"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
FriendFeed is now available in Persian! Thanks again to all of our Persian users — it has been extremely exciting for us to see FriendFeed so widely used around the world. You can set your language preference here: http://friendfeed.com/...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Any way we could auto-translate (or even have a link with the option to?)? It'd be great to really be able to collaborate with the non-English speaking world...
- Chris Reichow
wow, another language... I can't read it, but that is cool! :)
- Susan Beebe
Now if we could only filter out languages other then our own and have the lang:en search filter.
- DarknessFalls
You're welcome! We are excited to better support our Persian users.
- Bret Taylor
This feels so good to be able to view the pages in a way are eyes used to see Persian writings. Thank you so much! We really appreciate your effort! Thanks again ! :)
- انجل
Great Bret! I remember that in the past some persian people wrote here that whould be nice to have FF interface also in persian, probabilly because their language is very different and english isn't so diffused such in Europe. A welcome to persian friends! :)
- Roberto
from fftogo
bretçim herkes google plus'a gidiyor ama ben seni bırakmam ^^
- aynebilim
Aynebilim'e katılıyorum Bret. Bir sürü idiotla paylaşsam da burayı, vazgeçemiyorum işte. - Ben bu yüzden hiç kimseden gidemem gitmemmmm.. la la laaa
- pippi haşmet
bretçim sana dm atamıyorum..bana abone olur musun ^^
- aynebilim
....................................................................................................... I'm a lovely lady...
- Johnny
from IM
Um, not after we saw you in that bra. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
Tina, you should see me try to turn a suppressed laugh into a fake cough some days just so I don't have to try and explain why I'm cracking up around this place =)
- Micah
See the curly perm kills it. Either you have the authentic Jewfro from the beginning, or you don't. Back when he was rocking the short and conservative cut, he was just nerdy enough to get my baby gaydar rising. Oh, to be six again...
- Derrick
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- Mostaf@m
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh
En çok istediğim şey bir gün şunları fotoğraflayabilmek:(
- Masis
Aynen Masis. Fotoğraflayabilemem yeteneğim yok, ama yeryüzünde gidip de görmek istediğim 2 yerden biri. Diğeri de Mauna Kea. Toplaşıp gidelim diyorum :))
- GökTaşı
Geçenlerede tee icq zamanında konuştuğum bir arkadaş beni bulmuş fbda artık Norveç'e mi ne taşınmış, benim fotoğrafları görmüş gel dedi ne zaman istersen kuzey ışıklarını çekmeye. İsteyince oluyor galiba:)
- Masis
Ciddi misin? :))))))) Yerinde olsam şu an pasaport işlerini halletmeye gitmiş idim :))
- GökTaşı
Kış aylarında büyük şehirlerin dışındaki birçok otel ve kamp alanı kapalı oluyor muş. 17 mayısta geleneksel kıyafetleri ile sokaklarda geziyorlamrmış. Norveç'te
- GökTaşı
If she's actually pissing, I can sympathize with the kicker. If the stain on the pavement is incidental, OTOH, he needs a boot up his own ass.
- Roger Benningfield
She's peeing? NASTYYYYY...I would have kicked her too. I didn't realize. I thought she was chillin
- Shevonne
Yes she is tinkling... it is why I would be in the old mans position
- The Catz Meow
IMHO It takes courage to be and act upon ones exhibitionist fantasies. I know first hand ;) however, I don't go around peein in public.
- The Catz Meow
it is not good behave for that girl she does herself job.
- serkan
hmmm then someone should tell that to the folks in Europe. It is common practice to urinate in public.
- The Catz Meow
She should have kicked her straight out of there. That is disgusting. How insecure of a woman do you have to be to do obnoxious things like this to call attention to herself?
- Adriana
Nope not at all. Perhaps we should ask her how much she got "Paid" to do this?
- The Catz Meow
friendfeedCommentAnchor [v0.1.0] - http://wittman.org/project... - A user script, a bookmarklet and an alternative configuration userscript (has autoCommentAnchor turned ON). To add a permalink to each comment. The hyperlinked text default is "#" (you can change it in the Configuration section to "permalink", "linky", etc in the user script). Works in single post and stream modes. Tested on Firefox and Safari.
- Micah
Special Note ~ Post image: NOT A HASH TAG :)
- Micah
I started the group ffhacks to house a concise listing of user scripts: http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks . If you have a script that works on the current version of FriendFeed, and you're its author, write a comment on http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks... with the link and I'll share the original friendfeed post to the group.
- Micah
Does it only work to other users with the script enabled?
- Andrew Trinh
The anchor is the comment <div> container id which has been there all along; there simply has not been a user interface to conveniently access it. So yes, a URL with the anchor will work for anyone regardless of script usage (tested in Firefox & Safari).
- Micah
ianf, yep. I try anyway. I remember one or two conversations you had anchors - I've wanted access them for a while too. Cheers!
- Micah
#hashanchors should have been there by default, so that you could spend your time on more creative things rather than fixing FF. In fact, absence of this key element of hypertext, granular addressability, tells me that FFeeders really do not care for comments - they're ffodder to the OPs, which are the only ones that rank anything in the hierarchy of submissions around here. I don't...
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- ianf ⌘
While it's not Father's Day here until the first Sunday in September, I just wanted to wish Josh Hau`oli La Makuakane. I hope Sarah, Zack, Seth and Zoe know how lucky they are...
that roof shot should be a poster in the family room ;)
- Carlos Ayala
And while it may not be Father's Day here, I told Rachael that all the other dads on FriendFeed would be getting something... she let me buy two small packs of LEGO... International Misaligned Celebration Guilt Trips FTW!!!
- Johnny
ای بابا، چی شدی تو علیها؟ کی پیشدستی کرده؟ چهقدر من بیخبر. چهقدر هم بیمعرفت. با من هماهنگ نبود به علی قسم
- روهیا
رو چشَم آبجی یه عالمه پاچه می خورم اصن :))
- Aliha
نه خدایی صدات خیلی خفنه من هرچقدر هم تمرین کنم نمیتونم :) حالا خدا رو چه دیدی شاید یه «مچکرم میلاد» گفتم بغلش جور شد!! اختلال در سرچ میلاد :))
- Saghee
چند نکته حائز اهمیت اینجا هست . اولیش وقت چک انگشت کوچیکه پای دایی علیهاست :دی دوم رونوشت به سولماز و فازی داره :دی ساناز خواهر جدیدتونه ، معرفی می کنم :دی دایی جان الان گفتن خب :)) بعد تازه به دایی جان پیشنهاد کردن که پاچه خواری کنن :دی ساناز همون ساوپ ِ خودمونه هاااا -- اسمایلی انداختن حلقه گل بر گردن ساوپ با خشم :)))
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
بعد الان ساقی هم اومده اینجا داره مذاکره می کنه که خاندان اوخی رو از دایی اجاره کنه برای سی دی که قراره در بیاره و دنبال مجوزشه . نه ساقی ؟ :دی
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
بعد من الان فهمیدم نه اینکه پای دایی شکسته و با چوب زیر بغل هم سخته راه بره . اینه که نشسته کنج پیج خودش و اصلا نمیاد ببینه چه خبره :دی در و همسساده ببخشین .. ایشالا خوب که شد با اوخی میاد :)))
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
=)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) آخ جون فامیلدار شدم =))))))
- Saop
داداش روو نکرده بودی این همه فامیل داریم :-" همیشه منو پنهان کردی از بقیه =((
- Saop
ساوپ بشین ببینم - شلوغ نکن .. به خانومتون میگم ها :دی هنوز تائید نشدی از طرف فازی و سولماز .. تازه اونوخ میشی خاله من ... هیچی دیگه .. بیست و چهار ساعت باید برات گل بیاریم :)) هی بریزیم زیر پات :دی لابد پس فردا هم روز خاله مبارک برات بخونیم آره آره ؟
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
علیها ؟ نگفته بودی ها دایی ... تکلیف ما رو معلوم کن .. تازه هاله رو هم خودم کشف کردم که دائیش هستی :دی
- Judi Abotte ِ DoleFul
درد ندارم، یه پلاتین ُ چند وقت پیش درآوردن، یکش هم سر ِ سال باید در بیارم. برای تو هم شکسته؟
- Aliha
من زانوم رو جراحی کردم. پلاتین و پیچ و مهره کار گذاشتن :-&
- Saop
صبح ها یکم درد داره وقتی از خواب پا می شی... تو زمستون هم می گن درد می آد سراغ آدم باید گرم نگه ش داشت / درکل نگران نباش خیلی زود می گذره من اصلن متوجه گذشت زمان نشدم :)
- Aliha
خیلی سخته. من رسماً له شدم. حالا حالاها هم نباید پام رو بذارم زمین. کاش بگذره زودتر. آره میگن توی سرما اذیت میکنه
- Saop
بعدن که بازش کنی پات اینقد سبکه واسه خودش می ره هوا :))))
- Aliha
Thanks... AJ... liking this a lot better... I was starting to look for something to replace friend feed... still going to look, but it doesn't have to be found tonight.
- Harold
I like this style except that it makes the fonts small.
- Vezquex
Ok, - this is very nice, except for the bouncing that happened in firefox on first use of script (screen bounce, firefox, vista) otherwise, this is nice.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Nice AJ it's like coming back Home again. Haggis Chrome? Why am I not surprised :)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Tried it and it didn't work. When I relaunched chrome, it launches to an error page (Oops! This link is broken) with this in the search box "enable user scripts 475k". Sure I'm doing something wrong. Just can't pinpoint it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Great tutorial Sean! My problem was that I was copying/pasting your "–enable-user-scripts" line from IE which put it in as an odd hyphen rather than a double dash. When I typed it myself, it worked fine. It was looking at your screenshot that clued me in.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
The cleaner FF style is a little clunky when it refreshes from page to page. Does anyone else notice this? Or is it just in Chrome?
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
AJ, great tutorial on enabling scripts on Chrome.
- Mike Reynolds
Mike, It was Sean for the Chrome tutorial. ;)
- AJ Batac :)
Polly, to enlarge the comment section and sidebar font sizes (this is just rough), edit stylish script as follows: [CHANGE]: .main ul li a, .section ul li a { font-size: 13px !important; } [CHANGE]: .info,.likes,.comment,#footer,.pager,.bottom,.hidetoggle { font-size: 13px !important; } [ADD after ".searchbold" line]: .content {font-size:13px }
- Micah
Wow, does this using this on FireFox 3.5 make a world of difference. FriendFeed is actually easily readable. Thanks so much for this!
- nadezhda
Just installed it, and it looks great! Thanks!
- Mark J
No worries, I keep meaning to post it, particularly to the Beginners group. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I listened to the the most recent show last night and it was really good. You guys covered a lot of topics, but it moved at a nice clip. Congrats on the sponsor. If you could explain what Moo Cards are again, I would appreciate it.
- Michael Fidler
Michael, Moo cards are a brand of printed cards. They are popular for their MiniCards, which are about half the size of a business card. You can connect your Flickr and Facebook accounts to it for ease of uploading photos as needed. You can order a pack of 100 unique MiniCards for around 20 dollars US. They are also in the UK so shipping will be reasonable either there or in the US. For more of our published info on Moo cards see: http://www.ffundercats.com/moo...
- Josh Haley
Josh, updates the Moo Card link above, ta. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The next episode will be live later today, check it out if you can. Who's listening to the podcast today?
- Kol Tregaskes
Check out this beautiful 360 Aerial Panorama of New York. You need to have QuickTime to view it, but if you want the best quality use the plug-in on the site. It’s amazing with the plug-in loaded! http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr...
The viewer appears to be Flash not Quicktime,
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, they changed it since this was first posted back in May. It used to require a VR plug-in which worked with QuickTime, but now it doesn't require anything, However, it looks just as good as before. The images are truly amazing!
- Michael Fidler
Michael - didn't notice the post date-- "Doesn't require anything" -- Flash must be installed so something is required. The Flash viewer seems to crash a lot though (or at least in Chrome) -- still a great pano. I wonder how it was done -- from a helicopter no doubt but beyond it would be a mystery.
- Brian Sullivan
I just tried it in Chrome and recommend Firefox instead. It didn't crash on me in Chrome, but it didn't run smoothly either.
- Michael Fidler
Brian, I would love to know how these are made. I know some are done from a helicopter, but if you check out the one from Downtown, it's clearly stationary. I can't even see the reflection of the camera in the building windows when it's turned around 180 degrees. I've posted links to others above. I wonder if I should repost this to a room and if so which one?
- Michael Fidler
I know generally how to make these 360 panos but the only technique I know is shooting from a tripod where you have control of the leveling of the camera and control of the angle of shooting. You have to manipulate out the tripod out of the picture after shooting -- these I have no idea, http://radio.weblogs.com/0127028... is a QTVR one of my living room
- Brian Sullivan
All the fisheye does is cut down on the number of shots you need to take -- if it goes 180 in both directions two shots are nominally sufficient on a full frame camera - usually 3 though but that is only if all are shot with the same horizon and with precise angular placement. How you control this in a moving helicopter is beyond me. Maybe more than one camera ? In shots like these where parallax is less of a problem maybe that is the method used
- Brian Sullivan
This must be shot completely differently than a stationary panoramic. I'm familiar with the 8 shot method, but the camera needs to be on a tripod as Brian mentioned. If you watch these images load slowly, they look like plates. It sort of reminds me of photosynth, but connected somehow. Now, I really want to find out how it's done.
- Michael Fidler
I think regular stationary panoramas are loaded as "plates" (at least you export them that way to edit them) as well so I am not sure that is a clue as to how they were generated.
- Brian Sullivan
If I email them, do you think they'll answer? Hi, I was just curious; what’s your secret? You never know. It might be worth a try:)
- Michael Fidler
That one is done from a tripod or monopod of some type it appears -- you can see if you look down the footprint has the logo on it.
- Brian Sullivan
Ya, I noticed one that had the logo above it. May they use it when photoshop doesn't do the job perfectly.
- Michael Fidler
Logos like that are used to hide the footprint of the tripod or other -- sometimes it can be a lot of work create a shot to cover the spot (or to fill it in using a bitmap editor) so it is just masked.
- Brian Sullivan
OK, check out this one http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr... and go into planet view. It's the P next to the directional controls. I wonder if that has something to do with it. Shot off a reflective globe maybe.
- Michael Fidler
The "P" gets you the "polar view" -- a standard view that can be created from any 360/180 panorama so that is not a clue as to how it is done either from what I can determine (http://www.flickr.com/groups... is a flickr group dedicated to such polar views)
- Brian Sullivan
I've seen them many times before and wondered how they were made, too. This guy has some examples and apparently he uses a 10.5mm lens and then maps them into shape: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Michael Fidler
Yes the 10.5 is a Nikon fisheye lens -- I use a Peleng 8mm fully manual fisheye -- more suited to my budget. When shooting with tripod you need a parallax correction jig as well -- I use the Nodal Ninja -- which is a reasonable quality low end device.
- Brian Sullivan
I was on the Hugin site a few months ago and I found a video that demonstrates how to use the jig. It didn't mention helicopter shots though. In fact, the video was very particular about not having any movement. I think it's time to ask them.
- Michael Fidler
Yeah I have seen a number of these panoramas that seem to defy logic. Peter Murphy (who is a pioneer in this type of stuff) has a number of puzzling ones - http://www.mediavr.com/manlyai... (needs Quick time) for example. His weblog has tons of others as well _http://www.mediavr.com/blog/
- Brian Sullivan
@briansullivan I went to an event last night where I came across something that might explain how these are done. If you check out the picture I shot of the equipment; it uses a reflective dome to capture the entire shot all at once and then processes it almost instantly afterwards. http://bit.ly/qD0dn . It basically comes out looking like a globe or a planet before it is processed. Once processed it look like a full panoramic just like the ones here, but in lower resolution.
- Michael Fidler
I haven’t seen the digital version yet, but the guy who owns this company told me they would be much sharper than the prints which they give out at the event. I also asked him about the helicopter shots, and he wasn’t sure about compensating for movement, but he didn’t see it as a big problem either. Mystery solved?
- Michael Fidler
I don't see this lens/device as "the" answer. Other similar devices have a reputation for low optical quality and low resolution. Peter Murphy almost certainly does not use such a lens. No serious panorama photographer that I have heard of uses anything like this.
- Brian Sullivan
I guess the search for an answer continues...
- Michael Fidler
Hi - I own Pixelcase and shot the tour of Sydney aswell as all development. Glad you like my work.
- pixelcase
Thank you, I'm glad you found this. I love your work. Based on the number of likes and comments for this post, I think it’s safe to say, I’m not the only one. It would be nice if you could enlighten us with some details about how these are made.
- Michael Fidler
Outstanding -- still no resolution on how it is done -- but I guess there is no reason why he should spill all his trade secrets.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian - No answer, and I can't blame him for wanting to keep it a secret. I guess that we have to just appreciate it for what it is. However, I'm already looking forward to whatever he does next!
- Michael Fidler
Poking around in panorama forums -the consensus seems to be that the pictures for these panoramas are shot with a multi-camera set up attached to an RC helicopter. The viewer is krpano - http://www.krpano.com/
- Brian Sullivan
John, thanks for sharing. Love it! Brian; I've always wanted a RC helicopter, but I still haven't gotten around to buying one yet. However, the picture from the one in the video is great.
- Michael Fidler
Tune in tomorrow, when I try and look even more horrific.
- Steven Perez
i should take a camera phone shot of myself just after i take off my CPAP mask in the morning. i look like a fscking corpse, and not a fresh one.
- Joe The Sausage
I think I just won the Embarrassing Photo Meme. Forever. :D
- Steven Perez
...you look like Tony muthaf*&@#n Soprano! how about some gabagool and provolone with that face. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Yeah, those t-shirts I wear are klassy. :D
- Steven Perez
Bumping for the sheer horror of it all.
- Steven Perez
Awwww... you're so sweet, trying to replace the horror of my barefoot working photo with your own terrifying visage. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug