Friendfeed profiles need to have personal custom background image option like a Twitter profile. Not just because it's more personal, but because custom backgrounds actually help remind me the paths I've taken in reading different feeds and a constant reminder of the feed you're on. From a usability standpoint this would benefit their product.
only if Apple manages to magically make the batteries last longer...
- Frederic
iPhone won't kill anything - far too small a share of the market. There's been real radio in phones for years and it hasn't got rid of home radio sets...
- Bill Thompson
from twhirl
I'm happy I found this post for a number of reasons. First of all, on of my staff blogged about it on our internal blog for information sharing on social media and other user experience topics. Secondly, it's making my team think more about the power of the web and the community. Not to mention I have found your blog and friendfeed which has already led me to some great content. Thank you, and thanks for the inspiration.
- Marilyn Clark
Thank you Marilyn, I'm truly happy to hear you like the things I write ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Hehe, I was calling it the fail whale yesterday. Didn't know the twitter dudes actually called it that :O *sigh* Wish I was original :D
- Mo Kargas
Twitter should have a "Downtime Art Contest" kind of like Threadless. Every time they go down, users that aren't twittering should draw what they think should be the "Twitter is down" picture and post it on Flickr. Everyone can vote on the favorite and Twitter could use it the next time they go down. It would be win-win. Twitter users would be kept busy and would just move the community over to Flickr for a period of time. Twitter builds good will by using the picture and they don't lose users to FF.
- Cathleen Rittereiser
Soldier A: It could grip it by the tail! Soldier B: It's not a question of where he grips it, it's a simple question of weight ratios. A five ounce bird could not carry a 100-ton whale. A: Wait a minute, supposing eight swallows carried it together? B: No, they'd have to have it in a net. A: Well, simple! They'd just hold it in their beaks. B: What, held under the maxilla, below the nares? A: Well, why not...? [King Arthur rides off]
- Karim
That's one of my favorite bumper stickers. For those who don't know, http://127.0.0.1 will take you to your home machine (er, local machine). If you have a Web server running on your laptop, for instance, it'll get that server to show you something. So, there's no place like "home."
- Robert Scoble