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Paul Buchheit posted a link

Hulu - Saturday Night Live: Couric / Palin Open

September 29 at 1:13 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

webosapien (Burcu Tüzün), Jonathan, Nada Amin and 41 other people liked this

I love when she goes "pew-pew" near the end -- soooo cute. lufff tina fey - Brandon

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I watched the actual Couric/Palin interview second. I was shocked that the actual interview seemed so much like the parody. - Jeremy Hylton

I thought the same thing Jeremy. Here's a site that puts both interviews next to each other for comparison: http://twincitiesminnesotablog... - Akshay Kapur

You mean, the pic on the left isn't the vice presidential candidate? o_O - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Those outside the US can watch here: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Ni... - Stuart Woodward

This was the greatest. Kinda sad that a comedy show like SNL, when creating parodies, uses direct and complete quotations from the subject. - JC unwired

@Jody - I think the writers realized there was no way they could write anything crazier or off topic than Palin's own answers. I loved Amy's Couric impression - understated, yet hilarious. - Jennifer Dittrich

Marc Andreessen bookmarked a page on delicious

Sarah Palin's Alaskonomics -- Printout -- TIME

September 10 at 2:56 am - Link

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"Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. ... As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1. " - Paul Buchheit

I hate this article and commented on it here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/e/8... Where is the dislike button? - Erica Baker

If you want good economics, you should've supported Paul. Politicians will always use tax dollars to placate people. This was the case in Rome before it fell and has happened throughout history. Democracy will only last until the people realize they can vote themselves treasures from the public coffer. - klecu

I've always supported Paul. You did mean Paul Buchheit, right klecu? - Gabe

Bret Taylor posted a link

FriendFeed Blog: Embed FriendFeed in your blog

August 27 at 1:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

John Prieto, Michael J. Cohen (mjc), bangjihyun and 138 other people liked this

"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want." - Paul Buchheit

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Woot! - Kemal Yaylali

Find your embed widgets here: http://friendfeed.com/embed - Bret Taylor

where's the HTML only one like Twitter?? Don't want your widget. - Mark Bean

YAY yayayay!!! - Edited to add: thx for linking to the CSS too, will make integration easier. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

it was necessary to develope these widgets. but as Mark said, there must be tidy versions. I want to use in my blog with my css. - Mücahit Yılmaz

Mark: the CSS is completely documented, so it should be easy to customize: http://friendfeed.com/embed/cs... - Bret Taylor

You can use your own css, the details are here http://friendfeed.com/embed/cs... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Doh, dup post with Bret. Bret wins, obviously ;) - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top? - Erica Baker

FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps. - Cesar Cardoso

For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

me again - it seems not to be picking up my default CSS values like the other widgets - it still insists on showing up as a white background black text. See http://pflix.com for example. - Mark Bean

It is live on my site now. http://www.louisgray.com/ - Louis Gray

http://benjamingolub.com to see the badge in action :) - Benjamin Golub

Mark, the white is div class = friendfeed widget and needs to have the background overridden, it's set to white (obviously). The classes in the nested divs below it should inherit the new BG color. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

See bookmarklet in action: http://kemal.bioeng-network.or... and badge in about page: http://kemal.bioeng-network.or... - Kemal Yaylali

Live on mine http://www.isthisstupid.com but currently unstyled. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Would be a nice option to have one without Javascript - richrecruiter

Paul, Bret and Team - you guys really rock my day! nice work!! keeeep it up!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

thanks Brett. I added to my blog - Photo Larry via twhirl

Where is the Flash and Picture version? - zgjie

Great, we really needed this! Thanks :) - Sébastien

Enjoying new FF badge http://scabr.com/ :) - Igor Poltavskiy

Nice work! Can we please have a "all services except blog" option on the Feed Widget to cut down on the echo over at my blog? - Richard Chen

Thank you, I like the clean Friendfeed look. It's, friendly! - Larry Kless via twhirl

Great work Paul and the team, just decorated my Blog with the widgets and it felt like Christmas! - Joe Dawson (beta)

nice work....will add soon to my blog - Arjun

Nice but as others have said, those of us not self-hosted (e.g. wordpress.com) can't use js widgets - Neil Saunders

I was thinking about replacing my blog with an api app... this will do the equivalent without any work on my part :D - Tai

Totally brilliant implementation, many thanks indeed, especially for the room widget - Chris Nuttall

nice - bangjihyun

Sam Pullara posted a link

Enterprise Software Blog » Blog Archive » Yuil, the New Search Engine from Yahoo

July 30 at 11:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Peter Fenton liked this

This guy is confused. - Sam Pullara via Bookmarklet

Bret Taylor posted a message

“A couple songs that have been making my late night programming more entertaining”

July 30 at 5:23 pm - Link

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That Tokyo Police Club song has been stuck in my head for days. I am not sure why I like it so much. - Bret Taylor

Skinny Love is great. - Casey Muller

What about that song we listened to with the ridiculous lyrics? - Benjamin Golub

+1 for skinny love. - Graham Garland

John Lilly posted a link

We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

July 21 at 2:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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This is actually a brilliant idea. It'll be hard to go anywhere with it but if it did, wow that'd be awesome. - Bartek Gniado

For some reason I read this as "Dead Simple Web Toilet" - Jim Norris

It already exits. Unfortunately you have to pay AT&T $60+ per month to use it. And it runs Safari, not Firefox. :-) - Dave C

Dick posted a message on Twitter

“the intersection of the set of guys who ride recumbent bikes and the set of old guys with beards is the set of guys who ride recumbent bikes”

July 13 at 7:12 pm - Link

Paul Buchheit, Oliver Deighton, Christian and 2 other people liked this

same for the set of guys who ride unicycles and the set of 40 year old men who dress as storm troopers at least once a month. - Christian

Jess Lee created a set on Polyvore

Gloomy Bear

June 29 at 2:16 am - Link

Ңesam, MaSHa, Geoff Schultz and 16 other people liked this

اساتيد صاحب‌نظر:بنظرتون در اين ست چه چيز زيبايي براي لايك كردن وجود داره؟ اسمايلي سوده-نيوشا - mhmazidi

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So cute. - DSaad69

شرط می بندم طرف چینیه:دی - shandiz

اون خرسه! - Maryam Ardakani

@دکتر مزيدی:))))))) اعتماد به نفس و خلاقیتش! اسمايلی احترام به حقوق شهروندی و تشویق - Soudeh

@Amin کارکن توییتر بیشتر میاد بهش - Soudeh

تو در قلبنمی - azimullah

I had a friend who speaks Farsi translate the comments. 1) The pink, bloody bear is called Gloomy Bear. He's a 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans and is supposed to be the antithesis to cute, cuddly characters like Hello Kitty. 2) I work at Polyvore, not FriendFeed. - Jess Lee

You mean the cute cuddly bear isn't supposed to be? - Jim Norris

Nice Job ! Good Luck ... - م.ملک

Nice, but shoes is no so hot... - PooYa

این چیه - atalmatal

Wait, those are your replies to the xlated comments? - j1m

@j1m: Yes. A few of the comments are wondering what's up with the bloody bear, and another comment said that I worked for FriendFeed. - Jess Lee

Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations

June 5 at 11:46 pm - Link

oliver gassner, Erik, Diana Valerini and 214 other people liked this

Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it. - Robert Scoble

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Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed. - Ranjit Mathoda

cool beans. - Anthony Citrano

Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me. - Alex Williams

Very cool Bret. - Hutch Carpenter

Very nice. - Atul Arora

Very nice, indeed - Michael W. May

Thanks. - Amund Tveit

Very nice addition. Keep em coming. - Tsega Dinka

We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor

@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor

Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora

Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble

Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble

How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray

@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

interesting idea - Steven Hodson

uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom.. - sedgewick

Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested? - Ryan Carson

perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - Chris Hofmann

Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky

Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood

This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano

hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith

This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson (beta)

Oh, now see, this is just awesome. - Vince DeGeorge

Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :) - Rob Diana

They should call it A-list juice - Jamie

Thanks, I appreciate this feature. - Daniel Backhaus

I want a feed for this feature! - Marcus Puchmayer

Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix

Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill

Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer

Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai

Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... - Mitchell Tsai

Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu! - Mike Reynolds

Excellent - Jason Kaneshiro

Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio

wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez

This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris

My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana

Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov

What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana

Awesome! - Daniel Spradau

Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel

I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur

Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai

Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo

This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter

great addition to the functionality! - Jeroen De Miranda

Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane

Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini

This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott

awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling

Bret Taylor is amazing! - Alex Hammer

I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248

Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor

Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson

Sam Pullara posted a message

“I never 'like' posts. There is something about the term that doesn't resonate with me. Can I please 'flag' posts as interesting instead?”

June 2 at 8:43 pm - Link

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Jim Norris posted a link

How much money do you need to be happy? Hint: Your sex life matters more » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

May 2 at 11:45 pm - Link

Raymond, Satish Thomas, Jason Kaneshiro and 11 other people liked this

"Unfortunately, people are not good at picking a job that will make them happy. Gilbert found that people are ill equipped to imagine what their life would be like in a given job, and the advice they get from other people is bad, (typified by some version of “You should do what I did.”)" - Jim Norris

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"It’s simple, proven advice, but few people take it because they think they are unique and their experience in a career will be different. Get over that. You are not unique, you are basically just like everyone else." - Clare Dibble

Question: how much money do you need to have a sex life? - Amber

Not much... many people have a sex life on a college budget... - Ross Miller

Is that really why few people take that advice? Do very many people even hear that advice often enough to separate it out from the heaps of other advice they get? Don't get me wrong, its excellent advice: switch careers early and often, you'll find that some make you much much happier than the first one you try. But it's good advice because, ahem, people are unique. - j1m

“It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.” - Evan Parker

“Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” Well, I guess that answers that question. - ⓞnor

penelope trunk kind of reminds me of niniane - Neha Narula

Firstly, I thought there was some recent research that revealed more money actually does result in more happiness, and the earlier "diminishing returns in salary increase after basic needs are met" was faulty. Secondly, I wish the article would clarify what they are categorizing within "sex". Thirdly, why does Penelope Trunk remind Neha of me???? Though I do wish I had a name like Penelope Trunk. Damn that's a good name. - niniane

I guess you both have the made-up-name thing going on... - Jim Norris

Is her name made-up? Anyway I've been reading her blog for the past 15 minutes. At first I liked her style of writing. But then I realized I haven't laughed once. Her blog isn't funny at all. It's anti-funny. So now Neha's comment offends me. Fuck you Neha! - niniane

This one is pretty good though: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/... - niniane

@Niniane: yes, her name is made up: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/... - Tudor Bosman

“All we really want is to get paid and get laid.” ...thats the last line and theonly thing in the entire blog that resonates with me - all else is pure tripe - viki saigal

Bret Taylor posted an entry on Bret Taylor's blog

We need a Wikipedia for data

April 9 at 12:31 am - Link

Aydin Senkut, Angelos Markos, j1m and 34 other people liked this

What is your take on efforts such as infochimps.org, theinfo.org and freebase? - Aviv

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I had never seen the first two. They look interesting. How are the data sets edited and updated? Freebase doesn't interest me from what I can tell. They seem more focused on the relationships between data items than the data itself because of all the "semantic web" stuff, and most of it seems to be relatively uninteresting data from IMDB and other existing web sources. - Bret Taylor

Unfortunately they rarely get updated and most data sets cannot really be used reliably. theinfo.org is essentially an indie scraper's paradise and the intended use is controlled lab experiments. Perhaps a fresh, well-publicized effort will stand better chance. - Aviv

Google already has access to at least 5 of the data sets you listed... sure, licensed and all, but at the end of the day shouldn't face great difficulties bending arcane usage restrictions. Let developers play with the data inside the cloud... - Aviv

Right. The big obstacle would still be the whole issue of usage restrictions and copyrights, and as you said in your last point, it won't work without the backing of big companies. Developers can have access to such valuable data sets today - simply by scraping. It's far from ideal, but it works, and it can be kept up-to-date with extra effort. But then how do we go about using the data - and actually telling people about it? :) - Aviv

And we have a new record for fastest new blog to reach TechMeme! http://www.techmeme.com/#a0804... - Louis Gray

@Bret you should talk to Freebase. This is precisely what they're trying to do. It may not look how you want it to now, but I think a conversation between the two companies makes a whole lot of sense. - Carla Thompson

"The most important part of an environment that encourages innovation is low barriers to entry. The moment a contract and lawyers are involved, you inherently restrict the set of people who can work on a problem to well-funded companies with a profitable product. Likewise, companies that sell data have to protect their investments, so permitted uses for the data are almost always explicitly enumerated in contracts." -what memories ;) - David

Getting an error message at http://bret.appspot.com now, reads "Server not found" - Philipp Lenssen

It works for me. But that is annoying. Blame Google App Engine, not me ;) - Bret Taylor

Jess Lee shared an item on Google Reader

Zelda Girl Seeking Link On Craigslist, I'm In

March 6 at 12:22 pm - Link

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Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Bird Poops In Mouth

January 24 at 10:20 pm - Link

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Poop is always funny. - Doug Rathburn

John Lilly posted an entry on Tumblr

Firefox/Mozilla is NOT going to IPO — here’s why

January 3 at 1:52 pm - Link

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Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

My new status message: I love the FriendFeed bookmarklet!

November 13, 2007 at 6:45 pm - Link

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How does commenting work - Bindu Reddy

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What do you mean, Bindu? - Bret Taylor

Was just testing the commenting feature on FF. Did not realize that I could not delete my comment, once I posted it... - Bindu Reddy

He he, yah, a much requested "feature" :) Sorry about that... - Bret Taylor

I suppose she could lobby you to delete the whole item - j1m

So, when is search coming? :-) The share bookmarklet + searchable feeds would nicely replace del.icio.us for me... - Kevin Scott

are u guys gonna write crawlers for every interesting site out there ? - Parashuram

Parashuram: an API and more generic feed processing is definitely in the future... We will keep you posted. - Bret Taylor

you can atleast give out a way to add RSS feeds...most sites have activities as RSS - Parashuram

like it a lot. any plans to add a filter to my feed so that i could see a page of stuff that i shared using the tool? (like Google Shared Stuff) - Alex Gawley

Alex: just tack on &service=internal (swap internal for whatever service you want) - Benjamin Golub

Oh, not sure I understood what you wanted 100%, if you wanted a filtered feed, then you can do what I mentioned... - Benjamin Golub

Sweet thanks benjamin - Alex Gawley

Thanks for the invite! So far, so happy! I'm bitter at Plaxo for creating a beautiful feed that I can't post anywhere else. - Seth or Alexa

I was expecting some alerts config ..when i get comments or like's ! - Swaroop

including the "Comment" in the feed would be helpful. - Swaroop

The bookmarklet is really nice - much nicer integration than the Google "Share Stuff" pop-up. Well done. - Thomas Korte

Looks like you want to take over delicious with better usability. Nice. - Patrick Chanezon

Jess Lee favorited a video on YouTube

Jump Rope Dogs

October 27, 2007 at 12:07 am - Link

priyanhere, Ryan Mahoski, Ginger Makela and 5 other people liked this

wow, that was pretty cool! - Chieze Okoye

the last dog in the video does double dutch super fast, it's pretty amazing. - Jess Lee

hahaha ..ok that was pretty cool.. - tagami