This could not be more true. This is exactly what is happening with our mortgages. Additionally, Abu Dhabi's SWF investment into CitiGroup was a very curious move that will most likely be the first of many high profile investments into American companies. - Monty
Sorry left coasters! "West Coast viewers will continue to see NBC's swim coverage of the Beijing Olympics on a three-hour delay, even if Michael Phelps is in position on the final day to break Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics." - Steve Rubel
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"As far as the battle between Smith and O'Sullivan, I think it's over. Unless O'Sullivan completely face-plants against the Packers Saturday night at the Candle, he'll probably start the season." - Bryan Clark
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There is a lot riding on Martz's "system" being successful for the Niners. I am still not 100% convinced that this system can overcome some of the shortcomings in the QB and receiver positions. - Monty
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I'm still holding my breath that Alex can get his act together and really win the QB competition. If he can't, or if he is simply the best of the worst, it could be another long season. - Bryan Clark
I agree. This is clearly Alex's position to lose (given the economics of his contract). The hope was probably that Alex would out perform and "win" the starting position making the decision much easier. In workouts, Alex is clearly the better qb. However, he has yet to do this.. - Monty
I am curious to see how this plays out. It will get interesting IF JT actually has a good outing. He he doesn't, then that really does not change much. - Monty
@Monty, I would love to help you manage this room. Could you add me as an administrator? - Bryan Clark
""Whoa, no, no, no, no," Martz said. "We are not monitoring anything right now. We're just practicin' right now. We haven't even found the right pieces yet. Once we find the right pieces and then get our starting offense together then we can talk about where we are."" - Bryan Clark
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PLEASE get Vernon involved in the offense. - Monty
The ultimate FriendFeed client is the URL, it isn't as needy as Twitter is, and doesn't need a client to make it more usable (at the moment). - Steve Isaacs
Perhaps FriendFeed doesn't need a client to make it more useful, but it is certainly needed to make it more accessible (for me anyways). Also, thanks for favoriting this, Louis. Also, thanks for commenting at Performancing and adding me as a friend on FriendFeed! - James Mowery
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that missing hide feature is indeed a good point. really messes up ff in twhirl. - Martin Spindler
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Above all else, I don't understand why FriendFeed and Twhirl have not agreed on the display of comments. Why on earth do they have the order of comments different on each one? Personally, I like the reverse chronological order in Twhirl, but when I visit the FF site, it always takes a moment to adjust seeing the older comments first. Regardless, consistency would be appreciated throughout most first and third-party applications. :D - James Mowery
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I like using FF on the web.. tried twhirl and it sucks... I agree with @Steve - why do we even need a client? - andy brudtkuhl
Andy: I would ask if you believe that Twitter is as useful without a client? If your answer was no... either you don't use Twitter or you are a madman! :D - James Mowery
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"Client" doesn't necessarily mean a desktop app. I do, however, see a need for alternative web interfaces. IMO, the successful third-party FF apps will be improved and advanced web clients. - Aviv
Yeah, I agree with Aviv. Especially with smartphones coming in their prime with the likes of the Apple iPhone, I see greater importance being put on third-parties. Who knows what could be created to utilize FriendFeed's functionality? I don't think we've even seen the true potential of third-party developers come out yet with FriendFeed. - James Mowery
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One area of opportunity for a FF client would be w/a native iPhone app. While the FF iPhone interface is fairly good, but an app could introduce some additional functionality (i.e. improved filtering). - Monty
James, I think the Twitter concept itself makes it that much more suitable for 3rd party desktop clients, pretty much in the same way that we have IM clients. I think FF is fundamentally different, especially usability-wise (ie. we comment, we check back for replies, there are rooms, different types of content being shared - from images to Twitter-like messages). Unlike Twitter - and IM for that matter, it'll be difficult for desktop apps to keep the users engaged in the FF experience for a long period of time. It works for Twitter - messages in, messages out. But FF requires the user to pay more attention and interact with the system in ways that I think are bound to be inefficient if using a simplified desktop app. - Aviv
James, while FF's current API implementation is great, I don't think we will see serious alternatives to the FF web client until FF lets developers hook into the constant stream of updates (XMPP is all the rage, it seems). It's still possible to aggregate FF data, but at this stage I think it's the main reason for the lack of rich FF clients. - Aviv
Aviv, while I agree, you just can never know. I wasn't specifically talking about desktop clients with this discussion. I think that web-based applications could be developed to better harness the FriendFeed data. For example, I'd love to see a more in-depth view of the activity that takes place on my FriendFeed account (somewhat like Socialistics for Facebook) or have a third-party develop a site that could allow you to aggregate different content types into one single feed for FriendFeed, or perhaps something like a third-party application that could notify you whenever your name or brand is mentioned on FriendFeed (like summize). - James Mowery
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I'd love to see a live activity heat-map of some sort that can display the relative activity happening throughout the world on FriendFeed. A simple map with color signifying the amount of activity that has taken place within the past hour, day, week, month, and year would be an excellent application. It could be made more useful, but even having something just like that would be astounding to check out. Stuff like that is what I'm interested in. - James Mowery
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I think a mobile client would be great... But I don't think we need another client for the desktop... @James I only prefer using a Twitter client because it pushes the updates to me - andy brudtkuhl
Andy, I also only prefer Twhirl because it gets the updates to me. When I want to share content from the web, I much rather prefer using the FF bookmarklet. I also use the FF web interface when attempting to catch up on information that I have missed. - James Mowery
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I like Twhirl, but not for FF - I would give a client that did all of this a try. - Leslie Poston
No client needed for FriendFeed. FriendFeed is the first service where I feel I don't need a local app. - Rutger Blom
I am sure a similar opportunity could exist for Enterprise SaaS applications out there. One could start with the major vendors, i.e. Salesforce, Netsuite, Workday, SuccessFactors, etc.. - Monty
Personally, I think this is a great idea. Unfortunately I don't have a camera phone (Blackberry 8800)but I could imagine the receipt use case when on business trips. Such a simple concept. - Monty
Very cool. I had a similar idea for tracking consumption of fuel. The Twitter integration is also a very interesting approach. Eventually, machines (Cars) will be able to send their own twitters and this process (as well as others) could be fully automated... - Monty
I could not agree more with the comment portablity concerns. It is very convenient to comment on Alert Thingy/Friendfeed however, I am losing the context of the original post.. (as I comment this I should be commenting on your blog post).. ...via AlertThingy - Monty
no way jeffong ago. Now twhirl's doiung it to friendfeed and twitter ...via twhirl - Kingsley Joseph
oh cocomment, if only you worked ...via twhirl - Kingsley Joseph
If these platforms result in valuable applications, there may result a Long Tail of Enterprise apps in the cloud. It will be interesting to see how these can all survive. ...via AlertThingy - Monty
Looks interesting. Applied. Lets see how good the program is. Competition is good ... - Vasudev Ram
