That's what I got for paying $299 to buy their entire history _ever_ from Apple. Put iTunes on shuffle, and there's a good chance it will hit DM.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray has good taste in music :)
- Adam Singer
WOW great music, Louis. It's like you went through some of my iTunes library and stole it. :P
- Molly, New Ears :P
Louis, how do I get that entire history collection?
- Jesse Stay
I can dig some house, but when it comes to electronic I always slant towards the more experimental/IDM-type stuff... Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, etc - hence my: http://friendfeed.com/got-mem...
- Nathan Chase
Justice and Daft Punk are about as "house" as I get... but the name-givers seem to dub them as "electro"...
- Nathan Chase
You're the electronic kind of guy, I see... Let me suggest a little change: Prefab Sprout "Let's change the world with music". It also has that 80's feeling that you seem to like but it's a little bit more poppy.
- Jordi Soler
One reason I love FF more than any other service. The people actually seem genuinely concerned about each others well being. Thank everyone for there well wishing and hopefully the service or it's legacy project shine on in this regard. I love you guys.
you are right! that is what i like about this feed and it is GENUINE, but is so new that is not so fun yet, but the more we post things that wake us up to what we knew with intuition already that friend feed will be THE tool, but until then i will support it too
- Ian Hilley
likewise facefeed and beyond...hopefully
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, I just realized the I actually didn't share any info about my accident on FB. Odd as that sounds, but I really don't like FB.
- Jimminy Fuller
Oh I was referring to FriendFeed selling out to Facebook, FB's now the owner, so by proxy...my comment was meant as...yes, we soldier on! Come what may!
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, I understood what you meant, it just was an epiphanie that I had from seeing facefeed.
- Jimminy Fuller
Bumping this because, this is the real shit, I love you guys and all the support.
- Jimminy Fuller
When will Facebook take down/get rid of FriendFeed? I really can't stomach Facebook.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Jannifer, hopefully never, hopefully they decided to do a pure talent grab and allow the service to remain independent, under the FB umbrella but funded by Paul and fellow FriendFeeders, since we don't know the terms this seems unlikely.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jason, .9009 looks well balanced. the double-O flanked on either side by the highest ranking digit. You're good to go.
- Micah Wittman
lol ;) sometimes I get more likes when I become absent for a day or so. Also, I have 0.84 ratio, that's less comment activity than I expected :p
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Not only are the comments and likes less frequent, but I think people are also writing fewer posts than before. A drop of the global activity, in fact, at least in the English speaking community.
- Brome
Sorry guys. I know I've been slacking but I've been busy IRL. I'll see if I can carve out more time for FF to up the likes and comments. My time away has just totally killed all your stats I know. :D
- CW™
"In contrast to the relaxed lifestyle of Sydney, San Francisco is full of ambition. While it lacks the non-stop pace of New York or the late-night industry of Detroit and Chicago, the people here want to change the world, and they have the innovation, the smarts and the determination to do so.The tech industry here is simply amazing. Despite being here for half a year, I'm still floored when I go to a party and every person I meet there ends up being a Web designer, or a coder, or a sysadmin, or a DBA, or a network engineer, or a manager of a bunch of coders, or a VC funding a tech company, or a lawyer or accountant or marketing or PR person working for a tech company, or a level designer or artist working for a games company. Even the girls. It boggles me. It's like the entire Bay Area simply exists to build software and iPhones and tech solutions."
- Todd Hoff
Being in a similar situation (but different city) I related to this a lot. Thanks for sharing Todd.
- Adam Singer
Thanks Adam. When people say Silicon Valley has lost it they are very wrong. It's more of a mindset than a place.
- Todd Hoff
My order of importance : reader, search, AdSense, documents, email, maps, browser, Analytics, YouTube - that's it. Thank you for making me think about it!
- Detlef Cordes
We came in this morning for an aversion proceedure (turn the baby into position). They were expecting to induce if they could get him aimed the right way. Five minutes before they were supposed to do the procedure he turned the right way by himself. Then 20 minutes later he turned again. Drat. Anyway, now they are in the process of inducing and watching. Won't know for sure what's going on until later tonight. -
- Robert Scoble
Right now we're just resting and waiting for the inducing agents to start their jobs. It's still possible that we might have to have a caesarian section, because little Ryan isn't in the right position. More probably later this evening, for now I get to geek out while Maryam takes a nap.
- Robert Scoble
Sending lots of beams to Maryam (and you too!) I am out of the loop. I had no idea that the family was growing (and tell M, I'm going to be a grammy come March 1)
- Nancy White
Fingers crossed for a natural delivery... unless Maryam would prefer a c-section ;) Good Luck.
- Travis Koger
What a handsome name you've chosen ;)
- Ryan Whitwam
Robert: I wish you and your wife the safest and best possible birth experience! Here's to a healthy baby boy and Mom!! Keeping you in my thoughts. Leslie
- Leslie Carothers
Good luck to you both; hope all goes smoothly & swiftly.
- Rachel Luxemburg
Nothing but good and positive wishes to Maryam and you and that RSS will come out the second to prettiest baby ever (naturally ours is the prettiest) *wink*
- Rene Wirtz
David: my other son, Patrick, was named for a saint and Milan was named for one of the best writers ever. So there.
- Robert Scoble
Robert!!!!! What great news; it will be early. Why did they induce if the due date was the 25th, or was I wrong?
- Francine Hardaway
wishing you the best. we have a girl due in a few months :)
- Stalyn☂
Francine: because hospitals like to schedule babies, is my guess (Sequoia is like a hotel). But he was breech and they wanted to get him into position, now that she's here they are doing the induction thing.
- Robert Scoble
Good wishes to all. I've never met you and even I'm nervous.
- Amyloo
Good luck with everything, Robert!!! Very exciting! I hope everything turns out perfect in the end!!
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Best wishes Scobs! This must be a very exiting day!
- Jadito
So the doctor said that Ryan is one of the five most active babies she has seen in her practice which is why they didn't let us go home. Usually babies at this stage stay heads down. Ryan isn't. I think we have a wild one! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Agree on the whole. I always find these categories a little artificial: Really "Forrester-speak". :) I think the recommendations are the most interesting. I'd make a separate post out of that.
- Meryn Stol
You say it yourself: "What’s interesting isn’t this vision for the future, but what it holds in store for brands, " . I'd like these recommendations to be fleshed out with concrete first steps to take. Doesn't have to be more than links to relevant resources.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn The recommendations are fleshed out in the actual reports. Our clients (brands) have access to see them.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hmm ok... Then I'll need to get the details elsewhere I guess. :)
- Meryn Stol
Interesting categorization of the development into eras. Any consideration to the impact of scale on the 5th era? Just as a recent example with Facebook, their format evolution was not well received by what is not an insignificant number of members, and yet the reality is - that change - negative impact not withstanding is not rolling back.
- Patrick Boegel
There will be a give and take between communities and brands. The thing is, Facebook doesn't have a competitive alternative that users could go to. In my report, we suggest that active communities could define specs for products, and bid MULTIPLE companies to build it.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I completely understand that Jeremiah, just wondering if the nature of scale impacted or perhaps better said impacts the thought process for very complex long term brand relationships, ie Health Insurance, Financial Services, a college/university choice, where consversation and user invovlement can be complicated. Very interested in the full report either way. Thx.
- Patrick Boegel
good stuff Jeremiah, enjoyed and some good thought provokers there for the future
- Richard Binhammer
Nice paper but really expensive for young people. $750 means $41 for page.
- Alp
Great information, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Interesting, but very general and hard to apply. I see companies more as å provide of tools/stage for conversation, aka the gold rush mining vs selling tools
- Anders Dahlberg
Alp, Many of Forrester's clients are large brands who have a subscription. We're still sharing a great deal on this blog, and have given the report to bloggers to cover, so there's value to be had there.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah (and the team), a great piece of work and, I imagine, a labour of both love and loathing at times! I have been very interested in this area as I have looked at the shift in skills to deliver social media activity changes from one of basic coding knowledge to much more human, interactive skills.
- Paul Fabretti
Fantastic article! I found it SO intriguing that I've even printed it out!
- J. D. Ebberly
"How Brands Should Prepare" is a great bit of information. Jeremiah, it would be nice (i'd be reading) if you expanded in future blog posts about the "How Brands Should Prepare".
- frank barry
That's likely to be a research report I'm thinking about writing Frank
- Jeremiah Owyang
Probably correct in assuming that most online social networks will neither spawn nor solidify to the point of being considered ‘affinity groups’ with the level of cohesion, unified budgetary authority or organized implementation capability of NGOs, churches, or employee aggregations. Even in the era of social commerce. I hope I’m wrong.
- A Mitchell
Great post, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Vlad Hrouda
Top Artists Meme. Go to Last.FM (if you are on it; if not shame on you). Select (your) Library. It should display your top [18] 'listened to' artists. Grab a screenshot of it and post it to a note here. I'm http://www.last.fm/user/rchaas (via http://friendfeed.com/haggis)
It looks like you like a lot of techno/industrial things. Ladytron are great. :) And I see Depeche Mode is #12 on both of our lists :P
- Molly, New Ears :P
Love me some Techno/Industrial, no matter how much I try to branch out to other genres, I always come back to that. Also, I didn't know I listened to the Repo soundtrack that much.
- Rob Haas
Not rare, not well done, but "Your musical compatibility with rchaas is Medium"
- Pete Delucchi
"now going to tell you why you are going to give me $5 in free ice cream" HAR. You've been learning from Scoble, haven't you? Look at that phrasing!
- Spidra Webster
i think matthew believes that crawling on 4 is faster than walking on 2
- Allen Stern
I particularly like the conversation they're having on the journey; ... watch out for the electrical socket.
- Mark Evans
Is that a hotel? Its enormous, and empty, with what might be a firehose cabinet. Either a hotel, empty office building, or you are contemplating the purchase of a 20,000 sq ft mansion.
- DGentry
That's just waay too cute Louis! Reminds me of when my son started walking.
- Jim Connolly
Why do we loose that instinct, of the second we get the slightest bit off balance, just launch your feet straight into the sky and let the nice soft ass take the hit?
- Matthew DeVries
P = mv (inertia = mass * velocity). As we get bigger not only does our mass increase, but it takes longer for us to fall to the ground and so we achieve a higher velocity by the time we hit. I suspect that as adults, falling back on our bottoms would no longer help, we'd still be likely to break something. So we lose the instinct.
- DGentry
Just learn to fall. I fall onto my back many, many times during Aikido practice.
- Tad
This reminds me of something I've wanted for a while now: FriendFeed needs a "Post By Mail" feature. Print out the form, fill it in, send it in an envelope, and it shows up in your stream a few days later… for folks who really aren't into real-time.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Static. If there is an option to close the animation, I'm all over it.
- Yolanda
Static. Actually, with enough typographical strength, graphics are optional. :)
- Micah Wittman
Gee. I can't imagine why I keep railing against the use of Flash on Web sites. I'm with everyone else. Flash drives me crazy. I don't mind sites having dynamic content on their home pages, but I want to be able to control how quickly or slowly it changes.
- Curtiss Grymala
I just screenshoted this. I'll be sure to show it to any potential clients that want to obsessively use flash. Oh and Static 100%
- Joshua Schnell
If there's a compelling reason to use a dynamic display, I don't mind. For example, sports cars do not lend themselves to static displays. But even if a dynamic display is warranted - and it usually isn't - the dynamic content had better be short AND silent. (And the color saturation should be reasonable.)
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I use flashblock pretty heavily to cut that stuff out.
- Otto
from iPhone
I'm curious if Louis' question would elicit different results if asked on another platform. FriendFeed tends to skew a little tech. Maybe other audiences find the animation entertaining.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
i could say something really mean about a certain market segment, but i won't.
- Joe Silence is silent
John, I asked on Twitter and it hit here. But yes, this is good data.
- Louis Gray
Static. If it's a splash page and there's no "Skip" link, I'll often close it. And don't even get me STARTED on pages that start playing sound!
- Ladybug Heather
Static. Come to think of it, all of the sites I visit regularly lack excess animations.
- Jemm
Minimalism is the key. I don't care about ads, as long as they're not annoying and they don't distract me from the main content... Come to think of it, exactly the opposite of what they intend! ;)
- Jordi Soler
Static. Unless a flash ad is particularly clever or interesting it gets annoying within a matter of seconds.
- Amy
Static, and no toolbar overlays. (nothing makes me stabbyer)
- Matthew DeVries
I am really surprised at the almost unanimity of static. I may change my website.
- Alan Morris
I don't mind Flash, as long as I start the Flash. This mess, has stopped me from ordering my sandwiches from there - http://www.jimmyjohns.com. A website should not do anything but display in a static manner until I've given it the goahead to move.
- Matthew DeVries
static. I don't play music when someone walks in my door, do you? find out what I want first, then let the media be presented
- randulo
Animated. If I don't see page elements dancing the Macarena, the site is clearly not worth my time.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
static also because if I'm viewing in my phone it doesn't display. The worst are ones that require the flash to get through to the content of the site.
- Sarah
Static. I have Flash off by default.
- Victor Ganata
I can't stand flash sites. It's a pet peeve of mine. I don't mind little pieces being flash, but I don't want anything overly flash or music or autoplay, etc. Ick.
- Araceli