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michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Yoono: The Social Network Browser Plugin You’ve Been Waiting For

May 4 at 10:14 pm - Link

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Will this NEVER end? As good as this aggregator may be, FriendFeed was an aggregator as well and now this service is grabbing info from that and other services. As long as new social aggregation services keep popping, there will continue to be yet another service that needs to be followed. What we need is one place, say a Social Database, that other services can extend and add information to. Each user could have a “profile” in that, with the DB filing in information from existing services and with other services adding information to it. Basically, an extendable friendfeed I guess. From there, aggregators could compete on UI and features. Forget social aggregation… we need a social database service! - Dan Delphin via twhirl

I'd honestly love something like that, Dan. If there was a service or app that could keep me from having to open twhirl windows, open a browser to visit facebook, myspace, etc and open a feedreader to stay updated on what friends are doing - THAT would be killer. The problem, though, is that web sites aren't free to run and they want eyeballs on them so they can monetize with ads. - Shawn Farner

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And actually, Digsby does this to an extent - I just don't really like their implementation of it. - Shawn Farner

Thinking about it further, one way to go about solving this problem is through a combination of the OpenID and the data portability initiative. Once all the services are open and there is a unique name that identifies an individual across all (or many services), a social profile could be built from the information from all the different services. This profile wouldn't have to be all located in one services but could just be compiled on the fly, which would be the aggregators job. Eitherway, something needs to be done. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

like Dan Delphin said we will keep seeing more and more of these aggregators of aggregators. Something like OpenID but for social networking services - nouhad

It's the web clipping better than Diigo's or Clipmarks? - Svartling

I tried but I uninstalled it. I was concerned about privacy issues. I just could navigate in other people's links and activity, if I were I hacker I would love it. Without any consent anyone could profile me. May be I am wrong but I could see too much and that concerned me. - Arturo Servin

I'm just waiting for the day when we can update Twitter, Facebook and even orkut via FriendFeed. After all, I can access FriendFeed easily from my iPhone without downloading anything. - darnell

Thinking about it further, one way to go about solving this problem is through a combination of the OpenID and the data portability initiative. Once all the services are open and there is a unique name that identifies an individual across all (or many services), a social profile could be built from the information from all the different services. This profile wouldn't have to be all located in one services but could just be compiled on the fly, which would be the aggregators job. Eitherway, something needs to be done. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

Stupid Twhirl reposted a past comment... Anyway, that's the point of socialthing.com (to update all your different feeds from one place). I wish friendfeed would just add it. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

Dan Delphin - Nice comments, however, some people want different info in different places. I've noticed some of my friends use different Facebook & LinkedIn e-mails. Others have no e-mail at Facebook, but they do have a LinkedIn e-mail. A little has to do with "business persona" versus "personal persona", but more common among my friends is the "Plaxo-business-network persona" (2,000 people) versus the "real-business-contact-or-friend persona" (200 people). - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell Tsai - I think that's one of the great concepts about friendfeed to see certain things, I'd just create a second account. - Dan Delphin via twhirl

So... have we already passed into the YASNA (yet another social networking aggregator) phase? - Jason Kaneshiro

Dan, I'll have to play with the second FF account Idea. Good suggestion. - Mitchell Tsai

There are (1) Unix-style security issues (2) multiple persona issues (3) Identity theft issues...before any OpenID sharing will satisfy me (and probably most of my age 40+ friends). - Mitchell Tsai

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Wow, I thought bloggers were bad. Look at Google News. 1,365 articles on MSFT/YHOO: http://tinyurl.com/6a8jt8”

May 4 at 2:47 am - Link

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It's amazing how many articles are on Google News mostly saying the same thing. I like FriendFeed a LOT more. How about you? - Robert Scoble

Im beginning to learn the ways of FF, and yes, I think the amount of time I spend on GR is becoming less. - Colby Olson

Even better selection here: http://news.google.com/news?hl... - Robert Scoble

Although I am still getting this "Echo effect" from only subscribing to people in the same niche. - Colby Olson

Scoble, I've totally abandoned all readers and news aggregators. Friendfeed is my source for info now. I'm trying to subscribe to a diverse selection of people from all over the world (any tips for this?). I wish it were easy to see where someone lives (at least the country/state/province). The human-edited web at scale, here we come. - Ginger Makela

Robert Scoble posted a message

“Twitter is down. Now we can all get some work done.”

May 1 at 4:21 pm - Link

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Switching to my feed reader... not panicking... - David Bisset via twhirl

Down here too. WOW!! - Grant Griffiths via twhirl

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Yup - switch to FriendFeed. - Hutch Carpenter

I'm reduced to playing with Brightkite. The humanity... - David Bisset via twhirl

FriendFeed has never gone down. Or even gotten slow. It's like the guys who started it worked at Google or something. Oh, wait, that's right, they did. - Robert Scoble

@Scoble: True enough. I wonder if they smuggled a HP Superdome out when they left the building. Or maybe 87 Linux boxes was their leaving present :-) - Andy C

@Scolbe: Watch it Robert, or you're going to jinx it. - David Bisset

Did they just yank out Rails? - Puneet Thapliyal

Twitter out here, also. Good thing, because I have to get some work done. Hoohoo. - Cesar Cardoso

I didn't know about this until I saw this message. I tried going to m.twitter.com on my phone and got a 500 Internal Server Error. Didn't even get a birdie. - Ontario Emperor

You CAN turn Twitter off you know. - Chris Wallace via Alert Thingy

Scoble what did you do to break Twitter? - Bryan

Had to LOL about that. I mean, we just switched service, the noise's still here with Twhirl! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski via twhirl

@chris it's unpossible to turn off twitter - acedanger via twhirl

Michael Arrington killed Twitter... yeah, that's it. - Rudy Amid

all about the multi tasking. I manage to maintain productivity with it open - BCK via twhirl

You've been coming up with some pretty good quotables lately - Charlie Anzman

Yet FriendFeed comes to take its place... - Shawn Farner via twhirl

@Scoble do you want Jaiku invitation? it is more reliable than twitter and some time ago moved to Google's infra... - silpol

silpol I've been on Jaiku since the first days. I like FriendFeed a lot better. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'd love to see a demo of how you use FriendFeed - I keep trying to move over but just can't figure out a productive way to use it. - Jesse Stay

@Scoble i wish FF gets sms mechanism for push one day, as twitter or jaiku - silpol

Jesse, I'm writing a blog post right now about one aspect: liking and commenting. - Robert Scoble

I'm excited to see it - I'd also love to see how you browse your feeds. When do you use Twitter vs. Friendfeed, Reader, etc.? - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I don't have a set routine. I watch FriendFeed the most, though. I also use Google Reader quite often, watch Twitter on either Twhirl or Google Talk or Tweetscan (not to mention FriendFeed), and still look at TechMeme too. I just posted the thing about listening on FriendFeed on my blog at http://scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble

I've started watching both friendfeed and socialthing - playing with both trying to work out which best suits my needs. It is quite possible that both will, but it also means seeing duplication. - Mick Adams

i watched frienfeed, socialthing, and twhirl and kept refreshing twitter. all this after working 12 hours. maybe i have a problem. - lisa church

Erick Schonfeld posted an entry on TechCrunch

Arrington Finally Makes It Onto The Cover of Time (If You Squint Real Hard You’ll See Him)

May 1 at 7:21 am - Link

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michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Update: AMC Metreon is sticking by us on the Iron Man screening, for now. update in the morning. http://snurl.com/26eea”

April 29 at 8:17 pm - Link

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David Althoff is my new favorite person. - Chris Wallace via Alert Thingy

Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“183 blogs have installed our video comments plugin so far http://wiki.seesmic.com/Wp-plu...”

April 29 at 5:42 pm - Link

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It's only been out, what, four days? - Robert Scoble

...and how many actually have video comments posted ? - Andy C

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AndyC: quite a few in my experience. You visit TechCrunch? - Robert Scoble

Nope. I sit here blissfully unaware enclosed in the safety of my FriendFeed bubble ? - Andy C

Oh, Oh... I'm number 184!!! - John Wooton via Alert Thingy

yes Robert, a few days. We see our number of videos per day traffic with very high growth since we launched them - Loic Le Meur

Video comments have also been integrated in Yokway - Stephan Osmont

I am number 189, great job - Eric Reboisson via Alert Thingy

I'm going to be installing it when I get the chance... maybe tonight! - Ian Betteridge

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“long but important article on MS Mesh by @stevegillmor on techcrunch: http://snurl.com/263yq”

April 27 at 10:22 pm - Link

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great job by steve gillmor, i would like to see him post more on techcrunch - sam via twhirl

Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“retweeting @TechCrunch 's link to @stevegillmor article on Microsoft Mesh: http://snurl.com/263yq”

April 27 at 10:23 pm - Link

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Robert Scoble posted a message on Twitter

“Zoho is going to announce, tomorrow, yet another scratch in Microsoft Office. I'll wait for @techcrunch to spill the beans.”

April 27 at 5:37 pm - Link

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Zoho Clippy! Yes!!! - Alvin Ashcraft

I hate to be a naysayer, but I've yet to find an online office suite that can come close to "business use." Little league rosters, yes. Production metrics for analysis, no. - Vince DeGeorge

Google Docs is the first app I think of when I need to dump thoughts into a file. Congrats to Zoho though. - Mike Reynolds

Nick O'Neill posted a message on Twitter

“I think my desire to look at my computer screen may be directly correlated to the temperature outside”

April 24 at 1:29 pm - Link

John Wooton liked this

Uh, yeah... it's definitely an inverse relationship. The higher the temp, the lower my desire! - John Wooton via Alert Thingy

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Who’s Going to Say the “P” Word?

April 24 at 12:19 pm - Link

Mitchell Tsai, David Ambrose, Sanjay Subrahmanyan, Jordan Hofker and 9 other people liked this

when does FB just integrate a twhirl/mysocial app so they are 1-stop shopping again? - Dave Hodson via twhirl

"Friendfeed has the most momentum while Twhirl and others are scrambling to keep pace." Twhirl? That's a Twitter client, not an independent service. - Alejandro S.

Twhirl is aggregating FF now, so it's becomming a 'portal' I guess - via FriendFeedMachine - Scott Goldie

The thing is though, AlertThingy already combines FF and Twitter better - Jason Mitchell via Alert Thingy

Alert Thingy is a horrible Twitter client still. Thus I stay with Twhirl. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“@davejohnston - I'm speechless. so funny. it's a joke, right? :-) http://snurl.com/25jnk”

April 23 at 8:08 pm - Link

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Ahahahahhahahahahah, seems like drugs are a touchy subject - Bruno Afonso via Alert Thingy

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“So what does everyone think of Microsoft Mesh? http://snurl.com/25eds”

April 22 at 11:20 pm - Link

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Well the idea sounds great - but with sync it is always about what will actually happen. .Mac sounds great - and then you realize you are in a cycle of "nuking" it every couple of weeks... ...via AlertThingy - Tony

Even though M$ embraces web, it doesn't seem to get the "openness" part of it..and that's where G will go for the kill. Mesh looks cool..but "just not there".. - sinha

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As long as they are obsessed with their own platform and develop apps with focus on their own platform, Mesh will be just a Mess. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

Game changer. Very big deal. So big, a lot of people don't even seem to understand it yet & are comparing it to FolderShare, AIR, etc. Any developer can code an app for Mesh thanks to open, extendable data model. Any device, PC, Mac, mobile can get on Mesh. Or you can access from some kiosk PC via Live Desktop which is practically a web OS. Applications are installed to the Mesh, not a device - that's a HUGE innovation. Cloud, desktop, mobile - a mesh app works the same. And more and more and more. - Sarah Perez

It's very, very interesting. Great ideas and potential. But, it's Microsoft, so who knows? - Nathan Howell

really really interesting, and i completely forgot about the previous talk about it. i think in time could get there sinha, just give it time. good work MS! - Ian Rathbone

I was about time. Meshing it up will put an end to senseless web-vs-desktop quarrels. ...via AlertThingy - Lars Trieloff

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

MySocial 24×7 Is An Excellent FriendFeed Tool

April 22 at 1:58 am - Link

chenv, timepilot, Frederic, Andrei M. Marinescu and 21 other people liked this

sweet works really good. - Christian Cadeo

This is very nice - Zamil A. Safwan

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Yes - seems to work really well. A feature request for a later version, though, would enable the user to re-order the feed/service buttons - Andrew Terry

Thanks for both this and AlertThingy. I agree that both have their place. ...via AlertThingy - Robert Scoble

@Andrew I'm already working on re-ordering feed feature! Thanks for your suggestion! - Sandosh Vasudevan

This is fantastic. - Vince DeGeorge

I got it right away. Excellent indeed : ) - Selim Yoruk

Easy to use and read! - Russellreno

Thanks Mike. This is wonderful. - Russellreno

How often does it refresh? - Justin Fleming

popups are nice - wish the list would refresh when the popup occurs tho - Mitchell McKenna

Is there a way to post something (not a link) to twitter through this? If I click on "share" it just gives me the option of posting a link/picture to FF, not twitter. - Bob

Totally digging it. Wish it featured the Hide functionality tho'. - Andrei M. Marinescu

Robert Scoble published photos on Flickr

Kevin Rose lifts a chair for his friends

April 6 at 5:23 pm - Link

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I like the one of Kevin Rose holding the chair. Yes, it is THAT Kevin Rose. Founder of Digg. Digg THAT! :-) Oh, and, yes, that's my son and I miss him a lot. So cute! - Robert Scoble

I love the colors and variety in these photos. You are quite talented. - Bret Taylor

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Thanks Bret. I only showed you seven out of hundreds. If you shoot enough eventually you'll get seven keepers. Hah. You should see Thomas Hawk. That dude gets 60 keepers in an hour. Now THAT is talent. - Robert Scoble

220 photos from my last trip to the zoo was whittled down to only 30 keepers...at least we aren't shooting film anymore! - Benjamin Golub

Those are some pretty cool photos - Justin Yost

Thank god for digital is right, Benjamin. Isn't that the truth about the number of shots it takes to get a handful of good ones. My husband is a pro photographer and he lets me see everything he shoots on jobs, and I get to help him edit, which is really fun. Data storage for digital photography is a major issue in our household. We have closets full of harddrives. - Ginger Makela

A good example of the contrast from film to digital -- Baby pictures of me that exist: I'd say around 200 total, all in one album. Baby pictures of my daughter (who is 5): 20,449 and 49.8 Gigs, backed up nightly by Mozy (only changes are updated), and once a month on DVD-R. - Vince DeGeorge

closets full of hard drives, nice. - j1m

Awesome!! Very nice. - Alex Hammer

Sweet! ...via AlertThingy - plainwater

Nick O'Neill posted an entry on All Facebook

Get a Sneak Peak of Your Facebook Chat

April 18 at 6:17 am - Link

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