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Re: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step

paulbuchheit — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:35:53 -0000

Yes, if you care at all about the performance of your site, you should use gzip. The real point of my calculations is to show that the CPU costs are relatively insignificant because computers are fast. Also, to be clear, gzip is only for text (html, js, css, etc), not images, video, etc since those are already compressed.

Re: Overnight success takes a long time

paulbuchheit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:22:35 -0000

Sure.

Re: Keepin it simple (Scripting News)

paulbuchheit — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:45:49 -0000

These are all very reasonable suggestions. FriendFeed actually does most of this already though.

1) We need to improve our OPML support, but API does in fact list all of a users external feeds (their blog, flickr, etc), so it should be possible to completely disconnect from FriendFeed. See http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-api/wiki/Ap...

2) You can ping FriendFeed. See the instructions at http://friendfeed.com/api/public-sup. If you add the necessary SUP tag to your feed, then that ping will be available for everyone (instead of just FriendFeed), but even if you do not we will still use the ping. I believe that it's compatible with the "standard" REST ping as well. Our docs should probably be clearer about this. We also watch for pings to google blog search and weblogs.com.

3) If you want the RSS description imported as a comment, just use the feed service here: http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/feed?im...

Re: FriendFeed and level playing fields (Scripting News)

paulbuchheit — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:41:32 -0000

I'll look into the <description> element and should have a good ping solution soon. As for MediaRSS, if you include multiple media groups containing thumbnails with width and height small enough to fit multiple images, then they should display horizontally just like Flickr.

Re: FriendFeed and level playing fields (Scripting News)

paulbuchheit — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:09:46 -0000

Dave, we're actually trying to include as much "generic" support as possible in the "blog" feed. We already support MediaRSS thumbnails, videos, and audio plus GeoRSS to trigger maps. If there are other RSS attributes that we should be pulling in, please let me know and we'll try to get them added (you mentioned the 'description' -- I'll look into that). The purpose of the "special" services is to be a little more user-friendly by asking for username instead of feed url (the feeds are sometimes buried, or people don't know that they exist), and to deal with bugs in popular services (such as Facebook using the same GUID on every status update!).

Our preference is to do as little custom development as possible, and to give all services equal access. I agree completely with the principle of creating a level playing field and not forcing people to use the API. Feel free to let me know which features you see missing from our feed support.

thanks

Re: rizzn's personal blog

paulbuchheit — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:55:00 -0000

Mark,

It's unfortunate that your FriendFeed experience has become so stressful. I hope you'll be back when the election is over and these political discussions die down.

For what it's worth, I'm not an Obama fanatic either (I voted for Ron Paul in the primaries). However, I believe that these conspiracy theories are harmful and distract from legitimate concerns and issues. The reason that I mentioned McCain's place of birth is because I've seen people elsewhere on the web making analogous arguments about his not being a natural born citizen, and I find those arguments equally absurd. Both Obama and McCain have enough actual defects that we should not spend any time arguing about the details of their birth. I certainly did not intend for any of my comments to be personally insulting, and I apologize for the misunderstanding if they felt like they were.

Re: Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think

paulbuchheit — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:52:41 -0000

I'm pretty sure that Facebook already realizes that identity and relationship information is valuable. This blog post is for everyone else, since most people probably haven't given it much thought and are only valuing the superficial aspects of what they see going on there.

Re: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

paulbuchheit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:54:18 -0000

Patents are a special monopoly granted by the government. They have no value apart from that government granted monopoly. If the law changed and patents were eliminated, then his company would be completely worthless. (so it's safe to conclude that Myhvoid will work very hard to prevent those laws from changing in ways that would reduce the value of his patents)

Re: Add your Disqus profile on FriendFeed

paulbuchheit — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:23:11 -0000

Yay!

Re: Is fragmentation bad?

paulbuchheit — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:09:54 -0000

Thanks! I agree that track backs might be the right sort of compromise. We'll probably add something like that soon.

Re: Ultra-immersive, long-form video games from the past or future

paulbuchheit — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:33:30 -0000

Yeah, that was a pretty cool movie. It's interesting to consider that our whole lives may be inside the game though, and what that means for any concept of reality.

Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?

paulbuchheit — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:23:42 -0000

I doubt this is the real Robert Scoble. If it is, please verify your Disqus account, otherwise I'll delete the comment in a bit.

Re: Twas the night before Festivus...

paulbuchheit — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:46:05 -0000

Hi Sepehr,

That sounds like a great idea! Unfortunately I don't know Persian, so I'm not able to read the announcement, but please let me know if there's anything we can do to help you out.

thanks

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:15:42 -0000

I'm glad you liked it :)

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:15:09 -0000

Berlin,

There really are huge differences among different organizations. I've worked at 4 big companies and 2 startups. They aren't all the same. Small companies in particular have much more potential to be "human" (though of course they can be awful humans).

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:11:38 -0000

Hi DAR,

I'm not suggesting that everyone can or should start a startup. In fact, this post is more about JOINING a startup than STARTING one. You certainly don't need money to join a startup (at least not one which is funded).

Also, I certainly wouldn't claim that startups are some kind of "utopian meritocracy" -- they're not. What is did say is, "Of course smaller companies can be awful too, but they have a greater potential to be good."

My main point is that those who are in a position to join a startup, should seriously consider it. I completely understand that most people don't have the necessary qualifications or are too tied down by other obligations. However, there are also many who aren't, and that's who this was written for.

Furthermore, even for people not in a position to join a tech startup, it's worth thinking about ways to make work life more enjoyable, and there are many ways to accomplish that.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:59:05 -0000

It was just an error in the payroll system. I got paid eventually.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:56:33 -0000

Go ahed. I'm glad you liked it.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:48:23 -0000

I don't know yet. I think part of the problem goes back to schools and education, which often suck all the joy out of learning and doing.

I find video games to be somewhat inspirational though. The amount of time and effort that people put into playing them shows that the potential is there.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:40:47 -0000

Wow, that's a great quote! The funny thing is that I have that book ("Re-Creating the Corporation") sitting literally about a foot from my head, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Re: We all have tunnel vision

paulbuchheit — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:15:59 -0000

Yeah, I'm doubtful of the number "seven" too, but it's familiar to a lot of people and conveys the point that the capacity of our active mind is quite limited.

Re: Back to blogging again, I hope

paulbuchheit — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:50:20 -0000

We need to work on making the FriendFeed embedding features more obvious.

You currently need to go to "My Feed" and then click on the "embedded in a webpage" link at the bottom.

Or, go to http://friendfeed.com/embed?user=paul and replace 'paul' with your friendfeed nickname.

Re: Back to blogging again, I hope

paulbuchheit — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:23:24 -0000

I'm also trying out Disqus for the comments.