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I like it. Going too far to the left and having it open up the "you went too far to the left" menu is always a bit of a surprise, though. - Dustin Sallings

Sorry guys, but I'm not interested until Hulu is back on Boxee, so let me know. Not your fault, but I'm just sayin'. - Fleagle

"What the FUCK are you, RoboCop? There are NOT three states of being. There are infinite states of being." - LOL - Todd Hoff

"I've seen multi-million dollar projects spin and spin and spin with no actual progress made for MONTHS, all the while people were "Getting Things Done." Action items were crossed off hit-lists and developers billed actionable hours, managers reported those actionable hours to their bosses, their bosses told clients Things were Getting Done, and all the while, NOTHING FUCKING WORKED." - ⓞnor

"Doing something does NOT make you right. It just makes you experienced. And experience is a good thing - but it takes much more than accumulated experience to be good at stuff." The pot-making class experiment seems to disagree. - ana

quote: " For many people I know, procrastination is actually part of the workflow. It's the brain going off an focusing on other shit, while the subconscious ruminates over what the work is going to end up being. It's actual productive work that, to middle-managing button-down dickheads the world over, looks like goofing off." - Ihar Mahaniok

The pot-making class experiment says that experience is good for beginning pot-making students. I mean, none of these things are absolute laws of nature. - ⓞnor

ⓞnor, most people say pot is "grown", not "made". =) - Andrew C

I think the Done Manifesto is highly effective and applicable in a very narrow set of work environments and circumstances. When you're tasked with something large and insurmountable, it helps to just start with the simple things, put yourself in motion and get un-stuck. Of course, it doesn't mean that you should always be spinning your wheels, doing meaningless things, just for the sake of Done. - Bill Strathearn

@Ihar: +1 to that quote. I often feel like I get more done when I'm lying in bed half awake for an hour than in 8-10 hours of "getting things done" in the office. - Joel Webber

Another way of looking at this: There are plenty of people (I'm sure we all know at least one) whose work does more damage than good. I like to refer to them as producing "negative work". These people are "doing things" all day long, yet moving a project *away* from completion through their efforts. - Joel Webber

Ok agreed to a point but that's like saying a CAA agent sold 100 shows at CAA - you have to know the CAA brand not the exec played probably 98% of that.... just saying. I highly doubt FF will make hundreds of millions only because social networks are essentially message boards, and the value's going down not up. - Patricia

Patricia: I totally disagree. Value of aggregators is going way up. - Robert Scoble

Patricia, I also disagree. FF and Twitter have been attracting an audience with well defined interests, area of activities and specialization. If FF star-team comes up with its own business model - this will not be difficult IMO - it has all reasons to stay independent and to further grow its audience. This partially might explain why Twitter itself refused to be bought by Facebook, which has a money in-stream of its own but a different audience and appeal. FF is much more than a message board.. - Hayk H.

Okay, so the Facebook and Twitter deal didn't make much sense, but FF and twitter? That is a good combination, no matter how it happens. A good part of FF is twitter feeds anyway. Bringing the two communities together and further integrating them would help more people understand why news and information aggregators like FF are going to become an important part of society. - Bob Blunk

Although, I would also say that a FF takeover of Twitter seems more likely and would be better in the long run for the users. - Bob Blunk

I cant see anyone mad enough to buy twitter with cash until it is monetised in some way. FF does not need Twitter to progress.. - Riaz Kanani from twhirl

To me Twitter is core, FF is a nice to have. In the same way there's been tons to do on mobile phones for years in the UK, but SMS remains the only one capable of monetizing. - Steven Livingstone-Pérez from twhirl

Patricia, all web sites are essentially message boards. The important details are who posts what where. FriendFeed gets a lot of details right in importing and presenting interesting content and people. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Q: How do you valuate "Superstar" in a due diligence? A: You don't. The assertion is bogus. - Michael Slavitch

@Bruce, I disagree. not all websites are message boards. I think all websites are either utilities or entertainment. - Patricia

Patricia, could you give an example of a web site that you think will take a larger chunk of the attention economy than social networking sites do? I still don't get your message board comment. Message boards can be used for either utility or entertainment. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

@Bruce, what do you think the internet is and here to do out of curiosity? - Patricia

The Internet is a system for transmitting packets of information fast, but unreliably. TCP/IP stacks reliability on top of the Internet. HTTP stacks a standardized protocol for interacting with URLs on top of TCP/IP. The WWW stacks funny cat pictures on top of HTTP. That's how I see it. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

I knew it - the sole purpose of the internet is for "funny cat pictures"! LOL - Susan Beebe

bruce.. um, HTTP is a client/server data protocol to enable the transfer of files across the network using TCP sockets.. nothing to do with URL's, that is DNS. The internet is just a bunch of interconnected routed networks sporting a number of different protocols purely for the transfer of data. Nothing more, nothing less :) It's what you lay on top of that that's key. - alphaxion

@Bruce, Ok. I see it as a device agnostic, multimedia communications platform designed to either mesh or replace current existing platforms (telephone, broadcast, radio, etc). because it is more stable, cost effective and has broader range. As it evolves to its purpose, users move and shape along with it, not the other way around. Message boards have and always will exist, however,... more... - Patricia

alphaxion, you're right about the Internet. You're wrong about HTTP, URLs and DNS. Every method in the HTTP protocol takes a URL as its argument. Text markup need not be involved; that's HTML. The host part of a URL is related to DNS, but only in that both use the same FQDN format. If you used something other than DNS for name resolution, browsers would have to change but all the w3c standards would be unchanged. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Susan, yeah. At the TCP/IP level of the stack I left out at least one important feature, but at the WWW level I think I covered everything. :-) - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Patricia, thanks for the details. Are you saying the sites with monetary value will be more like traditional TV? - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Brain fart, I've been battling numerous problems with our webservers all day.. Sorry >.< URL's are just the addresses you pass onto the HTTP server (be it through user entry or the HTML code that it parses, since HTML and thus text markup is forever intertwined with HTTP, it is HyperText Transport Protocol after all ;) ). DNS is for the translation of the friendly names into the core IP addresses. - alphaxion

But I will always remind people that web != the internet.. the "web" is just the delivery of data to clients from servers using HTTP over TCP/IP. - alphaxion

A URL has the format: <scheme>:<scheme-specific-part> where schemes include http, ftp, mailto, file, etc. So it can work pretty much over anything. - Todd Hoff

todd: aye.. it's just a way of addressing a resource. Our example was just with HTTP but you are right that it can be used in many other protocols such as when I'm connecting to my DC's I'll be using ldap://dc.domain.tld - alphaxion

I've been doing Internet programming since before the WWW. You might be amused by my story of how we thought (in 1991) that the web wouldn't take off: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

somehow this thread went too much into trivia.. social networks let us create a social dimension of our lives- whatever that implies for each of us, whether work or fun - online, using the web. That is all. This discussion whether social networks are for fun or work are equal to an idealogical discussion whether the religion is used for peaceful meditation or violence. It is what we make of it, given there are means, which there are incase of the web... - Hayk H.

"If Twitter wants to make money, it needs to do to others what they’ve been trying to do to Twitter. That is, extend its lead in market share by solving the problem of cross-platform micromessaging. With activity streams from Facebook, Microsoft, MySpace, FriendFeed, and a score of smaller players flowing over RSS, XMPP, and HTTP Push, Twitter can consolidate its power by cloning the best of its competitors’ offerings. - jfayel

AGREE with Robert Scoble... companies worth is their human team... - jfayel

DISAGREE with Robert Scoble... friendfeed team google unique root is not so superstar... more roots are better than only one... not speaking about rizhomes which largely outpass roots, bit this an other story... - jfayel

Jfayel: well just watch what happens here over next year. I bet FriendFeed will grow faster than Twitter. Which will be incredible because Twitter will continue its fast growth. - Robert Scoble

Robert - Totally agree... but there will be others that challenge as well. I just don't see a single dominant player anytime soon (if at all). - Brian Roy

FF is future - imran

jfayel, I see what you're saying about monoculture. Off the top of my head, the only non-ex-googler they have is Ben Golub. On the other hand, they've created such an open system that it would be hard to insulate them from outside ideas. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Bruce: if Google was their only career experience I think that might be worrying, but it's not. Also, Google is one of only a few places in the world where you can have real experience building huge web services. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I'm not worried. I'm very positive on FriendFeed. I'm just looking for valid points to consider that can keep my fanboyism in check. :-) - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Hey, if you post a comment here on FriendFeed, it'll be seen during my session in 2 hours. Get to it! :-) - Josh Bancroft

Saw your request on Twitter, so I'm commenting just because you asked nicely. - ThisGuyDoug

Good luck with your demo Josh!!! - linuxaid - A.J.

is that favicon from android? - Don Park

Looking forward to the session Josh - Joe Perrin

I'm so psyched for this presentation. Should be a good one. - Jona Titus

I wish someone would twitter me parking space availability in Chicago........:) - Dan Sleezer

Pneumatic Tubes of NewYork City's Mail system http://curiousexpeditions.org/... - Bob Stewart from twhirl

Have fun with the Demo! - Niall Connellan

Hello, attendees of Josh's session! - Eric Florenzano

Josh, I hope your session goes well =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Is this a Blogger/Ob-gyn crossover Camp? Have fun! - WorldofHiglet

You missed the pizza, but there will be beer this afternoon, so it's not a complete loss. - Geoff Kleinman

break a leg - adolfo foronda

Wow! Thanks for all the comments! You guys are awesome! :-) - Josh Bancroft

Josh, push your glasses back up on your nose...and SMILE :-D - Duliece

Wordpress is king. - Kevin Bondelli

No BSOD, No BSOD, No BSOD - Josh Haley

Only now did I finally get what Google Chrome was going for with their about:internets tubes screensaver thing. - ThisGuyDoug

so glad you found parking, am waiting for you to rock the Crocs! - Betsy Richter

Look ma! im on projector! - sean percival

Hey Josh, just saw your request.:-) - kathy

Hi Josh, I'm in the room watching your presentation, too! - Steve Woodward

It's very similar to the DC ads with James Lipton... - Will Burroughs from twhirl

I want Lipton saying "Booyah" as my new text message notification - C. K. Sample III from twhirl

That's hilarious! - Christopher Harley

excellent! love it! but Gotham Cable News brings it up a notch. http://gothamcablenews.com/ - ~C4Chaos