Nir :) I love Zee's shares, too! How're you guys today?
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Feeling great. Thx for asking. It's holidays time here in Israel, starting tommorow with New Year's day...so the general atmos. is awesom !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
from twhirl
all good Momo - meant to be doing work yet am still testing new bloody web apps...! You cool?
- Zee.
Nir!! I have a really good Israeli friend who keeps bugging me to go visit. I'm thinking of planning a trip to visit her. Perhaps we can have an FF Israel meet up? :) Zee: Working on a Sunday? :\ Sheesh! I'm actually fabulous! Can't sleep so I'm surfing the net (what else is new LOL). I have a brunch in a few hours, so I'm thinking of just staying up -what am I, 21? ;)
- Mona Nomura
you're not just saying that are you Robert? ;-)
- Nathan Eckenrode
My 12th grade English teacher always said never to use "in my opinion" because it's implied when you say something subjective. :)
- Internet's Tad
I agree with Robert on that. I am def. watching FF
- Kyle Lacy
Nathan, look at the facts. FriendFeed has, what, eight employees? The latest one to join was Gary Burd. His team at Google did Google Talk and he was the guy who opened Google's Kirkland office. How about Bret Taylor? During his four years at Google, he led more than 25 successful product launches, including Google Maps, Google Local, Google Web Toolkit, the Google Maps API, and Google’s Developer product group. more next...
- Robert Scoble
Paul Buchheit? He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2001 meeting on company values.
- Robert Scoble
This is an absolute superstar team and anyone who even questions whether it is or not simply does NOT know what they are talking about. It is -- by far -- the most interesting startup to watch right now and I'm underplaying that by a long shot.
- Robert Scoble
Sanjeev Singh is a former Google engineer, playing a role in both Google Mail and Google Search Appliance. Prior to Google Sanjeev worked at social annotations site Third Voice and a government research lab.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin Fox: from 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader.
- Robert Scoble
Louis Gray, can you fill in the other team members? Sanjeev Singh is another one, who is a great developer.
- Robert Scoble
Tudor Bosman is another. Is a great developer from Google, and was principal member of technical staff at Oracle.
- Robert Scoble
By far my most addicting and favorite website, and I've only been using it for a touch over a week.
- Bradley McSpinn
Scoble: makes me think you are also a secret member of FF ;)
- Muthu Ramadoss
The only other active competition is Facebook, and that explains why FF is not able to fetch feeds from there.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Muthu: I'm not compensated by FF, nor do I have any investments in anything I cover. Facebook is a closed walled garden, which even Google can't get into.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I know.. I was kidding about your FF involvement. I read most of your posts and am aware of your positions. Agree with your Facebook theory. Would be very interesting to watch how Facebook grows in future.
- Muthu Ramadoss
absolutely, ff is just awesome. Its bringing best of digg, reader, twitter,jaiku and probably a lot
- Umesh Kakkad
FF is better than google...there I said it! it's true!! seriously
- Susan Beebe
New Facebook is more like Friendfeed now. Hmmmm.....
- Muthu Ramadoss
FriendFeed is very community-driven. I see people comment a lot on Facebook but I've not really got into that. It's got to be one or the other. If anything I cross-post on FF and FB can have its comments shared between the two as well that that would be wonderful.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't think that's going to happen. Facebook has so many more users than friendfeed, why should they cooperate?
- Andrew Pass
Facebook will not worry about Friendfeed, now that they have got Friendfeed like discussions setup and running.
- Muthu Ramadoss
This movie is perfect on so many levels. From having "Cult of Personality" blaring in the background at the house-party, to the whole keymaster thing to sitting alone at a Gas-n-Sip on a Saturday night, this film manages to tap into the pop culture of its time, yet remain relevant today. Lloyd Dobler is the unsung hero, a teenager unsure what to do with his life, who always hid behind his wit when it came to love, until he finally decides to go for it, and go for it big. He asks out the class valedictorian, who is arguably one of the prettiest girls in the school, fully expecting her to decline. But she says yes. This film makes me laugh hard and cry. It moves me no matter how many times I see it. Heartache, pain, triumph, forgiveness, and laughter are what make it one of my favorite movies.
- Josh Haley
from Bookmarklet
Now I have to watch this tonight. Thanks. Really. Thanks. I love this movie. I love Ione Skye so much and Cusack is perfect in this flick. I love Lloyd's speeches about being a kickboxer and Lily Taylor is comic gold.
- Mark Wilson
Right on, Mark. Yeah, the dialog and the monologues are just so amazing. "I don't want to buy anything processed or sold, sell anything bought or processed, or process anything bought or sold." or "Kickboxing, the sport of the future. Heard of it? I can see by your face, no." Enjoy, bro.
- Josh Haley
Yeah, HARDon collider, Robert. People keep writing about it, and I can't seem to find anything on the 'Net about it. I need to know the "issues" if I intend on running for president.
- l0ckergn0me
Justin: you think our current president knows what the LHC is? :/
- Bren, Not Grinchy
the large hardon collider could transform a normal mattress in a strange mattress. that's one of the issues I'm most worried about, mr President.
- Andre
Michael: not seeing those on my feed, probably because I put them all in their own folder. Oh my god, I'm fake following people! Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh no.
- Mark Trapp
Throw in a few "I just got 900 emails from FriendFeed" for good measure.
- Michelle Martinez
@l0ckergn0me I tend to think that safari had been kissing firefox's arse -- from flexibility and extendability to popularity and functionality
- A.T.
I have tabs open for Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, Blogger, Google Reader and about:memory in Chrome and I am at 50,824!
- Joe Dawson
Is that with FF2 or 3? And with what extensions?
- Dwight Silverman
However, let's compare that with the new Javascript updates Firefox is set to add here soon. Compiled Javascript makes a big difference.
- Jesse Stay
Has anyone been able to use the Google Toolbar?
- Blake N. Cooper
Hey Stagekid, you can't use Toolbars in Chrome yet, but... you can use bookmarklets! This includes bookmarklets for Friendfeed, Facebook, Google Reader, etc. :) That's not gonna replace all the coolness of toolbars, but I think it's a great start and hopefully it'll be helpful for you.
- Adam Lasnik
Now that you mention it, stagekid, no. Must try that in the morning.
- Roberto Bonini
Chome appears to be about a second faster rendering Gmail, by my very informal testing (e.g. have both FF & Chrome open, hit F5 in FF, click the Chrome window, hit F5--Chrome still renders before FF).
- Justin Long
Chrome does a lot worse with more than 50 tabs, which I end up with a bit too often.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
Icecat 3 (Firefox rebranded) is at 161,202 with 16 tabs open for me btw.
- Jake (aka Jawee)
I am always floored when I hear people talk about having dozens of tabs. I have, at most, maybe five; and that's when I'm really busy. Otherwise, I trim it down to only what I need presently. Do people use tabs as a kind of bookmark system? Go to a tab rather than to a bookmark?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yup. I am probably making the switch on my very limited resources machine at work.
- Geoff Schultz
Same here, much improved performance. V8 is getting the job done.
- Dave Martin
Akiva, I see my mom do this. She opens stuff that she thinks she will use and never uses it, or she leaves stuff open that she has used because she thinks she may need it again. I think most people just need to use bookmarks more effectively :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rahsheen(isSoAwesome), it would be neat to see a browser feature that scans your Favorites/Bookmarks and lists off the ones you haven't used in a while (if not ever) and lets you clean them up.
- Brandon LeBlanc
from twhirl
Although my tweet was silly, I got between 5 and 10 e-mails telling me it was down. I've never made a lot of noise about FriendFeed having 100% uptime, as others have. I expect some sites will have momentary outages, and today's wasn't the first time FriendFeed has done it. Luckily, it all happened when we were asleep. Carry on. :-)
- Louis Gray
Agreed... to be expected once in awhile... hopefully not often is all we can ask. Although my life just carries on when Twitter or FF are down. "Carry on"
- Adrian Nadeau
Thanks for fixing it anyway, @Louis_Gray
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Uptime has not been a big thing with me either. Look at Twitter. Continued growth and the return of the big users despite its repeated outages.
- Hutch Carpenter
I happened to wake up in the middle of the night and notice it. If nothing else, it raised the question "what should one do when FriendFeed is down?" Ironically, I found myself on Twitter. There is a place that reproduces status information from various Web 2.0 services; unfortunately, it's a FriendFeed room and therefore wasn't available. :)
- Ontario Emperor
That's funny -- I didn't get any calls or emails, though I did get about 100 sms alerts from our monitoring system, which were eventually annoying enough to wake up April, who then woke me up (who then called Sanjeev...).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: Does that mean we can email you next time and you'd wake up from that? :) we were just twittering the outage. it was well bizarro.
- Marcel Weiß
At first, it's hard to believe that they will walk and talk (and hopefully do laundry), and then later it's hard to believe they were ever so small. Sigh.
- Jody Reale
a worried papa! or as French people say a papa-poule! Your girl is so cute and normal-sized don't worry :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
she's huge - my son was born at 2 lbs 2 ounces!
- Morgan
Morgan: Are you calling her fat??!?!?!? :)
- Justin Korn
@justin - i guess "she's huge" is never a good word choice! ;)
- Morgan
She resembles that comment. Sarah is reading your notes, you two! Hopefully, she's between 6 and 7 pounds now. As of this moment, she's taking 4 oz from the bottle. Yum!
- Louis Gray