"Perhaps I wasn't clear (author of linked post here - howdy); my point is that if I use iBooks Author to create an ebook and wish to sell it, I *must* sell it through the iBookstore, according to the EULA. Since that is an understood ramification of using iBooks Author, I chose to cover why that part won't work for me, either. I'm well aware that I can create content with other tools beside iBooks Author and sell that content where I choose (since that's precisely what I've been doing for the last 18+ months), but that's not what the post was about. [EDIT] And, as I said in the post itself, I'm more than willing to be wrong about any of this. If I'm misunderstanding any of this, do tell me and I'll fix it."
- Brett Kelly
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
Can you remind me again where to find those stats?
- Brian Johns
Brian, go to "Me" link (http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) which defaults to the Feed tab. Look at the sidebar on the right, below Discussion.
- Micah
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
Likes are down relative to comments, which matches my much lower frequency of liking. I'm a more selective liker than ever.
- Micah
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah
63.58 (97,534/1,534) -- interesting that my last three digits are the same there, eh? (note, i already posted a month or two ago when i first saw this thread)
- Chris Heath
Last year my comments were around 7000 and likes around 2500, for a ratio of 2.80. I consciously chose to do more liking over the last year. As of today my comments number 10,782 and likes number 7,666, for a ratio of 1.41.
- Stephen Mack
Jason, Stephen - cool. Thanks for keeping updated here. :)
- Micah
Okay, Micah. <----I had to resist the urge not to post that because I know it's going to up my comment count. ;)
- Jenny R
But how many of those primordial, high interest posts are still active. Uh huh. :)
- Micah
Thanks, Morton. BTW, when you posted in February, it was exactly 0.13 also.
- Micah
Jenny, resistance is futile; embrace the rising tide of comments.
- Micah
Comments are more difficult and time consuming than Likes. I'd be happy about a high comment:likes ratio except that many are surely imported from feeds, while every Like is manual.
- Mike Chelen
it has changed to 2.2256 now as Sep, 6 2010.Labor Day. :) I added the date for future references.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
I had exactly a 2:1 ratio as previously reported [Aug 30, '09], now I am at: 1.7241:1 ratio. 6,067 comments to 3,519 likes.
- The Ghost of Library Past
Two years later and my ratio has climbed from 3.4 to 4.675. I've got a lot to say, apparently.
- Kevin Fox
Funnily, I didn't notice until after leaving that comment that when I reported my stat in 2009 I also followed it up with "I've got stuff to say." I didn't say it was *new* stuff...
- Kevin Fox
2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago). for history's sake, this thread was started shortly after i found friendfeed, or friendfeed found me, so it holds a special place in my heart. thanks for keeping it around mr micah
- chaz2b
You're certainly welcome, chaz2b. In some way it feels like a living heirloom to me. :)
- Micah
3 (2.991) (and now the list has become too lengthy for me to track my progress, ;) [dumb me, i have a post not 10 lines ago in history, from 090711 2.91; 6.43% (@ 2yrs ago) 2.33% (@ 1yr ago) ;) ]
- chaz2b
"It seems plausible to me... sorta. Apple couldn't have postponed the 4S launch, I don't think, because Jobs' passing would have eclipsed any Apple product launch for weeks after it happened. I think that the more likely reason for this postponement is that nobody is going to pay attention to the Samsung/Google announcement because the world is still too focused on Jobs and Apple to give a crap about yet another Android handset."
- Brett Kelly
And frankly, I like adding friends with whom I have a low compatibility. It helps me hear music I never would have found in the first place. I never would have listened to a lot of my favorite music if someone hadn't said, "just try it."
- Ciaoenrico
Heh, "Music you have in common includes ABBA and Depeche Mode"...
- Tyson Key
Your musical compatibility with koltregaskes is Very Low. Music you have in common includes Sneaker Pimps, Hybrid, Snake River Conspiracy, VAST and The Boxer Rebellion. (that's because I listen to a lot of obscure stuff) http://www.last.fm/user/app103
- April
http://www.last.fm/listen... BTW, I send my Blip.FM feed to Last.FM. I fell asleep several times while listening to Blip, so there's some music in there that I don't necessarily like. But, for the most part, it's mine.
- Michael Fidler
If I played my 'best of the best' playlist one day would anyone be interested? It's 45 songs and iTunes tells me it's 4 hours. I can post a FF message when I start and finish and you can check the tunes out.
- Kol Tregaskes
Welp. Ya'll have been friended and oddly enough I only had 4 with high compatibility. Lucky for me that means there is a lot more music our there that I need to be turned on to. Thanks, Kol! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/movieguyjon - I say weird shit, bitch at random times, and will say more weird shit. Occasionally I'll post fun things too, with a smidgeon of inane. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Pretty clever way to work in a plug for your timeline.. I like your style, Kol ;)
- Brad McCrorey
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/casschin - I mostly post up funny/odd web gems and nerdy tech news. Occasionally, I tweet what I eat.
- Cass
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
"So much of what hangs people up when it comes to priorities is honesty, both with themselves and with others. I'd venture to say that most of the priorities people struggle with were imposed upon them in the past, either by people or position, and have been around for so long that they're just assumed to be appropriate. When a poor guy/gal is hamstrung with a bunch of stale "priorities" that don't match up with what they really want out of life, you get somebody whose creativity and drive is disappearing bitterly behind the shadow of all of the things they'd love to do/create, but feel (read: assume) they simply can't. Taking honest stock of how much you *actually* give a crap about something is, IMO, the only way to unearth the pursuits that really (forgive me) motivate and inspire. Just my $.02 - looking forward to the show!"
- Brett Kelly
"So much of what hangs people up when it comes to priorities is honesty, both with themselves and with others. I'd venture to say that most of the priorities people struggle with were imposed upon them in the past, either by people or position, and have been around for so long that they're just assumed to be appropriate. When a poor guy/gal is hamstrung with a bunch of stale "priorities" that don't match up with what they really want out of life, you get somebody whose creativity and drive is disappearing bitterly behind the shadow of all of the things they'd love to do/create, but feel (read: assume) they simply can't. Taking honest stock of how much you *actually* give a crap about something is, IMO, the only way to unearth the pursuits that really (forgive me) motivate and inspire. Just my $.02 - looking forward to the show!"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Chris, You can't currently password-protect entire notebooks (or even entire notes, for that matter), but you are able to encrypt regions of text within a note. If you highlight a portion of a text note and right-click, you'll see the option to encrypt it. Be careful not to lose your password, though, because not even Evernote staff can decrypt the text without it! -Brett (Evernote employee)"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Chris, You can't currently password-protect entire notebooks (or even entire notes, for that matter), but you are able to encrypt regions of text within a note. If you highlight a portion of a text note and right-click, you'll see the option to encrypt it. Be careful not to lose your password, though, because not even Evernote staff can decrypt the text without it! -Brett (Evernote employee)"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Chris, You can't currently password-protect entire notebooks (or even entire notes, for that matter), but you are able to encrypt regions of text within a note. If you highlight a portion of a text note and right-click, you'll see the option to encrypt it. Be careful not to lose your password, though, because not even Evernote staff can decrypt the text without it! -Brett (Evernote employee)"
- Brett Kelly
"If Evernote feels like a bit too much for what you're doing, you should definitely give Simplenote a go - quite a bit more lean than Evernote for those that want fewer features."
- Brett Kelly
"If Evernote feels like a bit too much for what you're doing, you should definitely give Simplenote a go - quite a bit more lean than Evernote for those that want fewer features."
- Brett Kelly
"If Evernote feels like a bit too much for what you're doing, you should definitely give Simplenote a go - quite a bit more lean than Evernote for those that want fewer features."
- Brett Kelly
"You can't password-protect entire notebooks, but you can encrypt regions of text within notes if you like. Be warned, though - if you misplace the encryption password, nobody (including Evernote staff) will be able to decrypt the text!"
- Brett Kelly
"You can't password-protect entire notebooks, but you can encrypt regions of text within notes if you like. Be warned, though - if you misplace the encryption password, nobody (including Evernote staff) will be able to decrypt the text!"
- Brett Kelly
"You can't password-protect entire notebooks, but you can encrypt regions of text within notes if you like. Be warned, though - if you misplace the encryption password, nobody (including Evernote staff) will be able to decrypt the text!"
- Brett Kelly
"One of the best things about Evernote is that you don't necessarily haven't build a complex scaffold around your data if you don't want to - in most cases, a good command of the search grammar is more than sufficient to find just about any note within a minute or so. Have a look at this article I wrote on the Evernote Knowledge Base for more information on advanced search: http://evernote.com/about/kb/a... Cheers!"
- Brett Kelly
"One of the best things about Evernote is that you don't necessarily haven't build a complex scaffold around your data if you don't want to - in most cases, a good command of the search grammar is more than sufficient to find just about any note within a minute or so. Have a look at this article I wrote on the Evernote Knowledge Base for more information on advanced search: http://evernote.com/about/kb/a... Cheers!"
- Brett Kelly
"One of the best things about Evernote is that you don't necessarily haven't build a complex scaffold around your data if you don't want to - in most cases, a good command of the search grammar is more than sufficient to find just about any note within a minute or so. Have a look at this article I wrote on the Evernote Knowledge Base for more information on advanced search: http://evernote.com/about/kb/a... Cheers!"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Josh, The Evernote database is highly optimized for the application itself, but if you export one or more notes as .enex files (HTML is the other option), you can open and manipulate them using any plaintext editor (Notepad is one, but you'd probably want something a little more powerful if you're hand-editing XML). Cheers, Brett Kelly (Evernote employee and the guy who wrote the ebook Michael mentioned)"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Josh, The Evernote database is highly optimized for the application itself, but if you export one or more notes as .enex files (HTML is the other option), you can open and manipulate them using any plaintext editor (Notepad is one, but you'd probably want something a little more powerful if you're hand-editing XML). Cheers, Brett Kelly (Evernote employee and the guy who wrote the ebook Michael mentioned)"
- Brett Kelly
"Hi Josh, The Evernote database is highly optimized for the application itself, but if you export one or more notes as .enex files (HTML is the other option), you can open and manipulate them using any plaintext editor (Notepad is one, but you'd probably want something a little more powerful if you're hand-editing XML). Cheers, Brett Kelly (Evernote employee and the guy who wrote the ebook Michael mentioned)"
- Brett Kelly
Hi Friendfeed. I just unfriended *all* of my Facebook friends. I want to hang out with you guys again. How's everybody been? Also, are we still without an awesome iPhone client?
@Anika - well, the Facebook friend bit wasn't so much a "look what I did for you, my old friends!" thing as it was a "I'm making sweeping changes and I want to rekindle what was once an awesome FriendFeed thing before I got all *busy* and shit." Besides - you know you love me :)
- Brett Kelly
HA! Yes...and it will be nice to see you around here more often.
- Anika
from Android
I was using BuddFeed and all of sudden - I keep getting an error. I am going to delete and re-download it to see if it was user error!
- Paulette
Actually FFhound is much more up to date than any other FF app in the field and generally better, so go and buy it, it's nice.
- JSLeFanu
Just bough FFHound in the app store. Maybe I'm missing something, but this thing is a huge turd that looks awful.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
FFHound is my favorite FriendFeed app. AND I AM AN EXPERT IN THINGS THAT I FAVOR.
- Akiva
@Brett Kelly: you'll find it supports a lot more than the other apps. Try posting to multiple groups with BuddyFeed and see how you get on.
- JSLeFanu
from FFHound!
@Brett Kelly: one thing I did find is that it takes a while to get used to it's implementation of gestures. Swiping is tricky at first.
- JSLeFanu
from FFHound!
FFhound is pretty good considering they're supporting a service that most other iOS developers wrote off a long time ago. You didn't ask, but on Android there's FFhound but also YouFeed which is good (but no real-time, the principle advantage of FFhound in my view).
- Micah
I find the /iphone/ interface to be more than adequate. Except for the inability to upload photos from it on my android (is this some kind of iphone limitation and I'm forced to endure on android?). Need to use the "regular" interface for that.
- Andy Bakun
well said @Micah that's a relevant point. These guys came to the game long after everyone else took off including the fucker responsible for Sterl who launched with promises of updates shortly before the sale and then just dropped the whole project because it wasn't worth it.
- JSLeFanu
from FFHound!
Andy, what do you mean you can't upload photos on FFhound for Android?
- Micah
I can't figure out how to display the comments for an item in FFhound. Tapping doesn't work, nor swiping.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Oh, ok. Swiping *very* carefully is the trick. Got it.
- Brett Kelly
from FFHound!