Alex Schleber - Comments

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

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http://www.google.com/reader... - Michael Hocter

Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Müjdat Korkmaz

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... Just about internet! - ★ Soner Gönül

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lode Nachtergaele

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... ;) - alebaffa from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - OnuRC

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Slater

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Mohr

http://www.google.com/reader... - LouCypher

http://www.google.com/reader... - zsafwan 

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony C (Unrated)

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... - Steve Lowe

http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - M F

Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Simon Tracey

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - phil baumann

Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Kim Landwehr

Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - mridul

feedly.com :) - Zach Landes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Bryan R. Adams

http://www.google.com/reader... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

http://www.google.com/reader... #greader #whatsyoururl - Ron Bailey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Parvez Halim

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... - Daltonsbriefs

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... - Nick Humphries

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ozgur Uckan

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

http://google.com/reader... - Anton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Whalen

@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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Leahey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Geller

http://www.google.com/reader... - Zachary TG

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lin Yong from NoiseRiver

http://www.google.com/reader... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason A. Nunnelley

http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

http://www.google.com/reader... - Travis B. Hartwell

http://www.google.com/profile... - James (!?)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Warren Butler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Brandon Ball

http://www.google.com/reader... - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Dawson

http://www.google.com/reader... - guilherme

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - dkb

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adi

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mathew A. Koeneker

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alex Scrivener

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Luckhardt

http://www.google.com/reader... - Peter Ghosh

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/profile... - Kim

http://www.google.com/profile... http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Robin Barooah

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Johansson from Android

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.google.com/reader... - Arthur Guy

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathan Rein

http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek

Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shevonne

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Johnson

No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Roche

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Bonner

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vlad Bobleanta

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ivan Pavlov

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ethan

Thank you guys. - Kol Tregaskes

your welcome kol - Tony C (Unrated) from IM

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - (jeff)isageek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Roberto Bonini

http://www.google.com/reader... - ★Kristy

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - David Peacock

here's mine! Love some of the new features... http://www.google.com/reader... - tomit

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ken Sheppardson

I don't think I added mine yet: http://www.google.com/reader... - LogEx

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - DGentry

Almost missed this one! http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Arwengrim

http://www.google.com/reader... - Frode Stenstrøm

http://www.google.com/reader... - Aaron Krug

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russell G

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dani Radu

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Remo

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Hall (Australia)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gtp19

http://www.google.com/reader... - ha3rvey (wants confit)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bluesun 2600

http://www.google.com/reader... - CAJ, somewhere else

http://www.google.com/reader... - Martha

Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did! - Martha

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Logan

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tapio Kulmala

Vince, exactly! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nik

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Daryl Hunt on FF

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... - Nick B.

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Nencetti

http://www.google.com/reader... - Slappy Line

http://www.google.com/reader... - Sean Brady

http://www.google.com/reader... - Spidra Webster

http://www.google.com/reader... - Or just go to: Sharing settings on your google reader shared items and search for: Avi Joseph - Avi Joseph

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Delucchi

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathalie, Dreamer of FF

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... - Steven Perez

http://www.google.com/reader... - edythe

http://www.google.com/reader... - http://friendfeed.com/kevinar... - Kevin Arth

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... - Damond Nollan

http://www.google.com/reader... - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mike Reynolds

http://www.google.com/reader... - AJ Kohn

http://www.google.com/reader... - MLx

http://www.google.com/reader... - German - mostly politics and crude funny things. Maybe some new technology - JoeD

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Stay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Grant Bierman

http://www.google.com/reader... - Neal Jansons

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - michael sean wright

http://www.google.com/reader... - Bryce Roney

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jon, the Beartato of '10

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... - Alexander Kruel

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tristan Hambling

http://www.google.com/reader... share various science research and news - Colby from iPod

http://www.google.com/reader... - George Moga

http://www.google.com/reader... -- nothing shared yet; still learning several social networks & services, so it might take me a while... - Dennis Jernberg

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adrian Scicluna

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mark O'Neill

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Imabug

easier to just follow and edit groups from search url>http://www.google.com/reader... - Ru Viljoen

http://www.google.com/reader... - John Ladd

http://www.google.com/reader... - Marko Saric

http://www.google.com/reader... - Pete Gilbert

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... - ronin

http://www.google.com/reader... - Muge Cerman

https://www.google.com/reader... - Mo Hall

http://www.google.com/reader... - Tal Shafik

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

My shared stream is at http://www.google.com/reader... - 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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Damond Nollan

Maybe someone could hook up something via Yahoo Pipes (or whatever) to automatically generate the OPML? - Tristan Seligmann

http://www.google.com/reader... - Yant

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.fr/reader... - Olivier Castets

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Hofmann

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Edmund Tay

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jez Arnold

Thanks all! - Kol Tregaskes

:-) - 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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Gerald Hildebrandt

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... - flaimo

http://www.google.com/reader... - Charles Owens

http://www.google.com/reader... - Johnny

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kenley Neufeld

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

https://www.google.com/reader... - Customized with numbers - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

@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

http://www.google.com/reader... Enjoy! - Arvin Dang

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com.au/reader... - Threepwood

http://www.google.com/reader... - jcunwired

Mine; http://www.google.com/reader... - S.D.Allen

Thanks guys. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - masstrovato

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Myles

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

http://www.google.com/reader... late as always - Raymundo Roxas

Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - barbarars

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Christopher A Carr

http://www.google.com/reader... - Russ jackson - Russ Jackson

Sweet! http://www.google.com/reader... - Jesse Baer

http://www.google.com/reader... please add! - Brendon Wadey

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

Here's mine...http://www.google.com/reader... - Oscar Antonio Moralí

Aloha! http://www.google.com/reader... - Ryan

check it out...http://www.google.com/reader... - Cos

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

http://www.google.com/reader... - Irma Vermaat

more cool - Brent - Loving Life

http://www.google.com/reader... - Anthony Citrano

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Ferguson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Otto

I share interesting articles about Internet music, social media, open content and copyright issues: http://www.google.com/reader... - David Holmes

"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

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

"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

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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

"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

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

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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

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

Nearly impossible to single one out. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

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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

Malcolm Gladwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Seth Godin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Hans Roslin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Nate Silver (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Richard Dawkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Barry Schwartz (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) - Evan Solomon

Also James Howard Kunstler (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) - Evan Solomon

I just watched http://www.ted.com/talks... - Paul Buchheit

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

#serbaytakipte - Serbay Arda Ayzit

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

TED talks spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub... via http://sharingdocs.blogspot.com/2009... - Mona Nomura

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

Itay Talgam: http://www.ted.com/talks... - SBV

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

"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

"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

"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

F**k off, Murdoch - Mo Kargas

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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

http://paidcontent.org/article... - 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

.@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

"...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

"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

"“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

"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

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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

No I do not have a "Retweets" page on my Twitter.com home page - Kevin Tunis

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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

Yes - Bertrand Doux

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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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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