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Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Twitter for Beginners: 5 Steps for Better Tweeting
- George Arnaoutoglou
BuddyFeed – Native iPhone Friendfeed App – Gets a Major Update - http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpre...
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can't get my lists or groups to appear on it for some reason...
- Zee.
Buddyfeed has been the best way to use FriendFeed for those like myself who can't stand the website UI.
- Chris Rodgers
from BuddyFeed
Zee - how many lists do you have? It shows mine OK, but I have hardly any ...
- Patrick Jordan
lists 4, but groups/rooms - freakin' loads
- Zee.
Hmmm - I've got 34 rooms and they show up just fine - you have a lot more than that? I haven't used Groups yet - so that's a difference. Hopefully Robin will see this thread soon and have some input ...
- Patrick Jordan
Now I want an iPhone!
- Michael Fidler
Zee, I am the developer of BuddyFeed. It seems you have a lot of subscriptions and the size of your profile data is 2M. It may take some time to get the information for the first time. You may need to try to keep buddyfeed open for a while to get your profile downloaded. If you still have problems, please let me know.
- Robin Lu
BuddyFeed was decent, but a little underwhelming & buggy when I initially purchased it. But this update takes it prime-time... it's now far superior to using the web interface in Safari. I *do* wish it would allow landscape mode, but that's one of my only remaining complaints.
- Roger Benningfield
I'll try that again: I'm finding BuddyFeed to be a more preferable way of looking at FF than the real-time web UI...
- Brad Brooks
from BuddyFeed
+1 on landscape mode, particularly when viewing actual web pages. Don't know why so few apps seem to support it.
- Grey Drane
And yeah, I've noticed that some of my feeds are taking a while to load first time. On "Likes", for example, I had to tap "Load more" 3-4 times before anything showed up, but most others worked after just 1 or 2 taps.
- Grey Drane
BuddyFeed is good, but I still find it confusing with Rooms, Groups and Lists....
- Baard @ Pixum
Is it too much to ask for a Blackberry version of BuddyFeed? Hello? *taps on monitor screen*
- Ms_Krista
Something I haven't been able to discover is, does Buddyfeed support some kind of offline mode? That's one reason I use Nambu during my commute. It will download and cache, and I can still access Friendfeed content when I hit a data dead spot.
- Andy Bold
no, it doesn't, Andy. In fact if you're typing something and click "post" and lose your connection (which happens unacceptably often here in coastal LA with ATT), you will also lose the post.
- Anthony Citrano
it's a cool app; I like it and bought it and use it for several months now. it crashes occasionally and has the issue I mentioned above, but overall I think it's a really good app.
- Anthony Citrano
one of my most used apps
- George Dearing
from BuddyFeed
So this was from May -- have there been any update since? Anything added?
- Vince DeGeorge
It used to be buggy. Is it better ?
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
from iPhone
I find it very solid now.
- Patrick Jordan
Cool, but I am not paying 2.99 for it.
- Zachary TG
Hard for me to tell why this is better than just using the web version.
- Herb Hernandez
I've tried several FF iPhone apps and not been terribly impressed by any. I'll make this my last one (previous include Nambu & AlertThingy)
- CannonGod
agree. just got buddyfeed and am happy. still need to go back and forth with facebook though. updates quickly and is stable on 3g iPhone.
- Carey Lumeng
from BuddyFeed
Techcrunch: The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010 - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"Most certainly a direct challenge to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions of these products have less features than their desktop cousins but still let users that users basic tools to edit and change documents."
- Ryan - @magicofpi
from Bookmarklet
The web browser-based versions look like a pretty good facsimile of the native Windows versions. I'd be interested to see if they perform roughly the same.
- Tyson Key
I still think Microsoft is having a too complicated mind. Loo at the interface. They never really learn the mantra "Keep it Sweet and Simple"
- Thomas Chai
The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Argument: "Idiots don't understand the basics of how search engines work and make stupid and paranoid decisions because of it, therefore we need to force Google to disclose their algorithms and a condition of perfect information will result" - Dumb!
- Joshua Prowse
BUSTED! Eric Schmidt Caught Using A BlackBerry (RIMM, GOOG) - http://www.businessinsider.com/busted-...
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BUSTED! Eric Schmidt Caught Using A BlackBerry http://su.pr/3QwpW8
- Mrinal Desai
CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands - http://mashable.com/2009...
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You may know CoTweet as the Twitter CRM tool used by BestBuy, JetBlue, and Ford, and if you’re a business Twitter user with multiple people managing multiple accounts, then you’ve probably been dying to try it. Now you can. Today CoTweet, formerly open to just a select group of companies, is announcing its public beta launch, which means you can have immediate access to the same business-centric tools for Twitter account and tweet management as the big brands. You may remember from our previous post that CoTweet’s web-based application is ideal for multiple account management for multiple users. Essentially it’s the always on application for brands and businesses that need to ensure their Twitter accounts are being managed at all times.
- ben barren
You may know CoTweet as the Twitter CRM tool used by BestBuy, JetBlue, and Ford, and if you’re a business Twitter user with multiple people managing multiple accounts, then you’ve probably been dying to try it. Now you can. Today CoTweet, formerly open to just a select group of companies, is announcing its public beta launch, which means you can have immediate access to the same...
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- ben barren
Why Chrome OS Now? Because Microsoft Office In The Cloud Comes Monday. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"On Monday, Microsoft is set to unveil its plans to counter the attack Google previously had launched on it with Google Docs. Yes, Microsoft Office is going to the cloud."
- huixing
from Bookmarklet
Bit.ly’s Grand Plans, And Their Inevitable Clash With Digg: Bitly Now - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Clever - ".. the new service will become a huge competitive advantage to Bit.ly’s core shortener service. Sites like ours (TechCrunch), which use our own shortener service, will be left out of the Bit.ly service. Publishers who otherwise wouldn’t care will start to use Bit.ly to increase exposure in the ecosystem. Then the network effect kicks in - as more people use Bit.ly they get more data, making the service stronger, and forcing more people to use the service.."
- Winston Teo
from Bookmarklet
The Web will be the Death of Google - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Never
- Calabros
have a read, it's not by me but its a fascinating post
- Zee.
But doesn't this assume that Google won't adapt to the changes? Why couldn't Google simply "steal" what Bing or other search or social engines offer?
- phil baumann
Moving from search to favourites lists will stagnate the web. Search engines allow fresh new content to get found without huge marketing campaigns. I really don't think in a decentralized chaotic medium like the Internet that stagnation like that will be embraced. Search may fragment, but I don't think it'll ever be supplanted.
- matthew john ernisse
fascinating post, but author thinks google is frozen and others are running
- Calabros
Its an interesting post. Although I don't think everyone will stick to a set of websites as new ones launch and users move over to them. The arguement that search may not be as important in the future is potentially realistic although Microsoft should have built a good SE while it is still important and made alot of money in the process - something they are doing now ;)
- Nicholas James
i dont think so nickolas. he says you can find people in facebook better than google. ok, but what if we have hundreds of facebooks in future?
- Calabros
@phil baumann: the point I'm trying to make is that Google won't be 'killed' by another, more innovative, search engine but by a changing World Wide Web. I don't search for books at Google but use Amazon. Correct? Google will have to compete with Amazon, Linkedin, eBay and all the social networks.The threat is not better search, is it less searching.
- Boris
Boris - it's a great point. still, Google could enter search biz for books (remains to be seen how their ebook venture goes). In other words, Google doens't have to be solely dedicated to Search. Still, you do raise an important consideration: that traditional search will probably decline in use as other means of finding things evolve.
- phil baumann
Calabros: There will be something which is able to solve that problem ;)
- Nicholas James
The article assumes too much about Google missing the boat, when in truth they have shown to act faster/more decisively than either MSFT, Yahoo, or most others. 1) Google bought YouTube ("the Web") when it became apparent that it was the next big wave. While they are still getting dinged for not monetizing it enough, YouTube already has more SEARCHES performed on it than No.2 search...
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- Alex Schleber
Uh, Alex, @ev already sold Blogger to Google; doesn't look like he's looking to sell again.
- Raphael, Raphael
Uh, @Vezquex, how is that a reason for Ev not to sell to them again (unless he felt screwed last time)? Whatever happened to "Each war makes the next one more plausible"? Plus, if the price is right, Twitter's VCs will nudge them to sell anyway. I think it's mostly price-inflating posturing/"courtship" right now..
- Alex Schleber
Have to completely disagree with this post, though it is interesting. If one looks at the examples of other sites cited by the author, one can see that in each case, search is still essential. Yes, much of search can be done from within specific sites instead of from an engine homepage like google. But if google has access to the information and APIs of sites just like everyone else...
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- Zach Landes
Wordoid: hands down the best way to find a unique name for your new product or website. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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i'm not just saying this because i wrote the post, but this is he best naming product i've come across
- Zee.
cool. I'll give it a try
- jbrotherlove
from Nambu
saw this on hacker news. It's a great brainstorming tool if you think about what each website would offer.
- sdfx
Similar to dotomator.
- TrafficBug
Google Launches Maps Data API - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
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"Maps Data API"
- Larry Myers
from Bookmarklet
To: @philosophygeek there's really no downside to following tons on Twitter. As you know, it's really all about search.
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Of note, @philosophygeek is one of the main geeks behind PowerSet, sold to Microsoft as part of their Live Search.
- Louis Gray
Good to know, I had the chance to meet one of the powerset researcher when he was visiting MSRI bangalore, really smart bunch of people there :)
- Asankhaya Sharma
Hey you guys are all intense about twitter and all that, and you are great. Obviously somebody needs to design and discuss the design of the future of online communications and information. Yet, I also have a feeling that all these tools are only useful to the people who have many thousands of followers. Thus all the followers basically don't have anything else to do than to listen through the noise that the most popular users on twitter and friendfeed have to say.
- Charbax
Yet I do believe friendfeed might start being really interesting once it filters topics and conversations in a way so relevant posts, even by total newbies, can filter to the top if they are really the best quality and of most relevant to each users interests.
- Charbax
But no one has created a good search on twitter yet. . . and it's not really search I want (pull), I want discovery (push). The tools for discovery aren't nearly as mature as search.
- Mark Johnson
BTW - nice workaround to Twitter's decision to remove @replies to people you don't follow. Use of "To: @[name]".
- Hutch Carpenter
Why were we all hoaxed about Prop 8? The Los Angeles Times tweeted it: http://friendfeed.com/latimes... More here:
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To me that's a fireable offense for a journalistic organization to Tweet something like this.
- Robert Scoble
yup, NOT amateurs there, though don't know about firing...
- sofarsoShawn
How often does 140 characters or less cause such a tidalwave of controversy?
- BenKarl
Why do we still call them journalists?
- Jonathan Brown
BenKarl: every once in a while.
- Robert Scoble
I had hopes their account had been hacked... LOL
- Fred Garrett
http://www.latimes.com/news... Why did they write a four page story if its a hoax?
- David Lloyd
I busted a RT when I saw it in my stream and trending... First time I saw Twitter trends be so false. I usually thoroughly check before RTing but the sources looked legit and figured the headline said it all.. Lesson learned :)
- Jesse Newhart
Mark: it's not technically a hoax. The story is just a year old. Look at the dateline carefully.
- Robert Scoble
Those bastards :)
- Drew Lucas
I have a screen capture because they've deleted the tweet here too. If anyone cares I can upload it.
- Robert Scoble
Yes please, it's proof of their embarrassing reporting practices, which they should apologize for
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoshawn: Here's the screen capture. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Robert Scoble
warning, tooting my own stuff, but this is another reason why _content_ is important on the realtime web, not just conversation. here's a screen shot for a OneRiot SERP on "prop 8" http://www.flickr.com/photos... The good news here is that the realtime web can get information out *fast* (of course). but it also has to be reliable.
- Tobias Peggs
http://bit.ly/DA "Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. For some batty reason we turn off this natural scepticism when we see things in any medium which require a lot of work or resources to work in, or in which we can’t easily answer back – like newspapers, television or granite. Hence ‘carved in stone.’"
- Kevin Marks
"What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust – of course you can’t, it’s just people talking – but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV – a mistake that no one who has met an actual journalist would ever make."
- Kevin Marks
Scoble: Thanks I just tweeted that screenshot http://ff.im/2VCt8
- sofarsoShawn
Give the inflammatory language a rest. "Hoaxed?" That implies a deliberate intent that I've seen no evidence of.
- Scott of Two Countries
Dewey Defeats Truman! Wait...
- David August
looks like Prop8 goof may have started from this individual tweet: http://twitter.com/Juliana... and amplified by many, many others, LATimes being one. (via http://daggle.com/how-pro...) Question then becomes whether that original tweet was driven by erroneous GOOG news alert etc. or just human error.
- Dan Rua
Robert, as Dan notes in pointing to my post above, it wasn't that the LA Times tweeted it. That came well after the original tweets started. Not good, added to the confusion, but not the source.
- dannysullivan
nice work Danny...ironic that posts/tweets highlighting the goof/bad information (old news) starts propagating bad information about the origin of the error...it's like a viral mutation.
- Dan Rua
Robert, thank you for opening this debate. Just posted this clarification over on our original FF version of the tweet in question:This tweet was a misfire. Once it was noticed, it was a) removed from twitter to avoid confusion. b) acknowledged and corrected as an FTR: http://twitter.com/LATimes... c) we shared links to our most current coverage. We appreciate your feedback and...
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- Los Angeles Times
Please watch our LA Now blog - http://latimes.com/now - for an update on this. ~ Andrew / @latimesnystrom
- Los Angeles Times
I figured it was either an intern who didn't really understand twitter, or a mistake. But yeah, being that it was a media organization the size of the LATimes, it's pretty scary. It shows, though, the passion and interest around Prop 8; and more importantly, the necessity to actually READ the links one retweets.
- Karoli
@LA Times when & where exactly on the Blog? I can't seem to find mention of it or does anyone else see a response?
- sofarsoShawn
Hoax? It's called checking everything before RTing. :)
- l0ckergn0me
Who are you having on your show Oprah?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I'm confused - you said "have you on my show" and then referred to Beyonce, and she's not here
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Well at least it's not an emotionally charged topic for anyone. I'm sure no one will pick up on this. I'll get the torches, Robert, can I borrow your extra pitch fork?
- Kevin Murray
Here's a direct link to the LA Now blog post, from 2:13pm PDT: "False report on Proposition 8 being overturned lights up Twitter" - http://tr.im/ltFR ~ AndrewN, LAT [full-time staffer, not an intern]
- Los Angeles Times
I'M SICK OF THIS ISSUE! BOTH sides have repeatedly violated the law in an attempt to either shove legal gay marriage down Californians' throats or shove marriage discrimination against gays down Californians' throats. I support the legalization of gay marriage, but not the illegal tactics used by BOTH sides to force victory on their side.
- Thunderwing
from twhirl
Ha! @tweetexorcist I write all my own Tweets. You can call anytime to check. My phone is +1-425-205-1921
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but does this mean that you will pick up?
- Giancarlo Caparo
Considering the amount of followers you have, was that wise?
- Robert
He will pick up and as far as wise goes, he has done this forever. He says he doesn't have as many calls as you might suspect with all of the followers he has. And I will happily attest that he does his own tweets and always has. Although, just for fun, who do you think would make a good ghost tweeter for him?
- Gregg Morris
Based on reports of spam/marketers using twitter to cull emails, I would think it would be wise to avoid listing your phone number as well. Spam is easy these days, phone spam is still annoying. Unless you are using a service like Google Voice...
- Elliott Klug
Robert: I got one call so far today and I learned a lot from it. My phone number has been on my blog for years and it's rare that I get a bad call.
- Robert Scoble
Elliott: spam phone calls are easy to avoid. They usually have a blocked caller ID.
- Robert Scoble
Giancarlo: you can always call and see if I pick up!
- Robert Scoble
This is why Robert is the best :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
If I'm available I will, if not, I will call back. As long as your CallerID isn't blocked.
- Robert Scoble
I get tons of spam in gmail but I never see it. I don't have any issue posting my email address online.
- Kevin Kuphal
Your voicemail tells us to send you an email :p Why not a FF comment? ;)
- Robert
Robert: good idea, will call you back in a second.
- Robert Scoble
I called from Skype though, let me know when I can try again, I actually wanna ask your opinion on something :)
- Robert
Robert: i'm free now.
- Robert Scoble
Damn mic input
- Robert
Robert: if you just called I couldn't hear you.
- Robert Scoble
Hah!
- Robert Scoble
If there is one thing the collective Voip/sound card industry need to get right, its that kinda shit
- Robert
and with this new Skype, its totally not obvious what imput its using.
- Robert
Thanx for the convo Robert, that was cool
- Robert
I do not have any doubt over Robert scoble.
- ashish
nice one RB these guys don't realise no-one ever phones
- Thomas Power
I really like the openness of putting your number out there for the world to see. While I don't share my cell number with much of anyone, my GoogleVoice number is for all to see. (and linked to the cell) I have yet to get a spam call.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Scoopler: real-time search results and more #web - http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009...
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"As developers look at the success of Twitter and the possibilities of real-time, search results that come straight from social networks, we're going to start seeing a lot more search engines like Scoopler. Scoopler delivers search trends in the left column, scrolling search results from Twitter, Delicious, Flickr and Digg in the center, and video, links and images on the right."
- Mathew™ one of a kind
from Bookmarklet
shifting gears 100% iphone dev for the next 4 weeks. change is good
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is this for feedly? :)
- Frankie Warren
I hope you're also considering WebOS :)
- jcunwired
Frankie. Yes: feedly for iphone. Using friendfeed for definition/design review http://friendfeed.com/feedly-...
- Edwin Khodabakchian
You suppose there will be an Android project at some point?
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher: yes. we are trying to design it in a way where what we are building will be easy to port. Trying because it is not 100% clear yet if the HTML+CSS+JS will be fast enough to deliver what we want but apple has some interesting CSS transformation which are hardware accelerated so there is a little bit of hope. We have a sketch of that available in the friendfeed room.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Let me make sure I'm following here. If it turns out you can't design for iPhone in a way that's easy to port to other platforms, will there not be a separate Android effort?
- Christopher A Carr
If the % of native objective C we need to write is high, then there will be an Android effort but it will take longer to come out.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Ah, got it. Appreciate the effort, and considering the growth projections for Android, I think it will be well worth it for you.
- Christopher A Carr
just finished a fun radio interview w/@DrBobParsons (ceo godaddy - new to twitter!), always a fun time
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reading, Twitter Reverses Policy Change, For Now. This is Nuts But Here's How It Works, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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San Francisco Reaches Highest Recycling Rate in U.S. at 72% - http://redgreenandblue.org/2009...
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@kresge I'm done live-tweeting the event, but you can always unfollow. :)
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Live Blogging Google Searchology 2009 (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land) - http://www.techmeme.com/090512...
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What Kind of Emailer Are You? [Reader Poll] - http://lifehacker.com/5249203...
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i'm definitely a 'day laborer' when it comes to work email. if it's not an emergency, it can wait until 7am the next day.
- Nick Liberatore
Friend Lists are now available in Facebook Chat. Come give it a try! http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
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Thank you, Facebook! Now please please PLEASE enable opt ins and outs for messages!
- Mona Nomura
Good Job, Facebook!
- hiro
Goodreads vs Twitter: The Benefits of Asymmetric Follow - O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
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Asymmetric follow is why I use Twitter regularly and Facebook much less often. With Twitter’s model, I can find people I’m interested in, whether or not they know me, and learn about them and their lives and thoughts. Others can include me in their lists. You become “friends” with complete strangers over time, by communicating with them (responding with @messages for example), perhaps by mutual following. In fact, Twitter’s wonderful system of @ messages means that anyone can address me - and so I find myself having conversations with complete strangers as well. I actually follow my @ messages more faithfully than I do my planned Follow list.
- Andy Kaufman
Interesting thoughts from Eric Woodward, who runs the popular Nambu iPhone client about his consideration toward friendfeed. Why isn't friendfeed seeing more mobile apps? Here's some feedback for the team. - http://ejw.com/website...
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Not very encouraging...
- Jim Braux-Zin
I don't understand how he is being "publicly shamed." His service didn't work, he should comment that they're having some scalability issues and move on. It's not like Paul even said anything negative about tr.im, just pointed out that having a middle man dealing with links creates other problems (quite a general statement, not even directed solely at tr.im). His reaction worries me.
- Brandon Titus
I think his point about Facebook and other services being more popular is the key reason there are not more mobile apps. The market for a FriendFeed application is simply not as great as Facebook, Twitter, or any number of other networks.
- Brandon Titus
It'd still be nice to have a decent iPhone app for Friendfeed. The two or three I've tried are not exactly stable, crashing at least once per use.
- George Hall (Australia)
I certainly didn't mean to "publicly shame" anyone in my post (I didn't even mention tr.im). The problem with url shorteners is more fundamental -- they introduce an extra layer of unreliability. Louis Gray pointed this out on Friday when a power outage brought down FriendFeed and therefore ff.im: http://www.louisgray.com/live.... Several people have suggested using Amazon to "solve" this problem, but we've had more S3 outages than datacenter outages.
- Paul Buchheit
I concur with Mark ("Connection Failed")
- Micah Wittman
FF mobile site & FFtogo are so good. Not much interested in a mobile app.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Twitter apps are crucial to compensate for lame UI. FF had no such dilemma. Edit: Same w/ FaceBook.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
If you subscribe to ejw.com in Google reader, you can read it. It seems a lot like sour grapes, "don't you know how important we are" type stuff. Bringing up Paul's post about URL shorteners didn't really tie into his overall point (that apparently nobody cares about FriendFeed, but Nambu is going to support it anyway). After reading it, I was left wondering what I'm supposed to take...
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- Mark Trapp
I think I've bought about 5 Twitter iPhone clients. I'd buy a decent FriendFeed iPhone client...
- Ewan MacLeod
Do You Want to Discuss Products in Social Media? - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Great discussion, do people really want to talk about brands, products, and advertising in social media as a means for sales. Not sure I'm convinced on this one.
- Maria Reyes-McDavis
Another occasion where pressing "like" doesnt feel right....
- James Ketchell
Friendfeed's new Twitter features are working remarkably well. Several people at the TechCrunch showing of Star Trek tonight noted that they are getting a "ton" of email requests for follows. I smile and say I knew it would be big long ago.
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Been getting lots of subscription requests to my private feed as well: from total strangers including Live Crunch and Kim Kardashian. All of them are subscribing to over 10,000 people. One shmuck is subscribed to over 53,000 people. What is the point?
- Steve Wilhelm
Steve: they come here and they push the button and leave. No point, just wanted to see what's up, probably.
- Robert Scoble
They totally miss the point when all they do is subscribe to a large number of Twitterers (Tweets are usually low nutritional value). Some of them will figure this out eventually, but many others won't.
- Robert Scoble
As Simon Cowell says, Tweets are like eating ice.
- Chris Gardner
Friendfeed filters out the Follow Friday mess of Twitter, and the stupid quizes (fluff) of Facebook. There also doesn't seem to be any hashtag spamming to get a topic on the trending list. what's left is actual social networking..... i think.
- Mike Nencetti
What are the new 'Twitter features'?
- Taehoon Kim
Long ago? Scoble, if you didn't join until 2008, you're a n00b. :)
- Louis Gray
I made the mistake with Twitter by starting to follow large number of people and that made it almost impossible to actually keep up with what's happening around there. More and more, it started to look like unrealistic goal and apparently it was. Still, as way of "water cooler", it's nice way to hear new things but too difficult for longer conversations. As you can think of, FriendFeed is more of what I like as it's getting more and more features and (most importantly) people.
- Daniel Schildt
Still, there is long way to go for both.
- Daniel Schildt
Some people in my surroundings didn't like the new features. They got too much subscription notifications. They felt it was "spam" to them. Apparently people don't care who they follow or who follows them on Twitter, but they do on FriendFeed. This is an interesting observation.
- Michiel Sikkes
I love the Facebook features that they stole from FriendFeed (in a better world, FF would get compensated for borrowing UI features), but I totally love the search/speed combo of our great FF team's product. The new FriendFeed UI does look cleaner (for non-geeks). Love the FF/Twitter import feature, but I think Facebook's "Circle of Friends" and FriendFeed's "Manage Friends & Friend Lists" need some major drag-drop/visual-in boost. Some next-generation friend management system...
- Mitchell Tsai
i'm feeling that the value in friendfeed is to NOT import all of your twitter friends/followers. right now, i'm using twitter as my public broadcast stream and keeping friendfeed a private feed with managed subscriptions. i dont care who follows me on twitter (i selectively follow back after reviewing a few days of the the user's stream). i do care on ff. this seems like logical usage...
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- sull
Sull: if you import members put them on a separate list.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble that is absolutely correct. If you import Twitter folks separate them. When it comes to Friendfeed use groups and with Twitter do the same. You can injest much more conversation this way.
- Keith - @tsudo
I've broken my Twitter "folks" down into several lists - those that I have a "relationship" with on Twitter, Twitter friends that are active on FF, and then just peeps.
- Sharon McPherson
alright, it took me a while (again) to find the importer feature - http://friendfeed.com/friends... but i'm trying it out in a new friend list. thanks for the suggestion.
- sull
I've been using the Twitter friend finder since it launched and now find that I need to use if frequently to keep up with the new FriendFeed users. I plugged in a official company Twitter account about 2 weeks ago which has over 2000 followers and found only a dozen or so FF users. Just did it again, and there were a couple hundred, nice jump.
- Rick Bucich
Rick: I last ran it a few days ago. Just ran it again and another 175 were there. Cool.
- Robert Scoble
Rick/Robert - sounds like a new feature that ff could use. auto-check/auto-import etc.
- sull
heh - it was at Star Trek I also heard the same thing from people. I'm trying to convert @josephscott from Automattic to FriendFeed so they can start including similar features into Wordpress and Buddypress. He said the same thing (and it was at Star Trek).
- Jesse Stay
New ff feature still exlude "Resharing to Other Rooms"-button, "immediate" postcomment button while posting [and not after it] plus also still missing refresh buttons for more than just 5 socNetworks. It's now *impossible* to add YT, identi.ca , plurk, Custom RSS/AtomBlogs and even additional twitter-refresh buttons. I had 40-50 buttons in case of some SocNet-ff forward- Glitches, now i have to wait for auto-forwards of YT, twitter and co.. su*** ; -(
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
...TechCrunch get their own screening of Star Trek? B*#$ards! <wink>
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