One of the things I love about Japan is every month, we celebrate something - and it's themed. From the food, to decor, -sigh- I miss Tokyo.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, how long did you live in Tokyo? I was in Tokyo for a couple of weeks and loved it. Watching the Harajuku girls was really fun
- Bindu Reddy
LOL I lived consecutively for three years but go back at least once every one to two years. I have tons of friends and immediate family there. :)
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Happy girls day, Mona - I'm glad we have girls :-)
- Jesse Stay
Yes we celebrated with girls day eating out! Not kidding- we had a Japanese with us, and when I got confused over cinqo de mayo (i'm lame, I know) she goes "don't worry, it's Girl's Day!" haha
- anna sauce
GASP! Love Japan and all the cute girly stuff there.
- Felicia Yue
This year for girls' day in Japan, my wife and mother-in-law made "osekihan" (a sticky rice that's colored reddish purple for celebrations, especially those involving girls). I ate the osekihan and did not even realize it was girls' day. That's after getting out the hina dolls and so on. What a dolt.
- Rick Cogley
Does evernote have any formatting capabilities beyond using the keyboard for ctrl-B, ctrl-u kindof thing? I don't remember it having a formatting toolbar. Does it now?
- Kamath (नमः)
i think you mean soho notes, yes? if so, it's a great program that i first began using as a note application on my mac and still love to use. other than that i use yojimbo for personal stuff occasionally and evernote all the time for archiving articles and clippings from the net
- Cee Bee
I love Evernote. I use it email feature, so I can send formatted emails (specially copied and pasted webpages) and I get it with images and a similar format than web pages. A great tool.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
evernote is probably my most often used out of the three i mentioned above. it has a great search function (images and words) and is pretty good overall with the use of keywords
- Cee Bee
I use Google Notebook for somethings that I want quick access to, when in my browser, but I use Evernote for most all note taking stuff, unless it's stuff I want to share with a certain. closed, number of people, and then I use Google Docs, depending on the format of course.
- Ian May
Going to have to try Evernote. Have used a couple of the others out there and just didn't care for them. Can't even remember names I was so underwhelmed.
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I love Google Notebook. It might night be very social, but it works great. Has a nice little Firefox extension for clipping stuff.
- Nate Pilling
I like Evernote but I tend to use it only for specific things - mainly lists, ideas, pics and other things that I want to be remember for the long term. Anything that is current (like my to-do list) or that I just want to jot down real quick goes in stickies, or good ol' fashioned paper.
- Ariel Torres
You know, I realized today that I love all the ancillary features of Evernote: the tags, search, syncing, multi-platform support, ability to convert pictures to text. However, it really sucks at note-taking; basically you get a box with no way to organize anything.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Am I the only one who uses MS OneNote? It's pretty good.
- Dan Fitek
OneNote is probably the best application MS made. I loved using it on my Tablet PC. However, I've switched to a Mac for my primary machine, so I can't use OneNote anymore. Evernote's ubiquity and cross-platform clients are what make it better than OneNote for me.
- Cheryl Jones
Dan, I use MS OneNote all the time at work. If it was available on the mac, I wouldn't ever consider anything else.
- Kamath (नमः)
I've used Google Notebook, but the software version, the clipper and the accurate search made me move to Evernote. Never tried Zoho Notes.
- Gian
I've tried both Evernote and Google Notebook, and like them both. Though the OCR built into Evernote is very cool. Makes me wish my blackberry had a camera.
- Greg Morgan
I need to do a video review of a great notes gadget.. will have to do it tonight and post into FF
- alphaxion
You know.. zoho notebook is actually the most like MS OneNote.
- Greg Morgan
I love Evernote, especially because of the windows mobile client which also uploads your notes directly to the web. One thing i love most about the mobile client is its ability to take "Snapshot notes" this allows me to take snapshots of newspaper or magazine article's directly into EverNote.
- Marco Willemse
Evernote has been wonderful... worth the $5/month premium account... however, if Journler ever came out with an iPhone app, I'd drop Evernote in a heartbeat
- Shawn Duffy
from twhirl
If you're on a Mac, Shovebox is useful with a slick interface.
- Tom Landini
Evernote. I wonder what Amy chose since this post began in November.
- Russellreno
@Russell Yeah, that's kinda funny. Take a look at Amy's feed. She's never returned to this conversation or any other for that matter.
- Christopher Harley
Am I the only one who finds Mail.app's notes feature to be sufficient?
- Paul Grav
@tom landini isn't shovebox that noteapp that you could get for free at Macheist? I mostly use evernote cuz of their excellent multi-platform capabilities and webclient. I use google tasks for stickies and the like? Shovebox any good for this stuff?
- Sebastiaan van den Akker
I believe you can get a free copy of Shovebox at Macheist. It is Mac only, so not cross platform.
- Tom Landini
+1 Cee Bee. Whatever. Good luck finding a magic cave free of political discussion. It's called LOST island, and even there you have to deal with politics.
- Steve Isaacs
steve -- we need to meet up for a drink. first round's on me. lol
- Cee Bee
"A big head-scratcher when building a suspension bridge is how to get those suspension cables from one end of the divide to the other. In the past, helicopters and boats have been employed for this purpose — even kites — but Chinese engineers constructing the Siduhe Grand Bridge had another idea: rockets. They used precision rockets to send 3,200-foot-long cables over a valley, and enable the construction of a bridge that would be 2,132 feet above the ground — which could easily fit any skyscraper in America underneath with room to spare. Click Continue to see a picture of the completed bridge, finished last July and reportedly the highest bridge in the world, when measured from the ground to its deck."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
Always wondered how they got those cables over. Wonder what happens when they get to the other side though. Do the rockets let go automatically? Run into something?
- Ariel Torres
"As gloom descends on Silicon Valley, most startups and giants are growing cautious and cutting back. But not Facebook. The social-networking Web site sees a bleak economy as all the more reason to press ahead with aggressive plans for growth. "This is not the time for tech companies to be cutting back; this is the time to be hitting the accelerator," says Peter Thiel, a Facebook board member and investor."
- Atul Arora
from Bookmarklet
The difference in philosophies between MySpace and Facebook is pretty interesting - like going after niche markets with obscure langauages. Also interesting that Facebook isn't profitable yet - I would have thought otherwise.
- Ariel Torres
Soooo if I want to subscribe do I go up and push them in the head ? :D What would be cool is if you could scan the symbol with a mobile phone and get the bloggers feed
- Mo Kargas
Every time I wear the hat I get a bar at the top that asks me if I want to wear it with Live Bookmarks, Google Reader or another outfit.
- Kevin Leroux
"Some of the findings from Nielsen Norman Group's recent usability studies using eye tracking technology:"
- ~C4Chaos
from Bookmarklet
cool. it's been widely known for a long time, had been already determined by the ecommerce biz during 1.0. whats interesting to note is the number of 2.0 sites that have backwards to this navigation.
- Patricia
Whoa that's amazing - although also probably what'd you expect (most users not reading all the way to the bottom, etc)
- Ariel Torres
When I first saw this headline I thought to myself I hope this isn't like Valleywag. :-) Although, I guess you all have seen my shower pictures so not too many more secrets than that. Other than I do sneak into the peanut butter occassionally. Seriously, good tips. I couldn't see any holes to fill in, so that's good!
- Robert Scoble
Daniel, you nailed it. Excellent spot on post!
- Mike Fruchter
I am a pretty new ff user...this was great information for me...thank you.
- John-David Lusan
I saw this heading and though of DIGG. Don't get me wrong Digg became what it is today due to the fact that people did most of this stuff to there community. I find that you need to have several Sources of sharing your content, for example: Google, FF, DIG, Stumbleupon. Here is a good discussion on that http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Paul
It's nice to finally see a Daniel Pritchett post, on Louisgray.com
- Mike Fruchter
Congrats to Daniel on your post! One thing I like to do is hide aggressively and partition users into lists. This allows me to focus on the content that I find helpful and can contribute to the conversation. Sorry, I realized that is two things, not one.
- Rob Diana
I just added a few more tips to the comment section on Daniel's post on Louis' blog.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks everyone for your support, especially Louis for giving me this chance to share my ideas with a wider audience.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Paul: There is certainly an element of marketing to promoting content on FriendFeed, whether it's your own or someone else's. I don't think there's anything wrong with that though. Paying close attention to metrics and the "success rate" of posts (as judged by likes and comments) helps each of us to understand what makes posts really useful to the community. I'd never suggest that anyone abandon their favorite site in favor of FriendFeed - you can have more than one favorite!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Congratulations, Daniel!! You're a great addition to LG's site. :)
- Mona Nomura
Funny, everyone who clicked like on this post BUT Jesper Lind subscribes to me (and me to them). What's up Jesper? :-)
- Robert Scoble
This is a very good post, kudos Daniel. And I'm not just saying that because I got a mention. LOL. It's hard for new people to figure out exactly what to do with FriendFeed. THere are also not enough posts like this one to help them along the way.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Robert, not everyone wants to listen to you :)
- Rob Diana
AND he's only SUBd to males, Robert. What's up with that?!
- Mona Nomura
Rob, I know that. I just wanted to hear the reasoning. But, still, one out of 40 ain't bad and I'm still following him, so if he posts anything interesting the rest of you will see it too.
- Robert Scoble
genieyclo: yup. I manually checked each one. I was looking mostly to make sure I was subscribed to everyone here.
- Robert Scoble
Thanks for the mention!
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Excellent post Daniel! The tips are definitely spot on. My sentiments about FF are summed up well, it's definitely about conversation, sharing and promoting things not just from your feed but in others too, especially if you like it and it interests you! Together with Zee's 'unofficial guide' posts, this constitutes a great resource for those who are new to FF!
- Mo Kargas
Oooppsss, Jill, Superhero Librarian isn't following me either. Sob. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Great stuff!!! Congratulations!!!!!! :)
- Susan Beebe
How can someone using FriendFeed not subscribe to at least one female? Just off the top of my head, you have to subscribe to Sarah Perez, Corvida, Cynda, Mona and Tina. Those are just the "active" people, not to mention the various people who tweet or write for big blogs like Veronica B, Kristen Nicole and several more. And I apologize to any of the women I have missed in this quick list.
- Rob Diana
No I'm not Robert. No really need to because I follow so many people who follow you. The naked shower pictures freaked me out too much. :-P
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very good, great information and gets you thinking about optimization thanks for sharing.
- Ray Marr aka Knatchwa
This was great. When I clicked I was skeptical but I was won over quickly.
- Andrew
Jill: they freaked me out too. Remind me never to get drunk with Valleywag reporters again. :-)
- Robert Scoble
So is this likebait, instead of linkbait? :-)
- Louis Gray
Good stuff but as a FF newbie, I would have loved to seen a few tips about friend discovery. I get your point that the idea is to help people find you, but I wonder if there are search capabilities like a Twellow for Twitter. Thanks
- Brian Schwartz
What i like is the way your personal page can somehow "recommend" users to help you know who to subscribe to.
- tony
Brian, the best way to "find" friends, is to look at the posts people share and the comments they contribute. If you like those parts, you probably found someone worth subscribing to.
- Rob Diana
@Brian Schwartz: I largely rely on Rob Diana's advice about organically growing my FF network. Every so often I still check these two tools to find compatible FFers outside of my extended network: FF Like Compatibility Calc and LA Likers: http://is.gd/8ewf
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Good post. I need to learn about the whole imaginary friends piece. Kind of confuses me. @ Brian - I am a little less new right now and I recommend going to the rooms and joining them and participating there. Then expand your friend subscriptions from there. Also, use your google reader, twitter and whatever else to create your own "feed." . Also include your blog there. If u are into music, sign up for last fm or pandora (I use pandora w/iphone too) and then share your musical tastes as well.
- Amani
Great post, Daniel. #8 is so true - I constantly think about how things are going to appear in FriendFeed when I do things on other sites (do I want it to appear on FF, should I share it directly instead...). And #13 is good advice I still need work on. I try to search before posting, but sometimes I still get petulant when I didn't find the sharable thing first (which is usually).
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
@Mike: I'm entrusting you with the crucial task of creating 6 more FF accounts and clicking likelikelikelikelike. Edit: No, not really.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Mona - A ton of those are inactive but it's also a good resource. I threw this up so people could see that FF now timestamps the last post
- Charlie Anzman
There are several others that didn't make the list that are very active.
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JMS - Feel free to chime in - These are just some of mine (with 45 inactive not shown). People keep asking. Let's help!
- Charlie Anzman
Not needed in the UK, the answer is always: "Indeed you do!"
- Mathieu Ayel
LOL, Matthew. Wel, "never take a chance" I'd say. ;-)"
- Kol Tregaskes
from twhirl
Brilliant! Seeing that that's the only thing anyone is ever likely to care about. Who gives a damn about degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
It is currently raining and they tell me I do not need an umbrella... Um... Wrong.
- Nicole
I think for WA it would always be set to "...maybe?"
- Jennifer Dittrich
not needed in the desert. the answer is pretty often "No". :)
- funkyboy
from Posty
Cool! On Mashable: "On FriendFeed today, I was alerted to Web 2.0’s version of the Pet Rock by prolific purveyor of cool Mona ..." http://mashable.com/2008... Yay, Mona!
- Allison Kipta
it is so bad you should see @rocmanusa 's face. Hyper bad.
- Robert Scoble
@digitolmuse says it is better than the Rock Band he hears in MIT's dorms (he is a computer science undergrad there and he looks a lot alike Barack Obama).
- Robert Scoble
rock band karaoke FTW! Uno's in harvard square, not so much.
- Danielle