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Can't. Resist. Must. Post. - Mark VandenBerg

yeah, only since. - Mohomed=genieyclo

Totally ignoring this one too. - Carmen

Mr. Winer, I'll ignore the next one...really. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

Gapers' block. - Logical Extremes

I can't. Blame my comment tourettes...LIKE, LOL, +1 - Matt Musgrave

Now I feel compelled to ask: What is it that you're testing? It can't be whether or not we follow directions because i could have told you that we don't without all the silliness. :D - pea♥ fierce as a woozle

He is testing the FF Api.. - Chris W

Will it break the sound barrier? - Ian May

Would it be woozles FTW. or peas FTW, or both? - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

hmmm what's Dave up to? - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Penis. - Orphan Spinster Librarian

Test post successful. Just making sure you know that we know that it worked. - Pete Delucchi

Well, that was pretty easy. Worked the first time. :-) - Dave Winer

lookin good! - Sean Reiser

cool pic! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

I love that picture. Can't wait to see more photos from Dave's system. - Robert Scoble

The FriendFeed API just won gold. THE CROWD GOES WILD!!! - J. D. Ebberly

forget the pic, I wanna know what you're testing, Dave :) - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I think there's a bug, I can't quite see that one guy. - Logical Extremes

Is anyone else confused by this? There are other ways to get images into FriendFeed, with descriptions, without having to use the API. - Mark Trapp

If you mean manually, I get that -- but otherwise, the only way to get an image in with a description is through the API. If there's another way -- tell me now so I can cry over the time I wasted this evening. :-( - Dave Winer

Or what about, while using the Bookmarklet, adding *online* images *other* than those on the current page. Is it already possible and I haven't figured out how? Anyone? - Micah Wittman

Yes, but that's manual. I have a feed -- and it has friends, and this is Friend-Feed. It's about flowing stuff using feeds, it's nice that it can do it manually, and I do a lot of that too, but this automatic stuff -- flowing data from one place to lots of others. Manual we can do. This is the new stuff (yeah new in 1999). - Dave Winer

Do you mean to include the description as the comment? You could auto-send an email using Mail2FF. Subject is the title, any images attached are added, and the body becomes the first comment. With tarpipe, it wouldn't even require creating custom code to send the email. - Mark Trapp

The other way is to put in media:title elements, and if that doesn't have the result you want, go to the friendfeed feedback room and ask them to make it work. They're fast. - Bruce Lewis

Come on now Dave, things have evolved a bit since March '99. - Logical Extremes

I've been asking for it since May, Bruce. They still say someday. - Dave Winer

Mail2FF is awesome.... Mark described it well above. you could automate that way - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Yeah, but Mail2FF doesn't use RSS ;) - Jasmin Patry

The layman's way is to use feedburner and subscribe your mail2ff email to receive the feed by email. I think that would work. - Gez

Yea, so when's the FF open house meetup? During Web 2.0 conference? - Mark Krynsky

test - Adam Jackson

Thanksgiving party for FF? - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

hahahaa!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Not a vapour trail. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

That's gotta burn. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

That's the last time I leave baked beans by the pond... - Ladybug Heather

He's late for making a delivery. - possible248

So the problem with the <description> tag in RSS feeds is that it generally contains the full or partial content of the blog post. It would be useful to make this content available in friendfeed, but stuffing it into a comment probably isn't the right ui. - Paul Buchheit

So... don't stuff the text into the a comment. Just display the description indented under the title. I would only show the first N characters, and provide a link to read the rest of the text. Might as well use a comment, btw, and truncate. If you want the rest, click the link. The current situation is just wrong for all the reasons I outlined in my post. - Dave Winer

Doesn't that depend on the length of the post? April's blog, for example, generally contains posts with text appropriate for an initial comment. - Bruce Lewis

The problem is that the "description" is not really a description in most cases, it's the content, and automatically stuffing a prefix of all blog posts into the first comment may not be the best experience. I think perhaps the right solution is to provide a "generic rss" service that has options for all this. (and to provide a more elegant way of viewing the feed content inline) I completely agree with your objectives though -- all services should have equal access via feeds. - Paul Buchheit

Would love it if when I include images or videos in my WordPress posts they showed up in FriendFeed. Is there a trick to making that happen? - Patrick Lightbody

We already pick up on MediaRSS tags Patrick. If you do a search, there are several discussions of how to get it working with WordPress. - Paul Buchheit

Paul, thanks for the tip. Trying it out now. Very exciting times :) - Patrick Lightbody

I just can't ignore this, sorry. - Mohomed=genieyclo

ignoring - pea♥ fierce as a woozle

Duly ignored. - Mark VandenBerg

Ok. - Carmen

Oh geez. Come on guys -- get a life! :-) - Dave Winer

Who keeps those in stock? - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

lmao!! :o) good one! - Rob Sellen

this life you speak of, would i have to pay for that because there's a recession going on, you know. - pea♥ fierce as a woozle

*collapses into a puddle of laughter* - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

ignoring this one too! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

I like pie. - Orphan Spinster Librarian

My cat's breath smells like cat food. - Josh Bancroft

Now Josh we didn't really need to know that, did we? - Dave Winer

Those of us on http://www.peoplebrowsr.com already have grouping. It definitely makes Twitter more useful to business. - Robert Scoble

I keep wondering is I should look into peoplebrowsr.. - Dave Winer

Churchill Club podcasts. http://www.churchillclub.org/p... - Dave Winer

Grouping is a feature that's so useful I might even consider paying for it... but when you can already do so for free [currently] with tweetdeck or others, you'd have to wonder about pinning your revenue hopes to it. They'd have to offer a lot more as well - David Miller

Dave: I think you'd find lots of the concepts of PeopleBrowsr interesting. You should watch the video here for a good demo: http://www.kyte.tv/ch/6118-sco... - Robert Scoble

Hey Robert. The guy in the Kyte video is Jodee Rich. Were you in Australia or does he live overseas now? - Barak B

Barak: he visited my house in Half Moon Bay. - Robert Scoble

haha robert i love how you're recording yoru password lol - Stanley Stevens

He knows what is best. Maybe an expansion could make twitter more useful? - Jack