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Does OpenID need to be hard? | FactoryCity - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
Alex Kapranoff, Iván Abrego, John Wang and 10 other people liked this
If you read one post on OpenID and where it might go (and might need to go), start here.
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
I was nodding in agreement until the end where the suggestion is an empty text box where the user can type free-form text. I would instead suggest that the destination page should check for a cookie from Google, Yahoo, AIM, etc. and if you find a valid login cookie from (say) Yahoo, show them a login popup from Yahoo, let them log in, then send them back to the original site with Yahoo vouching for them.
- Matt Cutts
Funny, I must not have read closely enough. I thought Chris was arguing against the free-form text box. I agree with you that the text box is not the way to go at all. However, a very simple browser plugin could auto-populate that behind the scenes. Even better, a plugin could obviate the step of typing in a password at the originating party completely.
- DeWitt Clinton
Hmm, I'm wondering if this is something that could be hoisted via Gears.
- DeWitt Clinton
How would the user FIRST indicate to the browser who their identity provider is? And no, I don't think saying "buy a Chrome OS netbook" is a valid answer. :P
- Chris Messina
Matt, the cookie is dead - the selector is the future (Just my not so humble opinion)
- Jesse Stay
DeWitt, you guys should seriously look into supporting information and action cards in Chrome. That would solve a lot of this problem.
- Jesse Stay
Of course, as Kevin Marks said earlier today that will also depend on an <input type="openid"/> HTML 5 element being adopted into the spec
- Jesse Stay
IMO in the future there will be no sign in buttons - you use your information card and it auto-provides context, logs you in, and gives you the experience you want. All via OpenID, oAuth, etc. but the user won't even know that.
- Jesse Stay
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook and 194 other people liked this
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
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 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
<3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
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...
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- 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
Talk about Facebook buying FriendFeed here (on FriendFeed, of course):
HealingBrush, Chris Martin, lolise and 164 other people liked this
I'm not sure what it means, but I hope the goodness of Friendfeed stays intact.
- Tom Landini
I guess Facebook just got real time search engine!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What do facebook get out of it?
- Ruchit Garg
Fact or fiction?
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
I haven't seen likes and comments stream real-time this fast before.
- ydfeed
It depends on who lays claim to our posted and aggregated material.
- jcunwired
it could work. if Friendfeed completely replaces Facebook
- Edgar Rodríguez
I think it's a brilliant move, although bringing this into the Facebook walled garden would ruin it.
- Derek Shanahan
how much for?
- Ruchit Garg
Is it true Robert?
- Kevin Whalen
BAD 'n SAD :((
- sid 【ツ】
Great match to take on the Twitter machine.
- Ryan Cummins
what is next..facebook killing twitter integration...SCORE....??
- Denis
++Edgar
- Ryan
Presumably a technology acquisition then, Facebook is buying the team and the tech.
- DGentry
Good for Facebook, BAD for us. NOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Nir Ben Yona
I don't like it
- Jason Hargrove
Bad news, if true.
- LogEx
Just because Facebook bought Friendfeed, doesn't necessarily mean they will do anything with the service. At least maybe not right away. People need to chill out.
- Alex Knight
hope it doesn't mess w/ twitter integration
- Ken Seto
makes a lot of sense - f.b. now has a power house of real-time all-stars. fixes many of the feature 'wish' lists for f.b. - actually a major positive sign for innovation. congrats to the F.F. team.
- michael sean wright
How can i shut down my ff account?
- Fotis Alexandrou
I need a few hours and possibly large amounts of chocolate
- Bwana ☠
If you are right, that "Facebook just got real time search engine", that is good - as FB really, really needed it for a long time.
- Bora Zivkovic
:(
- Sinem Co
yes, this is fast. Reminds me of a few hours ago when I was on Freenode
- Ian Tindale
There goes your data.
- Jason Hargrove
This will probably be bad. like all purchases, it will be an "afterthought" and never be fully allowed to develop and flourish.
- Ryan Jones
Man this is really SUCKS!! :((( we all know Facebook strategies on the web :(( Whey will drive FriendFeed to the helll and I'm pretty sure of this :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( BAD SUCKS SAD :(((
- FFTornado
Funny thing is, if you posted about this on Facebook, 99.9999% of it's users would go "huh, what's FriendFeed anyway?"
- Richard Matthias
It almost seemed inevitable since Facebook has been copying so much of Friendfeed in recent months. It's good for the founders of FF and may benefit those of us who use both on a regular basis. Maybe they'll just leave FF alone?
- Kenley Neufeld
someone tell me what they will do with it? Nothing maybe? Kill it, maybe?
- Francine Hardaway
Wonder how they'll integrate, separate services with more interaction or FF swallowed by Facebook.
- Steven Cains
Buy as is use it's IP and close it down or run as separate business? Either way, didn't see that coming.
- Keith Bennett
from BuddyFeed
It was bound to go down. Like we used to say on the block shootin' dice "Big Bank Take Little Bank"
- professor daddyo
I do, however, wish tha tmore sites would implement this commenting engine.
- Ryan Jones
Fotis: haha, wait too long, and you'll never be able to close your FF account ;)
- Jason Hargrove
not believing it until another source confirms...
- Benton
Congrats to the friendfeed team. Worried about the future though.
- Andy Roth
Whats FriendFeed anyways?
- Marco Horta
so that Facebook can maybe copyright the "Like" button? lol
- Than R
How are we going to abbreviate it now? FBFF? FFFB? F^3B ?
- Harry Wolff
I receive the breaking news via BNO News at this moment: Facebook acquires FriedFeed...
- Torsten Eckert
haha you're right Richard
- Ken Seto
Wow
- Rodfather
I am stuck in Texas and have not confirmed myself.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
OMG.
- Nathan Chase
maybe they can implement threads?
- Jeremy Toeman
It looks like a defensive move. I think it's better fro FB to acquire FF than incorporating twitter functionalities in their status feature.
- Pablo Paniagua
double wow.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Friendbook? Facefeed?
- Jeff Harbert
If it's true, I suspect FriendFeed as we know it will be gone, but Facebook will be greatly improved.
- Costa Walcott
bah. i will go do something else. this news isn't helping
- Edgar Rodríguez
trying to look on the bright side - maybe we'll get those iPhone/Blackberry apps for better access to FriendFeed
- Stuart Miniman
But if it isn't true we would have heard by now.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
apprehensive about this
- Liz Polay-Wettengel
Official: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Brandon Titus
I want to hear the $$$ number
- moo yu
Congrats to ff team...but how does this work? I have 2 different accounts...and I like it that way...I don't want to share/spam my friends on facebook with what I have here...
- brainno722 (Peter)
@robert no we wouldnt have
- Jeremy Toeman
It's official: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Costa Walcott
Originally posted this to your other FF/FB post before you astarted this one: I don't see the point of Facebook acquiring FriendFeed. They are pretty much identical services (well, FF represents just the News Feed portion of Facebook) I don't see how they can incorporate FriendFeed into Facebook. If they really did buy it, then I see this as them going for programming talent more so...
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- Christopher A. Wichura
From FF blog http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Tom Landini
I'm hoping this improves Facebook (just like everyone else). Facebook has gotten horrible stale for me of late.
- Harry Wolff
This stream itself is the evidence of WHY Facebook bought FF.
- Steven Walling
What's looking shiny and new now? :-)
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I've been needing a reason to get re-interested in Facebook, this could be it.
- JonInteractive
Friend management will need to be enhanced/overhauled. Otherwise, the noise will make the combined product unusable.
- Peter Ghosh
No! I am going to cry! I HATE FACEBOOK! I have a Facebook account, but FriendFeed is way better. Life is over! Apocalypse.
- Zachary TG
Seriously, how can i shut it down?
- Fotis Alexandrou
We'll have to wait for more details to see exactly what Facebook is planning to do with FF.
- 321
Bodes badly for FriendFeed. --rj
- Roger Jennings
I think this is more of a "send the friendfeed traffic to facebook" than any kind of technical leverage. My biggest concern here: in order to exchange dialogue with people on facebook I need to be friends with them vs. being able to do it on friendfeed without having to friend them up. I find this valuable as there may be a topic or 5 that I want to engage with user "X" on, but I don't...
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- Erik Boles
I am disappointed by this news... I don't like Facebook at all... And I'm afraid they will just kill FriendFeed with their awful cluttered interface...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
It depends on how they integrate it. Did they buy it for the search engine, or did they buy it as a potential for extending the reach of Facebook into real time conversations? It's all about the life stream now right? So probably Facebook's attempt to stake a claim there.
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
bad days are coming
- Ahmet Soyata
Fotis, why do you want to shut down our FF account?
- Alex Knight
This is bad news for Yahoo 360°. Oh wait, too late.
- Ian Tindale
Bad bad bad bad bad bad ::runs screaming down the hall::
- mary
Crap!
- Zachary TG
This is disgusting.
- Zachary TG
First of all, I love the name "Facefeed." ROFL Second, this is business boys. Happens all the time. Why do you think innovation keeps happening. FB will integrate or kill off FF, and something else will happen. It's a natural cycle.
- Francine Hardaway
For a second I thought it was a joke, but then I checked Friendfeed's Blog. http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009... Damn it.
- Alejandro
Nir Ben Yona +1
- Muge Cerman
Turmoil
- Ian Tindale
wondering if i should continue aggregating all my online activity in frienfeed now that facebook owns it!!
- Gtp19
Geeks and fb not a good mach
- thomas elton
from iPhone
I can't begin to process this right now. Too much work to focus on. Later when I read this 10,000 mile long thread and have a glass of Cab in hand.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
We fear change
- Ian Tindale
Not feeling real good about this, hope fully Facebook will do right by the FF community, but I'm not holding my breath. Glad for the FF team though
- Kim Landwehr
Twitter dissed again.
- JonInteractive
if you look closely at FF the large majority of FF posts are twitter posts, so there was not that much original content on FF in the first place...
- Ingmar
So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter..
- Nick Halstead
Makes a lot of sense for Facebook. And we find this very healthy ^^
- twitscoop
People need to stop freaking out. The Facebook/Friendfeed buy out was just announced. Wait for details people.
- Alex Knight
It could be bad, it could be good. As long as Facebook doesn't try to port their functionality over, I'm fine with it being a financial acquisition.
- Adam Reyher
Crap, its official !
- Peter Dawson
This is really bad... a wonderful tool based on killer technology will go over into this mass market teeny poking culture. Bah!
- Markus Tressl
then again it is great for linking FB, TW, flickr and so on
- Ingmar
Here is the FF post on the acquisition: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Mrinal Desai
Great, why did I bother creating an account here? I could have held out.
- desinole
if this is true, for the love of god, please don't Facebook go and mess up FriendFeed as they have their own system, Facebook is a mess these days, Friendfeed is one of the 2.0 sites that actually has concentrated on doing a few things well, complete opposite to Facebook.
- Carl Grint
I suppose Friendfeed was considerably lacking in LOLcats.
- Ian Tindale
Cuz we all know that facebook doesn't respect user's privacy and you've got basically everything on ff, youtube, twitter, digg whatever you do
- Fotis Alexandrou
Paul Buckheit will now be a house husband:-)
- Francine Hardaway
Confirmed by FF http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- David Peacock
Smart for Facebook but I prefer Friendfeed the way it is.What, we'll be throwing rabbits next?
- Janet Fouts
FriendFeed listens to the community. Facebook doesn't. Not to mention they're ENTIRELY different communities.
- Adam Reyher
If true, congrats to the FF Founders!
- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
If they keep FriendFeed as a separate site, and still upgrade regularly, this is fine. If FriendFeed winds up in the dead pool, then it sucks.
- Steve Sill
Maybe I should rediscover my Orkut account.
- Ian Tindale
I was just thinking how Friendfeed had stayed out of recent takeovers, mergers and hence cyber attacks. Will Friendfeed now be taken over by celebs and spammers too?
- Nils Geylen
Not sure why this news makes me nervous. Please tell me it's going to be ok Scoble...
- Lucas
FF has been FB's incubator for awhile.
- Peter Warnock
it's true damn!!!!
- Edgar Rodríguez
How can I spam on this thread please ? Any idea ?
- Toucouleur
Facebook has ZERO respect for users' wishes... Friendfeed is incompatible with that. Friendfeed will be going away. :( Their blog post says as much: "FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally **for the time being**. We're still figuring out our longer-term plans for the product"
- tollie williams
Quickest/Biggest thread ever
- Ian Tindale
Ideally, FB will leave FF to do the sweet innovating they are doing and just take the awesome features and put them into FB
- Ryan
This is the first time I've used Friendfeed in a year. Good move on their part.
- chantelle
How Much ? $$$ ;-)
- Jacopo Gio
I'm heading back to Jaiku where it's nice and quiet
- Ian Tindale
So, where do we migrate to now?
- Byron McCollum
FriendFeed functionality on Facebook would be nice. The reverse, not so much. They're trying to address two entirely separate purposes and as such, need to remain completely separate.
- Adam Reyher
back to the twitter
- emresezgin
I want numbers. how much did facebook pay?
- Zac Bowling
soon friendfeed will = Jaiku
- johnny2009
Hum...let's see what happens.
- Chip Hanna
Stay here until FB does something dumb with FF
- Ryan
The rhetoric seems a bit too "Facebook will do what they want with us" and not "we will remain FF and continue forward". Seems as if FB went for the tech and we could lose FF as a seperate entity. Boo.
- Derek Shanahan
confirmed by facebook press release.
- Zac Bowling
Love 'em or hate 'em....Facebook made a phenomenal purchase.
- Kevin Pruett
I see a ton of Wall Spam. Facebook users just don't get it when you port your twitter updates over. There is too much for them to wrap their heads around. This will be a hard transition.
- Ryan Cummins
And I was REALLY getting fond of FriendFeed. From now on only downhill applicationwise?
- Bart
Not happy about this. I use Facebook, but don't like it. It reminds me of AOL from 10 years ago.
- David Sharpe
I agree that I don't want FB to mess up FF, but this will also give FF a higher profile and bring in many more users...which we may or may not like, judging by what happened on Twitter. I hope FF doesn't die off like Jaiku because I really think FF offers a more valuable and useful interface.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
One thing to consider is this: If we have "trusted" the FriendFeed people not to screw things up, hopefully we can trust them to make sure they're still in control in the terms of the acquisition.
- Adam Reyher
What's it going to be called? Failbook?
- Ian Tindale
Its going to be called Facebook.
- DGentry
I hope this is a joke.. Damn it, I dont like Facebook now there is nowhere to go... F***
- Jacque
I am trying to imagine how this will be a good thing for existing FF users. It feels so right and so wrong all at once!...Maybe at least my kids and wife will finally get what I've been ignoring them for over the past year.
- Thom Kennon
FeedFace
- Ian Tindale
Is that means we're going to see more extremist groups around, now that FB has acquired FF?
- Nir Ben Yona
so where do all the cool kids go now? we need another startup, stat!
- h1ro
I am afraid... what johnny2009 have said can really be the future... soon friendfeed will = Jaiku
- Ahmed Mubbashir Khan
Damn,I've just"got friendfeed,and i love it.I definately don't like facebook.What does it mean for twitter?
- Paul Downing
Any investors want to predict the buyout price?
- Kevin Pruett
am gonna wait for google wave... coz in facebook, i cant access the complete stream for a month ago, the site goes down very often while browsing, and privacy issues galore!! congratulations for friendfeed but its jus me!!!
- Gtp19
Maybe we´re seeing here one of FriendFeeds biggest discusions ever. I´m sceptic about the future of FF as a standlone service...
- Torsten Eckert
What concerns me most is what happens to my friends here (and that I have to interact with my friends THERE). Will we have to be friends to interact in the same way we have the last couple of years?
- jcunwired
This is very good for FriendFeed as long as Facebook doesn't corrupt them. I would have preferred to see Google buy FF but I know with their focus on Wave I don't think it would have been a good fit. I like the Facebook platform, but they have done too many shady things in the past for me to trust them.
- Adam Teece
all of the conversation is happening on FriendFeed and Twitter - nothing on Facebook. Think we'd scare away Facebook if everyone starts having lots of conversations there - like on Scoble's fan page?
- Stuart Miniman
They can or don't have to fix FF's FB app now.
- ydfeed
Is Twitter going to buy Myspace?
- marcus bösch
Ha Stuart - great point *Facebookers take cover*
- Kimberle Kelly
That does it. I'm going back to usenet.
- Ian Tindale
What's next- Macy's buying Gimble's?
- Thom Kennon
Apple buys China
- Ian Tindale
what do you think Robert?
- courtney benson
All I can think of is now a lot of people can feel the pain the dedicated Pownce community felt, but at least you're not getting shut down, just yet.
- Mike Lewis
I'm not a big facebook user, but my gut feeling is that like twitter buying summize, it will mark the end of major innovations. I hope I'm wrong. But they should totally go with the facefeed mashup name.
- motownmutt
I dont see any potential for competition with twitter FB and Twitter serve different purposes as does FriendFeed
- iluvblackwomen
Sorry but renaming Facebook to 'Facefeed' is utterly stupid.
- Alex Knight
It'll be called ScobleFeed
- Ian Tindale
does making google reader more social has anything to do with this buyout??!
- Gtp19
yeah this was good for facebook. bad for anyone who liked friendfeed.
- Liz
FriendFeed is very good, a better way to use Twitter & etc. Knowing this, I still rarely use FF. Not going to start using Facebook more.
- Nicole
Actually, this could be death for Twitter when you think about it. The people I know who are in FB are not likely to add TWO more nets to their lifestream. FriendFeed makes more sense for them. Maybe Twitter just stays as the dumb pipe it's become for many of us here.
- Thom Kennon
Echoing what others have said - My guess: Facebook will get better, Friendfeed will get worse, Twitter will matter a lot less.
- Matthew Blaisdell
Good for FB UI and search, questionable for the FF community and its independent spirit ...
- Bo Stern
last comment 2 hours ago on FF by Paul Buchheit, FF CEO, was just " :)" http://friendfeed.com/paul #friendbook
- Jacopo Gio
The main reason why I came to FF was because when I tried to treat FB the same as FF, i was talking to a wall. At least people interact here. At FB, it's all about the cheesy games/apps.
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
Just like most acquisitions, it could be good and it could be bad. I trust that FriendFeed will live on as FriendFeed, only sharing their tech with Facebook. Possibly more integration between the two sites. If you were FF/FB, what would you do?
- Nick Humphries
Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook are three entirely different animals. Facebook eats Friendfeed and poops out little bits of content that once belonged to us. Twitter continues to thrive as the broadcast conversation-wannabe that it always was.
- jcunwired
Nick - think again. Its going to go away - read the tea leaves in this statement: "Your data will not go away any time in the near term future - we are committed to our users" - Bret Taylor in this post https://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- jcunwired
Please no. I don't like FaceBook...
- Svartling
Facebook must want real time soc-net search badly...
- martin smith
The biggest thing here, at least within the Twitter context, is that this merger will combine 'verified' identity (in terms of Facebook user ID being slightly more 'real' than Twitter) with real time status updates.
- Dan Patterson
I'm looking forward to what this brings to Facebook. I have enjoyed both networks but wondered when FriendFeed/Facebook would face-off and/or be absorbed by the other. I think FriendFeed's tech will improve the Facebook experience.
- Jacob Sloan
FriendFeed + Twitter = disruptive. FriendFeed + Facebook = one more app for FB . Facebookers dont know the power of FriendFeed. I agree with : "" So FB failed to buy Twitter, - so they buy FF which is just a UI for twitter.. - Nick Halstead ""
- Rocky
Most likely scenario is Facebook assimilates the FriendFeed guys, has them work on improving Facebook newsfeed/realtime/status, and lets FriendFeed die a slow unmaintained death.
- Richard Akerman
Well, my friends on FB doesn't give a damn about sharing links, news, pics, vids etc. So I'm not sure how I will use FB+FF now. I don't think FriendFeed will exist, just implemented in Facebook. The name FriendFeed will die. And: on FB you don't want the whole world to see everything you're doing, just your friends. And it will stay this way. So the question is: Who will build the new FriendFeed?
- Patrik Johansson
Do this mean, by the way, that we (the FriendFeed users) should start to connect with each other on FB? How will they like that? People who get's 2-3 maybe 4000 connections?
- Patrik Johansson
Robert, it means all the time you invested building friends lists and updates there will go to Facebook :-)
- Loic Le Meur
could someone start to develop a Frienfeed clon , please ? ASAP !
- Rocky
Seems bloody terrible from this users perspective. Good for Friendfeed the company though.
- Quasar
Given Facebook's past, this could be really bad. Given FriendFeed's past, this could be really good. No real way to speculate without talking to the FF crew.
- xero
+3273 Quasar! (one for each of my Likes, already on a death march)
- jcunwired
Robert, do you know if Facebook is going to put on limits here at FF??? Oh crikey... so much for our citizen journalism here.... Admittedly I am bummed. Uber bummed.
- Arleen Anderson
EndFeed.
- Alex Schleber
your blog is the most important thing you can own on the web. these sites can come and go. it's a great social point but true friends you've made here you talk outside of ff, right?
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
It's a good time to sell to Facebook, cause Google Wave is imminent and is going to destroy all of Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed. I think FriendFeed employees might even go back to Google eventually as soon as their contracts with Facebook are up.
- Charbax
Robert - wow. just wow I am stunned. Sorta sad actually. I love FF innovation and don't want to see that stop !!!!!
- Susan Beebe
(RE: Your tweet earlier) When you say the minor league team going to the majors, I don't always feel that this is a positive thing. As in this case, it's like Ferrari being acquired by Ford. I don't think I like this acquisition.
- Richard Merritt
the free ride couldn't last forever. I know it sucks that things will change, but they've got a lot more sense than Twitter has about these things..
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
You must all assimilate to the new FaceFeed
- Jonathan.Rivera
From what I'm gathering, this acquisition is more about FB acquiring the talented engineers of FF than it is about the FF software itself. A smart play by FB. Unfortunate for us that value FF. I personally feel that FB is just slowly becoming the new Myspace. Which I don't think I need to explain how lame that is.
- Richard Merritt
According to WSJ — FB paid $50 million — a mix of cash and stocks. http://bit.ly/SVTA5
- Richard Merritt
If you ignore all the crappy apps and just comment and post photos, your main feed on Facebook is fundamentally a pretty similar experience to FriendFeed - people post stuff, people comment on it. That is, at-least, the way my network tends to use Facebook. The main difference is that Facebook defaults to being very closed and private while FriendFeed defaults to being very open and...
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- Edward Coffey
edward - pretty much. it's FF for the layman. remember back in the day they used to have forums too?
- Terry O'Fee
friendfeed is very cliquey. you have your group of people who usually gather round for conversations. now imagine some of this friendfeed stuff in facebook. done right it will help them a lot.
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
I don't think I am liking this but FB does need to add the "edit" feature like on here.
- Marika Dye
FriendFeed is Facebooks Summize. It’s All About Search. http://bit.ly/11ZW6l
- paul mooney
Thinking Out Loud: Echo issues during a high profile tech show http://www.talkshoe.com/talksho...
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
FF acquisition is expected. But, as a user, I would be bumned, if FF would become a feature of FB. As, I tend to use Twitter as my social network and not FB.
- Vasu Srinivasan
It doesn't make much sense talking about 'Facefeed" and 'Friendbook'... Facebook simply bought a cool 12-people company called Friendfeed for its great search technology paying 15M plus some shares, which is really very cheap in this context, given the value of FF's technology (as it is perceived by us). They are also hiring the talented FF team, which makes the deal even more interesting for FB. Probably there are also some deeper hidden motives and implications that I am not able to get.
- Liviu Barbat
I would love it if Facebook integrated the FriendFeed features. I would love it if Facebook had FriendFeed's flexibility with Facebook's privacy control. It sucks that the world may lose FriendFeed, but it is great the Facebook will likely get better.
- Andrew
Andrew, Facebook will get better - over time. There won't be any Vulcan website meld of FB and FF overnight.
- Bill Sodeman
thank god someone understands that, andrew. it's like "i liked this band better before they went to a major label!" ;)
- Terry O'Fee
Bill - But we can dream, can't we? :) I mean, what I love about Facebook is that I'm interacting with my friends as my friends, not as usernames and avatars. But I hate their bookmarklet, the weird delays when I post anything, the comment system, and I hate the Photo gallery tech. I love the FriendFeed community, but would love bringing the FriendFeed technology over to Facebook even more. If only Facebook could buy Flickr next...
- Andrew
as long as fb start thinking in creative commons terms... one day ..
- Terry O'Fee
they are both great services I think will be a good thing
- Logan Lindquist
oh NO! I don't spend much time at FB (everybody there's too busy playing stupid games, at least in my little network), and besides it's more private unlike FF. And now they've gone and bought FF? And I just joined! I guess I won't be around here for long, since FF won't...
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't like it...
- Harry Mahardhika
No mention of Yahoo. Totally irrelevant these days. Sad.
- Scott Schnaars
This deal makes sense! Now fb developers do not need to figure out how ff does it because they can just ask!
- Garin Kilpatrick
One of my facebook accounts got closed up. Into this account I fed my friendfeed. And into friendfeed I fed for example my socialmedian shares, diggs, stumbles etc.
- Wilhelm Bauer
Time for the next generation app. *Taps foot impatiently for Google Wave*
- Karen Masullo
I don't think it's about getting Friendfeed it's self; but having the developers and the information about real-time search.
- Chris Martin
Google Launches A Major Offensive Against Microsoft With “Going Google” - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Cem Ozkaynak, ashish, PierG and 55 other people liked this
That billboard was the best thing they could come up with?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I'm ahead of the curve on this one.
- Jason Huebel
Yeah. Courier is going to send them scurrying.
- Akiva Moskovitz
no idea if that's what they'll really look like. that's just a demo in the video they sent
- MG Siegler
I'm consistently impressed with the value delivered by Google Apps. I expect the acquired Postini base to be more aggressively mined for Google Apps converts as well.
- Jay Cuthrell
I have alternative text: Day #3 - our Google App based corp mail is bouncing and we don't know why. No one responds in Google. :(
- Kfir Pravda
Kfir: Whatever. I've documented in video where Google Apps Support answers the -phone- when you call them. If you're running "corp" mail with a free account, you should not expect a paid support experience and you won't have access to the phone number of course. Here's the video I did a year ago for example: http://video.seesmic.com/threads... and it's gotten even better since then btw...
- Jay Cuthrell
Go google, go!
- Lakshman Prasad
Google is developing a brand that says "we want our design to look like it was created by engineers. Oh wait, let's hire engineers to design it!"
- Paula W
Errrr what? Developing a brand? Pretty sure Goog has had a brand for a good while now.
- EricaJoy
Google is developing a VAR and integrator channel.
- Jay Cuthrell
Check blogoscoped take on this http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
- Varun Mahajan
Can you do pivot tables with google spreadsheets?
- Matt Soreco
Matt - you'll have to create them yourself or use gadgets like Panorama
- Jay Cuthrell
Thanks Jay. I think your average excel user (like me) would just want to work without extra gadgets. For me, it'll be a wait and see.
- Matt Soreco
Google is taking over the world...one piece of the enterprise at a time.
- Don Martelli
(Just speaking for myself here) It's worth pointing out that Google is *itself* a huge user of Apps, and it works very well for just about everything we do. Sure, there are cases that aren't covered yet -- I suspect some sophisticated spreadsheet users aren't going to have all the features they need, but it seldom matters for day-to-day users. And I suspect the teams are working hard to close those gaps as fast as they can.
- Joel Webber
And from a "cloud security" perspective (one concern I see coming up a lot), it's also worth considering that Google is as susceptible to this issue with its own apps as anyone else, so the company has an extremely strong incentive to get security right.
- Joel Webber
Jay: in recent cases that I've witnessed and documented in my blog, Google apps showed that in some cases they suffer from performance issues. When I published it, I received several comments from others suffering from the same issue, including corp accounts. That's why I mentioned the fact that bouncing emails occur on this platform, and other issues exist, that are not necessarily reported/covered. I am happy that you received great customer service.
- Kfir Pravda
I paid $52 to be an ad for Toyota. Why? Because: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Mitchell Tsai, DGentry, Shannon Clark and 20 other people liked this
Someone stole my logo a few weeks back while my car sat at the San Francisco airport. The replacement cost $52 which I happily paid. Why? My car felt naked without it and I love my 2010 Prius. And THAT is advertising Toyota can't buy.
- Robert Scoble
Ghah! I have a Gen3 that I love as well -- and I plan on parking it at an airport tomorrow -- and the thought that people are stealing these badges makes me sad (and scared for my poor Gen3).
- Paul Wilcox
Slap a Lexus logo on it lol
- Than R
who knew that Toyota ornaments were so lucrative on the black market
- Christi
$52...a bargain...
- Buzz Bruggeman
I think you did it because it look geeky cool!
- Bogdan Costea
Would have been cool to put your Hulk Picture on a logo on the car in an oval shape- green and all...:-)
- Lyn Graft
My stereo can beat up your stereo. ;)
- Brett Schulte
Which is more impressive: You paid $52 for a new logo, or someone placed enough value in your logo to rip it from your car? Also: Did you know that the new Prius logos are blue inside because in Japan blue is the color associated with energy conservation (as opposed to green here). Apparently there was a lot of debate within Toyota about whether the logo should be blue in the US, and some owners are unhappy with the blue logo, especially when it's on a car whose color clashes with it.
- Kevin Fox
Don't we all do that any time we pay for something with a logo?
- David
Your logo was stolen? Is it 1987? Are we putting those on chains again?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
++ Eric
- Jennifer Dittrich
That is a nice looking logo, not something I would want -that- badly though..
- Greg Clute
from iPhone
Brett: yeah, but my stereo gets 45 mpg. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Asgod: I figure some kid is collecting car logos for his bedroom wall.
- Robert Scoble
Hey Robert, just turned 100,000 on my second gen Prius. If they made computers like they make the Priuses we'd be golden. One minor software glitch in 100,000 miles.
- Steve Poppe
I want a Prius soooo bad!
- Travis Tasset
I've got a 2007 Prius and love it. It's too bad you couldn't rig the backup camera to get a picture of the theif.
- Grant Austin
LOL.
- Zachary TG
My car seems to be missing its Toyota logo as well..
- Eric Dunlap
I'm still suprised that the Prius only gets 45 mpg. My $11k Yaris gets almost 40. Costs a lot to be smug, I guess :)
- Blake
Blake: it depends on how you drive it. If I drive it like an old lady I get 55. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Blake: also, I do a LOT of mountain driving, which isn't optimal for the hybrid.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Makes sense. I hear that city mileage is better than highway for the Prius.
- Blake
I live at the base of the Sierra Nevadas and I can tell you my Prius screams in pain every time I drive home from somewhere.
- Kevin Arth
I would have sold mine from my '96 toyota for half of that price... :)
- Shoukat Dharani
I wouldn't have otherwise noticed that the Toyota symbol was two circles - I feel like a goof now.
- Ciaoenrico
Lots of Prius love here in this thread...gotta check out http://priuschat.com to see who else is there.
- Tim Cooper
That is one of the most unique round about marketing stories I've ever heard! No pun intended! hahahha
- Tanya Noel
When my Saab logo rubbed off, I felt the same way.
- Schneider Mike
It would cost more than 52 dollars to understand the meaning of this loss with a collegue, so... that's a good deal !
- Yann Leroux
Scoble - didn't you learn ANYTHING when you told people you hated it when someone grabbed your name on a social media site? Result: It became a geek meme to grab your name. Now you've made it a badge of geek honor to have the Scoble Prius badge!
- Brett Schulte
Let's re-use and recycle instead of buying new, you know? I have a mint-condition logo for a 2010 Prius that I recently, uh, found. I do feel your pain at the loss of your "badge", so I am offering you (or any in the "Silico-ti" bubble) -- for only $35 -- the chance of feel less naked than you've felt in a long while, I promise. Details here-- http://tr.im/vktz .
- Adrian
Robert, if it's ever stolen again, don't glue the replacement on _too_ well. You don't want the thieves to scratch your paint stealing the replacement. $35-$52 is a heck of a lot cheaper than fixing your paint. I had a lot of body work done on my various cars recently, and it's so expensive It almost makes me cry.
- Adrian Otto
Rumor: Netflix Streaming Coming To The iPhone - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Thomas Hunsaker, Eren Emre Kanal, andy brudtkuhl and 3 other people liked this
This would be awesome. but knowing AT&T it be wifi only, but that's where a Mifi would come in handy!
- Fee501st
Twitter Gadget for Gmail - http://twittergadget.appspot.com/
Joseph Ferrara.Sellsius, Кофе без сахара, manielse (Mark Nielsen) and 84 other people liked this
"Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a Twitter client specially designed for Gmail."
- Alessandro
from Bookmarklet
Excellent!
- Kol Tregaskes
loving it! works in Chrome also :)
- Ivan Zuzak
Blocked for Iranian IPs!!!:(
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
"Your session is expired, please reload Gmail"... but even if i close chrome or clear the cache it doesn't work any more.
- Alessandro
@Alessandro - refresh and then click your picture on the Twitter gadget again. that solved it for me.
- Ivan Zuzak
@ivan, i can't click on my avatar: http://img16.imageshack.us/img16...
- Alessandro
@Alessandro - oh i get it now, sorry. i got the "session expired" message in the main twitter window that shows tweets, not in the gadget itslef.
- Ivan Zuzak
tnx ivan, however! ;)
- Alessandro
thanks... nice info...
- Harry Mahardhika
I could really take advantage of this. Thanks!
- © b e e n s w a n k
Pavel liked your post and assigned it to topic "Twitter" at http://smallaa.com. Start letting Pavel track you: http://www.smallaa.com/user...
- Pavel Senko
This is very nice. Have had some trouble loading though today. Not sure why.
- Kevin Mohr
lol. At a glance I thought the title was "Twitter Gets a Gmail Gadget" - Gmail inside your Twitter!
- Micah Wittman
Two days later Twitter for Gmail still doesn't work for me... It worked only for the first day, then died. I give up. http://bit.ly/2csLz
- Alessandro
excellent
- TrafficBug
It will be a blast if w can save the searches and set preferences for refresh rate. So far, working great. :)
- Jonathan Kong
Yeah, I can't quite get the secure one to work.
- l0ckergn0me
I've been running Twitter Gadget for Gmail for two weeks. Suddenly, yesterday, I started getting "Your session is expired, please reload Gmail." The only thing that gets it back is to restart my computer.
- Marie Carnes
This is hardly news
- lelapin
The new dev version of Chrome radically changes the new tab page: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/ Drag/drop, pin faves, remove thumbnails
Mark Essel, Bob DeMarco, ravi karandeekar and 8 other people liked this
yep
- kang
i assume you mean the Windows version. would you guys just make some kind of OS based around Chrome already?
- MG Siegler
Tiny monkey is tiny! (via @jeditigger) #morningcuteness - http://agentmlovestacos.tumblr.com/post...
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Isha (Marysia), Thomas Hunsaker and LJF Wolffe liked this
I want one! I want its first baby!
- Isha (Marysia)
Star Wars: Then and Now - http://www.slashfilm.com/2009... (via http://friendfeed.com/funny-p...)
(jeff)isageek, Thomas Hunsaker, Geoff Captain and 8 other people liked this
The Friendfeed gadget works in Gmail!
Alessandro Cosimetti, Nikos Kouremenos, Nils Sandin and 80 other people liked this
whao sweet!
- Zach Landes
I know. I am commenting on this from Gmail!
- Steve Rubel
I don't know if a could deal with that tiny width, but it's cool nonetheless. ;)
- Brandon
Cool - how did you do that?
- Nick Reynolds
Thanks
- Nick Reynolds
Lovely!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
should the url: http://friendfeed.com/embed... :)
- Hobbes
I have successfully added
- Hobbes
uh oh, perhaps disturbing is a better description
- jerobins
I can't find the page,it shows nothing when I open it up.
- Steve Chou
But..how use this xml?
- enrico
The links are not working anymore - just gives me a blank page?
- Oyvind Solstad
How do I do this?
- David Cook
Is there a real-time gadget?
- Rolf Schewe
You need to go to Gmail | Settings | Labs | Add any gadget by URL | Enable
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
i'm using it from months. It's really useful
- Daniele Di Gregorio
Added! Thanks
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
I wish I could add this gadget, but when I enable the Gadgets from any URL thing in Labs, I don't see the form to enter the URL under the Gadgets tab. Apparently several people have this problem (went to the Google Groups to add feedback that it's not working correctly), and no one has offered up any solution. :( Sucks!
- Cheryl Jones
Finally get the idea,it is cool though,but not very practical.
- Steve Chou
The URL tab is added to your settings area, not the Labs area. That was confusing for me.
- Yolanda
That is so cool! For me, the only problem is the width which is not appropriate but it works fine
- Rémi Fayolle
@Yolanda: I know. The description for the Labs item that you enable says that a Gadgets tab will be enabled on the Settings page, but clicking on that Gadgets tab doesn't show the form where you can enter the URL like it's supposed to. Bah.
- Cheryl Jones
@cheryljones I'm having the same problem too. I just get a blank page on the gadgets tab. Let me know if you figure out how to import.
- Al Stevens
@Al: Just for fun I went back to the Gadget tab in my Gmail settings, and the URL form box is there now. Just added the FriendFeed gadget to Gmail, yay!
- Cheryl Jones
Hmmm. The FF gadget is less useful than I thought. First of all, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually refresh it without refreshing Gmail as a whole (perhaps I'm too impatient waiting for updates). Also you can't post an original post through the gadget. And the number of FF updates shown by the gadget is limited. I thought I'd be able to see older posts. Oh well, it might be good for occasional use.
- Cheryl Jones
Nice, but wish the tabs in Gmail had replacing options..
- Reza
It's not enough wide for me.
- Smeerch
A while ago it stopped refreshing properly so I stopped using it.
- Cheryl Jones
Facebook Connect vs. Sign in with Twitter: Fight! - http://mashable.com/2009...
Thomas Hunsaker liked this
Twitter has quietly given some developers access to a new feature, Sign in with Twitter, which uses Twitter’s new OAuth technology to allow people to log into and access 3rd party websites using their Twitter accounts. Sound familiar? On the surface, this has striking similarities to Facebook Connect, the Facebook version that allows users to access 3rd party websites using a Facebook account, as well as import their Facebook information and friends. So how does Sign in with Twitter work, and how does it compare to Facebook Connect? How To Log In with Applications that Use FB Connect or Twitter Sign In Sign in with Twitter: Sign in with Twitter is a three-step process: 1. Request to sign in via Twitter 2. Log in to Twitter 3. Authorize the application or website to let you log in via Twitter For the user who is logging in, it is in fact dead simple. If you are logged into Twitter, the only thing you really have to do is authorize the website to let you log in via Twitter. After that,...
- James Michael Mike DuPont
Digg tries to make its new social news toolbar suck less - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
Thomas Hunsaker liked this
Facing ongoing criticism from web publishers about its new toolbar, the DiggBar, social news site Digg has another company blog post up today describing how it’s turning the toolbar into a win for users and publishers and not just for the company itself. The toolbar, which you can access by adding “digg.com/” before a URL on [...]
New text editor for Windows. Pretty amazing, try it :) - http://intype.info/home...
Nilesh, Charlie Anzman, Warren Butler and 13 other people liked this
It seems to be usefull,tnx!
- Mitra_s
Is it better than Vim?
- Morton Fox
Any portable version available?
- Marius Quadflieg
It's not free? Ha, forget it.
- LANjackal
Not exactly new but...
- Brandon Titus
...worth a try.
- LouCypher
Definitely a worthy editor for Windows. It's the closest thing you can get to TextMate I guess.
- Brandon Titus
If its not free, then I am going to try it but stick with free text editor.
- TrafficBug
Not free? I'll stick with Notepad++ as well. It's a must have in my book.
- Keith - @tsudo
My votes with Notepad ++ also
- Colossal Marketing™
Notepad++ is my #1 notepad app for Win
- Outsanity
There's also http://e-texteditor.com/ which is opening up (including most of the source code).
- ropiku
TextPad remains my favorite.
- ComicList
The problem with this thing is that you cant close a tab as theres no "X" in the tab as in Notepad++. Notepad++ has its own usability issues, like you cant close ALL open tabs and remain with nothing
- TrafficBug
Not free and no command line, so it's not better.
- Morton Fox
Yikes, people still use Windows? :)
- Kevin Elliott
Kevin, I'm just cool enough for Windows. :)
- ComicList
Why Is Gmail Still in Beta? - http://www.slate.com/id...
Kiran Patchigolla, Thomas Hunsaker, Brian and 3 other people liked this
If it borks, it's easy to say, "it's still in beta"? Ha.
- jjprojects
SLA requirements are much more "lax" on a beta product.
- Susan Beebe
Service Level Agreement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Nathan Henderson
I've wondered this a thousand times. I keep hoping that if enough of us keep saying it maybe they will listen.
- Keith - @tsudo
Don't care. It works.
- Fleagle
Ballpark: The better way to send invoices and estimates - http://www.getballpark.com/
@jessewright, Harry Mahardhika, Stylish Eve and 11 other people liked this
bookmarked
- TrafficBug
Probably the worst place to stop your car... Ever! (PIC) - http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i...
Rebecca Schlachter, Eric Ebersohl, Nolan Alston and 8 other people liked this
Meow!
- Susan Beebe
i cringed as i pushed like for a link using the digg framebar
- fijidaddy
Snipt.org - Share source code on Twitter and the Web - http://snipt.org/
Stylish Eve, Thomas Hunsaker, Morton Fox and 8 other people liked this
Easily share and embed source code. Snipt lets you share source code in any of dozens of programming languages, formats it, and then generates a short URL you can share or embed. [via http://kl.am/snipt]
- LouCypher
from Bookmarklet
Note: this is different with snipt.net on http://friendfeed.com/e...
- LouCypher
I wish to ban "Experts Exchange" from all my Google Search results. Always.
Beaver, Enrico Lamperti, immaterial and 124 other people liked this
There's a greasemonkey script to at least remove the link from the results page
- Topbit
The greasemonkey script mentioned earlier: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Aral Balkan
the link: http://userscripts.org/scripts... And there are others there
- Topbit
Google needs FriendFeed filters :)
- Susan Beebe
Don't you mean Expert Sex Change?
- Jim Norris
I tend to include -experts-exchange.com if I'm googling for anything technical. I shouldn't have to do that.
- Mark Trapp
Would be nice to get the ability to get rid of all paid service.
- Tyler (Chacha)
There is never ever a reason to include EE in search results. What, I'm going to pay to get a technical question answered? Are you kidding me?
- You.
Stack Overflow is the best alternative.
- Rich
If you click on the cache link in Google, the "paid" answers are cached at the bottom of the page-- no signup required. :)
- Jeremy Felt
Yeah the cache trick is nice but isn't that a violation of Google's TOS? providing different results to the crawler?
- Bill Pennington
from twhirl
No need for the cache...if you scroll all the way to the bottom the answers are there.
- Brian Newman
Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom. Weird.
- Jeremy Felt
The answers are generally way, way on the bottom and only visible if you visit the thread from Google's search results. Frustrating: yes, but there is also a lot of good information in there...
- John μller
I'm not alone. I'd like to bad about.com too.
- Paul Grav
«Interesting... if you open the link (non-cached) in a new tab, the answers don't show, but if you follow the link through google in the same tab, the answers do show at the bottom.» This is even officially allowed by Google these days, it's called "first click free" (others might call it "sort of cloaking").
- Philipp Lenssen
I feel the same way about anything from Associated Content.
- EricaJoy
CustomizeGoogle extension for Firefox (or something similar) allows user to define filters for search to make it more usable.
- Daniel Schildt
Go ahead and allow the results to Experts Exchange to show, and when you get there use this script on the page. http://draconislabs.net/upload... If you need to, save a copy of the info in case you need it later.
- April Russo (app103)
from NoiseRiver
Amen
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Jeremy, set up a Firefox Quicksearch bookmark for Google searches and just exclude the bad domain there, using the following string in the Properties/Location field: http://www.google.com/search... -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com
- Erik Dafforn
Sorry, that truncated the URL. After .com, add /search?q=%s -inurl%3Aexperts-exchange.com
- Erik Dafforn
I was able to use info from EE only recently. I would just scroll down to see the answer. Even after they'd done something to prevent that, I would still hit a link that allowed me to scroll down and read what I needed.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Totaly true. Everytime I search for JEE stuff this freaking pages pops up ...
- Marius Quadflieg
am I the only who can kick off *wrong* (in my opinion) links in Google output? http://www.google.com/support...
- A.T.
add "-expertsexchange.com" to your search query? just a thought.
- Dossy Shiobara
@dossy sometimes you have a dream to have it as permanent filter, preferably with feedback to original website that they are classified as morons by 10.000.000.000 users :)
- A.T.
@Jeremy, just as a hack I made you a Custom Search Engine called 'All But Experts-Exchange'. Compare the results of [http://www.google.com/cse...] with [http://www.google.com/search...]. You can access the CSE here: http://www.google.com/coop....
- DeWitt Clinton
A better solution would be for us to enable something per-site with SearchWiki [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...]. I actually thought we could already, let me look again.
- DeWitt Clinton
I would like to do this as well, Experts Exchange is the biggest joke. Stack Overflow has everything any more... w/o hiding their answers.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
How do you configure a Custom Search Engine to exclude specific sites?
- Paul Grav
@Paul - once you've set up a CSE, follow the link that says "[Edit this search engine]" and look at the left-hand column under Control Panel for a link that says "Sites". Find the section called "Excluded sites" and then "Add Site". I think our user experience here could be better. The Custom Search Engines are incredibly powerful, but not nearly as discoverable as they could be.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, thanks for the reminder about CSE. It's an incredibly cool feature.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Include this in your query site:-expertsexchange.com
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
totally agree, I hate those wankers
- Toby Graham
@Jason - thanks! Custom Search Engines are perhaps my favorite power feature that Google offers. Come to Google I/O and I'll show off something neat with them.
- DeWitt Clinton
There should really be a search experiment to do this. Exclude the follow sites from your results. SearchWiki doesn't do it AFAIK. I've thought about suggesting the search experiment at work but never got around to it. I think I shall today.
- EricaJoy
me too... hate experts exchange
- mikepk
Erica: Google *does* offer a way to do this in your query. Try searching for YourKeyWord site:-siteIhate.com site:-OtherSiteIHate.com The "-" verbiage is how you tell the engine to *not* return results from those sites. Conversely, you could search "keyword site:MyFavoriteResource.com" to only return results from your intended target.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Scroll to the bottom works for me. And sometimes there's good answers. I think it's ridiculous that I have to scroll to the bottom but... for me it's not worth adding yet another extension or greasemonkey script.
- Robert DeBord
Haven't seen it in the comments, but you can always use the SaerchWiki Labs feature to remove any unnecessary results from view. I think you can go as far as 'ban' a domain.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
firefox addon which applies custom css styles to some websites will be very useful for EE. to show only questions and answer. hide all other crap from pages..
- Turkey banned Bloggum :(
How to have an answer to a question, in 110 comments. I love it when we help someone figure out something, FF exists with that underlying community feature: help. 9)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Me too! I hate that site.
- Jess Lee
Jason, it has nothing to do with being ugly. It has to do with them cluttering my search results with information that's behind a paywall.
- Matthew Gifford
It's a good thing they put that hyphen in there, "Expert Sexchange" is obviously not their business model!
- Ryan
Google's results have, IMO, been degrading over the years and EE is just one of the problems.
- Michael McKean
They are a PITA, show up everywhere but only display 1/2 of what you are looking for, very bothersome.
- Allen Harkleroad
+1 the same. I really hate them
- shuvalov
experts exchange sucks
- leonardobag
Amen
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
from IM
I hate them too.
- Enrico Lamperti
Star Wars Remixed As Opening of Dallas TV Series - http://laughingsquid.com/star-wa...
Jennifer Gates, Evan Brown, Dennis Bjørn Petersen and 7 other people liked this
wow, that...actually kinda works!!
- Jamie Mack
from twhirl
And, in a weird way, reminds me of the 'Buck Rogers' opening credits.
- Michael R. Bernstein
That is simply awesome.
- Admiral Anika
:(
- Mona Nomura
What's making you sad, Mona?
- Michael R. Bernstein
I feel so 70s all of a sudden...
- david koblas
switching my main phone number to Google Voice, it's that good http://smarterware.org/1032...
Thomas Hunsaker and LogEx liked this
Only bad thing about it is that SMS's sent to my Google Voice are also, automatically, sent as a text message to my cell, which I have to pay for. I wish there was an option to turn that feature off if I just wanted SMS to stay in my Gvoice inbox.
- Kyle
Flump - a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account. - http://code.google.com/p...
Nasser Hasani, Rameez Nooruddin, Seth Greenblatt and 9 other people liked this
"If you watch the movie `Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach." (via Reddit) - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
zeroinfluencer, Bill Romanos, Umit Namli and 51 other people liked this
If you watch Friday the 13th backwards, it's about a magic hockey player who can bestow life on injured teenagers.
- Matt Cutts
If you watch Canonball Run backwards it's a movie about a bunch of unemployed former movie stars racing across the US and getting in to absurd situations...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
If you watch Memento backwards it is about a man who, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.
- DeWitt Clinton
"If you watch Rambo backwards, it's Sylvester Stallone healing people with his magical bullet vacuum. And repairing helicopters with nothing but a bow and arrow."
- Private Sanjeev
If you watch The Curious Case of Benjamin Button backwards, it's about a guy living his life. BORing.
- Ted Gilchrist
DeWitt - that's hilarious.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
If you watch Star Wars IV backwards, it's about a young man who after building the Death Star and imprisoning a princess goes AWOL from the military and goes to live on a farm on a desert planet.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
If you watch the last 3 decades backwards its about my political party slowly figuring out how to apply their core values to the problems of the day in a way that voters respond to *le sigh*
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
+2 Marco...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
@DeWitt that truly is amazing!!!! HAHA!!!!
- Benno
@mark @lindsey sometimes I have to laugh just to keep from crying
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
If you watch Wizard of Oz backwards, a girl has a dream about taking a balloon to a far off place who then gives trinkets to a Wizard and resurrects a witch and goes to the Wizard again, following a yellow brick road to a land of munchkins, says goodbye to a good witch and resurrects another witch with a house and then wakes up to a tornado and a bad old lady who gives her a dog - oddly, the same dog in the dream. The End?
- Erich Miller
New "Meet Pre" video demonstrates new functionality, incredible calming effect - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Anne Haynes, Katy Pearce, Daniel Rowley and 13 other people liked this
Really, really, wanting this phone, sprint isn't looking too bad now.
- Thomas Hunsaker
Prasoon, the Pre's first model will be CDMA and I don't believe India has any telco that uses that standard. I haven't read enough about the Pre to know when or if Palm will offer a GSM version. Anyone know?
- coldbrew
Yes there will be a GSM version, no idea when though: http://www.engadget.com/2009...
- Ryan
29 Fantastic Not-Built-In Ubiquity Commands - http://www.dotnetkicks.com/product...
Thomas Hunsaker liked this
Better Search in Google Contacts - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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Thomas Hunsaker, Jérôme Flipo and immaterial liked this
Great little improvement, especially since I've got an iPhone last week. But why can't we search with operators such as "or" and "-keyword"?
- Jérôme Flipo
Glad they've made some improvements on this front.
- Thomas Hunsaker
Palm's done with PalmOS, plans to get Pre on other carriers in 2010, speaks to patent issues - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
Phil G, Nicholas James, Thomas Hunsaker and 5 other people liked this
Looking forward to seeing what they do with it.
- David Wilson
They have a real shot - Blackberry is focused on email, bad for apps; iPhone is good for consumer apps
- Chris Keene
Google Reader should have a ton of smarter features, here's why...
Svartling, Kathleen Capps, Phil Ashman and 96 other people liked this
I love Google Reader, but given the number of users and feeds it has and the smarts of the team it should be able to: 1) Tell me what other items in my feeds link to the same story: help me manage my attention. 2) Support smart folders: Outlook and Newsgator have 'em. Gmail (via Quick Links) does too. Why not Reader? 3) Search unread items: you can search read items now, but not unread. I want to be able to say search for all items about X and mark them as read. What else?
- Steve Rubel
Agree and I have to add that the social features suck currently: sharing by making chat contacts is @#%&*.
- Nikos Anagnostou
I would like it to de-duplicate posts that somebody shares which I am already subscribed to. They should mention "this has been shared by ...." on one instnace of the post instead of showing me the post N number of times.
- Brian Sloane
I like Reader, but the folks over at Feedly are doing much more to extend and improve the product than the folks at Google.
- Robert Clockedile
Steve already mentioned it. But filtering items linking to the same story would be great. I'm getting annoyed when there is one story going around and every blog or website seems to write a post on it. But I know new other reader which is able to do this. Would be really a time saver.
- Matthias Faller
Problem is, Rob, you need a plug in.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Agreed. It won't work for everybody, but it's got an excellent (and growing) set of features, including beta Ubiquity integration.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
...I know, I know...another plug in.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
This is probably a silly question but is there a way to see a list of every reader-article that I've emailed out to either myself or friends??
- Will DeLuca
I love Google Reader. I would like to be able to choose my page view. When I click to read an article the page is adapted for mobile phone, I would like to view in HTML. I know of no way to change this. It would be nice to be able to choose.
- Elizabeth
Google has a Digg competitor right in it's midst. I should be able to see most stared and most shared stories for the day, week, month etc.
- Tim
The one thing I want with Google Reader is the ability to hide shared items from specific sources (source of that wishlist item? FF, of course).
- Tamar Weinberg
I also love reader, but I would *love* to be able to setup rules to mark feeds with certain tags read once they become so old. For instance, I have feeds tagged as news and news-slow. Anything in news is stale after about 6 hours, anything in news-slow after about 2 days. I want to setup those preferences in Reader and have it mark those items as read for me, because going through yesterday's breaking news is a pain in the neck.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I like those suggestion Steve! Some of them are also applicable to feedly and the crowd we are catering. Thanks for kicking off this conversation! (Rob thanks for the support!)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I would love for Google Reader to flag duplicate news stories as well, Steve.
- Liana Lehua
I wish they'd add Gtalk like in gmail. And adding friends/sharing has to be improved. I've also been unimpressed with search in greader.
- Graham English
Merge Google Reader and Google Bookmarks !
- Stanislas Jourdan
Hmm, I wonder if Google Bookmarks is dying too. It was integrated with Notebook.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
My guess is that google has hired the founder of delicious to try to do something big and consistent around tagging and bookmarking. Something that could tie together Chrome, Android, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader. At least this is what I am hoping. The fragmentation is pretty painful for the end user.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Bookmarks sync is central to Chrome so somehow I think it will survive and become more social
- Steve Rubel
from IM
greader and gmail should merge. Both emails and feeds are easy to manage and access with the help of filters and labels. Email is a good tool to share with a wide variety of social networks.
- xavier vespa
the shared items doesn't have the proper rss feed format. Can't use it elsewhere without it getting all monkeyed up.. Also a mark as unread option. Themes seems a direction it should soon incorporate. A piping feature like Yahoo Pipes offers.
- Mike Skramstad
I love reader, but duplicates haven been driving me NUTS recently. I've recently started using Yahoo Pipes to combine some of of my feeds that commonly duplicate stories into one feed and remove duplicates.
- Steve Boerner
Greader needs to be integrated with gmail.
- Russ Jackson
one of my most desired options is to be able to sort my feeds by unread count, regardless of what folders they're in... so I get just a big list of all the feeds I'm subscribed to in order from feeds with 1 or 2 unread stories all the way to the feeds with 1000+ unread - I mentioned this to Edwin at Feedly and he seems keen to add into their product soon: http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly... - It's amazing to me that Google Reader doesn't offer that option already.
- Nathan Chase
Getting the duplicate stories out will be a little tough - especially if the feed you subscribe to doesn't link back to their source - but it can definitely be done... would just have to do some regex/fuzzy logic-type querying of post title, content, and outbound links on the page to determine a percentage of similarity. You could then have a similarity threshold slider to adjust your "duplicate filter".
- Nathan Chase
Are there perhaps other readers which do some of these?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I use reader heaps, but I'd still love more features!
- Will Higgins™
I'd like to save my searches in greader.
- Wallace
I, too, would like a pony with my gReader.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
I would NOT want gmail and greader combined, but better social features in the sidebar would be nice. Also improve tagging and let me set time based rules. I like yahoo pipes, though I'm not sure google would want to add something like it as a feature of reader, but I would like a pony.
- John
I agree, the pony seems obvious, and it's certainly within Google's power to provide one for everyone.
- Michael C. Harris
The ability to offer 3rd party features is exactly what the purpose of the soon_to_be_launched "Google reader API", as discussed by Niall Kennedy, is. His post: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog... There is also an unofficial reverse engineering project here: http://code.google.com/p...
- coldbrew
Duplicates within Reader are annoying. There is a script that helps with this but it's not great. It's certainly one problem with GR that needs looking at.
- Kol Tregaskes
On my Google Reader wish list: 1. smart recommender system for news of personal relevance 2. incremental search of subscriptions in left column 3. incremental search of unread items in right column, both for All items and in each folder 4. rename folders 5. delete folders 6. easier moving of folders and feeds from one location to another (perhaps cut and paste) 7. seamless integration with Friendfeed.
- Sean McBride
I'd like greader to be smart enough to know I already read a post - at the site, via an aggregator or ... No time for ponies
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
Plus could it stop letting me subscribe twice to the same feed :)
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
@mcwflint if you are a firefox user and install the feedly extension, you can configure feedly mini to mark articles as read in Google Reader when you visit websites directly.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Thanks. I'll try it on the non iPhone days
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
This one would be useful: "search for all items about X and mark them as read." I like the search feature in Google Reader. When I notice an interesting news about a subject, I immediately search for it to read what has been said about it in my other feeds. 2 or 3 articles are usually more than enough to know more about it, so it would be really useful to be able to mark all the others as read.
- Mehdi Trimech
I'm loving Feedly so far. The fact that it is a plugin is very beneficial when you are generally surfing (not reading RSS), and you auto-discover the relevant conversations to join in on. Obviously Google will do something soon that will take me back to Reader, but for now I'm going to use Feedly
- Paul R. Grant
Feedly's picture grid view is awesome, but the fact that I can't mark items as unread keeps me from using it fulltime. Some innovation in the way feeds are displayed would add a lot to Google Reader. Here's some idea - picture grid (ala feedly), timeline, contextual view (grouped by content like videos, links, etc)
- Ashish Bogawat
Given the Twply fiasco, I thought it might be nice to have a twitter-to-email app that didn't require passwords: https://twitter2mail.appspot.com (currently in private beta)
Michael R. Bernstein, Thomas Hunsaker, Orli Yakuel and 11 other people liked this
The funny this is, I didn't want to write this. But everywhere I looked, the solutions stunk. Yahoo Alerts, in particular, was slow and looked like garbage in my inbox :P
- Carter Rabasa
If it's Yahoo Alerts, you can use Pipes as well http://pipes.yahoo.com/loucyph...
- LouCypher
I hear you, but the Pipes solution still uses Y!Alerts to send the updates. Call me a snob, but I like the way my email is formatted. Check-out the screen shot: https://twitter2mail.appspot.com Plus, I know it's going to run every hour (no guessing).
- Carter Rabasa
If you're using mail client such as Thunderbird, Opera, etc. you can subscribe directly to your replies.rss on Twitter
- LouCypher
Also true! I actually wrote this script just for me (python script+cron). But then I thought "60 more minutes and I can make this a service". Isn't the web awesome these days? Plus, admit it, that icon is awesome!
- Carter Rabasa
@Carter, yes you're right, but I don't use any of them including my pipe :p (I'll just read my replies from feed readers, not email) and yes the icon is awesome : )
- LouCypher
I normally read my @replies in Google Reader too, but I've noticed that the more time I spend on FF, the less time I spend on Reader. Plus, since launching twitter2ff and ff2disqus, I've been getting more people asking for help, so I need to keep up on things better. ;)
- Carter Rabasa
I do get my rss via GReader and Eudora/Thunderbird client. But now I use notify.me for twitter replies.
- Bryan R. Adams
@Bryan, looks neat. I guess I like solutions that are specifically formatted for Twitter (with associated images, links, etc). But clearly this is a great solution for all kind of RSS feeds.
- Carter Rabasa
Carter, I may give this a try to see how I like it.
- Bryan R. Adams
Bryan, cool. If you can think of ways to improve it, let me know.
- Carter Rabasa
You could take the public feeds of all the people you follow to xfruits and use their RSS aggregator to create a single feed, then use that feed in their rss to email or any of their other options. That will give you everything everyone tweets without needing to use any type of passwords (providing you have no private accounts you are following) http://xfruits.com
- April Russo (app103)
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