Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/
- Miss Elle
...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait.
- .LAG liked that
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
"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
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
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
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
jnman, google's translation service has it's limitations. I don't know what is different about that particular comment, though. This is anecdotal, but I would roughly estimate that 20% of the posts I've tried google translate responds with at least some null translation results.
- Micah
Thank you Micah! Josh just showed me how to do it. I didn't know you had to open an individual post by clicking the time. I'm tech challenged. :)
- Trish Haley
Trish, thank you for the honesty. Ahhhh, _documentation_ so often an afterthought *scolds self*. Actually, if someone wants to pitch in help make a tutorial, please let me know. I'm working on a full set of pre-loaded configurations for each support translation language ~ maybe it will get released tonight (hard not to be in all the great conversations, though - that's the rub :D
- Micah
Thanks, chrisofspades. I've been meaning to ask how the activity on ffThreadKiller is lately? If ya-all haven't checked it out yet head over to http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah
Micah - tried out the bookmarklet on safari :))) Awesome. interesting how much better the translation is that the google.com/translate .(google.com version doesn't seem to do transliterated text. - the version your script accesses is getting a fair amount of it.)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
activity waned. and I've been waffling on some back-end decisions that's preventing me from updating it.
- chrisofspades
from email
Rob, cool. That's an interesting comparison.
- Micah
chrisofspades, yeah, I guess for a lot of people the statistic is interesting initially, but doesn't have legs. Have you considered expanding what statistics it gathers? You've already worked out how it spiders, what other calculations are feasible? I've seen a lot of requests for date range searching. Maybe some slice of data related to the timestamp.
- Micah
date range searching would be sweet chrisofspades! if there's anything I can do to help please let me know! test maybe?
- metalerik
hey, i'm Martyyyy on Realpics. about it being a story, some dude asked her for nudes, and she said no. and he called her a pussy if i remember correctly. so she defended herself by saying she used to be a stripper, and then the rest of it is right in front of you.
- Martyyyy
It's pretty retired to lunch into a asspletive attack when you bearly read end rite OMFG ... poor thing has a future full of *facepalm* ahead of her!
- Richard Walker
One of the latest comments from her Profile "Hey RDS, hows that hooked on phonics coming along? Clearly not working, inquire about a refund."
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Duuuuuude how in the world did you find this Jimminy?!
- Mona Nomura
Mona, search was working pretty well at the time, can't remember what I was looking for though. Edit: I searched for "pussy comments:jimminy" trying to find a post from a week or two ago where I posted "P is for pussy, that's good enough for me." Didn't find it though. Embarrassed.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
And now I love Tina even more! Best. Resume. EVAR! :-D
- Ordinarybug Heather
you are so hired. but i might need to give you a hug because of your awesomeness. i hope that will be ok.
- Morgan
Man, imma have to redo the whole thing to be able to use it on LinkedIn, it's not square enough!
- FFing Enigma
seriously - i think i love you. this is the best resume i've seen. and i've seen thousands. my mom ran an employment agency for 18 years. and i've had all kinds of jobs
- Morgan
Why thank you Morgan. I do try =) However it won't do at all as my profile pic: it winds up being too small to actually read. How unfortunate.
- FFing Enigma
Did the giraffe just have something shoved up it's butt? It seems a bit surprised.
- Morgan
In one of the inspiration threads http://friendfeed.com/akatina... we decided I needed to send a company a picture of a giraffe for my resume, preferably one with a large posterior. This giraffe fit the bill perfectly!
- FFing Enigma
I agree with everyone here Tina. I think you should send it out next time. If you catch the right person's attention with this they'll be compelled to hire you.
- Kenton
actually I would add ..all the handle at the bottom.. like personal blog, twitter ID etc ..but all in very small fine print like 3/4 points font .. and if they call u for an interview ask them did you read the fine print ?
- Peter Dawson
How do you use sub-tags? I'm trying to come up with a solid tagging structure, and I'm looking for the balance between multiple notebooks and tags and sub-tags.
Notebooks and tags are very different... you can only have a note in one notebook, so they're pretty limiting. I have groups of tags that are major categories, stuff like collections, contacts, development, ideas and inspiration, projects, shopping lists, todo and a few others. Under those I have various subtags. I may not "use" a top level tag on a note. I mainly use them to organize...
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- Lindsay
I agree with @lindsay and I've developed a similar 'strategy'. Problem is that the 'subtags' are not really that. Clicking on the 'mother' tag does not reveal all subtagged notes. Although I would REALLYlike that!
- Peter van Teeseling
from twhirl
Right, Peter... if you want notes to show up for the "parent" tags you have to remember to tag the notes with the parent as well. I have mixed feelings about liking the way they do it now... for things like my collections top-level tag, I don't mind that none of the notes have that tag... but for development, I make sure that I include it on notes and it would be nice if it were there automatically when I added one of the subtags... I guess I can't have it both ways. :)
- Lindsay
@lindsay: I'm giving your "data types" idea a try and I'm wondering, what data type to you give codesnippets? You mentioned that your "codesnippets" tag was under "development," but isn't it data type? TIA; hope you don't mind sharing.
- Andrew
You're right, Andrew, codesnippets is a data type. I should probably move that under collections. I think that I had it under development because that was how I had done some other tag "structures" before and just ported that over but those were before I started using the collections as a top level tag. I will probably move that, because I had all the languages under it and there were some things related to the languages/platforms that aren't really codesnippets (whitepapers and best practice docs).
- Lindsay
I have been playing with different ways to try get things organized. The folders are pretty useless to me because you can't have sub-folders. I can't just organize with tags because you end up with a huge list and it's difficult to filter. It's hard to use nested tags unless you imagine them as folders. So, I set up a bunch of "folders" under a tag called #Folders This way, I can have a tag called "car search" and a multiple tags beneath it like "used cars" "new cars" etc...
- j456
I also have an @Actions tag with a bunch of tags like "followup" "unread" etc.. The tags with a symbol at the beginning are empty tags that just help you organize things...If you imagine them as folders then it works. You could also have a separate group of tags that are a list of "keywords"...
- j456
like others above, it would be nice to be able to click on the "mother" tag and have all notes with that tag or any subtag of that tag shown. I could imagine this working either by collapsing/rolling up the tag tree (i.e. selecting a tag when collapsed includes all subtags) or by some cool search syntax (e.g. tagancestor:xxx). But these methods are just in my imagination AFAIK...
- wert
"Robotis is shipping an 18-inch, humanoid robot developed as an open source research platform by Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa). The Linux-ready Darwin-OP can walk, kick a ball, and pick itself up after falling over -- thanks to an Intel Atom-based FitPC2i SBC (single board computer), an ARM Cortex-M3 based management controller, 20 actuators, and audio/video sensors."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Do not fuck with the electronics rule >> The funniest thread I've seen on Reddit in weeks. View the image first, then follow the link: http://www.reddit.com/r...
Mel, I love how they would pose for you. I know how you shoot and you like to get natural shots, but everytime you picked up your camera, they got all single file line status for you. :)
- Derrick
"Yeah, so we're in the studio now, laying down some tracks. They wanna get Diddy in on it, but I'm hoping we can work with Reznor, cause he seems like a cool guy..."
- Derrick
Diddy, Reznor, Derrick & Mariachi... I'll take it on vinyl!
- Jason Wehmhoener
That is so totally full of win that it makes me "SQUEEEE"!
- Lindsay
Ay Papi...this pic is awesome. I'm going to go make myself a margarita in honor of it.
- Mark Krynsky
Rhyming slang is a form of phrase construction in the English language, and is especially prevalent in dialectal British English from the East End of London which also gives it the name Cockney rhyming slang. The construction involves replacing the common word with a phrase of two or three words, and then in almost all cases, omitting the original rhyming word, in a process called hemiteleia,[1][2] making the origin of the phrase elusive to unfamiliar listeners.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Halil
from Bookmarklet
The Dialectizer takes text or other web pages and instantly creates parodies of them! Try it out by selecting a dialect, then entering a URL or English text below. If you have questions about what The Dialectizer does or how it does it, please see the "Information" section toward the bottom of this page. http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect...
- Halil
"Tons of science-fiction novels have gone public domain and gotten posted at Project Gutenberg . Including books by Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl and Philip K. Dick. And Black Amazon of Mars by Empire Strikes Back co-writer Leigh Brackett."
- Ken Morley
from Bookmarklet
Mind is a frequent, but not happy, wanderer: People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about what isn’t going on around them - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...
"ScienceDaily (Nov. 11, 2010) — People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects' thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives."
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
Do not use MEDIA_URL in your templates to serve your js,css and image files needed for your web design. STATICFILES_URL is on air with django 1.3 use it, enjoy it!.. And here is your little bash command to migrate your templates successfully #for fl in `find templates/ -iname "*html"`; do mv $fl $fl.old; sed 's/MEDIA_URL/STATICFILES_URL/g' $fl.old...
here is the command. for fl in `find templates/ -iname "*html"`; do mv $fl $fl.old; sed 's/MEDIA_URL/STATICFILES_URL/g' $fl.old > $fl; rm -rvf $fl.old; done
- Recep KIRMIZI
"Seed bombing is about to jump to a whole new level of awesomeness. A fleet of unused and decommissioned C-130 Hercules cargo planes, originally created to drop land mines, will be recommissioned as foresters. Lockheed Martin — the quintessential military innovation company — has taken a 25 year old idea from former UK RAF pilot Jack Walters and turned it into a reality. The planes will be outfitted to each drop up to 900,000 trees in one day and with 2,500 C-130’s sitting unused in 70 different countries, this idea could make for a lot of little saplings."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Mine had ID3 tags and artwork attached...
- Kevin Fox
You're welcome. ;) NOW FIX MY TWITTER.
- Josh Haley
Totally didn't get it from you Josh (cribbed it from Anil Dash) but thanks anyhow. Also, I DON'T WORK HERE ANYMORE. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
I don't believe either of those statements.
- Josh Haley
Whups. You're right. I totally found out about the Reznor tracks from you. If you're right about the me still working here thing then can you call HR because I've got some back-pay coming!
- Kevin Fox
Told you. But you have a twitter account enabled. This post came from twitter. That's all I want. WHY DOES IT WORK FOR YOU AND NOT FOR ME?
- Josh Haley
Yeah, something weird is up with the ID3 tags. Some players can see them, but a bunch of commandline Linux tools see no tags. Ugh I hate mp3/id3.
- Steve and 4 other people
Josh, because I'm Twitter user #785? I'm on the server that works.
- Kevin Fox
I signed up back in 2007. That's not helping me here!
- Josh Haley
It's great having service icons removed from the posts, that way we focus more on the content rather than the source of the information. That way users won't ignore certain services subconsciously because they've noticed a service icon, rather users ignore a post because it's just not interesting.
I hadn't anticipated it, but it seems so evident now.
- Micah
Some how I think people's hidden filters should be reset just because it's a new way to see FriendFeed. Before people probably just hid all these services because one person kept flooding it.
- Andrew Trinh
I never liked how FF posts get more activity than posts from other services. I always saw FF as meta to all the services you can import so why should it matter if an item was shared on Google Reader or posted directly to FF. The other trend I don't like to see is people ripping off Reddit or Digg by copying and pasting the headline and linking directly to the article, giving no credit to the original.
- Graham English
For me it helps sort whether content is likely to be original or shared. Now I still look for that first, and it just wastes my time, having to find it amongst the rest of the text.
- Pixie
What difference does it make if the content is original or shared? If it is interesting and brings about a discussion or enlightens another user then it has served its purpose.
- Andrew Trinh
Of course original content (and the conversations around it) matters... it's FriendFeed, not DataFeed. Stuff like Digg bugs me because it's several clicks to get to the meat, just to see if it's interesting enough to talk about. Also, I may not care about person X's tweets, but I may care about their last.fm (for example). Service identification and discrimination is valid for many and varied reasons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
It depends on what your purpose is, Andrew. Mine is to usually get to know individuals better.
- Pixie
I never said you can't ignore a particular service, that's what the hide is for. But let the users see the information first without any bias and then let them decide.
- Andrew Trinh
Alix, if your purpose is to get to know the individual better then you deserve every right to hide feeds of a user because of which services they use more. But don't let the same bias affect posts by other users, hide it for once and not for all. If after you've considered it that you may not like tweets overall hide it, you don't need to see a service icon to see that.
- Andrew Trinh
Isn't the service part of the information?
- Andy Bakun
Andrew, it's attention prioritization. Especially in a faster-moving realtime page, with user avatars and service icons (like the old realtime feed) I can instantly hone in on where to focus my attention, before I even start reading any titles, comments, or other text.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Actually, there is a great risk of people being unfairly labeled as moronic without the icons, if their posts make little sense, as is the case with a lot of stuff from twitter. I can excuse moronic posts from twitter if I immediately know that's where they are from. Without the icons, I can't really do that. That means everyone I follow has to be a twitter poet, or I might mistaken them for idiots.
- April Russo
But the service has never disappeared, under each post it still states where each post originates from it's just not the main focus any more. The question is, if you have to filter out so much of your feed that you need icons to see which ones to read why do you have it shown in the first place?
- Andrew Trinh
I don't ignore or hide based on service. The icon just often tells me in an instant if this is something the person created or something they think is worth sharing. I never felt the icon was the focus, just an organizational tool.
- Pixie
Andrew, I think you might be misunderstanding something, The service icons have informational content themselves, allowing certain types of information to be given greater or lesser or just different weight from the rest. So instead of "allowing people to focus on the content itself" it forces you to focus on all the content equally, which is clearly inappropriate. Twitter posts are different than delicious items which are different than blog posts which are different than things shared directly.
- Mr. Gunn
Exactly. I agree with Mr Gunn. Now we have less information than we had before.
- Chris Loft
The service icons represent in part the information that is being presented and how/what services that information was found. Without those it makes it more difficult to tie the information together. Plus those little icons are cute. :)
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
Also the service icons are a way of filtering the information, for example: by clicking on a user's stumbledupon icon all their sites fall into a nice column which is FAR simpler then the complex filtering system in the beta
- sofarsoShawn ~presque...
I have noticed that Friend Feed users are more likely to respond to a post based on the person doing the posting not what service it is rolling out of.
- Tony C (Unrated)
I think there is an important point here that I've made on other items. I think there are two qualitatively different modes of using friendfeed. One is person-centric, similar to friendfeed or Twitter. People interested in what a specific person has to say. The other is content centric, the person is secondary to the content they are bringing in or promoting. My guess is that the content-centric viewers do a lot of filtering based on the source of the information, as well as the people it is coming through
- Cameron Neylon
Also that the research community (e.g. Life Scientists rooms and others) are more content centric than the general user community. I would think the UI can support both modes of use with a few display options (do don't display service icons, using filtering over service type/number of comments/liks etc.)
- Cameron Neylon
That's a good point, Cameron, and considering that the Life Scientists room has over 700 members, one would think their collective opinion would carry some weight.
- Mr. Gunn
Just loaded the stylish scripts that remove the personal icons and put back the service icons (HT to Neil Saunders) so I'm happy now.
- Cameron Neylon
That may be true, but I still miss the icons :'(
- stanjourdan
I appreciate the help, but I'm on chrome !
- stanjourdan
I'll cast a vote in favour of showing service icons whereever they plausibly make sense.
- Karl Knechtel
I ignore certain icons too especially when it's the source of most of the content that I find to be boring. Makes sense to me.
- Corvida
I always was a fan of the service icons. I still run the old school realtime FF in the Firefox sidebar, so I get my service icon fix that way ;)
- Tinfoil 2.0
My (and chrisofspades) service icons script still works (in Firefox) too. :)
- Micah
An interesting idea from Eran Sandler here: http://twitter.com/erans..., could FriendFeed please display, link, or ideal have an expand option to show the 'in-reply-to' text for @replies tweets?
Seriously needed! Even just a link would be better than nothing.
- Boris Gordon
In general it would be great if FriendFeed would be a full-featured Twitter client. It would remove the feeling of having to choose to be on FriendFeed or on Twitter. Most cool thing would be if FriendFeed could actually make conversation threading for tweets. If a tweet has a in_reply_to id, then it should be shown on FriendFeed as a comment on the original tweet (from perhaps a "virtual" FriendFeed user, if the Twitter user is not on FF), together with all other replies to that tweet.
- Meryn Stol
In this scenario, only tweets which do not have in_reply_to id specified would be shown in the user's feeds. The rest would be attached as comments to other people's tweets, and would be shown to subscribers to that user through the regular FF "FoaF" feature.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, I don't think it should be a comment but a link or something to expand under the tweet. A comment would make it very confusing.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, which is why the expanded Twitter entry should be included last inside the FF post/comment proper, and clearly delimited as such; e.g. [In response to CNETNews: " Second Life cracks whip on adult content http://tinyurl.com/d39fk7 " http://twitter.com/CNETNew... ] or similar format.
- ianf ⌘
Yep, like I say either a link to the 'in-reply-to post' or the ability to expand it under the entry. it definitely shouldn't be a comment or visible initially.
- Kol Tregaskes
I went to load up Anki tonight and noticed it has reached the big 1.0 milestone. According to Damien, the developer, it has been in development for over 4 years now. That's some serious dedication, especially when the app is free! Congratulations to Damien on putting together such an awesome app and sticking with it for so long. I've been waiting until my new deck was a decent size and I needed to go remote, but as a way of saying thanks to Damien I'm going to go buy the Anki iPhone app right now. Are you using Anki? How important is it to your study?
http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long!
- Michael Fidler
Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed?
- Chris Rogers
@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch...
- Alex Schleber
Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-)
- Nadine Pestourie
LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed.
- David Gross
http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people.
- Dusty Edenfield
Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users.
- Dusty Edenfield
I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli...
- Svartling
Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did!
- Martha
The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default!
- Vince DeGeorge
Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Svartling
I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Roy Herrod
There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles.
- Kol Tregaskes
Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back.
- Dennis Jernberg
I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries.
- Dennis Jernberg
Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...
- Rob Diana
There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up.
- Rob Diana
tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds?
- Paul Jacobson
I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p
- browneyes
Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think.
- Kol Tregaskes
Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site.
- David Gross
Nope, sorry can't help you there, David.
- Kol Tregaskes
Greetings from the floors, And later moved to go Through your profile The site until this my email address below (Doreen_des@yahoo.com) Doreen you with love & hugssssss (doreen_des@yahoo.com)
- lizzybab4life
"Office professionalism" seems to have no bearing on freedom of speech...just as long as you use the right typeface. | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
LOL. That's true. People *do* text me though. Lately that's how 99% of my mobile communication with friends has been going. Nowadays I use on ~250 of the 450 minutes on my VZW plan
- LANjackal
Mine's only an alarm clock. If someone makes the mistake of texting me, I usually don't discover the text until 10pm or so.
- Deborah Fitchett
no. i use it to text my ex-wife updates on the money transfers i make into her account every two weeks. so HA! take that!
- Morgan
2. Он всегда доступен. У этого человека нет понятия "болею" или "еду в метро".
- Nikolay Belousov
3. Он конкретен. Когда ему ставят задачу, он называет конкретное время выполнения.
- Nikolay Belousov
4. Если он обещает, что задача будет готова к 18:00, он ее сделает к 17:00
- Nikolay Belousov
5. Он никогда не говорит, что "заболел дизайнер", "команда сильно загружена" и не ищет причин, по которым работа может быть не выполнена.
- Nikolay Belousov
6. Он всегда опережает запрос клиента/руководителя и готовит отчеты по промежуточным этапам работы к 10:00 утра дня отчета.
- Nikolay Belousov
С первым пунктом не соглашусь в корне. Вернее, дополню: хороший менеджер проектов (или эккаунт) не допустит того, чтобы ему что-то не предоставили вовремя.
- Шух
7. По совместительству он работает Господом Богом ;)
- Dmitry Lukovkin
8. После каждой встречи он оперативно готовит отчет о встрече, где прописывает кокнретные сроки и следит за их исполнением. Отчет о встрече он присылает через 2-3 часа, после ее окончания.
- Nikolay Belousov
По второму: он не должен быть доступен круглосуточно. Он должен обеспечить бесперебойное течение нужных для выполнения задачи в срок процессов. Кроме того, есть понятие "рабочий день" и хороший менеджер должен ориентироваться на рабочий день заказчика, но не более. Работа, выползающая за рамки рабочего дня, свидетельствует о том, что какие-то процессы поставлены неверно.
- Шух
Надо бы накатать заповеди хорошего заказчика еще. Займусь на досуге, попляшете у меня :)
- Шух
это не заповеди хорошего аккаунта, это просто заповеди хорошего менеджера, более того эти же самые заповеди напрямую касаются и вас клиентов.
- Dmitry Voskresensky
По сути, согласен с дополнениями Шуха. Иначе получается идеализм. Иногда это требуют в реальности, и становится не смешно. Вообще, не люблю я употребление слова "всегда" - не бывает "всегда". Но вот за п. 8 спасибо - это правильно, жаль, что очень мало кто так делает. Ну и насчет 2-3 часов в Москве не всегда реально, если встреча на выезде.
- Dmitry Lukovkin
Эти пункты должны быть не заповедями хорошего менеджера, а просто нормой работы. Меня ужасает, что надо эти вещи вслух формулировать, что где-то они не по умолчанию. Да еще и формулировать не как базовые нормы, а как достижения. Но: для того чтобы все это выполнялось, руководитель этого менеджера должен соблюдать свои заповеди. У менеджера должно хватать ресурсов, его самого должно...
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- Woman and Unwoman
mama_ari - "беда организации" - вещь очень расплывчатая. Описываемая вами ситуация может вполне устраивать "хозяина" конторы: все бегают, ложатся на амбразуру, стремящийся к идеалу менеджер пытается заткнуть все дырки, одновременно борясь с чувством вины за невовремя отправленный отчет по встрече, при этом клиенты приносят доход, а расходы на ресурсы жестко зарезаны за счет их овербукинга. Все нормально, проблемы негров шерифа не волнуют ;)
- Dmitry Lukovkin
Эти списки «10 признаков хорошего blank» сильно бы выигрывали, если бы вместе с ними предоставлялась еще задача, про которую они писались, т.к. обобщение слишком сильное. На нынешнем месте работы мне ставили задачи типа «увеличить продажи в n раз» или «принести столько-то трафика». Прогоните их по списочку, давайте.
- Неяхлов ✎
Все это, думается, написано чисто про продакшн чего-нибудь и/или мелкие задачи.
- Неяхлов ✎
@ay4, не согласна. любой аккаунт-менеджер клиентского агентства или сервисной организаци, ведущий любые постоянные услуги клиенту. самый близкий мне пример, конечно, организация маркетинговых кампаний.
- Woman and Unwoman
@dlukovkin как только она перестанет устраивать клиентов, хозяин конторы догадается, что делает что-то не так.
- Woman and Unwoman
А "Он всегда доступен" - это действительно реальное требование? Неужели менеджеры действительно вынуждены бросать все дела и общаться с каждым возжаждавшим общения по первому пингу? Ужасы какие вы рассказываете...
- Анё
Про сроки-то я понимаю. Если оценил работу в пять дней - значит нужно обещать предоставить результаты через две недели. И все довольны. Но вот доступностью-то не поуправляешь... Или менеджер ничего-ничего не делает и только сидит и ждет, когда его кто-нибудь попингует?
- Анё
@aivanova поверишь, что у меня опыта хватает в этом? :) - есть практики, которые обеспечивают клиенту комфорт. примерно так: для клиента есть групповой мейл-адрес, на который он может писать, не волнуясь, на месте ли кто-то конкретный - если нет, быстро ответит/проследит/найдет нужного человека кто-то другой из адресатов списка, в списке есть все, кто в теме. и клиент всегда быстро...
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- Woman and Unwoman
За 12 лет в IT/web я не видел ни одного такого менеджера.. Sorry :(
- Phil Smirnov
@ay4, не согласен, если не доводить до абсурда, то это просто правила хорошего тона и организации взаимодействия с людьми. В одной из моих прошлых компаний от менеджеров требовали выполнения примерно аналогичного списка (включая постоянную доступность) + обязательного ответа на корпоративный e-mail в течении 2 дней. Встречи с заказчиками должны были протоколироваться, более-менее...
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- Dmitry Lukovkin
@mama1ari, в пределе - да, перестанет устраивать клиентов и хозяин догадается. Но в больших конторах связь между организацией работ, удовлетворенностью клиентов и доходами может быть очень замысловатой и растянутой по времени.
- Dmitry Lukovkin
@philsmirnov а в другом треде ты при этом говоришь, что за 12 лет в IT/web не видел сайта дороже миллиона рублей. что за IT/web у тебя такой? похоже, какая-то специфическая ниша мелких сайтиков? в ней могут быть и менеджеры типа совочек, наверное. то есть ты по узкому сегменту судишь расширительно, что ли.
- Woman and Unwoman
@mama1ari а можешь прикинуть свою статистику? ну вот на глазок
- stuck in meta
@payalnik статистику чего? тут тред про стандарты общения менеджера с заказчиком, тебя статистика плохих/хороших менеджеров интересует? так это надо спрашивать тех, кто с клиентской стороны работает, я ж не вижу не своих в работе.
- Woman and Unwoman
Да, статистика хороших и плохих. Нет, не твоих.
- stuck in meta
@mama1ari Вполне возможно, что я нахожусь в нише мелких сайтиков. Я как раз для этого и привел цифры, чтоб соориентироваться относительно других. Теперь я очень хочу послушать, что скажут другие про Свой опыт. А не про мой ;-). Correction: я не говорил, что я "не видел сайтов дороже 1 млн", я сказал, что "я лично таких не делал, и не видел, чтобы кто-нибудь такое делал рядом со мной"....
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- Phil Smirnov
@mama1ari Я не говорю про распилы, просто потому, что мне не довелось в них ни разу участвовать. Конечно в IT есть заказы на проекты более 1 млн, только это проекты в которых участвуют десятки человек, которые идут не один год, и они по сути своей сайтами не являются (напомню, речь шла именно про сайты). Менеджеров, которые ВСЕГДА доступны, и НИКОГДА не проэтосамливают сроки, которые...
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- Phil Smirnov
@philsmirnov я тоже не про распилы, про них не знаю ничего. Я про обычные большие истории, где в проекте задействованы больше трех человек больше двух месяцев. Я кстати про проекты на 7-10 млн за один сайт тоже не говорю, моя ниша ниже. Но те, про которые говорю - в них уже по определению устройство истории такое, что требуются корпоративные стандарты в управлении внутри группы...
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- Woman and Unwoman
А совок - это не про сайты, там могут быть мега-исполнители на уровне дизайнеров и разработчиков. Совок - это про менеджерский процесс на уровне, когда связаны мало людей и мало цены риска со стороны заказчика, и поэтому все общение и планирование можно на коленке, и не надо клиентоориентированный интерфейс общения строить. Это было без оценки - была когда-то и я маленькая, и бардачного...
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- Woman and Unwoman
Собственно, все эти правила - обратная сторона бизнес-процессов агентства. И в основном говорят об организации, а не о человеке. В организации, работающей с крупными заказчиками и крупными проектами, должны быть соответственно отстроены процессы. И люди - менеджеры, работающие с заказчиками - обучены соответственно и встроены в эти процессы. Если это так, то заказчик видит в...
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- Woman and Unwoman
@mama1ari Спасибо, за развернутый ответ. Я так понял, что это все от масштаба. Т.е. с увеличением масштаба растет сложность бизнес-процессов, кол-во ответственности, людей, работы и т.д. В каком-то смысле это требования рынка (спроса, заказчика), которым агентство должно соответствовать. Я логически это все могу понять. Но почемуто мой личный опыт говорит ровно обратное. Чем больше организация - тем хуже менеджмент, особенно middle. ЮКОС, Эксперт, Первый канал, ФАС, МЭРТ... Никто ни за что не отвечает.
- Phil Smirnov
@philsmirnov ты называешь все российские конторы. а мой опыт набирался в работе с российскими отделениями глобальных компаний. и топикстартер из такой компании. отсюда можно сделать предположение, что эти стандарты - идут от них, и международные компании пытаются в местный пейзаж перенести такую культуру работы, и я больше попадала туда, где это привилось, а ты - туда где не насадили такое.
- Woman and Unwoman
Хмм.. и действительно. 8-[ ] В части крупных компаний какой-то у меня однобокий вышел клиент-пул. Никогда еще не работал с российскими отделениями глобальных компаний. Придется наверстать. Надо же, вот и что-то полезное для себя вынес...
- Phil Smirnov
Насчет протоколирования встреч и совещаний. Раньше у меня был приличный микрофон на ноуте и он писал встречу, после этого отправлялось на расшифровку (оказалось не так это и дорого), на основе делался протокол со всем вопросами, ответственными, решениями и рассылался участникам с файлом записи и расшифровки. Это помогло отучить людей от пиздабольства. Сейчас эту практику уже не использую.... потому, что немного другой уровень стал.
- Лето без алкоголя