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MacRabbit - Espresso - http://www.macrabbit.com/espress...
Web editor for Mac
- Dan York
Pin Drop Soup: Google Voice [Mail] - Press ? Now - http://www.pindropsoup.com/2009...
Dave Michels digs a bit deeper into the ramifications of Google's new "VoiceMail" service for cell phone users.
- Dan York
Off-the-Record Messaging - http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
A way to get end-to-end encryption over IM
- Dan York
Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcl...
Long and thoughtful piece by Dion Hinchcliffe about the changes happening around us
- Dan York
KR Connect: Change the World? Why Not - http://krconnect.blogspot.com/2009...
Great story of someone asking for - and receiving - mentoring from a CEO....
- Dan York
ooc - http://ooc-lang.org/
"ooc is a modern, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level, sexy programming language. it's translated to pure C with a source-to-source compiler. it strives to be powerful, modular, extensible, portable, yet simple and fast."
- Dan York
This is not a Roadmap | Things Blog | Cultured Code - http://culturedcode.com/things...
The future (sort of) of the "Things" to-do/task manager for the Mac and iPhone
- Dan York
Lights Out, Camera, Action « Vincent Laforet’s Blog - http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2009...
Review of the new Canon EOS 1D Mark IV that features "night vision" (ISO 102400)
- Dan York
The diaspora of information – Invisible Inkling - http://ryansholin.com/2009...
Great collection of links to recent articles
- Dan York
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social Networks and RSS (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
Research into usability issues around social networks and RSS - 209 pg report available for download at end
- Dan York
How-To: Proximity Automation - http://theappleblog.com/2009...
How to configure your mac to change settings or lock the screen when you go a certain distance away from it
- Dan York
maildrop - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
A Mac OS app that provides an easy way to copy emails from Mail or Entourage into Salesforce.com
- Dan York
Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM - Object Computing, Inc. - Java News Brief - March 2009 - http://java.ociweb.com/mark...
Long, detailed tutorial about Clojure, a newer LISP-like programming language
- Dan York
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Quartet: A Columnist's Farewell: How to Read a Column - http://www.nytimes.com/2005...
Amusing collection of notes by William Safire in 2005 when he was ending his time as a NY Times Columnist about *how* to read a column and the various techniques columnists use in writing their columns.
- Dan York
How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009) - http://www.theatlantic.com/doc...
Lengthy piece in The Atlantic that looks like an interesting read...
- Dan York
Git: Your New Best Friend [Server Side Essentials] - http://www.sitepoint.com/article...
Tutorial in using 'git' version control system for non-programmers
- Dan York
Amazon's Dynamo - All Things Distributed - http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007...
Interesting paper from 2007 about Amazon's underlying network architecture...
- Dan York
Twitter Postings: Iterative Design (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
Interesting analysis by usability guru Jakob Nielsen into what goes into writing a good Twitter update (which could also be applied to generic headline writing to a degree)
- Dan York
Yo @nicolaquinn & @vanWilgenburgh here is why I'm unfollowing everyone:
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1. Too much spam in DMs.
- Robert Scoble
2. Too much noise on my home page (I was following 100,000 and there was less and less stuff there that was interesting to me).
- Robert Scoble
3. FriendFeed has gotten WAY MORE engagement lately than Twitter has. So I'm moving even more over there.
- Robert Scoble
4. I was using http://www.twitter.com/notsecr... and finding that I liked that approach a LOT better (inbound is more important than anything, and when you hand choose the inbound it gets both a lot more fun as well as a lot more interesting).
- Robert Scoble
I think it makes sense, you essentially were following no one with 90k. As you said about Aston K, anyone with less than 200 follows is where the real value is.
- James Watters
James: yeah, actually I've found that most people will less than 2,000 follows have value. Anyone who tries to follow more than that is fooling themselves. Actually I can follow more, but only if grouped together and even then I'm getting a random sample, not a close sample.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah that makes eminent sense. I'm having trouble keeping up with only around 2000 followers.
- Nicola Quinn
Agreed on the noise, even with 1000+ it's hard to keep up with friends and close ones.
- evonne
You hear a lot more with less followers. I only follow about 260 and that's enough for me. With @mentions, you don't need to follow people to engage with them.
- Steve Farnworth
Robert: Right, as long as you don't have like 1k constant posters in there I agree. I think its fun to follow less people have have twitter 'buddies'
- James Watters
I understand your logic I believe there is a better way to get rid of unwanted noise than throw everyone out
- RetiredTeacherD
Will be interesting to see how this works out, like the innovator part of it though
- Patphelan
And being spammed by people who aren't even following you is downright rude.
- Nicola Quinn
There seems to be a big push for quality (less follows, blogging) going on in mr Scoble #cool
- James Watters
It feels odd saying this when people are talking about 1000's of followers but even with just about 200 followers i find that it sometimes gets difficult to keep up
- Bhowmik Shah
Do u really unfollow everyone, I mean, by clicking manually on every of your 50k users?
- Marcus Schuler
Funny - people agree now... They would've agreed that the way forward was following everyone six months ago! How many here follow less than 2,000 people?
- Scott Gould
Dear god I hope he scripted it through the API, I sure would.
- James Watters
Marcus: I am running a script from SocialToo that is unfollowing everyone.
- Robert Scoble
ah....okay....I thought...... :-)
- Marcus Schuler
I've often wondered how anyone following so many people can get any value from Twitter. Why not just watch the public timeline?
- Mark Meyer
from iPhone
Most people do respond to their @replys so following everyone is not as important as I think it used to be. I have gotten lots of great response from just @'s I like keeping my number in the 400's to be able to see what is going on.
- Luke Kilpatrick
If people still following you then what's the problem? I also agree with Mark Meyer enough is enough.
- claire adams
I read every tweet of everyone I follow.
- James Watters
I think following, strictly speaking, should be a two-way ranked thing. If people are having *conversations* @reply or direct then I think following is fair. Anything one-sided, i.e. marketing, self promotion, celebs etc just devalues things. You need to be rewarded for active social grouping.
- Justin Howard
Mark: believe it or not, but the public timeline still had about 4x more noise (1/4 signal) of my 100,000 person feed.
- Robert Scoble
I also think with 'mentions' now it's not quite so important to be following everyone as you can see and respond to references or messages to you.
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola: mentions is nice, but the last thing I use twitter for is to learn about me. I want to see industry thoughts as they are born, so I think its important to read each person I follow carefully.
- James Watters
From time to time it's necessary to do a twitter clean-up. That's why I think Twitter interface should change a bit and allow us to choose many followers to delete them.
- Jordi Soler
Robert, if you haven't seen this, check out this post on Jim Connoly's blog - http://jimsmarketingblog.com/2009... He did something similar at the begining of the year.
- Liviu Lica
James, I'm not sure that's the best place to do that anymore, what with all the 'Make money from Twitter' spam about. And that's not what I use it for. Plus I do read as many of my 2000 followers messages as I can!
- Nicola Quinn
Funny. This is what I said back when people like Guy Kawasaki said "follow everyone". How do you truly add to the conversation and continually engage with certain people by only responding to @replies and keyword searches. That means you are almost trying to predict conversations.
- Daniel Zarick
from iPhone
Liviu: yeah, I remember being jealous of Jim, even while thinking he was wrong. Turns out I was wrong.
- Robert Scoble
Nicola: Are we confusing 'follows' and followers? I NEVER autofollowed...I follow personally 175 people and read them all is my point; how many people are following me is a different question right?
- James Watters
Is http://www.refollow.com unworkable with a larger amount of people?
- Justin Howard
lol takes a big man to admit he was wrong Robert :)
- Nicola Quinn
Using t4bp.com you can pretty easily follow up to 500 - beyond that gets paged. Also, like others here, I find beyond about 500 you can't really "follow" them. I don't even watch the real-time timeline of those I follow anymore. It would be a full-time job!
- Glenn
Please explain why my # of followers relates to the # of people I follow :)
- James Watters
@Scott i follow less than 250
- Bhowmik Shah
James I don't auto follow. And I won't follow those who are obviously using those hideous bots to do their following. Must admit there have been few I have chosen to follow back recently.
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola: thanks. I guess to me twitter is a great place to 'read' so every day I"ll prune and maintain the list of people I follow regardless of who follows me.
- James Watters
Robert: You were NOT wrong to not to copy me, when I reset my account in January. It's always best to wait and see if something is the right ft for you first. Props for doing this Robert - I will blog about your experiences later on The Tech News Blog!
- Jim Connolly
James, there see, I'm following you now cos I like your bio :)
- Nicola Quinn
Nicola, lol, which one FF or twitter :) But make sure I"m worth it!
- James Watters
It'd be great too if you could separate the people you follow in groups. One for the media, one for the people with whom you have conversations, one for your RSS feeds...
- Jordi Soler
Jordi: If you use a twitter client you can sort follows in different groups ;)
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
Dennis: except that is VERY lame. What happens when a better client comes out? You are totally screwed.
- Robert Scoble
James, both, just done FF too. We'll have to see if you're worth it. There's always unfollow... :)
- Nicola Quinn
Dennis: I've tried Tweetdeck but I didn't like it that much. Which one would you recommend?
- Jordi Soler
Nicola, sweet, but yes unfollow quickly if I'm a waste of time. I hope you like cloud computing, its most of what I talk about. Kinda niche!
- James Watters
James, well I like clouds and computing, so we shall see :)
- Nicola Quinn
Robert: True. Tweetdeck support client sync, but I agree. Its more of a pseudo grouping and it doesn't really work well.
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
Jordi: I'm using Tweetdeck as well. I used to use Twhirl, so getting used to Tweetdeck took some time. You could try with Seesmic Desktop which is similar to Tweetdeck. There really aren't any other clients that can compete with Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
Dennis: Seesmic Desktop Web would be the best choice if it was possible: being in the cloud, at least I wouldn't have to make the configuration in all of my computers. I'll wait and see...
- Jordi Soler
I tend to unfollow if the poster isn't posting anything useful, or if after 10 @replies they still haven't @replied back, or if it's just a publicity feed for some sleb updated not by them but by their PR team, essentially telling me nothing more than I'd get from the RSS feed off their agent's corporate website.
- Matt Moran
Welcome to the Small Numbers Game. It does not really matter if Twitter or FriendFeed is the "best" tool for you - as long as it is the best tool. Personally I do not "get" FriendFeed at all, and Twitter has become my primary tool for my interests.
- Ruben Olsen
Ruben: you are a CTO and you don't get FriendFeed? Wild. And you're supposed to be deciding on all sorts of complex stuff? Amazing.
- Robert Scoble
Lol ur really going for it..I'm watching u slash ur follower list as I type. It's a veritable Twitter cleansing op. As I've previously said ur auto-follow policy was what started me tweeting in the first place. That being said I never adopted the same strategy for the same reason I won't bulk unfollow. I've tried going through my follower list with a hatchet knife but can't bring myself...
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- noxhanti
I much much prefer following folks in friendfeed (likes, easy grouping). I chat with folks in Twitter but can't group and filter them like I would prefer to.
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Mark, yeah, FriendFeed is a great Twitter client ;) Groups, lists, searches/filters..
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from email
I agree with Bhowmik, I have just about developed the ability to follow two hundred. Turns out some of the people I think that I want to follow end up not so interesting. Gave up on the column/sorting Tweetdeck for Seesmic In-Browser and searches. Routinely toss out people I follow who are not so engaging in exchange for new ones. I applaud your mass dumping. Never understood the "courtesy follow". Probably only works for broadcasting commercial accounts.
- suecosby
First the great Twitter Spam Clean of last week and now this... much movement in The Force
- GadgetGuy
My way of minimising the noise is pretty lo-fi, but it works for me. Using the Twitter web interface I mark as Favorites tweets from people I either want to keep an eye on or who I regularly correspond with. Even better if I create a favorite entry that has multiple twitter accounts in the tweet. Like I said, a lo-fi Twitter bookmark-style solution.
- GadgetGuy
I wasn't sure if this post was going to be worth a "like," but the conversation covers some great points. This is really the reason that Friendfeed has more value than Twitter: the value in the conversations. For me, Twitter has almost become little more than a RSS aggregator, with very little real conversation. If you're not using Frindfeed because you don't "get it," then you're not subscribing to the right people, the right rooms, or the right searches.
- Chris Rogers
from BuddyFeed
I'm new to FriendFeed. Do I have to see @replies that people I follow from twitter make to random people. I do not see these @replies in twitter, but they show up in FriendFeed. They are replies to people I do not even follow. Any advice?
- James M. Davis
I'm following about 2000 people, but a lot of them are formal or informal news outlets and organizations that I'm interested in. I made a point of following librarians, gardeners, photographers, writers, editors, environmentalists, scientists, and geeks, plus people who like the same TV shows I like. I also made a point of following people around the world so if something is happening...
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- Joan Weytze
I can completely understand why you made the purge you did. I never understood how you and others were really able to "follow" as many people as you did. Dropping to a smaller number seems to make much more sense. Glad to see you writing about WHY you are making the change. Thanks for the great writing you continue to do.
- Dan York
Why would I want to follow anyone other than someone who has 'gained' my attention by being more interesting than distracting. If I follow you and you offer to make me rich, or say the same thing too many times ... you're blocked. If you want to follow me, then I'd better see interesting when I check you out.
- Don Strickland
So, Ok... my standard practice since first log on is vindicated by you *finally* figuring out how to use social media...
- Teresa Boze
So when are you going to delete all your 25,000 FriendFeed subscriptions?
- Gary
If you are trying to catch everything in your Twitter stream you're nuts anyway. If you follow 10 chatty people you will have trouble keeping up. If you follow 10,000 who don;t say anything you'll feel lonely anyway. I do have a separate account that follows a handful of people I know personally, but I certainly would not like it to be my main Twitter account and even there I don't try...
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- Robert Morrison
Great move Robert. Hope others follow your lead.
- Mike Doeff
sounds like you mixed two different ways of using twitter: 1) discovering stuff, 2) engaging in a conversation with mutual interested indivuals. Are you bringing you're twitter account back to the second? So, what happens with the discovery then?
- Jaco van Wilgenburgh
btw: do you use friendfeed with a client? or via the browser?
- Jaco van Wilgenburgh
So, Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) just reversed course completely on "how" he uses Twitter. Beginning of the end? ;-)
- Joel Bennett
"actually I've found that most people will less than 2,000 follows have value"...but you had more than 2,000 followers/ing and you had value, Robert! I subscribe to a lot of news/blog feeds on Twitter that have thousands & now millions of followers and I get a lot out of that.
- Liz
"actually I've found that most people will less than 2,000 follows have value"...but you had more than 2,000 followers/ing and you had value, Robert! There are some people/news/blog feeds that have a lot of followers but still provide great information even if one-on-one conversation isn't possible. By the way, go to @optmeout and follow the instructions if Auto-DMs are a problem...I hardly get any now.
- Liz
Amen! regarding spam in Twitter DMs. It's crazy. It's like everyone thinks it's their personal platform to pitch whatever stuff they're advertising. No, a DM is supposed to be the way to communicate directly with one person when you have something specific to say to that person. I hate the way it's been abused. I do not send out auto-DMs and I do not auto-follow.
- Colleen O'Donnell Pierce
Robert - you know my approach. FriendFeed is where I track my different worlds. Lists are fantastic, and search blows away Twitter and Google. I rely on keywords and @replies to manage Twitter.
- Hutch Carpenter
Robert, so sad to see you unfollowing so, so many people but I understand it. I'm approaching 600 people on TweetDeck and it is working for me so far...Definitely pushing the limits though! You definitely can't maintain close relationships with thousands and thousand of people but I would encourage you to think about Henry Ford who once said he could "press a button and get the wisdom...
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- Dan Ross
Wow - truly the end of an era. Well, Robert, you were the first person I followed on Twitter and it absolutely made my day when you followed back (even though I realized at the time that it was an auto-follow response.) So, thanks for that! ;)
- Matthew Blaisdell
Matthew: that's OK, I'm following you here now. I wonder what system we'll both move to next?
- Robert Scoble
Relax, Bloggers. The AP Isn't Out to Get You | CJR - http://www.cjr.org/the_aud...
"“We want to stop wholesale misappropriation of our content which does occur right now—people who are copying and pasting or taking by RSS feeds dozens or hundreds of our stories.” [AP's Jane] Seagrave tells me. “Are we going to worry about individuals using our stories here and there? That isn’t our intent. That’s being fueled by people who want to make us look silly. But we’re not silly.”"
- Neville Hobson
from Bookmarklet
And so the AP, like your NLA, Neville, seems intent on hastening their own slide into irrelevancy... In a world where they were the ONLY source of content, this might have made sense, but there are any number of other networks out there waiting to provide content. If the AP makes it more difficult or expensive for people to link to AP content... well... people *won't* link. And the newer services that embrace open linking will be the ones to emerge.
- Dan York
ralfrottmann Posted a FriendBoo: Mon Jul 20 20:53:47 2009
Kol Tregaskes, Harold Cabezas, Kris and 2 other people liked this
Thanks - did it work as expceted?
- Paul Kinlan
Absolutely.
- Ralf Rottmann
any recomendations or just keep it as is?
- Paul Kinlan
Seems to work well...keep it and make more.
- PhilTaylor
Sounds great, Ralf!
- Dan York
Thanks! You gotta help these guys getting local access numbers to spread their services internationally. Might also expose Voxeo to more and different type of devs. :-) Ralf
- Ralf Rottmann
from email
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