Vishal M

My app engine application which uses FriendFeed API to fetch discussions or posts around a URL - Vishal M

See blog.friendfeed.com/2008/09/find-activity-by-url-or-domain-with.html for API details - Vishal M

"New studies of the brain show that leaders can improve group performance by understanding the biology of empathy." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"How 5 Recent College Grads Used Facebook to Make Employers Want Them" - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?" - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

""And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?," Rehman asked, drawing friendly laughter from the room when she complimented Palin. "Oh, thank you," Palin said. Pakistan's recently-elected president, Asif Ali Zardari, entered the room seconds later. Palin rose to shake his hand, saying she was “honored” to meet him. Zardari then called her "gorgeous" and said: "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you." "You are so nice," Palin said, smiling. "Thank you." A handler from Zardari's entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras. "If he's insisting, I might hug," Zardari said. Palin smiled politely." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

Short of blocking a person, it's incredibly difficult to have them exert no influence in what gets put into your main feed, especially if they share a lot of the same subscriptions as you. - Mark Trapp

I think a 'Mute' function for each item would serve better though. - Vishal M

Vishal: the problem I have is that while I can just hide the stuff the person bumps out of hide, it requires an action by me to get rid of it. I'd rather it behave in a manner where it honors the rules I already specified in addition to only considering people I'm subscribed to for the purposes of evaluating those rules. Maybe there'd be another option: Hide everything like this entry unless it has likes or comments from people I'm subscribed to. That way it can be set globally and I don't have to manually evaluate and act upon the 50 recently played tracks that just appeared on my feed because someone I'm not even subscribed to decided to like them. - Mark Trapp

"One of the best-kept secrets of the rich is that being wealthy requires other people to be poor." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"General Electric has decided to forgo a partnership with Google and has formalized a strategic partnership with Zoho for its 400,000 desktops." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"Office Snapshots shows you the inside of the offices you care about. This is generally from Web/Tech companies, and perhaps larger companies that people are familiar with." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"Hiring a TV star from the 1990s to fix Vista's reputation only adds to the impression that Microsoft is in a time warp." - Vishal M

"Doug Diamond and Anil Kashyap discuss what has happened in the financial sector in the last few days, why it happened, and what it means for everyday people" - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

Zimbabwe. - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

The little blue box shown in friendfeed.com/<me> would have been enough i think.. - Vishal M

the left side bar is not bad on a 1400 * 1050 resolution - Vishal M

"Since selecting Palin, the discussion in the media and in kitchens across America has shifted from "Can you be too old to be President?" to "Can you be too young and inexperienced?" - Vishal M

Google has spoilt us indeed. - Vishal M

also, double clicking the text in FF selects the whole div tag rather than just the text.. - Vishal M

heard in a review that the movie is more about 4 friends than about music.. the lyrics might have been like that intentionally.. gotto watch it.. - Vishal M

some nice solid advice - Vishal M

totally agree! - Vishal M

"High price and lack of high-end 3G services seem to have dampened Apple’s iPhone launch party in India. Only a few buyers turned up at midnight launches done by both the operators across eight cities in India." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

I wish Airtel/Vodafone learn from this and improve their rates - Vishal M

"I just typed import antigravity" - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"The website www.offbeatguide.com asks you five basic questions. Your name, the dates of your travel, your city where you live in, your destination city, and if you know, the hotel or friend’s place where you are staying at. It then proceeds to collate date from various resources on the Net, most notably, Wikipedia, WikiTravel, EventFul, Upcoming.org, Flickr and Google Maps." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"Even though all the information is available on the Internet free of charge, there are two distinct advantages that the book provides. One, someone else does the searching for you, saving you time and two, all the information is neatly packaged into a small book making it easy for you to carry along. You can either choose to have the PDF version for about Rs 400 and read it off your laptop or choose to buy the printed book for about Rs 1,000." - Vishal M

sounds like kind of thing that google uses for street view - Vishal M

hoping that the current plans are inclusive of service contract - Vishal M

Brilliant fiction from Salman Rushdie - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

"Now I want to kiss the world my way and I want others after me to grow up without the pretenses, without having to deal with convenient illusions and half-truths including notions of nationhood that go nowhere. Actually, they stop at the borders of the human mind." - Vishal M via Bookmarklet

There currently is such a feature. Click 'Share Somthing'. In the resulting box click 'Import'. Click to select one of your existing feeds. Towards the bottom there's a link that says 'refresh feed'. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Thanks, stupid blogger. No pun intended :) - Vishal M

NP Vishal =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)