"The MySpace profile was set up to advertise jewelry in Cartier’s Love collection, but visitors can also sample music from artists like Lou Reed and Grand National, including several songs with the theme of love that were composed for Cartier. They can watch film clips with a romantic story line. And, of course, they can click on any of those friends’ pictures to visit their profiles." - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet
MySpace and Cartier... ZOMG! Can I be its friend? Can I add 42 songs playing at the same time to the main page? How about a Top Ten Best Friendz Necklaces 4EVA app? - Adam Lasnik
such exuberance in the face over overwhelming adversity is admirable indeed :) - Brad Collins via twhirl
That thing just shattered my brain, but I LOVED it! I feel grrreat. - joshua fouts
Good stuff, I mean GREAT! I barely made it out of YouTube commercial hell. That video led to 10 more. Worse than potato chips. - Larry Kless via twhirl
I was looking for the story behind this commercial but couldn't find anything. Who produced it? Who are the actors? Is it a real commercial? Did it run? Where? If so, why did they stop running it? - Dave Winer
I think I just found my favorite video ever. Thanks!!!! - David Weiner
I think the commercial may be Canadian -- I have seen the guy lately in another commercial -- possibly for Purolator (a Canadian courier company). I don't remember the commercial though. Added to Utube in 2006 it seems so it would probably be from around that time - Brian Sullivan
Benedikt, yes, that does help. I did some digging around and found something on archive.org. http://bit.ly/19MCMn - Dave Winer
Yihong, look forward to reading your thoughts.
Anon, er... point taken :-? I won't answer my own questions anymore, at least not in the headline. - Richard via FriendFeed MT Plugin
Late to the discussion as usual, but for the record I think it is nice to see the Distributed Web pointed out as a coming trend (dare I say Web 3.0? I know Richard doesn't like that term). I once suggested that the Distributed Web could be used as a term for the use of APIs and web services, "signifying that a web site's content is consumed at multiple destinations through its API".
I wrote about this and some other <a href="http://impl.emented.com/2008/0...">recent Web 3.0 proposals</a> on my blog. - Jonas Bolinder via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I'm currently consulting for a client (under NDA) about some funky projects. One of the things I was shown last week was a prototype applet for the iPhone.
The interesting thing was, the programming group had decided to NOT make it an "Application", but instead just write a web page that was optimised for an Ajax browser the size of, well, an iPhone.
As a result of this, the app in question runs on a bunch of other platforms, from the PDAs through to the little 800x600 ASUS Linux PC thing I use for taking notes in meetings.
They'd need a lot of convincing to go for native applications when the iPhone has less than 1% of the mobile phone market... - Mark Harrison via FriendFeed MT Plugin
I won't read it..but it did link to one of the coolest viral marketing sites for the movie; http://www.whysoserious.com/ no spoilers! Just putting you "in" Gotham City. - Candace Holly
Not reading that... The 1st 5 minutes was enough. ;-) - AJ Batac
So tempting but the pure epic-ness of the movie prevents me from detracting from it, not even going to watch any new trailers in fear of them slipping stuff in. - Ed Cline
yeah that was the long tail analysis "there were 21,011,340 unique queries out of 36,389,567 records in the data set." - It was just another IIT dude fingering the system..no biggie :)- - Peter Dawson
@Toby - Far too many people use the same passwords everywhere... and you can always reset your key without remembering a new login. - InsaneNinja
the key is a form of 2 factor authentication for api utilization - mike "glemak" dunn
That all makes sense, I do use the same password everywhere. - Toby Graham
@Toby i try to memorize four 8char passwords (takes a week of repeatedly re-typing each one).. with one as my "generic" password for junk sites. And the best way to memorize a new password is to NOT click "remember password" for a few days. - InsaneNinja
this is true. i can almost remember mine its got a really out there syntax, as if theres some divine order or geek making fun of me in the google oops friendfeedplex! - ben barren
It's one thing to not have been to a place and see it in a game, it's another to REMEMBER a place you've been. I saw the Subara building and Odakyu in the distance and was like OMG. And THEN, I crashed into the guardrail when I realized I was careering down into the taxi circle outside the Odakyu mall/department store in Shinjuku. Even saw my hotel and some things I snapped and posted to Flickr. - Eric Rice
I think, for men, you hit the nail on the head. Throughout the shows life, there were consistently male characters that were decent human beings who were tossed aside by these women who wanted some fairy tale life. The only one I get is Samantha. She doesn't bullshit her outlook on the world. She wants sex and freedom and fun and independence and most of the dramas in the show reflected the trials and tribulations that that kind of lifestyle brings. All the others, though? They seemed foolish. - Jason Toney
I appreciate the concept of "not settling" but I also think humility, candor, authenticity, and kindness were given short shrift by all of them. That so many women connect with that seems problematic and disheartening for those seeking meaningful relationships. - Jason Toney
I don't hate Sex and the City, I just don't find it interesting, and that is saying a lot for something that has "Sex" in the title - RAPatton
I never liked SATC - I was single and living in a huge city, and still couldn't relate to any of the characters. - Jennifer Dittrich
I'm with Jennifer on this: good scripted television involves inherently likable or relatable characters. In Sex and the City, you have a bunch of guys who are either emasculated by their women parters or are hopelessly romantic stereotypes. You have a bunch of girls who are aloof, spoiled, or bitchy. Beyond the occasional content that's resolved in an episode or an arc, the characters are one-dimensional: they rarely learn from their mistakes, and it's even rarer that they grow and evolve in a natural way. - Mark Trapp
This all being from trying to watch it after the early seasons of sopranos leading the show in years ago; if it's different than what I've characterized it, maybe I'll give it a second chance and watch it again. But I feel like it's not meant for me: which is fine, there are a lot of things on TV that hit a specific niche. Sex and the City is/was one of them. - Mark Trapp
The show relates exactly the things I hate about women - keeping in mind that I've never watched the show. I hate the 'you go girl!' attitude as much as I hate the 'hell yeah, brah, high five!'...both make the opposite sex look unattractive. It's all a spinoff of the 'I need attention generation.' - Vince DeGeorge
The life of most men & most women is so different. I sometimes watch Sex & the City just to try & grok the female experience. A whole different language. As a dancer, it's nice to be around 95% women...but still the cliquishness, ways that most women make & drop friends, so much reading of intentions/feelings behind the verbal. Makes my head spin after awhile. Men are much simpler IMO (but maybe that's just the way I grew up). - Mitchell Tsai
I disagree with these last couple of guys that you can draw much of a conclusion about women in general from this show. I would have to watch more of the show to absolutely know for sure. It irks me that there is no ethnic diversity among the main characters of the show. I agree somewhat about the cliques and pettiness and other depressing common behaviors among women. I've always had difficulty making friends with other women. One of the barriers I'm facing right now is women with lower education levels. - Kamilah Gill
i've only ever seen one part of one episode. and even then i was only half paying attention. i guess it just never interested me but also i think i didn't have hbo. - edythe
I enjoyed the 2 or 3 episodes that I watched, but there was nothing particular gripping to keep me coming back. I certainly don't hate the show... more just uninterested maybe. - Tad - just Tad
Men don't like sluts in the city because we dont like to think that there are women out there who are more sexually aggressive than us. Actually, i retract that. Men dont want to have to look at the redhead - Anthony
The one thing i think people are missing about SATC is there is definitely some satire there. Carrie's narration often pointed out how ridiculous the main characters were acting, but they just kept on doing it, because they were addicted to the drama and the shoes. In the show they often idealized other people's lives, and they were often struggling with their own expectations and trying to reach for a more satisfying lifestyle.... but the sex, the cosmos and the designer purses kept drawing them back. - Nick
(and the people who idealize all the shallowest aspects of the show, and love it for only those reasons, are really missing a large part of the point.... and the joke's on them) - Nick
well said, nick. i think you're right that there is an undercurrent of satire there. - edythe
Don't know about other men, but I'm quite apathetic towards it. The post's an interesting read, though. Got a cousin who absolutely loves the show. - Cyvros/fyc
I don't mind it to be honest, I just feel that the try and make the men out to be cheating loners! - Joe Dawson
i read this as "why do men have lots of sex?" - Tyler Gillies
It's not so much as we hate it, it's just that we don't like it. Same reason I hated Friday Night Knitting Club when I read it (it was the only book available at the time)....women gasbagging about relationships and sex really has no appeal to men. Oh, and Sarah Jessica Parker looks like a horse ;-) - Duncan Riley
i hid all of his friend of friend items, which made me a bit sad but has cleaned things up a lot. he definitely need to go a bit easier on the like button - Alex Gawley
there's an option for that. Click "hide" and then more options. There's an option that should say "Hide items from Scoble's friends" or something like that. - Alejandro S.
Sign up to more active, relevant people then. - Louis Gray
No, I see the problem. I more or less like the same stuff scoble likes, and i dig his reccomendations. In Google Reader, I can handle his normal volume (even when it was at it's peak). In FriendFeed format, though it pains me, I have to mute a whole lot of his entries and FO reccomendations. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
i want to be clear that i am not slating scoble (given the recent sport of scoble-bashing that seems to be consuming the webinet). i think the problem comes from the way we use FF. sometimes i will just sit diown with it and have a big old liking session. the fact that this happens all at once clogs other people's feeds. difficult to work around this without losing the immediacy that is so important in FF. ho hum - one more problem for the team to solve - good luck guys ;-) - Alex Gawley
That noisy baaaaahhhhsssssttttttaaaarrrrrrdddddd!!!! Sorry for the noise. I use it to signal cool stuff that I see and I use FriendFeed a LOT. I'll settle down soon. Probably tomorrow cause this week I'm VERY busy. - Robert Scoble
been off friendfeed for last week as its gone far too meta.. the like algorithm bringing back old items needs to be way toned down. recency needs to rule - ben barren via Alert Thingy
like ben's idea. and agree about the meta thing. - Alex Gawley
I like ben's idea as well, liking something shouldn't necessarily make it more poular, it sohuld also be ranked against the recency as well - Chris Jones via twhirl
I created an "everyone but scoble" filter using the Friendfeed Filter Greasemonkey script (no offense Robert). I alternate between using that setting and the "everyone" setting depending on the volume/type of info I'm looking for. http://ffapps.com/filters/ - Erik Dafforn
ben barren: Good observation. I second that. - Mo Jawhari
I like the fact that, for me, this says 'Alex Gawly (friend of Robert Scoble)'. - Akiva Moskovitz
Sorry, Niniane, this entry made me chuckle a little bit but mostly cringe. Your trainer -- whether deservedly so or not -- sounds absolutely like lots of the most horrifically superficial girls I shunned (and was shunned by) in high school and much of college. To be even less charitable: a painfully superficial soul. I'm sure she was exaggerating her attachment to fashion, but nonetheless... ouch ouch ouch. And yes, I realize that I can certainly improve the way I dress and appreciate those who wear clothes that are both respectful and flattering. But to those who are such a slave to fashion... again, just OUCH. - Adam Lasnik
"shunned (and was shunned by) in high school and *much* of college" (not all?) ... wait, so you started dating horrifically superficial girls in your junior year or something? - ⓞnor
Wait, you thought the trainer was superficial? My wife talks like that! - j1m
nor, I was curious about that myself. I went to IU, too, and I shunned the most horrifically superficial girls the whole time I was there. Adam, what happened to the solidarity, bro? - David Vasileff
nah, nor, the key was shunned; that kinda precludes dating in any year, no? :P And David, nice to see a fellow Hoosier here. - Adam Lasnik
fwiw, my reaction (as a fellow shunned-by-the-stylish person) is that the conversation was funny banter, and that Adam's response is out there on the wounded-geek-backlash end of things. - ⓞnor
Men! Anyhow, who are you wearing Niniane? What kind of shoes and what jewelry? Make sure you post pics of the outcome! - Erica Baker
Nor: I'm tempted to say Yes, and Yes to your last comment ;-). But even with that realization, it still did and does make me cringe. In fact to this day, I still feel a bit uneasy when visiting even the sales area of my own company. Just feel waaaay underdressed :P. But -- as is perhaps increasingly apparent -- my comments here likely reflect more about my own insecurities or quirks than Niniane's entry. - Adam Lasnik
Careful Adam your insecurities are showing. As someone once told me - [people] will find you attractive regardless of what happens to be on your feet :) - Patricia Hanrahan
what's a butterfly cut? should i be wearing one? INQUIRING MINDS MUST KNOW!! - ƃuɐʞ
My trainer is not superficial. I think it's a defensive mechanism to say someone is "superficial" just because they like fashion. Just like it's a defensive mechanism to disparage someone just because they like computers. Have you noticed how the people who suffer prejudice sometimes end up being the most likely to dish it out to others. You can break the cycle Adam Lasnik!!!! - niniane
To Erica and kang, I will post pics if I end up finding the time to pull together a good outfit. If I don't post pics, you'll know I just took the simple black dress from the back of my closet. :) - niniane
Well, I don't think four exclamation points are really the way to rapprochement, and anyway neither the popular stylish people nor the successful smart people are exactly topping the list of the world's most oppressed: I have often, much to Niniane's horror, maintained my right to discriminate against the very attractive in my personal life. - ⓞnor
1) I was wrong to (even indirectly) slam your trainer, and I apologize. 2) There's a difference between "like" & obsessed, both in fashion and in computering and such. 3) In my *personal* experiences, there's been a non-negligible correlation between fashion-obsession and shallowness. But that clearly does not mean that I view all of the fashion-obsessed people I know as shallow, and so even with a positive correlation, it was likely rude & stupid of me to make the point. Now I should probably shut up :D - Adam Lasnik
You too can break the cycle Dan Egnor!!!!! - niniane
So, Niniane, when are you takin' me and Dan shopping for clothes? Er, wait, I meant: "You too can break the cycle of us clearly-jealous and poorly-dressed geeks Niniane Wang!!!!!" :D - Adam Lasnik
I can't imagine Dan wanting to go clothes shopping. - niniane
I'm not sure if it's cool that all comments for this entry are now on friendfeed instead of on the blog post itself. Its all kinda behind the scenes now..... - minus3
@minus3 does the friendfeed API expose comments? If so, couldn't a plug-in or something be written to display comments from friendfeed on the entry itself? - Erica Baker
Erica, in theory I bet that is or soon will be possible. In practice, I don't know if I'd like that. I, too, am concerned about communities being fractured / the reduction of comments on blogs, etc., but... I also think that it's kinda nice to have a conversation without so many knuckledraggers / spammers... a more, well, elite group here. I mean, heck, did you see Niniane's blog comments before she started moderating them? 'twas often painful to read! - Adam Lasnik
"FB is working at reducing application spam which is a good thing for them to be doing. but in the process they've reduced the amount if virality in their system" - Fred Wilson
5000?! I can't even manage it with 150! Even with link monitor from Yahoo pipes and top peeps in friend feed... ...via AlertThingy - designdyke
unsubscribe works just as effectively :) - Steven Hodson
This is exactly why I use my main twitter account for following few people, and the track feature of IM to sift through the noise. ...via twhirl - Bwana McCall
I sorta do the same as Marshall. I'm also somewhat selective in my follow-back policy. If I need the white-noise to find new story leads, that's what the track function is for. ...via twhirl - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I've considered starting a second account for the same purpose, since Twhirl lets you run two accounts at the same time. You know about Twhirl, right? heh heh - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Marshall, done, I have created twitter.com/loic :) Danielle, you should try Twhirl :) - Loic Le Meur
I just follow some people that are important to me so dont have that problem yet :) ...via AlertThingy - net
to me, i'd prefer a twitter account for each of my interest focuses. My tech frens dont want my posts on classic mercedes probably..mbe.. ...via AlertThingy - Paul Moss
i think that twhirl can do a better filtering by creating a favorites users from your stream and with a little UI fix divide half of the screen in two timelines, above your favorites and below any other people that you follow ...via twhirl - Víctor Hugo Hernández
wow, i only follow about 130 people and am already having that thought. can't imagine having over 5000 ...via twhirl - Brad Warren
Agree with Marshall. Pair it down right here - Charlie Anzman
Twitter, or some third party, could fix some of this by adding a feature that's been available in music players for ages: rate your pals with stars. If so-and-so is a *****, you get all their stuff. Rate * and you see nothing. Much easier than Facebook lists. - mrshl
I know what Loic means. In reality it is a relatively small number who actually update but at 5K, even if only 5% are updating, that's a hell of a lot to be looking at. ...via AlertThingy - Dennis Howlett
@Marshall Preddy what's the point of have someone in your twitter to hide him ? just unfollow him.... - dumeny
Ah, dumeny, I'm talking about a system that's more dynamic. If you're following 5000 people, weeding out that list is a chore. Not if the system allows you to continually update and evaluate the relative usefulness of your pals, say, by updating your rating as they post. Or better yet, occasionally rating each of their posts in a way that, over time, provides you with an algorithm for how important each contact is. - mrshl
if you un-follow scoble it suddenly becomes manageable =) ...via twhirl - Jorge Luis Revilla
plus you want to stay subscribed because of DM availability. basically you want to go to the twirl guys and allow for filtering on different subsets (in your case your most important people, seesmic people etc). - Nicole Simon
seemingly Gtalk can filter twitter as well... have not tried it though - DC Crowley
We wants a Japanese version of Twhirl.
Which file to be translated ? - daisuke
We have lost sight of the fact that Twitter is a river. You don't have to see every drop - Francine Hardaway
I wish Twitter had something similar to the friends list filters on LiveJournal (the last time I'll wish the two shared anything.) Being able to see only certain followers at different times would be nice. ...via twhirl - Dana Franks
you should set a maximum of people you follow and sort out if you are over this amount. for example the 300 most important ones. - Timo Heuer
Dunbar rule apply. Max 150 apply. And I have imposed a 1:1 rule as well. Mutual following for best quality - and conversation! While at it, why not integrate Facebook Status Updates, DM and Wall posts, Major web mail providers etc - and all other scattered followers etc - into Twhirl for the Optimal Desktop Pop-up Notifier? One river, one flashpoint... ...via twhirl - Anders Abrahamsson
Wew more than 30 friendfeed comments on this tweet! Interesting - Loic Le Meur
I'm right now considering to use Friendfeed resp. Alert Thingy as the tool for the masses where I'm ok to miss thiings and Twitter for the ones I don't want to miss. Will try this soon.... ...via AlertThingy - DschimBob
I wrote a story that mentioned this titled "Lifestreaming Services Need Better Filtering Mechanisms" http://twurl.nl/hgzwv0 - Mark Krynsky
It's hard enough for me to follow near 200. I cannot imagine! ...via AlertThingy - Mike Lewis
I have only 40 and getting crazy...(you and @Scoble are in...my god...tons of updates) - Luigi Centenaro
Use Twitter as an occasional hit and Friendfeed (which is always here?) as home base. Then again, there's always Pownce. Whole bunch of new apps there ! :) - Charlie Anzman
I have done that with @ericrice ...and that's set up for DMs to buzz my phone. Very few make the cut (it's a very RL thing)... @infocalypse is my lifestream dump and @spin needs no introduction :) - Eric Rice
Ou comment découvrir tardivement que le copinage excessivement conciliant n'apporte rien de constructif notamment sur le Web :o| .oO(les faux-amis se contre-fichent qu'on les ignore/refuse/rejette) - Olivier ze kat
I thought FriendFeed was going to buy Google. - Amit Patel
How does this mesh with google's business model? ...via AlertThingy - Shawn Smith
Google can buy what they want to get them at the top. Can they buy the whole Internet? - Jack
It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven' ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre
It's too bad Google has basically stopped innovating and just started bying stuff. Appengine is the pits and they haven't doen much else. ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre
friendfeed is already a spinoff of google ... what would he do with Jaiku ? and you forgot bambuser qwich integrates gmaps .. ...via AlertThingy - Frédérick 2 Baro
@Jack I am sure they will give it a good try, although they will see it more like shaping the internet! ...via AlertThingy - Joe Dawson
Soulhuntre, in a way i do agree with you, but i don't think that Google has deserted innovation, there's so many development projects running there. I think all this acquisition issue is a matter of economic calculations, instead of holding a special team to develop something for several years they just purchase a company that has already spent the time on R&D and created the product. - Nir Ben Yona
Maybe Google is jsut over-extended. They sat on Jot for years, then ruined it. They haven't done much with Gmail and search is stagnant for them. All they do to generate interest of late is spend money. ...via twhirl - Soulhuntre
I agree...makes sense...one is the search of scrape and link, the other is the search of share and discover = Organise the worlds info ...via AlertThingy - John Kotsaftis
i'm hoping google leverages GrandCentral into the Android platform. that service is too convenient to be left on the back burner. - Matt Musgrave
friendfeed looks like a google service, acts like a google service, is built by xGooglers and is a perfect fit for Google. I agree and would love to see it happen. my only question, why didn't the team build this at Google? - timepilot
@timepilot, I wondered the same thing at first. But apart from the possible entrepreneurial benefits, I'm guessing the freedom of development. They now have complete freedom around where they want to take it without the limitations of a large corporate agenda. - Phil Ashman
What would Google do with Twitter after the damage they did to Jaiku and Dodgeball? ...via AlertThingy - Jane Quigley
The difference between Jaiku and FriendFeed is that Jaiku wasn't funded and its founders weren't rich. They sold to Google to collect their bucks, and it was the right decision for them. FriendFeed doesn't need to sell out. So unless Google offers really a lot of money, there's no reason to sell unless Google has plans for FriendFeed. Which I doubt - if they had plans, they'd just developed it on their own. ;) - sebmos
@jane: What damage did Google do to Jaiku? ...via AlertThingy - Niclas Strandh
