Ah yes, that must be it. More of a life than to subscribe to me anyway, heh - jjprojects
There's a lot more women over on Plurk, at least looking at the people who are adding me lately. - Robert Scoble
Maybe it's the thought of being tracked everywhere online, not sure. Maybe it's the kind of conversations that go on here. Maybe it's not the case at all? - jjprojects
because the import sources are limited... where's my Twitter import? @robertscoble Plurk has better importing - Cait
Robert, I agree, there are far more wormen on Plurk. I've been using it quite a lot in a last couple of weeks, and that is definitely the case. I saw your question there about that, hence my question here really. Twitter is about 50/50 I think, well for me anyway. - jjprojects
We're here. But maybe we just wait to comment until there's something worth commenting on... <heh> - Linda Mills
yes, not a 50/50 mix, but definitely more. It's a more enabling platform for all people to be heard - Duncan Riley
Yes, there is something unsettling about the tracking; that's why I rarely post on BrightKite. But I've imported most of my twitter feeds here (a la Dave Slusher), and I'm loving the one-place reading and listening (to those who post audio files here). - Linda Mills
I'm here. I'll try harder to make my presence known :). - Annie Boccio
The majority of people online ARE women. We've also evolved to a point where we find blogging 'mainstream' according to recent studies. So it's only natural we're about to out number the boys as early adopters for social services like this.... - Erin Kotecki Vest
Linda, does that mean most of the conversations are about things men are more interested in at the moment? - jjprojects
women mostly follow attractive men hahahhahaha Seriously, it depends what type of woman you mean, the technically minded/employed are definitely here. Plurk doesn't appeal to me, the "forced" interaction is artificial I find. And I am all about information, not conversation... - Allison
Allison, Oh thx :P Yes, the conversations on Plurk are a bit forced sometimes, because of the whole Karma thing. You get points for being active and responding everywhere. The conversations are a lot more informal than here too, usually. - jjprojects
I find SNSing females (in general) to be attention whores that unnecessarily post useless pictures and videos of themselves. I prefer engaging in light, friendly interactions with an emphasis more on information exchange, like FF. I'm a huge fan of the female representation in here. Quality > quantity - Mona N.
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Importing is screwing up the numbers for FF... Women are more social online than email. There are dozens of services I can import 20+ women from (each service), but FF doesn't support it - Cait
Mona, you don't think men can "attention whores" as well, but in a slightly different way? Oh I think they can. - jjprojects
John, I don't think that's the conversations are uninteresting. It's just that the huge preponderance of action in my feed is tweets, which are pretty much like brain farts, not requiring response. I'm here now! - Linda Mills
@jjprojects FF updates very slowly for me, not enough contacts... and I'm not looking up everyone's email to invite them - Cait
@jjprojects of course. Hence the reason there are more males on FF... HA! - Mona N.
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@jjprojects don't you fnd that generally there are more men than women on the 'net? technology is more of a man magnet - Allison Miller
@Allison, do you mean sites and services or the Internet as a whole? - Mona N.
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Is this your first day on the internwebs? There's like only 2 girls on this whole thing. And even THEIR gender is in question until we get pics! ;-) - Adam Turetzky
HERE! @mona I just posted a pic of the keg setup at this party I'm at. How is that for useless ;) - Michelle Marie Miller
The good thing about the women who ARE on the web - they, at least outwardly, appear to be more thoughtful and intelligent than the "common woman." (Am I going to regret saying that?) - Vince DeGeorge
@michelle NO braggage rights until there's one of you doing a keg stand! ;) - Mona N.
male attention whores? scoble jumps to mind - Allison
Allison, actually no, I think that used to be the case, but these days I think the gap in narrowing, especially in social media. I'm really talking about social media. If you look at Facebook for instance, there are just as many women as men, if not more. - jjprojects
I don't have many women following me, of course my profile pic ain't that flattering - Dedric "That One" Lam
I think there's a lot of women around too, but not as many on FriendFeed. Although I also have a limited number of contacts on here so less inclined to comment. I get people who follow me on Twitter but do not follow me here. It feels (IMO) that FF is much more formal, but then I said that to you the other day, didn't I John! :) Meanwhile, I like FF a lot for this reason.. the comments and conversation. - Penny
We keep saying that ff is quite formal, but I've actually had some quite informal conversations here too, mostly with people who've responded to tweets in ff. I might experiment a bit with trying to start different types of conversations here, not just tech or industry related ones, and see what happens. - jjprojects
but honestly, Twitter isn't good because it can do this, Twitter can do this because it is good (i.e. because it is in widespread use). Any widespread medium, e.g. email or blogs can achieve the same effect if a lot of people are involved - Ivan Pope
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@Ivan - You are correct, but is the speed of the process in this case the real story for those, like you, that understand this can be done in any widespread medium? That's what I was impressed with. I also like that the first comment was from someone saying they wanted to do that in another city. That person is kind of missing the point like you said. Yes, organize a blood drive, regardless of medium. - Sean
This is a good application of Twitter, but I agree with Ivan that it's mainly an effect of the number of people involved. Look at all the things that people on the Digg communities have accomplished when they were pissed off. Get a moving message out to enough people and they will organize. I will be glad when data portability and connection frameworks like Gnip get established enough that we all have instant huge potential audiences to help persuade to our causes. We could do amazing things. - Lindsay Donaghe
thats the most awesomest thing ever. if i could not speak i would walk around with a text to speech laptop i would bug the crap out of everyone - Caroline
"The operation, which involved waiters in about 40 restaurants, racked up more than $3 million dollars worth of bogus purchases." -- http://tinyurl.com/5nqagz - Ken Sheppardson
Never thought about it. I must be too trusting. UK and France idea sound good. What would it take to make that happen in the US? - Michael Tefft
I have no liability for credit card fraud, it all falls on the issuer so they have incentives and systems for reducing fraud. - £ogical €xtremes
Are you making a point that this is more risky than online transactions? LOL - Kami Huyse
In New York City, if I worried about such things, I'd starve to death. - Steve Isaacs
My credit cards have been wonderful about reversing bad charges. Trust them 100% for 24 yrs. However (1) on-line for junk $1 offers (and hotel reservations), I use prepaid credit cards. Buy a $25 card for $30 ($25 + $4.95 fee) & run it down to $5. Find one without monthly fees for the 1st year. (2) I've had problems with "Debit card" reversals. Watch out. - Mitchell Tsai
I hate that tons of places in NYC only take cash! Sorry, just wanted to throw that in there. :-) I think I read something recently about a push here in the states for transactions at the table. - Corie "Viper" Jones
@Corie As a business person, the cc fees of 1.6-5.0+% are high... Makes sense to do cash (aside from the European dual-income approach - aka hide some cash). - Mitchell Tsai
In south america, they always came to the table with a handheld card reader so it never left your table. I'm sure that was an answer to lots of problems previously... and to assuage folk's fears. - adam christensen
Mitchell - I understand the reasoning behind it, but sometimes it sucks to carry around lots of cash. I think there needs to be some sort of limit to the fees cc companies can charge. I remember reading something recently about a gas station switching over to cash only because, with rising gas prices, they just couldn't afford to pay the fees any longer. - Corie "Viper" Jones
Never let the card leave my sight - Chip & Pin! - Joe Dawson
@Corie. Carrying cash can suck (I've been mugged at gun-point twice.) However, I usually carry enough to cover my restaurant meals and cabfare. I've had many times when the telephone connections go down, and a restaurant can't process any of my credit cards. At least as a guy, I look REALLY bad if I can't pay for dinner, and my date needs to pay with her cash. Very bad... - Mitchell Tsai
I've been concerned sometimes, but I usually use my business debit card, and so far, I haven't had any problems. I can check my balance online right away. I keep my eye on the waiters and the receipts on the table when I'm about to leave. Sometimes I carry the tray or folio with the (merchant's copy) receipt back up to the cashier on my way out of a restaurant so it's not lying around on an empty table for a long time. - Cathryn Hrudicka
no risk- if they run off with it- or wierd charges show up- i know where they work, and i know the phone number to remove support for the card immediately. - Nailed Jello
I think vallet parking is a far greater risk; I've seen Ferris too many times, however - Michael W. May
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I only use debit cards for ATM... since I always pay off my credit card, why not use someone else's money for a month for free? Cash is useful when you don't need or want a paper trail. - £ogical €xtremes
Can't live in fear. It's not that I'm trusting of everyone, just that there is satisfactory recourse available so it's a non-issue - Sally Robinson
Credit cards have a maximum of $50 liability. Most companies won't even charge that much. If someone swipes the number, it gets caught, you get a new one. Debit cards are much more problematic (for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would use one), as money is actually deducted from your account which takes time + headaches to get back. - Eric
Yeah, but you still aren't held accountable with debit. I left my debit card in an ATM (yeah, I'm retarded) and a guy took $400 out and charged around $500 on it. Same as credit card, once reported, money was returned and charges were removed. - Sebastian Lemery
And yet, the guy at chipotle can process your payment while you're in line... I think it's about visitor expectations - Andrea Hill
I find the new trend of "small" pin / signature-less transactions at Itsu / Pret etc disturbing - Phill "Snowman" Price
@Sebastian: Yeah, but when you lose the debit card money still leaves your account. Depending on the institution involve, it's not *always* returned the next day - it happened to my brother and it took three weeks. A credit card, on the other hand, serves as a nice buffer between any would be thieves and my actual money. - Eric
my boss has a quote from mike tyson - "everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face." it has inspired me to always have a plan b, and sometimes c. - Apollo Gonzales
Apologies are empty - own up to your decisions and don't repeat the mistakes. Also, never use the words: can't or impossible. Finally, the is never such a thing as perfect... Always improve things and always move forward. Seriously, I picked up thousands of pieces of good advice from outstanding leaders when I was in the military. - Vince DeGeorge
The opportunities to improve are endless ! - Murali
If you want to hear God laugh tell him your plans. - Michael Tefft
Sadly, I have heard nothing even remotely inspirational at my current job. I'll be glad to bail out of here as soon as possible. I do this job well because it's mine. - ha3rvey
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt - mark ivey
"Follow your bliss" and "First class is only 80% more." - Dave Hussein Martin
those determined to find an excuse will always be passed up by those determined to find a way - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that every has." - Margaret Mead - This quote is one of the reasons why I'm working on my current project, BizUnite. I have to believe that 'the people united, will never be defeated'. - Sonciary Honnoll
"And here's the breakroom where we have different types of Starbucks coffee brewed daily"....OK, just kidding, but truthfully, the answer is that it's not something I heard, it's something I figured out for myself, and that is that *I'm choosing to be here. If I don't like it, I can quit.* Sometimes you get caught up in the negativity and realizing that you're in control and this is your choice helps. - Sarah Perez
@sarahintampa Good point, Sarah. I'll keep that tidbit in my back pocket. - Sonciary Honnoll
"Ummmmmmm yeaaaaaaah. Did you get the memo?" In all seriousness, it's probably a quote from our SVP Systems Engineering, who recently told me that: "The global SE team would be in bad shape without your expertise & desire to win" - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
"As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anyone want to see second prize? Second prize's a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. You get the picture?" - Andrew Smith
Don't work at the level for the job you have, work at the level for the job you want. - Kevin C. Tofel
Learn from failure and don't be afraid of failure. True successes is alway built on failure. - Peter Dawson
"Work hard so you can end up doing something that you enjoy, helps others, and gives you satisfaction." - Conrad Quilty-Harper
"Peter, thank you for saving my home from foreclosure" - Petes2Cents.com
My father always told me "trust no one" when referring to working for others. Every mistake I've ever made in my working life was based on ignoring that advice. - Duncan Riley
the real job of a consultant is to get paid with pleasure... - Luigi Centenaro
Only recently I heard some apparently famous Wayne Gretzky quotes (paraphrased) : "I miss 100% of the shots I don't take, and I skate where the puck will be." Nice. - Paul R. Grant
