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that sounds really useful. when will it be available? i cant see it on your site ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I should have it released in the next hour or two - engtech

It lives: http://internetducttape.com/2008... - engtech

You are a coding machine! - Phil Ashman

haven't been able to get it to work. it installs fine, but when i open the "friend feed importer console", after a few seconds it displays a bunch of errors ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I'll try installing it on a clean machine and see what happens... I might have a missing dependency - engtech

Ah, it breaks on machines that don't have the HOME environment variable set. I'll release a fix. - engtech

We have a winner: http://internet-duct-tape.goog... - engtech

w00t it works :) Installed fine, and is currently doing its thing. Thanks a bunch I was just thinking the other day how useful a tool like this would be. Whats it mean when it says "Can't find social graph" though? ...via AlertThingy - David Adam

I put more discussion about the social graph stuff in the blog post. I'm using XFN/FOAF stuff to find the connections between people... doesn't always work well. - engtech

it is running now but is there a way to produce a simple output instead of subscribing? I am now subsribing to some people I really did not want to subscribe to. ;) or better, if that thing could just produce two lists (twitter friend / friend feed twitter list) i could do a very neat comparison in excel myself. ;) - Nicole Simon

hm okay. ran it but have no idea if it aborted or not, but given the amount of friends i haev in both, it seems like it. a pause button at the end might be a good idea. :) waiting for the next version. ;) - Nicole Simon

Bwana, that's why we are early adopters. They'll come around eventually. I remember a lot of people bad mouthing Twitter a year ago. Saying it was a "fad", now those same people are all on Twitter. Give it a year, they'll all be on FF next. - Thomas Hawk

And by the time everyone's on FF some early adopters will find new things to well...adopt. It's the way it always is. Hopefully FF will still be able to draw users in by then. - Daniel Spradau

Well I admit that I don't get it yet. I'm finding that I don't have enough time to keep up with FF as well as the few other networks that I belong to but I'm trying. - Vaughn from twhirl

I agree with Mr. Hawk and Mr. Gray. First the early adopters, then the spammers, then the mass market people. I'm sure Yahoo is saying to themselves now, we can do our own Twitter (Yitter?). - Mike Reynolds

I know many people who use email, yahoo, maybe google and youtube. On youtube they barely now how to hit play. I do not think the masses really care about learning it, even if it would help them. - Rob Diana

Well, if they are not @ lots of social sites (like us crazies) I can understand. Really. But for those of us who are, it brings it all together in a simple, easy to read (and comment) area. - Barbara K. Baker

Ok, I need to re-read my own posts and follow through. I'm going to kick back and enjoy the complaining from the sidelines. - Bwana ☠

FriendFeed seems like one of those thingerate like my grs only the true tech geeks are going to appreciate. I'm trying to imagine someone barely computer-litandmother (who uses it to write email and play Yahoo games) using FF and I can't see it. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Ok, anytime a new alert goes off, Twhirl totally butchers what I'm writing :( - Shawn Farner from twhirl

And where is the assumption that someone with thousands of friends is any more into "socializing" than the person with 50 friends? - Judi Sohn

hei. fake woman back in line. chocolate and coffee goes here first, basta. - Nicole Simon

robert, yeah, we want to see them! :) - Timo Heuer

@judi yes, that is stupid. it does not take into account that people act on different levels. at the same time, somebody with 1k friends can be more socializing and happy than somebody with 50. @Ran ;) - Nicole Simon

I would tend to think there is a large distinction in this based on age. I find as I get older, I am working to establish and re-establish links with the community I have know over the years. Most of these are now mostly social rather than professional. - 2WheelTech

Stereotypes on a grand scale like this are lame. Everyone's different and unique. I've seen very social men and "all business" women as well... so this assessment is a fallacy as it's premise is completely unfounded (and doesn't match reality!) ha, there I said it - that writer needs to get out more!! - Susan Beebe

I'm a man, and I don't see how these things can be used for business. I'd have to convince all of my business contacts to join these sites first, which is more of a hassle than just dealing with them the "old fashioned" way. - Henrik W Lund from twhirl

Personally, I don't get how their numbers support their assumption. It seems like a big leap in logic, i.e. if you're a super connector, it must be for business rather than social reasons, or that women are less likely to connect for business. Who's to say a guy with more connections than Robert (is that possible?) isn't big into Battlestar Galatica fanfiction, the online art scene, or looking for love? - Amie Gillingham

not true at all, - Vijay Veerachandran from Alert Thingy

Avery sweeping stereotypical statement really - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

I wouldn't say that I was all business, I don't socialise as much as I would if I were single but I still get involved when I can! - Joe Dawson from Alert Thingy

I just polluted the heck out of my "business" feed on Plaxo with blog posts, Flickr, Digg, Google Reader shared items, etc. That should force the issue. - Louis Gray

I see an awful lot of male marketers chatting like old ladies on Twitter - Prokofy Neva

I guess you're in the rare "really large group of friends" category, eh, Robert? You may be the charter member of that group! But I'm not sure I get that article... Isn't participation in a social network by definition "socialization"? It seems that it's the relationships you have with the people in the network that would determine whether its "social" or "business", not the number of relationships... - Lindsay