Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
is there an update to how I should get a link to "My Status" in FB? I saw a workaround that has you creating a friend list on someone else's account... but that can't really be how you do it right?
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
how's the ff/fb integration going paul? and thanks for the recent tech upgrades/fixes to ff!
- Chris Heath
Lol.. this kid is really good at making up stuff !
- Peter Dawson
That's just a traceroute routine, yes? Just the path of his machine to Google? *Edit - I'm slow. I get it now. :->
- Kurt Starnes
Gary: What you really learned is that this guy is on RoadRunner internet, and when he types in an invalid host name (like http://google.com), it resolves to 24.28.193.9, which is one of those redirector sites.
- Gabe
The comments make me feel bad for him. He's just a kid!
- Becca
He may be just a kid, but he's also a buttknocker.
- Gabe
This level of self confidence is as dangerous as weapons of mass destruction. I urge Mr. Bush to neutralize these hackerz.
- Berk D. Demir
Did you know you can't do this without an Internet connection?
- Rah-PM 2012
"Request timed out, my connection is not good as theirs" :)
- Ashish
he is obviously a comedic genius. @@
- Carlos Ayala
I dont understand, how can a tracert path be assumed to be 'some one else who is viewing google at the same time'? It is just a path of routers your packets are passing through before reaching their destination. Can someone enlighten me?
- TrafficBug
WRS is spinning in his grave somewhere. :(
- nadim
TrafficBug: if you didn't know what tracert actually does, you could assume it's anything, right?
- Gabe
Gabe, I know about tracert, i pronounce it as 'trace route' rather than as Tracer-T! BTW, my query is valid right? Tracert can only show the path your packets take via intermediate routers while they try to reach final destination. Right or wrong? How can these 'intermediate' routers be the IPs of other people trying to access the same website?
- TrafficBug
Sorry, TrafficBug, bug you're looking at it from the wrong point of view. Obviously as somebody who knows what "trace route" means there's no way to interpret the results as anything other than a list of intermediate routers. However this douchebag has only just discovered that if you type "tracert" followed by some web site you get a list of times and computer names along with IP...
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- Gabe
Worth reading -- it increased my understanding of what's happening in Haiti. He links to http://www.google.com/relief... which has a bunch of ways we can help, and also makes some suggestions for how aid efforts could be improved.
- Tom Stocky
They may be sacrificing business to Microsoft, Baidu, etc, but I applaud them for standing by their principles, if not practical reasons (Did the Chinese government recruit spies within Google China operations? Did they pay off hackers to steal info?) This might be giving up huge somes of money on principle, and I can't think of many corporations in recorded history doing this.
- Ray Cromwell
happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you
- vitzbank (aka claudio)
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla...
- Dedegi
"huh, for some reason I'm left with the thought of: microsoft's answer to the iMac crossed with a toaster oven (what is that dial for anyway?)" --Coworker
- Neal Krummell
I don't know, they might be able to go mainstream someday if they just change their goofy name and boring home page. They need a Flash intro or something.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
@Bruce, Flash intro would be nice, right. They have to use the web2.0 stuff, too.
- Özkan Altuner
So what are your thoughts on Cal and Stanford this year, Bret? Cal got toasted by both USC and Oregon, but has won elsewhere.
- Louis Gray
Louis: hopefully going to be a good game. Two great running backs, defenses that are inconsistent. It is really hard to predict given how inconsistent both teams have been, though.
- Bret Taylor
"In 26 out of 27 European Union countries, Mr Buffett’s plans [to leave most of his fortune to charity] would not just be shocking, but illegal. The exception is Britain."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
"In continental Europe a big part of an estate (often around half) is reserved for the surviving children of the deceased and must be equally divided between them. ... Finally, “clawback” laws in many countries stop parents from dodging forced heirship by giving assets away while they are still alive. This applies to gifts made in the last years of life (two years in Austria, ten in Germany), or much longer: in some countries, no time limit applies."
- Paul Buchheit
I bet the Europeans think it's crazy that we reserve half for the IRS :)
- Private Sanjeev
I thought only millionaires had to reserve half for the IRS.
- Gabe
As of 2009, it's 45% for estates valued at over $3.5MM, with exemptions for small businesses and farmers. It affects less than 1% of the US population at present. It's set to revert to $1M in 2011, but there's pretty much no chance that Congress will let that actually happen.
- Joel Webber
@Sanjeev: In Europe the inheritance tax rates vary, but can be similar to the US, and the exemption limits are often much lower: "[2007] France if you are inheriting from a spouse you receive up to €76,000 tax free. Anything above this limit is taxed at between 5 and 40 per cent, depending on the size of the gift. But the rate for non-relatives is a hefty 60 per cent, with no...
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- Simon
@Simon: Interesting -- I had no idea it was that high. It's also telling that, as the Economist article suggests, (continental) European law seems to strongly favor blood relatives (especially children) over the wishes of the deceased. I'm not sure which is preferable, but it's an interesting dichotomy.
- Joel Webber
I had a very similar problem with SprintPCS and I had been a customer for 7 years.
- matthew john ernisse
I wish Google Voice allowed transferring your existing cell number to them. Then calls would go straight there.. edit: Oh cool followed Gary's link and it'll come eventually.
- Rodfather
@Rodfather, you can set it up so that your phone redirects to your GV voicemail now, and some other stuff - http://www.google.com/support... (edit: doh, I read the blog post just now :P )
- mjc
"Note: Sprint is currently rolling out the ability to enable free call forwarding. Until that is completed, this feature may not work or you may be charged every time someone leaves a voicemail." I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
- Benjamin Golub
"It is impossible for me to overstate the opportunity this country has given me. In many ways, the fortune I have enjoyed with Google exemplifies the American dream, but to me that is just the tip of the iceberg. Reflecting upon my life, I have many basic freedoms that my parents did not -- the ability to pursue my interests in school and university, the choices in jobs, the freedom to live in the place of my choosing, and ultimately the ability to pursue my own enterprise."
- τorƍue
"You don’t spread ideas just because they are 'good;' you spread them because of some other trigger or set of triggers has been pulled in your brain. We can now compare millions of viral ideas to uncover the building blocks of contagiousness."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet