Josh Kenzer

I hope this means more Kevin Rose interactivity via FriendFeed. - Pete Delucchi

Via Disqus? Nah, buddy. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

I'd talk to Duncan Riley about this as http://www.theinquisitr.com has this functionality in addition to disqus. - James Fuller

Your blog software could use the FriendFeed API to query ff, looking for when the new post shows up, and then simply link to the ff page for that item. Maybe you could pull in the comments also through the API, but I don't think there would be a way to post new comments directly from your blog. I'm not familiar with the API though. - Phillip Stewart

+1 @Pete - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

I think it's a WP plugin - Outsanity

inquisitr is http://www.inquisitr.com/ - Occasional Headbanger

Let's see... Hey Kevin. What's up? - Josh Haley

The API definitely allows for this. Go look at RWW or any wordpress blog with the FriendFeed comments plugin. Still waiting on Disqus or ID or someone to actually unify this setup. RWW seems to have the best example of what I would like to see. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

http://wordpress.org/extend/pl... Intense Debate intergrated the comments last I checked, but they're back in private beta - BCK via twhirl

That's a great idea - PC Easy via twhirl

great idea....would like to know how to do it too...let us know if u succeed at doing it kevin - Eldon

Wordpress has a plugin that pulls FF comments, likes, etc. - mathew ingram

how do i follow just this post from FF? - Elsie H Martinez

Hrm, yea, I've seen a few plugins that enable this, but nothing w/disqus like cut-n-paste javascript. My blog is currently on squarespace (no 3rd party plugins) so I need something via js. - Kevin Rose

What about http://www.backtype.com/ ? - you can "claim" all your comments by setting up the specific URL's where you comment - doubt it to work with others' comments on your blog, though. You probably might have to wait until intensedebate or disqus will either support squarespace or offer a plugin-less solution. - schilke

That would be cool. Strange I've never heard that idea before. - Ciaoenrico

You can use http://wordpress.org/extend/pl... this one. And a demo is here: http://www.gurkanoluc.com/wp-f... - Ali

Shameless self promo: http://blog.slaven.net.au/word... This allows you to embed FF comments & likes and put a form on your blog to post FF comments & likes from your blog - Glenn Slaven

the proxy that i'm behind blocks youtube... is this the kind of thing thats going to make me want to harm puppies? - Chris Hollander

THIS WAS SO COOL I SENT IT OUT TO EVERYONE - amelia arapoff

FriendFeed has certainly made it easier for each person to send this out to 5 friends! - Anne Bouey

Natalie Portman's got her hair back. Looking good - Josh Haley

"I've never done shit on drugs except...play Halo 2" LOL - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

ROCK THE VOTE DOT ORG - David Lynch

Tried to send it to my sister in the midwest, but she only has internet at work, and they block youtube. =( - Mandi

http://youtubeproxy.org/ - Dustin

438,000 views now. - Matt Cutts

i love reverse psychology - potamus

good one - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Is second degree message efficient... except for people who yet agree... - jfayel

my final thinking is it is too clever to be efficient - jfayel

468,783 views now. - imabonehead

Views: 855,261(17:06 EET 04.oct.08) - silpol

1,131,662 Views (10:00 Pacific 06.oct.08) - Steve Craft

Mona- that's wonderful - and true. - Abby Martin

o hai o - Pokai

Get out of my head!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

D'OH! - m.i.a

Duck ... Mona's Here! - Charlie Anzman

Ha! Funnier if I wasn't in square one at the moment! Will move to square two in a few ;) - Alan

23m old and it has 35+ likes already - Michael W. May

She is THE original rock star - Charlie Anzman

I think it would have been more realistic if the sleep panel still had the stick figure sitting at the computer dreaming of being in bed. I've been "falling asleep at the wheel" a lot lately myself. - Larry Kless

Oh HAI Mona! - Kyle Lacy

O HAI KYLE! Hi FF, I'm back!! - Mona N.

o hai lovely mona ;) - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

hai hai - Mark Wilson

yaaay! Catching up on people's feeds, guys! See you in your threads. :) - Mona N.

so true - (jeff)isageek via fftogo

Very very true.. It happens to me most of the times. - Sudar

رونوشت به همه به خصوص معتادین گرامی :D - Maryam Ardakani

رونوشت به مریم اردکانی بیحس - PeYm@N

mornink ;) - silpol

رونوشت دریافت شد ولی من هیچوقت خواب نمیبینم :D - Farzad

من دقيقا اين شكلي شده زندگيم :) - mhmazidi

مثل من - Mahdi

Hi Mona :) - Maryam Ardakani

holy hell - Caroline

Source? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

me 2 - maysam shahsavari

That's me! - Monique

lol @ Farzad. You crazy for that, man - Outsanity

Sleep? What's that? - Shawn Farner

And you want to sleep less and less - Varun Mahajan

Incredible, I need the T-Shirt. - Aaron Krug

Welcome to the world of tomorrow! - James Tenniswood

I once asked where the "third place" is in today's technological world (http://techiteasy.org/2007/08/...). This picture seems to fit that pretty well. - Vincent van Wylick

i wish it werent! - Hayk

I once dreamt about driving into the office while on my laptop..I mean..the car drove itself while I checked email..daring - Terence Washington

cool! - Colide81 (James)

And there you have it. The new reality. - Kevin

The dude that is gaming doesn't look like that he is gaming. - possible248

heh. back in the 1.0beta days, I used to dream of scrolling text - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

Geek lifecycle - excellent capture! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

So every day - BoilingIce

hahaha awesome! It's my life! wait.. it's sad... whatever.. - Leandro Ardissone

I ♥ it! :) When? When? When?? - AJ Batac

Likey. - Jonathon

Whoa. - Mark Trapp

Sawheet! "lists" means I can go back to using a single account now, phew! - Jason Wehmhoener

Very Awesome Bret... can't wait. :) http://beta.friendfeed.com/?bc... - Brandon

Totally love the Friends addition. - Chris Baskind

Noice! - Shey

AJ, it's available now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ - Paul Buchheit

Pretty sweet. - Scott Bulloch via feedalizr

Paul you just beat me to it.. this is aka just like draft.blogger.com :)_ - Peter Dawson

In beta, wow. HOLY WOW this is AWESOME. Are the poster usernames still goign to be links? - Mona N.

Brandon/AJ: no need to wait: use it now at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ and let us know how you like it. - Bret Taylor

so awesome - love the favorites! - Morgan

I've switched and don't know that I'll be going back. Someone lemme know when beta is live so I can hit the normal site! =) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Awesome! - Steve Rubel

Fabulous! Cannot wait! - Abby Martin

It's beautiful. :) - Daynah

Thanks FriendFeed Team. You guys rock! - AJ Batac

Great features, digging the groups - Cains

wow nice job! It's very clean! - Alan Le

It's the Gmail/Reader interface, but w/ the nav on the right side -- shocked I am, shocked! :-) - Paul Wilcox

Wow! Neat. - Atul Arora

The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)- - Peter Dawson

A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !! - Peter Dawson

Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will. - Vinay | विनय

Coming up next: gamma.friendfeed.com - Jim Norris

I /love/ this! So much shinier. - eve shot first

I still want more of a customizable dashboard view, tho. (kudos on the changes, tho...they ARE nice, and I do appreciate them. :)) - abacab

Thank you for the lists. - Paul Arterburn

Good job guys. I am disappointed you used Peter Astley, and not Rick Astley. Lost opportunity. - Louis Gray

looking great :) - sergiooo

My favorite is how the blog has like 2 comments, and Brett's link to it has almost 30 comments. - Dustin

Yummy* Friendfeeding just got better. - Jonathan (Bad Robot)

This could be very good... but where 's the Rick Roll? - Bill Sodeman

OK: That's a long enough beta period. Let's do it live! - Chris Baskind

I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now) - Wayne Schulz

LOVE IT! - Kyle Lacy

Why not position:fixed the right nav? Like this: http://limpid.nl/lab/css/fixed... - Michael Leggett

The share button no longer appears in my feed. This is counterintuitive. Otherwise, it's been a great experience so far. - Michael Nielsen

Where's the "me" tab? Everything else I LOVE! - Jennifer Van Grove

Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

click on your name Jennifer, above right - Tibor Holoda

@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too. - Dan Hsiao

you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :) - Allen Stern

@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI. - Michael Nielsen

Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post form is also confusing because you don't quite know what to enter into it; a link, or a message, or...? The fact that it says "Share a link, message, or photos" doesn't really help. Also wasn't sure how to remove a friend from the home feed after moving them to a special list feed. Took me some seconds to find the Delete List icon, because I was looking near the "Add/ remove friends" link navigation. Wasn't sure if I like you created so many default friend lists for me (personal, favorites, professional), though I guess it may be useful to get the point across. I think I'm liking how names aren't underlined, though not so sure a - Philipp Lenssen

Try Friend recommendations. - Chris Baskind

I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :) - AJ Batac

Looks like the logo now clicks to the Friends view, as you'd expect. Same as You + Friends. - Chris Baskind

can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience. - Thomas Hawk

Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great! - Aditya Kothadiya

awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site? - Thomas Hawk

One word: wonderful. - Brandon Titus

thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward - Travis Parsons

like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout... - Baron Mok

It is kind of cool! - Steve Chou

great design!! - Ricardo J. Valle

on minor thing: on the main page, Post button and "Show best of: day - week" overlaps if you narrow the browser window. - Dennis Seah

Fantastic! - mojay

We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page. - Selim Yoruk

Cool new FF! - Igor Poltavskiy

Time stamps for comments? :( - Marcos Messer

Threaded comments??? - Jigar Mehta

So many small details and improvements, make SO much difference. - Martin Añazco

At last, I will be able to add to my feed all the people who subscribe to me, and it won't impact on my main source of infobrainment. It looks nice, too. Looks like you guys have pulled another one out of the bag. +1 - Slippy Lane

looking good friendfeed crew! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Funny that they turned it on when I was flying to Europe. Looks awesome! - Robert Scoble

that is so frickin' sweet! - Jeremiah Palmer

I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P - Patrick Lightbody

please have an option to set font size! - h1ro

It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho! - Justin Long

FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team. - Russellreno

@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp. - Dan Hsiao

I think that the bubble effect works well if you have subscribed to just a few people but I would think that if you have thousands of "friends" then it would be almost impossiable to keep up. I did like the idea that somebody suggest of being able to tag some of you friends as real and then either giving them higher priority or creating another tab with just their feeds in. - John Cooper

Forgiven ... for now. - Charlie Anzman

Good point, Robert, I would filter out "iPhone". - Ryo

When TiVoing the Olympics and not wanting to read spoilers, I'd filter out Olympics, Phelps, etc. - JD Lasica

the true leading edge simply doesn't need to be here, or facebook, etc. - i would like to see discussion around an idea all in one place, not here, then over at louisgray, plus what i missed at dave winer ... - Gregory Lent

I agree a keyword filter would be great, and it should be reasonable to implement a feature like that. As for the bubbling, I'd like to keep that for me. - Thomas Frütel

the true leading edge doesn't have a community, as there are very few who are there - clarke thomas

if they only displayed items that inky had 2 or more likes, or at least one comment, then no one would see anything, since in order for it to appear, it needs to be liked. In order to be liked, it needs to appear. - Andru Edwards

I think Robert (and the rest o'yaz) are right that better filtering is needed. I know noiseriver and some others are working on this (and of course the FF team.) Would be great to "weight" people, services, and keywords... - Anthony Citrano

Some of you apparently need a "Web Service of the Month Club" membership. ;) - abacab

Filtering and chronological sorting, setting like tolerances is all possible with the current API. Adding data to people (like weights) would requires a database. I think it would be cool to have a 2 column layout, the left column in true chronological order and the right with standard "bubbled up" content. - Paul Reynolds

Bubbling is essential to maintain a conversation. Without it, everything becomes even more ephemeral. Just hide what you're done with. - Logical Extremes

Robert - I found this item through Google Reader (I subscribe to Friendfeed - Best of Day, which I flow to my A feeds folder). Because of the noise and information overload issue, I've pretty much given up trying to use Friendfeed by browsing from http://friendfeed.com/ - Sean McBride

@Scoble - sounds like mioNews might do what you want if I could just get the relevance ranking engine turned back on. It is designed to auto-filter out the stuff you've "hated" in the past and bring up to the top the stuff you've liked in the past. - Patrick Lightbody via mioNews

Allowing you an *option* to rate your contacts on a 1-10 scale and then allowing a best of hour, day, week, month incorporating these ratings into the algorithm would at a minimum produce an alternative "best of." And probably more relevant than relying only on social metadata (likes, comments) alone. This tool could also be used for custom filtering certain subsets of contacts as well. Eg. Show me content from all contacts rated 6 or higher, etc. - Thomas Hawk

I love it more than ever. Last week though, I did do some artful pruning of my subscriptions, and that has toned up my experience. Agree strongly with the request for friend grouping and friend weighting. Vital. In my opinion this functionality is FriendFeed's "fire alarm" and it's what they need to implement soon to balance things out. - Steve Isaacs

friendfeed is just passing notes in class, and about as fulfilling, you can find out who you want to meet out in the parking lot later. - Gregory Lent

If enough users begin to filter out items based on the number of comments and/or the number of likes, how would anyone see anything at all? Everything would be filtered out and nothing would get through. What am I missing here? I understand filtering certain types of content (e.g., Twitter, etc.) but I don't understand filtering based on the number of comments or likes. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

You just can't treat FriendFeed like Twitter, subscribe to a massive number of people, and expect a good experience. Although I like the ideas that Robert suggested, and would like to see them implemented, I also think that the best way to control the noise, at least for now, is through thoughtful subscriptions. FriendFeed currently remains for me now what Yahoo! was for me in 1996: the center of the web. - Akiva Moskovitz

Gregory: there would still be those of us who like seeing all the noise and "liking" the best of it. - Robert Scoble

Robert, that's a good point. I guess I would be one wanting to see the noise for fear of missing something no one else thought was valuable. For now any way. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl

And use rooms effectively. They can be a great asset if the right people join and participate - Deepak

While the FF UI is far from perfect at this point, it's pretty annoying to hear a certain class of people who incessantly whine about how they suffer from information overload when they subscribe to thousands of people. Allow me to humbly suggest that the problem *isn't* some deficiency in the UI, but rather the problem is that *you subscribe to thousands of people*. The unmanageable noise level is your own fault. - Eric P

The biggest feature for me would be to auto-detect and merge the multiple posts about the same article... Make the new submission a like or comment on the original, but keep it all in one place. - Jason Carreira

Eric, I wouldn't go so far as to say that 'you're doing it wrong'. Those use cases are valid ones. You can't design a customer-facing product and then demand that they only use it within a strict set of guidelines. FriendFeed needs to mature to handle the Scobles of the world as well as the Moskovitzes. Although I think that subscription maintenance is part of the process, at least for now, I don't think that wanting the product to fit your personal use case is call to accuse anyone of 'whining'. - Akiva Moskovitz

Eric -- at the moment I am subscribed to 78 people (not thousands) (and have 117 people subscribed to me). The problem is fine-tuning the stream to push the best *combinations* of people, topics, links and comments to the top of my queue. So far I am relying on Google Reader to try do the job. When Robert Scoble remarks, "I've noticed that I'm getting tired of it too," perhaps one should listen and understand. - Sean McBride

Keyword filter is essential. Meanwhile, keep FF #'s low. - Malcolm Gault-Williams

I have a problem with only wanting to see items that are liked. Then you only see top 10ers. If I have something to contribute, you may never see it. Kind of turns it into Digg. I like the fact that it's easy to see smaller conversations easily. Filters for keywords would be nice, though. - Eric @ CS Techcast

Sure Friendfeed could continue to evolve and improve its service. However, I would posit a theory that perhaps the "shiny newness" of it all is wearing off. It is the problem with the echo chamber, it is too hard to stick to the new services when it takes so much time to play with new things coming out in a torrid pace. Sure some will disagree with me but I think this contributes to it to a great extent. - Lou Paglia

I was using it a lot less lately myself and wondering the same thing. I've unsubscribed from a lot of the social net noise and found that this has freshened up the experience a lot. - Nick Munson

What Nick said. I think it's a much more interesting place if you avoid those who are FFing about FF and so on. - Anthony Citrano

I think it's Shiny Object syndrome, too (not referring directly to Robert here). FF has been slow on releasing new features. Some overhaul of the interface and taking up the many suggestions forwarded by its most active users would be a well-timed move. - Chris Baskind

Too much noise on Friendfeed, and by the time I get around to replying to it, the conversations are over. - Francine Hardaway

Francine: how can the conversation be over if you have something to say? - Brian Sullivan

I still really like FriendFeed, but when you are busy doing many things, it is harder to keep up with the key discussion items and people you need to follow the most. I think FF will find ways of making this easier in time. I find I need breaks from all socnets periodically to keep my life and focus in balance. The breaks help prevent "Shiny Object Syndrome" and fatigue.;-) - Cathryn Hrudicka

@francine: two things cut down on the FF noise for me: 1) i 'like' all of the threads i find interesting, and then go to the 'ME' tab to keep up with them or comment on them later; 2) i 'hide' everything that's not of interest. - .LAG

Firstly, no one should need to apologize that they are using a website or not. Really! Anyway, I've always likened FF to chat, and I'm not a big fan of chat rooms. Something about FF seems to emphasize the immediate. I think this is what Francine refers too. There are some vauable nuggest of info, but I'm really not seeing the same richness of 'conversation' I find in blogs and blog comments. I think the non-linear exchanges between blogs (and occasionally in blog comments) tends to generate more thoughtful (and more valuable) exchanges. That sums up why I've been neglecting FF. - bernie

just created the Watsonville Weiners. Go weiners! - Rodfather

Definitely beta but very addicting. Go Phoenix Chili Besos - Josh Kenzer

Toronto Grey Jays - Shey

Watsonville and Phoenix, accept my challenge! - Shey

my team is Tokyo Shogunate. - gravitino