Friendfeed’s Paul Buchheit has just confirmed to me that the next ‘big’ new feature coming to Friendfeed, will be the last. This comes a day after Buchheit issued a confusing statement about the future of the platform he co-founded. Here’s what Buchheit just told me, in full:
- Jim Connolly
from Bookmarklet
Mark: Not sure how it would change things for Paul and the guys - they just sold out to Facebook and have more money than they will ever need. (and they deserve every fricking penny BTW!!!)
- Jim Connolly
Well they sold for 50million, of that the various investors probably got 60-70%, with founders and early employees splitting the remaining 15-20million. Probably no more than a few million each (yeah nothing to spit at), but if they cashed out taxes would cut that in half, I think they still have to keep working. I think they sold too cheap, with 1 million users some focused and tasteful ads would have gotten far more revenue.
- Mark Essel
whew, got ya refollowed (went through and cleared out my following list on twitter now that I may have to use it again ;). staring from scratch)
- Mark Essel
A sign of how quiet things are now on Friendfeed? I've had 5 (FIVE) click-throughs from friendfeed to my blog after posting this here. 3 months ago it would have been massively more. Really sad watching it die slowly like this.
- Jim Connolly
Is that really a sign that it is dying or a sign that people are tired of reading the "death of friendfeed" posts?
- Alan Simpson
Alan: Not sure - but when a post has twice as many 'likes' as clicks it means something. That same post's been read over 400 times so far - so there's some interest out there.
- Jim Connolly
Mark: not true. Advertising for a million users wouldn't bring in that much on a forum-based site. Average CPM is about $3 per 1,000 page views. That wouldn't make anyone rich. The way Paul will become really rich is to help make Facebook a public company (they are well on their way). That means pouring all his skills into making Facebook a better service for its 300 million users (and growing).
- Robert Scoble
Alan: And there's no longer a debate - the co-founder confirmed no new development.
- Jim Connolly
It's also worth pointing out how much respect I now have for Paul, for being good enough to let us know the future plans - well, lack of future plans. That took balls and he deserves some credit.
- Jim Connolly
Feedback please: Do I delete my account now the platform's no longer being developed?
- Jim Connolly
Why would you delete it ? A lot of things have always just been fed through here without active participation.
- Eric Logan
So Jim, this is why you were pestering him so much in the thread? So that you could get a catchy headline for your blog? He said - "Jim, there may be a few new things, but as I said, the team is mainly working on fb platform and openness, so it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff (except maybe one that I've been thinking about for a while...). I don't see that as a...
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- Kenton
When platforms cease being invested in, as you know, they slowly grind to a halt. Is it better to invest the time I spend here on a platform that's growing - rather than shrinking?
- Jim Connolly
Kenton: I don't need a catchy headline for a blog, thats only updated a couple of times a week and run as a pastime. The feedback you gave about deleting accounts screwing up comments makes sense. When the co-founder says that "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff" I believe him.
- Jim Connolly
I guess it depends on why you're investing your time. If it is in the community, then I don't see why you can't still contribute. If you're using it for increasing your personal brand, business, blog traffic, etc then you are probably right to invest your time on sites that see more traffic and growth.
- Kenton
Kenton is right, you're title is wrong, fact. He did not say NO new features.
- Keith Bennett
If engagement continues to go down everyone will eventually migrate. I am sure there are a few groups talking to each other and the bots on Friendster. I do not see any reason why you would not continue to pipe in your content. I haven't found or been introduced to anything better at present. I do see some potential for Wave with proper development despite its complexity.
- Eric Logan
There's really nothing cool about all this cryptic communication Paul is giving us. All it's doing is riling us up and causing us to be unnecessarily speculative. We made this site be worth 50m, so we therefore don't deserve to be strung along like this.
- Brad Williamson
Keith: Did you interpret "it's unlikely that there will be any big new features of ff" as meaning there WILL be more big new features?
- Jim Connolly
"Thank you" - Seems the route is to keep the account alive, rather then mess up content for other users by deleting it. Appreciate the heads-up.
- Jim Connolly
Gotta go. Just subscribed to everyone who's commented here - so you can DM me. Really appreciate the feedback.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: No I didn't, but I also didn't post an article saying there will be NONE! Fact is, we don't know what they are up to, what they plan to do and that's what causes the speculation. You're adding fuel to the fire and I think you should change the title, that's all. Personally, I'm in the wait and see what happens camp. I'm happy with the service as is and I'm sure what emerges from the FB integration will be interesting, but until I know what that is, I'm happy to continue with what I have.
- Keith Bennett
y'all are beating a dead horse here. of course it's gonna die. Of course people are jumping off the ship. look at any number of other tech acquisitions and what became of them. It's not really that complicated.
- Bill Kinney
ICQ still exists...Winamp still exists...AOL still exists (but why?)
- Alex Scoble
Robert: $3 per 1000 views is pretty bad. I think I can do better through use of learning about what folks like in their streams. Heck I can't believe search activated ads are that weak. Well in a few more years that may be profitable (bandwidth/servers/etc are all getting cheaper, while our attention is staying even in value).
- Mark Essel
Another FriendFeed self prophecy post. Cast doubt about its future so users begin leaving, then it will HAVE to close because of lack of users! You should be doing the opposite and encouraging folks to join...its users that keep a service afloat..
- technogran
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
FB is making all this hoopla recently just because they finally "opened" up to 3rd party apps, and they take away the rss feed to our status updates.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
For now this does not work at all. Let's hope, now that 'status' of pages can be synched with Twitter, that what used to funcntion will resume activity again.
- lelapin
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
We're conditioned to react unfavorably to the supposedly conflicting elements in the photograph. If she were a statue, holding a sword while nursing her child, I suspect we'd react differently.
- Christopher Harley
Girls and Guns, and Boobs... how can you go wrong
- Victor Ryden
@Chris, I wouldn't react any differently. What woman would nurse her child while posing with a weapon of any kind (not to mention actually using said weapon)?
- Kenton
If that's so, Kenton, I'd love to be able to spend 10 minutes inside your brain.
- Christopher Harley
um can anyone say abuse? And I'm not talking about the gun. This child is WAY to old to be on a boob, I'm utterly disgusted.
- Kelly W.
Maybe I need you to expand on your idea then Chris, because I don't see the difference between a sword and a gun.
- Kenton
To me, swords are all but ceremonial today. In the past they weren't and if they were being held at the ready it meant defense. The image of a mother, especially a nursing mother, holding a sword would have indicated a society on the brink of complete collapse. At least as an artistic conceit.
- Christopher Harley
To me the striking thing about the photo is that it is a weapon, I wouldn't feel any different if it was an AK-47, a missile launcher, or a switchblade. The incongruity is the same for me.
- Kenton
It could be a weapon. It's doubtful she'd have much luck hunting duck or pheasant with any of the other weapons you mentioned. Trust me, Kenton, the incongruity stems from a temporal disassociation between her role as mother and the degree to which you've allowed her to assert herself as such. Ask yourself; if she were in a nineteenth century oil paining would the elements seem any more harmonious?
- Christopher Harley
Hmmm, Chris, if she were in a cave painting holding a spear it would be incongruous (aside from the fact that "cave women" didn't hunt), but in a 19th century painting holding a sword it isn't? Not for me. I don't care whether she is hunting ducks, people or skeet, a weapon is a weapon and holding it while nursing a child is incongruous in my personal opinion.
- Kenton
@mark - surely you can tell the difference between the 2 photos
- chrisofspades
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, I could teach you, but I have to charge
- sofarsoShawn
I can't really look away from this picture. It's quite fascinating on a lot of levels.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
is this a documentary photograph? I don't think so. It reads like a statement photograph, staged and therefore not especially outrageous... like a lame Benneton ad or something. Feels like someone is desperately trying to be artsy or controversial. I don't take it at face value.
- JoEllen
@Christopher - I disagree. I think the whole thing is staged, the outfit, the gaze of the shirtless child, the location, the gun. Lantern, gun, 3 month old or 2 year old - it's all done purposely, which is what someone taking/directing the photo would do. The age of the child and the action/prop don't provoke me at all, I just think they were chosen to make a statement.
- JoEllen
The breastfeeding isn't a big deal, it certainly isn't "abuse" or wrong" like some think. But I don't like guns being around young children. Even in staged photos. Just my personal issue.
- Summer
I'm so verklempt! Yay. Congratulations. A baby born right here on friendfeed. Like that baby born at Woodstock. Or that Dead show. OK, not really, but she'll always be special to all of us.
- Laura Norvig
goddamn - Don't freak me out. I thought you babbyformed your wife again, which blew my mind as she just stated in another thread 2 days ago, that the maid has still not come and made up the room from when the last tenant occupied the space.
- Matthew DeVries
Your phrasing is highly diplomatic, Matthew. Also funny as hell.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Everyone I know gets UPS and FedEx deliveries in the afternoons, around 2 or 3 p.m. (or later). Does anyone get a morning delivery or are there just gangs of delivery men who only work from 2-5 every day?
Depends on if it's FedEx regular or FedEx Home, for me. Home comes by 9am, regular by 4pm. UPS? They MIGHT show up by 7pm.
- Bradley McSpinn
We've had packages come from two different drivers in the same day. There's a number of divisions in FedEx I think: Regular, Home Delivery, Freight, etc. We usually get FedEx Home Delivery in the afternoon but UPS in the morning.
- CAJ, somewhere else
What's FedEx Home? I've never heard of that. There's a different Fed Ex for residence vs business delivery? I receive more UPS deliveries than FedEx, so I'm less familiar with their services.
- Trish R
It just depends on the service level it was sent with. If you are remote, not all service levels may be available. With UPS, I've had three separate trips in one day (last holiday season) - that's just crazy.
- LogEx
It also very much depends on whether the delivery is going to a business or a residence. Businesses are always, always delivered first.
- felicious
Brown says it's a pain. Some of his packages he can't deliver till 3pm. Others have to be delivered by 10am. If the same places gets a overnight and a afternoon delivery, he can't deliver both at the same time. Seems like an incredible waist of time.
- Michelle Marie Miller
I thought people chose afternoon delivery just to save money. I wouldn't mind if an afternoon delivery was early, but maybe not with something that's time-sensitive.
- Trish R
Our UPS guys usually show up after 5 PM, but then we have a distribution center just down the round from us. Ergo, we're their last run.
- Great Scott!
I'm also in Canada and I get almost all my deliveries in the early evening. During holiday seasons, however, they add night shifts and sometimes I get stuff around 7pm
- Soup
"In today’s computing world, most online services/apps are free. Put simply, users get what they want, while companies monetize the popularity. Simple relationship. But now, there appears to be a tribe of people bearing arms, bludgeoning anyone who dares to speak out about lousy service quality, bad uptime, bad customer support etc all under the blanket “Its free, what you got to complain about”. What happens if Google stops showing search results for companies and products they don’t like. It is a free service, no one can complain, but you bet that those companies are going to die pretty soon. Or what happens if Gmail loses all your incoming emails and you learn about it a couple of months later. No big deal if you are Grandma. Pretty big deal if you run a small business using Google Domains. (Which is free btw) Or what happens if Google Docs swallows many of your documents ? Maybe you will say, “Its a free service. Stop complaining”"
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
from Bookmarklet
Nothing is "free" every user in some sense is paying maybe just with attention or mindwidth but still payment is rendered.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm sorry, you can't get support and have apps be free, I'm not buying it. The old adage still holds true, you get what you pay for. When companies monetize via indirect means, the user's best interests are no longer necessarily aligned with the companies.
- mikepk
You can complain all you want. However, I would expect to get the support I pay for.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I pay for gmail and the like with my attention and occasional ad clicks and therefore have a reasonable expectation of service. Now if someone writes a little app or script for themselves and then shares it for free then I don't think you can expect support. Scale, intent, and, to a lesser degree, monetization are the determining factors here.
- David Knight
David, with conversion ratios of user attention vs ad clicks, just what do you think your attention is worth (in monetary terms) to Google? If you work the equation out, I'd be surprised if you were worth more than a few cents a month. How much of that goes to maintaining the service? Do you know how expensive support is? Major issues that affect millions of people, sure (the aggregate benefit justifies the cost). Your particular issue/beef is irrelevant.
- mikepk
Unbreakable rule in life: You get what you pay for.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Second unbreakable rule -- you can pay in more ways than supplying money.
- Brian Sullivan
gmail has a support staff that will help with individual issues
- David Knight
Penguin has the same b-day as my sister, Håkan has the same b-day as my mom, Judy has the same b-day as one of my aunts, Tutivillus has the same b-day as my bro-in-law and nephew
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
When will we see the results? I wonder which month will have the most members. Also wonder who is the youngest and who the oldest participant.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
June 1st. And it is just a coincidence it's also the 1st day of hurricane season.
- Sharon McPherson
I'm seeing an academic paper/article in this - something with a title that includes Homoerotic Religious Paintings and The Village People in Popular Culture
- Katy S
I've seen lazier theres an ad with the dog on a running machine. Infact on Dragon's Den (the uk version) a few series ago they invested in a dog running machine used to help dogs rehabilitate over injuries but you know lazy dog owners will buy them too ;)
- Nicholas James
@James I'm not lazy, I had to get one for the dogs I ran over except the last one :)
- Lokei Atikus™®
"The circadian clock coordinates physiological and behavioral processes on a 24-hour rhythm, allowing animals to anticipate changes in their environment and prepare accordingly. Scientists already know that some genes are controlled by the clock and are turned on only one time during each 24-hour cycle. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies found that some genes are switched on once every 12 or 8 hours, indicating that shorter cycles of the circadian rhythm are also biologically encoded.Using a novel time-sampling approach in which the investigators looked at gene activity in the mouse liver every hour for 48 hours, they also found 10-fold more genes controlled by the 24-hour clock than previously reported."
- Michael R. Bernstein
from Bookmarklet
The UDP protocol? No, probably not. For something as high volume as the twitter feed dropped packets would be a real problem and they'd end up reinventing TCP's retransmission and congestion avoidance algorithms. There are better ways to waste one's time than reinventing TCP (not that it hasn't been done many, many times).
- DGentry
No he doesn't...I contest the result to the supreme court which I, of course, have in my pocket. They declared me the winner! Take that Al Gore!
- Alex Scoble
A copy of the home game "Pointless FriendFeed Thread tehKenny just made up!"
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... <- last comment sorted alphabetically. I win!
- ·[▪_▪]·
I called "last" all the way back at the start, y'all. Keep going all you like. Because, if you take it literally "The LAST comment in this thread wins". My comment was "Last".
- Nine
I predict someone will need to gas up this thread at around 115 Comms., based on past mileage.
- Micah Wittman
Huh?? What crash? I can't bother expanding the comments.
- Roberto Bonini
This thread is already the most commented thread for the day.
- Alex Scoble
The next person to comment after me is a complete failure and will never amount to anything (still wanna post, ey?)
- Matt Harwood
Not even close, Matt. I have my failure shields up.
- Alex Scoble
Matt: May you live in interesting times. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Bahhhh! Worth a try I guess. Reminds me of when school kids used to say "Twats Say What" really quick, of course... you could do nothing but say What?! ;)
- Matt Harwood
I like puppies, but I like kittens the most.
- Alex Scoble
Why do like dollar costs averageing, Alex?
- Roberto Bonini
It's a good way to minimize risk buying in to a down market or selling in to an up market. Since you never know where the bottom or top is.
- Alex Scoble
I agree in principal but disagree with the statement
- Santa CW™
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? I googled "Who will win this thread" - Lo and behold an automotive forum thread was started March 2, 2006, has 3 comments just today (Feb 9, 2009), and has 975 comment pages totaling over ==> 14,600 COMMENTS <=== (and counting) http://forums.motortrend.com/70...
- Micah Wittman
Let's get this party started for real this time. American Football, Baseball, AND Basketball are all complete rubbish. You may create your mosh pit now
- Matt Harwood
Ok folks! That's it! Drink up and get out! You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here! Everybody out! Thanks for coming! See you tomorrow. Don't worry, I'll lock up....
- Morgan Haley
Someone tried this on Fark once, And Drew/Mike/Some coder there set up their post to always be at the bottom with a 1 second later time stamp than the latest post.
- Matthew DeVries
i went away for a while, has anyone won yet ?
- Simon Wicks
tehKenny “The last comment in this t*h*read wins. GO!” 4 hours ago - Comment - Like - Hide - More Josh Haley, ·[▪_▪]·, Haggis (Sean), Rahsheen ™, AJ Batac, Steven Perez, Alex Scoble, Far, andy brudtkuhl, Ontario Emperor, Ethan Baker, LouCypher, Kol Tregaskes, VC Freak, Alfredo, Simon Wicks, Just Katie, Ben Jackson, Morton Fox and Morgan Haley liked this
- Johnny Worthington
im watching xmen, what are you doing?
- Simon Wicks
I admire the sticktoittiveness that you are all showing... but i must warn you...i have no life and winning this is the only thing I got keeping hope alive....come on man, please! just please let me have this one tiny little victory....please!!!
- Morgan Haley
i know...it's almost sad now...the pathetic little attempts to post *anything!* sheesh...
- Morgan Haley
*runs after Morgan to give worldly advice in a Morgan Freeman voice
- Matt Harwood
*sits down to listen to the advice offered by Matt "Morgan Freeman voice" Harwood
- Morgan Haley
Oh my God. My Internet went down. Came back up.... AND THE TREAD IS STILL ON!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Well now, I remember when I was a boy, and I came to a crossroad in my life, similar to you. You see Morgan, there's no greater destiny, no greater accomplishment in life, than writing the last comment. Now my thread, my thread died. But yours, yours will succeed. Now fetch me a sandwich.
- Matt Harwood
*Rises up with a renewed sense of purpose. Fetches a sandwich for Mr. Freeman. Realizes that there can be only one. One final comment. One victor. **begin training montage to 'Jukebox Hero' by Foreigner...**
- Morgan Haley
What do I win? I don't want to participate till I read all the terms and conditions (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited except on Tuesdays and Thursdays, etc..).
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Throw out your hands. Stick out your tush. Hands on your hips. Give 'em a push. You'll be surprised, you're doing the French mistake....Voila!
- .LAG liked that
i hear jerusalem bells a' ringing, roman cavalry choirs a' singing...
- .LAG liked that
*THIS THREAD HAS BEEN LOCKED/UNDER MODERATION.* Please "Hide"
- Andrew Smith
Josh with his "Rush Rules", and then -crickets- for 45 minutes. I was staring at it and simple couldn't comment further. It had its own force shield.
- Micah Wittman
@tehKenny/scobleizer I'm afraid you spawned a FriendFeed -inside- a single thread. That's right, a "µFF" service. For better or for worse (*danger* ...http://www.fborfw.com/strip_f... )
- Micah Wittman
No one wins. We all win. It's the same thing.
- Alex Scoble
Yo dawg, I heard you like to Friendfeed, so I put a Friendfeed in your Friendfeed so you can Friendfeed while you Friendfeed.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Zero-sum or infinity-sum? You decide. As long as Tyson has time to burn, we all win by virtue of his "likes".
- Alex Scoble
One day, the world will click on the link to open the rest of the comments, while pleading "Save us!", and FriendFeed will simply answer "No."
- Josh Haley
I only have 425 comments! Look like blocking changes out what numbers you see.
- Admiral Anika
@Josh while black ink spreads across the FF logo.
- vijay
This challenge is like a puffer train in the game of Life (as in cellular automata). It is structured to go on forever. Does FF have the server capacity to handle an infinite thread?
- Tim Ostler
Somewhere soon a database table is going to cry.
- David Bisset (sn)
This thread is still going???????? I think they do, but don't blame me for a buffer overflow.
- Roberto Bonini
This is the thread that never ends. It just goes on and on my friend. Some people started writing it not knowing what it was, and they'll continue writing it forever just because this is the thread that never ends...
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
“The following thread will go on. But just so you know Anika won.” ~ BLASPHEMY
- Alfredo
tehKenny has had his power to determine the winner of this thread stripped by the authority vested in the friendfeedosphere. Sorry man, but it's the last person who comments on this thread, ever. Not who you determine is the winner.
- Alex Scoble
It is now 11:22 AM PST. If no one comments on this thread by 11:30 AM PST (you have 8 minutes) I declare myself the winner of this thread.
- Alex Scoble
It is now 11:31 AM PST. You did not post anything. I did. So I win. Thanks for playing. This contest is now over!
- Alex Scoble
There was once a thread like this on Fark, that got so big everytime anyone would call it, it would kill the servers, they eventually just had to kill it.
- Matthew DeVries
oops, just BUMPed into this thread. I cant believe this is still floating around
- Threepwood
shouldn't feed this. this is madness. I think you set a record, tehKenny. I'm probably the 50th person to say so... a bit scared to open & see, but I will..... ok, no, amended per what Micah said. 14,600????? good luck touching that one. you set an FF record though, for sure
- Kamilah Gill
Is it wrong of me to point out that I'm #1 out of everyone and not just English users at the moment? :-)
- Alex Scoble
We already knew that. I'm all the way up in 93rd place at the moment.
- Richard A.
Rob - FriendFeed is used by people in other languages i.e. Chinese etc and FFHolic takes it into consideration when building the list ;)
- Nicholas James
LOL, Tina. You're not too far away though. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in the top 1000. 624th place for the win!
- DGentry
ah.. gotcha.. English language... I see ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
2112th most followed user 1372nd most active user not too bad for me.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
A fire alarm rang at 4 pm in a large office campus when almost all employees were present ( approx 5,000 people ). As per past fire-drill practices, the entire office was quickly evacuated within 3 minutes, and all employees gathered outside the complex in designated areas waiting for further announcement. Before long, the fire drill officer in-charge made the following broadcast over their loud-speakers system : " My dear colleagues : With sincere regret, I have been asked to announce that for many of you, this will be your last evacuation drill with us. Due to the on-going recession and bad business climate, the company is laying off almost 50% of its staff. So when this announcement finishes, I ask all of you to move back into the building. And if your swipe-card does not work, then it means that you have been laid off, in which case you will not be allowed inside, and all your personal belongings will be couriered to you by tomorrow. The company is using this innovative,...
- Bwana ☠
Definitely cool. Might be nice to just have some official repo of Greasemonkey scripts to tweak this stuff :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
My one little suggestion would be to put the icon over to the left of the date, so it's closer to the avatar, easier to catch in a single scan down the left hand side.
- Ken Sheppardson
Me too! But man, it's a lotta work... I have to create a style for each service! I'm editing the stylesheet first created by AJ Batac here: http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
The way the html in FriendFeed is coded, it's easiest to put the icon right next to the service feed link :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Excellent work Mama Z and AJB! Loving this!
- vijay
Thanks all! I'm curious ab/t the positioning but since AJ's style has a flexible layout the positioning might be off.... oh well. proof of concept anyway :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
the basic code is easy, for example for Facebook: a.service[href*=facebook] { padding-left: 18px; background: transparent url(http://beta.friendfeed.com/static...) no-repeat top left;}
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
The CSS is basically looking for 'facebook' anywhere in the 'href' attribute then applying the background I grabbed from friendfeed's own icon inventory :)
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Hmm... Greasemonkey should be able to do anything it wants with the parent <div class="profile"> based on the service href...
- Ken Sheppardson
In fact, this has me thinking... Greasemonkey should be able to look at this link and if it's to twitter, replace the avatar with the avatar off the twitter service. This could solve an unrelated problem.... hm.
- Ken Sheppardson
Mama: I don't know if it'd make your life any easier, but FriendFeed uses jQuery so you have that available to your Greasemonkey scripts. For example: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Ken Sheppardson
True but writing CSS is faster for me than writing JQuery ;) but it's definitely a better option
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
The very first FF post I'm going to hide! Not because I don't like the subject, but because I don't like the movement. Very annoying to my eyes.
- Dawn
Wow, 40% ??? Americans really have turned on the republican party haven't they LOL
- Scott Bannon
Assuming she and John McCain don't win this week: I'd like to see her make a run in 2012, for sure. That said, I'm thankful that she would have little chance of even winning the 2012 Republican primary.
- j1m
Is it horrifying or a demonstration of the lack of potential talent people see in the current Republican party?
- Johnny Worthington
Right John - the Republicans have a lot of great potential candidates, but most of them won't satisfy the lunatic fringe that Palin speaks to
- Chrimmus Tad
Why does this surprise you? Seriously. haha
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
I'd like to see her run. She'd be easy to beat.
- Sean Quinn
from twhirl
I'd LOVE to see her run. I've been drooling over that option for the past 3 weeks. But we don't matter. We'll have to see if she can play nice with The Village.
- Admiral Anika
Yes, because democrats have such a talent poll this time around. A no-name, one-term senator and the wife of a former President. Sometimes, you need to stick your head out of the internet group-think for a minute.
- Spencer
Now wait...if Palin does run in 2012, since she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being taken seriously and winning, that would put the race between the Democrats and a 3rd party candidate. Yeah, I'd like to see her run too, just to give Americans more real choices.
- April Russo (app103)
@April: Remember, Bush won twice against better candidates. Palin can win if she's "marketed" right.
- Rui Pereira
@Rui & @april - or... she runs as an independent, sort of a cultural Ross Perot. Or... she teams up with Newt and they run a full R ticket from the start, freezing out anything but smarter, more metro Republicans thru the primaries and setting up an epic clash with a - hopefully still - popular incumbent in the Fall.
- Thom Kennon
Maybe just for the fun of it? I hope...
- Holger Eilhard
Names like Gregg and Jindal don't have the recognition factor yet.
- Robert Hafer
and this survey was done by whom? when? against what group(s)? i am rarely moved by "a recent poll shows.." stories. IMO, they are often attempts at managing news cycles and supporting self interest. i don't often see a poll designed to -remove-biases. i see too many designed to -support- biases. anyone got the details on this one?
- MikeAmundsen
The only bottom line that's for sure is what Ian May said.
- Micah Wittman
I think Roberto is right! Bring back Tina!
- petar vucetin
I'd like to see her on dancing with the stars! lmao
- MicahBear78
The numbers and huge sway of conservative voters in America is quite astonishing. As a liberal, at the very least if conservatives are going to get into power again, please put someone in who can speak and write well and is intelligent. The Bush's weren't that and Palin certainly isn't.
- EcoAussie
from twhirl
EcoAussie, Unfortunatly, Condi Rice wouldn't run.
- Robert Hafer
From architecture and fashion to furniture and transport: the overall winner of the Brit Insurance Design awards has been revealed today, from a shortlist of 91 designs and seven category winners. The judging panel, chaired by Alan Yentob, said this year's winner had "encapsulated the mood of the time". The exhibition of the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year runs until 14 June 2009 at the Design Museum, London.
- Emma
In that shirt? NOT - but in most everything else I've seen her in, hot. Call me weird, but there is that slow-mo scene near the end of transformers, where the do a sick zoom in of her face, and you can see that she has clogged pores, acne scars, and hair plucking issues, just like a real girl, and for some reason that made her more attractive to me. Yeah, I'm broken.
- Matthew DeVries
Hot. And just like Jessica Alba, and Angelina it will become over done. You know who else is hot? Natalie Portman, Kiera Knightley etc... but they don't get the same coverage.
- Michael
She's a pretty girl who oozes sexiness. The only thing is she has done too much plastic surgery for me to say she is beautiful, but she is hot
- Shevonne
She's no Shevonne, Tina or Penguin, but she's not bad.
- Steven Perez
I love you Steven Perez! That made my day. =D
- Shevonne
She is gorgeous. I'ma marry that one someday. lol.
- Brandon Ball
Wait, she's had surgery? Then, I'm less impressed with her now. :\ Anyone can look hotter with surgery (well, almost anyone). But that pic really doesn't look like her. For one, Megan is skinny as hell--those boobs are much bigger than Fox's are in every other pic I've seen of her. They're still nice, of course.
- thepete