Julia

It's true that most people aren't capable of "drinking from the firehose". The part of all this that I like is that with Friendfeed, I can easily "plug in" to people who have the time to engage in the world Alexander is envisioning. I can set my own filters and priorities, and get relevant information on my own terms. Finding time is difficult, and these services are about freeing up time for me, not sucking up more of it. - Jason Ellis

Alexander, the answer is B. I didn't hit the Diet Coke until I got to work. :-) - Louis Gray

I'm With Jason Ellis. I'm only following ~100, and I find it manageable, useful, entertaining, useful and entertaining. They'd have to consider privacy functionality but there's no reason in theory that people couldn't easily build private networks that were extremely manageable within the FriendFeed type of environment. - Robert Seidman

Former Pres. Jimmy Carter endorses Obama. - Andrew Dobrow

AP tally: Obama effectively clinches nomination http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/s... - Andrew Dobrow

Statement clarified a bit: "Hillary Clinton is willing to take the vice presidential slot on a Barack Obama presidential ticket, New York lawmakers tell CNN." - Andrew Dobrow

Who cares. They are both showing themselves to be huge liabilities. Neither will win in Nov. combined or not. I wish we had a real choice in Nov. - Jeff Day via fftogo

You always have a choice, just write in that amazing magical unicorn of a candidate. - Geoff Schultz

Hillary reported as saying roughly, "I'll do whatever I can to help us win." Us being her and Obama. Jeez. Talk about ruthless. She does NOT want to lose. Whatever it takes. - Andrew Dobrow

@Andrew: Sloppy writing by Politico's Ben Smith. "Roughly" as in approximately or harshly? - Robert Stevens

Way to use FriendFeed #132: Live blogging history in the making. - Andrew Dobrow

@Robert: Not sure. I'm guessing that is the gist of what she said, just not the exact words perhaps. - Andrew Dobrow

Rep. James Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House of Representatives and a superdelegate, endorses Obama. (No surprise here. African American, Democratic congressional Whip) - Andrew Dobrow

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), 3 DE Supedelegates Endorse Obama; Delegate Countdown - 12 To Go to clinch - Andrew Dobrow

Yeah, that power-hungry Waters switches from Clinton at the last minute.... Nice.... - Chris Reed

Jimmy Carter backs Obama. Go figure. Who knew? - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

Survivors of the that bubble became huge and others just faded away. One that was always speculation that would fail was Amazon. I think we will see something similar. Fast growth of technology and ideas but only the best will survive the long time. - Geoff Corey

I think people are being more careful this time around. Last time, most start ups didn't seem to have any business strategy and focused more on the fact that employees could play pool all day and bring their dogs to work. - Daniele Rossi

Software platforms have become so accommodating and streamlined that a coder can invest the equivalent of a big hobby into a business and get it popularized and scaled with cash on hand, bypassing the VCs. (Not always, but increasingly.) If you go bust, you lose the equivalent of a new car. Whereas, in the late '90s, you'd cobble together a "Web 1.0" idea, file an IPO, put the money in a pile and dive into it. Extreme cases had half the raised cash go to a lavish launch party. You don't see that any more. - Rick Wolff

no - Kit Krash

Yes, stupid VC money is chasing buzzwords. - John Wesley

Buzzwords are so 1990's - Kit Krash

I don't get it... this is a bubble? It feels like shit. I can't imagine the pop - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ

real estate bubble, fizzle, pop. credit bubble, fizzle, pop. dot-bombed already, so money is smarter. survivors of social media will fare well. - Kit Krash

I have been doing some research into the growth of social media recently and it looks pretty similar to me in some ways..in terms of bandwagon jumping by those with money to burn. Ordinary folk just seem to enjoy socialising and talking to people online and as more people are used to being online all the time these days with the spread of broadband and multi-computer homes, there are a lot more people about to chat than there were previously. - Julia

Audience is definately larger and that might be a very important point. Smarter with money may be a different story. We are very conservative at the startup I work for but I have seen other blogs at other startup bragging about buying ikea furniture and aireon chairs right after getting funding. I'm not sure those folks will make it spending cash on frilly stuff. - Geoff Corey

I think this video speaks a thousand words http://friendfeed.com/e/fbcdae... - Igor The Troll

I'm just wondering whether they'll be more comments here or on the actual piece. Think I already know the answer - Charlie Anzman

Disqus integration in Friendfeed is definitely an exercise in conversation fragmentation. Not only are there multiple conversations about the post, there are multiple conversations about each comment. Vive le bruit! - Mark Trapp

Apparently there's a Disqus announcement coming soon regarding FF. Maybe FF comments will go back to Disqus? - Shey

That would be cool, Shey. I wonder how that would work without threading in FF, though. - Mark Trapp

FF comments going back to Disqus would solve a LOT of issues in my opinion. That'd be amazing - Bartek Gniado

Wierdest thing: I was sure that Disqus and FF worked together anyway. When I first installed it, I commented on the post at friendfeed, and the comment appeared on my blog's comments. ??? - Slippy Lane

LOL - Phil Glockner

I'm going to use that... YAAOF - Bwana

What's funny is, I was thinking of my next blog post, and I had the same thought - Geez, yet another friendfeed blog post.. Oh well! - Bwana

I like the sound it makes - YAAAAOF ;) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Wow, five entries in a row on ff, from two people across three services, all pointing to the same article. If this doesn't illustrate the need for some kind of "merge" feature on friendfeed, I don't know what does! :-) - Slippy Lane

Aside from being delighted by the popularity, the article has instructions on just how to deal with such a situation: Hide services you don't use. - Phil Glockner

Going to install this right now! Thanks! - Jeremiah Hoyet

Seeing so many decent Wordpress plugins these days that I think I may need to move my embryonic wordpress.com blog to a proper install on my webhosting package, I already have an old WP blog on there but it is too much hassle to update, so would prefer to start afresh especially as I am moving into a newer topic area. Anyone else find wordpress.com a bit restrictive for their needs? - Julia

@Julia: I just recently moved from Wordpress.com after being there for a while. Don't get me wrong, Wordpress.com has a fantastic service, but the restrictions on what you can and can not add to your blog are just too much. - Jeremiah Hoyet

Heh. This is a HOSTED Wordpress Plugin. Different animal. - Robert Sanzalone

lol, we know, Julia was just stating that all the fabulous Wordpress plugins floating around makes Wordpress.com feel restrictive. - Jeremiah Hoyet

Haha, that's funny. - jjprojects

Well, actually twitter launched japanese translated interface last month though, when you switch to japanese interface, Google Ad-sence also appears. - browneyes

But no US .com business plan yet. Their recent stability would be perfect with this plan, but then we might never see uptime again. ;-) - Andrew Dobrow

That's pretty amusing. :) - lilbyrdie

This is more than amusing :) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)

Inspired! - Mykl Roventine

Sounds familiar! http://friendfeed.com/e/5d5198... - Louis Gray

Very cool, I think that is a fantastic idea! - Steaprok

I think the summary might be a good idea - Rodney Rumford

As I've preached.. and will continue to do - Julian Baldwin

Which should be in the next 5-10 min based on past averages. - Kevin Shannon

Hope Friendfeed can handle it. What am I saying? Of course, it can! - Morton Fox

I hope so. I think their biggest test is yet to come. - Shey

I had looked at FF a few times before, but it didn't really occupy any "top of mind awareness in my head" until I read a few of Duncan Riley's posts about it recently. So I signed up both because of DR's arguments for&against + out of frustration with twitter and seeking an alternative from that angle. Now that I'm here, I find it's better for me than my RSS reader. It's faster at least. - Paul Short

This weekend is a US holiday (Memorial Day). I have a feeling it may happen sometime then. - Bwana

People can post Twitter-like messages on FriendFeed, but they also get the benefit of having a more organized (and no 144 character limit) conversations. I like Twitter's simplicity, but FriendFeed just won. - Bartek Gniado

Way to go Duncan Riley, FriendFeed Evangelist! - Shey

Bartek - Twitter, to me, was kind of like the status message feature on Yahoo Messenger but for the web. And, I agree... 140 character limit is not enough at times. I hate findin gou ti need to use smaller or delete words for my Twits to fit. - Outsanity

That's quite possible - Jeremiah Owyang

@Outsanity Yah, initially Twitter for me was just the same but I began to like it more for information sharing, meeting people and other interesting things with the odd "what i am doing". FriendFeed gives me all the same stuff (Well, not quite yet but if it grows it will) with a bit more organization. Only problem right now is the people who I actually know, are still only using Twitter ;) - Bartek Gniado

Shey - I'm not adding another monitor. It's either / or ! - Charlie Anzman

I can that all the Twitter down time this week is part of the reason I'm giving FriendFeed another serious look. Still trying to sort out how to filter out all the noise. - Bryan Person

Bryan, if you haven't already read Louis post on the Hide feature, you should: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Shey