When you see the mistakes Friendster, MySpace, Friends Reunited (UK) made that led to their irrelevance, it makes sense to keep pushing the art forward. I believe Facebook realise that and thus keep taking the best aspects of Twitter/FF etc. However they still need to retain their innovative edge, which I believe they have kind of lost over the past year.
- Jamie
Golden rule in software: you can't satisfy all your customers all of the time. So, in order to improve there is no way around pissing users off.
- Rene Wirtz
Dear FriendFeed team, can you buy the domain friedfeed.com and forward it to friendfeed.com? I am not interested in livestock, and I seem to have problems finding the n key.
Larry, I don't use bookmarks for sites I hit all the time. I just know them and type them in. There are only a handful that fit this category, GMail, GReader, FriendFeed and my blog. There are probably others, but it just bugs me that I keep doing it.
- Rob Diana
Which browser do you use? Both Firefox and Safari have an autocomplete feature, so you could just type in "fr" and FriendFeed would come up.
- Larry Hudson
I used FireFox and worse is that friedfeed shows up first because I go there enough :P I know I can delete it, and I have done that. I am just a little bit stupid sometimes.
- Rob Diana
Make it your start page and just hit home. :)
- Louis Gray
Add fiendfeed.com and friendfed.com too.
- Admiral Anika
Johnny, my favorite FF feedback ever is still the person who pointed out that "best of day" is only the most popular stuff and requested they present the actual best. I'm looking for that request to be implemented around the same time they secure the site against people pasting javascript links into their navigation toolbar. (Jim is awesome!)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ha, Bruce, I remember that one. I honestly couldn't tell if they were serious or not.
- Laura Norvig
And Rob, I just type the letter "f" and Firefox knows what I want. It's got my number.
- Laura Norvig
Laura, I know I'm strange because of this, but my favorite humorous things to read are the ones where I'm not completely sure if they're serious.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, this was actually somewhat serious. I tend to type the URLs of a few sites that I visit constantly, and I do type friedfeed.com a lot.
- Rob Diana
Rob, I feel like I had a good handle on how serious you were. Otherwise it would have been funnier. :-)
- Bruce Lewis
"Why compare user numbers between a browser and a social network? Because there's every reason to believe that the two technologies are converging in the near term future."
- Kasper Sorensen
from Bookmarklet
In other news, Dell will soon be challenging Linux ... Not quite. This is an apples-to-oranges comparison no matter how you slice it. Facebook will always need a 3rd party browser unless they make a Google move and code their own. The fact that FF is adding OpenID functionality is irrelevant because FF is still *software*, not a network. A better conclusion would be that FF-FB integration would be FB's greatest triumph/opportunity, but saying that one will "challenge" the other is nonsense.
- LANjackal
LANjackal: FF is still *software*, not a network. As you say it STILL software, but if you read the article it says that in THE NEAR FUTURE that might change. And it is that change that is suspected to be able to challenge FB.
- Kasper Sorensen
IMO that's still pretty wild speculation. It is possible? Sure. Probable? Hardly.
- LANjackal
How can firefox challenge facebook? Unless there is a browser to browser B2B friendship connections so you can co-watch your friend's browsing perhaps?
- TrafficBug
You are probably reading a little bit too much into the article. These are all speculations, ideas and concepts being put forward.It's simply an idea, maybe it seems far out, but if it wasn't explored and we simply always stick with what we've got, then we would never see any innovation. It might be unthinkable, but as long as it's not explored, you can't say.
- Kasper Sorensen
My Friendfeed experience compared to my Twitter experience: Less noise because of groups and filters, more aggregation (valuable info/news) but less intimate. Disclaimer: Based on 1 year of 'proper' Twitter usage and 2 months of 'proper' Friendfeed usage.
For all new friendfeed users: The real power of friendfeed is friend lists. Especially combined with advanced search. See http://friendfeed.com/search...
Ja det er. Og med gruppen får vi en oplagt mulighed for på en mindre begrænset platform at diskutere og samtale. Invitér gerne flere til gruppen.
- Migger
hahahahahahahaaa [Edit] Somebody wouldn't give her his telephone number?????
- Kamath (नमः)
I think an important element to this that isn't immediately obvious (if you don't click through) is that this is addressed to Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, who has started to use a video as an email auto-responder: http://tv.winelibrary.com/garyvs-...
- Mark Trapp
This sniffs of a transparent Lonelygirl15 spoof to promote Gary's book, 'natch.
- joshua fouts
Yes, Vaynerchuk's video response to email is significant, and Andrew's dislike of same. I think the video is great, it may be Rocketboom 2.0.
- Dave Winer
I've fallen victim to Gary's auto email reply, with his video link, before. lol.
- Louie
liz, message from gary: "please mail it to 586 Morris Avenue Springfield, New Jersey 07081 marked ATTN GARYV URGENT URGENT URGENT thanks will get back to you in two to three weeks"
- Deva Hazarika
Reposting my comment from the blog: Actually, the real question is: if Twitter would shut off my account, how much would I pay to get back on? Or if someone wanted to buy my account, how much would I sell it for? Shall we conduct a little hedonic pricing experiment? i’ll start: I’d pay $50-100/year to get my account back. But I wouldn’t sell it for less than $500.
- Elliott Ng
that's a good point...how would a Twitter account be appraised? # of (re)tweets? # of followers?
- Jason Salas
from IM
Yes, congrats Twitter. They're worth as much as Kraft!
- Josh Lam
Do people running these air apps all day get any work done though? I found them v distracting and limit myself to surfing on my iPhone at select times during the day or my productivity crashes and client report... ummm.
- Sally Church
I have to close the lid on it then check when I am taking a break, lunch or after dinner. The screen moves too much and yes, it is distracting
- Susan Beebe
I have a separate monitor off my iMac dedicated to it :)
- Jim Walton
Agree that TweetDeck is fantastic. However, I wish there were a way to synchronize list settings across machines.
- Brian Shoemaker
I like tweetdeck, but I need a web based version, sometimes it takes up to 1gb of my memory. Wish FriendFeed would do something
- Kelly Johns
tweet deck is great - you can group by industry or friend group. makes things a lot easier. also faster @ replies
- Jen
I'm *addicted* to Tweet Deck....my brain is a little more fried at the end of the day now as a result...been really using the ability to monitor twitter search query results (keywords) all day....in like 10 different columns....awesome!
- Rich Harris
Robert, how do you organize your tweetdeck? Beyond the obvious columns like @replies, do you group people, what's your strategy, etc? -Dane
- Dane Jasper
Dane: I don't group people. I "media snack." FriendFeed is FAR superior for interacting with people on a 1:1 basis.
- Robert Scoble
Mona you can do the keys with the ALT key and numbers in Windows. That site just makes it easier to do without having to know the exact keystrokes.
- Nicholas James
I don't have a need for this, since I have it installed with Japanese. But thanks, Nicholas. :)
- Mona Nomura
This one was quite helpful when I was in Iceland and couldn't find @ in the Icelandic keyboards
- João Almeida
Robert, thanks for posting this Win7 stuff, would be interested to hear your opinion, so far it doesn't sound too promising for Microsoft as far as driving upgrades in a recessionary environment (read especially page 6 for the summary run-down on System Reqs and Performance).
- Alex Schleber
I installed it on my mac, dont know why though
- Simon Wicks
Can you say anything about hardware specs, Robert? I don't know if MS is playing the NDA game with the beta release.
- teleken
Have you tried mouse hovering over the task bar in the bottom right (there's a small rectangle with no label) - does a nice 'show desktop' effect. Pretty cool so far eh?
- David Ing
Why does Robert get so impressed by every new technology ?
- Sidharth Dassani
Robert: Understood. Now the question is whether I drop it in Parallels on the MacBook, or go for broke/masochism and see how the Inspiron Mini handles it. ;) There's the real acid test for a new Windows OS.
- teleken
teleken, I have it on Fusion and on my netbook. Both work amazingly well. The only problem with using it on Parallels/Fusion is that you will not get Aero and hence won't get all the nifty Aero-dependent desktop features like Desktop preview, the preview panels etc.
- Kamath (नमः)
What are the minimum memory reqs on it?
- Jason Wong
Is it a winner because it actually installed correctly, or because you're impressed with the new feature set...
- Shay Frendt
Also, try left-clicking on a taskbar item and then dragging upward.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Looking forward to the release after posts like this. Read that idle W7 uses appr. 600-650 MB RAM. Anyone confirm those numbers?
- Migger
The real killer feature for Windows 7 would be a little dialog box at the beginning of the upgrade process that simply says "If you proceed with this upgrade, you will lose N days of productivity to trying to troubleshoot drivers, software incompatibilities, and reinstallation of incompatible programs; to re-learning simple UI tasks; and to experimenting with superficial cosmetic changes, all for marginal UX and performance gains . Do you want to continue? Yes / No"
- Ken Sheppardson
Jason: I don't know what the hardware requirements are but it uses fewer resources than Vista. So, just go with the hardware requirements for Vista.
- Robert Scoble
I've had Windows 7 running with just 128mb RAM in a VM - Excellent memory management.
- Nigel Kitchen
teleken: My MacBook is running it fine, no problems so far, although I've only really been playing around with settings and stuff, not installed any big software to try with it. I used VM Ware to do it, Parallels always gave me problems so i switched.
- Simon Wicks
Since I have both Vista & Ubuntu I think I can wait until all you early adopters work out the bugs. :D Seriously, I will wait until it is forced upon me when I buy another computer. That should be about 3 years from now.
- MarkCarras
REALLY tempted to run the beta on my laptop...a bit nervous to run any beta on my main rig but i think it wouldn't be so bad on my laptop....hmmmmmmm
- Live4Emma (L4S)
dual booting 7 with vista and 7 is running so much faster than vista. i'm happy that they cut down the min. req.
- Aaron Eaton
Stay away from AVG under Windows 7...triggers a heinous BSOD in tdx.sys...
- Mike Dove
I have been unable to download the Windows 7 image from Microsoft's site. I think they're a bit overloaded at the moment!
- John Bellone
John, have you tried since Saturday? My download worked like a champ Saturday afternoon. Also Brandon LeBlanc @ Microsoft is reporting that extra capacity was added and the download site has been working smoothly since Saturday AM. Also they have removed the 2.5 million limit on the number of beta testers -- as long as you get it before January 24, you can get a product key: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs...
- Karim
Upgraded main computer? will MS support upgrade from Beta to RTM?
- Vaibhav
I installed Windows 7 64-bit and Chrome doesn't work at all. GRR.
- Phil G
I like the things they have done with respect to perf and UI changes, but this is what Vista should have been in the first place and I hope the upgrade from Vista to 7 is cheaper given the small number of differences between the two.
- Vaibhav
I got it here on my HP Mini 1000. Running good so far... not doing much though
- Bwana ☠
Phil, have you run the compatibility wizard on it?
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Mike Dove I have 7 x64 with AVG installed. I don't have any problems with it.
- Vaibhav
Akiva - nope but that command line switch I just linked to did the trick.
- Phil G
@Vaibhav Perhaps you are getting lucky. I believe I was triggering it with the Outlook Email scanner portion of AVG, it may be that for normal operation it is fine.
- Mike Dove
Karim, What link did you use? MIcrosoft's site seems so slow.
- John Bellone
When attempting to download Windows 7 I click "Download Now" and nothing happens.
- John Bellone
Windows Weekly mentioned that there's quite a nasty MP3 truncating bug in the beta. If you value your music collections, it's probably best to avoid using WMP. Apparently there's a hot fix available.
- Paul Grav
@Paul it was the first thing I did after installing Win7 and Windows Media Player is working just fine with no damage to the mp3's that I have been able to tell yet
- Steven Hodson
@Paul same here. It works fine after hotfix
- Vaibhav
Awesome news.... I hope MS Windows 7 is a winner...that would be great!
- Susan Beebe
Yep, Windows 7 went pretty smooth so far; tackling my main home/Windows Media Center device now. +1 for sex life as well.
- Wade Dorrell
Whats the timeline before it expires on you? how painless was the upgrade?
- Stephen Smyth
I wrote about my initial install experience on The Inquisitr (http://www.inquisitr.com/14951...) with some follow Snapshot posts at WinExtra .. I'm liking this release of Windows
- Steven Hodson
Stephen, it expires in August which means a Beta 2 or RC1 in July (or a hotfix to extend the death date).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Been running Windows 7 for about a week. Loving it!
- David Andrzejewski
A friend just loaded Win7, she is upset that she can't find a way to make it Classic UI. It will be a long long time before I upgrade in that case.
- Tina Clarke
I've heard someone saying he was expecting something new in Windows 7 and literally got the same Vista OS, just a little faster. Don't you think Microsoft is re-selling the same system (only a bit improved) instead of giving us a new one?
- Nir Ben Yona
I think I'll be waiting for the BETA-tag to go away. I have tried vista and xp in beta and I regret it, so..this time I'll wait for the FULL and not beta version of Windows 7.
- Qbat
In case anyone cares, I threw Windows 7 on a late 2006 Compaq V6600 laptop with a Turion 1.8GHZ processor. This was one of those Vista capable machines. It was running XP (it never had Vista on it) and Windows 7 runs better than XP did. It has 2GB RAM. It's not a low powered laptop nor is the CPU/chipset that old but it's nice to see Windows 7 run so smoothly on it. Windows 7 installed...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
John - if you are using the technet download link (the one with the serial number) , it will try to invoke a downloader app which only works in IE. If you find one of the many blogs with the direct download link, those should work with any browser.
- Phil G
Previously as a test, I upgrade installed the Windows 7 6801 beta on a Vista 32 machine that was heavily used (over 1400 installed applications) and was shocked to see it that not only did everything still work (Zonealarm, LogMeIn, MICROSOFT FINGERPRINT READER!), but it was MUCH snappier and startup and shutdown was significantly better. Not that I would ever recommend an upgrade...
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- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Great to hear the upgrade worked. I hate when computers fail...
- Mitchell Tsai
Failed to mention that the upgrade install on the Vista 32 box w/ 1400+ apps took at least 3 hours. I can't remember exactly how long. But it took forever, which was expected...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Like it so far. Install was a bit difficult, but thats probably my fault (dual boot machine). Snappier than Vista, cleaner than Vista. Uses about 20% less RAM on my machine.
- Chad Albert
Dr Apps mine took hours too. I ran it while I slept.
- Robert Scoble
Just tried streaming h.264 video to a xbox as an extender. It works !!
- Olivier Castets
Fresh install took me < 30mins to login prompt. Upgrades take a lot longer.
- Chris Johnson
John, I am using the regular Technet link: http://bit.ly/NJJb If you're seeing "Download Now" I assume you have gotten past the Live ID logon, profile update and gotten your Product key? The download uses an ActiveX control or Java applet download manager. Assuming you are on Windows :-) try your download in IE, and allow the ActiveX control to install.
- Karim
I have Windows 7 beta running on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4000+ with 2 Gig of Ram and it runs better then Vista Home Premium did. The only issue is I can not get my Netgear SC101 NAS box to recognize. Does anyone have any ideas?
- Rob Cairns
"windows", "winner" - is this an example of #15, say something outrageous ;-)
- Neil Saunders
Peter Simard: That's awesome! I'm sure you backed up first, but were quite relieved it all went well. :) Rob Cairns: I didn't even know the SC101 worked with Vista in the first place... I gave up on that thing so long ago. That is probably the only piece of hardware I've ever regretted buying. Though it sounds like you've had a good experience with it if you're still using it. I'd say wait a few days and see if anybody comes up with a solution. I took a cursory glance and didn't find any info...
- Dr. Apps
from twhirl
Robert - Using it since late yesterday. On two boxes, more stable than the original final releases of Windows NT and/or Windows 2000. More drivers supported up front than in Vista. Think MS learned something and the download limit drop will bring a lot of embedded techies. It's a win.
- Charlie Anzman
Thanks for being on the bleeding edge, just about to load the Windows 7 beta myself.. Good to know it upgraded properly for you.
- TechMama Beth Blecherman
I'm going to download it tonight Can't wait!
- Michael Fidler
It was a long upgrade for me... but overall I like it.
- Jason Womick
Been very happy with Windows 7 so far. Many subtle improvements add up to a much better product than Vista.
- Jim Bednarz
I am happy with Windows 7. Fresh install was effortless, but after the install and adding all possible board drivers, four "System Interrupts" entries remain yellow. At least the LAN connectors worked immediately.
- Robert Miller
I put win7 on a Toshiba Satellite a65 from 2003 and it works better than xp did
- Todd Loren Sinclair
Stephen : The upgrade was painless 90 minutes or so and a couple of reboots later. The only issue I had as previously mentioned was my Netgear Sc 101 issue - it did work on Vista. It expires in August
- Rob Cairns
Would love to just for the heck of it! But I don't have a 3G (yet ;-) ).
- vijay
Three people around me are unlocking. Will keep you guys updated. So far, there's one person abroad (HK) that said it doesn't work with her SIM.
- Mona Nomura