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Blogworld New Media Expo Special Discount & Coupon Code - http://www.reelseo.com/2009-bl...
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Blogworld is a new media conference packed with sessions from over 300 speakers covering blogging, podcasts, video, social media, and more. The conference runs from October 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and we have a discount special 20% discount code for anyone interested in attending - REELSEO20....
- ReelSEO
from Bookmarklet
Would have loved to join that but I'm stuck in Amsterdam then. Enjoy the conference! If anyone can write a guest blog post from the event that would be great...
- Boris
Up next: http://www.Trollim.com
Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) liked this
Announced as the coolest company.
- Boris
From israel...
- Boris
This is hilarious.
- Boris
Battle against other developers and show your skills.
- Boris
WTF it is asking me username and password /:
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Great way to find out who are the great developers...
- Boris
Yeah the site isn't live yet. Will be be in a few hours.
- Boris
@Boris Is it your website ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
No it is not my website!
- Boris
Oh, Ok, Sorry :)..can I ask you something plz :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
I can see companies persuading their developers to start gaming during worktime on Trollim. This just works...
- Boris
@Boris I see lots of investment going around in social, tech companies, though we are in recession do you think it is safe to invest in social media companies . I mean look at posterous isn't just reinvention of wheel and on the top of that it got funding.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
sorry for the off track
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Hi Sunny: interesting questions but email me for that okay?
- Boris
will do thanks @Boris
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
What was it called were two developers work on the same project at the same time at one computer?
- Boris
Team work ...LOL (Joke)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
pair(ed) programming
- Joel Bennett
Up next: http://CrowdFlower.com ("Labor as a service")
Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) and Matt Ellsworth liked this
What, is this Amazon Mechanical Turk?
- Boris
You can play along here: http://crowdflower.com/techcru...
- Boris
I paid attention but I'm not sure what I would ever use this for...
- Boris
CitySourced.com
Carolyn Chan liked this
Works nationwide with 1900 cities.
- Boris
I'd hate that if I were running the city. ;-)
- Boris
The first company that brings an actual customer to the stage. Cool!
- Boris
Nice management overview for cities
- Boris
Hotdamn. This actually looks great.
- Boris
It seems so simple. Just goes to show that implementation is everything. The idea sounds dull but when you see it work it, well, just works.
- Boris
So Palm is paying these guys to build an app for their platform
- Boris
Affective Interfaces: Emotion Sensing technology.
Next Up: Real Time Dashboards for Every Business: http://metricly.com/
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Sean Oliver, sottovoce and Boris liked this
This is pretty cool.
- Boris
People love stats
- Boris
speak for yourself...
- Zee.
bringing in Google Analytics is cool...but its not real time...Get Clicky on board!
- Zee.
Right. You hate stats?
- Boris
Custom data tool. Might work with Clicky API
- Boris
true - didn't even know Clicky had an API actually
- Zee.
Their motto should be "Lies, damn lies and statistics"
- Boris
Okay, it is cool but boring too.
- Boris
First Up in Business Services: ClientShow (http://clientshow.com) allows creative and marketing professionals to show, pitch and sell their work to their clients more effectively.
Nice UI
- Dave Hodson
Looks polished and all but sounds like something there must be hundreds of similar services out there, right?
- Boris
yeah, that's what I'm thinking
- Zee.
Tim O'Reilly is not holding back. Good questions.
- Boris
Udorse.com (http://udorse.com): Endorse the items and places in YOUR photos. Link your "Udorsements" anywhere on the web. Earn real money from partner brands as a reward for your support. Donate your earnings to charity, or accept them as cash
RuMiKa, Christopher Harley, Aleigh and 2 other people liked this
This is like adding a note on Flickr?
- Boris
Right, it is like annotation but only linking to stuff that is for sale and only within their site.
- Boris
So I tag my clothes with their respective brands and when Zee click-through and buys the same underwear I get a share of the profit. And with the expensive thongs I'm buying… wow.
- Boris
So it's like Overlay.tv except for photos instead of video, I like it.
- Jimminy Fuller
At least this entrepreneur is passionate about his product. :-)
- Boris
@Boris :)))
- Oğuz Serdar
use tc50 at their site for access
- Boris
Doesn't work in the basic Facebook Photo app.
- Boris
But they are working on a dedicated plug-in
- Boris
Good point from the jury: it would be weird to make money off of your friends by having them buying the same stuff that you are wearing.
- Boris
Although that last point is actually more a problem for women than man. Guys who happen to be wearing the same clothes at a party will end up becoming friends for life. If another girl at the same party wears the same dress then the evening is ruined for both girls...
- Boris
Nah, that's a sexist idea coming straight out of the old concept that girls are pretty flimsy decorative things and not full human beings
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reminds me of pixazza?
- TrafficBug
Could be great for word of mouth marketing - get ordinary people to pose with your products and spread them across the web and they will become affiliates. No longer will you have to be a model to endorse products, anybody can choose products to others by modelling what they wear or what they use with pictures.
- TrafficBug
Yext Calls is the first ever service that sends local advertisers pay-per-action phone calls. http://www.yext.com/
He just called a car dealer, asked for an appointment, and then hung up without confirmation. Okay, maybe you should have been there. Was funny though.
- Boris
Sociable Wordpress Plugin Acquired by Startups.com - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Aram Zucker-Scharff, Robert Peña, Robert Freeze and 4 other people liked this
RackUp.com (http://rackup.com) - Cash and Gift Card Auction Site
site has just gone live...pretty nice to be fair.
- Zee.
Pretty smart actually. All they do is unevenly distribute the discount. The winner gets the highest discount.
- Boris
Of course everything depends on how many people will bother on signing up and playing along.
- Boris
precisely...feels like a headache to me. But, i'm sure the shoppers out there might love the idea
- Zee.
HealthyWage (http://healthywage.com) - HealthyWage rewards health.
Implements health challenges to allow corporations to reward health;
- Zee.
Their first health challenge, the BMI Challenge, pays overweight Americans up to $1000 to lose weight and move from a Body Mass Index (“BMI”) of 30 to a BMI of 25.
- Zee.
Would you get fit if you got paid to? If so, how much?
- Zee.
I think peer pressure works better. But it is an interesting experiment.
- Boris
I think @Boris just summed up perfectly why I love writing for @thenextweb. Sometimes we’re wise, other times… (see both tweets) - http://zee.me/status/109
oh, that link goes to: http://9gag.com/photo...
- Zee.
Glad you enjoyed that...
- Boris
i don't think people quite get why i liked it..
- Zee.
Me, locked in the snow leopard's cage.
Zee. and Eric James liked this
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As you can see there was some champagne involved. They even locked me inside for a few moments after I got in for the photo.
- Boris
I guess some people have a hard time understanding the public nature of commenting on Facebook. Well, at least Tracy had a great time with 'Micheal': http://www.facebook.com/jesuslu...
Tanath, Phil Maxwell, Kamilah Gill and 4 other people liked this
Scroll down to the comment that starts with "Thank you too,Micheal". Read from there...
- Boris
omg she fucked up lol
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Hope Micheal is the guy she's engaged to.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Actually if you read the comments more it looks like her account was hacked and she's probably been locked out of it. Blonde born in 1968 = dumb AND bad with technology. Even if she didn't get fucked, she *IS* fucked
- LANjackal
hai
- cgovindaraja
This is sooo funny and tragic I can't believe it actually happened and I doubt it did. But I did think poor soul at least she's getting some so good for her ....woot woot.
- Jeunelle Foster
Funny, yet tragic. Highlights the dangers of social networking/media.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Actually this one is rather funny too. http://thenextweb.com/wp-cont...
- Jeunelle Foster
Yeah, an exploit in one of FB dating applications was used by 4chan to bring some 'entertainment' to Facebook... http://www.reddit.com/r...
- Marcos
Why you need to be careful with programs that can post photos to Facebook. (full image after the link) [REALLY NSFW] http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Yvonne, Willem (@wim66) ☠, Mahendra (SkepticGeek) and 10 other people liked this
Know what's messed up about that? The person who uploaded the screencap blocked out their own name, but not the name of the person whose schlong that is.
- Admiral Anika
that was me and fixed :) The original had nothing blanked
- Zee.
So why did you block away the names? Much more funnier when you do see their names and the info is public at Facebook anyway. Just wondering...
- Boris
eye bleech please. :'(
- Simon Wicks
Just thought it was a bit harsh. You can still see the name, just not the last name. Also, I don't think his page is public on facebook
- Zee.
"I don't think you understand how deep this reaches" :P
- Jemm
Oh, okay. LOL
- Admiral Anika
The whole account is gone actually...
- Boris
Check out the "Social Media Addicts Association". Video (with snot alert) included: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
SpionKopRed and Martin Bryant liked this
Opinion: The iPhone is more than a horseless carriage http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Martin Bryant liked this
It is actually a comment on the news that the iPhone is now the most popular digital camera at Flickr...
- Boris
My Twitter follower growth has been slowing down http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei... . I'm seeing geek engagement on Twitter going down. How about you?
Sheree Motiska, Nicholas James, Kevin Tunis and 18 other people liked this
Plus they've been trying to remove bots and spammers, which has something to do with it, too.
- Robert Scoble
I think my followers are disappointed that I'm more of a Friendfeed person. ;)
- Amir
But I've definitely been getting more engagement here on FriendFeed lately. But that's largely by design in my case.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah. Probably Digg "effect". Geeks moving out.
- karthick
Robert: Quite a few of my follower's are bots and spammers, too.
- Amir
Well you keep sending us here, to lovely friendfeed land
- Mark
I added 40 quality followers yesterday on twitter with 1 good blog..maybe you are just up against your max addressable market Robert, law of big numbers..
- James Watters
Twitter seems to be over-run by spambots and phony profiles
- Wayne Schulz
That's because you don't use Twitter Scoble lol...
- Colin
Colin: that's not true. I'm on Twitter all the time!
- Robert Scoble
I think it's simple. The whole Idea of following back to be polite is losing popularity. Therefore the churn is slowing for many.
- Dj Skunk Diesel
My Twitter follower growth is the same as ever: zero.
- DGentry
Lol, nah, I have to come to FriendFeed to get your attention, so I don't reply to you on Twitter, and others probably do the same.
- Colin
I'd rather ad 1 VP of biz dev, than 1k randoms
- James Watters
I don't even know what my Twitter following is, I've never looked. It's not something I'm remotely interested in.
- Gilbert Harding
I agree quality not quantity
- Dj Skunk Diesel
added 10 execs yesterday...so much more interesting...eddie izzard has 600k followers and mostly does running picture updates
- James Watters
Scoble uses Twitter. Just more in a Friendfeed capacity ;-)
- Amir
noticing the same thing. techies are definitely losing interest due to spam and celebrity overload.
- casey wright
from BuddyFeed
Josh, yes it saves them from having to have any real content!
- James Watters
Is Scoble showing his tech celebrity cards by talking raw #s :)
- James Watters
James: that's why I say it's who you are following that is so much more important than who is following you.
- Robert Scoble
I'm deleting fewer spam followers, so maybe Twitter is getting better at killing them sooner.
- Howard Rheingold
Robert **** +1k! I love twitter for what I read! When I get more followers it just makes me nervous to talk :)
- James Watters
James: nah. But my account growth has -- up to now -- closely tracked Twitter's growth itself.
- Robert Scoble
See yourself for last months. Twitter got rid of thousands of spam bots a few days ago: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Boris
James, so the interesting thing is: is Twitter's growth slowing down? (I don't think so). So, the geek world on Twitter is mattering less and less as mainstream shows up.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I'd agree, and I think your point is interesting. Its like blogs, when the polticos took over the momentum from the geeks :(
- James Watters
Although, look at Compete.com and you'll see Twitter's growth itself has slowed down: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter...
- Robert Scoble
Yes, been going on for awhile. The spammers are a real pain, so I'm thankful they are working on that.
- courtney benson
Josh: I watch early adopter user behavior and I'm seeing less engagement on Twitter. The geeks are getting bored.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: yes, Compete.com is inaccurate, but generally it matches trends well.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: in my case about 44%. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Twitter and FF are amazing if you want to listen...
- James Watters
Maybe they are going back to blogging. Or are on vacation.
- Robert Scoble
look at the trending topics today on twitter - unfort. mainstream entertainment. what a change from a year ago. yes the conversation is now wide - but seems just a shift of medium for fluff. not watching as closely as you are but happy with my monitored subjects of interest - still discovering BIG voices everyday. ff rocks the conversation though!
- michael sean wright
I lost 8% of my followers and about the same number I was following in one day (day before today) on Twitter.. I can't believe all these were bots and I am now "cured" of bots..
- Anindya Chatterjee
Hi Josh, yes really. I get emails every day announcing new followers but I just delete them. I only follow people who are personally recommended to me and who I find interesting. I never look at my profile to see my stats. If people find my inane comments and occasional newsy bits and bobs entertaining, fine. But how many of them are there? No idea.
- Gilbert Harding
Hey did anyone hear that Yahoo is getting a new homepage? I can't wait....
- James Watters
@Josh, just the point )-:
- Anindya Chatterjee
My engagment is about the same on Twitter, seeing as that I still have friends that won't get/don't have/don't want a Friendfeed account.
- John Fox
I think it's picking up here though.
- Steve Rubel
James, the new page is up already.. right now in "trial" on Yahoo US page
- Anindya Chatterjee
OMG its so cool! yahoo is so relevant!
- James Watters
If I was better versed in the virtues of Friendfeed, I'd do an article about it. But I'm really not the person to "sell it".
- John Fox
Josh: yes that whole thing was an inside joke to an earlier FF RS has about Yahoo's new home page..I'm just being silly...see ya'll around..
- James Watters
I'm converted this time - 1st time round, I didn't get it, but some friends still only Twitter
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
Josh, there seem to be a lot of obsessives on here and Twitter.
- Gilbert Harding
Anyone here amazing at App engine btw?
- James Watters
i did spring cleaning in my twitter account today as well. it's about quality not quantity, robert. the true geeks are staying with you
- jeanette okwu
I had over 3000+ followers on Twitter and have recently decided to leave because of all the spam - I hope for Twitter's sake that they sort it out
- outofmyarse
I think It's to Twitter's benefit if the stop the spammers. Not a bad service but with all the spam it makes it less enjoyable.
- Amir
Am I wrong? When Twitter took away the option of following @replies, it made it a lot more difficult to find new people who extend out from your network. If you look at the traffic charts (Alexa, Scoble's, etc.), the slowdown started right about at that time. While Twitter execs say that only a fraction of people opted for that function, it really looks like a lot more than coincidence to me that follower growth declines started then.
- Ed Moltzen
Robert: Maybe. But Twitter is a type of blog, It's a micro-blog.
- Amir
I find new people by using Twubble - it basically replicates the effect of finding people by following @ replies. See http://www.crazybob.org/twubble
- Trent Hamm
I have never re-followed people out of courtesy. I look at what they're saying if they follow me, but I don't follow if it doesn't look interesting. That's why I have about 7K Twitter followers and am following less than 500, I guess.
- Trent Hamm
Definitely the engagement is dropping, I've noticed. But I think spam is a big contributor to the problem.
- Amir
Come to think of it, I've never understood the philosophy of the courtesy re-follow. It seems dishonest to me - once you reach a certain point, you can't follow the thousands and thousands of conversations around you. Following someone else feels like a promise you can't keep. Why do this at all?
- Trent Hamm
Trent: you can't DM me unless I follow you. Since I require having DMs with a wide variety of people for my business, I have to follow everyone who follows me.
- Robert Scoble
I have noticed it too. It is sometimes hard to get around "brain fart" type of tweets that are on the surge...lowering the geek factor
- Ghada
Could be FriendFeed, lol.
- Hugh Isaacs II
Trent I think of it not as reciprocity but as a gesture. If someone is willing to put up with my mix of relevant and irrelevant information, I should be willing to do the same. Even with a few hundred folks to follow you already miss a large portion of their broadcasts. You can always search for relevant conversations in real time.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
The beauty of the concept is that we can all choose who and how we wish to follow. And we can customize our methods on different networks
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
well that explains why I'm seeing less content.
- clarke thomas
From my experience, TwitterCounter is a little slow when updating follower numbers. Just make sure it's accurate.
- Amir
yeah. TwitterCounter takes a day or two to update. Not that I check very often...
- Robert
True my twitter following slows down 2
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine also. And so many new followers are spambots, ugh!
- Molly Gordon
@Scobleizer will have 155,650 followers in 1000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://bit.ly/19FHOw
- Mark
@Scobleizer will have 661,900 followers in 10000 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/Scoblei...
- Mark
@aplusk will have 8,095,169 followers in 365 days according to TwitterCounter: http://twittercounter.com/aplusk...
- Mark
Mark: that's cause aplusk is on the suggested follower list. He won't earn those followers, he's being gifted them by Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert in my opinion Twitter had 2-3 weeks that followers went down and much porn as well , in the last week or so the positive count is back
- Johni Fisher
In Europe, we call these kinds of slowdowns "holidays".
- Bernie Goldbach
+1 Bernie
- Liviu Barbat
Yup
- Thomas Power
Robert maybe you can help me.....http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009...
- Bob DeMarco
Well, I'm personally happy to see geek engagement go down. That means more geek for me. Most of those nitwits don't even know what the hell is even going on and just RT guys like you to ride the wave of the Scoblenami. I always used to get scolded for @ing zaibatsu, 0boy, and the_gman when I was just a peasant w/ 300ish followers who hadn't tweeted a word in 6 months. The whole "get...
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- Sheree Motiska
Twitter just got rid of bot accounts your followers went down! Thats Twitter's epidemic problems!
- polou/indigo_bow
Mine is soaring like an Eagle with my xaviarmedia friend.http://my-hiddencash.blogspot.com
- ebenezer oyeodini
Social Media dirty talk...haha - http://jacquijade.tumblr.com/post...
Tyson Key, Ozgur Uckan, Joe Silence and 12 other people liked this
Hope you like my latest Twillustration: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Ozgur Uckan, Bahriye and Will Higgins™ liked this
What are your top 3 favorite paid online subscription services? Mine are Evernote Premium, Lynda.com and Pandora One.
altblog #❶, Andrew Leahey, Adam and 66 other people liked this
Mine: Evernote, Skype and Last.fm
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I think currently NOD32 & Netflix are only online services I pay for
- LANjackal
Netflix
- chrisofspades
Evernote and Pandora definitely....I would add flickr pro to that
- Freddie Benjamin
oh, and flickr.. there are more than 3
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
I only pay for last.fm, netflix, and flickr.
- ·[▪_▪]·
The only subscriptions I have are Netflix, Gamefly, and XMRadio. Not sure you'd call any of them online services, though. I'll probably renew flickr when I can more cash flow, though.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Remember the milk, Flickr and Mvelopes. I've been thinking about upgrading to Pandora One but haven't done it yet.
- Ward Seward
Spotify!
- Lasse Johnsen
Netflix, Pandora & Wall Street Journal
- Jay Clark
Evernote (can't live without it)
- petes2cents.com
Rapidshare, remember the milk, evernote, mobile.me, last.fm ...
- Ugur Aydogdu (jnbn)
ehm.. let add: rapidshare, mobile.me, (a seedbox), and lastpass
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from IM
Evernote, Mozy, and Flickr
- Matt
Evernote, Remember the Milk and Flickr
- Brett Kelly
Also Evernote, Mozy and Flickr.
- Oliver Bouchard
Evernote Premium, Dropbox (50GB), and MindMeister
- Jim Tierney
Flickr.
- Morton Fox
Evernote, Jungle Disk, You Mail, Flickr ,Skype, Netfilx
- metalerik
I only have one: reqall.
- Jim Addz No Value
Mozy, Flickr, Github, Amazon (S3, EC2, SQS), Rackspace CloudFiles, Jungledisk
- Berk D. Demir
Flickr, Backblaze, Tutsplus.com, Lynda.com and O'Reilly's Safari online book service.
- cecily
Cecily: Love Backblaze! - been using it for a couple months. Best Mac online backup solution - IMHO.
- Mike Bracco
MobileMe, Flickr, Google Web Storage (10GB extra/year), SpanningSync, DropBox, DreamHost.
- Nick Humphries
Among some of those already mentioned I use LovelyCharts a lot: http://lovelycharts.com/
- Peter van Teeseling
Mike Bracco: What other Mac online backup solutions did you try and what are the features separating Backblaze from others to be the best?
- Berk D. Demir
Berk, I tried Mozy when it was first released and I just found it slow, and backups would fail. Backblaze was slow too (initial backup took 17 days), but once it was finished, it's been well worth the money.
- cecily
Last.fm, Flickr, Jajah
- Bertrand Doux
Berk: I tried Mozy as well and also played around with a friends machine that had carbonite. I like Backblaze b/c is just works...I literally don't have to ever think about it. It was started by some ex apple guys I believe and it can definitely show in the final product. Very few options - it just backs up in the background. It also stores versions of a file so sequential backups are...
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- Mike Bracco
and Jing Pro
- metalerik
Hosting & Domains (I've set some to auto-renew) ;)
- Nicholas James
Flickr, Zenfolio, MobileMe, and (maybe soon) Animoto
- Victor Panlilio
Evernote, Flickr, Last.fm
- jbrotherlove
I loves me some Lynda. Lots to learn. Evernote and reQall http://www.reqall.com/ round it out.
- Christopher Harley
flickr, photoshop.com, Zune
- John D Reasor
Evernote, Mozy, and Flickr
- Russellreno
Evernote, Flickr, Toodledo, BitDefender
- Wei-Yen Tan
Hosting for my blog. Also pay for flickr, but that wasn't really worth it.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Flickr and Remember The Milk. Hosting accounts: Media Temple and Dreamhost.
- Jorge Gobbi
Evernote is my favorite. It is the one application I will not do without.
- Rob Cairns
Cecily & Mike: I've tried Mozy, Carbonite, Backblaze, iDrive and settled with Mozy for no obvious reason. Pretty much they are all the same. A very similar software, same slow initial backup process, versioned backups, easy restore, scheduling and background backup features, bandwidth throttling, being easy with the system resources and close yearly fees: $49.50 (iDrive: 150GB), $50...
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- Berk D. Demir
I must have tried Evernote five times, but can't really get what is SO useful about it. Maybe it's the "how" - can someone direct me to how they use it and why it's useful to them? As far as paid apps, Pandora, Carbonite and Extra Storage on Google. That's it.
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: check out Evernote's blog http://blog.evernote.com/ as well their tumblr blog http://evernote.tumblr.com/ They have some great use cases on both sites. Maybe that will spark some ideas on how to utilize it. It's one of those things where you have to kind of be conscious of it and make yourself use it - then after a while it naturally becomes part of your workflow - at least that is how it worked for me.
- Mike Bracco
Was forgetting Animoto for which I will subscribe very soon
- Bertrand Doux
Thanks for those, Mike, very helpful. I think you're right... I just need to make an effort to get it into my workflow. I think it may work well to document ASP.NET snippets I use often (maybe).
- Vince DeGeorge
Vince: Yeah and what's helpful as Evernote progresses is that the service is getting faster and better integrated into the OS - which makes it less obtrusive and easier to work in.
- Mike Bracco
DropBox, Skype and Pandora One.
- Jason Huebel
flickr, last.fm, rememberthemilk
- Jason Toney
Evernote, Dropbox and Skype
- Sally Church
Mobileme is the only one I pay for right now.
- DGentry
Evernote, Flickr, TinySpell and WinPatrol (last 2 Windows only)
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jott, Netflix, Zune. Flickr dropped off the top 3 some time ago.
- Wade Dorrell
Flickr, Zune, Netflix.
- Jordan Hofker
from fftogo
Flickr, Netflix, Dreamhost
- Logan Lindquist
Trying mobileme.
- ashish
Napster, and MobileMe
- Edgar Rodríguez
also, emusic. How could I forget them?
- Jason Toney
SugarSync, Evernote, LastPass
- Johan Bakken
Its got to be Evernote, Flickr and Skype. Noticing a lot of love for Evernote on this list
- Robert Davies
For all you Evernote peeps, if you're not already in it, we have a pretty active room on FF: Feel free to join us! http://friendfeed.com/evernot...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Remember The Milk, Flickr. Thinking about subscribing to Evernote but not sure I really need the premium version. If they add export option to their amazing recognition tool, I may switch.
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Damn me, I forgot the one I use the most: skype...
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
freshbooks is great for small business invoicing. I use Pandora One also and Remember The Milk. trying Action Method (really good!)
- Julian Seery Gude
from BuddyFeed
Spotify.com, ProvideSupport.com, EverNote.com and soon e-tipi.com :-)
- Elian Chrebor
@elian what does Spotify premium brings? I would subscribe for an offline and/or iPhone feature. E-tipi probably but I hope you won't have to pay ;)
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Can someone tell me what lynda.com does? And what do you get extra with a paid Pandora account?
- Mark Traphagen
Mark: Lynda offers professional video tutorials or classes on pretty much any software imaginable (classes are streamed in browser via QuickTime and range anywhere from 2-12 hours. Pandora One is the pay Pandora account. It offers more skipping per day, double the bit rate quality (192 - huge difference from free account) and also a longer timeout period.
- Mike Bracco
I thought the bit rate quality with Pandora One wasn't going to be a big deal but it's night and day...big difference.
- Mike Bracco
Thanks, Mike!
- Mark Traphagen
Hmmmm, $25/mo for lynda.com isn't bad. Wish they had more stuff that was non-Web-related, though.
- Jason Huebel
I pay for Flickr, Plaxo and Me.com
- Boris
Flickr is the only thing I pay for. At work we pay for Wufoo and love it.
- Laura Norvig
Netflix, DeviantArt and that is it. That is all I pay for online besides GoDaddy for web hosting.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
spotify :).
- Tobias W.
I only pay for one at this point: Flickr. I am considering Evernote as well.
- Adam
Likely Evernote. still test driving it.
- Carolyn Chan
giganews unlimited usenet for $25/mo is always tempting
- Mike Chelen
Other than my Web hosting, I don't have any paid subscriptions to online services that I can think of. I tend to gravitate toward ad-supported free services.
- Curtiss Grymala
"Victoria Beckham had her implants removed according to the Daily Mail, taking her from a D to her natural B, and my heart from a :D to a :( " http://www.wwtdd.com/2009...
Yuvi, James Ferguson, RAPatton and Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ liked this
old and busted
- Chrimmus Tad
When is she going to get her real face put back in?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I seriously think she is better off without those balloons. Big breasts: fine. Inflated fakes: not so fine.
- Boris
Uh oh... :-)
(via http://cultofmac.com/uh-oh-m...)
- Boris
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned?
Iain, Victor Ryden, Bertrand Doux and Amani liked this
And yeah I know, not REALLY next web stuff but you just have to love the ingenuity of this one...
- Boris
So...we've had Laptop Updates, Snow Leopard (September), iPhone 3.0 and iPhone 3GS,? What's the verdict? Unhappy, Satisfied or Happy?
Jamie, Franz Sittampalam, Johnny and 5 other people liked this
Overall I'm happy but the 3GS.. not sure if I'll upgrade yet.
- Martin Bryant
Happy :D
- zsafwan
Satisfied.
- Wes Hoogenboom
Would have liked to see a tablet. Happy with new macbook and price though.
- Ben Newton
Pleasantly surprised by the laptop updates, wish 3GS was thinner and had iChat, and Snow Leopard for $29 is amazing, looking forward to it
- Arvin Dang
Very happy. Just for the photo/video updates alone, this is great.
- Chris Luckhardt
one question: will be video for "old" iPhone 3G too?
- alex
Not to bad. Good haul of stuff all round really.
- Simon Wicks
satisfied, not really happy tbh. I expected too much of this keynote imo :p
- Frederiek Pascal
Price $29 is just amazing !
- David Foucher
I'll be happy if Snow Leopard is PPC compatible. If not, kind of sad, but understanding.
- Joel Zehring
I'm happy that Apple seems to have reduced their prices across all their products. Exited for Snow Leopard. Wishing the iPhone was with carriers other than AT&T.
- Doug Jones
Not really happy. I'm excited about Snow Leopard but thats about it.
- Johnny
Nice job of covering this Zee!!! So, do i need to upgrade to 3GS phone to get Video?
- Susan Beebe
improved battery life will make me switch from my windows mobile, hardware encryption is also nice for the IT departement, but not the same excitement as with Google Wave to be honest.
- Erik Jonker
I'm pretty happy - it isn't a HUGE upgrade if you've got a 3G, but I'm rocking it old school with my 1st Gen. model, so it will be a must for me. Thanks for the coverage :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'll upgrade. My battery on my old one is getting tired, and the resell value of the old 3G phone (i.e. which will be unlocked and have no contract) should be decent enough to offset the cost of a new one. I sold my v. 1 on ebay, after one year of use, for the same price as a new v.2
- Andrew Leyden
now that the 3G is selling for $99 do you think it'll have a decent resell value?
- Franz Sittampalam
Great coverage guys! The only bad news… having to wait for Snow Leopard in September.
- Vincent van Wylick
Good stuff but I'm still trying to read and watch content on a 2in x 3in screen. Not good.
- Christopher Harley
The new hardware is a disappointment. I liked the matte version we saw a lot more. i don't get it...
- Boris
oh well the rumourville got most of it spot on
- Franz Sittampalam
from IM
Where's the damned iTablet?
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
tech crunch has it :)
- Susan Beebe
I'm with Tad. No upgraded iPod Touch. No announcement for a tablet/big iPod Touch
- Rodfather
Used 3Gs will have some resale value because they can be unlocked. Folks have wanted faster 3G phones but the way they were sold in the US (tied to a 2 year contract at the time of purchase) made it difficult to get them for the unlocked market.
- Andrew Leyden
iTablet would have made this keynote REVOLUTIONARY. Instead we settle for evolutionary, although I think the new API sets the bar REALLY high for any and all competitors.
- Chrimmus Tad
from fftogo
The Web will be the Death of Google - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Marwan Osman, James Ketchell, Парадокс Смейла and 15 other people liked this
Never
- Calabros
have a read, it's not by me but its a fascinating post
- Zee.
But doesn't this assume that Google won't adapt to the changes? Why couldn't Google simply "steal" what Bing or other search or social engines offer?
- phil baumann
Moving from search to favourites lists will stagnate the web. Search engines allow fresh new content to get found without huge marketing campaigns. I really don't think in a decentralized chaotic medium like the Internet that stagnation like that will be embraced. Search may fragment, but I don't think it'll ever be supplanted.
- matthew john ernisse
fascinating post, but author thinks google is frozen and others are running
- Calabros
Its an interesting post. Although I don't think everyone will stick to a set of websites as new ones launch and users move over to them. The arguement that search may not be as important in the future is potentially realistic although Microsoft should have built a good SE while it is still important and made alot of money in the process - something they are doing now ;)
- Nicholas James
i dont think so nickolas. he says you can find people in facebook better than google. ok, but what if we have hundreds of facebooks in future?
- Calabros
@phil baumann: the point I'm trying to make is that Google won't be 'killed' by another, more innovative, search engine but by a changing World Wide Web. I don't search for books at Google but use Amazon. Correct? Google will have to compete with Amazon, Linkedin, eBay and all the social networks.The threat is not better search, is it less searching.
- Boris
Boris - it's a great point. still, Google could enter search biz for books (remains to be seen how their ebook venture goes). In other words, Google doens't have to be solely dedicated to Search. Still, you do raise an important consideration: that traditional search will probably decline in use as other means of finding things evolve.
- phil baumann
Calabros: There will be something which is able to solve that problem ;)
- Nicholas James
The article assumes too much about Google missing the boat, when in truth they have shown to act faster/more decisively than either MSFT, Yahoo, or most others. 1) Google bought YouTube ("the Web") when it became apparent that it was the next big wave. While they are still getting dinged for not monetizing it enough, YouTube already has more SEARCHES performed on it than No.2 search...
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- Alex Schleber
Uh, Alex, @ev already sold Blogger to Google; doesn't look like he's looking to sell again.
- Raphael, Raphael
Uh, @Vezquex, how is that a reason for Ev not to sell to them again (unless he felt screwed last time)? Whatever happened to "Each war makes the next one more plausible"? Plus, if the price is right, Twitter's VCs will nudge them to sell anyway. I think it's mostly price-inflating posturing/"courtship" right now..
- Alex Schleber
Have to completely disagree with this post, though it is interesting. If one looks at the examples of other sites cited by the author, one can see that in each case, search is still essential. Yes, much of search can be done from within specific sites instead of from an engine homepage like google. But if google has access to the information and APIs of sites just like everyone else...
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- Zach Landes
a) "This Week’s New Yorker Cover, Brought to You by the iPhone" or b) "This week’s New Yorker cover, brought to you by the iPhone"
Brooks Bishop, Kol Tregaskes, Ton Zijp and Chris Heath liked this
Most of the web's most popular blogs write titles using capitals for nearly all the larger words in the post title. Technically, it's incorrect - but what you prefer as a reader? A or B?
- Zee.
I like the version with capitals a)
- Chris Lloyd
My personal preference is either every word gets first caps or just the first word (old skool typesetting training).
- Johnny Worthington
I prefer without capitals and write my blog post headlines without. I've never thought that people might prefer them 'with' - it just looks more 'noisy' with capitals.
- Martin Bryant
For titles I like the all caps font, where the letters that are actually capitalized are just larger.
- Chris Heath
Capital B).
- Ton Zijp
If the NYT can do (a) for its headlines, I will too. Unless I forget.
- Andrew C
lol +1 Andrew
- Zee.
Definitely b). The first one is noisy and unnecessary, and mostly just seen in US media AFAICT.
- Thomas Bøhm
definitely b)
- TrafficBug
In this case I'd say B. But it depends on a lot of factors. If you have a short title that needs emphasis I like A sometimes. It all depends on how 'poetic' the title is really...
- Boris
Tagline should really be "written on my iPhone" ;-)
- Vincent van Wylick
Twitter to launch a TV Series!?! (updated with details of Leo Laporte's TWiT copyright) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Tv Series, Snehasis Patra, Alex Schlotzer and 39 other people liked this
this is unreal
- Zee.
interesting...checking the story out now
- (jeff)isageek
... It would be a bit weird to say the least.
- ralphsaunders
guess it cant be worse then some of the crap on tv now :)
- (jeff)isageek
It'll be interesting to see how they resolve the trademark issues with Leo Laporte and TWiT. There's also a http://twittertvlive.com already, which should get a cease and desist any day now.
- Ken Sheppardson
aren't they already resolved Ken? I agree though about TwitterTVLive - thats just one big mess
- Zee.
Zee: No, Leo's trademark applies specifically to streaming video/TV/etc. Since Twitter's not in that space, it creates no confusion in the marketplace, so there's been no "conflict". If they get into video, however... BTW, Leo was just talking about this on The Tech Guy radio show yesterday. The general TM issue... not the fact that they're talking about doing TV. That part didn't come up.
- Ken Sheppardson
ah i see, really interesting - might just add that to the post. Thanks Ken
- Zee.
unreal? Insane!
- Boris
A bizarre turn of events for sure.
- Martin Bryant
As I understand it back in 2007 Leo left Twitter for Jaiku, in part to avoid TWiT/Twitter confusion. http://leoville.vox.com/library... He's back on Twitter now, since you really have to be if you're a broadcaster these days.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yeah, poor fella has had to come back with his tail between his legs. Clearly he's a little pissed with the similarities in the name...as i would be
- Zee.
Well supposedly everything is cool between them as long as twitter doesn't get into streaming video....
- Chris Heath
I guess the Twitter TV episodes will be light on content, but fast and edgy?
- DGentry
Seems like yet another vehicle for celebrities
- Raj Advani
yep +1 Raj, i think the celebs are going to end up winners here
- Zee.
My trademark is in ALL video, not just streaming. We've been negotiating mainstream TV deals, as well. A Twitter TV show might well quash any broadcast deals I might make due to the confusion.
- Leo Laporte
Leo, thank you so much for commenting. I'll update the post
- Zee.
This is bullshit. Twitter is clearly infringing. Besides, CNN is turning into a Twitter show anyways, lol.
- Andrew VanderVeen
it's about *core competencies*. when you think about twitter, you don't think (at this moment) of a tv show. twit's main focus is on video. it's what's twitter's planning to do that this is about. confusion exists. ask any noob. lol i think leo has to do what he has to to defend his investment in his trademark. again, it's more than just about the name.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Perhaps Twitter should buy the TWIT trademark,then Leo could really expand. Leo is the brand not TWIT. Without Leo, TWIT is exactly what Twitter is: a simple group of followers that generate content, most of which is consistent of a Twit
- Gary Sanders
from BuddyFeed
yeah, I'd agree with you Gary...i think thats a great idea
- Zee.
They're leaving Leo no choice in the matter
- Bwana ☠
Please no.........the beginning of the end, sides we already have you tube et al
- Kevin J Hatton
Is this a joke? I can't even take this seriously
- Angus Burton
PC Easy: maybe they're hoping to make money from spin-offs like TV shows and books rather than the core product. Not a wise move in the long term if you ask me.
- Martin Bryant
Twitter TV Live has 3 shows live 5 days a week - it's based out of hollywood and the prodution quality (at least the audio) is just horrible! (turn your speakers down if you click this link) http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
- Chris Heath
The kindest thing I could say is that it is amateur and feels rushed. Admittedly I need to work on some of my own content but on balance work much harder to produce something of quality. http://www.ustream.tv/recorde...
- Kevin J Hatton
honestly i think they are hoping to succeed at showing other shows how an interactive component can be added with Twitter. They aren't entering the TV market as a content producers they want to enter as content expanders... When I think Twitter I think texts...when i think TWIT i think Leo....I don't see a case here.
- Sidney
Poll: Do you use Google Reader?
Brian Moore, Mike Bracco, Brian Bufalo and 101 other people liked this
I clearly do. Scoble believes that few people do...I just think that few people socialize within Google Reader
- Zee.
Only via Feedly (in Flock). Does that count as a no?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
no
- Farshad
Yup.
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah, for sure that counts Ruud
- Zee.
Absolutely -- and sticking with it -- Google can do big things with it
- Christopher Galtenberg
Indirectly, through Feedly.
- Grey Drane
Rarely
- Baard @ Pixum
I use it for the few valuable feeds that I can't receive anywhere else...But overall, FF and Twitter have replaced it.
- Chris Rossini
Yep. I agree, few socialize in GReader.
- Tanath
Yup, but through its API in Eventbox. I understand R Scoble says a lot of things.
- Thomas Bøhm
Yep!
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
yes
- Alfredo
Yes, I do!
- Filipe Rodrigues
Yep, but I don't really connect with people there. I just read stuff. If I want to talk about something, I share it here.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Using more and more FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook and less Google Reader
- Ralph
Clearly my most used online app, so yes. All the other tools revolve around it in my world. My dad read the newspaper every morning, I read Google Reader all day.
- Bwana ☠
Yes, it's still the best way to track blogs that write about stuff I like.
- arjo
Yes, but only from feedly
- Philippe Mongeau
YEah. I used to use Feeddemon but I like having my feeds synced over multiple devices with the least amount of hassle. Google Reader works perfectly for that.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
I use it, but I don't use it in a social way.
- Alix Whitmire
Of course! I also use FF a lot, but it didn't actually reduce my activity on Greader
- Stanislas Jourdan
Yup
- Simon Wicks
I use Google Reader almost every day
- Peter Stuifzand
Yes. I used to use Bloglines, but I like Google Reader much better.
- Joey Gibson
Yes, by far the best RSS reader I've tried.
- Martin Bryant
All day long.
- Graham English
yes all the time :)
- martha
No.
- امیر؟
Yes, I do :)
- María A.
how do you you read your news Amir?
- Zee.
no
- Steven Hodson
yes
- Uncle CW™
Yes, but not directly, I skim entries via my program ( http://ff.im/38Yl8 ), if I am interested I click. So to FF/twitter/gmail/and other urgent feeds
- Yu-Jie Lin
Without a doubt.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Occasionally.
- Gordon Herd
If anyone wants to share feeds; feel free. http://www.google.com/reader...
- © b e e n s w a n k
Yep. Still use Google Reader.
- Beau Liening
Yes, quite a bit.
- Dustin Sallings
Yes, since 2006. I used Bloglines and Sage (Firefox add-on) before.
- LouCypher
No. I stopped using it a long time ago when I switched to FeedDemon, then I stopped using that too (keeping up with 200+ feeds was just too much). Now, I use Gmail's Web Clips with 14 feeds (including the feed for popular bookmarks on Delicious). If the item is new and the title is interesting enough, I click. Still, I keep saying to myself: "I should go back to FeedDemon someday."
- Yaser Sulaiman
yep
- Rich
yes
- AJ Kohn
the best app to read news and keep track of favorite blogs ~ Google reader
- Srikanth AD
Duh.
- Louis Gray
Yes a lot
- M F
yes sure, most of the time via feedly though
- Naor Mark
Yes..it's the only RSS reader I use.
- Bill Johnson
yup, Tried a few others but always went back to Greader, now using Feedly to read my feeds with.
- Tony C.
No, never.
- Ton Zijp
@Louis Gray you say 'Duh' but Scoble doesn't believe so
- Zee.
@Zee It's Scoble. Go figure.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Yes, I do. Not regularly though.
- Nurse Katie
Yes, usually daily.
- 321
Occasionally
- Lu Liu
Yes. It's one of the few things I can access from work so sometimes it's my only contact with the outside world.
- Michael Hocter
I use it quite often. Have a widget on my iGoogle home page and still really like the iPhone interface.
- David Imielski
Yes, I read from several different computers. GReader is great.
- David Slattery
Tried it, don't use it.
- Bruce Lewis
I use Bloglines.
- Alex Scoble
Use it occasionally.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Daily. I love it.
- Andrew
yup
- vijay
I use it on a daily basis. It is my primary means of keeping up with all the latest news.
- Bob Blunk
I setup google reader with a few local news links, so if I share something it's sent to friendfeed and then twitter. dont use it alot, forget to. I have FF, I let other people find interesting links for me to read.
- Mike Nencetti
Yep. No other readers sync with the iPhone as well. Sure, there's NetNewsWire, but I don't like it.
- Larry Hudson
Yes
- matthew john ernisse
@Alex Keeping it old school.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Yes, love it. Also the mobile version and with feedly.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Yes, former Netvibes user, but Google Reader is much better for RSS feeds
- Kristian Salonen
Yes via Feedly, which shakes it up and presents it magazine style.
- Kate Foy
Yes, sort of
- Will Higgins™
yes every day.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Yes. Best. Feed reader. Ever.
- Jason Mayoff
from Nambu
Via Feedly
- Grant Bierman
Yes, but am really searching for an alternative that allows me to have smarter results... some blogs have posts I am not interested in. Today I just started trying out bytagg.
- Sid Burgess
Yup from me. Love GR.
- Roger Benningfield
now where's Scoble at? I wanna gloat... :P
- Zee.
Most people say RSS is dead because Twitter takes over by being real time. The issue with that is that we ourselves cannot be available real time, all the time. RSS helps you cache that information to make it available when you cannot be in the stream.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
well said Bhavishya
- Zee.
I use it, but don't socialize with it
- xero
Zee: gloat? With a few dozen comments? Come on, please do be real. I have 89,000 followers on Twitter, 5,000 on facebook, 38,000 on friendfeed. When you get close to those numbers let me know. Then I'll let you gloat.
- Robert Scoble
@Scoble How do you mean "what I get close to those numbers?" - can you clarify
- Zee.
Use it, but not as a social tool.
- invariant - farewell FF
Robert: I don't think he wants to gloat about his numbers. It's about the fact that a lot of people still do use Google Reader or other RSS Readers; they just don't socialise with it as much as they do with Twitter or FF.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
Yes, but I feel I'm wasting to much time with it. Browsing entire RSS feeds is not really targeted and Google Reader doesn't filter.
- Oliver Bouchard
I use it for my feedreading, but not socially.
- Scott Bulloch
Yes I do, keep it opened in a firefox tab almost all day.
- Vineet Bhatnagar
from Nambu
I'm still waiting to hear what Scoble's crap about "89,000 followers on Twitter, 5000 on facebook and 38,000 on Friendfeed" was about.
- Zee.
Yes I do!
- Victor Ryden
@Zee Don't hold your breath.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Nope
- RAPatton
naa, he'll respond - at least i hope so. Because I'm really hoping i'm wrong about what i think he was implying there.
- Zee.
yes I do = but I am quickly finding FriendFeed and Twitter replacing some of the feeds I used to subscribe to.
- Tony
Yes! I use Google Reader constantly, in my web browser and on my iPhone. I have RSS feeds set up for my common Twitter searches, too. I also use Yahoo Pipes that I've developed over time to have very targeted RSS feeds. But I don't socialize via Reader.
- Kurt Rosenkranz
Yes, I still use Google Reader, voraciously. It has NOTHING to do with comments/followers. Rather, GReader is a tool for being better informed. Sometimes I use my GReader learnings in the real world - in conversation - where we don't formally have followers and such.
- Mike Reynolds
R.Scoble: What do follower numbers have to say in this matter, or at all ? I thought you had a statement about quantity vs quality some time ago as well ?
- Thomas Bøhm
I use NewsFire, and occasionally Resc Newws! on my PalmOS phone. I guess I haven't joined the "everything's in the cloud" revolution yet.
- Joshua Lee
<whisper> I've never used it. </whisper>
- Derrick
Thomas: follower users tell you how many people use a service and map pretty closely how many people are using a service, if you can see them in aggregate.
- Robert Scoble
Zee: it's not what 80+ people on friendfeed say. It's how many people ACTUALLY use these services. Google Reader just doesn't have the numbers. My follower numbers are a very accurate indicator of that.
- Robert Scoble
R. Scoble: people follow more people on Twitter than on Facebook because Facebook means you share a lot of information, so I'm not sure if those numbers mean much in the way of that.
- Joshua Lee
@Scoble But how do you know how many people use Google Reader?
- Zee.
I don't use google reader, and I use twitter, facebook, and a bit of friendfeed. ;-)
- Joshua Lee
But Robert, I use GReader EVERY DAY, but I'm not really socially connected with anyone on it. GReader's main function can be used without any social integration at all - so how many people follow you or vice versa isn't really relevant. Even leaving aside the issue of whether number of followers is relevant at all - it certainly isn't relevant when the core function of a service isn't connecting with other people, but consuming content.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes: it is a convenient tracking system and I like the email alerts
- Anita Hunt
I use google alerts without GReader
- Joshua Lee
GReader != social
- Mike Reynolds
Yes. It's an essential daily tool for must-read feeds, as well as for discovery. Social media does not give me the same content as my must-read feeds.
- LogEx
Sometimes feeds generate data for social media.... I share a lot of links via email and occasionally facebook or twitter.
- Joshua Lee
No. Currently it does not cater for my feed reader needs.
- Vidar Andersen
I used to use a similar online newsreader, bloglines I think it is called, but after a while I found having to check a website unweildy - the whole point to RSS is to not have to play with your browser to read information.
- Joshua Lee
If you want to follow blogs directly on their site, at least for Blogger, you pretty much have to do use Google Reader. I know I've had that feedback from my followers.
- Fossil Huntress
Yeah, blogger is a bit of a closed ecosystem. Very ungooglelike.
- Joshua Lee
/me uses his best Ronald Reagan impression "Mr. Brin - tear down this wall"
- Joshua Lee
every day for real work needs. for all the rest, FF, Twitter and Facebook
- Giovanni De Stefano
Yes. Daily. But I overlay it with Feedly - www.feedly.com - which makes it rather prettier.
- Stephen Collins
Much ado about nothing.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Clearly Scoble doesn't really want to get too involved with this discussion. Which is disappointing considering he was the motivation for the post in the first place.
- Zee.
Google will eventually add real-time and social networking stuff to Google Reader, and especially with algorithms to suggest the best posts to read, then all will use that most
- Charbax
I use it. But I don't share anything with it. I just use it to keep on top of a few news sites and forums.
- Jan Ole Peek
no, but I'm ashamed to admit it. I used to use bloglines.
- Laura Norvig
I live in Google Reader. It's my life line for discovery, digestion and distribution.
- Mike Fruchter
Yes.
- Deborah Fitchett
I do. I could live without FF, Twitter et al but Google Reader is a time/life saver.
- Murray Barton
Not much anymore. I push most of my rss feeds through FF. That way I still get RSS goodness without constantly fighting an unread count.
- Tech Introvert
Yup.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Yes
- Shevonne
Sometimes.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I do.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I do w/feedly
- Dave Martin
I do when I'm bored. It's more a bookmarking spot for me than anything.
- Mitch
Yes, I use google reader and RSS is not going anywhere
- Wayne Sutton
yes, daily
- Brian
well clearly according to Scoble, all of you guys saying that you use it are not part of the majority...and Google Reader is actually a very quiet place
- Zee.
Went from Google Reader to NetNewsWire simply because of the syncing ability between the Mac client and the iPhone app.
- Mike Bracco
Yes - constantly
- Threepwood
Zee: sorry, I had to drive Patrick home. There are a variety of ways to see how popular Google Reader is. Look at Quantcast. Alexa. Compete. Compare referee logs with others, etc. I have kept on top of the usage numbers and Google Reader isn't keeping up with growth in other agregator types like Facebook and friendfeed andthe people I compare numbers with see a lot more traffic from...
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- Robert Scoble
Yes, I love it.
- Kate
Absolutely! Key tool 4 R&D.
- Jan Friman
from Nambu
@Scoble thanks for the clearer and less agro response. I'm really going to dig in and do some research into it because although I definitely believe that Facebook & Co. are growing much faster...as a news source/tool - i still believe it's number 1 and has huge potential for further growth
- Zee.
i do and love its integration into everything
- Zach Scott
I use it a lot. Get and collect most of my "news" there.
- kilbuda
Yes. Ugly as it is.
- Robin Barooah
from Nambu
@Robin check this out http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Zee.
Sure. Save the good stuff with Read It Later & Evernote.
- David Hayes
Yes.
- David Cook
Yes - just to read
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Yes. I've been using it less because of FriendFeed and Reader's content/ attention data lock-in. If Reader: 1) allowed us access to our attention stats, labels etc. through interactive UI or flat file export (Diigo), I'd use it more. 2) added a simple WYSIWYG editor to the comments feature to improve it as a blogging platform, I'd use it more. 3) allowed for Gtalk chat's around articles with chats that could be appended to the articles (think Gmail with appended Gtalk chats), that would be useful as well.
- Jack Frizzell
Yes. Recently I love to use GReader via feedly.com
- yezi
Yes, especially to share
- Janaree Nore
I'm a long-time Reader fan.
- Kevin Fox
Yes, though a lot less since Friendfeed came along
- jcunwired
I stopped a few months ago...but now I'm back to using Feedly - love the magazine layout, just a cleaner better way to read (for me that is ;)
- Aline Ohannessian
Religiously.
- Steven Perez
Off and on.
- Parth Awasthi
Yeah
- Nicholas James
Yes, at least twice a day... every day.
- CJ Guest
no, only a handful of times
- Chris Heath
I just import Robert Scoble's and Louis Gray's .... it's much easier
- Charlie Anzman
don't know how i would get all the rich data w/ out gReader and Feedly.
- michael sean wright
Yes - I don't always read it, but yes.
- Brent - Loving Life
i don't feedread anymore. tired of the echo
- Richard A.
Everyday
- Roger Teh
Yes, probably my second most-visited site after FriendFeed.
- John E. Bredehoft
yes
- Duane
sure
- Alper Umut Çimen
Yes, love it.
- Mark Krynsky
yup
- Alejandro
yes!
- Randy
Yes, every day!
- Jonathan
Yep, I'm an avid user.
- Lode Nachtergaele
Almost as much as gmail. Don't view or need it to be 'social'.
- Adi
yes. :)
- Laurentiu
extended firefox with feedly this evening -- thank you all for that recommendation, gReader looks so much better, especially where the folders can be customized with different views: magazine stylesheet enhances the readability of content. [I'm looking into the exposure of private feeds when feedly services are used. Comments? It was surprising how they got to my subscriptions without my password.]
- Adriano
Adriano: Feedly is well done, isn't it? It's the only thing these days keeping me from abandoning FF completely for Chrome.
- Christopher A Carr
[off-topic @cacarr : ditto, cf. extensions like Zotero, It's All Text (w/ vim ;-), or even Read It Later]
- Adriano
Yeap feeds and alerts all in there.
- Jonathan Kong
Yes I do, and I'm also pretty impressed with feedly/firefox, but I use that in addition to slogging through my greader feeds. I'm in the process of re-organizing my feeds so I can "mark all as read" without concern I'm missing something I need to see. "a1_events a2_casts b1_techblogs x9_other" etc.
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Sure do, but a little les frequently than in the past
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
I do.
- Roshan Ramachandran
& my shared items get routed to Friendfeed+Facebook & from FF to Twitter... :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
I do use Google Reader but just to read news feeds not sharing or whatever. The number of updates is getting a bit unmanageable now and I end up bulk-marking a lot as read, but it's good to skim through the headlines or less active feeds.
- By_tor
Yes, but must admit my usage of it has dropped off a cliff since I started using Twitter more (mainly because it was easier to digest content on a mobile), but think the noise ratio is greater on Twitter, so may go back to Reader when I get the next iPhone.
- Paul M Evans
I experience the entire internet through google reader - even twitter and friendfeed are read in google reader.
- Ian Tindale
If I share stuff in Feedly it ends up in FriendFeed and Twitter. Someone has to put the good stuff up there to retweet...
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Absolutely! Google Reader is still the first webpage i hit in the morning to read my "a-list" tagged feeds.
- Niklas Sjostrom
absolutely!
- Goktug Gedik
yes i do! but less and less
- Michael
yes i do but since friendfeed came on the scene it gets less and less
- (jeff)isageek
yes but mostly through Feedly, and i do use Friendfeed to replace some stuff too.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Yes.. I would never socialize on it as well, the tool is of course, fantastic..
- Daniel Tal
Yes. I hate to admit it but Google did a great job with Reader. At first I didn't share anything but after some tweaking I got addicted to it. The gadget is great too (when it refreshes of course)
- Carlos Lorenzo
Yes
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
Yes. the only RSS reader I use. Haven't checked out feedly yet.
- Ravindran Navaneethan
yes, a lot!
- Thomas Lemberger
Yes -- mostly for local/major news sources. I don't really read too many blogs (but do have a handful in there too)
- mark
Fuk yea and how !
- viki saigal
yes
- Seltoon
Bloglines seems to be less reliable than Google Reader, but I stick with it because it's much easier to use. Complete navigation with single key strokes. Google Reader forces me to use the mouse. Too fussy. I'd prefer a desktop client, but haven't found one that is as good as Bloglines (on Linux).
- Peter
Yes I do
- Sampad Swain
Yes. I have hundreds of RSS feeds that I read via Reader. I haven't found a better Web-based replacement. I do not use Reader for it's social networking aspects though.
- Glenn J. Ward
No, I prefer Bloglines.
- Dimitar Vesselinov
Yes
- Spencer
Yes, for all of the sites I follow.
- Robert Kenney
yes
- Sarah Peterman
Yup. Everyday.
- Stephen
Nope.
- Rochelle
Yep
- Mustafa Tan
Nope.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I was just checking Feedburner actually and noticed that 60% of our subscribers (8000+) at TheNextWeb.com use Google Reader....
- Boris
Yes, every day!
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
Yep!
- Adnan Taşkıran
yes
- clarke thomas
I use it and Feedly
- Nathan Chase
yep
- Jayavasanthan J
y, don't get to read everything tho
- Artyom
It's the only RSS reader I use. I've tried several RSS apps on my phone and a couple on my computer and none are anywhere near as good as the web based Google Reader, either on my phone or on the computer. So I just stick with it.
- Nathan Mylott
Zee - thanks for the link - I followed it and found 'helveitreader' which is nicer still. However, I have issues with the interaction as well as the style. (http://ff.im/3d9Np [http://ff.im/3d9Np] is real)
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Every day - on iPhone and Mac ...
- Patrick Jordan
Yes..I push out my shared feeds to a Google Reader widget published on my blog.
- George Dearing
from BuddyFeed
everyday - me also having a dedicated widget on my blogs.
- diego morelli
yes daily
- Lu Tao
yes, daily, for now Twitter and twitter-like services are not replacing it...
- roland legrand
Yes, daily.
- George Brickner
Daily, it is a complement for specialized interests.
- scottnewell
Yes.
- Mark H
Everyday, all the time!
- Patrik Johansson
Yes. only way to keep track of 250blogs, and its the only remotely Social media style site that isn't blocked by my work IT department. I share stuff not in Greader but on here more so.
- Yant
I use reader, but keep looking for ways to cut myself off from it. I hate feeling that I have to read everything.
- Daniel Zarick
Zee, why don't you use ffpolls? :) http://www.ffpolls.com/
- bilge kagan
ffpolls is broken for me
- Robin Barooah
from IM
@Robin Barooah; It's working correctly now.
- bilge kagan
Yes.
- Blake
@Bilge: Not for me: http://screencast.com/t...
- Robin Barooah
Thanks Robin, i told about failure to founder.
- bilge kagan
Yes, weekly
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Robin can you tell me poll title and poll answers?
- F. Batuhan Icoz
Yes, and I love it.
- Amy H.
I use it every day to skim what is going on but don't use it to socialize
- Sandra
part of my core tool set...
- Richard Zeidel
yup
- docrivs
Sure do
- Andrew Leahey
I use it all the time.
- Pete Gilbert
every day
- chrisofspades
Yes
- OnuRC
yes. (btw @robin: it's fixed i think. can you please try again?)
- Yusuf Güzel
Yes, but not actively. I use it to aggregate my favorite newsfeeds into one giant RSS feed, which I feed into Wizz RSS reader (Firefox plugin). Wizz automatically checks for updates at specified intervals, so I stay on top of the latest news from all services. I also use it to search mp3/filesharing RSS feeds that I subscribe to, and to bookmark useful posts.
- LANjackal
Used to use it all the time, but I still check on my feeds from time to time through it.
- i80and
@Yusuf yes - works for me now: http://ff.im/3eQqx
- Robin Barooah
Yes
- Yavuz Karakişi
Nope, i mean i used to but than came FriendFeed
- Majento
All day every day, yes.
- Ms_Krista
Everyday!
- Anthony DCosta
Yes, everyday.
- Cristian
I used to use bloglines, but once google added the ability to search only my feeds, they had me hooked.
- Davis Freeberg
Yes, its my central information repository.Where i aggregate all interesting RSS ( from almost 150 different sources) so i never miss a beat. There are certain desktop apps which are better then Google Reader but whats great about it is its online repository which works for every device i use to access it. Though i clearly think there is a hell lot of improvement needed. In its current avatar it can be pretty unmanagable specially if you read a lot and you can't be online 24*7.
- Abhishek
jah
- Furkan Tunalı
Everyday. I have it set up so a can create keyword specific feeds to selectively send items to other sites.
- Kevin Shannon
Yes and I cannot live without it :)
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Yes. The best reader out there.
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
Yes, everyday.
- Peter Kruit
yes, I do everyday. I do sharing too. It works like a champ for me.
- Mitchell Hislop
only with feedly otherwise it's clumsy and ugly looking
- Cee Bee
love google reader and sometimes use feedly
- sean808080
via Sharaholic only (to share, and seldom), I've never been to the official site, I don't do browser based RSS/Atom
- Michael W. May
yup its taking over bookmarking....
- cysko
Nope
- Vincent van Wylick
Nope.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
No.
- l0ckergn0me
love it, but wish there were more people on my google social graph
- Saul Howard
I'm inclined to agree about the socializing in the reader. Otherwise, as a reader, it's ace.
- Bronson Harrington
I do however so few of my friends do I do not socialize there.
- Brian Bufalo
yep and I use it with feedly firefox addon
- Adrian
No, I don't use Google Reader.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
yep!
- Gio
Yep! I love GR
- jonas
Yes i use it everyday!
- Brian Moore
obsessively
- Chris Rogers
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