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I thought this said "rofllol" at first.
- Andy Bakun
So: After Twitter's changes yesterday, Advanced Tweets is now non-functional. Are there any recourses, or is Twitter now a walled garden?
Ülviye Varoğlu, Steven Perez, Andrew C (✓) and 4 other people liked this
Is Yahoo Pipes still working with Twitter?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I thought Pipes was decommissioned.
- Eric - Too Hot
Yeah, when I tried to hook up Twitter to FF (I had un-hooked it when I started using Advanced Tweets), FF tells me it can't find that user. :-/
- Russian Space Lizard
I'm using a Yahoo Pipe to post my Weekly Top Artists to Tumblr via IFTTT so Yahoo Pipes still work but I don't know if they'll work with Twitter.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Facebook is still able to capture tweets and post them to my FB wall but it must use a Facebook app to do it.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
Walled gardens are radically degrading the Internet's potential to accelerate knowledge sharing and knowledge discovery.
- Sean McBride
See this: "Everywhere enormous firms all ranking among the most valuable in the world—Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, with eBay and Facebook not far behind—have monopolistic domination of huge digital markets often equal to or greater than what John D. Rockefeller enjoyed with Standard Oil in the Gilded Age." http://www.thenation.com/blog...
- Sean McBride
The name of the game now seems to be degrading communications and knowledge sharing as much as possible with the aim of maximizing personal profit.
- Sean McBride
One can envision a situation developing in which Internet users begin turning on the big Internet companies for subverting and destroying the original vision of the Internet. They are highly vulnerable to being challenged on monopoly grounds.
- Sean McBride
Sean, mind discussing that elsewhere? I'm more focused on what practical tools and options are available to solve the issue.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Sure: the larger policy issues can be discussed on my feed https://friendfeed.com/seanmcb... Wrt to practical tools and options, I don't know of any -- and I've looked carefully. Perhaps others here can enlighten us.
- Sean McBride
If facebook apps can still do it, then there should be no technical reason why tweets can't be imported to FB...
- Andrew C (✓)
In theory, I could program this myself, right? (If I had the time, which I don't.) Twitter has an API. I could create a process that pulls in my tweets, then write an RSS converter, then point FF to the resulting feed.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Yeah. But it's not clear to me whether Twitter's new crummy TOS prohibits using the API to make RSS-like feeds.
- Andrew C (✓)
Would FF be an RSS like feed? I would argue because it's interactive it's not like RSS.
- Todd Hoff
I'd agree. But if the plan is to siphon a given user's tweets and build a custom RSS feed out of that, even if just as a step to bridge into FF, then it might be a TOS violation.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Never mind! Advanced Tweets working again, so that's the solution of choice.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Hooray!
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Awesome!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
The Yahoo Pipe I wrote for twitter importing ( http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes... ) is no longer working. I'm not sure if it's worth updating, since twitter requires oauth, which apparently can be done via pipes, but the pipe seems massive ( http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes... ). I may cook it up with scraping, like in the bad old days. Jeez.
- Andy Bakun
Trying Advanced Tweets.
- Andy Bakun
Whoa, I'm seeing some actual tweets via the official Twitter service come through today.(e.g. NYTimes).
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I noticed that, but then the flow stopped. Why can a few tweets get through but most not?
- Sean McBride
Maybe Twitter is throttling FF as a whole? If that was the case, most of the tweets that would go through, we would never see.
- Andrew C (✓)
It was easier to use twurl to do oauth to get my favorites list. The open internet is dead. Remember when everything worked together?
- Andy Bakun
Effective Technical Leadership — Tech Talk — Medium - https://medium.com/tech-ta...
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Solid description of what it means to be a technical lead
- Andy Bakun
Alakazam. - http://thwarted.soup.io/post...
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Three fingers, shocking!
- Curtis (a) Jackson
or a special salute.
- Joe Silence
Boy Scouts use three fingers when they salute.
- Andy Bakun
speaking as a former Boy Scout: EXACTLY!
- Joe Silence
Writing udev rules - http://www.reactivated.net/writing...
Detailed information on configuring udev rules and how to match devices.
- Andy Bakun
Image uploads to a Friendfeed post are missing a proper content-header, so when you click the image to see the original size the browser downloads it instead of displaying it in a new tab. Is something up with the FF API that corresponds to its Amazon S3 upload module?
kendyfrank, ♤Universe♧, oxay and 61 other people liked this
I was about to ask if you had an example of an image directly uploaded to Friendfeed. Then I thought about it.
- Jimminy
I'm not sure what the bug is conditional upon, yet, but I've only ever observed this problem in the last few days.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Thank you!
- Meg V. Meg
Ben Golub, you're our only hope.
- Micah
I was about to inquire about this, glad I'm not the only one with this problem.
- Colette
Help us Obi Ben Golubi.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
I thought nobody is touching the code any more. The content type could not have been changed by its own.
- ؛ Dr. Gharazi
This is an intentional change.
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben. What is the reason behind the change?
- Headless Gnad Kicker
It seems broken -- can no longer click on the picture in my FFHound posts to enlarge the image, it just downloads the image instead. (See http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and click the image.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Ben, thank you for the quick response. Was the change to cut down on hot-linking?
- Micah
It's actually a site security improvement to keep us all safe :)
- Benjamin Golub
Ahhh, ixnay ethay executables way. *nodding*
- Micah
Heh, and I was thinking about posting a regression bug to Opera. Thank you.
- Michael W. May
Well, I threw caution to the wind, so here's a browser extension I wrote to view a full size image in a new tab: http://friendfeed.com/fftools...
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
@glenc, Ben is from FF. Read his comments.
- ؛ Dr. Gharazi
While I understand that this is an "intentional change" to "keep us all safe", is there a reference for exactly the problem this is meant to solve is? I'm sure I can make an educated guess, but I'd rather understand it more fully.
- Andy Bakun
Still broken...
- Mitchell Tsai
No one has a reference for exactly the problem this change was meant to solve, for our safety?
- Andy Bakun
It really sounds like "It's not a bug, it's a feature" :)
- Yusuf Arslan
And I can accept that, if I knew what the feature actually was.
- Andy Bakun
Security features.
- Jimminy
thanks for explaining this odd behaviour. maybe you should report to..facebook staff
- marco barsotti
Marco, Benjamin Golub is the FB Staff that is care taking the FF website.
- Me
One solution is to use Opera to browse friendfeed (it leaves you the choice to open the file anyway). And that fits well, a dying social network on a dying browser.
- StM
Any clue as to what I can search for to find out what the exact attack we're being protected from is?
- Andy Bakun
Andy, and for all we know the attacks could have been observed against Facebook's interface and Ben et al saw that Friendfeed simply had the same vulnerability.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
The care taking of this site by Ben is well appreciated for those who still love this service.
- Eric - Too Hot
I remember a while ago someone posted an animated gif which was apparently coming from an external host and my (and some other people's) anti virus system started showing that as a treat. The worse part is that, there are many Iranian activists here and for the Ciber Army of Islamic Republic this was the easiest way to find their IP's. We have chosen FF because it's the most free and secure environment in the net. FF didn't do anything about the spammers, at least this was a good move.
- ؛ Dr. Gharazi
Looks like some old images don't need a download any more.
- ؛ Dr. Gharazi
What's interesting is it's only for new posts media. All the old posts, prior to the update, still work fine.
- Jimminy
I'm about 95% positive it was due to issues related to this. http://ff.im/1fCf33
- Jimminy
Jimminy, your profile is private, so I can't see your point.
- samet
it's like that since many months. For some reason, if you browse from the iPad pictures gets displayed properly.
- marco barsotti
After weeks of twitter import working, it has broken again... and now even the backup I use (Twitter Feed) has broken too. Is this normal, or is this due to Twitter's 100K tokens policy?
Mitchell Tsai, Pascal le Rudulier, Dave Levy and 9 other people liked this
Twitter's shutting down the version of the API that is in current use by Friendfeed, afaik. So that may be permanent. The 100k tokens policy probably wouldn't apply to Friendfeed, they probably have access to somewhere around 300k tokens. https://dev.twitter.com/blog...
- Jimminy
Oh crap, the API change. Damn. I wonder what the likelihood of Friendfeed updating its code to use v 1.1 is.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Probably zero. They're barely doing maintenance, never mind implementing new changes.
- Bill Mason
There's a hack you can use: Instead of importing a twitter feed, you can use a "custom RSS" feed, and use this url: http://api.twitter.com/1... (where xxx is your screen name). This worked for me just now.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The on again off again problems has led people to use advanced tweets - does that still work?
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
Laura: Sadly, while it works for existing users, it's at its follow limit, so no new users can sign up.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I thought I read that RSS feeds are going away when API 1.0 is sunsetted. Maybe don't quote me on that.
- Bill Mason
Oh I hope not :(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
"Consequently, we've decided to discontinue support for XML, Atom, and RSS, which are infrequently used today." https://dev.twitter.com/docs...
- Bill Mason
That's awful. :(
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
All right, so what recourse will we have? Pipes?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Beats me.
- Bill Mason
XML, Atom and RSS are infrequently used??! Whoa.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
Event Horizon.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
@Stephen - I just signed up for Advanced Tweets today and it worked for me...
- Andrew C (✓)
What's the deal with so many people not getting RSS, Atom and XML? Do they also believe that HTML is going to disappear? Weird stuff.
- Sean McBride
One gets the impression that opponents of RSS, Atom and similar markup systems are deliberately trying to destroy the connectivity and productivity of the Internet.
- Sean McBride
All Internet services should be easily able to communicate and share information with all other Internet services.
- Sean McBride
And what are Friendfeed going to do about the Twitter API upgrade?
- Dave Levy
Oddly, my yahoo pipe that reads from twitter RSS is still working without issue as long as I refresh it manually... So only 20 at a time. :(
- Andy Bakun
And my yahoo pipe stopped working. Twitter gives it 400 (Bad Request). I can still request the RSS feed from my home though.
- Andy Bakun
Dave, they are going to do nothing. Twitter and Google Reader will become just more dead icons in the list "all 58 services" supported, just like the old Wakoopa, TipJoy, Backtype, iLike, Magnolia icons that you still see in the list.
- April Russo
Backtype kinda imploded their own service; it's not like they changed an API and Friendfeed didn't update.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Backtype was acquired by Twitter, for their Hadoop tooling and analytics. Twitter shut it down.
- Jimminy
How hard would it be to write our own Twitter-to-RSS service to use as a custom RSS option for FF?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Technically probably not hard, but still beyond me. But I took a look at the Twitter dev terms of service, and I think that kind of thing might be against their rules.
- Andrew C (✓)
Advanced Tweets kind of works. I don't think it's against their terms if they make any provision of ownership to the author (the questionable case would be retweets). And yeah, it's not hard, just kind of costly.
- Jimminy
Thanks @Stephen Your custom feed trick worked great. Twitter feeds importing into my FriendFeed again.
- Mitchell Tsai
My yahoo pipe started working again, although I have to manually invoke it.
- Andy Bakun
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- Andy Bakun
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- Andy Bakun
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- Andy Bakun
Good bakery name.
- Spidra Webster
What's the shrewdest, smartest maneuver you've ever seen in business? - http://www.quora.com/Busines...
In Business: Andy Bakun voted up an answer. Harsh Snehanshu Today, I saw this video by Coca Cola and after ending this video with a smile, I realized what a brilliant and smart marketing maneuver it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch...... Almost everyone in my friendlist has shared this video Within few hours of releasing this video, it has crossed 20000 views. The target market of this video is one of the most populated markets of Asia, and what better way there could be to promote itself against its valiant competitor PepsiCo than by winning the hearts of the customers, without really indulging in explicit marketing. See question on Quora
- Andy Bakun
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There are some really good ones in this most recent upload.
- Andy Bakun
(26) Mayank Singh Shishodia's answer to Animals: What are some animals that most people have never seen before? - Quora - http://www.quora.com/Animals...
Glass frogs!
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
How long did the founders of startups acquired by Yahoo stay before leaving? - http://www.quora.com/Yahoo-A...
In Yahoo! Acquisitions: Andy Bakun voted up an answer. Joshua Schachter I founded Delicious. I left 2.5 years after we were acquired, which was the extent of my contract. My title was Director of Engineering, but I had been mostly stripped of responsibilities and employees less than a year after acquisition. See question on Quora
- Andy Bakun
I found a Franklin REX™ Model REX-3 hidden in a drawer in my garage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
He told me. Wintermute. How he played a waiting game for years. Didn't have any real power, then but he could use the Villa's security and custodial systems to keep track of where everything was, how things moved, where they went. He saw somebody lose this key twenty years ago, and he managed to get somebody else to leave it here. Then he killed him, the boy who'd brought it here. So nobody would find it.
- Andy Bakun
…and that's how this REX-3 ended up in my garage.
- Andy Bakun
Can one just contact Mark Zuckerberg and ask for the Friendfeed code/data/etc? How does this work?
Victor Ganata, Greg GuitarBuster, Spidra Webster and Mike Nencetti liked this
Good luck with that.
- tekNico
Still stands.
- Andy Bakun
Reasons why FB bought FF in order of priority (pure speculation on my part): 1. Talent acquisition. 2. Technology acquisition. 3. Possibly patent acquisition. 4. As a test bed for trying out different approaches to how the FB news feed could work. 5. Eliminate part of the social media competition and prevent FF from being acquired by Google or Twitter. Andy, they paid $50 million or so for this place. They're not going to give the code away for free.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I think we can rule out #4
- Greg GuitarBuster
Greg, it certainly didn't pan out that way, but some of the speculation during the time of the purchase asserted that was part of the idea.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
This site obviously has no current use to FB, since it's barely being maintained, so presumably it's mission accomplished and it was worth the $50 million.
- Andy Bakun
Grandfather Habitat
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- Andy Bakun
Ram Ejaculator - http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail...
Anika liked this
"A smooth probe that is inserted in the rectum of the ram. Pressing the button produces a low-voltage impulse that causes the ram to ejaculate."
- Andy Bakun
from Bookmarklet
Read it again, and assume it's for Random Access Memory.
- Andy Bakun
I just read it that way, and read it again after you said something and now I assume it's for an animal.
- Jimminy
I thought it said RAM.
- Eric - Too Hot
LOL
- ronin
Anyone know a fix for flickr streams? My friends won't show up unless I manually go into the settings of each and refresh from there. Sucky. Suppose this is similar to lack of fix for twitter too. - this place is going down in flames.
April Russo and Fake liked this
I have to manually refresh practically everything, now.
- April Russo
same for me. It's sadly funny, since the original purpose of Friendfeed was to collect feeds...
- .mau.
Are the powers that be deliberately trying to sabotage the ability to share feeds with ease across the Internet? Is this all about walled gardens and the profit motive driving the devolution of the Internet? The triumph of the pre-Internet mainstream media mentality? If so, annoying as hell -- we're moving backward, not forward.
- Sean McBride
I think the reason is more mundane: nobody cares about Friendfeed anymore.
- .mau.
I was surprised my youtube favorites updated automatically.
- Andy Bakun
Hiring movers is the line you cross to become an adult. @skimbrel - http://twitter.com/thwarte...
Andrew C (✓) and Mary Carmen liked this
or well-off.
- Joe Silence
Movers have always been cheaper, and take less time, than I think they will.
- Andy Bakun
Build Your Own Robot. Feb 1987 Boys' Life. I remember staring at the wiring picture and having no idea why the "cross pattern" was necessary and being frustrated that there was no explanation in the text of the article.
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PDF of the article included. It only mentions how attaching the wires to the switch would be hard, but possible.
- Andy Bakun
Looking up the DPDT switch, the reversal is so that polarity is switched causing the motor to switch direction. In the case it's switched forward (to the right), the cross wires are superflous to function, when switched to the back (to the left) they invert the polarity of causing the motor to switch direction, and then center is off. (I may be describing the function backwards, but the principle remains the same.)
- Jimminy
Yeah, I know that now. In fact, when I saw this picture again, I "figured it out" immediately. I just remember being frustrated with the directions for this being very explicit about what to do but not actually teaching anything. But I guess the goal was to build something. Looking back, that was a regular issue I had with Boys' Life.
- Andy Bakun
I also remember having a hard time scrounging up the $50 to build this robot.
- Andy Bakun
Deep Inside Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco | Fast Company | Business + Innovation - http://www.fastcompany.com/3008346...
"But one idea, from Doritos-maker Frito-Lay, stuck out: a Doritos-based taco shell pocketed with Taco Bell ingredients. "It was basically an image [of this taco] on a piece of paper, with a written description. I don't know what technology they use. We didn't even taste it; it was just more of, 'Hey, this is what it could look like,'" Purdue says. "It was like, 'Holy crap!' Nobody had ever done this before: turning a Dorito into a taco shell. It was just mind-blowing at the idea stage." Steve Gomez, Taco Bell's food innovation expert, recalls seeing the first mock-up. "Every day I see a lot of concepts--sketches on paper, written words about products--and my job is to turn those products into reality," he says. "But in all my years as a product developer, I've never seen a concept like this. The product didn't even exist yet, and already people knew this idea was going to be huge.""
- Andy Bakun
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What is the most amazing photo you have ever taken? - http://www.quora.com/Photogr...
In Photography: Andy Bakun added an answer. Andy Bakun I was out driving just as the rain was stopping and I happened to catch a bit of a rainbow. Just a sliver, because the clouds were still moving and periodically obscuring the sun and it was still a heavy drizzle. I happened to be near Twin Peaks and thought I'd drive up there and see what an unrestricted view looked like. All I had on me at the time was my phone, and I used it to take this panorama. I really like the way this one turned out because of the way it is framed. 180° visible. The sun was lined up almost exactly with Market street at the time, and where I was at the Twin Peaks lookout placed the rainbow exactly centered over downtown San Francisco. Completely unplanned, didn't expect to be able to get a good shot at all. Wasn't expecting to take a picture at all, in fact, when I went up to Twin Peaks. I took another that had more color in it, as the clouds were moving further east and you could see some blue sky behind...
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