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A Green Life
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August 7 at 8:00 pm - Link
AWESOME - Mona N.
I *love* the green theme. - possible248
Lovely green! - BeeLing
Gorgeous set. - Donna Mugavero
It's easy being green? - Brian Sullivan
I love the photo with the water drop on it. - Sudar
لااااااااااااااااااااااااایک برای هر گونه سبزی:) - shandiz
I feel like I am hard wired to love that little sliver of spectrum - Not Not Geoff Schultz
My favorite color. You really do spectacular work Thomas. - Jeff Jones
+1 for green - Mike Doeff
wow, what a green wave! - silpol
Interesting:Leaf veins looks like spider web - Igor Poltavskiy
everything is so green! - nundesign
keyword is green :) - Baard Overgaard Hansen
Green! - k00pa
green-friday - marcantonio severgnini
this is fantastic - veronicaromm
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Two years of the Dow Jones Industrial Average
July 29 at 1:19 pm - Link
That's one heck of a drop step decline! - Richard Kannegieser
To be fair, you've got to combine the data with US dollar exchange rate - Cains
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Allen Stern posted an entry on CenterNetworks
May 22 at 8:53 pm - Link
I keep hearing people say "if you're arguing against comments being on FriendFeed, you Just Don't Get It", but nobody's actually bothered to say /why/ comments on FF are a good thing. It's just /assumed/ to be good. - Chris Anthony
why do the comments on FF have to be justified? Is the people who don't like them the ones who need to defend their position. - Alejandro S.
I like friendfeed comments just fine and think they are vastly better than pulling in all the disaggregated comments as Allen suggests. But I hope Allen will raise some cash, hire some software developers and build the thing that he thinks is 1000x better. - Robert Seidman
What stolen conversation? I'm of the opinion that very few blogs actually had conversation in comments section on a consistent basis in the first place. - Shey
Shey, if your opinion is backed up by a wealth of data, doesn't that make it fact? ;-) - Robert Seidman
Shey, do the blogs that didn't have significant comment conversation in comments have significant comment activity on FriendFeed? - Chris Anthony
Pretty much disagree with this post, but it's worth a read. Digg and reddit have comments, are they wrong too? - Jason Kaneshiro
Alejandro, if anyone needs to do any justification, it's the entity making the change, and that's FriendFeed at the moment. - Chris Anthony
Jason, yes, under this model of thinking they are. Why focus on FriendFeed in the post and the conversation? Because FriendFeed, to use Malcolm Gladwell's term, is in the process of tipping. - Chris Anthony
Chris. Huh? FriendFeed is a service where people can talk about stuff. If people don't want to talk about stuff here, they don't have to. If people want to talk about YOUR stuff here and you don't like it because you can't control it that's not any different than people talking about your stuff at a conference where a bunch of people are chatting about it in a hallway. - Robert Seidman
Robert, I have no idea which of my comments you're responding to. (That in itself is a limitation of FriendFeed - although really, it's a limitation of any non-threaded comment system.) Where did I talk about controlling the conversation? You're putting words in my mouth. - Chris Anthony
Robert, I prefer to /see/ the conversation. I don't care about /controlling/ it. If we're supposed to treat FriendFeed like it's an extended conference conversation, that's one thing, and we can all relax a bit. But that's not how people are treating it - and it's not how FriendFeed is behaving. - Chris Anthony
The more I think about it, the more I think FF could change that perception - of item comments as decentralized blog comments rather than hallway chats - by simply changing the term "comment" to "conversation" (or "converse", in the verb form under a given entry), or something similar. As it is, by this point we associate "comment" with "blog comment", which is why people are getting so riled up about it. - Chris Anthony
Chris, if it's just a preference then just like my preference that Angelina Jolie would think I'm cuter than Brad Pitt, you're probably going to have to get over it. How is FriendFeed behaving? In a way that allows people to have conversations about something you wrote that you might not wind up seeing? <gasp> - Robert Seidman
Robert, in the future, please read my comments before you reply to them. - Chris Anthony
Chris, I read your comments. I disagree with you. In the future, please feel free to ignore differing opinions. That's something that actually is in your control. - Robert Seidman
I didn't know someone owns the conversation. I'm gonna start asking for permission every time I discuss something with a friend. - Alejandro S.
look at all these comments which belong on my blog! Robert, you brought up the one thing that I knew someone would say - which is that people can chat offline about my post and I can't control it. Truth is that FF can build the best tool that does exactly what I've suggested, it doesn't change anything about the interaction here at all. What it does is let the x people who aren't on here understand the entire conversation. There's no reason they can't do it - unless of course their business model is in the conversation. - Allen Stern
Allen, we'll have to agree to disagree. "Look at all these comments that belong on my blog!" I don't see them as "belonging" to your blog. I'd lean more towards "Wow, look at all these people talking about my blog, cool!" - Robert Seidman
Robert it is cool, it just belongs across the street so that everyone can play together - i want you to see and be part of the entire conversation, not a fragmented part. And I want everyone to be part of the entire conversation - it's possible. - Allen Stern
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May 21 at 4:38 am - Link
is reading the blog equal to reading the RSS ?? I take the RSS and then comment here .. I hardly comment on blogs anymore :(- - Peter Dawson
Oh dear, Peter, Now I must stay here - Jeremiah Owyang
I agree with Peter in that I now read 99% of the blog posts I follow in GReader and comment either via Share with note in GReader (which posts to FriendFeed) or via twhirl to the post or to another shared comment. - Jon Erickson via twhirl
i am, thanks. - علي شير حسنف
I read this and other blogs. Primarily when I see them in FriendFeed. I've stopped using an RSS reader and rarely go directly to blogs on their own anymore. Still I'm reading more blogs now than ever, including yours. Best way to get your blog read by me is have it on FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
I do, along with people that i have linked up with through FriendFeed or twitter. - Caleb Easterwood
I would think someone would be able to come up with a way to import any friend feed discussions into their blog comments section maybe. - jason burton
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May 20 at 1:19 am - Link
10 years? In Internet time that's like 100... Technology changes accelerate exponentially. In 10 years the internet itself and the way we access/interact with it won't be anything like it is today. Will FriendFeed be around then? I'm guessing probably not... it will have morphed or been replaced by something more useful several times by then. I don't think we have to worry about it too much, just hang on for the wild ride. - Lindsay Donaghe
2018??! LOL thats hilarious, thats like being back in 1997 and saying fellas, Friendster will rule this galaxy in 2008! (course I dont even know when friendster actually hit the web) - Dan Rockwell via twhirl
Does it really matter? I mean, no one is going to take away FriendFeed if it doesn't "go mainstream" by X date. FF is just 5 (or 6?) people who are servign 100k others. Not a bad ratio - and we FF highly value the service. I'm sure things will keep getting better and better. - Mike Reynolds
Funny, why define "mainstream" as 33%? I definte it as > 50% - the majority of US households. The chart also only shows technology that went mainstream, unfortunately implying a lot of them do. Most new technologies never gain critical mass and others have a brief period of success and then failure, and sometimes the better technology never does (we're still using QWERTY keyboards and VHS was inferior to Beta). I'd say this is a complete toss up. - Jason Kaneshiro
10 years is certainly pushing it BIG TIME. If it isn't in 2-3 years, it won't happen at all. - Andrew Dobrow
Many of you have very unrealistic expectations. NOTHING reaches > 50% of the population in 2-3 years. Google may have 68% of searches, but that is certainly from less than 50% of the population (more active searchers are more likely to use Google), and that has taken 10 years and is one of the biggest successes ever. - Paul Buchheit
+1 Like for Paul's comment. Good businesses take time to grow. Online and social makes it happen faster, but it takes time nonetheless. "Internet time" means changes can come along quickly. But it doesn't describe mainstream adoption. - Hutch Carpenter
Let's put things in perspective. Flickr is mainstream right? They have 1.7% of internet traffic (Alexa), a very far cry from the Facebook numbers. But, people would also consider Flickr to be a success. - Rob Diana
@Paul @Hutch @Rob - Do you need 50% of the population to have a successful business? No. But all the technologies on the chart referenced in the post are game changers, revolutionary uses of technology. To compare a new service like FriendFeed to "the internet" or "the automobile" pretty much discredits how ubiquitous and life alterting those technologies are. When the majority of the population considers a technology a necessity, it's a whole 'nother ball game; a paradigm shift that changes the world. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Jason - That is why I brought up Flickr. They changed the idea of sharing pictures. There were several lifestreaming services launched at the same time, but there are only a few with traffic. The bigger question is whether lifestreaming catches on with the masses. - Rob Diana
@Rob yeah, I agree, Flickr is a successful business and a great idea. I'm not suggesting that FF won't be hugely successful as a business, become profitable and / or be acquired. I think it will achieve all those things. But to compare it to "the washing machine" "the telephone" and "the automobile"? I think that's *really* getting ahead of ourselves. :) - Jason Kaneshiro
@Jason - Oh, ok. I was never comparing them so I did not get what you were saying. Forgot they were in the chart in the article. - Rob Diana
@Jason - a couple things. 50% adoption is the Wikipedia definition of mainstream. I think 50% is too high. If 1 out of 3 people use something, I'd say that's pretty mainstream. I also don't compare FriendFeed to the automobile or the Internet directly in terms of utility. Only for comparison in terms of adoption cycles. I'd love a chart that shows MyYahoo, Google search, AOL, etc. Haven't seen that. - Hutch Carpenter
@Rob, I don't think Flickr is designed for lifestreaming, even though a lot of early-adopter types use it that way. It's designed for photography enthusiasts to show off, and for web surfers to search for interesting photos taken by strangers. They're doing extremely well in that niche. Sharing your life using photos calls for something different. I've made OurDoings for that purpose and think it works very well. The problem I'm finding is that the early adopter phase is not optional. - Bruce Lewis
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Corvida posted an entry on SheGeeks
May 19 at 7:00 am - Link
I like this perspective a lot. I agree that there does not seem to be the typical internet caste systems on Friend Feed. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Self-described newbie has thought about personal branding via FriendFeed - mcwflint
Thanks for the positive comments! - Phil Glockner
@Mathew A. Koeneker, I agree. - edythe
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English breakfast
May 19 at 12:34 am - Link
English breakfasts are usually very good, that just looks wrong! - Arthur Guy
seems like full of fats and calories ? Any idea how many calories ? - Raza via Alert Thingy
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May 14 at 12:25 pm - Link
I have the link to the video and timestamp in my post so you can see it for reals for yourself - Sarah Perez
Well I'm impressed - Bwana McCall
Video comments will be appreciated when we're using these instead of laptops. - Rex Pechler
I find it hard to be less impressed. Might be possible, but maybe on the Microsoft Summit next year. - Dani Radu
First there was the Big Ass Table now it's the Big Ass picture frame? http://twurl.nl/1ntrz8 - Kevin Shannon
I'm very interested in the potential of this technology, I wonder what else Microsoft are experimenting with? - Ian Rathbone
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When to use FriendFeed or Twitter?
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May 7 at 6:59 pm - Link
Exactly. Twitter ~ Chatroom, FriendFeed ~ Forum. This is why I'll use both for quite awhile. - Jordan Hofker
I rarely post to Twitter, but when I do, it's typically from my iPhone. If I'm at a computer with a browser, it will always be FF. Then again, I'm someone who still doesn't "get" Twitter that much and have a difficult time following conversations. That's likely my own fault, though. - Vince DeGeorge
@J What s next one? ChatRoom twitter , forum ff, and....... FASTFOODR i think ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
Twitter is a god. FF will be, once all its minions arrive. There's not enough of my peeps on here to make this fun yet, but the potential is there. - Chad Norman
I agree, great video. - Aaron Myers
The main thing that I like about Twitter is the 140 character limit which forces people to provide a succinct and somewhat precise message which make for interesting and unusual information. I just started using Friend Feed and like it because it aggregates information. Twitter is just plain fun and Friend Feed is a way of organizing all of that fun and then some for info whores like @scobleizer and myself. - James
I've been saying friend feed is to twitter as ESPN is to Baseball. - Sean Reiser via Alert Thingy
I use Twitter for broad discussion and new viewpoints. FriendFeed tends to be more intimate, but with people "like me" - Mike Reynolds
yeah I like that analogy too -- conversations between multiple ppl much easier to come by on FF than Twitter. - Shey
I tend to use whatever is "closest", most times I do post to pownce, and some things just are better as a twit. FF does help bring everything together, I wish more of my contact used it. - Grant Bierman
FF is a mosaic painting that Twitter is a (big) part of. - Michael Dragone
@M.D. I think you are a mosaic painting too, what an aristocratic background you have : ) Nice comment ; ) - Erhan Erdogan
Similar dichotomies have existed before (in Microsoft Exchange, for example, you have email messages vs. threaded conversations in Public Folders), but there's usually some overlap... the interesting thing for me is that Twitter seems to be an acquired taste: at first you're all, "Huh? This is stupid" and then (maybe) you take a real liking to it. Whereas I "got" the idea of FriendFeed right away, I could see the utility, but I haven't taken a real liking to it at all. Twitter is CB Radio. - Karim
ha, info whore - Andrew Smith
I just get overwhelmed with "stuff" on Friendfeed. Half of the content are twitter messages and the rest is stuff that people link to through twitter. The only real reason I have for FF is to read content from friends on other networks, i.e. I Digg, but a friend may Reddit...I still want to read his stuff sometimes...p.s. it does seem easier to have a more indepth conversation here...and I'm seeing lots of comments from people that I don't follow otherwise...so maybe I'll have to take a second look. - Thomas Lopez Jr
I'm pretty new to twitter and ff so its interesting to see how ppl who have been on them for a while use the services. - Nelson de Witt
age on Twitter or wherever and it shows up on FF, ready for commentary. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Apples and Oranges. FF has the broader net. Twitter is the river. I check Twitter more often. FF of course has the visuals. FF needs friend tagging like Pownce has. Actually, Twitter needs friend tagging too. - Jonathan Leavitt
Grr. Try #2 - I dont post to FF as a "first level" channel. I use twitter or whatever and then FF aggregates it for comment. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Twitter is also *SIMPLE.* Twitter = iPhone, FriendFeed = Windows Mobile. Twitter is from Mars and FriendFeed is from Venus. Twitter is a hot dog and FriendFeed is escalopes de veau a l'estragon avec endives gratineed with cheese. - Karim
Ya know, I'm just jumping into the FF field, but it looks to me like you've nailed it. The most frustrating thing about Twitter for me is that it's like a chat room where you can't always see all the posts (if I'm not following the other half of a conversation); the FF layout solves some of that, as I don't need to be subscribed to everyone to see their comments. - Tim Glinatsis
friendfeed is the new irc...with a splash of rss - steveo
FriendFeed is from Mars, Twitter is from Venus. http://tinyurl.com/59rzyk - Hutch Carpenter
LOL Hutch, I stand corrected. A well-thought-out analysis you have there. It would be fascinating to compare male/female usage ratios of Twitter vs. FriendFeed. Are structured, threaded, hierarchical conversations from Mars, and free-form chats from Venus? Interesting question... - Karim
@Karim - thanks! There are differences between the two services, and I think the organization around content in FriendFeed creates some real differences with Twitter. Twitter is organized around the person you're talking to. - Hutch Carpenter
Interesting view of Twitter and Friendfeed. But how do you handle messages that you want to get via SMS? - Ryo
I share on Google Reader, update on Twitter, post on Blogger... FriendFeed catches it all as a nice archive (that I use to create a weekly/monthly newsletter for clients). I don't have the big community following so the commenting feature is not such a benefit. If/when I do get more conversations going, then I can see FriendFeed becoming more important. Twitter is more of an echo chamber when it comes to conversation. - Joining Dots
After watching this Post I will be using FriendFeed much more effectively and therefore Twitter less. - Brad Nix
I'm doing that already without being prompted, here provide's a very addictive source of information flow and discussion! - Joe Dawson
Does no one view Twitter as a lifestreaming microblogging service anymore? I realize that as a practical matter, it is chatty, but that doesn't need to define it. I do agree, tho, FF is more like a forum, without all the BS, which I like. - rambn
if it weren't for twitterfeed.com and the AIM option I'd never post to Twitter - Jon Gosier
twitter is like IRC - FF more like blog/wiki/forums - interesting video clip! - Jeroen De Miranda
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