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FLOSS Weekly 88: Linus Torvalds - http://twit.tv/floss88
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Linus was a wonderful catch and guest. I had no idea he was so funny! Well done Randal!
- Jeff
Linus is of course famous as the inventor of Windows
- Mark
from iPhone
I just listened to the Kent Beck interview. I can't wait to hear this one.
- Joel Zehring
Gmail Tasks Keeps It (Too) Simple [To-do List] - http://lifehacker.com/5314872...
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Yeah, I agree, gmail tasks is too simple, shld be more powerful.
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Wow. Twitter is totally down
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From the blog: Unscheduled downtime 20 minutes ago We are investigating the problem and will update status shortly.
- Drew
Kind of them to update us. Not too long ago, Search was down 6 hours, and it was not mentioned.
- Louis Gray
What happened? Anything important or just another Twitter fail?
- Hunt
Looks like it's back (for now).
- Chuck
Yep, back for me too.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
They should use friendfeed to post updates on twitter status :-)
- Carlos Brefe
+1 Carlos
- Charlie Anzman
We should all use FF and ditch twitter :P
- Susan Beebe
+1 Susan. :-)
- Kevin Whalen
from email
Wonder if Friendfeed traffic jumps when Twitter is down. Anyone know?
- KyleHase
My account has just been suspeneded.Should I open a new account?
- Alex
I Wonder if such downtime becomes norm for social web apps?
- ashish
Why didn't Twitter go down when I was on the Nimitz aircraft carrier and couldn't use it? Blame Scoble!
Stanislas Jourdan, Jason Pollock, Jannifer @wordsforliving and 22 other people liked this
lol
- Allen Stern
I thought you were the Friendfeed guy anyway
- Hunt
I second Scoble on that!
- darnell
looks like we've got a Wave going!
- Craig Shipp
figures eh
- Austin Garrod
WaveFeed? FriendWave?
- Tristan Seligmann
it's fine here
- kang
its up again
- Johni Fisher
Damn you Scoble! :-)
- Kevin Whalen
from email
what on earth are you doing on a ship rob?
- David Lloyd
what is your job Robert? i mean, your title, what do you do for a living. I don't mean blogging or twittering. What do your employers pay you do do?
- David Lloyd
Mark, he works for RackSpace. EDIT: Read more at http://louisgray.com/live...
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Mark: I am working on something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com
- Robert Scoble
Doing what though? they are a web hosting company. What does he do? lol
- David Lloyd
DONE
- sean percival
Mark: you can see photos of what I was doing on the ship: http://www.flickr.com/photos... (We were visiting as part of a blogger embark that Guy Kawasaki arranged).
- Robert Scoble
ooo how cryptically exciting, cannot wait! I wondered what you were up to travelling all over the world.
- David Lloyd
"something that will come out on June 11 at http://www.building43.com - Robert Scoble" ----- that's my birthday in case you didn't know
- shayne catrett
What do I do for a living? I tour the world interviewing business and tech innovators. Rackspace is paying me to do that because we're building a community of people who are fanatical about the Internet. Really why I'm paid is because I have relationships with many of the people who are building the most interesting web sites. Rackspace hosted YouTube before Google bought them. We are looking for more of those.
- Robert Scoble
Happy Early Birthday. Imagine how cool it would be just do take a few days and go and hang out on a big ship? Shame the pesky real world has to go and spoil everything :p
- David Lloyd
I blame spymaster...they need the firehose!
- Nicholas James
SO is the hope that some of these big upcoming websites might consider using rackspace in the future? You kind of are recruiting big accounts?
- David Lloyd
Update: http://status.twitter.com/post... they said they've fix it - its gone down again...
- Nicholas James
I love how they called it a "fatal" software error.
- David Lloyd
I also love the real-time updates on FF. When Google Wave comes out we will be able to see each other typing this nonsense in real time character by character!!
- David Lloyd
Mark: Unless you hide the character by character option ;)
- Nicholas James
drat!
- David Lloyd
I wonder who will get the exclusive launch info about Building43. What it is etc. Maybe TechCrunch, or maybe GillmorGang
- David Lloyd
Cool list of street vendors on Twitter; see you soon @chefshack1 http://www.seriouseats.com/2009...
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This trailer will destroy your mind, and IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE. THIS IS REAL. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Meh.
- Internet's Tad
what the? is that a real movie?!!
- Dee S.
*blink* there are no words...
- holly
I wish i had blinked i think i'm blind now.
- Steve C
huh? what?
- .LAG liked that
I'll wait for it to show up on Lifetime. Now if it had some dinosaurs or maybe even whales; maybe.
- Christopher Harley
Is this a feature length film or a short?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Gary Oldman?
- Rob Haas
I'll go see it when its on cable.
- CW™
It's from 2003. Went straight to DVD. Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
- Ken Sheppardson
"Tiptoes was an official selection of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, apparently in their bid to add a TV movie of the week category" HAH... http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews...
- Ken Sheppardson
wow. just ... there's no way to end this. i have no clue what to say.
- ♥patricia♥
Added to my Netflix
- CW™
I see trilogy potential...
- zeroinfluencer
41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs - http://digital-artist-toolbox.com/...
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"Believe it or not, all of these photos are of real life-size locations or objects. The technique of tilt-shift miniature faking makes the life-sized look like a miniature scale model. The process involves using Photoshop to fake a shallow depth of field and punching up the color saturation. The results are truly amazing. I’ve rounded up 41 of the best tilt-shift miniature faking photos around to inspire you."
- Kol Tregaskes
This is awesome, I am just doing my first two tilt-shift miniature faking edits right now and getting ready to upload them now.
- Matthew Sauer
Your works reminded me of "A Tiny Street Art Project" http://little-people.blogspot.com/ :) You both are really good! :)
- Maral
My attempt (singular) at tilt-shifting a shot didn't turn out anywhere near half the look of these.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Wow...I just recently learned about this technique...amazing....
- Dori
it is beatifull.
- Mehmet {Blog Gazanya} ;
Fakers in creating miniatures..
- CW™
Fake tilt-shift is the new HDR.
- Michele Campeotto
I love tilt-shift. Fake or real doesn't matter. It's freaking cool.
- Rutger Blom
would have love a tutorial for this :)
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
@Jean: This one's pretty good. http://tinyurl.com/9cfefm
- Praveen Vasudev
I've created a couple but not as good as these above: http://www.flickr.com/photos... and http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, mine aren't as good as some of these but I am learning, shot composition makes a difference as well as the edit. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Matthew Sauer
It's amazing how just a bit of blurring on the edges can create an entire perceived scale change. Also tilt-shift miniature videos are awesome. http://xrl.in/25v5
- seda irengü özmen
Wow! I was planning to try that some time, but now I might do it sooner rather than later.
- James Myatt
A few of my own attempts here: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Daniel Rowley
Thanks for the links, pretty good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Praveen thanks!!
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
this picture on the left really so cool photography lover http://photorelive.com
- sherief
Awesome. If you like those, you'll like these time-lapse tilt-shift videos: http://keithloutit.com/tag...
- Neil Saunders
Thanks to everyone who suggested the free Sun Virtual Box for running Windows on OS X. Works great! http://www.virtualbox.org/
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How well does it do with Boot Camp partitions?
- midnightgolfer
Been thinking about using Virtual Box to run Windows on Ubuntu: http://lifehacker.com/367714...
- Jason Heppler
Jason, you should -it works really well
- Robert Johnson
I don't know if it works with Bootcamp partitions (like VMWare and Parallels do) but I'm using it with XP right now and it seems every bit as fast as either Parallels or VMWare.
- Leo Laporte
Is there any way to run Linux like that?
- Kyle
@Kyle. Yes, you can run a Linux distro in a virtual machine.
- Christopher A Carr
If I already have a license to run VMWare Fusion, what does Virtual Box do that VMWare doesn't?
- Paul Grav
@Daan. VMWare does this too.
- Paul Grav
Haven't played around with VMWare lately, so perhaps it has this functionality now, but one thing I liked about Virtual Box was the ability to run Windows guest apps on top of the Linux host desktop, in seamless mode -- would put the Windows taskbar on the side with Gnome bars on the top and/or bottom.
- Christopher A Carr
@Christopher Carr - I second that. Virtual Box is the best free Virtualisation software I tried so far.
- Ravindran Navaneethan
Big-Screen e-Readers May Help Save Newspapers - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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But it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies. As early as this week, according to people briefed on the online retailer’s plans, Amazon will introduce a larger version of its Kindle wireless device tailored for displaying newspapers, magazines and perhaps textbooks. An Amazon spokesman would not comment, but some news organizations, including The New York Times, are expected to be involved in the introduction of the device, according to people briefed on the plans. A spokeswoman for The Times, Catherine J. Mathis, said she could not comment on the company’s relationship with Amazon.
- Leo Laporte
What really sucks is that you can't get kindle in Japan.
- Carlos Brefe
You can import one, but you won't be able to download anything over the air. No can do because of commercial copyright-zoning agreements. It is even doubtful if Amazon will let you download "non-Japanese" titles to the desktop for the same reason.
- ianf ⌘
Wow... a big Kindle would be tough for me to resist. Although I won't make any move until I see if anything comes of the Apple media pad. Color trumps everything else for me.
- Roger Benningfield
How to Quit Your Job and Start a Company http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009...
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As a security question, AT&T asked "what is your favorite movie". I said, "Pi." It said, "Your answer must be between 4 and 80 characters. Please re-enter." I guess I was wrong.
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Infinite characters?
- Hutch Carpenter
3.141
- Bwana ☠
Hahah.
- Rochelle
African or European?
- Ken Sheppardson
i loved that movie too!!!
- Cardeen Martinez
LOL it is a great movie
- Jim Goldstein
And now I'm reminded of J - "J's List of Sites That Consider "J" an Invalid First Name" http://www.wynia.org/wordpre... which I read years ago on his blog; he's on FF too http://friendfeed.com/jwynia
- Micah Wittman
Love that film.
- joey
You should have said your favorite pie and killed two security questions with one stone: pecan pi
- Dawn
+1 Ken. authentication system no doubt coded by the Old Man from Scene 24.
- Karim
One of my favourite films of all time. My cat is called Pi but the vet's database wouldnt accept a two letter name so at the vet's he is called Pye. I wanted the symbol...the girl at the reception hadn't even heard of Pi so I was on a loser!
- Pete Gilbert
3.1415926 ??? LOL
- Matthew Sauer
You'll have to see if it actually sits at #1 on your Flickchart. ;)
- Nathan Chase
I'd hate to imagine what an 80-char movie title would be like on a marquee!
- Gabe
They're the Phone Company. They know Everything. You must be mistaken in your favorite movie.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Ask Verizon .... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Some make a habit of watching this every March 14. This is Aronofsky's break out work -- very good film.
- Pete Delucchi
Great movie.
- Jason Wehmhoener
This movie has everything! paranoia, mathematics, and brains lying around on subway platforms
- David Roberts
I guess 42 wouldn't work either then
- Jesse Stay
Gabe: http://www.imdb.com/title... (scroll down to "complete title" -- apparently IMDB also has an 80 character limit for the main title)
- Laurence Gonsalves
Ha! "Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D"
- Gabe
Has anyone posted a congratulations thread for the FriendFeed team? I mean, over the past month they have rolled out a new interface and features with not one hint of a Fail Whale (as I can remember). That deserves at least some kudos. I'll start:
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Congrats to the team at FriendFeed... Well done :D
- Johnny Worthington
there was a 30 minute ish failwhale during beta. heh :)
- mjc
I jumped the gun, but here's my fanboi anthem... https://friendfeed.com/logical...
- LogEx
Great job FriendFeed, keep up the hard work!
- Jay Neff
Congratulations FriendFeed, you guys rock!
- Alfredo
Congratulations and Thanks for providing a great service.
- Eric Logan
Even without icons, it is my place where I dwell. Kudos, FF team. Big ups to all of y'all.
- Derrick
Derrick, are you using Firefox? If so, go grab the Greasmonkey script: FriendFeed Service Icons
- Justin Korn
Justin, I am...but that sounds like work. I don't know how to go to there. :( NOT TECHY -->
- Derrick
FriendFeed team, I down this can of Yuengling Lager in your honor. Great work!
- Mark Traphagen
BRAVO!
- BEX
well done
- Ryan Dadey
Nice thought Johnny, i'm thankful on a daily basis... IMO FF's the best of the web for 2008/9
- Majento
Thanks!
- Paul Buchheit
FriendFeed Rocks.
- Nicholas James
Congrats guys! i for one LOVE the new interface. Kudos!
- Drew Lucas
+1 JW! CONGRATS FF TEAM! Awesome work!
- .LAG liked that
I have no clue how ya do what ya do but thanks.
- Steve C
thank you friend feed team, this is the place i've waited for so long to be :)
- chaz2b
<3
- Josh Haley
Hoorah!
- Ron Bailey
Well done.
- Victor Panlilio
Well done.
- Patrick Jordan
from BuddyFeed
*golf clap*
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Kudos to the FF team! :)
- AJ Batac
Like a sweet ball in football (soccer) - we say "well played!!!"
- Amani
Props to everyone on the FriendFeed team!
- Aaron Draczynski
From the announcement thread, it was a good start. And on this, thanks again, appreciate the efforts. Keep the engine running like that and you'll be kings.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Thanks for all ff team
- Murat Buyurgan
Yay, FF team!
- Anne Bouey
respect!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
GO Team FF, GO! Keep it open, keep it rock solid, and forge ahead on everything else.
- Micah Wittman
Seriously great work peeps - well done!
- Andy Bold
Goes Without Saying.
- ianf ⌘
Piling on with my congratulations!
- Chris Aldrich
Congrats for a smooth, sexy transition.
- Will Higgins™
Well done, FF team! The reason I'm back on the FF bandwagon is the beta and now, the new site.
- Larry Hudson
Well done guys. Thanks a bunch.
- Roberto Bonini
Overall great job! (the one <big> stumble with iPhone feed, and the disappointing decision to drop source icons not withstanding, the progress being made is quite remarkable....)
- David HC Soul
+1 on the congrats. Friendfeed is nothing if not absolutely reliable. Good job :)
- LANjackal
Respect!
- Meryn Stol
A big congralutaions goes to the FriendFeed team, loving the new version of the service! Thank you. I have even less of a life now than I did before. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
You know, I never thought of it like that-they never go down. True indeed!
- Benin Brown
Great job FF team. Great example of getting new features out with little fanfare.
- Lyndon Washington
Just a big *thanks* for all the good time i spend here instead of doing useless things on the internet
- Stanislas Jourdan
Thank you Friendfeed!
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
Yes it does and it is good for you to point that out, I know they worked hard on the upgrade, so thanks FF folks - if you are in Seattle I'll buy you a cup of coffee.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
"with not one hint of a Fail Whale" - I posted that on Twitter recently.
- George Dearing
Posted one over here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
And What I was most impressed about is the Show of Force from the FriendFeed team when the actual rollout came online. Other services don't have staff that actually use their product. FreindFeed is great in that respect. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
thats, true, good point. Congrats FF'ers!
- Peter Efland
there were numerous congrat threads johnny - here's one example http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Congrats!
- Jeremiah Owyang
I salute you Sirs.
- Thomas Bøhm
CONGRATULATIONS, FF Team.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
I miss old UI but congrats anyway. You're awesome.
- Onur Gündüz
Almost on cue reading this, I have got two jpeg logos from other posts floating along the page into this one.
- Patrick Boegel
Congratulations Friendfeed team. You really made a great job!
- Diego Espinoza V.
Congrats!
- Rick Cogley
Well done, friendfeed! Congrats!
- Rosemary Sorg
I will 64th that... great job. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Love you guys! FF rocks!
- David Cook
yay yay!!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
Congrats are definitely in order. It's one of the fastest loading, smoothest running apps on the Web.
- Mike Elliott
Congrats for an awesome product.
- Brandon Mendelson
I am back! This is great! Thank you
- Valerie
What a great social media platform. Well done FriendFeed team!
- F. Jay Hall
This is a great idea. Congrats on the upgrade and hoping it doesn't stop here :)
- Jason Williams
++++ so funny -i was just thinking today "i wonder what twitter would be like if the FriendFeed team was running it" no offense meant to the twitter team who are obviously smart and talented as well but as johnny pointed out the diff is hard to miss
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Congrats to the FriendFeed team. Great job! After the UI change I find myself using FriendFeed more and more each day.
- Cristian
thanks for continuing to advance friendfeed in new and interesting directions
- Mike Chelen
Facebook: still a data roach motel when compared to Twitter and friendfeed? - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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Setting the stage for today's Gillmor Gang, which starts at about 4 p.m. at http://live.twit.tv
- Robert Scoble
I think you lost me with the first sentance: "Twitter has done something really remarkable: they have made the entire database of Tweets available to other companies." Select other companies, sure, but it's certainly not "open"
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: it's not totally open, but it sure is a lot more open than Facebook is. Do you know anyone who has the right to get to my Facebook profile updates? I don't, and that's a HUGE difference between Twitter's approach.
- Robert Scoble
Ken: it comes down to "who owns my data?" Can I give Twitter permission to see all my Facebook updates? How about Flickr access to my photos? How about Wordpress for other stuff? No? So, do I really own my data or does Facebook?
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, I'm settling back in to read the rest, but after nearly a year of trying to get at the full feed from Twitter, I'm just a little jumpy.
- Ken Sheppardson
I just joined friendfeed - still trying to figure out what it does.
- Colleen O'Donnell Pierce
Colleen: it does a lot. Aggregates. Lets you share stuff with your friends. Is a social network. Is a search engine. is a content-distribution system. We're all still trying to figure it out.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, but Twitter is the same compared to FriendFeed...FF rocks! ;)
- Nicola Junior Vitto
It's not about defaults, it's about ownership. On Facebook, you are not allowed to give other people access to your data, because your data belongs to Facebook. On FriendFeed or Twitter, you can choose to be public or private, but either way you can still access your data and do what you want with it.
- Paul Buchheit
Ken: Twitter puts a lot of restrictions on how friendfeed uses that full feed, too. They can only share stuff in public when people subscribe and add in Twitter here.
- Robert Scoble
Coleen, FriendFeed is like a one stop megastore of all your social networking and information sources
- rob
"..until after I could change user expectations and get people to build a public instance of themselves. That could take a couple of years." -- Why would that take so long.?.a technology / data portability issue? Not sure about that.
- George Dearing
George: when I tried importing my Tweets into Facebook I got a lot of hate mail. The usage model there is VERY strong and hard to change. That's going to be a noose around Zuckerberg's neck unless he figures out some way to get around it.
- Robert Scoble
agreed
- mediaeater
If only 2009 could be the year the phrase "own my data" dies. The way it's used these days it's as if only one party can "own" something that's intangible, has zero replication cost, and can exist in more than one place at a time. I get that you can have *rights* to access data, reproduce it, and distribute it under our current intellectual property laws, but talking about "data ownership" really just obfuscates a bunch of issues we should be dealing with more directly.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, regardless of what words you use, the concept of whether I own/control/have-access-to/have-rights-to/etc my data is a very important question. For me personally, if I put my information into a service, then I want the right and ability to copy it back out. This is why Gmail included POP3 access from the start -- your data should not be held hostage.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: That's the Biggest point Right There: "you are not allowed to give other people access to your data" Exactly.Unless they're my friends, they can't have access to anything I put there (status updates are changed, I can RT those out of Tweetdeck and Peoplebrowsr) -It's not totally an "ownership" argument, but as Ken say a "rights" argument. I should have the right to allow public access to my data.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
On Facebook I can give a small subset (Friends & Networks and maybe Friends of Friends access, but if I want to, say, share my email address and screen names and phone numbers with the public, "everyone" on Facebook -I'm screwed. I can't do it. And I certainly can't share my comments and likes with the world either. This is why I use Facebook mostly for keeping in touch with IRL friends rather than networking with new ones.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Paul: Bingo... I want to talk about rights to reproduce and redistribute. Not some sort of pseudo-exclusive "ownership", as if it can only live in place X or place Y.
- Ken Sheppardson
To be clear, while Twitter has some default rate-limits on their API, and restricts access to the full public "firehose" to select partners (mostly for scalability reasons, I believe), I've never heard of a case where they haven't allowed a third-party app to make as many API calls as necessary when done at a user's request. I.e., if someone wanted to write a Twitter export tool and a user triggered the request, they'd let you. This is good.
- DeWitt Clinton
I agree with that Paul. No one should hold my data hostage. Regardless of the "ownership" - the "Possession is 9/10ths" argument comes into play. If I cannot "posses" the data, then effectively, I don't really own it, no matter what the ToS says.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, that is exactly what I was about to say. Thanks for saving me some typing :-) So, recent ToS changes mean I keep my copyright on all the stuff I post to FB, but if I want to move that stuff somewhere else I have two hopes, and one of them (used to) play golf... Result? I post my stuff elsewhere and it's FB that actually loses out on being able to display that content. (Not that it's *that* good but, y'know, maybe one day it might be :) )
- Andy Bold
I know it's just semantics, but using terms like "owning" and "moving" is sorta like nails on a chalkboard to me. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Exactly Andy..Facebook loses out on me posting the content there. The only things I post there, for the most part are the Status updates and links that post back out here to FriendFeed where I can easily share them with the world. As FriendFeed (hopefully) adds more outbound services besides Twitter, I will use that more and more. And then I will feel like the information I want to put out to the world is REALLY getting there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ken, I own the copyright, and if I decide to store my stuff somewhere else then I need to move it. I know what you mean though :-) I just wish somebody would inject some caffeine into Facebook, and remind them that walled gardens are soooooo 2003 ;-)
- Andy Bold
got it..it's obviously hard to predict how fast FB's usage model will evolve..i guess that underscores why some user's Facebook interaction is so 1-way..for me, the only time I'm really creating content for Facebook (alone) is from the iPhone app..and that's mostly mobile uploads and light news viewing..you're right tho..if they give config capabilities around what's exposed, my "I only use it for personal stuff" description would change.
- George Dearing
Privacy > *
- Ryan Merket
Rob - I've been using Friendfeed for about two weeks now. I think it does two things extremely well. 1) Aggregate my 'stuff' from wherever I choose to store it right now, and 2) Promotes conversation about that 'stuff'. I think it is very close to being 'the one place' where I can come, see what people are up to, and (eventually) post a single status update that goes out to wherever I choose. Even to Facebook ;-) (Sorry - 3 things - search is also fantastic here. hashtag-schmashtag-is all I have to say ;-)
- Andy Bold
Ryan: I am on the opposite end of that spectrum these days.......Publicity > *
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Andy: Right on. Those are all the reasons why I love FriendFeed, and spen more time here than anywhere else. A mobile client would make me be here all the time. RE: Hashtags see this http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei... and make up your mind. I don't totally agree.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
And if I could post a single status update that wnet out to Facebook, Twitter, ping.fm, identi.ca, blellow, plurk, and a host of other site, I would be ecstatic
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm pretty new to FF - but since I started using it I've become very exited about the posibility to post news that I find interesting on all my services - FB and Twitter are the primary ones (I would love Ping.fm integration in FF). I hope the new additions to the FB API will eventually give me the posibility to share select items from FB to FF and thru that share it with the world. FB doesn't really work for telling the world what u like or what u think is interesting since it's closed viewer wise.
- Kevin Nordmand
A transition from the closed data to the open data model could be an opt-in procedure when u autorize new apps that want to publish your stuff.
- Kevin Nordmand
Integration of comments between FF and FB would be perfect.
- Kevin Nordmand
Rob, that is my Friendfeed Nirvana :-) And Kevin, that is why I think Facebook will start to lose eyeballs. Or, at least, the kind of eyeballs that I see here at FF - currently mostly technically literate people who want to keep in touch with their less technically literate social circle who are out there at Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, etc. Which is the only reason I have for keeping a FB account, to be honest... And ditto - my FB time has pretty much disappeared since FF beta was loosed on the world :-)
- Andy Bold
@Andy I agree since I found FF my FB time has plumited. This is where the information is!
- Kevin Nordmand
I don't know that Facebook is going to lose people, but the rate of increase is and will decline there, as will the average minutes per user per day. I am quite sure that my behavior and that of my friends is an indicator of not only that, but that the opposite is true for FriendFeed
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
FB is just impossible. I hate it because it slices things up (walls them off--literally!) in a way that is utterly inelegant. Every improvement makes it worse. Urgh.
- Kathy Fitch
And today when I log into Facebook, I see they added the "EVERYONE" option for sharing my content. hmmmm.....Sorry I missed the show this afternoon.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I remember writing a blog post almost a year ago regarding FB's 3rd party applications and how they were turning the platform into the next chain-letter/spam vector. Even more so today I believe and the new interface doesn't help because you are continuously feed information that you don't necessarily want...
- Thomas V. Fischer
If search is the gold mine you suggest, and everyone's data is fed into the same big search pool, how will companies be able to control their piece of the search engine pie?
- Spotcher
Carver Mead says, "Listen to the Technology. What's the Technology trying to tell you?" I think the internet is definitely demanding to be open, at least in the Social Media context. I think the technology is telling us Open, Granularity, Ease of Use, but still infinite power under the hood.
- Web Nex
They have a lot coming down the pike. http://www.neowin.net/news...
- Adi
Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk, FriendFeed Feedback, FriendFeed Beta, I ♥ the New Friendfeed UI, FriendFeed Bugs and Ideas
In respect to the duplicate detector and its ability to hide duplicates from different services on the viewable feed, if you could select the order of prioritised services on FriendFeed what would your top 3, or even 5, be and in what order?
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Mine would probably be 1. FriendFeed, 2. Twitter, 3. Google Reader, 4. Digg, 5. media services like YouTube and Flickr and Last.fm. So if a Twitter duplicate came in after a FF share, the FF share would still be the prioritised entry while the Twitter would be under Related Entries.
- Kol Tregaskes
FF, delicious, google reader, others, and LAST twitter.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
for me FF, delicious, my blogs, others and last twitter , since I usually send updates to twitter from my blogs.
- Carlos Brefe
Flickr has to be above Twitter, since if a Flickr photo is posted to both Flickr and Twitter, FF will show only the link from Twitter but the actual photo from Flickr. I don't really care what order happens beyond any embedded media being visible on FF (that's one of the perks of using FF).
- Criz
Friendfeed, Blog, Google Reader, Delicious, other bookmarking services......Twitter.
- Alejandro
New post on my blog: more print-on-demand goodness http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbac...
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New post on my blog: clearly, my plan to kill it with beer isn't working http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbac...
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yeah... our brains should join hands and leave us alone!
- Carlos Brefe
Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions, 2009 Edition http://lifehacker.com/5205629... GR
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