Thomas Hawk, Brian Auer, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, Charlie Anzman, Corvida, Benjamin Golub, Paul Buchheit, Darren Rowse, Steven Hodson - Michael Hocter
Wow, I'm very honored and will try to keep up a good stream of noise, not news. :-) - Robert Scoble
1) Robert Scoble 2) Louis Gray 3) Mike Arrington - JodyUnwired
1) Warren Buffett 2) Benjamin Franklin 3) Abraham Lincoln. Oh wait, was this limited to Friendfeed? - Ranjit Mathoda
Robert Scoble, Louis Gray, Raoul Pop, Jeremiah Owyang, Jim Goldstein,cmiper, Chris Nixon, Russellreno, Michael Gartenberg, Steve Rubel. I just wish the list went to 100 instead of 10, and especially went to 100 for those finding me interesting. That to me is the more interesting resource to find people to add. - Thomas Hawk
1. Robert Scoble, 2. Louis Gray, 3. Paul Buchheit - sebmos
Robert Scoble, Lucretia Pruitt and Thomas Hawk. Errrrrm there are many more people I find interesting, but I've seen a lot from the people I mentioned. - Rosana Kooymans
1) Corvida 2) Louis Gray 3) Robert Scoble - Sarah Perez
FF needs a better recommendation capability. GReader's method is a pretty good model to follow. The current system is a self-licking ice cream cone. - Chris Stevenson
1) michael arrington 2) Louis Gray 3) Robert Scoble 4) Mihai Parparita - Tanath
From someone outside the echo chamber...1. Carla Thompson, 2. Kelly Fox, and 3. would have to be a position shared by Chris Reed, Matt Harwood, and several of their friends with whom I've now swapped subscriptions. - Shellee
1) RAPatton 2) Kevin D. White 3) Ginger Makela 4) Michael W. May - edythe
Baratunde Thurston, edythe, Karoli, Corvida, Michelle Martinez - Michael W. May
edythe, george kelly, michelle jones, cecily walker, eric rice - Jason Toney
not even a fair poll... FriendFeed is open to the public, SocialThing is in private beta... until SocialThing is comfortable enough with their application to actually let people in to give it a fair shake then it really doesn't deserve to be compared to anything. (SocialThing looks prettier from the picture I've seen though.) - Matt Shaulis
FF, but I can use ST to easily watch all my Flickr contacts. - Russellreno
FriendFeed because of their first mover status, they're not 'private beta', 'founded by ex-Googleers' gives reassurance that my minor time investment was wise - Pat
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socialthing has a slightly different approach to social aggregation. SocialThing acts as more of a tool to aggregate all of your social networks, while FF is about picking John and Jane Doe and watching *everything* they do. - Jake Russo
social thing didn't work for me (literally seemed broken) and I haven't been back lately.now I am wondering if it is time to check it out. Oh, and twittering by proxy is still twittering. - Seek Ground
I have to say that I use FF more than Socialthing, but the latter is a MUCH cooler tool. - Tamar Weinberg
friendfeed became much much more valuable when it became an alert thingy air stream, so when will they acquire it, they have the dough, they need the technology ala seesmic/twhirl air.lifestream arms race! - ben barren
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I use both FF and ST. And what I really want is actually a combination of both. - Araceli
Social Thing doesn't have any advantages that are helpful over FF - and it is all about the social graph - more people are here... - Tony
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Agreed with Sarah Perez. No twitter means no twitter! And no, I don't use socialthing as much as FriendFeed, by a long shot. But I don't think the two services have the same goals, either. - Phil Glockner
thanks for the invite! love the video view. celebrity photo view would be awesome if you could stack the shuffled pics in a corner, then search on, shuffle some more, thus creating a collection for later reference - Gaby Benkwitz ☼
The interface is very easy to use and the results aggreation works well. It's now installed in my search bar and I will be using it quite a lot. - Andrés David Aparicio
Thanks for the invite Scoble! :) (note: it only worked when I used capital S: "Scoble"... not "scoble" :o) - Levi Figueira
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Already love it!! Found a bunch of new content easily in a topic am very familiar with. That speaks a lot for the kind of non-obvious content this approach brings up - Mahesh CR
yeah, I've never been big into facebook. it's basically where my friends who use facebook and not twitter can follow my tweets - C. K. Sample III
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yeah, I can't see the advantage of Facebook - Dennis Leung
Facebook is nearly as irritating as MySpace. I get an email if somebody sends me a message there; otherwise, I don't really keep up with it. - Jeremy Brooks
Facebook just seems agonizingly slow to me now as I am used to Twitter and MySocial 24x7. I might log in once a week now... - www.MarketSaw.com
If I could easily migrate my Twitter people (the ones I follow) into FF easily, I'd use it exclusively. Otherwise I miss too many interesting people to give up twitter yet. ...via twhirl - Jay Gilmore
Think the Pownce, Friendfeed combo is going to gain speed here - Charlie Anzman
If Pownce support international characters, it is definitly better than Twitter - Dennis Leung
Nice! Can you put up a summary of changes? I'm not at my main desktop will update later. :) - felix
Ignore me...I'm back in the room TVM! ...via AlertThingy - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
In the next update, can I open the program window by double-clicking the icon in notification area? ...via AlertThingy - Dennis Leung
@ Dennis - we would love to fix that, but there appears to be an issue with Adobe AIR! - We have told them. ...via AlertThingy - Jeremy Baines
Much better without the transparency! Do all Air apps do this when you click the title bar?... http://screencast.com/t/jvRPwI.... Same thing happens with Twhirl for me. Latest Air on Leopard. - Jack Baty
nice update. 2 things: can AIR detect if a full screen app is running (like a game) and disable the popups/sound? also, i think the logic in the opaque setting is backwards. when the setting is checked, the window is transparent :P ...via AlertThingy - keith thornhill
@Keith: I saw that, too, with the checkbox. The full-screen thing doesn't really bug me -- it's just a bit of flickering for a few seconds -- but then I'm not much of a gamer. - Voyagerfan5761
Tagging and foldering are both representations of organizational calculus. I believe that tagging has several important signatures: 1) you can create new ones at the time of organization, 2) you are presented with the full set of tags that you use. Foldering also allows for folders to be treated the same as the documents being foldered (you can put a folder in the same place an item might go.) I'm not sure what the differences labels have from those two. [engtech - i disagree; tags are fine for single use] - joshua schachter
As long as the functionality is the same, I don't care what you call them; either label (no pun intended) will suffice. Just don't call them folders like Google Docs does... - Voyagerfan5761
In my mind, labels = tags for personal use. Tags works for both public & private use and are generally well understood, so I'd say tags. - Jess Lee
I'm impartial and I agree with Voyagerfan, Google "folders" is a ridiculous hoax. I'd pick labels if only because tagging might be misunderstood to be graffiti if you're not in the 'net mindset. - Mitch
Tags for geeks, labels for mainstream, IMO. My choice is tags. - Turker Keskinpala
Automated keywords derived from existing content, or folders when it comes to stuff like Gmail or Google Docs. On the other hand, tags often give incentive to come up with more descriptive words if the title etc. doesn't suffice. Still think it's bad for e.g. YouTube to make providing tags mandatory. Shouldn't you offer the laziest options for users? - Philipp Lenssen
tags! labels give me the impression I should only use one. "tag" probably also sounds better in more languages. - Mario Romero
When you label something you are defining that something, when you tag something, you are attaching/categorizing that something. Tags are better for categorizing topics on social networking sites like this one, labels are good for email and sorting. The creator of gmail's labels/filters is a perfect implementation of labels and filters - Kyle Weller
Paul, a great idea for friendfeed would be to have a filter/label feature like gmail with friendfeed alerts. What does everyone think? - Kyle Weller
Don't most sites use tags? Why confuse people? - Devin Anderson
tags. because "tags" has a few equally plausible meanings the first time a user encounters it, it is initially disorienting. "Labels" has one more prominent meaning, so it isn't disorienting. unfortunately, that prominent meaning doesn't connect very meaningfully to its function in this case. it in fact HIDES some of the functions of tags/labels. only reason to go with "labels" would be to avoid being accused of being too techie. - ryan
I thought it was just a terminology thing, don't they both serve the same purpose? In any case, I prefer the term, tags. - Bwana McCall
#Tags are better then just plain tags.I see it as a cloud above a tag cloud - Peter Dawson
i think as terminology they frame the way users understand their function. labels, as someone before said, sounds like a one-to-one relationship a bit. - ryan
Tags. FYI, tagging only works well if multiple people are tagging the same item to build up a taxonomy. So many sites don't go the extra step of aggregating tags around an item, which makes it much less valuable. I find it very hard to consistently tag items the same way all the time, but if you look at the aggregate of many people tagging the same item then you start to get into the wisdom of the crowd sweet spot. A lot of people get tags and categories confused, categories are for me and tags are for us. - engtech
Index! We had the same internal debate, we ended up using labels since the non-techcrunch crowd would have an easier time understanding that. - Andreas Schobel
Tags !! anyway isn't another way of saying to-MAH-to or to-MAY-to ?? - Jez Arnold
If you mean "what should I call this tagging feature" then labels are good - Neil Kandalgaonkar
Looks like the vote's for tags then - and I hope you're not just teasing us poor users! - Slippy Lane
Tags are better because they are entered at capture time. Labels are only useful when applied automatically e.g. filters in gmail triggering off name+labelname@gmail.com. Therefore, remove the distinction and empower tags to do everything labels do, and we can eliminate the distinction from name to the way they are used. - Mark Norman
fact: labels can leave sticky residue on the screen - Slippy Lane
"We just heard that Howard/Baines will be releasing an Adobe AIR application for FriendFeed in the next week or so. So far all we have is the screen shot and a confirmation from Baines that his team is working on it. The application will be called Alert Thingy." I like the name :) - Bret Taylor
Now if someone could just combine a FF / Twitter Adobe AIR app -- making sure that tweets weren't duplicated -- that'd be super! Otherwise, it's annoying to feel compelled to run both (and no, I cannot convince all my friends on Twitter to sign up for FF, nor do I feel like creating Imaginary Friends for all of them). - Adam Lasnik
Thing is, I love the simple web-based FF interface. Too slick to make the switch. FF + Fluid + Fluid plug-ins = winner - Aviv
I don't feel the need to abandon the FF interface. In fact, I see myself doing other activities from within FF - http://ffapps.com/tabs/ - Aviv
Can't wait for this! It's going to be awesome. - Brandon Titus
Its about frackin' time. What took so long? :) - Tony Hung
Yes! My continuous partial attention does a little jig! - Ashton
I sure hope it runs better then TWIRL - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
@Noah: Better than twhirl? I've never had issues with it. - Voyagerfan5761
Twirl has not has issues, it just happens to rely on the twitter api being up, which is the unreliable part. As long as the FF API can keep up with demand an Adobe Air app that works as good as twirl would be sweet. - Christian Burns
I'll wait for a non AIR app thank you :) - Steven Hodson
THX 4 invitatiojn- guess my computerallergy holds me away from all this kind of internet friendship thing. Somehow too much letters...u know what I mean? Maybe it takes some time to come into that stuff. Virtual??? Prefer real air, trees and touch...talk soon NOAH. - Natascha Engelmann
I'll be happy once Adobe AIR comes out for Linux. - possible248
@possible248 labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html btw ive been running adobe air through wine for over a month here is how you install it with wine www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/03/howto-adobe-air-and-xdrive-desktop-lite.html - Kyle Weller
@defcon: I'll bet he'll like that link. I pointed it out over Twitter, but you never know; twhirl supposedly has some issues on Linux platforms that aren't fixed yet. Wine might take care of the problems. And BTW, links are automatically, er, linked if you start them off with http:// - Voyagerfan5761
I much prefer my online services to stay in browser windows - it's too confusing for my poor british brain otherwise! - Slippy Lane
@Slippy: I used to think that about Twitter, until I discovered twhirl... But don't let me influence your decision. ;-) - Voyagerfan5761
@Jeremy: Sweet program! At least, the looks are good and it appears to have all the functionality of the site. I won't pry for a release date. :-) - Voyagerfan5761
Just got drag and drop image uploading on share... getting real close!! (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
You coders just constantly amaze me with your ability to whip this stuff up! - Phil Ashman
can't wait to see the final product - you don't need some more beta testers by any chance, Jeremy? :) - Frederic
@Frederic: I considered asking, but figured the answer was obvious. @Jeremy: So, do you? :D - Voyagerfan5761
Those lucky enough to be at the adobe AIR Tour - London yesterday would have seen a demo of the app plus a demo of a couple of bugs we need to fix :). The launch is currently being held up by thawte who we are waiting on to issue our digital certificate! Once that is done we are good to go. Thanks for all the offers, we have enough beta testers on windows and mac for now, but would be interested in anyone running AIR on linux! (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
...and if you want to follow me and the kinds of apps we build then please subscribe to me or follow me on twitter (jeremybaines) (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
@Jeremy: Will all comments posted via Alert Thingy have that tagline? Oh, and I believe @possible248 on Twitter (and here) is running AIR on Linux. - Voyagerfan5761
@Voyagerfan5761 yes they will. We think it's ok to ask for a bit of PR if we are giving you an app free. What do you think? It would be nice if there was a proper place to put the "via...." link, like on twitter, but the guys at FriendFeed have not provided anything like that for us yet! Bret.. are you listening??? (via Alert Thingy) - Jeremy Baines
I would prefer to have the "via Alert Thingy"-tagline independent from the comment itself. I second that request. - sebmos
Ok that is 2 of us - Is that enough to change the API B
