Wow, you think Joost is a flop? My friend works there. :( - Bjorn Tipling
yes i think it is a major flop. no traffic, no content, no team - ouriel
ouriel - is it supposed to be ilike.com or like.com. like.com is the visual search engine by riya.com. ilike.com is not related to like.com as far as i know - Atul Arora
indeed. changing that. but the conclusion is the same - ouriel
time to realize that daily unique visitors being replaced by engagement time. Second Life is ranked third after Face book and youtube in the UK. The data for the rest of the world not available yet. - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl
Second Life has not managed to become mainsteam whatever the metrics you look at - ouriel
actually after a second reading really dont like your analysis, comparing many different classes of online services using one metric. but the title is great, very tabloid and digg worthy - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl
nah, not at all. Problem is Secondlife is a platform in the first place. Why not evaluate it for what it is? Compare it with Croquet, Project Wonderland or whatever..., this would be more fair - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl
why use metrics? when is the last time you ve been there? please go take a look.. - ouriel
Maybe he's spending more time on FF and other social apps then blogging? Making videos? Spending time with family? Just a couple guesses. - Larry Kless via twhirl
The enormously famous and powerful don't blog. What percent of Davos alumni blog? It's not how they manage their reputations and celebrity. - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy
that means FastCompany.tv became one of permanent sponsors - open your eyes - silpol
Louis - on an unrelated note, I am looking forward to see your athleticsnation.com rank on ballbug's leaderboard. - Atul Arora
It means I haven't been playing the game lately. I've been doing crappy blogging and spending almost all of my extra time on FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble
It also is interesting that we went to Washington DC, got some remarkable interviews, none of which have been on Techmeme yet. But here on FriendFeed they got lots of praise and discussion going. I could get on Techmeme, though, by writing something idiotic with some sensationalist headline that would get lots of bloggers to link to it. - Robert Scoble
I ONLY bring this up because Robert mentioned DC...but yeah...I mean hell, you could have sat down and done an entire interview - bringing your community's questions to people really in charge in DC from reps to senators to oh, heck, I don't know... Presidential candidates...and I bet ya techmeme wouldn't notice. Of course they'd be ALL OVER 'written' responses to other blogs. But some big old video exclusive...yeah, they would ignore that. ....lol. - Erin Kotecki Vest
Can't make the big bucks on Friendfeed, Robert, as much I like your activity on here. Don't want to see you relegated to some job that will keep you away from all this madness - Bjorn Tipling
Bjorn: you might be surprised. Companies want to get close to early adopters. Companies are sponsoring our shows not because we have large audiences but because we have early adopters and influencers. Of course FastCompany.tv is advertising on Techmeme, but mostly that's just me rewarding Gabe for adding a lot of value to my life over past few years. - Robert Scoble
"I could get on Techmeme, though, by writing something idiotic with some sensationalist headline that would get lots of bloggers to link to it." Scoble, you've hit the nail on the head. Life's too short for that. - Duncan Riley
That makes you a better man, mr Riley - Bjorn Tipling
I'm not really getting Roberts comments (and Duncan's either). Are you saying that it's not the Techmeme isn't linking to you, it's that you don't care about Techmeme? That before, you were creating content to specifically self-promote via that channel, but now you are getting paid for media that is based on early adopters and influencers and your personal brand marketing strategies have changed? Just wondering. - leigh himel
Leigh: the #1 way to get onto TechMeme is to talk about what's already on TechMeme. Note that my "waiting in line for iPhone is glorious" article is already at the top of TechMeme. How did that happen? I saw a headline on Techmeme, and wrote about it, but added something new. Those get onto Techmeme a LOT easier than some original thought that brings more value. So, if I stop reading Techmeme, or caring about it, yes, that TOTALLY makes it less likely I'll get onto it. - Robert Scoble
Being linked to a meme headline doesn't count in the leader board standings. So sure it would get you onto Techmeme but wouldn't affect your top 100 position. - leigh himel
Extremely interesting conversations going on here. If I had to choose between being entertained or growing/learning - I'd definitely pick the latter. - Sonciary Honnoll
I might add it's fun if you can accomplish both at the same time. :) - Sonciary Honnoll
"A 14-year old YouTube video blogger called Fred somehow managed to get a fan base of almost 45 Million users. Now instead of asking how that’s possible, Seth Godin and Robert Scoble trivialize this success. How could they forget what Elvis said?" - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
I'm sure this is a bad sign: I laughed at the video. Just let yourself think like a tween or a teenager for a few minutes, and the frenetic pacing will all make sense. Or go speed up Speed Racer, if the cultural anchor will make you more comfortable. Same deal. - Chris Baskind
"The government produces masses of data on what is happening around the UK. Infomation on crime, on health, on education. However, this information is often hidden away in obscure publications or odd corners of websites. Data tucked away like this isn't of use to the ultimate owner of that information YOU.
The Power of Information Taskforce want you to give us your ideas on how best to reuse, represent or combine the information the government holds to make it useful. To provide you with some ideas we have linked to literally gigabytes of new information here." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
"Carlin observed: "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them you can't say on television. What a ratio that is: 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad." Then he proceeded to say them." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
krz9000: I blame the US Taxpayer who doesn't mind us going to war, but won't raise taxes to pay for it. So the treasury prints more dollars and the dollar goes down in value. We get an implicit tax that way. I call this the George Bush tax plan. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
Honestly, I hope I can amass enough credibility and education over the next few years to pay off my impending law school debts and start a family. On the other hand, it looks like that's becoming abnormal for my generation. Sad. - Andrew Feinberg
I'm generally against taxes, but I view Bush's cuts as an illusion. My tax rates may have gone down by 5%, but the value of my dollars decreased by 41%, so in fact it was a huge tax increase. - Paul Buchheit
People wanting better services and not wanting to pay for them is a common theme the world over. - Jonathan Beckett
I blame Bush's economic policy - wait, what economic policy? - Jody Carbone
Spare a thought for foreign bloggers et. paid in Dollars!! (ie me) - john conroy
Bush's economic policy? When the economy's good, cut taxes! When the economy's bad, cut more taxes! And give each person $600 that they'll have to repay--with interest--after he's long gone!! - Oliver Ortega Chua
I recently went to the ICA conference in Montreal, and yes, their prices haven't changed but I realized how inflated our prices have become. A $15 meal in the states is about the same in Canada. Back in my undergrad years that $15 meal would have seemed nearly double the price. In other words, financial reports are true. Dollar sucks and we get roughly dollar for dollar now in Canada. - Philip Ryan Johnson
Imports are something like 20% of the US economy, so a 40% decrease in dollars means that your costs go up more like 8%, blunted somewhat by finding domestic substitutes. (And it's great for exporters.) Of course, oil is a huge percentage of imports and that's painful for all the obvious reasons. - Larry Greenfield
the more I observe Bush and his team, the more I tend to think that Americans shall blame themselves in first place, or not exactly themselves but that WASP church-going majority of "red states" who gave its silent YES when not removed Bush on second term... you just have two countries within one border and afraid to admit that. - silpol
Afraid to admit that? Dude, liberals have been embracing the two-Americas concept for many years now. See the "Jesusland map", or the very notion of "red states", or the interminable handwringing about the "polarization" of politics, or the so-called "culture wars". State lines, or any set of geographic zones, are a bad place to draw those lines, though. The notion that we deserve our government is hardly new, but consider that Bush did not have a majority in 2004. - ⓞnor
The Federal Reserve and the subprime fiasco has been the largest part of this problem. We've been bailing out the banks by continuing to lower interest rates, taking on bad mortgages, and printing more money while the ECB is pursuing the opposite strategy of raising interest rates to flight inflation The Dow is actually below 7000 points if you track with euros since 2001. People naturally want to own euros because they are appreciating while paying higher interest - Chris White
@silpol we didn't know things would turn out this way - the prevailing political rhetoric hides the fact that we still have much more in common than it seems - Marco
blame the us consumer? absolutely not. blame the banks and speculators for dong business overseas and hoarding commodities - Cee Bee
@e3r well, the notion about population deserving it's own government is surely old enough (was it Talleyrand who said that?), may be even older than USA as such... as for Bush having no majority - correct me if I'm wrong, but there were no mass protests in US about Bush being re-elected... and by *mass protests* I mean not few shouters in front of White House but _major_ part of population. - silpol
a Democratic Republic does not elect on majority review your government forms again..lol - Fred Grott
Chris, the URL was right - from a Yahoo! Finance chart. When you click on it Yahoo! Finance resets it to currrent day - Atul Arora
Atul, yeah I figured. I've done that before too, which is why I made a static pic. I just didn't want anyone to get confused and think the euro/dollar was going up and down over time. It's simply the dollar going down. :( - Chris White
While I'm certainly not a Pres. Bush fan, he's not wholly responsible for this sucky economy. http://davidadewumi.com/2008/0... “Greenspan relaxed all of the lending regulations [after 9/11] and printed money like there was no tomorrow,” ... "As the Chinese central bank disinvested — or took their money out — of the U.S. economy, many nations were soon to follow" - David Adewumi
I think this is simply the SSL certificate data. - Claudio Cicali
Most SSL sites (such as Gmail) don't show this. This is the first I've seen it, in fact. What is it called and how much does it cost? - Paul Buchheit
You need to buy an Extended Validation SSL cert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...). Looks like VeriSign sells them for $1,500 per year and Thawte for $900. They aren't cheap. - David Recordon
btw Paul - while i've got you here & you're not flooded with comments...is there no way to link to a particular post here on ff? - Zee from WeDoCreative
that's not regular SSL that's SSL-EV ... SSL with Enchanced Validation ... it's more expensive then a single SSL cert .. read this link for more info http://is.gd/LIs - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
Zee, click on "More" then "Link to this entry" - Paul Buchheit
David - thanks for the info. I have always wondered about the green bar in FF3 but never bothered to find out if it was a different type of SSL certificate. - Atul Arora
Paul, thanks a million - and there was me thinking it something you overlooked... :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
@paul, you may read this http://tinyurl.com/4qttny first, to know what's the different between "green button" and "blue button" (green: paypal etc. blue: gmail etc). u definitly need to pay much for the "green button" - kukoo
@David @Paul sorry for the double post just saw the question and knew the answer .. should've scrolled around first ... sorry - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.... EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign, as far as I can tell. They're sold as an anti-phishing tool, but mostly they seem like a non-solution driven mostly by the need for CAs to extract more revenue from large customers. - ⓞnor
No, EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign because their regular certs are useless for determining that somebody is who they say they are. In other words, you'll pay hundreds of dollars for a cert for friendfeed.com, but they're pretty likely to give somebody else a cert for fiendfeed.com. The only way to combat this is to pay for an EV cert because their regular verification is almost a no-op. - Gabe Schaffer
@nor - Interestingly Google/Amazon dont use EV in the couple of examples I tried but eBay/Paypal do. - Atul Arora
It appears that GoDaddy has them for $400/year if you buy a 2 year cert. - Paul Buchheit
Well, a regular cert more or less says you're talking to the DNS owners of the domain listed in your address bar. Which is a service that ought to be worth about 5 cents. This one says... that you're talking with the organization that is generally known by that name? What *does* stop me from getting a business license for Fiend Feed, Inc. and so on? At some level it seems to be chasing "authenticity" which really means "will pay a bunch of money and/or fill out a bunch of annoying paperwork". - ⓞnor
What I really want is "is widely and unambiguously recognized by the community as the entity associated with that name". Where "the community" is... some big trust network centered on you and people you know? - ⓞnor
this is still far from regular idi... I mean casual consumer :) they shall say how much you are INSURED on your login when you come to this site, and insurance expressed in money, with sum signed by issuer into server side SSL certificate - only then you know for how much you are protected :) names are like talk - cheap :) - silpol
Would like to add one - Compute the approximate cost of my trip in $$$ when I ask for directions. Google Maps already knows start zip and can get to average gas price in my locality (http://autos.msn.com/everyday/...). It can ask for the make of my vehicle and determine MPG. - Atul Arora
"Here are the traffic figures for WSJ.com versus the New York Times, which went from the pay to free model in September of last year:" - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
Looks like the WSJ had about 150% year over year growth, which beats even the NYT growth. Given that the Times is written for a much broader audience than the WSJ, it's hard to come to the conclusion the author tries to lead us to. - DeWitt Clinton
And what a weird statement "(Don't be misled by percentage figures; they always make growth from a smaller base look bigger)." What? - DeWitt Clinton
I've heard from a source that the revenue cannot be replaced. It is so significant that they will not stray until our eyeballs are worth more. - David Weiner
The WSJ has a daily circulation of 2m, and 1m paying online subscribers. Since the online subscription # is going up, I don't see why they would change... - DeWitt Clinton
"Oakland – low-revenue Oakland, immortalized in the book “Moneyball,” about winning with a scrimp-and-save payroll – signed a 16-year-old named Michel Inoa on Wednesday. Along with his $4.25 million bonus, Inoa got an Anglicized name, Michael, and a ticket to the Dominican Summer League, where he can add weight to his lithe 6-foot-7 frame, throw his 94-mph fastball, unleash his polished breaking ball and work on his changeup." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
"These two Asian powerhouse bourses have fallen hard this year. And there aren't any technical reasons to expect a recovery anytime soon." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
Registration required to read the article. - J. Phil via fftogo
"Astute chart watchers saw that the bull trend in 2006-2007 had formed a parabolic shape on the charts. They also know that quite often these parabolic rises followed by parabolic declines and a full 100% retracement of the move is not out of the question." Bogus bogus bogus! - ⓞnor
very interesting. i see china recovering quicker than india. like the article stated though it's housecleaning of the speculators currently throwing money at everything - Cee Bee
but ⓞnor, all you have to do is watch the chart. So obvious. - Rob Schonberger
I'm almost 100% accurate at predicting things after they've happened. - Chris White
But can you fit pretty curves to things after they've happened? - ⓞnor
"A breakdown of what Viacom was granted and denied in the recent ruling in its case against YouTube." from Chris Wetherell - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
"Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh believes that the United States may be closer to armed conflict with Iran than previously imagined. He writes about Congress' funding of covert military operations in the upcoming issue of The New Yorker." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
Ugh... We need that like a bullet to the head... - Raoul Pop
"Here's a question -- at what point does ECB Central Bank Chief Trichet realize that every time the ECB hikes rates, it pummels the dollar and sends oil higher?" - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
"The Benchmark portfolio current has over 15 companies north of $50MM in revenues, and they are all private. This would have never happened in 1995 (even pre-bubble) where most of these companies would ALREADY BE public.
I don’t think we have a demand problem, we have a supply problem. No one wants to manage a public company" - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
directeur, even if it does fail, the code and decentralized service may live on. Any one can grab that code now and host their own service...and they'll all talk to one another. It's liberation day for Microblogging. - Duncan Riley
Duncan: I'm sorry but I don't think so. I haven't studied their code really yet. But do they provide any kind of synchronization betweentwo copies of Laconias. I think their Xmpp is just for talking to one instance of laconia (I think) I mean, I don't think it's that "easy". I may be wrong of course, that was a prediction. I'll study the code :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
@directeur.. you can reshare this thread to room #identica - Naor
“I want to see your google reader shared items! Please invite me to chat at pglockner -at- gmail -dot- com so that I get your Greader shared items, thanks!”
Thanks guys! Up to 16 people in Greader now. Hao - I know, it did that for me too, but it also did a lot of other nasty things to my Greader subscriptions and stuff so I yanked it. - J. Phil
christopher.jason.harris[at]gmail[dot]com - Chris Harris
Boo. In that case, detectx [ta] gmail [tod] com. - Hao Chen
Try installing Feedly - it grabs the shared items from all your friendfeed friends and subscribes to their shared items... And feedly is just plain awesome! - Richard Bradshaw
(J. Phil - version 1.0b3 of feedly has been changed to detect existing Google Reader users and only allow them to import friends - the import source capability has been hidden so users can NOT check to import sources and get angry about it). - Edwin Khodabakchian
Edwin, thanks, I know you have been working hard and have been very responsive.. but you know, once burned, twice shy. I am still finding z.people tags popping up every once in a while. - J. Phil
Sure. I was just trying to clarify for the people who had not heard about feedly before. But I understand your point. We are going to continue to work hard to try to win back over time the trust of the people we surprised and angered: z.feedly.people is the folder where all your friend recommendations feeds are stored. Nothing more. - Edwin Khodabakchian
The z. tags thing isn't such a big deal - the fact is that Feedly is a much better alternative to G reader anyway - I don't see myself going back now. If you haven't tried it yet, you absolutely should - integration with g reader makes it work across computers, and the friendfeed integration is simply brilliant. All hail Edwin Khodabakchian! - Richard Bradshaw via NoiseRiver
Feedly is awesome - if only to get access to this - it's awesome - Sarah Perez
Oh Sarah. Maybe over the long weekend, I'll give it another try. - J. Phil
Was the request for Google Reader shared items a desperate bid for more noise? :D - possible248
possible - perhaps! Hopefully not too much noise though.. haha - J. Phil
awesome idea! andrew ---a---t---- badera.us is me ... all may feel free. - Andrew Badera
is feedly ff3 compatible yet? wasn't last week ... - Andrew Badera
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Become part of this historic program. Help the USPTO find the information relevant to assessing the claims of pending patent applications. Become a community reviewer and improve the quality of patents." - Atul Arora via Bookmarklet
