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How very creative. This is very fluid and cool. - Louis Gray

OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool. - Kevin Arth

Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!! - Chris Myles

Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) ! - Ahsan Ali

This is awesome! - Christopher Chung

with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive! - michael sean wright

:O - Josh Haley

Amazing, thanks for that! - dkb

According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :) - Bret Taylor

Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?) - Kathy Fitch

very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action? - berchman

Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross - goutham

Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on - Shane

That's priceless. Great job, guys. - John Craft

This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too! - John W Lewis

Great project! - Anne Bouey

AWESOME! - Kevin Fox

I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO? - Bret Taylor

i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels - patrick

"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :) - Susan Beebe

Genius, how much time did that all take? - Wayne Hornsey

Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

That is so awesome - Glenn Slaven

happy-making! - Felicia Yue

I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :) - Arvind

Wow!!!!! - Mona Nomura

Excellent!! - Kol Tregaskes

That's great! - Devon Govett

Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury - Benedetto Vacca

неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет? - atner

Lots of handshaking I see :) - Nicholas Kreidberg

hahaha very nice stop motion and music! - Alex Huinchucleffy

BUMP - Roberto Bonini

Beautiful! - Anne Bouey

It is my garden this spring. My photos can't do it justice--I need you Rachel! They were taken over two months. We have 30,000 +/- daffodils, the early varieties tend to be the yellows,now we are white while all the other flowers are coming in. It makes me smile every day! - Sheila Taylor

tamam..ama nasıl anlıo yaaa=) - Özlem(angiocat)

Arkadaslar su feedleri bi trollemesek, kapatir bak. - batuhan icoz

bret neyin kafasındasın hacker mı olacan çok para kazanmak istiyorsun seni anlıyorum ama neyi ima ediyorsun ajanmısın kardeşimmmmm. - CidDiadam

adam bıktı bizden yahu. - zevkimde

tremendous encouragement and quite cheering. - Tzury Bar Yochay

Thanks Paul - Ashish

This might be an interesting read - The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives http://www.amazon.com/Drunkar... - tRAS

Excellent. So glad they included Battletoads - Louis Gray

Agreed. Battletoads was so frickin' hard, especially with 2 players. :) - Dan Hsiao

FUn Game - Srinu

LOL - Andrew David

nice....lol - alghinnah nu'man

heh - Ruchira S. Datta

Oh, the pillow thing. Why is that called a sham? - Stephen Mack

Not 100% sure, but isn't a sham the fancy pillow case that you don't actually sleep on, it's just for show? - Jandy

Yeah, a sham is a fancy pillow case. I've never liked them. And yeah, that is the sale price. For a good quilt, it isn't bad, for a kids bedspread that is kinda insane. - Rachel Lea Fox

Yup, Jandy has it right! - Rachel Lea Fox

NICE. - anna sauce

The nice thing about viral emails is that they are a good way of warning all of your friends that you are gullible and probably not a very reliable source of information :) - Paul Buchheit

The funny thing is, it might actually be true if it was talking about FF. Why don't you delete stagnate accounts, Paul? ;) - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I'm going to forward that to all my friends. - Amit Patel

LOL... "Creater" :D - AJ Batac :)

GUYS GUYS THIS SOUNDS TOTALLY LEGIT BETTER START FORWARDING -- PAUL, CAN I REPLY HERE? PLS DONT DELETE MAI ACCOUNT. "Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that Gmail's system has been getting slower. This is due to the increasing number of Gmail accounts. Since this occurrence, we have decided to delete accounts that are no longer in use. We will determine who's account is... more... - Stephen Mack

If your wife touches another man's genitals, even by accident, you must cut off her hand. That's why I would never let my wife shop in a crowded mall or take a subway. - Mark Davidson from BuddyFeed

How many people did he kill? - Kevin Fox

LOL +++ @kfury - ·[▪_▪]·

must've gone crazzzzzzzzyyyyy - The Real sofarsoShawn

Any religious Jew would know that the written Torah is but half of the law. To follow it blindly without the oral Torah is about as reasonable as Morgan Spurlock eating nothing but McDonalds for a month and then shouting, 'Huzzah! McDonalds isn't healthy!' Oy vey. - Akiva

Akiva, I think that was pretty much the exact intent. - Jennifer Dittrich

The unfortunate thing is, though, that people took Spurlock's 'experiment' as something more than a mere entertainment. I'm sure they'll fall for this one, too. - Akiva

Scott just read this book, and I've read some snippets from it. It is a really interesting story, and Jacobs believes that this experience changed him for the better. - Ladyepiphanybug

Well, that's good that he got something positive out of it. - Akiva

I thought it was excellent. He's a nonpracticing Jew (if I remember correctly) and went into the experience a skeptic. There was tremendous growth in the whole process for him. It was incredibly interesting. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Can't most people find tremendous growth in most undertakings they delve into headlong for a year? Especially if it's contrary to their normal operating procedure. I didn't read anything about this but it seems to me that people grow mostly from exposure to new experiences almost no matter the experiences, positive, negative or otherwise. Just trying to point out that i, personally,... more... - ·[▪_▪]·

Akiva - The Mishna is written down... Jus' sayin'. - Mark Davidson

Well, McDondalds _isn't_ healthy. Even if you eat somewhere else more often than at Mc, the food there _remains_ unhealthy, although you're going to suffer much less its effects if you have a balanced diet otherwise. So either the comparison doesn't hold, or it doesn't put the written Torah in a particularly good light ... - Oblomov

I like how he started walking around with a handful of pebbles in his pocket so he could stone someone and got excited at the opportunity. :P - Tanath

Mark, as is the Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch. Something tells me he consulted neither. - Akiva

Because if it were simple, it would be regarded briefly and then forgotten. - Akiva

Why be concerned about it Christopher...unless you really believe "Vox populi, Vox dei" and it becomes a solely political argument for you. I thought the issue of God was settled for you. Then let it be settled for others. You have made your choice. Let them make theirs. - Melanie Reed

I didn't say I was offering it. :) - Melanie Reed

Christopher, not if it's something important to you. Last I checked, a relationship with a spouse was often arbitrary and complex but it seems worthwhile to me and nothing I'm likely to forget anytime soon. - Akiva

And clearly you left your sense of humor at the door. - Akiva

Yet the opposite doesn't always hold water. Interesting, that. - Akiva

If I remember correctly, he had two Rabbis that he regularly consulted and he did quite a bit of research on his own. Toward the beginning (the pebbles and the stoning instances were in the beginning of his effort) it was clear that he wasn't taking it all too seriously. However by the end of it, as I said earlier, he truly was very well educated and transformed. For those that haven't read it, it's worth the read. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Dammit, Jen, you've got my curiosity up now. I might have to read this thing now. - Akiva

If Barbie were truly with it, that would be an iPad she's holding. And a Bluetooth earpiece? Really? When I see people walking around with a Bluetooth earpiece, "geek chic" isn't what comes to mind... - April Buchheit

I'm sorry but Bluetooth headsets scream "d-bag" to me. I once saw a guy leave it in for a 2 hour flight. - Joe Beda from iPhone

April, remember, she's an engineer; she probably has an iPad and takes it on social outings, but needs a real laptop (with a keyboard and a non-wimpy processor and the ability to download and run any software you please) for coding. - Tudor Bosman

I'm with you on the Bluetooth earpiece, though. That has to go. - Tudor Bosman

Too bad she's still anatomically impossible. - Tinfoil 2.0

So is this White Trash Barbie's alter ego? - Jeff P. Henderson

So the geek chic are back to holding phones up to their heads? Cool. I got tired of charging mine. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

I'm so getting this for my daughter - she'd love it! - Jesse Stay

No-Doz? - Louis Gray

whose does are those? - Vicarbott

those does should knows better - SAM

they must be f**((*& freezing! - Tyson

doesn't those does have frozen toes? - Vicarbott

when does goes where those does goes you gotta knows they got frozen toes... (ok this must end... sorry) - SAM

Woahz! Don't impose your frozen-does-toes embargoes on those who chose to pose more prose about teh snowy does! - Vicarbott

I think Jim wins. That said, y'all should be bros, not foes, and consider this case closed, I suppose. - LB shining

And thank you all for the "Moses Supposes" earworm! http://www.youtube.com/watch... - LB shining

So cute for both of you! - Anne Bouey

Awesome! Go Canada! - Stephen Mack

Sheila - my parents got them per my request. =) - Karen Padham Taylor

A full head of hair! I think my kids are behind. - Louis Gray

Very cute, but we all know she's actually rooting for the US, right Jasmine? :) - Shannon Jiménez

I agree, but those three well-executed features need to be done in the context of marketing/sales magic, otherwise the product won't take off. GMail by all rights should be the dominant email client today, or at least every other surviving email client should have copied the conversation view from GMail. FriendFeed should be bigger than Twitter. I'll admit that twitter got the "few things" part, but I don't think they won based on doing those few things well. - Bruce Lewis

Gmail is getting there. It has already passed all of the other webmail systems -- they just don't realize it yet. iPhone is similar in that it hasn't won in absolute numbers yet, but it's the winner nevertheless. FriendFeed is a topic for another day. - Paul Buchheit

"At the office, maybe we'll finally have an easy way of chatting with remote people while discussing a presentation or document (e.g. audio iChat with a shared display)." Wouldn't that be nice? - Benjamin Golub

Gmail is getting there, and will eventually get there, but it has Google associated with it. Smaller products with weaker brands have a lot more trouble. There's already a tablet out that uses multi-touch to enable multi-player games, for example. Do you know what it's called? I don't; I just happened to see it. - Bruce Lewis

There's no question that brand matters, and it would be difficult for anyone other than Apple and maybe G or M to successfully launch the iPad. You have to pick a strategy that works given the resources you have. Also, I bet that other tablet isn't actually good (clunky to use). - Paul Buchheit

Paul, it helps me to hear you say there's no question that brand matters. Your essays really resonate with me, and when I read this one my first inclination is to run off and refine my core features. But refined features only bring new users if you've got the sales/marketing thing figured out. - Bruce Lewis

Not every game is winnable Bruce. I wouldn't try taking on Apple and Google for the cell phone market, for example. Google succeeded in large part because nobody else realized that search was important. - Paul Buchheit

"if the basic product isn't compelling, adding more features won't save it." - Clare Dibble

Fantastic, Paul. - Bruce Johnson from BuddyFeed

Bruce, exactly. Especially since we're all seduced by the idea that on the web, we want to scale virally. In this conversation, we're talking about competing with Apple and Google. Do you have a particular target audience you could to go after first? Maybe dominate a given market segment - a niche or a subculture by focusing on something that's just for them, then grow into other niches... more... - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

Paul thanks for an enlightening article. How would you define winning? Can you win the game and still be a loser, for example MySpace won but could not sustain itself? - Shakeel Mahate

Hold that thought, Mary. I'd really like to talk about it, but I don't want to hijack the discussion any more than I have already. Paul has a great post here about what does and (just as important) doesn't constitute a great product. Now that it's established that brand, etc. matters, I'm happy to stay on topic. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I'm glad you address the different strategy implicit in developing gmail within Google. An independent startup trying to design a product doesn't have the brand or the support resources that something like gmail did (to Google's credit) will likely need to look at product design in a more holistic way. This isn't a direct criticism of you, Paul, but we like to boil down the product... more... - mikepk

I agree with your premise though, having lived through the experience of building a 'good' product that wasn't 'great'. We did a lot of things wrong with the "Grazr product" from Grazr. First and foremost in my mind was not focusing on the core elements and adding hundreds of features that just made the thing a confusing mess. We needed a benevolent dictator and I wasn't in the position to be that person. - mikepk

So by this logic trying to turn Gmail into twitter will probably fail? Something like trying to turn Greader into a social network? One you take the care to identify the essential attributes that make something great, bolting on more attributes to make it something else doesn't seem a good idea. - Todd Hoff

Great article, Paul! - Space Cowboy

The amusing thing to me is that -to this day-, iPod haters still focus on the features it lacks. - Andrew C (✓)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Sam Levine

If your product is a fashion accessory, it doesn't need to be good. - Gabe

People will buy all kinds of crap for the latest fashion accessory. - Gabe

don't you have to be good at some point before you can iterate to be great? - David Tran

Dan: Paul's thesis is that you can start out at great and then iterate to be good. - Gabe

More seriously, Paul is using "great" to mean something nearly orthogonal to "good", rather than being "like 'good', but better". - Andrew C (✓) from Android

"Great" in this essay means it has features that are novel or way better executed than the norm. "Good" means achieving the norm for feature-completeness. - Bruce Lewis

"Great" is a discontinuity. The iPhone is a good example because there was really nothing like it before, so it didn't matter that it was lacking some obvious features like copy&paste. - Paul Buchheit

ola Paul, you know about anything in this situation? -> http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Sets Turan

Well, now, hold on. On paper, there were phones that did most of the things iPhones did, even maps and youtube. The app potential wasn't even a huge selling point for the first year or so if I remember right; it was more that it had a browser that really worked. (and even then, there were other smartphones out there... people just didn't really write apps for them, not nearly on the iPhone's scale.) - Andrew C (✓)

Please direct your Turkey comments to http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Paul Buchheit

Andrew, I tried those phones, and they were all bad. Having features isn't good enough -- they need to actually work. iPhone was the first phone with browser that worked, maps that work, etc. - Paul Buchheit

Fair enough! - Andrew C (✓)

делаем ставки, когда mocap на приемлемом уровне научатся делать бытовые компьютеры :) - Велопрограммист Аркадий

Выглядит как извинялочка. Мол, дорогие актёры, вы пока ещё нам нужны! (хотя, понятно, нафиг уже не нужны). - Alex Kapranoff

@ilvar а кто сказал что они не умеют? умеют, и давно. системы продакшн уровня практически за копейки предлагает Optitrack - $6K за шестикамерный боди-мокап (http://www.naturalpoint.com/optitra...). но есть системы практически и совсем даром, мокап с двух и более вебкамер баксов за 500, http://www.ipisoft.com - Sergej Sidoruk

@madsergio Я имел в виду работу "из коробки", со встроенных вебкамер, например. Все же 500 баксов за авку в чятеге много :) - Велопрограммист Аркадий

@ilvar: была такая софтинка, лет пять-семь назад. под виндами, соотечественники наши делали. и продавали доллеров за сто, если мне память не изменяет (хотя ее и взломали сразу). там в реальном времени тречилась картинка с двух вебкамер и выдавала Poser-ready BVH, т.е. готовый файл захваченного потока движений для импорта в Poser. там даже калибровка какая-то встроенная была, так что... more... - Sergej Sidoruk

а-а-а =)) здорово-то как! - Jolly Slyness

Мощно. Технологии 3Д-анимации уже на таком уровне, когда я с трудом понимаю как оно внутри работает. - Alexis Nazarbaev

Чё-то мне его ещё и в 2Д посмотреть захотелось.. - Maxim

Кстати, мне тоже. Я вот подумываю сходить - Denis Baranov

Что-то все уже посмотрели «Аватар» в 3D чтоль? Один я как лох чтоль? - Alexis Nazarbaev

Try to remember not to wear it to the airport or anywhere in Boston. - James Robinson

Haha! - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

If I have any more kids and it's a boy... so naming him that. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

Sweet!! Congrats from me & Rob!! :) - Skye Miller

Yay :) - Ross Miller

congrats all around - just ZONED

Congratulations to Karen and Bret! What a beautiful baby! And a beautiful name! Congrats to Grandma, too! - Anne Bouey

Congratulations, Karen and Bret! - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

BABY!!! Congratulations Bret & Karen -- Jasmine is very cute!!!! :D - Susan Beebe

I can haz baby! Congratulations Sheila for becoming a grandmother! - Jim Norris

She is just so beautiful! Congrats to all!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

Congrats guys! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Gorgeous, I'm excited to be a grand tia now! - amelia arapoff

Congratulations are most definitely in order. Now get some rest; you're going to need it! - Joel Webber