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- Ozan Onay
This judge makes me a little ashamed to admit that I'm a Kentuckian: http://bit.ly/20iMox . The decision makes KY look very backwards.
No more backwards than, say, the French nazi memorabilia case against Yahoo. Whenever municipal laws conflicts with internet norms, you can expect judges to at least TRY to apply to municipal laws, however quixotic that may be.
- Ozan Onay
Internet Vigilantism - Renesys Blog - http://www.renesys.com/blog...
Atrivo (aka Intercage), a Concord, California-based Internet hosting service, disappeared from the Internet for around two days recently. They didn't go bankrupt or suffer a physical catastrophe. Their providers simply shut them down by refusing their traffic.
- Ozan Onay
Beijing: Smile! You're on Internet cafe camera! - http://arstechnica.com/news...
By the beginning of 2009, Internet cafes in Beijing, China will take a photo of every person who passes through the doors, then enter the picture and the person's identifying information into a city-wide government database. The measures are part of China's overall plan to monitor the use of Internet cafes to ensure inappropriate material isn't reaching children and, of course, to make Internet use a little less anonymous.
- Ozan Onay
Just when I was beginning to warm to the PM - http://www.duncanriley.com/2008...
Glenn Slaven liked this
I liked what he had to say. Was getting tired of the 'socialism is evil' meme emerging from elsewhere.
- Kate Foy
seriously though, CEO pay packets aren't the cause of the crisis, and if they try to artificially control them, we'll be seriously fucked. How can the Government for example say to a top 500 company you can only pay $500k when the going rate on the world market might be $5m. Guess what happens: we get 3rd rate CEO's, and things get 10x worse
- Duncan Riley
You're using an old argument from a by-gone time. Ordinarily, you'd be right - shareholders should be the ones to determine the level of executive risk-taking. But if the risk-taking is so extreme that banks are collapsing and taking economies down with them, it makes sense for the broader public (and thus the government) to take an interest. "Linking executive remuneration to a financial instituion's capital adequacy" may be a good way to contain uncontrolled risk-taking and should be considered seriously.
- Ozan Onay
Re: Melbourne Startup Camp: the good, the bad and the VC - http://www.inquisitr.com/4560...
"My experience from StartupCamp Sydney was that it was a great environment for determining who would or wouldn't be good to work with in the future. Having a bit of extra drama would have made that even more obvious, I imagine."
- Ozan Onay
How do you throw a trash can away? I keep leaving it out, and they never take it. :)
Roger Kondrat, David Hulbert, Allen Stern and 8 other people liked this
put it in a bag.
- mjc
I'm not really sure why, but, this made me bust out laughing. Anyway, maybe break it up somehow? Label it as trash?
- Yolanda
put a sign on it saying "take me, free to a good home" there's nothing people wont take for free
- Duncan Riley
put it in a slightly larger trash can, of course :)
- Ozan Onay
Or how do you recycle a recycling bin?
- LogEx
Put a sign on the can that says $5. Someone will steal it by morning.
- Glen Horton
I've had this dilemma! Ridiculous. Course, they didn't even take my trash last week. Took everyone else's but not mine. Conspiracy!
- Catherine Potts
hahaa - thanks matt - i needed a smile and you delivered
- Allen Stern
fail snail - http://ut.ag/Error...
"slithering a bug report to our developers at a blistering pace"
- Ozan Onay
from Bookmarklet
Everyone uses the same SweetCron theme. Maybe I should actually make a different one.
Penny J Butler, ChaCha Fance, Hao Chen and mjc liked this
You mean that boxy one? I rather like it myself
- Outsanity
Been thinking the same thing
- Mo Kargas
Andrew was talking about tweaking his
- Mona Nomura
Well, it's a nice theme, but I was thinking of something closer to a standard blog theme. Give actual blog posts more room to breathe, shrink the status messages. Basically separate things visually so it's easier for the user to figure out what's going on.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I kind of like the large status mesages myself. Maybe a little smaller. For a blog post could you use a whole row and wrap the boxes around it? Or maybe a couple boxes combined?
- Charles
I was thinking a couple boxes combined. Probably simple as taking the two left columns, combine into one, then leave the right column for everything else. Something like that, anyway.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I customized mine but have decided to redo my blog with a new look and theme so I am going to be relaunching soon
- Michael K Pate
Here is what I'm working on now. Not sure how I feel about it: http://sheenonline.biz/lifestr...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm currently working on a theme, which is highly-inspired by UXMag.com ... It'll be ready soon and everyone can download it at sweetcronthemes.com Here's the preview : http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Ozan Caglargil
sweet Ozan
- mjc
Was thinking that same thing a few days ago.
- ChaCha Fance
@Ozan I'm impressed that there's another Ozan working on a sweetcron theme. Small world, huh?
- Ozan Onay
I'm impressed there's another Ozan
- Outsanity
I'm considering redesigning my blog, what templates or designs do you think my audience of corporate web decision makers would like? Focus on audience first
Peter Efland, edythe, Cathryn Hrudicka and 5 other people liked this
Simplicity and usability. Seem like a easy task but is more and more forgotten in the eve of Ajax...
- Niclas Strandh
from feedalizr
how about chrispirillo's social media theme http://is.gd/hxq
- Nick Martin
ditto, keep the "extra" stuff on the page to a minimum. I am looking for content. The discussion of that content is second.
- Dave Ploch
Given this feedback, there's very little for me to do, I keep my blog looking very simple
- Jeremiah Owyang
Could do with a few tweaks, but wouldn't bother with a redesign. It's already perfectly usable. I would however get rid of the archives - with search and categories there are already enough nav options. Archives don't tend to help. If you really want Archive functionality, just put one link to 'the archives'. And move email subscription up near RSS subscription. And consider putting #pages at the bottom, where users tend to look for such these days. Otherwise I think from a UI perspective it's fine.
- Ozan Onay
Thanks Ozan good analysis
- Jeremiah Owyang
I think the biggest change you can make is in discoverability of content. Deemphasize date-based archives. Emphasize categories. Make category pages more scannable. Most popular posts by category on each category page. Abstracts for each post only below. Maybe a tagcloud or subcategories on each category page. "Sell" the category RSS feeds for important categories. On the home page, add "popular posts"...
- Elliott Ng
The other thing to consider is to highlight latest comments on the homepage. You have a super active community around web-strategist, might reward commenters by showing a stream of latest comments on the sidebar.
- Elliott Ng
Thanks Elliott
- Jeremiah Owyang
How about larger fonts, and bigger content area? As Ozan said, RSS should go further up the website for visibility. Last thing, you have a very long list of categories, would it be practical to group your posts into a few major cats and put that as menu items? Just my 2 cents. =)
- Winston Teo
Template? I personally think its boring but fine. I think you could get more glitzy and it will still be fine. :) Even corporate web decision makers want to feel cool sometimes! Doesn't have to look like IBM dude. It can look like Microsoft if not Google. LOL. Be self-expressive, its totally fine!
- Elliott Ng
BTW all this advice I have not followed on my own blogs! :) But I should.
- Elliott Ng
Some ideas for making your current design better: Linear navigation for newer/older posts. Archive dropdown instead of long list. Top 5 most popular posts list in sidebar. Latest 5 comments in sidebar. Move email subscription form to top of page. Summarize posts. Use Disqus for comments.
- Nick Martin
“Why disqus comments over friendfeed comments?”
- Jeremiah Owyang
The grey background has always bugged me. I think you would do well with a design that was lighter and easier on the eyes. Perhaps a wider layout as well.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm trying to decide on disqus vs friendfeed vs. just leave it as is. After you've made all your decisions plz blog about it so we can all take advantage of your social-computer due diligence! thanks Jeremiah!
- Elliott Ng
Why speculate on design when you can use google website optimizer to test new concept to see what does and doesn't work.
- Tom Wentworth
Three Reasons To Use Disqus http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
- Nick Martin
Shey my background is white (text) and side backgrounds are light blue. Is this what you're seeing?
- Jeremiah Owyang
Actually, the background behind your text isn't white: #F8F8F8
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I can fix that, it's been a long time since I fiddled with the blog
- Jeremiah Owyang
separate the trackbacks from the comments
- Allen Stern
Given my limited time, I think I'd best hire a wordpress expert. anyone have reccomendations?
- Jeremiah Owyang
I'm not sure seperating trackbacks is the best thing, why? Sometimes seeing them together gives a sense of how the conversation has splintered --and why.
- Jeremiah Owyang
splitting allows someone to read the comments in the conversation and then decide if they want to head to other views on the topic. i'd also remove the text after the trackback - adds no real value - just show a list of trackbacks
- Allen Stern
I agree with Allen
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Settlers of Catan looks really difficult to understand but it's actually a lot of fun.
Ozan Onay, EricaJoy, Isaac Hepworth and Benjamin Lee liked this
it is one of the best games in the last 10 years, have you tried all the different add-ons?
- Frank Spychalski
Frank, I'm just trying to keep up when playing the generic vanilla game right now. :)
- Matt Cutts
It's great! Try Cities and Knights once you feel like you're up for it.
- Ozan Onay
Cities&Knights + Seafarers makes the game more complex but it's worth it. if you ever visit the Munich office we can play a round
- Frank Spychalski
‘No Key’ QWERTY Keyboard: Peripheral Hotness - sigh - - http://pixelbits.wordpress.com/
ژنرال فرهاد, Vahid۹Online, R. Ferguson and 36 other people liked this
- sigh -
- Mona Nomura
No keys = No good. See iPhone for example.
- Tim Hoeck
I can type SUPER fast on my iPhone ;) It's the thumb and index finger thingy!
- Mona Nomura
Looks awesome but I might need to get used to something like that. I can't touch type on my iPhone, how is that going to work?
- Andrew Trinh
Oh my, pretty sure I want this.... Sadly, it reminds me that I bought a roll-up keyboard on a whim and haven't tried it yet.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I can type pretty quickly on the iPhone Mona, but not with complete accuracy or without looking at the keyboard.
- Andrew Trinh
i just drooled.
- Admiral Anika
I type fine on the iphone but for a full keyboard, feedback is important to me. I don't understand why more people don't just implement MRML http://ifaq.wap.org/compute... already.
- ·[▪_▪]·
now that is kool
- (jeff)isageek
eff ya!
- Mona Nomura
I want haptics. And Dvorak.... It is kinda cool though.
- Ozan Onay
Thinking of releasing the code (somewhat messy, but cleanup-able) that runs thestatbot.com as open source. Suggestions/Ideas?
Jesse Stay, Mohamed J, Brian Daniel Eisenberg and 7 other people liked this
Incase you don't know (many won't, I'm sure), it allows you to collect rather detailed statistics of Flickr Accounts, Blogs, forums, etc. It's nowhere complete - The analysis subsystem is complete, and so are the Flickr and Techmeme data collection subsystems. Twitter Data Collection Subsystem used to work till Twitter turned Developer Hostile.
- Yuvi
id love to chat with you about doing some work for me - can you send me an email?
- Allen Stern
@Allen - I am not able to locate an email address for you at CenterNetworks.com (mine is yuvipanda@gmail.com)
- Yuvi
How does code.google.com/p/thestatbot sound? :-) You can give people access to improve it for you. :D
- Voyagerfan5761
Well, giving people access gives me more incentives to improve it for myself too :)
- Yuvi
I would recommend that you cleanup the code first before releasing it. What license are you considering?
- Hassan Ibraheem
@Hassan - Obviously will be cleaned up. And ofcourse I intend to continue development. I am leaning towards something non-GPL, but compatible with the GPL....
- Yuvi
Would be great to do some of our own analysis. You'd definitely make a small cadre of analytics nerds very happy!
- Ozan Onay
WANT
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Be my _____ friendfeed! - http://www.ozanonay.com/be-my-f...
Handem, Kerem Ozkan, Ozan Onay and 2 other people liked this
I really "Like"d Ozan Onay's welcome message!
- Erhan Erdogan
Thanks Erhan - it's nice to have a bit of fun with flash occasionally, even if it may add zero functionality!
- Ozan Onay
A fair Olympic medal tally - normalized by population and GDP - http://www.ozanonay.com/blog...
Craig Childs liked this
Australia drops in the 'medals per capita' tally this year, behind Bahamas, Jamaica, Iceland and Slovenia (we were second in both Athens and Sydney).
- Ozan Onay
from Bookmarklet
Roberto Bonini, Ozan Onay, Jez Arnold and 2 other people liked this
Actually the Bahamas, Iceland, Norway and Slovenia did better than Aus per capita. And the Bahamas clearly won when normalized by GDP: http://bit.ly/3ew13I
- Ozan Onay
A fair Olympic medal tally - normalized by population and GDP - http://www.ozanonay.com/blog...
"the Bahamas had the greatest success at the Beijing Olympics with an impressive 1267.2 points per million people per trillion dollars GDP! By that standard, the US comes in at 83 out of 88 medal-winning countries and China at 86!"
- Ozan Onay
Google’s Swings and Misses - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Parthasarathi, Devlin Dunsmore, Nicholas James and 17 other people liked this
The Economist has an article looking at how Lively, Google’s attempt to establish a foothold in the virtual world market, has flopped.
- Mitchell Tsai
Seems a little early to label Lively a "flop"
- TDavid
Yeah, they should at least wait until it's out of beta.
- Kevin Fox
The article describes five other flops (non-successes)
- Mitchell Tsai
+1 @kevinfox. lolz
- .LAG liked that
Gmail's a 'miss' because it doesn't yet surpass Y!Mail and Hotmail in market share? MacOS must be a miss as well...
- Kevin Fox
Sorry to make an obvious point, but Google doesn't seem to do well with "community" building applications. Just search. Do search companies have a hard time with social apps for some reason?
- Elliott Ng
Google Calendar could become a "miss" because it only offers simple ICS and basic CALDAV. However there is literally zero social functionality for events. I would rather post events on Eventful (though ugly) and let it auto-export to Upcoming and Google Calendar (ics)
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
I guess from a strict numbers comparison, then (in the case of gmail) Google might have missed. But seriously, the other two mail services don't come close. So from my tweeny perspective, Google has swung and hit. Same with the other Google Services I use. I guess that's why I use them.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
Lame article. We don't expect Google to be Midas. We expect them to innovate, take risks, and occasionally fail on the way to creating great new products.
- Ozan Onay
Its not only comm building that Google does not seem to be on cutting edge. Even its core, Search engine, was innovative, simple and worked better that the rest at the time of its inception. Currently, it is still prefered by many and has a stable growth of usage and following, but its one-time advantage (back in 1998), based on page indexing, is not any more competitive. The reason why Google still dominates in the West is its excellent branding and simplicity of search engine.
- Hayk H.
I find it sad that they've reached that pinnacle where it's time to knock them down. I want to believe in Larry and Sergei & am thankful they have power.
- timedalkat
Hayk: The Google advantage for me is not "page indexing" but "CACHING". When pages change/go off-line, Google has an old copy. I didn't like Google any better than HotBot for actual searching.
- Mitchell Tsai
Comments on orkut in the US press really highlight US-centricity. Makes me wonder how much else about the rest of the world is grossly mis-reported.
- Moishe Lettvin
I have no interest in the virtual world market. Still trying to get a handle on the real world.
- Ernie Oporto
Mitchell, Doc Searls had recently posted a blog http://bit.ly/TSsfl about which, Yahoo Search or Google Search, is better. He thinks Yahoo does a better job.
- Hayk H.
One thing you've got to admire about GOOGLE...they keep on trying. They haven't become complacent with just being #1 for search.
- Jonathan.Rivera
My work has banned FF, thank you fftogo.com
Ozan Onay and Glenn Slaven liked this
Where do you work? I'll know to avoid it.
- Ozan Onay
ouch, someone just sent me a 35 question interview for their blog... umm... I'm pretty sure I'd say no to the NYT if they sent that many :-)
Roy Montero and Amit Agarwal liked this
You could pretend they were multiple choice questions and just answer "C" for them all.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
If they ask 35 questions, they're after content, not answers. You should just respond to whichever you find the most interesting.
- Ozan Onay
Photos of Japanese Lunch Art - Bizarre Bento Boxes (GALLERY) (pictures, images, etc.) - http://www.trendhunter.com/photos...
Ehsanislav, Hisham Sadek هشام, Jeremiah Owyang and 7 other people liked this
اشتباه نكن:گربه من به موش خرماي احسان مصلحي نظر بد داشت.تازه من بخاطر همين كار بهش لوح تقدير دادم.اين گربههه به نوعي نقش عروسك وودوو رو براي احسان بازي ميكنه :))))))))))))
- mhmazidi
Hmm.. must be awkward to cut & eat that kitteh during lunch :P
- Jemm
Actually there's a great (and enormous) flickr pool of bento boxes: http://tinyurl.com/2wqxsu
- Ozan Onay
The youth of today...
Yuvi, Mo Kargas, Mike Fruchter and 4 other people liked this
Was a comment I hated 10 years ago (when I was 18)... now I say that :(
- Johnny Worthington
So today, I'm walking a friend's dog on the grounds of a local elementary school, and I spy two young girls (10-12) using chalk on a kickball wall, making what looks like a mural. Looking closer, I read "Stuped" followed by "Motherf-----s" in chalk. I think "Wow! Look what someone else put on there!" and then I see the younger of the two circle it with an outline in chalk, before skipping away.
- Louis Gray
Being the old fuddy duddy I am, and not wanting it to be exposed to the other elementary school kids, I found a discarded shirt and erased both "Stuped" and all the cursing. Kids!
- Louis Gray
If the parents don't see anything wrong with it, I don't expect the kids to either
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana... what parents? Didn't see any around... which might have been part of the issue.
- Louis Gray
I'm a cool "youth"...
- Gordon Swaby
Tell me about it ....and I am beginning to feel totally inadequate in my ability to understand why staying up till 3 or 4 am on a week day is so "cool" ....whats with the nocturnal pattern of life - I dont get it
- viki saigal
Doesn't seem like such a big deal when the adults of today are blowing each other up.
- Ozan Onay
Meh. I used to cuss all the time when I was a kid. I thought it was just hilarious. My mom, being a hippy, basically told me the only curse word was "ain't", and I took full advantage of this. Now I am a fairly well adjusted adult. It isn't "The youth of today..." it's just "The youth" who have always enjoyed naughtiness.
- Andrew
Yutes today
- Jason Carreira
Are generally a lot smarter than we were and much more worldly
- Charlie Anzman
As for "youth of today" it's a quote from a movie (I'll cite later), which essentially says, "the youth of today, no respect, no morality!"
- Louis Gray
hear hear...
- viki saigal
Ahh the sweet smell of hypocrisy!
- Mo Kargas
interesting .. I had this convo this morning when I went out for b/fast with buddyo f mine.. we saw two kids 14/15 sitting on the curb and smoking a cigg. my first reaction was WTF are they doing out sitting on the curb so early in the morning. (no residences around only the strip mall) . What are they parents doing is my second thought ? are we to blame the kids or the parents for such conduct ?
- Peter Dawson
Mo... what hypocrisy?
- Louis Gray
I'm happy to say that age 53 I've never said that except in jest. However people still say stuff like that about me today. So I must be doing something right! :-)
- Dave Winer
@Louis: No respect, no morality? Last time I checked the 60's and 70's where kinda lacking in both those things :) Perhaps a good many of you don't remember it, but there were no halo's around a lot of today's parents when they were kids. Though I agree it's probably worse now, but kids ride the relaxed moral climate installed by their forebears.
- Mo Kargas
... are far too into these Jonas things.
- Cyndy
When I first heard of Louis Gray I pictured a guy in his 50s, thinking it would take 20-30 years to establish his position as a VC. Then I saw his picture. Now he's posting about "The youth of today". Louis, to me you are the youth of today. You guys make me feel prehistoric at times. But your ideas, your passions, keep me young (on the outside, I'm still just 30 on the inside).
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Well, the kids gotta get this stuff from somewhere, right?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
need their day to be longer than 24 hours ....way too much to do - in the old world plus the new .Those that can handle it - are superheros , those that cant well.... those are the ones we see scribbling on walls , smoking early morn etc. That said , I fully agree that i didnt have a halo around my head when i was 15 , but nevertheless, in my own way I sorted out the chaff. I am not getting that comfort for the youth today
- viki saigal
@Jack, I'm not a VC. Appreciate the sentiment though.
- Louis Gray
@Louis, quick, close a VC fund... I've got something for you to invest in ;)
- Jason Carreira
yeah... I'm fine with being disappointed that stuff like that happens. but kids have been doing that for ages
- Stefan Hayden
I wonder why that felt weird to me?
- Yuvi
"The youth today" has a lot of national debt to worry about.
- Geoff Schultz
@Louis Gray It appears everything I thought I knew about you is wrong. You're a guy, right? If not I have a few questions about your blog.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Yeah, little thanks to us, @Geoff ><
- Andy DeSoto
Louis, I thought you were going to correct the spelling. Or make them write 'Stupid Motherf-----s" 100 times on the wall.
- Michael C. Harris
I wonder... if we didn't make such a big deal out of it, would the kids care?
- Mark
I must admit I've gotten the stage where I say "Damn Kids". But then, I also say "Damn Old People" " Damn Morons" "Damn Women" "Damn Men" maybe it's me.
- Robert Hafer
Think a knife is a fashion accessory!
- Joe Dawson
Amazed how many of you say u can't watch olympic for free on tv. It is on free to air channel here. I guess we Aussies take that 4 granted
Igor The Troll יִצְחָק liked this
Yeah, and on 2 channels, too. Looking forward to the handball tomorrow on SBS.
- Ozan Onay
And the whole cycling road race not 5 minute highlights even though it looks like it will not be live but delayed for 2 hrs in the Wait Awhile state
- Nick Cowie
I'm testing out Social Median: http://www.socialmedian.com/scoblei... what do you think?
Charlie Anzman, David Petherick, Tomas Nihlen and 13 other people liked this
What interests me about socialmedian is the filtering. In my post about the conversational Web, I disagreed with Jeremiah Owyang, who suggested, information on the social web needs to be sorted around people, not content My thinking: Jeremiah is a smart and interesting guy. I follow him on Twitter and FriendFeed, but I’m not really interested in what he ate for breakfast (not that he...
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- Christian Anderson
Oh, geez, socialmedian.
- Robert Scoble
Not sure about the snips, clips digg thing?
- Andrew Smith
Still very beta. When not logged in, most links point to the registration screen (including all external links, as far as I can tell). Can't tell if functionality is any more than a subset of FF.
- Ozan Onay
Prior coverage: http://www.louisgray.com/live...
- Louis Gray
My page with 3 months' activity: http://www.socialmedian.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
My activity for roughly 3 months too: http://www.socialmedian.com/christi...
- Christian Anderson
Social Median doesn't seem too different to me from Twine. Essentially you form conversation networks and clip articles, which based on that data, algorithmically figures out what news you like and don't like. But it's good to see that the next wave of innovation is in personalized social news aggregators... Now we just have to see who emerges from the pack as the frontrunner.
- Jonathan Wong
It looks nice and it's easy to create a profile and join relevant networks, although most of the active ones seem to be social networking-related at the moment. Seems similar to Twine in that it's clustering content around topic-based networks. I'd probably use it to find and share interesting content on Friendfeed and other blogs. But how many niches are available for social news sharing sites like this?
- David Young
from NoiseRiver
Interesting, but when you click on any link it always sends you to the login/registration page; and this can be a turn off….
- Joao
And here's mine: http://www.socialmedian.com/nishith...
- Nishith Shah
So far socialmedian has proven valuable to me. I've been turned on to stories I would have otherwise missed. Similarly, I seem more valuable on sm than here on ff. My own shares on sm have been clipped more than any of my shares on ff have been liked. A lot more. So that in itself encourages me to use it more. There aren't many conversations on sm that I can see, however, which is why I use ff, as well, despite often feeling like I'm wasting my time.
- Rick Powell
@Rick. I realize I'm digressing from the topic, but I've found that I get more Likes and Comments on FF if I share stuff to rooms, than just to my feed. I guess because rooms are focused around specific topics and they don't have as fast a turnover as individual feeds. Once you're subscribed to 20+ people, especially power users, your Friendfeed has a ridiculously fast turnover, meaning you may not see a share unless you use it constantly.
- David Young
hey all. reading the posts and wanted to reply about the registration requirements. Truth is we wish we were able to enable users to do more without registering but just weren't able to get that done in time for beta and didn't want to hold back public beta because of it. Will improve over time.
- Jason Goldberg
I share racier, queer-er stuff to one of my rooms, and film stuff to my new Cineaste room. But no comments or likes. Passive readers?
- Rick Powell
here is me on socialmedian - http://www.socialmedian.com/tomasni...
- Tomas Nihlen
from Alert Thingy
Hundreds of Bloggers to Interact with On Digg and StumbleUpon - http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...
Anthony Farrior, Susan Beebe, Tamar Weinberg and Neal Jansons liked this
With some improvement this list could be an asset, but at the moment it's useless. Nobody has the time to check these profiles to determine if the users are popular or relevant enough to interact with. Next time submissions are called for, why not ask for the alexa ranking (or similar universal metric) for the corresponding blog? Or an indication of the blog's content? Or the number of Digg friends?
- Ozan Onay
I disagree...anything that narrows down the entire internet for communication in social media is an asset. Only people who care enough will post, and the spammers will quickly be identified and un-friended.
- Neal Jansons
from twhirl
Neal, did you look through all 196 profiles? How long did it take you? Surely you would appreciate some sort of categorisation or ranking. To aim for something that 'narrows down the entire internet' is to set too low a bar.
- Ozan Onay
Ozan, you said "determine if the users are popular"—I'm pretty sure the point of this exercise was to connect users who aren't already in the so-called A-list. Do you use social media services simply to connect with people more popular than you?
- Joel Falconer
I stumbled on stumbleupon a year ago... I finally stopped stumbling. what is the darn benefit? del.icio.us is the standard and it works better
- Noah David Simon
Re: Barack Obama is the #2 Google Result for Searches of Facebook - http://www.benparr.com/2008...
"No, Facebook doesn't have that degree of control over the SERP order of their pages. I suspect that you did your original search at a time when many people were writing about Obama's social media campaign - his profile would have been given a boost as the backlinking sites would have been treated by google as new information."
- Ozan Onay
Re: Barack Obama is the #2 Google Result for Searches of Facebook - http://www.benparr.com/2008...
"Firstly, I can't reproduce your result. I get the 'about' and 'login' pages, and only see Obama's profile as 4th in 'more results from facebook.com'. Having said that, the high ranking is still feasible due to the large number of quality external links to Obama's profile (presumably more than any other Facebook user). You can see these in google with link:facebook.com/barackobama. Facebook wouldn't intentionally optimize one profile over another. They have however done a little bit of work to optimize public profiles."
- Ozan Onay
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