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f you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.-- Peace Pilgrim
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Everyone has a defining moment. Either you define the moment or the moment will define you. #quote #Inspiration #lt
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I'm seeing and experiencing miracles everyday. God is good! Fully embracing that He's always on time, never early.
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Relationships are the GOLD in social media- and the Nuggets of Value that are collected on a daily basis-Are you giving out the GOLD today?
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if u are not getting the Social Media Success you seek-then SEED before seeking-give a seed of Value-that others can use to grow their life
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Just finished: Social Media Marketing- 7 Reasons Why Social Media Is Not Working for You http://socialnetworkinglifestyle.com/blog...
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To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart. ~John Maxwell
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if there's one lesson I've learned this week it is - 'build your network before you need it'.
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Is This Why Twitter Changed Its Replies Policy? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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Our speculation on what the technical issues are.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
One of my suspicious suppositions was that they are trying to drive their Suggested Users feature as the primary source for new people to follow which they would monetize if they haven't already. I like the Facebook-like "people you follow also follow these people" idea you suggest. But honestly, is Twitter valuable enough to enough people yet to offer a premium paid service?
- Gregg Scott
good stuff. Venturebeat offers this slant...and variation on the theme http://venturebeat.com/2009...
- paisano
Can't see that as a big money-maker. Few of us used the all-replies feature. I'm wondering if Twitter doesn't get it's own service now.
- phil baumann
very nice post. i'd tweet it... if i could.
- jeneane sessum
phil: agreed. Gregg: what you wrote is almost identical to what I think and have described today over a series of tweets (not tubes ;)).
- Vlad Bobleanta
Very good post. Insightful but I think we should just blame Oprah.
- Al Stevens
Left a long, long comment. I guess this issue has me worked up.
- Liz
think i cut to much! - http://artpixie.tumblr.com/post...
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freaky!
- (jeff)isageek
this still freaks me out everytime i see it :)
- (jeff)isageek
so freaky!
- Drew Lucas
Finger sandwiches, anyone?
- Jack&Cleo
To be successful with online networking - make your profile a priority! Want to know more, contact me! #netwkgtip
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This is one of the best twitter mashups I've ever seen: http://www.we-love-the.net/Stweet... totally what do you think? Give a RT if you like
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Kids Singing Evanescence "Bring Me To Life" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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that is beyond cuteness
- Fee501st
Cute alert!
- Robert Scoble
hahaha danger! extreme cuteness!
- David Alfaro
from twhirl
Why would you subject your children to that horrible music?
- Fleagle
That's too cute. :)
- Tom Small
the editing on that video was great, too!
- Veronica
Even Simon would have to love that :-)
- Todd Hoff
There's something especially touching given the words of the song to hear it sung by kids with their whole lives ahead of them. Hopefully they won't need to sing it later.
- Todd Hoff
The little guy in the back seat busts me up.
- mrsha
that was fantastic. i laughed from start to finish!
- Alejandro
Laughing out loud at 0:57. that kids face is priceless.
- Aaron Bronander
Cutebomb has been dropped! *KABOOM* :)
- Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu
Omg I am FINALLY going to hit 17,000 Likes! ps: My like to comment count ratio is so uneven it bugs me... If you haven't noticed, I'm trying to reform. ;) Edit @ 9:50 pst. Like number 17,000 went to Morton Fox's postcard post. http://friendfeed.com/mortonf...
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16,999. I'm nervous.
- Mona Nomura
Hey, cool, Mona! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Go fot it!
- Mike Reynolds
LIKE
- Derrick
you should auction off your 17,000th like :)
- Tudor Bosman
Comments are better, Mona
- Mo Kargas
17,000 likes, more publicly appropriate than 17,000 licks.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
that is a serious commitment and shouldn't be wasted. i'll let you know when i post next ;)
- grant fox
Ever since the UI overhaul, I noticed the huge gap - and it just ain't right! So that's the reason for my sudden "like" frenzy lol. I'm re-defining "like", I think. Grant LOL
- Mona Nomura
bleh, just use it however you want to.. who cares what the ratio between likes and comments are?
- alphaxion
I do alphaxion - the gap is just way too large.
- Mona Nomura
I consider the 'like' to be a degenerate (in the math sense) comment.
- Andrew C (✓)
So who got the 17000? - Nevermind, see you are still at 16999.
- WiseYoda (aka Patrick)
I'm still at 16,999,
- Mona Nomura
I can manufacture something for you to like.
- Mike Nayyar
Stop holding back!
- Mo Kargas
I'm waiting for Morton!
- Mona Nomura
you know what 17,000 should be! Just scroll down.
- Chieze Okoye
That's because you don't like me, you just blab. :P
- Andrew Trinh
It went to Morton Fox -- his posts always remind me it's the little things that count. And he writes postcards everyday. I LOVE MORTON!
- Mona Nomura
ok i can definitely accept that. at least it stays in the fox family.
- grant fox
Hahhaha! Thanks for understanding. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Pick me!
- Steve Rubel
12 likes in a quick 30 minutes - my my Mona - you've gone like crazy
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Congrats:)
- orionstarr
LOVE WHAT YOU DO, OR DO SOMETHING ELSE. Don't set compensation as a goal. Find the work you love, and the compensation will follow. #QOD.
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Recession Busting Tip: Ramp up your marketing. Whilst others cut their marketing budgets you will be more visible than ever. See recession as opportunity! http://www.victoriaplayer.com
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Social Media Marketing- The Secret of the 4 I’s of Social Media Marketing | SocialMediaBlogster.com - http://socialmediablogster.com/...
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Twitter Client War: Twhirl vs. TweetDeck - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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i still like tweetdeck better :)
- Rodney Rumford
I'm sure Twhirl is fabulous and I really appreciate @Loic and his engaging method of development, but I just can't beat TweetDeck's multi-column layout. It's ideal for a 30" cinema display but equally at home running full screen on MBPro
- Conor Ogle
TweetDeck uses too much memory for my computer, so I use Twhirl
- @LarsenTweet
Neither, I still prefer Twitterific on a Mac. If I had to decide between these both: probably Twhirl, even though I hate their scrolling implementation.
- Holger Eilhard
I like them both but prefer tweetdeck for single account mgmt. Twirl works well for multiple account mgmt
- Tim FitzGerald
I go back and forth between the two. TweetDeck: love the multi-column group management, but hate the memory usage and inability to sync group lists across machines. Twhirl: I like the FriendFeed and Seesmic integration, but I miss the group list management offered by TweetDeck. To TweetDeck's credit, they are soliciting input on what issues to tackle next; group sync and memory issues were on the list.
- Brian Shoemaker
I prefer the Tweetdeck interface but am using Twhirl because I need to manage multiple accounts.
- Herb Hernandez
At home, Tweetdeck. What about when mobile though? I used tweetdeck on a UMPC at MBC09 (saves my mobile phone for other duties!) and will have a bunch of mobile PC devices at SXSW to do the same (i'm testing them) Seems to me that Tweetdeck + powerful browser on the go would be perfect for microbloggers.
- Steve 'Chippy' Paine
I prefer to use clients that extend beyond twitter.. Preferably Friendfeed and Facebook as well. feedalizr is good. Any other alternatives?
- Abhishek Kumar
from feedalizr
Twhirl feels clunky and it's UI is too complex. Twitterific is perfect for day to day personal use, but Tweetdeck is great for corp accounts.
- Giovanni Ghignone
I use TweetDeck primarily, but it needs Twhirl's lookup feature in the worst way. That one feature keeps me going back and forth. Oh yeah, and multiple accounts. Love Twhirl for that.
- Gimme Blu Frog!
neither of them, They just don't feel right to me. I developed my own which has what I need.
- Darren Stuart
I use Twhirl more, just got Tweetdeck a day ago, like the layout for management. I love Spaz though, sorry!
- Jay Cameron
I started as a big Twhirl fan, til the day it wasn't working. I desperately seek for an option and tried TweetDeck. It was too big in my screen, too annoying with its sound alerts, but then, ok: it got me! groups features became very handy and good to use Twitter for working tasks. I still think TweetDeck could benefit from some Twhirl features - specially after Seesmic acquisition, but can't see myself going back to it anymore.TweetDeck is my favorite one! =]
- May
iam sticking with twhirl for now...
- Stephan Linzner
@ninjamonk which tool did you develop?
- Abhishek Kumar
from feedalizr
i'm liking the new twhirl has some great features and looks like the tool for seesmic users for sure, tweetdeck would be my pick if i was following loads of people
- Adam Gersbach
@Abhishek Kumar I did crowdstatus.com and have built an AIR client based on it but its still not ready as I am in an arms race :p
- Darren Stuart
I use both. Twhirl allows both of my accounts open side-by-side and it's integration with Seesmic is VERY cool. Tweetdeck's layout has superior advantages - especially "sub-groups" and topics to follow.
- Stan Dubin
Twhirl
- Vishy
I like Tweetdeck but recently added a second Twitter account so now using Twhirl. If Tweetdeck had multiple account functionality (and Friendfeed connection) I would switch back.
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
I'm using Friendfeed Realtime and Tweetdeck if I'm not on my Samsung NC10 Netbook.
- Marius QúådflÌÊg
http://twtpoll.com/r/jaqtnw still, more people use Twitter from the web...
- Orli Yakuel
I love Twhirl, but it only lacks the groups of users feature of Tweetdeck. I love Tweetdeck, but it lacks the notifying popup for each twit of Twhirl.
- americanm
Tweetdeck on my personal laptop (usage times vary - not always on). Last night app wasn't working right!
- Susan Beebe
I prefer Tweetdeck. Don't ask me why, call it design or robustness but I like it better.
- Carlos Lorenzo
Some sort of hybrid of the two would be perfect, until then I use both.
- Iain Baker
I really agree with this :)
- Liviu Lica
I can't decide, I like Tweetdeck because its nice and big and love the muliple colums, but I like twhirl because I can pick up Friendfeed, Seesmic and TWitarmy.... hard to decide
- Kim Landwehr
I use tweetdeck because of the groups. I have a tab for my favorites and one for people in my country/language (Netherlands). I don't care much for other features like video or integration with other services. Ideally tweetdeck would have the possibility of one column with tabs and save groups and searches.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Robert, this goes back to your recent "real-time web" post: how do you gather together the outcomes of discussions on the various sites? Someone could post a great comment on the post at scobleizer.com, but it wouldn't show up on your FriendFeed unless you or someone else did an equivalent of a re-tweet. What's the preferred reply etiquette these days?
- Paul Robertson
twhirl, far better
- Richard A.
I had thwirl, but never really used it much. I did switch to tweetdeck a while ago (for the second time and have grown to like it a lot. However, I use mobile apps most (slandr/twitstat mobile).
- Arne Hulstein
Tweetdeck is lifesaver by allowing groups.
- Kenley Neufeld
I don't use any Twitter clients. I use Twhirl for Laconica
- LouCypher
While my first choice is still the Web, for TwitApps I am a Twhirl Girl.
- Martha
twhirl will always rule for me until someone else allows me to do ff in the same client. Although Tweetdeck has some great features, the future of client apps is clearly in supporting multiple networks, which only twhirl does, so it's no contest.
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
If TweetDeck handled multiple accounts, I'd probably switch back. I like grouping folks so I'm not forced to unfollow those who leash bouts of Twitterrhea ;)
- webojunk
I switch between both depending on the mood of the day.. The one feature I am waiting on is the group feature in Twhirl.. then hard to judge..
- Bill Moore
from twhirl
I love Twhirl. This may seem weird, but tried TweetDeck and it seemed too masculine for my tastes.
- Julie Bovee Hill
Tweetdeck hands down
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
I still just use the web interface, or Cellity Tweeter or one of the WAP/mobile web-based clients, if I'm Twittering on my phone.
- Tyson Key
TweetDeck. No doubt.I love groups and searches for monitoring things. Especially once I wrote backup/restore scripts so I could move settings between machines.
- Scott Kingery
I rotate between Twhirl and the Firefox add-on, Friendbar.
- Doug
DestroyTwitter is a really nice program as well.. and fast...
- Jaap Willem
from twhirl
Twhirl does FriendFeed, laconica, and seesmic too. Support bit.ly + api for stats. winner hands down.
- Glenn Batuyong
Will have to try the new Twhirl, but if its anything like the old, then I will probably still prefer Tweetdeck's multi column interface
- Peter Efland
Until Tweetdeck supports multi account I won't even consider leaving Twhirl
- adolfo foronda
I just tried twhirl again and shut it off immediately and went back to tweetdeck. I like the groups in tweetdeck a lot. It allows me to follow a group more closely as it lowers the noise for that group.
- Shamir Katsu
Alert Thingy just made a new release too. TC wrote them up. From the post, "...AlertThingy has added support for six more services: Ping.fm, Basecamp, Huddle, TwitPic, TwitterSearch, and Yammer. That makes for a total of 13 services, which already included Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Jaiku, TinyURL, Tumblr, and Twitter."
- coldbrew
Here's the link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- coldbrew
I use twhirl 4 multi-accounts and tweetdeck 4 main account. I also use 3 monitors running on the same computer & tweetdeck dedicated to one.
- Moses Kpetigo
I like twhirl because it supports identi.ca as well as FriendFeed. If TweetDeck supported FriendFeed, I'd make the switch. Oh, multiple accounts - Twhirl does that, TweetDeck is lacking
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
tweetdeck is broken for me right now... not sure why. Only displays @replies and searches; NO feed and no DMs (not complaining there!)
- Susan Beebe
I use both
- andy brudtkuhl
sounds like the stupidest war ever
- sean percival
They're both unfree. Don't use either of them. Use a free one. If there is no free one, then don't use one till there is.
- Gregg H.
Gregg: what do you mean? I haven't paid for either one.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed- both are free. Who is paying? I think twhirl is great for general use and multiple services (as you pointed out), Tweetdeck is good for those that really, really want (or need) to organize their stream. The interface is daunting however and I found Tweetdeck was slow to update. Now if you are talking iApps- Twitterfon FTW! I also love the "get more people to talk about it!" line- Scoble continues to tell it like it is.
- Alyx
from twhirl
Robert: Free, as in freedom. But, I suppose if you're using a completely user subjugating OS that has no respect for your freedom like Mac or Windows, then one more little freedom killing app like this won't matter anyway.
- Gregg H.
Tweetdeck it is for me ... sadly it just got borked and refused to work on my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop
- Murali
TweetDeck is my choice as well.
- Darrell Madore
falling in love with Alert Thingy... similar than Tweetdeck and more usable
- Luca Filigheddu
Now, if AlertThingy would work on my machine, I'd give that a try, but unfortunately, it doesn't populate the window with posts on my end. :(
- Alexander Kucera
I am still trying to figure out which one I like best, but for the most part I think twhirl is best for sending and TweekDeck is best for viewing.
- Chris Patterson
I use them both but mostly use Tweetdeck. It would be great to have better picture submission with Tweetdeck and a reduced memory footprint as I have to shut it down regularly as it becomes sluggish.
- Kirti Vashee
Friendfeed is the Next Great Blogging Platform, Here's Why... - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009...
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steve, can i stop by with some meds today? :-P
- Allen Stern
@Allen depends on the meds!
- Steve Rubel
I go where the community is. So what's the best way to build a community here?
- Tiffany Monhollon
dont worry steve they will be easy to take
- Allen Stern
Allen, no injections!
- Steve Rubel
That's why we dropped by the blog post, left a comment and then came back here.
- Richard A.
Follow people, participate.
- Richard A.
Great post, Steve. I agree. I much prefer FF. Another great feature of FF over Twitter is the customizable rooms.
- Waynette Tubbs
can't say that i prefer FF over Twitter or vice-versa. i fear that twitter's simplicity is the key to its success, and adding any new features would turn me off. i was away from FF for a while, but back on again. my interest goes in waves.
- Kevin Sablan
I also think your twitter experience varies depending on whether you're a big player or someone following the big players. Robert Scoble asks for something, he gets answers. John Smith might not get the same response. FF has a much better system to allow for others to get exposure.
- Peter Spook
your post reminds me of a old presentation i did at a barcamp in austria - you should even add filtering via knowledge by social network graph to your idea - i've uploaded my presentation here: http://bit.ly/gosM
- Andreas Klinger
custom domains would be awesome
- Hans Kainz
FF is on fire and will have success, but I'm glad you're not the PM. Maybe I just have a problem with using the word 'blog' as part of the description, just like 'microblogging' poorly describes Twitter (and the clones). Twitter is elegant and simple, and also quite superficial which I think the mainstream audience will prefer. The engagement of the somewhat_early_adopter crew now on FF seems to have you drooling, but don't mistake that as the norm.
- coldbrew
So you think it would be a good idea to have this like a big blogging platform??? i dont know... overboard a bit really I think... I would hate this place to turn into a bloody scoble blog
- Rob Sellen :o)
I can it being a center for more in depth discussion and posting than twitter. I can also see it as an almost real time blog format, which Scoble is playingn with right now. Longer blogs? Not sure yet
- Michael VanDervort
Friendfeed for me isn't a blog, it's "fflog" I COINED IT!
- orionstarr
I agree about the participation side, but "Blogging Platform" it is not, unless the text posting adds more tools.
- Jorge Escobar
If you add the things you suggest, you don't have a blogging platform, you have Tumblr.
- Rex Hammock
Rex, except Tumblr does not have the community mojo that FF has.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
If the platform were to change as you suggest, Rubel, do you think the dynamics and "mojo" would remain the same?
- coldbrew
It might become more complicated as more text finds its way into here.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Once I thought of just directing my current blog URL to a Facebook page and be done with it. Luckily I didn't do that. But reading you now makes me think a time may come where I might considering moving my blog -or actually my blogging activity- entirely into Friendfeed.
- Ignace Rodriguez de R,
great post Steve, i think folks are sometimes too critical of the design - where if Twitter is the only comparison, it's night and day. Just for purely tracking my diggs, reddits, etc. it's useful... but that's such a small piece.
- Jason Hoch
I've been saying this since Scoble was accused of neglecting his blog for twitter & friendfeed
- The Real sofarsoShawn
noteworthy conveniences at Friendfeed: 1) one can subclass a specialized interest and publicly share in a separate "room"; 2) one can easily incorporate single items from others by "reshare"; 3) searching under Everyone can bring up obscure but astonishing stuff; 4) resharing can be generalized in the room by subscribing to several external blogs/services; 5) an embedded player plays...
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- Adriano
I think if you can manage your FF wisely you not need to check your mails anymore...
- Syed Akram
Steve! sorry to be smart assed. But I have not seen one blog post here right? They just link back to your blog imo. You are fleeing to friendfeed because of the noise ratio. I hate FF :) 3 reasons and boy there are more. The only conversation goes on with the A-listers. No conversation comes my way on FF. It does though on Twitter. Twitter gives the smaller fish a place to converse. It does not work here on FF imo. Scoble has neglected his blog by hanging out here. All just my valid opinion :)
- DC Crowley
... Mike Arrington brought this up first and he's right. FF and jsut video's for Fast company will not get Scoble the exposure he used to have. 3/. FF cost to much time to stay on top of stuff. I have a life and hallelujah a job that needs attending. The attention required is too much.
- DC Crowley
DC: you are totally wrong. Most of the conversations here happen with non-A listers and I can prove it. My "best of" is very diverse.
- Robert Scoble
Steve, I would *love* to see this "FriendFeed as blogging platform" happen. Ever since Facebook updated its platform, it's been hard to convince my "normal" friends to hang out @ Friendfeed because it's just too hard for them to grasp. Heck, Twitter is hard enough for many of them to understand. Here's to *selling* it as a blogging platform. Just might work! ;)
- Barbara K. Baker
From Scoble's feed, also why: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
New Twhirl Twitter Client adds real-time-web integration - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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That's fabulous video Robert...also a great tutorial for all the Twhirl offers. I have used it for a while but didn't know that it did this much! Very cool additions with Seesmic.
- Troy Malone
Thanks Troy. I've been getting lots of interesting videos lately. I put up five different companies in past 24 hours. Whew! Gotta get some sleep.
- Robert Scoble
That's good to now, I was worried about loops!
- Michael Fidler
Thanks for the video, the new realtime saved searches are great, but the way search is integrated into the replies page is the best thing ever.
- Gavin Bowman
Is a Linux port planned for the Twhirl? I am currently good served with TweetDeck. But I am always open to different approaches.
- Michael Jung
"real-time-web integration"? Yuck. :)
- Randy Holloway
from twhirl
was using it yesterday, it's vastly improved. Question though, I can't remember is Jaiku the Google service that's being shut down?
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Twhirl already works on Linux...
- Rich
Does it have groups?
- Kyle
If it would have groups, i would prefer it over TweetDeck.
- Dave Vanhoudt
from twhirl
Disappointing this. No new features for Twitter (groups?). No new features for FriendFeed. Ping.fm isn't available in the version I have. I guess the seesmic video chat works, but I don't care.
- Dominic Jones
I am playing with it now. It is a good iteration over previous versions, but still a lot busier than tweetdeck.
- Jeff Sandquist
from twhirl
So the Ping.fm integration only works if you're using seesmic video? Am I wrong? So this upgrade is really just about seesmic?
- Dominic Jones
@Dominic: I don't think you need to be using Seesmic to get the ping.fm integration. Open the twitter window and click the configure button. Then paste in your ping.fm api key and make sure the box is checked.
- Craig Eddy
I need to try this. I was a devoted twhirl user until just recently when Tweetdeck made some changes I needed.
- Bryan R. Adams
@Craig: Ah, I need a manual. Thanks a lot.
- Dominic Jones
I needed the "how to" video. Question-->Why is it that I'm seeing so many new people on twitter that I'm not following?
- Kyle
nevermind. . . just figured out that I had the the "search" locked in on "Scoble" from the video walkthrough. . . d'oh!
- Kyle
I can now push to all points via Ping.fm, which is great. But I can't get anything back from people who respond on those many outposts. That's not conversation. It's one-way, not the two-way conversation I'm really hoping for. Any ideas?
- Dominic Jones
@Dominic: I've been noodling that as well...wouldn't it be nice if ping.fm could go and check all the posts for comments made on our updates...
- Craig Eddy
@ecofied: I am overly ecstatic about friendfeed because it is better for conversations. Having conversations here is lame. Sorry, but true.
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Joy-Mari ... Takes a little time but it's time well invested!
- Charlie Anzman
I don't understand why you're always complaining about the FriendFeed feature with the little blue t. It works fine for me.
- Bruce Lewis
you have to have the conversations where the people are, hence i still do it on twitter too
- Iphigenie
Tim: that isn't true, but I am tired of people telling me "I'm unsubscribing cause you're so noisy." They don't do that on friendfeed, even though I'm 200x noisier here. Why? Because the system is better. So, it's my little backlash against that community there.
- Robert Scoble
And I point out when some one has better technology and will never apologize for doing that. Friendfeed has threading. Twitter does not. Friendfeed is an aggregator. Twitter is not. Friendfeed has been down for, what, an hour in past year. Twitter? It goes down all the time. During the inauguration I saw the fail whale more than 10 times. So, do I wish harm on Twitter? No. Do I wish great success for friendfeed? Yes.
- Robert Scoble
FriendFeed will become the more powerful platform over time because they are less constrained in their format, and I believe in their business approach as well
- Michael VanDervort
It. doesn't. have. to. be one. or the other. Can we move on?
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Criticism should be viewed as a challenge for a service provider to improve. Could Twitter improve? Should they be more like FriendFeed? Yes to both. Nothing wrong with Robert pointing this out. Competition = innovation. There's lots of things Twitter could do right away to improve their service. Introducing a "hide" feature like FF, including images in the feed (perhaps as a user selected option to view a feed as text only or with images as well) would be two places that they might consider starting.
- Thomas Hawk
I am predicting a mass exodus from Twitter to Friendfeed during the coming year. FF is simply a much more brilliant piece of software for facilitating the kind of communication that Twitter is trying to enable (with both hands tied behind its back). Think of the movement from Gopher to the Web in ancient times.
- Sean McBride
I just found FF, but agree.
- Doug
I agree with Robert
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
maybe I'll write an article before leaving for dinner - an article a day builds your business so you can play
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Better tools to get replies from Twitter by email: http://notify.me/, http://twitterreply.com/ or http://www.twilert.com/
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notify.me is my choice.
- Orli Yakuel
do u know Tweet.IM? https://www.tweet.im/
- Dario Salvelli
yes.
- Orli Yakuel
And why did Twply get on everyone's radar? Because it SPAMMED Twitter. ugh.
- Tamar Weinberg
Is Social Media Keeping You Out Of Touch With Reality? - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Post by Corvida Raven
- Louis Gray
Social media is too young,it needs time to get "Reality".
- Igor Poltavskiy
I've grown up with a computer (got a Tandy 286 when I was 7), chat rooms and ICQ were huge when I was in jr. high/high school. I'm not sure it's keeping me out of touth with reality as becoming more and more my reality. It's how those younger than I connect with one another, it's how I'm connecting more and more. It's just a different reality is all.
- Wendy Peters
from twhirl
Listservs and gopher to MUDs and IRC, to usenet, PowWow and ICQ, and along came Mosaic; I got caught in the web. The wonderful thing I desired, MUDs with graphics (you guys call them MMORPGs), became real, and I came very close to carpal tunnel syndrome. The rest is guessable.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
there is a point in there, not out of touch with reality as much as a slightly filtered reality - lots of distractions, lots of "oh this is interesting" tidbits you forget 10 minutes later, very little in depth, all in all a life more fun. But actually, most people's day to day reality here in the western countries is not that different. Work without depth, go home, distract yourself, sleep.
- Iphigenie
:( that's a sad way to sum it up, Joelle.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I would kill to become a 'nethead' to use language from scifi books. Yeah, I would totally like to be wired, only downfall I see is the inablility to share. Now, when I'm talking to someone I can whip out my phone, look up something and show them. If I was wired and they weren't, how would I do that? I'd be back to only being right in my head.
- Anika
Kamilah, they have a choice, unlike people in many parts of the world. Its fascinating that so many waste it. And its a bit the same online - so many smart and passionate people online, and still we have mostly videos of cats jumping in boxes or people falling ;)
- Iphigenie
Great post, Corvida. I just last week had an interaction with some college friends, in which I explained Twitter and FriendFeed. Their ultimate opinion was that they were both fascinating services that would be huge timesucks. I think the key to connecting social media to reality is making the tools a bit more relevant to everyday, non-tech life.
- Carla Thompson
Actually the real world provides some of the most unique things to post about online. Though there are times when I get anxious if something in the real world doesn't have a link attached to it that I can share online. Yes, it is important to step away. With the current economy though, social media also provides cheap (and educational) entertainment (cheaper and longer lasting than a movie).
- Helen Hoefele
Thoroughly enjoyed this post - made me wonder the following...is there a bridge btw social media and "reality"? Really curious about how the ind/dual impacts would cycle (but this is above my paygrade) Next, will "reality" ever catch or keep pace with the developement of social media (ref the resume/linked in example...)? And finally...how does this impact us? Tonight I will pray to FF for the answers :)
- Ebm
Just wanted to add a more personal post here as well...I've learned so much from all of you on Friendfeed, through blogs, posts (much like this one), that have challenged me, inspired me, and moved me...and this I take into my "reality" everyday. Maybe I'll never meet Stupid Blogger aka Tina or the Scobles, but I still feel like I know them...and that's a pretty great reality to be a part of in my opinion...maybe the real question here is which is which?
- Ebm
i think that is the key, do you take things from your online experience into your real life, use it to learn, motivate, inform, enrich (and vice versa, share from your real life into to online world to again enrich, learn, teach, amuse). And yes, the tools should make it easier - in the linkedin example why dont they offer some export options that make it easy? I know they want people...
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- Iphigenie
ps love the ideas of taking the linked in recommendations and putting them on the cv - might be worth bothering to make some more!
- Iphigenie
HOW TO: Build Community on Twitter - http://mashable.com/2008...
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Social Media - are you noisier than you think? by 14sandwiches - http://14sandwiches.com/2008...
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"In recent months it’s become apparent that a lot of people find themselves overwhelmed by too much information. Subscribe to too many RSS feeds and follow too many people of Twitter and FriendFeed and suddenly you find yourself struggling to keep up with what is mostly irrelevant nonsense. Louis Gray wrote a commonsense post on his blog this weekend: “You Control Your Noise Velocity“. Louis’ straightforward point is that rather than complain about too much noise, you should just make sure you only subscribe to as much as you feel comfortable with."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
@louisgray is always right (99.44% of the time). Indeed, we've been on information overload for about 5-8 years now. That's why Google Reader was so helpful at first --- and is why social filtering via sites like FriendFeed are even more useful now.
- Mike Reynolds
just make ff lists. subscribe to everyone. Louis Gray is wrong
- NoahDavidSimon
I"ve just done maintenance in Google Reader. I got 134 feeds down to 63. Half of the ones I deleted were empty anyway, the others I didn't read at all.
- Ian May
Twitter is Old and Busted. FriendFeed is the New Hotness. - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
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I'll have to agree with you. Twitter seems one dimensional in comparison.
- Kevin
Dunno yet. I'm simply not willing to call it a day with Twitter.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Yeah, I'm not giving up on Twitter. Partly because it's still the best way to get little "microposts" into FriendFeed or whatever, and partly because of the network I've built there. I follow almost 500 people on Twitter, and 2100+ follow me. The numbers are there on FriendFeed yet. If they ever exceed Twiter then I'll consider stopping tweeting altogether. But I doubt that will ever happen.
- Josh Bancroft
Friendfeed's nice, but I'm digging Plurk more.
- Michael Gaines
Good article!
- Phil Glockner
Twitter is great for sending out information.. Friendfeed is good place to start a conversation.
- Muthu Ramadoss
That's a very good point, Steve. I think Twitter and it's friends will remain as a source of "microposts", that feed into FriendFeed, along with blogs, pictures, and everything else. I can see myself continuing to post with Twitter instead of FF, but reading/discovering/commenting/conversing more on FF. It's an interesting balance.
- Josh Bancroft
Twitter could do better (and might) as a friendly bird, but FF is an interstellar rocket.
- phil baumann
Twitter might be looking frumpy for early adopters, but I understand it's adding new members all the time. FF's the better, more useful, platform from my perspective, but Twitter's still got more name recognition and buzz going for it.
- Tom Landini
That's a good point, Tom. The more I think about it, the more I realize that there's room/need for both. Twitter as a place to originate/write little posts and thoughts, and FriendFeed as a place to suck up and aggregate them all, and have conversations around them.
- Josh Bancroft
I have so much I want to blog about and no time. :-(
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it happens :)
- Luca Conti
Often :)
- Roberto Bonini
I feel you on that one
- Shey
give me your topics, i will guest post on mp :)
- Allen Stern
My thoughts exactly, Allen. Bring it.
- Louis Gray
Source it to the crowd here on FF. What are the topics?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
So, do video?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
Time is an illusion
- Bwana ☠
"No time" is wrong by definition. You, me, Mr John Doe all have the same time 24h/day http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs... a nice book by Arnold Bennett
- directeur
@Louis and Allen I don't open MP up to guests. Want it to be my voice. But thanks for the offer!
- Steve Rubel
@directeur You are most correct. I need to make the time. I am going to start time boxing very soon. I was inspired by what Darren wrote http://www.problogger.net/archive...
- Steve Rubel
I can relate to that—happens much of the time. By the time I do have a free moment, I have very little energy left (like after midnight). I guess the only way to make it happen regularly is to commit to a specific time every week or every few days and hold that time sacred for blogging (or other favorite projects).
- Cathryn Hrudicka
i know that feeling - so i also use seesmic to post :)
- Dieter Schwarz
agreed...been working on writing my own blogging app n my spare time and seeing so many article possibilities fly by...I should really use blogger or something in the meantime...
- John Duff
I would like to experiment with Seesmic.
- Steve Rubel
I hear you Steve on the no time issue. I had a creative flurry the other night and have 10 drafts waiting to complete and publish. It becomes an issue though when the content is tied to breaking tech news or events and gets stale as time passes. I've time stamped each update to the drafts so I can keep track of the progress and I may leave that in the final posts.
- Larry Kless
What about Posterous? Quick, easy, and painless . . .
- Metin
I think that calls for a Blog about not having any time to Blog....ah wait a minute...LOL
- Susan Beebe
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