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Beer Prices Going Mile High - Examiner.com

June 9 at 1:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Not just due to gas prices. Time to stock up! - Mark Krynsky

This is a climate change story. - Jason Wehmhoener

Quick poll: Forget petrol or gasoline. What are you paying for decent beer these days ? £3.00 or over in London for premium strength lager (Stella, Grolsch). [Budweiser doesn't count BTW] - Andy C

Andy...here in the states that depends on the bar, club, or restaurant you go to. The same beer's price can vary wildly based on the location you purchase it. But a 6 pack of good beer is about $8 nowadays over here in LA...PS funny to think Budweiser is an import in London. - Mark Krynsky

Pål Hivand posted a message on Twitter

“Med alle iPhone artiklene i norske medier så skulle man saktens tro all omtalen var kjøpt og betalt av Apple. Men det er den jo ikke...”

June 9 at 1:09 pm - Link

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Pål Hivand posted a message on Twitter

“*hmm, hvordan få arbeidsgiver til å forstå at jeg må få en iPhone...* forslag?”

June 9 at 1:53 pm - Link

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Philipp Lenssen posted an entry on Google Blogoscoped

Google Reader's Easter Egg

June 9 at 6:22 am - Link

Tanath, Aaron Myers, Cyvros/fyc and 42 other people liked this

Completely pointless but fun. Like all easter eggs. - Tony Ruscoe

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WTF - Dobromir Hadzhiev

oh, for cute! - Ginger Makela

Gotta love nerd humour. :) - Jonathan Nguyen

s/Like/Love - Erica Baker

excellent - 99 lives - tsudohnimh via twhirl

Google never ceases to amaze :) - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl

Renny Bakke Amundsen posted an entry on RennyBA's Terella

The heat is on in Oslo, Norway

June 6 at 1:59 pm - Link

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Thomas Hawk added an event on Upcoming

Jul 11, 2008: Seattle Photowalk at Pike Place Market

June 5 at 3:08 pm - Link

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Any chance you will be in Salt Lake City someday Thomas? - Jordan

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would love to shoot Salt Lake City. I'd love to do a photowalk in every major city in the US. - Thomas Hawk

How about Rochester NY? The Lilac Festival is a great time of the year to visit. - Benjamin Golub via fftogo

I'm moving to the Twin Cities area in July. If you get up that way any time, let me know. - Dawn M. Armfield

I am from Salt Lake City as well. Would love to participate if you make it out here. - LiquidLag

2nd vote for Rochester, NY!! Ben, Cyndy, Jen, Aaron, SteelOpus, et al can all meet you for lunch or dinner someday and do a photo walk!! - Susan Beebe

Wow, Thomas you are able to travel to the future! (JULY 11th! :)) - Michael Lehman

I wish I could make the trip up i-5 but i'll be going to the Police and Elvis Costello show that night. - Squid

Sounds great, we would love to have you in SLC. Your original photowalking videos with Scoble really inspired me to take more photos and keep my camera around. Cheers! - Jordan

Another vote for SLC here - Kevin D. White

I'm thinking about setting up a photowalk in Evansville, IN. Any suggestions? Never been to an organized one. The family and I did a couple on our own last year and it was fun. - jason burton

Any of my fellow SLC'ers want to setup our own Photowalk in town? I would be glad to help organize it, but am still an amateur photog. - Jordan

Robert Scoble posted a message

“I am bummed that I am missing the FriendFeed open house that is tonight. ”

June 5 at 4:46 pm - Link

Daniel Schildt, Ginger Makela, Mitchell Tsai and 15 other people liked this

That sounds like it would be cool to attend. Their digs look pretty cool. Nice and spacious. - Andrew Dobrow

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I'm right next door and didn't know they were having an open house. :( How'd you find out about it? - Don MacAskill

Don: just sent you an invitation. I forgot you were so close! - Bret Taylor

Since I live in Austin, I miss almost everything but SXSW, and I've only been to one of those. - Phil Glockner

If there are any left-over FF T-shirts can I send a SASE? - Noah Carter

@Bret Taylor: Thanks! Yeah, it's been on my TODO list to stop by and buy you guys lunch but I've been so swamped the last few weeks I haven't gotten around to it. But I will! See ya tonight. - Don MacAskill

But the real question is... is Louis there? And who's streaming it if Scoble isn't???? - Cyndy

Times like this I wish I was back in CA! - Susan Beebe

Cyndy, I was there. Look forward to seeing you there when you go. - Louis Gray

I wish I was there, but then I'd have missed talking with Mozilla's CTO. - Robert Scoble

@Cyndy - you would have loved Louis's shirt. - Hutch Carpenter

@Robert - my wife says she met you tonight at whatever shindig was going on. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: yes, she did and we had a great chat about you and FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

i'm bummed i missed too, next time there are no finals on and i don't have to lay the smack down on embargo breakers, i'll be there - MG Siegler

Wish I could be there. Just a month now until I'm in SF and can attend these types of things! - Eric Florenzano

@Hutch What shirt? @Louis I'm guessing pigs would be flying first. ;) - Cyndy

Sigh; Curse you east coast! - Benjamin Golub

@Ben - Ditto! you, Cyndy and I should all fly from Rochester to SF together and crash whatever party Scoble and Louis are hanging at and surprise them! ha, ha! - Susan Beebe

/me wishes he could just up and fly to California whenever an interesting tech company announced an open-house. - Voyagerfan5761

Susan, are you footing the bill? :P - Benjamin Golub

I'm with Voyagerfan on this, yeah dude! - Sally Church via Alert Thingy

@Scoble: don't worry, I'm missing it too, on account on being halfway across the world :) - Tudor Bosman

@ Ben LOL yea right! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe

@Don Robert knows everything, check his upcoming. It's crazy. - Aaron Myers

@Cyndy - Louis has a collared shirt with his "LG.com" logo (http://www.louisgray.com/live/...). Cracked me up to see him with that. But you know what? He walks in, and everyone knows him immediately because of that logo on his shirt. - Hutch Carpenter

@Susan No dice. Louis has already met me. Scoble passed on the chance. ;) @Hutch I'm horrified that you suggest people wouldn't know Louis without the shirt! Rockstars don't need logo shirts! - Cyndy

Looks like we need the FriendFeed jet to pick everyone up :-) - Ginger Makela

Didn't you get your FriendFeed rocket pack then? - Slippy Lane

Slippy, actually I got my FriendFeed hoverboard. Way better than a pack. - Ginger Makela

DSLR: Kenneth LeFebvre posted a message

“Does anyone have a favorite geocoding tool (for Windows)? For extra points, can it plug into Lightroom? :)”

June 5 at 5:03 pm - Link

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I use GPicSync. Never heard of Lightroom though. - Becca

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I use Picasa/Google Earth. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools is interesting though - Brian Sullivan

http://www.microsoft.com/proph... is the download locaton btw - Brian Sullivan

http://www.geosetter.de/en/ - GeoSetter for Windows. Picasa/GE is way too slow on my PC. - Victor

Awesome, thanks for that link, Brian! - Jordan Hofker

Thanks for the tips! I'm down to GeoSetter and Microsoft Pro Photo Tools as my two finalists... need to play a little with them both to see which one becomes a permanent part of my workflow... If you have any further comments about one or the other, I'd love to hear your experiences and/or tips & tricks. - Kenneth LeFebvre

Mike Reynolds posted a link

Goooooooooooogle Air (airplane)

June 2 at 10:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Found by http://friendfeed.com/lukadium - Mike Reynolds

Louis Gray posted a link

Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design

June 2 at 10:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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A great, extremely detailed article Q&A with Kevin. Stop what you're doing and read this now. I don't want to see any comments for another 15 minutes until you've read this unless you can prove previous comprehension from having already seen it. - Louis Gray

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"A site that visibly promotes how many ’friends’ you have turns friends into commodities, creating an economy where you are motivated to make as many friends as you can. " There goes all my feature requests for a more robust stats section of the site. - Mark Trapp

Mark, I have that very quote in my clipboard, but I admit, I was going to say it's one of my favourite things about FF. :) - felix

All right, after reading it fully, I never realized Kevin Fox was like the Jonathan Ive of Google Apps. What a loss for Google. I enjoyed the rationale behind why labels exist: never thought of it like that. Most people explain it as "It's better than folders. Now be quiet!" - Mark Trapp

Love the old Google logos! Sounds like FriendFeed has a very promising UI guy on the team. Yay... The "You said earlier you found 6 types of users for Gmail. What were those? .... No comment. ;-)" is remnants of a less-open philosophy though. - Mitchell Tsai

"People talking to people facilitated by computers." I believe that about sums up this whole social networking thing ;-) - Paul Short

Sprague, but it could definitely be applied to things like Twitter, where people subscribe to thousands of others in hopes that they get a reciprocal follower count bump, and let's not forget about Jason Calacanis vying for top spot on twitter follower activity. The ability to get into follower competitions is facilitated by seemingly benign statistics about follower counts. - Mark Trapp

@Kevin: Great interview, though the pic above looks like a promo for "Kevin Fox's Chiller Theatre Macabre 3000" :-) - Chris Reed

Mark: When looking at Jason Calacanis's stats this morning http://friendfeed.com/e/bf02d8..., I was surprised to find that almost 45-50% of his readers are age 3-17, VERY different from Robert Scoble and Leo Laporte's age demographics. Is that because of how Jason went about gathering followers? Through the MySpace and Facebook communities maybe? - Mitchell Tsai

I like the flat hierarchy of titles @ friendfeed, I'm a UI Designer, so of course I look up to kevin's work. Any user experience person should be as flexible and willing to contribute more than interaction sketches. I super like, super karma, super kudos this entry if friendfeed had those UI elements :) - Karl

This is madness!! Folks you can't be serious! I'm sure it's a big joke or something... :) - directeur

I'm curious how one gets photos to show (as above) in this type of FF entry. - Greg Clinton

Greg, it's using the FF bookmarklet. When you use it, you can click on a picture to add it to your post. - Vince DeGeorge

Greg http://friendfeed.com/share/bo... watch the video - Brian Sullivan

Awesome article. I'm really enjoying reading about user interface design, even though I've never really done it. Very inspiring stuff here. - ha3rvey (That One)

Mitchell: Was it 3-17, or 13-17? If it's the former, that's awesome. And I would agree with that hypothesis: when Calacanis is active on Twitter, he's constantly demanding people react to whatever he's doing, either via comments or follows or whatever. I do know a few months ago he had a goal to get higher than Scoble in followers on Twitter, as well. - Mark Trapp

Thanks, Vince, it really brightens up the page. - Greg Clinton

Three cheers for Kevin. :-) - Jason Wehmhoener

Mark: 3-17 (but 12-17 was about 90% of the whole 3-17). See Calacanis chart stored here http://picasaweb.google.com/Mi... or the live one here http://quantcast.com/calacanis... - Mitchell Tsai

How does it even know that? You can't legally track someone's data if they under 13 to begin with. - Mark Trapp

Not only am I a happy user of all of the products mentioned in this article, as a UI designer I often find myself referring to these products in design discussions with my teams. - Jason Wehmhoener

Mark: No clue... Maybe Quantcast does some estimating based on subsampling to fix the raw data? (e.g. conduct in-person interviews on a random subsample of the population) - Mitchell Tsai

Seriously, you're doing all this for a thesis? a PhD? WHY? I mean... Are you "sciencizing" and "theorizing" socialmedia? All this is so ephemerous, so humanly erronous and lying, It doesn't deserve nobody's time and efforts... - directeur

directeur, maybe this isn't the community for you. - Mark Trapp

Mark: Let me very friendly don't agree :) Because in THIS community you have to study these things to be admitted? (no trolls, nothing, just a notice) - directeur

@directeur what is it exactly that you're talking about? - Shey

reading this was like...read, read, *lightbulb*, read, read, *lightbulb*, *lightbulb*, read, *lightbulb*.... - Iain Baker

@Shey: I was wondering on the life in a socialmedia context, I find it so exagerated to study things like Scoble/Dupont/Smith followers and such... I asked if it's for a thesis... because if not, I'm really wondering how come I feel the only one to think that it's exagerated and somehow strange behavior... - directeur

What, exactly, is exaggerated or strange about it? - Mark Trapp

Mark: saying "Calacanis chart" for example, I find it exagerated... I wonder about the need to study this... You are free to do whatever you want!! I'm just wondering, I wanted some exaplanations, I really needed to know why would someone like me or you spend time on studying a so vague and IMHo useless thing as the "Calacanis chart"... I may be wrong, so please correct me if i'm wrong - directeur

directeur, you jumped into the middle of a conversation between a few of us about a specific part of the story: calling what we're doing strange, exaggerated, stupid, silly, or any other abusive term isn't constructive. Think of this like real life: how would you feel if someone interrupted a conversation you were having with someone to tell you that what you're talking about is stupid and wrong and exaggerated? - Mark Trapp

Hey look! It's an interview with Kevin Fox! ;-) - Jason Wehmhoener

Mark: My bad, sorry, I though that the discussions here were open to everyone. and indeed they are, but it's still my fault, why the heck have I the need to share my own opinions? Sorry. - directeur

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Directeur: Mark said it very well: The discussions are open and you're free to say what you like, but so are other people. If you come in and harshly criticize others, you have to accept the reality that others will harshly criticize you back. It's just like the real world. - Kevin Fox

Kevin, I was wondering, like any "mediterranean" usually do, maybe it's my english, but I never meant to be harsh... anyway.. Sorry again! - directeur

directeur: No worries. I appreciate your comments, and love that we're getting such diverse international usage! - Kevin Fox

I'm so impressed that Bret set up and configured everything before your first day. That says a lot. - Ginger Makela

I like the concept of everyone having the same title. Excellent read. I have learned something. - Mathew A. Koeneker

@Ginger That says Bret has no need for a Field Tech person to me. ;) - Erica Baker

I like the photo. Kevin's got the classic visionary staring-into-the-distance pose but at the same time he has this critical are-you-sure-this-is-right expression. It's the heroic UI reviewer. - ⓞnor

I call that look "Magnum" - Kevin Fox

Oh! Oh! Now do "Blue Steel" - April Buchheit

If you roll over the thumbnail above, it changes to me doing "Blue Steel". - Kevin Fox

oooh... when do we get to see Le Tigre and Ferrari? - Ross Miller

So cute to see April's picture pop up over her name. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

83 likes on this article (so far). Kevin, you're quite the popular fellow. - Louis Gray

Awesome article. Had it in one of my browser tabs all day, finally got around to reading it. Kevin - you designin' fool! You've had a hand in some really great projects. - Hutch Carpenter

Mashable posted an entry on Mashable!

Free Real-Time Stock Quotes Proliferate the Web

June 2 at 8:54 am - Link

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Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter

“My friend is having a "Divorce Party" a new concept to me, confused on how to react, quite honestly.”

June 2 at 10:21 am - Link

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Are husband and wife attendee in the same "divorce party"? : ) - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

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Trying to think what kind of present to bring to that party..... - Stefan Hayden

Wow. I've never heard of a "divorce party" before. Are they on good terms, is that the reason? I have friends who divorce and then hang out with both new spouses. Easy 10 min walk to court for the divorce. Usually they're still "in love", but realize that they are taking different paths in life. - Mitchell Tsai

They will not (Husband wife) be at the party. It's really a 'good riddance' party and a "new chapter" party - Jeremiah Owyang

Heheh ok ok : )) A "(P)Re-Wedding Party" - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

@Erhan Erdogan :)))))) - Maryam Ardakani

I didn't have a party, but took a vacation - was awesome to get rid of the ex :) - Paula Hawk

that deserves a big WTF - Shey

I can totally relate as to why someone would do that. In fact, I now feel inspired to throw one myself!! - Clay Newton

I've been to a few- I think it's a good idea re: closure. Only issue is the total randiness of the new divorcer, so be forewarned! - anna awesomesauce

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Move Over Twhirl, Alert Thingy, Feedalizr Is In Town

May 24 at 11:27 pm - Link

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Another toy to play with. Make it stop! heheh. If Duncan likes it, must be good. - Robert Scoble

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Just hitting F5 over and over is working pretty good for me! - Tad - the Meme Maker

I'm finding that I need the thread of twitter in one place, and all of Friend Feed in another. So it's Twhirl and Feedalizer for me. ...via feedalizr - Andrew Nez

Ok Alert Thingy Makes more sense on FF then twhirl. Alert Thingy it is. I stopped using it cuz I thought it was stupid. - Tim Moore via Alert Thingy

yeah I'm done with Alert Thingy ... i'm really liking Feedalizr .. so far that is...via feedalizr - JohnBfromMemphis

- the only thing I like about it over Twhirl is the video recording and posting, which isn't that great as is. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Lol I like the replies to this from Alert Thingy and Twhirl. - Eric Florenzano

Installed it and love it, just one thing - is it possible to use a filter to not show someone?...via feedalizr - Simon Gelfand

Very nice look - but no keyboard shortcuts? FAIL...via feedalizr - Boris Gordon

/Like Boris' comment. - Voyagerfan5761

Good looking UI. Problem for me is I do like TWhirl's separate screens for Twitter and FriendFeed - and the fact that I can resize the windows. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart via twhirl

Thanks for the tip off Scoble. This seems like a nice alternative to trial :)...via feedalizr - CannonGod

Sticking with Twhirl..hate the colors but I think it makes the smartest use of screen real estate. And @Loic mentioned upcoming XMPP support...thats got me excited. - /(bb|[^b]{2})/ (Kamath) via twhirl

I've used Alet Thingy and don't like it at all. this morning I am trying feedalizr and am liking it alot...via feedalizr - David Jacobs

Good - nice scroll format, filters. Ick - no resize, no options. Fail - can't select text in comments (couldn't grab cool URL). Uninstalled clean and easy. - Nancy Babyak

Everyone must have younger eyes than me because the font size is just too small and the kerning is atrocious. What's that about? I appreciate the fact the comment text is blue rather than nearly unreadable gray as it is in AlertThingy for most themes but if the font size is too small and can't be adjusted, it's a wash. I can't adjust the window horizontally. Huh. So far there are no friendfeed desktop apps that give me a better user experience than the web site itself. - Rick Powell

better use of screen space, liked the UI overall. good job feedalizr...via feedalizr - Siddharth Mitra

Stickign with Twhirl. I LIKE having FF in a seperate stream most of the time. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

It's strange that it won't let me expand the app window horizontally, only vertically. Not liking that....via feedalizr - Bob

Can't comment because wife has taken possession of lappie and i'm in digital limbo. At least i have fftogo on my N95! - Adrian Scicluna via fftogo

Interesting. I will give it a shot. - Ryo

I like this little program, Just installed it. I think this is very useful to keep me updated on what's going on in FF!!...via feedalizr - Paul

Upon installing Alert Thingy, this was the first thing I read. I promply downloaded feedalizer, and no longer use Alert Thingy. that was fast!...via feedalizr - rambn

Posting this from Feedalizr. Links won't open in Firefox, so I find this fix: http://www.clipotech.com/2008/... ...via feedalizr - Svartling

Afraid that this doesn't work behind corp proxies/firewalls at this point. The developer indicated that they are working on this and should have a revision in a few days. - Greg

FriendFeed News: huixing posted a link

It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter

May 24 at 5:01 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Anthony Farrior, Mitchell Tsai, Lyn and 11 other people liked this

"It wouldn't be hard to allow users to create a Twitter like messaging service in a separate tab or even as their first point of reference in FriendFeed (as an option) so those who are interested only in the Twitter-like messaging can use that service primarily (or only) with FriendFeed." - huixing

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Ummm...I think it already has. All it needs now is a solid mobile posting capability and Twitter is DONE. - Greg

I'd like to see a direct messaging tab as well. - Thomas Hawk

Why don't they kill Pownce first? They are at least half as popular since only a few people actually use it on Friendfeed. - Josh Jenkins

I like Pownce more than Twitter. I use it to share mp3s, can't do that on Twitter or FF. - Thomas Hawk

yes, FF probably need something direct messaging tab. http://jarkolicious.com/probes... - huixing

Maybe FriendFeed actually is killing Twitter, more or less literally: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008... - Chris Johnson

I agree. Friendfeed is more advanced, reliable and does so much more... - Ryo

I am intrigued, but think Social Thing has the better approach to aggregating. - Batona

Not necessary! - ravi karandeekar

At the moment FF and Twitter are different but complimentary. For FF to offer something more than Twitter they need to first equal what Twitter offers - open API with lots of application choices; simple, clean interface and international mobile phone integration. - James Marwood

Lindsay Donaghe posted a link

Insane Windows Dialog

May 23 at 12:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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LOL - That's insane!! - Bwana McCall

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Yikes. - Thomas Hawk

one option's missing: "none of these" - Benedikt Koehler

After a certain number of buttons, it'd be better to turn those into a radio-button control. - Morton Fox

I agree with Dave. Or maybe a WTH? button. - Yolanda

WTF! - israel

Bummer if you click on the 'never ask me again' box and choose the wrong answer - Sally Church

What program is giving you that? Is the rest of its UI as crazy? - Kenneth LeFebvre

I actually think it's not so bad. I love options (as long as I know what each option do) - Panu Tangchalermkul

I didn't get this dialog, just found a screenshot on the link. Curious to know the source myself. - Lindsay Donaghe

What does "Yes to All" do? - Seth

where's the manual? - Susan Beebe

Hahaha, I agree with a "WTH?" button! That's hilarious! - Bob

Never ask me again!! - Tad - the Meme Maker

I bought a PC, now what? - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl

It looks like WinSCP's dialog. It's not a Windows OS dialog... I know we have some doozies, but give credit where credit's due...B-). - Shawn L. Morrissey

This is definately WinSCP, and I for one appreciate all the options. Especially the last 2, ever tried syncronising 2 remote FTP folders? - Robert Kloosterhuis via twhirl

I am with @Tad make sure you select to Never ask me again!!! - Joe Dawson

I like WinSCP. I think that all those buttons are a good idea as they give you a lot of control. It is a bit of a crazy user interface, but WinSCP is built for those that can handle a slightly difficult UI, IMHO. If you don't like it, you don't have to use it. There's always FileZilla if you find WinSCP not suited to your tastes. - possible248

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Also, we just added a 'Reshare' feature under the 'More' menu”

May 22 at 3:44 pm - Link

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This makes it easy to copy things from your feed into a room. - Paul Buchheit

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not just - 12 hours left. :D http://friendfeed.com/e/b9b3c6... - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

gotta implement this on http://sb.mojipage.com/ too! - Wil

Yes, technically reshare launched at around 1:30am. Good eye. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, is there any way to fetch the rooms list of an authenticated user via the API? - Aviv

Also, the "via" link on the reshared item will link to the original entry if it's from a public feed. See http://friendfeed.com/e/3d0593... for an example of this. - Paul Buchheit

@Paul Buchheit I'm living in FF ; and also Turkey loves you :D You know ; ) - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

@Paul Buchheit Also we get a room http://friendfeed.com/rooms/tu... (means turkish) - for increasing interaction; Is Turkey name reserved as I though? - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

Look who's on a roll today! - Akiva Moskovitz

I must be scrolling through my friend feed in the wrong direction - what's this 'room' thing? BTW, I tried the 'reshare', but didn't really want to share - the 'Close' button in the corner is busted. - Bruce Williams

Bruce, the close button should work. What browser are you using? - Paul Buchheit

IE7 on Vista, just a sec and I'll post the script error.... line 316, "object doesn't support this action". I'll enable script debugging and see if I can get more info. Its in apparently generated code (no filename), on a line of code "delete window["ff__reshare"];" that is the first line of a "function close(args)". - Bruce Williams

WOW - great add-on's - love the concept of the 'room' - is there a way to alert others about a post in a private room ? ie if I have members of a project team in different parts of the building or the world for that matter ... - viki saigal

Keep the features coming guys! - Bwana McCall

Ha. Great work guys! - Corvida

My Close button busted too Paul - IE 7 ...So i press share on FF ...it seems to do something with the lil icon going thru the circle but then the dialogue box just stays on my screen ! - viki saigal

I've definitely done a fair-bit of re-posting in the past - great call on introducing the re-share =) - Will DeLuca

c’mon, this is already gettin’ old. bring some new … oh rooms … - kosmar

viki saigal: try again now, IE7 should be fixed - Casey Muller

yep, IE is fixed - talk about fast turnaround! - Bruce Williams

Love rooms + resharing. Is there a way (that I'm not seeing) to reshare an item to a room, and have it retain all of the comments, likes, etc that got glommed onto it when it appeared in my original feed. thx and again, excellent work ff - Ginger Makela

yeah...reshare is something i've been wanting for a while. - don loeb

Please implement a feature for me: send a link from the blog service to the ff api and get back all likes/comments for this entry. Or is it possible allready - Nils Hitze

@Nils Did you take a look at http://wordpress.org/extend/pl... ? It seems to do just that. - Benedikt Koehler

When are threaded comment system (like digg) coming?? Waiting eagerly for that.. - Jigar Mehta

@benedikt problem is, that is the same way i was using for my plugin and it isn't very sexy to fetch ALL Comments and then pick out the ones you like .. would be nicer the other way round - Nils Hitze

Shawn Farner posted a message

“Here's something humorous - Pownce's sign up page is moving rather slowly for me, also. Maybe they're feeling the Twitter exodus?”

May 21 at 2:16 pm - Link

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I love sharing mp3s on Pownce. - Thomas Hawk

Matt Harwood posted a message

“Would you consider yourself addicted to the current face of the web? Definition to be clear: A behavioral syndrome characterized by the repeated, compulsive seeking or use of a substance despite adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences.”

May 21 at 12:39 pm - Link

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Yes. Without a doubt, yes. - Lindsay Donaghe

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Yes currently addicted to all this non stop activity - Gadiel Rivera

The fact that we, as individuals, can be exposed to more information in one day than our ancestors could in an entire lifetime makes it so. We can't help but be addicted - our mind crave information and we'll gladly cram it with as much as we can. Our minds are sponges that yearn to be filled with both the interesting AND the mundane (and inane). The Internet is an extension of this craving - not to mention the almost hypnotic way we HUNT down the information we want. - Vince DeGeorge

of course not, but isn't denial a sign of addiction? - Thomas Hawk

Hooked. - TranceMist

I can quit any time I want. :-) - Jeremy Brooks

Absolutely. But I can stop anytime I want. - Mykl Roventine

Great comments, thanks! You see, I'm undecided if it can be called addiction. Don't we all do this for positive gain for everyone, the greater good, rather than self-gratifying feeding of a monkey on our back? - Matt Harwood

I think may have forms of the addictions, one of the reasons I created VGS.. http://tinyurl.com/52rdav - Chris

personally I don't consider it an addiction, but my wife does ;) - Thomas Hawk

My husband says I am. - H.C.

I'll quit next week! ;) - Michelle Marie Miller

...yeah, I'm in deep... - JA Castillo

Ame, sounds like your husband needs to meet my wife... wait... that doesn't sound quite right. - Thomas Hawk

My wife says I am, and she's right - Shey

*Registers MatchMakerFeed.com for Ame and Thomas* - Matt Harwood

I haven't suffered any additional "adverse social, psychological, and/or physical consequences" yet. I was already all those things before the web. :) - Morton Fox

yes, working on getting un-addicted. Problem is, my job is internet based, so it's kind of a pickle when you're involved in the production of the very drugs you're hooked on... - Jason Kaneshiro

Completely addicted to micro-socnets and conversations like this. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

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New York Times announces Times Machine

May 20 at 6:40 pm - Link

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This looks great! When is it going to be out? Looks like the subdomain is there but nothing's on it: http://timesmachine.nytimes.co... - Brandon Titus

Dave Hussein Winer posted a message on Twitter

“McCain still insists that talking with Iran, Venezuela and Cuba is "appeasement." http://tinyurl.com/53ntsx”

May 21 at 8:22 am - Link

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It doesn't make sense to throw those 3 countries in the same basket. IR and CU seem to be trending away from being outright enemies while VZ is trending the other way. - George Donnelly

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just because they "seem to be" doesn't mean they are .. but on the other hand Reagan talked to the Soviet's during a time when they wanted nothing more to wipe the USA off mother earth ...so I guess it's a crapshoot then .. - JohnBfromMemphis

The case for CU as an enemy is weak. This is a poor country with little ability to do much at all. - George Donnelly

Yes I totally agree with that but McCain is looking at it from a "they're communist" point of view. That doesn't matter when the people of Cuba are suffering to untold degrees and the entire country is so close to collapse. Communism never has done anyone good except for the dictators. - JohnBfromMemphis

JohnB: could not agree more. :) - George Donnelly

This is just McCain pandering to the right who would rather wage war than talk to anyone who looks or thinks differently than they do. - Jon Erickson via twhirl

Even though I myself am a conservative, the idea of McCain, Obama or Clinton in the white house makes me want to vomit. .. I don't want Bill back in the white house for ANY reason.. Clinton wants universal healthcare and McCain tried to cram illegal immigrant amnesty down our throats .. none of that is good for us .. not to mention that no one REALLY knows much about Obama's past .. that is a major concern for me. .. all we know is who raised him .. big frikkin' deal .. . - JohnBfromMemphis

Maybe the Libertarians will nominate a sensible candidate. :) - George Donnelly

So he thinks that Kennedy, Reagan, Bush Sr., et al were "appeasers" because they talked with the leaders of Communist regimes? Is he planning on never talking about trade with China or nonproliferation with North Korea? Would he rather wait for North Korea to either implode or explode (i.e., go nuclear), and force us to deploy more American troops overseas? He thinks he's still fighting the Cold War. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

I think the best part of his brain was left in Vietnam .. McCain said that he woiuldn't care how long we're in Iraq .. he later recanted and is saying now that we can win in Iraq in 4 years if we elect him ... somehow I doubt it ... and he's still pandering .. it's so bad my head is still spinning <edit> I do think victory is possible just not with any of the 3 candidates in the white house. </edit> - JohnBfromMemphis

Well, he still thinks Iraq war was a correct move and staying there for 100 years is wise. We shouldn't take such blabber seriously. It is just a result of old age. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

at least Reagan's alzheimers set in long after he was in office, or so we're led to believe. At any rate, McCain probably wouldn't pass a simple psych exam. - JohnBfromMemphis

Thomas Hawk favorited photos on Flickr

May 16 at 4:31 pm - Link

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Scott Beale posted a message on Twitter

“updating my Bill O'Reilly freak out post with a new dance remix and a behind the scenes version with his producer http://twurl.nl/5255zg”

May 16 at 4:19 pm - Link

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man, that was super freaking funny!!!!! i sent that to a couple friends...LOL - Susan Beebe

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Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong

May 16 at 4:14 pm - Link

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I think item one is the whole point of social. You _want_ that out there. Item 2 is curious. Do your friends want you sharing their emails? If they make them available to you, is that implied? I'm not sure. It's that "friend" vs "contact" distinction that I like about Flickr. I know what my friends will do with my information and since they are my friends they should trust my other friends, in theory. But "friend" on most social networks is a bit looser than that. Should you be able to do anything with the data shared under the notion of "friend"? Probably not. Should there be a way to flag this as "FYEO" or "also for your friends and contacts"? Absolutely. As for the real content, that should be under the license provided -- either copyright, or some form of creative commons, or public domain. - lilbyrdie

almost totally agree with lilbyrdies comments - succinct. - viki saigal

I have to really read and digest this later. I'd like to check out the actual audio fo the Gilmo