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Heck ya. - Lisa McMillan

Yea, viddler rocks and friendfeed should have it. - alexdesigns

Yeah! Viddler needs to be on FriendFeed. - Chris Tingom

Come on! Let's see Viddler integration!! I want to be able to see Viddler favorites and embedded video!! :) - Brandice

Definitely. - Greg Schwartz

we need this - Sarah Cooley

Please! We've even got it on soupio, why not friendfeed! - Susan Reynolds

Yes! - Bryan Garcia

I've been wondering about this for a while! I would love it! If we favorite a viddler video, will it be posted on FF too? That'd be awesome. - Daynah

I KNOW that I will use Viddler A LOT more if it was on FriendFeed. - Amanda Erickson

without Viddler on friendfeed I cannot use Friendfeed - Rob

Hey FriendFeed, let's get Viddler supported on your system!!! - Jacob Burke

Been looking for this for awhile. I hope it gets added soon. - James Fleeting

We want Viddler on FriendFeed. - Edwin Villanueva

Viddler FF support! - Ryan Capote

Wouldn't this be the right time for Google (given Twitters technical problems) to open up Jaiku and pull/win people over from Twitter? - Gabriel Nijmeh

Agree with cmiper. I wrote about Jaiku in July of last year (http://www.raoulpop.com/2007...), and have been using it since late spring in 2007. I loved the feed integration, back before FriendFeed even existed, but the polling times for feeds were and still are ridiculously long (sometimes days, not hours) and there's very little activity. You can go to my Jaiku account and see for yourselves: http://raoul.jaiku.com/. - Raoul Pop

e has a history of buying tools / companies then simply letting them languish and ruining them (jottspot anyone?) - Jaiku is just another exaple of that. Google might be getting too big to be as nimble as they used to be? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Google has a history of buying tools / companies then simply letting them languish and ruining them (jottspot anyone?) - Jaiku is just another exaple of that. Google might be getting too big to be as nimble as they used to be? - Soulhuntre from twhirl

It was mentioned in another FF comment thread but go to http://JaikuInvites.com for jaiku invites. I got mine within an hour of my request - acedanger

soulhuntre - don't you hate it when twhirl refreshes and you lose part of your comment, press enter and post it and then realize it's f'd up?! anyway - I used to get excited when Google would buy a "useful" service and then get disappointed when it stagnated for a year or so... - acedanger

Yeah, it is farily frustrating(that twhirl thing) - it shoudl suspend updates while I type. Google is not the universal saviour it's rep has it pegged as frankly - they blow it on a lot of stuff. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Friend me on jaiku - http://alexdesigns.jaiku.com/ - alexdesigns

I'm on Jaiki too (mikelewis) - Mike Lewis

Twitter ... I couldnt get used to jaiku for a reason - Alemsah Ozturk from Alert Thingy

acedanger and soulhunter, I have brought the refresh issue to Twhirl's attention twice: once through Twitter and once through their support forum. The only response I have received was, "That shouldn't be happening. We'll look into it." Well, thanks, but I know it shouldn't be happening. It seems to me this is a critical bug worthy of its own maintenance release. It also appears that since Seesmic bought Twhirl, bug fixes and updates are much slower to come out. - Gregory Pittman from twhirl

Twitter aura inimitable:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I only joined a couple of days ago but didn't like the UI and found Twitter to FF easier to play with. It doesn't make finding your existing friends easy. - Sally Church

I like Jaiku but people have chosen to use twitter - if I leave twitter I leave my community and join one that they may not want to be involved in. I also agree about the feeds they are slow. I also agree that Google will offer a very stable service. But truth is - twitter is where everyone is at and the service that they have chosen - so more happens there. BUT recent problems associated with twitter may just change the playing field. Everything will hinge on how long it takes them to "fix" things. - Dave Gray

I have some 20 invites for jaiku, leave your email on my channel. I'v read all these comments from ff mobile, works great. About jaiku, jaiku was doing feed integration from any Rss feed when FF was still a tought or a dream, they have been silent since the Google acquisition, but i have the feeling they where they are going.. - Ben Borges from fftogo

I have some 20 invites for jaiku, leave your email on my channel. I'v read all these comments from ff mobile, works great. About jaiku, jaiku was doing feed integration from any Rss feed when FF was still a tought or a dream, they have been silent since the Google acquisition, but i have the feeling they where they are going.. - Ben Borges from fftogo

Actually I trust Google's ability on integrating their acquisition than other company. Jaiku should integrate with Gmail so all email, IM and messaging go under one roof. - Leon Ho

Personally, I prefer Pownce to either of these services. I really like the ability to share files as well as text. - Tim Finucane

To twitt is just to scream out in space, when writing on Jaiku people engage you. - Tomas Seo

Tomas Seo, do you think it's because there are relatively few people on Jaiku? - Dewald Pretorius from twhirl

cmiper, that just shows how difficult it is to scale these services - Dewald Pretorius from twhirl

sues, but the noise / bandwidth problem gets insane. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

@Nzben is responsible for this crazy conversation. (he prompted me to start it in email). Thanks! - Robert Scoble

Robert, come to think of it, is asking "Jaiku vs Twitter" actually a valid question? After having looked at all three services, I think Jaiku leans far closer to FriendFeed in purpose than Twitter. - Dewald Pretorius

I was gonna say something but this pretty much hits the nail on the head "Robert, come to think of it, is asking "Jaiku vs Twitter" actually a valid question? After having looked at all three services, I think Jaiku leans far closer to FriendFeed in purpose than Twitter." - william douglas watson from twhirl

295 as of now. I add and delete at times. - Louis Gray

316 - Eric Dorsett

138 right now. I normally hover around 150 as I tend to clean up every month or so. - Rob Diana

personally i have around 30-40. how do you guys have time to read all that? - Ethan Klapper

Um, uh, I no longer know. - Cyndy

I currently have 30 - Gadiel Rivera

Ethan: nobody reads every feed. Mastering the ability to skim and pull out a few key phrases to determine the value of the article helps tons. A lot of times, a feed I'll have will only produce 1 nugget of goodness a day (or even week), so it's quick to get through them. I know other people think that's crazy, and just unsubscribe. Nuts to that I say. - Mark Trapp

@Mark I agree, not even I do that. lol - Ethan Klapper

i'm at 80 and a neurotic trends checker and deleter of feeds. - Ethan Winters

currently at 40, I weed out to only those that I read - Samir Balwani from twhirl

Right now 433! I use Google reader, w/ better Google reader and filters to manage the madness. - Steaprok

I skim over 132 feeds...Time to weed and replace some though. - Shane Floyd

Only 108, but add more each day. Some tend to be very high volume, about 100 articles/hour. - Vince DeGeorge

284, but it always 1000+ unread in reader, too lazy to delete sum - alexdesigns

55 down from 150. Using more recommended/popular services like rssmeme, twitbuzz, readburner, delicious. Read percentage up while saving time. - Hao Chen from fftogo

I have about 550 but i organized into folders i.e. top sites, music, art/photography, tech...by the way, i think muhammad saleem said it to someone already, but remember - deleting or marking items as read does not accomplish anything so don't waste time with it. if i like an article on any site, i click that orange button and subscribe. - jaybol

@jaybol I disagree. It does a lot for my state of mental well-being to see a folder cleaned out. ;) - Cyndy

As of right now 932. - Tris Hussey from twhirl

I'm a bit slack... I only have 96 in my reader at the moment. - Martin Jamieson

@cyndy well i suppose if it helps your mental well-being then i will be the last one to tell you to stop :) i think i have too many feeds for that to be a worthwhile endeavor in google reader, but maybe other reader programs are easier to do that with and less time consuming - jaybol

currently over 500 in my google reader. I also run the new app Snackr and have imported multiple OMPL files of feeds (including Scobles which can be found here - http://tinyurl.com/57d2ar ) and it gives me a relevant, recent and constant stream of info that I couldn't care less if I miss yet is still valuable! - MikeonTV

842 on Google Reader. - Mike Reynolds

I'm around 235 - Muhammad Saleem

I'm at about 140. at one time i added something like 10 a day, buw it's maybe 1. - Daryl Tay

Current group average: 252.9, median: 139 - Ethan Klapper

58. I'm new to RSS feeds (just for the past 6 months). - Mitchell Tsai

135. There are far more I should subscribe to, but given the lack of time, I could also justify shortening the list. - Heidi Cool

144 - Rubin Sfadj

56 - I try to keep it down to a number I can realistically keep up with - James Marwood

I have 95 at the moment but it's going up a lot since I started posting here! - Joe Dawson

about 56 seen here: http://geekcondition.com/2008... - Brandon

50 something. But its awful to feel missing great things out there. - Ozer Wrzl (EN)

I think the fact that we already have more than 100 people subscribed to this room says a lot -- we obviously like twitter, but we're looking for other solutions. I disagree that FF isn't already ready to take over. I don't think the interface needs dumbing down. I find the added features in FF make for a much better experience than twitter. - Brad McCrorey

Does FF need to support SMS first - then it would be feasible? - alexdesigns

Ugh. It's time to kill posts about killing things. - Chris Messina

I agree with Chris. Twitter is not friendfeed and visa versa. they are totally different - Rodney Rumford

Well, I have really gotten to love Twitter in recent months, but the outages seem to be getting more, not less frequent. FriendFeed feels clunky to me, but I'm resolved to giving it a shot. - Foomandoonian

I still use Photoshop Elements. Also, Paint.NET for smaller editing jobs. - Morton Fox

Photoshop CS2 for pretty much everything. Just got used to using it, for major things and for small edits - Bartek Ciszkowski

I just started using Fireworks -- it's officially my app for comps - Shey

Pixelmator for low level stuff, Photoshop for the pro stuff I need to do. Pixelmator does all I need most of the time.. also a big fan of the GIMP. - Matt Frog

PS CS3 no question - alexdesigns

CS3 as well ... CS2 for legacy clients (people/companies stuck in the past... or that just can't afford the upgrade). - Brandon

fireworks is the only tool that is intended and developed for visual weblayout, as far as i see it. - kosmar

@kosmar I found Fireworks to be much more flexible than Photoshop for webstuff. - Shey

Photoshop definitely - Kevin Bondelli

@shey absolutely. try to search and replace color in PS … not speaking of frames-to-files export - kosmar

Yes, I agree with Sam and Rodney. Makes it more user friendly. - Sharon McPherson

They will, as some will like speaking to smaller audiences. Others needed room-like functionality just to get started with FriendFeed. - Louis Gray

I think they certainly will. I wouldn't really have been here much if it weren't for rooms. - Muhammad Saleem

It's nice to have (1) multiple ways to listen to conversations - "Friends"/"Sets of Friends"/"Rooms"/"Everyone" with & without filters. (2) Rooms might make it easier for me to use "like" more sparingly if I can easily catch-up on interesting conversations in a room when reentering the Internet after a 7-14 day break. The Friends tab has sooo much talk/chatter/noise that stuff (unless it's super-popular) just gets buried after a few hours (much less a few days). We'll see if the rooms work... - Mitchell Tsai

Definitely - Mo Kargas

For me, the answer is obvious. I now have one Firefox tab open to the friends, and another tab dedicated to rooms. I may never get work done again ;) - Rob Diana

I rarely visited FF until now. Rooms make it much more user friendly. - Shane Floyd

Definitely agree, page views are going up for sure. I nevrer visited friend feed before. Only watched it via an air app or a gadget, not I am visiting the rooms to see the conversations! - alexdesigns

The question of whether FF Rooms will increase the overall FriendFeed traffic is an interesting one. I cannot see these rooms as becoming forums for a lot of different interest groups. There are many established forums around the Internets, and FF Rooms will not supplant them. - Ryne Nelson

yes. The reason is rooms become filters and gather people around a specific subject matter. they act as a lens that focuses conversations - Rodney Rumford

It just occurred to me that spam may not be a problem. If a room is active, and every one learns Not to comment on the spam it will immediately fall to the bottom. - Russellreno

YES. The noise in my feed is super awesomely high right now! So, all this room stuff has turned my peaceful beachfront condo FF feed into a downtown city hotel that's all a-buzz with new "room" activity!! wow! Ok, my fault: I joined like 40 rooms and created 5-7 myself. hehehe! I am a FF noise junkie!! - Susan Beebe