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In case you missed it: a Duke University Official tried to sell his 5 year old adopted child for sex. I now return you to your Twitistence
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WTF... =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Is he on drugs?!
- Shevonne
Humans...
- Brome
wtf
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
this country is going down in flames
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Just a San Francisco afternoon: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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Red Label, Shannon Clark, K.D. and 14 other people liked this
Eat your heart out, we aren't in Virginia anymore!
- Robert Scoble
Looks beautiful
- Billy Fung
As a former San Franciscan, now in Virginia, that stings. I wish I could get some good, affordable dim sum.
- Mark Stout
@Mark: If you get to the Bay Area and want *really good*, *very affordable* dim sum, you need to go to El Cerrito's Asian Pearl: http://www.yelp.com/biz...
- Roger Jennings
Oh yeah? We're getting great weather on the north shore of Massachusetts too. Yesterday we were actually able to go to the beach wearing short-sleeved shirts. Soon we'll even be able to wear shorts!
- Bruce Lewis
@Roger Jennings - Thanks. My own faithful on Stockton St. in SF is no more. When I'm back next I'll check out yours. And would love to find one here in VA, but alas.
- Mark Stout
Was at twin peaks last night, heading to delores park now
- Andy Bakun
@biggraybeast - funny you should mention dim sum since I just had some today in Richardson, TX (N.Dallas) http://twitpic.com/6u3bi
- Dangergirl
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm DIM SUM is my favorite kind of food! yumm!
- Simply Teeeya
@Dangergirl hah i click on this post to see something about my new home, SF, and see someone mention my old home town and where I went to high-school, Richardson, TX... nice
- Zac Bowling
can't wait .. another 3 weeks until I can officially enjoy sf afternoons full-time
- Beth Kanter
Ha - you were in spittin' distance from my house there Robert.
- Hutch Carpenter
Hutch: really? Damn, you had a nice view today.
- Robert Scoble
That is one of my absolute favourite places in the city. Especially on beautiful day. Thx for sharing.
- Mylene Valencia
Business Blogger【ツ】™, Anna Haro, Mrsth and 5 other people liked this
OK, we have a Twitter fight! @codemonkeyism says friendfeed doesn't make any sense. So, come here and let's make sense of the nonsense:
Chris Mitchell, 'Like' robot (frɐnc), eric garrison and 112 other people liked this
First thing to realize is this is a live chat.
- Robert Scoble
And it's threaded.
- Robert Scoble
And the entire chat has a permalink. It's http://ff.im/3EcXi
- Robert Scoble
And in this chat you can click "like" to send it to all your friends, or just keep it for yourself for later. You can see all your likes by visiting your friendfeed home page and clicking on "likes."
- Robert Scoble
Robert can get an e-mail every time I reply to one of his posts
- Jesse Stay
Robert, i've tried so many times to give it a shot. I think friendfeed works best if you're Robert Scoble. otherwise, lots of other folks have followers who don't engage. all the above stuff is great if people engage. but my audience isn't ultra super cutting edge geeky. mostly business folks where Facebook and Twitter is their limit. So any suggestions on how to get folks who aren't "early adopter" minded to engage?
- Christine Lu
Robert can reply to that e-mail and have it appear threaded under the post
- Jesse Stay
The feed / chat feature is amazing. no need to # anything
- Jeff
Jesse: shhh, we wouldn't want to see codemonkeyism get that there's some advanced features here that take some poking around to get. Wait until he sees the search engine here and how much more useful it is than Twitter's (and that's when Twitter's is working).
- Robert Scoble
It works for little fish like me too
- David Damore
My only beef with friend feed is I don't like the iphone client, other than that, its better.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Robert, don't tell him about direct messaging either ;)
- Jesse Stay
We can't let @codemonkeyism know that you can put your friends in lists, so you can manage your users much better.
- Robert Scoble
The search is amazing. Looking for a date, time and place someone tweeted about... it is faster to look on F2 if their content is aggregated here.
- David Damore
And there is also saved searches and groups
- Brent - Loving Life
Luke: why do you need a client? The page works great on my iPhone and they have both a regular version and an iPhone version. But there are clients coming.
- Robert Scoble
The one thing about this site: Hate the logo, absolutely hate it. Site's alright but it's all about being where the people you want to follow/know are at.
- Chris
I think friendfeed is great for conversations while twitter is awesome for status updates. Both are awesome in their own right.
- sushaantu
Brent: don't tell him about private groups. Wired online and Venture Beat do their editorial meetings in private groups here.
- Robert Scoble
How long until this has 100 comments? Minutes?
- David Damore
sushaantu: exactly.
- Robert Scoble
I'm liking FF more and more. Ugly as it be.
- Lindy Asimus
David: 150 seconds. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Scoble has made it a side quest to convert every twitter follower of his into a Friend Feed member XD
- Reid
Christine: I thought the same, but it's like twitter, you have to have that "aha" moment where you realizie some of the capabilities of a service..I had that about 15 minutes ago, I'm sold
- John Bergoon
I wasn't going to mention the Private groups, at least not yet.
- Brent - Loving Life
Reid: and it's working with a lot of people, but there are still some who say it's nonsense and I make fun of them.
- Robert Scoble
Reid, Scoble never makes anything a side-quest unless it makes sense. Have you considered he may have a reason?
- Jesse Stay
@Scobleizer: Thanks for the update and high degree of accuracy. :D
- David Damore
FF is what FF is - I love it.
- Brent - Loving Life
I've been playing with FF a little but it hasn't clicked yet.
- Jesse P. Luna
live updating is the bomb!
- Truong Nguyen
Wait until he figures out that search here can be constrained to just specific lists of people you've picked. Wouldn't it be more useful to search for, say, "quilting" among just your quilting friends?
- Robert Scoble
(Hey, it worked on me -_- In fact, I'm not entirely sure I had heard of it before Scoble)
- Reid
how do private groups work?
- dave_blogworld
dave: you can start a group and you can make it private.
- Robert Scoble
I'm still waiting for it to click... despite having believed you that you love it since we were still back in closed-beta. For me, it's still a "oh, I'd better go check over on FF for that handful of people who love it so much"
- Lucretia Pruitt
Christine I see what you mean about having your followers on ff, but as a follower of Robert and other cool people I get to have a conversation with them here that I would not get to have otherwise
- Jeff
Make sure not to tell them about audio and video in line.
- Louis Gray
FriendFeed has become my real-time newspaper. I pick it up as I please, read what seems interesting, chat real-time about the news, and put it down as I please.
- Jesse Stay
I could tell you Dave but then, well you know ...
- Brent - Loving Life
dave: then only people who you invite in can see it. For instance, I have a private group at http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web can you see it? If you can, I invited you in.
- Robert Scoble
I love FF but why don't they put the latest activity first and not at the end. As I'm typing I keep getting put beneath the fold...
- Donny Mack
Robert: I just liked the way twitterfon works on the iphone, primary reason I use twitter more than friendfeed is it doesn't work as well on mobile. They make a client that can twitpic, linkshorten with bit.ly and I will most likely not use twitter anymore.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Promise not to show them how you can do multiple photos in one post.
- Louis Gray
Will @codemonkeyism actually read this thread?
- Amit Nangare
Louis: ssssshhhhh, next thing you'll tell them you can do photos. Oh, drat you already did!
- Robert Scoble
Amit: probably not.
- Robert Scoble
Please promise not to show them how to hide noisy threads, people or sources.
- Louis Gray
Whatever you do, don't tell them they can e-mail you at scobleizer@friendfeed.com
- Jesse Stay
haha feed stops as all check http://www.friendfeed.com/2010web
- John Bergoon
@Donny Mack Type faster ;)
- David Damore
er, scobleizer@friendfeed.com
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: even I didn't know THAT!
- Robert Scoble
Or the way you can imbed videos.
- Brent - Loving Life
At least it's here for good reference and the friendfeeders of the future =]
- Reid
I love the functionality of FriendFeed, but I'll probably never really use it. I agree with Chris that it's about being where your friends are at. Twitter is sufficient for most of them, so that's where I'll be.
- Jamie
interesting! the private group feature is really important for businesses
- dave_blogworld
@Daavid Damore thanks :)
- Donny Mack
And it works awesome with Chrome
- Brent - Loving Life
Robert, it goes straight to your DM box. You can also post anything to share@friendfeed.com to go to your public stream.
- Jesse Stay
(is on chrome)
- Reid
Jamie: which is why I talk about friendfeed all the time. As soon as all my friends are here, my job will be done. So far I have 40,000 here.
- Robert Scoble
Very pleased
- Reid
Thanks Robert, I actually found out a lot more features due to this thread... go FF
- Amit Nangare
haha, as did I
- Reid
LOL. Slowly you will win us over. If so, then kudos. :)
- Jamie
Yes indeed go FF
- Brent - Loving Life
Wait until he figures out you can search just YouTube videos here (or just Tweets or Tweets AND YouTube videos).
- Robert Scoble
Don't tell anybody about the search engine that actually can go back months and months and sort by likes or people, unlike the very broken Twitter search.
- Louis Gray
I have no need for TwitPic with FriendFeed
- Jesse Stay
Or for Ferrari or Porsche
- Brent - Loving Life
Wait until he figures out that he can hide all Tweets except for those that have a comment or a like. That's how I hide his noise!
- Robert Scoble
Luke, Robert. There's a developer with a mobile client in the works. Try it here: http://dev.ctor.org/f2p/
- Micah Wittman
Don't tell them that there is no fail whale.
- Louis Gray
And you can still tie into Twitter if you must
- Brent - Loving Life
Is this conversation threaded? If so, how can I tell which replies belong to which post?
- Jim Lecter
Louis: I can actually find Chinese Earthquake Tweets here (you can't find them on Search.Twitter.com because that engine didn't index that long ago).
- Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer: Perhaps it is time for SOMEONE to watch your tutorial videos.
- David Damore
If this were a conversation in Twitter, then I could link to an individual comment/status. Can you not do that in here?
- Jamie
Blasphemy Louis! What you say is not possible? (really?)
- Reid
Robert I thought you would be in line to get a Palm Pre tonight
- Jeff
Jim: only a single thread. These all belong to the top level items.
- Robert Scoble
Don't tell him the API is much more scalable than Twitter's
- Jesse Stay
Good thing its not in real time
- Brent - Loving Life
Jeff: unfortunately I'm in Virginia and need to get to the airport in an hour or so.
- Robert Scoble
(is the search on here that sexy?)
- Reid
Very sexy
- Brent - Loving Life
Reid: yes, you want a demonstration of some of the power of friendfeed search?
- Robert Scoble
What airport are you at @Scobleizer?
- David Damore
I like sexy
- Reid
John Bergoon, welcome aboard :)
- Micah Wittman
A sexy demonstration?
- Reid
Imust have 30 saved searches just waiting for me
- Brent - Loving Life
David: I'll be at Dulles at 5:30 a.m. (it's 2:53 a.m. right now).
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I look forward to your review
- Jeff
IAD: Know it well
- David Damore
Was in Silicon Valley East for a few years
- David Damore
Here's a sexy demonstration. Only two items on friendfeed have had the words "sexy demonstration" used in them: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Damn Robert hell of a schedule
- Brent - Loving Life
anyone mention inline Audio like Podcasts
- Gary Gannon
Very sexy indeed XD
- Reid
Micah: Thanks, I'm sitting here thinking how I can start getting my friends to move over..there always giving me a hard time for jumping to the "next" thing :)
- John Bergoon
Gary thats a secret
- Brent - Loving Life
damn :-)
- Gary Gannon
http://friendfeed.com/search... now you'll only see items that say "sexy demonstration" that were started by me.
- Robert Scoble
Now we can't just have any body coming over her to FF they have to pass a test first
- Brent - Loving Life
@Sanat - Trending topics are personalized to you rather than the whole world - try best of the day http://friendfeed.com/summary...
- Atul Arora
Its a very complicated test
- Brent - Loving Life
And it is late at night in most places
- David Damore
If you only use twitter maybe FF does not have a lot of value, but if you blog, use 12sec, youtube, vimeo, basically anything social media it is awesome to have all your stuff in 1 place.
- Jeff
I like Friendfeed because I can take one thread of conversation and share it with another group of friends to start another conversation. http://ff.im/3EdWm
- John Serra
It involves adding the values of one plus one
- Brent - Loving Life
Well over 100 comments already
- David Damore
John Serra: True that's a huge feature
- John Bergoon
Sanat: friendfeed can display stuff like trending topics. We call it "best of day" here. But even better, you can build your own customized trending topics. I can do trending topics by lists of people (by displaying only things that have gotten lots of likes). Plus our trends HAVE NO SPAM. Twitter's search engine is full of spam.
- Robert Scoble
XD in what? 10 minutes? (Very pro randomness going on here at FF)
- Reid
John Bergoon, let them know that everybody jumps, and that you just don't like looking in the rear view mirror :)
- Micah Wittman
Try that with Twitter (100 Comments)
- Brent - Loving Life
Sanat - you can also try ffholic.com but that is not run by FriendFeed folks but by a third party and it gives trending topics across friendfeed and lots of other interesting stats.
- Atul Arora
F2 is also good if friends post cool content on those other sites... you visit one place to see all their content aggregated to one place
- David Damore
And you can Block fools out of your life here as well
- Brent - Loving Life
Which is something else we shouldn't tell that guy. Here we have decentralized moderation. For instance, if a spammer shows up here I can delete the comment. Then I can report him as a spammer. Then I can block him which removes him EVERYWHERE (on Twitter blocking doesn't remove that person from search).
- Robert Scoble
Ah yes, the all powerful BLOCK function
- David Damore
And I can't tell you about the other goodies that FF has to offer
- Brent - Loving Life
I think it was Leo Laporte's definition of Twitter as the online Dial Tone. IMO FriendFeed is far from that, it's broadband conversation set with rich content, way more powerful.
- Majento
In 20 minutes or so everyone in here will be gone and if you missed the interaction, then adding another comment doesn't seem to have much value because who is going to see it (unless you come back in and look at this thread). Whereas with Twitter, commenting later is ok, is just as visible, and is still relevant. Am I off base?
- Jamie
Twitter is a CB Radio. FriendFeed is color television with satellite.
- Louis Gray
Problem is you need another account. Too many plugs in the socket. Facebook and twitter cover 99 of ave non geek people
- The Dude Abides
And we don't have groups of real people meeting each other either
- Brent - Loving Life
Jamie: if you commented on this thread it will be at the top of "My discussions" if you come back later.
- Robert Scoble
Thats right Loius
- Brent - Loving Life
Sanat Gersappa, I've found the sharing/re-sharing of the main group I'm subscribed to gives me the pulse of what's going sufficiently. In twitter-style trending topics serve a purpose, but they aren't tuned to my interest, whereas on FF they effectively are.
- Micah Wittman
and this thread will be around like forever almost
- Brent - Loving Life
Louis I was thinking more of FriendFeed is a cell phone, and twitter is a land line
- John Bergoon
If this were actually a fight, Twitter would have had no friends to pick him back up after the beating...
- Reid
Shh, you can click on the time stamp here and it'll open up a separate window of just this thread. Click THAT time stamp again and it'll open up a smaller window which is perfect to participate in these real time sessions.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Interesting, thanks.
- Jamie
You can also store links for reading on FF just like a bookmarking service.
- Amit Nangare
Robert how many student from the leadership class are now on friendfeed?
- Jeff
And no one here is interested in Photography or cooking
- Brent - Loving Life
Robert: wow...timestamp click.....Epic win
- John Bergoon
Brent: it will be around forever. Oh, shhhh, another thing, friendfeed trends higher in Google due to all the additional metadata that we're putting in each item here. Oh, and the founders were superstars at Google, so they know a thing or two about search.
- Robert Scoble
i was tabbing around like crazy
- John Bergoon
Jeff: I don't know. I hope a few, especially after they saw the demonstration Thursday.
- Robert Scoble
it's crazzy
- kang
And there is some what amazing customer service as well
- Brent - Loving Life
OMG I didn't know that one.. Thanks Robert for the second click on the timestamp..
- John Serra
What do you have to do to get conversations to "cascade" out to other parts of FF? On Twitter there is the retweet. How does that work here?
- Jesse P. Luna
What is the "time stamp"?
- David Damore
But that also is a secret
- Brent - Loving Life
This is starting to sound like, dare I say it, a "platform" Soon there will be Lynda titles about FriendFeed tutorials
- Stephen Pickering
Thanks Robert, this has been educational and quite entertaining =] ( @Sanat: same here ) - Bed time, night all =]
- Reid
You do a like its like a retweet
- Brent - Loving Life
Heheh http://twitter.com/codemon... isn't getting a clue. Please Tweet that he's being a jerk by not coming over here and sticking up for Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
But it very complicated process to like some thing
- Brent - Loving Life
I think FF users are getting caught up craving comments like followers on twitter...its like a game and if they dont get comments they get discouraged...the issue is probably that your thread doesnt engage very well...I learned that this week when I posted this http://friendfeed.com/garygan...
- Gary Gannon
like is easier than twitter and useful
- kang
David: underneath the headline that started this thread is a date stamp.
- Robert Scoble
Book: Friendfeed For Dummies [Fall 2009] ;)
- David Damore
How do you report Spammers here?
- Stephen Pickering
David: right now it says "18 minutes ago" (click on it and you'll see a new window pop up in your browser).
- Robert Scoble
I've tried FF, really I've tried, but I keep giving up and sticking with Twitter. I'll let this thread give me guidance for one more try.
- Don McAllister
But once you have your name you can't chnage it much
- Brent - Loving Life
hey @codekomkeyism it makes a lot of sense! What do you say!
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
David: Right now it's not very obvious that its a link
- Amit Nangare
@Scobleizer: Ahhhhhhhh Thank you
- David Damore
Report friendfeed spam: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Robert Scoble
and gee no damn 140 character limit on your posts, you can actually say some thing if you want
- Brent - Loving Life
Don, all other things aside, just look how smoothly it works. On twitter I always wait for pages to load, for tweets to load
- Stephen Pickering
may be we should ask FF developers to skin it as a link
- Amit Nangare
Ah, thanks
- Stephen Pickering
LIve updating is pretty slick!
- Don McAllister
You dare not bother FF developers, lest they respond to your needs and help you out
- Brent - Loving Life
Don , you think so-
- Brent - Loving Life
And don't tell anyone that some power users enjoy some customizations provided by a passionate ff user script community http://img.skitch.com/2009060...
- Micah Wittman
Brent: ssshhhh, that's another secret. Friendfeed's founders actually participate here and answer questions. Twitter's founders? Yeah, right.
- Robert Scoble
sorry Robert
- Brent - Loving Life
seems like they are running out of steam
- Brent - Loving Life
That was fun
- Brent - Loving Life
Brent: Twitter? No way. Here in Virginia I've heard about Twitter on all the mainstream media I've turned on.
- Robert Scoble
I meant on this stream
- Brent - Loving Life
good to hear that Wired and Venturebeat are using the private room function - another small addition to the credibility of FriendFeed...
- Jeroen De Miranda
Ok, this has been very helpful in learning some of the values of Friendfeed. Definitely has some things Twitter doesn't. But I think the main thing I have learned is that I don't have time for FriendFeed. :) I can keep up with friends much quicker on Twitter - not as rich of information, but that doesn't matter because on Twitter they are (ideally) being more selective in what they post...
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- Jamie
Can you imagine the power of this thing if 200 million people were on it!
- Stephen Pickering
Brent: yeah, after 190 comments it's hard to say anything else. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Still think you need a manual to figure FriendFeed out. I'm not slamming the service. I get that it has a lot to offer ...if you're an early adopting Scoble loving geek (which I tend to be). So again, friendfeed is great for folks who want to talk to Robert Scoble. That's not a sustainable business model unless someone can tell me how it's going to be adopted by non-early adopters the...
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- Christine Lu
Did we just set a new record or sumpin?
- Brent - Loving Life
and I have been back here maybe a month and your point is?
- Brent - Loving Life
Christine: we had the exact same conversations about Twitter two years ago. Remember, Twitter is two years older than friendfeed is. I got to 40,000 followers here MUCH faster than I did on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Christine, plus, its DEFINITELY not more confusing than Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
I have over 200 Followers in less than a month
- Brent - Loving Life
Brent: not even close. Here are all the threads with more than 1,000 comments: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Face book - :P
- Brent - Loving Life
Oh thats right, but I was going to keep that a secret
- Brent - Loving Life
Christine: Stephen is right. The argument that Twitter is getting adoption because it's simple is bullshit. Twitter only has 30 million people. Facebook, which is far more complex than either friendfeed or Twitter, has 225 million on it.
- Robert Scoble
Christine, finding posts on China that have at least 1 Like: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Micah Wittman
Christine: I see what your saying, Social media in general is a young thing. Its gonna take a while for any of it to really catch on mainstream. I know alot of people who still think that twitter is lame...facebook is what 4 years old now and it's just starting to got really mainstream...but it's going to end up like myspace I think
- John Bergoon
Christine Lu There are plenty of conversations that Robert Scoble does not even hear about.. Not even in English...
- John Serra
Yeah there is such a learning curve at FF - NOT
- Brent - Loving Life
John: that's absolutely true. There's more than a hundred thousand people on friendfeed that don't speak English.
- Robert Scoble
Christine, or on China with a conversation (2 or more comments): http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Micah Wittman
It's like advertising, Olgivy had a famous saying, the first time you see an add you say, "What is this crap!!?" The ninth time you see the add your writing out a check for the product
- Stephen Pickering
And no one helps one another here at all
- Brent - Loving Life
Robert -- didn't say people were on Twitter b/c it was simple. heck, most China business and non-tech folks in my areas are still not on Twitter. LOL. Just sayin' Friendfeed isn't for everyone yet. Otherwise i wouldn't feel like i'm talking to myself when i post something on my FF account. LOL.
- Christine Lu
Brent: yeah, really, that reminds me of one of my favorite groups here, where people are teaching themselves to do saved searches (aka filters): http://friendfeed.com/ffss
- Robert Scoble
Well there is a limit on the length of a post , but then, oh my god, you start anther comment
- Brent - Loving Life
Christine: I hope friendfeed isn't for everyone. If it were we'd see lame people, assholes, spammers, and other unfriendly types here. It's fine with me if those types stay on Twitter. Twitter isn't going away. Twitter isn't killing Facebook. Friendfeed won't kill Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Christine, when I first joined Twitter I felt like I was talking to myself. During one iteration I actually used it as a a to do list of sorts. Just SMS things into it that I needed to do@
- Stephen Pickering
Thanks for the session, folks. Very informative.
- Jamie
Stephen: some day I'm going to try to make a list of all the people who told me that Twitter was the lamest thing they ever saw (in the early days that happened multiple times a day).
- Robert Scoble
There is a large percentage of FF topics that start at twitter
- Brent - Loving Life
Christine, "Social Media" in non-tech places (classroom, business, organization): http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Micah Wittman
stephen: I did the same thing haha twitter = to do list...Twitter as well as FF, I believe, is really only as good as the people you follow and follow you...is that correct?
- John Bergoon
I still talk to myself on Twitter. I guess i'll start on FF and give it another try. It's like LinkedIn for me. I keep going back and trying it and losing interest within a day. I'm going to Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai on geeks on a plane and asking folks in each city if they use FriendFeed. :D Wonder what the answer will be. hmm...
- Christine Lu
And you notice if you make a mistake posting your stuck, you can't edit at all or delete a post
- Brent - Loving Life
Christine, it all depends on who is in your circle
- Brent - Loving Life
Brent: that's a good point. On friendfeed you can edit your tweets, even, to make them more accurate (or, even, to take advantage of the fact that you have more than 140 characters here).
- Robert Scoble
I've used FF like 5 times now, twice to join in on epic threads like this one, and the other times clicking around trying to figure out what to do. This thread is helping on the "what" part, just got to invest the time to figure the "how".
- Jesse P. Luna
Robert, that's so true. I was only there in the early days because I was listening to Leo's show and your blog, but I remember not thinking much of it for that first year
- Stephen Pickering
Oh, and I love how when Tweets come in here that @scobleizer turns into a link and how when I use a URL shortener the original URL gets displayed here and if it points to a video or photo that is part of the Tweet too.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: but the Power Twitter greasemonkey script does all that :P
- John Bergoon
Brent, there are limits to comment length, etc, but they are probably higher than you think (than most people realize): Kol did some great geeky research here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Micah Wittman
BTW Christine, folks may not respond to you on Twitter every single time but we listen. Felt as if I was in Hawaii all week. :)
- Jesse P. Luna
Cool, Micah
- Brent - Loving Life
Epic thread Robert, gotta run.
- Jesse P. Luna
Well, this was fun, but gotta run too. Thanks Jesse!
- Robert Scoble
Jesse Luna, stick with it, the richness in conversation and resources is big.
- Micah Wittman
yeah I'm out it's 330 here...thanks Robert..
- John Bergoon
Good night folks.... or should i say Good morning.... :)
- Amit Nangare
For Greasemonkey (Firefox) / Greasekit (Safari) inclined, and for the ff scripts (of mine) I alluded to: http://userscripts.org/users... - hope it helps someone :)
- Micah Wittman
Micah: just installed your botom comment link button and already had your hover reveal installed....small interweb :) thanks
- John Bergoon
Ah, always something new to discover. It makes the ff community a great place. Glad you like them, John. Thanks for letting me know =)
- Micah Wittman
There is one major reason not to be on FF. It's an addictive time-waster. On the other hand, as an addictive time-waster it has more value than playing scrabble or poker on Facebook or reading a stream of mindless status messages on Twitter.
- howard shippin
I have 16,000 followers on Twitter, yet find more valuable information and better conversations on FriendFeed, where far fewer people subscribe to my feed. I use FriendFeed far more than Twitter too. I LOVE FriendFeed - I LIKE Twitter.
- Jim Connolly
Jim, you can RT twitter, but you can't Like twitter (on twitter) ;)
- Micah Wittman
Micah: :) That was funny!!
- Jim Connolly
The funniest stuff is just the speaking the truth. In a funny way =)
- Micah Wittman
I love Robert (in an appreciative way). He has two sizable conversations going on at the same time! Amazing
- Michael Fidler
The only way I could make sense of FF was when I found imaginary friends. By creating new feeds from RSS or other sources it makes FF much more powerful. Can't link to facebook friends though....I think it's a privacy thing correct?
- Carey Lumeng
This thread is exactly why I don't like Friend Feed. I barely have time to keep up with Twitter -- I like the brevity Twitter enforces. Every time I come to Friend Feed I think of the old days of usenet and how much time it demanded if you wanted to keep up to date.
- Pete Smith
For instance, I absolutely *did not* take the time to read this whole thread.
- Pete Smith
Niether did I. But Freindfeed makes alotta sense.......
- Roberto Bonini
I also don't really think FriendFeed makes sense haha
- Hen Asraf
I would love it if Twitter users would at least sign up on FriendFeed and load their Twitter and Delicious accounts. They don't even have to use FF after that, but at least they've claimed their handles and it saves me from creating a bunch of FF imaginary friends.
- Joel Zehring
@Joel I second that ... Having my twitter feed trickle into FF through an RSS and a few imaginary friends really sucks ...
- Tom Horn
Do we really want Oprah in here though?
- JonInteractive
no! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Pete: you just found another advantage: friendfeed filters out lazy people who don't want to learn something new. That alone explains why the community here is so interesting.
- Robert Scoble
aren't most people lazy though? which really means most people probably shouldn't be on friendfeed. which also implies arguing over its merits is a bit of a waste of time - if you like it, use it and enjoy, but why bother trying to "convert" everyone?
- Jeremy Toeman
Biggest problem with friendfeed is that on the signup page there are no videos, no how-to's, nothing. At least not that I could find.
- Greg DeVore
I just followed 258 comments. On Twitter that would be impossible.
- Sgt Ret
The implication that if a person choses not to read 258 comments on the merits of FriendFeed it means they are lazy is ridiculous. Life is finite. Information is infinite. We all constantly have to select what we feel will enrich our lives, given the short time we're alive.
- Pete Smith
Boy! This conversation sure has grown overnight! Like Sgt Ret said, this would be impossible to follow on Twitter.
- Ange Recchia/angesbiz
Instead of wondering if friendfeed makes any sense, I'm wondering if friendfeed makes any noise. Plays any sounds, that is.
- Chuck Baggett
This discussion has 264 comments, and 'auto-promote' itself. This is simply impossible to follow in Twitter. FriendFeed does make sense! Even if it's different from Twitter.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I've had FF for about a year or more,haven't used it as much until recently,when I found I was getting followers, it is gre8 for aggregating all of your social networks together & sharing them on twitter in one stop/step.I don't get the commentary as much as I do on twitter,but it's still a gr8 resource,feel free to follow me &share comments,etc ☺(see bio to learn more abt me)
- Patty
from twhirl
Chuck: audio files such as podcasts are supported with embedded friendfeed player =)
- Mike Chelen
Everyone, check out the new ride of Lisa from SWBN! Sweet mama :-) http://www.swbnetwork.com/blog...
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Lisa, I was looking for new design ideas for my next series of niche sites, and came across your work. Very nice blog design, and love your clean and neat opt-in which you have set as home page. BTW Congratulations on page rank 3 AND Alexa rank in 100Ks!
- Ritesh Lal
One challenge I have had with using blogs as main vehicle is that, although they are fantastic for SEO, they don't naturally lend themselves to integrating well with opt-in page or sales letter page. Lisa, as you can see, has done this in style! What other cool examples have you all seen where an opt-in/sales page exists in harmony with blog format?
- Ritesh Lal
Thanks Ritesh. I would love to claim responsibility for the look and design of the blog, but Allison Reynolds was the main person who adapted the WP Theme and Barb provided the opt-in box. When it comes to design I stand on the sidelines cheering! P.S. Soooo wish this car was really mine! But I did get to drive it for a day (on the same track where they filmed the James Bond sequence where he flips the Aston Martin in Casino Royale)
- Lisa
Why spend effort creating backlinks on web 2.0 sites like squidoo, hubpages etc. when they all have nofollow links? Why does 30DC recommend this? I understand that nofollow links are ignored by Google algorithms when deciding your ranking on the search results page. Thanks!
Mario Mendoza, Michael Netsch, Ed Dale and 4 other people liked this
Three things. People follow links and it will be people, not google, that will be buying your stuff. Nofollow links are a Google thing, other search engines treat them as normal links, and getting as much traffic from as many places is a smart move. Lastly Google still indexes those links, it just doesn't pass on the authority juice.
- Allison
Ya... what Allison said. Totally agree
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Makes sense. Thanks Allison for clearing that up!
- Ritesh Lal
A lot of web 2 properties are as you say nofollow, but i've just created myu first quidoo lens and whne i view the sourse code of my page my links do not have nofollow added to them, thy are just plain html links the way i inputed them. Also there have been a number of test done on low competition where only nofollow links have made a site rank for the phase in question, so google does take them into account when ranking a page, probably just not as much. Jayen
- Jayen
from twhirl
Thank you everyone for bringing this issue up and explaining it. I haven't done the Squidoo and Hubpage thing yet. I was thinking of skipping it, but now that I understand how the links work I will put the time in for both Squidoo and Hubpage.
- Edward Kimble
wow just noticed how many typos i had in my post, sorry guys i'm typing into twhirl and it's very difficult to review and correct. Just did My first hub pages page, the links in this case are definetly nofollow, it shows clearly in the sourse code, but still google will still take them into account as i said before, at the end of the day we just need to focus on getting lots of links, nofollow and PR are overrated. Jayen
- Jayen
from twhirl
I found an article that answers your question Ritesh Lal: http://seoservicespro.com/link-bu...
- TrafficBug
I'd agree but this is where i first heard about it..lol
- TrafficBug
Thanks for the link TrafficBug. Nice writeup there on nofollow links
- Ritesh Lal
Both Squidoo and HubPages ARE dofollow, IF you follow their guidelines. You simply have to write some quality content that isn't filed with tons of links.
- thefluffanutta
30 DC Meetup in San Francisco Bay Area: Folks the next 30 DC meetup in the bay area is being organized as I speak. In order for us to better serve the community, and in an effort to make the meetup as much fun as it's a learning experience, could the bay area residents please take 2 minutes to...
eric garrison liked this
...fill out this survey? http://is.gd/iWVb . I promise, it's just 5 multiple choice questions, and will take 1 minute of your time. OK, maybe 2 minutes if the morning coffee has not kicked in yet :-) Thank you for your help in organizing this meetup! http://is.gd/iWVb
- Ritesh Lal
Hi, my name is Dave Pancost. I just started the 30DC. I live in Washington State and have a background in computer programming. I'm looking forward to participating here as I learn and discover how to be a successful internet entrepreneur. :-)
eric garrison, Isha (Marysia), Tim Brennan and 2 other people liked this
Welcome! Enjoy yourself here... :)
- Art Y.
Hey Dave, I have just finished 30DC and it was a truly awesome and eye opening experience : ) Good luck!
- Kittie Walker
Good luck to you with 30DC!!!
- TrafficBug
Thanks, Art, Kathleen. and TrafficBug. I appreciate the welcome.
- Dave Pancost
THanks I appreciate the introduction.
- Frank Dobner
Hello David! My name is David too, so from one David to another glad you found 30dc. I did it this year for the first time and it sure helped me put the pieces of the puzzle together. And yes it is a Challenge so don't give up. you will be glad you hung in there.
- David
Glad you started on 30 DC you will learn many new stuff
- TrafficBug
Welcome to the 30DC. You'll have fun for sure!
- Michael Wilson
welcome!
- Mitja MG
Frank, David TrafficBug, Michael, and Mitja, thanks for the welcome. You all know how to make a guy feel wanted. :-) David, I'll definitely "hang in there", as my goal is to build a business that will carry me full time, and I won't stop until I get there. Thanks for the encouragement.
- Dave Pancost
DON'T pay ANY money for Google Adwords until you've read THIS article! - http://www.google.com/ads...
Frank Dobner, Mario Mendoza, Tim Brennan and 11 other people liked this
That is awesome, and just in time for me. Thanks!
- CarpeDiem002
Thanks Art! You da man.
- Scott
You're welcome :)
- Art Y.
Tried to claim my $250 but it seems you need a coupon code. I read in a forum that your should have received this by snail mail first to claim the offer. Is that right? Anyone got this to work?
- Tim Brennan
It clearly says you should already have the snail mailed coupon code
- TrafficBug
Yep, that sounds right. I had to do the same...and I live in South Africa... It works.
- Lorenzo Rheinicke
How do I get a coupon code sent to me?
- Tim Brennan
Is there a way to share a post/message to several rooms without retyping the message and link. Also, I have unlinked my twitter account from friendfeed because every time I write a message in a room and then another room, the message turns up on twitter each time. Was I right to unlink twitter?
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Don't know of a way to "mass post" it to multiple rooms at once, but while logged in and on FFyou can highlight and copy the comment text of the post you want to repost, then click the *more* link and then the *Reshare* link.A popup box will open w/the post link already there, chose the room from the dropdowm menu, paste the comment text. click OK
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Thank you Ron. I appreciate your sharing this
- Rosie Peters
No worries...Hope it helps
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Rosie did you every find a way around this? I find the same issues as well, and only had the "share on friendfeed" feature being used
- eric garrison
No Eric, I just took Ron's advice & I also linked twitter again as I didn't have any other bright ideas.
- Rosie Peters
Rosie, try the 'Reshare this entry' feature. Under every friendfeed entry is the menu 'More', click on that and you will find 'Reshare this entry'. Clicking on that will allow you to repost entries to another room. One Possible Suggestion: Make a post in your own feed. Then Reshare it to other rooms. Hope this answers your query!
- Sam Katakouzinos
Thanks Sam, will give this a go
- Rosie Peters
I tried this and as usual 3 duplicate posts appeared on twhirl!
- Rosie Peters
Just finished making a Hub Page... It took me the longest time just to make that. :( Exhausted... It's not easy being a perfectionist. :P Well... semi-perfectionist... But someone commented on my hubpage so soon. Wow... Hubpages is a lot more active than Squidoo...
eric garrison and Roney Smith liked this
Yeah, I have found hub pages to produce alot more traffic than squidoo...I also found building a Weebly site is very nice as well! It doesn't generate as much traffic as a Hub Page but seems to help with rankings quite nice.
- Michael Roberts
Congrats on you Hub Page hit! I'm sure you'll get many more. I've used Squidoo, so know what you mean about the interactivity level. Hope you'll check me out, too -- http://www.scribd.com/doc...
- Viqi French
Hmmmm Just had a three day long FF where not one person spoke highly of Hub pages.... interesting
- Mark South
My Hub Page was on 1 rank for some days but then it disappeared, to bad
- Mitja MG
Well,I'm not too sure about how they rank in terms of search engines, but by themselves, for me they seem to already give a lot of traffic! I got 200 pageviews in the last 24 hours that the hub was made. It's doing even better than my site which has been up for more than a week! How pitiful my site is... Sob... -_-|||
- Art Y.
hmm - when I search my keyword in hubpages, my hub doesn't appear in the list, even tho the title of it is my keyword. Doubt if I've been banned - the only link in it is to my squidoo lens for that keyword.
- Isha (Marysia)
Mathew A. Koeneker, mjc, Guillermo Esteves and 57 other people liked this
omgpuppy
- Phil G
yup, still cute....
- Live4Emma (L4S)
:× :×
- Maryam Ardakani
My GOD!!!!!! cuteeeeeeeeeeeee
- MissSaghar
Kids are dying they here. They want it. I want it. CUTE!
- Admiral Anika
LOL@Anika...."COME ON MOM! PLEEEEEEEEEASE???"
- Live4Emma (L4S)
omcuteness<3
- Nia
Lethally cute!
- Donna Mugavero
Awwwwww... that puppy is sooo sweet looking!
- Susan Beebe
awwwwww
- Shevonne
he (or she) has such an emotionally complex face--a visual manifestation of the love and loyalty that comes pre-installed in labs.
- Mattb4rd
london at night - http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009...
и ничего общего, Ken Morley, Michael Hocter and 43 other people liked this
Morning! :D
- Emma
Good Morning! :-) ouch, for me too! haha!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
lol ... what are you still doing up? You have a very important game to watch at 8:00am! ;)
- Emma
HAHA! Yes I know! Alarm is set and dvr is set (just in case)! :-) I'm nervous...Liverpool drew and the door is open if we can just walk through it and take 3 points today...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
haha!! You sure 1 alarm will be enough? What if that fails and then the dvr goes down?? *shock, horror, gasp* :p Hmm, I think this our time ... we can do it, I have faith in the boys! :)
- Emma
Ok, 2 alarms then! hahaha! I guess i should be more confident with the match at Old Trafford but I can't help it....GAH! :-0
- Live4Emma (L4S)
*smiles* Deep breath and relax and repeat after me ... "Home game, strong team, we'll be fine". :D
- Emma
Lovely...
- Mitchell Tsai
pretty amazing!
- Burcu Şensoy
Magical.
- Donna Mugavero
war puppy - http://pixdaus.com/single...
Sparky, Donna Mugavero, Steve C and 9 other people liked this
There is merit in the claims that the US Military is under-funded and under-equipped.
- Will Higgins™
there are plenty of articles out there about iraq soldier picking up strays it's quite common now
- Caroline
I was being silly Caroline, don't worry. I didn't think that the Puppy was ACTUALLY a new weapon. It'd be sad, how would a puppy grenade work? Rip off it's head and lob it at the enemy? Oh dear...
- Will Higgins™
No, more as a weapon of mass distraction.
- Donna Mugavero
Is The Rising Popularity Of The iPod Touch Cutting Into iPhone Sales? - Forbes - http://www.google.com/news...
eric garrison liked this
Color Consumption, Part 2 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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football in the sand - http://pixdaus.com/single...
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یادش به خیر سانت کن هد بزنیم
- مـــــــــمد
Things Meatloaf Would Do For Love - http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009...
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, eric garrison, Will Higgins™ and 3 other people liked this
Do comic books lean left? - Christian Science Monitor - http://news.google.com/news...
eric garrison liked this
#ces09 HP's thin notebook better for HD and games than netbooks
VC Freak, eric garrison, Sara J. Martinez and 16 other people liked this
$699. HP DV2 ultra thin notebook is what I would get a kid instead of a netbook. Why? Netbooks struggle with games an HD video playback. http://www.hp.com
- Robert Scoble
from email
I told my wife that...she didn't care... Vivienne Tam or nothing..LOL
- Bwana ☠
yeah but most netbooks are cheaper than this, especially when i know i'm using a netbook for internet and words not for HD video and games
- David
What sort of video card is it packing?
- Nick Austad
Is the optical drive included or extra?
- Dave Senior
LOL, Bwana you're so funny
- Rebecca Boston
What kind of kids are we talking about. We tested my kid's favorite gaming sites on a net book (they're 3 and 5) and it worked find. My toddlers aren't into HD either. Yet.
- Admiral Anika
@mrsmoldor agrees with Bwana's wife.... Vivienne Tam for the ladies - come on guys, *we* need a signature netbook too !!
- Jon Biddell
what makes the hp device so much better for HD movies and playback? i watch movies all te time on my dell mini 9 and love it. traveled from san fransico to minneapolis in the air watching movies and had no problems with it. plus it is cheaper and runs Linux :)
- Jonathan Jesse
Actually my MSI Wind can run a 1080p quicktime movie in Mac. Shamefully Windows struggles with 720p.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
Jonathan: that pricepoint has crappier GPU's than this machine.
- Robert Scoble
What's the RAM on that machine? I'm looking for something to play my MMOs. If the HP can do well with that sort of gaming performance I might be convinced to give the brand another try.
- Sally done with 2009
Man that laptop looks PIMP. Kicks my Acer Aspire out.
- Albert K
Made my First Sale this Mornin'! And $32 closer to Retiring ;P Thanks Ed, Dan, Guru Bob, and all the helping hands in the 30DC community for making this a Reality!
Jorge Blanco, Elliot Webb, Kim Baillie and 7 other people liked this
Excellent! Best of luck!
- Bluejeanslady
from twhirl
Congratulations Connery. Good luck with your blog and niche.
- Umit Namli
that is great to hear good work!
- Mitja MG
Onwards and Upwards from here on.
- IanHagerty
from twhirl
Yippee - congrats Connery!
- Isha (Marysia)
Congrats Connery!!!!
- Shaun VanDeLinder
Good job Connery! Keep it up!!!!
- Michael Roberts
Well done!! that's great!
- Elliot Webb
Congrats! :)
- Art Y.
Craigsphone app brings Craigslist to an iPhone/iPod Touch near you - IntoMobile - http://www.google.com/news...
eric garrison liked this
Modbook Pro Is Secret Son of an iPod Touch and a MacBook Pro - Gizmodo - http://www.google.com/news...
eric garrison liked this
Does anyone else have a problem with Flock locking up when you go to a Yahoo news page?
eric garrison liked this
Works ok for me.
- Buff Toast
I'm sure that we all have written certain articles that may be significantly better than all the other articles we have written in the past. In this case, where would you use them? Reserve them for making a product, use them for normal blog post, or post them in Squidoo, Hubpages, article directory
eric garrison and Isha (Marysia) liked this
I wrote a super one for Hubpages and at first regretted it because I thought no-one would see it. But I've had some visitors to my site from the hubpage
- Isha (Marysia)
I see... I guess using them anywhere should be ok then... :) But I was thinking that maybe those super articles would go well in making a good product, so maybe it would be a good idea, to reserve some super articles...
- Art Y.
I agree Art
- Isha (Marysia)
Think Ezinearticles - human reviews, great Page Rank for backlinks. Then consider spinning it with a program like Artifact (search for a WSO price at the Warrior Forum). Also check out Unique Article Wizard to submit the spins.
- Marcus Z Billadeau
Oic... Thanks for the ideas MJ
- Art Y.
Well, its took me a little longer, but I made my first 100 with the 30DC. I have a couple more sites I am working on, and I am getting a buck a day pretty steady. Now just to keep building on that success,
Michael Roberts, Elliot Webb, shiran and 9 other people liked this
good work!
- Mitja MG
Good job! - that's a great start.
- Mark McGimpsey
Congratulation!
- suntao
Inspiring! I'm glad to see this working out. Did you use wordpress direct?
- eric garrison
No, I already had a hosting account that was not compatible. So i built my own Wordpress Blog.
- J Craig
Congratulations! That is fabulous.
- Elizabeth
Way to go keep up the good work!
- Maiken Jepsen
Congratulations. Gotta Start somewhere. Im getting mine up and running finally as well. It doesnt have to be perfect.. it just has to be. Something that hit me (my ahaaah moment) from Matt Bacaks Marketing Madness 08
- Savings Maven
Well done ! I'm up tp $10 now - but where's our Hub Pages earnings? Cant seem to isolate these on adsense? Can anyone advise? (Want to know if its worth writing any more lol!)
- Inspired Writing Research
Acually, Hubpages hasnt earned me a penny. I need to work om them more, but I see it as a great backlink and possable traffic getter. DOnt know about separating Adsense, still learning that.
- J Craig
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