Chris Abbey - Likes - FriendFeed

SocialToo doesn't seem to do that, though. Or their page is just poorly worded. It sounds like yet-another-service - when what I really want is for FriendFeed to just auto-add my Twitter followers so I never have to go to Twitter again. :) - Don MacAskill

Don, it's probably just poorly worded. I'm still working on content and UI - functionality is more important to me. We added some new features yesterday in fact that put it in competition with Qwitter as well: http://staynalive.com/articles... - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Don, are you talking about letting FriendFeed detect your Twitter followers that are on FriendFeed and auto-follow them on FriendFeed? SocialToo doesn't do that yet, no. If FriendFeed doesn't do it it's in my plans though. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Basically, I want FriendFeed to auto-follow the people I'm following on Twitter. If they don't have FriendFeed accounts, I want it to create an Imaginary Friend (great FF feature!). And it should do this periodically to keep everything fresh. - Don MacAskill

Ah Don - we don't do that, *yet*. I've got some cool ideas for FF integration on what FF decides not to do. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

this would be so nice. Especially if FF continues to be smart about it and gives options to limit the depth. That was my biggest issue with twitter, I wanted to see Leo and Don, but not all their friends. - Chris Abbey

agree with Don, would love to import all my Twitter contacts into FF as either their actual FF account or imaginary friends if no FF account. I'd also like to see FF auto replace imaginary friends with FF accounts when the imaginary friend joins FF. - Thomas Hawk

Jimmy Thompson dugg a story on Digg

More People Watched Obama Ad Than World Series

October 31 at 8:58 am - Link

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Robert My daughter was to see The Decemberists this Saturday, instead now planning to canvas for Obama in Indiana. Proud papa.

October 30 at 7:43 am - Link

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Jimmy Thompson dugg a story on Digg

Charles Meets Barack

October 29 at 9:17 am - Link

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Jimmy Thompson posted a message on Twitter

“Firefox 3.1 looking to be what FF 3.0 should have been”

October 27 at 8:44 am - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Canon is extremely lame for forcing SmugMug to pull down videos that have me slobbering over its new DSLR.”

September 23 at 11:28 am - Link

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Lame enough to boycott it? No way in hell! - ·[▪_▪]·

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It's extremely short sighted of them, that's for sure. - Alex Scoble CISSP

Typical old marketing reaction. I love my Nikon, anyways. - Douglas Karr via twhirl

Talk about taking away easy and great free PR. - Michael

This happens often. Companes like Canon just dont get the web 2.0 and the free PR they get with it. Some things really are free ( as in beer). - Roberto Bonini

Yeah, that is lame. Who do these people think they're dealing with. You can't control the internet. - Ryan

Seems like they got you guys to talk about it - mission accomplished? - Jesse Stay

Host the video yourself? Is it embargoed somehow? - Friend Feed's Tad

Don MacAskill posted an entry on SmugBlog: Don MacAskill

Amazing Canon 5D MkII HD video footage!!

September 22 at 11:13 pm - Link

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wow wow wow it is gorgeous., thanks for putting it up for me to drool over. - David Pascoe

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Yeah, crazy cool. - Don MacAskill

Beautiful film, amazing camera, and great job working with Vincent to host it on SmugMug! - DeWitt Clinton

Kudos, Don. Great job. Looking forward to seeing the next sponsored film... I wonder if we'll soon need a new name for these cameras or films. philms? - David Sifry via twhirl

Amazing! Don, thanks for hosting it. Very impressive. - Jauder Ho

I know digg has jumped the shark for most of you, like it has for me, but I could use some diggs if you still remember your login. :) - Don MacAskill

Link to the Digg story: http://digg.com/gadgets/Amazin... - DeWitt Clinton

Oh, yeah, a link would have helped, huh? Thanks DeWitt. :) - Don MacAskill

Lee posted a message on Twitter

“i hate being Windows technical support for my family. Get a mac. ugh.”

September 19 at 10:50 am - Link

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Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“It's sad that a tiny % of Republicans make them all look stupid, and a tiny % of Democrats make them all look elitist. Thanks, media. *sigh*”

September 14 at 7:56 pm - Link

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Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“And SmugMug doesn't employee coders / programmers / engineers. We employ sorcerers. If you can't work magic, don't apply. ;)”

September 12 at 5:31 pm - Link

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i.TV is looking for Warlocks and Genies only - sorcerers only on occasion ;) (job posting war!!!) - Jesse Stay

Theme Song: That Old Black Magic - todd

remember Gauntlet? i can woop butt on all those evil doers - Allen Stern

David Parry published photos on SmugMug

Sunrise #1, Rainbow Beach

September 8 at 9:04 pm - Link

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Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." - Steve Jobs, 9.09.08”

September 9 at 10:01 am - Link

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Jimmy Thompson dugg a story on Digg

Apple's Secret "Back to My Mac" Push behind IPv6

August 20 at 1:23 pm - Link

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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

This Entitlement of Free Needs to Go Away

July 10 at 10:34 am - Link

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Tell me about it. :) - Don MacAskill

Dave Winer posted a link

If you watch one video today, this is the one to watch

June 27 at 2:49 pm - Link

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so, so funny. and so so true. - ron k jeffries

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halfway through and rotflmao ... - Dan Haley

Is this from the You Suck at Photoshop guys? - Vince DeGeorge

donnie is back today, maybe the competition made him show up again - Dobromir Hadzhiev

"what email?" "you just powered off the exchange server" "just the letter a" "don't use aol" "salesforce.com was on the right testicle" - Ranjit Mathoda

That was a good use of ten minutes. I'm smiling again. - Russellreno

Ok, after watching the new YSAP - This is much much better - flavor of the week to be sure. - Vince DeGeorge

hahahahahaha - michael arrington

"you can't arrange them by penis" - michael arrington

I'm crying. The details in this were just great. I don't work in IT but I know this is what people must put you folks through... - Kamilah Gill

That's hilarious! - fbrunel

that's brilliant. and i'm about ti run out of battery power here, and I won't bookmark, adn I'll probably 4get about these guys 4eva. what a shame!!! - john conroy

You mean he rebooted the webserver without submitting a Change Request Application with work procedure and rollback steps to the Change Advisory Board for review at their next weekly meeting? ;-) - Stuart Woodward

Hilarious!! - Satya Boora

amusing.."how many times did u reboot?" ... - Jaimini via Alert Thingy

I love the part where he deletes all his files and the guy thanks him for putting his desktop back the way it was. - Dave Winer

LOL you can't arrange Icons by Penis - Chris Saad via twhirl

He just kept shooting him in the crotch over and over and over LOL..... - Avery Tingle

this is hilarious! - Michael Stearne via twhirl

Yeah, who hasn't known this IT guy? Too darn funny. - Jim Kukral

and so absolutely true - Jeff Evans

"This is going right onto Boing Boing." Hilarious! - Adam

On the Fedora installation, why is the guy running as root? - possible248

nice - Anthony

Arggggg! - bill giltner

yup - Marc Canter

:)) I was getting very frustrated with FF's best of the day page, showing mostly meta-links about FF itself all the time. And then this. Once in a while, there is one single link that makes all these page loads worth it :) - Yaniv Golan

Did this win some kind of award? - Dave Winer

That made my day - Greg Goodwin

that video kills! cant wait to show the rest of the techs at work - Mark Schulz

"What's BoingBoing?" - very funny. - Maury Estabrooks

http://www.arvadaharvestfestiv... - Dave Winer

LMAO for most of the 10 min. Will fwd to several IT peeps I know...and maybe a few peeps at Twitter. Wonder if they'll think it's funny. - Cathryn Hrudicka

Excellent.... - David W

makes me want to rearrange my desktop more creatively - Pete Delucchi

that was hilarious. wow! - David Adam

Rofl that's a ton of likes! guess I gotta! - Frankie Warren

Absolutely hilarious. - Richard Totaro

LOL, really great ! That's why my website's so slow :)) - Heimana

lol. too funny - Alexander Marktl

Way too realistic. :-) - Doug Kaye

you can't arrange by penis - Tyler Gillies

excellent. thanks for the post Dave. - Kevin Doohan

STUPID WEB DUDE. he should have asked the sales guy to check if the website is up on other computers or in a different department. - Hanan Cohen

So funny, I truly have not laughed so much in such a long time. tyvm :) - David Smith

wow!! So unreal!! And I now know what happens with all the network mgmt software I develop! - Shivanand Velmurugan

"Maybe that's not what I meant." - Kawika Holbrook

The realism of this thing is just awe-inspiring. That techie behave pretty much like any techie I've ever encountered who's been asked to do a stupid task. And the sales dude is lethally real too. This is Dilbert meets The Office on steroids. Thanks for the link. - Roy Blumenthal via twhirl

A Classic - Ken

michael arrington posted a message

“we really need a block feature on friendfeed. my recommended list is mostly people I will never subscribe to. I'd love to stop seeing their faces pop up.”

June 22 at 12:30 am - Link

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Gee, I was just thinking the same thing :P - Kip

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Yeah, I want to block you sooo bad - Kris Haamer

You can hide and block people from ever showing up in your friendfeed stream, but I'm not sure that will get rid of them from showing up in your recommended list. - Robert Seidman

I've been wishing for the same thing.... I've had the same faces there since I joined. They should do it like FB, where you can 'close' those recommendations and others take their place.Finding new people would be sooo much easier - Rai

Agreed and a rare posted message from you Michael welcome aboard!! :-D - Joe Dawson (beta)

I think it's important not to confuse this "block" request with the "block people who are trolling jerks" feature that was recently unveiled, which is what I initially thought you were requesting (due to the first phrase). But yeah, totally agree with you re: the need for a "Don't recommend this person anymore" option. - Adam Lasnik

It looks more like they need a recommender which throws away the 'short head'. If you ignore the the 10% of recommended users you'd have a more interesting and diverse set of recommendations. - Adewale Oshineye

Blocking people DOES remove them from your "recommended" page. I wish I could really reconfigure what gets displayed on the recommended page, though. I wish I could see "people who are similar to Louis Gray," for instance. - Robert Scoble

ive already suggested to the ff team that the list on the right be changed - im sick of seeing scoble, calacanis, arrington, rose and laporte on every page - they said they will look into it - i'd prefer to see a random list - good for discovery. - Allen Stern

Robert: I'll be releasing a Friendfeed app that will please many people I bet and which answers somehow some of these needs. Yet IMHO blocking people just because "you don't know who they are" removes the magic from FriendFeed. And I think that's what Michael is refereing to. - directeur

Allen: I agree with you. I'd rather see the last people that person has "Liked" or "Commented on." Then you'd really get some great discovery. - Robert Scoble

directeur: I agree. "Block" is too crude an instrument just to get some more interesting people into the recommended page. - Robert Scoble

and what about profiles? how do you know all those people that subscribes to you anyway? people subscribe to me and I have no shit about who they are, but they may be someone important enough to subscribe back. why on each person here I need to do a research project? (checking their blogs feed etc) - Orli Yakuel

I was actually kind of hoping for a "Subscribe to all" button - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I love adewale's suggestion! I've already seen the fat head - looking for the beginning of the long tail. :) - felix

On Facebbok and other social networks i see the profile page before "subscribing", in here i can just check the shared items, but that it is not very helpfull. - Mário Pires

i don't ever go to recommended - i don't mind seeing folks pop-up that are foaf, especially those that i don't necessarily want to subscribe to fulltime but don't mind seeing their posts from time to time - i think ff is for those that enjoy jumping into conversations in a serendipitous way & enjoying the iterative way that new features blossom - its definitely not for the tight of sphincter crowd - mike "glemak" dunn

I think there is already a "block" feature on FF...was not it being discussed by someone few days back??? - Arjun

I agree with mike glemak. I use FF to join in conversations, which hopefully means adding value to the discussion. Outside of that, I find it relatively easy to bypass the things I'm necessarily interested in, but I generally enjoy postings from people I don't subscribe to. - Kate Brodock via twhirl

Arjun: y es, there is a block feature, but really what this conversation is about is having control over the "recommended" page. The block feature in FriendFeed is too blunt an instrument to use just to get someone off of the recommended page here in FriendFeed. - Robert Scoble

agree with Robert, block is not the answer. Recommendations should just be smarter. Most connections by degree of separation with a dash of magic FF "authority" ranking, but just a dash, would do the trick just fine. Then page the page and/or have it pull random folks from the top 500 every time and it's fixed. - Thomas Hawk

I would be satisfied if the Recommendations simply showed a little more variety. It seems weighted to a relatively small population of candidates. - Kevin Johnson

that must be because i can't see you on the list ? - Ben Borges

Robert: oh ok....sry my mistake...had just saw the initial comments quickly as not time....now when i went thru te thread...i got the complete picture of the conversation... - Arjun

I totally agree. Netflix has a "not interested" button for recomendations, click it, and they won't recommend it again. - Dave Winer

I think I agree with Robert that 'block' will be too rude, Dave nailed it down 'not intrested' will be more socially appropriate given that this is 'FriendFeed' after all. - Vic Podcaster

It was all so much easier before we could see the social connections. Then I didn't know who told whom about what and I didn't care. Now that we can see the links and the content I feel like I'm going to have to manage everything. Great. More busywork. - Bill Anderson via twhirl

I imagine preemptively blocking people would prevent them from subscribing to you as well, which doesn't seem like desirable behaviour in this case. - Tanath

agreed ! - aruban via twhirl

Proposal: Can we have different algorithms available for our choice from a drop-down menu? e.g. (1) popular with others (2) popular with friends (3) relevant/similar to me via post content/type (4) relevant/similar to me via comment/like (3) random (4) completely opposite of me (5) new people unusually active or liked or commented (6) by country/language (7) by similar room interests (8) etc... - Mitchell Tsai

the recommended list is the gutter of friendfeed no doubt. but blocking is a bad thing. I don't like the way ff recommends people at all. - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Leo Laporte published photos on SmugMug

June 19 at 10:55 pm - Link

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Pardon - I'm moving all my Flickr photos to Smugmug (using Smugglr, http://www.smugglr.net/) - Leo Laporte

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How come? Afraid Yahoo! is going to implode now that Flickr's founders have left? - Farhan Memon

Awesome. :) Holler if we can help or you hit snags. We're up late testing a new feature (which we're hoping ships tonight), so I'm around. :) - Don MacAskill

I have the same question. Is this because of the founders leaving or because you're not happy with Flickr's level of service? - Mike Doeff

Just in case. I've used Smugmug for over a year now and I really like it. Seems like a good idea to have everything there. I'll probably still post to Flickr, but it does seem like Yahoo is rapidly imploding. - Leo Laporte

Don MacAskill posted a message on Twitter

“I'd like to help Firefox make a new record. But, um, THEIR SERVERS ARE DOWN!@#$ can has scaling?”

June 17 at 10:08 am - Link

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I agree, I would have thought that this would have been planned for, I mean they only created the problem or did the marketing guys not talk to IT? - Jon Erickson

google cache of the mirrors list FTW! (that's how I got it... hope direct download from a mirror counts.) - Chris Abbey

Don MacAskill posted a message

“Testing on big new SmugMug feature going well. Looking solid for a release tonight (*knock on wood*). Don't have PR, so who wants to cover it? Robert? Mike? :)”

June 19 at 8:54 pm - Link

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What's the new feature? - Satya Boora

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Who needs Robert and Mike? :) Let's break the story here on FriendFeed. - Mike Doeff

I've always felt that your users/customers should be your biggest evangelists - why not let us shout about it from the rooftops? Give us a nice blog post/screencast to point to, and you'll have saved all that money on the PR firm ;-) - David Sifry via twhirl

+1 to Mike Doeff. Post it on friendfeed. It will get around, no press needed. - Erica Baker

FriendFeed! - Robert Scoble

Looking forward to seeing what it is ! http://digital-davo.smugmug.co... - David Pascoe

Any guesses what it could be!! Something BIG?? - Satya Boora

Don, from now on, give it to Mark Bennett and he'll give it to me. :-) - Louis Gray

I vote Friendfeed too! Inject the news here and it can go viral through the conversations in the blogging community. - Larry Kless

Interesting idea. Wonder if it'll work? Won't everyone be asleep soon (or is already asleep), then we'll get lost in all the noise overnight? Hmmm... - Don MacAskill

We stay up all night anyway. - Robert Scoble

Video w/o the logo? - Shawn Collins

@Shawn Nope, bigger than that. The logo, btw, is changing to be more a more typical subtle transparent grey logo ala broadcast TV. sorry about the green. think it's quite a bit smaller too. - Don MacAskill

@Shawn we can't get rid of the logo entirely because we believe it'll break our business model. Sorry about that, but it certainly shouldn't be intrusive like it is. That's our bad. - Don MacAskill

Sleep is for the weak. Gimmie features features features! ;) - Evan Sims

I'm looking for an excuse to move my 35,000 photos off of Flickr and onto something a bit more... not Yahoo. - Pat Hawks

@Pat We'd love to have you. :) http://www.smugglr.net/ - Don MacAskill

Let me see what you've got up your sleeves first... - Pat Hawks

I actually used Migratr (http://www.callingshotgun.net/...) a couple months back to move all my Flickr stuff to SmugMug. Incredibly simple. Great app. - Evan Sims

@Pat Gonna ask a little leading question here... what do you shoot with? - Don MacAskill

Scoble is right, we rarely sleep. This party goes on all day and night. - Larry Kless

@Larry everyone's up over here. People in the valley should come over. Have a stocked Odwalla fridge you can raid. :) - Don MacAskill

@Don Canon EOS Digital Rebel. Why? - Pat Hawks

@Don Sounds like fun, I'd take you up on the offer if I was in the valley. - Larry Kless

@Pat Just curious to see if our new feature will be of interest or not. dSLR helps. But a big dSLR, like a 1DS or 5D or something, would help even more. We'll see - hope you'll love it. - Don MacAskill

@Evan Sims, I found Migratr to work extremely well too. Smugglr didn't quite seem up to the task for me. Once you move over I reckon there is little moving back. I still put the best 1 or 2 shots each week on flickr as I still want more people to see my photos. That is the bit I miss at smugmug - the feeling that fewer people are seeing my shots - maybe that is just an imagined thing anyway.... - David Pascoe

Whew. Stupid legalese almost tanked the release tonight. We just deleted the offending passages. Hope that's ok. :) Testing resumes... last few bugs in sight, I hope? - Don MacAskill

Can I get an invite, please? mkoeneker@gmail.com Thanks in advance. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Robert is correct. I have sleep issues as in I forsake it all too often. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

I need to get some sleep cause I have to be up early for our WorkFast.tv show in the morning. Hey, Don, I'll give you guys a shout-out on that show if the feature gets done tonight. - Robert Scoble

Hi Don, continuing our conversation from yesterday, who are your target audience for Smugmug? Any section in particular? - Palin Ningthoujam

@Palin Anyone who places value in the photos they take. Families, travelers, serious amateurs, Pros, etc. You name it - as long as they think their photos are worth paying something to save and keep. - Don MacAskill

Might have noticed SmugMug is in read-only mode (See: http://www.smugmug.com/browse/ ) No, we're not releasing the feature quite yet, just doing some maintenance during our normal window: http://smugmug.wordpress.com/ - Don MacAskill

Oh, and SmugMug has a FriendFeed room (thanks again Thomas Hawk!): http://friendfeed.com/rooms/sm... - Don MacAskill

@Don, and they should be internet users, not necessarily active internet users or social media users? - Palin Ningthoujam

@Don, all the best on the new feature release. I'll check out your FF room. - Larry Kless

@Palin They need an internet connection, sure, but other than that, nothing else is a requirement or a target for us. We're certainly not targeting social networking or hardcore geeks or anything like that, if that's what you're asking. - Don MacAskill

I liek Smugmug, and I liek the company, but I shoot a fair amount of glamour / nudes and the "big brother" aspect is too intrusive. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

@Soulhuntre I'm not sure what's "big brother" about requiring family-safe images. We're not spying on you or anything, we just want you to put them on some other service. - Don MacAskill

is now even more excited! woohoo! - Phill Price

Man I love this company. California's still going strong at 2am, testing all the corner cases, and our European employees are just rolling in to help. Awesome. - Don MacAskill

What an interesting conversation! I know, a like sums up that sentiment, but a like and a similar comment do the trick better :) - Eric Florenzano

Dang, we're wiped out. California SmugMuggers dropping like flies. I'm next. We'll pick it up after we catch some Zzzzzs. Party at SmugMug HQ in a few hours? :) - Don MacAskill

Eric Rice posted a message

“My wife signed up for Brightkite and snarked immediately: "How the fuck do I use it?" Meaning: Isn't it arrogant that sites just assume everyone knows how to use everything? Instructional design, indeed.”

June 11 at 12:35 pm - Link

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I've noticed this too, the help and how-to on most sites is the weakest ever. Oh yeah, we can hide behind 'people don't RTFM', but still. - Eric Rice

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Particularly with Brightkite, they force you to search for a location before you can check in. That threw me for a loop. Why can't I just say "This is where I am?" Why do I need to search for it first? - Mark Trapp

bright kite has a number of issues before it's ready for prime time. one that gets me every time is the performance of its sms interface. if you search for something in your area to do a check in, you may well be gone by the time brightkite comes back with the results of the query. FAIL. - sean808080 via twhirl

@Mark, I beleive the search returns results that can be placed on maps vs. you typing whatever you want and they trying to figure out where you are. - Tsega Dinka

Tsega, sure, but why not let me say "This is where i am" and do what Google Maps does: if I type something it doesn't understand, it says "Did you mean this?" Right now, the only cue of where you're supposed to check in is a microscopic question mark next to "You have not checked in" that tells me I have to do a search first. - Mark Trapp

Um..yeah I had exactly the same reaction. I couldn't figure out how to set my location. I still find it clunky. When I was trying to do the company lookup the first time I fought with it for 30 minutes and finally gave up and manually put in the information. I now know how to but...um I use this kind of stuff regularly. If I can't figure it out there is something wrong. - Goldie Katsu

Well, she's one step ahead of me... I haven't signed up. :) - l0ckergn0me

Thats the reason I have not seen that site after I signed up!! - Jigar Mehta via bTT

<yawn> yeah I feel her on this one </yawn> - Mark Forman

I think the most "beta" part of beta releases is the UI/how to portion.Most techies don't know how to talkie. - Mark Forman

was just thinking of how much of a bkite noob i am. they have complex sms codecs to learn. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

I disagree about holding hands when services are still in beta and invite only. I would expect a released version of a service to do better. Getting an invite and being a early adopter comes with some strings - broken software and no manuals are usually at the head of the list. - Doug Brooks

None of this stuff is prime time until it can be properly sold to the masses with a DUH. Also, Brightkite (which I do actually like) isn't the only one here, we could probably list the services that run on geek assumptions. - Eric Rice

I'm sure other people have similar rules, but my rule is the 10/10 rule: the user must grasp how to begin using your software within 10 seconds, and must be able to use it without supervision or help after 10 minutes. Granted, advanced things might take more time, but they should have a working knowledge of how to do day-to-day things in 10 minutes. Any more time, and it's back to the usability drawing board. - Mark Trapp

@mark t: i like that. beta or not, user friendliness should be in the top five of the list. - edythe

10/10 rule ftw! - Mark Forman

Yeah, I really do like bright kite, the idea an implementation is great once you get past the how do I get info in here? I spent more than 10 seconds looking for a check-in button. - Goldie Katsu

Eric - your wife is a savvy Web 2.0 app user. Start-ups that fail to clearly guide the user with a nice, simple straight-forward walk thru on the 1st login to introduce them to their app are missing a huge opportunity to demonstrate the key features of their product. If the user doesn't see these features they will NOT see the *value* in the application and the will not use it. Attrition rates are much higher for apps where there is no up-front training on the 1st login. - Susan Beebe

Usability testing is the solution. Sit some people down in front of the screen, ask them to perform a task. Sit back and watch. Its amazing how quickly you find out that what you thought was obvious, is completely missed by everyone. Doing a Beta release in and of itself will not solve UI issues. - Kevin Shannon

Does anyone have a spare invite to BrightKite available? - Joe Dawson (beta)

Joe, email me at mark@itafroma.com and I'll hook you up. - Mark Trapp

even after you try and use it, I find it still fails - Jonathan Greene via twhirl

@Mark cheers mate! - Joe Dawson (beta)

Brightkite.left me too wondering why I was wasting my time - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

I like BK, but when you are in the exact same location for a few days, it's kinda retarded, conceptually. - Eric Rice

Eric, yeah: I've been wanting to use it in earnest for the past few days, but... I haven't gone anywhere. - Mark Trapp

It's as much as "why should I use it" as "how do I use it." - Leo Laporte

BrightKite was alittle hard to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it - it's a pretty powerful social feature. I don't really have any friends on BrightKite but using it hand-in-hand with Twitter is great. - Aaron Myers

it's only interesting when you check in away from home/work. it would be especially interesting to see places within a given geographic radius where the most people have checked in. geographic serendipity. also, hopefully, they'll get this working with gps - rob zand

So far, I like it. It's a little tricky to figure out at first, especially posting from the web site using my blackberry, but I think I've got it. The problem is, I haven't gone anywhere since I signed up. :) I'm interviewing for a new job with about 50% travel, and I'm thinking it'll be a lot more useful then. - ha3rvey

The one thing I do find interesting with it is doing a search for a place where you are going, have been or are curious about and see the activity there. - Delete Me

signed up for it, used it a couple times, but too much of a hassle to keep telling it where i am. my friends can txt me or twitter me for "where i am" info. - Chris Harris

BK is quite boring when I'm just going from home to work and so forth, but when I go places work or vacation it's kind of cool. I do have issue with the foreign place names being in the local language, such as when I'm in China, I get all china symbols. Being that I'm not a manual reader, it took some time to figure it out, but I got it going after a bit. - clarke thomas

i've been loving brightkite, however it makes me realise that i should be getting out more. i also stopped checking in when at home, as i don't think that counts as interest to the public. - Kevin Buckstiegel via twhirl

I used it a few times but when I didn't get the results I thought I'd get by doing things I gave up on it. I don't want to have to remember different commands to make it do what I think it'll do without them. - Bob

Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

Five Reasons FriendFeed Is Better Than Digg

June 12 at 11:35 pm - Link

Geoff Peterson, Walt Ruppar, Joshua Galloway and 62 other people liked this

only 5 reasons-how about less retards here... - Mark Forman

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Mark lol :-) - Duncan Riley

I value Digg. But Digg is push; FF is pull. Which is truly the Web 2.0 application? - Chris Baskind

I also appreciate the egalitarian aspect of FF - no rankings, no voting (except for the likes - which help, but are based on content, no matter where it comes from) - and there is still a real feeling of community - Frederic

and no MrBabyMan, but in all reality Friendfeed is basically all stuff I like, with Digg I gotta sort though a pile of junk to find a handful of articles I like - BCK via twhirl

#3 is part of the social evolution. Eventually, we won't use services like digg, reddit, etc,. as much as before, not just because we won't have time :-) it's mainly because everyone can have the same "user power" when they submitting stuff to Twitter, Friendfeed etc,. - Orli Yakuel

should I comment on this or the digg post, hmmm - El-Hassan Wanas

It isnt overun but 11 people boosting the same political / copyright "news" to the front page every 3 minutes? - Soulhuntre via twhirl

I'm getting annoyed with half the conversation on friendfeed dealing with which social network is better. friendfeed is the best interface, but it is bad that there is nothing but a bunch of dorks here. IMHO MySpace and facebook has the best people... too bad the administration is fascist and the interface stupid. digg links to friendfeed. I don't have a problem with it beyond the fact that it is hard to use - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

@ndsimon totally agree ive hidden as many meta-high-noise users as possible but its hard to avoid. the main issue is that comments should be hidden by default and can be opened by clicking on. as it is they take up too much realestate and also keep old items at the top if they have comments which intermittently get added thus adding the item to the top again which shouldnt happen either. - ben barren via Alert Thingy

If users are finding some streams on FF too noisy, shouldn't they just stop following the user instead of constantly hiding their posts? You can't filter Digg's front page in the same way. - RyanEs

FF is a web 2.0 chat room. It def appeals to the tech first mover crowd as previously there was no good way for us geeks to have constructive conversations at any moment on any topic. Previously we would have had to participate out in the open with the Diggers or one blog at a time. - Jason Goldberg

I am still hoping to seem some improvements in sorting/organizing the FF view to be easier to scan at-a-glance, but I definitely like it much better than Digg. - Jeremy Hall

Go Duncan! Friendfeed starting to hit that sweet spot. - Alex Hammer

Agreed! - Jeremy Kunz via twhirl

I Digg stuff that people ask me to Digg that is actually good content. I never visit the site otherwise because my introduction to it showed me that it was just a bunch of elitist crap. My friends and associates should take action to promote my content based on the fact that it's awesome, not cuz I asked them to. - ♫ Rahsheen™

@chris - push is not web 2.0. Remember Pointcast? Total web .5 push tech. - Phil Glockner

Wouldn't that be fewer retards? (Said the grammar retard?) - Abby Martin

Excellent post Duncan, you are spot on. I don't even visit Digg anymore. Occasionally i will pull up there feed in G Reader, compare that to the countless hours i spend and devote on Friendfeed. The clear winner is FF on all fronts. - Mi