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Poor Piglet
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HAHAHAHA
- niniane
eff'n AWESOME! resharing :P
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Awww :[ Poor Piglet!
- Alex
I didn't like him anyway. :D
- Faraz Mullick
LOL. Resharing!
- Mona Nomura
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Thorough and well-written Motorola DROID review « Boy Genius Report - http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009...
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"We absolutely love the Motorola DROID. It’s a perfect storm between awesome hardware, great software, and a great network"
- Louis Gray
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My wife has already kinda resigned herself to the likelyhood that there will be a DROID being purchased in the near future.
- Wirehead
Go Google go.
- Mahmood Padura
Louis, Did you get your wife that new phone yet? This might be the one!!
- Chris Myles
Chris, she just got a new MacBook and new printer. She's spoiled enough for now.
- Louis Gray
I'm going to wait & see. I'd like to see one with multitouch, Snapdragon processor, and a better keyboard, preferably made by HTC
- Rodfather
I was really looking to this handset... until I read the reviews; nothing positive has been about the camera, and for me, that's a deal breaker. The good news is, the problems *seem* to be software related rather than hardware, so maybe a fix will appear soon.
- Andrew Terry
Sooner or later someone will release a smartphone that makes me want to buy it. I keep waiting.
- Eoghann Irving
The same here Rodfather, I'm addicted to multitouch, no reason to go.
- jcunwired
no multitouch... really. i'll try it out, but that could break the deal for me. still, my Pre may be getting nervous...
- .LAG liked that
Louis, a wife spoiled with a Droid means husbands gets to help/play/review .. at least that's the logic I'm trying to use to justify OUR purchase. Although your wife does sound sufficiently spoiled.. for now !!
- Chris Myles
There is a demo video floating around that shows a version of droid with multitouch. If they release that, and it's GSM, i'm probably buying.
- dthree
The Droid in Europe has multitouch.
- Rodfather
I /will/ be buying one on Friday. I /will/ pay the exorbitant disconnect fees from AT&T to get off of their network. I <3 Verizon Wireless and Google for giving me something to move to.
- Jason Huebel
Clearly the solution to my current problem is to install fireman's poles into my kitchen. And, um, move it to a cave beneath my house.
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Yes, Facebook, thank you so much for your *amazing* suggested friend feature. A grandmother type with a crazy sweatshirt and another with her pants pulled down around her ankles. I'm so impressed with your uncanny ability to find just my type of new friend.
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I thought these were suggestions made by other people not the automatic "you know their friends so you must know them" method?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Yes, the "suggested by" gives it away. It's not the "you might also know…" automated recommendation. It says more about your friends than it does about Facebook.
- Mistletoe Glen
That was my understanding too. These are friends your friends suggest. Interesting circles you run in; I can't imagine a real person putting that rear shot as a profile pic on fb.
- Kenley Neufeld
from iPhone
sometimes I acidently end up accepting these as they feel just like actual friend requests. That bottom new friend might take some explaining to my wife. Facebook ought to consider letting users turn this feature off if they'd like. I know I'd turn it off.
- Thomas Hawk
That's hilarious. I always get recommended people I already know that are new to FB
- Francine Hardaway
The really question is did you friend either?
- RAPatton
haha, no, neither. I was tempted to friend the grandmotherly type since we've got 12 mutual friends but I have no idea in blazes who she is.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm more impressed with the 305 messages in your inbox.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'm so terrible with my email/flickrmail/facebook mail. I try and try and just can't keep up with it all.
- Thomas Hawk
Im less likely to subscribe to either .. unless I know them ,,,
- johnpiercy
I have 587 unread messages in my Facebook inbox. I actually read all them through e-mail, and there's no good way to mark all as read. Facebook sucks for e-mail-like communication (as does Twitter).
- Jesse Stay
At least facebook should not show the same suggested friends again and again once we hit X on it but it does show them repeatedly. Very annoying :(
- Muhammad Ahmed
Facebook is so lame - just sayin.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
inbox 305 whatt :D this lol
- mariamaqdalena
i currently have 4647 unread messages on facebook :/ lol
- Geoff Jackson
What a contrast.
- Carolyn Chan
4647 is alot Geoff. I hate all forms of email myself actually. It feel burdensome feeling that you have to respond to someone or risk offending them. I much prefer interacting with people directly in forums like FriendFeed or DMU on Flickr in public than one on one. Email should be reserved for things that really do need to be kept private.
- Thomas Hawk
LOL...What would you do w/o FB?
- Tammy Marshall
Tamara: Use My Space? lol
- Geoff Jackson
Thomas: Yeah my Facebook is pretty hectic and I although I do read my messages on there, I can not keep up with them at the rate they come in. I rarely use email at all these days though unless it is to send files to someone. I just hope one day i will not have to find an old message on Facebook, haha
- Geoff Jackson
I am so with you. It's annoying. I spend the most time on Facebook x-ing out people I've never heard of that might be my friends. It gets better. Yesterday I got a notification - where my high priority Scrabble and Lexulous pings turn up - of some guy, never heard of him either, that had just joined FB and did I want to suggest friends. WTF?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
it seems to periodically (weekly?) refresh the suggested friends....
- Jason A. Samfield
@ailbhe Yes. See, I find this all quite grey. Rape = bad. Ignoring victim = bad. Law needs to be followed no matter how rich/famous you are
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(i am a mac monk;) )Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The ...
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HOWTO: Add Facebook Share button on your blog with number of shares http://itecharena.blogspot.com/2009...
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» @cubanlinks: @marshallk: "the ecosystem trends towards higher quality content" - uh, been on Twitter lately? « been on TV lately?
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Google Wave Team Gives Up on Internet Explorer - http://smarterware.org/3380...
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"Only steal from the best." http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/stories...
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OK Apple how about letting us add/ create "themes" for our iPhones/ iPods. Why do the "jail breakers" get to have all the fun?
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I feel you!
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future super rock star
- iwfx!
never too soon to ROCK !!! \m/
- Stephanie Segel
So sweet...:O)
- Jeannette Høvring
adorable
- R. Ferguson
cok isyankar.
- Rabia Sozkesen
awesome.
- Zee.
listening to some Led Zeppelin?
- Neil Bernhart
haha..cute!
- zʍıɔ
"I wanna rock!"
- iwfx!
hahahahahahaha, Baby RockHead LOL
- FFTornado
awesome!
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awesome indeed!
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Why didnt plaxo think of this
- TrafficBug
You are kidding - they don't support OpenID or Facebook connect? Screw them!
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Tried it, got error messages, then it sent the messages. Underbaked?
- John Graham
Same thing happened to me, John
- Bryan R. Adams
My (at the time 14-year-old) son argued porn and censorship with a FCC Commissioner and people are up in arms that the President is talking with their kids? This country is just so idiotic sometimes. I guess they forgot what the last President was doing on 9/11. That is right, talking with school kids. Sigh.
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Amen, Mr. Scoble, Amen.
- Michael
It amazes at all of the lows people do to bring the President down. It's rather pathetic.
- Minu Nianda
Heaven forbid anyone just step back and thinks people could be up to a couple good things, good grief.
- Chris
Sadly, I think that (general) America has forgotten that every society before us has crumbled, be it from war, poverty, starvation, political dispute every society has fallen. It's just a ticker now as to when we follow suit.
- Adam
Please. I have no problem with our President talking to our kids. As long as I'm in the room as well in order to call his BS. No matter who the President is at the time.
- Chris Kalaboukis
completely different - bush was reading to students - not pitching his agenda. read the paper the dept of education sent to the schools. and you liberals forget the last time a president spoke to school kids was in 91 when Bush Sr talked about staying off of drugs - and you liberals screamed and yelled that it was inappropriate. now its ok. i love the liberal hypocrisy.
- Tony Kanzia
Chris: you sir are an idiot. You can do that at home.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Typical liberal - if you don't agree with them, then you're an idiot. What a shocking response.
- Tony Kanzia
I took my son to see a Whitehouse and President I despised.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Chris, you think teachers are any less fallible? Do you accompany your children to school and sit with them throughout the day to call BS on things a teacher might say as well?
- Andru Edwards
This is all so ridiculous. If you don't agree with what he's saying, teach them to be proud of that opportunity, teach them to listen to their President, and then talk to them about the things you don't agree with when they get home. Don't conservatives believe in family values any more?
- Jesse Stay
Tony: I live this stuff. Have you taken your son to see a President you didn't like? I have.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Chris & Tony, thanks for being on hand to demonstrate the exact kind of intolerance that Robert is talking about.
- Jeff Harbert
what i think got everyone up in arms was the curriuculm that went along w/ the president's speech. while this has since been taken down, people feel they are being told from the government what to teach their kids
- Jonathan Jesse
E Pluribus Unum - "Out of one, many". Once the President is chosen, we all have to unite. We don't have to agree, but he is still the representative of this nation and we should respect, and be proud of that.
- Jesse Stay
Tony how is Obama pitching his agenda to kids when he's simply telling them to stay in school? Give me a break.
- Minu Nianda
or that bush sr. talked with school children as did reagan. i suppose it's only ok if repubs do it (shocker).
- Kayce Maisel
I find it even more fantastic that parents don't think their kids can think for themselves.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Teaching our kids not to respect the President takes away that unity. If we don't agree, we should instead be sharing what we don't agree with, not removing the opportunity altogether. This is ridiculous! (note that I was saying the same thing to things the liberals were doing to Bush as well)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse Stay- You hit the "nail on the head" so beautifully!
- earl wallace
Complete idiots are people who think that their kids hearing a few words from ANYBODY are going to hold sway over the impact of their parents, their environment and ability to think freely.
- suecosby
@tony i agree with you on most of the comment. the problem with the speech i had was the accompaning lessons, since removed from the d ept of educations website
- Jonathan Jesse
You know, I just read the speech, and I don't see ANY political agenda in it, much less a liberal one. "And that's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself." Sounds pretty conservative to me. Read it here: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009...
- John Craft
For those on this thread who are freakin' paranoid about Obama pushing a political agenda on little children, here are his prepared remarks. http://www.whitehouse.gov/MediaRe... You can now STFU about it. You're welcome. :)
- Helen Sventitsky
Jesse Stay - Amen!
- Minu Nianda
Jonathan: the "offending" lesson was what could you do to help the President.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@jesse i don't think anyone has said anything about teaching their children to disrespect the president, just that they don't agree w/ what he says
- Jonathan Jesse
Let's all join hands and recite the pledge of allegiance. Come on. I know you want to.
- Sean Montgomery
from iPhone
Jonathan: I disagreed greatly with what Bush did but I still took my son to see him and meet with his Deputy Press Secretary.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Jonathan I see people flat out telling their kids they can't listen to the President. That sounds like disrespect to me.
- Jesse Stay
Maybe school SHOULD be about learning where other people are coming from.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
It is up to parents after school to teach them their own values.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
In Arizona, kids have to get permission slips to listen to the President. That's disrespectful to me.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: it is worse than disrespectful. Where were theywhen Bush spoke to kids?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Jesse: yeah. Gotta have a permission slip to learn.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Let's see, how does it go? I pledge allegience to Robert Scoble...wait that's not it.
- Sean Montgomery
Robert, you're absolutely right... but I can't help but wonder where the promises were from this administration on working across the aisle and having full transparency. I think this administration has provided the fanatical opposition with all the ammunition it needed to take situations like this and blow them up. Once again, I agree that all children should be able to hear the President speak without opposition. I just think this administration is blowing the PR front.
- Douglas Karr
Robert I am giving you a fist bump for this man. Well said!!!!!!!!
- Joe
@robert i think the heart of the problem is what you stated "Parents should teach values" and i don't think that is happening whether political, religious or moral and too many people are relying on the school system to do so.
- Jonathan Jesse
Helen Sventitsky- I just read Obama's speech and I don't think I could have put it any better' I do not detect any undercurrents or subliminal manipulation. I heard the same advice when I graduated from high school.
- earl wallace
"too many people are relying on the school system to do so." - and this is President Obama's fault how? Are you saying that, since the parents aren't doing their job of teaching values, no one should be allowed to talk to their kid about values?
- John Craft
Robert - I'm a conservative but agree with your original point. POTUS should be able to speak to students. You have to acknowledge that if W. had tried to do the same thing (national satellite address) to students, liberals would've been just as outraged as many conservatives are now.
- Paul Goldsmith
Paul: You're flat wrong.
- Jeff Harbert
I think @Paul is correct, FWIW.
- Kurt Starnes
Let's face it - there's a significant portion of this country's population that, if Obama gave a speech about puppies being cute, would launch into an apoplectic rage randomly spewing the words 'liberal' and 'socialist.
- John Craft
Paul: you are wrong. Bush spoke to students and I don't remember anyone so angry.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yeah...who is he to define cute.
- Sean Montgomery
John Craft: lol
- Minu Nianda
Really? Bush gave a national address to school kids? I honestly did not know that.
- Paul Goldsmith
@robert, Bush 41 spoke to students in '91 and there was opposition from the Dems.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: I will take your word on that. That is stupid too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
This is an amazing opportunity. Until now it simply wasn't possible for a single President to speak to an *entire* nation of school kids. Until now it was only possible to do it in person on a school-by-school basis. When I was growing up it was an extreme privilege to have the President visit your school. We should be embracing that! I don't care if you agree with Politics or not.
- Jesse Stay
Kurt: so, where will we be in eight years?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Kurt: will we have a better country where kids are encouraged to learn and think critically or are they going to learn that politics is like sports?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Double fist bump Robert.
- Joe
There was opposition from Dems in '91, but there was no ranting and raving that Bush Sr was going to indoctrinate school kids.
- Rene Wirtz
@Robert Watched a great documentary on text books and our kids are NOT encouraged to learn and think critically. They are misguided. That's one of the key downfalls with our education system... which is controlled by people trying to indoctrinate their own beliefs and avoid criticism from any extremes.
- Douglas Karr
It's funny I've been so inured by the idiocy, venom & deception coming from the White House for the past 8 years I have a hard time even grokking there are people who don't view the new guy as a massive breath of transparent, humanistic fresh air. And also that a US president talking to our kids could be a bad thing. Altho the guys in this thread who disagree may not be idiots, generously I would at least characterize them as "Fox-addled".
- Thom Kennon
@Robert - I'm with you on those thoughts re kids learning to think critically. I may not agree with Obama on many things, but I would encourage my Daughter (almost 11 y.o.) to listen to any of his speeches. I do think there is some hypocrisy on this school speech issue, though. FWIW.
- Kurt Starnes
Just for the record, I think it's awesome that the President has the opportunity for a national address to students. Great opportunity for the President and children alike.
- Douglas Karr
1991: "The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students," the New York Times quoted House Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt (D-Mo.). "And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'" Decent article on the history of these school speeches here: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs...
- Kurt Starnes
@Thom transparent? Like the close-door, one-sided bills that have been rammed through? Stop watching Fox OR MSNBC. Start reading http://factcheck.org/
- Douglas Karr
BTW, I wasn't following the Bush 41 school speech in '91, but would think the opposition to Obama is very likely much more heated than it was for Bush 41.
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt: OK. So where will we be in eight years? Will your guy speak to school kids?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Robert - I don't have a guy or a party that represents me (See Jesse's sentiments). :-\ In an ideal world, Presidents would speak to kids apolitically and all parents would support such speeches. And I would ride off into the rainbow on my white unicorn.
- Kurt Starnes
@Kurt @Robert Everyone should have the right to speak and be heard... what are we teaching our children through censorship of our very own President? Regardless of whether or not his speech is political, it should not be fought. He is OUR President and OUR childrens' President. PS: Robert... don't you mean in 3 1/2 years? ;)
- Douglas Karr
I just had to laugh at the person who said Obama was transparent. Wow. Don't read much do you? Obama just made sure 8 months of Presidential White House visits will remain secret. How about those meetings with drug companies, huh?
- Spencer
@Douglas - I generally agree with you. But, just as Obama has the right to give the speech, folks have the right not to listen, even though I think all should listen. Some conservatives seem to have missed the point that neither schools nor the WH require *mandatory* viewing! Folks still have a choice and this, to me, makes all of the protestations seem so silly.
- Kurt Starnes
Scoble++ I wish I could fave this post.
- Tanath
@Kurt we agree... and I also don't fall for the rainbows and unicorns.
- Douglas Karr
In fairness, I think the ONLY real objections were over the slip that the president wanted children to tell him how they were going to help him. Most people don't like the idea of indoctrinating children. They didn't want their child coming home to harass them about why healthcare reform wouldn't pass, etc. This might be a paranoid nutter fear, but for all the political manipulation many parents are used to via their children. My children are constantly bringing home political notes about taxes, funding.
- Jason Nunnelley
This whole debate is sorta silly. If you don't want your children indoctrinated, then listen what the man has to say then give them your opinion -- teach them the value of free speech which is to let all ideas out into the world and let the good ones stand. Taking your kid to the White House to se a President you hate? Makes perfect sense to me.
- Dean Rodgers
Wait a second don't we spend years indoctrinating our kids on everything from how to eat properly to what sports team to follow? I guess it's just other people's indoctrination we don't want them exposed to? ;)
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, duh. :)
- Jason Nunnelley
Eoghann, // I AM NOT COMPARING THE PRESIDENT TO THE KKK // But, how would you feel about your child attending a meeting where they taught that certain races were immoral, corrupt or otherwise less worthy. Sure, you could just explain that the bigot they listened to was wrong. But, children are impressionable. That's exactly why we work to brainwash... ahem, excuse me, train them young about things like pollution, recycling, civic responsibilities, etc. It's why schools have them to recite the pledge.
- Jason Nunnelley
For the record, I'm looking forward to my children listening to the president. It will make for good dinner conversation.
- Jason Nunnelley
My point is that sending someone to school and then complaining because they might be "indoctrinated" is a ludicrous position. Of course they will be indoctrinated. That's why we're sending them there! The objections to Obama's speech that I have seen are entirely party political and not motivated by any real concern for social or moral damage.
- Eoghann Irving
Jason, FWIW I did attend a meeting that told me exactly that when I was about 11 at a local baptist church. There was a book and tape burning afterward. My mother was mortified when she came to pick me and my sister (9) up. Neither my sister nor I was 'impressionable' enough to take what we were told at face value, and we had a very lengthy conversation with my mom about what we thought...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Jason: you hit on something crucial. There's a lot of white folk (especially here in the South) that do not want the president to talk to school kids, because it may just empower black kids.
- Rene Wirtz
Eoghann Irving, well sorry. I reserve the right to choose what indoctrination I subject my children to and I don't much care whether others think I'm backward or ignorant for reserving that right as a parent. I consider one's refusal to exercise that right cowardly. Even allowing my child to attend public school, and attend the Obama presentation is a decision that is mine to make. I won't whine or complain. I'll take physical action to stop people from doing anything to my child I don't like.
- Jason Nunnelley
Tina, I can't defend the position taken by a minority of paranoid parents that their children shouldn't be exposed to the president's presentation. But, I do defend their right to be notified and that decision belongs to the parent. I think withholding your child's attendance is a poor decision. But, I think the suggestion that parents don't have the right to direct their children's education and experiences in childhood is unacceptable in a "free" society. I determine who trains my child, nobody else.
- Jason Nunnelley
Jason Nunelley, I'm curious where you think I said that you didn't have the right to raise your children any way you see fit. Or that it was ignorant or backward to reserve that right. I don't think I made either statement. My point remains that this isn't about any real concern for the welfare of the children. It's a politically motivated stunt.
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, you said "sending someone to school and then complaining because they might be 'indoctrinated' is a ludicrous position." That statement indicated to me that you think taking action to limit said indoctrination is likewise ludicrous. The rest of my statement wasn't aimed at you personally or your comments but more the generic conversation. There are lots of people openly calling concerned parents racist and stupid for even suggesting that the curriculum shouldn't be political.
- Jason Nunnelley
What I'm trying (and perhaps failing) to argue is for people to give the real reason they are pulling their children from school. It's not because they're "being indoctrinated" which is a vague phrase that has negative connotations which makes it hard to argue against. It's because of something specific. And the reason they're not giving a clear reason is that it isn't really about the...
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- Eoghann Irving
Rene Wirtz, this is a major disconnect between reality and perception. People who don't like Obama's tactics aren't all racists. They're not fearful that black children will see his example and obtain an education, get a better job, etc. They're fearful that Obama's policies will usher in big Orwellian government. I'm hopeful that Obama will inspire black students. But, I don't want his legislation to pass. I'm also southern, but that doesn't mean I'm a bigot.
- Jason Nunnelley
jason totally onboard with your statement, though i know it will get me some less than lovely responses. i definitely do not want Obama's policies to to become embedded because I think they are the wrong ones, not because I want to see him personally fail. I think the best chance for the country to succeed is if his policies sputter
- Zachary Adam Cohen
Eoghann Irving, I agree with you. The Republican "protect the children" spin is disgusting. But, I disagree with you on this idea that none of the parents are sincere. A significant number of parents don't like having their children used as pawns. I tire of it in my redneck, backwoods southern town (so you can all assume it's because I'm a racist :). My local school pulls this crap...
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- Jason Nunnelley
Though I consider the reaction these parents have to be bad. I respect a parent's right to opt out of a political stunt. Do I consider the firestorm the Republicans are fanning a political stunt? Of course. But, I don't automatically assume the parents are insincere, or racists. My kids are enjoying logical discussions on why some of the president's desires are noble and some are less so.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Jason: I wasn't calling you a bigot, far from it. But I can see and hear from my relatives there is a deep seeded mistrust. And it is doubly so, because Obama is black and because he is a "socialist", two things that are not very popular amongst the mostly Republican voter base. I do want him to go a progressive course, but to call Obama's political course socialist is laughable at best.
- Rene Wirtz
Rene Wirtz, I knew you weren't calling me a bigot. It's the southern comment I'm chastising. Since we're both in the south, I think we should be careful not to further feed this idea that southern people are bigots. It's just not true, at least no more so that Californians or New Yorkers. If J.C. Watts had run and won the presidency, these same relatives would love him. It's not a fear...
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- Jason Nunnelley
I think we need a "back to school" czar.
- Spencer
I straight up asked my daughter what she wanted to do and her response was "I'd rather do something else". But how about this - I respect the president's right as president to address children in the public school system, why can't MY right to not have my 7 year old daughter listen to it regardless of message be respected?
- Michael Koby
@Michael - Good point.
- Kurt Starnes
@Scott - You think they're nutty, they think you're nutty. Ain't America grand? :-)
- Kurt Starnes
Isn't it interesting how the "left-leaning" commenters cometely ignore the fact that it's the Dept. of Education lesson plan that people were upset about.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Robert: I didn't ignore that and I'm left-leaning.
- Robert Scoble
Scott, in fairness I think you know they changed it due to public feedback.
- Jason Nunnelley
It might be more worthwhile to have Al Franken teach them how to draw a map of the United States.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
does anybody think that, independent of what obama is going to talk about, it's not the president's job to address the nation's kids and this is not appropriate for thim to do in a free country? http://masstrovato.tumblr.com/post...
- masstrovato
How do you get from people being upset with a lesson that insructs children to write an essay on how they can help spread the President's message to them being racist?
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Scott, (answering q1) Bill Ayers, though people may argue Obama didn't actually associate with him. Jeremiah Wright, though people will argue Obama attended church for twenty years and didn't fully understand the lessons Mr. Wright preached. Obama's nominee for Green Czar, Van Jones, though I realize people will claim that nominating someone to a cabinet position doesn't mean they agree politically.
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott, I sincerely appreciated Mr. Wright's willingness to be honest about his message. While Obama tried to pretend he didn't understand that message, or that the preacher didn't mean what he said, Mr. Wright had the courage to say that Obama had no choice but to disassociate himself from that message but that he stood by his statements. I don't like Mr. Wright's message, but respect that he has the guts to say it and stand by it.
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott (answering Q2) Originally, the president intended to ask students to participate in an exercise to describe how they would help the president. I view this as relatively innocent, but some do not. That has been changed in reaction to public response. Now, though I find it innocent, I don't like it. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...
- Jason Nunnelley
Scott, I don't have a problem with his present version. But, pretending people are reacting to the version out now and ignoring the history that brought this controversy to most people's attention ignores the true motivations. I'm just suggesting you should consider the reality that your link isn't the source of the controversy.
- Jason Nunnelley
I think kids in all 57 states should have the opportunity to hear him speak if their parents don't object.
- motownmutt
I had forgotten what Bush was doing that day. That is a great point. If I remember correctly, wasn't the book he was reading to the kids upside down? Or is that an urban myth?
- Mike Kirkeberg
Agreed. Robert. Kids today are more evironmentally concious, know whats right and wrong and better perspectives of life, bring on anypne who wants to talk to them, there is no guarantee that they will listen as they are independent :)
- Shashi Bellamkonda
The reaction to Obama's original plan is not in a vacuum. The movement to recruit children and young adults into new nationalist organizations concerns some people. It's not so much right-ring Republican types, but more the anti-government types. Pretending this is a flame alone in a desert isn't intellectually honest. http://www.youtube.com/watch... http://www.youtube.com/watch... << The rhetoric that spikes the concern.
- Jason Nunnelley
Your son sounds like a genius. You sound like a liberal elitist. Sometimes liberals are so annoying. Sigh.
- practicehacker
Thanks for the links, Jason. I knew some Norwegians who I believe served one year mandatory military service. I thought it served them well.
- motownmutt
This administration is serious about engaging young people in quasi-military service. Its cabinet members talked about it openly during the campaign. You can pretend that didn't have an emotional impact, but that's just hiding your eyes to reality. That rhetoric set the stage for the sensitivity you see today over something as innocent as the president encouraging students, even to...
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- Jason Nunnelley
hi Robert, wish you can have a look at this: http://reader2twitter.appspot.com
- kang
the President is not just talking 2 kids, he wanna the kids to be tech wizards I hear? I wouldn't mind Prez chatting with kids but talk 2 what they wanna @ least
- polou/indigo_bow
polou/indigo_bow, you might want to actually read the speech before assuming anything.
- Jeff P. Henderson
my thoughts exactly
- Wardell Latham
sometimes? I do believe 95 percent of the time
- Braden Douglass
Interesting in consideration (if it's not already been linked here) http://friendfeed.com/kregger...
- Jason Nunnelley
We should print up threads like this and share them with our kids. Let em see how people with opinions and passions discuss stuff. Good practice for filtering out Presidents --- and teachers, and parents, and professors and cops and newscasters and Jon Stewart and Rush and the deli guy and ...
- Thom Kennon
Jason Nunnelley, Seems that just further backs up my argument that this is a politically motivated and cultivated hysteria. Doesn't surprise me that it's been tried before.
- Eoghann Irving
Eoghann Irving, I live in a bedroom community in rural Alabama. We're a 70% Republican community. I've not heard a single parent complain about the presentation - not one. The only thing I've heard is reports that the original message contained a curious question from the president to the students, and the president (being much better a man than his political activist supporters) removed it to avoid the conflict. There is no [widespread] fear about Obama's presentation to students.
- Jason Nunnelley
Eoghann Irving, this idea that there's widespread panic over the president addressing students is akin to Sarah Palin claiming David Letterman joked about someone raping her daughter. It's a stunt. But, that's different from the hand full of people that have legitimate concerns about this administration's "statist" tendencies. And, I continue to encourage people to avoid dismissing...
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- Jason Nunnelley
citing Bush talking to school kids on 9/11 is not the best evidence that it's a good idea. Sigh
- Michael Markman
Wow, @scobleizer fail on this one! http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion... Democrats wigged out so bad, they even had an investigation of Bush's speech to a single classroom! I still think you're right - it's idiotic to get all up in arms. But looks like (as usual) both sides are just as guilty.
- Douglas Karr
It's Pathetic* The Repubes + Brainwashed Flock have shown Time + Time again that it's Their Way or the Highway - they don't even want People to THINK!! Scary + Frightening Poop*
- Billy Warhol
My childrens' school didn't run the speech today. I am so embarrassed. I completely missed this one. Since I don't listen to hate radio or watch the news, I thought I was up to speed based on the more cerebral conversations on this topic. I thought the whole controversy was already squashed when the president dropped the assignment "what can you do to help me," which I thought was...
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- Jason Nunnelley
I'm back to my original reaction to the vitriol on both sides of this conversation. Politics is for suckers.
- Jason Nunnelley
When I first heard that people were up in arms about the President speaking to school children... I thought maybe I had fallen into prolonged sleep and was not aware that Hitler was at the head of state again. Plz people. Can we get to what the REAL issue is at hand... and I don't like to play that card ... but sometime it's just too obvious when THE CARD is being played from the other side.
- Jim Turner
What is at stake here is not the fact that the President wanted to speak to the kids--that is good. The issue was that it was framed as how we can help the President (hint, hint--his agenda)--and that my liberal friends is what the commotion is about. Obama is about the most disingenuous President I have seen in all my years of closely watching politics. He had the audacity to say that...
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- Sean O'Reilly
@chrispirillo surface does work with an ass! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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haha
- Kevin Nunez
Of Course Chris would try that.
- TheHenry
QA fail! haha! :P
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
You want me to post the perfect one I took from the other side-the dark side of the...
- Kirsten Mitchell
LOL
- Hunt
It also appears to work with your backside as well.
- Anthony Thompson
Always wanted to do that.
- Jason Remnant
from iPhone
Got locked out... Broke into on house in about a minute. We're in but now my wife feels unsafe. Maybe I should have made it look harder.
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Nilesh, Rob Diana, Jeff P. Henderson and 6 other people liked this
Don't worry, it's still dumb. Still has the same limitations it had two years ago.
- Andy Bakun
And fewer features.
- Ken Sheppardson
I"m sure you're not the only one.
- David Finch
I'm still not sure what to make of it.
- Garmon Estes
Gina, do you ever check the replies here?
- Ozkan Altuner
It's two years later and Twitter is still dumb as ever!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Ok, I've got my answer; No.
- Ozkan Altuner
Kadınları anlamıyorum der dururuz hep.. Neden ki? Fotograf açıklıyor sanırım :)
fsm, Cloudberry, CannonGod and 14 other people liked this
yes. it's true. women are more complicated then men :)
- Stephanie Segel
@Stephanie, that's why men can't understand women :)
- veli bahceci
REALITY. Worst game ever. - http://9gag.com/gag/11167
Steven Perez, metalerik, April Buchheit and 33 other people liked this
truer words ever spoken?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
About a week ago, I was looking at something, probably in a parking lot. I don't even remember what it was, but I distinctly remember thinking "hey, this is rendering at 60 fps; nice smooth motion." Um.
- Andrew C
iddqd
- Mo Kargas
idkfa
- Joe Silence
It's like what FPS Doug said (Pure Pwnage) "I guess it's just like FPS but with better graphics. But I hear there's no respawn in RL...I mean, what up with THAT?!"
- Carlton Hackett
idspispopd *ENTERS HALL OF MIRRORS*
- Joe Silence
idbeholda "I SEE ALL!"
- Joe Silence
Thought I selected "Maximum Strength" -- still can't manage to jump up on my roof.
- Christopher A Carr
Ah Dave, the problem with that is your spawn point isn't fixed - you could end up anywhere.
- WorldofHiglet
As a bunneh!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
It's practically guaranteed that Sarah will be blogging by the time she is in kindergarten. She's a natural.
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She'll make more sense then me!
- Johnny Worthington
sure.
- Madhav Tripathi
I can't handle the cute!
- joey
joey, just another day at our house! :)
- Louis Gray
I like the leg up. Ilia still sits that way when using her fake laptop.
- Admiral Anika
from fftogo
Make sure she takes breaks, so she doesn't develop RSI. Eventually, MacSpeech Dictate might be the way to go.
- Victor Panlilio
Anika - a scandal! A fake laptop!? Don't you love your daughter? :)
- Louis Gray
:) mine has a real laptop...but it doesn't work. She is happy to use it, though.
- WorldofHiglet
I see she's practicing the LOL in the second pic.
- Mark Evans
She is, Mark. Note she is looking at Google images for puppies. She may have found an LOLdog.
- Louis Gray
I can't believe you let her drool on a beloved Apple macbook!
- anna sauce
OK she's cute, but still!
- anna sauce
For the record, even when I don't click "like," I like all the photos of your cute twins.
- Rex Hammock
the 2nd photo is killer. as a side note, your mac needs more stickers.
- pea
Pea, my Mac has lots of stickers. That's my wife's (on loaner from her school), and it only features Seesmic.
- Louis Gray
Thanks btw, to Anna, Rex and all for your nice comments. We enjoy the twins and enjoy sharing them with you.
- Louis Gray
Proof that Mac OSX really is childs play
- Kevin J Hatton
Oh Kevin... (shakes head) :)
- Louis Gray
Kevin: lol
- Kevin Arth
Or, easy enough a child can use it
- Jesse Stay
Way to start her on the best platform, I'm surprised she's not blogging already.
- Wayne Sutton
Make sure you start her off with wordpress or posterous :)
- Wayne Sutton
Twitter + Worpdress + MacBook Air = "Look Who's Talkin'" :P
- Adam Jackson
Never too young to start, but she should start with microblogging before she moves up to full blogging. Get her a Twitter account and let her bang on the keyboard just like 5 yr old @miamalarkey and make sure you archive those tweets for posterity.
- April Russo (app103)
sarah needs a cn sticker i see
- Allen Stern
Dude. Allen... you fired her brother. She remembers.
- Louis Gray
چخه بچه .... خراب میشه :دی
- فرزاد
louis - the economy is bad - i got mouths to feed - i would be open to talking to sarah - she seems more the blogger type - matthew likes to apparently beat people up
- Allen Stern
like that baby has a mac and i dont >=/
- Marissa
so... do you let Sarah hammer your mac, Louis? or just your wife's?
- Trish Haley
FEEDBACK PLEASE: Anyone else noticing a surge in new subscribers, since the FaceBook buyout news broke?
Jason Remnant, Anthony K. Valley ©, Amber, Random Time Lord and 9 other people liked this
I have had around 75 since last night.
- Jim Connolly
I do. Don't get excited, though. These are the people that heard the news and wanted to try Friendfeed for the first time
- Andre P. Siregar
I thought that originally too. Quite a few seem to have established accounts - probably didn't use them before.
- Jim Connolly
Even I have Jim,and I'm not exactly a major contributor.
- Paul Downing
Paul: I think Andre's right. It's probably just a stack of noobs trying the service out.
- Jim Connolly
As for my case, these are people that found me on Twitter. I guess they then go to FF, use the Twitter import and added me
- Andre P. Siregar
I wonder how many new users we will see in the next few months? Because I am so pro friendfeed, I'm getting email and (ironically) dm's on Twitter asking me about FriendFeed and whether I think it's right for them.
- Jim Connolly
This is the advantage of joining a big company. I am seeing growth too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
But what are the long term plans for friendfeed support? The ff team is breaking up for who it reports to in the Facebook engineering section. I don't think Facebook has long term interest in building friendfeed, it wants some of the functionality moved into Facebook.
- Mark Essel
Me too, Jim. And Robert, I don't really see how this is a benefit of joining a big company when the only joining that has been done is on paper, it's not like the communities have actually been joined yet. Unless you're trying to say that FF is getting a lot of new members because of the publicity and that's what's driving everyone's subscription surges.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Thankfully I must be uninteresting because no one new has subscribed to me :)
- matthew john ernisse
Robert, are you saying these are current users of Facebook that want to check Friendfeed out? I think it doesn't matter who bought Friendfeed in this case. FF is in the news, and that's what made new people join
- Andre P. Siregar
Think of it as a really really small-scale Oprah effect
- Angelo Rodrigues
Yeah. Lots of twitter people are coming, and so FB users.
- Caio Cesar
Robert: There's no one left that's not already following you, surely? :-)
- Jim Connolly
Jim: I've gotten hundreds of new followers in the past 24 hours. The news sure brought a lot of people here to check out FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
I can say I've suddenly come to look at my own, dormant account since the news.
- Stephen Palkot
I'm more in here today than anywhere else, because I am interested in the opinions of the heavy users, that's all.
- ilter
Robert: The question is (as always) will they come back / stay?
- Jim Connolly
i moved because of the news...
- Chad Larson
Yeah. My queue was at 40, now it's 101.
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Yes, but all new users with no posts
- Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom
No, actually. I must be unpopular.
- joey
Yes, this absolutely has happened. It was about 4x normal yesterday.
- Louis Gray
Actually even I have new subscribers, I don't know why. Haven't shaved since monday.
- ilter
Yes Jim I have. Just wasn't sure what exactly was the reason for the surge but now that you mention it, does make sense .... Tim J @ WWW.MHWD.ORG
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
Yes.
- .LAG liked that
I predict that the increase in users will be the same as Twitter: a large increase, people won't "get it" and then the regular users will be the only ones again, but w/ SPAM on the rise :(
- Helene
I'm thinking all of us should go to Vegas for a couple of days. Who's with me?!?! #letsgetcrazypeople
Matthew Freeman, Tracy Benham, Jason Remnant and cuan liked this
Sorry not me, Bonobo chimps (our nearest relatives) are definitely omnivores. Primates are not vegan in nature but whatever turns you on go for it!
- Lillian Banchik
from twhirl
You sponsoring the trip?
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
That's what I get for trying to post on 2 hrs of sleep, VEGAS! Yea go for it!
- Lillian Banchik
from twhirl
Sure, I'm all for it. When does the party jet drop by to pick me up! :-)
- Richard Bitting
When they make an electric one
- James Harrison
from iPod
Anyone still using #StumbleUpon? What's your URL? I'm here: http://koltregaskes.stumbleupon.com/
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List your pages here: #whatsyoururl
- Kol Tregaskes
I like SU much more than Digg or Delicious. http://flapic.stumbleupon.com/
- Flavio
+Flavio mine is http://ocurro.stumbleupon.com ... SU could be more
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
http://ericloganvanman.stumbleupon.com/ <==== there it is :)
- Eric Logan
Thanks guys. I would add you but because of SU's stupid restrictions (do they still have these!?) I cannot add any more people, tsch. :-( I'm remembering why I got put off SU.
- Kol Tregaskes
haven't used it for quite a while, still ... http://imma.stumbleupon.com/ ... didn't really use it for more than channel surfing, though
- immaterial
I don't use it as much as I used to, but here it is: http://sgreenblatt.stumbleupon.com/public...
- Seth Greenblatt
http://myroblyte.stumbleupon.com but like others here i don't use it much these days
- Nathan Rein
http://kmohr25.stumbleupon.com - do not use it much any longer.
- Kevin Mohr
http://victorgodot.stumbleupon.com don't really use it anymore. And yes, it has stupid restrictions...
- diego morelli
http://8nevski8.stumbleupon.com/ Haven't used mine in a while but do love it when I do
- outofmyarse
Let's see if SU allows me to add people today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks, Kim and everyone. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I just friended you on StumbleUpon. http://kimberscott.stumbleupon.com/
- Kimber Scott
Never used it.
- Michael Fidler
from BuddyFeed
k00pa.stumbleupon.com
- k00pa
I have also got about 130k visitors to my site. http://pelikoira.net/random... Using this page http://www.pelikoira.net/stumble
- k00pa
"Stumbleupon has been temporarily disabled, because you have used it too much." on that link, k00pa.
- Kol Tregaskes
http://alpinefolk.stumbleupon.com/ I really like stumbleupon, but pretty sporadic
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
http://jasonndotcom.stumbleupon.com/ Use it, primarily for su.pr. Kind of fun, useful.
- Jason Nunnelley
I still use it, but not as often as I used to http://kateblogs.stumbleupon.com/
- Kate
Thanks, everyone. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
pretty much http://v666.stumbleupon.com/
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'd join up again, but I used it on firefox, I now use chrome.. so I would.. IF I knew it worked out ok.. seems it never works out..also had a few post stumbled and got hardly anything from it.
- Rob Sellen :o)
http://woland783.stumbleupon.com/ Here i am!
- Alessandro
http://burningfencepost.stumbleupon.com/ .....gah,make it stop...
- Paul Greer
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm still using Stumbleupon although not daily, I noticed that Facebook removed the service from profile Settings yesterday, when did that occur?
- Joe Dawson
http://tsudohnimh.stumbleupon.com/ but I use it more for su.pr these days
- Keith - @tsudo
http://wordsforliving.stumbleupon.com/ - I definitely still use it! Are we adding each other as contacts then? I was also thinking of creating a FF room for Stumbleupon users.
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
http://for4saken.stumbleupon.com/ - I may add you guys, maybe with a network it could be more useful
- Marcos
Added as many as it let me today... I never used it much, but I'd like to if there is some interaction.
- Kimber Scott
Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://mogster.stumbleupon.com/ That's mine. So this is what the search for a FF alternative has got us to? lol!!
- Adrian Scicluna
Here's mine http://northley.stumbleupon.com
- Frank Senseney
Thank you everyone!
- Kol Tregaskes
had to sneak in there
- andy brudtkuhl
Kol - what's yours?
- andy brudtkuhl
Andy, see the title. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually, I use SU a lot: http://moreminimal.stumbleupon.com
- Chris Baskind
Thank you you two.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks, Tyson.
- Kol Tregaskes
No problem, Kol.
- Tyson Key
I started stumbling back in 2003, http://morgaine.stumbleupon.com/ is my main profile. It used to be small and friendly and fun. Started to like it less when they sold the service. Then Soup came around. Still using it, but mostly to keep in touch with fellow Stumblers.
- Irma Vermaat
It seems like everyone is mourning FF prematurely. Clearly FF is going to be around. No one said anything about the FF app going away. Why would anyone want to shut down an app that is so well-loved by it's users
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It makes no money. Facebook is about coin, not warm and fuzzies
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I'm afraid you're in denial, Bindu. ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
I give it 6 months
- Phil Whelan
Johnny it does not take much money to run FF and given how much Facebook can learn from observing users on Friendfeed, it would make a lot of sense for FB to keep it around.
- Bindu Reddy
Read this sentence 'FriendFeed.com will continue to operate normally for the time being.' Now read it again.
- Andy C
...because acquisitions are sometimes about acquiring the people behind the technology - not the technology per se. Google/Jaiku is one example. Why would it be in FB's interests to continue to grow and enhance FF ?
- Andy C
Bindu, it stands to lose its base. The sense that the party is over has a huge influence in effecting the party actually being over. Who knows what will happen, but this is a reasonable prediction of things to come.
- Micah Wittman
I'd like to believe that FF will be kept around as Facebook's R&D website where they can try crazy experimental ideas. I don't actually believe that but I'd like to.
- Adewale Oshineye
because Facebook is the wrong choice!
- vijay
'Taylor and Cox say that the Friendfeed product will live on independently, and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook.' —http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... That last little phrase "and eventually Friendfeed will be merged into Facebook" is your answer.
- Johnny Worthington
I'd actually like to see a designated (functioning) FriendFeed tab in Facebook. I also firmly believe FriendFeed technology is going to make Facebook Fan pages MUCH more marketable once all the pieces are in place. Brands are going to be ALL over it.
- Mona Nomura
I think Bindu is telling the truth. FriendFeed is not going away anytime soon. Keeping this site running is pocket change to Facebook. The thing I'm worried about is not that, but rather will it get any new features or any new stuff? Time will tell the answer to that, but if I were Mark Zuckerberg I'd take the engineering team and get them to work on Facebook's search engine, not let them update the site here.
- Robert Scoble
Mona, that is an interesting idea... Yes I do believe some of the FF features would be adopted by Facebook. In fact Facebook has been borrowing a lot of the features anyways. One thing that might happen in the short term is that active development on the Friendfeed.com might stop.
- Bindu Reddy
Mona: It doesn't seem likely to me that they would embed the Friendfeed brand inside of FB. Or do you mean a non-FF-branded, "the part of facebook that doesn't work like the rest of facebook"-tab?
- Christopher A Carr
Robert, yes that is what I am wondering as well. I wonder how much a site will grow when active dev. stops on it....
- Bindu Reddy
Frankly (as much as I LOVE FriendFeed) I didn't see it adopting in the 'mainstream' -extremely unfortunate since it is such a phenomenal product. I wan't even Googleable until I joined FriendFeed and in one year, people can Google me by my first name. WTF. That is SO unheard of. Anyway, I am excited to see what the FriendFeed team and FriendFeed can do for Facebook.
- Mona Nomura
I'm talking about the technology. FriendFeed's real time and SEO is off the chains. Not even five minutes after you post something it shows up on Google. How is that possible? Seriously.
- Mona Nomura
NO, THE SKY IS FALLING RIGHT NOW RUN FOR COVER. You won't get far with that "logic" and "reason" you're using right now.
- Richard Lawler
Mona, Actually that "magic" works because Google indexes Friendfeed so swiftly. Friendfeed is probably on the list of sites that Google indexes almost on a hourly basis. Google does that with news sites as well. The nature of FF (real-time) and the fact that there are so many Googlers on FF prob. ensured that Friendfeed made it on the list. Twitter is prob. on the list as well but I am guessing Twitter might make it hard for Google to index it so often/quickly.
- Bindu Reddy
There has to be a reason why FriendFeed indexes faster and ranked higher on Google than Facebook or Twitter - it can't be simply list order...can it?
- Mona Nomura
I bet Friendfeed makes it much easier for Google to crawl it's pages than Twitter does. As for Facebook, it is not on Google's real-time crawl/index list as the content on Facebook does not change that often.
- Bindu Reddy
OMG! you have different friends than me then - FB is out-of-date above the fold every hour for me
- James Stanbridge
John yes but that content is not publicly available for Google to crawl. The content on FF is
- Bindu Reddy
Right - so imagine if they were somehow able to integrate a (true) real time component to Facebook, with the same indexing capabilities as FriendFeed. Wow. I'm excited!!
- Mona Nomura
Agreeing with you Bindu. It may not more of a technology adoption than anything. If they do, I still won't cry. I use all of these as tools and try not to fall in "love" with any of them - the nature of the Web is change. Sooner or later everything becomes something different. Sometimes those changes suck (Jaiku!) and sometimes those changes make it better (arguably, Google).
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Mona, I have been using short ff urls on Facebook pages after porting them through Twitter since my first days on FF. I am sure I was not the only one doing it. It was an easy way early on to defeat the text only nature of FB pages when importing outside content by utilizing FF's SUP protocol and MediaRSS. I think you are dead on about the FriendFeed team making FB pages more marketable and vibrant. Facebook already had the viral tools in place and it will be interesting to see what comes of this union.
- Eric Logan
Want to agree. This will be a lot easier when FriendFeed is more public about plans for the site, the users and the data. Silence, even for a short time, makes the community uneasy.
- Louis Gray
I've got absolutely no interest in going to FaceBook to get a FriendFeed fix via a FriendFeed 'tab'. For me it's like going to the most amazing all inclusive hotel in the world - that's situated in a little corner of Afghanistan. The journey to get there is way too off putting.
- 1x29
I'm not sure when the users' love of a site is factored into the decision to shut it down or not. Seems like sites are closed because they aren't growing fast enough or making enough money to support their costs. FF may be able to run on the cheap, but if the product development stagnates, users will eventually migrate to better options elsewhere. This could take years, but the...
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