Nick Cowie - Likes - FriendFeed

Rob: if I was Mark Zuckerberg, I'd assign someone to keep it up and running and make sure no spam shows up, etc. But the rest of the engineering team would get put on real time search for businesses. That's where the real money is and how Google is going to come at Facebook. If they get that done the millions in stock that they now own will become worth more. - Robert Scoble

Kenniy: overall it's the best possible thing that could happen to FriendFeed. I didn't see FriendFeed surviving on its own, not without radical redesign, which would piss us all off anyway. - Robert Scoble

Robert, I think your making FriendFeed much more than it is. It's NOT the king of real-time search. It's NOT competing with Google on any level. It's still a sharing service used only by early adopters. - Amit Morson

but that will undermine the very reason for friendfeed..other sites like twitter and flicker wouldnt be so open IMO anymore..cos at that point, friendfeed becomes a direct competition as against the service aggregation that it does..i might be wrong though..#lightupnigeria - Kenniy Olorunnimbe

BBC calls you "respected blogger" :) - Federico Bolsoman

BBC can issue a retraction, no worries ;) - Micah Wittman

"Respected Blogger." That's a nice title... I dig. - Stefan Holmes

well what do we all expect we enjoyed a free service,felt special, gave feedback,told everyone how superior it is. now the entrepreneurs are moving to the last phase which is monetize. its text book abc. - Robert Higgins from f2p

FriendFeed only has real time search because content is pushed into it by the users. It is nothing more than a content aggregator with a quickly replicated search index. Facebook, I would imagine, wants it because that is the way they are moving with their "post it on Facebook" systems, aggrigating information from other sites into a brain dump of "what I find interesting now".... more... - Daniel Durrans

Surprisingly the Facebook/FriendFeed story is currently the top story, even ahead of the Baby P story on the BBC most read list online - not very high at all on the broadcast news. - Richard Peat

This has always been an acquisition business, right? Surprised people are shocked. We'll see if Facebook can make these features less geeky and more mainstream... - Alex C. Williams

o no.... Robert ha parlato di friendfeed in tv... come previsto adesso arriveranno in massa. - Miketrevis

RAPatton

I postulate that a secret cabal of librarians are the illumnati of FriendFeed; they seem to be everywhere!

August 10, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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No doubt, sacred keepers of the feed - Dave Martin

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I smell another Dan Brown novel. - Mark Trapp

Cabal? There is no cabal. - Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1

These aren't the droids you're looking for. - Mark Interrante

Our power is our connections. - we just cant keep it secret any more - suelibrarian

Have you been hangin' with Gillmor?? - Charlie Anzman

I have been rather impressed with the number of librarians around. I like it. - Akiva Moskovitz

Fnord. - josh neff, geek at large

I like the librarians too; I am just impressed at how many there are. - RAPatton

We have to kill you now. You know too much. - Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock

Wouldn't it be easier to take away my lending privileges? - RAPatton

I can do that too. LOL :-) - Rev. Dr. W!cKeD Rock

i can do that too. don't anger the access services librarian. - Mary Carmen

are you talking about the CIA, FBI, NSA, HLS consultants trying to social engineer society a la Amerika? ;-) they have to make sure information is apple pie and chevrolet compliant. <wink> - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I've noticed that librarians tend to have good blogs and interesting tweets. - Dane Findley

Mona Nomura

Dear the Night Crew of FF: Apologies if I have offended or spammed your threads. I'm um... a tad drunk -hangs head in shame-

July 10, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Hey, that was a great convo we had. Besides, it's stark daylight here, pretty cool at 'round 90 F :) - Yuvi

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Mona: Have you been playing the FF drinking game? (http://friendfeed.com/e...) - Justin Korn

Well, at least you've seen Star Wars. - l0ckergn0me

how did i miss that?! - Mona Nomura

It's nearly 11am here....umm could do with a drink (have to settle for a coffee) - Toby Graham

toss some rum in there! - Mona Nomura

...wait that's waht's in an irish coffee, right? - Mona Nomura

You weren't following me yet :) - Justin Korn

I've been missing out! - Mona Nomura

Oh boy, I'm being picked by THE Chris Pirillo? The one whose stuff I started reading when I had no internet access? - Yuvi

With Rum I think that's Jamaican Coffee! - Toby Graham

no vodka? - Fred Grott

Chris is famous on the interwebs too? Man I'm interwebs retarded - Mona Nomura

I've been drinking cocktails all night lol Vanilla vodka ftw - Mona Nomura

no that's McCain retarded :) - Fred Grott

but the internet'S' is one huge pipe! a la Dubya - Mona Nomura

@Mona: Chris is famous out of the interwebs? - Yuvi

Aaron! Aren't you supposed to be interviewing with NPR right now? - Mona Nomura

cute and drunk; sound like a recipe for trouble :) - RAPatton

i might be MIA from FF for a while from embarrassment lol - Mona Nomura

It's late morning here in London! - Joe Dawson

you british have the strangest foods... - Mona Nomura

mona, I dont see anything to be worried about, so please dont hide from ff - RAPatton

lol - Fred Grott

iphone auto text replacement? LOL - Mona Nomura

brb restart + update - Mona Nomura

yep auto replacement. It kept changing mona to mons that I missed the ff to gf - RAPatton

friends don't let friends friendfeed drunk... - Andy Burns

LOL at this whole thing... funny stuff happens in FF... BTW - Mona's hooked; she's engulfed huge volumes of FF kool-aid! hehehe! - Susan Beebe

Mona you are the most hopeless ff I have ever met! - Jonathan Nguyen

Seriously Susan, I check FF more than my work emails LOL @Jonathan, i know - Mona Nomura

Based on my super ninja like query logic, this is the beginning of the FF night crew. *bump* - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

@Brian: This WAS - Yuvi

adn anothre thnig yuo nevre caleld me bcak........ - John Flynn

Hey, if it weren't for drunk women, I'd still be a virgin. ;) - Robert Hafer

+5 John (if you're sober enough to handle arithmetic) - Tim Ostler

Steve Rubel

Someone, anyone, please develop a Friendfeed iPhone app!

July 10, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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what features are desired in an sdk app that are different from the browser? - David Vasileff

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Think Twitterific for Friendfeed. - Steve Rubel

David, for me it would mostly be about having things like the tabs, show best of in big iPhone style category links that are easier to tap. and then possibly mitigating the need to send pics via mail2ff, and just have it direct through the app and the iphone's camera roll - Robert Seidman

Is http://friendfeed.com/iphone/ not suiting you? - Jim Stanger

Jim, it's fine, but not optimal. - Robert Seidman

oooh, just loaded twitterific up, nice eye candy. - David Vasileff

I realize this is not nearly as exciting, but anyone know of a good FriendFeed application for BlackBerry?. . . - DaveFriesen

as an aside, I can't help but wonder if the Facebook iPhone app will win back some of the digerati. Dave F, have you tried fftogo.com? it's not blackberry specific, but it is a mobile app. - Robert Seidman

Robert, have tried fftogo. Nice, but spoiled by clean BB app's like Gmail, Viigo, etc. - DaveFriesen

For FriendFeed iPhone app - how about some geo action (Brightkite)? Oh, and how about some grouping functionality (TweetDeck style)? Not too crazy, just some features that fit and exploit the iPhone's capabilities... - Bryan Landers

Definitely agree with this, I am surprised there isn't one!!! - Joe Dawson

I'd rather have a FriendFeed N95 app than an *P**ne thingy - Ivan Pope from twhirl

http://www.friendfeed.com/iphone is plenty great. - Robert Scoble

I want an app to favorite articles while reading on my iphone! - Tim G.

I'm using buddyfeed. Highly reccommend it. - Can Koklu from BuddyFeed

No, no I beg you not to develop an iphone app. Develop an s60 app for us Europeans first :-) - Richard A.

Buddyfeed was built to fit your needs. That's the best ff app ever. - pastas9 from BuddyFeed

Ping.fm ? - Patrick from twhirl

There's BuddyFeed but I don't like the interface and at times fails with a slow connection. Nambu has a nice interface and supports multiple social networks but its FF integration isn't complete. - Rodfather

I don't love BuddyFeed, on the other hand, I seem to always be in it instead of on the ff.com/iphone, so that must mean something, too. Probably just convenient - it does boot up quick. - felix

Chris Baskind

FriendFeed falters as Twitter explodes - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...

March 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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You can take Compete's numbers with a grain of salt, of course. But if their trending is accurate, FriendFeed is failing to pace Twitter's explosive growth curve. While Twitter put the gas to the floor in January, growing over 30%, FriendFeed actually went in reverse. Twitter is red; StumbleUpon is green; and FF is blue in this graph. - Chris Baskind from Bookmarklet

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It's because everyone is mentioning Twitter on TV, news talk radio, etc. but no one takes the time to say a thing about FriendFeed (probably because it's too hard for them to understand). Twitter is like KISS! Keep it simple stupid! - Michael Forian

Yeah, a little slower here in February. Earlier discussion on this: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Hutch Carpenter

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I already predicted this! http://friendfeed.com/e... - Michael Forian

No surprise, Twitter has entered the mainstream. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Well, I prefer Quantcast myself which shows essentially the same thing. However, look at the history - if you match Twitter from launch to FriendFeed from launch, they are very similar - with ups and downs and ... if anything it seems FriendFeed might have a slight advantage at this stage. - AJ Kohn

WoW! - sofarsoShawn

Ashton Kutcher isn't on Friendfeed yet. - Rob Haas

If this mattered you would be comparing Twitter to Facebook. - Robert Scoble

I honestly don't care about keeping up with the Jones. Twitter is still a giant fail whale to me, and always will be. It stinks at having meaningful conversations to boot. Let Twitter have its moment in the sun, people will experience it, go meh, and move on to something more meaningful later. And, if they like meaningless, then please stay at Twitter for heaven's sake. - Pete Delucchi

Good point AJ. StumbleUpon is in the graph. In Aug 08, they were down, but have gone up since. FriendFeed's gonna be fine. - Hutch Carpenter

I can understand why. Twitter has been getting a ton of main stream coverage the past month or so. And Friendfeed, after having its burst in January, has been falling off a bit. You can tell that activity is a little lower now and that their aren't as many new people here. And there is still the problem of new people not really being able to break in. I've talked to people who said they tried but it was just too daunting for them. - Mathew™ one of a kind

@Pete I like Twitter. I think that it does what it is meant to do very well. If you want to have big convos with people use Facebook or your email or something. - Mathew™ one of a kind

Matt, you're right, it does its thing, and it does it well. I just haven't ever been able to get it to work 2-way (or more) with conversations. It's really not that complicated, per se, but more often than not I feel like I'm screaming at a wall. - Pete Delucchi

I think FF could (or already does?) suffer from the same problem popular traditional forums eventually face - new users don't feel like they belong and it gets harder and harder for newcomers to become members of the well established community. Twitter doesn't really have to worry about this problem, because it really stems from the primary feature that makes FF superior - the conversations. - Aviv

I think that would be more true Aviv, if there were moderators, and if there were barriers to entry for new users to openly discuss in conversations here. Luckily, everyone gets to have their say, and you basically get to self-moderate with FF features like blocking and hiding. It's actually kind of cool, and I hope it takes on a bigger life soon. If it stays tight-knit, I don't really have a problem with that either, but I would like to see the developers get some bang for their buck at some point. - Pete Delucchi

Oh, I thought the green line was the number of tweets related to food. - l0ckergn0me

Pete, well, I think in a way we, the users, act as moderators around here. That's why Scoble will always get a minimum of 50 Likes within minutes of whatever entry he's posting. The barrier of entry for new users is actually huge IMHO, especially when their entries get pushed off the beginning of other peoples' feed rather quickly due to bumps of very popular entries. - Aviv

Aviv has a point, but lists and rooms here make this a different and interesting environment. Twitter is really simple, so it has low barrier to entry. FF has a learning curve to it. - Karoli

You're right Aviv, but remember that there's lots of ways to participate around here. People like Michael Arrington or celebrities like Wil Wheaton get more action on their posts than I ever will, even though they hardly if ever comment or participate in the conversation. You don't have to be the guy standing in front of the crowd to have your voice heard though. - Pete Delucchi

Totally agree with Karoli, FriendFeed has a learning curve. It's bigger then the curve at Twitter. - ursi

Pete, same can be said about any of the popular web forums out there. You can start a new thread, sure. You may get a reply or two, so there you go, your voice is heard there as well. But within minutes your new thread fades away and can be found on Page 2, then 3, and so on. I think that for new users FF seems more like a giant well-established forum than a place to share stuff with friends. - Aviv

I agree with what you're saying about the learning curve. My point is that the appearance of FF as some new type of a giant message board is another obstacle contributing to the steep learning curve. - Aviv

When I started my last job, the boss called the learning curve "drinking through a straw out of a firehose." Starting something new on the internet shouldn't be like starting a job, and shouldn't need an owner's manual of tips & tricks just to get going. That's FriendFeed all over though, and yeah, Aviv, unless that learning curve comes down to next to nothing, new/mainstream users will constantly be dealing with the firehose. I get your point, and it definitely reflects in the numbers above. - Pete Delucchi

Speaking as someone who's been here for all of 11 days, I haven't found the learning curve to be at all daunting. (Or maybe I'm too much of a dork to know I'm doing it wrong.) This place felt like home from the start. I wasn't even looking for community, I read Thomas Hawk's piece about using it for Flickr feeds. I had Facebook for months before I started really using it. My Twitter account is mostly gathering dust. I don't see them as comparable. They fulfill different needs, suit different personalities. - Rebecca

Has anyone done a comparison of the rate of features added to each service and rate of funding received? The features I'm talking about include minor things, like FF increasing the number of pages of history you can browse to, and include "negative features" like twitter's removing IM. - Andy Bakun

And remember, twitter's main competitor is yelling out your window. - Andy Bakun

Sure, the learning curve isn't insurmountable, but it is a barrier. It's probably the same reason why not everyone has a computer with UNIX as it's OS. - Victor Ganata

To the average user (the ones who may not know the diff between mac / windows, may not know why you need a firewall, etc. the difference appears to be KISS. I can teach someone to Twitter within 5 mins, it's just like texting with a wee bit extract. On the other hand it takes a lot longer to teach them to get the most from FriendFeed. - Mark Aitken

Well, it seems to me that FriendFeed has more to offer, so it's not surprising there's more to figure out. Then again, one doesn't have to learn all at once. I'm just picking up tips as I go along, but I found plenty to interest me within the first few minutes of exploration. I do think the Help section could stand improvement. It's quite inadequate and frustrating. I found it much easier to plunge in and try things out and to observe the customs of the locals. - Rebecca

There are certainly lots of features which make FriendFeed more compelling, and for powerusers on the web it's a great platform, easily my favourite centralised "go to" site. In my opinion, FriendFeed isn't mainstream because you have to put things into the platform (in the form of subscribing to people, finding people). Facebook brings you content to subscribe to which makes mainstream adoptation easier for the average user. Bring content to the users in this way, FriendFeed will rise fast. - Mark Aitken

Also, I don't fully trust Compete's numbers... I'd want to see a balanced average of the numbers across a few of these types of sites to believe the stats. - Mark Aitken

It takes just as long to teach someone how to do twitter's _only_ feature, posting something, on Friendfeed. Right at the top it says "Post: Message". Click on that, type in your message, hit the post button. Done. - Andy Bakun

As a geek, when I first found FriendFeed I saw it helped save me time, I don't have to hit flickr, google reader shared items, picasa, twitter, etc. to see what's happening. It's a great enabler for those of us who need this feature. The average user doesn't need this feature, they have Facebook and their friends aren't tech celebs. Twitter was already leap for these users, the iPhone makes twittering as easy as SMS, but for groups. Friendfeed doesn't have this accessiblity or demand for average users. - Mark Aitken

Initially suprising given that a few notables are really pushing FF on Twitter, but I think a lot of people are scared of information overload. Also it is only really usefull for those who are already using a reaonable number of other social services (from a contribution perspective). - Alistair (alpinefolk)

Bullshit, friendfeed is gaining quite a bit of momentum. - Richard A.

Alistair, I don't use that many services, but even I turned up with more than I realized. By the time I added Amazon and YouTube and other stray accounts, I found it very useful to have them aggregated, especially those I don't use often, because I tend to forget about them. If the service wants to reach more people, maybe it needs to market different assets. Social interaction wasn't one of my priorities when I signed on, but FriendFeed turned out to be something I was looking for without knowing it. - Rebecca

During the recent bushfires in my country, Twitter did serve a valuable role in getting quicker information out than the main news services could. It was fantastic for keeping peopline informed of fire brigade incident summaries etc. However, I wish I'd known more about FriendFeed at the time because it actually would have been more useful. Aggregating various feeds obviously would have... more... - George Hall (Australia) from Nambu

I am a big Friendfeed fan and user, but I think the Friendfeed default user interface is radically too verbose, and will make it difficult to compete with Twitter for a great deal of social media messaging. The UI needs to be modified. FF users need to have the option of hiding *all* commentary. - Sean McBride

We're ahead of the curve on FF. Most are just now dipping their toes in social networking with Twitter. - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

As someone has probably said, it's not about the number of users; more important thing would be to show how much people are using those services. Also, new Twitter users are quite potential future users for FriendFeed since many of them would be interested of better features to stay on track of what's happening. Anyway, things change and usage of services is constantly growing. - Daniel Schildt

All this discussion about Friendfeed competing with Twitter is not valid. Friendfeed's issue is competition from Facebook, in the same way that Twitter's issue is competition from Facebook. Facebook is an private/public sharer, aggregator and a conversation engine at the same time whereas FF and Twitter are facets of those functions. - Ian D. Nock

Friendfeed is competing with Twitter, Facebook, Feedly and Google Reader in various ways. If it doesn't realize this, then so be it. These products are not static genres -- they are rapidly mutating and merging social media tools. The most savvy synthesizer will win the game. - Sean McBride

Sean - I think that's a good point. There are overlapping use cases. And there are only 24 hours a day. From that perspective, there is a zero sum game here. - Hutch Carpenter

I've been using Twitter more than FF lately, reversing my own earlier trend. Why? Not sure, but I think perhaps it's easier to dip in and out of Twitter in TweetDeck than keep refreshing my FF tab in Firefox. Also Twitter is quick and dirty. I write more here in FF, as I'm not limited to 140. I can't put a finger on it though. - Ian May

Ian -- I think I can put my finger on it (for me): on Twitter, if one has fine-tuned one's feed, one experiences a speedy flow of strong electrical pulses. Friendfeed is often a very slow slog. One doesn't always need to read the fine print to get the point. For well-developed social networks on Twitter, a very few words can say a great deal. - Sean McBride

Man, I love these Compete Site Analytics charts. Data mining at its best. You can see what's going on at a glance. - Sean McBride

When did Friendfeed start letting you output your stream to twitter? Tumblr just recently added the option to tweet every post as well. Both of these are going to increase Twitter numbers. - Bjorn Stromberg

Friendfeed is not faltering on this graph... leveling out yes, not faltering. Twitter is growing like crazy - YES! - Susan Beebe

Genie -- the main point about self-organizing and dynamically reconfigurable social media tools like Twitter and Friendfeed is that you can create or participate in whatever unique social networks you choose. Pay no attention to feeds that you don't find valuable. There are now many valuable feeds on Twitter (as well as a tremendous amount of crap). - Sean McBride

Some of it is the time. I tend to stop work, and spend a period of time in here. Twitter I dip in and out of all day. But I very much agree with Sean. Why waste time with networks that don't give you something back? - Ian May

Not sure this matters at all. As long as Friend Feed does not fail, the number of users is not material. I think use FF primarily as a aggregator, FB as a way of keeping in touch with RL friends, and Twitter for everything. Different functions/uses entirely. - Justin Whitaker

Spammers are now a big problem on Twitter. They should be sent to labor camps. Perhaps I am only half-joking. - Sean McBride

Spammers should be taken on a flight to the mid-pacific, and thrown out at 37,000 feet. It might keep the sharks away from the beaches in the summer.... - Ian May

If you take a closer look the graph is misleading https://friendfeed.com/e... & it's necessary to keep in mind that FF was launched a year later, though that's not THAT much later. Although a drop is certainly cause for concern. - sofarsoShawn

My own personal experience over the past few weeks is that as the huge influx of new Twitterers has arrived, i've spent a lot of time interacting with them, and as a consequence, have hardly been active on ff at all. I suspect that'll change soon. - Iain Baker

Yes. But they address different use cases so I am not sure that this graph is so critical until people know how these type of services are going to get monetize in the long run and which one can fight spam more effectively. Until then, it is going to be difficult to tell who will end up winning. I think. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Twitter has a lower entry barrier. That explains a lot. But when they learn enough and want better conversations, FF might serve them better. Unless something changes at twitter. - Siddharth Mitra

Twitter's lower barrier to entry is SOLELY the way the page is styled. - Andy Bakun

Andy -- Friendfeed could easily offer FF users the option to use a Twitter-style interface, but that doesn't seem to be happening. FF users are forced to page through page after page of commentary to find the few posts that most interest them. No skimming. Quite a few new users simply walk away. - Sean McBride

You can turn the Friendfeed real-time feed (even better in the Firefox sidebar) into something very Twitter-like, only better because it constantly updates. - LogEx

Come on, Sean. That's obviously false. FF has the ability to "like" something, which keeps it fresh in your feed if there is activity. Twitter has nothing of the sort: twitter forces you to page through page after page of commentary to find the few posts that most interest you and once you do find them, you can't follow the commentary on them. - Andy Bakun

Andy -- I am switching back and forth between Twitter and Friendfeed home pages right now, and I am consistently finding important stuff with greater speed and ease on Twitter than on Friendfeed, precisely because I am not being forced to slog through a morass of commentary. Perhaps my Twitter feed looks different than yours. There are quite a few very smart people out there who don't have time for commentary -- they're not interested. Friendfeed needs to reach that audience and market. - Sean McBride

Isn't the commentary the content on FF? For titles only there's GR. - Todd Hoff

Why not make it easier for those who want to skim basic brief messages and links while skipping over the commentary? That would expand FF's user base, without in any way affecting the experience of those who like FF the way it is. - Sean McBride

still the question - how many of you would pay for twitter, or pay for friendfeed when the time comes?? i don't think figures matter all that much now, but shows you where things are headed.. - Terry O'Fee

How much do we pay for Google? - Sean McBride

thats different. google have their ads, and all sorts (speaking of, where are they getting most of their money?) the money isn't going to keep rolling in for these companies. honestly sean, you're on a budget imagine, which one of these would you pay a subscription model for?? - Terry O'Fee

There will always be a reasonable free alternative. If there is not, then I may pay. Bottom line...I ain't paying for web services. Never have before. Why start now? I'd pay for premium services, but I've never seen any premium services I wanted. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Text ads are tolerable on Google. They might be tolerable on Twitter and Friendfeed. Depends on how it's done. The data that these services are collecting might be quite valuable to marketers. - Sean McBride

i think google can afford to give away some things while getting money for other stuff, they're that big. can you say the same for twitter and friendfeed?? - Terry O'Fee

you wouldnt pay for stuff like this?? hmmm. i always love supporting products i love. i pay for last.fm, flickr, ages back LJ (before mother country bought it). how do you expect them to move forward?? - Terry O'Fee

There's no doubt twitter has had an enormous push recently in the main-stream media, particularly as a result of politicians using twitter. In this regard, being easy to use on a BlackBerry (or iPhone) helps. FF could still take off, but I'd say it's some way off. - Sean Carmody

I do wonder what sort of impact the ready availability of mobile apps have on the popularity of Twitter (and Facebook) vs other services. - Victor Ganata

I hate that there's not a good mobile FF that works on my phone.... but I'm not a good choice for a demographic. :D - Wirehead

Sean, my experience was exactly the opposite when I was using twitter. I got tremendous use out of twitter when it would notify me asynchronously via IM -- that doesn't exist any more (and I don't need yet another app to run on my desktop, so things like tweetdeck are out). I guess it also is different based on what we find important. My day is not composed of solely reloading either... more... - Andy Bakun

I make heavy use of twitter, identi.ca, friendfeed, etc on the web (and via IM to some extent, when twitterspy is working). But the politicians who are generating the media coverage are all tweeting from their BlackBerries. - Sean Carmody

Susan Beebe

Twitter whoring goes mainstream | Online Marketing Banter - http://onlinemarketingbanter.com/twitter...

March 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"Darren Rowse is a pretty visionary sort of guy. As the driving force behind Problogger and TwiTip, he’s been at the forefront of social media monetisation. So I guess the writing was well and truly on the wall when he posted an April Fool’s prank last year promoting a new pay-per-tweet service. Of course, Darren was only joking. However, it was only a matter of time until Twitter whoring became a reality. Yesterday seems to be the day it officially went mainstream, with popular singer John Mayer openly introducing paid ads into his Twitter stream. Ugh…" - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

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Definitely mainstream now! - Michael Fidler

Uhm, maybe he's pulling our leg? - Mike Doeff

I am not sure... sure is strange - Susan Beebe

Is anyone keeping track of johncmayer's follower rates? Did they go down? - Christine Cavalier

it was inevitable thank god we have FF - Thomas Power

I really think he's just joking around and trying to get people riled up. - Mike Doeff

I've been getting waaaay too much spam on Twitter lately. http://socialtoo.com is helping me stop most of it. - Bill Sodeman

How does socialtoo do that? All I can get it to do tell me who started and stopped following me. And it will only do it for Twitter, should be called Twittertoo - Matthew DeVries

So...I guess there really is such a thing as the real world. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

Duncan Riley

Fail: Twitter now not going to support OpenMicroblogging - http://www.inquisitr.com/10663...

December 3, 2008 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

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bummer - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF) from Posty

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I believe we're close to a Meme - let's test that new employee over at Techmeme. :-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse, you're entitled to be up there, but the chances of The Inquisitr showing as a link in: 0. - Duncan Riley

Honestly, I don't blame them. They're a leader in the space but they haven't figured out how to monetize yet. They need to make themselves something you absolutely CANNOT live without (and make money) before they can open the floodgates for their users to possibly move elsewhere. - Shawn Farner

Shawn, may I'm the eternal optimist, but I would have thought opening up would have been a good thing for them to do going forward. As Jesse pointed out the first time around, those that wall themselves in usually don't go the distance - Duncan Riley

I honestly don't see why they would or should. It's been like this for a very long time. There have been closed options and open alternatives. If you don't like the closed solution, you are more than welcome to move to the open one. If no one's following you there, the company behind the closed option is doing its job and offering a product that people feel they MUST use. - Shawn Farner

This game has only begun. Twitter won't be the only sheriff in town for long, and when that happens those that have made moves like this will be the furthest along and most ready to move forward. - Jesse Stay

Drew Robinson

Remembering to talk about The Twitter Agency *on Twitter - http://twitteragency.com

October 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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what about on friendfeed ;-) - Nick Cowie

Drew Robinson

PdaNet -- Use your iPhone as a Wireless Router for your PC/Mac - http://junefabrics.com/iphone/

October 2, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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iPhone app for connecting laptop through to internet via 3G, currently needs to be installed via Cydia. - Drew Robinson

Duncan Riley

Greed vs the greater good: the growing trend of blogs reposting videos as their own - http://www.inquisitr.com/4286...

September 30, 2008 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

Nick Cowie, Nicholas James, Sean McBride and 9 other people liked this

Downloading someone's video and re-uploading it as your own isn't a fair practice, IMO. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

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Shey, agreed, but I also get the economics of doing so, and it's slowly becoming more popular. Dare I say, the failblog is fail on the practice :-) - Duncan Riley

Yep, wrong even ethically speaking... But many people will say "It's the internets, once somebody uploaded it, it doesn't belong to you anymore" - George The Writer

The rebranding it is definetly wrong, although I could see keeping a copy on record in case of removal. If the video was removed it could ruin your content, should still seek permission to do so. - Jimminy Fuller from twhirl

James, true, although for most that's still a step to far in terms of time needed to do so. Usually most people just accept that videos get pulled. - Duncan Riley

GL - Western individualism and individuation have been a powerful engine of human progress. Sinking back into an unindividuated morass and soup would be an appalling act of devolution. Intellectual property rights are a good thing. - Sean McBride

As a person who thinks that western concepts of intellectual property is ludicrous, rebranding content that is not yours as your own is just wrong. - chartreuse

Reposting other people's stuff is ok if you add to the content. But if you just photo copy and do not add to it, it devalues the blogger. If the blogger had any value in the first place! Do not worry so much about people copying you, your followers know whos work it is. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

chartreuse +1 - Duncan Riley

Mitchell Tsai

Usernamecheck knows where your name is still available - http://friendfeedlinks.com/show...

September 23, 2008 from FriendFeedLinks - Home - Comment - Like - Share

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Andrew Trinh

On McCain's age: "How are you going to make decisions about the future when you aren't going to be here?"

September 16, 2008 from Ping.fm - Comment - Like - Share

Anna Choi, Nick Cowie, anna sauce and 3 other people liked this

LOL! - Carlos Ayala

Chris Rock is sex. - Anna Choi

Mona Nomura

WIN - http://www.foundmagazine.com/images...

September 16, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

raphaeL, Karen Mohler, LouCypher and 63 other people liked this

I like those odds! - Johnny Worthington

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What a deal, I'd love have people accept the challenge if I was that straightforward ;p - ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,

If only that worked! - Joe Pierce

My kind of a deal. How about Guilty Gear, SF is kinda lame? - Mladen Srdić

I hear the match is still going on. - Andrew Trinh

Win-Win situation. I like it! :D - Ron

Hope there's no tie or disqualification. - Amir Gharaat

@Ron Now that's truly a WIN-WIN - Dave Q

Mladen Srdić

I'll be Bach!

September 16, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Ha! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

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haha! - Anna Haro

Hahaha! - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

hahahaha! - felix

hahaha! - JA Castillo

HAHAHAHAHAHA - Parth Awasthi

while (1 == 1) { print "Ha!"; } - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Made me snort out my supper...win! - WorldofHiglet

... beating out the "you can't Handel it" graphic I was workin on - Marko Bon

The Bachinator, Composition Day - Stu Andrews from twhirl

+2 Stu! - Bill Sanders

My brother has been making this joke since the first Terminator movie came out. - Tad

Heh heh, it's still funny. - Stu Andrews from twhirl

when i step out of the office i sometimes say, "gone chopin. be bach in a minuet." it always gets groans from my staff, though i can't imagine why. - Marie drinks champagne

this is so corny, but very funny - Cee Bee

hahahhahahahhahahaha - Mona Nomura

hahahaha love it!! - ::Kristen::

Lindsay is in 20-ten

Drink Coffee - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

September 11, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

jollykatie, Chris Luckhardt, Sean Oliver and 46 other people liked this

Amen. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

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Awesome. - Michael W. May

We had this in the kitchen at work next to the web app dev (coder) area and I was seriously concerned when i learned their manager posted it! LOL - Susan Beebe

Serious LOL - Tad

I am prepared to scour the earth for a sign like that. - ha3rvey (wants confit)

Chris Brogan

Share Share Share Share Share - http://www.chrisbrogan.com/share-s...

September 10, 2008 from chrisbrogan.com - Comment - Like - Share

Niclas Strandh, Daniel J. Pritchett, Evan Brown and 2 other people liked this

Mona Nomura

flickr°° =) - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

September 10, 2008 from Flickr favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Gia Milinovich

Anyway... Brian just told me they will be putting the second beam in going the other way in about 30 minutes. But NO collisions today.

September 10, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

E. Sengo Kiruluta, Nick Cowie, Nir Ben Yona and 5 other people liked this

Gia's husband is Brian Cox, former rock star and now physicist at CERN. Both of them are really cool people. - Robert Scoble

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Many are saying they most likely won't start collisions for a couple months. Is that what you're hearing also Robert/Gia? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Yup, but things are going so quickly there that I bet they speed up that schedule. - Robert Scoble

Yeah. Seems like they are quite pleased, judging from the reactions at each control center. They seem totally excited. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Small black holes with small life time are possible on LHC? - Igor Poltavskiy

Just heard from one of the scientists involved there that the minimum time frame to see collisions is 3 to 12 months. Then, they will have to separate the interesting fractions out of billions and THE discovery that everyone is looking for is Bozon Higgs which is a fraction with a mass of 130 GeV (thousand time greater than regular fraction), that can suck out all the other protons around. - Nir Ben Yona

Lindsay is in 20-ten

Is that a penguin on your couch or... - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

September 9, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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hehehe - Lindsay is in 20-ten from Bookmarklet

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Happy Feet is here to stay! - imabonehead

o hai. doze u haz any Gray Poop on? - Outsanity

"Excuuuusse me, madam. Are you a Windoze user? I'm here to assimilate you into the Linux collective. Resistance is futile!" - imabonehead

it's too hot for a penguin just to be WALKIN' AROUND! - Morgan

I didn't know that penguins like tea. Weird - and I thought I knew alot about them. - Dylan McIntosh

Bren -- Making Contact

VeloNews | Sources: Lance Armstrong coming back | The Journal of Competitive Cycling. - http://www.velonews.com/article...

September 8, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Craig Thomler

What's the legal liability in (hyper) linking? - http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008...

September 8, 2008 from eGov AU - Comment - Like - Share

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Charlie Anzman

Just saw the MSFT commercial for the first time. Gates and I are the same age. Man he got old lookin'?! Even my wife agreed I look better ... I'm good for at least a week :)

September 6, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Jeff P. Henderson, Nick Cowie, jjprojects and 11 other people liked this

That commercial sucks - Far

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No, it doesn't. - Akiva Moskovitz

it sucks - cjmart

Sean - EVERYONE has a number. 11 mill - I'm there - Charlie Anzman

You're *that* old Charlie??? ;-) - Jesse Stay

Jesse - Shhhh !!! - Charlie Anzman

Now I feel young! - Tad

It's a lame ad. They're trying to be Apple. Try hard. - jjprojects

Shey, Jamaican of FF

Are you ever too tired/lazy to comment? I've been liking the crap out of everything for the last hour.

September 7, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

Mike Reynolds, Jennifer Leggio, Slappy Line and 33 other people liked this

Taking a deep breath and commenting here to break the vicious cycle - Shey, Jamaican of FF

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Sometimes I like the comments already there and don't have anything meaningful to add. So I just "like" it! - Shawn Farner

Lazy, yes. :) - Far

it's sunday night, totally understandable - Pete Delucchi

Yes. - Trish R

When I'm on my iPhone, I barely comment, just like. I'd rather type on a real keyboard. - Carmen - Happy 2010!

The way I'm set up here, I have my laptop on a side table and I lay in my recliner with a USB mouse in my lap. It's so much easier to click the mouse around than lean forward and actually use the keyboard! - Rochelle

yes, also for me to articulate why I like something, it's just kind of an extra push that I'm too lazy to make sometimes - anna sauce

all the damn time. I mostly just like stuff - Stellina

I do more likes than comments when holding babies and using the iPhone. That's why I have more likes lately. - Louis Gray

my couch setup is a swing wall mount tv arm for the laptop, a laptop size wireless keyboard and a wireless trackball - no reason to not type - Ross Button

Usually it is due to not thinking well enough to trust myself to comment - Michael W. May from twhirl

+1 Louis - cjmart

Most of the time, I feel too shy/not intelligent enough to add anything. So I just hit the "like" link. - Karen Mohler

I use "like" a lot if i'm on air, and too busy to add comments, i'll catch up with those threads later in the day when i've got more time.... - Iain Baker

Like - Daniel J. Pritchett

Shey - I use like when I'm a little too tired to comment (a lot :) - Charlie Anzman

Yup. And I use ":-)" when out of likes. (Polly's idea) - Mitchell Tsai

Like :) - Mike Reynolds

Duncan Riley

Everyone needs to calm down about Internet Caps - http://www.inquisitr.com/2953...

September 7, 2008 from The Inquisitr - Comment - Like - Share

Vinay | विनय, Alex Scoble, Lu Tao and 11 other people liked this

250gb!?! And people are complaining? I'm paying $60/month for 20gig. And that's 1500kb/s broadband. - Glenn Slaven

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Glenn, exactly. Even with my ADSL2+ with 130GB, I still cant get past 50-60GB - Duncan Riley

Bravo :-) I agree, people need to HTFU, it's not the end of the Internet as you know it, the rest of the capped broadband world would fall over themselves to get a cap like that! - Warren

It's the principle. I'm not about conspiracy theories but this is just the start (imho). With the iPhone explosion and Android approaching, the US market is slowly changing. Telecomm companies are slowly easing us into mobile data caps. No thank you! - Mona Nomura

Look, the holy grail for internet access providers is metered bandwidth - all bandwidth. What makes you think they will not continue to do everything possible to get there? Fight every step. - Michael W. May

Man we get shafted in Aus. I'm on ADSL2+ 70/month for a lousy 40gb - Mo Kargas

Mo... how? I'm with Telstra and I'm getting $99 for 25gb... Hook me up! - Johnny Worthington

I'm paying $60/month for 30GB peak (20GB off-peak) on ADSL2+ speeds, but I live so far from the exchange I'm only getting around 3Mbps which is pathetic. I do reach my limits each month and if our speeds were to increase I reckon I'd be able to reach a larger limit but 250GB sounds ridiculous. You'd have to get a new HDD each month. - Andrew Trinh

@John: With Adam http://www.adam.net.au/product... - Mo Kargas

+Infinity Mo - Johnny Worthington

@John, I used to be with Telstra but since I no longer required a landline I moved on to Adam. I'm sure there's better around than Adam too, but their service is good - Mo Kargas

Like most Aussies I have a cap $90 for 40Mb + 60Mb off peak + line rental + VOIP. The cap is counts traffic in both directions up + down. - Nick Cowie

Reason most AU ISP have cap is cost of traffic to US, where most traffic goes. I assume most US traffic is to US servers, so data cost for US ISP should be nowhere near AU data costs. So why start, best guess is volume of bit-torrent traffic to/from geotarded nations. - Nick Cowie

@Nick, I'd suggest that any difference in data costs is offset by the fact that 250Gb is about 500x more data than the smallest capped plans going around in AU. I'd understand if comcast were brining in a 25GB cap, but 250GB? I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at how much data they *don't* use. - Warren

Agreed it's not about the price per GB it's definitely the principle. Ultimately these are publicly granted monopolies that generate massive profits. And more to the point - bandwidth usage is only going to keep going up, so at some point in the future these limits will be small, even if they are gigantic now. At that point, Comcast will be able to gouge us for tiered increases. How many years away is that? 2 years, 5 years? Now that the limit is in place, if nothing else changes this is inevitable. - Robin Barooah

@Robin, Australian experience shows that caps increase in value over time, as the cost per MB delivered declines. Bandwidth is a finite resource. "Tragedy of the commons" and all that. Why would the 99.9% want to actively subsidise the extreme usage incurred by 0.1% of the user base? - Warren

I wonder if Comcast has thought about one effect of giving everybody a cap, people will start think I am paying for 250Gb so I better us 250Gb and get my money's worth. - Nick Cowie

Ah-ha, but you're money's worth was unknown before, Nick. Some, like me, tested the ceiling a little bit and got knocked down. - Pete Delucchi

I wish I knew what you guys were doing with your bandwidth. I pay $60/m for 25GB at around 6Mbps with Internode ADSL2+. I think I came close to being shaped once, and that includes before Node bumped it up from 20GB to 25GB free of charge. - Shane Perris

I think that the majority of the concerns here are about it enabling a slippery slope. It is like the "First They Came For" poem: while most internet users in the US don't use that amount of bandwidth and may think that they shouldn't worry since it won't affect them, eventually the cap numbers are going to come for them. - Kevin Bondelli

Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only person who at first glance that this was about using CAPS! :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl

@Warren - when you say "Australian experience shows caps increase as cost declines", do you mean that the Australian carriers have increased their caps at least twice in the past 5 years? Not saying your wrong, but what it highlights to me is that none of us really know what the numbers are with Comcast. Are the 99.9% really subsidizing the 0.1% in any significant way, or is this more about them establishing more control? I would love to see some numbers. - Robin Barooah

l0ckergn0me

Thinking of getting an espresso machine for home. Easy to maintain? De'Longhi Magnifica 4400, perhaps?

September 4, 2008 from Ping.fm - Comment - Like - Share

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That is a magnificent idea - Kyle Lacy

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I've got a Magnifica, fantastic machines. Pretty much spot on every time. - Mo Kargas

What time will you start serving Americanos? - Lisa L. Seifert

get one of the sunbeam cafe series with a grinder. Costs about $800 all up and makes great coffees. If you've got $2500, get an isomac - Jordan Brock

Rancilio here, fabulous machine. Time for a double espresso! - Sally Church

What was the name of the machine they talked about in Wired the other week that cost thousands ? (the one that Starbucks bought the company on) - Jonathan Beckett

Quickmill Andreja premium. Spend money on a good grinder. visit coffeegeek.com - Oldengrey (Jay)

I swear by Saeco. Any model goes, and it's a little pricey. I'm pretty sure it's marketed with a different name in the US and A, though. - dario

http://www.nespresso.com - Tim Hoeck

I <3 my Rancilio Silvia, has worked flawlessly for years now. http://www.coffeegeek.com/ - Jason Wehmhoener

Silvia is great machine to get you started. Spend just as much on the grinder. - Oldengrey (Jay)

The Rancilio Silvia looks to be my pick. The fully automatic machines are interesting for their convenience but the Silvia keeps getting nothing but great reviews. It's time to splurge. - Dave Ploch

I've got a semi-automatic "Capresso Ulltima" machine I've been pretty happy with. Not too expensive, not too bad maintenance-wise, and I refuse to buy a "pod" coffee machine. I use it every day several times a day and it's held up pretty well. There are better machines, but they're also more expensive. - mikepk

That fully auto machine looks pretty hip though, if only I had the $$ :) - mikepk

Rancilio Silvia / Rocky - Mattb4rd

Mona Nomura

Free Download-able Paper Cut-Out Toys - http://www.marshallalexander.net/