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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book
October 26 at 11:36 pm - Link
"With all due respect, this is a matter for Twitter, the book's publisher, and Alex himself. Nobody works 24/7 on any job (this coming from a startup-employed guy leaving a blog comment at 2:30 AM), and if he wants to take the time he's not working on Twitter to give a book to the emerging Scala community, I don't see where the gripe is. You said he's a hard worker who answers your emails quickly no matter what time. Sounds like a guy who has no problems working hard. Everybody wants Twitter to be the best it can possibly be, but what Alex does in his non-Twitter time is really none of your business or mine." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book
October 26 at 11:27 pm - Link
"I've heard nothing but amazing things about Scala and have been looking forward to a book about it for a long time. If Alex can handle the workload it's a win for developers. Best of luck to him." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Axes To Grind
August 27 at 8:36 pm - Link
"I think we, the early adopters of free software, need to get together and write up some kind of agreement that keeps us as much as possible from grinding our axes on free software services." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: This must be stopped (Scripting News)
August 21 at 11:58 am - Link
"I would hope journalists and politicians of all political slants would show up to every important political or news event." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: A brilliant idea at Harvard (Scripting News)
August 14 at 10:01 am - Link
"I like the various ideas going on trying to solve this problem. Particularly Zed Shaw's Utu project: http://savingtheinternetwithha... I think these are definitely problems that need to be solved, but Shaw's ideas of reputation and repercussion stick with me a bit more, particularly for web-wide discussions." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: louisgray.com: The Hubris of the Twitterati and Twitterati Wannabes
July 24 at 2:19 pm - Link
"Word. Up. I'm glad I don't have to sit down and right this exact blog post now." - Bryan Woods
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Dave Winer posted a message
“Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying fcuk about Facebook?”
July 23 at 5:20 pm - Link
No. - Michael C. Harris
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Q: Does it need to be flying? You may be restricting your responders to a smaller subset of all people not giving said "fcuk" (flying or non-flying) about Facebook. - Phil Crissman
Nope - I'm not just a member of the club, I'm the GD president. - Tad, better than boredom
I am also a non-fcuk giver. - Michael Nally via twhirl
Okay I see your point. It doesn't have to fly. A regular old fcuk will do. :-) - Dave Winer
I have to give one, it's the only social network that my friends belong to!!! - Chris Rivait
You do care, otherwise you would not say that - Gabriel
@chris, I have a lot of friends who are only on FB as well. But admitting something has functionality is not necessarily the same as _caring_ about it... if Facebook ceased to exist, said friends would find accounts on some other social network. Ergo, I really don't care much about Facebook... :-) - Phil Crissman
Some of my friends are only on Facebook too. - Morton Fox
+1... though throwing a flying fcuk on the Super Poking application may be a huge hit! - Mona N.
you are not alone - Rom Feria
No, you are not alone. I care just enough to glance at FB news when it comes over Google reader. - Kreg Steppe
I wouldn't even bother giving Facebook a fcuk. Flying or otherwise... - ♫ Rahsheen™
Facebook? What's that? - mace
facebook...hmmm...nope don't care about it - BCK via twhirl
What? Face...wtf? - Ronald
sounds like you have no need for facebook? - Chris Jones via twhirl
Every time they make headlines I kind of glance at those headlines cringingly from the corner of my eye -- I don't care, and I don't want to care, but I do worry that they might get up to something that will require me to care. - Tegan Dowling
not hardly - Kevin Williams
I've never signed up. My life is too action packed to make trying to maintain superficial relationships worthwhile. - Mrsth
Um...haven't used it yet and might never. - Mathew A. Koeneker
No, you are not. - ha3rvey
facebook's strength is in connecting you to people you know, whereas friendfeed/twitter connect you to people you dont know. - Aziz Poonawalla
Never even been to the site. Just do not care. - eve shot first
no, facebook and myspace are both going downhill. Making it have too much, or atleast trying to. - Squid
I still really enjoy Facebook, not really over made up with the changes but I think they are foundations for something bigger! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Facebook is for all the people in theory you know to act like dicks and brag about their shit and here is for meeting cool people who if are dicks you hide - Cecil Sandus
There are braggers everywhere in all walks of life, every friend I have there is close or someone I respect! Well close as in they were a part of my life! - Joe Dawson (beta)
No, even though I got an account s while back, I feel the same way as well... - Queco Jones
no you're not alone. - Jason Kaneshiro
I have way more 'friends' on Facebook than any other network, but I spend less time there, and engage in fewer meaningful interactions, by an order of magnitude. So, yeah, pencil me in for a failure to give a fcuk. - Derrick Burns
We're the wrong age group. Seems like the teenagers and even some of my young software engineers use it more (and in place of) email. I certainly don't understand it, but it seems true. - Bill Rice via twhirl
I won't lose face - William Meloney
All of my friends use it as well (it's that age group that Bill is talking about) and it's pretty much impossible to escape. The weird thing is, teens/young-adults are quick to use tools like Facebook and Myspace but rarely branch off of those large networks and venture into things like Twitter, Friendfeed, and the cooler, smaller apps. - Brandon Titus
Nope. It's been blah since it was opened up to everyone and all those crappy applications starting appearing. Who cares who I virtually poke, super-hug, moon, or <insert verb here>? Total ridiculousness... I use it a bit for messaging friends who aren't on Twitter or FriendFeed. - James Williams
Nope. It's useless. - Sam Lawrence via twhirl
I've visited Facebook twice this year, mostly to accept all my queued up friend requests. I'm finding that FriendFeed has really let me focus back on the true distributed nature of social apps, so I'm commenting more on blogs, tweeting, blogging myself, etc. - Patrick Lightbody
No Dave. The marketing is in full effect. I'm not a fan on the new UI and I think they are overvalued. I do however, think they are loaded with talented people. - Ryan
No one seems to use the social features much, except for the wall. The sharing stuff seems to be one-to-one, it's never a conversation :-/ - Rudolf Olah
against the tide facebook is a solid platform for storing lots of user generated content ... personal preference versus using several specialized services (youtube, flickr, etc.) - facebook is akin to a content management dashboard -especially if all the 3rd party apps are ignored. that said it is not particularly text/blog-centric ... - Scott Moskowitz
add another one to the don't care for it list. i don't have anything against it other than my slight dislike of facebook "fanboys" and zuckerberg worshippers, but i don't see it benefiting me in any way - Cee Bee
Wow, I guess I didn't realize how anti-facebook a lot of the community is... Facebook was introduced my freshman year of college, so it played a big part of my undergrad experience. It's been great to keep in touch with friends since graduation. As for the conversational piece, I think the "problem" is that most of the userbase are average users. not techno-centric. if you took the whole facebook community and stuck them on ff, the conversations wouldn't happen here either. The paradigm isn't there yet imo. - Frankie Warren
I don't anymore. - Parth Awasthi
no ... too bad the tech press cannot think the same way ... - Gregory Lent
Nope. Never used it, never will. - Asteris Masouras
No flying fcuks here either, Dave - TDavid
Never created an account with FB, probably never will. Did get notice from a professional contact that he'd tried to find me there but it still did not incent me to sign up. I created a MySpace account ages ago as it was the only place some of my personal contacts were, but unless I get notification one of them has sent me a message I never log in. - Sally Robinson
None at all? http://bit.ly/1raWrD - Michael
No. I was on MySpace for a week, didn't get it, left. - K Welch
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Dave Winer posted a message
“Tease: indenti.ca will become a lot more useful later today. :-)”
July 17 at 1:07 pm - Link
identi.ca is still nothing more than a Twitter clone best I can tell. A step back from FF. Not sure why anyone would want to spend time there when we've got this. - Thomas Hawk
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Tease: And even more so in the coming months. Spoke with Evan last night and there are some interesting things on their way. - Austin Hill
I personally think it will be interesting to see what identi.ca does to differetiate itself from twitter - Mike Hamilton
@Thomas - Twitter clone hasn't begun to cover what's possible. I think that's like calling Wordpress a Blogger clone back in 2004. I wish the Twitter guys all the best, but there is a lot of innovation to come in Microblogging, Lifecasting and Activity stream aggregation. Twitter seems to have it's hands full scaling and I'd love to see some innovation on features in the market place. I think identi.ca will be part of that market for innovation. - Austin Hill
Why should identi.ca differentiate itself? It's really about recognizing that federating status updates should become a "taken-for-granted" part of social infrastructure. Next step is Interop with Twitter, not differentiation. - Chris Messina
Austin, but isn't identi.ca a step back from FriendFeed really? Why spend any time there? - Thomas Hawk
I don't want to "like" the post, but I do want to "like" chris messina's comment :) - Karl
Intriguing. - Vincent X
@davew, YouAre.com sounds much better than identi.ca. Check http://www.inquisitr.com/1745/... - Alex Sauceda
I know what it is! David Winer has found out that identi.ca has turned into a wishing well and he's keeping it to himself. I'm going to like this so he remembers who his friends are :-) - Jonas Anderson
"With today's addition to Identica, you can now follow people!" - Bryan Woods
evan did say last week that a Twitter-compatible API was on track for this week. Hopefully, that's the news. And it's NOT about a twitter clone; it's about making microblogging an open standard -- like email -- that allows you to use your access method of choice (local client, web, mobile, etc.) Interoperability to microblogging will FREE it! Remember MCImail? cc:mail? Remember Profs? Remember VAX All-in-1-mail? All frontrunners in the email channel. All closed. All dead (or on life support). - Bundini
I am waiting to see who is the first one to fall. After Twitter bought Summerize and their increasing stability I doubt it will be them. Obviously it won't be Friendfeed either. - Parvez Halim via feedalizr
The TwitterAPI is already available on identi.ca and in the darcs repository. maybe something else? - Markus Heurung
Bundini: I hope that's what it is. Related post: http://scripting.com/stories/2... - Vincent X
@Thomas Hawk - Why do you see FriendFeed as a step forward from Twitter? FriendFeed is something different - you can't really compare the two when you look at the core use case. - sebmos
@Thomas: as someone who never really got into twitter, I thought the same as you. However, after becoming addicted to ff, I began using twitter more as a great way to post messages to my ff (there are just so many ways to get things *in* to twitter). I'm rooting for identi.ca, though, simply because i think it will one day do all that twitter does using an open source system. That, and I have no real follower base on twitter to worry about abandoning anyway. - Trent Olson
i like identi.ca much more than twitter, http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... - Muge Cerman
I also use Twitter primarily as a way of posting onto FF, with the bonus that my followers on Twitter who haven't moved across the FF (still a majority) get the message two. I'll move to identi.ca if there are people there I want to share ideas with, not because of features... well... unless they're killer! - David Sim
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)
July 3 at 9:24 pm - Link
"If I'm coming off as bitchy or complaining I really don't mean to be. Maybe my only question is this: Is it better to start off with a shitty platform or with a blank slate? It might not be shitty, but we could have this kind of thing running in five minutes, so why aren't we more discriminatory on what we build from? Shouldn't we be a little choosy on the foundation of what we build?" - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)
July 3 at 9:04 pm - Link
"An open microblogging platform really is exactly what we need as a community. I'm never the type to bitch and moan about this kind of stuff, but I, from the bottom of my heart, don't think this platform is the beginning of our solution. Everything that people are complaining about Twitter taking down (limitations to calls on the API, tracking, search outsourced to Summize, etc) aren't even implemented here. Call me crazy, but I would hope that the rough beginnings of whatever platform we embrace for our "federated" or "decentralized" future would be something much more interesting." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Federating identi.ca? (Scripting News)
July 3 at 3:38 pm - Link
"Laconica is a pretty horrible solution for all of my microblogging woes. I don't want to hack php, the only useful feature out of the box is the jabber hook, the list goes on. Really sad if this ends up being the definitive open microblogging platform imho." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: To Pay or Not to Pay for iPhone Apps?
July 1 at 6:48 pm - Link
"...And why would free apps automatically have to have an ad-based business model? And since when is Google the only provider of display advertisements?" - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Looking for a few good feeds (Scripting News)
June 30 at 5:40 pm - Link
"Dave, thank you. Really. I've been putting off subscribing to NewsJunk because I'm frankly not that interested in politics, and of course would have to subscribe to another 500 or so feeds to balance out the flow. TechJunk is exactly what I'm looking for. I'm tired of the same blogs with the same gossip and same topics, but even with my current subscription load, the "others" don't bubble up often enough often due to smaller blogs not posting as frequently and so forth. I'm extremely excited about this. *Edit* Though this does reinvigorate my interest in a Share.opml clone..." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests
June 26 at 8:48 am - Link
"Better than troll comments, I'd think." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests
June 25 at 12:49 pm - Link
"@ericmoritz - You must not have spent much time around this site if you think we have Photoshop skills of that calibur!" - Bryan Woods
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Re: Zed Shaw Rant Rant
June 24 at 3:07 pm - Link
"Well, I mean...maybe not _metal_ metal perhaps." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests
June 23 at 11:50 am - Link
"Surely you jest." - Bryan Woods
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New Female-Centric Microblogging Service Announced: Exlusive *...*
June 23 at 11:30 am - Link
Watch out Twitter. - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests
June 22 at 4:56 pm - Link
"Seesmic video reply from Disqus." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: PETA Targets Computer Programmers With String Of Bizarre Protests
June 22 at 9:17 am - Link
"Hey Sesh. I would totally have agreed with you, except those words were said by Guido straight to me. It was a really, really strange night." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Altitude munchies? Google extends GOOG-411 satellite reach for hungry developers in The Cloud:
June 21 at 1:16 pm - Link
"Just use 411 instead." - Bryan Woods
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Bryan Woods commented on a blog post on Disqus
Re: Altitude munchies? Google extends GOOG-411 satellite reach for hungry developers in The Cloud:
June 21 at 1:13 pm - Link
"@Google Developer - Maybe you should check your sources a little better. This quote came directly from someone on your team." - Bryan Woods
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