So, lessons? 1. it's hard to get onto the top of the popularity lists and wasn't made easier when a new service came out. 2. such lists favor people who network their behinds off at physical events. 3. Participation in FriendFeed helps you move up a little bit, but only if you are both very active and throw interesting content into FriendFeed (like, say, Mona). What else do you learn by looking at this list? - Robert Scoble
Johnny: well, you might claim you don't care about them, but in aggregate I see that most of us follow people who are already popular, not people who actually participate. Of course, since FriendFeed is, at top, an aggregator, just putting your RSS feeds into here is participation, I guess. - Robert Scoble
We do subscribe to them, because they are beacons. But you also have to weigh that list by the amount of 'active' users who subscribe to them. I know of at least 5 people who are members here on FriendFeed, who subscribe to most if not all of the top 20 yet never come on here. The core group is what matters. Those who are recognizable names will always get more follows, but the core of the group http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... is what drives it. Rankings are always skewed. - Johnny Worthington
I think part of this is that many people use FriendFeed as an aggregator. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
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This list just looks like every top 100 for every mainstream (in tech) online service. It shows that in the main, the top 100 don't use friend feed but send feeds to it, I don't think that = participation, at all. - Kevin Dixie
Kevin: there is a participation effect, though. On Twitter Leo Laporte has twice the followers that I do, but not here. Why? The participation effect. I've gathered quite a few followers by participating here. - Robert Scoble
I agree - participation is key to any community see my example here (a userguide to my community) http://www.fuelmyblog.com/inde... Online has the very same rules as offline and glad you are showing that - Kevin Dixie
FriendFeed is far more of a 'community' than Twitter is, participating here counts for far more than almost anywhere else, however, participation (and how much you participate) is also a lot less visible here, in my opinion. FriendFeed (as a system) favors those who create content to import into the stream, not those who contribute to the community. - Aram Zucker-Scharff
The smart people (like you, Tina, Mona, and others) know better. The result is that being active on the community nets your rewards from the community itself, not the system. Is that a bad thing? - Aram Zucker-Scharff
Kevin : I disagree, when you are sending feeds in FF, you are pointing at us, poor human, what you find interesting. I think this is a kind of participation. Robert is doing that very well (too well ?). The only exception is twitter for me. I find it very hard to follow a twitter conversation here on friendfeed. - Olivier CASTETS
Good discussion. I interact and participate much more on FF than on Twitter. Why? Because FF is a much better tool for enabling engaging communication. I find myself being very careful conversing on Twitter because I feel it's easy to pollute the stream, whereas on FF you can do this without the same effects. - Mark Krynsky
The first thing I notice about the list is that NOBODY on FF has more than 20,000 subscribers. I reach more people through my blog on a regular basis. Is FF really all that influential? It does seem to be a great way to connect with the geek elite, but is that its only value? - Eric Hamilton
macbook pro base model with 4GB RAM purchased aftermarket, 128GB SSD aftermarket, *and* a retail copy of vista business ($187.99) AND office 2007 ultimate (389.99, which you'd be crazy to pay for. most people only need the $100 upgrade versions, but I'm proving a point) is a pound heavier and 133MHz slower CPU but it has much better graphics, a larger screen, better battery life, and better warranty program... apples are definitely better windows machines than this. :P - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
I'm still waiting for hope and change. All I've seen are a couple guys that got rich as i-bankers and trial lawyers after Clinton left office. - Brian Newman
Increasingly, I'm getting the feeling the Obama administration is turning into a puppet affair. - abacab
A puppet affair how? O is setting up competent people in powerful positions so that they can get the job done. I for one am glad to see folks that have had recent prior governmental experience getting tapped for the lead spots. O is the President, he can't be the cabinet too, so these guys who specialize in being the absolute best at what they do are going to take care of these things while he gets on that 'change' bit we're all waiting for. - Aaron Krug
I dunno, it's becoming a lot more....'Clinton-y' than I'd have expected. I'd thought cabinet positions might be filled with people as differently-minded and fresh-thinking as Obama himself seems to be. Hillary as Secy of State, now Holder... I'm just not that impressed with the choices so far. - abacab
How did you like Infoaxe, Michael? Did you find it useful? Would love to hear your thoughts and any feedback. - Jonathan
Remember using Squid Proxy with referer enabled to record all the navigation graph, and it was on the "Web 1.0" or it was "Web 1.0.1"? - Sebastian Wain
@Sebastian: Thanks for the tip. Will take a look if its still live. Did it search the recorded content? - Jonathan
I feel sorry for companies that can't handle the basics. Kind of a waste of tech. Think Twitter being down all the time (it was about to kill a great technology, but they rose to the occasion as human's to fix). I also feel sorry for airlines that suck, they have so many regulations to deal with, it must be hard to keep everything running and people happy. Some companies have risen to the occasion. Second Life may need some special people to help keep it alive. Not sure what the deal is, but its broken. - Andrew Baron
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