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Robert Scoble posted a message

“Maryam, my wife, on Plurk: "I think it's annoying." And you all wondered why I love her? :-)”

July 3 at 11:55 pm - Link

Lars G. Sehested, Joanmarie, Marcello Del Bono, Luca Conti and 14 other people liked this

Although she does still use Windows Live Spaces for her blogging service. That's more annoying than Plurk is, so maybe her judgment isn't all that great. - Robert Scoble

Very cute! - Mitchell Tsai

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What, no karma love for her? Me neither. - Hutch Carpenter

all things excessively cute are annoying. one must push past the annoyance, and come to embrace the cuteness, in the ironic hipster sense. "why YES please give me more of these animated GIF emoticons designed in 1997, thank you..." - Karim

i am talking myself out of plurk, even as i wrote that... :-P on the other hand, would it kill FriendFeed to throw in some animated GIFs? *WINK* - Karim

I dont know what a lot of you have got against plurk. Its a superb conversation platform, similar to digg in the sense that you can easily have multiple conversations at the same time....plus, its reliable, always active & visually customizable. The timeline system actually works really well and people are generally awesome in their thoughts & sharing. If there's any down sides; a) the odd emoticon can get annoying and b) it is very very addictive. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Zee: I'm very certain what you say is true. I just don't like the design of it. But, then, I don't like MySpace either, and look at how well that's done. - Robert Scoble

Zee - the karma thing is a turnoff. It seems to make plurking some sort of competition. - Hutch Carpenter

lol, woah! you cant compare plurk's design to myspace!?! :) Of course the fact that you don't like the design is your call, but the attention to detail in plurks is like a work of art in comparison to the devils playground. I love clean & simple as much as the next person - and absolutely ADORE friendfeed...but Plurk really has got a lot going for it & frankly it may be one of the few startups to succeed without your help! :) - Zee at WeDoCreative

Zee: oh, I am helping it. Just this note here is helping it. Out of the thousands of things I've gotten press releases for, how many do I mention either pro or con? Very few. The things that I've been very anti have done just fine. MSN Spaces, for instance. Amazon Kindle, for instance. And this. - Robert Scoble

Zee, you're right. I like the embedded videos and pictures in addition to the conversation threads; the mobile Plurk UI is very nice and they certainly seem to have more uptime than Twitter. I am a little burnt out on trying to increase my karma, though. The care-and-feeding tamagotchi aspect suddenly became annoying. - Karim

ok, now i should be charging Plurk for my PR services. But i'll tell you how i feel about the Karma @Hutch. It really, genuinely helped with getting people to try out the service. Yes, the idea is to motivate you to use the service - however, it cleverly made you get your friends on there, make friends, plurk & respond...and in doing so - the addiction kicks in. And frankly, nearly everyone of these services twitter, friendfeed and the rest of them have a fair bit of competitiveness involved... - Zee at WeDoCreative

I like a Man who love his wife :D - atalmatal

Scoble, yeah ur right. In that respect you are, but i guess what i mean is - the community within Plurk is really holding up without the "super-heavyweights" of social media, you included. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Thanks Zee. Twitter has some of that competitiveness in that you can see the number of subscribers. FriendFeed really doesn't. Can you find out how many subscribers I have? No, because the FriendFeed guys have hidden that from public view. And there's no other reputational score you'll find for me here. Hopefully you'll enjoy my comments, likes and content. That's good enough. - Hutch Carpenter

Zee: really? Funny. It was Leo Laporte who kicked Plurk off. If he hadn't have talked about it, I would probably never have heard about it (and most of the people I see on Plurk landed there because of him). - Robert Scoble

What do you think about utterz ( http://www.utterz.com/home)? - alireza

Karim, with regards to improving Karma - i reckon screw it. I mean they dont chuck you off the site for not improving on your Karma but it just helps with customizing the look of your plurk page more than anything else. In fact, there are a heap of people on there who couldnt give two plurks about their karma...and just use the site for the same reasons people use twitter. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Utterz needs a new name - Grant

Scoble, agreed, Leo brought in a heap of people as he always does. And really its going to be difficult for me to say the percentage of people on there who are on there because of him. But, it takes more than just the 1st introduction to keep people on there and a lot of people *are* staying on there. I'm just saying that I think it takes more than one mention from a social media heavy weight to keep a site popular - and i reckon Plurk is a good example of that. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Is there your Plurk account? - Igor Poltavskiy

yeah, i'm at http://www.plurk.com/user/zsec... - Zee at WeDoCreative

I looked at Plurk, but thought it was too complicated. Friendfeed on the other hand seems to be getting things right... I *sort* of treat Friendfeed like browsing a newspaper. - Jonathan Beckett

I really like plurk too- it's simple, quick, easy, the commenting WORKS and... well it's something actually kinda new. it's almost like having several IRC channels going at once... - Snipergirl

plurk is good at the start but once you get tired of the interface, it is annoying. Was there before -- pulled by Leo Laporte but dumped it after a few days. - Rom Feria

Love it. But, I like having conversations. - Arron Washington

I found out about Plurk through Leo. I find Plurk to be a great tool for conversations, similar to FriendFeed. The interface definitely had to grow on me and I find the mobile version to be a great start. - Elmer Thomas

I also like Plurk (sometimes better then Twitter). Apart from the 'seem to be cluttered' interface and the 'not so loveable' Karma system, it's actually quite good for having conversation, good conversation, not a chat around the drink machine. Somebody pointed out about the fact that Twitter is about User, but Plurk is about conversation, and I agree with this. - Chris Prakoso

Don't like Plurk & wondering why everyone else does.......... - ChaCha Fance via Alert Thingy

@ChaChaFance read up... - Zee at WeDoCreative

To those of you who are wondering why there are all sorts of Plurk advocates here, Zee went over to Plurk and pointed them here. Personally I like FriendFeed's conversation, UI, and feature set a LOT more (wait until they discover the search engine here that indexes IN REAL TIME). - Robert Scoble

Search engine is not-quite real-time. Usually 5 min delay. Sometimes 30-90 min, and occasionally craps out for 4-24 hrs. (Big Plus: Doesn't crash anymore for funky characters like "?" which are Unix wildcards.) - Mitchell Tsai

Lol, don't make it sound like its a sinister thing to do. I just want to show people that there are people out there who love plurk. And also, since when are we comparing friendfeed & Plurk? I LOVE friendfeed and LOVE plurk. Oh and here's the link to the plurk if anyone fancies a read: http://www.plurk.com/p/10hhb - Zee at WeDoCreative

Bret Taylor posted a message

“The new FriendFeed office”

June 24 at 6:02 pm - Link

Nick Mutton, John Lam, Sherif Mansour, "Czar" DJ Peterman and 157 other people liked this

Sure, go ahead. Make us all jealous. - Louis Gray

people no longer sit directly across from each other? - Zach Landes

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Nice to see pool table maintained the box logo theme from yesterday :D - Mark Forman

Hot dog you guys are doing this the right way! - Tsega Dinka

Room to grow...nice. Congrats on the move, and good luck over there! - Jim Stanger

What is the square footage? - Caleb Elston

Where's my desk? ;) - xero

xero... Didn't you see it stacked against the far wall? It's the one right under the 63 other empty desks... - Ross Miller

Ok, I'm jalous. Now what? :) - directeur

way to go guys, onwards and upwards! good luck! you haven't worked at a real startup unless there is a foozball table or a pool table. looks like you are legit :) - Ivan Stegic

a malmo chair from ikea! the very same colour as mine! - Giovanni De Stefano

I like that office, I wish mine was that nice!! - Paul

I want a job ;-0~ - Chris Spencer

It seems you bought more tables and chairs to hire more hackers. I like how open your office is. - seman

We actually didn't buy any tables or chairs - they were left here by the last company. We have a table/chair graveyard in the back as a consequence :) - Bret Taylor

It looks exactly the same as the old office... - Jini

Niiice.. - Leandro Ardissone

Spacious and Neat.. I like! - Winston Teo

hey where's the ping pong table? - i like the *blue* pool table, matches blue FF logo colors! - Susan Beebe

Are you looking for a 44 year-old telecommuting intern by any chance? - Noah Carter

nice - Joshua Smith via twhirl

you know I was kinda expecting the dilbert like cubicles.... - BCK

what, no foosball? - Jeremy Toeman

wow!!! Nice! :) - امین

i want air hockey! can anyone second this? Still, without walls it's gotta get pretty loud. No privacy... - Simon

Jim, does this one have a massage room? - Anne Bouey

When will you be hosting "Early Adopter Weekend?" ;-) - Noah Carter

به این میگن آفیس2!!! - Farzad َZamani

and that's office 2.0!!! - Farzad َZamani

ok Air hockey with the Robotic arm :)- - Peter Dawson

Drool - Benjamin Golub

I spot a gnome desktop in the first picture. As I write this in twhirl on Adobe Air for Linux Alpha. - seanb via twhirl

Sweet, very sweet. Pool is great, but I like office table tennis better. - Phil (scribkin)

pretty nice digs, much nicer than any where I have worked - Rajiv Doshi

blue felt. Oh man. That is so the way to go. Nice! - felix

Very nice! :) - Tommaso Sorchiotti via twhirl

pretty nice... - Sarath

The red chair is still my favorite, but it looks like I have more seats to try out. - Amit Patel

On first thought - great Place! I like the open air about it... but on second thought I don't think I can work in such an open space. I just need my personal space. - Parth Awasthi

Open enough, I like it ;) - Chris Qie

Good Luck in the new space! - Charlie Anzman

no way! cool. - john conroy

Where's the beer fridge? - Joe Dawson

Well done. Drywall is so passe'. - Marianne Lenox

Looks like a University College Student Union Building.... - David W

It's only the start for this great company!! - Alex Hammer

Looks like your short a few balls. - Steve Craft

What monitors do you guys use? - Bartek Gniado

sweet, but I'd put those pool cues in a cue holder or they will bend stored leaning against a wall...causing bad shots. also sunlight on pool table will cause fading, but you probably will just get a new table eventually w/ all the success! :) - Pokai

sacrilege to say I think it looks pretty ugly? - Adam

Where is Yodo? - Sudha Jamthe

michael arrington posted an entry on TechCrunch

Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos

June 12 at 8:57 pm - Link

Jonathan Kemp, Joe Mac Stevens, Ben Vaughan, Cathryn Hrudicka and 2 other people liked this

What's the second step? - l0ckergn0me

Third step - Profit! - Bwana McCall

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Really, even with the Redesign...I have no intent of going back...this undeserved hatred of MySpace where does it come from....oh that's right teenie-boppers - Snay Trivedi

Second step: get rid of most of the current users. - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

I really don't understand - I know very few people using Myspace even on a weekly basis. Is it because I attended a private university? - Zach Landes via twhirl

I have a myspace account only because it is the network of choice atm for musicians and to keep up on them - Michael W. May via twhirl

@Zachary - like Francine said, there are a TON of people on Myspace, but nobody *I* would want to be friends with - Pat Hawks

I HAVE A MYSPACE PAGE! http://myspace.com/lockergnome - CAN YOU PLEASE ADD ME AS YOUR FRIEND? - l0ckergn0me

Second Step should be require all pages to not look like terrible mid 90s sites full on animated gifs and backgrounds that make text unbearable to read. Thats why I stick the hell away from myspace - BCK

I'm not sure you can ever improve on rubbish - McFrugal

maybe they should just push the reset button and start over again.... - Dieter Schwarz

And what about those Automatic-Playing-Song thing, can we ban this too, please ... - Chris Prakoso via twhirl

Take away the ability for users to customize their CSS. It may enhance things for the user, but not for anyone else. In Firefox View>Page Style>No Style if you MUST visit a page. - Vince DeGeorge

i just don't understand it; why do you care? it seems like folks are having a great time. why mess with it? - Phil Wolff via Alert Thingy

its about time - Joe Mac Stevens

Chris Prakoso posted a link

Using Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer (version: 0.0.4)

May 21 at 1:30 am - Link

Akhmad Fathonih liked this

Twitter to Friend Feed Contact Importer finds all of your Tweeps on Friend Feed and automatically subscribes them. - Chris Prakoso

hm it hangs up win xp x64 - SteJules via twhirl

uit a try next time - SteJules via twhirl

I will not spam but I will give it try next time again - SteJules via twhirl

bah, an exe'd ruby script? why not providing raw script :( - Akhmad Fathonih

it shutdown after a while after barrackobama heh, win XP x64 system. In the command line is shown the the directory at my desktop the folder line and then is it shuts down - SteJules via twhirl

Marshall Kirkpatrick posted a message on Twitter

“Your opinion sought: now that everyone has APIs and platforms, what's next? smart, quick replies to be quoted”

April 22 at 4:37 pm - Link

timepilot, Devin Anderson, Chris Prakoso, Nils Hitze and 9 other people liked this

Making APIs and platforms useful to the non "tech elite". Long way to go with that. - JonathanJoseph

filtering out duplicate information across APIs (twhirl just asked me this question twice - in friend feed and twitter) ...via twhirl - Sarah Davies

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"Smart" social stream readers - filtering the information as it comes in, grouping of similar items (and/or elimination of dupes), tracking discussions, items from one's most interesting friends would carry more weight, filter by groups/services/time frames, meme tracking based on your own social stream, more efficient display of the flow - highlight quality comments from your interesting friends, pay less attention to tweets with no links embedded, etc. - Aviv

API standards, like OpenSocial and the forthcoming DataPortability. - Mike Reynolds

Mega-apps!! :-) - Dave Winer

Better filtering mechanisms to reduce noise and prioritize content. I wrote about this the other day http://twurl.nl/n260oi - Mark Krynsky

I vote more filters and search. In a sense, what Google did with the web as a whole. An algorithm (like page rank) to prioritize all this data. - Jason Kaneshiro

smart clouds - Steven Hatch

content security, social geo tracking, and automatic trackbacking ...via AlertThingy - Cesar H Castro Jr

Better platforms like friendfeed, to make sense of all the information and noise from your social networks - Abhishek Nayak

ownership: making the information I store and share in "their" services, really mine. I want everything living in my domain (let's redefine this). - Panayotis Vryonis

A global dashboard where I will be able to drag and drop services and arrange it like how we arrange icons in the desktop. Using something like Intel's mashup maker, I should be able to create a mashup from any website and drag and drop the service to my global dashboard. This will make Sun's vision of 'network is the computer' a reality for even mom and pop users. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

New abstractions: none of the lifestream tools actually look or feel like _streams_. They're just lists. - Adewale Oshineye

Finally coming back to what usenet and irc already had - intelligent filter and scoring mechanisms?! Allowing me to use tools and services to serve my needs and not have me work the way the dev. of an apps sees fit? I am constantly annoyed on how services neglect to do research in the not so far history and then complain that they get flack for not having certain things. 20 years ago it was fine when you did not have an airbag, today to come out with a modell without is just plain stupid. - Nicole Simon

Just to put things in perspective: I had a person and keyword based scoring mechanism in my newsreader over a decade ago. Including rating down and up, including having a way to search through articles and mark them read once I was through that, only display new stuff, or stuff in context etc etc. I want that back. - Nicole Simon

Oh and you should take a look at http://ffapps.com/ - the scripts there are far more important than any api can be at the moment. Because they care about what the User wants. - Nicole Simon

Nicole, LOL. I love the airbag analogy. - Ginger Makela

small pieces loosely joined by a mesh, and not just Microsoft's ...via AlertThingy - dan farber

new apps that use these APIs as the basic framework, like http://urbantakeover.at/ or http://www.fireballapp.com/ -- the most important APIs will be the very basic things, like Twitter (and hopefully competing projects, soon) for communication or Fire Eagle for location. - sebmos

Chris Prakoso commented on a story on Digg

Sneak Peak at Verizons IPOD Phone - "Chocolate"

June 27, 2006 at 4:30 am - Link

"We have similar mobile already out for a few months here in the UK. Check it in www.carphonewarehouse.co.uk" - Chris Prakoso

Chris Prakoso commented on a story on Digg

Indonesia Lost World With PICS!!!

February 8, 2006 at 7:53 am - Link

"Just to clarify, the Island of Papua is divided by two; the East side belongs to Papua New Guinea, and the West side is part of Indonesia. The official name for that West side is 'Irian Jaya', and it's one of our Province." - Chris Prakoso

Chris Prakoso commented on a story on Digg

Sony Thwarted Again - PSP 2.60 Hacked - First Homebrew Emerges!

January 12, 2006 at 3:22 am - Link

"Excellent !" - Chris Prakoso