Mikko Alasaarela › Comments

I agree on the Cloud Contacts recommendation. I just had them scan more than 4,000 cards for me and it freaking rocks to have them all in a database. Sorry, nothing beats the ubiquity of business cards. If you're going to use Business Cards, make sure you follow the best practices. I wrote that up here: http://scobleizer.com/2006... - Robert Scoble from FriendFeed MT Plugin

From what I understand, Contxts is US only. It might be worth mentioning that in the post. - Rajit from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hey Robert... I know it's crossing into grammar nazi territory but there's something conceptually confusing about this sentence in point #2: "I bought a business card scanner so that I could get my computers into computer form." Should that be "cards into computer form"? Not sure why that's bugging me so much... must be time to go to bed! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Lindsay: yes. You're right. - Robert Scoble

@Lindsay - unless anyone got killed for their grammar, it's probably not related to nazis... - Jeremy Toeman

@Jeremy - you'd be surprised at how agitated some people get about it... but yeah, probably a slang term that I reconsider use of. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

I am a big fan of BeamME, which is a simple iPhone app that lets me send my cloud-based business card to email, phone or Twitter. It has nice links to my social networks etc included. I dropped my paper cards 9 months ago, and have been using it together with Facebook and LinkedIn iPhone apps. The only reasonable use for paper cards anymore is trade show contests where you drop your card to bowl to hopefully win a prize :) - Mikko Alasaarela from FriendFeed MT Plugin

That's why I love Contxts it's SMS so it's already built into phones. And one thing not mentioned in the article is the sender can initiate it. (E.g. what's your cell #? okay the card is on it's way) The 140 char limit is a little frustrating but business cards should be concise anyway. - Chester Mealer Jr. from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Reminds me of the old infrared feature on early Palm/Pilot devices - sounds great, but somehow it misses a social context. A business card is about a social transaction as much as it's about a data transaction. A digital data patch on the back to facilitate data transfer seems like a good compromise. - John Blossom

I don't carry business cards... people think that I'm crazy...not having business cards simplifies my life..all my biz contacts are online...FB FF Twitter SiliconAngle are my new business cards - John Furrier

@johnfurrier, do you use a single app/site to aggregate your business contacts in Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, etc.? Any CRM tips? - Kawika Holbrook

Follow http://twitter.com/VistaPrint and get 80% discount. Tell them DebbyBruck sent you. - Debby Bruck

15" macbook air? Hmmm... Don't know about that. - Brandon Titus

Apples first effort at a netbook. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

Good luck to Apple :) - Lasker

MacBook Air weighs about the same as higher end netbooks, and is way better than them (although very expensive). I would love to see a 10 inch version of it, I don't think 15 inch makes any sense. - Mikko Alasaarela

But you can cut cake with it! - jcunwired

My new laptop is the heavier than the last one I had. It's kind of ridiculous, but it literally is a desktop replacement. I'm considering buying a one of those subcompact ones, just to run around with. I would rather wait for the iTablet though. - Michael Fidler

Hmmm, maybe. Things are busy. I spent approximately 2.5 hrs on soc nets during the week, according to PageAddict. This includes Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. - Steve Rubel

i think people are just finding their way of balancing friendfeed along with their other "social responsibilities" shall we call them... :) Maybe even you! :) - Zee.

My usage has gone down as well and will go down even more starting next week. But, that is only b/c I will be working during the day starting Monday. - Mathew™ one of a kind

The busier I am the less I look at FF. - Michael Markman

i guess maybe it's like opening a new video game on your birthday - you play the heck out of it for a month, then only once in a while. as hodson would say, maybe ff is no longer a shiny new object. - Allen Stern

can't find any compelling reason to spend much time on FF. I check in every 2-3 days but that's about it. Becoming a burden and I'm considering giving up. - Chris Selland

My use had gone up dramatically since the introduction of lists. It's infinitely more useful now. - Kevin Gamble

My use of FF has increased. - Mike Reynolds

Mine is waning too... due to increased responsibilities at work. Enormous changes ahead for me so I have to gear down and get all serious. You'll see less of me... probably morning, evenings and weekends (sneak in for lunch too!) - Susan Beebe

Facebook feed does the same with higher quality and simple ways to manage it. I prefer it to Friendfeed. - Mikko Alasaarela from twhirl

So your measurement of a community's success is your own activity? I argue that's broken. And you were only online for 35 hours? Did you go on vacation? :-) - Louis Gray

is this the same app that was on Safari a few years ago ? It sounds familiar - Jamie

Jamie, I think it is available on Safari for memory - Duncan Riley

Diigo added - nice. - Hutch Carpenter

These are nice additions. Keep up the good work, FF folks! - Mikko Alasaarela from twhirl

bah. Still max 300 entries (i.e. 11th page bug) - good fixes, nonetheless, thanks! :) - Tim Hoeck

Great stuff indeed. - Tsega Dinka

Excellent enhancements. - Mike Fruchter

Tim: If you use "num=100", you can see entries #300-399. Also, "search by service" will allow you to go deeper... - Mitchell Tsai

i likes the new features - Tyler Gillies from twhirl

very good job. i love you guys! - Tyler Gillies

Yay for Diigo! - Michael C. Harris

tried to import my Mister Wong account, but an error message appeared: We could not find given account. - Baard @ Pixum

Baard, what is the url of your Mister Wong page? - Paul Buchheit

Yep, suppressing the twitter entry for a comment tweet is an excellent move - Colin Walker from fftogo

Paul, the URL is: http://www.mister-wong.de/user... - Baard @ Pixum

Excellent work, and great additions as well! - Joe Dawson

I'm looking forward to working with the newly formatted RSS. It was a pain before. - Duncan Riley

Nice, might give FF some more traction in Germany, as Mister Wong is rather popular here. - Thomas Frütel

if you guys did this all in one day, then I am supremely impressed. :) - Lou Paglia

Thanks for adding Intense Debate..you guys made my month. Also, the feeds are so much better now!! - Bwana ☠

"The given URL does not appear to be a Intense Debate profile page" nooo - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Thanks for adding brightkite, now if Duncan can add a new script to have brightkite show up in my friendfeed window. - Jon Erickson from twhirl

I really like that FF can spend time fixing bugs and adding small features instead of spending continuous effort trying to keep the service running for more than 5 minutes (and mostly failing it seems) - Brian Sullivan

Hmmm, your profile is coming up fine for me Shey.. weird - Bwana ☠

sphinn.com has about 20,000 members who'd like to be supported, Bret. last I asked FF, you all said you weren't adding more services. Now you are. C'mon, show us some love over there. - dannysullivan

@Bwana yes my page is working but it was FF that gave me that error - Shey, Jamaican of FF

@Shey Oh..well...darn....that sucks. Maybe it's the initial rush and ID is crapping out somehow on their end.. I added mine yesterday when hardly anyone knew.. :( - Bwana ☠

I'm with Danny, I would love to see Sphinn on FF! If I could get them added, I would be able to be more active in the sphinn community. - Mark Frost from twhirl

@Danny, you can add your Sphinn activity to FF by importing it as your "blog." Importing a Sphinn feed like http://sphinn.com/rss... will show everything on FF that the Sphinn feed shows. As Sphinn's feed capabilities grow, so will the Sphinn presence on FF. (Not exactly addressing your point of being ignored, but it is a partial workaround.) - Erik Dafforn

Danny, what are all the relevant Sphinn feeds? I can take a look at adding the service. Also, if the content is right (no "16 Vote(s)", comments should include the comment, etc), then they can be imported as comments here, just as with Mixx, Reddit, etc. - Paul Buchheit

Amazing. - Aaron Myers

Can we add Toluu? I would like to keep track of interesting new feeds peeps are adding - Dom

Baard, try again -- Mister Wong should now be fixed. - Paul Buchheit

congrats, but as i've been blogging and otherwise messaging, you really need to focus on the features over the new sites... commenting = broken. liking = meh. etc. - Jeremy Toeman

Thanks for all the hard work FF team!! neat improvements, fixes and tweaks! =) - Susan Beebe

thanks, Paul. Mister Wing is now working :-) - Baard @ Pixum

Still...rumor for now :) - Bwana ☠

I didn't think they were updating the Mac Mini but were simply creating a new device altogether. - Brandon Titus

This looks to be another case of photoshopped imagery for fake news - Mikko Alasaarela

I seriously hope this isn't fake as I would be the first in line to buy one...or seven. - Jason Thompson

Hope they do this fast and that they pull it off. - DC Crowley

Thats a good thing. The reality is ROR is not a great tool for scalability. Prototypes? Sure. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

any idea why Python is not even mentioned as an option? - Andrés David Aparicio from twhirl