I get asked a lot to retweet. Most of the time I don’t do them as it’s off topic to the market I target on twitter. When it is on target and the content is great I have no problem with retweeting. The problem is, people don’t ask the right way. This is the wrong way. Dude, can [...]
- Jack Humphrey
I get asked a lot to retweet. Most of the time I don’t do them as it’s off topic to the market I target on twitter. When it is on target and the content is great I have no problem with retweeting. The problem is, people don’t ask the right way. This is the wrong way. Dude, can [...]
- Jack Humphrey
Microsoft has filed a document with the SEC showing that top executives at the software giant have received pay cuts. Basically, some millionaires are making a few million less than they normally would. In related news, Kleenex was having a hard time moving tissue boxes off the shelves this week. Meanwhile, Steve Ballmer released a 1,300 word dissertation on his thoughts regarding the "new normal" which is translating into the "new efficiency." Basically, people are saving more and spending less. You would think that would translate into a lower Windows 7 price, but somehow I doubt that's gonna happen. Instead, Ballmer talked about how upgrading to Windows 7 will save companies money in the long run. Pay now, benefit later. That must have been the theme for those pay cut conversations with the execs as well.
- Jack Humphrey
Microsoft has filed a document with the SEC showing that top executives at the software giant have received pay cuts. Basically, some millionaires are making a few million less than they normally would. In related news, Kleenex was having a hard time moving tissue boxes off the shelves this week. Meanwhile, Steve Ballmer released a 1,300 word dissertation on his thoughts regarding the...
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- Jack Humphrey
Beginning tomorrow (September 30), Google will send out 100,000 invites to Google Wave. The product has received a lot of buzz, both for being innovative and not quite ready. Actually, Google admits it's not ready for prime time, which is one of the reasons why the invites are limited. If you're not familiar, Google Wave is a collaborative tool that features real-time features. They're still working on features, including group definitions, draft mode and permissions. Those who can expect an invite are developers who participated in an earlier preview, the first people to sign up for invites and select Google Apps customers.
- Jack Humphrey
Beginning tomorrow (September 30), Google will send out 100,000 invites to Google Wave. The product has received a lot of buzz, both for being innovative and not quite ready. Actually, Google admits it's not ready for prime time, which is one of the reasons why the invites are limited. If you're not familiar, Google Wave is a collaborative tool that features real-time features. They're...
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- Jack Humphrey
Are You Employing Leverage? A few months back I had a chat with ShoeMoney and we talked about a lot of marketing stuff. He always speaks of the importance of being able to leverage success to build other related projects. It is typically worth far more money to be a lead player with projects that build off of each other than it is to be a #10 player in many different markets trying to build disconnected brands that can't feed off each other. Even traditional slow moving publishing organizations like newspapers are aggressively leveraging network effects in their SEO strategy. Networks Allow You to Come From Behind When you look at Theme Forest they came late to the market, and yet are many times as large as competing businesses that are twice as old. Envato was launched in 2006, and in spite of coming late to market they were nearly instantly successful. Owning popular blogs helped them create thriving marketplaces, and the marketplaces help them make the blogs more popular. The...
- Jack Humphrey
Are You Employing Leverage? A few months back I had a chat with ShoeMoney and we talked about a lot of marketing stuff. He always speaks of the importance of being able to leverage success to build other related projects. It is typically worth far more money to be a lead player with projects that build off of each other than it is to be a #10 player in many different markets trying to...
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- Jack Humphrey
Neither.............just common sense! :)
- Bonnie Foster
Question does not compute. Now if he had offered a prostate exam... Then the question would make more sense.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
104 isn't high. 204 is high. 141 is high. 104 certainly is not. Get a new doc.
- Jack Humphrey
Yes, I think that Jack is right. 104 is normal. My dog who had Diabetes and was on Insulin injections twice daily lived another four or five years after we got his blood sugar down from 567 to the mid-100's. I was told that dogs' blood sugar should be around 100 too.
- shelter watch
I hate Facebook's "friend suggestion" feature. I frequently accidentally try and add these people thinking I'm approving friend requests. I wish they didn't have that.
Tell me about it. I almost accidentally approved clients listed on another co-worker's facebook, because they were "suggested". YIKES!!!
- Helen Sventitsky
to make matters worse. If you do accidentally click on it Facebook then tries to foist the scheme on you trying to make you suggest friends of yours for other users. There should be a better way to go about this.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm constantly bitching about this. I DO NOT WANT TO BE FRIENDS WITH MY EX MOTHER IN LAW. for chrissake.
- Sarah is Novembery
I wonder how Facebook would feel about letting people opt out of this.
- Thomas Hawk
I've found out the hard way you have to be cognizant of all your clicks in Facebook. Otherwise you could end up in a pickle.
- ChiliMac
I hate Facebook - so I guess I'd agree with you. :)
- Jack Humphrey
It's one of many, many poor features from FB. At least give is more details of the users, like mutual friends and pages.
- Kol Tregaskes
AGREED! i never add friend suggestions.
- Jason Pollock
I hate all the ads"who is looking for you" who cares?
- John D Reasor
Why don't they just drop this 'freind' thing altogether and just leave it for users to open subscribe. Just because you 'freind' someone does not mean that does it? It just means that you want to follow or subscribe to their wall or 'feed' if you like.
- Kevin J Hatton
"Yes, one musn’t seek out too many things to make one’s self better at something. Best to simply languish in mediocrity along with the 5.9 billion other average people on Planet Earth."
- Jack Humphrey
I just accidentally typed a url in the google search bar and went directly to the site - i.e. google saw my mistake and just sent me where I obviously wanted to go. The url bar is already dead for those of us moving too fast to pick the right bar 100% of the time.
- Jack Humphrey
On the contrary - there's BIG money in hyperlocal news! My goodness this is a pretty clear conclusion these days with every local blog network on the web getting or getting ready to be picked up by major corporations!
- Jack Humphrey
"Your more blinded followers might fall for this tactic, but I’ve been around way too long to fall for such a cheap tactic to get people to comment. I refuse to take the bait."
- Jack Humphrey
"sitemap do the same job. Although you should always try to reference other posts you’ve done in new posts when applicable. Use best keywords to link to older stuff when relevant in new posts."
- Jack Humphrey
"I’ve always wondered why this feature was left out in the first place? I guess the users invented it way back when and Twitter just took this long to realize it was a needed feature? And they wonder why we all use things like Tweetdeck and rarely even look at our actual Twitter pages. Maybe this will help."
- Jack Humphrey
"Glad to know I’m not the only one who occasionally loses it on my blog from time to time. Next time a reader questions a weird post of mine, I’m pointing them to this one for proof that I’m not alone."
- Jack Humphrey
After having to endure Entourage coming from Outlook, I relish this for Mac users. Problem is it's still another 16 months off!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I love that Bret, Paul, and Kevin checked in. They probably are looking at their screens and asking "what do we do now?" how about ship some new features before Facebook overlords take you off to do bigger things?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I feel sorry for all you addicts. My use of it is purely social.
- Bruce Lewis
I do like FF and use it almost every day. Wouldn't it be great if FB either left it alone so we can continue to use it as "professionals," or somehow incorporate it into a more "mature" version of FB that didn't have all the annoying, time-wasting apps, games, etc. I'd much prefer a totally customizable FF "wall."
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I think FFundercats HO!!!!! would have worked but I'm here anyways.
- Jimminy
Actively fighting addiction to anything on a daily basis, but I'm still a FriendFeed fan! (I'd have been here sooner but I've been staring at Phoebe Cates pics for longer than I realized.)
- Mark Jepsen
Thank you Robert Scoble to be here. :) BTW is this looks interesting for FF replacement? : http://streamy.com/ ? May be... I'll try it to see. :)
- Claude LaFrenière
Why should I? Whats in it for me? You doing some sort of survey of people to send out the police to do a "Safety Check" on when the site is shutdown?
- CW™
here. anecdote: a friend of mine just signed up for FF this evening. apparently the FriendFeed hype of the last 24 hours pushed him over the top. leaves me wondering whether FF has actually gained users today?it would be a crafty way of marketing the service. I'll wake up tomorrow to discover that there was a problem with the paperwork and the FriendFeed team have had a change of heart.
- David Hall
from BuddyFeed
Count me in even though I was just starting to get hooked. I guess it's time to find a rehab and get all sobered up until the next relapse with some other new addiction. Isn't life grand?
- Usman Bashir
oh hey, look, the added an "add comment" link to the end of the comment list. Huzzah!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
++Jay. I was going to do the same thing yesterday but I didn't want to pay the money.
- David Cook
David -- this was a $9.95 session but you can get them for $7.95 and there are also 25% off coupons if you do online check-in prior to your Delta flight. That's an incentive for folks to use that service and offload kiosk use at the terminals. Very savvy marketing by the folks at GoGo and Delta combined.
- Jay Cuthrell
well, it's 12:12 a.m. and I'm perusing FF from my iPhone via BuddyFeed before turning in. so yeah, I guess I count. "Here!" (raises hand)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
I recommend FF to some of my clients, and there are some companies and nonprofits with presences here—not like Twitter, but I'll be curious how that will be affected when FB takes over more. Most have FB fan pages, groups and/or causes, too.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Yeah, me too. I just saw the request to have a comment link at the bottom of the comments from one of your friends just yesterday and here it is. I'd say they are listening. Thanks FF.
- Keith Rowland
И так чятег, пока Скобл не поговорит с нами представителями СовиетФрендфидика, все мои записи теперь можно читать в этом тредике. Пользуясь случае передаю Парню Бухайту и его команде большой привет, в связи с тем что [He can has sleep naw].
- ideali
превед кетаец! давай сегодня сделаем тебя счастливым!
- Махатма Бугоганди
точно! поэт, пародист, переводчик. известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
я вчера был в издательстве, с меня сведения об авторе просят. давайте, говорят, напишем, где учился, что генеральный директор. и что известный блоггер.
- Махатма Бугоганди
а можно получить профессию известного блоггера? какие экзамены сдавать надо? какую специализацию лучше выбрать - микроблоггинг или аудиоподкастинг?
- Махатма Бугоганди
Один чувак пришол в чятег и говорит я известный блоггер кто тут тру на первый второй рассчитайсь. А ему говорят чувак у тебя сертификат есть что ты известный блоггер? Вот иди Зайке экзамен сдай потом приходи. А Зайка стоит такой с топором и улыбается. Щас думает счастливым его сделаю.
- Махатма Бугоганди
Я потерял интерес в данный момент. Я буду скрывать, как и любой другой. Это хромой, что вы захватили этот. Пивные правила. Спокойной ночи. :-)
- Matthew Horton
More than a friend of FriendFeed, was starting to use it as a full lifestreaming platform and loved it. It's made a whole lot of other sites make sense.
- achean
Hi, I'm Bette... I don't know if I'm an addict, but I can't stay away... I keep checking, just to see if something's new... and I cry if I get no responses to a post. Is that addictive behavior? :D
- Bette Cooper
Yup, I have blocked all the impersonators now. You will still see them, but I don't see them and they no longer can comment on any of my items.
- Robert Scoble
@scobleizer As far as I can see you have blocked not only the impersonators (who renamed themselves back the moment they found out you have a problem with this) but most of the folks who chatted there.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@meatreach yes, see next thread. Scobble becomes anti-Russian.
- Never Impersonate You
Maxatma: well, that's just too bad. I speak English. Sorry. People who don't speak English really don't have any business commenting on one of my items, except in rare cases.
- Robert Scoble
Why you, Robert Scoble, don't block users from Spain or Italy? China or arabic countries? Those users that comments on non-English languages?
- Never Impersonate You
@Robert, in fact they do speak English. But they also do make fun of Friendfeed and everything that's going on there. You can block them or take part in this fun. ;)
- Махатма Бугоганди
I prefer FF over twitter and facebook, but all my friends are on twitter and/or facebook. Maybe facebook will get it right this time now that it has acquired FF. If they simplify it a bit more without removing functionality. Then I would spend a bit more time on FB. Lets hope all goes well with the merger. If not I'm jumping ship and going over to Google Wave. oh wait, I'm going to go with Google Wave regardless! ;-)
- Captain Jack
Bu arada Russian friends Turkiye'ye selamlar gonderiyor.
- ideali
Oh, check FF.. doh FarceBook... my fingers are crossed in hope.
- Greig
@scobleizer i can speak english and i beg you to remove bann from all russian friendfeeders, because we are all from it-community, working in internet companies and we came with peace, you asked for feedback from friendfeed addicts — we show you how really it is being frf addicts, we change names, we chat, we making things that are not serious. Why so serious? Unlock people, they are not bots, they just playing the game of real addicts and have fun. Common.
- ideali
shaun: I started this post to demonstrate that a lot of us are still here and aren't likely to leave. At least not quickly. So, life goes on after FriendFeed gets acquired by Facebook. Point proved.
- Robert Scoble
Robert He says ; Our Russian friends say to hello to Turkey
- Osman Üngür
ideali: have them send email to scobleizer@gmail.com and I'll unblock anyone who says they weren't impersonating me.
- Robert Scoble
Hector: good morning! I need coffee.
- Robert Scoble
@robert yes they (we will) stay here, I think tat the migration process will take time and after reading @Paul Bucheit, I think that what we all are trying to get even if we don't say it explicitly is to preserve a kind of intimacy (beeing a part of the Huge faceBook community) don't mean that FF community will preserve their intimacy, why should a community be a plan one, (let imagine a community as a set of sub-community) that all.
- abdellah
Wow!! So many likes and comments; is it a record Rob?
- Er-fun
@scobleizer thank you, for understanding. be cool, guys we just want have fun here a little. Take care.
- ideali
@Robert RE "I have enough noise in my life. I don't need to have more" - isn't it a lot of noise having 26K subscriptions and 46K subscribers on your frf account? I'm kind of surprised - you create a community that large around yourself, yet when you see a new and unusual activity you just block it right away.
- Махатма Бугоганди
@Robert, patience? Who's talking about patience? It's about curiosity, not patience. When something strange and unusual happens around you, you can either try to stop it or try to see what it can develop into. You choose to stop - and it stopped. Well, not stopped - just moved to some other place. And do you really know what it was and what it was about to bring you?
- Махатма Бугоганди