diff --git a/app/views/comments/_comment.haml b/app/views/comments/_comment.haml
index b73f542db..75ff19a27 100644
--- a/app/views/comments/_comment.haml
+++ b/app/views/comments/_comment.haml
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@
 
     .info
       %span.time
-        = hash[:comment].created_at ? t('ago', :time => time_ago_in_words(hash[:comment].created_at)) : time_ago_in_words(Time.now)
+        = hash[:comment].created_at ? timeago(hash[:comment].created_at) : timeago(Time.now)
diff --git a/app/views/notifications/index.html.haml b/app/views/notifications/index.html.haml
index 5eea8a67d..4a085f106 100644
--- a/app/views/notifications/index.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/notifications/index.html.haml
@@ -39,5 +39,5 @@
                 = link_to "#{note.person.name.titleize}", person_path(note.person)
                 = object_link(note)
 
-              %span.time= "#{t('ago', :time => time_ago_in_words(note.created_at))}"
+              %span.time= timeago(note.created_at)
     = will_paginate @notifications
diff --git a/config/assets.yml b/config/assets.yml
index c6de88757..1442e4c54 100644
--- a/config/assets.yml
+++ b/config/assets.yml
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ javascripts:
     - public/javascripts/vendor/jquery.autoresize.min.js
     - public/javascripts/vendor/facebox.js
     - public/javascripts/vendor/jquery.infinitescroll.min.js
+    - public/javascripts/vendor/timeago.js
     - public/javascripts/vendor/fileuploader.js
     - public/javascripts/view.js
     - public/javascripts/stream.js
     - public/javascripts/application.js
+  
   mobile:
     - public/javascripts/vendor/jquery144.min.js
     - public/javascripts/custom-mobile-scripting.js
diff --git a/public/javascripts/stream.js b/public/javascripts/stream.js
index 75f218ec6..53499d2cc 100644
--- a/public/javascripts/stream.js
+++ b/public/javascripts/stream.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ var Stream = {
     var $stream = $(".stream");
     var $publisher = $("#publisher");
 
+    $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
     $stream.not(".show").delegate("a.show_post_comments", "click", Stream.toggleComments);
 
     /* In field labels */
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ var Stream = {
       $("#photodropzone").find('li').remove();
       $("#publisher textarea").removeClass("with_attachments");
     });
+
     $(".new_status_message").bind('ajax:failure', function(data, html, xhr) {
       alert('failed to post message!');
     });
diff --git a/public/javascripts/vendor/timeago.js b/public/javascripts/vendor/timeago.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..524fb0e70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/javascripts/vendor/timeago.js
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+/*
+ * timeago: a jQuery plugin, version: 0.9.2 (2010-09-14)
+ * @requires jQuery v1.2.3 or later
+ *
+ * Timeago is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to support automatically
+ * updating fuzzy timestamps (e.g. "4 minutes ago" or "about 1 day ago").
+ *
+ * For usage and examples, visit:
+ * http://timeago.yarp.com/
+ *
+ * Licensed under the MIT:
+ * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Ryan McGeary (ryanonjavascript -[at]- mcgeary [*dot*] org)
+ */
+(function($) {
+  $.timeago = function(timestamp) {
+    if (timestamp instanceof Date) return inWords(timestamp);
+    else if (typeof timestamp == "string") return inWords($.timeago.parse(timestamp));
+    else return inWords($.timeago.datetime(timestamp));
+  };
+  var $t = $.timeago;
+
+  $.extend($.timeago, {
+    settings: {
+      refreshMillis: 60000,
+      allowFuture: false,
+      strings: {
+        prefixAgo: null,
+        prefixFromNow: null,
+        suffixAgo: "ago",
+        suffixFromNow: "from now",
+        seconds: "less than a minute",
+        minute: "about a minute",
+        minutes: "%d minutes",
+        hour: "about an hour",
+        hours: "about %d hours",
+        day: "a day",
+        days: "%d days",
+        month: "about a month",
+        months: "%d months",
+        year: "about a year",
+        years: "%d years",
+        numbers: []
+      }
+    },
+    inWords: function(distanceMillis) {
+      var $l = this.settings.strings;
+      var prefix = $l.prefixAgo;
+      var suffix = $l.suffixAgo;
+      if (this.settings.allowFuture) {
+        if (distanceMillis < 0) {
+          prefix = $l.prefixFromNow;
+          suffix = $l.suffixFromNow;
+        }
+        distanceMillis = Math.abs(distanceMillis);
+      }
+
+      var seconds = distanceMillis / 1000;
+      var minutes = seconds / 60;
+      var hours = minutes / 60;
+      var days = hours / 24;
+      var years = days / 365;
+
+      function substitute(stringOrFunction, number) {
+        var string = $.isFunction(stringOrFunction) ? stringOrFunction(number, distanceMillis) : stringOrFunction;
+        var value = ($l.numbers && $l.numbers[number]) || number;
+        return string.replace(/%d/i, value);
+      }
+
+      var words = seconds < 45 && substitute($l.seconds, Math.round(seconds)) ||
+        seconds < 90 && substitute($l.minute, 1) ||
+        minutes < 45 && substitute($l.minutes, Math.round(minutes)) ||
+        minutes < 90 && substitute($l.hour, 1) ||
+        hours < 24 && substitute($l.hours, Math.round(hours)) ||
+        hours < 48 && substitute($l.day, 1) ||
+        days < 30 && substitute($l.days, Math.floor(days)) ||
+        days < 60 && substitute($l.month, 1) ||
+        days < 365 && substitute($l.months, Math.floor(days / 30)) ||
+        years < 2 && substitute($l.year, 1) ||
+        substitute($l.years, Math.floor(years));
+
+      return $.trim([prefix, words, suffix].join(" "));
+    },
+    parse: function(iso8601) {
+      var s = $.trim(iso8601);
+      s = s.replace(/\.\d\d\d+/,""); // remove milliseconds
+      s = s.replace(/-/,"/").replace(/-/,"/");
+      s = s.replace(/T/," ").replace(/Z/," UTC");
+      s = s.replace(/([\+-]\d\d)\:?(\d\d)/," $1$2"); // -04:00 -> -0400
+      return new Date(s);
+    },
+    datetime: function(elem) {
+      // jQuery's `is()` doesn't play well with HTML5 in IE
+      var isTime = $(elem).get(0).tagName.toLowerCase() == "time"; // $(elem).is("time");
+      var iso8601 = isTime ? $(elem).attr("datetime") : $(elem).attr("title");
+      return $t.parse(iso8601);
+    }
+  });
+
+  $.fn.timeago = function() {
+    var self = this;
+    self.each(refresh);
+
+    var $s = $t.settings;
+    if ($s.refreshMillis > 0) {
+      setInterval(function() { self.each(refresh); }, $s.refreshMillis);
+    }
+    return self;
+  };
+
+  function refresh() {
+    var data = prepareData(this);
+    if (!isNaN(data.datetime)) {
+      $(this).text(inWords(data.datetime));
+    }
+    return this;
+  }
+
+  function prepareData(element) {
+    element = $(element);
+    if (!element.data("timeago")) {
+      element.data("timeago", { datetime: $t.datetime(element) });
+      var text = $.trim(element.text());
+      if (text.length > 0) element.attr("title", text);
+    }
+    return element.data("timeago");
+  }
+
+  function inWords(date) {
+    return $t.inWords(distance(date));
+  }
+
+  function distance(date) {
+    return (new Date().getTime() - date.getTime());
+  }
+
+  // fix for IE6 suckage
+  document.createElement("abbr");
+  document.createElement("time");
+})(jQuery);
+
diff --git a/public/javascripts/web-socket-receiver.js b/public/javascripts/web-socket-receiver.js
index bccb67955..5a1e7aee5 100644
--- a/public/javascripts/web-socket-receiver.js
+++ b/public/javascripts/web-socket-receiver.js
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ var WebSocketReceiver = {
         }
       }
     }
+
+    $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
   },
 
   processPost: function(className, postId, html, aspectIds) {
@@ -132,6 +134,7 @@ var WebSocketReceiver = {
         showMessage();
       }
     }
+    $("abbr.timeago").timeago();
   },
 
   onPageForClass: function(className) {