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FriendFeed Feedback: anna posted a message
“I just want to put it out there: likes on comments. Thanks.”
30 minutes ago - Link
FriendFeed
“With the huge number of FF users who have more than 3-4 blogs it would be awesome if we could point at the blog feed icon and get a short description of each blog in addition to the name/URL.”
1 hour ago - Link
I second that. - Nicola Quinn
FriendFeed
“Is there a way to get a permalink so we can direct traffic to a specific item in a Room or anyone's posts here? We could promote FriendFeed more efficiently if there were (already are?). If they're here already we need to make them more obvious.”
14 hours ago - Link
Look under More and there's a permalink. BTW, it took me a long time to find it too. - todd
The link option (under More) doesn't provide one of the links you want? - Brian Sullivan
Yes, that is what I wanted. Just didn't know it was there as the "Link to This Entry". Thanks. - Internet Strategist
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“Design is.....”
1 hour ago - Link
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Orion Graphic Design
11 hours ago - via Reshare - Link
Disqus
Gabe Rivera commented on a blog post on Disqus
24 hours ago - Link
"Nope, we tried PERSONAL finance. That's different!" - Gabe Rivera
Google Reader
FriendFeed
Paul Buchheit posted a message
“What is it about RSS GUIDs that makes people think that they should change them every few months?”
yesterday at 1:16 am - Link
I am that way about people changing (or not supporting) urls indefinitely. I think people iteratively implement technologies. It's easy to throw up an RSS feed, but it takes thought into tuning it to your app. What feeds do you use to access delicious.com, btw? (we can talk offline if you want) Our "default" feed at the moment is RSS 1.0 which I don't think supports GUID, but our RSS2 uses them... and I verified just now that they are unique enough and we don't plan on changing them any time ... ever? - Dave Dash
"unique enough"? - Gabe
What's the matter, Gabe? Is something about that phrase not sufficiently perfect? - Bruce Lewis
How unique is unique enough? Seeing as how the whole point of a GUID is to be unique. - Gabe
"Sufficiently perfect" was supposed to be a joke, but I didn't make my humor unmistakable enough. (None of this is meant as a slight on either Gabe or Dave; I'm just in a silly mood tonight.) - Bruce Lewis
I think it's mainly that stream-oriented processing of feeds is so different from normal web development, where the only history that reallly matters is not breaking links (and even then you can change urls if you leave redirects behind). Also, for a while the dominant consumers of feeds were snapshot-oriented (e.g. My Yahoo, igoogle), so there was little incentive to get GUIDs right. It's getting better, though. We're not seeing as many cases of GUID abuse now as we did in the early days of Google Reader. - Ben Darnell
FriendFeed
“I'd love to be able to see what posts of mine have been liked, not just a count of how many things have been liked by my top likers. (I know, it's not a word, but I can't think of a better way to express the idea.)”
7 hours ago - Link
It'd be great to have this, because then I can see what people like about me and my thoughts, which will help me avoid things that show off the lamer side of me. - Chris Charabaruk
popular? ;o) - Rob Sellen
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I can see how many likes my stuff gets... - Mattie Kenny
Mattie, I think Chris means without having to scroll through your whole feed. A link that would display only the posts that received "Likes". Maybe ffholic does this? - Laura Norvig
delicious
Siggi Becker bookmarked a page on delicious
3 hours ago - Link
Eric Drexler blogs! - Siggi Becker
Amazon.com
felix added a product to the Amazon wish list Wishlist
Angel - Seasons 1-5 30-Disc DVD Set
3 hours ago - Link
Google Reader
Michael Galpin shared an item on Google Reader
3 hours ago - Link
Google Reader
felix shared two items on Google Reader
4 hours ago - Link
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Is Apple to handset makers what Google is to any other company with any portion of their business on the internet? - felix
Facebook
felix posted a message on Facebook
“Felix should probably be asleep now.”
4 hours ago - Link
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felix shared an item on Google Reader
4 hours ago - Link
my favourite part of his original review was when he said it wasn't an exercise in frustration, it was a marathon of frustration. I guess that's why he gets paid the big bux. - felix
Apple's got BB in the cross-hairs. - Gautam Guliani
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Twitter
Gabe Rivera posted a message on Twitter
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Bill Cattey and his furby slippers
Toasting Athena
MIT Project Athena 25th Reunion
6 hours ago - via Reshare - Link
FriendFeed is awesome! <media:title> is doing the right thing already! Float over the thumbnails to see captions. The original came from an RSS feed. - Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed
“I have 4 feature requests: 1. I want to post images by URL 2. I want my likes to appear on my FF page 3. I want tags 4. I want the 1024 character limit removed on messages.”
16 hours ago - Link
I can agree with #1 and #2, but #3 and #4 not so much. - Jason Huebel
It would be nice If i could writer longer messages say like describing a dream (takes a lil over 1024 character to describe a dream i guess) or writing about a trip while posting pictures along. - सिंधु सुंदर
totally agree on #1, I also requested it some time ago. - flapic
I agree with #1. AFAIK #2 already exists. Don't like #3 or #4 though, they change the dynamic too much. - xero
Why is everyday against tags? :/ It would be nice to oragnize stuff. - सिंधु सुंदर
We need tags and permalinks so we can organize and share items here. - Internet Strategist
We have permalinks (More > Link to this entry). I say no to tags, but I could be persuaded with a well-designed implementation. - xero
@Internet Strategist, we use rooms to organize things. So tags really aren't necessary. - Jason Huebel
Not sure about the tags, other requests are ok (1024 character might be increased, but never should be removed completely). - David Bisset (sn)
Twitter
Evernote posted a message on Twitter
Backtype
Paul Buchheit commented on a blog post on Backtype
7 hours ago - Link
"Why are you focusing on acquisitions? There are profitable companies that remain private, like 37signals (plus ones you never hear about because there's no point in talking about how much money you make) and also IPO, which is rare but potentially huge. Google alone is worth $86B, at that IPO was only 4 years ago, so your "$10B in the past 5 years" number is clearly incomplete." - Paul Buchheit
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
7 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The current generation of founders want to raise money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically, because Larry and Sergey took money from VCs, and Sequoia specifically. Imagine what it would do to the VC business if the next hot company didn't take VC at all." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
no .. people with more money than they need, want still more .. vc is often a subset of that - Gregory Lent
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