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About to install Jolicloud on the HP Mini 1000, looking forward to testing it out! http://www.jolicloud.com/
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Cool
- Rodfather
running it on my asus eeepc, pretty slick little OS. Boxee is especially nice to have on a laptop.
- sean percival
nice... maybe I'll give it a try too in the near future... Boxee on my EeePC would be nice
- nick carrasco
Can this dual boot with win7? I'd try this, but don't want to lose the screenwriting software on my EeePC...
- Thomas
Вероника является экспертом по взлому систем и компьютеров.
- Dave Friedel
是，但是她能修理他们。
- Thomas
Can you tell us how it went?
- Fee501st
But Thomas, ale co z jednej klawiatury ona zniszczona?
- Dave Friedel
That didn't make sense. Rather: Hva med tastaturet hun ødela?
- Dave Friedel
You should do a segment on Jolicloud on Tekzilla
- Greg Morgan
I think we shall!
- Veronica
watch out for the sound issues their still working on it
- Michael Chen
The Coffee Maker Roasting And Brewing Set by Tom Metcalfe » Yanko Design - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009...
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50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-onli...
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what about qik?
- kamla bhatt
diigo for bookmarking.
- Tim Hoeck
:) justa wait a week you'll have a new addition
- Bryan Thatcher
from twhirl
I don't see why everybody is sleepin' on Diigo
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Kwippy, Propeller, and Social Median should be added to the list, but Great job Chris!
- Richard Kannegieser
There are 10,974,601 apps I could add. That's where YOU come in. : )
- Chris Brogan
Thanks for the great list. I think I'll use about 3 of them.
- Ricardo Rabago
Agree on Diigo. Great site, we use it to share info across management team.
- Mike Troiano
Hi Chris, thanks for this aggregation, useful. But, what about adding an emerging category named Social Search? Xoost would fit into it. cheers, Felix
- Xoost.com
Thanks, great list, but I wonder should Posterous be in microblogging category? It's more like usual blogging service... And +1 for Diigo =)
- Anton
perhaps instapaper, alexa, sitemeter, picasa, rssmeme ?
- Hayk H.
Awesome list. A relatively new kid on the block: http://www.addictomatic.com - great tool for listening quickly.
- Neil Williams
Great list but techmeme.com needs to be on here! Also rememberthemilk.com is a fun way to keep track of todos.
- Rich Casey
Socialthing! is a cooler alternative to feedfriend http://socialthing.com
- skinflakes
And new ones are coming every day. That is why at mixin.com we are not trying to compete with any of them but integrate them. Because once you found something to do or you have a proposition to make, you need to discuss with your friends whatever social network they belong. And this discussion begins before the event, during the event and can continue after the event with the addition of pictures and videos from these services like Flickr, Picasa, Youtube, Qik.
- Frédéric Sidler
Do Not Make Me Come Over There...
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Hey Apple, I live about 10 minutes from your headquarters. If I can't figure this out and stop feeling like a complete moron by 11 tonight... you can expect a surprise visit in the morning.
- Louis Gray
from email
LOL! LG: invest in an external HD!
- Mona Nomura
@Mona I second that.
- Kyle Lacy
Backups are painful. I should write a Python script for incremental backups.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
FAIL.
- Kyle Lacy
That doesn't look good
- Mike Doeff
Happens all the time. Nobody notices cause they're all wound up in MobileMe issues.
- Michael Markman
@possible, python? a simply on-line (albeit, maybe long) rsync is all anyone needs for backup.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Louis, if you do go over there, I want footage!
- Justin Korn
I second that
- Kyle Lacy
superduper for the mac ,, louis ,,
- johnpiercy
also the forums at www.screencastonline.com will always come to your rescue
- johnpiercy
Louis I'm having a lot of trouble with Time Machine, too - in line with what Michael said, there are several known issues with TM but they just aren't a priority for Apple at the moment.... the discussion threads at Apple.com are buzzing with two or three consistent, known TM issues but no solves (other than going in and deleting backups and making it restart.)
- Anthony Citrano
I've been using Retrospect since the late 80's when it was called DiskFit from Dantz Development. When it is setup properly and when it runs regularly, it will restore your HD perfectly to a new drive after a disk failure. I've seen this happen countless times. Retrospect is an expert tool for expert restoration. It just works. It's not easy to learn. Time Machine is beyond easy -- but let's see how it compares to Retrospect's record of successful restores in the next 20 years.
- David Newman
I am having no problem with time machine, neener neener neener
- anna sauce
Neener neener yourself, anna. :-) So far, totally worthless.
- Louis Gray
Louis, as soon as you can figure it out - set up is the worst part, you'll never have to touch it again. Mine just works like magic now that I have it set up.
- Jesse Stay
OMG! You have caused a rip in space-time continuum!
- Jemm
I dare you to take your time capsule on your bike and roll up to Infinity Drive.
- anna sauce
I've used Time Machine to restore my desktop twice: once using TM's automatic restore, and once manually. Saved my butt both times, though I'm seeing random errors from the drive that suggest I'll be reformatting it soon. Sorry you're having issues, Louis. If more people turned up in Apple's lobby with a box of hardware, maybe they'd pay more attention. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
But Jesse the problem is that that's not true. I think that's Louis' point. Time Machine is plagued with issues. Thousands of users have set it up and found that it doesn't "just work like magic" at all. I am one of them, and as a fairly tech-savvy guy cannot get it working smoothly no matter what I do. Go over to Apple.com Discussions and see for yourself.
- Anthony Citrano
Is there any chance that the prob is with your primary drive? i.e. the backup is failing because it can't copy corrupt data? Try a disk repair and permissions repair on your primary disk. Apologies if you have done this already.
- Tom Raftery
hmm Ubuntu backs up fine :)
- Fred Grott
I've been using the Time Capsule for about 6 months now. It's a piece of crap. You will not go one week without some problem occurring with the backups. Some tips: the name of the backup share and time capsule can't be more than like 20 or 30 characters: forget descriptive names. If you have a problem with it mounting, change the backup disk to none, then change it back to the backup share. If you like your sanity, don't bother with Time Capsule
- Mark Trapp
@Tom, I'm repairing disk permissions right now. Before I go off on a rant, I'll try and see if this works. Hope so! Right now, Time Machine and Time Capsule are pretty useless.
- Louis Gray
i gave up on "in home" backup and went to Mozy...so far so good. I don't care about my OS, as long as my media stay safe...
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
Sounds like maybe you got a dud? Exchange for a new one?
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Louis, repairing permissions may not be enough. If it is bad sectors on your primary drive, say, you will need to do a disk repair. Still, no harm trying the perms first and if that works, so much the better.
- Tom Raftery
from twhirl
Things like this suck since backup software shouldn't fail.
- Daniel Schildt
@nicerobot: Yeah, rsync is pretty good for backup, but I would prefer something with a GUI. Today, I actually found a GUI for rsync backups (http://code.google.com/p...).
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Chris, it's the combination of both. Time Machine works great with a hard drive connected via Firewire or USB, and Time Capsule as a NAS is hard to screw up, but Time Machine accessing things over the network is an exercise in frustration. Time Machine sucks at reliably auto-mounting AFP shares and preserving permissions on those shares. Given how long it took for Apple to support hard...
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- Mark Trapp
one word...superduper!...that is all...over.
- Bob Blunk
Boom! It just works! Everyone's suggestions sound like you're troubleshooting a PC... :p
- Johan
you blame the software but do you ever think that maybe your hardrive is killed? i use time machine all the time no problems
- orionstarr
Orion, it's highly possible there's an issue with the drive. I don't know that I made a distinction with the software. Something between Time Capsule and Time Machine is borked.
- Louis Gray
It sounds very much like a broken drive. My time capsule was very easy to set up.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Now starting to work. I erased the disk and restarted the process (again), Fingers crossed
- Louis Gray
Did you lose everything?
- orionstarr
Remember of the old days of backing up on cd roms, dvds, jazz disk, zips etc... a 250 gig zip disk used to be a monster!
- orionstarr
The Rapid Rise of FriendFeed and Plaxo’s Pulse - http://therealmccrea.com/2008...
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Surprising results comparing traffic surges for FriendFeed and Plaxo Pulse
- John McCrea
Save me from the Twitter clones - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
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Nice post.
- Daniel Schildt
Couldn't agree more!
- Adam C.
more often than not i do subscribe, look around a bit and then post "i do not work here, I do not use this, go away." or sth similar. ;)
- Nicole Simon
identi.ca is different, if the development continuous in the same speed we could really have federated and decentralized micro blogging services in future.
- Benjamin Kohler
I too agree, too many clones and they are all fun to play with... what keeps me primarily using Twitter is all the accessories out there, twitterfeed, twitpic, etc... but on the topic of managing them all, I like SocialThing, you can post to almost any service it can access and since it has access to Ping, you can post to the rest at the same time.
- nick carrasco
Yeah. I'm fried from social networks.
- Francine Hardaway
Support for Hulu
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please
- Pat Hawks
Which kind of support? Inline video is already live: http://friendfeed.com/e... Would it be useful to see whenever someone adds a show to their queue, or is it more valuable to only show when someone rates an item?
- Kevin Fox
My Hulu activity: What I rate, what I subscribe to....
- Pat Hawks
something possibly similar to the netflix support
- nick carrasco
Do What Works for You - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/do-what...
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People are upset because they see you as a 'friend', and everyone hopes that their friends will be in the place they hang. This is why I'm a fan of standards, and not so much platforms. Can you imagine if I couldn't call you because you opted to get a white phone instead of a black one? If you couldn't call me because I have a cell and you're on a land line? "C'mon," I'd be urging, "Get...
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- Rob Clark
all these competitor 'products' are leading the way of IM, where you either have to be on all of them of 'force' friends to choose one. In terms of all the 'microblog/status' sites, I find it easy to post to them all at once with things like SocialThing (and now I'm playing with Ping), but trying to follow them all.... that part is definitely hard. And I agree, not all are right for everyone, I've been playing with kwippy, and I'm just not sure it is for me... anyways its very true, 'do what works for you'
- nick carrasco
Agree Chris! You should feel wanted too! I'm trying Identi.ca and actually think it's much better than Twitter. It's not working for me though. My friends are on Twitter and that's what I'm comfortable with, so that's what works for me.
- Jill Howard Allen
Is it over for RSS readers? - http://www.accmanpro.com/2008...
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I find that Google Reader is making me smarter and is a great way to start conversations that make me smarter over on FriendFeed. FriendFeed lately has gotten a little too superficial for my tastes as we've seen a raft of bacon and other goofy things get a lot of discussion. Google Reader brings me a much higher percentage of smart posts with little noise, much different than Twitter or FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
You are right. It is much less superficial. There is more intentional sharing, making it much more valuable then the basis at which Friendfeed aggregates content for you. If someone takes the time to write a post, and you have chosen to follow him because he provides value) the basis is already much better than FF.
- Alexander van Elsas
Aren't you at a disadvantage since you subscribe to so many people? One of the key features of FF is the ability to filter the noise. I can honestly say I've seen no Bacon or any other pork-related discussion ;) because FF filters everything for me. But the filter still brings me interesting new people. I may be a wrong but I think these little meshed cocoons are what will bring FF mainstream
- Steven Cains
Robert - I like the playful nature of FriendFeed, but I also tire of it at times. Hide has been useful lately.
- Hutch Carpenter
being that RSS readers still aren't mainstream, no.
- Sam Harrelson
from twhirl
I think this is another way of saying "Has Robert Scoble declared RSS bankruptcy?"
- Nick O'Neill
from twhirl
@Cains: I agree. Those who feel the need to add friends in FF, in the same way they follow on Twitter, are at a disadvantage when it comes to the power (and, dare I say: personal sustainability) of FriendFeed. The goals, for me, of all of these services: reduction of noise, education, entertainment (a distant third). Everyone wants to mimic the success of Scoble: good luck with that.
- Blake N. Cooper
i think feed readers will keep working as knowledge bringers,sites like twitter,friendfeed et al however are breaching the distance from the reading the the conversation. inevitable also, is the fact that as services gain mass reach, the also average the content down to the middle. it's part of the reason "edgelings" move toward new smart-only-for-now services.
- Ruben Llibre
Robert, I agree that FF is a little superficial, but I this was *Social* Media, i.e. conversation/sharing/exchange, rather than *Intellectual* Media. It's more like a party than a seminar, as it should be. I would love a place to have purely intellectual conversations in a social media framework. I can get a little bit of both from FF, but it does tend to be varied and yes, at times superficial. I like that aspect of it, but I can see your frustration given your objectives for what you want to get from it.
- Steve Lowe
Most of my blogs readers still use RSS, they love RSS and were the early adapters as well. It's the blogs that depend on CPM advertising cash that don't want you using a feed reader.
- paul mooney
With a Google Reader reader like Feedly the information comes in looking good, and the integration with FriendFeed makes it easy to put anything worthwile through. I think motherloads of people still think RSS is something you get from using your mouse too much, so declaring it death is way too early.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I think the bigger item of interest is that the RSS readers are evolving. gReader includes notes, and you can share posts. All of the aggregation platforms do similar things. Basically, RSS is just the format, the display is changing. This is a good thing.
- Rob Diana
RSS hasn't climbed the mountain of the masses yet. And it will. Just wait.
- Jeroen Mirck
And I forgot, Jeremiah Owyang has started using imaginary friends for RSS feeds (http://friendfeed.com/e...).
- Rob Diana
Good Question !! I have stopped using bloglines and/or Greader for the most part. However, most of thoses RSS gets pipped into my FF 'imagainy feed" named "restofworld" . So content is still getting aggregated, However the vehicle for such aggregation has now become FF.
- Peter Dawson
These days firing up my RSS reader of choice is as stressful and inefficient as is walking into the magazine section at Barnes N Noble with the intention to "discover and catch up on interesting content". *Traditional* RSS consumption by human beings simply doesn't scale IMO. In the long-run we are all bound to call it quits.
- Aviv
IMO the fluff means that FriendFeed is getting more popular. If any system wishes to keep from trending toward entropy, it needs to be insular in some fashion, or require a deliberate push toward order. I agree with Jeroen, RSS will become more chaotic as it is adopted more widely.
- Phil G
@Nick: forget RSS bankruptcy - has Scoble just declared FriendFeed fatigue? ;)
- Aviv
I agree with Cains. The movement away from pure intellectual discussion on FF makes me believe it's becoming more mainstream. It is inevitable. I for one welcome it, and look forward to services like NoiseRiver to help control the noise for those who are looking for a more filtered experience.
- Hao Chen
@Hao: I agree. I think that for many of us the existing FF "flow" is slowly becoming "too raw" for sustainable direct consumption (some say it moves too fast, content too random, noisy discussions, childish LOL cats, not mainsteam enough, too geeky, etc.) Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's a flaw in the FF design - if anything, I think it will prove to be FF's greatest strengths...
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- Aviv
" FF "flow" is slowly becoming "too raw" for sustainable direct consumption" YES that is a fact. With that in mind, thats why my pvt rooms are important to me. I keep my rss feeds aggregated and still have quality content w/out any of the noise that I get on friends tab. FF is a dual edged. On one hand we can create convo's and on the other hand we can just use it as an RSS aggregator.
- Peter Dawson
J. Phil is right: the fluff does mean that FF is getting more popular and bringing in a wider audience. I'm not too frustrated by it, just hit hide and move on. But, I do notice that we get lazy and stop bringing in interesting stuff, so I'm redoubling my efforts to go to Google Reader and make sure that I bring a ton of stuff in here to make sure we don't just talk about bacon.
- Robert Scoble
It's not over by a long shot, but it aint mainstream either.
- Steve Rubel
I've found myself neglecting Google Reader too much at times as well, instead gorging on FF bacon :) I've been trying to get back into flying thru Google Reader with SHIFT+S at the ready
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
I don't ever open up a reader. I just use Thunderbird and it's always there and up to date. No pain all gain.
- Todd Hoff
+1 for bacon discussions and other goofy things on FF. Mixed in with tech news of course.
- Mike Doeff
The use of RSS isn't over for me until more people from the hospitality industry move into using sites like twitter/friendfeed.
- Shane Keener
for me, working in media relations, RSS is the only way to scan a lot of headlines in various industries. RSS for news, FriendFeed for conversations perhaps. FriendFeed for commenting and opinions and conversations, RSS readers for REAL NEWS.
- Mike Lizun
My Google Reader is for me. It's for information that I don't necessarily need to share with others (like MLBTraderumors.com) or various other feeds that are in my industry (footwear). I use it for catching up on the things I know interest me. FF is like going to the local pub and catching up on the random silliness, tech news, etc that I may or may not be exposed to in my own personal day to day business. They serve two separate but sometimes overlapping needs.....
- George Smith
Hate to say it, but FF and Twitter have replaced my rss reader... I miss it and I don't.
- Andrew Hyde
I love my RSS feeds - no intention of giving them up. In fact, still waiting for some sites to get with the program.
- William Harryman
Toluu is a great rss aggrigator. It is a community based app that identifies "users" that have similar interest to yours and allows you to see thier feeds and subscribe to them. I've found many great feeds and learn much more than casual browing could accomplish
- Scott Schang
from feedalizr
Well, for RSS it's definitely not. RSS is a standard. RSS Readers are clients. What you are referring to is if RSS Readers per se are dead. Which my answer is definitely not. I'm still very much addicted to Google Reader, and sometimes I have http://snackr.net playing on my monitor. IMHO, of course.
- Jorge Escobar
Not even close. RSS is a major part of my daily routine. The problem with things like FriendFeed is that it's all about buzz, and little actual content. 99 people ranting about the same exact thing. I suspect PR and marketing folks have largely saturated it already, just as many tech blogs are nothing more than reformatted press releases. RSS feeds let me easily keep tabs on sites I trust. Not to mention RSS is used all over backends for most Social sites as well as news sites. It's the true news api.
- Robert Accettura
RSS is far from dead, and that said,does anything truly die on the internet, I know lots of people who still use news servers (news://). plus I agree with Scoble, RSS readers make me smarter. I start everyday off with Google Reader reading the news, trade publication articles and other stories that expand my knowledge. I then head over to FriendFeed & SocialThing to see what others think is interesting and what they are talking about.
- nick carrasco
I abandoned Google Reader when I started using FriendFeed. RSS readers are too cluttered and social filtering of RSS makes for far better content discovery.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas Hawk, Google Reader is not the best tool for content discovery, but that's not what I use it for. I use it for staying current with content channels I've already discovered.
- J. McConnell
for me, there is still lots of information that I don't get on ff or twitter, but do in google reader. I often find a good bit of new .NET tips that I don't think I would otherwise see. I think it's a bit too soon to cast off RSS readers until everyone is pushing all of their updates to all [important] services.
- Steve Long
from twhirl
Having divergent interests, and quite a few subscriptions in Google Reader, I am regularly back and forth between it and FriendFeed. I find the two very complementary - I enjoy and have learned from the perspectives of those I subscribe to and respect here, which prompts me to search for additional content in GR to absorb. RSS definitely maximizes my online time, FriendFeed enhances it.
- jcunwired
GReader is for slow and indepth consumption, Friendfeed is fast food. I like both, but they say too much fast food is unhealthy.
- Alexander van Elsas
I still use my Bloglines account regularly as it's the best way to keep up with sites that I like to read on a regular basis in a format that makes sense for me. RSS and stuff like FriendFeed are different in similar manner to how watching TV and using a DVR are different. One just gives you random stuff based on someone else's idea of what I should see and the other allows me to control the content that I see much more effectively.
- Alex Scoble
If GReader is luxurious dining out, and FF is fast food, then what would be a nice, custom home-cooked meal?
- Hao Chen
RSS readers are not even close to over! I get a constant stream of quality news and information, custom tailored to my interests. Still way better quality than anything I could get from a social networking site such as FriendFeed. I get much less noise from my RSS feed, without having to go through the effort to manually filter/hide stuff I don't care about, like I have to do on social networks.
- Jeff P. Henderson
For me writing a blog post is a conscious intentional act. If I subscribe to a blog I know I will get quality material (most of the time). Aggregation such as with Friendfeed is very different. too many sources and too many unintentional shares. As a result there is more content that is less interesting. In GReader you don't need filters, noise reduction schemes or whatever. You either subscribe or you don't. FF lets you consume fast, discover, but also gives you massive amounts of useless content.
- Alexander van Elsas
@Robert, quite the contrary - Google Reader has become even more important to me and its still the first place I go. Much less noise and topics I care about right away as well as smart recommendations. FF's strength is its ability to handle conversations. A combination of both would be utopia for me.
- Ron Emrick
i think this has been a case of "narrative bias" (e.g. i'm bored with it so the whole world must be bored with it as well). RSS readers (particularly GReader) are stronger than ever. Google Reader is an integral part of my information gathering/filtering/sharing (e.g. sharing via FF).
- ~C4Chaos
I think people will become even more selective with what feeds they add to their reader and will look for personal recommendations for those 'hidden gem' blogs that they don't know about yet, but would love.
- Caleb Elston
I think that RSS Readers need a few new features to make them feel less like email clients. First I'd like the ability to set a time to live for the articles in some blogs. It's ok to miss articles from one feed because if it's important it'll show up somewhere else later, a lot of people say that's they switched from RSS readers to twitter.
- Shawn McCollum
Next is to add a feature to manage the "me too" posts. I've been reading my feeds via a tag cloud where the important to me articles bubble up, sometimes by shear number of posts (iphone related). From my cloud I click on say iphone and I can view all the posts about the iphone, see if it's interesting read or mark read. It's really cut down the time I spend reading just to catch up on what's going on.
- Shawn McCollum
when feedreaders are better at whitelisting items for my attention i'll probably get hooked again but i stopped regularly using a feedreader nearly four years ago and have done just fine letting my friends filter the web for me (that's what social media means to me).
- Christian Crumlish
FriendFeed Spy beta - Spying on FriendFeed public timeline and some more... - http://friendfeedspy.com/
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very cool and addicting
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
how is this different then the everyone button?
- Noah David Simon
Yikes, that does look addicting.
- Gary Schmidt
I like how you can select to watch one network specificly!
- Richard Kannegieser
from twhirl
information overload.
- Baard @ Pixum
Once "someone" returns my monitor cables, I'll be able to set-up FFSpy on the second monitor and just stare at it all day...
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
from twhirl
Spying, Stalking, Trolling! Who is your target and why?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
♥ it! :)
- Bwana ☠
Very Cool
- Hisham Sadek هشام
@Richard: I agree, the ability to watch a specific network is the kicker for FFS
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It's cool, till you realize it's a noise stream
- Jeremiah Owyang
@Jeremiah yea that's what I am thinking
- andy brudtkuhl
I love JQuery!
- Jorge Escobar
Been staring for ten minutes. Mesmerised. And yet, haven't actually seen one item to which I want to click through!
- Bob Kingsley
Sure it's noise if you leave it default. Sigh. I got the Google Reader shares going and I've found quite a few interesting stories. And *gasp*, it's not all tech!
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana - point taken. But hey - I've only just discovered it and I can be a bit slow on the uptake sometimes :) will play with it over the weekend.
- Bob Kingsley
"Enough with the pictures! Can we please play now??" - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Don’t Feed the Pigeons - http://www.digyourowngrave.com/dont-fe...
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haha
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
LOL
- Pete Delucchi
Ahahahahaha!!
- Andy DeSoto
OK, this is my favorite post of the day.
- Kevin Bondelli
ahahaha.... messing with the olds is fun....
- Jason Carreira
Hilarious!
- Penny
lol
- ChaCha Fance
from twhirl
LMAO!!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
250 proof hilarity
- Bwana ☠
Stuff like this and Trigger Happy TV make me wish I owned giant animal costumes just to mess with people.
- Kevin Bondelli
Hee.
- Ayşe E.
pigeons = flying rats
- Mona Nomura
I had a pigeon wave a knife at me once. Those mofos mean business!
- Jim Stanger
I agree with Mona, I don't like pigeons, they're disgusting.
- Oli Kenobi
Mona: thank you! I was just watching Samantha Brown on travel channel, eating pigeon dumplings in Xi'an, and I said the exact same thing..
- Bren -- Designated Driver
Epic
- Johnny Worthington
That's not just any pigeon!
- Charlie Anzman
now that was funny!
- Tim Hoeck
Every time this gets bumped up I start laughing again.
- Kevin Bondelli
Tim liked it. I'm gettin' outa here while everybody's on an up!
- Charlie Anzman
you see, now i have a disturbingly twisted version of Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag playing in my head. it's not *right*.
- idnan
hahahahahahaha GENIUS :)
- Iain Baker
olololololol
- Jay
A Top Secret missing scene? http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Federico Bolsoman
ha, I saw that on Reddit earlier. Brilliant. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
LOL
- Mitchell Tsai
Classic forum avatar. I think someone overfed the pigeons
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
lol
- Arjun
Steroids!
- Bill Sodeman
haha
- accesine
haha, it's <b>funny</b>....
- kakilang
That's one awesome pidgeon. I love the frustrated toss of bread at the end.
- Derick Valadao
There's always one!
- Alex Hammer
thats awesome!
- (jeff)isageek
LOL! Literally, LOL!
- ha3rvey (business time)
I know a guy called 'Pidgeon Lowry'. I wonder was that him?
- john conroy
epic tail
- John LeMasney
haha, great!
- Nick
This is funny! that dude was pist! threw his last piece of bread at the "aggressive pigeon"!! ha, ha!!
- Susan Beebe
lol now that was funny!
- Daynah
you never know when life will throw a giant pigeon at you.
- John LeMasney
totally something to share
- Got80s
good thing that big pigeon can't fly and poop on ya!! yuck!
- Susan Beebe
Everytime I see this it cracks me up! Where do I get that pigeon costume?
- Rowell
Wow, this is already #4 for the best of the month. Why that's important I have no idea. It probably isn't.
- Phil G
OMG this showed up again... I love it!! tooo funny! :-)~
- Susan Beebe
Still laughing at it. Wife thinks it's funny, too. :)
- ha3rvey (business time)
it's #1 on my feed for the month. :D
- AJ Batac
chao dou
- terababy
Can someone make a video like this about Trolls? Do not feed the Trolls! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
What I want to see is a giant cigarette come and attack the next Asshole I see flick a lit cigarette butt out the window on the freeway!
- Jeff P. Henderson
That is 100% awesome. No. 137%.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
[FriendFeed]: Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying fcuk about Facebook? http://friendfeed.com/e...
Kishore Balakrishnan, Tsega Dinka, Svartling and 20 other people liked this
Dave, me neither. I had an account for less than a month and then cancelled it because I didn't find it that interesting compared to the hype I've heard from my friends.
- imabonehead
I can see maybe connecting with old school chums. But I don't really see its use in business, and I have an 18-year-old daughter who's made it clear it's HER TURF. Seems to me we've got plenty of other places to play -- here, and associated spaces, plus blogs, plus LinkedIn, which is big-ish in St. Louis. And in my field, I really like AdGabber.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
I'm with you, most people I know are on it and active members, been trying to avoid it. Not 100% sure why, just never got into it.
- maxim shevertalov
from twhirl
i don't like any other sites,i got an account 2 an it's boring,lmao
- amy
I'm an FB user, but only minimally. I mostly use it to keep in touch with friends long since lost. But actually logging in... not much, I get my updates and such via an imaginary friend setup here at FF and also I get updates in SocialThing, consequently I almost never log straight in to it unless I need to reply to someone, so as long as they don't lock anything off from access, I could care less about it.
- nick carrasco
The rest of the planet doesn't seem to care much about facebook either. So you're definitely not alone.
- Luis Figueiredo
I am still a member over at Facebook - but purely to remain connected with old school friends.
- Jonathan Beckett
I stay for the Scrabble, pure and simple.
- Kevin C. Tofel
I like to have my FB pge automatically updated by other apps like Twitter, Last.fm etc. so I don't actually have to go to FB and do anything. That way it looks like I'm somewhat active to people who are interested and I don't have to bother.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
I do like the FB private video mail, especially to connect to friends who are on FB & noplace else.
- Brian Rendel
i don't use it much but we're out of the demo - watch a gen y interacting w/ their tribe sometime on fb - they're it
- mike "glemak" dunn
I agree. I tried to use for marketing purposes, it failed miserably. Then I tried to use it for fun and it was worthless.
- J Allen
I think Facebook is a good tool. Maybe if you are Dave Winer you don't need it.
- Vic Podcaster
May be user error, but FaceBook didn't seem as useful as hoped. I thought it'd bring cool convos together. I still have to hunt.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I've been a Facebook user till recently when they decided to disable my account. Here is the link to the whole saga http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Vic Podcaster
It was a great way to communicate with close friends and family while 5000 miles away
- Sally Church
No me too. I never liked facebook
- Svartling
Facebook started off with excitement, and ended up with apathy. FF started with curiosity, and has ended up with real social interaction. I know where i'm spending my time...
- Iain Baker
You're clearly not alone. I have yet to sign up.
- Tsega Dinka
Oh is that what that FB stands for on my FF nav bar. Now that scrabulous is gone, not sure what the appeal is, unless you're trying to reach the younger crowd. YUK. I do like Knighthood though, let's you paWn your coFBers.
- John McElhenney 2.0
Why I Ditched My Friends On Digg - http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah...
Jonathon, nick carrasco and Mike Fruchter liked this
In my case, I just find the Notes feature of Google Reader just so much easier and with FF integration, it is just as shared
- nick carrasco
Menomenah song! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nick Mutton, Derick Valadao, Dread Pirate PJ and 47 other people liked this
I played this video for my one-year-old niece the other day and she could not stop laughing. That was the plan.
- Steve Rubel
No! Not the puppets again! please! :) (I swear I'm kidding)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
OH G-D not again - now im going to be freaking singing this all night and i need to go to sleep now!!! DAMN YOU WINER! and here i just interviewed your company yesterday! yet i cant stop watching
- Allen Stern
This is a song we sing with the kids all the time. I do the mamomena part and the kids to the "do do do do" part Oops. they say the thumbnail on the screen and want to see it right now :)
- Christian Burns
This is a song often sung in our house - kids love it!
- Bora Zivkovic
There's a town in New Jersey that always makes me sing this: Manalapan do doo do doo do Manalapan Doo do do doo....
- George Smith
CAKE did a cover of this song on their "B-Sides and Rarities" album, give it a listen here: http://www.last.fm/music...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
:D
- edythe
Haggis I am now dizzy from watching that cover video :)
- Allen Stern
Dave is evil... this will be stuck in my head for days now... Thanks Dave!!
- Les Zaldor
I had this stuck in my head all day today as well... No good!
- Justin Korn
ok - now im about to lose it - ive been whistling this song for 50 minutes - how will i get to bed now - dave you are getting a noogie when we meet!
- Allen Stern
OK, let's see: Menomenah!
- Björn Brembs
ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVE IT!
- Jes Tu
One of my son's favorites these days. In addition, have a look at the Muppets' Hugga Wugga: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ansgar Wollnik
ok - so the train took forever to come, it's humid and the only thing that kept me smiling was singing this song - people probably thought i was a bit nutty from all the smiling :)
- Allen Stern
Love it
- Natallini
I remember there was an even better one at the time where he goes totally insane at the end - does someone have a link to this one?
- Denise Young
Being a Steeler fan, I'm more partial to this slightly different take: http://www.youtube.com/watch... ;)
- Steve just Steve
Is Hulu integration on the horizon? I added the RSS they provide as a feed and that works, but it would be nice if I got a video preview like when I favorite a YouTube video. Keep up the great work!
nick carrasco, Ross Miller, Sean McBride and RAPatton liked this
Last.fm_–_The_Social_Music_Revolution after their Relaunch - http://up.mento.info/skitch...
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Ion Enache, nick carrasco, rutawa and 3 other people liked this
A new JibJab! - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Tim Connors, nick carrasco, Igor The Troll יִצְחָק and 9 other people liked this
Very funny!
- Mike Wills
The best line is from Obama: "Like the change we must change and the change we hold dear. I really like change, have I made myself clear?"
- Johan
Funny! I love JibJab! I want to see Social Media JibJab! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
My son is teaching World of Warcraft to Maryam. She finally turns to him and says "this is way too complicated." She says she's going back to PacMan and Zuma. Heh.
brainno722 (Peter), Igor Poltavskiy, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 45 other people liked this
Or Second Life, or Lively perhaps? O:-)
- Marcos Marado
Viva PacMan! :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
My wife is very similar, loved Snood and Zuma, got very bored with wow. Heroes of Might and Magic is fun for two player.
- sergiooo
How old is Maryam? My kids (7 & 9) are big fans of Club Penguin.
- Mark Krynsky
my wife is a casual game fan - mmo's overwhelm and stress her out
- mike "glemak" dunn
I got Zuma a couple years ago on your recommendation. My wife is now attending ZA (Zuma Anonymous) meetings. Thanks Robert! Heh.
- Eric Thompson
I'm with Maryam, except with me with was my 13 year old and Halo. I'm sticking with Guitar Hero and Mario Cart, thank you very much.
- Wendy
No one has any love for Pong?
- Ontario Emperor
I'm with Maryam. I prefer Mario 1, 2 and 3 to Mario Galaxy.
- Louis Gray
ميلاد داره به مريم واركرافت ياد ميده :)
- mhmazidi
She sure knows what she's talking about! Pacman is way much better :-)
- Orli Yakuel
Still play Warcraft 3 years on now and again - Level 70 Mage...
- David W
Amen! If I need to read a manual to play thegame, I won't play the game.
- Bill Sodeman
from fftogo
I have never played WoW. Am I missing out?
- jason burton
jason was never heard from again.
- Hao Chen
reminiscent to the time I tried to introduce my wife to a great game that is Football Manager
- Fajar Jasmin
Did you know that Pac-Man was originally called "Puck Man" in Japan? It was renamed for US markets to avoid obvious abuse of the first letter...
- Jemm
I sympathize with your wife. I'm horrible at most video and computer games. which is why I like the Wii. My 3 year old can play it. And so can I.
- adam christensen
Hell, I think WoW is too complicated. And I do tech support. I felt the same way about Dungeons and Dragons.
- Helen Sventitsky
Have Maryam try Guild Wars - much more amenable to non-first-person RPG players. Much. Plus not a matter of hours put in. :)
- Lucretia Pruitt
اینجا هم یک مریم داریم وارکرافت بازی میکنه همیشه , مثلیکه همه مریم ها وارکرافت دوست دارند + تایید حرف دکتر مزیدی :دی
- Mil∂d
منم پک من بازی می کنم اتفاقن ! چشه مگه ؟
- Mah/Mah
خداییش وارکرافت که خداس! :D
- Maryam Ardakani
i Love WoW III
- morteza delgir
الان خانم اسکوبل دست به کار میشن واسه ترجمه متون دوستان:))
- Zahra HB
@Lucretia: I definitively can't understand how can anyone like Guild Wars... I still have the idea that the only advantage (that appeals to many players - I know some) of Guild Wars is that you don't have to pay monthly...
- Marcos Marado
من اصن از بازیهای جنگ و خونریزی بدم میاد. نمی تونم درک کنم چه لذتی می تونه داشته باشه آخه ؟ اسمایلی بازیه پک من برای کبوتران دل نازک
- Mah/Mah
Yes! I just don't get WOW - I'd much rather play Sims2 or Mass Effect - I like relaxing, not stressful "shoot that guy!" or "hack, hack, level up" <grin>
- Cheryl Allin
from NoiseRiver
Good for you Maryam! Just say no to WoW!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
i dont like it WOW is so complicated and needs your a life time to finish it...
- Milad.p
من هم یک گیک وارکرافت هستم / از 10 سالگی / :دی
- myvahid
WOW is one of my 11 yr old daughter's favs
- Renee Hendricks
My younger brother and I use WoW to keep in touch. We've tried multiple times to teach our Mom how to play it. She finally threw up her hands and gave up. However, I do have her playing the Wii a bit.
- Candace
Robert, please don't let your son play MMOs. I wish my dad had never let me start.
- Andy DeSoto
I suspect Maryam will not like Club Penguin :-)
- Francine Hardaway
Coolest thing about this conversation is the Farsi
- Francine Hardaway
Re: Would You Prefer Your Articles To Be Dugg or Shared? - http://shegeeks.net/would-y...
mhmazidi and nick carrasco liked this
"Is gaining more readers one of the reasons why you write?"
- Corvida
NEW FriendFeed Comment Widget (Blogger, Tumblr and FeedBurner) - http://www.pathawks.com/2008...
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, James G. Kim, albybisy and 35 other people liked this
Added Feedburner integration. Let's see how it works.
- Steve Rubel
Let us know Steve :)
- Craig Thomler
It works. It points people to FF to discuss the post.
- Steve Rubel
feedburner?
- Orli Yakuel
@Orli yes, see how its integrated in my blog.
- Steve Rubel
just added the feedburner feedflare. let s see how it goes for redistributing blog feedback to my blog
- Ouriel Ohayon
cool, I'll add it too (viva la blogger!) thanks man!
- Orli Yakuel
I wish it had a shorter name...
- Orli Yakuel
Awesome :-)
- Orli Yakuel
great - code has a typo!
- Orli Yakuel
The friendfeed code has been fixed, you'll need to grab it and embed it on your blog again.
- Orli Yakuel
The problem with the Feedflare is that it searches. Looks like that when a post appears on FF it's not indexed yet. Or is it just me? i.e. it works on older posts but not on those I have just published (and have already appeared on FF)
- Zio Bonino
I wasted my day with this code. the feedflare worked great... but I want it the way Pat Hawks blog does it. Waaaaah!
- Noah David Simon
installed the feedflare but does not seem to push down the friendfeed feedbacks to myblog.
- Ouriel Ohayon
Can someone please get this to work with wordpress ( and wordpress.com)???
- Roberto Bonini
There is one for Wordpress.org blogs http://advocable.com/2008...
- Palin Ningthoujam
I poked around a little and created a FriendFeed add in to Drupal check out http://www.orient-lodge.com/node... for details
- Aldon Hynes
I couldn't get that shit working except in feedflare, but I am more curious if anyone else figured out how to get Seesmic working in Blogger. that dudes blog has some cool gadgets.
- Noah David Simon
thx Aldon i love coComment but it ain't workin w/ FireFox 3
- Billy Warhol
I still can't get this working. Am I a dumb ass? using blogger and I don't want to evolve
- Noah David Simon
TinyURL Adds Custom Alias Feature To Shortened URL Service - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
fbrunel, Caleb Elston, Svartling and 29 other people liked this
Grab your name while you can.
- Steve Rubel
Or if you've a short name, enjoy the lottery of finding out where it leads :) Fortunately, mine was SFW
- Edd Dumbill
from twhirl
Hmm.. Sounds like it's going to attract all the problems that domain names have. Except you can't edit the redirect.. Hope it doesn't bring about loads of unused/unusable redirects.
- Chris Chua
This will be fun until the good short URL's run out -- like now.
- Wayne Schulz
very nice addition to the service!
- michael sean wright
I linked http://tinyurl.com/steverubel to my Friendfeed. They better stay around now!
- Steve Rubel
If you're looking for persistent redirects, you should go to purl.org -- much better for long-term assurance and maintenance
- Edd Dumbill
from twhirl
i got a dollar bet that jeremiah makes this into a social media post :)
- Allen Stern
I got a dollar bet that your response makes Techmeme and mine doesn't. :-)
- Louis Gray
It's all Matthew - he's the social media king! I am so glad I won the bidding war over that other tech blog for his services and locked him into a 30 yr contract.
- Allen Stern
I tried to be cute and twitter a link to your post via: tinyurl/a-louis-gray-post but twitter truncated the url so my tweet one-liner got stepped on.
- Rex Hammock
snipurl had it for ages, and is shorter with snurl.com, so what's the big deal?
- Niv
Is there anyway we can tell if a link has been posted, so we can "like" it and comment instead of adding duplicate posts?
Dinh Luong, Hassan Ibraheem, Gaby K. Slezák and 7 other people liked this
if would be great if there was some kind feature that combined already shared links together, kind of like Digg... something that simply added a 'like' to an already posted like if no comments were included. it would even be nicer if it could combine notes and comments form other sources as well
- nick carrasco
A merge button would be an alternative!
- Joe Dawson
I just search the title of the post
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
In the meantime, use this to check: http://friendfeedlinks.com
- xero
thanks xero, seems like there's a lot of hidden pages in friendfeed
- Tony C.
FriendFeed moves so fast... FriendFeedLinks is cool. You can also search the article title with "who:everyone".
- Mitchell Tsai
an automatic merger of duplicate links would be cool and the FF machines should do the work, not us (not manually). maybe the FF team could use friendfeedlinks.com ;-)
- Gaby K. Slezák
if they were to merge, what happens with different convos going on, I'd say have a number next to it linking to 1 page with all indivdual share's and seperate comments , this way you can see what everyone said and join in many different convos about this link.... example www.link.com: you posted a message (31) ...then clicking on the 31 would take u to the page of 31 entries of this page shared.
- Tony C.
Automatic merging sounds interesting, but what would it look like? If you stumble a link, then 5 min later I digg it, do I just show up as a footnote in your submission? Or does it look different depending on who is viewing it and who their friends are? And as stated above comments merging would be a whole other layer of complexity depending on the answer.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
How many cannibals could your body feed? - http://www.oneplusyou.com/q...
Rishabh Mishra (p248), nick carrasco, John Cooper and 10 other people liked this
About a half, if that.
- Daniel Bruce
13. yeesh.
- lisa-k
My result was 16! Can't see it myself.
- John Samuelson
12, apparently.
- Jordan Hofker
21. Wow. That's a lot of cannibals.
- Johnny Baker
It seem 12 cannibals (or zombies) could make a meal of me
- Chris Moritz
16. Eat me
- Andrew Smith
16. Nom nom nom.
- Jeremy Brooks
18! Wow, I am a FEAST!
- Phil G
I've got a plan should cannibals attempt to get me, they're like ninjas... they can't catch you when you're on fire.
- Will
13, yummm
- Amit Morson
10 it seems, and there was me thinking I was fat.
- Gerard van Schip
Yes, indeed, Scott. That site has my vote for weirdest web calculator. By the way, I'm good for 8 cannibals.
- Rex Hammock
It told me 15. That's not good, is it?
- ha3rvey (business time)
The worst I could do is 24. (5 ft, 250+ lb, obese, teenager, vegetarian)
- ha3rvey (business time)
14.... so a little less then average I guess.
- Stefan Hayden
Unlucky 13
- ronin
Andrew Smith beat me to the punch, I was going to say bite me! :) BTW, I came in at 13
- Jeremy Kunz
from twhirl
I win, 23!!!.. oh wait, that's not a good thing...
- Jonathan Johnson
21 cannibals for me. Damn, guess I need to use that Wii Fit a little more...
- Brandon Wood
woo 20 cannibals, although, I think zombies would be less because they only eat brains
- Robert Hafer
from twhirl
half
- Tyler Gillies
I don't know if this is good or bad, but I only feed 8, I second Rex's nomination for weirdest web calculator
- nick carrasco
18 cannibals, but they have to catch me first!
- Nicholas Sanders
Blogging vs. FriendFeed - http://blog.steveisaacs.com/post...
Kevin Cearns, Tom Beardshaw, Corie and nick carrasco liked this
I only really like Twitter now for making mobile postings.
nick carrasco, Thomas Hawk and Corie liked this
agree with Amber. @steveisaacs asks too much of Twitter. Plus, Bezos support bodes well for the long haul.
- Kirk Skodis
from twhirl
Twitter has been an API since day one... it was BORN to be one... But it will never reach critical mass if it doesn't become consistent. I think its got about 2 months to completely revitalize its system before everyone throws it to the side. If even one stable site built an API similar, Twitter would go Friendster in a heartbeat.
- Sebastian Lemery
I expect Twitter to be 1) reliable = epic fail. 2) Something more than a simple one way alerting medium = fail 3) to grow and mature like all great web services = also a fail. Twitter came out with an interesting new service and were lucky that great users gave it value. I'm kind of amazed at how little it has changed and adapted over the last couple years, kind of unimpressive really. And now, it's always down! I'm happy about that though, because my Twitter frustration brought me to FriendFeed. ;)
- Steve Isaacs
"Twitter was not architected as a messaging system, however. For expediency's sake, Twitter was built with technologies and practices that are more appropriate to a content management system." - dev.twitter.com 5/22 (why can't I link that here?). I think its natural for folks who just started using Twitter a few months ago to bolt now. But I see pioneers who built on shaky ground and are now rushing to build a foundation while the villagers are storming the gates. Hopefully the community foundation is solid
- Kirk Skodis
Not built as a messenging system? That's the strangest thing I've heard in a while. Honestly, Twitter can say what they want, write whatever excuse they want, but when it comes down to it, they were the architects for an idea they sucked at implimenting. Stand aside and let someone who knows what they're doing handle it from here.
- Sebastian Lemery
I really appreciate how flickr started as a completely different idea, apparently as some IMing type solution, but consistently evolved to the needs of its users then became a standard. Twitter to me is exactly like friendster - and to Sebastian's point - created something they couldn't maintain. I assert that they also have spent no time or imagination at re-creating or evolving the service. If the users want discussions, then help them, don't just sit back and say "it's an API - don't expect too much!".
- Steve Isaacs
3700 followers on Friendfeed. Thank you all! Too kind.
Joe Dawson, Kevin C. Tofel, Tyler Gillies and 8 other people liked this
18 and counting for me. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
- Jamie
you're welcome ! / De rien ! / De nada !
- Jean-Charles
Steve, do you ever actually communicate back to your followers?
- Mark Dykeman
@Mark All the time. Note the comments on my posts.
- Steve Rubel
yeah steve is pretty good at that - he talks back. At time 'I wonder wth is he talking too - has he flipped his noodle :)-
- Peter Dawson
breaking news - Jamie has 19 and counting.
- Russellreno
Russell I think its a tipping point for me. I can see A-list status on the horizon
- Jamie
Fantastic. I am a Z lister myself.
- Russellreno
@Steve - I stand corrected, I do see your replies now. Apologies.
- Mark Dykeman
I love potato stew.
- Russellreno
from NoiseRiver
Hey! Spread some love over here!
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
The Problem With Leaving Twitter - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Dobromir Hadzhiev, Sarah Perez, nick carrasco and 7 other people liked this
You're totally right. I started using Plurk but starting from scratch was like wasting time to me. And if your community can't follow you to this new service, it's pointless.
- fbrunel
I think I figured out why I don't like FriendFeed as much as Twitter: there's no whale images. :/
nick carrasco, edythe, Kreg Steppe and 4 other people liked this
We can fix that.
- Kreg Steppe
Oh no? We can share some from Twitter. :)
- Morton Fox
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