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Fortune says blogging is obsolete because of Twitter and Facebook. Do you agree? http://money.cnn.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Anand Sharma, Murat Gök and 31 other people liked this
Yes and no. You still need a blog to write long, thoughtful pieces.
- Dawn
How many blogs - not counting your own - do you visit each day? Week? The number dwindles rapidly esp. once FriendFeed grabs you.
- Thom Kennon
@Thom, Google Reader is becoming a casuality to my own personal attention crash. That's one reason why I use Newsgator now - it's fine for managing a few feeds.
- Steve Rubel
My Google Reader is overwhelmed with feeds, Steve. I was a feed addict, subscribing to everything, it seemed. Streamlining the feeds now. Managing our social and information networks is a MUST!
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Not even close.
- AJ Kohn
Definitely not... Its the new easy website maker... FB, Friendfeed, twitter etc don't have the content that blogs & regular sites have. They have just become the communication channel people use not the information channels that people are searching for on the net. Most of the internet's usage is still for searched information... When was the last time a google search you did brought up a tweet?
- John Olsen
For conversation perhaps, but not for everything. A blog can be part of one's online CV, something which persists and can be searched in the future. I would never send a potential employer to my facebook for this.
- DGentry
We still love blogs but we love to discuss those blog posts on Friendfeed and Twitter better :-)
- Steve Chou
Imagine Twitter without any links to blog posts ... and watch it dwindle and die. Blogs are here to stay.
- AJ Kohn
Absolutely not. Twitter and Facebook in one of their various hats are used as effective channels to connect between blog posts and readers.
- Nir Ben Yona
Twitter may be a replacement for the casual blogger, but longer posts will always need somewhere to go.
- Donald Forth
Twitter and Facebook not only have re-shaped the blogging landscape and changed, but changed our reading habit as well. However, i heard that, many people like me would bring opinions from Twitter and Facebook to their blog posts.
- Jansen Lu
No. To the contrary, all it says is that there are more people posting content online.
- Mike Reynolds
No. More people are posting online, but many of those people are still sharing links to actual blog posts. We will always have a need to see a full developed post. It's like saying 30-second snippets of songs will replace actual songs or single chapters from books will make books obsolete.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
these people and their "either / or" view of life. There's always space for more than one player in what we use, buy do, but these analysts just see it all as an exclusive proposition. We still have radio, music, tv, film, board games, books and more after all these years of "X will kill Y" predictions.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
If anything, it's more relevant than before. Twitter users read, share, and retweet links. The more users there are, the more links they need to share. Bloggers supply the content for the links.
- Michael Fidler
I think blogging, as looked at 2-3 years ago, is no longer a well defined group of people that others look at as 'the bloggers'. It obviously still exists as demonstrated by any number of websites with bloggers writing. Those who defined the industry by the 'buzz' they got a few years back are still blogging but people are no longer paying the attention because the market, so to speak...
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- Sheryl
No. They may have displaced some of the traditional features of blogging but they're not obsolete. In fact, I think they enhance blogging and re-focus blogging on the content focus of blogging versus its social component.
- phil baumann
No. I think all of these social media augment each other's potentials
- Irina Yakhneeva
@AJ - good point re juice within Twitter (at least), it's all about the links that lead back, often to a blog or to a pub or to FF. But FriendFeed does that PLUS support actual conversations & self-contained content - like this one. Btw - this very topic was the subtext to yesterday's circular, near-maddening debate on Gillmor gang re "the death of RSS" aka Google Reader, Bundles etc.
- Thom Kennon
I don't use Google Reader as much as I did before. I just started to import the blogs I read into a FriendFeed Group, and so far, it is working nicely. Google Reader would always overwhelm me because I felt like I had to read everything, but now I can read it as is comes along.
- Shawn Hickman
@Thom: Yeah, I riffed on the whole RSS is Dead meme two weeks ago. http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/rss-mar... RSS is the fuel - without a good snow pack the real-time river winds up being a measly trickle. And agreed, FF delivers great meta data (comments, likes) that add superior value compared to Twitter.
- AJ Kohn
We often need to think in more than just sound bites
- Mark Scrimshire
from Nambu
Twitter not only reshaped blogging landscape, but also changed our reading behaviours.
- Jansen Lu
The comment immediately preceding made me think, if PowerPoint reduced real presentations, reports and writing to 3 bullet points, has Twitter (or any 140 character-like representation of ideas) done the same thing. Are we simply being reduced to sound bites in many ways? And if so, doesn't that mean we've simply become old media in a slightly new way? Just a rambling thought that shot between my ears.
- Ken Camp
No. I read *more* articles more slowly in fewer feeds now, because social media have made it easier for me to find blogs that are relevant to me.
- Robin Barooah
nope
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I suspect that the availability of twitter and facebook etc, will improve the quality of actual blogs, since the bar for what's worth writing in long-form is raised.
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Half, if not more, of the purpose of Twitter and Facebook is to link blog posts and legitimate articles. So, no, I don't agree. these people are just getting ahead of themselves and forgetting the purpose and place of each medium.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
yes..
- Semih Masat ™
No, nonsense. It might be for some, those who started early, but lots of people are just beginning to blog. It's a totally different way of expressing oneselves compared to Twitter & Facebook. & There are still people who need that way of expressing. You don't change that feeling. There is just the hype that has been changed.
- Ton Zijp
Unless lots of people actually read your blog, it is obsolete with or without Twitter/Facebook.
- Will Higgins™
NO
- Stanislas Jourdan
I would say blogging is not dead. there are probably less of your average bloggers. but I think blogging is still alive and kicking
- (jeff)isageek
Yes absolutely. Stopped blogging for FF and Twitter in January this year. Well, never had so many readers before!
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
deader than a doornail
- sofarsoShawn
I think it shows how little they understand blogging, twitter, and facebook. I also think all big media publications hope that blogging is dead. For some people personal publishing is like breathing and I don't see how anybody could say it's dead or will die as long as the opportunity to share your thoughts with the world exists.
- Mike Elliott
Neidermeyer? Dead! Blogging? Not Dead.
- Jason L Berman
It's not obsolete, but for very short content Twitter and Facebook may be taking away some of the postings that would otherwise be posted on blogs. Twitter and Facebook are good tools for driving traffic to blogs. So I believe people will continue to integrate Twitter and Facebook with their blogs.
- Bill Romanos
it's like asking if having a home page is obsolete. it isn't if you *want* a home page. it's all about your individual objective. twitter/facebook accomplish different goals than blogging.
- Jeremy Toeman
not to forget that about half the seed content on these services comes from links to blogs and sites
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
FriendFeed Jabber/Gtalk IM bot - http://blog.imified.com/index...
mjc, deakaz, e-bekr and 440 other people liked this
I think this is the origin of story!! March 26 was when I added the bot to my gTalk..!!
- Jigar Mehta
I like having each service as an individual contact. Much easier. Can we see the same for Pownce?
- Chris Nixon
Well, IMified has taken bot to a next level.. I even created a customized option to check my google calendar appointments for today (a quick schedule for today) by interacting with bot! Not sure, if they have one for Pownce..
- Jigar Mehta
from bTT
One year later. Just bumping this because it's the one year anniversary of the only item on FriendFeed to get more than 400 likes. (452 at the moment)
- Ken Sheppardson
450.
- Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
Hi i am charles Camil ,i want to know you
- charles
Cleaner FriendFeed (New Beta) - 04/06/09 | userstyles.org - http://userstyles.org/styles...
maxilprof, Business Blogger【ツ】™, Darren Heydon and 231 other people liked this
Changelog: -- removed the grey background -- removed the bar background and made it subtle -- some font size changes -- some spacing adjustments -- select text background changed
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
* Cleaner and cool look and feel (FriendFeed is already clean, this makes it a lot cleaner) * Different font style * Highlights friends comments with baby yellow (instantly know that the user is already your friend) * Highlights your comments with baby blue (it’s cool to see your own comments from river of comments. Looks good when you are a distance away your computer, makes your...
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- AJ Batac
yay!
- mjc
This userstyle brings the FriendFeed conversation to another level by instantly letting you know… 1) Your own comment (Powder Blue) 2) Your friends comments (Light Yellow) 3) Your non-friends comments (Normal FriendFeed Comment Color) 4) Likes (Light Pink)
- AJ Batac
As FriendFeed becomes popular, you’ll definitely need some kind of instant and attention grabbing color that catches your eyes and tell you where you left off in a conversation. Hope you like it.
- AJ Batac
Well THAT didn't take long.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
MUCH better :-)
- andy brudtkuhl
Nice AJ. I'm considering installing Chrome v2 just to use this Greasemonkey script. You fixed all the UI nitpicks I have. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Now I have to move over to FireFox?
- CW™
Congrats aj.
- Alp
you legend. :)
- Zee.
THANK YOU!
- Rochelle
Installed and liking... wish the font was a tad bigger but I can adjust that :)
- Bwana ☠
could you block the logo also?
- mjc
installing - lovely- although there is something in having the "main area" diff. from the rest of the screen as in the original design - must play and see what works better for me
- Naor Mark
That's much better, thanks AJ
- Sally Church
Good work!
- Rich
i like colour isn't too much white hard on your eyes
- Damian Holmes
mjc, it won't look good. but you can use this (#logo img { display:none !important; })
- AJ Batac
That looks much better! Maybe the FF devs can adopt that scheme.
- Lindsay
really clean and cool.
- Jansen Lu
That was fast man!
- JazJaz
wow thanks aj
- Alfredo
that looks much better
- RAPatton
thank U
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
agreed...should have been this way from the start :)
- Nick
Damn, AJ...fast work! Awesome as usual! :)
- JA Castillo
great - hate the grey!
- Gaby K. Slezák
thank U
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
wow that was fast... I don't mind the gray, but this is a nice option for those complainers who don't
- Nathan Chase
Switched already and I'm lovin' this script - much nicer!
- Sally Church
I cleaned it up further. If you've downloaded it already, edit and change this line (.bar {border:none !important; background:none !important;background-color:#C8DCF5 !important;}) ;) much better without those borders on bars ;)
- AJ Batac
(too lazy for looking up the line - re-installed :)
- Naor Mark
Same as Naor, but yeah it is nicer :-)
- Sally Church
this is fantastic - loving life with a #112 body :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Wow AJ, nice job. I hope FF takes notice.
- Andrew Smith
AJ that was fast!
- Susan Beebe
Much better AJ!
- AJ Kohn
Wow. Nice. Thank you!
- Ken Sheppardson
I can't tell... are you mimicking the effect of the little yellow halo around the comment bubble when it's inserted into a page you're viewing? Ah... there it is... the halo's still there. Might be nice to have the entire comment's color fade. Skill Level 2.0 ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Thanks AJ!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I love the comment HIGHLIGHT COLORS - blue = mine :) Friends = yellow = cool!!! thanks
- Susan Beebe
@Susan Wasn't that apart of the beta already?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey, nope.
- AJ Batac
Wow, this style is gorgeous! Blows the default beta away. Still no fan of fixed-width but if devs go with this style and the new functionality, it's enough win for me.
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@robot, here's one for you -> Widescreen version (http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac...) or fluid/liquid
- AJ Batac
Widescreen...for...the....WIN
- Bwana ☠
I do wish links were in a different colour or <strong>
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
How cool is this!
- Charlie Anzman
WOW tnx I love it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
this is great. thanks!
- Peter van Teeseling
Made it use Segoe UI pt 11, and looks much better :D
- Yuvi
This is much more visually appealing. You rock!
- Justin Whitaker
I really like this. Thank you, good sir.
- Brandon Ball
OMG AJ, this is SO MUCH better! Thank you!
- Phil G
Someone make this a sticky. :)
- JazJaz
That's way better! Thanks a bunch :)
- Maryam Ardakani
Awesome AJ! But what took you so long?
- Edward Zwart
♥♥♥♥♥ Thanks!!
- Alix Whitmire
I switched to Firefox just to use your layout - it helps.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
AJ - Would you give permission to FF bosses to just steal your setup and implement it? It's just a whole lot nicer.
- Matthew DeVries
free to modify, free to whatever you want to do with it. ;)
- AJ Batac
hey dude you got mentioned in the read write web http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Alfredo
@alfredo, Thanks.
- AJ Batac
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is wonderful in FireFox
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Thank you, AJ, you rock!
- Michelle Martinez
Awesome!! I'm using it right now.
- Mark Layton
Gosh, that's better, thanks for the Beta FF version - I've been used CleanerFF since using FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
No, do not want... It looks like the old one... no way. the new bet-UI is way better. At last some colors
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
This is VERY nice. Well done!
- Tony
@wiredryo You really like colors? I find them distracting and cheap-looking. Just my style though, maybe. I like minimalism.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Yes, of course I like colors. The time of Black & White TV has gone, you know :)
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
WOO-HOO! Now THAT is more like it!
- Steven Perez
So much better. Thanks! <3
- ♥patricia♥
That's wonderful. Thank you!
- joey
Even cleaner without avatars in the feed: http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Meryn Stol
Really enjoying the Cleaner FF. By the popularity of this thread, I'm assuming many are not really happy with the gray background and colored sidebar boxes.
- Ricardo Vidal
I personally have not much trouble with the new color scheme. Try removing the avatars, they are really noisy. Just try to experience the difference.
- Meryn Stol
colored and + fontsized the post titles, as i prefer to catch the posts rather then the comments, it really works.
- Yunus Tunak
AJ - Could you maybe make one that moves the filters and subscriptions over to the left side, turns off the real time, makes the avatars disappear and replace them with icons showing what service provided the post. Maybe as a finishing touch add the ability to post things to our rooms/groups?
- Matthew DeVries
http://beta.friendfeed.com/ for new look
- Yunus Tunak
Feels so much better.
- Valley
Application error (Apache) Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html :(
- Helen Sventitsky
I changed the background for #f8f8fc because it doesn't look as good when it's just as white as the main column. Having it an off-white like that is a lot nicer. Just a suggestion.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Also, I turned off highlighting of friend comments (although not my own) because you all chat too much. :)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
this is awesome. thanks so much!
- Karoli
great! i disliked beta's grey background. :-)
- browneyes
Much better! I don't mind the constant flow, but wasn't a fan of the new design.
- Vince DeGeorge
Done. and loving it. Thanks AJ!
- Dave
AJ, you da man! I like it very much. :)
- imabonehead
using it here to... good stuff :)
- Jay Martinez
I tweaked it so all it really did was get rid of the gray background, but left the font sizes and colors alone. Now it looks REALLY good to me. Will screenshot it now. Thanks, AJ!
- Josh Haley
Using this now... soooo much better! :D
- Brandon
i love it! :)
- pm10
love it! seems better!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
very nice, thanks :D
- PaperDoll
wow, just installed this, way better!
- Marcos Marado
I agree! I think I like this much better. The Gray background was getting to me.
- Kreg Steppe
Still prefer the post options from the 'old' freindfeed interface - they were out front & more available for on-the-fly, intuitive changing
- Aaron the Librarian
@Aaron, I like the new one better. ;)
- AJ Batac
Great job, AJ. Soooo much better. I hope that FF notices that we like their original clean design better and incorporate it into beta again so that I don't need a script for this.
- Carmen
<too lazy to read through the comments> if you're using stylish, but aren't crazy about the Trebuchet MS font, go to Tools > Stylish > Manage Styles. Select "Cleaner FriendFeed" and click the Edit button. Go to line 8 and remove "Trebuchet MS" from the font-family declaration (font-family:"Trebuchet MS","Arial","Serif" !important;)</too lazy to read through the comments>
- tiffany
Updated: For widescreen monitors (http://userstyles.org/styles...) / Normal width (http://userstyles.org/styles...)
- AJ Batac
Beta Friendfeed Helvetica Edition - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Burak Dönertaş
Making video discoverable via search - http://vator.tv/news...
Mark Harai, Stephen Smyth, Daniel Rowley and 6 other people liked this
Plus once you have the transcript, you can provide it alongside the video to make the content more accessible for people with hearing difficulties.
- David Owens
It's easy to think everyone has a computer & connection that can handle video when you are financially well off enough to have it yourself, but the truth is that there is a huge amount of people in this world that aren't as fortunate and can't see your videos. Nonetheless, they would like (and sometimes even need) the information in your videos. Transcripts are perfect for this and...
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- April Russo (app103)
April: one problem with that. I don't have the budget to do that. My cameras cost $200 and adding transcripts is a lot more expensive than that (I'm putting up 15 or so videos this week alone).
- Robert Scoble
I meant for those that have the transcripts and not making them public, using them only for SEO and internal use. If you don't have them, it obviously doesn't apply to you.
- April Russo (app103)
I discussed this very idea of enabling search and indexing of video, with a friends, a few months ago. Glad to see someones making it work. I like the idea of making transcripts available for scanning (to find the part of the video you want fast). Of course won't work on video with little or no dialogue.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
About 2 years ago AOL started doing this with audio for podcasts, for their podcast search, which would give a page of little players queued up to the exact spot your search terms appeared in a podcast file, as your search results. It was pretty cool. Unfortunately, they killed the project.
- April Russo (app103)
We used http://castingwords.com/ for some video we had captioned for the Healthcare Commission in the UK. They were very good and very cheap considering the complexity of the language used. Pretty sure they use Amazon's Mechanical Turk though. If this is genuinely automated it sounds pretty impressive.
- David Owens
INDIA-UNREST-ATTACKS - http://flickrfan.files.wordpress.com/2008...
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When did FlickrFan get a FriendFeed account? Cool photos on this account. I wish it would batch them up six at a time, though. Would make it more likely that I'd click "Like" and share these with my followers.
- Robert Scoble
For those who don't know, FlickrFan is a software service that Dave wrote that subscribes to great photography from many of the world's photo agencies. This one came from Agence France-Presse, which is France's "Associated Press." Good stuff and photography that you can't easily find elsewhere (high res stuff too).
- Robert Scoble
FlickrFan is cool! I've subscribed it!
- Jansen Lu
Scoble, I just created the account a couple of days ago. This is a special feed for breaking stories. Today the obvious story is India and the pictures have been fantastic. At times there may not be a breaking story so there won't be updates to the feed. It's all experimental, I'm starting with FF because it does a reasonable (but not perfect) job with feeds. I don't know where it leads, that's why it's fun. :-)
- Dave Winer
I already love this a LOT more than the FlickrFan on my HDTV. I think it's because I can quickly scan images and see some metadata around the image. I also can see how other people reacted to it, or add my own thoughts that an image conjures. That said, this makes me want to turn on FlickrFan on my large screen again and see these images in all of their high resolution glory.
- Robert Scoble
I also think it's funny that FlickrFan is subscribed to me. Hmmm, what is FlickrFan learning by doing that? :-)
- Robert Scoble
I know what you mean by batching them up 6 at a time, but I don't think that's something I can do. I think they have special code in there for Flickr. Not sure.
- Dave Winer
FlickrFan subscribed to you to get you to notice it. :-)
- Dave Winer
Dave: that's not how FriendFeed works. The reason I saw it is you clicked "Like" on the photo. That put it in my view. Followers don't have any effect on my view. That's why I say it's far more important to pick who you are following (because smart people will put smart things in your view) than it is to have lots of followers. Plus, if you keep saying smart things and putting smart things in other people's view, you'll get more followers anyway cause we'll talk about you. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Now what would be cool is if FlickrFan was watching the cool photography I was adding to my feed and would add some of that to FlickrFan itself. For instance, let's say I or Thomas Hawk put up a photo and it got 10 likes here. Wouldn't that be cool to add to FlickrFan? I thought that's why you were following people who put up photos on a regular basis.
- Robert Scoble
Scoble, those things sound doable. I'll add it to the mix of stuff to think about for the next few days.
- Dave Winer
A Solution for Multi-Service Status Update Users on FriendFeed - http://beta.friendfeed.com/e...
perry whitecage, Igor Poltavskiy, Jansen Lu and 6 other people liked this
just like the showing of many likes, you could have the same functionality for identical status updates to Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, Rejaw, Brightkite, Pownce, Jaiku, etc. via multi-updating services like Ping.fm, Hellotxt, and updating.me
- Nathan Chase
That would be cool
- Josh Haley
Yes! This would be fantastic
- Evan Sims
Great idea. Would love to see this happen.
- Iain Baker
This is how Socialthing! is doing it right now, and how FriendFeed should pick it up. When the comment box drops, it should also have the option if you want to reply on which service as well.
- Andrew Trinh
yes. it could streamline our feeds tremendously.
- Jansen Lu
How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam? - http://www.internetdefensetech...
What are the social media applications you use the most?
Mitchell Tsai, Caleb Elston, (jeff)isageek and 16 other people liked this
this - FF, GReader, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook
- Andrew Smith
Please list your top 5.
- Mike Fruchter
FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook. That's pretty much it these days, and my Twitter usage has been going down lately.
- Nathaniel Payne
FriendFeed, Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook (in that order)
- Mansi Bhatia
FriendFeed, GReader, Flickr, del.icio.us, Twitter.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
FF, GReader, Facebook (very little) is pretty much all I use anymore.
- John Duff
GReader, GMail, FF
- Stefan Hayden
FriendFeed, GReader, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Twitter.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Flickr, FriendFeed, GReader, Mento, Facebook
- JA Castillo
FF, Twitter, Google Reader, Digg, StumbleUpon, Last.fm, Feedly
- Patrick Jordan
I'll have to agree with Nathaniel. FriendFeed, Twitter, and Facebook are all I use anymore.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
FriendFeed, Mento, Twitter, GReader, Linkedin (end of the list is toss up between LinkedIn, Facebook and maybe Flickr/Picassa and Like.Fm)
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
FF, Google Reader/Feedly/Toluu, Ping.FM... that's pretty much it
- Bwana ☠
FF, Flickr, Facebook (less and less), Twitter (barely)
- Justin Korn
Friendfeed, Twitter, GReader, Facebook, and a bunch that score equally
- Charlie Anzman
delicious, Greader, netvibes, facebook, vimeo.. plus the phenomenal FF.
- ''a_a@FF''
Plaxo Pulse, FriendFeed, Summize, Twitter
- John McCrea
GReader, GMail, FriendFeed, Socialthing, Facebook
- Nathan Reale
FriendFeed, Google Reader, wordpress.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook
- Hutch Carpenter
I didn't know GReader qualified as a social media application -- never thought of it that way. I guess because it's not as interactive. But since it seems to be a valid entry on the list, +1 for me, too.
- Mansi Bhatia
friendFeed, Twitter, Facebook
- Dave Peck
Google Reader, FriendFeed, Twitter, Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, Flickr. Everything else are supporting apps and blogging tools to distribute the information to other networks like Plaxo and Tumblr.
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
Flickr, FF, Google Reader, Facebook, Zooomr
- Tom Harrison
FF, GReader(using rss meme and feedly makes this more social), Flickr, del.icio.us, tumblr, hypemachine
- Rafael Robayna
Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr
- Darryl
Google Reader, Friendfeed, Del.icio.us
- Nick Dominguez
FF (now with mionews), Twitter (via Twhirl), Flickr and now it seems I should move from Bloglines beta over to Greader <grin>
- Cheryl Allin
currently, Gtalk, Plurk, Twitter, FriendFeed, Greader.
- Jansen Lu
Twitter, Friendfeed, AIM, Google Reader
- Eric Berlin
Twitter, Friendfeed, Google Reader, Livejournal, Flickr
- Morton Fox
FF, Twitter, BKite, Feedley, Last.fm
- Jay Martin
Twitter, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Flickr, Google Reader. And sometimes Facebook.
- Mack D. Male
Google Reader, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Twitter, Facebook
- Ron Emrick
1) Friendfeed 2) Digsby 3)Twitter 4) RSS/G Reader 5) Wordpress
- Mike Fruchter
ff, last.fm, delicious, GReader, flickr
- Trent Olson
Friendfeed, Flickr, Del.icio.us
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Twitter, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Google Reader, WordPress (My blog "StaffBytes")
- Geoff Peterson
Twitter, FriendFeed, Delicious, Google Reader, WordPress, Flickr
- andy brudtkuhl
Facebook, LinkedIn, FF, Google Reader and Reddit.
- Jonathon
FriendFeed, Facebook, LiveJournal (old school!)
- MegvMeg
Friendfeed
- Anne Bouey
FriendFeed
- Mike Reynolds
FF, Twitter, Flickr, del.icio.us, Upcoming, Brightkite, Last.fm, Pandora, UStream
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Friendfeed
- RAPatton
FriendFeed, Flickr, Zooomr mostly.
- Thomas Hawk
1) Friendfeed 2) Twitter 3) Meebo/Digsby 4) Google Reader 5) Facebook
- Hao Chen
friendfeed, google reader, stumbleupon...
- Alessandro
Google Reader, Zooomr, Flickr, FriendFeed, Blogger
- Jeff P. Henderson
FF, GReader, Last.fm, Flickr, Twitter, Youtube
- Jason Toney
FF, GReader, Flickr, Youtube, and my poor, broken, untouched-since-2005 JournURL
- Roger Benningfield
Friendfeed, Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, Blogger...
- Joe Dawson
let see FF, GReader, Flickr, Diigo, Twitter, Last.fm, Disqus, Toluu
- (jeff)isageek
Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube
- Eric Hamilton
twitter/tweetdeck, friendfeed, digg, google reader, facebook (in that order)
- Chris Harris
Twitter, FF, Facebook, Email (Gmail +.Mac)
- Tony
Twitter,FriendFeed,TechMeme
- Igor Poltavskiy
In no particular order: Facebook, Flickr, del.icio.us, Google Reader and Twitter. Digg and FriendFeed are close, though.
- Joyce Garcia
FriendFeed Blog: More media amongst the messages - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
cecily, Tsega Dinka, Lu Tao and 69 other people liked this
The FF innovation march continues...
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
Unless I'm missing something -- Hope the API gets this feature as well. We had to convert NewsJunk to us the API because their polling was too slow and they didn't pick up the descriptions through the feed. We have podcasts in NewsJunk, for the big Sunday shows, and for FreshAir when they cover politics. Shame you won't be getting those right away. Unless of course I'm missing something.
- Dave Winer
Great idea Dave, we'll add this to the API also
- Casey Muller
Excellent. As soon as it's in we'll start pushing podcasts up to FF.
- Dave Winer
publishing an mp3 to my blog now. Will test this out in a bit here.
- Thomas Hawk
not working for me.
- Thomas Hawk
@Thomas It has to use media enclosure in the RSS feed, I'm not sure it will work with Blogger, but maybe with Blogger + Feedburner?
- cmiper
I really think FF is the new Google - they're just approaching it with social instead of search, and building on that, piece by piece, the same way Google did.
- Jesse Stay
Working for me now here: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Thomas Hawk
Is this their first Flash dependent feature?
- Phil Whelan
Jim, are you using Blogger or another blogging package? If you are using Blogger you have to click on the "Add enclosure link" button before you publish your post.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks for the reply. I am using wordpress.com. I got it too work. Thanks.
- Jim Williams
I love the minimal design of it. Great job ff!
- Alan Le
Jim, how did you make it work on wordpress?
- James (@willia4)
Twitter Fail whale... a 3D sculpture from the MAKE Flickr photo pool - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
Andrew Bashore, Al Degutis, Apostolos Papadopoulos and 15 other people liked this
Very cool
- Leif Hansen
geekness power ftw :-P
- Apostolos Papadopoulos
FriendFeed is becoming the Wikipedia of social networking. - http://michaelfruchter.com/blog...
mjc, Roney Smith, Jon-Paul Bussoli and 18 other people liked this
Thanks for the share Louis.
- Mike Fruchter
Spot on Mike. The only limit right now is that as far as a focus group is concerned it doesn't yet have deep penetration with normal everyday (facebook) people. I like it that way right now but it will be changing soon.
- Jon-Paul Bussoli
10 Things My Wife and Twitter Have In Common ~ Humor 2.0 - Comedy about the Web, the Internet, and Geeks - http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com/2008...
Mitchell Tsai, Kerstin Probiesch, Jansen Lu and 3 other people liked this
10. remembers all the dumb things I said years later (damn you, Summize, you're too good!) http://humor-2-0.blogspot.com/2008... http://snipurl.com/2p9hz
- Russellreno
Thanks guys! See it here too: http://sphinn.com/story/55265
- Brian Carter
1.5 Million Australian Students Dump Outlook/Exchange For Gmail - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Derek Collison, Mario Sundar, TobiasVerhoog.com and 93 other people liked this
Go Gmail! "The cost savings are substantial. The Outlook/Exchange platform involved a AU$33 million contract and took four years to go live, although it’s unclear why it took so long. The Gmail/Google Apps rollout, which is being completed by subcontractors, will cost just $9.5 million and should be live by the end of 2008. User storage will increase from 35 MB to 1 GB."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Sounds like a no-brainer to me.
- Internet's Tad
wow!
- JA Castillo
So they hired the worlds LEAST competent exchange admin?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Administering 1.5 million exchange mailboxes may be harder than it sounds (and of course it's a government contract, so...)
- Paul Buchheit
That is quite a shift. I wonder if this is the first of more massive moves to Google Apps if this scales well.
- Paul Jacobson
from twhirl
email what is that?
- Noah David Simon
This is small compared to the rest of Gmail, so scaling isn't an issue.
- Paul Buchheit
Has anyone ever played Warcraft and clicked on a sheep until it exploded? That's what I want to do with the "like" button on this link.
- Phil G
My guess is that the Exchange contract involved having many local servers and administrators (managed by Unisys), while the Gmail contract involves just letting Google do all the work in the US with SMS only doing the local integration. This is all fine and dandy until some ship cuts the submarine cable to your continent and your email doesn't work for a week.
- Gabe
I work tangentially to this stuff.. the next step has to be a Apps rollout (or at least replacing Office with OpenOffice)
- Nick Lothian
Of course, if the submarine cable gets cut, email won't work anyways.
- Jim Norris
Presumably they're spending millions of AU$ so the students can email teachers and other students. One would hope the Exchange-based system wouldn't require transoceanic cables for teachers to email their students. With Gmail you can't even edit a draft without a decent Internet connection to some Gmail datacenter.
- Gabe
There may be datacenters in Australia by now.
- Paul Buchheit
All your mail are belong to us.
- l0ckergn0me
Australia has something like a dozen undersea cables connecting it to a variety of destinations in Asia and the Americas. Events that would disconnect Australia from the world, or shut down Google's data centers, are so much more rare than Exchange downtime that it's not even worth talking about. There are plenty of valid reasons to prefer locally served email over a hosted solution, but undersea cable cuts aren't one of them.
- ⓞnor
Gmail is a great choice, but the funny thing is that Exchange seems like a really awful choice for this situation. To give email to a million students, it seems like some big-ass conventional IMAP servers would be a lot cheaper and easier to manage. Maybe they were sold a bill of goods about how Exchange/Outlook would integrate with educational courseware?
- ⓞnor
The problem really comes down to local vs. hosted services. The article techcrunch incorrectly quoted said the email would be hosted by Google overseas, meaning there are dozens more points of failure (a submarine cable being merely one). My guess is that it was Unisys (the low bidder in 2003) that chose Exchange as the platform, and that SMS (the low bidder this year) chose Gmail. I would also guess that there is no SLA in the contract.
- Gabe
gmail is so much more reliable then anything microsoft could ever manage in underfunded corporate IT environments - why even try and compare
- ben rogers
from twhirl
Gmail may be 100% reliable, but that doesn't matter because the Internet isn't even close to reliable. All it takes is one kid running BitTorrent to make every student in the school (or district) unable to access email.
- Gabe
Does it frequently happen that you can't get to Google because some kid is running BitTorrent?
- ⓞnor
*like* @Andy C's comment
- sebmos
@ⓞnor - bittorrent isn't too much of a concern AFAIK in most schools. What is the big concern is the cost of bandwidth. Telstra (the incumbent duopolist) signed a lot of schools up to very expensive contracts with capped bandwidth (esp in remote areas). It's expensive enough that at some schools they disconnect the internet once the cap is reached (although this isn't in NSW AFAIK)
- Nick Lothian
@Andy C: Google Apps has features that not possible with unaffiliated accounts: integration with organizaton's user directory, single sign on and more.
- Gary Burd
It doesn't matter whether it's a broken cable, BitTorrent, a misbehaving router, or any of the dozens of other causes that could make the Internet unreliable; the point is that the Internet is inherently unreliable. Anything that relies on the Internet will eventually fail, and at some point it will fail the day before the big project is due or the final exam, and there won't be anything the school will be able to do about it.
- Gabe
Yeah, but it's all about failure rates. Everything fails sometimes, including Exchange servers. Microsoft themselves, for example, have suffered *weeks* long company wide email outages while they struggle to repair broken Exchange installations. If I cared about reliable access to my mail, I know which one I would pick. And there's no secret mystery failure here: you can just ask people "is it OK if your email is approximately as available as Google?". They know how available that is to them.
- ⓞnor
I don't know about you, Onor, but I check Gmail dozens of times each day; I use the rest of Google perhaps 3 times a day. The reason I still use Outlook (instead of forwarding that email to Gmail) is that some mail I need access to even when there's no Internet.
- Gabe
@gabe: imap with gmail. you can get a local snapshot if you want without the hassle of having to manage an email system.
- Ashwin Bharambe
Twitter Treats - http://twittertreats.blogspot.com/
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Everything for the inveterate twitter addict!
- Brad McCrorey
cool site. i love the Natasha Wescoat Art Themes!
- Jansen Lu
Feeding my Twitter Addiction!
- Sandie Law
Twitter downtime and life at home! - http://blogs.zdnet.com/project...
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What do we do when Twitter is Down? Have Sex! LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Please add date and time of comments!
Mic, Nick Humphries, Brent Logan and 14 other people liked this
Really, why don't you do that? I know that comments can be edited but could there be at least last date of editing. And no, date and time don't have to show all the time, just when user points the comment. That way things would still look clean and nice but there would be more information for those who need it.
- Daniel Schildt
i'm not sure. I like the idea that stories arrive "when they should" i.e. when people are discussing them. Threads sometimes re-appear when they are rediscovered, or someone has extra information to impart. In that sort of situation, does it matter about the timing of each comment?
- Iain Baker
@Ian Yes, it does. It lets me know how fresh the conversation is.
- Kevin D. White
@Kevin hit it on the nose.
- Voyagerfan5761
Use fftogo as your FriendFeed client.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
@ kevin, well, my point is that the freshness of a conversation just depends on whether someone has added something fresh to the story. I don't really mind if the original story is no longer fresh, I just want to hear the fresh information. So, the timeline ceases to be all that important to me..
- Iain Baker
STOP Using Facebook! - http://www.afterthelaunch.com/2008...
Jansen Lu liked this
不是叫你停玩Facebook，祇是要更有效地利用SNS
- ClubEddy - clubeddy.com
The Social Media Gender Gap - http://www.businessweek.com/technol...
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Toni @ NavinoT, Jansen Lu, Lucretia Pruitt and 15 other people liked this
"In fact, women between ages 35 and 50 are the fastest-growing segment, especially on MySpace." Huh, very interesting!
- Kimberly J
Hmm. Got to think about this one...if business week says it's ok to like, you will like, whether male or female.
- Kit Krash
Link to the Gender discussion which Hutch Carpenter started on Wednesday http://friendfeed.com/e... and my favorite excerpts from this article http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Women like what marketeers, social designers and evolutionary psychologists tell them to like. So do men. Young girls like sci-fi now, it's ok. Guys don't have to like football. I think the article is a mind seed. A meme. It fits in with other girl-social meme stereotypes so it will stick. you are not your astrology sign until someone tells you what it is. You follow expectations and then convince yourself to stay consistent till that's what you become. It's all social engineering.
- Kit Krash
Interesting. There are actually quite a few married men over 30 on my Pownce friends list. Different services probably attract different demographics though. My Pownce group skews highly nerdy (in a good way).
- Heidi Cool
I have noticed that many of the folk befriending me on Myspace do fall into the 35-50 female category and a group of friends in that age group from a reality tv forum all joined last year to follow one of the show's contestants...mind you - a few older and (younger!) men are befriending me now too....must be my trendy hairstyle..lol!!
- Julia Ault
Love it! Ties into some of the gender-related material Resource Interactive pushes forward: http://www.resource.com/thought...
- Andrea Hill
you can notice this also on TV, women call more than men to participate
- homaid
hello, ladies! Great points.
- Mike Lewis
from fftogo
صفحه کلید بدون کلید - http://www.yankodesign.com/index...
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من حتماً یکی اش رو می خوام ...
- FarshadPix+
Best way to download photos (en masse) from Flickr: http://ping.fm/HYRiO (OS X, free)
Roger Benningfield, Christine Cavalier, Jansen Lu and Robert Scoble liked this
What's the status of tools like this in regard to Flickr's ToS? Considering their API monitors and throttles bandwidth (and their pricing structure is based on bandwidth usage), I can't imagine this not getting a few eyebrows raised at (or a banning from) Flickr.
- Mark Trapp
wish there was something for linux, windows,or dta
- clarke thomas
Twitter Down Again? - http://www.ipatrix.com/twitter...
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Richard Peat, LuluGirl896, Tyler (Chacha) and 26 other people liked this
Sad things happen for people who use Twitter, one way or another?
- Daniel Schildt
"he doens't know it yet......" i love it!
- Jansen Lu
It's amazing how pervasive Twitter's downtime has become.
- Ivan Stegic
Yeah. The downtime is as much a meme as the service :P
- Brad McCrorey
Ouch, a "Dear @John" tweet. That's harsh! ;-)
- Jim Stanger
Ha, close to the truth in some cases, heh
- jjprojects
i really like this one... man :)
- Ivan Stegic
Funny!
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
I agree. I am very happy with Twitter. Even if it does go down alot. But they are getting better. I haven't seen twitter down all week
- Tyler (Chacha)
from twhirl
Over the last month, I have tended to use Twitter less. During the last Lakers-Celtics game, for example, I was in the NBA Finals FriendFeed room. Ironic, since I spent good chunks of the World Series on Twitter.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - http://feeds.lifehack.org/~r...
Jansen Lu and John F Morton liked this
Good article. The idea of pruning your FriendFeed to give it a higher signal to noise ratio by pruning your feeds that end up here sounds good, but since FF aggregates all your online media creation, I think another approach to this is to do the pruning before that noise gets out on the Internet to begin with. I think this is a skill people learn over time. Most people's first tweets...
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- John F Morton
Rooms are great, as Friendfeed gathered a big group of members, who are willing to respond to topics in rooms of their interests.
- Jansen Lu
Short Takes « Drawing The Motmot - http://drawingthemotmot.wordpress.com/2008...
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Ms. Rahyad, viv, Jansen Lu and 3 other people liked this
Can Twitter survive the WWDC Stevenote? - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Arthur Guy, Mitchell Tsai, edythe and 9 other people liked this
Isn't that why Bwana mentioned someone should start a room in FF? :-)
- JA Castillo
probably a good idea
- MG Siegler
Did this question even need asking?
- Michael Hocter
will Twitter even be alive by the time the Stevenote starts?
- Frederic
a good point frederic...
- MG Siegler
the better question might be, who benefits? where will the conversations go when twitter crashes? all FF? some plurk? a mishmash of those and pownse and jaiku?
- Christian Anderson
@JA, room started... http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - - anyone planning to liveblog should add a link comment in the room
- LogEx
YouTube - iPong - http://jp.youtube.com/watch...
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- akihito
Linkinn - Creative Sculptures - http://www.linkinn.com/_Creati...
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Shayanlinux, macro, FarshadPix+ and 7 other people liked this
FriendFeed Apps - The FriendFeed Playground - http://www.ffapps.com/
Brome, Steaprok, Great Scott! and 10 other people liked this
15 Useful Greasemonkey Scripts for Del.icio.us Users - http://www.killertechtips.com/2008...
Oliver Ding, Jeremiah Hoyet, KACCKCM and 5 other people liked this
following on from another discussion of Google share and Delicious i thought this might be useful. Some great ways to integrate your SM activity
- stuart brown
Need Greasemonkey for Firefox 3!!
- Dieter Schwarz
from Alert Thingy
i think you can disable compatibility checking via about:config and get it installed in firefox 3
- Shankar Ganesh
What is the average amount of time it takes you to create a post?
Jansen Lu, Anthony Farrior, Mitchell Tsai and Phil G liked this
My average is about 1 1/2 hours. But I've had some take me up to 3 hours.
- Mark Krynsky
20 minutes.
- Louis Gray
Yeah it takes me up to 3 hours at times too. Especially the link-heavy posts.
- Phil G
Louis no way...You just want to make us feel inadequate don't you?
- Mark Krynsky
It depends for a type of story. "Feature" stories take hours. Some news stories takes 30 minutes or longer. Although I'm usually doing other things in the mean time.
- Zach Flauaus
I just sit down and write. It takes longer to make sure all the A HREFs and IMG SRCs work and display right.
- Louis Gray
About 2 hours with most of the time devoted to fact and link checking and formatting of photos and graphics
- OnDemand Beat
my average is about 40 min!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
Sometimes while I'm preparing for one, I write another.
- Anthony Farrior
Phew, with the exception of Louis I'm glad to see that I'm not the only slow one ;)
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
probably about 30 minutes of actual sitting at the keyboard typing - but usually a good bit more time than that in thinking about the post part.
- felix
I usually allocate 1 hour from start to finish, but I tend to get done earlier. I try to get in the habit of not clicking "publish" until that hour is up. It has worked most times as I get more ideas and also catch mistakes, etc.
- Bwana ☠
Maybe 30-60 seconds, since 99% of my entries are on Twitter or FF :)
- Mike Reynolds
Nice to see everyone's comments. I guess I should have clarified what constitutes the time measurement. For me that usually includes signing up for, testing, and getting screenshots or any other external aspects of a site I'm writing about as well.
- Mark Krynsky
It probably takes me an hour on average including links, images, formatting, etc.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Well I've started taking a new approach to some posts and have popped out the last 3 in ~ 30 minutes. I'm liking this as I can continue an almost daily frequency of posts which is very important.
- Mark Krynsky
short posts could be created in 10 minutes, but some serious topics could take more than 1 or 2 hours.
- Jansen Lu
Depends on what I'm writing. On SheGeeks - 30 mins maybe 45. RWW...you don't want to know lol
- Corvida
On average around 20 min to write down a rough draft and 10 more min to edit. If it's a review - checking out the site takes considerably longer than the writing part - especially if I end up emailing with the dev. to clarify things.
- Frederic
a "short" post takes 1-2 hours but a larger review can take 8 or so. the ones that require building something to share or tinkering around with software take a few extra hours not including writing the actual post.
- Paul Stamatiou
My new technique is to use my cell to take a picture and use the image as an illustration for what I'm about to write. This takes all day and clearly, I like to do things painfully....
- Anthony Farrior
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