Friendfeed has far juicer discussions, debates, and examples of 'civil discource' compared to the rapid fire trading of information in twitter, or 'longer form' content of blogs. The Three bears: "aaaah just right"
Well, one must admit threads can get long & tedious. And trolls are sometimes a problem, but, totally agree w/juicier discussion! ;-)
- Barbara K. Baker
My old strategy have been: longtailing (often gets commentary months after a post and it can re-ignite the discussion) = blogs, noteblocking (commentaries less but is somewhat a way to discus bout an topic that isn't mine but something I have found)=tumblr and shorthand-firing it up (discussion heaten up but dies after an hour or a day and never is shown again) =Jaiku. But after this weekend with Jaiku down Friendfeed is a beacon and I haven't missed Jaiku.
- Niclas Strandh
Glen: FriendFeed is cool because every post can become a discussion spot. The down side is 1,000,000s of "spots" which never get much discussion. It does suck that until you reach some critical-awareness (or "group" of followers) that no one comments or likes your posts unless you get a FofF effect from someone liking/commenting your item. I don't think it's on purpose. Just no one here can follow everything... Join active threads/spots and post good stuff...eventually people may discover you.
- Mitchell Tsai
@Glen Campbell (glenc): I have hope that the more I respond (intelligently, which admittedly is a stretch for me) to the posts of others, the more my own posts will receive responses. I know that I need to do better than I have been doing with my own posts. I can't say I know the experiences of others.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
from NoiseRiver
"eventually people may discover you" - this is a little like the web in general, isn't it? If you want to hurry along the process then doing what @MiniMage suggests is good advice @Glen Campbell.
- TDavid
agree. that's why I have Friendfeed plugin for my WP. getting the best of (hyper)streaming ;)
- ~C4Chaos
But what might Facebook *do* with FriendFeed?
- Rob Fisher
what do you think about facebook acquiring friendfeed..#lightupnigeria
- Kenniy Olorunnimbe
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
"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 m.ctor.org
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"....
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- 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
o no.... Robert ha parlato di friendfeed in tv... come previsto adesso arriveranno in massa.
- Miketrevis
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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 :)
it's sunday night, totally understandable
- Pete D
When I'm on my iPhone, I barely comment, just like. I'd rather type on a real keyboard.
- Carmen wBabby
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
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
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
On super active blogs, I'm less likely to leave comments as I think my voice will be drowned out, sometimes the smaller, less-hype blogs have a more intimate discussion and conversation. bless you all
do you do the same thing at an event or conference? if so, makes sense, if not, why do it online? i think if you have something to say, say it.
- Allen Stern