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Guy Kawasaki
Hanging out over at http://friendfeed.com/
Hey, Guy! - Jesse Stay
How's it going Jesse? - Guy Kawasaki
Yay! - Susan Beebe from iPhone
Trying to keep my sanity during the Twitter DDoS :-) - Jesse Stay
Guy, glad to see you on FriendFeed! :) - Susan Beebe from iPhone
About time man - James Hunter
Hi, Guy! Not another darn subscription you have talked me into :) - Eric
Oh, oh. :-) - Robert Scoble
/me hands a bottle of rum to Guy. - imabonehead
come baaa ...aaaaa ...aaaack! - Mike Chelen
Hi Guy! When we going back to prison? That was definitely one of the most memorable experiences I had in 2009. Thanks! - Robert Scoble
Bump! - Jesse Stay
Bret Taylor
Happy holidays from the FriendFeed crew! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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Thanks to Kevin for another great logo... - Bret Taylor
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
A nice tribute to Bill Waterson :) - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
+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
Happy festive season to you all as well :) - Niki Costantini
Happy Holidays!!! - David Cook
love it~ - Sunny
Love!!! - BeeLing
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 - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
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
That's when they loved us :( - Christopher Harley
Awwwww sniff - Kevin Fox
Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o, - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Merry Christmas! - Ian May
Tks and love you all !!! - Renchin(Reina)
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)
Louis Gray
Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly - Thomas Power
True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?) - Louis Gray
why is LazyFeed invite only? - Damir Zubović
Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone. - Louis Gray
Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia. - Damir Zubović
Your password's too short :-P - Jesse Stay
the word "password" is too short? - Louis Gray
:) :) - Damir Zubović
Louis, yes. - Jesse Stay
BTW, what screen capture software are you using? - Jesse Stay
I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse. - Louis Gray
Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one? - Jesse Stay
but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that? - Jesse Stay
Very nice - thank you sir. - Jesse Stay
More video demos == good, btw - Jesse Stay
Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start - Joe Dawson from iPhone
We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often. - Ethan Gahng
greta video - got straight to the point :) - Riaz Kanani
Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks - Jane Finch
Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks - Mo Hall
why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF? - Thomas Power
Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time. - Louis Gray
cool thank you - Thomas Power
LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you! - Lazyfeed
I will have to check this out. I admit that the point of it was not immediately obvious the first few times I used it. - Bill Kinney
Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Awesome demo, finally got a chance to watch it. - Bill Kinney
Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue. - Liza
Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks. - Ethan Gahng
Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas? - Liza
Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis. - Amani
Louis Gray
Adding to the 1980s photo meme: Here are my 1983 and 1985 contributions. :-)
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Awesome Louis! :) - Nicholas Kreidberg
H-O-T - Mona Nomura
Nice bowtie!!! I LOVE bowties. - Mattie Kenny
Don't make me pull out my 1980s Speedo pics! - Jesse Stay
Awww... :)) - Anna Haro
Look at that young go-getter! - Mo Kargas
LOVE. - Derrick
omg. so cuuuuuute - Erin @queenofspain
Cute photos. :-) - Håkan Dahlström
Wife says, "Oh no, not the little nerd photos." Oh yeah, where is her FriendFeed account and photos? Hmmm? - Louis Gray
haha so confused, half nerd, half cool kid, ya thats louis - sean percival
اینجا رو =))) - 1Fathi
Louis: She's got her defense sorted out with no account eh? :D Maybe if you're in for a bit of risk taking.... post hers! :D - Mo Kargas
Love these. That first one is so fantastic. - Ayşe E.
Yep, that fist pic is so much WIN. :D - Anna Haro
OMG that first one is tooooooo cute! - Adriana
*bump* - Rodfather
It is definitely you ;) - Alp
Both great pics - Mo Kargas
Awesome! The bowtie is perfect!!!! - Rachel Lea Fox
you look very smart even then - Thomas Power
One of mine, from '81, I think http://twitpic.com/27xn - Rob La Gesse
that first pic is absolute 100% undiluted WIN Louis! - Parth Awasthi
Bump for good times. - Mark Krynsky
yes a geek - Thomas Power
Louis Gray
Family Togetherness Time
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Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute! - Hutch Carpenter
Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :) - Mark Dykeman
awesome! - Thomas Hawk
Where are the FF onesies?! :-) - JA Castillo
The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll. - Louis Gray
FFTwins FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Link bait! :) - Andrew Baron
@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :) - Steven Hodson
awwwww - Michelle Trent
Do they have FF accounts yet? - Johnny Worthington
aww gorgeous :) and the babies too! - Allison
LOL that is alll kinds of win - Mona Nomura
I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-) - Jonathon
So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now. - Rob Diana
Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :) - directeur from NoiseRiver
good thing they are always this happy. right! - Tim Connors
I want that shirt! - James Hull
totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet! - Rob Reed
FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day! - Sarah Perez
Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker from fftogo
@Rob Reed: Awesome! - April Buchheit
Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way. - Randy Hall
The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this. - Russellreno
Congratz. - Bill Bittner
Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;) - Mario Olckers
Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself. - Carla Thompson
No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those? - Jesse Stay
The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa! - Susan Beebe
cool beans! workin on those biceps! - TheMacMommy from twhirl
So cute! - marinka239
bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Bump for good times - Jesse Stay
Mark Krynsky
FriendFeed User Locations - Google Shared Map - http://maps.google.com/maps...
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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
or just list location...I'll start...Chatsworth, CA - Mark Krynsky
I would but I won't - Outsanity
near Chicago - LogEx
How do I add myself? - Mo Kargas
Grayson, GA - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Puyallup, WA - Bren -- Designated Driver
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 - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
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
@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 Haas
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, ConcertMaven of FF
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, ConcertMaven of FF
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
Added, Near Paris, France - Olivier Castets
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
Added myself! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Hey Robert Haas - We're apparently neighbors. - edit. Okay maybe not, unless you live at the airport. XD - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
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 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 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 Jansons
I'm there :) - Alejandro
Yay Alejandro...first South American..and my old stomping grounds in Argentina no less :) - Mark Krynsky
Neat. Added. - Rodfather
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
Added.. - Uncle CW™
Another snowflake pushpin *waves to Shey* - Micah Wittman
whoo hoo! Canadian snowflakes FTW! - Shey, Jamaican of FF
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 H.
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 - 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
This is truly awesome! - Mathew™ one of a kind
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 Rabasa
Added myself in Shenzhen,China. - Steve Chou
added me. Coimbatore, South India - vijay
Added Bangalore, India. - Mahesh CR
Added - Glenn Slaven
Added - Youngmin Kim
I'm added now, too. - Kamilah Gill
Nice! I'm the only active FriendFeeder in Montreal: Quebec represents FF! I could be a French Canadian FF ambassador or something. =) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Added - ThenWang
Added - James Myatt
Added. I am now an icon :^) - Nick B.
Added =) - ChaCha Fance
Added. - Bonnie Foster
Looks great in Google Earth! (from Paris) - Liviu Barbat
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
MG Siegler
The typical 2:30 AM Lady Gaga listener
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nice glasses, very Jack Benny. thick framed black glasses are really fashionable in England right now - Mark
Pa-pa-pa-poke her face! :) - Mona Nomura
is this a poker face? - sean percival
Can't read my poker face. - Mark
*BUMP* - Jay Cuthrell
You look like jack benny - Mark from iPhone
Akiva Moskovitz
Happy baby is happy!
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She needs a caption. - LB - all new for '10!
Wow. I think you need to make a set of Audrey mood icons. That one is definitely "happy". - Spidra Webster
I wish I was that happy :) - Jason Nunnelley
May I put this picture on my blog (with a link to this FF post) - Dave Winer
Dave, sure. :) Paste a link here when you're done, please. - Rochelle
I took this right when we were paying at the store today. She was in SUCH a good mood. - Rochelle
SQUEEEEEE!!! - Josh Haley from iPhone
Dave, I'm fine with it as long as she isn't turned into an LOLcat. - Akiva Moskovitz
This is so staged. You injected her with Happy didn't you. - Sparky
OMG. <3! - Ayşe E.
:-D - Jason Huebel
Akiva, of course not. But it's okay to make sure. :-) - Dave Winer
Awesome, Dave! That's fantastic. - Akiva Moskovitz
Totally. Thank you. :-) - Dave Winer
this is wonderful :) - Alexis Hope
Great picture, Akiva. :) And I found this pic via Dave's blog! - Louis Gray
I LOVE THIS PICTURE! - Fa La La La Lindsay
Louis, *I* took it! :) - Rochelle
IM SCREAMinnnnnnnnn - johnpiercy
Yeah, oops: forgot to give credit where credit's due. They were out shopping today and Rochelle e-mailed me this photo with the title: DADA! Because not only is that what she calls me but also because she's a huge Duchamp fan. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva: violating the rights of female photographers. - Sparky
Rochelle, Rochelle. It's still a great picture, even if it is in Akiva's feed. :) - Louis Gray
Awww. Mine iz growed. - Chris Baskind
My heart is gonna go splodey. <3 - Yolanda
<3 - Yolanda
The happiest baby I've ever seen! - Charlotte M
How can you call that angel a challenge?! - Matthew DeVries
Oh, you haven't seen her at 3AM. :) - Rochelle
How did she look _after_ the gdgt? :) - Jemm
Happy Babby :P - Molly, New Ears :P
Robert Scoble
Tonight is the beginning of the end of the "geeks-only" phase of FriendFeed. Now that Guy Kawasaki is here the marketers will start showing up.
I'm showing Six Flags tomorrow...lol - sean andersen
*doffs hat in respect to the passing of the time of geeks* - WorldofHiglet
So what's next? - Kevin Arth
yeah but unlike twitter, I'm not so sure internet marketers would feel successful on FriendFeed with everyone blocking them - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen
And the spammers too, I guess. Great.. - Citronella
And ghost posters / commenters. - Ben Hanten
Slayerboy: good marketers won't get blocked. I really appreciated getting cuts in line at Six Flags because of their Twitter contest. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Good marketers aren't most marketers :) - Brett Kelly
Brett: only good ones will survive here. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Or they will drown. - sean andersen
Only if Guy likes it will they come. Friendfeed.alltop.com and all that. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone
Robert: I don't mind good marketers, as long as they're genuine. Too many of them (particular the "social media marketing gurus") are just unforgivably obnoxious and fake in their attempts to pimp their own garbage services/blog. So, I really hope you're right :) - Brett Kelly
Bad marketers on FriendFeed will survive in search results. Do a search for a couple of terms like 'canon 135mm' and you'll see plenty of entries that are just links to people selling the lens. You're not going to block them all. I don't see that as a big problem, but I suspect they'll be successful enough there to keep them coming. - Edward Coffey
Start? I've been here for a loooong time. A few of my 'marketing' friends have been too. - AJ Kohn
Marketers phase has already started in Turkey. Friendfeed is generally used by them, or I think like that... - Sabri Küstür
we need like a freindfeed costranostra to keep the peace, and make things just poof into the ethersphere - Robert Higgins
so wish i was a freindfeed coder and i could merge with the stream and provide some community services... :AKA Hiro Protaganist - Robert Higgins
@Robert: +1 for Snowcrash reference. - AJ Kohn
I'm in Marketing, and I've been here from the beginning. Are you slandering my craft, Mr. Scoble? :) - Louis Gray
Louis: you don't work for a big brand. When you sell your souls and work for a big brand let us know, OK? ;-) - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Robert, wait, don't you work for a big brand? - Jesse Stay
Jesse: sssshhhhh. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
"Now on to Google Wave! - sean andersen" Exactly. Unless the FF core team is over there on the sandbox right now, doing all they can to start the scrambling scrum RIGHT NOW, the big GWave will assimilate all. At least until the assimilation wave after that. FF has maybe a one year window -- if that -- to make it's move, whatever that might be, starting right now. - michael silverton
Citronella - I like that the spammers are vaporized almost instantly here. Decent built in tools for group reporting. - BairdWilliamson
If I got here before Guy and I'm geekless does that give me any special designation? - Kimber Scott
michael silverton: Wave sandbox already looks like Gmail. I bet when they release it, it will be Gmail 2.0. I hope Bret & co. are studying it close... - sean andersen
Kimber: you are geeky because you were here before...whether you like that designation or not :) - WorldofHiglet
Louis has more than *one* soul? Or is this a left-foot, right-foot thing. Colour me confus`ed :D - Micah Wittman
LOL! Well, I guess I could be called an amateur geek... - Kimber Scott from email
Pot. Kettle. Black. - Gilbert Harding
@silverton, agreed that FriendFeed has a limited time window to figure out what it wants to be when it's all grown up.. in other news, can't believe it took Guy this long to show up here to play. Nothing wrong with a little marketing, especially if it's of the "Moving the Freeline" variety.. +1 Gilbert, LOL. - Alex Schleber
If I were Guy, or the head of any company, be it a camera shop or whatever, whenever I had a little free time, I'd tweet out, "Hey, I'm going to be on FriendFeed for an hour or so, answering any questions about Alltop, telling you about its features, advantages, and benefits, come join in!" or something like that. That's a vertical that feeds off Twitter and really enriches both platforms, utilizing them both for their strengths. - Stephen Pickering
With Leo, Steve Rubel, and Guy K now all here .. this landscape is about to change ... agreed. - Charlie Anzman
I'm reading Crossing the Chasm, only 18 years after it was published. Can I blend in as a "marketer" now? - DGentry
Well hopefully communities will coexist in open social media, we aren't defined by what or where we login to right? It's just information we share, the platform is merely a pipeline. The communities need to exist beyond the platforms - Mark Essel from iPhone
Say it isn't so Joe! It will be interesting to watch the transformation, will FriendFeed go to the dark side or will it make a stand :) - Owen Greaves
true.. true.. - Cesar Sanchez
So, do you think the population will tend to shift to more casual people than the creme de la creme people. I feel so, since there are only the innovative, open-minded people on FriendFeed right now; and I think the change is pretty near. - Yiğit Arda Türkoğlu
Marketing guys have always been here. The difference... tactics and respect. That being said change is always happening and even still I'm not sure Friendfeed will hit the critical mass Twitter has with marketers. The friendfeed brand will likely be defined differently than Twitter and attract different people. Time will tell. - Jim Goldstein from iPhone
why? can't marketing guys and geeks get along? - kakuei
No. We cannot get along. This war has been waged for too long, and too much blood has been spilled. Most of us no longer even remember why we are fighting, but it doesn't matter. Victory is all that matters. - DGentry
The marketers are already here, but most of them are totally clueless about how friendfeed works. They somehow think they can dump their stuff here and it will get "found" and when that doesn't work, they just go back to twitter. The ones that do understand how it works either feel it is too much damn work to fake being real to be worth it, or they are the real deal and it works quite well for them. - April Russo (app103)
April: I think there's some cost-benefit analysis going on there. There's a smaller crowd at FF and it takes a lot more work. Plus, most people here are marketing jaded. - Trent Hamm
The craft of marketing. That's priceless. - Big K
Guy is a marketer, sure, but also a geek. Geeks phase ends when the Celebs show up. - Garin Kilpatrick
well if they start selling, just dont click "like" or "comment" and they will drop off the page in minutes - Mark
I think some marketers are already here..but anyway, you think Guy being here will change things much? - Rob Sellen :o)
Robert, you might have to make a stand for geeks everywhere. Prepare yourself. - Joe
Robert, "Wanna learn how to get 1,000's of Friendfeed friends in no time. Click here http://somespammylink.com to learn my patent pending, amazing, fantastic, game-changing, and revolutionary way to gain residual income through the magic of your Friendfeed friends." Don't click yet, I was just brushing up! - Sean Powell
I'm so honored to have read this message from scoble. I'm grateful for our "geeks only" days that we've all shared! LOL - Jason Pollock
No Kidding! Welcome Guy Kawasaki, who ever your are. - Houseofmax
Yes I agree - Randy Allen Bishop
thats unfortunate, but who is GuyK? - echostreamer
When the marketer wagon shows up I'll be going private. - Geoff Schultz
Yeah, Jim Goldstein sez it: those of us from the dark side that stumbled into these sweet precincts have kept a low profile... sorta like taking your hat off when you go to church ; > - Thom Kennon
he's actually been here awhile, just not posting, mr scoble - chaz2b
Some ppl cannot be stopped. Like me! Not geeky enough, a girl, too wall st. Watch out, cause tenacity wins every time. - Liza
well then lets learn from Twitter and not follow every stupid command that celebrities give us to rocket them to the top of friend feed. BOYCOTT ALL CELEBRITIES ON FRIEND FEED to save this from becoming the punchline that twitter. save the whales, then save friend feed plez :) - echostreamer
Jason Pollock liked this, that is HILARIOUS! He posts the most redundant links on Twitter...a notorious spammer. At least Guy admits what he does, still somewhat annoying. Not sure why Leo Laporte was mentioned, I don't see him fitting that GK mold at all. - Benjamin Taylor
In retrospect ... it seems to have been a hit and run for now ?? Hoping not. Would be great to see him actively engaging here. A LOT to offer. Marketing crowd? ... No worries - There's always 'block, tackle and hide .....' here - Charlie Anzman
Robert, I think this is such crazy talk, you're a marketer too ;) - Jeremiah Owyang
Umm, I'm pretty sure that Guy is also a geek. Regardless of what his cool cred is...then again his cool cred is totally geek cool cred. - Alex Scoble
LOL Robert. What is wrong with you. I lol'd. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Guy Kawasaki does have magic initials, I will give him that. - Garin Kilpatrick
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Oh god the end of the world is near :) - Daryl Hunt on FF
Well now with the FB acquisition this post just seems like a jab in the eye. Poor FF. - Fa La La La Lindsay
Robert Scoble
Is Yelp first US Augmented Reality app on iPhone thanks to secret feature? Turn it on here: (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
Installed it, works awesome! - Kooleido
Thanks Robert! - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Just tested it in Vancouver BC, and it works here too. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Do they have one for android? - Srikanth
Pocket Universe will overlay constellations over a live view of the night sky; that sounds like "augmented reality" to me, and that application has been out for a while. I don't know why people keep claiming that the Yelp thing is the first. - Glen Campbell, esq.
I've got Poket Universe, and love it. But it's not a live video overlay, it's just a bitmap of the sky. Which makes a lot of sense when you're out using it in the dark. - Steve Feinstein
I thought there was one of the planetarium apps that had a live video overlay—they were discussing it at #gnomedex - Glen Campbell, esq.
see also TAT augmented ID [etc...] http://ff.im/75zuX - ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
After lots of shaking (and starting to think I'd been hoaxed!) I got it to come on and it works - very cool :) - David Meredith from iPhone
Kevin C. Tofel
http://twitpic.com/fls17 - For those who asked: yes you can do a clean install of Snow Leopard .
http://twitpic.com/fls17 - For those who asked: yes you can do a clean install of Snow Leopard .
Robert Scoble
What happens when I can't sleep? I sign up for Posterous. I blame @steverubel for this since he pushed on me most of yesterday to do it.
I don't like how it posts everywhere. I gotta think about how I'll use that. - Robert Scoble
yay! it's about the time,, i should check my posterous too,, been away for a while ;p - zʍıɔ
Robert: Welcome! If you don't like duplicity, just cancel the auto-post. - Nir Ben Yona
nobody took scobleizer at posterous before? I thought you always register your name on new web services as they show up, because of cybersquatter. - fakedave
fakedave: I try to get it on most services, but sometimes I miss one. - Robert Scoble
After every visit with Steve Rubel you need to have a visit with Jeremiah Owyang to put you back on track ;-) IMO Posterous decentralizes the conversation. - Jesse Stay
28 subscribers already! u go robert (^^;) - zʍıɔ
And I'm writing my next Posterous entry as I read this. (Oh yeah: I subscribed and left a comment. ;) - Dennis Jernberg
@fakedave : chris messina beats him on this.haha! - zʍıɔ
Malvina: Chris beats me on everything. - Robert Scoble
enough already, another way to post stuff to all the destinations that are out there, sheeeeezzz :-) - Alexander van Elsas
Posterous also provides a way to control and delegate the posting activity to other email addresses - its just a pity it uses the delegated's services config by default with no option to use the delegator's instead - so the distribution is not maintained according to the blog but according to who makes the post instead - both options would be perfect - Nicholas Paul Gordon
Nicholas -- we've been talking about adding this capability as a 'group profile' that you can set up for a particular blog. It'll be coming in a future release. - Garry Tan
how are you liking it so far? i signed up, but have yet to really use it. - frank barry
Robert, you can easily control the flow. Here's how i do it: all mails go to posterous+facebook@posterous.com. The Feed linked into FF via RSS import. Once FF picks it up. it sends these to Twitter. This avoids dupes. - Steve Rubel
The problem with Posterous to FriendFeed is that you'll need to reshare it again if you want to import to any FF groups. After a lengthy trial of Posterous I found FF to be more powerful in the end :-\ - CannonGod
I just realized yesterday that friendfeed@posterous.com only forwards to FF. cool stuff. - Gus
Robert Scoble
Steve Rubel's life is on this:
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It is a LaCie IAmAKey -- it is an 8 gig USB key that is encrypted with TrueCrypt. - Robert Scoble from email
Steve Rubel is a genius! - Eric
Who is smarter Steve Rubel or Robert Scoble? - Eric
I love that USB/key. What is the make of it? - MikeonTV
Rubeleizer - Eric
You can't open a door with that. Useless :)) - Burçak Çubukçu
Nice carpet. - Ahmet Alp Balkan
looks like this is it! http://www.lacie.com/ca... - MikeonTV
What is "his life"? - Kahlil Lechelt
I have that exact key, bought it after Steve posted about it on his Posterous. - Jim Graham
Don't lose your keys - does he have a fix for that too? - Jesse Stay
Actually, it's even better if you encrypt it with BitLocker to Go. Totally seamless TrueCrypt - Omar Shahine
That means if he loses it... - Nicholas James
If I lose my keys there go the nuke lock codes! - Steve Rubel from iPhone
I am such a groupie I am over at Scobles and I bought one - Francine Hardaway from BuddyFeed
'You have to turn your key, sir!' - Akiva Moskovitz
@Francine "Scobles" hahaha - Brandon
Blogged on it here: http://louisgray.com/live... (Steve Rubel introduced me) - Louis Gray
Everything about this pic makes me think it was taken in the 70s except for the gadget and clear resolution. - beersage
Remove the shit had :D - internettin abi
I'm sure he has a backup of his life though. - ilter Kalkanci
Robert Scoble
Just announced that @stevegillmor 's "Gang" will be aired at http://www.building43.com/realtim... Thursdays at 1 pm via http://friendfeed.com/realtim...
recordings? - Panayotis Vryonis
meh - Mattb4rd
It looks like with this announcement, Michael Arrington is now back on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/michael... - Jesse Stay
During the workday? - Jeff Harbert
Robert, could you please explain the hard- and software-setup using for the live-stream? - HansVanRock
Hans: We haven't announced the hardware and software we are using to stream the Gang yet, but for starters it's powered by NewTek Tricaster. - Steve Gillmor
Looking forward to this, and would like to hear about the tech too - Kevin Marks from Android
I'll be asleep on the other side of the world. Let us know when you get the RSS feed up, Steve :) - Edward Coffey
Plans on a downloadable file? I don't think the boss would appreciate me walking around the store with headphones on. :-) - Larry Walker
Clicking the embedded viewer works at any hour in any part of the planet. - Steve Gillmor
Very cool. Thanks Steve. - Larry Walker
Let us know when the bootleg mp3 download gets posted on Friendfeed - Christian Burns from iPhone
RSS please unfollow. - Christian Burns from iPhone
Cool, so I just need to write a script to click that link and record the stream so the file is waiting for me when I sync my MP3 player. Modern technology makes it so much easier than when we had to use clunky old VCRs to record things! - Edward Coffey
you'll be able to download the MP4 as soon as Google fixes a bug they're working on. - Steve Gillmor
Excellent, thanks Steve. (which bug?) - Edward Coffey
Bad Hair Day uses RSS. http://badhair.us/rss.xml - Dave Winer
. @edwardc I am sure the mp3 will be available on the gilmor gang bootleg feed - Christian Burns from iPhone
if everyone insists on bootlegging, then won't worry about Google fixing the bug - Steve Gillmor
no bootlegger me....just need something that will play on my iphone after the fact. :) - Karoli
No bootlegging here either, just need something to show up in iTunes (automatically) with the rest of the podcasts. - PXLated
sounds like you will have at least a few options. I'm not planning to release audio only, so you'll need to either get a blindfold or go bottleg - Steve Gillmor
well, we'll give it a try, see how it rolls. - Karoli
Will there be official 'Gillmor Gang' blindfolds available in the Building 43 gift shop? - Cliff Gerrish
No audio only - Booo! - PXLated
Wait - logo'ed blindfolds at $15/pop is intriguing to m :) - Rob La Gesse
Building 43 GG blindfolds $30 - Steve Gillmor
oh I see Cliff already got there - Steve Gillmor
I'll take 2. it's a bargain these days. :) - Karoli
It's not quite RSS, but it feels the same... - Cliff Gerrish
Option earplug accessories for just 19.95 (plus separate shipping and handling) - Rob La Gesse
John Lennon wore our Firesign Theatre Not Insane button. - Steve Gillmor
Bravos, good to have the show back after your holiday. @stevegillmor are you inviting Leo to play along? - Dave Martin
Curious Steve - Why no audio only? - Seems simple enough to do. - PXLated
Close your eyes - even easier :) - Rob La Gesse
If its video that is released, its video I will take! - Phillip Molly Malone
Can I get a pair of "driver"-style GG blindfolds, please? - Robert J Taylor from iPhone
Attention wise, video is much more expensive than audio. I don't have the money to devote an hour of my eyes and ears to the gill or gang at this time. - Christian Burns from iPhone
Christian, I think what they're saying is that you can put the MP4 on your playback device and listen to it and ignore the video component. I know that works on iPods and iPhones. - Dave Winer
Dave, you are as unproductive as you've ever been. What I've said is that RSS is in the process of being disrupted by micromessaging, and no amount of name calling is going to change that. Your attempts to reinvent RSS will not get traction if you continue to slime the messenger. And having this discussion here underlines how partisan your attacks are. - Steve Gillmor
The message above is out of context because Dave Winer deleted the message to which I am responding. I thought about saving his message and reprinting it below where only the owner of this thread could remove it, but figured it wasn't worth it. This is also why I never respond to anything in a thread Dave owns unless I don't care if it gets erased or the context removed. - Steve Gillmor
Where's the Winer Watcher when you need it? - Matthew Gifford
mmm, popcorn! - Laura Norvig
The iPhone has a bug that will not allow you to download over the air for consuming later mp3s or mp4s unless they are an enclosure to an RSS feed. - Christian Burns from iPhone
once Google fixes their bug (Wednesday) you should be able to download via RSS. - Steve Gillmor
Steve, the msg you're referring to was here just a few seconds, I realized it'd provoke the kind of response it has, and decided I didn't want to go there. Re being unproductive, I've had a cold this week and have been unable to do dev work, but I'm feeling better and expect to releas some new software this week. Don't expect TC to cover it, as usual. Finally Steve as you know the <cloud> element has been in RSS for eight years, hardly a retrofit. - Dave Winer
So did google fix their bug yesterday? Any idea what the Gillmor Gang RSS feed is? - Christian Burns from iPhone
Thomas Hawk
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr
16,000 down, 984,000 to go. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet
Not long to go! - Andrew Trinh
And what a fine one it is! Congrats - Michael Fidler
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you. - Russellreno
That is a great photo - Darin aka iGoByDoc
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish? - Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria. - Thomas Hawk
You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =) - Jauder Ho from twhirl
Wow and Congrats!! - Vox
Dude, you're a machine. - Zee.
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner. - Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats. - Charlie Anzman
big numbers don't mean squat - Ivan Pope from twhirl
big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well! - Michael VanDervort from twhirl
Perseverance furthers. - Michael Markman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :) - Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Congrats! - J. McConnell
beautiful, congrats! - Carmen - Happy 2010!
Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks! - Susan Beebe
congrats Thomas! - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Damn that is all kinds of awesome. - Mattb4rd
Wow, quite an accomplishment! - Jeff P. Henderson
Great job Thomas. Keep it up. - Andrew Smith
Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :) - Juan Pablo González
Congratulations Thomas! - Holger Eilhard
Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis. - Dave Martin
Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark! - Muhammad Ahmed
Amazing image ,,, TH ... - johnpiercy
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk" - johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :) - Ferhad Fidan from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :))) - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo
Beautiful!!!! - Rafael Montilla
awesome!! - Rhoda Meek
For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode. - Jay Cuthrell
wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now. - Thomas Hawk
And only 971,000 to go ... :P - Rene Wirtz
That's Awesome! - John Holzer
Keep 'em comin' Thomas! - Charlie Anzman
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered.... - Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :) - Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to... more... - Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos... - k00pa
Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ? - k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :) - Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery. - Thomas Hawk
Bret Taylor
Record messages to your FriendFeed from your phone with http://www.friendboo.com/ (uses the new FriendFeed API!)
Implemented by Paul Kinlan: http://friendfeed.com/kinlan - Bret Taylor
You can see other people's messages at http://friendfeed.com/friendb... - Bret Taylor
Is Boo a common word in the UK for this kind of thing or is this a copy of Audioboo.fm from Bestbefore.tv? if you have an iPhone you can do this using the Audioboo iPhone app and adding the feed to Friendfeed. Horses for courses. - Leo Laporte
You can also add a cinch feed to FriendFeed and record your messages over the phone, no internet connection required: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com - Jesse Stay
hnnn... BLOCKed in China. - xiawinter
It is cutting me off after a few seconds, which is unfortunate because I was ready to humiliate myself. Right after a short pause. - RAPatton
if friendfeed had an iphone app... they could be nice button on your app... - Yann Ropars
UK and US only as of now! - Krishnamoorthy
very cool idea - Gerd Leonhard
Bret, so why don't you give a try with http://ffsms.com ? It would be great to see you post about it. - Alp
Casey
Casey is eating copious amounts of hummus. Mmmmm hummus.....
Thomas Hawk
15 Aug: Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) claims that President Obama told him "he's willing to be a one-term president if that's what it takes to get health care and energy reform," reports Radio Iowa. Said Boswell: "The president (said), 'I'm not going to kick the can down the road.' And he said that and I said, 'Well, that's something I'm kind of used to from southern Iowa, you know. I know about kicking the can down the road.' And he said, 'No, if it makes me a one-term president, I'm going to, we're going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.'" Today: President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run health insurance as part of his ambitious health care proposal. - Thomas Hawk
Leo Laporte
Leo's Full Subscription List - http://www.google.com/reader...
Just 125? ;) - Jesse Stay
I'm working on the assumption that Leo knows all the people who everyone else looks for to blog off. He has the direct sources :) - Johnny Worthington
:-)) Jesse ,thx Leo - Johni Fisher
Marta, you might want to click on Leo's list above, and then put a comment - Shari Weiss
That was interesting Thanks - milesg
thanks for the compilation :) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
That's quite an RSS list there. Will definitely take a look at some of these feeds! - Randy Shapiro
thanks for sharing - Brian Appleby
how do I comment on an item in the reader list? - Chuck Kahn
Paul Buchheit
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
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Sure, pick on the stars: http://www.amazon.com/Twinkle... - Jesse Stay
cauuuuuuute - sofarsoShawn
Awesome photo - Steve Lacey from iPhone
I love the second picture. Awesome! - Kevin Fox
agreed, that second shot is just beautiful!! - Rachel Lea Fox
Such joy! - Anne Bouey
Cute!! - Charlie Anzman
That second photo is amazing! :-D - Ladybug Heather
MG Siegler
Remember when I made this? Can't wait for this functionality to come to FriendFeed. Hot Dog Stand here I come!
Remember when I made this? Can't wait for this functionality to come to FriendFeed. Hot Dog Stand here I come!
MY EYES ARE BLEEDING - Eric Eldon
woah - tell me you're still not using this...its quite possibly the ugliest thing ive ever seen. - Zee.
That's like an outfit from The Fifth Element - Jay Cuthrell
Now I'm craving Hot Dogs - Jesse Stay
i call it eggplant orange juice with blood. - MG Siegler
for healthy vampires - Eric Eldon
I feel bad for your monitor that has to serve that up...haha - Mike Bracco
MG, maybe we should save you the trouble and make one that looks like this for you. We'll call it parislemon. - Dan Hsiao
i think that may cause a FF revolt. or vomiting. - MG Siegler
Absolutely love the color scheme! :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato
lol it's festive. My Gmail is bright green and orange. LOVE - BEX
ya lets myspace up this bitch! - sean percival
Paul -- hey you listenin'? hhaha! don't ya love those colors! LOL (Dan - good idea!, do it!! haha) - Susan Beebe
Oh My GATO!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Looks like a box of Crayola's just threw up. : ) - Mike Doeff
Cool - Andrew
It looks like I designed it. That's not a good thing. - Ethan
I would go out of my mind by the end of the day. LOL - Drew Lucas
Painful. - Anne Bouey
*sheepish laughter* heh, that's just, er, wow. - Rick Cogley
This is a beautiful work of art. Bravo! Encore! - Sarah Lane
i aim to please. - MG Siegler
Just looking at that might give you colon cancer. - Gary C
Or keep you away from gmail long enough to be productive on the task at hand. - Mitch
B to the U to the M to the P http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Jay Cuthrell
FriendFeed has themes now. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Robert MacEwan
much harder to ugly this up, but i tried http://friendfeed.com/parisle... - MG Siegler
looks like helvetica to me... :) - Jim in Real Time
did u build it yet? lol - Phillip Grady Jr
literally brilliant way to push people to use gmail... ;) - Marc Mulhern
Mona Nomura
@nrek As much as I love Google, they don't understand social. Google Wave is a clustermess. Like all the Twitter clients on crack.
The user side of Wave is indeed a mess. My hope is that they have a server that makes realtime easy to implement for others that can do some truly cool things with it. - invariant - farewell FF
aw :( I have quite enjoyed Google Wave? Have you actually played with it, or are you coming at this after seeing demos and that sorta thing? - Adam Lasnik
Demos - it's too busy!! - Mona Nomura
No two people ever agree on design. Facebook is good? Microsoft? Somehow they got share (and then some). If Wave delivers the goods soon enough compared to other options, they have a fighting chance. - LogEx
After playing with it, I agree its full of clutter. It's cool for a group of people and various conversations amongst friends but not a solution for public streams and a massive social network. - Brandon Titus
Wave is meant for group of people and conversations among friends (Wave = email if it were developed now is what they kept saying when they introduced it). - Chieze Okoye
Google understands social as well as anybody else, it's just that geek engineers ideas of social behavior are well, a little different - Chad Albert
Patching up pieces and forcing them to talk to each other is not social. That's like...XP. - Mona Nomura
wait, did you just analogize Google Wave to WINDOWS XP (Microsoft's most successful OS to date) in an attempt to show how big a fail Google Wave is? Come on, Mona. You can do better than that. - Chieze Okoye
And what are we using as a yardstick in this conversation? A pre-alpha product that most people here haven't even used? We could talk about actual launched products and say, that, for instance, Orkut is a fairly successful SNS in certain markets that proves that Google *does* understand social. - Chieze Okoye
I didn't want to say ME because that's kinda rude - Vista wouldn't make sense because they didn't build it from scratch. Actually, the analogy was for pulling all these services together and trying to make them talk to each other. - Mona Nomura
Who said Google was a social company? They're an advertising company through and through ;) - Andru Edwards
That's not fair. Wave hasn't even shipped - and it's an incremental tool. - l0ckergn0me
Who said anything about needing to be fair? Look at all the components and how they are trying to be 'social' - aside from the Google evangelists (...I love the employees Adam, Roshan, Chieze, Erica, et al.) how are they being social? Oh, Orkut? What's that? - Mona Nomura
ME would have been a much stronger analogy as I would say XP is actually an example of a fairly well done integration of many disparate technologies (at least from the user's point of view). - Chieze Okoye
also, I am definitely not a Google employee. And I do like their products, but honestly, I think most of your comments re: Google and social (at least the ones based on Wave) are premature at best and misguided at worst (mainly since there's no product around for you test and come to the conclusions based on). Well, unless you're hiding a dev account in there somewhere that you didn't tell us about. 8^P - Chieze Okoye
Um, ok http://images.google.com/images... See? Twitter clients on crack with a little bit of Flock. I don't know why people are excited about it (from a user perspective) - Mona Nomura
*shrug* I don't know, Mona. As someone who is constantly on 40-50+ message long event and project planning email threads, I would kill for even a tiny bit of the promise of what Google has with Wave. I guess I saw how it can take what I do in Gmail and allow me to do it 100x better with collaboration, whereas you seem to be looking at it from a completely different angle. - Chieze Okoye
btw, just to check 2 things: were you being snarky re: Orkut or do you not know what it is? and have you seen the Google Wave announcement video? - Chieze Okoye
They are an advertising company, and they do things in that part of the company's best interest. - Andru Edwards
Mona, I felt the same way when I first peeked at the interface. But having used it extensively at work, I've either gotten used to the UI or it's a lot less daunting when you're actually using it or both :). The real-time in *conversation* is far more useful (if a bit freaky) than I ever would have imagined. It's much closer to the way people actually *talk* when they're in a room... more... - Adam Lasnik
Son of a bitch - this is a busy topic... should have replied here. Twitter > FF in my brain. #Fail - Enrique Gutierrez
As an underlying protocol, I think Wave is *incredibly* powerful. The first few iterations of the UI (including ours) will be (justifiably) rough around the edges until the user/developer community gets comfortable enough with the technology that they know what to do with it. - Aaron D'Souza
Are waves public or private? Will they be indexed by search engines and viewable by anyone? - SuezanneC Baskerville
Adam - thank you for that explanation. Can't wait 'til it's public beta (which answers your question too, Suezanne?) - Mona Nomura
With the federated architecture, I can imagine different entities building sites with a social networking layer and familiar UI on top of Wave, with open interfaces between each other. Sort of pick your favorite skin. I can see the line between social networks and collaborative tools blurring. - Christopher A Carr
The ultimate goal is a suitable hive-mind substrate. ;-) - Christopher A Carr
Ok, Ryo. - Mona Nomura
Oh, no? It was a statement you made w/out reason. So I just agreed - easier that way ;) - Mona Nomura
a "collaborative tool" is different than a "social network". Thats like calling Basecamp a social network. The common thread is that whether it's collaborative or social, they are both built for communicating. - Adam Helweh from BuddyFeed
Basecamp is not a collaborative tool - it's useless LOL. Have you tried Google Sites? It rules and it's FREE. - Mona Nomura
I'm glad someone else said it first. For a second, I thought I was just getting slow. - Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Mona, Basecamp is not the best of tools nowadays, but it is definitely considered a place for teams to collaborate (or at minimum... communicate). Not sure how you have been using it, but I have used it for projects with clients for a couple years now. - Adam Helweh
For conventional project management - products, specifically, it may suffice (I prefer Visio) but for projects with mass collaborators and multiple contacts involved, it's awful. I like HighRise but completely baffled as to why HighRise and Basecamp don't talk to each other. Bizarre. - Mona Nomura from iPhone
Bret Taylor
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - FriendFeed Blog
We've been acquired by Facebook! We are really excited about joining the Facebook team. (Note: FriendFeed will continue to operate - see the blog post for details) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Boom. - Louis Gray
Grr! - directeur
Woah... - Brandon Titus
Uh. Well, that's the end of that. - Akiva Moskovitz
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini
What does this mean for FriendFeed, Bret? - Kol Tregaskes
Lame. - Mark Trapp
great title bret. well played. - MG Siegler
WOW - Bindu Reddy
Congrat! So, what does this mean to your team and to FF in general? - Dilip Dand
wahhhhhhhhhh - Myrna
maaaan - Jamie
wowow - Harry Wolff
congrats - brainno722 (Peter)
Nooooooooooooo - Mushin
Wait... seriously? - Ken Sheppardson
oh, noooo - Tanju Yildiz
Congratulations to the friendfeed team. I know this is huge for y'all. Please don't let us spoil your parade as we weep. - Ladybug Heather
Seriously?!? ..... - sebastian☆rocket brother
oh boy. - Carlos Ayala
I am hoping this will lead to nice integration for cross posting! Currently using Twitter App on FB to post and I hate those ff.im links that end up on Facebook. - Ivan Zlatev
it was good while it lasted, Friendfeed. :( - holly
division by zero - Onur Cengiz
OMG - \(*_*)/
"FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product with the Facebook team." Those are NOT encouraging things to read as a FF user. - Scott of Two Countries
gratz - Ali
My heart is sinking as I type this. Please tell me that it isn't a late April Fool's joke. :( - Tyson Key
Wow, it's true!! - Kevin Whalen
Big news! I second Kol & dilip's request for what this means for the team and FF's future. - Brandon Titus
O_o - Joe Silence
So it IS true. - Hector
Nicely done Bret - Jennifer Van Grove
Congratulations btw, guys! - Kol Tregaskes
Sniff... not sure if I'm excited about this. But I have enormous respect for the FriendFeed team... so, I assume they believe in the move as more than an exit strategy. - Michael Leggett
Congrats, Bret. - Jordan Hofker
This is just horrible - Matthew DeVries
Congratulations, I suppose. A bit worried Facebook is going to ruin everything though. I'm not fond of Facebook, to say the least. - Irma Vermaat
Oh my... Hopefully FriendFeed won't vanish and good luck :) - Tarmo Aidantausta
Do we call it FaceFeed? FriendBook? - Tyson Key
Oh no.... - Ben Hanten
What does mean for us? - Rich from iPod
Terrible fit. - Matthew DeVries
damn here it is... :( - Edgar Rodríguez
FriendFace!!! (i love it crowd) - Bahriye
*waits for wall-to-wall ads and constant spambots* - Joe Silence
Die. - Zio Bonino
Congrats - Zoltan Szendro
I dont want FF to end - Fee501st
Wow - Shevonne
Oh mon dio ! - Umar
What did you do? WHYYY! - Zachary TG
Ostregheta. - Reloj
Congrats guys, in a bittersweet sort of way. - Hutch Carpenter
guess there's no way of denying this anymore :( - BCK
Just another lesson in why you shouldn't put your love and trust in a company...... - Matthew DeVries
Oh no! - Erdinc YILMAZEL
Congrats, but I hate Facebook. - Zachary TG
I like Friendfeed and I do not like Facebook. Gratz to you guys though, I think. - Mark Sorrell
"Oh shit..." came to mind immediately. :( - Tyson Key
Scott, yep not encouraged by that comment. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Congrats on the deal, best wishes to the FF'ers in helping facebook get it together! - Sean O'Connor
This could get exciting, especially concerning twitter :-P - Malte Steckmeister
Congrats for Friendfeed team, but I'm seriously worried for us :((((((((((( - Roberto
Congratulations... I'm sure this is pretty exciting for everyone at FriendFeed... We're all looking forward to where it takes you! - Nathan Chase
And FriendFeed was just getting popular. Not any more. - Zachary TG
Wow - Rodfather
*Sobs* - Tyson Key
to the dump - Zachary TG
Wow, very disappointed - Randy Pollock
come on. Bret, facebook is so closed. so different from Friendfeed. besides that. Congrats to the team - Edgar Rodríguez
As am I - Zachary TG
machecazzo - Sba
VERY disappointed. - Joe Silence
horrible decision - Randy Pollock
Booo. But, you know, congrats. - Chris Nixon
i'm not sure i'm happy about this. - Taylan Aydınlı
OMG WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SH*T - Alp
Congrats for u guys... probably too bad for us ;-( - Laurent
God, I can see FB shutting down FF just like Six Apart shut down Pownce. - DarknessFalls
Good for you, don't know for all of us - Cristian Conti
@#$& that's all I have to say. For now. - Zachary TG
Facebook should have been aquired by Friendfeed. Why they hell would you give up your better product to a worse one? Did none of you give a shit about this service to begin wiht? - Matthew DeVries
Congrats! - Alix Whitmire
Coolest web 2.0 site I've ever seen & used. I hope things don't derail. Ads will be coming soon, which is fine, but.... then what 's next? Please no quizzes! - Ben Hanten
Who would have thought that after Facebook were shamelessly being "inspired" by FriendFeed, the inevitable would have happened? - Tyson Key
I'm pissed off. I wan to throw away the whole Internet : - DarkBls
Congrats! - Moushumi Kabir
Congrats guys. :) - Meryn Stol
Congratulations. This is awesome for you and for Facebook. - Mike Sego
mommy? - Josh Haley
Hey guys, keep in mind that Facebook is blocked in workplaces across the nation. 250 million casual users commenting about last night's party does not intelligent conversation make. - Hector
FFail - rael
What will happen to my 92 subscribers? - Zachary TG
yes you have just failed at failing, no it is not a double negative. - Bahriye
Tragic. - Shannon
I really can't see how FB would buy FF only to shut it down. There are way too many innovations and features FF has that FB honestly needs. I'm looking forward. - Harry Wolff
congrats! - Jay from ViewPoint
here come the comments - Zachary TG
Congrats? Everybody who's saying Congrats doesn't know what he's saying. Go to hell. - Zio Bonino
Yeah, quizzes are EVIL! - Tarmo Aidantausta
Wow. - Zachary TG
Oh, this does not make me happy. Not at all! I've stayed off of Facebook intentionally and FriendFeed is my favorite social network. This is like when the Red Sox traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees. :>( - Larry Hawes
i have stopped using FB for the most part and liked FF alot more. now FF will go the way of FB. screwed again. - Joe Silence
Congratulations. Enjoy the new challenges of acquisition, and I'm looking forward to the result! - Wade Dorrell
Berge Gazen beat your score in Mafia Wars - Berge Gazen
Feedface or Facefeed? - Fee501st
FUCK THAT ! [Anyways good job guys ^^] - TiTi
Enjoy your fat paychecks, guys. You've sold us out. - Akiva Moskovitz
Bravo Bret! Been following your successes ever since we had the opportunity to work together on the YellowPages.ca / Google Maps Canada deal. Congrats! - Sebastien
I wished it was Google or even Yahoo!, instead... - Tyson Key
i really hope ff stays as it is. fb is kinder carder while ff is a great tool. - jkkmobile
Facefucked or Fuckfeed? - Matthew DeVries
Not sure what to make of this. It could eiter be a big win or a huge fail. - dorn
It could have been Microsoft, which would have been worse for everyone. :( - Tyson Key
Can I take this opportunity to say I HATE facebook? - Alex Scrivener
seems the only ppl happy here are the ones in the biz or who stand to profit from the merger. - Joe Silence
I guess we should get ready to get poked by our supposed friends and have various shit thrown at us? Plus 5,000 requests by apps that nearly all suck. - Joey Gibson
There is zero way this could have been a win for anyone, but the now rich founders. - Matthew DeVries
duh - aybars badur
I HATE facebook - Pedram
this is simply awful. - Joe Silence
If I have to go to FB to use FF then it's a lost cause - Randy Pollock
Painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson
FriendFeed is Dead! Long Live FriendFeed! :/ - Tyson Key
Awesome. Please fix Facebook email :) http://fudge.org/too-muc... - Jay Cuthrell
Facebook is going to acquire the web! - l'Ego di Gigi
To me, FriendFeed is like Porsche and Facebook a Kia. I'm curious to see which will become which.. - Moushumi Kabir
Oh noes! - Burcu Dogan
Congrats Bret! - Robin Dindayal
I will reserve judgement, i don't like or use FB but if FF maintains it's current goodness i don't care who cuts the checks. - Steve C
I hope this doesn't turn into an APP filled hunk of crap. I love FriendFeed, it was the untouched gem of microblogging. I don't want Mafia Wars invited in my FriendFeed!!! Congrats on the sale though. - Jay Farmington
Where's the "dislike" option? - Gregor Morrill
+1 Gregor - Tyson Key
accipicchia che pessima notizia - massimo mantellini
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!!! -_- - Bahriye
I just realized this is like when K-mart bought Sears ... - DarknessFalls
/ponders the meaning of "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." - Philipp Lenssen
And I will officially be leaving FriendFeed today. - Michael Forian
omg - John μller
@Philipp: until the new masters start flexing their muscles and bringing in their own people to enforce their own vision. - Joe Silence
I read the blog post and one statement stands out to me "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being." The time being. This is not just bad, I think it may be #FAIL - berchman
Such great news! - Steve Rubel
Not sure what to think of this. - Matthew Speicher
where is dislike button ? - Osman Üngür
OMG! - Zac Bowling
now where did I put my twitter password - Randy Pollock
big mistake :(( - emresezgin
I suppose it will be called FriendFace? http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Harrison
Congratulations, guys!!!!!!!!! - Jess Lee
Oh. Hell. No. - CannonGod
Oh My God! They Killed FriendFeed! - Tyson Key
so the (once)new facebook homepage was actually the tip of the iceberg? - Onur Cengiz
It's a win/win! congrats all. - Alan Le
Time to roll your own Frienfeed clone. - Fırat Can Başarır
Congrats to you. - Evan Travers
Congratulations. I look forward to seeing what this new partnership means for users. - Aren Grimshaw
FF will surely be integrated into FB at some point? - Kol Tregaskes
damn Ken is spot on! +1000 Ken! - vijay
not good. - Jacque
Oh. My. Gosh. - Enrico Lamperti
Facebook obviously liked FriendFeed a long time ago. Why would they have copied so many features (feed item comments and the "Like" action, to name a couple) otherwise? It was only logical for this to happen eventually. Doesn't mean I like it, but acquisition is part of the game. I have the same feeling I did when SocialThing! was acquired by AOL, though. - Voyagerfan5761
"Relationship Status: It's complicated" comes to mind. ;) - Tyson Key
Wow, I finally sign up, and read this. This could end up being a very bad thing for FF fans: "Your FriendFeed friend just signed up on this poll, would you like to too?" - Brian Bommarito
sad... - Marvin
Congrats guys. And thanks for your continuos effort in helping promote and integrate web services, like mine, Wakoopa. That's awesome and I hope FB gets better because of it. - Robert Gaal
This will give FriedFeed the attention it deserves. Otherwise it would have been a geek thing forever. - Michael Netsch
Will there be a super poke feature launched tomorrow? - Matthew DeVries
aw, this sux!! Congrats to the Friendfeed team though! - acedanger
please don't merge logins!!! please - earlyadopter
They are deceived when they suffer themselves to be drawn after the image of things, without seeking for the true reason of them. - The Complex Days
I hope it works OK to you guys! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
+1 Netsch - I still like FF more but this finally legitimizes FF to the mainstream. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Friend request una beata fava. Pecunia non olet. - Federico Bolsoman
Yeah, I really can't wait to see what value the Ashton Kutchers and Oprahs of the world have to add to FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz
Please tell me this is a delayed April Fools' Day joke. - Rochelle
Facebook & FriendFeed: don't cross the lifestreams! D:< - CannonGod
I guess this means I'll have toget a facebook account after all.... Hope the API stays up and running.... - Roberto Bonini
"Were rich B!tch!" - Chappelle - adolfo foronda
Another good thing: This ups the bar for Wave. - Wade Dorrell
What a bunch of greedy assholes. - Zio Bonino
Does this mean that we'll be seeing an influx of webcam spammers, a la Twitter? Along with abolishment of the rooms feature, crappification of the search feature, and more "privacy features" that really just put more nails in the openness coffin? - Tyson Key
Some people will do whatever their friends request........ - Michael Muller
I really don't see why people would be anything but excited about this Facebook freindfeed deal. Great news as far as I am concerned. The Friend feed team is going to go over facebook and make it that much easier to connect, share... isn't that what the social web is about? - Kevin Murray
I know a lot of people who use Facebook and enjoy it and that's fair enough. It's just not my cup of tea. The chaps from Friendfeed will get rich and the technology will get absorbed in Facebook but I can't see Friendfeed continuing in anything like it's present form. - Paul Nash
Don't be so negative, something good might eventually come of this... - Tarmo Aidantausta
The End. - Kaan Ertürk
Congrats! I know you all must be crazy excited right now. - Michele Lorito-Chase
chance for FriendFeed to become more mainstream... congrats FriendFeed team! - Jeroen De Miranda
Nothing could make me happier than if they integrated the good tools from FriendFeed into Facebook, which is where all my friends are. So a big "yay!" from me. - Ian Betteridge
happy for you guys, but not for all of us - Flavio
congratulations. this is going to be interesting. - Dave Beckett
I think I preferred the non-mainstream version of FriendFeed... - Tyson Key
I'm turning on my black shirt, my black trouser, my black socks, my black shoes. Although I probably must be happy for you. - Ton Zijp
NASTY NASTY BAD BAD. But we'll see... - Daniel Morgan
Game over. - stark
yeah removing feed also works. - Bahriye
Reminds me so much of Last.fm fall... - Marcos
Given that the FriendFeed team has never been anything but awesome & respectful of its community, I think it's unfair for people to assume that the Facebook acquisition is going to change that. - Jess Lee
Why in god's name are we flying over this shark?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! - Matthew DeVries
Facebook is like a giant who listens to nobody. Please keep your attitude but I don't think you will be able to do so. - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Noooooooo...... - Sung W. Lim
yeahhh - Çağrı Burak
Congrats! That sucks. - Rutger Blom
Where is that evidence Jess? - Matthew DeVries
I don't know, Like it? or dislike it? - Ömer Balamir
What happens to all the content that we've created and imported here, and the associated metadata? Will all that disappear into the ether? - Tyson Key
If the FriendFeed guys can make FaceBook useful and responsive again, this seems like a pretty positive step! - Robin Barooah
Robin, the Facebook users don't want that I'm afraid. - Rutger Blom
I have big loss of data concerns. See http://ff.im/6pHjo Is there any way to archive all my FriendFeed posts, likes, comments, and pictures (friendfeed-media.com) off-line? Can some Archive.org-like snapshots of FriendFeed be made (Once a month starting Sept 2009)? I'd like to see the cross-links between my posts & other people's posts, even in 2020. - - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: the FriendFeed site is not shutting down. Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users. - Bret Taylor
I just overheard a coworker mention FriendFeed. This is how the world ends... - CannonGod
kafa sayımı yapıp köyü satan ağalar geldi aklıma - Alper Ömer Esin
Then provide us with a way to easily make a back-up of all of our posts and all of the posts we have Liked and Commented on. - Akiva Moskovitz
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want it to be handed off to Facebook. - Zio Bonino
Near term future? - Kol Tregaskes
I don't see good things coming from this. Although I like Facebook, I liked Friendfeed more. Partly because of the environment and the smallness of it. That is now going to be ruined. So, 10-1 odds that Friendfeed will be no more within a year after it gets intergrated into Facebook? - Mathew™ one of a kind
I doubt it Robin. Bret can only give us assurances about the "near future." Here's what I think will happen. Just like Twitter acquired Rael Dornfest and his awesome web services, Stikkit and I Want Sandy vanished (and so did he), Facebook will acquire all the talent from Friendfeed, shut this service down and Facebook will continue to suck. - Jim in Real Time
Same question as Mitchel Tsai. How do I export my data? I don't want anything to be handed off to Facebook. And I don't want to lose anything. - Zio Bonino
Congrats obviously, but im not sure about the feeling,, different user groups which can not integrate but collide.. hope there wont be an huge integration in the future. - Yunus Tunak
I'm happy for FriendFeed! But, at the same time a bit worried about the future. Hope you guys convince FB to not be evil too. - Vishal Verma
Let's hope this is like Disney's acquisition of Pixar - wherein the Pixar guys ended up in control of the animation studio... - Robin Barooah from IM
Where the f*ck is this option to undo ? - Laurent
Odd that this thread gets modded? - Matthew DeVries
I seriously thought this was a joke. Looks like its not. I don't like it, sorry. - Michael Lynton
Does anyone want to start a bounty to purchase Facebook? ;) - Tyson Key
Congratulations! - John Craft
can't be, shouldn't be... - Kemal
It is! Change is inevitable, my friends. - Bill Sodeman
Jim, I'm less cynical than you - the FriendFeed founders wouldn't do this just in order to become 'talent' at FaceBook. - Robin Barooah
So will we be playing FriendFeed Mafia Wars at some point in the future? Ugh. - Alex Hellstrom
I feel if I should be wearing a black arm band. But I guess when I think about it.............. - Kevin J Hatton
Oh No! I don't like this at all :( - Peter
WTF! Horrible Bret, this the death of FriendFeed.. you know that right? - Uncle CW™
I still think Apple will acquire Facebook, Twitter Friendfeed and Google Twitter. - Thomas Power
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! - Stephen Francoeur
My condolences to all Friendfeeders! RIP! - Evgeni Leshtanski
AAAAwwwful! - carolh
I can't believe it! damn! facebook tos will apply to friendfeed too? should i start to move to another service? why anyone would think that facebook public is friendfeed public?! damn! friedfeed was my favorite! I can't understand this move! they want to kill friendfeed or what? - paula simoes ☃
"I bet I can find 1.000.0000 people who dislike this deal."...Welcome to FriendBook. - Jacque
Well, huge congraulations to you and your team, you deserve every success. To be honest I had presumed this would happen sooner or later - the only business model cool little startups have is to hope they get bought by someone bigger for their brains and technology. I'm going to be in San Francisco in a couple of weeks and was going to stop by your office to bring you a cake and thank you for a great product - maybe I still will if you're still there and there's still a FriendFeed! - Alex Lomas
The FF founders must have know this would be a very unpopular move. Most users I know here are not too fond of FB. - Rutger Blom
damn, damn, damn... - Kemal
One of the sadest news for Internet and web creativity :( - DarkBls
Woah woah... This is real? - Jason Huebel
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" There's a bit of a contradiction in your statement, Bret. Nice try though. - jcunwired
Now I can break my Internet plan at home. - DarkBls
Grats Bret and the rest of FF. To all the naysayers... Lets see what happens before we start bitching.... - Rasmus Lauridsen
wow!! dazed and confused!! - Roberto Arancibia
I don't hate Facebook, but for sharing things Friendfeed is MUCH MUCH better! - Mathew™ one of a kind
I wonder if that Ben Darnell guy who *just* left the Google reader team knew about this beforehand? Wonder what he's thinking now? (http://friendfeed.com/friendf...) - Daniel J. Pritchett
Just great. I'm certainly not very happy about this. Let's just hope FB doesn't ruin FF. Ugh. - Elena
Who cares? Nothing's gonna change in our pitiful lifes. - bluretina
:| - Amin BZ
This ties in nicely with the fact that you soon will have the opportunity to make your Facebook profiles public and get followers there. - Michael Netsch
чатег номер два - лето ближе с каждым днем
Congrats Bret! this is so great! many congrats!!! - Jason Pollock
That is capitalism for you. Luckely, there still good 'ol usenet. - Peter
Is it April 1st somewhere in the universe? - Robert Felty
#ROFLMAO Is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT #ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark
I don't mean to be negative but there's got to be a win-win logic to each merger&acquisiton. Audience high in only quantity is clearly not a win for friendfeed in the long term by considering its unique selling points. Let's wait and see who will benefit from friendfeed's death now. - ayca
It's all about the money. I would have payed a couple of dollars each month to use FF. - Rutger Blom
Seriously, what is this? It's like Bret just announced that he's killed all your mothers or something. It could turn out good, it could turn out bad, but at the end of the day, who cares, it's just a website (I mean honestly, come on). I could see it going either way, but in the near term, this is a pretty big win for the FF team, so congrats guys. - Chieze Okoye
OMG! - keso
To be honest, my heart sank a little but I am happy to congratulate you and the team for building such a good brand. Well done. - Kevin J Hatton
I'm just surprised, that's all. I'm not saying this is a bad thing (it certainly isn't for the owners of FF). I'm willing to sit back and see what happens. - Jason Huebel
Wow, I specifically use friendfeed b/c it is not facebook. Sounds great for the friendfeed team, but not necessarily for friendfeed users. - Evan Parker
Born to be sold, like in the old "new economy" era. Remember the late nineties? - Federico Bolsoman
Sudden desire to check out Strands again... but hey, kudos on the incoming $$ for FF team - Leslie Poston
This is wisdom. Bracing for Google Wave is a good idea............. - Kevin J Hatton
this is clearly a talent aquisition... why am i not excited about this? could it be because facebook has been blatantly stealing features from friendfeed shamelessly. Likes were clearly not an original facebook idea...realtime feeds is another i could go on... - Tate DA FF MVP
While I'm sad, because I suspect this means the best things about FF will disappear or I'll be forced to use FB in some way, if the buyout was for some awesome amount of money, I can't say I blame 'em for taking an offer -- I would. - Andy Bakun
I came to FriendFeed because I don't like facebook. Now the question is, will facebook become more like friend feed? or will they just take friend feed and turn it into facebook? - Tom Ray
FF could be a good R&D arm for facebook. - Andy Bakun
My biggest concern here is that FB has a completely different audience than FF. - Rutger Blom
Fucking morons. FriendFeed is doomed now. Think logically. Facebook has NO REASON to keep FriendFeed alive. It will simply take FF's best features, suck the life of out of it, then trash FF. Way to go, FirnedFeed, damn. - Jeremy Buff
Fail. - Big K
Big Fail! - OnuRC
This announcement should have been held off until the plans for Friendfeed were known. Regardless, this is *bad* for FF users. Best case: it continues on, but with stagnated feature development. Worst case: it's gone. - tollie williams
wtf ?! - Umut
I need to install "super PUKE" application ! - Bart LePoole
FFail. - rowlikeagirl
I don't want my FF feed on Facebook :( I use both, but maintain both profiles separate - Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Sigh... Happy for the team if this is what they want, but baffled by the move. The users that are going to leave because of this will make FF a graveyard and the users it gains, well... Hello spam? Sorry, but I don't like it. - Vince DeGeorge from iPhone
JEREMY+++++1 - Ahmet Alp Balkan
Wow! - felix
Well, I guess it is time to dismantle my friendfeed. We all know where this is headed. So, so glad I didn't move all my rss feeds from greader to friendfeed like so many cheerleaders suggested. - Matthew Speicher
Jeremy +1 - F. Batuhan Icoz
so what's next? where should we go? - Flavio
It's been fun here. - Capn' One Eye - adrift
Dang, and just as I was starting to get used to how FF works. FF is useful on it's own. I hope this only improves FF's system, rather than having it disappear into Facebook's wake. - Don Faulkner
My big question to everybody here is this: What are the potential downsides / upsides to this acquisition? I mean on paper I just don't see what the pros OR cons are. I don't care for Facebook but I don't see how them acquiring FF is going to change everything. - Nicholas Kreidberg
furthermore they are 2 different things: I follow a lot of people here that are not in my facebook list, which is for IRL friends! - Flavio
I don't know where to go next either. I had just settled down to make imaginary friends for all my non-FF tweeps, etc. now, I'm not sure if I should bother. - Don Faulkner from IM
I hope friendfeed continues to operate normally but it does not look good. - ashish
integrate best features of ff to fb, then try to innovate in fb if possible, then kill ff... that's it, cheers, all the best. grrrr... - Kemal
niczak has good points. FF & FB aren't exactly competitors, but they aren't orthogonal either. Let's hope FB's smart enough to see the difference and improve both platforms. - Don Faulkner from IM
Nicholas: The upside for Facebook is they just bought an engineering team that's built many of the feature's Facebook's going to need to stay competitive. The upside for FriendFeed's engineering team is $$$ and the ability to build system for a wider audience. FriendFeed's user base is small enough that it'll either get absorbed into Facebook or move on, and FF will become a footnote on the Internet timeline. - Ken Sheppardson
Don, I don't think FB wants to maintain two platforms. - Rutger Blom
first tr.im (heard about it yesterday), now this. I wasn't a heavy tr.im user (yet), but sad to see it go, even if I think url shortening is silly. - Don Faulkner from IM
As FB said they're interested in the people and not in the site, what if the community will keep running FF without its current staff? - Flavio
Congratulations! - Sam Grover
Flavio, that's not very realistic I'm afraid, but I like the idea. - Rutger Blom
rutgerblom, I don't expect they do either, thus my angst over this. - Don Faulkner from IM
if there's a team willing to do it and money, and if we accept some ads as everywhere else, we could make a new FF without FB - Flavio
I have worked hard in avoiding signing up for FB. Does this mean I now automatically will be on FB by virtue of my FF account? - Tony Vota from iPhone
Tony, most likely - Rutger Blom
I'll have to go with Flavio's position too. Given this news (plus tr.im and who knows who's next), I'd tend to favor community supported or federated services for things like this in the future. - Don Faulkner from IM
I am purposely not on facebook because I don't really want to talk to people I have not talked to in 20 years. - Andy Bakun
God help us - Johnny
Once again. I'm happy for the FF team. They worked hard and now collect. That's fair. Wonder if they're sitting in a bubble pool drinking champagne while we cry out here ;-) - Rutger Blom
Congrat Bret!! :)) - Cihan Cepni
trouble is (from my perspective), that the philosophies of the two platforms are at odds. FB wants to bring people to the site and keep them there, while FF is a hub, bringing people in and then sending them back out. (That's part of why it's hard for the newcomer to understand, IMHO.) - Don Faulkner from IM
This almost confirms FF will disappear: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Kol Tregaskes
Great point, Don. - Rutger Blom
+1 Don - Johnny
Does this mean I can throw someone a sheep on FriendFeed now? - Pinksy
I sure hope so, Rutger. I glad for their success too. I just hope there's a next best thing out there for us. - Don Faulkner from IM
Congrats all. Nice work, in spite of any naysaying out there. Keep up the innovation. - Tomas Remotigue
LOLI FFAIL - rael
lame. - andy brudtkuhl
This should be good news for Twitter. - Rutger Blom
post the picture to failblog... - Kemal
Quote «Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook. But the Friendfeed team is not being kept whole. Some employees will now report to Cox, others to engineering head Mike Schroepfer. In my opinion that means, long term, the Friendfeed product itself is unlikely to be a big priority.¶ But Facebook is... more... - Philipp Lenssen
+1 Kol for the techcrunch article! - Don Faulkner from IM
techcrunch: "Cox agreed, noting that Facebook is focused on being a platform and a service, and not just a destination site." I certainly hope so! - Don Faulkner from IM
Brilliant move by both Facebook and friendfeed. Congratulations!!! I have theories of what they have planned, but I doubt you would verify any of them. This is going to go so well with their SocialTV which they have been developing. I'm so happy for you! - Michael Fidler
Really saddened by this news. - Doug Beeferman
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - LouCypher
I don't see what's so bad about it since no one knows right now what the outcome will be, everyone is just making assumptions that could possibly be wrong..... Might help just sitting back and seeing what happens first before complaining. - ChaCha Fance
Nooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrghh! I´ve resisted getting a facebook acct for so long... - Thomas Bøhm
ChaCha, if everybody would do that there would not be much discussion would there? This is part of the fun. - Rutger Blom
I wonder how the discussion over on facebook would compare to this? - Don Faulkner from IM
Drat! - Gee Ekachai
congrats guys! - Elad
Don, I doubt there is any discussion going on there. They're too busy throwing quizes at each other. - Rutger Blom
Congrats, FF! I'm approaching the situation with cautious optimism. A lot of my friends only share stuff via the Facebook wall/feed, so if Facebook is able to make their feed more like the FF feed (i.e. good, instead of sucktacular) through this acquisition, it's mostly a win for me in the end. - Brian Chang
At least my Feedburner stats might go back to normal again. - Rutger Blom
/me pokes Rutger. (just getting in practice. ;) - Don Faulkner from IM
Where will we go for the FFunderCats, bacon memes, and angry artists fighting over photo reshares now? ;) - Tyson Key
Don, LOL :-) - Rutger Blom
If anybody has doubts as to what happens to the FriendFeed community or our stored information here, read this statement from Bret (in this thread) "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users". Now maybe you can see "whats so bad about it" and curb your optimism. Not good. - jcunwired
Congrats FF. Fix their live feed situation please. - Edward Barnieh
@josh: do you think FB will throw away all the crap people use? various quiz, pick 5 and so on? - Flavio
@jc: our data will not go away in the near future. what will be in few months? in a year? - Flavio
Let's see if you can do a bit better than just not being evil this time around. - Tim Tyler
Wooohooo!!, seems like we are being sent back to "good" old Facebook. Congrats Bret!! - Danli
Looks like I'm going to repeat the same thing many others did. My first reaction was "Oh my..." I have refused to join Facebook due to its philosophy while I have been with FriendFeed from the beginning for its. I'm sad and somewhat apprehensive. - Sean Leather
Congrats. I suppose this means the end of FriendFeed but hopefully a better Facebook. - Harry Toon
Hmm. Interesting. - Ralf Becker
Add me to the fearful group. - beersage
Please say that facebook.com will be shutting down, and the combined company will still be called FriendFeed... I bet it won't happen, though. - Tyson Key
"Regarding FB/FF - Here's how it's [probably] going to work. You will most likely have an account merge, all of the services FriendFeed supports will now be aggregated on Facebook, and all of your FriendFeed friends will be in a "list" on Facebook. The FF Groups will become Facebook Groups. The FF lists will become Facebook Lists." http://ff.im/6pNxq - Ozgur Uckan
Nothing like an early retirement payout :) - Owen Greaves
Congrat Bret - Nimaa
Panic attack. Congratulations, however! :) - בייַ מיר ביסטו שיין
Congratulations Bret. For me this merger makes a lot of sense. Facebook will provide the "quantity" of users, which friendfeed deserves :). - Karthick R
FriendFeed + Facebook... Oh noes FriendFace is coming (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)! Now sorry for that link, and seriously, thanks for your work, guys. Please don't let the spirit of FriendFeed to be blown away =) - Anton
СУКИ-СУКИ-СУКИ!!!! - Viktor
hey, that is great guys! interested to see how you integrate. - Brian Walsh
Mind blown. Never expected this. I'm also disappointed, yet optimistic at the same time. - Angus Burton
Kinda curious to see how this will all pan out...although i wouldnt want the friendfeed stuff just integrated into facebook. I feel like im among a group of people who i genuinely share interests with here...dont want to lost that. - Cassidy
Best case: Facebook will continue to support and develop FriendFeed. Worst case: this is great news for Amplifeeder. - David Gaw
aieeeeeeeeeee - Richard Akerman
FAIL. Facebook is the new myspace, and now friendfeed will become a part of that BS. Can't say I'm too surprised because eventually we all sell out. BTW I don't see friendfeed lasting more than the rest of this year, if that. The good news is that we can all be subjected to add 'Are you related to a monkey?' and Blackjack apps while having annoying personal ads on our profile pages. Fuck this shit. - Tomy Thomson
Well done, well deserved, I hope FB's means and infrastructures empower your guys to even better things. But if quizzes appear in "my" friendfeed, evil things will haunt you and your descendents for 3 generations. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:( - Eph Zero
Well done Bret! - Alemsah Ozturk
♪ ♪ This is the end.... beautiful friends ♪ ♪ - All for design
Well, I don't see the point of sticking around here if I have accounts in both and this is going to get swallowed whole into Facebook anyways. Put simply, goodbye. - Micah Collard
It was fun while it lasted. - Mr. Gunn
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! This place will be just like twitter... - The Count Rob
Congrats to the FF team - you've built a wonderful product! - Michael Nielsen
Whattttttttttttttttttttt??? - Nibi
The social community that has been behind FriendFeed creators have built a wonderful product. Only problem is, we don't have Zuck's checkbook :( - jcunwired
friendfeed is a beautiful product, only god knows what facebrook will do to it. Hopefully the ability to upload files (such as mp3s) will not be removed. Zuck is a tool. - Nibi
Congratulations. I'm sorry to say that I don't plan to move with you. - Lars Juhl Jensen
I don't like this.... - Zeki Pehlivan
"Like" to follow this thread. Not because I like what happened. I'm horrified. FF could disappear now. - Kamilah Gill
Same here, Kamilah. - Tyson Key
If FriendFeed had invented the "don't like" button, today would have been the day to press it. - Vishal Verma
and I just bought BuddyFeed for my iPhone this weekend. :( - Don Faulkner from IM
Oh, joy, Facebook's privacy policy is upon us! - Joris
WTF?? NOOOOO!!! Why do such good things have to be ruined by greed? Screw Facebook, and goodbye Friendfeed. - Jason R. Hunter
congratulations! - Loic Le Meur
Facebook is lucky to have such a talented group of people ... Congratulations FriendFeed! - Rob Kurrus
doesn't look like a bad joke, better be for the good then, but... Well congrats anyway guys, you did something AWESOME now let's see where Mark takes it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
That's too bad. Liked the openness if FriendFeed, and the lack crap that is on Facebook. Once FriendFeed dies, it will be Twitter only. - Mike D.
Congrats, but concerned that FriendFeed and its tools may disappear. Merging the tools with Facebook seems impossible. - Mike Reynolds
Congrats guys (and gals) ! - Benjy Weinberger
So, what does the acquisition of FriendFeed by Facebook mean to us, users of both websites: Can I make a friend request from FriendFeed, and be approved for both, on one click - Reyna Carlos
Exciting news guys. I am actually looking forward to your collaboration with / work for FB. No matter what people may or may not like about FB, it does succeed in reaching a more "diverse" audience compared to most other Web 2.0/social web companies. Paired with your team's excellence in realizing features that succeed in pleasing the geekiest of Web 2.0 affine individuals, I think you are steering towards exciting waters :) - Mustafa K. Isik
*heart sinks* actually a bit of shock - I think that Facebook will leave Friendfeed as-is but I don't think there is hope for future innovation in Friendfeed since their best superstar team members will be pulled onto 'more important' Facebook issues... - Pon
And the metastasizing, walled-garden that is Facebook, continues to eat the Web. Bring on Google Wave. - Christopher A Carr
:-) + :-( very happy for the team, huge achievement, hoping to see export of innovation but not a shut down of this unique community and location - Majento
There goes FriendFeed down the toilet. well I WAS having a good day. until hearing this crap! - Scratch5150
Congratulations, and best wishes for your future together! :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Wow, I was beginning to use Friendfeed as my defacto social site...Facebook is more for real life friends. They'll just take what makes Friendfeed great, add it to Facebook and slowly kill this site. - Manuel Mas
What is the big deal? I think it'll make FF bigger and better. You should be happy about that! - orionstarr
Somebody has to got pay for it. - orionstarr
I am disappointed. I don't want to have to go to Facebook to do what i do here. I can not imagine they will port over all the features we enjoy here. We lose a lot for only a slight benefit to Facebook. - Robert
It could be worse, myspace could've bought them lol... - orionstarr
Awful news for users but congratulations to you guys. Ideally, FB will run FF as a distinct service but I'm not hopeful. I don't want the diversity and noise that facebook brings - people doing quizzes on which movie star they resemble and playing silly games. I also wanted to keep my day to day social activity distinct from the targeted information and discussion I use FF for. - Rajit
Only just started taking a serious look at FF after hearing acquisition by FB. Sounds like I'm laggard rather than a leader in use of web 2.0 - ManojRanaweera
I think how Pon said it is what I'm feeling: *heart sinks*. - Andy Bakun
Congratulations, i am really happy for you guys!! :) - Mona Nomura
I'm not a Facebook fan, but can't begrudge the FF gang their chance to reap the rewards for all their hard work. However, it would be a shame if FB ruins the good thing we all have going here. - Ken Morley
So what now? a name change too? FriendFace? FeedBook? FaceFeed? god Facebook really sucks. oh well. Adds anyone? - Scratch5150
Congrats to the FF team... I hope the service doesn't disappear into a fold of light and heat. - Brandon
if all the things that make FF great are brought to FB then I'll be happy to use it - Mike Chelen
The community won't be there. Been on FB longer than any other, don't have nearly the relationship or sense of community there that I do here or on Twitter. - Karoli
Karoli: that is due to the effectiveness of the FF platform and interface, which help to join conversations and find interesting people more so than FB does - Mike Chelen
Mike: I suspect that FB wants FF for the search possibilities, not the community-building aspects. But we'll see. - Karoli
i guess congrats are in order, but I'm going to now go and remove everything I have that feeds into FF, and I have to ask -- do I have any rights over my archive? I have a private feed, and I have no interest in offering up my lifestream to the FaceBook data-miners. I hope the FF folks get what they hope for out of the deal, but my FriendFeed experience has been effectively killed. - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I just learned about the FF acquisition by Facebook - WOW~! Congratulations Bret, Paul and FF team!! holy cow ........Mooooooooo! Where's the FF Acquisition Party? :) - Susan Beebe
Friendfeed after Facebook http://ff.im/6q5EY - Ozgur Uckan
Wow thats cool! - AbZ from Nambu
RT @alirizaesin FriendFeed, R.I.P. Home tweet home!.. - Ozgur Uckan
Congrats to facebook. Now, Twitter is the best. - Ebru Baranseli
Congratulations to the FriendFeed guys on the Facebook Acquisition. Not a big fan of Facebook, so I hope my favorite Uber Aggregator, Realtime Social, Microblogging site of awesomeness is not entirely absorbed into the Facebook infrastructure. I wait with baited breath to hear what "normally for the time being" means ;). - Tom Horn
Can I now have comments propagate in both directions as far as Facebook/Friendfeed is concerned? - Piaw Na
*checks date*. Damn .. not April 1st, must be for real. While I'm happy for the FF team, since I guess this is what they wanted (congrats guys!), I can't help but think this is the beginning of the end for a great service and a vibrant community. There are reasons I don't spend any time on Facebook and do spend lots of time on FF, and some kind of "FF integrated into Facebook" just won't cut it. I hope this service will live on for at least a few more years. - Andrew Perry
Gratz to the FF team but as a user I'm not completely happy. In short, I like the FF team/product much more than I like the FB team/product. Best of luck to all. - timepilot
Dang! I've killed another site! Sorry guys... FF was doing fine until I started coming here again! Same with Pownce! Went there and liked it... went underground for a spell... came back and still liked it, so I stayed. A few months later... BOOM! I have the touch! (I'm thinking I'll start devoting a lot of time to Twitter... maybe I can kill that one, too!) - Mark "Godt Nyt Ǻr"
Все, блядь, пиздец! - ǝuǝƃnǝ
WOW - very happy for all of you :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan
Bret, congrats on the acquisition. You guys put in a lot of hard work to create this community. I just hope you learned the mistakes Pownce made, Jaiku etc, and ensured that you didn't sell out your community, but that you helped it evolve into something as great as this into something better. Good luck in future endeavors! - Mike Lewis
Oh yeah? Ok: take tour money and go to the hell. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière
Yay for you guys, I mean that seriously, I 'like' what this means for you personally, but -1000000 cool points for doing it with FB. Sad day. - Threepwood
Karoli: FF search is so useful because it is integrated with all the other great features that help to find relevant content. if FB wants to have a similar capability, they must also develop the underlying architecture. - Mike Chelen from IM
Sucks big time. - Drea
Sadness - Yasin Jason
I can't believe this happened - Johnny
Suggested name: FailFriend. :-((( - Claude LaFrenière
Friend facebooks feed (FFF) - Filiz Koyuncu
«Experience shows that those who never trust anyone will never be disappointed.» Leonardo da Vinci - Claude LaFrenière
So what exactly is going to happen? Is FF eventually going to disappear? Will it merge into the Facebook interface? Please don't do that - Ethan
Gimme my OPML export - Sriks7
Money is the root of all evil - Shakeel Mahate
shakeel, the reasons for friendfeed to join facebook are probably about other things besides money, since many of the FF staff left high-paying jobs to join in the first place - Mike Chelen from IM
Well I've thought about it, and I'll stick around until I start seeing that crappy Facebook logo, I only have 71 subscribers here, I hate to do it but I'll probably scrap the whole thing and start over somewhere else. still can't believe that shit. - Scratch5150
Congrats, team! It's bittersweet, though. - Anne Bouey
So now we will have FriendFeed blocked at work too. Darn. - Mark Scrimshire
"Your data will not go away any time in the near term future" is not exactly inspiring for the long term for those of us who came here to escape Facebook for a) it's walled garden and b) privacy concerns. Nice for the Founders to make a pile of cash but for the many of us, it feels like we got sold down the river. Sad. - Sally Church
This is tragic. Tragic. Tragic. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
cacarr: updates for FB have progressed rapidly in the past, count how many months since new features such as api calls and site redesigns have have been implemented - Mike Chelen from IM
I can't believe it either. I feel as if — for the moment — I am lost in the wilderness, adrift. - roamin
Congratulation to the FF team! You guys deserves this. I just hope that Facebook does not change the directions of FF. - Vinko
congrats, I'm happy for friendfeed... - amelia arapoff
Congrats you guys, well deserved. - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congrats Bret! Hope the transition goes smoothly for you guys. - Cristo
I hope this means better integration: liking here will auto-like on fb and such :D if that's the case, I won't mind the ads *wink* *wink* - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Franc, cant stand facebook ads in their current format, hope they will be fixed eventually :P - Mike Chelen from IM
Grats, dont spend it all in one place..... - Robert Higgins
congrads. I think it will be good for BOTH companies. - Logan Lindquist
boo. - kelly
The Borg has struck. Alas. Prepare to be assimilated. (Will FB add my FF subscriptions to my FB friends list?) - Dennis Jernberg
Boo - Amit Morson
Logan: What do you mean by "both" companies? - Christopher A Carr
Now that you guys have $$$ you should swap out the not so very pleasing default avatar! - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Hope you guys enjoy your new jobs. Meanwhile we get to watch a great alternative to Facebook with a promising future go down the tubes. A really sad and unfortunate day. - Todd Holmes
BOO! Hiss! Mondays really do suck. - Dale
Congratulations to all the FriendFeed team. I hope you'll be able to keep the FriendFeed spirit up at Facebook. Kudos for all the great work you've been doing. - Paul Papadimitriou
Congrats and good luck.. - Can Koklu
Thanks for all the fish. Saving the so long... for now. - abacab
Goodbye FF, it was wonderful.. - Francesco Cugurra
I use FriendFeed and Facebook so it would be awesome to see FF features in Facebook. Congratulations! - krzychukula from IM
judging by the nearly 600 comments as i type this, including my own earlier one, FF could use a Don't Like button as well. or would, if we were going to be using it much longer. - kelly
Nice, i like to wish you all the best for your new job (and it's really hard, i know). I'm happy, but... don't let die FF!! - Seo (ignobile) Guru
Hope FriendFeed remains open. Love the spirit of FF - Bernaldo Barrena
Seriously, what a coincidence! Just on Saturday I claimed to be both twitter- and facebook-free. I loved FF product and personally helped to bring at least a dozen of my friends into the community. I'll stick around for a while though. - ǝuǝƃnǝ
This deal makes sense, now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask! Congrats facebook and ff! - Garin Kilpatrick
I suppose Facebook had to do it, with Twitter and Google Wave as competitor... - Alexander Kruel
обычные дела. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - ǝuǝƃnǝ
Congratulations Friendfeed :D - paniaguai
Ok. I'll quit friendfeed, so. Goodbye. Ciao - valerio fiandra from iPhone
I am noticing a lot of people going to re-esumate their lifestream.fm account now! - Flavio
I don't think FB acquiring FF is bad. But I don't think it's good either. We'll see. :-) In the meantime, keep up the good work! - Alexander Gieg
Oh shit. Love FF, hate FB. I'll NEVER, EVER merge my two accounts. I'd rather unsub from both than merging. I'll wait for the developments, and in the meantime look for an alternative. - Alliandre (la Ippe)
How long until ex-FriendFeed employees start jumping ship from Facebook? I wonder... - Tyson Key
Thomas Power still believes that Facebook/FF/Linkedin (2010) will be acquired by Apple (2011) and this is a transitional acquisition in the SN market cycle. The world is shifting to Mac, iTunes, iPhones and FB own the next generation. Apple have $29bn of cash on deposit price is not an issue. Google must jump for twitter while MS fiddle in the sticks with Yahoo. BillG will be back at the MS helm 2012. - Penny Power
:( Happy for FF people, sad for the service. Was going to move from fb to ff this week.. - Martynas
congrats! - Ronald
thts good!so i can workin both in my Fb online next - Arini dewi muchtaram
Flavio: never heard of lifestream.fm before, but I'm going to go check it out. I'll reiterate, though, that I'm now shy of any service like this, since it can disappear just as it's getting good. I heard about sweetcron.com last night (via http://ff.im/6pR2w). Maybe it's time to move from centralized to distributed again. - Don Faulkner
Just finished setting up my lifestream.fm at http://lifestream.fm/dfaulkner. Lifestream does what it says, and no more. FF's search blows lifestream away. FF is more flexible about adding source feeds, but lifestream does fine without the flexibility I suppose. FF still wins, or would, if I thought it would be sticking around. :P - Don Faulkner
Must See - Hitler blows up over Facebook / FriendFeed - http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Dave, I'm not happy. That video gave me some much needed comic relief .. after waking up to this news. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
good for you, bad for us - Zachary Earl Strader
I also hate facebook, not because of their silly quizzes and pokes, but because I suspect they would like to maintain massive user base as the determining factor in choosing a social network. I would love to switch to orkut as I use so many other google services, but I can't because nobody else does. That should not be my criteria.... I thought friendfeed would try to make social networks work together. - Ru Viljoen
I don't understand why everyone is so negative about the situation? - orionstarr
@orionstarr - it's like Starbucks buying your neighborhood coffee shop and saying it still cares about the customers. You know it's just not going to be the same as what you've come to love. - Robin Barooah
Presumably FF will go on the back burner - and the team will try and "fix" Facebook. - Tim Tyler
sad, sad, sad. - scott willeke
Congratulations! That's huge. I hope all is well. - Juan Bruce
bad bad bad - kakilang
bye bye friendfeed! - Jonathan Crossland
Why-eee!!! ??? What next? - Wayne Lewis
I've watched Facebook morph from a relatively organised and well implemented social networking tool into the hulking mess it is now - and I really, really hope that a similar thing doesn't happen here with the inevitable changes this will bring about. - Leslie Moore
Come on guys, out with the long-term game plan, this is tedious. - Andrew Eglinton
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I mean Cool. - sofarsoShawn
Teach Facebook how to be FriendFeed. Let the small but fast teach the big but slow. Don't forget what Paul says - don’t be evil. - whatidiscover
Robert Scoble
RT @allnick FriendFeed Acquisition Price was $50 Million http://online.wsj.com/article...
Peanuts - Mark from iPhone
They got good quality people and company for really cheap price. - ashish
how much did they raise? - Allen Stern
Bargain of the flippin' century! Now I'm REALLY pissed! - Jim in Real Time
Can Friendfeed make Facebook profitable? If so, $50mn is cheap. - James
And now Facebook just launched a search that indexes EVERYTHING, including status updates: http://bit.ly/DEGiZ - Sam Houston
And the social community that helped make it great? A lot of lost time and data :( - jcunwired
Damn and I have $50M sitting in my cheque account. Should have acted sooner. - John Hardy
"... in a combination cash and stock offer, according to people familiar with the matter. The company paid roughly $15 million in cash, with the rest in Facebook stock that vests over several year" - incredible. - Liviu Barbat
that's 6 bionic, six million dollar men + 1 knight rider kitt (2000) car + 2 maximillion bionic dogs + the number of nintendo wii sports that sold in europe (source: http://www.afterdawn.com/news... ). but me personally, i'd just take the cash. ;) - sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Wow, seems to be a rather cheap deal...good buy for Facebook... - Suril Amin
This seems very cheap given the valuation that Twitter and Facebook command. There must be something internal to FriendFeed that we don't understand that made them decide to accept this offer. - Michael Liss
+1 Michael. - Liviu Barbat
Goooo Friendfeed! - Arnold Aranez
I am curious what the net is - Susan Beebe
Louis Gray
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed accepts Facebook friend request
As my son says: "sad face". - Fa La La La Lindsay
This is *not* good - Jorge Escobar
My life has no purpose now - Josh Haley
Is this real ??????? Please ?? No ??? - Jacque
Robert where are you ? - Jacque
this news sucks, if it's true. - Valeria Maltoni
What does Scoble think? A sad day in MUDville...or something...It does leverage FB to compete with Twitter and all the identi.ca federalist balkanizers. - Prokofy Neva
I guess this means the death of FriendFeed as we know it. - Jorge Escobar
I don't see a comment from Ken, vijay... what did he say? - Fa La La La Lindsay
Sorry... had my threads mixed up... I said this is painful. And apparently I completely misunderstood what FF was trying to accomplish both technically and as an organization. I guess Facebook must have dangled a pretty big bag of money in front of them. - Ken Sheppardson
You should get a cut! - Steve Rubel
Steve, too late for that. See if they can backdate me some options. :) - Louis Gray
New chart? - Liza
So... where to next, Louis? :-) - Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I think it's time for you to build the next big thing. - Bwana ☠
Thomas Hawk
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed???? WTF? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed????  WTF?
Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, we’ve learned. We’re gathering details now. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet
No. - Yolanda
anyone think this is true? - Thomas Hawk
wah!? The timing would be interesting for me because I just had a big "discussion" with a friend last week about how I won't join Facebook because it's not open like FriendFeed. - Ben Reierson
What. - joey
please GOD No!!!! - Edgar Rodríguez
What?!?! - Kevin Whalen
Crazy. - Eric Florenzano
Noo... please... don't let this be true! - Hector
To publish this and it not be true would be bad. - Kevin Whalen
I wonder if this means that photos of nursing women won't be allowed on FriendFeed anymore. - Thomas Hawk
Acquiring them as their R&D lab? - mikepk
any guesses on the price? Anything less than $100 million would mean that they sold it for too little. - Thomas Hawk
Boom! Direct shot to Twitter. - Jeff Beckham
Holy Fucking Cow. I don't want this. - Zio Bonino
Assuming it's true.... why would it happen? - Ryan - @magicofpi
I thought Google was going to acquire FF - Francine Hardaway
Not giving hits to the Techcrunch asshole, will wait for a responsible media outlet to cover - Gabriel
Well considering FriendFeed had investment rounds aroung $5m (If I remember correctly) a 20x return would put it around 100m, so that would be a good guess. - mikepk
WTF! - Carlos Ayala
If it's not true TechCrunch is not going to look good here. - Thomas Hawk
don't know if this is good or bad. i hate using facebook. - Dusty Edenfield
Screw You Arrington!! LOL - Edgar Rodríguez
If true this can't be good (at least not for FF users). - Brian Sullivan
daaaaamn - Tsega Dinka
So what does this really mean? - Michelle
I hope this is not true and Arrington dives in his own shit. (though it's kinda suspect that the friendfeeders haven't commented yet). - Zio Bonino
well if this is true, it'll be time to move on. i'll be able to concentrate on some of my projects, thats for sure. - Carlos Ayala
Oh god, please, no! - James Myatt
Arrington is definitely not the most trustworthy person in the world, but we'll see - Lawrence Oluyede
i trully hope not :-(( - Del_
Well, so they bought they R&D department. Was about time. - Lars Trieloff
:( - ӊooқ
please keep the platforms separate. wow! - Stuart Miniman
Curious why so many think this would be such a bad thing? - Tsega Dinka
Not liking the sound of this so far... Hopefully it won't turn out like the Yahoo - Flickr marriage! - Jeff P. Henderson
Yahoo Flickr wasn't bad IMO - LANjackal
This is horrible news.... I can't believe they'd do this - Matthew DeVries
Maybe I don't know enough about FF, but what is everyone so bummed about? - Katie Wynne
^Exactly. The purchase in and of itself doesn't mean anything. Personally I'm happy, FB probably saved FF's ass financially speaking in the long run - LANjackal from IM
I think some think that it's a bad idea Tsega because FF represents a *vastly* superior content platform than Facebook and some might be concerned that Facebook would end up killing FF as we know it and trying to assimilate us all into their inferior product. - Thomas Hawk
You nailed it, Thomas. - Zio Bonino
there was no "long run" to save FF from financially. It's Founders are loaded. They had the luxury of ample financial backing to run it for a long, long time. It will be interesting to see their reasoning on why they did this if in fact it is true. - Thomas Hawk
For me, FF and FB have two separate purposes: FB is for communicating with my IRL friends and FF is for consuming and sharing content with everyone else, but then I've been on FB since it was select universities only, so maybe I have an outdated opinion of what FB is. They need to keep both products. - James Myatt
OMG this is terrible :( - Ale♫nastrorosa
Also, FB is blocked at work, but FF isn't. - James Myatt
+1 James - Daniel J. Pritchett
Thomas: I see where you're coming from. To me though, if anything, this will make facebook a better product over all and hopefully FF will remain what it is with more FB integration. - Tsega Dinka
once upon a time it was "don't be evil".. - Cristian Conti
Seriously, Is this true? OMG this would be the worst thing ever!!! This is a joke RIGHT??!! - Jannifer @wordsforliving
chances are FF will be nuked. There's not much in it for Facebook to run two separate networks. The wording that Bret chose to use on the blog pretty much paints that case in my opinion. FF is worth so much more for it's potential than for it's users and I think Facebook wouldn't care if they lost 100% of the current users if they get unfettered access to implement the best tech ideas into their current product. - Thomas Hawk
Jannifer, I wish it were. But it is true. You can read Brett's post here: http://ff.im/6pFNz - Dilip Dand
crazy crazy stuff. - Zac Bowling
yeah, the phrase "for the time being" is a scary one. - Ryan - @magicofpi
As in, "Friendfeed will continue to operate for the time being." - Ryan - @magicofpi
The team will probably be locked into a 2 year employment with Facebook while their equity fully vests and then will end up jumping ship. This acquisition will likely make Facebook a little bit better, but we probably lose FF in the process which is too bad. - Thomas Hawk
I was kinda hopin FriendFeed would open source some of their sauce but I guess now that's even less of a probability. - matthew john ernisse
I don't have a good feeling about this. :-( Why have two services with so many overlaps. FF will be integrated into FB in the long term. - Kol Tregaskes
Why is the worse company the ones in charge, that is where I'm just freakin baffled. Friendfeed is a better freakin product..... - Matthew DeVries
gee, i step away from my desk for an hour and all heck breaks loose - Imabug
you'd better delete any content (photos for instance) you posted in your feed that you don't want FB to own when they get their claws in. - Joe Silence
Matthew: FB had the $$$. - Joe Silence
When I look at how I used FB and how I use FF (which I am still new to) FBs purchase would actually suck in my world. I only use FB to keep up with my fam and friends and I don't do that very well because I loathe the interface. FF is fresh for a newer user like me. Adds a lot of value in terms of the knowledge sharing that goes on here. To think that this service would get sucked up by... more... - Michelle
Agree with many of the comments on here. I'm concerned Facebook will basically just take all of FriendFeed's great properties and fold it in the large kingdom that is Facebook. A great service, FriendFeed may just become FB's Twitter. (Funny, too, that we're mourning the potential demise of FriendFeed on FriendFeed. Kind of like the newspaper biz writing 1000s of articles about its own demise in its papers. - Keith Trivitt
But all my extended family is on FaceBook! Where do I hide now? - Ted Gilchrist
Keith - well, now we know what happens when Facebook gets jealous... - Ryan - @magicofpi
Jeremiah Owyang
Congrats Friendfeed, who are going to be acquired by Facebook http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
MG Siegler
Facebook Acquires FriendFeed - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Holden, although I understand your spirit there... how does the extra $100 change your life? In my opinion, $200 is the same as $400 in the same way that $1700 is the same as $2100. Do you work five more hours at your job or 10 more? It's non-consequential. What makes the difference is does this become something you need, and will you pay for it? - Louis Gray
Goes from a no-brainer at $200 to a "ehh... do I REALLY need it?" at $400. - ronin
I like it--moving us closer to the world where paper is quaint, antique, a hobby. The problem with the price moving ever higher seems to be that it starts to enter the realm where one could just buy a little laptop. Why this and not that? - Kathy Fitch
I agree with both points. $200 is the sweet spot although they'd probably hemorrhage losses for a while. But $400 isn't a terribly large chunk of change when it comes down to it. Think of the Kindle. That only does print material (and a small selection at that) primarily. This does web only. The web opens a lot more opportunities than a book reader. - Zach Flauaus
And as the price keeps going up, it's going to have to be something really special if Apple really are unleashing the iTablet soon... #Inevitable-iTabletComment - Andy Bold
$400 means it's competing with netbooks and low-cost notebooks - a crowded market if ever there was one. - invariant - farewell FF
looking good. looking good - Ritu
What does it do? - Johnny Worthington from iPhone
Surfs the web. - ronin
the price doubling is quite a variation. :P - Joe Silence
Wow. $400 dollars is outrageous. And I am going to assume that some idiot will forget about Canada? - Zachary TG
as previous post on this item "if i can casually throw this in a backpack WITHOUT the screen getting F.U.B.A.R., then me wants one very much! - You (edit | delete)....price not a factor if that is solved. - shayne catrett
buy the time it gets to market like when? October, the rumoured apple table will kill it STONE DEAD. - Weird Shanghai
msi already has a tablet out in akihabara japan, i looked at it today it is slightly smaller, but has a keyboard. same price - Robert Higgins
I'll buy it!!!! *waves arms wildly* looks slick,,, drooools - Susan Beebe
Looks nice, but I *knew* they were never going to hit their price points. Although I guess it's good to set really hard goals. - mikepk
I love the "the rumored apple tablet will kill it" stuff. Does anyone remember how long Apple's been rumored to be about to release a slate/tablet/umpc/netbook/tablet PC? - Joel Bennett
I would like one, but US$400 is NZ$700, so if Apple tablet comes in at rumoured US$800, then NZ$1400 is way out of most peoples league - hate it. - Geer
I'm a bit surprised of no Bluetooth in the specs. The lack of BT for keyboard and A2PD plus the price hike really has limited my lust for this device. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
SGD575. Hmm.. Now that I have the iPhone, I wonder if I really need this? Hmm.. - Winston Teo
For $400 USD I think its a great price - Nicholas James
$400 USD is to top of the price point that I believe most people will be willing to pay for a device that will be used to surf the web while watching TV. As any new product, including the yet to be announce Apple iTablet, the price will go down after the initial release and the TechCrunch gets some of its R&D back. I wouldn't be shocked to see the price drop to $350 after 3 or 4 months. - Casey Russell
1 USB port? Really? One USB port… - Remo
ronin said it best (3rd comment) "Goes from a no-brainer at $200 to a "ehh... do I REALLY need it?" at $400" - Chris Heath
Remo, to be fair, the crunchpad is designed to be held. Having USB cords in the way really hampers the way the design is intended to be used. I experienced this experience with the Raon Everrun. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Boy, that looks a lot like an Etch a Sketch! - Scott Hanley
Robert Scoble
A Google executive told me that something cooler than Wave is yet to come this year. OK now I am interested! But I am tortured. What is it?
That does peak my curiosity! - Kevin Whalen
You are a cruel, cruel man. Now we're all tortured - Keith Barrett
There going to buy friendfeed. - Shaun Hess
Yea. I feel like your friendfeed pic, not being able to figure what it is. - Lakshman Prasad
Must be pretty big.. very curious!! - Allan Jones
Geocities 2.0! - pourmecoffee
Maybe Google Chrome OS earlier than expected? - Manuel Mas
I wonder what that could be. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
So they're already giving up on wave? - Colin
What is your Friendfeed picture anyway? I'm slightly confused. - Hunt
Whatever it is, Apple/AT&T will not allow it on the iPhone :o - Kevin Whalen
How can they be advertising something cooler than Wave when Wave isn't even out yet? - Lise
Colin: no. Wave is very important to Google. - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Wave 2.0? - TheHenry
I think I know, but I'm not allowed to say because it would violate an NDA. - Bryan Bartow
It's Google Surfboard - a wave add-on - Keith Barrett
Bryan: in that case do you agree? - Robert Scoble from iPhone
Wave is going to be awesome. Waiting on my sandbox access.. it will redefine communications on the net! - Tim Hoeck
Or how about Google Wave: Pacific. - TheHenry
Depends on their implementation of the idea. Personally, I'm more excited about Wave based on what I know about the two, which I admit is very little. - Bryan Bartow
I have a Wave sandbox, and it IS awesome! The announcement has to be related to the new OS or android - Keith Barrett
Keith, if it's what I'm talking about then it is neither. - Bryan Bartow
Bryan: hummmmm. Now I'm more tortured - Keith Barrett
In the interest of full disclosure, my information is two levels removed from the source. Google -> vendor -> me. Still, I trust the source and when the idea was told to me it sounded very plausible. - Bryan Bartow
I hope it's Google Base integration with Open Social widgets! - Mitch
A bit bigger than that, Mitch ;) - Bryan Bartow
@manuel I just came back from Win7 ship party and i am astonished that how many man years does it take make a OS. - Ruchit Garg
My team was actually asked to work on the project, but we unfortunately had to decline. It definitely would have been a cool project. - Bryan Bartow
Ruchit: I understand, just speculating. Yet considering it sounds like a Linux distro running Chrome, it does not sound all that impossible. - Manuel Mas
Maybe its the ability to call up contacts list when composing a message. That would be groundbreaking. :/ - jcunwired
Google Heath integration with Orkut? - Mitch
@Bryan: Is it a Netbook with Chrome OS with all the Google Apps built in. Something like a GPad? - Abhishek Tiwari
Chrome OS wouldn't be a real surprise. Even a Linux distro by Google wouldn't be a shock. Wonder what it could be... hmm... - ChristianWV
killer than wave??? how many of you think google wave is a path breaking one????? - hariharan kumar
Should be considerably easy for Google to accomplish since Wave is vaporware to the overwhelming majority of web users - even savvy ones who know about it. - Chris Duffy
cool is always relative. I have learned not to get too excited. It may be cool for you but not me. - Phillip Miller
I think you mean subjective - Mitch
hate you. :) - metalerik
It's going to be an anti-aging skin cream. It will be called the G-formula. - Tomy Thomson
When I first heard about Wave, I thought big deal, chat and email. But after watching the entire presentation, I see it could replace Email, IM, IRC, Forums, Blogs and their commenting systems, etc.. and put it all in your 'INBOX' - Tim Hoeck from Android
What about the Google Docs interface overhaul? http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009... With the possibilities of GDrive ... - Kevin Mohr
Wave seems like another Orkut to me, so it wouldn't surprise me if there is something better coming. - Cristo
Google AdSense on the new Coca-Cola Freestye soda dispensers? - RAD Moose
@Abhishek Nope. Not hardware related if it's what I'm thinking. - Bryan Bartow
I'd be willing to bet it is mobile-related. - LogEx
Google shoul create a highly robust social media platform that integrates Google's products: profiles, mail, calendars, chat, voice, picassa, blogger, gReader, search, latitude, maps - that is what I would build :) - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed
add Wave too, of course - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed
I'm just going to call it gootopia (or should it be googtopia. hmm) - Micah Wittman from iPhone
Susan, I think that is happening already, bit by bit. Every month there are new capabilities and integration points. I'm optimistic on that front. - LogEx
Interactive TV? :P - imabonehead
I was dreaming about getting access to wave now something new and better?!!! - Mostafa Lameei
Mostafa: There's always something new and better coming from every front. - Manuel Mas
Logical - Google product integration has way more potential than they have currently in production now. I see layers of useful and revenue generating features and improvents. The potential roadmap I see for this is highly disruptive and needed. - Susan Beebe from iPhone
If I had to guess, I would say 1) some type of Youtube Appliance (=Apple TV done right) or 2) Google News 3.0 (shifting from news to a discovery engine). The TV thing is probably bigger and somewhere they have a big competitive advantage with Youtube. - Edwin Khodabakchian
USB plug in directly to right ear download contents of mental zipper - ready to upload to friends - PookyMedia
Another big opportunity besides realtime communication is media streaming so my guess is a Silverlight-like (RIA) platform with special focus on adjustments dependent on the device used for consuming and open enough that augmented reality innovations will play nice with current "standard" codecs - Alberto Saavedra
Google TV!!! Yes! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed
Google Web Drive, under the "Cosmo" codename. Read Blogoscoped or GOS. I think Ionut told me he expects Cosmo to be launch before Sept. - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone
Google Web Drive would be cooler, in a way..ve. - Nick Humphries
Antimatter Wave, aka Wavenot™ - ianf ⌘
Google buying FF?!! but something big too big have will for sure have a relation with Google voice. - abdellah
A time machine? - Allen Eskelin
"Google buying FF" - Noooooo! It will just get killed like some of the other high profile acquisitions they have made. - Travis Koger
@Allen I love the concept, @Travis google killed the app that were at their first stage of development, FF is 85% finished (mean completed) the rest 5% will be user innovation, so even if Google buy FF they will not change a line in the code or the architecture.now who is the firt to like this post?!! what did Greader this week? who from Greader left the office to go to FF? too many question!! - abdellah
but let be clear, all the above are just speculation. - abdellah
Nope Abdellah. Cosmo have been mentionned numerous times in official docs and in the code of some apps. - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone
@Jerome havn't understand what do you mean by Cosmo - abdellah
I think it's called "hype." - Carlos Eberhardt
It has to be quantum computing. all computation done outside of time and space. - Walter Logeman
I'm thinking Google Chrome with Native Client for super fast rendering of web applications (including Wave). - George Moga
Introducing Google Goo: Making the web squishy, coming late 2009. - DGentry
Won't be hard to be cooler than Wave. Yes, I'm not a big Wave fan: way too noisy, messy, unusable... Maybe I'll change my mind in the future but for now, I still don't get what we'll do with this stuff and I don't buy the idea. - Pascal Thivent
Okay, here are my predictions. First, let me say that being cooler than Wave will be quite hard because that's pretty awesome (do you have sandbox access Pascal? Because I'm sure that will change your mind). (1) Google TV - Never mentioned anywhere officially and would definitely be cooler than most others, however VEVO is somewhat similar. (2) GDrive/Cosmo/whatever they call it - would... more... - Californian
Google World Domination? - Amit Morson
This churn in applications wears me out! Where do you get the energy? - ZuDfunck
The amount of web-based applications being delivered from Google is amazing. There is so much potential in Google voice apps, Google Wave, which will put their social apps on steroids and now an OS. If they can leverage their brand and fan base into these other verticals; they will be a force to reckoned with and a huge target for anti-trust regulators... - Mark Harai
Google Cloud. In your pocket, on your desk, embedded ---anywhere, anytime at anyprice. - Thom Kennon
Wow Thom - that actually does sound VERY cool... - Mark Harai
I'm interested too!! - Alex Hammer
Probably something to do with a more direct Windows competition. If you look at Google's recent products, many of them are meant to replace Microsoft products. - William Mougayar from iPhone
A multi-platform OS is the only thing in my mind that could top Wave. Can't wait to find out for sure though what this will be! - Garin Kilpatrick
I bet it's the Gdrive after I've just paid for an extra 10GB storage on Google. Would be cool to be able to access all my files from any google app, so I could add a picture from picassa webalbum or embed a video of mine/ favourited without having to go to the other site and copy a URL. This would set it up nicely for google OS - Steven Horner from iPhone
It's a kind of gyro balanced 2-wheel personal transportation device, IT will change everything. The way we live, the way cities are built. - Ray Cromwell
Crazy. I wonder if it will read my mind and stream content related to my thoughts in real-time. - Dane
What!? Cooler than Wave. I'll give my left nut to find out what & to be a tester. - Brian Felix from iPhone
Whatever it is, I'm sure IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE INTERNETS! - Andy Bakun
It is a Google-branded reality distortion field developed in collaboration with Apple. The reality distortion field prototype is so strong that Eric Schmidt was forced to resign from the Apple board of directors, lest his field encounter that of Steve Jobs reulting in mutual annihilation in a devastating burst of pure energy. - thegeniusfiles
That's a really interesting idea, Gabe. It seems to go a bit against the drive that Google Apps will reduce the need for IT departments though, so I doubt it. - Californian
Google will be hiring people to come to your house and physically direct your searches. - Chris Baskind
This photo search thing? - Michael Q Todd
Google has created an OFF button for the internet and will demonstrate their magic later this year. After that, Google will solidify the world under one government known as the Google Wave Party. Then, SkyNet will be born and we will all be shocked and amazed when Google Androids storm through our neighborhoods, killing us all. - Bradley Farless
More exciting than Wave. Has got to be Tsunami - Sidharth Dassani
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