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Snap a picture of the cover of any book, DVD, CD, or video game and within seconds get a rating, description and links to Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, IMDb, eBay, Barnes & Noble and more. Use this app while shopping in a store to quickly find more information, compare prices, buy the product, or to remember to look at the product later. Only books, DVDs, CDs, and video games sold in the US are currently supported, but we are soon adding support for international items and more product categories. This unique application uses advanced image recognition technology developed by SnapTell (http://snaptell.com) to instantly match an image against millions of product images. For faster results, please use a WiFi connection if available. Please email feedback, suggestions, or problems to support@snaptell.net
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FriendFeed Simplifies Joining Process from Twitter, Enhances Syncing - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality - http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsre...
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Someday, I will be the guy who makes food look delicious.
- Mike Nayyar
from Bookmarklet
I used to have a friend who would pretty much mash any kind of hamburger or sandwich down to be as flat as possible. It was really weird but that's how he liked them.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Love that website.
- Rochelle
They should try to make my food look nice because I post food photos to Flickr: http://snipr.com/food
- Morton Fox
Morton - so do I! This half assed attempt at presentation doesn't fly for me.
- Mike Nayyar
This is a great idea. I'm surprised I haven't seen that before.
- Bluesun 2600
sry didnt see your post
- Alfredo
@Mike: someday, I will be the guy who eats your delicious looking food
- grant fox
Looks about right.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
WHAT??? You mean, it isn't actually what they show in the ads?????????????
- Martha
I'd probably eat more arbys if their food looked more like the ads instead of flattened bits of mush.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
6 Coolest Sites to Find New Tweeters - http://www.listropolis.com/2009...
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The new friendfeed is now up at http://beta.friendfeed.com/
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woah this is fast...
- Zee.
almost unusable :(
- directeur
Loving the speed!
- John Ruth
i love how the comments load
- Lasse Johnsen
real time web in real time
- Damian Holmes
this is awesome
- Alfredo
works as well on beta.friendfeed.com
- Jaap Willem
Holy cow this is freaking awesome
- Craig Eddy
hard to follow comments if you look else where
- Yunus Tunak
It's a great update
- Lucas Araujo
from twhirl
Isn't it?
- Robert Scoble
well, my first vote is no. i'm one of the 'aggregator' people. if like FF cuz it's *not* a live stream. bummer.
- MikeAmundsen
Yep, it's live.
- Yuval Atzmon
I love it :) Too fast, so I dialed it down by immediately switching over to one of my LISTS - that was way better! List Mgmt is a must for real time feed mfmt
- Susan Beebe
very nice, thanks for the link.
- Nathan Eckenrode
didn't love it.
- Gökmen Karasu
I like this!
- António Teixeira
Mike: that was my first feature request: to have an aggregator view.
- Robert Scoble
Mike, I'm with you. Try Streamy at http://www.streamy.com. You might find you like it more.
- Kevin Kuphal
Wow, this does look aweseome!
- Kevin Whalen
Wow ! ... LOVE the new look ! very nice
- Rich White
the "XX seconds ago" does not update in realtime, though
- Till
Pretty cool
- Fred Hsu
This is a little too fast!!
- Niall Connellan
wow!! its really dynamic first impressions = awesome!
- Jay
Really nice.. quick and clean
- Louis-Philippe Gauthier
Oh man this is really addicting already.
- Justin Yost
I like the look, and the way the new likes and comments just show up as part of the post instead of a whole new line. But the whole thing being real time, and updating while you are trying to write out a comment is a bit much. I imagine if you are following thousands of people this will become really hard to manage.
- Simon Wicks
Makes for a fun Monday for sure.
- Jeff Stannard
wow! this is really gonna hamper productivity. Plus, Information overload! Hope it doesn't get too distracting.
- Tarun
Jason: on the iPhone there are still bugs. It's hard to click like in the real time feed.
- Robert Scoble
Productivity is gone :-/
- Susan Beebe
I agree.
- Teri Temme
Robert - you just have to be FAST! :)
- Susan Beebe
This is twitter on crack!
- Andreas Klinger
Nice to see that this is all real-time now.
- Geoffrey Wiseman
wow, you can see the comments appearing in real time... niice
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
So how are you supposed to read anything when it's always moving?
- Todd Hoff
lies
- Stuart Evans
This is actually really cool
- Kurt Jarchow
Direct Messages are pretty cool.
- Justin Yost
It is way too fast. Need a setting for refreshing on an interval, rather than real time.
- Josue Fontanez
Oooo the page is moving. Color me impressed
- Marcus Beagley
I am getting dizzy with so much speed. LOL
- Carlos Lorenzo
Where's the re-share and link to this entry? Also, can't find preferences link.
- Rui Pereira
Robert how many direct messages did you get?
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
Firendfeed's problem isn't down to technology its down to name. Twitter has been behind FF for ages, but its name and the whole "Tweet" thing latches on with average people where as FF appeals to geeks like us that can appreaciate the differences and can remember more than one technology buzz work.
- Mark Ritchie
Feed aggregation and sharing meets real-time messaging--this is a powerful unified communications platform--wait till they integrate real-time video!
- Rory Conway
well it's a pretty radical change, at first glance I like but can see how this is going to be very difficult to keep up with
- Dave Schwab
ok now it works hmm i think ive seen this beforeeeee ooo twitter maybe
- Stuart Evans
from twhirl
FF needs rating (like) of comments - how do they want to filter the good ones at live speed otherwise
- Andreas Klinger
Looks kinda like Twitter, but that's not bad because I like Twitter! :)
- Svartling
This seems more intuitive somehow.
- craterdweller
I like how the content is moved to the left and and the operations are to the right.
- Todd Hoff
Found the link to this entry: click on the time (how un-intuitive :)
- Rui Pereira
i like the create a feed button this will be good for collaboration
- Damian Holmes
Twitter crashed; wonder if this buzz helped
- Kathryn Martyn
@mark ritchie - no, I don't think this is the problem. The mass market doesn't neccessarily want an overwhelmingly rich feature set. A simple proposition/UI often satisfies more people. Friendfeed, (and to an extent twitter tools such as tweetdeck) turns digital communication into a full-time occupation - as William Gibson said '‘They sat around accessing [social] media all day and talking about it, and nothing ever seemed to get done.’'
- jeremy ettinghausen
Damian - thanks for noticing that - sounds cool huh?!
- Susan Beebe
Not so sure all feeds should be equal. Knowing something from twitter for example is critical to the amount of attention I'll give it.
- Todd Hoff
WHY DOES IT NEED HULK SMASH HANDS?
- James
Seems much faster, love the real-tome comments.
- Alex Scrivener
FF has been my best bud for close to a year. without a solid aggregator feature, i'm gonna hafta get a new best friend.
- MikeAmundsen
not sure i like mixing users and groups into subscriptions, either. like the DM option (we'll see how that goes), like the "My Discussions" (do that lots now)
- MikeAmundsen
Wow. This is a game changer. By commenting on an entry in the main feed you are basically initiating a direct message conversation with everyone who is tuned into that entry.
- Barak B
easier to use,seems to be faster than the older and i like the new presentation :) !
- Alice Cordonnier
Like the UI - less wasted space & grouping of items more visual. I love innovation:)
- Dave
Still needs some work: Can't add new feeds, updates are too fast, no preferences ... Like it thou!
- Rui Pereira
Right, read the FAQ: http://beta.friendfeed.com/about...
- Rui Pereira
It's ok. I'm not overwhelmed with the changes.
- Trevor Trumbo
dont like, but the concept is nice
- Jordi Rivero
Generally like all the design changes. Looks nice.
- Todd Hoff
When I'm reading comments and they start scrolling down, that is not good. I drink from a glass, not a firehose.
- Todd Hoff
it shouldn't be like real time ... and the style is not good too ...
- Viva Vida
what as the big fuss about? its good, but not "great"! and plenty of beta issues - like the offscreen updates shifting text you are reading "onscreen"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @scobelizer, is there an underhanded deal going on that we don't know about... you're note usually *this* pawny about the hype!
- simran
ok im taking bets - which major tech blog will be first to post about the renaming of "replies" - winner gets a CN sticker
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I'll go with Mashable.
- Rob Diana
3:1 on RWW. ...and we're off: http://blog.twitter.com/2009... Real time replies errr I mean mentions: http://search.twitter.com/search...
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
i could do it right this second allen and take the sticker for myself!
- MG Siegler
Any site that posts about this should no longer be considered a "tech" site :P
- Clint Ecker
@clint especially if they lead with "BREAKING"
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
What do they call it in France?
- paul mooney
VentureBeat is first one I saw.
- Robert Scoble
Mashable was the 1st I saw -- and the 1st trackback.
- Hillary Hartley
Yeah, but which one tweeted a link to their blog post first? :P By that token, Mashable wins by 1 min.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Boy that was fast! So glad twitter is finally making some key improvements :)
- Susan Beebe
Venture Beat MG Siegler wins - 1st one out of the gate!!!
- Susan Beebe
i think mashable did win. i blame allen stern for throwing me off the scent by pretending this was a minor thing, when really it's a fairly big change.
- MG Siegler
right MG - the *news* is that they adjusted the query behind the link to include inline @s & RTs as well.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
BIG change, not small !
- Susan Beebe
Really Susan? Summize has done this style query for a long time. Back-porting it to the main twitter code base must have been non-trivial if it took them this long to do it.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
but which one will show up first in Google Reader? Sadly, none of them have reached it yet ...
- Adam Ostrow
Friendfeed. We had it over half an hour ago: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Chris Baskind
@adam, yeah our feed is so f-ed up, I'd be happy if it ever shows up.
- MG Siegler
if it weren't for friendfeed, i might have gone my whole life without noticing haha
- Frankie Warren
it does appear that mashable won this one - but don't fret MG, you will get the lead on CrunchBeatMeme!
- Allen Stern
a nice consolation prize.
- MG Siegler
What are you essential WordPress plugins?
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For example, what pluings to do you use for Flickr, caching, SEO/meta tags, Google Analytics/Sitemaps, Twitter and FriendFeed?
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm not a big Flickr user, but for some of the others - All In One SEO, Super Cache, Ultimate Google Analytics, Google XML Sitemaps, Akismet for spam of course, WPTouch for iPhone friendly theme, Tweet This, Subscribe Remind (reminder to RSS subscribe for new visitors), Subscribe to Comments
- Patrick Jordan
Patrick, I have most of those listed, yes very important.
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's what I use: Disqus, All In One SEO, Clicky Web Analytics, FeedBurner FeedSmith, Google Analytics for WordPress, Google XML Sitemaps, MediaRSS, Redirection, WP-Cache, FriendFeed Comments
- Michael Hocter
Ready? Cuz this is a huge list: Akismet, All In One SEO, Category Images, Clean Archives Reloaded, Disquis, Feedburner Feedsmith, Friendfeed Comments, Google XML Sitemaps, MediaRSS, PingPressFM, Visual Recent Posts, Wordpress.com Stats, WP Postratings, WP-PostViews, WP-Stats, WP Movie Ratings, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Sean, some new ones there for me, sill check them out. Thanks, Michael.
- Kol Tregaskes
Disqus/Intense Debate (different blogs), Zemanta, FriendFeed Comments, FlickrRSS, Feedburner, SEO All-In-One, Most Tweeted Commented, Most Recently Tweeted. Not sure about the names of the Twitter plugins.
- Shevonne
Oh yeah Akismet
- Shevonne
Sociable, Disqus, MediaRSS (for posting to FF!), the rest are built in now. Akismet (comes with) is necessary.
- anna sauce
I'm glad it comes with Akismet now, makes sense.
- Kol Tregaskes
disqus/intense debate, ff comments,media rss, platinum seo, feedburner feedsmith, wp cache, YARPP, askimet
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Amber, FF comments for me too... once I get it working. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
did you ever get it running?
- Amber, Random Time Lord
there might be an issue where if you update to FF too fast it confuses it. You may have to manually associate it with a FF thread, sometimes mine does that
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Amber, never got it working. I was actually very quite on FF this weekend as I worked on my sites for most of it. Posted a few things here and there not much. Ah well, I'll stick to FF until I can get that working.
- Kol Tregaskes
i think BudyPress is one of the most innovative plugins . possibly the future of the 'fluid social web' http://cli.gs/Yqh6Gv
- Alensa
Akismet. Too much spam otherwise. What else do I use? The Stats plugin is useful. Google sitemaps generator. Reply-to-comments so that emails go out when there are replies to a comment someone subscribed to. I'd like to use the FriendFeed plugin, but my posts don't get discussed on FriendFeed (more on Twitter, which isn't really great for discussion)
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
I'll try to only include ones I didn't see above...Add to Any, flickrRSS, Ozh' Who Sees Ads, WP Post Ratings, WP-Simple Viewer, pageMash, Social Homes
- Justin Korn
Zong is also a great plugin if you are into monetizing premium content
- Alensa
Kol, do you use the WP interface to create posts?
- Amber, Random Time Lord
AVH Amazon, cforms II, flickrRSS, Math Comment Spam Protection, Netflix-X2, Picasa Photos, Publish To Facebook, Search Everything, Sticky Menu, TwitterCounter, Twitter for Wordpress, WP-EMail, WP-Print
- Patty Bradley-Diehl
I use All in one SEO pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Sociable, Tweetroll, No Ping Wait, among others included.
- Carlos Lorenzo
Akismet, All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, FriendFeed Comments, Dagon Design Sitemap Generator, and a few others
- Tamar Weinberg
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button http://tinyurl.com/wp-a2a-...
- Pat
Pat, I saw that while browsing yesterday. I'm currently using ShareThis which I think covers similar services.
- Kol Tregaskes
I would have to agree Akismet sits up there pretty high.
- Sean
Taste the Rainbow - Feast Your Eyes - http://www.slashfood.com/2009...
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It looks like a Care Bear blew up in the batter
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I had the same care bear thought, but he wasn't blowing
- embee
I like the way it looks. The purple part reminds me of Filipino ube cake. :)
- Cheryl Jones
Blowing chunks, perhaps? That being said, as long as the cake tastes good, I'd eat it.
- cecily
I want cake so badly right now that I don't care if it looks like someone put Rainbow Brite in a blender.
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
Hahahah @Haggis (Sean) love the splattering there! XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
looks pretty toxic. but i'd have a couple of slices. a la mode preferred.
- Morgan Haley
Clown barf?
- Christian (Simply X)
clown barf poured into a pan, baked at 375 for 44 minutes (longer at high elevations) then cooled, frosted and sliced...
- Morgan Haley
CMYK has never looked so delicious.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva!!! Damn, that killed it for me!!! Bwahahahhahaha
- Morgan Haley
Man, those bright colors are doing things to my head. I keep looking at them. It's hypnotic.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
There they are again!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
That is really sick! I could see a 5 year old really digging it though.
- Leah McChesney
Is that from the scene in Hook w/ Robin Williams where they were "pretending" to eat this feast?
- MicahBear78
very cool. reminds me of some of the space cake in Amsterdam.
- Anthony Citrano
@Micah ... That's what I thought!
- Brandon
20 things about friendfeed http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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Told you he'd be posting before the hors d'oeuvres were served...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
hor d'oeuvres? where?
- Michael VanDervort
I'm watching your video right now
- sofarsoShawn
Robert, I am unable to watch your video (never been) in kite.tv with GNU/Linux and Flash 10. Although I have no problems in any other video platform.
- Ricardo Galli
It is the first service to bring all our content into one place
- paul mooney
Watching your video. Definitely learning a lot. Much to take in.
- Marty McPadden
This is a great tuturial Robert, I am learning about all kinds of features I never knew about. Too bad Friendfeed doesn't have a video/visual tutorial like this for all the newcomers (albeit more concise for them).
- Brian
Yes - and screencasted, not video of screen.
- Hal
Have they ever come up with a good way to sync my twitter follows as imaginary friends without having to add each individually?
- Hal
Was it just blurry for me or is it blurry for everyone? I think I could have learned way more from it if I could see what you were was doing. Looked like you were doing some cool stuff.
- MarkCarras
awesome job Robert - watching it right now. It's great you're not over the top in describing it's usefulness...rather a sensible overview of it's benefits.
- Zee.
That's great info, Robert. Thank you. Lots of stuff I didn't know.
- Drew
Thank you for taking the time to put this together.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Love it Robert, thanks, I learned a lot.
- Ginger Kenney
Great vid. Really showed off some awesome capabilities.
- Joe Brinkman
Robert: Either I'm losing my mind or you're double-clicking on links.
- Chris Luckhardt
Chris: my computer is messed up. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I love FF and have been using it for a few months (though not exclusively), but I still picked up a few powerful tips that I didn't know or understand before. Thanks, Robert!
- Helen Hoefele
Robert did you make this video for Arrington? I hope so, that way he'll start participating more...same goes for Guy Kawasaki too. :)
- Susan Beebe
Nah, just trying to explain the features.
- Robert Scoble
This friendfeed thing confuses me to no end. Maybe I'm just dense, but I've never been able to figure out how to organize things here so that the cool stuff perks to the top, then there's keeping track of things I like or whatever. I hope your vid is damn good cuz it's downloading now over a dialup line. yup, they still haven't fixed my highspeed yet. :-) Edited to put a smiley after that last statement, hehe.
- Eddy Cole
It's a really good introduction to both basic and advanced FriendFeed use. Perhaps more interestingly, helps explain how Robert manages his massive inbound data flow.
- Michael Krigsman
Ross the Friendfeed intern did some tutorials a while back, but FF sure failed to keep up with creating new ones as the feature set (and interface) evolved. Ross's videos here: http://www.vimeo.com/rossmil...
- Mitch
I think that if I knew that I could see all of my twitter activity from within friendfeed, then I would use it in leui of a twitter client - but I don't feel like taking the time to add imaginary friends.
- Hal
What we really need is a "Friendfeed Tour" room which is added by default to ever single new account. It could be moderated by the FF crew and include links to a whole bunch of goodies for new friendfeeders.
- Mitch
Next installment: 20 ways to being a bigger FriendFeed monster than Robert Scoble? =)
- deepikaur
Comprehensive. Needs a screencast treatment instead of pointing vid cam at the screen.
- Tom Landini
This should go on the ff homepage
- Michael Fidler
2009 is the year I start really drinking the FF Koolaid. I started a week early, technically, but then the good resolutions are the ones worth getting ahead of right away. This video was helpful for understanding how to make the most of the service, Robert. I'll be sharing it with others, especially if I slip into the social media rabbit hole that this service can be for many users. As always, thank you for sharing your experience.
- Alex Howard
I find that friendfeed has a lot of passive users. Their activity comes from the aggregation of other media, not from any attention on friendfeed itself. Robert is very active on FF and so gets a lot of immediate conversation going, but many have it set on auto-pilot. I find this is less the case with twitter. Perhaps it will change.
- Marcel LeBrun
Robert, I love the down to earth presentation on this. Very approachable method of video, and informative.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I've been waiting for this video. Good stuff.
- Andrew
Thanks for this - its great to have a practical 'how to' guide.
- Graham Hills
Nice! Didn't really get Friendfeed until now. It would be phenomenal if I could manage and write to everyone of my aggregations via friendfeed. Hate to have 3+ Backends for my Blogs etc
- Sebastian
Robert, I've been using FriendFeed for a while now. Thanks! This was superb.
- Pilgrim Five
"Hide" feature!? I have no "Hide" link under my entries - how did you get one of those?! I want one! I have "Comment", "Like" and "More".
- Isha (Marysia)
Thanks for posting. I never knew that Friendfeed could be so useful. I didn't even know there was a like feature till you pointed it out. I just thought it was another one of those lifestreaming aggregators.
- Thao Ly
Marysia: "Hide" is only available on entries if you are in the home screen. So click on "Home" and now you should see Hide.
- Robert Scoble
"Hide" is available in any list at the top level. For instance, if I create a list called "Tech Bloggers" and add six people to it, "Hide" is visible if I click the Tech Bloggers list on the left side. If I open the reveal triangle and click on one individual's ID, then "Hide" is not available.
- Will King
Thankfully this was a tutorial. I still expect Robert to use a computer nearly as fast as Commander Data.
- Kevykev
Great video Robert. Really enjoyed checking out all the features on FriendFeed. You seem to have it set up really well. I wondered why you didn't use a screencast recording program so we could watch what you were doing on your screen a bit more easily. I don't want that to sound like a criticism though because I really appreciate the effort you went to, recording the vid.
- Paul Richards
I'm bumping this post, because this video is so good. Just sent it to a friend who just signed up to help explain the experience along with the FFundercats Episode 25 podcast. These are great resources. http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei...
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Datacenter Porn:
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We are getting a tour of http://www.gogrid.com 's datacenter. Cloud computing competitor of Rackspace and Amazon. Thanks to http://www.friendfeed.com/hightec... (aka Michael Sheehan) for getting us in.
- Robert Scoble
from email
that's hot.
- drew olanoff
Oooh, I've just made a mess...
- Lee Stacey
it makes me feel funny down there
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Oh yeah, sexy bits! ;-)
- masa media - Martin
Nice, but is she more than just a pretty face? ;)
- John Denver
Now you're talkin, Scoble....welcome to the party, pal!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
How noisy is noise in there?
- Stefanos Kofopoulos
so what's behind the curtains?
- Mike Chelen
They allow pictures in there? ;-)
- Thomas Beutel
unf unf
- Charlieray
i love to sleep in dc noise. :) awesome!
- Yusuf Yıldız
Love these pictures...especially the cables. How come they can make miles of cables look so neat (and colorful) while the back of my desk is a gray tangle of dust bunnies?
- Pete Marshall
Giggity
- CW™
My peta just flopped! *zing*
- Stephen Breen
Interesting Pricing too. Think I'll try it out for a little bit.
- CW™
Pete, two words "Cable Management" Panduit has some pretty interesting options. See here for some examples, http://bit.ly/ZDG4
- Jauder Ho
Whoops, bad link. Fixed.
- Jauder Ho
Very inappropriate, Scoble. Now I gotta go to Graybar. ;)
- Chris Mayer
yeah, baby...virtualize me
- Dave Cadoff
Robert, the next time you want to hug hundreds of terabytes of storage, you have an open invitation to swing by BlueArc. We would be pleased to have you as our guest.
- BlueArc
Jizz in My Pants.....
- Sean Montgomery
Haha! Thanks for the time you spent at GoGrid Robert! I was great spending time with you and Rocky!
- Michael Sheehan
Me likey. It also doesn't hurt that I'm a fan of GoGrid. Though I heard Amazon just implemented some wacky thing called a "graphical user interface" on EC2 about a week ago. ;-)
- Karim
Those are some junky servers. They should not have allowed pics. Does not speak well of them.
- Wayne
Wayne: they have 20,000 square feet of servers and stuff. Should I post more photos? I guess this is why most companies don't let people take photos of their data centers. There's always something to criticize. "You didn't do that wiring right."
- Robert Scoble
They have dozens of racks. I just picked ones with interesting colors and density of repeating lines.
- Robert Scoble
Oh yeah, pure IT Geek porn there. Currently cleaning trying to zoom in further on the racks. :)
- Robert Miller
A "crappy" day in California (photo):
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Under these solar panels is Pacifica's waste treatment plant. More on the plant shortly after this is uploaded.
- Robert Scoble
from email
The plant uses $900,000 worth of electricity a year. These panels save them $150,000 a year. Under the panels are huge vats filled with microorganisms that "eat" the sewage. Out the other end is water clean enough for fish to swim in.
- Robert Scoble
This is one of the most advanced water treatment plants in the world. It generates sludge that looks like earth. Doesn't smell. Old plants cause a bad smell. This one found a way to "scrub" the bad odors with microorganisms. The whole thing is controlled by Microsoft Windows and a bunch of PLC's. More on this plant when we put up the video in about a week at http://www.fastcompany.tv
- Robert Scoble
That's an amazing system there, every city needs this instead of dumping it all into the water. What is done with the sludge that comes out?
- Melik Yuksel
Cool sh*t.
- Will Higgins™
The main use of the power is ultra-violet light which sanitizes the diseases in the water. Half of the power is used just for that process. The bulbs they are using cost $500 each. A new process is being tested that reduces the electricity cost by $200,000 a year and uses bulbs that cost $50.
- Robert Scoble
Man, you don't want to know what my town's waste treatment plant in NY looks like...
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
Melik: it is used for fertilizer. The water is used in a wetland and will soon be used to water stuff like a golf course in the community. This plant cost $52 million to build back in 2000 and $3.5 million to add solar to. If built today the plant would cost double that.
- Robert Scoble
Aram: many plants use harsh chemicals to sanitize its sewage. This one uses no chemicals. Which makes the end water much better quality. Most communities don't have a plant this advanced. Especially in China and India where they really need this kind of technology.
- Robert Scoble
The water that comes out of it isn't drinkable, but is very close (they showed me a glass and it was clear and didn't have odors).
- Robert Scoble
It's a great job to have. Recession proof. :-)
- Robert Scoble
That sounds pretty impressive. I can remember train journeys (commutes) where you could smell an old school plant from inside a train and at X distance away from the tracks etc.
- Patrick Jordan
And here in Quebec City, we're expecting -30F to -40F for the next four days. Ugh.
- Jason Carter
Company motto: Your sh1t is our bread and butter.
- Lee Stacey
The regulations suck, though. The plant manager wants to put more solar in, but the state won't let him because of really tough environmental restrictions on the hillsides that surround the plant. Oh, by the way, this thing is right in the middle of the city. Rocky's house looks down on the plant. That's why they needed to come up with ways to control the odors.
- Robert Scoble
How prescient was my uncle in Hudson New Hampshire? An architect whose son was also a designer. 30 full years ago they built a 'green' house, and blueprints for green industry. He said if we don't ALL do it now, the planet will be toxic by 2078. That was in 78. Oops. His name id John Paylian, and he wrote a book about it.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Lee: yeah, something like that! Heheh. I joked with Rocky and said "this plant can even handle YOUR sh1t." ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Ed: that's exactly why we did the video. Hopefully other communities will put pressure on their politicians to build one of these. Pacifica's residents played a HUGE role in getting this one built. Not cheap. Not easy. But now the water here is much cleaner than it used to be.
- Robert Scoble
@WillHiggins literally so! :)
- Prolific Programmer
When you were at NextSpace for the UserVoice launch, we talked about Chinese rivers of sh*t. Robert, I think you're obsessed. Wish we had a waste treatment plant like this here though - very cool.
- Peter
Bit.ly Plug-in Extends Tiny URLs, Shows Clickthrough Numbers - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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i started using bit.ly when i realised i could use it to track the clicks on the links i post. it's really a very nice feature.
- Scot Mcphee
I've been using tr.im for months now b/c it offers click stats and it is super short. Any advantages to bit.ly?
- Keith - @tsudo
Well, bit.ly is supported by TweetDeck, which tr.im isn't.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
But don't you have to login to bit.ly and then create the bit.ly URL to enable the statistics? So just selecting bitly from dropdown menu I couldn't check stats. Am I right?
- Keith - @tsudo
freeonlinepc.com is pretty cool. Wonder why I don't use it more often.
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Do they have any sort of privacy statement?
- Bill Sodeman
They had one at http://www.xformcomputing.com/privacy... but it apparently 404s now. I'll ask.
- Morton Fox
10 Killer WordPress Hacks - http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009...
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Diseases that make lovely baby girl's names - http://wordie.org/lists...
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Screenshot of my TWiT/Friendfeed consumption :)
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Bwana: When are you going to be on TWiT again? :)
- Eric Florenzano
Eric, when King Leo demands it :)
- Bwana ☠
Where's your irc window?
- Charlieray
On my other screen
- Bwana ☠
There was a funny moment of picture-in-picture for a bit where Leo's live stream had his FriendFeed showing, and this item was displayed.
- Eric Florenzano
heh, I missed that
- Bwana ☠
What resolution is that?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
1920x1200 on this monitor
- Bwana ☠
I'll post mine in a second
- Tyler (Chacha)
I'm using Spaces in OS X... TweetDeck is at 1920x1200 too :)
- Bwana ☠
Damn....never seen anything higher than 1280x1024 in real life...I need to step my game up...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Here is mine http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Tyler (Chacha)
Just heard Leo mention you watching him. You need to get on TWiT again SOON!!
- Laura Zickus
Leo has a great rotation going. I'm sure I'll be back on there in due time.
- Bwana ☠
Here are the reasons people are giving me why friendfeed sucks:
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1. Tim O'Reilly said that he liked the news aggregation, but gets too distracted by the comments and likes. You can't hide those.
- Robert Scoble
2. Ross Mayfield said he gets overwhelmed. I figured out that friend-of-a-friend feature is bringing way too much into his view. If he follows just one person, me, he sees hundreds of items every week.
- Robert Scoble
Too much Gmail thinking in FF. They vastly improved e individual utility, but lost the ability to scale beyond a single use case
- ming yeow
3. Other people tell me that they don't know how to use it, the UI has too many choices. On further pulling what they really wanted was the "best of day" feature but it is hard to find and not very useful unless you've been very careful on following people.
- Robert Scoble
I find way more things to like about FF than I do with Twitter.
- Jeff P. Henderson
4. Other people tell me that they want more help in figuring out who people are before they follow them. They have a point. I just visited some people's pages and I have no idea who they are, or what kinds of things they are passionate about.
- Robert Scoble
I like it but I don't use it as much because I get overwhelmed by noise friend-of-a-friend introduces a lot of people that just don't fit in with what I want to see. I don't think I would care if I was seeing a lot of relevant information to me.
- Jimminy
If I could figure out how to feed Twitter's @replies into FF I'd be all about it.
- LA Snark
5. Other people tell me they want to do just see items that have lots of likes. I don't know how to do that for them.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter has first mover advantage. I have too many relationships in Twitter that are not on FriendFeed. No easy way for me to sync Twitter followed/followers with FriendFeed and use it as a Twitter client. Then I'd like clean way to dedupe the Twitter stream out of FriendFeed to see the special stuff in FriendFeed. Its not enough to just hide Tweets without likes/comments.
- Elliott Ng
It isn't about if it sucks or not, it just isn't for everyone, just like twitter. Twitter is simpler, I can use twitterific on my mac & iPhone. Actually, this does suck. Everytime I hit return to try and add a space, it posts the comment. Beyond 140 characters, you do need white space to be able to read text on a computer screen.
- Steve Rhodes
I like FF because it is configurable. You can see as much or as little as you want and you have full control (or almost full control). The other major plus with FF is that it is threaded so you can have actual conversations.
- Jeff P. Henderson
6. Other people tell me they want to see a strict reverse chronological view and that I can't figure out how to do that for them either.
- Robert Scoble
If I had to stack rank, this would be my #1 tool. Ahead of Twitter, Facebook, strands, and anything else similar
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
7. Ross Mayfield wanted an easy "share this item on my blog" feature. I know how to do that (use the "More" menu, copy the permalink, etc) but that's too geeky and not as nice as Facebook's "share" feature.
- Robert Scoble
7. I like how twitter reminds me of birds: cheep cheep
- sofarsoShawn
Twitter, like email and Google reader, has a nice "author"/"headline" format that is easy to scan...FriendFeed visually makes you work harder to extract meaning from the stream.
- Elliott Ng
It's too confusing because people are following the wrong people and don't know how to filter? As a 'Social Media Expert' you have no clue how sad this makes me...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Fascinating. I can be as negative as or more than anyone else, but I don't associate FF with sucking.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
ming: there are lots of people who tell me they try friendfeed and don't get the point of it and leave. If friendfeed solves some of these pain points in 2009 it will make evangelism of the service a lot easier.
- Robert Scoble
Format of the FriendFeed stream is not efficient...seems like a lot of scrolling to get infomation...less easy to scan, show/hide, tag, etc. than Google Reader.
- Elliott Ng
Not everyone is going to get every thing. I suppose, though, that it's significant when it's LOTS of people.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Is the learning curve for the UI and information flow really overwhelming for the tech-savvy group it's aimed at? I doubt it. That said it's not a perfect product, and I can see how some people may want their aggregation without a social media aspect.
- Mo Kargas
I think #4 has merit. You can somewhat tell what people like by what they talk about and what content they share on various services, but I think FF could allow for a quick "About Me" somewhere on the profile so people would know who you are, where you're from, and what your interests are (other than the internet).
- Mark Frost
MiniMage: I didn't say that I thought it sucks, but this is the feedback I'm getting as I show it to others and talk to other people about their experiences. I've heard this feedback enough now to know that these are the roadblocks to adoption.
- Robert Scoble
Ooh, I like the idea of a view with a strict reverse chronological order.
- Eric Florenzano
FF has great potential for the aggregator but needs a simple grid of feeds in and feeds out for everything. That way I could choose where to make updates and control the flows. Twitter is feeding more than one place for me. I could use FF in some of the same ways as TweetDeck but only if I could make it work bi-directionally with Twitter and as needed with other services.
- Lee Herman
Bottom line: if I choose to live inside of Twitter where my relationships are, and I have to go into Google Reader to check feeds, FriendFeed just doesn't add enough incrementally especially since I have my Reader set up with important feeds and it doesn't replace the need to go check Twitter anyway.
- Elliott Ng
I pretty much ignored Friend Feed until I saw you mention the live feed a few days ago. Now I'm hooked. Darn you Scoble! Darn you to heck I say! :P
- MarkCarras
#8: clients like Tweetdeck are non existent. Same for iPhone apps.
- Robert Scoble
You can't DM people. Heck, you can't even @reply someone directly, only comment on their post.
- Reuben Thum
I *really* dont like the Friend of Friend feature
- Sam Houston
Sam: you know you can turn it off, right?
- Robert Scoble
Recall I adopted FriendFeed before you. :) Still like the aggregated feed for myself but haven't become a Kung Fu Master of FriendFeed to make it really work for me. Maybe completely hiding Twitter, setting up more groups, hiding more media types, and adding more people, would make it work for me.
- Elliott Ng
So really, most of the complaints could be resolved if some of the folks making those neat Twitter applications made one for Friendfeed or if FF implemented these on their own. Sounds like a great 2009 for FF either way:-)
- Brandon Mendelson
This is a feature recommendation list for the FF team.
- Gadiel Rivera
scoble: I am just not sure if the world needs friendfeed. I am a big fan of reducing noise as the most direct form of value add (think google), aggregating and then recommending seems a little twisted. Hope I am making sense
- ming yeow
Until recently I had hard time understanding how to make good use of FF. It was too noisy and difficult to use as compared to Twitter. However, after seeing your video on 20 reasons for using FF on FastCompany, I am now able to understand it a lot better and making good use of it. Since seeing that video, I have not been able to stop using Twitter and FF. Thanks Robert for producing that awesome overview video. FF team should have created that a long time back.
- Amar Shah
So, basically, it doesn't suck. They just don't know how to use it. Everybody is not built to use everything. None of these points raised have much substance to me.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
ming: the world might not need friendfeed but I sure do. Also, it's really the only competitor to facebook out there and facebook needs more competition.
- Robert Scoble
FF grew on me - it's organization is a bit off-putting for me but I've managed to wrap my oddly mapped out logic around it. It does help drown out the noise of Twitter.
- Renee Hendricks
FF is simply confusing. Not a friendly UI at all. Don't Make Me Think says Steve Krug. FF is making me think and I just don't have the patience for it.
- Bora Celik
1UP Rasheen. I do think having a small profile would be nice, but other than that, yeah, I agee with exactly what you said.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Robert, I guess my problem is..is that I can't find that option :P I'll go look now :)
- Sam Houston
Friendfeed has been a fairly fluid concept since I started using it, and the kinds of suggestions you're hearing from Ross and Tim get addressed and fixed all the time. The question is, even if the Friendfeed crew could get every nuance tuned to exactly the specifications people are giving you, would they actually come around and use it, or would there just be another excuse? Sure, it's not perfect, but it's a work in progress -- and they progress fast around here.
- Pete Delucchi
I can't stand Facebook. Totally different though. One is all about time waste pokes, super pokes, and other useless crap and Friend Feed is more about networking and sharing actual content and thoughts. Friend Feed is about actual communication.
- MarkCarras
Sam: click hide on an item twice. That will bring up the hide options dialog where you can select turning off friend of a friend. By the way, even if you turn off all that stuff you'll still be able to see those items at the bottom of the page.
- Robert Scoble
Pete: as friendfeed gets better it pulls more people in. Fixing roadblocks to evangelizing a product DOES pull more people into using it.
- Robert Scoble
Lets not forget there is no easy way to follow conversations that you did not originate, I should have the option of being notified when someone else comments on a thread I posted on. FriendFeed is awesome though
- Kelly Johns
Mark: I have 5,000 people on facebook and I never get my time wasted through poking or other useless crap. The news feed there is quite good and the social graph is way more advanced than friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Well, maybe I am missing somethings, but everything I have seen at Facebook just bugs me. Maybe I should look at yours and see what I am missing.
- MarkCarras
To me, FriendFeed isn't about being a social graph. It's first and foremost about aggregating items I publish irrespective of the source service. The ability to subscribe to a person is more comparable to subscribing to a news feed as opposed adding a friend on Facebook. In terms of subscriptions, FF is basically Google Reader with a proper commenting system.
- trextor
Bora, I found Facebook's UI more confusing than Friendfeed's. The difference for me is the more I use and discover the nuances of FF the more I like it, where as Facebook has flat-line. Granted, a component that's hard to factor out (for me anyway) is FB is people-I've-known centric and FF is people-I'm-discovering oriented + grappling with ideas.
- Micah Wittman
Contrary to Robert's opinion, I hope FF developers don't start thinking that they need to compete with Facebook. Subscribers != Friends. It's that simple. If anything, they're competing with RSS readers. For what it's worth, many of these same issues also plague RSS readers.
- trextor
FF does have an iphone app coming any day now (Friendly). And with some more options with the IM feature (like activating it when you comment on a post like this so then it notifies you when a response is made) then it could become even more conversational. I view this as more professional and higher IQ than Facebook personally.
- Amani
I'm with you on that Trextor. Friend Feed is more like RSS style of social networking. Facebook is not. Facebook just doesn't have a focus of info like Friend Feed.
- MarkCarras
I have to be honest that I don't use Friendfeed as much as I probably should. They have so much automated features that I don't even bother to login in weeks.
- Vlad Zabblotskyy
57 comments and 29 likes in 48 minutes. Interesting!
- Robert Scoble
I feel as if Robert is doing an evil (not really) little experiment with us and showing someone else to prove some point ...LOL.
- Amani
Amani: I just noted that because it seemed to have touched a nerve. Got a lot of feedback very quickly.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, many of those are very valid points and it's easy to see why a new user can get overwhelmed. I know that Brett keeps talking about making the service easier and friendlier for new users. I think they should perhaps offer a 'Lite' version for new users that hides a large number of features which can later be accessed by enabling the 'Advanced' features. Just a thought.
- Mark Krynsky
It took me 5 minutes just to figure out where my post was in this huge list of comments! Amani is right, FF will become way more conversational when it notifies you on additional comments on posts like this. Facebook is good at doing this when you comment on wall posts.
- Kelly Johns
The 'Send an IM when someone comments on my posts' feature has probably been my favorite of the year as it keeps me very engaged with people that comment on my items.
- Mark Krynsky
The 'date of post order' and some sort of basic profile are my 2 highest requested features for FriendFeed.
- Kol Tregaskes
Very useful list.
- Dave Winer
My biggest problem is that all my real world friends are just now getting onto facebook. a few are moving to twitter finally. it will be a year or more before my network migrates to friendfeed. you have to go where the people are! unless of course you could define a network on one platform and use the features of another platform to view/interact with that network. too much 'friend adding' duplication now. i wish you could treat these tools as readers rather than network definers.
- Jeff DiStanlo
UI has too much clutter. Customization support is needed. Post aggregation could use custom filters,
- anand
I consider FF the "heavy duty conversationalist". If I want wih a few folks I know for a little convo, FB is great. If I want a little convo with more folks I know a little less and make it public, Twitter is great. FF is about longer, tied-in conversations, holistic. FF needs a mobile client that works WELL with more phones than just the high-end ones else it will be in nichedom for a while."
- Patrick Moorhead
It mostly boils down to information overload. Friendfeed needs to invest substantial resources and effort in dealing with that problem before it can appeal to the masses. Friendfeeding is an activity for a small elite at this stage -- for people who can easily process huge torrents of text.
- Sean McBride
Robert, re: #8: clients that work with FF include Twhirl and PeopleBrowsr.
- Will King
I'm surprised there's not more of an outcry to be able to dynamically filter services in Friend list/feeds (home, list1, list2, etc.). It'd be a lot easy for me to scan these if I can a) filter-out 1 to many services (eg, don't display twitter, flickr, rss on list1) and b) filter-in 1 to many services (eg, display only twitter, only twitter and plurk, etc).
- Matt Albiniak
On FF vs FB: I think FB may be a competitor for FF ("ok, I can do this in Facebook" says the mainstream user) but FF is not a competitor to FB ("Facebook is much more fun", says the mainstream user) due to FB's app aggregation.
- santiromero
Hmmm, I have not gotten a single sponsor because I have a lot of Twitter followers. @loiclemeur asked.
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Super-funny!!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
That would suggest reasonable proof re: my earlier point here: http://twitter.com/dahowle...
- Dennis Howlett
Have your blog pageviews increased as your followers increased? I would think those would correlate
- Andrew
...unless of course Twitter etc wasn't part of the pitch
- Dennis Howlett
Andrew they have gone down. Why? 60% of TechCrunch's traffic comes from Google.
- Robert Scoble
@Andrew - Robert said his pageviews on his personal blog have declined in the last year. Check in Compete.com
- Dennis Howlett
Robert - You are making me think that Techcrunch was right for having an intervention for you.
- Andrew
Dennis: I try, but so far haven't found companies who care.
- Robert Scoble
Andrew: pageviews suck. Are you here for pageviews? I am not and if it costs me money I would rather be poor.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - I'm really surprised that Twitter hasn't tried to offer you a job as Chief Product Evangelist or something.
- Andrew
Robert - I don't blog for a living. I'm here because people are funny and smart. :)
- Andrew
Geez - Your sponsors ALL want access to your reach, followers, readers, etc.. What kind of nonsense arguments are you making here?
- Michael Krigsman
Andrew: me too!
- Robert Scoble
Michael: seagate wants me to be clear they sponsor my video show and they sponsored me back before I had a Twitter follower. The other advertisers haven't asked for me to do anything with twitter. No call has come in due to this stuff.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: No companies sponsor you? I thought you would have been contacted by services like magpie to earn money spreading word about their company.
- Ramkarthik
Magpie didn't contact me.
- Robert Scoble
Having multiple houses or multiple cars doesn't mean success, just money or good credit. Even the potential reach itself isn't usually enough for a sponsor. In vertical geek markets, it would be though.
- randulo
According to Magpie.com, Scoble could earn €22,333.62. What's that converted in US? Probably 20,000 thousand a month or so!! That's not bad!!
- Paul
@Paul Does that factor in the immediate loss of mindshare Robert would be faced with were he crazy enough to sign up with that service? Probably not.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Apparently I could make €180/month (CA$311, US$254) if I signed up with Magpie. I could use that kind of money. Know why I won't sign up? Because people don't follow me to get advertisements. They follow me because they want to know what I think about various issues. Magpie or other advertising systems like it would detract from my message(s) and decrease the value I provide to my followers.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
QUS - Turn your Desktop into a Noteboard [OS X] - http://www.qu-s.eu/flash...
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So many cool apps here...I'm starting to feel bad for being a Windows user. xD
- Neurario
Lol...i remember that feeling... :)
- Zee.
This is actually useful!
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Ink Desktop 2.0 is perfect for the Tablet PC.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Looks like something I could use.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I'm uploading a 24-minute video about friendfeed. Demonstrates it does too much. :-)
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white board?
- sean percival
looking forward to it, may help :-)
- Patphelan
sean: no, just 20 things demoed about it. I don't know that it'll help. Probably just bore everyone. UPDATE: the video is here: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Stop motion?
- Andrew Trinh
I cant wait to see how you keep up with so much while keeping your sanity
- Bobbi Newman
Um... sorry - new at friendfeed. Where do I find the video?
- Suzi Dafnis
Stay tuned, Suzi - I'm confident Robert will post the link.
- teleken
I just got into using ff so it'll be cool to see what I am missing out on using.
- Thomas Swift
Totally. Until this real time thing launched I had no clue what to do with Friend feed. This video will be very helpful.
- MarkCarras
That's funny, because I was just going to tweet to see if anyone had good advice on FreindFeed...
- Lee Stranahan
It is up at http://www.kyte.tv/scobleizer
- Robert Scoble
Bummer that Kyte doesn't seem to work in FF on Linux :(
- James D Kirk
great video, very helpful, never knew about the double tap for hide, thanks Robert
- Patphelan
I got video, no audio, Kubuntu 810, Firefox.
- kevin
Listening to it now. Thanks for the renewal of my amazement of Friendfeed.
- Tyler (Chacha)
watching now - this is something i need - a video tutorial (won't say the 'dummies' word LOL)
- planetMitch
Seems to work in Ubuntu with Firefox.
- Steven Perez
Steven, I use several Ubuntu's (8.10, 32 and 64 bits), perhaps too low bandwidth to Spain?
- Ricardo Galli
It will only play the first 5 minutes, but they were a good 5 minutes... Edit: seems to work now.
- xero
I'm watching it now, Ubuntu 8.10 Opera 9.62
- Alejandro
very good- watching now
- anna sauce
I have to say, the only time I can really express the value of FF is when people get annoyed with Twitter, and I say, it'd be nice to have an aggregator, right? And then, they get it. Or a big bubble diagram showing RSS feeds and overlaps
- anna sauce
Thanks Robert. Great overview of FF. Where do I send a check? :)
- Joe Lima
Great, I'm going back and forth from the video as I set up a friendfeed account. Thanks!
- David Creelman
Good work. Thank you. I want to know more about the email to FF tip you mentioned. What will part 2 have in it? ;-)
- Amani
Amani: that info is here: http://friendfeed.com/share...
- Robert Scoble
thanks for making this! Its got me looking at FF again - aggregation is good.
- Casey
Very informative and useful video. Thanks for putting this together!
- Laura Zickus
Robert, I will invest some time in FF thanks to you!
- Alex Doman
Great intro - been thinking about signing up for a while but didn't know where to start!
- Mark Warren
Thanks for this! Great information about hiding & searching.
- Thomas Swift
Great video, Robert. Thank you! :)
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Good video, now we need an advanced FF user video. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Great video. Thanks for posting, Robert. :)
- Kali
It’s time for the geeks to sit down and shut up - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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That's where geek translators come in handy, someone who can understand the tech well enough on the backend but is capable of translating it into real world language and uses for everyone else.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This is why business models are important... What problem are you solving? For whom? How will they use it? How will they pay for it? The answers to those questions make the geeky cool the useful and profitable.
- Brian Roy
I have been saying this a lot lately. As cool as some of this stuff is, who is going to use it besides us? Yahoo Pipes is really cool too. But if I have trouble using it, who is it really for?
- Rob Diana
Scrapplet is geeky. No question! But there will always be room for cutting edge experimentation, and for people to write about it. I am hoping that today's Scoble stil is intrigued by such things and hasn't given in to the "business models and profits" crowd. Let "those people" write about "that stuff".
- Louis Gray
+1 Brian
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Something I forgot to add to my previous comment: Sometimes you need to start out geeky because usability is not an easy thing. Going geek and just building features is what we are good at. Once that settles down, the usability is a little easier to deal with.
- Rob Diana
Let's say you are artist, or writer, or sculptor. Wouldn't it be exciting to be in Left Bank of Paris in the early 1900s, the Crazy Years, along with the likes of Picasso and Matisse? It seems strange to argue for going to Facebook because there are more people or arguing against tech just because it's not for mass consumption. Mediocrity is the goal because it has a higher hit count?
- Todd Hoff
I'm not sure I understand something. Scrapplet is bad because the developer can't convince anyone but geeks how cool it is? Isn't that exactly what people like Scoble are for?
- Mr. Gunn
commenting on this from inside your scrapplet mashup. and the FF live feed works too.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
But Scrapplet IS geeky! And empowering AND frustrating!!!! Thanks for everyone's feedback -- 'cause it only gets better from here! Now, the real trick is to demonstrate just how fast cool stuff evolves when the technology part of it is built right from the start.
- Steve Repetti
Find Torrents Of Your Favorite TV Shows With TED - http://www.makeuseof.com/tag...
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I had been using TED for several months, but I find that 30% of the time the torrents it suggests are to files that are scams to trick you into downloading and executing a malware. Fortunately I am using a Mac.
- Vinko
So you're saying that you don't have to worry about malware? Cool, don't run any, but you'd better make sure that the relatively larger percentage of macs that can be pwned doesn't become larger in absolute numbers than windows, or you may have a reversal of fortune.
- Mr. Gunn
And I confused it with TED talks [ http://www.ted.com/talks ]
- Arvind
…just for the comments. can we have more mac vs. win please?
- dK
OSX is unix based and therefore very tasty. However, OSX is designed for drawing pretty pictures and not serious work like downloading TV shows. </debate>
- Will Higgins™
And for the record the best way to download TV shows is utorrent's built in RSS grabber and a GOOD private torrent site.
- Will Higgins™
Can we first have lots of fawning adulation for vertical integration of closed systems? I love that stuff.
- Mr. Gunn
Dynamic Twitter network visualization - http://twitter-friends.com/index...
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This is great!
- K.D.
@K.D. your network is pure minimalism http://twitter-friends.com/... ;-)
- Benedikt Koehler
... and here is Robert Scoble's dense conversational network: http://twitter-friends.com/...
- Benedikt Koehler
Wow, looks so much more dense than mine, mine is simple, I just only have a star network
- Alvin
@Benedikt Koehler Simple is the style of Twitter! :-)
- K.D.
@Spidra @Alvin Now I've loaded all the nodes of your networks, they're a little bit more dense: http://twitter-friends.com/... http://twitter-friends.com/...
- Benedikt Koehler
Top 100 Essential Mac Applications | Mac Tricks And Tips - http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008...
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"I love my Mac and I have hundreds of applications installed on it. As a result I wanted to do a post on what I believe are the top 100 Mac applications that are essential to any user. I’ve picked a variety of applications that I could think of. I have tried to go for the cheaper free option, but quite a few you have to pay for. If you think I am missing an application leave a comment with a link to the app and why you should think it should be included, it doesn’t have to be long, I just want your opinions. If you disagree with any leave a comment with your reasons. Each application will be split into a couple of major sections. There are some applications that could be in more than one section, but that is not the point of this post. I will also include a link and a bit of descriptive text on what the application is about. There may be duplicate items of the same nature i.e word processing, i’ve included this due to the differences each application has. The list is in no particular order, mostly alphabet"
- TheHenry
from Bookmarklet
Very nice list, but I saw the headline and had to actually ask myself "Do I really use 100 different apps?" Not sure I do.
- Andrew Leyden
Will Twitter Go Mainstream? The Debate. - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Contributed to by Rob Diana, Mona Nomura, Jesse Stay, Daniel Pritchett, Mike Fruchter, Phil Glockner, and Eric Berlin
- Louis Gray
very cool... nice layout too BTW
- Susan Beebe
Define Mainstream? Twitter could get significant adoption but I don't think it will ever be popular like Google is popular or Yahoo is popular.
- Andrew
Twitter has all the makings of YASNS. So, yeah.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
From the Associated Press this morning, and featured in the L.A. Times, and ABC News, "Passenger Mike Wilson of Denver described the chaotic scramble to leave the burning plane on updates he posted on Twitter from the airport using his cell phone". It doesn't get more mainstream than that! I did like the way everyone had to agrgue both positions in your post. Clever Idea, but weak arguments on the negative side.
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
I agree with Occasional Headbanger's statement. I can see it gaining traction, what with more people using it now, and Twitter occasionally making its way into the news. But will it be something everyone uses (like Google or Facebook/Myspace)? Probably not. Some people will join because a friend suggested they try it out, and after a few tweets, they'll disappear. Not everyone will be able to find ways in which Twitter may prove to be of any value to them. Regardless, it will hold its ground and grow.
- deepikaur
I am not sure about Twitter as a company, but the -technology- and the -concept- of micro- blogging was already well on its way to becoming mainstream even before Twitter existed. With Ajax-like web-interfaces, the ability to leave small mesages behind on profiles, websites, etc has become more prolific. Twitter provides an underlying structure for this, that is now being added to my...
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- Robert
from twhirl
IF it's just about Micro blogging and leaving message then it isn't much different from the Chatbox most websites would have from in the pre-2000 era. What has set Twitter apart is the individuality associated to messages now as well as a more fluid conversation.
- Bhavishya Kanjhan
Twitter is not for the lazy unless it is totally automated, which defeats the purpose. You can be lazy on MySpace and FaceBook, but on Twitter you will be damned to oblivion if you don't participate. So, I see it going more mainstream, but perhaps not as mainstream as some of the other sites / services.
- Martha
Yep.
- Igor Poltavskiy
I was thinking that mainstream would be around 10M unique visitors per month. Compete has Twitter at 3.5M right now. Twitter also has more uniques than ESPN, a very mainstream media site.
- Rob Diana
Michael, what did you find weak about the arguments on the negative side? I thought we had weak arguments for the positive side :)
- Rob Diana
Rob, I'm extremely biased on this subject! I have a family function, but I would love to elaborate when I return. I've got to run, but i'll send a tweet when I get home. ;-)
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
No, I don't think there's a precedent for a medium controlled by a single corporate entity. Until there's a #2 and a #3 to keep them honest Twitter will stagnate. How long has it been since it got any kind of an upgrade? f they had effective competition there would be much more growth.
- Dave Winer
I like Rob's measure of 10M to be of "mainstream" size, and I'd say that Twitter is on a pretty good pace to hit it. Now, the "how're they gonna make money" part, that'll be very interesting to see!
- Eric Berlin
no chance; the average jo is not interested in hyper communication; they just want to live and enjoy life and not heighten their anxiety with a tweet every 10 seconds
- Bob Sonin
Dave, that is an excellent point. With essentially no competition they have been able to just work on stability. Hopefully, they will push themselves to improve the application in ways that people want.
- Rob Diana
Considering the amount of brands joining Twitter, it's already showing signs of mainstream adoption.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Dave - Excellent point ... twitter need to improve their product and isn't releasing anything of late; perhaps they're improving their back-end infrastructure to obviate the fail whale syndrome that plagued their existence so much!
- Susan Beebe
Jeremiah - I agree with you.. lots of big names are jumping onto twitter now... Zappos was an early adopter, but then we saw Home Depot, CNN, etc ,etc. all jumping in.. folks are finally embracing twitter as the preferred platform for micro-blogging and promoting / managing their brands
- Susan Beebe
It is already mainstream - the answer I want to know is: now what? How will Twitter and these businesses capitalize and take advantage of this opportunity?
- Mona Nomura
Twitter's a first look at device agnostic communications, so it has potential. But it'll only go mainstream as its able to infiltrate niches - that'll all depend on how much their leadership understands that need and where it goes from there.
- Patricia
Or simply: creating and fulfilling a need. Just like Facebook, YouTube, and Myspace.
- Mona Nomura
I don't think so. I can sell my mom on the value of Facebook (discovering old friends). Can't say the same for Twitter.
- trextor
@trextor, my mom's 63, no tech background, loves twitter.
- Patricia
Imagine this: You get an SMS to your phone from your grocery store when eggs are 30% off. Or a 20 pack of paper towels are 50% off, and Starbucks is giving away free lattes. Have problems with your Comcast cable, phone wait time is 45 minutes plus so you DM - why wouldn't a 'non tech' person want that convenience and invaluable information?
- Mona Nomura
Yes.Twitter's everywhere,e.g.http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008...
- Igor Poltavskiy
or, will mainstream go twitter?
- Warren Butler
Twitter was mentioned in the Coca-Cola ad that rolled before the movie we saw yesterday, I think it might just be there already.
- xero
i think it already did...
- Ouriel Ohayon
Maybe.
- Will Higgins™
no,go on adding oil~
- 阿石
The entire tech blogosphere should have been tagged #tooinsidery today
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