"I find the ads pretty funny... in almost every ad the computer they picked is sub-par computer that got very poor reviews. there was one laptop hunter ad where the girl wants to be a filmmaker ... so she picks an cheep computer and she is told she can do video editing with it... I thought... yeah if she wants two wait 2 weeks for her videos to render out."
- Greg Wilker
I've come to enjoy freindfeed becuase twiiter has been down a lot in past weeks. Now I don't miss twitter as much. I still want to use it though (grumble, grumble)
- jjprojects
I love twitter, I think they will come out of this and be the Apple of the 140 char world
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
"The problem, here is the fact he is shooting with a DSLr if it was a small point-n-shoot no one would have an issue. I'm sure of it; it's the fact that since he has a semi-pro camera, which looks to me like a Nikon D70. He will get hassled because everyone who sees those thinks paparazzi which in then makes them think they are perverts because of all the up-skirt shots on the covers of the grocery store tabloids. I'm not sure what the law is in the UK, however here in the states if it's on public property he could be out there taking pictures of everyone's kids and they can't do a thing about it; legally."
- Greg Wilker
I remember when Eric started out as a cub reporter at KTLA; look how far he's come.
- Aron Michalski
Is that Michaela Pereira of Internet Tonight and TechLive fame?!! Wow that takes me back...
- Zach Underwood
wow, I think the thing is you should not have people who don't care about tech reporting on tech. that's like having a football brodcaster call a hockey game.
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
As much of a jackass as he was, he was right. It's just a frakking phone, not the second coming of Christ.
- Nicholas Sanders
Talk about wankers! I would have asked him, "Have you ever got laid?" LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
It was a whole lot funnier when Triumph did it in the Star Wars line
- Chris Rivait
This is why I hate broadcast journalism.
- David Cohn
when pushed on this being journalism he took the mic away, speaks volumes doesn't it
- robert steburg
Let's see...I'll make fun of a guy who's been standing in line for a long time...yeah THAT will work well! Don't ask the question if you don't want the smackdown! That video is FUNNY!
- Jeff Garlick
hey tom I don't know if you know this but the photograview flickr group now displays the newest 15 to the pool on the pages of http://photograview.com
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
did i'm acting stupid if i say that TH is my mentor? great stuff
- Mathias Pastwa
Thomas,how do you find the time to upload photos to flickr while on a conference?
- Rutger Blom
Rutger I'm uploading photos in the background that I processed earlier this morning before the conference while the conference is going on right now. Multi tasking :) Thanks to MSFT for the free wi-fi!
- Thomas Hawk
Seriously, I want to be as good as you. I need to take more pictures and I guess get a better camera or better lenses.
- Andrea Baker
Thomas, I'm truly impressed by how you manage to keep such a pace. Despite the huge quantity of photos you produce the quality is often very high.
- Rutger Blom
no more traffic now everyone else has gone else where
- Toby Weston
from twhirl
I just read this and did a little bit of sick in my mouth.
- Chris Nixon
Ya know - if Twitter got rid of all the spammers - I bet their services would actually work....
- George Smith
Yeah, I think a lot more of us are looking at FF, etc. I'm only posting on Twitter via Ping... not checking there.
- Paul Otto
I am spending a lot less time actually posting on Twitter. Right now I bounce posts starting at Ping.fm -> BrightKite -> Twitter Haven't seen a whale in a while.
- Robert Gonzalez
Does this have any correlation to Pivotal Labs doing work for Twitter? If anyone knows how to scale RoR, it's PL.
- AJ Kohn
and pownce's load times are significantly improved... what's next?
- Frankie Warren
I thought someone did post something yesterday saying that Twitter had managed to make some improvements recently.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
maybe it's not crashing, but it still doesn't have IM support back yet.
- Ben Reierson
Twutter seens ti be dead, used to be getting a few hundred updates an hour now only getting like 10-15.
- Andrew Fielding
I think people are starting to use it less and less. Like me, i guess...
- Saul Mora
from twhirl
They allow for more update requests again now. Its back to 70 per hour where as it has been 20 or something for a while now. Things are looking up at last :)
- Simon Wicks
...but twitters downtime is its business model! Remember friendster?
- Vipin Chamakkala
I agree with others I think people are using it less because of the summer months, and maybe their infrastructure is better after their big $15 million dollar injection
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
@Simon, where did you see that the API requests is set to 70 again? According to their status page it's still at 20.
- John Barker
It's definitely not the FriendFeed effect, Twitter is still growing. Turns out they actually are doing stuff to fix the service. See: http://venturebeat.com/2008...
- Nicholas Molnar
@John Barker tweet deck (the twitter application) twittered about it, so im just going from them
- Simon Wicks
From tweetdeck: 'Twitter API limit is now upto 100 per hour, this will make all 3rd party twitter API apps run smoothly ' http://twitter.com/tweetde...
- Simon Wicks
Thanks kevin: I just wanted to hear that from someone else as well. I am happy that it come from you. I have been thinking about the same in last few days. I want to set up a blog for our site and I thought why not do it for example here on Friendfeed and use the other tools you mentioned above to support it.
- Joao
I still can't feel comfortably with Pownce. I preffer Tumblr for easily and freedom.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
I use the blog to talk about the stuff that I find on the sites.
- Bradley McSpinn
i was commenting something similiar the other day - isn't facebook for people that can't type more than one sentence in their own blog? Does it make you seem more interesting than you really are?
- Jason Hoch
Joao: yea, have been thinking the same thing - I might start forwarding kevinrose.com to friendfeed. Just wish I could customize the layout.
- Kevin Rose
A blog is still good for long-form thoughts as opposed to the quick bursts that you'd put out on Twitter or FF.
- Alex
Without blogs, what would we submit to Digg?
- Josh Kenzer
You bring up a good point... Soon, design will not matter much.. Content is King.
- Robert
I think a blog still has its place, but it is used much less frequently. Like Alex said it is really just for long (multi paragraph or even page) thoughts and personal opinions that you can't find on say Digg. Even still, using FF in conjunction with a blog improves it even more :D.
- Shaun Bevill
Think about how many "flash" websites you used to see and how many you see now....
- Robert
Has anyone set up a FriendFeed room as a personal blog yet? I can't think of any reason why that wouldn't work.
- Mike Doeff
well for you no. For people who don't own Pownce, Digg, etc and want to make $ from the internet by creating content and selling ads around those content. Still need a blog or site.
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
good point Greg - no way to place ads on these sites.
- Kevin Rose
@Greg Wilker good point... I am sure there is another way, but not sure what that way is...
- Robert
I'll post wherever I get the most interaction... for me that happens to be FriendFeed.
- Brandon
its a good point / question. what ecosystem works? I still think having a blog as a personal home base - an airport if you will - is a good idea. touch down on all the other sites - engage - and for further content: blog
- j sven
well, it's not really needed. But being a writer, it helps me to be in the writing habit and maintaining discipline...
- Fajar Jasmin
Yes, but the form will change. A successful blog will have API access to all of the above and be able to sort/arrange your online footprint in a meaningful way that is easy for users to scan through. It would also allow you to make traditional blog posts that work in reverse order. Friendfeed is close to this, but it is too disjointed and not customizable.
- Cade Brown
Dang, seems you struck a chord. Conversation's exploding here and on Twitter. I am glad you bring this up, as you have the ability to get this question answered quite effectively. I WANT to have a blog, but these other services are treating me quite well. The issue comes in remembering where all this stuff you've saved/said is located and the audience that receives it is more and more niche...enter FF? I guess.
- Victor Vasquez
One other thing is I'm all about less is more. Do you really want to say "hey go friend me up on twitter.com/insertname friendfeed.com/insertname digg.com/user/insertname etc etc or would you rather just say insertname.com to people with links to those other sites on it. you can insert my name into those if you want to friend me up. =D
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
you forgot your tumblr zen-style blog....
- Dan van Moll
Agreed, blogs should be long form thoughts. Stop posting one sentence updates to your blog.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I'm still keeping mine! A blog to me is different than what Pownce, Twitter and FF offer. They are more "communities" where there is far more interaction than in a blog. Receiving and responding to comments out on a blog is very different than the instantaneous interaction I get while using the likes of Twitter and FF.
- Geoff Peterson
Depends on if you want to write. I like the idea of a personally branded dedicated space...
- Ryan
I still think a blog is important. Its just more personal than forwarding your site to FF. Ya, FF is personal, but its something that you don't own, and can't customize the way you want.
- Nick Humphries
a blog is the only place where you own both the content AND the style.
- Brian Ries
But FriendFeed might be able to monetize the comments, especially if there's a thread/pattern among participants.
- phil baumann
All that stuff is wonderful if you suffer from ADD.... but for thoughts, arguments, commentary, etc that's longer, fuller, better developed and hopefully more "permanent" than one off comments, you still need some kind of site or blog. Contrary to popular belief around here, sometimes you need more than 140 characters to say something worthwhile.
- Eric P
I'm still having issuse with the FF comment plugin for wordpress =( I really like FF so far just wish my coding skills were up to part to figure this out. send me an email if you know how to get it to work gregwilker.net@gmail.com
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
Since you don't post long entries, probably not. FriendFeed catches my Diggs, tweets, and Pownces, I just pipe all of that to my blog: http://www.screwtheman.com
- Paul Reynolds
And Vimeo (HD videos), QIK (mobile live streaming)
- Langley Zhu
... Demonoid (torrents), Last.fm (music), Adium (IM).. that's about all ya need.
- shaggyshaw
One of the most interesting things is that there is, so far, no content spam here in the discussions. On my Wordpress blog (lightly used) I had to turn off all comments because of horrible drug spam. While the filters usually caught it, nonetheless, it ended up on my server, and added to traffic. My site (not the blog :-) ) has 65,000+ visitors per month and doesn't need junk added into the blog space. While Kevin may not need a blog now, his material is readily and happily accessed and organized, some may.
- iSteeve
blog for fuller content, but you'll use it less.
- clarke thomas
Funny - I recently had to explain the problem with this concept to our 4 year old after she hit her sister in the head with a stick and thought "sorry" made everything okay.
- Jonathan Beckett
wake up... it will pass and it should. these men have not allowed one terrorist attack since 9/11. waterboard em I don't give a damn. out the nipple clips on Osama's henchmen.
- Noah David Simon
Wow... just wow. Clicking 'Like' just doesn't seem to be fitting. FF needs another option methinks... Anyway, this is disgraceful.
- Jamie Clark
now let's see WHO in the Senate actually votes for this. Who's for change ?
- Andrew MacNeill
from twhirl
The bill passed, like 9 months ago, something like 406-6. It's law. Weren't you all calling your Senators when this was up for the vote last fall? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Adam Turetzky
It seems USA is truly heading towards being a totalitarian state
- Brian Sullivan
Technically, it is Congress giving Bush a pardon he wrote and inserted in a bill. But he won't escape international prosecution because of this.
- Mitch Ratcliffe
from twhirl
So is this like asking for forgiveness for something he may or may not do now, or in the future or may have done in the p... oh, damn! I've gone crossed eyed!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
caffertyfile@cnn.com <- Don't let someone go away just like that.
- AJ Batac
Where does responsibility end? Congress voted for the things he's being potentially accused of, as well. Do they get punished for war-crimes? What about the faulty intelligence gatherers? What about folks like Gore and the Clintons, who also supported the Iraqi war? What about the folks who voted for the folks who voted for this war? It's easy to pick on the President because he's a retard, but that doesn't make it sporting.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Good point, Mark. On the other hand, giving this administration's penchant for torture, illegal extraditions, etc. there may have been some war crimes the administration engaged in that Congress did not approve.
- Steve Lynch
No, that's not a point, it's a slippery slope. Last time I checked, Mark, going to war or being a retard wasn't against the law. Torture is. And Congress had nothing to do with its institution as the preferred method for gathering intelligence, taking as models the Viet Kong and the Gestapo. It was an unconstitutional expansion of executive power. In my view, they are fascists.
- Rick Powell
My guess for the Apple logo is that they would go for a black glossy one like on the back of the iPhone. I think that would be crazy sexy with the aluminum.
- Eric Portelance
Firefox. :-) (when I'm on my computer). Safari (when I'm on my iPhone). I refresh the page hundreds of times every day.
- Robert Scoble
How about this one? Instead of checking your news in the morning, you hit your Friend Feed instead. My rss reader is now the second thing I check.
- Candace
I've watched movies and attempted to "like" certain scenes. Ugh.
- Mark Trapp
I am experimenting with TweetDeck and Twhirl, though.
- Robert Scoble
The like link is something I'm finding I look for in general on many sites now. FF and digg have ruined me for that.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Robert: Have you checked out AlertThingy. IMHO it's better than Twhirl.
- Grant
Grant: I'll check that out. I gave up all clients during Twitter's problem because they simply didn't work.
- Robert Scoble
yeah I'm really liking twhirl because it allows both ff and twitter
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
I'm evaluating feedalizr right now. It has potential, but I don't think it will replace Twhirl.
- James Mowery
from feedalizr
AlertThingy also allows both ff and twitter and Flickr and TinyURL
- Grant
I was thinking of a like button in Google reader today;))I'm so addicted to this lovely yellow face:)
- Shandiz
FF is enough for me.. What's TechMeme? =)
- Winston Teo
Grant, my problem with Alertthingy remains (and if they've changed this, then I stand corrected), but I like Avatar shots in my Twitter stream + FF desktop client.
- Duncan Riley
Like is losing its meaning for very useful reasons...you can like something to save for later, like something you don't like because of the comments. I do like liking.
- Bryan Landers
Anyone know of a good twhirl-like app that will run on GNU/Linux? I've heard AIR is buggy on GNU/Linux with wine so I'd rather use a native app.
- Dan Evans
don't worry ! we all know that we are much addicted than what techmeme may tell us :D
- Viva Vida
Another indication that I'm a FF addict - I saw "CC this comment to FriendFeed and wasted an hour of time looking for the WP plugin, only to find it was an MT plugin. There's one for WP that does more, but it's not the same...
- Tinu Abayomi-Paul
I wish I had one too. I love my little canon sd1000 but there's times where I want something with more power.
- Lance Hill
I just blogged about this geek want. I'm with you! PodcastSteve gave me some great hints as to which ones to look at when you are serious about buying. See my FF for the disqus convo.
- Christine Cavalier
Yeah... you need to get back into taking photos... that way I can interview you... or better yet i'll hire eJustine to interview iJustine... does she take paypal?
- Greg Wilker
from twhirl
The Canon EOS 40d is awesome and I highly recommend!
- John Barker
from twhirl
I totally do. I lost mine almost 2 years ago and I've been so alone without it! I had a 20D.
- justine
@John Baker - ditto...the 40D has been a great pick-up from my old Canon point-and-shoot. Another recommendation for it to you Ms. Justine.
- JA Castillo
This this the same beach house pavilion-place as last summer? Last year was nice.
- MattJhsn
You lost an SLR? a) it's like ginormous, so you just don't lose it, its more like stolen and b) they're TOO EXPENSIVE TO LOSE! :P
- John Barker
Oh, yeah it was stolen :) @mattjhsn this one is a little different than last year!!
- justine
Don't worry about it Justine. You are welcome here.
- Dennis Jackson
Honestly, think about it - Scoble's not going to block random people he doesn't know who beg - so it's kind of a back-handed compliment! Welcome to FF Justine.
- Lucretia Pruitt
"I'm not sure but ... i'm going to call this a big fat FAKE... here is why the neckless on her looks like a alot of diamonds and very pricey. So um... why would you wear that type of neckless to take a bath in? If you say it's to look sexy in the tube for the guy taking the photograph... Don't you think she would of had a better towel than that crappy green thing? Photoshop + Nude Picture + Emma Watson From a Premiere = this picture."
- Greg Wilker
"has anyone noticed this hasn't made it to the front page at all and has almost 500 diggs.... seriously can someone please tell me why this hasn't happened yet?"
- Greg Wilker
"um, where is the video on the page... and you should upload the video to youtube or something and link to it their cause... i'm not downloading that random plugin to watch that player."
- Greg Wilker