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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)

Kevin, it's only because they know they have a replacement home in Las Vegas. - Adam Lasnik

Wow. I wish I could go back and see it now. - Bill

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

gik! - AJ Batac

no. just no. - Mister Groonk via twhirl

ah, so *you're* the guy seeding Spiderman 3. ;-) - Karim

3% misses? Not bad. - Jauder Ho

aw, that's why friendfeed is nice and fast - Chris Lamprecht

Post values for curr_items and limit_maxbytes :) - Chris Lamprecht

geeky post! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

ACK - Bwana

cause and effect are not what they seem, in one sense there have never been managers and employers, they have all been sailing to the same wind, not caused by any of them - Gregory Lent

perfect answer...there's a solution we can all try...LOL - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Very cool. A couple of interesting articles about W L Gore and its unique work culture from Fast Company : http://www.fastcompany.com/mag... , http://www.fastcompany.com/mag... - Vikram Shenoy

meh - mike "glemak" dunn

Yeh - Rolf Schewe

robert ok then lets say this. have an option on a users FF page where they can link to their gmail address. I am kool with that as well. - (jeff)isageek

gmail is fine if you know the email of the person. - AJ Batac

http://friendfeed.com/e/06575c... - AJ Batac

How about the option to have a 'mailme' link that sends a mail from your registered address to theirs. Then again, that would require something akin to a profile... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

gmail... what's wrong with plain ol' e-mail? - Peter

Peter, because you don't know the email of the person here in FriendFeed - AJ Batac

@Peter: nothing is wrong with plain ol email, but how do I know what your email address is? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

there is something other then gmail? huh....j/k yes any email could be used. I just use gmail so i just used it as an example. - (jeff)isageek

How do you what someone's gmail address is? How do you know anything? Friendfeed knows, so if there'd be an option to e-mail someone, friendfeed could do it for you. - Peter

@Peter: that's exactly my point. FF knows your email addy, so if you had a profile and had checked a box "yes, ppl can email me", then I could go to your profile and click a 'Mail Peter' link. But alas, there is no profile and no checkbox for you to say ppl can email you. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Bleh, every service does not need to dup features. If you want DM's like Twitter...well...use Twitter. You should be able to contact someone just fine if necessary by looking at the info on their feed. If not, they probably didn't want to talk to you anyway. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I'm with Scoble. - The Kid

I'm not afraid to be called stupid for this, but I'm not using and I won't use gmail for _private_ communication since I'm concerned for my privacy. - Opensource Obscure

there should be _some_ kind of dm feature here...what is the utility of just randomly stalking people? if you want to make a real connection, there is no system in place for that (to do directly on ff) - Aaron McCullough

I don't have any problem with using GMail for my private communications. If it's THAT private, I don't put it in an email, Period. - Ian May

@Opensource Obscure: There's always GPG/PGP... - Tanath

The answer lies in the MojiPage XMPP bot for FriendFeed (im@mojipage.com), which allows you to direct message a FriendFeed user who is subscribed to you (without you knowing her Jabber ID). Sorry for the self-plug; I can't help it ;-) - Wil via MojiPage

@scoble, I wouldn't call private messaging lame on Twitter. I know you can't use it because you get deluged...but I bet that many average users are using private messaging >30% of the time. Plus really, you can't have twitter without some type of direct messaging or you would be pushing out that much more noise because it would only be replies to all... - Pokai

if the other side does NOT give you their email, that's done on purpose and you do not qualify for communications on the level of trust, by default - stop to be direct marketing arsehole, don't assume people exist to be messaged/mailed unless they publish their mail address (and even then it is still questionable). I wish spammers (upon legitimate court decision of proven guilt in spam) shall be declared outside law protection and everyone might kill them. - silpol

I disagree with silpol on this one. For example, my wife and I often use Twitter Direct messaging, when I am here at the computer, and she is out and about with her cellphone. It's easier to DM from Twitter on a desktop than it is to faff about sending a text on a cellphone, however good the keyboard is. - Ian May

@scoble one problem with your solution what if gmail goes down? Like it did very recently. - Colide81 (James)

where is ff on this..? I don't see what the problem is. let the user check a box on their profile indicating whether or not they would like to allow direct emails, and then create an "email me" link on the users popup profile in ff - JasonTFleming †

I think a profile with some sort of mail me facility is a good idea (just having a profile is good). It seems silly to suggest that we should stick to Gmail , 1 because the whole world doesn't use Gmail and 2, that if you wanted to mail someone you kind of need to know there address. I also think the suggestion of using another service is wrong and that it would be better to keep it in-house. Have it as a feature, set the default to off (i.e. the mail me link on you profile as off)... - Kol Tregaskes

and have the option for FF users to turn it on and thus allow fellow FFers to contact them. - Kol Tregaskes

agree with Robert. the only private messaging system I need is email. - Jon Price

and frf webmail too :) - slsrx

I have had a logitech for years and it is great. - Sheila Taylor

I'm using this for almost a year: http://www.logitech.com/index.... I've used Microsoft sets, Logitech sets and some other brands but I think Logitech is the best. - Eren Emre Kanal

Jim, is there something you'd like us to know? - Ruchira S. Datta

Hanging w Ana. Not really enjoying myself. - Paul Buchheit