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I like having each service as an individual contact. Much easier. Can we see the same for Pownce? - Chris Nixon

Well, IMified has taken bot to a next level.. I even created a customized option to check my google calendar appointments for today (a quick schedule for today) by interacting with bot! Not sure, if they have one for Pownce.. - Jigar Mehta from bTT

One year later. Just bumping this because it's the one year anniversary of the only item on FriendFeed to get more than 400 likes. (452 at the moment) - Ken Sheppardson

450. - Volkan Yılmaz ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶

class. - MG Siegler

very classy - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

Admire that approach, wish more were like it - Sally Church

Class, yes. If the unlikely story that she lied about her pregnancy is true, it becomes a part of our politics, unfortunately, as it shows her level of integrity. - EricaJoy

Palin's views on reproductive rights, marriage, contraception, single parenthood, and what is considered "legitimate" and "shameful" therein could soon become a matter of law - so if her family is off-limits, ours certainly won't be. Just something to keep in mind! - joneilortiz

+1 Obama - Mattb4rd

+1 joneilortiz - Duncan Riley

Didn't Obama say he wouldn't want his daughters to 'pay for a mistake with a baby?' That's not making them off limits, that's using their reproductive rights for his own agenda - just like Palin. - MLx

joneilortiz , there are 3 branches of America's government. Mrs. Palin will serve in a subordinate position in the executive branch. For her views to become a matter of law, even if she were to become President, would literally require an act of Congress and the Judicial branch would have to uphold it. ie, it aint gonna happen. - Mattb4rd

-1 joneilortiz. Presidents, and especially vice presidents, do not create laws. They can bring proposals to Congress but it's up to Congress, with a current Democratic majority, mind you, to actually create the laws. Just something to keep in mind. - Akiva Moskovitz

*hi-5* Akiva - Mattb4rd

*EXPLODING HIGH FIVE* - Akiva Moskovitz

+1 for Obama... - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge from twhirl

+1 obama - Sarah Perez

I hate everything the man stands for, and yet I believe him when he makes this request. - Trevor Carpenter

If, after the last 8 years especially, you don't think the Executive Branch has tremendous effect on what becomes law - Supreme Court justices are appointed, don't forget - then you are simply misinformed. Abortion rights and accessibility, for instance, have been whittled down through all sorts of measures that work in and around legislative action. Federal funding of faith-based programs, which effect reproductive rights tremendously, have of late been the work of the Executive Branch. - joneilortiz

@Mattb4rd: didn't you hear that the VP is no longer considered part of the executive branch? - Jim Norris

@Jim Norris: No, I haven't heard that one. What's the punchline? - Mattb4rd

joneilortiz, that's a different issue all together and a very important one. You're never really voting for a president, you're voting for the Chief Justices he appoints. However, even they do not make law; they interpret it. It's just, uh, as of late, they've been making quite a miserable job of it. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Jim Oh, that's right! lol @Akiva Ya, totally. Hopefully we'll get to a place where the executive branch doesn't have their hands in all the books! - joneilortiz

Very classy. The fact is, its none of our business. Even if the crazy, cruel stories going about were true, I could not fault a mother for protecting her family. - jcunwired

@Mattb4rd/Akiva, don't be silly. The very purpose of running someone as Vice/President is so that their views become law. 'Become,' you will note, as a rather broad term. The constitutional details you refer to are of little relevance to any White House whose party has a bunch of people in Congress. - j1m

@Mattb4rd http://tinyurl.com/68zz93 - Alejandro

@Jody, but I could fault her for lying about it to the public and press. (Assuming she did, not saying she did.) It's also a matter of judgment. The choices she supposedly made tell a lot about her character. Lying is lying, whether it's to protect your daughter or to keep your wife from knowing you got a BJ. - Jeff P. Henderson

Lol... I personally think it's pretty cool. Get news faster. - Zee.

Because that's not what it is - Jason Carreira

It's better for the internet on the whole. It's a drastic optimization for modern content aggregation. It'd cut way back on power consumption by dedicating less computer power and network power to asking the same question and getting the same answer several times an hour. It also frees up those resources to be used for something else, like cancer research or streaming HD video. - xero

thanks! - Allen Stern

Meh, replace 'faster rss reader' with "widget/badges/chiclet" and you may be onto something ;) - Will DeLuca

Ah. It's a green thing. I was wondering why I balked at it. I looked at the specs, and it seemed like a great deal of work for very little reward on my end. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I was going to make a smart comment about the implications of tweeting a device, but I follow @MarsPhoenix :) - Mattb4rd

i really dont get why the update/backup process can take FOREVER, its not a lot of data. processor on phone must be S L O W - sean percival

Agreed. WTF is up with that backup?! I'm on the 2.0.2 and almost every time I sync, backup kicks in and seems to think it needs to dump the entire phone. Why isn't it an incremental? And I really don't care that content I upload from iTunes is backed up. It's already in my iTunes. Just backup the settings. /sigh - ·[▪_▪]·

I've restored my iPhone 3 times in the last 2 days. The Apple logo of death showed up after a sync. Some app is making the springboard crash resulting in an endless loop of restarting. I'm only installing a small amount of apps until there's an update. - Rodfather

No problems here. Takes less than a minute to sync and back up. Y'know you can cancel the back up by clicking on the (X) beside the "Backing Up" text? - Paul Reynolds

I always just cancel it now, with as many apps as I have it seems to take over an hour, who can spare that much time?! - Socom

I've been canceling backup most of the time but I try to let it go once a week or so just to see if the next time it'll go fast. Nope. Always takes about an hour. - ·[▪_▪]·

This especially bothers me in the morning, when I want to make one last sync before I get on the road, and of course am running late . . . - Peter Ghosh

LOL! Really! I'm glad I did not get one of the new iPhones. I hope things get better with software upgrades. - Ric

Try syncing on a Mac that only has USB 1.1... :/ - Jason Wong

dear god jason why oh why - mjc

Apple iphone availability page showed inventory last night for some stores today. We'll see. - Rafe Needleman

hmm - i see - Allen Stern

I was told yesterday by the local store they only took orders with a 2-3 week delivery. - LPH™ and his dog P™

good luck! i recommend walking in and saying "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" :) - h1ro

they r selling 16gig iphones at stonestown sf. still 2 hr+ line. feh. - Rafe Needleman from fftogo

steve jobs, are u paying attention? in-store activation for iphone is a horrible mess. very un-apple. - Rafe Needleman from fftogo

Very funny. Hope you are able to get your iPhone! - Gail Bronson

You get one? I waited two hrs today on Long Island for my brother, but we got it. - Steve Rubel

Good ideas, mostly. Of course, as always, the devil is in the details (and to some extent, I think that's the point). - Paul Buchheit

interesting list, surprised to see photo/video sharing sites on there. - Adam Kazwell

From pg's comment "Most people who read that one [search engine that concentrates on design] will think "huh?" But if someone reads it and thinks "Damn, how did he hear about what we're working on?" that's someone we'd really love to hear from." - seman

"More open alternatives to Wikipedia." Wonder whatever happened to Google Knol... - Philipp Lenssen

They should start FF rooms for each of these. I'd contribute to a few. - Amir Gharaat

I think most of these are *great* ideas. This post isn't food for thought, it's a banquet :-) - Karim

Seems a little like bait? Some of the ideas are excellent reading and should be interesting to a few thinking about 'what they can do better'. Some of the other mentions (and wording in particular) leads me to wonder why go public with the list. - Charlie Anzman

Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it. --- :-) - Kishore Balakrishnan

Jesus, this single page has more original content and ideas than the last 1000 ff and blog posts I read. Inspiring. - John Murray

AWESOME idea, thanks for sharing Paul... this is going to be fun to watch! - Susan Beebe

Haha i posted thast too. Although Paul is most more visible on FF, of course. - Akshay Dodeja

Very interesting, especially #4 - Scott Schnaars

did any of the y combinator startup go big ? perhaps an ignorant question... a couple of them i know of are scribd.com, and a search engine for mechanical parts.. forgot the name. - Krishna Gade

We're working on #3. - Ryan Kuder

search engine for mechanical parts: http://octopart.com ? - Peter Stuifzand

Interesting: "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. ... What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. " How does TV advertising treat its audience better than web advertising? - Constantinos Michael

TV advertising is generally more entertaining than web advertising. - Ajay Kapal

@ Peter yeah... I was talking about octopart thanks for the link. - Krishna Gade

@ Ryan, what is it ? do you have something outside to try ? - Krishna Gade

would have liked to see this idea for an iPhone App Builder make Paul's list....seems much for YC-esque: http://joelaz.com/post... - Adam Kazwell

@ Ryan Kuder, I've been looking into #3 for a while, I'd love to chat if your in the bay area - Kris

I definitely vote for better email, or better say, better communication tool. - Jan Horna

What I'm interested in are #5, 6, and 7. :) - imabonehead

Sorry to say... The "Y Combinator" team is a little ...ahem... short on business expertise. - Mitchell Tsai

That sucks! - Matt Baron

And you are seeking compensation? - Brian Sullivan

I read that Mahalo isnt suing and I applaud that. Calacanis always seemed fairly stand up and not suing is the stand up thing to do. Just keep the we want sushi attitude and it will do you more good. - Cody Heitschmidt

apparently it's going to be sushi compensation. heh. - Ben Hwang from Alert Thingy

Wow two days down? Thats a lot of sushi. Have them spring for Katsu-ya at Studio City - Jose Alvarez

Sorry to hear it. I've written about this business before. YouTube's accepting DMCA claims without investigation is just wrong. - James Joyner

sue 'em Jason:) - Grant

Maybe YouTube can make up for the error by Featuring Mahalo Daily on their Front page for a couple days - Jeff Hoard from twhirl

the dummies at youtube just hit suspend, suspend, suspend w/o asking questions or doing a little investigation. a bit like facebook now that I think of it....right scoble? - Brian Ries

Jason, I take that you've filed a DMCA counter claim - Duncan Riley

Good luck, Jason. - Chris Baskind

Wow. And I thought it was exciting when we moms got suspended for our breast feeding montage.... - Erin @queenofspain

Can't wait to read the next revision of the Viacom page on Mahalo. ;) - Chris Luckhardt

Jason, just make a custom channel at www.magnify.net and scrap Youtube. - Jim Kukral from twhirl

Breaking: Jason Calacanis quits digital video. Will now only show film via Drive-in theater :) - Andrew Smith

"filed multiple bogus DMCA claims" - the key word here is bogus - fr what I under stand this implies that Viacoms Legal Consul (A) does not know DMCA laws (b), did not do a due dilgence revie before filing DMCA. Did they not contacting you with a C&D prior to the DMCA notice ? Would you care to pub the C&D at least? The :term "bogus" is certainly a funny word. Jason, you should counter sue i, because they after all invited you to the event and you had permissions to record and distribute the content correct - Peter Dawson

now you know how I feel about twitter. scum always win unless you fight back - Noah David Simon

Jason - we spoke earlier today, contact me if you'd like this written about (tyler has my contact info) - Andrew Feinberg

I think you could apply those same percentages to society at large. Question; what's the tipping point that moves a person from one level to the next, up or down? - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Julian - "lurkers" speaks to the goals of a company running social media. You want participation. But as consumers of information, you're right. I'm learning, not lurking! - Hutch Carpenter

Jack, he defines what each level is right in the article. - Mark Trapp

actions carried out by lurkers (views, time spent per node, node entrance, node exit, etc) can be considered a form of positive participation if you're feeding the trending patterns back into your community. - [edit] - just saw it in the article, 'Make participation a side effect' aka 'read wear'. - Graham Garland

I saw that, Mark, but the examples were internet oriented. When applied to real life or society, there are other tipping points. Some people's lives could be defined by those statistics. They are actively contributing to their lives about 1% of the time and spending 90% of their lives more as spectators than participants. Life's lurkers. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Jack, it's not about "tipping points:" he's merely citing statistical data. In general 90% of users online don't participate at all, 9% participate but don't make it their main focus, and 1% seem to focus on nothing other than participating. Therefore, you're not getting a representative sample for user feedback when soliciting comments or methods that require participation. I think it's a stretch to take this data and attempt to discover life's lessons out of it. - Mark Trapp

Old media: TV,magazines,etc. probably 99% lurkers. 10% improvement not bad. - Mark Forman

We all lurk on most things, participate on some things. Last night, there was a good discussion about the safety and reliability of nuclear energy here. I have *nothing* to add to that, I was just as curious as anyone else. Lurking. - Hutch Carpenter

"Wikipedia is thus even more skewed than blogs, with a 99.8-0.2-0.003 rule" - Nicholas James

Wikipedia: "The encyclopedia anyone can edit, but you're really not going to, are you?" - Mark Trapp

Why should we-and put all those wikipediaists out of a job? - Mark Forman

@jbaldwinconnect: I like the term "audience," since it goes right to the heart of what they're there for. To observe, enjoy, and if they feel the urge they CAN interact but don't have to. Sometimes they applaud, sometimes they heckle, even if they don't get on stage. You can't have a theatre WITHOUT them. And why would you want to? Sometimes I think a lot of SocNet activists would like a masturbatory world where everyone's just acting for everyone else and no one's listening. - Alexander Williams from NoiseRiver

@alexander Clap, clap ,clap encore!!! - Mel Buckpitt

Yep, +1 Alexander. The performer/audience relationship is just natural. Well said. - Colin Walker from fftogo

Isn't it true of the world in general? - Parth Awasthi

Personally, I think Ye Olde "Lurker" is perfectly apt. In online communities (as opposed to what passes for such in the Web 2.0 world), there is no performer/audience dynamic... there are people who define themselves and the community through participation, and then there are the those who prefer to observe the community without becoming a part of it. - Roger Benningfield

Hutch: I'm not subscribed to you, and yet your name pops up in my FF flow all the time. So that pretty much confirms you're not a lurker in this space... having nothing to say in a specific "thread" doesn't change the fact that you're generally active. - Roger Benningfield

Roger - there are times I lurk, times I jump in. And I just subscribed to you as well. I like the earlier comments regarding the need for people to just *listen*, not always *perform*. Nothing wrong with that. Lurking = learning. - Hutch Carpenter

Hutch: Oh, I don't mean to suggest that there's some sort of moral imperative to participate. And there can definitely be a learning aspect to lurking... bit it can also be voyeuristic and detached in some contexts. - Roger Benningfield

I'm lurking on this thread. Oh wait. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Someone who watches and observes is generally thought of as intelligent, open. But in online social communities they are "lurkers." - Alex Williams

Imagine the noise if there was 100% participation. - Morton Fox

Alex: Someone who sits in shadowed silence while observing the party is usually thought of as "creepy". :-D Again, context plays a big role here. I'm simply resistant to the recasting of lurkers as "contributors by other means" or the audience at a show. Lurkers all-too-often bring their own sense of entitlement to the table, and don't need anyone encouraging them to feel more important than they are. - Roger Benningfield

This is an important point for any community strategy: how can you encourage the lurkers to participate easily? The "like" button in FriendFeed was made for lurkers! - Erica Toelle from twhirl

I disagree that people who observe a public community are sitting in "shadowed silence" and are therefore "creepy." I agree that they are not contributors by other means. Now, some silent observers may be creepy but they are a smaller subset of the community. Same could be said about contributors. A subset of that community may be quite "creepy" in their own right, too. - Alex Williams

Erica: To me, the bigger question is, "do you really want to make it easy for people to participate?" I agree that the "like" link is a handy, non-destructive substitute for an endless stream of "+1", "first!!!", and other one-sentence contributions. But I'm not sure it would do much to forge the bonds of community. - Roger Benningfield

i was thinking of passing on this one, not wanting to be the only counter comment - but hey, why not - doesn't anyone else on this thread find it ironic that inside the most progressive participation tool to-date (friendfeed) a thread is occurring around an almost 2 year old "article" written by the ui dinosaur that is jakob nielsen - his way of looking at online interactions was dated back then and it is still dated - anyway, i just thought it was ironic, i'll go back to my lurking now ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

Alex: Again, I'm not saying lurkers are of any single character... I'm just pointing out that, depending on the structure and purpose of a community, lurking can have a very different feel. Honestly, I don't have anything against lurkers in general. I simply chafe at the emphasis that is often placed upon them when discussing community. - Roger Benningfield

sorry one more - alexander has a great line above "Sometimes I think a lot of SocNet activists would like a masturbatory world where everyone's just acting for everyone else and no one's listening." - awesome - mike "glemak" dunn

Mike: That only makes sense to me if we're talking about blogging or a service like FF, where it is entirely possible to approach participation as a fire-and-forget exercise. But in an actual community, you're usually talking *with* someone. Listening is kind of an important part of having a conversation. :) - Roger Benningfield

roger: are you referring to my "ironic" comment, in which case i don't understand or my quotation of alexander's funny statement in which case i still don't understand - can you pls say what you're trying to say a different way? - mike "glemak" dunn

Mike: Non-threaded discussion drives me ape-shit. (grumble grumble) I was referring to the latter... an "acting without listening" environment can really only take shape on a blog or a place like FF, where one can get by with one-way content production. Communities, meanwhile, host conversations, which by their very nature require that someone at least *pretend* to be listening. - Roger Benningfield

I've heard the 80-19-1 split... but many communities probably are closer to 90-9-1 - Eric Berlin

roger: I think you and i define online communities differently - alexander's line was humorous which is why I pointed it out - possibly the joke did not resonate with you but it worked for me - have a good one - mike "glemak" dunn

By the way, please see Forrester's Social Technographics data, this 90 9 1 rule isn't always the case, it depends on the demographics http://www.forrester.com/Grounds... - Jeremiah Owyang

this is nothing new; it was true 20 years ago on USENET and mailing lists. Most people just don't have the motivation to be more than a passive watcher. not a bad thing. - Chuq Von Rospach

you would eat that? that's so much awesome, i'd keep it until it starts to mold - Mona Nomura

cakes? aren't those graham crackers? Yummy in either case. - Fa La La La Lindsay

mmmm... cadmium... - Karim

Yummy. Next time I dig into my pc, I'm going to want to eat the motherboard - Dylan McIntosh from fftogo

Note to self, do not leave graphics card next to cake. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I think that was the single greatest thing that I have ever see, well other than bacon cake. - Steve Spalding

Yum! - l0ckergn0me

i still don't understand how this person got all those details on that teeny graham cracker. seriously - Mona Nomura

Oh my! this is the perfect combination for my husband and me: Circuits and Sweets! That's awesome! - Sharon Rosen

Agreed! This thing > gingerbread house :) - Mona Nomura

awesome cake for geeky friends and family! - imabonehead

looks like the feminists crossed a circuit and got a Ding Dong - Noah David Simon

can you imagine making a tray of those for a bday party? wow - Mona Nomura

or maybe it isn't a Ding Dong... it is a funny Bone. Gloria Steinem isn't laughing again - Noah David Simon

@Mona:yes, but with real LEDs to replace the candles : ) - LouCypher

or a tengu omg YES PLEASE - Mona Nomura

Awesome! - Mitchell Tsai

@Steve, bacon cake? Really? - Bryan Clark

Brilliant. - Clay Newton

Quality, I am going to eat a Jaffa Cake as a sign of my appreciation for the craftmanship!! - Joe Dawson

LOL @ Jaffa!!! - Mona Nomura

check out twittelator. much better. - felix

i'd agree with that, but it still KILLS twitter's own mobile site where i can never see what i'm typing - MG Siegler

Loopt.. Is that good? - Muthu Ramadoss

Only three pages? - Rob Haas

why airme? Yeah, it's sort of ok (sort of), but first page? - shaun mclane

You got a better flickr uploader with geotagging? Page 2 is SmugMug, radio and games. Page 3 is all the unused Apple apps. - Leo Laporte

reshared to appstore room - http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - mike "glemak" dunn

How did you get screenshots on non-jailbroken phone? - Ross Armer

screenshot on 2.0 iphone - http://friendfeed.com/e... - mike "glemak" dunn

FYI - you can also save images to your camera roll now by holding your finger on the image until a window pops up asking if you'd like to save it. Nice touch. - http://www.listropolis.com/2008... - shaun mclane

just hold the home button then click on the top right button - paul bailey from Alert Thingy

Yes. Agreed. - Steve Isaacs

Don't you control what content appears on your account when you input the feeds? Would that suffice--ie don't enter anything you do not want to share. - susan mernit

Susan, I was looking at this from a subscriber's, not a publisher's perspective (I don't control which blogs someone else inputs, and I may want to subscribe to someone but just not to a specific blog of theirs). - Philipp Lenssen

Yeah, I'd really like to not see anything from Twitter - Gabe

Nice idea. I'll implement a hide by domain for NoiseRiver :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Gabe, you can already hide Twitters by clicking "hide" then "See options for hiding other items like this" - Paul Buchheit

Gabe, you can hide all Twitters except those that have comments. that's what I've done. - Elliott Ng

Philipp you could create an "imaginary friend" of that person with all the stuff you want to follow and unfollow the real person instead. Not really nice, but it should work... - Matthias Schwenk

Good workaround idea Matthias. Hope Friendfeed gives us this natively too. - Philipp Lenssen

Hey, that's great. I can even hide all friends-of-friends! - Gabe

jeez, that was quick - Duncan Riley

Totally made my day! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

zesus! nooo! - Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ

Some people have too much money. I would've loved that iPhone more than the blender. - Bryce Roney

lol can't get em all Louis :P - Shey, Jamaican of FF

No, it's called Moors. It's a misprint. - Outsanity

Trying to see the point of logging in, if you can't see your personal feed. If this post goes, I'll know one point. - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

@Outsanity -- Best.Comment.EVER - Matt Donders

Thanks Sarah, loving Moopz! I Dugg it! - Larry Kless

Awesome! A new logo for Friendfeed. Just what I wanted. - Jams Levy from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Less filling, Less fat, great less noisy friendfeed - Ron"micronet"Harwood

@Outsanity, points for you. The Moopz domain name comes from the "Moops! Moors!" argument on Seinfeld. ;) - Mark Carey

time to try it... - Marcos Marado from NoiseRiver

Not working for me :-( I log in, but then it acts like I'm not logged in... - Marcos Marado from NoiseRiver

Marcos, what browser/OS are you running? Any javascript errors? - Mark Carey

Such a follower - Jennifer Kutz

hehehe! - Veronica

Keep staring... something will happen. - Ian D. Nock

Staring contest! - Anthony from twhirl

I kinda don't like it 'cause no one comments on mine :) - Nicole Lee

Welcome Jason. Create a BOL room, so we can comment on the stories on BOL - morten saxnaes

Welcome - pb30

Welcome! <robotic voice>LOVE THE SHOW</robotic voice> - Brian

I installed the itunes update, but I don't see that in the store. It probably isn't there because I haven't registered an iphone yet. - Phil G

J. Phil - Here is a direct link http://phobos.apple.com/WebObje... - Bwana ☠

Just found another - Tuner. Internet Radio baby!! w0000000. $13 is a tad much though - Bwana ☠

AIM? - Al Degutis from twhirl

Thought the same on the Tuner app. Pandora is there for free so I'm starting there. - Shellee

Heard from someone who downloaded AIM app it's only 0.5 MB (!) - Mona Nomura

they download pretty fast - Bwana ☠

i'm just surprised the aim app is so light... i expected it to be at least 5mb. i mean it IS aim and all haha - Mona Nomura