Thanks for this Steven, I'd heard the horrors stories and it was putting me off using it - may have to investigate it now. - Colin Walker
Good post, Steven. I'm still in a wait-and-see mode on Disqus. Yes, at this point it does seem stupid to me, but I can change my mind. That's why my post said "debating". :-) - David Risley
@David - I realize what you were trying to do but I think if you can get over the idea that comments are something that only do you any good if they are on your blog then you might find Disqus a good service. I know that was something that I had to come to grips with and still do sometimes. - Steven Hodson
@Colin you're welcome and I hope you do decide to give it a try - Steven Hodson
"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
Facebook really needs to do something innovative soon... it has become a bit boring as T Hawk suggests - Ron Emrick via Alert Thingy
Oooh goodie, now Scoble can accept my friend invite! ha, ha!! - Susan Beebe
I will accept all of them as soon as they turn this feature on. - Robert Scoble
And that's going to bring the excitement back to Facebook? - Morton Fox
No. I still am very concerned that Facebook kicks people off with no recourse. But this gets rid of one of my problems with Facebook. I hear a ton of new features are coming, too. - Robert Scoble
I admit I do skim through the occasional articles ;) but I did read through the whole of Sarah's post and it makes a good point. There are distractions admitedly but sometimes after reading through a couple of posts on the same story you know where to jump to the actual authors opinion! - Joe
I do it too. I think it also has to do with the amount of information available. Sometimes I think it's a waste of time reading a long post or article when there are so many other things I could be reading, watching, etc. - Alejandro S.
I skim most articles. I look at headline first , then if that interest me, I'll skim the article, I don't have time to read every article I see in depth - Kim Landwehr
I read the first paragraph of that article, skimmed the rest. :) - Eric Daams
Yeah, I wish there were a way to signal that it's just a great headline vs. actually something you need to read. Heheh. - Robert Scoble
After a while, I find I can pick and choose which items to skim vs. read from who the poster is - some people are indiscriminate and others post only good stuff. My brain is already starting to filter the info from the must reads to the nice to haves that way; it saves time. - Sally Church
Skimming is exactly why it is good to use header tags in your posts. Makes for quick scanning. Sarah hit it spot on. - David Risley
The last few months I've noticed more 'read me' (ie: Sensational?) headlines with almost no content than ever. Some are fairly significant blogs and websites. My reaction? After a while, they come off the 'read list' and they rarely if ever make it to the 'shared read list'. - Charlie Anzman
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
maiorz: Sound worked well for me (MacBook Pro OS X 10.5.2 Safari 3.0.4) on iPod earphones. - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell: cool. I need better speakers then :-) - Mario Romero
Added a text overview of 4 main questions in the conversation at my Del.icio.us/FriendFeed link - http://tinyurl.com/3rmy7c - Why is UI so simple?, User Testing, Duplication-noise, Looping-noise, Fast-user-noise, Duplication-noise has primary/secondary source issues (not just hash on identical URLs) - Mitchell Tsai
Good video, but it also sounds to me like you agreed with me on the noise factor of FF. So, what were you arguing about yesterday? :-) - David Risley
Interesting. Sound was fine on my iMac. - Sally Church
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
