I know.... Was just kidding. I'm going over to your place to post something. You're not gonna believe it. - Charlie Anzman

Now see, I was going to say that the guy with the accent was Hodson. He's Canadian, for Pete's sake! They ALL have accents. Duncan was totally understandable. ;) - Cyndy

Also... wait a second... people think I don't laugh??? I laugh all the time. - Cyndy

I'd love to listen to this, but there's no link to the episode, or rss feed for the podcast shown, or anything?! - Matt Harwood

Matt: http://www.profy.com/2008/07/0... - Mark Trapp

Sorry, Matt... should have thought of that. It's embedded on the Profy post. I'll send the embed code to Hodson and Duncan... just assumed they could grab it as well from the site. - Cyndy

Many thanks, Mark! No feed for easy iPod'in, though? ;-) - Matt Harwood

No problem, Cyndy ;-) I just seem very grouchy on Saturday mornings! Will listen now, especially looking forward to the "laughing" !! - Matt Harwood

Link to the show directly is right here for those who want iTunes subscription, RSS, etc.: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/221... - Cyndy

Thanks, Cyndy! Listening now - great discussion :-) - Matt Harwood

Steven, I think somehow your site lost a bunch of recent updates? - J. Phil

steven what's up with the blog the latest post is June 19th, I love your blog man get it back would ya :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

You're right, Rochelle! - Joshua M. Neff

Maybe she's going to be Lisa Loeb, Librarian someday - Kaia

Lisa Loeb is also a knitter, so I guess she's somewhat compatible with librarianship. - Julian

I just sent her a Twitter DM suggesting FriendFeed as a cool way for her to promote her music. - Joshua M. Neff

One of my favorite tweets from her so far... http://twitter.com/lisaloeb4re... - Anna Creech

That tweet would be great for the Public Perception section of American Libraries. - Julian

Wow, it's cool that she's on Twitter. :) - Laura Harris

Agreed. Great PR tool for libs..."You say..." - Steven M. Cohen

lisa lobe is awesome - Stefan Hayden

lisa loeb is a knitter? cool! now i must follow her ;) - Katie

One hit wonder... - Wilma Stoneflint

That's one more hit than I've had. How many hits have you had, Wilma? - Joshua M. Neff

Wilma - Define "hit". The Grateful Dead had one number #1 song and they are the most influential band of all time, IMO. - Steven M. Cohen

And she can knit! I can't sing or knit. - rochelle hartman

None, but I once sat next to Kim Deal on an airplane. - Wilma Stoneflint

I love one hit wonders! Many examples of great 1HWs. Comprise 30% of my ipod. - Wilma Stoneflint

Well, Kim's a big deal! (Har har har.) - Joshua M. Neff

But she's still a one hit wonder... - Wilma Stoneflint

One hit wonders are half of my collection. They tend to be artists/bands with substance greater than the crap that top 40 radio listeners prefer. They also tend to be folks that are popular for their music, not for their tabloid features. - Anna Creech

A good portion of my music collection are bands that never had one single hit. - Joshua M. Neff

And, in this case, Lisa Loeb has had a few more "hits" than just one song. http://twurl.nl/opfit6 - Anna Creech

I liked the show! All of you guys have great video presence, IMO. - J. Phil

Sounds Kick Ass! - Britney Mason

Thanks, J.Phil and Britney Mason! - John McCrea

John: would love to! - Robert Scoble

Robert: Sweet! How about July 17 (when we shoot Episode 2)? (11:00am, Mountain View) - John McCrea

Sounds good, send me details in email. scobleizer@gmail.com to get it on my calendar. - Robert Scoble

Tad: join our sect. I'll be your guru there! :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da... - directeur via NoiseRiver

Go go social graph. - Eric Florenzano

Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time? - Rahsheen Porter

I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc - Tad Donaghe

I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network. - Rahsheen Porter

I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected - Scott Bannon via twhirl

actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically... - edythe

Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they? - Ryan Sit

i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself. - Jason Toney

it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :) - Larry via twhirl

I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one! - Stefan Hayden

I still think this is like asking GM to make your key fit in a Toyota, cause you only want to carry one key. Most of these services are competitors. No (successful) business makes it easier for you to move to a competitor. - Brian Norwood

Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users. - Tad Donaghe

Tad, I don't dispute the truth of your statement, or deny I suffer from sign-up fatigued as well. I'm just saying it doesn't fit any business model I've ever seen to help you easily move to a competitor. What we need is a third party service who keeps track of our info and our friends, then custom shoe horns that stuff into each new service that pops up. THAT would be handy. Open ID is too passive. What we need is a sign up SERVICE. - Brian Norwood

would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time. - Thomas Hawk

Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr - Tad Donaghe

I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new service with your OpenID that service could automagically grab everything for you in the background. I'm not pushing for OpenID as the answer, just saying that's one possibility that wouldn't be overwhelming to achieve. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

I was really impressed with how well swurl worked. - Jason Wehmhoener

concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment - mike "glemak" dunn

I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network. - Amit Patel

Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example? - J. Phil

Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere. - Scott Bannon via twhirl

Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary. - J. Phil

I refresh often too - Judy Jones

F5 = crack - Hutch Carpenter

Welcome to da club? - Yuvi

"F5" LOL - Paul L. McCord Jr.

I find FF more interesting as well. - Globecode

I resent the implication that ever-refreshing FriendFeed is not constructive! - Marco

lol@Hutch Indeed - Shey

It's gotten so bad that I have to regulate myself. I use a plug-in for FireFox called Leechblock that you can use to limit your time during the work day.: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Dan Kaplan

huh? F5 just blips my Mac's little sound level at me. - Thomas Hawk

@Thomas F5 = Command + R on a PC. Refresh. - Parth Awasthi

Yes, FF is the new internet addiction. F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 F5... - Tad Donaghe

The only way to solve this problem is for you people to post quicker ;) - Earl E Morningwood

Use LeechBlock, limit yourself to 5 minutes an hour, you won't be sorry. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... - Jason Wehmhoener

@Jason you essentially just told Amy Winehouse she should check herself into rehab - how likely do you think we are to match your show of discipline? lol ; ) - Marco

At some point we just need FF to auto-refresh every second and include a pause button so we can stop the action to read stuff that catches our eyes. That would be pretty freaky, huh? - Tad Donaghe

it has been eating into my reading and sleeping time - RAPatton

What? Reading Friendfeed isn't constructive or creative? - Tom Landini

like right now, for example - Sarah Perez

Sometimes I interrupt what I'm doing (re-reading the manual for Twilight Struggle) just to check for new FriendFeed action. Totally addicted. - Akiva Moskovitz

I do that too. But now we're going to see the Incredible Hulk. - Robert Scoble

F5=Crack. Crack is Whack. Flickr = Crack. FF is the new Flickr. - Russellreno

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O... It helps if you don't notice the walls of the maze aren't very high and there are these people looking down on you. - Karim

RusselReno, I had to double-check to make sure that you weren't Steve Gillmor - Todd McKinney

@Todd rofl - Michael W. May via twhirl

+1 rofl for Todd. And good one Russell. - Hutch Carpenter

and sometimes you just can't help a 'likey' even thought you didn't click ... right? :) - Charlie Anzman

a bigger screen real estate could mitigate this problem - Ramesh Ramloll via twhirl

Yeah it's addictive :) - JegerPhil - Phil via NoiseRiver

Wait that's not normal??? - Mona N

FrF cries for TTS ;) - silpol

time consumption is simply the manual behavior. Get an auto refresher and save a micro second. ;) then again, if you want to remain aware, you have to read everything! - thecolor

They should call it Ishmael. - Jay Tannenbaum

Jennifer : I'd hazard a guess that the (misguided) male instinct to "kill" or "overpower" has a lot to do with it. I've not met a businesswoman that has ever said the word killer... but maybe I'm wrong. - Matt Harwood

Because someone needs to put Twitter out of its misery ? - Michael C. Harris

think you might be missing the joke - Christian Anderson

Jeez, Louise. Whadya say we wait and see if it can operate for 24 hrs without going down now that there's some real load on it or see if it can provide Jabber support for more than a week first (unlike Plurk). BTW, I can't get it to send me a Gtalk conf code. - Ken Sheppardson

We're on a whale hunt, Jennifer. A fail whale hunt. - Kambiz Kamrani

Christian - I got the joke. I'm just sensitive to the word "killer" since everything is called a killer these days. It's losing its meaning. Like "market leading" and "best in class." ;-) - Jennifer Leggio

Jennifer, the biggest point: as much as Indenti.ca isn't brilliant, it just changed the rules. Open source code, anyone can host, cross communications. Even if it fails, it just gave the world decentrazlied microblogging, and once enough ppl on enough services (note multiple) are tied into this, Twitter is dead. Indenti.ca won't do it alone...but it doesn't have to, it's the start of something bigger. Identi.ca is the freedom seed - Duncan Riley

maybe... as long as it doesn't look retarded or crash I'm interested, just kidding! - Susan Beebe

It can only be a killer if it proactively leverages it's synergies with market leading solutions. - Andrew Smith

Susan, the best thing: if it does crash, you find someone else running it :-) I'm betting (presuming the code is usable) that we'll see another compatible provider in a week (I'm also betting Dave Winer is already testing the code), and possibly 4-5 within a month. Every single host is a cut to Twitter. - Duncan Riley

Thanks for the link love Duncan. I agree totally. It's hard not to get excited about an open sourced, decentralized microblogging platform. I'll be watching this one very closely. - Bwana McCall

Duncan - Makes total sense, thank you. - Jennifer Leggio

Andrew - I needed that laugh. ;) - Jennifer Leggio

Identi.ca you have 15 seconds to cat herd all these geeks and make them of one satisfied mine...kthxbai! - Mark Forman

Duncan, does decentralized and open source microblogging mean i can theoretically have a version for my own online community? sorry, not a techie so trying to guess that's what you mean. - Christine Lu via twhirl

I think open source is significant here. There's been a lot of commentary from geeks about how to make Twitter better, and I think a lot of people will take a look. I'll certainly download the code and play around. The big thing though, iiuc, will be that services can talk to each other, and that you can simply change provider, keeping your friends, if yours starts to suck. We can all change to Jaiku but we lose our follow{ee,er}s. - Michael C. Harris

By looking at the source code it seems that it is DB driven. The same mistake that got Twitter in to the mess that it's in. - Gersham Meharg