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California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage (Prop 8) ban: http://www.latimes.com/news... - RT @latimeslocal
Matt Fletcher, earl wallace, Scott Abbey and 26 other people liked this
Why we were all hoaxed? Oh, yeah, a professional news brand tweeted this: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... Someone should get fired for this.
- Robert Scoble
They pulled this Tweet off of their Twitter account. It turned out this story is a year old.
- Robert Scoble
Maybe several someones. If this is really the LA Times, this is very bad.
- Dr. Headcrash
Dr. Headcrash: this really was the LA Times. They admitted it on their Twitter account.
- Robert Scoble
The off-by-one-year date did strike me when I saw the article. But still -- how could a news organization be fooled by their own morgue?
- Dr. Headcrash
Breitbart had it, but their site has NO year in their timestamps, so it looks legit. And, no, no date in the URL, either.
- Mistletoe Glen
Pulling a tweet is even worse than useless as a response. It just makes everyone confused as to the source.
- Dr. Headcrash
Dumbasses
- sofarsoShawn
fail
- Andy Sternberg
No year in the timestamp, but it's in the URL /www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaymarriage16-2008may16,0,6182317.story?page=1 See, May 16 2008 And now, there's a year in the timestamp on the article.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hmm... you'd think that the folks involved in tweeting would be the story editors writing today's news, not someone going through back articles in the morgue.
- Dr. Headcrash
Heh. Maybe they had some random temp or intern manning the Twitter feed. Bad idea. Hopefully everyone has learned a lesson.
- Dr. Headcrash
Good job la. Keep it classy.
- Daniel Morgan
DOHHHH!!!!!!
- Thomas Hawk
Bitches.
- Derrick
LOL no time stamp or any SC trial leading up to the judgment ~ EGADS. Quit reporting as TMZ!
- sofarsoShawn
Shades of the United Airlines selloff last year after Google mistakenly gave a current date to a six year old story:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
- Brian Sheehan
On FF, the LATimes account is a real person named Andrew. (See http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... where he jumps in to answer some questions.) Andrew, can you address the issues raised here?
- Stephen Mack
This tweet was a misfire. Once it was noticed, it was a) removed from twitter to avoid confusion. b) acknowledged and corrected as an FTR: http://twitter.com/LATimes... c) we shared links to our most current coverage. We appreciate your feedback and suggestions on best practices for how to handle similar future situations that occur beyond latimes.com ~ Andrew / @latimesnystrom / LAT social media guy
- Los Angeles Times
Please watch our LA Now blog - http://latimes.com/now - for an update on this. ~ Andrew / @latimesnystrom
- Los Angeles Times
"feedback and suggestions on best practices for how to handle similar future situations" <--- My feedback and suggestion is to not tweet things that are old. Simple as that.
- Rochelle
+1 Rochelle :)
- Charlotte M
LOL yes I echo that feedback proper journalism wouldn't have allowed the misreporting to happen, that damn itchy Twitter finger is not such.
- sofarsoShawn
time to start a score board keeping track of how many times social media corrects a big media story and how many times big media corrects a widely distributed SM story
- mike
This ruined my day.
- Fleagle
Here's a direct link to the LA Now blog post, from 2:13pm PDT: "False report on Proposition 8 being overturned lights up Twitter" - http://tr.im/ltFR - Here's an excerpt from the end of that post: "The court's ruling on Prop. 8 is expected in the next few weeks. Full Times coverage of the gay marriage fight is here [http://latimes.com/prop8]." ~ AndrewN, LAT [full-time social media guy, not an intern]
- Los Angeles Times
Seems to me that there is a need for some grown ups to be involved ensuring that journalists check their sources and editors ask the question of their journalists
- Simon Rogers
Unfortunately the 61% homophobes who agreed to Prop 22 may argue this.
- Jeffrey Allan Boman
Too bad the vote of the court means more than that of the people! :(
- Joey
August 2, 2006 @latimes Pulitzer-winning story resurfaced by @tonyrobbins 11hrs ago [w/o any mention that it's an older story]: http://bit.ly/iP9lC Makes @retweetist list of top RT; I'm sort of surprised there' no outrage on Twitter or FriendFeed. Q: Should every tweet of non-breaking news include some sort of disclaimer? ~ Andrew, LAT social media guy / @latimesnystrom
- Los Angeles Times
Want to see how stupid the follower game on Twitter has gotten? Check out TwitterHit. http://twitter.com/#search...
RetiredTeacherD, Peter Efland, Beth T and 67 other people liked this
When all you care is about how many followers you have this is what happens.
- Robert Scoble
This is a trending topic on Twitter Search. Almost wholly spam.
- Robert Scoble
I have no idea what is going on here... maybe twitter will auto ban anyone mentioning this word.
- Eric Nakagawa
Damn follower-whores!
- MλTT
See, this is why we can't have nice things :p Seriously, Matt is right. When you just do your thing the followers come, why bother growing them artificially?
- Neal Jansons
Stupid "one word to explain everything ;) "
- Ahmed
The whole followers number thing has gotten out of hand. I'm still more interested in learning from the people I follow.
- Mary Wehrle
Followers are not all that important. It is more rewarding to follow the right people and know how to search twitter for information, as best as you can. Twitter could do with some more metadata for each post.
- Lennart Olsen
Seriously, it should be about HOW MANY followers you have, it should be the QUALITY of the followers you have. Are they REALLY listening?
- Sherra Scott
Lennart: you and I know that, but Twitter is now mainstream and those users don't really participate in Twitter. Look at Oprah. How many Tweets has she done? How many people is she following? Not many. And the new users of Twitter look up to her. So they will emulate her behavior.
- Robert Scoble
For most of tweeps quantity matters not quality. As in their real life I suppose :)
- Jacque
Did a social media marketer just suggest it's about quality and not quantitiy? whaaaa?
- Eric Nakagawa
i wouldn't want all that noise. twitter gives me access to people i want hear from but normally can't. and friend feed lets me talk to them... at a distance
- Marco
Robert: I agree with you completely. Twitter has become like the "Alternative" music on the top 10 songs in iTunes.
- MλTT
why eat vanilla (twitter), when you can have any flavor you want (FF)? Once twitter became mainstream (i.e. the celebrities killed it) it started to dumb down.
- Bob Blunk
Surely targeted Twitter followers is much more effective than random large quantities?!
- PRBristolco.uk
I love Robert Scoble!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Robert: True true. Having a large number of followers is beneficial of course for getting help with things, but... Maybe if people start using the saved filters on twitter.com they will realize it is better to reach those who are interested instead of everyone who is not.
- Lennart Olsen
Some guy called Peter Parker (PeterParker01_) seems to be using it a lot - does this mean Spiderman gone over to the dark side?!
- Kate
Link farming for the naughties
- Ben
there's a lot of 'chatter' in that search query about TwitterHIT being a virus... anyone else think so too?
- Chris Heath
It's hard to see how twitter will control this spammyness. It's all about quality, not quantity. A large following is useless if you can't get them to ACT.
- Jonathan.Rivera
Definitely!
- Nyan Min
I agree, what ever your uses of twitter, it's about quality. Take an example - there's no point in a feed for local news in Bristol UK having followers outside Bristol, as the news would be irrelevant to them - so why would they want to just amass folllowers?? And what value would someone from California into holistic therapy (for example) get from following that news feed anyway?
- Nigel
Nigel: one reason is that directories like http://www.wefollow.com are using follower numbers to decide on relevancy. That might even be important to someone inside Bristol.
- Robert Scoble
even though i don't get many requests....i enjoying blocking twitter accounts the best! i save the email confirmations i get then if your not interesting BLOCKage
- shayne catrett
Twitter is as much about listening, if not more, than talking. For me out on the frontier a Wyoming, a nobody really, being able to see Robert Scoble's thoughts, as well as those of Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki, and so many other big idea guys, is like being welcome in their home to see what they're reading, watching, listening to, doing... heck they even engage in conversation with me...
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- shelli johnson
It's rifle vs. shotgun. I'll take a rifle please.
- shelli johnson
Nigel - how about "home town news"? I follow local news from places I used to live, even though I haven't lived there for years.
- Will King
Lol, this is funny! what is the next thing going to be What about promises like: Follow me and I make sure that 1000 follows you
- Asgeir
The nirvana of being followed. In my case, if you want to follow me, knock yourself out. Doesn't mean I have to do anything about it, except block spammers, from which I derive a weird pleasure.
- Rachel Clarke
This is totally stupid, I agree. What is also stupid is all of the fake followers the celebrities have. This might be all the greatest ever episode of Punk'd!
- Bo Lora
I just got more than 2000 followers, now I can also follow more than 2000. And I can tell you it's fun! Of course you can't see all the tweets, but who cares… In this way I have the chance to find interesting people, and when that happens I put their tweet feed in friendfeed. Give it a try...
- Jacob
Even the bots are stupid. No picture, no description and no link in the bio? Huh, why the hell would someone follow that?
- Patrick Moorhead
Jacob: now you know why I find friendfeed fun. You can follow how ever many people you want. And you can even put them into separate lists!
- Robert Scoble
It's a shame when so many people totally miss the real value of twitter.
- Angela
Angela: well, Twitter itself caused that through the systems they built, the actions they took, and the PR they sought. Ask yourself, why is Oprah's account recommended while Leo Laporte's is not? Twitter WANTS you to miss the two-way nature of things. They don't want you to see Twitter as some place you're going to learn something. They are building an entertainment broadcast network. It's too bad, yes, but that's what is. Which is why I'm here instead of there most of the time.
- Robert Scoble
Yuck.
- Louis Gray
Leo Laporte, give me a break - he has one of the most recognise names out there. I know you love being on the Twit show, but come on :)
- Asgeir
@Asgeir Only started following Leo in the past week or so... and only because Friendfeed exposed me to him, his show and some cool conversations.... Thanks again Robert Scoble.
- David Damore
What do you get out of Twitter? It should be worth something. It should always be about quality. Whether you receive it or supply it.
- Wilfredo Guerrero
I wish that there was a wefollow for friendfeed
- Thomas Hawk
It seems that nobody on Twitter (at least those who use this service) realizes that tools like these go against the idea of social networking, which is to find people of a similar interest.
- Thomas Ward
@Brytne Just click link in Robert's post, should open twitter
- Asgeir
@Brytne That is strange - you could also just type TwitterHit into the search field in twitter to see
- Asgeir
Totally agree. What is the point of the numbers if no one cares who you are?
- Kathryn Martyn
Lets not pretend that friendfeed is perfect in this game, Kim Kardashian is subscribed to my feed, why? These tools are imperfect, worrying about who has more followers, subscribers, recommendations and why is pointless.
- Patrick Boegel
Patrick, she may be following you because you follow her on Twitter and she did an auto-import. If not, she is hoping you will follow back. And notice that on FriendFeed, less than 1 percent did follow her back.
- Louis Gray
A scam
- Baard @ Pixum
Louis: definitely not following Ms Kardashian, just not my thing. Only reason she is not being followed back yet on FriendFeed is that migration has not occurred at any reasonable scale yet.
- Patrick Boegel
I un-followed someone yesterday who used that TwitterHIT crap. Not the kind of person I want to be following anyway, if all they want is more followers.
- Rochelle
One last point, by the numbers maybe 7-8% of the US population is using Twitter (per compete.com) it is a mainstream "name" but not a mainstream tool yet.
- Patrick Boegel
@Patrick, @Louis I think Ms Kardashian is following everybody. I don't think it is because she is so interested in what everyone is up to, but rather to promote herself as a model. Is this the right place to do it? I don't see it
- Asgeir
I found the whole "follow" experience on twitter odd to begin with. Case in point, yesterday I declared I needed to find my toenail clippers and lo & behold the LA Clippers started following me. What are they, a basketball team? I don't even know. Definately a fail. These sites are just a scam. (and now I leave this thread for fear of bothering people)
- Brytne
from Nambu
Asgeir: I get why she is following everyone to promote herself, I just don't think it matters, and people using silly follower "schemes" and devices to grow a list of followers based on no real strategy, well they will either drop off of Twitter quickly because they get bored and didn't gain anything by immediately having a Twitodex of 5,000 strangers they shared nothing with. Or they...
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- Patrick Boegel
@Brytne That is funny. I think a lot of users use search to find people to follow.
- Asgeir
@Patrick something good can come from connecting with random strangers, look at Twestival. I think it all depends on what you want from it. In an ideal world you should have some sort of plan, but I think for a lot of people they are happy to feel that they have a following
- Asgeir
Patrick B: You can block Kim here on friendfeed. You do know that right?
- Chris Heath
Check out this latest Twit Tip where the Follow Friday institution is questioned...http://ff.im/2Vow3 I then equate Twitter's significance to the hoola hoop http://ff.im/2VoMU
- sofarsoShawn
@Asgeir, yes something good can come from following total strangers, 97% of the people I follow on Twitter I never knew before Twitter and 95% I have still never met in person. @Chris H, yes I know you can block on ff, but I don't care if she wants to subscribe to me, I'll let her manage her own information stream.
- Patrick Boegel
I make recommendations for Twitter newbies to make connections. What's happened is that my Twitter stream is clogged now with HUNDREDS of tweeps recommending me solely for the purpose of my recommending them! UGH! I don't do that! Many of these tweeps recommend me over and over and over during the day to try to get my attention. They succeed in irritating me! I am migrating recommendations with comments to static page newbies can refer to anytime.
- Arleen Anderson
Its Kinda vicious circle. When Kevin Rose was no. 1, nobody complained. Now when Ashton Kutcher is people are complaining. When someone will surpass him, he'll start whining too.
- Abhishek
Yes, however, if any of us pretends to not have some guilt in a desire for followers, I think they are full of it...
- Leif Hansen
There is still value there... you just need to be able to filter out the crap. More importantly this is nothing new. When there were a few thousand people using Email there was no spam... now the majority of email sent is spam. Filters will become more important than any other tool as usage grows.
- Brian Roy
@Brian Roy I see the signs, but I really hope your predictions are wrong
- Asgeir
@scobleizer: users of TwitterHit should measure their success over here: http://epenis.nl
- Nick Wade
#FollowFriday @sofarsoshawn
- sofarsoShawn
there should be a non profit that we all donate to that maintains a list of twitter users who provide value and we can all follow them and only them. signing up for services like this would get you banned from this list. and we can have our own little private twitter experience. it can even segregate the users into different channels for different topics. so you can subscribe to different lists. actually, that's a terrible idea. just throwing it out there. :-)
- mike
Tools to filter down to just what you want (topics) are just as important as your Social Graph. It isn't context OR Social Graph... it is BOTH.
- Brian Roy
I've half a mind to block everyone that comes up in this search ;-) lol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Not a scam, but a stupid thing to do to get more followers. Just tweet inteligently and you'll get them "brainiacs"! :\
- Miladin Miladinoski
Robert following your cycle - love, love, love to Facebook, Facebook Sucks, love, love love to Twitter, Twitter Sucks, love, love, love to FriendFeed.....when's the next step?
- Debi Jones
I believe that there are 12 Steps to this.
- Stephen Borchert
Whew after reading through this entire thread, I feel like choking up a hairball.
- Kay Designer
I added my response to your comments over on my home page.
- Kay Designer
I have been getting a few @replies from TwitterHit today, hoping it's a trend that will end soon
- Asgeir
Who was your first email account with? Moi. Hotmail...God, that was/is awful.
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karoo for me.
- alphaxion
America Online...wait...no. Prodigy!
- Candace
WebTV.
- Rochelle
sciboard.louisville.edu or iglou.com, both about the same time.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Local ISP, until I realized the value of webmail. Then yup, it was Hotmail.
- Bradley McSpinn
AOL.com, back when Windows 95 was so money it didn't even know it.
- Tyler Hayes
First e-mail account was with Sprynet when it was CompuServe's Web-only ISP -- before the AOL buyout!
- Jared Smith
wisc.edu
- Dave Winer
ecu.edu
- Beebo Wallace
Prodigy.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
citiz.net
- yagami
i don't even remember i think it was planet something or i dunno something like that no wait i don't know why i'm thinking earlyalert.com i don't know i'm probably wrong lol
- Cardeen Martinez
crikey, i've never even heard of some of these...
- Zee.
A BBS in Morgan Hill.
- Rodfather
1st public internet email was via easy.com ... my own domain via ISP I started in 1993. 1st corporate email was 1978 ish internal on our private global DECNET, connected to public Internet in about 1984.
- Don Strickland
A shell account in '92, I forget with who. Was BBS'ing for years before that, and they sort of had email.
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
wow, very impressive Jason...and Don!
- Zee.
Hotmail was my first email provider.
- Andrew Trinh
aol
- ♥patricia♥
mail.com. Alternative back than was only hotmail (I think, can't remember about yahoo) which totally sucked. I think mail.com is extinct now, but they used to have multiple domains. And I had about 5 different accounts. 4, 5, or 6MB, can't really remember exactly. Wow, the days... This is one example (of many) where I'm very happy we are where we are today.
- Vlad Bobleanta
I can't remember. Possibly Yahoo, but I think Yahoo may have come later...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Compuserve, then "Niftyserve" the licensee of Compuserve here in Japan. We have it so good now!
- Rick Cogley
Hotmail, way back in 1998 (although before that I had an ISP email through Frontier)
- Brandon Mendelson
AOL.
- Laura Lou Who
AOL. I shutter at the thought
- BCK
PSU.edu, 1989
- Dave Roth
Toronto FreeNet.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Michigan State University
- Steve Lowe
Yahoo mail. Still have it but its been so spamefied I hardly use it anymore.
- TkFromWestSide
My employer - Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue - circa 1984.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
Hotmail
- Tim Keneipp
Prodigy in 1991, followed shortly thereafter by AOL 1.0 for the Mac, then Compuserve. And finally a POP internet dialup with Chicago's Interaccess in about 1992 after getting Adam Engst's Internet starter kit book that came with a copy of the Mac/TCP control panel on a 3 1/2" floppy.
- Adam Turetzky
Prodigy, then AOL
- Robert Kenney
My first was at work. heamin@sunshine.vab.unisysgsg.com -- no joke. Then I had an alumna account with Virginia Wesleyan, and then I think I picked up a yahoo account. My first web site was on geocities, and it was so kewl for its time, too. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
AOL
- Derrick
<- AOL
- Costa Walcott
AOL then Juno
- Violet Mae Lim
drexel.edu and compuserve
- Peter Ghosh
Technically, my first email address was on an internal mail service for a large corporation back in 1991, but it was possible to email other people on the internet with a byzantine series of pipes, slashes, gateways and hostnames. My first personal email on the internet proper was with a regional dialup service called pics.com in 1992.
- dthree
Pixi.net
- Trish Haley
I forget the exact name, but it was local and called Charlotte's Web. I live in Charlotte, NC.
- Matthew
75106,3139
- Leo Laporte
I want to say Compuserve
- BASEnet
whats 75106,3139?
- Zee.
74127,2227
- Christopher Barnes
aol
- Computerwhiz1
Those are Compuserve addresses Zee
- Adam Turetzky
AOL
- Gabe Diaz
Prodigy
- Nick Smith
Oof. CompuServe!
- Akiva Moskovitz
ah, interesting - thanks Adam
- Zee.
My first was a VAX server at lamar.edu but I quickly shifted to an Ultrix machine also at lamar.edu. So, lamar.edu.
- Akiva Moskovitz
webtv.
- Nation Hahn
Yay Nation Hahn!
- Rochelle
aol
- Russ Jackson
76020,702 lol, had to look mine up!
- Adam Turetzky
I had brlewis@mit.edu in 1986 way before there ever was such a thing as spam. Now there's probably not a single spammer's list out there that doesn't have that address. I still log in there occasionally.
- Bruce Lewis
netcom
- Scott Slade
A tiny, local ISP here in Vermont call Kingdom Connection. I was one of the first 25 subscribers I think, and I still have my original e-mail address. Scary.
- Bob M. Montgomery
Mine was AOL. Man that was a long time ago..
- David van Sunder
from Nambu
Hotmail for me as well. Recalling this alone makes me nauseous. ;-)
- Dan Dashnaw
I had a Hotmail account as well. Never again.
- Diego Espinoza V.
columbia.edu
- Morton Fox
geez... I can't even remember.
- Jim Is Not Smart
umich.edu
- Ken Sheppardson
Prodigy. Then AOL. Then Berkeley.edu followed by Earthlink.net, Home.com, ATTBI.com, and then Mac.com. (Also in there, GMail, Excite, Netscape, and work accounts, etc.)
- Louis Gray
Hotmail - Sometime in 1997 I think. My first email account for work was in 1998.
- David Yarnell
AOL. I was so excited to get Hotmail because at the time, it was cooler than AOL. Heh. Then Yahoo and now Gmail. And that's it, not counting work/school accounts.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Prodigy.
- Admiral Anika
tamu.edu before that I was on some BBS's with RelayNet mail. In 1988 I got a 9600 baud modem and I'm telling you it was so fast.
- Jeff
crap whatever we had at college before the internet had pictures or an internet. :) We could send messages between colleges though
- Steve C
Probably Mindspring.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Mine was AOL over my 2400 baud modem.
- Allen Blair
<student id>@<sydney university undergrad domain), then something at extro.com.au which was the Sydney University dial up provider then good ol iname.com. I thought that would be my non service provider bound email address, till they decided to charge for it. Thank god for gmail.
- Tom Horn
Compuserve was my first Internet email address.
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
from fftogo
email.com
- Alex Scrivener
Hotmail I'm ashamed to say.
- Daniel Drysdale
from Nambu
web mail? Gmail. Otherwise Carleton U
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Hotmail as well :(
- Drew Lucas
Genie
- Randy Caldwell
yahoo - oooh forgot about Juno!
- BEX
Actually, my first email was with MCI*Mail. NOT internet email. The next one was Compuserve. Still not internet. My first internet account was on a server at my employer in Austin.
- Mistletoe Glen
My math prof gave me an account on a NeXT box.
- Hiro Asari
ISP provider, bellsouth.net, I then upgraded to Hotmail. lol
- Sharon McPherson
@MSN.com.. Yup MSN was my first provider. It was them or AOL, and I knew better.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Compuserve was my first "email" (not internet) and nassau community college was my first internet email address
- Bastard Operator From FF
A local ISP called Jetlink.
- Stan Augustyniewicz
Alta Vista
- Brent - Loving Life
My first email address that I used, but didn't control was gmail. My primary address and everyone I've had has been in my own house.
- Dustin Sallings
Hotmail. 2MB. Remember that?
- David Damore
Mississippi State University. 1990 or 1991... (might have been 89)
- Chrimmus Tad
rocketmail.com
- James Beake
AOL
- Kim Landwehr
from BuddyFeed
stanford.edu
- Paola Bonomo
aol
- David Dudley
Yahoo - haven't used it for many years now.
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
my very first was in the early 1980s at Uof Penn, my first online email was hotmail
- Monique
Hotmail.
- Steven Perez
University in '94. didn't know what email was before that.
- mikepk
*.syr.edu '90ish. bbs handles since 80s
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Back in Romania, when the whole Internet thing was just showing up there (1993?), a VAX/VMS machine (roearn.ici.ac.ro, also ROEARN on Bitnet)
- Tudor Bosman
Prodigy. Before that I was on BBS which was my first chatroom, a lot of people trying to log into a room that would only fit 8. Good times.
- zephyrlily
deeptht.armory.com, a local SCO box. still have the account: http://www.armory.com/~peter/
- coffee
AOL of course
- Keith - @tsudo
Well my first email was hotmail in like 2004, but before that, our family account was yahoo which was around 94/95 (which i think it was better UI then vs today) now i use gmail for everything!
- Bryce Campbell
yep hotmail
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
usa.net
- Petr Buben
The University of Leeds in 1997, closely followed by Yahoo Mail in the same week. I still have the Yahoo account but only use it to log into Flickr.
- Martin Bryant
Compuserve...over and over again with those 30 day trials :)
- Mark Krynsky
usa.net (netaddres)
- Toni @ NavinoT
On the WWW it was msn.com but I was on BBS before then and the address was something like portofcall.net
- Kol Tregaskes
Back at my college (ISU) in the early 90's. Used Pine on a Unix server.
- Ward Seward
Hotmail for me too. Amazing that it's still so popular
- Gee Ranasinha
Why is everyone hating on Hotmail? Oh yeah, I know, it's cool to bash MS. It was and is one of the better webmails out there. My first was yahoo.co.uk
- Matt Hall
not for sure but i am guessing hotmail maybe yahoo
- (jeff)isageek
AOL.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
yahoo
- Alfredo
Luukku, it's finnish email service. Not really good...
- Kristian Salonen
AOL for sure -- had one under my parents' account, probably early to mid 90s. Signed up for Hotmail in 1997 when I was in college (still have that account, though I really never use it). Of course, I had a standard-issue "geneseo.edu" college account starting in 1996 when I started college.
- mark
umich.edu
- DGentry
cmich.edu
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
Actually, I lie, cmich.edu was my second - some funky FidoNet address leading to a BBS was the first.
- l.m.orchard
from twhirl
erols out of Maryland then hotmail then gmail with an occasional visit to yahoo mail cause they made me have a yahoo mail account for yahoo IM and other Yahoo properties (flickr).
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
AOL, then freeserve! *1998 face*
- Iain Baker
Internal mail in my high school in 94, using Pegasus. Signed up for Hotmail in 95 I think.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think it was yahoo or usa.net
- Shamir Ramjan
worldnet (does not exist anymore, french provider)
- Olivier
CompuServe (72740,114) c. 1989, ysu.edu c. 1993
- Michael McKean
Mine was with Hotmail too. :-/
- Ben LaMothe
Compuserve, then Demon and well.com
- Fraser Smith
It was "pobox.sk" <- clever name for an email for that time :) abandoded them after some other guys has offered pop3 for free. History long gone.
- Dušan Šimonovič
Local ISP and then Hotmail.
- Kevin Bondelli
OMG am I as old as Leo Laporte? LOL no, but I had an email account at Rutgers Univ that was numbers (I don't remember what it was though) & then Prodigy was my first - PCChick. funny I'm a mac girl now.
- Lynette Young
Local ISP then Hotmail and Yahoo! mail.
- Ninh Nguyen
Hotmail, at the time it was good compated to everyone else, then went down the toilet fast, it's better these days but I prefer my Gmail account thank you.
- Eric Fisher
Compuserve. I AM NOT A NUMBER!
- John Craft
yahoo...still use it, but hate its non-existent spam filter...gmail is still the best at spam cleaning...i have hotmail for msn, but recently they've improved the mail feature, so i use more often now
- brainno722 (Peter)
Compuserve (73000,673 if memory serves me right)... and some other obscure usenet type account through a local BBS.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
CompuServe in 1979 (70040,104).
- George Brickner
BTW, the CompuServe addresses were known as PPNs (Project Programmer Number).
- George Brickner
Hotmail
- Damond Nollan
prodigy, if I remember correctly
- Chieze Okoye
yep, I was on prodigy too for a couple of months, then Rjcc @aol and i've been using that nick for 13~ years now
- Richard Lawler
AOL, back in the day
- Matthew Allen Horton
hotmail
- Rudolf Olah
Promenade aka AOL, probably. But I've had Hotmail for 10 years -- I got an email celebrating my decade with Hotmail a few weeks ago.
- Tamar Weinberg
AOL
- Nurse Katie
Hotmail :(
- Mitra_s
uchicago.edu, then nytimes.com finally got my deasil.com address about a year after school and have had that ever since. :)
- felix
mine was hotmail too.
- Thom Allen
Used excite for a long time, until yahoo and google started theirs up and actually offered some sort of spam protection.
- Matt Thompson
from fftogo
Juno
- Martha
Hotmail. Agree it was awful! I can't believe I ever thought it was okay for the first page of my email client to be a page filled with ads, as opposed to the actual inbox.
- Jess Lee
Compuserve. I don't think it was possible to send formatted text outside of Compuserve back then.
- howard shippin
TSO, which started out as tso.uc.edu but eventually became tso.cin.ix.net.
- Wirehead
UUCP email account at Bell Labs, reached via something like ucbvax!ihnp4!...!fcy Then an account at mcs.net, a Chicago area ISP.
- Fred Yankowski
MyOwnEmail.com. I don't know if they're even still around.
- James Ferguson
I can't remember if I did juno or hotmail first. I think juno....
- EricaJoy
Mine was with netins.net because they offered toll-free dial-up access in the Spring of 1995
- Michael K Pate
My first email was at my job at Sybase in 1993.
- Lisha Sterling
from twhirl
aol when I was in 5th grade. Username: hawaiiman2. Cuz hawaii is like cool and stuff.
- Daniel Morgan
cix UK
- John Francis
cs.berkeley.edu
- Piaw Na
I guess my first e-mail account was with my ISP, but the first web based e-mail account was good ol' hotmail.
- Jeremy
AOL *facepalm*
- Mike Lewis
I think it was AOL or Compuserve
- Shevonne
AOL, Delphi or Compuserve, dunno - I partied a lot between then and now.
- jcunwired
LOL @Leo!!
- jcunwired
My first public email account was with MCI Mail (in the eon of X.25). My first email on a TCP/IP network was with Netcom.
- Lorin Olsen
not sure, usa.net or hotmail.com
- Gökmen Karasu
Compuserve, then when AOL bought them, Netcom, which was bought by Mindspring, who then was bought by Earthlink
- William Harryman
The US government.
- Alex Scoble
Hotmail, not msn hotmail. just "Hotmail"
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
Same here: pre-MSN Hotmail.
- josh neff, geek at large
MSN.com -- I was a beta tester for the MSN network during it's Windows 95 Launch. I had FREE dialup access during the extended beta testing period.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
AOL - I HAD MAIL!
- Mona Nomura
Mine was a free email account from a local ISP (community.net).
- Beau Liening
oh shit... it must've been Compuserve, although I don't remember if I had real email in there.If not, Yahoo Mail was the first portal mail I had (and I had jungleg@yahoo.com, but then lost it for some reason and couldn't get it back)
- Jorge Escobar
uh.edu, then hotmail.
- Arlan Koizumi
UUCP email on unix .. circa 86
- Peter Dawson
comunista@aol.com - i thought it was funny.
- mike
starwarsbuff@hotmail.com - yeah, that was back in middle school. LOL
- Mike Templeton
Mindspring.com
- Darrell Bell
from twhirl
hawaii.edu
- Josh Haley
aol
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Aol huuuh
- Marie Jubin
from Nambu
Admittedly - AOL.
- AJ Kohn
@tamu.edu
- Carlos M. Gomes
AOL > Compuserve > Burntmail
- Kevin Pruett
USA.net
- Helen Sventitsky
Prodigy! Oh wow. That was a long time ago. I remember I had some 25 cents an e-mail plan. I used to get in trouble from my parents when I went over my allotted amount. I can't imagine paying 25 cents an e-mail today.
- Jennifer Mitchell
execpc.com. haha.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hotmail, and I think it was 1995.
- cecily
Compuserve
- Bryan R. Adams
pitt.edu, then netaxs.com.
- B. Hatin
Penn State University
- Ernie Oporto
My graduate school, University of Kentucky. It was on VMS.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
hotmail
- Dane Findley
angelfire
- Rachel Lea Fox
Hotmail, but they closed it due to inactivity. I wish I still had it, though. It's impossible to get my name anywhere now.
- Michael Fidler
Yahoo. Now I'm in gmail and I love it...
- Amy H.
Local ISP, Connect2 I think was the name. Haha. Didn't even have 56K internet speed yet at the time. First web based email was Hotmail before Microsoft acquired it.
- Rolf Schewe
Other than my Bell Labs account? Delphi. Fun-ky...
- John Blossom
AOL and then Hotmail....two real winners.....not!
- Bonnie Foster
hotmail 1995
- Muge Cerman
mail.com *shrug* XD
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
AOL -> Yahoo -> gmail
- imabonehead
Hotmail for me. I haven't used it in 3 years.
- Michael Forian
My first emailaddress was at my own designstudio: hoofdcommissaris@cops.nl (meaning 'chief of police') And brought me my nickname Hoof (or Hoof99).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hotmail
- Bill Hice
@msstate.edu, my university in 1996?
- Phillip Stewart
Messaging on the Univac in late 70s probably, at the college. BITNET, HEPNET, ARPANET in late 1980s. (Ignoring the BBS phenom of 80s.) EDU & GOV 1989+ My own domain I hosted around 1994. NEVER AOL or that fake-Internet stuff of the mid-90s. Ewww! After years of GOV, moved to COM at work in 1999. Started using GMAIL for all my personal mail when that was in Beta. I now have about 20 domains forward to GMAIL.
- John Johnson
not counting university and school, or BBSes? My first email account would then have been jnebbe@ibm.net (back the first time when IBM did internet services) - they were one of the few to have reasonable dial up plans with a multi-country presence - and I was using OS/2 a lot then too. After it got bought by ATT and they changed the address, I decided that I would always have my own domain for email, so I would never lose people because I lose an email. Hosted it myself for years, now it's all with fastmail
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Yahoo. God bless Gmail!
- Özgür Akman
"pipeline". anachronistic friend still has email account with them.
- Marg Uerite
it was either aol or nyonline
- Lynne d Johnson
Hotmail. Still have it.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Hotmail...then I transferred to Gmail
- Nicholas James
AOL for me... horrible.
- Michelle
Yeah, hotmail. Not great is it...
- Rich
yahoo, broke before I could use it then got a Hotmail
- Yant
Are you building an everyday app? (the LinkedIn problem) - http://bokardo.com/archive...
Joshua Porter has been away from blogging for a while. I'm glad he's back.
- mike
Re: Shocker! Nine Inch Nails’ Free Album Was Also Amazon’s 2008 Bestseller - http://qwidget.com/blog...
"No apology necessary! I often make incorrect conclusions! so I was honestly wondering where I went wrong. Anyway, thanks for the visit and for the thoughts."
- mike
Re: PR for Startups - http://adamiss.tumblr.com/post...
"This is a fantastic summary for a fantastic event. There was a lot of extremely helpful advice given out. The only thing I would add to this write up is that it is key for entrepreneurs to focus not only on solving problems for their customers but to also on solving the problems of journalists. In other words, in order to get coverage from a particular writer, be helpful to that writer. Give them leads that are targeted to their beat. Don't beat down their door with requests for complimentary press. Help them out on stories that don't mention your company. Build two-way relationships. That kind of investment of time and energy will pay off in the long run (provided you have a great product and a great company, of course)."
- mike
Re: Twitter fallout after the Oprah Effect - http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index...
"I totally agree. I don't follow Oprah, CNN or any other celebrities or companies so their presence does not affect me in the least. I do get followed by more clueless people. But that doesn't really bother me. If anything, in the long run, it'll be a more valuable communication tool because a larger number of interesting people will figure out how to use it."
- mike
Playing with Nambu, Twitter app for Mac which was featured in Wired. Could replace Tweetdeck and Twhirl. Multiple accts AND Pane view - Nice
I wonder how new Seesmic will compare?
- Robert Scoble
It doesn't port over the groups I've set up in tweetdeck does it?
- mike
Berenstain Bears Gone Wild. | Adam Thinks - http://adamthinks.com/berenst...
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Hilarious redesigns of berenstein bears juice boxes. see your favorite little bears rob banks, shoot heroin, prostitute themself out!
- mike
Why arent ebooks taking off? Not enough pirates | Technology | guardian.co.uk - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...
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interesting point....but you can definitely pirate books...if you're into that sort of thing.
- mike
YES WE CANNABIS Navy T-Shirt | Yes We Cannabis - http://yeswecannabis.net/t-shirt
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@sdashiki - it is the same font. isn't it. anyway. this is pretty hilarious
- mike
Sweet Search - http://www.sweetsearch.com/
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this is a great search engine for research. It returns links from sites that have been selected for good, quality content.
- mike
YouTube - &Play on Playa& by GARROW - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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wtf. this guy is ridiculously bad and hilarious.
- mike
Social Media Power Users And Influencers - Part 3 - http://thefuturebuzz.com/2008...
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Featuring: Qwidget - Scribkin - http://www.scribkin.com/2009...
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one of the first blogs to use the qwidget. interested to see how its readers use it.
- mike
this has been really useful to me as i have a huge music collection. using the service, i am able to listen to my 100 gb collection at work, at friends houses, etc.
- mike
WebMetricsGuru & Facebook Brandhacker January Meetup @ Zanzibar - http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archive...
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interesting article about facebook and market research
- mike
Re: Would You Get On The Atheist Bus? - http://qwidget.com/blog...
"Oh Camus. he was my philosophical kurt cobain when i was 16. also smeasles, why no disqus account? it's pretty fun. you get your picture to show when you leave comments."
- mike
Re: Does Obama have a chance? - http://qwidget.com/blog...
"Hi Ursula, the link in the email should bring you back to the top of the qwidget. if you are autosigned in (which you can choose to be next time you sign in), the qwidget will automatically open. From there, you have to click the "messages" link. we're aware that the link is WAY too small right now. we're working on making it easier to see and maybe even getting a mailbox logo next to it. however, it isn't technically possible at this point to link directly to your inbox from the email notification you get."
- mike
Re: Does Obama have a chance? - http://qwidget.com/blog...
"It's different because with comments, there is no guidance. with the qwidget you were directed as far as what you were supposed to talk about. the unstructured nature of comments ends up discouraging people from participating because in the split second after they read the website's content, they have to decide what kind of thing to say, and most people just click away before they have to come up with something interesting. with the qwidget, we slowly guide people into conversations by making the first step a simple yes/no/maybe. then we ask why. also, by limiting everyone to 200 characters, we'll never get long winded rants that turn off other more casual users. and by limiting people to one entry/answer, we won't get flame wars between a few users who argue on and on in one comment section."
- mike
Your Users Can Be More Engaged Than You Think | The Qwidget Blog: Stories, Updates, and Thoughts From the Qwidget Makers - http://qwidget.com/blog...
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A few thoughts on how comments don't capitalize enough on the power of content to engage users.
- mike
Re: Thoughts to Consider for Better Online Marketing - http://michaelfruchter.com/blog...
"That makes sense. I think for now, with my own project, I'll continue mostly to use my own twitter account but i've set up one for the product and will experiment a bit with both after we launch."
- mike
Re: rizzn's personal blog: Disqus Makes the “Connect” Decision For Me - http://rizzn.com/blog...
"This is obviously a fantastic thing for bloggers. But for users, will it make us more likely to comment? Each blog that uses disqus and wants facebook connect capabilities has to apply to facebook to get a facebook connect key. It seems frustrating that blogs can't just let third party apps do the connection for them. This means that disqus will only work on super power bloggers. And a lot of users won't benefit. Darn your rules, Facebook!"
- mike
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