now come all the e-mails showing they followed back.
- Jesse Stay
added 370-ish
- Justin Yost
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.
- Admiral Anika
I wouldn't do that. I am not so sure I like the feature.
- rampantheart
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
Just added 444.Cool feature!
- Igor Poltavskiy
It was about 400 for me.
- Amani
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
wow, 1382 sounds pretty noisy...
- Peter Efland
so, its now i get hit in the face for having auto-follow back on twitter. I have no clue who all those people are, probably marketeers... but dont want them to clutter my friendfeed stream... Guess the most important thing I´ve learned today is that I need a total Twitter clear up
- Peter Efland
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 Morrill AKA Techwag
Not goanna do it. Organic growth ftw :)
- Yuvi
Most of the ones it wanted to import for me I didn't recognize -- does this feature really work as intended?
- Brian Sullivan
very smart move by friendfeed
- Marcel LeBrun
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 ☠
Same here, 200ish.
- Mike Reynolds
OMG you're an ff'n freak Louis!
- sofarsoShawn
wooo i love the new feature!
- andy brudtkuhl
I just brought over 264 friends - very cool!
- Bill
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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.
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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
All great ideas.
- Bret Taylor
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
Friendfeed is *not* a feedreader.
- Peter
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 (aka Tina)
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
I agree that #1 would be a great addition. It would let me read a lot more content here on FF and be able to give a lot better feedback.
- Gordon Bowman
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.
- Fa La La La 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
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no wonder you got rid of the svx. did you get lasik?
- John Fu
That's a sick color...
- Roshan Vyas
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
Nice! いいないいなあ！
- Ken Tokusei
Insecure Minds Wired for Pattern-Finding : Discovery News - http://dsc.discovery.com/news...
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People who feel like they don't have control of their lives are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.
- Amit Patel
I find pattern finding gives me a sense of control, Too bad they did not address that at all.
- Clare Dibble
I'm pretty sure all human minds are wired for pattern-finding.
- Gabe
That's what they want you to think.
- Jim Norris
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.
torque++
- j1m
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HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
- Mona Nomura
EPIC xD !
- Michael Forian
lol
- Kamath (नमः)
I would buy the t-shirt, if I ever really wore them much any more.
- Pete Delucchi
"I'm gonna wash Jedi right outta my hair"
- Johnny Worthington
Somali Pirates Tell All - They’re in It for the Money - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
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"“We just saw a big ship,” the pirates’ spokesman, Sugule Ali, told The New York Times. “So we stopped it.” He said that so far, in the eyes of the world, the pirates had been misunderstood."
- Ana
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I know this is really serious stuff, but I couldn't stop laughing out loud while reading this.
- Ana
Too bad this didn't happen on Pirate Day. That would have been amazing. Someone should tell the actual pirates about that for next year.
- Dana D
Was just going to share this! Loved that the pirates actually had a spokesman. The idea of this guy giving an interview to the NYT from the deck of this pirated ship surrounded by several pissed off navies is priceless. Liked too that he felt it necessary to say they eat "normal human being" food. Wished they could have just published the entire transcript of the 45 minute interview...
- Nathan Young
i'd like to party with these pirates.
- peter
“Killing is not in our plans,” he said. “We only want money, so we can protect ourselves from hunger.” When asked why the pirates needed $20 million to protect themselves from hunger, Mr. Sugule laughed over the phone and said: “Because we have a lot of men.”
- Sanjeev Singh
The first beer of my Oktoberfest trip, in Logan Airport
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WANT
- Mistletoe Glen
Which Sam is that? It could be picture quality, but that looks like Summer Wheat, not the Oktoberfest.
- Rob Diana
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