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International growth has started to completely dominate on FriendFeed since August. Below is an unlabeled graph of page views on FriendFeed this month, broken down by country. Guess which country is the largest green slice below? (Hint: it is not English-speaking)
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Iran!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Turkey??
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
We are still blocked in Iran
- Bret Taylor
Turkey
- Cliff Gerrish
Me
- Johnny Worthington
Brazil?
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
turkey, imho.
- 1Co
Oh and good to see you bret.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Turkey is in fact the green slice. Orange is also not English speaking. Guess which country :)
- Bret Taylor
france
- WorldofHiglet
Japan or Italy? Maybe Portugal?
- Itachi
Hmm.. Turkey is the biggest international... I am not surprised (:
- Ozgur Demir
i totally don't know my FF :(
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Orange - Russia? :)
- Frère Noël
FF is rising fast in Turkey I guess. And will probably continue to rise for some time. Celebrities are joining too (:
- Hakan Deryal
I am guessing the orange is Canada :P
- Johnny Worthington
COUNTRY OR CONTINENT?UNITED STATES OF AMERICA....
- Pam Gwenzi
@Brent. is USA one of these countries ? or does chart only show internationals ?
- Ozgur Demir
USA is blue. About 23% of our page views now.
- Bret Taylor
Does Australia get a slice?
- Johnny Worthington
@Bret, Can we get more info about Turkey in FF?
- Hakan Deryal
India
- Hayes Haugen
The orange slice is actually Italy, believe it or not. Turkey and Italy have been growing like gangbusters the past few months.
- Bret Taylor
@Bret. yes, your guess is correct (about gangs) (:
- Ozgur Demir
Sweet, correct guess :)
- Itachi
I believe it
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Turkey. hehe :)
- Oğuz Serdar
from Android
What is the gray then, Bret?
- Itachi
what is the gray?
- Mycaptain
some of our friends from US don't know about FF, lol :)
- Ufuk Özgül
Gray is "other"
- Bret Taylor
where other is proxied users from Iran. ;)
- EricaJoy
If we were not blocked , we would win a big slice for iran :(
- Milad.p
from FreshFeed
Both China and Iran would have been in there if they were not both blocked currently
- Bret Taylor
Is Russia any of the other slices pictured above? (other than gray)
- Itachi
That's where Australia is, in the grey :)
- Glenn Slaven
OMG. Friendfeed is going the way of Orkut ;) Btw, is Norway/Scandinavia even visible in all this ? Just curious.
- Thomas Bøhm
@thomas. even though Orkut is Turkish (the guy), it is (site) not big in Turkey.
- Ozgur Demir
i'm sure finland is forbidden long time ago from this list ;)
- Nia
from fftogo
Just look at the public feed for 2 secs or 2 hours - yep, definitely.
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Facebook has a very similar story as far as I know.. we are a communicative nation:)
- Neşe Uyanık
Who's Gray? It's Gray, Louis of course :)
- Micah Wittman
Thank you for sharing this graph, Bret.
- Micah Wittman
Interesting - though for the sake of data visualization, pie charts are the worst of all.... :)
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
See-ming, a-hem, take a look at your avatar ;)
- Micah Wittman
@Bret, what is the exact number of Turkish people on FF?
- Ozkan Altuner
Ozkan, I'd be curious to know too, but I have a feeling there's an internal policy about not releasing absolute numbers, hence the percentages. But it never hurts to ask :)
- Micah Wittman
@Micah, it's the page view, however, not the number of users :)
- Ozkan Altuner
Good point, Ozkan. But I can't remember Visitor or View counts ever publicly reported before. But today could be the first time! :)
- Micah Wittman
Iran :-)
- Nimaa
Everyone knows teh fuckin answer Bret. It's Turkey. Mahir loves you http://www.ikissyou.org
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
I'm not surprised that Turkey is the green portion. I've seen more and more Turkish posts in my home feed. I thought it was just a biased sample, but perhaps not.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Iran
- Assal
Turkey
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Intense competition between Iran and Turkey occurred :D
- Nimaa
Hmmmmmmmmmmm...MOZAMBIQUE luminous orange l guess
- Pam Gwenzi
the desire to push the boundaries of internet of the turkish is troubling. the possesive tendecies of the turkish can be observed in the currently popular ''ff bu deYil'' (this is not ff) comment. turks are crowding ff, westerners are in panic!
- ferayebend
turks are invading ff!!! call norad
- aadagger
international growth dominates FF and yet the USA dominates the world. Not always in good ways either. What is the link? I don't think there is one. All I can say is that I love the USA and I love FriendFeed. What does it all mean? More free, cold beer is needed to find the answers.
- Morgan Haley
.. because, Turkish Facebook users are 10-20 years old. FF is very good alternative for older users. (and in addition Twitter is non-useful)
- Murat Tatar
Bret would that mean that FF has around 200K Turkish users? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendf...
- Cem ARGUN
Murat Tatar. So you've seen that Turkish Facebook users demographics ? even though it's unpublished.
- Ozgur Demir
SO when are we gonna party BRET? :)
- Bahriye
Actually, I wonder when Bret is gonna post something like "FF bu degil!"..
- Ozgur Demir
What do we care :) FF is this. And this is the rl. SO THE QUESTION IS: When are we gonna party!
- Bahriye
Bret start learning Turkish. You should have guessed from the reactions the days a.) you changed the design, b.) announced the FB deal. :)
- Cem ARGUN
I've noticed it on my feed. It's all good.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I've noticed a huge increase in Iran, peaking at about 7-8am Eastern
- H0llywoodWh0re
Just curious, what's happening with total page views? (I don't trust alexa, compete, etc.)
- Bruce Lewis
@Bret, 1- Turkey, 2- USA, 3- Italy, 4- India, 5- Japan, 6- Germany, 7- UK & Russia 8 - Pakistan 9- Iran 10- Canada.. Is it True?
- Kemalettin Bulamacı
italian power! yeah! ;)
- Dario Salvelli
Anyone worth their weight in tweets knows that it's turkey.
- Richard A.
knew it english speaker are way down
- ffcode
Turkey?
- ★ Soner Gönül
If that is so, can we get some way of filtering by language? I want to follow more international people but be able to ignore them or their friends when they post in what I cannot read :)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Turkiye :)
- Mustafa Çamaltı
italy rules!! :-)
- batta
Turkey
- Melih Bahadır Varol
My bet's on India
- Rod Nicolson
Country dominating FriendFeed? My guess...Brazil (have to bet on the homeland)
- Victoria Harres Akers
Btw, FriendFeed is blocked in Turkish Schools :(
- F. Batuhan Icoz
from iPhone
It's blocked in US schools that I attended as well F. Batuhan :(
- Itachi
Italy?
- Matte
You may have to develop "hide by language" feature very soon.
- Bahadır Yağan
Afghanistan
- Pam Gwenzi
go italy!
- Alessandro
How much does the UK get?
- Kol Tregaskes
Turkey is the winner btw.
- Kol Tregaskes
YEAH TURKEY !
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
different kind of widgets? I don't like with blue line. years fighting with it :) and option to change fonts. please :)
- Okeane
#Turkey of course ;)
- Volkan Özçelik
IRAN :)
- ДMIROVSKY☂امیروفسکی
Iran خودشم تو روحت که دیشب فرفر و خراب کرده بودی . اگه تونستی بفهم چی گفتم !
- حاج مهدی ©
Gotta be Turkey. It is Thanksgiving weekend, after all!
- Mark "Mr Bolivious" J
:)
- Susan Beebe
Is there any place to get a full breakdown, including the smaller slices, by country with percentages? Thanks.
- Mikeynitle
@bret, what is the number of friendfeed users in total?
- elodeon
The more I use Windows 7, the more I really like it. Kudos to Microsoft. It has me considering a switch back. (Microsoft is a client).
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Always disclose ;)
- Itachi
I bought my daughter a Mac. I try to use it, but am just so hardwired into Windows keystrokes & short cuts that it drives me NUTS! I can't find even the most basic stuff...
- Rod Nicolson
Yeah I sometimes go to the Apple store to play around with the macs there. I feel like an idiot.
- Roberto Bonini
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How do individuals (specifically with regard to social media) think about trust with regard to other people? How do marketers look at Trust in the networked economy?
- Rod Nicolson
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"To justify online fees, newspapers likely will have to focus more on extraordinary content, a model that might look something like the subscription system that has been successful for premium TV channels such as HBO and Showtime. "To produce the equivalent of must-watch cable programs, newspapers likely will have to dig even deeper on investigative projects, mine niche subjects and assemble more multimedia packages that work well on the Web. It won't be easy, given that most newspapers have smaller staffs after a torrent of job cuts during the past two years. "
- Rod Nicolson
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The title to this is misleading, as the comments bear out, but the debate in the comments make this worth checking out.
- Rod Nicolson
In France, Rue89 brings readers into the newsroom - International Herald Tribune - http://www.iht.com/article...
The shift of readers to the Web has been similar throughout the Continent, and in some ways even more significant. The German papers Bild and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Corriere della Sera in Italy, El País in Spain and The Guardian and The Times in Britain have all see a gentle decline in sales but booming page views online.
- Rod Nicolson
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movies wsj video hollywood
- Rod Nicolson
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How to set up RSS feeds from Google News that cover all newswires GN includes in its results.
- Rod Nicolson
Landshare - What is Landshare - http://www.landshare.net/
With allotment waiting lists massively over-subscribed and people right across the country keener than ever to grow their own fruit and veg, the aim for Landshare is to become a UK wide initiative to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible to all.
- Rod Nicolson
Influential Marketing Blog: What All PR People Should Know About Journalists - http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog...
Six tips for PRO's pitching to the media. Includes, "Your BS is obvious," journalists are busy people, your track record matters, angles trump features, and keep yourselfaccessible.
- Rod Nicolson
Tech PR in Troubled Times | FastCompany.TV - http://www.fastcompany.tv/video...
"Joshua Reynolds oversees Hill and Knowlton's global technology practice. He's a PR guy and one of the best in the business so we went over to find out his view of the PR world as we continue in a cruddy economic climate. We also talk about tips for getting good PR in the social media world."
- Rod Nicolson
BrightRoll Data Shows Video Ad Rates Came Down 25 Percent In The Fourth Quarter - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Data from video ad network BrightRoll suggests that Web video advertising is suffering along with every other category. BrightRoll places video ads on top media and professional broadcast TV sites rather than user-generated video. In other words, this is the inventory that all the advertisers want, but there supposedly isn’t enough of it. Yet 50 percent of this “broadcast quality” video inventory goes unsold.
- Rod Nicolson
The Web Ad Apocalypse - http://www.inquisitr.com/15369...
"The predictions of a massive downturn in web advertising due to the US recession started last year. Gawker Media’s CEO and Founder Nick Denton, one of the smartest men in blogging and a guy I’d never tell anyone to ignore, predicted a 40% downturn in web advertising this year. Let me say that I think, sadly, that his prediction may be right."
- Rod Nicolson
Mobile Internet To Grow Rapidly By 2010 -- Cell Phones Internet -- InformationWeek - http://www.informationweek.com/news...
"The iPhone was the first mobile device with a good Web browser, and more such devices will follow," said Google (NSDQ: GOOG)'s CEO Eric Schmidt in an interview. "Advertising will then become very personal. In a few years, mobile advertising will generate more revenue than advertising on the normal Web."
- Rod Nicolson
Twins Bond Over the Introduction of Footed Pajamas...
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I want twins!
- Shevonne
The Pink/Blue pair were their Christmas gift from me. Right now, they're enjoying chewing their footed toes...
- Louis Gray
My head asploded from too much cute!
- Mattie Kenny
10/10 :) { although, you keep making me miss my kids as babies :( }
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
They are adorable!
- Stormy
OMG Louis, I can tell them apart now!
- Mona Nomura
Or, "your head makes a good pluggie"
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
الهيييييي ، نيگا كن اين دوتا رو ، قربونشون بره محمود جون الهي
- ژنرال فرهاد
I miss footed pajamas!
- Mary Wehrle
Someone eating others little head :))
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
So cute!!! And, the third photo makes me L O L :))
- Anna Haro
Does it seem like one of the twins is often chewing on the other?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Footy footy footy footy
- deusdiabolus
Ours used to look like this. Now they play computer games all day and they are starting to smell.
- Rod Nicolson
Aww, they're too adorable!
- deepikaur
these always get a like from me. Good stuff Louis
- Mattb4rd
loving out loud, Rod!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
so awesome!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
that's great. damn. I want one of these :D I have to merry as fast as possible.
- Sinan Ata
Feet!
- Charlie Anzman
Jay, join the parenting room! http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Rochelle
how cute are they?
- Egyirba
Wow. They are so cute, it almost makes me want to add child number 4 and child number 5 to my household. Almost.
- Martha
Martha, it's likely as they age, they'll reduce their cuteness factor. And publicly, on FriendFeed, you will see the picture frequency decrease until I put them on eBay.
- Louis Gray
Thanks, Louis, I needed that!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
The fourth photo made me want to cheer! Thanks for the smile.
- Ayşe E.
Cute sleepers, Children's Place? Travis is now 3.5 mos and just starting to find his hands...can't wait for him to find his feet/toes in a few more months!
- Sally: reading a book
The little cuties are getting SOOO BIGGG!!
- Larry Kless
Very good, Sally. Those are from Baby's Place.
- Louis Gray
Sarah noms on Matthew :-)
- mandyvan
I think they will keep increasing their cuteness factor until perhaps they get to be teenagers and their sass factor starts to exceed their cute factor.
- Martha
PR is so over - http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC...
'After 17 years, I’ve come to the end of putting up with what most PR offers. It is time to draw a line in the sand. Accordingly, any PR that emails me gets this standard response: “I’ve stopped accepting email pitches. Please follow me on Twitter and pitch in 140 characters or less.”'
- Rod Nicolson
Twitter Bootcamp for PR: A Recap - http://blog.ogilvypr.com/...
Ogilvy presentation from a one-hour training Webinar for public relations professionals hosted by the Bulldog Reporter’s PR University. Contains key strategies and best practices on how organizations can participate in social media through microblogging platforms such as Twitter.
- Rod Nicolson
I am thinking about making Gmail my browser home page. What's yours? Comment here.
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I'm here obviously
- Noah David Simon
about:blank I create too many new tabs for anything else to be reasonable.
- Melissa
same like Melissa
- embee
my homepage is iGoogle, but it features the Gmail widget so I get both
- Scott Kiekbusch
iGoogle.
- Alisha
about:blank
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
mine is blank :) but my dad uses google calendar.
- Goktug Gedik
Gmail. :) I pretty much keep my session set so that Gmail, GReader, and Friendfeed are open all the time.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I use "Speed Dial", a Firefox add-in, which shows my 20 top favorite websites - displayed as thumbnails images all on 1 page ...just click and go... very similar to the Opera browser and Google Chrome's home page idea.
- Susan Beebe
I start always with Twitter
- Jess
about:blank
- Steven Perez
It used to be iGoogle but I have recently switched to Gmail since I have added the FriendFeed, Remember The Milk and Calendar modules - I highly recommend it!
- Luca Belletti
from IM
Leave two pages open in Flock - Friendfeed and google reader - iGoogle would probably do though.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
The Friendfeed integration with GTalk is one reason for my potential switch.
- Steve Rubel
Gmail. Twitter. GReader.
- bob ashley
iGoogle's my home page, but more often than not I head to Twitter first.
- Rod Nicolson
I have several - Gmail, Google Reader, Friendfeed
- Wayne Schulz
I use iGoogle for my homepage, with the Gmail gadget on there of course!
- Ken Knecht
@steverubel Gmail is also one of my browser's start tabs. I also open Friendfeed, twitter, and GReader via Tab Mix Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...)
- Czar
Gmail, iGoogle, and a handmade page full of links in the browser; FF in a mini window off to one side; and Digsby in the systray for Twitter . . .
- LJF Wolffe
iGoogle, but I also use the speed dial in Firefox (plugin) and Google Chrome (home page).
- Philip Norton
about:blank Helps me be mindful of where I really want to go when starting a session
- Peter Svensk
PassPack, FriendFeed, iTweet, Rejaw
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
http://server/local/ personalized page (87+ links)
- Lora Lufark
iGoogle (with the friendfeed, nytimes, and reader gadgets)
- don loeb
The only time I ever had a home page in any browser was when I made my own little no-frills browser and hard coded Google as its home page, which I ended up regretting, because it slowed the browser down.
- April Russo (app103)
Chrome's "most visited" page.
- Brent Logan
about:blank too.. nothing beats an instant popup browser ready for my input :)
- alphaxion
I don't even know, probably the browser default. Always just open previous session.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
netvibes.com ftw!
- Kyle Ingrelli
Thanks for the ? I enjoyed some of the answers and have added Speed Dial to my site.
- CathyVon
I'm using Mailplane for Gmail. Highly recommended.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
I open two pages automatically: Meebo and GReader. But my default is still the Firefox default.
- Lorin Olsen
I think this post just helped convince me to use iGoogle more again
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Speed Dial :)
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Techmeme
- ian kennedy
I start with google reader.
- sara
At work it's iGoogle, at home it's the Firefox default
- Sally: reading a book
igoogle
- krist80
FriendFeed. Before that, it was Google Reader, and before that, My Yahoo!.
- Louis Gray
igoogle
- Dennis
'blank' as each time I open the browser I always want to go somewhere different. BB keeps me up to date with email..
- Nigel Stolting
I'm still Google Reader. I still use Twhirl mostly for FriendFeed.
- Jesse Stay
I launch my browser with four tabs, in this order: 1) Gmail 2) Pandora 3) Google Reader 4) Twitter
- Bryan Person
Google Reader with the FriendFeed real-time sidebar open at all times. I usually have Gmail and Facebook always open in a tabs most of the time. Not a fan of gateway sites like iGoogle. Can't get used to the layout. Not intuitive to me.
- Rolf Schewe
Totally agree with @schewe
- Lizunlong
about:robots of course
- raphaeL
jellodash as my homepage with yoono as sidebar. sometimes also oodesk.
- Stefan Lafloer
I tried that for a while but it takes too long for the page to load. Might be different with FF3 though. Currently it is iGoogle for me.
- Rob
iGoogle: Gmail (by Ginga) & Remember the Milk gadgets on top. My iGoogle tabs are News (Google, Digg, Fark), Social (FF, Twitter, Facebook), Docs (Google Docs, Notebook) and Pandora loads in my Vista sidebar automatically.
- Gus
New tabs (or windows) are blank. GReader & Friendfeed are always open. Others as needed.
- LogEx
FriendFeed,Twitter,Gmail,GReader,iGoogle,Twhirl - infernal machine.:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
I use an easily-updated all-white homepage made out of a Word document that I saved to HTML and posted online with "No Index, No Follow" tags. I use a lot of websites and databases that require a user name and password, and I like to have all of these sites in one place where I can control how they are clustered together (example: Databases, Company Information, List Sources, etc.). The page also includes frequently used form letters. I also love the fact that the UI is completely commercial free.
- Ecommerce Jobs
I use speed dial (fire fox) it has windows that thumbnail 9 sights of my choice. On my windows box its ff, and gaming sights and wilik's. On my linux box is ff assorted wiki's and forums.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
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Google Sites continued to lead as the most visited property in September with more than 144 million visitors
- Rod Nicolson
Making Social Networks Profitable - http://www.businessweek.com/magazin...
patent pending on technology for ranking the most influential people on social networking sites
- Rod Nicolson
Newspaper Stocks Spiral Ever Lower - Advertising Age - News - http://adage.com/article...
The Russell 3000 newspaper index is down 69% year to date, and major publishers including Gannett Co., The New York Times Co. and McClatchy Co. on Thursday and Friday sunk to multiyear lows.
- Rod Nicolson
PR 2.0: Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals - http://www.briansolis.com/2008...
20 tools for marketing, communications, relationships, communities, research, service, digital anthropology, fundraising, publicity, product development, publishing, events, online reputation management (ORM) or simply seeking to increase your proficiency and efficiency on Twitter.
- Rod Nicolson
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Social media is the first major computing revolution that as far as I can tell, has produced essentially nothing.
- Rod Nicolson
Question your work - (37signals) - http://www.37signals.com/svn...
Eight basic questions from 37 Signals that are pertinent to any project, Tech or otherwise.
- Rod Nicolson
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David Brain, President & CEO Edelman Europe, on the outlook for PR, conclusion, "I am becommming resigned to the fact that I will be navigating my firm through choppier waters over the next couple of years, I do think we and some of our bigger competitors are better placed than last time."
- Rod Nicolson
Very Short List Offers Glimpse at Power of Simplicity, Editing - Advertising Age - Jonah Bloom - http://adage.com/columns...
"Very Short List epitomizes the value of an editor -- and simplicity." Jonah Boom from Ad Age on an email service that filters out all but the one best thing that day.
- Rod Nicolson
Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) - with the hottest topics from the blogosphere aggregated on the front page. Readers can drill down in 11 different categories, from technology, business, sports and entertainment. Google says you can use Blogsearch to see what the world is talking about.
- Rod Nicolson
What’s after the Social Web? - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
O'Reilly's working on Web 3.0, Jeremiah's avoiding the "S word" (semantic) and most of his clients are still working out what social media means to them. Interesting post on possible futures for 'The Futureweb.'
- Rod Nicolson
Landmark Study of Commercial Newswires: PR Newswire Generates More Media Pick-up, Higher Volume of Coverage | With Video - http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr...
Press releases distributed by PR Newswire get used by media more often than copy from competing services and generate more clips when they are picked up, according to a landmark study of commercial newswires.
- Rod Nicolson
Company Name First in Microcontent? Sometimes! (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - http://www.useit.com/alertbo...
Usability guidance for search engine results titles is good SEO advice for news release headlines: frontload the company name to help users find your news release.
- Rod Nicolson
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