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In the future, miles will be a widely accepted currency, airlines will be lenders and banks will fly people around.
BeeLing, Penguin It's Cold Outside, Eric @ CSTechcast.com and 5 other people liked this
Will we have a bail out system?
- Simon
How many miles will a can of coke cost?
- Rob Schonberger
Simon: Parachute. Rob: a mile per calorie.
- Kevin Fox
In that case: http://online.wsj.com/article... - we'll all be rich!
- Jesse Stay
Dearest FriendFeed Team, I know I shouldn't expect new features, but a retweet on Twitter every time I like a person's Tweet (from Twitter) on FriendFeed would be awesome.
Ken Gidley, Mark Davidson, Alex Scrivener and Stephen Mack liked this
yeah, and being able to interface with twitter lists too, that would be nice... for instance if i could create a room that is fed by one of scobleizer's lists that would be cool... i can do it now, but it's not as elegant and smooth as it could be if it were part of friendfeed
- Chris Heath
all that being said... i'm not going to hold my breath, and it's not that big of a deal
- Chris Heath
I wouldn't want it to be a retweet. A favorite, perhaps.
- Otto
Yeah, otto, a favorite makes more sense with a like than a retweet does (even though lots of people say that the new retweet is the old like)... whatev
- Chris Heath
A like isn't really a "favorite". I often like things even though they're not my favorite posts on FriendFeed. I "like" things because I want to participate in the conversation or I want to bring them to the attention of those following me. In this respect it is more like the new retweet feature for Twitter.
- Jesse Stay
Yep. Good point, Jesse.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
And of course, opt-out availability.
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Fulaan, of course - I'm not suggesting it be a default, but I want the option so long as I can already post to Twitter from FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
On the flipside, for me a like is exactly a favorite. I "like" things in order to add them to my own personal stream of "my discussions". Don't care if other people see it or not. Same with favorites, I do it to have a place to remember tweets for later. But Twitter retweets I do specifically to bring it to other people's attention, which is not what I use FF "likes" for at all. People use the same features in different ways.
- Otto
Otto is there any conversation you agree with on here? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
It's about 50/50, honestly. ;-)
- Otto
jesse, and otto... i dip into both those styles of behavior... a like is a way for me to bring something to peoples attention (here and on twitter) and it's also bookmarking for personal use (and these are social behaviors that i didn't have before i used friendfeed - now there's something to think about)
- Chris Heath
So, in your opinion, be honest now...is Friendfeed still alive and kicking? (update: seemingly so. :) )
Pam Gwenzi, Micah Wittman, Robyn Hawk and 58 other people liked this
yes. very much so.
- John Wang
Yes, but has started to develop some health problems and needs a doctor's visit.
- Alex Scoble
It is for me
- Mo Kargas
Yep
- Johnny Worthington
It definitely is for me.
- Curtiss Grymala
I just got here. It's the best platform.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
for me it is .................
- VAL D.
It's still kicking :). A little less a guess but still :)
- alfred westerveld
Yes.
- Jim Hearts FF
hell ya ......!
- johnpiercy
Yup.
- Spidra Webster
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Yep, still kickin'!
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
Does a bear poop in the woods?
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Ok, so I don't live here anymore, but I still check in for conversation and positivity.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
for sure
- Josh Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
wow. For you maybe, Brian.
- Jim Hearts FF
Yes!
- Anne Bouey
But I am still here.
- Brian Sullivan
Yep. Certainly not as crazy as it was 'back in the day' but it's definitely still kicking.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm making a concerted effort to pop in and find some great stuff to share
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
As far as I can tell, it's still alive.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
TBH, I feel like I use FF much more now that before the acquisition. So for me, yes, it's very much alive and kicking. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
I'm tellin' ya: it's the librarians' fault.
- cecily
Yep
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
yep
- Wayne Sutton
Yes.
- pea
Yes.
- Kamilah Gill
Yes
- Bonnie Foster
Somewhat less so than the previous old days...
- TrafficBug
being bought by Facebook has definitely dampened my enthusiasm, but yeah, its still alive and kicking
- Jeffrey Canton
Still seems pretty lively to me.
- Gordon Herd
This was asked eight hours ago and has gotten 19 likes so far. Not a resounding "yes."
- Robert Scoble
Compare to @ericschmidt who was added to 700+ lists and 12,000+ followers in 24 hours over on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
But 34 comments, and nearly all "Yes".
- Nils Sandin
Nils: sorry, that's not a resounding yes either. 34 people do not a service make.
- Robert Scoble
yes, affirmative.
- bora "head" basman
The service works for me, so I don't fret about the other new or old services. Both have their place.
- Nils Sandin
werd.
- imabonehead
Haha. I must say I'm starting to see more and more threads like this. The discussion is definitely coming back.
- Roberto Bonini
Twitter for headlines, FF for discussions.
- Nils Sandin
it is to me
- barbarars
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Yes!
- Iván Abrego
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Yup
- Maryam Ardakani
from FreshFeed
its going to die soon
- Farshad
FF is like a small country town. Not a big population but people stop and say "hello".
- Barak B
Yes, indeed!
- Andrew Terry
Is this a bit like a band you feel you've discovered becoming mainstream?
- plooptionary
Yes, it's very much alive and kicking!
- Michael Fidler
+Louis Simoneau (& I answered above earlier)
- Kamilah Gill
as far as I can tell, yes.
- Derek Coward
I'm here
- Jimminy
Still alive. :)
- 3Cinteractive, L.L.C.
from twhirl
You bet. Still the best interface and most interesting conversations
- Alan Morris
from iPhone
Yep. Cranking along just like Jaiku.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yep, I just saw that one of those Twitter Social Media Guru's found the place and followed 4k people in 5 minutes.
- Jimminy
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- ★ Soner Gönül
yes. those who say otherwise can go somewhere else.
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
Hey Zee, from what platform did you originally post your question? I'm seeing it via Friendfeed by way of a friend.
- Rich Reader
@Rich on friendfeed itself
- Zee.
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- CW™
No. We're all dead. Go away.
- Glen Mistletoe
I'm standing under the Mistletoe O_O
- Micah Wittman
Zee, regarding your question, and I'm no Godin apologist, but his '1000 true fans' comes to mind http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
- Micah Wittman
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I'm not done yet. Christopher Galtenberg http://friendfeed.com/zee... and Louis Simoneau http://friendfeed.com/zee... make great points.
- Micah Wittman
Sure is
- Herb Hernandez
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Always..!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
still here.
- Mike Nencetti
alive
- gemella
kick
- Kevin Fox
Yes. The primary thing that has changed is the content.
- Steven Perez
And it no longer buys us flowers anymore, the bitch.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think this thread proves what is fact....
- Mathew™ one of a kind
WOW - I guess so!!! May have to come off digest...
- Robyn Hawk
O Hai There! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
wow - weather peeps are calling for *three* inches of rain tonight - just got quite a few emergency alerts for flash flooding
at least it's not snow like what we're getting
- Jesse Stay
Bryan R. Adams, JA Castillo and Jim Hearts FF liked this
Who ARE all these half-naked girls on Myspace and why do they want to be added anyway?
Morgan Haley and Mathew A. Koeneker liked this
Links?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Is that what it is? Generating income from clicking links? I wonder if Socialtoo can purge a Myspace account...
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Maybe, just a guess.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Most people just want to be able to use your comments area to pimp their own stuff. Pisses me off. I've had bands do that to me and I refuse to pimp my gigs on someone else's comment area.
- Spidra Webster
those are missionaries from the local chapter of Our Ladies of Slutty-tude church of Lapdance-ation
- Morgan Haley
I receive 1 or 2 relevant comments/ year on Myspace.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Rob, you're the second person that has asked for that. Let me think about that, look at the Myspace API, and see if that's possible.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse--I figured you would see that. Man, you're quick!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Rob, no, FriendFeed and BackType are quick :-)
- Jesse Stay
The view from our house this morning. This is Palo Alto, not Tahoe!
Andrew Bowers, Bruce Lewis, Jason Shellen and 29 other people liked this
WHOA! I am excited to be going to Sydney (in the airport now), but very sad I missed this whole snow-thing in the bay area! :(
- Adam Lasnik
holy cow!!!
- Jenna Bilotta
Maybe a little too alto
- j1m
F####ing beautiful.
- Павел Романовский
I moved to Michigan one month too early... and it hasn't even snowed here yet!
- Karl Rosaen
from Android
Just moved to Brisbane from Mountain View, and cleaning ice from the windshield this morning I though was it the right move? Now I see there is not too much difference half an hour south from here. At least we don't have snow outside. :)
- earlyadopter
OMG. your house... uhm.. speechless. (more photos pls :)
- Jenna Bilotta
Take that, times about 10" and that's what I'm looking out of my window today (blech!)
- Jesse Stay
+1 Jenna: I want a view like that from *my* back window.
- Joel Webber
Joel, you should move to Utah :-)
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse: I hear it's beautiful out there too. I love Boulder (my grandmother lives there), and the mountains of western CO, which I imagine has something in common with it. But I'd have to drag 8-ish family members out there with me :(
- Joel Webber
The great thing about Salt Lake City is all the ski resorts and mountain areas are all part of the city, or within 15 minutes from the city. Or, just 30 minutes East you have Park City, which is beautiful in and of itself. Cost of living in SLC is typically very low compared to Palo Alto or Boulder, too - very compatible for tech startups.
- Jesse Stay
Awesome paint job. Looks real.
MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, Jason Huebel, Mo Kargas and 27 other people liked this
Dead trucks make me sad :-(
- Jesse Stay
Josh is on fire. Oh wait, no, just his stream.
- Stephen Mack
not good
- VAL D.
LOL
- rowlikeagirl
SocialToo - Your Companion to the Social Web! - http://socialtoo.com/
Interesting tool to track follows/unfollows and do other automated twitter and facebook tasks. Pricing structure is weird.
- Scott
I'd love to hear your feedback on the pricing structure. Is there a way we can make it better?
- Jesse Stay
Have you seen http://socialtoo.com/about (via the "Read more" link)? I also have a few ideas for an even more in-depth tour.
- Jesse Stay
I don't understand how SocialToo.com works, confused~~~~
How can I help? What are you confused about? Have you checked out http://socialtoo.com/about? I'd love to help.
- Jesse Stay
Google - E. C. Segar's Birthday... - http://www.google.com/webhp...
Victor Ryden, Gaurav Chandalia, plooptionary and 8 other people liked this
LOVE! (Huge Popeye fan here)
- Jesse Stay
Spinach is to Popeye as ______ is to Google...
- Cliff Gerrish
I hate this alert box like I hate AV software. How do I make it go away forever?
شــــــهرآشوبــــــــ, Kostantinos Koukopoulos, mona and 42 other people liked this
I just disable the whole thing. Go to the "Security Center" control panel and click "Change the way Security Center notifies me" on the left. Or disable the "Security Center" service (wscsvc).
- Gabe
Don't use Windows? ;)
- Deepak Singh
Install Linux or Mac OS.
- Kenton
You are using Windows?
- τorƍue
Open Regedit >> Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced >> Create a REG_DWORD named EnableBalloonTips >> Set the value data to 0 >> Close Regedit >> Reboot
- AJ Batac
other than not using windows which is the best thing to do, you can disable the messages by clicking on something like "change the way windows notifies me"
- w43l
In the 'Windows Security Center' window click on the link that says 'Change the way the Security Center alerts me'. Select the way that you prefer to be alerted about security issues.
- Erdëm [virtus] GULTEKIN
You could get a Mac, but you might have to sell everything else you own to afford one. Instead try changing your Firewall settings. That way you can keep using a machine people still create programs for.
- Ciaoenrico
Thanks. It's so hard to find and kill all of these annoying settings. This is for my windows vm :)
- Paul Buchheit
Buy a MAC
- johnpiercy
Install Linux
- Jesse Stay
I agree, that's annoying though
- Jesse Stay
What's with all the douchebags spamming the comments with "Don't use Windows"? Do they think they're being funny? Do they really think you don't already have a Mac and/or Linux? Do they not see the VMWare icon sitting RIGHT NEXT to the damn arrow?
- Gabe
Paul, you have a talent for asking all the questions I've always wanted to ask but forgot to.
- Gabor Cselle
Gabe, yes I think I'm being funny - welcome to Friendfeed :-)
- Jesse Stay
Easiest way to make it go away. Turn on Windows Firewall, and install Microsoft Security Essentials.
- Wizetux
How many kids do you have Paul ? : )))
- mehmet
Click the balloon to fix the problem...
- Vincenzo RR
I am using windows and I don't use Linux or MAC or anything, and I am not ashamed about it.
- Dallas Cao
this question , from you paul, very much surprizes me.
- james
install OSX
- Logan Lindquist
OSX is also good target for viral stuff nowadays - viral distribution needs head-less (stupid) material for propagation... use Linux, chances to catch anything next to zero, And Ubuntu will give you (almost) same environment you had in Windows (and better system under hood)
- A.T.
I installed Ubuntu. I haven't seen this pop-up since then.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, that consistently works like a charm.
- Kamath (नमः)
@Paul - I installed Microsoft Security Essentials (http://www.microsoft.com/Securit...) on my wife's laptop. So far it has been a big improvement (i.e., seems to work and doesn't trash or slow down the machine) over the several other antivirus products, both commercial and free, we tried before. I'd run it even in a VM'ed instance of Windows, as just booting into a network with other Windows boxes or hitting a few websites can put the VM image at risk (and be a risk to the rest of the network).
- DeWitt Clinton
Nod
- ★ Soner Gönül
Google "Disable Balloon Notifications" and you can turn off those stupid balloons altogether...
- LarchOye
Try "net stop wscsvc" then "sc config wscsvc start= disabled" in cmd.
- Gluek
I turned off my computer. I haven't seen this pop-up since then.
- Gabe
s/Windows/Linux/
- Thaths
Install another OS
- Tuyishime Aimable
GET A MAC HURP HURPPP, because that's a fix. derp.
- Will Higgins™
Format c: install Ubuntu!
- keiser
Dewitt. I am definately installing Microsoft Security Essentials once my Nortons subscription is up. People: PAUL IS RUNNING A VIRTUAL MACHINE. End of public service announcent.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
First comment is the right one. Have a nice journey with a Virtualized XP (and disable themes! :) )
- Assimo
Chalk up another for the MS Security Essentials - http://microsoft.com/securit...
- Chris Heath
it's somehow relieving to see that even pro's sometimes struggle with easy things like that :)
- Johannan Edelman
start>run>services.msc then disable windows security center service. it will go to the cyber space.
- Ali Sözkesen
Ali, BlackViper says that you have to do more than just disable the service: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP... - "If you do not want the Security Center to monitor these functions for you, disabling this service is not enough. After rebooting the system, this service will again be placed into Automatic and started. While the service is in the started state, go...
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- Chris Heath
@shiralazar don't talk to me about cold...brrrrr! http://yfrog.com/3757aj
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19 degrees here
- Jesse Stay
Bets on whether SLC airport will be open tomorrow at 9:30pm?
Jesse Stay liked this
It will be open - Salt Lake City very rarely closes - it's the connecting airports that always mess things up. I took off in the middle of a Blizzard once - it was scary, but evidently very common!
- Jesse Stay
Party FAIL :-)
All that's left of the SocialMobile :-(
- Jesse Stay
Zoe wears Sarah's old Christmasy outfit.
rowlikeagirl, Bluesun 2600, Rachel Lea Fox and 30 other people liked this
Oh, adorable! :) Only in Texas could you get away with shorts for Christmas.
- Rochelle
And Hawaii. ;)
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
aww. cutie!
- pea
I saw two men wearing shorts today. It was 30F and snow on the ground. Total WTF moment. They also didn't look as cute as Ms. Zoe.
- pea
So cute! I should show this to fiance. Maybe she'll agree to try for a girl. LOL.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Hi beebee zee! *hugs*
- Yolanda
Zoe says "HI" (really)
- Josh Haley
It just snowed in Houston - can't be that warm :-)
- Jesse Stay
Great..!
- ★ Soner Gönül
that first pic, x_x !!!
- Anna Haro
Too cute! Must get that from her Uncle Morgan.....
- Morgan Haley
Me, Brett Nordquist and 10 Questions - http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index...
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Jesse Stay liked this
Brett's a great guy - he was one of the first people I followed on Twitter
- Jesse Stay
Hello all-What are your favorite warm holiday drinks? (alcoholic or not). Assume I've already got hot spiced cider & hot toddies on my list.
Starbucks Peppermint Hot Chocolate
- Jesse Stay
I wish they sold that stuff in powder form
- Jesse Stay
Glögg is by far my favorite :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Jesse I think they have it now in ice cream form. I just got a coupon. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Spiced cider and Sugar Plum Fairy Celestial Seasonings Tea (which I can't get anymore because they are not stocking it)
- Melanie Reed
Glögg is awesome. good cold remedy too.
- Mike Nencetti
Hot butter rum. Mmmmm.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Mike you are so right I should be downing Glögg right now by the gallons. I've had a cold / sore throat thing going on for two weeks now .. To the kitchen! :-)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Vote number three for Gløgg.
- Eivind
Has Twitter Dumped That Hated Retweet Function? - http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009...
Lee, Tapio Kulmala, Brian Sullivan and 2 other people liked this
ah - *that's* why I haven't seen my Retweet today
- Jesse Stay
Liking just because I can :-)
- Jesse Stay
No, it's still there. And you know what, I prefer it to the point that I've started unfollowing people who persist in RT'ing the old way. But only if they're also using a client that I know supports the new way. Use the Retweet for proper Retweeting, and use Reply if you want to add a comment. Don't repost other peoples content as if it were your own. I've always hated that, now I have a good reason to ignore jackoffs who do it.
- Otto
Otto, it's only there for some people. I don't have it right now (and I use both styles of retweet depending on my purpose - TIMTOWTDI).
- Jesse Stay
I'm just ignoring this feature, sure that it will die a thousand deaths
- Dave Hodson
Jesse: I thought they enabled it for everybody already: http://mashable.com/2009... While some clients don't have support for it yet, I am taking that into account. However, by the end of the year, I will no longer follow people using "RT" or /via, and I will block anybody who RT or /vias my own tweets. I consider it to be content theft and will not stand for it.
- Otto
Otto, read the article - it's broken for some right now. My suggestion: don't post on Twitter if you don't want to be retweeted. I won't stop using the RT for some reasons (I think it's a better way of getting someone's attention), but I also use the new method when I don't need it to take up as much of my stream.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I don't mind being Retweeted. I don't like being RT'd because that's just somebody stealing my content and claiming it for themselves.
- Otto
If they're claiming you wrote it I don't see how that is claiming it for themselves. They're not getting the credit for it - you are.
- Jesse Stay
If you do it "the old way", then their name and picture shows up next to it, not mine. QED. The fact that it has @myname in it is meaningless. They've stolen my content and repurposed it, without permission, without authority, without even so much as asking me. I think Twitter should ban the letters "RT" and "/via", and begin to block clients that allow that sort of thing.
- Otto
The API is still enabled, I'm still seeing new style retweets in Tweetie.
- Bryce Roney
from iPhone
What really annoys me is that an old style RT breaks the metadata chain. If somebody RTs my content, and somebody else Reply's to that, I can't see that reply. I have no idea it happened.
- Otto
Otto you are welcome to unfollow me for using the old way - it's not going to stop. Full credit is given. It complies with Twitter's terms of use. I suggest not using Twitter if you don't like it.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: Like I said, that's exactly what I've been starting to do: Unfollow people who persist in stealing other people's content, and Blocking people who steal mine. Note that just because you attribute words to others does not give you permission to reproduce those words. Copyright and such. BTW, check those Terms again. I gave Twitter the rights to reproduce my content, I didn't give the same rights to you.
- Otto
Otto, well block away then - it's not going to stop
- Jesse Stay
No, it will stop eventually. Why do you think Twitter introduced the Retweet feature? Real reason: They suddenly realized that every single RT was a copyright infringement lawsuit waiting to happen. It's only a matter of time before they block "RT" and "/via" and such.
- Otto
Otto, good luck with that
- Jesse Stay
No luck necessary, it's simply inevitable.
- Otto
Otto you still haven't blocked me
- Jesse Stay
I'm not following you. Wasn't following you to begin with.
- Otto
You don't need to follow me for me to retweet you
- Jesse Stay
I didn't have the Twitter RT function last night- haven't checked today.
- Kurt Kringle
Hmm Otto, I am pretty sure RT's would be considered fair use if you really want to take your complaint to the Copyright gods..
- Rasmus Lauridsen
And I appreciate all RTs in whatever form they appear!
- Kurt Kringle
Ras: No, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't pass the four criteria for fair-use. Nevertheless, you wouldn't be able to prove any serious damages either, so it's not really something you could get away with in a court of law.
- Otto
Otto - Are all of your tweets your own original content? Do you reference other stuff? Just curious.
- Kurt Kringle
Kurt: I've stopped using old style RTs since Tweetie 2 got updated to support real Retweets. But I never really RTd that much to begin with anyway. I can only find 3 times I did it in the last month, out of a couple hundred or so. I don't tend to follow people who RT a lot anyway, as they're just clutter and spam as far as I'm concerned. I'm interested in people with something to say, not in useless aggregators.
- Otto
It could easily be argued that the purpose of the retweet is a comment, critiscism or news reporting...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Ras: The RT with additional comments on it is a rare beast indeed. 9/10 times it's just a verbatim copy.
- Otto
I would pay money to see someone actually get sued over a retweet
- Jesse Stay
Well the RT in itself is a copy and if done right attributed to you. The person RTing is saying he agrees with you and that what you say is worth repeating. You might actually gain one or two more of those precious followers if others like what they see. happened to me after I got RTd the other day. The great thing about the followers you get like that is that you actually have something in common with them. I can't see that the new way is better than the old. It's different and confusing in it's own way.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I see the RT as a way for the original content to be dispersed. As long as it's properly attributed, I don't see a problem.
- Kurt Kringle
Otto - Of course there's nothing wrong with your preference for getting the original content from the source. Personally, I am unable to find and be exposed to all of the original content. I have found some great stuff via those who share/RT. YMMV.
- Kurt Kringle
Kurt: Again, I state that the mere fact that you give somebody attribution does not give you license to copy and/or modify their content. They own their content, not you, and you don't have the right to copy it. The new Retweet avoids that problem since it is just putting your mark on the original content and then pointing it out to your followers; nothing is copied or modified there. I...
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- Otto
Otto: What method would you find acceptable for me to show someone else your content? I would likely post a link to your content in a Tweet with a comment like "This article by Otto is cool." My tweet about your content would probably include your title, too. IYO, is that stealing your content?
- Kurt Kringle
Kurt: Don't get me wrong, the new Retweet functionality is fine, IMO. It's only the older "RT" method that I'm against. Retweet doesn't copy the tweet, RT'ing did. If you want to add your own commentary, then you should use a Reply, so that there's a metadata link back to the original tweet. Also, with a Reply, it's perfectly possible for your followers to see it by default, just don't...
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- Otto
Interesting - did you know that Orkut users spend consistently more time on Orkut.com than FB, Twitter, Myspace, and LinkedIn?
Both of them?
- Louis Gray
Their user base is smaller, but it's an interesting statistic.
- Jesse Stay
It's also interesting that about mid 2008 they took a huge jump in traffic, and then went way down again. I wonder if that was due to OpenSocial's announcement.
- Jesse Stay
Didn't Orkut get a lot of traction among South American users? I kinda wonder why different countries tend to push towards different services. You'd think that ease-of-use would be relatively universal... Perhaps there's some other metric that drives site success on a regional level...
- Otto
That's most definitely an interesting statistic. I know that orkut is big even in India, although of late, there's been a migration towards facebook. The latest redesign of orkut is not helping it either.
- Guru Panguji
Make sure it's animated
- Jesse Stay
Use the Simpsons' Battling Seizure Robots: http://bit.ly/4BlBNr
- Otto
I think I was passed by the @googlecar today and took some video. http://www.youtube.com/watch... notice the spinning camera on top at 70 mph!
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What's even funnier is they probably had their cameras out taping the Scoblemobile as just as fascinating an attraction ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Huh-uh - I guess someone is going to appear on Google Street View. :)
- Olivia Lovag
What is the normal turn around time from the car taking pictures to appearance in street view?
- Brian Sullivan
Other pictures I have seen of Google transport carrying out shots for Google Maps Street View have had the Google logo on the vehicle... I have never seen any of them in the UK yet. Heh
- Geoff Jackson
My brother saw one in Manchester, probably a year ago. I suspect that Google are taking a more incognito approach these days after all the objections from the general public: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- James Myatt
Video Demo: How to Use Lazyfeed for Real-time RSS Feeds By Topic - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
Daniel Rowley, roamin, Amani and 46 other people liked this
brilliant video on Lazyfeed now I am going to use it properly
- Thomas Power
True, Holden. I try to use my fake voice. :) (You haven't heard the voice-overs on the twin videos?)
- Louis Gray
why is LazyFeed invite only?
- Damir Zubović
Damir, LazyFeed is invite only because I am not in charge. Ethan and Claire know I would like to open it up to everyone.
- Louis Gray
Tnx for info. Greetings from Slovenia.
- Damir Zubović
Your password's too short :-P
- Jesse Stay
the word "password" is too short?
- Louis Gray
:) :)
- Damir Zubović
Louis, yes.
- Jesse Stay
BTW, what screen capture software are you using?
- Jesse Stay
I hand-coded my own screen capture software using a derivative of Objective C, mixed with .Net and AJAX, Jesse.
- Louis Gray
Louis, I need an iPhone app then - will you build me one?
- Jesse Stay
but seriously, what screen capture software did you use to make that?
- Jesse Stay
Snapz Pro X: http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utiliti...
- Louis Gray
Very nice - thank you sir.
- Jesse Stay
More video demos == good, btw
- Jesse Stay
Impressed that you hand-coded the capturing, I wouldn't know where to start
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
We're honored to be your first guinea pig for the screencasting :) You should do this often.
- Ethan Gahng
greta video - got straight to the point :)
- Riaz Kanani
Hi Louis Thanks for the heads up about Lazyfeed. I have tried to register but it needs an invitation code. Can you or anyone in your network please let me know what I should put in? Thanks
- Jane Finch
Very well done, I now have a better understanding of how it works. Anymore invites? Thanks
- Mo Hall
why doesn't Lazyfeed have a feed for FF?
- Thomas Power
Thomas, Lazyfeed's founders are just now getting to understand FriendFeed better. Maybe with time.
- Louis Gray
cool thank you
- Thomas Power
LazyFeed looks great.! Thanks for this video Louis, super interesting (I like your fast pace too). Would love an invite if you have 1.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Hi, thanks everyone for your interest in Lazyfeed. We are excited to tell you that we will be releasing more invite codes via Twitter today. To receive your invite, please follow @lazyfeed on twitter and we will DM you an invite code. This invitation will expire midnight PST. Thank you!
- Lazyfeed
I will have to check this out. I admit that the point of it was not immediately obvious the first few times I used it.
- Bill Kinney
Louis, thanks for this wonderful quick tutorial. I am off to experimenting with Lazyfeed now. I wonder how you use it in conjunction with GReader, since I also find you sharing lot of stuff on GReader as well.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Awesome demo, finally got a chance to watch it.
- Bill Kinney
Love lazyfeed so far, but it won't connect with my Twitter acct even after I set up and click connect - only Flicr, etc..Anyone else have this issue.
- Liza
Liza - I've just tried connecting your twitter to my lazyfeed and it seems to be successfully bringing tags like lazyweb, trip, techkaraoke, etc. Please try again. Thanks.
- Ethan Gahng
Now that is GREAT customer service, Ethan. Thanks.. I want to learn more about lazyweb and ppl interacting from lazyfeed. Seeing it from my google dev friends. Any ideas?
- Liza
Very nice video here. I will use this to share with all my people. Thanks Louis.
- Amani
What do you want for this holiday season? I might give it to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch... [I'm playing Santa Chris again.]
![What do you want for this holiday season? I might give it to you: http://bit.ly/7cMXrB [I'm playing Santa Chris again.]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/F6Zx8W5aEu0/2.jpg "What do you want for this holiday season? I might give it to you: http://bit.ly/7cMXrB [I'm playing Santa Chris again.]") |
The video quality on that is great - what camera are you using for that?
- Jesse Stay
@chrismessina Social sites still need to break even per user in order to scale. Hopefully we'll find sustainable models that don't harm UX.
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. For all the overhead of keeping a full-time staff (in the thousands for Facebook, and hundreds for Twitter), that cost starts to become negligible relative to the per-user costs associated with scaling the site itself (to hundreds of millions for FB, or tens of millions for Twitter). For companies like FB and Twitter to go on to have successful IPOs (which seems to be both of their objectives, and more power to them), they do need to be profitable, and that profit will need to be unlocked on a per-user basis. So the question seems to be -- do the economies of scale drive per-user cost low enough that per-user advertising revenue is a net positive?
- DeWitt Clinton
The FT article on MySpace (http://bit.ly/6CsAgM) suggests that the secret to a per-user sustainable model is far from a known science. I suspect that we're still a AdWords-style paradigm shift in the monetization of attention (like AdWords did for intention) away from seeing sustainable profitability for social networks. I could be wrong -- the old approaches may work, albeit with smaller margins -- but I'm not totally convinced yet.
- DeWitt Clinton
Facebook is profitable already. I've heard rumors that Twitter is close.
- Jesse Stay
I'm not sure either of those statements are true, Jesse.
- DeWitt Clinton
All that said, this article may give some insight into the paradigm shift necessary: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs.... Specifically, the opportunity for brokering application transactions and taking a share of the revenue.
- DeWitt Clinton
*However* (and this is a big however), if the web platform itself were to be made more social (the graph and the communication channels distributed), then applications like Farmville would do just as well stand-alone property, or one that can migrate between networks at will. This would be an advantage to Farmville as well, as their percentage of the in-app revenue would increase if it didn't need to share with the application platform provider.
- DeWitt Clinton
This competing interest between app developer and app host is a negative for the app host when it comes to creating sustainable ecosystems.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt: Facebook is both profitable and cash flow positive: http://www.businessinsider.com/faceboo.... I would encourage you to read all the articles talking about how Google doesn't make money before Google went public in 2004 for some context ;)
- Bret Taylor
@Bret - right, which is why I mentioned the paradigm shift of AdWords in relation to understanding how modern social networks can reach sustainable profitability. I was among those in 2004 that didn't have a clue how Google would work, and boy was I wrong. [Edit: and I meant to add that I actually hadn't heard that FB is profitable today, which is different than cash flow positive, of course, but that's something that I imagine FB would want to keep private for now.]
- DeWitt Clinton
So here are the questions that raises - 1) are there paradigm shifts afoot in the monetization models (ala Farmville), 2) if not, then how will modern social networks make the old models sustainable if MySpace couldn't (what's the qualitative difference)?, and 3) if either of those models are dependent on maintaining social silos, do the countervailing forces of web decentralization posit a risk to sustainability?
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, Bret works there so he's much more authoritative than me, but this was all public info: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - the Twitter rumor is just a rumor, but I do know, based on people I know that are paying, that Twitter is making money. I've also heard that they could be close to being profitable.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: what are those people paying for?
- Adewale Oshineye
Adewale I'll stick with public information: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter...
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse - glad you mentioned the firehose, as that's exactly what I mean by paradigm shifting models. While I firmly believe that a user's data is the user's data, and should be available to the user (or their proxies, such as an aggregator) at their request without additional fees and without a deal, charging for low-latency access to public data, or charging for aggregate data, is totally legitimate and a new business model. If Twitter can make that approach sustainable then I'm all for it.
- DeWitt Clinton
namebench: faster DNS means faster web browsing :) - http://code.google.com/p...
alex, H0llywoodWh0re, Rodrigo Jaroszewski and 19 other people liked this
"Are you a power-user with 5 minutes to spare? Do you want a faster internet experience? Try out namebench. It hunts down the fastest DNS servers available for your computer to use. namebench runs a fair and thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. namebench is completely free and does not modify your system in any way. This project began as a 20% project at Google."
- mjc
from Bookmarklet
This told me that Comcast is 150% faster than my Google DNS servers!
- Louis Gray
App kept hanging on me. Killed it 3 times and gave up.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
the zip extraction hung for me but the app started, but failed to do any other dns servers besides my current dns, but after that first run though the zip extraction finished and i was able to benchmark with 10 other dns servers
- Chris Heath
My results were that UltraDNS was the fastest, besting 8.8.8.8 by 80%
- Kurt Kringle
My results are the same as Louis' for Comcast
- Jesse Stay
Google DNS has been slower across the board. Even against other 3rd-party services like OpenDNS, Google DNS loses. Stick with your ISP's DNS.
- Jason Huebel
Google is beating OpenDNS for me here. Haven't tested up against my ISP since they are blocking certain swashbuckling sites on behalf of the danish government....
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Here's my benchmark using ns_bench: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... i would assume that the country you live in would affect your DNS tests significantly. I live in the US, so OpenDNS and Google have servers in my country to test against.
- Jason Huebel
I think the results can vary quite a bit from country to country.
- Matt Cutts
Yup If I remember correct OpenDNS have their Euro servers in London. Not sure where Google are hiding their euro servers.. Best bet is definitely testing where you get the best speed and use the fastest.. But you probably want to keep testing once in a while, cause if I know google right they will make theirs better quickly.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
the reason why you'd even need a tool like this is that each ISP and even each region in which that ISP is located, routes differently. Comcast's DNS is faster than google's when for example comcast's is sitting in the same building as the place your cable connects to. Funnily enough, I'm on comcast in fort lauderdale, and it suggest's AT&T's DNS in naples. Note that a lot of this is mitigated by having a router (eg. wifi) that caches DNS requests.
- mjc
Huy Fong Sriracha Chili Sauce, 17 Ounce Bottle (Pack of 6): Amazon.com: Grocery - http://www.amazon.com/Huy-Fon...
Bill Kinney, DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE, Mary Carmen and 20 other people liked this
I keep a bottle of this at home and at work...so tasty. Way better flavor than Tabasco.
- Alex Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Can't believe sriracha doesn't have an entry at SWPL yet.
- Andrew C
It's ok.
- Derrick
OK? Just OK? Merely OK? How can you say that about the king rooster of sauces?
- Alex Scoble
from IM
depends... in something like Pho... it's epic... on something like thai food, there are better options
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Like this: it's just ok.
- Derrick
Looks familiar but, oddly enough, I don't think I've tasted it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
“After I came to America, after I came to Los Angeles, I remember seeing Heinz 57 ketchup and thinking: ‘The 1984 Olympics are coming. How about I come up with a Tran 84, something I can sell to everyone?’ ” What Mr. Tran developed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s was his own take on a traditional Asian chili sauce. http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
- Micah Wittman
Alex, I keep a bottle of Sriracha and a bottle of Tabasco on my desk at work. They each have their place in my heart and stomach.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
Sriracha FTW... works on just about anything, including Spam
- Adrian
I love this, it's the best.
- Andrew Trinh
Superb on, of all things, pizza. Absolutely wonderful on it.
- Christopher A Carr
Yeaaaaaaaaaooooooowwwwwwwsome
- Mark Krynsky
Salvation Sauce!
- Jesse Stay
Never leave home with this awesome sauce :)
- imabonehead
from Android
Eggs... try it on eggs.
- Adrian
YIKES!!!! too much fire for me - as I get older I am becoming a major wimp! my fav is now the Thai Sweet Chili Sauce - also excellent on eggs ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
Ever since an FFer mentioned sriracha sauce in ramen noodles (that thread renewed my love for ramen), I've had a bottle at home & work. I put it in my Pho for months w/o knowing what it was (I always get take-out, & they put it in tubs). Since buying it, I've tried w/ green onion crab from a Chinese restaruant & lasagna. May have tried it on pizza! I've put it on potato chips & food...
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- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
@bindureddy actually it's 4am :-)
Roberto Bonini liked this
wrong! actually its 7:09
- Allen Stern
wrong! actually it's 12:07
- Jesse Stay
Nope. It's 2:30 p right now, sillies
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
This could go on forever
- Jesse Stay
1:02:00
- Louis Gray
2:05
- Jesse Stay
Is this the new poke?
- Jesse Stay
12:09
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
7:06
- kartik vaithyanathan
8:36
- Jesse Stay
Can I play? 9:43.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
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