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40 Sites You Might Actually Use - http://howtosplitanatom.com/news...
Erik, Hassan Ibraheem, Rick Powell and 15 other people liked this
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
@Tsega I also like Sidestep a lot -- one of the two usually has the best deal.
- Steve Spalding
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Nikpay, Kevin Shannon, Timothy B. Taylor and 17 other people liked this
"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
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.
- Andrew
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
How the Red Cross is using Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, RSS and Wordpress.com in their disaster response efforts - http://www.RexBlog.com/2008...
Tim FitzGerald, Erik, Charlie Anzman and 3 other people liked this
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
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Very cool especially as an ex New Orleanian and current resident of the Midwest.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Starting a Social Media Strategy - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/startin...
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New York Press - Feeding Frenzy - The folks who brought you Gmail now proudly present: FriendFeed - http://www.nypress.com/21...
mr-mojo-risin, Jason Toney, Diana Valerini and 64 other people liked this
"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
is it just me or is >30% of the content on Friendfeed about Friendfeed?
- Nicholas Molnar
from twhirl
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
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/thereal...
- Mark Krynsky
Feeding Frenzy is a good app name...
- Downtown Rob
from twhirl
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
FriendFeed adds personalized recommendations - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
Kol Tregaskes, oliver gassner, Erik and 204 other people liked this
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
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
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
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 Frog
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
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
I want a feed for this feature!
- Marcus
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 Reed (K. 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... 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...
- Mitchell Tsai
Thank you! Arigatou gozaimasu!
- Mike Reynolds
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 Miller
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.... 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
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.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
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
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.
Andrew Badera, Hutch Carpenter, Erik and 2 other people liked this
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/2008...
- Ontario Emperor
And here's the second: http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2008...
- Ontario Emperor
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