This is EXACTLY what's needed to help bump up Identi.ca usage (for me, at least). Very exciting. - Brad McCrorey
these PR people are influential enough to make a network owner scared. But we can't let @Jack get away with being a coward - Noah David Simon
libel is no reason to delete a person's account. I never broke any terms till they changed the terms. - Noah David Simon
Ooo.. Bummer. Requires me to turn on XMPP for identi.ca. That would mean I'd be getting simultaneous notifications in gtalk as well. :/ - Brad McCrorey
twitter is obscene. listening to @AmandaChapel and @PurpleCar is the last straw. We can't let hysteria rule online - Noah David Simon
"As the brines reach the near saturation point for salt, brine shrimp no longer reproduce. Consequently, their prey, the organisms lower on the food chain, multiply. These are halophilic bacteria, sometimes referred to as blue-green algae. The most dominant, Dunaliella, actually changes the color of its protoplasm. As the brines grow saltier, the algae darken and its orange hue transforms into a brilliant vermillion– coloring the brines the same vivid red." http://www.cargill.com/sf_bay/... - bob
WOW SO COOL!! Like a huge strawberry icecream!! - Suzi via twhirl
I have tons of burner friends, but I've never felt compelled to go. I won't bore you with the list of reasons it fails to interest me. I really enjoy checking out flickr just afterwards though. I've also enjoyed seeing how burner culture is slowly being integrated into mainstream Bay Area life. You can't go to a geeky gathering like Maker's Faire or Yuri's Night without getting a taste of it. Kids and families like (some of) burner culture too. I like it when it's closer to home. - Jason Wehmhoener
I stay in SF for all the empty bars and restaurants! - Veronica
No. I support limitations on carbon emissions. - shelisrael1
On the subject of carbon emissions, I totally agree. I was more than a little horrified by the video my friend showed me of "Crude Awakening" when he returned. That shit is just plain stupid, excuse my french. - Jason Wehmhoener
Thomas: A big set of Burning Man photos from you one of these days would be awesome! It'd be a great addition on your journey to the million. - Vincent X
No. I can't plan far enough ahead and by the time it rolls around it's just too late. - Kevin Fox
Crude Awakening's total carbon footprint was the equivalent of half a gallon of gas per participant. If you're that concerned about carbon, you shouldn't travel by car anywhere, ever, for anything. Burning Man *looks* extravagantly wasteful of fossil fuel, but the fuel burned simply getting to the event (or any such event) dwarfs all the pyrotechnics. It's kind of ridiculous to go to, say, SxSW, but not to Burning Man, based on ecological consciousness. - ⓞnor
sorry nor, but that argument pretty much falls flat for me. BTW, I drive very little. - Jason Wehmhoener
back in the early days I was thinking about going but I heard that you had to get your camera registered and that it seemed like such a pain in the ass to get approval to shoot it. I've heard it's lightened up since then though with regards to photography and SLRs. - Thomas Hawk
One of my buddies always brings his SLR. I live vicariously through him, heh. - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason: If you basically never drive anywhere, and wouldn't consider going to any sort of recreational gathering that requires travel, then that's commendably conservative of you. But that's nothing specific to Burning Man - you would have to give the same answer to the question of whether you go to any other event (SxSW, PAX, E3, Woodstock, AAAS, whatever your thing might be). - ⓞnor
Sounds interesting, now that those who are "too cool" dis it.... - Wilma Stoneflint
No thanks. A) I'm a family guy B) Burning Man might have been cool once but seems to be the workaholic answer to a vacation - least the folks I know who have gone seem to fit this mold. 'Work hard, play hard' type people - not my kind of crowd. - AJ Kohn
"As for Sarbanes-Oxley, or SOX, the hope was that by now firms would have gotten over the hump of learning to comply, and auditors would have stopped obsessing over minute risks. Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission explicitly advised firms to focus only on material threats to the integrity of a firm's financials. "The SEC's heart was in the right place, but the accounting firms' hearts are not," says Mark Heesen of the National Venture Capital Association. He adds that the Big Four accounting firms "continue to feast on SOX audits."
Ms. Mitchell says the "SOX tax" runs up to $3 million per year per company, which can reduce a firm's market value by much more." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
"Last quarter marked the first time in 30 years that not a single company backed by venture capital went public in the U.S." - Louis Gray
Sarbanes-Oxley was a kneejerk reaction to appease the masses that wanted some sort of assurance that the markets weren't going to implode. After the dust settles SarbOx will be amended--if not removed--and all will be back 'to normal.' On the same note, expect similar witch hunt and follow-up legislation for this go-around. We're already beginning to see indictments for fraud pertaining to the mortgage markets... - grant
I think most new laws are kneejerk reactions to appease the masses that want some sort of assurance. - Gabe Schaffer
I found the comments about entrepreneurs building low capital investment companies to sell to the larger competitors to be quite interesting. Could it be that these people are valuing personal freedom over still having a set of bosses? My guess is that there are far more people who want to create something, than who want to become 'industry titans' with all that entails. The out come is not always a good place for a person to be - compare Jerry Yang to Steve Jobs, or Larry and Sergei. - Robin Barooah
@ Chris: do you mean that trying to find the next Steve Jobs is worth doing? Because a witch hunt only brings to mind all the collateral damage of impostors and accusations. - Clare Dibble
Clare, I was responding to grant's comment about the mortgage markets. I meant that in that case, some witches are real, and worth pursuing, as opposed to the traditional view that witches aren't real, and therefore witch hunts are inherently bad. - Chris White
Thanks for the clarification, Chris. In your opinion, who/what is the witch? the mortgage market itself? I've heard you say before that real estate prices never go down, especially in San Fransisco (except when they do). - Clare Dibble
IMO, the housing bubble was enabled by low interest rates (the Fed), lack of down payment and income requirements, interest only and variable rate loans (banks), real estate speculators, real estate agents who tell clients prices never go down and you must get in now if you are ever to own a home, and borrowers who couldn't afford the homes they were buying and then took out secondary loans to buy cars and plasma tvs. Generalizations to be sure, but largely accurate I think. - Chris White
For its part, Agence France-Presse retracted its four-missile version this morning, saying that the image was “apparently digitally altered” by Iranian state media. The fourth missile “has apparently been added in digital retouch to cover a grounded missile that may have failed during the test,” the agency said. Later, it published an article quoting several experts.
Throughout the day, several news sites have taken steps to disown the photograph that they ran on Wednesday, including LATimes.com and MSNBC.com. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
I find the enthusiasm of media funny. Media should better direct our country's foreign policy than scoring some brownie points on photoshop disasters. How does it matter if one missile failed. What matters is what we are going to do to stop missile proliferation without using our own missile. Scoring such brownie points are kid's play and not media's. - Krish
The Iranians should be writing Photoshop tutorials instead of trying to mimic their missle supply! - John Barker
"If you suffer from Ballistic Missile Launch Malfunction, then Misalys may be right for you..." - Live4Soccer
5 to 1 they used a pirated copy...they need to download a few Photoshop Podcasts for some tips on cloning...better yet, download "You Suck at Photoshop"... - Live4Soccer
That is incredibly disturbing; the Photoshop clone tool will prolly be the cause of the button press on the next significant US-involved conflict. - Clay Newton
Photography can be a powerful tool and terribly politically influential. I watched a photography documentary recently that cited the famous photo of a buddhist monk lighting himself on fire as the tipping point on the Vietnam involvement with President Kennedy. - Thomas Hawk
My Dad told me that it was when Cronkite declared the war "unwinnable" after the Tet Offensive that America changed their tune on the war... - Live4Soccer
seems the bbc hasnt noticed. now they are showing footage of the missile launch that matches the AP photo and then also different newspaper front pages which published the photos, some using the AFP and others AP, but no mention of this. interesting. - Katie Ratcliffe
Let's just drop the old one down the memory tubes to get rid of the double-plus-un-true version. - Nicholas Molnar
J. Phil, okay, then it is me not understanding you can do video easily on an iphone and my team not having the bandwidth to do this yet, thanks for the fact checking - Loic Le Meur
Loic, I think you mis-understood me. I don't know. I don't have an iphone yet. I just heard that video can be done on an iphone, which makes me wonder why apple hasn't done it 'officially' yet. - J. Phil
Just posted my reply via Friendfeed. Very cool Loic. This will change the game again. What's up wit pushing out new features on Sundays. Seems like lots of 2.0 companies do it. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Brian, we had sent the code to our Friendfeed friends and they decided to push it on sunday. I like it ;) - Loic Le Meur
Which way do I go? Right or Left! LOL Just joking! Very useful! - Igor The Troll
this will be awesome if it doesnt show in the seesmic main timeline - adolfo foronda
adolfo right now it does show in the public timeline, we're taking that off in the next hours - Loic Le Meur via twhirl
Nice one Loic. Keep up the great work. You're doing a great job listening to your community. It's all about integration. - Larry Kless
Loic. congratulations. The new player is great! Really a big step forward usability-wise. Question: if someone adds a video reply, does friendfeed get notified about the addition to that the post get's back on top of the friendfeed timeline. It would be nice if it did: bringing active conversations back on top is one of the nicest friendfeed features. Kudos again. Funding -> stability -> features = nice momentum! - Edwin Khodabakchian
Nice accent. I could listen all day. Thanks for supporting ff :! - Bjorn Tipling
Loic, do we still have to pay 5 Euros for Cappuccino in Paris or do we get a discount if we tell them we know you? lol - Igor The Troll
Congratulations on this new development; Happy that Seesmic continues to grow and integrate with other socnets! : ) - Susan Beebe
It doesn't work with Posterous now. Is this because of seesmic's update? - Shinya ICHINOHE
What are the chance of gettig that function in Twirl? - Bart Mroz via twhirl
Heh -- finally Seesmic works inline in IE7 -- can now unhide Seesmic posts (that doesn't mean I will view them but at least the option is there ;-) ) - Brian Sullivan
Edwin, yes, if you add your seesmic account to Friendfeed (like you do for all services) then you do a reply (or any new video) it will post it in your Friendfeed feed. - Loic Le Meur
It's exactly what I've thought about before . definite illustration of my expriences - saee:Dsharif
interesting to see this in contrast to the web 2.0 school of thought of "only do what your customers want" - Adam Kazwell
true but there is a point where you need to remember how many people do not know how to give you that information but you need to translate their wanting. Also there is a difference between a movie and lets say an app or a service. - Nicole Simon
Same think for software products (Apple). See the results. - fbrunel
This works for the top 10 percent of the talent pool. Not so good for everybody else. - Jay Tannenbaum
Great: rooms, auto-throttling - Not so great: FF posts take up so much room, less posts are visible at the same time - Can't wait for Seesmic support! - Garrido via twhirl
Loic - First impressions are fantastic - Ed Dale via twhirl
its there and update feature to twhirl or do I need to download and re-install? - rambn
Hey - I like it! Could you add support for opening a new tab when right clicking links? I hate how it overrides my current page! - Zach Landes via twhirl
I really like the new FF features. Can't wait to see Seesmic added to the mix. - Dana Franks via twhirl
I'm ready to say that this is the first version of Twhirl with FF that I am willing to use, actually. - J. Phil via twhirl
Tony, Seesmic is coming in a few weeks. Morgan thanks, Garrido it is coming, Ed thanks, rambn yes auto update close it you will see, Zachary working on that, Dana me too!, Marco yes Marco rocks, Josiah thanks, Dave it is not in this one, thanks Sam, Danish and Tom - Loic Le Meur via twhirl
I am a big fan of Twhirl and it keeps getting better - Mark Nassal via twhirl
WOWOWOWOW ... You guys are putting your release schedule on steriods! code monkies!!! I like all the new feature improvements! keep up the good work! - Susan Beebe
This caused me to dump alert thingy even though there are differences. Always liked Twhirl too bad it has picked up some hiccups from Twitter which is already the meme of legend in these parts... - Mark Forman
I'm in! This will def cause me to use friend feed more. - Evan Travers via twhirl
This is a nice feature. Just upgraded to the new version to use this. But your blog is never unblocked by the Great Firewall here. - Jianjun Zhang via twhirl
Comments inline work well, but make it hard to keep a track of whats going on. I guess thats more of a FF issue tho, nested conversations are much more complex than the flat twitterlike comments. - Steve Mactaggart via twhirl
I guess I'm getting used to it - without doubt, it's an improvement, thnx Loic and Marco - Garrido via twhirl
and try the pic share feature, it takes a few seconds to do what really looks like like a short blog post, a pic, a text and a link et voila! - Loic Le Meur
Loic, great update to twhirl, clean interface, more intuitive - Ralph Poole via twhirl
Nice update! Is there any shortcuts for Twhirl?? - Alex Sauceda via twhirl
still trying to get my head around friend feed in twhirl.... - djp via twhirl
Still not like the interface. Still not see the reason why we need a specific app for friendfeed. Some stuff could be sorted via a easy firefox extension e.g. notification. - Benjamin Kohler via twhirl
I'm not sure about this, but my main concern.. why does my FF feed in Twhirl look almost completely different than what I see on the web? Am I the only one seeing this? - felix
Love the new changes - a few issues still with the commenting. It remembers the past comment when I write a new one instead of clearing the box, and it also clears out my comment box every time the feed refreshes. - Jesse Stay via twhirl
Nice work! Loving the improvements! - Lon via twhirl
well - i´m still not sure, if I should prefer AlertThingy or Twhirl ;) - Dieter Schwarz via twhirl
Really digging the reduced memory usage. Before twhirl would growto over 500MB and now it's pretty steady at 150MB or so. Thanks! - Jauder Ho via twhirl
Not sure if he needs one ;-) he rocks all by his amazing self! - Susan Beebe
Your selling yourself short man. Scoble's never gonna break out of his very limited uber-geek niche appeal. Put that effort into managing brand Eric Rice. - Rob Safuto
Rob, I don't think it's as easy to manage your own brand. Outside eyes are needed. That's why brand managers exist. It's like designing your own biz card or web page--- over and over and over and just not getting it right. But for others, oh hell yeah. Cake. - Eric Rice
unnecessary - agree w/ rob go w/ brand managing yourself ;) - mike "glemak" dunn
An objective eye can help a lot, even with an awesome brand. And who would say I want to manage x's brand if they didn't already have something going. - Goldie Katsu
Goldie: It's like a car needing a tune-up. Fine tuning. Not totally Michael Caine/Steve Martin in the movie Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Just gotta move the train off the track for a second to inspect and assess and tune. - Eric Rice
I think there's definitely a lot of value in Eric Rice being a facilitator for companies to enter the social media or gaming space. Help a company that's not on the inside to get in and do it right. - Rob Safuto
@Robert Scoble so you don't have a personal assistant yet? ;) - Simon
Robert: Be careful what you sign, or you might have to go as "The podcaster formerly known as Scoble" until the contract's term expires. Then again, some of the fringe unicode characters are pretty cool looking... - Kevin Fox
@Simon I offered him before than you - If it was an offer :-) - Erhan Erdogan
Eric your mind is a weird and wacky place... - Britney Mason
Yeah, we have really entered the world of people as person brands. - Tris Hussey
@Tris I really love the idea of person brands. In some way it validates my obsessive-compulsive urge to grab my username everywhere ;) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
@Tris Like a Beckham perfume - I want a "21 inch Scoble LCD monitor" : ) Will you buy it like me? : ) - Erhan Erdogan
Heh, I'll take the Scoble brand RSI wrist support strap. ;-) - Jason Wehmhoener
Dunno-Scoble is interesting as an antenna, you're interesting as a transmitter - Mark Forman
Scoble is one of a kind...and you are comparing him to other products? - Luke Harvey-Palmer
Eric, I think you have lost it. Can you imagine trying to rein him in to stay on message? - Cyndy
All kidding aside, I had this kind of problem to a degree for a while. For a while I had about 12 blogs I wrote professionally, plus my own personal one. It got to the point where I had diluted my brand. I couldn't say what "my blog" was, or what I blogged about. I had to pull back, focus, and learn to manage "my personal brand". - Tris Hussey
Cyndy not really, it just takes a nerves of steel. ;) - Eric Rice
Wow. I've never heard of a "divorce party" before. Are they on good terms, is that the reason? I have friends who divorce and then hang out with both new spouses. Easy 10 min walk to court for the divorce. Usually they're still "in love", but realize that they are taking different paths in life. - Mitchell Tsai
They will not (Husband wife) be at the party. It's really a 'good riddance' party and a "new chapter" party - Jeremiah Owyang
Heheh ok ok : )) A "(P)Re-Wedding Party" - Erhan Erdogan
@Kevin: I don't think I've posted much of anything about Friendfeed, and nothing about Twitter. I *reply* to a number of posts on those topics, but they don't interest me enough to dwell on them independent of input. So as Scoble pointed out, it's all down to who you're reading. - Roger Benningfield
As I've said a few times when this comes up, it's because FriendFeed is so shiny and new that it goes in waves. You had the first users back in October, then you had the post-beta surge, and now you're seeing the post-Scoble surge, and the post-Twitter issues surge. With more pushing by Steve Rubel, Jeremiah Owyang and Thomas Hawk, this won't go away immediately, but you should see the mix fluctuate. That said, Robert is right. You need to follow more folks who talk about more things. - Louis Gray
At least 100% of your friends in friendfeed or twitter are Geeks and care only about Twitter and FriendFeed!! - john
Twitter is useless. Anyone on twitter is definitely on FF, and if they are not, they are stupid. Having said that, rather than going to twitter to post your little message, that will inevitably end up on and get the most action on FF, you might as well just skip twitter, and go right to the crowded room that is FF. - Anthony
Here's one way to change this mix: everyone go to Flickr and favorite some photos. Then go and write an interesting blog post. Then do a little video on youTube. Then go to Google Reader and share some interesting stuff. If everyone did that then we would have other things to talk about. Yes, I'm taking my own medicine I'm over at Google Reader right now. - Robert Scoble
you ought to subscribe to more interesting people. people who have interests outside of the internets :) - melmcbride
for nascent tools that's pretty common, and agree if twitter wasn't sucking fumes right now it wouldn't be as interesting - my guess is the team behind ff isn't minding the conversion though - built in focus group and feature request pool if used right... - mike "glemak" dunn
Robert: You like the noise that much? Without an adequate filter I doubt you'll survive it... just try an analogy, I play jazz in my coin, someone sings "Wherevaaa you are..." by Celine Dion of course, someone else, an other one imits Eminem, what would you do? - directeur
directeur: noise is like the waves in the ocean. You gotta learn to swim and surf. After you do, all you want is more and bigger waves. - Robert Scoble
Robert: I never learnt to swim actually, but I still think that we all need filters, because noise is not as uniform as waves may be. Noise has some bad sides that even the best exercice won't defeat. - directeur
That's so not true, we're also talking about Plurk. - Mark Drapeau via twhirl
Most people will want filters. I agree. I just don't care about them for ME. I'm very adept at surfing the noise. Most people aren't. Don't design your products for ME design them for everyone else. That's why I want filtering, so I can get more people in here. - Robert Scoble
FF can seem almost exclusive to social networking and media stuff. Only it's really not. Want to see what else people are talking about? Go to the everyone tab and type in a search term - baseball, "sex in the city", what I had for dinner, or whatever. You'll likely find lots of conversation about those things, and the people who posted them. And remember you can exclude search terms by putting a - sign in front of them. - Tom Landini
"That's why I want filtering, so I can get more people in here." Sorry didn't understand this one :) - directeur
fair enough - i'll post some videos to go with the pictures and blog posts that i added this afternoon - and don't get me wrong, i do really enjoy the out-of-tech contributions: Scoble with science, Rubel with with sports, Fred Wilson with NYC and music, Hawk with photos, and much more... in any case, it's more an observation than a criticism, and yes, one that says I should be branching out more to find the optimal mix for my own personal tastes - Kevin
When I show most people FriendFeed all they see is the noise. I want a way to show them that they can control the noise. If I had that, then a LOT more people would like hanging out here, which would improve all of our lives. - Robert Scoble
For this reason I hope FF will first worry about improvements around duplication and hiding content and worry about all the stuff Steve Gillmor asked for...after that! -
