"Peter - you're exactly right. a return to our senses is the only way out.
i think it is great they are headed towards sensible underwriting - it is
the fastest way out of this mess." - Morgan
"there's some great articles on the influence of the foreign funds they've
taken on and the direction they're pushing the company. should be an
interesting next couple of quarters." - Morgan
"looking forward to not having to deal w/ridiculous carrier approvals and terrible dev platforms - it's about time someone stuck a sharp stick in the eye of the fat-cat telcos that have kept the US mobile space languishing behind the rest of the world." - Morgan
they have sooo many other avenues to produce income. why that? they need to be more creative. - Josh via twhirl
I wonder how they put them on iGoogle. Honestly, though, a couple half banners surrounding the logo wouldn't really bother me. Everyone's got the right to earn a few billion more. :) - felix
Scoble - don't you hate it when a site gets loaded down with ads? Even after the person said they wouldn't run them? - Dave Hodson
If the display ads from google are every bit as intelligent as the link ads, they'll be fine. I'm disappointed by how this will likely effect the page load times on Google (which are the primary reason I use Google over Yahoo or MSN anyway) - Adam Posey
lets see how this *pushing envelope* ends up... I guess this is classical case of big company taken over by mediocrity step by step, described so many times that it should be recognized without effort - silpol
I guess it was only a matter of time... As long as it's unobtrusive in terms of pageload &&,|| client-side processing I'm fine with it. Could probably add rule(s) to ipfw... - RandaL Hicks
the display ads might be put on Google image search which is all about images anyway, not main .com text homepage - Kevin Gough
If Google manages to get advertisers to clean up their act and create ads that don't slow down/break web pages, then everyone wins. If they let the same ads run on Google that run everywhere else, then Google loses bigtime. - Jason Wehmhoener
Personally, I think the article is trying to stir up unfounded attention. It talks about display ads in general raking in cash for Google, but then the quote from the Google rep talks about ads in image search only. If that's the case, what is the big deal? - Jason Dettbarn
Agree w @Jason and add that people had the same sort of reaction when text ads were introduced. It's not like you're going to wake up one day and it's going to look like the old TW Pathfinder site. - Erik Dafforn
I'm not sure how I feel about this...I mean, if Google can display ads that are in fact relevant to me, then I might be interested. I also think that while this idea does suck - it is important to remember what Google is...a public company that has to make profit. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding where all their money comes from....(i.e. who clicks on all those ads anyway?) - Elliott
I also agree with @Jason. The reference to Google.com is like saying "Google.com properties" - (i.e. Image Search). - Elliott
Is Google trying to be the next Yahoo!? Do not like. - darnell
Hmmm i use Google email, reader, docs, Search, Picasa, so no it would be a pain migrating all my stuff to diffrent services. - John Spencer via Alert Thingy
s spam filter for my oldest mail adress and GReader for all my RSS needs - Hannes Müller via twhirl
Not since I use GMail as spam filter for my oldest mail adress and GReader for all my RSS needs. - Hannes Müller via twhirl
@Haim: Very well put. I only really use Gmail, Docs and Search nowadays. Gmail's backed up, most of the important Docs are also on my compy and I can always use somewhere else for search. Now, if only I could figure out exactly where that "somewhere else" is... - Cyvros/fyc
I could live, but I wouldn't be happy. I think the contribution of Google is that of the car and telephone. - Vince DeGeorge
google services just like any other technologies are for more convenience or improving the economic & life. Not having it could just make the life harder then :) - Nikpay
I could live without google as long as I have friendfeed. I find anything I need here anyways :) - Kyle Weller
Of course, as this conversation continues, Google has been very slow for me this morning... and is definitely impacting my day. - Vince DeGeorge
if i go offline for a week on my vacation, then yes i can, it's not so hard. but if i got my laptop and i was able to connect to the internet, then it would be little hard to do, but possible. now we have many other way to connect people or get information without searching. - "31oooooooo5"
No. Mail, documents, reader, and various other things are wrapped up in what I do and future plans. - Lisa Thompson via Alert Thingy
live without greader and gmail ? not a chance - Chris Jones via twhirl
No. Not at the moment no. Internet are to valuable right now. - Svartling
Oh yeah, definitely. I really only use the Google search engine, and have recently been running my searches through Mahalo. Even the stuff I search for is fairly obvious; PHP functions, little tutorials, etc. And Google's magic ability to go straight to the best result has fizzled in the past few years, so they're not massively better than the other search engines now. - Brent Newhall
No, and to be honest search engines that are aimed at being 'semantic' like Mahalo really miss the point: convenient and effortless search. If Google, went away my internet use would decrease 99.9 percent. The remaining .1 would be askjolene.com - jon
Not me. From my blog to my RSS reader, I'm all Google all the time. - Mike Lewis via twhirl
Maybe it's just me, but I dislike being that dependent on a specific piece of tech to get all information. Domain-specific search--like pulling a cookbook off a shelf--returns better results than a one-size-fits-all solution like Google. Especially in the modern days of SEO, where most of my Google results link to linkfarms. - Brent Newhall
Easily, at this point for what I search for I can't tell a difference between google and live. - Chris Patterson via twhirl
without google how would I spell anything correctly? - Anthony Farrior
i could live - in the dark - without search though i don't really care who is serving it as long as it works and is easy/good (i.e. goog for now) - Morgan via twhirl
can we live without oxygen? for about three minutes, so yeah, temporarily - Julian Baldwin
I tried it for a week while my ISP was having troubles. It was nearly impossible for me to get any work done. - Diane Ensey
I probably could...but Google Search is such a habit. Breaking it would be tough. - Chris Rossini
Without Google, I would probably become a constant Yahoo user. Wouldn't be too difficult to switch. - possible248
or FriendFeed, "It's what your friends are thinking about." - Chris White
"View the web through your friends' eyes." - Bret Taylor
I like Ana's. It might also be good to have a tagline that showcases the other half. "All the stuff you put on the web in one place." - Kevin Fox
All right, two more: 1) "FriendFeed, it's about your friends." and 2) "FriendFeed, share the web." - Chris White
"FriendFeed: you bring the friends, we bring the benefits" (from Ana) - Bret Taylor
Um, is this some kind of reference to friends with benefits, cause I'm not really gettting that vibe from FriendFeed. :) Maybe there should be more pictures. - Chris White
"What your friends are up to online", "Follow your friends' online activities", "Stalk people", "Discover interesting news, photos, blogs through friends" - Jess Lee
Keep up with what your friends are doing and sharing on the web. - peter
Hmm, I kind of like, "Good things from your friends", though I'm looking for a quick explanation more than a slogan. - Paul Buchheit
Web services aggregator and friend tracker - Louis Gray
Also, ideally it would be comprehensible by regular people. The basic activities that drive FF, sharing and discussion, are very normal. For example, my most recent FF entry (http://friendfeed.com/e/2b600e...) came from my aunt (via email). - Paul Buchheit
FriendFeed: go ahead and feed the wild animals - Huy Zing
PS: Wonder if one day Friendfeed grows to the point where even the harmless word "feed" is too technical and it will be just friend.com :) - Philipp Lenssen
"Bread crumbs for the mind." - Think of the bread crumbs from Hansel and Grethel and friendfeeders leaving trails of their online activity :) - Mustafa K. Isik
To further elaborate on terebaby's comment: Friends feed friends' FriendFeed - April Buchheit
Heh, I come back to this post, weeks after the fact with "A web of friends (and their feeds)." You can have that. That's free. Put it in your pocket, take it out at lunchtime. Show it to your friends.Draw flowers round it if you like. :-) - Slippy Lane
information mining of of being redundant - fiorano
why can't we like comments? would be awesome here - paulm
Experience the artistic process of inspiring online journalists :-) You guys rock! Do you know how much time you guys are saving me from having to personally check out all these 1000s of apps and websites? Priceless! - Mitchell Tsai
Ha, very clever, I didn't even think of doing that! - Glenn Slaven
(I think that the "Comment" and "Like" links need to be moved below the existing comments. I scrolled all the way down, back up, and down). Slogan: Friendfeed: Web 2.0 Made _Smaller_ - possible248
FriendFeed is a center for store ideas. - accesine
High Tech playground - bounce around your ideas, stuff with your friends! - Susan Beebe
"Jack - that is terrible. I'm sorry to hear about that. The depressed
market is affecting people across the spectrum - not just those that
bought at the top..." - Morgan
Adding someone of Andreessen's caliber can only be seen as a positive for Facebook as it works to figure itself out as a viable, sustainable, growing business. - Morgan
"Economist David Lereah was once the housing market's biggest cheerleader. Now he says the bust isn't near over, and home prices still have a long way to fall." ...ahhh good ole Lereah - Andy Kaufman
Lereah is either a delusion lunatic, a total mark, or a fraud - take your pick! - Morgan
why take the time to build it all yourself when you can pull something as powerful as salesforce out of the box and build on top of it to meet your exact business needs? great advance. - Morgan
The Facebook-killer may have arrived... - Mitchell Tsai
Nah... its yet another aggregation service... there's gonna be tons more soon so get ready! - Dan Delphin via twhirl
*Cough* Alexa data *Cough* But really, we FriendFeeders probably have a toolbar that is stuffed with valuable bookmarklets, so we're probably greatly under represented by the Alexa "data". - Mike Reynolds
FriendFeed has a lot of "first adopters" of the "first adopters" (FAFAs). Not sure if the current FriendFeed interface will be welcoming for non-tech non-high-imformation-load people. Not enough pictures and visuals. I'd love to get tiny pictures extracted from each blog or article - maybe smaller than the current ones, and off-to-the-right, so we see the same number of articles on each pages. - Mitchell Tsai
As I've noted previously, if you go out on the street and ask people about FriendFeed, most of them will think you're talking about a potluck. - Ontario Emperor
Like Mitchell, I'm not sure of the appeal for the non early adopter or techie info junky and I'd bet no CIO from any Fortune 500 company has used it yet. That doesn't mean there's not something unique here. It will never be Facebook because there just aren't that many information junkies -- but i still think it does something very cool with the "social graph" that not even Facebook does. - Robert Seidman
FriendFeed-like picture sharing could be great with the masses. Likewise recipe-sharing. Anybody want to shepherd a new startup? :-) Being a CEO is exhausting. - Mitchell Tsai
Oh. Oh. This is turning into a SPAM post for new CEOs. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
"My expectation is that someone (Google or Facebook) will acquire them" .... Friendfeed was created by ex-googlers so I doubt they'll be aquired by google :P - Chris Farrugia
Yep, I sure do! I love it! I live in FF :-) Don't you?! <smurk> - Susan Beebe
Ah! Bonus. Now subscribed to Jason Goldberg's Friendfeed. - Ashton
Yang lost control the moment Ballmer's letter hit his hands - probably before that really. - Morgan via twhirl
Yes, and he told Balmber to go away. Now that's being in charge. Most execs would have taken the money with their short-term focus. - TranceMist
Its necessary for the board to kill this guy, make the deal, and start dismembering the corpse. - Stowe Boyd via twhirl
i wonder, 'quo product' from PR brainwashing the public with that 'get Yahoo down!', apart from Ballmer obviously? - silpol
How much longer we he be at the helm, if as expected Microsoft come in with a new offer? Will they leave it up to him again, to take all the flak and then move him aside or will they appoint someone else to pick up the pieces!! - Joe
“Marc Canter compared me to Gordon Gekko today. http://tinyurl.com/48hjck i suspect many twitterers don't even know who Gordon Gekko is”
May 5 at 6:30 pm
Not everyone on Twitter and FF are under 30, some of even remember the terrible flix they did - Jon Erickson
Comparisons to Gecko are flawed, Fred's playing the role of "Sir Larry," who admits "I happen to like the company," but as Gecko points out "...like most Brits, he thinks he has a better pot to piss in..." - Chris Phenner
Gordon Gekko might get a rebirth here as the mortgage/credit house of cards come tumbling down. He's part hero/part anti-Christ. He's like a cinematic rorschach test. I think one's personal perception of him says a lot about their personality. - Morgan via twhirl
Thanks Scoble. Google (46%) Social Media sites (15%) Other Blogs (12%) Repeat Readers (11%) Other Websites (9%) Other (5%) Other Search Engines (1%) = 99%, 1% lost in rounding errors - Mitchell Tsai
FriendFeed is emerging as my leading referral source, second only to Techmeme. Techmeme is hit or miss, whereas FriendFeed referrals are based on your close, and your extended, social networks. FriendFeed visitors are also more engaged than a StumbleUpon visitor. - Hutch Carpenter
Does "Google" combine their search engine and reader? - Ranjit Mathoda
Wow. Sizable traffic comes from social networks. I bet last year that percent total would be half what it is today. - Alex Williams
i think it totally depends on the audience and subject topic. i get 35% from google and the 16% direct and the rest from referring sites for my mortgage blog due to all the news about the subject lately. - Morgan via twhirl
That seems consistent with Google Analytics stats on my own blog and web site. - TranceMist
"Hi Tom,
I have no idea. It worked pretty seamlessly w/blown mortgage. I
would try contacting them directly on their site. It seems like a
pretty cool tool though...
Morgan" - Morgan
