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In about three hours Google will announce even more stuff. I'm agreeing with @dannysullivan -- I think Google needs a vacation!
Rodzilla, Ange Recchia/angesbiz and J. Abdul-Qahhar liked this
Something we don't know about yet, or something in Labs?
- Joanmarie
What this (and many other) situations call for is a well-placed, sharply-pointed snarky comment. But that won't work because you might piss off the wrong people. No worries. You can just post it in one of your social networks. But your colleagues became your "friends" at some point. Besides everything you say is indexed in perpetuity. (Hi Google!)
Josh Haley and Spidra Webster liked this
a sharply-pointed stick can never be indexed. #suckitgoogle
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
But it can be cataloged.
- Joanmarie
Every time I see an ad for Windows, I'm reminded how much money I'm saving by not being a Windows user. Gee, maybe ads DO have value.
aydın, emre dede ve haremi, directeur and Joe Silence is not dead liked this
i desperately need to break my dependence. sadly, not much good DAW stuff outside of Windows and Apple stuff. Linux DAWs are woefully wanting so far.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Having just googled DAWs, I'd have to agree. Hopefully that will come in time and through people who have an interest/need pitching in on the development front.
- Joanmarie
Is anyone a brizzly user yet? I thought it was supposed to have some sort of pseudo threading feature that would make twitter conversations followable. - http://brizzly.com/#twitte...
johnpiercy liked this
Right now, the only advantage I see over Twitter proper is Trend explanations.
- Matthew DeVries
from Bookmarklet
Im on there ... Need an Invite ?
- johnpiercy
No, I have it, and can't find the difference between it and Twitter proper.
- Matthew DeVries
I like the groups feature, but yeah, in general I agree.
- Joanmarie
The groups feature is cool, but I'm not diving too hard into it since Twitter proper is rolling it's version out within the week, and I don't want to have to do too much re-jiggering.
- Matthew DeVries
When you call the library, please listen when I answer the phone. I answer every call with the name of the library and my name. Why does everyone then ask is this the library?
Joanmarie liked this
Because libraries don't hire people named Alan. Either that or it's just to p*ss you off. ;-)
- Joanmarie
Because people aren't listening. They're just waiting for their turn to speak.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Do you say "Central Library, this is Alan speaking"?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
... because I'm hard of hearing and a poor listener so unless I get a few syllables worth of cues to let me know someone's talking now I won't hear the first few things you say. "Hello and thanks for calling the Central Library, this is Alan. How may I help you?" Would get through better than the previous greeting.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
That said, +1 CAJ
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I say "name of library, this is Alan, how may I help you"
- Alan Simpson
"Do you hear me? Do you care? Do you hear me? Do you care?"
Michael W. May liked this
"My lips are moving and the sound's coming out"
- Michael W. May
I think I'll dye my hair blue.
- Joanmarie
New Message - http://brightkite.com/objects...
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Rodfather liked this
Oooh, that looks yummy!
- Joanmarie
Locksmith is here making the locks
Do you have other smiths? I could use a coffeesmith and a brunchsmith at the moment.
- Joanmarie
A guy comes home to find a stranger standing in his living room. He asks, "Who are you? How'd you get in here?" The stranger replies, "I'm a locksmith. I'm a locksmith."
- Marie is monkeying around
.@IBMResearch invented the hard drive (among other things) and can't get on Twitter's SUL.
Lol, if you keep this up I may have to do a blog post called, Scoble's top ten people who should be on Twitter's SUL , I think you have about 4 or 6 more to go.
- Wayne Sutton
from iPhone
yes @Scobleizer you should do a blog post for it
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
It should be called Scoble's Top 100 People etc. etc.
- Cora Ronai
@Cora I think he's gone past 100. :-)
- Joanmarie
My bag of Jolly Rancher's "Original Flavors" includes "blue raspberry." That's not an original flavor (is it??).
definitely not.
- Joe Silence is not dead
It bothers me greatly that the candy marketing people are lying to me. I should totally file a lawsuit....
- Joanmarie
If I were going to build an altar to ZFS, which I'm tempted to do, what should it look like and what should I sacrifice upon it?
For the past 1-2 days, I've been getting duplicate edit boxes (as many as 6). I have to paste into the top box, or else an edit occurs.
Weird....
- Joanmarie
I've seen this error in the past 2 years, but never this often. And before, I would get 2 boxes max! Now 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... if I edit long enough. But it only happens about 5-10% of the time. I'm on Mac OS X 10.5.8, Safari 4.0.2, MacBook Pro (old one)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happened to me as well, usually when I hit "edit" very quickly
- alieb
Sames been happening to me also, never seen more than 3 so far but I get errors, frequently.
- Jimminy
See 9/21/09 post http://ff.im/8sgED
- Mitchell Tsai
If I were amongst the Republican powers that be, I would end this Louisiana response tradition. As a Democrat, I appreciate the humor value.
Seriously!! this guy's a birther and tried to buy the British title of Lord! This was the best they couild do? An epic failure, indeed!
- Helen Sventitsky
I didn't know those facts. Wow....
- Joanmarie
Re: so followers and subscribers…how much is this url at the end of some my tweets going to annoy you? - http://zee.me/status...
"Doesn't annoy me.... It's the same thing that Friendfeed does."
- Joanmarie
I do wish people would warn me before being funny. <wheezes and tries to think of something somber>
kittens in a wood chipper?
- Joe Silence is not dead
You know, I have vague recollections of that Colbert Report episode triggering an asthma attack as well.
- Joanmarie
Why We Need Health Care Reform by Barack Obama, http://www.nytimes.com/2009... [will we continue to be ignorant or will we enter the modern era?]
My money's on ignorant.
- Joanmarie
Joanmarie, Derrick, Parth Awasthi and 3 other people liked this
Seeing this post again has me thinking about finding some good Szechuan food. *googles*
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
I LOVE roasted corn with chile!
- Joanmarie
That sounds good!
- Tony Davis
it really was. at san fran restaurant Dosa in Japantown. (though the first location is on Valencia in The Mission.)
- edythe
Twitter-based Botnet Command Channel (Jose Nazario/Arbor Networks Security) - http://www.techmeme.com/090813...
Yet another way people are "innovating" on Twitter....
- Joanmarie
FFundercats: Impromptu Chat!!! Listen Here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
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Simon Wicks, Roberto Bonini, AJ Batac and 71 other people liked this
tuning in.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
sack of nuts.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
SO THERE!
- Christopher Harley
Uh...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Hi!
- joey
Nice song.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
It's OK.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
BOOM!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I was wondering about that light in the sky
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
hello. :(
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
So, does this get renamed to FaBooCats?
- Warren Butler
I'm on
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I can hear you
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
*GROUP HUG*
- joey
gimme a sec
- Josh Haley
LOL--yeah!!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
a. a bit.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
*sniff*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I: Fmaj7 l G13 :I Nice Ipamena Vamp
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
tell us how you REALLY feel.
- Tim Hoeck
sad because i have to use FB =P
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
dave says we should be happy, it's only a matter of time before google owns FB
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
that wasn't too bad.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Whuttup.
- Steven Perez
Jobim, KISS whatever
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Yeah, I have one: WTF?!?
- Steven Perez
How are you going to save the day?
- joey
Nope. I'm all good.
- Christopher Harley
Hey guys.
- David Cook
Who is on the podcast--didn't recognize all the voices
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
For you guys. http://friendfeed.com/rahshee...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
you should keep podcasting and name it What the FF? =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So, when did you want Amber and I to send over our stuff?
- Steven Perez
hehe
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I assume even if it lives on, no new features or fixes.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
LOL! Tina++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
What the FF? I like it!
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Tina, what are YOU going to do about lack of pseudonimity in Facebook?
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Can you play a FF song?
- Tim Hoeck
THE PODCAST LIVES ON. THE SPICE MUST FLOW.
- Steven Perez
Oh here they are.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I can sing "As Time Goes By".
- Steven Perez
rock and roll all night wasn't too bad, there johnny
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I like my pseudonyms because they let me reflect who I feel like at a particular instant in time, rather than who I was 10 years ago.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Nice George Benson!
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
One in four to get right... good odds
- CW™
NOPE.
- Steven Perez
Use your beard..
- CW™
I can't WAIT to see the MoW for this one..
- Tim Hoeck
nah.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Fingers only!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
o_O
- Steven Perez
Wait, yes use the beard!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
PLEASE.
- Christopher Harley
FREEBIRD!
- CW™
Comfortably Numb!
- Steve
I didn't want to wake you with such horrible news.
- Yolanda
And the tech problems continue.
- Steven Perez
We sure as hell weren't going to wake you up. That's Josh's job.
- Steven Perez
Also, have you guys seen this effort: http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- Yolanda
So, same as last week? :D
- Steven Perez
i found out 2 hours after the announcement. i blame it on my job =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I have his number too. But, too much of a high ass cost to call.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I laugh, but you should hear this week's RTL. Yikes.
- Steven Perez
So will the show be re-branded the FBUNDERCATS show? :)
- Bryan Lee
Hey, Johnny! Play Malaguena Salerosa!
- Steven Perez
JUST LIKE IN KILL BILL!
- Steven Perez
hey, Johnny...what do you think of the grassroots CloneFeed idea: http://ff.im/6qyhb ?
- Trent Olson
I'm telling you "What the FF?!?"
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Fundercats.. remove the extra F.
- CW™
Look at Clonefeed channel
- Matthew DeVries
FunderBats!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm looking to work it out in Wave..
- Tim Hoeck
He's not there yet. I don't see him on Skype.
- Steven Perez
NOT ANYMORE.
- Steven Perez
wouldn't that be two As?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I like Fucked by Friendfeed: Shortened to FxFF
- Matthew DeVries
Don't hold back Matthew
- Yolanda
FF FOR "KICK YOUR USERS IN THE NUTS".
- Steven Perez
++Steven
- David Cook
Can we make a goatse.cx spam the moment of win?
- Matthew DeVries
Nice guitar...the breathing adds to the ambience...
- WorldofHiglet
found a ghetto microphone in my parents closet. gonna try that on the laptop. skype on iphone just went to hell.
- Josh Haley
What instrument was that? lol
- mjc
LOL!
- Steven Perez
LOL MDV & johnny
- mjc
There is balance... we got mugged, they got rich.
- Yolanda
This whole thing is making me talk to my ex a lot more then I care to. She is asking me about this whole ordeal.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Duh.
- Steven Perez
YES
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This better not be just a giant beard shaving party
- Matthew DeVries
sellout refugees
- Tony, Paradox of FF
We have to listen to you livestream your lessons now?!
- joey
If you were smart kate miccuci
- Matthew DeVries
*JEOPARDY*
- Steven Perez
1 note: that's a start.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Josh: HURRY UP! =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
lol, tina :)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Haha!
- David Cook
Yikes.
- Steven Perez
woohoo!
- Tim Hoeck
Hahaha!
- joey
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
- veo
omg
- Yolanda
This may be why none of the $50M is earmarked for JW.
- Christopher Harley
my ears are bleeding...
- WorldofHiglet
WTF?!?
- Steven Perez
omg i'm laughing like crazy!!!!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Steven, you mean WTFF?!?
- joey
I think you should leave the music to Josh.
- Steven Perez
can i like this 8 more times, please??
- Trent Olson
I can hear you!
- Steven Perez
yes, just barely
- Yolanda
we can hear him.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
I hear Josh!
- Steven Perez
I move that we call the meeting to order, we have quorum
- Matthew DeVries
HI JOSH. YOU ARE QUIET.
- joey
What prompted the call today? ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
there he is
- Yolanda
There we go!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
That's much bertter
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Louder now.
- joey
we can
- WorldofHiglet
yes
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Australian technology sucks.
- Steven Perez
we hear Josh
- Trent Olson
We can hear him.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Cause you're screwing with the instrument
- Matthew DeVries
audible!
- veo
It's all good
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
DOH!
- Steven Perez
if you could play, while he is saying the 'check, check' that would be awesome
- Tim Hoeck
I can hear you, can you hear me?
- Ken Sheppardson
CHECK CHECK ON THE ONE
- Steven Perez
LOL
- Jimminy
blargh!
- Yolanda
Can you hear me, mother?
- WorldofHiglet
just joining. sad I missed the beginning
- anna sauce
*facepalm*
- Matthew DeVries
Shoulda let me host the call. :D
- Steven Perez
check! hello! check!
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
You missed dude plucking some kind or rubber band on a paper clip thing
- Matthew DeVries
I hear dialing
- anna sauce
Skypes gonna be gone soon anyways.. might as well find something else :)
- Tim Hoeck
YAY!
- Steven Perez
1
- Ken Sheppardson
2
- Yolanda
DOH!
- Steven Perez
have we talked about penises yet?
- anna sauce
3
- Ken Sheppardson
whoa, echo
- Glenn Slaven
SKYPE FEEDBACK REMIX!
- Steven Perez
WHOA!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
and in stereo
- Yolanda
OK well that was the only other live FF I was in on
- anna sauce
echooooooooooooooooo
- veo
70ms echo
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
T-pain?
- Matthew DeVries
Trippy
- David Cook
Johnny bet you do a good Darth Vader
- anna sauce
I NEVER THOUGHT I"D BE ON A BOAT!
- Matthew DeVries
Echo echo echo echo.....
- Lindsay
so you can hear me and johnny cant?
- Josh Haley
Autotune
- Steve
ffundercat technical error hour!
- veo
NEVER SEND CHANNEL 16 to CHANNEL 2... !!!!
- Ken Sheppardson
patch bay blues...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
We all can hear you, Josh.
- Steven Perez
let it be... let it be
- Yolanda
Johnny Can't.
- Steven Perez
good god, your sound system is more complicated that trying to post on facebook
- Trent Olson
NO DON'T DO THAT!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
holy cow. that sounds complicated!
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
josh!
- Yolanda
turn it up to 11!
- Tim Hoeck
YAY!
- joey
woot!
- Steven Perez
Now we can't hear you though
- Ken Sheppardson
16 channels......cause you need that, you never know when John Williams is going to show up and you start multilayering Chopin
- Matthew DeVries
(kidding)
- Ken Sheppardson
HEEEEEERRRRRRREEEEESSS JOSHY!!
- Lindsay
Sounds like Josh is on the Random Time Lords microphone.
- Steven Perez
Skype hates us all
- Lindsay
yes
- anna sauce
ass in a windtunnel
- Yolanda
Good.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
5x5
- Ken Sheppardson
YUP!
- Lindsay
It's fine
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
HEY I DO NOT SMELL LIKE ASS.
- Steven Perez
yup
- Glenn Slaven
Yes.
- joey
si senior
- Bryan Lee
he's better now than when he first called in, yes
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Now do something important
- Matthew DeVries
Josh sounds like he's on a flying saucer.
- Steven Perez
Whatcha talkin about today?
- Ken Sheppardson
agreed
- Yolanda
it's a lovely song, Josh
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Atlantic Records just called, Johnny. They want a remix.
- Steven Perez
I think those are called "notes", not "chords"
- Ken Sheppardson
People are listening.
- Christopher Harley
FxFF
- Matthew DeVries
Josh is flying with Flash Gordon!
- Steven Perez
What's this about Facebook?!?
- Steven Perez
holy-fing-sh*t
- anna sauce
Wait... Facebook?
- Ken Sheppardson
and they're happy about it, oddly
- anna sauce
(FF)
- anna sauce
$50 million.
- Steven Perez
Ken, you didn't hear?
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
exactly, josh
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
WSJ says buyout, $50millionUSD
- Matthew DeVries
and zucherberg (sp?) posted for his first time today, blech.
- anna sauce
"We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. -- blog.friendfeed.com
- Ken Sheppardson
The guys at FF
- anna sauce
Nope, the whole kit.
- Steven Perez
They bought the team.
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
This is the date: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Mathew™ one of a kind
the technology and the guys
- Tim Hoeck
theblog post sounds like it's the people. the talent
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
They can't really integrate the technology.
- anna sauce
and they've poached the stuff they can already (imho)
- anna sauce
PHP vs Python, isn't it?
- Ken Sheppardson
FBML FTL
- Andrew Smith
Zuckerberg has the right of Prima Noctune now. He's spending this night bedding Paul and Bret's wives
- Matthew DeVries
they will assimilate what they can
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Are they gonna fix Facebook likes?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
yeah it's a python shop
- anna sauce
MDV nice image thx
- anna sauce
ew, matthew!
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
they should have had somewhat of an explanation of how things will work ironed out before announcing
- Tim Hoeck
is there an alternative to FF for us, though?
- WorldofHiglet
The FF folks will switch over and begin working on functionality for Facebook. FF will stagnate. Eventually once Facebook has enough feature to turn off FriendFeed, they'll migrate accounts and shut down.
- Ken Sheppardson
Not yet WoH, some people are working on replicating the original
- Jimminy
If there was an alternative, we would be there.
- Steven Perez
This is one of the saddest days in social networking history.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
someone needs to setup a Ning site for all of us =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Is this where I say "Streamy"?
- MegvMeg
ooh - good idea Tina!
- WorldofHiglet
Streamy? Hrm...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- Matthew DeVries
So, Scoble led me from Twitter to FF...so who and where should I be led to now?
- David Cook
a propos of nothing- chicken pot pie.
- anna sauce
agree- Johnny, it's nice for them, but then again, I feel there's always been a disconnect between the programmers-who-make-FF and the community
- anna sauce
I want to be happy for them, but it sucks too much right now for me to.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
it shouldn't have been FB (just my humble opinion)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
is there a way to export everything you've put into FF?
- WorldofHiglet
we had input.
- Tim Hoeck
... and I question the benefit
- anna sauce
Facebook just kept dumping wheelbarrows full of money in Paul's front yard.
- Ken Sheppardson
why is everyone ok with the idea that 99% of the companies started in the last 10 years the goal is to get "bought" by someone else? This is unique to this generation.
- Adam Turetzky
It's funny money.
- Bryan Lee
The way the announcement went down: http://friendfeed.com/skizzli...
- David Cook
Yes true- Josh, it's a sense of naivete, but also, what's the point of building a service... I mean, what was their goal..
- anna sauce
I don't think anybody's saying Facebook should've have been allowed to acquire them or anything... just wishing it hadn't happened.
- Ken Sheppardson
We did, but that doesn't make it any less sad. We all know that we're going to die someday, too.
- joey
to me, it's a huge step back for them technologically
- anna sauce
++anna
- David Cook
I would have probably paid for pro features if they'd been offered.
- Lindsay
i offered to pay a membership fee for my FF use. i wish they'd given me the option.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Exactly, Lindsay!
- Yolanda
This is the first time I've ever outlasted a company, wire to wire. I usually leave them. Fark after 8 years, etc.
- Matthew DeVries
For some reason I keep thinking of how AOL users felt back in the day
- anna sauce
My impression was always that they weren't so concerned about economic viability because they had a *huge* runway, and wanted to just grow organically. Today just fundamentally kicked that worldview in the groin.
- Ken Sheppardson
We can still hear you
- Lindsay
yes josh
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
yes
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
I pay for Flickr and it doesn't hold a candle to FF.
- Yolanda
Yes.
- Steven Perez
hi
- Andrew Smith
josh: we can hear you
- WorldofHiglet
yes
- Matt G
You're still there, josh!
- Lindsay
I hear both
- Matthew DeVries
it's all good
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
yes
- Andrew Smith
Hey Josh!!!
- Lindsay
We can still hear both of you.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
and some threads have moved from Flickr to FF
- anna sauce
We can hear you.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
you're here josh, johnny's here, but you can't hear each other
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
you guys should use something like talkshoe
- Bryan Lee
We hear both of you.
- David Cook
:p
- Josh Haley
You were never gone--but you're here again
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Only Johnny cannot hear Josh
- Michael W. May
You need Teamspeak
- Matthew DeVries
Fire up ustream, guys.
- Ken Sheppardson
Google Voice
- Matthew DeVries
.. being a free service...
- anna sauce
is there a way to export all your stuff from FF?
- WorldofHiglet
Mumble/Murmur
- Michael W. May
good question Josh, it's very unclear to me
- anna sauce
To get a cool idea out there
- veo
MWM: you can murmur all you want...
- WorldofHiglet
To make money their own damn selves?
- Matthew DeVries
Exactly, Josh.
- Yolanda
worldofhiglet thats the big quesiton
- Bryan Lee
and build a community around it
- veo
they were never clear on monetization tho
- anna sauce
Looking around for export options. Right now I know of http://github.com/lmorcha...
- Ken Sheppardson
I always felt like they were trying to build someplace that was to stay.
- Yolanda
It's almost like they were "proving it could be done" but even in that, they disregard the community
- anna sauce
Who is Darth Vader?
- Matthew DeVries
Y'all are forgetting that it's fundamentally about 15 people who just had a truckload of money and resources dropped in their lap. I don't blame them for a second. I'm disappointed, but I don't resent anybody personally.
- Ken Sheppardson
ha
- Andrew Smith
Ken: how does github work? And is it a legit thing?
- WorldofHiglet
Github is just a source control hosting service. lmorchard is/was active in the microblogging area on a couple projects. I think this is just a PHP project of his.
- Ken Sheppardson
I feel like I was part of some giant beta experiment for the last 1 1/2 years and now that they have what they want, I'm disposable.
- David Cook
they didn't have one :)
- anna sauce
github is an opensource site.. that is an opensource project ..
- Tim Hoeck
Since 2007, if Mashable is correct.
- Steven Perez
git hub is a hosted repository for versioned code
- anna sauce
Who's on the show?
- Outsanity
yup.
- Tim Hoeck
nah, it doesn't matter (to them, the commuinty)
- anna sauce
They need to QUICKLY come out with a vision for teh community
- veo
Agreed, Josh.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
But a lot of us are here because we don't like Facebook
- Lindsay
We're a spit in the ocean
- Matthew DeVries
It's not a PR disaster. FriendFeed is about as far from mainstream as you can get. This "community" is just a drop in the bucket that is Facebook's userbase.
- Ken Sheppardson
I don't think they care too much about the 'small group of people' that use FF. Facebook is a giant.
- Yolanda
They don't need us to go there
- Matthew DeVries
The numbers are not there for them to matter. 200 million vs 1 million?
- Michael W. May
They were never good at posting or being in the community (except for Kevin)
- anna sauce
Well, thank Odin it wasn't one of those awful "Family Meeting" deals.
- Chris Baskind
How many FFeeders *don't* already have a Facebook account?
- Andrew Smith
I *love* the way Arrington got the scoop on everything, too. That was classy
- WorldofHiglet
I've always felt a disconnect between the startup & the community
- anna sauce
Yeah the Arrington venereal-disease-writer getting the inside scoop was LAME
- anna sauce
I bet Arrington LOVED that. Being able to stick it to FF users.
- Lindsay
Yep
- anna sauce
exactly Lindsay
- Yolanda
Agreed, anna, had to be the in crowd to be replied to
- Michael W. May
It's my guess they thought this news would be received with cheers
- Adam Turetzky
Rock on. Thanks for the show.
- Ben Hanten
The thing that was wrong to me was the tech press' reaction saying that this place we exist in wasn't worth much, it was the people behind FF that had value. It's the extension of the same old story. Those who aren't here didn't give value to the community here.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I thought that too while reading it... I was like I bet he is just reveling in this.
- Yolanda
Your silver lining just doesn't play Josh - They don't want "us" or need "us" It's all about the technology, we were nothing but an unpaid alpha test, proof of concept
- Matthew DeVries
Louis was, as always, the voice of FF.
- WorldofHiglet
They could've coaxed the community along MUCH MUCH better
- veo
what???
- cattyhouse
It's the fucking press release...
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
No, there was really no other way to do it... other than maybe some sort of conference call... But TC broke the story, and they had to respond.
- Ken Sheppardson
they're engineers, they don't know how to do it any better, ha
- anna sauce
anna got it right hah
- Rodfather
anna: they should have known how to deal with community they created. I expected more from them
- WorldofHiglet
I'm actually looking forward to more free time. I'm kind of OCD and FF has been obsessive
- anna sauce
I spent an hour already trying to figure out how to get rid of all my apps on facebook
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
good point, WOH
- Yolanda
I wish them well too, but the way this went down and will go down completely blows!
- David Cook
I'm assuming that they know some things we don't know about what changes are about to happen on Facebook. They've already released realtime search.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
honestly- they don't use FF!!!
- anna sauce
Agreed, Anna
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
only Kevin really
- anna sauce
They have to be very political about stuff like that, when money is involved.
- Lindsay
SLAM!
- Lindsay
I have this made up notion that Kevin Fox was the swing vote and Scoble's post pushed him over the edge. Totally made up story.
- Andrew Smith
They will never get rid of the spam on facebook and ads so I'll never like facebook.
- Bryan Lee
not leaving until they kick me out
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Please don't ask people wait and see.
- Matthew DeVries
+1000 tina
- Jeff P. Henderson
Exchanging addresses is not a bad idea, but I don't think people should bail prematurely.
- Spidra Webster
community dissolution sucks. they could have avoided that
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I'm not just concerned about things going away, I'm also concerned about ownership of my content (some very, very personal in certain places) being transferred to a company with a privacy record that scares me.
- joey
unfortunately I don;t think it maters at all if people leave - it's no longer important
- WorldofHiglet
I don't want to bail early, but I want to bail before my content is unsafe if it isn't going to be safe.
- joey
I've always held that if I don't agree with what a service does, I don't patronize it. By principle, if I stay with the ship, I agree with what they did..
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
joey makes an excellent point
- Matthew DeVries
I'm not leaving either, but I have to seriously consider how I continue to use the service, and how to stay in touch with people.
- LogEx
Good point joey, what will Facebook do with the Confessions or Bitchbest rooms? <shudder>
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
joey: yes, I want to get my content out first
- WorldofHiglet
OK. ENOUGH! LETS STOP WHINING AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS. WHAT DO WE AS A COMMUNITY NEED FROM THE TEAM TO FEEL BETTER? Do we need a timeline, a vision, a promise, a apology, privacy/content pledges?
- veo
Aside from comments streams like this, before I post from now on my basic question is "Would I post this to Facebook?"
- Ken Sheppardson
yes Joey's point is great- their track record with user dat ais BAD
- anna sauce
my point was that in the interview Paul and someone at FB did.. they were flat-out asked 'will FF disappear'... they couldn't answer - which to me is an obvious non-answer.
- Tim Hoeck
They ahve to notify us and give us an option out before migrating to FB
- anna sauce
privacy/content pledges first and foremost. timeline would be nice.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And I also agree with Joey about the security and the content.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
veo, they have no obligation to give us any of that and are likely not allowed to tell us at this point.
- joey
Legally
- anna sauce
If it weren't going to be cannibalized, they would have made a point to say so.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Facebook friends list cap too low for that
- Matthew DeVries
They better fucking not try to combine my shit.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I want to hear from *Facebook* what this means.
- Ken Sheppardson
What about lists, groups, rooms, etc?
- David Cook
Did I just hear a car horn?
- Adam Turetzky
Yeah I would get major anxiety if they merged too
- anna sauce
I want to be able to backup my content on FF
- Bryan Lee
Yes, Adam, pretty sure that was it.
- Yolanda
I'm guessing Facebook will ignore us. They won't speak to this community EVER.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Many FF contacts have joined me at FB--now FB is WAY better than it was before.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
They can't combine unless you have linked accounts.
- LogEx
I wish so much shit hadn't gone down in my life today. I haven't had a spare moment to read the blog post, listen to the interview or anything.
- Spidra Webster
They have to ask us first- I've been involved in other mergers
- anna sauce
Privacy??
- Lindsay
Johnny's ride is here
- Adam Turetzky
Wait a minute...I said Impromtu chat...and I went to bed...There's a FFundercats goin on? LOL
- Bill Heslin
WHAT ABOUT THE MOO CARDS????? :(:(:(:(:(
- Outsanity
Ken - does your steak routinely ask what your digestion intentions are, after it's in your duodenum?
- Matthew DeVries
Large corps who acquire the properties of user data, have to do this, by law
- anna sauce
It better be some kind of opt-in, though. Something I have full control over. Anything other than that and I'm getting the posse together..LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
If that's true, then there's really only one thing to do: find a way to backup our accounts.
- Steven Perez
We're a swallowed steak
- Matthew DeVries
With FB, shit does just happen. and youre stuck with it like it or not.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
they can screw us by not letting us gracefully select our data to merge
- anna sauce
FFundercats are going network independant!!
- veo
Mmmmm... steak.
- Michael McKean
what about FBUNDERCATS?
- Bryan Lee
quick interview posted here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...
- Tim Hoeck
if you add me on FB, tell me you're from FF in the comment and leave your username or link :P that is all
- mjc
When Yahoo disbanded Yahoo photos- you had a choice of 5 other vendors
- anna sauce
friendfeed-api.com/v2/feed/feed id
- Andrew Smith
I suppose everything you post on the Internet is searchable in reality, but I don't want to necessarily have my FF stuff linked to me on FB
- WorldofHiglet
if there's a wizard, it damn well better have a pointy hat with stars
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
you should play that
- Tim Hoeck
and they did the merge (badly)
- anna sauce
FFundercats are in negotiations to acquire something other than a venereal disease.
- Adam Turetzky
Hopefully FB is listening to our suggestions / requests on how the integration will work.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Doubtful!
- David Cook
Tina, lolz
- Yolanda
Definitely what I'm hoping
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Matthew: My point is I don't want to be a Facebook user, and if that's the path we're on, I'll be stepping off. The ball is in their court if they want to convince me to stick around.
- Ken Sheppardson
+1 Tina
- mjc
I'm more bothered with how quickly facebook changed their terms of service
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Does this mean that DYSP is going to become a Mafia Don?
- Bastard Operator From FF
2 sites - current closed Facebook & a new FacebookFeed for public content
- Glenn Slaven
I'm gonna make FB an offer they can't refuse.
- Steven Perez
I see no reason to /not/ head over to FB if the FF guys turn it into an actually really good app
- Matthew Horton
RSS feed.... get it while you can
- LogEx
FriendFeed has a detailed API that can probably be ported to FB. You could probably also get all your shit out of it using that same API. I'm sure there are developers working on that right now.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL!
- Steven Perez
I'd just like to note, this kind of conversation is not possible in FB. I doubt it will ever be light enough to do so.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When I torched my account, a lot of things were still on Backtype.
- Spidra Webster
The hell Zuckerberg gets to keep all the Audrey pics and movies.
- Matthew DeVries
It all comes back to toilets!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Keep Audrey safe!!
- Yolanda
I didn't know they would be. But some of what I wrote with my previous acct ended up other places on the web.
- Spidra Webster
<snark>On the bright side, we can have discussions about the Farming game while taking quizzes.</snark>
- Joanmarie
really, Spidra - where?!?
- WorldofHiglet
It would be stupid, but I can't imagine how they'd go about merging.
- LogEx
Here's what I did to get my data: http://friendfeed.com/somenic... (it's painful but worth it?)
- Andrew Smith
They don't have a very good history system (database-wise)
- anna sauce
Josh..........
- Matthew DeVries
Backtype, WoH.
- Spidra Webster
Are we all just going to take likability quizes now? <stupid>
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
you gonna lose this?! http://friendfeed.com/akiva...
- Tim Hoeck
And some other site whose name I can't remember.
- Spidra Webster
FF database is a drop in the bucket compared to the streams of the 300 million.
- LogEx
I bet it's a running import- anything from this point on
- anna sauce
facebook doesn't care about the content
- Matthew DeVries
Y'know... I think we're really over estimating how much Facebook cares about FF content. It's a drop in the bucket.
- Ken Sheppardson
They only care if they can steal it.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I think FB is just gonna pick and choose features of FF and incorporate the "best of breed" into FB.
- Bryan Lee
FF database is a REALLY different beast - schemaless- than most sites, doubltessly FB too
- anna sauce
Exactly, Johnny. FB is who I was 10 years ago, not who I am now.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What I need to do is figure out a way to control how various user lists on facebook see my content. My family doesn't need to see the type of shit I post to services like this.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Ken is right. Josh, that is just bad talking there.
- Matthew DeVries
That's worrying, Spidra
- WorldofHiglet
Exactly!
- David Cook
A good point was just made - what IS going to happen to all the stuff I wrote here, before Facebook suddenly bought it? Well, that's what you get for providing free content to someone else's web site I guess.
- Ciaoenrico
I think FB is only interested in the 'how'. The 'what' is rubbish for them.
- Yolanda
These are different universes... they don't combine.
- LogEx
Not sure if you guys noticed, but Facebook already implemented Lists.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It would make sense if FB simply doesnt care about the database, just the technology in general. and the talent for future projects/features.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
What's going to happen with FriendFeed content is the same thing that happened to Pownce and Jaiku content.
- Ken Sheppardson
Facebook is for who you used to know FF is for who you know now
- Bastard Operator From FF
I agree with scoble that FF will be the R&D department for FB.
- Bryan Lee
What about content you've shared here that can't be legally shared on facebook and is of much higher profile when it's on facebook instead
- Adam Turetzky
Yeah, WoH. I wasn't happy that my FF material had been taken out of FF. But for those who are worried about their FF history, I'm saying there might be other places where it's cached.
- Spidra Webster
But how do we use them, Sheen? I've been having a hell of a time using them.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I agree Bryan/Scoble
- anna sauce
The lists thing on FB is SO CONVOLUTED.
- Yolanda
Facebook will gradually evolve, and then one day they'll shut off the service.
- Ken Sheppardson
I think at best (?), there will be a utility to find your friends, assuming that you link accounts.
- LogEx
It /was/
- Michael W. May
It's not a matter of "liking" it. Jeez...
- Ken Sheppardson
The innovation will be alot lslower @ FB
- anna sauce
All of FB is just a giant mess from a UI perspective. To tweak anything is painful.
- Yolanda
I think the phrase you're looking for, Josh, is "kiss my ass".
- Steven Perez
How about not being so defensive?
- Tony, Paradox of FF
I feel like I am losing a huge lifestream
- Michelle Martinez
they dind't like Google- who thinks they'll like FB?!!!
- anna sauce
The databases will be wiped is what will happen
- Matthew DeVries
Commenting on here sucks, it's so slow.
- anna sauce
Exactly Yolanda: the UI there is horrible.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What did 6apart do with Pownce?
- Matthew DeVries
Josh, you're right, I am most sad when I think about it from a FF perspective.
- LogEx
I think best of breed is the wrong them. They will take what they want, but making Facebook best of breed is highly unlikely. I think FF founders will quit FB within a year because they are fed up with the company. FB will have gotten what they wanted by then.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Facebook doesn't really do RSS very well, so how would they transfer all our linked accounts?
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
It's too fast for me...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Pownce was wiped, 6apart took the people
- Matthew DeVries
Maybe an open version of facebook is coming?
- Glenn Slaven
I prefer my podcasts dispassionate and off topic. Geez.
- joey
what if Facebook brings in all accounts easily to FF and keep their main interface separate? it would still suck though bringing that group in
- Rodfather
Josh's mic is totally ghetto
- mjc
YOu tell em, Georgia.
- Spidra Webster
Let her!
- joey
then be defensive and protectionist, don't be all "I can't beleive they'd wipe our content and leave us behind"
- Matthew DeVries
have her play the FF song!
- Tim Hoeck
Where will all our That What She Said content go?
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... hahah
- mjc
I've seen a few people say "who cares?" about this buyout... I'm like.. HELLO? I care... Why the hell are you even here if you don't like this place?
- Yolanda
its ghetto chic bebe!
- Bryan Lee
I know what MDV is talking about. This resembles what happened to Pownce.
- Steven Perez
Word
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Oh man...and I was hoping to be a guest on the podcast at some point...bummer.
- Mark Krynsky
If you're FF passionate, then you need to be approaching from the standpoint of protecting us and it.
- Matthew DeVries
Never used it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
pownce sucks
- anna sauce
uh oh, she must have heard the news...
- Tim Hoeck
Someone else is also unhappy about the buyout.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
You know what Georgia is doing now?
- Yolanda
Yes
- Matthew DeVries
I had a pownce account for a bit, but never really used it.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Pownce was a cool service
- LogEx
Tad was a Pownce celeb
- Lindsay
It was nice. And then one day, it wasn't.
- Steven Perez
I used Pownce
- Adam Turetzky
But FB is going to leak all my nudie pics :(
- MegvMeg
I'm got Pownce.
- Christopher Harley
Servers wiped
- Matthew DeVries
Never used it.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Pownce dead
- Matthew DeVries
I had tried Pownce.
- Yolanda
i can't write more- it's too slow
- anna sauce
Pownce died after 6A bought them
- Glenn Slaven
I was a minor Pownce celeb too...
- Lindsay
I tried right before it failed
- David Cook
Pownce had an export utility, then the fat lady sang. The peeps got jobs at 6apart.
- LogEx
strands?
- Tim Hoeck
No
- Matthew DeVries
Six Apart
- Steven Perez
When AJ or Mitchell asked what alternative place people might go, just about everyone said that they knew of no real alternative. It's not like we can set up our tent elsewhere without losing a lot of features.
- Spidra Webster
Lucy will wear the shirt till the ship goes down...http://ff.im/67DeA
- Bill Heslin
They gave you a month to download your data in an xml file and then the whole thing disappeared and they absored the people and the IP into 6apart
- Adam Turetzky
They did offer the ability to export your data as a big ass XML file.
- Mark Krynsky
They joined Six Apart.
- Ken Sheppardson
6apart took the people
- Matthew DeVries
6apart or something right?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
They clapped all the users in chains and took them to some debtor's island.
- Christopher Harley
Same deal. SA bought the engineers
- Ken Sheppardson
No, tech was abandoned
- Matthew DeVries
who made moveable type blogger app
- anna sauce
It was 6 apart - MovableType
- Glenn Slaven
sixapart makes moveable type
- mjc
Pownce got got. Rejaw tried to offer them sanctuary, but then IT went under
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
i think they took Pownce and cut it off
- Outsanity
Servers wiped
- Matthew DeVries
They do Moveable Type blogging software
- Glenn Slaven
I guess we all need to buy a journal and make photocopies for each other. Any cloud services these days are not to be trusted.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yup!
- Lindsay
I think what happened to pownce is going to happen here. There just won't be a friendfeed after a certain point.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
6apart is a blogging platform like wordpress
- Bryan Lee
It was Pownce and Fark,
- Lindsay
Yup - and there will be another.
- Internet's Tad
Plurk was the same kinda thing
- anna sauce
yeah
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Yeah SA is still there. Moveable type and Vox
- Jimminy
Blog.
- Steven Perez
Eww I hate plurk!
- Bryan Lee
is this going to go out on the podcast feed?
- Brett Kelly
Today is the day to start planning that
- Matthew DeVries
I actually can't wait to see what the next friendfeed will be..
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
HOLY CRAP! I'm gonna have to remname the FF SWAP BOX!!! *sobs*
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I never understood hte Pownce purchase, it was a really immature product imho
- anna sauce
"no there is another"
- Glenn Slaven
Can we keep the API going?
- Andrew Smith
You always lose people...
- Lindsay
Damn.
- Steven Perez
Yep
- Matthew DeVries
Good analogy, Johnny. We've all been laid off...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Not everyone will jump to the same service.
- Lindsay
Yeah the engineers of FF will leave after their buyout period ends, and then they'll start another app, but by then we'll all have moved on.
- anna sauce
That'c lose, Johnny. The feeling is similar, loosing people that you've become close too.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I said earlier... it is like Senior Year in high school.
- Yolanda
No Josh, we made these friends
- Glenn Slaven
anna they just purchased their developers similar to the friendfeed purchase
- Bryan Lee
Unlike a lot of folks, I've actively maintained my FB account and added a lot of friends and family over the last year. I did so as a hedge against FriendFeed.
- Christopher Harley
They went for the cash, which is OK, but sucks for us the customers
- anna sauce
FF turned $5M into $50M... I would have done the same thing.
- Internet's Tad
Happens all the time in tech
- Matthew DeVries
That was worth something
- Glenn Slaven
No you have all done great work..WE will all remember you guys...don't sell yourself short
- Bill Heslin
In other news, snow leopard build 10a421a rocks.
- mjc
Yeah, Alex Scoble had a few choice words about that argument, Johnny.
- Steven Perez
Pownce was bought and had no users
- Matthew DeVries
Where is MY paycheck?
- Jeff P. Henderson
well, haven't we "been working for nothing" if they close it down?
- David Cook
The community ALSO makes FriendFeed. Absolutely.
- Spidra Webster
Tad, but they're ignoring the people & community who helped make it a success, it's an odd move
- anna sauce
https://friendfeed.com/e... Paul's post
- LogEx
Ok, this video should be uploaded in a few
- Outsanity
And severance pay?
- Jeff P. Henderson
The T-shirts will be worth even more now.
- Christopher Harley
What would be slick is a utility that grabbed all the feeds beloinging to your FriendFeed subscriptions and generated an OPML file you could import into Google Reader.
- Ken Sheppardson
Agreed, Tab. But if it'd been Google, i'd be happy. FB, not so much.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I loved Pownce until it sucked too bad to use.
- Internet's Tad
From Paul just now: http://friendfeed.com/paul...
- Tim Hoeck
Johnny- re: beta testers - yes it makes it a little more "salt in the wound"
- anna sauce
Jeff++, I want a piece of that fat buyout money. BAAAAAAAALLLLIIIIIIIIN!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
"Obviously I can't provide a lot of detailed plans and guarantees, but I can tell you that I'll do my personal best to ensure that the FriendFeed users and community are treated right. I love this product too, and don't want to see it disappear." - Paul B.
- LogEx
They were "fattening us up for the slaughter" so to speak.
- Bryan Lee
hmm...
- Lindsay
Then don't sell it to Facebook.
- Ken Sheppardson
Kind of said nothing, hto
- anna sauce
classic CEO speak ;)
- anna sauce
But Paul is no longer calling the shots....
- Jeff P. Henderson
= FF will disappear.
- Christopher Harley
The worth to Facebook is not the community at Friendfeed. It is taking the competing developers out of the competition equation early, whilst they can still be bought cheaply.
- Michael W. May
I'll believe it when I see it. Proof is in the pudding, not in the empty promises.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I don't like the "guarantees" part...
- Tim Hoeck
HIs wife posting that Facebook "don't talk about your boss" post has a lot more.. irony? meaning? now
- anna sauce
WoW is just about downloaded. :P
- Internet's Tad
Paul needs to be on the next scheduled FFundercats and answer some questions. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Paul works for somebody other than the FriendFeed board now.
- Ken Sheppardson
"treated right" is very relative... doesn't imply that the service will stay around or not get worse.
- Lindsay
Well that's another non-statement from FriendFeed
- Glenn Slaven
But the fish would be half retarded on almost dead anyways.
- Jimminy
Me too.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
It isn't going to stay
- Yolanda
Paul & FF could give us all a check for the amount of time we've helped htem beta-test.
- anna sauce
Ho!!! I'm here with ya Johnny
- Bill Heslin
FriendFeed was almost ideal.
- LogEx
Facebook sucks donkey balls.
- Steven Perez
We need an identi.ca version of FriendFeed
- Outsanity
@Tad LOL! You gonna join our FF guild?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... v http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe... http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- Matthew DeVries
Outsanity: I Agree
- Bryan Lee
Hey, there's http://friendfeed.com/clonefe...
- Matthew DeVries
Any replacement won't be the same. We can't get the band back together. We'll just have to say: do you remember when and that's that.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
to me FB is existing relationships, FF is new ones
- anna sauce
i think Matt is trying to tell us something
- Outsanity
++LE
- David Cook
I hear you Josh
- Yolanda
We can hear you
- Bryan Lee
Haggis: Where's the link to info about your guild?
- Internet's Tad
We hear both of you.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yep.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I don't think johnny does
- Yolanda
we can hear you
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
i hear you
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I'm about to start humping legs
- Matthew DeVries
Someone tell Haggis to unblock me if he's going to post.
- Matthew DeVries
yes
- Rodfather
Johnny was in full on rant
- Yolanda
May join with Avynn... we'll see
- Internet's Tad
HO !!
- LogEx
All I know is... THIS IS SOME SHIT RIGHT HERE.
- Yolanda
:( tha tsounded bittersweet, Josh
- anna sauce
I just feel like the floor has been dropped out from under me. :(
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
We will all be ok...everyone in this chat...Knows where to find each other..;.Ho
- Bill Heslin
Let's regroup on this subject tomorrow with a clear head and some sleep. :)
- Bryan Lee
Hell in a handbag...
- Bill Heslin
:) Great idea, Josh.
- joey
That works for me. :-/
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
aw
- anna sauce
Gucci
- Bill Heslin
I hope the CloneFeed guys can really work some magic.
- Yolanda
Indeed!
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Hell yeah.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Ok, I'm staying until it breaks too.
- David Cook
http://www.tccommentary.com - Technicolor Commentary
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
isn't FF the rally point?
- Vezquex: God of FF
You can use the clubhouse in my apartment complex
- Matthew DeVries
We also have http://ffrefugees.ning.com/
- Jimminy
I still own FriendFeedChat.com
- Mark Krynsky
"What the FF" you mean =P
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
anyone wanna see the video i did on this topic?
- Outsanity
FFrefugees, hahaha
- anna sauce
What can I say, I have weird issues with abrupt change. :P
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Tina, you are our savior
- Vezquex: God of FF
We're coming in tomorrow, H.R. will be cleaning out our desks and security will be taking our name badges
- Matthew DeVries
I'm working on my vanity site, but it's silly to put it up here now. Anyone jumping ship can hit me on tina.p.beana at the gmail.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
are you going to get Louis back on Friday?
- WorldofHiglet
I feel sad because this is my 2nd FFundercats live podcast. :(
- Bryan Lee
I'm Coach.
- Steven Perez
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mathewb... twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mathewb... http://www.mathewballard.com/blog email: bizsumpark182@gmail.com
- Mathew™ one of a kind
NORM! ...I mean...
- David Cook
MOW???
- Bill Heslin
Dude, I am SO Rea Pearlman!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
How quickly do you think the Google Reader team will be in adding FF-like features?
- Andrew Smith
What will happen to the beard? We can't let Zuckerberg get his hands on the beard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Matthew DeVries
Josh is Kirstie Alley!
- Lindsay
Better the sink with the beard!
- Matthew DeVries
Moment of Win?
- Tim Hoeck
MOW: Tapped it dry?
- LogEx
Johnny, you better keep the beard until the bitter end now. DO EET!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
MOW = Goatse.cx
- Matthew DeVries
I brought the t-p
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Now I don't feel bad about re-registering my blog.
- Steven Perez
I can do Friday.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Agreed
- Bill Heslin
someone requested Paul to join the next FFundercats
- Tim Hoeck
Won't be on wheels even
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I hope Louis Gray is going to be there
- WorldofHiglet
oh we're having a wake
- anna sauce
I want to speak about bacon.
- Spidra Webster
FFrefugees unite
- Rodfather
lolz spidra
- Yolanda
I may not be able to be there, because I'll have to spend time with my gf.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I'll be there.
- Steven Perez
bacon and bourbon
- Joe Silence is not dead
Agreed, Johnny.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
the community is the ONLY bit about it
- WorldofHiglet
Tell us about the beard!
- Matthew DeVries
Um, Dave won't let you near my bushes o_O
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
whose bushes?!?
- WorldofHiglet
totally
- anna sauce
I'm being HAUNTED BY JOHNNY'S BEARD!
- Lindsay
:) *hug*
- Caroline
I could hide behind that beard.
- Tim Hoeck
How will it be protected
- Matthew DeVries
friends are friends...the most important thing of social media
- Bill Heslin
MOW!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
"Like"
- Andrew Smith
why the hell not right
- Yolanda
YES
- anna sauce
Perfect
- Matthew DeVries
MOW: when you gonna let me tap that data
- LogEx
That is brilliant Johnny
- anna sauce
Works for me!
- Jeff P. Henderson
nom
- Caroline
boobie + nazi
- anna sauce
I want to make a countdown clock. One that counts down how long before FF has quizzes.
- Ben Hanten
goatse.cx
- Matthew DeVries
what about superpoke?
- Tim Hoeck
"If only there was a breastfeeding Nazi picture"
- Spidra Webster
no nazis
- WorldofHiglet
tiddies
- Yolanda
no-nazi + boobies?
- anna sauce
I like this pic I made http://bryansays.com/blog...
- Bryan Lee
How about a boob with a swastika tattoo?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nazi boobies are hot, though :-|
- Matthew Horton
no nazis
- LogEx
I can't bring myself to google that..
- Tim Hoeck
it was breastfeeding they banned
- WorldofHiglet
not-nazis and boobies
- anna sauce
CHEW ON THIS, FACEBOOK.
- Steven Perez
No nazis
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
like, a slash through nazis, and boobies
- anna sauce
No Nazis.
- Steven Perez
I'm cool with it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
no nazis
- WorldofHiglet
but breastfeeding is cool
- WorldofHiglet
Nazis--not so much
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
no nazies... we don't need to Godwin things
- Lindsay
like, we post negative-nazi-images + boobies
- anna sauce
ffundercats...thank you Josh and Johnny for this impromtpu ffundercats...
- Bill Heslin
I'm down with the taa-taas
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Lets keep the nazi propaganda off the interwebz
- Adam Turetzky
breastfeeding !
- Matthew DeVries
Sweet Nazi tits, Batman!
- Outsanity
o_O
- Steven Perez
No pics of nazis, but it's not out of bounds to post the phrase "If only there was a breastfeeding Nazi picture"
- Spidra Webster
I say putting Zuckerberg beside boobs would be close enough.
- Jimminy
What about side boobage?
- Matthew Horton
oooh
- anna sauce
Boobies are OK, Nazis are not.
- Steven Perez
Uh. Not pleased.
- Akiva Moskovitz
hurry, my browser is dying!
- Tim Hoeck
what's the catchphrase?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
How about the bird booby?
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
So what's the actual MOW text?
- Glenn Slaven
What do we say in our post?
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Ready
- Matthew DeVries
"Like"
- Andrew Smith
Lucy still loves ya...the impromtu ffundercats mascot
- Bill Heslin
Welcome to FriendFeed Facebook
- Adam Turetzky
FACEBOOK NOM
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Buehler?
- Ben Hanten
thought it was expect the unexpected
- Tim Hoeck
CHEW ON THIS, FACEBOOK.
- Steven Perez
FACEBOOK NOM
- Matthew DeVries
OMG - please noOooooooo!
- WorldofHiglet
HELL, NO, JOHNNY.
- Steven Perez
Can I get my money back for Lucy's tshirt????? LOL
- Bill Heslin
who is that?
- Yolanda
STRANGER
- Yolanda
Louis!
- Matthew DeVries
LG?
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
i'm totally ready for the moment of win, btw
- anna sauce
I hope it's Louis
- WorldofHiglet
yay!
- Matthew DeVries
LG?
- Bill Heslin
LOUIS!!! yay
- anna sauce
I believe that is Mr. Gray.
- Steven Perez
FB's teat, not so sweet!!!
- Lindsay
nah thats cool i was gonna just go mope anyway
- Josh Haley
Louis Gray that is.
- Matthew DeVries
it sounds great
- Bill Heslin
Who does that voice belong to?
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Josh got bumped
- WorldofHiglet
ew
- Yolanda
that was the friendfeed emotional support counselor
- Adam Turetzky
TWSS
- Bryan Lee
Louis !!
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
blerky blkery beep beep
- Yolanda
you're all choppy on this end
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What technology are they using?
- Ben Hanten
CHOPPY.
- Steven Perez
josh is choppy here
- WorldofHiglet
Can you handle 3 people at a time? - TWSS
- Bryan Lee
not too bad
- Andrew Smith
I missed it. What.
- joey
Experimental Tina, experimental!
- Adam Turetzky
What's the text???
- Lindsay
CHEW ON THIS, FACEBOOK.
- Steven Perez
LOL YEAH
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
what's the phrase??
- Tim Hoeck
FB'S TEAT, NOT SO SWEET!!
- Lindsay
FB's teat, not so sweet!!
- Spidra Webster
That's bland, Josh.
- Steven Perez
FB's teat, not so sweet!!
- Spidra Webster
FB'S TEAT, NOT SO SWEET!!
- Lindsay
I vote chew on this, facebook
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
ready
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ready for import into Faceboob!
- Bryan Lee
FB'S TEAT, NOT SO SWEET!!
- Lindsay
Ready
- Matthew DeVries
Facecrook, perhaps?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
FB'S TEAT, NOT SO SWEET!!
- Lindsay
ahh!! is it chew on this?
- Tim Hoeck
FaceBooB
- Bryan Lee
lol
- anna sauce
Faceboob!
- anna sauce
it's all natural
- LogEx
hehehe
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Faceboob!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Louis Gray ...we wuvs you ....lol
- Bill Heslin
HA
- Yolanda
SUCK ON THIS, FACEBOOK!
- Steven Perez
Oooooooh
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
ooo
- mjc
Actually, I like that one, Louis.
- Steven Perez
Tickle my tits, Facebook
- Outsanity
Oh, no I vote #suckit
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
awesome
- Glenn Slaven
Facebook, milking FriendFeed for all it's worth
- Johnny Worthington
(.) (.)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Facebook Milks your friends dry!
- Bryan Lee
With the #MoW tag right?
- Matthew DeVries
What's the phrase?
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
But, I don't agree with the text (at least, not yet).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
oh wait I see
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Facebook, milking FriendFeed for all it's worth
- Steven Perez
lost podcast, which is it?
- Tim Hoeck
TOFU LEADER STANDING BY.
- Steven Perez
Ready
- Matthew DeVries
Yo mama, SB
- Christopher Harley
Milking Friendfeed for all its worth
- Bluesun 2600
LOL tad
- mjc
lol!
- Steven Perez
Am I too late? Did I miss it??
- Kevin Fox
Sorry I was late, guys. I was not warned. :)
- Louis Gray
Hi!!
- Kevin Fox
LOL @ Tad's image
- Outsanity
Kevin!
- Glenn Slaven
Hi Kevin =) Glad you're here.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I didn't have time to do a MOW....but.....love you guys...
- Bill Heslin
Did you miss what, the coup?
- Spidra Webster
Sean Reiser's pic is a little disturbing. :-D
- Jason Huebel
FFundercats podcast. I only just found out it was going on.
- Kevin Fox
skype fail?
- mjc
JW's Internet connection fail, I think.
- Jason Huebel
Well it looks like I have to start blocking people now. Thanks a lot...
- Ryan Massie
The voice is really crapping out.
- Yolanda
Ah, no. It's winding down with MoW, but you're in time.
- Spidra Webster
bad tubez
- johnpiercy
@jason not as distrubing as the merger
- Bastard Operator From FF
I have hopes that FB will be bettered by this but OTOH I have slim hopes that the FF product I love will remain. That's my frustration, is all.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The sound is useless
- Matthew DeVries
@Ryan, it's just a little civil disobedience. It'll pass tonight.
- Jason Huebel
We hear nothing
- Matthew DeVries
Describes me quite well. I have issues with big change.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Paul just said he'd appear on the FFundercats
- Internet's Tad
This isn't like the real-time thing... this is FF going away completely.
- Yolanda
Seriously, I'm trying to use this at a school.
- Ryan Massie
There's a difference between change and disappearance. We've dealt with FF change before.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ryan: mayhaps, you've heard of the term "making beds in a burning house".
- Steven Perez
FF is just a site, but it's the first and only social network where I've found real friends.
- Jason Huebel
People Matter.....
- Bill Heslin
I agree it's the people here that have made it worth while.
- Bluesun 2600
Agreed, Jason.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Ryan, first mistake is using an unfiltered social network in a public place. :-D But we're sorry for flooding your stream with boobies.
- Jason Huebel
LOL
- Bill Heslin
For so many of us, though, there's a huge disconnect between our FB people and FF people. It's very dichotomous (at least, for me). Two very different worlds.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Exactly, Tina.
- Yolanda
I didn't need to picture that, Johnny....
- WorldofHiglet
My FB people are work and family... yes, I've added some FF folks but my activity is on FF.
- Yolanda
@Tina, definitely. My FF friends are almost completely different than my FB friends. And frankly, FB is just a glorified contact list for me.
- Jason Huebel
K guys, need to go to bed, and the sound is shot. Thanks for broadcasting tonight.
- Matthew DeVries
G'night MDV.
- Jason Huebel
800 people and they can't come out with a better product that what they've already got? Sheesh...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
+1 tina and jason ... ditto
- Matthew Horton
How do I get on one of these Ffundercats shows?
- Ben Parr
We are being evicted.
- Yolanda
FF innovated...FB does not
- Bill Heslin
Late show, I'm glad I caught it
- Michael Fidler
@Ben, talk to Johnny or Josh. It's their show.
- Jason Huebel
It's not a question of trusting Paul et al, the issue is Facebook.
- Ken Sheppardson
Louis, your turn on scrabble. Oh yeah, I don't like FB. Wait, I like Scrabble... hmmm.
- anna sauce
Take a small innovative team and put them in a large bureaucratic environment and watch them die. Sorry but I've seen that happen. It's not the devs that cause the problems it's the suits. They now need to worry about their features being monetizeable.
- Mark Krynsky
Based on Paul's comment, it would be awesome if they Open Sourced FF. But I don't see that happening.
- Jason Huebel
This is as good as the audio from the Apollo mission.
- Spidra Webster
LOL!
- Steven Perez
lol Spidra
- Yolanda
Jason: I can't imagine the terms of the acquisition would allow that.
- Ken Sheppardson
And death is not an option.
- Steven Perez
Josh, you could always switch to Coke Zero.
- Jason Huebel
Comment from Paul "Eric, my schedule is still a little uncertain at the moment, but I'd be glad to appear on a future FFundercats." http://friendfeed.com/paul...
- Glenn Slaven
You'd have to quit your Diet Coke podcast
- Andrew Smith
might as well choose Diet Coke.. we are all doomed! :P
- Tim Hoeck
I will give a NYC hellooooo to FB...I'll be punked on the street
- Bill Heslin
You could have a root beer, Josh.
- Steven Perez
Houston: we have a problem
- WorldofHiglet
Nice call bring Louis on. You've heard of the cooler right? Well Louis is the Soother.
- Mark Krynsky
The choice is being made for you.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
I hope they let this site continue like socailmedian did
- Michael Fidler
My facebook url is /bryansays
- Bryan Lee
Nooooo I can't just find you that easily....lol
- Bill Heslin
Did they mention CloneFeed?
- Jason Huebel
Sure.
- Steven Perez
Bye Louis!
- Michael Fidler
o i do, but later
- Amber, Random Time Lord
typo on Josh's Louis
- Yolanda
thanks guys
- Andrew Smith
facebook.com/tinapbeana
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Not that I recall Jason
- Yolanda
My 2cents . http://mathewballard.com/blog...
- Mathew™ one of a kind
*hugs to all*
- Lindsay
Love you FFers =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
night y'all
- Yolanda
Kumbya
- Lindsay
This totally reminds me of listening to Pump Up The Volume.
- Kevin Fox
Hi.
- Micah Wittman
We'd love to have you!
- Kevin Fox
*hugs all around*
- Jason Huebel
:)
- Tim Hoeck
But you know the final rule!!!
- Kevin Fox
Haha...nice Kevin.
- Mark Krynsky
omg
- Yolanda
Hmm, what *is* the final rule?
- Spidra Webster
HAAahahhahahahahaa!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Rachel says as long as you don't do the angry face you can be our kitty.
- Kevin Fox
This was fun venting, thanks guys
- anna sauce
The final rule is that you have to get snipped before you can get adopted.
- Kevin Fox
Bye Louis!
- Kevin Fox
blerky blerky beep beep
- Yolanda
Ah. I'm sure he wouldn't mind a MANicure.
- Spidra Webster
o_O
- Steven Perez
Don't say snipped...my V day is coming in a few weeks o_O
- Mark Krynsky
Kevin, did you like the Moment of Win??
- Tim Hoeck
bye Louis!
- Yolanda
Bye
- Michael Fidler
bye
- Vezquex: God of FF
I did. Stay Hard, everyone!
- Kevin Fox
OUT.
- Steven Perez
Hello.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
yeah
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Goodnight guys. Thanks for the group session.
- Jason Huebel
yes, we can hear you.
- Spidra Webster
Oye.
- Micah Wittman
:P
- Tim Hoeck
G'night all!
- Kevin Fox
Good job guys
- Matthew Horton
Lonely signoff.
- Spidra Webster
night.. and congrats!
- Tim Hoeck
Night, Kevin
- Micah Wittman
See you guys in the morning!
- Mathew™ one of a kind
You guys rock!
- Louis Gray
See you guys.
- Kevin Fox
'night! Thanks, everyone
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
*furiously, trying to read thead from top*
- Micah Wittman
Wow! Over 1000 comments in about 2 hrs! :P
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Over 1000 posts! Eat your heart out Scobleizer... ;-)
- Jeff P. Henderson
Okay, can someone give me a brief rundown of what happened during this chat?
- Mellissa Claus
Darn, missed out again.
- Kol Tregaskes
hey I just wanna be friends, no feeding frenzy. have facebook, well estabilshed on twitter and don't really feel like getting into pissing contests. in fact I don't do such things. Would love some help. Am glad we're friends. And what Rodney King said. badumpdah lisbethwest
- lisbethwest
dammit! I so totally missed this!
- Jim Hearts FF
Can we hear this somewhere, I missed it. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm surprised that we haven't gotten an episode of this in the podcast feed.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'd like to hear it before tonight's show if possible. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
You staying up for tonights Kol? I am :)
- Simon Wicks
What were you doing when you heard about the acquisition of FF by Facebook?
Darren Heydon, Felipe Aneudi Campana, Matthew Horton and 5 other people liked this
I was scanning a painting I wanted to show other FF-ers later tonight.
- Ton Zijp
on the phone
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I read it while scrolling google news.
- ashish
I had just opened my macbook and connected it to my video projector, getting ready to watch a good movie.
- Brome
I was walking through San Antonio's Hard Rock Cafe.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I was having a life
- Patrick Allmond
Reading about it on Google Reader
- Tim
watching Lost, illegally downloaded from Mininova.
- Mark
Looking through my Twitter stream. Bwana linked a Feedface pic (from here) and I thought it was a joke.
- Jed
Strangely enough, I was listening to the theme from Jaws on Pandora. It may have contributed to my initial feelings of doom at reading this news.
- Mary DeSive
Eating a taco.
- Mike Doeff
First thing I saw when I was finished with dinner.
- Meryn Stol
Just saw the news in my FB news feed, when I about update my status in FB. ;)
- Tharique Azeez
I had just downloaded my first pix to the PC
- gerald miller
using neither of them. I was on Twitter ;)
- kosso
who broke the story was it TC?
- Mark
on ff
- mike "glemak" dunn
I was feeding my face.
- Brent - Loving Life
I was checking FriendFeed while compressing a new video for my road trip website, http://TheHardestYear.com ... Is it comment spam if it's true? :)
- John
from iPhone
Everything is allowed today, John. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
I was watching FriendFeed live feed, saw it the instant it flashed up.
- jcunwired
read it on twitter
- Gordon Corte
working! i was working! I promise. So much for that.
- Holly Rae, FFer
trying to organize my ff feed, :(
- chaz2b
I was dropping the kids off at the pool. No, I don't have kids.
- Matthew Horton
from iPhone
Driving. (Well, technically, I was stopped at a stop light.) One of the people I get phone notifications for on Twitter had tweeted it.
- Joanmarie
I was just about to leave for lunch.
- Morton Fox
Then you were probably dropping something in the pool. We won't ask you what it was, Matthew.
- Ton Zijp
I was reading Facebook
- Paul McElligott
Google News here too, with FriendFeed and facebook both open, coincidentally.
- Californian
Playing TF2 on my lunch break
- Brett Kelly
BTW, right after hearing the news I posted a 'Goodbye Song' on FF: http://ff.im/6pM25 ;-)
- Ton Zijp
worrying about things that actually affected my life
- Cody Heitschmidt
Pinching myself, hoping to wake up from a terrible nightmare ;)
- Lyndon Washington
Actually, I should be sleeping now(2:30am here) but everyone's awake due to the news of possible earthquake. I, have already got my first jolt(this news.) .
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
from fftogo
Watching Lost legally streaming from Netflix.
- Brandon Titus
from iPhone
I was coding a website where you could like connect with old friends and stuff and also do like realtime searches on peoples updates
- Mads Kristiansen
i was just about to get oo of work, and checked in to FF just before leaving and it's pretty apparent that this wasn't a joke after the first 10 FF items
- Chris Heath
A co-worker was demoing his Kindle for me and he happened to page through something that said that Facebook bought Friendfeed.
- Jeff Smith
I was twitting,
- Felipe Aneudi Campana
from iPhone
what's twitting? .... oh, you mean tweeting... gotcha
- Chris Heath
I was watching paint dry - it seemed more exciting at the time ;)
- Rich White
Sitting in a train, in commute to work, one of the first thing was a comment in my inbox on an old Scoble thread from someone who led me on to the news.
- Morten Blaabjerg
lol - I was just thinking that tweetdeck was the most long lasting of my 'new favorites' for sometime
- James Stanbridge
Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | What Foods or Drinks Do You Wish You Liked More? - http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitc...
Michelle Martinez, Joanmarie and RAPatton liked this
"I've never been a big fan of sweet potatoes and yams. I've tried to like them, and I've tasted them in many different forms, but my tastebuds just don't like them. It's a shame, because they're loaded with so many nutrients. I'm also not a fan of coffee, which is probably a good thing as I don't have to deal with caffeine cravings and withdrawals! I kind of wish I liked it, because it seems to be such a big part of our culture. What about you? Which foods or drinks do you wish you liked more?" By Kathryn Hill
- Nurse Katie
from Bookmarklet
Wish I could get passed my issues with tomatoes and mushrooms.
- Nurse Katie
I have mushroom issues too! Part of my issue is that I'm allergic to some mushrooms, but I don't know which ones due to my other mushroom issue, namely, mushrooms are all kinds of nasty. The reason I wish I could get over my mushroom problem is that I'm a vegetarian and a lot of restaurants with few vegetarian choices often have things like "portabella burgers". *sigh* :-)
- Joanmarie
Occasionally, though not often, I might make a comment that offends certain folks. But I don't worry about it all that much because it's my timeline and you can opt out. Likewise, I don't get all that worked up if you inadvertently offend me because it's your timeline and I can opt out. I think email signatures are different.
Mike Nencetti liked this
I don't throw my left-wing, vegetarian, agnostic/non-religious views in your face on a discussion list. Please afford me the same courtesy. The list is about technology; not religion (or politics or anything else).
- Joanmarie
According to this forecast: the cost of college in 2026? $294,000 (double that, per year, for twins) - http://www.whec.com/article...
Ladybug Heather, Evgeni Leshtanski, Thomas Power and 6 other people liked this
I will be selling my blood every week until then. :)
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
This assumes a standard cost of $25k a year now (maybe high)... but if it is true, that means Matthew and Sarah (assuming no more kids) will be about $2.5M to get their diplomas in 4 years.
- Louis Gray
tell them to start working towards the scholarships now!
- Rachel Lea Fox
One plan would be to buy a home, let it accrue value (maybe) and then sell it as they go to college and we move to Idaho. :)
- Louis Gray
Your numbers are off abit Louis, it's still ridiculous but it's only $294,000 for all 4 years combined, x2 for Sarah and Matthew. http://bit.ly/5eNBs
- Jimminy
Well, as Lucille Bluth would say, They spent their inheritance getting here. I think that counts towards college funds too.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Who needs college anyways
- Tsega Dinka
True, Jimminy, phew. I had assumed per year.
- Louis Gray
It's still kind of ridiculous considering even todays rates.
- Jimminy
Maybe things will be better by then. I don't mean this in a Pollyannaesque fashion; quite the opposite really. Enormous parts of our society are unsustainable if things continue as they are. Something has got to give (and soon)....
- Joanmarie
Time to get everyone you know signed up to http://www.upromise.com. :D
- pea
Louis, you know lots of smart people. Just apprentice the kids out to someone. :)
- Spidra Webster
I'm hoping Joanmarie is right. Until then, Andrea G gets bonus points for referencing Lucille Bluth.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, I believe Joanmarie is right, I did some analysis right before I left school that suggested the next 5-10 years the Education Bubble would burst, which puts it 2-3 bubbles away, definitely after the Higher-Income Housing bubble that appears to be coming in the next 6-12 months.
- Jimminy
Almost hate to mention it, but a degree often takes more than four year to earn, these days.
- Kathy Fitch
Holden, it depends on your field.
- Rochelle
Highly suggest a CC for the first two years if you have a student who doesn't earn a scholarship of some sort.
- Kathy Fitch
Holden, I think you're right about that. Bachelors keeps you even, Masters can give you an edge. Heck, maybe you'll earn a Ph.D.!
- Kathy Fitch
What, you don't *want* to be the First Dr. God of FF? I'm aghast.
- Kathy Fitch
Lindsey, I sure do hope you're right. What are you studying?
- Kathy Fitch
That sounds like a totally awesome major--fascinating and useful. I bet you will have a shot at some internships, eventually, and that will help you check the "two years of experience" box.
- Kathy Fitch
Or you could do like I did and start teaching your kids from age 1. My son got a full academic scholarship and is starting his third year at UCF soon! Of course I still have to pay for his room and board but hey, it's better than having to pay for the whole thing!
- Tammy Hoeck
He became very good with Math, hence he is going for a major in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Aeronautical Engineering. His teachers wanted to skip him two separate times but I wouldn't let him, he wasn't emotionally mature enough. Now, I wish I did.
- Tammy Hoeck
Louis; there are ways of offsetting the cost. One way would be through a Variable Universal Life policy. You'll need to check this out, but I believe the kids might be eligible for their own policies as well. If so, it would be like having an IRA from birth. 18 years of compounded interest adds up. Contact your accountant or agent for advice. There are expenses and fees that an experienced agent can explain to you.
- Michael Fidler
From my own experiences so far, college is expensive. Protip: Avoid student loans like the plague.
- Nick Humphries
OK, FriendFeed just got really weird with the face stuff....
Joe Silence is not dead, Penguin It's Cold Outside, Johnny Worthington and 3 other people liked this
hee hee
- Josh Haley
I have a premonition...it will get weird again exactly one week from now, around the same time.
- Bruce Lewis
Joanmarie, I would like to personally invite you to the FFundercats podcast, broadcast weekly on Friday evenings at 9 eastern, 6 pacific. Near the end of the podcast, when we start talking about a "moment of win" I would like to see you post along with everyone else, because it is fun. You can check out the podcast and info about at http://ffundercats.com . We hope to see you there :)
- Josh Haley
I could explain the whole connection to me and my beard but best you just listen :)
- Johnny Worthington
Thanks guys. I will definitely check it out!
- Joanmarie
David Pogue - Take Back the Beep Campaign ["mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions"] - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
John (a.k.a. dendroica), Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie) and jcunwired liked this
"(You hear a similar message when you call in to hear your own messages. "You. Have. 15. Messages. To listen to your messages, press 1." WHY ELSE WOULD I BE CALLING?) I, the voicemailbox owner, cannot turn off this additional greeting message. You, the caller, can bypass it, but only if you know the secret keypress--and it's different for each carrier. So you'd have to know which cellphone carrier I use, and that of every person you'll ever call; in other words, this trick is no solution. These messages are outrageous for two reasons. First, they waste your time. Good heavens: it's 2009. WE KNOW WHAT TO DO AT THE BEEP."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
oh, please, oh, please, let the power of Pogue finally banish this bullshit.
- edythe
Between this and all those seeds in lemons, I have only two pet peeves in life. I was pleased to learn that Sprint now allows you to configure outgoing voice message to bypass all the crap and go straight to the beep.
- jcunwired
I hate having my time wasted, but this issue doesn't bother me. The way I communicate with most people is text (sms, email, IM, twitter, etc.). "Good heavens: it's 2009" indeed. Voicemail is passé. :-)
- Joanmarie
I always wondered if there was some reason why those messages are so long.
- Noah Belson
early on they were long a) on the voicemail owner side, because they were charging for the time you listened b)on the message leaver side, because we did need those seconds to prepare the message in our head and not leave lots of "errr..."
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I find the prompts helpful because I don't use voicemail all that often (I stick to text as much as possible), but the process probably could be simplified.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
@John - the instructions haven't stuck in your mind yet?? Hmmm, starting to understand your handle now :)
- jcunwired
I need the beeps. If I bother to make a phone call, chances are I'll be distracted or forget that I've made a call. The beep help reminds me, otherwise there'll be seconds of dead air and then, "...OH!...I..uh...[wracks brain to remember who I called]..."
- Admiral Anika
Hear Broken Social Scene Cover Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - http://pitchfork.com/news...
Nine, Trent Olson, Christian (Simply X) and 3 other people liked this
'When you think "Broken Social Scene covering Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'," you probably imagine something hazy and beautiful and waltz-y and tortured. And that's exactly what the revamp...sounds like.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
from Bookmarklet
I am almost afraid to listen to it, as that song is so sacred to me.......but I will of course!
- Kevin J Hatton
I might could get used to (but not necessarily like) this cover if I weren't familiar with the original. But my initial reaction is a thumbs down.
- Joanmarie
Of all the remakes of this song I've ever heard, this one I think is the best.
- Akiva Moskovitz
How old do I feel now......................lol
- Kevin J Hatton
Meh... I like their take on the music, but the vocals are wince-worthy. Of course, I don't really get Joy Division to begin with and never much cared for the song ;)
- Michael W. May
MWM, I actually really appreciated the vocals as they're in the style of the original without sounding like parody.
- Akiva Moskovitz
*nod* agreed, which is why they make me wince *ducks* :P
- Michael W. May
GO AWAY
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah @KNAjit I don't get the unfollowing fuss either. Just comment on FriendFeed here, for instance, to get me to follow you:
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I will follow you on FriendFeed. Why here? Because I can put people into lists. On Twitter I don't have that ability. What's wacked is I actually read a lot more people's stuff on FriendFeed than I ever did on Twitter. I think the real fuss is due to those jerks who did autofollowing schemes to help people get lots of followers artificially. That and SEO types who only are in it for the game of getting more followers and links.
- Robert Scoble
I got my first official "Unfollowing you for not following back" @ reply today... Weird people, especially if you try to sell things - which the person who send me that is trying.
- Holger Eilhard
Yeah, like this guy: http://twitter.com/webaddict
- Robert Scoble
hahaha, it's all rather hilarious really. No one else I know in the world, in person, cares about any of this junk tho :(
- Mark
You know, some people consider "following" as an active form of politeness : fail, they didn't get the networking concept at all. Some other don't get the concept of "spring cleaning" either. So, I can understand that some people don't understand the concept of "social network spring cleaning"...
- Zackatoustra
Yeah, I know. Here's his Tweet: http://twitter.com/webaddi... -- he claims I'm gaming my way to more followers (he's autofollowing too, so isn't that like the kettle calling the pot black?) Plus he's an SEO expert.
- Robert Scoble
In my case it was http://twitter.com/network...
- Holger Eilhard
Holger: yeah, it's amazing that people think that's cool. If those folks ever move over here to FriendFeed then I'll know it's time to move on.
- Robert Scoble
Some expert, his website was last updated with a social media post in May
- Mark
It's getting to the point one has to go for quality over on Twitter, not quantity, now.
- George Hall (Australia)
I cut myself back to 280 I follow and 320 followers.
- George Hall (Australia)
There must be a social media expert School around here someplace.
- Mark
And then there's all this "Pay us for followers" thing going on... In various ways, either by being featured on a "big" website or - the really stupid way - by being followed by some bots, which will be deleted sooner or later...
- Holger Eilhard
I did the unfollow thing once on Twitter because I couldn't read all the noise, then, I added a bunch of people back because I convinced myself that I shouldn't read all the noise. Now, I'm leaning towards a lean following list again. Thanks for the boost.
- Adam
Well, @JeffreyHayzlett is one person who still thinks following back is a polite thing to do.
- K N Ajit Narayan
Interesting, not a single new FriendFeed user has joined this comment area. I'm already following everyone who has commented here. So, I guess the migration is already complete.
- Robert Scoble
Hmmm - its this type of effort to evade the bots that makes me things may all break down into a soup of failure. Why can't the follow system only actually *follow* someone if there's a two-conversation at least once?
- Justin Howard
K N: the thing is I know that person is NOT reading your Tweets. there's no way he can, especially if he's a busy executive.
- Robert Scoble
Well Sir Robert of Scoble, you did say a while back Friendfeed growth has stagnated but all other social sites are growing exponentially :(
- Mark
Mark: that is true, but Facebook is doing it by getting normal people to join up. Twitter is doing it because of celebrities. FriendFeed's growth will be slower and more organic.
- Robert Scoble
Mark...don't worry, I think Friendfeed could still catch up. Especially if people are finding Twitter needs too much spring-cleaning too often.
- George Hall (Australia)
Robert: What's the difference for you with following x thousand people on FF but not on Twitter? Are you using the Hide feature much and/or do you use many lists? Sorry, if this has been asked over and over.
- Holger Eilhard
George: that's true. If FriendFeed hits the right UI they could really take off well.
- Robert Scoble
Holger: I use lists. I need to do a video explaining my new methodology. But generally the smaller lists are more useful. Same on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
well they have plenty of smart people working at FF
- Mark
If (when) twitter releases Group support, you will have to go back and start all over again rob :D
- Mark
Robert: I don't think FF is that far away now from hitting its critical mass to take-off. That spammer situation on Twitter is starting to make it less joyful to use.
- George Hall (Australia)
Mark: nope, I'll be in a great position! My first group is already complete. :-)
- Robert Scoble
God those spammers are annoying, I was reporting them to @Spam from the public timeline yesterday. Twitter seems to act on @Spam very quickly
- Mark
Robert: The UI is a major problem with FF. I still don't feel like using it. Only @Scobleizer brings me back to FF :(
- K N Ajit Narayan
Heck, if the situation on Twitter is such I can safely trim/block around 400-500 people, it means it isn't really that valuable in the long term.
- George Hall (Australia)
Mark: yeah, spam noise in search really makes things suck. In FriendFeed you can search by groups. That is so freaking cool.
- Robert Scoble
K N: have you tried a different theme yet: http://friendfeed.com/setting... I use Grasslands and like it better.
- Robert Scoble
I'm also noting that real and talkative/friendly NEW followers on Twiter are getting fewer and far between.
- George Hall (Australia)
George I've noticed that new users are hard to get here too.
- Robert Scoble
But at least the subscibers here are great to talk with.
- George Hall (Australia)
Yup, agreed! The community here is a lot more fun.
- Robert Scoble
was this true Rob? http://ff.im/698cg
- Mark
Robert: Hmm, Grasslands looks better. Will give FF another chance.
- K N Ajit Narayan
There is something about destroytwitter.com client that has me not use FriendFeed more though... I really like a skinny window sitting on the desktop that i can glance at occasionally :) re the unfollow thing - I get lots of randoms following me that I'm not going to follow back - don't interest me
- Nicholas Orr
In terms of enjoyable experience, I think I've enjoyed this past week here on Friendfeed a bit better than I enjoyed the Twitter experience in the same period. The gloss is really starting to come off Twitter itself, although a lot of my social media friends are there.
- George Hall (Australia)
Why would you want someone who would not be able to see your posts to follow you? Numbers?
- Anton Tanderup
Mark, yeah, that was true, a couple of times.
- Robert Scoble
Robert - I think you do such a great job about discussion the "new tech" and trends and now trying to bring the tech stuff to small business. I thought you followed so many people becasue they could lead you to something new stuff you have not seen or ware of. What has changed? do you have new sources that can keep you updated? I assume as you said before FF is enough for that ..right? Joao/Techfuga
- TechFuga
I'll venture a guess Twitter's own spammer purge showed us all something about the follower lists we hadn't noticed before.
- George Hall (Australia)
Anton: why wouldn't a follower be able to see you? I don't get that.
- Robert Scoble
I always thought it was great that you followed me, but I don't think I offer that much in the way of "value." :-) So I'm not put out.... Seriously.
- Joanmarie
Joanmarie: I follow you here already.
- Robert Scoble
One other thing: you should get a return on your investment/time..I hope you already do with RackSpace :). By the way we changed all our hosting architecture to Cloud at RackSpace thanks to you and thanks to me following you here in FF. we are very very happy ...please tell that to your boss at RackSpace....Joao/Techfuga
- TechFuga
Robert: If he's following 100k people :)
- Anton Tanderup
Robert - This is what I was getting at yesterday; even though you might not follow me on Twitter, I know you'll see - and respond to, when appropriate - any comments I make here on FF, so I'm not "missing out" by you not following me.
- Andrew Terry
I always wondered how you made sense of a 10k+ person stream, Robert.
- Tech Introvert
Tech: big screens and FriendFeed. That took most of my attention over past 18 months. Now I saw that Twitter really was a chore and wasn't fun because of all the spam. Now it's a lot nicer.
- Robert Scoble
I like to talk to real people not spam bots
- Randy Allen Bishop
I get so much more information from friendfeed, and I follow significantly less people.
- Jordan Patterson
Lists are very powerful in lieu of better information tagging tools. Search is even stronger but requires me manually poking around
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
You finaly got me to sign up - I resisted this long. In my head I guess i was getting my head round twitter, last thing I needed was to get my head round twitter 2.0 aswell.. but it ocured to me, the worst case, is its like a client for twitter, and a post you did a few days ago, sugested, maybe using twitter as a client for FF.. Anyway, can't hurt to have a go, can it!
- Nathan Vingoe
I feel the same as Joanmarie. I'm not likely to be the one to break new tech news, so don't know that my tweets contribute much value to Robert's stream. Pretty sure I can just @scobleizer if I really feel like I'm on to something. I constantly try to keep my follows lean, and spend way too much time checking out new followers who I have no idea why they follow me.
- motownmutt
I don't see much spam at all on Twitter, but that may be because I follow maybe 1 person for every 30 or so that follow me (300:9000). I think spam is the result of "courtesy" following if someone follows you - in other words, you cause your own spam.
- Trent Hamm
Not everybody who is involved with SEO is just using Twitter for followers. Some are professional online marketers with an interest in tech.
- Paul M Evans
from iPhone
I keep playing Sam Jackson from Pulp Fiction in my head, "Say SEO (or Social Media Expert) one more time mutha-******"!
- Shaun Hess
thanks for the follow robert .. hope you and the family are doing well , greetings from canada
- johnpiercy
Hey robert. How is the experiment working out??????
- Roberto Bonini
I posted this two days ago (But I'm not Scoble so very few saw): So if you follow someone on Friendfeed, should you unfollow them on Twitter? Why not?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
scobleizer has been following me here on ff ever since i started participating... i was very flattered, until i learned that he just followed everyone
- Chris Heath
Appreciate Scoble's embrace of innovative & effective ways to communicate, including video, which we're all about. We've been kind of obsessing over your work lately on http://www.market7.com/blog and hope we'll have opportunity to meet again soon (last time was at Salt Lick in Austin) -- next time hopefully over our web service for better video production instead of an awesome plate of ribs
- Market7
I really don't see Twitter and FriendFeed as having the same uses. I use twitter to communicate with my real life friends, for the most part. FF is more about conversations on things that interest me. Sure, some of my RLFriends are here, and I follow them, but that's not the primary use I get from FF.
- Otto
Looking forward to joining the conversation here too...
- Brian Baumley
Im gonna use the Screen Door Analogy ,, I recently put the Screendoor on my Twitter "the lock on my account " it allows me to control all the bugs coming in and I still get all the fresh air and the same view
- johnpiercy
The ability to put people on lists here on Friendfeed makes it very easy to use it for real friends and as a way to keep up with other interesting people and thus seems to me that it's just a matter of time before it replaces twitter if people really use that feature.
- russellcoleman
I think Samuel is the first person I've seen that uses Twitter as a real life friend system (instead of Facebook) and FriendFeed as the wide open conversation tool. Usually I see Friendfeeders were/are wide open Twitter users as well (the gateway drug). I'm sure there are more using the tools that way, I just find that perspective interesting.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
FF is great for those who like to share visually as well as converse ,, Twitter is the quick water cooler chat , FF is the dinner time chat
- johnpiercy
I think the problem for some people is that they want a higher number of followers and so may not want to unfollow people—even if they are just spammers. Personally I'd rather have a smaller network of people following me who are actually interested in what I post on Twitter. (And who actually read their Twitter messages at least once in a while.)
- David Rondeau
Hi Robert! I follow you on twitter and FF. I like to keep up with you since I'm an avid social media user and new media content producer. @marylynn3 here & on Twitter.
- Mary-Lynn
You better be following me, is all I can say :-) Course, I'm on Friend Feed too.
- Jay Rosen
Robert, I continue to be amazed at how you do what you do, across what, 20 different social media channels? When do you sleep exactly? Would be great if you could add me to your follow list, thanks
- Scott Booher
If someone follows me on Twitter, I read every profile, the stream, their profile/blog link, and then decide. It does take time, (& I follow a bunch), but worth it to me. I like to read what great minds are thinking. On Twitter however, the increase in Spammers has really driven me to look for better ways to engage. I hate housecleaning.
- Karen Masullo
On Twitter I usually first follow lots of people and sort them out later - tweet by tweet. I also follow more than 2k people on FriendFeed, and it's fun! If it gets to much for you: The group function will help. Greets from Germany! :-)
- Kolja
I really only read anything on FF. I go follow people on Twitter and then update from FF. That's the extent of my twitter interactions. I have one problem though: you can't insert a line break on these comments, so I inadvertently post before I'm finished. Btw, I don't mind if you don't follow me since I'm a bit boring. Your posts, on the other hand, are like mini conversations; It's awesome!
- Californian
Mark Nielsen: I use Facebook as a real life friend system too. Realistically, I think of Twitter much more in the way I think of TXT messaging. Because that's obviously the underlying design principle there: Broadcast SMS Messages. So, on that level, I tend to only want to receive the text messages of people I know and of services I use. This limits who I follow to those that I want to have two-way conversations with, which tends to be people I know IRL.
- Otto
Makes sense.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
You know, I haven't even checked to see if you follow me anymore or not. I think people will just get over themselves and make social media work in whatever way is best for them. I'm trimming out the SEO junk from my time line, but I find value in following real people on Twitter be it 100 or 600. It's not fair to call people 'noise', just trim out the people you're not interested in keeping up with and be done with it. Right?
- Mike Lewis
If someone follows me, I look at this as an opportunity to see what they write about (be it on Twitter or Friendfeed). If they are funny or interesting, I follow back. But if they don't continue to be interesting or funny, I unfollow. There's just too much information and I want to absorb some of it - and not waste time or brain cells on the uninteresting (or unfunny).
- amygeek
I agree Robert. I tend to read much more of the posts and comments out there in FF than I ever did/do/would on Twitter. I love Twitter's simplicity, but it's a bit too simple sometimes--mostly on the sharing side of the thing. The Like and Comment features are my faves for both FF and Facebook.
- Hans Eisenman
"If those folks ever move over here to FriendFeed then I'll know it's time to move on" LOL :) I god a kick out of that one. :)
- Frode Stenstrøm
Cyber-sixty-niners are just a quite popular way to proclaim brain amputation. Reminds me of a self-sucking Ron Jeremy ... I mean, can't for the sake of common sense in social media those attention whores leave the InterWeb alone? Doh!
- Sebastian
That idea that Twitter would replace RSS last what? A month? I have never seen such an overrated tool/website/platform. ;P (Not that I don't use it, mind you, hehe.)
- Marcos
Note what could be the next competitive frontier for Google vs Apple and Google vs Microsoft for mobility and search in The Genome Based Economy.Jack M. Germain in TechNewsWorld, http://www.technewsworld.com/story... on the stunning development that Genomics moves to PDAs, at the very moment that Google clashes with Apple on mobiles, and Google and Microsoft confront each other...
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- Suzanne Matick
I'm thinking that I might have to start giving my FriendFeed account much more attention. On Twitter I have 2 orders of magnitude less followers than you Robert, but even for me the spam is starting to get a bit ridiculous. It does seem to be becoming a haven for spammers & scammers and not the networking place that I really enjoyed for quite a while. If Twitter doesn't want to die before it reaches maturity, it really needs to find a way to control spam & find a way to build community in new ways.
- David van Sunder
<chuckles> scobleizer does a mass unfollow and it generates some decent discussion on the negatives of twitter. Its almost fun watching the people who follow you promptly unfollow you a week later because you didnt follow back.. for about a week. I keep saying it would be good to add a meta layer to twitter (or maybe friendfeed would do it?) that allows for some context or grouping. Not everyone wants to see all of someone's tweets.
- Riaz Kanani
Well I'll give you this Robert, at least you do still "listen" and respond. :P First of all, I am not calling the kettle black because my point was that due to you autofollowing everyone & then unfollowing them all that was gaming the system. Just as you didn't have time to follow every single person following you, I don't either. Of course I auto follow. I don't see anything wrong with...
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- Joel Mackey
Joel: if I am gaming explain how I lost 7,000 in one day.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I am so glad I am a nurse and I earn an honest living doing something important. I would be ashamed if I "earned" my living helping people get higher ranked on google.
- Mark
I hear you loud and clear Robert. I'm not saying you aren't taking a major hit & will probably continue to see that come your way for a few days. I see your loss & a majority of it is probably autounfollows, LOL, ah the cycle of automation. Listen Robert, I'm really not taking a shot at you, just voicing my opinion & feelings that due to you participating in autofollow for a very long...
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- Joel Mackey
Mark: I'll respond to you once because you seem to think you have a grasp on who I am. I'd like to set you straight real quick before you get that good feeling inside of you thinking you are making any sense or good points at all. Just because I can do SEO does not mean that is what I do for a living. I have a programming degree & do a ridiculous number of things. Just because I'm not...
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- Joel Mackey
sorry for being a dick, had a bad day xx
- Mark
Mark: Sweet. No problem. You're always entitled to your opinion. Hope your day gets better. Nurses deserve to be paid better & get more respect. You've got mine but I also admire that you apologized. That's rare in this world. :P Take care buddy.
- Joel Mackey
This is a long post so I need to check I get it, "gaming googles SEO gaming isnt gaming on the autofollow gaming game of Friendfeed gaming twitter game?
- Robert Higgins
Joel: I disagree. I had a very large following before I even turned on autofollow. And I don't have autofollow turned on here and I have a very large following. I never got into using TweetDeck for groups. If anything I use FriendFeed for that. Anyway, your point that autofollowing increasing followers is right, but as I have demonstrated once you unfollow all those people go away. They...
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- Robert Scoble
I've ALWAYS said who you follow is more important than who is following you. Now I'm putting that into practice even more. If you're following me just to have me follow you back you're following me for the wrong reason.
- Robert Scoble
It really doesn't matter what social network you using there are going to be a group that you connect and interact with regularly and the rest of your following. My reach is farther than what I see everyday, then again maybe I have just fallen for the hype.
- Dawn Pigoni
Agreed, never follow just for the follow back. As for the inability to put people on lists on Twitter, there are twitter clients that work just as well.
- Brian Ellis
Robert's right. I'm almost a fanatic about that.
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't see it as necessary to follow someone both on Twitter and Friendfeed. Although I generally like to catch what you have to say, Robert , so I follow you on both services.
- Martha
One I use is Twibes. I never liked that Twitter itself doesn't have a groups function.
- Dennis Jernberg
I use T-Deck. I have multiple accounts and T-Deck makes it very easy to control them.
- Brian Ellis
Let's be Twitter buddies again, mmk? :)
- Joshua M
Don't follow me, my twitter feed is really dull.
- Alex Scrivener
Robert: You said, "I never got into using TweetDeck for groups." I specifically used to refer people to your videos demonstrating TweetDeck and how it enables you to follow so many people. I laughed when I saw them because it allowed me to not have to explain it & just send them your way. So at one point you were evangelizing the use of TweetDeck for Groups & filtering all of the people...
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- Joel Mackey
I've made my "lists" in PeopleBrowsr, so for me Twitter and FriendFeed works the same when it comes to filtering the noise.
- Svartling
Svartling: I'm so heavily dependent on Peoplebrowsr now that Twitter's almost unusable without it. I like Friendfeed a lot. just still figuring out how to work it into my daily flow.
- Kevin Arth
I didn't read any of this but i was here
- Doubledown_inSL
I haven't been using FF much, but this conversation is giving me a reason to take a second look at FF. I can not keep up with the spam. I do enjoy Twitter for the conversation, but not to keep up with a lot of people. I miss the interesting tweets in the mass of spam and porn.
- Michele McGraw
from iPhone
I feek the same way, Michele. What I am uncertain about is whether I can use FriendFeed to organize my Twitter friends right out of the gate or do those whom I wish to follow using FF have to using FF as well? I just haven't quite had the time to explore it. If it's the latter it would be another app I would have to get friends to use and that would probably decrease the # of actual...
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- Hans Eisenman
from email
I use FriendFeed as kind of a 'best of the best' of Twitter. Where I can really read and digest what's going on. Brilliant blog post, btw.
- Thor
Loved your blog post. Still trying to figure out how to make the most of FriendFeed, but following you is probably a good start.
- Ed
I personally find FriendFeed to be more pleasing because of the ease in following threaded conversations. But I have been using TweetDeck and it allows me to place tweeps in groups/columns, similar to FF groups, so I can parse out things I WANT to see. However, I was following anyone who followed me, and now I have a lot of spam and market/MLM posts that I need to sift through... annoying. I will be going on an unfollow twitter spree once it's back up and stable from the DoS attacks.
- Timothy Federwitz
Gonna have to get that Peoplebrowsr from the sound of it.
- Hans Eisenman
from email
Been trying to login to Peoplebrowsr with my Twitter ID and it's telling me wrong pw, and yet I can log in to Twitter with same pw. Wonder if it's at all related to the DOS attack Twitter was having.
- Hans Eisenman
It always takes some effort to shift a dynamic. I appreciate you rethinking your social networking preferences publicly, it's given me a lot to think about.
- Jo Golden PhD
hopefully i didn't get lost in the "twitter-shed"...I totally support what you did
- Crackle
Thank you for the insightful post Robert. Great points to your discussion on WHY you did it. We can all learn.
- Matthew
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- Rob Sellen :o)
What's your definition of "grown ass adult people?" I'm good in the mean time lol. :P
- Zach Flauaus
Well, the person I'm thinking of that does that isn't an adult...
- Rochelle
*reminds Derrick that I'm female* Oh, wait, I'm not grown. :p
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I play the "I'm 17 and not techincally an adult yet" card for now. Come Wednesday... Well, that will change.
- Zach Flauaus
the only reason i do it is to create tone example : fuck you :) ....fuck you! >:| ... fuck you XD
- Caroline
emoticons in business ... fail.. emails.. even worse!
- Caroline
I'll admit that I do it sometimes, but it's usually to emphasize tone since I sometimes joke around in ways that aren't obvious unless the tone can be heard or unless you can see me rolling my eyes or smirking.
- Katy S
I do it on the computer only, during personal chat... otherwise things come out wrong :P
- mjc
I do the emoticons (here or on instant messenger, but never in anything business-oriented or professional) but still use proper punctuation with it. And I will never, ever end a sentence in "lol".
- Rochelle
There's a couple I'm thinking of, but no one who's responded so far in this thread. EL OH EL.
- Derrick
Oh wait, I didn't scan the thread close enough. Some of y'all been found out.
- Derrick
I've gotten in trouble a couple of times at work because people assigned interpretations to my words that I did not intend. It even got HR involved. So let me tell you, if it's gonna help people understand, I'm gonna do it. I need my job to support my tech habit.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
suckin' it ---->
- Josh Haley
@Josh Me too. ;-)
- Joanmarie
I confess, sometimes used to relay tone since, I am occasionally causticly sarcastic :-)
- Eric Logan
*fist bump Joanmarie* :)
- Josh Haley
Sorry Derrick, just realized this is only in bitchfest. Bitchfest is sacred. I should let you yell all you like. :) OOPS! LOL. DANGIT! :p GAH!!
- Josh Haley
Oh, hmm, so we aren't supposed to debate in BF?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
First rule of the Interwebz: All content is fair game. GO GO GO. (Oh hi, Derrick. #dontkillme.)
- Zach Flauaus
And the only reason I posted this was because someone went on a rant where they were clearly upset and annoyed given the back and forth in the discussion and heft of it all, and then after all that, they put a :) or LOL at the end, which totally negated their commentary. How am I supposed to take you seriously? People can post whatever the hell they want, but by the same token, I can think you're a crackpot as well.
- Derrick
I think I have a feeling who you're talking about.
- Zach Flauaus
Derrick, You really should learn to use the PC term for crackpot aka "Psychoceramic" http://www.psychoceramic.com/ :) lol
- Eric Logan
I used to be judgmental about smilies, too. Then I started doing business directly with Chinese people, and found them to be an essential and convenient way to more clearly communicate. Now it's habit to some extent; at first I was upset by this and afraid of being judged negatively as in the above post. But honestly, the pathetically lazy attempts many people put into reading...
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- Lo
:-O
- Anna Haro
8===D what about starting them with juvenile ascii art? Can they suck that too? ;) LOL
- CW™
if i dont end sentences with emoticons, people get upset at me :-( But yes, you heard correctly, i can indeed suck it. I'm told I'm quite good. ;-)
- Slappy Line
OMG =O haha
- Shevonne
Glad I'm not grown! =0)
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
But, it is like using super punctuation! It must be better ;)
- Jennifer Dittrich
from iPhone
I often feel the need to end with a smile, because people generally think I'm a miserable cow :)
- Vicky
Why would you say something like that :(
- Sparky
I agree with sparky.. I don't see you as miserable vicky ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I tried, Derrick. She said that sucking was out, but she'd let me tap that instead.
- Steven Perez
haha :)
- (jeff)isageek
lol :D
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Is there an emoticon for that Steven?
- Vicky
LOL, I am LMAO. Sucking now.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Vicky: Yes. :T
- Steven Perez
Related: As a reminder to all of y'all, the Dream Academy is one of those underrated bands that you should be familiar with.
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