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Five Reasons FriendFeed Is Better Than Digg - http://www.inquisitr.com/1002...
Giulio Ardoino, Sid, Liana Lehua and 26 other people liked this
I agree with this. I used to use Digg 3 or 4 times a day. Now I use Friendfeed. The noise here is better, the comments more incisive.
- David Sim
At first I thought this said "Five Reasons FriendFeed is Better Than Drugs."
- Dave Winer
no-- I still prefer Digg for my 'news' (ie time-wasting) (... and lol @dave winer)
- john conroy
Comments are much better here. Much less "Apple is teh awesomes!", "OMG! Ubuntu is so amazing, even though I use Windows 95", "Ron Paul is amazing", "Religion is pointless" etc
- Rich
Do people still use Digg? j/k
- Jason Goldberg
If this was on Digg it would be top 101 reasons, 6 pages of ads on a blog copied from somewhere else. Way to condense! Seriously surprised though, ONLY 5?
- Andrew Smith
i still use digg as well. in one shot i can see top 10 popular news, FF i can't. it is cluttered for a one shot look (even with the "show best of")
- Chris Harris
Haven't logged in in months. Which is why I don't import my account. I'd add the 6th reasons: the comments system is better here.
- Roberto Bonini
i think part of the reason is the community... digg was invaded by internauts and 4channers. friendfeed makes more sense because u better control what gets to you. and the comments are usually (for now?) from a relatively informed circle
- Ruben Llibre
@Ruben - " digg was invaded by internauts and 4channers" - yep! which is why Digg is worthless
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
I only go to Digg if I see an interesting Digg post in FriendFeed or if one of my FF buddies sends me a shout.
- Susan Beebe
Hmm. I still use both.
- Jamie
The idiots and spammers will find their way here eventually.
- Greg Beck
I agree. I like that I can follow people I know and trust and get my news or happenings here - more relevant for me. When something or someone isn't relevant for my tastes, I can hide them. On Digg, getting whatever the popular diggers like on the front page doesn't appeal to me anymore. I admit that it used to, but that was when I was new to social networking and wanted to find out what was going on. I'm liking and using FriendFeed more these days. I may digg something I like once every month or two.
- Liana Lehua
Some of the Apple online stores worldwide are starting to go down...
Benjamin Junior, AJ Batac, Alex Waddell and 3 other people liked this
And the anticipation builds!
- Ben Parr
If only everyone on Twitter didn't think this meant every Apple store. U.S. Apple store is still up. This pretty much solidifies the 3G iPhone announcement.
- Brandon Titus
Seriously.... I wish Apple would just live video stream these things...
- James Cook
I have been online for the last eight hours and it's really starting to pick up now!
- Joe Dawson
U.S. Apple Store is now down.
- Brandon Titus
yep... didn't know they had to take the store down just to add some new iPod Nano red vinyl cases :)
- MG Siegler
I guess Apple's web crew isn't too sure about how to edit the site so they took it down just to be safe :P
- Brandon Titus
U.K store is down.
- Roberto Bonini
I feel bad for all the people wanting to buy an ipod connector or power supply etc. and can't because an online store has to be taken “down” for updates. I remember laughing at Walmart when they did this. We should be laughing at Apple too.
- Amit Patel
Just a tad excited about tomorrow.
David Adam, Diana Valerini, americanm and 14 other people liked this
I'm not .. it's going to make for a really boring news day .. bets are that Techmeme will be running 90% Apple nonsense with the rest regulated to bottom section of the page
- Steven Hodson
I'm with Steven. You could make the argument I'm an Apple nut, but I'm not excited about SteveNotes the way I used to be. What am I supposed to do? Upgrade at every product rev?
- Louis Gray
I think it's the lack of new and exciting things Apple could produce or have in its back pocket, or rather the lack of the imagination of people who follow the keynotes. A few years back, there was a possible iPhone, video iPod, iTablet, switch off of PowerPC... now, out of that list, the only one left is the tablet. So what fills the void? OH GOD NEW VERSION OF X PRODUCT YES. Not very compelling.
- Mark Trapp
@Louis - <GASP> you mean you don't wait breathless with wallet in hand on His Jobness's word? ........ :)
- Steven Hodson
I'm excited, but I"M GETTING AN IPHONE. WHEE! Sorry... what were we talking about?
- Cyndy
While I was underwhelmed by MacWorld, I have high hopes for WWDC after Apple's roadmap event a few months ago. Quite frankly I think I'm more excited for the 2.0 software than the 3G iPhone itself - can't wait to see what developers come up with for it. I just think that while it is overhyped (like all things Apple), this really could down as one of those times where sometime transformative was unveiled.
- MG Siegler
Hit me on my iPhone. My, my iPhone.
- Eric Florenzano
is a new version of Ubuntu dropping tomorrow or something? :)
- Jeff Quinton
No, Ubuntu 89.12.34 Daffy Duck does not drop until next week, mark your calendar!
- Mark Trapp
I thought it was called Darkwing Duck or was it Duck Dodgers?
- Bwana ☠
you Ignorant Iguanas, the double D version has already been released!
- Nathan Eckenrode
Man, I need a cheat sheet to figure out Ubuntu's naming scheme. Is it Major version dot random number space random folksy alliteration?
- Mark Trapp
i know you've been waiting jason :) oddly my tax rebate came just in time for a new purchase...
- MG Siegler
Mark et al. Ubuntu naming is Y.MM (year and month of release)...that's it
- Kevin Cearns
Me too!
- Steve Rubel
I'm with Cyndy. I'm dumbly excited for one reason only - new phone for me!! So if it turns out we're all suckers and he's introducing a new Macbook instead, or other such nonsense, I'll be crying into my pillow all week long.
- Carla Thompson
I am with Gabe of Techmeme. He says iPhone will be top news UNLESS something more interesting happens.
- Robert Scoble
Bruce :P
- Bwana ☠
I agree Robert. Tomorrow, Techmeme will be Jobsmeme
- Bwana ☠
It would be pretty sweet if Microsoft could figure out a way to buy Yahoo before 10am! ;-)
- Robert Seidman
I just hope I can buy a new iPhone, and have them drop the price a few hundred dollars the second I'm handed my receipt.
- shaun mclane
@Robert as interesting as that might be I still think that just because it is Steve Jobs and given the preponerance of Mac users in the Web 2.0 sphere the Apple news would win out :)
- Steven Hodson
It's ok to be excited but still set lower expectations. New Apple shiny will be a pleasant departure from current tech news...
- Bwana ☠
I love Apple products but I am really tired of the Apple hype. Apple has bloggers and the news media by their short hairs.
- Alex Williams
Gmail Labs: A Public Stage for Googlers’ 20% Time - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
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Roney Smith, Anthony Farrior, Matt Cutts and 15 other people liked this
"Google invited members of the press to its main campus in Mountain View today to unveil Gmail Labs. Gmail Labs is essentially a stage for Google employees to develop new features for Gmail under the public eye. Starting at 6pm PT tonight, all Gmail users in the US and UK will see a new tab in the settings area called “Labs”. The tab will show a selection of beta features, such as “Pictures in Chat”, which (unsurprisingly) puts portraits in chat sessions, and “Mouse Gestures”, which allows you to navigate Gmail using mouse gestures."
- edythe
I guess "All Gmail Users" doesn't include GAFYD users. None of my GAFYD accounts have the new tab. Oh well.
- Mark Trapp
Thanks Polly... Nice find!
- Mitchell Tsai
Hmm...wonder if Canadians get to sneak in there too...not seeing a tab on my GMail yet though. Anyone see it yet (Canadian or no)?
- Trent Olson
@Trent: yeah, not seeing it in mine yet. perhaps they are running behind.
- edythe
the Quicklinks and Superstars look useful - not sure about the rest. Still waiting for them to activate this...
- Frederic
Pretty cool, but looking I don't see a single thing I would use. Why not focus on things that people have obviously wanted by duplicating the "Better Gmail" scripts from Lifehacker? And just because I have a place to mention it... why have an Atom feed for my Gmail that I can't even use in gReader - or seemingly anywhere else for that matter?
- Vince DeGeorge
grrr... I don't have the tab...!!
- Stefan Hayden
Mine has shown up, 11pm pdt
- Anthony Citrano
i still do not have it, 11:49 pt.
- edythe
my tab is there now...at 2:05 am central, and in Canada (though we Canadians hate to be lumped in with Americans most of the time, this is one of those times I'm glad you Americans think of us as your 51st state)!
- Trent Olson
Great idea - and when they open it up wider than their own engineers, people will build on it like a platform
- Scott Davies
For those that don't have it yet: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Tanath
@Tanath, thank you so much! i have it now. :)
- edythe
You're welcome. :)
- Tanath
I looked over these lab items and found them to be almost totally useless.
- Chris Stevenson
Gmail Labs has messed my account bad.
- Jon-Paul Bussoli
@Jon-Paul: how so? a guy on my team was saying he was getting lots of errors on gmail today.
- edythe
No probs here, but if you're having trouble, you can disable it by clicking here: https://mail.google.com/mail...
- Tanath
aw, thank you again, Tanath.
- edythe
If you see Twitter's database, can you please return it to them? Seems like they are missing it - http://status.twitter.com/
Igor The Troll יִצְחָק, Ashton, wheresthebox and 64 other people liked this
:))
- Shandiz
LOL
- K.D.
Reminds me of that line in Snatch when someone went missing,"Not like it's a set of car keys or pack of cigarettes. What do you mean it's missing?"
- Mark Forman
Where in the world is the Twitter database? Is there a reward for it's return?
- Michael McGimpsey
from twhirl
@MM yeah the reward is good karma at Plurk :D
- Mark Forman
@Mark Indeed. Karma is good. I need good Karma.
- Michael McGimpsey
Plurk stole it.
- Mark Frost
usual-swap copy ready to go.
- marty nickel
from twhirl
twitter = killer concept, stinky execution
- marty nickel
from twhirl
I think I saw it floating down the street here in Minnesota. Oh Wait that was my server I'm being told. Hey wait come back here I didn't say you could float away server.
- David Newberger
from twhirl
OUCH!
- Susan Beebe
I think it might be over here? --> http://Twoorl.com
- Susan Beebe
Scoble, you're relentless. Not saying you're entirely wrong, but ease up on these guys already. ;)
- Greg
more like Plurk destroyed it and have a much better one.
- SolidSmack
from twhirl
ROFL
- Mitchell Tsai
If they can keep track of their things, they don't deserve to have any. ;)
- Steven Van Tilburg
from twhirl
somebody pass the bong
- Duncan Riley
I think I saw it show up on Craigslist...
- felix
+1 Like for Duncan's comment
- Hutch Carpenter
giggles...somebody load the next cone "with the database"...giggles
- martin ollman
Could you describe the database, sir?
- Tim Hoeck
Tower? Rackmount? Blade? Dell? Hp? Sun? You gotta give us somthing to look for.
- Roberto Bonini
@martin so smoking hash tables is legal in California?
- Karim
Do a post on Twitter Whale Fail http://tinyurl.com/6nwaq3 Dead Fish Floating upside down in the water!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
pass them a bowl! or better yet tese them with one see if they get it done faster
- Charles Rice
from twhirl
Captain Ahab, there she blows! The Sinking Twitter Whale! Get you Harpoon ready and strike! I beg you Strike!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Oh! I just gave it to a kid to normalize it.. let me see if he is still around!
- Jigar Mehta
LOL
- Marcello Del Bono
Lets see.. 100th Normal Form???
- Roberto Bonini
Twitter's down? really? I'm shocked...
- Michael Gartenberg
talking about this last night: CMS system != messaging system
- anna sauce
twitter is f**kin useless. i'm at the media reform conference. trying to connect with folks. have no one's mobile. just twitter. with track broken, i can't listen in on parallel conversations. i almost wish i'd never had twitter. the loss is worse
brian alexander gray, David Worrell, Kevin Hessel and 11 other people liked this
Contact lists benefit from LOTS of contact information; email, phone, IM, snailmail, etc. Personally, mine is mostly email and phone. What's the primary mode of communication in other peoples' contact lists?
- Brent Newhall
Mostly email and IM, but increasingly Twitter. Damn!
- David Sim
Rafe, i love your shut it down post. it's like being inside a building WHILE it's being remodeled, and bulldozed and plaster is falling on your head. it's a headache and a hazard. argh.
- @baratunde
For me the "secret sauce" for twitter is that while I can choose how I want to interact with it, my contacts can also choose how they want to, and I don't have to select. So while I make (selective) use of SMS, many others don't & won't and I don't have to know that for them to get my messages. Plus w/track (and esp. re an event) I can also quickly discover others following the same event and selectively choose who to engage with (if anyone)
- Shannon Clark
FriendFeed takes noisy tracks and makes a best-of collection - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
AJ Batac, Bryan Landers, Glenn Batuyong and 24 other people liked this
excellent headline!
- edythe
thx edythe
- MG Siegler
yes, but in my case it's a best of Scoble
- Duncan Riley
mine, at least for today, is definitely a best-of popular bloggers
- MG Siegler
Duncan: interesting. I see other stuff on my best of page. I definitely like the same kind of stuff that you do, though. So that probably is why that's what you see.
- Robert Scoble
Best of Scoble, Louis Gray, and FriendFeed employees. Something to be said though about what the people i follow find interesting.
- Eric Kerr
i'm now included twice in my own top 4 best of the day, something which i'm really proud of.
- MG Siegler
@duncan - I'm seeing a good mix of my friends - some Scoble, but he doesn't dominate the list by a long shot.
- Frederic
I love the new feature, and your coverage of it was excellent
- Gavin
Mike Arrington and Steve Gillmor don’t use Firefox 3.0 - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Glenn Batuyong, Mitchell Tsai, Ro (Lilyhill) and 8 other people liked this
Running it now and looks great glad to see many more add-ons optimized for this version unfortunately Google Toolbar not one of them
- Mark Forman
I don't understand all the discussion is about Firefox 3. I use it on MacOS and Linux and would never go back to Firefox 2. Especially the speed improvements on MacOS are amazing. It's also not a problem to get the most extensions working with some hackery.
- Benjamin Kohler
Benjamin: I totally agree.
- Robert Scoble
Definitely much peppier looking good.Just tried with Adobe Buzzword flash loaded much quicker than on FF 2.0 I'm sold. Now just need hack for Google tool bar.
- Mark Forman
huh. wow. on the other hand, it's not officially out yet.
- edythe
I can't get away from the bliss that I find with Safari 3.1.1 - I've given the RC2 a chance, but it's little things like the tab organisation that sells me on S3
- Giovanni Ghignone
Firefox 3 is great... and a huge improvement on FF 2, but it's still a bit of a bind waiting for all your favourite add-ons to be compatible. Some of them can be deal-breakers... maybe that's what MA and SG are waiting for?
- Calvin Jones
from twhirl
I gave FF3 a look, but it's missing support for a couple of plugins that I use regularly.
- Richard Peat
from twhirl
My main problem with FF (both 2 and 3) on the Mac is that it doesn't use the keychain. I can switch freely between Camino and Safari, and both are able to use my keychain entries. Firefox however, has its own password manager. So I'm probably going to have to wait for FF 4 before this feature is implemented.
- Paul Grav
i need the google toolbar. then i will jump to ff3.0
- Rodney Rumford
Once Google Browser Sync or an equivalent works for FF3 I will switch
- David McDonald
Im with David McD on this one. I LOOOVEEE Google Browser Sync, especially when I have to be on multiple computers all day.
- Colby Olson
After I upgraded to FF3 RC, I could keep the browser open for over 3 days without chewing up all of my RAM. I just LOVE it.
- Leon Ho
@Paul Grave. Check out 1 Password. http://icanhaz.com/1password It plays nice with the keychain and FF.
- David Owens
Removing and restricting existing functionality for no rational reason and despite objections is what has been going on in FF3 for a while. Killing things such as the "temporarily trust" button on the self-signed certificate warning popup, or the go-button quasi-removal, with no option to bring it back, or with the obligatory awesomebar. It seems to say - "yes, we know that you want it,...
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- Andrey Andreev
Arrington's pulling your leg Scoble. He's the one who told me I should be using FF3, and he's even posted about using it http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Duncan Riley
Colby, check out http://labs.mozilla.com/2007... - from what I can see it might mean that Google Browser Sync is made obsolete ...
- David McDonald
@David Owens 1Password has its own problem. 1Password uses its own keychain, so if at some point you decide to stop using 1Password, you're going to have to migrate all your passwords back to OS X's default login keychain (the one used by Camino and Safari). Unfortunately this isn't a trivial task.
- Paul Grav
Like many others, I'm waiting for some extensions to become compatible. I'd prefer not to lose features with an upgrade.
- Aaron B. Hockley
FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Nicholas James, Kol Tregaskes, oliver gassner and 215 other people liked this
Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it.
- Robert Scoble
Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed.
- Ranjit Mathoda
cool beans.
- Anthony Citrano
Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me.
- Alex Williams
Very cool Bret.
- Hutch Carpenter
Very nice.
- Atul Arora
Very nice, indeed
- Michael W. May
Thanks.
- Amund Tveit
Very nice addition. Keep em coming.
- Tsega Dinka
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues.
- Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction.
- Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30
- Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here."
- Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments.
- Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes.
- Louis Gray
@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter!
- Yuvi
interesting idea
- Steven Hodson
uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom..
- sedgewick
Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested?
- Ryan Carson
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :(
- Chris Hofmann
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level.
- Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy!
- Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever.
- Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one
- Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want!
- Joe Dawson
Oh, now see, this is just awesome.
- Vince DeGeorge
Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :)
- Rob Diana
They should call it A-list juice
- Jamie
Thanks, I appreciate this feature.
- Daniel Backhaus
I want a feed for this feature!
- Marcus
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :)
- felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :)
- Susan Beebe
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :)
- Kenichi Matsumoto
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome!
- Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed.
- Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days.
- Mitchell Tsai
Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu!
- Mike Reynolds
Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me.
- Andrés David Aparicio
wow, that's actually kinda...useful!
- Sarah Perez
This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using?
- Chris Miller
My guess would be comments and likes
- Bwana ☠
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :)
- Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :)
- Bwana ☠
Awesome!
- Daniel Spradau
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make.
- fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!!
- Susan Beebe
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML.
- directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0)
- Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work!
- Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better.
- Michael Carter
great addition to the functionality!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting.
- Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-)
- Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one
- Alexander Oelling
Bret Taylor is amazing!
- Alex Hammer
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice.
- Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance.
- Dave Hanson
Gmail Gets a (not so exciting) Lab - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Alex Waddell, Voyagerfan5761 and MG Siegler liked this
Exactly, superstars and quicklinks are the keys, both with be very useful to me (though more if you could sort superstars) - but I also really like the idea of 'take a break'
- MG Siegler
MG - you can sort the superstars - just drag and drop them around in the General tab (or did you mean sort messages by stars? That would really be useful!)
- Frederic
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