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It's Official: I am Moving from Blogging to Lifestreaming - http://www.steverubel.com/its-off...
Michael Bravo, iTbay, earlyadopter and 23 other people liked this
"Honestly, the design is better over there but the features rock here. Especially auto-posting and email. They will get the theming part right next."
- Steve Rubel
How did you get Posterous to link directly to steverubel.com?
- Jack Carlson
Are you really?
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
How can you import all the previous activity in your main blog? And also what @Jack says, how did you forward steverubel,com to posterous?
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
I also would wait until FriendFeed comments can be ingested in posterous, otherwise you're still dispersed across multiple sites
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
That's the news of the day for me!!!
- Mark Bean
guys, Posterous let's you use custom domains. and you can import from pre-existing blogs now.
- Michael Lynton
Hey Steve Genuine question: I really dont get the benefits of Posterous of a blogger type platform (I know rookie!!) do you have a quick assesment to help a kid out?
- Cody Heitschmidt
@Jack they support domain mapping.
- Steve Rubel
via email
And yes they support content importing but I am leaving it on my existing site for SEO.
- Steve Rubel
via email
The problem with posterous is that when you use more than one posterous blogs, it does not let you channel the autoposts of each blog differently
- Nikos Anagnostou
What happens if posterous goes bankrupt? Do they have an easy way to export everything out?
- Jorge "JungleG" Escobar
Hey Steve - since you can set up Posterous to publish to a blog, why not keep micropersuasion.com going with your Posterous content? That way if Posterous ever goes away, all your (text) content will remain (though your media will die if Posterous does). Thoughts?
- Jason Clarke
Jason I am told that Google will penalize me.
- Steve Rubel
via email
Yeah, that's what I was worried about. Posterous would make a FANTASTIC publishing platform if they didn't require that you have a public Posterous page - i.e. if I could use all of the functionality of Posterous but publish to my own blog. I'd pay for that functionality.
- Jason Clarke
via email
posterous has autopost to other services... i auto post to friendfeed, twitter, facebook, and my wordpress.org blog so i've got it if they go under... i mostly use posterous to post up photos from my iphone
- Chris Heath
I love the URL: its-official-i-am-moving-from-blogging-to-lif
- earlyadopter
Mentioned you in my post today before I saw this. You might want to go leave a comment given that I said you still had valuable things to say in longer format. ;-) http://is.gd/1eDf6
- Brian Clark
Brian: microblogging can act as a long format through the dialogue of multiple postings, somewhat similar to blog comments actually
- Mike Chelen
My favorite ideas are ones that I used to think were stupid. (via @mattgillooly)
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Here's how to get tethering on any iPhone right now, no jailbreak, for free | 9 to 5 Mac - http://www.9to5mac.com/9to5mac...
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Embarrassed and ashamed to be an iPhone developer after reading about the Eucalyptus rejection. Feels like I work for the government.
Toby Graham, Josh Bancroft and Christoph Studer liked this
What's eucalyptus?
- Ashwin Bharambe
haha, i swear i tried. but i just did not try those keywords. on hindsight, that was just dumb of me. thanks, karl!
- Ashwin Bharambe
yeah, hope that wasn't too snarky, I was recently lmgtfy'd and can't resist doing it to others now :)
- Karl Rosaen
KARL I LOVE YOU, first time i've seen that!
- Toby Graham
And Joe is right thats
- Toby Graham
Why did the multi-threaded chicken cross the road? To get to side. the other (With apologies to whoever posted this an hour ago, can't find)
Jordan Brock, Dilip Dand, Michael Fidler and 4 other people liked this
FF search knows! http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I made a promise years ago to never use PowerPoint in front of an audience again. So, how do I organize a presentation? Mind Manager.
Elliott Goodwin, Daniel Schildt, Bryan R. Adams and 128 other people liked this
It's magic. Frees your mind from the stupid bullet list that bores audiences to death. Every time I see a PowerPoint deck my brain turns off.
- Robert Scoble
I have used this for years, great communication tool
- Mel Buckpitt
i prefer personalbrain. not as easy to use as mind manager but powerful nonetheless.
- Daniel Langendorf
Robert, as a former highschool teacher, I can assure you that Powerpoint is the evil enemy of learning...and yet every school insisted teachers started using it because the schools thought PP "was" technology...yikes. Advice? Tell stories with passion and understanding.
- Daniel Kenney
Daniel: I totally agree. The way schools teach technology just makes me ill.
- Robert Scoble
anyone ever try prezi.com? it's a bit different-- much more visual
- Ted Curran
So instead of Powerpoint™, use a real presentation platform that allows interactive data and tactile response to both you and your audience.
- Eric Martindale
i have been working on a new keynote /powerpoint method I can
- Ted Curran
PowerPoint is only a problem in that it makes it way too easy to just make lists of bullet points. They almost force you to go down that path. If they could somehow turn that off, and just provide the functionality to create a series of slides, each of which had a line or two of text, an image, etc... I don't think it'd get such a bad rap.
- Ken Sheppardson
*call "Attention Method"-- it's a way to use PPT or Apple Keynote not in the way the program wants to be used but in the way people's minds work
- Ted Curran
similar to other software noted is my favorite.. Big Mouth
- Daniel Kenney
What makes Mind Manager the first platform to come to mind? I have never heard of it until right now.
- Amani
I agree Daniel Kenney :(
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Amani: I saw Buzz Bruggeman give a talk with it and was mesmerized.
- Robert Scoble
Try Prezi, and if you have some time to devote to it, Keynote. Both are really pretty impressive.
- Ivan
I came across http://prezi.com last month, worth a look. It has sort of a tv commercial look, like the 2-d Ford pickup commercials.
- Tanner Powell
Too bad Mind Manager on the mac feels utterly abandoned. I switched to mac, but haven't used MindManager since. A real pity.
- Phil Calvin
I kind of like Prezi too. Very visual. Depends on the situation I suppose.
- Kim Feraday
Keynote.
- Jeremy Franklin
sure. try www.prezi.com. its amazing
- gatza
I don't want to get into a PowerPoint bashing thing here, but I agree it's bad. Another thing I've noticed is that the boring speakers usually have the most elaborate PP presentations. Yikes.
- Missionary Broadcasting
I'm a big fan of MindManager as well. Once you're done conceptualizing your presentation, Powerpoint (or any other presentation tool) can obviously be used as an effective tool. Powerpoint isn't innately evil, it's just too easy to miss-use. If you want to try a different tool give sliderocket.com a try. (but I'd stick with Mindmanager)
- Jason Goldberg
Well that's two programs I had no idea existed 15 minutes ago.
- Dean Clark
Do you use iThoughts iPhone app? I use it every day and they just upgraded to allow Mind Manager export
- Dave
Prezi is too difficult to learn for anyone - it is supercool but if you want to get right down to working, forget it - I wish I could use it - for mindmaps to me nothing beats MindMeister both for presentation materials as well for organizing ideas and tools - it is much easier and immediate than any other mindmapping tool I have tried, including having a full revisions history, working...
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- Robin Good
In the end the vote of PowerPoint chastity should really be targeted at avoiding making the "types" of PowerPoint slideshows that are so bad. Bad choice of images, too much text, and you reading them as you show them. It is not the tool so much, but the culture we have built around it. Whether with PowerPoint, Keynote, Sliderocket, OpenOffice or GoogleDocs the power of your presentation...
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- Robin Good
I wholeheartedly agree with you..PP is horrible! I refuse to use it and I've made a point to reject ppt files that colleagues send me with slides re design changes. I'll have to give MindManager a try..sounds great.
- Sufian Siddiqi
via fftogo
Prezi does look cool. I definitely need to take it for a spin.
- Alexander Grundner
Chalk board & elaborate hand gestures
- sofarsoShawn
The issue with powerpoint (and keynote) is that the flow of the presentation is completely locked in, and the presentation environment is unchanging. Mindmanager (or Freemind) allows branching, and the ability to store extra content for questions (only use as needed). Powerpoint or equivalent is good for building a screen when you want one that can dynamically build. An alternative way...
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- Alistair Nicholson
Come on! it's not the tool but the human mind behind the use of it!
- Stefanos Karagos
I used to use Thebrain.com personal brain for the same purpose. I stopped when I moved to multiplatforms (Mac and linux as well as Windows). I just checked back at the site to find that it is now available cross-platform (haven't checked that the data files are yet tho). I might be remaking contact with an old friend! I liked the easy way one could use local files or web resources. By...
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- Alistair Nicholson
@alistair: It is possible to branch PowerPoint -presentations with hyperlinks that jump from slide to another. Never considered it, but interesting idea. For example, after determining audience level, it could skip slides that explain basic things for experienced audience.
- Jemm
I like Mind Manager. Wish i had a reason to use it.
- Rodfather
Mind Manager rocks on a tablet pc
- Mel Buckpitt
Definitely. That was the last time I used it. It integrated with OneNote well too.
- Rodfather
I have been using Mind Manager for almost a year now exclusively for all my presentations. People love the refreshing look .. and so do I ;-)
- Remkus de Vries
Check out the free pptplex from Office Labs which is an add in for PP that gives you a similar zooming interface as Prezi. http://www.officelabs.com/project...
- Jamie
Alistair: That is exactly how I use PersonalBrain. I have it set up in Dropbox and am able to access it with any computer. It's worth a look-see again. It's also worth using to flesh out ideas for presentations, too, no matter what tool you end up using.
- Daniel Langendorf
Use Prezi at Prezi.com! ;) or sliderocket.com
- Csaba Mad
I am adoring Prezi - just the freshness of the look gives you a 50% boost in new biz meetings, and I really haven't found it at all hard to learn to use
- Jamie
Easy, use Keynote.
- Diego Barros
Last week i was thinking how lame PP is and actually did a presentation at college bashing it. The tool i've used for that was Prezi.com, the one mentioned by a lot of ppl in this thread. You should give them some love, definetely a great worth a look tool.
- Diego Sana
I got tired of trying to find the perfect presentation technique and ended up developing my own http://mlx.netii.net/templat... not perfect, but it works for me.
- MLx
Daniel & Jemm - thanks for that. I've just installed personalbrain on the Mac and opened some old brains done in the PC (aahh nostalgia). I really missed it as a tool. I've been using freemind, which does have some very good features, but personalbrain is still a better tool for this sort of work. Thanks.
- Alistair Nicholson
Jemm - in some cases I will just generate one or two slides using ppt or similar. By exporting them they become individual objects that I can mix and match - or call on as I need, without having to consider how to jump to them within the powerpoint package. Powerpoint (or keynote) then becomes a graphic slide authoring tool that just generates some components or objects I use in my...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I have presented for many years with MindManager. Its great for interactive presentations. Tomorrow I will use it present to a conference of independent financial advisers on the subject of mind mapping and mind mapping software. I humbly suggest they will remember my hour more than the 5 other hours of PowerPoint. This is web version summary. http://twurl.nl/24rzyv
- Andrew Wilcox
Final Cut...create a video!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Powerpoint is not the problem but how it is used.... take a look at Presentation Zen (book/website) :-)
- Gianfranco Chicco
Powerpoint is a time sink - whenever I have had to use it I ended up using more time fixing the presentation than focusing on the message. Can't remember which company took powerpoint off the systems and said they measured a productivity increase... or if it is a digital legend... but from my experience I can believe it.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
"It's a poor workman who blames his tools" -- old proverb
- Karim
Will you post your preso somewhere, would be great to see how you use it in place of powerpoint.
- jcunwired
Meh. Powerpoint is a tool to put stuff on screen. As long as you're not just reading off it...
- Yuvi
Mindmanager is a great App! I love to pull it up in meetings and just capture the ideas as they flow. Afterwards as a team we organize the information and then put it into a outline for others. Its wows the team every time! For presentations I've seen this used pretty well but if you try to print it out for users afterwards it takes more time to do (open all the collapsed trees.) I've...
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- CW™
Just convert powerpoint slides into pdf and present pdf to the audience.Although I am not a great fan of PDF or for that matter any powerpoint like software.
- ashish damania
ashish: you're not getting it. There's nothing worse to do to an audience than to present a standard powerpoint deck to them. The format is NOT what makes that boring.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Flash is the answer but it's a pain to learn and expensive to outsource, but that's the answer I think. Besides that, Mindjet MindManager is a fantastic peice of software
- Brandon Hall
Keynote.
- Johnny Schroepfer
You're right, it's not the format, nor is it Powerpoint. It is not using it to in an engaging way.
- Dennis Beatty
Robert,Sorry for misinterpreting your question. This one is a really tricky question.
- ashish damania
I often find slides take away from the message - people are reading the slide text instead of looking at and listening to the speaker, and the speaker is looking at the slides instead of at the audience. I wouldnt mind the speaker looking at the screen if he was demonstrating something (or writing, in the old blackboard style) but in a way slides which were supposed to support the presentation end up taking away from it. Too passive?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Much of my hourly pay job is presentations. Very interested in playing with new tools. Will review prezi, mindmanager, sliderocket, and personal brain
- Mark Essel
prezi is pretty amazing mark. i also use Free Mind but have never used it for a presentation...
- Morgan
wishing for 2nd like or something to bump this up higher amongst my likes and discussions
- metalerik
dream about it http://mindmappingsoftwareblog.com/
- bonuck (e associati...)
I have a talk tomorrow morning at my kids' school about technology in education. I was brainstorming it in Curio and Keynote, but I bought Prezi Pro just cuz it looks so cool. It's a little quirky, a little buggy, and not as flexible as, say Keynote, but it sure is a unique look. Mindmapping + Presentations.
- Leo Laporte
Nothing wrong with Powerpoint, it's just a tool. I do just fine with it and Keynote. Sounds like it's a presenter issue if you're bored
- Bwana
I love mindmanager, but its license is toooo stupidly and insanely expensive!!
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
yeah I love using xmind for organizing talking points but I don't normally use them to present - most audiences don't grok them ime
- mike "glemak" dunn
I'm sorry, trying to learn. I have a 30 slide presentation (+-10) that i present to customers around the world usually in a room of about 10 people. What could Mind Manager do that PPT isn't doing?
- Steve C
For everyone looking to learn more about using MindManager for presentations, I have written up a number of posts on the Mindjet blog that talks about how to do it, some best practices and sample maps. The most popular post in the series was from PresentationCamp SF, "Become a Presentation Superhero": http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... while other posts covered using images, colors, and fonts within your mind maps. Check'em out or contact me if you have questions!
- Michael Deutch
thx michael, bookmarked.
- Steve C
ah, michael good to see you here - for those who don't know him michael is mindjet’s chief evangelist & one of the hardest working community engagement folks on the net - i use xmind because i test lots of open source tools but have been a customer of mindjet for years & love mindmanager :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
Yeah thanks Michael, I've been wanting to see some examples/how-to's about using MindManager for presentations.
- Justin Hopkins
Actually I spoke too soon. I'm curious to see some video of a person "giving a talk with it" like you said Robert. Do you have any recordings of some of yours of the Buzz Bruggeman talk you mentioned?
- Justin Hopkins
I find using a Mind Map a lot easier for people to follow and sparks a lot more collaboration from the group.
- Jim Lavin
Robert try Prezi:http://prezi.com/
- Dean Kakridas
If you hate Powerpoint, Robert & friends, then you have to check out Edward Tufte's essay "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within." It's brilliant. And the cover still cracks me up: http://tr.im/lXjv
- Alan Mairson
Funny thing for me is that I've always made fun of PP style presentations and have been known as someone who really gets groups interacting, etc. (check out this clip of a game I led at Seattle Mindcamp -http://tinyurl.com/qjathj) BUT, just recently, I've discovered that for my type of improvised, interactive, often scattered, creative style --powerpoint is actually a good (much needed!) balance. So I've been upping the KeyNote. MultiModal is the way :)
- Leif Hansen
Robin Good: great comment on MindMeister.com - present.io is a very interesting app to keep track of, if you are doing a lot of online presentations. I use Skype screen share (Mac) for Coaching and presenting ways and methods to use applications.
- Jan Friman
via Nambu
How about having a standard cheaper version of mindmanager. I dont use all the awesome features version 8
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
Jemm and others - I'm back having been in the most boring presentation today that I have experienced in a very long time - powerpoint slides of the most horrible structure, plus given over a video conferencing tool where the presenter didn't read any of the questions in the typing area! Thebrain has a free version. What I've found is that because I use tiddlywiki (also free) to organise...
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- Alistair Nicholson
just a quick reaction to the person who suggested video - what can video add if you are there in person?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Joelle a video is a way to engage the audience and let the main messages be reminded. Your role there is to give the right introduction to the video and then open and manage the discussion after it. People will partecipate more to teh discussion. That's my personal experience by the way!
- Michela Cimnaghi /cimny
Robert, I agree & use MindManager for presentations, as well as various project information summaries, trying to stick to a "one sheet" philosophy for reports. One of my pet peeves is presenters who read the bullets on a PPT. Yikes!
- Rick Cogley
Joelle (thanks Michela) another use of video is short interviews or contributions. For example case studies with a manager from the customer explaining their problem, a business analyst explaining their technique around a specific problem, a web designer talking about how they 'imagine' the personality of a site, demonstration of an experimental technique with a patient. It creates...
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- Alistair Nicholson
I also meant to draw attention to Lief's comment about multi modal and how sometimes a powerpoint slide can present the underlying structure or main points of the presentation. I still believe there can be a place for dot points - so long as they are not the sole content. I believe there are few that would suggest Steve Jobs' presentations are boring, for example. Always worth a watch and they can be found on youtube. Other exemplars are the top rated talks on TED.com.It gives me something to aim for.
- Alistair Nicholson
FreeMind is very useful and Open Source. Give it a try!
- Nicola Junior Vitto
just got into Amode 4 project mgmt. same company @MindSystems. imports @MindJet.
- Courtney Engle
IMHO, my best tool is a whiteboard, and second place, a notebook with squares to plan a sort of storyboard. When I switch back to analog planning, I started to get my best results back on PowerPoint (I love 2007 version). Cheers,
- Rolando Peralta
Wow, what a great thread! I explored some best practices for presentations and wrote the following posts on the Mindjet blog. They could apply for any type of presentation but they're primarily focused on mind mapping...The first: 10 Steps to Great Presentation Maps -- http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Next, How to Make a Great Presentation: Mapping Your Content -- This one applies to using mind maps to 'think through' your presentation content, regardless of what tool you select for the actual presentation: http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
Your use of colors will impact the audience. Use them well! The Secrets of Using Colors in Maps - http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...
- Michael Deutch
What’s a Picture Worth? Here's a post about incorporating images into mind map presentations. http://blog.mindjet.com/2009... -- I saw an interesting tweet from Andrew Wilcox earlier today where he suggested placing large images inside 'topic notes'.
- Michael Deutch
Prezi reminds me of microsoft photosynth.
- ashish damania
And finally, here are a couple of posts about fonts in your mind map presentations: 10 Fixes for Font Foibles! (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...) and More Fun for Font Fanatics (http://blog.mindjet.com/2009...).
- Michael Deutch
michael: constructive suggestion - you should setup a mindmap group here on ff so these suggestions can be feed in separately and others can participate, they're just going to get lost inside this thread...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Wow what a great discussion. I have never heard of Prezi before and I will have a very imortant presentation to one of MNO next week. I prepared with PP, but now consider to do from scratch via Prezi.com. Thanks guys!
- Jacque Matalon
Robert, do you have anything that you can share that you've used Mind manager for? Do you actually use it in presentations or do you use it as a thought organizing tool? Thanks for answering if you have the time!
- Gregg Morris
i was blown away by a preso done in prezi.com. tried it out, the UI takes some getting used to, but w/ patience the zoom in/out approach yields great presos. worth checking out some of the demos. I saw a preso done w/ it that all took place inside the dot of a question mark (that was the reveal at end of preso). cool.
- Adrian Chan
re. TiddlyWiki: should I mention, that there's also a true presentation version?... http://ow.ly/8vMH
- schilke
Or you could emulate Carrot Top and use props from a great big trunk. Problem is you need to be a) really pumped up and b) certifiably nuts.
- bob corrigan
Schilke - thanks for the link to tiddlywiki presentation version. I've bookmarked that and visited the example. With tiddlywiki each 'tiddler' has a specifically adressable URL so that pages can be individually linked from mindmapping software. That way a complete subtopic can be created as a 'deck' but not invoked in the presentation unless we choose to go there. Back to the 'horrible'...
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- Alistair Nicholson
A cool MindMapping alternative is XMind.
- Martin Seibert
Overheard: "What's an OLED?" "It stands for Organic LED." "What, you mean like an LED from Whole Foods?"
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ROFL
- Alex Scoble
LEDs for techie greenhouses?
- Pete D
Twitter now available on Samsung TVs - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news...
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"Samsung has announced that Twitter will soon be available on its Internet@TV service and usable on the company's LED 6000, 7000 and 8000 series televisions and 6 and 7 series LCD televisions. As previously reported on Pocket-lint, Internet@TV taps into the Yahoo! widget engine for stock info, weather, news and other internet services, appearing as a scroll bar at the bottom of the screen and now it seems Twitter, which will allow users to tweet along to their favourite programmes as they watch them."
- Alan Cheslow
via Bookmarklet
This is cool.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
Not so sure - it's hard enough doing the "remote control fight". Having somebody trying to tweet while you're trying to watch something? Pass me the pitchfork...
- Andy Bold
Nice! I have an LN4A650, and I haven't even hooked up the internet connection, because the "ticker" stuff you can get from USAToday is so lame. It would be great if they'd allow RSS feeds, but at Twitter is at least a step in the right direction. :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Has anyone else noticed that the article on Samsung TV shows a photo of Toshiba? :)
- jcunwired
My TVs are the one place I escape where I am off the grid, and now this!
- jcunwired
@mrudski I agree. It would be great to find a way to sell ebooks after the fact to existing print book owners, at deep discount. How deep?
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max 3,95$ i like this idea very much!!!
- Arne Krueger
Do this, please. O'Reilly already excels at giving extras to those who buy the dead tree version of a book. The only books (heck, the only *anything*) I bother to register online are O'Reilly books. Would love to see free/cheap ebook version as a benefit (I've wished for this from Amazon from the day the Kindle launched). :-)
- Josh Bancroft
Wondering why Google was slow/down for ~14% of users for about an hour? Urs tells what happened: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Really screwed us up at work today!
- charles cole
And now that page is not loading.
- Joe Bonner
A theory on the reply change --> the celebs were getting spammed mercilessly.
Johan Bakken, Vincent Wright, Kol Tregaskes and 35 other people liked this
Eh? The setting was opt-in.
- Daniel Sims
It makes me feel that Twitter prefer to rely on celebs followers rather than the others? (bloggers, businesses, marketers..)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
oh totally - i'd almost guarantee that the celebs drove this change - and it was a year+ in the making [edit: not so sure about this now, but i'll let it stand as i wrote it earlier today]
- Chris Heath
I thought the change only made it so you dont see other people you follow's replies to people you dont follow where it starts with @user. You will still see @replies to you from people you dont follow show up in your mentions. So if celebs only follow 20 people, but get 200 replies to a tweet, they still show up in the replies tab for them. Just culls some of the noise from the people...
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- Simon Wicks
Simon: think of it this way... a celeb only wants to see the @ replies to them, not the @ replies that their followers are sending out to other celebs or other lay-users - they've got enough coming thru their twitter pipe that all those extra at-replies make their stream very noisy - and instead of figuring out how to get a better signal/noise they ask twitter to do it for them - makes total sense to me and from twitter's past actions this type of action would not be out of place
- Chris Heath
But its their fault for following everybody back, and enabling see all @replies then. Same with anyone else.
- Simon Wicks
Look, guys, this behavior that we see imposed on us today used to be default. In order to change it to see all replies, you had to dive into Settings. So no, this theory doesn't make any sense to me.
- Vlad Bobleanta
for a 'celeb' who only follows a few people this is no big deal, but for one, they don't allow the auto follow back anymore, do they? and the feature that was turned off wasn't the default either, so most 'celebs' probably didn't have that feature to begin with... maybe it wasn't the celebs that 'did' this --- maybe it's an infrastructure play and they'll have less fail whales if they don't have to parse that setting
- Chris Heath
dave - that's what i said last night - the celebs brought this on im sure - they have a special hotline to twitter
- Allen Stern
But if they didn't go into settings and TURN ON see all @replies, they'd never experience that. Vlad's right. And if they did, and didn't like getting spammed, all they gotta do is go TURN IT OFF. Doesn't make sense.
- Jandy
Yeah Jandy, that's what i was thinking... but the celebs can't control what we all have for our settings, so if you @reply Oprah, and i'm following you i can see that @reply to Oprah, but only if i'm also following Oprah... in that regard, it's a way to get more people to follow 'celebs'. Under the old way (if i had my settings set right, and i did) I could see your 'conversation' with...
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- Chris Heath
The way that this is reported to have been implemented it doesn't change the spamability factor. The way I understood this was that only tweets beginning in an "@" would not be seen. Other mentions would be seen. I could be mistaken. It also seems as thought this was not affecting API clients. Suggestion from one developer say this will not affect their app.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Allen, I bet they don't need to wait few month to get some twitter help support..
- Orli Yakuel
If it doesn't affect clients (and won't ever), then I guess I'm a little bit back to...why do it at all? Does anyone NOT use a client?
- Jandy
A commenter on Sheamus' post http://twittercism.com/all-rep... suggested what I think is the perfect solution. Enable us to choose on a user by user basis if we want to see "all @replies", "replies only from those I'm following", or "no replies".
- Sharon McPherson
Jandy: Yes, there are some who don't use a client, because of work, school, OS restrictions.
- Sharon McPherson
there are web based clients to use - one need not use the twitter.com website to connect via http
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sharon, thats how it has always been. Which is why I'm confused by the whole thing! There has ALWAYS been (until now) the option to choose if we want to see "all @replies", "replies only from those I'm following", or "no replies". The big deal now is that we are no longer given the option to see all @ replies.
- Charlotte {charley} M
FYI: FriendFeed is an HTTP twitter client
- Chris Heath
Jandy: It does affect clients. Replies to strangers are also gone from the same friends_timeline that clients use. Clients can get around it by separately retrieving the user_timeline of each user that you follow and displaying them with the regular timeline, but this would be expensive in terms of API calls. FriendFeed doesn't use friends_timeline, you actually follow a separate FriendFeed which simply has Twitter updates posted to it, so FF is not affected.
- Guan Yang
Charley: Now you can't even choose "no replies".
- Guan Yang
" ... other celebs or other lay-users." Oh, there's now a Twitter laity? Social media has more layers than Outback's Bloomin' Onion.
- Chris Baskind
Charley: I'm aware of how the replies function has worked, what the commenter was suggesting is that Twitter give us the option to choose on a user by user basis how we want the replies settings to work for that user. For instance, if I'm following you on Twitter I could set the option to be "all @replies". If I'm following someone else who is particularly chatty, I could choose the...
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- Sharon McPherson
Sharon - aah right apologies, my mistake there :) That would be a great feature actually, much better than the original options. Would solve my problem now of having too many tweets in my timeline from particular people protesting the change by not putting the @ first.
- Charlotte {charley} M
Celebs don't follow anyone, so how could this be an issue?
- Mike Lizun
MIke: My humble opinion, I don't think it was so much the celebs that complained, but the groupies that followed them clogging up timelines tweeting to Oprah, Kutcher, and such, when there was a snowball's chance in hell they would get a response. I think most of the complaining came from Twitter users themselves who were getting tired of it.
- Sharon McPherson
I second Sharon's comment.
- Damon Cortesi
Could this be partly be because of Troy's Script, which I understand bypasses the default setting in Twitter to show all replies?
- Molly
Thank you Damon. But that still doesn't explain why Twitter didn't just tell the complainers they had 2 options, change their replies settings to "replies only from those I'm following", or, unfollow.
- Sharon McPherson
There's a simple solution to that too, Molly. Uncheck that option from the script's features or remove the script.
- Sharon McPherson
Guan, huh. Looks like you're right. I just checked Seesmic Desktop, and looks like I don't seen any replies to people I'm not following. I swear I looked at Twitterfox this morning and did, though. Did they just update the API within the last few hours?
- Jandy
In relationship to the celeb perspective, this thread added to my perspective http://friendfeed.com/kevinro...
- Holly Rae
One more comment and then I'll shut up. Like Dave said in his article here, http://www.scripting.com/stories... I too saw a message on the Twitter home page advising of a change in the way replies works, but once the page had loaded completely, it was gone. I think they knew the kind of uproar this would cause and for some reason tried to slide it in as inconspicuously as they could.
- Sharon McPherson
(from another thread) I think, given @biz's bs this morning about the engineering team reminding him this is a technical necessity, that twitter is grasping at straws trying to cut interprocess messaging traffic down in order to stay afloat. While I'm not an expert in the flow that they're using at twitter, I can suggest that in networking design, it's much less taxing to drop traffic...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Update from Twitter - Replies will be fixed http://blog.twitter.com/2009...
- Sharon McPherson
Let this be a lesson: Next time Twitter screws up, everyone just needs to choke @ev and @biz with @bombs and they'll be forced to listen. Maybe they'll even learn to like, and USE twitter.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob, and get #twitterfail to trend along with whatever the fail-specific tag is. ;)
- Jandy
+2 Jandy :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sharon: I LOVED Troy's script. Apparently the new changes disabled it. I could only see my own updates when I was on Twitter a few minutes ago so came here. :-D
- Molly
Molly: I hadn't received a Twitter update in over an hour, they're just now starting to trickle in.
- Sharon McPherson
I agree w/(someone) who said we need threaded comments here in FF. Sharon: It's late now so Twitter's fixing itself will have to wait for me to get back to it. :-P
- Molly
This theory is wrong. Also nobody complained. It's just Twitter being dumb.
- Rutger Blom
Rutger: got the inside scoop? Are you sure nobody complained? (the twitter being dumb part is right on though)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Still using Hotmail or Yahoo Mail? Google just made it incredibly easy to switch to Gmail: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009... Try it!
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Most people use Hotmail and/or Yahoo Mail along side Gmail.
- Amit Morson
I sure hope it runs gmail's spam filtering on the imported mail first. My old hotmail account has so much spam mixed in eith real email...
- Joel Webber
i stopped using Hotmail as soon as I got Gmail, years ago, but I still have a lot of mail sitting there that I'd love to have archived and searchable in Gmail. It's probably worth the hassle to import it. Going to check it out.
- Josh Bancroft
Twitter Puts a Muzzle on Your Friends: Goodbye People I Never Knew http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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steve gillmor, FTW. he just doesn't bother with the @. fixes that problem...track fixed the rest. Guess Twitter Search might be in for a workout.
- Karoli
Karoli I guess that's one good way to protest this :-)
- Jesse Stay
This post hits the nail on the head for me.
- Derrick
Recommendation still works via RTs and mentions of their name other than at the start. All this does is cut out the "@someone OK/LOL/whatever" noise. If you put the @ at the end instead of the beginning, everyone will see it. I liked being able to turn it on and off, but honestly, I kept it off most of the time.
- Mr. Gunn
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Can twitter please figure out a way to show threaded conversations? It's so annoying to see a feed full of half-conversations and have to click a link to backtrack and see the context of the tweet. I wish Jaiku won this micro-blogging battle 3 years ago. It was so much better than Twitter.
- deelirium
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True - threaded conversations would solve this issue and there is a logical way of implementing them into the current @reply system (by making use of the in_reply_to attribute)
- Jamie
RT #fixrepliesyourownway: write @[name] at the end of reply, or use a different symbol entirely, e.g. >[name] (via @shbadr)
- Sarah Badr
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Re: #fixrepliesyourownway After testing between two accounts for whom followers are not shared, it appears that it does make a difference whether or not you place the '@[name]' in the beginning or at the end of a reply. Generally, I tend to manually write out names rather than click 'send reply'. But even by writing it out, messages sent with '@[name]' in the beginning don't show up on...
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- Sarah Badr
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I was delighted when I found that I could turn off the one-sided @ replies - it meant that I could still follow some of the more prolific twitterers (I'm looking at you <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dahowle...">@dahowlett</a>...) without my stream being swamped with half conversations directed at people I don't know and don't need to know. But, although I don't miss the feature it's...
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- James Ward
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Just another reason why FriendFeed owns Twitter. I discover tons of great ppl via the FoF feature.
- Kate
I believe Twitter is trying to stave off a problem where spammers can take advantage of sending @reply messages into people's Twitter stream without following them. Good intentions, horrible execution. Al
- Al Degutis
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Continuing their undying commitment to suckitude, Twitter removed the configuration option, but left the relevant sidebar tip in place on the Settings -> Notices page, with a link to a help article that actually does a nice job of explaining the way @ replies used to work, and about which few people complained.
- Thomas Taylor
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+1 On the spam issue. I kept getting tagged in #followfriday posts from some guy who recommended like 500 people a week. I think we live in the same city, but I certainly don't know him or his work.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
6 degrees on Twitter was a good thing, let's hope they rethink this move and keep the masses happy eh?
- Neil Ferree
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I'm getting so tired of people thinking that this is twitter doing something new. It's not! If you're too clueless to get that, then you'll see no change, because what they just forced on everyone was already the default! The change only affects those of us who are literate enough to go in, read the settings, and change them to the more social option - the one they just took away. #fixreplies
- tollie williams
"While recommendations are interesting, I'd like to use my own judgment in deciding who's interesting enough to follow." I agree 100%.
- Steffan Antonas
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I think that one way to protest can be replacing @ with #, that way all our nicks become hashtags. That way it will show up in our streams AND it will affect the sidebar.
- Andrés David Aparicio
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chartier: You don't put up a soundproof glass wall in a coffee shop between tables. You let people be people and mingle in conversations if they want. - http://twitter.com/chartie...
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The ProPrompter™ Portable Teleprompter. Affordable Mobile Teleprompters | Bodelin Technologies - http://www.bodelin.com/proprom...
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app to transform iphone into teleprompter, plus sells actual teleprompters and accessories
- Jacob Reiff
May 22, 2009: The Whuffie Factor: Reading & Discussion by Tara Hunt at souk - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event...
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Cool! I didn't know Tara was coming to town. Will definitely try to make it.
- Josh Bancroft
Live blog with Twitter plugin for WordPress — NevilleHobson.com - http://www.nevillehobson.com/2009...
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Kickstarter » Projects - http://www.kickstarter.com/
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Very interesting grassroots funding concept
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Not Smart: Warner Music Issues DMCA Takedown On Larry Lessig Presentation - http://techdirt.com/article...
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This should be good.
- jcunwired
Priceless. I'm sure Larry will be OK with this. <wink, wink, nudge, nudge>
- Jack Carlson
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""Live streaming takes the Internet to the next level," said Jake Gold, chief technology officer at Stickam.com. "Leo is a great example of the replacement of TV.""
- Leo Laporte
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Mmm, ego stroking. :D
- Mike Nayyar
Leo is a pioneer and I'm sure he's watched closely by the big networks.
- Donald Townsend
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"Million dollar business"??? Hope it is true Leo - you certainly deserve it.
- Euan
Leo gets (some) heat for his opinions, complaints about Twitter, etc...but the bottom line is that he is a pioneer and the rare guy in tech who provides real value to his listeners and viewers. There's a reason he is making money, essentially "at home." I've learned from this guy for 10 years. And I'm no newbie.
- Dave Johnston
Nice article indeed. Great business. Listen to you almost every day
- Robert
Been following Leo for years. I loved Screensavers and Call for Help. I am so glad he decided to break the paradigm and show the big boys what a geek with motivation can do. GET SOME LEO!!!!!!!!!!!
- Robert C
I love Leo and have always been a huge fan. Sadly I haven't been able to listen to TWiT in a long time (just haven't has the time) but from what I have heard from numerous sources the show has really taken an awful turn for the worse. I saw tweets from people today saying they couldn't even make it through the current episode of Macbreak weekly because it was so bad. Like I said I haven't been able to tune in for a while, anyone else find that the network has given up on quality content?
- Nicholas Kreidberg
The TWiT podcast is better than ever recently.
- Phillip Stewart
Great article Leo. Congrats. The mainstream takes notice when ad revenues can actually support the business. Still rare these days in our biz, plus you get to do what you love. Keep up the good work.
- Martin Spriggs
Great exposure Leo! FWIW, Brian Brushwood has been an awesome contributor to TWiT. Revision3 is letting him go to waste just doing Scam School.
- Paul Reynolds
I agree, Brian was fun
- JimmyDee
Leo is the man! He's a leader and I hope he gets lots of appreciation for his trail blazing!!
- Susan Beebe
Glad to see Leo getting more coverage :)
- Steven Cains
This inspires me - I'm starting a stickam show! Thanks Leo!
- Joe Mescher
"has his sights set on online video streaming"? I think you're just a tad beyond that.
- jcunwired
google-feedserver - Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
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Ooh - sounds interesting. A host-your-own FeedBurner would be awesome! This is not that, but one can dream...
- Josh Bancroft
Intel IDF starts in Beijing in a few hours. Only a one-day conference but we might see news about Moblin, Moorestown and new Atom CPUs.
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Shocking News: Scientists Say Workplace Social Networking Increases Productivity! - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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I've known for years that I'm more productive if I can chat with someone IM throughout the day, or do something somewhat diverting to help keep my brain from just outright frying. Now, sometimes I just code and have eyes for nothing else, but most of the time I'm faster and better if I multi-task than if I just do one thing.
- Jaemi Kehoe
WILB: Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing. Just not so sure about the claim of productivity. Ability to concentrate and productivity don't seem to be the same thing.
- Kevin Gamble
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Now if only the scientists themselves would start doing it....
- Bora Zivkovic
Thank God someone finally noticed ...nice one (L)ucky (G)oldStar
- Thomas Power
yea they said that about listening to classical music and other things, employers just want control and most rather say no for no reason, now with the economy the way it is, you cannot even bring out your cell phone and text or look at the time without getting reamed, bitched at, warned, written up or fired...
- Kyle Weller
Study: surfing the Internet at work boosts productivity - http://arstechnica.com/web...
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HAY THIS ARTICLE IS REALLY COOL oh wait it's one of my own and I'm just re-sharing because I saw it in my friend' shared items. Lulz.
- Jacqui Cheng
Google uncloaks once-secret server | Business Tech - CNET News - http://leo.tumblr.com/post...
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Moblin handed over to Linux Foundation. - http://www.umpcportal.com/2009...
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Updated: New and Improved FFavatars.com FriendFeed Widget - http://cheslow.com/2009...
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"For those that missed the original post, FFavatars shows your favorite FriendFeed followers on your blog or website. And now, it can also display your followers in a single widget combined with the standard FriendFeed badge and status widgets."
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Very nice. I like it a LOT! Have already updated my website with the updated code. GREAT JOB!
- Russ Jackson
Creative Commons wins the 2008 Free Software Foundation Award for Project of Social Benefit http://creativecommons.org/weblog...
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