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does anyone know a tool that can calculate how many times a specific URL was retweeted (including shortened variations)?
Shevonne liked this
If you find one, let us know.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Something like bit.ly offers, but for any type of URL? Hmmm...that's a good question
- Shevonne
On a related note, I'd like to see some sort of tool or service that took a long url and returned all known shortened versions. Unfortunately, several URL shorteners don't use canonical shortened URLs (ie. if user A and User B both shorten the same long URL they will each get a unique short URL), so this is problematic.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Even if it doesn't exist, it seems like it would be trivial to develop assuming Twitter's API is up to it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Hi Tamar happy chanukah ,you can try http://retweetist.com/users... ,they have a URL link search as well that is not working today , or http://topsy.com/tb..., if you want to check by words in the link you can try this one http://www.checkretweet.com/gizmodo...
- Johni Fisher
topsy and backtweets worked. bit.ly doesn't do it.
- Tamar Weinberg
backtype has a tool but it goes wider than just retweets - http://www.backtype.com/connect
- chrisofspades
topsy is the best of the bunch.i LOVE topsy.
- (dot)lizard kelly
I think you guys are going to love this next Wordpress plugin I'm working on - companies are paying thousands to have this on their blog
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:-)
- Johni Fisher
nice
- Allen Stern
Wedding venue web cam http://www.WestEndWebCam.com username is guest and password is guest http://leibee-scoblewedding.com
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Wedding starts at 4:30PM on Saturday, 12/12/2009
- Alex Scoble
*SCREAMS*
- sofarsoShawn
¡ROCK.AND.ROLL!
- Christopher Harley
from iPhone
Bump! This is this afternoon, guys!
- Rochelle
Congrats Alex!
- Shevonne
Congratulations!
- Heather Solos
Missed the webcam post earlier -- thanks for the bump.
- Brian Sullivan
I'll bump it again later, too. :)
- Rochelle
Congrats! Hope y'all have a wonderful day!
- Laura - not edifying
To-night's the night!
- Christopher Harley
Have a good day Alex Scoble
- Andrizzle Gizzle
\o/ What time zone? Mountain?
- Jason Huebel
Jason, Pacific.
- Rochelle
Congrats Alex and Cassandra .. happy moments always
- johnpiercy
Congrats! Fantastic!
- rowlikeagirl
@Rochelle, I thought Alex was in Utah? That's in Mountain TZ.
- Jason Huebel
Beaverton, OR -- says his Twitter profile.
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah, he lives in Beaverton, OR. No idea where you got Utah from!
- Rochelle
Oh. Huh. Who's in Utah then? *scratches head*
- Jason Huebel
I see unwed people.
- Micah Wittman
Congrats Alex!
- AJ Batac
CONGRATULATIONS!!
- joey
Oh, the venue looks lovely!
- joey
A lifetime of happiness to you both. Congratulations!
- Steve
WHOOOOOOO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! I LOVE WEDDINGS
- sofarsoShawn
Congrats to the both of you................love and kisses from LI NY
- VAL D. Zone
*buys bag of rice to throw at monitor*
- Steven Perez
It's too bad this cannot be embedded in a FF page somehow -- we could all watch the activities (and even better than being there) discuss in real time here. I guess though watching in separate window and discussing here is just about as good.
- Brian Sullivan
oh man this is exciting!
- Lo is not learning
Brian, we can discuss in this thread just like how FFundercats is done!
- Rochelle
Wow, streaming your wedding.. cool :)
- Thomas Bøhm
WE HAVE MOVEMENT
- Johnny Worthington
Pretty chairs!
- Alix Whitmire
I see the cake!
- Rochelle
We need to get Alex to give us a sign
- Johnny Worthington
What's it called when a group sends someone to an event, to spy? Not in an enemy way like a true spy, but just to be there and send signals to the outside world. Maybe that's a spy. Or a plant! Is that what it's called? Maybe we should have sent a plant.
- Rochelle
A mole?
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
ROFL
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Congratulations!!
- martha
Also, congratulations and have fun this evening!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yeah, a mole! That's better. Do we have a mole on the inside?!
- Rochelle
Have a great wedding Cassie and Alex. And Alex, get off FF already, you don't wanna be late for this one! ;-)
- Rene Wirtz
Now the question is, will Alex pull out his phone and update FriendFeed like that guy in the YouTube video last week pulled out his phone to update his Facebook status during the middle of the wedding?
- Rochelle
Yeah, I need to start getting ready in a few minutes...my family is coming to my room at 2:30 and then we do pictures
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Hey they're putting on table clothes right now... this is really cool!
- SAM
Congrats, can't wait to see it.
- SAM
Congrats... :) I'm going to bed now :( I thought to watch it. But, damn sleepy now.. Somebody please wake me up! I'm from IST :P
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
The chairs are beautiful.
- EricaJoy
I can't stay long, but hang in there, A & C! :)
- Micah Wittman
so happy for both of you... Congrats!
- Harold
The tree looks so pretty!
- aden
DID IT START YET? DO I HAVE TIME TO ORDER PIZZA?
- Steven Perez
Steven, you have 1 hour, 45 minutes.
- Rochelle
SWEET! IMMA GET SOME ICE CREAM, TOO!
- Steven Perez
Oh, the lights on the tree came on!
- Alix Whitmire
I wish there was sound.
- Rochelle
Sound would be nice. Very pretty room.
- Laura - not edifying
I see people! (Well, sort of. My connection is lousy.)
- Laura - not edifying
I don't get anything. Maybe it's reached a connection limit?
- Jason Huebel
Seems ok from where I am.
- Brian Sullivan
working for me too?
- holly
I can see, Jason. Maybe you need to reboot?
- Laura - not edifying
@Laura, no it just won't let me connect. For those who are connected, I'd recommend not closing your browser.
- Jason Huebel
Oh, boo, Jason.
- Laura - not edifying
holy wow! I'm grabbing some popcorn and wine. :)
- Call me Bronco
Which side is the groom's side?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Usually the right, Steven.
- Laura - not edifying
oh look, someone's here. HI PEOPLE!
- Call me Bronco
Hmm, won't work for me. Image returns a not found symbol. Might be because I'm international
- Mo Kargas
same here Mo. Not international
- Steve
I SEE WEDDING PEOPLE.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Pretty purple dress!
- Laura - not edifying
I spy a bridesmaid!
- Call me Bronco
not working for me :(
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
rats. maybe people are having browser issues? I'm using Firefox/Mac OSX if that helps.
- Call me Bronco
Using XP with Firefox and it's working fine for me. Then again, I've had this browser session open all day.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Working okie for me on Win7 and Chrome. If it's got too many people maybe I should log off so family can get on?
- Alix Whitmire
YAY!
- Rochelle
I just logged on 10 minutes ago. I don't think it's an overload issue.
- Call me Bronco
Got Vista/Firefox working fine; also have the Modify Headers plug-in forwarding for 12.13.14.15 by default if that helps anyone, in case there's an international thing going on.
- Mark H
Haha. We're putting the wedding cam on our huge HDTV with music on in the background. What kind of music should we play?
- Rochelle
Al Green
- Call me Bronco
Barry White?
- Laura - not edifying
Al Green, Barry White, and Marvin Gaye.
- Call me Bronco
Oohh. I'm nervous!
- Rochelle
GET. IT. ON.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I'm getting a broken video image :o/
- Nurse Katie
It was working for me earlier and not now :( (Firefox/Vista)
- Maria Niles
Akiva can't see it with OSX. He tried Chrome, Chromium, and Safari. I can see it fine with Windows 7 and Firefox.
- Rochelle
Not working with XP/ Firefox :(
- Jimminy
I'm on Vista with Firefox. I just rebooted and still can't get it to work. :(
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Ooh! Camera pan!
- Mark H
I'm falllling.. *watches cam move*
- Alix Whitmire
HEY! WHO'S MOVING THE CAMERA?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Panning!
- Rochelle
screenshot http://friendfeed.com/orchid8...
- Call me Bronco
urgh....nothing in FF or IE
- Nurse Katie
Cool centerpieces!
- Alix Whitmire
Vista/Firefox working here.
- Laura - not edifying
*feels a little seasick*
- Call me Bronco
I tried loading the image manually, I get "The maximum number of clients are already connected "
- Bryce Roney
Aww, maxed out then.
- Rochelle
oh. :( I feel bad.
- Call me Bronco
I was wondering if there was a viewer limit, I'm not seeing it either and I'm just in Vancouver.
- Joe Pierce
:o( Bummer
- Nurse Katie
Woot Got in, after about 2-3 dozen refreshes, just like old school FF fun.
- Jimminy
I bowed out since we are gaming in a bit, so hopefully other people can get in now. Someone grab me a screen shot of the two of them up there for me later? :D
- aden
How appropriate, Jimminy. ;)
- Call me Bronco
I spy Robert Scoble.
- Call me Bronco
Aden, will do.
- Rochelle
Definitely aden.
- Call me Bronco
Sarah, where is Robert?
- Rochelle
he walked past the stage and out the door on the left.
- Call me Bronco
venue is really pretty.
- Call me Bronco
So are the colors silver, white, and navy? Or is that purple?
- Rochelle
It is Sarah. :)
- Jimminy
dresses seem to be a sort of eggplant/purple. hard to tell on monitor.
- Call me Bronco
The dress looked purple earlier.
- Laura - not edifying
The cake looks delicious.
- Jimminy
The chair ties looked blue when all of the lights were on.
- Rochelle
men are all pre-ceremonial. wandering around and looking important and nervous.
- Call me Bronco
Showtime!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Jimminy, it just looks like a white triangle. Haha.
- Rochelle
OMG I SAW ROBERT
- Rochelle
I think it looks more like a Devo Hat. But white.
- Call me Bronco
I love Christmas weddings. And that they're collecting toys for kids, that's so cool.
- Call me Bronco
Do the attendees know there's a webcam?
- Laura - not edifying
We need a webcam with a CSI-style zoom-with-enhancement.
- Mark H
I feel like the peanut gallery. It's a good thing they can't hear us.
- Call me Bronco
It's 4:30!
- Rochelle
photog is taking pictures of the guests.
- Call me Bronco
I like how everytime the flash goes off the room gets washed out.
- Jimminy
*blinded*
- Alix Whitmire
any wedding worth its salt starts at least a few minutes late.
- Call me Bronco
Hahah. Is that Milan? He's the ring bearer.
- Rochelle
POTTY BREAK.
- Call me Bronco
Weddings never start on time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
ok the kid is back.
- Call me Bronco
I bet it's going to start! Everyone in front left.
- Rochelle
Oooh I'm already teary.
- joey
I'm at the ready with Skitch for screenshots. :)
- Call me Bronco
Thanks :)
- aden
IS IT TIME TO START THE ELECTRIC SLIDE YET?
- Steven Perez
from IM
YES OMG START IT
- Call me Bronco
this is sort of like SyFy Saturday night. Only different.
- Call me Bronco
I had the same thought, Sarah. :)
- Laura - not edifying
*passes tissues to Joey*
- Alix Whitmire
parents being seated by ushers.
- Call me Bronco
Or ushers. ;)
- Laura - not edifying
I am ready to throw rice at my screen
- aden
LOL. You caught it, Sarah.
- Laura - not edifying
No Sound ????
- johnpiercy
I only have cooked rice.
- Laura - not edifying
LOL.
- Call me Bronco
THIS IS TEH BESTEST SYFY SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE EVAH!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Seasick!
- Laura - not edifying
IT'S PANNING!
- Rochelle
oh camera pans down. i think we're going to follow the bride in?
- Call me Bronco
IT EVEN HAS BETTER SFX!
- Steven Perez
from IM
TO THE DOOR!
- Rochelle
Sarah, yup.
- Rochelle
This play by play rocks
- aden
or not? panning back.
- Call me Bronco
how come no sound
- johnpiercy
because. no sound. it's not mic'd.
- Call me Bronco
DO ANYBODY NO WHY DIS MOVIE IS SILENT?
- Steven Perez
from IM
HEADS TURNING.
- Call me Bronco
I see legs up front.
- Laura - not edifying
bridesmaids coming up the aisle, meeting the men.
- Call me Bronco
HEADS UP!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Beautiful!
- joey
YAY!
- Rochelle
This is exciting!
- Laura - not edifying
here he comes
- johnpiercy
cute!
- EricaJoy
Colors people tell me the colors!
- aden
I've never watched a wedding from my sofa in jeans.
- Laura - not edifying
Awwwwwwwwwwww
- Alix Whitmire
STOP MOVING THE DAMN CAMERA!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Weird camera pan...
- EricaJoy
!!!!!!!!!
- Rochelle
The panning is annoying. We'd better get to see Cassie!
- Laura - not edifying
I need some Organ music
- johnpiercy
Yay!
- Laura - not edifying
OH, SNAP!
- Steven Perez
from IM
GORGEOUS!!!
- EricaJoy
here comes the bride
- Call me Bronco
Aww gorgeous bride!
- joey
sorry hard to comment and screenshot simultaneously
- Call me Bronco
CRYING
- Rochelle
waaah, i can't see the venue on my screen. keep your comments coming!
- Marie is monkeying around
is that purple or navy blue?
- EricaJoy
LOVE the long train on the dress.
- EricaJoy
looking good alex and cassie
- johnpiercy
I vote purple.
- Alix Whitmire
Dude, she's too pretty for Alex.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I thought it was purple, but the lighting is kind of weird.
- Laura - not edifying
We need to zoom back up to the front.
- Laura - not edifying
OK, now comes the boring part. SKIP TO THE END!
- Steven Perez
from IM
we need the Priest Camera
- johnpiercy
MAWWAGE.
- Steven Perez
from IM
lol
- EricaJoy
about to post some shots, see my feed in a sec for those.
- Call me Bronco
THAT DWEEM WITHIN A DWEEM ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
moar zoom!
- EricaJoy
I zoomed in with my browser!
- Rochelle
Real nice setup Alex and Cassie have here. Bridesmaids are in purple. Groomsmen are in black. Except for Robert - he's wearing Twitter blue. [/just kidding]
- Steven Perez
from IM
awww this is so sweet. I'm so happy for them.
- Call me Bronco
LOL, Steven!
- Laura - not edifying
And they get to escape all the Christmas drama and spend the holiday in Jamaica. Lucky bastards!
- Call me Bronco
Heh.
- Laura - not edifying
yeah i want that zoom back. why did they zoom in and out so fast?
- Call me Bronco
the camera operator needs to be on friendfeed
- EricaJoy
lol
- Call me Bronco
blah blah blah love between a man and a woman blah blah blah
- Call me Bronco
Attention to the next couple to get married live on FriendFeed: Qik or Ustream please. Or 12seconds if you're keeping it brief.
- Mark H
HAH 12second wedding.
- Call me Bronco
oh zoom!
- Call me Bronco
ZOOM!
- Rochelle
OY! Enough with the zooming!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Yay zoom!!!
- Alix Whitmire
OMG
- EricaJoy
VOWS!
- Rochelle
facing each other. definitely vow time.
- Call me Bronco
VOWS!
- Steven Perez
from IM
The vid won;t play!!
- WorldofHiglet
blessing of rings, i think
- Call me Bronco
WoH it's at capacity for viewers, I think
- Call me Bronco
RINGS! ONE RING TO TWEET THEM ALL!
- Steven Perez
from IM
did he kiss her yet?
- WorldofHiglet
nope we're not there yet
- Call me Bronco
screen cap the kiss!! :) you know when it happens
- aden
i will
- Call me Bronco
Call Me Bronco - THANKS fr the Live Play by Play
- johnpiercy
MUCHAS SMOOCHES!
- Steven Perez
from IM
:) happy to do it
- Call me Bronco
awwww :)
- WorldofHiglet
alex and cassie turning to face the celebrant as he says some words
- Call me Bronco
first time Ive seen a wedding streamed ..
- johnpiercy
MUCHAS SMOOCHES FTW!!!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
XOXOX's
- johnpiercy
W00T! ALEX AND CASSIE SCOBLE!
- Steven Perez
from IM
omg i think they HUGGED
- Call me Bronco
and now they're walking out
- Call me Bronco
Mr and Mrs Scoble
- johnpiercy
i think i missed the exact moment. lol.
- Call me Bronco
Lovely.
- Mark H
*throws rice at screen, drops pants*
- Steven Perez
from IM
Huzzah!
- aden
YAYAYAY!
- Rochelle
Now Dancing with Lampshades ?
- johnpiercy
Whoo-hoo!
- Laura - not edifying
TIME TO GET DRUNK AND PAR-TAY!
- Steven Perez
from IM
*drops pants, too, even though I couldn't get to the video*
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Bird Dance
- johnpiercy
Oh wow!
- WorldofHiglet
Now we need a party/reception cam.
- Laura - not edifying
Laura, I think the reception is in the same room so we'll be able to see that, too.
- Rochelle
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Scoble!
- WorldofHiglet
that was a quick service
- johnpiercy
yay! that was sweet. ok time to make dinner now, then back to check out the reception. here come the CATERING ROUNDS.
- Call me Bronco
purple tablecloths, natch.
- Call me Bronco
BREAK FOR POTTY, THEN IT'S TIME TO EAT AND THEN GET FUNKY!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Nice quick service; we approve. Purple bridesmaids; Mrs we approves. Nobody fainted; well, you can't have everything.
- Mark H
Awesome!
- Laura - not edifying
Damn I missed it -- they are setting up now for the dinner?
- Brian Sullivan
Yep.
- Laura - not edifying
So, there must be a bar area for guests, and then photos are being taken?
- Cristo
For some reason I thought they did pix earlier. Did Alex post something about that?
- Laura - not edifying
Sometimes they do family shots before, and then do more photos between ceremony and reception.
- Cristo
Alex said earlier that they were doing photos before.
- Rochelle
Candlelight. :)
- Alix Whitmire
:) :) :)
- Steven Perez
from IM
Cool
- Rodfather
I am waving at you!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The wedding was awesome. Milan almost choked at the beginning though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Yeah we saw that Robert. Too funny.
- Call me Bronco
Reception looks like fun. Tell Alex and Cassie we love the hell out of them.
- Call me Bronco
He knows that, loves you back.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
How geeky is this wedding? Three Droids and counting! :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
YES! I have a connection!
- Mo Kargas
Too late :(
- Mo Kargas
Just saw their first dance! Awwww!
- Mark H
Yeah, very nice first dance!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Can you hear too? I wish you could cause I am gonna do a toast.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Nope. :(
- Alix Whitmire
No sound unfortunately
- Mo Kargas
Congratulations! Looks like a great day!
- Jim Is Not Smart
Best wishes for the Scoble family. Thanks for sharing with all of us!
- mrsha
Mingle mingle mingle.
- SAM
Best wishes to the Scoble family ,MAZAL TOV
- Johni Fisher
Congratulations! Best wishes!
- Anne Bouey
That was so cool :)
- Lo is not learning
That was so awesome. I read every word since I missed the streaming... :-) Congrats, Alex & Cassie!!!!
- Lisa L. Seifert
Congrats to you both! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
A long and happy life to you both. Many blessings.
- Dawn
Congrats and Mazel Tov Alex. Best wishes for you both !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
This is how school is supposed to work. #LISD in #Austin, TX has been so supportive of this experience for Broch.... http://davejenandbroch.com/math-on...
:) Have much fun
- Johni Fisher
Thank you to the 16,374 people/brands/objects who bring me awesome stuff every day on Twitter. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
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Robert have a great holiday and thx again :)
- Johni Fisher
thanks for everything you do for all of us robert - including for cloudcontacts!
- Allen Stern
I am an object! (Or a people)
- Louis Gray
Aren't you a brand as well LG?
- Steve
Steve, depends on the perspective. I am me. Some people think LG/louisgray.com is a brand. I don't usually call it that, but don't flinch when others do.
- Louis Gray
Your brand does not define you..but you define your brand. And that is a good thing.
- Steve
The Future Has No Log In Button - http://staynalive.com/article...
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man - that is one sweet button design - me like!
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Button design is courtesy Chris Messina: http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
- Jesse Stay
Although in the future you won't even see a button like that. It will all "just work".
- Jesse Stay
Jesse it was great to talk with you ,thank you for the time and good will ,I will work on the plan :)
- Johni Fisher
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- Johni Fisher
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Just got another reminder to treasure every moment we have: my son's grandpa isn't doing well, has cancer and lots of medical troubles.
Best wishes Robert ! I hope he will get well soon
- Johni Fisher
Robert, thoughts and prayers going your way - please send my thoughts to Maryam as well.
- Jesse Stay
I'm sorry to hear that, Robert. My wife's mother was diagnosed with (treatable, thankfully) cancer in the past month. I think it's the first time I've mentioned this online. As you said, treasure those moments.
- Micah Wittman
You are in my thoughts. Best to you & your family.
- professor daddyo
Sorry to hear that, but a powerful message. I hope things turn for the better.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
Actaully I was off a year. I started blogging December of 2000 so have been doing it nine years.
Do u ever take time off Scoble?
- polou/indigo_bow
Hi Robert , I sent you today an email with the links to the platform admin
- Johni Fisher
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The next subscriber will be my 51,000th. Just saying. :-)
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... stands at 50,998. Must have lost one! :)
- Louis Gray
Gee, that's the population of Novato, CA.
- τorƍue
Could you ask them all to send me a couple of quid?!!
- Simon Curran
20K more than the population of the largest military base in the US.
- Micah Wittman
Louis: now back at 50,999. Ahh, the games we play!
- Robert Scoble
Louis, stop unfollowing Robert
- Jesse Stay
Done deal Robert :)
- Allyssen
Allyssen: congrats!
- Robert Scoble
2 u , Love your way !!
- Johni Fisher
Jesse, the next time I unfollow Robert is probably the first time.
- Louis Gray
Fwd: Looks like the connection between FriendFeed and Twitter is no longer real-time. Wonder who is to blame? (via http://friendfeed.com/carnage...)
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It was previously mentioned as an issue on Twitter's side. FriendFeed is polling now.
- Louis Gray
what? It's OK now? Or is it true that "Paul Bucheit wrote that they no longer had access to Twitter's firehose, so it sounds like it may have had something to do with Facebook's acquiring them, but don't quote me on that. - Jorge Escobar"
- Steve Gillmor
I think both Louis and Jorge are saying the same thing
- Jesse Stay
Right, I'd like to hear Paul or Bret confirm that.
- Steve Gillmor
Well, on a maybe related note, the Innovation Management Group (http://friendfeed.com/innovat...) has not updated for 24 hours now. That Group includes direct Twitter accounts, Twitter searches, Delicious RSS for a specific tag and SlideShares with a specific tag. No update at all for 24+ hours. Most odd and frustrating.
- Hutch Carpenter
also not finding older posts in search that used to be there. did this change too?
- Brooks Bayne
Twitter shut off the firehose, but made available a replacement API called birddog. We're about ready to switch that on (which will restore realtime Twitter updates), but are waiting on some final approvals from legal. I'm hoping it will all be resolved this week.
- Paul Buchheit
mmm
- Johni Fisher
thx for the feedback, paul
- Steve Gillmor
customer service in realtime :)
- Michael Slattery
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- Johni Fisher
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Looks like the connection between FriendFeed and Twitter is no longer real-time. Wonder who is to blame?
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I think it's been that way for a while.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It has been wildly inconsistent lately. Sometimes it is right on time, other times there is a major delay.
- Rob Diana
Paul Bucheit wrote that they no longer had access to Twitter's firehose, so it sounds like it may have had something to do with Facebook's acquiring them, but don't quote me on that.
- Jorge Escobar
it's weird that twitter signed a deal to give access to google and bing, but friendfeed seems to have lost that deal.
- gregory
Paul or Bret: what is the latest status please?
- Steve Gillmor
The latest status? They're busy working valiantly on mincing the glory of their FriendFeed UI into the horror show that is Zuckerberg's Facebook UI.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from here to Twitter things are going live
- Johni Fisher
It was mentioned previously as being an issue with Twitter. They are polling now.
- Louis Gray
what? It's OK now? Or is it true that "Paul Bucheit wrote that they no longer had access to Twitter's firehose, so it sounds like it may have had something to do with Facebook's acquiring them, but don't quote me on that. - Jorge Escobar" -
- Steve Gillmor
I am trying to locate the conversation where he said this. But it's clear that Twitter is not giving FF the firehose for *some* reason. And they still aren't.
- Jorge Escobar
"The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon. - Paul Buchheit" on Oct 26, 2009 http://friendfeed.com/paul...
- Micah Wittman
Parse that as you will.
- Micah Wittman
Awesome Micah, I was going nuts for a while. So without going to speculation what do you make of "Twitter's realtime feed from them is gone"? Is it scalability issues? But Google and Bing have no problems?
- Jorge Escobar
It's speculation, but I think it's Twitter saying "Ooopsy, now how did that happen? We'll put Top Men on it." and a Friendfeed Alum with "we hope to get it restored" as technically true, but belying that they know or suspect it's a TWTR business decision dragging-of-the-feet and not merely technical. But this can all be cleared up with an official statement :) Maybe I missed it - if so I apologize for wild speculation.
- Micah Wittman
Thanx Micah, Jorge. We'll wait for the update from Paul or Bret.
- Steve Gillmor
Sounds good :)
- Micah Wittman
I wasn't seeing updates from Twitter to Friendfeed for 12 hours, but a manual refresh works ok. It is interesting to note the differences in 'real time' for Friendfeed, Twitter and FaceBook they all behave differently - only one of them seems to be 'real' real time -\
- Chris Loft
Ning is growing a million members every couple of weeks. 37 million registered users. Forums/social networking white hot.
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Ning active users ? on 4/09 they had just 6.1 million from 22 reg users http://bit.ly/SsNuh
- Johni Fisher
I'm registered with Ning but haven't done much with it. The way it works bothers me, just from the user's point of view. Forums though are indeed quite popular.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
@landroveraustin Right on! Land Rover Austin rocks. Called today for an oil change. In and out w spotless vehicle, pleasant smiles. Thank u.
R u ready for the Paris Dakar? dont come for work just for fun :))
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- Johni Fisher
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Where has my FriendFeed gone? The picture says it all. By the way, this is the "best of day" right now. Sad.
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Compare these two. FriendFeed has great pictures, but content that is, well, not interesting. Twitter, on right, has 6,000x better content but doesn't look as nice due to no pictures. Will Brizzly come to rescue?
- Robert Scoble
I hope somebody comes up with a fabulous client to maximize content and serve up more media
- Susan Beebe
And people wonder why I don't come here much anymore. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed used to be very heavy in tech discussions. Now it's rare I see a tech discussion on the "best of day" feed.
- Robert Scoble
The cap on the left is infinitely preferable to the right. I can't tell you how glad I am not to be inundated with tech stuff all day long. One man's trash...
- Jim Is Not Smart
Time to adjust your subscriptions.
- Bruce Lewis
try PowerTwitter ...also, which service has 6000x more users? doesn't that affect content choices?
- .LAG liked that
I keep looking for the comments link on Brizzly.
- Tom Landini
PowerTwitter is a great add to the twitter website (Firefox add-on)
- Susan Beebe
There's more to talk about than just "tech", seriously...
- Rob Haas
Robert - Do you have any general news, world news Twitter lists/groups? I tried scrolling through you lists, but they all seem pretty tech-slanted. If Twitter is to replace Friendfeed and Google Reader, then we need to be able to get real news and information out of the thing.
- Matthew DeVries
The left is a best of day from your 28000 subscriptions. The right is a heavily curated list focused on something you are interested in. Try "best of" on a curated list (there is a link at the bottom of every list feed to best of for that feed).
- Benjamin Golub
agree totally with you Scoble, Bruce: adjusting wouldn't make a difference now
- ffcode
Ben - great advise!
- Susan Beebe
I know twitter is occupied with infrastructure and list improvements, but you would think they could be building brizzly-esque features pretty easily.
- Sean Montgomery
Sean - right. Twitter has to stablize their platform, then focus on UIX
- Susan Beebe
Matthew: I'm a geek. Other people are doing news lists. I might start one, though. You are the second person to ask for one.
- Robert Scoble
and there aren't tech discussions here one of the prime reasons are Scoble left and he is usually followed by around 10k folks everywhere, and his predictions affect all, weak or strong minded
- ffcode
I find it a fascinating observation: Twitter is better than FriendFeed because there's more tech discussions in my feed. Is that the criteria you use for judging other social media sites? Because, IMHO, social media is about connecting people, not about tech discussions.
- Glen Mistletoe
ffcode: sorry, I'm tracking the geek participation here and sorry, the really geeky stuff has definitely gone down.
- Robert Scoble
always wondered how your feed would look like but it is clear you are no different ;)
- ffcode
Robert - I come to you because you're the best list builder and analyzer of signal to noise.
- Matthew DeVries
Glen: sorry, where the geeks go generally the general public follows. Generally. And, anyway, compare this stuff to Facebook. Even there it's a loser, sorry. I watch my wife's feed all the time and compare it to FriendFeed and FriendFeed loses. She said "ew" when she saw my page here.
- Robert Scoble
Glen: by the way, I can make such a screen shot for a bunch of different genre's, not just tech. Twitter has far more diversity and has far more flow of all kinds. http://listorious.com 's huge first weekend demonstrates that.
- Robert Scoble
Jim: if you don't want just tech, check out http://listorious.com -- what list would you like? In one weekend Twitter got more diversity thanks to lists than FriendFeed did in 18 months. And no "ew" pictures.
- Robert Scoble
You still have to come here. It's mandatory
- Charlie Anzman
sad one of the best place is going down like this and it is going the way every other social network is "just for fun"....:(
- ffcode
Charlie: I do, but now you know why I don't show off FriendFeed at conferences anymore.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed's still here. Unfortunately when Scoble, FriendFeed's top user goes, so go the users.
- Jesse Stay
number of places on the twitter display where you could see an inline discussion: zero.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
I follow Scoble, but I'm not going anywhere, Jesse.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Either that, or this just means FriendFeed has gone mainstream, and is no longer just tech users any more ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Robert left Twitter for quite a while (well, not left, but just had it parroting his FF) and it didn't seem to hurt Twitter any. Robert can't make or break a service all by himself.
- Matthew DeVries
I guess I just don't get it. My Facebook connects me with friends I haven't seen in years and relatives I contact rarely. With Facebook, I can keep in touch far better than I ever have in my life. I learn about my cousin in the ICU with pneumonia, and my good friend in Indiana who just had a grandson. The whole format is not compatible with tech discussions; the length restrictions...
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- Glen Mistletoe
Code junkies best of week: http://friendfeed.com/code-ju...
- Bruce Lewis
@Cristo: +3000. @Robert: Change your subscriptions. You just haven't curated your worldview here as much lately. Things change, so must your prism.
- AJ Kohn
as usual, Robert's death of FF posts shoot up the charts. get it?
- Steve Gillmor
Matthew, see my second comment. I think some of it is that FriendFeed's userbase has changed as well. It's not the tech early adopters any more. I expect with Facebook's acquisition it will become more so that case.
- Jesse Stay
My point being this comparison doesn't mean much
- Jesse Stay
What is "geek" to you Robert? Because I've been seeing plenty of "geek" posts in the subscriptions and rooms I follow here on FriendFeed.
- Itachi
Mehmet: geek is someone talking about technology or talking about building something or excited about using such. Do you see any geek in the friendfeed screen shot? I don't.
- Robert Scoble
Agree with Jesse here.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Bruce: is that the best example you got? All those items have no discussion!
- Robert Scoble
And like Tom's comment [keep looking for comments link on Brizzly] LOL!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
o.O Louis is pretty geeky. His kids already have Macbooks.
- Matthew DeVries
The most active discussions I've seen on FriendFeed lately are only when someone proclaims or laments its decline. Sad but true.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Or when Jason holds a live chat.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Robert, twitter=no conversation. I'll deal with the 'ew' pictures by simply using the 'hide' button, that's why it's there. You go your way, I'll go mine. It's all good.
- Jim Is Not Smart
do anybody no why Scoble can't just leave us alone. Friendfeed is dying according to him, no need to make it a self fulfilling prophecy. The more you "high profile" users criticize FF the faster folks will leave it.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Coding geeks communicate best with code. Neither twitter nor FriendFeed let you indent. So there's going to be more sharing and less conversation for coders.
- Bruce Lewis
Robert ,the best of the day are comments and likes on a post ,not content. all the contents from Twitter,blogs,Rss etc are here and its better to get them here or in public groups or in private , I am not sure that on Twitter ppl are acting ,they are just reading same as here
- Johni Fisher
agree with Steve Gillmor, users are here but they are doing things way different now than they used to when Scoble was around
- ffcode
agree more than 100% that "those" tech talks are just gone
- ffcode
You're comparing a hand crafted twitter list to friendfeed's user-generated best-of-day?
- Andy Bakun
Gunny, give the guy a break. He feels forced to be on twitter and misses the conversations on FriendFeed. Did you look at the right-hand picture from twitter? No conversation happening there at all. Zero. I can't imagine hanging out there all day.
- Bruce Lewis
I skip all the tech anyway. Who says it's "better"?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Cristo: try seeing feed around those times when there when acquisition talks
- ffcode
Why can't there be a friendly friend feed and a tech friend feed? Is there no other use for the internet than to talk about the internet?
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Tech and coding news is primarily what I look for in FriendFeed, and I find it. Conversation happens, as well as users bumping things up with likes. Subscriptions (friends and rooms) help filter tech content that I want to see. A like is sometimes as good as a comment.
- Itachi
and Andy: you are yourself stating what Scoble has been saying all the way twitter is place where you can get your taste now not here anymore
- ffcode
Robert- regarding your early early comment- I find it refreshing that FF isn't about tech
- anna sauce
+anna, +Glen, and even +cristo
- Kamilah Gill
Does Plurk get this much attention about its inevitable death? Now there's a service that could really use the wake-up call.
- Mark Trapp
Robert never got infatuated with Plurk, Mark.
- Itachi
Robert most of the change is in the place that you decided to open a subject and to post ,I remember 3 months ago your posts here were with tooons of comments and interest and from the day that you are posting your Twitter FAV here, there is not much action ,just think on that ,I like to read your Twitter FAV but I would better have them in a group and get yr posts like in the past
- Johni Fisher
Yeah, you're pretty geeky there when you have to search how to make screenshots
- KapitanObvious
agree Johni
- ffcode
thx ff
- Johni Fisher
To be honest, any social network with content governed by who you're subscribed to, and having image media in a feed is going to come up with something you don't like. This is because no one is on topic all the time, especially on Twitter. If you want sanitized feeds from *only* tech experts, geeks and what have you, these sort of services aren't going to cut it for you....
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- Mo Kargas
I sure like the interaction here, comments, community...this post shot over to Twitter, but there is nothing going on there about it.
- Eric Matas
@Eric Yes exactly, to me it looks like a glorified RSS stream from different sources, fundamentally a list of content and that's it. The topics Robert is after may not be present on FF, but the conversation is far more intuitive.
- Mo Kargas
"glorified RSS stream"...pretty much sums it up.
- Itachi
Hey GUISE, we're forgetting that the list on the right will fail-whale often as twitter never seems to remember how to run their servers. As to the content on the left not being interesting, well...at least I know it's real people who aren't trying to get me to buy into some new brand or some interchangeable tech company that will just be bought by facebook one day and disappear. :)
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I just can't wait for the day that Scoble ditches Twitter for the junk it is. Should give me a good laugh.
- Itachi
Twitter has no "ew" pictures because it has no pictures. You can use the fftogo option that turns off media if you want no pictures.
- Bruce Lewis
For conversations, friendfeed wins. For tons of blabbers and links, twitter wins. But agreed, activity has gone down heavily on friendfeed. Twitter mania has caught everyone.
- Amit
Interesting tech discussions from http://friendfeed.com/paul... are "Think big. Code small" and the ooc one.
- Bruce Lewis
One anecdote deserves another. I've posted on FF regularly for 1.5 years. I comment frequently on others' tech posts, but most of my own posts are not strictly tech-angled. This week I asked "FriendFeeders : NEED ADVISE: Best all-around value Netbook today - which one?" and it got 16 LIKES and 20 COMMENTS. The last time one of my posts hit/surpassed that threshold was early August http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Micah Wittman
One thing I noticed is no conversations. Just straight links to other sites. Kind of boring.
- Todd Hoff
BTW is it possible to stop getting the twitter updates from others on Friendfeed? Slowly I am seeing my friendfeed aggregating only the twitter updates.
- Amit
Yeah, you can Amit. Just click "hide" on a tweet you see in FF, and then choose to "hide other items like this one"...and go from there.
- Itachi
Robert is just being Robert, always stirring things up! LOL, I really do ♥ you for it though.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Wait, you were all like ' I LOVE FF ' this summer. Singing your praises on the TWiT network and all that jazz. You're even more of a fair weather fan than Minnesotans with our sports teams.
- Clark Baumgartner 蔵明 馬武刀
No hatin' on the Vikings here, they try hard :p
- Itachi
Twins? Timberwolves? Wilds? Take your pick if the Vikings don't do it for yeh.
- Clark Baumgartner 蔵明 馬武刀
You know what makes me laugh... People who use FriendFeed in other languages probably don't see this or any of the stuff Robert is interested in...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
+Johnny W.
- Kamilah Gill
BTW... Heaven forbid we actually have fun on a Sunday... Your lawn's that way
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
You're really going to show me Wall Street Journal on your Twitter feed and compare that to Friendfeed's personal interaction? You know better, Robert.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
from iPhone
KapitanObvious++ for the burn.
- Andrew C
One of the nice things about Friendfeed is the way you can hide a post like this and not see it ever again. It would be nice to have a way to filter posts from specific people if they contained certain words such as twitter, lists, dead, or friendfeed. :)
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Robert GFY dude, seriously.
- LANjackal
""glorified RSS stream" - yeah, except my RSS feeds have been culled down to sources that add their own insightful commentary so it's not an endless stream of retweets of _all the same damn links repeated over and over_. That Twitter screenshot looks really information-light once the repeats are filtered out...
- Andrew C
FRIEND Feed.
- Internet's Tad
And this coming from a man who posted this online: http://valleywag.com/assets... :P
- Jan Ole Peek
The Friendfeed screenshot shows 222 total interactions in the first three entries. The twitter one shows 14 (and I'm counting the one at the bottom that is cut off). Oh wait, those aren't interactions, those are links to other places.
- Andy Bakun
I think Robert is just confusing the point of the site. The name is FRIEND Feed, not interesting feed, useful feed, news feed, etc. This is where I hang out with my friends.
- Internet's Tad
Robert, you're cool and everything, but sometimes the things you post make me think of you as an arrogant asshole. The beauty in friendfeed is that there are so many different flavors to sample from. There are plenty of sites to go to that are tech heavy if that is what you are looking for. Why bother here if it's not what you want? Move on and shut the fuck up about it. Jesus.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Amen.
- Internet's Tad
For someone who doesn't like Friendfeed or thinks Friendfeed doesn't offer as much value as twitter, he sure does post here a lot.
- Andy Bakun
This is exactly the kind of post I don't want in my feed. Adjusting my subscriptions now. Sorry Robert, but I gotta block you on Friendfeed. See you on Twitter.
- Rodfather
Robert. You are stating the obvious: of course friendfeed is going to decline: there is no more engineering or innovation power behind it! The key question is: "is a friendfeed++ going to reborn as part of facebook and have a much more profound impact?". The jury is still out but knowing the quality of the team I would not bet against it.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I think this post is very rude to the posters in your screenshot, especially the second two. They are sharing themselves and their lives with us. If that doesn't interest you, unsubscribe or hide but to call them out and mock them as 'sad' is, well, sad. FriendFeed is full of people that I enjoy discussing all kinds of topics with, including technology, but they are more than just early...
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- joey
Thank you Joey. I find the screen shot to be particularly offensive considering the tenor of the post. Stop being a jerk Robert.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Holden: I have removed my Twitter favorites from FriendFeed because of your post and my Twitter account too.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Scoble, you need to clean your Twitter DM's like stat.
- Outsanity
@Robert - Just because FriendFeed isn't 90% tech and personal branding posts doesn't mean it doesn't have value. You used to be such a big proponent of lists here and molding your subscriptions so they were full of info but not noise... now that you've neglected your pruning efforts and gone over to Twitter then your feed is full of more noise (to you) than info. It's not FriendFeed's...
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- Fa La La La Lindsay
Her Lindsay-ness: sorry, so many geeks have left and there are just more interesting information (FOR ME), more interesting conversations (FOR ME), and I'm learning a lot more over on Twitter (ABOUT WHAT I WANT TO LEARN). FriendFeed HAS changed and that's OK! For you. Not for me. And, sorry, I looked at rejiggering my accounts here, but the info just isn't coming here and Twitter is...
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- Robert Scoble
Then go away. What the fuck. Why keep coming back here to make posts about how horrible it is. It just makes you look like more of an asshole than you intend to be I'm sure. Seriously. If you think there is no value in it, then it's kinda counter-productive to keep posting here, right? You act like the guy that graduated high school but keeps coming back hanging out at lunch and during pep rallies. It's a little bit creepy. What is it that you hope to gain by that?
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I agree with Gunny. YOU caused the mass exedus from Friend Feed Robert, by announcing its demise. Let's see what would happen if instead of moaning about its lack of techy feeds, you began promoting it instead. Look on it as an FF experiment.
- Sandra Large
I like reading your stuff Rob but yeah --- if you're only going to come here to diss FF, perhaps you should just exit FF completely. Also, it's a FACT that Twitter is inferior to FriendFeed based on communication alone because look...here I am, discussing this topic and others can follow along w/o having to search through random comments and pages [they can even comment easily also! *gasp*!]. FF probably will die eventually, but Twitter was freakin' stillborn. Just a glorified RSS service...
- Scott Carmichael
Its all becoming a Robert Scoble 'self fullfilling prophecy' lately on here. You can't have a conversation on Twitter like this, twitter is a newsreel of headline news, that's all its good for, Friend Feed is as its name implies, a feed for friends to discuss anything under the sun, and not just about technical stuff.
- Sandra Large
I don't agree that a person who's become dissatisfied with a service should leave. I've often heard change should come from within. With that said, I'm not sure Robert is pushing for positive change. Can it occur? With Zuckerberg calling the shots, maybe not. Maybe he owns every idea that the FFounders will ever have for the next few yrs, keeping those changes for Zuck's baby. Maybe FF will improve, & maybe the techies who were drowned out on Twitter will find they can be seen & heard here. Who knows?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
My post is up: http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Robert Scoble
Gone mainstream?
- Amit Morson
it gone mainstream alright
- Fajar Nurdiansyah
You can't blame Robert for the fact that the FF guys sold out AND left the ship more or less rudderless. If they had bothered to figure out even a tiny bit of a PR strategy around the take-over, then things might not have gone downhill so fast, or at all. And, yes, you can filter out all of the emo stuff (nothing wrong with it BTW, but that can be had from your IRL friends on Facebook)...
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- Alex Schleber
Robert: accepting the accuracy of observations about the amount of interesting conversations from your perspective, there still remains a question regarding what could be the cause? while one theory may be a decline in friendfeed activity, another possibility is the decline in your own activity. what evidence can support one hypothesis over the other?
- Mike Chelen
methinks a service can go on without an ego? personally i pop back here every now and again for the occasional conversation. i'd prefer more intelligent discussions on here, not just tech related, maybe i'm not following enough people? eh.
- Terry O'Fee
+1,000 joey. "emo stuff" that can be "found on Facebook"? LOTS of arrogance on display here from several directions. Alex, I know that you're tempering your statement by saying that there's nothing wrong with "emo stuff", but that's still awfully dismissive. FF is more like a number of simple blogs because the whole world can access the posts. FB is a walled garden, and tends to be way more dumbed-down (except for when I look at the FF people I'm subscribed to in FB).
- Kamilah Gill
Hey, guys? Don't feed the troll.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from BuddyFeed
now you tell us.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Friendfeed never gone..!
- ★ Soner Gönül
Well if FriendFeed has nothing else going for it, I can at least read a deep exchange of ideas here as to why it's toast. Perhaps thats why I'm sticking. Btw, slightly off topic, but am I the only one finding Twitter list creation a complete chore compared to doing the same on FriendFeed?
- JSLeFanu
I don't see the problem. My pecs dominate your feed. Who can complain about that?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
LOL @Rasheen™
- Glen Mistletoe
Rahsheen, it's ok to let the one's own fun part of life intersect one's social media sphere http://friendfeed.com/tad... , but not when it's someone else and it can be used in the wrong context to misappropriate a point.
- Micah Wittman
It amazes me how people will continue to use a service just to complain about it. Just STFU and GTFO.
- Steve Lowe
Micah, I don't follow what you're saying...
- Kamilah Gill
Robert - Just make Twitter fix the 140 character limit thing already!
- Matthew DeVries
then it would be a blog or what a tumble log?
- ffcode
strange people resist so much even when they know this is it
- ffcode
Robert, setting aside your point, your methodology here is insulting. Why? My response is here: http://friendfeed.com/zeigen...
- Stephen Mack
Kamilah, fair point. I'll explain without sarcasm. Robert's shower photo was a bit of fun that is fine and doesn't represent the whole of his on- or off-line contribution. Andy's photoshopped photo of Rahsheen doesn't represent the whole of Andy's contribution (which is very much technical, btw) or by extension the community's many contributions through the friendfeed medium. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
- Micah Wittman
friend feed is totally awesome!
- Bishal Adhikary
great one man...
- Bishal Adhikary
COMMENT 1) "There's a lot more than me here. http://friendfeed.com/ninjamo.... shows lots of things that are getting engagement. - Robert Scoble" http://friendfeed.com/ninjamo... ... COMMENT 2) "You are not following the right people. This is always the problem if FriendFeed isn't working for you. - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF" http://friendfeed.com/ninjamo...
- Micah Wittman
I just looked, and http://friendfeed.com/ninjamo... still is getting a lot of engagement and there's is stuff to learn there.
- Micah Wittman
Robert, I am considered a "geek" by a number of people, but I don't need or want to talk about technology 24/7. I have other interests and I like to see where they connect. I want to see coalescence. I can't get disparate connections always watching or listening to the same track. Even Richard Feynman believed that...as do many others in other "geek" fields. When I was little I happened...
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- Melanie Reed
Robert, are you reading the tech related groups? If you read Best of you are going to get all sorts of stuff as you know. I have lists and saved searches for specific topics and browse them for the likes of tech. Best of it not the best place for tech only (well any single topic).
- Kol Tregaskes
I've come to the conclusion that all of Robert's posts must be read with one fact kept in mind. Even when he doesn't say it, his posts are based on the assumption that many/most people want and like what he wants.
- Eoghann Irving
Robert, why do you constantly feel the need to shake the death rattle? We are well aware that FF is dying and even more aware that you see it coming. If you really did care about the service you would try to reverse the trend instead of speeding it up.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert I joined FF when I saw you singing praises of it on Twitter and have been loving it ever since, you seem to have a lot of interesting stuff to say, and a lot of people follow you. But, you seriously need to stop coming to FriendFeed and doing everything in your considerable power to kill it, and then complain because you are successful in doing that. Twitter is for people who like shouting through megaphones in a crowd of people shouting through megaphones, FF is for people who like conversations.
- Ed Millard
@edmillard ..said the man who only imports one thing into FF, his Twitter account.. seriously though. Scoble can't kill FF because it's already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. And yes, I am still using it for a bit because it makes such a handy searchable archiving/surfacing tool, and for some aspects of the community. But the reality is that FF founder's sold out b/c they were lacking confidence that they could change FF sufficiently/quickly enough to sustain any real growth.
- Alex Schleber
So FriendFeed founders gave up and sold out to Zuckerberg more or less for the liquidation value, i.e. for their IP and continued highly-skilled/paid labor for FB. It's that simple. Thinking about it any other way is a fantasy. 5 Stages of Grief... And yes, it pains me to say it. Had high hopes for this platform. I wish they would have found a way to evolve FF where it would have continued to grow, I don't think they were very far off. It's like the gold-miners who gave up 10 ft from the mother lode.
- Alex Schleber
Alex you are mistaken, most of my recent posts are from FF and sometimes cross posted to Twitter if they are short and not FF specific. I didn't know the FF etiquette that twitter posts are shunned when I started. Most of my limited time here is spent in comments anyway, since I prefer the conversations to the megaphone.
- Ed Millard
@Ed "Twitter is for people who like shouting through megaphones in a crowd of people shouting through megaphones, FF is for people who like conversations." You basically summed up my blog post about this whole thing (http://friendfeed.com/bluecoc...)...
- Fa La La La Lindsay
Lindsey, same concept, yours was thorough, mine was short. I think part of being a geek is we opt for the superior tech, not the popular tech. FB and Twitter are popular but inferior for conversation. I had no interest in them until I found FF recently. Its a problem we geeks are letting Zuckerberg kill the superior tech here with his checkbook. I'm thinking we should launch an open friend feed like directeur is talking about, free of business conflicts. It is the geek thing to do but it would be hard.
- Ed Millard
One bad day does not mean it is bad for the whole year :)
- ashish
don't you ever get tired of hitting refresh every other minute?
- Giancarlo Caparo
LOL, let's see you sort though hundreds of reply of Twitter, shoot a video of that...
- Robert Higgins
*yawns*
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Sadly, FF has largely become a photo sharing, jokes and food pics sharing site - tech community is gone.
- Susan Beebe
Yes, Twitter really has raised the bar in that arena.
- Glen Mistletoe
Glen LOL
- Susan Beebe
ZING! I shared a lame joke a few minutes ago, Susan! http://ff.im/aTQG6 I don't feel really bad about it. That's true, many people know me as a developer, but I'm not only that. I'm a jazz/anime/languages... LOVER :)
- directeur
If only someone would have told Robert that his feed is his own creation and if he is unhappy there is only one place to look fir the reason. Oh, wait...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
seriously, talk about mis-matched comparisons. This general list is less focused than that built-for-a-purpose list? Well, no offense, but no shit, Sherlock.
- Chieze Okoye
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- Johni Fisher
Hello, Thanks for supporting this project. Hope you like our team, Team WOW! We have lots of videos on Facebook if you want to check us out. http://www.facebook.com/pages... Thanks!
- Greer Cornish
The big ol' FriendFeed Twitter list: http://twitter.com/koltreg...
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Am I on there?
- Raphael, Raphael
You are now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am i on there? al86shaw
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Hey, what about me? I'll cry! eoghannirving
- Eoghann Irving
Yep. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
me.
- Aron Michalski
love this list...
- Karoli
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm not on it :(
- Jan Ole Peek
:)
- Johni Fisher
Great list Kol!
- Jorge Escobar
Great list! Took a lot of work I bet.
- Bonnie Foster
from iPod
wow, thankyou (i have to say it was cool to see me already there in the 2nd most recent post spot, thankyou, :)
- chaz2b
Thanks for making a list (but I'm not on it)!
- Ho John Lee
Thanks Kol!
- Michael Fidler
I've subscribed. My FF list isn't as big, but here it is: http://twitter.com/dennis_...
- Dennis Jernberg
I might have a few you don't have on your big list: http://twitter.com/app103...
- April Russo (app103)
Bonnie, yeah and I'm adding to it all the time.
- Kol Tregaskes
Dennis, April, I used your lists to add to mine. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh to be worthy (:
- Kim Landwehr
from iPhone
I'll also start to follow anyone who I'm not following too but I might need some of your to follow me back as I'm near my limit already and can only add a small batch of you at a time. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for the include on the list - that was very cool to see this morning.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
No worries, Dan. I'm sure I've missed loads. Adding people all the time.
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, I've followed you all from this list. Keep letting me know who I've missed out?
- Kol Tregaskes
Jason, you already there. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
thanks for adding me to your "big ol" FriendFeed list, & even bigger thx for taking the time to put it together.
- Alex Schleber
Fabulous list Kol - nice job and THANKS!
- Susan Beebe
Thanks, Susan. Added a few more. I'm sure I've missed loads.
- Kol Tregaskes
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