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Allen Stern posted an entry on CenterNetworks
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so any thoughts here people? - Allen Stern
oddly, I've never been a big Delicious user until I started using FF, so now I use it as a way to share things I find. It has undoubtedly though been damaged by Yahoo, where it has stagnated as others have innovated. The bigger question though: will Flickr share the same fate? - Duncan Riley
absolutely, great observation! - Jeremy Toeman
without question, never had a chance even if FriendFeed never was - Lou Paglia
They aren't the same thing and don't serve the same purpose IMHO. I love the two. - directeur via NoiseRiver
friendfeed is for explicit sharing, delicious is for myself, others can lookup if they are interested - Murali
seems like ff adds strong motivation to take action in services where you would not have in the past.. in order to bring the content back here. like every button in other social sites is now a ff share button - Travis Parsons
Murali - I agree, that's how I use ff and del.icio.us. I wonder if that's how most others do too...? - Sonciary Honnoll
Delicious is much more about explicit action. Take for instance their resistance to auto suggesting tags in the beginning. Where FriendFeed is more about capturing the actions you take about the web and consolidating them without any extra ongoing effort on the part of the user. - Caleb Elston
the "social" aspect of delicious is greatly enhanced through the use of friendfeed (or in my case in addition to another site like diggo as well). as is, delicious has a big barrier in trying to make those "connections" between users personal in any way. - Cee Bee
@Travis: That's a good point. I've found myself trying to keep a balance of services, so I use more than I usually would. And the good thing is that everything you do on those services comes back to FF - you share wherever you are. - Cyvros/fyc
Off topic, but picking up from Duncan Riley's comment re Flickr. Just in case Flickr dies a slow death, are there any real alternatives to it? - Paul Rees
Sometimes Delicious is useful - Igor Poltavskiy
friendfeed is very different from del.icio.us, here there are no tags and even if it did I would compare it to stumbleupon. Yet I don't use SU for bookmarking but rather for sharing so they're not in the same league - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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Ha! That was cute. - Candace Holly
thanks candace! - Allen Stern
That was fun. I do want off at FriendFeed. :-) - Robert Scoble
bing bong! - Hao Chen
you are off your head! :) But i love it. - Zee from WeDoCreative
original! - Anthony Farrior
funny stuff ... but I wanted to get off at FF as well ... identi.ca is a station half-built :) or else at least let me off at Kwippy since I just wrote about LOL - Steven Hodson
well you have to pull the cord or something to get off Steven! - Allen Stern
Very creative dialogue. I think I'll just continue a mad hop between the various stations. - possible248
I think they just opened up - John Cass via Alert Thingy
thanks possible! - Allen Stern
whaat, no Toeman? ;) - Jeremy Toeman
Great video. You would look better in a Boston Red Sox hat though. - Russellreno
You gotta listen to this ... Bing ... Bong ... Allen, you're a rip - Charlie Anzman
Do we have to get off at identi.ca? I want to keep going! Thanks Allen, that was fun! - Jesse Stay
boston red sox hat? are you kidding me? - Allen Stern
Notice he didn't even let me on the train. I would have hijacked it for sure. - Cyndy
I don't kid about the Yankees. I grew up as a SF Giant fan. My wife grew up in NY. Your vid was entertaining. - Russellreno
glad you enjoyed it russell - Cyndy, I will certainly use you on the next social media train! - Allen Stern
Allen your videos are always fun to watch, keep them comming pls - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Great video Allen :) - Gary Bacon II
thanks Gary! I will do my best Dobromir - might have some serious ones coming too - Allen Stern
stepping up the game ha, looking forward to those - Dobromir Hadzhiev
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Robert Scoble posted a message
Thursday at 7:43 pm - Link
I would pay users to join. - Robert Scoble
I would get 10 celebrities (real ones, not social media ones like that Scoble guy) to join first. - Robert Scoble
I would get Loic Lemeur to put Seesmic video comments into it. - Robert Scoble
I would make it work with Gmail. - Robert Scoble
I would not have a fail whale. Maybe a sexy blonde who would say "I'm sorry." - Robert Scoble
I would get Louis Gray to either love it or hate it. - Robert Scoble
I would (will) make it so simple, obvious, really distributed that you'll hate yourself for not being the first to have that idea! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
get a few politicians, a few business leaders, a few fashion leaders, sports stars, etc - create a net of interest... - james svenson
I would get Dennis Howlett to proclaim that there's no way that Enterprises would use it. - Robert Scoble
Now that is damn funny! - Fred Grott
I would make sure it was designed to stay up and running even as it became increasingly popular. - Abby Martin
I would use Microsoft strategy of "embrace and extend." I would make sure it worked exactly like Twitter with one difference: all the features would work. - Robert Scoble
I would not use Ruby on Rails - Bjorn Tipling
I would make a deal with MySpace to hold secret concerts for people who were on it. - Robert Scoble
I would make sure Facebook blocked it. - Robert Scoble
I would make it a message bus instead of CMS - Fred Grott
Robert, you're clearly having fun. What if I wrote about a company that's already introducing a way to make money off a Twitter-like service by charging to receive messages? - Louis Gray
We could do much better than clone, though. The thing is - they're THERE - no one uses them. Use your superpowers and have Google open up Jaiku and pay people to join! It has the IM feature you adore, right? - Vince DeGeorge
I would call it Twittr. - Hao Chen
Louis: that sounds like a porn service. - Robert Scoble
I would have to seriously question my own sanity. - Ken Sheppardson
I would focus on two-way data sync with all existing services (oh, yeah, and hire my platform architects and operations team very, very carefully) - John McCrea
and then I would sell it to Twitter. - Hao Chen
I would hire John's team away from Comcast. :-) - Robert Scoble
When Google (finally) unleashes Jaiku Next Gen running on AppEngine, this space will get REALLY interesting. - ron k jeffries
I wouldn't. Too many things like Twitter are out there already. It's time for someone to develop something even better so we can all be addicted to that. - Candace Holly
I would seed the service with 100 valuable users - politicians, entertainers, scientists, or whoever else. Content really is King - build the content and the user base will come. - JMaultasch
Cloning is unoriginal. - Andru Edwards
I would make it compatible to all types of mobile - Majento (Sharon Rudich)
Louis: seriously, pay to receive messages? So you can send as many messages as you want for free, but you gotta pay to receive them? That sounds very lame. - Robert Scoble
Andru: cloning might be unoriginal but it often is profitable.Especially if you add some killer new things that the original doesn't have. - Robert Scoble
I would make it work only on iPhone and Android. - Robert Scoble
I would make it location & device aware / sensitive. - Dean Terry
I would only allow fictional characters to join, such as Batman or Darth Vader. And maybe Chuck Norris. - Mack D. Male
I would charge a reasonable monthly fee if you follow more than 500 people. - Mike Doeff
I would match it feature-for-feature with Twitter, clone the UI shamelessly, allow users to import their Twitter messages, and use a flatfile or CouchDB-based storage infrastructure (not SQL-based). - Eric Florenzano
I would make sure I had a day job. - Gabe Wachob
@Robert, I'll write about it soon, and you'll see why this company thinks they're on to something. - Louis Gray
why would you want to clone Twitter? Clone is the WRONG word. Twitter competitor, different kettle of fish. Now that's something I could heart - Duncan Riley
I'd learn from Twitter's mistakes and hire a community evangelist *early* on. Make sure that I didn't plan service outages for peak usage times, make it simple, but make sure that @replies were easily trackable, that blocking was fully functional, that we had more servers and bandwidth than we needed right off that bat and scaled ahead of the need. Oh sheesh, I could go on... - Lucretia Pruitt
I would hire the FriendFeed team - Shey
@GabeW++ - Jason Wehmhoener
I wouldn't bother. It's a niche to begin with, and either Twitter will manage to rebuild and revive itself, or "the conversation" will move to FriendFeed, Facebook, or other place that already has a massive user base. - Jeremy Toeman
If I were to do a micro-blogging / status update service like twitter I would demand that it connected to mobile phones through SMS. That one feature takes twitter from micro blog to mobile social network - and also provides the engine for IM. - Tony
I would poll the @twitter user base and add as much of what they suggest as possible ;) - highcenter via twhirl
I would hire hackers to make Twitter go down...and stay down...and by hackers I mean 8 year olds with calculators. - Mark Krynsky
@Robert, @Louis, I know a company that's doing a Twitter clone that has an even better business model, and already making money off it (and they aren't doing pay-per-tweet - hint, it's a b2b model). They don't want me writing about them yet because they're applying for the TechCrunch 50 but expect to hear about them soon. - Jesse Stay
Now, back to the fun - I would have a kettle with frying fish for my error message. (thanks for the inspiration @duncan) - Jesse Stay
Good tips for Identi.ca:) - Igor Poltavskiy
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or is that an echochamber side effect? - Jeremy Toeman
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if one of them is "Independence Day" I'll be very disappointed... - Jeremy Toeman
sigh. why do i think this will be the most unimaginative list ever? - edythe
geez, you guys... commenting before even pressing the link! it's in fact a rather original compilation.... - Nick
Wow, 'Rabbit Proof Fence' is on the list. - Patricia Hanrahan
Rabbit Proof Fence is an incredible movie, somewhat odd choice for the theme, though - Michael W. May via twhirl
well, i guess rabbit proof fence is to remind us what it's like to live without any rights... - edythe
sorry to be so lame, nick. - edythe
+1 for Nick. Good job - possible248
Rabbit Proof Fence is a most odd choice. Great movie though. - Patricia Hanrahan
oh, polly, now now..... - Nick
good point - Michael W. May via twhirl
I never feel the need to click the link for any Digg story that involves a list. - Stefan Hayden
but Stefan, that's nearly 70%! (i blame david letterman and the nature of quick-fix internet info-tainment) - Nick
no stripes? - mike carter
I'm really out of the loop here. I'm expecting to see "Yankee Doodle Dandy" or "1776" on the list? I'd even be ok with Mel Gibson's "The Patriot". - Kevin Shannon
I sure would like to see that John Adams movie that played on cable - Noah David Simon
Kevin S: ooh, Yankee Doodle Dandy! Excellent idea and also excellent movie!! :) - edythe
Yankee doodle dandy is great; James Cagney was a great song and dance man; love the 4 cohens! - RAPatton
"my father thanks you, my my mother thanks you, my sisterthanks you and I thank you" - RAPatton
yep. :) - edythe
I am adding this list to my list of "13 Internet Lists You Thought Were Amazingly Stupid Based on the Headline But Actually Turned Out to be Mildly Interesting and Thought-Provoking" - Karim
i have that list, too. it's not as long as yours and nowhere near as long as my list of Most Despised Scenes in Movies and TV Where Characters Eat Ridiculously (with or without chopsticks) - edythe
sounds good. but so far all i've got is that spaghetti scene in "Lady and the Tramp" - Karim
animation not allowed! (top prize may go to anabella sciorra and wesley snipes in jungle fever in the architecture office... arrgggghhh!) - edythe
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mine too! :) - Jeremy Toeman
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Some extremely disturbing facts on plastic bags & the environment in a quick, easy-to-consume slideshow. - Jeremy Toeman via Bookmarklet
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its long, but very good. - Jeremy Toeman via Bookmarklet
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/rcphq - Ruben Llibre via twhirl
http://identi.ca/justinkorn - though I don't see myself using it much - Justin Korn
I am... not signing up to another service for a while. - Jeremy Toeman
Jeremy: I admire your courage. - Russellreno
Jeremy - probably a smart move. - Justin Korn
It'll FAIL - My prediction. - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur: Not if we all keep talking about it (okay, that's my last comment here) - Justin Korn
Justin: That's EXACTLY why it will fail ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
directeur, even if it does fail, the code and decentralized service may live on. Any one can grab that code now and host their own service...and they'll all talk to one another. It's liberation day for Microblogging. - Duncan Riley
Duncan: I'm sorry but I don't think so. I haven't studied their code really yet. But do they provide any kind of synchronization betweentwo copies of Laconias. I think their Xmpp is just for talking to one instance of laconia (I think) I mean, I don't think it's that "easy". I may be wrong of course, that was a prediction. I'll study the code :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
@directeur.. you can reshare this thread to room #identica - Naor
I am http://identi.ca/shiva. Another twitter like service?! hmmm.. I wonder if they can scale?! - Shivanand Velmurugan
How is this different, better, and more reliable than the services that already exist? - Kimberly J
I am making a conscious, direct effort to make sure that I don't accidentally click on an identi.ca link. Hope I suceed. - Yuvi
this is odd, identi.ca resolved to http://hewitt.controlezvous.ca after I tried to login with my openid, anyone else saw this besides me? - Bob Ngu via twhirl
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Charlene Li posted an entry on Groundswell
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Best of luck Charlene - David Churbuck via Alert Thingy
Good luck on your future and your book is outstanding. - Jon Erickson
I seriously hope you'll continue to be