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Leading personal start page to manage your digital life. Add widget to read your newspapers, play games, watch TV, movies, listen to podcasts, manage your social networks like Facebook, MySpace, read your emails from gmail or yahoo mail. - John Storer II
Leading personal start page to manage your digital life. Add widget to read your newspapers, play games, watch TV, movies, listen to podcasts, manage your social networks like Facebook, MySpace, read your emails from gmail or yahoo mail. - John Storer II
Actually, no, I can't say that I have... perhaps, to some people, it actually is the same. Or maybe there were just too many evil eyes in the bedroom at one time, and said phrase was born. - John Storer II
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Signs point to yes. Andy Ihnatko says it makes waffles, too. - ha3rvey
Maybe worth seeing what you think of ebook apps in the iPhone App Store later this week ... - Patrick Jordan
I love mine and I haven't even used it to its fullest potential yet. It's so nice to buy e-books and other publications without needing to connect it to a computer. Plus there are a few e-book sites that have free content that is directly downloadable to the Kindle, like Manybooks.net and Feedbooks.com (IIRC). - Cheryl Jones
I need to have the physical book, and I need to have it eventually on a shelf for later reference. Call me old school, but when I want to lend a good read out to a friendor colleague, I can. - Granteezy
my only issue with the kindle right now is the limited selection. I went through my wishlist and only 8 of the 65 books I want have kindle editions. Once that hits closer to 40 to 50 percent I'll take the plunge. I think v2 will probably be an improvement and can't be that far off as v1 has been out awhile. I'd wait. - aka Taylor
Great technology - My wife, who is a non-tech but avid reader, absolutely loves it. I bought it for me, but I hardly ever get to use it now. Considering buying a replacement for me. The selling point - accessible books are easily purchasable and immediately available for reading. She can't get enough of it. - Rob Bushway
I love to have one but it's still too pricey. In the mean time, my iPhone running textreader works great as an ebook reader. - Inksim
i've been trying one out. product works great, i just can't justify the price (and am a constant reader). $10/book > used prices. - Jeremy Toeman
I would like to get a Kindle, but I have questions about being able to read/order top-selling Japanese books on one. Can I? - Vince DeGeorge
Don't you think the new iPhone store will have a book reader app. I can't see spending the $ on a dedicated device. I've even used MobiPocket on my BlackBerry and it's not bad. The iPhone/iTouch would be perfect. - Kevin Shannon
I wish the design was more like the Sony reader and we would be good to go... I hate the looks of the Kindle - Robert
Get it. I would do the same if there was native PDF support. Need it for journal articles. - jeremy franklin
I want this thing too, but I'm convinced that as soon as I buy, v2 will come out with better graphics, better button placement and a more comfortable form factor. I just can't pull the trigger at $350. $199? I'd have one. - BISQ
Get the Kindle, it is legit as an e-book reader and really does work well. - Tony
With BISQ on this one - $399 seems a bit too much. $249 or even $199 would help me make the leap. That said, as a writer, I LOVE LOVE LOVE books (it's SO hard for me to part with them) so the intangibleness of the Kindle is actually what's holding me back more. - Aubrey Sabala
I own 2 because one is always lent out. I recommend one if you purchase books often. My 2 paid for themselves in the discounts. - LPH™
I would wait for something a little more book-ish. Maybe a flexible screen or at least something with side-by-side viewing. Also I'm a bit biased toward Audible, so I do very little book reading anymore. (In the words of Calacanis, "Lo-o-o-ove Audible...") - StephenTorrence
I'd have to see how it would hold up after a 4 hour reading session. - John Storer II
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I'm thinking there must be a better ereader around the corner... - Charlie
Yeah, I wish there was something as open as the Kindle (unlike the eReader) but with the slick design that I so crave... le sigh. - Veronica
I want a kindle but i'm going to wait till the next generation - Justin
ps by ereader I mean any electronic reader, not a particular brand - Charlie
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With all the blackout's I've been having, I'm waiting until one has a backlight option. I like that it doesn't use one by default, but I want a light for some situations. - FiZ
Why not wait till the app store opens and see if there is a decent reader for the iphone? - Chris Kuhner
Oh god, I couldn't imagine reading anything extensively on the iPhone. - John Barker
What would be really cool on an e-reader: you're reading something technical (because it's current, gets revised every few weeks, and you don't want to waste paper). You see a mistake, or item that needs clarification. You mark it with a stylus or your finger and hit a button to send it immediately to an errata collection online. When you get the next update, the author has incorporated your feedback. It took you 15 seconds of effort. - Charlie
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I guess some people really do like the Kindle. It surprises me. Maybe we are close to the Kindle II release. Spies, where are you? - MattJhsn
I've been meaning to blog a review but probably never will, so here's probably my only statement on it. The way I talked myself into buying a Kindle after a day's agonizing or so recently: realizing that with the lifetime wireless service it makes a great gift. So that I could give it to my mom if I upgrade or stop using it one day. The fact is, though, within a week of having one, my wife wanted one, and most of my friends did, too. There's a 30-day free return: try it? - Timothy Shey
Kindle is good.But can never be a substitute 4 u sitiing in front of the fire with a some java and a good paper bound book in hand. - Arjun
I think that you could buy it then if you found you did not use it just return it. I have been thinking of that myself. Amazon is good that way - I bought a Geko handheld gps and when it really did not do what I thought it would I returned it not problem at all. I made sure I kept all the packaging. - Ted Sbardella
Added you. Also new to FF. I think it might be information overload, though... - John Storer II
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I added you two weeks ago. Guys and Gals - use the hide button to reduce the info overload. - Russellreno
yea I am trying to figure out how to make my friend feed posts go out to twitter - Jason Stephens
Jason: why? post to twitter and bring them in. - klecu
klecu: because then I have to leave friendfeed, I want to do everything in here...when I share I want it to go out to all my services too.... - Jason Stephens
I think you've got it backwards. FriendFeed is drawing in everything, not sending out. - John Storer II
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exactly my point...I think it could be a twitter replacement though...i like posting to hear better then posting on twitter. I'd like the messages I share on here to go out to my twitter followers to help grow my subscriber list - Jason Stephens
So is it Ping.fm that does that (posts to Twitter) then, not FriendFeed? - Jeff Kopp
That is, of course, a very valid example. Unfortunately, It's sort of like the AIM/ICQ Fiasco. All your friends are on AIM... why should they switch, even when AIM now sucks? I just got into FF, so I am not sure it could handle the excess traffic like twitter is dealing with. - John Storer II
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The method to comment and reply is much better on friendfeed, I think this definitly should either be bought by twitter or find a way to cross integrate them better. I see the option to "also send this comment as an @reply twitter from jpstephens" but thats not EXACTLY what I mean - Jason Stephens
Jason: I totally agree, if you can post out to all your socials then someone tell me how. If not, then FF should have the option or I smell yet another social network for social networks. ;) - Mark
You could try Mahalo share to post to a lot of your socials at once, but wouldn't this create a bit of a spam effect to FF if all of those socials are showing up here? Interested to hear comments from anyone with that experience, because of course you don't want to spam your FF friends, but not everyone is using FF... conundrum - Dave Earley
Glad you got it Kevin. Friendfeed lends it self to more engaging conversation and sharing. - Larry Kless
Problem is, you have to Friend back. :) - l0ckergn0me
Did Scoble block you for begging for followers? - Ryan Kuder
yeah there's real potential. but it's so damn hard to manage your friend list! same as with twitter - this is a huge barrier to the usability of the site. there should be a subscribe/unsubscribe button next to every post from anybody. - Mickipedia
Friendfeed is awesome Kev. Everything at your fingertips. - Vipin Chamakkala
This is a common refrain - people admitting that it takes them months to get FriendFeed. And for those of us who aren't honest enough to publicly admit this, it takes us months to use FriendFeed effectively. Is there a way to reduce this learning curve, so people can productively use FriendFeed from day 1? - Ontario Emperor
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There are all sorts of things they could do to improve FriendFeed. I guess we have to remember it is version 1.0 - Jonathan Beckett
You don't get it Kevin unless you're willing to friend us back. I believe same goes for Twitter. Why add you to our community if you're not willing to listen to us? - Jesse Stay
So the question now is: Will Kevin friend us back? All of us? Or selective friending? - Winston Teo
Yea, welcome on Board Dude ;) Good to see you here ... - Martin Gommel
FriendFeed's concept does take a bit to grasp at first because we are sooo used to Twitter (uni-directional, broadcast communications tool) and FF is truly a multi-directional comm tool designed to illicit conversation around cool stuff you share via FF directly or thru nearly 50 Social Media "feeds" you can port over here. I love FF and have been super happy since I joined back in March! ;o). Glad you're here and having fun!! - Susan Beebe
I still don't get it. There seems to just be too much noise. I get crap from people I don't know and I'm not following. Every item that hits my feed and has any comments takes up stupid amounts of space so it's hard to scan through. Twitter is just light weight and simple, and in that way it's more effective. If you could have a 1 or 2 line summary for each item then it'd be great, but as it is it's cluttered and overpowering, and I only have 6 follows, I can't imagine what it's like with 100s - Mark Benson
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About time you showed up. Now I can remove your twitter's entry in my Imaginary Friend. Real handy feature to track non-adopters. - klaatu
I've explored every nook and cranny of Friendfeed now, grasped the interface and culture, and I am fairly certain that in its current incarnation it will catch on with only a very small percentage of Internet users. I have a fairly good track record in spotting major trends in Internet technology, and I don't think this is one. The main problem: way, way, way too much noise and redundancy, and not enough tools to whittle it down effectively. For most busy people around the world, a Drudge Report-style interface -- a few dozen important headlines packed on a single page -- is ideal. - Sean McBride
I like FF because you can have more conversations. I think the look/feel of FF needs some work though. Not enough easy ways to search and sort through. - Geoff Peterson
