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Chris Prakoso, Michael Kacer, Müjdat Korkmaz and 17 other people liked this
lol
- Zafarali
though the text font size could be a point or two larger
- Rich Reader
Maryam, my wife, on Plurk: "I think it's annoying." And you all wondered why I love her? :-)
Lars G. Sehested, Joanmarie, delbo 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)?
- alireza1356
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.
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.
Is there your Plurk account?
- Igor Poltavskiy
yeah, i'm at http://www.plurk.com/user...
- Zee.
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
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
from Alert Thingy
@ChaChaFance read up...
- Zee.
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.
The new FriendFeed office
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Nimaa, Nick Mutton, John Lam and 146 other people liked this
Sure, go ahead. Make us all jealous.
- Louis Gray
people no longer sit directly across from each other?
- Zach Landes
Nice to see pool table maintained the box logo theme from yesterday :D
- Mark Forman
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
from twhirl
what, no foosball?
- Jeremy Toeman
i want air hockey! can anyone second this? Still, without walls it's gotta get pretty loud. No privacy...
- Jacob Nahin
Jim, does this one have a massage room?
- Anne Bouey
When will you be hosting "Early Adopter Weekend?" ;-)
- Noah Carter
به این میگن آفیس2!!!
- Business Blogger 【ツ】™
and that's office 2.0!!!
- Business Blogger 【ツ】™
ok Air hockey with the Robotic arm :)-
- Peter Dawson
Drool
- Benjamin Golub
Sweet, very sweet. Pool is great, but I like office table tennis better.
- Phil Glockner
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! :)
- TommasoSorchiotti
from 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'.
- MLx
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 C
What monitors do you guys use?
- Bartek Ciszkowski
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
Your opinion sought: now that everyone has APIs and platforms, what's next? smart, quick replies to be quoted
timepilot, Devin Anderson, Chris Prakoso 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
"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
smart clouds
- Steven Hatch
Better platforms like friendfeed, to make sense of all the information and noise from your social networks
- Abhishek
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 Subramanian
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 Riker
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
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