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If you want followers don't turn off your autofollower like I did http://twittercounter.com/compare...
Jonathan.Rivera, Susan Beebe, jcunwired and 7 other people liked this
But do you regret it? Is less follower audience worth the cost of less noise for yourself?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
No, I don't regret unfollowing and turning off the autofollower. My main goal is engagement, not fake followers.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed. However in Twitter, I wonder if these people also are RTers or just add no value besides a mutual number on the counters.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Holden: not true. I watched Loic's and Calacanis numbers flatten out when he turned off autofollower. Yes, mine will go up, but slowly, and maybe slower than yours did. Why? People are still unfollowing me because I unfollowed them.
- Robert Scoble
Mark: exactly. I'm still following new people, but only those who demonstrate that they are geeks, know me, or are bringing something else to the table I want to listen to.
- Robert Scoble
auto following is not a bad thing per se but it does allow lots of spam to get in
- Seth Goldstein
Robert, how come you're not following me..I know I'm not a geek but you know me and I have great posts :)))) I'm playing, you do know.
- Myrna
Exactly I don't follow anyone from Blogcatalog or Mybloglog here at Friendfeed. With all that drama over there, I needed to separate from that smut. I simply wanted a place where there was more quality content. There comes a time when you have to make a quiet exit.
- Jeunelle Foster
My God Scobe, setting a standard or something? Good to see someone from the IT geekdom say "you know what, I/we need connection here". That desire is what has gotten web 2.0 where it is. IMHO these internet marketers, etc are putting these tools (Twitter) at risk of abandonment by fostering the creation of a hollow shell with their focus on numbers (followers) without meaningful connection.
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
Auto following caused a lot of automatic retweeting and this spam filled up the twitter board, hiding the quality content away from us, lot's of people got pissed and it caused breaches in password security. Some of these auto follow tools were automatically retweeting every friggin 10-15 mintues without your permission and linking back to your twitter account, a great way to lose your good friends. Quality is where I'm going, not Quantity.
- Jeunelle Foster
if you want followers, provide something of value to them. Then focus on the value you can get from those you follow. Aside from the stray person who just wants one more "guaranteed" re-follow, mass following people is actually a disservice to those who rely on you for up-to-date information or opinions since the signal:noise ratio sucks so badly.
- ax0n
+ Chad Gesser
- Myrna
Myrna: I am following you. But here where I can easily talk with you, rather than on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I told you I was playing! <3
- Myrna
I posted this a week or so ago but got limited opinion. But as Scoble just said, if I follow someone on Friendfeed (that links Twitter and is active), is there a value in following on Twitter as well? Seems like it's just an echo.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Robert, but thanks for answer!
- Myrna
While I'm not one that agrees with autofollows, do you think you would have near as may followers now if you only followed those 1,800 from the start? Or do you even care?
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
I want genuine followers, you know those super dedicated folks that are satisfied only when your community comes to life.
- Mark Essel
Ahhh.. but now you are followed by those who love you as opposed to those who just wanted a followback from Scoble! :-D Love is better!
- Amy Flynn
Adam: I'm sure that some of those that I now have as followers wouldn't have followed me if I hadn't autofollowed. True. But then if I really worried about such things I'd be begging @ev to add me to the suggested follower list. That's the REAL way to get followers you don't earn by doing great content.
- Robert Scoble
I still believe engaging and quality followers is better then Quanity
- Rob Cairns
ahhhh, see the future passionate ones integration of depth associated with conversation and content (FF) coupled with the ability to integrate personality and personal history (Fb) ..or something like that
- Chad Gesser
from BuddyFeed
Great way to get rid of all that SPAM. Good for you. I'm doing the same.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Google Chrome Logo Bot - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Nicholas James, HealingBrush, Hanna Wiszniewska and 8 other people liked this
I don't suppose there is a video of the uppermost (white-background) transformer-figure changing shape into 3d Chrome logo?
- ianf ⌘
Ian, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Philipp Lenssen
Thank you. Somebody should tell the Japanese artists not everything has to be Kawaii… the transforming logo figure alone would have been enough without "kutesy" admirers(?). That said, I am surprised no one has seen the obvious kinship between 3d Chrome logo and the [my name] Oblivion Vacuum "spherical device" deployed in the 1996 SF movie "The Arrival" [here's the relevant quote from...
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- ianf ⌘
"Justin Korn's Blog" as a title is boring...I want something fresh and unique. Ideas?
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Derrick, edythe and 12 other people liked this
I originally had "Justin's Web Hub"
- Justin Korn
Korn on the Blog
- Chris Nixon
Sorry
- Chris Nixon
Think of something that you really like or an overall theme and work from there. Mine is simply my name because it's more for the purpose of what I do..blog entries are just "I feel like writing". You post a lot of your photography..maybe title it a play on words from photography?
- Candace
1afia;lsf;alalg holy crlak;flag ppa Chrisa l;kfs;la a laahahha dying
- Akiva Moskovitz
hahaha hseriously i am afyding over herekaj gfa SEND HELP afka; 1uP
- Akiva Moskovitz
Chris: Genius...
- Steve Isaacs
Chris just won.
- Candace
I am going to have to hide this because every time I see it I start having a laughgasm again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
OMG Chris. I can't breathe!
- Yolanda
Kornucopia? And yeah, I'm dying from Chris' suggestion too.
- Alex Scoble
Korn Blogging, Blog Korn, Justin's Views. I don't know, my blog title sucks too. (SheenOnline? Come on...LOL)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
seriously Chris. Wow. *wipes tears away*
- Yolanda
Think about how people will search Google for your blog and include those terms in your name. Use the Google AdWords Tool to research your theories: https://adwords.google.com/select...
- Robert Scoble
Chris - don't apologize I can't stop laughing either and think it is brilliant
- Justin Korn
Leave it to my brother to use this as a chance to pimp one of his favorite widgets, hehe.
- Alex Scoble
+1 Chris!
- Jeremy Brooks
Rahsheen - I like SheenOnline. It's somewhat orginal...
- Justin Korn
Justin's Korn'er
- Jonathan.Rivera
Not bad Jon, i like that one too
- Justin Korn
I'm glad I'm not the only one doing an embarrasing LOL. Geez, Chris -- that was a hoot.
- Cheryl Rice
It's the 'Sorry' that makes it genius.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah, CHRIS that was 2 funny
- Jonathan.Rivera
And that's from someone named "Rice." Maybe we should get together, Justin ... do some kind of high-carb blogging thing.
- Cheryl Rice
ROFLMAO... damn Chris that was good! funny stuff!
- Susan Beebe
how about ijustin. maybe you would get some accidental traffice from ijustine.
- nesman89
To borrow from lester you could do iKorn. :)
- Alex Scoble
ha, iKorn...i can't believe that domain isn't even available.
- Justin Korn
I am the proud owner of kornontheblog.com (not changing officially yet, but had to buy it)
- Justin Korn
I dig Korn on the Blog... [Korn] Kobs of Wisdom...
- Richard Goodwin
from twhirl
Yeah it's still making me laugh.
- Alex Scoble
That's Kernels of Wisdom
- Nine
"Something Fresh and Unique"
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Nine - Like "Kernals of Wisdom"
- Justin Korn
Well, at least there are too people in the world that like SheenOnline. Thanks Justin :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Korn on the Blog ftw, omg HAHA
- Mona Nomura
Just In Korn!
- Didier Lahely
from feedalizr
bumping due to this post: http://friendfeed.com/sparkto...
- Justin Korn
Korn's Kettle?
- JA Castillo
Thank you Justin. My most favorite thread EVAR. I laughed so much, I cried.
- Yolanda
JA Castillo - I've already settled with "Korn on the Blog" --> http://www.kornontheblog.com
- Justin Korn
Yolanda - This was certainly an AWESOME thread! :)
- Justin Korn
LOL...Justin, I am usually late to the party! Please pardon my ignorance! ;)
- JA Castillo
JA - No worries, all good in the hood :) Though, I do like the ring of Korn's Kettle. I should open a Kettle Korn shop...
- Justin Korn
from IM
My social networks are wall-to-wall Michael reactions.
Thierry R. Andriamirado, Kol Tregaskes, Jon Gosier and 20 other people liked this
Very sad!
- Eric
as they should be
- Zee.
Does his music trump his allegations?
- Andy
you are late to the party, if you'll forgive the metaphor. We've been discussing this on Veronicas friendfeed for 2 hours.
- Mark
rip king of pop!!!
- Adrian Eden
Surprisingly Twitter seems to have more msgs involving the Shaq trade to Cleveland.
- Barak B
Michael's career spanned over 3 decades. He affected many generations with his music & dance (and other crazy ass stuff).
- Carol Levesque
The internet is sluggish by the weight of everyone talking about this. Too much death lately.
- Lise
what a terribly sad day
- Therese
Are you surprised or making a statement?
- Jason Hansen
Mine too!! Also Jeff Goldblum, Walter Kronkite
- Susan Beebe
Jason: just stating a fact.
- Robert Scoble
You have to feel as if he, like many, left us too soon!
- Michael B. (SearchBuzz)
No Kidding. I haven't been online all day and I get to FF to see al MJ news
- Jonathan.Rivera
Robert: Touche'. :)
- Jason Hansen
No amount of artistic talent justifies totally wasting it and the rest of his life on a totally self centered self destructive lifestyle. Sad when anyone dies young - but he does not deserve this reaction.
- Simon Bryan
Grew up on Michael Jackson, first record was a 45 with ABC on the A side.
- Kim Landwehr
Mine too, and now I can't even focus on work. I just became a MJ fan two weeks ago... awwww, I'm in after the harsh judgment. :( (edited to be less nasty) When I see someone suffering, I feel compassion, because I too have suffered. If you have not suffered such intense pain as MJ clearly did, the correct response to that is gratitude, not condemnation. In my humble opinion, of course.
- Lo
social networks r so powerful
- polou/indigo_bow
Same here as well as the phone.
- Michelle
Can you measure how wall to wall compared to other news? Do you have a trending measure across all the networks (perhaps in FriendFeed)?
- Mark Aitken
@michelle wow the phone 2 eh?
- polou/indigo_bow
RIP MJ
- Adam Horne
And most offices still at work won't be talking about anything else. I've had five phone calls about MJ already.
- Chris Baskind
@Simon, this has nothing to do with talent. The influence he has had on pop music speaks for itself and will never go away. Just because he was accused of something by people with questionsable ethics themselves doesn't mean we can (or should) go and remove any reference to him or his influence on the music people are producing today.
- Kenton
24 of the 31 items on my FriendFeed main feed at the moment are about Jackson.
- Ken Sheppardson
same here - it's 99% MJ tweets and FF posts
- Nathan Chase
Such an impact on those of us who grew up with that music, I remember exactly where I was when the Thriller video was released... *sigh*
- Janice
CNN confirmed... So sad! R.I.P. Michael!
- Patrick Mackaaij
And so there you have it. Off the Wall, MJ's best ever album. :)
- Edward Zwart
That's a fact. Off the Wall is very much underappreciated.
- Patrick Mackaaij
I feel the need to dig out some older Weird Al Yankovic tracks
- Ian Tindale
so sad! Love this from @GuyKawasaki Jackson Five ABC: http://trkk.us/?hBp
- Kelly A Nelson
Made me realize I'm getting older - or just old... a sad day.
- Mark Harai
Wow ! poor Farah Fawcett just disappeared from the news
- sivanath
It's like jacko stole the thunder
- sivanath
Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean live at Motown 25th Anniversary Special (1983) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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There was nothing like it. What a show.
- Sprague D
That was one of my favorites. He seemed so alive and happy then
- Susan Beebe
That was like nothing ever seen before. <3
- Derrick
I'm waiting for comments in the press from Berry Gordy and Diana Ross -- didn't Diana discover the J5?
- Sprague D
depending on how accurate the movie is, susanne de passe discovered them, but diana took credit
- chrisofspades
Charitable drawing for real estate: We are thinking of doing a charitable drawing for one of our homesites. The .. http://www.linkedin.com/answers....
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Re: Using Traffic Geyser To Manage Your Videos - http://www.eventslisted.com/eventla...
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"Google now have software that coverts audio into text which allows us to search by key words that are used in videos. Duplicate video content can be easily identified through words as it can in text documents and this product is live in Google labs. I introduced it in my Google open social video. Changing headings etc may work against you because it looks like you're gaming the system. Publishing the same videos on different platforms is not duplicate content if the same author is publishing their video across 100 platforms. It's like a TV show being played on multiple channels across the world. Changing a shows title and description to make an audience think its a different show on different channels is what Google don't want. It's only duplicate when different authors publish the same video across different platforms especially if heading and descriptions of a video are different yet the video is the same which they can tell by the words spoken in it. That's why its important to use..."
- Simon Ford
How To Secure Your Facebook Username (Vanity URL) - http://whyfacebook.com/2009...
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Check this video out -- My Social Traffic Story http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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TWiT 197: Steal This Diploma - http://twit.tv/197
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Looking forward to updating my pod!
- Kevin J Hatton
LEO: I really enjoyed this episode and the sort of "big picture" look at technology and culture. It made me think of an idea for a TWiT show. What if you created some sort of Digg-esque page on twit.tv. There, people could submit specific big picture topic ideas and the twit army would vote on the topic they were most interested in. Then every month, or whatever frequency you selected,...
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- Mike Bracco
It's amazing I can listen to TWiT right here from FriendFeed. Amazing.
- Michelle McCormack
I really liked the discussion on college and teaching methods. Probably one of the best discussions I've heard about the subject.
- TeraDyne Azurepaw
Best TWIT ever. And I was this close to unsubscribing a few weeks ago when drinking spaced out...
- Peter Nõu
It was a little more pertinent than usual. I don't know if that's good or bad, though :) Wait, was Twitter mentioned?
- randulo
looking forward to This Week In The Cloud
- Christopher Harris
Excellent show this week. Great panel.
- Doug Slater
Fantastic episode. Thank you Leo. Hoping all TWiTs are this good.
- Venu Vedam
from Nambu
I really enjoyed the episode but disagree with some points in the discussion about education. Firstly, standardized tests are a necessity in admissions process. How else to compare thousands of applicants? I understand the frustration associated with SAT (I have never taken it but know GRE all too well) but this is one of the very few objective measures/indicators available for...
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- maciej
listening now!
- andy brudtkuhl
Looking forward to listening to it soon.
- Zachary TG
Live now: Leo Laporte _is_ The Tech Guy. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here... (later today TWiT with Don Tapscott, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani.)
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All live, never on a floppy disk.
- iluvgimp
Ha first one Good morning Leo!
- earl wallace
Hey leo. i remember last year you showing Windows 7 on your Mac. Ive now done something on the sort. Although im about the 1 millionth person to maybe do it, but thats me running Leopard on a EEEbox B202. Amazing. Looking forward to the show.
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Hi Leo
- AhronZombi
This explains why you were using DrScheme earlier. Hah.
- Jalada
Hi from scotland leo
- Michael Mooney
That little boy can write better code than most of us probabley
- AhronZombi
At the University of York (England) where I study Scheme is used in 'Principles of Programming'. It's a really great way to learn programming principles, because it's multi-paradigm. You learn about programming, not the language.
- Jalada
For all us architects, AutoCAD uses Autolisp
- Tim Barber
How about PDP-8 coding or Xbox Live Community game coding
- Michael Mooney
BBC uk had a robot wars tv show, Raptor was the best entry from the public
- Michael Mooney
We had the UK Robot Wars in the US for a while on PBS
- iluvgimp
http://robogames.net/ RoboGames! June 12-14, 2009 in San Francisco (formerly ROBOlympics)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
hey from georgia stick kams working twit tv isint :(
- daveccorey
http://live.twit.tv is working fine for me
- iluvgimp
BBC News uk reporting the last surviver of the titantic has died aged 97 in her nursing home in southhampton
- Michael Mooney
bitgravity via http://live.twit.tv flawless from here.
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
iluvgimp twit.tv uses Bitgravity which in past has been buffering from time to time. Another alternative would be www.stickam.com
- earl wallace
He can change the dns on his laptop and/or use a ssl or tor proxy ( i do not encourage open dns bypassing)
- Michael Mooney
If he did change the dns how is the ssl gonna go thru the router? For my info
- earl wallace
Specify the proxy address by IP not domain name
- Ghworg
So you are saying the dns settings in the router can be compromised and bypassed? Very slick!
- earl wallace
I will flag e3 news i find on my friendfeed & twitter feeds for all of you at TWiT - G4TV.com & GameTrailers.com have live feeds of Microsoft, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, UbiSoft & Sony press events at E3
- Michael Mooney
it's the chainsawbot
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
All the router does is hand out the DNS server addresses with the IP when your computer does the DHCP request. If you set your computer to different static DNS servers the router is too stupid to notice (comsumer routers anyway).
- Ghworg
Thanks Ghworg
- earl wallace
I had to run the workaround to get rid of the .NET extension in Firefox that Microsoft jams in.
- earl wallace
Hi everyone, do you know when is Jeff Jarvis coming?
- Stanislas Jourdan
Yes he has - "IP A+ Rating for you two, Baby"
- Michael Mooney
So when will the TWiT Live Wave be ready
- Michael Mooney
It's going to be interesting watching all the social media gurus trying to adapt their social media sites to Wave.
- earl wallace
Leo save power and money just add a cold water fish tank to the studio to cool the room
- Michael Mooney
The Sims3 may be 2009's most pirated - The Pirate Bay and all the other p2p should have a unique peer/leach counters to help create a download chat system
- Michael Mooney
Adding a fish tank to the studio would have the great side-effect of providing lunch for Leo on really hot days, mmm boiled fish.
- Ghworg
Halo: Reach game achievement list place holder found on xbox.com
- Michael Mooney
Xbox 360 have topped over 30 million units worldwide & Wii sold over 50 million units worldwide
- Michael Mooney
Leo, are you having anyone report to you from E3?
- Matthew
NOFX has been around for a WHILE
- Matthew
Don't know if you'd like their non ska/reggae stuff
- Matthew
Just seen Jason Calacanis tweets and had a idea! how about a Hotel, Rental Car & Airline - news & review podcast for geeks on the TWiT Network
- Michael Mooney
HAHAHAHA that's awesome Tune in to TWiT and Leo's playing NOFX Awesome
- Erle Stride
i like the punk rock music Leo
- AhronZombi
lol No NOFX doesn't sound like Blink lol
- Erle Stride
Add abby to TWiT cast this week
- Michael Mooney
we all love this show you should do a 24 hr live stream just take people tech question
- Richard Thomson
Hey Leo. I checked out Dotster - looked okay. I use Namecheap.com instead of Godaddy and have been a happy customer. Lots of options but not overly complex. As the name implies the price is right too. Plus they're all into the social networks too.
- Mykal
Kristan Cunningham brings DIY home - http://www.latimes.com/feature...
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After taping nearly 150 episodes of "Design on a Dime," HGTV's $1,000 makeover show, Kristan Cunningham learned a thing or two about money-saving renovations. So when the interior designer and her longtime boyfriend, Scott Jarrell, moved into a Venice canal district rental last year, they gave themselves a $1,000 budget for a kitchen face-lift and decorated much of the house with finds from big-box chains and vintage shops.
- Derrick
"You either have the do-it-yourself spirit, or you don't," Cunningham says, sipping a mug of coffee in her now-cozy, French farmhouse-inspired kitchen. "We knew we were going to be in this house for a couple of years. But since it is a rental, Scott and I tried decorating it with low-cost design ideas."
- Derrick
That kitchen is the business.
- Derrick
I love all those windows. Wish I could make my kitchen look like that for $1,000.
- Trish R
Trish, I'll contribute say, $20 AND cook for you...what'll that do? ;)
- Derrick
Get me a really nice dinner and cab fare home. ;-)
- Trish R
I need some tips! And I'm only focusing on the bathroom!
- Anna Lynn M.
I'm actually planning on doing this over the summer, remodeling 3 rooms in my house and attempting to do it on as little money as possible. Maybe I should document it and Carter Osterhouse and some of his friends will take pity on me and stop by?
- Trish R
great great story!
- Anna Lynn M.
Great kitchen :)
- martha
that house is amazing. totally love her style.
- Melissa
Design on a Shoestring: High, Low and Eccentric
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RUSSELL LEWIS, a 37-year-old graphic designer, really liked his one-bedroom apartment in Leigh-on-Sea, a fishing village an hour east of London. It was hardly extravagant — a rubber plant, a fish tank and an old recliner were his main possessions. But the apartment, on the first floor of a white-brick town house, is uphill from the ocean and offered plenty of light. Then his girlfriend moved in.
- Derrick
“It was dreadful,” said the girlfriend, Gemma Ahern, 36, recalling the mildewed bathroom, mushroom-brown carpet and outdated kitchen. “It was very much a bachelor pad.” Luckily, Ms. Ahern had recently switched jobs; she had been a freelance florist, then became a design assistant at her sister’s home furnishing and interior design shop in London, called Atelier Abigail Ahern. Short on...
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- Derrick
But no matter what they tried, the sterile white walls and bland kitchen still brought to mind a bachelor pad. Nothing short of a total makeover, they decided, would do. So they pooled their savings — about £6,500, or $10,300 — to overhaul the entire 1,200-square-foot apartment, starting in May 2007.
- Derrick
what can they do for $50 and a bucket of chicken?
- tiffany
Know why you are unique, your USP and go deeper "An inch wide and a mile deep" -- that's the key to success online http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
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58 Essential Resources For Every Mac Geek - http://www.gracesmith.co.uk/58-esse...
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"mac geek" is an oxymoron
- nadžak baba
This Weeks Classic 80's Video! Night Ranger- Don't Tell Me You Love Me http://www.youtube.com/watch... from 1982s Dawn Patrol.
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The Social Traffic (2) campaign tie in… - http://www.socialtraffic.biz/our-cam...
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@social_traffic Social Montana -- Social Traffic bookclub/webinar series event page with video http://www.eventslisted.com/Social-...
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Hey Doug, the page looks great! I guess I better get to work on mine.
- Jonathan.Rivera
My Twitter Workflow: Multiple Groups with Tweetie w/ Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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A little video I put together showing you my Twitter "workflow" using Tweetie for the mac. I elect to setup multiple twitter accounts to manage different groups of people. The latest build of Tweetie allows you to get very granular with notifications from each account. Setting up groups via multiple accounts solves 2 problems, cross app group syncing (think phone and desktop) and the Adobe Air bloat. I just love the speediness of a native client. The little blue notification icons indicate when one of my groups has new posts. I only post out using my @davesenior account. Not the quickest way, but probably my favorite overall solution to the grouping problem.
- Dave Senior
from Bookmarklet
yeah, i do the same but decided to switch to Seesmic Desktop because the overload of buttons in the pointless buttons in the sidebar. If there was growl notifications for searches that would be a great help too.
- Zee.
Social Rank is rapidly superceeding Page Ranking. Do you have a Social Media Strategy to keep up with this? #STI
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I love this new "Social Rank" concept.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Unless you built the car yourself, slapping a custom "in loving memory of..." sticker on the back of your car is incorrect, tacky and stupid. I want it put in my will: "No one can dedicate a car to me after I'm gone."
Eric @ CSTechcast.com, Penguin It's Cold Outside, Helen Sventitsky and 2 other people liked this
I've never seen that. Does it mean "Bought with the insurance money from..."?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I think the funeral homes sell them as part of a package. Along with the fridge magnets ;)
- Tony C
yep tacky.
- Ian May
Better than "In Loving Memory" macaroni art and pictures cut out in the shape of a heart. Or maybe not.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
The most creative desktop wallpaper yet. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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RT @music_events: Congratulations team!!! #STi - A little help from my friends http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Why Quicksilver is still the greatest Mac app of all time. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
HealingBrush, Adam, Daniel Rowley and 72 other people liked this
can't agree more.
- vijay
want to agree but mine crashed alot
- Franz Sittampalam
I dunno, I've been using Launchbar (the beta) for a while and I prefer it.
- Jalada
i dont mean to sound aggressive Jalada, but I'll put my house on it that Quicksilver can do everything and more better than Launchbar
- Zee.
Oh yea zee. Qs can do a lot more than Launchbar. I do prefer Launchbar anyway :)
- Zio Bonino
I couldn't use QS for more than search & running apps. And for that the Spotlight works well, which made me remove QS. BUT, knowing it now posts to friendfeed directly, I guess I'll try it again...
- Arnaldo M Pereira
After reading this review I guess I should install this as the next level of **Pimping my Mac**
- Jonathan.Rivera
I'm a long time fan of QS, but -for the sake of infosharing- you can do quick unit conversions using the Google Quick Search Box as well. Simply double-tap the command key and when the search box comes up type, for instance: 100 miles into km. - The first choice offered should be "Search Google..." - Hit that, and Google will do the unit conversion in your browser.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
ça me plait
- andré
I'm sure Quicksilver can do it all, but I always found Quicksilver's configuration to be cumbersome and complicated. Maybe I was just doing it wrong :P
- Jalada
I used QS for a long time and love it but found it ate a lot of resources on my old powerbook so I stopped using it. I tried Butler and although very different metaphor it did everything QS did but again found the same thing with resources. Now I use the google quick search which is nowhere as hungry but doesn't really cut it yet. As I'm doing more and more in firefox now I'm using ubiquity more and more and that is rocking.
- Brett Jackson
is quicksilver under active development?
- Franz Sittampalam
Shedali: as far as I know, there is still some active development ongoing by members of the quicksilver community. However, Alcor, the creator and lead developer of Quicksilver, is now heading up a team at Google developing the Google Quick Search Box: http://code.google.com/p...
- Brandon Titus
I was a satisfied user of Quicksilver until OS X 10.5 came out. Quicksilver became unstable on it and some plugins didn't work anymore. I now use Google Quick Search Box which looks more stable and promising than QS.
- Brome
I dumped it last year - Quicksliver is too complicated and it's balky on Leopard.
- Bill Sodeman
I just bounced back over to Quicksilver after an extended relationship with Butler. Butler's interface seems a little more simple to me, but QS is fast, super extensible, and I like the QS plugins.
- Joel Zehring
I can't live without QS and will be heartbroken if it stops being compatible with the upcoming os releases.
- wynlim
Quicksilver tutorial: http://bit.ly/kGNY Manual: http://bit.ly/Fa7FC QuickRef: http://bit.ly/11d3vT
- Howard Melman
I can't live without Quicksilver, first thing I install on a Mac
- Simon Tracey
My problem with Quicksilver is that I become SO dependent on it on my own mac that I can't seem to do anything when I get on a Mac that doesn't have it.
- Jeff Smith
from twhirl
+1 Jeff lol...
- Zee.
@Jeff, and the same applies to Windows! Now I can never go back...
- Vincent van Wylick
JR Holmes, I'm no expert, but: http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah Wittman
Recently I haven't been using it that much, but that's because I've been spending less time at the computer.
- Richard A.
Quicksilver was indeed ahead of it's time ESP for those us us who prefered not to use mice - before spotlight using the GUI on a Mac wasn't my favorite
- chad calease
from Nambu
+1 Jeff; would be happy if apple integrated something like quicksilver; I thought spotlight would become a quicksilver killer but it doesn't offer the same indispensable object-action style of interacting with items etc. I must have OCD because I've accumulated over 1000 address book cards and quicksilver just cannot handle this without crashing for me!
- Franz Sittampalam
I wish I had a nickel for every second of time QS has saved me...It's a must have.
- Chris Rossini
Re: Adding Google Friend Connect is an example of how hard it is to join the 2010 web - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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"Gray: you obviously are not a careful reader of what I wrote. I know how to use FTP. I'm trying to make the point that normal people don't know what FTP is anymore so asking them to "upload" files, and then not help them do that, makes a process overly complex in today's world. It's your attitude that turns mainstreet businesses off of this whole business in the first place. It's arrogant to demand that ANYONE know how to do this stuff."
- Robert Scoble
mainstreet businesses are still trying to figure out email and im. Don't wait for them Robert, they are going to be wiped out quickly, loudly and painfully, I'd focus on the new generation of business that appreciate this stuff. Social xyz and stream abc sound like some geek event to most of them. You can say GFC all day long to most mainstream businesses, they will behave like they get it but they are probably thinking you are talking about KFC.
- Tweet Feeds
I think I must be one of the few people who still remembers how to use FTP protocol, considering that it's the only way I have ever known to upload files to a web server (other than the upload functions from MySpace and other social networks). Where technology went wrong is that it has become too simple; there's no thought to it anymore. Now, all you have to do is click a simple button and your content is available.
- Thomas Ward
I agree with Thomas. Making things simple has resulted in way too much rubbish appearing on the web. It muddy's the water. I'm astonished that Robert has forgotten how to use ftp when octagenarian grandmothers are using it in Internet Explorer to upload pictures of their grandchildren to websites they created on free web hosting platforms. We should never have allowed this technology to escape into the mainstream.
- Gilbert Harding
Gilbert and Thomas, I suspect you engineered your own cars so you can get to work in the morning, right? Wrong. People driving cars do not need to know how to design them or build them. The same is true for web technology
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I don't agree with your point.Only people who have their own site will need to upload via FTP. And these people know how to. In contrast, non-savvy people will use blogger.com or wordpress.com where the service has already installed the friendconnect plugin.
- Régis Décamps
LPH that isn't entirely true but your point is well made even if the analogy is little old. However making things simpler to use often makes them far more complicated, and your average motor car is a prime example of that. The web is going down the same road.
- Gilbert Harding
Wait a second, so some of you ACTUALLY believe the web should only be populated by folks that are technical enough to post their content. That's just plain ignorance. The greatest artists, musicians, writers should keep doing what they do best and let the techie folks make sharing their information as painless as possible. Having an "elite" or special privileged group status to share information on the web is blatantly wrong on so many levels. Have a problem with information overload, build better filters!
- Mark Essel
Get Ready For Real Time Digg, Whatever That Means: Like everyone else, Digg has a serious case of Twitter envy. .. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009....
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