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This is what happens when you have both a daughter and a wife:
StuffYerFace, Amy, Louis Gray and 12 other people liked this
Ok I laughed pretty hard on this one ... I have two daughters.
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
So that's what's in store for me ;-)
- Stephan Planken
That's why I never go to Ebay. :) Although, with two daughters, a son and a wife, Amazon does have some weird recommendations for me whenever I visit.
- Curtiss Grymala
CAUTION! You are about to enter an estrogen zone..
- BLOGBloke
i have two daughters, a wife, a widowed mother, a divorced mother in law, a soon to be divorced sister in law......my father used to be an Ex. Dir. of a correctional facility for women...i now understand why he was quiet
- Chad Gesser
Amazing beautiful photo of lightning in SF. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
ashish, Mark Essel, James Kuypers and 5 other people liked this
wow
- Carmine Gnolo
Joe: From now on, if I follow you and get an autoDM as a result, I will unfollow immediately #banautodm - http://twitter.com/Joe...
Hugh Isaacs II, Leif Hansen, frank barry and 17 other people liked this
What is an audoDM?
- Rich Puskarich
Rich: it's when I follow you and within seconds I get a DM saying "thanks for adding me" or something like that.
- Robert Scoble
Ah, got it.
- Rich Puskarich
I hate impersonal DM's. I love personal DM's that tell me that people have taken a genuine interest in me.
- Baard @ Pixum
Yeah I hate those too. I will automatically (by automatically I mean manually) remove that user from my followers/subscribers etc.
- Travis Koger
and worse still if it contains some merketing URL - you need something more painful than an unfollow for those
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
Be sure to add them to your auto-dmers list in SocialToo and more than just you will unfollow them. :-) (It's under the Unfollowing preferences on the left nav of your Preferences tab)
- Jesse Stay
BTW, if you set the option on that page if they're already a recognized auto-dmer by more than 3 people we'll unfollow them for you after you follow them.
- Jesse Stay
thats excellent SocialToo - thx Jesse - I'll be setting it up forthwith
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
It's like ringing a call centre, being put on hold and hearing "your call is important to us"
- Rhys Amos
I'm not sure if I agree guys. If an auto-DM has key information or questions or contact info from the person one has just followed (vs. a cheezy welcome or sales-pitch), what is wrong with that?
- Leif Hansen
Leif: In most cases, that's not true. The auto DM is just "Thanks for following me! :)" Which is both annoying and pointless.
- Kevin Pedraja
I agree, but the headliner tweet "if I follow you and get an autoDM as a result, I will unfollow immediately" is pretty black & white. Thus my point that an auto-tweet that adds value by expanding on who has just been followed, what's important to them, etc. can actually be a a good use of auto-DM technology.
- Leif Hansen
I hate DMs as an idea. You can't keep track of them, you have to mutually follow, etc.
- Sasha Kovaliov
Leif, if I want that information I'll go to your home page to get it. Don't spam me with it, even if it may be useful. The only way it's appropriate is if I know I'm going to get it before I follow you (as in what @optmeout for TweetLater is doing).
- Jesse Stay
Hold on here, @Scoble and @Jesse I learned about auto DM from you guys a while back and decided to use auto DM as a way to say thanks for following those who followed me. However, I did not send marketing links etc. I started doing auto dm through SocialToo to be courteous to others just by saying hi and thanks. Just as well I used auto follow thru SocialToo and now I'm capped on...
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- Jason Cronkhite
from iPhone
Jason I NEVER used or advocated the use of autoDM.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Is Twitter down right now?
- Uniquely Cool
Joe, as for me, we only promoted it when no one else was doing it. I admit I was wrong in that case - it looked like a good tool at the time, but got WAY out of hand as everyone else started to use it. We killed it, and lost quite a lot of traffic because of that.
- Jesse Stay
Uniquely, it looks that way, at least from an API standpoint.
- Jesse Stay
ok, good... because I thought I was going insane. lol
- Uniquely Cool
Too bad Twitter doesn't just block autoDM.
- Zachary Collins
I understand how it can be annoying for heavy users, even if intended as a polite gesture by regular people. So, I generally let the follow-back do the 'talking'. I think you're making too much of this though. Unless there's actual spam or marketing in the auto-DM, why unfollow someone you originally found interesting enough to follow?
- Matsis
Blanket bans are bad. There are situations where autoDMs may be necessary.
- Dominic Jones
necessary? in what situation could they possibly be *necessary*?
- holly
Does anyone actually read the AutoDM's they receive?
- Asgeir
When you 'subscribe' to someone's blog or newsletter, there is often a welcome message with important information automatically sent. Is it that different if 1 initial welcome message comes to those who click to 'follow' you (already says they are interested in you, no?) Just curious, not saying I'm buying a belief on this one yet.
- Leif Hansen
Robert, I stand corrected - sorry! I learned about SocialToo from you and assimilated the two. http://scobleizer.com/2008...
- Jason Cronkhite
Reading Twitter is VERY labor intensive @RGreenberg
Jeff P. Henderson, Burçak Çubukçu, Tony "Frosty" Welch and George Achillias liked this
I'd rather just watch your stuff fly by here on FF.
- Keith Rowland
I'm still trying to figure out whether Posterous is a destination blog or just a means to an end, out sourcing.
- Keith Rowland
Agreed, personally I get more out of your likes and retweets, especially if there is a discussion about them here on FF, than favorites.
- Antoniu
Yes it is.
- Tony "Frosty" Welch
I think the same, though the reason might differ.. primarily because the trouble with interacting with the right people is quite difficult.. plus you often end up without any interaction at all, which sort of wastes all efforts
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
YouTube video from #hpsmr Panel discussing Beyond Hype: Social Media Roadmap with Steve Rubel & Angela LoSasso: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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- Tony "Frosty" Welch
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- Tony "Frosty" Welch
There's a lot to learn from this read "The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack" http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Tony "Frosty" Welch, LANjackal, Atul Arora and 6 other people liked this
It seems to me that Hotmail and iTunes were the only problems.
- Jérôme Flipo
Hotmail had nothing to do with it. The weakness was the defunct Hotmail to Gmail combo. Most Web-based services have similar security measures. Earlier this week I was researching how HC could've grabbed the Gmail password by testing my own Gmail account. I found I was also using a defunct email as my secondary address. It's now been changed. It can happen to anyone on any number of services.
- Ian Paul
I didn't know that Hotmail recycles email addresses and I think most users believe that by closing/deleting an account prevents anyone to access emails sent to the address. As far as I know, Gmail doesn't recycle defunct email accounts.
- Jérôme Flipo
Convenience has won the day for the majority of people on the interwebz. Common sense seems to go out the door as this medium seems to confuse and overwhelm the majority of people. This is also why you have php_script_kiddies being paid $100/hr to do small business web dev (common sense>>window).
- coldbrew
This is one of the reasons I try to keep my online persona and real-life identity as separate as possible.
- LANjackal
Lifehacker published a post of the risk of using Hotmail for secondary email addresses. I guess I wasn't the only one ignoring the recycling process going on: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r...
- Jérôme Flipo
Posterous: Is it the next big platform? (I think so!) - http://socialwayne.com/2009...
Liviu Barbat, Harold Cabezas, Tac Anderson and 65 other people liked this
Just did my first post on Posterous today!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
love posterous
- (jeff)isageek
I think so too!
- Michael Fidler
I agree with you, that Posterous will become a major player, but right now I don't like how a lot of people use it. For a lot of people Posterous seems to be just a plain hub for all their multimedia activities (picture/audio/video sharing) but nothing else. There should be more behind it (IMHO). I like your approach to Posterous, this is the way it should be.
- Georg Mahr
The only feature Posterous really needs to become "the next big platform" is a Backtype-like integration of external comments, esp. from Friendfeed and Twitter.
- Rubin Sfadj
I have to sign up for this. I think i could use it well.
- Amani
I have to agree! Simplicity is extremely powerful.
- Peter du Toit (S.Africa)
from fftogo
I removed my movie blog and now use posterous for it. I think it's like they said. It's great for casual blogging.
- Shevonne
I really like Posterous, but the next big platform? I'm not so sure.
- Bwana ☠
I feel the same as Bwana.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I started on Saturday and I really love the feel of it. I think it'll become popular.
- Gus
I'm rooting for posterous because they validate what I think is a big space between media sharing and blogging, a space I'm working to be in too.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I have a ShakeItPhoto blog using Posterous @ http://veryredrobot.posterous.com. Easiest thing to do, I love it.
- Brian Felix
It took my awhile to find its place in my online life but I've found it perfect for a mobile blog. I really dig it. http://tsudo.posterous.com
- Keith - @tsudo
I love posterous' simplicity. So easy to use, comfortable but still need some fixations.
- Alif Rachmawadi
Thanks for posting Steve, and I agree with one of the comments that Posterous should add some sort of social commenting.
- Wayne Sutton
I'm right there with you, Steve. It is refreshing to focus on content. Sure, I miss my Wordpress blog at times, but as a designer, I know that beautiful things come from exercising creativity within parameters: twitter capped us at 140 char, and posterous gives us all the same gallery space to make our own, without all the anxiety for the extraneous (putting a widget for here, writing a...
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- Vincent Gallegos
@Vincent that's so cool!
- Steve Rubel
from email
Absolutely yes, Posterous is the best and the most effective and yes, it's already the biggest platform and what will be the first choice of any user. and you will see
- FFTornado
I should get over there and see what all the buzz is about. Is it like Tumbler??
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Yes, but in other ways better. In some ways worse.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Theming is coming. I am in the beta but haven't applied a theme yet.
- Steve Rubel
from email
geez, i hope so, as I grabbed rex.posterus.com before you started hyping it. Of course, when I get around to doing anything with it, you'll be on to the next shiny next big platform
- Rex Hammock
What are the differences between posterous and tumblr ?
- archi_bald
Mashable did a good write up recently.
- Steve Rubel
from email
I'm a Tumblr fan. I like the customisation and simplicity of use.
- Kate Foy
Awesome service. And you can even post on the go via email!
- Amir
I honestly believe Posterous CAN be at least ONE of the next big platforms. We (us, are they still saying techies?) love to talk the talk about web 2.0 and worlds of Google's Wave, but if anybody benefits from Google, it'll be bloggers who post directly from Gmail to Posterous. We often boast these days that "content is key" is passe, and new language is needed. But the bare bones of it...
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- professor daddyo
nah. Posterous is great and fun, and I´m a fan. But when it comes down to it its all about the quality of your content, not about how fast you can get your content out to various micro-services or if you can post from your Iphone. I think (or hope) we will see a reaction where bloggers go back old school and actually think through what they write, that would be a welcome change... well, good old quality vs quantity I guess.
- Peter Efland
That's just it. Technology moves forward, and if the old school way was flawless, mico-blogs would have been stillborn. The opposite has happened, babies everywhere, and Posterous might be Bam Bam.
- professor daddyo
I would stay with tumblr :)
- Arpit Kumar
I like Posterous a lot, but I'm not sure it brings enough to the table to get me off of Tumblr.
- Brett Kelly
I signed up some time ago then I've not been using it. I love tumblr and I see duplicated features. Anyway people using a social network drives its success, not features!
- Federico Bolsoman
posterous rocks and i like it...i use it to blog through my blackberry when i'm mobile.
- Jim Gray
I created one a few days ago and I can't stop posting to it! It's so easy!
- Jennifer Stocks
It's taken me a while to get round to using Posterous after setting up an account ages ago. We have started using it at work to log docs and messages in a big cross team project. It really comes into it's own as a collaboration tool. I have since started using my own one and it's pretty addictive! http://yellowbag.posterous.com/
- Jonathan Tanner
I'm loving Tumblr :)
- Francisco
Fwd: Ten Tips to Get the Most Out of Posterous #posterous #lifestreaming - http://maketecheasier.com/ten-tip... (via http://friendfeed.com/the-nex...)
Meryn Stol, Richard Treadway, Shawn Hickman and 4 other people liked this
love me some Posterous.
- Clint McManaman
from BuddyFeed
I am still trying to figure out how to work Posterous into my workflow. I am already able to post to where I want via e-mail for most of my services. Those services then feed into Friendfeed, which in turns filters out to other places. Still Posterous does have some nice enhancements, especially with media.
- Sean Brady
Posterous now imports your old blog, including images - http://blog.posterous.com/postero...
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