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Twitter Succumbs to Marketer Attack [Toldja So] « The SiliconANGLE - http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2...
Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins, Moushumi Kabir, andy brudtkuhl and 28 other people liked this
This happens for a variety of reasons, all of which are due to a poor design on Twitter. First, a block doesn't remove people from search. Second, I should be able to set the trending topics, Twitter shouldn't choose those for me. Twitter is too enamored with popularity. Popularity is often the WORST way to decide what to display. Third, there's no decentralized moderation system, like there is on friendfeed. Fourth, there's no metadata, so you can't say "don't show me things that don't have a like."
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Maybe you should stop using Twitter, Robert. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
Chris: I'm using it less and less, believe me. I used to be hyper addicted to Twitter. Now I'm seeing more and more people joining me over on friendfeed. I don't think that's due to an accident.
- Robert Scoble
Is the velocity of innovation increasing exponentially? Will friendfeed be out done by something new? Are we doomed to mediocrity stuck in mud upon popularity? What model could foresee and adapt?
- Eric Standlee
Well Robert, I never got into Twitter mainly because of how hard it was to follow a conversation. The more I use friendfeed I like it more and more its easy to jump in or just follow the context of a conversation without having to bounce to each persons twitter site... or maybe I was just using it wrong.
- Nathan McClain
i kinda dug the obscurity of following twitter conversations. it was different than outright plain broadcasts to the world, and you could manually choose not to follow certain 'threaded' topics by not clicking on them. these attacks were bound to happen considering the numbers of ab-users that have joined thinking up 'maven' or 'guru' ways on exploiting said technology for their own nefarious goals.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
Re: setting trending topics - you can default the trending topics list to be minimized and just add your own custom saved searches. Isn't that essentially the same as setting your own topics, as long as you update them?
- Philip Tomlinson
Eric: I don't know about increasing innovation, but this has been going on since the 1980s. Back then I used to be on a BBS. I left that for AOL, Prodigy, CompuService. I left those for Usenet. I left that for blogs. I left blogs for Twitter (mostly). I am now in the process of leaving Twitter for friendfeed. Will there be something after friendfeed? Yes.
- Robert Scoble
In the words of Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins "Twitter becoming an MLM and spam cesspool"
- Ciro
Twitter is still a fascinating message bus, not a destination, for the reasons you say. FF isn't quite the message conduit that Twitter is, as it's a hybrid communication conduit (responses here, for example), and aggregator. Twitter is still an exemplarary, *pure*, communication bus - like IRC.
- Dave Mee
spam is bad obviously, but i must admit i am kind of enjoying the new mainstream twitter. one thing i have noticed for example is the hip hop community migrating from myspace to twitter. i can't see them coming to friendfeed, but who knows. Also while marketing gaming in annoying, its lovely to see people playing tag games at scale. trending manipulation for the masses is fun. hard to manage for sure. but to my mind good to see
- James
James: they will come when they figure out the power of rooms and the fact that you can play music right in line here.
- Robert Scoble
I don't see anything surpassing FriendFeed as the optimal place to socialize online in the next couple years, unless keyboards/monitors get replaced with some other interface.
- Bruce Lewis
holy jebus Robert that really is real time. i have *never* had a comment back in any medium that fast, even IM.
- James
In the absence of trust and recommendation systems metadata such as liking would still be prone to attack.
- Mike Chelen
Mike, that's true for search, but for your main feed your social network protects you from that sort of thing.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, the source of the trending topics problem is that they are unaffected by the user's selection of friends
- Mike Chelen
I see what you're saying, Mike. I wasn't thinking about that, since I only care about trending topics my friends find interesting. If you're in a position where you have to watch general trending topics, I can see how there would be a challenge to weed out astroturfing.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: people who use http://www.twitter.com have no choice in what trending topics they see.
- Robert Scoble
It strikes me that part of the reason that Twitter is so popular is that it has become a lightning rod for so many good mobile and desktop apps. That's how Twitter has been able to rise above the spam and marketing noise as it has.
- Ed Moltzen
Ed: Twitter's API simplicity and the mobile and desktop apps are, indeed, a major part of its success. I really wonder how friendfeed is going to see anything close to that. If I were at friendfeed I'd focus a LOT of attention on mobile experiences. That's already where I probably spend 30% of my friendfeed time.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I think it's their biggest draw back at the moment. I have a hard time interacting with FF when I am not in front of a computer.
- Aaron Kurtz
Robert: I went through gopher, bbs, prodigy, aol, msn for awhile, usegroups, yahoogroups, blogs, twitter and friendfeed now as well as facebook. It would be fun to see these plotted on a timeline to see if it is accelerating. The change sure seems to be accelerating. Maybe reviewing the timeline we can predict the next one.
- Eric Standlee
Twitter shouldn't be a topic of conversation. It's just a waste of time. Twitter cares more about popularity than the community. One need to browse through their 'Suggested Users' to come to that conclusion. Why should Oprah matter more, considering she has absolutely nothing to contribute to the community other than attract digital fans? Discussing Twitter gives them exposure, which they deserve less and less by the day. My rock stars aren't like their rock stars (borrowed phrase)! http://tr.im/lLIk
- Moushumi Kabir
The illusion of sex (Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest) - http://illusioncontest.neuralc...
Meryn Stol, Lina De Martinez, siva s and 87 other people liked this
3rd place -- "In the Illusion of Sex, two faces are perceived as male and female. However, both faces are actually versions of the same androgynous face. One face was created by increasing the contrast of the androgynous face, while the other face was created by decreasing the contrast. The face with more contrast is perceived as female, while the face with less contrast is perceived as male. The Illusion of Sex demonstrates that contrast is an important cue for perceiving the sex of a face, with greater contrast appearing feminine, and lesser contrast appearing masculine."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
In other words, we've been trained that people wearing makeup are usually women.
- Ken Sheppardson
These are *pictures* of incomplete faces, these are not faces. Photographic techniques are irrelevant to the recognition of real faces. It isn't photographic contrast, but shape that is relevant. Manipulation of contrast in a picture manipulates the perception of shape.
- Peter
it's odd that they tell me how I perceive both faces
- Richard Lawler
Interesting. I used to print photos for a fashion photographer. Hundreds of them. He always had me use high contrast paper and over expose the faces. He told me that women liked it that way because it showed fewer lines and blemishes, but this shows me that there was actually another reason behind why he liked them that way.
- Robert Scoble
Peter, that's an interesting point, but I don't see so much difference in the shape of the two. I wonder could it be some of both? The contrast subtly affecting shape, and the "lightness" being more like what we perceive as the female gender? In Japan, there's a large market for "whitening" makeup products, so that made me think...
- Rick Cogley
i believe this image was related or resulted from a study about people with a rare condition known as face blindness, where they're unable to recognize or distinguish faces. the study was done by richard b russell, who is a harvard post-doctoral researcher, so i would think he's fairly credible with regard to constraints or results set forth in his findings. as far as them telling how...
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- Cee Bee
@Ken lol well said! @cee bee thanks for this its fascinating!
- Rahul Deodhar
"Lie To Me" had an interesting sequence about facial muscles as they relate to gender
- randulo
That's BS, you can't say how someone else would perceive something before you show it to them, and there's a lot more that goes into facial recognition than just contrast.
- Richard Lawler
Or given the small space within the profile pics - this is very critical understanding of our visual interpretation skills
- Rahul Deodhar
richard, what i'm saying is that the first paragraph above is simply an explanation of probable findings that resulted from testing people who weren't told of such things. for instance, if various photos of people were presented in a blind test in random order with the two above included in that bunch, i think most people would probably be compelled to claim gender in accordance to that explanation.
- Cee Bee
I disagree, and without detailed information on how it was tested, I don't accept out of hand their findings, but everything else about the example relies on that.
- Richard Lawler
IMO this works. I looked at the pictures and could see what they did there, but still could sense the effect in question. Then I read the first comment and felt vindicated.
- Karl Knechtel
now that I know the images are the same, I notice less of a difference. but at first glance, the one on the left seems more feminine - but not by much. still it's fascinating.
- tiffany
Another thing I noticed. Lip-to-face contrast in the more contrasty one, ostentatiously the "male" one, is lower, so it appears to not be wearing lipstick. Perhaps another gender indicator.
- Rick Cogley
Right, Rick. Foundation lightens the overall face, lipstick darkens the lips, eye liner and eye shadow darkens the eyes, and you get a higher contrast version of the same face. People are trained that there's a high correlation between makeup and gender, so voila... given two otherwise androgynous faces, they'll perceive a higher contrast face to be female. I'd like to see if this finding holds across cultures where makeup isn't prevalent.
- Ken Sheppardson
"In other words, we've been trained that people wearing makeup are usually women. - Ken Sheppardson" <- right on spot :D
- minus-one
they both look like women to me, in fact they look like the same person; not very subtle
- Kathryn Martyn
It seems that a "softer" face is considered feminine and a "harder" face is masculine? Interesting.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Why I employed a felon - http://calacanis.com/2009...
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super note from jason! I bow.
- Oliver Thylmann
WANTED: Anyone have a suggestion on a remote desktop app that I can use to help my tech noob mother? Are there any easier ways then the built in XP/Vista one?
Sasha Kovaliov(.com), bob, cbgreenwood and 9 other people liked this
GoToMeeting?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
id say logmein.com , even though its more of an app so you can control your pc while you are away from it, its still good if you need to help people out i guess. i've got friends that let me log into their machines to show them stuff, same with them and mine. There is a free version, does require the install of a small app. All nice and secure though.
- Simon Wicks
i had a look at teamviewer, looks easy enough. It needs to be dead easy, mum doesn't even know how to open a program...kinda...
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
logmein.com
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
I'll second the LogMeIn recommendation. Free and reliable.
- Clark Murray
LogMeIn is the best one.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
I'm a fan of Crossloop, myself.
- Flora
actually, we tried Teamviewer and it suited our needs perfectly well. What's the major diference between logmein and TV?
- "Jazzperous" Isaksson
Mikogo is a very easy to use remote desktop solution
- Les Zaldor
The new Windows Live Mesh has remote desktop
- Rodfather
LogMeIn and Crossloop come to mind
- Craig
I also recommend TeamViewer. I've been using it to help my cousine and she really doesn't know that much about computers if you know what I mean ;)
- Dennis R.
Try Radmin http://www.radmin.com/
- LouCypher
I really like CrossLoop; Remote Desktop Connection that's built into Windows isn't really remote controlling, but creating another session on a user's computer. More tips: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips...
- Niklas Pivic
http://www.teamviewer.com Easy as Pie
- Paul Wade
CrossLoop .. one of the founders hangs out on Twitter as well .. I've done a couple reviews of it on WinExtra
- Steven Hodson
Logmein is very easy to use and the support is good even for free accoutns
- TrafficBug
VNC.. set it up as a service on their machine, set up a rule on their router to allow traffic in to it and secure it well enough..
- alphaxion
Get her an OpenVPN capable router and RDP into her system. VNC and the many others have poor WAN performance.
- Ernie Oporto
from Nambu
I am one of the Co-founders of CrossLoop - let me know if you have any questions. You can grab me at http://twitter.com/mrinaldesai
- Mrinal Desai
Logmein is my choice
- Rob Cairns
Check this out. http://lifehacker.com/softwar...
- CW™
I would suggest Mesh too
- amarquart
I uses Fogcreek Copilot a few times https://www.copilot.com/
- Michael Zehrer
TeamViewer is great, simple and efficient
- Olivier
CrossLoop, super easy and great!
- Henrik Söderlund
Crossloop or logmein
- Robert Davies
Is Google Being “Evil”? Plans to Annihilate their Analytics Competition with Ajax? - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Jill Howard Allen, Dan Morrill AKA Techwag, Sampad Swain and 18 other people liked this
guys, this is BIG. Heck even skip my post and read this one about it http://getclicky.com/blog...
- Zee.
I like what one of the guys said in the Clicky article; it's not Google's job to look after the interwebs. Ultimately, they're trying to make money. Sad thing is, we're all to blame for using Google. But then again, Google are so much better than everyone else, we hardly have any choice!
- Wayne Smallman
yeah absolutely Wayne, that was definitely on my mind writing this piece...but it will come round and bit them in the ass if they end up going ahead with this.
- Zee.
That looks like kind of a b**ch move to me. On the same side, it's eliminating competition. I'm not surprised, but I think it's a bi**h move.
- Candace
bitch move it right, so should have put that in the title.. :P
- Zee.
This will whip up a storm of protest - no longer being able to see what criteria your traffic comes through on unless you use Google's analytics is very bad news.
- David Petherick
Though I can't help but think what Google might do if there is a whole slew of protest over it. Especially if the public starts to paint them in a bad light because of it.
- Candace
I don't get it. If Google does something that is *arguably* better for users, and ends up benefiting their business, why do your needs (or mine) outweigh everyone else's? Particularly given that there are a number of other ways to get that search info (including directly from Google Webmaster Tools). Of course, by giving this argument any attention, I've just bought into the clickbait. I'll learn my lesson eventually.
- Ryan Toohil
Which is why I said I am not surprised, Ryan. Google is a business, and they are doing something to directly benefit their business. Whether we like it or not isn't the issue here. They are working to eliminate their competition and further benefit their business. However, people won't like it. So it will be interesting to see what happens if this continues, and how people react.
- Candace
@Ryan, according to the competition (getclicky.com) there is no other way to get this search info.
- Zee.
There certainly is no reason why doing an ajax enhanced search results page requires the use of a non standard URL string which will incidentally break not just competing products but the server log itself. And I am not sure google does search results that much better than alternative search engines anymore. I have been asked in FF several times "how do you find these things" about things I post, and the answer is simply "by not using the same tools as everyone else, even in search"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Reasons why friendfeed's new search features justify my investment in friendfeed, discuss here:
Michael Lynton, Andrej Kostresevic, Thomas Hawk and 102 other people liked this
I have spent more than 2,000 hours in friendfeed. I have clicked "like" on 15,822 items. I have commented on 8,048 items. That is a HUGE investment in time (I've been blogging a lot less over the past year). These new search features bring HUGE benefits. I will discuss why here.
- Robert Scoble
Clearly the main reason is to find things that you posted/liked in the last.
- David Wilson
First, the new search features are discussed over on friendfeed blog here: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
1. Now you can search based on number of comments an item got. So, I can search for all items that contain the word "Obama," for instance, but I can tell it to only show me items with 10 likes or more. THIS IS HUGE because it shows which items got HUGE engagement. Here is that search: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Wow, I didn't even notice that. Very useful.
- David Wilson
Ability to refine searches for comments is a killer app.
- Mike Nayyar
Hmm, does it actually let you search for a user's name/handle in the comments/content of an item, without giving you a load of "$PERSON liked this" results, even when their name/handle don't appear in the content or any attached comments?
- Tyson Key
How close are we to being able to hide based on the criteria?
- Brian Sullivan
Close... so... close. If we could create that search and have it form a real-time feed... that would do it for me. Historical search with the ability to follow the search in real time.
- Brian Roy
2. Now you can search based on numbers of "likes" an item got. For instance, now I can say show me all items with "netbooks" in the title that have 10 or more likes. This is HUGE because it removes all noise and shows only items that got a lot of interest from the community. Here's that search: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Awesome! Makes Friendfeed less noisy to me. I agree some search fine-tuning would be nice. Still, this helps a lot.
- Pam Baker
2,000 hours jeez they should pay you
- andy brudtkuhl
Brian: yeah, I want real-time views into this data. That is a prerequisite to "track." Also, I need RSS feeds from these searches that I can shove into a room. I can't figure out how to do either of those two things.
- Robert Scoble
I must be a dummy. I can't find how to do that on the site. However, I did read on the blog that it exists. How do I get to it?
- Francine Hardaway
This can really cut down the noise in a search. For example, here's a search for items that mention the Steelers and only contain comments with the word towel. And you could also do the reverse. Cool. http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Tom Landini
Andy: I'm pretty sure it is actually a lot more than 2,000 hours. I'm on friendfeed almost every minute I'm awake and not doing something else.
- Robert Scoble
I didn't see it anywhere... sadly. I'm also looking to see if these advanced searches are supported by the API... if they are it is a boon for applications that swarm to subjects/topics.
- Brian Roy
OK, I'm totally liking the new search features...Now I can finally see who's shouted out to me in posts without getting a lot of "Robert Scoble" noise in the results.
- Alex Scoble
Aah, to answer my own question, the intitle: attribute seems to do the trick, cool.
- Tyson Key
i still dont like "likes", but its an interesting idea to search what you want..
- Terry O'Fee
3. You can search for times a specific person has written something. For instance, I can now see how many times Bret Taylor has written the word "bacon" in one of his titles: http://friendfeed.com/search... By doing this I learned that Bret wrote the word "sex" twice as often as he wrote "bacon." :-) http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Francine - just hit search with nothing in the box... that takes you to advanced search.
- Brian Roy
robert - just don't type "mona" and "bacon" - the search will take days,,,
- Terry O'Fee
The other day I was trying to search for your video on how to use ff. I wanted to share it with someone who is new here. But, I couldn't find it. I had to go to your site to find it. When I saw the title of your post, I realized why my search might have missed it. I don't know if these changes would have made a difference, but any improvement is welcomed in my book! I'm going to try it again and see if the changes help.
- Michael Fidler
You get to the advanced search here: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Terry: Here's a search for "bacon" but from Mona's feed with two or more likes: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
I love it, you can search just specific services, too. Like JUST TWITTER!! Check this out, these are all my tweets that have 20 or more likes: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
very cool thanks for sharing Robert... Also of note you can grab the RSS feed from the search results (via Firefox addr bar only so far) - this is cool for those of you like me who use search subscriptions for research
- andy brudtkuhl
and FF is so well indexed in google. yesterday I talked about backtype in italian and after few hours was already the 5th result searching "backtype" in that language
- ezekiel
Terry: likes are metadata that you can use to improve your searches. Now you can see why people who are noisy on "liking" things are only hurting themselves.
- Robert Scoble
Michael F makes a good point. I struggle with finding stuff I have liked or commented on before. I hope the new search function helps with that.
- Amani
On a search for SEO if this was useful, I would end up with a list of posts similar to the Semmys finalists (though those are still personal preference). However I get http://friendfeed.com/search... which isn't exactly useful unless I wanted every conversation on FF that included the acronym - probably worse results than a potential Scobleizer post about lawnmowers ending up ranking in Google
- Andy Beard
Here's a cool search. It shows you ALL items from EVERYONE that has gotten five likes and two comments (or more): http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Robert: to get an RSS feed, append &format=atom to the end of the url after doing a search
- Daniel Sims
Andy, to search for a term in only the entry title, use "intitle:", e.g. – http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Dan Hsiao
Dan - so that means the API works too... hmmm wonder if that URL is rate limited.
- Brian Roy
frienfeed is the next (social) search engine and these new features are a new big step to the right direction...
- Simone Lovati
robert - ive noticed that the people who get "likes" are usually the ones who mass spam likes to everyone else...
- Terry O'Fee
It worked! I can see what your talking about Robert. You have a lot of content here, but I found the post of yours I was looking for with relative ease:-) http://is.gd/ihXV
- Michael Fidler
Terry: if you use a combination of "likes" and "comments" you can dramatically filter out a lot of noise.
- Robert Scoble
you have a lot more people though, robert....
- Terry O'Fee
My first comment ever on FriendFeed. I cannot figure this place out yet. I'm sure it is wonderful though.
- Hummie
Stick with it Hummie!
- andy brudtkuhl
Once you can create a feed from the search results and make an imaginary friend for that feed then search will become useful for me. Of if you could search on a certain criteria and get the results sent to gtalk in realtime (aka track) will it be useful for me. Right now it is helpful but not of great use for me.
- J Allen
Wow, I have more comments made than you? Wouldn't have guessed that. Yes, it is indeed an investment and this is very good news, Robert.
- Josh Haley
"Also, I need RSS feeds from these searches that I can shove into a room." This would be a huge feature. It would really up the ante in creating useful rooms.
- Doug Hudiburg
To get an RSS feed of any FriendFeed search result, just append "&format=atom" (without the quotes) to the end of the URL. Violå! :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Thank you, that's what I needed.
- Wallace
wow ! @Josh Bancroft, youre the man !!! just what i need !! it works !!
- Rocky
@Josh thank you!
- Alfredo
This is just so cool. FF rocked before, now it's just plain awesome :)
- Nicola Quinn
I thought of you when I read FF blog yesterday: that's what you were asking when we met in Barcelona!
- Jordi Soler
Official Gmail Blog: New ways to label with "Move to" and auto-complete - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Vishy, (jeff)isageek, Chris Hofmann and 15 other people liked this
"Instead of having to first apply the label and then archive, you can just use the "Move to" button to label and archive in a single step -- just like you would with a folder."
- Benjamin Golub
Gmail is caving in a bit to those who can't think outside of folders.
- Benjamin Golub
i LOVE this features...makes labels useful
- don loeb
how so? I think it's all in how you use labels.. I always label, then archive.. so for me, I only need move to, I don't need a separate labels option.
- Tim Hoeck
oh, and thanks Google for NOT adding it to my (Android) phone.
- Tim Hoeck
Tim: it depends on how it works. I'm under the impression that "Move to" strips an email of all it's labels (remember that the "inbox" is just a label) and applies a single label to it. Which would mimic the folder concept they seem to be going for. If instead it strips only the "inbox" label and applies another label then it's not really folders is it?
- Benjamin Golub
We only strip the label for the current view. Move from here to there. Archive = remove from Inbox (doesn't remove other labels). So, in the Inbox, Move to = Label + Archive.
- Michael Leggett
Wow that's a lot of buttons. It's probably the right thing to do, but the explosion troubles me. There are twice as many "button-like things" as when we launched.
- Paul Buchheit
Still waiting here :(
- embee
Retweeting @loic: at a breakfast with Kofi Annan in #davos #davos09. Told @scobleizer and Rober answered "Coffee what?" silicon valley !!! - http://twitter.com/julianf...
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3 Kitties (Kitty Hat 4) Cute Overload - http://designyoutrust.com/2008...
(jeff)isageek, Toby Graham, Kol Tregaskes and 35 other people liked this
they look like glowworms!!!!!
- Shevonne
OMG I remember GlowWorms!!! And yes, they do!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
pretty pretty pretty :)
- Ekin Acar
We bring gold, frankincense and purrrr.
- Josh Haley
Poor kittehz
- AJ Batac
The year I taught 6th & 7th grade Sunday school, I found soap that was scented with real frankincense and myrrh, with gold flecks in it. I gave that to my "kids" on the Epiphany. Went over well!
- Ladybug Heather
I used to have a bit stored up in my herbal collection. Smelled really yummy.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
See, I told you it was 'Taco Tuesday'!!
- Morgan Haley
OMG so sweet! I love me some kittens :)
- BEX
i used to have a glowworm. now i have kitties. i will dress them as such. hooray
- Melissa Maskevich
Create your own video aggregator site with Vodpod - http://venturebeat.com/2008...
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Le Web Blogger dies of Starvation & Hypothermia - One Man and His Blog - http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archive...
cbgreenwood and dotdean liked this
"No, not really. But boy, the organisational problems (really cold, precious little food, precious little WiFi) and some dull, dull stage presentations have taken the edge off the day. But, seeing as I couldn't get into the evening party, sponsored by Netvibes, because it had a hard limit far lower than the number of attendees, I've got the time and WiFi I didn't have earlier to catch up on some posts..."
- Johannes Kleske
from Mento
Six people trampled in foodfight at Le Web - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
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Herrlicher Artikel über die Essenssituation bei LeWeb. "The long-winded last speaker, combined with no breakfast, limited Wi-Fi and the extreme cold had beaten all the humanity out of the attendees. Luckily I was able to pry some food out of the hands of a petite French women. She wouldn’t let go at first so I had to kick her a few times. I feel much better now. Tomorrow we are bringing our own food. And baseball bats."
- Johannes Kleske
from Mento
Der heisse Web 2.0 Herbst [Podcast] » blog.yoda.ch - http://blog.yoda.ch/szene...
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Kurzes Interview mit Flo aka dotdean zum heißen Web-Herbst
- Johannes Kleske
from Mento
Friendfeed creators have learned a lot from Google. Well done boys!
Helen Sventitsky, (jeff)isageek, Charlie Anzman and 41 other people liked this
FriendFeed is a superstar team. It is -- by far -- the most interesting startup to watch right now.
- Robert Scoble
you're not just saying that are you Robert? ;-)
- Nathan Eckenrode
My 12th grade English teacher always said never to use "in my opinion" because it's implied when you say something subjective. :)
- Tad
I agree with Robert on that. I am def. watching FF
- Kyle Lacy
Nathan, look at the facts. FriendFeed has, what, eight employees? The latest one to join was Gary Burd. His team at Google did Google Talk and he was the guy who opened Google's Kirkland office. How about Bret Taylor? During his four years at Google, he led more than 25 successful product launches, including Google Maps, Google Local, Google Web Toolkit, the Google Maps API, and Google’s Developer product group. more next...
- Robert Scoble
Paul Buchheit? He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail, which anticipated many aspects of Web 2.0, including the idea of Ajax, long before that term was coined. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2001 meeting on company values.
- Robert Scoble
This is an absolute superstar team and anyone who even questions whether it is or not simply does NOT know what they are talking about. It is -- by far -- the most interesting startup to watch right now and I'm underplaying that by a long shot.
- Robert Scoble
Can I invest? Send me the IPO. NOW
- Kyle Lacy
Sanjeev Singh is a former Google engineer, playing a role in both Google Mail and Google Search Appliance. Prior to Google Sanjeev worked at social annotations site Third Voice and a government research lab.
- Robert Scoble
Couldn't agree more.
- Akshay Dodeja
Kevin Fox: from 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader.
- Robert Scoble
Louis Gray, can you fill in the other team members? Sanjeev Singh is another one, who is a great developer.
- Robert Scoble
Tudor Bosman is another. Is a great developer from Google, and was principal member of technical staff at Oracle.
- Robert Scoble
By far my most addicting and favorite website, and I've only been using it for a touch over a week.
- Bradley McSpinn
here's a video I did of Bret and Paul back at the end of March (shortly after I got onto FriendFeed): http://qik.com/video/46046
- Robert Scoble
Here's a video I did with Kevin Fox, designer at FriendFeed: http://qik.com/video/73962
- Robert Scoble
And FYI here's a video interview I did with Bret Taylor several weeks back at Supernova: http://tinyurl.com/5v46t7
- Dean Terry
Scoble: makes me think you are also a secret member of FF ;)
- Muthu Ramadoss
The only other active competition is Facebook, and that explains why FF is not able to fetch feeds from there.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Muthu: I'm not compensated by FF, nor do I have any investments in anything I cover. Facebook is a closed walled garden, which even Google can't get into.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I know.. I was kidding about your FF involvement. I read most of your posts and am aware of your positions. Agree with your Facebook theory. Would be very interesting to watch how Facebook grows in future.
- Muthu Ramadoss
absolutely, ff is just awesome. Its bringing best of digg, reader, twitter,jaiku and probably a lot
- Umesh Kakkad
FF is an all star team
- Steve Chou
FF is better than google...there I said it! it's true!! seriously
- Susan Beebe
New Facebook is more like Friendfeed now. Hmmmm.....
- Muthu Ramadoss
FriendFeed is very community-driven. I see people comment a lot on Facebook but I've not really got into that. It's got to be one or the other. If anything I cross-post on FF and FB can have its comments shared between the two as well that that would be wonderful.
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't think that's going to happen. Facebook has so many more users than friendfeed, why should they cooperate?
- Andrew Pass
Facebook will not worry about Friendfeed, now that they have got Friendfeed like discussions setup and running.
- Muthu Ramadoss
Harte Fakten zu Social Media - Social Media - Wort|ge|fecht, das - http://www.wortgefecht.net/social-...
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Sammlung von Social-Media-Studien
- Johannes Kleske
from Mento
Berlinblase und die Web 2.0 Expo Europe - http://tautoko.info/2008...
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drama.
Tanath, Alfredo, Danny Peck and 234 other people liked this
i had a coworker who called those strip outlets 'plug sluts'.
- Admiral Anika
PLUG SLUTS! HAHAHHAHA
- Mona Nomura
I would buy that on a tshirt.
- Sparky
Um, who wouldn't?
- Mona Nomura
I like how the 'whore' one looks like she's licking her lips.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I like how you look when licking your lips Akiva.
- Sparky
AND I have the picture to prove it!
- Sparky
wow Sparky
- Mattb4rd
damn. this got PG13 real quick.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Matt, ignore him.
- Akiva Moskovitz
done
- Mattb4rd
nice!! and funny!
- dafire
The geek side of me is going... "Dude, it's funny because those would be considered 'female' components." And the other side of me is going... "There is no other side of me."
- l0ckergn0me
LOL
- ChaCha Fance
from Alert Thingy
multiple holes ftw!
- Mona Nomura
Oh dear sweet god.
- Chris Brogan
Quagmire: Cleveland, it was amazing. You know what I discovered last night? Women have a fourth hole. - http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
=)))))
- Shandiz
too many slots. haha!
- Randy
WOW 163?
- Kyle Lacy
Hahahahaha
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
now that is an accurate visualization :)
- Dave Q
that's awesome
- cjmart
Depends on how you see it, it may be another way around.. one slot for all purposes... :)
- Hendry Lee
from twhirl
Just wait til they both meet the new kid in town. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets...
- Steven Perez
LOL :))))))))
- Farzad
HAHAHAHAHAHA
- Olivier
one more like to get to 200. It is very funny...
- Alex Gawley
So everyone basically liked this...
- Outsanity
lol... 227. I remember that show
- Outsanity
Out...I loved that show...hahaha
- Anna Haro
I see 2 people ruined the fun
- Outsanity
Yay...+Matt
- Anna Haro
this is still around? LOL I totally forgot about it haha
- Mona Nomura
wow 233 people liked this!
- Colide81 (James)
Bavarian Elections 2008: Minister-President of Bavaria Beckstein says it's okay if you drink 2 l beer and drive - http://www.rp-online.de/public...
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Das hat in der Partei Tradition: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Ralf G.
cheers to that :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Poll: If you had a big tech / biz conference in Europe, who would you like to see as a keynote and why?
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The question is a result of a discussion about who would be valuable for a keynote on a european conference. Should it be some american name because most people do not go over the pond? Should it be somebody inspiring, because this is what you want out of a keynote? Should it be a big brand name behind it?
- Nicole Simon
If it is a startup conference, find a local European entrepreneur who made it big. Give someone they can relate to for inspiration. Maybe the Skype guys, or last.fm or something.
- Andrew Leyden
The first speaker should be entertaining and credible and authoritative and set the theme for the conference. Good luck! That's a hard one to find.
- Robert Scoble
Peter Chernin
- Dave Martin
Wachovia social media evangelist and Sr Veep @petefields
- Daniel J. Pritchett
God, i'm realy going to have to ponder this one...i'll get back to you I promise. Just so you know, i'm not going to be available for any public speaking events this year, so i'll rule myself out of the picture now :D
- Zee.
I would prefer to see a fresh european face - somebody who understands the EU context but has also strong ties across the pond. Go ahead, ask Jyri.
- Martin Koser
For tech, try James Dyson. He's a great speaker and is particularly good at explaining the development to retail process.
- Steven Cains
hmm..it really depends on kind of conference and its objectives. I agree with Robert to put someone entertaining and credible. I once was part of a leadership seminar and one of VPs Marketing of Swisscom gave a lecture at the end of which he recommended 2 books - Scott Adams "Dilbert Principle" and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I will go along same lines. Take someone unrelated to the subject but inspiring enough - music, art or science authority. It will give a diff, fresh and entertaining prospective!
- Hayk H.
I'd love to see Howard Rheingold because he's a true (old school) pioneer of the online community scene and evangelist of the smart mobs movement!
- Tom Noeding
A conference on which subject?
- Francois Lamotte
Tech & Web Francois.
- Zee.
Loic Le Meur
- Igor Poltavskiy
Kind of related--if I wanted to follow the top 5 European tech bloggers, who would they be? I'm trying to get more 'intel' on the European tech community and am looking for some sources.
- Andrew Leyden
Nicole Simon is up there. Take a look at thenextweb.org too
- Zee.
S. Jobs is apparently an excellent speaker with a distinguishable style. I'd like to see how he does.
- Zack Brandit
Tims berner Lee
- Varun Mahajan
Steve jobs is the only keynote speaker I actually make a point of watching. He has incredible presence, utter conviction in his work, and is a giant in the industry. I'd vote for Steveo
- john conroy
yes, probably Steve Jobs. Hm... Who else... Maybe Niklas Zennström?
- Timo Heuer
I have to agree with John's comments about Steve Jobs. He really is a showman and SV icon.
- Roberto Bonini
“Clay Shirky "here comes everybody"”
- Gerd Leonhard
I would unite the surviving people from Psion to give a great speech about their experiences and how much is still to be improved upon when it comes to tech companies in europe. Psion had the potential to be europes version of sony, but it all went bad. I'd also get the guys from Acorn to hold a speech in a similar vein.. definately a theme on how a company can stand on the cusp of greatness but never meet that potential.
- alphaxion
interesting suggestion Alphaxion
- Zee.
Varun - Correction SIR Tim Berners-Lee. Oh yeah it counts!
- Toby Graham
Yeah Sir Tim Berners-Lee would be a good choice...
- Zee.
I'm just fed up of seeing the cool and random tech companies being Japanese or American... Europe has so much potential - UK is unique in the gaming industry since every country tends to be specialised in a certain niche when it comes to excellence, the UK talent pool is the only one that has all aspects covered. Yet it is left to fend for itself and gets almost zero help (which is why canada over took the UK as the 3rd producer of games)... ask yourself the quesion, where is the european chumby? or drobo?
- alphaxion
alphaxion - I'm working on it but it's not going well :(. Totally agree with your paragraph above
- Toby Graham
well, by "european chumby" and "european drobo" I meant the european developed and launched rather than simply imported. Effectively I'm probing why we seem to lack the eco-system to support innovation.
- alphaxion
I want Justin Hall .. he will do a lifestream at BC Munich btw. or at least we are working on it
- Nils Hitze
from twhirl
Itty Bitty Titty Kitty - http://geeks.pirillo.com/photo...
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cruel to kitty... give humans a chance
- Noah David Simon
Fire Fix?
- Yuvi
Some guy, somewhere, just found the perfect porn...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
that lucky boob.
- royce
That could really get ugly if someone were to spook the cat.
- Yolanda
i thought that was ass, and thought, 'those are some ugly pants'.
- Admiral Anika
this again? bring back the abortion pizza
- Noah David Simon
titteh
- Josh Haley
+1 Josh
- Yolanda
Thanks for the share.
- Chris Nixon
Watch out! It's a booby trap!
- Chris Rivait
@NDS: You just earned my first "block" sir.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Haggis, welcome to the Block NDS Club.
- Admiral Anika
My thoughts exactly, Yo
- Michael W. May
Glad I'm not the only blocker of NDS. Wait. I think I hear someone coming....
- Slappy Line
hahahaaaaa, in ur boobz, hijackin' ur bra. blah blah WMD's, blah blah, conspiracy blah blah, Bush, blah blah Iraq, blah blah alien invasion fleet.
- Ram Dunn
LOL.. FF Heckling.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
lol, who WAS that masked stranger....?
- Slappy Line
I DON'T BELIEVE IT!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
This picture has been at the top of my feed all day. I think we have a favorite.
- Stephan Miller
from fftogo
Desktop wallpaper material. ;-)
- David Risley
itty Bitty is number 8 on todays most active posts.. Lets make it number one!
- Roger Kondrat
I'm getting hazed here for conspiracy? but I am against that. blah blah blah? the abortion pizza bit that I got blocked for was posted by the same person who started the kitty meme here. that keeps on coming back to ff. btw... who do I talk to about the NDS imposter here? http://beta.friendfeed.com/nds
- Noah David Simon
PETA? People Eating Tasty Animals?
- Mattb4rd
Does PETA matter?
- Ernie Oporto
List of Enterprise Microblogging Tools: Twitter for the Intranet - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
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It’s interesting to see the need to justify enterprise needs of such tools that are already being adopted by consumers, typical of enterprise settings (I’m a former enterprise intranet manager). With that said, let’s start the definitive list.
- Nicole Simon
One Really Cool Idea for an Original Swimming Pool [Freshome - 9/10/08] - http://freshome.com/2008...
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Taiwanese sculptor/artist Ju Ming created the “Zipper Pond“. This creative lotus pond is now one of the feature attractions of the Juming Museum, located in Taiwan.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Where are the mountains? There should be shrubbery somewhere no? or is my mind in the gutter again?
- Roger Kondrat
So, what I want to know is how did the images from the blog post appear on FriendFeed? Is this a new FF feature?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - use the FF bookmarklet to post pictures from sites.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
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