I just signed up. Has anyone tried this? - Jon West
Trying it out. It's only SF restaurants in here! It's bad form, beta or not, to have no communication to the user that the service has no restaurants beyond their local area (and therefore zero value for us in LA). - Bryan Landers
That's too bad. I was ready to sign up too. They do say additional cities are planned for the near future. Hope that's sooner than later. - Tsega Dinka
@Bryan You do realize that unlike SF, L.A is one big f*ing city with multiple areas with different dinner delivery services, right? - J.T Dabbagian
Haha @J.T sure is! But, how is it different for CityMint to build their database in LA vs SF? Looks like they're hooking up partnerships with individual restaurant owners (maybe in addition to adding them manually). You could knock down the bigger chains pretty easy and then go where there's the most user demand (they should start on the westside...Santa Monica, etc, since early adopters are likely to be there). Hook it up! I look forward to ordering Thai from a local restaurant in LA... - Bryan Landers
Had a couple of problems with early versions of it, but the last couple of upgrades it has been very reliable. Certainly beats doing a manual upgrade. - Richard Peat
It's excellent, beats doing it all manually - Kol Tregaskes
Avynn just found this and found it extremely funny. This HUGE thing only held 135MB! I think it cost us $60+ back in 1997 or 1998. Yesterday I bought a 2GB tiny USB thumb drive for $10. Avynn thought it was hilarious that almost 20 of these things would fit on that tiny thumb drive... - Tad, Fool
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That was mine... I have the drive somewhere in our boxes of old electronics. - Lindsay Donaghe
Oh god, this is bringing back repressed memories. I remember the horrors of my syquest drives. We were so happy to replace them with Zip and Jaz disks when they came out. - Mark Trapp
Wasn't that the time of Zip and Jaz drives too? - Holger Eilhard
Ahh, back in the day. I remember my first computer having a whopping 750 MB Hard Drive! HUGE! - J.T Dabbagian
One of my first computers had a 250MB hard drive. I was so mad that Aldus Freehand 7 was bloated at 17MB. The SE/30 I had before that computer was even smaller. - Mark Trapp
A particular group at the newspaper I worked at thought that the proper way to deal with a Syquest disk that wouldn't unmount was to unplug the SCSI cord connecting it to the Mac. I became a king thanks to Norton Utilities. - Wade Dorrell
I remember storing data on 40MB versions of those back in the early 90's. - Gabe
And I thought the 8 GB Hard Drive my first computer had was small. Makes me feel childish, almost. What IS this thing, btw? - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Yuvi, it's one of the first forms of removable storage after floppies and tapes. There were a series of mistakes in the 90s in terms of how to approach transferring large files after floppies became too small; syquest was one of them (Zip and Jaz were two others). They were unreliable, slow, and expensive. Eventually, these formats were all replaced when CD-Rs became cheap to use as a disposable medium. - Mark Trapp
This reminds me how I used to carry my entire semester project in a floppy those days... :) - Sudar
I remember 8 in floppys, dectapes and 5MB 15 in diameter multiplatter disk cartridges. At the time they were wondrous - Brian Sullivan
Yuvi - i think it's a cheap hard disk platter inside a plastic case. Like Mark said, we used it the same way we used CD ROMS later on. By the way, my first computer had 16k RAM and used 3.5" floppies that held, what? 128k per side? - Tad, Fool
I still have one, right here on my desk. Doesn't work anymore though. - Vincent X
Syquest was before Zip and Jaz. I came down with the click of death with a zip drive, resulting in hate and ire toward Iomega for several years. - Jason Kaneshiro
Wow! That brings back memories. My first PC was a '286 PS/2 Model 30 with a 10 MHz CPU and a 10 MB hard drive. - Bill Sodeman
""Does it make it better or worse that the concept artist (who designed the look, characters, everything) is a girl?" Actually, it's proof that a girl's worse nightmare, thanks to society, is to be "fat."" - J.T Dabbagian
You bring up some very good points in your blog. However, I have read the reason why there is a charge for the iPod Touch is because of some Sarbanes-Oxley accounting law; that says that items that are sold without a subscription model such as the iPhone will be charged a fee for upgrades. Now I am paraphrasing this, so it's not the exact quote. If I am wrong let me know. I have paid for both, and now I also own a new iPhone. I will be selling my iPod Touch, so I see the upgrades as a selling point. I also do understand that if you are on a tight budget $10.00 is a lot. I have been there myself. - Gerard Lagana
It's not so much Sarbanes-Oxley (which I'm not defending), but Apple's strict interpration of it. - Dr. Apps
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I guess Apple is trying to keep their nose clean, what with all the back dating options investigations they went through. In a way it kind of reminds me of the Apple II and Mac computers. Steve Jobs gave more resources to the Mac development than he did for the Apple II. - Gerard Lagana
UPDATE: I sent an email to Steve Jobs with this letter. After the call he made to the NYT journalist, I'm wondering what will happen, if anything. - J.T Dabbagian
Wow, Howlett and Scoble agree on something! Anyone see four bizarre horsemen running about? - J.T Dabbagian
Why do we agree? Because I read Dennis' Tweets and he reads mine! Think about THAT for a minute! Hahah! - Robert Scoble
@J.t.Dabbagian: - if you read what I write you will know that I am faor. That meas if Scoble FU's then I ream him. When He fixes it, then I give credit. Problem with that? - Dennis Howlett
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Robert, is that because you voluntarily follow such a large number of individuals? Do you think all the crap merits the 1 or 2 really good things? - Clint Ecker
I put a question ouyt to RS. Why are you guys being such a bunch of limp dicks? - Dennis Howlett
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Clint: it is well worth following so many in my mind, but, no, even if I just followed five people the Tweets are generally pretty crappy Want me to pick five people out and critique them? Dennis, what do you want me to answer? :-) - Robert Scoble
@RS -we're cool, I'm more concerned about those who think the BS peeps like I have to deal with. OK with thiat? - Dennis Howlett
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Not only that, but it's quite apparent that it's the twatterati's excuse to have a load of fawning 'interns' pander over their every request just to garner some kind of favour. - Paul Woodhouse
I think there is too much attempt to do PR on Twitter...most fail miserably because they have not built a community. - Scot Duke
@Paul Woodhouse - I'm sure you won't mind me telling you to fuck yourself re: Scoble. We can discuss this later over a pint. - Dennis Howlett
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Other than the occasional helpful or interesting post, its mostly crap from attention whores, But it is like a train wreck, Its bad but you cant turn away - Rodzilla
I want to be clear. Robert S and I agree about few thihngs, But...I respect he at least comes and asks my view on stuff he does, You don't like that then fsck off. Why? Cuz RS doesn't have to take note of anything I say...but he does. - Dennis Howlett
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If you are talking about @Twitter then it should be a bunch of PR. If you are talking about "Twitter" then I think it has to do with who and how many you are following as to how much PR you will receive. - Doug McCaughan
Dennis is the man. I appreciate constructive criticism, I always learn something from it. Dennis gets on my case, but it's always actionable stuff and he praises when I come up to his very high bar too, which some other people never do. It makes me want to reach higher. - Robert Scoble
While there are certainly some users who see Twitter as an extension of their site's RSS feed, I think there are so many more users who type consistently entertaining or insightful posts. Try @hotdogsladies @dickc @darthvader @evskeys @monstro @scottsimpson. A nonexclusive list of folks who crack me up and have zero PR agenda. - Christopher Sacca
@Dennis Howlett The pleasure will be all mine - on both counts. Are you getting the first ones or holding the door open as everybody else makes their way to the bar? - Paul Woodhouse
@Paul Woodhouse - the door is syurely open my friend. Please let - Dennis Howlett
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I agree with that. I used to watch recent/everyone feeds coming in, but there's so many companies on Twitter now soliciting for business that I don't bother anymore. - Carrie
Listened to twit tonight on pocast, very sadend to hear Leo use bad language, will not let my kids listen to twit now. Leo is above this :( - Vincent AKA Netdog
Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... Any social network is going to be invaded by commercial interests. They newness of the media makes it harder to tune out the advertising than "fast forward during the commercials". - Kumeelyun
Actually, I was the conductor for the New York Philharmonic before Friendfeed came out. But mostly IRC, blog comments, Google Reader, Twitter. - Mark Trapp
Twitter & FF usage way up, Facebook way down - Jason Goldberg
Previously, I ran an internet addiction treatment center in South Korea. Now, I'm not only the President, I'm a client. - Dan Kaplan
Google Reader, Facebook and Twitter for me. - Kevin C. Tofel
Google Reader, MySpace (yeah, I said it), FaceBook, Yahoo IM - ♫ Rahsheen™
its been a pretty rapid ramp up for me - facebook opened the doors to twitter, twitter to friendfeed - mostly the net in general before that - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
More time in Google Reader; I've actually trimmed down my feeds because I see some of the same stuff in FriendFeed. - John Duff
err.. my blog. FF definitely cuts in to blog tinkering time. Before that, I mostly read fark and ars technica. All that was missing was the pot habit. - Phil Glockner
greader for feeds but also a lot of the services that are now integrated into ff i'd spend time at checking up on individuals w/in them - much slower and disjointed... - mike "glemak" dunn
Im a fark reader , google reader , techmeme ,, - johnpiercy
I was once the prince of Nigeria, until I surfed the web so much that I lost my throne in a revolution. But my riches are still in a bank account somewhere and now you can help me get it back! - Ernie Oporto
Facebook, I guess. I really spent a lot more time outside, too. - Zach Underwood
"What a bunch of bullshit...what's the harm in letting the mural stay? It's a popular landmark, not something to be whitewashed at the whim of some organization." - J.T Dabbagian
"I just got a personal assistant, but they aren’t saving me any time. What am I doing wrong?
Several people have asked me about this. There are many different issues that could be involved, but I see a lot of people who hire an assistant and then can’t think of what they wanted them to do. Either that, or it turns out their original ideas are all things that really can’t be handed off to someone else." - Joel Falconer
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Sounds to me like you hired an assistant just becuase everyone else has one. Think of tasks that are horrendously menial, tedious, whatever. This is the job for the Office Bitch (Believe me, I was one.) - J.T Dabbagian
@J.T: I think a lot of people do that, actually. I've never hired an assistant, because I've structured my work life in such a way that there is no job for the Office Bitch to do. - Joel Falconer
"Walt Mossberg, who often borders on fanboy in his reviews on Apple's products, gave a dreaded thumbs down to Apple's MobileMe service." - Jonathon
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I haven't had a chance to see Mossberg's review yet. But, I was really suprised that he had something negative to say about Apple. Uncle Steve is not going to be happy with Walt. lol. - Gerard Lagana
He's off the Christmas Card list for sure. - Jonathon
It's good to know that Mossberg can give an objective review. But don't get me wrong. I still love my Apple products. - Gerard Lagana
Mac: Oh, hey, what's that? PC: Oh, it's the Wall Street Journal, specifically a review by Walt Mossberg, one of the most respected technology experts on the planet, as you said...well, he can't recommend MobileMe for crap. - J.T Dabbagian
The only issue I have right now with MobileMe is that it's only push from the iPhone, and not from the desktop or web app. I believe this is being worked on, and will be resolved in a latter release. However, Apple is known to have some bugs in their first run products. It's just now getting more attention because more people are using their products. - Gerard Lagana
Unlike the Apple loyalists that know these issues will be resolved. New customers are expecting the Service or Product to "Just Work" as Apple's slogan goes. Fortunate for Apple they tend to resolve their issues quicker than say Microsoft does. - Gerard Lagana
i find i use google reader less & less now, since i find enough interesting stuff here on ff. i've been reading rss through snackr lately too, and even though it syncs read/unread with greader, it doesn't yet let you share from there. - Trent Olson
Its all here... More than enough content to digest... - James Fridley
I read Google Reader prolifically but I don't share items via Google Reader, I share them to FriendFeed directly so I can include text/inline images. - Robert Seidman
I read Google Reader almost every day. It's fun to comment here because you can see what other people think about an item right away and have a discussion. I'm liking FriendFeed more and more as a key discussion place on the Web. - Cathryn Hrudicka
I never used Google Reader - but FriendFeed seems to provide a sort of 'rating & review system' that means that one person shares it in GR, and if enough of my other "Friend Feed Braintrust" folks like/comment on it, then it's probably worth a look. Which would make more sense if I were coherent - but you get the gist. - Lucretia Pruitt
James: I'm actually noticing that the content here is a little light sometimes. Too much talk about certain jerks, or celebrities, not enough about smart topics. So I go off to look for some. - Robert Scoble
I actually read a significant amount in Google Reader. I also routinely share articles, sometimes with comments. I have continued to use Google Reader the same amount since I started using Friendfeed as I did before FF. I find I have interests and follow blogs and news with topics that just aren't discussed here so I do not see giving up using Google reader any time soon. - Jeff P. Henderson
I do enough Google Reader that I've caught myself trying to hit SHIFT+S to send an email :) - Jeff Douglass
Fuck Google Reader, go FeedDemon/Newsgator! - J.T Dabbagian
I read a ton of GReader, and wouldn't know how to consume news without it. I love the iPhone app for Reader, and use it daily. - Granteezy
Scoble, didn't you read my RSS Reader/Organizer post??? shh! Actually, I never really used Google Reader. Was always using iGoogle for my RSS feeds. - Justin Korn
Feedly+Google Reader == Heaven. I just wish I could integrate FF Comments with Reader. - Jesse Stay
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I agree with Robert that at times content can be a little lite here, or it can be so focused on the shiny new topic of the day (Can you say iPhone...) that there is almost no other discussion going on. But often I find some very interesting topics to discuss here that I can't get anywhere else. - Jeff P. Henderson
And you know how much Google Reader reading we do because...?? - JC unwired
I haven't figured out how to balance a full-time job, FriendFeed et al, sleep AND Google Reader. Until I gain your type of insight, something has to give. I do think longingly about my GReader from time to time. - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
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I'm still in GReader a couple hours a day. - Chris Baskind
One thing I noticed is that the content duplication really bothers me. It's one reason why I stopped reading Google Reader so much. I see it again. I really wish FriendFeed's team would do something about this and cluster same items together. - Robert Scoble
I use http://www.feedly.com/ to read Google Reader, better overview (magazine like interface) and all. Sharing is easier too, but because it has a direct link to FriendFeed, it is an example of a route that grows on Google Reader but ends up on FF... - Ruud van Wijngaarden
... or at least suggest something like "This URL has been submitted in the last 24 hours. Would you like to continue your submission, or comment on the existing entry?" - Chris Baskind
I;ve been using Google Reade rto share items for a few months now, I really dig it. - Soulhuntre
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Really like Google Reader but Feedly makes it sing for me! http://feedly.com provides me with lots of options for responding to read items (FriendFeed, Twitter, Delicious.) - Nice Fish Films
if people were really using the service as FRIENDfeed, rather than Social Mediati feed, or Promote My Stuff Feed or Info Junky Feed, the duplication would be somewhat minimal. Duplicates are heinous even at 150 people (I am following too much of the echo chamber, my own fault) but I can't even imagine how that looks for Scoble with over 3000 people. - Robert Seidman
Chris: What you are describing is similar to what a few other users asked for and what we tried to implement : each time you select an article, you get a list of all the friendfeed conversations related to that articles this way you can decide if you want to participate to that existing discussion or if you want to create your own post and create a new one. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/6... - Edwin Khodabakchian
That's nice work, Edwin. I should have mentioned that I'm getting more comfortable with doing my daily feed crunch in Feedly. In fact, I did all my RSS "work" in Feedly today (at least until it was time to gather my starred items and write). But I usually submit to FF from the article sites. I'll play with that. Thanks. - Chris Baskind
i subscribe to your shared items and read directly from google reader -- in fact, i rarely use friendfeed at all! (although that's slowly starting to change...) - Shawn Reed
Robert: Google Reader -- much better signal to noise than Friendfeed. I find GR to be a much more powerful tool for identifying and processing highly strategic information than FF. Friendfeed, however, is entertaining and addictive, and has the potential, with new features for smart filtering, to replace GR. The GR developers should be thinking about how to assimilate FF, or they are going to be swallowed by FF. - Sean McBride
Not true Robert, being here encourages me to find interesting things in Reader to add to the stream. Reader is the godsend for the information addicted and I'm running at about 600 articles a day just to get by. - Aaron Krug
I'm a Google reader addict, I spend on average 2 hours a day or more... I think this cause I feel need read every news item, of several hundreds. like 500 everyday.. bad habit... but Friendfeed makes it easy to comment on any online network activity - Sebastiaan van den Akker
hey gReader is still strong part of the workflow - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I got hooked to greader after I sawa video by Scoble show him skimming through thousands of items using they keyboard... resulting being that my starred item list is huge... lol - Sebastiaan van den Akker
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Some good shares on Google Reader today Robert, I comment on occasional stories not many though! - Joe Dawson (beta)
For selected things, Google Reader is a better way to consume them. I will never see most things that pass through my FriendFeed; if it's in Google Reader, I'll at least see the titles (usually). - Ontario Emperor
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not me, although I've been a little quiet today (email fail crisis...and a 4 hours to research and write post). Link blog with shares here http://www.google.com/reader/s... - Duncan Riley
I still use Reader and Scholar for 1-2 hrs daily at the start of every day. It's mostly science and medicine stuff tho, so wouldn't expect as many to like or comment on the stuff compared to the tech news. Sometimes I share as an antidote to the lite stuff on twitter and iPhone - Sally Church
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I tend to use Google Reader as one might a broadsheet newspaper... whereas FriendFeed is like standing in the bar listening in on the conversations and chipping in now and again. - Jonathan Beckett
Some of us don't use Google Reader for our feeds. :) - Cyndy
I can't drive myself to use Google Reader's user interface. But I love to use FrendFeed. :D - possible248
I use gReader, just tooo dang busy to read many blogs these days...really bummed about it, but my job is really overwhelming lately. - Susan Beebe
I couldn't care less about Google Reader, Friendfeed gives me more stuff to read than the time I have to... - ☂Marcos Marado
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i use newsgator because it easy syncs to mac/pc... netnewswire is the best rss reader ever made (mac)... web version is a joke compared to greader tho - Mike Szczygiel
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RSS is dead. I haven't used Google Reader in 2 months. Why waste time mucking around in Google Reader and sludging through all the crap when the best of what Google Reader and your RSS feeds have to offer can be filtered through FriendFeed. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas Hawk - I wish I had a better understanding of your model for using Friendfeed. I subscribe to nearly a thousand RSS feeds in Google Reader. I store the top 25 feeds in a folder at the top of my feeds, and tend to focus on that single folder for the pure gold, With GR I am able to reduce redundancy to a minimum by clearly separating read from unread items. FF is a mess by comparison. What am I missing? - Sean McBride
Ever since feeddemon/netnewswire and synching with newsgator became free, I ditched google reader. - Mike Kogelman
simple. Communiy-collaborative filtering combined with conversation. My own G Rrader feeds are a lonely chore - Michael Markman
Sean, just subscribe to those top 25 feeds here in FF instead. Learn to hide everything in FF after you've seen it if you need to more aggressively filter out content you've seen. - Thomas Hawk
When I share something on google reader, I usually put a comment on it. Value added, don't you know... - K Welch
Thomas -- I find hiding to be far too much manual labor. The aesthetic of hiding violates all my principles of good user interface design. (IMHO, of course). And I find the hundreds of feeds that are not in my top 25 folder to be valuable -- I rely on Google Reader to sort unread items in that group by personal relevancy for me, and it does a pretty good job. I skim off a few 100 items from my B-list in odd moments. How do you separate unread from read items in Friendfeed? I dislike the redundancy. - Sean McBride
Perhaps GR appeals more strongly to solitary personalities who are more interested in their internal conversations than in conversations with others. Too much social conversation gets in the way of developing complex and difficult creative projects. - Sean McBride
I still do a ton of feed reading and share items. - Steve Rubel
I would estimate that Google Reader is, literally, 100 times more efficient for scanning, keywording, storing and retrieving high-quality information than Friendfeed in its current state. - Sean McBride
The problem with Google Reader is that when you subscribe to more than 100 or so feeds you inevitably get bogged down in lower value information. While you can prioritize by creating subject folders or A, B, C type hierarchies, still there is no real relevancy filtering by interesting subjects. Throw your A feeds into FF and let your contacts decide what else is interesting. Add in super search and you have a system that is superior to GR. - Thomas Hawk
remember how years ago everyone used to think dial up AOL was an interesting way to access the internet? Then technology showed a better way. RSS readers are not going to die, but they will be seen as the dial up AOL of content consumption 5 years from now. Your parents might still be using RSS readers, but you won't be. The potential of social filtering through tools like FF today is only the tip of the iceberg for what is coming. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas -- I create separate folders in Google Reader for narrow subjects like "Semantic Web" or whatever. And the cool thing is that feeds can be stored in multiple folders. I also prioritize my folders. (My GR setup is actually a bit more complex than my previous description.) Perhaps I am slow to catch on to all of FF's functionality, but so far I haven't been able to match my GR setup here. - Sean McBride
Robert: I added too many busy feeds in GR and they became unmanageable. Upon review, each feed seemed valuable and a pity to drop. I am keeping my FF subscription list short for a reason. - Alexei Tolkachev
Sean, I used to do something similar. A folder for photography. A folder for ego searches. A folder for Flickr. Overlapping A, B, C folders based on prioritization. Etc. FF is far from perfect, it is where the ball is moving though, it is the future, and I'd rather master the systems of the future than waste time bogged down in the systems of the past. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas - more: the swarm/collective intelligence capability on FF is not being very efficiently used, in my opinion. For instance, I want "rank new links which mention *expression by times linked, liked, clicked and commented on." Currently the cool links swim in a chaotic morass -- I can't easily get my hands on them. My Friendfeed friends (like you) turn up good links (thanks!), but I don't feel like I am seeing the whole picture in any field of activity. - Sean McBride
Thomas - I'm listening carefully to your remarks - I respect your opinions. We are both rather fanatical early adopters. Bottom line so far for me: I want to see a merging of the best features of Google Reader and Friendfeed, and more. - Sean McBride
Google Reader is my number one shared site, I'm almost as addicted to it as I am to FF. - सत्याग्रह [Bren]
Its all about the community effect; we are all here and its so easy to add a message. It all looks so nice and the user experience is great. - Joao
Some do, some don't. I see no problem with people using FF as an RSS reader of sorts, but I am seeing a disturbing trend where people are commenting on the headline and not reading the article! - Sarah Perez
Well, I share about 20 stories per day, but there is always some feed that I do not subscribe to that someone shares a good post from. - Rob Diana
GReader stats: From your 103 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 3,419 items, starred 27 items, shared 43 items, and emailed 2 items. - John Duff
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is Aqua Forest fun? I watch a demo here-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... but it looked like the novelty might wear off. It looks really cool though. - Ryan
you'll blow through the puzzles quick. After that, you can come up with new puzzles in free and have your friends try to solve them....Not sure if this was intended, but it sure is alot of fun to stump them :P - Sean Dunn
I actually see this as a feature. A fail safe for someone who may have deleted an app from the phone by mistake. I happen to like that it must be removed from iTunes. - Ryan
It depends what you want to do - how much PHP and CSS do you know? How customizable do you want it? Is it for a company or for a personal blog? WordPress is a great way to go, but you just need to know what you want to do with your blog. For both beginners and those who want control, WordPress is often a good choice - Ben Parr
Yes, if you want to take care yourself of hosting and desing (you can easly just pick a premade template). Not if you don't even know how to do an FTP. Have you considered the hosted Wordpress.com ? Give it a try before getting in a self hosted Wordpress script. - Fabrice Epelboin
Personally, I would also start with a wordpress.com blog, just so you get the feel of it. If you like it, get your own site! - J.T Dabbagian
WordPress is the best. It does not take any more work, but it is much cleaner than other formats. - Ethan Jaynes
