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Our data center (SVColo) performed an upgrade to their core network switch this evening. Something went wrong, and the operation took 30 minutes instead of 5. We apologize for the problem.
Chatsohbet, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Kol Tregaskes and 20 other people liked this
we are back
- K.D.
I wondered. Glad you are back!
- Rachel Lea Fox
No problem. Just don't scare us like that again ;)
- Mark Krynsky
Ok otherwise it was going to be an topic on Twitter.
- Madhav Tripathi
I forgive you.
- Vezquex
I thought FriendFeed would have deployed mobile datacenters across the US by now.
- imabonehead
Talk to Scoble about getting you guys on Rackspace :)
- Jason Cronkhite
from Alert Thingy
Jason: we would love to host FriendFeed but any hoster will screw up from time to time so I would rather win their business on the strength of our technology and service. Our CEO puts his personal cell phone out there (I don't know of any other hosting company CEO that does that, plus mine is +1-425-205-1921). not to mention I have some major motivation to make sure FriendFeed stays up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Compete with Wave and let people run their own Friendfeed servers.
- Vezquex
Thanks! I almost sent SOS via Twitter...but u guys were fast! :D
- Roshan Ramachandran
Oh, and it was nice of you guys to arrange your downtime for when I was flying and off the net! :-)
- Robert Scoble
The upside is I saw the 'new and improved' twitter web interface for the first time. When do I have time to do that normally :D
- Micah
@scoble, that's just it. I've only known Rackspace to screw up once and it was due to some guy driving a car into the data center. Plus, all the other perks you mentioned.
- Jason Cronkhite
Andy, long time :)
- Micah
Something changed with this downtime, didn't it? All images are now hosted on friendfeed-media.com instead of the old i.friendfeed.com
- Mitch
Mitch, the friendfeed-media change was deployed yesterday and unrelated to the outage.
- Paul Buchheit
Good morning everyone. I gave up caffeine and diet soda for my new year's resolution COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE DAMN IT ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS COFFEE and it's going fine so far WHY DOES MY HEAD HURT SO MUCH I WANT TO DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE how are you?
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Background reading: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010...
- Stephen Mack
In other news, Stephen Mack gave up FriendFeed a few weeks ago. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
Interesting read; good luck!
- Anne Bouey
Good luck!
- Spidra Webster
Kevin: Pssh, I never said I gave up FF -- just that during the holidays I didn't have time for it.
- Stephen Mack
Anne and Spidra: Thank you.
- Stephen Mack
Anika: stop that giggling it's toooooo louddddd
- Stephen Mack
At least in rats, there's a question if adenosine receptor upregulation is really responsible for withdrawal http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... -- Good luck!
- Victor Ganata
Victor, I haven't had my coffee today so that abstract made no sense to me. "Caffeine is a competitive antagonist at adenosine receptors. Receptor up-regulation during chronic drug treatment has been proposed to be the mechanism of tolerance to the behavioral stimulant effects of caffeine. This study reassessed the role of adenosine receptors in caffeine tolerance. Separate groups of...
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- Stephen Mack
^^^ I understood the first six words.
- Stephen Mack
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...): "Adenosine is a nucleoside composed of a molecule of adenine attached to a ribose sugar molecule (ribofuranose) moiety via a β-N9-glycosidic bond." Well that's no help. High school chemistry was a long time ago.
- Stephen Mack
Ah, the write-up in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is much clearer.
- Stephen Mack
it's called withdrawal. and it sucks.
- Morgan
two words.... four loco
- Roger N
Roger, in this case it's just pure 100% loco.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Please explain this alien concept of "give up caffeine"...? Surely it's akin to giving up breathing?
- Slippy
Caffeine digression and humor a dangerous mix haha.
- Ubuntu101
How am I? I am nice and awake because I drank yummy coffee
- #Amplivox / Social Kevin
Slippy: Giving up breathing would be easier.
- Stephen Mack
It was funny to realize that the sad/depressed feelings I had all morning and yesterday were simply symptoms of caffeine withdrawal.
- Stephen Mack
Social Kevin: I'm glad you enjoy that illusory feeling of alertness! http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...
- Stephen Mack
I can confirm that Stephen looked extremely tired yesterday.
- Louis Gray
I am happy I never got caught up with coffee and caffeine. I'm already at 200% and with the addition of coffee? That's scary. Good luck, Stephen. *sips herbal tea*
- Derrick
Here to help. http://ff.im/wjNIF
- Louis Gray
I gave up caffeine in November. The most surprising symptom was stiffness of my joints, especially in my jaw. I had three headaches in the month of December which is down from about 10 - 12 on average in the months before. I feel better.
- Ryan Massie
Ryan, thank you, that gives me the strength to carry on. DESPITE LOUIS GRAY AND HIS ILK.
- Stephen Mack
I missed chai tea lattes horribly at first, but I've found replacements like rooibos tea that are caffeine free. Be wary of "decaf" cause it's usually reduced caffeine not free. I ate chocolate fine since it's almost not worth mentioning that it has some in it.
- Ryan Massie
Yeah, been giving myself a little chocolate methadone. Mmm, almost lunch time and can follow it up with a Twix since I was good today.
- Stephen Mack
Angel, thank you, I will enjoy my Twix while listening to that cantata.
- Stephen Mack
Derrick: It was insidious, my slip into caffeine addiction. I blame my kids. Enjoy the tea!
- Stephen Mack
I skipped my morning chai in solidarity, Mr. Mack. Sadly, I've forgone all food so far today.
- Kevin Fox
*hugs* good luck Stephen!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
*looks at empty tea mugs on desk* You are better man, man. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Thanks, Kevin, Rachel and Roberto. Kevin, why no food?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
I was busy this morning, ate a bit too much yesterday, and my lunch meeting has been pushed back 75 minutes. And now may not be a lunch meeting but just a regular meeting, pushing back foodtimes to about 2:30.
- Kevin Fox
So impressed with your postivity stance re: pink-bathroom-NYTfeature-gate thread WHILE giving up The Coffee. You are a champion.
- t. The Lethargic Honeybee
Thank you, tamaran!
- Stephen Mack
Sometimes coffee calms me down. Serious. Then again, I'm one of those left-handed people, so maybe my adenosine receptors are looking for the left-handed version of the caffeine molecule, while most people's are looking for the right-handed version... or vice-versa, or something. (After all, they don't call me El Dopa for nothin'...)
- Mark J
I have never seen anyone make a joke about chirality before :D
- Victor Ganata
Bump. Good morning, Stephen. My 20 ounce Diet Coke bubbles in your direction.
- Louis Gray
from Android
Louis: La la la la la I can't hear you.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Someone bought me a 100oz mug yesterday. Filled with Diet Coke. Ahhhhhh!
- Josh Haley
stoked josh!
- Morgan
Is it that when people start going out, they start acting weird? I'm just plain surprised, I guess. I stopped trying to understand girls :|
Daniel J. Pritchett, Ubuntu101, John E. Bredehoft and 2 other people liked this
Alright ladies, who wants to date Yuvi?
- Louis Gray
With all of the emotions raging around both parties in a new relationship, all sorts of weird things can happen. And this can happen whether the two parties are teenagers, or older.
- John E. Bredehoft
Ho Ho Ho I didn't notice this one coming up!
- Yuvi
Okay, I'm not going out with anyone, I'm not 'seeing' anyone. Not that I don't want to - just that my parents would literally kill me if they come to know, and I am just going to stay out of trouble there :(
- Yuvi
Sneak out. It's healthy. Just be smart and plan things out.
- Gus
I'm sure I could do it behind their backs, not let them know, but isn't that... wrong?
- Yuvi
Back on the sofa with a dog against my leg. Ahhhh. :)
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The dog has welcomed me home by passing gas.
- LB so u no it's real
In looking for FF alternatives, has anyone found ones that have Friend-of-a-Friend, auto-refresh (even after a period of time, like it used to before real-time), items that pop to the top with activity, and embeddable widgets that preserve inline media and comments? Those seem to be the things lacking from everywhere I look.
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Just in case. I'm sticking around until the bitter end, but I want to have someplace all set up to head to. Plus I want to keep reminding anyone who might be working on apps to fill the void what the things are that separate FF from the rest. :)
- Jandy
I've looked at Streamy - to me Streamy seems to be more of a SocialMedian type of thing (but I didn't use SocialMedian that much). More of a suggested RSS/news item reader rather than a lifestream aggregator with kickass community integration. Like, you can add your services, but they show up as separate widgets. I can see activity on my Flickr photos in Streamy, but it's not integrated with the rest of my lifestream.
- Jandy
Yeah, I was working on GReader setup earlier - you have to basically approve people to allow them to comment (follow them as well and add them to a commenting-allowed group). It's probably going to be a decent replacement for the basic browsing on FF, though.
- Jandy
Baby Kitten Jackpot!!!!! 4 New Foster kittens and a new shelter!!! Exciting day! #foxfosterkittens
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We now foster for two shelters, Palo Alto Animal Services and now the Humane Society of Silicon Valley. This is our first group with HSSV and they are just adorable. We decided to take on HSSV also because, well they asked. They were desperately looking for foster parents as they have had too many kittens this year, and Palo Alto has had a light year so I talked with everyone involved and so now we work with both. I hope it won't be too much to keep everyone's different rules straight and all, but everyone is so wonderful at both places that I think it will work out fine. These 4 were just picked up in a lot in San Jose, their mother is rather feral and ran off so these guys got brought in and I got called. Woo hoo!!! This is exactly what I needed to fill the little hole in my heart that Orion left behind. Seems to be 2 boys and 2 girls, but more updates will be coming soon I'm sure. My guess is that they are about 3.5 or 4 weeks old. We will have these guys at lest 4 weeks, maybe more.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Some folks wish their cat would always be a kitten. You kinda get that wish come true.
- Spidra Webster
SO CUTE! Exactly what I needed at the end of the hard day....
- Georgia
how do you all do it ?? I wish I could do the same.. have a foster home. Keep up the good works !!
- Peter Dawson
God, following Rachel is better than cute overload.
- anna sauce
Spidra, we do kind of get that. Except we also get the heartache of giving up each set so it does have it's price. Worth it though!! - Georgia, me too!! - Peter, it's awesome, and difficult and so rewarding. Thank you! - Aden, seriously, right!? - anna, AWESOME!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Aden, well right now they are all super timid and not so sure about me, but I keep taking short breaks from work and popping in on them and giving scritches and talking to them and they are getting interested. The all grey one looks like he will warm up first, the black and white girl (i think) is currently the most unhappy with me and the grey and white boy (i think) is an ostrich wanting to bury his head anywhere he can. It will take time, but they will warm up.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Lucky muthda fru.... *grumbles like Muttley from Wacky Races*
- Johnny
Awwww...Indy has little gray friends!
- Katy S
Katy, totally... the all grey one looks a lot like Indy did when she was a baby too, except Indy's eyes were grey too! Here is our first litter of kittens with baby Indiana in it: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Rachel Lea Fox
Poor Johnny kitten... how will he ever get socialized?
- Rachel Lea Fox
These are all from the same litter? What a variation in coloring! You are going to have so much fun! Actually, you are already having fun, aren't you?
- Anne Bouey
Anne, yup, all the same litter. You can get some wild variation of kitten markings in a litter as not all the kittens in the same litter always have the same father. Here is a photo from a litter of 5 where there were also three looks, black and white, tiger grey and bermin white (one kitten is missing in the photo) http://www.flickr.com/photos... And yes, I am having a great time, even with work intermingled in.
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's a lot of work Rachel, to keep all those kittens for nothing. God bless you.
- Friendfeed's Francisco
Franc ☺, not for nothing... the love you get from the kittens, and the laughs when you are stressed out or upset, seriously, you can't stay upset when a kitten runs up to you or purrs on your lap. And it makes our kitties more playful and happy as well. Yeah, it's work, but it's so worth every bit of it. We love it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel, that linked pic was great. Oops! I had not considered different fathers!
- Anne Bouey
OMG, so cute!!! I'd love to find out more about your fostering experience, especially how you handle having existing cats in the house. BTW, don't you just love the new HSSV facility?
- Rachel Garb
Lovely and beautiful! When can Jeanette and I stop by to snuggle the little fuzzballs? :)
- Tudor Bosman
Rachel, the new HSSV facility is amazing! Feel free to ask me about fostering any time. I'll post more about our process at some point. Currently the kittens are on quarinteen as they just came off the street today. When they meet our older kitties varies, but our older kitties are used to Orion now so the transition should be easy this time, but these are also much smaller kitties and...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Tudor, DM me about when you guys leave. The kittens need a day or so to adjust a little but we can work something out.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I can't DM you -- you're not subscribed to me :|
- Tudor Bosman
Just got my finger bitten rather hard a few times... these guys were still nursing at least part time up till today. You can see the stains from the mothers milk on the chins of the ones who are white there, and they are kind of unsure what to do with food. So I've been using Tina's suggestion of feeding them on my finger till I can lead them to the bowl. They are doing well but do seem...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
huh, I swore I was Tudor... well I am now.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Finally got grey and white boy to eat, but I had to make kitten gruel to get him to do it. all grey and tiger have accepted me as their momma cat, black and white is considering it and grey and white is still reluctant but isn't fighting so hard since the gruel. Going well. These guys are showing signs of closer to 3.5 weeks old, so I think I will be getting up to feed them in 4 or 5 hours, just till I know they will eat enough.
- Rachel Lea Fox
OMG - they are adorable - especially the little tuxie - love love love tuxies!
- Bash
Lani, his he still very afraid or has he relaxed. Any shelter can be hard with all the barking and people everywhere, very unnerving, but the foster homes can do so so much for the all of the animals!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh so cute...I want one! I especially like the gray kitteh with the white nose.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
He is a real sweetie Alex. He was shy at first, would bury himself under the other kittens so you wouldn't see him, but now he ready for love and getting somewhat social.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Lani, I just put this in another post for someone else, but might also be useful for you. Not sure if you have tried Feliway before but it is kitty pheromones which calm the kitty while in stressful situations. Might be helpful. http://www.feliway.com/gb...
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm in love with the little gray one. I want one, but then Louis wouldn't be able to breathe. Hmmm.
- Kristine Gray
Kristine, they little grey boy is a little spitfire, he is rather awesome. It of course depends on how allergic he is. If he is mildly allergic sometimes exposure reduces it, it did with Kevin. His tolerance for other allergens is lower for having cats, but he doesn't have to medicate anymore. If he is a little worse than that, getting a russian blue cat could work as they have a...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks Rachel. I didn't know that about Russian Blues and they are beautiful kitties. Must get Sarah to give Louis big google eyes at him and convince him of the need for feline companion.
- Kristine Gray
Kristine, put little kitty ears on her, and little eye liner whiskers and teach her to say meow! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
ok so whats the names - did you finally settle ? Then we give em the baptism rite.. and sprinkle a little water on their foreheads !!
- Peter Dawson
Peter, naming is in process... visit this thread and chime in. http://friendfeed.com/phoenix...
- Rachel Lea Fox
Absolute best thing for stress... KITTENS!! *skritches little grey sitting on my lap*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Dear Twilight Fans, - http://www.thegrayeffect.com/2009...
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I beat Louis to first like!
- Jesse Stay
and first comment
- Jesse Stay
friendfeedFilterByService - just released (greasemonkey script) - Shows only FriendFeed feed entries based on user chosen service types via either an inclusion (services to show) or exclusion (services to hide) list. http://userscripts.org/scripts...
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In this initial release, selecting the services to filter is set by installing the script, then opening it to update the "Configuration" variables (near the top of the script, it's clearly marked). A future version will have a better interface than this. By default (it's meant to be changed right away by each user) the configuration is set to: filterMethod = "HIDE" and servicesToHideArr = ["Twitter", "Some other service"]. A side effect of running the script is (whether on your home feed or friendfeed.com/public or any realtime view) as new entries come into view, there is less of a smooth transition: entries more so just pop into place; the page also wiggles up and down in a more pronounced manner. Steps have been taken in the script to reduce the vertical movement, however. If you find any more caveats, let me know, and enjoy!
- Micah
Featured image: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Micah
This script is dedicated to tonight's FFundercats podcast event http://friendfeed.com/ffunder...
- Micah
What's the killer app / a usage example for this? Sorry, I am slow.
- Josh Haley
If you want to see all Twitter, all the time on the public feed (and nothing else): You've got TwitterVision. Of course others will take Twitter out and want to see everything else :)
- Micah
trying now
- Josh Haley
I'll be back on FF around 8:30pm MST to answer any questions. —See ya—
- Micah
pretty cool. Using SHOW tumblr then SHOW bookmarklet. If there aren't any entries that normally would have been on your front page, then the page is blank. crank up the ?num=100 and then you have a better chance at seeing the entries. Way to go, Micah!
- Josh Haley
I like it. But the "SHOW"option conflicts with the Cleaner FriendFeed script when you have a lot of services in there.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
Works fine now with Cleaner FriendFeed for widescreen script.
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
So does this get applied across the entire site? I want to hide all of Twitter in http://friendfeed.com/public, for example, but not in any of my lists. There I've got it hidden natively s.t. I only see tweets with Likes/comments.
- Ken Sheppardson
Oh, wait... I can just set it up to work on http://friendfeed.com/public in the GM script management screen... duh...
- Ken Sheppardson
OK, this is officially slick. Thanks, Micah! Feature request: I wish I could just have it strip away or hide everything other than div#feed, I'd configure it to only apply to http://friendfeed.com/public, and I'd just stick it in it's own window (or the sidebar) as a little real-time FriendFeed ticker.
- Ken Sheppardson
version 0.112 released! - Embed styles added for a compact layout when using ?embed=1 querystring. Ken, start the ticker tape parade =)
- Micah
So, it auto-activates with any URL with the ?embed=1 tacked on (e.g. http://friendfeed.com/public... )
- Micah
Updated to v0.266 - Fixed non-appearance of "Entry hidden - undo or hide other items like this one." option after hiding a post.
- Micah
ah, I just realized I've had my greasemonkey scripts turned off for awhile now - maybe I'll turn back on and check this out. thx!
- Laura Norvig
No problem, Laura :) Ping me with any questions.
- Micah
FriendFeed has been almost completely blocked in Iran as far as we can tell. We have a large number of very active Iranian users, and we noticed a steep decline in activity yesterday. Graph below.
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:(
- Paul Buchheit
:( :(
- 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
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.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
:(((
- Oguz 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
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.
- @barisunver #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
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
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
please help us , we are under attack ,change friendfeed logo if you can
- فرزاد
@MVB we all are Protests
- MohammadReza
That's sad.
- EricaJoy
:( Dislike.
- Ruchira S. Datta
:(
- ◄ 道 ► D/\\/|I|D ッ
P.S. Kevin should turn the logo green in support of the Iranian's being disenfranchised.
- EricaJoy
:((
- رامین
For those that are in Iran: Have you tried http://fftogo.com as a workaround?
- FFing Enigma
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
thanks kol :)
- Farshad
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 Demirel
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 Demirel
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 D
:(
- Mitch
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 ?
- stanjourdan
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
- Hamed Safa
@بی بی, you might try https://friendfeed.com/
- Jim Norris
:(
- imabonehead
Damn.
- Steven Perez
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
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
- CNFRMST
Thnaks :)
- Exir
ببین شب انتخاباتی چکار کردیم با این فرفر. wow!
- ابوهدی
چه همه لااااااااااااااااایک!
- ابوهدی
:((
- 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
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...
- شاطر امین
internet was our last hope ...but it block...and we cant use it easily...
- Opium
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.
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
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?
- شاطر امین
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
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
so so sorry for iran people... I hope they will win...
- Tanaydin Sirin
Some amazing images from Iran - http://ff.im/42pgD
- Brent - Yes I am
Does http://fftogo.com work still?
- FFing Enigma
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
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
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
No wonder why !
- Pelin
+ 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
I don't know if these can help but I put them here anyway http://www.noiseriver.com/ http://moopz.com/
- M F
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 :((
- Mahdi Motamed
:( booooooo
- Duncan Rawlinson
:o
- FF88
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 Reed (K. 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
:-(
- Kol Tregaskes
:-(
- 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
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
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.
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
پرلایک ترین فید فرفره این
- رامین
jeddi?
- Hamed Safa
from IM
che jaleb , oonvaght por comment dartarin feed kodoome? bebinim mishe feed 2khtare mardom e farzad davan davan ro be oon beresoonim?
- Hamed Safa
from IM
ba mobile am ... to bebin bara manam tarif kon :D
- Hamed Safa
from IM
:)))))))))
- حُسین آفلاینـ
is it still filtered?
- آرام
یادش بخیر!
- ابوهدی
Trumpet. Winsock.
John (bird whisperer), Rodfather, Matt M (inactive) and 14 other people liked this
Ancient words. Paleotechnology.
- Il gareth in Milano
Ross.
- Mona Nomura
wow
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Tucows.
- S of 2C
Mosaic
- Giuliastro
28.8k
- Jesse Stay
14.4k
- Jesse Stay
9600
- Jesse Stay
US Robotics
- Jesse Stay
HyperTerminal
- Bryce Roney
Beep bop bop boop Reee Reeee Raaarrr crsssshhhhhhhhh
- Jesse Stay
That's my attempt at modem sounds
- Jesse Stay
Kermit
- Jesse Stay
brrrrr-whee-whee-wheee-wump (my attempt at recreating loading games onto the ZX Spectrum from cassette tape)
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Ubuntu, Ham Radio Packet radio still runs at slow speeds like that. Also, many Healthcare records, especially Medicare/Medicaid are transferred via modem still.
- Jesse Stay
Not to mention the fax :) And Ham Radio though is the one thing that can stay alive come power outage pretty amazing stuff.
- Ubuntu101
And running at a blazing 33.6 was the shiat :) haha Most of the old communities faded away since then or merged online or simply disappeared.
- Ubuntu101
strumpet cockblock. i had a 300 baud modem at one time. bad old days. anyone here remember bang addresses before the great renaming?
- Joe The Sausage
Fidonet
- invariant
quanti ricordi...
- procionegobbo
Yeah, Scott....but it's just not the same :) When it was THE place I went to a) find out about freeware to download and b) find out where to download it. At least for me. :)
- S of 2C
56K modem emulator - http://lazylaces.com/56Kmodem/
- caj needs a haircut
telnet
- Joe The Sausage
Compuserve.
- Kevin Shaum
X-Modem protocol
- Rodfather
ANSI graphics
- Rodfather
Jason, that was my first modem :) Signed up for Quantum Link and downloaded SID Player music :)
- Rodfather
Wow. I remember that.... Win 3.1 ....
- Jeremy Brooks
Commodore 1650 modem. 300 baud. Quantum Link.
- Victor Ganata
Yep Victor, that was the one.
- Rodfather
Gopher!
- Goran Zec
finger monasfeed@friendfeed.com
- ianf ⌘
UUCP. FidoNet.
- Victor Ganata
According to a one-year-old, the best way to consume crackers is to toss them all over the floor, but eat sparingly.
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chaz2b, Holly is Happy, Bee and 47 other people liked this
These were supposed to be my Cheez-Its. But Sarah decided they should be in her mouth or in the carpet instead.
- Louis Gray
I not only agree with Sarah's method, but I'm also a cheez it tosser myself.
- drew olanoff
It's not as fun to eat them unless you're surrounded by them!
- Tamara
It only gets better from here:) Are they walking yet?
- Michael Fidler
Drew, Ken and Tamara, you have good taste. Michael, they both stand. Matthew took 4 steps in a row today, but it still makes him nervous. Sarah has taken one or two in a row. We don't believe it counts until there is video, and you'll get it here first.
- Louis Gray
tap...tap...tap...we're waiting for that video!
- Anne Bouey
They're steps in the right direction. I'm looking forward to the video.
- Michael Fidler
I'm with Sarah. I like to do this kind of thing myself. Like squeezing all the toothpaste out of a giant sized tube or getting a new box of Kleenix and pulling them all out one by one. Maybe I should go buy some Cheez-Its. Naw, it'd have to be Cheese Nips. Cheez-Its are too good to waste.
- Dawn
Now reshared to http://www.thegrayeffect.com/2009...
- Louis Gray
Yup. That sounds about right. The old tried and true floor food consuming method. Both our kids mastered it. Luckily, they have moved on passed sofa food and straight on to carry it wherever I go food.
- Paul Puri
why not when so young don't have the limits :) To just have fun while you can, nice set of pictures.
- Ubuntu101
This technique also works well with rice.
- Bernie Goldbach
Cute. Babies take the philosophy: "What's yours is mine. What's mine is mine. What's not yet yours is mine. There. Got it?"
- Rick Cogley
Next step, Legos
- Bwana ☠
I really like the last one. She reminds me of John Malkovich there.
- Akiva
Oh to be young again....shear bliss and not a care in the world.
- Bill Masson
Lawson, you mean "what's yours is mine" or "not a care in the world" or, erhm, both?!
- Rick Cogley
Tweet From the Terminal in Linux - http://helpforlinux.blogspot.com/2009...
Ubuntu101 liked this
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." Albert Einstein #quote
Sherri S Joubert, Ubuntu101, M F and Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa liked this
Good Quote - From an amazing person, thanks for sharing, and was that via @thewebchild ?
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
from IM
Not a good attitude for a scientist to have :)
- Mo Kargas
if it is not good for a scientist to have that view then if all theories were just taken as fact and not tested, modified and updated then it would always result the same, seems to me that is the view of an Open Minded Scientist who keeps seeking something different, to make something happen otherwise thought not possible.
- Ubuntu101
from IM
Who said anything about accepting theory as fact? You don't change the facts, you change the theory
- Mo Kargas
Indeed the point was to simply keep an open mind to not take a theory at face value, not so much as to consider a theory as facts.
- Ubuntu101
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, All Things Google, TheNextWeb Forum, building43, RWW: The Future of Tech
Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 3: Finding a place for more tabs | Software News - Betanews - http://www.betanews.com/article...
Amin, Diego Espinoza V., Gil Francisco III and Ubuntu101 liked this
"Neither Chrome nor Firefox pioneered the art of tabbed browsing, though Firefox made it popular first. Can Google seize upon this feature and make it its own?"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
One of our own in the industry, @georgebounacos is cochair of StepOut for Diabetes & needs more sponsors for the walk. http://main.diabetes.org/site...
Ubuntu101 liked this
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed now 6x more awesomer with themes - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Paul Wirtz, eric, Mona Nomura and 100 other people liked this
Grats on launching themes! Do you guys go out for a 4-martini lunch now?
- Stephen Mack
w00t!
- ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
awesome guys! nice work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Those are great! Nice work :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I just subscribed, and kept asking myself ?how could I have missed it? I thought all graphic enhancements so far were for Firefox only. Apparently, however, I didn't miss it by more than 2 minutes! Thanks.
- ianf ⌘
Woooooo hooooooo!!!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
=)
- Micah
Excellent work, we also need a theme that is time or weather dependent ala GMail Tree theme
- Shakeel Mahate
more themes would be awesome, i know it's on the way along with custom themes. what happens to the greasemonkey themes?
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
YAYAYAY, SO MUCH PRETTIER!
- Georgia
I don't have to hide my butterflies anymore! *does happy dance*
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yayay! I love Helvetica. Thank you Kevin and FF team!
- EricaJoy
awesome. Using the bamboo one now. We need a neon one next.
- Thomas Hawk
*waiting for Kol to appear with an ear-to-ear grin*
- chrisofspades
chrisofspades, he is doing so in the themes room.
- Rachel Lea Fox
haha thanks Rachel
- chrisofspades
Good work, Kevin. Long anticipated, and looks sharp.
- Louis Gray
These themes are fantastic. My favorites are Fresh and Helvetica.
- Jamie Divine
i went with butterfly corner...because it makes me feel like pretty little butterfly...tee hee!
- Cass
Me likey!
- Paul Wilcox
Helvetica is www perfection
- Christopher Galtenberg
Chris, you mean :-D ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Helvetica FTW!
- Tom Horn
I am not, Adrian.
- Fleagle
@Bryan It could have been like Orkut, right?? Where you see the user-selected theme on his/her profile page.
- Abhishek
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Mitchell Tsai, Jim Braux-Zin and 120 other people liked this
How did you get Kevin to agree on tags?
- Shakeel Mahate
Maybe a little too twittery but I like it! An easy way to quickly share searches. I would like to see it somehow encompass multiple word searches though.
- Brandon Titus
Good point. I'll add comments later today.
- Paul Buchheit
awesome!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
what about multiple word queries?
- Frankie Warren
Sneaky!
- FFing Enigma
See! Paul is _SO GOOD_ he just says... "I'll do it later today". Well done, sir.
- Louis Gray
so can we get a combo on the search. .search only "comments" {y/n}; "tag" (y/n") ; "title" {y/n} ? In that manner we can SearchRT in various methods of text in and byitself.. !
- Peter Dawson
AWESOME!
- iTbay
fine new feature. congrats.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
it's getting better and better by the minute. Thanks Paul. Well done
- zsafwan
Excellent feature! But seems like hashtag linkifying works only for FF posts, not imported content... Though maybe it's better this way =)
- Anton
Is there any control / logic / params / api to tweak the sort order for real time results?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Now I'm crying
- Bwana ☠
I noticed that earlier - didn't realize it was new. Awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Friendfeed does not need that IMO
- stanjourdan
Somewhat confusing - some # tags go to FF some go to Twitter.
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian: tags that go to Twitter are posted from Twitter
- LouCypher
so will imported tweets containing hashtags link to twitter search or friendfeed search? in the past I think they linked to twitter
- chrisofspades
LouCypher - yes and I block Twitter (but it does still show up in real time searches/filters) -- that combined with the fact that it is not easy at a glance to identify the source of the posts makes it confusing.
- Brian Sullivan
linkifying?
- Charlie Anzman
I thought I was done with hashtags after leaving twitter. Ugh
- Rodfather
Great add on the comments Paul. Native hashtags + Twitter hashtags. Awesome.
- Hutch Carpenter
Sweet.
- Shey
Very nice.
- Micah
O.K. I'm impressed. So much for the theory that you guys are releasing things slowly. I think you completely destroyed that today. Nice work!
- Michael Fidler
Cool! So: what are the most popular #tags? The most popular #tags recently? Perhaps http://www.ffholic.com/ will get on that...
- Tim Tyler
Shouldn't we be able to tag posts directly - without using a comment to do so? Comment - Like - Share - Hide - Tags? "Tags" should show you existing comment tags - and allow the adding of new ones.
- Tim Tyler
I'm with Tim. Genuine tagging would be a Good Thing.
- Chris Lasher
I'd love 'real' tags, but do I see the utility of leveraging hashtags, especially w/ all the tweets that come into FF. If they linkified twitter hashtags, and then also built their own tags system, it'd a) be more work for little more reward, and b) be confusing for some users, as there would effectively be two tag systems in FF. Lesser evil, and all that. *grin*
- Ken Kennedy
Brilliant! What happens to tags in tweets? Weren't they linked to Twitter searches?
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, given that hashtags in tweets link to Twitter Search, hashtags in other types of content should link to FriendFeed search, but WITHOUT the hash sign in the search term. But I agree that "real" FF tags would be even better. Maybe when you type a hashtag, it could get automatically converted into a real tag?
- Grey Drane
Really great improvement guys! It would be i nice feature to see the most popular tags. #improvement
- Jan Friman
Congrats on this awesome new feature Paul but what about #hashtags with hyphens? For example: #real-time only linkifies #real. :(Twitter has the same dilemma)
- Garin Kilpatrick
10 People To Follow On FriendFeed For June 2009 - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Craig Deakin, Mitchell Tsai, Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) and 82 other people liked this
Highlighted are: 1) Layne Heiney http://friendfeed.com/lph 2) Alex Scoble http://friendfeed.com/itblogg... 3) Trish Robinson http://friendfeed.com/trishro... 4) Paul Buchheit http://friendfeed.com/paul 5) Shey Smith http://friendfeed.com/shey 6) Adam Helweh http://friendfeed.com/secrets... 7) Mary Ann Chick Whiteside http://friendfeed.com/mcwflint 8) Bwana McCall http://friendfeed.com/bwana 9) Rob Michael http://friendfeed.com/atmostr... 10) Rahsheen Porter http://friendfeed.com/rahsheen
- Louis Gray
Hey -- P is going to be so excited to see the list.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from BuddyFeed
Hey I know those people!
- Derrick
All great!
- Martha
I think there should be an international investigation into the fact Rahsheen wasn't included until now. :) I always assumed he had been, and that oversight has been rectified.
- Louis Gray
nice batch of folks... :)
- Nathan Chase
You know the month is nearly over when this list comes out. Well done. Keep em coming ... one day ....
- Amani
Sorry I am perpetually late, Amani. It's all I can do to meet the deadline. These aren't cheap two paragraph posts! :)
- Louis Gray
Great list. I'm only missing two here! :: adding ::
- Jorge Escobar
I thought I was subscribed to everyone because I see their posts all the time, bu that's because they're liked frequently.
- Heather
Woooo! I made the cut!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Wow-thanks for the inclusion Louis! That caught me totally off-guard.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
And sad to say that Louis description about me is pretty much spot on. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh, except on MOST days I'm more active here than my brother. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I love that you do this!!! You are awesome Louis. :) Sitting on this list is like being on a REAL SUL! I liked being on it myself (plug, plug) ;-)
- Sheryl
Love the "Abs of Rah" shoutout :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Excellent list. I see two new people (to me)
- Josh Haley
How were Bwana, Alex, Rah and Shey never on the list? Seriously, how did we all miss those?
- Rob Diana
Ubiquitously awesome FFers always get overlooked. It's the "I can't believe I wasn't already subscribed to _____" effect.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Great list, and not just because I'm on it :)
- Shey
That is indeed a good list. If you are into FF, you already have these folks on your list.
- Bryan R. Adams
Great list - i was surprised these great folks weren't already on the previous lists! *scratches head*
- Susan Beebe
+100 Shey -- oh, and it IS great cuz YOU are ON the list - very cool and so well deserved :)
- Susan Beebe
Great list!
- Spencer
been following lph, bwana, and paul for a while for their tech insight, recently started following alex & rasheen for their interesting comments, thanks for giving us more interesting people to check out on this list :)
- Mike Chelen
Awesome list this month! Everyone there was already on my radar except for MaryAnn - going to check that out right now!
- Laura Norvig
I think I need to give Louis a break next month. Actually Rasheen and Shey were listed way back on the September list, I strayed off the pack that month and profiled 20 people. http://michaelfruchter.com/blog... Outstanding list this month otherwise, great job Louis!
- Mike Fruchter
What a surprise to come home to! Thanks!
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
from iPhone
Darn it Mike, how did I miss that one? Grr.
- Louis Gray
i was 1/10 on this list. and i listen to everything Louis says, so hello to the 9 of you :)
- Jim Halligan @jim
Another great list!
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the List. Its awesome
- Michael_techie
Zoey says: This morning in kitten school I learned to pounce, started working on playing in small open areas and I actually took a chance and snuck up on Miss Indiana and swatted at her tail. She didn't seem happy, but Rachel and Kevin loved it. Maybe I'll try it again soon... #zoeyfosterkitten #foxfosterkittens
George S., Morton Fox, p7崽 and 34 other people liked this
Best cat close-up (almost said "macro" but realize now that means something different online) evah!
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, this is with my iphone even. I think it is using the macro function on the phone. It's from this set of iphone shots I took yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/phoenix...
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh boy I see another spoiled kitty! (I have three) She's precious :)
- BEX
Ah, thanks Rachel, I missed that post from yesterday. All five pics do look good. (How many total did you take to select those 5-best?)
- Stephen Mack
BEX, little zoey is our foster kitten, spoiled kitty in training for someone else's home. She is very timid and needs lots of training as her rough life beginning has set her back a little. but she is doing great and loving lap cat life. We have two very spoiled kitties of our own and then the random slew of kittens that pass through. In my next life I want to be a spoiled house cat - really really spoiled like mine are!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Stephen, It looks like I had take about 27 at the time that I shared those ones, plus a few of Indiana. A few had some motion blur that I didn't like but when I was posting I was disappointed that I couldn't share more than 5, I really wanted to share 9.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Adorable. So present in the eyes. Great shot!
- Fossil Huntress
I get so excited about zoey doing the littlest things: like instigating her own playing or getting off the couch to go to her condo with her food and litter to eat or whatever and then coming back to the couch and not hiding in her bed, or being interested in what the big kitties are doing rather than just cowering. She is really a very different kitten than she was when she got here. She still has a long way to go, but she is making progress!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Anyone in the bay area, Zoey will be up for adoption, next week most likely (she is our foster kitten). She is looking for a home with no kids (at least for a year or so) and no dogs. Other cats will take adjustment but will be fine.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I've thought it would be great to be foster mom to cats or dogs, but I would seriously not be able to resist keeping every single one.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, the only way to resist is know that if you keep them all, that you can't keep fostering. And then how do you get all the adorable kitteny goodness?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Aaaawww how true! You must be very strong! I would cry and cry and cry if I had to give one up!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Oh I cry every single time. But it's worth it. I love having them all so much, when I don't have them I'm longing for them. And I know they are off to fabulous new homes because we helped them.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'd take her if I were up there.
- Patricia
This is so true - it is helping them... I'll have to consider this!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Here pussy, pussy - thefrogman.me "thefrogumblelog" - O HAI!! - http://thefrogman.me/post...
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Looks like Claes Oldenburg.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Is there such a thing as a "Usual Burger Bed"?
- Andy Roth
Andy: where do you think Mayor McCheese sleeps?
- Gabe
This just made me really hungry.
- Michael McKean
FriendFeed Blog: You can now share files on FriendFeed - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
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"To share files on friendfeed.com, simply click the "Files" link underneath the post box and select which files you want to include. You can also share files by including them as attachments on emails sent to share@friendfeed.com."
- Bret Taylor
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That's the new hawtness!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
wow
- michael sean wright
whoa!
- vijay
SEKRIT PLANZ! MWA HA HA HA
- Josh Haley
Excellent news, thank you Bret and guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
the game just changed
- chrisofspades
Haha! Nice...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
nice
- endiaferon
This feature will help with using FF solely as a email mailing list.
- Kol Tregaskes
Now we just need page branding and some enterprise integration, and we can replace Sharepoint...
- sean andersen
Plus as a mail client too (kinda of anyway). I will have to get auto-forwarding my emails to my ff.com address again.
- Kol Tregaskes
yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes. i'm trying to be coherent but that's all that's coming up. Thanks... whats the file size limit?
- Frankie Warren
this has awesomesauce all over it
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
is video an option?
- Zee.
We have a rolling 24-hour limit for the number and size of files you can upload, but you probably shouldn't hit it unless you are sharing really big stuff.
- Bret Taylor
Are the files public when accessed via direct link? Or do they require authentication?
- Mark Trapp
No video at the moment, Zee.
- Ross Miller
Bret, will this work for attachments sent to share@friendfeed.com?
- chrisofspades
So tell me, how will you send email verification emails to new users when FF has successfully replaced email? </paradox>
- nickrw
nice!
- Mike Bracco
So, no BluRay rips, then :p
- Josh Haley
Mark: right now they are public when access via direct link (though the links are not at all predictable).
- Bret Taylor
Yes, file attachments to share@friendfeed.com work as you would expect.
- Bret Taylor
Very Nice
- Brent - Yes I am
Bret - is music an option?
- Zee.
WIN
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Any other files that don't work with it?
- Kol Tregaskes
What's the file attachment size limit?
- imabonehead
Kol: i assume you can attach video? it just won't play in-line? or did i misinterpret that?
- Frankie Warren
@imabonehead, from Bret's comment above: "We have a rolling 24-hour limit for the number and size of files you can upload, but you probably shouldn't hit it unless you are sharing really big stuff."
- Dan Hsiao
@Dan, thx
- imabonehead
Liked Liked Liked (*99999) "You can now share files on FriendFeed" This is.. GREAT!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Frankie, video attachments aren't currently supported
- Dan Hsiao
Frankie, Ross says no to video, see above.
- Kol Tregaskes
MP3s?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol: there is a stricter limit on audio files (3 per day).
- Bret Taylor
OK, but any format?
- Kol Tregaskes
I tried it with both a txt and a rar file but neither seemed to work (the message was posted without a file attached). [Update: works now for me]
- Philipp Lenssen
Gonna give a big W00T!! to this before I even read the whole thing...
- FFing Enigma
LOL, Tina.
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Perhaps we need a list of file types (and their limits) that are supported?
- Kol Tregaskes
Tina++, Holy Crap! :)
- Rah-PM 2012
music files work! awesome! example here http://friendfeed.com/fredyga...
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Bret: What about attachments to comments?
- sean andersen
Swwwweeeettttt!!!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Now all I need is a number where I can call and leave a VM that gets changed into an audio file, and I can get rid of drop.io for good! Yeah, we're never happy are we? Sorry....
- FFing Enigma
Greatissimo :)
- stanjourdan
Bret, does animated GIFs now work btw?
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the clarification on video :) how long will the files stay on the server?
- Frankie Warren
Tina - Perhaps if we leave a VM for the FriendFeed IM bot on Google Talk? That would rock.
- Mitch
Can we paste URLs into the box like we can for images?
- Kol Tregaskes
Seriously, guys, when and where do we start donating?
- Akiva
I'd prefer buying private shares, Akiva. :)
- Carlos Ayala
I think you can support them by buying the FF swags.
- imabonehead
and sharing from URLs works! - http://ff.im/4o1RY
- chrisofspades
NIIIIIIIIIIICE
- Pedram
Pair this w/ a private room and you have instant office and/or project collaboration. Drop.io may have some competition. :)
- JA Castillo
JA, agree.
- Kol Tregaskes
Chris, cool. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
All we need now is a calendaring system and support for source code.
- imabonehead
mp3 sharing works in FriendFeed? Just when I'm thinking to share some 'musiclets' from time to time via Tumblr! mhh.. interesting, really!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Thierry, yep MP3s are supported.
- Kol Tregaskes
this is awesome, i was literally just trying to do this last night on one of our team feeds and had to post links to published google docs instead. going to try it out now. it's like they read my mind.
- Mike Elliott
Kol...we use Drop.io all the time here at my office. This would be great as it is supremely simpler. But approved file types and sizes needs to be understood.
- JA Castillo
Mitch, that would be an option, but I can only imagine the opportunity for the wrong voice file to go to the wronge feed...
- FFing Enigma
And Akiva is right...where do we start donating?!
- JA Castillo
If we had basic HTML support for first comments on FF, it could almost be used for mail (at least for forwarding and reading mail to and on it).
- Kol Tregaskes
JA, a list of supported file types, limits and sizes is needed... please. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cool stuff
- Tyson Key
Any limits on the number of times a file can be downloaded, per day, out of interest?
- Tyson Key
Reminds me of Pownce :) Great addition!
- Holger Eilhard
NaFFster! :)
- JCunwired
Does this mean that the days are numbered for various Pownce clones and Jaiku? Facebook, start your photocopiers! ;)
- Tyson Key
this is GREAT!
- Cee Bee
Now cue Facebook adding this feature in 3.. 2.. 1..
- Daniel Sims
Yay! Friendfeed is yet another step closer to complete emulation of IRC :)
- Victor Ganata
Hey Bret, are these virus-checked?
- Jordan Hofker
@Jordan - good question
- andy brudtkuhl
Jordan, good shout.
- Kol Tregaskes
The moment I read this I updated my AV program.
- JCunwired
Are the shared files located in the enclosure tag of the feed? And can we filter feeds by enclosure type?
- Cliff Gerrish
Jordan- yes, we virus scan them.
- Casey Muller
Cool, Casey. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome, thanks Casey.
- Jordan Hofker
Cliff- only media files (images and audio) are included in feeds at this time.
- Casey Muller
Haha, Victor. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Uh, question two: how long before one of the **AA's gets all pissy? That would be sad. Is there a size limit?
- Jordan Hofker
search by file type?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Jason, good shout.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jordan - what is **AA's ??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
This will go a long way in convincing some of my Yahoo Groups to move to FF. Although we must have a list of file types supported, retention times and also if there is a max number of d/l's.
- Gil Francisco III
Gil, I'm seriously considering moving my Y!Groups list members from there to FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is one of those features that people don't complain about even though they didn't ask the community prior to launching ;)
- Frankie Warren
Dare I ask about Boobies.jpg.virus.exe? - Oops Casey says they are virus scanned
- Richard Walker
Jannifer: RIAA and MPAA, specifically. Say someone shares a copyrighted song or something...RIAA gets cranky.
- Jordan Hofker
Am I the only person that thinks this is an incredibly bad idea?
- Jason Nunnelley
How about .zip s that are password-protected? Reject I hope... (edit) .zip not supported at all, I gather, good!
- Richard Walker
yeah search by filetype absolutely! filetype:pdf, filetype:mp3, filetype:zip, filetype:doc etc.
- Nathan Chase
Christoper: (via Bret) "Unfortunately we only can play back MP3s at this point. The iPhone voice memos are in M4A (AAC), so we really want to support them, but it is a bit more difficult with Flash and our media setup at the moment."
- Ross Miller
\m/
- metalerik
abi allah tuttuğunuzu altın etsin **love**
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
This is nice! Very nice!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Yippie-kai-yay :))))
- A. T.
NICE!!! Been waiting for this... thanks FriendFeed team!
- AJ Batac :)
Cool! FF is becoming more of a platform of choice for me. Thanks guys :)
- Dilip Dand
I'm not sure that I'm going to use that feature (I rarely share docs over the internet that weren't created in Zoho or GDocs, anyway), but still it looks pretty neato.
- Miss Elle
Bret, do you have any restrictions to protect against music filesharers etc so you do not become an RIAA target?
- travispuk
@ Travis: I was just wondering the same.
- Brian Chang
Bret Taylor, a friend of mine uploaded 1 mp3 and it disappeared. Now he can't upload any mp3 file, seeing a [The "" file type is not supported]. Broken message?
- Jason Nunnelley
seriously useful.
- Calvin Ayre
I haven't tested this but, how exactly are you determining audio file types, just using the file extension. If so there is a work around with a simple file rename, an example would be if you change an .mp3 to a .pdf and let people rename it once it becomes local on their machine. EDIT: This workaround would also allow video to be transferred.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Maybe I don't know enough, but doesn't this kind of open the door to slipping malicious code to unsuspecting users?
- Fleagle
this is the best thing I know this morning when I open my eyes, well done!
- K.D.
that is AWESOME!
- Lindsay
Fleagle: It is possible that someone would do that but FriendFeed is fairly well self monitored. It is still a small group of people in comparison to other networks.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Glad for this feature, though perhaps close partnership with Box.net or similar could keep FF storage costs better contained? Not criticizing, just hoping Core Team doesn't get distracted by extending (and babysitting) commodity services. Keep up the great work!
- michael silverton
Kudos on the added features!
- Eric
可以分享文件，friendfeed更好用了。
- 老巫
哇塞，这个强的。 I like it.
- xia
Wow. Just wow. Thanks.
- Laura Norvig
Tell us more. Tell us EVERYTHING about the file "FF secret plans.pdf" shown in the blogpost <http://friendfeed-media.com/0fe9b6e...>.
- ianf ⌘
Oh, very awesome!
- Scott Magdalein
It's *machine code*.
- Karl Knechtel
Karl: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
- Chris Charabaruk
So we can setup private groups and share questionable files ? :)
- Ahsan Ali
That's pretty much what I was saying, Ahsan. I did one earlier as a test to prove my point, (NOTE: it is a clean file, direct from Revision 3) at http://friendfeed.com/jimminy...
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
"Rapidshare Fined $34 Million for Copyright Infringement" (http://mashable.com/2009...)
- Özkan Altuner
Hmmm @Ryo, good catch, posting directly from Android to FF your voice messages, would be cool!
- Özkan Altuner
Can we tell the lawyers that they "won" and give them all the money? Then start over with a new set of I.P. laws and a new currency? Pretty please?
- Richard Walker
Must you force downloads on HTML files?
- Vezquex
This is great. I'll try this instead of posting to Ipernity.
- Rick Cogley
Seems like a good step in the right direction indeed the concerns are founded based on previous experiences but it is a good start.
- Ubuntu101
Is it possible to set it up as part of the feed like a podcast?
- Ubuntu101
Excellento - inline playing of mp3 files at last - this will be dangerous. But is there are limit??
- Chris Loft
embedding mp3's is just fine when it works .. I've been trying to get a podcast rss feed I have setup imported for the past 8 hours straight only to find out that each time it's not importing squat.
- John Blanton
from twhirl
I take that back it worked once but everything in the description tags showed up twice.
- John Blanton
from twhirl
:( Apparently not *.pdn files (Paint.Net)
- Vezquex
Thx! FF continues to rock :)
- Krishnamoorthy
why the limit on audio files?
- Tyler Gillies
Can us folks with Symbian OS-based devices have some Adaptive Multi-Rate codec/AMR file love, too? I believe that some Samsung and NEC phones also use that audio file format...
- Tyson Key
Oh, and Google Earth KML files, and Ogg Vorbis files aren't supported right now either, for what it's worth. Still, it's a nice idea, so far.
- Tyson Key
wow :)
- Mucio
I'm disappointed that the PDF of your secret plans is only 1.2 mb. Surely there's more?
- Dnl
anyone know the file size limit?
- Julian Seery Gude
My old Motorola Que made .3gp files too. Facebook can process them. You want to be at least as cool as Facebook, right?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!
- Micah
FYI Micah, it works with *.user.js files... you know what that means...
- Mitch
*happy dance* this is really innovative and highly useful...thanks FF :)
- Susan Beebe
oh heck yes
- Shey
Tried to share an .hta file with Micah yesterday....couldn't attach it. Tried to zip it and still couldn't attach it. Ended up tossing it in my dropbox and posting the link. :-(
- April
Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
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Huh. That's really interesting. It's one of those things you never think about because "it's just the way it's done", but when you think about it his points are entirely valid: password masking hurts usability and doesn't really provide any real security benefit. So why do we do it?
- Louis Simoneau
"More importantly, there's usually nobody looking over your shoulder when you log in to a website. It's just you, sitting all alone in your office, suffering reduced usability to protect against a non-issue." — umm, 'sitting all alone in your office'?! So Mr Nielsen never collaborates with one or more colleagues huddled around a computer screen, so it must be universally true. Good to know :D
- Micah
"Look away. I. Said. Look. Away—I'm type'n my password into a user friendly input....UH! STILL TYPING!"
- Micah
Yeah, the more I think about this, the more I think it's wrongheaded. We would never want an ATM machine, for example to not mask our PIN #. In the same vein, this is fine if you have a dedicated single user personal computer that is rarely shared or used for collaboration -- but many people use computers in shared environments: schools, libraries, airports, stores. That's not a good user experience for those users. It also isn't going to serve to give people the emotional sense that their data is safe.
- Jason Toney
Andy, exactly. Though I must say, just had a flashback to the Lotus Notes client (7 odd years ago anyway) password input - variable-length hieroglyphic icon grouping would appear as you type. That was just wrong, and I'll gladly sick useit.com all over that business. :D
- Micah
It's hard enough getting users to register for something -- imagine if we removed that sense of security (whether valid or not)
- Jason Toney
I'd like it if I could stop password masking, actually. I wouldn't turn it on in my open-plan office, but at home, I think it would be fine.
- Andrew C (✓)
Jason, amen. I'm all for challenging 'well we've always done it that way's, but this boggles my mind because it's going after the henchmen when there's so many usability super-villains out there.
- Micah
Andrew, what about: type password into username field, cut, paste into password field, type in username, done?
- Micah
Some overzealous sites (it's rare) actually prohibit pasting into password fields. That said, I have pretty good muscle memory - I cover the ATM pad completely; I can't even see the buttons, much less someone else - but Nielsen's right, password masking can be silly and doesn't add any security when there's no one around to shoulder-surf.
- Andrew C (✓)
true at home it really serves no purpose, and at the very least by seeing it in plain text you are more likely to remember it. But on the one hand it can be beneficial in a multiple user session, and setting that as a default for high security locations works well. That is as long as they are not one of those who use the same password everywhere.
- Ubuntu101
from IM
Hey, why not go a step further: a nice ajax call keypress by keypress validation: "p" ✔ "a" ✔ "s" ✔ "s" ✔ "w" ✔ "o" ✔ "r" ✔ "r" Opps, hack attempt detected, password was reset. Please validate by super secret email we just sent you. :D (and yes, I know about the bit strength fail inherent - it's a joke, ok :)
- Micah
O, yes, Shades of "Sneakers" getting a password while using hi-res surveillance cameras trained on the keyboard. No, no! "Listen fellas, you don't need his password. The little black box is next to the...." lol
- Melanie Reed
Well, I do respect Jakob and his crusade for users. And I am being forthwrite when I say the whole approach to security which places the burden on the user is..., dare I say it? Can it be insane?" (with apologies to Rhett Butler's proposal to Scarlett). There's got to be a better way. I'm not saying I know what the "better way" is but the burden needs to be removed. Who of us hasn't...
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- Melanie Reed
One of the nice things about the iPhone: the password character remains unmasked for a moment. [This is very impt when people are learning the feel of that keyboard!] And Apple's wifi login has the option of showing the entire password unmasked. I like both of these alternatives to the traditional full-masked password.
- Kathy E Gill
OpenID with cert auth. One password to rule them all... Frigging annoying that you can't comment on his site...
- Marlin Forbes
Or even better, install KeePass or RoboForms, you never need to know a site's password again. Only the master password.
- Marlin Forbes
a Friend's husband provides some history (this comment was posted on my facebook page): "thanks to the hubby for the info: The original reason for masking passwords was because CRT monitors with analog connections like EGA or VGA would give off radio noise (as all electronics do), which could be reconstituted with special equipment. With digital connections like DVI (and even more to...
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