<------and of course someone will be looking at this, the same time they are taking a drink, so they will do a spit take and cough until they cry. *cough* - Aden
(1) Online apps and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive. While the majority of workers use desktop applications such as Microsoft Office, that’s rapidly changing. Today, people like me use apps that are almost all online, such as Gmail, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Gcal, WordPress, Twitter, Zoho Office, High Rise, Backpack and many others. - Mitchell Tsai
(2) Collaborate on documents, don’t email them. - Mitchell Tsai
(3) Collaboration is the new productivity. It used to be that we tried to work our butts off to produce, but mostly individually. Sure, there were meetings, and there were teams, but in the end we mostly did it individually. It’s still that way mostly. - Mitchell Tsai
(4) People don’t have to be in an office - Mitchell Tsai
(5) Archive, don’t file. Traditionally, people filed paper documents in folders, labeled the folders, and organized them in cabinets. With more and more documents being stored in computers, this way of organizing carried over to the computer desktop, with folders and files all being organized (or disorganized, if you aren’t careful). This meant that either you spent a lot of time filing and organizing, or you lost things. - Mitchell Tsai
(6) Small teams are better than large teams. I know I said collaboration is the new productivity, but for many projects where a team is defined (as opposed to collaborative efforts like Wikipedia, where anyone can get involved), a small team works much better. It’s faster, nimbler, smarter, less bureaucratic, more creative. - Mitchell Tsai
(7) Communication is a stream. You go in and bathe in the stream, and then get out. It’s never-ending — think about when emails and IMs and Twitters and RSS feeds and forum posts and other types of things you read ever stopped coming in. It doesn’t happen. And because it’s never-ending, you can’t process from top to bottom, sequentially. - Mitchell Tsai
You know it’s never-ending, and you don’t try to process it all. You take what you need, go in every now and then to see what’s going on, and don’t worry that you’re missing things. - Mitchell Tsai
You’re always missing things — everybody is. No one can fully process this stream — it’s too overwhelming. Who can read all the blog posts out there? Who can respond to every email and Twitter and forum post? Who can read everything on Digg or Delicious or Stumbleupon? No one. - Mitchell Tsai
So you find what interests you, search for what you need, and pick and choose the things that matter most to you. Can you answer every email? No — so answer the important ones, and archive the rest. Can you know everything going on in your field or industry? No — so monitor what interests you, and when things really matter you’ll find out from your network of friends or blogs you read. - Mitchell Tsai
Don’t process everything — focus on what’s important to you. - Mitchell Tsai
(8) Fewer tasks are better than many. With the overwhelming amount of information coming at us, there’s also an overwhelming amount of requests and things to do. While the old way of thinking said that we should Get Things Done, that’s just not possible anymore. And it’s not even desirable to do a huge task list — you’re just spinning your wheels. - Mitchell Tsai
I like your style more and more every day Mitchell! :-) Great stuff! - Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew: What in particular do you like or don't like? Is there something you'd like to see? I'm happy to take requests. :-) FriendFeed just gets to see my crazy web surfing behavior. 30 min Tech, 30 min pictures, 2 hrs Olympics, 1 hr Lego, 30 min hot babes, 2 hrs Science, 1 week no internet, etc... I like to summarize internal/del.icio.us posts because I use FriendFeed as a search engine. If I put the "fun quotes" in FriendFeed, I can search on phrases 2 months later (my memory's not very good...) - Mitchell Tsai
Lest I stroke your ego too much ;-) It is the ambiance or feel of your posts, comments, lifestyle, thought-patterns. I can't really articulate if it is one specific thing. Perhaps, I see a kindred spirit. My brain seems to want/need to float around like that as well. - Mathew A. Koeneker
I think there was a tweet about how some cities have a certain feel about them; much like that but on an individual level. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Thanks for the ambiance complement Mathew. Have a great evening. I've finished up the dishes & registration here at camp, so hoping to dance for the next 2 hours. It's a bit of a zoo the first few days as 600-800 people arrive. - Mitchell Tsai
I speak the truth. You did ask. :-) Glad you are having fun! What festy are you at? - Mathew A. Koeneker
Mathew: DNE's cool for insomniacs like me. Stayed up to see the sunrise yesterday. Great Thai Massage class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... So-so Feldenkrais class http://feldenkrais.com About 600-800 people here, and lots of old friends (I've been coming here for 9 years. DNE started ~27 years ago). Dances at night haven't been too great yet. Had an awesome chat with a 17-yr-old about what school life is like these days (WAAAAY too much homework). Wireless is flaky, but working. - Mitchell Tsai
That broad right there is the reason why J. Timberlake wrote "What Goes Around." Everyone thought it was Britney, but alas, they were wrong. - ::Kristen::
LOL just keeping you updated. When it comes to all things JT related, I'm your go-to gal. (Besides, she cheated on Trace, one of the sweetest dudes in the world, while they were engaged. Therefore, she is evil.) - ::Kristen::
Kristen: She's so cute! One of my friends in college was a guy who was super-hot, CS MS, gymnast, funny, etc... Women usually were drooling or they thought he was a serious asshole. I didn't think he was deliberately trying to treat people badly, just that he didn't need to work at maintaining relationships and could honestly behave the way he wanted to. He ended up marrying very early to a good friend of ours, and we're amazed he didn't stay a playboy for the next 10-20 yrs. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
OK, so she's hot, but she's still the reason I stopped watching 24 in series 2. - Duncan Riley
Duncan are you telling us you had some secret crush on Elisha? Did you have some secret love affair with Elisha that you want to confess to? Is their a child between the two of you? lmao - Igor The Troll
No Igor, I'm simply saying that she's a terrible actress. - Duncan Riley
Ah, acting ability! I am sure she can make those up in other areas! lmao <joking> Now days it is not how intelligent you are but how sexy you look. Sex sells and Hollywood is all about profits! - Igor The Troll
Maybe she will grow up to be a respected actress one day, but it would be very hard once you put on a pedestal as a sex kitten! I do admire Madonna! She has the looks and the intellect to go with them! - Igor The Troll
Josh: Yeah. I love the strobe-shots of synchronized divers on TV. Haven't found any on the web yet, but I'd love to save some shots to my desktop pics folders. - Mitchell Tsai
I just watched the men's springboard synchro diving, and yeah, they have the state of the art stuff. where does one start to do a composite like this? - Josh Haley
I'm not a photoshop guy, but I'd imagine some software makes near-real-time mixing of photos really fast (like mixing shots from different exposures - bracketing). - Mitchell Tsai
dude. This is creepy. And if you've had a goatee long enough, then you'd know how to properly sculpt around it easily.
This is still weird though ;) - Dustin
Heck, I'd ask for more followers (I would probably be about 500th or lower), but then Scoble would block me ;) - Vince DeGeorge
I am reported as having 662 but FF tells me I have 952. Seems like a higher than normal margin. If I understand it, those folks are either private or lurkers? - Sacca
Nuts that I made this list ... good stuff :) - Nick O'Neill
a nice list of enemies that must be destroyed. :) just kidding "I'm not here to make friends!" - Marshall Kirkpatrick
@Sacca, the author's said that they can only crawl active accounts that have published activity. There are likely _a ton_ of accounts that were created, following you for example, that weren't picked up due to inactivity. Mine was off by 25-30% as well. And if you think about it... even the most popular activities here just graze 100 likes or comments, not 2000, so there are a lot of people who don't participate. - Louis Gray
I'm with Chris, I'm being underreported, private ones? - MG Siegler
I have 63. I thought I would have made the list. - Rob Williams
This should be fun to explore new users. - Mark Krynsky
Darn, just missed. 5 minutes late, that should be my motto. - J. Phil
it's pretty interesting to me, actually, that for being as tiny, tech focused and A-list driven as people say FF is - nobody's got more than 20% of users following them and only 7 people have more than 7% of users following them. That makes me think things are more diverse around here than I thought. No? - Marshall Kirkpatrick
@Marshall The truth is, small blogs have a bigger voice here than any other social service. - Shey
@kriskrug then I must be a Sucka Playboy! Dont get how I could've make this list, but its a nice bday surpise anyway. - Schlomo Rabinowitz
Looking at a graph of the top 50 users, the Default Nine effect isn't all that pronounced. The distribution of users looks pretty much like the sort of thing you get when you do any graph of this sort (i.e. a classic long tail) http://kshep.posterous.com/gra... - Ken Sheppardson
i'm yearning for the day that the top 5 are non-techies...that will be a great day for Friendfeed! - Pokai
I especiallylike Pokai's comment—I'll be happiest when the top users are diverse people, not just "techies." - Cathryn Hrudicka
The list reports my followers at 255, FF shows me closer to 355, but still cool to be on the list at 209 even if I feel I'm not as active on FF as many, many others, guess I'm still relatively active... - Shannon Clark
If my stats were reported correctly, I would appear in the top 100 - woo hoo!! - Susan Beebe
If they published a list of the top 75,000, I'd totally make it. ;) - Wes Justice
Alas, I've not hit the top 250... ;-) - Mark Dykeman
this list isn't as useful as a list of top n most interesting people (the people with the most "likes" or top n users with the most comments.) - Alan Le
I like Alan's idea. That would be fun to know. - Yolanda
better question: why do you all want to know that stuff? would being a most interesting person on friendfeed be a fulfilling feeling? seems like it wouldn't... - Jeremy Toeman
seems I am popular - have 292 subs :) - Mrinal Desai
I was there in 1997. Pretty nice, although expensive. Didn't care for the food too much, but that's not really what you're there for. Glass underneath bungalows is cool, as is going for random midnight swims outside of your bungalow. - Chris White
No, I'd like to, but it's too far away for now. I just saw it on another (private) feed and reshared it so that Ana could see what we're talking about. - Paul Buchheit
Never got to bora bora but did go to moorea. Stunning but ... I'll take kauai any day. - AJ Kohn
We spent part of our honeymoon there back in 2001. Beautiful place. - Mike Doeff
Huahine and Rangiroa are also interesting. Moorea is probably the most commonly visited, but maybe not as interesting. Kauai still matches up against these places for fun and beauty in my opinion. Hanalei Bay and Napali coast are amazing. - Chris White
wow... that looks spectacular. Category 7. I don't think I will ever have enough starwood points for that :) - Frankie Warren
Bora Bora is beautiful, but built entirely for tourists. I'd also take Kauai over it any day. - Tudor Bosman
(Alright, so we need to keep Kauai a secret!) Don't go it's awful! Roosters keep you up all night. - AJ Kohn
True. If you leave the house at night in Kauai, you'll be attacked by armies of wild chickens. - Tudor Bosman
And also, there are cane spiders, which could attain a legspan of about 10 inches, and (according to Wikipedia) "they are able to travel extremely fast, and walk on walls and even on ceilings. They also tend to exhibit a "cling" reflex if picked up, making them difficult to shake off and much more likely to bite." Don't go to Kauai! - Tudor Bosman
I can't imagine that anything could top the Galapagos Islands. We went there on our honeymoon in 2005. Clare did get stung by jellyfish twice though, and a baby sea-lion sniffed her foot. So on second thought , maybe you shouldn't go. - Robert Felty
We stayed at the Intercontinental on Bora Bora for New Years 2005. Very similar to the photos above with the huts over the water. It was beautiful. Great for water sports, the scuba was wonderful! Other than that though its just Luais and laying on the beach. And the food is horribly expensive and not that great. The island is small so you can go to local restaurants with better food, but the prices are still bad. It was a nice trip, but I wouldn't go back. A few photos from back then: http://photo.phoenixfeather.ne... - Rachel L Fisher
Oh, and Kauai is the wettest place on Earth. So why go to Kauai?! - AJ Kohn
Yeah, and the food sucks on Kauai. Don't go to A Pacific Cafe. :) - Chris White
Honestly though, Maui is better for swimming. Cayman Islands are even better. - Chris White
@seman :WOW! these are awesome! Can I share them with my friends? - تنها ترین
Bora Bora is heaven ... simply heaven! Moorea was great too ... rented bikes, a camera, my girlfriend, alcohol, and partying with the natives on the beach ... - Allen Hurff
How much should you expect to spend to see this place? - seman
Here's when it literally doesn't pay being a Geek. - Parth Awasthi
It's at least $800 per night on the water. The meals are expensive too. It really doesn't matter if you are a geek or not. It's expensive. - Chris White
@Allen Hurff: lol. it sounds like you rented bikes and a camera and also rented your girlfriend, alcohol, and the partying with the natives. :D - edythe
My brother & sister-in-law stayed there 2 years ago for their honeymoon. They absolutely loved it. - Jason Menayan
Tahiti is one of my favorite places. Went for my honeymoon in 00' and then back again before my son was born in 03'- we're planning a trip for 09' hopefully! - Erin Kotecki Vest
This also looks like a "Battleship" tournament... Kevin, in fact, appears to be making the "you sank my battleship!" gesture. - Chris Reed
Great to see a company firing on all cylinders - Mike Doeff
Josh: the key is extremely large screens so you can't actually see the person in front of you. - Bret Taylor
Man, do people get sent to sit by the bathroom and public writeboard as punishment? - Stepan Mazurov
I brought a t-shirt to change into after biking to work, but I didn't bother. I might have made a different choice if I'd known it would be blogged... :-) - Kevin Fox
@Kevin: You match the rug and lamp so it's working. :) - Tsega Dinka
Awesome window into FF Bret. Really like the transparency and willingness to speak openly with the community and those who are critical of FF. Enjoyed that Qik inteview by what's his name... - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Wow you guys have really grown and your office looks more colorful than the "garden variety" Google office space! - Bindu Reddy
Keep up the good work. You'll all have corner offices soon :) - Andrew Smith
i hope one of those people is working on the "page 11" bug! - Nick
I'm with Josh - I'd probably go crazy, no matter how large the screen. - Ontario Emperor
Wait, there's somebody on the other side of my monitor? - Casey Muller
im all up in paul's code now! and that guy in the orange really sits up straight - Allen Stern
I want to go and meet Bret, Paul, Dave, and the gang!! - Susan Beebe
I see nobody will finish off that Old Time Candy. As your mothers likely told you, you can't have more until you finish what you already have! - Louis Gray
Louis: we ate all of our favorites. Apparently no one wants to eat the wax lips. That was the best gift we have ever gotten, by the way. You rock, Louis. - Bret Taylor
Bret, but shouldn't the interns _have_ to wear the wax lips as some form of initiation? - Louis Gray
So that's where all my attention went! :-) - Robert Scoble
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