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This month's "They get Web 2.0" - Mike Fruchter
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My guess is the guys at FriendFeed are already thinking about this and are preparing (hopefully) to fight the problem of spam. - Nick Dominguez
"With the steady growth that Friendfeed is experiencing," - whats your sources ? do you have data to prove this statement , in terms of new users signing up and using FF ?? - Peter Dawson
Peter: FF is seeing sizable growth according to my follower stats. - Robert Scoble
i've received so many useless followers on twitter trying to peddle their goods. i'm not sure how friendfeed can prevent spam considering the format. hopefully it doesn't go the way of craigslist - Cee Bee
No, "FF is seeing sizable growth according to my follower stats."... thats according to "Scobles" !! What I am seeking is true new users signup and usage stats, Not just Scobles Screech. I don't mean to be impertinent to your comment , however, thats exactly the type of statement which I would like to call in . Your thoughts are important, but give me data/graph ..till then, to me , its just screech !! - Peter Dawson
I would have to say that, while this post does a good job of building suspense, it just isn't that serious. Rooms can be made private. Captcha could stymie these massive spammer attempts at different points of entry. This only works for rooms. Nobody is going to keep following a spammer. I know, I tried...everyone unsubscribed (j/k...don't unsub...srsly). - Rahsheen Porter
The same can be said about identi.ca. I agree spam might be coming to FriendFeed but, can they really do anything about it other than the "report for spam/abuse" feature? - Outsanity
I haven't seen any spam yet... Isn't the block feature already a solution? We do communicate here and if someone spams, we say it and we block him/her. Don't you think? - directeur via NoiseRiver
I had to post this for it almost seems douchebagary to me "callingbull 4 hours ago How is this problem different from blog spam or any other type of spam on public systems? You write this as it is a unique phenomenon. FAIL. " - Outsanity
I think the miscreants are already working Twitter and Friendfeed and your measures are worth thinking about. My gut tells me that FriendFeed will be more resilient. - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl
I actually find it more smart the way FriendFeed is built. You have your own vision of the river. You consider someone spaming? hide it, block it... It's your choice! - directeur via NoiseRiver
The major point I was driving home is room spam. Spammers at this stage of the game,have yet to realize the true potential of rooms on Friendfeed.The ingenious part is how the spam-vertsied rooms would and could be used. - Mike Fruchter
I've had a bunch of spammers follow me on Twitter lately. I block them when I remember to, but usually I just don't bother following them back. From the perspective of a non-tech-savvy end user here, I guess I haven't quite seen this as a problem yet -- they can spam all they want, but I'll never see their posts. - nathan
no spam so far, once they do, get your block button ready - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I will throw this out there, what would happen if the phishers caught onto rooms? I could picture rooms themed out with various corporations media, all aimed at easily duping a person who is not too net savvy. - Mike Fruchter
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J. Phil posted a message
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Uh, zilch?:-) - Rashunda Tramble
Probably 2 or 3 a day. Lots of interesting people here on ff. - Harvey Simmons
My problem is that I keep forgetting to come to FF. I go directly to the person's site. - Rashunda Tramble
Also, I'm torn between posting on my blog(s) and on FF. - Rashunda Tramble
About 5 to 10. - Kevin C. Tofel
I probably subscribe to one new person per day. - possible248
pretty close to zero - Ian Betteridge
about 1/4. Been sitting at 199 for a few days now. Waiting for number 200... - Mitchell Tsai
About 1 per day. - Chris Rossini
I end up following 3 or 4 new people a day. - J. Phil
5-7 - Corvida
Already following more than my feeble mind can keep up with - Michael W. May via twhirl
Four or five nowadays. In the beginning it was closer to 15-20. - Mark Trapp
About the same as Corvida...5-7 - Hutch Carpenter
1 or 2, maybe. - Aaron Myers via Alert Thingy
Maybe one or two a week. - Paul L. McCord Jr.
about 20 a week - Susan Beebe
I used to subscribe to everyone who subscribed to me... but it became too many people :( Then I don't get to see what my real friends are saying because it's buried between the hundreds of others. - Alana Taylor
none - maybe one a week or so. - Bruce Williams
I hear ya Alana. That's one of the big drawbacks of following a lot of people, if one of your friends updates something and they don't have many people following *them*, their update disappears unless you visit their profile page. I wonder if there is a greasemonkey script to make 'tabs' of the people you want to keep an eye on. - J. Phil
Alana and everyone, I think I found one: http://userscripts.org/scripts... - J. Phil
Lately, it's been a lot because of a huge migration of fellow librarians. - Steven M. Cohen
It depends on my mood.. Sometimes I go on a FF subscribe rampage :) - Muthu Ramadoss
You librarians! Get a room! hehe - J. Phil
We've got one Phil...a few, in fact. - Steven M. Cohen
i like to be selective - so maybe 1-2 a week. - Zach Landes
Im getting one or two a day , id say - fotographic via twhirl
relative to how many follow me. Can vary from 5 a day to 30 - Duncan Riley
why do you want to know ? - Peter Dawson
Huh, I just checked and I now follow precisely 500 people and 300 follow me. Interesting. Hi everybody! Thanks for the follow! - J. Phil
It's an interesting question - possible248
A lot right now. Probably 3-5 a day. It's getting harder to keep track of who is subscribed to me that I'm not subscribed to though. - Bjorn Tipling
3-5 - but they have to be really interesting! - Craig Thomler
I'd say 1 - 3 a week. - Sonciary Honnoll
No limit for interesting people:) - Igor Poltavskiy
2-5, but once I started playing with "better recommended" script numbers exloded - Dobromir Hadzhiev
2-4 a day varying. - Mike Fruchter
Maybe 2 a week. - Mo Jawhari
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13 hours ago - Link
Mark Cuban gets it. - Mike Fruchter
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13 hours ago - Link
How does he know he hates the bloggers? From what I've heard from his staff he doesn't even know how to use a computer. - Mike Fruchter
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15 hours ago - Link
I'm glad to see this is what Twitter is concentrating on ... Ughhh - Mike Fruchter
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17 hours ago - Link
I got an 11 (leaning democrat). What's your score? - Mike Fruchter
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21 hours ago - Link
Interesting! The most interesting fact from this post "...there are now more overweight than malnourished people in the world." - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 11:54 pm - Link
No, thank you for Feedly. Love this tool. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 4:08 pm - Link
shucks. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 12:42 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Great presentation put together by Marta Z. Kagan, social media evangelist and online marketing professional." - Mike Fruchter via Bookmarklet
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Thursday at 7:01 am - Link
A lot of speculation -- based on pseudo reverse engineering -- it would be interesting if FF commented on this. This goes to the core of what is the essence/power of FF I think. - Brian Sullivan
Brian - you're right. Call it empirically-based speculation. Interesting to hypothesize the "why" of the bounce-to-the-top algorithm. - Hutch Carpenter
As a relative newcomer to FF and all the associated stuff, I found this to be a very interesting read. Thanks, Hutch :) - Bob Kingsley
I love following you guys - I never, ever, ever in a million years would have thought of or taken the time to figure out how the beach ball mechanism works on FF. great stuff - Marco
Just to add more speculation to the mix -- I am guessing that clicking on a link (or playing a video/mp3 inline) also counts as a "touch" maybe with more weight than either a comment or a like - Brian Sullivan
Thanks Bob - I've been here for 4 months or so, and I really hadn't take the time to understand how this works. - Hutch Carpenter
Thanks Marco. - Hutch Carpenter
Great post Hutch. I'm very interested in the algorithmic stuff behind FF. On twitter, I never used the Favorites feature because they have no meaning behind. Here I 'like' all the time. I also like seeing the stuff that my network liked and commented on. - Alan Le
Excellent post Hutch, I know Darwin would agree. Thanks for the mention :-) - Mike Fruchter
Two small addenda to what I've seen with Likes. (1) It seems that you can "resurrect" an old item with no Likes by Liking it. The first Like puts it back to the top. (2) I actually did put an old item back to the top of FriendFeed by Liking it. Happened with one of Frederic's Last Podcast posts. Steven Hodson even commented on this happening (http://friendfeed.com/e/4e549e...) - Hutch Carpenter
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Chestnut wins hot dog contest after eat-off
Friday at 11:41 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Memories of Coney Island (Brooklyn NY) on the fourth, - Mike Fruchter
it was fixed by the russian mob. kobayashi was duped. - Cee Bee
Cee Bee lol! - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 11:33 am - Link
I will buy a 3G iPhone. Most definitely. The #1 thing I do on my iPhone is participate in the Web, and having a faster one will be worth the expense. - Mike Fruchter
No, I won't. I have a Nokia N82. What would I want with an iPhone? - Cecily Walker
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Friday at 11:33 am - Link
Interesting condundrum around free speech. Free speech continues to be for those who own the press. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 11:21 am - Link
"FriendFeed has also recently added the ability to stream enclosures on the site in a flash player. Yesterday I started coming across some feed items from user edythe labeled “Last Loved MP3’s” that included the inline player. I was curious and wanted to know how she was doing this. It turns out she was using this yahoo pipe which converts the Last.fm recently loved tracks XML feed to a RSS feed including links to MP3’s from Seeqpod." - Mike Fruchter
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Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgers
Friday at 10:29 am - via Reshare - Link
heart attack in 3, 2....... - (jeff)isageek
thats just not right - (jeff)isageek
The only disappointing thing about these is that they're not available for delivery. If I want some, I should be able to call a number and have them delivered directly to my couch. - Louis Gray
That seems to hover somewhere between incredibly wonderful and incredibly nasty. - Trish Robinson
I just came up with a name for these: the Devil's Breakfast - Rubin
Louis, i'm not sure how well the donut buns will hold up after sitting in a bag for 30 minutes and saturating with hamburger grease. But like you, I wish I could find out! - Robert Seidman
I can eat whatever I want on fridays since I eat healthy the other 6 days. I'll eat these! - Bjorn Tipling
Does it come in a veggie burger alternative? - Tom Landini
Sorry I just puked, - Mike Fruchter
pass the Pepto and then book the Dr's appointment - fotographic via twhirl
This is so scary! - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
This is spreading so fast that I now would not be a bit surprised to see Krispie Kreme doing lunch with these! - Jesse Stay
I am bummed that this sounds good to me. - (steve isaacs)
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Friday at 10:50 am - Link
I'm not going to defend McCain on every front but the fact is that most of these are not flip-flops but rather McCain being true to his core principles. There was no attempt to shade his change in immigration positions - he came right out and said "My side in the debate lost - this is an important issue so I am going to support a solution the American people are willing to get behind." That is a long way from a flop flop. I'll give Obama the same kind of leeway in similar situations (I think, for instance, his FISA stance might be one of them) but expect the same in return. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 10:06 am - Link
The power of accountability the internet brings to bear is highlighted again - when are we going to learn that there are now millions of fact-checkers out here who not only posses the desire to double check claims but the communication channels to broadcast their findings? - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 8:42 am - Link
*Sigh* having lived through all of these I don't have the strength to read through them right now but am sure it is a great aggregation of decimation. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 8:08 am - Link
Great post. It should be pointed out, though, that there isn't much difference between having one's liberty questioned (which I am against) and constantly being lumped into some ridiculous "neocon" category and having your humanity questioned. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 7:10 am - Link
First PopUrls, the Alltop, now Inquisitr iQ will a good selection of launch picks - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 7:10 am - Link
Note to self. Must get to Europe after Brazil trip. The world she is calling out to me. - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 7:10 am - Link
Could this be the Twitter whale? - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 7:10 am - Link
The third sentence should read "truths" instead of "rights" I think but other than that this is a very cool view of our Declaration of Independence. Yet another great find thanks to FriendFeed (props to Kevin Donahue!) - Mike Fruchter
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Friday at 6:25 am - Link
Ding.Ding.Ding. ***** - Mike Fruchter
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