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I'd just like to personally say thank you to all of you for your support with Flickchart. It's been incredibly exciting and rewarding to see so many of you enjoying it and sharing here on FriendFeed. It really means a lot to us, and we appreciate you and all the help you've given us through your comments, suggestions, and opinions. Thank you.

May 28 - Comment - Like - Share

Kol Tregaskes, Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF, Hutch Carpenter and 20 other people liked this

Thank you (and curse you!) for making such a fun and addicting website! Glad to be part of something special. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

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Ditto to what Haggis said - when you rollin out Tunechart?! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

It's addicting alright. ;) - Alejandro

No no . . . thank you! It's refreshing and fun :) - Lindsey is Fierce!

my son and I played it on the way home on the train tonight - ever selection we made was the same which is a little freaky as a dad :) - mike "glemak" dunn

Don't mention it. - AJ Batac

@Marco: Man, you're SO close on calling that domain name. Did you guys think we were stopping at movies? ;) - Jeremy Thompson

Thank you for such a great service! - Kevin Whalen from email

lmao @ Jeremy - Lindsey is Fierce!

Thank you for such a great service! - Kevin Whalen

@jeremy lol dammit you mean I squatted on tunechart.com for nothing? (kidding of course I have no connection to Miami) hellz no! i would have been shocked if you did stop there! in fact I'm heading to GoDaddy right now to grab Colorchart.com, Countrychart.com, universechart.com, shampoochart.com, carbonatedbeveragechart.com and cheesechart.com so I can head you guys off at the pass and sell you the domain names for a quick buck ; p Seriously though - VERY much looking forward to the tune version! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

Don't forget videogamechart.com and boardgamechart.com and tvchart.com and bookchart and fastfoodrestaurantchart.com and cookiechart.com and sitechart.com....the possibilities are ENDLESS. The music one should be next, though, definitely. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Music - is definitely next... others are planned. - Nathan Chase

Nathan, with these charts you are really spoiling us. - Andrew Roche

That's probably not what some FriendFeed users will be saying once we launch them all with FF integration. - Jeremy Thompson

No need for carbonatedbeveragechart.com Marco . . . Coke and Cherry Coke are the only things worth drinking :P - Lindsey is Fierce!

I think you're overlooking Crystal Pepsi. - Jeremy Thompson

Vanilla vs Cherry? … Coke that is. - Andrew Roche

DR. PEPPER IS BETTER. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

You kids and your carbonated beverages. [/old man] - Steven Perez from IM

Jeremy wins again but barely. - Lindsey is Fierce!

Wheeeeeee! Wait.... I'm actually supposed to be coding this stuff right now. - Jeremy Thompson

lol lindsey that one would have to be a choice between cherry coke and Robitussin for me blecht! what no Dr. Enuff? - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

FlickChart is great fun and I am only glad to be of help. Thank you! - Parth Awasthi

Yeah, FlickChart is awesome. If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

It's brilliant Nathan, & it sure gets discussions going here http://friendfeed.com/dalziel... - Glenn Slaven

You're welcome, thank you for the service. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, thanks a bunch. The service has been really sweet and very addicting. Kudos. - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Wow, I just noticed I can moderate comments to this thread. How odd! Looks like I could even delete it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

that is strange Daniel - perhaps a bug of DM'ing large groups of people? - Flickchart

Maybe "delete" just means "remove me from this list". I'll try it on some other less awesome thread. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

No, thank YOU! I have spent hours on the site and have over a thousand rankings already. It's a fun site! I can't wait to see the music one!!! - David Cook from email

Thanks Nathan & Jeremy. Flickchart is a great site & the FF integration is especially cool ! - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Hello! I'd like to extend a request to see if you've used Flickchart lately. If not, were you just not interested enough to continue using it? Not enough features? If you have used Flickchart lately, what's kept you coming back? Would you have any advice for us to draw you back to the site on a regular basis? Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. Thanks in advance! Appreciate it! - Nathan Chase

For me, I've visited it a few times in the past year (based on when people mention it or you mention there's an update). It's a fun distraction, but I'm not sure what would keep me visiting regularly. My favorite movies of all time don't change that often, and I'm not sure what I can do with that list once I have it other than point it out as an example of what Flickchart does (so, a... more... - Mark Trapp

Honestly, I haven't used it in a long time and it's for two reasons: I began to lose interest once the novelty wore off and I just haven't really had time. I think about it a lot and always think to myself, 'I should spend some time on Flickchart,' but then I see an inbox or feed reader with a ton of unread items, Audrey starts crawling all over me, etc. Plus, since I've been working again, I've not had time for much of anything like this. - Akiva Moskovitz

I pop on fairly often, I guess - a few times a week. But I feel like I spend a lot of time trying to get new adds in place (especially since they all come in right at the middle, which is not too bad if they should be higher, I just rank them a bunch of times, but if they should be lower it's a major pain since it's really hard to move things DOWN on the list), and that feels more like... more... - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I haven't, but then my love affair with movies has subsided greatly since I graduated film school. It's me, not you. ;) - Derrick

Yeah, I haven't used it in a while. I just haven't been watching as many movies as I used to... for lack of time. However, if I got a question a day from Flickchart in my email, asking me if A was better than B, I might click on it. That's an idea for you... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick from email

I've been watching more than ever, but I forget to go rank them sometimes (also the ranking individual movies on the three-at-a-time page is less fun - didn't I hear that you were working on a new way to do that?). Ooh, fanciful idea based on Ahsan's comment - integrate with the Netflix RSS feeds or something so when you return a movie Flickchart automatically pops it up to rank. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I'm never really at my computer when I use flickchart so I guess if I had any feedback (which I haven't thus far because the service has been great!) it would be to perhaps optimize the mobile site for android phones. For me it the site hangs a lot, and I can't actually access the charts on the top. But it's a small criticism as I can still choose what films I like with reckless abandon! :D - Jon, the Beartato of FF

Chris Myles

Trying Google Reader?.. Share your friendfeed feed WITHIN Reader. (groups work too)!!

August 21 - Comment - Like - Share

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Use the FF Tools Embed > Feed Widget http://friendfeed.com/embed (Image version) and paste the HTML into Reader using the "Your Stuff" > "Shared Items" -> "Have some thoughts to share?" textbox. Let them know where you came from!! Check out http://www.google.com/reader... to see the results (I used the Note on Reader bookmarklet on my FF homepage and THEN added the HTML). - Chris Myles

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Interesting idea. I have a 'lifestream' bundle and share some of my posts that way. Unfortunately you have to delete them once FF imports them back, but not too much of a pain. - Kol Tregaskes

Chris, what embeds would you share from there? I imagine sharing individual entries would be good but not sure what could be shared from the embed page? - Kol Tregaskes

Kol.. It's more of a hack to show people where you came from, and gives you (and those you share with) a quick place to check your FF updates within reader. Since the image auto-updates, it's perfect!! - Chris Myles

GROUPS: You can also embed groups but not directly. Just change your username to the group name.. width is a cool option as well!! http://friendfeed.com/embed.... - Chris Myles

BTW: this is ONE of the MANY reasons I think FriendFeed kicks ass.. Most products aren't even thinking about embedded versions of their content, let alone dynamic images for sites that don't support iframes (or when javascript is disabled). It just adds to the flexibility and power of the platform.. (Facebook.. hint hint)!! - Chris Myles

Just tried this in GR and it works. Thank you Chris. - Polly Potter

No worries Polly. I saw yours in Reader.. You might want to make it wider to get more goodies in the same height. I set my width to 600!! BTW Where are you getting feedback from the Reader team? I've got a some stuff logged into their help site.. haven't heard a peep from anyone (some stuff has been sitting there since last November). http://friendfeed.com/akiva... - Chris Myles

Fixed FF widget in GR to 600 as you suggested and it looks a lot better. Thank you. - Polly Potter

Chris, if you are referring to the comments of Jenna Bilotta that I shared in GR, I found them in FF and parked them in GR for ease of finding again. - Polly Potter

Ok thanks Polly, glad to know the width looks better, I'd have a look but I can't .. http://ff.im/7JFoG - Chris Myles

Steve Rubel

"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...

May 28 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Rob Fahrni, zʍıɔ, rowlikeagirl and 76 other people liked this

Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time. - Dawn

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I love the idea of a "Personal Content Database". I always thought of FriendFeed as an aggregation site, but it sounds better as a personal content database. - Matthew Lang

Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree. - Steve Rubel from email

Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site? - Peter Fletcher

Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service. - Hutch Carpenter

@Peter - try this: http://friendfeed.com/embed - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Thanks Brian. - Peter Fletcher

Nice work but a lil late on this BNO - sofarsoShawn

Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ - Robert Scoble

"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly. - Chris Loft

@rahsheen thanks for the tip. - Peter Fletcher

BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my... more... - Dawn

Amen to that! - Calvin Ayre

Dawn, I think I love you. - cecily

Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff. - Robert Scoble

BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say. - Robert Scoble

Ahh, community. - τorƍue

#4 Bacon - sofarsoShawn

Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had... more... - Dawn

Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees. - Dawn

FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully. - Ian Betteridge

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then - DC Crowley

"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :( - ffcode

I agree, I think we should try to save Friendfeed. - Hunt from iPhone

Eric Logan to Eric's feed, Google Wave, Google Wave Dev, Google Wave Developers

How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous - Western Bridge over Google Wave - http://blog.kangye.org/how-to-...

August 12 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Matt, Iván Abrego, LogEx and 18 other people liked this

Using Google Wave? And have a Posterous account? Now you can write your posterous blog in Google Wave now! http://blog.kangye.org/first-r... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

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I can't wait to be using Google Wave... - Kamilah Gill

The cool part about it is being able to utilize all of Waves drag and drop functionality for images, files etc. then posting to Posterous using Wave instead of G-mail. Very useful. EDIT images did not post just text. Developer says it will soon support images. http://ericlogan.posterous.com/posting... - Eric Logan

Cool! - Kol Tregaskes

Nifty stuff, although I am a little late to the Wave party... - Tyson Key

Very good. - Maxamad

Bret Taylor to Bret's feed, FriendFeed News

We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.

July 29 - Comment - Like - Share

Jordi Soler, Stanislas Jourdan, Nicholas James and 63 other people liked this

See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now. - Bret Taylor

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Thanks Bret! FWIW when I checked the FF app settings in FB they were not the same options as I saw when I first set the app up. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

my freindfeed application is not working on facebook, and fr rest of.. - Madhav Tripathi

Click. Flip a switch and that's it. You guys rule. - Pete Delucchi

Thanks, Bret. I've disabled it on my FB page and hope that cures what ails me. Appreciate the FF peeps being on top of it. - Derrick

Yet another reason I'm happy I don't have a FaceBook. :P - Trey Crossan

Good thing I only posted once to Twitter tonight. The duplication only happened once. Thanks for letting me know. - Louis Gray

Yay for communicative admins! - Brett Kelly from iPhone

*looks at own FB account* HOLY SHIT, WTF?!? - Joe Silence is not dead

Yep, I have drug references now due to not having context. Thanks alot FB. Thanks alot. - Jimminy

I had the same with Twitter - Mo Kargas

Thanks Bret! - Andrew C

No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a... more... - Michael Fidler

Is it fixed? I'm afraid to go look:) - Michael Fidler

So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this? - Michael M Bailey

Keith - @tsudo

A collection of the best guides and tips for using FriendFeed.

June 17 - Comment - Like - Share

'Like' robot (frɐnc), earl wallace, Daniel Mietchen and 89 other people liked this

Friendfeed About Page http://friendfeed.com/about... - Keith - @tsudo

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Friendfeed Feedback Room http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Keith - @tsudo

Friendfeed Beginners Room http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Keith - @tsudo

Friendfeed Beginner Guides (via Search) http://friendfeed.com/search... - Keith - @tsudo

3 Reasons you should be on Friendfeed Now by Hutch Carpenter http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

Did You Make the List? How I Use Lists to Organize My Life-Stream http://www.changeforge.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

10 People to follow for the month of "X" by Louis Gray http://friendfeed.com/search... - Keith - @tsudo

Twitter Fight (Why Friendfeed rocks) by FF community http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Keith - @tsudo

20 Things about Friendfeed by Robert Scoble http://www.kyte.tv/ch... - Keith - @tsudo

Friendfeed as a Productivity Tool by Changeforge http://louisgray.com/live... - Keith - @tsudo

FriendFeed Still Reigns As Conversation King by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

Embed Your Real-time FriendFeed Activity On Your Blog by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

7 Ways To Harness The Power Of Real-time FriendFeed by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

FriendFeed Enhances Podcasting Interactivity With Audio Sharing by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

4 Ways to Enhance Your Blog With FriendFeed by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

7 Ways to Utilize FriendFeed Rooms by Bwana http://www.bwana.org/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

Top FriendFeed Tips for Twitter Users by Jennifer Van Grove (Mashable) http://mashable.com/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

10 Reasons Why You Should Sign Up for FriendFeed by Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

25 Different Uses For FriendFeed by Michael Fruchter http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Keith - @tsudo

My 4 best recommendations for cleaning up your Friendfeed once you are following lots of people by Me http://ff.im/HQek - Keith - @tsudo

FFHolic.com - Great site for discovering content and people. http://ffholic.com/ - Keith - @tsudo

I joined Friendfeed, now what? by Me http://www.knowthenetwork.com/blog... - Keith - @tsudo

Friendfeed Hacks Group - A place to discuss and share about tweaking Friendfeed with Greasemonkey, UserJS, Stylish, or anything to make the FF experience even better. http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Keith - @tsudo

10 Useful Tips to Using FriendFeed by Shevonne http://maketecheasier.com/10-usef... - Keith - @tsudo

15 Secrets of FriendFeed's Power Users by Louis Gray http://www.louisgray.com/live... - Keith - @tsudo

FriendFeed as a social media strategy tool by John Haydon http://johnhaydon.com/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

How to Share Interesting Stuff from the Web Using Google Reader and Friendfeed http://www.damondnollan.com/2009... by Damond Nollan - Keith - @tsudo

Friendfeed Search Examples by Louis Gray http://ff.im/46D9l - Keith - @tsudo

Real Time Blogging With FriendFeed http://getanewbrowser.com/2009... - Keith - @tsudo

Advanced Friendfeed Embeds by Building43 http://www.building43.com/web-too... - Keith - @tsudo

FriendFeed’s Underappreciated Value – The Comment Nexus by Mark Dykeman http://broadcasting-brain.com/2008... - Keith - @tsudo

How to Use Friendfeed as a Collaborative Business Tool by Chris Brogan http://www.chrisbrogan.com/how-to-... - Keith - @tsudo

Five Fantastic Friendfeed Filters for Flow by Steve Rubel http://www.steverubel.com/five-fa... - Keith - @tsudo

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Question of the Day, Posterous, Social Media, Social Media Club, Social Media Enthusiasts, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum

What is your #Posterous profile/blog URL? Mine is http://posterous.com/people...

August 8 - Comment - Like - Share

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My main blog is my photography one: http://squashyfrog.posterous.com/ #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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http://bryanradams.posterous.com - Bryan R. Adams

http://browneyes.posterous.com/ for daily iphonegraphs. :-) - browneyes

http://sonergonul.posterous.com - ★ Soner Gönül

Thanks guys! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://scherbi.posterous.com/ - Bill Scherer

http://loopper.posterous.com/ (great tool I am testing it over the last 2 weeks - Love it and thinking what will be the correct use) - Johni Fisher

Johni, it's really good as it's so easy to post using the bookmarklet. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://wallace.posterous.com/ - Wallace

I'm subscribing to you all now (if I can read it in English, that is). Subscribe back, will you? - Bill Scherer

http://niron.posterous.com/ - Nir Ben Yona

Haven't used it much, but maybe more friends will change that - http://PhilBaumann.posterous.com - phil baumann from Android

Niron :-)) nice one(the FF embed there,shabat shalom ) - Johni Fisher

Johni, thanks mate shabat shalom :) - Nir Ben Yona

http://jetsam.geekhold.com/ (which is a CNAME for dgentry.posterous.com) - DGentry

http://jamesslater.posterous.com (I think) - James Slater

http://svartling.posterous.com/ - Svartling

http://lelapin.posterous.com/ basically photos and sketches - lelapin

http://bonnerj.posterous.com Updated infrequently but I'm trying to get better :) - Joe Bonner from fftogo

http://jacek.posterous.com/ mobile (mostly) photoblog - jacek

http://jaymartinez.com or http://joshuanemilia.com - Jay Martinez

Mine is http://snowboardcast.posterous.com mainly for photos and as contributor to http://jackgordon.posterous.com which is my son's photo blog that feeds his FF, Twitter and FB - Nicholas Paul Gordon from iPhone

http://moby74.posterous.com/ - moby74 - Mohsein Sani

www.bradendouglass.com, post up! - Braden Douglass

I'm a very inconsistent blogger, but here it is: http://supherb.posterous.com/ - Herb Hernandez

http://magicofpi.posterous.com/ - Ryan - @magicofpi

http://jezlyn.posterous.com I really like using it to feed content to my Wordpress blog and other sites at the same time. It's the only easy way I know of to e-mail posts "to" my Wordpress.com blog. - Cheryl Jones from BuddyFeed

http://rickmans.posterous.com :). - rick

http://l0ckergn0me.posterous.com/ - l0ckergn0me

http://www.iMJR.posterous.com/ - Matt Ruiz

Mine is http://twiddle.me but I don't use it very much - Glen Campbell, B.A.

NIr, that's a great idea on embedding FF. - Kol Tregaskes

Mine is http://ahr19.posterous.com/ .. gonna start to use it more. - Amani

Kol - it's great how one FF post can start a little movement. I've used it more today than since I signed up whenever a long time ago. Thanks. - phil baumann

Hey cool, Phil. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Kolin: u can add the FF widget as well to the side bar ,just go to the profile and post the (instead of javascript choose image) over here http://friendfeed.com/embed... you can see it at my posterous http://loopper.posterous.com/ I got this tip from http://friendfeed.com/svartli... - Johni Fisher

this posterous: http://this.posterous.com :) - directeur

How do I embed my FF stream on Posterous? - phil baumann

posterous is so quick uploading 3gs video to its sites ... amazing - johnpiercy

I've embedded this thread on a Posterous entry: http://e-lusion.posterous.com/what-is... :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@phil couldn't you do the embed feature... ? post something to posterous.. and then 'edit' the post and paste the embed? Or maybe simply email it? - Sean

http://johnpiercy.posterous.com/ - johnpiercy

my posterous: http://mystrongmedicine.posterous.com - Sean

http://mobile.rutgerblom.com - Rutger Blom

Phil, click on the 'Share' link of the FF entry, then copy the embed code. Create a new Posterous entry, select HTML mode and paste in the embed code. You'll need to edit the width and height (looks like 500 for width). Then post. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@ Phil Kol beat me to the explanation - Sean

Kol I made the same :-)) - Johni Fisher

Kol - thanks. - phil baumann

I see, commenting via my Posterous entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

What is the best width? 500 seems good? - Kol Tregaskes

http://robsellen.posterous.com ;o) - Rob Sellen :o)

Kol - is there a way to embed in the sidebar (I've seen others place it on their Posterous). Not just a post... - phil baumann

Phil, see Johni's comment above. - Kol Tregaskes

http://revrev.posterous.com but I rarely use it. - mike fabio

Use 100% as the embed with instead. Looks a lot nicer. - Svartling from email

Does that work with both the embeds and widgets? - Kol Tregaskes

And mine is http://mhdbadi.posterous.com :) - FFTornado

Only with embeds. It's too bad we can't email these friendfeed embeds directly to Posterous. They get garbled. I've tried. - Svartling

My Posterous profile: http://posterous.com/people... - Svartling

It flows through here, usually just for photos: http://lagtime.posterous.com/ - .LAG liked that

Svartling, shame we can't do that with the widgets, it looks untidy on our profile pages. Yep emailing would be cool. - Kol Tregaskes

http://scanman.posterous.com/ - Vijay

Maybe some of the Posterous developers see this and could add that feature? Please :) - Svartling

Good thread; got some new subscriptions! http://notratched.posterous.com - Megen

Don't forget to tag your posts like this ((tag: posterous, friendfeed)) in the subject line of your emails. That way your posts will be seen easier by all other Posterous users when they use the global posterous search. - Svartling

Svartling thx again :-) - Johni Fisher

mine is http://dave6.posterous.com jokes and funny videos :o) - David Gross

http://dedmonds.posterous.com/ - Duane

http://bryansays.posterous.com/ but I rarely update it. - Bryan Lee

I'm new to posterous. I wonder how everyone manages to avoid double posting.. - David Gross from email

http://dabliu.posterous.com - Andrew

I don't have a lot at mine, but it's http://martinsfp.posterous.com/ - Martin Bryant

Mine is http://WayneSutton.net - Wayne Sutton from iPhone

http://journal.brettkelly.org - Brett Kelly from iPhone

My Posterous blog: http://thesixonefournine.com/ My Posterous profile: http://posterous.com/people... - Judd6149

Thanks everyone. - Kol Tregaskes

http://posterous.com/people... - Vlad Bobleanta

just made mine http://alfredo.posterous.com/ - Alfredo

http://chachafance.info (using my own domain) - ChaCha Fance

Kol, I don't embed FF that often, only when it comes to interesting threads :-) - Nir Ben Yona

http://petegilbert.posterous.com - Pete Gilbert

http://GetFitDoMore.com (for http://tracybenham.posterous.com) - Tracy Benham

Nir, either way, a very good idea. Thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

My Posterous blog is at http://pauljacobson.posterous.com - Paul Jacobson

My moblog is http://tysonwilliams.posterous.com/ - Tyson Williams

Thanks guys. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

My Posterous is http://quackofdawn.com (using my own domain) - Quackofdawn

I just embedded this thread... How cool is that?! :-) Didn't even know about it before... - Quackofdawn

Yep, useful, can embed any FF entry anywhere you like. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://rah.posterous.com - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

http://uche.posterous.com/ - Uche Ogbuji

http://midorinpolou.posterous.com/comic-c... that's my recent entry @ posterous - polou/indigo_bow

I tried embedding a twitter gadget on my posterous profile but it did not work.. How do you embed your friendfeed profile? - David Gross from email

http://georgedearing.com - George Dearing

http://grumpymole.posterous.com - Warren Butler

David, I'm not sure it accepts all HTML. For the FF widgets use the image not the Javascript version. - Kol Tregaskes

http://vbbeachbum.posterous.com/ - chaz2b

http://kevinwhalen.posterous.com/ - Kevin Whalen

http://talshafik.com - Tal Shafik

http://ruip.posterous.com - Rui Pereira from iPod

Kol, yes I see.. I added it, I guess Twitter does not have anything but javascript and flash widgets.. It doesnt matter, since I autopost to twitter there is a button there.. - David Gross from email

http://liviu.posterous.com - Liviu Barbat

http://posterous.com/people... is my profile where you'll find a couple.. - Mo Hall

How do you all add the little twitter and friendfeed images with links to your profiles here on posterous. I don't know the code to do that. :( Help when u can. - Amani

http://michaelfidler.posterous.com - Michael Fidler

http://ratherfancy.posterous.com - Tsega Dinka

http://susanbeebe.posterous.com - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

http://mylescrew.posterous.com/ Right now I'm just testing, the import from Blogger was REALLY easy. I'm trying to "port" BlurbBits (http://ff.im/4tlY2) to make them work better on posterous. The iframe style parameter gets removed, which is different than Blogger (there is *always* something). - Chris Myles

Amani: If you set up autopost, they will appear. Here's the link: http://posterous.com/autopost - Nick in Manila

http://nicknich3.posterous.com/ - Nick in Manila

Amani, the little images for twitter etc you get if you autopost to those sites but you might end up with duplicate posts that way. There is a friendfeed badge you can put in your posterous profile at http://friendfeed.com/embed... use the image format, not javascript. - David Gross from email

http://chrisofspades.posterous.com - chrisofspades

Check out Wayne Suttons Posterous (he posted his URL in this thread). You see that he has changed some colors. That is a private beta feature that is coming soon to the public. - Svartling

http://garry.posterous.com =) - Garry Tan

mine is http://reflectionof.me/ - Işılay Erol

I've changed my Posterous site to my own domain now, so update your links :) http://pingmicro.com/ - Svartling

http://ancyru.posterous.com - Andrew Trinh

I've made a fast Posterous post on how to add a friendfeed widget to the Posterous sidebar. See it here: http://pingmicro.com/how-to-... - Svartling

Thanks for the post, Svartling. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Svartling, thanks for the tips on adding a widget! - Michael Fidler

You are all welcome! :) - Svartling from email

http://sonergonul.posterous.com/ - ★ Soner Gönül

http://maryannedavis.posterous.com getting to this late. :))) - Mary Anne Davis

http://posterous.com/people... or the actual site http://posterous.matt1604.com/ I haven't posted in a while, but I generally post iPhone app reviews and such. - MλTT

http://posterous.com/people... - Baard @ Pixum

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

http://sallychurch.posterous.com - Sally Church

http://wavesand.posterous.com - 拓 | wavesand

jazzjeppe.posterous.com - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://sachin.posterous.com - Sachin Agarwal

You can also add an image version of the OnlyWire button so people can bookmark and share your site. http://onlywire.com/thebutton - ChaCha Fance

http://10dier.posterous.com/ - Didier Lahely

ChaCha: That is a great tip! Thanks! - Svartling

http://lizasperling.posterous.com/ Thanks - you are making this a very helpful Sunday:) AND for those of you trying to embed other images, etc...I did it in my profie and mash in friendfeed, zemanta, gmail, wisestamp,etc..FUN - happy to help. - Liza

YOU are a great example of engaging followers and using tools to help us connect in many other ways. THANK YOU. - Liza

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

the usual: bigstarlet.posterous.com. I use it as alternative picture posting device to Pixelpipe and also as an alternative to Ping.fm. Thanks for subbing to me there, Kol. :) - Helen Sventitsky

deadsimple.posterous.com - Parvez Halim

armchairtheorist.posterous.com - Jonathan Wong

Thanks everyone, don't forget to add the http:// so the URLs resolve and we can click on them here. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://falanfilan.posterous.com/ - Murat Can Demir

@koltregaskes, my posterous is at http://alexschleber.posterous.com "Quick Hits Business Mindhacks". Had been using it quite a bit the first 6 months of this year. I'm a big fan of Garry & Sachin, but really wish posterous would hurry up with some of the much needed feature upgrades (skins and/or CSS, Retweet button - just use Tweetmeme, custom sidebar HTML, WYSIWIG bookmarklet, etc.) Seems like they're stalling a bit right now, no? - Alex Schleber

They have to be careful not to mess with the simplicity of it, though; that's why so many people like it. If they tart it all up, it might as well just be Tumblr. Which already exists. - Megen from email

http://erier2003.posterous.com - Eric Geller

Everything/nothing blog: hikes, etc. http://andrew.leahey.org - Andrew Leahey

http://jeffisageek.posterous.com - (jeff)isageek

I'm here http://krynsky.posterous.com/ but haven't done much. I plan to test it this week primarily as a workflow posting tool. - Mark Krynsky

Mine, in case you speak French: http://sfadj.com - Rubin Sfadj

Thanks again. Alex, yeah the potential is huge, hope more features come along. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

The camera part of Code, Camera, Action: http://elstudio.us - Eric Johnson

http://tateblaze.posterous.com/ - Tate DA FF MVP

just started it up a week back or so but have been very much enjoying the interface thus far http://jeffreymarsh.posterous.com/ - Jeffrey Marsh

Thanks. - Kol Tregaskes

http://barbarars.posterous.com - barbarars

http://liviu.posterous.com - Liviu Barbat

@koltregaskes weird that you're "what's your GReader/Posterous/FB?" entries from the last few days seem to presage in a way what happened today.. - Alex Schleber

http://stream.adamstahr.com - Adam

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thank God for this thread. I'm going to (slowly) subscribe to all the people I'm subbed to on FF. I have a hunch posterous is going to replace part of the puzzle for me. Thanks Kol. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I Will also add all Posterous users on this list because I Will now use Posterous as Friendfeed :) See here: http://pingmicro.com/how-pos... - Svartling from iPhone

I just started mine fresh with a single introductory blog post: http://jbug.posterous.com - Dennis Jernberg

http://wittman.posterous.com - Micah Wittman

http://arthurguy.posterous.com/ - Arthur Guy

http://pivic.posterous.com - music snippets galore! - Niklas Pivic

Right: here's mine: http://highandwild.posterous.com (will start posting from now on) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://kim.posterous.com - Kim

http://ivanfilios.posterous.com/ - Iván Abrego

http://jvjannotti.posterous.com/ - Jim Hearts FF

http://socialgeek.posterous.com - As the title suggests, I post about geeky social enthusiast stuff. - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://vida.posterous.com/ and my profile is: http://posterous.com/people... - Shevonne

Kol, thanks for doing this! :) - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

I tried a post asking everyone to share their Google Reader shared items link, but I guess I don't have many followers. Maybe you can? - Mahendra (SkepticGeek)

http://abrudtkuhl.posterous.com - andy brudtkuhl

I think I've subscribed to most of you now :) I skipped some in languages I don't understand :) - Svartling

Thanks for all the subscriptions! I subscribed to everyone who subscribed to me. =) - Andrew Leahey

http://audiocloud.posterous.com - Cloud

Thank you all. - Kol Tregaskes

Mahendra, see here: http://ff.im/6mh5s - Kol Tregaskes

http://robertobonini.posterous.com - Roberto Bonini

http://dvdand.posterous.com - Dilip Dand

http://acurrie.posterous.com/ - Andrew Currie

Thanks. - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://mhdbadi.posterous.com/ - FFTornado

http://wangyip.posterous.com - mostly music for now but that may change later - Wang Yip

http://simon.posterous.com - Simon Doyle from BuddyFeed

http://lovehatethings.posterous.com - Anthony Marco

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://hanten.posterous.com - Ben Hanten

http://patrozoo.posterous.com/ - Patrik Johansson

Holy crap Batman, this is a big list. - Brent - Long Live Rock

And if you want lists for other services see: #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

http://techmr.posterous.com/ - Buğra Bayrak

Once again: http://jbug.posterous.com/ Plus my profile: http://posterous.com/people... - Dennis Jernberg

http://andria.posterous.com. "Marketing & Contenus" - I post about marketing & content - Andria Andriuzzi

http://threepwood.posterous.com/ - Threepwood

http://robcairns.posterous.com/ - Rob Cairns

http://martymcpadden.posterous.com/ - Marty McPadden: technology, social media and other fun stuff... - Marty McPadden

My url is http://dave6.posterous.com I just tried out the "((nogallery))" feature that lets you post pictures not in gallery format by putting ((nogallery)) in email subject http://dave6.posterous.com/where-d... only problem is that it takes a while to load pictures if not using really high-speed internet. - David Gross from email

http://climenole.posterous.com/ :-) - Claude LaFrenière

http://niranjankarmakar.posterous.com/ - Niranjan

http://kamilah.posterous.com/ - Kamilah Gill

http://kevinjhatton.posterous.com/ - Kevin J Hatton

http://touchwith.posterous.com/ - mMakino

http://pingmicro.com/ - http://news.pingmicro.com/ and the Swedish: http://swe.pingmicro.com/ - Svartling

my is http://mbravo.posterous.com/ - not that there is much content there yet - Michael Bravo

I think that's the 5th you've posted your link on this thread, Svartling. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Ok. Sorry. I didn't know if I had posted my two new Posterous sites... - Svartling from email

mine is http://waynesutton.net - Wayne Sutton

Here's mine: http://posterous.com/people... Custom Domain address: http://thesixonefournine.com - Judd6149

really just started toying around with it. mine is: lynneluvah.posterous.com - Lynne d Johnson

http://canuckmakem.posterous.com/ - Simon Tracey

surely someone has figured out how to add Friend connect to posteorus...keep searching, and love the cool mashups, but no Friendconnect.... - Liza

Oops and forgot to note, my posterous is http://lizasperling.com -- Thanks, Kol! - Liza

Thnx for sending the big list Kol =) http://brodiebeta.posterous.com/ - Brodie Beta

No worries, thanks all. - Kol Tregaskes

this is mine - http://posterous.com/people... - Laurentiu

http://rubensanchez.posterous.com - Ruben Sanchez

http://mlazopoulou.posterous.com/ Love it! So simple - mine has to do with food ;-) - mlazopoulou

http://servaasschrama.com - Servaas Schrama

http://roshan.posterous.com - Roshan Ramachandran

http://povester.posterous.com - Mark Povey

Paul Buchheit

It was a mixture of horror and amusement

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my imagination is officially going wild. - Laura Norvig

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If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, I think it went well and that there wasn't a hint of horror from anyone's part. Then again, I didn't catch all of it. - April Buchheit

Thanks for joining us, Paul! - Laura B.

ha, I was thinking Paul's reaction at looking at some of Facebook's code ;-) - Laura Norvig

ah, never mind. #MOW - I always forget about Friday nights! - Laura Norvig

Paul, you are a legend. And now, even more so. - Jim Hearts FF

Are you talking about the FF security hole that TechCrunch reported on earlier today? - Philippe

Paul, you are The Man. With capital letters. Thanks so much for hanging out with us! - Josh Haley

and speaking of horror and amusement: http://friendfeed.com/search... - Josh Haley

Robert Scoble

Email is saved! Inbox2 rocks. Here is why: - http://ourdoings.com/roberts...

June 10 from Robert Scoble - Comment - Like - Share

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Waseem Sadiq, CTO (left) and Khuram Hussain are showing me how you can send emails and messages to Twitter, Facebook, and others. It is in private beta now, will launch later this year. http://www.inbox2.com Does all sorts of useful stuff like forwarding, copying, etc. "It is really hard to build a good email client," says Sadiq. They nailed it, must try it. - Robert Scoble

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Can we get an invite code? :) - Aaron Myers

Invite Code please! ? - Jigar Mehta

Yeah Robert, ask them to let you post some invite codes to FriendFeed! - Ben Kessler

Get us all hyped up and no codes? C'mon Robert, score some codes for us. - Jim Graham

Robert, score a code, for a Pie ala mode...:) - Fred Tabsharani

Codes, or it didn't happen! - David Lloyd

Codes Robert. CODES. - Robert Taylor

Actually just requested an invite code last week. Would love one if you have any. - Kevin Whalen

Invite code :) please - Susan Beebe

Well now we're all interested. So invite codes would be awesome. Please. - Vlad Bobleanta

sounds awesome - yes, codes! - Karma Martell

another request for some codes... - Paul

Very cool. I can imagine this being something to tie me over until Google Wave is released. I presume the transition to Google Wave from Inbox2 will be a ease? - Vinko

me want codes now, give um me code - David Lloyd

Yep yep, give us some codes please. - Bhavishya Kanjhan

I think I can see you from here :) - Richard ¿digame? Walker

Just go to their site, they will send you the codes in an email. - Elizabeth Good

sometime next year maybe! - David Lloyd

How long does it take for them to send the invite? - Kevin Whalen from email

Robert, thx for the plug! Everybody that wants an invite just leave your email address on the website (www.inbox2.com), will take a few weeks before you get one tho, due to the infrastructure we're setting up to serve u all :-) - Waseem Sadiq

'a few weeks'!! we'll have all forgotten about it by then! -- you've got our interest now (it's about 20 people, how much infrastructure would be required?) - Paul

Hehe that is true, but if I let you guys in now I might end up spoiling the zen like email experience once its good enough. I'll tell you what, if you are willing to try out the product and tell us how we can improve it, or blog about it, Í will get you an invite (waseem at inbox2 dot com) - Waseem Sadiq

we are btw also on twitter @inbox2 @waseemsadiq and our blog http://blog.inbox2.com (shameless self promotion) - Waseem Sadiq

Cool! Email sent. - Kevin Whalen from email

Eh, looks like an AIR app. - Akiva Moskovitz

hmm, me thinks: Soon, a Scoblizer recommendation will be as mighty as being listed in Oprah's book club list... - Michelle

What a tease! I have already requested for an invite and now waiting...thanks Robert. - Rahul Mirakhur

hmm... over a month and no response... oh well - Kevin Whalen

Yeah, ditto -- and after they asked us to email them so they could add us to the beta list... - Paul

You guys allready seen this? http://www.inbox2.com/account... - Waseem Sadiq

Robert, was this post sent directly from your phone? How do you do that? - Skyler Call

Skyler, http://ourdoings.com/ourdoin... - Bruce Lewis from fftogo

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk

So FriendFeed's growth is flat, why do you think that is and how do you think that could be improved?

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It's a shame that FF is not growing yet has all better features over the likes of Twitter and Facebook but what is causing the lack of growth and what could be done to increase growth in FriendFeed? - Kol Tregaskes

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FF is too much work. Consumes time, needs a lot of effort and most people are happy with one-to-one than one-to many interactions. Twitter wins. - vijay

FriendFeed fits in a space in between Twitter and Facebook. There is very little reason to join FF if you are already using both Twitter and FB. - Daniel Sims

Is it down to 'missing' features? Is the poor introduction for new users to blame? - Kol Tregaskes

Also what Daniel said. - vijay

Daniel, I did. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Vijay, yeah it can be pretty complicated for the new user, how would you make is simpler? - Kol Tregaskes

if you make it any simpler it becomes twitter. Only way to go is to get users to replace their Blogs with FF. I think that's what they are working towards. - vijay

I have replaced some of my blogs with friendfeed. I think it's excellent for blogging (microblogging). - Svartling from email

Vijay, you meant for writing your own blog articles? Yep, that would be great. All I'd really need it a few HTML options in the first comment to do this. Nothing too fancy. Then I could blog from FF, embed it on my site and everything is synced, comments and all. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Svartling, I've done the same thing also. - Ashikur Rahman

I think what needs to be done is have a clear "walk-through" example of setting up one's full social media life on FriendFeed. It's a great box of toys for exploring and tinkering -- but trust me, new users will be quite daunted at first unless they have some hand-holding - Ashikur Rahman

It only targets content producers - Genaro Bardy

Ashikur, I see this all the time as I seek out new users to welcome them each day. A lot post their first entry as "what do I do now?". Once new users have completed the registration process they are put on friendfeed.com with no other explanation. A nice Flash anim is needed here to show the new user the basic features of the service. - Kol Tregaskes

FF should go all the way and become a fully-featured Twitter client. People will join and stay for that, then eventually fall in love with FF. Right now, FF's integration with Twitter is just half-way done and causes more confusion. - Daniel Sims

Make it a fully-featured Twitter client with better blogging functionality. - Svartling

If I could import my non-FF Twitter friends, keep it refreshed if I unfollow them and swap them to FF users if they join, then I'd use FF as my Twitter client. But the likes of Seesmic Desktop provide all sorts of useful features like RT and tabs for replies for multiple Twitter accounts and DMs. - Kol Tregaskes

FF requires more time to enjoy. Many of the features are probably difficult for new visitors to see or find. The interface may be overwhelming and it may be a bit too "Zen" in appearance for most people. People used to Twitter may find it harder to connect to others (they may find the lack of @ replies as a communication hurdle). The API isn't exploited as widely as Twitter's. Mobile... more... - phil baumann

FF hasn't gotten the buzz Twitter has. It's seems harder to find like minded people on FF. Maybe, I just don't know how to do it. I love the pictures and the ability to have real conversations. I hate 140 character rule of Twitter. Twitter more people are just talking. Not as many listeners. Lots of marketers and life coaches on Twitter. Don't like that. I like "rooms" on FF. I like... more... - Kimber Scott

Kimber, absolutely agree with you. - Ashikur Rahman

What I dont like is to properly track watch my friends, I have to follow FF, twiter, and facebook. - MikeDeal / ZoneDancer

Kimber, interesting points there. Twitter is definitely a broadcast tool whereas FF is a discussion tool. - Kol Tregaskes

I have noticed with friends that FF requires some usage on the part of the individual, so it's a hard sell and steep learning curve that way. Most of my friends I introduce here see a relatively blank page, with just my posts. They're timid to subscribe, and thus see a really whitewashed space. - anna sauce

Anna, agree about it being a hard-sell. I think the email features should be plugged more. I think there is a big market of users that I used to emails and know nothing about social media beyond Facebook. I'm trying to tempt a few friends onto FF via the email features, to them it's a matter of registration then emailing me to a different address. Eventually they may move onto the site and use all the regular features. - Kol Tregaskes

I think FF is too much for people new to social media I don't know. I think the realtime thing kinda pushed a lot of people away as well. I'm finding myself finding more people I'd rather interact with on Twitter and Facebook than FF. Discussions are nice, but they are time consuming. For anyone with a job that doesn't allow them to be online, a family to take care, a house to take care... more... - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

I'd also like to see it pushed as a collaborative tool. It works really well in this sense. Businesses could use FF. - Kol Tregaskes

Another thing that bothers me on FF is a user issue, but I think with some encouragement from FF is could be improved: There are too many blank profiles. People should be encouraged to say 'something.' It takes a lot of work to see if you want to follow somebody, if they have a blank profile. Also, private feeds are so off putting. I know they should be an option, but it's very hard to... more... - Kimber Scott from email

Personally I like the rate of growth, after all a good wine needs time to reach its full potential. - Kevin J Hatton

Heh, Kevin. I'm not after Twitter or FB like growth but any growth would be nice. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Some of it is habit. And herding behavior. If their friends use it, then they want to. Maybe FF should be all about quality rather than quantity. I stepped through many people to help them start up. Showed them how to use the bookmarklet. None of them wanted to use it. It's a new technology in its own right. Sometimes peeps are just set in their ways? - Marg Uerite

Peeps have to have a certain level of computer literacy sophistication, just to appreciate it! - Marg Uerite

Kimber, the user settings page is presented to new users when they register but the description is only optional. I'd like to see an explanation of how and the benefits to why to fill in this be displayed with the tutorial. - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, exactly what I was thinking - a little education will solve so many issues. - Kimber Scott from BuddyFeed

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

FriendFeed needs to think through its use cases, & survey users for their preferences between them. Examples are FF as feed reader (needs a "Subscribe to this blog" bookmarklet), or the FF as Twitter client++ mentioned above by several people, which I'm also big on. Then, once decided, make it clear for new users through usage videos, UI "obviousness" improvements, etc. how it works.... more... - Alex Schleber

the main reason why friendfeed doesnt catch fire is its lack of complete profiles...i cant search for people from munich,...or from my schools, etc, etc,... FAIL - Chris Hofmann

I kinda wish I had a local search of somekind. One way that twitter first grabs users is by finding others around you that use it as well as easy tweetups. - tomit from iPhone

Good point, Chris! - Ashikur Rahman from iPod

... and, why do I have to go all the way up to the start of a conversation to comment? Especially when it's a long one? - Ashikur Rahman from iPod

Chris makes a very good point and so does Ashikur. No complete profiles. On FB you can pretty much trust that the person is a real person by looking at the profile, you get a sense of community, you can find people you know, or used to know, etc., etc. Ashikur's point should be very easy to fix. - Kimber Scott from email

Mass media is driving twitter adoption nothing else. - Geoff Schultz

Odd, isn't it. Traditional media pushing the latest "new media" trend. - Jason Nunnelley

Having just switched over to using Friendfeed for all my social networking, I can say that making this a full-featured Twitter client would bring more people in. Once here they'd realize that's not what it's really about. But the halfway method that exists now is a major deterrent. - John Ladd

Kol, IMHO: 1) The barrier to entry increases with the character limit and inversely to the photo count. 2) Let's face it, the biggest differentiation from twitter is not comments (twitter has @ replies) or the better search (although, that's big) or attachments (twitter has 3rd parties for that) -- the differentiation is groups, yet the process of finding a group is still pretty awful (by searching - the results are cluttered at best) or non-obvious (by clicking on someone's subscribers and scrolling down). - tollie williams

The easiest thing about FF is the aggregation. The harder elements at first are saved searches and building up new friends on FF. overcome these two harder elements and it should move better. - George Hall (Australia) from BuddyFeed

We all need to be hiding more people - Charlie Anzman

biggest reason is publicity. no Oprah, no plusk. no MarkZ. - MikeAmundsen

Better RSS reading-support would be great - I use FF instead of GReader now for simplicitiy but it's not ideal. Searchable profiles too. Searching by location would be great. I'd love to sub to more people in the UK, London or even locally in Kent but that's hard unless that stated they are from that place or join a local-based group. - Kol Tregaskes

Ashikur, yeah little, basic things like that are still missing. - Kol Tregaskes

For a "complete profile" what would you like to see included? - Kol Tregaskes

Should FF should status updates, e.g. on our profiles? - Kol Tregaskes

tollie, agree that group search results need a lot of work, what would you like to see on such searches? Number of subscribers, group description? - Kol Tregaskes

George, how could FF overcome those two issues? - Kol Tregaskes

Read FriendFeed Feedback, there's loads of ideas there... - Marlin Forbes

Marlin, what suggestions have you seen in FF-Feedback that you think would help FF in growing? - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, Re: improving group search. I think the Find groups page should look a lot like WeFollow.com, except where WeFollow has category titles, FF should be organizing the groups by "Most (subscribed/active) among (friends/everyone) (today/this week/this quarter/this year/all time)." - tollie williams

(Yes, that's 2*2*5=20 possible groups. But you would design it to show 3 categories, with the switches I put in parenthesis as interface elements.) - tollie williams

Oh, and I forgot to say: the text visible should be "subscribers", but clicking on the INFO button would reveal the group's description and an estimated activity count (similar to the new subscriber emails- "about 10 posts a day" eg). - tollie williams

We don't tolerate trolls. Hence, flat. - Steven Perez

Steve's point is most likely it. Trolls don't have an outlet here, which limits traffic to truely useful and entertaining content, rather than purely emotionally focused content. FF may have uncovered one of the core reasons for lack of traffic on any social site, in tandem with xkcd's "someone is wrong on the internet": users empowered to effectively ignore trolls limits rate of growth. - Andy Bakun from Android

Turn FriendFeed into an embedded comment system and information stream for websites. Make the fact that it's a widget less obvious, replace the commenting system of the host. Host the conversation outside of FF, and bring it back. - Marlin Forbes

Post, Kimber added you as a friend on Goodreads. We need you to confirm that you are, in fact, friends with Kimber. To confirm this friend request, follow the below link: http://www.goodreads.com/friend... &utm_medium=email&utm_source=invite - Kimber (kimberscott.art@gmail.com) - پـرستووو from email

Interesting idea, Marlin. - Kol Tregaskes

It's almost impossible to be a 'casual' friendfeed user. You either go all in and comment like crazy and spend A LOT of time reading and posting and being witty, and if you're really good you might start to get some subscribers. If you don't invest a lot of time, you don't get anything out of it and your feed sits in obscurity with very little social interaction and you wonder whats the... more... - veo

I agree with veo, and with anna http://friendfeed.com/friendf... it happened the same to me when I joined. I thought it was just another MyBlogLog. - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

..which reminds me, ff needs to adopt @reply model to be more engaging. :/ - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

I think it just needs to be more traditional. Comments start out very compact in my monitor here. Very unlike a forum and has tinier fonts. The post also feels too grayed out. The rest could be improved by discovery. Related posts like blogs. Better integration of services. Finally better unification of comments from all the things it aggregates. For ex. Posterous really won me over... more... - Fake Name

Jesse Stay

Twitter Suspending Accounts in Droves - http://staynalive.com/article...

July 5 from Stay N' Alive - Comment - Like - Share

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Good! I have got follows from more spam accounts the past couple weeks than I've ever gotten. - Mike Bracco

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I <3 FriendFeed Real-Time search - it lets me see Twitter Fail, as it happens - Jesse Stay

Thanks for the heads up. BTW, here is the retweet from the SPAM account: RT @SPAM If someone you just KNOW isn't a spammer is suspended right now, their account is prob contaminated and we're fixing it. - RAD Moose

I'm glad about the real spammos being zapped, but sure is odd they have to temporarily suspend bona fide accounts in droves!!! Thanks for staying on top of this Jesse. Where is Mashable when we need them?? Nothing from Pete et al yet... - Mari Smith

Hopefully it will get rid of all those Kathy34982s and Elisa9867s - Carlton Prest

they're suspending legit accts, but the bots and spammers aren't getting banned the way they need to. - Dawn S. Lambe

I have gotten a lot of spam followers in the past few weeks. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

My account was suspended for some reason. Awhile ago I had some duplicate posts due to wayward drupal module however for some reason it was suspended in the last 4 hours. I was using twollow and was following "online marketing" so that I could learn more from people discussing online marketing. Could this have caused it? I sent in a support request so we will see what happens. - Brian Kenyon from iPod

FYI I'm going to update the post but that message from @spam is from May 30 - it appears that Twitter does not yet know about this one - Jesse Stay from iPhone

I got suspended and I am not spam! A lot of good Tweets are getting suspended. - Kimber Scott

Un-oh. Why do they say they are doing it? - Francine Hardaway

4chan is currently to blame, they were trying to get on the top of trending topics (and succeeded) - mjc

Michael, I'm wondering if it happened for some reason due to that. Maybe Twitter got trigger happy to kill the attack. - Jesse Stay

Doesn't necessarily make sense. If the problem is the gorilla anatomy thing, wouldn't they just go after those accounts? - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

John, has Twitter ever made sense? - Jesse Stay

"There seems to be a wave of suspensions going around Twitter today, and it’s turning quickly into an echo chamber of confusion and frustration. We’ve received several tips (the first one being from Mashable guest writer Matt Singley) that a range of users are being taken down, including some with large followings such as @marismith and the LA Times Top of the Ticket account." http://mashable.com/2009... - Kimber Scott

Kimber, check out the comments on my post - you'll see there are many more. Also check out the real-time stream and you'll see people complain real-time. - Jesse Stay

They suspend @marismith but not @GangbangGirl @cumcandy & @kellikanyon. That's rich - Peggy Dolane

Yes, Jesse, I saw the stream and the other comments. My Twitter account is working again. Thank goodness. - Kimber Scott from email

I didn't get suspended. Glad in a way, but not sure I care about it. I don't bother with twitter much anymore. I'm mainly here on friendfeed now. - Jannifer @wordsforliving

I like it here on FriendFeed. I like the features and the fact you can have a real conversation. Besides, I feel very distrustful of Twitter now. - Kimber Scott from email

Twitter has become a farm house for spammers - Michael_techie

While they are at it, can they suspend this Kimber person! She is on every freakin thread! - PJ Edwards

Robert Scoble

Why Twitter is underhyped and is probably worth five to 10 billion dollars - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-twi...

August 30 from Posterous - Comment - Like - Share

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I was thinking about this today - I don't remember 4 or 5 entire tech conferences devoted to just Facebook in a single year. That makes me think something's different about Twitter. Maybe you're right on the reasons - I'm not sure what it is, but Twitter has the celebrity appeal that is drawing more people percentage-wise than Facebook. Interesting to see if Facebook can turn things around (I have faith they will). - Jesse Stay

Jesse: I've talked with dozens of businesses and they all say Facebook isn't working as well for them. - Robert Scoble

Facebook needs to fix the fundamental issues I laid out in that post before businesses will get excited. Hopefully the FriendFeed team can help them there. - Robert Scoble

Twitter is so much more live, fun, exciting, happening! - Marilyn Jansen Lopes

Robert yeah - that's why I was one of the few excited about the FriendFeed acquisition. I think it has the chance to fix those problems. I agree completely. In the meantime I'm going to make Facebook better for business on SocialToo. :-) - Jesse Stay

i think robert's hit it on the head. FB is simply too cumbersome and too information-poor to be of value to businesses; twitter's extreme simplicity ("just" a stream) and ability to be mined make it easy and valuable for businesses to use. i'm on a trip to nyc right now and am amazed at how much local businesses have picked up using Twitter. - empireofno

Sigh, Posterous is still not working for me. Not good. - Robert Scoble

They're out for a beer... - Gus

Posterous is back now. - Gus

Gus: it's still down here. Hmmm. - Robert Scoble

Gus, it's now working again, thanks! - Robert Scoble

Twitter is open to the world. Facebook content is only really fully open if you subscribe. Facebook has an image problem where business is concerned, basically it's perceived to be full of kids wittering on about drunken nights out. Similar opinions could be held about Twitter but successes are easy to see and the 140 character limit also limits the bullshit. Twitter is an old fashioned... more... - Gilbert Harding

It so baffling how such a mess of a site that is USELESS w/out a 3rd party app has such a HUGE adoption rate. On second thought, I blame you guys, Robert & co., for bringing the masses over. Now, no one wants to leave! ;) - Mona Nomura

it's not the site itself that is really the useful part, it's the platform it has become. Actually, I'd venture to say that, since most people still use the web interface, it explains why most people still don't see the power of Twitter. I've always disliked it, but it's success in penetrating...uh...everything cannot be denied. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

The power? What power? Search is ALWAYS borked. #Useless #LOL - Mona Nomura

Maybe power is a little strong, LOL. I've never noticed the search being broken, though. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

@rasheen @mona - it's irrelevant whether the useful part is the site or a third party app. No third party would exists without Twitter. How smart is to let others do the hard work at your place (if you'll be able to make money from this)? ;-) - Markingegno - Donato

Maybe it's the tools I use (or don't use) - pre Gnomedex I had two people monitoring on Tweet Deck, two on Co-Tweet, and Chris would monitor via web...and whatever he uses. We'd STILL have discrepancies. Baffling. - Mona Nomura

:) Meant to comment here..copying text from above. I am a total geek w/ my hands on my keyboard 71% of a 24 hr. day, yet I frequently find myself frustrated w/ FB's extremely non intuitive web interface...Now....that being said ~ today I found myself conversing fast, fluid & furious very Tweet-Like from the new FB iPhone App while lounging at the Pool...Who knows what I'm talking about?... more... - Zaneology

Facebook's design is definitely crap and makes the site a PITA to use for me. Too much going on. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I think Twitter is super over-hyped. Five to 10 billion? That's way too much, comparing to traditional industries. Take for example Israeli company Iscar (www.iscar.com) that is considered a world leading supplier of precision carbide metal working tools (cutting tools), has billions of dollars in revenues, employs thousands of workers all around the world and reports an average of 15%... more... - Nir Ben Yona

O_O 5-10 BILLION? noooo way.. maybe 550 million at MAX, but no billion dollar ranges. - Kevin Nunez

I agree w/ billion - the entire market is shifting because of social media, led by Twitter. - Mona Nomura

Scobleizer: I could not disagree with you more about "Facebook needs to fix the fundamental issues I laid out in that post before businesses will get excited". Look at companies like Zynga who are making high double digit to low triple digit millions on top of the Facebook platform. Also Playfish, Slide, Playdom, etc. You're just wrong on this one--businesses are already there, and making lots of money. - Eric Florenzano

after years of avoiding it, I broke down and registered for a FB account. the inability for me to choose whatever user name I want is close to a deal breaker for me. But I went ahead and registered anyway. After 30 minutes I got tired of all of the customization and quit. - jbrotherlove

mmm posterous down.. - Ouriel Ohayon

Go you halves Robert - Michael McGimpsey

So far, facebook and twitter have the same problem: monetization (I read your post about Sushi restaurants paying to list coupons next to their mentions in search results which could have some legs but it still needs to be proven). The other problem for twitter is the sign up process: it is still way too hard to find the right people based on your interests and as a result a lot of... more... - Edwin Khodabakchian

Here's my full response: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Just as AIM was adopted by the masses in the late 90's, Twitter is being adopted now. I think, in the next decade, competing services will arise making Twitter just one service among several status/comment services feeding into a more broad (more robust) platform that has yet to be defined. Just as you can now chat between AIM and Yahoo IM, you'll be able to interact between Twitter and... more... - Gus

I not sure that you're right, Robert. But I'm not sure that you're wrong either. Twitter going for that price would kick off another tech bubble. - Roberto Bonini

I don't think I could ever engage with Twitter in its current form. The reason why businesses and celebrities like it is that it's so simple. The can post updates from their mobile phones and look at their follower count and feel good about themselves being popular. But I doubt that most people see more than 1% of the tweets from the people they follow. I also don't think that they can be worth anything like $5B because they have no assets. - James Myatt

From posterous: Wow.. I completely disagree!! Yes it is good for the duration of a tweet and maybe even the duration of it's search (two weeks), but the entire world doesn't think/work within such a limited window. Yes the twitter environment is successful, but where would twitter be without all the layers and add-ons that actually make it easy to use? You can't (fully) figure that into... more... - Chris Myles

Did anyone else experience this? When I read the title I had this image of Scoble with a Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) voice over.. "Twitter is worth ... 5 BILLION dollars"!! - Chris Myles

we need to wait for the Facebook/FF/Linkedin $1bn revenue IPO before we place that value on Twitter. An FB/FF/LI combination could justify a $10bn IPO in 2010. Twitter can't (yet). - Thomas Power

Robert, this looks way off dude. 'Underhyped', what else is more hyped than Twitter these days? And how did you figure the $5-10 B valuation? It may end up being worth something, but wonder if any businesses actually quantified their ROI of using Twitter. Most seem to be on the bandwagon but fumbling in the dark trying to figure out if it means anything or not. - Nalin Perera

Facebook got a jewel with the FriendFeed acquisition. The ability to create publicly available informaiton and track the social web is there for the taking, if they pursue it. - Hutch Carpenter

Hey Robert, it seems there's a clone of you :P http://www.motogp.com/en... - Massimo MaxKava Cavazzini

@edwk / Edwin, totally agree with you that Twitter has huge issues in the user discovery department without the use of third party tools. It is pretty much inexcusable that they, instead of pushing the foolish "Suggested Users" thing, haven't simply INDEXED THE BIOS to allow (new) users to search over those with a simple searchbox: "What are you interested in? [type a keyword]"... more... - Alex Schleber

Great post Robert, Arrington and Gillmor were already preaching something similar and we definitely need strong Twitter competition now. - Alberto Saavedra

Alex. I did not know about http://TweepSearch.com thanks for the heads up. - Edwin Khodabakchian

This is retarded. How on earth is Twitter worth $5-$10 billion? I see absolutely no evidence of any revenue generating opportunities produced by Twitter. This guy needs to stop drinking the Kool-Aid. - Scott Carmichael

Whether Twitter is worth $5+ billion today is an unfortunate focus here. I pay attention to how attractive Twitter is becoming to small and LOCAL businesses, small organizations, and small events--particularly in these tough economic times. It reminds me a lot of how small scale customers saw Google AdWords when it first became available. It was a breath of fresh air compared to the... more... - Loren Heiny

I think Twitter was stupid to turn down the $500 million offer from facebook. I doubt if Twitter will ever earn that kind of revenue in my lifetime. - Garin Kilpatrick

Jesse Stay

Who has both a Twitter account and a Facebook Page that they manage? I have something for you to try.

August 23 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I do !!! - Eric Logan

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That would be me... - Megan Fitzgerald

Me too. I'm 'managing' posts thus far via Seesmic Desktop. What you got Jesse? *intrigued* - Kate Foy

Sending DMs to those that comment here on how to get set up with the new thing I want you to try - Jesse Stay

Oh, and we're going to try an experiment - if you get instructions, please feel free to share it with your friends if you like it! - Jesse Stay

Present. - Micah Wittman

I try....and I mean try.....to manage Twitter and Facebook posts on TweetDeck. - Bonnie Foster

I do - steven healey

I do - Melanie Reed

I do as well. - Rob Schieber

I'm game - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) from iPhone

I do! - Laura Norvig

My fb page (one of them) is named after my blog: http://facebook.com/interaw.... I also help manage http://facebook.com/eduify and just started http://facebook.com/newfb for meeting new people. (Does That Count? :) - Garin Kilpatrick

Okay, for everyone else wanting to try it, wait until tomorrow morning and we'll post how you can try it and use it on http://blog.socialtoo.com - Jesse Stay

I do, I have a few Twitter accounts. - Kol Tregaskes

I do, I do. - Gary Walter (gwalter)

It's live now - go and try it out!: http://blog.socialtoo.com/2009... - Jesse Stay

BTW, I've got one more feature I'm holding back on you'll see in the next day or two. :-) - Jesse Stay

Sounds like me, too. - Jason Miller

Jesse, I'm interested and would be glad to do review for you. I could also use your help weeding out some (spam) followers on Twitter. - Jason Cronkhite from iPhone

Jason(s) - it's live now - go check it out at http://blog.socialtoo.com/2009... - Jesse Stay

I enter the game ) - soci@medi@tor

Me! - Carter Rabasa from iPhone

Me!! - Adam Clarke

Pieso, Carter, Adam, it's all launched now - just go to http://blog.socialtoo.com/2009... for the details. - Jesse Stay

I have both. - Anurag Bansal

Lay it on m,e Jesse!!! Put it to the test! - Arleen Anderson

I do:-) - anjelina

Arleen, Anurag, anjelina, be sure to check out the links I posted above - all the instructions are there! Let me know if you have any troubles. - Jesse Stay

I do too. - Martha

I manage a page as well as a Twitter account. Happy to help. Twitter account is @thejeffbrown. - Jeff Brown

Jeff, please see the blog post link above - it has all the instructions. - Jesse Stay

Haggis (Sean Loyless) to Haggis's feed, Android

Five Great Reasons to Root Your Android Phone - http://lifehacker.com/5342237...

August 21 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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I just did this following the steps in the article. I love the power widget (Seen above) and having multitouch is quite nice. I am seeing a performance increase already. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from Bookmarklet

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Had installed 3.9.11.2 before trying the one mentioned here. No phone-wide search in 4.0.1? Poo. - Christopher A Carr

Christopher, Cyanogen says he is working on the phone-wide search, possibly for 4.1 - Tim Hoeck

Cyanogen's 3.9.11.2 has device-wide search. It does, however, lack the multi-touch in the browser hack, which seems pretty worthless to me anyway. - Christopher A Carr

Before i go and possibly brick my G1 (Germany, T-Mobile branding, no simlock): can this be done on a non-US G1 as well? - Ralph

Yup! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Does that mean "Yup! - You'll brick it" or "Yup! - It works great, Dude"? - Ralph

Ralph: The rooting procedure linked to there is pretty stupid-simple. I think it would actually be trickier to brick your phone than not. Cynogen's 4.0.x really rejuvenates the G1. Highly recommended. - Christopher A Carr

I just did this Saturday night and I'm loving it. The only thing is keeping updated. I have the CM Updater, but when i upgrade to a theme, the updater says I have an update and just flashes over it lol. Really wish there was better themeing support, very happy that I rooted though. Apps on the SD card is a phone saver from nerd rage. My phone doesn't slow down at all now! - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

I did it! Crap, this thing is fast now ;-) Keeps me from getting an iPhone 3GS for now... - Ralph

But for whatever reason i can't get the Hero's compact keyboard to show... locale is English, so it should work i guess... - Ralph

there's a setting you have to change in the language settings I think...I dunno..virtual keyboard worked fine on my G1 without doing anything - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

i had to deactivate 'android keyboard' completely - now it works fine. but i have another issue: how much ram am i supposed to have with no further apps installed? i only have less than 40 on my G1 which seems a little low to me... - Ralph

I need to partition my sd card.. Can I just shrink the fat32 and make an ext with gParted? - Christopher A Carr

yes: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry... - just create the ext partition AFTER the fat partition.. I think it makes a difference.. - Tim Hoeck

I partitioned the drive fat32 in the front and ext at the end prior to trying to flash the ROM, but the sd card became completely unmountable on all of my windows and Linux machines -- with Android complaining about a damaged sd card. Had to format back to all fat32. Not sure what happened. Will try it again. - Christopher A Carr

yah, it should definitely be readable in your OS.. something seems to not have gone right.. I forgot to mention the obligatory 'backup what you have on your partition just in case' beforehand.. - Tim Hoeck

@Ralph I have 60mb free, but I'm using Apps2SD. If you're not using Apps2SD then that sounds like the right amount of free ram. I barely had 14mb free before I did this. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

@Christopher I formatted mine with a partition manager. First partition was FAT32, second was EXT3 - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Haggis: Apps2SD is a no no and not necessary with Cyanogen's ROM -- or so I understand. - Christopher A Carr

Well what I meant was that Apps2SD is already built in so I'm using the one included in the ROM. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Ah, got it. - Christopher A Carr

OK, about to try again. Will I be given the option to transfer apps once the new partition is detected? - Christopher A Carr

Nah, the beauty about the ROM is that it will detect and do it automatically. Once you have the partitiions set (and your phone reads your card), go to SD Card and Storage under settings and if you did it right, it will show the "SD card secondary" space with your new partition. Take note of your available phone memory, restart your phone, and check it again. Should be closer to 50-60mb. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Just picked up a MT3G last week. Does doing this really speed everything up? - Kevin Whalen

Haggis: That kicks ass. Fixin to have a go at it now... Kevin: Yes, though the difference might be a little less pronounced on the MT3G...? - Christopher A Carr

Success! - Christopher A Carr

*cheers* - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Wow. This is really going to extend the shelf life of this little clunker. Someone buy Cyanogen a beer. - Christopher A Carr

I know! I'm in love with my phone all over again now that I don't have restrictions on apps or how many I want running (other than shorter battery life, heh) - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I think you all have convinced me to root my G1 as well. - Naomi Williams

I just want to say for all the Australians - lol @ "root your android phone".....that is all. - Chris Lawrence

definitely have to chime in and say that this was painless, and i saw the benefit almost at once, though it did take me a bit to realize i had more than the original 3 panes. - Seth Brower

Seth: Do you have your apps on you SD? - Christopher A Carr

@Seth Haha, no kidding! It was a good couple hours before I accidentally swiped to the 4th screen, and then the 5th screen on the other side. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I've OCD-ish behavioral tendencies. 5 screens made for about 3 hours of organizing shortcuts. I'm looking at my phone right now thinking I need to redo everything. - Christopher A Carr

I switched my home screen for HomeSimple (from the market). Okay, so it's a blatant iPhone ripoff, but I like it. I also don't spend 3 hours EVERY SINGLE DAY rearranging my home screen any more :-) - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Hmmm...what's this? CyanogenMod-4.0.3.1 ... - Christopher A Carr

Hmmm.. What's the easiest way to update the ROM to the new version? - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Download the Cyanmod Updater from the Market, check for update and apply update. Boom! - Adrian

Nice. I kept trying to search for "CM Updater" and getting nothing. Even "cyan" didn't work. Cyanogen worked though. Android Market SUCKS. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Yeah I totally agree on the Market! It needs a massive overhaul. PS Mine just finished updating and rebooting itself... no idea what changed. :) - Adrian

Specifically, android market search sucks. It only searches whole words and gets confused by spaces - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Cyanogen says: "This is a small upgrade for the stable series that contains new bluetooth and audio code backported from Donut, as well as some kernel changes which should improve responsiveness." - Christopher A Carr

Thanks Crhis! - Adrian

@Christopher No currently I just put my apps back on as normal, It had been a long day and didnt want to tinker to much longer, that will likely be my project tonight. - Seth Brower

Seth: Definitely do it. Absolutely worth the minor hassle. Do you have an installed Linux distro handy, or a live Linux disk? Just shrink the fat32 partition from the end, and create a new ext partition...pop it in the phone, and presto. - Christopher A Carr

I used the gParted Live CD and booted from it. Worked like a charm - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from IM

Burning a Parted Magic (gParted-based) live CD is something to put on one's list of things to do...comes in very handy. - Christopher A Carr

I couldn't agree more, the bootable G-Parted Live CD is awesome! That's what I've been using to partition my drives for a while -- best way to start a proper dual/tri-boot system. - Adrian

FYI, the new Cyanogen Updater lets you see version changes prior to upgrading. - Tim Hoeck

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, FriendFeed Talk, Posterous

How Posterous could be the next Friendfeed - pingmicro - http://pingmicro.com/how-pos...

August 11 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Are you organising an exodus? - Graham Sergeant

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LOL. I won't need to, Facebook will do that all by themselves at some point. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

bies? - Mitch

But it's another platform which is a young startup. what's to say somebody doesn't buy them in another year and do the same thing? I'm honestly at the point where I'm using 3 or 4 different services for different things and will remain doing so. - Bill Kinney

I think choosing another hilltop to hide at is not a good strategy. Going to do a lengthy post on this, hopefully this week. - Michael Bravo

Why the sudden interest in Posterous? Its been around for at least a year already and as far as I remember doesn't have any of the community search and streaming conversation features that make friendfeed interesting. - Rafael Robayna

I've used Posterous since the first day and I got to say that the developers are really great, so I think that Posterous will be something to watch out for. - Svartling

Oh, and thanks for posting my post here Kol Tregaskes :) - Svartling

No worries. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Of course you'll be seeing my Posterous posts here at FriendFeed. Twitter too. And even Facebook. - Dennis Jernberg

Same here, but not Facebook :) - Svartling from iPhone

I like Posterous. I'm not sure if it's going to be a Friendfeed one day. Probably not. In general one can say services not hosted by one of the major players around will disappear or be purchased within some years. - Rutger Blom from iPhone

Yes, that's why I have my hopes in the end for Google Wave. It will probably not disapear if it's a success. - Svartling from email

In that way the acquisition of FF by FB is a good thing. You end up on a major platform which is likely to stick around more than a couple of years. - Rutger Blom

Yeah, exactly. Looking forward to it. A stable, central place to be. - Svartling from email

Maybe Posterous will be bought by FB too... - Gus

Not likely. Posterous has nothing interesting to offer to FB. - Rutger Blom from email

Probably not. Have you seen the new friendfeed yet? Facebook lite: http://pingmicro.com/breakin... - Svartling from iPhone

is posterous kind of the opposite, a broadcaster as opposed to an aggregator? - Brian Appleby

Brian - I was wondering the same thing. Posterous seems to be a good way to post *out* to other services, rather than have those other services feed *in* (or have I missed the point?).. - Andrew Terry

Yes it is! But you can have your feeds automatically to it but it's a bit tricky. First you need to have your feeds post to your gmail or ping.fm - Svartling from iPhone

Hiya, is there a way anyone knows of to set posterous to automatically import my new friendfeed items as they turn up? (don't really want to give them my password to see if pretending it's a blog works - pls tell me if that's the only way, though ;-) thanks - immaterial

Should be possible via RSS. Don't know how to set it up though. - Rutger Blom from email

Make friendfeed send the items to your gmail and make a auto filter there that send it forward to your Posterous. - Svartling from email

@svartling thanks, forwarding filter is a good idea - giving that a try :-) also trying via feedmyinbox to see if it's fast enough for more control over items - immaterial

AJ Batac

Breaking Up a Traffic Jam! MUST SEE - http://www.metacafe.com/watch...

August 25 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Sometimes a single driver can vastly improve traffic." - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

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I always leave a large gap in front of me. - Michelle Martinez

I think I'll do this from now on - AJ Batac

I had heard about something like this a while back. I try to do it as much as I can but jackalopes are always cutting in the space. Oh well. - CAJ, somewhere else

Continue what you are doing Curtis. Don't mind those jackalopeseses - AJ Batac

This philosophy collapses when you have real gridlock though; if all the lanes are clogged with stopped (or very slow moving) traffic and you try to employ this technique, you just end up pissing off the cars trapped behind you because you are going 5mph while everyone else is going 10. - Phil G

Try that on british motorways and you'll find forty lorries and assorted 4x4's filling the intervening space. Most traffic jams would be avoided (except where sheer volume of traffic is the cause) if everyone left a two-second gap between them and the car in front - whatever speed they're doing - and don't brake unnecessarily - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

It's simply courteous and defensive driving. There should be space between cars for safety. And there's no reason to close ranks to not allow others in. We're all going in the same direction with the same goal. If you'd like others to be courteous, always be courteous yourself. - ·[▪_▪]·

Living in LA has totally colored how I drive now. I remember going back home to SD to see my folks and I was agog at how much more aggressive I'd become. :( - Derrick

It's not cheating, it's just optimal timing :-) - Todd Hoff

It's the rocket scientist like this that causes wrecks behind him and road rage. Slower traffic keep right is the law (for good reason). He demonstrates why he should stay in the far right lane, go about his business, and stop trying to "fix all of the traffic around him". What an ego. - Robert Kenney

the most important part is really the end, where he says how this style of driving is actually calming and altruistic instead of infuriating and selfish.... geez, if everything felt that way we'd have less problems once people got out of their car, all frustrated and pissy. - Ňicķ

Simple math. - Mike Reynolds

Moral of the story. DON'T DRIVE LIKE A PRICK! - Darren Heydon

This is absolutely brilliant. I think I just found a pick of the week and it's only Tuesday. - Josh Haley

This is the dude who did the zero cost steadycam using a tripod. Good stuff. - Rodfather

I gotta check that out, Rodfather. I could put a steadycam to work. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to... - Josh Haley

Actually, on British motorways they have variable speed limits (for example, on the M25 around London). They found out that, if they lower the speed limit (sometimes as low as 20-30 MPH), they can keep traffic moving; however, if they keep the speed limit high, they get a seriously bad traffic jam. It was interesting to watch. - Glen Campbell, B.A.

I received a 404 error. There seems to be a traffic jam on the server as well. - Louis Trapani from iPhone

It's kind of obvious.. stop and go causes problems (and wrecks), even if it does take you longer, it doesn't FEEL longer because you aren't gas/break/gas/break, so less stressful drive. On the flip side, you think this guy driving slow (and not keeping the traffic pace) will cause someone else to slam him in the rear? - Tim Hoeck

It might cause more disruption with cars behind him moving into the other lane to pass him. Honestly, I can't stand drivers who leave a huge gap in front during a traffic jam. Josh, it's basically just extending a tripod and holding it in the middle :) http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Rodfather

Interesting: "Governor Bush vetoed 2005 SB732, which would have reserved the left lane for passing, saying that drivers blocking the left lane are 'cautious and careful.'" - from "State keep right laws" http://www.mit.edu/~jfc... - Micah Wittman

So, his basic tactic, albeit in a single lane, is similar to what I see highway patrol officers do when they want to SLOW DOWN traffic -- the highway patrol car swerves back and forth from fast to left to right lane and back and forth, lights ablazing, effectively doing two things -- creating a BIG GAP between the cop car and the rest of the traffic in front of him, and second SLOWS... more... - Pete Delucchi

A few people already mentioned it above, but let me also say that this technique will not work in heavily trafficked roads. I've spent time in cities like Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and you just can't leave a large gap between you and the car in front of you. First they will get filled by other cars really really quickly, and second you will just piss off the cars behind you. - Andre P. Siregar

My wife and I debate this, because I sometimes do this myself. Stop and go traffic seems silly, when throughput would be higher if people left enough space between cars to absorb some of the braking. The website at http://trafficwaves.org/ is interesting, especially the link to http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304... that claims single-lane jams would be radically reduced if >=20% of cars had adaptive cruise control. - Matt Cutts

Meh. I just do whatever gets me to my destination fastest #aggressivedriver - LANjackal

kinda like why people are requested to exit in an orderly fashion during a fire. The only hindrance to this is getting over the feeling of being taken advantage of by the jackasses who ignore the order. But no pain no gain and you have to live with that for the greater good. - vijay

I practice a type-A version of this in non-stop-and-go traffic, I'd call "driving Parkour", basically, I tend to drive over the speed limit, but I leave large gaps, and when I need to slow down, I avoid hitting my brakes and try to led friction/drag slow my car down before I have to hit my breaks. I look far ahead and try to plot out if I need to switch lanes in order to maintain speed... more... - Ray Cromwell

Clarkson eluded to this in his unique crass manner, don't brake and drive clever. Save everyone money. - Toby Graham

the biggest cause of traffic jams are the idiots who don't get in lane and bimble along in the middle lane without any plan to actually overtake anyone. I've seen people when there has been nothing on the inside lane and yet they won't pull into it as they should. This is even more obvious when you consider that articulated lorries aren't allowed to drive in the outside lane, meaning... more... - alphaxion

( ++ alphaxion for 'bimble'. Loving that :D ) - vijay

The roads imho would be better if more drove this way. I was, however, waiting for some kind of shocking thing to happen in the video. - Rob Schieber

I wish iPhone supported flash or other flash based video websites especially if I want to watch videos on website other than YouTube. - ashish from iPhone

I agree ashish. I "liked" this just so I could watch it later on my laptop. shouldn't have to do that. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

This is actually an impressive use of game theory/backward induction to determine an optimal strategy. If this guy isn't a mathematician or work for the highway department, he should be. - Mark Trapp

i do the same here in Rome/Italy since 1998 - alex

Well we can't get people not to talk hands free or text while driving, so I have to think it has to be impossible to get people to adopt/understand. - Matt Soreco

Great to see this taken up again - I've been doing this since I first read his site years ago... - Kevin Marks

I always keep lot of room in front of my car for my safety but I think it takes lot of room and creates longer line. - ashish

While the line may be longer the actual distance you travel isn't any greater; you use less gas; your breaks will last longer; you're less likely to be involved in a crash and in fact it has an almost negligible affect on your travel time. Yes it is "slower" but on my 50 mile commute the difference is maybe a couple of minutes. - Eoghann Irving

I agree Eoghann Irving. Wish everybody thought like this. - ashish

+1 Pete Delucchi. I do agree it's probably better for your mental health to drive this way. Assuming you don't mind the "insult" of everybody cutting into to your lane. - Matsis

Drivers behind me may get annoyed but there is always room at the front ;) - ashish

I used to drive like this, until my commute changed to one that had more traffic lights. Then I realized that letting cars in front of me didn't make 1 second per car difference, it could make 10's of minutes, because I'd often miss traffic light cycles. I wish it wasn't the case - I guess it's going to depends on your commute. - Nick Lothian

for the most part this will work; unless you're in the NYC area or such. - clarke thomas

Glen, unfortunately, variable speed limits on the motorways here in the UK don't actually work as well as you might think. During heavy traffic, most drivers look up at the sign as it changes from 50 to 40 and think "If only". The other problems are the speed cameras in those areas - we have two types. To avoid being caught by the normal cameras, drivers zoom between cameras at 80+mph... more... - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Johnny Worthington

I’m Shaving Off The Beard… And I #blamedrewscancer - http://www.johnnyworthington.com/...

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I am proud that when Drew Olanoff from Blame Drew’s Cancer hugged those other people that had been diagnosed with cancer, I was in tears… unashamed, unyielding, full flowing tears. His talk at Gnomedex has stirred something inside me. It’s a mixture of sorrow, fear, joy, love and a dogged determination to roundhouse kick all [...] - Johnny Worthington

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*blow off chair into quantum anomaly* - Mo Kargas

Excellent cause sir - Mo Kargas

<3 you are, as always, too cool for words. - pea ♥ fierce as a woozle

Indeed Mo... Plus you can win a FFundercats shirt! - Johnny Worthington

Thanks Pea :) - Johnny Worthington

I just went through it, they don't accept my card type :( Is there another way? - Simon Wicks

Ah, donation form :) - Simon Wicks

Shave it off, sell it to hairdressers? - Giraffes Up In The AIr

I love the beard but I love this more. - Ayşe E.

You better live stream the shave you know... - Simon Wicks

The site seems directed against US donors, as it makes you choose state (in the US) and no country? - Thomas Bøhm

Yeah.... great idea.... - Roberto Bonini

How long will it take to shave? I doubt the beast will go down without a fight. - Benjamin Golub

Dood...you friggin' rock... - JA Castillo

Alas, it seems US only. There is a downloadable form at the bottom under the thermometer. I'll check it out - Johnny Worthington

Ive entered the calcs into my Shave-o-meter. It will take approx 15mins and 49 secs with a total weight of 8 oz's. :) - Giraffes Up In The AIr

-hugs- Go Johnny! - Colette

Maybe you can donate the beard to Locks of Love? http://www.locksoflove.org/ - Nathan Chase

Nope, solution found... There is a Not In USA option down the bottom - Johnny Worthington

Nathan... I'll check out my local chapter but I fear they don't want what's on my face :P - Johnny Worthington

I don't have one of the cards listed though. #mybankisshit - Simon Wicks

All these are cute!!! - Shevonne

Well maybe it can be refashioned and sold as a merkin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ;) - Nathan Chase

Simon, I'll work on a solution for you. Check by mail seems to be the only option so far. - Johnny Worthington

Yeah, i downloaded the form, need to find my cheque book now.. - Simon Wicks

Got it, thanks, Johnny. A bit awkward form though.... - Thomas Bøhm

Thanks guys... I really appreciate it - Johnny Worthington

That's my bro! - Josh Haley

Done! I forgot i have a dollar card with some funds on it still :) - Simon Wicks

http://collecta.com/#q=%23j... - Imabug

I second Nathan's idea of creating a merkin. You can then auction THAT off for charity as well! Cuz I've always wanted an Australian merkin, y'know... - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

If you want my facial hair on your crotch guys... at least buy me a drink first... :P - Johnny Worthington

I...uh...damn. You blindsided me there. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

lol - Imabug

OMG save the beard! To shave that would be to desecrate an Australian national treasure! - Sparky, a big deal

Sparky... I was at picture 2 in about 3 weeks. The beard will be back... I just have a need for sans beard for a few weeks - Johnny Worthington

September 11th will forever be remembered for the rest of mankind's history! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Already is for other reasons Mathew.. - Simon Wicks

GASP. - Chieze Okoye

Someone should send this to Drew! - Rochelle

Video evidence please, Johnny. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Oh OK, on the ffundercats podcast then, cool! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

مازیار خارجی ها =)))))) رونوشت به فرزاد - Mil∂d

You think "the foreigner" is copying Iranian 70s bearded star Maziar ? Why not write in English when the thread is in English ? Besides I like the 7th photo best and he definitely looks like one of the ZZ Top guys ;) - Thomas Bøhm

Go Johnny, go! What a cool thing to do! You can bet I'll be donating when I get home :) - Bren, Photophobe from iPhone

Rochelle, I sent it to Drew this morning. - Louis Gray

If us nutbags don't get Drew more interested in FriendFeed, I don't know what will. - Akiva Moskovitz

thank the lord... - Zee.

No! No!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! http://friendfeed.com/mikenay... - Mike Nayyar

The only part of my body with enough hair make a growth phase montage like that about, then shave #blamedrewscancer would rather have the cancer than view. - Matthew DeVries

Worthy cause for shaving. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

'Worthy' indeed sir... well played :) - Johnny Worthington

as the STRAYANS would say "good on ya mate" - seriously that is awesome =) (but will be sad to see the beard go) - Snipergirl

Well done...and thanks. - Shannon

I'm still waiting for the profile pic update...! - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

suggestion - after you shave it, grow it again based on the amount of money you raise. something like 1 day per $5 raised. so if you raise $100, then you let it grow 20 days before shaving again. - chrisofspades

or you can do something like http://iwearyourshirt.com/ and allow ppl to sponsor your beard, and then donate the proceeds. - chrisofspades

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

Benjamin Golub

I'm going to start recording all Facebook bugs as I see them so I can start fixing them once I get setup at work.

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I like your style. - joey

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Benjamin, are you able to publicly say what your duties are? - John E. Bredehoft

I'm telling mom!... - Thom Kennon

and what if the bug is in the leadership?!! - abdellah

Then I would like to kindly offer up a report of my 'everyone' privacy setting not making status updates available on my public, world viewable profile (even though FB warns me every time that it will). - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

cool you`re in San Mateo now at Facebook!!!!! - sofarsoShawn

how do you make a profile public? - mikepk

Mike, in your privacy settings there are options to make profile, status updates, etc. viewable to 'everyone'. The privacy FAQ on FB says setting it to 'everyone' will make those items viewable to the entire internet, even people without a FB account. That is not, however, what is actually happening. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Benjamin, there is this bug - I can't get "facebook.com/torque" - can you help me? - τorƍue

Can we report them to you? ;-) - Jesse Stay

Go Benjamin! - Mitchell Tsai

You can start with the email notifications! ;) They aint like the FF ones. - Kreg Steppe

Here's one: when someone sends you a friend request, there's a box you check to say if you want that person to be in your feed. Regardless of whether that box is checked or not, the person will show up in your feed. That is annoying - Becca

If you seek Zuckerbum....give him a swift kick in the nuts for me...no no, just kidding, tell him hey, from Shawn. - sofarsoShawn

Benjamin, considering your expertise, I'll take a look at Facebook's mobile interface and see if improvements are warranted. - John E. Bredehoft from fftogo

ok, their real time search engine suck. and what they are using bing for web search?!! - abdellah

One other Ben..when you go to your friends list and check to add them to your SMS list, it doesn't take the first two or three times...Eventually it does but it's very frustrating to have to keep going back and adding friends to your SMS list.. - Bill Heslin

Kick some ass. :) - Louis Gray

Tina, ah, that was why I asked. I was playing with those settings and tried it from logged out browsers and was like WTH? Does "everyone" mean "everyone on facebook"? Guess so. - mikepk

+10 for your enthusiasm! - Winston Teo

Hilarious. sorry. No that I doubt your enthusiasm ONE BIT. - anna sauce

Ummm... if you get started on this, you may have to set up a cot at work... you won't be going home for a while... - Paula W

Yes, Paula W. Truth. Get a comfy one for the body. The brain will compensate for sleep deprivation. Eventually. - Michele Lorito-Chase

Could you start by reverting to the previous version of their UI? No, seriously! So many people I know (myself included) no longer use FB because it's too easy to miss things. The previous timeline view was much easier - Anthony

superBen is on a mission - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Awesome. This is one of the most tedious bugs on FB: http://www.facebook.com/help... - David Schmidt

You, my friend, are pure awesomeness. - Vezquex: God of FF

careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Actually, i wish you were still creating clean code on top of FF clean code - Robert Higgins

That Many ?????? - johnpiercy

U saying FB is full of bugs ? - johnpiercy

There seems to be some sort of bug with exporting data outside of Facebook. Thanks for looking into it! - Matt Cutts from iPhone

Matt Cutts has the best bug report. - Amit Patel

hahaha awesome matt - Ru Viljoen

YAY!! you rock Ben!! - Susan Beebe from BuddyFeed

I'm going to start calling you Bug instead of Dude. Nahhh, you'll always be my dude, Dude. - Marci Golub

Can you fix the annoying "Write a Comment" tooltip? It stays up WHILE you are commenting (sometimes covering your comment text). - Chris Myles

++ John, Why can't I delete messages from the FB mobile interface? - Sarah Miller from iPhone

Not a bug... more a wishlist... I wish oh how I wish for a native Symbian FB app... - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

Same here Pandu. I'd like a Symbian FriendFeed application more, though - Tyson Key

Tyson, have you been reading my mind?? xD Although since Ben's talking about FB, I limit my post to FB. And besides, for the time being, http://www.fftogo.com/ is sufficient for my needs :-) - Pandu ● IT Optimizer

Robert Scoble

Real-time social wars: where's the money? - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/real-ti...

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you're on Posterous now? Wonderful! http://zee.posterous.com - follow me will ya! :) - Zee.

the stream is the answer to everything; engagement, monetization, and analytics - khrisloux

I followed you, will you follow me? :-) - Robert Scoble

khrisloux: I disagree. When I am looking for pizza I don't want a stream. I want a list WITH the stream inside. - Robert Scoble

I'm following you Rob :) - Jeunelle Foster

If poss I would like to see FB and Google and not FB against Google ,if they will work one with the other we will all have a better world - Johni Fisher

Jeunelle, I knew I shouldn't have started this. Autofollowing was stupid on Twitter and it'll be stupid here. But I will check you out. - Robert Scoble

Johni: that's not how this will play out. Facebook wants to be the next Google. - Robert Scoble

I followed you immediately Mr Scoble :) - Zee.

It's definitely a crazy space right now. The post helps explain or elaborate (for me) on our very brief conversation from this morning at Shel's. How do you think Google Reader and all the enhancements they've been doing plays into all this. It would seem that they are trying to be more like FriendFeed? - frank barry

Btw...did you know, you can add tags by typing ((tag: abc, def, ghi)) ? i only found that out today... - Zee.

consider that one "pans" the steam for signal/gold, using ones social graph, etc... we should look to turn the stream into a gushing river of data that we ride ... the stream is your friend(feed) :) - khrisloux

frank: Google Reader falls apart for me. They still haven't fixed their speed issues. I hate it. And, anyway, Facebook or Twitter is where I get the news now and it comes in a lot better than Google Reader. - Robert Scoble

khrisloux: I love the stream as much as anyone, but it does not solve all problems. If I want to find a pizza place in Half Moon Bay the stream is worthless. Now, if you give me a list of four pizza places, each with its own stream, now THAT is huge value! - Robert Scoble

Robert : FB are soooo far from Google ,Google knows to make money and FB are far years from that ,if we are talking on the real time - Google is going to win it big ,,, FF is with FB as they understood it 2 months before FB - Johni Fisher

Johni: did you know that Facebook has $500 million in revenues ALREADY per year? Do NOT underestimate this company. It is going all the way. - Robert Scoble

Now, if you give me a list of four pizza places, each with its own stream.. that is where the money is.. - Tyson

Reader has sped up some with the addition of "PubSubHubbub", but i agree it's not Twitter. Twitter works best for me from a news standpoint. Reader is doing something though. Reader needs some sort of crazy seach or Google needs to push reader "comments", "likes" and "shares" into their search results. - frank barry

[first i think you should go get dinner!] both views are relevant 1) the aggregated stream of "pizza" and 2) the content level stream for each restaurant ... why should i have to filter/sort/read each restaurants stream when i can manipulate a giant river of pizza (data) with the click of a mouse? - khrisloux

Tyson: actually that just creates the necessary ingredients for money. The real money is in Yelp's offers. But those will appear right over the stream. :-) - Robert Scoble

khrisloux: if you give me both we're both happy! :-) - Robert Scoble

ha! only requires global deployment of Echo ;) - khrisloux

*walks over to Yelp, opens door and peers in..* - Tyson

So Twitter and Yelp need to meet eachother ... match made in heaven :) - frank barry

frank: yelp and Twitter would be a VERY interesting combination. The problem is @ev wants to be a billionaire and Yelp doesn't have enough money and Twitter doesn't have enough money to buy Yelp. So, I don't think that will happen. - Robert Scoble

Yelp.. no Aussie content :-( - Tyson

The last line of your post astounded me since I wasn't aware that Facebook had hired a former key employee of Google. When you talk about Gmail or the monetization system at Google there's nothing small or insignificant about it. :) - James Stratford

Robert :OHH no I dont underestimate them at all but they are THE social community and far from Google ,yes they are the best and the biggST but in the real time I cant see them doing the war against Wave and the integration with Google reader ,Gmail and Google apps ,and reg the FB revenues its great for them if it will help them as well to get profit from that and not to eat it :-)) - Johni Fisher

Yea, Facebook could gobble up Yelp, but that seems far fetched (though they did buy FriendFeed). I see you're point on how it would need to go down. Maybe Twitter will figure out how to make some $ or get more funding. Possible I guess. - frank barry

Off topic I know, but by the way it's good to see you've adopted Posterous! :) - James Stratford

If Facebook was thinking (which they obviously have been lately) going after Yelp might just make sense. It would be powerful especially with the iPhone (or mobile world) and people on the go. That sort of falls down because of the type of sharing that goes on within FB though. Twitter is much more "open" and the "culture" of the users is more about sharing/giving than I see in FB. Twitter/Yelp wins on use ... let's see if we can make them figure it out =) - frank barry

Johni: Google Wave is too geeky and the interface is too complicated. It won't get mainstream acceptance. - Robert Scoble

Was just looking for your posterous last week. Glad to see you there now. - Katy Barrilleaux

I can't believe I was on posterous.com before Scoble! - Prokofy Neva

I am relieved to hear you say Google Wave will remain too geeky and not get mainstream acceptance because it is the great destoyer of chronology. You know how time is so that everything doesn't happen at once, and space is so it doesn't happen all at once *to you*? Well, that's what Google Wave removes. - Prokofy Neva

Good to see you on Posterous! - Ahad Bokhari

The commenting system on posterous blows. I can't fix my terrible typos :(. Robert what advantage do you gain from posting on poseterous over your blog? - Mark Essel from iPhone

1. I use Google to search for everything. I never think to search Facebook, unless I know someone is on there for sure - i.e a friend. 2. Posterous is good for 'quick and dirty' posts, and great for grabbing and snatching stuff from emails etc. - Ian May

Robert Scoble

I just saw http://www.my6sense.com/website... and it is a personal Techmeme for your Iphone except it learns. Coming "within days." Awesome!

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yeah, a personalized step closer to that "right context" i'm referring to. - Yann Ropars

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Super! - Amir

Looks like a great idea! On a side note, tho — I'm always a little annoyed that iPhone app sites aren't optimized for mobile (iPhone Safari, at least) display. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ from iPhone

please don't laugh at me guys, just opened my first iphone but I cannot even make a call or anything, I get no service. Do I have to call o2? - Mark

Been using it, and it rocks. you will all enjoy. - Scott Klauminzer

My6Sense is another really interesting app, but remains iPhone only. I know we're seeing a variety of apps like that. The same holds in reverse for Blackberry only apps. I wish there was a better mix of cross platform tools so we could use the same ones on our Blackberries and iPods. Not likely any time soon. - Ken Camp

Mark: the iPhone should already have a sim in it but if it doesn't you need a small paper clip to open the iPhone drawer at the top of the phone. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

Ken: they will port it eventually. Picking one platform to develop on makes sense. - Robert Scoble from iPhone

thanks Rob! Had to insert sim card myself but the iphone manual "Finger Tips" doesn't actually tell you how ;P P.S sorry for hijacking your thread, but im excited to make my first post on my iphone on friendfeed - Mark

They have a mobile web version that predates the iPhone native app. iphone.my6sense.com, so it should be no trouble to add platforms - Scott Klauminzer

iphone.my6sense.com is great. Can't wait to see the app. - metalerik

When/will it be available in the app store? - Amir

Amir: We're shooting for a release on Thursday, but ultimately it's up to the App Store's approval process (which is unpredictable to say the least). - Brian Remmel

Robert, I'm not sure I agree they will port it. I agree they've made those noises, but in reality, there are *very* few companies porting anything between iPhone and BB. And by the time they get too it, my take is that it will be to catch up to a competitor who's beat them to other platform (in the case of porting either direction). Competition is the driver really. And losing face or... more... - Ken Camp

Scott: I know they have a web version. I use a Blackberry, and any web version of any service is useless in general. The browser is the weakest link in Blackberry. Functional but not strong at all. - Ken Camp

Brian: I know what you mean. - Amir

Damnit, I got beat to the punch once again. Another breed of relevant personal search powered by our browsing - Mark Essel from iPhone

people-powered search has a lot to be said for it... harder to game the system than google... - Fred Davis

Looking forward to loading this. Have to many "feeds" apps on my iPhone. Hope this means I can reduce them to something workable. - Jamie Craig from Nambu

Jamie: Will be available soon - hope you enjoy it! - Barak Hachamov

Just checked their site out, it looks sensational. I'll probably buy although I have just forked out of a NewsReader last week which, I have to say I'm completely delighted with, "RSS Flash G." The lack of a landscape browser in NNW just proved too much to bear but I'm glad in a way because without that irritant I wouldn't have found RSSFlashG. RSSFlashG is a very feature rich... more... - David Hall

David: THANKS! you don't need to buy it. It will be for free. We will add more features in the next version. - Barak Hachamov

I'm surprised to find out that my Digital Intuition is hot, but also has an annoying voice :( - Tech Introvert

Barak, even better. TBH the app store is so insanely competitive in terms of pricing I don't mind paying for the good stuff. I don't t begrudge RSSFLASHG people the €3.99 for the app (I actually consider it to be worth more). My issue with the appstore is all the useless stuff I've bought. The stuff I actually do use is, if anything, cheaper than it should be and at the same time I've... more... - David Hall

I am trying my6sense out right now, but it's making me really nervous to enter passwords for all my social media accounts. - Scott Magoon

Scott, please keep us posted on how it goes. Btw, I'm guessing you have a preview copy or else it has hit the app store in your part of the world a deal more quickly than it has over here in Ireland. - David Hall

Anymore news on this anyone? Scott did you overcome your concerns about feeding this app your Social Networking codes? It's a concern I didn't even have until you raised it so I've been checking back here to see how you got on? Is your silence indicative of a disaster, or is your mind now at peace with the world again on this issue, and if so why? - David Hall from BuddyFeed

David, I did not overcome my concern about typing so many logins into My6sense. I abandoned the setup process. Also, I wasn't using the app, but accessing the mobile page (iphone.my6sense.com) via my iPod touch. Maybe it shouldn't bother me so much, but that Twitter stolen documents thing has made me nervous. - Scott Magoon

Scott thanks for the response. I'd be interested to know what type of reassurance someone like Barak could provide that would make you more comfortable about this? I suppose that's a question that applies to users like you and developers like the My6Sense people. This looks like an app for the geekiest among us and, no offense, you're probably, like most people on FF, geeky. So you're... more... - David Hall from BuddyFeed

Tech Introvert: Well, I'm your digital intuition....so thanks! But that is not my real voice...it's pitched higher than usual :-) Didn't you watch the interview with Scoble? - Ilana Gurman

Scott, David: thanks for bringing this up. We'll actually be converting to the OAuth Protocol in just a couple of weeks (although our current database securely holds your SN credentials, no worries) so this will help you to feel more comfortable about accessing your social streams and/or sharing messages on them via my6sense. Regardless, you can enjoy the service by adding regular RSS... more... - Barak Hachamov

Barak thanks for the response. I guess "OAuth Protocol" is a good thing (frankly I haven't a clue) but I don't know how bad a thing no OAuth Protocol actually is. I'll be downloading the app in any case and, depending on what, if any, further information attaches to this discussion, and my own level of paranoia on the day, I'll be signing up for some, or all, of the service. I'm... more... - David Hall

any update on this application. I've been checking into AppStore every day or two since and still no sign. I know the approval process can be drawn out but the overshoot on my6sense eta is mega at this stage. - David Hall from BuddyFeed

David: Thanks for checking in. We're still pending approval but do expect it to happen any day now. As @dhrac would say, "they're testing our buddha skills" ;) Frustrating as it is, we're exercising a great amount of patience and we look forward to delivering digital intuition your way..! Will keep you posted :-) - Ilana Gurman from email

Ilana, thanks for getting back on us on that, best if luck and I hope they upload it soon. - David Hall

I'm pleased to be first with the news my6sense has landed in the app store, at least in the Ireland AppStore anyway. Just downloaded it now. Don't know if I'll get a chance to play with it for a while but for those who are interested it's there waiting for you. - David Hall

Thank you David! We are super excited about this. We actually planned on officially notifying everyone tomorrow so we could get in a bit more testing in...Hope you enjoy it, and please please get in touch with your feedback!! Cheers :-) - Ilana Gurman

Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Own Your Content: How the FriendFeed/Facebook Merger Changed Me - http://www.dailyhaggis.com/2009...

August 24 from The Daily Haggis - Comment - Like - Share

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"On August 10, 2009 the social discussion site FriendFeed announced that it had been acquired by Facebook. The announcement sent shockwaves through the user community and many began reevaluating how they were interacting on FriendFeed, as well as other social networking sites." - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

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On the plus side, the merger has made me post more on my blog in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past 2 years. XD - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

I envision a normal sharecropping system, like Friendfeed or Facebook, with a big "export" button that will give you all your content back any time you want. - Vezquex: God of FF

I'd like to have some type of unified commenting and "liking" system across all social networks. Most people leave comments on FF or FB for articles rather than the commenting system on a blog, even with Disqus or IntenseDebate installed. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Great post and word of caution to everyone. I like the new approach you've taken to content publishing. Good stuff. - Mark Krynsky

Robert Scoble

yahoo: With apps from Flickr, PayPal, Picnik, Xoopit, & ZumoDrive in Yahoo! Mail, mail just got a lot smarter (psst..Evite coming soon too!) - http://twitter.com/yahoo...

August 24 from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like - Share

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I'm always put off Yahoo! mail by the intrusive flash and banner ads. Running Opera without Privoxy just reminded me. - Nick B.

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Agreed, can't stand yahoo mail. It physically hurts my brain to try to use it. - Otto

I have a paid Yahoo mail account (only $30 annually) that has no ads and I find the UI awesome compared to other web mail services. - Mark Krynsky

Mark - I subbed to Yahoo! mail for a year, then moved everything to http://fastmail.fm where IMO I got more for my money and humans to talk to in the support department. - Nick B.

Until my yahoo mail account isn't persistently infested with spam, the other stuff won't be all that useful. I tried to like them, but I couldn't stand all the work it took to read my mail. - Jennifer Dittrich

Gmail ftw. - Tomy Thomson

MG Siegler

Microsoft Brings Twitter And Facebook To The Emerging World With OneApp - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

August 24 from TechCrunch - Comment - Like - Share

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Steve Rubel

Any Google Wave users out there? I am in the sandbox and eager to test it but I don't know anyone in it.

July 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I want Wave!! (i have mine now) - MicahBear78

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I am soooo desperate for a wave invite. I wrote a sonnet and all - but nothing! - Scott Gould

Me too, I want it, really don't mind if it crashes, I need to be on it and think of what needs to be developed as new clients, widgets, robots for it. - Charbax

Steve: I was lucky enough to get into the developer preview. erier2003@wavesandbox.com - Eric Geller

Hello Steve. Feel free to add me to your conversations... vdhguy@wavesandbox.com. See you. - Guy Vander Heyden

I'm in, dudes. vezquex@wavesandbox.com - Vezquex: God of FF

let see the machine :) - abdellah

still waiting for my invite! - Anthony Fontana

Hello Steve (and all) marco.brambilla@wavesandbox.com - PiccoloImprenditore from iPhone

@Picco, just an email that all you request?!! - abdellah

Add me highandwild@wavesandbox.com - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

abdellah@wavesandbox.com :) - abdellah

Congrats abdellah :) - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Anyone's got a wave invite to spare ? - Jassim

lol @writing a sonnet, would love to see it! - Franz Sittampalam

just got in today.... kevinwhalen@wavesandbox.com - Kevin Whalen

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Google Reader, All Things Google, Appetite, TheNextWeb Forum

What is your Google Reader URL? Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... #greader

August 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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I share all sorts. :-) Lots of photos, photography and tech stuff though. Feel free to sub to me if you like. :-) BTW, you can see who is following you here: http://www.google.com/reader... #whatsyoururl - Kol Tregaskes

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http://www.google.com/reader... - Michael Hocter

Thanks, Michael. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... :-) - Müjdat Korkmaz

More often I end up sharing directly through FF even if I find it on GReader, but sometimes I share there. http://www.google.com/reader... - Tony, Paradox of FF

http://www.google.com/reader... Just about internet! - ★ Soner Gönül

http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long! - Michael Fidler

Michael, it's not been clear until very recently, you can see notifications here: http://www.google.com/reader... - Kol Tregaskes

Love yr posts :-))))) - Johni Fisher

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lode Nachtergaele

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... ;) - alebaffa from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - OnuRC

thanks for starting this thread - here's mine http://www.google.com/reader... (mostly social media stuff, a little food, and occasional randomness) - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - James Slater

Kol, thanks! I wish it would tell me when they started following, I'll have to keep a better eye on it now. - Michael Fidler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Mohr

http://www.google.com/reader... - LouCypher

http://www.google.com/reader... - zsafwan 

http://www.google.com/reader... - Moved to Facebook

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - hope you enjoy! - outofmyarse

Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed? - Chris Rogers

http://www.google.com/reader... - Steve Lowe

http://www.google.com/reader... - Always looking for more ppl to share links! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - M F

Ah so that's your name, M F! ;-) I'm wanting to live in that area too, nice around there? - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Simon Tracey

Yes it's alright I moved here two years ago, I was in West London before that - M F

GREAT FEED - I am finding so many great ppl to follow - this is great. - Liza

M F, I like to move to just over the other side of the stream from you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

And your pics are great! I am going to be stuck in greader for a while! - Liza

http://www.google.com/reader... - phil baumann

Well wave your hand Kol when you get here - M F

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason Wehmhoener

http://www.google.com/reader... - But I only really use google reader as a simple RSS reader. Follow people on FriendFeed. - Anton Tanderup

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andy Sternberg from fftogo

Hehe, M F. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Kim Landwehr

Thanks for your latest bookmark there, Kim. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - mridul

feedly.com :) - Zach Landes

https://www.google.com/reader... - Bryan R. Adams

http://www.google.com/reader... - manielse (Mark Nielsen)

http://www.google.com/reader... #greader #whatsyoururl - Ron Bailey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Parvez Halim

http://www.google.com/reader... but everything I share in reader comes on to FriendFeed. - Aram Zucker-Scharff from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Daltonsbriefs

http://www.google.com/reader... - the stuff I share there is also on FriendFeed. - Hanna Wiszniewska

http://www.google.com/reader... mine are mostly science items - Sally Church

Mine is http://www.google.com/reader... - Mostly Tech. - Svartling

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nick Humphries

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ozgur Uckan

http://www.google.com/reader... - mixed up content in Portuguese (mainly), English and Spanish. - Marcos

Liza, oooh I love the post on generating Mandelbrot fractals in Excel! - Sally Church

http://google.com/reader... - Anton

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shawn Farner from twhirl

http://www.google.com/reader... - Kevin Whalen

@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch... - Alex Schleber

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Leahey

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Geller

http://www.google.com/reader... - Zachary TG

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vince DeGeorge

http://www.google.com/reader... - Lin Yong from NoiseRiver

http://www.google.com/reader... - Baard @ Pixum

http://www.google.com/reader... - Jason A. Nunnelley

http://www.google.com/reader... - Louis Gray

http://www.google.com/reader... - Travis B. Hartwell

http://www.google.com/profile... - James (!?)

http://www.google.com/reader... - Warren Butler

http://www.google.com/reader... - Brandon Ball

http://www.google.com/reader... - "Jazzperous" Isaksson

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Dawson

http://www.google.com/reader... - guilherme

Thanks everyone! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - dkb

http://www.google.com/reader... - Adi

http://www.google.com/reader... - Mathew A. Koeneker

http://www.google.com/reader... - Alex Scrivener

Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-) - Nadine Pestourie

http://www.google.com/reader... Google and other tech stuff, as well as other random things of interest. - Californian

http://www.google.com/reader... - Chris Luckhardt

http://www.google.com/reader... - Peter Ghosh

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/profile... - Kim

http://www.google.com/profile... http://www.google.com/reader... - Kamilah Gill

http://www.google.com/reader... - Robin Barooah

Keep 'em coming, I'll add you all later today. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Patrik Johansson from Android

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dobromir Hadzhiev

http://www.google.com/reader... - Arthur Guy

http://www.google.com/reader... - Nathan Rein

http://www.google.com/reader... Politics, photography, humor, news, tech, entertainment - amygeek

Thanks for starting this conversation Kol! - amygeek

http://www.google.com/reader... - Shevonne

http://www.google.com/reader... - Dean "Karnatos" Michaud

http://www.google.com/reader... - Eric Johnson

No worries, Amy. :-) Thank you all! - Kol Tregaskes

http://www.google.com/reader... - Andrew Roche

LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed. - David Gross

http://www.google.com/reader... - Joe Bonner

http://www.google.com/reader... - Vlad Bobleanta

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ivan Pavlov

Thank you. - Kol Tregaskes

Don't know that I have one, as I eschew most things Google.... - Mike Shields

Not sure if I've already shared it, but my URL is http://www.google.com/reader.... - Tyson Key

http://www.google.com/reader... - Ethan

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