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Mozilla Raindrop: Is the Intelligent Inbox Coming? - http://mashable.com/2009...
Seems very smiler to setting up Google Multiple Inboxes + Custom Filters..
- Sherif Mansour
Can't wait for something - anything - that goes in this direction. The stream has turned into a flood and smart filters are needed. There's too much manual user intervention required today.
- Joe Buhler
Google Reader gets personal - http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...
I've been thinking about his quite a bit - the more we use these types of tools, the more they learn about us. Google Reader's "sort by magic" is a feature that uses what it's learned from your previous reading trends, your shared items etc... to understand what you like to read. "Sort by Magic" then displays the contents in order of what your most likely to read. Nice.
- Sherif Mansour
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A New Tune for Facebook Gifts - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
Turning into its own mini iTunes store-like ecosystem...
- Sherif Mansour
Google unveils 'Social Search' - http://www.builderau.com.au/news...
Goodbye social media monitoring tools... you wonder if this will consume them all... hopefully it has a sweet API :-)
- Sherif Mansour
Twitter Adds 110 Million Potential New Users With SMS Deal in India - http://mashable.com/2009...
Looks like Twitter is going back to the model they already had planned - mass sms through tweeting
- Sherif Mansour
Looks like Twitter is going back to the model they already had planned - mass sms through tweeting
- Sherif Mansour
Go.USA.Gov! Our Taxpayer Money Hard At Work Shortening URLs. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
hahahahah
- Sherif Mansour
@sherifmansour HOTNESS!!!!!!! What are you using to do these?
The 500D, its an awesome camera, very impressed by it
- Sherif Mansour
Mah fishies - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hows XKCD Book 0?
- Sherif Mansour
Haven't received it yet :(
- James Polley
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Atlassian on pair programming - http://blogs.atlassian.com/develop...
We've been doing quite a bit of pair programming with our rapid development team at Optus. Can really echo what the article says - helps keep both parties honest, good for ramping people up with a new bit of code/feature and good for "making the team gel". Good read if you are thinking about doing it.
- Sherif Mansour
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What is Google Wave? - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nice entertaining clip
- Sherif Mansour
Getting Started with Agile - Daily Stand Up Meetings - Per Laurie - http://sandbox.onconfluence.com/display...
Great read
- Sherif Mansour
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The Awesomeness Manifesto - Great read, maybe a better word than 'awesomeness' is needed, but good points made. - http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque...
"awesomeness is the new innovation"
- Sherif Mansour
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Orange Sydney this morning...
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Sydney's dust storm - This isn't Photoshoped
- Sherif Mansour
King hit - and then gutted - http://www.smh.com.au/news...
He got slammaged
- Sherif Mansour
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Google Launches: Fast Flip - http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Nice quick way to consume your news visually!
- Sherif Mansour
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Check your unread Gmail from the command line - http://www.commandlinefu.com/command...
"Check your unread Gmail from the command line"
- Sherif Mansour
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Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
Excellent video on the science of motivation - a must watch.
- Sherif Mansour
Good read: Agile Software Development is Driven by Nested Feedback Loops - http://advice.cio.com/michael...
""The feedback engine, with its nested feedback loops, is an excellent model for a process designed to manage the cost of change and respond efficiently to changing requirements. This is the essence of agility; letting go of the slow, deliberate decision-making process in favor of quick decisions, quickly and repeatedly tested. The feedback loops are optimized to validate decisions as soon as possible while still keeping cost to a minimum. Finally, that multi-scale hierarchy of feedback loops, once recognized, provides crucial guidance when we need to tailor and adjust the software process."
- Sherif Mansour
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Good read: Joe Hewitt on the iPhone App Store - http://joehewitt.com/post...
"Having said that, I have only one major complaint with the App Store, and I can state it quite simply: the review process needs to be eliminated completely."
- Sherif Mansour
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Beckham Kitteh - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Man what an investment.. think of all the dollars you could cash in.. /me leaves computer and goes to throw ball at cat
- Sherif Mansour
You're right!! I'll be richorz :)
- John Masson
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Optus has launched the D3 Satellite
4207869677
Myroslav Opyr, sara, ravi karandeekar and 63 other people liked this
(Not a phone number except possibly by coincidence. Please don't call.)
- Bruce Lewis
Its a Wisconsin number
- Joe Hall
Heh. That's why you shouldn't put a postbox where a searchbox usually goes. ;)
- Chris Messina
totally, call
- acedanger
It's not a phone number (or at least it's not a phone number to me). Please don't call.
- Paul Buchheit
The actual amount of the fb deal?
- Jim Norris
Whose number is it?
- Liza
well, mayb a revised deal of the friendfeed buyout by facebook
- Gtp19
I am curious
- Liza
My bad its not a Wisconsin number, infact its not a phone number at all the 420 aea code doesn't exist anymore
- Joe Hall
Joe, you called it
- Liza
sure is a hefty number
- Gtp19
Since I had the first comment (stays visible), I edited it to tell people not to call.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul's password to his bank account :-)
- Shakeel Mahate
Is it the sequence of numbers that must be input into the computer before the button is pushed??? ;)
- Elis
$4,207,869,677
- Chris Messina
Number of friendfeed users
- Shakeel Mahate
Total number of entries in ff database
- Shakeel Mahate
When I copy/ paste that number into Garageband, it plays Revolution Number 9
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
$42,078,696.77 -- how about that?
- Jim Hearts FF
Morton, did not know wolframalpha was still around.
- Liza
I doubt it's money, that's not Paul's style (and surely wouldn't be legal). It'll be fun to watch this comment threat. I'm crap with number games.
- Carter Rabasa
Another puzzle from Paul, this is why friendfeed is fun.
- ashish
A social security number?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Social security number has 9 digit limit.
- ashish
Guys, it's not a hard puzzle. I got it.
- Bruce Lewis
well, it may not be a $ number... but if it were...!
- Jim Hearts FF
Don't overthink it and you'll get it.
- Bruce Lewis
Er, actually it does take a certain amount of geekiness to get it, but it's the kind of geekiness you'd expect.
- Bruce Lewis
I think I got it! Addition?
- Liza
gah! Bruce, you're killin' me here!
- Jim Hearts FF
Liza, is Paul mainly known as a math geek, or some other kind of geek?
- Bruce Lewis
lol, paul shud be having some fun reading the comments
- Gtp19
I have to go take care of some things now, but I know other people will get it. It's cute.
- Bruce Lewis
got it
- Vishy
So if we get it we're not supposed to tell?
- Vlad Bobleanta
Well, it doesn't validate as any government issued ID#... :P
- Tanath
The new facebook moto. The number of people you want to connect to deliver on the promise of connecting the planet.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I'm guessing it's something FriendFeed database-related
- Eric Florenzano
what is the # of FF users? - I mean posts/entries/items :-)
- Chris Heath
FriendFeed is the first social network to reach 4 billion users ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Congratulations Paul .... thats a wonderful achievment :)
- Bhowmik Shah
Only 4 billion? C'mon... I'm disappointed. Deleting my account now. :D
- Vlad Bobleanta
YIKES
- anna sauce
Yet only 1K or so "addicts" via Scoble's thread
- anna sauce
Vlad, the other 1/3 of the world don't have access to a computer.
- Jimminy
That shouldn't stop them from having an account. Nothing should.
- Vlad Bobleanta
Wow Paul. That is amazing.
- Yolanda
Yolanda: He was being sarcastic :)
- Eric Florenzano
Is he?? How much does facebook have 2billion?
- Sherif Mansour
Sherif, ~300 million
- Jimminy
sorry, forgot to add *eyeroll*
- Yolanda
The number of FriendFeed posts since inception.
- LogEx
Nobody has even a billion. Think about it, there are around 6.5 billion people in the world.
- Eric Florenzano
Jimminy, in that case there is no way FF has 4 billion?!
- Sherif Mansour
Bruce, come on and spill the beans!
- Will-Pastor of FF
It's hard to verify any of our hypotheses since FriendFeed uses nonsequential identifiers for everything. Can't really deconstruct the uuid to see what number it is.
- Eric Florenzano
i feel like an idiot.
- Sarah is Novembery
i'm sure it's not money related.
- Sarah is Novembery
420 - 786 - ???
- imran
paul, didn't you do this a month or two ago? and it was the number of database entries for items/entries?
- Chris Heath
Non-programmers do not need to feel like idiots here. Programmers do. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
grrr! I'm not a programmer and I still feel like an idiot. It's some sort of code. Each number means something else.
- Jim Hearts FF
It's not 2^^32
- LogEx
Ah, got it. That's cheeky, Paul.
- Carter Rabasa
@Carter Rabasa care to share?!
- Sherif Mansour
Uhh... is that bad etiquette? I'll let Paul do the big "reveal".
- Carter Rabasa
Btw, you don't need to be a programmer. Spend time do graphic design or working with CSS? You could get this!
- Carter Rabasa
Carter: Good hint. Hiroshi: Awesome!
- Bruce Lewis
-87097619
- Jim Norris
0xFACEFEED - amirite? :)
- Morton Fox
Oh Morton....
- Carter Rabasa
Hah!
- Eric Borisch
oh for pete's sake!
- Jim Hearts FF
*groan*
- Michael McKean
Hint (don't kill me, y'all): http://www.easycalculation.com/decimal...
- Vlad Bobleanta
pure geek.
- Jim Hearts FF
it really should be called that
- MG Siegler
Haha! We'll see.
- Anne Bouey
Google can do the conversion. Search for "4207869677 in hex"
- Morton Fox
wolframalpha could do it... if you put 'hex' into the query
- Chris Heath
4276989964 is interesting too ;) -Hiroshi: +1
- Vlad Bobleanta
hahaha
- Will-Pastor of FF
OMG LOL
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
i think paul got pissed off over something and pressed some numbers to vent...wondering wat pissed him off ;-)
- Gtp19
Ok, so you have our attention now...
- Glenn Slaven
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lol, "facefeed"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
667269656E6466616365 -- heh. Goodnight!
- Jim Hearts FF
275766947196940
- Bruce Lewis
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- Got Love For DB™?
Bruce: Yup. That too.
- Vlad Bobleanta
11111010110011101111111011101101
- Chris Messina
4277009102
- Charles Ying
hmmmm, for real or just being funny?
- Keith - @tsudo
__MMMMCCV__ _MMDCCCLXIX_ DCLXXVII
- Micah Wittman
Number of users who complained that Facebook acquired Friendfeed, added up across all alternate universes.
- Philipp Lenssen
70 117 110 110 121 32 58 45 41
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
New rich man gets bored and mocks his users :)
- Altan Tanrıverdi
Bank account you expect to get wire from FB ?
- Jacque
?
- Charlie Anzman
FriendFeed 181202413 to Facebook. Some here claim this was a 195944173, but I am not among them. I think it is great, and will help bring this technology to a whole new 1554098974 level.
- DGentry
Has anyone asked Jeeves?
- Joe Dawson
Shame on me
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
+2 DGentry!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
number of records contained in FriendFeed database ? (sorry, I need more coffee & math skillz)
- Susan Beebe
Paul's Company ID # @ Facebook
- AJ Batac
6911
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
42
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
And don't forget your towel. It will be most useful after a proper 4207869677 - Those can be pretty messy at times.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm with jvjannotti. $42,078,696.77 :-). The hex part is purely a coincidence.
- Ken Sheppardson
Adapting a quote from Douglas Adams, "I may be a pretty sad person, but I don't make jokes in base 16"
- Victor Ganata
Morton wasn't kidding.... In hex it does indeed come out as Facefeed
- Roberto Bonini
I for one welcome our new 4207869677 overlords!
- Travis Koger
I love how when you do a GOOG search for it, "4207869677 in hex", this post comes up as the search result, after the answer is given... nice!
- Travis Koger
haha got it in 2 minutes.. nice!
- Paul Stamatiou
FACEFEEEEEEEEEEEEED :) Feed my face - sounds like a new restaurant or something! LOL :D
- Susan Beebe
I'm a programmer, yet I couldn't figure out the answer on my own. How did you guys think of just converting it to hex? lol
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
here's a session log after reading "you're idiot". just brute-forcing :) : http://gist.github.com/167573 (idiot tried to divide a prime)
- NaHi
from f2p
Rishabh, looking at your extensive creativity with the "bitter" post, I think your mind probably wandered through too many possibilities. The first things to pop into my mind were simple/obvious codes.
- Bruce Lewis
+1 Travis! (SEO method 4532145321)
- Charlie Anzman
Bruce: Thanks for the compliment. We all think differently, I guess. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996...
Susan Beebe, TheHenry, Mark Gunnels and 125 other people liked this
No info about the financial aspects of the deal for now.
- TiTi
Ithink that tey have to do it now, or never
- abdellah
"committed to supporting the needs of FF user community"
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Nice :) Thanks Robert
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
^^until FB shutters FF
- jcunwired
nice scoop!
- Marc Ostrick
@Brian How many times have we heard that line before? :(
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
I hope they made a bunch of money, because they SOLD US ALL :(
- Zio Bonino
Robert, was this really posted 5 hours ago?
- Daniel Chow
Robert: Say "cool" less!
- Stephen Foskett
I was thinking the same thing. Count how many times you said "Cool" Robert ;)
- Andru Edwards
This acquisition is most likely going to suck for users, but congrats to the FF team. Once Google announced Wave, selling to Facebook was probably the only remaining exit strategy worth the money.
- Chip Ramsey
last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook
- Jacopo Gio
I don't know if i'm excited by the possiblities of this move, or frightened by what this could mean.
- John Czwartacki
I hope they don't spoil it for us. I just want to keep coming to Friendfeed.com
- Mark
If they had no plans of shutting down FriendFeed and rolling features into Facebook they would have said so right away to avoid speculation and to reassure FF users. I am trying not to be suspicious, but I am.
- Inside Alaska
I'm in the same camp Alaska
- Keith - @tsudo
Andru: it was about 100 degrees outside where I was doing the interview. I was trying to think cool and keep my cool. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe now we'll be able to integrate Facebook feed with FF & twitter
- Justin Long
Great idea Justin! Might as well make it one big conglomeration. The companies can still keep their brand-names too!
- PJ Edwards
Faceborg...Googlebook...time to move back to StumbleUpon? Guess we should have seen this coming when FriendFeed got integrated into FeedBurner.
- Internet Strategist
This interview is pretty funny... the person interviewing sounds like he just wants to ask questions for the sake of asking questions...;-) ... thanks for the insightful interview but..
- Sherif Mansour
In the interview, it was said that FriendFeed was not in immediate danger and could have continued for a number of years on their own. I'm not quite sure if that is true, because FriendFeed didn't develop their own business model.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
About integrating the social graphs, my social networks on FF and FB had different purposes. I don't have any friends on FB whom I haven't personally met, whereas I subscribe to some people I don't know on FF just because their feeds are interesting. On a related note, the FB graph is undirected and the FF graph is directed.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Scobleizer interviews Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed RE acquisition by Facebook.
- Deano @ Byron New Media
Rough transcript: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
Paul and Brett jumped at the chance to increase their user base a thousand-fold. Whatever comes out of this is going to be huge.
- Vezquex: God of FF
You are right vzx
- Nicolas Gosset
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"tremendous opportunity" is so vague. Opportunity for who? What opportunity exactly? Or is it just the opportunity to allow the friendfeed employees who weren't already rich to get rich?
- Laura Norvig
Laura: it's every engineer's dream to change the world of 300 million people instead of a few hundred thousand people. That's why this is a tremendous opportunity.
- Robert Scoble
Sigh. I guess. It's just very hard to think of Facebook as a life-changing venue.
- Laura Norvig
Robert: Thanks for this - some information at last!
- Jim Connolly
Feature Request: Take a photo / short video clip Straight into FriendFeed as a post using your webcam + flash.
Not sure how this goes now that you guys are working with Facebook.. but it would be cool :-)
- Sherif Mansour
You mean, bypass the YouTube entirely by encoding incoming videostreams into FF-native FLV files? Not going to happen period.
- ianf ⌘
I was thinking more for a simple service. More like a 'micro video blog'. For example, in FriendFeed you can upload images directly to a micro-blog to an FF post, why not make it you can take short clip too?
- Sherif Mansour
i don't think you realize the amount of processing that goes at the server end when importing raw video as opposed to importing already-processed still picture and sound files. FF allows import of film clips provided they are housed elsewhere. Native import - we're talking whole different game both in terms of upload, and, ESPECIALLY, the bandwith needed to deliver video streams at peak times.
- ianf ⌘
Are you using Friendfeed to embed content on your site, and if so, what/how/why?
Helen Sventitsky, Brian Bufalo, Morton Fox and 10 other people liked this
Integration, awareness - this way my blog readers can see FF and join in on the conversation, which spans way beyond my blog. The convo is on my Blog, FF, Twitter and sometimes Facebook. Plus, I have been a huge advocate for FF. I actively recruit to get folks on FF as I believe it is really amazing and it just keeps getting better!! :)
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
I've used it for live-blogging. I just 1) Create a room 2) Include the realtime updates iframe HTML into a blog post and 3) update it via FriendFeed http://blog.sherifmansour.com/... (its been taken offline now).. I find this much better than spamming my twitter followers every two seconds!
- Sherif Mansour
For updating my website.
- David Schmidt
Nope, the frames are too untidy atm. :-( But I really want to embed it.
- Kol Tregaskes
I tried to use Post Based comments (automated via API, and embed) but it is MUCH too easy to fragment a conversation to make sense (for now). The following issues need to be fixed before it REALLY make sense to embed a post (as replacement for comments): allow editing of groups on an existing post and a cleaner share solution (where comments appear on the original/master post). I do use a manually embedded post for site comments and was thinking of using a group as a discussion area for each blog!!
- Chris Myles
Susan, have you had much luck in getting people on FF? Sadly, I haven't had so much luck with that. Sherif, I am looking forward to trying FF for a live event sometime, too! David... that wasn't very specific :P. Kol, Chris, I'm looking forward to more options and flexibility, too!
- Adam Lasnik
Adam, me too. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I think Thomas Hawk has it on his blog....
- Roberto Bonini
i messed around a bit with making anonymous comments work through a GDocs form & a room (embeded below it) with the submission feed published into it. It was a bit slow to update, though, maybe the way I set it up at the time.
- immaterial
Right now I just have it as a bog simple embed on http://uche.ogbuji.net , but I'd like to do much more with it. The main barrier is time to hunt down all the pieces and put them together. Other comments here illustrate some of the things that snag me up and lever me on to working on something else. I'll be frank for me right now it's a race between FF and posterous as to which will have rich and smooth external embedding :)
- Uche Ogbuji
Testing out Cannon 500d...
az soon az hooman turnz hiz back, i eat da muffinz!!!!
- John Masson
lol
- Sherif Mansour
Yahoo Chief:‘We Have Never Been a Search Company’..errr... we are talking about the same interwebz right? - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Interesting article, yet scary - especially when you have the person running the company say “We have never been a search company,”... “It is: ‘I am on Yahoo. I am going to do a search.’ ”...right.. what about in the 90's? Thats what Yahoo was - search! This is before the content days. It's directory was one of the 'best' ways of finding content on the web back then. With a statement like that you wonder if she did any background reading before she took the job...I'd agree that now - it isn't a search company, and is strongly focused on content. But back then - it was search!
- Sherif Mansour
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iTWire - OpenAustralia volunteers drive Gov2.0 access - http://www.itwire.com/content...
"OpenAustralia.org is to the Australian democratic process what open source software is to the tech sector. It takes publicly available information – Hansard transcripts primarily – and publishes it in a searchable, easily accessible form."
- Sherif Mansour
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Out of the Search Business, Yahoo Shifts Its Focus - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
There goes all of Yahoo's engineering talent. You would think they wouldn't want to stay and work on Bing given the culture clash...
- Sherif Mansour
Why your PHP App NEEDS a Circuit Breaker - http://devzone.zend.com/article...
Why your PHP App NEEDS a Circuit Breaker
- Sherif Mansour
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