I thought the page would come up with a random (but flattering) dollar amount, just like the "how much is your blog worth widgets", but sadly it contained real information - presented in the form of WORDS! - Andy Murdoch
""Twitter needs to be decentralized and standardized because it’s as important as the DNS system behind the Internet."
say it with me now... I-R-C" - engtech
...easy as 1-2-3, that's how easy chat should be - Andy Murdoch
For those that want the "feel" of a newspaper but with information from the web. Same idea as Zinio did for real magazines in a way. Good post, but some of the other news readers are grabbing my attention right now - Chris
don't know who would ever pay $30 for a newsreader. - Nishith Shah
why pay when you can get free... hmmmn, there is really something? - Jack
Mac users are generally happier to pay for software than PC users. - Andy Murdoch
Good post Robert. I wrote a story today on why people should be Lifestreaming. you cover one of the reasons in your post, but there are many others. You can read it here: http://lifestreamblog.com/why-... - Mark Krynsky
Ok, this is seriously cool. I'm starting to like Friend Feed more and more. - Don MacAskill
I use my "Comments and Likes" page as a newspaper, to see what's happened on these articles/posts/Twitters since I last saw them. Without the Comments/Likes, stuff would get totally buried (even only following 50-80 people. How do people follow 10,000? Ouch.). 2 weeks ago, I barely used "comments" and "likes" and stuff moved so fast on FriendFeed, that in a few hours, everything was so far down the pages...lost. Good post. - Mitchell Tsai
I may put a "like" on something interesting, so I can (1) come back in a few hours (2) see if any cool discussion is going on (3) remove the "like" if it's boring (4) gives me time to Del.icio.us the article if I was too lazy/busy when I first saw the article. (5) Remove the "like" if I make a "comment" so I don't hit that FriendFeed "like" limit .... uhhh speed bump. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
What Robert Scoble and Louis Gray really nailed in their two posts. - If I like person X, I can easily see what person X also likes. Waaaay better than reading one blog. Better than a set of RSS feeds. Combines (1) the power of "light-weight communication" - interaction without e-mail/phone (2) the ability to make "50 million personal newspapers" (3) the building of a community with multiple layers for everyone (e.g. asymmetric links, you don't have to follow your fans) (4) imaginary friends - Mitchell Tsai
@Mitchell Shaulis: I am clearly not in the big league on FriendFeed as I didn't realise there was a limit to how many posts I could Like. I need to up my involvement clearly! Great post Scoble, I enjoy reading both yourself and Louis Gray! - Joe
This is great thnx for the heads up - John Spencer
We should ALWAYS remember that blogo-something is a two-way road. Commenting helps keep stuff healthy. Not commenting is unhealthy to the network. - Cesar Cardoso
It is apparent that FriendFeed is one of those services that you should know very, very well. - Alex Williams
I'll try to comment on the original blog post rather than FriendFeed. If they're not using Disqus my comments won't show. - Andy Murdoch
Andy: what you doing commenting here then? - Robert Scoble
The power of blogs over traditional publishing is the two-way communication channel. Many times the post is just the jumping-off point for the good stuff. Those that forget that intrinsic fact usually are suffering from a fit of an inflated sense of self-importance. - Morgan via twhirl
I didn't realize this page existed - wow! cool! and it has its own feed. circle of life. nice - Sarah Perez
Excellent tip!! I did not know you could do that. I am checking my subscriptions and really, very few "famous" people take the time to discuss. Sad but true, it seems that the communication is only one way. - Arturo Servin
This is why FF keeps me coming back, is all about the great conversation and the discovery of interesting articles that keeps me interested. - Gadiel Rivera
I have a list of URLs for all the apps if you want it. Tried to post it as a comment but "An error occurred". Maybe too long or too many URLs. - Andy Murdoch
Scratch that, looks like the comment worked despite the error message. - Andy Murdoch
When I read the title on FriendFeed I thought it said "Google AppEngine Hacks". I was about to commend the author for amazingly speedy writing. - Andy Murdoch
Thanks.. Heading there with Visa card in hand.. cheers.. - Johnny R
Yahoo is really working to stay relevent in today's market. It will be interesting to see what happens with Microsoft because that is really going to determine where Yahoo ends up in terms of relevence. - Michael Koby via Alert Thingy
I'm excited for Yahoo at the moment, they seem to "get" social media and are starting to experiment with the semantic web in ways that are leaving Google behind. Good for them, their homepage still sucks though. - Andy Murdoch
I just hope it's not too little, too late. - Jason Kaneshiro
What took them so long? Seemed to be a natural thing to do with things like flickr, delicious, MyBlogLog, Y! Anwers, etc. Lets see how they execute. - Daniel Feygin
oh that's a pain in the ass.. Google Blogsearch bans Yahoo Pipes from acting on blogsearch results. - engtech
Here's a perl script to do it (FF may screw up formatting): #!/usr/bin/perl -w
while(<STDIN>) {
my ($x) = $_ =~ /\<b\>([^<]+?)<\/b\>/s;
print $x . "\n";
} - Andy Murdoch
no, when I find an interesting blog post that I know belongs to one of my friends I try to find the blog entry and "like" it there. Otherwise, I like the item I find first. - Alejandro S.
i often forget if i've liked so yeah there's some redundancy -- but like Alejandro said, I try to find the author's feed and like/comment it there - Shey
Sometimes, but usually I use different services in very different ways: del.icio.us is for stuff for me to check later, Google Reader is cute cats for my GF, Sphinn to gain kudos with SEOs, blah blah. But Friendfeed is for everything that I think random people might like. - Andy Murdoch
no. usually it is the first time I come across it, but if it is any of the digg / mixxt links etc, I go to the 'original' or search it here with the friend freed search bookmarklet. - Nicole Simon
