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FriendFeed
Michael Tefft posted a message
“Someone please educate me on FriendFeed. What is the purpose of 'liking' a post on FriendFeed? Do I win something if my posts have the most likes? ;-)”
Thursday at 1:07 pm - Link
someone from friendfeed will correct me, but the 'like' feature informs friendfeed of topics and contributors that you have a preference for. if you look at your FF stats, it shows who you're most interested in and vice versa, based primarily, i believe on your the actions you take with each post including 'likes', 'hides' and comments... it also informs the "Show best of" links at the top right. I think. - .LAG
Thanks .LAG, that helps. - Michael Tefft
The different types of 'Likers': http://michaelfruchter.com/blo... {AND} what a Like does to content in FriendFeed: http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... - Hutch Carpenter
Great stuff Hutch. Thanks - Michael Tefft
Also, if I like something or comment something, my subscribers who aren't subscribed to you get to see it. It's a fantastic way of exposing others to people who have great FriendFeeds. Like me! - Akiva Moskovitz
Thanks Akiva. I need all the exposure I can get. - Michael Tefft
FriendFeed
Eric Rice posted a message
“I hate when my silly FF shares get MEGA traffic and the deep stuff falls over like a brick. I know I'm not alone with this experience.”
Wednesday at 11:08 am - Link
I know how ya feel, but we gotta let it go or start editing the stuff we publish with an eye toward the audience... and personally, I'd rather stay unfiltered. - Roger Benningfield
welcome to the internet... - Nick
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hey, look a lolcat! here kitty, kitty... - Hao Chen
I hate it when that happens. - possible248
Write about Friendfeed, or Twitter, or Both, about how one kills the other, or not, about the tehc blog community..... Guaranteed traffic drivers, but nothing to say really. It sucks big time, total agreement here. Sometimes I really take the time to think something through and actually get it written down and then less people even know its there than one with one of the subjects above in it. It's the virtual bubble we live in here. Write about the bubble works better than looking beyond it ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Maybe you need different followers (or better material)? - Brian Sullivan
Could very well be, LOL ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Oh I know this is nothing new... I even did isolated tests on Twitter and did so in real time, and results can be duplicated. Problem is, that line of thinking is a bit nefarious--- ultimately, it walks the line of audience control, but at a psychological level. It's not difficult to know what people respond to and how they will do it... do you act on that? - Eric Rice
I like to mix it up. I've had some posts that achieve pretty good popularity here. Others don't fare so well here (e.g. some of my enterprise 2.0 posts), but they do well with my RSS subscribers. And of course, some just fall flat with everyone, but writing the post was a good mental exercise. - Hutch Carpenter
Is it possible that what you think is deep is not really all that deep? Maybe it is just not titled to get traffic? Can you provide some deep/silly sample post pointers for us to discuss? - Brian Sullivan
Brian, I think one example was asking a point blank question about emergency preparedness that was inspired from a web2.0 SAVES ALL thread vs. hacking movie quotes with the word facebook to bug scoble. I mean, I'm only commenting about it all... just cuz we're indie or something, doesn't mean the sensational mass media rules don't apply. :) - Eric Rice
I can also cite a couple examples that have to do with everyday people like you and me wanting DRM, and yet, because it exists in the context of Second Life, the stigma and humor around furries and shemales trumps a serious issue. People are predictable, heh. Just the way it is. - Eric Rice
Stephen Hawking vs. Paris Hilton, GO! - Eric Rice
Deep stuff? Write a book. - Mark Forman
Definitely write a book. Go long, go deep. I've heard you claim you have no patience for the long form, but I wonder. - Jason Wehmhoener
Persevere. Personally, I'm not yet giving much consideration to the immediate feedback to what I post here. My contributions now are more an investment - the building of a body of info better suited for future users that don't give a flip about analyzing social networks. It's gotta happen. I mean, if Joe Sixpack signs up for a FF account and all this person sees is echo chamber crap about Twitter and SEO and industry analysis? They'll run for the hills and FF will die like all the rest. - Jim Stanger
People magazine sells better than Scientific American-that'll never change. More folks hooked on sugar than honey. - Mark Forman
Yes, but the spectrum of interests will widen in the months ahead. No one's saying it would be productive bringing up 21-dimensional physics problems in FriendFeed. That's for Plurk. ;-) - Jim Stanger
Irony is Plurk commiting suicide before falling whale crushes it and it goes , "SPLAT!" OK adjusting deep settings again. - Mark Forman
Wait, there's a site with people chatting about 21-dimensional physics problems? That "plurk" thing seems to be like twitter but less popular. Anyway, I don't see a question about emergency preparedness as "deep". Any question about Second Life is going to be context-free for people who don't use it. I think "silly" and "deep" are kind of questionable labels: Everyone has different interests, and it's disturbing when that's made evident without the normal social fiction of polite attention. - ⓞnor
Higher dimensional physics being discussed on Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/e/022fe0... - Jason Wehmhoener
String theory http://friendfeed.com/e/96618e... and http://friendfeed.com/e/71270d... - Jason Wehmhoener
dark matter http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Jason Wehmhoener
But you know, we're no worse off than the mainstream media http://www.webfilehost.com/ima... (via Nick) - Jason Wehmhoener
Lolcatz I can haz string... - Mark Forman
Damn you and your "facts" Wehmhoener! :P Still, you'll get much more engagement when the masses find FriendFeed. See, this conv works, 'cept it's about a web service. There's just no getting around it...yet. - Jim Stanger
Why do I feel that J Wehmhoener was Ming the merciless in a previous life? xD - Mark Forman
Wow, that's the most evil thing anyone has ever called me. I kinda like it. ;-) But seriously, I look nothing like this http://mingthemerciless.com/ - Jason Wehmhoener
Nor: Are you fucking kidding me? - Eric Rice
See also: puppets - Eric Rice
Mark: yeah basically. - Eric Rice
You're silly stuff is cool Eric... so we droool over it!! hehehe! - Susan Beebe
i think in the deluge of information overload, we're all somewhat conditioned to respond more quickly to the trivial and prurient, because it's easy, it's knee-jerk... the deeper stuff takes effort, and then you have to make decisions about how much energy you want to expend, for what payoff? i think we all tend to go for low-hanging fruit first. 2 virtual cents. - .LAG
.Lag- $.98 back-fruit salad ftw! - Mark Forman
What's the deep / silly ratio? Tweak it a bit, share less silly, maybe? - Dread Pirate PJ via Alert Thingy
You are not alone. People are stupid. Nuff said. Have you seen the silly movie "idiocracy"? We're already there, dude. - melmcbride
Flickr
Shey published photos on Flickr
Me accepting my degree
Me accepting my degree
Wednesday at 5:26 pm - Link
"accepting" ? :) Congratulations Shey! - directeur via NoiseRiver
Congrats! - Vox
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congrats shey! - Rob Diana
Congrats Shey :) Degree in what? From where? - Mo Jawhari
Congrats Shey - Charlie Anzman
Congrats, Shey! - Mark Trapp
Mazel tov! - Akiva Moskovitz
congratulations! - Rob Clark
I was so cool that I didn't "accept" my degree: I *let* them give it to me. - Dan Kaplan
I told to my brother to go and recieve it for me... not that I'm shy, but lazy :( - directeur via NoiseRiver
You guys got nuthin. I had them mail me mine. Granted I had to take one last class at a local uni to get it :) - Rob Diana
lol@Rob Thanks guys! - Shey
Congratulations! - Noah Carter
I love your mom: "Way to go Shey!" Congrats babe! - Jasmin Smith
bruthas getting college degrees...i'm always down with that. congrats! - .LAG
*** Toast to Shey!! *** Congratulations on a fantastic milestone in your life!! woo hoo! - Susan Beebe
Fantastic! - Vince DeGeorge
I'm down with anyone accomplishing their goals-enjoy and use it well! Kudos. - Mark Forman
Congratulations again, good jeorb! - J. Phil
Congrats! Well done. - sergiooooooo
congrats! - Marco
Congrats! - Adnan
+1 more congrats! - Mike Fruchter
Awesome! Congrats! welcome to the real world! Or are you going to grad school? - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
Congratulations! - Andy Tinkham via twhirl
Congrats Shey! - Mike Reynolds
Great job! - RAPatton
Congrats! - Jason Kaneshiro
Congratulations! - felix
FriendFeed
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins posted a message
“I don't care what anyone says. FF3 is a useless sack of crap. Every third time I load a flash applet, this thing crashes.”
Tuesday at 10:53 pm - Link
So....it's firefox..and not flash? I find that a vast majority of my crashes involve Flash....no matter the browser. (Disclaimer: I primarily use a Mac) - Bwana McCall
it's not flash. it's flash developers creating RIAs on supercharged rigs and then pushing them out onto a Net where most users' machines are significantly less powerful than what the developers have. sluggishness and crashes ensue. don't hate the game, hate the players. ;-) - .LAG
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Remove flash from the picture and what do you have? A stable browser :) - Bwana McCall
If you're on OS X, it's Adobe's fault - Flash on Mac OS X is absolute shit. It's so Flash that some people use "Flash" as a euphamism for the word "shitty." - l0ckergn0me
but without flash, how would you deliver to the masses the greatness that is bwana.tv. ;-) - .LAG
I hate flash (for the most part), doesn't even work in 64bit linux. - clarke
I was glad to you start this discussion. Although it's working great on my Mac and I prefer it to see Safari, it's a POS on my PC and crashes each time I try to reinstall and launch it. I don't think I can blame Microsoft for that. Everything else works fine. - Larry Kless via twhirl
Firefox 3 performance for me really depends on the underlying OS's age and kruftiness. It runs smooth as butter and extremely fast on fresh installs of XP and Vista.. not so much on my entrenched OSs. - J. Phil
yeah, flash on linux apparently stinks, but what do you do to go beyond static text? - .LAG
Running great for me on XP - Mark Forman
is Flash on OS X Adobes fault or Apples? i don't know a thing about it but based on the apparent struggle to get Flash on the iPhone I suspect Apple's playing a role in making the experience on OS X worse than it could be... but again, what's the alternative? Quicktime? - .LAG
Chris called it - Rock solid for me on XP and Vista - Numerous complaints continue from some Apple users - Charlie Anzman
i was trying to watch Mr. Chocolate Rain on Ustream and it did crash on me alot - Outsanity
Don't look at me, I move between FF3, Safari and Opera (current) on a rather crufty XP install. It all WORKS, but some days are better than others. - Alexander Williams via NoiseRiver
I've yet to have a FF3 problem with Flash, had them a lot with FF2. - Sean Hanna via twhirl
Absolutely no problems here. And I love the new location bar. It's such a time-saver, once you've learned how to use it for your advantage! - sebmos
It seems if a flash applet is running, the amount of cpu consumed is very significant. Just observed FF3 consuming 50% cpu with a paused Youtube video. Closing that page fixes things. - Jauder Ho via twhirl
Use Opera 9.5 :) - Nestor
Check out the beta for Flash, it fixed my issues with FF3 RC2, and haven't had any since. - Steven Van Tilburg via twhirl
FF3 is rock solid on Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP for me. - Opensource Obscure
Have you tried the Flashblock addon? - David Knight
Agreed - If your on a windoz machine take a look at the toolbar in a Google document... seem a little fuzzy?? Render it in IE and you'll see what I mean. I also had issues with flash and other stuff. Plus my theme was incompatible - but that just sucked... - Dave Gray via twhirl
That sux. FF3 is fast, stable, and awesome for me. I would recommend Opera as an alternative - Shey
I thought all my crashes were total flukes but now that you mention it every time its crashed it been with a flash website. It crashed 3 times on me yesterday :( Being a flash developer that makes me sad. - Greg North
have very little to complain about Firefox 3, could be Adobe issue, ver10 is awful - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Thanks everyone for the FlashBlock tipoffs. Been trying it today and I think it's helping the epic memory leaks I was suffering (using FF3 on OS X). - Mike
good thread... i hope someone at Adobe is aware of the sentiments some folks have for the flash plugin, especially on OSX and Firefox... with all Adobe's invested in Flash and Flex, if people are concluding (correctly or not) that their web browsers crash mostly due to Flash, then they have a problem...these are the early adopters... what will the eventual mainstreamers do? - .LAG
I don't know if it's worthless crap, but it's certainly unnecessary. Any software problems you have, I take with a grain of salt. You are stuck with Vista basic after all. - Art Lindsey III
i have a quad core intel running XP SP2 FF3 hasn't crashed on me once - Tyler
Thanks for the feedback. There are a couple of things happening. One, we're always trying to work more closely with the browser vendors to make sure the in-browser Flash experience is good. Two, we're of course always trying to make Flash Player more stable on every platform. I've had my own issues with Flash Player on the Mac, but I think in 10 it's getting better. At least it has in my testing. =Ryan (rstewart@adobe.com) - Ryan Stewart
I've had a lot of FF3 issues too. I'm trying the 10 beta now, though. - Sarah Perez
Flash on Ubuntu Linux and FF3 crash. Flash on XP with FF3 ok, Flash on OS X spotty. I use the Mac the most, so it's not great for me. - Henry Burger
PDF -- has crashed every browser I've ever had. But recently, I've also been having Flash issues in FF3. - IRWebReport.com
FriendFeed
Duncan Riley posted a message
“added last 80 odd followers as being followed. Cracked the 4 figures. Observation though: a lot more people seem to be using private feeds. I'm interested as to why, FriendFeed is a social service that aggregates public information, so I don't get the privacy choice some are making”
Wednesday at 4:05 am - Link
I would be interested what this social demographic is semi early adopter with a healthy dose of skeptimiscm or folks running experiments such as I see folks doing with the rooms on occasion. - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo
The information is publicly available, but not organized, combined to one person. This is something people want to avoid. - sebmos
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@duncanriley, Hi and thanks for the follow back. - Czar Derek Peterman
I am thinking that some people want to aggrigate all their data in one spot but want to keep some things private - for EG; they may have a private twitter account... other than that I can't think why. - Dave Gray via twhirl
I noticed that when I was going through and adding followers. There are tons of private feeds. Doesn't that cancel out the point of the site? - Mike @ IHM
thx for following Duncan. My main reason for joining FF was to grab my name and use as a backup when the Twitter fail whale attacks - Neerav
i have a few private feeds but that's because i want to see whether or not i can first get them up to speed with content that isn't just repeating what other people are posting elsewhere of FF first. if not, then i'll kill them. otherwise, it seems to me that lots of public rooms have the propensity to just be rehashes of stuff already shared... most of it by louis gray, steve rubel, scoble or corvida (just kidding...i ain't hating on anyone.) ;-) - .LAG
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possible248 posted a message
“Is it more difficult for a small blog to gain popularity or for a popular blog to keep the good content flowing so it isn't abandoned by its readers?”
Tuesday at 6:37 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link
I'd bet the former. - xero
I have my idea made about this possible248. You want audience? Go sensational. People *LOVE* 100 best, 10 must have, 267 don't do things. Can't help it. They LOVE these stuff. - directeur via NoiseRiver
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I would think so too. A small blog really has to be insightful in the majority of the posts if it is to be a good read. I notice that a lot of the bigger blogs just post links when the bloggers do not have the time for a formal post. There's nothing stopping the small blogger from doing this, but doing so would slow down the growth in the small blog's popularity. - possible248
and maintaining is easier than gaining popularity. I'm just interested to see if anybody says that it is hard to maintain a good reputation. - possible248
my guess is for a small blog to gain popularity. popular blogs can always slowly change focus. - Rob Diana
The answer is both. Small blogs often go unnoticed, which is why I've tried to help promote those I think have great potential. Also, once popular, it can be difficult to maintain tempo and quality. You can see this time and again. - Louis Gray
but if a blog is really small, can't it just quickly change focus or start over entirely? - possible248
if it's really really small, it can change focus and/or start over and nobody would notice. i've changed the focus of mine numerous times, much for my own entertainment since i'm the only one that reads it. - Matt Musgrave
I, myself started blogging that's about 8 years now... I blogged about jazz, and people loved it, then went my way with other dev stuff. In the begining people liked things, alas I should say that lately, as I said in my first comment, everything is about how you "market" your product. The product comes later. So I stopped blogging and told to myself: be more a "doer", whatever happens. - directeur via NoiseRiver
small blog to do well. - Todd Jordan
I totally agree with the crowd that says it's harder for the small blog as the large blog can do things such as polls. It's quite easy to ask a question and have your audience give you the answer. That also allows you to make a followup post analyzing the results. - possible248
Oddly enough, a blog about how to become a more popular blog would be quite popular automatically, not to mention amusingly meta. - xero
Depends on your goal with your small blog. Mine is teeny-tiny, but I really don't give a crap if it gains popularity or not. In a sense I'm leaving something for my grandkids to read, if my kids pay for the domain name. Ha ha! - Dewald Pretorius
my blog is an open notebook, to myself. i jot down things that occur to me, and twenty years from now, I'm going to look back at what I was thinking and say, 'What was I thinking?" That I might get any reader is coincidental, it's sometimes positive, sometimes irritating. i suppose i could do it on a private livejournal or something like that, but then i'd have yet another password to remember. and that's work! - .LAG
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Collaborative Filtering
Tuesday at 7:00 pm - Link
Lifeblood of The Social Web - .LAG
FriendFeed
Basketball: Anthony Farrior posted a link
Gilbert Arenas breaking the bank? (Yahoo! Sports) | My Philly Network
June 30 at 8:34 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Yes Gilbert take take all the money you can. You big Zero, I mean agent zero. Who ever we get from free agency is gonna shut you down!" - Anthony Farrior via Bookmarklet
'Big Zero'! too funny! but seriously, what championships has he won? in college? in the pros? - .LAG
Blog
.LAG posted an entry on [ caught |n between ]
Jay-Z Covers "Wonderwall"
June 30 at 4:09 am - Link
Video no longer available, nooooo. - Hao Chen
what... does oasis have THAT much clout in the music biz, day-amm! - .LAG
FriendFeed
Steve Rubel posted a link
Alex Rodriguez and Madonna affair report triggers tabloid frenzy
Alex Rodriguez and Madonna affair report triggers tabloid frenzy
July 1 at 11:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I usually don't pay much heed to celeb gossip, but when it involves the Yankees it's different! Newsday: "In what could be the perfect storm of celebrity gossip, Us Weekly is reporting that Alex Rodriguez has been making late-night visits to Madonna's Central Park West apartment." - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet
how does his wife do it? - Ron Emrick
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I call first dibs on his ex-wife!!! - Ralph Whitbeck
Good! In the slow July sports period this is just what Mike and Mad Dog need! hooray. - Laurent Courtines via twhirl
I bet you could field a pretty good all star team with the players that have been in Madonna's vag - Ralph Whitbeck
Friendfeed is a great source, thanks Stevo! - paul mooney
Already teased my brother (huge Yankees fan) about this - RAPatton
I'm sure she'd don a Yankees' cap, but will she give up the fake British accent? - Robert Seidman
Madonna already pushing Steinbrenner to make her center fielder. - Chris Reed
look at madonna's face... when did she get THOSE angelinajoliesque cheekbones? and are they silicone or saline? lol - .LAG
@Chris she would be a great add to the rotation now that we have Joba. - Steve Rubel
The only Madonna that the Yankees need on their pitching staff is one that the Yankee fan faithful can pray to... - Rob Reed
Wow she's looking weirder and weirder these days. - Brian Carter
FriendFeed
Jason Calacanis posted a link
Looks like california is going make marijuana legal... wait for it.... for everyone.
July 1 at 11:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I say tax it at 100% and put the money into solar panels. Let the stoners solve the energy crisis! :-) - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet
if i say i 'like' this... will i be put on some kind of a 'list'? lol - .LAG
I have no problem with that -- and I agree that they should tax the hell out of it. - Jeff Scott
I'm defiintely with you on the tax idea Jason. - Adam Teece via twhirl
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Basketball: Roger Benningfield posted a link
Congrats to Ryne on the new gig!
July 1 at 5:40 am - Link
Ryne goodluck in your new gig! - Giancarlo Angulo
Fantastic! Congrats, Ryne! - Chris Reed
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Congrats! Sounds like a great gig. - Khyle via twhirl
Excellent! - .LAG
I had no idea you were smart n stuff. Amazed and congratulations - Temple Stark
Wow congrats man! - Brian Carter
Congrats! - Shey
Thanks all! It's been so hectic this week, I regrettably haven't had much time to check the room! - Ryne Nelson
FriendFeed
Basketball: Chris Reed posted a link
Baron Davis opts to become free agent - NBA- nbcsports.msnbc.com
July 1 at 8:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I expect this to be a very active free agent season... Don't decide who's going to win next year until the smoke clears.... "Golden State point guard Baron Davis elected to become a free agent Monday night, opting out of the final year of his contract with the Warriors in a surprise move." - Chris Reed via Bookmarklet
Who thought the Clippers would have so much sayso on who goes where this season. - Khyle via twhirl
Considering they're the one team that usually struggles with the salary minimum, rather than the salary cap, they could become a top team overnight in this free agent season if they wanted to... But they won't. After all, they're the Clippers. - Chris Reed
is there an 'unlike' link - i 'unlike' that baron is opting out rather than staying to build the warriors into a contender. the guy's practically made of glass anyway, always injured...enjoy the clippers baron - .LAG
Don't abandon the guy yet... He could conceivably still be a Warrior.... - Chris Reed
Flickr
Czar Derek Peterman published a photo on Flickr
Czar's Friendfeed style
Czar's Friendfeed style
July 1 at 9:38 am - Link
All the white was just to much.... Not a script, just changed the colours in firefox3 - Czar Derek Peterman
awesome! - .LAG
Twitter
Jeremiah Owyang posted a message on Twitter
Blog
Duncan Riley posted an entry on Duncan's posterous
Too many services
June 30 at 7:10 pm - Link
yes, but behind all of these services what are we really talking about: blogging (personal publishing), messaging (instant or otherwise), and file sharing (photos, videoes, mp3s)... everything seems to be built on top a small set of core utilities - .LAG
I think we're really each going to have to just select one or two services where we feed content into the stream, then just rely on integration and APIs to carry things downstream. I can't imagine sustaining a pattern of posting on a professional blog, a personal blog, a tumble blog of some sort, twitter, commenting via Disqus and here, and using IM, SMS, and email for direct communication. There will be a consolidation/integration wave at some point. - Ken Sheppardson
Totally, KShep. I lose track of Utterz, for example, for months. I pray for consolidation - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
i agree some kind of way to selectively post different things to different services, for different purposes would be cool... that's why ping.fm looks like a really promising tool. i'm sure more tools like that will start to emerge - .LAG
I was just thinking the same thing last night. - Tony Kanzia
Blog
Steve Spalding posted an entry on Forum | How To Split An Atom
User Generated Sweatshops
June 29 at 9:51 pm - Link
interesting...but one could argue, the users/sweatshop-workers here are creating material primarily for their own interests -- and not for 'Da Man' -- and they initiate the activity, and can end that activity on a whim...btw, notice how i ugc'd here and not on the forum...FF is killing bulletin boards and forums too! lol - .LAG
It's easier, no arguing that. It's the same reason things like Disqus work. They let you reply to comments via email (way easier than going to the blog). Friendfeed works for similar reasons, it allows you to have conversations around a ton of different services without having to log into each. Brave new world and all that. - Steve Spalding
Blog
National Football League (NFL): an entry from NFL.com
Goodell: Rookie pay-scale 'ridiculous'
June 27 at 11:38 am - Link
Yup, Alex Smith got a ridiculous contract for $50 million before he even played an NFL game. Look at him now... - Shey
i think mike martz may make smith into a serviceable nfl qb; coaching matters and smith hasn't really had a good offensive mind to guide him yet. i'm a giants fan who lifes in sfo. - .LAG
If there's anyone that can do it, it's Mike Martz - Shey
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Last.FM: .LAG posted a link
Web Services – Last.fm
June 29 at 10:10 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Last.fm has opened up a pretty nice public API... let the music (and cool social apps) flow! - .LAG via Bookmarklet
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BeFunky
June 29 at 8:51 pm - Link
Funky Ways to Express Yourself - .LAG
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Basketball: Ryne Nelson posted a link
Utah Jazz: Williams could get $90 million deal - Salt Lake Tribune
June 29 at 2:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
There's no question in my mind that this guy deserves it. - Ryne Nelson via Bookmarklet
you need someone who can run the team...this guy has all the skills for that, and you have to love a point guard who every now and then will take it to the rack and posterize a mu&#%f@cka! worth every penny! - .LAG
FriendFeed
The Kid posted a message
“Anybody, PLEASE tell me how to add new feeds into your services!!”
June 29 at 10:05 am - Link
Feeds as in service supported by FriendFeed, blogs, or services not supported by FriendFeed? - possible248
Like if I went to go add a service and I wanted to put in an RSS feed that FF doesn't already have listed. So yeah, I guess feeds that aren't technically supported. - The Kid
Add it as a blog? - Daniel Bruce
Yes as a blog. As long as I can get information from these websites to come up in my feed, thats fine. I just want more in my feed than the services they have designated. - The Kid
in your account settings, where you add services, click on the blogging (orange) button, and copy/paste/type in the RSS URL of the feed you want to add. - .LAG
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deadfake
June 28 at 10:42 pm - Link
This can't be for real: free, easy and anonymous fake email service. - .LAG
FriendFeed
Russellreno posted a link
10 things I hate about Flickr (and its users):
10 things I hate about Flickr (and its users):
June 28 at 8:27 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"How wonderful, fifteen users loved my photo so much they awarded it the “Most Awesometastic Flickr Masterpiece Photo Award”, complete with a giant sparkling, shiny, flashing banner. And yet they didn’t say anything about the photo? Really, I don’t give a damn about your invented ‘awards’, and I really hate the comments on my photo getting clogged up with huge icons that look like they were stolen from a circa 1998 web site. Martin Gommel, a friend and much respected photographer says it best: “Please do not add any badges, banners or awards. I know that finding the right words isn’t easy, just try it, I believe in you ;)”" - Russellreno via Bookmarklet
This one, the awards and banners and badges, is a particular pet peeve of mine. Same with links of any kind. I just delete them, whether there is a comment or not. - Michael Hocter
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The banners are quite annoying. I don't mind the attention, but it sure would be nice to get some good constructive criticism, or at least a valid comment. - Donato via NoiseRiver
I'd like to know who is scrubbing archive.org to find those graphics. - Kirk Kittell
rhetorical question: does anyone have to make their photostreams public? - .LAG
LAG - No. - Russellreno
You can also disable comments if you so desire. I have considered it because I get very few comments that are actually useful or constructive. - Michael Hocter
@russellreno: my point being that an open photostream is available to the general public (on the net)... if you've ever had any experience with the general public in so-called 'meatspace' you'll learn quickly that you must expect an incredibly mixed bag of interactions, some of them which may even have you questioning your faith in all mankind. <wink> - .LAG
I disagree with most of his points. It's easy enough to ignore things that you don't like so much on Flickr if it bothers you that much. I do wish Flickr hadn't set the quotes/space tagging convention that they did, but it's too late to change now at this point. - Thomas Hawk
neil creek is the post author - he said not to take it personally, so will ask the same of him in my comment here - your post is pretentious & who died and made you the guru of all things flickr and the insightful commenter? flickr is 100% opt in - turn off comments if you don't like them - you seem like a good photographer but your attitude towards your "community" that you pretend you're interested in sucks - no offense & may "awesome" grace all your favorite shots ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
Question: If someone posts a comment with an animated picture in flickr, the original picture's view count of course goes through the roof because they are essentially tying their image with the popular one, right? Do that on a bunch of popular pictures and suddenly you have an automatic most-viewed image. I can see now why flickr allows you to disable linking a picture in your comments. - J. Phil
Holy crap. Every single one of these is true. - Vincent Ferrari
J. Phil: No. First of all, Flickr does *not* allow you to block pictures in your comments. Many people would love that feature. Second, Flickr does only count views if the actual photo page is visited. So posting a picture in a comment doesn't get you any views unless someone clicks through to your photo page. - Ole Begemann
My husband created a parody group complete with a parody image award. The scariest thing was how any people LOVED it and then joined the group. - Cyndy
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