I'm seeing a ton of chatter about LinkedIn's new application platform. I'm not on LinkedIn. I guess I should join. - Robert Scoble
LinkedIn's done something very right with apps. I've always felt the site has a good premise, and now they're implementing some nice features. Also, I can't believe I'm on a site you're not :P - Will Higgins
"OpenID is fundamentally a sound idea, but these test results demonstrate that for most users it is not an ideal solution and has not been explained to them very well at all." - Chris Messina
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kyle: uh? The link is talking about openid, not opendns... But I'm guessing it proves the article's thesis, duh. EDIT: I'm not talking to myself, they guy deleted his comment... - Andre
Chris, you're going to make me join, aren't you? ;-) - Louis Gray
I woudl love to know how Ning is treating you for largish social groups. I woudl love to use it but the inability to suspend a user without deleting them and thus all their content kills it for me. - Soulhuntre
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resistance is futile! you will be assimilated Louis! :) LOL - Susan Beebe
"Ning, a company that lets anyone create a social network, is integrating with OpenSocial, the standards platform that makes it easier for any developer to write applications for Ning." Whoo-hoo! - DeWitt Clinton
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If you're interested in Ning, you should consider checking out Elgg. It is a very flexible open source social network engine. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Tina -- do you know if anyone is working on adding OpenSocial to Elgg? - DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt: I don't know anything specific, but if you Google 'opensocial' specific to the Elgg site http://www.google.com/search?h... , there are 100+ results and most of them show up in trac and code subdomains. I would take this to mean it's being worked on as we 'speak'. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Also, check here http://elgg.org/plugins.php On the lefthand side under plugins you'll see "OpenSocial (early beta) OpenSocial is still in its early days, however, this plugin will bring OpenSocial widgets to your site. It is based on OpenSocial 0.7." - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Ha ... I just got schooled at Googling. : ) That's great about Elgg and OpenSocial, too. Thanks, Tina! - DeWitt Clinton
LOL! I've heard that from you and Robert both, and I find it both perplexing and flattering ;-) I've not played with Elgg since OpenSocial became available, but the last time I worked with it I *really* enjoyed it. They offer something I've not seen anywhere else: the ability for a user or group to configure their posts to show up blog and comment style OR forum style (i.e. post & replies) on the fly. Since it uses the same engine, it gives a site a lot of flexibility. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
The electric mini-shock feedback will get us there. A win-win. I couldn't go back to giving up all of that screen real-estate to a darn keyboard. Or, going bulky. - Dion Almaer
+1 to that. Typing on the iPod touch annoys me so much I've stopped using it for anything other than playing music. - ana
iPhone typing is fine, fun even, it's the auto-correct that just f's up too often - Christopher Galtenberg
agreed. i nearly threw my ipod out the window 3 times trying to compose an email. not worth it. that's why the g1 is perfect for me. (sent from my real keyboard on gphone :) - jenna
+1 @bret ...i have fat fingers, the tiny keyboard provides necessary feedback that i'm doing something - .LAG
Btw, for those with jailbroken 2G iphones, there's a package in Cydia called Vibrus which does exactly what @Dion says. It sends tiny (configurable) shocks when you press keys. Some people like it! - Ashwin Bharambe
My iPhone typing kind of sucked until I turned the key-click back on. My WPM and accuracy shot up by 900,000,000%. (Whaddayouwant? It's purely anecdotal!) - Akiva Moskovitz
I would have loved it if my name was there. :-) - Dave Winer
But Dave, you're already all over Huffington! ;) - Mona N.
Ponders how I could get my name checked on CNN in a DIFFERENT way where they, for instance. liked me. ;) - Cyndy
oh look, another article with an "unchecked blogs are affecting the real world.. we need to regulate and/or license blogging to stop this" undertone. For me, what spoiled it was how the cheapest macbook in the UK went from £699 to £719 while the americans got a price drop. No fair! - alphaxion
We have had 8 years of George Bush. Don't talk to us about fair. ;) - Cyndy
heh... I refer you to the being british part once again ;P Besides, bush isn't the progenitor of the rot you guys are in, it's a cumulative effect of decades of shitty policies and corporations calling the shots. Just like in the UK, the last person holding the torch when it goes tits up gets it in the neck. - alphaxion
just to clarify, I'm not absolving him of any blame cause he has been a terrible pres.. I'm just sayin' that he's not the only one to blame. - alphaxion
Seems retrogressive to me -- why do I need two clicks (and in a somewhat illogical order) to get to best of week, month when I only needed one before? - Brian Sullivan
Brian: when you were in Best of view, there was no cue to get back to the standard view, or that you were in a special view. This now has that cue. The space of the standard view cue had to be made up somehow, and I'm sure they have statistics to show that best of day view is the most used best of view. - Mark Trapp
Mark: --when in standard view there is no way to know how to get to best of week or month (whereas before that was easy). I am sure you are right that the best of day is the most used but still seems retrogressive - Brian Sullivan
Brian: with best of month, they completely removed it during the first beta of the new design, which leads me to believe that either a) people really don't use it or b) they really don't want people to use it. In either case, it wouldn't be a loss for people to not find best of month immediately. With the best of week, there may be statistics to show that it's used very rarely or something like that. - Mark Trapp
Brian, as a user who basically never used this feature, it seems like a nice uncluttering compromise to not show all "best of" options in the beginning. Just a "View best of" link might work too, with the other links only appearing once you clicked it... - Philipp Lenssen
Now i know why this changes - to make room for real-time! - MG Siegler
This, much like aluminum bats and steroids, is a game changer. - qthrul
Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor
Josh -- we've barely scratched the surface of analyzing social media and networking. The AI-based social network analysis software of the future will optimize the interactions and experiences of billions of people. We are still at a very primitive stage in figuring this stuff out. - Sean McBride
Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride
I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca
Awesome. I'm going to buy Emily cookies so she likes more of my posts. :-) - Robert Scoble
Did someone record this talk? I'd love to see it, since I'm one of the sources. Hey, Bret, want to get together when you get back? I'd love to talk more in depth about this with you. I think you're onto something very important. - Robert Scoble
I wonder what effect I had vs. my brother. :-) - Robert Scoble
Friendfeed remains ahead of the game. Bret a driving industry force. - Alex Hammer
"FriendFeed's turning one! A year ago today, Bret, Jim, Paul and Sanjeev put our site and service out there and invited some folks. Soon, more people joined—as users, coworkers and friends. The rest, as they say, is history. Although not particularly ancient history." - Bret Taylor
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It's been a year already? Blimey. Happy Birthday! - Tony Ruscoe
Congrats. Trumpets and blowguns to get the rest of us non-FF slimes. Still have those weapons handy. +1 DeWitt, bring in some gears! Got some nice design in mind. +1 Shivanand and the like, how come it never existed before is beyond my understanding, that's how web services win I suppose. Great foundation to build for the future of 'social media'. - Zu aka ElijahBailey
Happy Birthday, FriendFeed! Looking forward to your next 10 years : ) - Jess Lee
Thank you for building my home on the web... Was waiting for a long time. Worth it :) - Christopher Galtenberg
Congratulations Friendfeed and Happy Birthday to you!!! - AJ Batac
I <3 ff! Thanks so much for providing such a great community of wonderful people and great information. :-) - Jill, Superhero Librarian
Happy Happy Birthday Friendfeed, best of luck for the future! - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear FF, Happy Birthday to you...and many more!! - Jeff B
CONGRATULATIONS... It has taken me most of the year to figure out how to use and make the most of friendfeed, and now dont' want to live without it.... - amelia arapoff
In the 87 crash, I was long on Symantec stock, and we hadn't IPO'd yet, and everyone was saying to me what they are saying to you now -- it'll take 10 years for the market to recover from this, so forget about startups (which is what Symantec basically was). Didn't turn out that way. We IPO'd 2 years later, the market had completely recovered. Not saying that'll happen this time, but no one knows what's coming. My own belief -- tech was about to turn-down all on its own, a cycle having more or less completed, with gatekeepers keeping truly interesting things from happening. Google has to get knocked down, as well as our friends at TechCrunch before we can move forward again. - Dave Winer
I think this is good to happen now. takes the pressure off the tech sector performance and puts it on problems that have been building since late 70's. - Josh Mings
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Sure, if people get distracted from the real work of building their companies by all this turmoil, they'll fail. But it's the same bunch that will already be distracted by something. - Mitch Ratcliffe
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loic, what do you think? it has got to have an effect on the scene, don't you think? - Şekip Can Gökalp
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There will be a shake out of bad business models, lifestyle business companies (feature based companies) that didn't deserve large venture rounds and unfortunately some legitimate companies who might have survived in more risk tolerant times will suffer. But this is the 3rd tech / market downturn I've been through as an entrepreneur, and each time my companies and those of friends grew in these times and came out stronger. Many of the big success stories of recent memory occurred grew out of the 2001-2003. - Austin Hill
I don't think it'll disappear but no doubt in my mind that it'll shrink. - Patricia
I've seen maybe 3 downturns- and in each, innovators and entrepreneurs are separated, the wheat from the chaff, and those that survive are stronger for it. It's always an interesting time. Everyone seems to be starting a social media company now- as folks hunker down and get IBM-style jobs, others will stand out from the crowds. @Austin ++ - anna awesomesauce
It may hasten the demise of those that were weak or prevent weak ones from securing funding. Disappear? No. As noted above, we are on the cusp of a tech bubble one way or the other IMO. Far too many start-ups have that 1.0 mentality of ... build the brand, get the eyeballs, and figure out monetization later. When a critical mass of these types of startups exist you know a correction isn't far off. - AJ Kohn
On 9/11, I was walking down to the Potomac River to try and get a better view of the Pentagon on fire. I walked past a building and saw some suits going in with a suitcase and a presentation 'tube' and slides and I remember saying to myself 'what kind of person is actually conducting business on a day like today'. I later found out that was the question VCs were asking for the next few months--what kind of startup thinks they can get funding in a time like this. Unfortunately we're now in a similar time. - Andrew Leyden
Don't forget it costs a lot less to make startups these days. A reduction in available capital isn't as critical now as it would have been not too long ago. It is a bigger issue for small companies trying to get medium and medium to large, however. - Louis Gray
Could get ugly, start-ups might need a business model other than being acquired. - tim
When web 2.0 first started, a lot of startups displayed a frugality and utility due to the lessons learned from 1.0. Those low cost startups will persevere. The ones I'm skeptical of were the "me too" iterative ones, that took a lot of funding and have high burn rates, offering little innovation and were obviously designed for a flip. - Jason Kaneshiro
On the bright side, there's going to be good money to be made in automation and software that can drive cost savings in companies. - kris. nuttycombe
Most startups will fail. This is always true. - Soulhuntre
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@Loic: Ugly or not, we are sure to become more creative. - Loren Heiny
Loic it is an experience that counts! If you do not make it in one company you go to the next! This is what business is about. - Igor The Troll
i doubt it will disappear... might slow down a bit, but we'll see. (not if i have anything to do with it tho) - dave mcclure
i don't believe it ... but look for fewer toys and more helpful/useful stuff - Gregory Lent
Maybe some/most of the current puffery will go away, but it will make way for services that ad REAL value. Services that save you money, connect you with jobs, aggregate buying power or enable you to trade good and services will be in demand. - Trevor Lee
