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LOL! It's funniest when I'm reading the newspaper or listening to the car radio, and I can't find a [Like] button to click. - Ordinarybug Heather

What a nice surprise to find this thread revived. Which is also one of the strong points of FriendFeed. Things don't disappear into oblivion like Twitter, or Facebook for that matter. I find that FF allows me to be more thoughtful. - Valeria Maltoni

Traffic went up sky high. Incredible. Shows how insignificant the traffic to my blog really is ;-) - Alexander van Elsas

As long as it happens every now & then I wouldn't object to it. - Ton Zijp

Beautiful! - Mitch

Wow! - orionstarr

You can view it here: http://www.google.com/search... Apparently I'm very close to Paul Bucheit as well :) Inspired by Kevin Fox http://friendfeed.com/kfury... & Louis Gray's http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... - Mark Krynsky

The only results that I got for for an unquoted john bredehoft (without my middle initial). This linked to "alexander rybak" (I just wrote a post about him) and "harvard law school" (apparently referencing some other John Bredehoft). - John E. Bredehoft

To RT, click http://twitter.com/home... It uses OAuth, so no password is required, and it automatically finds your Twitter friends on FriendFeed! It also imports your profile and picture. Big thanks to http://friendfeed.com/bgolub for making all this happen! (also, existing users can go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... to find Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail friends) - Paul Buchheit

Hi...Iam new member of dis site...I like it...! - Nima Tamang

A big step in the right direction, perhaps? - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

More on this here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

"FRONTLINE invites you to tell us a story about a friendship developed on the internet, an email- or texting-snafu, an online discovery, or a furious session of multitasking with whatever digital tools you use. Show us your Facebook-updating rituals, read aloud a text-message conversation, interview your friends, kids, parents, or just tell us what you think all this technology is adding up to." - Mr. Gunn from Bookmarklet

I hope some scientists will contribute things to that. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes up. - Christina Pikas

It's interesting that there's so much noise about friendfeed. It is growing much faster than Twitter did in its first year and is much more important to the new web. The problem is that not very many people know they need an aggregator. At least not yet. But, the truth is that friendfeed has always needed features that I've just started to call "track" in honor of Steve Gillmor. I asked for those features back in February and still haven't gotten them. Until we get those kinds of features then the real time web will not go to the next level. - Robert Scoble

Alexander, it's easier to add delays to a real-time system than it is to add real-time to a delayed system. My response to your blog post is here: http://friendfeed.com/e... I also want to answer the people who commented two months ago. Scott Loftesness, are you still reading this? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Francine is noticing the same thing I am. This past week I overscheduled myself so it was impossible to blog and be on friendfeed or twitter much. What I found is that the important news found its way to me anyway. People would tell me what was happening on Twitter right then. Or techmeme. Or wherever. Overall I'm finding that I'm most productive when I'm not staring at Tweetdeck or friendfeed. I'm even turning them off to avoid being distracted. - Robert Scoble from Bookmarklet

"...you do the Hokey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about." I believe you all know how the rest of the song goes. ;) - Melissa Davis

Steve Gillmor put together a great summit of pretty much every player in cloud computing space. - Robert Scoble

A photo service that I use with my iPhone. - Robert Scoble

Having lots of fun with the 12seconds team. Will post a 30 minute video that I did with the team later today. :-) - Robert Scoble

i love 12 seconds, too. it's so cool! - Yasuyuki Goto

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I switched it over to a new Captcha library, which seems to be working for people that had problems previously. Let me know if you have any problems. - seanbro

Via TechCrunch: "Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco." - Mark Trapp

...another thought, the Examiner was absorbed by the SF Chronicle years ago, which also is fighting to survive.. They certainly had lead notice, tho. - Gregg

And I don't subscribe to any particular conspiracy theory about 9/11; I don't claim to know what actually happened. But I do know that the official story is an insult to one's intelligence. - Sean McBride

You post many useful items, Bill, and I appreciate your research efforts. But there are certain areas of 9/11 discussion that are not productive for me personally to focus on. I respect your right to pursue whatever research most interests you. - Sean McBride

1. By disclosing your weird diseases other people help you out and get you more information than your own doctor can. - Robert Scoble

focused support groups / chat rooms such as www.BrainTrust.org were a God Send to me as I grasped for ways to learn, 1st hand, what to expect and how to assist my bro-in-law who is 300+ miles to the west. http://giving.roswellpark.org/NetComm... .. I offer this secure free PHR @ https://www.WorldMedCard.com - Jeff Ploetz

I think that we are in the right business. Take a look. - Frank Dobner from Bookmarklet

That`s why some experienced marketers aren`t afraid to show us the tricks of the trade, there`s a hell of more people hooking up to buy, learn or just have fun than there is trying to sell stuff : ) - jay

I think it really says to me that even for the current niches that exist, there will be a lot more room for more players. Customer's perceived innovation (aka uniqueness) will be the key to elbow your way into the mix. A lot of time we get discouraged because there just does not seem to be room in the places that we compete. You really need to dig down and do the work. This is where I am at right now. Someone of IM authority told me that you (we) should stick to one system and make it work. - Frank Dobner

"It's no secret I'm skeptical when it comes to social media fads. I've never been a fan of Digg, I STILL don't get the allure of Facebook and I'm more than a little tired of the flood of invites in my email whenever people find "the next big thing." That's probably why I dismissed Twitter as a fairly silly idea that was indicative of our need to now broadcast each and every detail of our lives to the world. (Because really, do you care that personX just got home from the gym?) That said, a few friends in the industry finally convinced me to log on just after the first of the year. After all, you shouldn't knock it until you try it right? I've been "trying it" for a month now. I have to admit; I was absolutely wrong. Sure, there are folks who flood Twitter with mindless drivel, but Twitter also features a vibrant community leveraging the tool in interesting ways and bringing people together the way only really good technology can. I'd vowed to give Twitter a month to win me over. That month has ended and T" - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

.....you say..."Sure, there are folks who flood Twitter with mindless drivel, but Twitter also features a vibrant community leveraging the tool in interesting ways and bringing people together the way only really good technology can." I come to the same conclusion....lots of people in both camps here. The filtering option is what permits me to manage that flow. In the beginning more is better, then it's about subtraction and focus.....I love FF as the value added forum to the Twitter "live web" mainframe. - Gregg

This is the link to share with anyone new to Twitter. Just added it to my Twitter and FriendFeed Quick Start page at http://www.growmap.com/friendf.... - Gail Gardner

"Just what is the link between retail gold coin prices and the apparent manipulation of gold futures & options...?" - Morton Fox from Bookmarklet

...we're in a complete and drastic revaluation of ALL asset classes...from bonds to real estate and high flying equities....we all need to breath, lest we collectively lower all floors by breathing life into those "worst case scenarios". as said many years ago...."change your thinking, change your life"..Ernest Homes, circa 1929. in modern parlence perhaps..."believing is seeing". Or as in "further down the rabbit hole"...the mere process of observation (perception) influences the behavior of the observed.. - Gregg

I hope not. - Bryan Clark

Me too. Meeee too. :| - AJ Batac

"read a lot of blogs. Some are “How -to” posts, some are thought provoking, the occasional post blows my mind and I am forced to print it out and read it again - highlighting the good parts. I rarely blog about these posts - because I don’t believe I can do them justice. I made a silent goal to comment more frequently on other blogs. I felt I would never get the confidence to take on tougher topics or more abstract essays on my blog if I couldn’t get down and dirty in the comments section of other blogs. I have been commenting pretty frequently, but rarely out of my element and never in argument of a post’s thesis. Perhaps, I am gaining more confidence as the traffic to my own blog grows, and the number of comments are increasing (yes, it was very sad to see the 0 Comments so frequently before), or perhaps I am coming to the conclusion that people are just people. We all make mistakes. But our opinion is just an opinion - with knowledge it may change. So, today, I made a comment on Being Peter Kim that b" - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

"Anyone who knows how to benefit from regular blogging formats can also find advantages in using Twitter, which offers the same benefits of blogging but in a quicker and more bite sized format. Here are ten tips for effectively marketing on twitter. 1 - First and foremost, you need to know the difference between posting often and spamming. You do not want to spam Twitter. Instead, you are going to want to post meaningful, relevant and readable content that your subscribers are going to look forward to. Spamming is the ultimate mistake that many twitter marketers end up making early on in their marketing endeavors. Twitter is a social network, not a medium for spamming, and if you overwhelm your readers with spam, no one will stop by anymore. It may be tempting to spam, but you will never benefit from it, so do not waste your time." - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

"Join us for a free, one hour webinar where Harry J. Gold, CEO of Overdrive Interactive, will frame the presentation within the following areas: * Blog outreach and monitoring * Social network profile and content channel creation * Monitoring and maintenance * Social media measurement * Friend and fan outreach * Hyper-targeted social media buying The presentation will include real case studies from top companies who use Blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to weave their content and messages into the web and make lasting connection with consumers. To register, click here and choose your webinar time. The webinar will be held on: * Tuesday, 1/13 @ 2:00pm EST * Wednesday, 1/14 @ 2:00pm EST * Wednesday, 1/21 @ 2:00pm EST" - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

FREE Webinar on Social Media including real case studies. Note the dates (tomorrow 1/13, or 1/14 or 1/21). - Gail Gardner

"Overdrive is a company that specializes in helping others leverage the social media landscape. They produced a great graphic that gives at least a high level overview of the key social media and web2.0 world. Click on the image here for a larger view download the PDF here: Download social-media-map.pdf (1330.3K) I really like this graphic for a couple reasons. One is that like many other people I long for ways that can help me visualize and grasp things in this fast moving space. I know this does not capture all the social media sites and I know the categories are not as clean as depicted here. But still it is GREAT context and will be helpful to me in explaining to others some of the fast moving cloud based services out there (note to overdrive: please find room to add a section on cloud services, like cloud based office automation)." - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

"Google has been at the top of the PPC and personalization game for the past few years. Their goal has always been to produce the best results for the end user, no matter the results to the advertiser." - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

While the post is a year old I'd be willing to bet that Google is still playing games with money that rightfully belongs to advertisers and publishers. It is unlikely that honesty will ever win out over higher stock prices at Google. - Gail Gardner

"Everyone is buzzing about social media, some of us are blazing into new territory while others are simply exploding in frustration. Will social media be the spark that changes how communication occurs? Are the spectators in the crowd cheering in applause or screaming in unknowing terror? We can only sharpen our intellect and maneuver a realm of uncharted territory. The simple truth of the matter is that no one knows. The numbers shed some dim light on the traditional communications model. Just remember: numbers only define one aspect of the way the communication landscape is evolving." - Gail Gardner from Bookmarklet

Two things have to happen for anything to go mainstream; 1) It has to offer an easily understood and OBVIOUS benefit to the user 2) There need to be enough early adopters willing to teach those who refuse to read and can't figure things out by themselves. The vast majority require one-on-one tutoring - and there has to be a benefit for them to get most to bother to teach their friends and family. - Gail Gardner