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What's wrong with Twitter?
Milton Ramirez, Svartling, sofarsoShawn and 36 other people liked this
Was working earlier this morning. Not now though.
- Hutch Carpenter
What do you mean?
- Thor
a serious lack of intellect coupled with an egregious amount of over pimping yourself
- Braden Douglass
Twittter is down
- Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble unfollowed everyone and broke it.
- Steven Melfi
It's down HARD - API and web site for about an hour
- Jon DiPietro
braden, is that limited to twitter? ;)
- Jeremiah Owyang
when you find out, let me know... :(
- Sydney Owen
It's not working here in MN... must be down; API doesn't work, either so no tweets for us
- Tim Elliott
Lots of folks at Dell are noticing it's down too.
- LionelatDell
site and API is totally down (nit just failwhaling). odd.
- Sam Harrelson
from BuddyFeed
SCOBLE BROKE TEH TWEETEZ
- Jeremiah Owyang
Loaded question, Jer ;)
- Brett Kelly
Not even a fail whale on this end.
- Ed Moltzen
http://status.twitter.com
- Tim Elliott
I was using pingdom to track when it was back online.
- Rob Paller
huge Twitter fail right now
- Kevin Norman
It's down? How is that even possible?
- Justin Whitaker
Been down for at least 45mins...
- Penthouse Magazine
Twitter was a figment of our imagination ;)
- Valeria Maltoni
Yeah -- I haven't seen a fail whale in a while. And i just noticed that Penthouse Magazine commented on your post, Jeremiah.
- Daniel B. Honigman
Does Facebook or Friendfeed pick up the real time web slack when Twitter goes down? What is your first instinct on where to turn?
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
Is this todo with the injunction? Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement - and it doesn’t look good - http://bit.ly/avWLR
- ImJustCreative
from twhirl
"We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly" 5 mins ago on the status blog
- jjprojects
Joe - Interesting how that happens, eh? Let's just move over here full time.
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
facebook is messed up too
- (jeff)isageek
Major Fail Whale - huge
- Drew Lucas
from iPhone
so huge a fail, we're not even getting the whale :) FriendFeed must be rubbing their hands with glee
- Robert McIntosh
I guess that's one way to get me to venture over to FriendFeed.
- Ryan Stephens
@Ryan, this is a great time for me to figure out how FF works.
- Sydney Owen
Kind of annoying, but interested to see where everyone will flock to in its absence...
- Christian
So is this a coordinated attack on Twitter and Facebook?
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
Identica picks up a lot of the overflow
- ImJustCreative
@Hutch I can't work, because a lot of my morning is on Twitter. Seriously. I'm just at a standstill, kinda.
- Sydney Owen
LOL, I'm not the only one who is checking out Friendfeed a bit more right now :P
- Selene M. Bowlby
Friendfeed was defeinitely the first place I came, then Facebook, but FB seems to be really lagging
- Crispin Heath
Facebook was giving errors when commenting...
- Gabe Diaz
man, I think I have the shakes
- Kevin Norman
Oh, look at all the fresh updates here! (Including mine) Is this the social media equivalent of a booty call?
- Justin Whitaker
and the funniest part is when your first reaction is to tweet and find out what is going on. oops. Nothing on the blog, I checked.
- nan braun
I'm having login issues with Facebook as well (and so are a number of my friends in different parts of the countries). FriendFeed FTW
- Sam Harrelson
from IM
Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed!
- Samuel Driessen
@Sydney I rather like FriendFeed, there's just more people on Twitter for me, it drives WAY more traffic, and it's RARE good discussions evolve here from anyone other than POWER users.
- Ryan Stephens
love how we all pop over here when twitter is down ;)
- Kate
What's up with twitter? Nothing. :-)
- Panayotis Vryonis
Johnny: I have more discussions b/c my friends engage more there...of course harder to follow and usually include only 2-4 people. I LOVE the threaded comments here, provided a group of intelligent people were chatting, but how often does that happen? Sometimes with people like Scoble, Owyang and Louis Gray? (that's been my experience anyway.)
- Ryan Stephens
I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me.
- RuthNH
Sam .. They are like alternate universes. Didn't expect anything in my Facebook feed, but knew it would be hopping here. Love this! This is going to be a Trending Topic I suspect ....
- Joe Magennis
from iPhone
@johnny I'd love to see that list, I'm going to sit down with friendfeed this weekend and figure it out
- Sydney Owen
Well, you mean in general or just the current outage? ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
.. Scoble must have run his script again, I guess.. ;)
- Mads Kristiansen
Johnny: That's completely fair. I've lurked a lot & have read a lot of Louis Gray's, Scoble's and Valeria Maltoni's insights with respect to FriendFeed. You're right, maybe I'm not following the right people. And I didn't necessarily mean to imply there was a lack of intelligent conversation. It's just rare that I've seen these discussions develop from anyone's comments aside from a few power users. I'd be grateful for a list of users.
- Ryan Stephens
A social networking coup?
- Melissa Pierce
I heard from someone that Twitter doesn't even know why it's down.
- Paul Chaney
Yep, Twitter is still not working out here on the east coast @ 10:07am.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
Facebook and Twitter are getting slammed. But internetpulse.net indicates the Internet is humming along.
- Ed Moltzen
Some Graphic Design FriendFeed user names here : http://imjustcreative.com/friendf...
- ImJustCreative
Thank God for Friendfeed and other such Microblogging streams.
- PurpleZoe
Nothing on the twitter blog, which is still up: http://blog.twitter.com
- Dion Hinchcliffe
I'm blaming Jeff Elder for breaking the Twitterz in the Charlotte area, because he wrote a column about how it was good for listening for businesses. http://bit.ly/ospIC
- Andria Krewson
from iPhone
Johnny: But how often does it start from someone's message that's not a 'power user' ? How often does someone following 100, have a 100 followers end up with conversations like this off of one of there comments?
- Ryan Stephens
The Matrix is down... http://friendfeed.com/jeffisa...
- ImJustCreative
Are you asking for a list on how it can be improved, or are you referring to it being down at present? :)
- Alasdair Munn
Failed Whale :-(
- Gee Ekachai
Twitter works via SMS from your phone...
- Tim Elliott
@johnny: if you have it wired to FF then here ;-)
- Tim Elliott
I really being able to be online with FF.. Twitter still down
- Kathy Mackey
Worse yet -- what's wrong with Posterous?
- Daniel B. Honigman
Daniel : Yeah, cant log on to Posterous either
- ImJustCreative
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Bill Gardner
Looks like they're dealing with a DOS attack.
- Michael Chin
More details from Jeff Elder, essentially pointing to Mashable for details. http://bit.ly/XyvnW
- Andria Krewson
from iPhone
Twitter now says they're defending against a denial of service attack: http://bit.ly/IpVQf
- Dion Hinchcliffe
our coverage: Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! Update: Twitter Experiencing DDOS Attack http://bit.ly/vZbMC
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Posterous is acting a little wacky as well.
- Steven Melfi
a lot of things
- andy brudtkuhl
FB down too?
- Alex Hayes
No Twitter? No FB? Yikes! I may actually get some WORK done this morning... :)
- Alex Hayes
i've had problems with Facebook too. as i've been saying, i think friendfeed is the obvious choice for backup scenarios.
- DanielthePoet
Thanks for the recommendation, Johnny. Sydney if you are interested in the list, let me know here: http://ff.im/5IcYN
- Kol Tregaskes
Who left the sprinklers on in bay are in silicon valley?
cant believe it's raining
- Jeremiah Owyang
It's still dry in Oakland (and clearing)
- Roger Jennings
Is this a good or a bad thing? When Appliances, Pets, and Plants Start to Tweet http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Database Error - looks like your blog site might be down
- Stuart Miniman
I confirm: blog down
- Stefano Maggi
from iPhone
it's up and down. JSKIT is iinstalling echo on it.
- Jeremiah Owyang
My car was broken into last night at union square SF. I think they used a digital scanner, as there were no indicators of foreceful breakin, and I doubt I left it unlocked. Damage? Stolen subwoofer, ipod, and a few hundred CDs, leather jacket. Could have been worse, I'm not mad, but lesson learned.
Susan Beebe, Russian Space Lizard, Shevonne and 14 other people liked this
that sucks!
- imabonehead
That sucks, Jeremiah.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Sorry to hear. I was just saying to my husband that no one breaks into cars to steal cds anymore and I am sorry to learn I am wrong.
- Martha
that's shit sorry to hear about it..... but, you know what they say about leaving stuff in ya car..anywhere.. I always had the MINIMAL in the car.
- Rob Sellen :o)
Digital scanner? I need to read up on this. Sorry to hear this, man. That sucks.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Ouch! (This is one where I wish "like" was "dislike")
- Jesse Stay
At the Union Square parking lot?
- Adam Helweh
that bites man.
- Michael Chin
from BuddyFeed
It was at union square on the street
- Jeremiah Owyang
There's two ways that I know of that car thieves can use to break in with digital scanners: 1) A device that emits a range of device till cars unlock 2) A thief can be in proximiety and 'record' your signal from your car alarm, then 'repeat' it back with a devices after you leave. I don't have more details, it's what others told me
- Jeremiah Owyang
good old fashioned keys used to be enough...
- Rob Sellen :o)
No, physical keys are messy. Digital is fast and clean and you don't have to fiddle with car locks nor break windows.
- Jeremiah Owyang
stops ya stuff getting nicked tho eh... just sayin :o/
- Rob Sellen :o)
That sucks! You seem pretty cool about it, which is good. My car was stolen a year ago, but I got it back within an hour thanks to some friends and some connections with the Santa Monica Police. The car was insured, but it was the feeling of being victimized that bothered me. I'm sorry this happen.
- Michael Fidler
A few hundred CDs? Did you keep these around to send a message to the ipod, that at any time, it could be replaced?
- Andy Bakun
Well, that's a pisser.
- Brent - Yes I am
That sucks indeed
- Neya
Wow that Sucks!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Having lived and worked in an urban environment, I've learned to hide anything of perceived value out of sight and to make better parking choices. Other than that, there isn't much one can do. Things are just things. It's that feeling of having been violated, that stings. I'm sorry to read that someone did something to wrong a person who does so much for others.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Sorry to hear man
- LANjackal
Roberto nothing was visible, although my car looks nice from the outside appearance, there's a lot of gang acitivity in SF, and my type of car is popular so next time: 1) i'll leave less in car 2) park in a garage. Yes I'm cool about it. Shit happens
- Jeremiah Owyang
Really sorry to hear that.
- David Cook
from fftogo
Mine was broken into on the street in front of my house one night. And we live in the safest neighborhood in one of the safest suburbs of Northern VA. Feels very violating. Glad your OK and not bitter.
- Craig Eddy
Oops! :-(
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Possibly the thieves will read your message and return stolen devices
- piaff
Bummer.
- Anne Bouey
I'm sorry to hear that happened, Jeremiah. I hope the thieves are caught with your stuff. Interesting that they may have used a digital scanner, yet another thing to watch out for.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I've had my vehicles broke into and it's such a bummer. Sorry to hear that you had to experience it, too.
- Kelli Perez
Bummer. Mine was broken into in SoMa two weeks ago. They took nothing. I had to replace the glass. Lesson learned too.
- fogfish
Weird, I've had my car broken into in SoMa too.
- Robert Scoble
Unlucky, how does your insurance policy work in the US on what you can claim back?
- Joe Dawson
from iPhone
Joe: usually you have a deductable. Mine is $1,000. They broke a window on my car, which cost $400 and stole my friend's old laptop. Not worth reporting.
- Robert Scoble
I've always loved visiting Union Square. But I once walked unscathed through a whole area in SF which I was later told was a bit risky, then arrived in Union Square and missed by inches being brained by a bottle hurled (at me? at life in general?) by an evidently less than happy chap half-reclining in the entrance to an unused shopfront.
- Des Walsh
This is where FriendFeed needs a "Note" button rather than a "Like" button - for while I'd like to make a note of your post, I don't like the idea of your having had someone break into your car. (I especially don't like the idea of their having stolen your CDs...condolences...)
- Vincent Wright
sorry to hear that man.
- Thomas Hawk
Back in the late '80s in NYC, I had my car broken into weekly. I lost so much stuff but the thing that still burns is losing my late dad's custom leather racing suit. I loved that suit and wore it when I had a motorcycle. It's the sentimental stuff that is hard to get over. Sorry to hear...
- sean808080
Sorry to hear that
- Shevonne
Already some years ago I considered to install two cams (or webcams) inside my car (ok, I'm really mad ^_^) that register a video after a little movement of the car (also when another car bump the mine when she's in the parking). I haven't yet applied this, but maybe one day...
- Roberto
from fftogo
sorry to hear that buddy. It's only stuff and you guys are ok...
- David Alpert
I'm sorry your stuff was stolen, that sucks! We had our car stolen years back while it was double-parked with a passenger still in it! Long story short: we got it back with minor wear & tear & learned a valuable lesson!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from BuddyFeed
Sorry to hear about your loss. Invasions of privacy such as that are truly disturbing. :(
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I'm sorry to hear that your car was broken into. I know it's "just stuff", but I always hated the feeling of MY space being violated whenever my car was broken into. My old Huyndai was broken into quite often (even in so-called safe parking places) that I just didn't keep anything of value/interest in it. They still tried to break into it...I think they just used it for practice, really. :-(
- Russian Space Lizard
So sorry that happened to you, Jeremiah. Were all those things in clear view? Lots of times the thieves won't bother if they see nothing in the car. That's why SF police recommend that you leave nothing visible in the car -- not even a pair of sunglasses.
- Mary Trigiani
what lesson learned? To carry all stuff on us..?
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Jeremiah that is simply awful... sorry to hear that!!! Yikes, I need to go clean out my car and remove anything I'd cry about if it was stolen! eeeek!
- Susan Beebe
Anyone have any guesses on how much revenue advertising CPM based on blogs could earn? What's some going rates? How does one estimate?
Michael R. Bernstein, Melanie Reed and Sean Scott liked this
depends on so many factors - first one is category of said blog
- Allen Stern
What is the est readership?
- Melanie Reed
120k unique a month visitors plus a few thousand subscribed (I'm talking about my blog) just for estimates. No plans on doing this, as I was talking to a friend about this today.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Interesting points made: http://www.allbusiness.com/marketi... Their suggestion is to track several methods.
- Melanie Reed
Are his figures accurate about TechCrunch through 2008? Anyone know? http://www.shoemoney.com/2008...
- Melanie Reed
See this one from John Chow http://www.johnchow.com/how-i-m...
- Jeremiah Owyang
Convinced pregnant wife to stay up past 9 pm and go to a jazz lounge. Miracle!
Susan Beebe, Zal, Paul Buchheit and 64 other people liked this
Didn't know you guys were expecting. Congrats!
- Richard Chen
Indeed, congrats! When's the due date?
- Brett Kelly
You go girl!!
- Skye Miller
Awesome. When are you due?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Karen is due in early January...
- Bret Taylor
Pregnant? This is indeed news! Congratulations to you both!
- Louis Gray
Oh this is awesome. Congrats!
- Alp
Bret: awesome. Need a recommendation for birth class? @ev used the same coach that we used (Jeremy Toeman recommended too). My birthday is in January, hope it is on the 18th!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret, here is the birth coach I recommend: http://scobleizer.com/2007...
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Congratulations Bret! A January baby :)
- Matt Ruiz
Fabulous! Congrats.
- Nir Ben Yona
Congrats !
- Guy Vander Heyden
Congrats Bret & Karen!
- travispuk
Which lounge Bret, I'm a fan of Jazz.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Congrats.. Is that Coda, the new place that just opened?
- David Vasileff
from iPhone
Wow, I had no idea. Congratulations to both of you! Anaïs is just passing nine months, and we're finally starting to go out to restaurants with her. Just remember, once [s]he gets here, and you're pulling your hair out from fatigue and frustration -- it gets better quickly!
- Joel Webber
congratz!
- timepilot
Jeremiah: we went to Hedley Club Lounge in San Jose (http://www.yelp.com/biz...). We live in Los Gatos, so more convenient than SF for us if we don't feel like driving. Pretty laid back, good drinks. I am not a jazz aficionado, but the music has been very good the few times we have been.
- Bret Taylor
you guys look great!
- Monique
That's great Bret, we should go to Yoshi's sometime! (I used to be a jazz performer in college, but no more)
- Jeremiah Owyang
Having been there myself, that is no mean feat!
- Martha
@Louisgray doing the demo thing for Jeremiah this evening. Guess what he was demoing?
AJ Kohn and Louis Gray liked this
Btw - it was not FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Louis "hey look i can access my business card contacts on my iphone" Jeremiah "oh what service are you using?" Louis "oh it's cloudcontacts.com" Jeremiah "oh yea i need to place an order!"
- Allen Stern
Nice Allen. Very subtle. :-) Actually Jeremiah was very adament that he was not into paper cards. I wonder if he was only half serious or half joking.
- Adam Helweh
from BuddyFeed
Hey Adam, it was good to hang with you again
- Jeremiah Owyang
Oh Allen, you're funny. BTW I"ve not forgotten about you and CC
- Jeremiah Owyang
:) to be more serious it's either ms. pac man or lazyfeed :)
- Allen Stern
Allen, it's neither of those. Jeremiah wrote about it today.
- Louis Gray
oh now i know what it is - i just had to call on my Sixth Sense!
- Allen Stern
The feeling is mutual Jeremiah. I am eager to get you to consider that Taiko offer I mentioned. You drive across the Dumbarton and I will hook up the beginning Taiko drumming lesson. Maybe we get Louis involved if he is game.
- Adam Helweh
Michele Lorito-Chase, Kol Tregaskes, Carol Levesque and 64 other people liked this
YAY!!
- Yolanda
Congrats you two!!!!
- FFing Enigma
Congratulations!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!! awesome news, shey & jasmin!
- edythe
Congratulations!
- Spidra Webster
YAY! congrats on the condo!
- Susan Beebe
Congrats!
- JA Castillo
Happy for you, man :)
- LANjackal
Congratulations!
- Andrew Smith
congrats to us! we better tell our family before one of them sees it on Facebook NF!
- Jasmin Smith
lol, good point babes. Thanks all!
- Shey
Great news!!!
- YoYo_P
congrats!
- anna sauce
+1
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
Woa! Congrats guys! [Edit] Just got started looking for a condo/loft/condo townhouse myself
- The Fat Oracle
Thanks Kamath and good luck! It's a pretty competitive market right now
- Shey
Congrats!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Congratulations you guys!
- Anika
A new place? That's exciting! Congrats!
- Rudy Amid
Shey, yeah. Was surprised how competitive it is right now.
- The Fat Oracle
congratulations, mate!
- Bren
Happiest congrats!
- Ayşe E.
Have my room ready. ;) Congrats, you guys.
- Derrick
Congrats!
- Mike Lewis
Thanks Abby and all, actually it's in Mississauga!
- Shey
Awesome, Shey! Congrats to u & ur family! :-) Kick Derrick out of my room please (lol) ;-)
- ThatJimGuy
Congrats!
- Mike Reynolds
well played.
- Amani
Congrats Shey
- Charlie Anzman
congrats
- Jeremiah Owyang
awesomeness!
- imabonehead
Awesome!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats!!!
- Shevonne
lol sure, just BYOC :P
- Shey
sure, come on over!
- Shey
congrats!
- Ritu
This is literally the first time I've used FF
Ali Oz, Roland Hörmann, Daniel Lazarides and 210 other people liked this
no way!!!!
- sean andersen
Real Time!
- Stephen Pickering
What took you so long?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
That's just wrong.
- Michael McKean
Once you try, its hard to see the web any other way.
- sean andersen
Twitter is so dead!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Best App on the web I think
- Stephen Pickering
Will your ghost writers try it too? ;-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Zing!
- Michael McKean
Grins..
- BairdWilliamson
LOL. Aloha!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Which browser do you normally use? :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's about frickin' time, Guy! You're the guy who handed Steve Balmer a Macbook Air as a symbol of good design and yet you've been using Twitter all this time? Either start using friendfeed or switch to using Dells. You can't have it both ways. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
You missed out on the earlier days of FriendFeed, but then it's never too late to start using it.
- imabonehead
I don't think Guy understands he can write comments to his posts, instead of new posts to conversate
- Stephen Pickering
Welcome, we arent experts here but we manage to muddle through some how
- Robert Higgins
Alex: Can I get a Dell through you?
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy you just can't resist that Windows 7 can you :-)
- Stephen Pickering
LOL, Guy, I've helped many a person get a Dell. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh and welcome...and now I'm going to faint...Guy Kawasaki commented on my comment on friendfeed.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm a social media expert, too. Like Glen. Honest.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
It's just the heat Alex :-)
- Todd Hoff
Alex, YFTE: you faint too easily
- Guy Kawasaki
Ah now he's gettin the hang of it ;)
- BairdWilliamson
Guy, it must be the heat. ;)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Hi Guy welcome :-))
- Johni Fisher
Howdy
- Rodfather
I have always wondered why a social media guru type like you would be solely on Twitter. FF offers a lot.
- Stu Rich
About time!
- Chris Spizzirri
Welcome. Twitter's for Quitters. Its FriendFeed indeed. Ok, I've embarrassed myself enough now. :)
- Lindsay
Welcome to the world of Mobs
- Michael_techie
brinnnnnng it sugar!!
- sofarsoShawn
Seriously? I thought you would have been lurking over here the whole time!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
hi guy
- sean percival
nice work... don't know if you really need it?
- Jeffrey T. Sooey
Just had to comment on Guy's first FriendFeed-originated post. I'm so excited! (yet not as excited as Alex it would seem)
- Jesse Stay
Welcome, sir.
- Louis Gray
Hello and welcome to FF :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
nice to see you post here.
- Ronald S
Welcome, indeed
- Brett Kelly
welcome on board. i expect your feedback / analyse in a few weeks :-9
- Laurent Dieterich
Welcome, Guy! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Get it on! FF is just great, even for using it as a Twitter-app.
- Nicolai Butzki
from Viigo
Enjoy the ride, pun intended!
- Toby Graham
from iPhone
and?
- Patrick Ostertag
u like it?
- Alemsah Ozturk
@ahsan you surely mean Wild Wide Web ;-)
- Yann Leroux
from iPhone
welcome Guy. I hope you use it frequently. It will be nice to see you around here.
- AlpB.
at last... welcome Guy :)
- Goktug Gedik
well welcome to friendfeed Guy!
- (jeff)isageek
Yes Welcome Guy, it's a good thing!
- Allen Harkleroad
After twitter of course again Guy :) welcome :) waiting for your great comments and sharings :)
- Taylan Demirkaya
How do you like it?
- Randy Allen Bishop
collectors item.. :-)
- John Serra
And that sums up FF"s problem: you can have a presence on it without ever being actually present.
- Ian Betteridge
but being present w/o watching/reading along to see comments makes it kind of a waste
- Susan Reynolds
from twhirl
Most excellent, welcome. Literally.
- DGentry
and it's about time.....! :)
- Charlie Anzman
wait, so this whole time the alltop twitterati were chosen by...who?
- David
I really didn't notice much because your twitter feed is included on my FF list - so its like you were already a FF user.
- Chris Jackson
Welcome! Check out ways to sync content here back to Twitter (bookmarks, google reader, etc) but also network in here :-)
- Courtney Engle
from iPhone
Welcome Guy. Hope to see more from you in FF..
- Murat Buyurgan
from iPhone
Welcome. Let's knock of twitter !
- Krishnamoorthy
Welcome to the feeding frenzy! Just wait till you discover Micah's great tools. :-D http://friendfeed.com/ffhacks
- April Russo
congrats Guy! I think you'll like it :)
- Glenn Hilton
This is """literally""" the first time I commented on your feed. As always, welcome to new users such as yourself. Self + for my improper use of air qoutes.
- Eric - seven eleven
from iPod
as you can see, it is comment oriented. We expect you to read comments and reply.
- denizoktar
Welcome!!! Big hugs for u!!!! <3
- Magdalena Day
Aloha!
- Virtually Ready
that's funny.
- DanielthePoet
Glad you have you on FF. Welcome!
- Chris Gardner
Welcome, Guy- make sure to leave the door open behind you, there's a nice breeze!...
- Thom Kennon
welcome to the dark side. we have conversations here ;)
- BEX
No turning back now. The only question is what took so long?
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
WOW! welcome dude!
- Jason Pollock
you are going to love it here! watch out! Its great to have u here!
- Jason Pollock
Welcome, you'll have a lot of work to do setting things up but once you do you will realize it is an awesome tool!
- Brian
Yeah, FF rocks!
- Janice
Welcome Guy! Please introduce yourself. j/k
- AJ Batac
Welcome aboard. Enjoy your new status (AKA: Friendfeeder).
- Nir Ben Yona
Finally :)
- Özkan Altuner
Guess you passed the 'new adopters' torch. Welcome to the jungle~
- Liza + = ?
woohoooo! stick around :)
- Frankie Warren
Guy, at least you don't have someone posting for you like other "celebrities" ;-) Good on you sir!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
@Guy - welcome! FF is a great place to follow discussions and threads.
- Valeria Maltoni
welcome to FriendFeed Guy!
- MB Linder
Welcome :)
- Fatih Küçükbaltacı
It can be crazy at first but it's more robust than something like Twitter IMO
- David LaMorte
The water's fine, come on in ;)
- Clare Dibble
Welcome Guy...
- Mitchell Tsai
Welcome. Add some more stuff to your feed so we can really get to know you.
- Amani
I beg to differ: http://friendfeed.com/guykawa...
- Edward Zwart
Except Ed, it was via the bookmarklet, not directly into ff like this one...
- Janice
congratulations!
- Steve Borgman
welcome on board :)
- MugeCerman
Welcome aboard! FF rocks!
- dhamza
welcome to 2009 ;)
- Lee
Dive in, the water is churning!
- LauraLee Dooley
Welcome to the party Mr. Kawasaki.
- David Damore
Bit late in the day aint ya? :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
lmao @ J Deakins. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Better late than never!
- Donna Payne
A marketing master - cool ; )
- Mark Harai
welcome
- Jeremiah Owyang
Come on in, the water is fine!
- Sean Powell
Howdy!
- Jesse P. Luna
Welcome
- Peter Kelley
Welcome Guy
- Jose Luis Santos
I think you'll like it, Guy. Just stay away from that Robert Scoble character and you'll be fine ;)
- dougcoleman
ようこそ、FFへ。コメントしないと！と思いまして、コメントしました。
- Carloe Stamp
Welcome aboard.
- Richard Leiter
from iPhone
Invading FF now are ya? It is obvious everyone is excited about your entrance. Love ya on Twitter!
- Brady
I only hope this results in something positive. Welcome, etc.
- Evil Librarian
Interaction is good! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
@Janice oic
- Edward Zwart
It's about time! :P
- Joel Lovato
Meh. ya rookie!
- Robert Kenney
me too.. don't know what i'm doing.
- leslie mills
let the addiction begin
- Monique
twitter not enough visuals and too much clicking , i love ff!
- Wsvdesign
Funny thread and yes I read it!
- Myrna
I'm listening to Howard Dean and Bill Frist discuss Healthcare on Charlie Rose after hearing John Bolton on Jon Stewart destroy my mood about Iran, nuclear and WW3
- Myrna
You know there are always laggards.
- Myrna
you'll get addict'd
- Goktug Okan Oguz
Don't worry Guy - you can spam links in here too :) haha, I mean welcome to Friendfeed :)
- Brian Wallace
Welcome!
- Fer Isella
Next you're going to tell us that you switched to Mac last month
- adam garrett
about time...welcome to FF!
- Freddie Benjamin
Welcome here, maybe it takes people like you to bring the finesse of FriendFeed to the world! (can't let @scobleizer do all the work on his own, can you?)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
now figure a way to have my friendfeed autopost alltop content, maestro!
- adam garrett
I was slow too :-)
- Marco Raaphorst
hi! who are you?
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
welcome
- Jacob
logically that's impossible, because i follow you on FF for quite a while now.
- adam garrett
@llort threadkill, not directly on FF, over twitter or somthing else
- MugeCerman
congrats :D
- Ezgi Ceren
have you ever tried siberalem.com ? :)
- Yalcin Parmaksiz
That is classic! I actually just got started a little over a week ago myself.
- Chris Denker
I'm with ya.... just started this afternoon. So far, so good. :)
- Ben Daugherty
late to the conversation, but I do notice that this appearance by Guy was only a cameo *sigh*
- Susan Beebe
What take you so long ?
- TiTi
Still learning the ins and outs :)
- Boreal Water
Okay, where's the action here?
Mustafa Burak Su, Edwin, Goktug Okan Oguz and 37 other people liked this
Here!
- Stephen Pickering
Hah!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Here!
- Kate Foy
oh yah, and over here.
- sean andersen
Pirillo will be here in 3.2.1...
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Agreed: it completely depends on what you're looking for. My best guess, you'll want Robert's 'likes' list.
- FFing Enigma
If you want to pause a thread click on the time line 3minutes ago. you can focus on one thing
- Robert Higgins
goofball-->
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Rock on. Guy is on FF for real?
- Ben Hanten
right here baby!
- sofarsoShawn
Cool! I got to see this thread because I'm subscribed to Robert Scoble's "Likes"! (I'm trying to turn UP the noise level, not turn it down) Ha!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
i use ff for sending content from my followed blogs to twitter and facebook, etc. check out Jack Humphrey's video on the subject... you guys need to talk. i think the site is blogsuccess.com?
- Jeffrey T. Sooey
You will find the action if you look for it... it's all in who you subscribe to and how you participate.
- Lindsay
On my thread. :)
- Louis Gray
The action is in your '18 followers' thread!
- Herb Hernandez
from iPhone
The Guy Kawasaki? Welcome to FF ;-)
- Tim Tyler
Nice to see you here :-)
- Fabrice Epelboin
There's a menagerie of action, and it's all within arm reach. Stay a while :)
- Micah
The action depends on the way you want to direct. You can make poll-like questionnaires, share some feed and ask your followers opinions or put on your thought on a ruff subject like politics, sex or some tech-device which everyone loved but you hated it. Then it starts like a snowball. Oh, and you can put some photos like the ones when you took some photoshoots when Audi gave you a R8 to "try". Then action will find you. :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
On my feed. If you´re so inclined.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
its all around us! its like the force!
- (jeff)isageek
jeff)isageek +1
- MugeCerman
@ olcayto, so good description :)
- kezbankaragöz
You make the action! My fav place is "Best of Day" on the Top Right on FriendFeed under the 'Friends" section. Of course you are already dominating this area on your first day! :)
- Brady
you can make your own action, how? ask questions
- Jeremiah Owyang
What's up, guy...uh...Guy?
- Rahsheen?
!sub'ed!
- MikeAmundsen
Thanks for staying late to talk with me @ExecutiveMoms, we should certainly both go to Blogher 2010, wherever the location will be.
New York City Baby!
- Michael Chin
ill try to come, can i stay with you?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Will you bring marshmallows for us to roast?
- Michael Chin
Diagnosis: Traumatic septal deviation (broken nose) requiring septoplasty (surgery). The diagnostic code is 470.0. 47 is my lucky number...
what happened?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Ad: If you're a Forrester client, we've created a scorecard to use for your social network marketing efforts http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Diana and Matthew Moroz liked this
I know it might sounds strange, but I have been looking for this tweet for ages! I saw it on the phone and forgot to follow the link. I knew you posted it on the day you spoke at Razorfish, but Twitter Search refused to let me look that far back in time. I had given up, but was testing out FriendFeed's older items and it turns out to be the second to last item. I am sure it will disappear into the ether soon. Glad I caught it and "liked" it in time.
- Matthew Moroz
Good to know, FF's memory is a lot longer
- Jeremiah Owyang
The Apple ad I was in in 1992
2Picture, Kirb, Dan Hsiao and 107 other people liked this
I resent this to test out FriendFeed's email feature.
- Robert Scoble
from email
This was a brochure for college students back in 1992 that advertised the Mac IIci and one of the first PowerBooks. Yes, I used to be an Apple shill! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
awesome! thanks for sharing LOL
- Susan Beebe
My son was amazed. He didn't know about it. But then he was born in 1994.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Lol, that's awesome Scoble...
- Colin
you look like you were about 12 ....
- angela penny
nothing comes between you and your calvins, er, i mean macintosh.
- Greg Verdino
Angela: it was when I was in college. 17 years ago. Yikes.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
That's really fun! You've lived an interesting life
- Andrew
that's pretty awful rob. As Bender would say: "You come a long way, baby"
- Mark
LOL. you look too young, not 17:))
- Oguz Serdar
WOW! That's hilarious! What a cool thing to have.
- James Hull
Ah. 1992. I would love to go back in time to 1992 with a Macbook Pro or something, and show you some tech from the future and then take it off you and bugger off back to the future.
- Mark
You were a girl in 1992? Oh wait - you mean you were the guy on the LEFT! :) :)
- Lee Drake
Lee, I was thinking the same thing. :)
- Gimminy
Tiger Beat pose FTW
- Jay Cuthrell
Prasoon: Microsoft made the best Macintosh software back then. I worked at Microsoft from 2003-2006.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I was an Apple fanboi long before I was a Microsoft one. Funny that in 1993 I started switching to Windows.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
look at you robert! cool stuff.
- sean percival
I rotated it for you. http://images.scripting.com/archive...
- Dave Winer
1 sexy pose
- polou/indigo_bow
Hmm....Hey RObert....I still have a photo of you in the Norseman that I'm sure will get a bigger reaction than this one! Think graba$$.
- Nick
Nick: those photos would be quite amusing! (Nick was on newspaper staff when we attended community college together).
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
OMG how cool is that?
- BEX
My son thinks it is cool.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Woz and I talked later about the Mac IIcx's. They were so easy to upgrade. I miss that era of computers.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I remember attending Apple's IIci announcement at the Universal Ampitheater in October 1990? Later in the day I met with Guy Kawasaki and discussed his ideas for a board game. I ordered a IIci on the developer's discount at just over $4600. I still have it and the copy of the check I used to pay for it.
- Mike Shulman
nice picture Robert!
- Jeremiah Owyang
Like the ad. I was testing FF email feature yesterday. Did you send from your phone or desktop?
- Nakeva Corothers
Interesting how Apple has always worked so hard going after the college/university student market, especially in the context of the way they dominate sales of computers over the $1000 mark now. It's not only targeting young minds, it's also targeting young minds that are disproportionately likely to be wealthier than average in their careers and invest in themselves.
- Jed White
This is great. I love the come-hither pose.
- Mike Doeff
from iPhone
WOW! 4-8MB is standard...
- Joe Boone
Michael Dell started his company in his collage dorm room
- paul mooney
Ok, you asked for it. I am going to scan them in and post them somewhere harmful! lol.
- Nick
Just remember Nick I have a few of you too! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Cute!
- Kathy Fitch
I think a good practice is to consider unfollowing EVERYONE each year, then just add folks that are relevant. Why? people change, you may not wanted to have followed them, or you may want to reduce the noise. What do you think?
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great idea
- Allen Stern
We clean our out contact lists in address books from time to time. Why not online.
- Kate Foy
How did you do this Holden? I'm following a few thousand folks
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, and you can do this with SocialToo - it's $25, one-time payment, you never pay again. We unfollow everyone for you, pretty quick, too.
- Jesse Stay
That and you get all our other services, and we're sustainable unlike any of the other services out there doing it.
- Jesse Stay
(BTW, I added this feature when you recommended we add it when you were out at Omniture Summit) :-)
- Jesse Stay
Oh yeah Jesse. we xchanged emails about that. Hmm i may need it. Thinking it over
- Jeremiah Owyang
what might help is to be able to flag some followers as perms
- Allen Stern
Jeremiah let me know if you're ready to do it and I'll be sure you get top service and priority.
- Jesse Stay
Allen, we do that too - add them to your Unfollow whitelist and we'll never, ever unfollow them.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we just call it your "whitelist" - it's under your unfollowing preferences though.
- Jesse Stay
how much would this cost Jesse?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, it's $25, one-time fee for the bulk unfollow. You never pay again.
- Jesse Stay
nice one jesse! im slow :)
- Allen Stern
Check your e-mail, Jeremiah
- Jesse Stay
Davis, what's funny is that I see people on your side, and on the other side of the auto-follow debate all criticizing the other for calling themselves Social Media Experts. I don't think there is any right or wrong way to do it.
- Jesse Stay
I'm downsizing my follows. The follow everyone who follows you concept has done more harm with noise than good besides to get your numbers higher.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
good idea... need SocialToo to clean house!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
First, there are free tools to unfollow, no need to pay. See the category for Follower Management on our site http://EverythingTwitter.com I don't mass unfollow, I use some of the other tools to look first for ones that haven't posted in a while. That is quick cleanup.
- Chris Miller
It's certainly a stunt people have pulled before, using SocialToo and other tools. If that is how you want to use Twitter, Twitter is, in the end, and a la carte service geared to the individual. I personally prefer a richer, more diverse, stream, myself. #stilllongsforall@sback I think it is overthinking your social media use in your particular case at your particular experience level,...
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- Leslie Poston
Holden: It is very quick in a lot of the tools. Select all or unselect all. I am just saying if you are only looking to do this step, there are fre ones out there that work well. We review them all to our best before listing them
- Chris Miller
Chris, the problem with those other tools is that they aren't sustainable. The Twitter API only allows a certain number of requests per IP, per hour, so as they get enough traffic, boom, now they don't work any more. Use them at will, sure, but keep in mind the minute any of them gets any attention they're going to go down due to the Twitter API limits. To keep one running you have to...
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- Jesse Stay
MVB who were you referring to here, J?
- Myrna
Holden, like your 'new' avatar. It looks new to me.
- Myrna
Jesse, I love SocialToo, don't get me wrong. But a lot of people don't follow that many (isn't the average small) that they would break the API limit that fast no? Just throwing out to search before paying to get what they need.
- Chris Miller
Chris, I think you'd be surprised. It's why we had to start charging for our features.
- Jesse Stay
I like the idea of changing who you follow but unfollowing everyone is going to far. I think trying to follow too few ppl is seen as a status symbol, but limits interaction w/ newbies, ppl who spark new interests, perspectives you otherwise ignore - defeats the purpose of using social media to discover new relationships and collaboration. But JUST TRY unfollowing everyone, and see how much you depend on certain ppl to pipe up when you need it most, etc....
- Liza + = ?
I think it's a good strategy. Maybe there are other good strategies, but this definitely is a good one. I think our minds work so strange that the one's answer to the question to "will I unfollow him?" when following not always be yes, when the answer to "will I follow him" while not following would be no. It's harder to deliberately unfollow someone then not starting to follow someone you don't follow (but might remember having followed in the past). Rigorously unfollowing all helps deal with this bias.
- Meryn Stol
Davis. Didn't mean to sound like a jerk, so sorry if I did. My information habits and diet have changed, so I need to change my inputs.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I even started with a new username, without any follower, and completely new discussions :)
- Steph (sh_skew)
from iPod
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to unfollow everyone, but I think your basic idea is a good one, Jeremiah. My approach is more like managing an investment portfolio, periodically reviewing individual assets and their return, remixing to maximize overall benefit.
- Larry Hawes
Do you have to follow someone on Twitter AND Friendfeed? Is there some sort of twitterquette about that?
- Gregg Le Blanc
Recently heard grilled cheese is 'best' with Velveeta. Never had Velveeta before, confirmation is needed. Are the rumors true? #fb
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Velveeta? Blech.
- Derrick
It melts really well, but no better than standard American cheese slices. If you like the flavor of Velveeta I guess it would make a kickin' grilled cheese.
- FFing Enigma
Mona, you must get to the bottom of this melty situation.
- Yolanda
*GAG* Oh yeah. I'm a cheese snob.
- Anika
Colby Cheese is best
- Bryan R. Adams
I hear Velveeta is best as a personal lubricant. Just a rumor.
- Adrian
Speaking of which Adrian, can you change the sheets? Thanks, babe!
- Anika
!
- Adrian
Velveeta+salsa == awesomesauce!
- Jesse Stay
melted, of course
- Jesse Stay
I grew up eating velveeta cheese on grilled cheese sammichs with a dill pickle. And yes its still my first choice :D
- Tony C (Unrated)
from fftogo
I miss Borden's version of Velveeta. It was actually good for melty things.
- Pixie
Velveeta is too salty for me unless it is in dips, all melty.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I like a good sharp cheddar myself.
- Ian May
You know what I like to make my grilled cheese sandwiches with? REAL ACTUAL CHEESE. #bitchlips
- Derrick
LOL @ ANIKA AND ADRIAN!! ...but I can NEVER get the cheese to nicely melt. :( I missed your #bitchlips, Derrick <3
- Mona Nomura
Mayo instead of butter, seriously? Must. look. for that thread.
- Mona Nomura
Its not the best cheese in the world, but there is something nostalgic about velveeta grilled cheese or velveeta naco cheese. If you didn't have it growing up it may not be as good, but you really can't beat how well it melts.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Velveeta grilled cheese, it's the only way to make grilled cheese
- Shaun William
HELL NOES!!
- JA Castillo
I have seen velveeta, but don't think I've even eaten it. I'm always put off by plastic wrapped plastic looking stuff.
- Ian May
NO WAY! Grilled cheese is best with a mixture of pepper jack and sharp cheddar. Fact!
- Sarah Lane
Velveeta is practically melted already. Not actually cheese. And yes, I've tried mayo instead of butter. If you want to "butter" the bread and then grill it, mayo doesn't burn and you can grill nice and slow to make sure the cheese melts.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I ate it when growing up, when I didn't know it wasn't really cheese. It was good, but I go for cheddar now.
- Tom Landini
I like my grilled cheese with Provolone. I ate Velveeta as a kid, and I'm not eager to go back to that (or other cheese food products).
- John (bird whisperer)
People who defame Velveeta (or other chesse foods) purely because it's not "real cheese" probably don't know how cheese is made, or what the legal definition of "cheese food" is.
- Brian Johns
Brian, given that most people do not realize that some of the best cheese is fermented, eaten by worms or moldy, I don't think the Velveeta haters have much of an argument.
- Rob Diana
I don't understand how the fermentation process to create real cheese helps Velveeta's case in any way.
- John (bird whisperer)
Sure - Velveeta's not fermented/aged long enough to be labeled as "cheese", but that doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. Sometimes some extra salt and some emulsifiers for meltdown stability is exactly what you want!
- Brian Johns
Actually, my point was that fermentation, worms and mold are all basically nasty processes. Velveeta is probably some odd concoction of dairy and preservatives, but fairly clean.
- Rob Diana
It's probably full of chemicals though
- Ian May
Just sodium citrate, I think.
- Pixie
Yuk! It's not even real cheese. The best grilled cheese sandwich is made with real cheese, not "cheese products".
- RuthNH
Hmm, I've never seen Velveeta in the UK, but I take it that it's supposed to be similar to Philadelphia?
- Tyson Key
Nope Tyson Philly Cream cheese is totally different :D
- Tony C (Unrated)
Aah, thanks for the clarification on that. I've always derisively referred to those cheese slice things as "plastic cheese", for what it's worth, though.
- Tyson Key
It is definitely not true. Not even sure Velveeta is cheese, so by definition it cannot make a grilled cheese. That is my legal opinion.
- Martha
:O @ Martha
- Tony C (Unrated)
Slightly off-topic, but since we're talking about cheese products (or derivatives/imitations thereof) -Just what is BabyBel, anyway? I've assumed that it's Edam for a long time, but the manufacturers don't say if it is or isn't, if I remember correctly.
- Tyson Key
I think it is a baby swiss cheese, Tyson, but I am not quite sure.
- Martha
Gotta be kraft american singles or nothing.
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Kraft American Singles do make a kicking Sammich,
- Tony C (Unrated)
from email
Kraft American Singles? Oh, please, isn't that an industrial byproduct? :-)
- Zoli Erdos
I <3 industrial byproducts zoli :-)
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
I actually like Land O Lakes American.
- Martha
@Tyson Velveeta is, I think, kinda like that frik awful processed cheese slices you can get at the deli counter in Tesco etc..
- Ian May
"Velveeta : So bad, even the Brits don't want it!" ;)
- Tyson Key
I'm a Kraftite but live with a Velveetian who tyically buys the groceries.
- Mike Reynolds
isn't that processed cheese? If so. gross.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Definitely not Velveeta. Blech.
- Hooeyspewer
Techcrunch has intimate knowledge of Twitter's plans: Important to watch not only what they blog -but what they DONT blog about
Ho John Lee, Hutch Carpenter, Susan Beebe and 5 other people liked this
So what are they NOT blogging about? :-)
- Jesse Stay
specifics on monetization.
- Jeremiah Owyang
It's interesting that TechCrunch will now essentially get the scoop on anything Twitter from here forward for a long time considering the information they have.
- Jesse Stay
jesse - i agree - maybe it was one of the reasons tc didn't want the documents to get out past them. i mentioned before that if i ran a large blog or news site i might want those docs just to keep a level playing field.
- Allen Stern
Allen, yeah, it gives TC huge leverage, and in some ways, bias, towards such coverage. Twitter's job now is to do everything the opposite of those docs. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
They might be able to correlate actions to some of the notes on those docs, but the stories don't write themselves :) I doubt twitter would do the *opposite* of the docs just to spite TC - they have a business to run
- Chris Saad
Better question: What will Mashable and RWW do to differentiate?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Marshall never has any trouble differentiating. Marshall does broad analysis while TC does breaking news and short term commentary
- Chris Saad
Chris, I was mostly joking about Twitter doing the opposite. I agree though - it's not as easy as it seems, just gives them an advantage.
- Jesse Stay
I have new neighbors. What's the best way to greet them? Make them feel welcome?
SteVe C, Meryn Stol, Nilesh and 3 other people liked this
I like to make cookies and bring them over
- Jesse Stay
Baked stuff is always good.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Agreed re: baking, but try to avoid nuts because some people are allergic. It's a sweet gesture.
- Ayşe E.
Get to know them, then bring something over. Build a relationship of relatively frequent contact, asking if they need help, offering to introduce them to their other neighbors, invite them over. Weird as it may sound, cookies are not everyone's favorite, but concern and an offer of assistance hits the mark every time.
- Stephen Dill
Take a fruit basket over. Everybody loves fruit:)
- Roney Smith
Bunt cake...
- JA Castillo
Tell em you're having a party this weekend and ask them if they can clean up their yard by then. =)
- Beau Liening
I just remembered something. One of my co-workers used to take over bottles of water and sports drinks when she saw people moving in.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
With pants on
- Johnny
make sure they're not "special" cookies.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Say Hi and ask them if they need anything.
- Kim Landwehr
thanks all, it's those hand made things that are personal huh?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Nice of you to even think of this! How about bringing them takeout menus from some of your fav restaurants? Even the names/phone numbers would be a big help to a new neighbor.
- Lida Citroen
Peek in windows after nightfall. Please note only like one of our neighbors talks to us so i might not be best advisor.
- SteVe C
When someone gets a writing job at Mashable, RWW, GigaOm, do they get a salary? Benefits? Vacation? Or are they freelancers? Contractors?
Rajiv Doshi, Irada Pallanca, Mark Krynsky and 10 other people liked this
I was asking myself the question yesterday afternoon! Can anybody become a freelancer, working for these major "journals".
- Zackatoustra
the inverse may be interesting, do some pay to be in those journal, this is the question that I sometime ask.
- abdellah
I thought its a flat fee, plsu commision on page hits/ counts.. something like $50/- per post and .3 cents for 1K hits..
- Peter Dawson
many write for free. some get paid
- Jeremiah Owyang
I know some performance monies are generated on page views.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Box.net says they have better than Sharepoint 2010 today - http://www.viddler.com/explore...
Hugh Isaacs II, Cem Ozkaynak, Kevin Tunis and 14 other people liked this
huh? and the only thing Sharepoint is good for is document management and making consulting firms lots of money. The Sharepoint team trys to push it as an actual app server type solution to actually be all your websites, this makes all the developers I know shudder and other depts at MS smirk.
- adolfo foronda
We use SharePoint at my work. All I can say is...eh...but, the alternative for some time was Lotus Quickr. So at least we got the lesser of two evils.
- Fleagle
Nice to learn about these services from people passionate about them.
- Steve Farnworth
I think if people were using Sharepoint only for doc management and the likes, it definitely is too heavy to consider and there are better solutions out there. However, Sharepoint Services plays well into MSFT's Visual Studio Team System strategy as an over-arching dev collaboration platform - they leverage Sharepoint in VSTS pretty well. Sharepoint is used transparently and powerfully in that platform. Would I want to use Sharepoint outside of VSTS? I don't know.
- The Fat Oracle
Their product may be better (I don't know if it is) but they lack an enterprise footprint, and enterprise reputation so the arguement pretty much doesn't matter. Yet.
- Jeremiah Owyang
To those people who are calling Sharepoint a glorified document repository, I have to say (respectfully), you've never seen it used properly. Organisations that implement it straight out of the box, expecting to scratch their itch, get all that they deserve. I consulted at a UK bank that had a dedicated team in IT supporting the infrastructure and departmental content owners responsible...
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- Andrew Terry
SharePoint isn't just about the out of the box -experience, but customization through configuration and development is another part. As a developer on Microsoft-platforms, I'm not really impressed by the APIs and deployment experience in the 2007 -version (especially public web site), but I hope that has changed in 2010.
- Jemm
The footprint of the SharePoint isn't really a problem for most enterprises anyway. It's normal to dedicate several servers around it, if necessary. For some small companies that box.net -product could be a fine alternative, though.
- Jemm
Box.net is awesome! I use it regularly, there is also a product called DocHost at www.idoccorp.com that is really great and works much more efficiently than Sharepoint
- jamie swartz
Interns, while creative, heavy in social, and not 'soiled' from corporate culture are great at tactics --but may not know business side
Samuel Driessen, Gregg Morris, Morton Fox and 4 other people liked this
Do you use interns Jeremiah?
- Richenda Ghebrial-Ibrahim
How could they know that Jeremiah? Wouldn't a certain amount of experience working in the business world be required before they did?
- Gregg Morris
Yes we have interns. I hope we hire them full time
- Jeremiah Owyang
Today we get the keys to our house and start moving in! Excited!
Andrew Terry, mikepk, Justin Whittaker and 3 other people liked this
Congrats man!
- mikepk
congrats!
- Shey
That's awesome... Congrats!!
- David Finch
congrats
- Jeremiah Owyang
Requested Recommendations and Social Networks: Why I Won’t Do It - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Paul Zagoridis, Ho John Lee, Lisa thorell and 3 other people liked this
Thanks for discussing boldly but diplomatically this issue. I have been suspicious of LInkedIn recommendations. Your preferred tact to place recommendations organically around the web (eg. in unfiltered blogs) is also my preferred method of finding recommendations that have more credibility to me --because those references to someone's work(s) are in context and timestamped!
- Lisa thorell
Could you be more specific why you discriminate against linkedin when making recommendations in public? It seems to me you have more problems with Linkedin as the medium than recommendations perse.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn I have *no* issues with LinkedIn as the medium, I'm quite agnostic about it. It's the only place where users are requesting me to recommend their product (in this case, their job). I would say the same if it happened in MySpace or Facebook --but they don't.
- Jeremiah Owyang
Valid food for thought via @jowyang on why he doesn't do "Requested Recommendations" on e.g. LinkedIn, due to the layers of social filters/biases involved. I tend to agree that there is often too much "puffery" - the more everyone recommends EVERYone, the less meaningful any of it becomes.
- Alex Schleber
Jeremiah, than what you are saying is that you don't respond to people begging for recommendations. That's something entirely different I think.
- Meryn Stol
Ok, forgive me my previous BS comment here. I understand your position now, and think it's very fair. Certainly given your visibility and potential influence over others, I think it's a good decision to not respond to people soliciting recommendation.
- Meryn Stol
Great article and I tend to agree. But I would go one step further and say all recommendations are meaningless and without value because of their positive comments. I'd rather see a recommendation that is bad from someone I'm interviewing. At least I know they're honest, real and willing to admit their weaknesses.
- Aaron Whitaker
@aawhitaker - perhaps be aware that some highly discriminating people and hiring mgrs believe in the "Some Vs. None" Law, meaning, if you find even one negative comment against a person that it means that it is highly likely there are probably other negative comments (discoverable or not discoverable). If you find No negative comments -- this person is pristine clean, a winnah, someone you want to hire as they don't make mistakes. A sub-game to be aware of among some of the super-competitive...;-)
- Lisa thorell
Reviewing clients social media strategy documents and data (technographics too) heading into strategy call. I really enjoy this part of job
Hutch Carpenter liked this
What are best practices in terms of Headers, Sections, Table of Contents in Social Media Strategy documents?
- Ben Foster
Use ComicSans for everything. No seriously, that's a longer conversation but formatting has NOTHING to do with it
- Jeremiah Owyang
Ha... comic sans ;-)
- Brad Williamson
Five Ways Companies Let Employees Participate in the Soical Web - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
Richenda Ghebrial-Ibrahim, Pablo Melchor, Mark Davidson and 4 other people liked this
Reminds me of http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2008... (which mentions my company, EMC). BTW - typo in the title (social, not soical)
- Stuart Miniman
Jeremiah - did you turn off the FriendFeed comments going to your site?? I liked that feature.
- Stuart Miniman
see you fixed the title - may also want to fix #3 Representative not Represenative
- Stuart Miniman
I actually don't know why it's not showing Stuart.
- Jeremiah Owyang
The word "let" is suspicious. You don't "allow" people to use the social web. You take it for granted that they do. http://technbiz.blogspot.com
- Paramendra Bhagat
nice update w/ Hutch's link (you must have telepathically gotten that article from me when we met 2 weeks ago, I'd had dinner with Hutch the night before). Shame the FF action is flaky, that is a really cool integration.
- Stuart Miniman
Talking with Squarespace, they do blogging software, WYSIWYG, drag and drop. Who's using it? Kevin Rose, Leo Leporte and my bud @ddmcd
ive interviewed them a few times - great example of a nyc startup - hands down working - stays out of the valley and yet kicks arse and makes money - too bad it seems few of us talk about these companies
- Allen Stern
They're a good group, I agree Allen!
- Jeremiah Owyang
Hi @scobleizer I see that our nude hottub photos didn't make @techcrunch. Please don't repost this sekret DM
E-Advocate Network, Andrew Terry, Jesse Stay and 11 other people liked this
Love this. :)
- Louis Gray
Those photos are safe ... For now!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Good, hold out for the big bux Robert!
- drew olanoff
Pink wigs FTW
- Jeremiah Owyang
At launch event for La Fonera 2.0n that is a wifi router that manages and caches large file upload and downloads. More later.
Charbax, John Cooper, TiTi and 8 other people liked this
if 2.0 resembles the Verizon / Sprint Mifi I am think I will back this version up with a purchase.
- Dave Mora
Coming in October. Should be under $100.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I guess it will let me fully optimize my #timewarner capped 60Kbps upload. When did Manhatten become an internet backwater?
- Daniel Lizio-Katzen
Daniel that is crazy. The Communications industry like the finance industry is so heavily regulated we don't get the kind of competition we need to blow through crap like that. Robert did you catch a headline in the NYtimes today saying the Google/Microsoft competition is going to make consumers lose? How crazy is that? I want MSFT, Apple and Goog to succeed because the pie gets bigger. Phillips Curve austerity is one of the biggest flaws in the economic think tanks
- Stephen Pickering
Seems like a combo WAN Optimization/Caching appliance.
- Peter Ghosh
It was interesting. Translates 3G to Wifi to share Web access... sets up a unique 3G network (parallel to that of AT&T, Verizon, etc.)
- Louis Gray
It was said the product would upload faster to YouTube, etc. than your own computer... because you need to use your computer for other tasks.
- Louis Gray
What problem is this device solving?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Seems like you could probably achieve the same thing with a local copy of Squid.
- Marlin Forbes
If it's as bad as the La Fonera 1.0, I'll pass. Mine had a weak signal and was so unreliable I had to replace it with a better router. (A Buffalo WHR-HP-G54)
- Joshua Lee
Fonera 2.0 is like Verizon / Sprint Mifi with lots of home broadband USB host usage, but for $49 instead of $200+. You can probably get a battery for Fonera 2.0 as well.
- Charbax
Video: JS-Kit announces "death of comments" (link bait title). They promise to aggregate conversations http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Daniel Rowley, Kevin Cooper, Meryn Stol and 23 other people liked this
Just signed up for my invite.
- Chris Wilson
Yeah - linkbait indeed. Disqus is already doing this with their Social conversations (or whatever it's called), with comments.
- Jesse Stay
It's not just linkbait, it's offensive. This kind of stuff should stop now.
- Dave Winer
Dave, agreed. I'm less likely to use JS-Kit from this, personally.
- Jesse Stay
I'm sure not going to write about it as long as they're doing that. And I would consider trying it out on one of my sites, but not until they upgrade their marketing. The Disqus team is a class act, I have a lot of loyalty to Daniel, and they've never resorted to these kinds of tactics.
- Dave Winer
When I went to the MotoGP race at Laguna Seca, as I was the guest of the team that came in second. They were all over the winning team, congratulating them, hugging them, they seemed genuinely happy for them. I told them later that this wasn't the way it was done in my business, and I thought -- wouldn't it be great if it were.
- Dave Winer
It used to be this way. I sent flowers to Rob Campbell at Forethought when he got the deal with Microsoft that I wanted. We competed ferociously, but when it was over, I wanted to leave it on a high note.
- Dave Winer
I hope the JS-Kit guys read this, and it would be nice to get an email saying they got the message and they're going to stick to telling us what's good about their product, and they will speak kindly of their competition in the future. They can feel however they want, but we're not in the battle with them, and we're not going to sympathize with their war metpahors.
- Dave Winer
Dave, I agree - I love Daniel and team. I loved his answer when I asked him where they were at the #crunchup and he said, "working". :-)
- Jesse Stay
@Dave - I've been participating in all your threads today - I often do - no different for this one ;) - We think Disqus is an excellent company with a great Commenting product. We sincerely believe, though, that commenting is no longer as relevant as the global set of social gestures created by content. As a result Echo treats them as 1st class citizens and renders them in real time - you will find this is very different from Disqus' excellent comment product
- Chris Saad
There's a table of differences between commenting (our old product included) and Echo at the bottom of the echo page. Roll over the rows to get more detail if you are interested.
- Chris Saad
Chris, I'm keeping an open mind, in fact you're going to get an invite from badhair.us shortly, but if your product is that good, you don't need such strong hype. We were interested before the "death of comments" stuff. (The fact that Scoble was blown away by your product was enough. You didn't even need to go to the crunchup and I didn't see the demo there. I know Scoble bases his opinion on use, most of the time, so I'll always look at a product he raves about.)
- Dave Winer
I understand Dave - the messaging was pretty stark. Erick and Steve wanted us to make the point more clearly (based on their feedback from rehearsals) so we did. But you will notice that on the blog post and the site we declare comments 'Evolved'. In any case I appreciate you having an open mind and look forward to supporting your needs with Echo if you in fact choose to give it a go
- Chris Saad
Drop me an email to chris@js-kit.com and I will make sure you get priority support
- Chris Saad
I hope Disqus gets its own version of pulling in all conversations made as an offshoot of a blog post into the blog itself. So I don't have to move again. I hate this endless hopping from one blog commenting platform to another.
- jan geronimo
Dave, Chris, I'm open to learning from all vendors --link bait titles or not.
- Jeremiah Owyang
i like short presentations. it means the software is simple.
- Scott Magdalein
Jan, I'm pretty sure Disqus already does that, via the Social Media Reactions - see "Reactions" on this article: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
I balked at the point where, to get an invite, I had to spam all my twitter followers. No thank you. I hate reading canned tweets, and I refuse to send canned tweets. I was really torn whether to use js-kit of disqus for my new site, but now my decision is made :\.
- Adam Lasnik
How do you explain your job to your family? Just told me dear older Aunt "I help companies to understand the internet"
Jennifer Dittrich, walidmREALTOR, Mark Davidson and 5 other people liked this
I don't. They just ask me when am I getting a real job.
- Brandon Mendelson
Brandon, me too!
- Scott Magdalein
from iPhone
me too :(
- Hameedullah Khan
I usually say "marketing" and leave it at that.
- Herb Hernandez
With difficulty... makes me wish I had a child friendly job, like 'Teacher', 'Police Office', 'Soldier'
- Ian D. Nock
I'm a "Network Integration Engineer". Just between you and me, I do installation, integration, troubleshooting, and training for my company's like of data center power, cooling, monitoring, and security products. I tell my family that I work with computers.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
Yup that's right Ha3rvey I can relate
- Jeremiah Owyang
after 3 years, they still can't understand that I'm having a real job :)
- Dimitar Tsonev
When I say that my work is on the Internet, my family/friends hear something akin to "geek." This explains why I get calls because their Yahoo home page isn't loading, and what can they do...? (For the record, Aunt Sadie, I have no idea.)
- Ann Handley
I just say "I make the email work." That's usually enough, though only part of what I do.
- Jennifer Dittrich
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