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Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago. - michael sean wright

Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way. - Kyle Lacy

LOVE - Mona Nomura

love it - anna sauce

Now on West Coast, Dana Point, CA. Family still in Chicago, visit as often as I can. - michael sean wright

That's us, all right. - Steven Perez

*** KEEPER!! Love it!! *** we should update the Facebook Night Crew page with this one!! Just wait till Kyle shows up! LOL - Susan Beebe

There's a Facebook Night Crew page? url please. - michael sean wright

I love it. :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

has it really been nearly 6 months since we've seen this? - michael sean wright

like a flash, nff - Pete D

Wow, blast from the past. - Rochelle

WTF? Damn, How'd I miss this? - tehKenny

Yeah, baby! Makes me wanna stay up a little lo.....*snoooooooooooooooooooore* - Rah-PM 2012

have no idea how you east coasters do it. but dang it's fun to be around ff at night! - michael sean wright

A lot of coke...uh...caffeine... - Rah-PM 2012

It looks like at least 5 or 6 yes votes, and 0 no votes. The logo is official. Now put it back into storage. - Pete D

Is there a theme song? - Rebecca Lasley

like - WoH: Minding her Steves

The theme song to Mr. Belvedere. - Pete D

I remember... :) - Micah

is it time? - michael sean wright

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams . So I think I'll go have some lunch. - David HC Soul

isn't time universal? - michael sean wright

Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me) - David HC Soul

are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent. - michael sean wright

Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees.... - David HC Soul

you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.) - michael sean wright

Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out. - David HC Soul

this is about conversation right? - michael sean wright from IM

I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one.... - David HC Soul

sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare. - michael sean wright

Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?" - David HC Soul

remember when? - michael sean wright

Yes, sir. - Akiva

You bet I remember. :) - Micah from FFHound!

HAH!!! - Rah-PM 2012

WHAT! WHAT!!!! - DB - Just DB

*bump* remember the good ole days? ps - search is back :D - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Attention friendfeed nightcrew: have we circled each other yet on @GooglePlusTweet (google +) ? http://gplus.to/nicefishfilms - michael sean wright

man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong. - Joe The Sausage

for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days! - michael sean wright

Why, hello there, 2008. :) - Micah

...and keep the fire alive by finding each other again in a new place. - WoH: Minding her Steves

yep.. scoble and i talked about that in my first post at g+ : ) - michael sean wright

Hi Michael :) - WoH: Minding her Steves

Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you! - michael sean wright

oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m - michael sean wright

I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting. - WoH: Minding her Steves

yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them. - michael sean wright

Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next. - WoH: Minding her Steves

:) - Anne Bouey

Mark Krynsky

FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...

November 19, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live. - Mark Krynsky

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or just list location...I'll start...Chatsworth, CA - Mark Krynsky

I would but I won't - Outsanity

near Chicago - Tinfoil 2.0

How do I add myself? - Mo Kargas

Grayson, GA - Rah-PM 2012

Puyallup, WA - Bren

Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark. - Mark Krynsky

erm...Adelaide, SA, Australia - Mo Kargas

Sydney, Australia. - Andrew Trinh

Yeah, I don't see how to add anything to the map - Rah-PM 2012

But you already have Rahsheen. - Andrew Trinh

Well it's working because I see others are adding themselves...Make sure you are logged into your Google account. - Mark Krynsky

After most have put their placemarks on, don't let anyone edit it because there's always someone out there waiting to fuck shit up. - Andrew Trinh

This guide may help http://local.google.com/support... - Mark Krynsky

@Andrew...good point. I just changed it from public to unlisted which only makes the map available to those with the URL. - Mark Krynsky

Even so, last time we had the Confessions account details on FF it was tinkered with. - Andrew Trinh

I added mine, but in the process of learning I think I nudged the Sydney, Australia points off a little. Sorry. - Rob H.

Ok, think I did it! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs. - Andrew Trinh

@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here. - Mark Krynsky

Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;) - Jandy

Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool. - Mark Krynsky

I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :) - Nine

If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have. - Mark Krynsky

Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here! - Jandy

Added myself. Verona, Italy - Stefano

Added. Sydney, Australia - Jay

Added. Doha, Qatar. - Mohamed J

Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day. - Mark Krynsky

Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added - Duncan Riley

Athens, Greece added, too :) - George Tziralis

Added. - Atul Arora

Ace idea, I've added mine in Kent, England. - Kol Tregaskes

There's no spot for "Hell, Eternity" ... *sigh* I'll have to give in to my worldly location... - Kyle Brady

Asia's letting the side down - Toby Graham

added, North London, UK - Rory

Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this. - Mark Krynsky

Done ! Waterloo Belgium - Jacopo Gio

I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. -

@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map. - Mark Krynsky

Thanks Mark! I see it all now. -

Great idea! - Alan Le

Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going. - Mark Krynsky

Am I the only FriendFeeder in VA? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up? - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool! - Mark Krynsky

Oooh, now that's a really great idea. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

I'm there :) - Alejandro

Yay Alejandro...first South American..and my old stomping grounds in Argentina no less :) - Mark Krynsky

Added! - Shey

Neat. Added. - Rodfather

Added. - michael sean wright

Alright Shey! We finally have a Canadian...let's see if your fellow compatriot Mark Wilson joins the fray. - Mark Krynsky

@NiceFishFilms, your pushpin seems a bit off up there in Russia. Dana Point is thousands of miles from there :) - Mark Krynsky

Oh, I see now...you added 2. You're a pushpin litterbug :) - Mark Krynsky

Another snowflake pushpin *waves to Shey* - Micah

whoo hoo! Canadian snowflakes FTW! - Shey

Added.Hi from Russia.:) - Igor Poltavskiy

How do I add myself again? How do I add my ff to my gmail account? - Amani

Cairo, Egypt - Hayk

reykjavik, iceland - siggimus

Cologne, Germany - Holger Eilhard

Carcavelos, Portugal - Ricardo Vidal

Added New Jersey but boy, it took a while to get the Pin logo on the screen, not so obvious - Sally Church

London EC1 UK - Joe Dawson

Added - Michelle M

Added - Bwana ☠

Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :) - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters. - Ryan Kuder

Added! I'm the first in The Netherlands :-) - TobiasVerhoog.com

Added. First in Japan! - rawwell

I think I added me. HOpe it worked - Amani

added! - matthew john ernisse

This is truly awesome! - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin! - Hutch Carpenter

For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps - anna sauce

Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX! - Carter ♥ HTML5

Added myself in Shenzhen,China. - Steve Chou

courtenay, canada - http://friendfeed.com/ernieya... - ernie yacub

added me. Coimbatore, South India - vijay

Added Bangalore, India. - Mahesh CR

Added - Glenn Slaven

Added - Youngmin Kim

I'm added now, too. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Nice! I'm the only active FriendFeeder in Montreal: Quebec represents FF! I could be a French Canadian FF ambassador or something. =) - Zu from AOD

Added - ThenWang

Added - James Myatt

Added. I am now an icon :^) - Nick B.

Added =) - ChaCha Fance

Added. - Bonnie Foster

Added - Michael Fidler

Added. Antananarivo, Madagascar - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Finally me too :) Greetings from Ankara Turkey :) - Burçak Çubukçu

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

Bringing it in to 2010! - caj needs a haircut

Beaverton, OR - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Waves to Alex... - Mark Krynsky

Added - Doral, FL. - caj needs a haircut

Hi Mark! - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Added! - Jennifer Dittrich

Added :) - Jason (not an Argonaut)

Added EastSide of St Paul (use the edit button) - WarLord

Egads. I had not updated my location since my days in East Oakland... Yipes! - Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™

Huh...had to readd. Oh, well. :) - caj needs a haircut

Yeah, there's a few people who've moved since they added themselves here! I haven't. Same old, same old. - Jandy

Wow you guys revived this old school post...heh. - Mark Krynsky

Added. - rochelle rochelle

added (i cant get my fish and fish hook to stay pinned, :( ) Va Beach, Va - chaz2b

Hao Chen

Find Friendfeeders Across The Web - v0.1 - http://haochen.me/ffweb/

August 23, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Zu from AOD, Friendfeed's Francisco, Sorin Lerinti and 64 other people liked this

This tool finds all the sites that your Friendfeed friends use and allows you to filter the results by service. - Hao Chen from Bookmarklet

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Please test, and let me know if it works. Suggestions gladly welcome. - Hao Chen

Wow. - Rah-PM 2012

Hao, this is awesome! Remember how people were saying in the FF Feedback room, how they'd like services to be linked, but not important the feeds? THIS is the temp. solution. WOW. Are you going to implement a way to filter individually? - Mona Nomura

It doesn't actually do that, Mona. If your account is in Friendfeed, it goes into your feed. Hao Chen is merely making it easier to get the URLs from FriendFeed. - Mark Trapp

Looks great. I guess I'll have to look into Social Graph API a bit deeper. It's so much faster than FF API for network data. - Benedikt Koehler

Oops, I meant UN-LINK services so it'll stop pulling into their feed BUT still enable their friends to link to their respective accounts. Thank you for catching that, Mark. - Mona Nomura

Great job Hao - Zee.

It should be possible to use the Social Graph API to find services that are not imported into Friendfeed as well as friends' services not on FF. It's a bit tricky because it requires a lot of separate requests. Right now, it's only using the SG API to find your subscriptions across the services you import on FF. - Hao Chen

Thanks, just don't look at the source code. LOL - Hao Chen

Hao, this is awesome, this is going to save me so much time! Thanks! - Shey

You're welcome. This is me though: http://www.xkcd.com/196/ - Hao Chen

Very cool. However, my tiny brain is not grokking " Remove Connections Already Subscribed To". Please to explain. - Laura Norvig

Laura, it's not very accurate, but it's supposed to remove links to people's accounts on the other networks you already subscribe to. For example, if I already subscribe to Bob on Twitter, it might remove the link to Bob's Twitter page in the big list. - Hao Chen

very kool Hao....Im finding my fellow FF on other services! - (jeff)isageek

Hao, this is very cool; I just used it to great success friending last.fm users. - Pete D

Hao, since I am the lone step child, any idea why it would not work for me. I typed in my ID, nothing happens, no spinning wheel indicating it is thinking. Just looks at my sad face....LOL. - R. Ferguson

Hoa - This is great. Can you add Blip.fm? - Russellreno

this is so awesome Hao - great job!!!!!!!! look out for random add notifications from me :) - Morgan

Aww..Ruth. What browser + ver + OS are you using? Is JavaScript turned on? Try this link? http://haochen.me/ffweb... - Hao Chen

Export to CSV please. :0) - Adam Helweh

wait visita is my OE, my browser is IE. i tried your link still did not work...bummer. - R. Ferguson

I love this Hao. - ChaCha Fance

*spoiler* I never debugged on IE! *spoiler* Sorry, Arne, and thanks for catching that. - Hao Chen

I'm going to have to play with this later...but since Hao is involved, I'm sure it rocks! - Justin Korn from fftogo

Works fine on Safari 3.1.2, FYI. - Mark Trapp

Just fixed for IE! Ruth, please try again? - Hao Chen

Being able to sort the URL data output by either person or service instead of only by person would be nifty. - Laura Norvig

Laura, like grouping all twitter links together for example? - Hao Chen

it worked Hao!!!! - R. Ferguson

How does that work?I type in some user name in it,nothing happen... - Steve Chou

Steve, what browser are you using? Any JavaScript errors? - Hao Chen

Glad to hear you guys are finding uses for it. @Russell Right now, the list of services it displays is the list of services being imported by people's FF accounts, and since Blip.fm isn't a supported service yet, I can't add that in easily. I'll think about how to use the Social Graph API more effectively to do those things though. - Hao Chen

This is just excellent, not wholly accurate like you say but brilliant. Now all I need is to add more contacts on FF ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Excellent work. - Nicholas Kreidberg

very cool Hao - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Another great tool Hao :) - sergiooo

Never seems to work for my own username. - Andrew Trinh

Thanks, guys. :) Andrew, ah, looks like Social Graph doesn't see your FF subscriptions for some reason. http://socialgraph-resources.g... I'll re-code this using the Friendfeed API to get your subscriptions later. - Hao Chen

Very cool Hao! I like seeing which less-common services people actually use. My list (and top 25 services) is http://friendfeed.com/e... Does your system count me twice for YouTube because I have 2 YouTubes? (seems like it might, from the Blog counts). - Mitchell Tsai

It's not working for me either when I input my username. - Steve Lowe

Ditto steplow. Looks like it should be awesome but sadly it's drawing a blank for my username. :( - David Young

Great job, Hao - LouCypher

For anyone not getting results for their username, I'll post a fix soon, and let you know. - Hao Chen

@Mitchell Yes, it does count twice. - Hao Chen

Wonderful tool for improving connections. Thank you. - Keith - @tsudo

Is there any way to import the links to a Google Spreadsheet via the ImportXML function? See http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007... and http://docs.google.com/support.... It seems it's impossible right now as the outputs appear via javascript. You could adapt it so that I could create a Google Spreadsheet template.... more... - Jérôme

still works. - Hao Chen

I love this. - Laura Norvig

thanks. - Ali Oz

Paul Buchheit

Four reasons Google is still Awesome - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2010...

December 21, 2010 from Paul Buchheit - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes, probably my favorite company. - Vezquex

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"four seasons google is still awesome" - heavy distorted&DenizOral

It's sad that the first comment you received on the blog post was essentially, "I thought you were a hater, but now that you complemented Google, I like you again." The "you either like the things I like or you're against me" mentality, especially when it comes to company loyalty, is really unnerving and you shouldn't feel the need to be apologetic because of that. It's interesting to hear your perspective on Google, whether it's complimentary *or* critical. - Mark Trapp

I wasn't saying "now that you complemented Google, I like you again." I was more saying "due to your well-founded explanations in this post and the last, I realize that your criticism of Google is logical, rather than emotional." - Graeme

Graeme, it seems much more reasonable to assume good faith from the start. - Mark Trapp

Mark, I think it's useful feedback for anyone who writes to hear feedback both from first impressions and from careful consideration, so Graeme's comments are useful. For me, when I started reading this particular essay, it was awesome (the "if everything you do succeeds" part). Then, after carefully reading to the end, I thought it was all awesome. - Bruce Lewis

I particularly liked: "Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults." - Benjamin Golub

Which of these four reasons is the one behind FriendFeed no longer authenticating via Google account? :) - Count Caturday

Lines on 'welcome negative feedback' are good. - Ash

Jackie to Jackie's feed, Friendfeed上说中文, Funny Pics and Videos, Funny Funny, Funny Stuff, Kinda Funny Pictures, Not All Crazy Is Good, coolPics, Amazing photos, Places

A Crowded Beach in China (10 pics) - http://acidcow.com/pics...

July 13, 2010 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"That's what a beach in a country with the population of 1.34 billion people looks like when it's 95 degrees hot (35 degrees Celsius)." - Jackie from Bookmarklet

人肉汤。 - 老巫

介是在哪啊 - K.D.

Mark Krynsky

FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map (4 days & 75 users later) - http://maps.google.com/maps...

November 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mark Krynsky

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Added. Surely I'm not the only FF'er in Africa? - Neill Adamson

@Neill, that's great. You just got us to the 6th continent. I highly doubt we can hit 7 as there surely can't be someone from Antarctica that FriendFeeds. - Mark Krynsky

The Antarctica challenge: OK, here's the plan: we need to contact Eli Duke (http://twitter.com/elisfanclub) he's tweeting from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. We have until February (some background I just found: on his 1st stint in the Antarctic he was a dish washer. In 2006 he wrote a functioning RubyOn Rails site, got burned out and tried to give it away on Craig's List...unsuccessfully--it's back online now http://listyourlist.com/ . McMurdo Photo: http://is.gd/8Ltk) - Micah

I reshared to the Translation room to help boost your international participation. - Shannon Jiménez

nah, friendfeed isn't a niche play. it's got dozens of users! ;) - Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy: you are such a comedian! - Robert Scoble

Alrighty then, I just sent Eli a tweet (http://friendfeed.com/e... ) with a plea. I hope I'm not taken for a crazy. Hmm, I know that could be my first reaction. - Micah

@Robert: caught up with an old buddy over a cigar, bottle of wine, and a few glasses of quality bourbon. and i have to be up at 6. so i'm having fun. ;) sorry we didn't get to catch up more at the 12seconds/uservoice party! - Jeremy Toeman

WTF!!! Nobody from India... ??? Am I the only one..:) - Devakishor

Well I was late to this party. Great idea Mark. I have all of New Zealand to myself! - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Turkey is on it must be. Anyhow, and Anyway, they'll be more Balloons One Day All Around Our World, BTW Thats a Great Daft Punk Track ain't it ;-D, Shall We Play it, and what Room shall we doeth Such? It Big enough for All. That is All. Time For Work Now, See You Laters, FriendFeed and Have A Nice But Try Not To Be too naughty Day. :)) - Jason

Reshared in my feed! - Flavio

Ditto. - Kol Tregaskes

Wow... I am the only person in VA. I expected a lot more people around DC. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Ah... Aram, I'm in Virginia Beach, but I don't think it added me properly. - Ladyepiphanybug

we have someone in the middle of the Atlantic - Alejandro

http://uk.youtube.com/watch... - Jason

How did I miss this? Off to add my pin! - FFing Enigma

same here! Ok just added mine a while ago (Irondequoit Bay near Rochester, NY)... look for sailboat! - Susan Beebe

Pin added. Great idea! - James Ferguson

2nd pin added in Italy! - Alessandro

Pin and 1m snow added in Helsinki. Great idea! - udo

pin added at OHSU in Portland, Oregon - Maureen

+1 pin at Debrecen, Hungary - Berci Mesko, MD

Why is Erhan Erdogan in the middle of the atlantic ocean on the map? Is he in the Bermuda Triangle or something? lol - Alan Le

@Micah, great job on recruitment. Eli has added himself and we now have all 7 continents filled. - Mark Krynsky

Erhan probably got moved accidentally. When I got to the page, and was moving the map, I accidently grabbed someone and moved them to the middle of the Atlantic. Thankfully, it was someone who used a special icon, so it was easy to search and put them back. - Anika

I put my self on the map... - Aline

Added, in the Norway. :) - Daniel Bruce

Added me in Texas! - Phil Glockner

Added myself in the west Chicago suburbs. :) - Cheryl Jones

@Mark Such Coolness! And thanks Eli (http://friendfeed.com/elisfan...) - Micah

Bump for Leather Donut. - Rochelle

Hmm, apparently I'm just up the road from Haggis. - Rob H.

I just added myself. Curious - how do you get different placemarks? I like the Google-looking ones that aren't quite raindrops. - Tamar Weinberg

Just an addendum to Spidra's explanation: To go back and edit, click the pushpin then click the "Edit" button (look waaay to the left on the page). Then you can click the icon to change, and you'll see Save button next to "Edit" - Micah

Oh cool. Nice job reviving this guys. Hopefully we get another good round of users to add themselves. - Mark Krynsky

Added! :) - AJ Batac :)

Wow Jess. That must be so great to see your work utilized by others. It's definitely been a smashing success here. Thanks for sharing. - Mark Krynsky

+Jess! - Micah

Kind of frustrating to see how much time I spent on this map and then to find out someone had probably saved their changes over mine - hence mine was gone this entire time. Others should also check for this. In any event, thanks, Spidra, for the tip :) My other pet peeve is Google Maps scrolling incessantly out of nowhere. (Hi Jess.) - Tamar Weinberg

Added myself yesterday. I notice, thought, that you have to flip to page 2 ... Can't we show all the FFers on one map, regardless of the page ? - Ahsan Ali

How do I get myself added to the map? - Scoble, Alex Scoble

done - Eric Reboisson

@Alex Scoble click the link in the main post, search your location, and add a placemark (the blue mark on left top of the map) - Eric Reboisson

done - Orsan Erksoy

bump... - Bren

double bump. - Mark Krynsky

Taylorsville, UT - Jesse Stay

Yo Derrick...almost time to move your pushpin eh? - Mark Krynsky

Yes indeed, Mark. :) - Derrick

That's very cool. Just added myself. I thought there were more of us in South America. - Juan Pablo González

Neat. Added myself. - Otto

William Moss

It's official: Apple is bigger than Microsoft: http://www.nytimes.com/2010... Must be a tense day in Redmond.

May 26, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Allen Stern

i really wish friendfeed would change "like" to "share"

December 14, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Phil Glockner, ian kennedy, Dario Salvelli and 38 other people liked this

yea im just saying change the term that's all.. - Allen Stern

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This has come up so many times. But Friendfeed has been resisting it for some reason. - The Fat Oracle

I wouldn't vote for that change... Maybe an addition. I like to like. - iTad

tad but how would you differentiate btw the 2? im suggesting share because many times i don't want to say i like something to share it with others - in fact i may very well hate it but to get you to see it i have to say like - it was "cutesy" when friendfeed launched but time for them to change it. - Allen Stern

But, I like Like. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

Allen... But sometimes I don't want 'Share' something, I want to mark my approval of something or 'Like' that it is in my Feed. - Johnny

I like like - anna sauce

Matthew - are you saying you like like you that you like the like to which you have shown that you like? - Allen Stern

Like the idea of having a share link too... one that you could use to share across all filtered list... like when you subscribe... thats would be a neat idea... you could even have it so you choose the list you want to share it with ;o) keep the like..as is, as its on each list seperate. :o) blimey...who am I to give opinions...lol.. been here a week.. but thought it was worth saying... tell me to shut if not lol. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

rob you may talk as much as you like - just look at scoble, he invades every thread and they haven't kicked him off yet! - Allen Stern

In some ways when you press like you are sharing because you bubbling up the post, on the other hand when you have liked you can reshare the entry so indirectly you are also liking it but putting it a place i.e a room where others could share and hopefully enjoy/find of relevant interest in the future. - Jason

Allen..scoble is like that everywhere tho... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

there is a reshare option. I like both - BEX

I think the verb should be open architecture. - Dave Winer

agreed. polydimensionality. - Phil Wolff

I think we need: Like, Share, Dislike, Run away from, Laugh, Smile, Cry, Get Angry, etc. And it shows up as "Chacha102 ran away from this." "Chacha102 got angry from this." "Chacha102 smiled from this." etc - Tyler (Chacha)

I like like - Alejandro

"In the English language, the word like has a very flexible range of uses. It can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, particle, conjunction, hedge, interjection, and quotative"... it'll do :) - Johnny

and add a "dislike" or something. Sometimes people post stuff I think is important, but I don't "like" the content (e.g. Mumbai attack, etc) - Dave Hodson

Gotta be careful of overkill tho eh... :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

just change it to share - thanks! - Allen Stern

i think adding share and some other options to click would be a nice addition - (jeff)isageek

I already said it here: http://friendfeed.com/e... but basically, make an additional option of "Flag". All "Likes" would be "Flags", but not all "Flags" would be "Likes".” - Micah

Any change in the options would change the UI I'm used to, but I guess they could put stuff under More. - Rah-PM 2012

I've thought a fair bit about the terms of "like" vs "share". There are pros and cons of each. However, when there is some bad news of some sort its very hard to click "like" when you really just want to share it because it's important... as Dave Hodson said. - Jesse Spaulding

I wish when I "shared" in Google Reader it "liked" the original article in FriendFeed. - Jesse Stay

I wish I had a robot ;) - Joe Dawson

I prefer "bump" and "mark", personally... for stuff I wanna pull back to the top for whatever reason, and then totally separate bookmarking, either public or private. - abacab

I like Like. When I Like something it's not always to share, it's so it shows up in my LIkes/ Comments page so I can read it later. Leave it alone! - Nicola Quinn

I want more than just like. Just a few more, like 'i sympathize' or 'interesting' or 'user defined.' Like lists, i want to put FF entries into lists instead of users. Yeah you could reshare into private rooms but then you lose conversation and possibly more related links. I'd pay $20 a year for that and an app like Thunderbird with tons of filter abilities. - sergiooo

I'm happy that its' called 'Like,' I'm "liking" the article not "sharing" the article, the original OP is sharing it. If you want to share it then there is a 'resahre' option for this. I don't agree with having dislike added, let's try and be positive with things instead of adding negatively to a great community here. You would only get people question why you dislike it and cause arguments, I'm not here for this. - Kol Tregaskes

Besides if you dislike something, then 'hide' it. - Kol Tregaskes

<3 like - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Funny to read the comments now the like will dominate the world:) - Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarri

forcode

又帅又有车的，那是象棋；有钱又有房的，那是银行；有责任心又有正义感的，那是奥特曼；又帅又有车、有钱又有房、有责任心又有正义感的是在银行里面下象棋的奥特曼。

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Louis Gray

I miss FriendFeed's glory days.

March 10, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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These are the glory days - I will never forget them :-) - Jesse Stay

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This link reminds me of some of the highlights: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Louis Gray

I only had one with > 100 likes :-(: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Jesse Stay

Ooh I had a few http://friendfeed.com/search... - Mo Kargas

Mo's are great. Now, I recognize mine is a self-beneficial link. It was just one way to look at some more popular items. - Louis Gray

Mine was totally self-beneficial :) I forgot FF had this functionality - Mo Kargas

Friendfeed is great. - Steve Chou

So now FriendFeed is inglorious? :) - Dawn

I miss the site a lot! Not really anything to replace it with 100%. A little here, a little Buzz a little Twitter. I feel like a cyberwhore. - Jorge Escobar

Louis, it's ok to be nostalgic. It's also ok to let go. And it's also ok to to hold on tight. As for me, I think I've gone to both places, and where I am at the moment depends on the day. FriendFeed is people. I've got one 100+ comment post http://friendfeed.com/search... . — Sincerely, A Friend. - Micah

FriendFeed IS what Web 2.0 is suppose to be all about. A Social Tool that fosters fluid social interaction with interactive information sharing, interoperability and collaboration. It's a tool that really allows you to establish friendships with new people without being overloaded due to it's design (unlike Buzz). Many may have left and the volume may be lighter but it's still my favorite tool in general and I still see quality threads come in here. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Ditto what Mark said! - Chris Myles

I don't have any with 100+ likes, but Kevin has some good ones: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Stephen Mack

FriendFeed is dead... long-live FriendFeed! - .LAG liked that

I'm not in the 100+ club, but here's my most liked: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Nathan Chase

I barely got any likes but FriendFeed is great. - Ashish

me too - Thomas Power

Remember when FF regularly added features and its users argued about whether like should be labeled "like"? - Carter ♥ HTML5 from iPhone

It was grand. Still enjoying it, but in a subdued way now. - Hutch Carpenter

Louis: SUWGOMH. That is all. - WoH: Minding her Steves

I'm here every day, and barely interested in any other site. As Billy Joel once said, the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow's not as bad as it seems. - Vicarbott from iPhone

I agree with Louis but I'm quick to add that the experience is just different now. - Akiva

I agree with Akiva who agrees with Louis. This isn't a "XX is dead" post. Just a sigh. - Louis Gray

Oh me toooo! Can we make it happen again ?? - Charlie Anzman

We can't get them to add features to the core product, but people can write new things with the API and add features to the content creation sites that feed here. - Bruce Lewis

CW, I'm feeling more positive than befits those lyrics. - Bruce Lewis

I don't know, my experience is just as rich as it's ever been. Maybe I'm just easy to please. - Vicarbott

These are the salad days. Hopefully we never reach the 'toss my salad' days. - Morgan

As long as there are bacon bits in the salad, I'm good. - Vicarbott

... that and a nice balsamic vinaigrette. - Vicarbott

that's the problem of online communities - they cannot move. It doesnt matter how good the community is now, people just wont agree to move to the same place as one... They fragment, people move, new ones form, but large groups just never manage to move as one to a new platform. You get fond memories, and happy surprises when names reappear on another community later. - Iphigenie

If by glory days you mean a the most kicking ass social activity aggregator a great community...well that hasn't changed...unfortunately the future of said kickass service and it's evolution could be construed as the missing link...don't mind me i'm drank. - Mark Krynsky

Yeah, we don't have Robert Scoble anymore, but we do have a lot of value. - Bruce Lewis

It's just that for many people this is no longer the primary aggregator and integration platform, and as a result conversations have slowed down, happen less, and are more often about "fun stuff" - still a good place, but not as stimulating and mind opening as it once was for me - Iphigenie

same here - Zahra HB

Me too :) - CantorJF

What! Aren't we living them now? - Jeff P. Henderson

sure i do! got very less to read now can't keep up with twitter and there isn't much relevant content in tweets, or we can say it is scattered - ffcode

Paul Buchheit

I miss my brother.

March 10, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm very sorry for your family's loss, Paul. - joey

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:(. He would be proud of you, Paul. - Roberto Bonini

It's hard to believe that was 6 years ago. How old is that picture? - Gabe

Paul I really sorry for your loss, - Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik

I'm really sorry for your loss, Paul. - Micah

That must have been quite a loss for you and your family, Paul. - Anne Bouey

I didn't know. I'm very sorry to hear. I imagine he is very proud of your accomplishments, especially your beautiful family. - Josh Haley

:( - Paolo Melchiori

I was sad to read this; you must miss him terribly. As others have said, he'd be very proud of you. - Andrew Terry

:( - Jimminy, CoG of FF

:( - Lo the Baker

Five years ago today. :( Here's to your brother's memory. - Stephen Mack from iPhone

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... more... - Harscoat

Eternel Souvenir - Harscoat

:( - Matt M

:-( I'm sorry. - Nathan Snyder

My condolences, Paul. - Ayşe E.

:( - AJ Batac :)

I'm sorry. :-( - vicster

;( :( :( :( ;( 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

My Condolences to you and your family. - FunkyRose

Sorry man. :-/ - Comics Forge

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

He's still around, Paul. - Private Sanjeev

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. - Vicarbott

:( - Ashish

Anniversaries are hard, I hope you and your family have a good day of remembering. - WoH: Minding her Steves

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

:-( - Kol Tregaskes

All our love to you and the family, Paul - Sheila Taylor

(((((((((Paul)))))))))) - just ZONED

Paul, I'm very sorry about your brother :(. - Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)

My condolences, Paul. - David Cook

condolences to you and your family, Paul. - liladreams

Sorry for you and your family's loss. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted from FreshFeed

8( - Zu from AOD

Rachel Lea Fox

GAH!!! I missed my 10,000th like!!!! I knew it was coming up, but then I got distracted.

March 9, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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Gotta go on an unliking spree!!! - Kevin Fox from iPhone

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Grats on 10k regardless! - Stephen Mack

This is people liking your stuff, or you liking other people's stuff? - Brian Johns

Brian: Her count of likes of other people's stuff (see http://friendfeed.com/phoenix, bottom counter). I don't know of any easy way to count a grand total how many times people have liked things you posted. - Stephen Mack

Yeah, I don't know a way to know how much of your own stuff has been liked. - Rachel Lea Fox

Not a counter but here is a search of your stuff that has been liked: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Benjamin Golub

dam it all to hell. - just ZONED

Val: Uh, what? - Kevin Fox

Ben, now you owe us a self-like counter! - Louis Gray

Mark Davidson

I'm thinking about removing my Twitter stream from FriendFeed again. Same old problem, the @replies. One side of a conversation is just simply noise.

January 19, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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Is there a way to just remove my @replies from FriendFeed? - Mark Davidson

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*Bump* No, really. Serious question. - Mark Davidson

I follow @replies back to twitter, if they pique my interest. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I follow @replies back to twitter if they are interesting as well. :) - James Stratford

The weird thing is that I _never_ see anyone's @replies on Friendfeed. Most likely because I subscribe to _way_ too many people :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

As an alternative you can create your own yahoo pipe and use regex to filter out anything that starts with @ and use a custom feed to feed your friendfeed. To get started: http://pipes.yahoo.com :) - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

I delete all my @replies from Twitter. But the few people I do talk to the most on Twitter, I'm following here on FF, so there's very rarely that many of them in the first place. - Anika

Maybe you can try Facebook to Friendfeed and turn off Twitter in FF here. - Steve Chou

See-ming Lee - Pipes is currently disabled. I blame Craig Newmark. - Mark Davidson

Anika - Unless I'm mistaken, I follow you on FriendFeed, follow you on Twitter, and have you on my private Twitter List. lol. I think it would be too much work for me to manually delete all my @replies, especially if I'm on a roll. - Mark Davidson

Steve - An interesting idea. What I want to keep are all my posts other than @replies. I RSS'd my Twitter Favorites to FriendFeed back in June and deleted all other Twitter posts but I'd really like to just filter out my @replies. I'm sure there's a way, and perhaps I'm just drawing a blank. - Mark Davidson

@markdavidson omg wtf. Thanks for letting me know - no wonder my twitter mentions feed was not running !!! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

Mona Nomura

How to Get the Girl [piechart] - http://mona.posterous.com/how-to-...

December 29, 2009 from Posterous - Comment - Like - Share

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How to Get the *Wrong* Girl - ·[▪_▪]·

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*ignores all this* - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce

++Robot. And Joe Pierce. LOL. - Mona Nomura

I miss the old days. Back then, if you saw a girl you liked, you just grabbed her and carried her back to the cave. Good times. Good times - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

See that, even when I go the ignore route I end up with the laughs. - Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce

Harvey hahahahhahahaha!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Sorry, Joe. Harvey just 1UPd you! - Mona Nomura

+++++ Robot. - Lix

That actually works for some people. It's called "playing hard to get". Generally speaking, humans usually want what they can't have more than what they can easily get. But you need to know when to stop that and let yourself be "caught", or you run the risk of the other person thinking it's futile and moving on to the next "unobtainable" thing. - April

Not sure I agree. Playing hard to get seems like ways people cover up their insecurities. I also prefer quality - and if choosing quality makes it seem like I am chasing unobtainable, than so be it. ;) - Mona Nomura

Playing hard to get is an art, and not something that should always be used. When used most effectively, it's more of a backing off and not smothering someone with too much attention, till they show they want it. It also diminishes the appearance of being needy and clingy, 2 things that a lot of people find to be a complete turn-off. - April

While it is sad, I think this is most definitely true. - Martha

SO disagree. - Mona Nomura

I think April is 100% correct. Courtship is a bit of a dance and the art comes into play between the fine line between playing it cool and leaving a woman feeling like she's being rejected. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Maybe it's the guys I choose to date, but most have a lot of things going on...so essentially they play it cool unintentionally but mind just enough attention. People who analyze courtship and treat is as a game usually end up EFing up or landing the kind of partner who likes games. Worst kind of person to be in a relationship with - I know, I've been there and done that. ;) - Mona Nomura

Having game, isn't the same as playing games. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Mona, watch the movie, The Tao of Steve. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

Wait - Is that pie chart a Ms. Pac-Man insinuation? =) - Micah

+++ Mona. Playing games gets old eventually. - Lo the Baker

This is totally wrong... you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women... - Johnny

Yuck. You people have your priorities all EFd up. - Mona Nomura

You do know that's a quote from Scarface, right? - Johnny

Nope. - Mona Nomura

Oh - Johnny

Oh. - Mona Nomura

Uh-Oh. - Micah

ah, neither I knew it.. - Friendfeed's Francisco

"first you get the sugar, then you get the power" - Homer Simpson - Andrew Smith

This might explain why when I tell people I'm not interesting in dating right now, I get followed like a lost puppy's new found best friend. - Christian (Simply X)

Ignore me and I'll ignore you right back! - Kamala Whitaker

Crap. I did the wrong thing by liking this post. I should have ignored it. - Louis Gray

This post needs to die already! #diediedie Bottomline, if you're the type to play games or think that ignoring is part of the "courting dance" then we'd never date. #jussayin - Mona Nomura

It IS wrong. But it IS a popular belief. That is the sad part. OK post, go die now. - Martha from BuddyFeed

Robert Scoble

13,000 people think Facebook is going to start charging in 2009. Please DO NOT invite these folks to FriendFeed. Idiots.

December 12, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.facebook.com/group... - Robert Scoble

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Uwe: yeah, I just think it's funny that some people will believe the lamest crap just because it's on the Internet. - Robert Scoble

You can count me in for not inviting them over here! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Robert these 13000 people would not know what to do on Friendfeed and leave in less than 5 minutes of signing up. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

this isn't the first or the last group like it, it's a good indicator of which of your friends are morons. - Richard Lawler

Eldon: I hope I don't have that many idiots following me. :-) - Robert Scoble

How about emails like these: "Bill Gates/Nokia/whatever will donate <something>, if this message is sent to 1000000 people". When I get something like this from some friend, I get disappointed on him/her... - Jemm

there are 100 of these groups each week... everyone ignores them (well everyone important anyway ;)) - Thomas

Funny thing is - facebook is probably worth $3.99. Although I notice the French says $3.99 per month which would be a bit steep. - Matthew Neale

but wait, i thought hotmail was closing the free service unless 2 million people add group Z ? - Matt Randles

These groups are as old as Facebook itself. All they do is prove: heavy Facebook users = lemmings. :p - Chris Charabaruk

I love you, Robert! - Ladyepiphanybug

Wow, now it's at 18,000. - Michelle M

There will always be a VIP group of sorts... back when Facebook started it looked like early adaptors were joining over there. Then came Twitter, now Friendfeed. If Friendfeed gets too mainstream (if that's possible) I'm wondering what's next. - David Bisset (sn)

Why would they do that? They are already getting tons of money from sponsors and advertisers. Duh! - Shevonne

@David: In the Web 2.0 world, there's bound to be something new and already in the works. I wonder what it is too, but I'd be surprised if it's not currently under construction, or even ready to launch. - Chris Charabaruk

I wouldn't call them idiots. If they believe it, they believe it. So if it happens are the non-believers idiots? Hmmm - Bwana ☠

:/... I doubt it will happen. They get enough money from advertising surely. - ralphsaunders

This was the funniest quote I've seen microblogged in a while! Of course how many of these people use to (or still do) pay for Classmates or Reunion, so naturally they believe this garbage. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Reminds me of the false rumors a few years ago about AOL, Yahoo, and MS planning to charge for email to eliminate spam. Move on - nothing to see here. - Mike Doeff

It's already 39,265 members in that certain group… - Daniel Schildt

One thing to notice in this compared to older rumors is the amount of speed people notice it. - Daniel Schildt

I might join and post something saying "Suckas!" - Shevonne

40,000 now. Wow. I kind of enjoy the silly little worries of people. - Daniel Zarick

wow. morons. Everybody knows that friendfeed's not gonna start charging until 2010! - Vicarbott

@Jim - Facebook - Shevonne

Shevonne... yes, I know. I was referring to Scoble's original post where he urged us not to invite them over here. - Vicarbott

@Jim - We should. We would probably scare them from ever using the Internet. hahaha - Shevonne

Shevonne -- good point. - Vicarbott

These are the same idiots who are worried about being charged per email. I don't think they'd know what to do with friendfeed even if they were invited. - Mr. Gunn

I wonder how many are over the age 0f 17. How many of voting age are in the group of 13,000. - Franklin Pettit

I swear that first sentence just made my blood pressure shoot up 20 points. The second sentence rapidly lowered it. I have a few people added who unfortunately take everything forwarded to them as fact. They will never get an invite. This is my hideout from the people who shouldn't be allowed online. - ilene

Chris, the group is not about pro features. They claim there will be NO free access to FB after Dec 31. Quite a different thing... - Ray Metzen

And the group has 56,000 members now! Amazing... :( - Ray Metzen

More than ever… 91,481 members at the moment of writing. - Daniel Schildt

LOL, yes! Go go go! - Chris Charabaruk

Amen - Tyler (Chacha)

Hmm... I'm not sure which disappoints me more... People being overly anxious over the idea that Facebook will supposedly be charged for use. (This evidentially isn’t true) Or the knowledge that a number of people I don't care to count are here on FriendFeed discussing those that have joined groups concerning Facebook fees as if they are second class citizens. Take a good look at... more... - Jamie Howlett

funny thing is people not wanting to pay when there getting new games and apps that can keep you entertained if it did cost (which it never will) i sure would pay the Cheap $3.99 month - Luke Moers

Of course Facebook is going to start Charging people money! Everyone knows it! By the way, did you hear Obama tried to move Christmas to January 8th? (its a fb group too so it must be real!!) - Rebecca

Paul Buchheit

The realtime connection from Twitter to FriendFeed is back! (thanks to Twitter's "birddog" api)

December 22, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Awesome news! - Jorge Escobar

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Very good! - Kurt Starnes

Sweetness! - Alex Scrivener

34 secs flat for my latest tweet. Thanks Paul and team for this! - Jorge Escobar

wow, that makes actually want to use Twitter. I may just go tweet something. - Mike Nencetti

It should be even faster than that Jorge, but our systems are getting near their limit. I hope to have it down to 1 sec sometime next month. - Paul Buchheit

Thank god! - Miguel Caetano

@Paul, believe me, 34 secs is a charm compared to what we had before! - Jorge Escobar

Great news! - Rasmus Lauridsen

Is the birddog api open to all developers, or is it only to you guys? - Jorge Escobar

Jorge, everyone can access the streaming api, but you need an agreement to follow a large number of ids. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami... - Paul Buchheit

Thanks Paul. - Roberto Bonini

that cool. Thanks Paul - Peter Dawson

Yay! That's fantastic! I was getting really bored of manually refreshing it every time I tweeted. Especially from my phone. :) - Jandy

Thanks Paul, nice work :) - LANjackal

wow no posts on the majors yet - usually within mere moments of an announcement we'd have posts. - Allen Stern

Thank God. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

cool! - Barbara R. S.

What was the problem? - Özkan Altuner

Now....if you could just get rid of the @ replies again. I would be very happy. - Chris Nixon

relief ! :) - asli subasi | ☮

You are still working on Frienfeed (: how nice ! - mcd

^ That's probably the best part of this announcement, TBH. Good point - LANjackal from IM

whoa, it took less than a minute. i accdently tested it but it's great :) thnx - asli subasi | ☮

awesome, keep it up guys, i knew you would not let us down - Iggy Mwangi

You didn't break the FF Facebook app while you were at it, did you? It hasn't worked since. - Tim Tyler

Oh, awesome!!! 12 seconds :) I can finally go back to Twitter (...okay no I can't I've turned into a Friendfeed junkie..) but prior it took hours upon hours for me to see a feed. Dumb I am, I never suspected a problem LMAO. - Hollywood Amanda

Thank you! - Micah

Awesome news :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

eyvallah hacı - Mücahit Yılmaz

Cool. Haven't tried it but yay! - Friendfeed's Francisco

Yippee! I love real time - Technogran

Paul ?? Twitter updates facebook status and then facebook creates a new feed here on friendfeed. So we have same entries both from twitter and facebook on friendfeed. Could you guys please work on how we can avoid duplicate entries? Thank you. ( If there's already a way to avoid this, pls let me know) - mcd

Cool, thanks, Paul! :-) RT Twitter updates have been missed. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And just as I say that, I see my tweets are not coming into FF in real-time. :-( - Kol Tregaskes

Kol. I just tweeted and it was here before I could get out of Tweetie and launch Safari... It's working :) - Johnny from iPhone

awesome.; thank you a lot.. - Jaap Willem

Nice! Thank U Paul :) - ciw

:) - ★ Soner Gönül

Oh, so nice to have that back again. - Hutch Carpenter

Johnny, cool. Just me then. It's still slow. Maybe it's FriendFeed then? - Kol Tregaskes

It truncates retweets, even in the middle of a link... - Vezquex

seems that there are only 140chars allowed for a tweet (on FF) and the new twitter retweets are being translated on the way through to old RT @name style - thus are too long. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

not working - Serhad Makbuloğlu

Johnnight

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December 17, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Bret Taylor

Happy holidays from the FriendFeed crew! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...

December 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks to Kevin for another great logo... - Bret Taylor

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YAY! Snowmens! - Yolanda

Cool logo! :) - AJ Batac :)

I think they need scarves. They look cold. - Yolanda

Great logo! Simple and fun. - Brandon Titus

great :) çok sevdim bu logoyu :) - Burak Budak

Cool :D - Pedram

Kevin - that is an awesome logo!!!!! - Susan Beebe

+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas - SteVe C

cute but what happened to festivus this year? - Laura Norvig

Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.) - Mitchell Tsai

Happy Festivus! - ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ

Happy festive season to you all as well :) - Niki Costantini

Happy Holidays!!! - David Cook

love it~ - Sunny

Love!!! - Bee

Glad you like it! (And glad people picked up on the Waterson influence :-) - Kevin Fox

Merry Christmas! :D - Ron

Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :) - Christopher Galtenberg

w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD - Zu from AOD

Merry Christmas to all - Craig Eddy

Merry Christmas! - Svein Håvard Djupvik

Haha! I love horrified snowmen. Merry Christmas to FriendFeed! - Chris Lasher

Joyeux Noel a tout le monde! - Mathieu Ayel

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! - Anne Bouey

Feliz navidad a ti! - JA Castillo

Thanks! Happy Holidarys! Merry Christmas! - Bill Romanos

happy christmas, chanukah and kwanzaa. - D. Eda Goze

happy chrismas and a happy new year!!! - ethan meccage

Awwwww sniff - Kevin Fox

Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o, - Zu from AOD

Merry Christmas! - Ian May

Tks and love you all !!! - @Renchin@

ahh, the good ol' days. - MikeAmundsen

Happy Holidays FriendFeers! <superbump /> - AJ Batac :)

cool!! - Ferzvladimir

*bump* - imabonehead

Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else. - Michael R. Bernstein

ای جان چقدر خوبه این - WALL.E

1 yıl geçmiş üzerinden bretim taylorum vay anasına dimi.. - Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)

Keith Coleman

Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...

December 15, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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This makes Gmail contacts sync (e.g. to phone) work way better. - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet

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I can't believe how many duplicates I had. At least 80 people with 2-20 duplicates each! - Kevin Fox

Worked great - Benjamin Golub

This is super great! Waited for this for long time. - Bryan Tsai

Been wanting this forever... thanks! (121 dupes found. Merged. Tried again. Found 1 more dupe...) - Dan Hsiao

YES. Thank Og! - ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆

Yes -very much needed - near 1500 dupes here - Jesse Stay

Louis Gray

Facebook Rolls Out FB.me URL Shortener - http://ryanspoon.com/blog...

December 12, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Steve Chou, Kol Tregaskes, Mac Sharp and 6 other people liked this

should used FK.me - Allen Stern

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Allen, you are so fired. - Louis Gray

i am asleep - Allen Stern

Louis is always awake. Allen is always asleep. Hmmm... - Jesse Stay

Hm. Now Jesse, can you please go code those SocialToo improvements I requested? - Louis Gray

jesse - dont you have some people to auto-block ? - Allen Stern

im gonna get "cc.cc" for my shortener - Allen Stern

Allen, Louis is SocialToo-proof. I can't auto-block him - I keep trying. - Jesse Stay

for the record, I was not talking about Louis, Jesse you should know that Louis is unblockable and/or unbannable. This is part of the geneva conventions. - Allen Stern

I know some people that have blocked Louis :-) - Jesse Stay

surely no-one would block the king of social media pop (KOSMP). - Thomas Power

+1 Allen - Charlie Anzman

charliiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeee! - Allen Stern

I liked Allen's retort - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

Mona Nomura

The only way I'd go camping. ;)

October 29, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA - Anna Haro

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Been there, done that. Many, many, many years ago, we brought computers to a week-long music festival just so we could play games. - Akiva

Akiva, you went to burning man? Sweet! Tell all... - Pete D

Hah, no. It was a regional festival. - Akiva

That guy needs to ditch his eMachines and get a MacBook Air. - Louis Gray

What in the hell resolution is he running at? The IE icon takes up the entire screen. - Akiva

I wonder what battery he used... - Ming Tsai

He's writing "e"-mail - Morton Fox

.LOLz - .LAG liked that

Wiindows Fit - Jemm

L ... O ... L - Mike Reynolds

LOL that would be my bf! - Brandy Lea

Dude. Get a Shuttle case at least. - Cyndy

Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe. - Josh Haley

And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet? - Costa Walcott

But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see? - Ladyepiphanybug

It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed! - Micah

There is a distinct lack of cup holder. - Rochelle

True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks? - Ladyepiphanybug

Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for. - Roberto Bonini

hehe - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Hmm, needs more counter-balances on the front. Right now it's just a touch off-center. :D - i80and

*bump* - Micah

*bump*^2 - imabonehead

WIN! - TheHenry

COOL! :d - selma hurkan

either that or my laptop and my Rocket stick with me lol - Rob Cairns

Johnny

Here's to all the awesomeness that goes on here... Love ya FriendFeed

October 30, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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mmmmmmm Lunch Beer :) - Johnny from email

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i love you too baby - Zee.

*Cheers* John, *YOU* are the awesomeness that goes on here. - Anna Haro

John won. - Derrick

*desperately tries to think of something to tie beer to FFundercats* - FFing Enigma

cheers - Duncan Riley

*raises wine glass* <3 right back at ya! - Susan Beebe

Awesome pic, dude - Josh Haley

clink - Pete D

Ditto! - David Cook

cheers! *clink* - Anna Lynn M.

Cheers John! - Bee

2 Lunch Beers + Loving Wife = Large LEGO purchase... :P - Johnny

AND you live in Brisvegas. Got it sweet! :D - Mo Kargas

Bump for WIN - Josh Haley

Love you, too! - joey

Cheers - Bill Masson

Here's to you, Johnny! - hollyrae

Louis Gray

Google Changes Logo to Honor Michael Jackson on His Birthday

August 29, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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http://www.google.com/search... - Louis Gray

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And even more, his patent on his infamous dancing shoes. :-) - Jesse Stay

Seems like a can of worms to me. Who is going to decide who they honor and who they don't? This is a step down a political path that a Google would be wise to avoid. - Dawn

Google should be more political. It's just very fine. - Charbax

Zee.

Just got tickets to see Coldplay and Jay-Z live!...freakin' excited.

August 27, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Steve Chou, Kol Tregaskes, Ryan - @magicofpi and 6 other people liked this

two awful acts in one! - Vezquex

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I USED TO RUUUULE THE WORLD. - Derrick

riiigghtt.... Raphael. - Zee.

Great,love these guys. - Steve Chou

you lucky bum! - imabonehead

Jesse Stay

Twitter Grows “Uncomfortable” With The Use Of The Word Tweet In Applications - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

July 1, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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The worst part of this is that the trademark filing was only this past April. I am not sure if they will be able to use it against applications built prior to the filing. If they do attack apps like TweetDeck and Tweetie, then it will become obvious that they do not like their developers. - Rob Diana

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tweet is what birds do... lol :o) - Rob Sellen :o)

According to Leo Laporte Twitter doesn't even own the registered trademark for Twitter. Sounds like Twitter needs to decide *what* their trademark actually is. But yes, they have to defend it once they decide that. - Jesse Stay

and your trademark doesn't have to be registered to exist - just has to be defended and identify your brand - Jesse Stay

Am I just imagining things, or as recently as month or so ago weren't Ev, Biz, et al pretty much refusing to use the word "tweet". I always got the impression they were embarrassed by it. - Ken Sheppardson

Does Twitter even have a General Counsel? - Jesse Stay

You know, come to think of it, I don't remember even seeing "Tweet" being used until TweetDeck came about. Maybe the Trademark more rightfully belongs to TweetDeck? - Jesse Stay

Twitter has clarified their stance. http://blog.twitter.com/2009... - Pat Hawks

But you're right about the TweetDeck thing - Pat Hawks

Pat that's what I'm saying - Twitter probably has no right to the registered trademark either - Jesse Stay

HOW TWEET IT IS TO BE LOVED BY YOU o/~ - Tamar Weinberg

But strange trademarks are registered all the time. It would take lots of time and money to go to court and see what a judge would say. - Pat Hawks

TweetDeck has some money - they could defend it, and seek damages as well - Jesse Stay

Where's Iain Dodsworth on all this? Does he have any thoughts? - Pat Hawks

Doesn't have to be a made up word to be a trademark. Just has to be distinctive in that industry, right? - Pat Hawks

Owens-Corning has trademarked the color pink - Pat Hawks

Regardless, I don't think Twitter wants to go down this road. - Rah-PM 2012

Okay. I'm going to chime in here. For a short while after college, I worked as a private investigator (yes, seriously) at a firm and we investigated trademarks. Pat and Sean are right; it has to be distinctive to that industry. In case you were wondering, my job was to privately seek out registered/filed TMs to see if that was indeed the case. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar that's awesome (you being a P.I.) I'm now imagining you in a Detroit Tigers hat. :-) So who has more right to the "Tweet" claim - TweetDeck or Twitter? - Jesse Stay

Sean that's a different Trademark - that's when used in that manner in a song. Trademark has to be specific to your industry, as Tamar says. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, I'm no lawyer; I simply did research and compiled legal reports. However, TweetDeck existed BEFORE the trademark was filed so chances are Twitter would NOT be able to usurp the name from them. - Tamar Weinberg

I'm pretty sure TweetDeck was using the term, "Tweet" before anyone else, even Twitter. I think they claim right to it more than anyone. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, yes, I think they probably legally can. If you can show it has existed prior to the trademark filing, the new trademark owner probably will not be able to enforce it. One of the questions I asked when I investigated trademarks was when the product/service was first used. "First use" needs to be shown in the trademark app. The TWEET trademark filing by Twitter does not show a "first use" date, which is interesting. - Tamar Weinberg

I think Twitter may be able to enforce that nobody uses the word "Tweet" from the time that Twitter filed the trademark app and onward, but it would not be ethical nor would it be legally enforceable, I believe, to force people to get rid of the names they'd been using forever PRIOR to the filing. - Tamar Weinberg

p.s. if you're curious, the trademark serial number is 77715815. You can also access it here: http://tarr.uspto.gov/tarr.... The link in the TC comments doesn't quite work. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar, very interesting - I wonder if TweetDeck could sue Twitter now on basis of prior art - Jesse Stay

I would argue I started using the term, "Tweet" because of TweetDeck, not Twitter. People have come to use it due to the use of the most popular Twitter client, not Twitter itself. I "Tweet" through TweetDeck. Everywhere else I just "Twitter". - Jesse Stay

This is all beyond what I ever did -- it's definitely interesting. If Twitter threatens TweetDeck, they (TweetDeck) may have a leg to stand on. To be honest, I'd really need to find out if Twitter could actually *get* a trademark given that the word "Tweet" is so ubiquitous and relates to products that have been on the market prior to the filing. I really have no idea if the US... more... - Tamar Weinberg

I don't think TweetDeck just pulled "tweet" out of thin air, did they? TweetDeck came out in July 2008, but the term was already widely used by then. - Ken Sheppardson

I'd actually encourage any and all companies using the phrase Tweet to file a Notice of Opposition against the trademark. - Tamar Weinberg

Ken, I wonder who the first to use "Tweet" is. Tamar, agreed - if I had "Tweet" in my name I'd be talking to my lawyer right now. The notice is probably pretty standard and most likely only an hour or two of work you'd pay for. - Jesse Stay

FWIW, they only filed for the TM. They haven't been granted it yet. Maybe they won't be given the circumstances. - Tamar Weinberg

It's looking a lot like they won't get it, ironically thanks to trademarks their own developers have applied for: - Sam Johnston

Twitter's "Tweet" Trademark Torpedoed: http://samj.net/2009... - Sam Johnston

Louis Gray

Hi, Google Reader Team! You Rule. - http://www.google.com/reader...

August 15, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm taking the plunge. Here's my redirect to my google reader: http://wittman.org/share - Micah

Hi, Louis! - Jenna Bilotta

Jenna made a bundle with a bunch of our feeds, for super-easy stalking: http://www.google.com/reader... :) - Mihai Parparita

Paul Buchheit

Tweeting :)

August 13, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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via http://www.reddit.com/r... - Paul Buchheit

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Funny! - Robert Scoble

too true - James Miao

Hey, I can tell those Mark Zuckerberg prongs haven't started working yet. ;-) - Robert Scoble

A good reminder that it could have been a lot worse. - Christopher Galtenberg

Heh - Charlie Anzman

Hey! I resemble that remark! - Chris Messina

funny and true :) - Ali

Very clever. - Nicholas Kreidberg

LOL - Steve Chou from fftogo

apparently you can trade some symbols and numbers for letters and it's FFing - Katy Barrilleaux

I love that!! :D - Susan Beebe from iPhone

ReTweet what the middle one said 4/5 WooHoos - Steven J. Ram

LOL :D - zsafwan 

That is *exactly* why FF will become more mainstream than twitter.. try explaining how to tweet to your parents (who are finally comfortable with email)! - Chris Myles

Go Chris! - Charlie Anzman

Haha! I have this on my facebook :) - Joe Dawson from iPhone

Awesome! - Ladyepiphanybug

Haha! - muratt

ahahha! brilliant - Jacque

That's about right. - Josh Haley

thats funny lol.. where did u find it - Nicholas Skinner

that's *agent_x* cartoonist from sunny queensland, aus ~ http://twitter.com/agent_x :) - Peter Renshaw

I just noticed you posted my comic. Thanks. I keep them all here if you are interested - http://www.agent-x.com.au/ - agent x

agent x, I like you. Bookmarked. - Dennis Jernberg

Kevin Fox

It would be great if the iPhone home screen worked in landscape, and apps could launch in landscape mode. #iPhone #uikvetch

August 14, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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B4 dat happens we need betr flipping awareness. +side=Wider viewing, Bigger pics. -side= pple will get mad if apps aren't landscape. - Andrew Kealik from iPhone

Leo Laporte

I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...

August 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives - Jonathan Hardesty

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HAHAHAHAHA.... - David from IM

Haha. ROFL - Roberto Bonini

is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better? - Craig Shipp

I'm with you Leo. - Oracio

It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway) - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people. - Dan Lessard

I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last. - Ken Bauer

And we keep following Leo all over the place! - Robert Scoble

When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken? - Nate Pilling

so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams) - abdellah

Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner! - Elizabeth K. Barone

I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction. - JCunwired

Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service. - Ken Sheppardson

But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert? - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making. - Bill Rodman

Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means! - Matt Cassem

I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments - Mark

Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me. - Fleagle

Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in. - Leo Laporte

And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet. - Leo Laporte

Yet being the operative word..... - Roberto Bonini

sounds like a country song to me - gavin

As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts? - Craig B.

I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible. - Louis Gray

^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out. - JCunwired

Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come. - JCunwired

The only way to have control is to use your own URL - Craig Shipp

Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =) - Cynthia Yildirim

what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out. - Jordan Brock from BuddyFeed

What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me. - Craig B.

And many times you cheated Twitter, she was always loyal to you. Thats mean someting! - Jacque from m.ctor.org

yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them - Thomas Power

Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for. - Rachel R.

Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;) - Daynah

Play this thread off, keyboard cat. - Fleagle

You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo. - Dave Winer

Screw you, Friendfeed! - Andrew Leahey

Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :) - Mrinal Desai

I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.) - oliver gassner

Love Stinks. - shelter watch

Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated." - Randy Shapiro

Damn thats complicated - drmacintosh

Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them... - Steven McGurn

I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later! - Amy Flynn

very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one - Bryce Campbell

Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again! - Arleen Boyd

Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening. - Anthony Marco

Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P - Sam Ehsan

Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior. - Paul Chaney

lmfao, its so true leo, so true! - Derek Bender

Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too! - Susan Beebe from iPhone

Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"... - Dennis Jernberg

And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL - Technogran

I think it's back to the TWiT Army! - Paul Salzman

It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A. - Steve de Mena

it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative. - Denise Young

the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-) - Thomas Lee

Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho. - Rick Cogley

Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good! - Kenneth Reitz

No mention of Microsoft Vine? - Robert MacEwan

I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way... - Mark J

Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better?? - Craig Shipp

Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side. - John Flinchbaugh from IM

Social Networks are sluts? - TheDiva Rockin

It sure is. - Jason Hill

I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go. - DogPatch

Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog... - Kenneth Reitz

It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;) - Shawn Zehnder Rossi

More like "As the worm churns" - Houseofmax

한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :] - HealingBrush

One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time... - Aviva Gabriel

Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit... more... - Jan Simmonds

I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man". - Mol, FF Music Lover

@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be... more... - Lindsay

Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there ! - Ahsan Ali

@Jan You're an asshat. - Ian Wright from BuddyFeed

leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better. - Casey Petersen

Haiku Laporte - Outsanity

that was cute! :O) - Jeanne

@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you! - Jan Simmonds

Maybe they're just not that into you. - Elizabeth Johnson

Wait... who's on first? - Michael Rosenau

Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce - Gary Purvis

wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues! - Justin Bradshaw

there there, Shawny's here... - The Real sofarsoShawn

I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Robert Scoble

After unfollowing everyone on Twitter I get why some hate FriendFeed: there you see tons of noise from people you didn't follow.

August 9, 2009 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

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Comments let everyone participate. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

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Friend-of-friend feature brings tons of people into your view. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Hallelujah! - Sally Church

I wish we could make FriendFeed into JUST an aggregator. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I think a simple switch that let you turn off FoaF completely, and/or only show FoaF for comments, not likes, would go a long way to cleaning things up. - Ken Sheppardson

Even though there is conversation on FF, we can't have proper threaded conversation and that results in noise. - Veetrag

I mean the options are there to turn off FoaF once you "Hide" an item, but they're buried. - Ken Sheppardson

Robert: so, you're not interested in having an open conversation on friendfeed anymore? That surprises me. - Joel

Ken: you can turn off FOAF: click on hide twice. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Joel: I am but most people are not. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Interesting that this item only got one response on Twitter so far. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Sean: cool, I have trained you well! :-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone

@Scoble one response on twitter shows that, people like to see what others are replying too. We can't see that on Twitter. - Veetrag

Robert, you can easily turn FF into just an aggregator. Feed your services in and don't interact. The only thing missing is an account setting to automatically disabnle comments on all of your posts, which can easily be requested in the Feedback room. Or, make your feed private so no one can see items to commeent upoon them. - FFing Enigma from fftogo

Robert - So, how does this insight affect your view of FF now? - phil baumann

Phil: it makes me want better display options in FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

This real-time group discussion on FriendFeed is totally different from Twitter but I can't help but feel if you spend your time here, you might miss out on the general Twitter feed. - Ken Seto

Ken: What is the advantage of general twitter feed, if all the twitter feed is anyways directed to FF? - Veetrag

Robert - what kinds of additional options would you like rolled out? - phil baumann

Well I'm not seeing anything happening on FriendFeed other than comments in this discussion - Ken Seto

Phil: it also makes me want real mobile clients. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I need a TweetDeck for FriendFeed :D - Ken Seto

Robert, do you think to get 'real' feed mobiles have to support flash. because i believe with heavy JS would be unstable on mobile platforms. - Veetrag

Ken - Have you tried PeopleBrowsr? - phil baumann

Robert, the way I see it, everyone's definition of "social media" is different. Some people will tolerate a little higher noise in their S/N ratio to glean extra information from open conversations on FF/Twitter. Others may want to eliminate the noise and just focus on a few select feeds. That's the beauty of social media, you can (within limitations of the software you use) determine your own level of interaction. - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Will take a look at PeopleBrowsr, thanks - Ken Seto

Phil: I want to see a TRUE river of news. No popping up of things that get engagement. I want to see NO comments exposed. I want a REAL best of day (the ones I currently get show me old items. That is a start. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Jack: that is true which is why we need better display options. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Robert - so perhaps an option to for a collapsed view (text only - sort of like a reader) with options to define what comes up in the view. (I guess that would bring us back to some sort of modified social RSS :) - phil baumann

Phil: yes!!! - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Phil : We would also need a way in which we can like/unlike comments too. That will help us read only priority content. It can be one way around smaller screens. - Veetrag

Robert - this somewhat reminds me of Muhammad Saleem's post comparing FriendFeed and SocialThing from March 2008. His goal was an aggregator, not another social network: http://muhammadsaleem.com/2008... - Hutch Carpenter

But wouldn't using FF as an aggregator just make it more like a social RSS feed service? For my personal social media paradigm I would miss out on the conversation part of FF. Of course your paradigm may be different :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Jack: I would keep that option on FOR ME but tons of others tell me they hate coming here because of the noise. I totally grok that now. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

I'll use Twitter and FriendFeed though, both were just great. - Vince Ong

Understood. I appreciate that Robert. One of the things that initially drew me to FF was the ability to interact with people such as yourself. I would truly hate if we lost that ability, Of course I am sure your noise is a whole heck of a lot louder than mine :O) - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

Until FriendFeed makes hide even easier, this will continue to happen. People are generally too lazy to use hide to the fullest. I don't know if it's a design issue or a user issue, but people don't like to use it. - Bwana ☠

I think it is a design issue. There are too many features stuck under the hide link. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Good point Robert. But where else do you put those links?? - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

I've been loudly raising precisely the issues which Robert Scoble mentions in this post for over a year -- with zero feedback from Friendfeed developers. This is why Friendfeed's growth has been flat and will continue to remain flat. (But Friendfeed is still a great platform, even in its imperfect and much too noisy state.) - Sean McBride

It amazes me that as of August 9, 2009, Friendfeed's developers, who seem to be brilliant in most respects, still have no appreciation of the importance of elementary design features like list view and the separation of unread from read items. The mind boggles. I really don't get it. And they don't seem to be interested in the hottest field in news reading and management: smart news recommender systems. - Sean McBride

A fact that seems relevant to this thread: I discovered this post in the FFHolic Most Discussed feed in the Featured Sources box on Feedly's My Digest page. I stopped trying to read the chaotic torrent on Friendfeed's home page a long time ago -- a poor investment of one's time and energy. Without Feedly's elegant user interface, I wouldn't have seen this post. - Sean McBride

I think the second thing i did on FriendFeed was to remove friends-of-friends because of you. - Sam Pullara

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