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Robert Scoble
Want to have live conversations like FriendFeed lets you, but better organized? http://livefyre.com/ is the way to go. Getting a demo now.
here we go again? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
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
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
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++
Robert Scoble
bartelbe: @scobleizer this is something you might love, engaging analytics in video publishing #elearning #interactive #SEO #SVO http://bit.ly/62ApxX - http://twitter.com/bartelb...
It's kinda interesting. Have you seen anything like this before? - Michael Fidler
Robert Scoble
RT @dangillmor: Web developers relying on big company APIs need to read this http://www.totlol.com/t/story if true, very disturbing what it says ...
yes, if true. Time for Google to answer the questions directly. - Steve Gillmor
if true, that would be . . .evil - Matt Terenzio
evil would be not answering the questions - Steve Gillmor
You know, if you flip the Live Web around it becomes the Evil Web - Matt Terenzio
Not answering the questions would also give us the answer to what Google means by 'open.' - Cliff Gerrish
Textbook example of why open APIs do not equal open standards. - Scott Mace
Can't open your link from a mobile :( - Jérôme Flipo from iPhone
Robert Scoble
@barrie_robinson yeah most of my videos lately on http://www.youtube.com/ were shot on my Canon 5D.
cool - kagani
susan mernit
RT @blaKtivist: RT @ILLArtistry: #Secretturnon Women from the East Coast.. [Mine too. Yo whr the NY transplants in Oakland? )
susan mernit
RT @T @ILLArtistry: #Secretturnon Women from the East Coast.. [Mine too. Yo whr the NY transplants in Oakland? #Tellurfrenz2getwmyfrenz]
Robert Scoble
social_help: Facebook Lexicon is a great tool to analyze trends on Facebook - http://bit.ly/3zNuLa - http://twitter.com/social_...
Robert Scoble
@techmama @sbroback I am +not+ doing any bus trips to CES. :-)
Robert Scoble
vwadhwa: NYTimes Ex-Employee Says Seagate Violated Law http://bit.ly/52WwXk > IP theft - http://twitter.com/vwadhwa...
Robert Scoble
ChrisBaker1337: Fantastic Wired story on the knockoff artistes behind straight-to-dvd fare like Transmorphers and Snakes on a Train. http://bit.ly/5TEhFV - http://twitter.com/ChrisBa...
Robert Scoble
foresmac: Ars Technica: Brief: Report: iPod touch more popular than iPhone this Christmas http://bit.ly/7uYJoV - http://twitter.com/foresma...
Robert Scoble
TechCrunch: Android Finally Gets An Official Yammer App http://is.gd/5EYq0 by @jasonkincaid - http://twitter.com/TechCru...
Robert Scoble
@erinely yes, my advice to them is make their website work on an iPhone. Lots of influentials and VCs use iPhones and I can't see their site
make sure it works on Symbian & Blackberry first, as most people use these two smartphone OS. Some people use Apple products, but Google released Chrome browser for Mac more than a year after Windows version. - Tim Jones
Tim maybe, you should add "Windows Mobile" to your list? "Some" people use those also... ;o) - Ron Thompson
Didn't mention Windows Mobile because with all the overhyping Apple has done with the iPhone, the iPhone has apparently finally overtaken Windows Mobile's in the US share only this October. Around the same quarter, more Blackberries were sold than iPhones. - Tim Jones
While the # of devices may have gone up, the browser share (people actually accessing the web using the devices) is at least 2x larger with the iPhone over the last year http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile... - Jennifer Dittrich
yup, AT&T is pretty happy about that- woo hoo, please use our network more. By the way, how do other non-iPhone AT&T smartphone users look upon iPhone users? Especially after that threat of pulling down the network couple of days ago? - Tim Jones
Tim: sorry, but when I travel the world influentials use iPhones in disproportionate numbers. And, anyway, Google has data that shows that Symbian users rarely use the web. So, targetting them first would be very bad advice. - Robert Scoble
Influentials and VCs -- I think you have the Silicon Valley disease. - Dave Winer
is it contagious? - Mark
Dave: it's not just a Silicon Valley thing. 30% of people at an entrepreneur event in London had iPhones. Same in Tel Aviv, Israel. - Robert Scoble
Scoble: any investor worth his salt is going to sit down in his office and look at a potential investment site and not just look at it on his little 3.5" phone screen. Come on man - Mark
Mark: really? A lot of investors I know go from meeting to meeting and never get back to their desks during the day. Have you ever hung out with VCs? And, anyway, more and more people are doing most of their internet over smart phones. Anyone who comes out with a site now that doesn't work on mobile gets me wondering just how viable they are. - Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
deborahgage: Technology the saving grace of a bad decade, the aughts, Americans say...http://tinyurl.com/yfvw3uq - http://twitter.com/deborah...
I'd say we're about 5-10 years behind where we'd be if Bush hadn't been elected. - Chrimmus Tad
Robert Scoble
dannysullivan: catch-up reading. the TSA posts screening handbook online. ABC news reports it & provides handy copy http://bit.ly/5UrHGa - http://twitter.com/dannysu...
Robert Scoble
dangillmor: Web developers relying on big company APIs need to read this http://bit.ly/7rWTym if true, very disturbing what it says about Google - http://twitter.com/dangill...
Robert Scoble
parislemon: LinkedIn Polishes Its iPhone App Into A More Facebook-Like Gem http://ff.im/-dsZ6k - http://twitter.com/parisle...
Robert Scoble
onlyapplenews: Apple Insider: Consumer groups ask FTC to block Google's AdMob deal http://bit.ly/5LPCVJ Full http://bit.ly/8Sxf5G - http://twitter.com/onlyapp...
Robert Scoble
SameerPatel: RT @GeorgeDearing: With #Analytics in Your Rear View, You’ll Never See Your Future" {good post @Fast Company] http://ff.im/-dsWgT +1 - http://twitter.com/SameerP...
Robert Scoble
jackschofield: The Top 10 Most Important Tweets of 2009 http://bit.ly/5kJ8zS (via @Twitter_Tips) - http://twitter.com/jacksch...
Robert Scoble
AriBurton: The NEW Beta version of UberTwitter for Blackberry blows all other BB clients away. @Scobleizer Try it if you ever use BB. - http://twitter.com/AriBurt...
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble
RT @appstand: @nicolePRexec here you go-- although most are invite only. :-( RT Official #CES Party List at: http://www.thomas-pr.com/ ...
Robert Scoble
@cjsparno no, I still show up on FriendFeed. I am using it a lot less than a year ago, that's for sure, though.
FF is still way fun. - Christopher Galtenberg
just liking so I can share privately - Steve Gillmor
interesting. It seems that twitter feed is way delayed compared to past experience. I like the threaded nature of FF comments and feel so cramped in Twitter sometimes. Would love to hear how you still use it (are you using it simply to aggregate content? Or as its own tool with seperate user base. - Chris Sparno
Robert Scoble
Join @philashman by listening to the "TWiT of the Decade" netcast with @leolaporte @kevinrose and me: http://www.twit.tv/228
Robert Scoble
Tell @mattcutts how @google can improve real time results: http://livefyre.com/?wPKqfE I will post a bunch of ideas.
Robert Scoble
susan mernit
Heading off to do a very exciting interview, then hit the gym, then walk the dog, then write the...wait, this is vacation?
susan mernit
Heading off the do a very exciting interview, then hit the gym, then walk the dog, then write the...wait, this is vacation?
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