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First lesson on the FF beta - don't try to scroll with the mouse. Use the keyboard
lolise, Amy H., Bob Caswell and 6 other people liked this
Second lesson: If you want to stop the scrolling use the pause or click on comment like you could in the old UI -- just be careful about the queue
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Third lesson: FILTERS
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Hell, I'm almost 40, and I don't think I could handle the kind of scruitiny we're expecting a 17 year old girl to handle.
A.T., Jeff P. Henderson, Brad Nickel and 4 other people liked this
I know i could not which is why I will not run for office. Whom do you blame; media or mother?
- R. Ferguson
Our culture that doesn't encourage use of profilactics. No need for anyone to get pregnant in today's society, but if you don't have condoms or other methods available in your home when the lust hits, and it always does hit because we're human, then stuff like this happens.
- Robert Scoble
I love the "it always does" because it's so amusing to those of us who actually exercised self-control until we were married. Just because you have no willpower does not give you the right to assume that no one else does.
- Glen Mistletoe
Glen: true enough. But assuming that humans can keep it zipped up causes way more harm than assuming the opposite.
- Robert Scoble
Good pt Glen, but sadly you have to admit the majority fit Robert's description. 7th graders are sexually active these days.
- R. Ferguson
@Glen: I agree my wife and i waited along with a lot of other people I know... so just because some people don't have the desire to wait until they are married doesn't mean everyone can't. i would be interested if there are stats on abstinence till marriage and how many people waited
- Jonathan Jesse
I.U.D.s FTW!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
The whole thing is depressing. Did McCain and Palin not think this would become an issue? Did they discuss it with her 17 year old daughter? They both knew this issue existed and would become public, yet they both made the decision to go forward.
- Andrew
I'd never advise anyone to wait until they're married to have sex. That sounds like horrible advice to me. On the other hand, I'd certainly tell 7th graders they have no business fooling around. I think responsible sex ed is a million times better than advocating for strict abstinence.
- Internet's Tad
Ruth, I'm not going to point fingers at anyone. I don't feel comfortable doing it.
- cecily
@Andrew - Exactly!
- Brad Nickel
Andrew over the weekend Palin or her staff indicated that the children thought they were coming to Ohio to celebrate their parent's anniversary and was unaware of her selection. That does not preclude them possibly talking to the daughter privately.
- R. Ferguson
Brian, it changed during my generation. Ppl rightfully did not want to condemn folks. Now it has evolved to the point it is common place and no one blinks an eye. Don't know what the right answer is myself.
- R. Ferguson
well said Brian
- R. Ferguson
The new FriendFeed beta is very nice, but Mozilla's Ubiquity is WOW. Can't believe they did that. Ensures I'll never use IE8.
Joshua Oehler, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Mitch and 73 other people liked this
kinda blows MSFT's 'smart tags' outta the water.
- MikeAmundsen
+1 FTW!
- ~C4Chaos
- just read the VentureBeat article and watched the Mozilla Labs video...amazing! Hope it gets near "live" soon.
- JA Castillo
JA: I'm using it right now and it does, indeed, rock.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: Have you created your own rules or are you working from what has already been created?
- JA Castillo
For someone who is not code literate and such, how easy/difficult would it be to create your own rules?
- JA Castillo
JA: I am just going with what has already been created so far. I've only had it for a couple of jet lagged hours! :-)
- Robert Scoble
It is the easiest way to search ever!
- Andrew
WOW!!! Ubiquity is awesome. Just the kind of thing I have envisioned.
- Allen Blair
Mozilla just created the killer webapp. Astounding! Thank you Moz
- Keith - @tsudo
indeed, i am amazed no one has come up with this before!
- Justin Long
I dunno, kinda seems like the Activities feature in IE8 Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
- Brandon LeBlanc
from twhirl
Ha, so that's what I read about FF command line... I like it, but he... I like command lines...
- Egon Willighagen
@brandon: yes - activites (i said smart tags before - oops). but i'm not sure they have the same 'angle.' seems like (since i've not tried Ubiquity) is user interface and that activities is a programming interface.
- MikeAmundsen
this is yubnub done right. heck someone can make a simple bridge to yubnub :). What will be "dangerous" about this Ubiquity is its viralness. People will immediately shares commands. Hopefully not worm and viruses.
- Toni @ NavinoT
Just installed Ubiquity and love it. I've not used IE for years and don't plan to.
- Brett Nordquist
I installed it last night and I just love it, go on Moz crew!!!
- Daniele Russolillo
Brilliant! reading the tutorials right now.
- Nir Ben Yona
from twhirl
Jus checked it out and it rocks!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
IE8 makes all the websites I visit look like complete crap. If they're asking developers to use tags in their HTML so that IE8 will think it's IE7, that can't be a good sign.
- Aaron Myers
I've been using YubNub and Slickrun for many months -- I'm not sure yet that Mozilla Ubiquity is a significant step forward.
- Sean McBride
What Mozilla's Ubiquity ? Any link to share?
- Arjun
UbiQ blows my mind away. Have been playing around with it all day. Just hoping that they imprve usability in the coming versions. Tweeting from UbiQ is a breeze, I'm guessing this is going to increase load on Twitter APIs like crazy!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
I installed Ubiquity late last night, and yes, it does have the WOW factor for me as well. I want to see how easy it is to create commands, after viewing the vid. Nice work.
- Henry Burger
from twhirl
It sounds great for power users. I was also imagining a sidebar type app that would be suggesting things to do with stuff. Select an address and it would pop up a map and give you the option to email it. This way no need for new users to know text commands or have to think what might be the word to use.
- John Cooper
Sidebar is a great idea...also "chaining" commands. What if i want to tinyurl something (or two) and insert into a twit (or email..). Also if you don't use gmail (gasp), launching the OS native URL handlers like mailto:.
- Richard Goodwin
Ubiquity looks cool, but is very similar to what can be done with Quicksilver on Mac.
- Martin Añazco
if you like ubiquity you'll be sure to love http://www.humanized.com/enso that's Aza Raskin's work before he joined mozilla, so you can see where the inspiration comes from :)
- Chris Jones
watching the video for ubiquity @ mozilla labs now .... whoa
- John Blanton
I am yet to try out Ubiquity yet but your WOW has convinced me to check it out later ha!
- Joe Dawson
Where do these smart people come from. Very cool.
- Kenley Neufeld
this changes the way I can work... but what motivates me to change this way.
- Stewart Rogers
Anybody found a FF Ubiquity command to subscribe to yet?
- Grey Drane
help me, the editor is making me want to learn code. ARRRRRRGH!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
It's addictive, much like 'Launchy'.
- Vinay | विनय
Just wrote a FriendFeed command for Ubiquity. Check it out! http://bit.ly/3UPXGP
- Brandon Titus
Yeah I love ubiquity too! Wonder what 1.0 will be like! :D
- JegerPhil - Phil
If you're running Ubiquity on Linux, I would advise NOT setting the hotkey to SHIFT+SPACE. Esp. if you're fond of capitalisation...
- wyclif
@Martin Añazco ya, it reminds me of Quicksilver and the command-line, too. I really love it!!!! It creates an awesome workflow that leads to inspired power browsing.
- barce
Thanks to your blog post about Ubiquity I began using it and can see how it will enhance my web experience
- Joshua Oehler
I'm filing a BBB complaint on Dreamhost. This is beyond wrong.
Bob Caswell liked this
mailing in my *MONEY ORDER* from a Post Office tomorrow. But guess what? they only check their MAIL at Dreamhost 2x per week according to the email. So I guess I'll be back up and running in an eternity from now.
- Sarah Perez
Chemical Party - http://www.seesmic.com/video...
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Jonathan Fusellier, ledretch, Tödd Nëmët and 20 other people liked this
very funny, i forwarded this to a friend who works at european commission. she answered to me that her unit was responsible for this spot. so little world ^^
- Baptiste Cadiou
from twhirl
Baptiste, indeed, please congratulate her for me
- Loic Le Meur
so awesome!
- MyTherapyNet
these elements are very hostile to heterosexuality. frankly.
- Noah David Simon
not sure what the tune is, but it sounds really like the collaborations Mark E Smith (from The Fall) did with Coldcut (early cut'n'paste house music pioneers) back in the late 80s ... http://www.mp3sale.ru/track...
- Tobias Peggs
Coming Soon: A Post-American World, With The Rise Of China And Other Economies, The "Golden Age" Of American Influence May Be Coming To An End - CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories...
Czar, James Guske, Erhan Erdogan and 52 other people liked this
No "may" about it
- Brian Sullivan
"Zakaria worries that one day historians will write about how the United States globalized the world, but forgot to globalize itself."
- Dave Winer
it could be a "may" if it were written a few years ago... otherwise....
- Jeremy Toeman
It's not such a terrible thing. It's a world economy. What we had going here couldn't last forever. Now we just have to stop doing things that disadvantage us, and we'll do okay. We need to get to work on our education system, health care, infrastructure, and stop borrowing all that money for things that don't create value -- like the war in Iraq.
- Dave Winer
You know if McCain started talking like that he might win the election. The thing that's scary is that he doesn't seem to understand where we fit in. Our army isn't going to convince a lot of our adversaries and all of his bluster is going in the wrong direction.
- Dave Winer
And still, people are overlooking South America. China and Russia are slowly building alliances with other countries, bypassing the United States...
- Mona Nomura
BTW, I think it's very cool that the Chinese are opening plants in the US. I'd like to dig into that and find out why it was economic for them to do that. Maybe they just did it for PR purposes. It's hard to imagine that our labor costs less than theirs.
- Dave Winer
For those who follow the recent goings-on in the Anglican Communion, it's intersting to note that much of the debate is North-South centered, with some concluding that the North is moving toward a phase of Laodicean irrelevance.
- Ontario Emperor
In *only* 30 yrs. China has been steadily moving from the centralized planning of socialism to free markets and capitalism....Meanwhile the U.S. has been moving in the opposite direction...U.S. citizens would be wise to go back to their roots, because the China horse has left the barn.
- Chris Rossini
There is obviously a lot for the US to be concerned about and I don't think it's necessary for the US to be the sole superpower. It's probably better for us if we're not bc obviously we aren't very good at it. That said, I have some real concerns about what we're seeing from China and what's really going on. If I had a lot of money, I would probably spent more investing in India than...
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- Ray Grieselhuber
This makes the same amount of sense it did when Leo Laporte proposed this idea during the opening ceremony - that is none at all.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Technically ... until China floats it's currency, we're subsidizing them. Free trade at some point needs to be fair free trade.
- Charlie Anzman
we made our bed. soon, sleepytime!!
- Anthony Citrano
boy 'yall thinks this is a good thing? I'm just glad to be here and not there. if the rest of the world wants to bend over for tyranny, cheap labor and unrestricted industrialization... then let them destroy their land. ...and they can hate me all they want. ah yes the joys of socialism that is not sustainable, so now they have to be a bunch of predators. I'm just glad we aren't voting Obama for president or we might end up like them. A green ghetto makes a carnivore
- Noah David Simon
Bull shit bunch of Propaganda! American imperialism is not finished but just starting! Watch for New World Order!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
they should of put you in the gulag Igor. Goodnight!
- Noah David Simon
Noah yes Solzhenitsyn! I speak the Truth and Fuck U!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
absolutely..."no 'may' about it'
- Harold Cabezas
from feedalizr
It already ended. Depression mode ahead!
- Michael Forian
Just added Fareed Zakaria's book to my Amazon.com wish list.
- Mike Reynolds
Agreed with Dave Winer. This doesn't mean some post-apocalyptic future for America; just less American dominance in various areas.
- Brent Newhall
you can have your Chinese mob glut of human meat and I will take America and it's breadbasket of food, plentiful natural gas and running on Chevy Volts in a few years. Wind and Solar going faster then any other country. America is BACK! I just hope I can hold all of you to live outside of America's borders in a few years. Socialism and Dictatorships are flip sides of a coin. America might hit a few bumps down the road to energy independence, but I will take this road over any other.
- Noah David Simon
"one world, one dream" indeed but certainly not the american dream
- Brian Sullivan
mahnah mahnah
- Noah David Simon
中国的黄金时代即将到来
- terababy
Re: Introducing the New DISQUS - http://blog.disqus.net/2008...
Shey, Jamaican of FF and Bob Caswell liked this
"I'm having some trouble exporting comments too (trying to move them into Disqus from WP). I click the export button, there seems to be a delay, then I just get a blank frame. All my legacy comments are missing from the blog pages, and none of the old ones seem to be brought into Disqus yet. Ideas?"
- Anthony Citrano
Sounds like the new Disqus doesn't work with the new Wordpress? Argh! All my old comments are hiding!! :(
- Anthony Citrano
yikes
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Yeah it seems sort of dumb to release Disqus 2.0 with fanfare, only to find that the import/merge feature only works with WP 2.4 and earlier (and also to not bother mentioning this little factoid.)
- Anthony Citrano
To be clear: if I go to my legacy comments tab in my WordPress dashboard [Comments|Comments], I can see DISQUS -and- legacy comments. But the actual web pages do not show the legacy comments - they only show the DISQUS comments. My DISQUS admin dashboard [Comments|DISQUS] only shows the DISQUS comments.
- Anthony Citrano
Disqus 2.0 Wordpress Plugin Broken? http://disqus.disqus.com/disqus_...
- Anthony Citrano
looks like the new version from this morning (at http://media.disqus.com/disqus-...) might fix the sync issue. As I type, my Wordpress -> DISQUS import shows as "processing." One big issue - comments marked within Wordpress as "unapproved" or unpublished are now public and published on the pages. Argh. Guys, please .. is this a beta program?
- Anthony Citrano
Yeah, I'm having similar issues... I now have double the WordPress comments while Disqus only shows 2/3 of my comments. But the Disqus guys are working on it and hopefully we'll see a solution soon.
- Bob Caswell
And now I see that not only are unapproved comments showing up on random entries, so too are random entries showing up - in their raw ugly unvarnished XML form - inside comment threads. This is a wreck. I uninstalled it for now.
- Anthony Citrano
Twitter and FriendFeed Leave No Chance for a Balanced News Consumption to a Technology Blogger - http://www.profy.com/2008...
Tom Landini, Derrick Burns, Alexander Kohlhofer and 12 other people liked this
Every a-lister should read this post.
- Rick Powell
Rick, why do you think it is only valid for a-listers? I actually think that any blogger who chooses a specific niche can get into the same situation and share my concerns.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
I tend to agree with Svetlana on this one
- Steven Hodson
I didn't say "only" a-listers should read it, I just think they suffer from tunnel vision more than most of us. I read it and wondered why someone hadn't written it before now. I see the results of such myopia every day on every social network I participate in.
- Rick Powell
@Rick: Thanks for the clarification and it is the best compliment I could get, I think. And I think the reason for this myopia is pretty clear - you just get the type of information you subscribe to (or depending on the people you follow). But it is increasingly hard to get out of the coterie where you follow the same people everywhere and get the same information everywhere as well.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
Valid for all. Excellent point about tunnel vision or target fixation as my Dad likes to say. Try adding new folks in your area. Enable the FOAF's posts. Stop hiding tweets. Open yourself up to some more "noise" or flow and then tighten it back down again when you reach a more healthy equilibrium.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
The web can certainly make geographical boundaries disappear and in general that is a wonderful and amazing thing! But like with so many things in life, the key is moderation. I noticed a similar problem a few weeks back and asked people to recommend non-techie friendfeeders and then started hunting down some local bloggers to add to my RSS subscriptions. I'm still not 100% happy with the balance, but it's been very rewarding and I need to keep looking - thanks for the reminder!
- David Knight
Great read. I sent the link to some co-workers. We were just talking about stuff like this earlier.
- James Ferguson
It's really hard for people who are involved in the industry to spend too much time away from their bread and butter to engage in a broader range of interests (I'm not one of these people). Furthermore, other industries are (obviously) not as well represented in the social media circle. I've tried to find many blogs on natural science and psychology and was rather disappointed. The...
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- Derick Valadao
@Derick Unless you're in the Upstate region of South Carolina I don't know if you'll care about the feeds I found so far, but here's the thread where I found some good non-tech friendfeeders to follow - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- David Knight
This got me thinking.. Maybe I should get a newspaper subscription again.
- Alexander Kohlhofer
@David Knight: Supposing one was in the Upstate region of SC, and was looking for a little local color via the Tubes?
- Derrick Burns
@Mathew: This could have been a great advice for many people but unfortunately not me since in my area I don't personally know anyone (but my husband) who heard about Twitter at all - let alone FriendFeed. And I don't hide Tweets - I actually like the noise it brings. The problem is that all the noise I can get is technology-related mostly, this is the main reason for my concerns.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
@David: Glad I've reminded you about an important thing and even more glad I'm not alone with this feeling :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
@Derick: Excellent summary, this is exactly the problem for the tech blogosphere - we just focus on certain things and don't have either time nor often desire to venture elsewhere for diversity. Great it's not like this in other niches but they certainly may have other problems as well.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
AOL Launches buddyupdates Lifestreaming Service and Nobody Noticed - http://lifestreamblog.com/aol-lau...
Mark Krynsky, oliver gassner, karl dotter and Bob Caswell liked this
i just want to say, i found on friendfeed probably via Eric Rice. i'm not a tech person at all, but i had to subscribe to you because i like your style. recently i wondered about that because i still have no interest in techblogs. but i realized it was mostly your headlines. you write great headlines and actually make me want to click a link. but you also link to really great and interesting pieces, like this one. nice job and i'm glad i subscribed to you here.
- Admiral Anika
The power of a good demo - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
Larry Kless, Bob Caswell, Fuad Arshad and 9 other people liked this
Besides retailers, product reviewers do not show why one product is better than another. "The demo" in their articles are speed, battery life, etc. and not why someone would want it in the first place.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I can't wait to check this out, haven't seen it yet today. However, I have to reboot before I can hear it... because Vista thinks it knows better than me which Sound card drivers works better. On SP1, and I still think Vista sucks. Again.. dying to see what is so great about this. Great article, spectacular demos are great to get someone interested in the product, but the full product still has to be great to continue using it (I assume why Macs are doing so well).
- Tim Hoeck
Look at computer games... I'll download tons of demos because they "look cool", but I only continue to play a handful.
- Tim Hoeck
Nailed it, microsoft has some amazing technology that the general public knows nothing about. They have some of the worst pr/advertising strategy I have seen in a long time, an incredible waste of money.
- adolfo foronda
Well, I'm glad Scoble didn't jump on the tech blogosphere bandwagon of giving the Mojave experiment zero credibility. I think the Mojave experiment works for regular ol' consumers but not so much for techies. Here are my thoughts in more detail: http://bobcaswell.com/2008...
- Bob Caswell
The Mojave Experiment Launches - http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...
Christian Anderson, Bob Caswell, Mike Fruchter and 3 other people liked this
Sarah, I like your take much more than the "tech blogosphere" take of "Microsoft's flawed marketing which really is just tricking people." I think the Mojave experiment will work for regular ol' consumers but not so much for techies. Here are my thoughts in more detail: http://bobcaswell.com/2008...
- Bob Caswell
Good points, Sarah. Thumbs up or down on this tactic?
- Christian Anderson
@jonathank Thanks, glad you like the title. And I am dubious about a search engine that is all hyped based on PRs and fails to work properly
Bob Caswell liked this
Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying fcuk about Facebook?
Justin Davey, LogEx, Dominic Jones and 43 other people liked this
No.
- Michael C. Harris
Q: Does it need to be flying? You may be restricting your responders to a smaller subset of all people not giving said "fcuk" (flying or non-flying) about Facebook.
- Phil Crissman
Nope - I'm not just a member of the club, I'm the GD president.
- Internet's Tad
Okay I see your point. It doesn't have to fly. A regular old fcuk will do. :-)
- Dave Winer
I have to give one, it's the only social network that my friends belong to!!!
- Chris Rivait
You do care, otherwise you would not say that
- Gabriel
@chris, I have a lot of friends who are only on FB as well. But admitting something has functionality is not necessarily the same as _caring_ about it... if Facebook ceased to exist, said friends would find accounts on some other social network. Ergo, I really don't care much about Facebook... :-)
- Phil Crissman
Some of my friends are only on Facebook too.
- Morton Fox
+1... though throwing a flying fcuk on the Super Poking application may be a huge hit!
- Mona Nomura
you are not alone
- Rom Feria
No, you are not alone. I care just enough to glance at FB news when it comes over Google reader.
- Kreg Steppe
I wouldn't even bother giving Facebook a fcuk. Flying or otherwise...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Facebook? What's that?
- mace
What? Face...wtf?
- Ronald
sounds like you have no need for facebook?
- Chris Jones
from twhirl
Every time they make headlines I kind of glance at those headlines cringingly from the corner of my eye -- I don't care, and I don't want to care, but I do worry that they might get up to something that will require me to care.
- Tegan Dowling
not hardly
- No FB
I've never signed up. My life is too action packed to make trying to maintain superficial relationships worthwhile.
- Mrsth
Um...haven't used it yet and might never.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
No, you are not.
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
facebook's strength is in connecting you to people you know, whereas friendfeed/twitter connect you to people you dont know.
- Aziz Poonawalla
no, facebook and myspace are both going downhill. Making it have too much, or atleast trying to.
- Squid
I still really enjoy Facebook, not really over made up with the changes but I think they are foundations for something bigger!
- Joe Dawson
Facebook is for all the people in theory you know to act like dicks and brag about their shit and here is for meeting cool people who if are dicks you hide
- Cecil Sandus
There are braggers everywhere in all walks of life, every friend I have there is close or someone I respect! Well close as in they were a part of my life!
- Joe Dawson
No, even though I got an account s while back, I feel the same way as well...
- Queco Jones
I have way more 'friends' on Facebook than any other network, but I spend less time there, and engage in fewer meaningful interactions, by an order of magnitude. So, yeah, pencil me in for a failure to give a fcuk.
- Derrick Burns
I won't lose face
- William Meloney
All of my friends use it as well (it's that age group that Bill is talking about) and it's pretty much impossible to escape. The weird thing is, teens/young-adults are quick to use tools like Facebook and Myspace but rarely branch off of those large networks and venture into things like Twitter, Friendfeed, and the cooler, smaller apps.
- Brandon Titus
Nope. It's been blah since it was opened up to everyone and all those crappy applications starting appearing. Who cares who I virtually poke, super-hug, moon, or <insert verb here>? Total ridiculousness... I use it a bit for messaging friends who aren't on Twitter or FriendFeed.
- James Williams
Nope. It's useless.
- Sam Lawrence
from twhirl
I've visited Facebook twice this year, mostly to accept all my queued up friend requests. I'm finding that FriendFeed has really let me focus back on the true distributed nature of social apps, so I'm commenting more on blogs, tweeting, blogging myself, etc.
- Patrick Lightbody
No Dave. The marketing is in full effect. I'm not a fan on the new UI and I think they are overvalued. I do however, think they are loaded with talented people.
- Ryan
No one seems to use the social features much, except for the wall. The sharing stuff seems to be one-to-one, it's never a conversation :-/
- Rudolf Olah
against the tide facebook is a solid platform for storing lots of user generated content ... personal preference versus using several specialized services (youtube, flickr, etc.) - facebook is akin to a content management dashboard -especially if all the 3rd party apps are ignored. that said it is not particularly text/blog-centric ...
- Scott Moskowitz
add another one to the don't care for it list. i don't have anything against it other than my slight dislike of facebook "fanboys" and zuckerberg worshippers, but i don't see it benefiting me in any way
- Cee Bee
Wow, I guess I didn't realize how anti-facebook a lot of the community is... Facebook was introduced my freshman year of college, so it played a big part of my undergrad experience. It's been great to keep in touch with friends since graduation. As for the conversational piece, I think the "problem" is that most of the userbase are average users. not techno-centric. if you took the whole facebook community and stuck them on ff, the conversations wouldn't happen here either. The paradigm isn't there yet imo.
- Frankie Warren
I don't anymore.
- Parth Awasthi
Nope. Never used it, never will.
- Asteris Masouras
No flying fcuks here either, Dave
- TDavid
Never created an account with FB, probably never will. Did get notice from a professional contact that he'd tried to find me there but it still did not incent me to sign up. I created a MySpace account ages ago as it was the only place some of my personal contacts were, but unless I get notification one of them has sent me a message I never log in.
- Sally: gift wrapper
None at all? http://bit.ly/1raWrD
- Michael
I don't know why people think it's a good idea to send us links to TechCrunch articles in their pitches for RWW coverage. :)
David Sadigh, Mark Trapp, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 3 other people liked this
who went on a domain shopping spree? oh it was me: budlight.me, millerlite.me, cheetos.me, fritos.me, cheerios.me, fritolay.me (heh)
Bob Caswell liked this
I wonder if you registered sue.me as well.
- Robert Basil
hope you have money to hire a good lawyer, you are screwed!
- Jeff Martens
have you started kicking yourself yet?
- Mathew Spolin
This is the stupidest post ever. Why would you register something like that, those names are already protected.
- Brandon
ha! randomly enough, I have sued.me. Perhaps I can help? :-)
- Bob Caswell
we'll see...
- Jeff Woelker
Around the Net In Online Marketing: TechCrunch To Sell To News Corp.? - http://publications.mediapost.com/index...
Bob Caswell, Jeff Quinton and Erhan Erdogan liked this
If Everyone Shares Our Digg Practices, will Kevin Rose Admit Digg Is Still Gamed? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Sarah Perez, Bob Caswell, Hutch Carpenter and 2 other people liked this
I never use a digg and i don\'t understand what is it for...
- Petr Zagvazdin
I have never got the hang of digg but there is time for everything.
- Stephan Miller
from Alert Thingy
@Stephan: Definitely now it is not the right time to venture there if you never liked it - it has become even more complicated and full of surprises so maybe it's not worth your time, really.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
@Svetlana: Nicely put... I'm working on a blog post now that outlines my past life of "gaming" Digg. I'll keep you posted. I'm glad to see more people starting to admit this.
- Bob Caswell
@Bob, I'd love to get a link when you have the post up, really. I know some additional backstage information on other big blogs gaming Digg in many ways but I chose not to add it to the post itself unless the bloggers choose to reveal such practices themselves (and hopefully some of them will since it does not seem to be something extraordinary already, really).
- Svetlana Gladkova
I created an account many moons ago, but I don't think I've ever dugg a story. Digg's particular interests just don't match mine.
- Brent Newhall
Normally I myself actually digg something when asked by a friend, really. Right now Digg's particular interests can only match a 14-year old slightly geeky type. Something makes me think you are not :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
If you were allowed to Only visit 3 websites for the rest of your life, which three would you actually choose and why? All subdomains and folders of a particular domain count as one site.
Bob Caswell, Sean McBride, ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les) and 3 other people liked this
wikpedia.org, google.com, and the third one is hard... maybe something that lets me listen to any music i want for eternity - last.fm perhaps?
- Nathan Chase
from feedalizr
google, wikipedia, youtube
- Chris Harris
ah good call on youtube - can listen to music and watch videos there... I'll replace last.fm with youtube.com as well
- Nathan Chase
I should ban Google and Wikipedia from the discussion, but that would not be fair. Interesting how Google owns 2/3 of that list, and they are building a competitor to the other 1/3.
- Ben Parr
[like] :) flickr, last.fm, and friendfeed.
- edythe
FriendFeed,Twitter,Google
- Igor Poltavskiy
I would get off the Internet! Online does not make a Life!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Could I put the Internet Archive on the list? Otherwise google, youtube and facebook
- Rahul Das
I'm not sure there would be any value to visiting google search or friendfeed if you couldn't click the links to visit other sites. Maybe archive.org and google's cache would be more useful.
- Andy Murdoch
To me it's Wikipedia, Flickr, and Google News or a similar news aggregator, it does not make big difference (I have to get news somewhere, right?). But honestly, this is very difficult to imagine - 3 is such a small number. And how do we deal with emails, BTW, are email clients allowed at least instead of choosing one web-based email account?
- Svetlana Gladkova
flickr, youtube, google reader
- ha3rvey (chee-la-key-les)
FriendFeed, Google, Drudge Report
- Hutch Carpenter
Wikipedia; YouTube; FriendFeed.
- Parth Awasthi
Google Reader, Friendfeed, Youtube
- Sean McBride
internet limited to three domains is mock-up on The Internet. Not worthwhile loosing precious time.
- A.T.
... tho if I were chained to terminal... :) In worst case I would go web.archive.org (yes, circumventing your stupid rules), facebook (as largest medium for communication but not Myspace-alike junk yard) and wikipedia probably
- A.T.
Oh iPhone 3G - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Pure Phone Porn. NSFW.
- Louis Gray
LOL. Nice.
- Gary Bacon II
oh iphone 3g, oh yeah...
- MG Siegler
Not going to lie: that was creepy. And I watched way too much of it.
- Eric Florenzano
MG - you're making fun of that geek in the video unboxing his Macbook Pro. Right?
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
@larry - maybe, or just having a good time :) see post http://www.parislemon.com/2008...
- MG Siegler
@mg - I thought so. LOL! I din't se your post but I saw the Fanboy Zero video and you did a great interpretation of your own. :) Have fun with your pretty shiny iThing!
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
thx larry.
- MG Siegler
Louis I'm telling your Bishop ;) Wait, I saw it too, and I enjoyed every minute of it!
- Jesse Stay
HAHAHAHAHA, my side hurts so much after watching the original, which Siegler links to. Oh my Word.
- Tanya
This one is definitely hilarious, only a real geek can make it sound soooo sexy :)
- Svetlana Gladkova
at the louvre the other day, as we walked by paintings of the last supper, josh asked me if the disciples were Jesus' entourage
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Cause that's the way he rolled. ;)
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Expecting to see Jesus has a Posse stickers now!
- John Frost
Which one is Drama?
- Michael Markman
12 seems like a big entourage. or do i just need a bigger one?
- mike
I always used to be able to get a table if I reserved "Sinatra, party of 12".
- Oldengrey (Jay)
@mickeleh: Judas. Duh. Bringin' all that Roman drama into the garden. Bitch, please. Kiss the hand.
- Alexander Williams
from NoiseRiver
I just received Jason Calacanis' first email "blog." I'm very saddened that he decided to go back to email for a whole number of reasons. Let's talk about them.
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Push model of communication vs. conversation?
- Sprague D
Maybe you could start listing the reasons you know
- Brian Sullivan
Email seems so closed off - it prohibits growth. At least, that's how I see it...
- George Smith
I just received Calacanis' first email newsletter. Which is really his replacement for not blogging anymore. He makes several great points. 1. That commenters have destroyed blogging. 2. That Nick Denton's style of paying for page views instead of smart ideas has destroyed blogging. 3. That he seeks out a more intimate conversation. 4. That email is it.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Please forward them to post@posterous.com. Heheh. : )
- Erhan Erdogan
I am saddened because all of this is true. Except by going back to email he's taken us back to the 1990s where I can't share his ideas with others (he only will accept 1,000 subscribers, he says). He also is cluttering my email stream which is cluttered beyond breaking. Imagine if everyone did email newsletters...
- Robert Scoble
I don't know about you folks, but I just don't need any more email. I can't keep up with what I already have. I've started replying to my co-worker's emails with Office Communicator, in an attempt to ease the deluge. You'd think IT folks would know that it's not always necessary to hit "Reply All."
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
I think it harkens back to the glory days of yesteryear when there were email lists like the lockergnome. Maybe it's just nostalgia. I don't have a problem with commentors on my blog, but then, I don't have the numbers that Calacanis or Scoble have either. He says he has a problem and that an email list will alleviate those problems. We'll just have to see what happens and see if his experiment does work.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Here it is: http://robert_zrxrc.posterous.com/ -- he already has 1,100 subscribers.
- Robert Scoble
FF is the answer, possible a FF' room. Once FF becomes mainstream as a sharing and communication tool bogging activity will decrease significantly: if not FF will become the de-facto “bogging” platform.
- Joao
"I'm very saddened" ? what makes you sad and why ?
- Peter Dawson
that's one looong e-mail
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Robert - Jason hasn't taken anybody to the 90's except maybe himself. The whole thing smacks of ego anyway. I think better just to ignore Jason (I mostly did that before as well so not much change for me).
- Brian Sullivan
Peter: because what Jason says is true. It's why I've slowed down blogging lately. Blogging used to be about discussing ideas. Lately it's been about getting on Techmeme. I share the blame in that part of things. But even while that's been going on I've tried to read many times more stuff than what I write. It's why I still read hundreds of RSS feeds and participate here on FF (I like many, many, many times more items than what I start). But I hate his choice of media. Email is just the worst place.
- Robert Scoble
The remark on commenters is disingenuous -- he regularly turned off commenting on his blog when he didn't want to deal with blowback, unlike Robert who rarely disengages. For a guy who made $25 million off blogging, turning his back on the medium seems like bad faith, to me.
- Sprague D
funny the other day his max number of "subscribers" was going to be hard and fast at 750 and now it is 1,000 ... as usual he can't seem to make up his mind [edit] now I see it is up to 1,100
- Steven Hodson
I think the cap on subscriptions is interesting. Pushing the scarcity button ("Act now -- supplies are limited!") is considered a fairly low Jedi Mind Trick. [waves hand] Wasn't the cap 500 at first? Then 750? Now it's 1,000? Because you can only have an "intimate conversation" with 1,000 people? hahahahahahah...
- Karim
He *is* blogging -- after a sorts. Commenters haven't destroyed blogging, but many comments are noise and add no value. This is where the site owner needs to put on big boy pants and function as an editor. I can't fault Denton for paying for views. How does this affect Calacanis' site? Seeking Intimacy? Oh, the burdens of popularity ... ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Brian: I agree with that. I subscribed, but with my luck the newsletter will get thrown into my spam folder. Interesting that many bloggers started out with newsletters (Chris Pirillo and Dave Winer both had famous email newsletters before they moved to blogs).
- Robert Scoble
I don't like it , if you limit the communicatin to just who gets your email. Then it's a monologue not a conversation
- Kim Landwehr
Another place Jason is right? The need to have one-to-one smart conversations. If I didn't have those every day and just did my blog I'd be one sad puppy. It's the smart conversations that matter. Most of which I don't have an audience for while I'm having them.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Will you go on forwarding these on posterous? : ) I subscribe your posterous. ; ) Thanks for sharing.
- Erhan Erdogan
@robert , "Blogging used to be about discussing ideas. Lately it's been about getting on Techmeme." Agreed, but you can't solve a problem with the same mindset that created the problem and that goes to all the A-listers too.. They have always fought / jostled , manipulated the SM streams to get to their way to for google juice, page views/hits. etc Now all of a sudden, its like wait.. whatever happened to the original idea of exchanging ideas ? Whatever happened to passion and integrity ?
- Peter Dawson
Erhan: I'll forward them when he has something smart to say. (and I remember to do it). :-)
- Robert Scoble
Peter now you know why I've focused so much of my energy on FriendFeed. I'm having a lot smarter conversations here than other places.
- Robert Scoble
I'll take the contrarian view: This email was the most relaxed, best, most enjoyable, insightful writing I've seen from Jason in a while. I'm an old school McLuhanite wrt the medium being the message. But sometimes, the message is the message. Sometimes the author is the message. Gotta let an author choose the medium. If this change boosts the quality of Jason's output, I'm glad he did it.
- Michael Markman
Scoble: I think you're wrong about blogging being all "about getting on Techmeme." As a blogger in a niche community, I can tell you that the VAST majority of bloggers out there don't care about or plan to get on techmeme. This particular problem (and all of the problems that you mention) lies in a very small subset of the blogging community--the "A-list", as it's put.
- Eric Florenzano
Robert: Calacanis's new official blog: http://robert_zrxrc.posterous.com/ : ))) You may change its name to "calacanissbug.posterous.com" : )))
- Erhan Erdogan
Robert, BUT BEWARE - the same thing is happening on FF too , the platform has changed, however the attitude is the same. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Peter Dawson
Robert, the one thing e-mail is severely lacking is the ability to thread a conversation so late comers don't jump in and ask the same questions that were already asked - or make the same points that were already made. Sure Jason has some points, but I'm not sure the direction he took is the road to travel... It does indeed sound like he wants to 'recapture' something that was lost, but I can't help hearing you (Robert) start ringing the innovation bell rather than what equates to throwing in the towel.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I blog, comment and email. I have a large target audience - non-tech, non-connected biz owners, who prefer the email format. Of course I invite conversation, and try to direct people back to my blog, but the large percentage of my readers are passive - so email works.
- Lorraine Ball
I have to say I agree with Michael Markman on this one. I'm rather enjoying the tone of Jason's writing in these posts. It's brings me back to earlier writing of his that I enjoyed.
- Cathy Brooks
I think the move is rather ridiculous. I never really pay much attention to his stunts anyway, but I think that if one-way conversation were what he wanted, he could disable commenting. Perhaps, though, he doesn't want people talking about his "posts" elsewhere, like on FriendFeed. Strange.
- Jonathan Sterling
Peter Dawson, really great point. My aim is to find, create, join, or otherwise be part of mindshare... I want to expand my horizons and learn things. I like that I don't agree with everything out there - it gives me room to make a difference or move on. However, I would submit that I fear the Internet is finally starting to mirror the real world... but this is not a cause to despair but a reason to fight harder!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
it seems that the A-list bloggers are exposed to a lot of "A-List Envy/Angst" and a lot of what comes out comes out as vitriol at not being as successful. It's a very negative energy and I could see how it would start to get annoying. I can't blame Jason for being annoyed by it anymore than I can blame you (Scoble) for blocking people who are always dumping negativity on you. That said, I agree with Ted Leonsis that Jason is pulling a Brett Favre, but I do believe the toll the negativity takes is real.
- Robert Seidman
Well, it was only a matter of time before this whole transparency, aggregation, data portability thing started to freak people out. Walled garden, anyone?
- Karim
I prefer this to: “I'm streaming live right now, come chat!
- Oldengrey (Jay)
I always thought of a blog as a catalyst to cathartic discussion. While I love reading Jason's work, the mailing list is just a one-way distribution list. I have to use friendfeed, twitter, or another blog to discuss the content. If you're tired of clueless commentators, then moderate the comments. Wait a second. . . .isn't THIS a blog in a way?
- Peter Ghosh
Sorry, but while I understand his reasoning, I utterly disagree w/ his solution. We don't need to 'go back to listserve' to have a conversation. In fact, I've been saying for a while now that the reason microblogging sites have done so well is that they really DO facilitate conversation. Blogging is more like lecturing w/ a Q&A session in the comments. Twitter, FF, and other sites have lead us into actual organic conversations. Jason's email is back to lecturing. I won't be subscribing.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Peter: I'm still very passionate about having smart conversations and furthering our understanding of the technology that we all use every day.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe it's all one big joke. I've learned that Jason and I have different senses of humor.
- shelisrael1
I can't believe people actually believe any of this is serious. Calcanis is not retiring from blogging to do email lists. See the truth, see the evidence!
- Ben Parr
Instead of talking about it, let's just ignore it. Don't subscribe. We have to make it as clear as possible that we've moved beyond these one-way conversations.
- Shawn Farner
Maybe he wants more control over his own conversations?
- Omar Vasquez Lima
It was a brilliant move. People who've never heard of Calacanis now do. He is going to be talked about by everyone. Even news organazations are picking up on this. It doesn't matter what you say anymore... it matters how you say it to get in the spotlight. He is a brilliant man in that regards. Can't everyone figure that out. It is all about being in the spotlight. I got that the moment I even saw the first headline.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
BTW, my aforementioned statements does not conclude that I appreciate such ways of getting in the spotlight. I'm disgusted with it, but it makes the Calacanis brand more widely known. Everyone else is the sucker for constantly talking about it. It doesn't matter if it is true or not. Calacanis already won because we are all talking about him. That is brilliant marketing folks. Think about it.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
@Karim I have it on good authority (i.e. I made it up) that he kept subscriptions open until 1095 because that's when Scoble signed up. I know, I know, you would have thought he would have done it sooner, but popular opinion is that he wanted to make Jason sweat.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I think the fact that this move has created as much buzz as it has shows that it is working. How many more eyes will see this now that it will only be delivered to a select few?
- Zach Chisholm
Jason, ha! :-D Somehow I'm sure he'll always manage to squeeze in another subscription or two for the "right" people ;-) I'd have more respect for these caps if they were given as powers of two (512, 1024) -- that way I'd just assume there was some technical basis. lol
- Karim
I think Jason has a point. Techmeme and Valleywag have turned an idea culture into a celebrity culture. Trust me, I started to get sucked into the anger and negativity this week, and I didn't like what I was seeing in myself. But honestly? If he wants to push messages and have conversations back and forth without dodging trolls and negativity and egotism, he's got the right idea. If Leonsis is right, I'll be pretty sad. Speaking of Leonsis, LETS GO CAPS!!! STANLEY CUP 2009!!!
- Andrew Feinberg
I don't see how you can get involved in 'drama' if you just stay the hell away from valleywag and techmeme
- mjc
Zach, re "select few," I shouldn't be telling you this, but the Force can have a strong effect on the weak-minded. [waves hand] And please don't tell anyone I told you that, keep it just between the two of us. [waves hand]
- Karim
Your going about it wrong... he didn't go "back to email", he decided to use a "distributed push blogging platform". Your so 1.0 with your blog on your server it's laughable ;-).
- Robert Accettura
Email blog? *sigh*
- Czar
We're all discussing it here, Score another for Team Calacanis. He's a great marketer, he creates tremendous buzz in a small community and can keep it spinning. It doesn't matter what medium he uses, he makes it work for him.
- Steven Cains
I'm a "single inbox" advocate, and have all my RSS feeds fed to email, so Jason's really just saving me a step. I really wish FF could feed individual comments and posts to email, so I wouldn't have to come here. All these distinctions between blogs, FF, IM, SMS, twitter, email... I look forward to the day when it's all transparent, you simply subscribe to the content rather than the medium, and you choose whichever delivery mechanism you prefer.
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason makes some valid points. I don't have anywhere near the audience of many of you, but comments are seriously problematic. On one hand they make writing pretty thankless, because often the only people who comment are ones who want to criticize or attack. On the other, you crave them because you're trying to start conversations. But having said that, I have made a considerable chunk of my living doing PR and I know buzz-building when I see it. That's not a criticism, it's just an observation.
- Anthony Citrano
M. Cohen: that's the point. he's (at least trying to) remove himself a step or two from that medium. To be honest, I take more time reading and digesting an email than I do a blog post, because when you send mail to a list, you know who your initial audience is. Another thing? Mailing lists and Usenet (before outlook destroyed threading) had great conversations, better than many blog comments. FriendFeed actually reminds me of a Usenet-Listserv mashup in that way. (continued)
- Andrew Feinberg
Most high-traffic blogs have way too many trolls, sock puppets, and other crap to make conversations useful anymore. Does anyone remember Slashdot in the early days? I do (my UID is 4 digits) and I never go there anymore. Why? Sock puppets, trolls, very few good conversations. The medium did not scale well. In many ways, Jason has been out sailing and has spied a FailWhale off his port bow. He's altering course to avoid, but the destination remains the same. Let's hope he gets there.
- Andrew Feinberg
This is a personal decision for me and I realize that intelligent folks will disagree with my decision... however, I can tell you that after a couple of emails to the ~1,000 folks on the list I've a) learned more, b) gotten much more response (50-150 really well thought emails each time I send an email so far), and c) there has been no drama/haters. When you reach critical mass in blogging it implodes as the majority of feedback you get is from the haters and the mentally unstable (sometimes both).
- Jason Calacanis
Jason: Agreed for the most part, but others on the list can't see the replies that people send to you :( I'd love to learn what you're learning.
- Eric Florenzano
Robert - I think it's all a matter of perspective, when it comes to the benefit versus harm of doing exclusively email. I've shared some specific thoughts with Jason, but the overall point I'll make here. For you, it's hard because you're flooded already. For me, it's a chance to break away from what's going on during a day and read some thoughts that are shared to a very small and specific audience. I like what Jason's doing. I just, as I stated to him, hope that he's not cutting off his nose...
- Bradley McSpinn
Eric: the responses from the email list to me are 1-to-1 and that is providing me with so much more value than public comments, which i've found tend to be for a) the promotion of the individual, b) the chance to lash out/behave badly, c) some combination of a&b. I'm getting much more considered response because people understand it's one to one... this means i'm more likely to email more--it's a virtuous cycle so far. i wonder what will happen with email 100 or 1,000. will it continue or go away? who knows
- Jason Calacanis
I think at some point one wants to blog or write more intimately. Instead of e-mail, I think Ning.com would have been a much better solution. It also puts a face behind the names and they can share too.
- Janette Toral
Email may be the worst place, but maybe Jason has something new brewing in email land?
- drew olanoff
Jason - I read your email via Robert's posterous. I really enjoyed that post. I'm someone fairly new to this world of the Web. To be honest, my only impression of you is as The Mahalo Guy who tweets about his bulldogs. Didn't realize there was so much more there, especially your trailblazing in the genre. With a closed-off email list, you'll miss a lot of new people. As for Google juice, Techmeme, etc, look to Marc Andreessen as an example. Blogs only on his own time as he tends to his start-up.
- Hutch Carpenter
I thought you posted the email message, someone Twittered about that. I think it's about exclusivity, or the perception of exclusivity and accountability, ability to quantify. I think if SAR was still around it would be the only (5 maybe?) email lists i would need to subscribe to, so that was the '90's. As far as the focus on Techmeme, you got to just ignore it. Why do people need to know which 50 stories discuss the same issue? I'm glad it's successful for him. There are haters, always have been.
- angela penny
Didn't LISTSERV's die when www came out? This is a step backwards if you ask me. Another silo'd walled garden community. Meh.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I feel lucky to be on Jason's email list.
- Owen O'Malley
Jason, if the responses are 1:1, you could end up answering the same question 1,000 times... and like Eric said, some questions don't get asked repeatedly when everyone can see them.
- Karim
Who is parsing Jason's comments?
- Anne Haynes
an email list is not a conversation, it is a one way street, Email lists are old fashioned, old school tech Most people have already been there, done that and are trying out all the new ways to communicate.We have moved on to Blogs, FriendFeed, Twitter, etc with new things showing up every day. Who else besides Jason wants to go backwards to the old list days? Negativity is always a problem, but does that mean we stop talking because of it?
- Francine
Email is a follow-up medium IMO. It's what you might use once you find someone who you find worth having a more intimate conversation. I don't think most bloggers get an over abundance of these gems, but Jason achieved an order of magnitude that yielded a large cadre of intelligent folks. I get it. However, I'd blog simultaneously and see if other gems emerge that could be added to the email dialog.
- AJ Kohn
I don't have any stats to back this up, but I suspect that despite all the twitterati/friendfeeders/bloggers hopes and dreams to the contrary, 90%+ of the non-navelgazing, productive activity on the internet is probably still conducted via email.
- Ken Sheppardson
good for little jason. email rules
- Big Jason Henderson
I can see (and have empathy for) a lot of the reasons why Jason (or anyone else) would decide to take a deep breath and opt out of the fray; a large part of the stakes in keeping blogging alive in the next - say - five years depends on a delicate balance between "taking" and "giving back" ideas from a communal place - when the former replaces the latter, things start getting less and less fun and interesting. Also,thislaptopspacebarisdyingonme.
- dario
As for the Techmeme and page view stuff. I suppose if you're doing this for a living that might be a concern. Even then, it's still about content and ideas. I still believe that if you have the former, the latter will come to a large degree. Should you really be interested in traffic you might be better off doing SEO.
- AJ Kohn
Annie, I tried to parse what Jason meant by the implication that answering the same question repeatedly had a greater value than not doing so :-) but I couldn't... I can see that it would *possibly* lower the amount of self-aggrandizing or hateful messages, because of the lack of a public platform, but it seems like the price is replying the same thing over and over, to potentially hundreds of people. Why even bother with replies, why not just make it a newsletter? Or a blog with no comments.
- Karim
I applaud the move. Though I think it is a technological step backward, it seems to me, it is from a desire to move forward with, to me, what makes life valuable: relationships. And although disagreement is important to growth, detractors are less valuable than a reduction in disagreement.
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It won't last.
- Jim Kukral
I was on Jason's old Silicon Alley email list years ago. There was something cool & useful about that list that was different from the blogging experience.
- Paul Rodriguez
A few months ago I had a rather relaxed (blame tuscan red wines!) and interesting conversation with De Kerchove - a scholar who knows a thing or two about media - about the existence of collective intelligence and the concept of 'smart mobs' - the central point being 'are we starting to see something larger than the sum of its parts?'- the answer - more or less - is yes, but as any form of evolution, it takes lots of time and course correction along the way.
- dario
My responses to the four points that Robert summarized above: "1. That commenters have destroyed blogging." - this is not new and many bloggers at many levels deal with hecklers. "2. That Nick Denton's style of paying for page views instead of smart ideas has destroyed blogging." - might be an issue for those bloggers who actually earn income from blogging. "3. That he seeks out a more intimate conversation." - less likely to happen if every E-Mail is posted somewhere. cont'd...
- Mark Dykeman
"4. That email is it." - it could be a personal preference, but he could easily achieve the same thing with a public forum requiring a password-protected user account. All this would actually do is to prevent people from publicly criticizing him because there's no forum to do so within the E-Mail list. Unfortunately, there will be lots of other places to do that. More power to him if this is his true intent, but long term I don't think it will work.
- Mark Dykeman
I can (occasionally) see Jason's point about comments, but, sorry, that's not a blog, that's a newsletter. BOO!
- Helen Sventitsky
Why haven't bloggers incorporated "slashdot-like" rating into their comment systems in order to get rid of the noise. What am I missing? Let the community protect its own resource if they value it.
- Derek Tutschulte
TechCrunch also wrote about this, but the comments here are a lot more interesting and smarter: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Robert Scoble
Oh, and Jason, I agree that 1:1 conversations are the best. That's why I put my phone number on my blog. +1-425-205-1921 -- a troll of mine even called last night (seriously, she did) and I got to hang up on her. It was most satisfying.
- Robert Scoble
Derek: Slashdot's comments don't work to get rid of the noise.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble: You're right, it's embarassing for TechCrunch, really. In a way, it's validation of his move.
- Eric Florenzano
Email is broken
- paul mooney
Still fuzzy on why being able to weed out comments rated belowa "4" (5 being the highest) wouldn't filter out useless comments. Deputize your allies among your audience as editors that can rate comments and they clean up the mess. Forgive me, but why wouldn't that work?
- Derek Tutschulte
from twhirl
Kudos to you Scoble for keeping the conversation going. While I agree with Jason's sentiments, that the blogosphere needs to grow up a bit and stop focusing on views/clicks/getting on techmeme, etc - that's the responsibility of the blogger. You can have a blog WITHOUT being distracted by those things. Just... write the emails in a blog. That's why blogs are revolutionary. Email is for suckers. No way around it. Techcrunch publishing the email = fail. Is that really news?
- David Cohn
SezWho has a plugin for WordPress. http://www.sezwho.com/ this can help a bit with commenters.
- Ryan Lane
"This was a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction..." -GLaDOS
- Eric Rice
I wonder. Considering my first comment (up two comments) and your blog post @RobertScoble - if the course of action is to just ignore it all. I mean - we are feeding the ego-flames here and I think Jason wants/knows it. Robert - considering it's just an "email" newsletter, why not drop Jason's new form of communication from your inbox? Especially if it's a cheap ploy. Would be a bold statement from you.
- David Cohn
Like everything in life, Jason decision probably has pros and cons, but my personal feeling is that his going backward with this one, kinda like Facebook before they joined Dataportability... (conversations remains hidden inside)
- Orli Yakuel
You can follow his emails on http://www.calacanismail.com
- Frans
Is not Jason stil bloggin ? hmmmmm.. I mean micro bloggin when participating in convo /Sharing on FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
Here's how it went down: Mrs. Calacanis: "Hunny, you're on the computer too much." ... Jason: "OK babe... I'll quit blogging"
- Jimmy Gleason
Jason is still twittering, so isn't that essentially blogging?
- Green Screen Cinema
No, that's microblogging and/or lifestreaming. :)
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Full Disclosure: I work for an email marketing team, I like email. That said, I don't think email is dead, but not the best channel for two way, one-to-many dialog when you have volume involved. If you limit your distribution and allow reply to, then email can spark some very intimate or insightful conversations between the sender and sendee(s). If you become a high-volume mailer, then...
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- Melinda
Jason’s long goodbye: Give me a break - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Andrew Bonventre, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Andrew Baron and 7 other people liked this
just heard the news: apparently some sort of mobile telephone has just been released; more details to follow as i receive them
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I think I'm using one of them now! Heh.
- Robert Sanzalone
It's this plastic thing but it's not a phone. They claim there's some software to make it work like a phone, but I don't see it.
- Cyndy
Would be nice to have a link back to the Digg permalink so that I can Digg the stories I see coming in here. Anyone have the contact info for the folks at friendfeed?
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Just follow Paul Bucheit.
- Nathaniel Payne
I've said it over and over and OVER! glad you finally said it yourself!
- Orli Yakuel
You could try posting to the feedback room, I assume they read that: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- gregory
i'd prefer to see both if anything - by putting the digg link and nothing else, it's just driving more traffic to digg and causing yet another middleman in getting to the source content - most digg friendly sites have a link to digg, wouldn't it make more sense to READ/VIEW/WATCH the content before digging it?
- Allen Stern
I've been wondering about this, too. Makes no sense.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Yes, both would be ideal. Something like: [Story Title (direct link)] - [Digg This (digg permalink)]
- Kevin Rose
I've seen this come up a few times now. Try the friendfeed feedback room Kevin. http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Alan Le
make it happen! and please ask them to let us group friends while you're at it. :)
- Frankie Warren
Yap I miss that funktion, too ;) Mail is here : mailto:feedback@friendfeed.com
- Martin Gommel
let's make a deal then: how about direct links as well in the Digg RSS feeds?
- Jared Lynem
I'd love to see a link to the original story, and a little digg button next to it.
- Orli Yakuel
Hey Kevin, thanks for the feedback. Noted! Have any contact info for the folks at Digg? ;-)
- Kevin Fox
orli - all that would do is make the digg armies get into full effect - already people digg stories without reading them - that would just amplify that - let people read/watch/view the content then decide if it's digg worthy.
- Allen Stern
Yeah, I don't think FF needs such specific functionality. A link back to digg is completely reasonable.
- felix
I'd like to a link back to Digg too, want to see the comments.
- Mack D. Male
sounds like a better idea for a greasemonkey script, rather than something baked into ff
- Trent Olson
Allen, why would I digg something without seeing it first? even if I'll have the link to digg here, I'll still open the story I'm digging... but it's just doesn't make sense to see here what people dugg without any connection to digg the site. (and what if the story link don't have any digg button on the page? are you expecting me to search the story on digg now?)
- Orli Yakuel
I second Kevin's suggestion [Story Title (direct link)] - [Digg This (digg permalink)]
- Jim Bergman
Orli - if a digg button is placed on ff - people will friend digg without ever seeing the story - i am ok with both links - tho would still prefer people read the content first -otherwise a few select people will get even more benefits then they do today
- Allen Stern
ie "When you post that somone diggs a story here on FF we dont get the traffic, how can we fix that"
- sean percival
@sean, honestly I could care less about the traffic, I'm just trying to make it easier for Digg users to promote/share the content they care about. The main story title would still link directly to the source.
- Kevin Rose
I see someone Dugg something on FriendFeed. I go read it. I want to Digg it. They don't even have a Digg badge. What Now?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It would be nice if the "like" feature would just equate to a digg and be the connection.
- Andrea Baker
@sean I don't think Digg needs any more traffic. :o) No Digg button or anything, just a permalink to the page on Digg. It would be nice so we could Digg a story so my friends can see it instead of just me just "liking" it in someone else's stream.
- Paul Reynolds
In addition I would love to have an ability to digg from friendfeed directly.
- Stepan Mazurov
@Andrea - i like that idea a lot. it'd also be interesting if the votes in all these rating systems were tied together so a Digg, an upvote on reddit and a like on FF all went towards one centralized vote count. Then the different sites could compete with each other based on how they aggregated and displayed the links according to their different algorithms.
- mike
Kevin: He is the creator of Gmail. : p http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d... ; ) He heard you, but his mail like in the link strongly! ; ) (loves from Turkey, read webrazzi.com more ; ))
- Erhan Erdogan
I really don't think 2 way integration is the answer. Sometimes I just want to like something in somebody's stream and that's it. Really guys, a permalink would be great.
- Paul Reynolds
A simple link to the article on digg is all I'm looking for. Not Digg'ing directly from FF and certainly not linking "Like" to "Digg" somehow.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'd like a link to Digg. I'd tab open both the page and the digg page so I could review and then digg it (or perhaps not). I also want FriendFeed to differentiate from "digging" a story and "adding" a story if possible.
- Ben Parr
i'm sure you can make it happen.. I still would like to see it be an option, but i don't know if that will happen. Built in diggs would be nice... right next to like :)
- Tim Hoeck
Am I the only one who sees Friend Feed's choice to not link to digg as intentional? From a business standpoint, it makes sense for FF to make "Like"ing an article easier than digging the article. As for actually digging, the Smart Digg Button Firefox plugin helps fine enough for me.
- Paul Arrington
Allen, hmm, now i see what you mean. I meant that the digg button will take you to digg first, like kevin said. I gusse I wasn't clear enough.. :-/
- Orli Yakuel
Soon there will also be requests to have a "Del.icio.us" button, "Stumbleupon" button etc..
- Winston Teo
hey kevin socbut.com is working on this feature.. not be implemented in the next few days. digg to socbut.com and be able to digg from socbut.com and back to digg.
- Jay Martinez
Kevin: Looks like you got your wish. :)
- Chris Luckhardt
What ever happened to blogrolls? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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I'm waaay late to the blogging party, but does a "links I like" interface list count?
- sergiooo
I still use one. I only rel=nofollow large sites; still share the link love with other bloggers.
- Sprague D
sergiooooooo, yes, if its a roll in your sidebar. They're not extinct, but they are rare these days. Sprague, good to see you're still keeping the spirit alive
- Duncan Riley
I used to use one, but it seemed as soon as I'd update it, people would go inactive, or I'd have to change it again. (Examples: GeekWhat and Kent Newsome, both who just about fell off the map) Now, I think the Google Reader shared items blog gives a good enough clue as to what I read and find important.
- Louis Gray
I found that no one ever clicked on them so I removed it. It was just noise.
- Kevin Gamble
I'm on the same boat as Kevin. No one ever clicked on them so, I just got rid of it. I have a section for "friends" that include a couple of blogs but that's it.
- Candace
I have one on my dembot blog and really believe in it.
- Andrew Baron
My blogroll would probably span a few screens.. Anyway blogroll feels slightly 1990s.. Don't you think so?
- Winston Teo
Which reminds me, I need to update my blogroll.
- Phil G
Still maintain one but update it about once a month as things change
- Charlie Anzman
I still use them, but only for close contacts. I like them.
- Jim Kukral
I once used them, when Zeldman was that name in the bottom of every blogroll (go figure why ;-) ) and then I stopped blogging
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
In my opinion, the best use for a blogroll is for a _short_ list of _related_ blogs that the reader can hit in order to get more information on the topic. The "600 blogs I read every day" doesn't seem to me to be the best use of a blogroll.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I'm trying to convince myself to compile a decent blogroll since 2002:)
- Federico Bolsoman
Perhaps it's time to convert the blogroll to a micro-blogroll. Better yet, I would like to display the people I find interesting (at friendfeed) as a widget.
- Czar
I recently dropped the blogroll on my blog. No one ever bothered clicking the links. What people do click are the links in my blog posts (yes, it does still happen). The blogs to which I link regularly in my blog posts are a much better barometer of the ones I follow than my blogroll ever was. I really didn't keep the blogroll up to date.
- Hutch Carpenter
Hmm, regardless of clicks, SEO's understand that a blogroll link is a vote in Google, or at least indexing priority. If you really like someone, you'll tell Google about their blog by blogrolling them. I never nofollow those.
- Brian Carter
Czar: How do you describe your "intersting" people at friendfeed?
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
I have it on good authority that a new blogroll widget is in the works that will bring blogrolls back - well at least with this crowd. I probably shouldn't say who and I don't know when, but it sounds like it will be dynamic and awesome. So don't count them out just yet
- David Knight
I have, in the past, advocated screwing them. http://allied.blogspot.com/2007...
- jeneane sessum
My blogroll was too long for my sidebar, so I used to have a separate links page. I should clean it up and bring it back. Need to add a TON of social media bloggers I've been introduced to via FriendFeed these past few weeks. :D
- Nathaniel Payne
are blogrolls that hump of cheese n the back of your fridge? :)
- (jeff)isageek
from fftogo
How about this for a theory: The blogroll has been superceded by Twitter and FriendFeed as the easiest way to track and associate oneself with others that are active, interesting and influential in social media
- Daniel Young
It's crazy to me how many have dumped them when it's the first step in being social online if you have a blog... good for blogger to blogger luv and also good for pointing your visitors to additional related resources of value, so good all around.
- Scott Bannon
from twhirl
Duncan, this is so true. I was literally thinking late last night about doing a post on this as I was tidying up my own (relatively new) blog a bit and looking at the standard blogroll links that came with my Wordpress template. I had a quick look at a few fairly well-known blogs and there wasn't a blogroll in sight..
- Matt Hooper
Regarding the value of blogrolls for Google SEO. Check out this thread, about 3/4 the way down, for a comment on that by Adam Lasnik (Google search evangelist): "be careful about making assumptions on how Google does or will weight 'constant' links ;-" (http://friendfeed.com/e...)
- Hutch Carpenter
I read blogs mostly in Google Reader. When I'm on a blog, I'm focused on the content rather than the sidebar. I like the blog roll concept, but it would reach a broader audience if it moved to the main column of content. For example, instead of showing a Last.fm widget in my sidebar, I automated a weekly post that shows my top artists from the prior week as a regular blog post. http://bit.ly/4rQvZU
- Joe Lazarus
Glad you posted this to Inquisitr as well. For me a blogroll isn't about SEO (nothing about my blog is SEO and my stats prove it!) or even about related blogs but as Duncan said in one of his seesmic videos about this, it's kind of "here are some people I like" thing. I've even gone so far as to meet a few blogroll people in person. So even if the list is long, and even if the content...
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- Jim Hearts FF
from feedalizr
I posted about this on OTB [http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archive...]. A commenter added a valuable suggestion: "It would seem to me that a tool that extracted the blog links from your posts, continually updating the top X number based on your posts, would be more useful than a blog roll. That would keep the blog roll up to date and reflect the sites you are talking about."
- James Joyner
Mine got so big I figured you should just use Technorati! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I only use the Blogroll widget on Wordpress to link to a few close contacts. I certainly don't continuously update my blogroll with the blogs I find interesting, but that'd probably be a better use. I have seen a fair few blogs start doing "Blog of the Week" where they have an image (usually a screenshot of the site) linking to the author's current favourite blog. Could that be considered the step up from the 'traditional' blogroll?
- Jamie Clark
I stooped doing that long time ago, i "recommend" blog post individually and never a whole blog, using delicious, and Google Reader shared items.
- Mário Pires
I'd really like to add one, but I'm afraid it'd clog my template!
- Rubin Sfadj
For me, the Blogroll grew unmanageable. As I never quite liked the concept, I've decided to replaced it with links to the recent interesting things I've read on the 'open' web - simply my del.icio.us bookmarks for now. I would also like to see a widget to publish the recent friendfeed posts that I've 'liked'.
- Vidar Andersen
from NoiseRiver
the current module supported at blogger shows most recent X that have new posts (up to 10 I think). An okay compromise.
- Ryan Gallagher
Since my target audience are small business owners, with limited level of comfort on the internet. I keep the blog rolls simple on my blogs. Called great resources, or my favorite sites, i direct my readers to a few other blogs so they don't get overwhelmed. I also use the blog roll to connect my blogs
- Lorraine Ball
I replaced all widgets and rolls with the wordpress friendfeed activity widget / plugin right now. Let's see how it fares.
- Vidar Andersen
An Open Letter to Kevin Rose [Digg is Broken] - http://digg.com/people...
Mike Hussein Cohen, Charlie Anzman, Matt Albiniak and 10 other people liked this
"Hi All - As we've discussed in the past ( http://blog.digg.com/?p=106 ) there are a number of factors that go into story promotion. A few specific factors affecting this story were diversity of digging activity, the number of buries in relation to Diggs, and the overall increase in Diggs that are occurring on the site recently. This story was an outlier case which happens from time to time, but it did eventually reach the home page. Sorry for the confusion."
- Kevin Rose
I think it's cool you would explain this for us.... thanks, Kevin.
- Paul Otto
No problem :)
- Kevin Rose
Kevin commented within minutes of it hitting Friendfeed. That is very cool.
- Charlie Anzman
cool - now to make it more granular :D
- Matt Albiniak
The link to the seminal isn't loading. Is there a mirror? Looks likes it's loading now.
- phil baumann
Rumor: Jerry Yang To Resign - http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
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Google Launches Lively, Virtual World Across Social Networks - http://mashable.com/2008...
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I don't know how I feel about Lively...I'm getting too much of an MS Bob vibe from it.
- Zach Underwood
going to fire up Vista so I can give it a try
- Kevin Rose
Only windows - sad.
- Mike
I am disappointed with lively!! may be i need more time to understand it better! :(
- Jigar Mehta
I don't know. Maybe I just don't get it yet, but I'm really not sure why Google is moving into this space. Sure there's some advertising potential, but I just don't get the feeling that this is the next big thing.
- Harrison Hoffman
It's kinda amazing that they built this in their 20% time. How many "20% time" did it take for them to roll this out?
- Winston Teo
it only runs on windows. poo on that!
- Anji Bee
lets see how parallels handles this
- Jesse McPherson
@Bruce I was going to mention that it looked like a case of throw what we have against the wall and see what sticks.
- Harrison Hoffman
Chugged under VMWare Fusion. Totally a beta product. Could have legs tho. Brazil, is that you?
- Ari Braginsky
Kids are going to love this - some adults too once they open it up like Sims2 where you can create custom content
- Cheryl Allin
Everyone is trying to have a virtual world now.........
- ChaCha Fance
Virtual Worlds are so 2007. over it already
- Giovanni Ghignone
Isn't this just like second life?
- Ramon J. Gonzalez
I tried it....and ...I didn't really like it... Well of course its too early now to say anything. But I like the idea of having it embedded on your website.
- Saad Kamal
"Second Life with Ad Sense!" yeah, I passed on SL, I think I'll pass on "Lively"...Google knows too much about me all ready, I don't need them putting a virtual face to the data on top of it...plus, who the hell can do this at work? Twitter and FF is about as far as I'll go to socialize on-line...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I get FriendFeed now, a single location to have a conversation around my media/web participation - friend me: http://friendfeed.com/kevinro...
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Good to see you joining the rest of civilization now!
- Damien Franco
I added you... welcome aboard
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Welcome all, thanks for adding me.
- Kevin Rose
Are we going to see another FF addict soon?
- Winston Teo
Some of the a-listers keep saying FF is the death of twitter - but they seem to work well together. I'll keep playing with both.
- Mike
Welcome on board, Mr Digger!
- SurajLuke
Added you on FF days ago. Welcome aboard! :)
- Mike Abundo
Added you a while back, welcome to the conversation.
- maxim shevertalov
I can't figure out how to get my comments to post to Twitter... How'd you do it?
- Jeff Kopp
Dugg! Whoops - wrong web site. :)
- Mike Doeff
Glad to be following you :D
- Chris
I think you'll find though that FF is just to cluttered to be useful...
- Auburn Elite
i am STILL trying to "get it"
- djp
Welcome to the... torrent, for lack of a better word :)
- Robyn Miller
Hey Robyn!
- Kyle Lacy
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.
- Kevin L
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
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
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
ditto l0ckergn0me
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
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
from fftogo
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
haha me too - today.
- gfox
There goes the freinderhood.
- sage brennan
@Kevin, so u lost love 4 twitter too :)
- Arjun
Twitter should be relegated to what it was originally intended and is good at. It's a status forum, not a communication forum.
- ·[▪_▪]·
I got it and got blamed for saying it.
- Franklin Naval
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
Oh boy. Now he's hooked on the FF crack. Duck and cover FFrs
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
FFDugg it:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
congrats
- saee:Dsharif
First you have to unban me from Digg!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
welcome!
- Chris Abad
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
from twhirl
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...
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- 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
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