“it seems that another racist clergy man has surfaced for Obama in the media. I'm not even angry anymore. I'm dumbfounded. I don't think Obama is a hater, I think he is overly diplomatic with haters... and I don't like that either”
The scene in "Taxi Driver" when Deniro tells the politician Palentine that someone should "Really clean up the place", and Palentine says, "I know what you mean Travis, but it's going to take hard work".... it always sends shivers up my spine. - Noah David Simon
Haven't had any problems yet. Though I hate using it on Vista. - Corvida
The Mac version is pretty nice. Like how they are skinned for the OS now, even though I'll just wind up themeing it anyway. - Andrew Dobrow
I'd venture to say the problem is Vista. :-) - David Risley
If only the Mac version could handle OS X's Keychain... - Rubin
I'm the Luckiest Person in the World: I had absolutely no problems with Windows ME back in the day and I have absolutely no problems with Vista now. I have five machines at home, including two 64-bit machines (one of which is a quad core), all of which run Vista like champs. Clearly in the minority but a well-running Vista is a good OS. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, I've heard from several very reliable sources that Vista on a new machine is nice. The problems *may* be centered around upgrades. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm building a new gaming rig in late summer. I still haven't decided if it will run XP or Vista. - Harvey Simmons
My quad core machine is used for gaming and runs Vista 64-bit. Been playing Age of Conan, Mass Effect, and Oblivion on an Nvidia 8800GTS with just about every setting cranked to 11. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Of course, I have 4 gigs of RAM in there so I've got that going for me. - Akiva Moskovitz
As long as you've got a machine that's a year or so old, you really wont have any problems at all running Vista. Just need a good graphics card, a fairly recent processor and plenty of RAM. My biggest beef with Vista is it's piss poor OpenGL performance, which makes it impossible for me to run Second Life under it. - Evan Sims
My complaint about Vista is it's so large and monolithic. It feels incredibly solid and unified when it's stable but it is hardly agile. I messed around with Ubuntu for a couple of weeks on my laptop and really liked how modular and dexterous it is. I had high hopes for W7 when the rumor was that it was going to be highly modular and based on MinWin. Knowing now that it's going to be more of the same is a huge disappointment. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'm not bored, I just have too much time on my hands - Joe Dawson
Mark Dykeman has a good analogy in his last post. Because FF is bringing the conversations together you can finally start to see the entire conversation, not just your blog post. Mark, sorry if I paraphrased badly. - Rob Diana
I gotta go with both. Just look at the weekend discussions, pure boredom. I do think FriendFeed is the next step in online discussion. - Bwana McCall
I'm not bored - have far too much work for that - but I find the convo's fascinating and a great way to learn new things I can't aggregate quickly and easily elsewhere - Sally Church
well usually I do use it when I'm bored.... - BCK via twhirl
FriendFeed is the future. I started with a fury, then calmed down for awhile... I found myself missing the interaction and the conversation and have been participating with renewed vigor. - Vince DeGeorge
Define "Big Thing". :-) Facebook is a big thing by usage. Twitter is a big thing if the metric is "digerati loves it!", FriendFeed is a big thing if the metric is: some very early adopters LOVE it. For a variety of reasons I personally like it much better than Facebook, though I doubt it will ever be "bigger". - Robert Seidman
Thanks, this is probably pretty similar to our ning site, but perhaps we'll pick up bloggers who aren't crazy about ning or that use twitter more - Daltonsbriefs
Just watched the clip, she was talking about the fact that this isnt the first time that a primary was late into June before being decided, and then alluded to the assasination which was in June and changed the outcome of the primary. Pretty tasteless - Daltonsbriefs
wow had heard some rumblings about this but hadn't seen the details - i don't even know what to say - Marco
Does Greasemonkey work on Firefox 3RC1? It says it's for older versions. I miss Greasemonkey and other Firefox addins. These look like great tools for FriendFeed, too. - Robert Scoble
@Dobromir the nightly extension does NOT make it fully compatible! The only thing it does is that it simply doesn't do the compatibility-check! This is a big difference, and these not-optimized extensions are a reason why Firefox 3 keeps crashing for a lot of people! (I had the same problem until I uninstalled all the not-really-compatible extensions.) - sebmos
Hey they look useful, thanks. The Friends and Groups could be good, and flow control. - jjprojects
@sebmos correct, my bad, but RC1 is dealing waaaaay better than beta5 with those issues and crushes very rarely, just once to be exact - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I get emails from people asking me to add search features to the "Filters: Friends & Groups" script. Not many people are aware of this, but 'Sticky Search" totally rocks and is great for keeping tabs on frequent queries: http://ffapps.com/stickysearch... - Aviv
@sebmos, greasemonkey does work fine though. - Tanath
“was just laughing to myself at how FriendFeed is changing what I do - was just reading a comment on a blog post and I didn't want to leave my own comment but I wanted a "like" button to click to show support for the comment”
I like the "like" button, but sometimes I think it should be called something different. I don't like "liking" a blogpost about something upsetting; perhaps a "star" button would be better? - Fearghas
Star would work - just something that would allow readers to give a thumbs up or even a thumbs down to a comment on a blog without having to post their own comment - Marco
“@scobleizer - I agree ff is cool, but how do I add all my Twitter buds to it? If I could follow the same group here I'd probably use it more. (Although, really, all this functionality + Brightkite was available on Jaiku a year ago. -sigh-)”
"It's not the features, it's the implementation" - Chris Pirillo. Currently, there's a program that will automatically import your Twitter friends, but it's an .exe :( I'm waiting for a web based program to really start recommending it. The thing is Leo, I don't follow the same people on FriendFeed that I do on Twitter. For me, it's a different kind of world than Twitter, and easier to join the discussion than Jaiku was. - Bwana McCall
I'm subscribed to like, eight people on FF and I already think there's too much noise. You have to remember, it isn't just tweets from a certain number of people, it's EVERYTHING they're sharing. - Shawn Farner via twhirl
Shawn, the Hide feature is your friend. You have to learn how to use it or FF is a waste of time. - Bwana McCall
Yesterday, I went through my entire follow list on twitter and found that 80 out of the 200 people I follow on twitter were also on friendfeed. I'd love to see some application that helps me find friends I'm already following across all of the networks. - ben bloch
The "everything" is a lot more interesting to me than Twitter. I imported all my Twitter contacts using the internetducttape.com tool and then I hid all Twitter posts. I'm a happy camper. - Jason Wehmhoener via Alert Thingy
There have been some cool discussions that feed off of tweets though, so by hiding those you miss out a little. It's tough, because you want to see these things but at the same time, you're coming dangerously close to information overload. - Shawn Farner via twhirl
Sorry, meant to say I hid all Twitter except those with likes and comments. That way I only see the interesting tweets. - Jason Wehmhoener via Alert Thingy
Shawn - Hide only items that don't have comments... I'm telling ya dude, it's powerful. - Bwana McCall
Bwana - you rock. I'll be happy not to hear the constant *ding* of tweets back to back coming in from Twitter and FF. - Shawn Farner via twhirl
No Shawn, YOU rock! Good luck buddy! - Bwana McCall
No, Bwana, that tip was the business this morning. You rock. - Jason Toney
I've noticed how a lot of people have recommended hiding Twitter posts on FF (except for ones with likes and comments), but I've found that I don't really go to Twitter itself anymore and mostly just read tweets off FF. Perhaps it's all down to which site you're addicted to most. :D - Cyvros/fyc
I use Twhirl and have two windows, one for Twitter and one for FF. There are a bunch of ppl who aren't on both and I don't want to miss anything :) - Shawn Farner via twhirl
You can create imaginary friends on FF and subscribe to their real Twitter address. They need to make this easier. 1 Click. - Kevin Shannon
I've been saying from the beginning, FriendFeed needs to add functionality that looks at your contacts on your other services (Twitter, Jaiku, Flickr, etc etc) and give you the ability to add them here automagically. - Sean Reiser via twhirl
