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Kate, no, it's let your customers come to you, but use the environments they're familiar with to participate right on your own brand. Check out my latest blog post for a good explanation of what I'm referring to. It's a merging of the old and new marketing - I think we're entering an even newer era of marketing. - Jesse Stay

Damian Damjanovski

Only an hour until International Talk Like a Pirate day!

September 18 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

thanks for the reminder! - Kate

Thomas Hawk

This is my parents property on fire in Big Tujunga Canyon. - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...

August 31 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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As of Saturday my parent's home was still there when my dad left. He stayed on the roof with a hose fighting it by himself. The firefighters helped him fight it for a while. They used a pump to pump water from the swimming pool to fight it but eventually the firefighters gave up. The neighbors house burned down. My dad was able to save our house, at least as of Sat. afternoon. It may be gone now. He was going to try and hike back in on Saturday night in order to bypass the roadblock by the Sherriff, but wasn't able to get back in there. - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

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:( - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Oh! I'm assuming they're ok if you had time to snap this pic. I'm sorry to hear that! :( - David Cook - 2010!!!

So sorry to hear that, the place is gorgeous. :( - EricaJoy

not my pic. Associated Press pic from Yahoo news. My brother found it and sent it to me. - Thomas Hawk

:( - chaz2b

That's the neighbors house. My parents home is on the property burning in the background. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, well that still sucks! - David Cook - 2010!!!

bummer - MikeAmundsen

I'm so sorry! :( - Michelle Martinez

:( So sorry to hear that, Thomas. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I think the house may be ok. Well see. On Sat. night when I talked to my mom she said that he'd been able to save the house fighting the fire from the roof. But a storage/garage type structure on the property burned down and 3 cars were lost as of Sat afternoon. The whole thing could be gone now though. - Thomas Hawk

Oh, Thomas! Many prayers, warm thoughts (warm = the affectionate kind, not the fiery kind), and hugs to you and your family. I hope everyone is safe! - Ladybug Heather

Oh, man...I am sorry to hear that, TH. Thoughts & prayers to you and your family. - JA Castillo

My thoughts are with your parents. - vicster is...

they are all safe. my mom was in ventura giving a seminar and my dad stayed until the fire burned through the property on the canyon. There were still hot spots though that could have flared up. He left on Sat. afternoon after saving the home and the fire burned through the property. I think he wanted to get to town as there's no phone/electricity up there to let everyone know he was... more... - Thomas Hawk

Oh, sh*t!! That's awful. Glad to hear your folks are OK, Thomas. - Andrew Terry

Oh, jeez. :( - l0ckergn0me

oh no... this fire season is so terrible. my thoughts to your parents, Thomas :( - Melissa

Good luck to your parents, TH. - Stephen Mack

Yikes. - Akiva Moskovitz

Sending good thoughts your parents way, Thomas. *hugs* - Molly, New Ears :P

I'm so sorry, Thomas. You and family are in prayers, I'm so glad to hear that you are all safe. Your father is a very brave man. Please let them know I am praying for them. - Melanie Reed

Wow. Keep us posted. - Louis Gray

:((( - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

please keep us posted - Joshua Smith from twhirl

i hope everything is alright - sam b-r

You have a cool dad Thomas. Instead of praying, I turned a fan on in the opposite direction of your parents' house. - Edward Zwart

:((((((((((((((( - AJ Batac

So scary. Best wishes to your folks. The worry must be unbearable. - Kathy Fitch

I've lived in Altadena/Pasadena for the bulk of my time in Los Angeles, nearly ten years. It's really scary to know that some of the homes that are being lost are undoubtedly friends or relatives of friends and people that I know. - Derrick

Hope everything turns out good for your parents, looks terrifying - Kim Landwehr

Hope everything turns out alright, with no more property loss, for your parents! - Rene Wirtz

:( - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

How scary and terrible! I'm glad that your parents are ok, though!! - Susan Dennis

I'm so glad everyone is ok. I'll keep your family in my prayers. - ChiliMac

I'm glad everyone is safe. Is this the worst fire season in recent years? - Bryan R. Adams

yeah. this is the worst fire since the fire that burned through there maybe in 1977 or so? I remember that one too. It was pretty bad. This one seems worse though. The other thing that's terrible are the floods that follow the fires the next winter. - Thomas Hawk

Scary things fires like these. Glad to hear your family's safe though - at the end of the day that's more important than the house. - John

Really scary. I saw a wildfire up close for the first time this weekend in Yosemite. It's not something I hope to be near again. - Kevin Pedraja

Amazing pic, but terrifying. Glad you are safe! - Gemma Leanne Goode

So sorry to hear this. Good to know that your parents are safe. - Anne Yeh

ohhhhhhh shit! that totally sucks :-( - Ralph Reijs

Thomas I am so sorry. I hope their house is ok. Gosh, I feel bad for you guys. - Jim Williams

I talked with my dad on the phone for the first time today. He seemed fine about it all. He said it was exciting actually. He was the only one there fighting the fire for a long time. He said it was really quiet except for sounds of the fire. He'd hear a tree fall and yell "timber." He was in pretty good spirits all things considered. He's pretty sure the house is saved and hopes that they might escort residents back in in the next few days sometimes in this part of Big Tujunga Canyon. - Thomas Hawk

I'm sorry to hear about this, but I'm glad everyone is okay! - Michael Fidler

It is a story all to familiar for us Australians and thankfully my family and I have never been caught up in it ourselves, but have come very close. Glad to hear that your folks are ok and in the least have a story to tell. Everything is replaceable except your life and these types of events bring people to that realisation faster than they would like unfortunately. - Travis Koger from iPhone

Hope they're OK.......ds - David Sanger

WHOA! I hated the CA wildfires ..that was something I'll never miss again... augh - Susan Beebe

Man ,, TH.. Im so glad that the folks are ok ... tell Dad to leave the firefighting to the young guys ,, hope that the folks are safe and that the weather can drop some rain to assist in this disaster ,, - johnpiercy

TH .. all that matters is that the folks .. are safe ,, homes can be rebuilt .. best wishes sincerely jp - johnpiercy

he's a pretty crazy but resourceful old dude actually. the firefighters were there helping him for a while but they bailed on the property figuring they couldn't save it and he stayed and fought it off himself. - Thomas Hawk

Hope the house is okay. Glad to hear the folks are safe. Cheers! - Helen Sventitsky

Can't think of anything more scary than having to run from your house as it's being surrounded by fire. Very glad everyone is safe though....that's what is important. - Bonnie Foster

So tough. Hope the house made it - but mostly glad everyone is safe. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

damnit man :( - Mattb4rd

wow :( - Joe

So glad to hear your folks are safe, TH. Wow. Praying for the firefighters and rest of the people caught in this horrible fire season. :-| - Lisa L. Seifert

OMG! that's really dreadful! glad to know your folks are safe. and stunned that the fire looks so beautiful in this image! - B.L. Ochman

OMG. It looks almost Photoshopped. - Zachary TG

Wow. - Nicholas James

so sory :((( - mamisinga

oh. I hope your folks are safe. - Anna Lynn M.

I'm sorry :( - BeeLing

Yeah WOW. So brave for your dad to fight the fire all by himself. I'm glad to hear he's ok.. I feel a little sorry about their house, it's beautiful :( - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

So sorry they have to go through this. Thank you for sharing the story, Thomas. - Micah Wittman

I was listening to a story on the radio about how quickly you can be engulfed by a forest fire, specially when certain types of trees literally explode raining burning chunks around, honestly, it sounds very risky to stay behind and fight these yourself. - Ray Cromwell

Thomas, I hope your parents house makes it though the fire OK. I'm glad to hear that your parents are OK, regardless of what happens to the house. - Jeff P. Henderson

I feel for you Thomas because I've been there just over 6months ago. All I can say is (unfortunately) you're in for a shite of a year ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Peter Renshaw

glad to hear your folks got out - terrible to see the devastation! - Kate

Truly saddened. Truly. - Jeff "RESPRES" Turner

glad to hear they're OK but gutted for you TH - Phill Price

Sorry to hear about your troubles Thomas, but I'm extremely glad your parents are safe and sound. Looks like you guys are having a really bad season - Mo Kargas

sorry you guys are having to go through this shit. And I'm seriously impressed by your dad! major balls. - vijay

that's an awful experience... - Rick Cogley

Hope everyone is ok. - Alternating Reality Books

Sheesh* Scary Poop Batman - hopefully Everybody is OK* I saw that on the Front Page o the Paper this morning + U never think it's somebody U know* - Billy Warhol

Wow! How is everyone? - Mitchell Tsai

I didn't want to click on the Like link because it's almost like saying I enjoy watching Thomas Hawk's parents house burn down. Hope everyone is safe ;-) - James Robertson

I am sorry to see the fire was such a danger to you and your family. I sincerely hope your Dad didn't manage to sneak back in - he just endangers himself and the fire fighters.. It is better to have your Dad around than a house. - Bill Rawlinson

I'm really sorry to see and hear that......... - Kevin Montgomery

That is so scary, but the biggest thing is that you know where your parents are, and they're safe. - mark zero (Jason)

My parents went back into their property yesterday afternoon. They were letting some residents back into Big Tujunga Canyon. The house survived but there's a lot of work still to do. The pipes from the water pump to the spring burned up and so my dad's trying to repair those to get water back to the property. Electricity is still out and probably will be for at least a few weeks. He's... more... - Thomas Hawk

It's going to be hard for the whole community now Thomas - it is the same in Greece where there were really devastating fires close to Athens these past few days. At least your parents are safe - all the best. - Sofia @ SoMaFusion

Kate

The Evolution of Blogging - http://gigaom.com/2009...

August 14 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

insightful commentary from Duncan here... - Kate

Mark Pesce

@J4yZ33 Yes. I am aware of Wittgenstein. "The world is all that is the case." Wrap yer brainz around that 4 a while. It'll hurt.

August 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

LOL did someone suggest you'd never heard of him? - Kate

Kate

The Case Against Apple–in Five Parts « The Jason Calacanis Weblog - http://calacanis.com/2009...

August 9 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Apple seems to be openly acting anti-competitively, but I still think Google is the one that could become Skynet ;) - Kate

Ian Kath

@kcarruthers @smurph Yes very corporate, but we know the wild child that lurks beneath.

August 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

what happens @btub should stay @btub ;) - Kate

Ian Kath

@kcarruthers My Daughter is 18 but not mentioned them. Too cool or too daggy, I'm not sure.

August 7 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

too daggy fer sure - Kate

Jeremiah Owyang

What's wrong with Twitter?

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

Milton Ramirez, Svartling, sofarsoShawn and 39 other people liked this

Was working earlier this morning. Not now though. - Hutch Carpenter

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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

Not sure, but i like it. - Johnny

@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

I guess this is a perfect time for all you "die hard twitter users" to realize why Friendfeed is better! :D - Johnny

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

Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed! - Samuel Driessen

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

@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

Ryan: how do you have discussions on twitter? I'll agree that they are rare. - Johnny

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

Ryan: I don't think it's fair to assume that there is a lack of intelligent conversation on friendfeed, especially with your 12 comments and 2 likes which tells me you've never really tried it out. - Johnny

I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me. - RuthNH

Ryan: I'd be happy to build you a list of friendfeed users and send them to you later today - Johnny

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

Sydney: Subscribe to Kol (http://friendfeed.com/koltreg...) He is a very active user on friendfeed and already has a recommendation list. I'd be happy to create an additional one for you as well. - Johnny

.. 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

Ryan: I'll subscribe to you and get you a list in the near future. This conversation that you are engaging in right now happens with the majority of users (not just power users). - Johnny

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

Tim: Who will be able to read it..? - Johnny

@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

Twitter is down - Hunt from BuddyFeed

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

Madhav Tripathi

Twitter is not loading right now, anyone having the same problem?

August 6 - Comment - Like - Share

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Yes me too - Matteo Carli

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yep - George Dearing

Yep. Just cursing at my screen now. :( Can't access Twitter in any way, shape or form - Grey Drane

Same here... :( - John Fox

yup. It's getting more natural to just flip over to friendfeed now. - motownmutt

I just tried to post on twitter but... - Madhav Tripathi

I heard it was abandoned as not being popular enough and they're shuttering the doors today and laying off the whole staff. - Matthew DeVries

you are just kidding. - Madhav Tripathi

Yep. Yay FF. - phil baumann

Totally down - courtney benson

twitter is down and people are sending tips to get more followers on twitter. - Madhav Tripathi

Same here. - Warner Crocker

Yes, its not opening here also! - Sampad Swain

Yes! - Shaun Bruce

Like @Matthee DeVries ;-))) - Roberto Ballerini

i think so. - Madhav Tripathi

it came back just 4 few seconds... - Roberto Ballerini

A lot of Facebook apps are shitting the bed right now too, I wonder if there is an attack or server outage or router with a squirrel in it. - Matthew DeVries

you mean after few seconds again down. - Madhav Tripathi

yes - Roberto Ballerini

facebook apps also not in working condition? - Madhav Tripathi

Same here - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

yeppers - Ronald

Yup - Hutch Carpenter

yes indeedy - Kate

Ronald I am sure you suffered a lot. - Madhav Tripathi

Yes - I just asked myself. Confirmed. - Alex Williams

planet of the pulse is down now. - Madhav Tripathi

FB is buggy for me, too. - Grey Drane from IM

^^ haha :) :) no, no not really ;) - but already gettin' a bit 'nervous', yes... - Ronald

Me too.. - Mads Kristiansen

I will never pray for them. - Madhav Tripathi

perhaps they didn't limit themselves to iPhone: http://www.pcworld.com/article... - Roberto Ballerini

yes, first thought that was my crappy connection but that is something completely different. - Max Friedrich Hartmann

I also thought if my internet connection is OK. - Madhav Tripathi

they're under DoS attack right now. I wonder who they pissed off. - Jason Wyttenbach

erietta

@hollingsworth oh was that convoluted tweet some kind of faux pas that can only be rectified on friendfeed? you'll be happy to know i joined

August 4 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Giasou file I was chatting about you to Josephine and Kristin last week at #growthtown See you at #nswsphere ? - Tony Hollingsworth

welcome to FF - Kate

hello friendly friendfeed fellows. You may have to give me some time to get used to this new toy. I dont need another distraction but hey, i love my interweb toys - erietta

carloscomputers

Checking out friendfeed... the conversations on here are pretty cool.

August 3 - Comment - Like - Share

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o hai ur here too :) - Kate

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This is great fun & a learning experience at same time - register if you can. - Kate

Kfir Pravda

@youvalv i still love u, even though you are a pc lover

July 20 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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that's so broadminded of you LOL ;) - Kate

Thomas Hawk

In keeping with my monthly reporting of compete.com tracking of FF vs. Twitter, for the month of June (after a flat May) Twitter grew at an astronomical monthly rate of 16.57%. FF by comparison mostly held flat in fact declining .26% after crossing the one million unique visitor count last month for the first time.

July 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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I suspect that a lot of the continuing media coverage of Twitter probably accounts for it's continued rise. I'm not sure why FF seems to remain flat though. - Thomas Hawk

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Maybe for a migration of early users from facebook to twitter, while the number of active users on FF isn't increased much. I mean that the usage of twitter isn't regular but it have a peek when important events happens (e.g. Iran elections or MJ death) - Roberto from fftogo

I remember seeing a graph like that about the time Pownce shut down..or similar. - Mike Lewis

Plus I'm sick of hearing twitter every time I turn on the TV. Wish Rick Sanchez and Don Lemon could see me shaking my fists at them :) - Shivanand Velmurugan

Because FriendFeed continues to be perceived as too hard to use, too much information, too difficult to make it display what you want it to display, too desktop centric, et al. And they are right. - Robert Scoble

I think FF might be a complex enough web service that it needs to step forward and make its own desktop and mobile clients, in its own vision. Quality clients straight from the horse's mouth would bring the experience out of the browser the way it's meant to be. - David Chartier from iPhone

I disagree. Their mobile site is top notch, and as for desktop app, just use a chrome instance on windows or a fluid.app on mac, works beautifully, shortcuts and all. - Evan Travers from Android

Scoble: I think Twitter makes it much more difficult to make it display what you want it to display. Without some type of Folder structure, Twitter falls apart keeping order once you follow a certain number of people. FF brings order to the madness. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER - Rochelle

1UP Rochelle - Akiva Moskovitz

ff needs to read my post about how they will make money - that chart would change if they would listen :) - Allen Stern

thanks for keeping score - chaz2b

Robert if people can figure out how to navigate the iTunes store or buy something on amazon, then they shouldn't have any trouble figuring out Friendfeed. It's not that complex. - Jeff P. Henderson from iPhone

Who is searching for "hip hop distribution" so much and what does that even refer to??? - Mitch

interesting point Robert. I wonder how they could improve it. I know that one thing that I would like would to be able to import all of my Flickr contacts into FF. I think there are a huge number of potential Flickr users who would use FriendFeed if it had that capability. Not sure why they don't implement that. It would be very cool to match up my Flickr contacts with their FF accounts and auto set up imaginary friends for contacts not on FF yet. - Thomas Hawk

FriendFeed still needs SMS - for instance, in South Dakota I couldn't access or post to FriendFeed, but I could Twitter because I still had SMS. Twitter is simply open to many, many more audiences because of that. - Jesse Stay

I believe that mostly only after Twitter users have sufficiently "banged their heads against" its unwieldiness with larger "following" counts (and no, Tweetdeck isn't a sufficient solution), do they wake up to the idea that a service like FriendFeed is even necessary (someone that doesn't think Web2.0 info filtering as a huge issue simply doesn't need FF). As such, FF is likely always... more... - Alex Schleber

Jesse - Use an SMS to Email client, FFS. - Mitch

i'm with alex on the paid features, but not $100/year. maybe $50 or $5/month. and totally agree that FF will remain a great tool for power users as long as it stays in its current form. - Scott Magdalein

A quick look at Quantcast (the far better measurement tool BTW) and you'll see that Twitter's success is tied to a band of addicts and regulars. 1% of the people make up 35% of the visits. FF hasn't obtained this type of hard core following yet. But Twitter is not converting new people as fast as they were - more than 50% of users have never sent a Tweet. How much is now automated Tweet... more... - AJ Kohn

Scoble has provided the best analysis of why Twitter is taking off and Friendfeed is stalled: noise. It's as simple as that. The FF interface is much too cluttered. Try offering the option to hide all comments and large images by default, and see what happens. Multi-column list view. More powerful automated personal prioritization of news. Radically reduce the noise and clutter, while... more... - Sean McBride

one million unique visitor isnt all that much - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Sean: My argument to this is that FF signal/noise ratio is much better to control in FF over Twitter. First, the engaging posts (like this one) float to the Top. But secondly, I can move people that create more noise than signal to a High Volume Folder. This gets rid of a lot. On the screen real estate, I kind of agree but love being able write longer items (like this). Agree that Filter types needs improving. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Technical people, savvy people, early adopters - you know, cool people like us - know about FriendFeed, but if I talk to my family about the web then they'll have heard about Twitter and Facebook and MySpace but there's a complete blank look if I say the magic word FriendFeed. The failure is one of marketing and usefulness; there's nothing complicated or restrictive for mainstream users about using FriendFeed but what will my parents get out of it and how can it be promoted to them for example? - Mark H

Mark brings up a great point, it's the flock effect for most. They go where there friends are or where they think their audience is and that's mass marketed sites. I personally like Friendfeed this audience size (though I understand they would prefer to grow). - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

FF, a long way to go, but Twitter can't sustain this growth for long time - Michael_techie

Hello Thomas, Thanks for sharing, have you make any revenue through twitter? How you done this? - Rohit

Revenue through Twitter? not that I'm aware of Rohit. I've sold a lot of photos on the internet and get money from ads when people read my blog, but I wouldn't say I've made any direct revenue through twitter directly. - Thomas Hawk

manielse says: "Twitter falls apart keeping order once you follow a certain number of people. FF brings order to the madness." Absolutely not true until you go to the trouble of setting up lists, groups, and searches. All of which you can do on Twitter with clients like TweetDeck. Or, just do as I do: don't follow thousands of people. - Ian Betteridge

Ian, my point is that I don't need a 3rd party tool to do it in FF. Yes it's a little work but worth the effort IMO. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

friendfeed is too complicated for the average user, is a pain on mobile(reason I use it less than twitter), and doesn't have Ashton Kutcher or anyone comparable. It's a better product that will never really go "Mainstream Pop". - Cody Heitschmidt

Friendfeed is where all the really *smart" people are. Yes, I mean YOU. :-) - Karma Martell

I agree Karma! :) - Thomas Hawk

Ditto Karma and Thomas! And there's so much more here on FF. You can do so much more with creativity. - Myrna

"FriendFeed? My friends are all on Facebook. What's a feed?" - Chris Baskind

My friends are joining Facebook. Twitter not so much (although corporations seem to be catching on). FriendFeed - nada. - Mitchell Tsai

What does FriendFeed need? IMO Paths, signposts, places-to-go. In my past life doing HCI (Human-computer interface), ~50% of people don't get "directory" structures much less anything so info-rich as FF. See my posts on Myers-Briggs, where most people here are a minority of the general public. People here can read 100+ blogs & new sources. Most people are overwhelmed. If you simplify... more... - Mitchell Tsai

and how many twitter accounts are actually in use, posting and interacting? there are a lot of dead twitter accounts. the main problem with friendfeed is it gives to much power to your friends to change the priority of your posts. there should be a linear mode - Noah David Simon

Chris's post brings an interesting piece to the "too complicated" debate: Facebook is actually more like Friendfeed than Twitter. Facebook is very complicated in many aspects yet it's mainstream. Point being, FF is not really too complicated, it's just not a household name (and I like it that way). - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

What would I like - "Find me 10 people talking about cancer related topics." "Give me 20 hot technology discussions." "What's happening with 3G networks and the future of WiFi?" "Whose birthdays have been happening?" "Waterfall pictures" "Swimming discussions" etc... - Mitchell Tsai

Manielse: Facebook is a great way to share pictures... FF is more text-based. - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell, I think you are on-target. One approach might be topical subdomains. - Chris Baskind

Mitchell, you're just subscribed to the wrong people. - Myrna

Facebook is hardly just about Pictures (yet I admit done much much better than FF) and is very text based. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

Manielse, ditto - Myrna

Pictures? I'm on fb and have 1000 friends or more, not as many as Sarah Palin. I love posting pics on FF, better than fb - Myrna

It's just that regular people like fb. My whole family is on fb and that's a lot of people. They wouldn't be interested in FF. - Myrna

Facebook also has critical mass. To make another comparison, Tribe.net offered a wonderful service (with some early investor money), but only achieved critical mass in the San Francisco Bay Area - mostly with the alternative "Burning Man" crowd. Tribe.net is kick-butt for SF events, but sucks in LA. MySpace started with the music scene, but managed to grow. Where will FriendFeed go? Can it move past techies, bloggers, and a few photographers? - Mitchell Tsai

Not unless it develops hooks, as you suggest. Particularly since its community really seems resistant to growth. - Chris Baskind

Which is a shame: FF is really slick. - Chris Baskind

Facebook has not reached critical mass with my college classmates (1982-1989, age 40-50). Only 3-8% are on Facebook, and I still haven't seen a mad rush (including my Tech CEO/CTO friends). Most are deathly afraid of the career consequences. Whereas, 30-40% (maybe more by now) are on LinkedIn. My dance communities (a few thousand people) made the cross-over to Facebook in the past year - perhaps 95% are on Facebook (compared to about 5-10% last year). - Mitchell Tsai

Honestly, most people come to Friendfeed and see constant discussions about Friendfeed. That's just what they see. It's A list narcissism on speed with a mob mentality. And don't take this up with me, look at the graph again. Take it up with the people that come here, see what they do and leave. Maybe it's good that it is that flat to the established community here, but I'm sure the founders cannot be pleased. - Mike Lewis

I always love the "Most are deathly afraid of the career consequences" quotes. It's so true that people are afraid of these tools. If you think about it HRs would love to see your FriendFeed, less work for them to find all of your online postings. I can understand the fear is being transparent and open but private people in my opinion raises more concerns...makes me question why they are so private? - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

manielse: Because one stupid picture can cost you your job as a high-school teacher. Traditional institutions are so conservative. Some high schools prohibit their teachers from using Facebook (for fear of lawsuits from parents), even though some college professors are now using Facebook in their classes. I have some high school principal friends, and the fear of lawsuits from students... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Some interesting points raised here: http://ff.im/53C52 about FF's lack of growth. - Kol Tregaskes

Mitchell: I hear you. It's just so sad that these things (Lawsuits & fear of loosing job) happen though. Fear is such a powerful force. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

And I just shifted completely over to ff this week. - Rohit

like your post on how friendfeed could work better with flickr too - Kate

friendfeed is such an awesome blogging tool it would be a shame to ruin it with a community that I have no control over. I kind of feel the same way about Seesmic - Noah David Simon

http://trends.google.com/website... - Mitch

chrisofspades

does anyone even use Facebook chat?

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I use it now that I use Digsby, so I am always on. - Shevonne

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Only when I forget to turn it off when I sign onto facebook and someone messages me - Cassidy

I have it on in Meebo too, but noone ever talks to me there. Cassidy, so people actually send you messages? - chrisofspades

I do on occasion for those not in my gTalk list. It's proved useful. I've also got it in my Digsby, like Shevonne - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I do. But only when I am on The facebook website. - Matt Ruiz

I do, since a lot of my old High School friends are very inept at using the Internet wisely. - Carlton Hackett

maybe its just me and my friends then. people don't tend to respond there when I've tried to use it in the past. - chrisofspades

I use it via Pidgin - Jorge Escobar

I do, though almost never via the Facebook site. 95% of my usage is through Beejive on my iPhone or Adium/Pidgin. - Brett Kelly

Nope. - Alix Whitmire

Once in a while, but only if someone pings me first. - Martha

I'm always on through Digsby. I use it once in a while to IM with friends. - Rodfather

i get a message every now and then, i usually turn it off because i dont want people to see how much time im wasting on facebook... - Cassidy

@Cassidy, that time would be much better wasted on FriendFeed ;) - chrisofspades

Through Digsby and Beejive on iPhone, I end up using Facebook chat more than any other. - Rob Haas

I've never used it & I feed my other network stuff into facebook so hardly ever log on to it - Kate

@chris any time spent on friendfeed is never considered wasted! - Cassidy

I use it on a near daily basis. It's very handy, considering the large userbase of Facebook. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I sign into it using a Pidgin plug-in sometimes, but the only person I used it with regularly ended up moving over to Windows Live Messenger fully, since it seemed a little more reliable. (I use an XMPP gateway to WLM, and try to encourage folks to use XMPP/Google Talk if they want me, but my canonical e-mail address pretty much covers most bases (WLM, Google Talk and AIM)). I'm not religious about IM protocols, though. - Tyson Key

@Kate - I also use Facebook mostly as a dumping ground for stuff on other services, but I do sometimes comment on stuff there, and see what folks are doing over in that little corner of the Web... - Tyson Key

I do it's built into adium. - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

Like Shevonne, I've added it to Digsby and several people have IMed me via it. - Kol Tregaskes

I do, kept logged in via Beejive on the iPhone. Contact my friends/acquaintances that I don't have on MSN/Gtalk. - Andrew Trinh

Actually is dea.......d slow. - Nitin Nanivadekar

Neerav

WOW some ppl even put their birthday+full postal address on their facebook profile. that is sooo asking for trouble. pls back me up @ozdj

July 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

know what you mean, 1 of my rels had their real b'day up & I made them take it down - Kate

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