"After auto-following way too many people, as Robert did, my tweet stream is a mess. The biggest offenders were those who used "from API" or "from Twitterfeed", to send automated tweets with no personal updates. I'm using the same tool that followed these folks to unfollow them, filtering on source, and it is cleaning the stream. One of the determinations for Twitter to determine spammy behavior is links to non-links ratio, but it shouldn't be the sole reason for closure. They should, if possible, be reviewed."
- Louis Gray
"Or the accounts @scoblefaves and @lgshareditems? 100% links. I wrote about this back in September. (http://blog.louisgray.com/2009......) I understand what Twitter is trying to do, but being a false positive is such a mistake."
- Louis Gray
Paul Buchheit on the reason FriendFeed sold to Facebook: "The opportunity at Facebook is very substantial."
"The biggest component is the question - what is the value of Facebook? It is a very successful company and is going to get more so in the future. There is a lot of opportunity in the social and realtime. Facebook is in a unique position that will prove to be very lucrative."
- Louis Gray
Nothing wrong with pursuing the Benjamins -- that's what creative capitalism is all about. Friendfeed's founders probably couldn't have picked a better moment to sell the company for the price it did.
- Sean McBride
I still want it to stay right here .... Period.
- Charlie Anzman
Hmmmm, if we assume there is a golden handcuff situation going on, how long until Paul departs and uses the funds to build FriendFeedHD XL Ultimate Edition?
- EricaJoy
I like where you're going with this, Erica!
- Laura Norvig
"Adam, we're pretty closely aligned on this one. No big surprise. I use Twitter because I can reach folks who choose to use it, not necessarily because I love it or have a good user experience. It would be as foolish to not use Twitter as it would be to avoid e-mail at this point. FriendFeed has the best user experience, period, and it's unfortunate we may never see the site reach its true potential. I don't use Foursquare or Yelp or Orkut, or MySpace, either. And just where is your bloody RSS tag? How am I supposed to subscribe to this stuff?"
- Louis Gray
This morning, I had a client meeting in Los Altos, where a group was watching the Harvard/Yale game. Quite the Ivy League crowd. Amusing. :)
because we're saturated with tech LG and people are maxed out on the web with "over-choice" like your "over-sharing"
- Thomas Power
Remember, things got a little better before they got a lot worse during the great depression. Don't believe it's over just because the media says so. They said it before and were wrong then, why not wrong again? (at the start of the "suckers rally" in 1930, the media declared the depression over)
- April Russo (app103)