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Re: How I Aimed to Do Better On the Web in 2009 - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
"I am a constant reader of your content, even before you began joining in to be part of TheSocialGeeks podcast. I, like you, revamped a bunch the last few weeks to streamline participation and get on a schedule. I look forward to seeing the changes you make for 2010 and how the information will compliment my workflow."
- Chris Miller
Re: 10 Questions: Integrated Marketing Summit - http://stlsocialmediareport.COM/saint-l...
"Good summary and question that got asked of him. It seems he read some of the feedback on the web and in Twitter about how the conference was proceeding and thoughts afterwards"
- Chris Miller
Re: Google Voice as your home phone switchboard - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"Great point and I reworded it!"
- Chris Miller
Re: EXCLUSIVE: Screenshots of Twitter’s New Contributors Feature - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I disagree that this will be of any benefit since they made the mistake of rolling this out to late and not just purchasing one of the other tools that already exist. I made a longer posting here. http://bit.ly/6odbRr"
- Chris Miller
Re: Does the words you use when presenting represent you? #IMSSTL - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"I read that and saw the presentation it was a good one to keep for later"
- Chris Miller
Re: The WiFi Problem at Conferences - http://www.whitneyhoffman.com/2009...
"Is the idea to block the back channels and focus on the speaker more, or to stop the outside communication? I think finding ways to engage the audience and seasoned speakers that can watch the back channel also adds value and allows them to tailor to the comments being generated."
- Chris Miller
Re: Newspapers new forefront and it isn’t RSS – maybe it’s Newscred - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"Checking it out now, I am linking it more as I play with setting up my own paper"
- Chris Miller
Re: Digital Body Language session at #IMSSTL - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"Glad you liked the summary. I lost connectivity for a bit and part of the post was lost, I had to recreate it as best I could. Good job on the session."
- Chris Miller
Re: My notes and commentary on “Twitter Basics and Beyond” at #IMSTL - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"Oh I think you misunderstood! The content was good, yes a video would have helped or a live walkthrough. Their only comment (a small group that was together) on the book was the whole large slide instead of a slide with resources and your book as the top one would have seemed not as intrusive. Basically saying here is the best resource, me, andhere is some fre stuff to browse but since I am on top it is the best content. That kind of idea. Glad you found the posting however!"
- Chris Miller
I'm returning to Saint Louis today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Chris Miller
Re: How Twitter got lists wrong – issue #1 - http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index...
"I see your point on the best of type lists, but that is where the public and private lists come into play. If you wish to have your own, you should be able to share it with specific people or everyone (Twundles had this idea built in), but the public lists were singular in name. You could have similar named ones, but not 50 with the exact same name that are public. Make sense? I am looking to be able to tell which list I am following, make sure I have the best ones and also maintain my own local lists where I can do some of the ideas you presented. Thanks for commenting!"
- Chris Miller
Re: Your school district might be forcing your kid to share too much information - http://SocialStalking.com/index...
"Interestingly the comment from Kuderworks was modified. The previous comment stated libel and to check my facts. Interestingly the comment came from within Kuder and has been removed since everything I mention above is directly pasted and quoted from the policies on the Kuder site itself about privacy and data ownership"
- Chris Miller
Re: The BlogWorld Experience - http://techdrawl.com/the-blo...
"Great posting and summary. I se the back of my head in a couple pics, lol. It was my first year at bwe09 after quite a few years of blogging and podcasting and working with some of the panelists. A good trip well worth the effort in attending. We did happen to catch Jermaine Dupri after his panel for a podcast interview on http://TheSocialGeeks.com which includes three of us that made the trek to BlogWorldExpo this year and plan on coming back."
- Chris Miller
Re: FAIL: 20K+ Gmail, Yahoo, AOL Accounts hacked? Perfect for iNotes - http://www.Bilal.ca/google-...
"I was just reading into your comments like Mike did above. The hint was that this scenario would never have happened in the LotusLive offerings. "Back to my point, if you want to rely on cloud for confidential data, make sure that you are relying on a service that can provide you with a peace of mind around security, price and reliability.""
- Chris Miller
"I was just reading into your comments like Mike did above. The hint was that this scenario would never have happened in the LotusLive offerings. "Back to my point, if you want to rely on cloud for confidential data, make sure that you are relying on a service that can provide you with a peace of mind around security, price and reliability.""
- Chris Miller
Re: FAIL: 20K+ Gmail, Yahoo, AOL Accounts hacked? Perfect for iNotes - http://www.Bilal.ca/google-...
"While that whole scenario sucks, I am not sure where LotusLive iNotes is any different being based around the same model of ASP mode email systems? It will be obvious soon of who has mail hosted on the LotusLive platform due to the DNS name presented on received mail. Won't it be open to the same types of attacks? The issue revolves around bad passwords, link clicking and other forms of attempts to get into accounts. I did a screencast today on registration, the UI and what to expect on LotusLive iNotes. http://www.IdoNotes.com/IdoNote......"
- Chris Miller
I'm returning to Saint Louis today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Chris Miller
I'm starting a trip to London today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
I'll be there from September 20th until September 23rd. See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Chris Miller
I'm returning to Saint Louis today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Chris Miller
I'm starting a trip to Chicago today. - http://www.dopplr.com/travell...
I'll be there from September 13th until September 16th. See more in my Dopplr profile.
- Chris Miller
Live now: This Week in Tech 211 with Nicole Lee, Dwight Silverman, and John C. Dvorak. http://live.twit.tv Discuss here...
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Tech i hope?
- Zee.
edit!
- Dakota O'Neill
Maybe....
- x5315
yep.
- Dakota O'Neill
ah, genius suspense artist... :) I know what you're doing :)
- Zee.
a number as a middle name, interesting!
- Dakota O'Neill
Hey everyone
- Eevee
Hey all!
- Joel Lovato
Hey Joel
- Eevee
Microsoft Bob has arrived!
- Dakota O'Neill
Hey Seth
- Joel Lovato
Hola All!
- RALPH
Watching live for once....
- Chris Miller
I never watch TWiT live usually ;)
- Eevee
I always watch live
- Victor Hooper
Watching live is better because you get to hear *everything*...
- CG
You can't beat watching live. I already have my beer, waiting for the dvorak/blog.org .ol
- RALPH
I do both, I am usually multitasking, and I could miss something
- RALPH
@ Hipp - Same.
- Dakota O'Neill
got kicked out of chat by Mick/Mike(?) b/c I wrote "start the show" - nice Mick/Mike, really nice.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Oh, nice and early today
- Jeremy Wong
Mike can be a tosser
- Mark
That Apple Store robbery was an awesome video
- Eevee
Definitely well planned.
- x5315
wait, leo is complaining that the news channel gets 3 minutes out of a 32 second video and he spends how many minutes discussing how the news channel spent 3 minutes on it?...
- jccalhoun
lol
- Eevee
but Gmail was only down on on the web
- x5315
POP and IMAP still worked
- Eevee
Don't companies use Mail or Outlook so they use IMAP or POP?
- x5315
Most likely
- Eevee
Yahoo leads because of the bundle deal they did with SBC as the default service for DSL users. Hotmail's up there just because Microsoft uses it as a global account identifier for all their online services.
- Ken Sheppardson
I'll bet if you look at *active* accounts, Gmail's up there.
- Ken Sheppardson
i think everyone who's really into Windows 7 probably already has it
- x5315
John needs exciting tech news before he falls asleep
- dawgbytez
he should have a win 7 party
- Victor Hooper
Leo I have totally immersed myself in all of Googles offerings. I like it in spite of privacy risk. Value add!
- earl wallace
TWiT 211 - Party in Your Pants (?)
- Ken Sheppardson
How 'bout an XBOX and a dozen Zunes.
- Ken Sheppardson
A deck of cards, that will be some party.
- Ghworg
Ken, then Microsoft could double the number of people using the Zune
- x5315
Ghworg: The deck of cards is so you can play solitaire when nobody you know shows up.
- Ken Sheppardson
microsoft marketing = fail
- HansVanRock
Windows Weekly, Leo
- Ken Sheppardson
Did everyone see that Jon had already left?
- x5315
Paul wearing a little pointy hat, blowing a noisemaker.
- Ken Sheppardson
Windows has massive share, because they do things like House Party. They canvass all areas of the market. I can see this would appeal to some people I know.
- Fergal Barry
Windows doesn't have massive market share because they do things like House Party.
- Ken Sheppardson
Windows has massive market share because it's the default OS on 90% of the computers sold.
- Ken Sheppardson
i will do a ring of death or bluescreen party
- HansVanRock
Uh-huh. So the marketing is all a conspiracy to hide hide another conspiracy to put it on 90% of computers. I geddit.
- Fergal Barry
Upgrading Wordpress is dead easy if you are using the stock install. If you have customized it then it is more awkward.
- Ghworg
What are you talking about, Fergal?
- Ken Sheppardson
Windows is on 90% of computers partly because MS takes marketing very seriously. House Party is segmented marketing. Isn't that an easy explanation?
- Fergal Barry
I'm downloading the Windows 7 Enterprise trial :)
- Eevee
Safari's so...awkward on Vista.
- rwa2play
The reason Google kept the "I'm feeling lucky" button is because they did a study and they found that people find it "comforting", so they kept it for comfort
- CG
the new flash is coming in 10.6.1
- x5315
The whole Flash thing is the biggest non-story of last week. Looks like everybody run out of news.
- notagolfer
"It's possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money. I think what's delightful about 'I'm Feeling Lucky' is that it reminds you there are real people here," Google exec Marissa Mayer explained, or at least tried to. -- http://valleywag.gawker.com/324927...
- Ken Sheppardson
Stories: What’s Next with the Apple OS X : http://www.loomingtech.com/2009...
- Squealing Rat
More about the "I'm feeling lucky" button - http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display...
- Ken Sheppardson
does that really work?
- Victor Hooper
Those comments by Pogue are quite inflammatory.
- rwa2play
Stories: The Mesh Wireless Network: http://www.loomingtech.com/2009...
- Squealing Rat
Apple is probably using something similar to nspluginwrapper http://freshmeat.net/project... which 64-bit browsers on linux used for a long time to get the 32-bit flash plugin to work.
- Ghworg
Yep, Flash runs in a separate process.
- x5315
Isn't Thurrott releasing a book about Windows 7? Should he be reviewing Win7?
- Paul Grav
that's a good point
- x5315
I guess there are different standards for MainStream Media.
- Fergal Barry
I wouldn't mind a disclaimer being a commercial. Virtuous circle from proper disclosure. Maybe the paper editors would though...
- Fergal Barry
New adverts are needed, new companies.
- Mark
no one gives a shit about these any more, if you listen to ten TWiT network shows, you get the audible crap ten times with ten URL's.
- Mark
Yeah! I wanna work there!
- Fergal Barry
VMware May Be Microsoft’s Top Rival After Google ....looks interesting!
- Fergal Barry
Leo, you should look at Nokia N900, an attempt by Nokia to compete with the IPHONE, with motion sensors
- RALPH
She's right the global leader that is AT&T is the last carrier on the planet to offer MMS to iPhone users.
- John Brazel
No one should ever feel sorry for AT&T.
- Joel Lovato
I'm not watching the show, but with virtualized XP, MSFT is trying to price VMware out of the Market. I hear it's pretty damn nifty. How many people are going to shell out $$$ for VMware when virtualized XP covers 75% of use cases.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
It has a keyboard, that apparently is quite easy to use... check out this recent link from maemo.org Leo, http://maemo.org/communi...
- RALPH
Android users also use a disproportionate amount of bandwidth -- not nearly as many devices in use, sure. T-Mobile's less mature network doesn't seem to have a problem accommodating MMS.
- Christopher A Carr
Those invites were sent only to young people :)
- notagolfer
Thanks Roberto. VMware article on del.icio.us page, but not discussed yet. I'd love to hear more about it. In the link from del.icio.us it says VMWare acquired SpringSource, a maker of open-source software development tools, to raise the stakes.
- Fergal Barry
no he will not show up
- alex chan
no beatles &stones combined, hence the unusual lyric Leo.
- John Brazel
He'll show because paul and ringo will be ther
- Jim Lyons
I think he will
- Eevee
Only if it's about the Beatles catalog comes to iTunes
- rwa2play
I think Apple is looking to steal Zune's thunder and he'll show.
- Joel Lovato
I think Leo overestimates the significance of 9/9/09 as a "Beatles" event. It's first and foremost...particularly for anybody under 50... just a neat day from a numerological standpoint.
- Ken Sheppardson
A yellow Beatles iPod. Which is waterproof.
- Ghworg
Beatles catalog comes to iTunes...and Paul and Ringo come to the presentation. Only then would Steve show up.
- rwa2play
9/9/09 is the Dreamcast birthday
- Eevee
Me too. It's gotta be The Beatles coming to iTunes; Paul & Ringo join Steve for the announcement AND a Sp. Edition Beatles iPod.
- rwa2play
Wait... WHAT? Steve Jobs doesn't want to be the story? Are you joking?
- Ken Sheppardson
Steve wants to be the story...but only in a positive light.
- rwa2play
"big suit"
- Ken Sheppardson
Houston Chronicle FTW - I grew up reading Silverman's articles.
- Jesse Stay
"Box Office Mojo reports that, since 1978, superhero movies have grossed over $7.28 billion at the domestic box office, with an average gross of $94.6 million per film." -- http://www.cnbc.com/id...
- Ken Sheppardson
Disney is currently owning the little girls market with Hannah Montanna and other things on the Disney Channel. They recently rebranded their Disney Toon channel as Disney DX in an attempt to get little boys to watch their stuff. Buying Marvel is a way to get that market.
- jccalhoun
Editorializing is that a euphemism for rant?
- John Brazel
In todays world, yes
- Eevee
It came from the 80's
- John Brazel
Jeez... it doesn't have a "birthday". There was no day on which it existed, the day before which it didn't. It was a gradual, incremental thing. Like evolution. On what day was the first human born? [Adam and Eve notwithstanding, and I'm sure somebody will bring up the fact they weren't "born"...]
- Ken Sheppardson
Adam and Eve weren't born.
- Joel Lovato
Just say it was 1969 that the internet was "born."
- rwa2play
See "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" for a pretty darn good history of all this http://www.amazon.com/Where-W...
- Ken Sheppardson
Look at some of the photos of those who created the Internet. A prerequisite was that you had to have an awesome beard. The link between the hippies at Woodstock and the Internet stands revealed (Beards!!!).
- JR Holmes
Whitman was certainly there for the Skype purchase.
- Ken Sheppardson
Well, thanks for trying Leo...woulda liked some perspective on SpringSource. I don't know much about them...maybe work the topic some other time :)
- Fergal Barry
I would love a web design show. For a good web design podcast check http://boagworld.com/
- Jim Lyons
TIME: eBay recently paid at least $2.6 billion for the Internet phone company Skype, and the two words most frequently used to describe the purchase were "head scratching." Was the price excessive? WHITMAN: We obviously think it was fair. We looked at value in Skype in a number of different ways: the amount we paid on a per-user basis, discounted cash flows, etc. We also looked at what we thought Skype could do on its own and with eBay. -- http://www.time.com/time...
- Ken Sheppardson
A VMWare country! The Netherlands!
- Fergal Barry
TIME: What will take to make growth even more dynamic? WHITMAN: That's one of the reasons we're excited about Skype. It can create a new way for buyers and sellers to communicate. It actually will help us get into new categories. For example, if you're a web designer, it's hard for you to sell your product on eBay - what you want to do is connect and find out what the buyer wants.
- Ken Sheppardson
Leo's Dutch sounds like Goldmember from Austin Powers
- Shawn Cleghorn
Q: What about buying Skype? Whitman: We liked Skype and still like Skype as a standalone business—a $400 million, four-year-old. Skype is doing more business as a four-year-old than eBay, Yahoo, or even Google did. We saw potential synergies between Skype and eBay. The next year or so will prove out if we were right. We’ve only had our management team in there for three months. Prior to...
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- Ken Sheppardson
Have you seen that Spotify just released the iPhone and Android apps about an hour ago? - https://www.spotify.com/blog...
- James
Yes! Name it Party in My Pants!
- Eevee
XD
- Eevee
Fonzie jumps the shark - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ken Sheppardson
Leo I'm in
- Jim Lyons
Do you have a phone booth we can all squeeze into circa 1950's 60's?
- shelter watch
Too bad I'm leaving SF the 20th. I'd love to be guest at the TWIT Windows 7 Houseparty...
- David Schmidt
Paul should host a house party on his end too.
- Ken Sheppardson
If you submit your request to host a Windows 7 House Party from a Mac... don't hold your breath ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Is Carbonite still a TWiT network sponsor? I dumped them for Backblaze... which I mention only because y'all were discussing http://blog.backblaze.com/2009... See also http://friendfeed.com/bret...
- Ken Sheppardson
Carbonite is still a sponsor - but you're more than welcome to use another solution! ;-) Do you prefer Backblaze to S3 with Jungle Disk?
- Leo Laporte
Leo, I use S3 with Jungle Disk but I am really digging Dropbox over S3. Do you see any advantage to stay with S3 over dropbox?
- Jeremy Behrens
I haven't looked at Jungle Disk in a long, long time but at $0.15 per GB-Month it seems closer to Dropbox than a set-it-and-forget-it background backup system like Carbonite or Backblaze. (Backblaze is $5/mo for unlimited storage)
- Ken Sheppardson
Once again another great episode! Love the How Old is the Internet really story.
- Victor Aroma
Re: New Sony Reader is Like a Digital Library On Demand - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I still have the old Ebook from RCA and never would give it up before. But this might just swing that in another direction."
- Chris Miller
Re: My Thoughts on the Current State of FriendFeed - http://lifestreamblog.com/my-thou...
"Wow, we appreciate the kind words on the podcast. You are right. We actually had more discussion but in order to stay reasonably on time we cut it down to what you heard. I think the initial blast from hearing of the purchase put everyone on guard that has invested time in FriendFeed, yet now that the immediate dust has cleared there is no changes showing as planned. I imagine we will slowly see some branding and then integration take place. As well as merging your login information over to pure Facebook. Thanks for pointing people over, come and join us sometime on the show!!"
- Chris Miller
@tinamcleod Thanks for all the support on #lotusknows !
A news aggregator for #LotusKnows launches in just a few minutes!
- Chris Miller
Let me know how to access it?
- Bilal Jaffery
from email
it will be http://LotusKnows.IdoNotes.com with two more quick changes coming still to clean the UI
- Chris Miller
Re: And Now We Have An Official Widget Catalog! - http://www.lbenitez.com/2009...
"Excellent news Luis. Don't forget that Gabriella (Turtle Partnership) and I started the public Notes Widget catalog over a year ago that has a nice collection of widgets ttat anyone can add to. You can connect to the public server via Notes or web at http://lotusphere.turtleweb.com"
- Chris Miller
Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam - http://mashable.com/2009...
"I was updating a posting on some background of the site when you posted. TheSocialNetworker blog http://bit.ly/gG9bD"
- Chris Miller
Google Latitude on the iPhone? It's Terrible, Use Brightkite http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Brightkite doesn't let you stalk me.
- Robert Scoble
@Robert it's hard to tell if you mean to say that's a bad thing.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I like being stalked. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Well, that's kinda what I figured, but thought I'd ask while I was here
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Or foursquare, even better than BrightKite. :-)
- Jesse Stay
my problem with BrightKite is it sucks at auto-detecting my location and that I can't get my friends to sign up for yet another twitter type site. But, a google app, they will probably be willing to use it.
- Bill Rawlinson
turns out latitude isn't too hot at figuring out where I am either. WTF? And your right the interface kind of sucks. Though the fact that it is a web-based app is pretty cool - I just wish it was integrated with the built in mapping app on the phone.
- Bill Rawlinson
But...but...but...it's Google! We need to give them more information!
- Hunt
I am a big fan of Brightkite but as commenter Bill says, the auto-locate feature isn't anywhere as good as Foursquare. Crystal ball time, Brightkite is great but Foursquare wins because you can actually do something like become mayor of a location by visiting it the most times, which can get you perks like free coffee/beer. Brightkite checking in is like sending email to dev/null, you do it and nothing really happens.
- Dave Evans
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
No, checking in on Brightkite lets your friends know that you are at an actual, human-readible location, and it let's you create and view media *about* a location. I'm not out to play a silly game about where I am. I want to know about people, easily meet up with friends, and make new ones. That's Brightkite.
- David Chartier
It is. I love BrightKite. Yet never use it because I have an LG Neon and not a smart phone. ;( I'm not going to spen 600 dollars on an iPhone 3G S. Not yet that is.
- Zachary TG
I think a big part of my problem with these things is where i live, as opposed to the technologies around them. I live in very small city and there just aren't that many places where my friends might be. Plus, most of the people I know are married and are thus going to be either 1. at home, 2. at work, 3. with me already - so, at least at the moment, I don't see a huge need for location based stuff (even if I think the idea is cool).
- Bill Rawlinson
I wrote some blog comparisons on Brightkite versus Latitude and what the heck all the settings were for Latitude. I still think Brightkite is the winner. It even has the iPhone native and BlackBerry app http://TheSocialNetworker.com is whee I wrote the articles
- Chris Miller
a link to the actual article would be quite a bit more useful Chris..
- Bill Rawlinson
Are you an idea person? Have you tried MindManager? Here's a video of it in use: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... I love it, best for critical thinking.
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I constantly use MindManager for tons of maps and quick thoughts. There is a free online one too, with fewer features called Bubblous (I think)
- Chris Miller
I used to use MindManager and loved it. But at $350 it's way too expensive for my blood. I'm using PersonalBrain at the moment (http://www.thebrain.com/#-111)
- Craig Eddy
In this video is Michael Deutch and he's on FriendFeed here: https://friendfeed.com/michael...
- Robert Scoble
I love apps like this, but I've found I don't use it enough to buy a $300 app. Instead, I use the free version of Mindmeister whenever I actually need something similar.
- mrshl
Yeah, been using it for years. It's a great talk outliner and document writer. I can write an full length document (10-15 pages), from skeleton to final draft, in about 5-6 hours using MindManager when it would usually take days using Word. Have you seen the Web 2.0 collaborative mind mapping stuff available out there?
- Gregg Le Blanc
Mind mapping is fun. Mind Manager is a bit bloated but very powerful. I like that it has inking support.
- Rodfather
I'm still happy with FreeMind, occasionally exporting a map to Mindmeister if I need to share it on the web. And still waiting for a good reason to open my wallet and switch to MindManager.
- François Dongier
I prefer MIndmeister I found it more flexible
- manuela faggiana
nope go with http://www.xmind.net/ from sorceforge. It is open and social. Can embed in your blog dude, and you can share it people can mark it up. But actually, I am more into http://linoit.com/ cause it has scheduling, and I have stopped thinking that things have to have a line between them. You can do You tube, vimeo, rss feeds, try it i set one up for anyone to post to http://linoit.com/users...
- Robert Higgins
I recommend ConceptDRAW Office suite, which has excellent mindmap application
- Jacque
The MindManager Office integration (Word specifically) is really an amazing tool. You can import a HUGE Word doc into MindManager and deconstruct it quickly. The export creates documents that are a little stale, but using Word's "Select All Formatting Like This" command, it's easy to change. The brilliant thing is that when you look at the document in MindManager, you can move entire sections around and easily detect if you've been repeating yourself, or if sections of the document are missing.
- Gregg Le Blanc
I used it for years, and like it except for the memory consumption. Now, switched to a mac and it's nowhere near as good on the mac. Xmind on the Mac works just fine and it's FREE.
- Phil Calvin
I think a good practice is to consider unfollowing EVERYONE each year, then just add folks that are relevant. Why? people change, you may not wanted to have followed them, or you may want to reduce the noise. What do you think?
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great idea
- Allen Stern
We clean our out contact lists in address books from time to time. Why not online.
- Kate Foy
How did you do this Holden? I'm following a few thousand folks
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, and you can do this with SocialToo - it's $25, one-time payment, you never pay again. We unfollow everyone for you, pretty quick, too.
- Jesse Stay
That and you get all our other services, and we're sustainable unlike any of the other services out there doing it.
- Jesse Stay
(BTW, I added this feature when you recommended we add it when you were out at Omniture Summit) :-)
- Jesse Stay
Oh yeah Jesse. we xchanged emails about that. Hmm i may need it. Thinking it over
- Jeremiah Owyang
what might help is to be able to flag some followers as perms
- Allen Stern
Jeremiah let me know if you're ready to do it and I'll be sure you get top service and priority.
- Jesse Stay
Allen, we do that too - add them to your Unfollow whitelist and we'll never, ever unfollow them.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we just call it your "whitelist" - it's under your unfollowing preferences though.
- Jesse Stay
how much would this cost Jesse?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, it's $25, one-time fee for the bulk unfollow. You never pay again.
- Jesse Stay
nice one jesse! im slow :)
- Allen Stern
Check your e-mail, Jeremiah
- Jesse Stay
Ideas like this that make me wonder if you really are a social media expert. How can you have a 2 way conversation with your audience, if you try and maintain a wall of exclusivity? It's good that you keep the people that matter to you close, but it wouldn't hurt to get a little dirty by getting to know a few more of your fans.
- Davis Freeberg
Davis, what's funny is that I see people on your side, and on the other side of the auto-follow debate all criticizing the other for calling themselves Social Media Experts. I don't think there is any right or wrong way to do it.
- Jesse Stay
I'm not a social media expert and I don't mean to be harsh, but this comment sounds very elitist from someone who has benefited so much from the kindness of others. A better way he could have phrased it would have been to say hello readers, I want to make sure that you're getting the most out of your lifeblogging experiences, so once a year do a gut check and unfollow me if you want. No hard feelings I promise..
- Davis Freeberg
Perhaps one should bemore selective of whom one subscribes initially?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
I'm downsizing my follows. The follow everyone who follows you concept has done more harm with noise than good besides to get your numbers higher.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
good idea... need SocialToo to clean house!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
First, there are free tools to unfollow, no need to pay. See the category for Follower Management on our site http://EverythingTwitter.com I don't mass unfollow, I use some of the other tools to look first for ones that haven't posted in a while. That is quick cleanup.
- Chris Miller
It's certainly a stunt people have pulled before, using SocialToo and other tools. If that is how you want to use Twitter, Twitter is, in the end, and a la carte service geared to the individual. I personally prefer a richer, more diverse, stream, myself. #stilllongsforall@sback I think it is overthinking your social media use in your particular case at your particular experience level,...
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- Leslie Poston
Holden: It is very quick in a lot of the tools. Select all or unselect all. I am just saying if you are only looking to do this step, there are fre ones out there that work well. We review them all to our best before listing them
- Chris Miller
Why the eff am I even subscribed toyou?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
Chris, the problem with those other tools is that they aren't sustainable. The Twitter API only allows a certain number of requests per IP, per hour, so as they get enough traffic, boom, now they don't work any more. Use them at will, sure, but keep in mind the minute any of them gets any attention they're going to go down due to the Twitter API limits. To keep one running you have to...
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- Jesse Stay
MVB who were you referring to here, J?
- Myrna
Holden, like your 'new' avatar. It looks new to me.
- Myrna
Jesse, I love SocialToo, don't get me wrong. But a lot of people don't follow that many (isn't the average small) that they would break the API limit that fast no? Just throwing out to search before paying to get what they need.
- Chris Miller
Chris, I think you'd be surprised. It's why we had to start charging for our features.
- Jesse Stay
I like the idea of changing who you follow but unfollowing everyone is going to far. I think trying to follow too few ppl is seen as a status symbol, but limits interaction w/ newbies, ppl who spark new interests, perspectives you otherwise ignore - defeats the purpose of using social media to discover new relationships and collaboration. But JUST TRY unfollowing everyone, and see how much you depend on certain ppl to pipe up when you need it most, etc....
- Liza
I think it's a good strategy. Maybe there are other good strategies, but this definitely is a good one. I think our minds work so strange that the one's answer to the question to "will I unfollow him?" when following not always be yes, when the answer to "will I follow him" while not following would be no. It's harder to deliberately unfollow someone then not starting to follow someone you don't follow (but might remember having followed in the past). Rigorously unfollowing all helps deal with this bias.
- Meryn Stol
like in the financial markets, do it each quarter :) Things change quickly in "social space"
- Vincent van Wylick
Davis. Didn't mean to sound like a jerk, so sorry if I did. My information habits and diet have changed, so I need to change my inputs.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I even started with a new username, without any follower, and completely new discussions :)
- Steph (sh_skew)
from iPod
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to unfollow everyone, but I think your basic idea is a good one, Jeremiah. My approach is more like managing an investment portfolio, periodically reviewing individual assets and their return, remixing to maximize overall benefit.
- Larry Hawes
Do you have to follow someone on Twitter AND Friendfeed? Is there some sort of twitterquette about that?
- Gregg Le Blanc
louisgray.com: Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search - http://louisgray.com/live...
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After a few days of playing with Lazyfeed, my official opinion is that it is frickin' cool! I am starting to get how it can be used as a research tool that more than nicely supplements Zemanta (the in-blog research aid). It's also fun. It adds a new dimension to surfing the Web that I didn't even know I was missing.
- James (!?)
from Bookmarklet
Any invites available? Would appreciate one if there are.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jack, we are talking about LazyFeed right on with Louis and Wayne on TheSocialGeeks podcast for this week, recording now
- Chris Miller
@Jack Carlson -- So sorry, man. I wish I was able to give invites out, but the fact is that I got terribly lucky and had my birthday at just the right time (apparently) and was smiled upon.
- James (!?)
Looks good..I'm waiting for this service to open to public..or if someone has an invite code that you are not using...pls do share. Cheers.
- Saad Kamal
I have my invite and I think I might have even registered, but I haven't played around there yet.
- Derrick
@Jack Carlson and @Saad Kamal -- Follow @Lazyfeed on Twitter. They give out invites there. :-)
- James (!?)
@Derrick and @Holden -- I'm really enjoying it. Drilling down the tags is 1/2 the key to happy discoveries, the other 1/2 is linking your Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, blog(s) to it.
- James (!?)
I played around with it for a bit, it's interesting and useful. I think is more focused on contents and less on people with regard [in comparison with] FriendFeed.
- PierLuca Santoro
Spot on, @PierLuca Santoro. ^_^
- James (!?)
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