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Fwd: Facebook acquires FriendFeed. Interview with Paul Buchheit, cofounder of FriendFeed. - http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_2996... (via http://friendfeed.com/scoblei...)
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Well that was fast, Robert.
- Adam Reyher
Wow. I honestly did not see THAT coming....
- Carter Rabasa
Nice work Robert.
- Alex Calic
ya talk about real time news, thanks
- sean percival
listening
- Chris Saad
This is beginning to resemble journalism.
- Ian Tindale
im not sure its such a great thing facebook and friendfeed sitting in a tree.
- Eran Even-Kesef
Good job Robert
- Ruchit Garg
Definitely, I'm listening now. Wow! This is breaking news!
- Manu Ullas
hopefully this turns out okay, don't want friendfeed to get ruined. great interview, that was fast reporting!
- Dakota O'Neill
What are your thoughts Robert?
- Amani
WD mate
- Chris Saad
That was quick. Thanks robert.
- Akshay Dodeja
Hoping this will lead to an improved/cleaner interface for Facebook...I prefer Friendfeed
- Rick Bucich
so, so sad. I like(d) Friendfeed much more than facebook
- Francisco Kemeny
home run for FF.. Facebook will be able to give developers a treasure trove of data one thing that Twitter is dominating on right now. Twitter has a huge developer community but isn't managing that. Here FB is poised to be huge
- John Furrier
So classic that Robert has the first interview about this...Where's Louis? :)
- Anthony Farrior
Wow!
- Ideas At Random
I think FriendFeed can help Facebook more than the other way around.
- Manu Ullas
"very cool...."
- Carter Rabasa
How do they plan to mix the teenagers with the geeks?
- Jordi Soler
Amani: I am excited! Facebook has 800 employees and 300 million users. This makes both companies much more important.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
here was a comment on SiliconANGLE blog .. very funny .. "Hey, since we've copied almost every innovation you've had, guess you might as well play on the company softball team!"
- John Furrier
Nice strategic move - Interesting to see how this will integrate and looks in 12 months
- Alex Vermeule (@alexve)
to be honnest I was predicting google offer, then facebook preceed google on this, they are doing well, now rarding FF this is great, the sucess is to know when to pass to something else, the future will make the abtle wave, facebook rude for all geek it is time to code.
- abdellah
You rascal Robert, bet you had wind about FriendFeed and FaceBook merger before today? Yes? Have not used either SM apps. much UNTIL Twitter locked my account. May have been a fortunate mishap as it turns out. Getting to know the beauties of both apps. =)
- SashaKane
Awesome. Thanks.
- M. Kong
Should be so very interesting.
- Adam
Robert wastes no time on the reporting. CNN needs reporters like this.
- JonInteractive
Not sure I am so jazzed about it....but congratulations to the FF crew.
- Kreg Steppe
Good job, Robert. Good questions.
- Bryan Penczak
Honestly, I won't get used to following Robert Scoble in Facebook. Seems out of place to me.
- Jordi Soler
Wow! I was not expecting that.
- Devon Govett
Letter 'F' affinity and alliteration merger, classic playbook move.
- James Watters
Did I hear someone laugh in the background when you asked about FF users being disappointed?
- Paul Saarinen
Agreed Jordi
- Rick Bucich
A good interview Robert.
- Thomas Hawk
Thanks Robert! - shared and linked over on Phreadz : http://tech.phreadz.com/v...
- kosso
Robert, mind if I transcribe this? (Unless someone else already has.)
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Congrats on getting this story Robert. I agree--this is great, realtime journalism!
- Sunshine
No mention of twitter?
- Ivan Kirigin
Hahahaha...all that time you invested over here on FF paid off today! LMAO
- Francine Hardaway
Francine: just watch what happens now. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
do you have a small amount of FriendFeed shares Robert?
- Torsten Eckert
NOOOOOOO. Damnit! I am praying that Facebook doesn't wall up Friendfeed. I was starting to build a site around Friendfeed :(
- beersage
beersage: as Facebook is trying to break their users into a more public world, I doubt that you really have anything to worry about there.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Starting to listen to this now. Hoping you are right, Rob.
- beersage
I hope so to. But regardless, I think that it was in reality necessary for FriendFeed to sell to really put the technology in front of a sufficient number of eyeballs. Facebook is probably the best acquirer that FriendFeed could have. (I would have not felt the same had FF been acquired by Google)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The thing with Friendfeed though is how I can share things outside of a 'wall.' I prominently feature the FF widget on my site. I'm just concerned of losing that capability as I was tinkering with delivering a new site w/ content primarily running through my Friendfeed account. I am to this day unable to do much outside of the wall. I am unable to subscribe to Fan Page updates in Google reader for instance. That is what concerns me about FB acquiring FF given my goals.
- beersage
Robert sounded quite breathless in that interview. Thanks Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
Great interview great Job!!
- Kevin J Hatton
Wow! I'm in shock. I can't wait to hear this interview.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
This deal was about getting Paul and the team and nothing else
- Stephen Pickering
@stephan, are you serious? FB is buying a concept, a technoloie, a structure, a content and a user list
- abdellah
now how could a team that left google resist under a unique perception system, where the leader vision is upon any thing
- abdellah
Unconvincing Paul Buchheit, the team is more exited of being part of bigger story - logical for them to move on
- patrickdh
They want a way to turn their white pages into a yellow pages and the only guy on Earth who knows how to do it, is Paul
- Stephen Pickering
It was only about the technology and the people. Most people are on also FB anyway.
- James Myatt
My guess is that Paul got a tooooooooon of options and will soon be the No.2 guy at Facebook
- Stephen Pickering
Glossing over of that "short term" question by the FF boys. It just seems more about the individuals at FF than it does the users of FF. "Their (Facebook) long term goals" Nice interview, Robert!
- Melanie Reed
Well, it looks as if pass-through of FriendFeed Likes, Comments, etc. to Twitter is down. Will it be for good? Did Twitter do this in response to the acquisition? Or is it just a regular (though curiously timed) hiccup?
- Alex Schleber
twitter dow!!
- abdellah
Alex, my Facebook posts have been going through FriendFeed to Twitter today. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
How did you record the phone conversation with Paul Buchheit? I went to BlogTalkRadio.com but... it‘s not clear at all :-(
- Florin Grozea
Florin, rough transcript here: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
I have a few choice words. @#%&. That is all.
- Zachary TG
To do this call I used BlogTalk Radio's Cinch: http://cinch.blogtalkradio.com/
- Robert Scoble
dugg: http://digg.com/tech_ne...
- Gaith
Thanks for this, Scoble.
- mp3WatchWorld
this is why your own personal website is always more important than friendfeed, Twitter and all the rest. that's never going anywhere
- Terry O'Fee
from BuddyFeed
Is there a WordPress plug-in to automatically push new posts to FriendFeed via the API?
Nicola Greco, Robert Higgins, (jeff)isageek and 100 other people liked this
Instead of just having a new post show up as a title and a link when the system gets around to checking your feed, you could push an excerpt and an image to FriendFeed the instant the post goes up.
- Ken Sheppardson
There is a WordPress plugin to support SUP, which would accomplish the "instant" part of your goal: http://wordpress.org/extend.... To get images you just need to support MediaRSS (I believe there is also a WordPress plugin for that).
- Benjamin Golub
Cool, where do I sign...........?
- Kevin J Hatton
Nice idea!
- Don Bonaddio
Nice. I will use this... Thank ;)
- Semih Masat ™
Benjamin: I knew somebody'd mention SUP :-) I'd rather not add some intermediate service/protocol, I just want the ability push directly via a single plug-in, preferably with a UI component that gives you control over what image or images are added, select the excerpt, select what groups the post goes to, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
What I want is probably similar to what Ken you want - something to push the title & link& image as a post, and an excerpt as a comment to FriendFeed, which would then go to Twitter. The group selecter would be ultra cool on top of that
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yeah, I'm using PUB-Sup, but what would be even more interesting is something that pushes, and tracks comments of the pushed post at the same time. I'd like to have real-time comments on each blog post.
- Jesse Stay
You're too cool to just grab your own RSS feed?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: Yes.
- Ken Sheppardson
;) gotcha
- Matthew DeVries
Ken: Have you seen this one: http://sudarmuthu.com/wordpre...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Just found it, looking into it now
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
WP-Sup (http://neothoughts.com/wp-sup/) + MediaRSS (http://wordpress.org/extend...) plugins will do the job
- Bwana ☠
Rob: Cool. Looks like Sudar's around http://friendfeed.com/sudar Maybe he'll drop by...
- Ken Sheppardson
Just sent him a tweet. Hopefully he'l join us :) Looks to be in india
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The SUP plugin doesn't add an intermediate protocol. It does exactly what FriendFeed wants from your site. It adds a line of code to your header and pings their API everytime you publish. Works perfectly to publish posts realtime to FriendFeed (and then on to Twitter, etc.) In fact, I've still not got used to publishing a post and seeing a notification on my desktop from FriendFeed from my post a half second later.
- Joss Winn
OK, I get it, guys. I know how SUP works and I know you can use SUP and MediaRSS to accomplish what I want. But I don't want to ping some API to tell it to go pull something from a feed... I want to make a single call to the FriendFeed API designed for creating entries http://code.google.com/p...
- Ken Sheppardson
Shouldn't be that hard to build. You can do it Ken :)
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: I think Sudar has already. :-) I'm going to put his implementation through its paces over the weekend.
- Ken Sheppardson
Oh ok cool... Hmmm.. I'd try it, but I'm not sure how it'll affect Backtype Connect on my blog. I want to be sure the FF comments get pulled in correctly.
- Bwana ☠
Bwana: not sure exactly what you want to try - but in general any entry that links to your posts will be connected by BT Connect -- we do of course try our best to cut out things like auto snippets of text that appear as comments when using the FF bookmarklet.
- Mike Montano
Mike - I just wanted to be sure if I remove my RSS feed from FriendFeed and use this solution, will my comments get pulled back into my blog. I gather the plugin would have to only link to my blog from FriendFeed, and Backtype does the rest
- Bwana ☠
Yeah, it seems like once the plugin creates the entry on FriendFeed with a link to your blog post, you're home free, no matter how that entry is created.
- Ken Sheppardson
I like I like
- Michael Ehline
Hi Guys, nice to know that the Plugin (Post2FF) which I created around 9 months back is of use to someone :) I am take the code dust it off and will add the new features that you requested. Stay tuned :)
- Sudar
Awesome! Thank you very much Sudar!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Of note, Sudar: it would be most handy if we could select the link that is published on the entry - either the linkt ot the blog entry or the ff.im link. (wasn't clear to me if the API actually supports this?) On most of my blog posts, I'd like to direct people straight to the post, but someone or some entries might prefer linking to the FriendFeed post/discussion
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I am done with the modifications to my Plugin to add new features like choosing the room to which the link to be posted, selecting images etc. Will release it after completing the testing. If anyone is willing to do beta testing, just ping me.
- Sudar
I'd love to give it a try :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yay Sudar with his remedy to dust off (Post2FF)
- Janaree Nore
Sudar: Ping. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken, Please DM your email address and I will send the Plugin for beta testing. If everything goes well, I will be able to release the Plugin tomorrow by this time.
- Sudar
Sudar, sounds interesting. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So guys, finally I have updated my Post to FriendFeed Plugin with support for rooms. You can get the new version at http://sudarmuthu.com/blog...
- Sudar
Also let me know if you face any issues.
- Sudar
I want it thanks Sudar!
- Robert Freeze
Are we able to do the revere post from FF -> Wordpress, not as a rss thing but as a post?
- Chirag Chamoli
@Chirag, I am not sure if I understood your question. Can you explain it a bit?
- Sudar
nice! like the idea Ken.
- .LAG liked that
I wanted to understand If I can autopost from friendfeed to Wordpress. I am using the rss feed in the sidebar, instead I want the stuff to be added to wordpress as a post.
- Chirag Chamoli
from email
@Chirag, You can install WP-O-Mattic WordPress Plugin (http://devthought.com/project...) and use the FF rss as input to publish from FF -> WordPress. (I haven't tried it, so not sure if it will work 100%)
- Sudar
@Sundar: Thanks I will start working on that.
- Chirag Chamoli
As I understand it SUP won't work for Feedburner feeds.
- Rutger Blom
I am interested in using Sundar's plugin. Is it compatible with WordPress 2.8.3?
- Skyler Call
@Skyler Call, It should be compatible, since it doesn't use any functions which were changed in 2.8+ Anyways I will check it and will bump up the supported version in readme file.
- Sudar
Five To-Die-For Augmented Reality Shopping Apps | Design & Innovation | Fast Company - http://www.fastcompany.com/blog...
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Left; Swedish, right: Arabic, front: English, far right: Russian. This must be the Brussels EU quarter... Love it... Better than BHV anyway.
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Facebook's New Privacy Policies: Live Blogging the Press Call http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... starts in 20 mins, we're discussing the big issues now
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It's very interesting to watch this unfold. Facebook is much more than the social utility they started out as; they're very much vying <a href="http://benwerd.com/2009...">to represent you on the web</a>. These ideas all very much move it in that direction. Thing is, any one company controlling identity is a massive problem. It actually undermines what...
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- Ben Werdmuller
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
downloading iPhone 3.0 just made available on itunes (check for updates!)
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funny; I'm at 140conf (all about Twitter) with a room filled with people staring at the fail whale at Twitter.com.. :-) (via @Boris)
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Haha.
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh the irony
- LANjackal
I can't even connect to Twitter.com here, right now, let alone see the Whale. :(
- Tyson Key
haha!
- Dee S.
you are in nyc zee?
- Allen Stern
unfortunately not Allen - @Boris managed to nab this event... (there's the @boris at the end there)
- Zee.
LOL..unfortunatly some of us keep hitting the refresh button on the browser to check..lol
- Linda Zuidema
aah i would meet boris if he is interested :)
- Allen Stern
pics or it never happened ; )
- LouCypher
@Allen http://friendfeed.com/bomega or borisATthenextwebDOTcom
- Zee.
Glad / Sad to see confirmation that Twitter is not working just now.
- Jim Spencer
so if twitter is down does the 140conf actually exist ?
- Nik Butler
nik - i'd like to think the conference doesn't exist in any regard
- Allen Stern
Twitter’s downtime during #140conf should’ve moved some to try Identi.ca rather than have heart attacks
- A Mitchell
How to tell who the good guys are, by Andrew Sullivan. "They're the ones who sometimes rescue a beleaguered riot policeman." Great point! RT @rizzn - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
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Wow - great picture
- Jesse Stay
Another terrific picture!
- Alex Hellstrom
To be honest, I frequently forget to look at both sides of the equation during periods of violence.
- Bob Blunk
Bob: A good thought - I wonder how many of those riot police really would rather be on the other side?
- Alex Hellstrom
he could be performing a judo hip throw. video is probably needed to verify the picture.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
@Alex i wondered about the same thing. They are in a profession where most of the times they have to probably go against their choice to perform their duty. Not an easy task i must say.
- Bhowmik Shah
Coming from the tail end of the hippie generation I suppose causes me to seek out the other side, especially in times of violence, I'm loving this pic, and what wre seeing from younger generations in Iran.
- jcunwired
They're both Iranians: brothers, countrymen. I'd love to see the greens prevail, but I hope the violence doesn't last.
- Chris Baskind
Is still Love making the world going round?
- Bita
i would love to see this image travel through the media.
- MikeAmundsen
I saw the previous images of this scene and was trying to figure out if he WAS helping or not.
- Kreg Steppe
Police in Iran charged at protesters using their motorbikes, in a bid to break up a street rally. One policeman crashed his bike during the charge and was helped to safety by protesters. An Italian journalist caught the incident on his mobile phone. Video courtesy of Corriere della Sera TV @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- Chris Zlatis
Keep up the great job Robert, you are helping to report what is going on better than our own state run media.
- Russ Jackson
Now this is an amazing photograph, serving as a great reminder that humanity is capable at once of both terrible and great things. I hope it is one of assistance, much as that very moving video above showed.
- Nick Wade
the video is great, too. shows that, even at crazy times, there are good-hearted people acting to protect anyone in need. i wonder how often this has been happening over the last few days.
- MikeAmundsen
Good luck, Mamoot!
- Ayşe E.
I saw these images last night, and I'm heartened to learn that the protesters were in fact helping this guy :) Thanks Mamoot!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Mamoot, stay strong. Stay safe. You will prevail.
- Uche Ogbuji
Good luck to you in your fight for your rights. I hope you are successful and may God keep you safe!
- Californian
Marmoot we are with you!
- Francine Hardaway
@mamoot: be safe. there are many ways to resist; some very subtle. time is always on your side.
- MikeAmundsen
WOWOWO that is awesome!! that is a good guy for sure!
- Susan Beebe
sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq: watch http://www.youtube.com/watch... and you'll see that they really are helping the cop.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
@mamoot Good luck and stay safe.
- imperator3733
thx Chris Zlatis & Chris Charabaruk = WIN for the video links.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
This one has my vote for the Pulitzer...
- John Fenzel
I bet the guy in green got a beating once he got the policeman to the safety of the riot police
- Viran
They look like family.
- Garin Kilpatrick
It's great to hear that you are safe Mamoot. Keep demonstrating for what you believe in. We all support you.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
:(
- Exir
Thnx Robert for Support, We Will Win
- Irani
Stay safe, Mamoot
- Marci Golub
@Mamoot we are all watching and care very much about your freedom!
- Ryan Petty
Are Trolls Ruining Social Media? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Not here on FriendFeed, they're not. That's thanks to the ease of hiding and blocking.
- Louis Gray
I actually find Trolls less prevalent in new social media than they are in forums, usenet etc. I think the subscription nature of the medium makes it much easier to simply exclude them.
- Eoghann Irving
I think the recommendation for a 'PR team' is a bit much. I am sure that tools will be created to fill this niche.
- Michael R. Bernstein
There's more to this story than just anonymous trolls. In following @trent_reznor, there seemed to be a group of people whose single purpose was to mock everything he said/did. And this behavior is not just on twitter. They post on the official NIN forums, some have their own blogs, alledgely under their own names; it is everywhere Trent has a cyber presence. Bottom line, no matter what...
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- 2zen2
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Sarah, GREAT post! I wish there were more advocates to eradicate the trolls from the interwebs! Ryan Carson posted an entry in January speaking to this issue after the situation Michael Arrington had dealt with (http://www.carsonified.com/communi...). I've followed the Carsonified blog for a while, and I noticed that some people go on there just to rip...
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- AJ Leon
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
me, I think that arsekissers and sheep are far worse for social media than trolls.
- ★ Esther Rudolph
I think this is another case of celebrity problems. If you have an account with your name expect trolls, bottom line. Don't change the 'net because they can't use their name for their personal accounts. Its just reversed for celebs...
- Jim Gaudet
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
+1 esther
- Liz
interesting. Sometimes trolls can be cute and cuddly.
- Thomas Hawk
This is not a surprise and has been going on for years. But generally on a smaller scale, so goes unnoticed by the news. The result will be the celebrities, sports pros, and pros in any area of expertise (doctors, chefs, whatever) will get fed up, remember why they hide from the public, remember the worth of their work and knowledge (as Reznor has), and leave. It is unfortunate for...
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- Dean
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
what louis said - they try to get a foothold but then poof they're trolling alone :)
- mike "glemak" dunn
For those not deeply involved with the Eric De La Cruz campaign, what pushed the final button for Reznor was that the trolls were attacking #Eric. This was not just about a celebrity tired of dealing with crappy people. Its about saving a life. These trolls were writing elaborate blog posts and tweeting with the purpose of discrediting a campaign to keep someone alive. This is a sick...
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- E-Advocate Network
Well... Of course i can understand Trent worries as he says he's so overwhelmed by hundreds of haters. But at the same time, there will always be morons, especially as media become so-to-say "larger-than-life" everyday. The point is not how to make the trolls or simply the assholes to shut up, because we don't like what they have to say. They have the right to say it anyway. It's...
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- diego morelli
@esther: ;-)))
- diego morelli
As usual, it would help if people - readers and pos(t)ers - had the choice. If social media platforms would easily let me tune out comments from people who were not <i>verifiably</i> who they said they were, I would probably do it on some platforms, whenever the signal-to-noise ratio dropped too low. That would probably encourage thoughtful commenters to put their name behind their...
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- Mathew
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
That's not a troll, it's a gnome!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
A CREEPY gnome.
- DGentry
Some networks are easier to control than others. People can say what3ever they want to on Twitter but you only see it if you followed them or you've got a search that brings it in. It's a lot easier on networks like Facebook (yes, I just said something nice about Facebook) where you can choose who you want to listen to. Trolls in communities on-line are no different than they are off line, it's just a shocking new phenomenon to people who haven't been online for long.
- Janet Fouts
We were (me my lovely wife) were just talking 'bout FF trolls and noticed this post. Perfect trolling moment :)
- Olcayto Cengiz
lol..@ esther.. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
You have to distinguish between anonymous access to the internet and anonymous user accounts on communities. Also, different communities have different needs. For some types of communities anonymity is required for all members, e.g. political or religious communities in non-democratic countries, while for some they are impossible. Celebrities, like everyone else, will have to choose the...
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- hajons
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
@hajons: Good point regarding cyberbullies. I just read that a quarter of girls have been bullied online (http://www.techradar.com/news...) how sad! Obviously I understand the need for anonymity in certain communities/situations and yes, even countries - I wish people hadn't taken the suggestion to do away with anonymity quite so...
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- Sarah Perez
Re: celebrities complaining about trolls...it's like the celeb who relies on the paparazzi to make him/her famous, but then complains about them for invading their privacy. You can't have it both ways.
- Curt Mercadante
Yo ev just replied that Twitter is reconsidering the latest moves. Twitter search has been going NUTS over @fixreplies
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acknowledgement is cool; "considering alternatives" keeps my yellow light flashing.
- Michael Markman
exactly, re: my comment here: http://friendfeed.com/evhead...
- Chris Heath
Listen to the users, that's the ticket :)
- Neville Hobson
Michael, if someone does something in the afternoon and considers it the right thing to do, it's hard to admit a few hours later that it was the wrong thing to do.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I agree Michael. I would feel a lot better if he had said, "sorry, we made a bonehead move and will now restore the option to choose"
- Sharon McPherson
Really shouldn't be a prob if it's switchable & new accts are created with hiding of non-follower @replies turned on by default.
- Sameer
I'm going to check with monitter. This should be interesting!
- Michael Fidler
I like that you said "Yo" at the beginning to show folks the tweet.
- Louis Gray
Louis: I've actually been doing that for quite some time, it's just that now it really is useful.
- Robert Scoble
Yo
- Jesse Stay
I'm a little surprised there haven't been more complaints registered over at http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter. It seems that the Twitter guys are getting the #fixreplies message loud and clear, regardless!
- Matt Hooper
Louis: Then people who don't want to see stranger replies will be forced to. Not a very good solution.
- Guan Yang
I hope @ev and @biz realize they're being smacked with a clue-by-four.
- Ken Camp
wow, amazingly bad move on twitter's end. wow. instead of sitting down and coming up with a solution, they instead just choose to get rid of a headache. now they have a bigger headache. not learning from facebook, i see.
- sull
Didn't friendfeed essentially do the same when they removed "friend of a friend" from lists?
- Matsis
I doubt the @ replies change will last the week.
- Leslie Carbone
This morning there was a post by @biz that the engineering team reminded him this was going to have to go anyhow. This change may stick. THe said he would like to support the discovery of new potential follows somehow.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Toyota PR just said hi via a direct message on Twitter. Beats Honda. :-)
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Early bird gets the worm?
- Mo Kargas
LOL @ Mo :D
- vijay
Scott: it might seem that way. My dad and brother in law have them.
- Robert Scoble
not surprising Toyota raised at the level they are now. They have this on-topic mind GM just doesn't have any longer
- Jean-Charles VERDIE
Go Toyota!
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
By the way..do you have a link to Toyota's twitter page?
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Nevermind got it here: http://twitter.com/toyota_... and http://twitter.com/toyotan...
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Early birdy (twitter) get's the worm!
- Susan Beebe
Scobleizer, brought to you by Toyota? It's more likely than you think.
- Mike Nayyar
I actually wish every company would be listening on twitter to our requests. Do they want our business or not?
- Josh Haley
I just know I love me my Prius baby!
- J.D. Deutschendorf
TechCrunch just broke my news: I'm joining Rackspace. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... More details here:
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More details on my blog at http://scobleizer.com
- Robert Scoble
On the Gillmor Gang in 30 minutes (at 3 pm Pacific Time) we'll go into even more detail.
- Robert Scoble
I have 16 months in the pool :-)
- Todd Hoff
Oh nice! Been working with Rackspace for years, great company.
- Mark Trapp
Robert, congratulations -- have a fun time and do interesting things!
- Michael Krigsman
congrats Robert! I'm sure we'll be working together more in the future then....
- Douglas Gourlay
He didn't want to be scooped again like with Google Voice :)
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
Congrats on the new job :)
- Michael Forian
Congrats Robert, I love you man! "not in a weird way"
- Ahmed
Congrats on the new move. Are you going to be working out of the former Orange Julius stand, former Footlocker, or is there another part of the mall where they will put you?
- Andrew Leyden
Congrats Robert !
- Eric Berlin
Congratulations, Mr. Scobleizer!
- imabonehead
Techcrunch Crunchbase doesn't even have an entry for Rackspace yet, huh?
- Sebastian Keil
Congrats Pal.
- Thomas Hawk
sounds exciting!
- Tim Jaeger
Yup. All the best. The company I manage is a customer of Rackspace. We just like the way they work.
- Chris Nixon
Love it, I have a feeling you won't be forced out of there anytime soon and the will be able to value you much closer to your real worth.
- Christian Burns
Awesome!! Cool company, congratulations Robert on the nice job!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Great news, and good for Rackspace and you. Congratulations and give your wife and kid a kiss for me when you are back home. :)
- Karoli
Techcrunch breaking this news is just going to boost live listening for gillmor gang, it's a win win,
- Christian Burns
I presume this does not involve a move to Texas?
- Brian Sullivan
Building 43. Can't wait to see where you take it! Congrats Robert!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Congrats!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Too bad TechCrunch couldn't wait. Congrats on the Rackspace gig Robert!
- Jim Sparrow
Congratulations Robert, I look forward to all the quality content I’m sure building 43 will produce. Will tune into Gillmor Gang to get the full low-down.
- Daniel Rowley
We will stay in San Francisco.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations Robert smart move on the creative commons licensing of your new content. So I assume you'll be using friendfeed less now?
- Pete Quily
Congratulations Robert!
- Alex Araujo (fotozine)
Congratulations Robert. FF serves up breaking news.
- Russellreno
And I thought you were going to get your head out of the clouds ;-) Congrats
- Ankush Narula
Awesome. Sounds ideal. Where will you work - from home or are you moving to Tx?
- Steve Rubel
Congrats, expectantly looking forward.
- Nir Ben Yona
Congratulations to both of you, Robert and Rocky!
- Holger Eilhard
Congratulations!
- Andy DeSoto
Congrats Robert. FYI - the company that I work for runs an enterprise SaaS application on Rackspace.
- Mike Doeff
Congrats, Robert! Watching you from sunny Palm Springs today.
- Joe Lima
Thanks everyone. Steve: we're building a studio in California, so we'll stay home.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats Rob and Rocky .. look forward to hearing more about this ...
- johnpiercy
Whoohoo!!! Robert. Watching The Gillmor Gang on TWiT.
- Mol, Time Warping
I am making a heroic effort to listen to the live stream from the Hilton, where the speed of the network is very random. But congrats!
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
Good company there, San Antonio is a great place and we're happy to have you join the "Family"!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Congrats on Joining Rackspace. Rackspace booth at SXSW-I http://tiny.cc/72kMo
- JimmyJet
Congrats Robert! With your skills, I knew you weren't going to be out of the job market for long.
- John A. Taylor
John, thanks! Actually I wasn't out of a job at all for any time.
- Robert Scoble
Ah man you joined the competition – Congratulations on your new venture, I will definitely be following @building43
- Kevin Tunis
Robert thinking back when you ask me at “off the grid” what my company did; how would you have described cloud computing and would you have thought that it would have took off like it did? I know Andrew Field did not get SQL Services online (SQL in a cloud) and a monthly subscription rate for SQL.
- Kevin Tunis
Congratulations Mr. Scoble. Looking forward to hearing more of your endeavors.
- JA Castillo
Awesome!
- Mitchell Tsai
Awesome! I remember when you did the interviews there. Great Company, with an incredible future. Congratulations!
- Michael Fidler
Congrats, Robert!!! Please tell Rackspace that their "Fanatical Support" ad campaign scares me. It's just an intimidating concept, like if I call I am going to have to end up issuing a restraining order...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Well done! Best of luck with the new path.
- Martha
Hey, I know a Building 43 full of people fanatical about the internet...hmmmm. ;)
- EricaJoy
Congrats. It'll be great to see how it develops.
- jjprojects
Congratulations Robert on the new joining. And best of luck for the future with Building 43.
- Shinil Payamal
good luck!
- Stalyn☂
Congrats, sounds like we should all get ready for a ride.
- Shane Wolsey
Rackspace rocks. I'm a corporate customer of theirs. They truly are a unique provider... Plus Mosso and the whole cloud strategy is kickin.
- Jamie Grove
You're my hero *big hug*, no, I stop at having to kiss you
- sofarsoShawn
cloud computing just got an awareness boost :)
- Travis Parsons
Congrats Robert! I'm a Mosso customer and I absolutely love it. rackspace is awesome and just got better! excited to see what comes of it!
- andy brudtkuhl
congrats - I hope we get a chance to catch up while here at SXSW in Austin
- Shannon Clark
Congrats Robert .. When are you going to share some special hosting discount coupons .. Pirillo should not be the only one with coupon codes in his RSS ..
- John Clifford
congrats!
- simonpure
Congratulations Robert!
- Charlie Ramirez
Test of new Twitter tool coming soon: which Twitter iPhone app do you like best? (Answer here).
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Twitterfon
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
either mobile web version or twitterific
- Graham English
I am all about tweetie recently
- Dave Senior
Tweetie is the best, Robert.
- Vince DeGeorge
Twitterfon has been killer for me, especially because it's free and still retains plenty of power.
- Mike Nayyar
I like Twitterfon because it does RT's the right way.
- Robert Scoble
I like Twitterfon as well - thanks to integrated replies and DMs.
- Louis Gray
Twitterfon, its free, its quicker to reply and DM, and yea it does RTs right insteado of the whole via thing.
- BCK
Twitterfon, it does RT nicely and shows you what the convo was about
- Sally Church
I'm between tweetie and twitterfon.
- Edgar Rodríguez
from twhirl
Twitterfon. I tried Twitterific, but the free version at least didn't have nearly the capability of Twitterfon. And I haven't tried Tweetie, because I'm so happy with Twitterfon that I haven't felt the need to pay for it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Tweetie, definitely. Haven't used Twitterfon yet.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I used Twitterrific a lot but after installing TwitterFon it became my default App quickly.
- Jay Barcelo
Tweetie.
- Patrick Jordan
twitterfon is the app is use on my touch
- Samuel Lewis
from twhirl
Tweetie is the one.
- Neville Hobson
Tweetie FTW
- andy brudtkuhl
Tweetie of course!
- Jonathon
Has to be Tweetie
- Richard Coppen
Tweetie, though I wish I could change the retweet format to RT instead of (via...)
- Robert DeBord
Twitterfon is a winner.
- Orli Yakuel
Tweetie for sure.
- Amani
Tweetie!
- Scott W.
Tweetie!!
- David Finch
right now Tweetie
- Donald Townsend
from twhirl
twitterfon works well for me ..
- johnpiercy
None, not an iphone user.
- Richard A.
Tweetie user here.
- Adam Turetzky
from twhirl
twitterfon - but i also have the free twitteriffic - twitterfon is better ... i also use LaTwit for laconica/twitter/xmpptrack
- Chris Heath
Bought Tweetie after the TWiT guys went on and on about it. Actually prefer Twitterfon as a reader. Tell me, how does the tool you're testing deal with messages like this - which include multiple answers in the text (Tweetie, Twitterfon, Twitterific) - would the parenthesised sentence count for an extra vote for all 3 apps?
- Conor Ogle
Tweetie!
- Paul Reynolds
Twitterfon by leaps. I'm only missing retweets, but those can wait until I get to Tweetdeck I guess..
- embee
Tweetie.
- Brad Brooks
from BuddyFeed
Twitterfon ftw!!
- Xee Momma
Tweetie. Have tried them all.
- Tommie Nordholm
I like Tweetie the best.
- Aaron Draczynski
Tweetie, after trying many of them.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Tweetie - after initially Twitterific
- Bo Stern
I want to say Twitteriffic as i paid for it and use it on the desktop too, nicest interface i think, if only it had more featues. I use Tweetie from time to time, but im sticking with twitteriffic as my fave.
- Simon Wicks
Twittelator free, give a try!
- Luca Perugini
You know how you meet someone smart and you don't know what they did? Discover what I learned about this guy: - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I went home and Google'd him and learned he co-discovered the Ebola virus. Some people, when you meet them, you just know they are smart. They exude smartness. They make you feel humble without even saying a single word. I felt that around Peter Piot, I shot his badge, not to remember his face but so I would remember his name to do some research on later. I was blown away. This is the problem with Davos. You get thrust into a room with 50 interesting people and you have no idea what makes them interesting. I wish I had known more about Peter before I had met him, but there is something interesting about the serendipity of meeting someone new. Some of the most interesting people I've met have been people I've met out of the blue. How about you?
- Robert Scoble
from Bookmarklet
Interestingly enough I have dozens of experiences like this every week, without going to Davos. Especially in airplanes, because there you're forced to sit next to someone. I still remember the day I was sitting next to the CEO of REI. I've met interesting school teachers and plumbers and IT managers and tons of other people that way. Another day I met Larry Tesler, former Apple exec. Have you ever met someone who surprised you?
- Robert Scoble
It's one of my driving wishes, being able to work with and interact with smart people. And I will agree with you that the most interesting people you meet by chance - but perhaps in part it is because we would be less intrigued by the people we set out to meet, having been more prepared for them? I envy you your chance to meet and talk with people like this in Davos, make the most of it else we'll all pounce on you ;)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle: I try, but the problem is that at Davos (and all conferences, really) you meet people like Peter and you know they did something interesting with their lives but you have no idea what it is. Because you only get fleeting moments with people at conferences by the time you figure it out they usually are gone. Now the hard work begins where we try to get a second chance and an interview! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Incidentally that is perhaps one of the reasons I dont have an mp3 player and have the (very swiss/german) tendency to not sit alone at meals even when I am alone - to not isolate myself from meeting people. People are just about the most fascinating thing on earth! Even on the train / tube / plane or while waiting for something. I have learned about everything from preserving the pink...
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- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
But Robert others must say that about you? :)
- Tina Clarke
Tina: oh, that's true.
- Robert Scoble
I met my future wife in the badly-signposted grounds of Villa Borghese - she had a map, and I needed to know where the heck the villa itself was. I had two words of Italian, she had two words of English, and the gallery was closed for the day, so we went off for a walk instead.
- Sean
By the way, I uploaded dozens of photos from Davos of people. All of whom can be found on Google. That too is something very cool that has developed in the past few years: the fact that we can learn a ton about nearly everyone. I didn't find a single person I couldn't find something about on Google.
- Robert Scoble
What if you were initially impressed with someone you met in person but couldn't find anything about them via Google?
- Mattb4rd
How far away are we from an app that will take the photo input (picture of someone's name badge) and automatically (within a minute) return information on them - bio, sites, etc
- Wayne Schulz
Mattb4rd: then I would start wondering. I would probably pull up their business card and call them and say "why can't I find anything about you on Google?" That probably would lead to an interesting conversation.
- Robert Scoble
Wow you're up early :)
- Mattb4rd
Wayne: not far at all. Evernote already does some of that. Conference presenters could include info in a QR code on the badge that could be used with a cell phone.
- Robert Scoble
I got the same feeling when I met the CEO of Parallels last year at WHD'08. There are quite some amazing people out there are ar not showcased enough. Most of them just like their privacy and are not "hungry for PR"
- Lorand R. Minyo
I was fortunate enough to have David Soul (Hutch! of the show Starsky & Hutch from the 1970's) sit next to me at an education conference in LA around 1985.... that was an amazing day! He was very friendly and did not mind me gushing over his career (I was only a teen and really loved his work). He was homeschooling his kids! I was new to the process as was he... we shared lots of feedback / ideas...very cool. I was able to share my experience as a student; and he as the parent / teacher
- Susan Beebe
If you want to find very interesting people right in your own town, head over to your local nursing home. You'll be amazed at what you'll learn and you'll feel good for doing it. You never know who you might meet and they'll be there next week if you want to go back to interview them. No need to travel around the world to find interesting people. You'll find amazing people in nursing homes who've essentially been written off by society. Seriously, try it!
- Scott Maentz
I had breakfast at a conference a couple of years back with Professor Urban Ungerstedt, a Nobel Prize committee member, who I later found out had invented an incredible medical procedure called cerebral microdialysis. Weird thing is he sought me out for some advice on one of my specialist subjects which is surely one mark of a smart person.
- Nicola Quinn
I wouldn't know where to begin, I meet interesting people all the time
- paul mooney
Really liked what you said Robert...
- Didier Lahely
Imagine if his badge had had a mobile barcode on it - the QR you mention, perhaps - which you could have snapped on your mobile device, and got profile info about him right away. No need for Googling for basic info, you would have already had that. That could have influenced what you did there and then, before you got home. Not a common standard yet, though.
- Neville Hobson
+1 for Neville's comment
- Andrew Terry
When I first started Following you on Twitter...I had NO idea who you were in the SM world..One day I addressed some comment to you...You replied to me..."Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter." Being new to Twitter, I was taken a back and my feelings were hurt. SO I Googled you. I still Followed you because I felt you had a...
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- SashaKane
The modest few, Robert.
- mandyvan
ROTFLMAO as they say: "Please email your comments to me so I can ignore you there just as easily as I ignore you on Twitter."
- Nick in Manila
SashaKane: sorry about that. I was having a bad day or something. I just wanted to get you to be public with me instead of private. I'd rather live my life completely in public, as much as possible. I really hate DMs, by the way, even though I've given up that particular fight and now try to answer them.
- Robert Scoble
That was the best part of working as a research chemist, the intelligent, motivated people I got to work with. Unfortunatly, the corperate culture and I didn't get along; and government backed research is a mind-numbing waste of time.
- Robert Hafer
Being in the music industry most of mine are "rockstars". After getting treated like crap by the band Tool (before they were really famous), me and my camera crew tucked our collective tail between our legs and started home. We stopped by a little gas station to fill up and another long haired guy was filling up too. I just started talking it up with him because I find people interesting. Turned out he was the drummer for Pearl Jam. We did an interview and previewed VS before it was mixed!
- MarkCarras
Robert, talking of virus experts, Prof Vincent Rancaniello who has done a lot of work on the polio virus is on FF - he joined the Life Science room FTW http://friendfeed.com/profvrr
- Sally Church
Sally: wow.
- Robert Scoble
It's funny when he liked an item in there http://friendfeed.com/e... I was thinking, "the name's familiar" and was Googling it then Maureen chipped in and I was like 'wow' too, it's a small world on the internets.
- Sally Church
The link sharing site Mento (http://www.mento.info/) has a Firefox plugin that's pretty slick, specifically the "Share with screenshot" functionality. If y'all are considering a plugin like this, check it out for sure.
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When you choose "share with screenshot", you first have the ability to select a region, click capture, and the image is automatically attached to what you're sharing. You can see some examples of the results (after mento pushes them to FF) with this search: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Ken Sheppardson
This is a great find, Ken! Thank you so much for sharing it. :)
- Stephen Robinson
I only wish I could've attached a screenshot. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Used it back when I was too stupid to figure out how to share images with the bookmarklet (didn't bother reading directions). The Plugin is quite nice, but quit mento and went back to delicious
- BCK
This looks great! I'l try using it for awhile, and see how I like it in action ;o)
- Seth Greenblatt
Hmm, has anyone tried the Firefox plug-in on Linux? I assume that it'd work, unless it contains a Mac OS X or Windows-specific binary (presumably to manage screen capturing).
- Tyson Key
Tyson: Looks like it works just fine... at least on Ubuntu - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Ken Sheppardson
Thanks Ken, I'll give it a whirl.
- Tyson Key
Heh, the plug-in installed fine, although I can't do much with it, until they send me a Mento invitation.
- Tyson Key
Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media - http://mashable.com/2009...
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a look at 10 brands and their social media work/activities and more
- Richard Binhammer
Version 0.2 of FriendDeck is available from http://www.frienddeck.com/Downloa... I made a mistake in 0.1 which meant that the auto updater isn't working. Version 0.2 will auto update as soon as v0.3 becomes available. Below is a list of fixes. - http://www.frienddeck.com/Downloa...
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FriendDeck is now code signed.
- Paul Kinlan
Added shortcuts to your account such as Rooms and Lists
- Paul Kinlan
Fixed a date time bug
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Added support for home feeds by using the command home:
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Some performance improvments via a new templating engine
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Updated to JQuery 1.3.1
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Hide Like and Reshare when not authenticated
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Opens links in the Default Browser
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Highlights embedded links and opens them in the default browser.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
http://www.frienddeck.com/AirInst... for people who can use the badge.
- Paul Kinlan
The Internet in 1969 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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He looks pissed about the bill!!
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I love the multi-monitor setup.
- Andy Bakun
I want one!
- Connie Crosby
Techmeme Twitter tips
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wow, that is very cool!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
yeah - probably only a matter of time before Techmeme gets a leaderboard for Twitter tipsters
- Frederic
I wonder if they will add credit even after Techmeme itself has already picked up on the story, but it didn't have enough link juice yet to go to the frontpage
- Frederic
I am noticing an issue where it is not permenatly removing decks when I close them. Is anyone else seeing them.
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I'm not seeing it.
- Seth Greenblatt
from Friend Deck
it must be a column I created the other day when there was a little bug.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Shouldn't Microsoft count Windows 7 as a free upgrade to Vista?
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Paul, how close are you to releasing the AIR version of FriendDeck? If you need somebody to test, just let me know...
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I am really close, just need the certificate off the CA that I bought today. :)
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
Great! looking forward to it!
- Seth Greenblatt
I really, really, really, really want the AIR app, too. Just like TweetDeck! Please can I test?
- Sarah Perez
I will upload the test as soon as I get the Certificate. I don't want people to have to re-install the app if they use the client app that uses a self signed certificate.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
I definatly want to get it out in early tomorrow. Lunch time UK, early morning US.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
The problem I have with the AIR app is that I update the web version nearly everyday, which will annoy people when they get the AIR version, so I will have to stagger the releases.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
I have had some problems with getting a cert, apparently my company has to have a phone number in a public directory. I will probably deploy a self signed certifacte version of the app as an early beta.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
I have had some problems with getting a cert, apparently my company has to have a phone number in a public directory. I will probably deploy a self signed certifacte version of the app as an early beta.
- Paul Kinlan
from Friend Deck
you can email me with info on the test app sarahperez at gmail
- Sarah Perez
It is released.
- Paul Kinlan
If you have a blog or podcast that you are using Feedburner to create the feed, it's critical you read this article about the transfer of feeds from Feedburner to Google by the 28 February 2009. - https://www.google.com/support...
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Top 15 Essential Apps & Codecs post Windows 7 Install - http://on10.net/blogs...
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The New Frontiersman - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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A Watchmen viral microsite, www.thenewfrontiersman.net, has just gone live. In the Watchmen comics, Rorschach is obsessed with conspiracy theories, and gets much of his information from a far right-wing magazine called the New Frontiersman. There is no content on the site right now but the seal will break early next week, and there will be a fair bit of content on the site leading up to the release of the film, including photos, documents and video.
- Marc Berry
Twitter: We Need Search By Authority - http://www.loiclemeur.com/english...
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Loic, I think this is the first time I've found an idea of your's terrible.
- Shawn Farner
Prediction: this will turn into yet another A-Lister vs Z-Lister / Gatekeeper BitchMeme.
- Mike Doeff
Mike, I thought the same thing....and I also think it's a terrible idea.
- Karoli
Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. have done so much to level out the playing field and now we're seeing a real backlash - people longing for the days where there were only a handful of voices and the rest of us just listening. Sorry, but the horses are out of the barn.
- Mike Doeff
Agree - Horrid idea. Defeats the purpose entirely
- Charlie Anzman
I don't care about the A-list vs. Z-list thing, but I do want to see who's tweets have been retweeted the most. Also, I would love to order tweets in order of who has most followers, and who is following most. Also which Tweet has gotten most "favorites." It's really lame, by the way, that friendfeed lets us add so much metadata into the system (comments and likes) but doesn't let us search on that metadata in any meaningful way. Funny that Google built a multi-billion-dollar business by using that metadata
- Robert Scoble
Yep the horses are out of the barn and running. Even if we have to contend with stupid spammers and the like, the benefit of speaking our own minds is well worth it. No ranking necessary.
- Karoli
Google's metadata was links. friendfeed could do so much more for its search, which is very lame so far. Hopefully in 2009 we'll see dramatic changes to friendfeed's search. If they do, then all my time spent here will have been worth it.
- Robert Scoble
The only problem I foresee is that "authority" is subjective, and what someone considers the benchmarks for being an authority would probably be different to someone elses. I think what is truly needed especially with Twitter Search is more granularity over the metadata.
- Bryce, Low in Sodium
Bryce: exactly. Calling it "authority" will piss people off, too. Google internally calls it 'relevance" but you don't see that word associated with any of its search rankings.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I posted a link the other day to a guy doing research on retweet frequencies...very interesting stuff. It's here on my feed somewhere.
- Karoli
Robert - I have a 'feeling' Friendfeed isn't done yet :)
- Charlie Anzman
Karoli - Two links - http://danzarrella.com/rtm-sea... and http://www.retweetradar.com/
- Atul Arora
# of followers is a useless metric. I explain why over on TechCrunch post that follows up on this Loic post: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Robert Scoble
The search by authority will get subject to the same manipulation as Page Rank does right now. In some sense Google Search is search by authority.
- Atul Arora
@Scoble good reply totally agree, twitter's hit and miss on whoh you follow
- sofarsoShawn
I'm not quite sure that number of followers could be a good indicator of authority, but also retweets, favs and maybe a combination of that.
- Marilín Gonzalo
how about base it on the sum of the ratios of # times favorited/# of followers and # times retweeted/# of followers if favorited has same weight as retweet.
- KyNam Doan
+1 KyNam, I was just writing the same idea when your comment appeared. A measure of how much authority one has, needs to include some reaction from their 'audience'. It seems relatively easy to gain 1000+ followers who may never (or rarely) read your tweets.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
organic works well. follow others and build up a genuine network gradually. See how those you think Tweets well/with your interest Tweet others.
- AlexBowman
from twhirl
The day this happens I leave. Already growing weary of self congratulatory bacon posts by a hardcore group who seem to have lost their blogging skills and hang out here all day. Weird.
- Wayne Schulz
Chris Loft really, really, really liked this. But isn't this bacon thing off topic?
- Chris Loft
Whose Authority? Did someone elect you, Scoble and Arrington Presidents of Social Media already? LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Weighing in to concur that authority by number of followers is a very bad idea.
- Internet Strategist
...why is it that christmas turns [digital] sheeple always into some authority huggers ?; i hope friendfeed stays authority free. there is enuff digital garbage around which brought us recession, 9/11 planehuggers, obamahuggers and other Orwellian braindead peeps. And now they whine for false authority and closetCensorship ***again** ; [http://friendfeed.com/rooms... ]
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
Friendfeed is NOT authority free. It has not been since day one by promoting the best of the day, week and month and also by promoting some users, me included, some of which are not even using it, like Mike Arrington (he just automatically posts to Twitter that posts to FF). That does not make FF a bad service, on the contrary, it is great.
- Loic Le Meur
Information as pornography. No filler. No idle conversation. Just get right to the sex scenes.
- Michael Markman
*sigh*
- Hilary Talbot
Embed Any File or URL with Embedit.in - http://thenextweb.com/2008...
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Twitter should do this natively. Why they don't is beyond me.
- Roberto Bonini
bloody hell - i can't believe how big the image here is! sorry guys
- Zee.
would have been interesting if this worked with friendfeed (so that we could have previewed embedit.in website ;)
- Engin Erdogan
Another value added component to any website or blog.
- Gregg
THAT is sweet! And I know the perfect use for it. :-D
- April Russo (app103)
Ok, I am trying this out and it seems to keep getting stuck on "processing" and never showing the page of the URL I entered. Is this supposed to take a long time before it shows the first time? or is it just not working properly for me? I tried it with a few URL's and getting the same issue.
- April Russo (app103)
Should Twitter Add Authority-based Search? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
Bill Romanos, Kol Tregaskes, Neville Hobson and 3 other people liked this
"# of followers is a useless metric. Everyone is gaming that. What I’d rather see is tweets presented in order of most retweets to least. THAT is a metric that is hard to game and very useful. After that, friendfeed is gathering additional metadata, but friendfeeds’ search really sucks so far. Imagine if you could search all tweets based on numbers of “likes” or numbers of comments."
- Robert Scoble
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