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I am visiting Twitter in a few minutes to break bread and find out what is up?
Brad Farris, Joanmarie, Joe Dawson and 9 other people liked this
Thanks for keeping us updated.
- Mitchell Tsai
i love your qik casts!
- Tyler Gillies
i think the guys looked pretty nervous... so would i be - all a learning process for real time technology ... and realtime marketing!
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
The word break and twitter should not be used in the same sentence.
- Mike Fruchter
I liked it, warm and friendly, nice to see such things even when you're thousands miles away
- directeur
(Dude, now you're even breaking their *bread*?!)
- Kevin Fox
Did you find out why new people are getting the message "over capacity" and if it's soon to be fixed? My students are ready!
- Sheree Motiska
big of them to answer the claims
- adolfo foronda
so were they blaming you or not? If the answer was in a video, apologies...I am on a jesusphone.
- Tim Wright
Scoble's heading to Twitter to break it!
- Edward Vielmetti
@Robert: Good interview and getting the air cleared. @Kevin: Comments like yours are why I want to be able to "like" individual comments. :-) Too funny.
- Joanmarie
so did you find anything out after all?
- Live Crunch Blog
from twhirl
Helios Solar Powered Aircraft - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jeff, HECTOR ARTURO, Vincent and 11 other people liked this
It's really sad that Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci never got a chance to see it.
- Ranjit Mathoda
There is a lot less piano playing on JetBlue.
- Jason Shellen
...and passengers.
- Jason Shellen
most melancholy NASA test flight ever?
- Ňicķ
here's the poster that eBoy created for this year's Maker Faire Bay Area, Laughing Squid is there in the middle http://twurl.nl/n4q1wc
Wow - Firefox 3 is a lot faster than Safari.
Adam Sherk, Andy Davies, Pat Kershaw and 17 other people liked this
I think I REALLY need to try it, even if some of my extensions won't work
- Bibi
...any stability issues with RC1?...via feedalizr
- JA Castillo
I have completely switched over from Safari even though it crashes once or twice a day for me (on Leopard). Adblock plus alone is worth it.
- Ole Begemann
I have not had the crashes others have reported, but RC1 is a definite improvement over earlier versions and FF2 in my opinion. I find it very fast. Bibi, Tomas Hawk posted this in a comment about RC1 and extensions. Might be worth a try. http://www.oxymoronical.com/web...
- Michael Pardee
FF3 is blazing fast for me
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Bibi: Even more will work next month when FF 3 is released.
- Russellreno
@JA Castillo - My IE tab and PicLens plugins crash FF3
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I've found the same here - stable for me and particularly "Web 2.0" friendly.
- David Sim
for me it hasnt play nice with plugins like flash, QT nor Silverlight :(
- Gilbert Corrales
from twhirl
It still uses a crapload of memory, though. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- David Risley
I use IE tab and PicLens alot with FF2, I hope they get these fixed before GA
- Jon Erickson
from twhirl
@Shey - damn...love piclens + flickr. May try it without until things settle down. Thank you.
- JA Castillo
Yes, now you know how sad I am. :(
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Not sure how people are getting FF3 to suck so much RAM. Mine barely ever gets up to 90-100M
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
@Rahsheen I have 18 tabs open, with Firefox running for about 42 hours. Currently it's using 300M.
- Jeff Brewster
from Alert Thingy
FF3 is using less memory than FF2 did for me. It is also using approximately 50% less than IE8 for me, but IE8 is much earlier in the beta cycle. Plus, I am using "Emulate IE7" to make most sites look OK. FF3 looks great on Vista and OS X for me so far. But I use very fiew extensions.
- Michael Pardee
Seems to use more memory than Safari 3.1.
- Steve Rubel
How do I get it? Do I need an invite?
- Sally Church
I also leave Gmail open and FriendFeed open a lot in browser. Both use a lot of AJAX and auto-refresh. Could be a contributor.
- David Risley
Just downloaded it. Very easy. We'll see...
- Mary Anne Davis
Is it faster than Opera? Probably not!
- Mack D. Male
David, I leave a Gmail tab and a Friendfeed tab open all the time. 5 common tabs open at all times and I still see better memory usage than FF2.x. It might be my lack of extensions, themes, etc. that helps.
- Michael Pardee
FF3 RC1 Mac is my main browser, but I still think Safari is faster.
- Daniel Shaw
yeah FF3 is MUCH faster on a mac than FF2, but I'd still give the edge to Safari as well.
- MG Siegler
I have trouble getting RC1 to save files.
- Jacob Nahin
@David same here. Google Reader/News/GMail/Finance and FriendFeed are always open for me and it probably doesn't help :)
- Jeff Brewster
Does RC1 play nice with Greasemonkey & Stylish or are they part of the weak links in the armor?
- JA Castillo
Greasemonkey is not yet RC1 compatible without hacking. It works with Beta 5 though.
- Ole Begemann
I always wondered what would happen if marijuana were legalized for anyone over 18. It seems it already has been, and nothing happened. - http://www.reddit.com/goto...
Emily Miller, Amber, Ihar Mahaniok and 7 other people liked this
"Stoners are very clearheaded when it comes to avoiding extra effort."
- Clare Dibble
So you can buy pot legally in California if a doctor says you have headaches, but if you work someplace that tests for drugs, will they hire you even after you show them your prescription???
- Robert Felty
"Once you have that, no California cop can arrest you for holding up to eight ounces. That amount, I'm guessing, was based on conservative medical estimates of how much Snoop Dogg would need if he came down with glaucoma at the same time Animal Planet aired a "Meerkat Manor" marathon."
- Ross Miller
Why FriendFeed is Disruptive: There’s Only 24 Hours in a Day - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008...
Tasha Saecker, Paula Hawk, Ron Emrick and 21 other people liked this
Your chart is flawed. You gave way too much time to sleeping, eating, exercising, real time for friends and offline media consumption. Please redo it with real data. :-)
- Louis Gray
actually, for my life at least, he is pretty accurate, except i have a 9.5 hr work day
- Jacob Nahin
It also doesn't take into account continuous parallel attention. You should be able to get more than one of these done at once.
- Louis Gray
wow, can you really sleep for seven hours out of twenty-four? consecutively? that's a neat trick!
- hisherness
Yup,it's calle destablishing a sleeping patternl. Many geeks miss that concept.
- Jacob Nahin
Hey, what do the quote icons outlined in yellow mean?
- Bryan Person
Louis: The chart shows time for a social media user (not addict). 4-5 hrs of sleep, no exercise, and bad eating habits are bad for your health. So are not having *real* friends, not to mention family. In reply to http://tinyurl.com/4pnwr9
- Mohamed J
no wonder you are having trouble. You aren't taking away any sleep!
- Tim Hoeck
Just waking up after 6.5 hours sleep...I see that the biggest issue with the blog post is too much time allotted for sleep. Ha! So that's where we're going to squeeze out the extra time needed for social media.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Louis - 3 hours of family time...that's coming. The little ones are going to want their Daddy time!
- Hutch Carpenter
I am going to invent a new TV tray-like device so that I can lay on the couch with one kid, put the tray over the kid, encapsulating them, and then put the laptop on top. The tray will be extendable as the child grows and rises in thickness.
- Louis Gray
Is anyone else CRYING from laughing so hard at how little Louis understands the disruptive nature of not only one, but TWO newborns?? That four hours of nightly sleep will seem like a week at the spa it's so out of reach!
- Cyndy
Cyndy, I'm glad you're having as much fun with the delusion as I am. :-)
- Louis Gray
Great post Hutch. i find that FF is as addictive as smoking.I'm averaging about 6 hours a day spread incrementally on FF lately. Of course I'm on newborn duty for 3 weeks at home on maternity leave. In an 8 hour work day, i spend about 2 hours on FF.
- Mike Fruchter
Now with the advent of "Rooms", how much more time has everyone been spending on FF?
- Mike Fruchter
I've found most of the traffic from the Rooms is just resharing from the main feeds: I personally haven't found much increase in my usage because of them.
- Mark Trapp
It's defiantly increased my usage slightly by an extra 10 or 15 mins for the day.. This latest traffic wave to FF has seem to died down. Is it me or it seems the usage of FF for the past 1-2 weeks was through the roof? partly due to the new rooms feature i think.
- Mike Fruchter
@Louis - and inside that tray, there will be a Macbook Air, so that your children can interact with you on your various social media haunts...
- Hutch Carpenter
@Mike Fruchter - I'm with you on the use of FriendFeed. It actually has increased my social media time. And BTW - the chart in the blog post isn't exactly my day. I put Facebook in there as a nod to its widespread usage compared to things like Digg or Google Reader.
- Hutch Carpenter
Memorial Day wishes for Our Veterans - http://hawksdomainweb.com/...
Ro (Lilyhill), Vincent and Robert Scoble liked this
Just saw this today but it means a lot to know people still care.
- David Cook
David, so glad you liked it. :) Means so much to know that a soldier saw my little ole blog! :)
- Paula Hawk
Viral Marketing is bullsh*t. Adoptive Marketing isn’t. - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
AJ Kohn, Ricardo Rabago, Alexander van Elsas and 5 other people liked this
Great post about marketing.
- Robert Scoble
Good post. I work in a marketing company and no one seems to understand why I think Viral Marketing is a negative thing.
- Elliot Tucker
Viral = cooties.
- Sam Lawrence
8 Types Of Annoying People You’ll Find Inside Starbucks - http://www.holytaco.com/2008...
Delzadeh, Steve C, accesine and 12 other people liked this
I'd be pretty impressed if someone actually popped open an iMac in the middle of Starbucks though!
- Jim Norris
Ya... I wonder why they wanted to open the iMac in the first place... especially in a Starbucks
- Ross Miller
Ah, all the folks I'll never meet. I never go to Starbucks.
- Batona
This reminds of the Starbucks Improv Everywhere prank. http://improveverywhere.com/2008...
- Jay Cruz
Missed 'Person in line behind you who crowds the bar waiting for their drink.' Really, my drink is coming up BEFORE yours and I'd prefer not to hear you snort dismissively as I ask you to move aside to get my latte.
- AJ Kohn
@ Jim Norris see http://www.youtube.com/results...
- Anne Bouey
Step 1: Step on FriendFeed bandwagon. Step 2: Make unfounded declarations about future of FriendFeed. Step 3: Congratulate yourself. Step 4: Hope like hell your unfounded declaration is true.
Dani Radu, Klaus Eck, Robert Sanzalone and 27 other people liked this
FriendFeed's Bookmarklet kick's Twitter's Bookmarklets a$$! Oh wait, that's not an unfounded declaration...nevermind.
- Robert Seidman
Haha. :)
- Jennifer Leggio
Does anyone realize that the same people that are claiming today that Friendfeed is going to kill Twitter, are the same people that earlier this month were claiming that BrightKite was the 'next big thing'?
- Mack Collier
I figure since my unfounded declarations have been made solely with Photoshop twitter is down parodies I can chalk up anything that happens as comedic license.
- Kevin Bondelli
I think that FF has the ability to kill Twitter (if they evolve it some more) but I never talked up bkite. As for unfounded, if you're having a go at me Jennifer, YOU NEVER READ THE POST. What I said was that FF has the ability to move into Twitter's space and kill it (which they do), I never once said FF as it stands today will kill Twitter. No hoping in that, informed call made on the great skill set the FF team has
- Duncan Riley
what's a brightkite?
- Thomas Hawk
hahahahaha...via feedalizr
- drew olanoff
Thomas: http://brightkite.com/ - Want an invite?
- Vincent X
Duncan - Until you commented here I had no idea who you were. So, uh, no, wasn't "having a go" at you. It's a no brainer that FF is capturing more Twitter users and could, eventually, knock Twitter down. My annoyance is with people who a week ago were indifferent about FriendFeed and now are rushing to post blogs about it. Where were they a few months ago? Too much bandwagon BS for my taste.
- Jennifer Leggio
haha, no thanks Vincent, I'm good. I'll join as soon as they are one of the FF social networks, I've now signed up for 100% of the social networks that FF supports.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas - I burnt out on Brightkite after about a week. Plus I had my old boss threaten to show up at a dinner just to teach me a lesson about broadcasting my location. Ha.
- Jennifer Leggio
Jennifer, I'm partly to blame because I started this weeks bitchmeme with the kill word. I take your point on board, but I'm suggest you're attitude towards others having a say isn't a positive for the conversation. So what they jumped on board last week, I got converted 3-4 weeks ago after not getting it for months (and even saying so publicly). Every service has an infliction point, let them come in and talk about it, don't have to agree with it but that doesn't mean they don't have the right to say it
- Duncan Riley
Step 5: Profit ?!?!?!
- Tim Moore
Jennifer, unless you were the founder of a service, there will always be someone who was there before, and usually, many more after. To close the doors on new users is silly, and it's very early in FriendFeed's growth phase. These go in waves. there was a wave in October of '07, another wave in February/March, and one now. It'll happen again. And we should welcome the new users and blog posts.
- Louis Gray
"Never ask a man for his opinion on a business plan. Ask a woman. A man will love any plan that focuses on killing something else, no matter how ineffective the plan" - Guy Kawasaki (sorta)
- Matt Harwood
If I may step in..@Sozo Sazesh I think the fac that the facebook community thrives on various updates on others is an example of how FriendFeed is relevant.
- Jacob Nahin
I'm going to do step 4 differently: Hope like hell that nobody else's unfounded declarations are true :)
- Eric Florenzano
Duncan, of course they have the right to say it. My initial comment was absolutely tongue-in-cheek. It's just... I'm not sure how if I can articulate this well... everyone should have an opinion and, of course, when people find a new "thing" they are going to get excited about it and write about it. GREAT. My eye rolling ensues when its clear that people are trying to "position" themselves rather than communication passion. It's transparent.
- Jennifer Leggio
Soso, each person you know probably has a Facebook profile, a Linkedin profile, maybe a Twitter account, possibly a handful of other social sites like Last.fm, Youtube, etc. Wouldn't it be far more convenient to catch up on what they're doing from one site, rather than going to 5 or 10?
- Mark Trapp
Duncan, perhaps you're right that my criticism is not constructive, but I spent all last week pushing Twitter Love Day to help make conversations around the Twit-Out constructive. Everyone has a weak moment. ;-)
- Jennifer Leggio
Soso, you are here having a conversation now. Is that not relevant? The beauty of FF is that you can jump in for 10 minutes or 10 hours. Me, I've only been in for 15 min or so. I just finished watching Charlie Wilson's War with mrsth. I just pick up where i left off. It like a bar where there is always a conversation going on. What's not to love?
- Thomas Hawk
meh... I stepped on the bandwagon in Beta, I never make unfounded declarations about the future of anything - but I congratulate myself nonetheless... what was #4 again?
- Lucretia Pruitt
Sigh. Step 5: Do not use dry humor on FriendFeed as people may misunderstand.
- Jennifer Leggio
@Sozo Sazesh That's a good point. I can concede to that.
- Jacob Nahin
Louis, not at all what I was implying. Please see my last responses to Duncan.
- Jennifer Leggio
Soso, what's the importance criteria in Facebook? Maybe more importantly, if you only have time or want to spend the time to observe, what does it matter how important you are?
- Mark Trapp
And for the record, I dig FriendFeed. Been on a while but just started getting active. I want both FF and Twitter to flourish.... if possible.
- Jennifer Leggio
@Kevin Bondelli for you ;) http://www.lalafufu.com/twitter...
- Tim Moore
Jennifer, fair enough.
- Duncan Riley
@Thomas Hawk I do say, referring to what Scoble mentioned recently, FF does have an awesome half-life
- Jacob Nahin
Soso, the beauty of Friendfeed is that the buy-in for most users is very small: link up the content you are already producing to Friendfeed and you're good to go. Your friends and followers can keep up to date with what you're doing without you having to constantly remind them to "check my facebook profile" or "check my blog" (ironically, like you just did here). The likes/comments feature of Friendfeed is the poweruser level: I doubt if FF went mainstream most of the population would utilize it.
- Mark Trapp
Soso, Friendfeed is heavy on the social media kool aid because early adopters are using it. Early adopters are power users. If/when it goes mainstream, the practices that we're using now (heavy commenting with people outside our core relationships) are not going to be seen in the mainstream audience. For example, Robert Scoble uses Facebook in a vastly different way than college or high school kids use it. You'll see the same thing happen with Friendfeed.
- Mark Trapp
Soso, discussion threads like this (and all the others) don't seem to wind up happening on Facebook. These kinds of conversations are made much easier on FriendFeed.
- Robert Seidman
Soso, Facebook is boring.
- Thomas Hawk
@Soso I think you might be putting too much emphasis on the amount of services. I personally don't gauge my interest in another FF user by the amount of his or her services. I gauge it on his or her conversations, responses to others, sense of humor, passion, etc. If we're going to break it down to FriendFeed vs Twitter, FF at least lets you quickly see BOTH sides of a conversation versus having to click back and forth to see disparate tweets to get a full picture. That's just ONE benefit of the service.
- Jennifer Leggio
@Soso If someone walks into *any* social media environment and bases his or her judgment of the effectiveness of said service solely on how popular or important his or her own presence is, then the experience will never be successful. It will always be built on a shaky foundation. And those trying to determine who to read will see through it and may not be as interested as they would be if the person just shared and expressed without worry about such things.
- Jennifer Leggio
so this guy named Sosa walks into a bar, and the bartender says.....
- Thomas Hawk
lol @ Thomas
- Jennifer Leggio
Jennifer - Most of the people that I see talking about FF now really have been all along. Sure, there are a few 'well-known' sites that are now joining in but that's all part of 'the buzz'. If there was no value, most of them are smart enough to not be doing it. Regardless. Great Dialog. Thanks!
- Charlie Anzman
@Charlie, sure thing. Who knew I would spark such a discussion, but I think it's wonderful that people are talking. :)
- Jennifer Leggio
I think the main point here is, can we please tone down the almost obsessive over-hyping of these tools? Last year it was Facebook, then it was Twitter, then BrightKite, and now FriendFeed.
- Mack Collier
Glad to see the early adopters hammering those terrible newcomers - I've been on FriendFeed for a whole six hours now and standards certainly started to decline in the early afternoon (AEST)! (for the benefit of the thick - I am joking, you know that, right? :) )
- Andrew Boyd
@Andrew - *cries* Seriously, I am going to cry. I am not even an early adopter. I signed up all of a month ago. I was making a joke about hypocrisy. I, erm, sigh. I'm gonna go over -----> here
- Jennifer Leggio
@Jennifer I know, mine was more a comment on the emotional maturity of some of your respondents - still any publicity is good publicity (most of the time, unless people don't know when to stop). Thanks for brightening my first day on FF :)
- Andrew Boyd
@Andrew Heh, I appreciate the support. I think I learned a lesson in that while on Twitter, most everyone who follows me knows me or knows my style already. Here, it's much more open which is GREAT. But easier to misconstrue. But I am who I am and I have a stupid sense of humor. So I'll brace myself. ;-)
- Jennifer Leggio
Sorry Soso, didn't mean to call you Sosa. No more wine for me tonight.
- Thomas Hawk
@Jennifer - good heavens! You did start something! Pot stirrer! ;) Seriously, I thought you were being funny. But you know - it *IS* the internet still, even if it's FF :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
Ah, okay. I was wondering when we started talking about that baseball player.
- Morton Fox
@Lucretia - It's actually kind of funny. Ok very funny. lol
- Jennifer Leggio
4. Forget what future makes of your declarations, wait on the next big thing then go to step 1-3. And so on, until someone gets lucky with the future and then he/she gets to name the next big thing :) We're all game and there's no limit to how many ways we find to interact.
- Dani Radu
The #1 Reason FriendFeed Will Not "Dethrone" Twitter - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Michael W. May, Doug Dockery, Tris Hussey and 5 other people liked this
Great post. The two are not in competition. Period. End of Story.
- Mike Doeff
Agreed. They are entirely two different services, both offering different things. If anything, they can co-reside quietly.
- Andrew Dobrow
Exactly, we've built lots of disparate services and now the tools have come to pull them all together.
- Tris Hussey
leave twitter alone - http://dotdean.tumblr.com/post...
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sirishkumar, Alisha, Prunella and 26 other people liked this
Hahhaa, this is awesome.
- Eric Florenzano
Great 404.
- Courtstarr Runner
hmm.. and i thought the 404 is when it works :)
- Naor Mark
When I was writing a blog post about SEO, I thought it would be great to have this guy saying "Leave SEO Alone!!" "Stop Keyword Stuffing!!"
- Bill Stevens
That's almost the funniest thing that I've ever seen ... almost
- John Blanton
from Alert Thingy
John, then I guess you haven't seen this :-) http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Andrew Dobrow
lol alright...via feedalizr
- James Andreasen
I want to publish that too :-)
- Florin Grozea
More of these: http://flickr.com/photos...
- Vincent X
Photographer leaps across Grand Canyon to get shot - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
Panayotis Vryonis, Vincent and Glenn Slaven liked this
wow, that's hardcore. I want to see the shots he got...via feedalizr
- Vincent
Yeah me too, that's what I originally went to the site to see. If the jump was worth it haha.
- Andrew Dobrow
This is actually a set of photos that's been making its way around the intertubes for a couple years now: http://www.snopes.com/photos... (The gap is only over about a 15 foot drop)
- Mark Trapp
Damn crafty perspective. The fall would still probably hurt though.
- Andrew Dobrow
This is why I love the tech industry… - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Nikpay, Benton, Ha3rvey (obviously wrong) and 5 other people liked this
I'm quite jealous of all the cool technologies you get to see before I do. I'm also jealous that you get to "geek out" with the people that make them. But, that's what the videos are for, so thank you for sharing with us!
- Jordan Hofker
Thanks Jordan! I often come home and just can't believe the cool stuff I get to do.
- Robert Scoble
Pity you can't live stram those HD cameras - then we'd all get a better look
- Roberto Bonini
i actually prefer the qik video streams. The raw / live / unrefined quality creates a much more powerful ad-hoc transparent experience. great videos...(adding the IEEE Tabletop conference in Amsterdam to my calendar)
- Benton
It’s Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter - http://www.inquisitr.com/557...
Mitchell Tsai, Noah Carter, Paula Hawk and 11 other people liked this
I don't think FriendFeed can kill Twitter either. I think they both need each other. That said, if FriendFeed adds SMS and XMPP and a bunch of ways to see data the way we want to, instead of the way that FriendFeed wants to present it, then all bets would be off.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with Robert - if FriendFeed decided to implement a few bits of functionality, it's game over for Twitter... the term "embrace and extend" comes to mind.
- Jonathan Beckett
You think? Not sure about that. There will be lots more Twitters. It's a tool FF can become a platform.
- Ryan
FF can't kill Twitter. We are talking about different things for different audiences (FF = sharing content published somewhere else / Twitter = getting fast information, personal experience/opinion without clicking on a link). That's a simplified example ;). And by the way it's also a matter of the users. There are much more of my friends using Twitter (300) than using (not just having an account) Friendfeed (10). That's what really matters for me.
- Timo Heuer
But I agree with you. FF needs some new features that make it easier for us to handle with FF. But it will still be something different. At least in my opinion. Features I want: Liking comments, Permalink for comments, SMS/Mobile, ... Probably the only reason for not using Jaiku/Pownce: not enough friends of mine there using it regularly.
- Timo Heuer
But Scoble, if they wanted to offer a dedicated Twitter style service, they have the skills, user base, and experience to do it. They cant now, but they can if they want to. Besides, someone has to kill Twitter, this constant downtime cant continue. Howmuch is enough?
- Duncan Riley
from twhirl
FF really needs a much more visual/innovative way to follow content - just too difficult to manage/navigate (I tweeted this). Twitter is easy, comparatively.
- Elizabeth Albrycht
They could try, I don't deny that. But every social network could try. Even Facebook (and they tried, didn't they?). Again, I don't think they are the correct ones to build a Twitter killer. It's not their field. Their field is aggregating feeds. Just my two cents.
- Timo Heuer
@Elizabeth agree, but this doesn't mean they couldn't do it if they wanted to. The tech is there, the filtering is there (but needs to be simpler). No one else could do it, even Google failed
- Duncan Riley
from twhirl
@Elizabeth correct! I forgot this one ;)
- Timo Heuer
keep in mind FF user base is not at pair with twitter so architecture hasnot yet been tested. on the other hand how hard for twitter to fix was is broken with some good money founding!
- Gilbert Corrales
from twhirl
I almost agree with you, Timo. But: in the last days it became possible to add enough friends on FriendFeed to get the same signal to noise ratio we all love Twitter for. Still, for me those two friend lists do only overlap to a small amount.
- Benedikt Koehler
I like both. Why does it have to be one or the other?
- jjprojects
It's so hard to get a group of friends to adopt a social site like Twitter, I can't imagine the effort it would take to convince all of them to move to FriendFeed right after they started using Twitter.
- Jordan Hofker
I wrote about this before, but FriendFeed does NOT have "Twitter like communications." The FriendFeed experience is very different. Trust me, I tried to "tweet" a basketball game during the Twit-Out and failed. Granted this was pre-fftogo (I was using MojiPage, which didn't allow creation of native FF items, viewing of comments/likes, or isolation of your own page), but even with a full FriendFeed client, FF isn't really suited for universal discussion of an event (sports event, disaster, speech).
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
@Ontario Why exactly isn't it? You can have a conversation among friends just like Twitter. Your stuff gets pushed down, but unlike in Twitter, the conversation is bumped up when you add more to it. Of course, the user base is not as large (yet) meaning you will not find many people interested in a certain subject
- Bartek Ciszkowski
Threaded discussions break FF for me from beign a twitter replacement. Twitter is linear, simple, small, clear and needs no navigation...PERFECT for remote, SMS access
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Soulhuntre is a bit right here. Twitter is a fire-and-forget service. With FF, however, anything you send has a chance of generating comments which is something many people feel they must shepherd at least to a certain extent. That creates just enough overhead to make some people more cautious at FF because sending something implies some tiny bit of responsibility for follow-through.
- Akiva Moskovitz
LifeLock CEO Todd Davis Had His ID Stolen @ http://www.lockergnome.com/blade... (ha ha!)
Mitchell Tsai, Vincent, Cameron Smith and 10 other people liked this
Pure, hilarity. That'll learn ya. Don't plaster your SSN everywhere in arrogance!
- Bwana ☠
His PR department is offering me an interview next week but I don't have time. He claims the claims aren't true.
- Robert Scoble
Well the claims might not be true, but the class action lawsuits against the company are.
- Jacob Burke
Pride goeth before the fall...
- Tris Hussey
from twhirl
how freakin' stupid! Scoble - don't waste your time.... they obviously are in denial of the lawsuits; facts will come to light soon I am sure.
- Susan Beebe
New Times had a story on this company last year. Lots of legal problems. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-05...
- Al Stevens
I'm wondering if the customers they get because he is willing to share his SSN may trump his stolen identity issues. Maybe it's worth it.
- Phil Crissman
Well, his credit record was probably stored on an Oracle "Unbreakable Linux" server called titanic.experian.com... Robert, you should totally interview this guy, be all nice and Scobley for 20-30 minutes, then go Mike Wallace on his ass. lol
- Karim
XD wow
- Vincent
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