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Charlie Anzman shared an item on Google Reader

Nerdflood: part of the elite tech blogging empire?

23 minutes ago - Link

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Nathaniel ... Welcome to the 'Grayed Group' :) Now, buy a shirt :) - Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman shared an item on Google Reader

TweetDeck: New Twitter AIR App With Summize Integration, Groups

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Just loaded it. Best one yet - Charlie Anzman

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TweetDeck: New Twitter AIR App With Summize Integration, Groups

2 hours ago - via Bookmarklet - Link

Bryan Landers, Mitch Wagner, Jesse Stay, Louis Gray and Tris Hussey liked this

"TweetDeck offers four major columns in which to organize Twitter data: "All Tweets", essentially your friends' timeline, "Replies", showing replies to you, the equivalent of Twitter's replies tab, "Search", which will keep a running search window open for a term you've selected, and "Group", which lets you make a sub-set of those you follow on Twitter, and make a miniature timeline" [This seems like a hardcore Twitter tool. Lots of windows and activity. Seems to occupy an entire screen.] - Bwana McCall via Bookmarklet

"The recent strain at Twitter has resulted in the service reducing the number of API calls developers can make to get Twitter updates, and there, TweetDeck has you covered as well, so you learn if there's any slowness, where to lay the blame" [This alone has reduced my faith in Twitter apps to zero. The apps can only be as good as Twitter's API. It's current state is ridiculous. ] - Bwana McCall

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"While Jesse Stay and others have said Twitter's major issues have decimated the developer community's efforts around Twitter, there are still some looking to innovate, TweetDeck being a good example" [I hope for their sake that Twitter gets their act together. I would hate to see such an effort go to waste.] - Bwana McCall

None of it will be wasted effort. Because a smart developer will see the larger vision of microblogging incl things like FF and identi.ca - Tris Hussey via twhirl

Bwana, I still think there will be innovation, I just know a lot of frustrated developers and it can't last long if it's taking time and effort. I was simply sharing some real life examples of developers leaving the platform because of this. Truthfully, I'm actually developing my own Twitter apps on the side - you better believe that the non-Twitter systems are on the back of my mind, and will be a backup though. I could pull away from Twitter at any time, and I'm sure they could as well. - Jesse Stay

TweetDeck is the #1 trending topic on Summize. I love it. http://www.summize.com - Louis Gray

Of course it is :) I'm only getting female replies. Naah ... must be me ... - Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: Two more major sites get friendly with FriendFeed

43 minutes ago - Link

"Hey Pat - Appreciate you taking the initiative to check it out. Will give it try. I don't feel a need to delete your comment as it shows the pride you take in the stuff you write! Update ... Ugh .... SUCCESS!" - Charlie Anzman

Louis Grayed Blogs: (jeff)isageek posted a message

“Just thought I would leave a message and say hello to the LG Club :)”

8 hours ago - Link

Hello back :) - Charlie Anzman

Steve Rubel posted a message

“Is Friendfeed more or less Facebook for geeks? Some days it feels like it.”

2 hours ago - Link

George The Writer, Tony, George Smith, Jon-Paul Bussoli and 15 other people liked this

it is definitely more difficult to get more non-techies on Friendfeed than on FB - Arnaud Fischer

FriendFeed is like the Facebook *newsfeed* for geeks. There's more to Facebook than that, though. - Mike Keliher via twhirl

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Mike - agree that Facebook has more... but FriendFeed doesn't need that stuff. Photos, discussions, blogs, events, etc all are "in" FriendFeed in the sense that you can see them and then go interact with the direct source (Upcoming, Flickr, etc). I prefer the distributed model myself, since the individual apps are of higher quality. - Patrick Lightbody

And...FriendFeed doesn't need those things because FriendFeed shouldn't be trying to *be Facebook*! :) - Mike Keliher via twhirl

Facebook without the embarassing pics. Well, unless you have them in Flickr... - Mark Dykeman

Good question Steve - it's emerging as my favorite social network. And I like geeks...hmmm. - Hutch Carpenter

I'd say info-junkies or convo-junkies over geek - Marco

I'd have to agree with Marco - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

still having difficulties moving people over to ff but once they do... they stay. info over visual- startling to some. - Nice Fish Films

Facebook is not an information mediium, Friendfeed is, so comparing the two doesn't make any sense - Deepak

I'm surprised that when people talk about FF, they don't mention Digg should be afraid. Right now FF provides more relevant links & info than Digg does and the comments are much better too. I would much rather spend my time here than Facebook or Digg. - Otto R. Radke

@Deepak - I guess it depends on how you are defining "information" - I think you could argue that both Facebook and FriendFeed are information mediums but Facebook is a parking lot to FriendFeed's freeway (or Nascar track I suppose, depending on your perspective on noise) - Marco

Two are for the most part different vehicles, just like FF and Twitter - Charlie Anzman

I would call FriendFeed IRC for Web 2.0 - J. Phil via fftogo

Nah, its kind of like Google Reader on Steroids with Twitter for comments???? - Roberto Bonini

Marco, if the information is people's birthday's yes Facebook is information, but I only use it to communicate (almost entirely with people I know), never to find new or interesting material. Friendfeed on the other hand is all about information. - Deepak

Great insight, Steve. I've been thinking for some time that FriendFeed is the stripped-down-for-performance version of Facebook. The Facebook news feed is, for me, its most appealing feature, and FriendFeed is a turbocharged news feed. However, I like facebook too -- it puts me in touch with a different group of people than Friendfeed does. - Mitch Wagner

Louis Gray posted a message on Twitter

“Want a Twitter app with Summize integration, replies, Tweets, and groups in one desktop window? Check out http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta”

3 hours ago - Link

Derek Coatney, Larry Huffman, Bryan Landers, Czar Derek Peterman and 25 other people liked this

I would like a twitter app that would make twitter work :) - (jeff)isageek

I want a twitter that works :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

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Tweetdeck is very nice. Breaking tweets out into @ replies and groups makes sense. Pretty, too. - Leo Laporte

Excellent! I'm just not that into all the dark gray. - kennbell

'scuse me while i wipe up this drool, but that looks hot! - Sarah Perez

This is very nice. Love the grouping feature. Makes it a lot easier to follow tweets. - Dave Rutter

ok, see that got all screwed up just now, had to delete & start over. - TheMacMommy via twhirl

so what I meant to say was, I like tweetdeck for trying to improve on apps like twirl or twitterific for that matter, but I'd still love to see some über combination of tweetdeck & twirl that lets you group, customize color in UI, post using ping.fm and receive more than just tweets like FF does - not so much a firehose but more like a spiffy detachable shower head w/the different dial settings. Come to Mamma! - TheMacMommy via twhirl

Checking it out now, thanks Louis! - Daniel Smith via twhirl

I like it Louis - thanks for the tip .. even though there are acouple of things I would probably like as options it is very workable in the short time I have been using it - Steven Hodson

I really like this so far, it'll be interesting to see what future plans holds. I'd like to see a tad more customization of the client itself. Nice so far though. - Nick

Nice that you can keep twittering even when Twitter is down. Categories/groups/tags is clearly a direction Twitter user needs are heading. Also need an app, though, that can handle multiple Twitter accounts. I tried Twhirl but after a while kept getting timeouts on the 2nd open account. Maybe that's Twitter's fault, not Twhirl's. - Gordon Vaughan

I still wonder why all of these apps default with a dark background. - Caleb Elston

Just saw it with my 9-y-o daughter. Animation was amazing and it was visually attractive. Story was cute, but not great. I think that Monsters Inc., the Incredibles and even Toy Story had better writing. Most interesting thing to me was that more than half the people in the theater were adults with no children. Definitely a bit of a geeky crowd, different than you might expect for a Disney/Pixar flick. All that said, Nice. Now all I need is a blackberry version (that also handles friendfeed) :) - Barry Graubart via twhirl

Using it .. nice. Try clicking on the photo. Looks like most of us need to go higher rez! - Charlie Anzman

pretty slick...just not picking up all my twitter friends though for some reason. - Zee from WeDoCreative

Very nice and still very-very buggy (Air Linux) - Czar Derek Peterman

Ok, another ugly black twitter client. I want an Air app with some brushed metal feel to it. Having something on my desktop that doesnt match the rest of the windows makes me feel like Im on windows. - Colby Olson

I would rather pay for Flickr than put my photos on Facebook to be fodder for advertisers. - Andrew Feinberg

Are there any other Twitter services/apps with the Grouping functionality? Really loving that. - Bryan Landers

Louis Gray had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“What does it mean when Scobleizer is not on the TechMeme leaderboard... at all? http://www.techmeme.com/lb”

2 hours ago - Link

Mrsth, Susan Beebe, Joanmarie, Steve Rubel and Larry Kless liked this

sanity? - Fred Grott

Maybe he's spending more time on FF and other socials apps then blogging? Making videos? Spending time with family? Just a couple guesses. - Larry Kless via twhirl

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nothing... - Josue Salazar

FriendFeed - Bwana McCall

nothing. it's only one measure of influence and I see Robert on TechMeme fairly often. - Alex Hammer

Think that means he's carrying the water, conversation wise, for a lot of bloggers. - Christian Anderson via fftogo

That it is the 4th of July? - Mark Dykeman

the end of the blogosphere as we know it - Steven Hodson

Is it possible to transcend the A List? Perhaps he's now on a higher plane of existence, blogging wise. - Todd McKinney

It means he is spending more time here, Qik, FastCompany.tv and on Twitter. - Steve Rubel

Blogging is so 2007? I agree with S Rubel. - Russellreno

Gabe's tweaking ?? :) - Charlie Anzman

@Steve. Totally agree. - Dave Martin

Akiva Moskovitz posted a message

“Sometimes, instead of doing something constructive or creative, I find myself refreshing FriendFeed over and over and over and over and over...”

6 hours ago - Link

Mrsth, Andrew Burd, simonpure, edythe and 40 other people liked this

I keep secretly wishing I hit some sort of usage limit so I have to walk away. Damn you Friendfeed and your scalability! - Mark Trapp

It's a lot harder for me to walk away from FriendFeed than Twitter. - Michelle Martinez

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I refresh often too - Judy Jones

F5 = crack - Hutch Carpenter

Welcome to da club? - Yuvi

"F5" LOL - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I find FF more interesting as well. - Globecode

I resent the implication that ever-refreshing FriendFeed is not constructive! - Marco

lol@Hutch Indeed - Shey

It's gotten so bad that I have to regulate myself. I use a plug-in for FireFox called Leechblock that you can use to limit your time during the work day.: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Dan Kaplan

huh? F5 just blips my Mac's little sound level at me. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas F5 = Command + R on a PC. Refresh. - Parth Awasthi

Yes, FF is the new internet addiction. F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5... - Tad Donaghe

The only way to solve this problem is for you people to post quicker ;) - Earl E Morningwood

Use LeechBlock, limit yourself to 5 minutes an hour, you won't be sorry. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Jason Wehmhoener

@Jason you essentially just told Amy Winehouse she should check herself into rehab - how likely do you think we are to match your show of discipline? lol ; ) - Marco

At some point we just need FF to auto-refresh every second and include a pause button so we can stop the action to read stuff that catches our eyes. That would be pretty freaky, huh? - Tad Donaghe

it has been eating into my reading and sleeping time - RAPatton

What? Reading Friendfeed isn't constructive or creative? - Tom Landini

like right now, for example - Sarah Perez

Sometimes I interrupt what I'm doing (re-reading the manual for Twilight Struggle) just to check for new FriendFeed action. Totally addicted. - Akiva Moskovitz

I do that too. But now we're going to see the Incredible Hulk. - Robert Scoble

F5=Crack. Crack is Whack. Flickr = Crack. FF is the new Flickr. - Russellreno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... It helps if you don't notice the walls of the maze aren't very high and there are these people looking down on you. - Karim

RusselReno, I had to double-check to make sure that you weren't Steve Gillmor - Todd McKinney

@Todd rofl - Michael W. May via twhirl

+1 rofl for Todd. And good one Russell. - Hutch Carpenter

and sometimes you just can't help a 'likey' even thought you didn't click ... right? :) - Charlie Anzman

a bigger screen real estate could mitigate this problem - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl

Yeah it's addictive :) - JegerPhil - Phil via NoiseRiver

Wait that's not normal??? - Mona N

FrF cries for TTS ;) - silpol

time consumption is simply the manual behavior. Get an auto refresher and save a micro second. ;) then again, if you want to remain aware, you have to read everything! - thecolor

use twhirl and updates come automatically to your desktop... no need of refresh, layout is awesome (discussions, etc) - Gustavo Munoz via twhirl

Chris Brogan posted an entry on chrisbrogan.com

Threading Some Trends Together

12 hours ago - Link

Mike Whaling, brian junyor, Charlie Anzman, Brian Sullivan and 7 other people liked this

This is important stuff - great work, Chris! - Todd Mundt

Hey Chris. Great blog post. i think personal brands and company brands (like Forrester) mutually benefit by mixing the brands together. - Rodney Rumford

My business partner (at the time) stopped renting offices in 1997. Since then I have worked from a home office, participating in various enterprises, building personal brand and generating income. So for me this is a reality -- but I am in an knowledge based industry that lends itself to this style of business (and it suits my personel style). Many businesses and people though couldn't work this way. - Brian Sullivan

Long one but well worth the read and some dialog! - Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman posted an entry on SEO and Tech Daily

Two more major sites get friendly with FriendFeed

11 hours ago - Link

Sarah Perez, Mitchell Tsai, Jason Toney, Hutch Carpenter and 13 other people liked this

agreed charlie, two good sites integrating friendfeed into themselves verse being added as a service, which i guess mahalo could at some point, its sort of loosely a social service - mike "glemak" dunn

Mike - Yet to be a big Mahalo fan but watching Jason 'defend' Mahalo and interact directly with people here the other night was very refreshing. - Charlie Anzman

yeah - i have a profile over at mahalo, i like some of their fine dev folks but i'm not really using it much (i don't think i'm in their demo - probably not that many on ff are frankly)... - mike "glemak" dunn

Steve Rubel shared an item on Google Reader

Do We Need Weekends?

8 hours ago - Link

AJ Kohn, Brian, George Smith, MG Siegler and 4 other people liked this

She makes a point. From a business point of view, we barely have weekends (I just checked office email on a holiday...), But from a mental health point of view, we need blocks of time to "reset". There's a reason labor leaders of the past fought so hard for shorter weeks. - Sprague D

still not sure how the week wasn't split into 4 days for the work week and 3 days for the weekend, how come 5 and 2? Isn't going halfway human nature? - Lou Paglia

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@Lou, I'm with you -- I find 4 long days and 3 off is close to perfect. - Sprague D

Everyone needs down time. Unfortunate many individuals and most major corporations no longer recognize it. Even workaholics needs a break from time to time. - Charlie Anzman

Four long days then a three day weekend sounds good for those who want it, but I think that this idea risks putting us all in a position where workers who want to take their two days off back-to-back are frowned upon. In my experience, single days off spread throughout the week are useless- a single day off is enough time to either unwind or get your non-work related chores done, but not both. - Mike

yes. I need them. but think corps stick with 5-2 because schools do also. - Rob Williams

My life's goal is to live 6 Saturdays and a Sunday, and to bring as many people as possible along with me. - Craig Eddy

Also, I know my productivity drops as the workday continues, and by the 7th hour or so, I'm ready to go home. How productive would most people be during the last hour of a 10-hour day? - Brent Newhall

Absolutely. I need those days to catch up on everything non-work related I didn't have a chance to do during the week. I would much rather have 5 days of hard work than lightly spread work around over 7 days. - Jason Kaneshiro

Ummm... In a word, yes. - Phil Gomes

That is a pretty big assumption that most people work in isolation. People work too much as it is, letting them control when they are off especially when it might not overlap their co-workers will only make things worse. - Scott Watermasysk via NoiseRiver

this is a good point, I'm totally fine with the 5 day week, but why M-F? I kind of like the 'flex-time' the us fed employees where you can get an extra day off every other week, but it is still confined to the M-F work week - nick carrasco

To me it's not about how much time, but how efficient you are with your time. Too many people working longer, not smarter. People need time away to recharge and bring life experience to work interactions. Do we need weekends? Yes. But we need more than that ... 60-80 hour work weeks simply don't pan out IMO. - AJ Kohn

Shey posted a message

“If you HAD to choose between blogging and micro-blogging, which would it be?”

17 hours ago - Link

Mrsth, Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau, robertocastro, Tris Hussey and 9 other people liked this

I'm gonna think outside the box and choose telegraphy! - Tad Donaghe

blogging - Bwana McCall

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Blogging. Fits my personality better. - Hutch Carpenter

Blogging. I don't like the choice though. - Michael C. Harris

Blogging because I like adding screenshots to my posts :D - Corvida via twhirl

Please define-blogging and microblogging? Why must we choose. They are both talking but in different ways. - Mark Forman

I micro-blog and blog haha Plus, there's the "read more after jump" option for people who don't like lengthy posts... - Mona N

easy - "microblogging" - b/c I can always write in journals or email... but Twitter rocks my world. - Lucretia Pruitt

uM - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Writing. - Kirk Kittell

etching with silver nitrate. - Nathan Eckenrode

blogging - AJ Kohn

Flogos. http://www.livescience.com/str... - Lisa L. Seifert

I would say blogging, because I count micro-blogging as just a subset of blogging. Meaning...I have really made no choice at all. I still get to do both :) - Rahsheen Porter

Does FF participation count as micro-blogging? I participate in FF a lot more than my blog now. More convenient, easier to start a conversation and keep it going. No self-imposed timetable or post quota to keep up with to make sure enough people are interested in being part of my "audience" (it's built in with FF). Easier to interact with people and get more interaction back. Easier to find the answers to my questions. FF does all I really wanted out of blogging anyway. - Lindsay Donaghe

microblogging - Bjorn Tipling

Blogging. But I do both. - Chris Baskind

blogging - Steven Hodson

Podcasts. - Cote'

Don't make me choose! OK, I choose blogging. - Summer

Only blogging+microblogging! - Igor Poltavskiy

depends on my mood and what I want to say. it obv takes a lot less cognitive ability to microblog, but many more mainstream people read my blog. - Philip Ryan Johnson

@Lindsay Yeah I definitely agree. FF takes away a lot of my time that I would spend doing other things, that's why I've significantly cut my usage over the past couple weeks. - Shey

definitely would stay with blogging. I can live without things like Twitter. - Rob Diana

Definitely blogging. - Colin Walker via fftogo

If had known micro-blogging / lifestreaming would reach this level, I probably wouldn't blog at all - Charlie Anzman

I can always find time to micro-blog... - Rachel Beer

Micro blogging == FF? If FF posts supported more length, formatting and inclusion of media then blogging would disappear for most people - Brian Sullivan

blogging - Sarah Perez

wait no - micro-blogging - Sarah Perez

OMG - don't make me choose! - Sarah Perez

Easy... blogging. - Louis Gray

I don't think we have to or need to choose. Both are great for different things. - Tris Hussey via twhirl

more and more I am falling towards the micro blogging side. I sometimes think I should just get rid of my traditional blog. - (jeff)isageek

Since you did not mention IM, blogging, even though I do little of it, there are times a long public rant is needed for the psyche - Michael W. May via twhirl

Micro blogging doesn't exist. - Andru Edwards

Mini-blogging. Creating content while wearing a mini-skirt. - Andy C

98% of my blog's readers do not know what twitter is and they don't care. When I used twitter tools to publish an daily digest of my tweets, they hated it. So: The answer is Blogging. - Rick Powell

I agree with Lindsay. Post directly to FF. - Russellreno

ooh.. tough one.. blogging! - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau

microblogging. I could never keep my blog up to date - Andy Wilkin via feedalizr

Duncan Riley posted a message

“Have FF rooms jumped the shark? Just visiting my subscribed rooms, at least half haven't been updated in a week. Found a list of top rooms I'm not subscribed to, same number, and even then all but a dozen or so I hit with more than a couple of posts in the last week.”

11 hours ago - Link

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perhaps people rushed in too quickly in setting them up? I'm just as guilty on the Inquisitr Fun room as well. Need to start updating it more - Duncan Riley

the rooms have never had a use case. for example im in "auto-junkie" room - firstly i already tag the item in delicious and it comes thru friendfeed i dont want to tag it again. if i do tag it for my "autojunkie" room it doesnt show up in my normal friendfeed feed so no1 sees it. basically FF rooms dont work and wont unless its changed; ideally when i shared an item in google reader or tagged it in delicious it autotagged or i classified it to a friendfeed room, then content niches could form.. - ben barren

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I had a feeling they might be like facebook groups. - jjprojects

I don' - Dave Winer

They were a novelty at first but they have their uses. I'm going to use a FriendFeed Room so friends and family can follow my adventures in Japan in a few weeks' time. It might make a few of them stick around here too. http://14sandwiches.com/2008/0... - Martin Bryant

The identi.ca room's pretty busy :) - Charlie Anzman

Haven't really used rooms much after the initial launch experimenting. But I think that's just because I don't need this feature at the moment and there may be many use cases for others for this. I guess Friendfeed has the real usage stats on their server... hey FF, care to share? :) - Philipp Lenssen

I've found that rooms are not that useful - but what would be really useful for me would be to be able to assign different people to different groups (or rooms) so I could separate social from business topic from political, etc. Then being able to watch three or four feeds side-by-side rather than have to choose between tabs. - Craig Thomler

Of course every user could choose to group people together in the way that made sense to them - which makes these groups fundamentally different to rooms - which are the same for everyone in them :) - Craig Thomler

rooms may be better suited to private use. i know small groups using them for work collaboration - rob zand

I've only just started to use rooms, so I'm not sure whether they've got staying power. It seems one subscribes to people for themselves but rooms for topics, and that seems like a useful distinction to me. - Michael C. Harris

Yeah, they jumped it. Same syndrome as creating too many subforums on a bulletin board. Fragments the conversation. FF'll need Rooms when the rest of the world turns up here later. - laurence timms

Rooms are a weird concept for subscribed content. If I go to a bar with only people I know and like, why would I put some of them in a room? Why not just stay in the bar? - Cait

Cait, I see it as the difference between going to a bar with people you like - you'll have a good time even if the bar is crap - and going to a bar you like on your own - you might meet some like-minded folk. - Michael C. Harris

No, they've just finally dropped to normal levels of a post-launch. Just like every other product. Now you weed out the bad room and keep the good ones. - Ben Parr

I think the real problem is lack of (easy)discoverability for public rooms - Brian Sullivan

I periodically step through the rooms I am subscribed to and leave the ones that look dead. - J. Phil

I think notifications would help, or some way to integrate new items into or beside your regular feed. That way people would see when new items were posted and jump in. That and some sort of rooms directory. - Josh Lowensohn

I think the rooms are pretty useful for "private" groups where you're focused on collaboration but maybe not so much for general use. The public ones are good for discussion of new stuff (Identi.ca) or for sharing (the Invites group) but it's easier just to post to your main feed for other stuff, IMO. - Lindsay Donaghe

Rooms have some really good use cases for business (lightweight collaboration) and special events (Apple conferences). As specialized discussion places, their usefulness is decreased a bit due to the nature of FriendFeed: your subscriptions determine the content you see. People that would really be into say, knitting, don't need a room. They just do their normal thing here and others decide whether to subscribe to them or not. - Hutch Carpenter

I left a bunch of rooms because they were just spammed. The rooms I moderate are slow but steady (I need to import some feeds). Even FF itself recognizes that they need to do a lot with rooms to make the more usable so I'm sure we'll see improvements soon. - Jennifer Leggio

I grabbed a couple of rooms and haven't yet set them up ... lots of potential, just no time. - AJ Kohn

Most of the rooms that I am subscribed to or moderating are pretty slow. I still think they have huge potential. I think part of the problem is FF doesn't currently offer an easy way to discover these rooms. Some room directories (not hosted by FF) have popped up but these haven't gained much traction as far as I can tell. - Mike Doeff

I'm in a ton of rooms but I just haven't gotten into them yet. I think I need to get rid of 99% of the rooms I'm in and focus on one or two rooms. Bootstrapping community is very tough work. The only way these things will get popular is for one person to really care about a room and tend to it daily. That's the kind of work that I just don't have time to do anymore. - Robert Scoble

That's not what "jumped the shark" means - Bjorn Tipling

yup - Gary Dobkin

Louis Grayed Blogs: Louis Gray posted a link

All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt

23 hours ago - via Reshare - Link

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Cafepress.com/louisgray :-) - Louis Gray

I love the stuff for babies. :D - possible248

Who is Louis gray? - Charlie Anzman

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message

“email survey: does a search for hookers or strippers bring up more results in your inbox? i'm at 5 and 13, respectively but for the record i do have political concerns about the sex industry. just sayin'”

21 hours ago - via fftogo - Link

I don't know. I always search for "hookers" or "leather doughnuts." Spam comes from so many directions, I feel like I'm eating in Hawaii again. - Simon Goetz

get yourself a working spam filter. ;) - Nicole Simon

um, i'm not talking about spam, i'm talking about legit emails in my gmail inbox. oh nevermind! - Marshall Kirkpatrick via fftogo

Marshall - There's always the delete button :) - Charlie Anzman

Louis Grayed Blogs: Charlie Anzman posted a message

“Where am I. How did I get here ? and ... where's MY T-shirt :)”

21 hours ago - Link

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Hutch - Suppose the question should be is anyone aggregating this feed??? :) - Charlie Anzman

Louis Grayed Blogs: Mike Fruchter posted a link

louisgray.com: Five Blogs For June on Your Summer Reading List

yesterday at 11:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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This edition was classic - http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Charlie Anzman

Louis Grayed Blogs: Nathaniel Payne posted a message

“We should make a shirt, too. "I got Louis Grayed and all I got was this lousy t-shirt (and a sizeable increase in traffic)."”

yesterday at 11:56 am - Link

Charlie Anzman, Franklin Pettit and Louis Gray liked this

This one? https://www.cafepress.com/loui... - Louis Gray

Very Good Idea.... - Franklin Pettit

13,99 ??? Huh? You guys know me better than that :) - Charlie Anzman

Mike Fruchter posted a message

“I am spending time looking at the blogs of people who subscribe to me.”

yesterday at 12:29 pm - Link

Michael Hocter, Erhan Erdogan, Mitchell Tsai, Michael C. Harris and 13 other people liked this

Finding a lot of great blogs in the process. - Mike Fruchter

:) - Zahra HB

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Zahra, thanks for linking to some of my posts. I saw the traffic in my logs :-) - Mike Fruchter

With a larger subscriber base, it is becoming harder and harder to keep up with all of your followers. I find myself going to my subscription page more often and clicking feeds to discover new blogs and content from my followers. - Mike Fruchter

The beauty of FriendFeed - it can be used in all sorts of rewarding ways! - Martin Bryant

Martin exactly. Friendfeed is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. - Mike Fruchter

it's sorta like taking a picture of the person taking a picture of you - Cee Bee

Much obliged :) - Anthony Farrior

Good move :) - Charlie Anzman

michael arrington posted a message

“laying low today. cell and IM turned off. not dealing with email. rented 9 movies at blockbuster. I'm bunkered in”

21 hours ago - Link

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What, no Netflix, no Roku Netflix Player. I'll bet you still check books out of the library. ;-) - Michael Tefft

That sounds nice. Give us a highlight of the movie titles. - Adam Helweh

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Haven't been in a Blockbuster (or similar) for nearly 4 years (during baby run-up) and still feel good about the time I save. Time - our most precious resource these days. - AJ Kohn

ive heard of people hunkering down but never bunkering in! 9 movies - i hope you got the weekly rental :) - Allen Stern

Mr Arrington, you're a good looking guy with a job. Please don't take this the wrong way, sir, but you have no business renting 9 movies at the local blockbuster and sitting at home alone with your dog. Jesus, you were on the top 100 of Time magazine. I think you should be getting the chicks, bro. I'm seriously. Ride this wave while it lasts. get the chicks! - Richard

@Michael Tefft: I have a Roku and it's terrible. Not the device - the selection at Netflix. It's really really bad. My wife and I haven't found anything to watch on it yet. :( AppleTV, and to a lesser extent, Unbox on TiVo and movies on Xbox 360 ftw. - Don MacAskill

Have fun! I love the unlimited monthly plan at Blockbuster for watching 18-hrs TV/day when I'm sick... - Mitchell Tsai

@richard some people chill better alone .. when you deal with deadlines and people in your face all the time , the last thing you want to do is go to a busy crowded club . Im a fulltime firefighter in canada , after being couped up inside with 4 guys for 10hrs , I look forward to "alone" time . - fotographic

One of those movies better star Steve McQueen....partial credit for Paul Newman - Cains

Michael: too bad, I was gonna invite you to Half Moon Bay for a drink at the Ritz! The weather here is stunning. - Robert Scoble

Nothing like dropping out for a while. - Hutch Carpenter

I'm good at life coaching business! http://twitter.com/erhanerdoga... ;-) Trust me Michael! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

Healthy every once in a while .... - Charlie Anzman

Sounds like the Cyber Gremlins are getting to you! Get a Life? Take a break? Get out of the Matrix? - Igor The Troll

@formatted_dad Almost fell our of my seat - laughing so hard. Wondering what the movies are... - Sonciary Honnoll

"bunkering in" implies one of the movies is "Downfall." - Karim

Great film. Funnier comment. - Abby Martin

http://www.theonion.com/conten... - Hao Chen

Hao - No words, thank you SO much for sharing. Hilarious! - Sonciary Honnoll

that's a great thing to do every so often..I am envious. - susan mernit

Michael life is not just about money! There is Life after TechCrunch, I hope you find your balance. - Igor The Troll

as long as they aren't all porn - Nik Cubrilovic

i want my copy of legally blonde back. you can't keep it forever mike. - Calley Nye

Me two, need a rest, rented a bunch of movies too - Jeremiah Owyang

Mike, that sounds like an awesome time. If anyone deserves some time off it is you! Let us know how the movies went. Take Care. - Shannon Coolican

Hangin' at home with no cell, IM, twitter, etc. and watching movies sounds like a good day to me. Hell, I should do that this weekend and catch up on all the movies I haven't seen. - Miiko Mentz

cheater - Philip Ryan Johnson

Michelle Miller posted a message

“What would you rather see as the FF icon? A picture of the person or a cute icon?”

yesterday at 7:17 am - Link

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person - RAPatton

a picture of a person photographing a cute icon - Marco

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I'm fine with the icons as they are. I think a picture at that size would be pretty much unrecognizable and I'd hate for them to make it larger. - Akiva Moskovitz

no real preference between the two, but something unique is best. - felix

Person. As a matter of fact, i don't tend to believe people with cute icons. - Parth Awasthi

picture of a cute person - nathan

yeah, but michelle might not want to use her picture everywhere - RAPatton

person - dan

I'd rather see a photo, or barring that, a caricature. A random icon is kinda useless. - Roger Benningfield

I'm fine with what most people choose as long as they don't change it all the time. Cute Icons are a little easier to distinguish over personal photos. - Lindsey Smith

Cute person ... (duck) - Charlie Anzman

This is a greasemonkey script or something, right? because the less graphics I see, the happier I am. - Cyndy

cute person but if they are ugly the FF icon. I believe that is the logic used now. Jk :) - Michael Narciso

Small icon of the actual person's face is actually a pretty good idea.... - Chris Reed

Photo of the person with her tongue out. - Russellreno

I actually like the FF icon - it helps me to visually sort out the different services as I scroll down the page. At least, I'm assuming that's the icon you're referring to. - Nathaniel Payne

Cyndy posted a message

“Poll Question follows”

yesterday at 8:22 am - Link

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So here's what I'm wondering. I write daily for two blogs: Profy and The Industry Standard. My Profy articles generally get comments and visitors. My Industry Standard articles do not. Is it the writing, the articles, or Profy's brand awareness that's driving that bus? I have no preference for one or the other, but found it curious when looking at my FF activity. - Cyndy

Cyndy, I am ashamed to say that I was not aware you wrote for the Industry Standard. Possible promotional problem? I promise to immediately correct this problem and subscribe to your stuff there, too. - Mark Trapp

Cyndy - I am with Mark on this as well I have only come across links to Industry Standard a couple of times. - Steven Hodson

Profy has been getting a much higher profile buzz in 'these circles' - Charlie Anzman

I'm not at all bothered by that, guys. It's just good to know. I also forgot to change my author tag (didn't want to spam the hell out of FF with the full feed) so it didn't pull for about a week. But it's good to know. Is it that Profy focuses on the "Web 2.0" circles and The Standard is more generalized and this particular circle gravitates toward the mirror? - Cyndy

Thomas Hawk posted a message

“I'm not quite sure I "get" why people want identi.ca. I mean isn't it just a Twitter clone? Why go backwards from FriendFeed? Isn't FriendFeed already a superior communications platform? I signed up for it but I'm just not sure how I can justify spending time there when FF is vastly superior.”

yesterday at 7:25 am - Link

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I just like playing around with new stuff. Already I tend to use FriendFeed more than Twitter and I'll probably goof with identi.ca for awhile like I did with Plurk. At least I like identi.ca a LOT more than Plurk. - Akiva Moskovitz

There are two misguided notions: 1) that Identi.ca is a "federated" service out of the box (it isn't), and 2) that because it's open source, it automatically means all features anybody wants gets put back into the identi.ca service (it doesn't). It does allow you to run your own microblogging service and hack it up, if you want. Number of people who are going to do that? Very, very few. - Mark Trapp

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Yeah, I get "playing around" with it. I do that with everything too. But after playing around with it it just seems like Twitter, unless I'm missing something. If I'm going to invest time in something it needs to be a step forward, not backwards. Feels like a step backwards to me from FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk

the open sourced potential distributed hosting nature of it is whats interesting to me thomas - not a replacement for friendfeed which is conversation & discovery central for me but it could be an interesting experiment in what a short msg'g platform could be if architecturally done right - very early though - mike "glemak" dunn

It is an interesting point and brings up the question of how viable an open source FriendFeed clone would be. The primary motivation for the Twitter clones has been performance, but perhaps there would be other advantages? Just a thought. - Ray Grieselhuber

We like the concept as you can tell.. Just like twitter but not buggy!!!!!!! - JegerPhil - Phil

@thomas: what about http://utterz.com/ ?? - mhmazidi

Actually, now that I think about it, identi.ca will never be a real player until FriendFeed starts working with it. - Akiva Moskovitz

I see no point to go backwards, of course first you have to try it if you want to compare it. http://ubervu.com/ this is what I wa