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TDD is not about testing!!! - http://www.makinggoodsoftware.com/2009...
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"Lots of people confuse “test first methodologies” with TDD, it is very common to listen comments like “TDD is just about writing your tests first”, which are completely wrong, these kind of affirmations are not describing TDD at all, they are talking about test first development."
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[from sikko2] ClassCleaner updated for CodeRush/Refactor! Pro/DxCore/CodeRushXpress 2009.1.5 - Steve Bohlen - http://unhandled-exceptions.com/blog...
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MSDN Flash Podcast Show 005 - Gary Short discusses technical debt - http://blogs.msdn.com/ericnel...
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This podcast accompanies the July 1st, 2009 edition of the MSDN Flash newsletter. It includes an interview with Gary Short discussing technical debt and the roll refactoring can play in repaying that debt, plus a discussion of my teams new YouTube channel. Show Notes: Three Men and a Whiteboard discuss ASP.NET MVC Fun look at IE8 web accelerators with Tesco Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Entity Framework N-Tier Applications Web Site Improvements Using jQuery and jQuery UI Great screencasts on WCF, Silverlight 2 and Visual Studio 2008 from RockSolidKnowledge MSDN Poll June 17th 2009: How many monitors do you use for developing software? Not mentioned – but this is the current poll MSDN Poll July 1st 2009: Which aspect of your job do you enjoy the most? CodeRush Xpress for C# and VB http://www.martinfowler.com/ Technical Debt on Wikipedia + lots more links in the original newsletter I also found this video from Ward Cunningham discussing the debt metaphor (5mins) Subscribe: Subscribe in an...
Interesting. Messages go from friendfeed to Twitter in seconds. But Tweets to friendfeed? Delays for 30 minutes or more.
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Steve Gillmor says that Twitter says the problem is on their end and that they are working on it. Been like this for several days now. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I think it's a conspiracy! ;-) Did anyone ever get an honest answer out of Twitter as to why this is happening?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Days? More like weeks or months. If they were thinking, Twitter would reverse that latency so input to Twitter was fast and outbound was slower
- Christian Anderson
It is because FriendFeed is posting directly to Twitter via the twitter API. Twitter is NOT posting to FriendFeed, so it is up to FF's polling mechanism. But I suppose FF and Twitter could have worked something out where FF should get the updates in real-time.
- Daniel Sims
Bret wrote (on Thu) “The XMPP feed we get from Twitter is about 30 minutes behind. Sorry about the lag for Twitter messages this past week. We are working with Twitter to fix this technical issue.”" http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ken Sheppardson
Hope it's fixed soon.
- Ontario Emperor
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I wanted to mention this the other day, it's annoying and so not useful. the core of Twitter is in real-time... well, it's not when it comes to Friendfeed.
- Orli Yakuel
That delay is annoying
- Susan Beebe
Everyone wants to be in two places at once when they're not anywhere at all.
- Michael Markman
Sometimes forced Refreshes seems to fix the problem.
- Nicholas James
That's odd... If FF is getting Tweets via an XMPP feed from Twitter, I can't see how refresh would do anything.
- Ken Sheppardson
forced Refreshes do work in case of shared items via Google reader...which otherwise take few minutes to appear on FF stream.
- Roshan Ramachandran
my are pretty much instant
- sofarsoShawn
sucks that it happens, but good to hear that its not just me... how could we even expect Twitter to be fast...
- Peter Efland
FF's got SUP
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I tend to force a refresh a lot - not just for twitter, either. Flickr photos haven't been showing up at all w/o the refresh.
- Sarah Perez
True, very annoying. Facebook is just as bad...their stream shows things I did days later.
- Neal Jansons
To me it looks like there's a disconnect of the Twitter "Firehose" that used to work between FF and Twitter. FF seems to be using Twitter's feeds now (maybe as a fall back) but twtitter feeds frankly suck. Slow, frequently broken, etc...
- mikepk
I also force Refresh often, both the tweets and blog posts on FF.
- Bora Zivkovic
This never bothered me. I almost never have a message that can't be sent out over a 30 minute period. When would that 30 minutes be so important? I'm curious.
- MarkCarras
Mark: when you are trying to have a conversation about something 30 minutes isn't acceptable. News, for instance. Or just plain comparing notes. What Twitter is doing is ensuring I'll send more notes from friendfeed because I know then both of my groups of friends will see whatever I'm doing at same time.
- Robert Scoble
there's actually a reason why Twitter's feeds are slow, but it's not described here
- Steve Gillmor
Robert: Twitter has never been about conversation though. It just doesn't seem like it was made for that to me. On the rare occasion I do converse through Twitter, I do it directly to avoid the lag. You are right about Friend Feed being better for conversation, but I think it was made with that more in mind.
- MarkCarras
Steve: Some reason other than the XMPP 30-min lag Bret mentioned last Thu? (per above)
- Ken Sheppardson
yes
- Steve Gillmor
from IM
Steve: Care to share?
- Christopher Mercer
no. just interested in fixing the problem.
- Steve Gillmor
from IM
Useless!
- Christopher Mercer
what's useless? My information? Do your homework.
- Steve Gillmor
Have to assume it has something to do with the "business model" they have but are not talking about... how long until search results/API are slowed by 30 minutes without $$$
- Brian Roy
that would be great if they made reliable access available for $$.
- Steve Gillmor
I'm of two minds. 1) It stifles the dev community 2) I'd pay (reasonably) for preferred access - if they are taking away what is there today unless we $$ that would just seem like extortion.
- Brian Roy
neither of those explain why the feed is asynchronous. 1. so far has not stifled community. 2. It's not here today.
- Steve Gillmor
By here today I meant inducing an artificial 30 minute delay in the (in particular) search API. I get tweets today within 15 - 30 seconds 90% of the time. I would, however, pay for a premium service with SLA for timely delivery.
- Brian Roy
I doubt a delay is being "induced." We "pay" for every message we get.
- Steve Gillmor
Ah... ok. As cryptic as that may seem I think I know exactly what you mean.
- Brian Roy
I am not being cryptic. I am being factual.
- Steve Gillmor
Yeah I know... that is what I meant. It seemed cryptic but wasn't. Thanks Steve.
- Brian Roy
why does it take so long?
- Thomas Power
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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Understanding Corporate Twitter - http://chucksblog.emc.com/a_journ...
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"If you've never seen or used Twitter, simply go to http://search.twitter.com (or http://www.monitter.com) and type in your favorite search term. Maybe a name or two. You'll be amazed at the results. Simply put, I now believe you can't ignore Twitter as part of your overall corporate social media strategy. Just like you can't ignore Google. I had been postponing engaging with Twitter, and I was wrong."
- Hutch Carpenter
Microsoft teams and products on Twitter: http://www.adamkinney.com/(S(nefg...
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Masser af gratis musik på Amazon.com
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TechCrunchIT: The API Wars - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009...
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"As Paul Buchheit proved with his simple Javascript experiment, FriendFeed’s APIs already allow him or anyone to create a simple Twitterish UI in a few hundred lines of code. While this particular take doesn’t do everything he or I’d want it to, it does viscerally prove the underlying point — that FriendFeed can shapeshift into Twitter while Twitter can’t return the favor. If the user can get all the benefits of Twitter plus those of FriendFeed, why use Twitter?"
- Louis Gray
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I think we all see where this is going. I like it. Keep going Paul and crew!
- Jesse Stay
nice
- cjmart
Louis is doing Friendfeed and Socialtoo NO favors by making this a pissing contest. Wrong approach. Apparently, there are no Obamanarians in business.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Ed, that quote from Louis is actually from the article itself, so blame Steve Gillmor. Louis is just the one who shared it.
- Rob Diana
Thank you for the correction Rob, appreciated, noted Louis :)
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Ed, it is one of the problems of having shares/bookmarks in the stream. Everyone gets confused on who wrote what. We will figure it out eventually.
- Rob Diana
I see the confusion happen all the time. I also wonder about GReader shares and a FF member's RSS feed from their blog. One can see the "2 related entries from Steve Gillmor and Dave Winer " written below. I follow lots of people on FF that seem to get lots of GReader shares as well. Not sure what I think about it, but it does require sorting through the same content multiple times (maybe because I have these people in separate lists?).
- coldbrew
Check out Adaptive Blue's. Their technology is phenomenal.
- Mona Nomura
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I dig the idea of tagging, but wouldn't it work just as well if people add hashes as comments? That way everyone can categorise.
- Vincent van Wylick
Didn't know we could! Will do from now on if I post any.
- Simon Wicks
What's the point of using hashtags on FF? Is there some site/tool that does something with them?
- Michael R. Bernstein
You can edit titles on FriendFeed? I can't. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
you can edit titles of your own entries, i can assure you :)
- Zio Bonino
Not me. :-( Do you mean after posting?
- Kol Tregaskes
Vincent, it's a fair point but the hash tags are not only helpful for searching but also when just browsing this page. Although of course, you could just search - but i find friendfeed search is not reliable atm
- Zee.
@Kol If you click on the 'More' link directly under your own title it should give you a n 'Edit Entry' link in the drop-down menu. Do you not see that?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Kol, it's under the "More" button of your own posts.
- Zio Bonino
Doh, gotcha. Thanks guys! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok, am still not getting why? Is it to make a context tag from where we post? why is that good again?
- Peter Efland
What do you think of a username tag: #u:micahwittman (hash+u+colon+nickname)? The reason being google indexes the FF Name but not Nickname. Post on this: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Micah Wittman
ok, zee, thanks for the explanation. Guess since i am always on #web then I dont see the idea of why it would be important to search for aps. Micah Wittman, thats an interesting idea with the username tag
- Peter Efland
Thanks Peter. My thinking is the only way a #u:nickname tag would be redundant is if the FF service is changed to always display Name AND Nickname. Come to think of it, FF should consider making "MY COMMENT BLAH BLAH BLAH - Name (Nickname)" when viewing *not* logged-in which would be the case for search engines. They could even sniff the user-agent header to really optimize it for the google crawler and whomever the next big search engine is.
- Micah Wittman
to be honest, if search is unreliable, as you say, I don't see myself using tags at all. The only reason I use it in places like delicious, is the rss-feeds, I can get of it. And in blogging, because of technorati-hits. I don't actually go through past content and specifically look for tags, my brain pretty much gets what something does from reading the title / description.
- Vincent van Wylick
you do a really good job with this room, zee. thank you. :)
- edythe
Zee, before or after the title?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
ideally after, but no biggie :)
- Zee.
i whole heartedly support the idea of posting taxonomy but using hashtag is, ermm, typographically ugly. What about parenthesis or brackets or even curly braces with tags in them and at the end of the post title? e.g.: Pain free video conferences at Tokbox.com [Web] --- Act without doing: Quicksilver (Mac) --- Open source multi archive manager 7-zip {Win} --- Java 1.6 from Sub [All Platforms]...
- Berk D. Demir
i'm up for anything, i just wanted to find something everyone could type fast and recognise
- Zee.
Mona uses [square brackets] in the Goodies Room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... I think it looks pretty good. Don't know if it helps with searchability. I guess it will if people are consistent [Win] not [Windows] etc.
- Laura Norvig
Bump
- Russellreno
thanks Russell :)
- Zee.
Thinking about writing a series of posts on "Building Scalable Databases". Anyone interested?
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I know I'd be interested in seeing this
- Neil
I would love to read it :)
- Morten Jokumsen
Absolutely, i would love to read it.
- Kenneth Chu
What FriendFeed Needs to Do To Grow and Keep New Users - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Agreed! Can't wait to see what comes from friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
I'd love to have like a dashboard of options. Like to decide if 'likes' poped the thing to the top, to enable likes at all, to enable FoaF, etc
- Tyler (Chacha)
Well thought out. We have the firehose. We we need powerful filtering that's brain-dead easy to use.
- Chris Baskind
Great post. The small, medium, large option is brilliant. And agreed on finding your 'real' friends. Yet, in parallel I think the bigger issue is ... show us the money. Want FF to have legs? Out revenue model Twitter!
- AJ Kohn
I rant... because I care. :-)
- Louis Gray
Louis: me too! I have too much invested here to see facebook or twitter win! We need track.
- Robert Scoble
There's no value in disclosing a revenue model for a private company, and there's no indication that FriendFeed is hurting for money. So what's the point? I don't understand the desire to integrate FriendFeed into TweetDeck, either. It seems like asking to integrate a Microwave into a Toaster: they do different things.
- Mark Trapp
I know it might not be ... popular, but it might be effective to a) promote the Find + Invite via email to high users and b) put the Find + Invite into a multi-email format (week 1: Robert Scoble invites you to join FF. week 2: Robert Scoble reminds you to join FF. week 3: Robert Scoble demands that you join FF.) Okay that last one is a bit of a joke. But each email can also give another reason why you should join. One off invites seem so 2008.
- AJ Kohn
AJ: I find it to be much more effective to send an email saying "Robert Scoble is talking about you here..."
- Robert Scoble
@Robert: Excellent! I like that too. I just want the invites to not be one off. Why make YOU track down and find out if ... Om actually did join? Have a staged invite email stream ... 3 messages perhaps. And perhaps it even emails you with which joined and which didn't {thinking out loud here}. Make the invitation the first FriendFeed conversation.
- AJ Kohn
There are some good ideas in here. I'll note that Friendfeed has formatted the site for the iPhone with full functionality. But i can't use it on my Blackberry unless I go to IM, which overwhelms the phone (and me)
- Karoli
Sometimes it does come down to presentation and value explanation as much as this might offend the service purists. A lot of people struggle to get over that adoption hump. I think that FF should put a big sell on value and what its good for (in straight forward terms) right up front and I definitely agree that there should be a lite and starter version.
- Richard Filing
So can SocialToo stretch itself to handle FF? Not only the follow/unfollow bit, but the conversation bread crumbs help you track what was last said... just a thought for the start of an idea (obviously not the end result).
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Most important (at least to me) is being able to find other FF users who I already follow on other services, like Twitter or Brightkite. I made a comment about that on the post, but it's so important that I'm mentioning it again here.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
We need more advanced Filtering for more advanced users...
- Tyler (Chacha)
Especially Per/List Filtering. Being able to block Twitter Results from one List while seeing them in another
- Tyler (Chacha)
Louis THANK YOU ... excellent post... LOTS of great points you bring out here! I am cleaning up my "lists" and noticing lots of users that have bailed from FF. the firehose affect must be managed better with user-centric UI tools. Discovery / management of friends is cumbersome; lists are also challenging too
- Susan Beebe
It's really hard to create functionality that is appealing to both power users and novice users. I like the idea of providing an "opt in" option for newbies so that FF does not overwhelm them on day one of their experience. I think I still would have preferred the opt out "hide" mode from the start. Once the newbies that choose "opt in" mode get comfortable with FF they should have the ability to flip the switch on the firehose to full volume. That would be the trickier part of supporting two FF user modes.
- scott anderson
FF needs tags, ways to generate a stream based on tags, ability to sort this tagged content based on importance (aka likes, amount of comments) and date, complete user profiles and clever user search (as facebook does), more options about FOAF per subscriber, more "visible" rating of content aka "best of month", better share control (sometimes i would love to share to a single person without having to have a dedicated room)...so basicly is TAGS & PROFILES & MORE FILTER/OPTIONS :)
- Chris Hofmann
Probably the FriendFeed "lite" is more important short-term than the advanced filtering features. Scoble & Gray will use FriendFeed w/o advanced filtering, but John McCain won't use FriendFeed w/o the Lite GUI.
- Ontario Emperor
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Ontario, that's why I made FriendFeed Lite #1. I've been saying it for a long time now. Scoble and I might like the full octane brand, or PeopleBrowsr, for example, but others need something easier.
- Louis Gray
A section with random users will be cool, like random pictures on flickr.
- Waldemar Schott
I think the ability to create more personal FriendFeed profiles is more important than anything else listed here. Average users like customizing their stuff. As much as Track would placate the top users, FF needs to start attracting some of the more typical users too.
- Andrew
FF in serious trouble if it can't work out how to attract mainstream crowd - i can't see it being able to as your average jo doesn't what perpetual information spewing all over them
- Bob Sonin
Andrew, I mentioned profile data in the post, and have made it a top priority in my previous recommendations to the FF team.
- Louis Gray
The room for Newbies/beginners would be a good quick addition. Point them there will introduce them to FF/rooms/how feeds work/etc. Also, Some additional quick 3-4 minute youtube "How to" videos will help as well. It can be daunting at first, but once u stick with it you will find gold!
- Amani
FF's only hope as I see it is to somehow crack the mobile space big time but it looks like they are late too that party as well.
- Bob Sonin
A lot of people have a hard time in general with the "here's a site - you can do anything you want with it" tool which many of the (Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed) are to varying degrees. Those in tech who are used to tinkering are more likely to find the sites useful, to others - it's just scary. Twitter can be integrated into lots of different environments (dozens of interfaces), but FF isn't so accommodating yet.
- Stuart Miniman
Some entry lever offering would be great. I encounter similar challenges when promoting FF
- Jeroen De Miranda
I joined FF to generate a lifestream of my posted bits 'n pieces on the web and recently started to look at other uses which is quite overwhelming. Robert Scoble's recent video sure helped and your suggestions also make sense. BTW, I read your post in Google Reader not FF, but thought I'd find the conversation here. And then I just noticed 39 comments on your blog. The attention keeps on spreading...
- Rob Schlüter
A lite version, might help people find their own community. Jumping into a Friend Feed stream sometimes feels like sitting at the table across from the cool kids in high school. You have something to say, but are not quite sure you are really invited.
- Lorraine Ball
Found another exciting FF feature: add a room to my blog! http://www.jeroendemiranda.com/innovat... --> I found this on the FF blog; not in the FAQ or other standard documentation. Hint for FF: I think FF would benefit from hiring a user interface/ help text expert, to consolidate and streamline all help texts and instructions.... but: I appreciate the fantastic functionality of FF!!
- Jeroen De Miranda
Seeing far too much 'noise' from an article that I like over at google Shared items, and see it my stream here. Then I see seventy other people have also shared it, and its also in the blog stream. FF - LINK THEM ALL TOGETHER PLEASE!! :)
- Jez Arnold
My advice to FF: Make 1 version (skin, UI) for Twitter users. Then make 1 version (skin, UI) for Facebook users. Then let these 2 engines virally feed users into FF. Then wait for the old timers to complain about how its ruined now that its gone mainstream. :)
- Elliott Ng
I agree with all of what you have written. I am trying to make good use of FriendFeed, but run into some of the roadblocks you have identified. I am a pretty heavy Twitter user, but FF has so much more functionality - but I just can't seem to take advantage of it all. I also want to seamlessly link Twitter and FF - but can't seem to do so without getting double-posts on Twitter.
- Curt Mercadante
I agree with the points mentioned, FF is a great tool and with a few tweaks etc they'll continue their growth :)
- Nicholas James
When we stop building walled palaces and figure out how to properly thread comments, FF will be extremely useful to the mainstream. Until then, the users must sift through comments on multiple posts of the same article, and don't even get me started on re-posts (MONA!) Just look at Louis's Disqus feed from this one post (He currently has 12 separate posts, some having additional comments not linked to this thread) and you will start to understand the problem. If this isn't fixed, Twitter and Facebook win.
- Bob Blunk
FriendFeed is for those with social media competency. Why would it seek an audience lacking that skill? It should simply be the best service available, as the audience grows naturally.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Decoupling data and UI layers with PubSub architecture - http://ajaxian.com/archive...
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Start working with pleasure!
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The Tshirt and Tee Search Engine - PleaseDressMe - http://pleasedress.me/
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tell me that's not a maternity shirt? <eyeroll>
- Admiral Anika
Does FriendFeed have a business model yet?
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Yes. Everyone who asks whether they have a business model is required to put $20 into their PayPal account.
- Robert Scoble
That is the most brilliant business model I have heard of so far...
- Arne Hulstein
I could pay a yearly fee for FriendFeed. After all I pay about 24 USD/year for flickr and I don't think I get out of it as much value as I get from FF. Which btw makes me think why am I spending that much for flickr....
- Davide D'Incau
Robert +100!! Link? I'd contribute for sure!
- Susan Beebe
Why is everyone afraid of the subscription model? Drew Curtis does okay with charging $50.00 a year for 'TotalFark.'
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Davide, you'll have many more people willing to pay for Flickr and not to Friendfeed. It's just the nature of the type of service.
- Amit Morson
no comment - you see, ff is "protected"
- Allen Stern
I wonder how FF could be used as a bespoke installation inhouse.. Shame system management tools don't spool out RSS feeds, I could imagine a bespoke FF where you pull together all the dispirate management systems into a FF style system to allow for more verbose reporting and shitcan email alerts. Sadly smtp is easy and quick to implement.
- alphaxion
@alphaxion: I think FF on the intranet would be great for software developers. Version control systems do pump out RSS feeds, as do Wikis and testing frameworks could be easily modified.
- Andy Murdoch
I'm thinking network monitoring, backup systems, status monitors on things like exchange etc.. stuff that spool out a realtime state of health of IT infrastructure in emails and event logs. Aggregate them into an IT friendfeed system, away from prying eyes since it can be over https and require authentication to see..
- alphaxion
Amit, maybe because flickr is simpler to understand by a larger amount of people? But if FF like concepts go mainstream, then it is like paying for your newspaper subscription.
- Davide D'Incau
I would definitely pay for the privilege of fooling around here.
- Steven Perez
Or how 'bout the Craigslist model: charge only users in San Fran, LA and New York (wha? geo-discrimination perturbed? Talk to me when Hulu is unblocked for residents in Canada, among other places) </blowing steam>
- Micah Wittman
lol Scoble.
- Kamath (नमः)
I like my Fark half-assed and free. I would pay for FriendFeed, however.
- Lisa L. Seifert
You could use the DonationCoder model and just let the users pay what they want & can afford and let them feel as if the community truly belongs to them. Might even institute a microcredits system to make it easy to not only donate to the site, but to donate to each other as well...make those "likes" really mean something. ;-)
- April Russo (app103)
wow, looks like i'm the first to simply say... "no".
- Jeremy Toeman
Jeremy: you have to donate $40 if you say no. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Admittedly, I don't think that I would actually pay for FriendFeed. An online community is hardly rare, and one can't beat the price of free.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
@possible248 which is why I think they need to harness the technology, not the crowd.
- alphaxion
free is the only way to go
- Bob Sonin
I would go with the winner of America's Next top model. Maybe FF could sponsor a Spokes Tweet competition?
- Todd Hoff
Cryptic Allen, cryptic
- Hutch Carpenter
me hutch?
- Allen Stern
Now, I didn't say that I WANT to pay for FF. I just said that I would. If it ever came to that. Unless it could be replicated someplace else. For free.
- Lisa L. Seifert
FriendFeed could easily be replicated. I mean, there are already other lifestreaming web applications out there, and it wouldn't take much to tweak the user interface into something FriendFeed style.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
The Chinese and Facebook have already copied FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
No, I mean a completely replicated site with all of my same friends, history, etc. I'm being a brat. Don't pay any attention to me. I bring nothing to this conversation except for the sentiment that I adore FF enough to pay for it.
- Lisa L. Seifert
Chinese already have that except for your friends.
- Robert Scoble
Stop egging me on, Robert. *pbbbbbt* That's WHY I said it's NOT replicated. My friends or it's not the same. Now go eat dessert. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
here's the ff business model - in fact its already in place - scoble goes from blog to blog posting comments telling people how the conversation is already on friendfeed for the topic being discussed on the blog. :-P
- Allen Stern
ScobleFeed®! ;)
- Tyson Key
Love it, Allen! Truly made me lol. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
Not cryptic Allen, not cryptic ;-)
- Hutch Carpenter
+10 Scoble
- Voyagerfan5761
Carry Your Google Reader Offline with Scoop, Supports Synchronization - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
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What do Google engineers do for fun? Sort a terabyte in 68 seconds. For an encore? Sorting a petabyte in ~6 hours. w00t! http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
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"every time we ran our sort, at least one of our disks managed to break"
- Claudio Cicali ♋
I'm not sure if it was good timing or bad timing announcing this right after a Supercomputing conference. Anyhow, I'm glad I can now say that Google owns at least 48000 disks.
- Alex Power
The 10 Most Useful Google Reader Productivity Tips - http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008...
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http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008... "Written on 11/14/2008 by Abhijeet Mukherjee. You can catch him at Jeet Blog where he blogs about different Web 2.0 apps a nd online tools and how they can help you become more productive.
- jfayel
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Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software | Open Source Alternative - osalt.com - http://www.osalt.com/
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MEDIAPORTAL - free media center - Home - http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
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I already shared a plugin, here's the full app. Media Portal is a free media centre solution that allows you to stream live tv to any PC running the client software. Currently on version 1, they have a total rewrite in development and could always do with the help of extra minds.
- alphaxion
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I'm gonna write a blog entry about these guys.. I have the next week off so I need something to do :D
- alphaxion
I'm still using MediaCenter but this is very nice as well. I might wipe out my desktop and install normal XP so this may be a nice option.
- Rodfather
media center by microsoft is an extremely nice bit of software, the interface blows pretty much everyone elses away. Shame it's limited to a single PC tho otherwise they would mop up in the TVPC market! Also, Media Portal can be installed onto Vista IIRC. MP certainly has its glitches but it ended my search for a TVPC solution, beating out beyondTV, mythtv and the myth based Linux media centre edition.
- alphaxion
@alphaxion so this will work on linux? I just created a linux network at home and am having the toughest time finding something to share my music and videos...
- Anthony Farrior
sadly it doesn't look like it as the core is based on windows technologies.. no idea how or if it will work in wine or a virtual machine.
- alphaxion
I really like MediaPortal although I've recently switched to XBMC.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Jay you know you can buy and rent HD movies in the PSN store right?
- orionstarr
akiva: XBMC is very nice, especially on a modded xbox, but it can't stream and record tv from a digital tuner ;) You can always run both. One of the main things I would love is for some of the developers on friendfeed to offer help to these guys since v2 has been delayed quite a bit through a lack of codemonkeys.
- alphaxion
alphaxion, of course. I have a TiVo for that. I just use XBMC (or MediaPortal) for media playback.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Alas, doesn't work on Linux. But I'll give it a try one of these days (if I remember my windows password ;-))
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Been using this for over a year, great stuff.
- John Duff
AlwaysVPN Takes US-Only Sites International - http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips...
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I need something similar to the UK, so I can watch BBC iPlayer in the US
- clarke thomas
ditto, I'd love something for the UK/iPlayer
- Vincent van Wylick
Thats handy! Thanks for the share. Always seeing some US restricted site warnings.
- Simon Wicks
I agree with Clarke and Vincent - something like this would be great for iPlayer outside the UK. Surprising how often the "how do I watch UK TV" comes up in the expat British forums around the net.
- Richard Peat
how trustworthy is the network on the other end?
- alphaxion
Agree with Clark, Vincent, and Richard, I need something simple for watching BBC iPlayer.
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Friendfeed’s Bret Taylor talks XMPP on Gillmor Gang - http://www.techcrunchit.com/2008...
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