Christian Van Der Henst - Discussion

Christian Van Der Henst shared an item on Google Reader

Twitter is Not a Micro-Blogging Tool

6 hours ago - Link

I agree. twitter is another im. And we need it as a protocol to descentralice it.. - Christian Van Der Henst

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

How much time are you wasting on Twitter?

14 hours ago - Link

Carolyn, Jeff P. Henderson, joshua fouts, Elliott Ng and 21 other people liked this

actually, less now that I've started friendfeeding. Please dont ask the follow up question though. - Aziz Poonawalla

none. lots on friendfeed though ;-) - Gaby Benkwitz

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I know exactaly how much. I downloaded the MeeTimer plugin for FF. - Sonciary Honnoll

i moved almost completely off of twitter. i still set off a tweet here and there when the subject is not FF worthy; like "I'm drinking my protein shake by the pool". All in all its alot more interesting on FF. - Carlos Ayala

I tried Twitter and didn't like it. Since starting FF, I hate to admit it, I actually like FF. It is sort of like a group instant messaging utility. - Herschel

Since I used RescueTime for a week, I have reduced all my soc net time down drastically. - Sally Church

I don't waste my time on twitter anymore. I spend all my time on FF; that's where the conversations are. - John Budnik

I'm addicted to FF rooms! Fantastic! - David Sim

Well, most of the people I follow on twitter are here, so I turned off device updates on twitter. And as for the rest, twitter has not been sending me IM's for a few weeks now. So outside a short twit now and then, or my script posting what I'm listing... I'm not wasting much time on twitter. - Grant Bierman

None at all. Just FF. Anyone worth talking tech with on the internet is here on FF. We could use a bigger crowd, but for now this is where it's at. - Tad Donaghe

Wasting time? What? Twitter and FF don't qualify as "research"... - Anthony K Valley

define "wasting". - David Howell

I am sure my boss would say to much. Between Twitter, FriendFeed and Plurk someone would say to much. - Jeff B

@jeffb or even too much. - Kirk Skodis via twhirl

not enough, although most of my time is wasted on Friendfeed these days - Bjorn Tipling

better question should be how much time are you wasting on the internet - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

I don't consider any of it wasted. I get a lot of great links and information from Twitter/FF posts, and I've seen/participated in a lot of interesting discussions as a result of those links. That's never a waste. - Evangeline

Well, I used to waste a lot of time. But since I got Twhirl, no time gets wasted. It is a marvelous tool. - Rodrigo Leme via twhirl

I think an interesting related question is, "what are you accomplishing on Twitter? " - Brian Wilson

great video - Jason Calacanis

I use little twitter, more FF and fftogo lately. I'm not a techie so I hope to not bore folks as I try to broaden my geekish horizons :) - kbourke

I use Twitter for communcating with some clients, and also now use Twhirl. - Ian May via twhirl

"gmail expects the same respect as outlook" - tell that to the Corporate IT .. and see what the response is !! - Peter Dawson

I wrote about RescueTime when they first launched, but I never dared to try it myself for what it might find :-) To answer the headline question: hardly any at all now. - Duncan Riley

I mostly use Twitter in bits of time between more meaningful tasks. Standing in line, waiting, switching between tasks, etc. - Jack Collins

I have a blackberry and I live in Canada. There is no easy way now to read/follow twitter since the IM feature is gone; I used to read twitter via google talk. I find that twitterberry and m.twitter don't allow me to read more than a page or the past hour and using SMS is painful. Every 250 messages I need to delete my mobile number online and re-add it or I would have to wait a week for new messages. I read it when I'm on the go or need a break from my writing. - Phillip Jeffrey

Um, roughly zero lately - Michael Hocter

I waste more time on friendfeed a lot more than twitter because of how much more content is available - Justin

I use time very wisely on Twitter - no more than 30 mins/day actively. Scans messages while it runs in background on Twhirl. - Jim Turner via twhirl

i rarely use twitter, but i wouldn't say that it's because of ff. necessarily. it's just become unreliable as well as "spammy" - Cee Bee

Next to none since friendfeed. Loving me some friendfeed! - joshua fouts

None. I'm wasting my time on friendfeed instead :) - Ryo

I would love to use Twitter and Friendfeed more - if only they were more mainstream here in Australia. - Jim Yiapanis

Isn't Twitter like breathing? I don't stop breathing. - Carolyn via twhirl

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Is There A Way Back From Free?

15 hours ago - Link

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Guest post :) - Colin Walker

nice job Colin - Julian Baldwin

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Thanks Julian - Colin Walker via fftogo

Good stuff Colin - that data is only going to grow in value as twitter's user base grows - I don't think we have seen what is truly possible with the vast array of data scattered across the web - Marco

Reference to Bob Dylan was the best part :) - Charlie Anzman

+1 - Mark Dykeman

Really great post, Colin. Clear, logical, thoughtful. - J. Phil

Mariano Amartino posted an entry on Denken Über

Algunos videos de Social Media Optimization

18 hours ago - Link

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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

AT&T's Free Wi-Fi Hotspot Access for iPhones Finally Announced?

yesterday at 1:58 am - Link

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it was about time - Christian Van Der Henst

mashable posted an entry on Mashable!

Wikipedia With Approvals = Boring Wikipedia?

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Carlos Mantero posted an entry on Carlos Mantero

Dominios .me ¿Valen la pena?

22 hours ago - Link

Ya cuando tengamos extensiones de .cualquiercosa creo que tendrán poca relevancia. Y esas extensiones ya vendrán muy pronto. - Christian Van Der Henst

yo me he comprado fesja.me, que será mi web personal en inglés - fesja

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Social Media Experts are the New Webmasters

Wednesday at 6:35 pm - Link

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"In the mid to late 1990s, perception had it there was no more exciting a career title than that of Webmaster. It seemed everybody wanted to be one." Um, no. - Chris White

@Chris: http://princetonreview.com/Car... or http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G... - Louis Gray

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enjoyed the career advice to hang on to teaching or marketing skills even if giving in to today's trendy title. - mcwflint

somebody was trying to get me to apply for a job with the title "webmaster" today! It was with a .wa.gov.au prison department, but we are not really that far behind here. One the other hand web 2.0 social media expert for prisons is not a job I would relish either. - Nick Cowie

Excellent as always Louis, I really like the "What do you really do?" part. We do have to focus on what social media brings to a real business, not just on how exciting it is to constantly refresh Twitter and FriendFeed. - Svetlana Gladkova

I love this post -- felt this way for a while and I'm sure others have too. No doubt you'll get some of the "Social Media Experts" giving you flack for it. "Web browsing expert" LOL! - Shey

I remember webmasters :) If the newer 'social people' could only bury that hatchet with some of the 'old guard', this whole environment would be a better place. - Charlie Anzman

It happended the same with Information Technology in the 80/90s. I guess there is a lifecycle typical of new technology roles: at first they are prominents in applying new technolgies to business. After some times the technical knowledge is not so exclusive anymore, and you start to look for more managerial approaches, roles and resumes. Finally the specific tech wisdom become a commodity. That's ok to me, just beware and avoid to be caught in the lifecycle commodity trap - Marcello Del Bono

agreed, good post - early days of the web - webmaster was a multi-functional jack of all things internet role: root/superuser, sysadmin, netadmin, html dev & graphic oversight all rolled into one - as teams that supported websites matured fragmentation of roles occurred for all the right reasons - webmaster at that point was usually the single point of contact into the property behind the website, especially for reporting web related bugs & for routing of inquiries - normal transitional maturity - mike "glemak" dunn

"I'm afraid that for the most part, their efforts to rebrand as social media experts will be short-lived and futile. Saying one is an expert in utilizing social media sites is akin to brand one's self as a 'Web browsing expert', an 'e-mail expert', or a 'telephone specialist'." That's pretty funny. - Hutch Carpenter

Expertize is an aging thing. What experts were proud of 20 years ago is done today by students with no "professional experience". Anyway, as I stated in a personal post, we still have to define the word expert. - Laurent Rozenfeld

I Agree. Webmasters had been more than "multi-functional jack of all things internet". To most people that did not know too much about filesystems, servers and the like, they were short of magicians (cf. Clarke's Third Law). But is the rise of social media that much about technology? I don't think so. It's more about pushing technology in the background. It's about getting rid of the magicians. So, just being able to set up a blog within a few minutes will very soon lose the magical aura. - benedikt

The funny thing is that I - as someone who spends a significant piece of my day managing this stuff for my firm - get forwarded job postings for "Social media manager" or other such titles for $125k +. Clearly people are landing themselves jobs in marketing/PR departments with this title. How long will their jobs last? - sarahlefton

@sarah Felix America! In Germany I have not yet seen job postings for Social Media Managers. Unfortunately. - benedikt

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

blue mist (679×675) [casaubon, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 6:36 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Makes me think of Stephen King's The Mist. -=) - Hao Chen

This picture kinda reminds me of the korean movie, Il Mare ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... ) - imabonehead

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

volcano (900×602) [starboardside, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 6:38 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

"SAY CHEESE! Gruyere by Conwell" (896×611) [poppy, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 6:42 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Yummy!!! - Corie Allison

this is a happy place - Christian Van Der Henst

This picture is very cool. Anyone got some wine? :) - imabonehead

javier aroche published a photo on Flickr

Grabando 120 segundos

Thursday at 7:06 pm - Link

Vieja esa foto - Christian Van Der Henst

un mes mas o menos ;) - javier aroche

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

Halloween at the bike race (900×601) [dupl1cate, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 6:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... Originally from http://www.boston.com/bigpictu... A spectator known as Didi, dressed as a devil, jumps beside a pack of riders during the fifth stage of the 95th Tour de France cycling race between Cholet and Chateauroux, July 9, 2008. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel) - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

A wonderful old Tour tradition. Ride, you bastards! ;-) - Chris Baskind

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Didi Senft...I think he's also responsible for the bicycles drawn on the streets. - Corie Allison

I used to love watching the Tour, but this is the first year I tuned out completely. I'll come back once a week passes without a doping scandal. But Didi is definitely a tradition - does he still bring that huge bike with him? - Frederic

Unfortunately the weeks have not passed without scandal...3 riders have tested positive so far, including 1 star that was led away this morning. Today's news really depressed me because I thought Ricardo Ricco was this incredible star for the future. After he tested positive for this new form of EPO (I guess he thought they wouldn't catch it because it was new?), his whole team (Saunier Duval) pulled out of the tour. When he was kicked out of the tour, Ricco was currently in, I think, 8th place... - Corie Allison

...and held both the King of the Mountains jersey and the Best New Rider jersey. These guys are such selfish idiots and it really pisses me off!!!!!!!!! - Corie Allison

@corie - couldn't agree more. Guys like that are simply destroying what should be an incredible sporting event. - Frederic

I'm so amazed by what they do, but then I wonder: should I be? Are they really that good? I really do believe that things are going to get better. There are a few teams and riders who are paving the way for a cleaner sport. - Corie Allison

The system is working. The cheats are getting caught, humiliated, sent home, fined, and perhaps jailed. - Chris Baskind

Absolutely love the devil ... mmm, that came out wrong. As for doping - I'm thankful that my favorite sport (cycling) is actually doing something about it instead of saying they'll do it (MLB). This tour has been fantastic and I know the cheaters will be caught and likely banned from the sport for 2 years. - AJ Kohn

Yeah, I <3 that it's now illegal to test positive in France. It's great to see them being hauled in for questioning. :-) - Corie Allison

Oh and follow the TDF in the FF TDF room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/to... - AJ Kohn

I'm already in this room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/to... :-) - Corie Allison

AJ: Thanks for the TDF room... - Mitchell Tsai

@Corie: Ah, but my TDF room is timeless :-P - AJ Kohn

Ohhh, don't worry, I already signed up for yours, too. :-p - Corie Allison

Thanks Corie for the point to Cee Bee's post. I loved the other TDF pics. Didn't even know it had started... - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell - no problem. I wanted to make sure you saw the rest of the photos. :-) - Corie Allison

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

"Dolphin by Conwell" (792×614) [poppy, Pixdaus]

Thursday at 3:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... Best dolphin pic I've ever seen! - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Have you ever met a person who doesn't like dolphins? If you do- run! - Nice Fish Films

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I was lucky enough to swim with dolphins off Hurghada, Egypt in the Red Sea. For budget travelers - 10 Euro for a catered 8-hr boat ride to snorkeling/diving sites. It's super-cheap there (Egyptians only make $25/month...), so support your fellow humans & send them more money. :-) - Mitchell Tsai

Has anyone seen the Penn & Teller episode about dolphins? Fucking HILARIOUS!! - Corie Allison

Corie: Not yet... Is it on the web anywhere? - Mitchell Tsai

Wow, thanks for the tip Mitchell! It's one of my dreams to swim with dolphins one of the days, so I'll take note of that. - Vincent X

Vincent X: Belize (Central America) is also a cheap place with incredible snorkeling. The sharks and rays were swimming between our legs (so used to tourists). Not sure if there are dolphins in Belize. - Mitchell Tsai

Yikes. I think I'll pass on the shark-between-the-legs swim though... Wouldn't want one of them to suddenly feel like having a snack. :) - Vincent X

whats really cool is 15 or 20 of them riding a ships bow wave at 20+ knots. Talk about a escort - Tony C

Here's the schedule of when it's going to be on TV: http://www.sho.com/site/schedu... and here's a link to a clip: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=.... That's all I could find so far, but I'll look for more... - Corie Allison

Ahhhhhhahaaha!! Here's another clip. "I'll lead you through an internal experience to call forth your inner dolphin and then we'll bring our inner dolphin out so that we're completely immersed in our dolphin aspect ... that is us." http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=... - Corie Allison

Thanks Corie! - Mitchell Tsai

Cee Bee posted a link

2008 Tour de France - The Big Picture

Monday at 8:55 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Shayanlinux, Mahdi Ebrahimi, Franklin Pettit, Thomas Hawk and 8 other people liked this

Great find! I'm going to repost it to the TdF room. :-) - Corie Allison

Ooooh. Great pictures! - Mitchell Tsai

Carlos Mantero shared an item on Google Reader

10 razones por las que los emprendedores deberían tomar más vacaciones

Thursday at 4:25 am - Link

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¿Tenéis pensado ir de vacaciones? - Carlos Mantero

Christian Van Der Henst shared an item on Google Reader

Los peores turistas

Thursday at 5:35 pm - Link

No me extraña para nada lo de los franceses ;) - Christian Van Der Henst

Jorge Gobbi published a photo on Flickr

La espera

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Eric favorited photos on Flickr

Let Me Fall Into the Dream of the Astronaut

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Eduardo Arcos posted an entry on Eduardo Arcos

La accesibilidad explicada

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Antonio shared an item on Google Reader

Social Media Optimization… engañosa

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Era de esperar que esto llegara. Pero la misma mala reputación que se vayan ganando estas agencias podría mantenerlas fuera a futuro. - Christian Van Der Henst

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

Australia Post Says Touch Someone With A Letter [Duncan - 3/1/07]

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Thanks to Vincent X for finding the original artists (and this wonderful second picture)! - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

See http://friendfeed.com/e/c71eae... where I saw the first picture at Pixdaus. FriendFeed helped track down the originals (Bita and Vincent X) in just 3 hrs. Great to have so many eyes & ears! - Mitchell Tsai

I like the second one even better! - Vincent X

GJ tracking down the original. - Mark Douglass

tnx again ! - Reza Ranjbaran

Michelle Miller posted a link

Drunken Desserts: Watermelon Margarita Popsicles | margaritas, popsicles, summer treat | yumsugar - Food, Drink, & Entertaining.

Wednesday at 9:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Christian Van Der Henst, Mark Krynsky, shandiz, Mitchell Tsai and 24 other people liked this

Freakin' sweet! I love all those things: Watermelons, margaritas, and popsicles. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Ooh! I'm sharing to the Food room! - Yolanda

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Oh god, I want some. - L.J. Leng

The best part of summer! ;) - Anna Haro

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - Allen Stern

alcohol and popsicles??!? sign me up!! - Tad Donaghe

OH YEAH!!!!!! Bring it baby! I *need* those right now!! wow, cool idea YUMMMM! - Susan Beebe

michelle m, you need to make these for your man in brown. ;) - edythe

oooh, i need to make some of these! - Melissa

برسه به دست مه یا :دی - shandiz

Someone come pry my toungue off my monitor please. - Mark Krynsky

javier aroche published photos on Flickr

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Oscar Mota added an event on Upcoming

Nov 3, 2008: Mexico Web 2.0 at Hilton Cancun Golf & Spa Resort

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3 iPhone Media Apps (that Feel a Little Like Magic)

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First time I heard of Shazam. Sounds cool ;) - Christian Van Der Henst

Ruben Colomer published a photo on Flickr

My daughter

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que linda pic - Christian Van Der Henst

Gracias Chris, no veas la guerra que da - Ruben Colomer

espera que crezca y entonces si que tendras guerra. Ahorita sigue disfrutando, jeje ;) - Christian Van Der Henst via twhirl

Enhorabuena. Por cierto, una fotografía de 10. - Salva

Carlos Mantero shared an item on Google Reader

Emprende Web Bilbao

Wednesday at 10:35 pm - Link

Al fin un evento interesante fuera de Madrid y Barcelona ¡Ole Asier! - Carlos Mantero

Bien por Bilbao ;) - Christian Van Der Henst via twhirl

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook

Wednesday at 3:44 pm - Link

benedikt, Svetlana Gladkova, My Blog Posts, Mark Douglass and 16 other people liked this

Soon we'll see if it is Blaine Cook to blame for Twitters failures (if Fire Eagle fails as well) or Twitter overall. - Justin Korn

instead of a fail whale, we'll get maybe a sad frown clown when yahoo goes down? - Jason Shultz via twhirl

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Time for Yahoo to make a Failhoo graphic - xero

Unfortunately Yahoo and these early-stage projects won't live long enough for this side-by-side comparison with Twitter - Jason Carreira

I hope he does well and improves FireEagle...no fail whale please! - Susan Beebe

Folks... Blaine is hellacious competent! Seriously doubt any one of you will eat their shorts when this proves out true. I'd have him on my team ANY time. - Gerald Buckley

I don't have enough technical knowledge to judge Blaine, but his departure didn't make Twitter better, did it? Re Yahoo's long term viability, even if Microsoft or 7 Eleven or whoever takes over Yahoo, I don't see these projects gettting killed. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Ontario, apparently, according to the latest twitter status blogs, his leaving has paved the way for improvement (if you read between the lines). - Jason Carreira

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“full screen capture video of google's new search interface being tested with users. it's amazing. http://snurl.com/2zu5x”

Wednesday at 6:53 pm - Link

ric johnson, Derek Coatney, Brad Collins, Robert Scoble and 56 other people liked this

sweet! But seems a little dangerous. - shaun mclane

very interesting - Paul Buchheit

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very cool social search evolution, but like sellers on eBay over time you will severely disadvantage new sites with no rating - George Lee via twhirl

Those kind of ratings are often open to abuse and misuse - Sally Church

Intrigued by the option of saving my own comments. Anyone know how many characters fit in those comment boxes? - Noah Sussman

Google must have a solution to control abuse - Seth Garrison

I agree with Sally. This looks like it's making it too easy to abuse the search results. From the video I noticed that there were comments from "Unknown" users. If it's THAT open to editing, it's definitely going to be a spam-magnet. Let's wait and see... - Ricardo Vidal

over time an interface like this would really disrupt SEO efforts. - AJ Kohn

Reminds me of Friendfeed. - Jason Wehmhoener

This has so much potential. Sure it could disrupt SEO efforts, but that's a good thing. - Chris

Having comments must mean that other people can view them.. Anybody see conversations moving to another place? - Varun Pitale

Unnecessary clutter - LPH

Google wants to be everywere in the web and have everything. - Christian Van Der Henst via twhirl

It will be interesting to see how reliable these signals are. I know in the early days when the smiley face and frown face were available in the toolbar, there was some debate about whether those ended up having an inverse reliability. Meaning, spammy sites were being voted up by the spammers themselves. - Sacca

I liked it the first time they called it Digg - adolfo foronda

i don't understand the logic of allowing people to vote items down, on DIGG or anywhere else. it just allows for gaming the system. if you only allow voting up, it's much harder to badly manipulate results - Alensa via twhirl

everything that would add humane inteli. to the search results refinements (and therefor reduce SEO manipulations to minimum) will be great. - Naor

Instead of SEO manipulations we'll see marketing manipulations. - HollowMarkeD

Provided that spamming/gaming can be combatted this is a great idea. Think Mahalo with the restrictions: human search filtering but with all the rest of the results available as well. Not just an arbitrary selection based on limited opinion but a socially filtered list. It has big potential. - Colin Walker via fftogo

I've been wondering how Google would approach social search, and it looks very interesting indeed - all the features I would expect seem to be in place...totally agree with all other comments re: gaming though! - Iain Baker

It looks useful and is a decent progression for search - jon

not happy about this.... a search engine should not be a democracy - Noah David Simon

I can't imagine this fully rolled out. Too much invested already in 'quality' returns - Charlie Anzman

err, this is just like Wikia search - from the founder of Wikipedia - http://re.search.wikia.com/ - Sherif Mansour

this works at a twitter or ff scale, but can it scale to Google search scale? Google already uses a popularity based system, this is just adding another popularity metric. - Brad Collins via twhirl

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