Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor

Cool, you're using a collaborative filter on preferences and ranking components under Bayes' rule! - John Lam

I'm practically famous! :-) - Emily Miller

Hey, I'm in there as "Sheila", not "Bret's Mom". Is that a promotion or demotion? - Sheila Taylor

Really? I *hate* my sister's entries! - j1m

Odds that people are over-analyzing social media and networking = 100%. Sorry. - Josh Haley

+1000 Josh - Cyndy

Josh -- we've barely scratched the surface of analyzing social media and networking. The AI-based social network analysis software of the future will optimize the interactions and experiences of billions of people. We are still at a very primitive stage in figuring this stuff out. - Sean McBride

Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride

I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca

Awesome. I'm going to buy Emily cookies so she likes more of my posts. :-) - Robert Scoble

Did someone record this talk? I'd love to see it, since I'm one of the sources. Hey, Bret, want to get together when you get back? I'd love to talk more in depth about this with you. I think you're onto something very important. - Robert Scoble

I wonder what effect I had vs. my brother. :-) - Robert Scoble

Friendfeed remains ahead of the game. Bret a driving industry force. - Alex Hammer

Bret is very smart ;*) - Susan Beebe

why not use slideshare to provide us all the slides - jfayel

One of the best talks of FOWA. Eagerly waiting to see the new features implemented. - Oren Solomianik

Robert: I would love to chat with you about this. Send me an email, and we can set up a time. - Bret Taylor

Thanks Bret, clearly one of the better talks at fowa! - Tobias Boonstoppel

Bret: will do! - Robert Scoble

Thanks for taking the time to talk to us afterwards. Sent you an e-mail about Wakoopa integration, let me know! - Robert Gaal