OK - this might sound really ridiculous, and I'm dying to be proven wrong - but based on my experience this week, if you send ONE SINGLE e-mail to a Yahoo! Mail user and it gets too high of a "bad word" score - then, foreverafter, all e-mails from your mail server's IP address will default to delivery in their spam folder (yahoo's MTA will add the "X-YahooFilteredBulk" header to each inbound message). If you, by some total happenstance, discover this (wondering why your Yahoo friends were ignoring you) and wish it undone, you must fill out a massive 20+ item questionnaire about your privacy & opt-out policies, submit hyperlinks to your unsubscribe forms and policy pages, etc. If, however, you are not *actually* a bulk mail sender (for example, you run a private server just for you and a few friends/colleagues) and thus have no such things, you're fucked - they will not unflag the server IP - and they don't care. They just suggest that you "teach" your contacts how to remove your...
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- Anthony Citrano
Their latest response: "Based on the information you have provided us, we cannot systematically deliver your email to the Inbox at this time." Well alrighty, then!
- Anthony Citrano
The creators of Wave pitch it as "what email would look like if it were invented today", not several decades ago. But what email "looks like" is as much down to social protocols as to anything else, says Watts. "It started out as very informal memos
- Howard Rheingold
"We need to ask what opportunity Wave allows people to express themselves and to understand what other people mean when they contribute a message to a conversation," explains psychologist Leon Watts." And perhaps more salient, "The cultural norms that will shape Wave's future are yet to be established." At least, that echoes what I've been suggesting, so I'm biased. ;-)
- michael silverton
RE http://www.openthefuture.com/2009... Jamais Cascio updates Future Shock: Social Transition Stress Disorder is what the heath reform screaming is about
Yep. That battle went to the bots quite some time ago. Essentially obviates the fundamental concept of an open retail marketplace for freely negotiated price discovery, valuation, etc., doesn't it?
- michael silverton
For this observation: one cannot possibly "like" or "+10" or "bump" or RT or any other reflective viral superlative, enough. ;-) The stream ... the global cognition grid ... *is*.
- michael silverton
I love when little kids show up big corporations with simple science class tests that result is million dollar lawsuits.. - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
"But to Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp, this supposed pleasure center didn't look very much like it was producing pleasure. Those self-stimulating rats, and later those humans, did not exhibit the euphoric satisfaction of creatures eating Double Stuf Oreos or repeatedly having orgasms. The animals, he writes in Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions, were "excessively excited, even crazed." The rats were in a constant state of sniffing and foraging. Some of the human subjects described feeling sexually aroused but didn't experience climax. Mammals stimulating the lateral hypothalamus seem to be caught in a loop, Panksepp writes, "where each stimulation evoked a reinvigorated search strategy". It is an emotional state Panksepp tried many names for: curiosity, interest, foraging, anticipation, craving, expectancy. He finally settled on seeking. ... In order to have the maximum effect, the cues should be small, discrete,...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"It is the liking system that Berridge believes is the brain's reward center." So that's why everyone's adding a "like" feature to their sites these days.
- Ben Darnell
Haven't read it yet, but I bet it has something to do with dopamine (heard about it on the Stochasticity episode of Radiolab). +Bruce
- Kamilah Gill
This. "It is an emotional state Panksepp tried many names for: curiosity, interest, foraging, anticipation, craving, expectancy. He finally settled on seeking. Panksepp has spent decades mapping the emotional systems of the brain he believes are shared by all mammals, and he says, "Seeking is the granddaddy of the systems." It is the mammalian motivational engine that each day gets us...
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- Kamilah Gill
Crap. This is me. I bet it's a lot of you guys, too. I did hold still long enough to read both pages of this article. But I've neglected to get the cleaning done that I need to do and now it's late. I'm about to finally get up and do it now, but, still... my bigger problem is tearing myself away long enough to do anything important. How is anyone focusing long enough to make any complex artwork anymore?
- Kamilah Gill
All these friendfeed posts activates our dopamine pumping system but not enough to activate the liking system. No wonder if I work on something interesting time seems to go fast but very slow if i find it boring. Blame the dopamine.
- ashish
from iPhone
"Mindless Chasing".. this post just activated my dopamine to seek for the information in the link :)
- siva s
FriendFeed as two drugs in one. "wanting and liking" -- yes I want more articles like that and I "liked" this one.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Hmm, is it just me or this painting an ugly picture for the addictive quality of social media? I don't want to be in a "excessively excited, even crazed" state any longer than I have to (unless I'm waiting online in a bookstore, then it's just funny).
- Mark Essel
the image! :)) bearing like thing could have been more appropriate...
- testbeta
This is something casinos have known for a long time - think about slots, etc. All hitting that same 'seeking' button.
- Ken Gidley
Kamilah- I make time to focus on great artwork, and most people don't understand what makes artwork great post "The Urinal" anyway. Most people reading this also don't realize the difference of reading this versus posting from Pubmed, and how very little we know about the brain and illness of insantiy and of the brain. Saying it is the opoid system tells me very little, since right now...
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- Shana
Surely this is social. Seem to recall touching on this topic earlier. Appears to me as if we migrate along a tripartite spectrum ... One week, I might be 64% Signal Processing / 30% Broadcast / 6% Communicate ... the next week, I might switch the Broadcast and Communicate ... or swap Signal Process with Communicate ... Memories of Seesmic come to mind. For me, often the most *valuable*...
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- michael silverton
No sooner did I hit enter than I realize a 4th primary activity: pure Curation. Just purely culling the streams and RT'ing or Lifestreaming items of interest or salience to a particular academic theme or group interest. I know I'm saying nothing new, just jotting down notes in the event others may stumble along and join the conversation. ;-)
- michael silverton
Türkçe bir global dildir kusura bakmasın da Bret öğrensin :P
- Cem Şahin
Bak görüyor musun Bret? ne varsa bizde var yine! Hani nerede Amerikalı kullanıcılar, hepsi senden yüz çevirdiler, ahh ahhh :)
- Murat Can Demir
o zaman kim soruyor simdi bret'e? "do you know turkish raki?" diye. adettendir.
- Emre Yılmaz
@emre bu videodaki bret'ten davet falan alırsa sebebi sen olursun biliyorsun dimi :)
- halit altunterim
Türkçe yakın zamanda dünya dili olacak diyorlardı, o zaman geldi demek :)
- İhsan Çandır
"burda herkes türkçe konuşuyor ben anlamıyorum ki kim türk kim değil" cem yılmaz olmadan olmaz :D
- Ali Bahşişoğlu
Hope you have a great first week! You know you're starting your new job just as the kids are going back to school. Just think of your first day at work like your first day at a new school.
- Pete Delucchi
from iPhone
Merak ettim şimdi, adam merak edip birisine ricayla ya da parayla bunları çevirttiriyor mudur ki?
- İhsan Çandır
bence google translate den çözmeye çalışıyor yazdıklarımızı!
- Betül
o zaman yandık :) farklı anlamlar çıkartabilir
- Ali Bahşişoğlu
google ile uğraşıyorsa işi zordur ama facebook bünyesinde çevirmenler olacağını tahmin ediyorum :)
- Cem Şahin
Ama bize de ayıp, adam heyecanlı, paylaşıyor, facebookda ilk günü yahu. :D Way to go mann! I am sure you ll be doing a great job there. Good luck :)
- Murat Can Demir
bu anlamlarında yeterince yakıcı olduğunu düşünüyorum
- aydın
facebook ofisi pür dikkat toplanmış, türk kullanıcı profilini şaşkınlıkla izliyorlar şu an.
- Emre Yılmaz
Belki çok canlarını sıkarsak adamlar hırs yapar, Türkçe kursuna gider, varsa tabi :)
- İhsan Çandır
hepsi ıslak bergeni izleyip bayılmış da olabilir :D
- Cem Şahin
oktay sinanoğlunun bir kitabı vardı bye bye türkçe bir newyork rüyası diye...orda herkes türkçe konuşuodu vs. filan o rüyayı dolaylı da olsa burda gerçekleştirdik.emeği geçen tüm arkadaşlara yürekten sevgiler ve saygılar!
- Betül
Does anyone who speaks Turkish mind explaining what everyone is saying? Short of a real explanation, I will just assume they all say "Bret, you are amazing, and what a wonderful profile picture you have." ;)
- Bret Taylor
adam bloklayacak Turkiye'yi sakin olun. :P @Bret, don't care these guys. :)))
- Oğuz Serdar
burdaki herkes breti facebooktan eklesin yazıktır ilk günü daha 10 tane arkadaşı var syemizde 5000mi bulur daha da kimseyi ekleyemez sonra da facebooktan çıkar gider!
- Betül
lan var ya Türkleri hiç bi yere almamalı :D
- delininbiri
@Louis, Google won't help Bret. @Ahmet, sana api kullandirmazsa gorursun bak. :P
- Oğuz Serdar
ooo süper olmuş burası :D @Bret, most of the people here doesn't support the fb. decision. Well, I do. So I'm waiting for the first day pics.
- Onur Baykal
türk olmak hiç bu kadar utandırmamıştı!!!!!!
- Şenay Şen
puhahahh.. of, yarıldım ya.. süperiz yaa.. gurur duydum ff türkiye ahalisi ile :))
- Mustafa Öztürk
"tüüü" can mean, let's make more comments like an endless loop :p
- alper*
hugs from lilith not all Turkey. we don't hug men. that's cultural thing. but if you have any girl "msn", share with us. after that maybe we hug you. (with lilith.)
- Emre Yılmaz
uçan sabriden sonra bretden ses alınamadı.
- Ali Bahşişoğlu
Google Translate anlamaz ü,ş,ç etc değersiz
- sofarsoShawn
Ben dedim Uçan Sabri'yi kaldıramaz diye:)
- İhsan Çandır
почему-то русских не видно. а мы есть! )) спросите Скобла
- massagin
adaşım soydaşım sen ne başlattın böyle ne hale gelmiş buralar. yarısına kadar ancak okuyabildim. harbiden Turkish Power yane :P
- Emre YILMAZ
isim vermeden konuş, "geyik yapıp gülen insanlar" olduğunu anlayamayan çok duyarlı ve duygusal *türk* vatandaşlarımız var, sabah işe giderken "pis türk, güldün eğlendin" şeklinde topuklarıma sıkacaklar diye korkuyorum. ok tşk.
- Emre Yılmaz
Bret sana makamit mo ang hanap mo, hangad ko ang iyong tagumpay. Mabuhay!!!!
- Raymundo Roxas
topuğuna sıkanın kafasına sıkarım sana kimse bişey yapamaz. iyi yaptın hoş yaptın :) hep destek tam destek.
- Emre YILMAZ
good luck at facebook bret. how was your first day ?
- goutham
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- sofarsoShawn
Whoa. Who knew you were so big in Turkey? :-)
- Adam Lasnik
Senin hiç fikirin var ne kadar popüler.
- sofarsoShawn
some folks are big in Japan, Bret's big in Turkey
- anna sauce
turkish is a global language? really?
- Chris Heath
LOL we are amazing :D Bret, have a goodtime at Facebook...
- Hüseyin Mert
@Bret, have a nice first day at FB. As you see you have huge fan group in Turkey, trying to celebrate your first day there :) Congrats (tebrikler in Turkish)
- Goktug Okan Oguz
You should better leave Facebook, boring people and boring stuff. OK, not so sure about people :)
- Burcu Dogan
kararı facebook verir. bret'in kişisel problemleri facebook'u ilgilendirmez. bence :)
- Ömer Enis
sene 1915 aylardan temmuz güneş enseyi yakıyor,kar dizboyu.Yürüyorum bi yolda o zamanlar otomobil daha gelmemiş türkiye'ye uçaklarda yer bulmak çok zor. Neyse eve geldim ev karanlık,elektrikte gelmemiş daha yaktım mumu,açtım bilgisayarı.Derken bir arkadaşım MSN'den şu anda bu yorumu yazdığım sayfanın linkini gönderdi.Sonra,sonrasıda işte bu yazı ( =
- YUCEL Ugur
Ha bu arada Madem Türksün Göster Ürkün elin ejnebisi kardeşim
- YUCEL Ugur
sunipeyk, hakkında kırmızı bülten çıkartmış interpol!
- Cihan (ch) KALOĞLU
Philtro lets you rate tweets so you can find the most interesting, relevant tweets first. It's like a noise filter for your Twitter account.
- Howard Rheingold
"As the source of the most powerful natural hallucinogen known, salvia is drawing scrutiny from U.S. authorities who want to restrict this Mexican herb, now used recreationally by some. But neuroscientists worry that controlling it before studies have determined its safety profile is premature and could hamper research of the drug's medicinal value. Increasingly, evidence is piling up that it could lead to new and safer antidepressants and pain relievers, as well as even help in improving treatments for such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and addiction."
- Spaceweaver
from Bookmarklet
Awesome article. Eventually, nano-pharma could become the domain that delivers penultimate gains in extended / augmented cognition. Electrodes to the synapse seem like extraordinarily bulky and crude intermediary interfaces; on the other hand, on a nano scale, perhaps it's within bounds to imagine nanowires such as could approach functional equivalence to neurotransmitters. IMO, the tangible experiments born of such speculations are a large part what makes this research area so damned alluring!
- michael silverton
I wonder if you wouldn't find similar stats say if you researched the average phone call or casual conversation. Not sure it really is a negative to twitter. More perhaps that it just mimics regular life conversations. Not every conversation is "serious" in nature. Then again what do I know ;-)
- josh hinds
+10 Pon. Perhaps that 40% figure demonstrates how FOCUSED and SUCCINCT tweeting makes otherwise 75% bloviating humans adjust behavior, if they hope to be successful with the medium. Success = Heard + Engaged in Conversation.
- michael silverton
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy Fuller
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark "Mr Bolivious" J
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook - 2010!!!
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- میر «عرفان» موسوی
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
What? No lawyers in suits? Mark's setting a pretty low bar on the dress code for this sort of thing...:)
- Tomas Remotigue
Our lawyers were wearing shorts actually -- no air conditioning at their office on Sundays I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Zuckerberg's the only one from FB who could be bothered to show up?
- Andy Bakun
American big business such a formal affair
- Robert Higgins
Contrary to popular misconception, lawyers don't actually enjoy wearing suits. Haul us into work on a Sunday, and we'll definitely be dressing comfortably. :)
- Brian Chang
Andy, the person on the left is Vaughan Smith from Facebook. Sanjeev (the fourth FriendFeed founder) is not pictured because he was boarding an airplane.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that's so awesome. FB's an awesome company to do business with.
- Jesse Stay
Hey Paul congratulations - FriendFeed has been leading the way since its inception. Are the photos you've posted copy-protected or could I use them in a story on the deal?
- Mitch
...congrats.can't wait to see what happens with both FF and FB as a result of this.
- .LAG liked that
Please try to keep Friendfeed like it was if they let you. Either way, congrats on the financials!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Congrats and best wishes for the future.
- Jeff Stannard
For $50m you could at least have hired a photographer who doesn't shake so much. :)
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
FF was the cutting edge whereas FB is quickly becoming the mainstream. Unfortunately, the mainstream does not necessarily equal innovation and pushing the envelope. We all suffer when innovation is chilled. But on the other hand, congrats to the FF crew. They made their money!
- laosan
congratulations! keep the innovation coming...
- ozlubling
VERY happy for you guys. Possibly even owe you one or two. Are we getting FriendPhone next?? Think Mark should seriously think about 'Friendbook' :)
- Charlie Anzman
Congratulations to you and your team.
- Maria Niles
just showed the pictures to my students and they were like, "they look like normal people!" Congrats on the deal, onward and upward!
- xxx xxxxx
Congratulations, Paul -- to you and everybody at FF.
- Eric Johnson
Congrats Paul, Bret and the rest of the team, this is awesome news! The big question on everyone's lips is: Who gets to have http://facebook.com/paul? :)
- Fenn
Congrats, and thanks for taking us all on such a terrific ride! Big ups. :)
- Pete Delucchi
You've done a great job! You deserve this and more... Congrats!
- Ricardo J. Valle
now this is what a deal term meeting should look like - file under inspirational -
- mediaeater
Congratulations to everyone at FF. Whose house was the deal made?
- seman
I am sad .. !!! I do not know .. why .. for me its not good news
- Nayan
I call this pic... "Six Happy Dudes & 1,000,000+ Pissed-Off FriendFeeders"
- Brad Williamson
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Looks like Mathew™ has found a UI bug by flooding contiguous characters.
- Jay Cuthrell
I don't get the negativity - did no one realize FriendFeed was a business? The object of a business is to sell eventually (either privately or publicly). We should be celebrating their success. This is a huge win for them, as well as Facebook. I personally think it's a huge win for the "loyal users" as well. So now we stab them in the back when they do something huge?
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention we know *nothing* about what this will mean for both services. These guys haven't let us down yet, have they?
- Jesse Stay
Congratulations Paul, you should have got more, but I guess $50m is nothing to sneeze at. Have a great wedding anniversary too, I'm sure you both deserve it. Much happiness - :)
- Chris Loft
Those are the kind of business meetings I could get used to - no suits... but selling to Facebook? Hmmm... Good for someone of course but I suppose we'll see where this ride takes us.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
congrats on building an amazing product and incredibly passionate community! I was mad at first, but then realize that the technology was most likely sold, not the community. I'm hoping ff community will stay somewhat untouched and features that have been built into ff will be ported to fb.
- Derek Coatney
Congratulations, FriendFeeders! I'm anxious to see what changes this will bring. FriendFeed is my favorite site to visit, so hopefully y'all will find a way to maintain the FF spirit somehow.
- Keith Pelczarski
No matter the type of big change, there are those who will not like it, often simply because it's change. I for one am very pleased that two of the services I use most are joining forces, and am eager to see the new developments that come of this acquisition. Congrats to EVERYONE on the FriendFeed team. You all deserve it! You've done a great job with a small company. Now lets see what you can do with a large one :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@Jesse Stay re: "the objective of business is to sell eventually" : Ummm, the objective of many businesses is to become profitable by providing a valuable experience to their users. Businesses that feel they can't do that are the ones that sell.
- Shane Gibbons
Congratulations to everyone involved. Well done.
- Darius Dunlap
This is a very sad day in friend feed history. It is horrible because I like friend feed for how it's different from face book. I use facebook but I find it really annoying and I wouldn't use it if my friends and family weren't using it. So if Friend Feed becomes another facebook then i donno if I will keep coming to friend feed.
- Colide81 (James)
from iPhone
Congrats to the FF staff, but you'll have to pardon my lack of exuberance. I have mental pictures of being forced to use the FB UI and it makes me sad =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Very happy for the Friendfeed team. These pictures say it all.
- Christian Burns
from iPhone
Where are the photos of everyone celebrating? No beer or champagne?
- Shane
Great match-up guys ! The Fabulous Friender Boys ! - Let's see some integrated mashups and extensible apps and FF UI. Given Google and Twitter a run for their money... Looks like they are going to have to "hook-up" now !
- Mike Schmidt
Congratulations Paul and the team! Hopefully we'll still get the same simple UI for FriendFeed. I'm sure however that no matter what you do, things will turn up nicely.
- Ovidiu Predescu
NOOOOO! I _LOVE_ friendFeed and this will change it forever. Yeah - this will improve Facebook. Great deal guys - I can not wait to see how this works out
- Ric Johnson
@Scobleizer: Come on you're a genius and can not realize future of FF? Turkey was one of important countries which is using FF! They asked no one about this! We hate fcking morons and stupid people on facebook, and I'm sure that this post will be real, just read it: http://ff.im/6pRmM
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
But Ahmed you are still being an ass about it, trying to rain on their good times. Go find a hole under the bridge where you belong. You can be sad and not have to come out all bitchy about stuff. Clear thoughtful comments instead of going all into "fuck you" mode.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
OK, that's great. I hope you can be successful at Facebook Dev Team and enjoy spending that money.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
böyle önemli bir iş için fiyat açıklanmadı ama 50 milyon $ deniyor. Bu kadar lakayt bir ortam olur mu yau. Uzaktan baksan gençler eğleniyor dersin
- Fatih Hayrioğlu
Şİmdi yorumları okumadım ama çok kişisel bişi söyleyeceğim. Bu gençlerin milyon dolarları çeviriyor olması durumuna şaşıyorum. Bizim memlekette bu seviyeye gelecek mi veya? Kaç sen uzaktalar bizden bu gençler?
- mustafa can
Bizim şirket sahipleri konunun belli saatler arasında, belli kıyafetlerle ofiste oturmak değil, yapılan işin niteliği olduğunu analdıkları zaman gelir tabii. Ama bence bu gavurların dediği gibi "When the hell freezes over".
- özlem ercan
bu postu türkçe commentlerle doldrmak süper fikir.. sarcasm diil ciddiyim
- MobilAdam
Bakmayın böyle güldüklerine arkada buyuk yatırımcılar olmasa batar gider bunlar..Adamların yatırımcıları işi biliyor...
- Zeki Pehlivan
Great result Paul. In such a short time, millions of users, 1 new interface and a marriage with internets' celebrity. This is a period which you should write down to make it as an on-line business case. You people are really wise businessmen. Nice job, congrats! :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
Not happy happy congrats bullshit from me-I used FF.
- frankiecarl
Frankie, a lot of us use FriendFeed and are concerned about where things are going from here. As I said in my comment above: I'm happy for the staff but displeased with who they chose to sell to. I'm perfectly capable of feeling both emotions at the same time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
wonderful so normal so ordinary so simple
- Thomas Power
MZ looks like he has just returned from the gym
- Joe Dawson
These guys represent the most talked about entreprises (Ok even more so by geeks in the case of Friendfeed) and they're still in their 20s. We're talking millions of dollars and look how relax they look and casually they're dressed.
- lelapin
Awesome, nice to see they are actually in fact human still.
- Robert Schultz
Great photographs showing the very reason why 99% of all people start their own business - money! Well done and good luck for the future.
- David Jagger
this is so great! congrats paul! im really happy for u guys!
- Jason Pollock
Business is Business and we can only move forward with social-media applications as we herald a new interactive platform. Albeit thanks to the Mothers of all Mothers, Google. Frank Burns
- frank burns
I'm going to start a business where I charge people money to have me kick other people in the crotch...and when they look at me and say "WHAT THE FUCK, DUDE?" I'm going to look at them straight in the eye and say "it's just business."
There are plenty of job openings just like that in the Finance and Insurance industries. You're reinventing the wheel, man.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Yeah, but my wheel has a point...namely to make all those who use "It's just business" as an excuse like big idiots. I'd say I succeeded.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
When it comes to security, it's impossible to be 100% secure. There is always risk, no matter how many levels of protection you have. Same thing is true of content protection. It is impossible to stop a pirate from cracking your piracy protections that you have built in to a CD.
Good security is all about trade-offs; there's always a point beyond which adding security to a system imposes a cost that is worse than the potential attack itself.
- Tristan Seligmann
Yes...you can't secure a system to the point where it will no longer be able to meet business needs. At least not if you want to stay in business.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
OK, so maybe the impossible word works in some technical discussions. Still not fond of it. Who cares? Far more interested in what's possible.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I tend to think that the real key... and it's important for both security and other things... is detection and recovery. You can put all the DDOS prevention code in the world in front of your site, but if you don't monitor it so you can spot the one time somebody gets past it and if you aren't ready to plug the hole when it does, you just wasted your time.
- Wirehead
I agree, Wirehead. Vigilance is totally key to security.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
The part about content protection that people refuse to get is that you can't do detection and recovery adequately with any reasonable DRM system. :)
- Wirehead
Agree 100% with you on that one Alex.
- Jim Connolly
http://ff.im/6fHmz I'd say the message of Strong Authentication, Encryption, P2P, UMSB is like a broken record, but the only records ppl are familiar with any more are database entries. ;-)
- michael silverton
Anthony, you still need the perception that we are secure. :)
- Alex Scoble
Ah yes, of course. Forgot the value of theater.
- Anthony Citrano
The security the TSA provides is mostly an illusion... I think it's mostly there to create jobs. And give some people a power trip.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Alex, you're instigating Critical Thinking again. Look out, you'll be The List! ;-) Or, as @hrheingold says http://u.nu/3t6s "So I got very excited about this idea of Critical Thinking, and went to my daughter's school and learned, that phrase, that idea -- Critical Thinking -- is widely known as a plot to induce children to challenge authority."
- michael silverton
@Lindsay: yes, that's why I like callin’ it security spectacle, security theater. we love to be lied to, even by ourselves.
- Anthony Citrano
Agree - Security is all about making the "prize" not worth the effort and/or punishment. Nothing is 100% foolproof, the trick is to make it not worth going after.
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
Which is why phishing is so hard to get rid of...the prize is sizable, the effort minimal and for phishers sitting in Russia/Romania/Nigeria/etc. the risk of prosecution is negligible.
- Alex Scoble