"It seems I am not the only one with an intense craving for this stuff. All the following posts: Lip Balm Junkie by Veena Thomas; Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker How Do I Love Thee by Evette; and Amalah's Flashback Friday: Bonne Bell Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker talk about the gloss with words generally reserved for describing addiction, passionate love affairs, or really, really good cupcakes.
And that is what makes me feel better about my recent order from Bonne Bell and for the way I felt when I saw that box in the mailman's hands. I only ordered twelve. Which, you know, isn't really excessive or anything because since they only cost $1.60 it just doesn't make sense to order a couple. Think of the fuel I conserved by ordering so much at once!" - edythe via Bookmarklet
I used to make myself sick because I would eat these when I was a kid. :/ Snack FAIL. - Anna Haro
I bought these for my sister in law's christmas stocking (ourlove of Dr Pepper confounds my father in law). Got the junior mint ones for my sister - RAPatton
remember the super giant ones they used to have on a string that you wore around your neck? yum. - edythe
Very interesting premise. With monsters like Google controlling the browser game Urls could be gone in a flash and SEOs will have even more control. - Zach Scott
isn't that like going back in time, or going in circues? remember aol keywords? ads used to have 'search aol keyword: 'happystick' then begrudgingly added www address for the other 70% of internet users. i spent an inordinate amount of time teaching aol users how the rest of us used the internet. and now it seems like we're going back. - faboo mama
Aw RAP- worry not. It's just cumulative of massive change and caretaking two generations and working part-time and last night the small one got up at 4:30 so I'm tired. It could be much. much worse. But you are such a sweetheart for asking. There are some really good people on here. :) - Abby Martin
How old is the young one? Taking care of two generations is hard, and sleep is precious in those circumstances. - RAPatton
Four. She's four and she needs very little sleep. She's tremendously energetic. Hubs and I agree it is a recessive trait.... - Abby Martin
@Felix but it was time that definitely wasn't wasted. Any time watching Sarah on screen is time well spent. :) - Jason Shultz via twhirl
That is so awesome! Also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.... A little shakier camera work, but better angle on you. Except when people get their heads in the way, but what can you do? - Jandy Stone
"FriendFeed and Twitter are both very good at what they do, but have yet to gain the mainstream appeal that Facebook enjoys. Facebook is adding another feature that FriendFeed has long had and that has very similar functionality to Summize (now Twitter Search), so maybe it's time for them to start getting worried. By exposing its large user base to these features that FriendFeed and Twitter have perfected, Facebook poses a real threat." - Hutch Carpenter
I was on this site a while before I posted... all of those pictures = mesmerizing. Agreed, Lindsay. It's amazing how photographs can conjure so much emotion :) - Mona N.
Lindsay: You don't even know.. I spent a five weeks in rural Philippines. I pumped water from a well and 'showered' from a water bucket... I've seen starvation and poverty. Some of these things we complain about, is seriously nothing lol - Mona N.
Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer for his photo of the child and the vulture. The sad thing is that as good a photographer as Carter was he ended up killing himself. In his suicide note he wrote, "I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky." - Thomas Hawk
Oh, I missed it. Thanks mwm :) Funny how we both posted the same link, but chose completely different pictures.@Thomas: The irony =\ - Mona N.
The Palestinian Father photo has been shown to be fake. - Victor Ryden
@Thomas Some people suffer for most of us. Photographers such as Kevin Carter wouldn't fit the typical 'Hero' template but I wouldn't be who I am if I wasn't gifted perspective by images such as these from people such as Kevin. A more cheerful story from a photographer : Rick Smolan's story of a girl : http://tinyurl.com/669yvd - Kamath
Some of those photos I've seen many times before and they're still very powerful. - Candace Holly
Thanks for your comment on Kevin Carter, Thomas. It puts it all into a perspective. - Roberto Bonini
Agreed. Thomas' insight really made an impact, too :) - Mona N.
in the fist picture what womans do? they shooting to some one? or they only practice? - Mahdi Ebrahimi
Caption for the pic is: Veiled Women Men Shoot
In 1986, Iranian men dressed as women shoot using guns in the outskirts of the capital city Tehran. Nothing much is said about this photograph, but it raised important issues to the steps Iranian fighters would take to mingle in with innocent people. - Lindsey Smith
I'd also like to see Disqus comments to be treated as comments, which by implementing Louis suggestion in point 2, will make more sense i guess. Comments are comments, posts are posts. In case there will be no link to which the comment is added, it could work like posting a link with the Disqus comment under. Btw, @Robert, you don't have Disqus hooked up in FF ;) - Tibor Holoda
Excellent post Louis. You are pretty much spot on with those 10 suggestions. - Mike Fruchter
Tibor: I don't like Disqus pulling in comments here. Often I want different communities to remain separate. I'll manually pull in comments or point out when I've made comments that FriendFeeder's should be aware of. Like I did here. - Robert Scoble
FriendFeed is a lifestream aggregator and I use it to aggregate all my various 'outputs'. Disqus comments are just one category of my 'outputs'. Therefore, Disqus comments are perfectly valid and *do* belong in my FriendFeed stream The fact, that such comments may be out of context to people bending FF into a Social Media Forum is an unfortunate consequence. - Andy C
11. add user definable font size. the new beta makes me squint :) - h1ro
#9! I hide things liberally and it does bug me, when I click on page 2, I'm seeing page 1 all over again. - Yolanda
Great suggestions Louis,
I would also add:
The Ability to Hide Specific RSS Feeds and
Search All Entries by URL - Shey
and go-faster stripes, a background of babes in bikinis, and intermittant embedded hilarious fart noises. - john conroy
I have to so that FF has been growing well with the current feature set. Like all areas of activity contraints can sometimes be helpful. FF needs to innovate itself, rather than copy straight from Twitter (DM's), Facebook (profiles) etc. 2,4,10 are most important. The issue here is not so much what features we want as how can FF grow into a mature platform. - Roberto Bonini
Robert: I see your point, but i still think it would be a good thing to handle Disqus comments as comments, not as posts. User decides, if he wants them appear in his FF stream or not - like in your case. - Tibor Holoda
Great List Louis! #2 is my favorite one. - Peter Hoffmann
Tibor, I agree with you (Robert, when are you going to enable Disqus on your blog?). For the blog owner it's much easier to consolidate into one place if they can tie your comments straight to the FriendFeed post itself instead of an entirely new post. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
One more suggestion - tagging. I want to be able to tag individuals, both in my posts, *and* my comments if I'm talking about them or something they might be interested in. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Excellent list. My top priority though, isn't on there - (as per Shey) renaming or separating "Blog" posts, so individuals can hide your blog vs. another "blog" .. I'd also like it easier to determine which services I am/am not showing per individual. Just give me some enable/disable checkboxes on the users page. Strands did this right. - Tim Hoeck
Great suggestions Louis. One clarification on #4 -- most people never see this "default" list because they were either invited by another user, or they import friends from email or facebook. The recommendations are then based entirely on who their other friends are, and will make a lot more sense. - Paul Buchheit
Indeed some good suggestions. My guess is that the reason that #2 (duplicates) has not been implemented yet, is that it is very tricky to do right. If they do manage to implement it and get it right, I will be very impressed. I would not be too surprised though, since Friendfeed has some really sharp people working there. - Robert Felty
Excellent List and some good suggestions in comments as well. I really would like to see 2,3,5,6, & 10. The share on FF bookmarklet should be more like Tumblr's. I would also like to be able to filter my feed to prevent duplicates. I would like to cross post my tumblr to my main blog and twitter but in doing so I create more noise for my FF stream. If I could filter out posts from blog or twitter that started with "XYZ" then I could cross post freely without worrying about FF noise. - tsudohnimh
@Paul, thanks for the comment. I did test by signing up to just one individual, as if they had invited me, and by changing the one person I subscribed to, the recommended friends did change. That said, if you check out recommended friends in Facebook, there's the option to "X" out people you don't want and provide more. Plaxo also does this well. - Louis Gray
Re: #1 and #8 I would like to see profile information that I can search, so I can find FF folks who are geographically near me or who are in my profession or who share a common interest with me. Great post - thanks! - Courtney McGough
Pownce should worry about #10. FF will soon have to worry about cannibalizing its data suppliers, and what that means for ongoing openness. #! & #2 are the big ones with me, and I just don't see why FF enabled fake followers. - Logical Extremes
being 1st or 2nd is all that matters in that particular field.... 3rd placings and below would normally whither away - Mark L via twhirl
I am really getting confused. I just commented on the post. Now I see the comments here as posts. Totally agree with Tibor, messing posts together with comments, be it from Disqus or anywhere else, does not increase transparency. - Jan Horna
#7 - want to make sure i understand that concept of "fake follow" - home feed contains all friends by default & you can then add them to a list/grouping to subdivide them for easier readability - to remove them from the home feed you have to actually de-select them when you add them to a list and then never go to that list again - is that what "fake follow" is - if so, way to much work for no return and only lame*ss self absorbed status mongers will be doing it - imho of course :) - mike "glemak" dunn
#5 - My thought would be to make an invitation-only private room. Wouldn't this solve the partial-distribution problem? - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, it could, and some do, but that's a room, and not a feed. Unless the room data permeates the feed, it could get missed. - Louis Gray
I like your list. One other feature I'd like to see is to filter by service in whatever view I am in. - Jeff P. Henderson
The absolute killer feature for me would be, if FF will recognize languages of the posts, or at least to differentiate between english vs. non-english and allow filtering. Would that even be possible or did my brain just farted? :) - Tibor Holoda
(sorry for cross posting) Firstly, I'd like to add to Louis' list the capability to search rooms and then to search inside rooms. Secondly, I must confess that support for a basic profile would be useful. But as always I'd encourage the reuse of data (so importing it from whatever source the user decides). DMs might be usefull, but I haven't felt the need for them so far. - Alex Popescu
I usually don't like to speak about things that are not ready, but this post was catchy. I currently have a prototype that deals with de-duping the resource links. I haven't looked into de-duping pure messages, but my gut feeling is that this might be even easier. I hope to find the time to deploy this app sometime soon. - Alex Popescu
About private messaging: at first I thought this was a silly idea for ff, until I realized that the private messages could just show up where ff items normally show up, e.g. private comments. - j1m
You called it demo of the year in 2006 and it was just released? - Kyle Lacy
It was a research project back then. Back then it took two to four days to build one Photosynth. They've been working on it to make it work for consumer photos. - Robert Scoble
would love to try it. but "Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows." thanks for the heads up though. - ~C4Chaos
yeah, i had that OS problem too. Unfortunately. - Johnny Sewell
Bummer. Can't run it on my Mac... Didn't bother to install boot camp. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
At this point, I'm afriad to install anything else under Vista 64 until the next SP. - Chris Weiss via twhirl
Wow you can use your own photos now. I tried the demo about a year ago and it was awesome. It even ran on a slow UMPC. - Rodfather
I can't wait to go out in the desert and take a whole ton of shots! This is huge, super cool stuff! - Tad - just Tad
A lot more jerky than I thought it would be. Also it seems to take a long time for the server to download full resolution versions of all of the images. Cool, but not quite there yet in my eyes. Robert, how did the demos you saw at MS compare to your demo? Were they smoother? - Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff: they are pretty smooth here. I think the 3D models were more complete in the demo I saw. But I might be wrong. I just uploaded one of my family room and it works pretty well here. I'm running Vista, though. Not sure that matters. - Robert Scoble
Robert, I'm looking at your family room demo, that is what I was commenting on. I'm running XP. The slow loading of full res photos may be due to a sporadic Comcast connection problem I'm having tonight, although other web pages seem to load reasonably quickly. I guess I'll have to create one of my own to see how it all works. In any event, it really is cool technology. - Jeff P. Henderson
BTY I like your baby proofing, looks like my house. Also noticed you still have Xmas card photos on your frig.. Time to print out some photos on Milan and hang them on the frig :P - Jeff P. Henderson
Don;t worry about installing this on Vista x64 - it works like a champ (then again, Vista x64 is rock stable here so I have no worries anyway). I am really looking forward to playing with this stuff at DragonCon if I can score a good camera. - Soulhuntre
I love and use both pandora and last.fm...not sure if there's room for a 3rd. - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl
The main thing I use Last.FM for is audioscrobbling my local tunes. I only rarely listen to streaming "radio", so Winamp and the Last.fm scrobbler plugin work just fine for me. - Richard Miles
no, no, Lisa, those who are less filling... - Trent Olson
Thank you, Trent. My work here is finished. Still no takers on my first comment, though. Am I the only one who grew up in the land of White Hen?? - Lisa L. Seifert
"ReplyFeed is a free tool that will aggregate all of your replies from your various communities (blogs included) into one place. Now you can monitor replies, answer them and have them sent back to the community from whence they came in one convenient location." - Louis Gray via Bookmarklet
This is always a good sign: "Thank you fro your interest in private BETA." :-) - Louis Gray
I haven't tried this site yet but had the same idea a few months back. If someone executes on this well, they'll have the summize equivalent plus plus plus - Jason Goldberg
@repleyfeed , thank you for the invite, can't get in without code ..pls post code alongwith invite !! - Peter Dawson
Louis - I'm still trying to get back to four others .... Help!!! (Signed up :) - Charlie Anzman
I was just saying last week that I need this service, I was trying to a get friend to build it - guess I don't need to worry about that anymore :) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl
LOL @Louis_Gray! Just hope the code is lint-free, it sounds like a good idea! - Chris Kim A
seems like we have "Sunfish" on this one :)- check the address ..no more fail whale ? - Peter Dawson
ping.fm incorporate this asap and u will rule all - adolfo foronda
seems 'neat', but it feels like taking aspirin to get over a brain tumor. the problem needs some deeper work... - Jeremy Toeman
If this goes any further we will need a new aggregation service that aggregates all the tools that aggregate all the web services that aggregate all the discussions into one place (I may have missed a few aggregation layers here and there). - Alexander van Elsas
@Alex van elsas LOL you are right about that! - Colide81
yes, alexander is completely right ./.. this will end when an entire new ecosystem is invented .. and then will begin again - Gregory Lent
LOL yeah but that is the way of culture and even sorta like a ever growing forest. - Colide81
Not sure if anyone from ReplyFeed is reading this but their blurb above says "from whence". Doesn't "whence" mean "from where/from what place", making the "from" redundant? - Richard Crocker
i started writing a blog post this morning entitled something like " 5 new technologies that solve problems you didn't knew you had", but I never got around finishing that with all the comment fragmentation floating around ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
David LOL, the whole point is that I'm a normal human being that has no need whatsoever for aggregators that agregate ..... and so on. You do know someone out there is already building an aggregator that includes friendfeedfeed. Don't see the value, and I sure can't explain any of it to non-tech friends or family ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
RF reminds me more of "Republique Francaise" :) - Loic Le Meur via twhirl
@Gregor, Really it's 2/3 spectacular roads from throughout the world, with 1/3 plain old rural us roads mixed in, except those all have spectacular skies. Yeah, I don't know what they're doing mixed in. - j1m
I recognize that stretch of Greenwich Township, Berks County. It's a great road for bicycling. - Jeremy Hylton
