Damon Cortesi

15,000? What do people want from you? You're just one guy. - Shaine Mata

So if you, one of the more prolific Twitter users has around 15k messages and that adds up to about 3MB, then understand that on some really mediocre storage of 1TB, twitter can store that much for 300k prolific users. Mind you, this assumes that every prolific user spits out a message that is chock full at 160 chars. None of this takes into account the overhead of packing it into mySQL or other database. I think users such as yourself are using less space than you think and I'd guess you can fit closer to 1M users in there. Since you're somewhere special on the bell curve, you can be sure that you're not representative of the average Twitter user, and the average user is taking up less than 10% of that space. Many have abandoned accounts or under utilize their accounts as we perceive it. Seeing as how I as a home user (not an average one) have a server with a hardware-RAID mirrored 1TB array, I assume that a venture like Twitter has at least 5TB at their disposal and that this is not a problem for t - Ernie Oporto

I'd add Evernote, Skitch, Dropbox, and replace NeoOffice with OpenOffice 3 - Rubin Sfadj

Kinda tired of seeing Quicksliver at the top of every one of these lists. There are other apps out there, people. - Jason Huebel

@rubin great additions. - Carlos Granier-Phelps via IM

How would you update this list? What are your favorite free Mac apps? - Carlos Granier-Phelps via IM

@Jason Quicksilver is the best though. :) - Erica Baker

@ericajoy I use QS everyday... mostly as a launcher though. I keep meaning to learn more about it. - Carlos Granier-Phelps via IM

Some day, I might even read through this list: http://theappleblog.com/quicks... - Carlos Granier-Phelps

I would also replace Menu Meters with iStat menus (http://islayer.com/apps/istatm...) - Damon Cortesi

@dacort Yeah, I use iStat as well. Any other favorites? - Carlos Granier-Phelps via IM

Of course - I prefer Transmission for torrenting and one of the other first apps I install is 1Password. Visor (http://code.google.com/p/black...), by the QS folk originally, is also pretty useful as I spend several hours in the terminal. - Damon Cortesi

I couldn't imagine life without Quicksilver ♥ - Timothy Griffin

@timmargh I used to be the same way, but actually use Spotlight for all my app launching these days. - Damon Cortesi

I've tried using Spotlight for app launching but find QS to be sooo much faster and accurate. - Carlos Granier-Phelps

Damon: I do use Spotlight occasionally, but Quicksilver is great for custom scripts and little things like selecting a bunch of files in Finder and opening them with a non-default app. - Timothy Griffin

the best place a MAC user should go too is www.screencastsonline.com - johnpiercy

@timmargh Yea, I do definitely miss the ability to send IM's through Adium via QS. Other than that, though, I didn't do too much QS customization. - Damon Cortesi

Thanks Carlos - Rubin Sfadj

Last.fm! (and MacVim) - Michele Campeotto

In textual media, as opposed to Flickr, tags are a placeholder for decent search. Between Summize integration and the eventual return of the track function, tagging becomes pointless. You could easily recreate a tag cloud by counting incidences of all words (and removing pointless words). - Vezquex இ

Not every message that has the word "dog" in it is about dogs. Not every message that is about dogs has the word "dog" in it. That is why tags are useful. - Peter

Peter, I think you are right. But, you can infer that if enough people all mention dogs, they are all probably talking in the same context. There will be a few outliers, but do those really need to be tagged/indexed? Do the usefulness of hashtags get lost on the mainstream and next gen Twitter user? I think so. - Matt Browne

Hash tags won't go away. They are useful in lots of scenarios, particularly events. I want people to be able to find my tweet about the Democratic National Convention, for instance, but including those works in the tweet would use up 35 characters! Much simpler to just include #dnc or #dnc08 or whatever people are using. - Mack D. Male

Neat - Tweetstats is more comprehensive though - graphs are neater - embee

Unfortunately, some of TweetStats comprehensiveness is limited until Twitter brings back the pagination feature. :( (note: I'm the developer of TweetStats) - Damon Cortesi

@Damon: It still sucks that the pagination is currently so limited. - Voyagerfan5761

I was going to add full public timeline support to TweetStats, then Twittter pulled XMPP - I wonder how these guys are getting their data? - Damon Cortesi

i think there was a fairly well-commented-on post similar to this... - edythe

Mark - Me too. - Russellreno

the API rate limit. - directeur

The portability of your del.icio.us bookmarks is great but you always end up looking around for a password manager (again preferably sitting in the cloud accessible to multiple platforms both desktop and mobile) such as ipassword on the Mac or Roboform to get you into those sites requiring logon so tends to be half the process for me? At the moment ipassword and Roboform are platform specific but i know ipassword is developing a web based solution not sure on roboform. - David W

@Mike - I like the way you have been using FriendFeed for research and early adopter temperatures. It is a good idea. - Franklin Pettit

Searching your bookmarks is very slow. - Morton Fox

Morton : why don't you use tags instead? Or do you mean that it's slow even with tags? - directeur

I would like to see more social features - e.g. send me an email alert when someone joins my network, allow me to comment on other people's bookmarks, recommend other del.icio.us users who share the same interests, etc. - Mike Doeff

@Franklin thanks. Friendfeed has truly become a powerful research tool, in some aspects more powerful then Google. It's amazing watching this rapid transformation take place. - Mike Fruchter

The fact that you can't find out anything about users. I can find that X bookmarked a page and what other pages they bookmarked, but what about their other outputs; their blog, Twitter, Jaiku, FriendFeed. It's a dead end. I've blogged about it before, http://pastoid.com/xu+ - Michael C. Harris

the more I use Diigo, the more I see what delicious is missing. I named some in my article, but I am starting to pick up a few more now. I'll save my thoughts for another week or so :) I won't say Diigo is perfect, but it has what delicious doesn't. - Tim Hoeck

Thanks Mike. Keep the input coming guys. - Mike Fruchter

A better UI and everything that Diigo has. - Corvida

What's bad in del.icio.us UI? I find it so simply intuitive. In the other hand, the home page of Diigo scares me that I didn't signed up - directeur

I agree with Mike Doeff 100% here - Del.icio.us may be good to bookmark and even search for others' bookmarks but it is not even remotely social. But we call it SOCIAL bookmarking, right? - Svetlana Gladkova

UI, some social features and multi-word tags support - Dobromir Hadzhiev

It seems the release of del.icio.us 2.0 has stalled.I know a lot of people are hesitant to jump ship and go with another bookmarking service. What will it take for you to jump ship? - Mike Fruchter

Mike no need to jump completely, new tools can work with multiple services, I still push to del.icio.us for later reference, mainly 'cause of the handy extension, but now it doesn't work with FF3, frustrating isn't it - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I just wish del.icio.us would mirror the page when I bookmark it. :-( MyYahoo did this but then they bought del.icio.us. - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

@directeur yes the API rate limit does suck -- also wish there was more emphasis on the social aspect of bookmarking - Shey

@Shey: I think the social side is well held... I have tons of people tagging stuff for me, I have a network, what else can we think of? :) And to answer the UI concerns, I myself will program a new client if yahoo decides to make the UI "complicated". I love the UI, it's simple, clean and does the work. - directeur

Ability to delete from the inbox and pull in stuff from feeds and automatically apply tags to them as described here: http://tinyurl.com/5rwkyb - Andy Davies

a second server ? ;-) - David Peacock via twhirl

A platoon of fail whales wearing camouflage gear? - Dewald Pretorius

decreased. All the downtime combined with shifting over to FF has pretty much brought my twitter use to an almost stand still. - Tsega Dinka

Yup. It's down to 0%. - Bwana

Decreased because of frequent downtimes. The downtimes, coupled with the availability of a good mobile FriendFeed client (fftogo), accelerated my move toward FriendFeed. - Ontario Emperor

It's decreased but not massively, I @reply from here to Twitter messages and reply through Twhirl once I get the pop up so even though it's lost me to FF it's also gained more responses instead of statements! - Joe Dawson (beta)

My use is slightly down, but only because I'm really busy with other stuff. I'll focus more time on Twitter again once I've dented my to-do list. - Dewald Pretorius

conversation --> http://friendfeed.com/e/c5354d... I think less use of twitter is actually a healthy thing. I still use twitter to converge rss feeds to here. and I created other accounts to keep track of other rss feeds. rss that only I want to see and a few friends. in some way twitter is more about rss convergence for me then a chat tool. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

I feel this is a very healthy thing because twitter people are not very cool and I am glad to not take the scene seriously. I never block over a political difference, but it would seem 99% of twitter is intolerant towards divergent opinions. It is one thing to speak out... quite another to get ur friends to cyber gang bang a person who you disagree with and then label them a stalker. the twitter whores and eMom's are dead. Long Live friendfeed and the non block. - Ⓝ〄ⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂ〄Ⓝ

increased: i discovered gridjit (http://www.gridjit.com/) which is currently be revamped so is down. and instead of going back to not using it, i discovered twhirl and now my use is up for twitter and friendfeed. also, unknown people started to follow me, which boosted my ego. (thanks strangers!) so now i tweet all the time! - Ivan Stegic

1.) Yes. 2.) Why: Twitter outages; Friendfeed is up and running - Yeah! 3.) Not as much twitter use in future for reasons stated; plus, richer convo happens here. - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

1)Yes. 2) Because it's getting warmer and so I'm spending more time outdoors and while doable, twittering in public is teh tres geeky... not cool. ;-) - .LAG

Decreased down to a few Tweets a day, but still manageable. It just isn't the same when you post via, FF. If odds are against Twitter much more, then I'd be perfectly happy to switch to another service. - Josh Jenkins

Feel free to check here for the hard numbers. ;) http://tweetstats.com - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

Definitely down, using Plurk now - Mack Collier

My use is about the same or a little less then last month (until im push is working) - "Czar" DJ Peterman

My usage is completely based on how much time I have on the computer. And if I remeber to launch up twhirl - Chacha via twhirl

My have been goin up! - k00pa

I've increased my Twitter usage, but that's because I reach an audience both here and on Twitter. If my followers moved to FF, I would too. - David Sim

ff has taken over from Twitter for me bigtime. - Mike Coulter

Twitter use is so far down, it is gone. I'm writing up a blog post on the Twitter exit plan and I'll point to this room. - Dave Slusher

I never thought of us as a part of an exit strategy from twitter. But, I suppose being on friendfeed, but surrounded by twitter users is a good way to wean one's self :) - Brad McCrorey

Twitter use definitely down. FriendFeed use definitely up! - Jim Stanger

Ditto x infinity. FF wired better and is stable. - Mark Forman

My twitter usage has stayed the same. I don't have many friends who use friendfeed, but i'm trying to get more people on board. I got maybe 3-4 people so far! - Justin Leon

Increased. On FF etc because need to be to follow everyone else who loves it, but I don't love FF. - Leslie Poston

@Leslie: Indeed. I think this factor is becoming more and more important: Lots of people are forced to follow the herd here to keep up with the conversation. - Brad McCrorey

At first blush, I would disagree. What could be more "profile-ish" than dozens of blog posts, tweets, photos, StumbledUpon items and more? I guess there's no downside to including it, but part of the beauty of FriendFeed is its simplicity -- and I'd hate to see that ruined. - Mike Keliher

I was thinking that just a moment ago when someone new subscribed to me...it's hard to figure out who they are, and why they've found you... - Trent Olson

Definitely agree. - Chris Rossini

Agreed, but let's not go crazy with it... Location, maybe age.... - Chris Reed

that will save the click to the user's twitter page - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I want to be able to add in my dailymugshot profile so people can see how FriendFeed addiction ages me ala Whitney Houston style! - Joe Dawson (beta)

AGREE. My usual process is to click over to their Twitter page and read their profile there. - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

Agreed. Brief bio + web link would be fantastic. - Evan Sims

Agree - Hutch Carpenter

Amen - told the same to Paul else its always the usual suspects - Mrinal Desai via twhirl

One alternative would be to have the opportunity to import profile data from somewhere...say openID or something. I do think ff needs access to profiles, but I don't think I need yet another place to create a profile. - Trent Olson

Fine import in, that's fine! FYI not everyone is going to be a twitter user. - Jeremiah Owyang

I agree, but make it smart! Import data if possible. Data Portability is the way to go :-) - Magnus Jonsson via Alert Thingy

I've been thinking this as well. Why not have more detailed optional info, a link to their profile could easily be ignored by those craving simplicity. - Leif Hansen

Ok, so if we want to import profiles from somewhere, what options would we like? - Trent Olson

what about having something similar to retaggr, where your avatar allows to supplement a lot of info about you, without having to peruse lots of pages? - Kara Carrell via twhirl

Definitely agree-not enough to see their feed icons and avatar - Mark Forman via twhirl

yes, importing is the way to do it! Have you thought about how much effort would be required to update ALL of your profile(s) if you moved, for example? - Thomas Ho via fftogo

of course some basic profile would be good but not another duplicate profile, rather an integration with a profile we could chose would be best, so a blog about page, linkedin or fb profile or even the basic ones of twitter or seesmic would be good - having to many diverse profile locations is such a waste in today's easily integrated online world - mike "glemak" dunn

sorry one more point - this is not about authentication but rather information right, so a good transparent about page or the public linkedin profile is what I've been looking at and sometimes flickr because I find you can get a sense of someone by the photos they publish - but maybe that's just me ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Agree wholeheartedly that there is a need for profile info. If it's done by leveraging information from an existing source, the user needs to have the ability to specify the source, in order to control the messaging. - Andrei M. Marinescu via twhirl

AGREE - Mark Dykeman

agree! - petermello via Alert Thingy

Agree! - Carla Thompson

agree! - sergiooo

Agree. Many things I'm inclined to share with the world don't necessary define me. Sometimes I share 'cause I believe others will benefit from something more than I would. So yeah, a proper place to better define myself would be nice. - Jim Stanger

Agree. Because there are people behind names like mine. - IRWebReport.com

how about a room called 'about me?' that way you can opt in or not - sergiooo

AGREE Was just thinking the same thing this morning. - Marc Vermut via twhirl

If you hover with your mouse over someone's name, the profile pop-up gives a short profile plus an indication of whether that person has subscribed to you, rather like Twitter Karma but hundred times better ;) - Mario Olckers

Yes, a short profile would be of great help. kamla - kamla bhatt

mario - true but its not a profile, its the list of aggregated sites, so from there you can go look at one of the about pages of a blog or a true profile page like linkedin - mike "glemak" dunn

it would definitely be helpful to know a little more about people, but short profile - Carolina Velis

Agree. - Chris Nixon

Agreed. - Holger Eilhard

Agreed. - Thomas Hawk

Agreed. Was thinking that a couple weeks ago. I tend to click on people's Twitter or blog link to find the "about" info. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Totally. If you go to twitter and see my reference to "nude Oprah" you would then be completely disappointed when you arrive at my blog http://tinyurl.com/582z7o I vote for a profile on FF. - Dan Covington

Agreed - Rubin Sfadj

DISAGREE . They should keep it simple and avoid feature-creep. - john conroy

I don't know. I tend to disagree. I want to get to know someone by what they feed, by how they comment, not by what they say in a profile. Not everyone can express themselves that way, but you can by what you feed, like and comment IMO. - AJ Kohn

Jeez, Jeremiah. You've got access to my photos, videos, two blogs, and all the feeds I read. - Christopher Harley

For now, you can always mouse over someone's name and see where it takes you. It's a good practice anyway because you can subscribe to their feed if you wish - Charlie Anzman

AGREE. Going over to the ever-slow twitter just for the bio is, err, slow. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Agreed.. Infact, I requested this before a long time.. http://friendfeed.com/e/a2a2a4... - Jigar Mehta

Agree - I tend to hover over their blog button to see what the name of it is - Sarah Perez

Agree. Although Most Profiles don't really convey much directly, you can infer a lot from what the person is trying to paint. - Parth Awasthi via twhirl

Completely disagree. As someone said already, your stream is your profile. - Neil Saunders

Agree - Their blog URI is the main thing. - Franklin Pettit

It's especially bad when people don't have a blog feed to get an idea. - Cyndy

I agree. Making the profiles searchable would also add value - Mike Sansone

Agree :) - Maryam Ardakani

agree.... web links are most important - Stefan Hayden

yeah, I'm Definitely agree with you - Zahra HB

DISAGREE. A think max you could you a profile sentence a la twitter, but it's almost more fun to infer/learn facts about the person from what they like, blog about, read and listen to. - Cat Laine

Just for fun, I'd like to remind people that this is called FRIENDFeed. If you don't know who someone is, and you're not intrigued by what they've shared here, what would a little bio do to change that? - Mike Keliher

I would have to say that FF is more of an aggregator with some bells & whistles. Some of the others services (blogs or facebook for example ) tend to be the places I'd expect to go for more info. Maybe the ability to add a link to the profile you wan to people to see? - Joel Gray

agree...but, jsut need a link to a profile from linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc. all that i need to know is who is that person. w/o a blog (most have them though), it's hard to figure out from the screen name. - don loeb

Agreed. - mojay via fftogo

Agreed... I sometimes wonder why this person wants to follow me. - Mike Wills

Not really. After all, FriendFeed links to many of the places where I have profiles - including a direct link to my LinkedIn profile. - Simon Bisson via Alert Thingy

FF is elegant enough as it is. I think that FF, as said above links to more that one place where my profile is stored. Which reminds me, it needs updating. Any tips?? - Roberto Bonini

AGREE! I've asked the FF team for this specific feature. Hope they're listening. :) - Don MacAskill

I like the basic simplicity of it. If you want to know more about them, go visit the blog page they linked. - TranceMist

It would actually be kind of cool if FF kept track on the things you share and comment on and then build a profile from it. It could be just as much about self discovery! How exciting! - Geoff Schultz

I like either reading in the Twitter bio or an excerpt from an About page from blog. Also, title and company from LinkedIn could be read. That alone might suffice. - Adam Darowski

Agree. For those who want to use it, a FriendFeed profile saves the trouble of digging through countless posts, tweets, etc. And if you don't want to use it, you don't have to use it. - Ontario Emperor

From somebody who's Internet experience has been heavily influenced by you (you were one of the first blogs I ever followed), best of luck and I look forward to seeing the results of your new opportunity! - Damon Cortesi via twhirl

yahoo won't be the same without you.. :( - Augusto Becciu via twhirl

Just to hope you all good to your new work, whatever it is. - Daniel Schildt

Where are you going? Anywhere we've heard of? - Tony Ruscoe

Jeremy. Good luck. I can only echo what Damon said above - Deepak

good luck - Andreas Gohr

shocked to know that u'r leaving. good luck. - Jansen Lu via twhirl

:) - Sarath via Alert Thingy

shocked. And happy for you :) - John Mueller

woo. crazy. all the best to you. - Josh Mings via twhirl

Congrats on a huge move, and all the best, Jeremy. You'll be deeply missed as a Yahoo, even by those of us that don't work there. - DeWitt Clinton

Welcome to the ex-Yahoo club, Jeremy, and congratulations on the move. Looking forward to seeing what comes next for you. - Ryan Kuder

Congrats! - Ginger Makela

Best of luck! - Mike Reynolds

Who's the next lucky one to hire you!? :) - directeur

Good luck! - Matt Wood

Reading this in Friendfeed. Doesn't seem appropriate to "like" it. More "ackknowledge that it is news". You seemed like a force for good in a good company Jeremy. - Scott Koon via twhirl

Congratulations ;) What's next ? Google or Own project ;) - David Berrebi via twhirl

@Jeremy startup please!! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

He said a 'smaller' company. So that rules out Google. - Adewale Oshineye

Best of luck Jeremy ! - Charlie Anzman

Good luck Jeremy, can't wait to see what your up to next. - Barry Schwartz

Wow! All the best man! - Robert Cooper via twhirl

Wow! Good luck Jeremy! - Niranjan Tulpule

The problem with having an ! in your company name is people always sound so excited when they write about leaving - Christian Anderson

oh, dear. - edythe

Good Luck, Jeremy. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

All the best to you Jeremy....I'm looking forward to the next chapter. in your book. - Jerry Chacon

agreed, i think plurk is over complicated - Ian Rathbone

The track feature makes this even better