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HOW TO: Integrate Facebook With Your Blog - http://mashable.com/2009...
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LastPass extension for Google Chrome now available, and it rocks - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
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A number of Download Squad readers have been echoing the same sentiment in recent posts about Google's browser: as soon as LastPass is available, we're leaving Firefox for good. Well, gang, grab your parachutes, it's time to bail! The LastPass crew has released an alpha version of their Google Chrome extension, and it rocks. Check out the screens after the break!
- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Ah, nice. Would be all over it if I needed a password manager.
- Christopher A Carr
Now, I forget another web browser because WebKit is my favorite page renderer & the style of Chrome is being liked by me. I use IE or Firefox because there's many way to sync my passwords here.
- Sachin Shekhar
This is great news. I was a long-time Roboform user, but LastPass is much better in my opinion. Glad to see that I no longer have to use the bookmarklet in Chrome.
- Evan Brown
I'm on phone right now but I swear to having read reports saying that Roboform now works as a Chromium extension.
- Niklas Pivic
from fftogo
Not quite. They are actually offering a custom build of Chromium with Roboform built in.
- Evan Brown
You have to get the Dev channel build of Chrome...
- Paul Whitaker
Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Media News and Analysis, TheNextWeb Forum, Share Music (No Video), RWW: The Future of Tech
Billy Corgan, of 'The Smashing Pumpkins', to Give Away His New 44 Song Album Online for FREE! --- One song will be released per week, for 44 weeks - http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/pages...
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Recording began yesterday, September 15th, 2009 on the new record which will be entitled 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope'. The album will feature 44 songs, 4 of which are now being recorded. My desire is to release a song at a time beginning around Halloween of this year, with each new release coming shortly after until all 44 are out. Each song will be made available absolutely for free, to anyone anywhere. There will be no strings attached. Free will mean free, which means you won't have to sign up for anything, give an email address, or jump through a hoop. You will be able to go and take the song or songs as you wish, as many times as you wish.
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
Move over Radiohead... Billy's holding the reigns on the future business model of music distribution and marketing! As a fan of Corgan and The Pumpkins, I'm BEYOND excited about their approach to this massive album.
- Brad Williamson
My favorite excerpt from the announcement was this... "The music of 'Teargarden by Kaleidyscope'harkens back to the original psychedelic roots of The Smashing Pumpkins: atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty."
- Brad Williamson
@Mentions Are Now Live on Facebook - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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"Facebook announced that it would soon support Twitter-like @mentions a few days ago. Today, Facebook actually enabled this functionality. Now, when you type a status update and type '@,' an auto-updating drop-down menu with the names of your Facebook friends will appear. While users could always write the name of their friends in a status update, these names are now linked to a user's profile. Soon, Facebook will also allow users to tag friends in applications as well."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
Why am I excited about this? I'm itching to try it out. :/
- Faraz Mullick
@mentions for Facebook potential for spam like behavior or saviour? Is this the start of Friendfeed's influence on their new masters?
- Deano @ Byron New Media
Seems to only work if you @mention only one person, at least that's how it's working on my account - multiple @mentions not passing through to the mentionees.
- Kurt Starnes
don't know I wanna 2 use mention on FB when I am using this on Twitter and here on Friendfeed my fb is a more of a private wall garden unless its my biz Fan Page
- polou/indigo_bow
We all we're going to figure it out how to use those services efficiently now, as well as their features. I still prefer friendfeed.
- Arnaldo M Pereira
It should work that way, TAKBofFF.
- Kurt Starnes
The Future of the Social Web: In Five Eras - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Rajif Krobat, Baytech, Björn Klose and 113 other people liked this
Interesting stuff...thanks for sharing
- Hugo Guzman
Great info! I agree fish where the fish are :)
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
Agree on the whole. I always find these categories a little artificial: Really "Forrester-speak". :) I think the recommendations are the most interesting. I'd make a separate post out of that.
- Meryn Stol
You say it yourself: "What’s interesting isn’t this vision for the future, but what it holds in store for brands, " . I'd like these recommendations to be fleshed out with concrete first steps to take. Doesn't have to be more than links to relevant resources.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn The recommendations are fleshed out in the actual reports. Our clients (brands) have access to see them.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hmm ok... Then I'll need to get the details elsewhere I guess. :)
- Meryn Stol
Interesting categorization of the development into eras. Any consideration to the impact of scale on the 5th era? Just as a recent example with Facebook, their format evolution was not well received by what is not an insignificant number of members, and yet the reality is - that change - negative impact not withstanding is not rolling back.
- Patrick Boegel
There will be a give and take between communities and brands. The thing is, Facebook doesn't have a competitive alternative that users could go to. In my report, we suggest that active communities could define specs for products, and bid MULTIPLE companies to build it.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I completely understand that Jeremiah, just wondering if the nature of scale impacted or perhaps better said impacts the thought process for very complex long term brand relationships, ie Health Insurance, Financial Services, a college/university choice, where consversation and user invovlement can be complicated. Very interested in the full report either way. Thx.
- Patrick Boegel
good stuff Jeremiah, enjoyed and some good thought provokers there for the future
- Richard Binhammer
Nice paper but really expensive for young people. $750 means $41 for page.
- Alp
Great information, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Interesting, but very general and hard to apply. I see companies more as å provide of tools/stage for conversation, aka the gold rush mining vs selling tools
- Anders Dahlberg
Alp, Many of Forrester's clients are large brands who have a subscription. We're still sharing a great deal on this blog, and have given the report to bloggers to cover, so there's value to be had there.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah (and the team), a great piece of work and, I imagine, a labour of both love and loathing at times! I have been very interested in this area as I have looked at the shift in skills to deliver social media activity changes from one of basic coding knowledge to much more human, interactive skills.
- Paul Fabretti
Fantastic article! I found it SO intriguing that I've even printed it out!
- J. D. Ebberly
"How Brands Should Prepare" is a great bit of information. Jeremiah, it would be nice (i'd be reading) if you expanded in future blog posts about the "How Brands Should Prepare".
- frank barry
That's likely to be a research report I'm thinking about writing Frank
- Jeremiah Owyang
Probably correct in assuming that most online social networks will neither spawn nor solidify to the point of being considered ‘affinity groups’ with the level of cohesion, unified budgetary authority or organized implementation capability of NGOs, churches, or employee aggregations. Even in the era of social commerce. I hope I’m wrong.
- A Mitchell
Great post, understanding the future's potential is more important than ever on the social web.
- Vlad Hrouda
Just found this... great stuff!
- Gerd Leonhard
22 Awesome Adobe AIR Applications for Designers - http://sixrevisions.com/tools...
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Adobe AIR has become a popular platform for internet-enabled desktop applications. If you’re a designer, AIR applications will help you with a multitude of tasks that will make your life easier, aiding you in streamlining your workflow.
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
Here's one of my favorites: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion...
- Melanie Reed
Correction: Adobe Air has become a popular platform for simple internet-enabled apps -- particularly apps for color or image manipulation, or which just call a webservice, and where resource management is not questioned.
- Joel Bennett
9/11 Anniversary: Time to Bring Peace into Your Life - http://www.lifehack.org/article...
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4 Websites With LOTS Of Completely Free Ebooks That Don’t Suck - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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How to publish and receive blog posts in Real-time - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Find Emails with Large Attachments in your Gmail Mailbox - http://www.labnol.org/softwar...
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Videosurf – A Video Search Engine For Multiple Video Sites - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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Scobleizer: First experiences with my Posterous at http://scobleizer.posterous.com/ http://ff.im/74ijQ - http://twitter.com/Scoblei...
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Why did you favourite your own tweet?
- Bryce Roney
Now, it will be interesting to see what you think about Posterous. Have you seen Shifted Librarian's blog/site? She has recently integrated lifestreaming into her WordPress site. http://bit.ly/rpzLd
- Gregg Morris
Bryce: cause someone has to! :-) I don't know, I was tired and having some fun.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, even though sometimes i disagree with your methods... i sincerely enjoy your honesty. your perspectives on things are always pretty enlightening. I have grown over last 2 weeks to love the simplicity of Posterous (I still dont know how to actually pronounce the word.) I am using it as a place to post stuff that I dont think is worthy of a blogpost, but I still have the urge to...
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- Cody Heitschmidt
welcome
- andy brudtkuhl
20 Must-Have Bookmarklets For Your Web Browser - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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12 most annoying types of Facebook users - http://www.inquisitr.com/34378...
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Your Guide To Music On The Web - Part #1: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... (my latest post on Techcrunch)
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Email Marketing’s Role In Internet Marketing - http://talkingavatar.com/115...
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How To Trace An IP Address To A PC & How To Find Your Own - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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How To Have a Blog You Don’t Have To Babysit - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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How To Get Things Done Efficiently | How To Choose a Career - http://www.everydaycareer.com/get-thi...
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5 Really Popular Online Job Application Forms - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/ultimat...
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What is the best "read it later" app? Instapaper? Readitlater? am i missing any?
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I use instapaper for browser and iPhone app. I'm not familiar with readitlater but if it doesn't have a mobile app it's dead to me.
- Mike Bracco
also, don't forget evernote. You can certainly use it for this function.
- Mike Bracco
yeah, but you know what i've found with evernote...its a pain to mark anything "as read". I have a tag called "must read". That part works great..but when i want to mark it as read but still save it for later - i have to remove the tags and then add other tags etc.. too much pain.
- Zee.
Read it later does the trick for me, simply and efficiently ;)
- Pierre-Philippe Martin
yeah that's true...it's not optimized for this particular use. I would love Evernote to latch on some functionality that was specific to this idea of reading content and marking it after being read. Personally, I like to consume content and then be done with it. I am not the type that feels it necessary to have my reading history saved and archived somewhere.
- Mike Bracco
Yeah, maybe i should get into that frame of mind....
- Zee.
checking out laterloop...forgot about this one
- Zee.
With search as good as it is...i have gradually shifted to my current mentality about information online. instead of collecting it, I just put my faith in google :)
- Mike Bracco
yeah, i tend to do that with bookmarking but for stuff i need to read its difficult
- Zee.
Diigo, because it does social bookmarking too and indexes the contents of each bookmarked page (as opposed to just the title), thus making everything you read (and have yet to read) searchable. Makeuseof did I writeup of them earlier this year
- LANjackal
has Diigo got an iphone app too?
- Zee.
This would be why Diigo just has "Private" & "Unread" checkboxes. In fact, once you go back to the Diigo site itself and open the bookmarked link, it's automatically marked as read. As long as you don't add any other tags to the bookmark you'll never see it again unless you deliberately search for it.
- LANjackal
from IM
I'm going to put this #laterzheenu tag here coz the guy that uses it could do with checking this thread out ;-)
- Slappy Line
It's not an app, but I was/is using google boormaks bookmarklet with tag "read" (or "print" to ebook reader). I'm starting to use instapaper on ipod touch.
- Rui Pereira
from iPod
I like the Firefox add-on Taboo, and I also use the bookmarklet [to read] http://toread.cc/ which emails me the page to read later.
- Derek Markham
I use InstaPaper because of iPhone app and Tweetie integration.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Feedly has a save button, which stores any viewed item to a separate area for reading later.
- Marlin Forbes
evernote
- Scott Magdalein
instapaper by FAR....but only if you have an iphone....and pay for the PRO version
- Brandon Blattner
I think the latest Instapaper Pro is better than Read It Later Pro. It has sorting options, auto reading and syncs faster.
- Svartling
Really great for reading saved articles on the iPhone.
- Svartling
Why not use FriendFeed for this "Read Later" bucket? I just tried it out, create a "Standard" Group/Room (like "_Zee's Read Later") that you can then send to with the FF bookmarklet. Then create a "_Read Later" Friend List that will sit on top of your lists, and add the Group to that List's feed. Done. You can hide the items if you no longer need them, share them from there to other...
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- Alex Schleber
BTW, for an added benefit, if you post the item to your FriendFeed "Home" feed, as the bookmarklet does by default, some of your subscribers may already read the item for you and comment, doing a bit of work/filtering for you. If it's really supposed to be more close to the vest, you can hit backspace 1 x and post to your "_Zee's Read Later" room only. It could even be made into a private Group/Room if I'm not mistaken and still work, no?
- Alex Schleber
Instapaper FTW!
- Daniel S.
i use diigo - had both a "read" and "need to read" option
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I would be lost without Instapaper.
- Tech Introvert
I use instapaper as well and it works well. I use it to store stuff that I do not have time to read and want to read later.
- Brian
Instapaper for me...
- Nikhil Dandekar
I miss LinkRiver! The ability to import feeds for reading later, like Google Reader starred items or Twitter favorites, was killer. I use InstaPaper now, but I miss having all my items to read later in one place.
- Michael Hocter
I use instapaper all the time
- BEX
my favorite ReaditLater (RIL) feature: - Click to Save mode in Firefox. After turning this mode on you can browse through a web page with many links click the links you want to read later and each will be saved to your ReaditLater list. The feature set is much richer than Instapaper, which I only use now when an iPhone app doesn't support forward to RIL.
- Clyde White
Google Reader + RIL is my fave.
- mrshl
I use Read It Later and it works perfectly for my needs! The Firefox extension is very handy, as Clyde mentioned--and I too, like mrshl, love the Google Reader integration--and the iPhone app is perfect--quick syncing and two different offline modes: offline web view, and offline text view (in which you can change the font size, making for easier reading on the mobile screen). They...
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- Sean O'Hanley
Instapaper is the best if you have an iPhone. Now I'm using Android phone and found that Instapaper is not friendly to GPhone, no apps, even the web interface is ugly and hard to navigate. I like the idea to send articles to Gmail mentioned by @Roberto.
- yezi
...Diigo, I had forgotten about that. must take a refresher on it.
- .LAG liked that
I like Read It Later, but I forget to use it all the time. I like my old system best: When I have a nice amount of tabs open that I know I can't read, I save them as a bookmark folder on my desktop by date via CTRL+SHIFT+D in firefox.
- adam garrett
diigo is getting an iphone app together with diigo V4 - which should hopefully be released later today ... http://ff.im/5MXfl
- march
ReaditLater, because it have integration with Google Reader (Firefox), TwitterFon, and you can add RIL to the "Send to" on Google Reader.
- G. Berr
The DO’s and DON’Ts of Customer Service in a Social Media Age - http://www.hightechdad.com/2009...
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New Feature: Facebook now offers way to share stuff with everyone or just a specific list. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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this is actually pretty damn cool...
- Zee.
smart move
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
love this - have to get in and play around with it
- Stefanie Hahn
"Copying Friendfeed... Please wait."
- Jérôme Flipo
funny you should say that Caleb http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Zee.
ha ha facebook vs ff .same features in same time:)
- Samir Kerimov
yeah Samir, not identical but very similar and ridiculously close in time... :)
- Zee.
Fantastic! Now when I say less than flattering things about work, my coworkers won't see it. Thank you Facebook, you have cut down significantly on office drama.
- Miss Elle
love it
- stanleyyork
cool
- Mike Montano
I also noticed today that on my Facebook wall a popup saying that there was new data for the wall and I could update without refreshing - similar to what we see on Twitter search. They are both getting closet to real time.
- Robert Freeze
I keep refreshing hoping to see this, the custom seems like it could be especially useful.
- Michael Turner
That's an old Pownce feature. Frienfeed doesn't support posting to a pre-defined list; you'd either have to DM them all at once, or get them to join a room.
- Raphael, Raphael
I kept waiting and waiting and it never showed up. Turns out you need set Publisher Control Default to Everyone...then it shows up. Of course now that I've done it, I'm not seeing a way to actually search statuses. Seems somewhat pointless...at least for the moment.
- Michael Turner
LiveJournal friends filtering arrives.... oh wait. :)
- Jay Cuthrell
6 of the best Lifestreaming solutions – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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"With an ever-increasing number of places to publish content online, keeping track of it all can be difficult. Pulling it all together and presenting it all in a visually pleasing way is a surprisingly difficult task. Quite a few ‘Lifestreaming’ solutions have sprung up in the last couple of years, allowing you to turn your website into a diary of your web content. The question is, are any of them the perfect solution? Let’s take a look at some of the best options out there right now. Which ones strike the best balance between good looks, ease of use and flexibility. You might just find the perfect answer for you."
- Martin Bryant
from Bookmarklet
Martin, so how do you propose we read the article, when there are those additional/ non-removable "bookmarks" constantly in the field of view? (I trust you can see the pic, else I'll repost it to me feed) <http://i.friendfeed.com/ac0a344...>
- ianf ⌘
Ian, what browser are you using? We'll look into that...
- Martin Bryant
Safari 3.2.3 (latest pre-4.0 release), OSX 10.5.7. I didn't mention the lower-margin also constantly overlayed extra toolbar, why? [So you could see the picture? nice]
- ianf ⌘
Perhaps I should also mention that because of all the extra JS-garbage you're loading (though you probably call it "goodess"), the site takes visibly, and inexplicably longer than others to arrive even on a 2Mbps line?
- ianf ⌘
Thanks for the Lifestream Blog mention Martin.
- Mark Krynsky
No problem Mark - it's a really good blog!
- Martin Bryant
Now that the vision-obscuring "finger bookmarks" (or whatever you call them) are gone, I concur, it's a nice, concise overview. That said I always wish for such comparisons to be presented in a single easy to overview table of sorts, or diagram, so their at-a-glance features can all be seen at once. I know it's a tall order, but perhaps not impossible with hypertext maps with...
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- ianf ⌘
ADMINISTRIVIA Re: TNW's comments system: a well executed integration bar one thing - since FF makes it possible to amend comments, TNW should at least prevent reposting of consecutive edits – either post just the initial one (tough if incomplete), or have some mechanism to compare with same user's already posted comments and replace the inital one with the new version. Otherwise, each our potential spelling correction will be reflected at your end.
- ianf ⌘
ianf. I did comparison matrix a long time ago which I believe is what you are looking for. You can see it here: http://lifestreamblog.com/compare... unfortunately it's very old and I've contemplated doing a new version soon.
- Mark Krynsky
Very interesting Mark, but, due to the many uncommon concepts/ functions it introduces, really more of a reminder tool for the already enlightened, not for the new-to-concept tool-shopping public. Martin's six selected tools were just many enough to allow side-by-side views of, say, what the same (model/ synthetic) lifestream would look like in the most common, or capable, theme of each...
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- ianf ⌘
You forgot Puddle-blog : http://code.google.com/p... A themeable, modifyable, and very easy to setup self-hosted lifestreaming code.
- Pascal
Mark, your comparison has a great value : it lists all the functionnalities a "great" lifestreaming tool would have. FriendFeed has a lot (but not alll ) of them.
- Zackatoustra
Very interesting, Pascal, but do you have an instance demo?
- ianf ⌘
Sure: http://pascal.orangepixel.net/ I do run a slightly newer version with tag-cloud and auto-updating.. Should release that soon I guess ;)
- Pascal
How are Puddle-tags extracted, via automatic scanning and lexical analysis of the stream? If so, then a step in the right direction. Other than that, and without having yet tried your "collector of activities / a new way of blogging / upload or favourite a movie on Youtube, post last holiday pictures on Flickr, and Puddle will add them to a blog"-method, my main unease with such...
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- ianf ⌘
you have to option to exclude tags, and it basically counts most common words found in your feeds (comments, posts, titles of items, etc). Not sure what you mean with scraping results from extra queries.. a lifestream isn't a news-portal, it's a stream of activities. Spidering websites for your activities can become hard if based only on various keywords: your stream will quickly show...
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- Pascal
This not the space to discuss specifically the Puddle, but consider this: if the bulk of one's activity is outside the cosy, well-streamed domains of YouTube, Flickr and Twitter, outside the main websites, then neither yours, nor the other lifestreaming solutions (I suspect) would be of much use. And yet the majority of all web activities everywhere does happen there, on fora that are...
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- ianf ⌘
Can anyone tell me where I can find an installation guide for Amplifeeder?
- Can Koklu
Sounds more like a job for mr Krynsky ;). For the activity's outside the well-streamed domains.. I believe most Lifestreaming apps do their best to support as many services as possible.. if a web service supports RSS it should be linkable to most of the lifestreaming engines.. it's upto web-services to provide such a standard rss fee.. So a forum like PHPBB should actually get some sort of rss-feed plugin, and it can be streamed.. that works much better then spidering or scraping it.
- Pascal
Hey, that's Yongfook.
- Mona Nomura
Agree with ianf on the fact that some criteria, and then some metrics (on those criteria) would really benefit everyone interested in choosing "the best" Lifestreaming app. Is "time to set up an empty LifeStream" relevant? In some case, it is. In some other, it won't.
- Zackatoustra
Agree, also, with Pascal, on the fact that, by essence, the lifestreaming app cannot, and should not, have to "create content", and thus, any site/service that thinks that some of the activitites that you can perform is worth lifestreaming it should provide a RSS feed listing the caracteristics of this activity.
- Zackatoustra
So, basically, what you're saying is that, by complementing user's lifestreaming functions with ability to comment, grade (=like) streams of others', AND creating original post, i.e. "native content," the FFeeders are doing it all wrong?
- ianf ⌘
And what about Posterous ? I want to hear what you think about it.
- fwed
fwed - Personally I love Posterous but I'd say it's more of a blogging and cross-posting tool than a lifestream app.
- Martin Bryant
That is my problem, i'm not even sure of what is a lifestream exactly. I think Posterous is a lifestream if you use it as a starting point (to spread content). Hellotxt and Ping.fm lifestreams are both pusher and retriever, they can be as well a starting or a ending point. But I just tried Soup.io and it can just retrieve, not push. So my question is, what is a lifestream ?
- fwed
fwed - the first paragraph of the article sums it up I think: "With an ever-increasing number of places to publish content online, keeping track of it all can be difficult. Pulling it all together and presenting it all in a visually pleasing way is a surprisingly difficult task". A lifestreaming app collates all your content in one place whereas the services you list are more commonly...
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- Martin Bryant
Gross Alert: In Texas we have "fire ants." This is what a bite looks like a few days later.
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So nasty.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from email
PLAGUE OF ANTS!
- Christopher Harley
When they bite, it fuckin HURTS too. I've got about four more of these on my foot from the tubing campsite. :(
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Fire ants deserve no mercy. Nuke'em all!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Agreed Ha3rvey! They can take those nasty giant flying cockroaches with em.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
ouch
- johnpiercy
I've heard that the only good thing about fire ants is that they eat termites. Not sure which is the worse plague.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Bright side? Could have been a tick http://ff.im/4CbNk
- Christopher Harley
EEEK. This is true, Christopher.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
AAKKK!!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Man that looks like it hurts :(
- martha
More annoying than anything else. It itches but I can't scratch it. Here's more on fire ants: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
"Unlike many other ants, which bite and then spray acid on the wound, fire ants only bite to get a grip and then sting (from the abdomen) and inject a toxic alkaloid venom called Solenopsin, a compound from the class of piperidines. For humans, this is a painful sting, it hurts, a sensation similar to what one feels when burned by fire—hence the name fire ant—and the aftereffects of the sting can be deadly to sensitive individuals."
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Grow some aloe vera. When you're bitten, break off a tip and rub the aloe juice on the bite. Works best on a fresh bite.
- Steve Lowe
Yep. I remember those little bastards only too well.
- Steven Perez
Pop it!
- Rodfather
Already did, Rod. Had to use a sterilized push pin. It was nasty.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Did you cry?
- Matthew DeVries
Nope. It wasn't THAT painful. I tear up more from trimming my nose hairs. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
o_O
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
thing is, so-called "fire ants" aren't actually ants at all, they're a type of wingless wasp. so those are stings and not bites.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
The fire ants here know me as Chemical Ali. NO MERCY!
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
:-O
- Anna Haro
we have those here too
- mjc
They're primarily in the south, coming from Mexico. They're spreading north quickly though. Little mean ass bastards.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Ouch
- Tyson Key
When I get those I end up scratching myself to the bone. I just...can't...help..it.
- Josh Haley
Every time I see this I wanna scratch it sooo bad! That would probably hurt though huh?
- pea
I HATE FIRE ANTS!!!!! And there have been several reports of them here in Virginia so far this summer. :(
- Ladybug Heather
They are such hyper-agressive, fearsome buggers. Hate 'em.
- Patrick Jordan
Did you video the popping process? Juicy!
- Mellissa Claus
Yikes
- BeeLing
And they seem to wait until they are all over your leg then start biting at once. Ack. :(
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Fire ants were in the top 20 reasons why I hated living in FL.
- April Russo (app103)
That's one thing I REALLY don't miss about living in Texas...
- Paula W
yikes.
- Thomas Hawk
Every Texas kid has at least one summer where they stumble into a fire ant bed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mississippi has those, that's one of the many reasons I left
- Sandra
ouchie... benadryl creme
- Yolanda
=O
- Shevonne
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