"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
"Onkyo's new HT-RC270 is betting on networkablility. If you are a fan of streaming from the Internet or from a networked computer, you're going to find the HT-RC270 very attractive. With the DLNA 1.5, the RC270 is out-of-the-box ready to connect to your Windows 7 PC for content streaming. Our experiences with DLNA have been very positive. Once the device is plugged into the network and turned on, it shows up on the PC quickly and without a hassle."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
My fav was this one: http://twitter.com/SarahPa... "Extreme Greenies:see now why we push"drill,baby,drill"of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?"
- Nick Lothian
i thought of mashing up a video with her and brittany "drill me baby one more time" but i thought why disparage Brittany she already has enough troubles.
- Robert Higgins
"Minerals Management Service, the agency in the Interior Department charged with safeguarding the environment from the ravages of drilling, descended into rank criminality. According to reports by Interior's inspector general, MMS staffers were both literally and figuratively in bed with the oil industry. When agency staffers weren't joining industry employees for coke parties or trips to corporate ski chalets, they were having sex with oil-company officials. But it was American taxpayers and the environment that were getting screwed. MMS managers were awarded cash bonuses for pushing through risky offshore leases, auditors were ordered not to investigate shady deals, and safety staffers routinely accepted gifts from the industry, allegedly even allowing oil companies to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil before tracing over them in pen. "The oil companies were running MMS during those years," Bobby Maxwell, a former top auditor with the agency, told Rolling Stone last year. "Whatever they wanted, they got. Nothing was being enforced across the board at MMS.""
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Just for the record, I would like a job where I at least had the moral dilemma to decide whether to engage in coke parties or trips to corporate ski chalets. What degree is required for that?
- Eric - seven eleven
Eric: I don't think they had to choose between coke parties and ski trips; I'm pretty sure they got to do both, just not always at the same time.
- Gabe
TBH I don't think this has anything to do with Obama. I daresay no one knew MMS even existed before this disaster
- LANjackal
I have a hard time blaming this on Obama either. Sounds like BP had a truly spectacular well with 100-120K barrel flow, they were cutting every corner the could to cut costs, for no obvious reason, they simply had no safety margin and badly managed a very difficult to manage well. I think MMS is mostly a product of Bush era gutting of nearly every regulatory agency, with special emphasis on gutting regulation of their friends in oil and coal.
- Ed Millard
NY Times recently had an article on Nigeria. They've averaged an Exxon-Valdez class spill every year for the last 50 years(with the help of sabotage and thieves). Exxon and Shell have completely corrupted the government and there is almost no regulation. They let pipes rust until they burst and then fix them after they've devastated the local community. Oil is just a very powerful, very corrupting industry, has been for a century.
- Ed Millard
I heard about MMS during the 2008 election and had fun saying they were "literally" in bed with the oil companies (everyone was making fun of Biden for how often he says literally). Was I the only one paying attention?
- Ruchira S. Datta
it's not if you're paying attention or not (well it is, but..) what you're paying attention to is most important
- Chris Heath
Is this really a surprise? Everyone knew that the Bush administration was in bed with big oil... just not also this literally.
- Björn Brembs
The oil industry details - not just, but especially the scandals - that the gulf spill brings to the surface are very interesting. It's impressive how the day-to-day practices of this industry that affects the very core of our industrialized existence have been kept out of the limelight for so long. Btw, I don't think anything about that is going to change fundamentally in the...
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- Mustafa K. Isik
People seem to omit that Obama was the biggest recipient of BP cash.
- Spencer
Quote: "Do I think the iPhone 4 is sexy? Absolutely yes. It has so many things going for it but AT&T’s shoddy network is holding it back." YUP.
- Louis Gray
If the iPhone 4 were not limited to AT&T, would you be giving up your EVO to return to the iPhone?
- Jandy
Jandy, options beyond AT&T are good, but no, it's more than that at this point. I feel the iPhone 4 practically caught up to the EVO, but Android is being improved at a much faster rate, has a wider range of handsets and is on more carriers.
- Louis Gray
Louis, thanks. Most of what I hear against the iPhone is bitching about AT&T; I've been wanting to hear some purely software/hardware comparisons without reference to the network, but those are hard to find. :)
- Jandy
the FF android group has some good links and discussions. I am an HTC Incredible user (Verizon). The phone rocks. I could care less how good the A4 is. No need for it.
- Mike Nencetti
"but Android is being improved at a much faster rate, has a wider range of handsets and is on more carriers" my thoughts exactly. iPhone 4 might have just caught up with EVO 4G but there will be 3 just as awesome Android phones out this summer.. etc :)
- Paul Stamatiou
"But on the five-person board, only two of us -- Alfred Lin, our CFO and COO, and myself -- were completely committed to Zappos's culture. This made it likely that if the economy didn't improve, the board would fire me and hire a new CEO who was concerned only with maximizing profits. The threat was never made overtly, but I could tell that was the direction things were going."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Talk about clueless: "Some board members had always viewed our company culture as a pet project -- "Tony's social experiments," they called it."
- Todd Hoff
It can be done, word is they follow the Ultimates storyline so it will be Captain America's movie. Cap will just be thawed out, a Buck Rogers type figure, a man lost in the world around him. That gives a great opportunity for exposition. The trouble is finding the right villain, and if the follow Ultimates then at first it will by Hank Pym because he beats and tries to murder his wife....
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- RAPatton
But isn't the "man out of his time" idea the story of the Cap movie?
- Jason P
I loved The Ultimates. That was my first foray back into comics after many years away. I should re-read it.
- Derrick
Jason, the cap movie happens in the 1940s and at the end his sacrifice leads to the man out of time (he's frozen in the arctic, the Avengers should start with finding his body in the ice as I understand it)
- RAPatton
From what I've heard Howard Stark was a founder of SHIELD and worked on the Super Soldier project. The Super Soldier project is used in the Ultimate timeline to explain Hulk and almost everything else. I would guess, Chris that Howard collected the SHIELD after they thought Cap was dead (in Iron Man 2, Cap's body hasn't been found yet). Traditionally, Cap ends up riding a super V-2 to disable it and it crashes in the arctic, everyone assumes he's dead.
- RAPatton
So no one is mentioning that Captain America is...err, was...The Human Torch? I'm interested to see how Chris Evans changes up since I thought he did a pretty good Johnny Storm.
- c.a.j.
Good point, CAJ. I imagine if the Fantastic Four ever teamed up with The Avengers, they'd re-cast Johnny Storm. Actually, maybe they'd re-cast the entire Fantastic Four team. Those movies were a hot mess.
- Derrick
The Film rights for the Fantastic Four and X-Men are owned by Fox, so no crossover,BUT there is a WWII era human torch that I'm certain they'll use to make a inside joke about Evans having been the torch
- RAPatton
I like Chris Evans as Cap. His part in SUNSHINE solidified him as a leader of men.
- Steven Perez
Oh, and just wait if they get Nathan Fillion as Hank Pym.
- Steven Perez
Ooh, I can totally see Nathan Fillion as Dr. Pym. What I hope is that they don't start throwing a grab back of characters against the movie wall to see which sticks enough to make money.
- c.a.j.
Yes did not know... Really sad to read this... I think of the end of the Karamazov Brothers « - Karamazov, nous vous aimons ! reprirent-ils en chœur. Beaucoup avaient les larmes aux yeux. - Hourra pour Karamazov ! proclama Kolia. - Et éternel souvenir au pauvre garçon ! ajouta de nouveau Aliocha. - Eternel souvenir ! - Karamazov, s’écria Kolia, est-ce vrai ce que dit la religion, que...
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- Harscoat
;( :( :( :( ;( Condolences to you and your family.
- rowlikeagirl
Wow, he was so young, how tragic - looks so happy with you and your Mom too... how very sad. My heart goes out to you and your family {{{ HUG }}}
- Susan Beebe
I can't imagine what it would be like to lose my brother. I'm sorry that this happened, Paul, and I am taken aback, in retrospect, at the time in your life this happened. Amazed you appeared to do well with all the tumult.
- O.Shane
Here "like" flag stands for "a great hug from all of us".
- Federico Bolsoman
I had a dream not too long ago: Steve came to visit. I gave him the biggest hug. I didn't want to let go. I told him, "You should meet the kids. They're so cute." I still cry everytime I think about what Steve went through and knowing that my children will never get to know their Uncle Steve.
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
I'm sorry, Paul and April. I pray that your good memories give you some peace today.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Anniversaries are hard, I hope you and your family have a good day of remembering.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
My mother's first yahrzeit is in a few weeks. I can commiserate completely, Mr. Buchheit.
- Akiva
My thoughts are with sincerely you. Followed a little girl's passing from cancer on Twitter yesterday that I wouldn't have otherwise known about.
- Rick Bucich
April: Every so often I have dreams that my brother is still alive. He's the only person I have such dreams about.
- Gabe
Just kidding ;). Something similar happened with Brazil though: "Universal executives thought the ending tested poorly, and Universal chairman Sid Sheinberg insisted on dramatically re-editing the film to give it a happy ending, a decision that Gilliam resisted vigorously." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Paul Buchheit
Huh, didn't know that it had a happy ending. The tape I saw didn't.
- Daniel Dulitz
Is that a happy or "happy" ending? I saw an ambiguous ending.
- ⓞnor
from Android
Might have made the story more interesting. :)
- mikepk
wouldn't have taken much to make the story more interesting.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
For what it's worth, Cameron's scriptment covered that plot hole. Corporations in space are banned from using weapons of mass destruction. Also, Pandora threatened humans with a civilization ending virus if they ever returned to Pandora.
- Kevin Fischer
Another explanation could be simple logistics. It takes 5 years to get there, they obviously didn't bring a whole lot of orbital weaponry because they didn't expect the natives to put up such a fight. They had to use the shuttle to even deliver conventional bombs. Perhaps they could have come back in a later iteration with orbital weapons, but on such a long expensive journey, you...
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- Ray Cromwell
"A client just submitted his logo to me by sending a link to his store’s address on Google Maps… “Click on the thumbtack and it will take you to a picture of the front of my store. The logo is on the sign.”"
Holy guacamole, you've got a real winner right now!
- Spidra Webster
You are submitting mockups to said client as a Windows Metafile file inside of an Excel spreadsheet embedded in Word printed to PDF, right?
- Micah
Sometimes our clients need closer views of a site, but we may not have the time to drive out to the site or can't access from where they want views. They'll send us screen caps of Google Street View, or ask us to use it. Damn, the legality and the fact that it'll look like crap.
- Anika
AJ, I think I've actually had this happen. roflol Micah That one wins.
- Melanie Reed
commented there but in moderation, so congrats here!
- sean percival
Thank goodness you added that last sentence. I wasn't sure whether you meant take a day off from work or from the wife! ;-) Congratulations on both achievements!
- Tony Ruscoe
from fftogo