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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr

FriendFeed Greasemonkey Scripts Round Two. Smaller Tabs, More Choices

June 6 at 4:58 am - Link

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New scripts for iGoogle, Bloglines, Gmail, Disqus, Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Mixx, TechCrunch, CrunchGear, LifeHacker, Problogger, Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, ParisLemon, LouisGray, WinExtra, SheGeeks, The Inquisitr, Scoble, AllThingsD, Norg Media. All existing scripts now show favicons instead of text tabs for better space management - Duncan Riley

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gmail eats the friendfeed frameset when I get there :( - Toby Graham

If I may make a request a hellotxt tab would be awesome! Update everything from friendfeed as well as view everything. Would be perfect. Otherwise love the scripts. Making life much easier. Thank you. - Brian Bufalo

Brian, I looked at doing a AIR app based on their mobile version, but it was very buggy. I'll keep it mind - Duncan Riley

These are great. Thanks Duncan! - Patrick Jordan

Now if only I could get any Greasemonkey scripts to *install* in FF3 on my MacBook. This doesn't ever get any less frustrating. - Ryan MF

The GMail tab only seems to work if you run it in basic HTML mode. You will have to set that as your default for GMail or edit the script and change the URL. - ♫ Rahsheen™

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gorgous sleeves for the iphone & macbook - Anant Shiva via Bookmarklet

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FriendFeed Blog: More media amongst the messages

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The FF innovation march continues... - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

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Unless I'm missing something -- Hope the API gets this feature as well. We had to convert NewsJunk to us the API because their polling was too slow and they didn't pick up the descriptions through the feed. We have podcasts in NewsJunk, for the big Sunday shows, and for FreshAir when they cover politics. Shame you won't be getting those right away. Unless of course I'm missing something. - Dave Winer

Great idea Dave, we'll add this to the API also - Casey Muller

Excellent. As soon as it's in we'll start pushing podcasts up to FF. - Dave Winer

publishing an mp3 to my blog now. Will test this out in a bit here. - Thomas Hawk

http://is.gd/JU3 - Dan Covington

not working for me. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas It has to use media enclosure in the RSS feed, I'm not sure it will work with Blogger, but maybe with Blogger + Feedburner? - cmiper

Friendfeed introducing podcasting into the stream, interesting! I would like to see customizable ways to take parts of the audio and place them into the discussion so that people can make a comment against someone else's comment made on a podcast! - Josh Chandler

I really think FF is the new Google - they're just approaching it with social instead of search, and building on that, piece by piece, the same way Google did. - Jesse Stay

@jessestay maybe you are on to something there, FF is offering a lot more then it's competitors such as Socialthing are. But can we realistically look at this company as the next equivalent in social to Google. What about Google's social movement with "OpenSocial", does that count for anything? - Josh Chandler

Working for me now here: http://friendfeed.com/e/25bca9... - Thomas Hawk

Is this their first Flash dependent feature? - Phil Whelan

Jim, are you using Blogger or another blogging package? If you are using Blogger you have to click on the "Add enclosure link" button before you publish your post. - Thomas Hawk

Thanks for the reply. I am using wordpress.com. I got it too work. Thanks. - Jim Williams

I love the minimal design of it. Great job ff! - Alan Le

Jim, how did you make it work on wordpress? - James Williams (willia4)

Duncan Riley shared an item on Google Reader

PicLens for Firefox. Awesome. Period.

June 27 at 6:17 pm - Link

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I've been playing on my iMac 24" with Piclens since installing Firefox 3. Can't get any work done! Wow. - Kate Foy

is this the same app that was on Safari a few years ago ? It sounds familiar - Jamie

Jamie, I think it is available on Safari for memory - Duncan Riley

I am a big fan of PicLens too. My kids watch cartoons with it from YouTube. It is the simplest and sleekest YouTube browser ever. - Mikko Alasaarela

Vince DeGeorge shared an item on Google Reader

Should You Get Paid Overtime for Checking Work Email at Home? [Reader Poll]

June 25 at 3:31 pm - Link

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If this was true, no one could afford me. Honestly, I feel it's part of my job to do so since I'm part of a 24 hour operation. - Vince DeGeorge

Steve Rubel shared an item on Google Reader

The High-Tech Job Capital Is…The Big Apple?

June 24 at 1:30 am - Link

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hmm.. interesting.. i was thinking seattle would be on the list of top job spots... - Vinodh Nandakumar

The cost/benefit of New York is wearing me out, actually. Actually thinking about moving to Europe to look for opportunity, sad to say... - Chuck Boyce via twhirl

Chuck - New York has skyrocketed in the past 6 years. The tech community has grown because of the proximity to Wall St and Madison Ave. Other major US hubs are the valley and Seattle but it's spreading out a lot recently with publishers of all kinds all over the country. An ex-NYer, I left for Pennsylvania (and Florida) 13 years ago. Cost of doing (any) business is less than half. Amazing - Charlie Anzman

Hi Charlie, I came the the NYC area almost 2 yrs ago to take on a Financial as a client and to be close to the digital media world as I was starting up a production company on the side. I got bored with IT (most companies only want mid-level skills and aren't willing to pay for expertise and even hold it against you) and decided to go digital media full time and there's NO ecosystem in NYC to support digital media work (my rent is more than some of these jobs pay). Here in Ireland, clients actually pay you for digital media work. I thought I needed to be in New York for digital media, but I am thinking that I can do just fine in Ireland. What do you think? - Chuck Boyce via twhirl

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Our Kids Are Failing - And It's All Wikipedia's Fault!

June 23 at 10:37 am - Link

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Wikipedia AND videogames are to blame. - Jeduan Cornejo via twhirl

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Can we blame Scoble too? - Pat Hawks

I run into a lot of people who question the legitimacy of blogs, but I don't feel that they are any better or worse than Wikipedia or the NYT. Our parents were taught to be descriminating in their information consumption. We were taught the same thing. If "kids today" aren't learning this, then we should blame the parents (thank god I'm not one!). They are the ones ultimately responsible for how their children turn out. - Jason Ellis via twhirl

I think 'anonymous' won that round in the comments. Anyway. You can't teach students to not use Wikipedia -- talk about a losing battle... But it seems like you could teach them to use it as a jumping-off point. Hell, I bet if teachers embraced Wikipedia as a tool, then students would learn to be skeptical and question the contents and do their own research, if only to annoy the teachers. (All comments tossed from my comfortable perch outside the educational environment.) - Kirk Kittell

I've told my kids that Wikipedia is a good place to start, but it's a good idea to verify with multiple sources. Some days, they make me want to make a bogus change to a wikipedia entry just to prove a point. - ha3rvey

Wikipedia lists all the article sources at the bottom of the page, right? What happened to using Wikipedia to find other sources? - Pat Hawks

wait a minute: he is saying that HIS kids are failing.... - Luigi Centenaro

Louis, isn't it a bit early to start worrying about this? :) - Mark Dykeman

Luigi and Mark, haha. :-) If our kids have already failed, that's on me. - Louis Gray

friend's an english college prof and refuses to consider wikipedia as a source for any paper. Funny. - anna awesomesauce

Wikipedia shouldn't be a source, nor should an Encylcopedia. Go back to the ORIGINAL source, lazy dopes. - Pat Hawks

Is our children educated? - Tad, Fool via fftogo

Wikipedia is a horrible source. On all but the most mundane purely technical articles it is a biased database moderated (and more and more often hijacked and abused) by a small group beset by political infighting and drama. Pay about as much attention to http://www.wikipedia.com as you would http://www.encyclopediadramati... - Soulhuntre

I think it's funny that kids *think* it's a source - anna awesomesauce

I haven't found Wikipedia to be as bad as Soulhuntre claims. - Brent Newhall

Wikipedia is not considered a legitimate source by many universities, and for good reason. But I don't think Wikipedia can be blamed for kids failing or making anyone stupid. What's stupid is thinking that Wikipedia is the Oracle of all knowledge and that everything is 100% true. It's great for getting information and the vast majority of it can be trusted, but it takes a little wisdom and common sense to know that you have to use multiple, diverse sources to verify anything. - Shey

I think if your looking up the specs for an obscure WWII era submarine model, Wikipedia is excellent :) I have been disillusion by the manipulation of the system by Jimmy for use as a weapon in his own sex life and the drama that constantly rolls through the moderation group over there. It's pretty disheartening. - Soulhuntre

Wikipedia is a spring board, doode. Since there is no original research on Wikipedia, you can (and should) always go back to the originating source. - Pat Hawks

Pat Hawks is spot on. It is a place to begin one's research not conclude it. - Mathew A. Koeneker

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Amazon Discounting MP3’s

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Quickly Remove Formatting when you Copy-Paste Text In Office

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Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Cost of Obsessively Checking Your Email: $650 Million a Year

June 13 at 7:13 pm - Link

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What's the cost of sharing things on Google Reader or responding to FriendFeed updates? - l0ckergn0me

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@l0ckergn0me - Priceless - Steven Hodson

+1 for priceless - Atul Arora

In the United States, more than $650 billion a year in productivity is lost because of unnecessary interruptions, predominately mundane matters, according to Basex. - Raymond

This is just part of the picture...wonder how many more millions are lost by watching YouTube, twittering etc. Distracted is the name of a new book by Maggie Johnson where she captures this new phenomenon of distracted or fractured attention... - kamla bhatt

Email is less of a waste than sucktastic micromanagers. ;) - Cyndy

Care to define sucktastic micromanagers - Think you're referring to a previous employer of mine but not sure - Charlie Anzman

Charlie, small squirrelly little man who got manager position due to nature of his length of service and gender. Then proceeded to tell me what to do in ways it couldn't be done, ignore suggestions, spend company money on getting someone else to design the infrastructure, and then call ME on the carpet for not implementing the EXACT SAME DESIGN I suggested months earlier in 24 hours. Did you work for THAT guy, Charlie? - Cyndy

Actually very similar circumstances on an in-house SEO deal last year. The worst scenerio is when the web design team and Online Marketing team don't see eye-to-eye then the web guys throw a script in that they 'think' is going to be the Google beater. It almost always results in a minus 60 or worse penalty (then it gets blamed on you, or in this case me). No more of that stuff for this guy!! - Charlie Anzman

@Steven. Your piece on blogging for money (or lack there of) was good. It really bugs me the way some of the newer people are getting roped in and/or being convinced to blog for free because 'it's good for their reputation'. - Charlie Anzman

More smart email@IM clients are needed - Igor Poltavskiy

Sarah Perez dugg a story on Digg

Do Regular People Really Read Blogs?

June 13 at 6:18 am - Link

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no. - jeneane sessum

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does that include PerezHilton? if so, then yes - mathew ingram

@Mathew exactly; regular people to read blogs just not the blogs you read. My fiance reads Perez Hilton, People, etc. - Benjamin Golub

regular? - TranceMist

they definitely do... just not though any kind of rss reader.... they type in the url everyday - Stefan Hayden

A problem with polling is that people often don't know that they're reading blogs. Because if we're all being honest, blogs is a very loosely, loosely defined techy word. Kinda like what defines art. :) - felix

most people read them, they just don't know it - BCK

It's just a matter of time. you lot are just to impatient. Todays 14yearolds growing up in world of blogs etc. are going to read them. where else are they going to get their news? dead trees? - marcel weiss

How do we know whether we are regular or not? - JC unwired

I agree that it's just a matter of time. They will definitely flock once RSS Readers become mainstream (i.e. behaviors starts changing) - Stagekid

You are regular if you go the same time every day. ;-) - Michael Tefft

I'll bet my parents and my sister probably read a couple of blogs but they don't realize it or recognize any distinction. To the vast majority of people a blog is just another site. - Kevin D. White

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter

“just requested beta invite to SkyDeck mobile API thinger, via TechCrunch. looks pretty cool”

June 2 at 8:02 am - Link

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Cookie Monster Not So Sure About the Internet

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LOL - Anthony Farrior

Steve Rubel shared an item on Google Reader

From an Attention Crash to a “Cognitive Surplus”

May 29 at 5:00 pm - Link

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Peter Dawson posted an entry on del.icio.us hotlist

Read at Work

May 29 at 4:30 am - Link

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Steve Rubel shared an item on Google Reader

Four-way Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self

May 28 at 8:04 pm - Link

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Seemed to only touch on the community and self aspects. I was drawn to the idea but the general theme appeared to address how this was a different work/life balance approach. - Ken Yarmosh

David Risley posted an entry on David Risley

What’s So Great About Toluu?

May 27 at 10:32 am - Link

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Simple answer. Geeks like "new stuff". In 1993, I loved NetManage because it was an effective way to install a TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.1 and run a SLIP or PPP internet connection. Then MSFT just put that stuff in the OS. I could give you 50 examples of this. Services like Toluu are just the 2008 equivalent of features/functions other companies will absorb. But geeks still like new tools and toys. - Robert Seidman

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Party foul. :-) - Louis Gray

Robert: Yeah, I guess. I like new toys, too, the problem is I have a bunch of other toys that are lot more glittery than Toluu. - David Risley

I prefer gadgets and gizmos to software and services these days, but if you're a social media wonk in the making (as Louis certainly is), picking a focus and sticking with it has no downside, especially if you enjoy playing with that stuff (as it seems Louis does). - Robert Seidman

I'm still trying to sort it out, but put simply it seems to be an easier way to discover good blogs based on contact recomendation. - Mark Dykeman

Seeing Toluu being piped into FriendFeed would make it more interesting. "David Risley just subscribed to blah.com". - David Risley

David, you can insert your Toluu activity stream as a regular Blog RSS feed in Friendfeed. Just lacks the icon and the ability to distinguish it from other blog postings, but it's there. Off the top of my head, I know Shey (http://friendfeed.com/shey) does this. - Mark Trapp

True but it still be nice to have the Toluu option like all the others. - Sally Church

Yeah, what Sally said. I mean something built in because I don't want it to look like a blog post. - David Risley

I agree -- but this is a problem for FriendFeed to keep up. I installed a Wordpress plugin for social bookmarking sites and it came with icons/links to 91 services...and it was missing about 30. But FF does need to be able to designate the separate services so people can hide more easily without having their actual blog posts hidden too. - Robert Seidman

Right: Caleb has said that Friendfeed doesn't want to add any more services as they want to focus on new features. Should send them an email! - Mark Trapp

I use Toluu strictly as a blog recommendation engine. - Shey

For your own activity feed use this (replace username) :http://www.toluu.com/activity/... - Shey

Great discussion guys, I was on a plane this afternoon, would have jumped in sooner. We would love to be integrated as a native app in FriendFeed so users know it is Toluu and have more fine grained controls. - Caleb Elston

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The Social Networker - Orgoo Isn't A Site To Run To

May 27 at 11:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Very nice point about Orgoo - Corvida

Thanks for the heads up. - Russellreno

Interesting, maybe it's not so bad that I didn't get an invite yet then! - Mack D. Male

I'm sure they'll fix that soon (if they are paying attention). I'd still like an invite if anyone has one. - Ken Yarmosh via twhirl

Robert Scoble shared an item on Google Reader

Can We Live In Public?

May 24 at 11:51 pm - Link

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Interesting question. I certainly am experimenting with living in public more than most people would feel comfortable doing. - Robert Scoble

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For years, I've been blogging for a very small subculture in Prague, and I often get strangers walking up to me asking, "Are you that guy from the Internet?" It's weird when someone knows literally all about you and you don't know them. However, the positives have outweighed the negatives, by far. - Rick Powell

The more public you are the harder it is for some one to steal your identity , thats counterintuitive I know. The more networks I partake in the harder it becomes from someone to fake being me. because I cant be in two places at once. - Nik Butler

Rick: I agree that's weird and creates some awkward moments. Especially when you forget someone's name that you have met before (my brain can't hold many more faces). Luckily more and more of the people who I meet are on Twitter, so that usually helps turn the tables. - Robert Scoble

Heh, well, i have no meatspace friends who even know what twitter is. Although considering how much Czechs love to text and how much time they spend on their phones, it's inevitable they'll discover it. If it's marketed to them, that is. - Rick Powell

does living in public make it harder for others to weave a web of intrigues? - Benedikt Koehler

Generally speaking, I do. I hav ebeen blogging a LONG time and ran a lifecam site for my girls that included 6-8 cameras 24x7 for a few years. Im pretty used to it. - Soulhuntre via twhirl

benedikt: Yes it does make it harder, unless one lies in public. I've found the more truth I tell, the better. But that sometimes troubles other people in my life - Rick Powell

Yes. It's my friends and family who can't, - Francine Hardaway

"Having a strong wife is the best thing in life." Followed closely by to crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women and children." - ha3rvey

Steve Rubel shared an item on Google Reader

How-to: Use Twitter and FriendFeed without being massively disrupted at work

May 24 at 6:35 am - Link

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Simple - set times to use these services, just as with IM, RSS or email. - Steve Rubel

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I actually leave them running in the background in different browser tabs but get into a routine schedule for peeking or I get distracted too easily - Sally Church

@Sally you are disciplined! - Steve Rubel

Steve: I have to be or no work gets done! - Sally Church

Heh, discipline is an issue for me, too, but most of the time I control myself. I use my MacBook Pro next to my work computer in the office and have a browser open to ff on the mbp. I use the mbp for that and other "private" browsing at work - it's on cell broadband rather than the office ethernet. - Todd Mundt

Melissa Chang posted an entry on 16th letter

Don’t sacrifice your blog in the name of productivity

May 20 at 7:16 am - Link

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Aviv posted a message

“It's 2008 and I still use my browser's bookmarks functionality on a daily basis. Despite all the Web 2.0 rush and bubble, I still don't think there's a good bookmarking service/tool out there (private bookmarks are a must). What gives?”

May 18 at 9:38 pm - Link

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hmm crazy just had a brilliant idea - Aviv

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I was doing the same thing until I started using delicious as a search tool. Finally realized how powerful it was, and have been using it since, but with the delicious FF plugin installed. - shaun mclane

Organizing bookmarks well is a must. I find making common searches or actions like "add to friendfeed" in folders is a great way. But yes, I still use Web 1.0 bookmarks. - Louis Gray

What features are you looking for, Aviv? Every service I've used (Del.icio.us, Diigo, Furl, Ma.gnolia, Simpy, etc) gives you the option to make private bookmarks. I can't imagine using bookmarks stored on my computer anymore, at the rate that I am having to rebuild them or the fact that I have one for work and one for personal stuff. Personally I use Diigo + Del.icio.us. - Lindsay Donaghe

Lindsay, well, I can go on and on about this. In no particular order: an ideal Bookmarking Tool would be able to fetch related comments from everywhere - from the post itself to FF & YC News, display content snippets when browsing the bookmarks, show me the domain of the link (come on, del.icio.us. Really? After 5 years?), know the different types of shared links (video, blog post, etc.), show more sources or links discussing the same item. There's so much more. ALL bookmarking services today suck, period. - Aviv

Bookmarking tools stopped innovating because they think it's all about sharing the links. It's so much more than that, and unfortunately they're all missing it. - Aviv

At the end of the day I think that bookmarking services today add little value to the end-user. Think about it - what is it that they do? So we can save a link to del.icio.us. Great. Why aren't they aggregating blog comments for me? Why can't I search the actual pages that I bookmarked? There's no follow up on the service's end. - Aviv

We all bookmark links to things we want to keep tabs on, right? So why can't the tools be a little proactive about it and notify me when new comments are posted? I want the service to let me know of hot discussions developing on reddit or FF about items that I made it a point to save for later. Today's bookmarking tools are, well, passive and generally LAZY. (yes, just like... my browser's bookmarks!) - Aviv

I suppose we have different goals for bookmarking. I would not want to use a bookmarking tool the way you suggest and have it bug me every time there's an update to a site. I don't expect bookmarks to be activity trackers. I look at them more like pointers on a bookshelf to info I might want/need to review again later or that I simply find interesting and want to share with other people or add my thoughts to. - Lindsay Donaghe

You should check out YackTrack if you want to see all the comment history around a url. Maybe your ideal tool would be a mashup between that and Del.icio.us piped to an RSS feed you can subscribe to. - Lindsay Donaghe

Well, it's obviously not supposed to "bug you". I guess what I'm looking for is some added-value. If I let a third-party service manage my bookmarks, the least they can do is provide basic utility functions. At the end of the day, I don't benefit from being able to click on "348 other people bookmarked this link" as much as I would if my favorite bookmarking service was able to let me know (again, in a non-intrusive manner) that a 100-comment thread popped up on Reddit last night. - Aviv

YackTrack is far from being a usable service at this stage, but it's a step in the right direction. Either way, the tracking capability is only one feature I'm looking for. There are plenty more :) My point is: bookmarking services stopped innovating sometime in 2005 and are almost as passive as my browser's bookmarking feature. - Aviv

I am right there with you, Aviv. I still use bookmarks 1.0 and am on a continuous hunt for the ideal solution. - Carla Thompson

@Aviv, what features would you need to make YackTrack a "usable" service? I know RSS feeds are a popular request, but I have a feeling you have different ideas. - Rob Diana

Rob, oh, well, there's a whole lot to be done there... For starters, it doesn't work. (btw, I'm not criticizing YT specifically.. obviously they just launched and will evolve). Give me a dash board where I can see all my tracked URLs. Extract comments from the original post. Tell me which comments are new each time I log on. Recommend content based on commenters in discussions that I care about. Highlight comments from users I'm subscribed ("friends") to across the different sites)... - Aviv

And much more... I'll save it for some other time ;) - Aviv

Shey, well, ideally it'd be amazing to search the actual content of links that you bookmark (ie. blog post, its comments). But I don't expect much from a site such as del.icio.us - that until today doesn't let users preview domains of bookmarked links. That alone equals to thousands of hours wasted on that site. - Aviv

Sorry, I deleted my comment by accident -- I had said that I don't really need search because I use very descriptive tags, but we may be talking about search for different purposes - Shey

I've been using the delicious toolbars for FF (and as of yesterday, IE); bookmarks that I want private, I mark private - acedanger via twhirl

I see your point. But are 1.0 Bookmarks that much better than 2.0? - Shey

I used to forget to backup bookmarks. I started using del.icio.us during a backup. Now I don't loose my bookmarks anymore. - funkyboy

It's amazing to me that the Web 2.0 hype brought us sites such as RateMyCat.com and ShouldIWearThisShirtToProm.com - all with full-blown tagging capability, of course - but we've yet to see innovative bookmarking alternatives to rival del.icio.us' inefficient offering. - Aviv

@Aviv, well some of that will be coming eventually. Registration and tracking of urls is high on my list of things. New comments since last logon is a good request and I had not thought about that one. If you have any questions or issues on how it works or doesn't, just send an email to feedback at yacktrack.com. I am open to suggestions, and I have seen some usages that I did not think of. Nobody's perfect :) - Rob Diana

I have now started living in Diiigo. Between private, public, listings, search, groups, tagging (of course) and webslides, I have found it to be the best out there for now and it overtook my in browser bookmarks - Chris

Oh Rob, didn't realize it was yours :) Didn't mean to drag it into my rant thread, but it's all brainstorming I guess! - Aviv

@Aviv, well, everyone is on friendfeed. I love the brainstorming as it tends to yield good ideas, like "new comments" that you had mentioned. Great idea and probably simple. I just hadn't thought of it yet. - Rob Diana

I'm pro social bookmarking for two reasons. 1 - where there is a browser there is my bookmarks. 2 - every time I save something people see my name (killing two birds with one stone) - Julian Baldwin

@aviv why do you think delicious' offering is inefficient? - acedanger

To me, bookmarks are static reference resources, things I may have to revisit at a later date, or something I may need to remember. Sites I "like" are handled with RSS. I currently use Google Bookmarks for my needs, and I'm hoping to see a little more attention for that app one day with maybe some integration into gReader or Google Desktop. - Vince DeGeorge

I think at some point we all forgot that bookmarking stuff doesn't necessarily mean sharing it, which is why I think del.icio.us and its clones failed on innovating and delivering basic functionalities, namely conversation tracking and recommendations that are not necessarily based on friends sharing the same stuff (ie. I bookmark a ReadWriteWeb.com article about semantic web - well, that's when I want my bookmarking service to ask me if I read another Alex Iskold semantic web piece from last month) - Aviv

acedanger, click "Show 25 more comments" ;) - Aviv

I'll use web 1.0 bookmarks until someone can find a way to allow me to do Command + D to bookmark to whatever service you want me to use. In Safari. None of this Firefox extension nonsense. - Mark Trapp

Vince, exactly - we all got used to PASSIVE bookmarks. Sometimes I'm too lazy to re-visit older bookmarks - but if my favorite bookmarking service listed links along with "25 new blog comments, 11 FriendFeed threads (in which 6 friends participated)" I might be more inclined to go back to it. - Aviv

Mark, you can do it with keyboard shortcuts & AppleScript, no? Edit: yeah, you should be able to, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible - Aviv

@Aviv, you might want to give Twine a try. I believe it would fit your requirements. No I am not affiliated with Twine in any way :) - Rob Diana

Rob, yeah, twine is okay, but really an overkill for what I'm looking for (plus it doesn't offer any conversation tracking, which I think is the real killer feature of the next del.icio.us) - Aviv

del.icio.us ain't perfect, but once it replaced my browser bookmarks I never looked back and no more rely on local copies, signed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I prefer keeping a massive link of bookmarks online, storing 50-100 or so important bookmarks on Google Bookmarks and maybe 25 convenient bookmarks customized per local machine I use. - Mike Reynolds

i have set up my personal toolbar with all the features and functionality i need per project i am working on hence any service with just bookmarks is seriously increasing my time needed to work efficiently. search is not done properly by most bookmark systems (as in appropriate for 2008) and is it much easier to still have local access to them. bookmarks first and formost are for me myself and i. - Nicole Simon

I used to use online bookmarking, but now that I've switched to FF3, it's just too easy to hit that star at the top - Daniel E. Renfer via twhirl

I have a distributed system. Some to Twine based on the twines I belong to. Most to Ma.gnolia. Very rare to use my desktop bookmarking at all. - Cyndy

Gadiel Rivera posted a message

“The only bad thing about FriendFeed is that because I see so many people talking about a certain topic I dont get motivated to post on my blog about it because I feel like Im just part of a echo chamber effect”

May 18 at 1:27 pm - Link

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Sites like FriendFeed are going to kill blogging as we know it. - Akiva Moskovitz

blogging as we know it is only ten years[sic] old, book writing is still happening despite the invention of the printing press. - Nathan Eckenrode

Actually 'blogging as we know it' has already changed significantly since it started. Although I believe that there will always be a place for lengthier articles, I think more and more people are going to start treating sites like FriendFeed AS their blogs. They may have some other location to occasionally put up something lengthier but I think the days of everyone churning out five paragraphs on the same subject are over. Most blogging will be done via reference and in comments. - Akiva Moskovitz

Louis Gray posted an entry on louisgray.com

Take FriendFeed Mobile With FF To Go

May 22 at 6:00 am - Link

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Excellent :) Way to go Benjamin. But you know it's sad when I can remember my API key ;) - Colin Walker

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And this is from my phone. - Colin Walker

@colin I remember mine too :( - acedanger via twhirl

Excellent stuff; thanks for posting this. I'm writing this comment using it right now! - Fearghas

I commented on the blog itself. Dont know why but I had a problem with disqus so I posted unverified. - Gadiel Rivera

Double-like! - Phil Glockner

Updated my mobile FF rant and am pleased to be able to do so ;) - Colin Walker

wow, the iphone version is nice. doesn't look that much different than online. - Rob Diana

Just tried this on my Treo 700p and it seems pretty sweet. @Colin @acedanger - I have mine memorized too....it is sad. - elroy

It even works on a Blackberry - that is way cool @bgolub - Sally Church

Hmm...it doesn't pull up on my iPhone like the picture...shows full-size and the text is too small. - Paul Arterburn

beautiful job. writing this from my treo 700wx, the world's worst cell phone. if it works here it will work for anyone. thank you for developing this. - Michael Pardee

So sweet. Working great on my Palm Centro! Good job folks! - Dan Nimtz via twhirl

@JP try again? I just had some errors that I fixed - Benjamin Golub

tried and get "whoops something went wrong" when I try to comment. - Thomas Hawk

Sweet, gotta try it at lunch, my colleagues won't be happy with me though. - Caleb Elston

Very nicely done. That is just what I was looking for in a mobile version of FF! - Scott Jarkoff

Doesn't work on my Helio Ocean - RAPatton

I look forward to trying this on my iPod..as soon as I can find a wireless connection. - Mike L

Not working for me :( Just to be specific, when I put in my username and key and click "Login" it just goes back to the sign in screen. I've tried several times. - Vince DeGeorge

Sigh; Google App Engine has for some reason stopped sending authorization headers. I'm looking into it. - Benjamin Golub

Not working for me either. Can't log in. - Morton Fox

Regular Friendfeed works great on my iPod. - RAPatton

I'll have to try this (1st gen Moto Q with Windows Mobile 5 and IE4) - Ontario Emperor

I love all the rapid innovation that's going on here! Nice job Benjamin :) - Aviv

Looks very nice on the iPhone, but where is the search functionality? Thanks for your time and hard work developing a great app Benjamin. - James

It seems to work ok on my SE P1i, but I dont really like this remote key thing... - Fredrik Wennberg via fftogo

unless you have Verizon for your carrier. Brightkite won't work with Verizon either (in my experience) - Greg Hollingsworth via twhirl

Atleast the FriendFeed remote key is easy to remember. Very "human like". I already memorized mine by the third time I had to punch it in - Bartek Gniado

Twitter doesn't work (properly) with Verizon, either. I never get device updates. - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

funny twitter works for me fine on my verizon phone but not at all on my N75 w/ATT - Morgan via twhirl

Iv'e got the same problem as Vince DeGeorge on WM6 - rodmitch

testing FriendFeed for mobile right now. pretty neat! thanks @louisgray - Myriam via fftogo