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Testing out screenr - so far I'm impressed. http://screenr.com/U8s
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This is going to change everything with Twitter.
- Lee Watters
Work at home survival tip #82 - you got time for naps - take 'em - nobody will yell at you.
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I left Twitter for Jaiku. Then Jaiku left me for Google. I moved in with Pownce but it died. I went back to Twitter, but flirted with Plurk, Identica, and Rejaw, and even tried doing it myself with Laconica but it was Twitter I really loved. Twitter finally broke my heart so I left it for Friendfeed. Now Friendfeed is leaving me for Facebook. No...
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It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Haha. ROFL
- Roberto Bonini
is friendfeed going anywhere or will it just get better?
- Craig Shipp
I'm with you Leo.
- Oracio
It reads better than Soap - my roadmap is very similar but I'll forgive FF and live happily ever after with it (for the time being, anyway)
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from iPhone
You're the best Leo. Canadians are the funniest people.
- Dan Lessard
I'm betting they'll slowly digest it into the Facebook news feed. They claim that Friendfeed is staying put for now, but that won't last.
- Ken Bauer
And we keep following Leo all over the place!
- Robert Scoble
Long live Leo
- Randy Pollock
When will we all get in a long term relationship and stop getting our hearts broken?
- Nate Pilling
so what is more important, the medium or the people, hope that FF will let us export our content, and our social netork :) (in my wild dreams)
- abdellah
Need ice cream? I'm new to FF, and kind of sad I didn't jump on the proverbial wagon sooner!
- Elizabeth K. Barone
Feels to me like maybe it's time to go back to building a distributed network, rather than hopping from service to service.
- Ken Sheppardson
I hope you leave your standard breadcrumbs so we can find you in the next chapter of social interaction.
- jcunwired
But where to next? That's the question. Wave sounds great, but the implementation will be a PAIN. So where? Oh LeoMoses...where is our path in the desert?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Sounds like a hurtin' country song in the making.
- Bill Rodman
The wave of the future is wave
- Randy Pollock
Well you can't say that what is happening in the 'social sphere' is boring by any means!
- Matt Cassem
I think Leo's audience is more likely to click "Like" or "comment" than Scoble's is. When Leo and Rob are both posting on FF, Leo gets more likes and comments
- Mark
Didn't you leave a post earlier saying how funny it was that people complain anytime there's a change (referring to the FF buyout)? This sounds like a complaint to me.
- Fleagle
Not complaining - just thinking about the future. I think a little Friendfeed DNA will vastly improve Facebook. And I think Facebook is already the big winner with the general populace. I also think we geeks need a corner somewhere else to hang out in.
- Leo Laporte
And I have no plans to leave Friendfeed. Yet.
- Leo Laporte
Yet being the operative word.....
- Roberto Bonini
sounds like a country song to me
- gavin
As for this geeky alternative, http://a.tinythread.com/ just showed up in my feed this morning. Thoughts?
- Craig B.
I feel more of a personal connection with the FriendFeed team than I have with other services I've left, and that will be a big part of why I will stay as long as possible.
- Louis Gray
^^^ replace "team" with "community" and there's my reason for sticking it out.
- jcunwired
Its also going to take a very long time to go through content and bookmark/store it elsewhere. Evernote is going to be used heavily in the weeks to come.
- jcunwired
The only way to have control is to use your own URL
- Craig Shipp
Wait till you meet Facebook's randy cousin Overly Friendly Book =)
- Cynthia Yildirim
what Louis gray said. I'm going to hang around until the lights go out.
- Jordan Brock
from BuddyFeed
What they said, I don't see any reason to leave FriendFeed unless something actually changes that makes the service worthless to me.
- Craig B.
yup me too Louis and I don't know any of them
- Thomas Power
Plurk's not worth leaving anyone for.
- Rachel R.
Leo, I think you need to change your FaceFeed status to "It's Complicated" ;)
- Daynah
Play this thread off, keyboard cat.
- Fleagle
You have to go back to your blog. It still loves you Leo.
- Dave Winer
Screw you, Friendfeed!
- Andrew Leahey
Users today are investors too - only the 'exit' for us is not lucrative.... its the other way sometimes :)
- Mrinal Desai
I just had the idea: wow, how good will Faceboook become though this input? (JUST imagine tagging ppl in FB the way U can Tag them in FF.)
- oliver gassner
Love Stinks.
- shelter watch
I'm quite surprised that you could keep track of all that!
- Robert Alex
Leo Laporte listed his relationship as: "its complicated."
- Randy Shapiro
Damn thats complicated
- drmacintosh
Don't worry Leo, its not you, its them...
- Steven McGurn
so where do we go now?
- Brian Appleby
I agree with Jonathan Hardesty "It's like the internet version of Days of Our Lives" - And sites keep getting killed off only to come back to life a month later!
- Amy Flynn
very true, however on the other hand, we are getting closer to that one service which everyone will be on... and I dont think twitter is going to be that one
- Bryce Campbell
Facebook buying FriendFeed is like having to MOVE just when you got your house all dressed up and made into a comfy HOME! I don't feel like doing it again!
- Arleen Anderson
Now that Facebook and Friendfeed have married, I'm waiting for Twitfacefeedplebospacening.
- Anthony Marco
You all just have ants in your pants :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Leo, u by your self made two companies (services) out of 3 famous and made Google interested enough to buy 2 of them (Jaiku & FF). Google also tried to flirt with Twitter as well. So which one u choose now? Cause we will follow u :P
- Sam Ehsan
Sounds like some of my past love affairs. Of course, I'm married now. That, um, was prior.
- Paul Chaney
lmfao, its so true leo, so true!
- Derek Bender
Feeling a bit worn around the edges? ... me too!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Speaking of Days Of Our Lives: Didn't that show jump the shark when the serial killer was unmasked as Marlena (a character I used to have a mad crush on, and who's now mostly a professional victim)? Then all the "killed" characters came back to life, since they were only what I call "soap opera dead"...
- Dennis Jernberg
And if everyone follows you, then your all having affairs all over the place! LOL
- Sandra Large
I think it's back to the TWiT Army!
- Paul Salzman
It's not like we have proposed Healthcare reform, or anything really important, going on in the U.S.A.
- Steve de Mena
it's getting ridiculous, FEDERATED is the word!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
who is actually leaving FF? have many people vowed to do so yet? I'd like to but there isn't any alternative.
- Denise Young
the joys and sorrows of everyday social IT folks... :-)
- Thomas Lee
People are talking a lot about Streamy today. Might be an alternative.
- Caio Cesar
Streamy seems to be crashing left & right tho.
- Rick Cogley
Not to mention Pownce was shutdown as soon as it got good!
- Kenneth Reitz
No mention of Microsoft Vine?
- Robert MacEwan
yep. welcome to another episode of; As the Stomach Turns. one big soap opera.
- Scratch5150
I've decided I'm not going to tell ANYONE which site I'm favoring... not even myself! I swear! As soon as I decided that FF was my new place (a couple months ago) THIS happens! It's like magic, but in a bad bad way...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Why do we all assume this is a bad thing? Maybe the FF Facebook combo will be better??
- Craig Shipp
Maybe they'll keep both open -- FF is the open side, and FB is the closed side.
- John Flinchbaugh
from IM
Social Networks are sluts?
- TheDiva Rockin
It sure is.
- Jason Hill
I know exactly how you feel. What's a person to do? I am mad at Twitter for suspending some of my accounts. First, the accounts kept causing the password to reset, then they were suspended, all around the time of the DOS attacks. All I ever used Twitter for was to advertise my businesses, and for fun. Now I don't know where to go.
- DogPatch
Here's some thoughts on what's going to happen:http://kennethreitz.com/blog...
- Kenneth Reitz
It's like my beloved Archie comics romantic twists from childhood! Archie loves Veronica who loves Reggie who loves Betty who loves Archie... ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Lea
More like "As the worm churns"
- Houseofmax
한글 와서~ 루거 .. 당신은 정말 잘 생기고있다 누드 사진 기다리다 :]
- HealingBrush
One of the funniest sad stories I've heard in a long time...
- Aviva Gabriel
Gotta find one who is a lady in public and a whore in the bedroom. One who looks like a woman, but thinks like a man. One who tells you you're the only person in their world and worships the ground you walk on. One who's from Venus but want's to live on Mars. One who you know will always be there even when the chips are down. One who looks like a movie star, but doesn't bust the credit...
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- Jan Simmonds
I think a lot of people LOVE to think negatively and don't want to think positively. They think FB is BAD and will ruin FF, but I think if they do it well, FB won't be the bad guy. I think most people who are irked about this are irked because they think the FFers "sold out" to the "man".
- Molly, "sorry"
@Mollyanna - I disagree. I am irked because the future of FF is completely uncertain. It's more likely that FB will let FF flounder and close it down than it is that FB will invest time and resources in maintaining and enhancing FF. FB has other interests and is splitting up the FF dev team. That does not bode well for FF. I don't begrudge the FF devs for taking the money. I would be...
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- Fa La La La Lindsay
Leo, I hope you mention FriendFeed in your Dubai TED talk ! :) I'll try to be there !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
@Jan You're an asshat.
- Ian Wright
from BuddyFeed
leo, check out Streamy.com. I'm actually commenting to friendfeed from there right now...you may like it better.
- Casey Petersen
looooool =))
- ★amin.m★
Haiku Laporte
- Outsanity
that was cute! :O)
- Jeanne
@ian - "Wordsmith. Public relations undergraduate at The University of Texas. Feminist Capitalist. WordPress geek. Future commercial rights attorney"...surely that kind of asinine comment is beneath you!
- Jan Simmonds
Maybe they're just not that into you.
- Elizabeth Johnson
Wait... who's on first?
- Michael Rosenau
Logged in to suggest that many of us have tridden a similar path, but a lot of people have beaten me to it! I miss Pownce
- SpionKopRed
wow, Leo. You've got relationship issues!
- Justin Bradshaw
there there, Shawny's here...
- sofarsoShawn
I sense a pattern here.. maybe you always seem to go after web2.0 services that are bent on ditching you :)
- Shivanand Velmurugan
Not sure if this has been asked yet...but are we staying on here till the ship goes down? Or finding another home now?
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Go to Facebook?
- Manuel Mas
finding another home...or developing one.
- Anthony Feint
a bit of both I think... sticking around but looking at the same time...
- Kim
I doubt we are a facebook community :)
- Nik
Facebook's really not that bad, especially with an open status update and search engine like FriendFeed at the helm.
- Jesse Stay
building a new one....
- Darren Stuart
Jesse: but don't you have different contacts on FF compared to Facebook. Plus Facebook is closed
- Anthony Feint
I hope neither!
- Patrick Hall
FF still does what I want for now, if they make Facebook do all the same stuff, then maybe I'll switch, but staying here for now.
- Ben Reierson
I'm not leaving till it's gone.
- Kelly
EndFeed. Start looking. BTW, my likes & comments are still not going through to Twitter (about 2 hours now). Coincidence?
- Alex Schleber
Anthony, Facebook really wants to be more open. The one thing FriendFeed has lacked is the ability to be more private if you choose to. Facebook will bring that to FriendFeed, while FriendFeed will bring amore open and communicative (think FF's DM platform) platform to Facebook. I think it's win-win. Both networks need each other, and realize their weaknesses.
- Jesse Stay
When the inevitable happens and FF gets shut down, I'll probably go back to juggling tumblr, twitter and google reader. I'm going to lifestream to my own site so I can retain control of the data.
- Rajit
+1 Rajit. Just wrote a comment over on Scobleizer's blog that ended with: "Blogs and their comment systems became a lot more relevant again today."
- Alex Schleber
I suggest everyone let it play out. I think it will be win-win in the end. Knowing the teams from both companies, I know they both want what we all want.
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse, are you really sure that Zuckerberg wants what even just you want? Let alone what "we" want?!
- Alex Schleber
BTW, my Greasemonkey RT button for FriendFeed just became more relevant too, at least I'm still getting to post from here to Twitter that way: http://userscripts.org/scripts...
- Alex Schleber
That exact slide was erected at a party on the Yahoo campus in 2001 during my first week working there, and nobody at the party seemed to notice the irony.
- Kevin Fox
It's not the acquisition and possible shutting down of FF that upsets me - this is something you almost expect in the tech world. It's the absorption of the FF community into FB that worries me. I don't want to see my data stream polluted by inane postings by someone I went to high-school with but whose life (social and professional) I have no interest in. FB allowed me to add the most...
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- Rajit
I'm certainly not going to Facebook.
- Kol Tregaskes
Not sure, but I can't mix them... FriendFeed and Facebook serve two distinct purposes for me that I won't let work together.
- Vince DeGeorge
I feel you.... this is big news. I work these like Vince for "two distinct purposes" too.... ahhhh --- Fb better add that "edit" feature on comments like on here tho.
- Marika Dye
+1 for certainly not going to FB.
- 1x29
...i'm taking a "wait and see" approach, but, as someone mentioned earlier in the thread, the "closed" nature of FB is a turnoff to me. FF wouldn't have never worked for me if it had been closed that way.
- .LAG liked that
Over on LeoLaporte's thread, @Bwana brought up a very important point: "Leo, do you understand our concerns regarding the ToS? Seriously. That's why I'm worried/concerned. This isn't a new interface. This isn't a new login procedure. This is whether I own my FriendFeed data or is it now Facebook's." So maybe wait and see is not a real option. Also: start backing up your stuff to elsewhere NOW!
- Alex Schleber
BTW, the fact that I just had to copy/paste this into here is a sign that FF really still has/had lots of room for improvement. No comment permalinks or timestamps (WHY ??), no way to easily/visibly reply to a comment, no way to quickly highlight all comments by one user on an entry, no way to easily parse out a given users comments from everywhere (even under friendfeed.com/username/comments it's difficult/impossible due to collapsed comments threads), etc. etc.
- Alex Schleber
I use FF and FB for completely different purposes. Not sure how they're going to combine.
- Ethan
last man standing...
- Anthony Farrior
Google Wave may be a viable option, if it ever opens up.
- Chris Rogers
from BuddyFeed
I'm already on Facebook, and I actually do use Facebook quite a bit, but I've had to tone it down since my sister-in-law got a profile on there. This was why I LOVED FriendFeed. No family or IRL people I know on here (well, except for two, and they only started accounts to respond to posts I did about them. Then there was the ex-coworker that I blocked. But outside of that, nada).
- Helen Sventitsky
I use Facebook for a very different reason so I'm part of the hell no I won't go crowd
- Keith - @tsudo
I have a Facebook account, and as Keith (and other said), I use both services for very different things. In fact I use Twitter, Facebook and Friendfeed in different ways. Although I'm fairly new to Friendfeed I think it's a very different service. I see Twitter as a place to say quick stuff, about what I'm doing or share something I just saw. Friendfeed is a place to publicly share everything I find interesting on the web with friends and strangers with the hopes of reading what people thought about it.
- David Rodriguez
I use facebook with people I really know and not total strangers. In that sense I see it more as a closed space and in that regard I have a certain expectation of intimacy that I don't have when using Friendfeed or Twitter. So I really don't think there's a service that will replace what I perceive of Friendfeed in the near future.
- David Rodriguez
Silly question time: how do you create graphics like this sinking ship?
- Tom O'Connell
This pic probably taken from a stock pic site, or may be photoshopped, or I also remember seeing a site where you post your requirement and photographers post their pics and you choose the best one you like and pay for it. (something on the lines of 99designs)
- TrafficBug
I'm going to stick around here as long as possible. I actually start and engage more people in conversations on Facebook, but most of my "friends" there are actual real life friends, plus a few Internet famous people like Scoble and such. Here, it is just connecting to people that are interesting. The implications are different and even Facebook gaining more of the real-time stuff like FriendFeed won't change that focus for me. I'll be a little sad if Friend Feed goes away.
- Travis B. Hartwell
a.tinythread.com? http://a.tinythread.com/4yJdfqi...
- LouCypher
Why not stick around till the end? We can look for a new place at the same time. As for the Facebook TOS... this is the internet, if you think you own the content you put up on here, where have you been for the last decade? When something goes up on the web, it's everyones, no matter what their copyright says or a services TOS says. I'm not worried about that. Besides, putting all your content under CC means that Facebook can use it too.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Staying on, while checking out the other digs
- Hutch Carpenter
staying and bailing water if it does start to go down
- Cody Heitschmidt
I already have a # of homes 2 settle @ soup.io, identi.ca, the rest aren't in real time per se
- polou/indigo_bow
I'm staying as long as it's FF. For me FB is different. It's like Ghostbusters--don't cross the streams. While I won't be actively looking for something else, I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open or things that might come up.
- Robert DeBord
from iPhone
All you Twitter users who are taunting me. Remember, this now means I have 65% more time to bug you on Twitter! ;-)
Aram Zucker-Scharff, Julia Ault, TheHenry and 9 other people liked this
slow down there, hot shot. Friendfeed.com is still here and may be for years to come
- Mark
Yes just like Jaiku
- Chris Saad
hhmph right now we should be listening to gillmor gang live, with scoble, arrington, loic, winer, etc
- Mark
From my collection: windows 1.0 sealed in the box [mint] http://yfrog.com/a9welj
![From my collection: windows 1.0 sealed in the box [mint] http://yfrog.com/a9welj](http://yfrog.com/a9welj.th.jpg "From my collection: windows 1.0 sealed in the box [mint] http://yfrog.com/a9welj") |
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wow .... computing archeology!
- Jeff
I'll pay $.99 for that unopened box of heartache.
- sean808080
Did it work ? Prolly not ... nobody wanted to open it :-)
- Peter Konnecke
I have a mint condition linux distro in my download folder
- Brian Ginn
Just give them Bill in a Box! About as welcome ;-)
- Tim
i would love to have that
- nick
Nice...But it's actually v1.01, 1.03 or 1.04. You can get up to $600 for it on eBay.
- zxspectrum
I've got Lincoln pennies in the attic. Wouldn't trade
- heretic_twit
That makes me misty eyed, and a little sad. My father ditched all my manuals and magazines from 1978 onwards after I left the house. I had two years of Australian Personal Computer from the very first edition from 1980. They would have been fantastic to scan and post. The hours I spent imagining what that 5 1/4 inch floppy would do for me, if only I had the money. Computing today just doesn't have the mystery and magic that it had back then.
- Paul Greeve
Wow. You should so be a curator.
- Zachary TG
A wise friend once said, "The purpose of life is to have fun. That is my fundamental belief." Who agrees with her?
Kol Tregaskes, George Hall (Australia), Christian (Simply X) and 13 other people liked this
I suspect it is to learn.
- Cristo
Almost. I believe it is to have joy. I think there is a difference.
- Josh Haley
I do not agree with her. The friend may have been wise, but putting one's pleasure first is not wise.
- ComicList
To grow - whether by fun or not-so-fun.
- Kevin Johnson
Agreed. Though sometimes I find it hard to have fun, so I'm always striving for it.
- Charlotte M
Really a "wise" friend said that? Maybe when you were 12.
- Jude
We'd all be dead if we lived by that.
- Christian Collins
I agree with your wise friend, The purpose of life is to have fun.
- Tweet Feeds
So, if you're bored, kill yourself! Because life is pointless.
- Alex Scrivener
I only have one word for you; Plastics.
- Joe Pierce
I just said sumthin like that the other day - a wise man once told me to "live a memorable life" - and this fits. Fun is memorable. Also, the Hindu concept of Lila backs your friend's philosophy up.
- Anthony Citrano
@Chris - yep, but you learn the most when you're enjoying yourself, I think.
- Anthony Citrano
I agree that it's hedonistic. My fundamental belief is to leave the world a better place for having you. Give back more than you take if possible.
- Mo Kargas
Your friend is indeed wise, if you're not having fun in whatever you do, what's the point?
- jcunwired
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