Kris Gainsforth - Likes

Veronica posted a message on Twitter

“Feeling super stressed out this morning. Surely espresso will help, right?”

August 5 at 9:04 am - Link

Marcus Calahan, Kris Gainsforth, John Grinde and 4 other people liked this

Of course! - Nate Pilling via twhirl

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Caffeine cures all ills. It's SCIENCE. - Jason Huebel

you might go into hyper drive - erick

I approve of this plan. - stretta via twhirl

So do coffee makers everywhere. - Nate Pilling via twhirl

Stress is usually fear. Identify the fear and just say "fuck it". That's what I do. - Ryan

take two, why don't you - Georg

Why? What's going on? - Josh Haley

What? No more Brain Toniq? - Jason Wong

Espresso always helps... - "Czar" DJ Peterman

espresso and a sigaret, and im ready to kick off the day;) - Marcel van der Laan

nah, espresso will make you more stressed for sure... this was two hours ago though... so did it help?? a good joint helps me so much more :p - Josue Salazar

Yeah cause' caffeine is a depressant! Throw in some sugar and Skittles and you've got it made! lol! Seriously have a GREAT afternoon! :) - Jeff Garlick

Steve Rubel posted a link

Why does iTunes now constantly think ALL my apps have updates?

August 5 at 10:05 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Nick Humphries, fbrunel, David Coyer and 6 other people liked this

I have the same issue. It's broken! - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

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Seems to be a common problem. Same here. - Holger Eilhard via fftogo

I have the same problem. Plus, some of the apps had as many as 4 icons shown - Brad Davis Seal

Same here. A pattern? - Chris Baskind

Yep. Plus I have apps showing up multiple times in the Update window. Update via iTunes seems to be totally broken. - Bill Barol

Veronica favorited a video on YouTube

Using Skitch with Evernote for Mac

August 5 at 1:32 pm - Link

Jeff Siegle, Jon Price, John and 6 other people liked this

waiting for them to add notebook sharing... (like in g/notebook) - Naor

looks a bit better than Jing to Evernote which is what I've been using. - Jon Price

Mark Zabala published a photo on Flickr

I HAZ UR SOUL

July 31 at 11:20 pm - Link

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Andrew Baron posted a message

“One feature Friendfeed is missing that would REALLY help people to like FF more, is customized home page settings, kinda like Twitter, so people can give a little personal flare to their FF accounts. If we could upload a photo background, or change the colors, etc. it would make it a lot more homey.”

July 31 at 11:15 am - Link

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I'm using StumbleRead which fills up the screen better, but I'd like to see pictures of the posters also :) - Shayna

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If using firefox, you should check out the available greasemonkey scrips. Will update with a link when I'm not on iPhone - Justin Korn

i was just thinking this. i'm making biz cards for the new media expo and thought it would be best to just put a friendfeed link on it and let people go from there. then i thought about what friendfeed looked like and wished for a customizable home page. - Anika Malone

men - not as useful as friend scraping addin and imaginary friending , or de-duplicating, or flowing likes back to the service in question - Phill Price

@phil, you are right not as important. But you might be surprised at how much it will do to make people want to come back to a place they feel comfortable. I still think the user interface here is awesome but the site design is clunky and doesn't feel good. - Andrew Baron

I would like to have some sticky tabs open every time I visit FF. - Benedikt Koehler

Oh no, please not! FriendFeed is so clean and tidy and I want it to stay like that. It's really focussing on the news and the conversation about it. why do we need different background colours or pictures for that? - Matthias Schwenk

@matthias I was ganna say, for the nay sayers, you could have an override button so you could see FF rendered in the <default> style. To answer your question, there is no one answer to design. In a social network, people have different aesthetic opinions and thats okay. - Andrew Baron

Please no! The great thing about FF is that it doesn't look as terrible as MySpace. It's clean and simple. - Ernie Oporto

Oh god, please no. All of that is just a slippery slope to Myspace hell. - Alfredo Padilla

I like this idea, make it nice and simple..no MySpace spammy crap. I think we really do need a landing / profile page for each user. - Susan Beebe

I like this, would welcome it, and much more, but I seriously doubt they'd do it. They aren't trying to be Twitter. - Dave Winer

@Andrew I agree with you, you should be able choose either the <default> or your customized page. Myself I like the clean and tidy interface but social networkers on FF should have a choice. - Jack Wilson, K4SAC

the other thing I would like to see on friend feed is the ability to list all you networks on it and still use ping - Richard Kannegieser via twhirl

I seldom go to individual's feeds anyways. Just let it flow - Nicholas Molnar

Nicholas: Same here, but if I do *want* to see what that person is about, then it would be nice to have a profile to view. - Susan Beebe

I am against the home page customization, but for the profile info. - Tim Hoeck

Jason Calacanis posted a message on Twitter

“I.Guess.no.valleywag.at.tonights.search.sig.to.bust.chops...:)...yes.my.spacebar.is.broked!”

July 8 at 6:12 pm - Link

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we can get owen on the backchannel if u want... ;) - dave mcclure

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whats.with.the.periods? - faisal sultan

Jason, head to Fry's and get that keyboard replaced! =) - John Tyra

I.think.jason.just.started.a.new.meme. ;.) - Brian

When Jason wants to type an actual period, he will have to use an escape character. - Clay Spinuzzi

happened to me once and "alt-32" worked as a nice replacement (option-32 in mac?) - ramil

lol.that.was.funny.. - Absalon Isaac Prieto

No, we were there. You were awfully nice to my kid. Thanks! Here's the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Green Screen Cinema

Gina posted a message on Twitter

“my marriage will finally get legalized on June 17th at 3PM, barring any disastrous outbreaks of homophobia in the meantime”

June 6 at 3:19 pm - Link

Mrinal Desai, Amit Agarwal, Henrik Johansson and 36 other people liked this

yay! congratulations to you and your family!!! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

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Congrats! - l0ckergn0me

congratulations! - Alejandro S.

Congrads Gina. - Shawn L. Morrissey

oy, congratulations! - Martin Liechti

Congratulations to ya! - marcel weiss

Congrats Gina! - Sean Alexander

Congratulations! - Cyndy

Congrats on your marriage. - Steve Rubel

I don't know you, but I am very happy for you! Congratulations. - JA Castillo

Congrats Gina! Here's to many more years of happiness for you both! - Kevin C. Tofel

congratulations! - edythe

Best wishes for a wonderful life. - Jack Carlson

this makes me smile. - Robert Scoble

Congratulations on your upcoming marriage! - Rick Powell

Well, thankfully it's not the government's job to prevent its citizens from being disgusted, it's merely its job to ensure equal protection under the law. In which case, you need to think about your use of the word "legitimate." - Rick Powell

All the best! - Chris Nixon

Congratulations! - David Worrell

Congratulations Gina. - Amit Agarwal

Chris Cavs posted a message on Twitter

“why am I seeing posts of friends of Robert Scoble on friendfeed? I don't want to see that!”

June 6 at 6:28 pm - Link

Kris Gainsforth, Out Wrong, David Risley and Robert Scoble liked this

It's because you subscribed to me and haven't figured out the "Hide" feature of FriendFeed yet. You'll only see people I've "Liked" or "Friended" though, so if you are following me, why wouldn't you want to also see the people I like? - Robert Scoble

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Hey man. Nice to meet you, too. - Mark Trapp

well, now i figured it out! Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Still trying to figure out FF. - Chris Cavs

+1 to Chris Cavs. I don't want to see Scoble's friends messages. FF is too noisy, especially Scoble! (no offense) - wrecks

That is what I love about FF. I see people I wouldn't have normally seen. I think it is a neat feature. - Michelle Martinez

We're all still trying to figure it out! :-) - Robert Scoble

You know what? I'm not following Scoble (even it it's actually the case) He's just too noisy for me but through him I follow his followers and discover new things, he's just a pipeline for me ;-) - directeur

People who don't use the content discovery portion of Friendfeed are really missing out. There is so much interesting stuff being shared and so many interesting people conversing if you expand your horizons a bit. But let's make a deal: you can hide everyone but Robert Scoble, but you can't complain about how all the content on Friendfeed is about Friendfeed and Twitter, okay? - Mark Trapp

I'm really trying to find good tech stuff that isn't about Twitter or FriendFeed. Right now it's really hard. - Robert Scoble

ok, so the question becomes, how do I turn the feature back on? I hid all friends of friends, but maybe I want to pick whose friends I see. hmmm. - Chris Cavs

All the hidden stuff is at the bottom of the home page. I think you can "unhide" from there. - Robert Scoble

Chris, at the bottom of every page, there's a "Show n hidden entries" link. Click on it, and unhide the entries of friends of friends. It'll undo what you did. - Mark Trapp

ah ha! see, you learn something new every day. - Chris Cavs

Scoble: +1 for feedego, -1 for Zobzee - directeur

Robert; I've been using the Democratic primary as a good analogue in my head for the Twitter/Friendfeed news overflow in tech: every week, I hope against all hope that this will be the last week and Twitter will figure out what's wrong with itself and we can have service unity, but every week it starts anew. If Obama and Clinton can end their feud, there can be peace in our time for Twitter and Friendfeed. - Mark Trapp

To that, I think the tech news circle will become much more interesting once the clusterdrama of Twitter's fall from grace is finally resolved. - Mark Trapp

But isn't everyone a friend of Scoble? - Heidi Cool

We're woes him and me, Heidi :) - directeur

Heidi, that's kind of the problem. Overload. - Chris Cavs

@Mark: such a dreamer! - Anthony Citrano

Chris and Heidi: I seriously doubt that's true. Heck, I wasn't following Heidi until just now. But, seriously, 12,200+ follow me, but I'm only following 2,800. Not to mention I only "Like" or "Comment" on a small percentage off the noise I see flowing through my browser. I try to make those things high-value bits cause I'm very aware that everytime I like something 12,000 people potentially see it and I don't want to waste their time. - Robert Scoble

I mean, not that I don't like you Scoble! - Chris Cavs

This is a great discussion. I finally figured out how to Hide all the stuff from the "Barack Obama" FriendFeed. Whew, I can keep my subscription to Scoble now. =} - Craig Eddy

Thanks Robert (re awareness). I think you've found the right balance -- at least for me, as I've never hidden anything you've "liked" or "commented." Does raise the need for a potential "third option," however: perhaps "recommend"? That would buy you (and a lot of us) the ability to freely like and/or comment on things. - Joanmarie

Robert, but I am/or have been on your lists on Pownce and Twitter! I don't know how you keep up, your list may be small (relatively speaking) on FF, but between all the services your bound to be beating LaPorte! - Heidi Cool

Leo Laporte posted a message on Twitter

“Sites like Plurk show that there's still lots of room to innovate in the Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce space. http://www.plurk.com/user/leol...”

June 1 at 8:49 am - Link

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agreed about plurk - Wil

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I've been using plurk for a few days, and it just reminds me how painful it is to use twit without apps like twhirl - ellaconic via twhirl

don't know seems interesting but without the current support that twitter has I'm hard pressed to switch over. Twitter currently does more for me with bots and community than other features. I do think it's a good idea though. Nice find Leo. - Bryan

Plurk navigation is a little odd. Using the keyboard arrows shows you the old plurks but there are no navigation clues on their site. - Keith Green

don't like it :( - Adrian via twhirl

Really like the layout but wouldn't let me important any contacts from Gmail due to various errors - LAME!!! - Mark Drapeau via twhirl

I like the interface. Good one, Leo! - steplow = Steve Lowe

I can't get past their weird logo - Mike Doeff

is it really that good? What's the purple cow here? - Stephen Collins via twhirl

Plurk is pretty cool, like the UI and implementation, unfortunately they're having server issues as well :) - MG Siegler

Plurk? Hmmm. Leo keeps trying to get people off of Twit and it didn't work the first time. Of course now that Twitter is limping - Robert Scoble

Scoble: It's a possibility with how Twitter is having so much trouble but then again Leo is one of the heavy weights so who knows!!! - Paul

Plurk has a funky UI, but if they can keep the service up better than Twitter, they could prevail in that space. - Jack Carlson

the timeline is kinda cool, karma concept is lame, headless dog icon is just plain strange. - Benton

Jack: the problem is that Leo reported that Plurk was down this morning. Fail. - Robert Scoble

I can't read their TOS now... it redirects me to to an error page - directeur

Robert: Some downtime for a beta service is acceptable to me. If Plurk continues to mirror Twitter's downtime, I'll gladly add to that fail assessment. I agree with others here, Friendfeed, Tumblr and Pownce more than make up for the loss of Twitter, and Plurk (gawd I hate that name) if it comes to that. - Jack Carlson

I think that Plurk has more chance to 'catch on' with 'general' internet users, think glorified Facebook statuses. - Timothy Neilen

All this actually makes me wonder if we're not reinventing notions like forums and IRC channels... - directeur

I foresee a new career for Scoble...joining and attempting to break beta social sites. :D - Jack Carlson

Looks interesting. but the headless dog has got to go. - Jill, Superhero Librarian

The headless dog is actually customizable, there's lots of choices you can replace it with. You can unlock new ones by gaining karma too, which is a nice little bonus. - Evan Sims

I can't stand the word "karma" :) - directeur

maybe i'm clueless but their friend importer/IM linker ain't working for me - Nathan Eckenrode

I like what I see so far. The comment system seems to encourage interaction. I also enjoy the customizations. - Bradley Goetsch

Great app but I found myself leaving it after a while. The usually "why are my friends not on this, too bad" thing... - Robert Gaal

Veronica posted a message on Twitter

“seeing Indy tonight. keeping my expections nice and low.”

May 23 at 7:43 pm - Link

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I'm waiting until the hype is over and all the stupid, talkative people have seen it. - Anthony Thompson via twhirl

Ken Camp posted a message on Twitter

“I wouldn't pay for Twitter either. Tools change too often to bother. Social networks and tools constantly morph to other things.”

May 23 at 8:32 pm - Link

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May 23 at 9:31 pm - Link

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