"Friendfeed does have to think about it compared to Twitter at the time they removed Track, more than a year ago. Even then Twitter had more traffic, but it wasn't nearly as dramatic a difference as in the more recent part of that graph."
- Bruce Lewis
"What's interesting is that new posts are added to the search index in real time. Twitter used to have this (Track) but couldn't scale it; they're testing it and may reintroduce it. For FriendFeed to have put this out I think they must be confident it can scale."
- Bruce Lewis
"Robert, where's Posterous in your list? Posterous is going after twitpic with a vengeance. They're in all the major Twitter clients now. OurDoings isn't really shooting for twitter, much more for FriendFeed: http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin..."
- Bruce Lewis
"OurDoings won't go out of business because it hasn't gone into business yet. I developed it and continue to build it as a side project. Also, the comments live on FriendFeed and Disqus, just like on this blog."
- Bruce Lewis
Great food for thought, Bruce... Thanks!
- Steve Carter
"Read their articles to get to know what they like to write about. Then look at different things that could be said about Windy Citizen and find a story that they would like to write. Then talk to them."
- Bruce Lewis
Running email messages through metamail and lv -Ou8 is a hack. But it will have to do for now.
Very helpful. Don't mean to be rude but I never understood the logos on the top to be a camera and the back of a camera, that tip alone is so enlightening!
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
It's not rude at all. I have more tips like that one. More posts later. Getting ready to take the family to NYC.
- Bruce Lewis
Boston FriendFeed meetup Wednesday, July 15, 5 p.m. Cambridgeside Galleria food court. RSVP by commenting on this item.
A lot of web enthusiasts will be in the area for http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ We can eat at Cambridgeside, then move the meetup across the street at 6:30. RSVP for the meetup by commenting here, and for webinno at that link.
- Bruce Lewis
Can't wait to see everyone! Come stop by!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I didn't know you were Boston local. heh.
- mikepk
I've been thinking about starting some kind of startup / geek dinner thing. We used to do them years ago and then they kind of fizzled out. It'd be nice to reinforce some of the Boston area startup community, a little less formally then say webinno, or the Mass TLC.
- mikepk
Jesse will be temporarily Boston local and is coming to this meetup. Mike, do you know about Ivan Kirigin's startup poker in Arlington and Steve Garfield's media makers in JP?
- Bruce Lewis
via fftogo
Mike, I'm just visiting. My parents live in Boston so I'll be spending a month or so there this summer. I grew up in Texas though. :-)
- Jesse Stay
I've had my head down for like a year+ so I haven't been engaged in the community unfortunately. Now trying to catch my breath and see who's around.
- mikepk
Jesse, cool, I see your posts all the time on your blog+friendfeed, and thought it was odd that I didn't know you were Boston area. Guess that explains it. :)
- mikepk
Bruce, didn't know about the poker thing. Although I'm not a big fan of poker (just could never get into the game). Knew about Steve's thing but have never attended.
- mikepk
Mike, sounds like this meetup would be perfect for you. Will we see you July 15?
- Bruce Lewis
via fftogo
Yeah, I'll be there. Also plan on going to webinno. Haven't been to a webinno since we presented there a looong time ago.
- mikepk
"I think there are a lot of reasonably smart cocky/arrogant people. I think there are hardly any extremely smart ones. But there are plenty of ones that people think are extremely smart, due to the phenomenon this article describes. Arrogance hinders people from getting smarter."
- Bruce Lewis
One of the economic professors at school was saying that today the individual has as much access to the best talent world wide as a company does, Guy basically said the same thing. Anyone not believe that this is the best thing to happen lately?
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
"Right. I pass it through as an argument to the script (see the "$@" in the last line). Initially I wanted to use the script more cautiously."
- Bruce Lewis
"Thanks, that's really helpful. So what I'll need eventually is an EC2 instance that can be the remote end of the rsync. It would only need to be up for the duration of the backup, so it wouldn't have to cost a lot. What I'll likely do medium-term is do this rsync once a week, and have the daily backup simply copy new files (via tar), so it won't have to navigate the whole remote filesystem to find things to delete."
- Bruce Lewis