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Twiddla: Simple Collaboration Software That Works Almost Anywhere - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Paul Wade, imabonehead, Suvi-Tuuli Engela and 7 other people liked this
Interesting how the name makes one think of Twitter. Startup names have been getting sillier -- pretty soon people might start adding numbers to unoriginal names. Like Reader4U or Viral55... almost like screennames
- Anna Star
Why are people on FF subscribing to people they have absolutly no interest in communicating with?
Derrick Burns, Steven Perez, Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF and 4 other people liked this
I subscribe to smart people who say smart things. I'm starting to wonder why I subscribed to you. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
I subscribe to interesting people, who post/comment w/ something interesting, but I have seen a lot of people subscribe to me randomly. which makes me believe I'm on some list someplace
- clarke thomas
Good point Mr Scoble..thanks for your support.
- Scot Duke
I subscribe to interesting people who share interesting content and comments.
- David Finch
clarke: you'll get random subscribers because of friend-of-a-friend. Scot, just having some fun. Some people here do subscribe to tons just to listen in, I'm sure there are even a few who want to spam. But I don't worry about who is following me. I can't control that. I can only control who I follow.
- Robert Scoble
Because they think FF is twitter
- Dayngr
I'm there with the Scobe...subscribing/following/friending the interesting really increases the utility of these tools.
- Justin Whitaker
How can you say that someone subscribes to another with no interest in communicating with them? Sometimes I subscribe to someone because I found them interesting, or they liked something I had to say
- Les Zaldor
I can't even control who I follow. We are, at heart, Borg.
- XDpaul
It is also about learning (as well as taking part) - for this aspect you cannot subscribe to too many people (information overload) but you can learn a lot quickly if you subscribe to the right people.
- Riaz Kanani
/agree with @XDpaul. I had no choice.
- Carolyn Chan
Maybe we also need a three-tier ranking for FF subscriptions
- Anna Star
Seconding (or is it thirding) the friend-of-a-friend notion. Also, maybe a little of the Borg thing, too. Not that that's a bad thing. I don't think FriendFeed is really about communicating with any one person in particular; I see it rather as an exercise in creating an ever-expanding cloud of connected information.
- Derrick Burns
Probably because they follow too many people to be able to interact with all the folks they follow in any way. Unless their fulltime job is reading FF like Scoble's is
- Daniel Spisak
from twhirl
Every click of the 'Follow' button adds another node to the system. Just as we have hypertext--text documents deeply interlinked across a wide network of computers, we now have (at least the beginnings of) hyperthought: ideas mutually interlinked and cross-referenced across a mesh of social contacts.
- Derrick Burns
People get hung up trying to put services into boxes. But you can't squash FriendFeed into any one box. Is it a social network service? Yes, for some. Is it a place to discuss things? Yep, for some. Can it be a great information/learning source for someone who has no desire at all to participate? Yes. And it can be and is everything in-between. Why isn't it OK for people to use the service how *they* want to, instead of how you think they should?
- Robert Seidman
+1 Derrick
- Hao Chen
+1 Scoble
- Dave Martin
I have no idea who you are, but since I follow someone who follows you i get to read everything you post. how do turn this off? I odn't want to see friends of friends, i just want to read what my friends are syaing
- Jonathan Jesse
*sigh* @ scot - no need to comment though since robert seidman already left the perfect comment :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
To learn things I wouldn't know from people I already talk to.
- Steven Perez
Ditto Scoble. I follow people who I think I can learn from or find interesting ... and we're ALL always learning ... especially in this dynamic place (the Internet).
- Charlie Anzman
not always an issue about interest just about time in the day to comment
- Arne-Per
Outstanding stuff here..I like Mr Seidman's point as well as all of he others. Live and learn and ask a lot of questions along the way is my motto..thanks all.
- Scot Duke
Subscribing to people who bring interesting content means more ways to discuss what's going on out there. I especially appreciate people who bring in conversation starters to the feed. We all remember more about what we teach and conversation has always been one of the best ways to get a point across.
- Derick Valadao
FF told me to: everyone I've subscribed to was a FF suggestion when I signed up so I thought I'd start there and see how it goes. Some suggestions were good, others were not. Wish FF had the option of matching ppl by interest ala checklist or tags: makes it easier to find new people rather than following the same old same old.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I so dont care about facebook at all. Ooooh fb connect. Big fucking deal, see why I gotta expand my horizons. Whoever does care needs a fucking life.
Donna Mugavero, Joshua Rosenstock, Ron Emrick and 3 other people liked this
You are so evil Loren! Without Facebook, how will I keep up with my, uh, with the, uh. Oh yeah, it really doesn't matter much. Move along, nothing to see here.Plus, how many times can a person get poked before physical retaliation is called for? Silly stuff.
- Eban Crawford
from Alert Thingy
@Vincent Ferrari Good point about not caring where it links in. Is it really that tough to sign up for a Digg account if you want to use Digg? Do any of the 19 year olds on Facebook use Digg or know what it means? I doubt it. I am 33, I could ask my humble list of 300 friends about Digg and I'm guessing maybe 2% of them would even know what it is. It looks like cool technology (Facebook Connect), I'll give them that... but not sure how big of an impact it will have. Peace.
- Adrian Nadeau
Yeah, maybe now Facebook's less exciting. Though it did herald a new era of social networking sites, and now we have profiles all over the place. They're trying to integrate it into one single online persona. Thanks, but haven't others already done this...
- Anna Star
My son just blurted out, sarcastically: "I love spam." then reads us the spam: "shocking video shows SpongeBob and gay sex."
Zoe, Schlomo Rabinowitz, Andrew Feinberg and 18 other people liked this
Your baby is talking? omg!
- Internet's Tad
tad: no, my 14-year-old, Patrick.
- Robert Scoble
;)
- Internet's Tad
I love the new pseudo news headline spam messages. Been collecting them: "Theodore Roosevelt was a gay man." Yesss! Spam we can actually enjoy.
- Chris Baskind
10 months is way too early for a baby to be saying video -- even Scoble's baby
- Christian Anderson
from fftogo
Isn't that... what the show is? I'm so far out of the loop.
- l0ckergn0me
hmm. that doesn't suprise me. What would is if the spam said "Teletubbies caught in sex video with Spears." Now that would be a twist.
- Ben Hwang
from Alert Thingy
I wonder if there's a list somewhere of the most (and least) successful spam subject headings
- Anna Star
A tiny bit off subject, but nice interview with Sen. Coburn, put it on the blog, and btw Twitter had some glitch going on, deleted all my followers and followees today, and I found someone else who had the same problem too, big pain!
- Barbara Duck
from twhirl
I guess that headline caught Patrick's eye. heh
- Daynah
When Milian starts talking, do you think he'll say Nokia or iPhone first? ;)
- Daynah
Daynah Milan greatly prefers the iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
I haven't seen spam in so long, I don't even know what you're talking about
- clarke thomas
here is one of my recent favorites http://tinyurl.com/5mhdtk (even caught the attention of Wired)
- Jon Price
Bank of America profit tumbles 41% - http://rss.cnn.com/~r...
I like how the headline is "tumbles" yet is is still better-than-expected !
- Anna Star
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