Gordon Watts - Friends

Want to have live conversations like FriendFeed lets you, but better organized? http://livefyre.com/ is the way to go. Getting a demo now.

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here we go again? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

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Just signed up around a week ago with livefyre. Have been more in listening mode but so far am really enjoying being able to really follow the live discussions. - Jennifer Aderhold

You mean @replies are highlighted in blue? *mind blown* - Johnny Worthington

Shiny! Must be better. Do they have a recommended users list? Can we get on? - Chris Baskind

I thought that was cliqset? Only like 5 days ago - Matthew DeVries

Wow, what a fugly site! My rods & cones have been scorched. - josh neff, geek at large

Whee! Time to camp on another user account that I'll never use! Anyone up for some Wyld Stallyons action? - Akiva Moskovitz

I can't believe Scoble would joke about this, now we really shouldn't listen to him. - Jimminy Fuller

We asked for highlighted @replies yonks ago... despite not getting them, discussion hasn't been effected to much. - Johnny Worthington

Let's be fair, it looks awful. - 1x29

In biology, we refer to that colorscheme as "aposomatic". It means it's poisonous and will kill you if you consume it. Unless of course it's practicing Muelerian mimicry, where it pretends to be a poisonous thing, when in fact it's tasty and nutritious, like the Viceroy butterfly to the vomit inducing Monarch. - Matthew DeVries

And oh my Bob in heaven...they are totally committed to this "fire" theme. It's like a restaurant that goes all the way to the hilt, calling bathrooms "Buckaroos and Daisies" "Maties and Wenches" etc. - Matthew DeVries

And now I have that stupid Billy Joel song in my head... DAMN YOU SCOBLE - Johnny Worthington

Well on the plus side, Livefyre allows you to report a user for things like "hyperbole" - Eric Logan

Wow. That's ugly. I can't get beyond the ugly. - Yolanda

Sorry, Robert, you're wrong. - Mark H

Don't you mean, "hyperbowl" ;) - Roberto Bonini

"fyre-perbole"? - josh neff, geek at large

I definitely am stoked to see live conversations, organized, too -- but I lasted about 25 seconds on the site - Christopher Galtenberg

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh I get it now... It's threaded Twitter conversations... except without using Twitter kinda... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah... I wonder if it has the same 'noise problem' as FriendFeed does... - Johnny Worthington

Looks like the type of site where the comments are going to be those of the YouTube variety. - Yolanda

No time/date stamps, which made me a little confused, until I realized the comments were apparently last --> first - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Does it do machine translation? - SuezanneC Baskerville

#vomits - LANjackal

UGLY! No time stamps, can only see one conversation at at time. It think I'll stay here thank-you-very-much! - Jeff P. Henderson

There are currently no fyres about sex. This site is either fake or not of this Internet. - Andy Bakun

Doesn't really compare to Friendfeed as one of the main features of FF is still that it is an aggregator of all things. But there are some nice ideas in there. Will definitely have a look at it again over the coming weeks, hoping they will clean up the interface a bit. To little screen estate for the actual conversation and too much clutter around it. - Mike Hellers

FriendFeed Comment is the new Yelp Talk. This tweet is useless without screenshots. - Tim Jones

Is this a joke? It should be called HeadAyche. - phil baumann

It's ugly yes, but come on guys, say something new. The ability to break sub-conversations out is interesting. They should look at creating new rooms in IRC. - Kartik Agaram

Also, it seems like the conversations are more like IMs between a small number of individuals, seems like a lot of noise and not much true value... Could just be the quality of individuals participating of course... Something to watch, much like Google Wave in 2010 - Chris Reichow

MEH - Crutis

LOL. Was this designed in Front Page? - Spencer

I remember when everyone thought FriendFeed was ugly. - Robert Scoble

Like Friendfeed, Livefyre allows people to join in conversations, but I don't see how it's better organized. I like the idea of kicking somebody off the thread if he/she gets too unruly, but I'm afraid someone might abuse it in the future and the result would be a thread that only the originator of the thread would like. I would rather have haters on a thread to show a semblance of balance. Livefyre's a great tool and hope to see more improvements in the future. - Robert Sanchez Jr

It's better organized because you can find conversations by tags. So I can see only tech conversations. Here on FriendFeed I see all sorts of conversations mixed together. Also, LiveFyre lets you have threaded conversations, which makes long conversations much more useful. - Robert Scoble

Wait, you can still see after looking at that page? - Jimminy Fuller

Robert, you can really improve your Friendfeed experience by using lists. There's also robust search -- and metadata! I read that somewhere, at least. ;-) - Chris Baskind

I think Robert's point is that FF lists only tag *people*, not conversations. - Michael R. Bernstein

You're spoiling this for me. ;-) - Chris Baskind

hmmm...Michael and Robert has a point there. It takes quite a bit of an effort to search for subjects/topics in Friendfeed/Twitter/Facebook as these seem to be more user-centric sites whereas Livefyre is more of a topic-centric. In Livefyre you can follow a topic instead of a person. - Robert Sanchez Jr

Chris, you probably read it here: http://scobleizer.com/2009... - Bruce Lewis

Interesting how many people are focused on the look rather than the substance. This site has a lot of potential. - Josh Fialkoff

Josh - Pretty is pretty important. I have to stare at that UI for hours and hours. It's best that it not make me stabby and depressed. I don't care if the site cures cancer, nothing is worth staring into that mess for that long. - Matthew DeVries

This is a mess of a UI - If I'm looking for a real FF Clone, I'll go with Cliqset. It's about 2000 times prettier, same function, and none of those uncomfortably lame fire puns. - Matthew DeVries

A comment to the effect that it was odd not to see a fire about sex impelled me to try to start one: "What do you think about sex? Join my conversation happening now on #LiveFyre http://su.pr/1LBCYf " - SuezanneC Baskerville

The site certainly needs UI help, but we're having a great discussion here: http://livefyre.com/?vrvBkX - Josh Fialkoff

Tags? People have to actually *create* those, and conversations are too throw-away to really have that done well, and avoid spamming (witness hash tags). That said, I have a saved search here on FF that shows me entries that have "protip" in the content, and it updates live. FF not having threaded comments is actually an advantage, it keeps things on topic and encourages creating new root entries as things diverge, or creating a room to centralize stuff on a single topic. - Andy Bakun

I thought Live Fyre was already dead? - Mistletoe Glen

:) - ★ Soner Gönül

They tried to have #journchat on it a little bit ago, and people seemed to have troubles with it. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Enuf Talk! I wanna see Pictures!! - Billy Warhol

The homepage looks awful! But I'll give it a go... - Kol Tregaskes

I still don't get how this is different from Cliqset, other than Cliqset not being vomit inducing. - Matthew DeVries

Dare Obasanjo

r @timoreilly I cant believe someone would call ICANN acknowledging the Web is global by allowing non-ASCII domains unwise. US-centricism++

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