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
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
"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
Wow -- I can go back to using google reader then. - Ginger Makela
That was fast, I am going to try it out now! - Joe
Congrats on pulling in Google Reader Shared Items Notes (GRSIN?) into FriendFeed. That was fast! - Mike Reynolds
This was amazing. I woke up to find that feature had been launched on Google Reader, and it was already supported in FriendFeed! Hats off to you! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
They really make this new app. of GReader for FF. Awesome! - Erhan Erdogan
Just added a note on a shared item on Google Reader and once submitted it can be edited here as well! Well done!! - Joe
Yeah, reading through the page-after-page of items, it's like a real history. I wish I was able to select this four-hour period and save it as a permanent record of how we all reacted to the news. - Robert Scoble
So, let's Digg it and/or Link to it from your blogs so it gets on Techmeme. Then the circle of life would REALLY be complete! :-) - Robert Scoble
I believe they call those infinite loops? I could be wrong. - Colby Olson
Pretty amazing conversations Robert. It's the true power of micro socnets. Pure magic. I too wish we could rewind the meta for this conversation. I've got an idea for an engine to address this, but I haven't got the time to build it. - Brian D. Eisenberg
“call as many Google people as you can” days - Clickry
If they added time periods to the advanced search, it could be possible. I didn't know advanced search results lagged so bad too. - Bwana McCall
@bwana - yup. The time lag in search results feeds is a disappointment. I hope they can speed up their indexing process. - Brian D. Eisenberg
I am looking into the search latency now - this is a bug, normally it is almost real-time. Sorry for the mishap, folks. - Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! I also like @bwana's idea of adding time-based search. Then we can get conversation stream snapshots as feeds. Think of the mashup possibilities of that! - Brian D. Eisenberg
It's funny how I got the initial story on Twitter, then moved to Friendfeed for the discussion and comments. This was so natural I didn't realize until after I did it. - SocialNetworking.com
I'm going to guess it was taken from 1 Rincon - a.k.a. "The Middle Finger" building. - Mike Doeff
Mike's right, it was taken at 1 Rincon. I'm working with the building developer on photos for their advertising. It's the tallest residential building in San Francisco at present. - Thomas Hawk
Fantastic photo - wow!!! bling! bling! I love it... great colors... soo cool... - Susan Beebe
