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Steve Spalding posted an entry on How To Split An Atom

40 Sites You Might Actually Use

June 25 at 8:08 am - Link

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Great! Thanks, some of them are indeed very useful - George The Writer

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No problem, if you have any suggestions be sure to send them my way! - Steve Spalding

Nice roundup. Still need to jump into Twine - Caleb Elston

Yea, if you haven't tried Twine yet you definitely should. - Steve Spalding

Does Twine still need an invite code? - Andy Murdoch

Yea, send me a message on Twitter or something and let me see if I can find one. - Steve Spalding

Kayak looks like a great find.... - Chris Reed

Excellent list Steve, great job on this one. - Svetlana Gladkova

Thanks Lana, I only hope people get some use out of it. - Steve Spalding

Kayak is great. My favorite site for price hunting. - Tsega Dinka

@Tsega I also like Sidestep a lot -- one of the two usually has the best deal. - Steve Spalding

Erik commented on a story on Digg

I found this cool Scorpion guitar on Amazon...

June 30 at 11:55 am - Link

"Killer! "Heeeerrrrreee I AMMmmmmmm! ROCK you like A HURRICANE!"" - Erik

Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations

June 5 at 11:46 pm - Link

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Totally cool! This is exactly what I wanted! Thank you! Will give feedback on it after I have a few day's experience with it. - Robert Scoble

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Love it. I'd also love to be able to see only the items added since I last checked Friendfeed. - Ranjit Mathoda

cool beans. - Anthony Citrano

Helps a lot. Thanks. Easier to keep updated on the stuff that matters to me. - Alex Williams

Very cool Bret. - Hutch Carpenter

Very nice. - Atul Arora

Very nice, indeed - Michael W. May

Thanks. - Amund Tveit

Very nice addition. Keep em coming. - Tsega Dinka

We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor

@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor

Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora

Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble

Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble

How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray

@Louis Gray: That'll make FF go twitter! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

interesting idea - Steven Hodson

uh-oh.. going 'twitter' is launching as an idiom.. - sedgewick

Awesome idea Bret. Hey, we'd be honored if you could speak at FOWA this year (http://futureofwebapps.com). Interested? - Ryan Carson

perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - Chris Hofmann

Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky

Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood

This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano

hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith

This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson (beta)

Oh, now see, this is just awesome. - Vince DeGeorge

Can we get a favorite button for stuff like this :) - Rob Diana

They should call it A-list juice - Jamie

Thanks, I appreciate this feature. - Daniel Backhaus

I want a feed for this feature! - Marcus Puchmayer

Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix

Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe

Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai

Thanks, Bret! That's why we love friendfeed :) - Kenichi Matsumoto

ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill

Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer

Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai

Search for best 100 articles from past day with "&num=100" See http://friendfeed.com/e/b4029e... - Mitchell Tsai

Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu! - Mike Reynolds

Excellent - Jason Kaneshiro

Well, I must say it works! I've already found three things I had missed this week and really interest me. - Andrés David Aparicio

wow, that's actually kinda...useful! - Sarah Perez

This could prove beneficial, what is the algorithm they are using? - Chris

My guess would be comments and likes - Bwana

Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov

What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana

Awesome! - Daniel Spradau

Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel

I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe

@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur

Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai

Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo

This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter

great addition to the functionality! - Jeroen De Miranda

Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane

Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini

This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott

awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling

Bret Taylor is amazing! - Alex Hammer

I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248

Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor

Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson

Erik stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

YouTube - Grateful Dead - Jack Straw (Copenhagen 72-04-17)

June 20 at 8:36 am - Link

One of my favorite Dead tunes from the 72 euro tour - Erik

Erik stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

YouTube - Grateful Dead - Ripple

June 20 at 8:09 am - Link

Loved this video... heartfelt performance - Erik

Bret Taylor posted a link

Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.com

June 13 at 11:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"A typical information worker who sits at a computer all day turns to his e-mail program more than 50 times and uses instant messaging 77 times, according to one measure by RescueTime, a company that analyzes computer habits. The company, which draws its data from 40,000 people who have tracking software on their computers, found that on average the worker also stops at 40 Web sites over the course of the day." - Bret Taylor

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I read this story all the time, and it never makes sense to me. Fundamentally, a lot of my job is about interacting with other people. And it ain't just me, it's everybody I know. Somehow this article always gets written with little attention to the essential nature of email/chat to people getting anything done at all, and instead focuses on its minority role as a distraction. - j1m

Good approach to this issue is using 'Getting Things Done' by David Allen - see http://tinyurl.com/6zlpvf - Jeroen De Miranda

Thats what soul tech is about, http://www.sparknw.com/soultec... - Leif Hansen

But the Rescue Time metric is real and when viewed in light of how many average workers cannot discipline themselves to remain on target for on-time collaborative results, it's important to acknowledge that time-motion studies can bear fruit. - Bernie Goldbach

are there any metrics out there which tell us how much time people spend TAGGING the applications and site within Rescue Time???? geez, i bet that takes 10% of my time too! - Ivan Stegic

Just finished reading this in the paper and didn't understand it. Have we become such children that we need others to tell us when it's naptime? I get a ridiculous amount of email and sometimes, yes, it does cause a bit of apnea when looking at the pile. But there are only so many hours in a day. Accept it, answer what's important, and get on with life. - Carla Thompson

I don't work in Tech, but at my job I think it is fair to say that 20% of my emails contain information essential to my work. The other 80% are mildly relevant to just noise. And I can't even tell you the last time I received an email that required a response that couldn't wait 15-30 minutes. My point is I definitely think I could become more productive by ignoring my emails for 30 minute spans and concentrating ont he meat of my job. In fact, I'm going to try it next week. - Occasional Headbanger

Where I work, people COMPLAIN when they get taken off a thread and ask to be on as many distribution lists as they can. They want to be in the loop and know what other people are working on, etc. Granted, we've got just under 100 employees, so in a larger org this could be overwhelming. I think the problem is more in managing the emails rather than feeling the need to "act" on ever single one. - Jim

Gee! If E-Mail really takes this much time from people, add in Friendfeed and Twitter and it's amazing any work gets done in America! - Kevin Shannon

Chris Brogan shared an item on Google Reader

Starting a Social Media Strategy

June 13 at 3:15 pm - Link

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Chris Brogan shared an item on Google Reader

How the Red Cross is using Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, RSS and Wordpress.com in their disaster response efforts

June 14 at 5:29 am - Link

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unfortunately they had to go this route only because their Prez got into some hot legal trouble ..but it's a welcome operation-slimming change - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl

Very cool especially as an ex New Orleanian and current resident of the Midwest. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Paul Buchheit posted a link

New York Press - Feeding Frenzy - The folks who brought you Gmail now proudly present: FriendFeed

June 11 at 1:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"One of the goals of the site is to guide users through the Internet. Back when everyone read their hometown paper and watched the same three network TV channels, people more or less had a common media experience that they could share. But now, with access to millions of blogs, videos and news sources, how do users sort through the mass of information? Let your friends show you: That’s what FriendFeed believes. The site takes the idea of sharing—like when Mom sends you a newspaper clipping or doubles of photographs—and upgrades it to make it instantaneous to all the people you know. What sets FriendFeed apart from some of its competitors is that it fosters a conversation about what’s posted. Rather than the anonymous and often disparaging comments posted on a site like YouTube, the comments left on FriendFeed under a video go out to people reading your stream of information: So they know you, either in real life or through an online relationship, creating a group conversation." - Paul Buchheit

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is it just me or is >30% of the content on Friendfeed about Friendfeed? - Nicholas Molnar via twhirl

I sense a difference in post size limit for Paul :) - Delete Me

Nicholas: It may be just you. BTW I am guessing nearer to 100% of Paul's will be about FriendFeed - Brian Sullivan

You can cheat the post size limit with cut-and-paste. - ⓞnor

@Nicholas: as long as not 100% of the content is about FF we are not there yet! ;-) - Dieter Schwarz

lol +1 @Scott - AJ Kohn

@nor: really? sweet tip. Thanks! - AJ Kohn

Paul - you are a *GENIUS*. Cool idea, by a "good" guy!! :-) FriendFeed has definitely delivered on the promise of your business model. I get to see all the fun stuff my friends post and all the convo around them... awesome! I've waited for years for this. (And yes, I do remember the 3 TV networks: ABC, NBC and CBS...augh!.. run!) - Susan Beebe

ah...cut and paste does take care of the limit. Thats a good and bad thing. - Delete Me

This was a fun interview to do...other FriendFeeders mentioned in the article are Kevin Lim http://friendfeed.com/kevinlim Adam Kazwell http://friendfeed.com/kaz & John McCrea http://friendfeed.com/therealm... - Mark Krynsky

Feeding Frenzy is a good app name... - Downtown Rob via twhirl

Friendfeed will Change Journalism, PR and Marketing http://www.micropersuasion.com... - seman

FriendFeed is ALREADY changing Journalism, PR and Marketing ...notice the decline in blog posts already? I have. this is revolutionary (disruptive) technology that is -and will continue to have- impacts across web publishing, media, PR, etc, etc. - Susan Beebe

@Nicholas: very little of my friendfeed is about friendfeed. unfortunately, to accomplish this, I had to unfriend Louis. - j1m

@Nicholas: It depends of what and who you are following. Maybe it's that now for some folks but amount of conversation about FF will get lower when amount of other content goes up when more and more people start using this service. It's the "first adopters syndrome" that is reason why people are talking so much of FF now. - Daniel Schildt

to me FF came as the logical next step, being alrdy addicted to google reader for a long long time. Explaining FF to friends, that was hard. My main argument was "it's bringing us together with what we feed upon online", but not more then 10% bought it. So, beside the "early adopters", spikey graphs, big names, trend - _for me_ FF changed the way information flows. And that - IMHO is more important then all the business impact, adoption rate, etc. FF is best thing since the adoption of RSS :) nice work guys - Dani Radu

Erik stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

June 10 at 6:38 pm - Link

I went here when I was on tour and was simply blown away by how geeked I got over being there. Great experience! - Erik

Ontario Emperor posted a message

“A thought is burrowing in my brain. Web 2.0 is supposedly about communication. Therefore, you'd expect that the news about Web 2.0 would be communicated. However, I suspect that the communication about what we think of as "Web 2.0" hasn't reached most people.”

May 5 at 9:20 am - Link

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Too many confusing terms. "User generated content". "Social network". "Widgets". "Feed reader". Very conceptual stuff. - Jason Kaneshiro

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Perhaps it helps to compare these technologies against the telephone, which is one of the earlier social networking technologies. Compared to the telephone, things such as Facebook are very difficult to use. Some of this is due to Facebook's complexity, but even a purposefully simple application such as Twitter may be seen as complex in comparison to the telephone. (Here, I'm speaking about a dumb phone, not a smart phone.) - Ontario Emperor

Web 2.0 is too tech for non-tech, non-marketing people. I always explain it as way to enhance your relationships and stay in touch. When it gets put in a personal, social context it's much more digestible... Or with all that's going on in the world and crude oil at $120/barrel, most people probably have other things to think about - Erik

Probably because we're too busy informing ourselves. Often we don't give non-geeks enough credit and think they won't get it or they'll think it's stupid. - Shey

This conversation inspired two blog posts in me. Here's the first: http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2... - Ontario Emperor

And here's the second: http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2... - Ontario Emperor