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Bret Taylor
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++!
Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox
Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah
Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen
Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;) - alieb from iPhone
Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray
Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox
so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler
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... more... - 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
Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck
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
you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats - Özkan Altuner
Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds
gratz Ben! - timepilot
Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie
So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage
Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting. - Ken Sheppardson
Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven
Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex
I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck
Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox
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
OH HAI! - Eric
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
Paul Buchheit
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.
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Will "my network and friends" work too? - JA Castillo
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
Thanks! - georgeker
Thank you ! - Joan Dossetto
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
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either. - MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden. - holly #ravingfangirl
I spent like half an hour last week trying to find my custom feed URL so I could import FB status into FriendFeed. No luck. =( - Darren
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =) - Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all? - MikeAmundsen
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :) - Charley M
FB status is gone! - Lonnie Robinson
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
does not work - Valdas A.
as for 2010-04-30 - Valdas A.
Brett Slatkin
Google App Engine Blog: App Engine SDK 1.3.1, Including Major Improvements to Datastore! - http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010...
Huge release of new, needed features from our team! - Brett Slatkin
Dion Almaer
RT @sayrer: I can't stand Java anymore, but in a previous life, IDEA made it bearable. So I will be checking this out: http://www.jetbrains.net/conflue...
Gabe
How to view someones IP address and connection speed! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
How to view someones IP address and connection speed!
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Wow...just wow. - Gabe from Bookmarklet
Oh my .. I'm subscribing!!11 - Burcu Dogan
The entire internet will implode once this gets out :) - Private Sanjeev
hehe - shâhin
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
Oh no, poor guy - Shey
ohh *cringe* - Jay
"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
nadim: who's WRS? - 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... more... - Gabe
It's been ported to Linux! http://ff.im/feMUT - Gabe
Gabe: WRS= W. Richard Stevens, I think - Sam Harmon
"h t t p semicolon" ...don't quit your day job, kid - Tinfoil 2.0 from iPhone
You have to be a HP Owner to do it. - Ozgur Demir
Thanks Gabe, I just didnt get the satire in this thread, I suppose. I thought others were saying the kid was right... - TrafficBug
:) - Serpico
Sebastian Kanthak
Tom Stocky
Sergey's trip to Haiti - http://too.blogspot.com/2010...
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
John Resig
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-... Full release notes/blog post early tomorrow, flying to D.C. to meet the team and launch!
And we'll get the 1.4 version of jquery up on the Google CDN shortly. - DeWitt Clinton
Just heard back from John on one thing (needed to clarify version naming), up soon. - DeWitt Clinton
Live now: http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax... and http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax.... Docs and the loader will be up in a minute as well. - DeWitt Clinton
Brett Slatkin
Official Google Blog: A new approach to China - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010...
Important. - Brett Slatkin
Wow. I'm almost speechless. - Nick Lothian
Yeah. Me too. - Roberto Bonini
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
Bret Taylor
Happy New Year!
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That was cute! - Anika
Cute, but is there an off button? - Rochelle
#اردک Just kill duck ! :D - Armin™ 3.0
Happy New Year Bret - just ZONED
Quack! - Louis Gray
Alpha can compute 2010! : http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...! It's a big number. - Amit Patel
Oh I try so hard to capture this duckie with the bookmarklet but failed. Thanks for posting this :D - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I shot the sheriff!! and he died :) haha love the duck!! :D - Susan Beebe
Happy New Year, Bret! I'll be thinking of you and Karen all night! - Anne Bouey
nice idea :) Happy new year everyone ! - stanjourdan
I dare you to put it on Facebook. - Bruce Lewis
Loved it, happy new year to all the FriendFeed team - Jorge Escobar
Happy New Year, team :) - Micah
هپی نیو یٍر برت :دی - uɐſʃɐʌ uɐſ
Happy New Year! - Ruchira S. Datta
why we kill ducks for new year ;) happy new years everybody - alperyz
hahahaha ;) thanks!!! - A. T.
super :) - Umut Çetinkaya
Happy New Year Friendfeeders! : D - Friendfeed's Francisco
You too ! - ★ Soner Gönül
(((: - yasin ghasemi
I killed a duck ! Is this your new year present ? - mcd
Happy New Year and may it be the best for you, your family and friends bring you the most and best! - Tom Awtry
why don't you make it 1 session??? this shit made me nervous! - Şenay Şen
It made me smile ;) Happy new year Bret:) - Shandiz
Happy New Year and may it be the best for you, your family and friends bring you the most and best! - Tom Awtry
But I swear it was in self defence http://ff.im/dDI6y - mcd
Bonne Année, tout le monde! - John Craft
at first it was cute, but it becomes annoying :) - Sertac
this is the little tyke that runs across my screen today when i am on here lol .. happy new year!! - Tatty Gibson
adamlar ne pozitif yahu, huysuzluğu hep biz yapıyoruz - mcd
we don't like the duck bret :) - Sinem Co
cool duck! happy new year. - Carolyn Chan
من هم با تير زدمش! تا حالا دو تا ... - ممد نبودی ببینی!
I'm shooting! I knocked up two ... - ممد نبودی ببینی!
Bret, Turkish people say they liked the duck and they absolutely want more. Maybe a female version of it. - mcd
please remove it, bret. at least, get a limit. - Yalçın Erdemir
Bret, I want DarkWing Duck, that would be the best of all. - mcd
please remove it :) - Stefigno
Happy NY to everybody ;) - alfred westerveld
we dont want to shot it , but its gone be so annoyin - sunipeyk
Ya bu ne elitistlik anlamadım ki, ne istediniz garibim ördekten, buradan hepinizi kınıyorum !! - mcd
Hi, Happy New Year - AɖoɱidƏ
Happy New Year to you too :) .. wish you the best and most fruitfull year - Medad Rangi
it's not funny :) - vincenzo
happy new year but please remove the duck! - Alessandra Farabegoli
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
We don't want to see duck.Please, stop this! - Halit Altunterim
Duck Hunt 2010: The Quackening - Michael R. Bernstein
Happy New Year!!! - Sheila Taylor
duck bu değil arkadaş! - Fikret
happy new year ;) - Shinil
Bret, Stop this massacre :) - alperyz
if you have firefox and AdBlock, you can get rid of the damn duck blocking http://friendfeed.com/static... - LaMucci
saw it once... was i not supposed to shoot the duck? - Chris Heath
Oh no, Chris, you shot it!?! Now we have to start over. - Bruce Lewis
Happy New Year - echostreamer
Happy New Year - victed from iPhone
I WANT THE DUCKY BACK !! HOW COULD YOU LET HIM DIE, BRET ? HOW COULD YOU ?? !!!11!!!!!!1!!! - mcd
Happy New Year, Daddy. Congrats on the beautiful baby. - amelia arapoff
Happy New Year and congratz on the new baby! - Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Kevin Fox
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd - http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd...
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
Holy smokes that's pretty. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet
Wow, that's awesome - Neal Krummell
"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
Keith Coleman
Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts
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This makes Gmail contacts sync (e.g. to phone) work way better. - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet
I can't believe how many duplicates I had. At least 80 people with 2-20 duplicates each! - Kevin Fox
Worked great - Benjamin Golub
This is super great! Waited for this for long time. - Bryan Tsai
Been wanting this forever... thanks! (121 dupes found. Merged. Tried again. Found 1 more dupe...) - Dan Hsiao
YES. Thank Og! - ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
Yes -very much needed - near 1500 dupes here - Jesse Stay
Joel Webber
#GWT 2.0 finally shipped. Tired but happy.
GWT foreva! You never forget your first...eng team that is. - EricaJoy
Bret Taylor
A clock made out of browser scrollbars - http://toki-woki.net/p...
superb! - Ashish
That's awesome but completely locked up my iPhone. I should've known better than to try it in a browser without scrollbars... - Tony Ruscoe
Matt Cutts
If you're a web developer, you'll want to check out the new Closure web tools that Google released: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Very impressive. My first test of Closure here: http://u.go2.me/3WK - Mike Koss
Bret Taylor
Yes, indeed. - Özkan Altuner
"Why would anyone join Google now? Search is DONE." <-- me in 2002. (I joined Google 3 years later) - Tudor Bosman
just googled it. nice site. - Mike Nencetti
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
COOKIE! - Joel Webber
nomnomnomnom - Ruchira S. Datta
Just show me the way of eating a cookie, monster! - Özkan Altuner
Bret Taylor
Watching the Oregon - USC game. The Ducks look pretty awesome so far.
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
Scott Ludwig
ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick's Blog - http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick...
Simon
Where there's a will there's a row | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/world...
"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
Oh my, that's crazy. - Amit Patel
"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... more... - 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
Brett Slatkin
Improved Bash History - http://langui.sh/2009...
In the beginning was the Bourne shell. "No no no, you've got to do better than that." - Daniel Dulitz from iPhone
Matt Cutts
Anyone notice the Halloween easter egg in Google's robots.txt file? http://www.google.com/robots...
Benjamin Golub
Very disappointed with Sprint - http://www.benjamingolub.com/e...
That's unfortunate. - Anne Bouey
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
Nice Gary, thanks for the link. - Benjamin Golub
Ivan Kirigin
Is that real? - Paul Buchheit
It's funny - but there are a lot of these - http://gov.ca.gov/pdf... - Tim Tyler
Make sure you check out the second link in the original post, as well. - Eric Borisch
Bret Taylor
Use Google Voice with your existing number - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! - Piaw Na
Yay! - Shea from iPhone
What? Wow! - Anthony K. Valley © from iPhone
Still want to know when it will come to the UK though. - travispuk from iPhone
I like this very much. - Kevin Fox
"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
Sweeeeeeeeeet! - David Cook
How about using Google voice in Canada? - Shey from iPhone
Yeah, how about that? - Jan Ole Peek
Karen Wickre
Wonderful post by Sergey Brin on his journey to America, and his gratitude to those who helped along the way. http://too.blogspot.com/2009...
"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
Tom Stocky
The Science of Retweets on Twitter - http://www.briansolis.com/2009...
The Science of Retweets on Twitter
The Science of Retweets on Twitter
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"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
Louis Gray
Chrome Nears 5% Market Share - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
competition drives innovation. it's a cool browser, especially for netbooks - Sascha Pallenberg
Bret Taylor
April Buchheit
"But still, my blood runs Friendfeed Blue"
Thank you, Johnny. - April Buchheit from iPhone
:) - Josh Haley
Mine too April, glad to have an "inside source" say it though. Apparently, my FF Blue bleeds more than most though: http://ff.im/ag8yj - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
that may indicate oxygen deficiency - Mike Chelen
Dion Almaer
“IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition released! Free and open-source. http://www.jetbrains.org/display... cool!” awesome. If only they did this years back!
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