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July 19 at 7:43 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Duncan Riley shared an item on Google Reader

FriendFeed as an RSS Reader/Organizer

July 18 at 4:57 pm - Link

Jonathan Belgourari, Shinya ICHINOHE, Loic Le Meur, Benedikt Koehler and 2 other people liked this

FriendFeed rooms are especially well suited for that. I'm using rooms as thematically oriented feed readers, e.g. for job offers (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/jo...) - Benedikt Koehler

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CES sticks it to the $20,000 for six minutes DEMO conference! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

July 18 at 5:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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i love it! CES kicks DEMO in the nuts! - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

Mitchell Tsai posted a link

Recent Volcanic Activity [Boston - 7/16/08]

July 17 at 4:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Clint Ecker, Thierry R. Andriamirado, imabonehead, Mike Fruchter and 17 other people liked this

15 pictures of recent volcanos. Thanks to Mahdi Ebrahimi http://friendfeed.com/e/471f9b... and Mark Douglass for finding this page http://friendfeed.com/e/01c640.... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

Cool, I had no idea that there were volcanoes in Boston ;) LMAO But seriously, awesome pix! - Paula Hawk

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LOOK AT THE LINK - sorry to shout but those are some of the best images I've seen in a while. - Toby Graham

Paula: Amazing how the internet & cheap airline travel are making the world so much smaller (and incredibly fascinating)... - Mitchell Tsai

boston.com's The Big Picture has turned into one of my favorite blogs. - Mark Douglass

Toby: Shouting's cool... Here are the last 200 "internal" pics I posted. Lots of cool shots... http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... Flickrs http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... Flickr likes http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... http://friendfeed.com/mitchell... - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell - So true!! Toby - I did look and gotta tell ya my fave is the one from space of the Russian plume going into the Pacific - Truly an amazing shot. The sarcasm was just because I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee yet! ;) - Paula Hawk

Mark: I'll have to start looking at Boston's "The Big Picture" Do they archive old ones? My favorite picture of today is not a volcano, but a constructed artwork - "Hug" http://friendfeed.com/e/c71eae... - Mitchell Tsai

Nice one Mitchell - lots of great stuff in there. - Toby Graham

Thanks Mitchell. Awe-inspiring! - Mathew A. Koeneker

Thank Mahdi Ebrahimi & Mark Douglass for finding this page. I'd only seen the Mt. Etna one at Pixdaus a few hours ago before Mark posted this... - Mitchell Tsai

Hi Mitchell, first i shared this link : :) http://friendfeed.com/e/471f9b... - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Kudos Mahdi! Looks like a couple people posted this 20 hrs ago and Jason Chen posted the first pictures. Context-search http://friendfeed.com/search?q... - Mitchell Tsai

OH thank you. - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Mike Reynolds posted a link

Golden Ray photos of amazing mass migration - Telegraph

June 25 at 1:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Mo J, Bruce Williams, Amir Beitollahi, Jesper K. Hansen and 91 other people liked this

WOW is that for real? Amazing! - Shey

Well worth clicking on. Awesome! - Charlie Anzman

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The wonders of nature - thanks for sharing - David W

Nature is simply amazing. Humbling. - Tsega Dinka

That is amazing!!! - Joe Dawson

Beautiful. I love the synchronicity of nature in motion like this...such harmony... awesome. Humanity could learn volumes from this. - Susan Beebe

Breathtakingly beautiful! - Anam

Wow, really amazing!! - Sudar

Wow! I thought this was a raytracer example or something... - Yuvi

saw this on FFFFound a few weeks ago, Dolphins: [singing] So long, and thanks for all the fish - clarke thomas

I need more coffee, I saw the first image and thought it was pasta :p - Sam Levine

I've never seen anything like this in my life -- I hope there's an Animal Planet documentary on this. Fascinating! - Shey

Jonathan Belgourari posted a link

Everytime I Think About You I Multitouch My Cell « Will Henderson

June 4 at 4:41 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Multitouch everywhere - Jonathan Belgourari

J. Trent Adams favorited a photo on Flickr

Personal Reality Diagram

June 2 at 10:14 am - Link

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Loic Le Meur posted a message on Twitter

“"the web is the best book in the World, if I had only one book to keep, it would be this one" Jeff Bezos #D6”

May 28 at 8:42 am - Link

David Sadigh, Brian Sullivan, Rob Sanders, Hao Chen and 5 other people liked this

and Bezos added "and of course I could also get Amazon on it which made the room laugh :) - Loic Le Meur

Nice one - fbrunel

Grant Bierman favorited photos on Flickr

May 27 at 3:33 am - Link

Johan B, Franklin Pettit, adventureran, Jonathan Belgourari and 3 other people liked this

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Demo of iPhone Earth

May 26 at 6:06 am - Link

Christopher Harley, Albert Willis, Kevin D. White, yagr and 8 other people liked this

Sweet... I wish I had an iPhone - Jonathan Sterling

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g... - Dave Q

Loic Le Meur posted an entry on Loic Le Meur Blog

"just throw entrepreneurs in the water they will learn how to swim"

May 25 at 10:55 pm - Link

Dennis Howlett, possible248 and Jonathan Belgourari liked this

is that pretty much what happened to you Loic? just wondering....via feedalizr - JohnBfromMemphis

JohnBfromMemphis yes, that is exactly what happened to me each time and straight out of business school, I threw myself in the water, and I am still swiming - Loic Le Meur

If they are truly entreprenuers they already know how to swim. If not well .... - Brian Sullivan

Thats awesome Loic, I really admire your work! I am trying to make some stuff happen.. lots of hard work and I know some good things will happen. Got some press on mashable recently so that helps .. LOL - Emmanuel Pozo

too bad custom PC assembly and repair isn't "Web2.0" that's what I'm trying to get started and that's not going to get me any press on Mashable :(...via feedalizr - JohnBfromMemphis

Hey JohnB interesting concept... trying to think of a 2.0 way of doing that .. what did you have in mind? and what would u do 2 stop them from using freakin geeksquad ... hate those clowns - Emmanuel Pozo

Jonathan Belgourari posted a link

Using Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer (version: 0.0.4)

May 25 at 12:00 pm - Link

Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them. - Jonathan Belgourari

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Move Over Twhirl, Alert Thingy, Feedalizr Is In Town

May 24 at 11:27 pm - Link

Mack D. Male, Greg, Sean McBride, brian cors and 25 other people liked this

Another toy to play with. Make it stop! heheh. If Duncan likes it, must be good. - Robert Scoble

Just hitting F5 over and over is working pretty good for me! - Tad - just Tad

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I'm finding that I need the thread of twitter in one place, and all of Friend Feed in another. So it's Twhirl and Feedalizer for me. ...via feedalizr - Andrew Nez

Ok Alert Thingy Makes more sense on FF then twhirl. Alert Thingy it is. I stopped using it cuz I thought it was stupid. - Tim Moore via Alert Thingy

yeah I'm done with Alert Thingy ... i'm really liking Feedalizr .. so far that is...via feedalizr - JohnBfromMemphis

- the only thing I like about it over Twhirl is the video recording and posting, which isn't that great as is. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Lol I like the replies to this from Alert Thingy and Twhirl. - Eric Florenzano

Installed it and love it, just one thing - is it possible to use a filter to not show someone?...via feedalizr - Simon Gelfand

Very nice look - but no keyboard shortcuts? FAIL...via feedalizr - Boris Gordon

/Like Boris' comment. - Voyagerfan5761

Good looking UI. Problem for me is I do like TWhirl's separate screens for Twitter and FriendFeed - and the fact that I can resize the windows. - ChangeForge via twhirl

Thanks for the tip off Scoble. This seems like a nice alternative to trial :)...via feedalizr - Jake Fudge

Sticking with Twhirl..hate the colors but I think it makes the smartest use of screen real estate. And @Loic mentioned upcoming XMPP support...thats got me excited. - Kamath via twhirl

I've used Alet Thingy and don't like it at all. this morning I am trying feedalizr and am liking it alot...via feedalizr - David Jacobs

Good - nice scroll format, filters. Ick - no resize, no options. Fail - can't select text in comments (couldn't grab cool URL). Uninstalled clean and easy. - Nancy Babyak

Everyone must have younger eyes than me because the font size is just too small and the kerning is atrocious. What's that about? I appreciate the fact the comment text is blue rather than nearly unreadable gray as it is in AlertThingy for most themes but if the font size is too small and can't be adjusted, it's a wash. I can't adjust the window horizontally. Huh. So far there are no friendfeed desktop apps that give me a better user experience than the web site itself. - Rick Powell

better use of screen space, liked the UI overall. good job feedalizr...via feedalizr - Siddharth Mitra

Stickign with Twhirl. I LIKE having FF in a seperate stream most of the time. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

It's strange that it won't let me expand the app window horizontally, only vertically. Not liking that....via feedalizr - Bob

Can't comment because wife has taken possession of lappie and i'm in digital limbo. At least i have fftogo on my N95! - Adrian Scicluna via fftogo

Interesting. I will give it a shot. - Ryo

I like this little program, Just installed it. I think this is very useful to keep me updated on what's going on in FF!!...via feedalizr - Paul

Upon installing Alert Thingy, this was the first thing I read. I promply downloaded feedalizer, and no longer use Alert Thingy. that was fast!...via feedalizr - rambn

Posting this from Feedalizr. Links won't open in Firefox, so I find this fix: http://www.clipotech.com/2008/... ...via feedalizr - Svartling

Afraid that this doesn't work behind corp proxies/firewalls at this point. The developer indicated that they are working on this and should have a revision in a few days. - Greg

Jonathan Belgourari shared an item on Google Reader

PR Secrets for Startups

May 25 at 9:51 am - Link

Must read ! - Jonathan Belgourari

Andrew Baron posted a link

The Real Reason Why friendfeed is Working

May 24 at 3:10 pm - via Reshare - Link

Adam Kazwell, Logical Extremes, Thomas Ho, Geoffrey Richard and 39 other people liked this

This was helpful as I ponder switching from Twitter to FF in light of chronic downtimes. Is there any convenient way to bring those I follow on Twitter (and vice versa, hopefully) here to FF? - Len Edgerly

There is the Twitter 2 Friend Feed Importer for Windows @ http://internetducttape.com/20... - Mark Warren

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Len, the best I found was this windows app; far from being perfect, but the best I have found: http://internetducttape.com/20... - Daniel Robitaille

In last couple of weeks I have been oscillating between only using Twitter, or only using FF. But now I'm thinking I'm going into the FF camp full time. But only after creating imaginary friends for all the twitter people I follow who are sadly not on FF. - Daniel Robitaille

Does anyone know of a way to auto publish ff notes to twitter for mac? It seems like this is the last thing FF needs to keep me over here full time. - Andrew Baron

Spot on. Thanks for the ffapps mention ;) - Aviv

Nice. I'm the Johnny Appleseed of FriendFeed. ;) - Jason Shellen

Prediction: in one year from now the majority of FriendFeeders will be getting their FF fix (AKA consuming their FriendFeed flow) using alternative interfaces built upon the raw-by-design FF platform. - Aviv

From the article: "Friendfeed essentially renders Twitter obsolete. Steve Gillmor is wrong. The only need for Twitter is for legacy purposes. The same audience that made Twitter is slowly migrating over to Friendfeed because Friendfeed has what Twitter has, but its better and there is a lot more." - Mike Reynolds

One of the better articles I've seen written on FF lately. - Thomas Hawk

"The only need for Twitter is for legacy purposes." extremely well argued - Duncan Riley via twhirl

Thanks for the great comments yall, makes me wish I had more time to write more! - Andrew Baron

Great argument. I linked this on my twitter. - Sarah Austin

very well done andrew & agree would be nice to have the auto publish to twitter while on mac, when on windows its useful - i can't see abandoning twitter just yet but the usability of friendfeed it much richer rivaled by the diversity of input methods (when working) and the simplicity of twitter - be really nice to have both working well frankly :) - mike "glemak" dunn

I think you're wrong Andrew. Twitter itself is hard for people to grok, but they get there eventually. FriendFeed is an order of magnitude harder to understand. This technologically superior service will not compete with twitter once Twitter gets it's act together. It's VHS versus Betamax all over again. - AJCann

AjCann, I can understand your feeling about this and it may be that you only have a desire to use Twitter to broadcast tweets in a one way fashion or only go one level deep with people. Thats fine. I think a small subset of people will continue to want that. But the reason why FF is picking up steam as a Twitter replacement is not because we all don't like Twitter, or just want to have fun. Its happening because its a natural evolution. - Andrew Baron

What I don't get about FriendFeed is… it seems to mostly aggregate stuff from other sites, right? And right now, Twitter is the one most people are using for their "microblogging." But it doesn't show all your tweets. If you tweet a lot, it shows a small fraction of your tweets. How do my messages get out? - Jesse Baer

Sorry, I don't agree with that either Andrew. FF is basically an aggregator, although the recent addition of commenting complicates the picture. The reason FF has had the big boost lately is due to the chronic instability of Twitter rather than the inherent qualities of FF. I'm not knocking FF - it's good, stable and improving. But it's not a replacement for Twitter, it's a different beast. - AJCann

Can someone help me - how do I link to this thread on FriendFeed? Thanks. - AJCann

yes, use the "More" feature. Select "link to this entry" and then copy the URL from your address bar. - Robert Scoble

Thanks Robert. - AJCann

Another n00bie here. I loved the article and am trying to get my friendfeed onto my blog to join the revolution. How do I embed the friendfeed widget into my wordpress template. Do I need a javascript plug-in? - ViralReality

Many of the bloggers I read have yet to sign-on to Friendfeed and I agree with Gillmor that Twitter is driving this bus. - paul mooney

Paul, if they have yet to sign-on, then they are simply late to transfer to the next bus. Its okay, there will be another bus behind this one. - Andrew Baron

Why does it have to be a "chap"? Why not a "gal" or a "lady" or some other reference to the under-represented majority? - Out Wrong

I tried to use this and it said the setup files are corrupted. Downloaded it again -- same thing. - Trish R

I really like what FF is doing, but what many people forget is the advantage of SMS texting to and mass mailing from Twitter. Twitter as some form of IM client seems silly in my eyes. I see it more as an SMS2.0 rather than IM2.0. FF is completely different from Twitter. - Jake Fudge

FF seems aimed more towards some form of Blogging2.0 (yes, I'll stop using '2.0' from this point - I promise!). What FF needs to work on now is making it's commenting system integrate with the blogs that they link to. So then all my Flickr, YouTube, Twitter comments matter on the grand scheme of things - and reduces redundancy. Also better levering of the 'liking' system that can possibly relate to the blog's Page Rank? - Jake Fudge

Twitter is only for legacy purposes? Call me crazy, but I can think of two or three features Twitter has that FriendFeed still lacks. That's why people aren't coming over here in droves. I'm not going to fool myself into thinking that FriendFeed is overtaking Twitter when it's the same people saying it over and over. Twitter is alive and well, problems or not. - Shawn Farner

Len: Take the plunge! I've made the switch & I'm loving FF! - Thomas Ho via fftogo

i think it's actually this interface that people tend to disconsider that is a big part of FF success. i'm not seeing it go away. and i wouldn't want to see it go away. - Tudor

Brad Feld posted an entry on Brad Feld's Comments

Ask the VC : A VC's View on Why Startups Fail

May 24 at 7:04 am - Link

susan mernit and Jonathan Belgourari liked this

however, akimbo was biz model flawed from day 1 & not a web 2.0 company - when model #1 (stb legacy one) failed they tried to play business model darts in a hopeless attempt to find something worth funding thus prolonging their demise - not a normal story, except the part where flawed models, mgmt teams and the investors that get enamored w/ them collide - those never work... - mike "glemak" dunn

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Facebook Expands Feed Connect (er, Feed Importing) to More Sites

May 24 at 1:13 am - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Jonathan Belgourari, Jamie, Paul Grav and 2 other people liked this

Facebook is the ultimate data roach motel: your data goes in, but it will not come back out. - Robert Scoble

That argument doesn't really hold up. You can export any RSS feed you import to the mini feed. Events are available as iCal files. Status updates of you and your friends available as RSS, and so on. - Jamie

Kevin Fox posted a link

Amar's blog: The science of keyboard design

May 23 at 1:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

that guy, Gabor Cselle, SteJules, anand and 21 other people liked this

A nice post from a nice blog. I wish more of the web were like this. - Kevin Fox

"I have to agree with many others that the Apple Extended Keyboard II is the finest keyboard I have used in terms of key feel. I used it for a couple of years in the late 90s, and it was the first to even make me aware of how good a keyboard could feel. I have not found a match since." - Sanjeev Singh

My favorite keyboard is still the IBM AT keyboard. For years, my brother and I would hunt through fry's looking for those exact keyboards and refused to use any other. - Piaw Na

For those of you looking for Model M's -- http://pckeyboard.com has the patent and makes NEW USB ones. They are super-nice. I am typing this on a black Model M keyboard from pckeyboards right now! - Erica Douglass

I use a DVORAK keyboard and it sure as hell beats QWERTY! - Siddharth Deb

If I could get the Microsoft ergo keyboard form factor with buckling spring feedback, that would be One Badass QWERTY Rig. - matt shobe

Kevin Fox posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog

Get a room!

May 22 at 12:48 pm - Link

Min Liu, Michelle Darnell, Michael Leggett, Silver and 26 other people liked this

Hey, its a noise filter! Sweet! - David Risley

Kevin: I was thinking a concept similar to this would be great just today. (Yeah, that's the ticket) Great work! Another thought is a tab where you can see only the comments and likes made by your friendfeed subscriptions. Not their posts, just their likes and comments. (I'm sure this may already exist, and I expect Lewis Gray at any time to bring me down to size and enlighten me :-) ) - Chris Reed

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Kevin, will there be a directory of public rooms? - Mike Doeff

This is awesome! How do I change the icon for the room? I can't seem to find that under "Edit room settings." - Jason Chen

I was just thinking this AM that friendfeed needed something analogous to Flickr Groups and pools. cool. - bernie

Woohoo! I'd love to be able to specify where my imported items show up ... like my personal photos and Gmail status updates to these particular rooms, and my blog to my public feed, etc. - Ocean

<?php echo "Jason Chen's question about the icon and Mike Doeff's query about a directory..."; ?> - Voyagerfan5761

Darick, that's on our wishlist too :) - Paul Buchheit

Desperately needs a room browser! - Jeremy Toeman

I wish items in rooms were shared as usual unless specifically hidden (unless the room is private). The rooms mostly correspond to topics, and that's great for active content discovery, but without the usual sharing my friends don't get to discuss the content with me. Passive content discovery is one of FF's big strengths, but the current opt-in model of rooms doesn't help. And, you know, while discussing Obama with the enthusiasts in Obamamania is nice, I want to discuss stuff with my friends. - j1m

+1 for that, pretty please. (Super-Hide should have a "everything in this room" option, naturally.) I think that's a much bigger deal than a room browser. A room browser will have trouble scaling, but "which rooms are my friends active in" would be a very friendfeedy way to navigate the space. - ⓞnor

saul klein bookmarked a page on delicious

Europe media groups need social networks: investor

May 22 at 6:38 am - Link

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Caleb Elston shared an item on Google Reader

Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go

May 22 at 8:05 am - Link

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Loic Le Meur posted a message

“10609 emails... scary. Starting to use Mail with imap on gmail. Wish me luck :) (yes, tons of crap in there)”

May 21 at 3:16 pm - via twhirl - Link

Timo Heuer, Morton Fox, TranceMist, DAVE ID and 5 other people liked this

I recently switched from Mail.app to Gmail's web interface. It's much faster. - Ole Begemann

That is not going to be pretty. - Shawn Farner

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Ole interesting, I am doing the opposite, I was using Mailplane but with my volume of incoming emails it is really slow - Loic Le Meur

Thunderbird is the real deal ! - Jonathan Belgourari

thunderbird on OSX is good enough? When I tried a year ago it lacked many features - Loic Le Meur

im using a combination of outlook (work), gmail (mobile) and mail.app (at home) via imap and it works a bloody treat - Mark Allanson

Loic, I use Fluid to turn Gmail into a standalone app. I don't get too many emails from day to day but my archive is fairly big (about 50,000 messages). Yet, Gmail is always responsive and search is fast. I can't say the same about Mail.app with IMAP. - Ole Begemann

How exactly are you going to do that? - Julian Baldwin

I use Thunderbird, and have one Gmail account in there. I used to have more Gmail accounts in Thunderbird, but whatever I tried, it kept acting rather buggy. Asking me for my passwords constantly, then not logging in anyway. - Rosana Kooymans

Loic, I have about 12,000 messages using Mail and Gmail IMAP: it definitely feels the burn. If I need to get to my archives, I wind up just logging into Gmail proper. - Mark Trapp

I just switched to Thunderbird from Outlook. My .pst corrupted for the last time. So far I have been pleased, but I miss my plugins (salesforce, xobni, etc...) - Alex C. Williams

Loic, have you considered Mailplane? I tried the Gmail IMAP thing on Apple Mail, and it's good, but if you use labeling at all or have lots of messages (and you have more than I do), the web interface is better. Using Mailplane makes Gmail work in a separate window and is really good - http://mailplaneapp.com/ - Stephen Collins

Although useful, I find Gmail's imap implementation a little too quirky for regular use with Mail.app. - Scott Jarkoff

Wow, Loic, why on earth are you getting so many messages? Something is really wrong with your workflow and communication practices. So many emails will render the medium useless. You need to meet with a communications consultant, I think! Good luck! - Christine Cavalier

I am still on a quest for the perfect email client. Christine, I will say that sometimes, that much email is unavoidable. I have an Outlook PST of about a year's communication with one client project clocking in at just over 26,000 messages. IMAP (which is good in concept) is still not the easiest to use when you have a lot of messages. - Jauder Ho

Have switched permanently to gmail. I'm using it's keyboard shortcuts and the extension GTDinbox for workflow etc. - David Smith

Loice: Advice - Put auto-responders with advice on how to get your attention for important messages (great subject liners). Don't respond to those that do now follow your rules ;) delete the rest ! - net

I hate mail! huh? - SteJules via twhirl

ARGH!!! Twhirl ate my comment. AGAIN! It has a really disconcerting way of discarding everything when a new post/comment comes in. One email trick that I have found useful is to aggressively filter incoming mail. Makes it easier to mark all as read without worrying about missing an important email. It would be great if there was a Bayesian filter creator that learns filtering based on communications patterns. Maybe Xobni... - Jauder Ho

Why not just use the web interface? Works really well for me - Benjamin Golub

Loïc, imagine if you were famous you'd get even more emails! Je rigoooole ;-P - JYS

@Benjamin that's what I ended up having to do. I prefer using a client as scrollback is easier. twhirl works well for twitter, just not so good for friendfeed. - Jauder Ho

mail.app is WAY better at spam catching than Google. I may move all my mail there instead of the web app. - Cyndy

@Cyndy: really? For me it's the opposite. Gmail's spam filter is almost perfect while Mail.app fails to catch about 5 spams a day, even after long training. - Ole Begemann

Jeez, Loic you have a long day ahead of you. - Andrew Dobrow

I'm back using the web over imap myself. gmail on the web is aces. - Jason Toney

Ole, today: mail.app caught 478 spam messages. 1 error, and it was an eBay phishing message. Two Gmail accounts: less than 50 spam caught, and at least 5 in each box I had to mark. - Cyndy

WHAAAAAAAA? 10603 e-mails? Select-All Delete. I wouldn't bother. - DAVE ID

How can you extract anything meaningful out of that many emails??? - Gerard van Schip

I've had it in Thunderbird via IMAP for months (Mail too, but I don't use it as often). Both are awesome! - TranceMist

Eh, a mere 10,609 emails. I have 51,708 emails in my Gmail and I can still find what I want in there. - Morton Fox

Anyone know how to make it so that more than 50 emails at a time appears on gmail? - Simon

nvm. just found it. too bad it only goes to 100. - Simon

wew can't believe I have so many comments here. Thanks. What's fun is that you don't agree at all between gmail web/ gmail with mailplane/ gmail with mail.app interesting... I have used Mailplane for months and I feel I go really faster with mail.app right now, will keep you posted. In any case, interesting that I get more comments on Friendfeed than my blog... thanks friends. Net, good suggestion! - Loic Le Meur

why the switch? Check out Xobni if organization is your problem. Its in closed beta (not hard to get a code) but I hear good things! - Zach Landes

Smart mailboxes any help? - Jonathan Leavitt

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Microsoft To Offer Cash Back To Search Engine Users In Effort To Fight Google http://tinyurl.com/6zh825”

May 20 at 11:19 pm - Link

Jonathan Belgourari, Adewale Oshineye, Ryo, Sitar Teli and 4 other people liked this

SEW offered other details this afternoon: http://blog.searchenginewatch.... . See also Danny's post last year about other search engines that have offered prizes or incentives to search: http://searchengineland.com/07... . Other companies that have tried this in the past include iWon, Blingo, Zotspot, and A9. Ask also tried search incentives with a site called ChallengeAsk. I think this has also been tried by Winzy, Kazook, and SlashMySearch, which offers to pay searchers $0.25 per hour. - Matt Cutts

As Matt notes, this is a tactic that has crashed and burned time and again. Why not just pay users to surf the Web? Wait? That's been tried too? - Louis Gray

Microsoft search is so bad that they would have to pay me to use it... Oh, wait... - Paul Buchheit

After last comment, I 'Like'd it : ) Suggest MSFT - they may use Adsense for this :D - Erhan Erdogan

michael arrington posted a message on Twitter

“Don’t Look For BFFs When Pitching For VC Dollars http://tinyurl.com/44prp3”

May 19 at 10:49 pm - Link

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Joi Ito posted a message on Twitter

“Gilberto Gil is saying that governments are failing and the the Net is causing a peaceful revolution that needs to be heard”

May 19 at 9:31 am - Link

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Jonathan Belgourari commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: louisgray.com: Toluu Embraces Twitter With New Integration Option

May 19 at 6:02 am - Link

"Looking forward to testing it ! Thx for the invite :) belgourari AT gmail.com" - Jonathan Belgourari

Robert Scoble posted an entry on Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger

Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

May 19 at 4:08 am - Link

Mitchell Tsai, Dustin Johnson, Mark Douglass, Silver and 25 other people liked this

Why doesn't this item in FF get any comments but the twits and google reader shared items do? Is it because otherwise the conversation gets away from the blog or is fragmented to much ;) ? - Mark Jenniskens

Answering Mark, it's because when Robert wrote this, he sent a tweet, and there is a delay between the tweet hitting FriendFeed and the blog post. Therefore, the conversation is already happening on the tweet before the blog post arrives. Happens to me as well. - Louis Gray

Mr. Scoble... Let me turn the dime on you... Google Scholar has a proprietary crawl on nearly 1 Million documents in the peer-reviewed energy exploration vertical search platform I operate by day. They've indexed something like 40,000 of them so far. Yahoo has NO CLUE those exist. They won't and can't. Google's already perfecting "closed" search deals (in enterprise and behind paywalls like mine). - Gerald Buckley

And, to Lousi and Mark, he also did a Reader shared item for it which also has comments. It's almost like he's trying to show how scattered things can get on friendfeed. I had to try to find this entry to comment here. I could have just done a Reader-share-with-comments, but I didn't. It would have been easier, though. - lilbyrdie

Personally I'm very bored of Facebook and I think a lot of people will get bored of it over the coming months and years. We've been through all this before. Five years ago in the UK friendsreunited was huge; it was all anyone talked about. They tried to maintain their monopoly by keeping it incredibly closed. Now it's virtually dead. Great services always beat big walls. - Charlie

Here's my first ever comment on FriendFeed, just for you Scoble. I can't see MS keeping Facebook closed if they do in fact acquire it. I don't agree that it is in their own best interest to do so. - Mack D. Male

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Toluu Embraces Twitter With New Integration Option

May 19 at 5:00 am - Link

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Any invite for toluu ? tia - Jonathan Belgourari via twhirl

Thanks for the post Louis! It has been an amazing 50 days since we launched on your site. These updates should help Toluu attract even more interesting people and feeds to the service, in turn making it more useful for everyone using it. - Caleb Elston

Jonathan, if you leave a comment on Louis' post he can get you one right away. - Caleb Elston

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Computer nerd birthday cake

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Bu coder'lık da beyne zarar be kardeşim. 0 1 0 1, brackets oy oy - Selim Yoruk

<cake type= "birthday"> <name>Aish</name> <....... - Erhan Erdogan

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Snackr is an RSS Addict's Dream Come True

May 17 at 1:04 am - Link

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