I recently came across http://www.palringo.com/ which has a free multi-protocol IM client for the iPhone. Search for it in the app store. Pretty sweet so far. - Jon West
@Jon West I totally missed palringo, I’m checking it out now… looks promising. - ben bloch
1:38 PM PDT At this point, we are accelerating progress on restoring internal communication as all signs continue to look good. http://status.aws.amazon.com/ - techbubble
sounds like a job for Captain Kirk...rescue two endangered FailWhales and return them to the Bay Area... - Andrew Feinberg
Seems like the Fail Whale took all the avatars with it too! - Daynah
Added you. Also new to FF. I think it might be information overload, though... - John Storer II
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I added you two weeks ago. Guys and Gals - use the hide button to reduce the info overload. - Russellreno
yea I am trying to figure out how to make my friend feed posts go out to twitter - Jason Stephens
Jason: why? post to twitter and bring them in. - klecu
klecu: because then I have to leave friendfeed, I want to do everything in here...when I share I want it to go out to all my services too.... - Jason Stephens
I think you've got it backwards. FriendFeed is drawing in everything, not sending out. - John Storer II
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exactly my point...I think it could be a twitter replacement though...i like posting to hear better then posting on twitter. I'd like the messages I share on here to go out to my twitter followers to help grow my subscriber list - Jason Stephens
So is it Ping.fm that does that (posts to Twitter) then, not FriendFeed? - Jeff Kopp
That is, of course, a very valid example. Unfortunately, It's sort of like the AIM/ICQ Fiasco. All your friends are on AIM... why should they switch, even when AIM now sucks? I just got into FF, so I am not sure it could handle the excess traffic like twitter is dealing with. - John Storer II
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The method to comment and reply is much better on friendfeed, I think this definitly should either be bought by twitter or find a way to cross integrate them better. I see the option to "also send this comment as an @reply twitter from jpstephens" but thats not EXACTLY what I mean - Jason Stephens
Jason: I totally agree, if you can post out to all your socials then someone tell me how. If not, then FF should have the option or I smell yet another social network for social networks. ;) - Mark
You could try Mahalo share to post to a lot of your socials at once, but wouldn't this create a bit of a spam effect to FF if all of those socials are showing up here? Interested to hear comments from anyone with that experience, because of course you don't want to spam your FF friends, but not everyone is using FF... conundrum - Dave Earley
Glad you got it Kevin. Friendfeed lends it self to more engaging conversation and sharing. - Larry Kless
Problem is, you have to Friend back. :) - l0ckergn0me
Did Scoble block you for begging for followers? - Ryan Kuder
yeah there's real potential. but it's so damn hard to manage your friend list! same as with twitter - this is a huge barrier to the usability of the site. there should be a subscribe/unsubscribe button next to every post from anybody. - Mickipedia
Friendfeed is awesome Kev. Everything at your fingertips. - Vipin Chamakkala
This is a common refrain - people admitting that it takes them months to get FriendFeed. And for those of us who aren't honest enough to publicly admit this, it takes us months to use FriendFeed effectively. Is there a way to reduce this learning curve, so people can productively use FriendFeed from day 1? - Ontario Emperor
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There are all sorts of things they could do to improve FriendFeed. I guess we have to remember it is version 1.0 - Jonathan Beckett
You don't get it Kevin unless you're willing to friend us back. I believe same goes for Twitter. Why add you to our community if you're not willing to listen to us? - Jesse Stay
So the question now is: Will Kevin friend us back? All of us? Or selective friending? - Winston Teo
Yea, welcome on Board Dude ;) Good to see you here ... - Martin Gommel
FriendFeed's concept does take a bit to grasp at first because we are sooo used to Twitter (uni-directional, broadcast communications tool) and FF is truly a multi-directional comm tool designed to illicit conversation around cool stuff you share via FF directly or thru nearly 50 Social Media "feeds" you can port over here. I love FF and have been super happy since I joined back in March! ;o). Glad you're here and having fun!! - Susan Beebe
I still don't get it. There seems to just be too much noise. I get crap from people I don't know and I'm not following. Every item that hits my feed and has any comments takes up stupid amounts of space so it's hard to scan through. Twitter is just light weight and simple, and in that way it's more effective. If you could have a 1 or 2 line summary for each item then it'd be great, but as it is it's cluttered and overpowering, and I only have 6 follows, I can't imagine what it's like with 100s - Mark Benson
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About time you showed up. Now I can remove your twitter's entry in my Imaginary Friend. Real handy feature to track non-adopters. - klaatu
I've explored every nook and cranny of Friendfeed now, grasped the interface and culture, and I am fairly certain that in its current incarnation it will catch on with only a very small percentage of Internet users. I have a fairly good track record in spotting major trends in Internet technology, and I don't think this is one. The main problem: way, way, way too much noise and redundancy, and not enough tools to whittle it down effectively. For most busy people around the world, a Drudge Report-style interface -- a few dozen important headlines packed on a single page -- is ideal. - Sean McBride
I like FF because you can have more conversations. I think the look/feel of FF needs some work though. Not enough easy ways to search and sort through. - Geoff Peterson
I used to be like a speed demon on rotary phones. I thought it was really cool to be able to dial super fast. *sob* I'm soooo old!!! - Tad - the Meme Maker
Yes Tad, back in the good old days of phreaking - Ross Maguire
I remember these - I used to break these apart and look at the metal pieces inside them when I was "young" (I guess I was 8 then). I broke 3 of three of these phones and one big Radio thing. Good ol' days when I can break things and not get shouted at... - Yuvi
I can remember when this was all fields, far as the eye can see. Course, they don't make 'em like they used to. Kids today? Don't know they're born. OH MY GOD I'VE TURNED OLD!!! - Slippy Lane
The most demented thing I think I've seen yet. My parents actually still have two rotary phones at their house. The kids look at them and yell for help. - Cyndy
@Tad try being able to remember the old 1 long 2short ring crank phones :) when my parents first moved out of the city the small town we lived outside of still had its own local exchange and we had a party line phone - private line phones were horrendously expensive :) - Steven Hodson
RETRO FTW! childhood memories come flooding back... ahhhh! - Susan Beebe
For PHP, CSS, HTML, etc, I use Panic's Coda. For everything else, I usually find myself sshing into the server and using vim. Nearly all of my web development revolves around PHP, database administration, and server administration. - Mark Trapp
I use Eclipse for Java... I'd prefer IntelliJ, but then it's not free, so. For pretty much everything else I use Gedit (woo Linux) hacked up with some sake tasks to make development easier. - Tommy Morgan
I stick w/ textmate as much as possible, but I have to develop in .net... so obviously visual studio, which, for me is way too heavy for a web platform ide - ben bloch
From time to time I have used Dreamweaver mostly because of it's autocomplete but use many different tools depending on where I work. - Daniel Schildt
My time is split between Textmate, Vi and Flex Builder. I enjoy using Textmate and Vi. If I could, I'd rather not use Flex Builder/Eclipse. - Paul Grav
Vim, although it's not really an IDE. - Morton Fox
Frontpage... It's the most idiotic program on earth... - Luke Martin
We're talking about it in the Environment room. Will it add community or noise? Jury is still out. - Chris Baskind
this was my first thought, great idea, could become a noise machine without the right pruning. - Tsega Dinka
I'm not planning on it. The concept does not fit well with the few rooms I moderate. - Kevin D. White
For some reason I can't get a shared items feed from Google Reader to work. - David Owens
I did it for the Achewood room (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/ac...). Chris Onstad has feeds for each of the characters in the strip, and it lends itself really nicely to it. - Mark Trapp
Others are talking about doing a FF search on the public feed and adding that to the room (I have a Formula 1 room -http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fo... that I have added a search for "formula 1" rss to to see what happens) - Brian Sullivan
I've added several feeds to my two rooms. The twitter room has the twitter status blog, which just seems too perfect, and my mac room now has a few mac feeds for news and software. Seemed appropriate to me. - Brad McCrorey
Brad, those seem like appropriate uses for room feeds. I couldn't imagine that a feed would be beneficial to this room. - ben bloch
i think you have to carefully deliberate on what feeds to bring in. what would you bring in here? - Brian Breslin
we could add the feed from every other room and make a master friendfeed rooms room (just kidding) - ben bloch
Just added a feed to the Zune room I created. I'll have to see if I like that or not, as I usually Share posts into the room from the feed I added anyway. So it seems that if the feed has lots of posts Shared in the room, there's room for lots of duplication... - Craig Eddy
Consensus in the Environment room was "no." But i think the feed feature will be useful to a lot of people. - Chris Baskind
Interesting idea. Including the entire netvibes: WorldDemocracy into #democracy kinda. - MattisManzel
I think it's a good addition to the rooms, whether too much will lead to overkill remains to be seen! - Joe Dawson
For sure, Will be very useful if used properly, there is allready rooms centered around all users including their feed ex. http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sh... - Tony C.
I have a room (lastfmfeeds) that is entirely built around the feeds that go into it. Over a dozen of us have shared our last.fm "recently played tracks" RSS feeds, allowing commentary on the tracks that show up. One person is also feeding the usual last.fm "loved items" feed. Only administrators can add feeds, though (which is probably a good thing overall, but was a little time-consuming in the beginning). - Ontario Emperor
Yeah, I unfortunately saw East Coast Vegas and his rant on you and Gary talking about that. He's too stupid to know what twitter is apparently. - Dennis Jackson
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"Rooms have become incredibly popular since we launched the feature a few weeks ago. Based on your feedback, room administrators can now import sites directly into a room" - Bret Taylor
Excellent, a great way to get the content of a room going. Nice work. - AJ Kohn
Great Improvement Bret!!! wow, this could be Bloggers' Central in no time!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe
Great addition. Also, how about a way to pipe in search results for one or more queries? I suppose until a more native solution is available, a room admin can simply add a feed for a particular search query and have the results added as entries - Aviv
not bad but here's a simple question .. how the hell do I delete a Room. I created one that I thouhgt I would play around with but would like it gone however I don't see any obvious way to delete it - Steven Hodson
Yeah, I'd like to drop some rooms too. - possible248
Hey guys, next we need furniture in our rooms! =) Just think of all the fun we could have with that! Virtual tweetup on FF!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe
sorry I see it where you were talking about now Bret . .had to logout and back in again ..Thanks!! - JohnBfromMemphis
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Great feature!! Love it when you guys work with the community. - Frankie Warren
I'd like the feeds to still keep the names/authors of the feed...if a room has multiple feeds from different authors it would help distinguish them. I'd also like to see room posts on the frontpage off-colored so they stand out: like a light yellow background or something. - Paul Arterburn
My first idea was to allow all room members to stream their feeds to the room, but that would make most larger rooms extremely noisy, so this is perhaps the better solution. - Thomas Frütel
hmm...i lost some followers the other day and i thought it had to do with an obama and race comment i made. glad to know it's not that deep. - Lynne d Johnson
a friend lost mad followers after her account replayed her last tweet on loop over 30 times in less than 24 hours - Baratunde Thurston
There's some great subtext in all of this, that people are concerned with such a thing in the social space. I notice once in a while, but rarely care if I lose followers or not. - Eric Rice
I am embarrassed to admit I monitor my follower number constantly, even though I realize it's a foolish thing to be concerned about. I also lost fifteen last night for no obvious reason. - Nathan Rein
“Just curious, how many rooms are you a part of and how many of them are active? I've got two rows of rooms, but only 5 or 6 of them get any sort of traffic on a daily basis.”
Funny thing is I never saw it as a replacement for Twitter.. - Maki
Plurk's UI will be key to its success and unique experience setting it apart from the rest. Basic, boring, desktop apps will help turn it into yet another twitter clone pushing updates around. I don't necessarily agree with their approach (if it is indeed the case) - but I can see why it might serve them best in the long-run, as well as their users (or not). Will be interesting to see how the community reacts in the months to come. - Aviv
I'm still skeptical of Plurk - I see it as officially adding to my noise, rather than helping me keep in touch with people. - David Cohn
I like Plurk, but also like the directness of twitter. Not liking that they want to lock us into the UI - Steaprok
I have to completely disagree. I am in love with Plurk and I think it is the future of microblogged-conversations... but you already knew that :) - Muhammad Saleem
as long as there is RSS I can Plurk to Twitter to friendfeed. which means it is all good. you want to be the bottomfeeder... I can meet you on Plurk. sounds like a grandma fart by the way - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Plurk is getting a little overwhelming. I think it will get time to get used to. I think a Twhirl-like application will enhance the experience. - Reem Abeidoh
It's great for when Twitter is down, and easier to follow. But I still prefer Pownce. But right now FF seems the only thing fully up. Plurk is down and Pownce and Twitter are both slow. I was almost afraid I'd have to resort to Facebook! - Heidi Cool
what really pisses me off is the karma fascist (twitter nazi horde people)... the so called elitists that don't ever speak out for what is right. they are so keen on all their pathetic eMom friends that they got by ass kissing at the expense of the dignity of anything good and true are just watering at the mouth at plurk. plurk is an inferior standard and it would be awesome if friendfeed kicked its ass in. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
I think Plurk is a hoot. Mostly I've just been silly over there, but the interface makes it easier to follow threads than Twitter. You still can't get the full conversation that you can on Pownce, but they've made some good choices there. And the mktg has been brilliant. Seriously the karma thing makes people far more active than they might be otherwise. I don''t need to change my screen name, but I'm 2.5 pts away from 40 and I still want to get there as stupid as that may be. - Heidi Cool
I have decided to switch the FF Moderators room from semi-public to public. I decided to make this switch because members of a semi-public room cannot initiate conversations. - Kevin D. White
Every other community I've been involved in has had a place for moderators to gather and discuss issues of moderation and community management. I couldn't find a room for this on FF already so I created this one. The room is currently semi-public with the only requirement being you must be a moderator to join. Just tell me the room you moderate when you request access. I'll try to invite new moderators as I seen them as well. - Kevin D. White
“The number of rooms and therefore moderators is growing quickly. Eventually moderators are going to need a place to discuss issues. This is the place.”
Excellent. Learning to moderate can be scary but also extremely rewarding. There are lots of questions and very few, if any, absolute right answers. Every moderator develops their own style. It is absolutely fascinating to watch it evolve. - Kevin D. White
Great idea, Kevin - thanks for setting this up and thanks for the invite - Kathleen Anderson
Thanks for invite, this could be useful. - Daniel Schildt
