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Mail: up to 2.3x faster. Safari: “4 has been in beta for a couple of months, today we’re shipping Safari 4 for Leopard, Tiger — and Windows. It offers unsurpassed speed… the scale is multiples of IE8’s speed.
Nicholas James, Gerd Leonhard, Erik and zsafwan liked this
unsurpassed crashes too..
- Giulio Ardoino
"The number 1 cause of crashes in OS X? Browser plugins. Now the plugin crashes inside the browser, but the browser — and the OS — don’t crash"
- Zee.
Safari had plug-ins?
- ronin
yeah, quite a few http://pimpmysafari.com/
- Zee.
@ronin yea, but they were hard to find. One was a makeshift adblock.
- jonn
Not quite in the range of Firefox plug-ins but cool. Hopefully more will be coming.
- ronin
oh no, nowhere near FF range
- Zee.
We’re very proud of Leopard… the challenge we set for ourselves was to build a better Leopard. What’s that mean? Three things: lots of refinements across the board. Second: powerful new technologies. And third: Exchange suppport.” Applause. “We decided to refine 90% of the OS.”
Frode Stenstrøm and Dobromir Hadzhiev liked this
Refined over 90% of core OS pieces in Snow Leopard. Rewrote Finder in Cocoa, which results in lots of extra features.
- Zee.
Built Expose into the Dock. Click and hold on an app icon, and all of its open windows appear in typical Expose style. 45% faster installation of the OS. Recover over 6GB of disk space after upgrading from Leopard.
- Zee.
Exchange support will be huge.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
This OS is going to be brilliant.
- jonn
App Store Update: No Review without Purchase! WOOHOO!! - http://digg.com/apple...
"This makes a lot of sense. It will weed out the complete idiot posts."
- jonn
Last.fm Release v2 of iPhone/iPod Touch App! - http://digg.com/apple...
"Brilliant release. I like that Last.fm is focusing on design of their products."
- jonn
Is Bristol Palin's Child's Real Father Black? - http://digg.com/politic...
"And that matters because..."
- jonn
IE8 Beta 2 shows Microsoft is serious about playing catch-up - http://digg.com/microso...
"I'm happy MS is finally putting some effort into IE. There's still a lot that needs to be done in order to compete with Firefox. But they're taking the first steps. IE9 - Extensions?"
- jonn
Rapper Transforms Apple Ad into Self-Promotion Vehicle - http://digg.com/music...
"Riiiiiight. Quiet, troll."
- jonn
Another Tradgedy For Dark Knight Cast Member - http://digg.com/movies...
"I hope he's ok. The Shaw Shank Redemption is my favorite movie of all time. He was brilliant in it."
- jonn
Is it possible that Linux is going to surpass Mac? - http://digg.com/linux_u...
"I love how projects like the OLPC is going to uncover thousands of computer scientists from all over the world. Just because you're broke, and in some cases don't have running water, doesn't mean you aren't a brilliant programmer. I'm excited for the future."
- jonn
Stage Dumps: Musicians Who Look Like They're Pooping - http://digg.com/comedy...
"This is the stupidest shit I have ever seen. Ever. You all are really 14 years old..."
- jonn
See Your Future Facebook Profile Now at new.facebook.com - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Great redesign. Don't forget the www's"
- jonn
Racist comments during Wayne Sutton/Corvida Interview - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Amadou M. Sall, Jon Dillon, .LAG liked that and 27 other people liked this
Click through this to see more of the spewage. It was atrocious.
- Louis Gray
Don't be afraid to "Like" this, I won't be offended.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
lol
- Cee Bee
like = 'was shocked by'
- Phil G
this is just sad. Where do people pick up these ideas anyway?
- Rahul Das
i was in the room , some really nasty stuff went on , should be some sort of report to Y 'Live made
- johnpiercy
I think that it's great that the racist asshats and pot stirrers provoke good conversation among the majority of the rational people that need to discuss these sensitive and painful issues in a meaningful manner.
- Mark Forman
It's difficult to even read this stuff. Don't have anything substantial to add...Just wanted to join the chorus of the sane condemning this kind of disgraceful behavior.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
Unbelievable. What year is this?
- jonn
I want to start a non profit that takes donations and gives the money to hitmen to kill people associated with racist organizations, child molesters, etc. That would be pretty sweet.
- The Kid
I had racist slings thrown at me my whole life - from chink, chigger, mutt, gook, etc al. It's sad that people act like that but most of the time it stems from fear - ie: fear of the unknown (because of our still segregated society).
- George Smith
And there is nothing that will change these guys' minds. They live their little anonymous lives, fearful of anything that doesn't fit into their little world, creating things to hate so they don't have to look at themselves too much. Ugh.
- Hutch Carpenter
Just showing support. We need more buttons than 'like.'
- sergiooo
Shey: Thanks for saying that, else I would have been v reluctant to 'like' something I vehemently disagree with
- Sally Church
Violence is not helpful, escalating the inflamatory language isn't helpful, it's how ignorant things get said. I agree with Mark F that rational discussion is important but also note that the people who we'd like to behave differently are not rational and aren't interested in discussion. That's why a lot of people dismiss the wackos and try to be good examples. The best way to respond to ignorance(i feel) in the long term is to not prove the stereotypes right.
- sergiooo
I got nothing. .... nothing. *disgusted*
- Yolanda
A small, heartening counternote: @owillis honors an American hero who gave up his job rather than honor the racist Jesse Helms. http://snurl.com/2w805
- Michael Markman
Like Youtube Yahoo! Tends to attract the lowest common denominator. It's just awful that they were ambushed like that.
- Steve Spalding
“MobileMe question - can you use push from BOTH MobileMe AND Exchange on the same iPhone?? Hmmm??” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
I've been wondering the same thing. I've read that using Exchange contacts will wipe your iPhone contacts, but what if I only use Exchange for corporate email. I'd like to use both Exchange and Mobileme
- Al Degutis
from twhirl
Most likely.
- jonn
Chameleons are so neat looking, yet *very* hard to maintain. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Franklin Pettit, the JoshMeister, Ranjit Mathoda and 15 other people liked this
Photography in Public - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Neil Bernhart, DAVE ID, sergiooo and 33 other people liked this
This is a hilarious reaction to cops/security guards telling someone photos aren't allowed in a public space in the UK.
- Thomas Hawk
Sweet. Glad to see him standing up for his rights.
- Raoul Pop
Hehehe. Good ol' bobbies on the beat, eh? I think I'm buying a megaphone soon, can't trust them bobbies you see. Thanks for passing it on Thomas.
- Roberto Bonini
Agree with the message but hate the transmission over bullhorn. I was sort of hoping they were gonna give him a beat-down.
- Andrew Smith
Stand up for your rights, fellow photographers!
- Dan van Moll
I'm glad the photographer did this. We need these "rebels" to keep society regulated. I strongly believe that.
- jonn
standing ovation!
- Vox
That's great! That needs to happen more often, in more places. As it becomes more and more common for the police/security to harass photographers, I am seriously considering adding a cheap video recorder to my bag.
- Jeremy Brooks
I demand a photographers' rights flashmob.. right next to a secured area with lots of police. Imagine... hundreds of photographers jumping a secured area shooting thousands of pictures and then disbanding quickly...
- Dan van Moll
Applause from me too!!
- Mel Buckpitt
Awesome. I guess the policemen didn't see this one coming. Good job!
- Holger Eilhard
Very Berkeley-like way to express oneself. Was pleased at first, then after the first 30 seconds, started to feel uncomfortable that the "bullhorn bloke" was still going.
- Randy Hall
In times like these you need to be brave or a nutter to stand up like that. It's a shame that it's even necessary.
- Victor
Keep a Megaphone in the Gear bag now ,,, protect your rights .
- johnpiercy
Owned. I simply loved it!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Those are security guards, btw, not police.
- Ian Betteridge
Funny: Old Spice Neil Patrick Harris Commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Michael, Derek Karchner, Stewart Curry and 21 other people liked this
Old Spice has a great PR Firm making their ads but their deodorant absolutely sucks. Thanks for linking to the ad though, I hadn't seen it on TV yet.
- Andrew Fielding
That was really funny.
- jonn
wasn't as good as the Bruce Campbell ones
- Ed Cline
fantastic. Their new campaigns are tip-top. The will farrel tie-ins were awesome. But the crowning jewel is "is old spice hair and body wash for me?"http://youtube.com/watch...
- halcyon
I have a hard time viewing him gay, he's so funny on How I Met Your Mother. AND he has an iphone ;)
- Shayna
Saw that earlier tonight and commented about it on my Twitter. I love how NPH has been making such good stuff lately and can poke fun of the Doogie Howser days. @Shayna - yeah, I found it tough to accept him as gay, but really, it doesn't matter since he's a great actor.
- Sally done with 2009
That was a REAL good commercial. Everytime I see him in anything I am reminded of Harold & Kumar "Hey! NPH wouldn't do that, 'ight!" @Bunny -- Old Spice deodorant does suck. Degree for the win!
- Matt Donders
@halcyon, yeah that one is awesome. My fave part is that the dude at the end has one lag that's covered in gnarly hair and the other is hairless.
- Clay Newton
What a riot!
- Hillary
Hey I play a doctor on the Internet, and I recommend Old Spice too.
- David Chartier
Could be worse, could be some 15 yr old emo kid with an extra large chip on his shoulder.
- Glen McFarlane
from twhirl
Sorry, wrong posting. See Mackenzie post.
- Glen McFarlane
from twhirl
I want to see the Bruce Campbell ones
- Pete Delucchi
Dane just booked Woz as a guest on TWiT Live for Thursday evening - part of our 24 hours of iPhone covering the iPhone 3G launch. Woo hoo!
Scott Heinowski, Sawyer, Inksim and 70 other people liked this
Hell yes! I'll def be tuning in!
- jonn
That is VERY cool
- Grant
Sounds great! I can't wait to see it.
- James Mowery
from feedalizr
quite exciting :)
- justine
Sweet! I have the day off, and I'll be tuning in whilst I play with my new 3g iphone :)
- Jeremy
I will definitely be tuning into this. Very cool!
- Matt Donders
Cool. I will (as always) be listening....and viewing. ;)
- BISQ
It turns out I won't be able to get iPhone 3G on launch day but watching TWiT Live is the next best thing
- Grant
Wow, Dane is really pulling out all the stops trying to earn that Kevlar vest isn't he? Very cool news!
- Joe Pierce
Ooo, I'm tuning in too!
- Dillon K. Hoops
awesome news, now how about posting TWiT a few minutes early tonight in celebration?
- Jordan
We don't hold on to TWiT - Dane posts it the minute it's ready. (Which should be soon.)
- Leo Laporte
Is it cool just to buy a 32MB iTouch, most of the coolness, none of the AT&T?
- Steven Van Tilburg
from twhirl
Leo, can we get an audio stream feed of the daily TwitLive for us bandwidth challenged. I'm using EV-DO and it still doesn't quite keep up with your high bps. What speed are you sending out?
- Keith Rowland
I figured it'd be cool to buy a used, deactivated iPhone with most of the coolness and none of the AT&T, and it would still have the potential to be a phone again.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I wonder if Super Monkey Ball would fit on a 32 MB iPod Touch:)
- Grant
I have to agree with Keith, Leo. Is there going to be an audio stream or podcast of some of the twitlive activities for the new iPhone debut? Being on dial-up it's hard for me to watch the video streaming.
- Molly, New Ears :P
Waiting to see magic unroll on the iPhone 3G marathon coverage.. Leo, who is joining you on the 24 live?
- Du Senyao Peter
Leo should do it telethon style... Have really cheesey variety acts, I'm thinking a singing dog and a bird that runs a obsticle course. Then every hour you could cut to a scene of Dane and Colleen at a bank of telephones and a counter of some sort. "Hi and welcome back to the iPhone-a-thon, lets go to Dane in the tally room... how we going Dane?"
- Johnny Worthington
That is great!!
- Spirit 2.0
I require yellow lasers...
- xero
cool
- Fred Grott
You need to have Dane put up a schedule.
- TJ Harron
I'll be there. Calling in. At 7:15 AM. With sleep rings around my eyes. :)
- Eric Geller
awesome... i love the woz!
- Chris Heath
Thats great Leo, just try not to gush on him this time ;)
- Chris Kuhner
When Woz is on TWIT Live it's definately a highlight event! The guy has a ton of personality.
- Harry Myhre
Is he gonna have Kathy Griffin with him? : )~
- Hillary
Is there any way to watch or download a delayed twit tv feed
- giovanniv
Dark City Director's Cut - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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MG Siegler liked this
I should check out Dark City.
- jonn
didn't know there was a director's cut. awesome.
- MG Siegler
The politics of Friend Feed - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf...
Christopher Perry, Darth Ed, John Duff and 7 other people liked this
I think the "weblebrities" should follow more regular people. It's such a one sided convo sometimes
- Vincent Guerrero
@Verm. Yeah but at the same time, following 50k people is so much noise. These sites need some grouping options. Like let me put the weblebrity feeds in a group so it doesn't jam the overall signal. Interestingly enough, this is a comment on a weblebrity's feed. oh well.
- Vincent Guerrero
at the end of the day, it's up to _friendfeed_ who they put up there - don't see what all the drama is about. My guess is that initially they are appealing to the tech-centric early adopter crowd, so why not put those web celebs up there?.. they are a great filter for that demo.
- Kevin Rose
Hmm.. did they really forget to add you to the default nine? They should add a vote instead -- like they got it on socialthing.com - just vote internet celebrities into the famous friendfeednine.. or deselect people? @Jason C.? =)
- Dan van Moll
So if i become a celebrity they'll put me there. At least it gave result now many of this 9 people are advertising for friendfeed and here we are!
- Jorge
Thats pretty effed up. Hopefully they'll fix it and no-names like myself will be featured.
- jonn
Working on Mahalo's mission statement. Would love some feedback on it: "We're here to help people easily find information, answers and resources they can trust." - http://any feedback?
Bryan Landers, accesine, Marcello Del Bono and 15 other people liked this
Go with the Jerry Maguire manifesto
- stephen o reilly
It's nice, and accurate, but it would be great if we could get something in there about curation. I feel like that's the best description of what it is we actually do.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
How about mentioning that "We're people helping people easily find info, etc." to differentiate from algorithms?
- Tom Guarriello
Simple and to the point. Thumbs up!
- Will Hirsbrunner
We are here to assist people by easily finding the right information, answers, and resources with a human touch ;)
- Robert Barr
how about something about free pizza and tshirts?
- Stefan Hayden
I think it needs to be more proactive . . . like "We help people find information, answers and resources they can trust."
- Telemill
Yeah Cason I don't think you could've put it more simple
- John Blanton
from twhirl
Jeez, you've been hanging out with Leo too long...sounds like some of the TWiT network's catchphrase has rubbed off. However, it does sum up Mahalo to a T.
- Steve Gillette
from twhirl
It's a great mission statement. Especially with FTGs creating pages, and link checkers (such as mike, debbie, and jeffhoard) checking all user-submitted links. I say that mission statement is a keeper - nice and accurate. PS, Jason, I've left you a few pieces of feedback to your Mahalo email address. ;)
- Chris Thomson
"Don't be google"
- Stefan Hayden
Lon Harris: a mission statement shouldn't get into execution as that is secondary to purpose. Our mission is to help folks find this information, but the way we do that is going to change and evolve. The fact that we currently do curation of links is really not super important to the mission... if we wind up getting a better product using another process (i.e. social bookmarking or semantic search) then we will do that. So, that's why i left out "with humans" or "by using human intelligence."
- Jason Calacanis
Or even . . . "With Mahalo find the information, answers and resources you can trust."
- Telemill
I see your point, but regardless of the process, think Mahalo would always involve some form of curation. Even social bookmarking would "curate" the Web, albeit differently than we do now.
- Lon Harris
from twhirl
Well, it COULD be simpler . . . "Mahalo, information you can trust" but then you sound like a bank for something.
- Telemill
A mission statement is about you, your business and your ideals.The best policy to a mission statement is to keep those three things in mind and, keep it short and simple. "We're here to help people easily find information, answers and resources they can trust." sounds a bit more like a catch phrase or slogan. What is Mahalo going to do to achieve that statement?
- Candace
Telecommutingmillionaire: I like the "We" It adds the human element vital to Mahalo without beating you over the head. I agree that it seems long so here's a modification that takes out a few words,but not the meaning: "We're here to help you find trustworthy information, answers and resources." Leaving in the We and the You sends the "by human, for humans" message.
- David Jones
I was musing the other day about whether mission statements still make sense. They remind of offsites and consultants.
- John McCrea
The word information makes "answers and resources" redundant, doesn't it? How about "Mahalo is people connecting people to information they can trust.".
- Joe Coughlin
@Telecommutingmillionaire "Mahalo, information you can trust" also sounds too close to "Netcasts you love from people you trust" from TWiT. For the network that Candace Holly and myself work on I picked the tagline "A Community of Creativity", simple and to the point. But that isn't exactly a mission statement rather than an overall tone.
- The Geek Media
Don't forget to add a vision statement. Mission = What is our business. Vision = What we want to become. You will gain clarity by doing both rather than putting them into one statement. I have an outline that will get you there if you are interested.
- Wade Bowlin
I think it's good. I think there can be a distinction between "answers" and "resources" and encourage you to keep the wording if it is accurate.
- Kimberly J
How about adding something like: We sort through the rubbish, so you don't have to.
- Ross Maguire
I think you should include the words "Real world" somewhere. Like "Solving real world problems."
- jonn
needs to include the word "synergy" somewhere
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Jason, it is alright, however... I would rather prefer the word "guide" to be placed in there. It shows that your company is more active in assisting the user instead of just "help" which seems more passive.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
needs more... "syngergy." And also some buzzwords indicating a strong human algorithm at work. =)
- Andrew Ruess
from twhirl
Andrew and I seem to be on the same path. That is, again, why I suggest replacing the word "help" with a stronger word. One that represents Mahalo's efforts in bringing the users the best quality information available.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
The tech writer in me wants to cut it down to "We help people easily find information, answers and resources they can trust." I agree that it doesn't emphasize the human element as much as I'd like.
- Brent Newhall
Comment: Interesting that you're crowd-sourcing a mission statement-- seems that a singular point of view would be important. Suggestion: it helps to define scope, focus, and end-result. Right now, your mission statement doesn't appear to drive employees down particular directions when they hit crossroads. Example: Mahalo exists to guide customers to the most relevant and trustworthy answers whenever/wherever they have questions
- Vijay Goel
We suck less than MS Search? :)
- Fred Grott
@David Jones, I still feel you are softening up the "punch" of the statement with "we're here". Take the here out. Rearrange the last few words so it flows off the mind and the tongue . . . "We help you find trustworthy answers, information and resources." Answers should be first, because we all really want good answers. Information is also what we are searching for but it's such a esoteric concept. And please, is there another word we can use for resources? It's just so . . . corporate speak.
- Telemill
Vijay: This isn't crowdsourcing. :-) It's asking the cloud for comments and feedback.
- Brent Newhall
Revisit Guykawasaki's lecture at last years Gnomedex, you'll end up with "Answers you can trust"
- Greg Birch
I hate to say this but it doesn't really catch my attention. It seems too generic.
- Blaine Fleming
It does sound like a corporate mission statement, I might Leo-ize it to "the answers you want, from people you trust." Just because Mahalo seems to be positioned as a friendlier entity than most corporations.
- Robert Morrison
The test would be how many employees can remember, and recite the "mission" no fluff, all my staff know our mission is "to give patients hope" Guy gave a great talk, mission statements that sound great can be found at http://www.netinsight.co.uk/portfol... but they usually fail the staff test. Disney's mission statement "to make people happy" even a CEO can remember that.
- Greg Birch
"we're here to help you find photos of hot chicks a lot quicker than normal"
- Rick
mahalo: we do search without the suck
- Andrew
We're here to help people enjoy finding answers, info and sources they can believe in.
- Mark Alves
"We're here to help people easily find information, answers and resources they can trust by empowering the passionate internet community."
- Techboy2000
capture752008120400amnt2 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Haggis (Sean Loyless), Brian, Mark Forman and 22 other people liked this
I first saw Orion Slave Girl, rather than SheHulk. Thus, my geek subgenre is defined.
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Holy shit.
- Vincent X
You wouldn't like Veronica when she's angry...
- Michelle Marie Miller
they need to bring She-Hulk back. maybe a fantastic four movie like in the comic book
- Noah David Simon
she-zilla
- Vincent Guerrero
Veronica the Orion Slave Girl is a better fantasy
- Robert Hafer
VERONICA SMASH!!!
- Jon Totton
Oh man. Hardcore.
- jonn
Good lord, what did Patrick do?
- Brooks Guthrie
from twhirl
I believe MWM speaks for us all.
- ha3rvey (business time)
The Bride of Hulk
- Harry Myhre
Yikes!
- Charlie Anzman
Harvey: I had never heard of Orion slave girls until Michael brought it up. Just never been a Trekkie, actually I've never watched any Star Trek episodes or movies in my entire life, even though my dad used to watch the shows. I'm sure it's great, but I just never have. I love Star Wars though.
- Vincent X
This is funny and I think it's awesome you shared this
- Susan Beebe
Cristi, Eric P, Vox and 3 other people liked this
Gorgeous photos.
- jonn
Twitter's milkshake meet FriendFeed's straw - http://www.calacanis.com/2008...
Niclas Strandh, excalipoor, Robert Banghart and 65 other people liked this
thoughts?
- Jason Calacanis
from Bookmarklet
yep jason - here's most likely how you got so many so quickly - http://www.centernetworks.com/friendf...
- Allen Stern
the one thing Twitter has it is that it was first before FF in that space. And that brings name recognition to the "masses" and a large inertia that you have to overcome before you can become a true replacement, no matter what technical advantages you bring to the table. I have 5 times more followers in Twitter than FF, and sadly a mass migration doesn't seem to be happening for these folks.
- Daniel Robitaille
Your post to a given site takes on more life when it hits the pages of friendfeed. It's almost like you weigh where you want to "release" a post first knowing that it will get "picked up" by friendfeed.
- todddoubleu
I do not think Twitter will survive as CMS systems that run into message bus systems are the hardest to scale on ruby on rails nd they do not have the money to fight two fronts ruby on rails scalability and new features to stave off competition.
- Fred Grott
good link, allen. some additional default choices would be fantastic. read: better discovery mechanisms. having only members of the echo chamber as default choices makes for a duller feed. no offense to present company. ;)
- Brooks Bayne
I think all this FF > Twitter discourse is seriously, seriously underestimating the power of Twitter's unparalleled portability. It's 100% usable through SMS and has an iPod-esque ecosystem of third party tools and add-ons that hook into it. These things brought Twitter to its throne, and now you guys aren't even factoring them into the equation because of a little downtime.
- David Chartier
i'll post some thoughts on my blog, but one thing that is still annoying is represented in this post... where your friendfeed shows all aggregated iterations of this post here on ff and it just feels silly as i can choose which iteration to leave a comment on. that's an issue. maybe you should turn comments off on the other instances. except that you cannot because its not a feature. also, check out http://friendfeed.com/frendfe... to see some aggregation bugs.
- sull
Jason, that's a brilliant "There Will Be Blood" reference. And so true. I'm afraid that Twitter is just a couple of weeks from being bludgeoned with a bowling pin by FF.
- Frank Roche
I think the removal of a character limit would hurt twitter more than help it. Twitter was never meant as a conversation platform. I think keeping it small and simple makes it much easier for people to use. One of it's biggest strengths is that it's a short form messaging service, and to take that away would make it something that isn't twitter.
- Austin Brown
Jason, I fully agree with what you say here.
- Steve Rubel
I love the fact that there is no premium linked with the number of connections you have. In twitter the greater the number of connections, the higher you appear in the "following" list of your follower. That has become a reason of spam, lowering the quality of the twitter network. Plus, FF works.
- Marcello Del Bono
I can see how Twitter is useful for people who post via SMS, but while Im at the computer FF is far more useful and also more fun to use
- Jeff Hoard
from twhirl
I could offer my agreement here on your entry's content, but I'd rather tell you how much I dug the entry's title.
- Donna Mugavero
I'll put it this way, i never used twitter because I'm not part of the technorati community, but I do use Friendfeed because it allows me to bring together all my online content and then share it with the people I want. That alone is enough for FF to beat out Twitter for me.
- Alfredo Padilla
I think one of the things we have missed carries forward or plays forward a Robert Scoble post, see : http://scobleizer.com/2008... ..let me put it in non tech terms as it pertains to start-ups. FOUNDERS MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT FROM AROUND THEIR PRODUCTS! When I state founders I mean also the ones building the product.
- Fred Grott
What it comes down to me is *noise*. FriendFeed is just noisy, what with content from all my social media friends all being dumped into one stream with no organization whatsoever. I look at my FF friends page and I can't make any rhyme or reason to what I'm seeing, even with little favicons to identify which service I'm reading from. Twitter, is clean and organized.
- Stephen Lopez
School of ALL CAPS is a little loud... ;-)
- Mitchell Tsai
I think Center Networks (Allen) has an interesting analysis. I'll be curious to see if the high profile FF users are as interested in commenting on other people's feeds as having their own words commented upon. Twitter just seems like a more democratic forum to me. Personally, I don't care if it is down a couple hours a week. FF only supplements it, it is not an adequate replacement. And I like to write more than 140 characters! Still Twitter is my first choice.
- Liz
PS... Because I use the Flock browser, I get all my social media updates right from the Media Bar and People Sidebar, without ever having to open Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Pownce, Digg, etc... Everything I want is right there at the click of an icon. Flock > FF.
- Stephen Lopez
I wouldn't underestimate twitter's connection through sms. It makes it the first legit mobile social network, and that is significant for mass adoption and use. Most people don't have internet on their phone to use a web app (iPhone Facebook, Tumblr, etc.) or internet (twitpic, friendfeed, etc.) to send email to update or submit to services. But they are very likely to have sms service, and are used to using it.
- Tony
Liz I comment on tons of feeds.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, but you seem to be the exception rather than the rule.
- Robert Seidman
Jason, good post. I made some comments regarding your five questions here http://seriousaboutcamo.typepad.com/posts...
- Clay Newton
my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
- Tyler Gillies
I agree to what you say but besides Twitter reliability, its major flaw is really the reply (or conversation) system which is close to be useless. I guess FriendFeed gained a lot of people (at least myself) because of its efficient conversation system.
- fbrunel
Jason, I agree with you a lot of the time but not in this case. I think it would be suicide for Twitter to get into a features arms race with FriendFeed. They would lose that battle. Twitter needs to focus on keeping it simple, getting stable, and becoming a short messaging infrastructure - not a destination.
- Mike Doeff
Mike, I think you're right on. Twitter would do better to solidify its differentiation.
- Clay Newton
Agreed. I have flip flopped a couple of times on which service I prefer, but FriendFeed is clearly in the lead. If they launch a great iPhone app next Friday it could be thing that pushes them over the hump.
- Scott Watermasysk
Scott: FriendFeed already has a great iPhone app. http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone
- Robert Scoble
FF's iPhone web app is fun and all, but a native app could offer a lot more functionality without having to wait for page loads and other clunkiness. I'm hoping for a native app too.
- David Chartier
Twitter has become a victim of the success it created for itself. As Twitter gained popularity it naturally creates a market for competition. Its poor performance allowed FF to grow. Many of Twitters power users have begun to migrate communication, and followers to FF wanted to see what it is all about. Twitter has lost its first movers advantage. I would not have been able to even make this post on Twitter. FF invites conversation and dialogue. Sorry Bezos, you may have made the wrong investment.
- Fred Neil
Agree. Twitter just isn't built for the type of robust sharing and conversations that make FF really interesting. Twitter is like shouting into a canyon, FF is like being at a noisy bar. Sorry, but too many Tweets are just status updates: You're going to Subway for lunch, whoopee! FF gets a lot better when you hide non-commented on Tweets. As for FF enhancements, I'd like a merge function so the same content from various people/feeds are collapsed into one master. That way I can see all comment streams.
- AJ Kohn
I agree. Great post.
- jonn
Keep in mind that twitter was not initially made for replies, the whole @ sign reply came from users wanting a way to reply and Twitter then started to support the method
- Ray Slakinski
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Nice way to put it!
- ChaCha Fance
Looks like Twitter has lost the first mover advantage, and now FF has the first mover advantage with its features. Though since Twitter was the first mover in the beginning it still has a bunch of people who are on it and not on other sites and also has a familiar interface and more third party applications that are compatible with it than Twitter does. Favorite thing so far about FF is the new Seesmic feature to reply to a seesmic post from within FF, really killer.
- Andrew Fielding
I'm still one of the few that want's Jaiku to get back in the game! Google is dropping the ball there!!!
- tomit
Axel Springer’s 10,000 employees switching to Mac (Bye PC) - http://digg.com/apple...
"That's awesome. Hopefully they get much better use and productivity increases."
- jonn
YouTube Should Appeal To A Higher Court - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"There is no reason for Viacom to request the source code. That is an unbelievable request. Good thing the judge turned them down."
- jonn
Why 84% of Sunscreens Don't Work - http://digg.com/health...
"No pigment?"
- jonn
jonndailey on Stay Classy Gloucester High School! "17 students there are expecting" ... "We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy" - http://reddit.com/info...
"When I was a Sophomore in high school, I remember a 14 year old girl who was pregnant. Blew my mind. 16 & 17 is nothing to me."
- jonn
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