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Fwd: @aroberts I might start using Facebook less and doing something else more. Not sure what the something else is yet though. - http://twitter.com/frankie... (via http://friendfeed.com/andy-ro...)
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The issue for me in the FF vs. Buzz debate is simple. FF has a better product today, really it does, hands down. But it feels like an abandoned product. Both FF and Buzz feel like they are in their infancy. The real potential comes with innovation and refinement down the road. At present I have more faith that Google with devote devs and resources...
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to Buzz than I do that Facebook will devote devs and resources for FriendFeed. If I am going to invest time and energy in a platform/network, I need to have more faith in it than I have in FriendFeed today. I'd probably feel totally different if Facebook hadn't bought FriendFeed and FriendFeed was still innovating, but they aren't.
- Thomas Hawk
You just gotta believe Thomas, with all your heart, and it will happen...Now to reality, I agree, sadly. But now with people flocking to Buzz, I think FB will be taking another heard look at the resources it's putting into FF allocate more
- The Real sofarsoShawn
If the the history with Twitter is any guide, features and product polish (and hell, uptime) are completely secondary to the number of people in the network. I believe that's why Google went all gmail-contact-crazy-blitzkrieg.
- mikepk
Google went all gmail contact crazy because it gives them a huge momentum advantage in jumpstarting the thing. The hardest part about starting any social network is getting it off the group. Jaiku failed. Just because something's Google doesn't mean it will suceed. But by seeding Buzz with gmail it gets a huge boost and makes it much easier to play catchup with Facebook and Twitter.
- Thomas Hawk
Right, that was my point, the only value in these networks is the people. Features and product polish are second order effects. Google is trying to ramp up the people as quickly as possibly with a massive bootstrap effort.
- mikepk
but the bottom line is that this feels like a dead product. Facebook bought the Friendfeed team to work on Facebook not Friendfeed and that's what they are doing. While Google is devoting serious talent towards buzz. So I think Buzz will leapfrog FF in functionality in the near future. And if I'm going to invest time in a network, I want it to be the one that will be furthest along a...
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- Thomas Hawk
Products don't always improve with continued development (MS Word, for example) and I see Buzz's future more like that of Wave. People will try and discard it in a few months. It isn't intuitive, is kinda ugly and is tied to gmail in such a way that lots of people are going to see it, and dismiss it before it is ready for primetime
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Right. It is the people. But with only one day I've already seen a huge number of my friends flock to buzz. Even sone who couldn't figure ff out.
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
Thomas, using our rational, Flickr is a dead-end product too. Clearly Yahoo does not put adequate resources on it and years have gone by with little to no innovation or upgrade. Yet you, me, and tens of thousands of others still use the product. Seems to me that Buzz gives Facbook a significant incentive to keep Friendfeed alive if not start updating it and growing it. Will be interesting to see what Facebook does in response to Buzz.
- Jeff P. Henderson
What is interesting, is that many of the people I follow her in FF are over at Buzz trying it out, but they still are actively posting here also. It will be real interesting to see what Buzz looks like a month from now after everyone has had a chance to try out the shiny new toy. How many people will stay on Buzz and abandon their old services? How many people will go back to their old services and dismiss Buzz?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Right, but flickr has no viable competition. Buzz is very viable competition to ff. Facebook shouldn't have stopped innovating on ff. It was worthy of more than just being tollerated. It was/is worthy of innovation.
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
Robert, you might be right... but... Google is not Microsoft and Buzz is not Word. MS had already achieved 99% of what can/needed to be done with a word processor. From there innovation was less relevant. FF and Buzz though are only at 10% of what the power of a social network can/should be. I doubt Buzz turns into feature bloat.
- Thomas Hawk
also, in some ways Buzz actually is ahead of FF. For example Flickr photos are presented *far* more elegantly on Buzz than FF. Neither one of them can get your Flickr uploads in the right order (most recently uploaded photos should appear first in a batch) but photos do look much cooler in Buzz. The location integration is also pretty slick. I suspect I'll continue using both for a while, where/how/when the crowd moves though is probably really a Google vs. Facebook thing.
- Thomas Hawk
heres the intended future of Buzz: http://www.google.com/buzz...
- Carlos Ayala
I bet there are a lot more devs working on Buzz's interface right now than FFs. If FF is 98% of what a social network needed to be, that would be fine. But it's not. Neither is Buzz. I suspect that Buzz gets it closer in the end. But maybe I'm wrong. It's a shame Facebook couldn't have seen FF as sort of a valuable labs product worthy of resources and a way to hack around and test good ideas before implementing them into their FB product.
- Thomas Hawk
Maybe they will now.
- Jeff P. Henderson
i'm hoping so too jeff
- Chris Heath
Well Matthew, yes, that would have been the best thing at all. FF is/was far superior to Facebook's interface. But that's certainly not the direction things have gone since the buyout. Jeff, I hope that Facebook takes FF more seriously now too. There is a ton of innovation that could still be done here. Once FF gets the Flickr photos in the right order they should consider developing a lightbox feature for flickr photos like Buzz has done. It's awesome.
- Thomas Hawk
FF could easily add Photo features that would blow every other service out of the water. It is so close now. I do agree that Google did good on the photo implementation right out of the gate on Buzz. I STILL don't understand why no one can get the photo order correct!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Jeff, for a while FF was getting the order correct. But then they reverted back to doing it the old way. So it certainly is possible.
- Thomas Hawk
Why can't FF do something this elegant with your Flickr sets for instance? Click on any of these photos and watch what happens. You have to admit that this is far more elegant than how FF handles Flickr photos today. http://www.google.com/buzz...
- Thomas Hawk
I agree with the top statement, Thomas. Google Buzz is miles away from FriendFeed but it has people working on it, unlike FriendFeed. I'd be happy to move across to Buzz from FF but it needs more FF-like features and a community like we have here.
- Kol Tregaskes
And yes I like how Buzz shows Flickr images. Big images, like photos should be. :-) So Thomas are we moving our Flickr browsing from FF to Buzz? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don't understand why people think it is in Facebook's interest to grow FriendFeed, even in response to Buzz. Their best course of action as the largest social network is to cannibalize FriendFeed for parts, which they've pretty much done.
- Rah-PM 2012
The thing about FF is that Im sure, if FB allowed it, there are pleanty of talented devs right here who would love to get to work on improving FF. FF has seen work on it. Twitter updates are fixed. FF has already implemented the new OAuth standard. I think Paul did mention that they would fix bugs in FF. I certainly don't blame Paul Kevin Bret etc for turning FF into a 20% project- they...
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- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Thomas, while I agree with your observation about the *current* state of affairs, that Facebook has not bought FriendFeed with the determination to bring it to prominence, I can easily imagine Zuckerberg and co reconsidering their stance on this in the very near future. If I was in Zuckerberg's position, I'd put Buchheit in charge of new Facebook development. I don't know who is now, but IMO this guy visibly doesn't have Buchheit's smarts.
- Meryn Stol
Another option would be to rebrand FriendFeed as "Facebook Conversations" (or something like) real fast and somehow add it to the main Facebook as a kind of separate section.
- Meryn Stol
I think it's Bret that's a VP of FB Product Development??
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Remember the good old days when FF was just flying and it seemed every week they were making the product better and better and better. How exciting that was. The momentum. Being a part of it all. FF feels hollow now. It lacks that excitement. And while it's still one of the best conversational networks out there, now Google feels like that. Exciting, growing, devs all working on it and chatting about it and squashing bugs. Neither FF or FB feel anything like that right now.
- Thomas Hawk
I feel like part of that last bit comes from the fact that, for the most part, facebook has settled into its way- i mean, all the changes they've been doing the last several months- its streamlining, not changing how it works. Yahoo in general seems the same way.
- Almond Butterscotch
fb imo is still limited: can post more than 1 pic from articles, smaller conversation screens, not live like here...its just not the same as FF especially re conversation.
- Myrna
Photos on Facebook are horrid. Tiny little pictures. Photos on Buzz are very elegant. The nice big thumbnails, the fact that it auto picks up 10 of your last batch of Flickr uploads. And the lightbox thing just blows me away. I don't think Facebook has ever gotten photos on the web.
- Thomas Hawk
But it still totally bugs me that neither FriendFeed or Buzz will put your Flickr photos in the correct order. It should be last photos first, not first photos last. I'm going to keep harping on this one about once a day and maybe one of the two sites or the other will fix it.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, you mean the most-recently-uploaded photo should be on the left when FF or Buzz makes an item with multiple photos? (Just clarifying that you're not talking about the order of separate FF/Buzz items.)
- Bruce Lewis
I love FF but I've to say I'm not too optimistic about the future of FF. I think it's likely that FB may just pick up what they want from FF (already got them, maybe) and let FF live as long as it can... by itself. I just don't see much input after FF was bought (or actually from earlier than then). I hope I'm wrong. This isn't necessarily related to the introduction of Buzz or if Buzz is doing well or not at all.
- Jackie
OTOH, I'm more than ok with Buzz so far and I hope it gets better and better. I don't know if this will replace FF eventually for me in the future, but I admit that in the past 48 hours or so, I didn't spend much time on FF as I used to before. At the moment, I still prefer FF as it's still a complete and nice product and do hope it more than just survives. But, if unfortunately one day FF's dead, I guess Buzz is a likely candidate to switch to, in my case.
- Jackie
Just noticed what a great conversation this is compared to what I've seen in Buzz so far, and I don't know a soul here. Buzz feels too exposed and too intimate at the same time somehow.
- Linda
Bruce, *exactly* The way flickr works is that your contacts only see the last 1 or 5 photos that you upload baed on the most commonly used "recent photos from your contacts" screen. Also of course your main flickr page also only shows the last 5 photos (if you've set it up as I have). So most people post their best photos *last* to flickr. Rather than show these best photos, if you...
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- Thomas Hawk
I bet the FF ordering makes photos appear in chronological order more often. Maybe for your purposes it's better to ignore FF and Buzz since Flickr is the socnet for photography enthusiasts.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
no way I'm ignoring FF and Buzz. Too much fun.
- Thomas Hawk
I love how you can press the "m" key and it hides things in buzz when you have keyboard commands enabled. M is my new favorite letter.
- Thomas Hawk
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind ~ Redemption Song
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IS YOUR CHILD ELIGIBLE FOR A FREE COMPUTER TO USE AT HOME - http://kirkholtdropin.blogspot.com/2010...
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Any chances that you can add Friendfeed to Tweetdeck?
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I would like that too, but it appears that nobody is monitoring this room.
- Pete Gilbert
Having to go back to Twhirl because of the lack of FF support...
- zeroinfluencer
I support this also!
- Nathan Snyder
Don't you grieve - Roy Harper song Andy Roberts Music Guitar - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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When should you use Comic Sans? [diagram] - http://thenextweb.com/shareab...
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Awh, I *like* Comic Sans. But only in the right place.
- Isha (Marysia)
You're right it's probably a little unfair—but funny :D
- Andrew Roche
It is funny. Comic Sans is 'supposed' to be good for dyslexics but I hate it and I'm mildly dyslexic!
- Linda
Really? I would have thought that it was a bit busy for comfortable reading.
- Andrew Roche
Too busy for me and not enough letter differentiation when I'm tired. My college insists I use it when preparing handouts as they want to be 'dyslexia friendly' - sheesh!
- Linda
Oof. Not liking the new "Flickr from Yahoo!" logo on Flickr. Ugly ugly ugly.
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barbican1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I was there last sunday but no one showed up.
- MayC
according to Tim, there might have two people there who thought nobody else turned up.
- Andy Roberts
"Some people have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Mary F. Berry
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Create your own live updating Twitter widget - http://twitter.com/goodies...
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nice work Twitter guys!
- Allison
from Bookmarklet
This is very awesome. Thanks Allison ♥
- Ron"micronet"Harwood
Love it. So simple yet really useful for niche blogs
- Lisa
mega awesome!
- Barb Sabathil
A Rant About "Technology" (Ursula K. Le Guin) - http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-Te...
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"We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called "technology " at all."
- Andrew Roche
from Bookmarklet
I've recorded a series of five screencast tutorials about basic photo editing using a Mac. What's the best thing to do with them?
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I'm glad you like the question, but does anybody have any suggestions?
- Andy Roberts
Well, I been thinking about it at the back of my head today, & a couple of things: 1. find some decent keywords, put up a blog, & either sell them on the back of a free teaser or they (or 1 or 2 of them) could be the free teaser to get them into your blog. Depends how valuable you think they are: you could give away one or 2 & charge for the others (I've been making notes on one of Eben Pagan's homestudy seminars today http://tinyurl.com/qk4nfx
- Isha (Marysia)
Pagan's video is v good by the way, & if you've not seen it could give you some ideas that would answer your question. 2. Find someone whose blog/site gets good visitor numbers in a related (but not competing) area & ask to do a post or an offer on their blog, & you'd tell the readers that they can get the tutorials on your blog.
- Isha (Marysia)
What we don't know is how long they are, what you think they're worth, what your intention was behind making them etc. So not sure if either of those suggestions actually fit your reality?
- Isha (Marysia)
3. Hunt around the internet finding out who & where are crying out for just that sort of tutorial. I'm reminded of the mantra of the 30dc, something about not having the product before doing the market research. 4. If you think they're good (you might like to verify that by getting someone to go through them) then perhaps Clickbank?
- Isha (Marysia)
Some good suggestions there, along the lines of what I'm grasping towards. I'm not sure what these kind of tutorials might be worth so I'm going to have to test it somehow. Keyword research has been underway but the specific niche is untested. I think I need to write a step by step plan now. Meanwhile, thanks for the ideas and I'll send you the plan and videos if you like.
- Andy Roberts
Yes, this is going about it backwards but there was a reason - I was stuck offline so it was the best I could do with my time. At the worst, I have content for five blog posts but feel I should be able to make more of it.
- Andy Roberts
I don't have Mac but thanks for the offer. Agree, you could make more of it.
- Isha (Marysia)
I've posted the first video on my blog to see what happens, there's also a list of what's covered in the remaining 4 vidoes - Number 1 is not the best one http://distributedresearch.net/blog...
- Andy Roberts
BBC NEWS | Politics | MP to sell duck house for charity - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
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"An MP who claimed £1,645 on expenses for a floating duck island is to sell it to raise money for charity."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Haha. Funny.
- Roberto Bonini
should be charged for defrauding the state and criminal proceedings started.
- alphaxion
You would think that would happen, but no. They get special treatment. The police who bundle me into the car ready to go and charge me with fraud for anything like that wouldn't give a flying f... if I gave my duck house to charity.
- Charley M
Does he have a Windsor Castle's replica for his dog? Doesn't he know that animals are not that pretentious?
- M F
Dashalytics: Google Analytics on Your Dashboard - free apple dashboard widget - http://www.designmarketingadve...
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great finds, Aline! :] ..you really a Mac Lady, correct ... how about Windows .. anything outthere?
- pb:
@Petr: he he he...yes i'm totally a mac lady :o) - and for Windows...hmm...humph...If i was really into Windows, i'd be all over that! - Blessings!!
- Aline Ohannessian
well, i see :] .. are Windows really that bad ? .. i thought you'd spare a time slice and get on it ! ...
- pb:
this is soo useful! Thanks Aline :)
- Linda
Blindly Imitating vocabulary or jargon is not the same thing as becoming knowledgable
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@steveberryman What I do, to pretend to myself that I am being productive, is share stuff on Google Reader and FriendFeed :D
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About time.
- Andrew Roche
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Blip.fm | What are you listening to? - http://blip.fm/
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"I've used Pandora, Last.fm, Mufin and some others but I keep coming back to Blip.fm"
- Russellreno
last.fm is still my favorite. but i use blip.fm and hypem.com as well and scrobble to last.fm. in fact i use anything that will scrobble to last.fm.
- Lynne d Johnson
ok, who actually uses this? And can you please explain how it actually works...Do you have to type in what you're actually listening to??
- Zee.
Zee - I use blip nearly every day. It's awesome. It integrates seeqpod (I think) and you "blip" (like tweet) songs with a little message too. The interface lets you listen to all tracks in a similar way to favtape.
- Matt Frog
Last.fm is my favorite for keeping track of my friends' listening habits, music discovery and listening to internet radio, but I love blip.fm for giving me a way to tweet and ff out what i'm listening to and to instantly hear what my friends are listening to.
- Mattie Kenny
before blip.fm i used twittytunes (i still use it), it's a firefox addon. while i'm listening to itunes and scrobbling to last.fm, i can send a tweet of what i'm listening to with twittytunes. i think bc of this blip.fm hasn't wowed me yet, other than being able to listen to friends' playlists.
- Lynne d Johnson
hey - that's really interesting Lynne. thank you.
- Zee.
Lynne - I used to use twittytunes but then when I upgraded my FF, the plugin didn't work anymore and I never bothered to add it. You bring up a very good point.
- Mattie Kenny
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
I like Blip, but haven't been as active on it as I used to be. I would lose followers whenever I blipped more than 3 times in a day. They need to beef up their selection. You used to be able to add your own stuff easily, but there are restrictions now.
- Bryan R. Adams
Have to say that Twisten.fm works a bit better in some aspects.
- Jesper Jazzper Isaksson
Just added Google Analytics to my Tumblr...here are instructions if you want to do it too. - http://www.tumblr.com/docs...
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Market Samurai Settings for Search Region
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In Market Samurai Settings for Google, there's a drop down menu for selecting a region or else "All countries and territories". I initially set this to UK. After testing with several keywords with which I'm familiar, the results - particularly in the new competition analysis module - don't match those from a google UK search at all. Then I found that changing the setting made no difference at all. Checking against a Google.com search is closer, but after one particular search I became convinced that Samurai is working not only on google.com results but also using &GL=US to specifically retrieve results geared towards the US.
- Andy Roberts
So maybe this is a complicated problem relating to IP ranges, caching and other factors or maybe the software has the interface built in for selecting local searches but this hasn't been programmed and activated yet. Maybe it will be fixed for local searches before the 30Day challenge and trial period expire, but the way it looks to me now I have three options.
- Andy Roberts
1) Go through the 30DC using a US orientated phrase, and then apply what I've learned from that process to a new, different UK orientated phrase beginning all over again after September. That's what I ended up doing last year.
- Andy Roberts
2) Do the keyword research manually using Google trends, keyword external tool, wordtracker free keywords, Microsoft commercial intent tool, etc
- Andy Roberts
3) Ty to find a phrase that's likely to work well in *both* markets and see how much traffic I can get from both US and UK sources. If both turn out to be viable they might each end up being monetised differently.
- Andy Roberts
Andy, Have you raised this with the Samurai guys? I have had good and quick feedback from them on a variety of issues. Which of the three options have you decided to pursue?
- Walter van Straaten
Andy, You are not the only person having this problem as the Samurai Support Forum shows.
- Walter van Straaten
Yep, there are UK market issues with both keyword generation and the google ranking aspect, which is to say it's not working for either and the MS guys know already. I think we might have to accept that the challenge is very US centric in it's approach and the other aspects will be too. If MS does include the website/domain creation aspects Ed hints at in the ustream video than these too will be US based I think.
- Linda
I am equally frustrated, though it forces me to practice the manual method for researching a specific UK niche.
- thefluffanutta
The thing is, even when i first started and was targeting UK on my sites, I found that 70%+ of my traffic was coming from the US.
- Frann Leach
Interesting Fran, maybe it's niche specific. Mine are currently 80 +% UK traffic.
- Linda
I've been using the Market Samurai this morning as a refined suggestion tool for coming up with potential phrases within a broad area, then cross checking some of those that survive the filters against the manual method. This has thrown up 4 ideas so far, none of which is really all that promising, so I feel I need to generate a few more yet before I start thowing them all away!
- Andy Roberts
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