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New Discussion on Day 2: Session Recording:
Recording from today's session is avai.. http://learntrends.ning.com/forum...
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via @Quinnovator: reflecting on Tony's session: not just tools, but *using them appropriately* #learntrends
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Chat from Tony's Session on Work Literacy - http://learntrends.ning.com/xn...
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Google's Chrome excitement is limited to the technosphere because we're the only people that get excited off of screenshots.
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David I meant that to be a reply to one of your tweets.
- Corvida
My film got picked for best of Cincinnati screening @ 48HR. SO excited. Pretty sure it's for Terry and best actor. He's awesome.
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YAY!! I think Kevin's will be screened too. Isn't that next Saturday afternoon?
- Michelle Lentz
so i just ordered a glass of zinfandel and a rose showed up... i sent it back for a propper zin...
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I always laugh when I order a zin and the server says "It's a red one, is that okay?"
- Michelle Lentz
failPhone on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Amen to that!
- Steve Rubel
from Bookmarklet
my post coming soon...
- MG Siegler
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- l0ckergn0me
lemmings. sheep. fail.
- Andrea Baker
Hooray!
- Maryam Ardakani
Let me just say it again: I am so, so glad I didn't wait in line.
- Akiva Moskovitz
ROFLMAO
- Rob Witte
from Alert Thingy
Great !
- Amir Homaiy
LOVE IT!
- George Smith
Awesome!
- Internet's Tad
Don't have a Jesus (or Mary) phone yet, so I can't judge. I would like to be able to judge, though!
- Alex von Halem
from twhirl
my interpretation: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Holger Eilhard
awesome!
- andy brudtkuhl
lets hope the failphone stays failing for a few more hours - my iphone error page is doing quite nicely in pv :)
- Allen Stern
great picture!
- Corey Hammond
My RogersBlackberry is humming along fine
- johnpiercy
from twhirl
My RogersBlackberry is humming along fine too ;-)
- AJ Batac
My updated iPhone (old school) is humming along just fine (I updated it yesterday and had no problems).
- Jennifer Dittrich
Right...but its Rogers...and its Blackberry. See?
- Kamath (नमः)
hey steve if your phone is down, i can let you borrow my samsung ace - it works great, super fast speeds, and an awesome opera mobile browser :)
- Allen Stern
Hang out for a while. It finally comes on. I was down for 3 hours trying to update this AM, though
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
I am a committed late adopter to expensive change... vote McCain
- Noah David Simon
Brilliant!
- Sarah Crisman
from NoiseRiver
Wow. First time I've seen an item with triple digit likes.
- Mark Krynsky
me thinks it will go higher by days end ,, as the problems continue , flickr exposure + friendfeed = TRAFFIC ( Viewed 2,049 times ) on flickr
- johnpiercy
beauty! i had a 1.0 brick all day
- Bob DeAmbra
from twhirl
i think this is one of the most liked posts on FF
- Susan Beebe
love it!!
- Drew B
New policy -- when I want to post a link and Twitter is down, I'll post it on FF instead.
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I have been using FF more and twitter less and I am liking it more
- Dave Gray
cool... i've got FF set as my start page right now
- Adam C.
if I could import from FF to Twittet it would be a perfect solution.
- Johnny Baker
JB, that would be easy to do.
- Dave Winer
Dave, why not skip Twitter entirely. With FriendFeed you can choose a cool graphic to go with your link. You can't do that with Twitter. Really FF is a superior platform.
- Thomas Hawk
I actually prefer to post links on Friendfeed. On Friendfeed, I don't have to use a URL shortener.
- Morton Fox
jump to the end: post to FF first. these days it seems you'd be right more often than you are not...
- Russell Holliman
Thomas it's the people. There are a lot of people who use Twitter who don't use FF. It's only geeks here near as I can tell. I don't think the people here are all that interested in some of the things I'm interested in. And there are a lot more idiot Republicans here. I like intelligent people and there aren't too many smart folk who are willing to admit to being Republican these days. So you're pretty much left with the slimedogs. Present company excepted of course. :-)
- Dave Winer
I'd go FF first. Most conversations of value based on the link will happen here anyway.
- Duncan Riley
I'm using FF differently than Twitter. I follow many fewer here and am being followed by many fewer. I like the intimacy, talking mostly with people I actually know in most cases. At Twitter I have many followers and use it to get more viewership of a new blog post.
- shelisrael1
You can always post on twitter first, and import it in ff.
- Jacob
why would you want to post to twitter directly?
- Sean Savage
Duncan and Thomas have it right. You always have the option of using Twitter but participating in Friendfeed returns more. I use both as many do (but hide and just occasionally look at the Twitter posts to avoid overload). It's getting better each week. Simply a matter of how YOU choose to set it up.
- Charlie Anzman
I have advanced degrees and an IQ of 135; I've been a highly successful educator at both the secondary and collegiate levels. But because I identify with the Republican party, I'm an idiot according to Dave Winer.
- Gregory Pittman
from fftogo
Gregory... That extra 4 points I have on you in the IQ stakes must be the part that accounts for sarcasm, humor and the ability to know that generalisations are rarely accurate...
- Johnny Worthington
@John - or the part that does reading comprehension, since Gregory obviously failed to parse "a lot more", "not too many", and "pretty much".
- Jeremy Raines
watch out, this policy made me fell in-love with FriendFeed...
- Orli Yakuel
Enjoy! Some Hebrew Love. http://tinyurl.com/6jwkf6
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Cool. That way Twitter can stay up. ;-)
- Vic Podcaster
idiot republicans? slimedogs? Even though I'm a democrat I find broad sweeping statements like that to be problematic. I'd like to think that I'm more open minded than that. I also think that politics are not the only thing to talk about in the world and think that gauging someone's intelligence or the value of their conversation by their political party affiliation is, well, pretty idiotic.
- Thomas Hawk
Getting back to the subject, why not start posting here first anyway?
- David Weiner
Thomas is one of an ever-decreasing number of people from all points of the political spectrum for whom disagreement on issues doesn't degrade to personal attacks. Thomas and I might disagree on what the problems are and what the solutions to those problems are, but we would be able to have a valuable conversation. I appreciate that very much.
- Gregory Pittman
I usually do it on both.
- Thejesh GN
it's funny how Americans can feel in their stomach being part of Rep or Dems, when the whole world knows deep in their stomach that there is not a glinch that diferentiate both parties a part from the color of the tie, i'm not saying we are better in Europe or elsewhere, i'm saying we're all screwed,
- Ben Borges
@Ben yeah democracy sucks that way... naturally breeds moderate points of view
- Rubin Sfadj
Good policy! I'm starting to followthat too.
- Shannon Low
from twhirl
is it still democracy ? i'v seen bush with a "christian cruz" on his back while speaking on tv, (terrorist) for me it's middle age democracy.
- Ben Borges
I am trying to do this too, but my friends aren't actively using FF yet.
- Michelle Lentz
Starting on FriendFeed today. Put me down as an AFTU (Another Frustrated Twitter User).
- Michael E. Rubin
I'm using ping.fm to do this.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
that's been my policy of late...i can't even follow ppl on twitter today
- Sarah Perez
I actually prefer to use Twitter for less important messages and FriendFeed for stuff when I want to generate conversation. The idea behind my logic is that some people, to reduce the noise, block all tweets, as they consider tweets less important. I agree with these folk, so I use Twitter for stuff that they're probably not interested in.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from NoiseRiver
AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
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That's more than the cost of Hubble data transmission.
- Mike Abundo
I didn't realize how much I missed Google Reader. Reading items there I feel a lot smarter than after just reading headlines in FriendFeed. I definitely need to rebalance my reading between the two. Anyone else feel that way?
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Love Google Reader. I end up with both news and insights that I never would have gotten anywhere else.
- BISQ
I can't seem to get away from Google Reader. There's so much interesting stuff in it that haven't been shared to Friendfeed yet. With Toluu, I'm finding more and more things that I like, and just haven't made their rounds on Friendfeed.
- Mark Trapp
Google Reader is my everyday start.
- Håkan Dahlström
I feel like if I don't listen to NPR in the monring I miss the news all together. If I just read the things i see on FF or Twitter I get a whole lot of random web news but not much whole world news.
- Whit Scott
from twhirl
I always read through Google reader before coming to FriendFeed in the morning.
- Louis Gray
Back and forth between the two.
- Andrew Smith
I read everything through Google Reader.
- Josue Sanchez
Google Reader seems to offer me more control over what I see. Also -- much more variety. FriendFeed offers a wider range of subjects. (Content developers don't need to subscribe to FriendFeed.) Plus -- anything Google I am a fan of.
- Charles Barthold
Absolutely. FriendFeed has a bit of a swiss army knife feel to it at the moment, with lots of folks trying to using it to replace a bunch of specialized tools like feed readers, forums/threaded comment systems, IM, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
FF has really cut into my feed reading time. I need to rebalance, too.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
yeah FF is just grabbing more and more of my attention
- Stefan Hayden
Exactly. Feedfeed is great catching trends but I learn more from my regular readings in Google Reader.
- Leon Ho
I used to hit FeedDemon in the morning after email, but now Snackr and Netvibes (thanks to Marshall Kirkpatrick's suggestion) let me get the quick hits and news. I glance at FriendFeed via Twhirl as it ticks by just to see what's up.
- Tris Hussey
from NoiseRiver
Yeah, but I don't necessarily agree that it is Google Reader as much as it's an RSS reader of your choice, with my choice being NetNewsWire.
- Andru Edwards
There's something about seeing the full text of an item that makes reading feeds much more satisfying (and more efficient, because here in FF I have to click on interesting headlines and wait for the item to load to read it).
- Robert Scoble
Google Reader all the way.
- Andrew Ruess
Actually, at this point I prefer SocialMedian - it gives me a fast view w/ summaries
- Lucretia Pruitt
What is it about FF that makes it addictive - that (1) people like it (2) but they still think they are using it too much? Maybe other social media startups need to figure out what the FriendFeed-juice is?
- Mitchell Tsai
The key to Google Reader is balancing volume with quality. I'd rather follow many feeds that have only a few entries per day than those that have dozens.
- Georg
I am using a mixture of FF/Google Reader and Netvibes
- Riaz Kanani
Feedly is quite nice when I can get it to work through my corp proxy.
- Greg
Yes, this is why I really like the practice of using the "Share with a note" feature in Google Reader to quote a relevant part from the original content so that it can appear as a summary comment here on FF
- Vlado Handziski
I moved all my RSS reads to Feedly. It's foundation is Google Reader, but served up in a magazine format. I can get through it in less than half the time as directly through GR.
- Bob Finch
Good lord, Robert -- I never left Google Reader. GR is vastly more efficient for processing news feeds than Friendfeed. With a few tweaks, FF could bring itself up the level of GR, but so far we haven't seen much feedback from FF developers regarding these suggestions. My lead folder in GR is a stream of pure gold with no dross or distracting trivia.
- Sean McBride
FriendFeed is more about specific people. Google Reader is more about feeds in general. We all need to balance the specific and the general.
- Mike Abundo
Would you rather have a sandwich or a snickers bar for lunch? I love the snickers bar, but most days I will definitely choose the sandwich, if I must choose.
- Phil G
I'm a netvibes man, it enables me to peruse 90+ article titles on one page/tab and I have 7 tabs. The sharing option on Google Reader makes me jealous though.
- Toby Graham
For me, FF is good for tech geek stuff, but my GReader is much more science focused so I balance the two probably more in favour of GReader atm
- Sally Church
At one time, I tried reading all my feeds through FriendFeed, but quickly returned to Google Reader...they serve different purposes.
- Chris Rossini
Feedly is quite nice
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I've never stopped reading in my RSS reader (spoonfeedr.com). FriendFeed is much more manageable there than on their website.
- Sam Pullara
I second BSCQ
- Martin Liechti
from fftogo
Starting to use Feedly rather than GReader - it's perfect, stops me reading so many articles without being boring. I looooove it!
- Rich
I find that I read articles on FF that don't show up in Google Reader and everything else in Reader.
- Roberto Bonini
Totally. Plus I have full text and robust filing systems.
- Steve Rubel
from fftogo
Pretty surprised that you even considered ditching a newsreader to begin with. Sure you're feeling ok?
- David Chartier
Google reader is my main RSS feed reader. I'm totally addicted. I just added Feedly and now I get recommeded feeds which add another dimension of social news aggregation.
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
I spend quality time in Google Reader. Try Feedly. It displays your Google subscriptions nicely.
- Michael Tefft
Feedly & FriendFeed are the ticket, gReader alone seems like a one sided conversation.
- Roger Penguino
I'm all about the netvibes: www.netvibes.com/kdoohan
- Kevin Doohan
I honestly don't know what I did before Reader. It is the best thing out there for me, for sure. Plus I can use it on my phone!
- BaltimoreGal (Ann)
I can't stand gReader's inability to start FF-style "conversations" around shared items. And I can't convince my gReader buddies to move over to FF :(
- jakebf
I've abandoned Google Reader and all RSS Readers at this point. Traditional RSS readers are dead as far as I'm concerned. Social filters are much better at delivering content than RSS readers. Every second spent in an RSS reader is a second spent away from a socially filtered news and information experience.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas Hawk: I think that you are right. This is why all RSS readers have evolved towards social filters. Let's not forget that Google Reader invented the concept of shared feeds.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
If you subscribe to the right feeds and blogs, you get a better perspective on the topics you care about. That's something that these services can quite do it as good as a feed reader.
- Jay Cruz
did You try Feedly? It works with GReader, great!
- Luca Conti
Its like reading a newspaper and talking about it. One won't replace the other, so I'm happy with the serious Google Reader _and_ the friendly cosy FF. Thanks to "best of day" I can balance the time spent with both. Not sure I want one app to rule them all :) for now, a mix of GR and FF is quite ok.
- Dani Radu
I'll have to give feedly another look, but lately I've been subscribing to my FF RSS feed in gReader, so almost best of both worlds in one
- nick carrasco
Hey now that you're reading feeds again, how about doing a shared item feed just for new tech products, or features of tech products, or reviews of tech products, even ones that aren't new. I promise I'll use the feed and give you credit of course. I'm going to ask Marshall to do one too (I bet he already does).
- Dave Winer
I jump between the two anyway, I wouldn't abandon one over the other as they both have many plus points!!
- Joe Dawson
yes, deep breath. as awesome as friendfeed is, it's not going to replace google reader, it's not going to replace twitter, it's not going to replace _______ . it makes all these services more useful, but you need a starting point. google reader is one of them.
- MG Siegler
Google reader, never leave home without it! Friendfeed is definitely not a replacement. I see feeds on my reader that don't make it to the Friendfeed universe.
- Alexander van Elsas
Although, I use GR less, I could never do away with it. FriendFeed does help a lot because I find myself marking a lot of stuff read (wish there was an easier way to do that) and being able to move on to to other content.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
None of these services are an either or thing. They joy is in how they all work together.
- m.0
I suffered your pain. Then, as some kind of experiment, I spent some time creating imaginary friends and tweeking feeds and the list of people and rooms I subscribe here. Awsome, now I cannot think about swapping FriendFeed by something else like an RSS reader. I still have to better manage my FF, specially trying to reduce the noise, but this is definitively better than the "old way"...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
I just found 44 items from you on your Google Reader shared items feed. I guess you're back. :) Google Reader allows me to more easily see things from a particular person; if I had to rely on finding them in their FriendFeeds, I'd probably miss them.
- Ontario Emperor
Here's my balance: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bwana ☠
I don't know if I feel smarter when reading google's reader, but I feel like I am smart when reading it.
- Mike
@Robert start using feedly with Firefox 3. Now that feedly has integrated Friendfeed into their plugin, I'll never leave Google Reader.
- Chris Rodgers
Robert - a combination of http://mionews.com + creating a private room with your RSS feeds in it may get you best of both worlds. Though I know you don't like that mioNews isn't a river-of-news, but we're working on that :)
- Patrick Lightbody
I feel the same and I like it even if you did not like me saying thanks to friends saying that they liked my roadmap video
- Loic Le Meur
Yes, I'm reading both. I read a lot more than I have time to share, but it helps to have both Google & FF formats available.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
I'm using both, but for different purposes. Add Feedly, which is getting some of my casual browsing.
- Chris Baskind
I agree but the issue is if I find something there and want to then ind the conversation here about that post I can not easily do so. I can post my own link but it would be nice to find the relevant posts here for any given item in my Google Reader.
- Joel Ordesky
I've been wandering away from Reader for a while. See too many headlines that don't interest me.
- shelisrael1
I've always felt that Reader did a fantastic job of presenting the content I want to read.
- Trevor Carpenter
I tried giving up reader for a day - FF just doesn't replace what an rss reader can provide
- Jesse Stay
They serve two totally different functions in my workflow. Google Reader gives me the news from the outlets I value while FriendFeed gives the news (and other stuff) of the people I value (I wouldn't consider all you internet celebs friends, sorry!). FriendFeed complements Google Reader.
- Dennis Laumen
Yes. In fact, I read my Friendfeed through GoogleReader. For me, FF is a subset of Google Reader. Just another "Outlet."
- Francine Hardaway
FF is great for finding things you may have missed in GReader, but it's no replacement.
- Sarah Perez
Adding my 2 cents to the many comments here - I read both - Google Reader is a must for me and I don't see anything replacing it. FF is the conversation for me.
- Kevin Cearns
GR is news, FF is conversation. They serve different purposes for me.
- brian junyor
from twhirl
GR is daily homework, FF is hanging around with friends
- Nikos Anagnostou
get the cream from Friendfeed and then go on with gReader
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
First of all,FriendFeed & Twitter
- Igor Poltavskiy
Friendfeed needs j + k shortcut keys like Google Reader. It'd make scanning through things much easier.
- Martin Bryant
Ever notice how new products almost never make it on TechMeme these days. They don't even appear. This is loop back to why I started blogging. The industry press was ignoring the interesting stuff and only paying attention to what the BigCos were doing. Time for a new route-around coming soon?
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FriendFeed, for now, seems to working well as long as you don't only follow the a-list.
- Ray Grieselhuber
There is a risk in Friendfeed that you will only ever see the comments of a small subset of the FF population - interspersed with the odd Friend of... who may make it "In" - Rooms has the potential to widen the gene pool but sticking to the friends tab can definitely limit the number of names you will see...
- David W
I don't feel a need to reinvent the web inside of FF. However it is part of what I do, in the same way Twitter is. I like FF better, but only marginally better. It's very far from the ideal. None of these guys have managed to combine all the elements the way plain old HTML does it so well. It's nice in some ways but a big step backward in others.
- Dave Winer
oh don't you worry the "BigCos" and slooow media will always end up being displaced; it's a law of nature, soon to be documented and displaced
- Billy Shipp
from twhirl
Yeah. It's a big old loop we're in. And watch for the moments when new products don't get any air. That means the routearound is just about to begin.
- Dave Winer
BTW its weird but Techmeme is down now. What a day!
- Dave Winer
reinventing if needed is fine but to get a new look I guess, it's like starting over again a little bit.
- Jack
Dave: I disagree to a point. If you look at Techmeme stories from my blog in May and June alone, you can see stories on Loud3r, Feedly, Disqus, Sezwho, FFToGo, and Shyftr, for example. It could be that Techmeme is accurately monitoring the most discussed blogs, and that the vast majority of these blogs are talking less about new products. Link: http://tinyurl.com/4nscbe
- Louis Gray
Dave, I don't disagree, but having said that I don't believe its Technemes fault, it is designed to follow the peak noise and ultimately thats around the big players. What we need is a techmeme like service that blocks techcrunch and any mention of a defined list of companies such as google, facebook etc so we can cut through the noise
- Duncan Riley
from fftogo
Nah, I think the blogosphere and devices like Twitter and FriendFeed show me cool things all the time. When you rely on one aggregator/editor for information... things you are interested in slip through. If you leave it up to crowdsourcing, you see what you want.
- Andrew Ruess
Louis -- that's kind of the point -- those products didn't launch well, and with no slight to you -- I haven't heard of them because I depend on TechMeme to tell me what's important in the tech world. TechMeme does what it does well, but it has some real limits and the industry has shaped around those limits, just as the industry shaped around the limits of the press in the pre-Internet era and during the browser and Java wars in the 90s.
- Dave Winer
Dave, what are you thinking about?
- feedlyqa
I think there needs to be a website where people can list the new products and services, that way its very easy to find out and support new services like SocialBrowse and A.viary that I would have never found if it wasn't for the invites friendfeed channel
- Tyler (Chacha)
Feedly, generate a daily RSS feed (archived) of the user's posts. Here's an example. http://twitter.scripting.com/daveRss...
- Dave Winer
are you thinking of a parallel twitter system based on RSS and an associated XXXmeme?
- feedlyqa
Dave, I guess the answer is on your website http://www.scripting.com/ (note: permalinks on the website seem to be broken). how do you envision people creating http://twitter.scripting.com/daveRss...? SwitchAbit? Friendfeed? (or the point is that you do not care?)
- feedlyqa
@Chacha i made a new product/software category @ http://www.socialmedian.com/ try *solacetech* as an invite code and tell me if that's what you had in mind
- Anthony Farrior
I would find it interesting to hear less breaking news and new startups. Instead more analytics on the guys that are doing it right. Why are they successful? Nine out of 10 new startups don't seem to be launching something that addresses an actual need, instead they launch a technology. We have enough technology already, so that fails. And providing us with next gen social ad business models ain't going to work either ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
I really liked Fred Wilson's suggestion to make a TechMeme that was for individual bloggers only. No branded blogs like TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat... just Scripting, AVC, Scoble, etc. This would cast a much more individual net, which I think would really increase diversity. PeopleMeme
- Jason Calacanis
Jason, a good idea:-) BTW TechMeme could be improved vastly if it could ignore 3 types of post: 1) any posts that say "Breaking News" 2) posts that copy the exact content of another post and add 1-2 lines to them (echo echo) 3) Anything, and I mean anything that discusses the performance of Twitter at this moment. Removing any of those would make TechMeme probably 100% more interesting and diverse already. Is Gabe listening? ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander, Gabe always listens. He's one of the best I've seen for monitoring his service online. He's out of town until July 8th, so may be checking things less.
- Louis Gray
Well they sound like easy fixes, so I hope he has the time to implement them. Come to think of it, it would be great if each of us can have it's own TechMeme algorithm ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
BTW Louis, it seems YOU are always listening too ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
I have been reading TechMeme less and less lately. I guess that means it's about to go mainstream! :-)
- Robert Scoble
My route-around is to read Louis Gray. That's for sure. But he'll be slowed down by two new babies. But I have a lot to say on this topic. The thing is that the early adopters are way ahead of most of the world and the rest of the world needs to catch up before we can see a ton of new stuff again that'll be successful. In the area of work, for instance, on the Office 2.0 database there are more than 800 services. How many of them have any of us tried? I bet a VERY SMALL percentage.
- Robert Scoble
Can't slow me down. My Thursday/Friday gap was as we were at the hospital, fattening up Sarah, but my bet is that's a blip. Two new services, never blogged about by anyone ever on Techmeme, hit the blog today. :-)
- Louis Gray
I have to disagree. Been seeing more new sources as relatively unknown sources appearing on Techmeme all the time (possibly not this past week?) ... but I read Louis ... and sometimes Robert too :)
- Charlie Anzman
I hope Sarah gets fat enough to release louis from fear so he can help us again :-)
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
dont forget http://emilychang.com/go/ehub ! all new products there
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from fftogo
Yep, I'm listening, and appreciate the ideas. But I'm in disagreement with many people here. I can't give alot of weight to requests for coverage of new products from people who provide coverage of new products (or the products themself). And I can't give undue weight to requests for more personal blogs from personal bloggers. These suggestions are somewhat helpful, but don't speak for...
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- Gabe Rivera
It would be interesting to see if someone were to calculate a success/fail ratio on these new products AND relate that to the amount of hype created in some breaking news blogs. I could tell you the outcome, no correlation at all. You either execute right or you don't. The power of the "Hype Blog" review isn't sustainable or accessible for users beyond the early adopters.
- Alexander van Elsas
maybe it's just me, but i think there's a "fatigue bar" that keeps going up to get people excited about new products. i think it's more interesting to talk more about things that appear to be getting some traction than any smart little thing that releases. traction > launching
- Charles Hudson
I get paid to write about start-ups, but usually it's those that raise funding, make a splash or do something new. We can read about big company news almost anywhere. I'm with Charles, though. Not every start-up is worth the virtual ink. How do you strike a balance? That would be up to Gabe's secret sauce.
- Dan Kaplan
I like what Charles said. Very often, where there's traction, there's a story. What happened? Why is this catching on? What made the difference? What kind of people are using it? How is it spreading? Etc., etc.
- Gabe Rivera
More information = more usability. Hope to see some new developing things on Techmeme soon.
- Mark Frost
I agree in part with Gabe, but disagree too. TechMeme attracted me because it was different than what was on Google News. Now it's getting to be big-city news and isn't as interesting as hanging out in FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Finding all most new products worth trying via twitter/friendfeed (techmeme new product launches usually = techcrunch = PR relationship with MikeA = not enough reason to give a crap pour moi )
- leigh himel
re: a 'Techmeme' that is 'personal' -- A recent blog post from Nick Bradbury explains how the "popular topics" feature on FeedDemon is sort of like a meme-tracker limited to those blogs to which one subscribes ( http://urlzen.com/6u ). Obviously, this is not a Techmeme replacement, merely an attempt to add another means to view the conversation flow.
- Rex Hammock
Gabe, to be clear, I don't think TechMeme should change. I think we need to flow around it though, provide other ways for people to find what's new. We used to have weblogs.com before the blogging world got too big and the spammers discovered it. Digg is even more of a concentrator than TM, so that isn't what I want. Oddly I don't think it's an algorithmic thing. You and I tend to view things diametrically opposite. I think human beings are the answer, you think algorithms. I think we're both right. :-0)
- Dave Winer
A very basic work around, filtering some of the noise from Techmeme http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes... or the RSS direct http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes...
- Duncan Riley
Actually aggregation only makes sense in a peer/social context: what is my social graph talking about? Search will become social - differently from what Mahalo is. #workingonit ;)
- oliver gassner
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