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and to round it out http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas... we have added @paulgoodrich seattle early stage VC to the panel. exciting!
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Coolest corporate Twitter tool: @tweetriverinc (in photo @bdainton @efalcao @rubyminer founders). - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...
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http://www.tweetriver.com is what we use at Rackspace. Here they are showing off our account. We did a video that will be up in a couple of weeks at http://www.building43.com
- Robert Scoble
That looks very smart. Good idea for a Business.
- Mark Aitken
This is very cool for having a team of people working together on Twitter. I can throw a Tweet over to Rocky and he can answer it, RT it, etc. This is one reason why Twitter is getting adopted by businesses and why they won't move to something else.
- Robert Scoble
Great tool... but I think only big business will pay for it. For most business, the automatic search tool of TweetDeck, Tweetie and the other Twitter apps will be enough.
- Mauricio Jaramillo Marín
There’s No Such Thing As A Google Killer (Skrentablog) tip @techmeme http://www.skrenta.com/2009...
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I, for one, welcome our half-human, half-robot overlords in the cloud | FactoryCity - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
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"What I find so incredible about this experience is how commonplace it feels — how downright banal it seems to me to be able to take a photo of a product, upload it over a cellular network (EDGE no less!), have it be put into a queue where humans are waiting to do something to the photo (at pennies on the dollar, mind you), whose output — in a fraction of the time it might have taken me to perform the same task — will be returned to me in the form of a hyperlinked product that I can add to my cart and have shipped directly to my doorstep — free with Amazon Prime."
- Meryn Stol
from Bookmarklet
I love that feature, the only problem with it is that I tend to browse for and buy everything on amazon anyways.
- Ted Roden
Did anyone use Amazon MechanicalTurk out of interest? I had a play with it, about a year ago, but it didn't seem all that useful, and the tasks involved are pretty menial for what little pay they give.
- Tyson Key
DIY Air Conditioner - Lifehacker. Texans can use this info right now! - http://lifehacker.com/tag...
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Five Blogs Worth Reading | Social Media Explorer - http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/2009...
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Louisgray.com is definitely worth reading :)
- Valeria Maltoni
Jason Falls, definitely a man with great vision. He too follows the super human filter, Louis
- Mark Essel
RT @harrisj: "Humans won't pay to watch dinosaurs ride motocross bikes forever" http://strangehorizons.com/2009...
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DestroyTwitter - https://destroytwitter.com/
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on backup computer, without my beloved Tweetdeck and groups, trying out http://destroytwitter.com instead. looking nice! [from http://twitter.com/marshal...]
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Re: louisgray.com: What Is This Real-Time Thing, And Where Is It Going? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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"Joel, next time we can get connected, but this way works too. I signed up for the Twitturly InView beta yesterday and am eager to see this in action! Reach out any time."
- Louis Gray
PR Pitches Promise to Trade Diggs for Coverage - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Ouch...fail.
- Neal Jansons
Frauds!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I despise press releases. They are so annoying and I even don't like the way they all start, 'Dear Sheryl. We just wanted to let you know that so and so company is...yada yada.' Ending with 'If you would like to speak with so and so we can arrange....' There HAS to be a better way. First of all, anyone I want to write about I talk to already and can bloody well arrange my own discussion...
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- Sheryl
One of the very best "pitches by e-mail" I ever got was this last week for http://www.qajack.com. It was great, and I was more than happy to check out their product, but these are crazy.
- Louis Gray
This will certainly add fuel to the conversation, per upcoming PR, Advertising, & Marketing Suck! Now What? event.
- Mark Evans
Not cool, but then, neither are the websites out there that offer diggs for cash. Sadly, there are more than a few.
- Brandon Mendelson
fail...
- Wayne Sutton
Louis: what do you do with them? Trash 'em? I used to try to file them all...but now I just pitch 'em. Also...do you try to write about most of them or do you have a percentage? Just curious. :)
- Sheryl
Sheryl, I have a top level folder called "Blog" that gets most of these. If they are actionable and I haven't done anything yet, they sit in the In Box. I haven't increased my posts/day even as pitches/day increases, and most of my stories aren't a result of inbound anyway, so I would guess my hit rate is low.
- Louis Gray
Huh. And people wonder why I'm taking a break from PR. Do you think all the clueless peeps will be gone by the time I decide to come back?
- Sue Radd
I do something similar Louis. Most weeks I get tons of them and they go into a folder called "News to Use." Not that I actually use it. I simply glance through most and trash them. Most of them are so useless that I don't investigate. Press releases have become meaningless drivel for the most part.
- Ken Camp
When will companies learn to stop using PR firms for Web 2.0 PR? I have yet to find one that knows what the heck they're doing. This stuff makes me mad. Of course, I'm still mad about a certain embargo being broken by an incompetent PR firm
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, these are not A-List PR firms. I know good ones and have hired good ones and will again in the future. But these guys are substandard.
- Louis Gray
Louis, ah - as you know I've just had bad experience with a few. I know too little to know if they're A-list or not though. I also know from experience (because they've hired me) that there are firms out there claiming to know Social Media that don't.
- Jesse Stay
Louis - Thanks for sharing this!
- Jim Connolly
HA x333... insanely pathetic...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Another case of the PRs pretending to know Social Media.. Annoying.
- Winston Teo
craigslist is right on to be suing South Carolina's attorney general. That guy is over the line. Way over the line. - http://blog.craigslist.org/2009...
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Go get 'em CL!
- Fred Garrett
sue him for bad naming an awesome company (with just a bad website)
- sadiq kassamali
That is insane... CL knows that they have done nothing wrong and the AG is just trying to scare them. Cmon...
- Manny
I read this post on TC last Tuesday. I found the comments quite entertaining, though ;) - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Gambit Fauri
I've been following this story, its one of the more entertaining items in the news in a long time, albeit with some very serious consequences depending on how the saga ends.
- jcunwired
Good ol' South Carolina. They still don't allow sorority houses at universities on the grounds that six or more women in a residence constitutes a brothel.
- charlestm
charlestm, et al.: I know this is off-topic and further that SC isn't the most advanced of states but: USC at least has a Greek Village with 9 sorority houses and 11 fraternity houses. The land belongs to the university, though the houses are privately owned. Are you referring to house ownership particularly?
- Steve Lowe
Hill Billy Barristeers at their best! So glad I live in California where the politicians at least pretend to understand tech!
- Sonya
I just find sentiments over North and South between Northerners and Southerners very entertaining. Isn't the civil war over - really over?! Try living in different countries and I guarantee one will have a bigger picture of the world, not regions of US! :)
- Moushumi Kabir
Google should acquire Friendfeed, the leader in the real time web - http://eliasbizannes.com/blog...
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i said this a long long time ago here: http://friendfeed.com/zee... and got shot down...hard! :)
- Zee.
by whom?
- Christopher Galtenberg
true.
- Orli Yakuel
Don't take it too hard, Zee. Folks just had to hear it from the common man before it became a mainstream idea. BTW, it is a good idea. But it implies monetizing the feed/stream. Here come in-stream ads.
- Lorin Olsen
Frankly, it doesn't matter if Google buys them or not, FriendFeed _has_ to monetize it at some point. They're not Twitter, they can't just keep raising venture capital indefinitely ;) But, they could stick ads all AROUND the stream just like Google does on gmail. They don't have to jump to the worst possible solution ;-)
- Joel Bennett
No please no, the last thing I need is google running another service I use. DIVERSITY!
- Raj Advani
well we've already seen how they incorporated advertising for their 'twitter' 'facebook' connect stuff...and i definitely noticed that. I think advertising, particularly within groups, could be huge! :)
- Zee.
Friendfeed was started by some ex-Googlers. Does google really want them back? Do they want to go back?
- ax0n
I suppose these people left Google to work on FriendFeed, would be very dramatic if Google acquires them.
- Burcu Dogan
What if both Google and Friendfeed are working together secretly?
- ashish
BTW - Sharing does not indicate endorsement. :)
- Louis Gray
Louis, maybe you should that disclaimer to your bio. :D
- Meryn Stol
Yeah, no thanks.
- Wade Dorrell
My guess is that Twitter has a much higher chance of being mainstream (simplicity is key). It's scale will be much more interesting for 'real-time'.
- Alexander van Elsas
my fav quote from the article - "Friendfeed, quite frankly, craps all over Facebook and Twitter in real time search."
- Mark Bockenstedt
@Mark, maybe so, but they currently cover a very tiny bit of the real-time web. Facebook and Twitter win on scale right now
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: but it's got a head-start on being a solid content-discovery mechanism. The scale hurdle is a big one, but FF can also just sit in the back of the room and aggregate all your stuff after you set it up once.
- Mark Bockenstedt
@Mark it is a pretty big if for now. FF covers too little of the universe. But, who knows?
- Alexander van Elsas
It's not about market share now, but about potential for the future. Why would you wait until a service is big and hopelessly expensive to buy into it? FriendFeed could collect knowledge for the social Web the way Google does not for Web pages. It could be the non-monopolistic social glue that Google needs to dominate the online space for the next 10 years.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I don't see why they should buy them when what Friendfeed (and Twitter, for that matter) does is easily replicated. And it's not like FF has a huge installed user base to go with it (yet.)
- Brandon Mendelson
Brandon: that's the most clueless thing I've read on the Internet this month. I keep hearing this belief, too. I remember when a Microsoft engineer told me they could clone Digg in a week. That was five years ago. They still haven't done it. Building a system like friendfeed is NOT easy and is NOT doable by just anyone. If it were, Google would already have a real time search engine and...
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- Robert Scoble
Yeah it would be great :)
- Svartling
Brandon, on what basis do you argue that FriendFeed and/or Twitter is easily replicated?
- Micah Wittman
Micah: many developers are arrogant. They think they could build something of similar value in a weekend. They are wrong. But they keep that belief up. I keep hearing this crap and it is ALWAYS wrong. ICQ looked very simple, but it took Microsoft 30 months to clone it and ICQ is 100x simpler than friendfeed is.
- Robert Scoble
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hmm but does it make sense for Microsoft to come up with a new Digg or Google to come up with a FriendFeed clone? These companies let the startup spirit to test if it's going to work or not, and acquire if it's cooool for the mainstream.
- Burcu Dogan
On this replicating topic, I find it's easy for a single developer to create a prototype that looks like another service, even over a weekend -- but that's not the same thing as building a fully featured, working, polished, scalable product, which can take months
- Raj Advani
Burcu: believe me, Google is VERY focused on friendfeed and Twitter and Facebook right now. But it takes a LONG time to make something like this that can scale to hundreds of millions of people. Raj: you're right. Plus, if you copy something (like they do in China and Russia) you look lame and you won't understand WHY something works. Or even how to break it and make something new. Getting that understanding takes years of working with customers and shaving the splinters off of what you're building.
- Robert Scoble
Yes right, friend feed is absolutely not the front-end we see, it's very hard to imagine the constraints they have: ten thousands of concurrent users. But I also believe that these companies are not really talent fetishes since the #1 reason to acquire is the market share + user base to extract information.
- Burcu Dogan
If fear the in-house Google's Friendfeed will end up like Knol vs. Wikipedia.
- Jérôme Flipo
The only way for Google to win against Twitter, Friendfeed & Co. is to integrate private updates from all their services (Google Docs, Talk, Contacts, Latitude, News, Calendar, Youtube...). And the semi-private ones (shared between contacts).
- Jérôme Flipo
@Steve. Scale matters. You can have the best technology for real-time search but if you index only a fraction no one will care. Twitter and Facebook have proven they can scale. FF needs to do that too
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: Twitter is scaling alright, but is full of spam on search and they are going to find it very difficult to get rid of. Friendfeed's architecture is much better there. Also, Twitter had problems (fail whales) all along its lifespan. Friendfeed has been near perfect so far. The team at friendfeed built Gmail and Google Reader and Google Maps, so I think they know something about scale.
- Robert Scoble
And I sometimes wonder if all those twits are for machines or real people. Friendfeed is a lot better, I became an active user one month ago and never missed Twitter.
- Burcu Dogan
I'm so confused. Isn't FriendFeed a Google 20% project? :)
- Cristo
I am wondering what I should do. I think FF is where I am going to end up
- Jim Gaudet
friendfeed would make more sense as a google aquisition than twitter, but it seems to that googles realtime strategy is more based on heavily promoting open standards (ex: jaiku using the OMB spec on appengine, PubSubHubBub for distributed real time feeds), and wrapping all their properties into Google FriendConnect (which is an open social container) to capture real time from the inside.
- coffee
We're talking much about success in scalability but both Twitter and Friendfeed suffered from downtime very recently. How practical it'd to distribute real time data to different data centers and constantly replicate between different farms? Isnt real time's itself a bottleneck?
- Burcu Dogan
here's a link to the PubSubHubBub protocol homepage http://code.google.com/p...
- coffee
@Robert I realize that. But I'm not talking about technology scale. I believe the FF team knows more about this than anyone. But that us only relevant if you can index a huge part of the real-time space. You need a large part of the web to be using your service. Twitter is deadsimple and will scale for that reason. FF needs to do that too. Not suggesting they can't, but it is a challenge for sure
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander, re. real-time market share (I hate this example because it's brought up so much but...) Apple survived long, hard times with the Mac and its tiny market share. But it was powerful to the design/publishing and multimedia user base (still small, but they had a base from which they are now their leapfrogging because of mobile + itunes / desktop integration). Time horizons are much shorter in today's world, but scaling doesn't have to happen over night. Of course, stalling out is always a danger too.
- Micah Wittman
Burcu: ff downtime recently was due to datacenter power backup failover design flaw (that is being fixed in most datacenters currently - those things take time) - the Twitter downtime is because... well who knows what it really is due to - Team Twitter is horrible with their PR
- Chris Heath
Alexander: if you think twitter will scale well because it's dead simple - you're dead wrong. Where have you been for the last 2+ years?
- Chris Heath
@Chris, Dead wrong about dead simple, about scaling, about both? Twitter is growing with % well above 1000 right now. How is that not scaling? For Twitter I need to type 140chars. With Friendfeed I have to understand RSS, figure out a lot of the (hidden) functionalities, have access to other services etc. I'm not saying I'm right. I'm just wondering if FF can make the same leap into the mass market. BTW I hang out in Amsterdam, and ever so often in SF and NY.
- Alexander van Elsas
To figure out Friendfeed, all you need to do is punch in your user ids from various sites, use the Subscribe button, and maybe the Bookmarklet if you're hardc0re. RSS/Blog if you're uber. Yeah, sorry, this shit is easy.
- Christopher Galtenberg
@Christopher, there are so many things in your comment not easy for non-tech people (mass market) that I wouldn't even know where to start. I was talking of mass-market adoption when talking about scale. Grab anyone from the street and give him a 2min demo of FF and Twitter. Which of the 2 do you think that person could actually understand and use in that time? How many actually have 5-10-or more services they could import here, etc. etc.
- Alexander van Elsas
I totally agree. The tech they are developing here - even the UI around search is leading the way.
- Tony
I disagree completely. Google is where startups go to die. But beyond that, google has proven it's inability to figure out how to monetize anything but search. I think that FF needs to figure out its own business model before anything else...
- felix
I hate all this "Google should acquire X, Y and Z" stuff. Why are people so keen on creating "big tech" when they despise Big Tobacco, Big Pharm, Big Oil, etc. etc.?
- Dawn
Alexander, it isnt really important to import some 20 services to Friendfeed. The overall organization of comments and auto topping behavior makes it very useful.
- Burcu Dogan
I am too new to FF to say, but I do like the conversation better.
- Jim Gaudet
@Burcu I understand. I just used it as an example. It's hard to compete on simplicity with 140 characters. We tend to look at Friendfeed using our own needs and projecting those needs on the rest of the world. I doubt there are many mass market non-tech people that have similar needs
- Alexander van Elsas
I hope Google does not acquire FriendFeed, because FF would disappear into a black hole for some time while they assimilate it...
- Rick Cogley
Robert Scoble's comments about it not being easy to copy technology, despite claims to the contrary, are spot on. I factor "developer hubris" into project plans all the time, and developers telling me they'll just "whip something together" is practically the bane of my existence. (OT, but if you find a developer who actually does estimate well and accurately, treat them nicely; they're truly few and far between.)
- Rick Cogley
Alexander: if simplicity is all that matters why is Facebook STILL growing faster? 225 million users? Facebook is not simple. Or how about MySpace which has more users?
- Robert Scoble
Facebook grows the size of Twitter every six weeks if my math is correct.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: FB grows that quickly because they make it easy to find people you already know (by name) based on places where you've known them (i.e. your town, your schools, your job). Finding people to connect with EASILY is key. Neither Twitter nor FF offer this kind of ease of connection to people you already know that might be on the service.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
And if Twitter's simplicity is so important why is Twitter's churn much higher than Facebook's?
- Robert Scoble
@Robert Scoble - I believe Twitter's churn is higher because ultimately, there's a certain amount of "cementing" that has to be done in any relationship to make it work. Twitter seems to be more about just broadcasting rather than conversing, and I think it's easy to get disillusioned with Twitter. It's the conversing that makes for stronger relationships.
- Rick Cogley
Holden: Methinks Facebook has more compelling social features and better discovery options that Facebook, as well.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
I agree that google should buy ff because this will give friendfeed the brand name clout it needs to go mainstream.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Okay, but what a pitty if people only admit that FF is an interesting web project & use it only because there's a Google logo on it.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
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last day of voting for the CNET webware 100 thing @dropio is up for, would love your vote (winning is always nice) http://www.cnet.com/html...
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With appearances on national TV all day, my hand is more famous than I am. All inquiries should go to it's agent -me.
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Hmm. What was your hand doing? I'm almost afraid to ask.
- AC Delco
"The Scoble Effect" is now much more powerful from a "Like" via FriendFeed to Twitter than from a link on his blog. @scobleizer
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I say this only because I got linked to today and got a click or two. A like via FF to Twitter sends a good stream of visitors.
- Louis Gray
Agreed - Scoble writing about you is one thing, but if I were a PR rep I'd be writing articles designed to get Scoble to like. I've had a few of those and the traffic and retweets on Twitter were amazing!
- Jesse Stay
i rarely get traffic from FF unless louis or robert "likes" my item - like yesterday i saw about 50 or so peoples
- Allen Stern
Robert, actually helped me decide to continue using FF, and that was many months back, I stuck it out even through Robert Scoble almost needing an intervention. He knows his stuff and I now value his opinion and friendship across many of the networks now.
- aerobroken
Allen, that's because you're not using the FriendFeed Beta ;-)
- Jesse Stay
oh yea Jesse?
- Allen Stern
I know this wasn't Jesse's intent, but it's probably not wise to design a marketing piece PRIMARILY to appeal to one particular reviewer (no matter how influential, or perceptive, said reviewer may be). While that's a good secondary goal, the primary goal should be to appeal to your target audience. And, of course, you yourself have to be comfortable with what you're writing.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
When Scoble and I were taking a tour of DC he twit'ed about it with my name and wham, I got like two dozen followers in 20 minutes.
- Andrew Leyden
Allen I think it is massively lame for a tech blogger to celebrate not staying up to date.
- Robert Scoble
John: Not good for the whole piece, but maybe good to design a headline that you know will catch a few particular reviews eyes.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
i guess i am lame then - i haven't had time to look into yet so I didn't want to just load it up - i am working on a variety of things the last week or so - it's not that i won't just that I haven't had time yet - i don't want to do it a disservice by spending a minute here or there - so that's why i haven't loaded it up yet
- Allen Stern
Scoble's blog has never been great at sending traffic to sites he links to. Or at least that has been my experience given the various times he's linked to my blog. I don't pay enough attention to my traffic from Twitter/Friendfeed to be able to tell if there is a significant difference from when Robert likes one of my posts compared to other times.
- Dare Obasanjo
Dare - when Scoble posted a link to my startup deep in one of his posts (not about my startup) i saw a good deal of traffic from it - and received a few orders as well - something only a few of the other tech bloggers sent - actual paying orders.
- Allen Stern
well that makes me want to use FF more often now :P
- Gaith
Allen, you're probably right in waiting on the beta until you can devote a bit of time to it. Some people have to tweak their settings (e.g. set up additional lists and/or special filters) to truly interact effectively with the beta.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
cool, then scoobe should post about http://arabcrunch.com hehehe
- Gaith
btw the post i had CrunchPad pics was from Scobe tweet http://bit.ly/2IE9wO which caused 15 blogs to link me engadget among them
- Gaith
An interesting observation Louis. I'll add something to it: The links I post myself via friendfeed "likes" seem to get more traffic, and definitely get retweeted more on twitter. It's not just a Scoble effect. Maybe there's something to the way the tweet says: Liked "Thus and so" that makes people want to click on it more. (That said, I've taken some heat for "liking" stuff that I only liked to post it out to twitter, and in fact hated it and wanted people to see it as well. )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Scoble does not follow me. :-(
- Alp
Alp: not true anymore.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, I do. Alp.
- Alex Scoble
Quick, someone give me some Scoble bait. For both of them!
- Mike Nayyar
Alex, I tried to mean Robert. Yay, it's not true anymore :-( :-)
- Alp
Dare: sometimes when I link to things only 10 people take the bait. Other times 1,000 do. I think it has to do with whether there's something really new and also how much people spread around that particular post. This is VERY important in the world of Twitter. It's the retweeting and liking behavior that determines how much traffic something gets.
- Robert Scoble
Depends, I went on a hiding spree, wasn't getting as much as I used to.
- Richard A.
*tosses Mike some Scoble snacks* Try those ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yup - seeing the same Scoble "Like" effect.
- Hutch Carpenter
interesting observation, and interesting to see if PR people and bloggers start writing material on the basis of what they hope Scoble will like... not healthy for the general community, but interesting effect of the 'super-influencers'
- Peter Efland
Peter: if they do, they would totally miss the point. Mostly I like stuff after other people in the community like it too.
- Robert Scoble
I liked this, but somehow I don't think my "Like" has the same effect. Just a hunch ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Once Scoble liked one of my shares, I felt blessed
- sofarsoShawn
I know the feeling. He once liked a joke I'd made about twitter being training wheels for friendfeed.
- George Hall (Australia)
Agreed. He's just so passionate and it's so evident he's sincere in his likes and dislikes. People tend to believe what he says and investigate what he refers because of his genuineness.
- Abounding Media
A Low-Key Easter With the Twins Who Honestly Don't Know The Day from Any Other
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It just so happens it was my wife and my 6th year wedding anniversary as well, but at this point, we're just an old married couple with kids...
- Louis Gray
I wore the same dress!!!
- drew olanoff
Awesome, Drew. :)
- Louis Gray
Adorable. And Happy Anniversary!
- Trish R
Great pics!
- Tad
Happy Anniversary!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Anniversary Louis! Yay Baby pics!
- Jesse Stay
in all the pics it looks like one is wondering why the other has something they dont - like in the park swing pics - one kid is looking the other way saying "daddy i want to go that way" :) cute pics
- Allen Stern
Nice eyes, Allen. Sarah is more aggressive than Matthew at this point, and tends to be more pushy in terms of taking his things (like she wanted to in picture 2).
- Louis Gray
Sounds like mine and my wife's relationship. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Cute!!!!!!!! Love their cute Easter clothes :)
- Susan Beebe
Cute to the maxx!
- Mark Traphagen
"What are these objects? What are these strange pastel colors? Why is there gender differentiation? WHAT IS ALL OF THIS?!"
- Mike Nayyar
Mike Arrington and I disagree on the future - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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But how do you get more people to use FriendFeed?
- Theodora
Theodora's right, if nobody is giving FF any metadata to seach, it's all kind of useless.
- Pat Hawks
Pat and Theodora: I see a lot of people using friendfeed and more will come in future.
- Robert Scoble
There's a ton of metadata coming into FF, traditional 'social media' sites like Twitter and FaceBook are only a portion. Not to mention the amount of content that is generated within FF itself (see my feed for an example search for FF generated content). As for getting more people to use FF: show them your feed. The standard interface has a tab for 'Me and Friends' that is a publicly viewable representation of what you see in your feed. Share that with others, let them see it for themselves.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Not exactly, Robert. I threw the filter as an example, it lets you confirm for yourself that there is native content on FF. You don't have to use that filter to see said content, though: it's streaming through your feed as we speak. Even if people stopped feeding in their other services, there would still be content here. That's the point I was trying to make.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hrm... It would appear the comments to which I was replying have been deleted. <sarcasm> Love when that happens </sarcasm>
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This is really good - nice video commentary on this - totally agree. Interesting to watch FB try to use their "metal detector" isn't it? :)
- Susan Beebe
Jason: if that were true, Twitter would be dead. It only has 10-20 million on it where Facebook has 200 million.
- Robert Scoble
Hey, no worries Robert, and I'm sorry for seeming to be calling you out. It's just there have been occasions where comments were deleted and the author didn't come back to explain why (as you have graciously done just now). As for looking wrong: don't worry about that, we're all wrong A LOT. Leaving the comment and responding anew to admit you've learned something can be helpful to others =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This blog post fails to parry Arrington's main point: sure there's tons of data on FriendFeed but as Theodara asked more to Arrington's point: "But how do you get more people to use FriendFeed?" sorry Scoble #Fail
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn: see my point above about the 'Me Plus Friends' tab in the std FF interface. That's the PERFECT tool for spreading FF around to others: they get to see what your feed looks like without being logged in. Sadly, to few people choose to use that tool
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina that's pretty awesome idea; I've seriously never looked at that before, I've really only interacted with the main feed. Your blog post is forthcoming, rIght?
- sofarsoShawn
It didn't get nearly as much attention as it deserved with the last release. I really hope they keep it, it's a perfect tool for spreading the FF word.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I agree with you Robert. Why? I am not sure. But it intuitively feels right. Twitter has something awesome going for it. But anything with that high a Signal-to-Noise ratio and something that is textually constrained does not seem like as something that will be the cutting edge when it comes to "social conversations" or "social messaging" going forward. Especially when we have 4G with LTE/WiMAX and handheld devices with more power than anyone of us can even think right now.
- Anand Sharma
This is the single most important post from Scoble I've listened to in years. Robert - you clearly get it. Not many others do. Let's go build it? I've got the missing links that FF, FB, and Twitter don't have. Come up to the 206 and I'll show you.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
How do you get more people to use FriendFeed ? Illustrate it, talk about it in your twitter network, evangelize. But it will take time because people have invested a lot of energy in gaining "followers".
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
Don't let the nasty man Arrington bully you !
- Adrian
FriendFeed search needs a better search query language! You had a good question but the translation into FriendFeed's query language isn't transparent. "I want you to find the original picture that someone sent in from their iPhone over Twitter." should be easily translatable into something like "hudson river (plane OR airplane) link:to_pic order:date_asc". I'm not very familiar with FriendFeed's search, but I really miss to be able to search for a specific link or any post with a link included.
- Richard Metzler
If FriendFeed is a better service than Twitter (or other similar services), it will eventually become more popular. I believe a superior technical solution does eventually triumph provided that the competition didn't have too much of a head start. As example we have IE losing market share inspite of all its adavantages, Gmail (and Google) overwhelming companies like Yahoo! and AOL and others with superior search service, email service, etc etc. On the other hand Windows OS continues to dominate.
- Rajesh Sharma
A must-have feature to FriendFeed (and other microblogging services): categorization! I want follow "education" posts from friend X but I don't care about his thoughts on "american football" (I'm european...).
- António Teixeira
Antonio, filters should give you that capability: you can search for posts from person X and in the contains field type -football.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Twitter has "won" against Rejaw, Plurk, Identi.ca, Jaiku, and Pownce - it's not really in the same game as FriendFeed...
- Nathan Chase
The ability to filter links is the main thing that keeps me coming back to Twitter search. I don't really care about tweets without links because they don't point me to interesting stuff. There's probably some roundabout way to search Friendfeed the same way, but then you run into the relatively small amount of users there. I do hope that changes. And I'd be stoked if Facebook came up with a Friendfeed-type search.
- Tom Landini
I agree with Nathan. Your Hudson analogy is like comparing the encyclopedia to the library. You said yourself when you go to FF you used a "filtering system". I simply added the word "photo" to your query and the first twitter post sent me to wikipedia. At the bottom of the page (under external links) it sent me right to Janis Krums twitpic. I found it in less time than it took me on FF, using the same query.
- Ro (Lilyhill)
I was searching on Google yesterday & one of the hits was a twitter posting. First time I've seen that.
- amygeek
re tech superiority winning the day...QWERTY keyboards were invented to slow typists don so they wouldn't jam the mechanical typewriter. It's market penetration virtually blocked superior performing human/machine interfaces to this day. Beta versus VHS and PC versus Macintosh. Kenneth Arrow called this the law of increasing returns and was nearly laughed out of economics until he found...
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- Tom Miles
from twhirl
Nambu - Webmonkey (HOT Twitter client, tons of people are talking about it, wonder how it competes with new Seesmic Desktop?) - http://www.webmonkey.com/blog...
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Nambu is not written in AIR and thus it automatically wins.
- Akiva Moskovitz
we need a ff client~
- kang
except for those of us using windows
- BCK
come on, can we stop talking about the 15 minute old new comers like they're the most important thing in the space?
- Matthew DeVries
yeah i wrote a post about it titled "Last night I cheated on Tweetdeck and I liked it." http://thenextweb.com/2009... ...most people seem to love it, but it's not without bugs...it is a preview release after all
- Zee.
Looks pretty amazing, but with no Windows support they are leaving a big segment of users on the table. It amazes me that people still only write to one platform.
- Tim
I was all excited until I saw it was for Mac. Still, anything that's not written in AIR gets my vote!
- Michael McKean
I was mildly excited by Nambu, but I'm STOKED to hear that Loren Brichter (@atebits) is working on a desktop (Mac) version of Tweetie, and that its release is "imminent" - http://blog.atebits.com/2009... . THAT is the Twitter client I'm looking forward to. I've long wished for a desktop Twitter app that could do everything Tweetie can, and be as well designed. I've got high hopes for Tweetie for Mac.
- Josh Bancroft
*None* of these guys are targeting businesses. They all suck. Check out CoTweet when you get a chance (and let me know if you want an invite, Robert).
- Jesse Stay
Nambu has been great. It's about time another client that supports groups came out. I've been eager to drop tweetdeck (it got up to using 1.5gb of memory the other day.) Seesmic Desktop isn't anything special but at least it added group support as well. If you are running OSX give Nambu a try.
- Jeffrey Vanneste
dang, no windows. sheesh.
- Peggy Dolane
I used it until last week when it somehow managed to call the FriendFeed API so many times that they blocked my IP address. Of course the really screwed up thing is that the FriendFeed functionality is not even enabled in Nambu. So what the hell gives with that? It took me 5 days to get my access restored thanks to Ana Yang at FriendFeed - she's the one who told me that Nambu overused my FF API limit. So hell yeah... I uninstalled it.
- Ankush Narula
I'm scared to look ;-) Don't want to like it and then face starting from scratch to recreate the groups on my Tweetdeck for hundreds of followers.
- Mark Traphagen
@Akiva yea, I always wondered why all these twitter apps were written in AIR.
- KyleHase
Jesse, I use Twitter (sometimes) for business, and i'm happy with the current clients. What would a "business-targeted" client do? Honest question.
- Josh Bancroft
Josh, see my review of it here: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Ah. To me, CRM is the wrong approach to such a personal medium. @marshallk summed up my thoughts on it pretty well in the last few paragraphs of his post on how @Comcast uses Twitter: http://bit.ly/Cy9sT
- Josh Bancroft
A little buggy but a very nice native client for Mac
- sasamat
Breast shaped milk bottles: fun for the whole family - http://www.inquisitr.com/21462...
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A private note to PR people - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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"Josh Dilworth and Adam Singer are two of the best PR people who get blogging. When I get an e-mail from Josh, there’s a very good chance I’ll cover that company, because he knows what I care about. And he answers e-mail past midnight, which shows he is as nuts as the rest of us. Stage Two Consulting (Jeremy Toeman)’s clients aren’t always the ones I am interested in either, but they always are careful… “Louis, I know you don’t usually cover… but…”, etc. so they have my respect. PR in today’s world is hard because many still don’t get new media. They aren’t participating, or if they are, it’s tentative. The few that get it right are memorable."
- Louis Gray
Louis -- thanks for the kind words. I'll repost here what we just spoke about on e-mail -- and I'd love others' thoughts too. Besides the obvious laziness and lack of proper socialization, hehe – lemme know what you think of this thesis: the problem is that the people best suited for PR (and marketing generally) do not typically self-select for PR (and marketing generally). Heck, look...
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- Josh Dilworth
Louis, couldn't agree more, Josh Dilworth is one of the most upstanding, mutually beneficial, and honestly nice people I have met in the industry. Josh, keep doing what you're doing!!
- Jacob Mullins
Louis, i love your examples, becasue a good pitch is a good pitch in any medium-- targeted, and respectful of the reporter/writer/editor. Scoble's response is interesting not because wo now know how he likes to be pitched (he's had his cell # online for yers, as he mentions), but that not all media are Scoble. email pitches work for some people, phone for others, etc etc. It's our job (I'm in PR) to approiach people the way they prefer. Yes, that's a lot of work- too bad for us.
- Doug Haslam
from twhirl
Joshua is one of the best too. Thanks!
- Robert Scoble
Appreciate the kind words Louis. To be honest, most web-based PR I do doesn't involve "pitching". Instead of pursuing bloggers, I try to do things they like enough to write about naturally. Things like this: http://www.slideshare.net/AdamSin... - but when I do pitch people, I try to *only* send things which are ultra-relevant.
- Adam Singer
@marshallk wonders if Post Rank can replace Feedburner. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Cooliris is jumping back out of the browser into the desktop! http://gigaom.com/2009...
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Rackspace Cloud Lounge Party at SXSW Interactive 2009 - http://laughingsquid.com/rackspa...
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I'm going to give away $4,500 at #sxsw on http://www.ustream.tv/studio (on live now). My own personal money from Cisco deal. Details tomorrow.
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Ewwwwww the big announcement!!!!!!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
hum... a contest, Robert?
- directeur
I like money! That would be a good drinking budget for the next 4 days.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Cisco paid me to do some interviews for its launch on Monday. I liked what they are doing so much I am giving away the money at SXSW.
- Robert Scoble
Wow! that's very interesting! but you'll generously give it to SXSW's attendees or to someone who wins a contest or something?
- directeur
Directeur: contest. I am still thinking of a way to give away the money. I am thinking most of those who don't have jobs.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you got my respect, Sir! :)
- directeur
I'm getting married next month and I am unemployed so let me know what we need to do haha.
- Nation Hahn
Couldn't agree more @directeur. Bravo Robert!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Quit trying to ass kiss for the money shot which finally earned your respect
- sofarsoShawn
I don't need Scoble's $$$ sfss, but I'm sure he'll come up with a creative way to make sure it goes to someone that does!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Sofarsoshawn: this is separate from my employment announcement which is happening tomorrow at SXSW on Gillmor Gang.
- Robert Scoble
I will be on http://www.ustream.tv/studio right before Gillmor Gang tomorrow. At 4 pm Austin time. Gillmor Gang is at 5 pm.
- Robert Scoble
OMG even more excitement!
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoshawn: Look, I don't have a paypal account, I won't participate in Robert's contest... I run my own business and it's doing very fine so far, I make lots of things for fun, only for fun. I'm a happy guy, so when I say that I respect Robert (with whom I don't share every opinion, and he knows it), I really do! :)
- directeur
Robert Scoble Stimulus? cool!
- Rex
$4,500 bucks.... wow. I suggest buying nine Apple or American Express gift cards and give them randomly to whoever donates $25 to a cause. :-)
- Jason Calacanis
Robert and Jason, would you donate to us?: FHL International, Inc. http://www.goodsearch.com/... We need a number of items but we can always use donations to our Mobile Food Pantry. Especially baby food with a good date on it. Both jars and cereal. Surprisingly, its the last thing people think of. Thanks!! Also any used but still good working desktops for our office. http://fhlinternational.org
- Melanie Reed
Just interesting that dropping money suddenly prompted effusive respect, and speaks to one's character or lack of one. He said outright he didn't need it & as such is not a sacrifice & is like throwing out the trash. Scoble's done much more to deserve respect in his actions & deeds, then give away something he doesn't care about, yet this is what was focused on. And I know a paypal account is soooo difficult to set up so if you need help I'll walk you through it.
- sofarsoShawn
Even better, I am going to do the contest all in friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Is this like "Win Ben Stein's Money," but with "Robert" instead of "Ben" and "Scoble" instead of "Stein"?
- Mistletoe Glen
Hey Robert, try Strutta.com if you want to build your own UGC contest.
- Danny Robinson
Glen: could be! :-)
- Robert Scoble
sofarsoshawn: I think that you didn't understood, but that's not a big problem. Let me explain: Robert had my respect a very long time ago for so many positions and opinions he had. The money per se is not the reason this time, it's the fact that he'll be giving it via a CONTEST. i.e. The fact that he'll contribute to ignite some creativity and share the money (not throwing it from his window) with people who deserve it! People in serious need are the most creative, aren't they?
- directeur
Oh, and thanks sofarsoshawn for your help about paypal, but I've been coding eShops integrating paypal since many years ago :)
- directeur
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