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michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Breaking: CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion http://tinyurl.com/5rat9o”

May 15 at 7:50 am - Link

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michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“115 CEOs Converge At Microsoft For CEO Summit http://tinyurl.com/3vjmr2”

May 14 at 8:20 am - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@gregkunz nope, FriendFeed doesn't do SMS. It does do Twitter, though, which does SMS.”

May 7 at 9:25 pm - Link

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enjoying friendfeed but doesn't synch on the blackberry for me - PaulJohnson

So, philosophically, should FF do SMS/IM? I'm torn. - Peter Kahle

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No, it should not do SMS. Twitter is a chatter/notifier, so SMS makes sense. FF is an aggegator and is also too noisy to make built-in notifications useful. - Carter Rabasa

i agree with Carter. FF != Twitter. Carter is exaclty right IMO. - acedanger via twhirl

I guess that's all the more reason for a unified friend infrastructure. I want to be friends with the same people on twitter (where I get my IM fix) and FF. But right now, it's all over the place. And when someone joins FF, it'd be nice if I auto-friend them if I'm their friend on twitter (or jaiku, or pownce, etc.) - Peter Kahle

Solution: Twitter's API lets you retrieve your friends/followers. If FF's API allowed creation of imaginary friends programmatically, voila! Instant import, and without the hassle of making your friends sign-up! - Carter Rabasa

I love that Twitter is like the universal SMS api for webapps. If only it worked all the time :) - Alex Gawley

@Carter So, that leads to another question. What happens when an imaginary friend signs up to FF? I'll have to look at the two APIs when I get a chance, see if there's a way to sync the two, and what's missing. - Peter Kahle

they need UI for the iPhone - Dave Hodson

@carter and @peter kahle that sounds a bit like how Socialthing imports everything from everyone using all your services. It's more of an aggregator, and is increasingly annoying. I like the filter of just following the people that I say I want to follow and no one else, regardless of if I'm friends with them elsewhere. Just because a person's my Pownce friend doesn't mean I want them to be my Twitter buddy! I use different services for different things (or personalities, lol). - jon

@jon Agreed, but it could be optional for those that want to. I think that's the secret sauce that FF is perfecting, the ability to give you only what you want (think of the granulatity of their hide feature) - Carter Rabasa

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@copyblogger I expect that Google will buy FriendFeed and Twitter within 18 months. Not to mention FlixWagon or Qik or Kyte.”

April 17 at 4:44 pm - Link

Ben Kessler, Chuck Ross, Franklin Pettit, Ashley Williams and 40 other people liked this

Wow. I actually agree:-) What airport are you stranded in? ...via AlertThingy - Francine Hardaway

Francine, I'm leaving for the Tel Aviv airport in two hours. Long flight home. - Robert Scoble

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Yes, I tend to agree that our FF ex-Googlers with be re-Googlers in the future. - Mike Reynolds

Yeah that would would be great... also, *sooooo* not going to happen. - Jason Shellen

Not interested. Google was ok, but FriendFeed is a lot more fun. - Paul Buchheit

Paul: why? - Amund Tveit

Amund, Google is a big company now. - Paul Buchheit

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

ha. i called this back in october: http://gregcbrownyes.blogspot.... ...via AlertThingy - greg brown

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

@Jack They can't:) - Igor Poltavskiy

They most likely will try. But they won't get too far. - Daniel Spradau

I agree with Twitter and FriendFeed - am a bit biased since they're the only Web 2.0 services left that I am obsessed with. - Jason Kaneshiro

But Google already bought Jaiku. I hope they don't buy FF too soon. I'd hate to see it die under corporate stagnation. - engtech

I agree with FriendFeed - FaceySpacey

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

no more romours ; ) ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

twitter will be a better fit than Jaiku. Friendfeed is already pary of my Google Reader, but I guess it would help to own it - Michael VanDervort

When will they buy Alertthingy? :) - Michael VanDervort

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

@Scobleizer agree re: friendfeed+google - mutenewt

Maybe Paul can coin a new phrase, "Don't be sold." - Vince DeGeorge

FriendFeed will be more interesting to Google if it gains mass appeal. - Mike Reynolds

Yeah, I've been saying the same thing...Agreed ...via AlertThingy - John Pretto

google bought jaiku, why should they buy twitter, too? ...via AlertThingy - Timo Heuer

I can understand FriendFeed, but Twitter ... Friendfeed need to add more browsing controls, tag clouds, filters etc.... ...via AlertThingy - Alemsah

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Who would like to write a guest post on my blog? It's one way to get your ego fed by getting on http://egos.alltop.com/”

April 17 at 8:38 am - Link

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Wouldn't mind writing one Robert if you think I'd be good enough ...via twhirl - Tom Raftery

Sure, just when I posted about your twitter stream being too hard to keep up with. My last post was "Twitter and FriendFeed: Information Overload". That would have been good. - Rob Diana

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I forgot all about alltop ...via twhirl - Bwana McCall

writing on your blog about the never ending story of ego .. sure ...via AlertThingy - Frédérick 2 Baro

what topic do you prefer robert ? ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

Love to:) ...via AlertThingy - DC Crowley

Yeah! I am testing it! ...via twhirl - Javier Duro

Bret Taylor posted a link

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

April 15 at 11:13 pm - Link

Roshan D, d e f c o n, Emily Miller, msnoulten and 32 other people liked this

i am a total xkcd fazn..so funny. - susan mernit

Wait -- are you parsing xkcd now when someone links it? Very nice. - DeWitt Clinton

Is this a comment on my music Bret? (the mouseover in particular sounds familiar) - Paul Buchheit

I will defend techno to the end. http://www.last.fm/user/louism... - Louis Gray

it seems you don't know this kind of music, techno is more than you said but it's funny ...via AlertThingy - tintin

LOL - Chris Reed

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“@barackobama probably could pull in $100,000 a month in advertising revenue.”

April 14 at 11:47 pm - Link

Kevin, Ryan, Casey Sheldon and Panayotis Vryonis liked this

Coz he's people's man. - Jack

Check out my article on Obama's use of internet tools: http://mathoda.com/archives/18... - Ranjit Mathoda

Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“It never ends!!! @ShelIsraeli joins us at Mahalo for the day.... http://tinyurl.com/66sgsc”

April 15 at 7:16 am - Link

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April 15 at 12:46 am - Link

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I couldn't really understand what he was saying, but I think he disagrees with Jason... - Jeremy Herbel

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Update: Fring’s Jailbroken iPhone App Now Live

April 15 at 7:41 am - Link

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Bret Taylor posted a link

Adobe AIR Desktop App For FriendFeed Coming

March 29 at 2:18 pm - Link

Javiɗ, Jeroen De Miranda, Elliott Ng, David Kaspar and 85 other people liked this

"We just heard that Howard/Baines will be releasing an Adobe AIR application for FriendFeed in the next week or so. So far all we have is the screen shot and a confirmation from Baines that his team is working on it. The application will be called Alert Thingy." I like the name :) - Bret Taylor

Now if someone could just combine a FF / Twitter Adobe AIR app -- making sure that tweets weren't duplicated -- that'd be super! Otherwise, it's annoying to feel compelled to run both (and no, I cannot convince all my friends on Twitter to sign up for FF, nor do I feel like creating Imaginary Friends for all of them). - Adam Lasnik

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Thing is, I love the simple web-based FF interface. Too slick to make the switch. FF + Fluid + Fluid plug-ins = winner - Aviv

I don't feel the need to abandon the FF interface. In fact, I see myself doing other activities from within FF - http://ffapps.com/tabs/ - Aviv

Can't wait for this! It's going to be awesome. - Brandon Titus

Its about frackin' time. What took so long? :) - Tony Hung

Yes! My continuous partial attention does a little jig! - Ashton

I don't like the msgs popping up... - terababy

I sure hope it runs better then TWIRL - Noah David Simon

@Noah: Better than twhirl? I've never had issues with it. - Voyagerfan5761

Twirl has not has issues, it just happens to rely on the twitter api being up, which is the unreliable part. As long as the FF API can keep up with demand an Adobe Air app that works as good as twirl would be sweet. - Christian Burns

I'll wait for a non AIR app thank you :) - Steven Hodson

An iGoogle gadget would do me fine :)) - ceebee

THX 4 invitatiojn- guess my computerallergy holds me away from all this kind of internet friendship thing. Somehow too much letters...u know what I mean? Maybe it takes some time to come into that stuff. Virtual??? Prefer real air, trees and touch...talk soon NOAH. - Natascha Engelmann

Ceberius: http://www.google.com/ig/adde?... - Philipp Lenssen

@Philipp : oh wow! thanks! - ceebee

I'll be happy once Adobe AIR comes out for Linux. - possible248

@possible248 labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html btw ive been running adobe air through wine for over a month here is how you install it with wine www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-adobe-air-and-xdrive-desktop-lite.html - d e f c o n

@defcon: I'll bet he'll like that link. I pointed it out over Twitter, but you never know; twhirl supposedly has some issues on Linux platforms that aren't fixed yet. Wine might take care of the problems. And BTW, links are automatically, er, linked if you start them off with http:// - Voyagerfan5761

I much prefer my online services to stay in browser windows - it's too confusing for my poor british brain otherwise! - Slippy Lane

@Slippy: I used to think that about Twitter, until I discovered twhirl... But don't let me influence your decision. ;-) - Voyagerfan5761

Just in case anyone wanted an updated screen shot to watch while they are waiting - http://screencast.com/t/oZHpF3... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

@Jeremy: Sweet program! At least, the looks are good and it appears to have all the functionality of the site. I won't pry for a release date. :-) - Voyagerfan5761

Just got drag and drop image uploading on share... getting real close!! (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

You coders just constantly amaze me with your ability to whip this stuff up! - Phil Ashman

can't wait to see the final product - you don't need some more beta testers by any chance, Jeremy? :) - Frederic

@Frederic: I considered asking, but figured the answer was obvious. @Jeremy: So, do you? :D - Voyagerfan5761

Those lucky enough to be at the adobe AIR Tour - London yesterday would have seen a demo of the app plus a demo of a couple of bugs we need to fix :). The launch is currently being held up by thawte who we are waiting on to issue our digital certificate! Once that is done we are good to go. Thanks for all the offers, we have enough beta testers on windows and mac for now, but would be interested in anyone running AIR on linux! (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

...and if you want to follow me and the kinds of apps we build then please subscribe to me or follow me on twitter (jeremybaines) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

@Jeremy: Will all comments posted via Alert Thingy have that tagline? Oh, and I believe @possible248 on Twitter (and here) is running AIR on Linux. - Voyagerfan5761

@Voyagerfan5761 yes they will. We think it's ok to ask for a bit of PR if we are giving you an app free. What do you think? It would be nice if there was a proper place to put the "via...." link, like on twitter, but the guys at FriendFeed have not provided anything like that for us yet! Bret.. are you listening??? (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

I would prefer to have the "via Alert Thingy"-tagline independent from the comment itself. I second that request. - sebmos

Ok that is 2 of us - Is that enough to change the API Bret? How many votes do I need? :) - Jeremy Baines

Of course, some of us might feel that reading a few words of advertising along with each comment is, you know, not exciting. - j1m

Adding the source to entries and comments from the API makes a lot of sense. I will think about it and take a look at what Twitter does, and come back with something. - Bret Taylor

@Jeremy - would be happy to try it out on Linux :) - Frederic

I'm so ready for this app, it hurts - Bwana McCall

@bret How are you getting along with the beta we sent you yesterday? (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

WANT. drool... - Phil (scribkin)

I seriously seriously want this! but agree w/Adam - combo app would ROCK - Sarah Perez

Regarding the attribution for comments, how about adding a conditional "from %APPNAME%" tag wrapped in <small> tags after the name? It would be displayed only if there was a valid source for that comment. Thumbs-up? -down? - Voyagerfan5761

Get your copy of v1.0 - http://alertthingy.com/ (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

Its up now :) (via Alert Thingy) - Tony Hung

Nice. I have it up and running (via Alert Thingy) - Bwana McCall

If you like it so far so us your digg love - http://digg.com/software/Frien... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

sounds cool - shandiz

Just installed! Could do with customizable opacity, but otherwise it's just figuring out how to use it right now. w00t! (And making Enter save the comment...) (via Alert Thingy) - Voyagerfan5761

Is there a central location for feedback/suggestions? (via Alert Thingy) - Bwana McCall

you can send us email - help@alertthingy.com (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

Yeah, seriously way too transparent with no settings control. Other than that looks great. - Marston Alfred

Shameless blog comment fishing: http://voyagerfan5761.blogspot... I figured this was an appropriate venue for that link. :-) - Voyagerfan5761

preeeeeeetty good (via Alert Thingy) - David Bausola

I like it! (via Alert Thingy) - Tibor Paulsch

AT works okay but needs user prefs editable. Opacity is a must. (via Alert Thingy) - Jay Gilmore

It's great! (via Alert Thingy) - Dennis Leung

Agreed on opacity. I'm slouching to read it properly. A font size control would be nice, too (tad small for my dodgy eyes). Something I've noticed - when a new thing comes in, the Alerts page is scrolled all the way to the top. Problems with this: A) I lose my reading place; and B) if I'm writing a comment (as here), I lose what I've already written. (via Alert Thingy) - Cyvros/fyc

We hear you on the opacity thing. Good point about scroling up when writing a comment (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

Anybody for marking items as seen, a la twhirl? It seems that would be useful for keeping one's place. - Voyagerfan5761

tried it out; seems just like a web browser... NEEEEDS functionality for me to re-consider using it - The Product Guy

@Voyagerfan5761: Aye. - Cyvros/fyc

It is cool. But: turned off sounds and they are back. Window scales, but not the text size. very small! oh, and while I was writing a comment in a tiny box an update came in and my comment so far just vanished... (via Alert Thingy) - Alex von Halem

@ Alex von Halem thanks I have added those to my list :) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

@Jeremy Baines thanx. restarting stopped the sounds (perhaps just a note, that saving settings is not enough). Liking it more and more. Just a wee thing: when you hit the "comment" button: shouldn't your cursor start flashing in that field instead of having to click into it as well? Keep it up, it's going to be a winner! (via Alert Thingy) - Alex von Halem

Couple more trivial things with the comments: the comment box doesn't expand like the site's does and 'Enter' doesn't send - you have to click the Submit button. Nice to have a Cancel button there in AT, though. - Cyvros/fyc

Also good! they make the list ;) - not actually sure when we will have time to finish everything on the list! but nice to have one so we know what needs doing ;) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

nice! - Sandosh Vasudevan

Just installed it. I don't like it (alert thingy)... much prefer the FF interface. But kudos to you on the "remote key" -- solid idea. - Michael Leggett

I don't think it hides the entries set to be hidden on FF. Anyone else can confirm this? - Turker Keskinpala

@Turker: I wrote about that this morning, so yeah, I can confirm. It's still showing my hidden stuff as I type this. I think the fault lies with the FriendFeed API, though. So far as I know, there's no indication of hiding status available. - Voyagerfan5761

Turkey and Voyagerfan5761: I will work on this today. We are not passing the "hidden" bit through to the API properly. - Bret Taylor

@Bret - can you look at the hide issue.. we are getting the hidden stuff showing in the API - Jeremy Baines

Thanks Bret. FF web interface is so fast and usable that it is not easy to switch to a desktop application. Nevertheless, good work Jeremy Baines. - Turker Keskinpala

It really is a nice piece of work, but I find the whole dark/translucent thing too hard to read. I also miss the collapsing of long comment threads (like this one). In fact, I didn't realize how nice a feature that was until I didn't have it and had to scroll and scroll to get to a new comment. - Chris Johnson

Can someone explain to me, in 42 words or less, why an app like this is better than just accessing FF over the web? Color me seriously confused. I'd try it myself, but I get an error anytime I try to download it (and yes, I have Air installed). - Adam Lasnik

@Adam Lasnik - Firefox can't handle a lot of tabs (non beta) and I'd rather use Alert Thingy or bTittleTattle then leave FriendFeed open in Firefox. (via Alert Thingy) - Corvida

@corvida ahh but, FF3 beta is solid and handles a wealth of tabs with great aplomb. :) I've got my eye on AT, but for now it taketh more functionality than it giveth. I suspect with all this attention, though, it will soon giveth a lot more! - felix

Corvida, or you could do what I do when I want to keep one or two tabs open persistently and easy-to-switch-to (e.g., Pandora): open them in Internet Exploder. What I was hoping to hear was that this Air app offered intriguing / helpful "extras" that one doesn't innately get in the web version. For instance, I use Twhirl because it aurally alerts me to direct messages AND displays all messages to me in chron order on one scrolling page -- something not offered on the Twitter web page. - Adam Lasnik

@Felix I FF Betas crash on me way more than FF2 and that's more important to me. @Lasnik I don't have IE installed =P Don't want to keep 2 browsers open anways, it's defeating the point in a way. I'm still wasting resources, though I think Alert Thingy is less of a waste. - Corvida

Okay, just tried it on another computer. Not for me. I find it much harder to read/scan stuff on it vs. the web page. - Adam Lasnik

Restart your copies of AlertThingy v1.1 is here! ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines

search not working for unicode content? o_O ...via AlertThingy - minus-one

Nice, but my hidden stuff's showing up in Friendfeed so all the duplicate twitter action is annoying me. ...via AlertThingy - brad sucks

Yup! that is anoying! But a FreindFeed API issue not AT ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines

i love this application and can't live without it. ...via AlertThingy - Kevin

Alertthingy's coming along nicely! I'll post a couple of suggestions on your site. ...via AlertThingy - Phil Ashman

http://shegeeks.net/feedalizr-... - John Kotsaftis

Thwirl now offering FF integration on AIR - Steaprok

Just installed Twhirl 0.7.9 with FF support. Anyone care to tell me why AlertThingy is better? I'm kinda Twitter centric which is why I choose Twhirl. - Elliott Ng

did you try the friendfeed firefox extension? it's called MySocial 24x7. - Sindhu Sundar

Personally My social i am finding great on my laptop just having it all there in front of my and not haing to swap spaces to see what Alert thingy is doin ...via AlertThingy - John Spencer

I moved onto alerthingy from friend feed, stricly based on aesthetics. ...via AlertThingy - Omodudu

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

AlertThingy, The FriendFeed Desktop Application, Launches

April 13 at 5:31 am - Link

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Is TechCrunch...*gulp*... down? - Bwana McCall

This is really nice - I just wish it did some of the grouping and comment trimming like the FF site did - it's pretty verbose. - felix

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If you like it so far show us your digg love - http://digg.com/software/Frien... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

@felix: It doesn't appear to be hiding the stuff I have configured on the site. And the semi-transparency is driving me batty - can we get a setting for that? - Voyagerfan5761

@Voyagerfan5761 yeah, I'm with you on that. I wish it had a more twhirl like configurability on a few fronts. More generically, I wish that AIR was a better desktop citizen with more OS appropriate chrome. AlertThingy next to Twhirl sort of highlights the wild west of AIR apps. - felix

Thanks for all the comments! keep them coming, although remember this is just a v1.0! - Jeremy Baines

when minimized, can it not show up on the taskbar? (via Alert Thingy) - Craig

@Jeremy: More in-depth comments on my blog, hot off the keyboard: http://voyagerfan5761.blogspot... I'm looking forward to all the enhancements I'm sure are already in the works for v2.0! :-) - Voyagerfan5761

The font size is tool small for me. Comments written in Chinese is almost unreadable. Can we get a setting for "font" ? - Roger Chen

This def needs to group stuff like the site does, I'm getting overrun by Scoble (via Alert Thingy) - Ryan

Currently I'm only using it for popup alerts, nothing more. It has potential, but it's not ready for everyday use for me. - Vince DeGeorge

Wow the response has blown me away - http://www.flickr.com/photos/a... (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

Commenting here from AlertThingy (via Alert Thingy) - Tad - just Tad

@TechCrunch sending a comment via alertthingy, testing, 1, 2, 3, (via Alert Thingy) - Julio

Wow, this is really takes personal broadcasting to a new level. Amazing that Adobe has found itself in the middle of a revolution. Brilliant. (via Alert Thingy) - Yaron Samid

Alert Thingy definitely needs tweakig of its interface with respect to mouse/keyboard interaction (via Alert Thingy) - David Blumenstein

why is this transparent...and for petes sake lets get some color. (via Alert Thingy) - Zee at WeDoCreative

trying to think of a reason to be excited about alertthingy ! - Murali

I told it to turn off the sounds and it still plays them when a new alert comes in. FAIL! (via Alert Thingy) - Jared Mehle

@Jared: Same things happening for me. (via Alert Thingy) - Cyvros/fyc

@ Jared Mehle - you hit save, right? - Jeremy Baines

@Jeremy: Don't know about Jared, but I hit save, restarted the app, sounds kept going, so I selected, saved, unselected and saved. Still getting sounds. - Cyvros/fyc

OK thanks, will look at that one. Apart from a few glitches, I hope some of you are enjoying the app :) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines

I was frustrated with Friendfeed because it screamed for a twhril style interface. This looks really promising. (via Alert Thingy) - Michael Groner

Wow, that really looks awesome. (via Alert Thingy) - Martin Gommel

For the sounds to stop, turn them off, save and then restart AlertThingy. After that they stopped for me. (via Alert Thingy) - Ryan

I guess there is no need for Twhirl now? - Cesar H Castro Jr

Cesar, you can't post to twitter from Alert thingy (yet). I imagine Twhirl is going to add FriendFeed in the future. I'll be watching that one with close interest. - Bwana McCall

Jeremy, nice version 1. Do you plan on integrating with Twitter as well directly? Output as tweet? The future is like a search engine choice, send a tweet, jaiku, friendfeed or what have you. (via Alert Thingy) - Jason

Its a good start but the transparency needs to be worked out and the ability to hide things like twitter (seeing as how I get double posts for tweets via twhirl and alertthingy, still need twhirl not all of my twitter friends use friendfeed atm) - BCK

Gotta say that if twhirl would let me switch channels between ff and twitter, its big lead in features would lock alert thingy out for quite a while. - Janet Tokerud

Runs very high CPU, around %10 on my MacBook Air. Its not normal. (via Alert Thingy) - Ahmet Oren

neat v1.0. can do with some more configuration options though. useful. (via Alert Thingy) - Rajiv

problem with alert thingy: if a FF notification occurs while you're typing in your comment. you lose your comment and must start over. very bad (via Alert Thingy) - Baratunde Thurston

It's great, just a couple of little issues, when I double-click on the system-tray icon it should restore the app (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven

And auto-linking urls in comments would be nice too - Glenn Slaven

Oh, and can the alert bubble please not steal focus? (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven

I, too, would love it if links were auto-linked. More config options on the interface would be lovely as well! Other than that I love it so far! (via Alert Thingy) - Bob

Air gets more and more useful. But both Thwirl and Alert Thingy NEEDS color settings. I find both of them a bitt annoying when it comes to colors... (via Alert Thingy) - Oyvind Solstad

This should boost my FF use exponentially, as twirl did my Twitter use. Agree that it should minimize to system tray, though, and get off the taskbar. (via Alert Thingy) - Jandy Stone

If you click the close 'x' link it minimises to the system tray rather than the taskbar (via Alert Thingy) - Glenn Slaven

I wish the lower-right alerter alerted me more often. Refreshing FF proves to be much more "current". - Mike Reynolds

that alpha is KILLING my font - anyway to change? (via Alert Thingy) - martin ollman

even though i unchecked the sound box, I'm still hearing it. And it just scared the sh*t outta me. (via Alert Thingy) - Andy Sternberg

I'm also getting sounds when I have the sound off. Just woke up the gf b/c the stupid preferences don't work :-/ (via Alert Thingy) - Bob

It's a good start. Hope it fix the font size issue soon. Maybe a different color theme will make it easier to read. Also, hope it could also display the poster's image from the profile (via Alert Thingy) - Joel Yen

This and Twhirl will most likely be always on my desktop. At what point do I start haveing a varienty of AIR apps vs one firefox session? (via Alert Thingy) - Monty

Restart your copies of AlertThingy v1.1 is here! ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines

jeremy, you are not seriously adding that message everywhere? this is what apps have a built in notifier for ... - Nicole Simon

Comments are no longer automatically displayed, now you have to click on "Show all 50 comments"... hoping the sound problem was fixed in 1.1 ...via AlertThingy - Bob

@Bob yes the sound problem should be fixed. Let me know if you have any more issues with it. ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines

Some issues need to be worked out, like not dumping my comment while I am typing it when a new alert comes in. More configuration options needed. Also, some interaction with twitter such as sending a new tweet or replying would be nice. Not sure how the thwurl people would like that though. I am really liking it so far regardless of all that. (via Alert Thingy) - Rolf Schewe

I'm no longer having the sound problem so it looks like you fixed it ...via AlertThingy - Bob

For those discussing the frequency of the alerts, the only real-time tweet client I believe is Gtalk. (via Alert Thingy) - Rolf Schewe

@ Rolf - try restarting the app to get an update and some of those issues should be fixed! ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines

i wish there was Miranda addon for this... i gotta stop tryin out all these new clients. Too much clutter :-( ...via AlertThingy - Siddharth Mitra

Test 12345 _._. _ _._ (via Alert Thingy) - Johnny R

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Google’s “five year plan” to get into Enterprise continues

April 13 at 11:50 pm - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Wow, I just passed 20,000 people I'm following. That's just crazy.”

April 13 at 8:03 am - Link

Rolf Schewe, Beau Giles, Beau Liening, felix and 6 other people liked this

how do you deal with filtering/reading it? - Amund Tveit

i'd like to know how you do that too, i assume you're not getting your twits from your mobile cos that'd be crazy (via Alert Thingy) - Josiah Lau

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Holy cow - maybe that's why you have not replied on my facebook messages? ;-) - Michael Christensen

20,000 is a lot, but it's still only about 2% of Twitter users :) - Mike Reynolds

@Mike: Next up, "Robert Scoble follows entire Twitter userbase". - Cyvros/fyc

Wow, how does one actually "follow" so many people on Twitter or FF? - Christopher Yeo

I know UR crazy! I cant even keep up with my 100 followings! - Lakshman Prasad

It's amazing how few people use Google Talk or understand just how I can keep up with this level of tweeting. I will do a video on this topic. - Robert Scoble

Robert, it's *NOT* amazing how few people use Google Talk. It *IS* amazing how many convos you can keep up with. I'll watch the video though! - Robert Seidman

You can almost fill half a baseball stadium with all your followers (via Alert Thingy) - Rolf Schewe

It may seem crazy, but It's a heck of an audience to interact with. (via Alert Thingy) - Rick Mahn

*lol* my hometown has roughly that amount of people. - Nicole Simon

#crazy (via Alert Thingy) - kosmar

Whats the signal to noise ratio here? How do you cut out time wasted on enormous amount of noise? (via Alert Thingy) - Vinuth M. Madinur

you do not actually follow...you have a embed filter in your head and you see the words or people you track right in your sunglass...at night you have to make a backup of all your data because just during the night your brain get overburned by so much information..of course when you're in the toilet you can print by bluetooth right from your brain the stuff you want to read on your toilet paper or the stuff you want to use to clean your assoff.. :)) (via Alert Thingy) - Ben Borges

I can't wait to see this video. Although I don't know if I really need to learn how to efficiently follow more people. I already spend enough time reading random stuff from Twitter... - elroy