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Aqeel Ahmad posted a link
Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed
Tallest Skyscraper in the World Almost Completed
Tuesday at 10:06 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
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Aqeel Ahmad posted a link
Menu Lahore: Tawa gurda kapoora - aka Taka tak
Menu Lahore: Tawa gurda kapoora - aka Taka tak
August 13 at 5:33 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
As they say, the picture is worth thousand words! - Syed F Ahmad
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Microsoft Sets the Record Straight (Microsoft)
July 14 at 2:08 pm - Link
This feels like a ping pong game now! - Syed F Ahmad
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What's Interesting After a Week Off? Google/YouTube, For a Start.
July 13 at 10:11 pm - Link
Very interesting - Syed F Ahmad
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Bits: Viacom and Google in Stalemate Over Shielding Identities in YouTube Data
July 11 at 11:57 pm - Link
I just cannot believe this as YouTube code was considered more important than the users' logs? - Syed F Ahmad
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iPhone glitches derail Apple's launch event magic
July 11 at 11:57 pm - Link
Another example of why building a scalable infrastructure is still hard and will remain hard. And importance of large-scale simulation will never go away. The day the software infrastructures become as reliable as my Toyota Corolla, I will call it a day :-) - Syed F Ahmad
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Google Maps takes steps toward walking directions | The Social - CNET News.com
July 8 at 9:55 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Cool! - Syed F Ahmad via Bookmarklet
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Morgan Stanley’s March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating
July 7 at 10:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
All data you ever wanted on the the Web 2.0 hype! - Syed F Ahmad via Bookmarklet
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Dilbert.com - The Official Dilbert Website with Scott Adams' color strips, Dilbert animation, mashups and more!
July 7 at 10:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Make your own Dilbert stuff...So cool for office humor in my presentations! - Syed F Ahmad via Bookmarklet
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MyYahoo 2.0 Goes Live for All; Developer Platform Coming Soon (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)
July 7 at 10:37 pm - Link
Yet another platform. It feels like 1999 again...We had J2EE app servers then..and now we have Web-based platforms.. - Syed F Ahmad
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Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
July 7 at 9:00 am - Link
Will this ever end? - Syed F Ahmad
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Blue Road
July 7 at 8:06 am - Link
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Ana had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“Greatest game ever.”
June 12 at 9:09 pm - Link
Great game. Pretty sure it wasn't the best ever though, not having Jordan, Magic, or Byrd in it. :) - Chris White
Series over. :( - Albert Cheng
Incredible comeback! it was strange watching the game in an LA restaurant with mostly Boston fans. Reminds me why I love sports. - Jack Norris
I think I'm just going to say whatever to any post pertaining to tonight's game... I'm in mourning, OK? - Chris Reed
I love the use of brackets in quotes... and through the clever use of said brackets, I will quote Chris Reed: "[Greatest game]ever." - Rob Reed
As they say its not over until its over! - Syed F Ahmad
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FriendFeed: Be good : Technology : Los Angeles Times
FriendFeed: Be good : Technology : Los Angeles Times
FriendFeed: Be good : Technology : Los Angeles Times
June 5 at 11:09 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Be good" - Erhan Erdogan
I love this: "Tamagotchi effect: If you take care of your users, the right investors will rally around you and talented hackers will line up to work for you." Graham +1 ;-) - Erhan Erdogan
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I like that :). And I appreciated this paragraph in particular: "The curious thing is, this elixir is freely available to any other company. Anyone can adopt 'Don't be evil.' The catch is that people will hold you to it." Friendfeed, clearly, has opened up with clear expectations to "be good." People will hold it (and them, the employees) to that standard, and I think that's awesome :) - Adam Lasnik
I wish more nonprofits operated using the Tamagotchi effect as a basic operating principle. - Allan Benamer via twhirl
Be good! Reminds me of E.T, good post I also like their transparency it gives me confidence in their vision and objectives! - Joe Dawson
Take care of this user please and make it so when I jump from the normal search to the advanced search, my search query won't be lost :) [also, please give me the link "Search all of FriendFeed »" even when the other search found some results] - Philipp Lenssen
do you guys need a marketer? Or does that not fall into 'be good" ar ar - anna
That red chair sure looks comfy. - Kevin D. White
@Philipp The Friendfeed Feedback room is your friend :) - Erica Baker
@Paul: Invent a new slogan for FF. You 'll be needing that in future. - Varun Mahajan
"Be Good" produces "make really Good" software applications! woo hoo! Neat article. Very inspiring to see someone take a stand on "Do No Evil" and then go one step further and commit to "Be Good"! - love it! excellent example and role model for aspiring Web App Devs!! Keep up the "good" work!! :-) - Susan Beebe
I don't know why, but when they described PB as "cherubic" I just had to laugh. It was so cute! - April Buchheit
@April - same here! when they described PB as "cherubic" - awesome! angel face!! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe
I find it fascinating that there are no comments on the actual Times Blog post but plenty o' comments here and acknowledgement by well over 100 people. Friendfeed power right there. - Jason Toney
Jason, good point, one of the things I value most about FF is this interactivity. - susan mernit
I finally read this. Nice article, Paul. Good luck. - Robert Konigsberg
That Paul Graham's article is one of his best - so true and succinct. I guess, the more social the online world becomes, the better (as in "less evil") will companies need to be. - Nenad Nikolic
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bomomo
June 4 at 11:47 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
awesome drawing app with quirky tools. very fun to play with! (firefox/safari only) - Jess Lee
oooh, this is cool. - Chieze Okoye
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hahaha
May 30 at 12:30 am - Link
lol. awesome. - Dan Hsiao
hahaha :> - Alexander Rode
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Ana posted a link
My Obama Grandma!
My Obama Grandma!
May 27 at 7:51 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
She's 91 and she might be Barack's biggest fan in China (as some may readily point out, she is not a hardworking white American, she does not live in a state with a lot of electoral votes, and she was, in fact, accepted into all the elite universities) - Ana
wow- she looks fit as a fiddle - whats her secret ? - Peter Dawson
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does she work out with mccain's mom? - eviltom
That is so awesome! - Chris Reed
91!!? wow. she could be 70. - edythe
is she the one you said was so disappointed about HRC's kennedy comment? - edythe
She better watch out, he ratings might go down! http://latimesblogs.latimes.co... - RAPatton
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niniane posted an entry on Niniane's Blog
earthquake
May 26 at 9:42 pm - Link
Yeah, Liu Xiang and Yao Ming, for two examples. - Sophie Yip
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Jess Lee published photos on Picasa Web Albums
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May 25 at 11:23 pm - Link
interesting photos, cosplay show? - pestwave
That guy is sketch. - Jim Norris
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This whole album is sketch! - Roshan Vyas
is that Pikachu? - naskar
The pics are from Fanime, an anime convention in San Jose. The half-naked guy is supposed to be Pikachu from Pokemon. - Jess Lee
I first read this as "Famine Day" - peter
WOoOW! Look at that moogle! Kupo! :D - Maryam Ardakani
So cute :)) - Farzad
like it - mahdi
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Ana posted a message
“The Hillary "RFK assassination" story made it to the Sunday newspapers in China. My 91-year-old grandmother (China's biggest Obama supporter) shakes her head and says, "What sort of person with integrity would say such a thing?"”
May 25 at 5:40 am - Link
good grief. what's wrong with her pr people? - edythe
what's wrong with her? - Nick
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Hillary: Why I continue to run - NY Daily News
May 25 at 6:50 am - Link
"But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election." [snip] "I am running because I still believe I can win on the merits. Because, with our economy in crisis, our nation at war, the stakes have never been higher - and the need for real leadership has never been greater - and I believe I can provide that leadership." - Ana
HRC is a whole bunch of crock. She lies thru her teeth like its second nature in their family. I dont trust her integrity - Peter Dawson
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Any other women sick of this talking point: Hillary is running for us? Somehow she is the champion of our cause and her winning the nomination is the only evidence of progress in the feminist fight. - Shellee
Shellee, that talking point would indeed seem to be offensive to women. - Adam Lasnik
she has a very good chance of being president if she is persistent. for one thing she has something she never had before. Respect. She showed a will to fight and to do it on male terms. I'm not a feminist, but I saw strong character that I hadn't seen before when she was Green with Suha Arafat. I am glad she lost though because there is another fighter I like alot. John McCain. Perhaps if she continues to support America, it's allies and the troops then there is a chance for a real vision for health care that most agree with her about. She does seem to improve with age and I'm willing to bet that sympathy will grow for what she is struggling to do. She will improve her character as she grays. She got what she was looking for all year. Not the presidency, but empathy for her ideas... and she has become wise on foreign policy. - Noah David Simon
No doubt she has a real vision and I would like to see her leading, but right now I think it is important for America to stay the course and not look like we are backpedaling on Iraq. Especially with all the success in Sadr city this week that was ignored by the media. Hilary is a kinder and wiser sense of what government can do... but now is not the time to be spending domestic social programs. A Democrat in office would be a disaster. We have a war to win and McCain understands the point of alternative fuels. "Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war." -Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
A war to win?? You mean that country we invaded? If anything, the Winston Churchill quotes should be coming from their side. - Nick
I would rather have a good peace than spend trillions trying to win this stupid war. - ⓞnor
Agreeing with @nor, I would rather have supplies for our schools, homes for our homeless, food for our hungry. What's fascinating and extremely depressing is that with the billions we've spent on this fruitless endeavor in Iraq, we *could* have had this. Instead of killing people, we could have been healing, housing, educating people. What a concept. - Adam Lasnik
we invaded europe during WWII. I'm no pacifist. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. -Sir Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
I am not offended by the talking point that Hillary is running on behalf of women. The primary reason I would vote for Hillary is because I think having a female president would go a long way toward advancing feminism in our country. I'm really glad Hillary ran. - niniane
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More New Cool NY Times Features That Won't Help The NY Times
May 23 at 8:42 am - Link
The screen shot of the newspaper looks so historic. It got me thinking as how our contemporary web pages will be "visualized" after 100 years? - Syed F Ahmad
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Ana posted a message
“I am giving a talk today to undergrad students on business and leadership. I am so ill-suited for this. I feel like Carrie in the Sex and the City episode where she was teaching a class on how to meet men at the Learning Annex...”
May 20 at 12:15 pm - Link
your advice should be, "hey kids, take the money and run!" - eviltom
You are too humble!..Good luck! - Syed F Ahmad
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Ana had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“Ducked out of work at 5:30 (and took our new employee away on his first day) to watch Hornets-Spurs. Go New Orleans!”
May 19 at 5:59 pm - Link
New employee? #8? - Louis Gray
Yeah, there would have been a blog post if I hadn't made him leave at 5:30... - Ana
oh that's terrible making an employee leave at 5:30 on the first day! then taking them to an NBA game- they are going to have a warped sense of expectations! - Nathan Eckenrode
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Ana had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk
“My new 7oz running shoes are here! Thank you Zappos! Now, I just need to take up running...”
May 19 at 12:07 pm - Link
show off! show off! - eviltom
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Air Obamas
Air Obamas
May 16 at 2:34 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Where's the 'Buy It Now' button? - April Buchheit
Ahem. I can't believe ff doesn't have an online purchase system. - j1m
Not a bad idea. Someone should do a "buy it now" rss extension and meta tags :) - Paul Buchheit
Every time you go play some ball, you have his vote. :-) - Josh Jenkins
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“My allergies are killing me... who develops allergies this late in life?!”
May 13 at 10:53 am - Link
Have you developed allergy to Mrs. Clinton?! - Syed F Ahmad
Try Zyrtec. I've had allergies since I can remember and nothing ever helped. This year I decided to try Zyrtec and it really works well. - Benjamin Golub
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I second Zyrtec.... Every year since college, my allergies have resulted in the same Februrary to March coughing, wheezing and bronchitis/laryngitis. So I take that Zyrtec this year and I've not once been bogged down by allergy symptoms.... Coincidence? I think not. I also highly recommend setting up the E-mail alerts from pollen.com. If it goes above med-high, take the Zyrtec. .... Now that I sound like some pharmaceutical commercial, I should now read a disclaimer about how Zyrtec will destroy every living cell in your body and you should not taunt it... - Chris Reed
Zyrtec helps keep me from sneezing / having my eyes and nose itch, but does absolutely nothing to help my intense nasal stuffiness :-(. Has anyone found a drug (over-the-counter or prescription) that works for congestion? Sudafed helps a bit, but makes me feel like I've had too many coffees in a short period of time and then kept my mouth open in a wind tunnel for a bit. Not pleasant and generally not a worthwhile tradeoff. - Adam Lasnik
getting old is a bitch - eviltom
I did when I moved to California. Always figured it was some kind of plant that grows here but not anywhere else I've lived. - Doug Zongker
I'm convinced that it's b/c all the plants flowered (or whatever) during the month while I was in Pennsylvania. That, if I'd been here all along, I would have gotten used to it slowly, but instead, it all hit me at once when I got back. This is probably totally inconsistent w/ the way allergies work, but all I know is, it started as soon as I got back to California! - Ana
I've seen it happen when people move from one part of the planet to another. But I suspect you didn't just move to a different part of the planet. - Robert Konigsberg
29 is "late in life"? - Alex Mendes da Costa
Maybe he's making a prediction. Anyway, allergy-level changes are common when moving, but I think in general common throughout adulthood. - j1m
For congestion -- I take singulair (prescription), but I get congestion, because on top of allergies, I also have asthma. - Joyce H. Sohn
Joyce, thanks... i should check that out. - Adam Lasnik
FYI, the generic version ("Aller-Tec") is 8x cheaper at Costco than the brand name. - Tudor Bosman
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Obama supporters begin voter drive; Clinton backers not giving up - San Jose Mercury News
May 11 at 12:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"After arriving home to Fremont in the wee hours Wednesday from her campaign stint in Indiana, she was back to work the next morning at FriendFeed, where, even for a start-up, the days are more predictable than campaign work." :) - Ana
Where are the photos? - Paul Buchheit
Congratulations on the interview, Ana. I made sure to highlight your stumping for Obama in Scoble's Qik video from the other day, and Kristine enjoyed meeting you as well. - Louis Gray
Here is a version w/ photos: http://www.mercurynews.com/loc... You have to click on "2" under the photo of the Hillary supporters though. That said, it's not really worth it, since I look sort of strange. Must have caught me in a moment of naive, wide-eyed support :) - Ana
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