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Congratulations, Akoha Players! - http://community.akoha.com/blog...
Austin Hill and paula simoes ☃ liked this
WOW, I was mentioned in an Akoha's blog post! And Paula, and Pecus!
- Marcos Marado
from Bookmarklet
Glad to have you part of the beta community Marcos.
- Austin Hill
Don't worry, I like being part of the community ;-) Actually I was surprised to see myself there, just because I think I could be way more active in Akoha than I actually have... In the end, it's probably a question of having more (and more variety) of (physical) cards in my pocket... Maybe you should have a "one click button" than would generate a PDF with a number of randomly chosen cards to print...
- Marcos Marado
How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!) | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen - http://andrewchenblog.com/2009...
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Nicholas James, Forrest Cox, barce and 9 other people liked this
Thanks for the link, Dave. Andrew does an amazing job of breaking down the science of business in ways that are easy to understand. He really helps an entrepreneur translate business ideas into businesses.
- Ryan Kuder
The Next Real Estate Crisis (June 2008) - http://www.businessweek.com/lifesty...
Austin Hill, Alex Scoble and AJ Kohn liked this
"The Mortgage Bankers Assn. said on June 5 that the option ARM problem is growing. The group reported that the national rate of foreclosure starts for prime ARMs, including option ARMs, increased to 1.55% in the first quarter, up from 0.53% a year earlier. In California the foreclosure start rate in the first quarter was 2%, vs. 0.5% a year earlier. In Florida, the rate was 2.57%, compared with 0.5% in the first quarter of 2007. "California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada combined…represent 62% of all foreclosures started on prime ARM loans, and 84% of the increase in prime ARM foreclosures," the group said."
- MikeAmundsen
from Bookmarklet
"The loans automatically recast after five years, but many will recast sooner as loan balances hit specific principal caps—typically between 110% and 125% of the initial loan amount. Many of these loans are expected to recast within the next two years, meaning that borrowers' monthly payments will swell to include both principal and interest."
- MikeAmundsen
Condom Truck Tips, Spills Load : Banned In Hollywood - http://www.bannedinhollywood.com/condom-...
Sean Oliver, Brian, Jessie and 29 other people liked this
Hahahaha
- Mo Kargas
I know! HAHAHAHHAHA
- Mona Nomura
OH.....My....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Major headline FAIL
- Mona Nomura
Oops?
- Rochelle
OMG!!!! hahahahahaha
- Molly, "sorry"
I love it when the headline writers can get that kind stuff through copy. :)
- Pete Delucchi
Fail for the newspaper's PR department, maybe. For a bored copy editor? Headline WIN.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I really don't think this was an accident...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Better then the condom tipping and spilling its contents.
- Uncle CW™
Nice, Bored Lebowski... real classy.
- Mona Nomura
That headline writer/editor should get a Pullitzer, serieusement.
- anna sauce
10 Million in 10 Weeks - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Austin Hill, Andrei M. Marinescu and Mohamed J liked this
great video. congrats on all the success with the class. you mentioned some tools that are better than google analytics for tracking social metrics. can you share the names of those tools?
- Joe Lazarus
KISSmetrics (I'm investor), Sometrics, Kontagent, several others... lots developing.
- dave mcclure
dave, thanks!
- Joe Lazarus
Books Are The Souvenir Edition For Your Idea - http://techdirt.com/article...
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Announcing the Pixelated Blog Conference Series - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/announc...
Austin Hill, Bill Sanders, ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ and 4 other people liked this
Though I 'get it', I'm mixed about calling this a 'conference'. I mean, its cool to aggregate various lectures into one place and amazing that we can even do that in this web20 world, but doesn't the deep and enjoyable learning really happen in the conversations at conferences? It does for me - the more truly engaging and interactive, the better. Sure, there's blog comments, but that's pretty minimal.
- Leif Hansen
I visit with people once every two or three weeks who have never left their home town. Further, lots of people won't attend TED, won't see some of those speakers, etc. Yes, regular conferences trump watching videos, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't present and provide learning in different ways.
- Chris Brogan
But maybe there's another name for this type of aggregation. Something along the lines of distance learning. And speaking for those of us who are very distant from almost everything, it's a great idea.
- Becky McCray
Know the difference between a white paper and an ebook? Portrait vs. Horizontal. Only, when marketers start releasing ebooks instead of white papers, the download numbers go way up. I think this is similar.
- Chris Brogan
If I'm hearing ya right, you're saying that though the name may not be accurate --calling it a 'conference' might get numbers up more than 'distance learning', etc?
- Leif Hansen
Or another way of saying this: what if conference in its roots just means a gathering of the minds. Does that have to be face to face? FriendFeed proves not.
- Chris Brogan
Yes, we are in the 'social media' biz. As for its 'roots' though,"from conferre 'to bring together, compare,' from com- 'together' + ferre 'to bear' Sense of 'taking counsel' led to conference". Whether we're truly 'together' when mixing our pixels will be the question of the century. As the digital world gets richer, it gets more dangerous as well. And remember, they're now saying most of communication is closer to 90% non-verbal (and in txt world?). But I'm probably now taking us on a tangent...;)
- Leif Hansen
I stopped paying attention. You forgot to mention the attention span.
- Chris Brogan
Hey, when we finally 'jack in' to our last conscious virtual conference, maybe you won't have attention to pay. ;)
- Leif Hansen
30+ Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and Hacks - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog...
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Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
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Austin Hill, Jack (a.k.a. Jeber), Aaron Krug and 2 other people liked this
Speaking of Iconoclasts... When will the Sundance Channel series pick back up? That's my absolute favorite show.
- Brad Williamson
Facebook Developers See 20-50% Drop From URL Change - http://staynalive.com/article...
Jesse Stay, Pete Delucchi, Austin Hill and 4 other people liked this
Is Social Media About Taking or Giving? - http://learntoduck.com/micah...
Collin, Nicholas James, Charlie Anzman and 8 other people liked this
...or a bit of both?
- David Young
Just communication through a piece of iron.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
Thought-provoking post! I think humans are subject to a certain amount of "copying behavior" -- what my dad used to call "monkey see, monkey do." I know I've seen someone tweet or comment on FriendFeed about waffles or cheeseburgers or some random food item, and the next day I've found myself strangely craving it. :-D So in one sense social media can end up as yet another advertising medium (thank you Google).
- Karim
But the potential is there for someone to also comment on how they are donating time or money to some virtuous, philanthropic effort, and that can encourage copying behavior as well. Social media can also encourage giving. It doesn't *have* to be all flash mobs and viral ads. It may just really reflect ourselves, en masse.
- Karim
What powers a lot of social media is the idea of reciprocal altruism. I link to you, you link to me. I see someone post a funny clip on Youtube and I find a mashup of similar funny clips to upload myself. I see someone has changed something on Wikipedia, which encourages me to participate and do the same. This what anthropologists and economists call gift economies, because work that otherwise could have monetary rewards are done for social reasons. So it's give & take, but reciprocity powers the system
- Austin Hill
Neither. It's about being part of something. Just like a group of friends.
- Philip John
Just received the Akoha starter kit. http://akoha.com/
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Lillian Chow, Soup, Kamilah Gill and 24 other people liked this
love this!!!
- Melissa Maskevich
You can get your own too (it's free!): http://shop.akoha.com/product...
- Vincent X
very cool! just ordered. :-)
- Corie
Another picture I took that was kinda hidden: http://friendfeed.s3.amazonaws.com/77b3986... (gotta click on the button with arrows for it to show up)
- Vincent X
Welcome to Akoha Vincent. Great pics. Glad to have you be a part of our playtesting community.
- Austin Hill
Thanks Austin! Great to see another exciting startup based in Montreal.
- Vincent X
I like that you have a soundboard next to your keyboard.
- Pete Delucchi
wow that sounds like fun and something to get us out of the house during the fall/winter. i just signed up for the beta. i also just ordered mine. how long does it take to arrive?
- Admiral Anika
I ordered mine on September 4, it was shipped on Sept.19, and I received the package on Friday, Sept. 26.
- Vincent X
thanks vincent, i was just hoping i wouldn't have to wait 6 - 8 weeks.
- Admiral Anika
I just signed up too, the concept is interesting, and I like the idea of the social "WTF" aspect of it.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I'm completely hooked. My kit also arrived today, already played three cards ;-)
- Marcos Marado
That's pretty cool and a fun/funny idea.
- Alex Scoble
cool concept
- mikepk
Damn. That is a very cool idea! :)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
This looks addicting.
- Rodfather
Cool!
- Brandon Titus
Is this like training for introverts on how to be extroverted? A 12-step program? :)
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Wow I wish my youth group had something like that.
- Rachel R.
Rachel: create akoha accounts for them!
- Marcos Marado
No I can't really yet, until I had check it all out more thoroughly myself first. ;)
- Rachel R.
@Rachel We'd love to have you check it out, but at this time we are focused on more late-teen/adult themed missions. The need for safety when involved teens in a reality based game has caused us to delay missions & decks focused on teen demographics until we can build a safe segregated area for them. We don't want adults playing "Invite someone to drinks" with a young teen. We've begun speaking with teachers about a moderated set of mission kits & area for them to play with students.
- Austin Hill
Good to know, @Austin; that's why I didn't say yes immediately to you @Marcos Marado.
- Rachel R.
This is an awesome idea. I'd really like to try it out. Hope it will catch on. It's a little like geocaching, but a bit more practical.
- Kamilah Gill
I just ordered one! Thank you, Vincent X! I think this will be so cool. And thanks to you, Austin Hill, and your partners if you look at this. I can't stop thinking about this.
- Kamilah Gill
Who needs Friendship? Nobody. - http://marktrapp.com/blog...
Sally Church, Austin Hill, Victor Ganata and 2 other people liked this
From Mark. Blog.: "[Hodson's] (and Owyang's) reduction of social media to merely collections of news feeds is another type of neediness: one is only as good as what one can do for me. If you stop giving me stuff, you're worthless. In this reduction, they do social media a great disservice: social media isn't just about getting the best information, but about getting the best information about those to whom you are connected. Social media doesn't work without the social part. "
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Sometimes it's good to just sit back, and read a page without worrying about the quality of the content, its origins, or even its authenticity. I guess that's using FF as mere entertainment then. Still, is there anything wrong with that sometimes?
- Ian May
Ian: I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but it's not taking advantage of what's supposed to be the uniquely defining aspect of social media: being able to leverage each other to get information to us about things and people we care about. There's something more to social media than just an overhyped online magazine.
- Mark Trapp
Sarah Palin Disney Trailer - CollegeHumor video - http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1...
Ming Tsai, Jess Lee, iAdramelk and 24 other people liked this
"Head of Skate" - awesome. "An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
via Vadim
- Bret Taylor
This is laugh out loud funny. And then immediately rather sad because after seeing the Katie Couric interview it's pretty clear that this trailer may not be all that far from Palin's actual IQ.
- Cathy Brooks
from twhirl
Thats funny!
- Brandy Lea
"Now comes the movie you legally have to see... even in cases of incest and rape."
- Ana
Truly stunning
- Casey Muller
I love this so much
- Christopher Galtenberg
Once again, a Palin parody leaves me somewhere between laughing and crying.
- Tom Stocky
Watch out TinyURL, Cligs is much better for us! - http://blog.go2web20.net/2008...
Phil G, Baard @ Pixum, Sarah Perez and 6 other people liked this
Yes I've used it for a while now. Great for stats.
- Svartling
I really like Snipr: www.snipr.com
- Baxter Tocher
Google Reader stops telling you how many new items you have after you hit 1000 new items. How unhelpful.
Austin Hill, Mona Nomura, Tamar Weinberg and 4 other people liked this
Keeps the thing as 'maybe you got much reading to do?' Hitting space as I learned a week ago, and it's down baby, it's down! In Chrome I've seen it as used almost everywhere. Shift+Space goes back one item.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Took a lot of scrolling to find out it's 1400 new items!
- Andrew Trinh
In a way, I'm glad I'm still on Bloglines.
- Tamar Weinberg
Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
Sarah Perez, Austin Hill, Mike Reynolds and 3 other people liked this
There's some important reading here. There's still is a lot of money out there with essentially no where to go. Add to that the fact that there are still a lot of brilliant 'barely' survivors of the 2001 dot com crash anxious to get back in the game that are most often overlooked. They've been there too. They still get excited. Taking stock is a good thing. Worrying serves no purpose. Believing in your idea and making smart choices makes it happen
- Charlie Anzman
+ 1 Charlie. Adversity builds focus. Incredible opportunities ahead. Focus.
- Dave Martin
New York City returned from that horrifying day (that none of us will ever forget) with a brilliant, dynamic (and clean) city and econony in less than 5 years. Anything is possible. Most importantly, treat your key employees with respect. Hopefully, they're smart. If you're incapable of doing that, hire someone else to.
- Charlie Anzman
+1 Charlie, your employees are part of your core competency.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
The only limitation is your imagination.
- Dave Martin
and there are so many examples in my years of watching this landscape, I can't begin to count them (not exclusive of every time Steve Case returned and rescued AOL). Visionaries that are CEO's (or know how to hire them) are a rare commodity
- Charlie Anzman
The ultimate PC case mod: 6 powerful PCs in one glorious case - http://dvice.com/archive...
Czar, Hassan Ibraheem, YAAK and 19 other people liked this
it's soooooo pretty!
- Corie
That is really nice,but why the tiny monitor? and gosh, i hope that keyboard is wireless.
- Admiral Anika
I wonder how annoying that is when trying to watch TV
- Shawn Farner
Looks tacky IMHO
- Drew Lucas
As much as i love ya Corie - i'm with Drew. Tacky.
- Zee.
just realised if i hadn't put "tacky" in there...it would actually sound like i was leaving you for Drew.
- Zee.
It's in the lobby of an office or something. I'm not really sure what it's used for, but I don't think they are watching TV, Shawn. :)
- Corie
hahaha, zee. :)
- Corie
oh, i didn't click the link, so assumed it was a basement of someone's house. in the lobby, definitely tacky.
- Admiral Anika
i need one of those to match the neon lights under my car
- Cee Bee
SMH @ you de-friending and then re-friending me.
- Cee Bee
smh?
- Corie
shaking my head
- Cee Bee
oh, haha. :) that's because i didn't mean to de-friend you.
- Corie
Pay it, er, Play it forward - http://bub.blicio.us/akoha/
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A List of 10 Reasons I Dislike Lists
Mitchell Tsai, AJ Kohn, Uncle CW™ and 13 other people liked this
(1) Somebody / something always gets left out.
- l0ckergn0me
(2) You can't be comprehensive in ten points.
- l0ckergn0me
(3) They're largely based on opinion, seldom fact.
- l0ckergn0me
(4) Many times they're written as linkbait.
- l0ckergn0me
(5) They're not usually interactive in construction.
- l0ckergn0me
(6) I hate when I don't find me / something I did on them.
- l0ckergn0me
(7) They're definitively exclusionary.
- l0ckergn0me
(8) Several points are often redundant or rhetorical.
- l0ckergn0me
(9) They take "forever" to create.
- l0ckergn0me
(10) "Nobody" really reads them, anyway.
- l0ckergn0me
who's a witty boy writing a list to illustrate your point...:) Liked for that. :)
- Zee.
I just read through your entire list! What now!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
disagree with 10, people wouldn't do so many lists if people didn't read them.
- Duncan Riley
pretty much. This list is actually very specific to creating "Top" lists. Just saying "X Ways to" or something makes this list almost completely inaccurate.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Duncan, do you think he's trying to say that only "non-nobody's" read lists? i dunno...because clearly out of anyone, he would know that lists are generally hits.
- Zee.
I find it very interesting to read the perspective of people who have just started to track social media for social good ...
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technology planning video for startups - you should watch this - http://www.centernetworks.com/technol...
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We are trying to describe what community managers do. Your thoughts?
Tim, Jason Shellen, Лиова and 22 other people liked this
Being the champion in Rod Beckstrom's analogy of the decentralized organization
- Bjoern Negelmann
Therefore being "relentless in promoting a new idea" (the idea of the community) and "inherently hyperactive"
- Bjoern Negelmann
@brianoberkirch check out The Four Tenets of the Community Manager http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
- Jeremiah Owyang
Discussing with community leaders
- Igor Poltavskiy
Community managers mediate between community members!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Well don't community managers manage communities?
- Wayne Schulz
My favorite part of the role is sifting through all the great feature requests and recommendations, getting free user feedback on how to make your product better.
- Adam Darowski
Suggest they be called something else. You don't MANAGE your community, you serve it.
- shelisrael1
I like Shel's answer! ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Smartly ride herd on the cattle, the cowboys, the ponies and the coyotes--y(ou can tell I've been in Colorado too long from this answer, can't you?)
- susan mernit
Shel, we agree the term isn't a good one. In my case, HR needed to have the term manager in the books for the title. We all know the real rules of engagement.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Damage Control.
- Geoff Schultz
Ask HR. Are they Human Managers? (well in a sense they are). By parallel the title could be Manager, Community Relations
- Michael Markman
Found enough good stuff in links & commentary here & twitter to do a (gasp) blog post on this. You remember those, right?
- Brian Oberkirch
Most companies I've studied are horrible at bootstrapping community. They don't know how to get one going. But they are fairly good at managing things that are already built. So, a community manager is someone who keeps an already-existing community happy. Who listens to the community and takes care of problems. Who finds new content and other things for that community, IE, who feeds that community. Here on FF we're ALL community managers due to the distributed nature of how FF works.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert I couldn't agree more. Been on both ends. Was moderator for a huge board for a couple of rock stars and did exactly as you say. That community thrived because they wanted to be there. Nothing I did generated that. I only maintained it. I sure learned the difference when I tried to start communities for several other orgs!
- Melanie Reed
Way back in the day I "managed" several mailing lists (I still miss majordomo, btw), most of which were very focused. It's really more like herding cats than cattle. A largely thankless job that you do because you have a passion for the topic at hand. Community managers, if up to the task, can keep the channel clear of enough noise for the community leaders' signal to get through.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
They hang out in the community and rep the company and its products. Apologizes if the company screws up. Encourages people to choose the company's products over the others. Helps people find the right person in the company to work with. Retains their humanity, and generally takes the customer's side whenever possible. Quits if the company acts in an unprincipled way, so they act as a guarantor of the honesty of the company. A canary in the coalmine. Best if it's the CEO of the company.
- Dave Winer
We call the roll Community Gardener since they need to plant the right seeds, ensure water & sunlight and a healthy environment. That includes tending to weeds, ensuring that things that will pollute the healthy growth of the community do not take hold.
- Austin Hill
The Real Community Manager is Proselytes Maker
- Lora Lufark
good CM projects his passion for the subject into the primordial soup, infects people with ideas and said passion, and catalyzes community formation per se. That's the fun part. Then it's onwards to herding cats.
- Michael Bravo
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Classic Apple ad: Think different with Seinfeld! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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These Twits donated to birthday charity @marianne_m @seanpaune @mikeprasad @chiefhothead @missrogue @khartline @beaulebens @gruen @jfouts
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Why Does Building A Community Mean It Has To Be Free? - http://www.winextra.com/2008...
Rob Diana, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Christian Anderson and 12 other people liked this
It doesn't, of course. The major downside is that if one person requires payment, usually a competitor will be free. It drives the entire market down to zero.
- Louis Gray
the interesting question here as well Louis is quality and longevity of content between the two different ideas of community. Would people be willing th be more involved and make more use of a community that they had to pay dues to belong to in contrast to one they can just walk in the doors anytime they please and then leave without any further considerations .. more curiosity on my part than anything else
- Steven Hodson
Louis - while I will always agree with your statement - today I interviewed the company behind jdate - it shows that pay can work in some areas - my post will be up tomorrow with more on the topic
- Allen Stern
Even if there are free competitors there are some services that people will pay to be apart of the community.
- Corvida
The greater the popularity of an online service/product, the more likely one or more free alternatives can and will eventually exist.
- abacab
I don't think that the existence of free alternatives automatically predicts a demise for paid services.
- Corvida
I'd add the phrase "all things being equal" to abacab, Louis's and Corvida's statement. In the case of JDate and Wall Street Journal, there's a certain something (real or perceived) that's worth the extra pay behind the wall. If it were simply Yet Another SocNet, then the "why pay" criticisms would hold, I think.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Plenty of paid and nonpaid services that do more or less the same thing coexist, that's true. I think for some paid services, there are people that believe they get a higher level of attention, or a lower level of noise, or some other value-add (maybe proprietary info or features others can't legally offer), and that makes it worth it for them. I think there are also plenty of people that pay for things not realizing any free alternatives exist.
- abacab
Good clarification Mark. I can agree with that.
- Corvida
Agree with Mark. I'm a paid subscriber for ESPN's premium services, and have been for the WSJ for years. They offer unique content leadership.
- Louis Gray
wait - get this -- jdate charges $39/month AND shows some ads to subs!
- Allen Stern
Huh? Everyone knows that everything should be free! jdate must be stopped before they destroy the Web 2.0 ethos!
- Jason Carreira
WTF is jdate?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian jewish dating site.
- mjc
Supply and demand! The great part of the net is that there are many 'hobbyists' out there who aren't trying to profit off of their work. Other companies are utilizing it as a value add. That makes a typical business who's supplying the same service at a cost quite a disadvantage. To them I say, "oh well!".
- Douglas Karr
from twhirl
Beautiful job by my pal @jevon to create STARTUPNATION.CA out of Toronto. Proud to be involved http://startupnation.ca/
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