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Kol Tregaskes
I share all sorts. :-) Lots of photos, photography and tech stuff though. Feel free to sub to me if you like. :-) BTW, you can see who is following you here: http://www.google.com/reader... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes
More often I end up sharing directly through FF even if I find it on GReader, but sometimes I share there. http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony, Paradox of FF
http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long! - Michael Fidler
Michael, it's not been clear until very recently, you can see notifications here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes
Love yr posts :-))))) - Johni Fisher
thanks for starting this thread - here's mine http://www.google.com/reader... (mostly social media stuff, a little food, and occasional randomness) - Chris Rogers
Kol, thanks! I wish it would tell me when they started following, I'll have to keep a better eye on it now. - Michael Fidler
Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - hope you enjoy! - outofmyarse
Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed? - Chris Rogers
http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza
Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes
Yes it's alright I moved here two years ago, I was in West London before that - M F
GREAT FEED - I am finding so many great ppl to follow - this is great. - Liza
M F, I like to move to just over the other side of the stream from you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
And your pics are great! I am going to be stuck in greader for a while! - Liza
Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F
http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup
Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
feedly.com :) - Zach Landes
http://www.google.com/reader... but everything I share in reader comes on to FriendFeed. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl
http://www.google.com/reader... - the stuff I share there is also on FriendFeed. - Hanna Wiszniewska
http://www.google.com/reader... mine are mostly science items - Sally Church
Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Mostly Tech. - Svartling
http://www.google.com/reader... - mixed up content in Portuguese (mainly), English and Spanish. - Marcos
Liza, oooh I love the post on generating Mandelbrot fractals in Excel! - Sally Church
@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch... - Alex Schleber
Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-) - Nadine Pestourie
http://www.google.com/reader... Google and other tech stuff, as well as other random things of interest. - Californian
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek
Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek
No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes
LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed. - David Gross
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
Don't know that I have one, as I eschew most things Google.... - Mike Shields
Not sure if I've already shared it, but my URL is http://www.google.com/reader.... - Tyson Key
Thank you guys. - Kol Tregaskes
your welcome kol - Tony C (Unrated) from IM
I think that I over-loaded my poor G-Reader by adding all of you. ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Here is my feed: http://l.clipotech.com/shared - I will try to add all of you on this list :) - Svartling
Don't forget to add all out new contacts in to groups. Otherwise we cant comment on each others shared items. - Svartling
http://www.google.com/reader... - Almost exclusively tech, including humor/cartoons and productivity. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people. - Dusty Edenfield
Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users. - Dusty Edenfield
Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes
I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli... - Svartling
here's mine! Love some of the new features... http://www.google.com/reader... - tomit
I don't think I added mine yet: http://www.google.com/reader... - LogEx
Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes
I guess I best start sharing stuff, then. :D - http://www.google.com/reader... - Bette Cooper
http://www.google.com/reader... - I guess I'm a bit late to the party, but here's mine. I share mainly technology, photography, design... and other random stuff. - Ryan - @magicofpi
Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes
Yes! The list I was looking for! I'll get my info on here as soon as I get on my netbook - Kamilah Gill from email
Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did! - Martha
The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default! - Vince DeGeorge
Vince, exactly! - Kol Tregaskes
Not sure how I missed this thread. I share lots of tech news, some programming stuff and a little more at http://www.google.com/reader... - Rob Diana
There is also a group that collected a bunch of reader shares at http://friendfeed.com/share-y... - Rob Diana
http://www.google.com/reader... - Or just go to: Sharing settings on your google reader shared items and search for: Avi Joseph - Avi Joseph
Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader... - Svartling
I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader... - Roy Herrod
http://www.google.com/reader... - topics include a bit of everything, but there's a fair about of Android-related stuff in there - Chuck Falzone
http://www.google.com/reader... - German - mostly politics and crude funny things. Maybe some new technology - JoeD
Thank everyone. - Kol Tregaskes
There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles. - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... I mostly share ART with a little bit this and that thrown in for good measure. - Kimber Scott
Ryo: Same here :) "completely moved to Google Reader / Twitter / Posterous" All my followers, please subscribe to me on Google Reader: http://www.google.com/reader... or my lifestream: http://l.clipotech.com/lifestr... - Svartling
http://www.google.com/reader... share various science research and news - Colby from iPod
http://www.google.com/reader... -- nothing shared yet; still learning several social networks & services, so it might take me a while... - Dennis Jernberg
Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back. - Dennis Jernberg
I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries. - Dennis Jernberg
easier to just follow and edit groups from search url>http://www.google.com/reader... - Ru Viljoen
Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Rob Diana
There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up. - Rob Diana
tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Thank you very much, Rob! - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... Right now I'm testing it in comparison to Netvibes. It's yet to be seen if I end up making the switch. - Brad Williamson
http://www.google.com/reader... Mainly photography related things. - Sven
It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds? - Paul Jacobson
Paul, can do that but it will be out of date the moment I post it as I'm getting more new users all the time. - Kol Tregaskes
Maybe someone could hook up something via Yahoo Pipes (or whatever) to automatically generate the OPML? - Tristan Seligmann
Damond, I'm getting that deja vu feeling. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Whoa, hey, I'm late to this. I'm here: http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Jordan Hofker
I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think. - TobiasVerhoog.com
Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... Please dont tell me I have to add everyone manually like I did with Facebook yesterday?? *sigh* - Julia Ault
http://www.google.com/reader... link to my bundle with all my feeds that i have in friendfeed too - Chris Hofmann
http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p - browneyes
Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes
spread those tentacles thats what i say (I'm generally sharing comics, animation, and interesting weirdeness) : http://www.google.com/reader... - Paul Greer
Exactly, Paul. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
There are a few people that have not added me to a group and so I cannot reply to some of your comments. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... - OK I'm in. Late as always. Will post my thoughts, feedback and pleading requests for help over in Google Reader so please follow me over there. Eat your own dog food and all that. - Andy C
MF/Kol = I live in Kingston on Thames. It's OK apart from the traffic (continually gridlocked) and the shops (girls just lurve them). Handy for getting into London both airports and out to the Thames Valley for work type things. Richmond Park and the river in walking distance is great too. - Andy C
phew.. - Paul Greer
Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think. - Kol Tregaskes
Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
@Kol many years ago, we made the mistake of asking an estate agent in Surbiton whether it was any cheaper than Kingston. She replied 'No - of course not. We are on the fast line to Waterloo' and looked at us as if we were dog excrement. - Andy C
I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... GReader, Twitter, and Delicious (plus my own sites) are my primary hubs now. Y'all please join me on GReader. - Chris Baskind
Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Trying Google Reader.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (see http://ff.im/6WRIk) - Chris Myles
http://www.google.com/reader... - Claude LaFrenière aka climenole :) - Claude LaFrenière
anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site. - David Gross
Nope, sorry can't help you there, David. - Kol Tregaskes
Jesse, I saw your share of this FriendFeed thread on Google Reader! - John E. Bredehoft
David, I use mobile Google Reader on an older phone with Windows mobile. My bookmark begins with google.com/reader/m/view - John E. Bredehoft
Will share tech, science and skepticism, and education news stories: http://www.google.com/reader... - TC
in case anyone missed it, mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - David Gross
more cool - Brent - Loving Life
I share interesting articles about Internet music, social media, open content and copyright issues: http://www.google.com/reader... - David Holmes
Alex Schleber
"Brian, excellent post, except for the Costolo quote that you left un-critiqued: “We want to do something that’s organic and in the flow of the way people already use Twitter.” Hardly what happened with the New RT design... it's nice to pay lip service, it's another thing entirely to live up to this claim." - Alex Schleber
Zee.
Guys, I'm having a big clear out on Twitter but want to make sure I'm following all my Friendfeed friends - could you please link to your twitter account in the comments below?
or is there a quicker/easier way i don't know of? - Zee.
Why use twitter when you have FF? - Jeremy (on vacation)
Good question, I don't know of a quicker way but I'd be interested in one as well.. Mine is here, http://twitter.com/JPierce - Joe Pierce
http://twitter.com/rahsheen - pretty positive there was a tool capable of doing this, but not sure if it still exists and can't remember what it was called...I think someone here developed it. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Thanks for the resub, Z. :-) - Jason, Drugged
www.twitter.com/rbonini - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
Doesn't socialtoo do this? Where's Jesse? - Bruce Lewis
Http://Twitter.com/ccheath - Chris Heath from iPhone
twitter.com/ahr19 - Amani
Bruce, yes, SocialToo will clear out who you're following. Just whitelist who you want it to keep and it will follow all but that list. - Jesse Stay
er, unfollow all but that list - Jesse Stay
http//www.twitter.com/louisgray - Louis Gray
@bryansays - Bryan Lee from iPhone
What you can do is run this and then click all the Twitter links in the results. It's everyone you are following. It gives a big page of links to all their blogs and services: http://hiphs.com/ff/ffriends - April Russo (app103)
April, I actually ran it, but it's still hanging, not as quickly as before but it only pulled 2800 of the users from Zee's public subscriptions. I really need to put more work into all of my Friendfeed backup tools. Note: I'm a retard, I'll dm you a list of your users FFriends and their subsequent Twitter accounts. - Jimminy Fuller
Http://Twitter.com/cstechcast - Eric @ CSTechcast.com from iPhone
Try this. https://twitter2ff.appspot.com/. EDIT: Nevermind. It's broke. I'm at http://twitter.com/rodfather - Rodfather
@super_genius - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
@zee http://twitter.com/alexsch... Happy Holidays to you and yours! - Alex Schleber
I'm not sure whether I'm following you on Twitter (lost track somewhere also), but this is me: http://twitter.com/zijperspace - Dutch Bloggies
http://twitter.com/susanbeebe -- also see my FriendFeed List. Kol has a good one too!!! :) - Susan Beebe
http://twitter.com/arjo if you're interested ;-) - arjo
Looks like you already re-added me there. - Akiva Moskovitz
Http://Twitter.com/techsavvyguru - Tony Vota from iPhone
http://twitter.com/cabezas | All the best for 2010, Zee! - Harold Cabezas
http://twitter.com/jdandrea - super-positive vibes-in-advance for 2010! - Joe D'Andrea
Aline Ohannessian
re:Yahoo Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month - the writing was on the wall..MBL was in a leadership position several years ago, and Yahoo did exactly nothing with it. Or anything else in social media other than flickr. What a waste. - Alex Schleber
I have seen MyBlogLog in very many websites, what a pity! - TrafficBug
Rarely seen it in websites. Must be the place I visited. - Natsuki Seika
arnaldostream
Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog - http://cdixon.org/2009...
"Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should rank in Google’s main search results.  As the “router” of the vast majority of traffic on the internet, Google’s secret ranking algorithm is probably is the most powerful piece of software code on the planet. Google talks a lot about openness and their commitment to open source software. What they are really doing is practicing a classic business strategy known as “commoditizing the complement“*. Google makes 99% of their revenue by selling text ads for things like plane tickets, dvd players and malpractice lawyers. Many of these ads are syndicated to non-Google properties. But the anchor that gives Google their best “inventory” is the main search engine at Google.com.  And the secret sauce behind Google.com is the algorithm for ranking search results. If Google is really committed to openness, it is this algorithm that they need to open source." - arnaldostream from Bookmarklet
Not gonna happen. - Roberto Bonini
Uhhh, Google should open source Page Rank plus all the anti-manipulation measures. For one, Google doesn't even own the rights to Page Rank, Stanford University does and as such it is open for viewing the academic papers on it, however they have an exclusivity contract with Google for rights to use said method in handling the ranking structure of the web. - Jimminy Fuller
@rbonini my thoughts exactly. - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: The Brand of You - http://v3im.com/blog...
"As @DrFernKazlow once said on Twitter: "Life is a branding problem." :) I have to agree, the storyline had best be continuous, especially for small business/solopreneurs." - Alex Schleber
"As @DrFernKazlow once said on Twitter: "Life is a branding problem." :) I have to agree, the storyline had best be continuous, especially for small business/solopreneurs." - Alex Schleber
Veronica
Just noticed that retweets don't get published here. That's a good thing, I suppose. Although, I don't mind the retweet function nearly as much as everyone else seems to.
Cuts down on a little of the redundancy here, I suppose. I never even noticed until you just mentioned it. :P - Jon, the Beartato of '10
What's a Beartato? - Veronica
http://nedroid.com/ - it's the tater tot-looking creature. Him and the bird Reginald make quite a pair and go on adventures of whimsy and randomness :) - Jon, the Beartato of '10
Hehe! - Veronica
Yeah, apparently I'm like him, so the nickname has stuck - Jon, the Beartato of '10
yeah, retweets using the internal twitter function don't get fed out of twitter via RSS. I noticed that on our website the other day ... after I purposely retweeted some stuff I wanted to show up on the site! If you retweet the old way, of course they will show up. - Laura Norvig
That's one thing I don't like about the new retweeting method. A lot of times I RT stuff because I want it to show up in my Twitter RSS feed. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Beats being a poortato. http://poortato.ytmnd.com/ - Dave Friedel
So, he's like a bear potato? - Veronica
Winnie the Pootato. - Dave Friedel
Jack Dorsey's new product... Paytato. - Dave Friedel
Heh. Bear Potato...pretty much. http://nedroid.com/imagesb... - Jon, the Beartato of '10
Music service I don't need: Vevotato. - Dave Friedel
AT&T to iPhone users: DontUseSoMuchDatatato - Dave Friedel
I'll be here all week folks. Don't forget to tip your servers. - Dave Friedel
would Bearonica be friends with beartato? - Fee501st
Yeah, it bugs me a wee bit because I don't want to spend ages on twitter checking to see if I missed anything exciting (I used to just see them here). Not exactly a huge issue, mind you. - Amy
rss search with rt as search. Would that work. Or topify? - Richard A. from fftogo
The #NewRT functionality is a little like taking away your comments here on FriendFeed. It sucks. Even Twitter creator @jack has voiced his concerns.. it's just not very social anymore, see here: http://businessmindhacks.com/post... - Alex Schleber
It shows up on your FB Fan page V! So is it something on FF end? - Fee501st
Fee: Yeah, sounds quite likely. - Amy
Problem solved, then. All we need to do is figure out how to route our RT's to Veronica's fan page... - Thomas
Retweetato. - Dave Friedel
Necmettin
I started working on a data-tree style notetaking application recently. Which similar web application (Wridea, Google Notebook, Evernote, and the like) are you guys using, and what do you love/hate most about that application?
What you're describing reminds me of mindmapping services online like mindmeister. Or is your app less graphical? - Itachi
Much less graphical. Mine has no Flash, no fancy graphics and sounds. Just lets you organize whatever you wish to organize into nodes and subs (like the tree on the left of Windows Explorer).. Most mindmapping and note-taking applications have too much detail, too many options and actions (imho). So I'm looking for simpler and easier-to-use applications. Got any? - Necmettin
Something like this: http://tmp.begiter.gen.tr/dt... (I couldn't find how to add an image after creating the entry in FF). - Necmettin
I have been using Treepad for this: see screenshot of how I am using it with. http://www.imagebam.com/image... .Also similar ones available are treedbnotes pro, rightnote, allmynotes organizer pro. But they all lack what I would like. I like the tree-style layout and the ability to create sub nodes of sub nodes at the left, but I would need text colorations and special... more... - TrafficBug
Google Tasks. I love lots of things about it. It's simplicity. How you can control it pretty much from the keyboard. Portability (I have it in Gmail and gCalendar). Things I don't like about it: I can't delete or rename my first list. It needs a few more keyboard shortcuts for full keyboard usage; like switching between lists. Exportability is not much of an option. If I pop it out, I... more... - Itachi
@TrafficBug I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'wiki of links'. And the applications you list are all desktop applications it seems. Any online options? - Necmettin
@Mehmet Yeah, I love GTasks, too. Except it doesn't use the entire window, just a small portion of it. I don't like that, really. Do you use Google Tasks on a daily basis, or have a better option that syncs with your phone? - Necmettin
You can make Gtasks use the full window. Create a bookmark with the following URL - "http://mail.google.com/tasks..." - Vinayak Joshi
Cool tip, thanks. But then again, I'm writing my own todo-notetaking-datatree application, and I'm hoping to have it published within the week. - Necmettin
@Necmetting, by wiki of links I meant something like this. Link = http://imgur.com/IbezS.png Something like Treepad, but this could be a variation. I havent used online note taking apps so far because I need very fast indexing and fast retrieval and would prefer all data stored on desktop, with prohbably syncs to the cloud at a sequence and interval I determine manually. - TrafficBug
Yeah, I use it daily. And thanks Vinayak for the link. - Itachi
Here is a recap of feature list I would like - freeform database, full-text search, auto-completion of search results (autosuggest), prominent "Find" button provided as part of toolbar, and the whole thing could be like a spreadsheet with rows of data with only 1 column = "data" instead of a tree-data format, something like a scrolling table of entries that match the current dataset as found by the entry in the Find textbox. - TrafficBug
Very nice, useful and applicable ideas, TrafficBug. Except, how would you enter more than one paragraph of text (say, something like a "note" about an entry)? When you say freeform database, do you mean being able to add new columns to entries (separately), or a more relaxed way of saving the data/text? - Necmettin
I made this video of a bookmarking app I use: http://www.screentoaster.com/watch... I especially like how the Find text box is bringing up results as I type (the result dataset keeps changing as I type). As regards your questions, I would define one 'entry' to be a 'text snippet' that is allowed to occupy one row in the search results spreadsheet that appear like... more... - TrafficBug
Wow! Adding everything you described to my "considering doing" list. Thanks for such a detailed description. - Necmettin
@necmettin I have used/tested all of the ones you mention, plus MindMeister, XMind (non-browser), Todoist, RTM, TwitDone yesterday (it actually has some interesting ideas), and even FriendFeed as a To-Do/notes app (as a private Group). None do everything I'd want them to be truly useful, GoogleNotes got close but was missing some things before Google archived the project (clipping was fast/great, as was manual clip sorting; no child nodes though). - Alex Schleber
@necmetin BTW, have you looked into #Wordpress' P2 Theme for note threading? http://p2demo.wordpress.com/ It's only missing edit of posts/replies, which is probably turned on for the admin user, will have to do my own install to test. For clipping, just use the WP PressThis bookmarklet?! - Alex Schleber
Checking out all the options Alex listed (and thanks, Alex, for that), yet I still do not feel like I found *the* todo/notes application. Each and every one of them has strengths, yet again each seem to lack at least one feature I would like to have (and planning to include in the application I'm working on). I have almost always been on the lookout for a perfect notes/todo application... more... - Necmettin
Please post here when your custom app is ready for a testing! IMHO, I could live without the data-tree as provided by Treepad, I guess what I would really need is the Powermarks-style text snippet database, just expanded to include right click integration from any app. (the app in the screencast video). - TrafficBug
yes please keep us posted. I too would love to test! - metalerik
I read through the thread again and may be I may not have been clearer about the term 'wiki of links'. What I really wanted to say (and meant) is a 'treeview of links where each tree node is able to collapse, expand, fold and unfold horizontally rather than vertically'. When unfolding horizontally, the list of links contained within that tree would appear horizontally - each item being... more... - TrafficBug
TrafficBug, I might as well include such a feature if experiments prove fruitful/usable, but it appears to be more of a visual feature than a structural/implementation one. Yet again, why not. I have bookmarked this discussion and implementing features listed / features found in mentioned apps. Beta will be rolled out soon. Just hang on a bit there ;) - Necmettin from IM
I am just wondering: does anyone know of an app that has the explorer folder-style note organization system, with another view mode that maps all of the nodes in a tree visually. What I am looking for is an app that has this: http://www.java2s.com/Tutoria... and this: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/jur... - Eric
Paul Buchheit
What's your favorite TED talk? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Nearly impossible to single one out. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jennifer 8 Lee's talk on General Tso's Chicken was fascinating. It's really hard to pick out just one, though. - ha3rvey (wants confit)
Dave Eggers, hands down. http://www.ted.com/talks... ... I watch this a lot and love it each time. - pea
Malcom Gladwell on Spaghetti sauce ... http://www.ted.com/talks... - Olivier Castets
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat and Brian Greene on string theory - Carlos Ayala
Neurologist Dr.Ramachandran's talk on the brain, phantom limb syndrome. - Kamath (नमः)
I can't believe I forgot Mark Bittman's talk! - ha3rvey (wants confit)
Bill Gates on Philanthropy. - Eric Logan
Also James Howard Kunstler (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) - Evan Solomon
It's between the stroke one from the neuroanatomist - Jill Barad, I now remember - and the very first one I ever saw, on Seadragon out of MSFT. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF from iPhone
J.J. Abrams' mystery box http://www.ted.com/talks... - irem
Sir Ken Robinson's about education was the best ever, IMO. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Agree with Rodrigo. Its here: http://www.ted.com/talks... - Roberto Bonini
I really liked Brian Cox about LHC: http://www.ted.com/talks... - Mark Layton
Also the demo of SixthSense from MIT: http://www.ted.com/index... - Mark Layton
stefan sagmeister's speech on having sabbaticals for 1 year in every 7 years.the power of time off. - taner tarlakazan from iPod
Jonathan Haidt - "The real difference between liberals and conservatives" - http://blog.ted.com/2008... - Shey, Jamaican of FF
I haven't watched many of them - but, I absolutely liked Bill Gates on "mosquitoes, malaria and education" - http://www.ted.com/talks... - Space Cowboy
+1 for Ken Robinson's talk. - Ivan Zuzak
Kevin Kelly: "Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Smirnov
What a great list...*bump* - SAM
Murray Gell-Mann: "Beauty and truth in physics" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Phil Smirnov
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology http://www.ted.com/talks... - Nick Martin
Multi-touch interface by Jeff Han (02/2006) - AJ Batac
Have to do top 3 - Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives http://www.ted.com/index... Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation http://www.ted.com/talks... and Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows http://www.ted.com/talks... - Andrew Smith
was just watching/listening to one :) helps a lot - ffcode
Sir Ken Robinson, without doubt... - Berci Mesko, MD
If you can pick a favorite TED talk, you haven't explored the available TED talks enough. - ana
+1 ana. - Alex Schleber
Sagmeister and Ramachandran talks. - Onur Gündüz
Sir Ken Robinson - Kevin Borders
Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors - http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Bertrand Doux
Another +1 for Sir Ken Robinson's talk. http://www.ted.com/talks... It perfectly embodies what TED is really about. - Chris Lasher
Thanks Mona Nomura. - ashish
Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral http://blog.ted.com/2009... . My comments at http://ff.im/5Gs6m . - Daniel Mietchen
William Kamkwamba, the boy who built windmills. http://www.ted.com/talks... - Andrew Leyden
alaindebotton about the most important problem of the last 10-15 years http://www.ted.com/talks... - Doruk Demirsar
Malcom Gladwell had one I enjoyed more than any other so far. - Garin Kilpatrick
Alex Schleber
"From what I understand, the FTC will handle things on a complaint basis, with a “3 strikes” system of 1) Warning 2) Cease & Desist letter 3) Fine. Which really doesn't make me feel that much better, since this opens up the field to all manner of harassment complaints by competitors. See what I wrote here: http://alexschleber.posterous.com/coaches...... As a coach and info products creator, I am much more concerned about the impact that comes from the overly stringent new testimonial guidelines. The disclosure stuff makes sense at first glance, but it's really a way by big business to stiff-arm the “Internet rabble”: Their not going to apply those same rules to TV commercials in terms of both “typical experience” having to be shown with near equal time/prominence in a spot, or ask show a large print disclaimer of “He/she is being paid handsomely (and in reality could care less about our product)” next to their celebrity endorser. They are rigging the playing field, and the FTC is..." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: New Federal Trade Commission Rules Governing Social Media Are In Effect - http://www.bulletproofblog.com/2009...
"From what I understand, the FTC will handle things on a complaint basis, with a "3 strikes" system of 1) Warning 2) Cease & Desist letter 3) Fine. Which really doesn't make me feel that much better, since this opens up the field to all manner of harassment complaints by competitors. See what I wrote here: http://alexschleber.posterous.com/coaches...... As a coach and info products creator, I am much more concerned about the impact that comes from the overly stringent new testimonial guidelines. The disclosure stuff makes sense at first glance, but it's really a way by big business to stiff-arm the "Internet rabble": Their not going to apply those same rules to TV commercials in terms of both "typical experience" having to be shown with near equal time/prominence in a spot, or ask show a large print disclaimer of "He/she is being paid handsomely (and in reality could care less about our product)" next to their celebrity endorser. They are rigging the playing field, and the FTC is..." - Alex Schleber
arnaldostream
"We're adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July." - arnaldostream from Bookmarklet
An Open [and somewhat Orwellian] Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg.. - Alex Schleber
Louis Gray
Murdoch says journalism's future is 'more promising than ever,' but rails against Web 'theft' - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technol...
F**k off, Murdoch - Mo Kargas
Google have taken most if not all of the classified advertising from the newspapers. Google has $25bn in sales. Most of the newspapers are bust. This is not new money or a new business. This is just money transfer from paper to online. Murdoch is fighting his corner. Show him some respect he's been at it since 1953. Sky Television rescued soccer in the UK. Murdoch did that. I love football. Thank you Rupert. - Thomas Power
Old Focker will die off soon... - CW™
Fact: You can't own facts. A house burns down. 5000 reporters write 5000 articles about it, telling the story 5000 different ways. The fact that the house burned down can't be owned by any of them. But Murdoch would like to believe he can own it, exclusively, and that you are not allowed to know that house burned down unless you pay HIM for that knowledge. How does he plan on stopping... more... - April Russo (app103)
don't misjudge and man cos' he's old http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... otherwise one day your grandchildren may misjudge you too. - Thomas Power
Huffington's rebuttal is good including a list of all the News Corp sites that aggregate(steal according to Murdoch)... Rotten Tomatoes, WSJ tech section, Fox News Politics Buzztracker, AllThingsD Voices... - Ed Millard
Murdoch's negotiating in public a better deal for himself with Google and Bing. Can't blame him. - Thomas Power
yes i can, and i do. - Joe Silence is ashes
I wonder what motivates Murdoch. He certainly doesn't need to make any more money. It has to be much deeper than that. Esp. at his age, when most people would have long hung it up by now. - Dawn
Its sport. Most hard nosed successful business people just play the game to win and to beat their competition. - Ed Millard
hear hear Ed and not bad for 78 is he? - Thomas Power
I think he is grooming his kids to take over so he's building a dynasty too. - Ed Millard
His father certainly did and it worked out fantastic for them - Itachi
Some classy responses here. There is no such thing as journalism anymore. Just look at the U.S. media. - Spencer
Journalism does have a bright future - newspapers however do not. Have those somehow become equivalent? - Brian Sullivan
Real journalism is still occurring it is just becoming more polarized and funded by competing interests. Fox may be the broadcast standard bearer for polarization. - Eric Logan
Murdoch talking about "high-quality, reliable news & information" sure is funny. As far as the Internet, he's..uhm..confused: http://businessmindhacks.com/post... - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
4149930709_27a3cf4690_o - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
"I hope Google simply did it preemptively on their end. If I were them, I’d be sooo very tired of Murdoch’s whining. “Ohh, my poor, poor media moguldom empire…”" - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
4149930709_27a3cf4690_o - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
"BTW: Sorry Rupert, there’s just so damn many of us… http://businessmindhacks.com/p..." - Alex Schleber
Zee.
How Johnston Press Could Pave The Way For Paywalls - http://thenextweb.com/uk...
How Johnston Press Could Pave The Way For Paywalls
.@Zee, this is complete madness. There are ARMIES of people just waiting for the chance to completely unseat these kinds of outlets. The "the Worksop Guardian, Ripley & Heanor News, the Whitby Gazette, ..." ?!?! Are they kidding? - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
What Dave Winer’s “Natural-Born Blogger” Criteria Have To Do With Entrepreneurs | Business Mind Hacks - http://businessmindhacks.com/post...
What Dave Winer’s “Natural-Born Blogger” Criteria Have To Do With Entrepreneurs | Business Mind Hacks
"...Then it becomes clear to you that these are among the most important guide posts for all entrepreneurial activity, and by extension for success in life in a more general sense: 1. Successful people don’t wait for permission They don’t wait for someone to appoint them to something important (which almost never happens anyway). They give themselves permission to go ahead, they self-appoint. - Alex Schleber from Bookmarklet
Alex Schleber
Re: Dear Timberland- You Stink and So Does Retail - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/dear-ti...
"Chris, these have been out for quite some time, there really is no excuse for this other than that Timberland has been in a downward spiral for years (which is a shame, because I've always been a loyal customer, there shoes and boots just happen to have always fit me perfectly). That said, I tried on a pair of these a few months ago somewhere, and they felt a little too light and unstable to really qualify as a boot. If you go that light/unstable, you might as well get a slip-on boot or similar..." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
"Still as relevant as the day it was minted.. :) Thanks for the reminder. Happy Thanksgiving, Alex!" - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Bing Tries To Buy The News - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
"“The internet views censorship as damage and routs around it.” This is all an illusion by Murdoch, and Microsoft is drinking the kool-aid. If I were Google, I would preempt Murdoch and just drop all of his properties from the index preemptively. See how he likes it. There is just about no reason to read the WSJ over the financial news blogs anyway, and any news the WSJ might by accident be breaking, shows up say on CNBC in minutes later. Murdoch, you cannot hold the Internet down…there’s just too damn many of us… http://business...the-answer-very" - Alex Schleber
sofarsoShawn
Microsoft & News Corp Eye Web Pact - Microsoft may pay News Corp to 'de-list' its news sites from Google - http://edition.cnn.com/2009...
Microsoft & News Corp Eye Web Pact - Microsoft may pay News Corp to 'de-list' its news sites from Google
Microsoft & News Corp Eye Web Pact - Microsoft may pay News Corp to 'de-list' its news sites from Google
"Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry. The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage. However, the Financial Times has learnt that Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine. News Corp and Microsoft, which owns the rival Bing search engine, declined to comment. One website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan "puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them". Microsoft's interest is being interpreted as a direct assault on Google because it puts... more... - sofarsoShawn
News Corp == AOL #itsover - James Robertson
or how to choose the fast path to become irrelevant - Antoine Bertier
this could be the solution for the blogosphere's dilemma on how to monetize? - just list with Bing! :) - sofarsoShawn
very very weird - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
So Microsoft is willing to pay for exclusive search access to some content? Is that this what this is about? - Brian Sullivan
Brian, I think it's about two old style companies trying to do business in old style ways, while the rest of the world moves on. - Cristo
"The impetus for the discussions came from News Corp, owner of newspapers ranging from the Wall Street Journal of the US to The Sun of the UK, said a person familiar with the situation, who warned that talks were at an early stage." -- so this is just posturing likely? I can't see Microsoft paying much for this "privilege". - Brian Sullivan
I think it is more of a case that he said he'd delist his content if not paid, and MS said they might pay to keep it? Still weird - if I dont find something in a search engine but I still get relevant results, I won't even miss it - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
well said @iphigenie, I just said something similar, just from the content provider perspective, in a comment over here: http://www.businessinsider.com/microso... "Once you've been disappeared for a while, people will forget that you were ever there and move on to the next guy in line that was right behind you all along, chomping at the bit for a chance like this." - Alex Schleber
Funny how most people are paying to make their content show up in google. I hope they do it and we can see what happens. Of course if it takes off then sites that search all the search engines will spring up very quickly. - John Cooper
Robert Scoble
My Twitter.com home page has a new "Retweets" page, which is most awesome. Does yours have it yet?
No I do not have a "Retweets" page on my Twitter.com home page - Kevin Tunis
nein - Allen Stern
Yes I have it on a couple of accounts. - Matt G
Not yet :( - zʍıɔ
not yet - Kim Landwehr
not yet - Daryl Hunt on FF
I do have a spiteful jealous of your new feature button though Robert. Hey did you Check out the list tag cloud prototype I emailed you? - Mark Essel from iPhone
I see it on mine now, and realize I have not been ReTweeted, yet. - Rubin
I too have the new retweet feature. :) - ashish
On my work account, yes. Haven't checked my personal one yet today. - Laura Norvig
Yes I have it... - Richard pancakhaus Walker
Just got it. - Eric Logan
I like the fact that the tweet is still FROM the original person, with a "retweeted by" underneath. Good for "discovery." - Richard pancakhaus Walker
Have it, but it's not clear how its collecting this information or for how long now. - 3Cinteractive, L.L.C. from twhirl
From the man himself: http://evhead.com/2009... - Gordon Herd
I have it! :) - Francesco Marconi
Yes and I like it! - tab thinks you're awesome
Yep! And I also really like it. - joey
Nope. - Kol Tregaskes
Yes, it is back again. - Jemm
Nope... but it had one hell of a CSS problem just a minute ago.... - .LAG liked that
I like the retweet page. The retweets in my normal feed I'm not so sure if I like - Tamara
mine is there. - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
My Twitter account has a whale. - howard shippin
yes, since nov 10 - the retweet feature was temporarily disabled last week but it's finally back! - barbarars
Yeah, I too got a punch of erecting self-esteem when found that I was A Chosen One Among Others )) being a beta-tester for a new Twitter feature. And now seriously - good idea, and good implementation. Everything is done stylish, keeping minimalistic Twitter spirit. As for me personally, RT timilines will be my must-read Twi-parts from now on as I find there a lot of interesting and useful links or ideas I would surely miss without this feature. - massagin
One of my accounts does. My main account does not. :( - Otto
Mine does! :) It is awesome. - Jorge Escobar
Have it but doesn't appear to function if viewing tweets within a list. - Dana Fosburgh
Have #NewRTs back on as well, still don't like them -> http://bit.ly/wTX4b I'll have to make a mock-up of what the feature should have looked like. - Alex Schleber
it does indeed - i'm liking it - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
it does-but im not sure why they didnt let us make comments- thats the good stuff - Elizabeth Beskin
Elizabeth: I disagree. If Twitter had comments it would be like Facebook or FriendFeed. It would also get very noisy very quickly and one thing I like about Twitter is that I control everything that appears in my streams. Adding comments would change that radically. - Robert Scoble
Shevonne
Report: Microsoft may pay News Corp. to delist from Google - http://www.macworld.com/article...
"Microsoft has discussed paying News Corp. to remove its news Web sites from Google’s search results and list them on its Bing search engine instead, The Financial Times reported Sunday on its Web site. Microsoft also approached other major online publishers about removing their sites from Google, the report said." - Shevonne from Bookmarklet
@dcfemella check out what I wrote in a comment on this silly idea here: http://www.businessinsider.com/microso... - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: The biggest things last week: Foursquare and Salesforce - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Agreed that there are some serious privacy/security issues around the geolocation services. Let's hope that these companies are working PROACTIVELY on solving these, and don't wait until the first bad "Foursquare Incident" forces them to. I read somewhere that you can disable your home location in their database, but presumably only after it's already been tagged (will tweet them to verify). They should strongly consider offering an opt-out for people for their home locations, whether they are Foursquare users or not. Maybe even put up an automatic opt-out for residential locations for now, unless the owner specifically opts in." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Embrace Our Twitter Ad Overlords, Assuming Relevancy - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
"Great post, Louis, I am totally with you on the intelligent targeting issue, and how stupid and wasteful nearly all Web advertising has been up to this point (with the exception of Google Search ads, those work to an extent because of the different mindset inherent in the act of searching...there is a reason why Google has been raking it in with Adwords). If what I read about the proposed system on Robert's blog today is right, then Twitter may well have figured out the formula to making this work. It is ESSENTIAL to give people more of what they were already looking at when they "raised their hand". Context is everything. It would be nice if someone did it right for a change (check out what I wrote about the problem of dumb Web content monetization some months ago: http://businessmindhacks.com/post...... ). Because it might also SHAME all of the others into upping their game, where steep revenue declines alone still haven't managed to do so..." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Except when Twitter then kills that client by violating terms of service for accessing their API... Seriously, it's all in the execution. If it becomes clear that this is something new, that the ads are mostly useful, and that Twitter is keeping a tight lid on things so that there are minimal shenanigans, then all is well." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"A few things: 1) Bots are already being outed more and more due to the list count. High followers (due to refollow spamming), plus high tweet count (due to autoposting from twitterfeed, etc.), but only on 10 lists = Bot. And you just block them. Been doing a lot more of that lately as they are outing themselves more than before (anything from twitterfeed is suspect, unless its a declared blog RSS feed or similar). 2) If Twitter is smart and turns on per advertiser blocking as I described further up, that solves the problem, along with just blocking the source (fake user) of too many tweets. And if a given "user" has too many ads blocked from his stream, Twitter could manually take a look & intervene. 3) One would think that Twitter could easily throttle this in their set-up, that only x tweets per hour at most will be targeted, even if more were target-worthy (there will be many that won't be in everyday short conversation)." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Here is a great idea: Use something that is already totally familiar to every Twitter user - blocking. This time of specific advertisers. If I hate a specific ad, I just click a block button by the ad. It's great for me, and great for Twitter not to try showing me something I have no interest/etc. in again. They get to continuously refine their click-through rates! BTW I think that blocking in general is a totally underappreciated and underdeveloped function in social media, e.g. Twitter should have long ago allowed us to see our own "block page", with a list of users we have blocked. That way, each blocking action could be ONE click, no pop-up (they have gotten better on this with the most recent UI changes), and could be reversed in case of error or later changing one's mind. Maybe it should just be called "muting" so as to not sound so drastic..." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"The genius of this (if I understand Robert's description correctly) is that you'd never have to see an ad at all unless you'd want to. It would be your option to click on/mouse-over/surface the meta-data add-on package. By your ACTION you'd be declaring intent: Let's see what Twitter might have cooked up for me "underneath" this tweet. Then if it's intelligently targeted to the content of the tweet (and I agree that this is still a big if), you may well be delighted. And even if it's not for you, it won't feel like someone was completely wasting your time." - Alex Schleber
Alex Schleber
Re: Twitter to turn on advertising “you will love” (here’s how: SuperTweet) - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Ari, no, you still wouldn't have a material connection: If you use Twitter's new retweet function, all credit remains with the original tweet author anyway (and he/she didn't place the ad either). But even if you use the old way (which I prefer BTW), then Twitter can simply assign a new or similar, or even the same ad to the "add-on payload", but you still won't have a material connection because you're not endorsing. Deck shuffled anew so to speak. All of this of course predicated on the premise that Twitter is going to do a revenue share in the first place. They could clearly just say that that is the cost of using the service." - Alex Schleber
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