I'm still trying to figure out Friend Feed! Between you and Scoble....I keep getting sent here, but even this computer savy person is having trouble figure it out!
- Hummie
Lists!! create lists dammit Bwana beat me to it!! LOL
- Susan Beebe
middle mouse click appears to pause refreshes too
- You.
list just means more work, and categorizing people. i only have 4 people in my faves.. why would u force me to make lists? i like everyone in a big giant pile. equal..
- Caroline
Ok, regarding lists. I have a list for my all time favorite posters. And some lists based on different subject areas. The majority of people though, in my home feed, are those that I have no reason to put in one list or another. Am I just to pick 100 random people and put them in "Home list 1" and so forth? Wondering how others are dividing it out.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
It would be a lot more efficient to have a "move to list" or "add to list" button or link right on each message next to the user's name. You could select one list as the destination list, which would be where the move or add function moved or added them to until you selected a different destination.
- Chuck Baggett
"I remember pre-ad supported Geocities. Then when they added the floating "g" watermark everyone got upset. And then once they called down from that then ads were added as well. Now the Internet seems odd *without* ads. Angelfire was a big player too. I remember people were passing around "codes" ( if memory serves me right CSS ) that would disable the adbar at the top. Wow...the web sure has changed in the last 10 years. </memorylane>"
- Gary Bacon II
It's Apple trying to make me upgrade to 3G. I know it.
- drew olanoff
They are set to self destruct after a year. I had my first iPhone for 1.5 years, then the screen started going bad - yellow strip on right hand side with 2 holes ( I kid you not ). Apple tech goes, well since you don't have Apple Care and its been past a year, we can do a replacement for $200 or you can buy an 8GB with twice the memory for $199. I'm like *sigh* FUCK, give me the upgrade. lol.
- Gary Bacon II
"True. I think there are probably competing interests there at Amazon in that respect. On the one hand, they realize that they need to pare down their offerings to maximize their mainstream appeal... they're quickly becoming the goto for most purchases online. Brick and mortar retailers are dropping like flies. They also have an ethos of open-ness. You can buy and sell *anything* on Amazon. They're pretty much built on that. Given their size and their ethos, though, it's got to be a tough balancing act. I don't envy them."
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Good piece Mark, I just retweeted too.
- Gary Bacon II
You can be mayor of Twitter, I would vote for you.
- Christian Burns
Thanks Christian. If I could be mayor of anything, it would be Twitter. I'd run a hell of a campaign. Ask not what you can tweet on your twitter, ask umm....what your...and oh yeah..READ MY TWEETS! NO NEW TAXES!
- drew olanoff
"Facebook is indeed making the homepage real-time soon. Tend to agree with you ... Facebook initially looked to be copying FF, but now FF looks like less the innovator and more the chaser of FB and Twitter. That said, I do like the updates, though these 3 services are going to just keep looking more and more the same it feels."
- Adam Ostrow
We're watching them compete for developing the best site for real time web - tracking, conversations and buzz management ;)
- Susan Beebe
Once again, I disagree. RE: "Just because it does something similar to Twitter doesn't make it Twitter like. Seriously people! You can't comment on twitter items, you can't like twitter items, you can't do the same interactivity with Tweets as you can with post on Twitter."
- Mathew™ one of a kind
true Mathew ... u can do that stuff on Facebook tho :-) I think Susan is right ... just a lot of competition for who can be best for real-time Web
- Adam Ostrow
I will say I've gotten more comments from Twitter posts on FB than from @replies alone. Yay bastardization of combined services :)
- Gary Bacon II
well, my lists avoided "cross-pollination" as much as possible, so seeing scoble everywhere defeats the purpose. I have 5 lists that I read constantly because I have the separation.
- Rob Diana
Chris, lists are filters, thus my concern over the possible defect.
- Rob Diana
It's the "you can't filter me!" Scoble feature
- anna sauce
Felix - "it's a feature"! LOL hahaha good one! Jem, Anna - you guys are funny
- Susan Beebe
I would totally agree about not being able to truly filter Scoble, he is in too many conversations to never see him.
- Rob Diana
Look at his avatar, Scoble's busting through the walls of lists
- Bwana ☠
Tangential bug report: I have hidden this post about ten times now and it keeps coming back. I have nothing against your post, but I've already read it and don't wish to see it bubble back to the top of my feed just yet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
No Daniel, I WILL BE HEARD! In all seriousness, it looks as if a few bugs have crept in.
- Rob Diana
MySpace for Dummies makes sense... MySpace for smarties, OTOH would be a mystery
- Bastard Operator From FF
You know what's missing from that collection? AOL for Dummies.
- April Russo (app103)
Robert Scoble says smart people are on FriendFeed, so we don't need a Dummies Guide. Ok, well, that's not what he says, but I'm just going to keep telling myself that's what he says.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Friend Feed Rule book for Dummies! Rule 1. When LOLcats approach LOL back or they will Eat you alive! Rule 2. Watch out for lingering Trolls, hazardous for your Social Media LOLz.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
MySpace for dummies needs to be a lot thicker.
- Jim Misses SP
I wonder if the font and layout are different on each page of the MySpace -book.
- Jemm
A guide ... online or offline ... is a GREAT idea for someone.
- Charlie Anzman
My son is asking another entrepreneur about his business. Makes me proud. Is asking same questions I would be asking: why would I use your service? What makes it special. Entrepreneur answers back "you sound just like your dad." heh.
mini-scobleizer.com (not a real site) :) I saw Loic interview Daniel...Loic said something like it felt too limited, somebody else tried the same thing. He suggested that Daniel do something like organize teen communities for seesmic and he'd be first customer...
- Pokai
Your son should have an account in friendfeed
- میکرودامپ
Daniel is inspiring - he's living the life I wish I could have at that age. The next Ben Casnocha...
- Jesse Stay
Yuvi: my son is into WoW, not blogging or FriendFeed.
- Robert Scoble
Can I send him after Commissioner Tate? She's obsessed with "protecting children"
- Andrew Feinberg
Andrew: Patrick hates people who try to censor what he sees. But you can't change the minds of people who see the world like that.
- Robert Scoble
*sigh* so, so true...her fact checking is awful though...I've nailed her several times and she runs away from me in heels now. Protection != control.
- Andrew Feinberg
"Combining " the wall " with my feed seems a bit confusing. Also, the new Facebook " homepage " seems useless. Its a duplicate of my profile page. And when you click on, " Update Status ", "Add Photos", "Add Videos", etc... at the top, it redirects you to your profile page. Why not just make your profile page the homepage? Also, as people mentioned with their feeds that it shows " Gary had activity on FriendFeed " -- there is an edit button when you mouseover and you can choose, " 1 line, Short, or Full ( full depends on the feed item ) " -- why isn't there a setting under " settings " above the feed that says, " Always display as Short. " ( or full, or 1 line, etc... ) It just seems that there is a lot of more clicking to get to things now. The layout is nice, but the user experience could be improved. A lot."
- Gary Bacon II
"Combining " the wall " with my feed seems a bit confusing. Also, the new Facebook " homepage " seems useless. Its a duplicate of my profile page. And when you click on, " Update Status ", "Add Photos", "Add Videos", etc... at the top, it redirects you to your profile page. Why not just make your profile page the homepage? Also, as people mentioned with their feeds that it shows " Gary had activity on FriendFeed " -- there is an edit button when you mouseover and you can choose, " 1 line, Short, or Full ( full depends on the feed item ) " -- why isn't there a setting under " settings " above the feed that says, " Always display as Short. " ( or full, or 1 line, etc... ) It just seems that there is a lot of more clicking to get to things now. The layout is nice, but the user experience could be improved. A lot."
- Gary Bacon II
LOL...wow, the bacon bit never gets old does it? ;)
- Anna Haro
Kind of makes me not want to eat bacon every again
- Scott
This reminds of this Undertones' Greatest Hits Cd which featured this woman wrapped in steaks. It was gross to me then, and it's gross to me now. H to the I to the D to the E!
- Helen Sventitsky
@Scott--that's what I'm talkin' about! LOL @Helen. :)
- Anna Haro
can we PLEASE get back around to talking about breasts??
- jcunwired
bacon comes from pigs that have six boobies...?
- Mona Nomura
Back to the actual topic... I had a "friend" that had never learned how to size her bra correctly. It was so bad that she had permanent looking bruising from the incorrectly sized bras. I had to take her down to VS to have her sized, much to her embarassment and eventual delight.
- Louie
Changing my last name to Swiss Cheese III (Welcome Gary ... can't say we didn't warn you)
- Charlie Anzman
Looks like a lot better design than the Kindle. But Kindle is the one I'm holding out for because of the tight ties to Amazon and the ability to buy a book anywhere over its cell modem.
- Robert Scoble
Sony Reader to me has a better user experience. Easier to hold, navigate, and has great page clarity. Kindle is a bit clunky, feels like cheap plastic, and you basically can't help but accidently press a button on it. If the Sony Reader had EVDO built in. Wow.
- Gary Bacon II
This is great news. I hope this will lead to better support for Mac users. Right now, you're out of luck without a Windows box.
- Chris Baskind
I am DYING for a mobile bookreader to read the gigs of PDF medical/science texts *I already have*. I am not interested in making another version (and subsequent loss) for a proprietary format. I heard Sony's PDF native capabilities abysmal, but that may have changed in a firmware update, not sure. There are so many media players out there--why so few edocument readers? I'd love the...
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- Enrico C.
from twhirl
The first reader to have strong support for PDF and CHM files gets my support.
- Alvin Ashcraft
The sony reader looks really nice. Form is important, especially if it is really bad. The Kindle reminded me of some of my kids toys. It is hard to be taken seriously with that type of perception.
- Rob Diana
Enrico: same here, a PDF reader is just what I need for my job reading scientific papers easily. The Kimdle is too plasticky for me it looks like an Etch-a-sketch toy
- Sally Church
from fftogo
i'mwaiting to see the second kindle, and hoping the design changes a bit
- Kyle A Koch
I'm also anxiously waiting for Kindle 2 to come out, supposedly around October.
- imabonehead
I think that when Apple comes out with this Macbook Touch I've been hearing about, it will be the reader we all want. They really need to make it possible to skip ahead to certain a page or remember your last page when reading PDFs on the iPod Touch and iPhone. Especially since Safari is so crashy, when I open the doc back up, I don't want to spend 10 minutes scrolling back to where I was only to have it crash again 10 minutes later.
- Ernie Oporto
I don't care for the phone, but I find timelines like these very to be very cool.
- Louie
if you'd told me in 1999 that I'd be posting comments from a phone made by Apple, I would have literally laughed in your face :)
- Roger Benningfield
Louie: agreed @Roger: the trademark was registered in 2002. '02! crazy
- Mona Nomura
I'd already forgotten about the legal tussle with Cisco over the name "iPhone".
- Hutch Carpenter
2002 doesn't seem crazy to me, the iPod had already been out a year and a lot of people were writing that someday all that would be on mobile phones. Still, registering iPhone.org in 1999, well before the first iPod! Crazy. And Crazy smart too!
- Robert Seidman
Cisco lawsuit was either an attempt to make money off of the recently announced product... or... they had no idea of the trademark being filed in '02... and had just caught wind.
- Gary Bacon II
I like how the timeline gives you a picture of things that you didn't notice. It's like seeing how a military strategy was played out. Slipping in trademarks through other companies and abroad are like silently moving troops to the flanks. Muy interesante.
- Louie
Too bad all my FF peeps don't thinks so... Don't sleep!
- Mona Nomura
@Mona funny your blog is called pixel bits -- my website is pixelbud.com :P
- Gary Bacon II