Timo Heuer - Likes - FriendFeed

That poor cat looks so confused. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan Haley

FEED ME A CAT - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

I think you mean a LIVE cat… - Glen Mistletoe

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

اخي...گناهي - noonii

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Nia

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks

Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - JSNFLMNG

¡Excelente! - Marcos Vicente

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - JSNFLMNG

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - Petr Buben

Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - Petr Buben

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - Petr Buben

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - Petr Buben

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Try rolling the cat through a press first. Flat cats fit into the fax easier. - Bob Blunk

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ok, over the top now. - Greg Guitarbuster

Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini

I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - Steve C

Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - Kevin Pedraja

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - sofarsoShawn

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - Steve C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Kendra <3 Three Lions

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

пиздец как! - getalifejerk

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes

My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik - getalifejerk

did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - H.M.Nasrabadi

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - sofarsoShawn

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - sofarsoShawn

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - sofarsoShawn

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - sofarsoShawn

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - JSNFLMNG

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

Most liked FF post ever? - Kristian Salonen

One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis

Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes

ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - JSNFLMNG

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - Petr Buben

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - Petr Buben

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme Flipo

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - sofarsoShawn

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - sofarsoShawn

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie_Thankful

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it will - Seltoon

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - Kris Roley

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - sofarsoShawn

OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

try harder! ; )) - Didier Lahely

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Caturday is tommorow ... Fax Cat on Saturday .. - johnpiercy

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - JSNFLMNG

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - Matteo Scotuzzi

and it got resurrected once again! - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Best viewed from photostream. Excellent!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

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That is AWESOME - Josh Haley

That's really cool. No way I'd have the planning ability to do that. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Nifty! - @CrystalinaB

that's awesome. - Alfredo

Oh wow.. they even compensated for the gaps between the pictures. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Fabulous! - Penny

Can I FAV that stream!?!? That is awesome! - Justin Korn

Nice! - Nicholas James

Clever. - Mike Nayyar

Check Daniel's share of this two: http://ff.im/2rPZM. Like that he's captured the photostream screenshot. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I did something similar some time ago: http://tr.im/k13U and http://tr.im/k142 but in sets not photostream. Anyway this guy work is nicer, mine was just an experiment. - Leandro Ardissone ⍨

Leandro, that is excellent! - Kol Tregaskes

Brilliant - Michael Fidler

THAT is really creative! - Scott of Two Countries

i agree with creative. - امیر؟

Sweet, What a great idea! - aerobroken

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I don't think Google Wave will be ready until later this year. You can fill out a form to be notified when it's done: https://services.google.com/fb... - Kenneth

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You bet I filled out that form. I just figured there must be a sandbox somewhere with happy geeks already playing around. - Ryan

Google I/O attendees are in the sandbox. I expect Google to begin to invite other developers within the next month or so. They have to open it up to interested developers in order to get extensions and cool apps made before launch. Wouldn't surprise me if they have an invite scheme over the summer too and then publicly launch it later in the year. - Brandon Titus

Just listened to their video. Well.... - Wins Fern

You can request for sandbox account at, https://services.google.com/fb... (Tell them if you wan to create your own application based on wave!) - Jigar Mehta

I'm interested in getting an invite, let me know if you find something... - Jorge Avila

There's a link to request a user invite from the http://wave.google.com page, but definitely the fastest way to get on it now is to be a developer - guruvan (Rob Nelson) from PeopleBrowsr

...or know a developer. I assume developers will be able to create multiple accounts in the sandbox, otherwise how would you go about testing anything? Any developers out there who need an extra tester, feel free to message me. - Dave

good point Dave. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

@Jigar, thanx for the link :) - Ozkan Altuner

Anyone already has a preview? Can you invite anyone? I`d really appreciate an invite. folone@gmail.com - ..кстати

Would be really happy if somebody could share an invite with me. My email is eugenepush@gmail.com. Thanks in advance. - Eugene K

Please give me invite to google wave. dahiicocuk@gmail.com .Thanks in advance ;) - dahiçocuk

i need google wave angelapinto00@gmail.com - Angela Pinto

Can someone invite me... JustH8in@gmail.com Thanks So Much! - Justin

Can i have one too, if there are any left? pishcot@gmail.com thx - cata b

I love this version. And Seesmic in Twhirl is so addictive - Loic Le Meur

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nice improvements Loic!! bring it on!! - Susan Beebe

can't wait - gimme more ;o) - Marco Sascha Sven Hoppe from twhirl

very interesting. The friendfeed integration looks way better than before. Will have to give this a look when it is released. - Rob Diana

Seesmic ROCKS!! - Larry from twhirl

okay, so FF and Twitter are in the latest? but not Seemic correct? - Lou Paglia

This might get me back into Twhirl. - Akiva Moskovitz

and it has FF rooms support! - Loic Le Meur

The question is when ? - Gilles Meiers from twhirl

wow, looks great. remind me http://twitku.com/ for a second there... - Orli Yakuel

looks very cool. exactly what we need. but what about plurk ;) - Phil Coyne from twhirl

needs pownce and jaiku support too. Then it will be the total solution - Adrian from twhirl

yes... when? - Mike Wills

@LouPaglia - correct, Seesmic is not integrated with Twirl desktop app yet - Susan Beebe

in a few days I think for the new FF integration. Seesmic comes next. - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Super! When!??! - Florin Grozea from twhirl

looks like it might replace alert thingy as my RIA of choice - Steve Lynch from Alert Thingy

Great ! Thanks - Gilles Meiers from twhirl

integrate into one window, is all i ask, make it indisputably the best - Ruben Llibre

none of them working in linux TOO BAD! - Yassin Alvandi

Is twitter's api actually back up at 50 req/hr? - Shawn Farner

The old Twhirl works for me in linux for me, it just won't remember my password. - Daniel E. Renfer from twhirl

Yes Marco does. Twhirl is becoming my info hub. And if Twitter dies, who cares I'm sure Pownce, Jaiku or whatever could be swapped in - Tris Hussey from twhirl

so is seesmic cool now? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

How do we score the test ver? :) - Soulhuntre from twhirl

You tease. Where do I download it? - Rafe Needleman

Cannot wait, big Guy! - ledretch

I want... When? - highcenter from twhirl

Can't wait!! - Danish Khan from twhirl

actually it will be pushed in an hour or two - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

Can't wait! - Tris Hussey from twhirl

Nice teasing. Do you have any release date or will you take the "it's done when it's done" side? - Romain Péchard from twhirl

I would love some "best practices" guide for how to get the most out of all that information that will be flooding in. - Brendan Cosgrove from twhirl

How do I add my Seesmic account into Twhirl 082? It's not showing up in the "accounts" list. - Rafe Needleman from twhirl

We should have a Twhirl + Seesmic preview in the very next days - Loic Le Meur from twhirl

wait, what exactly is the difference between Twhirl and Seesmic? I thought Seesmic was replacing Twhirl... - Piero Ardizone

This looks awesome! - Svartling

I think this what im looking for! - Michael Scott

Wow nice work, I really like the improvements made :) - Jeunelle Foster

awesome! - barbarars

wow - one of the furthest back boomerang ff threads i've seen - mike "glemak" dunn

nice! - .LAG liked that

Wow, this is pretty old. I got excited for a second, thought Loic had seen the light and was starting to care about Twhirl again. NOPE. - Shawn Farner

I've ridden only once without a helmet in as long as I can remember. Felt vulnerable! - Adam Loving from StumbleRead

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It's true. They work. - Andrew Feinberg

wow... that's amazing. how old is your cousin jesse? - dave mcclure

dave, my cousin's 30, just 1 year younger than me - Jesse Stay from twhirl

You can read her story, in her own words here. I'm inspired: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/ - Jesse Stay from twhirl

This happened to a friend of mine at the beginning of the month. He didn't do so good in the accident, but the helmet obviously saved his life. Thankfully is on his way home tomorrow: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit... - Steve Lacey

I used to ride my bike without the helmet even though it is mandatory in Chennai, India. But after reading this I am not even going to the next street in my bike without helmet. - Sudar

I never wear a helmet. When hearing things like this, I always think of this article.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1.... In the Netherlands no one wears a helmet. It seems safe to me. - Peter Stuifzand

I was hit while riding to work in summer 2006 & did not want anyone to touch my helmet at all costs. If my brain was scrambled, I did not want anyone to touch my egg:) I highly recommend a helmet especially if you think you will not need one! Mine was almost the same color too & manufacturer, but there is no conspiracy there:) - Roney Smith

Bicyclists/motorcyclists that don't wear helmets are better called future organ donors - Brian Sullivan

Thanks for sharing. I ride often at traffic time between cars. always wear my helmet...itsg good to know that It does work :) - jonathan from twhirl

that's incredible... - Jamie Allen from twhirl

Wow, glad to hear your friend is doing well after that. I agree, helmets save lives. Regardless, I've many intentional close-calls by drivers who don't want to share the road. Unfortunately, this is the common attitude where I live (southern US). - pete

we wear helmets for everything: mtb, snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding & even surfing - skulls are fragile why not put a protective layer around it (i also try real hard to not ride on streets - a high percentage of drivers are oblivious to bike riders)... - mike "glemak" dunn

I always ride in my helmet and stay to bike lanes as much as possible. Nice to know the safety tools work. Now, if I can just avoid that NYPD cop with a penchant for knocking people off their bikes. Hopefully, he won't transfer to LAPD. - Jason Toney

Peter Stuifzand, my cousin would be dead if she did not wear her helmet. That article is BS. Wear your helmet! - Jesse Stay from twhirl

Point blank. You are a moron if you ride without a helmet. Sorry, but that's true and you're just going to play into Darwinian theory should you continue to ride without one. Any 'real' cyclist (e.g - you've been hit by a car - and yes, I have been) will tell you this without reservation. Helmets work without a doubt. - AJ Kohn

I survived a nasty motorcycle crash in my youth and would also be dead without that helmet - which cracked in 2 like an egg (that would have been my head, as the nurse aptly put it!). - Susan Beebe

A friend who's a cop refers to motorcycles as donorcycles whenever she sees someone riding without a helmet. I figure that applies for bicycles, too. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

I was on the way to work Monday morning while it was raining, when the third car in front of me spun out of control and flipped twice into a ditch. When I pulled over to help her out she was just fine. She only had a scratch on her left shoulder from the broken window and was not hurt anywhere else. THE REASON: She was wearing her seat belt. It's nice to hear that these devices are actually helping us! - David Cook

Awesome. I ride my bike to work everyday and I see a lot of people with no helmets on. I don't know how they do it. - Clint Ecker

Wow! I wear mine! Didn't for years - I was lucky I guess. Thanks for posting that! - matthew hunt

OMG... Jesse, do you have a link other than here on FF? I have friends whose kids refuse to wear theirs, and seeing this may help. - Cyndy

Cyndy why not just link here - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Brian Sullivan

Dutch don't wear helmets and they don't get killed by cars http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterd.... - Peter Stuifzand

Actually they do get killed by cars. But culturally they are not inclined to wear helmets. - Brian Sullivan

Cyndy, with this being dug out of the grave, I just noticed your question. That particular picture is from my cousin's blog here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... You can read the full story here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... Search for "run over by car" and you can read about her entire ordeal. - Jesse Stay

My brother would not be alive today if he did not wear his helmet while riding his motorcycle; please wear a helmet! - Sandra

man - Shey, Jamaican of FF

If it's nice enough to ride, I probably won't be bothering with the human-powered bike any longer. I always wear a helmet on my gas-powered bike. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

As long as we won't have mountains, we Dutch will not wear those things. Otherwise we won't be able to recognise the tourists on bikes. - Ton Zijp

Thanks for sharing - I had a mishap with a car, wasn't wearing a helmet at the time, was lucky. If they don't see you, it doesn't matter either way. Wear the helmet! - Rick Bucich

This isn't as extreme as this but when I fell off my bike onto a sidewalk and broke my arm, I thought I was fine for a while. Later, my dad noticed that the whole front of my helmet was all scratched up and the visor in front was torn off! I realized that if I wasn't wearing my helmet on the 2 minute trip down the road, I probably wouldn't be typing this comment right now! Not that I'd be dead but I would have suffered some head damage, limiting my ability to do most things. - Kevin Lyons

Helmets for cyclists are mandatory in Australia. Still gives me the shudders when I'm travelling and see bareheaded bicyclists on the roads. - Kate Foy

LOL - Alfredo

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I swear one of those is Scoble and he just doesn't want us to know. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Is that @sockington? :P (P.S. I don't think Sockington looks like that) - Jalada

LOL good find. Love it. - Drew Lucas

LOL - Roberto Bonini

LOL....cat - Bwana ☠

The cat's face is priceless. - Josh Haley

LOL - Jay

My cats have gotten used to it. Indiana poses and trys to get in shots that aren't supposed to include her. - Rachel Lea Fox

Rachel, that sounds like my son Seth :p - Josh Haley

*shaking head* - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

Oh God ((((((((((: - yasin ghasemi

It's Good ... :)) - Alooche

if only i had a cat to photgraph......... :( - Roberto Bonini

I LOVE photography - H.M.Nasrabadi

BEST post ever! - AJ Batac

LOL - Arash

LOL at the guy lying on the ground to get the shot. - Rahul Das

I actually LOL - Valley

HA!!! - David Cook

is that scoble with the mullet? - Jim Hearts FF

damn. Killed another one! - Jim Hearts FF

Yeah, its scoble :) - Roberto Bonini

That's the most likes I think a post of mine has ever recieved. And they say they don't like LOLcats anymore huh? - Josh Haley

thought it was socks the clinton's cat LOL - BEX

BEX, I love how your profile bit says "I can kick your ass!" :) Not only do I believe that 100%, but I also think it might be enjoyable for some reason. - Josh Haley

I'm sure that I could get a little whimper out of you ;) - BEX

Yep, I was right. I'll be in my bunk. - Josh Haley

:)) - Shandiz

I love how cats pose when initmidated with admirers- not this one though - and hey we are looking through lens of 2nd order paparazi (paparazi of paparazi !!!) - Rahul Deodhar

نمي دونم حرفامو مي فهمي رفيق يا نه ولي خيلي جالبه - ramezanifar

This is my most "liked" picture to date, I believe. Long live the LOLcat! - Josh Haley

A superstar cat ! - Renchin(Reina)Wang

haha :P - Michael

kind of celebrity - امیریدر

So where are the pictures of the cat? I must see them! - Chuck Baggett

I saw this seane in Tokyo, :) - microwalrus

بله همونطوري كه گفتم خيلي جالبه - ramezanifar

"Stupidity- hoomans haz it" - Roberto Bonini

Yes this is the Bill Clinton's cat :) - Nenko Ivanov

I can haz privacy? - George Brickner

I SED, NO PICTUREZ! - Rick Cogley

poor thing.... - theNetImp

What is the actual story behind this picture? - Mellissa Claus

حالا چرا اينا اينطوري بند كردن به اين گربه؟ - ramezanifar

This is my best of to date, according to number of likes. - Josh Haley

:( - Paul Buchheit

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:( :( - Rachel Lea Fox

:-( - Kol Tregaskes

Related to the election? - τorƍue

:( - Ross Miller

that's so bad... - Eren Emre Kanal

:-( - Kevin Fox

τorƍue: Yes, as far as we know - Bret Taylor

این نمودار نشاندهنده افت فرندفید به دلیل بسته شدن آن در ایران است - Mycaptain

Bret: Is this based on IP numbers located in Iran, or actual activity from those users? If it's IP based, it'd be interesting to see the activity on a user basis and see if they've been able to route around the blocking. - Ken Sheppardson

:( - Marina Remi

Could it be related to Twitter being blocked (and therefore the twitter traffic import being blocked)? - Stephan Osmont

): - Jim Norris

Some users are definitely going through proxies. This is total # of unique visits from IPs originating in Iran - Bret Taylor

That tells it's own, sad, story. - WorldofHiglet

:((( - Oğuz Serdar

Wow. - Rochelle

If Twitter were blocked and FriendFeed weren't, I'd expect an uptick in FriendFeed activity, not a 92% drop. - Kevin Fox

I.e. given all the users who've previously accessed the site from an Iran IP number, how many have been active from different numbers in the past 2 days. - Ken Sheppardson

Sad. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Instead of "liking" this, shouldn't we have an "unlike" button? - Steven Melfi

:( Bret: According to Stephen fry, these are the iran proxies: 218.128.112.18:8080 218.206.94.132:808 218.253.65.99:808 219.50.16.70:8080 . Can you track these IPs? - Roberto Bonini

I knew this day was coming. Too bad. - Robert Scoble

Steven - same feeling here. I always feel weird "liking" bad stories on FF - Mike Bracco

How does traffic from China look? Or North Korea? - τorƍue

:( - Helen Sventitsky

do not like :( - Tamara

@τorƍue Twitter has been restored in China - Stephan Osmont

Hey... we saw issues with blogfa.com as well: http://blog.spinn3r.com/2009... - Kevin A. Burton

like for spread but not like for the situation - Imprenditore

I wonder what the international community can do about stuff like this. Eventually the "bad guys" will lose. - Michiel Sikkes

Hopefully, we'll never see a graph like this for Turkey... - Onur Şentüre

that's because the government has blocked access to friendfeed,twitter,facebook,youtube and ... after election and after protests in Iran cities ! - Farshad

Man... :( That's really a corrupt government. Hope it gets better soon. - Peter

That's horrible. - Barış (beyn.org)

Kheyzaran mentioned over the weekend that both Twitter and FF were blocked for Iran starting I believe on Friday. He is using a proxy when possible to keep us updated - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Bret, any analysis about how many people unable to access FF directly are still able to access it via proxy? - Daniel Dulitz

:-( - bookmeister

:( Let the voices be heard! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

So sad... - Luka

Sigh :( - Havang

can you suggest a way in friendfeed to show the situation in iran to the world ? its very important - Farshad

I doubt any regular North Koreans have computers τorƍue - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Daniel: Well, we are still getting a bunch of Farsi comments and posts. They may be Persians from outside Iran or from Iranians using proxies. We don't have a detailed analysis breaking those down at this point. - Bret Taylor

The stigmata of evil. - Tim Tyler

all cominucation devices are blocked .even phone & cell phones ! - MohammadReza

see this for example : http://abcnews.go.com/Interna... - Farshad

Watching the "guerrilla cyberwarfare" aspect of the elections and reactions has been fascinating. Iran's universities are obviously full of resourceful, passionate geeks. - John Craft

not good in terms of freedom - Sheri Fresonke Harper

this is really bad. i hope there's some resolution to this. the people or iran have shown a lot of strength and courage to protest the illegitimacy of recent events. i don't think this will stop things - Cee Bee

Is it possible that the same folks from Iran that are active on Friendfeed are the ones out protesting? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

please help us , we are under attack ,change friendfeed logo if you can - فرزاد

we need a new way - سِــمیرامیس

@MVB we all are Protests - MohammadReza

That's sad. - EricaJoy

:( Dislike. - Ruchira S. Datta

:( - © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®

P.S. Kevin should turn the logo green in support of the Iranian's being disenfranchised. - EricaJoy

:(( - ramin

For those that are in Iran: Have you tried http://fftogo.com as a workaround? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

make a room for us, invite your friends we will fill it with latest news - Farshad

I'm completely for having a fair vote, but I'm not sure that I'd want to try and align FriendFeed with a particular candidate, which is what a green logo would imply. - Kevin Fox

Many iranians using proxies to access FF. and therefore their IPs changes to fake IP . - آدمیرال

MohammadReza: Maryam's mom is still able to call her relatives and friends in Tehran, so they are keeping some voice traffic open, if not all. - Robert Scoble

Farshad, I'm trying to post news here: http://friendfeed.com/world-n... - Kol Tregaskes

No words for that... - Frank

thanks kol :) - Farshad

@Kevin, totally understandable. - EricaJoy from IM

If Iran thinks they have nothing to fear, then why block Friendfeed? - Frode Stenstrøm

Frode: because the government is like China: they believe that by retarding the flow of information they will reduce the threat of protests and governmental overthrow. - Robert Scoble

Very reminiscent of the prelude to the fall of the Shah - Alan Morris

I don't speak Persian, so I don't know all the searches, but there are still (luckily) a lot of Persian users posting: http://friendfeed.com/search.... If you are Persian and looking for updates, try our search engine to find the few users who still have access. - Bret Taylor

Frode: and in Iran's case, they are run by conservative religious authorities and they don't like the fact that they are not in control of information flow like they used to be. They like to think they can still control information sources and, since they can't, they try to block places where their citizens can go to share information. - Robert Scoble

is it a joke? iranian users seems the %90 of friend feed. it could not be real! - Fırat DEMİREL

Firat: There are no units on the vertical axis of the chart. - Ken Sheppardson

Firat: This is a chart of traffic from Iran, not of FF's total traffic. - Kevin Fox

Firat, i doubt that this graph is a percentage graph... probably more likely that it's measuring hits, sessions, or total data transfered (mb, kb, etc) - Chris Heath

Kevin: what impact did this have on FF's overall traffic? - Robert Scoble

Robert: Iran is the #6 country for FriendFeed in terms of page views per day. - Bret Taylor

something is cooking out there... - mehdi

Thanks all for answers. i told that it could not be real.. :) excuse me, i ve just read Bret's notice and looked at breaking point. i saw what i've missed before.. bad news for ff and iran.. :( - Fırat DEMİREL

These statistics are incredible, especially the normally heavy useage of FF in Iran. - Curt Mercadante

Bret Taylor, we can tag our pix and vids about iran election by an english keyword such as 'iran' or 'iranelection'. I think it will help to ff non-persian users to find out more about unrests in iran. - آدمیرال

Iran restored cell phone service Sunday that had been down in the capital since Saturday. But Iranians still could not send text messages from their mobile phones, and the government increased its Internet filtering in an apparent attempt to undercut opposition voices. Social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter were also not working. - Üstün Üzüm

Do *not* like. :( - Pete Delucchi

:( - Russ Jackson

:( - Mitch

http://www.boston.com/bigpict... - فرزاد

آقا یکی توضیح بده اینکه من(ما) لایک میزنیم! عملا دیسلایک ه ! :( - younes

Younes says that our likes to this graph mean dislike to tehran's regime censorship - آدمیرال

I can't find any evidence of Twitter being blocked in Iran. Anyone? - Martin Bryant

TechCrunch just picked this up: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Robert Scoble

Thanks for the translation آدمیرال ! - Ross Miller

ممنونم آدمیرال عزیز - younes

خواهش دوست من. - آدمیرال

martin: those words are not mine actually from a news article from washinton post. - Üstün Üzüm

On twitter people are retweeting the IPs and ports of unblocked proxies, can we do something like that here? - Canageek

martin, i'm from iran. twitter is blocked. what evidence you wanna? screenshot!? - آدمیرال

yes Canageek. we use proxies for tweeting - آدمیرال

Authorities blocking the internet are just reinforcing solidarity between people, can't they understand ? - Stanislas Jourdan

Stanislas: not to mention they encourage their smartest and richest people to leave (the ones who have technical skills). There's a reason why Silicon Valley has 10,000 or more Iranians living here. Their government sucks and the people are getting tired of it. Of course if their government was great I would never have met my wife (who grew up in Tehran). So, there is good to come out of a crappy government! :-) - Robert Scoble

it has always seemed to me that the iranian user base is ENORMOUS here. wow. unbelievable. - edythe

It is interesting how much civil unrest that is brewing across the globe towards their governments. The knee jerk reactions in attempting to block certain websites shows how much they didn't expect the net to become such a widespread conduit for cutting through the bs and informing those that wish to know. I wish those who take a stand all the best. - alphaxion

:( - Roberto

Another way for those that are in Iran is to access through Netvibes (but I don't know if it works or if it's blocked too), adding Friendfeed, Gmail and so on such as modules - Roberto

Thanks for sharing this, Bret. It's valuable evidence of what's going on, evidence which wouldn't have been available even a few years ago. - Michael Nielsen

sad - Pedro Beltrao

Very interesting...so much for democracy and voting rights in Iran... - freedom fighter mom

If anybody in Iran feels up to it, can you temporarily disable your proxy and run a traceroute to friendfeed.com and twitter.com then post the results here? - EricaJoy

Bret and Paul, can you let us know if the traffic comes back, which would tell us they've unblocked FriendFeed? - Robert Scoble

Robert: absolutely, we will let everyone know when it comes back up - Bret Taylor from email

Steven: You Like that it was posted, not the content of the post. - Tanath

Bret, thanks for sharing the info about the dive. Shame, but what could we have expected from the Iranian status quo? - Jon Osterholm

البته یه چیز هم هست اونکه بعد از فیلترینگ همه با آی پی غیر ایرانی می ان فرندفید و برای همنی آمارشون اینجا ثبت نمیشه ... وگرنه فکر نمی کنم از لحاظ تعداد نفراتی که میومدن کم شده باشه ... بلکه هم بیشتر - HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ

Yes, it happend and we have to use proxy to access friendfeed. Look at democracy in Iran... - Zahra (raoros)

The coversations and comments here are educational. - Seek Ground

@بی بی, you might try https://friendfeed.com/ - Jim Norris

:( - imabonehead

Damn. - Steven Perez

http://mojipage.com register in this website and add ff widget! twitter is blocked in iran so I am posting twitts by a script or choqok(http://choqok.gnufolks.org/) - ★amin.m★ from MojiPage

Good luck to all of you trying to get around the censorship. I hope the big sites are doing what they can to help out. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Looking at the potential of this event in the future for numerous causes is mind-boggling. Really amazing. - Charlie Anzman

Come to think of it, does FF have a presence in China? I'd imagine it's blocked there. I've seen Chinese on here, but never sure if that's from China or speakers outside. - anna sauce

Tnx Bret - ----

Thnaks :) - Exir

این چی میگه؟ - Lord hozeh

ببین شب انتخاباتی چکار کردیم با این فرفر. wow! - ali

چه همه لااااااااااااااااایک! - ali

:(( - AJ Batac

Damn. - Derrick

Expected. - Michael W. May

Yes, Friendfeed is blocked in Iran. Right now the papers and TV channels here are ‎controlled by the government and our access to satellite channels is blocked too. ‎Friendfeed and Twitter are quite vital for us now. Our main source of exchanging ‎information and news is Friendfeed. Via Friendfeed we let everyone know that where ‎people need help and where to go and how to help them and... more... - Selma

Selma: does https://friendfeed.com/ work for you? - Bret Taylor

Nope, they have blocked all https addresses, we have had to sign in to Friendfeed via anti-filters for the past few months. - Selma

its a shame. it was one the main media we used to inform ppl. thats why they filtered it. now many users cant sign in - Myri∂m

Can't we "help" in some way? Providing proxies, I don't know, the kind of stuff pirates do. Pirates, and people trying to make a Revolution happen.... - Zackatoustra

It may not be long before Turkey joins the party. - Sarp Tüzün

It's very sad to see this happen - Michael Fidler

tnx all of you... - emin

internet was our last hope ...but it block...and we cant use it easily... - Opium

:( - Caroline

I just spoke with my friend Andres, the main BBC correspondent for the Middle East/Afghanistan, and he mentioned the web is being fire walled in Iran much the same as the the "Great Firewall" during last year's Olympics in China. - sofarsoShawn

The Iranian websites that people used to exchange information about the election protests ‎in Iran are under cyber-attacks by the government forces and from anonymous sources. ‎Many of them are down right now. These Iranian websites were our few last remaining ‎channels to inform people. What can we do about that? Is there anyone out there who can help us with this?‎ - emin

i was 53rd active user in friendfeed until this filtering. now i can open FF with proxies and if i can fine. a Vpn but many Vpn here come from companies that have relations with security services, i thunk they allow us to bypass filternig and then, they will arrest who has wrote against their goals - خیزران Never Changed

Can't we transfer the data/databases of the sites you, iranian guys, use to any new domain we could buy? I want to help. Not by throwing rocks to "security service" forces, but, at least, by making possible for what YOU have to say to go public, worldwide. - Zackatoustra

FF is a useful website for Iranian People to get reliable information about demonstration against presidential election. - پارسـا

so so sorry for iran people... I hope they will win... - Tanaydin Sirin

and Now Yahoo messenger and google talk blocked in iran :(((( - پارسـا

Some amazing images from Iran - http://ff.im/42pgD - Brent Smorgen Bleg

http://i.friendfeed.com/376e729... - Lord hozeh

Does http://fftogo.com work still? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Selma: 1- I don't use a proxy but clearing all but one (deleting them all logs me out) instance of each friendfeed.com cookie name and refreshing the page always solves this for me in Firefox. Has never happened on Lunascape or IE. Good luck. - Alexandros Georgiadis

google block fftogo for iranian users!!! - ★amin.m★

Friendfeedがイランでblockされているというコトらしい。いったいどういう理由でだか分からないけれど……もし、国内のゴタゴタの影響であればいずれtwitterも、ということになりかねないのかも。／でも、fftogoを使えば迂回できるのかな？ - Sakurai.Catshop

What about email, amin.m? Are you able to post to FF by emailing share@friendfeed? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

I don't know about email. now I am using freegate or another site like http://mojipage.com - ★amin.m★

Could http://dev.ctor.org/f2p, http://frienddeck.com or http://peoplebrwsr.com work for friendfeed? - Alexandros Georgiadis

Very sad. - Parth Awasthi

The reason I ask is because if you can email a post, then try sending it to share@friendfeed and also to YourUserName@friendfeed. Then when someone comments you'll receive an email about it and you can comment back to the thread via email as well. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

:(( - Nimaa from MojiPage

No wonder why ! - Pelin

@Alexandros Georgiadis:for frienddeck.com I see this:You are accessing this page from a forbidden country! but dev.ctor.org/f2p worked! thank you :) - ★amin.m★ from MojiPage

+ don't use your ISP's DNS server, verify your Firewall, search for rootkits.. + If you really wanna use Tor, be 'mobile', check the onion's status, don't be too confident, continue to use encrypted protocols & 'mobile' ports. At least, read Tor's docs and articles about Tor & privacy/security.. - Thierry R. Andriamirado

now chat like gmail or yahoo messenger are blocked too - egza

I don't know if these can help but I put them here anyway http://www.noiseriver.com/ http://moopz.com/ - M F

for me,yahoo messenger is not blocked yet! - ★amin.m★ from f2p

Alexandros: Frienddeck could work for certain parts - posts and queries against user accounts are proxied through the App Engine, searches are direct against Friendfeed so they could probably not work. - Paul Kinlan

Thanks :(( - مـهدی معتمد

:( booooooo - Duncan Rawlinson

:o - FKU

DAMN! - Vicey

whoa, NOT good - Susan Beebe

We wish the people of Iran well in these difficult times - Marc

Not good at all. Best wishes to the Iranian FFers. I hope this whole mess gets cleared up quickly and with as little violence as possible - Kamilah Gill

this is terribly wrong - Francisco Costa

A government that takes away people's Friendfeed will not last long. - Goran Zec

WOW CRAZY - Matt Kaufman

I like that 667 people liked this, that's 667 people hoping it all gets resolved justly and peacefully. - Steve C

now we are 676 people who liked that =) hoping too everthing gets resolved peacefully. - Ibrahim Tarlig

Bret, is there any update on this? Is activity still low? - Kol Tregaskes

Yes, we are still being blocked - Bret Taylor

:-( - Arif Siddiquee

definitely DON'T LIKE this... >_< ...would love to be able do more than retweeting proxies - Daniele

Best regards from Chile to all iranian people, we know a lot about bad government and human rights. Good luck, strength and courage to all of you. - Roberto Arancibia

:( - Shey, Jamaican of FF

It's to bad there is such attempts to block free flow of information, how long will it be before there is more amazing differences happening? Such limits, hmm. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

They have to keep the militants in check. Thank goodness for the pipes that were broken. - tony

بیا بالا ای فید من - egza

Digg.com is block in Iran now. - Sahandram

:-( - Paolo Valzania

:(( - Mitchell Tsai

Interesting censorship- same can happen in America - I would like to talk to you abt Friendfeed and bringing over some large groups do you have time? - JanSimpson

I've seen those censorship about FriendFeed (Iran). Do you know some interesting and objective blogposts about it? - Thierry R. Andriamirado from email

:( - Rachel Lea Fox

Do you have a similar graph as ff's been blocked in China? - K.D.

#GFW - xywf

And China now has a similar blockage. You should also check on it. - Kenyth

Sometimes we forget how easy we have it than other countries. But until people revolt & I mean a HUGE revolution injustices will still go on. - Gabriella Sannino

ای بابا این فید رو شخم زدن :)) - egza

پرلایک ترین فید فرفره این - ramin

jeddi? - HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ from IM

آره حامد آمارشو قبلا در آورده ام - egza

che jaleb , oonvaght por comment dartarin feed kodoome? bebinim mishe feed 2khtare mardom e farzad davan davan ro be oon beresoonim? - HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ from IM

حامد اینجا رو ببین http://friendfeed.com/amirsem... - egza

ba mobile am ... to bebin bara manam tarif kon :D - HΛMΣD ƧΛFΛ from IM

بعد از این فید که هستمی این http://friendfeed.com/funny-p... در رده دوم لایکه ,اینجا شش هزار و خورده ای کامنت داره http://friendfeed.com/ideali... این فید از فارسی زبانان فرفر همین نیما خودمون http://friendfeed.com/nimaa... در لایک 204 تا این هم از آیدا http://friendfeed.com/elaheye... بیشتر از 2400 کامنت داره - egza

Lately I've found that quite a few clients are still running IE6!! They've updated since the discovery but IE6 made it quite hard to proof certain web projects because of it's rendering bugs... - Michelle

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Don't forget IE7. It's just barely better than IE6. - Matt Mastracci

Many companies feel that moving from IE to an alternate browser (Mozillla) is not worth the investment/ IT/ training. Big mistake in my opinion. - David Lanning

Our web dept is allowed to use Firefox (and other browsers for testing) but the company doesn't "officially" like everyone using them. They're very much Microsoft fans & don't believe IE is bad in any way... To them us web geeks are just complainers when it comes to IE. - Michelle

Matt's right: IE7 is a clunky POS as well. The only thing good about it is that they fixed a few CSS bugs, bumped up the GC thresholds, and fixed the PNG transparency issue. Oh, and they somehow managed to build tabs into the chrome using C++/win32 code and *still* made them freakishly slow to render. - Joel Webber

There are a lot of complex reasons why people *can't* upgrade (IT policy, legacy intranet apps, etc). But the reason so many people don't think it's worth the trouble is that we all bend over backwards to support it, and we simply don't *try* features that would perform poorly on IE. It's slow enough on the apps that are out there, but what people often don't think about are the apps and features that never see the light of day because they're unimplementable on that foul monstrosity. - Joel Webber

Every version of IE should die horrible obsolete deaths. Unless of course you enjoy re-writing everything you code for the web. Seriously, has anyone ever did any html which displays perfectly the first time on all browsers including IE on the first shot? - Fry Ink

IE's a BROWSER?? Isn't that the same for example? /sarcasm - Robert Sanchez Jr

We have had our Application Control software blocking it for 6 months now - Simon Bryan

Joel, have seen and heard people *justifying* that if you make things ok for IE6, they'll run like anything on modern browsers- so much for not trying features that'll perform poorly on IE6. I think the proper way to get around this problem is to get the usage % to such a dismal low that lethargic sysads will have no option but to finally invest their 'savings' from an era of not developing applications for modern browsers, into upgrading them. - Ashish Tiwari

Cool - Kevin J Hatton

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Very cool product. Would have been nice if they were clearer about what the product actually is on the home page - had to dig thru to the products page to know that it was a solvent you apply to a surface. Wasn't sure if the product was a solvent/coating or if it was in the marker. I would buy this. - Kamath (नमः)

This product has been around for awhile, right? I could have sworn I've seen this stuff in non-web media. - Zach Landes

Zach, yeah I'm sure but very cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh, definitely Kol. If I were building one of those trendy silicon valley offices (kinda like the one in the photo...)I'd totally have to add this. - Zach Landes

Or if I were a parent of a 3 year old. My sis & her husband just bought a house. They could so use this given my niece's affinity for crayons. - Kamath (नमः)

the walls in the study rooms of our new library are like this. - Marie is merry.

nice! One of the walls of our conference room is coated with a material that makes it a whiteboard as well. Very handy - Tamara

It's uncomfortable while drawing in the conner - Tony

does it smell good? the paint. - Carolyn Chan

When I'm next due for a paint job around the house, I will definitely look at getting this in the office. - Diego Barros 

I really want this for my office! - Michele Lorito-Chase

I was looking at this just yesterday for the room we'll be homeschooling in. I'm excited to try it. - Heather Solos

Ironically, I just finished making a homemade white board with clear acrylic and some hardboard and some woodworking. If only I had know, I could saved a lot of work.... - Jim

This is so cool. I was actually talking with someone yesterday about having a room with whiteboard in my house. So this was very useful. THanks! - *Tiffany Diamond*

*drools* - Colby

just painted my dd's room with chalkboard paint. we're a little behind. - kelly

GOTTA get me some for my office!! link to order? Zee U mightAs Well make a few on this! *giggle* - Arleen Anderson

@Arleen If i had known there'd be this big a response.. :P - Zee.

I wonder what happens if you paint this stuff on top of anti-vandal paint? - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Want! - Rick Cogley

I want one! - natalia ventre

Just wait til the late 2010s, when nanotechnologically-based paints appear. You will be able to paint computer screens onto any surface in your home. - J. D. Ebberly

I wonder how it compares with this one, which is 8x cheaper http://www.ronshomeandhardware.com/Product... - David Lynch

You can use the feature to stop conversations that are getting out of hand, or to post entries for which you don't want any discussion. Likes will continue to be allowed when comments are disabled. - Bret Taylor

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the FBI is here to arrest the MOB - iTbay

You should call it Extended Twitter mode - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

O_o - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

END OF THREAD - Josh Haley

friendfeed turns into a forum... - Hüseyin Mert

Awesome. Thanks FriendFeed! Can you re-enable comments later? (Edit: yes, you can.) - Mark Trapp

Don't make me use the B& Hammer! - CannonGod

It is just like locking the thread in forums. - Hamdi Kavak

I certainly hope 'Breaking News' has a sense of humor. - John Craft

@Mark: temporarily "suspend" comments? - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Chris: yeah, like when you're trying to use the first few comments for your own commentary. It looks like you can. Eeeeeeeeee! - Mark Trapp

I think it helps those people who feel they are being made fun of in their posts. - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Mark: yep, re-enabling involves just clicking a link - Bret Taylor

+1 Gunny. It seems like an interesting and somewhat useful idea on it's own, but I can see many applications for it that aren't exactly in the interests of everyone, or even specific people, for what it's worth... - Tyson Key

Sweet, thanks Bret. One bug I'm noticing is that if I disable comments on my own feed (that is, from http://friendfeed.com/itafroma), my picture shows up next to the entry and doesn't go away until I refresh. - Mark Trapp

Mark: thanks for the bug report - Bret Taylor

Bret, it looks like right now it doesn't show that comments are disabled until a user tries to comment, then it errors and says that comments are disabled. Not sure if that is widespread or if I just had a weird interaction. - joey

Of course, the existing moderation options were already a double-edged sword. "Sticky" posts in rooms seems like a good extension to this, on the flip-side, though. - Tyson Key

I can see the use for this, but that doesn't mean I like it. - Shawn Kirsch

Actually, it may be displaying properly for me now. EDIT: I see, it just isn't updated in realtime ;) - joey

While I welcome this addition to the many useful features on FF, I do feel that you should see all comments on a subject, as this enriches our experience. - Kevin J Hatton

YAY! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

It seems the link text "Disable comments" is not translated into Turkish language yet. - Hamdi Kavak

Well done Bret, I will never use it though because I am a social creature - Mark

so can we call this the 'arrington feature'? - Chris Heath

Well arrington has yet to come back as promised - Mark

is there any way to disable commenting from all posts in a specific group? - Zee.

Zee: no, this feature is entry-by-entry - Bret Taylor

Good to see you are still able to re-share the entries with disabled comments. - Kol Tregaskes

@Bret dang...is that something you'll consider adding? - Zee.

I actually want to turn this feature on automatically for any item older than 30 days as a defense against spam. - Robert Scoble

can we get @scoble the moon on a stick too ;) - Phill Price

Phill: hey, if Arrington can get a feature, we all should be able to get features! :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert++ - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Scoble got thousands of people to join Friendfeed! How about a little love for the big guy! - Mark

I see the main use for such a feature as being a way to post 'announcement' or 'stick post' entries but we'd really need the comment box back with the share box and the option to disable comments from there, i.e. before it's posted. - Kol Tregaskes

Hehe, Robert. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

You know you have influence when a company will modify their product to get you to use it again ;) - Mark

Bret: the error message you get if you try to comment on a comment blocked post takes you to the generic FAQ page - perhaps it should go to something specific explaining the blocked comments feature. - Mike Bracco

feature request: i want FF to flow in a <marquee> format instead of a stream! (kidding) - sean percival

Is this an attempt to make FriendFeed more like a blogging platform? It sort of feels that way to me. - Mitch

http://friendfeed.com/seanper... - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

@scoble I'm trying to think of a feature from me- but I can't! - Phill Price

Agree with Mike, that could do with fixing, Bret. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bret or anyone: Where can you find a list of people you've blocked? - Myrna

Myrna - Ssshhh - don't speak of such a thing... blocking is an unforgivable sin here! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Why? - Zachary TG

But you know on twitter or fb you can unblock. Someone that I didn't know came on a great discussion about kabbalah and said F**k kabbalah so I blocked him. - Myrna

Myrna, a sin maybe but you can find out here: http://ffblockr.com/ :-) - Kol Tregaskes

myrna, http://friendfeed.com/setting... is what you're looking for... goes back all the way - Chris Heath

I think the addition of this feature may warrant the need to add a dislike button. - Mark Krynsky

Thanks Kol! - Myrna

Jannnifer: I TOTALLY disagree with you. Blocking on FriendFeed is a very important thing to do to keep your view clear of jerks, spammers, and other people you just don't want interacting with your content. I don't let jerks into my living room and the block feature is how I keep my online living room clean, too. - Robert Scoble

LOOOOL you better watch out if FF grows too fast, we're gonna be using the block button a LOT - Myrna

Robert, did you see why I blocked this character. Jerimiah probably would have blocked him from using FF. - Myrna

@Kol - Looks like FFBlockr is broken/down at the moment... - Tyson Key

@Tyson It seems so - Roberto

I guess I can see the need for this in some respects, but doubt I'd ever use it. The same way I feel about Blocking......someone would have to be really destructive to get me to do that. I just hope we don't end up with more and more "tools" that stop the natural flow and interaction on FF. - Bonnie Foster

Chris, Thx it worked! - Myrna

So Bonnie, would you block a FF stranger who came onto a discussion and said F**k the subject or your discussion? - Myrna

Bret: I think this feature should let the entry owner to be able to comment without having to re-enable comments (and shutting them down again after that) - alieb

Myrna....not unless he/she was such a pest that they did this kind of thing all the time.....kept making negative comments, or tried to continually start something. If it was someone who just happened to pop in and make their comment I would chalk it up to them being a jerk, having a bad day, I don't know, maybe just hating that subject. People just aren't going to always agree with everything you say. :) - Bonnie Foster

Scoble and Krynsky are right, options to turn off comments after 30 days, and a dislike option are needed. Dislikes should be capped at 5 a day though. - Shawn Kirsch from BuddyFeed

Bonnie, you mean if I came on one of your threads and just dumped a FU, you would just brush it off? It's negative energy. I don't know about you but I try to keep things positive. Btw, you can disagree and stay positive. - Myrna

Myrna..not disagreeing that it isn't negative energy, and yes, you can disagree with someone and stay positive. Would I do it, of course not....but everyone is different, and some people are jerks. One FU however, would not crush me, or for that matter, destroy my thread if everyone else was commenting with a positive attitude. - Bonnie Foster

Too cool. Thank you. :) - Meryn Stol

Just been reading about this over on Techcrunch. Sounds a reasonable idea, although it will be interesting to see how it works out in practice - George Hall (Australia)

Ok I understand the need to stopping comment when the Mob starts forming, you know the tar and feather, pitchfork and everything, that makes some sense. What I don't understand is why you would post an entry if you didn't want any discussion. If you don't want it discussed then don't post it. - Kim Landwehr

I am a group admin, I post the room guidelines in a thread and close the comments so that I can stick the thread url in the group description and new users will be able to read a short and to the point list instead of a 150+ comments thread. Sounds good, Kim? - alieb

Ok, alieb that makes sense I was thinking more of a regular post, wasn't thinking of a room guideline situation. - Kim Landwehr

You're welcom Myrna, i remembered a thread from a while ago with that link in it and just did a few searches until i found it - i can't find anywhere on the help/faq the friendfeed.com/settings/modifications (for your history of subscriptions and blocks as well) also i can't find the imaginary friends feature linked anywhere in the help/faq either (/settings/imaginary) -- private groups... more... - Chris Heath

Kim, also - if we had this feature back in march scoble wouldn't have had to butcher his post to stop people from trying to enter a contest that was long over http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - also this helps with spam as a popular post can be preserved without having to be attended to to fight of spammers who would try to latch to a popular search result - Chris Heath

Bret, I like the timed idea some, but having the owner always able to comment seems right. - Chris Heath

Robert, I don't see 'blocking' to be important but then I don't have jerks even trying to get into my living room so have no need. ;-) Been here well over a year and yet to block anyone. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Tyson, darn. Sorry I didn't check it before posting. - Kol Tregaskes

Keep it comin' Bret. Someone ... PLEASE write a Friendfeed guide before I have to ?! (Although ... I'm still lost in the halls looking for what used to be rooms ?! :) - Charlie Anzman

I believe they call those Groups now, unless they're renamed in a future iteration. - Tyson Key

Thank you Tyson .... :) - Charlie Anzman

Can we get a feature added to the hide interface to 'Hide all entire with comments disabled'? If you don't want me on your thread, I may not want you in my stream. This is a place of discussion, not a bull horn :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

This is a great idea Johnny and it adds a balance to the whole situation. People who just want to use FF to promote themselves with no discussion could be easily hidden from view this way. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

well then you might as well block them, right? - Chris Heath

@Johnny Worthington, I am totally right there with ya on that one. Why bother reading something on FF that I can't respond to? Isn't FF for conversation? - (dot)lizard kelly

But Chris, they may still comment here and may comment on my stuff. Because they don't want interaction on their posts doesn't mean I should rule out the possibility of having interactions with them all together. It's about the scalple, not the sword :) - Johnny Worthington from iPhone

me no likey - BEX

I fail to see how this new feature is cause for Techcrunch to now reinstate their FF account? How does this prevent Arrington from once again pissing off a bunch of people and prevent a mob from forming on a separate post. - Kevin Whalen from email

Arrington won't have to see it on his account everytime he logs in now - Mark

Kevin & Mark: If a "mob" forms in a forest and Arrington can't see it, is it still a "mob?" If Arrington is worried that FF "mobs" can result in real world, physical threats and action, why does it matter that he can't see it? - Christopher A Carr

Because he secretly loves getting attention. Not many people know this about him. - Mitch

I like this ability, but agree with Johnny W on what he says on not wanting to read what he cannot respond to. - Rick Cogley

I get your point Johnny, i was kind of joking, but also kinda serious. - Chris Heath

Robert Scoble: Oh No! I was was being sarcastic and kidding with Myrna about blocking being an unforgivable sin!! I agree 100% with what you said above -----> "Blocking on FriendFeed is a very important thing to do to keep your view clear of jerks, spammers, and other people you just don't want interacting with your content. I don't let jerks into my living room and the block feature is... more... - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Thanks. I can't imagine ever using it, but thanks all the same. - Steven Perez

Gosh, I hope Robert Scoble will be able to see my last comment since this thread is so long! - Jannifer @wordsforliving

Interesting, but what about a 'Generate Comments' option for those us that are, shall we say, boring and get little to no activity and want to seem like they are interesting people too. ;-> - Grant Bierman

thanks for good feature - egza

I fear that this addition will pave the way for more one way transmission. Friendfeed is about sharing and interaction. I might actually have to start using the block funtionality if I start seeing rant or mlm posts. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Excellent change. - Gordon Herd

but better for dictators :D - egza

If you want to hide comment disabled posts preemptively and user scripts are an option for you, take a look at this script update I released tonight: (only affects you, and only in effect while running the script) http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

TechCrunchで報じられていた「梅毒問題」への対策の一つ、荒れ始めたスレッドをコメント不可にする機能が実装されたわけね。仕事が早いなぁ。 #friendfeed - Sakurai.Catshop from iPhone

Le Speaky Le English - Mark

oo yeni özellik gelmiş.. süper.. - Profesyonel Öğrenci

Yorumları kapatma özelliği. - Can Turanlı

thanks - to "enable" comments, there is a direct link - to disable... it is necessary to click Edit and select the option... Why? a different design? - Kishore Balakrishnan

Kishore, having 'enable' as a direct link serves as a visual reminder that you've disabled comments on that item. Plus you wouldn't want 'disable' to be a direct link, as you might click it by accident. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Does this feature fossilize a thread? Or can people come in and delete/edit their already living posts in the thread? - Matthew DeVries

@Matthew - You can disable it, if you're the owner of the post, and at present, it's possible for users to edit their comments after comment freezing, as it's implemented now. - Tyson Key

A surprisingly controversial move. Good addition, but I can't find myself ever using it. - Pete Delucchi from iPhone

this feature seems in accordance with existing moderation options available to post owners - Mike Chelen

Noticed this one. Good! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

Yeah, that is something that I have been thinking about. - Kevin Bondelli

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Less thinking more action ;) - Alberto Reyes

A tooltip maybe on hover over the quote graphic. Keep it clean - Andrew Smith

Optional feature - timestamp - not default. - Susan Beebe

great idea! - Sarah Perez

it must be part of the API, since fftogo seems to include a time stamp on the comments - Trent Olson

I'm sure they do store the timestamp, even if it isn't currently displayed. - Mack D. Male

Yeah, it's in the api, all comments & likes are timestamped - Glenn Slaven

I think this is a perfect plan. The only issue I might have is that the time information might take-over the conversations. It might just look more cluttered than FF already is. - Ryne Nelson

It would be useful sometimes. - Morton Fox

concur, very useful to have. Make it a display option. Those who would think it's clutter can turn it off then. - Alexander Falk

It is in the API (I use them in fftogo). I vote that the timestamp should appear as text when you hover over the "thought bubble" to the left. - Benjamin Golub

All comments are time-stamped in AlrertThingy and feedalizr - Stephen B from Alert Thingy

Comments are time stamped in bTT as well. - Francois Bochatay from bTT

and also in twhirl - Marco Kaiser from twhirl

agreed. Timestamps are important - Peter Dawson

What about a comment alert?! How do you follow conversations on ff!? - TommaSorchiotti

Not sure if this will add to the functionality, but should be something they can try out... - Dennis Goedegebuure

Not sure a comment alert is necessary. Comments bring the post up to the top of the timeline, which makes it available for anyone who is currently paying attention to Friendfeed. (Not sure why anyone would want their attention brought to Friendfeed if it isn't already there, that would be a huge productivity drain). - Jason Wehmhoener

Please, please remember that the whole world doesn't run on PDT. I don't want to see timestamps in my FF in gReader and have to always try to guess whether the west coast is 17, 16, or 15 hours behind. If you must display timestamps, please put them in GMT. Setting the timestamps on my FF page/in my FF feed to be correct in my local timezone would be even nicer. - James Polley

yeah ! and a hide fonction for each comment - Jonathan

منم به فارسی تایید می کنم - Kamal

we know which came first... but in n argument the comments can edit. that makes time stamping very important so we know when someone made a change - Noah David Simon

a timeline function in general would be nice, make everything more timeframe friendly - Ruben Llibre

Show times either in GMT or in my own timezone, and just make it a tooltip for the quote balloon or something. Don't want it to look cluttered. - Pat Hawks

just make the time relative from each comment, so I know who said what when in perspective. like 5 minutes later Noah David Simon said. <--this opens up - Noah David Simon

like i said earlier about plurk :) - kosmar

Is i really important to know when every single comment is made? Only the last one would really be useful, could have 'last comment on june 1 at..." right beside the date of the post. - John Duff

If the timestamp is a tooltip, then it isn't really "in the way." Maybe we can have all the timestamps as tooltips, except the most recent comment will have the timestamp printed out below it, like John said. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I am so tired of entering an empty room and talking to myself for twenty minutes. lol - Russellreno

A needed feature for sure I agree. I suggested this to the FF feedback room some weeks ago. - Mike Fruchter

Any news? - Amiroo ™

<--- try hover your mouse cursor on that little dialog icon - topo

Sorry it's not more obvious, but if you hover your mouse over the comment icon you will see the time that the comment was made. Thanks for letting us know that it's hard to find! The feedback is much appreciated. - Ross Miller

I believe they are timestamped but this data is not yet displayed.... you're right ! - David Berrebi

other than timestamp I also want to be able to like the comments individually =] - Özgür D. Cyric

This thread shows what happens when nobody reads the comments before theirs - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Agreed. The entire time... - Zachary Poley from twhirl

Rahsheen, your point is awesome right now :) - Zachary Poley from twhirl

this feed tells me that noone reads the comments before theirs =] =] j/k - Özgür D. Cyric

Yes,sure. The problems is how to realize it? - Motor Industry

Ross Miller:Thanks, my bad lots of greasemonkey junk keep me away to recognize that - Amiroo ™

<<Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) is one such site, a place where 100 or so volunteers have been working since January to compile a free encyclopedia. Using a relatively unknown and simple software tool called Wiki, they are involved in a kind of virtual barn-raising. Their work, which so far consists of some 10,000 entries ranging from Abba to zygote, in some ways resembles the ad hoc effort that went into building the Linux operating system.>> - Philipp Lenssen

Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana ☠

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - Garin Kilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

The only place I ever hear about blogging being dead is right here on Friendfeed. Meanwhile, back in the real world, my wife blogs every day and her friends are always talking about this blog and that blog. Why do all these social media types keep claiming blogging is dead? - Luke Stay

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Because they're on FriendFeed and aren't blogging anymore would be my guess. :) - Bryan Zirkel

Luke, what Bryan said. With the advent of Twitter and FriendFeed the "experts" are all saying you don't need to blog any more. I was on a panel with a few of those several months ago and I had to argue with them why these technologies have actually gotten me to blog more than before, not less. The early adopter types are usually the ones that start a trend, and eventually the rest of... more... - Jesse Stay

I just signed on with word press. Very nice site for blogging. - James Hague

Yeah, sorry social media folks, Friendfeed will never replace blogging in the real world. In fact, Friendfeed will never catch on in the real world. Facebook has too strong a hold on mainstream users. Yes, I understand that they're very different, but the average Joe doesn't care about those differences. - Luke Stay

Luke, sites will change and FB dominance will die just as MySpace died. It'll take time but will happen. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

Luke, whether it's FriendFeed or some other site Facebook can't hold onto their dominance forever. Others will compete - never say never. At the same time FriendFeed and Twitter are far from replacements for blogging. - Jesse Stay

I agree, FB dominance will die someday, but not any time soon, and FriendFeed certainly won't be the one to cause its fall. FriendFeed attempts to add features and solve problems on the internet that the average Joe just doesn't care about. Show your mom FriendFeed and watch her reaction. I predict you will see complete indifference, "What do I need that for?" Any of my non-geek friends... more... - Luke Stay

Jesse, I never said Facebook will never lose it's dominance. I said FriendFeed will never catch on in the real world. - Luke Stay

Luke, that's the same with Twitter - they each have their niche. Is Twitter mainstream? "Mainstream"'s such a vague word. - Jesse Stay

Jesse, the minute Twitter was featured on Oprah, it became mainstream. Not to mention all the local news coverage across the US and the huge feature on the cover of TIME magazine a couple of weeks ago. - Luke Stay

Luke, yet millions of moms and dads still don't use it, despite Oprah. - Jesse Stay

But they know about it. Mainstream is not a vague word, it's a relative word, and relative to the US, Twitter is mainstream. You can't watch Prime Time television without hearing it mentioned at least once. - Luke Stay

I asked someone at work if they were on twitter and they just gave me a blank stare- they never even heard of it! OR Facebook for that matter. - James Hague

James, wow, Twitter is one thing, but Facebook too? That surprises me. They are in the minority, that's for sure. - Luke Stay

So nasty. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from email

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PLAGUE OF ANTS! - Christopher Harley

When they bite, it fuckin HURTS too. I've got about four more of these on my foot from the tubing campsite. :( - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Fire ants deserve no mercy. Nuke'em all! - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Agreed Ha3rvey! They can take those nasty giant flying cockroaches with em. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

ouch - johnpiercy

I've heard that the only good thing about fire ants is that they eat termites. Not sure which is the worse plague. - ha3rvey (needs soup)

Bright side? Could have been a tick http://ff.im/4CbNk - Christopher Harley

EEEK. This is true, Christopher. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

AAKKK!! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Man that looks like it hurts :( - martha

More annoying than anything else. It itches but I can't scratch it. Here's more on fire ants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

"Unlike many other ants, which bite and then spray acid on the wound, fire ants only bite to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called Solenopsin, a compound from the class of piperidines. For humans, this is a painful sting, it hurts, a sensation similar to what one feels when burned by fire—hence the name fire ant—and the aftereffects of the sting can be deadly to sensitive individuals." - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Grow some aloe vera. When you're bitten, break off a tip and rub the aloe juice on the bite. Works best on a fresh bite. - Steve Lowe

Yep. I remember those little bastards only too well. - Steven Perez

Pop it! - Rodfather

Already did, Rod. Had to use a sterilized push pin. It was nasty. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Did you cry? - Matthew DeVries

Nope. It wasn't THAT painful. I tear up more from trimming my nose hairs. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

o_O - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

thing is, so-called "fire ants" aren't actually ants at all, they're a type of wingless wasp. so those are stings and not bites. - Joe Silence is not dead

The fire ants here know me as Chemical Ali. NO MERCY! - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

:-O - Anna Haro

we have those here too - mjc

They're primarily in the south, coming from Mexico. They're spreading north quickly though. Little mean ass bastards. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Ouch - Tyson Key

When I get those I end up scratching myself to the bone. I just...can't...help..it. - Josh Haley

Every time I see this I wanna scratch it sooo bad! That would probably hurt though huh? - pea

I HATE FIRE ANTS!!!!! And there have been several reports of them here in Virginia so far this summer. :( - Ladybug Heather

They are such hyper-agressive, fearsome buggers. Hate 'em. - Patrick Jordan

Did you video the popping process? Juicy! - Mellissa Claus

Yikes - BeeLing

And they seem to wait until they are all over your leg then start biting at once. Ack. :( - Mathew A. Koeneker

Fire ants were in the top 20 reasons why I hated living in FL. - April Russo (app103)

That's one thing I REALLY don't miss about living in Texas... - Paula W

yikes. - Thomas Hawk

Every Texas kid has at least one summer where they stumble into a fire ant bed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Mississippi has those, that's one of the many reasons I left - Sandra

ouchie... benadryl creme - Yolanda

=O - Shevonne

lol - Marcel Weiß

es spricht wenig dagegen - kosmar

Oder umgekehrt: Wenn du nix kriegst dann sagste einfach: noindex. willste das? Nur noch 10% des Traffics sofort ;) (Will Burda das?) - oliver gassner

"JULY 1--A will signed in 2002 by Michael Jackson stipulates that his assets be placed in a family trust and that his mother be appointed the guardian of his three offspring. The will, a copy of which you'll find below, lists three executors, including lawyer John Branca and music industry executive John McClain. The will makes no provision for bequests to Jackson's father or any of his eight siblings, and a court filing indicates that beneficiaries of the Michael Jackson Family Trust are limited to his children, mother Katherine, and six relatives, including his brother Tito's three sons. Branca and McClain believe that the value of Jackson's estate "exceeds $500 million" and consists of "non-cash, non-liquid assets," including Jackson's share of lucrative music royalty rights. In the case that Jackson's mother Katherine were to predecease him (or was unable or unwilling to serve as guardian), Jackson stipulated that singer Diana Ross should be appointed guardian of his minor children. The "Last Will of Michael Joseph Jackson" was executed in Los Angeles on July 7, 2002. (8 pages)" - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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There were all these rumors that he died intestate. Not much chance a superstar with so many lawyers at his disposal didn't have a will. None of those lawyers would ever work again if that were the case. But my hunch is there's a good chance one or two wills from later than 2002 will emerge. - Stephen Mack

I'd assume that even if more wills show up that his assets were properly titled to the Family Trust which would exempt them from probate and pretty much render future wills insignificant. I'd imagine the estate taxes on his estate will be large. He gets a $3.5 million estate tax exemption and everything over that the Govt. gets 45 cents on the dollar roughly. It will be interesting to... more... - Thomas Hawk

Why is this being reported? This is crazy. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

God, this is like a bad bar exam question. It'll probably show up in the next couple of years on the California bar exam as an essay question, I'm sure. - Brian Chang

I had thought blogging has been growing steadily, globally. Admittedly I don't have a good chart/stats for it. - Mark Essel

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I really like this statement - but will people return to blogging as we've known it? - Tony

Are you perhaps over estimating the allure of thinking? - Todd Hoff

Micro-blogging is good for idealets and infotainment, but it really is turning the web into a mindless medium like TV. Of course, there will always be the equivalent of PBS trying valiantly to raise the bar somewhat. Blogs will always have the possibility of transmitting real knowledge. - Paul W. Homer

The interesting thing for me is I think we have lost the definition of what a blog is. Everybody jumped up and down about what Steve Rubel did, but really I see his change as a shift of platform. If he posted that same content on wordpress, nobody would have said a word. Just because he did it on posterous and called it a lifestream, people took issue with it. So, what is our definition then? - Robert

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatmak... - Dave Winer

Dave - I read through the link you sent, thanks for the information. So, in what ways do you think posterous goes against this definition? - Robert from email

I think Steve still has a weblog, he's just submitting posts to it in a "different" way. Like Dave's link says a weblog is "... a hierarchy of text, images, media objects and data, arranged chronologically, that can be viewed in an HTML browser." Pretty much sums it up, I think. Steve's post is going to generate attention, and debate, but in the end it's a weblog. - Rob Fahrni

Robert, I know you're asking Dave a question, but I don't think the Posterious way goes against the definition. If I'm not mistaken Radio could post via e-mail, and I know Blogger supports this feature. Maybe I need to dig into Posterious a bit more but isn't that what it does? - Rob Fahrni

Rob - That is my point. This in my mind is one of the major problems with looking for a "new name" for these social products. We see it as something different because it is called something different. Posterous, from what I can see so far, allows for the writer to interact with their "weblog" in a different way, just as you said... - Robert from email

Huh? - Dave Winer

Dave - I think your "huh?" was towards me... We call Posterous a "life stream", I say it is a blog, that we have given a different name to. That is what I am saying.Rob - I agree with you 100%, and that is my point exactly. I keep reading these post about blogging being dead, or blogging being alive... but those that say they are not "blogging" are still "blogging" Maybe I am not making sense, but I hope I am... - Robert from email

Robert - Precisely! I think Posterious is trying to find a why to differentiate their product, so they've coined a new phrase. It's still a weblog, how the data arrives may be different, but it's just a weblog all the same. When I read Steve's story last night, from his new site, I thought I was going to find a link on it to something "new and innovative", then I realized I was AT the actualy site, his "life stream." - Rob Fahrni

Rob - YES... That is what I am saying... Same with Tumblr in my view, it is a weblog... Blogging is not dead at all in my view... - Robert from email

Robert - Right on! - Rob Fahrni

Blogology is a still too young science, and definitio usually comes when plays are over. What I feel sad for is the lack of opportunity future literature and social behaviour experts will suffer not using post's content ( and graphics ) as sources for studying today's world zeitgeist. Borges prophecy is at work, few understands - too many doesn't even know what they're writing about: a... more... - valerio fiandra from iPhone

Robert, the photo sharing site you've used recently is structurally a blog too. It differs from normal blog software mainly in that the chronology is by date of occurrence, not date of posting. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

It's funny that this sentence and a few lines from Anthony Trollope's autobiography should have crossed paths in my consciousness on the same day, since it's almost the same idea, thrown back two temporal orders of magnitude. Trollope tells of a correspondent, a vicar, who had enjoyed his clerical novels but was upset by Lady Glencors'a contemplation of adultery in the Pallisers series.... more... - Amyloo

Bruce - Very true! I'm glad that you are not working hard to call it something different. I'm loving it so far, even though I have not had a lot of time to put a bunch of pics up... - Robert from email

This is silly. Blogging isn't defined by the tool, it's defined by who's doing it. Read the piece I pointed to. I don't mean click on the link and hit the Back buttton, click the link and READ. - Dave Winer

Agreed, Dave. Heck, we blogged back in the day via FTP uploads; that's what moved you towards developing "Edit This Page", in fact (IIRC). - Ken Kennedy

Dave - I did read through it, and I agree that a blog is NOT defined by a tool, I think that is what we have been saying. I do not see where we are at odds on our viewpoints, please expound. - Robert from email

This subject keeps coming back - blogging will never die. - Jesse Stay

Before Web 1.0 we listened, conversed, collaborated and then we wrote. Writing was the synthesis of all the thinking that occurred in the first steps. In the new medium, the thinking process is the streams, both personal and community. Blogging is the synthesis of this new kind of community thought process. - Joolio

Dave - haha! - that is awesome :D - Susan Beebe

Pity there's no "Really, Really Like" button. - Chris Baskind

Of course bloggin won't die, but you better have compelling content, because people have little tolerance for long articles. - Todd Dewell

I think a large percentage of bloggers were really microbloggers, they just didn't have the correct apps to do that. The people that actually have something to say will keep blogging and those that just like to say something small or share something interesting will continue microblogging, or lifestreaming, or whatever variant you want to name it. Blogging is akin to publishing articles... more... - xero

This was known since the times of IRC: you can only have idle chatter or quick focused questions at that speed. - Michele Costabile

Michele, if that premise is true, then kids only absorb important life-long lessons from their parent(s) when they're sat down for a full length lecture. No? :) - Micah Wittman

The best food for thought always come in easily digestible chunks, however, sometimes you need to digest some larger/harder stuff to give you the ability to digest that chunk. - xero

Xero - That is an interesting thought... - Robert from email

Agreed, well said, Xero. - Micah Wittman

I thought completing a thought was the beauty of FriendFeed. - Alan Eggleston

Microblogging is very much a product of the times, very ADD, very video-game-ish; so I agree strongly with the idea of longer. - Rick Cogley

Just FYI, when I started Scripting News in 1997, it was entirely "microblogging" -- look in the archive. http://www.scripting.com/1997... - Dave Winer

Dave - I very much appreciate you keeping up this fight. When I heard this past weekend the term "Lifestreaming", and seeing it picking up momentum. No, this has to stop. Twittering is an aside to your thoughts, or a highlight to pull people to your thoughts, if it's you only thoughts, you need put your head below the surface of your lifestream while carrying a big pile of rocks and... more... - Matthew DeVries

LOL, unfortunately, I don't think this problem exists just for blogging :) - Armando & Cindee Edrosa from iPhone

This isn't a fight. I love all this stuff. I was just saying what I think. - Dave Winer

Even calling it a "Lifestream"? That's the creepiest sounding thing in tech, since Steve Balmer was threatening to "Squirt" his music onto my Zune. - Matthew DeVries

Who really quit blogging? Even the most active lifestream addicts never really quit. For me, the blog is and has always been home. Everything else is somewhat ancillary, even when it's the first place I go. Critical thinking sometimes requires the depth of a written post. - Ken Camp

Question: Of those of you out there who use posterous, do you use it as a replacement of your blog, a mirror of your blog or something different? - Curt Mercadante

Ken - Rubel quit blogging. - Matthew DeVries

One of the things I like about blogging is the ability to not finish a thought, not to try so hard to say all I have to say or say come to any definite conclusion in a single post. The unfinished thought is what encourages conversation. Let someone else add to your thought. Let others challenge your incomplete premise. I don't know everything, why pretend I do? My thoughts are never finished. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Wow, you're right Dave, scripting news was indeed VERY much a microblog. Interesting & thanks for pointing that out! - Rick Cogley

Just last night, my sister sent out a vague tweet that made no sense to me out of context: http://twitter.com/awarnoc... So I suggested she blog about the topic so that readers like me would understand the context. http://twitter.com/awarnoc... http://zelzega.blogspot.com/2009... - Peter Warnock

Just because you can finish a thought, doesn't mean people will read it. - Will Higgins™

Tell me about it. That happened earlier in this very thread. But at least you ca read it yourself. - Dave Winer

Just as your diary became your journal and then your log, your log has become your stream. The web has become your life..... AND SO IT WAS, that in the year naught-nine, the web-log was renamed to life-stream, dissected, and it's pieces scattered about the hundreds of "cloud" services, from which it could fall as raindrops of thought, pinging here and there in an attempt to spread ideas to where they were needed the most. - Joel Bennett

No time to read it. Can you give us the gist of it in 140 characters or less? Thanks. - Diego Barros 

Here's a picture, even easier than 140 chars. http://tr.im/qrBb - Dave Winer

Haha, love it! - Rick Cogley

Love the idea! - Sampad Swain

Come on, Dave. Where's your sense of humor? - Diego Barros 

Where's yours? - Dave Winer

If you were joking, that's cool. I can take it. :) (I was joking, honest) - Diego Barros 

Me too. :-) - Dave Winer

Blogging is still the platform of choice for sharing a clear/uninterrupted flow of thoughts from a single perspective. Then comments rapidly add value to the original post's material (most of the time). We're witnessing the link power of blogging decline because that functionality (which is monetizable) is moving to social media. We are left with the question, how best should bloggers monetize if they're losing link passing strength? I'm working that issue now by frankensteining several parts together - Mark Essel

Personalized/Customized ads based on public user status. Semantic tools (via API), memory (local user profile database), and the passing of information to an ad aggregator will help produce custom (dynamic web matched) advertisements. It should serve all parties involved (social media, bloggers/front ends, semantic processing houses, and advertising aggregators). - Mark Essel

What do you mean, I have always been able to finish a ... ooh a nice shiny object... - Marcel de Jong

Isn't it ironic that this post contained a clear and concise thesis, in under 140 characters? - Mike Chelen

Good point Mike... - Mark Harai

There's NOTHING wrong with brevity. There is a time and a place for discussion and lengthy discourse. - Will Higgins™

Mike Chelen - "a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning ... the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning." - Nope, not ironic - Matthew DeVries

Matthew DeVries: that covers definitions 1 and 2, yet the 3rd is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result," where in this case the expected result was to explain how new platforms prevent thoughts from being finished, and the actual result was to the contrary :D - Mike Chelen

If you say so. I never saw that definition, but I have no reason to doubt you, or motivation to find the source myself, so, I'll allow it. - Matthew DeVries

aren't we all copying from the same online dictionary? http://www.merriam-webster.com/diction... - Mike Chelen

No, I rattled mine out of something I memorized years ago. - Matthew DeVries

wow, you got it perfectly word-for-word, remind me to pick you for my crossword puzzle team :) - Mike Chelen

1999. blew my mind. - vijay

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Oh, and if you discovered the internet before the WWW existed, what was your first impression of that? - Internet's Tad from fftogo

I first started playing on the internet back in 1991 or 1992. A buddy showed me telnet bbs's and I was off to the race. I became an internet stud back in the time when the net was like 95% men. I think all of my dates in college were with women I met on internet bbs's. I met Lindsay that way. When I first started hearing about web browsing back in 93 or 94 I thought it was pretty stupid. Who'd want to look at that? It took a year or so for me to really "get" it. - Internet's Tad from fftogo

1997 and :O - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

First time on the WWW and not a BBS? '91 or '92. Thought it was BORING. Only scientific papers. Never thought it would fly. BBS was much fuller, had a broader scope of items. We had were Prodigy customers from '87 - '91, IIRC. '93 or '94, I saw someone selling their stuff online. Told the record company I was at (worked in the licensing dept. then) that it would be awesome if they put... more... - Admiral Anika

i remember netscape and those aol discs i got in the mail. wanted to try the "free trial" - Alfredo

I remember playing a mud and when I realized that these guys couldn't understand me because they were playing in BRAZIL it totally blew my mind. I couldn't get over how amazing it was to be having conversations with people all over the world in real time. SideNote: room mate failed music appreciation the summer we found Muds. - Internet's Tad from fftogo

around 1997 I would guess. I swiped a 14.4 kbps modem out of our computer parts box and got all the settings off my dads computer and got it all set up. I think I was about 14 at the time. It was the cats pajamas. It was also a little disturbing once you got to like line 300 of that 400 line jpg and you found out you were actually looking at a shemale :*( - Geoff Schultz

wait wut? - Geoff Schultz

1994 but the school only had a 4800 baud modem so we were limited to BBS and usenet. Used it to read up on xfiles episodes before they were broadcast over here. I knew I'd be spending a lot of my adult life on it! - alphaxion

It was 1995. We had AOL and Compuserve. I knew that I was in love. - Shevonne

92 or 93. I remember trying to figured out how I'd find anything. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Those were some expensive shemales Dave! - Geoff Schultz

I don't really know. I was in Young Astronauts in the fifth grade when I started coding and they had a networked computer that talked to some different things. In the nineties I ran a hacker BBS with a friend and his brother. I guess I first ran into unbound net in the early to mid nineties. - Neal Jansons

1987. But it wasn't until a couple of years later that they had SLIP and then PPP so my first few years were all through a terminal connection. Although I was fascinated with Mosaic, I was an NNTP die-hard and didn't see the need of the web over it and Gopher. It wasn't until about 1997 or so that I finally got over my attachment to NNTP and embraced the web in all of its horror show glory. - Akiva Moskovitz

A friend in high school and I would modem-talk, so that was late 80s, we would call each other's computers. I'd say like '88. The first time I got excited was with the WWW, using Mosaic to download satellite infrared images of the world. I was working tech support in college, and I kept telling people how cool it was- it was my desktop image or something. - anna sauce

1995 and I couldn't understand what all the hype was about. - Kenton

My first impression was Groucho Marx. - Nine

2005. And I was like, OMG WTF AWESOME! - Yuvi

Oi - Geoff Schultz

lol Akiva you make me feel so young...I was writing Hello World when you first hit the net. - Neal Jansons from IM

I remember using it in 1993. I was 11 at the time. But I have vague memories of my father using the AOL BBS prior to that. I loved it when I started using it. Having your own computer and a modem is a great relief to an only child, let me tell you. - Soup

And ofcourse, I was 15 at that time. - Yuvi from IM

Neal, I started programming in 1982. Oof. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, you're old! o_O - Yuvi from IM

Yuvi, not really. I was really young when I got my first computer. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, I would have been 5. Started programming '87-'88 with BASIC, LOGO, and eventually C. - Neal Jansons from IM

80s and newsgroups, I thought that sci.energy.hydrogen was going to change the world. - Robert Hafer

You were programming 9 years before I was born. That's old! :P How old were you when you started? - Yuvi from IM

1976 or '77. A school friend's dad was an astronomer and we used his university account to get on the network. We used to change people's account passwords, download files, etc. We also played games that people had available to others on the network. Nothing truly malicious, just kid jokester stuff. It was a world I'd read about but hadn't yet seen. - Heather

1995/1996-ish....holy crap! there are nekkid ladies on that internet thang! yowzee!!!! - Morgan Haley

Hey, the first computer I programed had 8 switches on the front panel for entering bytes. young whippersnappers - Robert Hafer

Robert, you got on the internet with that? :D :P - Internet's Tad from fftogo

1991, when I went to college. I thought it was going to be an endless distraction. :) - Morton Fox

1995, awesome way to get and give information and interact with others around the world. - xero

1995, when I first went to college. At first I wasn't sure what to do with it. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

1992, university of florida - had to ftp/telnet host to host, then started building it when I got to spain for the USN. God that was fun - thanks for the happy memory jog tad. :-) - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

I was in college, and we could dial into the school's network. I also had an AOL disc. I think my modem was like 9600 baud? Probably 1993-4? - Derrick

Tad, the most interactive I/O device for that was a Western Union teletype. When I got on a mainframe that supported VT100 terminals, that was something. - Robert Hafer

1987 - used "med-line" online BBS service @ $50 bucks an hour to conduct medical research for college (that is now a FREE service on the 'net). Also used Lexis-Nexis, CompuServe, and a variety of interesting "chat" services. Mostly research. I learned how to login to various University library ListSrv, gopher, and card catalogs online (using kermit for file tx) - from my green screen... more... - Susan Beebe

Late 80s/early 90s; BBS boards, *Prodigy, then eventually Netcom. - Pete Delucchi

1997. WOW! - Steven Perez

Late 1994 in college; remember one prof. very carefully explaining what a 'browser' would look like years later. Most students thought she was crazy. - Jennifer Dittrich

1989, gopher was the bomb. - Jason Huebel

Had to be sometime in the late 90's I was at my friend kennys house and he was trying to teach my how to post on a BBS... I was like "Man this sucks! I'm never gonna use this Interanets thing." - J. Abdul-Qahhar

1989. I finally had something to keep me company. - Michael McKean

Probably '94... I think that's when CIS turned on Usenet access. Before that, all I knew were BBSs, CIS, and The Well. My first web experience came via GNN... I was a little indifferent at first, but fell in love with if a few weeks later. - Roger Benningfield from BuddyFeed

Wait. There's an Internet? Why wasn't informed? - BEX

1998 or 1999 probably. I was very impressed at the time, although I only started to use it in earnest around early-mid 2000s when I got around to creating a now inaccessible random-pseudonymous e-mail account, discovered the joys of "free" DRM-infested music via a proprietary application for Mac OS 8 from LiquidAudio (RIP), and spent several hours browsing, fighting with streaming radio and trying to download stuff over a fairly expensive dial-up connection that maxed out at 33.something Kbps on a good day. - Tyson Key

Oh, don't forget Tripod (doubles as an ersatz file sharing system between myself and a friend via FTP), GeoCities (the time I dabbled with HTML) and ICQ... - Tyson Key

I 1st discovered the internet in 1995 (Worldnet, France). Impressed but continued to use & B SysOp of BBS and french RTC ;) - Thierry R. Andriamirado

1994. I ended up in a dorm that didn't have Ethernet, so we had to access the campus network through 14.4k modems. Mosaic was unusable at that speed, so we used Lynx. How did we find anything back then, since search engines didn't exist yet? - Victor Ganata

1994 or so, on the computers in the lab at CSUS. I didn't really get it for a couple years after that. - Bren, Not Grinchy

The internet? Well if you count the Usenet, then 1989 with several BBS's that had a connection to the newsgroups. Actual internet with email and everything. PCLink came out sometime in the early 90's. Turned into AOL and the rest is history. - CW™

Quite late for me... i was already 20, in the late 90's. And i think i was just Napster at the time :) - diego morelli

I discovered the Internet as it is today in about '97-98 I think, signed up to MSN. I thought it was OK, I think it took a few weeks for me to 'get it'. I used BBS for many years before this though. - Kol Tregaskes

97 9th grade. Had one classroom with it. Didn't like the prof. Left internet alone mostly until 2000 and had a T1 in dorm. - Amber, Random Time Lord

My dad got Prodigy in '88 or '89 and I remember finding the bulletin boards and thinking it was SO COOL. I also found an online game that took ages for each screen to load. But we had that briefly so I really remember getting it in '96 when we got AOL and I got all involved in chatting and even met up with a guy! This was when we all had to write down how long we'd been on because you... more... - Lis Miller

Around 95/96 on Uk dial-up and heading to UK University. But the real discovery was coming to the U.S in around 98/99 and suddenly realising pages could load in less than 30 minutes a time...the only bad thing was coming back to the UK and AOL dial-up but once that was gone, it was all plain sailing... - Absolute Radio

Around 1994-95. I was working in book publishing doing licensing and started reading about the WWW. I thought that there could be a lot of opportunity for book publishers to license their content websites. - Lisa Kagel

1995. Used it for info and thought of it as an elektronic encyklopedia that spared med the trip to the library. - Martin Liechti

1995 I was given a laptop at work to take home and sort out some stuff, I noticed it had a modem, plugged in and dialled up. I believe it was Compuserve I only remember seeing photos of Mars. I didn't stay too long because I did not have a clue about how much it was going to cost me. I bought my own PC the following year. - M F

in 1980 my summer job was working in a computer room for Mohawk Data Sciences. (yes I am old) Was active in BBS's in the early 90's- Actual internet as we know it today - was using Trumpet Winsock in 1995, with Netscape 2.0 - i think.... - Mike Nencetti

It was around 1992 in the University. First it was email, gopher, and later WWW, which we browsed using Mosaic. - Peter Sedik

1995: A friend an me sat in this internet cafe for hours and browsed the homepages of LucasArts and Sierra to find walkthroughs and announcements of new games. - Michael Netsch

1990 in the offices of the East-West Center in Honolulu, a friend showed me Usenet over a VT-100 connection. I'd already heard of the Net from Jeffrey Hallett, former president of the Naisbitt Institute, but this was my first chance to see it live. - Shel Holtz

2001. can't remember, sorry :( - Timo Heuer

For me it was 1994. I was a SAHM but always interested in new things. I'd heard the word "internet" and wasn't even sure what it was other than it connected computers but somehow I knew I wanted access to it and that it would be important. I had to do a lot of searching and asking around to find anyone who knew where to get service in my area. I went through over $500 in "credits" or hours online in my first 2 months. Been hooked ever since ;) - Merlene

in 1.994 i was studying architecture and i decided to change my life working with internet - cpons

1988. It was awfully boring back then, just ftp and email. - DGentry

I don't really remember my first impressions, as it was back in 1986-1987 and it wasn't that big a deal. I was working for the University of Michigan computer network as a student back at the time--helping out in the computer labs--when UofM connected it's Merit network up with NSFNET from MCI and an IBM network into an "internetworked" system. Later, I vaguely remember using Gopher, IRC, USENET, and remember reading a USENET post from some guy in Switzerland talking about some web of hyperlinked pages... - Ken Sheppardson

Hard to say. I used Promenade (now AOL) when I got my first PC in 1992. I didn't consider that the Internet though. It felt like a box with closed doors where you were able to explore sites and communicate with friends. In fact, I remember getting a {Netscape?) issued computer in '95 or so with all these websites prefixed by http:// and I threw out the magazine since I thought AOL was... more... - Tamar Weinberg

it was mid 1994. It was slow, boring and expensive... - Tahir Zaimoglu

1997. I lived at thepark.com. I thought it was awesome to be able to chat with people who didn't know me. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

circa 1995. High school. "WWWhere have you been all my life?" - Kamilah Gill

1993-1994 round about. I thought it was amazing but didn't yet see how it would really explode. - AJ Kohn

1994 - I couldn't believe I could send a letter (email) to my family without any postage. I was writing them a letter weekly and I realized that this would be much easier. - Travis Murdock

I guess that would be junior high, 1987. I was on the academic decathlon team and our advisor showed us how to research information from a local university's "online" papers. I remember thinking the modem was a hoot...one of those acoustic coupler jobs...but being online irritated me. I preferred going to a library in person. I didn't touch the internet again until 1992-ish. A friend... more... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

88/89 for me - started thru AOL - still remember my old AOL email address - tombuckob2! They got hooked on the rec.windsurfing newsgroup - where I found my tribe. - Tom O'Brien

1992/93, right as Mosiac was coming into the picture, but I didn't have it on my PC so it was all text.I thught it was cool but a bit confusing and hard to navigate, but couldn't get enough of it! - Kelly W.

1994. Was kinda young so it didn't make a huge impression other than a new way to make pen pals and play games. - Katie: Whelmed Overly

Circa 1984 with my Commodore 64 and an attached 300 baud modem. I still recall the text scrolling across my screen from my first connection to a BBS. I was impressed. - J.D. Deutschendorf

after bbs, I remember buying a book full of newsgroups.. didn't see the point at that time.. then we went to Aol :0 should have stuck with the newsgroups ;) - Tim Hoeck from AndFeed

1995, my freshman year in college. ESPN online, at any time I want? I'm sold! - Jason D Barr

1996. "Lynx is not a very good web browser." - Guan Yang

1999 - Frederick Bvalani from fftogo

around 1989, I think. I wasn't enough of a geek to truly appreciate it at the time, though I did recognize the potential it had to make the world a much smaller (as in more connected) place. - vicster

About 1992, when I got a Netcom shell account. Had been BBS'ing since '84, so it wasn't utterly foriegn. - Bob Morris (polizeros)

'91 when I first entered college. And yeah, MUDs took up way, waaaaaay too much of my time at one point. - ronin

MUD! I use to be all about it - Shevonne

Mine will be 1991 when I was expose to VAX and Sun's machine. I still remember the good old days of gopher and usenet. And email attachments using uuencode/uudecode. YEAH and MUD too which also took out much of my college time - Thomas Chai

Probably '92 or '93. Went online through AOL and a 2400 baud modem. Was too slow to be of much use, though, so I stuck with AOL and dialing up local BBSs. Once I upgraded my modem to a 14.4, though, I was able to browse the Web at reasonable speeds and had my mind blown by the sheer mass of information on totally obscure topics that was available online - info that was previously only available in micro-run niche zines. - Eric Tatro

Late 80's, gopher, usenet, WAIS--"Who's getting all this info together and who's paying them?"--early 90's, Mosaic--"Needs some color and movement. Someone's going to want to put an ad on that." - S. Charles Balazs

Getting my first out of network SMTP email from my wife who was in Nepal and fiddling around with AOL in the early 90s. Browsers were so clunky then. - Colin Campbell

1993 (I think). I just enjoyed mailing lists and USENET. - cecily

Oh, wait - BBSes count? Then my first foray was '92. - cecily

If BBSs count, my first foray was probably 1983. However I don't think BBSs would count: they were modem-connected islands, not using what is now the Internet. - DGentry

Yeah, unless the BBS had an Internet gateway. A local WildCat BBS had an NNTP connection around 1988 or so. Before then, they were either independent or linked by FIDOnet (and boy do I miss me some FIDOnet hacking). - Akiva Moskovitz

around 1995 through AOL disk. - Kim Landwehr

https://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Akiva Moskovitz

1994. first intro was irc via an eskimo north shell during lunch @ high school. - Jason Wyttenbach

it was the summer of 1997. America Online 3.0 to be exact. - MicahBear78

Dick and I saw Netscape for the first time in late 1994. We signed up with our first ISP, mo.net, in early 1995, and I could have pitched my Maritz client's first web site in spring 1995, but we went to a funeral in VA instead. Later that year I came up pregnant with our son and read Usenet alt.something-or-other.breastfeeding voraciously until Jojo was born - made all the difference... more... - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

It was 1993, on Prodigy. - Jason Runyan

1993 on a local ISP...all text. loved it! - (jeff)isageek

1988, dialup to the local .edu, then browse their minerva Library system, emails to others outside my domain, telnetted out to various usenets and ircs and so on and so on, progressing and expanding tyhrough the years ever since. LEGEND OF THE RED DRAGON 4LIFE! - Tsali, The Native of FF

1991 -- couldn't get my parents to get me a $20/mo Netcom Shell account. It was still years later before I got an Internet connection! - Garry Tan

1990 - I was consulting for the old DEC and they had a funky connection to the internet but you could get to USENET via a proxy. I loved rec.arts.books and the tech news groups. I thought woaaa, there's a wide world out there. - Dan Perlman

1999 - Brand new USR 56K Sportster as a gift - flavio

2000 at the local library in the small country town I lived in. I didn't really know what to do with it, came across as a fast card file. Strangely my school had apples in 83 so was quite computer savvy. I didn't get my own computer till 2007 after backpacking for five years and using cyber cafes. - Yant

Around 1994 through IRC. Thought it was the greatest thing since swiss cheese. Immediately got sucked into chat. Took my first job designing websites soon after. - Leigh

1992. And it was awful, but fascinating at the same time. Awful because every command had to be spelled in the right way. No faults allowed. Fascinating because when I typed my own name (was it altavista in those days or was it all the connected university libraries together?) some information appeared! :-) - Ton Zijp

1993 - I was working for an insurance co and the marketing research person had a dial-up AOL account that she shared with several of us. I was hooked. - Paul Gibler

50m like in 50 millon? - Loic Le Meur

yep loic, like in 50 million. we are saving companies that have political cloud left and right ;) - Oliver Thylmann

@loic yes. german gov just saved a mail order company "Quelle": http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki... (de) - Timo Heuer

"LinkedIn has bolstered its position as America’s leading business social network by the month lately, with Germany-based Xing as the only company regarding itself a worthy competitor in the last few years. But now those days seem to be over - in the US and China, at least." - Jan Tißler from Mento

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