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Twitter keeps going down. FriendFeed FTW! Apple event is too much, I guess.
Daniel Rowley, randy stewart, Micah Wittman and 6 other people liked this
Good thing we have FriendFeed, though it would be great if an event some day would bring FF down too...Means a lot more people on FF
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
I think of friend feed as a private country club still
- Sherry Reynolds
Twitter down, FF up
- Ricardo Alamino
Couple the Apple event with the Gov 2.0 event in DC
- Benjamin Strong
from FreshFeed
@Sherry very well said
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
That astronomy app may motivate me to upgrade my iPhone. #gnomedex
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That was super cool... Takes all the work out of astronomy... Just look up in the air and know stuff instantly. Great!
- SAM
Seattle PHOTOWALKING Gnomedex alert! EARLY Friday morning with @chasejarvis (did the Nikon videos). Details:
Akiva Moskovitz, Kevin Pedraja, randy stewart and 5 other people liked this
7 a.m. Friday morning. We'll get to Gnomdex in time.
- Robert Scoble
Meet at Chase' studio: 3333 Wallingford Ave. North, Seattle, WA 98013
- Robert Scoble
Chase is on FriendFeed too: http://friendfeed.com/chaseja...
- Robert Scoble
I'll totally be there! :)
- kk+
Sample of his work with Nikon: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog...
- Robert Scoble
kk now it's getting even better! I wish we could get Thomas Hawk there.
- Robert Scoble
there's a super solid group of photographers attending gnomedex as usual. my 'gig' this time around is to do a photo recap in the last 15 mins before closing. make sure you jump in front of my lens. :)
- kk+
Robert, I'm there! Thanks for the heads up. Looking forward to it.
- Alberto Lopez
from iPhone
kk: Oh, I will! Can't wait to see who shows up at 7 a.m.! Alberto, see you there!
- Robert Scoble
Can me and my little point and shoot come?
- Liana Shanes
OK count me in!
- Elliott Ng
Oh man... that's early, but how could I not?
- randy stewart
*grumble* 7am. guess i'll just stay up all night. why not make it 5am?! ;)
- kk+
Chase's video was one of the factors in my deciding to get a D90. Hope to see you guys.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'd be there but that just doesn't fit into our child-directed morning schedule.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Vanity Fair's "The 25 Best News Photographs" WARNING: These will break your heart and make you feel insignificant. - http://www.vanityfair.com/culture...
Muge Cerman, Aykut Karaalioğlu, Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF and 61 other people liked this
ooof. Warning is appropriate.
- AJ Kohn
I still can't breathe from some of these images...
- Mona Nomura
beautiful. makes me miss when there was passion in the world in some of them. but oy, vanity fair's site is such a cause for "nothing below the fold" - no sites should be below the fold - or they should be JUST below. ecommerce has done studies on it. it been proven to help drive traffic and keeps visitors stickier.
- Patricia
I don't buy Vanity Fair (not interested) but their online publication is phenomenal. If they were to print these, I would purchase without a doubt.
- Mona Nomura
Oh, the humanity! Amazing pics.
- Vincent X
Absolutely amazing. Thank you, Mona.
- Ladybug Heather
My pleasure... these are breathtaking. :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona. Thank you for sharing that link. *cries*
- Yolanda
I know, Yo. :(
- Mona Nomura
These are gut-wrenching and creepy. Imagine being the person who took the photo! Mona, thanks for sharing tho, these events can't be forgotten.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
First time I've ever had a "Warning" be accurate. Some of these are tough to see. Thanks for the link.
- Michael Pardee
The one that *always* gets me is the jumper from the Towers. I'll always remember those folks.
- Yolanda
Wow... these are...
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Presidential ages and lifespans
Mala, Aether, Ron and 23 other people liked this
Help, my eyes are burning from that chart!
- Braden Kowitz
Also, what's with the sort order? I'd be interested to see if we're trending older or younger. (and how life expectancy of presidents is changing over the years)
- Braden Kowitz
The chart has Eisenhower serving only 4 years, but he served 8.
- Josh Wills
Wow, Hoover lived to 90! Back then!
- j1m
You did this yourself, Kevin? Nice!
- Stephen Mack
I didn't make the chart. I just found it online and shared it. I agree that it would be nice to sort chronologically.
- Kevin Fox
Hmm, so shouldn't your sharing of it point to the source?
- Stephen Mack
Can't. The source is a private bulletin board with no original source cited.
- Kevin Fox
Gotcha. Thanks for sharing! I didn't know that if elected McCain would be the oldest president-elect.
- Stephen Mack
Too bad it's not sorted by age/life expectancy at the time :-)
- j1m
So all but a few Presidents died before the age that McCain would be at the end of a second term.
- MG Siegler
Yes, but life expectancy gets radically longer over the course of a century. LBJ is the only recent president to die of natural causes before the age of 78. GHWB, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, and Truman all made it into their 80s or even 90s, Eisenhower died at 78, JFK was shot, and the rest are still alive. Their fate provides a better prediction of McCain's age at death than that of the early presidents. What's more, his own parents' average age at death will be at least 83.
- j1m
"There are 1 or few people in the U.S. named Thor Muller." But there are 5 Lane Beckers. So says http://HowManyOfMe.com.
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FFFFOUND! - http://ffffound.com/
David Young, Tamar Weinberg, randy stewart and 6 other people liked this
lol, cute
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from Bookmarklet
full size img at http://s39.photobucket.com/albums...
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
XEN 1.0 profile - http://xen.adactio.com/
Fabian Neumann, randy stewart and Hassan Ibraheem liked this
Why does WWDC feel like yet another developer Woodstock + SWSX
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Without the beer.
- Robert Scoble
Haha are you there Robert?
- Joe Dawson
No, I'm at the San Francisco Apple Store. Waiting just in case. I gotta leave soon, though.
- Robert Scoble
Mayby it is just that.
- Daniel Schildt
I think the iPhone app bit is dragging on too long
- DC Crowley
Going to end up like woodstock with Band on the iPHONE
- Rif Kiamil
If Facebook had done its job right FriendFeed would never have happened.
Ralph Poole, Igor The Troll יִצְחָק, Ashton and 65 other people liked this
The best thing about FriendFeed, besides that it's so much fun, is that it forces Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. to make their services better. Twitter should have added hide a long time ago. Flickr should have shown you more than the last 5 contacts photos. Competition is a beautiful thing.
- Thomas Hawk
@Scoble So true. @Thomas Twitter needs to figure out how to scale before they add any new features.
- Jon Gosier
Yes competition - but more so: open communication - is truly a wonderful thing. Developments here at FF and twitter with respective apps like twhirl, AlertThingy etc. just go to show how quickly last years fad can become extinct (facebook?). Of course it would be even better to find fb add something truly novel.
- Alex von Halem
Early adopters may have moved on but the herd continues to graze like cattle on the hillside at Facebook, MySpace, etc. Eventually, they will learn about other forms of social media and move there, but by then there will be something new that the fleet-footed have mooooved onto while the slow stampede contiues ruminating.
- Phil Boiarski
I think it's quite possible that friendfeed has totally superior DNA. If I were to bet on facebook vs friendfeed now, I'd bet on friendfeed, even with facebook's huge headstart. Because, if Altavista would have done it's job right, Google would have never happened...
- Meryn Stol
It's like a great brainstorming session where people build on each other's ideas to get to the best solution. So I think it's less about FB doing a better job, then fresh blood building upon the ideas to make the better solution.
- Jane Quigley
from Alert Thingy
I think it's all an evolutionary process, the good thing is anyway that the idea spreads. Facebook could save some money though and implement open standards right now. They have to in the end anyway. FB won't be a working Passport or anything like that.
- Christian Scholz
from twhirl
I think the "secret" force behind friendfeed's succes will be the discussion of the tech bloggers here. It looks like unintended crowdsourcing. There are so many feature (and strategy) suggestions flying by. I think some people *want* friendfeed to win, and friendfeed provides a way to let those people help them. It's gonna be a powerful combination. The only question is if they can hire good programmers fast enough to keep up.
- Meryn Stol
Still get to the bottom of FriendFeed, but liking it more and more every time
- David Orban
Same here @David, @Meryn I like your perspective and also your terminology 'crowdsourcing' more like crowd surfing!
- Joe Dawson
For all who don't know, crowdsourcing is quite common jargon. It's what Starbucks (MyStarbucksIdea) and Dell (Ideastorm) are doing. This will beat the crap out of companies who don't.
- Meryn Stol
If IBM had done its job right Microsoft would never have happened. etc
- Stuart Woodward
great observation about crowdsourcing meryn, friendfeed seems very interested in hearing what people have to say
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
I don't use facebook anymore, I just pipe my friendfeed stream back into facebook
- Mark Ramsey
from twhirl
Im going to go on record here with a prediction for the future: Facebook is the greatest hyperbole the web has ever seen. I know it's worth a lot because so many investors put so much money into it, but Im expecting it to earn the title for "Most Inflated Value Ever".
- Andrew Baron
@Mark Ramsey, I do the exact same thing
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
BTW, if George Bush had done his job right, everything would be worth at least twice as much.
- Andrew Baron
tut tut ...forgive n forget was what my mum always told me.
- viki saigal
I think Facebook and Friendfeed cater to different purposes. FF is great for sharing ideas while Facebook is good for maintaining profiles and contacts.
- Vishy
FriendFeed brings the "NewsFeed/Mini-Feed" out of Facebook. Most of my friends are not on Facebook, so this is great! I can give people links to interesting articles/photos/discussions on FriendFeed. Signing up for Facebook overwhelms many of my friends. It's too complicated to set up an account.
- Mitchell Tsai
Facebook was never useful for this. Way too heavy.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
this is exactly right. A while ago I had an idea similar to FriendFeed and Pete Cashmore told me, nah, Facebook is already doing it. As it turned out, Facebook had the chance but didn't capitalize on it.
- Stan Schroeder
from twhirl
i could be wrong, but I don't think Facebook is (a) losing users to FF, or (b) incapable of making this a reality for the masses
- Jeremy Toeman
FriendFeed is much more about content. Content and insight defines the "friends" I pick, whereas Facebook has a greater social context. I would not follow by nieces tweets in FriendFeed, but she would be on my list of "friends" in facebook.
- Ralph Poole
from twhirl
If FF added better mobile access and posting a nice real client, i'd have less and less reason to use Twitter. None at all actually
- Michael Gartenberg
Ralph, I agree wholehearted facebook is a different beast all together. A different beast that thankfully doesn't have a zombie game or super wall :)
- Doug Brooks
Not sure I agree about Facebook. It was built for college kids, not for people looking for useful information.
- Mike Reynolds
Of course Facebook and FriendFeed both serve different purposes. It's also entirely possible to use both. I think we'll have to observe what services suffer due to FriendFeed in order to see what competes with FriendFeed.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
not everyone is capable of flyfishing in the river of posts that is friendfeed. some folks just want to go out and get sushi with their friends, and then get back to their lives. facebook is for them.
- Chris Hollander
But that would break facebook's business model - collect the data we input and sell it back to us....
- Robert O'Callaghan
friendfeed is way better and way simpler than facebook. Andit's app, poke and zombie free. Damn brilliant if you ask me.
- DC Crowley
@Mike R "It was built for college kids, not for people looking for useful information." Funny!
- Jack Baty
Don't think so. FF is a different site built on a different premise. Its lighter and more agile while being very powerful. Facebook is way more profile centred while FF is more like Google Reader on Steroids.
- Roberto Bonini
Disqus' Downtime Reminds Us of Woes for Data In the Cloud - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Franklin Pettit, Sean McBride, Kyle Weller and 12 other people liked this
I knew that would work. Disqus is back up! :-)
- Louis Gray
WTG Louis!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm a huge fan of SaaS. Stories like these are reminders of the trust customers put into these services, and the importance of backup, failover, responsiveness, and customer service.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Hutch the key for a SaaS model is "responsiveness, and customer service"- the rest is just technical expertise and robustness
- Peter Dawson
Isn't it neat how FriendFeed isn't crashing like Twitter & Disqus? Go Bret, Paul, Jim, Sanjay, Felix, Ana, and the gang!
- Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell you just have missed it then... they've had their moments. (Sure, not twitter like moments but the user base and distribution logic is not even in the same ballpark)
- Matt Shaulis
Matt, in the small times you've seen FriendFeed down (5-20 seconds at a time usually), it's been to update the code. I was told last night that the site will no longer go down, even for that short a time, to update the code.
- Louis Gray
I've seen a lot of FriendFeed problems. Most are really short and/or it's a minor feature (and yes, I have a 10+ item list of what's not working in FriendFeed right now...) They're doing a good job.
- Mitchell Tsai
use intensedebate its better, http://www.intensedebate.com
- Kyle Weller
I'm really sorry about this, guys. We've spent the week scaling out the database. After this weekend, this sort of thing will not be happening again. I wrote a more detailed explanation here: http://blog.disqus.net/2008...
- Daniel Ha
Want to know more about Shyftr's future strategy on comments and portability? Watch the discussion here: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Louis logs into GTalk just to change his status message. Hehehe. Try as I might to nab his attention... busy busy man. :)
- Matt Shaulis
Matt, here's why: The work calendar: http://louisgray.com/graphic...
- Louis Gray
Yikes... I know the feeling though. That comment is the first time I've dropped a link publicly to the workgroup pages (which are just about a week old)... it would have to be on a Friday, huh? hehehe... another weekend spent at the computer.
- Matt Shaulis
USED CARS — LAND — WHISKEY — MANURE — NAILS - http://www.monoscope.com/2008...
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