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@TomCoburn just saw your video on youtube. You should really be ashamed of your response. I hope it ruins your career. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Holy crap, was this submitted by THE actual Roger Ebert? If so, I applaud your courage in being open regarding your addiction and how AA has helped you. I've always been dubious about 12-step programs because they rely so much in a subscription of faith in a "higher power", and I'm glad you address that issue here."
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"You may have noticed that this blog now has a mobile version for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You may also have noticed that there is a second mobile format for all other smart phones, too. Thanks to the ease-of-use of Wordpress, you can make your blog mobile compliant in about five minutes and without writing one line of code. Nice!!"
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Old FF UI vs New FF UI
demir, DarknessFalls, Tanath and 214 other people liked this
ROFLMAO!
- vijay
EXACTLY!
- AJ Batac :)
LMAO!!!
- BEX
++++
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Posterized. Awesome
- Bwana ☠
that was fast!
- Rahul Das
LOL! Pegged it!
- Lindsay
this is so funny yet so true!
- Gerald Neo
BRILLIANT.
- Zee.
fast :))))) fast and furious :))))
- Viva Vida
too much vavavooooom :)
- Myriam
MEGA LOL
- Olivier
Thanks for making me laugh so hard that people at work now know I use FF at work! LOL!
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
LOL!
- Dee @ Holycool.net
hhahahaha!
- Susan Beebe
HAHAHAH
- mjc
ROFLMAO
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I still have the old UI.
- Richard A.
@Richard just go to beta.friendfeed.com
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
LMAO!
- Altuğ `αℓƒσ¢υѕ´ Orgun
It is posts like this that require a favorite function.
- Rob Diana
Rob - so true!
- Susan Beebe
This is so funnyyY!
- Jorge Escobar
that was great :)
- Alp
sweet
- mike "glemak" dunn
LMAO. Awesome illustration!!
- Praveen Vasudev
PMSL
- Tatty Gibson
LOL!
- JazJaz
rofl.
- Alp
lmao! :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
LOL
- Moses Kpetigo
Is FriendFeed Beta Too Fast?
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
This made our office laugh out loud :)
- Bret Taylor
hahaha
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Wear it proudly :) The future will be going at Wall-E pace...
- Christopher Galtenberg
the picture might be construed as being somewhat ambiguous ... I mean, where is the pleasure of it all ?
- pb:
is friendfeed still fast for you? i want it to keep up with me :)
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
yup..that's how it's been.... :)
- Rohit
We just launched an update to http://beta.friendfeed.com/ that brings back "Reshare" and also makes the perma-link more obvious. The links appear when your mouseover an entry. Let us know what you think.
Juvenn Woo, Mike Elliott, Molly and 157 other people liked this
There's a bit of a pause in Safari 4 Beta (Webkit) but other than that, it's great.
- Akiva
The pause (about 100ms) is intentional so that they don't appear when the mouse is just passing over an entry on the way to get somewhere else.
- Paul Buchheit
amazing! You folks are an example of how internet solutions should be done...Quickly, cooperatively and in real-time
- Tweet Feeds
Wouldn't mind seeing the hover links appear underneath the user icon rather than on the opposite side of the column.
- Akiva
Paul, gotcha. Makes sense.
- Akiva
And "To:" In the Bookmarklett!!!
- Ken Sheppardson
thanks!
- Jay
Just tried it - slick!
- Martha
Excellento
- Chris Loft
I was wondering where that went.
- Michael Fidler
I don't think the 100ms pause helps, it makes it feel slow IMO. Other than that, much improved.
- Eric Florenzano
Mama's not happy. http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Anika
I like it. Any chance of seeing the changes seen in the reshare box in the general purpose bookmarklet in the immediate future?
- Mark Trapp
It's just become much harder to hide a bunch of things quickly. Otherwise it's ok.
- Robin Barooah
I think it's fine. Good work.
- Vicarbott
Glad it's back. Think it ought to be grouped with the others, or at least everything in the same place. I didn't think the old implementation was lacking much. Maybe something in between?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
And the bookmarklet has been upgraded so you can share to multiple places! I'm super happy about that. Not so sure about the link placement on the entries, though. I sort of like the contextual visibility, but I think I like it from a "that's cool-looking!" perspective rather than a usability one. Not sure I would've noticed them without your post.
- Jandy
Damnit, it has not. If I hit the bookmarklet while on FriendFeed, it shows the reshare box, with the ability to share to multiple places. But if I'm on some other site and hit it, it shows the old one. WUWT?
- Jandy
Jandy, I don't see a new bookmarklet at all.
- Akiva
The new bookmarklet hasn't launched yet, but it's being use for reshare, which is why you may see it on beta.friendfeed.com (but nowhere else).
- Paul Buchheit
Interesting side effect of the links on the right side is a potential for obscuring the author line: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mark Trapp
Thank You!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Don't think I'm a fan of the delay. The links don't obscure anything, so I don't see the harm in showing them immediately.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I think maybe the delay should be shortened a bit.
- Akiva
Gotta say I'd rather the buttons next to all the other buttons (like, comment, etc), what was the rationale for having them up the top?
- Glenn Slaven
YAY!!
- FFing Enigma
I would like it if 'hide' ended up back with the other buttons. I use it all the time and I don't want to have to target twice with the pointer (once to bring up the bar and once to hit the link), but link and reshare are much less common operations, so for me it's ok for them to be less accessible.
- Robin Barooah
If you want to use the new bookmarklet, open the properties of the link on your browser and change the url from friendfeed.com to beta.friendfeed.com
- Glenn Slaven
Glenn, thanks for the tip. I didn't think of that.
- Jandy
I do remember that folks never looked under "More" for stuff, but I'm not a fan of having the per-entry actions in two different places :-/. Also, with everything else real time, the delay before the links appear seems sorta disconnected.
- Ken Sheppardson
Very cool.
- Andrew Leahey
why fail mark? i'm curious
- Zee.
can the mouse over effect work even when the cursor is on the white space of a block?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
if the "like" is always visible, why not the same for "link reshare hide"
- Kishore Balakrishnan
agree kishore
- Rob Shillingsburg
Hi Paul.. any pointers on letting people know, and finding companies to help trial a content management site that I'm launching?
- Calvin Pert
Duck ... mainstream is coming .... :)
- Charlie Anzman
I like it a lot.
- April Buchheit
I am also finding that when I am aiming for a link within the entry itself that's over to the right hand side, the tools are popping up and distracting me as I try to target.
- Robin Barooah
LOVE it...
- Johnny
Thanks for your work! Though now (with delay) it takes a bit more time to scan through the page and hide entries that deserve hiding. You know, sometimes I instantly see that I'll hide this, and delay just slows it down... though giving me time to rethink. =) Just to points: 1. 'Link' on the post page is unnecessary? (linking to itself); 2. maybe it's unnecessary at all? I was happy with timestamps... =)
- Anton
Messing around with this, noticeable change in my behavior already based on cursor location; I either hide everything or I comment. I'm on a 10" screen and I don't want to move from Hide all the way to Comment or vice versa. One thing's for certain, there's no way I'd use FF on my 17" laptop for an extended (more than 5 min) amount of time.
- Anika
Post management on the right, post interaction under title, works for me...
- Johnny
Even more so than I'm stoked on the upgrades (keep 'em coming though) - I'm stoked on the way you guys are running your shop here. I like the attentiveness to users, I like the personal responses to bug reports. I like the advance notice of downtime. And I like the environment and communication that that kind of treatment promotes. The Friends that feed me here are great because of that. Thanks! more more more ;-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Nice, but the bottom padding of, let's see, .toplinks extends down to far and can cover links.
- Maxwell Terry
Rob, I so agree. Whoever heard of a developer coming off the mountain and socializing with the folks - and actually telling us about features and how they work? I absolutely love it - Paul, you remind me a little bit of the owner of a very good restaurant, circulating among the tables and making sure everyone's having a great time.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
That was fast... Thank you!
- Susan Beebe
ah thank you!!-though i would never have known it was there if you didn't mention i had to hover over the link ( I saw an earlier post mentioning this feature and I was like "huh? where?" :)
- Kelly W.
And I really like the fact that you put Link up there as well. Of course that may have been up there a bit, but still it makes things easier.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
why can't i reshare the conversation to someone who don't use the FF?
- tianhou
Yay !
- Ahsan Ali
It's less clutter, thanks! It could be nice for these three actions to appear next to the mouse, maybe?
- Count Caturday
hmm, let's try on tablet again -- people say FriendFeed in beta is much quicker on Nokia Internet Tablets than current (presumably bloated with JS) FrF
- A. T.
hmmm on N810 it has weird feeling while refresh is done...
- A. T.
Oh no, "Hide" is so far from "Like" now
- Кофе без сахара
Very happy to have reshare back; don't like the position (too far from other controls), don't like the mouseover (distracting, especially with the delay, and seems to interfere with other links if they extend out that far). Please just bring back "more"!
- Bill Hooker
Love it!
- Roshan Ramachandran
I like new position of Hide (I use hide as "mark it read")
- romanzolotarev
Paul, wud be great & really easy if Mail Invitations link had option for importing & selecting email contacts...rather than typing/copy-paste. Any plans for this?
- Roshan Ramachandran
Please, bring "hide" link back to main controls area. It's very unuseful in a new position: 1) too far from main mouse route; 2) opens with a delay. It makes filtering process a pain when one of the most used links is put away. Filtering is one of FriendFeed's killer-features and one of it's core functions.
- Yury Vetrov
cool... but with touchscreen device I can't perform the mouseover action.
- Francesco M.
^^^ oh yes !!! mouseover sucks big time
- A. T.
Paul, thank you for adding the reshare but it's just like the old UI. Is there no way posts could be shared properly, i.e. synced likes and comments? It would be ideal to just open the post up to new feeds not create new posts with new comments, etc. It would help with cutting down duplication.
- Kol Tregaskes
I agree with Kol. Would be great as an option to reshare with the original likes and comments.
- Jesper Lind
Also the Reshare link should be next to the Comment, Like and Hide links, this is where all "action" links are and makes sense to put them to together not dotted around in different places.
- Kol Tregaskes
And I appreciate the "Link" link might make things clearer to some but it's pretty easy to grab the link from the timestamp so we have 2 links on the post doing the same thing. I think all you really need to do it make the timestamp look like a link, i.e. change the text blue like other links.
- Kol Tregaskes
I hate it: hide should go back to its place, near "like", since clicking it where it is... is hard and unintuitive.
- Marcos Marado
It's really great!
- Ninh Nguyen
Should it be Link - Hide - Reshare instead of the current order?
- Ninh Nguyen
I don't like how the background obscures content if the item was posted to multiple feeds that span the entire top line. How about making them appear next to the existing Comment - Like links instead?
- Tony Ruscoe
looks great
- Peter Efland
Wow. This feature has been revamped in less than 24h, based on feedback. That's why Friendfeed rules in real time!
- Jérôme
Now that's what I call "responsive to users". Kudos.
- Bill Hooker
"The Scoble Effect" is now much more powerful from a "Like" via FriendFeed to Twitter than from a link on his blog. @scobleizer
Victor Panlilio, Jamie Vidamour, Alex Kapranoff and 69 other people liked this
I say this only because I got linked to today and got a click or two. A like via FF to Twitter sends a good stream of visitors.
- Louis Gray
Agreed - Scoble writing about you is one thing, but if I were a PR rep I'd be writing articles designed to get Scoble to like. I've had a few of those and the traffic and retweets on Twitter were amazing!
- Jesse Stay
i rarely get traffic from FF unless louis or robert "likes" my item - like yesterday i saw about 50 or so peoples
- Allen Stern
Robert, actually helped me decide to continue using FF, and that was many months back, I stuck it out even through Robert Scoble almost needing an intervention. He knows his stuff and I now value his opinion and friendship across many of the networks now.
- aerobroken
Allen, that's because you're not using the FriendFeed Beta ;-)
- Jesse Stay
oh yea Jesse?
- Allen Stern
I know this wasn't Jesse's intent, but it's probably not wise to design a marketing piece PRIMARILY to appeal to one particular reviewer (no matter how influential, or perceptive, said reviewer may be). While that's a good secondary goal, the primary goal should be to appeal to your target audience. And, of course, you yourself have to be comfortable with what you're writing.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
When Scoble and I were taking a tour of DC he twit'ed about it with my name and wham, I got like two dozen followers in 20 minutes.
- Andrew Leyden
Allen I think it is massively lame for a tech blogger to celebrate not staying up to date.
- Robert Scoble
John: Not good for the whole piece, but maybe good to design a headline that you know will catch a few particular reviews eyes.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
i guess i am lame then - i haven't had time to look into yet so I didn't want to just load it up - i am working on a variety of things the last week or so - it's not that i won't just that I haven't had time yet - i don't want to do it a disservice by spending a minute here or there - so that's why i haven't loaded it up yet
- Allen Stern
Scoble's blog has never been great at sending traffic to sites he links to. Or at least that has been my experience given the various times he's linked to my blog. I don't pay enough attention to my traffic from Twitter/Friendfeed to be able to tell if there is a significant difference from when Robert likes one of my posts compared to other times.
- Dare Obasanjo
Dare - when Scoble posted a link to my startup deep in one of his posts (not about my startup) i saw a good deal of traffic from it - and received a few orders as well - something only a few of the other tech bloggers sent - actual paying orders.
- Allen Stern
well that makes me want to use FF more often now :P
- Ali
Allen, you're probably right in waiting on the beta until you can devote a bit of time to it. Some people have to tweak their settings (e.g. set up additional lists and/or special filters) to truly interact effectively with the beta.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
cool, then scoobe should post about http://arabcrunch.com hehehe
- Ali
btw the post i had CrunchPad pics was from Scobe tweet http://bit.ly/2IE9wO which caused 15 blogs to link me engadget among them
- Ali
An interesting observation Louis. I'll add something to it: The links I post myself via friendfeed "likes" seem to get more traffic, and definitely get retweeted more on twitter. It's not just a Scoble effect. Maybe there's something to the way the tweet says: Liked "Thus and so" that makes people want to click on it more. (That said, I've taken some heat for "liking" stuff that I only liked to post it out to twitter, and in fact hated it and wanted people to see it as well. )
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Scoble does not follow me. :-(
- Alp
Alp: not true anymore.
- Robert Scoble
Yes, I do. Alp.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Quick, someone give me some Scoble bait. For both of them!
- Mike Nayyar
Alex, I tried to mean Robert. Yay, it's not true anymore :-( :-)
- Alp
Dare: sometimes when I link to things only 10 people take the bait. Other times 1,000 do. I think it has to do with whether there's something really new and also how much people spread around that particular post. This is VERY important in the world of Twitter. It's the retweeting and liking behavior that determines how much traffic something gets.
- Robert Scoble
Depends, I went on a hiding spree, wasn't getting as much as I used to.
- Richard A.
*tosses Mike some Scoble snacks* Try those ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Yup - seeing the same Scoble "Like" effect.
- Hutch Carpenter
interesting observation, and interesting to see if PR people and bloggers start writing material on the basis of what they hope Scoble will like... not healthy for the general community, but interesting effect of the 'super-influencers'
- Peter Efland
Peter: if they do, they would totally miss the point. Mostly I like stuff after other people in the community like it too.
- Robert Scoble
I liked this, but somehow I don't think my "Like" has the same effect. Just a hunch ;-)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Once Scoble liked one of my shares, I felt blessed
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I know the feeling. He once liked a joke I'd made about twitter being training wheels for friendfeed.
- George Hall (Australia)
Agreed. He's just so passionate and it's so evident he's sincere in his likes and dislikes. People tend to believe what he says and investigate what he refers because of his genuineness.
- Abounding Media
TwitZap: Never Refresh Twitter Again [del.icio.us] - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Hi I am nobody and I use FriendFeed - http://techwag.com/index...
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I thought everybody was either a PC or a Mac. This tech business is so confusing!
- Stan Scott
LOL, Stan.
- Kol Tregaskes
25 things vanishing in America: the fax machine - http://www.walletpop.com/blog...
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Will Apple pretend iPhone video recording requires the new iPhone? - http://macenstein.com/default...
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Almost certainly yes. At the very least, the new iPhone will have a much nicer camera in it. Apple may well activate the camera in existing iPhones, but might degrade the quality. LOL
- iTad
I think it´s going to be the great hook for the new phone.
- Pedro Rodrigues
BREAKING: Gay marriage now legal in Vermont - http://www.americablog.com/2009...
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Google, T-Mobile bringing Android to home phones too - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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If you fancy sharing via Google Reader post your email addy here. (I did this before recently but not that big a response)
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z@zee.me
- Zee.
kipp.bodnar AT gmailDOTcom
- Kipp Bodnar
warren.butler with the usual gmail stuff to follow
- Warren Butler
steward.tony at gmail dot com
- Tony
grahamenglish at gmail
- Graham English
jaemik@gmail.com
- Jaemi Kehoe
pglockner at etc., see you on greader!
- Phil Glockner
coldacid at gmail dot com
- Chris Charabaruk
oheresy at gmail.com
- Beau Liening
suggestion: you could link this to a private group or something, Zee, so folks can avoid getting spammed. looks like you have several people who don't mind that risk, though.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
how do i link this to a private group?
- Zee.
edwardsmark at gmail dot com
- Mark Edwards
louisgray@gmail.com
- Louis Gray
tsudohnimh@gmail.com
- Keith - @tsudo
dayolddonut@gmail.com
- Kyle Judkins
grucker202@gmail.com - Greg Rucker
- Gregory R
jason.a.castillo, gmail
- JA Castillo
teodalton at gmail
- Mateo Yadarola
net ns1 ta px
- rob friedman
janfriman@gmail.com
- Jan Friman
Churchsg at gmail dot com
- Sally Church
bizsumpark182@gmail.com
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
areyoulookon@gmail.com
- kang
zee, make a group for it and say post the addresses here if you prefer. that might reduce your responses, though. looks like you got a pretty good response, anyway.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
pardeemp@gmail.com
- Michael Pardee
vezquex@gmail.com
- Vezquex
stevesynergy@
- Daltonsbriefs
I don't get why people find the new friendfeed overwhelming. It is mostly the old realtime feature with a new design.
Jeff P. Henderson, Tyler (Chacha), Alp and 4 other people liked this
I agree. When I use FriendFeed I only use it in RealTime so this isn't much of a difference for me either. The colors aren't to my liking, but I have no complaints about the general UID.
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
Because not everyone found the old realtime feature usable...
- FFing Enigma
And I hated and never used the old realtime feature.
- Rochelle
Well, speaking as a UI Designer, I think the new FF design is much easier for newcomers and every service needs newcomers. Also because of it's Twitter likeness it is more familiar to most twitter users. Facebook went that way too. So, the way I see it, the new FriendFeed design is like Twitter on steroids! You get your text messages, your photos, your videos and anything else. I think this new design will make it more mainstream as a Social Media network and more people will start using it eventually.
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
Not too mad at it actually. I will get it one of these days
- Howard O'Berry
Not a fan of realtime either.
- The Amber
Never used realtime myself.
- Niki Costantini
I never used realtime as it is very hard to read through a long thread with the screen constantly updating.
- Jeff P. Henderson
You do have the option of pausing your screen in the Beta. It is at the top right corner to the left of your profile photo
- Spyros Papaspyropoulos
pause is the key. once that's turned on, it acts like the old static pages.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
RT @AlohaArleen EVERY parent (and their teens) should watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Amazing job @HilaryAnnDuff PLZ RT (mahalo)
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Great ... timing - http://naurunappula.com/z...
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Apple store guy @kanjedi says "I follow you on Twitter." I tell him "you get the sale." buying a monitor for new friendfeed.
Wayne Sutton, MG Siegler, Jérôme and 13 other people liked this
Lol :)
- Federico [Kurai]
I have friendfeed on 2 screens at the moment, do i need another one? :) , You just keep teasing more about tomorrows release.
- Simon Wicks
Does he follow you on FriendFeed though? And will he "like" this post?
- Jesse Stay
a whole monitor dedicated to FriendFeed?
- Thomas Hawk
Who needs another screen when you've got FriendFeed? :)
- Meryn Stol
Heck, even I want a monitor dedicated to FriendFeed, and I probably follow 1/10000th of what Scoble does. Can't afford it right now, though...
- Tristan Seligmann
Wow, that is awesome. is the new Friendfeed deserving of an entire new monitor? Wow
- Howard O'Berry
from twhirl
I'm surprised you don't already have a FF monitor, Robert.
- Ken Sheppardson
Well, even in and around San Francisco there are only so many tech people. And they are probably all following you Robert, of course minus some "special cases" ;-) Edit: Why are you shopping at Apple for a new display? ('spensive)
- Holger Eilhard
a new monitor for friendfeed, sounds like more intrigue =)
- Kirill Bolgarov
Pimping FriendFeed: 40+ Useful Apps, Widgets, and Plugins | WHDb - http://whdb.com/2008...
Bill Romanos, Roger Chen, Naofumi Kagami and 49 other people liked this
apptastic!
- Laura Norvig
planning to bookmark this post as well :)
- Jennifer Van Grove
Worthy bookmark bump
- Mike Fruchter
LIKE
- Mona Nomura
Will definitely have to plow through this a li'l later.
- FFing Enigma
"um, how can I integrate my FriendFeed into Myspace?" <ca-click> HEADSHOT!!
- Josh Haley
well...actually...
- Rah-PM 2012
Rahsheen, I have to say, you're quite impressive with your laundry list of talents. Coding, writing, acting, rapping, what can't you do? :P
- Hao Chen
"Go Broke?" --Riley from Boondocks
- Rah-PM 2012
Nah, seriously, though. LOL. I just like to learn stuff. I don't think there is anything a person can't learn how to do.
- Rah-PM 2012
great list!
- Abbas Haider Ali
Great list and now clipped to evernote!!
- Mel Buckpitt
NOTE: Tons of bad links in the original article (4/13 of links were bad so far). Jimmy needs to test his article posts. I'm adding correct links as I find them (and sub-links to interesting items on linked pages) in my FF/Del.icio.us comments at http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Is it just me or are people being overly self-promotional in blog post comments lately? And then people get pissed at me for calling them out. How about proper networking etiquette? That's not how you get on someone's radar...
Daniel Johnson, Jr., Geoff Schultz {TF}, Barbara K. Baker and 7 other people liked this
Desperate times! I noticed it a while ago though. Like when I first started blogging. As things like social media and blogging get more and more popular, you are bound to see more and more people bending/breaking the rules to get ahead. In most cases it works against them though.
- Howard O'Berry
from twhirl
I love how some guy commented on my "Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007" post with a YouTube video he created and wrote about in 2008. Not only that, but the guy even added fake "testimonials" for his barely-viewed video! Definitely desperate times. It's sad. It's not hard to sign up for social networks like FriendFeed, use them effectively, and become known. But commenting out of the blue about oneself is not genuine. (And this isn't the most recent case either...)
- Tamar Weinberg
well i would say that a large number of social media blogs are fairly self-promoting, so that's probably in your radar... really depends on what you read...
- Jeremy Toeman
I think it's about time that a blog post be written to address this... in the radar, I guess. What else peeves you about blog comments?
- Tamar Weinberg
i get annoyed by the lack of follow-up in a comment thread. people let the conversation just 'die' too much
- Jeremy Toeman
Strangely yesterday I received a sincere apology from a guy who was promoting his service in comments that were almost off-topic (and he definitely did not seem to read the post itself). And that's my point: I hate it when people submit comments with their thoughts without actually reading my thoughts in the post. The irony is that I may have already described the same ideas right in the post itself.
- Svetlana Gladkova
@Svetlana, I totally agree -- people like to hear themselves but may not actually want to hear you -- and they're using YOUR blog comments as a sound board. Ironic indeed.
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar: Ironic indeed but very natural. After all, people have been taught for a while now that blog comments can be used as an efficient marketing and promotional tool and so we see the results now.
- Svetlana Gladkova
from twhirl
The best way to network is to help other people. Also, that's the *only* way to promote yourself on other people's blogs -- leave an interesting comment, and put your URL in the space provided for that.
- Mitch Wagner
iPhone 2.0.2 firmware is available now. Update and hope it solves your problems.
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Wondering - How many of you have blocked Igor the Troll?
Alan Le, Jeremiah Owyang, Jesse Stay and 10 other people liked this
i have not.
- Phil Glockner
Not me! You do no like me anymore? lol
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Yeah, he's blocked. And his sidekick, Noah David Simon.
- Mark Trapp
Yuvi, should I block you first? LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Mark Trapp, you are such a Fascist!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Nope. Far as trolls go, Igor's pretty cool. Very rarely I remove a comment or two, but he does have many good points. He's got his own room http://friendfeed.com/rooms... (38 members), where he feeds Robert Scoble (since Robert has blocked him). Cool strategy. If somebody blocks you, make a room & feed them into the room! My philosophy is "let live". FriendFeed allows you to (1) hide (2) moderate comments so it's pretty neat.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell. I only report on Robert Scoble and let the community decide. http://tinyurl.com/4slopm
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
@Igor: I'm not going to block you anytime soon (I blocked Noah, 'coz I was getting a bunch of images that my dad will mistake for nsfw images if he sees 'em).
- Yuvi
I refer you to: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Michael W. May
Yuvi, I do not Troll or pick on people. Also me exposing Robert has nothing to do with him blocking me. I did not even know who he was till a few months ago. Never said a bad word to him, but I did a post on him based on his hype of Chinese earthquake. He did not take the criticism warmly and started blocking me first on Twitter then on FF. He even made a public post about it. So I am not angry at him but just showing the community what he is.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I blocked Igor, but I haven't blocked Noah David Simon yet... Haven't heard too much from him lately though...
- iTad
@Mark @Tad When you block someone do you see their comments anywhere; i.e. do you see this post without Igor's 5 comments?
- Mitchell Tsai
I guess what really tipped me off was that he called me, "Anonymous blogger" I think all of us have an important opinion in the Social Media, small or big. None of us are anonymous. We all have rights and should be given respect.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Mitchell: I can see his comments via a search. I just checked: yeah, I'm still okay with my choice. The main problem I have with them is that they don't find anything inappropriate and they don't know when to quit.
- Mark Trapp
@Igor: Well, maybe I would like a reason why you call yourself a troll?
- Yuvi
I don't see any of Igor's spoor on FF.
- iTad
Mark quit what? When someone humiliates you in public should you just walk away? http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Yuvi fare question. I call myself a Troll as a reverse parody, sarcasm!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
If you like to know more about why I gave myself a nic Troll please read http://www.igorthetroll.com/i-am-ig... But Yuvi, being that you come from a cast society and you know what "Labels" are I figure you would empathize!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Blocked. And other jerks too.
- Robert Scoble
Not yet. Igor is a pretty civil troll compared with some I have recently encountered.
- shelisrael1
Thanks Shel. I have no beef with you. I actually told Loren to Fuck Off when he went to far with you and Dave.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I have
- Grant
If I go by the wikipedia definition of Internet Troll, Igor isn't a troll (yet).
- Yuvi
@Igor: Yes, I know how labeling can hurt. But, my generation is rather label-hating, and while the previous generation does label people (heck, it's even government authorized to append your caste name to your name), we don't. Calling myself Yuvi Nadar would be an enormous order of fucking stupidity. Igor Berger would alleviate a lot of problems.
- Yuvi
repeating for emphasis: Igor Berger would alleviate a lot of problems.
- Yuvi
I hear you! But that is what defines me! I do not not hide from my roots. I am a Jew from Russia and an Israeli citizen I am sure you met some Israelis as they travel through India a lot. We stand our ground that is our culture. I hope you can as well, but I understand that it would make your life so hard.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
It has nothing to do with the name, it has to do with the cynical and obnoxious comments
- Grant
@Igor: Mai eengliesh iees naut kuud enough to understand what the last comment meant. I was just saying that Igor Berger is a lot better name than Igor the Troll. No?
- Yuvi
Also, I haven't met *any* foreigners here - seen a few, but not *met* any. Absolutely my fault though - i don't go out as much as I should.
- Yuvi
True dat
- Grant
yuvi- where do you live
- Grant
Yuvi, Igor The Troll is my Internet nic, I am not changing it, because that is what and who I came to be. If it is the weight that I will have to carry all my life, that is my burden. I am who I am and nothing more and nothing less. It is like saying to a Jew, stop calling yourself a Jew!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
@Grant: I'm from India.
- Yuvi
I haven't blocked anyone yet!
- Joe Dawson
@Igor: Now that's weird. A few comments ago, you said you're not a troll. The Jew analogy doesn't fit ('coz you said you aren't a troll, you should stop calling yourself a troll, no?)
- Yuvi
But Yuvi, thanks for carrying. You are the first person who asked why my nic is Igor the Troll. I hope your Indian roots will make you strong. Be proud of who you are!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
just subscribed.
- Csturm
I haven't blocked Igor. He's pretty amusing mostly. Although, I'm probably not important enough for him to annoy :)
- Rah-PM 2012
Yuvi when someone gives you a label, why not ware it? I was bone in Russia and for years as I ravel across he world in South America, Europe, Asia, and India I would tell people I am Russian, other times American because I grew up in USA. But people would say to me, "You are Israeli" And I would say, I only lived in Israel a few years. Yes I am an Israeli citizen, but I did not see myself as Israeli.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
It was very funny but in India, people would ask what country you belong to? I could no understand what they mean and would ask hem what country I am a citizen of? They repeated the question, What country you belong to?" Years later I learned he meaning of this question. Now I just tell people I am an Israeli. Even when I went to Egypt and Morocco I told people I am an Israeli. Just be proud of who you are.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I didn't block him. He is the only person that makes me laugh at the moment. Some people are too serious. (I hope Igor isn't serious) (but I think he is dead serious) :)
- Howard O'Berry
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Just subscribed to "Igor the Troll"
- Mitchell Tsai
@Igor: I guess I'll understand that someday, 'coz I haven't quite experienced it. Till then *blocked* [edit] I didn't see your last comment when I posted this. This was in response to your "label, wear it" comment
- Yuvi
*Just kiddin* :P
- Yuvi
Oh, India is a rather very complicated country. Don't get me started on that :P
- Yuvi
Actually I got many people following me on FF and Twitter from this post. So thank you all and especially Yuvi. It is very important to be transparent and honest with people.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Yuvi, I saved our conversation for posterity. http://www.igorthetroll.com/i-am-wh... Maybe next time you can tell us "Who is Yuvi" Thanks and looking forward to it.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I like trolling for igorthetroll's trolling ;)
- Jesse Stay
i have
- Tyler Gillies
I hate to open up old wounds and I was thinking Yuvi started this thread with regards to Robert Scoble blocking me on FF but now I realize it was due to Aaron Brazell. Michael W. May, I am sorry I did not click on your link thinking it was Scoble public outing of me! I wrote a response post to Aaron Brazell public outing with me! http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
While all Internet users have the right to block another user, but making it into a public thread and outing that user as a bad person on Social Media network is Cyberbullying and should not be done!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Viddler talks about being ignored. http://cdevroe.com/notes... Got a good point there!
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Hi Robert. I was just wondering if there is any particular reason why Viddler gets so little play - from you in particular. Is live cell phone streaming a deal breaker? I watched your Qik videos today and neither quality nor content looks that impressive (sorry!) - compared to your old stuff on PodTech that is. Which was professionally produced, of course. I know it's subject for a...
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- AT
I think both Viddler and Vimeo don't get enough "iRespect". Unlike YouTube, you can actually upload webcam/digital camera videos rather than other content or stolen content. Some people may overlook a site just because of that but... that's just my "iTheory".
- Outsanity
I've been using Viddler and I don't think they're ready for primetime yet. I've had issues with everything from recording video on site to issues with uploading/encoding. When the site functions properly the quality is phenomenal, but I can only be patient for so long.
- Jennifer Van Grove
from fftogo
I am looking for a video podcast host site / platform (dont wanna pay for Brightcove) and frankly none of them really do it right. I want the live webcam feed ability of uStream, the phone streaming of Qik (but on windows mobile) and the HD abilities and reliability of blip.tv. For now, that means combining ustream.tv and blip.tv.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
To Colin's point, I have no idea where Viddler is. But maybe Loic can speak to this. Does Seemic do better because he moved to the Silicon Valley? I love Viddler regardless of where they are.
- Leo Laporte
Other than timelien comments, what is viddlers real value proposition? The design of the site is not as good as some, and the advertising int he sidebar on he homepage is, frankly, sort of of-putting... like they are desperate. When you are looking for a "home" you want the illusion of stability. I am all for giving them a chance... but they have to convince me they have something special happening.
- Soulhuntre
Viddler and Vimeo blow YouTube out of the water in quality of video. I *wish* Apple would make one of them the *default* upload/export destination from iMovie. It would do so much more justice to peoples videos. Plus, neither site has the YouTube commenters who are like bred in a special land just so they can go on to comment incoherently on YouTube.
- Adam Turetzky
I'm sorry, but if no one knows what they are doing because they aren't telling any one, that's their issue. I've never once received so much as an email from Viddler, either in a professional capacity or even as a Viddler user! (seriously, no updates, newsletters...nothing, and yes, the box to receive email IS ticked, I checked) There is next to zero outreach from this company, so for them to complain they are being ignored is extremely rich.
- Duncan Riley
oh, I do think it's a decent site and service, but that's only because I have an account, they've never once told me :-)
- Duncan Riley
seriously..Viddler? Never heard of it before right this minute
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Oh *that's* Viddler. I was commenting at work that I like the look of their player - didn't know they were called Viddler though.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I have been using Vimeo for cell phone video which I mail from my phone. I have found the service to be fairly fast in getting the content online and the player is great. In fact I think that their player is the best! A lot of content that is streamed live has no benefit to being live. Sometimes it is better to plan, execute properly, with the chance of redoing it if it does not go quite right, and then send. Live is great for getting dialogue going, I like those Robert.
- Glen Meyburgh
Vimeo video conversion has better quality than youtube, the community there is smaller but more interesting to follow, they produce the videos. I upload mine to Vimeo and Youtube, they look better on Vimeo.
- Mário Pires
I like Viddler but YouTube is where the people are
- Michael McGimpsey
from twhirl
also, for whatever reason, viddler figured out how to make one of my videos show higher-up on search engines. not sure, what they did....
- Pokai
Off topic: I kinda wish I could see when replies were made since this tweet was from back in April and the conversation has started up again.
- Frankie Warren
Puhlease, let the market decide, this is not about personal favors.
- Jeremiah Owyang
The market is made up of lots of personal favors.
- Brent Newhall
@Frankie Warren You can see the date stamp in feedalizr
- Glen Meyburgh
Court overturns father's grounding of 12-year-old - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
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only in Amer...wait, what?
- acedanger
The Top 5 Most Addictive Social Media Sites - http://collective-thoughts.com/2008...
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69 Twitter Web Services You Should Know - http://smartech.blogetery.com/2008...
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"Twitter is probably one of the most rapid growing tools to communicate and stay connected with your family, friends, co-workers or anyone else you wish to follow. It has changed the way we use the internet and turned the form of blogging into micro-blogging, allowing users to write brief text updates and publish them to the masses. To those of you who make their first steps with tweeter or those who already been using it for a while and look for services to enhance their usage, here’s a list of 69 web-based services you should know"
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
cool
- Palin Ningthoujam
Good list, just a little unorganized. I like it!
- Czar
Social Media: Do I plurk or tweet? - http://www.socialmedia.biz/2008...
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Tweet all day long!
- Joe Dawson
Why is this always a one pointed answer? I yhoo, msn, aim, irc, icq and gtalk... why can't we twitter and plurk?
- Czar
I use Ping.fm to Twit and Plurk
- Zak Nicola
I came across Ping.fm on Facebook earlier, is it any good?
- Joe Dawson
Plurk is a fad app. Twitter rocks (except for when it's down - all too often)
- Susan Beebe
I use Ping.fm Joe and it's a good service. I don't see a downside to using it.
- Bwana ☠
Why should I pick?
- Arron Washington
both nowadays. plurk gets the bulk.
- Howard O'Berry
Both, but plurk gets the most attention.
- Shane Floyd
I am on Twitter and tweet more than I Plurk. I only check Plurk a couple of times per week, but I am noticing there is more noise over there now... seems like more people have finally signed up for Plurk. You can find me in both services as @smbeebe
- Susan Beebe
Is the iPhone 3G Worth Buying? - http://chris.pirillo.com/2008...
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I'm starting to have second thoughts about upgrading from my first-gen iPhone.
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
no way. no video support. no cut/paste. don't fall for Uncle Steve's tricks!
- Andy Sternberg
from twhirl
I am hearing mixed things but I in.
- Steve Rubel
I am not planning to rush out and get the 3G iPhone. I am happy with my first gen and looking forward to the 2.0 software. I will wait for the next update, maybe it will have 32GB.
- Rajiv Doshi
i actually don't care about any of they OS and hardware updates. All I *really* care about is well the MobileMe integration is. If I can get wireless calendar sync, then I'm a happy camper.
- George Lee
He comments home users will have to pay $10 more, but it's actually $15. Text messaging is no longer bundled, last I read, so you'll have to pay $5 more (on TOP of the $10 for 3G service) just to get the same 200 text messages you're getting now. So instead of an extra $240 over two years for the service, you're looking at an extra $360. Just so you can save $200 on the initial buy. I'm pretty sure I'm NOT "upgrading."
- Kevin Hessel
Except for IM and cut&paste, the iPhone 3g is better in almost every way than my SK3, which is why I am going to switch to it. I just can't wait for android to finally materialize a phone.
- Phil Glockner
I currently have an old Sprint "mini-brick" with no Internet access. I need a new phone, so the iPhone looks pretty good to me.
- Hutch Carpenter
I'm in for the integrated GPS... the first app I'll be buying is TomTom's navigator.
- Roger Benningfield
At first I was with Andy, no video no way. After watching the full keynote, I will upgrade for the MobileMe and the App store. I really think the apps are going to be marvelous and only get better with time.
- Jennifer Van Grove
from twhirl
KH - See how they get you!
- Russellreno
Joe - where the iphone camera is concerned.. you obviously haven't seen many pictures taken with a sidekick 3. they are seriously crappy.
- Phil Glockner
Jennifer - I'm convinced that hold on video support is purely so MobileMe can establish it's own video-uploading community and then, i wouldn't be surprised if Apple goes as far as to ONLY allow video from iPhone to upload to the proprietary MobileMe depository.
- Andy Sternberg
Or try the photo output from a Treo. You fancy-pants iPhone early adopters don't know how good you've got it! :D
- Roger Benningfield
Sadly, I've decided that I can't justify it over my current setup. As much as I want to, the lack of 5MP or better camera is disappointing.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Joe: http://www.poweredbydanger.com/communi... and that's a *good* picture, in the daylight. Indoor shots invariably are so noisy you can't make anything out.
- Phil Glockner
Heck why not...better iPhone, half the price...what's not to like? Well I guess the lack of a real keyboard, AT&T, and...
- John
I think 3G and the GPS make it a worthy upgrade. Plus I can give this old one to my wife.
- Joe Mac Stevens
Absolutely! With the 1st iPhone, it was only for people with "money is no object" mentality. The new iPhone is now priced right and very affordable. The more reason we should all buy one.
- 4dluvofmen
the iPhone's camera sucks less than about 95% of cell phones
- Mike Hussein Cohen
There aren't very many compelling reasons to get me to upgrade right now. I think I'll hold out for 3.0.
- Brandon Wood
Definitely not standing in line as I did for the first one. I could care less about GPS. 3 G, though is good.
- Francine Hardaway
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