“Sorry for the brief outage everyone. We had a major failure with one of our backends, and our recovery was slow. We are investigating now, and we apologize for the inconvenience.”
Will service credits be automatically applied to our account? - Wayne Schulz
I'm impressed by the way you guys handled this, +1 for Friendfeed - Cains
You should keep an eye on your backends. We are. ;-) - Brian Johns
It is ok. Occasional small glitches are ok if handled promptly - Varun Mahajan
Someone feed that monkey on the treadmill back there some more bananas. - Thomas Hawk
I would like a refund for my monthly service fee! :) @Sparky, i think you forgot a word, I'm guessing there should be a "on" between "eye" and "your". - Georgia Diehl
Server 1: "I am getting sick of all this serving crap." Server 2: "I am too. Let's simultaneously fail right now." Server 3: "Hey, great idea!" Server 4: "Don't leave me out!" - Bret Taylor
Server 5. "I'm so going back to work for Twitter!" - Louis Gray
Server 1: OK, who's going to serve up the Fail Whale, then? Server 3: That's Twitter, silly, we don't have a Whale. Server 4: I thought we had a Fail Cat? Server 2: You guys are all idiots. Server 1: Oh yeah? Well your mother serves ASP! Server 2: oh no you di'int! [chaos ensues] [/scene] - Josh Haley
Something that can filter chaff from the news, that you can log into every week or maybe even every month or so. Only stuff of lasting significance. Similarly a video site of meatier, interesting content rather than the light bites you get on YouTube. (Both these ideas sound a lot like old media, I know). - Neil Kandalgaonkar
I would like to be able to SMS my DVR to record a show I forgot to record. - Bryan Power
I want a website where I can input the food I ate very quickly (no more than 5 seconds to input a snack, 10 seconds for a meal) and track my nutritional and caloric intake. I want a good approximation and simple interface over exactness, so I would like it to know the ingredients of common meals and let me choose portion sizes in a way that is really quick. - Bret Taylor
I was thinking about this over the weekend, actually, and it was similar to what Bret mentioned. A site where you can enter your meals, but also have the option to text or email your meal in. Also the ability to create meals in advance so you could just text in meal:restaurant for instance and it would be preset with the ingredients and portion sizes. From that it would give you all kinds of pretty charts and graphs about calories, nutrients, and make suggestions of foods for you to eat to get the vitamins in which you're deficient (ideally it would recommend food you're likely to enjoy based on foods you already eat). Add your height, weight, measurements, and body fat % plus the ablity to send in your physical activity just like meals = SWEET. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
a way to play my old CRPGs, like Ultima series, Might and Magic, etc, without setting up my environment specially for each one - just open up a browser or window, open a saved game, and go - Christopher Galtenberg
I'm too lazy to enter my meals into a site. Just implement the web server in my throat so it can monitor all the food going by. Even better, have it intercept the bad stuff and use it to power the web server. - Amit Patel
"The world's largest airliner landed at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday with about 450 people aboard, kicking off Southern California's first A380 passenger service and providing a welcome economic boost for the slumping airport.
Qantas Flight 93 from Melbourne, Australia, landed at 7:26 a.m. and was greeted by public officials and Hollywood celebrities including actor John Travolta and singer Olivia Newton-John. The jetliner was scheduled to make its return flight to Australia late Monday." - Paul Buchheit
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Glad to see its flying now. Not that I have much of a chance of flying in one. - Roberto Bonini
I am curious as to how well the boarding process is being/going to be handled at various airports. - Mustafa K. Isik
Because the first thing i want to see when I get off of a long intercontinental flight is John Travolta and Olivia Newton John. Well, Olivia can say hi anytime. - Josh Haley
I'd fly more if Olivia Newton-John was an official greeter. - Brian Norwood
Those first class seats are lovely looking. Of course, I'll never be able to afford first class on any plane. But I can still dream. - Jill, Superhero Librarian
You'd be surprised, JMS. I've upgraded a few times for $50.00 at the gate. - Mark VandenBerg
"In a reunion of the stars from the musical film 'Grease,' Travolta, wearing his pilot captain's uniform, and Newton-John, dressed as one of the flight attendants, walked down the plane's aisle together, shaking hands and promoting the new plane for Qantas." Man I so would have picked Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty from "Airplane!" Then have Leslie Nielsen peek out occasionally and randomly say, "I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you." - Karim
or (given the flight path) just randomly put actors from "Lost" on the plane. and run into some turbulence on the way. - Karim
I LOVE this one:" 2. …in Bejeweled. Earlier this year, a Jersey City man spent a month reprogramming Bejeweled so that when his girlfriend reached a high score, it would reward her with, “Marry me!” They are planning a Bejeweled-themed wedding, and PopCap has donated copies of the game for their guests." - Rachel Lea Fox
“We just pushed a change that should make it easier to comment in a fast-moving real-time feed. The updates will temporarily stop flowing in when your mouse is moving towards a comment link. Let me know if it helps for those of you with 100s of subscriptions.”
LOVE IT! (it took a little while for me to embrace it, but absolutely LOVE IT!!) - T-Ho
If you could some how display some context (especially for comments) when you hover over the message, that would make ff domination complete =) - Mark Philpot
Cool, what about temporarily stopping the feed when you hover over any part of the post? - Kol Tregaskes
Doesn't work for me in Firefox, feed continues to scroll when I put mouse over comment link. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
A couple of things, can we please have the link to the FF page for the share on all items we see in real-time instead of just the replies. Is it possible to have a like on all items too and if you 'like' a reply it just likes that share (or perhaps implement some sort of like by comment feature)? - Kol Tregaskes
@Kol The feed only stops when your mouse is moving over your real-time view. Once you stop moving your mouse, the feed continues again. If you click on the comment link, the feed should pause too. Let me know if that's not working for you. - Dan Hsiao
Dan, any timeframe for realtime in the iGoogle and Facebook gadgets? - John Craft
If updates _stop_ flowing then it's not real-time, or am I missing something? :/ - directeur
Lnks need to be target="_blank" in the pop-up window. - l0ckergn0me
l0ckergn0me: Usability rule: don't decide for my clicking behavior, I can do it - directeur
Dan, oh I see, so moving the mouse stops the fee, stopping your mouse moves the feed. Feels a bit backwards to me. I personally would prefer it as you hover over the text or some part of the feed it stops. It's a bit annoying to keep moving my mouse while reading the posts. Hope that makes sense? :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Dan, I've tried this moving the mouse around and it works most of the time but it occasionally ignores this and the feed starts up again. Should I be moving the mouse over a particular part of the feed? - Kol Tregaskes
"A Japanese restaurant has changed the face of customer service by employing two monkeys to help with the table service.
The Kayabukiya tavern, a traditional 'sake house' north of Tokyo has employed a pair of uniformed Japanese macaque called Yat-chan and Fuku-chan to serve patrons." - Tudor Bosman
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'It wasn't a design mistake - no-one really knew they were going to come through,' he says.
'The lodge was built and then the elephants started coming through afterwards. - Kishore Balakrishnan
1,131,662 Views (10:00 Pacific 06.oct.08) - Steve Craft
pity you can't vote on these issues they're talking about :-/ just hope that there's a candidate that matches enough of your views. yes, votings good, but it hardly covers these issues independently :-( - immaterial
"At one point, in 1985, Pixar, losing money fast, was nearly sold to General Motors and Philips Electronics, which wanted its computer-graphics modelling tools to help design cars and transform medical scans into three-dimensional images. Even when Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple, came to the rescue, Pixar was still in danger. Its pretence to be a computer company was going badly: sales of the Pixar Image Computer were slow. The only significant way the company was earning money was by making cartoon advertisements to sell other companies' products." - Bret Taylor
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I just saw Wall-E last night, and compared to other Pixar movies, was kinda disappointed. In contrast and captioned above, Ratatouille was awesome. - John Lam
I agree. Wall-E was ok, but not great. - Sheila Taylor
I think the Pixar movie after Incredibles,like Cars,Rat,Wall-E are not so great,maybe the bar had set by themself is too high to reach. - Steve Chou
Haven't seen Wall-E yet, but you gotta think that after so many really good films (not just animated films) they are bound to have a 'so-so' flick in there...The Incredibles was the best imo - Jake Tapia
Monsters Inc., Cars and Ratatouille are my faves. Looking forward to seeing Wall-E when on DVD. - Kol Tregaskes
jake, I thought the same thing, but Wall-E was great too. I am still waiting for a Pixar flop to let me know we're all fallible. - Aaron "Dangitsauce" Krug
On the other hand, I think Wall-E was better than the Dark Knight (which was pretty darn good too) ... Cars is the only one I didn't like, but it was still watchable. - Deepak
“I want a Techmeme without any business news. Just blog posts that make me smarter, or give me things to try. I think that's why I like FriendFeed so much. Far less "so and so buying so and so" kind of news, and more about "here's how to take a better picture" or "here's a new iPhone app."”
Funny. I had an idea for another type of meme ... thinking of talking to Gabe and Atul Arora about it ... - AJ Kohn
But still tech news (or heavily oriented that way). I would like even more specialized info and discussion -- like what is going on in F1 racing, the bicycle world or other subjects I am or could become interested in. I thought the rooms feature would do it but it doesn't cut it (or maybe the people here are just interested in things that interest me) - Brian Sullivan
true. find news is easy. find useful post/article is really hard. - Rafał Nowak
We need a SMARTER filtering services, I really need this kinda service, data flowing everywhere ... Yes Scoble, I love FF for the same reason, let me ask you, did u bookmark your fav. users ? ;) - Alemsah
Brian: those will happen when FF grows. Right now the feature set here is retarding its growth. They are rewriting the backend so they can add new features to let us talk to the database in new ways. WHen that happens it'll take off in growth again and bring in less geeky kinds of people. - Robert Scoble
Alemsah: nope, I don't bookmark anything. There's way too many to bookmark at this point. And I refresh so often that I see all good stuff anyway. - Robert Scoble
Have you spent much time on Twine, Robert? I get the impression they're tackling this problem--in their own way, of course. - Ken Sheppardson
we're trying to do that with Regator... although we do have business in there, there is much more to it and it doesn't dominate unless it is really top news in the whole blogosphere. We are working to make quality blogs and interesting posts accessible for average people as well as tech geeks... some people just don't care that twitter bought summize - can you believe it??? hit me up for a login if you are interested in taking a look. Please forgive the fairly blatant plug. :) - Scott Lockhart
Twine is more of the semantic analysis/social news thing. Also has a "grouping" mechanism, but it is user driven. I think we are talking about techmeme for tech blogs here. - Rob Diana
My biggest problem is still redundancy; I'm not subscribed to that many people here (relatively) and even so I'll still see the same story linked five times, if not the same outright link. The next Google will be the guys who can nail personalization, recommendation, and filtering, as well as a sort of aggregation of conversation by topic. So far no one has gotten even close. FF might, but it's still got a ways to go. - Eric P
Ken: I have to spend some time on Twine. I should have done that long ago. You like it? - Robert Scoble
What if a search engine or filtering system, similar to summize for FF ? - Alemsah
hey eric, did you hear twitter acquired summize??? about a million times. - Craig Ritchie
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