Yeah, there are so many little things. It's great to find new features every day. - Aaron Myers
@Akiva: just move your mouse a touch and the tooltip will disappear (at least it does on Flock) - Craig Eddy
Craig, I'm American. You ask too much of me. - Akiva Moskovitz
Time doesn't update if you've edited the comment... :-( - Mitchell Tsai
Great addition to the site! @Mitchell I agree although how would they work it? Maybe replacing the comment time with the word edited as well with the new time! - Joe Dawson
not sure if you saw my tweet...but in regards to your comment above...you may want to consider joining Gyminee. Its an amazing tool and your gym buddies will keep you motivated. Thats assuming if you are interested. - Carlos Ayala
been there done that robert ,, cycling and walking can be your best friends - fotographic
Robert: Congrats. I just started commuting to work via Bike again last week. Isn't it easy to lose sight of physical fitness? - Jon-Paul Bussoli
Congrats on your workouts. I'm in the same boat and trying to stay motivated for more than a week! Nice tip for Gyminee from Carlos :) Thanks. - kbourke
Check out "The Hacker's Diet". It worked for me anyway. - Fred Yankowski
@kbourke no problem at all...feel free to add me when you join up and ask me any questions if you have any. @cma3 on gyminee. - Carlos Ayala
just signed up at gyminee. looks kinda cool. i'll give it a try. my username is mattmusgrave if anyone wants to be my gymbuddy. http://tinyurl.com/5vrdou - Matt Musgrave
Limit your calories, sodium and no refined sugar and you'll fending off the ladies in no time! - Peter Simard
there is a twitter group on gyminee....most of the users in the group are slacking. i am not one of the slackers. :) - Carlos Ayala
eating right is the most crucial step in starting out a new path to losing weight. a bit of sacrifice, but you'll soon want to do it rather than feel like you have to do it. - Cee Bee
Just walking to work in the morning is decent exercise here in SF. Get fit now, Scoble. You need to stick around for your grandkids!! - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy
I just committed to running my 1st 5k in October, Robert. Let me tell you, I can't run. I am planning on learning between now and then, some on my own and then with a trainer. I don't know if I can do it, but I'm gonna try. Runners are always so healthy and strong! - Christine Cavalier
I'm going back to Atkins - it's the only thing that I can consistently do - but, oh how I miss the beer. - Vince DeGeorge
I've ignored my health for too long as well. Was running marathons 8 years ago and now I just sit, read and blog. Decided to jump in a 5k last minute a week ago and ran every day since. Get OUT and get UP everyone! :) - Kevin C. Tofel
Thank God, Robert. What you do now will stand you in good stead when you are my age. So there. - Francine Hardaway via twhirl
Robert if you need any help in this area, my offer from 2005 still stands. - shelisrael1
I started training for the Philly Marathon three weeks ago. Set some goals and achieve them! - blackmailismylife
Me too buddy! I've gained 30 lbs in 1 year... I support you in your new goal to get into shape!! Let's gooo!! - Susan Beebe
It's a lifestyle change. Ease into it. You can do it - anyone can. I did (went from out of shape to marathon runner). Start eating more stuff like this http://www.runnersworld.com/ar... - melmcbride
My daughter has lost 60 lbs after she started running. - Michelle Trent
Ok twitter pact to lose 10 lbs.???any takers? - Natallini
It's all about will power, that I don't have. :) - Aaron Myers
In my case the problem is not losing but gaining. I have been consistently underweight even when I exercised and ate correctly. - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
For me biking has been a good compromise(cross country skiing in winter but that isn't much of an issue for you). Can't stand the thought of a "gym", don't swim very well and running seems futile. Last week biked the Niagara Circle over three days (after a dozen or so shorter rides this spring). Sensible food (kind and quantity) also helped. - Brian Sullivan
Yeah, I'm off the smokes finally, now it's time to get healthy. I agree. - Jim Kukral
I am trying to go to the gym thrice a week as well.. Pants bought earlier in the year feels slightly tight already.. sigh.. - Winston Teo
Garbage in, garbage stay in. Watch what you eat. Excercise is overrated. Check out my flickr photo - a web developer can live a healthy life - Bryan Peters via twhirl
Robert and company: Keep your spirits HIGH and be good to yourself!! Remember, we're all sitting here on our BUTTS reading / writing all day on our computers... this is par for the course....so we're already at a disadvantage since we have so much "bench warming time" required in our jobs and even our fun time - Susan Beebe
Trying hard here too. I like livestrong's daily plate for tracking calories and exercise. Good luck on your goals everyone! - Julia
Apparently (my girlfriend is a physiotherapist) the biggest difference between "fat"/non-"fat" people is incidental exercise: walking up the escalator, running to answer the phone, standing up on the bus, etc. - Jon Tirsen
I think the biggest difference is more related to diet and making aerobic activity a priority 3-4 times a week. Standing up on the bus doesn't burn many calories. - James
When I lived in A2, MI I drank so much Bell's. One of the best and most unheralded micro breweries in the United States. OMG thanks for the memories! - James
Matt, I'm not at the brewery, but I would love to visit some time. I always pickup Bell's when I see it since I don't come across it on the west coast. - Scott Beale
Oh yeah! I'm back in Michigan now, I can drink myself silly on Bell's now - l.m.orchard via twhirl
absolutely one of the best breweries in the US. That reminds me, I'm driving through Michigan very soon and may need to make a slight detour! :) - Mike Marusin
We WERE upset in Chicago. Hearing the name Bell's is like hearing the name of a girl who dumped you. I miss her so much... - Jason Phillips
When I heard the name Kalamazoo I assumed you were in Australia. Newcastle Brown is a good ale-- I'd recommend it. - john conroy
I've loved every Bell's beer I've had (except for the Cherry Stout). Oberon, Celebrator Doppelbock, Two Hearted, Third Coast Old Ale, all good. I've almost always got bottles of something of theirs in the the fridge - Andy Tinkham via twhirl
Freshbooks is great. It even has a time-tracking widget that logs and uploads your time. - Dan Kaplan
I used it for a while but stopped. it just didn't have a feature I needed. But, I really lke the service and it works quite well. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
I was scared off by discussions in their forum about an inability to have prepaid billings (retainers). I haven't gone back in a while but I also was not sure if the look of the invoice could be modified. The way it used the web for quotes was awesome -- I may still go back to it. - Wayne Schulz
I used it for freelance work and it was great. Support is Good, too. - Trevor F. Smith via twhirl
Freshbooks is great. I really like the format of the invoices and the ability to send invoices to more than one person at a company (via email or snail mail). Highly recommended. - Laurence Toney
ppl seem to be big fans and I know a devel there. The other service I commonly hear mentioned is Harvest -- @missrogue use? - Lloyd Budd
Scott, I'm a user of your squidhosting, and I've enjoyed my time with it. Great service. 0 problems evar (truly rare!). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I have a client using Rackspace as well. They are very responsive at customer service and offering other services. But, they are also the company that has hosed the same client's server twice now after supposedly simple operations like adding a drive to a RAID 5 array, and these are machines that Rackspace builds out themselves. - Steven Van Tilburg via twhirl
Andru, yeah my Rackspace post was in response to something specific. I can't really go into specifics, but let's just say it was way beyond "fanatical". It's things like that that have keep me there for almost a decade. - Scott Beale
Rackspace is our main managed hosting provider. They bent over backwards every single time I needed something, and any time I said "Jump" they always asked, "How high?" The only problem I've had with them, and it's not them anymore, is their managed mail: when it was part of Rackspace, it was amazing, but they recently spun that off into a new company, Mailtrust, and I've had nothing but problems. But Rackspace proper is just... lightyears beyond anyone else. - Mark Trapp
I'll also note here that LaughinSquid is a host that I have no trouble recommending to friends. Yes, Dreamhost can have "issues". - Tris Hussey via NoiseRiver
I have been with Dreamhost for some time, and I am satisfied. - Jeremy Brooks
I used to have an account at Laughing Squid (hosted at Rackspace) and it was the best hosting experience I ever had. - K Welch
@J. Phil if you picked dreamhost then I really don't think Rackspace was ever an option for you. You might check out pair.com for great shared hosting though. - Erik S
So they looked at tumblr, said, "Perfect! But let's get rid of signing up!" and voila, posterous? - J. Phil
How does it determine your vanity domain? By the sending e-mail address? That'd never work for me as I never give my actual e-mail address to any website. It's part of my zero spam measure (and, yes, I get absolutely no spam and have for many, many years). - Akiva Moskovitz
great, i got my own name there - another extraneous social appendage to look after... - Chris Heuer
@Akiva - You can set up a gmail account and register. You are assigned a temporary URL and can create your own 'vanity domain' after registering. - Rex Hammock
Thanks for the suggestion, Rex. This fits in with what I normally do: create an alias account on my mail server and use that. And now, for no real clear reason, I have http://akiva.posterous.com. - Akiva Moskovitz
It's pretty nice. I still like Tumblr more though. - MG Siegler
Posting from the site doesn't offer the opportunity to include photos that I can see. I'm with MG. Using the bookmarklette with Tumblr is still easier. I can link to a site while there instead of having to open my email client. - Jack Carlson
Gary Tan seems like a nice guy. That's a plus. - K Welch
Neat, but considering how I just got hit by a spammer spoofing my Gmail to blast a few dozen people, I'm leery of the no-setup model. Going through the signup is easy but defeats the purpose - what major blog service doesn't have post by e-mail now? - Garrett Guillotte
No future, for this app, it includes Comic Sans in text style options; Comic Sans is evil. - marcantonio severgnini
Hey Scott, thanks for the tip on Posterous. So bloody easy. - Marc Johns
Lucky you. My friends don't see the point in FriendFeed. - possible248 via NoiseRiver
I can cheerfully say I'm a non-techie but as a journalist I see the value of this and Twitter. Need to hone some better tech skills though. - Trace Sharp
Thats the beauty of FriendFeed, you can add them as imaginary friends even if they dont join willingly. :) - Mike Martin via Alert Thingy
i'd be happy if they'd just stop forwarding me dozens of jokes, especially the ones that another friend/family member has already sent me. - Scott Cropper
Scott tell them to setup a blog on wordpress.com and post there jokes there and then say that you will subscribe to the feed instead. - Scott Beale
I wish they would do that but I'm mainly talking about parents, aunts and uncles. A few friends are in that group as well. a lot of my tech friends are too busy with work for all this kind of stuff. lucky for me there are all of you i've met on friendfeed. - Scott Cropper
This is our trip to Washington DC. My son, Patrick, made several of the photos. I wish I had Thomas Hawk along on this trip. Next time I'm going to take him. - Robert Scoble
Robert - Seriously, one of your best ever. Worth sharing with the family. Thanks! - Charlie Anzman
Sean and MG, not every site requires jumping to and from. How long have you been using your current operating system, for example? FriendFeed could be your social media/information operating system for the long haul. - Louis Gray
i know louis, i'm (somewhat) kidding. working on a post of a similar nature actually :) - MG Siegler
Louis, I'm with you, but I do remember a time when FB was going to be the social media operating system. However, FF is run by extraordinary people, and the people that are active on FF are damn sharp, as that recent top 30 shows. Compare those 30 people to the people using the top 30 FB apps and we've got a true dichotomy. I can't wait till FF starts following the popular entries people post and creates an amazing social search. - Dan Kaplan
Good point Louis, so prior to all social media was in the DOS stages. Required flooppy disks (silos) and unique boot procedures. FF is Windows 3.1, look a clock! Sweet. - sean percival
I think that everyone's love or hate of a person should be publicly visible though. I always wonder about people subscribing to someone, only to find out they hate him? Unsubscribe would be the magic word then ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: Doh :) It's not always like football... this is a little bit private, isn't it :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Who is making all this noise, oh it's directeur. Well he cant help it, he's French! Great service BTW, congratulations ;-) (but I still want to know who hates me ;-) ) - Alexander van Elsas
Alexander! haha! Thank you! Actually i'm not French... though I speak french very fluently, and yes sorry: it's me ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
And come on! Who'll dare to hate you? You're a very good blogger, Toots Thielemans is great! and your football team is amazing! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Amazingly good at losing the quarterfinals after we played the best football in a 1st round ever to be played. and look what it got us ;-) - Alexander van Elsas
Alexander, you're very binary in how you think about love/hate. Don't let the definitions limit your thinking. Here's an example. I like a lot of what MG Siegler posts. However, I do not care at all about his facial hair and I care even less about any jokes about twitter, fail whale, etc. Yet I like his posts about iPhone, streaming video from PC to TV, etc. With NoiseRiver you don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water. - Robert Seidman via NoiseRiver
Robert, Exactly ! Couldn't described it better myself! That's why the sliders work from -1 to 1, in this interval you define your feeling... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Binary? Ha, not binary, I just want the detailed lists of loves/hates so that we can all gossip about it ;-) Actually, I think directeur did a really nice job at this, so I won't make another joke tonight (It's weekend over here, never take the Dutch serious on a weekend) - Alexander van Elsas
@robert - i am very upset that you do not care about my facial hair :) - MG Siegler
I'm sorry MG, I didn't mean to pick on you! I think the real preference parameters that FriendFeed itself should seek to automate are on a scale between "chat room" on the left and "information service" on the right. Most people are probably in the middle. The beauty of it in theory is everyone gets to do exactly what they want, which is as it should be! P.S. 1 more vote for no goatee ;-) - Robert Seidman
Thanks Alexander :) I see what you meant! And this could be a nice feature but to be activated on user's demand. I mean you'll decide to publish your neighborhood settings and gossip and laundry ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
ha ha, voted counted. but i do agree with you, a filter between personal and business would be useful, but would also make things more complicated probably. noiseriver is interesting, tried it out a bit, need to look at it more. - MG Siegler
MG Siegler: Thanks a lot again :) m.0: happy it pleases that much! :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Playing around with it, seems to be a very nice concept! - Fu_ via NoiseRiver
@directeur I'm for anything that facilitates the addiction.:) - m.0
This is similar to mioNews, which I just launched this weekend. Simplest way to describe it is a mix of Google Reader, NoiseRiver, and FriendFeedMachine. But instead of a slider for various topics, mioNews auto-tags every article and then determines relevance based on previous like/hate choices made in mioNews. I definitely think that content filters is the future of social media as a way to deal with the noise. http://mionews.com - Patrick Lightbody
We'll see. Heroin addicts are prone to return to the junk. Once replies is enabled, I have a feeling they'll go right back. I think we won't know for sure for a while. - Bwana McCall
I fully expect the next three days to have a flood of "why doesn't Friendfeed have X twitter feature? This is stupid, Friendfeed is really broken until it has x, y, and z twitter feature." Started a few hours ago: been hiding a LOT. - Mark Trapp
Yup. We need a name for it. The Twitter-Refugee-Make-It-Like-Twitter-Complex-Syndrome - Bwana McCall
Adaptation is a hallmark of our species. - Jim Stanger
@Joe I suspect a great deal will "stay", but they'll continue to use Twitter once it becomes functional. We'll see if the "exodus" has any staying power once Twitter enables a couple more features. I'm just a little skeptical because people will forgive Twitter and go running back in a heartbeat. - Bwana McCall
@Bwana how about Twitter-Refugee-Even-More-Onerous-Restrictions-Syndrom or TREMORS? :) - Christian Anderson
Yes, I'm seeing an influx too. 14,040 now follow me here. Got to 14,000 on FF much faster than I got to same number on Twitter. - Robert Scoble
I would like to use both, but we'll see what happens w/ Twitter. To me it's not an either/or proposition. - rambn
I think my Top 30 post from last night mentioning you probably contributed...it got tons of traffic and it continues today. WP-Cache plugin don't fail me now! - Mark Krynsky
I couldn't agree more. FriendFeed Posers are essentially people who are just talking at you and couldn't care less what you're saying back to them. - Tony Ruscoe
Not important, although I see the argument against Steve Gillmor as a recommended subscription - obviously not - Julian Baldwin
I'm using it, playing with it, developing with it, It's all game for me... and I noticed that Pete is using NoiseRiver! ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Are there rules now for how to use friendfeed? A quite pathetic article if you ask me. Especially tasteless to start mentioning names. - Rutger Blom
agree with Rutger... for any service to be successful it must work no matter how people use (or abuse) it. With the barrier to publishing information set to essentially zero the filter becomes the important thing. - Nathan Manley
I'm getting very tired of people who tear down things. How about let's try some uplifting? Why not make a list of people who are doing good in the world? - Robert Scoble via NoiseRiver
I like the idea of wanting to encourage others to interact, but I don't think blocking them is any kind of solution. A twitter post from Steve could spark debate amongst others which could have nothing to do with Steve. The fact that he isn't participating in the discussion doesn't mean his posts aren't worth hearing. - John-Michael Oswalt
John-Micheal, I'm pretty sure the Scribkin blogger has little or no comprehension at all of the FriendFeed way of interacting with content - Giovanni De Stefano via NoiseRiver
Since I use the service howsoever *I* see fit, and not by someone else's unwritten "rules" of use, I guess I'm a poseur as well. When I signed up, I don't recall there being a box that said "I agree to comment regularly on other peoples' feeds and behave in a manner someone else thinks is appropriate." - Lucretia Pruitt
How on earth do you tell when someone is talking to you? Comments are spread across hundreds of posts in FF. Is there an @ sign like twitter? If so how do I use it? Is there a way to see just the new comments added to posts that you have commented on? For example, I am asking a question here right now, but if you answer an hour from now, how do I find out? - Luke Gedeon
Luke: I'm watching tens of thousands of people and you are stretching it to say that there are comments that are stretched across hundreds of posts. You can just search for your name to see people who are talking to you, or in reaction to you. New posts are at the top of the page. Stuff that's never replied to is down below. - Robert Scoble
Noiseriver will surely make my FF experience than much better and my use should increase from it. - Tsega D via NoiseRiver
I Agree with Scoble;s.. you need to work the system to get what you want.. there is literally tonnes of stuff that you can cull here.. I wish FF had search History.. In short, FF holds the worlds intelligent's information. Google holds the worlds information :)- - Peter Dawson
Yeah, I think a lot of people just give a big sigh and give in to using these new tools when they really don't want to. The other thing is... a lot of people are busy with work or "real" lives, you know? Being online and doing this all the time is not very healthy, go outside eh? :) - Jim Kukral
I try to carry on conversations with people on Twitter. Maybe FriendFeed is better for that? I'm new (just joined) so only time will tell. - Jason Huebel
Robert: I tried the search you suggested and your comment was hidden behind a note that said Click to see 17 more. Plus when I did the search it pulled up my comments, comments to me, and everything I posted elsewhere. If I was not already looking for a reply to this post I would have missed it. - Luke Gedeon
so if Steve responds to this post on FF will he cease to be a poser? - sawinkler
Also tested NoiseRiver. It did not help me find out when people are talking to me. - Luke Gedeon
Several hours ago I said something directly to Robert Scoble and as best I can tell he does not know that I am talking to him or about him. FF has got to get better at making it easy to see when people are talking to you. Robert if you do see this comment I would like to know how you found it. How did you know to come back to this post and read follow-up comments? - Luke Gedeon
@Luke: find who's talking to you in a certain thread you mean? I in fact thought about this too. We can highligth comments that contain one's name or nickname. But it's won't be 100% accurate because sometime you may find several Lukes in a discussion. Sometimes we, human, find it hard to know when someone's is talking to us or someone else who has the same name... so algorithms will *never* be precise at this, alas. - directeur via NoiseRiver
@directeur that was the beauty of twitter. You could put an @ in front the twitter username, and twitter pulled all those posts together for you. - Luke Gedeon
@Luke: You're right. definitely. Here people use nicks, names, some people will talk to you as Luke, others as lgedeon, some as Luke Gedeon... I think the main goal on which FriendFeed was build is aggregating feeds, and then "conversation" was added. - directeur via NoiseRiver
One of the few times I wish I could "dislike" a comment - Brian Carter
@directeur and my name is fairly easy to search for. There are not many Luke's and even less Gedeon's, but can you imagine how tough this is going to get for John Smith and Joe Green if FriendFeed ever goes mainstream? - Luke Gedeon
He was actually very cool in his comment on the blog. Which, of course, makes me terrified that I will be roasted if I ever go on his podcast show. - J. Phil
Nice list, I added a couple of people, surprised that Mitchell Tsai isn't mentioned as he is really active here! - Joe Dawson
LOL. The worthlessness of that list is illustrated by the fact that cdibona (who barely uses FF, no offense Chris) is listed there. Can we get over trying to measure who the best social addict is? - Erica Baker
No need to measure, wouldn't that just always be Scoble? - Scott Beale
It's just fun with Google, Erica and all. Mark didn't pick the list. For whatever reason, the Google indexing engine selected these IDs in that order. - Louis Gray
Joe: I was the #52 person on "google.com/search?as_q=friendfeed&num=100&as_sitesearch=friendfeed.com" http://google.com/search?as_q=... However, Google customizes it's search for everyone, so who knows if the author used a clean-slate machine to do the analysis? - Mitchell Tsai
I just looked at a few of those. I find them kind of interesting, although a few of them don't post too often - Chacha via twhirl
I'm always open to testing new PM hosted services. Currently very happy with clockingit.com which is a free hosted service or you can run your own. Can you tell us what compelling features made you choose unfuddle? - Mark Krynsky
Cool... I am a Project Manager and would *love* to get your feedback on this app. - Susan Beebe
I haven't project managed a software project in years. Any suggestions for current favorite apps? Or weblinks to pros/cons of different systems? - Mitchell Tsai
Mark I listed the features in my original post, but it's not just about features, there are many other factors that influenced our decision to use it, too many to list here. That's what demos are for and Unfuddle as a free one, so check it out. - Scott Beale
See you made your decision but we use (and like) TeamworkPM.net. For nonprofits, Huddle offers a nice premium program for free. - petermello
I use http://Atlassian.com 's JIRA and Confluence (integrated apps for issues, bugs, SVN repo, Wiki, etc.). Also used eProject (now owned by http://Daptiv.com). I was looking at using Trac too - Susan Beebe
did you concider assembla? It seems even more feature rich. - Lloyd Budd
