Guy, do they have an API? I can think of some great uses for SocialToo for that service.
- Jesse Stay
My use case is when speaking. Instead of hoping people go home and go to Alltop bec I asked them to. I am going to ask them to text "alltop" to 44133 and capture them right there.
- Guy Kawasaki
API: I have no idea. I'm just a marketing guy.
- Guy Kawasaki
Cool idea Guy, fast user engagement - love that. Also like the options, user can pick their "passions"
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
For every speech that I make, I will customize the reply text for the audience. Eg, real estate brokers will be pointed to http://real-estate.alltop.com/
- Guy Kawasaki
This is only my second time on FF. I'm afraid that FF would suck me in too much. If Twitter is a time sink, FF is a swimming pool.
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy - I like how you really thought this out so carefully. Nice balance between providing highly useful content to your audience and promotion of your site
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
My Czech grandfather showed me how to make these as a kid :) Fly great !
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
According to the timestamp, this is literally your first post to Friendfeed! ;)
- Edward Zwart
I just totally butchered that design, but it flew! - and an older co-worker of mine said he used to make these as a kid... immediately recognized the design (apparently i didn't butcher it too badly)
- Chris Heath
Which browser do you normally use? :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's about frickin' time, Guy! You're the guy who handed Steve Balmer a Macbook Air as a symbol of good design and yet you've been using Twitter all this time? Either start using friendfeed or switch to using Dells. You can't have it both ways. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You missed out on the earlier days of FriendFeed, but then it's never too late to start using it.
- imabonehead
I don't think Guy understands he can write comments to his posts, instead of new posts to conversate
- Stephen Pickering
Welcome, we arent experts here but we manage to muddle through some how
- Robert Higgins
Alex: Can I get a Dell through you?
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy you just can't resist that Windows 7 can you :-)
- Stephen Pickering
congrats Guy! I think you'll like it :)
- Glenn Hilton
This is """literally""" the first time I commented on your feed. As always, welcome to new users such as yourself. Self + for my improper use of air qoutes.
- Eric - seven eleven
from iPod
I'm listening to Howard Dean and Bill Frist discuss Healthcare on Charlie Rose after hearing John Bolton on Jon Stewart destroy my mood about Iran, nuclear and WW3
- Myrna
Welcome here, maybe it takes people like you to bring the finesse of FriendFeed to the world! (can't let @scobleizer do all the work on his own, can you?)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
now figure a way to have my friendfeed autopost alltop content, maestro!
- adam garrett
You can get notification of comments thru FF notifier
- BairdWilliamson
As long as the conversation doesn't go beyond a half dozen lines you are ok. Beyond that it becomes like the Wild West. Welcome to the FF Saloon.
- Jack B
Guy: no threading like you mean, but still a damn sight better than Twitter for actual conversation :)
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
So this is like CompuServe in the old days! De ja vu vu
- Guy Kawasaki
and click comment when you see that you get taken to that thread
- BairdWilliamson
it's like IRC but without an op (unless you count Scoble ;)
- jacek
Guy: except no outrageous charges! And it is faster. Oh and try to post a video here!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Guy: We just need the green screen Theme.
- sean andersen
I didn't say join, I said "check out". You can go in, read up, and slip away and no one will be any the wiser. Especially since you've said you won't do it =)
- FFing Enigma
The bookmarklet is key, you can add images easily. But Guy you should also see how tight Google Reader, All Top, Firefox and the Feedly stack is. Beautiful Friendfeed saweetness
- Robert Higgins
i have been meaning to blog on the velocity of information. Compare a few different Freindfeed topics next to each other to see which knowledge is flowing fastest
- Robert Higgins
Guy-Did you try out the combined comment and outgoing twitter response yet ?
- BairdWilliamson
Holden, do you think Ralph Lauren designed your shirt? :-)
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy, Here's a consolidated list from Louis Gray & Mike Fruchter from their monthly post ;. Louis Gray "Ten to Follow" on FriendFeed http://bit.ly/1QCYOF It needs to be updated with this month's recommendations which are here http://ff.im/5Kepu
- Michael Fidler
I'm with you Holden. It's completely different.
- Ben Hanten
So when Guy starts using FriendFeed does that mean it's hit a tipping point? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Holden, sure looks like he's using it to me.
- Jesse Stay
When my ghosts start using it, it's tipped. :-)
- Guy Kawasaki
guy: "Can I start spamming yet?" welcome to friendfray. ;)
- motownmutt
No, the theme for bad taste in the dictionary is Steampunk...The theme for "staid" and "boring" in the dictionary would be Helvetica. Since guy is none of the above he must go with Orion. Although I could see him as a fun-loving Duck Hunt fan.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Unloosen - that's not unpossible. It's not like 'tight slack' or anything. <--- note that 'tight slacks' plural is fine. If you're a hipster.
- Micah
Its like watching Four Horseman of FriendFeed ;)
- Jacque
This looks something like what was going on in my head.. I did register in FF some time ago, but today thought I'd pop in and see what to do with this. :)
- Karri Anttila
2. At Microsoft when given a camcorder I aimed it at everyone else OTHER than myself. I discovered that if you want to be an egotistical baaahhhhsssttttaaarrrrrdddd you've gotta help other people's egos first.
- Robert Scoble
Is it me, or is this egregious follower-baiting :-)?
- Jason Wong
3. You've gotta find some way to get all the other egos on this list to talk about you. That ain't easy, but if you want to get onto this list it is a must. Let's discover some ways to do that...
- Robert Scoble
6. Show @jasoncalacanis a way to make even more money.
- Robert Scoble
Curious what the diff in traffic is from being at the bottom or top of an alltop category. I'm on alltop in a specific directory, but I barely get any traffic from them.
- Douglas Karr
7. Bring a bottle of wine to @loic that he's never had before that he likes. (I did that with a wine from Sonoma and he said it was the first California wine he could get interested in).
- Robert Scoble
8. Do something interesting with RSS and get @davewiner to like it.
- Robert Scoble
This seems like the same list as before. I smell something fishy going on.
- MarkCarras
Douglas: if you are really going to be egotistical you can't care about traffic. There's something that matters to egos FAR more than that. What is it? Whether or not you are talking about them. At Microsoft I NEVER looked at my stats. I ALWAYS looked at blog search engines to see what people were saying about me and about others.
- Robert Scoble
9. Find out what people want, then do a friendfeed list about it. I noticed that everyone on Twitter seems to be begging for followers. So, I gave in and did a list of how to get more followers.
- Robert Scoble
10. Say that the Alltop egos page is bullshit, because it is. Explain why and you probably will get looked at by Guy Kawasaki (he's the guy who decides who goes on this list).
- Robert Scoble
Mark: there are some overlaps, yes! Bing. Bing. Bing!
- Robert Scoble
11. Tell Kara Swisher who the next Yahoo CEO is. But you've gotta be right and you can't be Jerry Yang (she already talks with him nearly every day).
- Robert Scoble
12. Be someone with a big ego. Bill Clinton, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
I just thought I'd help you point out how retarded lists like this are and how much most bloggers just regurgitate the same info over and over again. There is nothing new under the internet sun it seems at times.
- MarkCarras
thomas: schmoozing helps, but there are lots of people who schmooze like Buzz Bruggeman who aren't on the Egos page. To get on this page you've gotta have something more. You've gotta make Guy Kawasaki laugh.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: NOW you are getting the handle on this ego thing. Keep going... :-)
- Robert Scoble
13. Say something that Tim O'Reilly retweets. Repeat 200 times. That should get you onto this page. If you do the hard work and you don't get on, then you'll be credible when you say this list is bullshit. Which, of course, it is. But to get on the list you've gotta have credible proof. And you've gotta be both a big thinker and a big ego.
- Robert Scoble
14. Be Mike Arrington. Oh, wait, start a famous blog. Yes, that requires staying up until 2 a.m. and blogging something interesting every day for a few years. Sorry, not too many shortcuts here.
- Robert Scoble
I think I've been training for this all my life.
- MarkCarras
15. Be Barack Obama's social media queen or king.
- Robert Scoble
16. Make outrageous bets with John Dvorak. Win. Back when we bet on Obama vs. McCain Obama still hadn't beat Hillary. That said, John is wrong more lately than he's right. Speaking of which, getting on Cranky Geeks (his show) will help you get onto this page.
- Robert Scoble
17. If everyone is talking about how big your ego is over and over you probably deserve to be on this page. I bet Guy is doing Twitter searches on the word "ego" to see if any good egotistical baaahhhsssttttaaarrrdddd's are out there.
- Robert Scoble
18. Interview Guy Kawasaki. He's an egotistical baaaahhhhhsssttttaaarrrrdddd and he loves it when you pay attention to him and help him make money. Make sure you ask him about his book and Alltop.
- Robert Scoble
19. Tell a billionaire what to do with his/her life. Or, even better, his/her company.
- Robert Scoble
No offense, but if I ever get on that list, I'm retiring from the Internet.
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
21. Insert your own megalomaniacal and unjustifiably self-important item into scobleizer's list polemically proclaiming a superior solution. Such as: create your own new Alltop knock-off using the words "meta" or "uber" and give RS userID #1 and exclusive First Post access.
- michael silverton
I'll tell you what guarantees you won't be on it: Asking to be placed on it. Guy
- Guy Kawasaki
I really hate Alltop and unfollowed Guy Kawasaki on Twitter for his Alltop Spam. I hate Alltop mostly because of the Feedburner stats they try to aggregate and I hate it even more when Guy Kawasaki tried to get Twitterers to sign up for auto-tweeting Alltop "stories" via TwitterFeed.
- Richard Metzler
Enrique: you have to have an ego to say that you don't want to be on the ego list. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Just a small note. It took 26 minutes for Guy Kawasaki to comment on this thread. On a Sunday morning. Do you see how this works? :-)
- Robert Scoble
i wanted to get on the ego list, anyone around here knows i should be but guy put on the seo page instead, oh well :) i'll follow some of these steps, maybe i can get dual all top citizenship
- sean percival
I have an ego page... my blog... my startup's home page... As far as who else puts me on an ego page... I think I'll just focus on the stuff I can control and leave that up to them.
- Brian Roy
@Scobleizer oh, my ego is massive, but if I had a list to go with, I'd quit for fear of combustion.
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
@seanpercival you're not on the ego list on alltop? the hell is that all about? the list is rigged, I say!! :P
- Enrique Gutierrez
from twhirl
i know what else must a man do? i have stickers made with my face and my biz cards are metal! thats it im getting zune guy to tattoo my avatar on his arm.
- sean percival
These lists are both interesting and entertaining but the suggestions appear to be targeted at PR professionals or social media consultant wannabes. Most users of social networking tools don't have time to invest in being popular. They just want to find (or be found by) relevant information and participate in interesting conversations. Any advice for us?
- scott anderson
Richard Metzler just got bumped to top of Alltop.
- michael silverton
The key to having an ego is knowing that you're perfect
- John Bellone
The key to having an ego is secretly knowing that everytime you open your mouth, you are right ...
- Alemsah Ozturk
I will not be on Alltop's Egos page, but that's OK with me. I have named my blog EGO and have been blogging since 2002. EGO stands for I in Latin. I will soon start a new interview series of my podcast show with individuals who have rational egos and want to have a form of mutual exchange as a conversation with me, sharing their knowledge and ideas with my podcast listeners and blog readers.
- Martin Lindeskog
It's not the 26 minutes that matter; it's the Attentional Capacity and Cognitive Behavior to notice such things in stride. Welcome to the Attention Economy. However, do not worry if you don't "get it" right away; unlike the brutalizing rush to the bottom of Industrial Capitalism; in the next stage of human expression, the handholding not only continues, it gets continuously and consciously better. Competitive advantage giving way to Uplift and Inclusion: fostering Cooperative, Collaborative Advantage.
- michael silverton