"Nice job Megan. Turn Left at the Barrel is a customised wine route planner for the Cape Winelands. It let's you plan your route, view closest estates, take speciality tours, all with pin-point directions. - http://thegiraffe.co.za/#... Our app is currently in beta testing and will be released for th iPhone early 2010. Just in time for those of you visiting Cape Town for the 2010 FIFA World Cup."
- Neill Adamson
Right now - iPhone 2.somethinorother. I have OS X 10.5, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 9.04 all at my disposal in the other room.
- Aaron Hood
from BuddyFeed
Windows XP, but only because that is what came on this thing and I'm escared to completely format the drive.
- Joe Pierce
XP on netbook. Ubuntu 9.04, Android, and Windows 7 RC1 in VirtualBox on netbook. Windows 7 on desktop. Vista on work laptop. OSX on Macbook.
- Rodfather
ingilizce sormuşsun ,türkçe cevap vermişim :)) yorumları okuyunca farkettim ingilizce sorduğunu ,bir de diyorum ki içimden niye herkes ingilizce cevap vermiş :)
- ♪♫ halil ♪♫
xp at work, vista and 7 at home, apple notebook. Windows CE on my phone, and I have an Ipod. Right now I am on XP, later on tonight I'll be on 7 and Apple.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Dual-booted ubuntu and Win XP on the desktop. On the laptop is Ubuntu. I'm running Jaunty right now on both.
- Amy H.
One Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit, one Vista Enterprise SP1 64-bit
- Andy Kruger
Running Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a 2004 PowerBook 12" G4 - Have 10.5.6 on a Mac Mini, and MacBook as well
- Pilgrim Five
OS X 10.5.6 on my Mac Pro. OS X 10.6 on my MacBook. VMware ESX 3.5 with multiple VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2 RC, Windows 7 RC, FreeBSD 6.2 & 7.0 and FreeNAS 0.69. FreeBSD 7.2 on my colocation server.
- Peter Kruit
Let's see..computer #1; Windows Vista , Computer #2; Custom Windows Vista , Computer #3; Windows XP, Computer #4; Mac...something or other. I never use the Mac.
- Candace
Tiger. I think XP at work ... not sure.
- Laura Norvig
all 14-15 ubuntu except for 1 lone vista
- John Serra
TO many win xp users :) Though does virtualized o's count? :) Primarily Jaunty 9.04 but also have a previous windows server 2003 setup. @donor why upgrade to windows 7 at all look at the open source possibilities :)
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
EEEPC 900 Pardus, Toshiba A210-19D Win 7(vista upgrade), Desktop PC Win XP
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu
Windows Vista, but with many RDP sessions to Windows 2008 servers where I do most of my work.
- Pete Gilbert
OSX 10.5.6, Win7 and iPhone OS(X) 3.0.
- Thomas Bøhm
OSX 10.5.6 on 5 machines and I think we still have an Amiga 500 in the loft. Oh and an Acorn Electron. But we don't use those last two. Much. There are also a couple of XP machines gathering dust in the garage.
- Gilbert Harding
W7 RC, XP SP3, many flavors of linux. screw the mac os. I'm moving away from MacOS for coding/development. HATE DRM'd HW too. I will NOT be buying another product from Apple for a LONG LONG time I think.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ubuntu 9.04 at work, Arch Linux at home, Windows XP on both laptops. Planning on upgrading to Win7 on the 'tops.
- Daniel Bruce
At home, Vista laptop + Gentoo server
- James Myatt
XP, but I miss Win98SE. Loved it. Would like to explore Linux. btw, I have an old Mac that works if anyone's a collector. Pay UPS (or whatever you choose) shipping and it's yours. DM me or email me @ infolode.com@gmail.com Keyboard, mouse, unit all there and working last time I booted it up.
- Molly
OS X on my Laptop, dual booting XP, Ubuntu Linux on my server, Android on my phone. :D
- Evan Travers
was quad booting osX 10.5.3, win vista, slackware linux, and backtrak3. and I just wiped and installed windows 7. and in a few months I will reinstall Slackware.
- Charles Rice
Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu 9.04 with customized staff desktop menu (on work's laptop) - home still running Ubuntu but not Jaunty think it's still on 8 something
- Mlibrarianus
Home - Win Vista/Ubuntu (laptop) Win XP/Win 7 (desktop) Work - Win XP, Server 2003,
- Charles Dick
Windows Vista 32 and 64-bit SP2 (I have TechNet), Windows XP Pro 32-bit, Ubuntu 9.0.4 64-bit, OS X 10.5.6. Oh and Windows Home Server PP2. Need to check out Fedora 11 Preview. :) Forgot to add Windows 7 64-bit (on a laptop).
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
W2K - Windows 2000 pro. It does all I need. Next will be some *nix + virtual machines.
- Markus Merz
Windows XP (upgraded from Windows Vista)
- Brian Massey
OS X Leopard with virtualized XP, plus a Vista box.
- Eric P
XP home and work - Could someone (Alp?) please turn this into a graph/chart of some form - would be really interesting to see this given the data in thus far.
- Graham Steel
OS X Leopard. It's the only way to fly. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Windows. I want to use Linux but not without a dedicated hard drive for it. I am not ever installing a boot loader on my primary hard disk's MBR again.
- Zed Darkman
XP and OSX Leopard, both home and work
- Sean O'Brien
Interesting that this comes up to the top again. Now I'm using OS X 10.5.7, funtoo (instead of gentoo), Ubuntu, Win7(rc), and the Vista that will not die. and about to try OSx86. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Ubuntu Linux on my personal laptop, work desktop, home server, and my VPS. I'm running Debian Linux on the many thousand servers I help manage at work.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Maybe they are hits from web crawler bots (not HEAD requests) that WordPress is filtering out but Bit.ly isn't
- Sam Webb
There are SO many ways that could go wrong. Content caching, duplicate hits from the same users, etc, etc. And aren't WordPress.com's counts rather on the conservative side of things anyway?
- Joel Bennett
Brandon - thanks for that link. Presumably, the HEAD requests aren't in there now.
- Hutch Carpenter
Sam - you think there's some other technology now querying these bit.ly URLs? Interesting. I wonder if it's bots related. Gonna lelave a comment on their blog post, link to this discussion.
- Hutch Carpenter
I would bet it's Bots not sure why WP is not counting them but bit.ly is.
- Jeremy Arntz
Differences in statistics are universal. I run Sitemeter, Lijit and Google Analytics on the blog. They never agree, and they all differ from the raw stats from the logs. SiteMeter is always the lowest number, but it gives good detail per visitor.
- Louis Gray
Which is so funny. A layman such as myself would expect it to be straightforward - how many times was the content called for display in a browser. But there's a disconnect between "clicks" and "views". Bots, HEAD requests are an example of that.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'm noticing quite a difference between bit.ly clicks and my Google Analytics numbers. I really would like to understand this stuff better.
- Daniel Johnson, Jr.
Hutch, thanks for sharing this friendfeed post! Strange that this was not mentioned during the timoreilly webinar; maybe he is not aware of this issue...
- Jeroen De Miranda
HEAD requests do not count towards bit.ly click counts. What you're seeing are requests for a particular bit.ly link where the requesting client does not follow the redirect to its final destination. As Twitter continues to grow, the number of bots and other folks consuming data is definitely increasing. You can see this in action if you post a bit.ly link to Twitter and watch the real-time clicks come in. Almost immediately you'll get about 10 hits.
- Nathan Folkman
Thanks Nathan - perhaps related to the proliferation of various services tracking links on Twitter?
- Hutch Carpenter
Why not try another URL shortener like http://tr.im and eliminate one of the variables. If it is still out of wack, it is probably Wordpress. If not, it's the URL shorteners.
- Neill Adamson
Neill - wouldn't tr.im have the same bot issue?
- Hutch Carpenter
The whole bot detection issue is definitely something we are both aware of and working on. We're also trying to help educate developers as well. For example, if you need to expand a bitly link, you really should be using our API, and not, as many do, requesting the bitly link and then parsing out the HTTP response headers or body. There's no way for us to know whether or not a requested bitly link was actually followed through to its destination - that's the big issue here in my opinion...
- Nathan Folkman
Hutch - tr.im stats shows the breakup of bots vs human clicks in its analytics pages. The assumption here is that bot is well behaved and identifies itself as such.
- Atul Arora
Thanks Atul. I'm a bit.ly fan, but I'll experiment with tr.im.
- Hutch Carpenter
Goog analytics will not count clicks from twitter.com as uniques -- that's one reason goog counts are lower than bit.ly. I dont know how traffic from twitter clients looks to goog, but i've been told that some clicks from clients are under-counted.
- Adrian Chan
A little delayed but agree with your blog. I've found that there is a 30% discrep with my Google Analytics, with GA being the lower of the two.
- Alexander Blom
"Oj" [o:y] (Norwegian). To not be a total asshat I´ll add that I tend to use "Wow" in English, but would think "Whoa" was spelled "Whoa".
- Thomas Bøhm
1. W3C Web Standards Compliant Code -- 2. Social Networking APIs / Social Media Integration (i.e. Twitter / FriendFeed / Facebook / etc) -- 3. Git / GitHub for Version Control -- 4. Open Source CMS Solutions (i.e. WordPress / Drupal / etc) -- 5. Open and Accessible Analytics systems (i.e. Google Analytics, Mint, or similar)
- Michael Owens
err, often its not the tool but how you use the tool... I'm looking at you Flash!
- Matt Searles
It would depend on each individual business
- Patricia
WordPress, Analytics, Mint (haveamint.com), Facebook Connect, BLIP.TV OR Vimeo
- Adam Jackson
Wordpress, Thesis Theme, Disqus Plugin, Friendfeed, Feedmingle...
- Arne Krueger
WordPress & Thesis theme, Twitter, FriendFeed, Disqus, some OpenId provider(s)
- Jeroen De Miranda
A knife. It's the most versatile tool there is. Allows you to cut right through the BS and cut chunks off of spit roasted meat.
- Todd Hoff
Web 3.0 & cloud computing + my Leatherman multi-tool :D :D
- Ronald
Again, it does depend on the customer's needs, but I think #1 Michael Owens gave a pretty accurate answer.
- Happy
i like michael owens answer - this is it!
- Arne Krueger
Wordpress, Apture, Zemanta, FriendFeed, Woopra
- Eric Logan
Depending on the business' needs, the best recommendation is to go with a platform that gives you all the features you need and none of those that will simply distract from your strategy. Suggest folks check out social collaboration via Groupsites @ www.collectivex.com.
- Carissa Caramanis O'Brien
Maybe we should wait until 2010 to find out, and while we're waiting, build 2009 web sites.
- Andy Bakun
I use wordpress on a purchased/ hosted domain, friendfeed, google friend connect, disqus. That's just my simple blog example, unfortunately the template could use some sprucing up. I'd like all the functionality, but to look less Scoble clonish
- Mark Essel
It's still in private release, but Notable (www.notableapp.com) is becoming a real life saver for giving feedback on web sites/applications.
- hunter
Specific tools should be dependent on the tech team (e.g., size, existing skills). More important are the business's attitude to engage and delight their stakeholders.
- Bill L
Idk, I don't think its about the tools, I think its about what you want to do with your site, and then what tools you use depends on that and like.. your skill sets, and all that good stuff.. for my personal sorta business e I'm looking at C4D, After Effects, Photoshop, Flash, and final cut studio.. seems like a code editor probably goes without saying?
- Matt Searles
Depends on the business. Depends on their customers. It's all relative.
- Andy McIlwain
Drupal 7, textmate, cssedit, mamp and git
- Michael Harp
Andy: it's not... it's about a different, new way to communicate/work/live - for all the businesses! for me, it feels like we are in the middle of a revolution!
- Arne Krueger
I never felt like this before! i was running my own software company with 30 people in 2000 and was just wondering!) i have now the same feeling, like i had maybe ;-) starting doing business with computers in 1988 at the cowfarm of my father in east germany!
- Arne Krueger
Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP & Wordpress - am I answering the question correctly Robert? or is this type of setup assumed?
- Chris Heath
Robert: can't make your event tonight - Son's 8th grade graduation.. have a great event
- John Furrier
Wordpress, Flip Mino, Vimeo, Friendfeed, RSS (it's not dead)
- Chris Pugh
1. Google Analytics/Woopra. 2. Google's Social Gadgets (or Wave integration when it's out). 3. Version control (my choice is Git w/github) 4. Pushing the browser envelope, use HTML 5 & CSS 3 whenever possible, use standards compliant code. Do cool stuff that sets you apart. 5. Open up your data (if applicable) with some kind of data feeds or apis.
- Brandon Titus
Definitely XML libraries to read/write feeds and APIs
- Raj Advani
I do both: ASP.NET with Expression and some Flash, but we also use PHP, Drupal, Wordpress, mySql, and even some Coldfusion (yuck!)
- Ric Johnson
Of course depends on the customers of the individual business. What industry are we talking about? Are their customers even on the net? I can name more businesses than not, where if I start talking about a new flashy web-site I will get thrown out of the office asap.
- Peter Efland
For #web2010 1. Social Identity (Connect) 2. PaaS design (Cloud) 3. Activity Streams (Realtime) 4. Git 5. Open Analytics
- Alberto Saavedra
I'm planning to use Windows Azure, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, and Visual Studio 2010.
- Jeff Weber
Pen, Paper, Photoshop, Text Editor, and a browser.
- Andrew Smith
Drupal, Wordpress, Twitter, Blip.tv, RSS
- Chris Wills
I use Wordpress, Friend Feed, Disqus, YouTube, and Google Friend Connect on the web pages and then to supplement the pages and features - I use FaceBook, Twitter, Linked-In, Digg, and Delicious. The first 5 are key to connecting the web page/blog socially; the supplements are to enhance those features.
- Robert Freeze
If your budget doesn't include an accomplished developer (send more work to those guys!), to get started effectively on the cheap: Squarespace, Twitter, Friendfeed, the Google suite (analytics, apps for your domain, connect, adwords, et al.), and probably Facebook (which seems to be working a lot better for business).
- Brian Hill
If you have a developer, or are a developer, what David Cann has done with almost.at using the cappuccino framework looks very interesting...
- Brian Hill
The mention of cappuccino reminded me: GWT (google web toolkit) for building scalable AJAX applications without cross-browser worries
- Raj Advani
I use everything Eric Logan listed plus seesmic desktop to see your brands progress in realtime. Throw in disqus plus any smart phone to provide instant feedback to comments, questions/concerns
- Anthony Farrior
Whatever tools a small company would use, it should be funded in this economy leveraging Kiva.org
- Eran Even-Kesef
A great tool everyone has is the ability to tell a story. I would suggest that rather than build just a marketing site, or online community, or social network, that you take the tool of storytelling and use it to build a 2010 website.
- Brendan Cosgrove
In no particular order: CMS: drupal (for industrial strength) or joomla (for ease of use)... sorry, but wordpress is brain-dead... round it out with some groovy core technologies: Wave/XMPP, RSS/Atom, and Ajax.
- Fred Davis
Same as Jeff Weber looking at a .NET blogging platform instead of WordPress - been using GraffitiCMS.
- Kevin Tunis
WP self-hosted, DIY Thesis Theme, FriendFeed (widget and embedded for real-time convo), Disqus w/ Facebook Connect and twitter connect, - my new blog has some of these elements now http://susanbeebe.com (so is yours Robert!) :)
- Susan Beebe
I honestly don't care what the tools are, but whatever you build, make sure you have a mobile version of it and I don't mean iPhone only. Build the site and ensure it works well on the main 4 mobile browsers iPhone, android, S60, Palm and maybe Win mobile.
- Keith Bennett
Adobe Dreamweaver, The Drupal Dream Theme Utility Suite Dreamweaver Extension, MyXoopsExtensions, Adobe Photoshop, and Flash
- Chelsea Belle Goodell
Lots of good tech suggestions. I'll add HTML Canvas. But the key to success is understanding the value you are adding for your customers. Of course social networks are the latest example of this, but remind yourself again and again WHY you are here - to understand what value you add now, and how you can improve that over time. You need to find tools and design patterns that allow you to collect as much feedback, as quickly and easily as possible.
- David Sky
Only one mention of Silverlight. Too much bing-bing?
- Nick Wade
I like Alberto Saavedra's answer. It's about the building block elements rather than the branded tool. He nailed it.
- Neill Adamson
Imagination and then what ever tool gets the job done. Drupal and Wordpress allow businesses to get online quickly without the need for technical knowledge.
- Darren Rollett
Darren - that may be a little exaggeration regarding Drupal's ease.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
LPH - Agreed. Joomla is probably better for the none technical and a little easier to use. Although as Building43 shows you can acheive most things in Wordpress.
- Darren Rollett
That's a really cool idea, Neill! Not sure what you would do about FF comment authors? Who would you put as the author of each comment? Or would all comments be anonymous?
- Ivan Zuzak
Yeah, not sure if you could map them to a FF ID (or if you would need too). Maybe they could be "imaginary" or somehow link out to the Yahoo ID/email they posted with. Would be great to see if any Pipes or FF guru can help solve this.
- Neill Adamson
I think it's doable, but not with Pipes alone since an RSS feed (the output of Pipes) is not enough to achieve this. In order to have multiple comments posted within a thread you have to use the FF.com UI or the FF API or the secret E-mail service. Nevertheless, I like this idea so much that I'd give a shot at implementing it in AppEngine when I find some time. Neill, were you thinking...
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- Ivan Zuzak
Hey Ivan, that's a cool thing for you to do. And if you need help testing - just let me know ;-) I hadn't thought about 2-way sync, as I primarily want to read it in FF, but what a cool idea! 2-way sync would be awesome, although I'm not sure you would be able to unless the FF commenter was also a member of the Yahoo/Google group (but if you can work around this than great!). Yahoo has...
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- Neill Adamson
from email
Is there anyway to better control how FF posts to Twitter? I post many articles in a short space of time (via GReader), and after some delay, these are then posted to Twitter in a batch. As a result I'm getting accused of spamming my followers with high volume in a short space of time.
It would be great to be able to limit the posts between 1-5 at a time. Or schedule them to be posted at a set configurable rate. e.g. 1 per 15 mins.
- Neill Adamson
Simply answer is no. What I do is share the post on FF natively and then select the ones to CC to Twitter. I don't have GReader going to Twitter at all. But I've stopped using GReader (as of yesterday) and started using FF as my RSS reader.
- Kol Tregaskes
GReader shares come into FF the same way, perhaps it Goggle's issue not FFs?
- Kol Tregaskes
I think the same would apply with whatever services you aggregate into FF, which will all have different update methods & timings. So, regardless of the source, it would still be nice to be able to limit or manage how FF posts to other sites.
- Neill Adamson
Kol, I have over 500 feeds in GReader and probably "like" between 50 - 100 articles a day. How could I bring all of those feeds into FF, and not have the "unliked" stories creating a whole lot of noise?
- Neill Adamson
It's like a lightbulb just went off for me as to the power of FF as a replacement to GReader. I'm gonna play with private rooms and see what happens. It's a pity I'll have to drop Feedly as my reader tho ;-(
- Neill Adamson
Agree with Mike, I have all my in groups, I check the groups each day. The bonus is that I have several groups covering different topics, I've added all the groups to a list and the duplicate detector does its magic. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I had to add my favourite feeds manually but it gave me the chance to go through them and pick only the good ones.
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah kol that issue is where opml import would be nice
- mike "glemak" dunn
The root of the problem is that greader dosn't support SUP (http://code.google.com/p...) so we poll them every 30-60 minutes. Once your entries are imported, they immediately show up on Twitter.
- Ross Miller
fan bloody tastic! So we can post here and Twitterers can comment away without any complaints! The only think you need to try and do is bring in comments (about a share) from twitter into here! :)
- Zee.
This is great...should help new users quite a bit.
- Mark Krynsky
OK, I admit I'm dense. As an existing user will this help me find the folks I follow on Twitter?
- Laura Norvig
Cool, is it possible we could have the ability to bulk import or non-FF Twitter friends as private feeds so we can track them in FF? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Laura, existing FriendFeed users should just go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... and click on the Twittter (and Facebook and Google) icons to find their friends. Kol, not yet, but I'm hoping to add something like that soon (improved imaginary friends).
- Paul Buchheit
Thx, Paul - guess I haven't been to that page since the launch. btw, I'm definitely coming around to the new friendfeed (colors notwithstanding).
- Laura Norvig
Great to see the standards working -OAuth fro Gogole and Twitter login on Friendfeed
- Kevin Marks
That's a great tool, Paul! Found a few from Twitter and Facebook I didn't realise were on FF...:)
- WorldofHiglet
Oh man, that is suh-weet. Works really well.
- Laura Norvig
Paul, that would be wonderful, thank you. I'm keen to use FF as a kinda Twitter client. I'd love the ability to import my group I've created on Tweetvisor too but that would additionally require exporting facilities from Tweetvisor, and from asking them they've told me it's low priority (which is fair enough).
- Kol Tregaskes
That's fantastic! Sharing with all of my not-yet-friendfeedified twitter friends. Thanks, Paul!
- Eric Johnson
This IS good. Thanks for the hard work, Benjamin Golub.
- Micah Wittman
Love that you guys are making the entry more enticing. What about refining what FriendFeed is further? Like: Twitter + conversation. For new people who don't get it and most without the time to get it, simplifying the message or experimenting further with your "first impression" on your splash page might be worth a try. Example: wouldn't it be cool to have a live conversation streaming to show just how FF has a leg up on the scattered Twitter stream?
- kilbuda
WOW! 313 new Twitter people! Amazing what the OAuth did. Amazing. That just completely Rocks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That was just too easy, and found a bunch of Twitter people. I just subscribed, but I hope they participate. I'm sure I'll have to trim later.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Thanks for everything Benjamin and the others, that is really great. :)
- Alp
I was subscribed to exactly 100 of the people I follow on Twitter. Added 93 more. Funny, this is actually helping me find people I *don't* want to follow in either place.
- Laura Norvig
I'm looking forward to the "advanced imaginary friends" section which lets me as an existing FriendFeed user view all the twitter updates from people that don't use FriendFeed.
- Brian Sloane
Just posted this to my stream then saw this, Cool stuff Paul
- Charlie Anzman
Some time ago I spent lots of time in removing my Facebook-Friendfeed integration, and didn't succeed, Facebook refused to remove it. Since that - no info about any other my services to Facebook, ever.
- orie
Happy to hear that there will be an improved imaginary friend option!
- Jacob
The improved imaginary friend feature will be great. No need to visit Twitter much then!
- Pinksy
How do we give virtual bucks to Paul, oh I see a like button here. Off to work on the influence funnel, who cares about dollars, I want eyes ;)
- Mark Essel
FriendFeed is constantly bringing new value to the service. I'm loving it!
- Amie Gillingham
I just imported 8,000 new Twitter friends. Worked MUCH BETTER than last time.
- Robert Scoble
Smart move guys. A quick way to grow FF users is to tap into the current hot properties. Can't believe other Social Networks are so slow to respond.
- Neill Adamson
Paul, is there a way to sync it so that people I no longer follow on Twitter are unfollowed on FriendFeed?
- Jorge Escobar
Great news on the advanced imaginary friends. That plus the ability to comment back to Facebook posts as easily as we reply to Twitter would be killer.
- Kevin Kuphal
Personally, I am having problems logging in and logging out of friendfeed. I receive the following error: Access Denied The resource you requested is private. You may be able to access it if you sign in to a different FriendFeed account, or there may just be an error in our service. We apologize for the inconvenience. If you see this error happening a lot, please let us know in our support forum. Return to the FriendFeed homepage
- Bryan Penczak
Then, I am forced to log back in, where friendfeed says that I have not given access to twitter/facebook. I log in with my friendfeed account, and at first it didn't work, but now it does. The only way I was able to log back in to friendfeed was to have myself logged back in to twitter or facebook within the same browser. Something's weird.
- Bryan Penczak
Not sure why this wasn't implemented a while ago but it's a welcome addition.
- Jason Williams
None of my Facebook contacts are on ff.
- JECO Photo
Ca passe 50 fois par jour ce truc là sur FriendFeed ! C''est pas possible d'arr^ter, j'en ai marre de le voir franchement ... ^^
- Jean-Marie Gall
from twhirl
@Robert cannot seem to do that with groups. What I want to do: Concentrate different RSS feeds (e.g. newswires) which do not necessarily have an account in any other social network into one imaginary friend's collection of feeds.
- Mark Jacobs
Mark, "groups" (formerly "rooms") are able to import feeds just like regular users (and imaginary friends). See https://friendfeed.com/xoogle-... for example (imports the blogs of all known xoogle startups). The only thing special about imaginary friends is that they don't have usernames (or rather we assign a random 128 bit username).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, the DM option on imaginary friends should perhaps be removed. Also, imaginary friends do not show up on the search dropdown list when you type in their name in the search box.
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, is it possible to automatically create "imaginary friends" from twitter following list? What I would like is to read all my Twitter in FriendFeed; many of twitterers though are not on FF, so I have to create them by hand which is tedious. Also, it would be nice to allow to add them to some special list.
- Ihar Mahaniok
Ihar, see my comment up in the middle and Paul's reply. Looks like FF are working on it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Still would like an imaginary friend than making bunch of Groups to simulate peoples that doesn’t use FF. BTW, unlike the Facebook Connect login, when I tried logging in using Twitter, it made a new account for me on FF instead of opening my own (which also has Twitter activity added).
- Natsuki Seika
Anyone want to share tips on how to achieve such spectacular High Dynamic Range pictures? (Kol, I've already read your great posts on the subject)
- Neill Adamson
Makes them look like screenshots from a modern videogame. Which only raises the question: "If we are striving for realism in games, why not stop using HDR?" :-P
- CannonGod
Huh! My Vista won't start in Normal Mode, Safe Mode or with the Repair Disk. Only Last Good Configuration works. And you can't use that to repair anything! I heart OSx86!
- Neill Adamson
Also can't successfully remove yourself from a domain and keep your existing profile as a local one. Vista #fail.
- Neill Adamson
Actually this had many things like Firefox a little faster. Even Chrome is faster (yes faster than it already was!).
- Kol Tregaskes
And yes I know I can set filters.But that requires loads of work I didn't have to do before.Being able to import & export filter ala Google Mail would be a great feature.
- Neill Adamson
For one thing, the Cranky PM always prioritizes the boring projects higher than creating super-cool new products, or rewriting existing products from scratch. In other words, she wants you to FIX (not completely rewrite) Joe Idiot’s effed-up code so it can handle multiple users. Instead of doing that WICKED COOL feature — the one you pet-named... - http://crankypm.com/2007...
I have a Nokia btw, should have mentioned that. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
For Nokia, I hear Twibble is good. And I just saw the preview of Gravity today and that's looking awesome. Gravity is still a private release atm so you'll have to wait awhile.
- Andrew Trinh
Not on Smartphone, use slandr.com frequently
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Tweetie, which I've found to be the best Twitter iPhone app so far
- Andrei M. Marinescu
I didn't like Twibble, not very user-friendly. I might try fring again...
- Kol Tregaskes
Tweetie has been worth the 3 dollars I laid down for it. Super powerful, speedy, solid UI...probably the best way to navigate Twitter away from your desk.
- Mike Nayyar
Does such a thing exist: a bookmarklet that you can use to import stuff into your WordPress blog, like you can with the FriendFeed bookmarklet? #shareit
I use the MarsEdit bookmark to make new posts. Not exactly the same, but same idea.
- mikepk
Got it, ah wish it was more like the cool FriendFeed bookmarklet. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yea. The Press This! bookmarklet would be perfect to me if it included image selecting and uploading to your server the same way the FriendFeed bookmarklet includes images.
- Louis P.
with Press This! you can select images on flickr and video from youtube (if i remember correctly); but overall it's surely far from perfect
- minus-one
Another great way to auto-publish to your blog is to use Feedly's BCC email feature. When you read and share articles via Feedly it will email them to your blog. If your blog can publish via emailed articles, you are sorted!
- Neill Adamson
Interesting idea, not really got into feedly as I cannot seem to edit my list of feeds easily. That and I cannot export from GReader per folder.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks Ole. Never looked under Settings, only under Tools ;-) It would be really cool to see this for the whole of FF and not just a user.
- Neill Adamson
I'm using Twitter much more these days and it seems most FF conversations come from Twitter. Is it just my Twitter-sense tingling? Am I right or wrong? What have you found?
- Neill Adamson
I noticed that there were many places for agile discussions and announcements, but not a lot of places that listed News and Blog entries on Agile topics, so I created a site called AgileFlow (http://agileflow.net ). Feel free to post a link to your blog post, news item, white paper, make a comment, etc. Shameless self-promotion is encouraged!
- Neill Adamson