I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- JSLeFanu
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди
I'm here all the way from South Africa! I dig this service and I'm not quite ready to give it up. Regardless of the news about the acquisition, this remains an awesome service.
- Paul Jacobson
I'm new to ff but find more valuable information here than anywhere else!
- Janet Crance
I don't know how I rate my addiction relative to others, but I shared Hitler's reaction upon hearing the acquisition news (despite happiness for Paul and Bret)
- Chris Duffy
I think I have to qualify my earlier answer. I don't have many friends on Friendfeed, but I do use it as a news aggregator. With groups and rooms, I used it like Techmeme. Facebook, where i have a more healthy friend list is less interesting. In fact, I spend more time there locking things down, than sharing, which I did pretty freely on FF, even if only 10 people cared.
- Peter
Hope this deal preserves FF's power and usability. FF:FB::Mac:Windows.
- David Lounsbury
I'm sure this is part of Scoble's plot to poll all the people who really read his posts, and unfollow the rest. So I raise my hand.
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Just a wannabe. Not an addict (yet).
- Carole Hicks
It might also be a way for me to filter down my "following" count (diff (my followers, scoble)) are the only people I really need to follow. Those that scoble follows, I can safely unfollow and use Scoble as my social media filter :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
pardon the arrogance but it really sucks this great forum of sharing will turn into a myspace humdrum. Now I have to find another SM where first adopters and well informed techies won't haft to compete with general "noise"
- earl wallace
Well, here's a comment I can later delete and rob the owner of 1500!
- Matthew DeVries
I just mention the 1500 mark since it was such an iconic query to see... that and the 500 Likes club of FF posts. It's pretty exclusive stuff... but it's also sobering to note that the subject matter required to get to these levels isn't always a uniform mix of cares/concerns.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I heard the FaceBook news, I tried to quit FriendFeed and I couldn't... I'M HOOKED
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
i clicked the "1488 more comments" and my computer nearly exploded. and yes, i am using an amiga 500.
- jack
Now that I have instructions (thanks LouisGray) and figured out my Bookmarklet! I am LOVING the ease of use! addict - not quite...
- Robyn Hawk
Actually, I lied. I am not a die-hard friendfeed fan. I desperately want to be but have just not been able to get into a good "feeding" rhythm. Maybe I need to add some more friends
- Anant Gairola
I don't need to be addict. I'm just here, everyday, absorbing so many geeky info :D There's no place like FF
- Lysender
I'm still with ya, Robert. Whatever FB paid for FF, it wasn't enough!
- Donald C. Lindsay
New here, but learning. Tips for best use?
- Barbara Langham
@bdlangam From my perspective the #1 tip in this category is: Explore and define "best use" for yourself. Despite potential "finishing" impression of some productive consolidations in this collective-collaborative cognition space, the emergent #cognosphere is still WAY too nascent to assert anything other than initial impressions. March to the beat of your own drum; build your own...
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- michael silverton
yeah sorry, late. was at Shambhala Music Festival, I know tardy, sorry...
- sofarsoShawn
I'm getting hooked, still figuring it all out
- Michele McGraw
I think I do. Not enough contacts to make a impression.
- Michael Schlag
Most businesses around the world don't know how to use Twitter and Facebook.
- Robert Scoble
isn't there a bakery somewhere that tweets when the fresh bread comes out of the oven?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I like it when companies have people online tweeting. There are a lot of positive stories on the Consumerist web site about experiences using twitter to get help from businesses.
- RobinDotNet
Viv: threadless is a great example, thanks for the reminder.
- Robert Scoble
metageoff: URL? I'd love that example.
- Robert Scoble
It is like searching for people using adwords and talking directly to that person NOW
- Matthew Hillis
Advice, if you're on Twitter, and you are a brand Respond to your @ replies. It looks selfish and like you don't care if you don't.
- Dan Harbison
A client, OrangeSoda uses it to track happy and unhappy customers and people that might buy their product.
- Jonathan Bacon
Just the fact that the Consumerist keeps printing the stories (I get their RSS feed) makes people think that's going to work, so I don't see how it can not benefit a company to be on twitter and/or FF. (Unless they're annoying, but don't get me started on the Lands' End e-mail overuse).
- RobinDotNet
The same client uses Twitter to build credibility in the industry for recruiting.
- Jonathan Bacon
Sweet Leaf Tea is using Twitter/Facebook to provide customer service, let people know about discount promotions, notify certain areas of events they'll be giving product away. Now I'm helping them produce a slew of rich media content we'll be using to showcase their product, people & fans at events & we'll be using T/F to be the primary promotion point for it.
- Lyn Graft
Sorry, but marketing people of "the old" don't belong in the new. Their tactics are unchanged, un-evolved, and will provide little to no value to Twitter, the now, or FriendFeed. Thankfully I don't have to pollute my timeline with their nonsense. Maybe that's short-minded, but my target subscription base is innovation, technology, and tomorrow. Rarely does it include "Marketers"
- Enrique Gutierrez
In PR I use it for keeping up on reporters (aka Robert Scoble) and finding out about opportunities for clients. Excellent tool.
- Jonathan Bacon
Robin- I totally want to hear about Land's End email abuse!
- anna sauce
When Ashton Kutcher was racing to a million, one of the digital billboard companies threw up free ads for him. I think this is going to be one of the most effective ways to get a now message out. Because they can update the billboards by throwing a switch, it allows companies to respond to whatever the hot topic of the day is. Even if only a few people see the billboard, because it will end up on twitter and what not, the innerweb will still see it.
- Davis Freeberg
bakery: I seem to have been mislead - don't see any "come and get it!" announcements in that twitter stream
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
guess anything or any business that evokes some kind of emotion ought to be on FF, FB or Twitter
- viv j
Enrique - but new or old Mkgt is about forming the relationship with the consumer - it's just faster now.
- Jeff Bishop
anna -- I signed up to get marketing e-mails from Lands' End (rare for me), and I get like 10 a week. Every day all the time. My friends complain abou the same thing. But you hate to unsign up because they have those free-shipping offers all the time, and sometimes you DO want to order something.
- RobinDotNet
The interesting thing is that "now" marketing is more about a long-term strategy than instant "bang for the buck". You've got to put yourself out there for a good long while and have unique and genuine interaction before anything "big" ever happens. Get involved, but with a long-term view.
- Inside Alaska
I'm all for people trying to learn to do things differently.
- metalerik
Being able to connect directly with your customer. Give invites to or announcing special events via twitter. Giving your business a "social face". Why just today I got an invite to Google Voice (well I'm still waiting), because I follow the Google Team on twitter, and they (out of the goodness of their heart) offered to invite all their followers. I think it strengthens your brand by...
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- Wilfredo Guerrero
If you want a lesson in how not to do it, check this. Habitat spammed Twitter with voucher offers etc that incorporated iran election # tags. Egregious.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- Mark Littlewood
Oh, and don't treat it like another marketing project. Just share things that are cool or interesting about your business. If you're genuine, and the things you share 'really are' cool or interesting, people will catch on and spread the message.
- Inside Alaska
Dave- can I quote you on that? I will write a blog post- I do "adventures in email marketing" and always on the lookout for folks' experiences. http://www.banane.com/workblog
- anna sauce
The great thing about the real-time web is that it makes people attention to what is going on with your account. Think "Blue Light Special", but instead of having to be IN your store, they just have to be on the internet.....
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Jeff, yes -it's all about connecting to the customer - but how the "old" will go about it will typically include legal filtering, PR loops, spin, etc, and lack the genuine interaction Social Media actually requires to make it work the way it should. Even when it is done the "right way" Marketers will just copy what's already been done in hopes to mimic results of the people who innovated. Creates a meaningless Twitter/FF existence.
- Enrique Gutierrez
For marketing, it is just like all the basic social media laws: be honest, be transparent, be interesting, be creative
- anna sauce
One of the biggest issues I've seen with marketers embracing social media: losing the control of message they had with broadcast media.
- anna sauce
You can't forward the twitter to PR and wait a week for htem to get back to you, regarding an issue with the product. That just doesn't play well. And like Motrin, you can't create an anonymous "mom" (see: transparency)
- anna sauce
Realizing that SM is not like any other channel you've used for mkgt before. If you're not going to have dedicated people to staff it (and not once a week) don't get into it. If you don't do it right - don't bother.
- Jeff Bishop
Example: A cool paper was published, and I share it on FF through a bit.ly link. Then people see it, maybe follow the link to read it; I can then track the number of follow-ups through bit.ly.
- Jason Miller
@Karl - New media channels make these companies appear much smaller than they really are. A sense of intimacy is a huge benefit to any conversation.
- Benson Miller
a customer just tweeted that a certain (software product) feature isn't working great for them
- Alexei Zheglov
Agree with J.D., you have to show them how not to market on social media.
- Dilip Dand
Jeff Barr of Amazon uses products like Tweetdeck to observe real-time conversations about each of the AWS offerings in a separate stream. This has changed the way I consume activity streams.
- Benson Miller
Who is to define "right", the vagueness of the proper way to approach Social Media platforms is at best an underwhelming set of platitudes. Get in and get some rug burn, there is nothing wrong with that.
- Patrick Boegel
I might add: Keep it simple and creative. Don't SPAM your potential customers (followers); That's the fastest way to have them UNFollow you.
- Sean E Brown
If you're a company and you're on twitter, you need to answer your tweets. I tweeted Tweetdeck to ask a question, and they didn't answer. That's just annoying. I think they use it to post new info about Tweetdeck and do marketing. :-P
- RobinDotNet
South Food and Wine Bar (@SouthFWB) letting locals know about new dishes, new wines. Symantec (@netbackup, @enterprisevault, @nortononline, @backupexec, and so on) connecting with customers both happy and unhappy, helping to resolve complaints and letting users know of new articles, releases, and more. I could go on.
- Nick Wade
Illustrate good examples with bad examples, Feedly, as recently as Tuesday provided a direct response, even though I was about to uninstall their product. Once I sort out my mess of an RSS feed list I'll go back to their product. It was a simple @reply that made the difference even though I wasn't an active user. Marketers don't like hearing that people don't like the product they represent, but once they start listening, it changes the dynamic.
- Benjamin Taylor
It was said above, its about relationships. Social media provides another channel to connect and make an impression with people... its part of the communications engine that needs to stay well oiled and tuned.
- Jeff Fishburn
Provide a service AND market a product, if the MTA can do it - NYC subway system now has Twitter alerts by line: @NYC_F_trains, @NYC_2_trains, etc..
- Benjamin Taylor
The interesting dynamic to me, a large brand needs to work a bit harder whereas smaller businesses have a lower threshold for problems. There are tons of examples of crappy executions of mindless quotes streaming from smallish brands on twitter. This behavior is politely ignored, imagine if Microsoft, Google or GE decided to tweet every famous quote in history?
- Patrick Boegel
I'm tired of the famous quote tweets. If someone starts tweeting famous quotes, I unfollow them.
- RobinDotNet
If they want to talk about the famous quotes and discuss ideas around them, that's a different matter. Like Jeff Fishburn said above, it's about relationships.
- RobinDotNet
Hmmmmm - Study: Twitter Drives a Lot of Traffic to Media Sites, but Doesn't Bring a Lot of Customers to Online Retailers http://bit.ly/13JyDE - ReadWriteWeb
- PXLated
A few twitter opportunities include, listening to your customer base- polls, announcements of discounts, new products, giveaways, asking for help and helping others, generally broadening your horizons.
- Donna Boley
I agree that companies need to answer their tweets! And, it's okay to use humor. A local retailer in my town gets a lot of traffic by making silly offers like, "Make me laugh and get 10% off." It makes me want to visit their shop even though I wouldn't ordinarily think to go there. http://twitter.com/merchbot
- Coyote
the simply elegant way for a bizz to get started on twitter is to stream the comments customers are making. Trader Joe's let's their shoppers speak for them. I like how Vetrazzo suggests home and design conferences as events on Facebook.
- Lane Rapp
Dell has had great success marketing over Twitter. It isn't traditional marketing, but when done well it's very effective.
- Keith Bourgoin
Remember this is all about turning business models on their heads. Do all your aftersales first , be helpful, be an ally, be useful first and then hope you've done enough for someone to come and purchase.
- Crispin Heath
Mint.com's a pretty good example in the FS space
- Crispin Heath
There is a lot of arrogance in this thread. Perhaps the old school needs to be better learners and the new school be better teachers.
- Matt Soreco
Please ask them not to respond to every mention of their brand on Twitter. I don't always want to be asked "Can I help?" when I moan about something's poor performance. You can't own the conversation like that.
- Ian Betteridge
Commenting on posts can be a surprise, and it helps to have professional feedback.
- Mark Essel
Brilliant post. This is a huge problem, how can a company engage people without using robots? Ultimately, they need a transparent culture (eg. Quicken Loans.) That way the employees can respond on behalf of the company.
- Greg
I'm from Chicago, I found Leo on a podcast and have been following him since!
- Mark Williamson
from BuddyFeed
I meet people online that I find interesting and follow them like Robert Scoble.
- Randy Allen Bishop
Show them @habitatUK as a counter example
- 77Agency
Thanks for the Tiny Prints plug @scobleizer! somehow I missed the conversation yesterday. Threads like this are very useful to us to help mature our social media strategy. Lots of great examples.
- Rick Bucich
http://adcause.com of course. I hope to demo it for you someday soon in half moon bay over some beers at the fire pit ;)
- Andy A.
my involvement with #areallygoodejob has brought some great opportunities for me all the way off in Germany--surprising for me is that twitter has been the key driver for traffic and leads for me (for employment options in Germany).
- Andrea Schmitz
Interested that you were feeling pinched by EBS performance. I need to read-up on the underlying architecture of those volumes. I would've guessed that performance concerns were unlikely, except under pretty substantial load. Have you run any performance benchmarks for your filesystems with/without RAID'ed EBS vols? I'm interested!
- Benson Miller
Benson: I've not personally experienced any problems with either size or performance (of EBS volumes) but once you start feeling limitations, is one way to alleviate them.
- Eric Hammond
I understand the confusion, but the destruction of Vulcan took place in a parallel time (one in which I wasn't over it, cooking chicken).
- Benson Miller
It seems like "Real-time" is a term that's getting a lot of usage lately and seeing a rise in terms of trends. Services that have some kind of real-time functionality surely receive more attention from users.
- Orli Yakuel
from Bookmarklet
Nice, Orli! You have been putting out some good stuff lately :)
- Neal Jansons
I hadn't heard of TwitZap before. Funny to me that one of their features is 'sending tweets even when Twitter is down.' Wait. What? They should sell this to Google! It's like Gears, but online!
- Benson Miller
From all this list I liked Zemanta plug-in the most, it's amazingly useful.
- Orli Yakuel
Thanks for the list. Very helpful and I can't wait to try some of these out!
- Jill Howard Allen
Google Documents/Writely should also be on the list.
- Vivek Puri
Vivek, who calls Googledocs - Writely these days?
- Orli Yakuel
"I'm going to respond to this because it's been nagging me for the better part of a week. It's been nagging me because, frankly, you know better. The "chumps" summary re: RoR/MySQL can't possibly be the real conclusion of your post; that would demonstrate a huge attentional bias. I'm much more inclined to read your post as: Architects who select the wrong platforms (or patterns) to address specific problems are chumps.So let's look at that conclusion through a different lens. I'll focus on MySQL, because some of the arguments can probably be extended to RoR. First, you need to remember that MySQL is used in substantial, high-volume systems by Google, YouTube, Cox Communications, The Associated Press, Craigslist, and many others. So we're clear: this sample is totally contrary to a Chumps diagnosis. What makes these systems work where Twitter (initially) failed? I suspect these successes were the result of a clear architectural understanding of the specific technology challenge. Such..."
- Benson Miller
I don't have a blog that does trackbacks, so I decided to dump on the comment box. But yelling at the neighbors cats does sound rewarding.
- Benson Miller
I still have issues with the problem that you can't tune the rate of the stream and the breadth of your catchment independently. Or at least not very effectively. But this post was a big help in crystallizing how to think about the problem...
- Cameron Neylon
Cameron, agreed. Those dials need to be there for things to be really "just in time", since that "just" is not the same for everyone, but I do think one needs to think about it along the lines described
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Tagging + learning algorithm-based filters would be ideal. Your connections make a decent stand in for that; humans, after all, have pretty good learning. The problem is, they filter what they want, not what YOU want.
- Chris Lasher
but that means you don't trust your network doesn't it?
- Deepak Singh
from IM
Also need to ask the question of whether you can trust your network, whether it is possible to build the right network for you at the moment. I wouldn't trust this community to bring me all the material I need on data analysis approaches for small angle scattering for instance. But something might flash past that is relevant that I wouldn't have picked up by some other means (e.g. Pawel's bookmarks from the other day I might easily have missed but they are relevant and useful)
- Cameron Neylon
Also consider that popular items on networks can become lowest common denominator situations, not necessarily high information. Pertinent entries may not be "liked" by other people on my network because each of us shares limited overlaps in interest--gaps form. There's also stochasticity. Entries posted at 2 AM EST instead of at 2 PM, whether a "hub" member in your network "liked" or commented on the entries, ... It would be interesting to see if they make a difference. Anecdotally, it seems they do.
- Chris Lasher
That's right, Chris. The way I always explain it is like this: Digg is useless because it's totally a slave to the majority or users on the site. Friendfeed doesn't suffer the same problem, because the rankings or tailored to your particular set of contacts. I doesn't matter if 1000000 people are talking about celebrity nonsense, because people you follow most likely won't be.
- Mr. Gunn
Of course, there is an effect of timing and networks, but the overriding concept of a content-based high-throughput network is that you're finding content based on it's first or second-degree importance to you, instead of having to use someone's personality as a proxy. It doesn't solve the self-reinforcing popularity problem, but it's the best shot at mitigating it we've found so far, IMO.
- Mr. Gunn
People who help me find interesting stuff, Richard Akerman, John Dupuis, Stephen Francoeur, Lambert Heller, Deborah Fitchett and more
- aarontay
I add that while my network doesn't help me filter information for what interests me most, it does help me find information I would not have discovered on my own (in a timely manner).
- Chris Lasher
A crucial part of trusting your network is to understand its aggregate selection bias. I trust my network for technology items, but I don't expect items of aesthetic interest to bubble. If I wanted my network to reflect my entire set of interests, I would need to tune my network to achieve a more holistic trust.
- Benson Miller
Benson, that's why it's useful to have different networks in different places. My Flickr contacts are vastly different from my FF contacts.
- Mr. Gunn
MySQL performance comparison ZFS vs UFS on Solaris. A look at the 'double buffer' problem and performance analysis as InnoDB buffer pool size is increased
- Benson Miller
"Great post. This response is totally in line with the grave doubts I’ve had about McKinsey’s financial and functional comparisons of the cloud vs. traditional hosting. A couple additional thoughts: I read the physical server description - $14K price tag (2 CPU / 4 Core) - as describing a system with a total of 8 cores, not a 2×2 system. This math does pencil out to be ~$45/mo over three years (without depreciation), but it is still totally misleading. In my experience, enterprises frequently double (for on-site HA) or quadruple (for local HA, remote replication and remote HA) their CPU purchase for critical workloads. As you have noted, traditional I.T. shops also open their wallet for O/S licenses, HA capabilities (Veritas Clustering, VMWare HA, etc.), shared storage infrastructure, and, potentially, wide-area storage replication technology. Any comparisons that focuses exclusively on monthly price-per-flop is missing the boat. In the wake of the McKinsey report, it’s certain that we..."
- Benson Miller
I can't shake the feeling that the folks at Toodledo installed RoR, threw together a little scaffolding app, and pasted in their logo. It works fine, it's free, but it may as well be a mainframe green-screen.
- Benson Miller
Yea, the interface is definitely ... frustrating. I like a lot of their concepts, but am often confused.
- Damon Cortesi
Pdiddy of pop music fame? He has a lot of followers. Are you getting slashdotted?
- Benson Miller
Yup, @iamdiddy on Twitter - he was doing some livestream or something and mentioned it. Server took a dive for a sec, luckily I have monitoring software. ;)
- Damon Cortesi
tried a variation of this last night... came out pretty well!
- Jeremy Zawodny
I love the rice! Two things that have helped my fried rice: (1) substitute Portuguese sausage for the other meat products and/or (2) grind up about a 1/2 cube of powdered chicken bouillon and sprinkle prior to adding rice.
- Benson Miller
Also, this seems like an appropriate place to publicly mourn the passing (some time ago, but never properly mourned) of Takohachi from the Seattle restaurant scene. Every grain of rice seemed to be infused in the bacon, marinated in the ham.
- Benson Miller
Collection of bookmarks related to Jon Udell's elmcity+azure efforts. Must find time to read them all. (This marks the first time that I'm bookmarking a delicious URL in delicious. Must do this more often.)
- Benson Miller
This announcement has totally captured my imagination. The move seems contrary to the much-reported tendency towards low-cost commodity platforms, but it has the right pedigree. After watching Cisco introduce their MDS line of FC directors, I'm bully on their ability to shake up existing markets. I can't wait to see pricing. It strikes me that 3Tera (in addition to hardware vendors) should also be concerned.
- Benson Miller
Describes a basic pattern for parallel programming with python, using Twisted for network communication between processes. Some discussion of communicating to a Flex UI using PyAMF.
- Benson Miller