Ron Emrick - Likes - FriendFeed

Debate: Help me understand, should US stay in Middle East "finish the job" (McCain) so they don't have to return, or leave in near future, around 2010 (Obama). Let's keep this civil, but defned your stance. Also, it would be interesting if you mentioned where you are from

July 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Honestly, I have mixed reactions, but hearing the many intelligent points you're going to offer below will help me to make a decision, and influence my vote. - Jeremiah Owyang

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Well, since the Iraqi government appears eager to attempt to handle control of their own country, I say we allow them to do that and get forces out as soon as possible. - Nathaniel Payne

finish the job and keep a small base there, ie(Germany, Korea, Japan) - Caleb Easterwood

I'm from the midwest. It's been time to leave for a while now. McCain talks about not leaving before we've won. We left Nam & didn't win. We went to Iraq under false pretenses. There were no WMD's or serious Al Queda threat. It's been a cluster **** ever since. They want us out & it's time to go. - W!cKeD Eye in the Sky

Mission accomplished. - orionstarr

I think its time to go home. What really did it for me was hearing the Prime Minister of Iraq this week. He's saying he wants the U.S. to leave. Why are we still debating this issue? They don't want us there. If we stay we're officially denying Iraq of its sovereign right to self determination. The majority of the American people want to end the war too. Let's get out. - Bukola

What frustrates me is what's missing in the public dialog. Few candidates--except perhaps Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, and Ron Paul--are able to ask whether it is an ethical position to "finish the job." The American government/military is an invader in Iraq, and we Americans need to take the perspective suggested by Noam Chomsky several months ago: What did we say about the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan? Shouldn't we be held to the same standard? As an American, I don't want any invaders to succeed. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

We can't stay there forever and we shouldn't even if we could. However, we can't just say, 'Welp, it's be fun! Good luck!' and then leave suddenly. It will have to be gradual but it needs to happen eventually. The Democratic candidates irritate me to no end when they act like they're just going to be able to have the troops pack up and leave overnight. Caleb's right, too, we may pull out most of our forces but we'll still have troops there for the next decade. - Akiva

Has anyone ever properly defined "finish the job"? Or "victory" for that matter? Wars can be won - occupations can not. Proof is in history. - Zoli Erdos

I am from NYC. I believe that it is in our and the Iraqis' best interest to leave in the near future. Our presence there drives insurgent activity and anti American sentiment - it fuels non religious nationalist insurgents and helps Al Qaeda recruit more converts. We created an independent, sovereign government and they want us to leave. McCain himself said that when they want us to leave, we will. Will he keep this very important promise with the world watching? - mike

Finish -- but that depends on what degree. Leave when the Iraqi government can sustain stability without losing too much control. Toronto here. - Shey

oh well you asked..heres the darn primer on the issue.. http://rusiresources.com/missile... - Peter Dawson

Agreed, Zoli, we need to define what the "job" is before we can have a prayer at finishing said job. I'm in San Francisco, though I do travel to London frequently - Prolific Programmer

Thank you Paul for such a well laid out argument. Keeping troops there for another decade would appear to be occupation. It seems to me that it is easy to make a semantic change and "Invaders" are "Liberators". Same thing with Rebels or Freedom fighters. Sure, it will take some time to pull out, but it can be done over a relatively short amount of time and there's no need to be there suffering attrition for another decade. IMHO - W!cKeD Eye in the Sky

Noam Chomsky on Iraq: http://www.democracynow.org/2008... - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I think we need to gradually draw down our forces and leave only enough troops to ensure that the Iraqi government can control any anti-government forces. Don't forget that there are more than just US forces in Iraq. There are still British, Australian, and Dutch forces. Maybe a NATO or UN contingent can possibly take over peacekeeping tasks in the future for as long as they are needed. That said, it is all contingent on whether or not the legitimate Iraqi government wants any future assistance. - Michael Tefft

The administration said they began the surge so that we could secure the country so we could bring our boys home. After our fine men and women accomplished that mission with flying colors, as usual the mission changed. Now, we're told we have to continue the surge so things don't get bad again. Talk about a perpetual motion machine. But the true judges on whether we should get out are the Iraqi government and their people. If they want us out, we should leave. - Chris Reed

I forgot to mention that I am from Virginia. - Michael Tefft

We should take our troops home and leave our money. If Iraq enhances it's infrastructure through legitimate means (i.e. not drug / guns sales) it will mean real jobs for real people... - gregory

I'll echo the same. Define what 'the job' is and then finish that before you leave. Then everyone -- Americans, Iraqis and the RoW -- will know what to expect and when. Then move resources to Afghanistan and do the exact same thing. - ɥsıuɐʎɹ

Recently, someone in a FriendFeed post brought up the phenomenon of typing out a comment and then censoring yourself and deleting it. I've done that about 10 times with this thread. Time to walk away. - Akiva

Why do we need to even wait for a signal from the Iraqis? Has history ever know an occupied people who didn't want the occupiers out? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

It is long past time to leave this war that is only costing us money we don't have and risking the lives of soldiers who are trying so hard to do a job that, in this case, is poorly defined. This war is costly in lives, international relations and money - ending it can only benefit us. - Leslie Poston

I think that there is nothing to accomplish by remaining. They should leave before more soldiers are killed and more money is wasted (money that can be spend more constructively on the US economy). I am from Ireland. - Mark

The problem is that the folks who have been writing the definition for the past 8 years have freely rewritten it as needed. Revisionist politics at it's best. The rhetoric has changed as quickly as Bush needed a new scare tactic or talking point. We are way past the point of coming up with definitions at this stage in the game. We should have been focusing on Afghanistan & Pakistan this entire time. IMO it has never truly been about the terrorists. If it were we'd have Osama BL. Listen to the Iraqis. - W!cKeD Eye in the Sky

Iran has nuclear power, Isreal has nuclear power , Saudi is inbetween. Iraq was pwned by by the Us on WMD. US needs to control this theater or else .. they will not have Saudi oil. Between Isreal and Iran if a flare up takes place, US is FUBAR'ed even more. Firstly the whole WMD was a lie and Bush used it just to bloster fear in the country. Thats what you all get for electing Bush in... more... - Peter Dawson

peter - haliburton and their ilk. :-0 - W!cKeD Eye in the Sky

BENCHMARK (I'll be doing this over the next few hours to summarize what I'm hearing) This is primarily swaying towards the following: 1) define what 'exit' means. 2) Leave now - Jeremiah Owyang

Kirkland WA. McCain needs to define what the job is and how we know when we've finished. If the goal is to secure a U.S. military presence to ensure access to oil, then meeting the goal is just a ticket to stay. Hence the McCain 50 or a 100 or a 1000 years. - Michael Markman

Gainesville, FL: Without really dropping a vote in either "bucket", I believe that staying or leaving is all about what's happening on the ground. When, based upon what's happening on the ground, we or Iraq believe our help is no longer needed then we should exit in the safest manner possible. That should drive our troop actions, not election sound bites. The candidate that comes closest to that reasoned approach on this and other topics will likely get my vote. - Dan Rua

Dallas, TX - As we did not have accurate information, I do not believe we should have ever entered. That said, I agree with the NY Times & others define what success means to McCain. Finally, as we have so many critical problems within our country spending billions in Iraq appears unwarranted to me. We are the USA, not the world police force. As a super power, certainly we have a measure of responsiblity to help others, but not to such tremendous cost in lives and money for our own citizens. - R. Ferguson

Sarah Perez

The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

August 14, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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doubtful - Jason Carreira

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I'm still wondering why no one ever talks about Elgg when it comes to creating a niche social network site. - FFing Enigma

Good call on the disparate social graphs. - Hao Chen

Agreed... building a social network right now built on WordPress for our local twitter community -> http://dmtweetup.org - andy brudtkuhl

@Stupid Blogger - Elgg is pretty cool - andy brudtkuhl

Elgg classic was very good, now elgg one is much better. And it was a software intended for social nets, not a converted =) - Arturo Servin from twhirl

Andy Peatling will be talking about BuddyPress (WP-based social network project) at WordCamp SF on Saturday... good timing. - Mark Jaquith from twhirl

It will be interesting to see if BuddyPress can compete in the enterprise social networking space. - Nick Martin

bolog and ne - adolfo foronda

Sarah, I didn't know about the Action Streams plugin, but I liked DavidRecordon website so much that I did my own c# script to generate something like that. http://www.alexsauceda.com - Alex Sauceda

For those of you mentioning Elgg, you may enjoy this older post where RWW interviewed the Elgg founders: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Sarah Perez

Thank you very much for such a good article. I just build a new website and build up my own social network too. - Kenn Nguyen

Thank you very much for such a good article. I just build a new website and build up my own social network too. I'm the founder of http://wweo.net - Kenn Nguyen

Louis Gray

Twitter's Cap of 2,000 Following In Action!

August 11, 2008 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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As mentioned earlier today, Twitter seems to have capped your ability to follow at 2,000 people, which just so happens to be exactly where I am. The goal, in theory, is to stop marketing-oriented spammers, but it could be another way to reduce stress on the system. So what should I do now, delete "less favored" people, or wait for Twitter to figure this out? - Louis Gray from email

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Maybe it's the legacy talking, but I'm really not bothered by this. :P - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

I can see why they do it, but it does suck for the people who do it legitimately and are not using stupid mass follow scripts. - David Risley

I'm not super-concerned either, but it does answer why all of a sudden, I started getting these errors last week. It could be part of their "Making Progress On Spam" initiative via the blog, but it hasn't been spelled out all that clearly. - Louis Gray

let blame this one on Scobles... :)- - Peter Dawson

Louis, I think cap is more of the architecture the system. Making it into a more robust platform. Now watermarks have been set, it becomes easier to build consistency of experience and application behavior. <Edit > wait for Twitter to figure it out.. Marketing spammers are targeting the 'stupid' one that have the auto follow !! - Peter Dawson

gotta like it, if I'm the one you are trying to follow! - Ben Hedrington

I don't think there should be limits like this, but I guess everything can't be infinite - Rah-PM 2012

I honestly am indifferent about it; Twitter is going to hell and i tried my best to convert it; oh well, Hell has cookies - Gordon Swaby

I"m only following 49... with 106 followers.. - Ian May

so what do you think, Louis, is benhedrington worth going to the mat for? - Nathan Rein

I'm sure I can find someone to unfollow in exchange for Ben. - Louis Gray

Twitter needs to build in groups functionality a la tweetdeck for following 2K+ to even be practical. - Nicholas Molnar

Louis: You need to convince the new people to head over here :) - Justin Korn

I'm just curious what the rationale is for following that many people. - Paul Rodriguez

Well, maybe that's why Louis always seems to know what's going on before anybody else. - Rah-PM 2012

I've noticed that most of the time I get followed by somebody with a big number, it tends to be marketing play. It triggers the email to you and then you go look and click on their bio link which takes you to the pitch. Very irritating. I always block em. - Mark Schulz

@Paul Rodriguez, I was wondering that too. I wouldn't have even guessed there are 2000 interesting people in the world </cynicism>, but what fascinate me is that i'm following like 83 people and only about 14 of them tweet regularly. I can assume most of those 2000 do not tweet regularly. Add in the fact that I'm a WAHM to two toddlers, and do other stuff, there'd be a lot of stuff I'd miss. - Anika

New profit center? Sorry, but now you'll have to join Twitter Pro .... - Charlie Anzman

Info restrictions suck:( - Igor Poltavskiy

Very interesting. System limits is going to be a topic that we all work through in this early phase of the Social Web. It seems to me that it's reasonable to cap the number one follows to 1,000 or 2,000. On the flipside, one would clearly like to enable a very high number of followers. With respect to bi-directional connections, the real number should max at 1,000 to 2,000... - John McCrea

So where is the point following 30k people? You might as well hit the main timeline. The only thing that is bad about this limit is that it was not there from the beginning. - Alexander Kohlhofer

@kevinrose: 56K+. Losing 54K+? - Igor Poltavskiy

so what's going to happen to those who follow over 2000? - Wayne Sutton

you follow two. thousand. people.??? never mind twitter; there may be a law against that. - jeneane sessum

I like the new limit. I cannot see how anyone would be able to legitimately follow (and pay attention to) more than 2,000 people. Frankly, even that limit seems higher than it needs to be. If it helps keep Twitter a little more stable, go for it. - Dennis Metzcher

Couple thoughts: the limit impacts the ability to use the service as a direct message router -- for some people. It also reinforces the need for dectralized microblogging -- so if you want exceed the limits you can do so on your own infrastructure. Lastly, nothing prevents you from following everyone or a subset of people through RSS/feeds. - Chris Messina

Are we sure that Twitter has set a 2,000 limit are or we cranking up the rumor mill? I've seen image before with respect to my own account - an account which just reached 1,000 followers today. According the Twitter rep who contacted me, I got - ahem - put in "Twitter Prison" for "Aggressive Following" My ratio of Followers to Following was kinda out of whack - at that time I had only ~800 people following me while I was following ~2,800 - They suspended my ability to follow more people. I removed 2K. - Vincent Wright

I don't understand the motivation for following 2K people if you're not a spammer... someone explain? - Jason Carreira

Jason: For a entrepreneur/VC/angel networker, it would be very easy to hit 2,000 contacts (assuming you used Twitter like a rolodex). From one networking meeting, I might pick up 0-100+ business cards (more at conferences), and during a heavy season I could be doing 7-10 meetings/week. As a angel, I might want to follow 5,000-10,000+ projects/people. Anyone might have a really good project 2-10+ years down the pipe... I've got cartons/boxes of 3-ring binders of business cards in plastic sheets. - Mitchell Tsai

@Mitchell @Charlie - Rumors aside, do you think the cap is a gesture towards monetization? Going after the power networkers? Seems you would have good cause to pay for a Twitter Pro, or would it just not be worth it? - joneilortiz

I use Twitter as both a professional development tool (following people who say useful and interesting things abt health / edtech / social media / libraries ...), a personal tool (friends and folk who are amusing), and a reference tool (following a lot of news streams and information resources). You can hit 2000 fast. A friend says that people are imagining new ways in which Twitter could be used, but Twitter seems bound and determined to force them back into some small box of how it "ought" to be. - Patricia F. Anderson

I would happily follow more than 2000 people, heck I am almost there. And I don't need to see every message. With Tweetdeck it's manageable. I see some Friendfeed users here have thousands to tens of thousands of subscriptions, should we also say it's good to have a cap here? No, please no. I understand that perhaps it has to do with monetization or stressing the system less, these are alas viable reasons. - Jacob

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Eye-Fi adds Picasa, Photobucket and SmugMug support http://www.obsessable.com/news...

May 5, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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great news, isn't technology grand! - Ryan Gerritsen

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I've been really tempted to put one of these in a SD->CF adapter for use in my Digital Rebel XT. But then the cost goes way up and my wallet vetoes me. - Kevin Kuphal

I have a Home card (just wanted basic Wi-Fi), but was disappointed that it won't upload videos to my computer. A file is a file, what gives? Also, it's quirky to have to go to an external web site to manage a local device. - Tinfoil 2.0

I have a Canon 20D, and the lack of CF version keeps me away from it :-) - Ashu Joshi

Robert Scoble

I love it. Everyone is complaining that friendfeed is going too fast. Welcome to my world! Now, learn to use lists!

April 6, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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yea not sure about this.. it's basically "real time view" with a better UI - andy brudtkuhl

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This is awesome! I need to start following more people NOW! - Lise

I'm trying it based on your recommendation. So far, so good! - Denise Polivy

Wow it moves real fast - coze

It's like IRC now. - Andrew Leyden

And there's always that Pause button up there to slow things down - Craig Eddy

Can I drag people to lists yet? That'd make it easier to organize. - Jordan Hofker

Hee hee, it's like being turned into a pinball! - Mark Dykeman

too awesome - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

If it's too fast, you're too old. - Justin Doub

It's going to make HIDE much more important. - Andrew Leyden

wow! this is crazy cool - patrick

the list options create great filters. - Peter van Teeseling

FriendFeed as the same potencial than Diigo and the same problem: not easy to use... - António Teixeira

How dare you tell me how to use FriendFeed! (Except that you're right, of course; time to address my lists usage.) - Akiva

I think that we have to introduce segmentation in our reading :) it is fun and exciting :) - abdellah

I would like the icons back saying what type of service the post is from...possibly in the bottom right corner of the avatars. - Paul Arterburn

My parents will hate how active the page is - the next generation, who go at the pace of Wall-E, will eat it up - Christopher Galtenberg

haha, yeah I need to up my game in the lists - haven't had to use - but now I will. But I love it! - Tony

That's dangerous. Lists require lots of thought, work, organization. If there's one thing we know from running Grazr, people do not want to do that (well most non-organization obsessed people). I think essentially forcing the use of lists is a big mistake for broader adoption. - mikepk

I suspect people will trim their subscribe list, while they adjust - Iphigenie

Or the pause button! - Paul Jacobson

so what's the first thing to do that's going to slow this down? - Todd Jordan

I don't mind the speed, but I think there are more elegant things they could do with the UI during live updates (ie: fading to/from colors) and of course letting the user control speed of updates and UI effects. - Ryan Stanley

when he name list, it mean filtering :) - abdellah

Hmm... a few rooms (feeds now?) I created seem to be missing or just not easy to find. Will check out the tour to see if I'm missing something - Dave Ferrick

the one problem with the speed is that what you are scanning suddenly jumps off the page. perhaps a way to "pin" what you are reading temporarily... - Iphigenie

woah neddy.....wouldn't tabs for search terms in the main page be a good idea... - Paul Fabretti

Yikes, is there a pause button somewhere? - Sally Church

This mega-threaded replies really do float to the top. - Andrew Leyden

I guess your world sucks then. - Brian Sullivan

I feel a bit like @scobleizer now. - Mike Reynolds

pause button in upper right corner on blue strip. - Thomas Hawk

+Joelle I think I'm benefiting by having relied on FOAF a lot more than subscribe to everyone interesting. - Micah

pause top right || - Andrew Leyden

@Sally yes - Ryan Stanley

Sally, Pause icon in top blue bar, right side. - Micah

i think we'll get used to it. I already use lists, but still it's the motion of what you are reading that is tricky - Iphigenie

So is this just live in the BETA area or is it going live system wide today? - Andrew Leyden

it's amazing to see the comments pooring in here. - Peter van Teeseling

needs a keyboard shortcut for pause. Or a contextual gesture (like hovering over some part of a story). Having to scroll to the top to pause is clunky - mikepk

Wow, the likes pop up fast! - Steve Rubel

Weird when what you're reading wobbles because there are things going on above it - if the L&F remains, we can dub this the 'newquake' :) - Christopher Galtenberg

I worried that the new oh my god it refresh so fast kill the conversation in FF, I havn't to worry robert thread will be there as long or may be longer then ever - abdellah

Andrew: just in beta area. - Robert Scoble

Oh... the room I created is now under Subscriptions. Okay... - Dave Ferrick

love your new avatar!!!! - B.L. Ochman

wow, love the way the comments roll in...Robert, is your video up? good tips in it? - Richard Binhammer

Pop Up! - Jeff Stannard

I can't WAIT until the twitter-only crowd starts bitching about all of the friendfeed meta convos that are "cluttering up" their twitter streams - Marco(aureliusmaximus)

@Thomas, thank you, thank you! I was getting dizzy just trying to read anything. I hate the fugly UI and the RT speed. Going back to Twitter, at least one can read in peace at own pace there. - Sally Church

Lists are the only way to fly, it seems. :) - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

The world is a river... - Marcelo Nobrega

I use lists but for a completely different purpose. - Brian Sullivan

Hey Scoble, which desktop client do you use for FF? - David Alfaro

LISTS are the only sane way to manage FriendFeed. I've had to learn that once I past a 1,000 subscriptions - Susan Beebe

I want an RSS feed for a list - Dave Ferrick

dave!! do you want to read your FF list in an rss reader? - abdellah

Yeah, I have my list paused now. I think we will get used to it anyway. It is fun to watch so many different reactions in so little time. - Carlos Lorenzo

Have to say -- the message threading is now very nice indeed. Love the automatic update of comments, too. As I typed this, a couple others came in and didn't disrupt. Sweetness. Now I need to learn about lists. - Anthony Baker

This is really nice so far..liking the realtime comments -DMs are a great addition. Time for more exploration :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I said the same thing, but then everyone told me I gotta use Filters instead.... - Bwana ☠

Lists are king :) Also, just figured out that ROOMS ---> "FEED" - everything is a "feed" type now - Susan Beebe

As I'm one who thinks the quality of interaction went down when lists were added, being forced to make more lists doesn't seem a positive. - Todd Hoff

I thought the whole point of FF was that you didn't have to "learn" a lot about the interface in order to enjoy the experience. Lists kinda ruined things for me, so if that's the only way to enjoy the new FF, I guess I won't be. - Jennifer Dittrich

David: I am using Safari as my FF client. Jennifer: that's never been true. This is a lot easier to learn than the old interface. - Robert Scoble

This will force me to better use lists... - Seth Meranda

Hehe really fastt :) - Alp

The problem is using lists more actually decreases conversation IMHO. I dunno..... - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ

There's also the pause button at the top of the page to stop the auto update. - John F Morton

Yep, agreed. Learn to use lists, use filters, ya gotta learn that sooner or later. I had to do it in Facebook some time ago. - Tom Parish

Do you have a formulas that you use for your lists? - Ed Entrepreneur

The filters are only marginally useful. I don't see any way to filter stuff out of a feed. The options for searching/filtering seem just too basic to be any real use. - Brian Sullivan

Robert, if this is how you've been following Friendfeed ever since you've started, you've become my personal hero. Either you have superpowers or you were born in Krypton. - Jordi Soler from twhirl

you need the pause button accessible from anywhere on the page. I'm 70 plus comments down on this conversation and the screen keeps pushing it down and makes the screen "jittery" to keep your eye on what you are reading. Because the screen is moving fast, you probably need 'comment' 'like' and 'hide' links on each nested conversation on anything over 30 comments - Lou Paglia

now robert may we ask you to share with us some tip about list?!! - abdellah

Brian: what would you like to see in filters? - Robert Scoble

if you think the new FF is too fast, stop trying to follow Scoble's threads ;) - Ryan Stanley

I'm gonna start on the lists :) Way too fast. - Roberto Bonini

abdellah: you need to build lists around interests and personality types. So "noisy jerks" go in one list "quilters" go in another "posts lots of bacon" goes in another "tech geeks" goes in another. Jordi: my life has been real time for more than a year now. This takes it to a new level, though. - Robert Scoble

I would like to see negative searching for one thing -- I want to see everything that doesn't have LOLcats in it for example. - Brian Sullivan

we need a keyboard shortcut for pause. Would help read comments, etc - shaun mclane

We asked for ways to better track our discussions - and now we have an improved version (due to convenient link). - Mike Reynolds

@Brian Sullivan search for cats -lolcats should eliminate them from your results - Ryan

robert, I was thinking like hope that some will not screw the schema of filtering, notice that when we filter using keyword some will may probably try to target some keyword in their feed title . - abdellah

Robert - yep - this definitely is not for the faint hearted. Must be on crack to use this! LOL - Susan Beebe

It's an interesting interface. I'll be looking to see if conversations can still occur with this type of flow. - AJ Kohn

'welcome to my world' ha ha. i think with all the love the RS gives friendfeed on a regular basis it only made sense to improve it - AJK

14221 more. - Robert Scoble

Agreed. I'm going to have to learn to make new feeds to keep using this. Also, I may have to do something to get rid of this light grey background. - Ted Roden

I need to be able to post updates from a list if they're going to be encouraging me to use lists. - Jesse Stay

The lists/filters system is too complicated - DarknessFalls

The problem is that lets say a video is shared, and I'm watching the video - the page keeps going down, and I can't finish watching the video inside FriendFeed! That's not sharing, is it? - Daniel Brusilovsky

@Daniel Good point. Perhaps they could open Videos (and similar stuff) in a modal window, allowing the content to scroll ? - Ahsan Ali

I think if they auto-pause the UI while I'm mousing over it that might help. It wouldn't need to pause long, just a few seconds. - Matt Griffith

I don't foresee myself being a pioneer on the new FFeed, so hoping to see some interesting articles now that the embargo time has passed - AJK

Another suggestion on the new real-time updates. Give me keyboard shortcuts to pause the feed. Using my mouse is too slow in a fast-moving feed. - Jesse Stay

+1 for Pause keyboard shortcut. - Matt Griffith

I think the number of comments went from zero to +100 in les then 45 minutes. - Peter van Teeseling

Ryan -- the "-lolcats" search doesn't do that from what I can tell -- it returns an empty feed. I would also like to be able to search for posts having less than a certain number of likes/comments as well as more . I would like to be able to set up searches/feeds for complex expressions ("-lolcats and -loldogs" or "-lolcats and -loldogs" from a group of people with more than 10 likes and 0 comments for instance). - Brian Sullivan

I Can only image a multi-column FF layout... - Greg Lato

it will happen Greg... has to... would probably actually lessen the jitter effect - Christopher Galtenberg

I love how fast it is going. It's really real-time. - Peter Kruit

Needs a "slow it down" toggle - maybe a slider for the speed? - Jesse Stay

OMG! I see why you bought a separate monitor. - Leigha Baer

or we have the option of ignoring ff just like twitter gets ignored when I tried to reciprocate even a portion of the followers - Susan Reynolds

@Leigha: Yeah, I can definitely see the need for another monitor for this version of FF. I'm considering it myself. - AJ Kohn

OK, Now I see how the lists work. Much easier to manage. - Leigha Baer

FriendFeed should take that as a sign - you shouldn't *need* a second monitor to use their service. - Jesse Stay

@Jesse: I view this as a better way to access the data flow - which is what I believe FF is at the end of the day. Why not have a separate place to conduct my data queries while I do other things? - AJ Kohn

For Twitter, the only way I listen in is via search.twitter.com or pure luck. Or via FF for that matter. I view more Twitter content on FF than on Twitter itself. - Mike Reynolds

Brian, yeah I badly want to filter out lolcats too; -cat friends:maverickny seems to work so far - Sally Church

Andrew Leyden is totally right. It's like IRC. - Ian Betteridge

one of my favourite descriptions of twitter: "like IRC meets the whole world" - Dean Whitbread

I'm sorry @scobleizer but your world must die ;) - A. T.

I use lots of lists and filters - I'd love to TURN OFF the real-time updating, please. - Bill Sodeman

I could use a tutorial on how to use lists but do not have the time anyway :o) - David Gross

the new friendfeed filters are awesome. even better than friend lists. - Mike Bruder

by the time i have made a list, this page would have vanished :) - Tatty Gibson

I'm back home & trying to catch up with what's up with the new FriendFeed - I'm assuming it's now live?? Also, I'm not noticing things moving too fast... is that because I'm not following as many people as many of you??? - Jannifer @wordsforliving

ill admit friendfeed looks pretty damn compelling. certainly complex at first blush. - doubledrat

how to use lists? - kang

filter is really a cool thing - kang

certainly faster than twitter right now---still down... - ChaoSurfer

so...when there are a lot of comments...it's not easy to read... - kang

many fail whales tonight - Colin Clark

Moving people from out of my home feed to a different list one at a time is extremely slow. If there's a way to move people out of a list and into a different list in bulk, I haven't found it yet. - Chuck Baggett

Is there any way to select almost everyone on your home list and move them to a different list in one operation? (Similar to how you can checkmark hundreds of messages in Gmail and perform an operation such as tagging or archiving on all of them at one time.) - Chuck Baggett

Robert Scoble

New FriendFeed: Simpler, Faster, Better (Maybe Too Fast) - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

April 6, 2009 from Backtype - Comment - Like - Share

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"It is live now at http://beta.friendfeed.com Follow me at http://beta.friendfeed.com/scoblei..." - Robert Scoble

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It rather zips along a bit too quikcly doesn't it? - Tadhg Kelly

It really needs a polling option to set the speed up updates. You can pause the updates, but I didn't see a setting to slow it down. - Tom Mancino

I like this new FriendFeed "live" concept, but would like to be able to choose a collapsed list view with an activity indicator flashing when updates occur. - Evan Leeson

it's not that fast for me...I don't know why people are complaining about it! :) - Ahmed

It's ok, I am new and do not know what I am doing yet.. I do not expect to read every post, just like on twitter where I cannot read every tweet.. - David Gross

Benjamin Golub

FriendFeed Beta's Real-Time Design - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

April 6, 2009 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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Dave Winer

A brilliant piece by Scoble about Facebook's promised land and why "like" is so important. http://scobleizer.com/2009...

March 22, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Doesn't this conflict with your honor-the-user philosophy you've been writing about a lot? - John Zipp

Robert Scoble

http://www.techfuga.com (a competitor to Techmeme) just turned on a new version, looking even better!

March 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Thanks for alerting me (us?) to this Robert :-) - Jalada

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I'm really having trouble with the "Google" color scheme. It's just not my thing. More minimalism please. The layout is far too busy for me. - Meryn Stol

It is a busy layout... I think they should take out the "More" and just add an accordian effect so you can look at the additional sources if you choose - andy brudtkuhl

Do any sites do a good job of tracking stories over time? - Christian Anderson

@Cristian I think Google News does - andy brudtkuhl

Dave Winer

People like Twitter cause it does so little. You can't compete with Twitter by *adding* to a pile of features.

March 4, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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That's what they said about the Palm Pilot - Tim Ostler

I don't like Twitter because it's horrible for photographers. Text only is so boring. Images add so much to the equation in my opinion. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas that's more or less what I was saying. (Limited to 140 chars per tweet.) - Dave Winer

Robert Scoble

I have to come back to Seattle more often. Some really great startups here. They are the future of our economy. Onto Vancouver today!

February 20, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Software, clean tech...are there certain type of start-ups that stands out? - Kivivi

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Kivivi: all the above. The proximity to Amazon and Microsoft have caused an interesting group to sprout up. - Robert Scoble

damn straight. Don't forget big Adobe, Nintendo and Google presences as well. - Kevin Goldsmith from twhirl

i arrive in Redmond on Sunday night. you still gonna be in SEA area? - MikeAmundsen

Thanks for clarifying. - Kivivi

Robert, homemade spaghetti dinner if you make it to Olympia, WA. You and your wife can be the guests of me and my wife. Just give me 72 hours warning if ya can or my wife will beat me in an un-fun kind of way. :D - MarkCarras

Susan Beebe

AWESOME VIDEO that explains the Mortgage - Credit crisis beautifully, really cool!! http://www.youtube.com/watch... #credit #mortgage #tutorial

AWESOME VIDEO that explains the Mortgage - Credit crisis beautifully, really cool!! http://tinyurl.com/cp6xfz #credit #mortgage #tutorial

February 20, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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LOVING THIS! Thanks Susan :) - vijay

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I'm loving that FriendFeed is following tinyurl's and embedding them if they're YouTube vids. - Paul Reynolds

++FF ! :D I didn't notice that until you said it Paul. :) - vijay

Btw, this is only part 1; here's part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - vijay

I loved it too... nice work and excellent narration too - Susan Beebe

shelisrael1

Al Jazeera has a Twitter account to give the Gaza perspective on the current conflict. http://twitter.com/AJGaza

January 2, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Any other perspectives? - Rob Schieber

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I am following them but like you said, it's a one sided persepctive- - Enriqueta Turanzas

Perspective? this is a one-sided cover influenced by a terror propaganda. - Nir Ben Yona

These ones reflects the real situation in Israel: http://twitter.com/fromisrael and http://twitter.com/QassamCount - Nir Ben Yona

I'm following this, the BBC, and listening to a lot of shortwave - David Parmet from twhirl

@DavidParmet I haven't seen a shortwave radio in YEARS. - Prolific Programmer

@NirBenYona everyone has a bias, the trick is to keep it in mind as you listen to it. - Prolific Programmer

I just blogged this and it started a separate conversation that I wanted to loop in here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Robert Scoble

@Prolific Programmer: That's true if you refer to both sides reports. However the Al Jazeera network break the rules. Here's a Facebook app to add: http://apps.facebook.com/qassamc... - Nir Ben Yona

@Ben Yona Is your second comment sarcastic? - TunisianGuy

A little. - Nir Ben Yona

Peace is possible. - Rob Schieber

this is very interesting - Susan Beebe

@NirBenYona al-Jazeera is a lot better than most news outlets. They regularly have Israeli MKs alongside Hammas members. I can't say the same for BBC World or CNN International, which give the view that the Palestenians ought to be happy Israel's giving them the little sliver of land that is Gaza. - Prolific Programmer

If you are running Livestation (http://www.livestation.com) you can watch Al Jazeera English service and enter their real time chat room, even talking to a few reporters. Lots of shouting over there - Andrew Leyden

AlJazeera also created a place for people to submit events in Gaza as they happen http://labs.aljazeera.net/waronga... - Baher Al Hakim

@Prolific Programmer: presumably the BBC World stance is to balance out their domestic coverage (separately funded) which runs entire features without deviating from a pro-Hamas line - obsessively covering "deaths" (omitting the nature thereof) while ignoring the ongoing attacks on Israel. Hence the protests today in London all calling on Israel to ignore the aggression, rather than calling for Hamas to stop the attacks or disband. - James

Al Jazeera is a really good media outlet. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

al jazeera is a very good news organization. - Cee Bee

TechFuga: TechFuga

About: TechFuga; - The Ultimate Tech News Aggregator - that combines in just one page all the most popular tech buzz of the moment; updated every 5 minutes

December 23, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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The news gathered from the top 40 news aggregators are sort out by a rank algorithm as top stories, but users can also quickly scan the most popular tech news directly from the top aggregators encapsulated by the dashboard view on techfuga. - TechFuga

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We will make sure: - You will not miss any latest popular tech/geek news - You will save time by just visiting one single page with all latest tech buzz - TechFuga

We will be taking the next Fuga (escape) out of the recent comments and feedback and will soon arrive with the latest updates… - TechFuga

Very nice site! - Michael Krigsman

Thanks Michael! We are pleased you like it. We are tweaking a few things and a new search algorithm will be launched very soon, which soon give a far better results then what we can see now in TechFuga…stay tuned…Joao/TechFuga - TechFuga

Fascinating Mix. Will be watching - Charlie Anzman

Awesome site - like Google News on roids! Great work. You will surely become the main source for Tweeters wanting to send out that latest news tidbit. Let us know when you finish your API so we can distribute your solution across our sites. - David Gosse

Just found TechFuga via a mention at Scobleizer. http://scobleizer.com/2009... I'm impressed that you're using an FF room to kickstart your community. Give this room a proper avatar! Link to TechFuga.com in the room title! - Daniel J. Pritchett

Thanks Daniel: I will do so.. Joao-TechFuga - TechFuga

Chris Charabaruk

Twitter's new API rate cap, and lack of monetization efforts, leads me to believe they are strangling themselves. My thoughts:

January 21, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Twitter is now capping whitelisted applications at 20,000 API calls per hour. Combined with an API which doesn't reflect well its uses by applications, this drastically reduces its usefulness and ties the hands of the applications which provide Twitter its value. - Chris Charabaruk

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There are still no monetization schemes for Twitter, at least that anyone has heard of. Twitter is not planning to add premium features for pay, nor do they seem to have any other plans to earn income. All their money comes from funding. - Chris Charabaruk

While the microblogging service itself is quite useful, Twitter's true value comes from the third party applications which connect with it. If those services have their hands tied, Twitter loses much of its value unless it implements its own versions of those apps (or buys them as it did Summize). It doesn't seem likely that they'll do that. - Chris Charabaruk

All of these combined makes me believe that Twitter is strangling itself to death. They aren't making money on their own and becoming self sufficient as a business. And they are limiting the services which provide them their own service's value. - Chris Charabaruk

Chris, exactly - I don't understand why any able-minded developer would write for the service, especially after this move. - Jesse Stay

This definitely curtails plans we had for using the Twitter API in an app we are developing - andy brudtkuhl

Just wrote more in-depth about it all on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/7js9be - Chris Charabaruk

We can live without them, but from the ease of use provided by the clients, to SocialToo's ease of managing who you follow (as well as annoying followers ;) through the stat tools letting you know if you're overusing Twitter or making the right connections, do we want to live without them? By providing us a richer, fuller experience that (stock) Twitter doesn't, they give value to the service. - Chris Charabaruk

I can honestly say if it weren't for TweetDeck and FriendFeed, and the way they improve the use of Twitter, I'd not be using the service today. - Chris Charabaruk

What % of twitter services need more than 20K? Is twitter's API supposed to be free forever for everyone? Why can't twitter be a freemium API? - Ben Bloom

I ask these questions mostly as someone who wants to learn more, but also because it seems like extracting $ from some of the high-volume users seems like finding those with a reasonable ability to pay... - Ben Bloom

Ben: Any third party service used by the top Twitter users, or anyone who follows or is followed by them. With that 20,000 cap, all it takes is Scoble and one other major user (or perhaps just Scoble himself) to max out a service for an entire hour, with only one hit. Jesse shows some math on his blog post http://is.gd/gIsB which demonstrates how unreasonably low it is. - Chris Charabaruk

Chris- thanks for the link to Jesse's post. I see what you mean that API connections don't have to be particularly high volume to hit the rate cap. I think it will be tough to tell if there is a correlation between the kind of service that would exceed the rate limit and a service that would pay for extra API calls. If there is, then Twitter is leaving money on the table. If not, they are indeed just limiting usefulness while protecting resources. - Ben Bloom

Jesse Stay

Great post by Stan Schroder at Mashable on the new Twitter API limits!: http://mashable.com/2009...

January 21, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Loic Le Meur

CNN is saying that the inauguration will be the most watched event in the entire television history since the 1950s #inaug09

January 20, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I think that's going to be the same for the Internet.. - Alex Sauceda

Play-by-Play of the inaugration on your mobile phone and desktop plus discussion at http://gsnap.com/413 - Randy Ksar from twhirl

Thomas Hawk

Dr. Phil is talking about Twitter right now and Twittering live on his Twitter page. Sheesh. Why am I watching Dr. Phil you ask, I'm not, but my wife's got it on in the background.

January 19, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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Uh huh... sure, we believe you. ;) - Yolanda

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In the past few months it seems that Twitter has really made inroads with the celebrity crowd. - Thomas Hawk

haha, it looks like he actually has 300 followers: http://twitter.com/drphil - Thomas Hawk

seriously, I don't watch Dr. Phil, I've never liked the Dude, but my wife seems to go for his show. - Thomas Hawk

300 followers... and 0 following. Yeah he's a twitter expert. - Owen Byrne

I wonder if he adds many followers for pimping his Twitterstream on national TV. My guess is that not very many people who watch his show are part of the Twitternation. - Thomas Hawk

yeah Owen. I doubt Dr. Phil's keeping tabs on his Twitterstream. haha. Some poor intern on the show probably has the job of posting to it. - Thomas Hawk

I assume that when Dr. Phil tweets "What were you thinking?" it ends up being a swoosh. - Ontario Emperor

No conversations with his followers. He's just tweeting what's on his show. - Morton Fox

and how does that make you feel Morton? - Will Higgins™

Do you wanna know why, this makes you feel odd Thomas....? - Lizajane

Will, that makes me feel like not following Dr. Phil. - Morton Fox

I'm feeling like I need some tough love counseling right now. I wonder if Dr. Phil will respond if I tweet him @drphil about my problems. - Thomas Hawk

hey, he did add 187 followers since since he talked about his Twitter account on his show. That's alot in a few hours. Not too shabby. - Thomas Hawk

I wonder if we could get Dr. Phil on FriendFeed. Maybe he could be the new face of social media. We could start calling him DrPhilbolizer. Maybe he and Scoble could put a few joint geek dinners together or something to show he really cares about the community. - Thomas Hawk

Louis Gray

New Twitter Code For Retweet: ♺ - http://www.stoweboyd.com/message...

January 15, 2009 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

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Am I the only one who sees a playing card-like icon here? It's got the number 26 on top, 78 on the bottom. Can't imagine using that instead of 'RT'. - Hutch Carpenter

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Hutch, are you running Firefox on XP? I'm getting the same problem. I think XP doesn't have good enough Unicode support or something. (http://www.stoweboyd.com/message...) - Daniel J. Pritchett

I thought I heard that because Twitter measures in bytes and not characters it doesn't save a space. I think it's silly, personally. - Jennifer Leggio

I commented on the post - I think this is a dumb idea, personally. It brings no benefits and may actually be a step backward. - Mack D. Male

okay apparently that WON'T catch on. If people are having this much difficulty getting the symbol in the first place then it's dead in the water... unless each mobile/web Twitter app provides it as a button - Glenn Batuyong from twhirl

Yeah, can't see it and I'm sure many of us don't have a choice in the browser we use sometimes. - Eric

Unicode support sucks in XP. It works fine in Vista (from what I gather) and Windows 7. Doesn't work on iPhone or SMS so that's two more setbacks. It ain't gonna happen, although I love the idea. The symbol really catches the eye and distinguishes the tweet as a retweet. - Bwana ☠

Nick O'Neill

Quick poll: Who has application stories in their Facebook news feed? Who doesn't? Please comment :)

January 15, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Loic Le Meur

How would you all define Frenchness?

January 12, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Cheese - Håkan Dahlström

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Frenchness is directly proportional to ones level of frenchitude. - Will Higgins™

style, charm, and a bit of attitude, if you are Parisian. If not, then well...the term 'provencial' comes to mind, with all it's myriad meanings... :) - Bren

2-hour lunch - Mike Doeff

Macarons. - Mona Nomura

cigarettes - sean percival

Lots of rich food, wine, and kisses on the cheek. - Rochelle

Based on the French people I know? American-phile. Is that a word? I have no POR because all the French people I know can be dropped into any large city in the US and be at home. - Anika

if only I could start another good war with the brits http://twitter.com/plastic... - Loic Le Meur

Frenchness is a combination of large quantities of butter, heavy cream, cigarette smoke, fine wine and fine art. - Christian (Simply X)

rahulrrao: @loic Anything that's got a "le", "la" or "les" before it? :-) - Loic Le Meur

Chris_normal Chris_Hougardy: @loic Something Scobble would like to attain but do not succeed ?? :) - Loic Le Meur

bruceprokopets: @loic An American really wishes their sex partner had your accent. Your Frenchness is solely based on how Americans perceive your accent lol - Loic Le Meur

ledretch: @loic we never agree, but we always do it! =D - Loic Le Meur

1938media: @loic A quickness to surrender, bad humor, mice in hotels, insane restaurant owners. Pepe La Pew. and you, King of the Frenchies in my book. - Loic Le Meur

N618057730_7834_normal sam_piroton: @loic frenchness = 2-hour lunch? - Loic Le Meur

nancycole: @loic you're asking "us" about Frenchness? must be time for bed. at least for me. and perhaps the French. - Loic Le Meur

mattcampagna: @loic Frenchness = Class, good taste, craftsmanship, superiority, arrogance, and charm. To me, anyway. I'm only 1/4 French :) - Loic Le Meur

plasticbagUK: @loic "The quality of being mostly at war with the English" - Loic Le Meur

shefaly: @loic Obsessed with slow food, argumentative, smart but under-rated in that area, warmer than Germans/ British but generally aloof. - Loic Le Meur

alexanderhorre: @loic americans are full of themselves; frenchies are stuck up with themselves. - Loic Le Meur

willhiggins: @loic Frenchness is directly proportional to ones level of frenchitude. - Loic Le Meur

hakandahlstrom: @loic Cheese - Loic Le Meur

what did I start!!! ah. so copied a few Twitter replies to keep the conversation - Loic Le Meur

A certain... je ne sais quoi. :) - Jandy

@Loic - wow I was really confused. I thought this might be some new twitter-reply functionality from Friendfeed. Too bad it's not! - Mitch

++++Jandy =) - Anika

People who really know how to love life! Simple, elegant, smart, witty, lovers, passionate people. Also great cuisine!, cheese, wine, cafe shops, french bread, pastries, croissants! Parisian street scenes, lavender fields!! - Susan Beebe

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki... - Mitch

Wine. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Unions & strikes. Roadside cafes. Art. I've never been to France though. - Arvind

@loic Revolutions ! :) People really showing what they mean and rallying to Paris for anything:) Just my perception, but Frenchness when it comes to economy; solid industries but dependant on state support and hard to change around because of very strong and hardline unions. And principles! The best free healthcare. - ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ

French... bimonthly cycles of burning tyres in the streets :) - Prolific Programmer

americans, with style - Ouriel Ohayon

Conservative revolutionaries - Bertrand Doux from fftogo

2 hour lunch - Sidharth Dassani

tongue. - Mike Scott

dare I say: surrender ;-) before you attack me though, remember my great greandfather is burried in Bullecourt, and the day I day I'll remember my grandmother telling me how she lost him, and having full read his diaries. - Duncan Riley

Bread. - Roberto Bonini

my wife's suggestion was hairy women, but that's probably not helpful. Inappropriate protesting and immigration policies come to mind though. So does the koran come to speak of it...given the demographic shift. - Duncan Riley

Duncan it is not only helpful it is totally wrong. I have never seen one in France in 36 years. - Loic Le Meur

Wine, food, cigarettes, and a disdain for all things American. - Cyndy

Why, love, of course. Is there any other more apt description? - Steven Perez

other very french things: 1) a love of good quality things combined with an paradoxical tendency to cut corners. 2) loving to hear oneself talk, and 3) complaining raised to an art form (I'm afraid I have that third one, as a french-swiss) - Iphigenie

champagne:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Claude Debussy - Todd Hoff

When I think of France I think of footballing brilliance - not so much now, but that glorious team that won the World Cup and European Championship - with great flair and great players like Thuram and Barthez and Blanc and Henry, and most of all Zidane ... - Patrick Jordan

Patrick, Thierry Henry! :D - Rochelle

Zidane headbutt - Sidharth Dassani

Rimbaud - Mahesh CR

Frenchness = Liberté, égalité, loisirs (Liberty, equality, leisure) ;) #Frenchness - Alexander Ainslie

Robert Scoble

No one will talk with you on twitter or friendfeed. Here's 20 ideas of what you should do to get engagement/conversations going:

January 11, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Start a list of something outrageous. Tell some friends who seem to get lots of conversations going about it. Just tweet them with their twitter address like this: @scobleizer in the post. - Robert Scoble

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2. Comment on yet another Robert Scoble List - Tyler (Chacha)

ehm.. show some tits? (for ladies) :p - disconnesso

2. Comment on other people's threads first. Say smart stuff. Be funny, cute, interesting, etc. Or, throw the "bacon bomb" into the comments. Don't know what the Bacon Bomb is? Ask Mona on friendfeed. - Robert Scoble

2. Slip @MrTweet a few bills every week. - Liz

Commencing rapid refresh - This should be interesting. - Enrique Gutierrez

Chacha: you're getting it. So is Lucio! - Robert Scoble

Be real. Be interesting. Be real interesting. - Ron's Home And Hardware

Add "what do you think?" - Andrew Smith

Robert is on a roll today. What did you have for breakfast??? - Joe Lima

3. Make an outrageous list so other people can comment on it to get followers - Tyler (Chacha)

Talk about getting Robert to follow you? - http://friendfeed.com/e... - Todd Jordan

Robert: Thanks for all these lists. I love the humor mixed with good tips. It's fun! - Mitchell Tsai

3. Follow people who seem to always get conversations going. This is very important on friendfeed because you'll get a sense of what works for them. And, you'll be the first to see the big conversations before anyone else. First post in friendfeed always is seen more. - Robert Scoble

Hello folks, today its I'm-Scoble-And-I'm-Going-To-Do-All-The-Talking day :) - Yuvi

:) - disconnesso

4. Look at http://search.twitter.com and see what is trending. Comment about that. - Robert Scoble

@Scobleizer "lists" work for everything, blog posts, microblog posts, grocery shopping... They're effective for starting conversation and getting things done. If anything - that's the "gimme" in this list. - Enrique Gutierrez

I was SO tempted to comment "first!" when I saw this pop up at 43 seconds. Urge controlled. - Phil Glockner

Ask a specific (appropriately geeky) question - Prunella

5. Look at "Best of Day" on friendfeed and ignore it. - Robert Scoble

be authentic... we can tell when you are fishing for attention... - Brian Roy

Robert: Are you making lists so people can meet each other and get followed? - Tyler (Chacha)

6. If you are talking about stuff on Techmeme you are too late. That news is always an hour late. Instead, use http://www.techfuga.com and get into the conversations that are happening now. - Robert Scoble

7. Rif on something smart that one of the smart people say. Dave Winer, Tim O'Reilly, Steve Gillmor, etc. - Robert Scoble

Make a list of Top Tweets of 2008 and Send a message to everyone on that list telling them they are there. ;-) http://twurl.nl/tbo2ll - David Petherick

Chacha: I'm making lists because I'm playing with a new form that is enabled by both Twitter and friendfeed. I call it "interactive blogging." - Robert Scoble

8. Post a picture of bacon. But you've gotta put something unusual into it. A picture of Mike Arrington, for instance. - Robert Scoble

9. Teach people how to do something new. - Robert Scoble

10. Complaining that no one is paying attention to you on twitter or friendfeed might work. Once or twice. But then we remember that's all you do and that you aren't bringing any value. So, long term this will hurt you. Plus, there's always someone who is begging who has a better beg. - Robert Scoble

"Talk to me, like lovers do...." - Bora Zivkovic

Announce a list and let other ppl write it for you - Trung Ly

I think Jim Rome's advice to callers to his show (so they don't get 'run') applies: "Have a take, don't suck." - Patrick Jordan

11. Click "Like" on 100 new things that caught your eye. We do see that and we do notice that you're adding important meta data to the system. Even if we don't notice you'll have 100 new friendfeed items to comment on now. Just visit the "me" tab and then click on "Likes" over on the right side and you'll see them all. - Robert Scoble

12. Have sex with someone who always has lots of comments. Have Duncan Riley post pictures! - Robert Scoble

12. Follow more people. That is probably the fastest way. - Alex Wilhelm

13. Get laid off. But have a great story. Even better? Start a room on friendfeed for people to talk with you about your future. - Robert Scoble

You forgot about re-tweeting this post :) - Jim Reynolds

Prunella gets it! It is easier to comment on things if you ask a question that is interesting! - Robert Scoble

Challenge a high profile Twitterer who is incapable of not responding to critique. You'll get at least a few Tweets back & forth, probably mostly negative but people will know who you are and either think you're an inspired rebel or an ass. - Liz

Don't participate in other people's threads but constantly complain how no one notices you! - Mona Nomura

What about also admitting ignorance? I find that helps. - Todd Jordan

14. Get someone who gets lots of comments to "Like" your item. This takes getting to know a few people and what they like. It also might mean giving them a phone call, sending them email, chatting with them on Facebook, or generally stalking them. Social media is great for stalking. I know everything that Guy Kawasaki and Tim O'Reilly are thinking due to social media. Hint, we're all egotistical baaahhhssstttaaarrrddddssss and we all look at our replies in Twitter. Just include @scobleizer in your tweet!!! - Robert Scoble

hahahhahahahhahahah!!!!!!!!!!!! <---laugh at all of Robert's jokes wiht a bajillion exclamation points to get noticed. Bonus points for wine! - Mona Nomura

Todd: you're onto something there. Chris Pirillo does this. He asks his followers tech questions. I do to. "How do you backup your stuff?" got lots of comments because I needed to know what's the best way to do it. I was ignorant on the topic and my followers taught me (and everyone else). - Robert Scoble

15. Say something outrageous like "Palm Pre kills the iPhone." Oh, wait, that's not outrageous, it's just a fact that hasn't been widely understood yet. Heheh. Seriously, take on Apple and you are almost guaranteed a conversation. You just gotta be prepared for the backlash. - Robert Scoble

Today's list is looking a lot like last night's list. Why 20? - Liz

Do you see why Mona gets more comments on her items than anyone else I know? Bing! Well, that and she posts GREAT pictures and little funny items. - Robert Scoble

Robert? Regarding number two: It's Bacon Explosion, not bacon bomb! - Mona Nomura

16. Post great pictures and funny little items like Mona. - Robert Scoble

17. Baby photos. Louis Gray. Enough said. - Robert Scoble

18. Tell a retweetable story. Chris Brogan has this down. Study what he is doing and do it better. - Robert Scoble

Robert - he stepped up his baby picture game and cartoonized his photos. He raised the bar!! - Mona Nomura

19. Hang out with people who get lots of conversations going. Go to lots of events where friendfeeders and twitterers hang out. Here's a list: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/user... - Robert Scoble

Liz: if you do a list it doesn't matter how many items you promise as long as you get to the number you are promising. Something about lists is conversational. This is why magazines put numbers on their covers so often "7 ways to please your lover." Etc. Etc. If I were really smart I'd do a list like "7 ways Windows 7 will increase your sex life." Hah, that might be my next list! - Robert Scoble

Tim: having something interesting to say is NOT a prerequisite for getting people to comment on your items. I have many examples of proof. - Robert Scoble

20. Talk about Daft Punk and why they are or aren't the downfall of the next generation. - Robert Scoble

Post flamebait - Bwana ☠

Got any others? Seriously, if you aren't getting noticed here it's probably because you are posting things that aren't conversational. I'm watching tons of inbound from everyone on this list and looking for things to engage with. You can see the items that I like here: http://friendfeed.com/scoblei... - Robert Scoble

Too late Robert : http://friendfeed.com/e... - Tyler (Chacha)

I love talking about how Daft Punk, Radiohead, and Coldplay suck and are nothing but three piece suit rock made safe for wussys. :P - MarkCarras

21. Practice - try talking to people in the real world. - Brian Roy

Is there an rss feed for Techfuga? - Cindyg

Cyndy? http://reque.st/1277 :) - Mona Nomura

Mona N. Haha...sweet! Thank-you - Cindyg

Daft Punk is definitely an innovator through its music and its marketing, whether one likes them or not - Bertrand Doux

I always hear 80's New Wave when someone shows me a song that shows how "Innovative" they are. Sorry. Homogenized, sterilized, and watered down for the for the masses. - MarkCarras

MarkCarras, looks like we are not on the same line. Meanwhile you can all enjoy here: http://tinyurl.com/8zlmap :-) - Bertrand Doux

22. Do a book report using FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - B2B Specialist

Nice list, hard to follow in FF, with all these bullet points hijackers. - Jeremy Chone

Start a Room and Invite a ton of people to it, then post a ton of goodies over there and get BUZZZZZZZZ goin' on - Susan Beebe

Ok, these list are getting better and better. - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

23. Post something on Friendfeed poking fun at something that Robert Scoble has been doing lately. :P http://friendfeed.com/e... - Mathew™ aka Youngblood

I wouldn't consider the posts between the bullets as highjackers. It's all part of the conversation and makes it so much more interesting as an interactive list than just a list of 20 things thrown out for our consumption. - Ernie Oporto from Nambu

Make a post on your blog featuring this list - then get Mona mad at you for plugging your site (yummm...bacon) ;-) - http://www.listropolis.com/2009... - shaun mclane

Try and ignore how much like high-school the FF/TW popularity game is and get on with something interesting. Then FF/TW. - Chris Cotsapas

S60 is the new iPhone! ;) - Tyson Key

Tamar Weinberg

@foxnews hacked on Twitter on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://flickr.com/photos...

January 5, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Still visible: http://twitter.com/foxnews... - Tamar Weinberg from Bookmarklet

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LOL - AJ Batac :)

Maybe this isn't a hack! - Clay Newton

EPIC WIN! - Michael Forian

Almost makes me like these Twitter phishers (if it was them) - Matt Frog

priceless! w00t! - ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ

what if it's a disgruntled employee with access to the account? that would be even cooler - Nathan Chase

ZOMG - take it to the Really Gay Room. On second thought, we don't really want Bill O Riley - keep him here on the home thread. - Sparky, lurking

41 minutes and counting. It's on TC now. You think somebody's home at Fox News? - Jared Smith

I think it's a fake account. I saw one the other day for 20th Century Fox talking about how no one wants to see the Watchmen movie and how "great" some of their crappy movies have been. There's also a fake Michael Bay one floating around. - James Ferguson

Hurry! Someone tell Olbermann! - Brad Williamson

Britney's account has been hacked as well: http://twitter.com/britney... - Fats Leroy

And Rick Sanchez. http://friendfeed.com/e... - Jared Smith

oh the liberal media!!! - Tate

Heard that @BarackObama got hacked too - Imran Hussain

i don't know about him being gay, but he sure does love him some falaffel - Cee Bee

hahahahhahahaha - Mona Nomura

I wonder what the password was? - Jason Shultz from twhirl

password - FFing Enigma

Oh gees that is bad~ - Susan Beebe

man. I'm loving this. - Anant Shiva

oh there's nothing funnier than the thought of papa bear o'reilly gettin it up the rear from some big hairy queeny guy...i love it :-) - Cardeen winedrunk

Oops, sorry Sparky, I reshared to the Really Gay room before I read your comment ... - Laura Norvig

ای بابا. اکانت توییتر فاکس نیوز هم که هک شد که =))))))) - 1Fathi

OMG. - Pedram

so was obama: event:http%3A%2F%2Fredtape.msnbc.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fhackers-embaras.html - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Matt Cutts

I want a browser plug-in that 1) generates a one-time credit card # and 2) handles checkout on sites that don't support Paypal or G Checkout

December 30, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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You'd trust that to a browser plugin? - EricaJoy

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Erica, abso-fricking-lutely. Much more than I'd trust it to a tiny mom & pop web shop to safeguard my credit card and other info. The browser plugin might only get the one-time card #, not the my real card number. Would I trust the plugin more if it came from a big/reputable company? Sure. But in the Omaha airport, the wifi wanted my credit card and didn't have have SSL turned on--and yes, it was the official provider. So I'd totally use this plugin to buy tons more stuff. - Matt Cutts

Have you tried Virtual Account Number from Citibank (http://tr.im/2rdw)? I used that in the past and I loved the VAN generation aspect but I haven't used the autofill feature -- every time I needed a new credit card number, I generated it and manually entered it on the shopping web site. - Michal Cierniak

I'd settle for Schwab giving me a physical credit card with an LCD screen and a keypad that I could use to generate a one-time # on the fly. As it is now that I only use Amazon or sites that accept PayPal or Google Checkout. - DeWitt Clinton

Paypal itself has a virtual debit card in beta with will let you use paypal with sites that don't support it using a one-time number. - Robin Barooah

I believe the CCs are moving away from the one time numbers - amex killed them and i hear citi is moving that way too - i really liked the program - Allen Stern

Allen, that's surprising. Do you have any idea of why one-time CC numbers might be falling out of favor? - Adam Lasnik

We could never get them here :-(. - John Mueller

I 2nd this motion. - John Honeck

+1 on the Citibank solution, but needs to be available generically for the major CCs - Joshua Allen

I'm pretty sure the PayPal plugin does this, but the last time I checked it was Windows-only (so I've never used it). The screenshot at https://www.paypal.com/us... shows a "generate secure card" button. - Laurence Gonsalves

Citibank's system is a nice idea, but it's too much work to use. The whole point is to prevent a tremendous amount of hassle if my numbers get stolen, but the likelihood of that is low, and meanwhile I'm just amortizing that inconvenience across all my transactions. Do I really come out ahead? A browser plugin that made me log in just once ever and that could autofill -- that would be a win. I'm not sure what the point of paypal or G checkout is. - Seth

PayPal's plugin does this, works at non-PayPal sites, etc. but requires that you fund PayPal from your bank checking account - not from another credit card. In other words, no rewards! - Scott Loftesness

Jeff Jarvis

If I see another person say they're using twply.com to get replies I'll scream.... ARRRGGGHHHHH

January 1, 2009 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Jason Calacanis

Will Google Buy Twitter? A Fanboy's Forecast for 2009 - http://www.fanboy.com/2008...

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What's wrong with Technorati? Still a pretty solid way to see other blogs in your niche if you ask me. Google-Twitter actually seems plausible. Something about that service probably screams Adsense to someone at Google. Look what G is doing to Feedburner. - beersage

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Google already bought Jaiku. Seems to me Twitter is more like Upcoming, Delicious and Flickr. People powered Web 2.0 goodness. - Sam Pullara

Beersage, what Google is doing to Feedburner is adsensing it, which might make sense to Google, but it certainly does not make revenue sense to publishers. At least in my experience. - Julio Alonso

@Sam, and who bought Upcoming, Delicious and Flickr.... oh wait ;) - Dion Almaer

Any "inside" information from FriendFeed? Do they have connection with the old place, Google? I thought that Ev Williams's post on Blogger was interesting. http://evhead.com/2008... - Martin Lindeskog

Dion has a point. Yahoo needs somthing to be proud about. Twitter seems to be the perfect company for Yahoo to buy. Closer integration between Twitter and Upcoming, Delicious and Flickr as well as the indirect MSFT connection..... - Roberto Bonini

Seems to me that Google buying Twitter means just getting their user DB, api endpoint, and domain name, because in all likelihood, they'd immediately toss about the implementation, and rearchitect. It might be worth it, if Google could kill off microblog/IM walled gardens, and get us back to federated open solutions, twitter being another huge walled garden. My personal opinion is, if blog RSS feeds and SMTP aren't centralized, why do we put up with centralized IM and microblog networks? - Ray Cromwell

True. Why buy trouble? But Yahoo does need some fresh blood, new thinking. it might work. - Roberto Bonini

The article this links to actually has much more interesting predictions than the Google/Twitter thing. - mike fabio from twhirl

@Bob, the irony is, in the good 'ol days prior to web browsers, we had federated discussion networks: Mailing lists/SMTP, USENET/NNTP, and IRC. There was no need to have 37 different logins, no need to check 37 different sites. You ran ELM/PINE/etc, RN/TRN, or an irc client, and stuff just worked. Nowadays everything is so much more balkanized. We should return to the days of designing federated protocols and resist walling and standardizing on website properties before the protocols are settled. - Ray Cromwell

@Ray I like where you're going with that idea. I have 60 passwords saved on diff. sites and would like to....reduce that. OpenID is a start but the tip of the iceberg. - beersage

@beersage, I agree. OpenID, OAuth, PortableContacts/OpenSocial, get us part of the way there. There's still the issue of routing/store-and-forward, referrals, and dealing with non-Web clients. For example, on the iPhone, it means a native app has to launch a web browser UI to grant access, this could be more problematic for set-top box devices like an Apple TV. - Ray Cromwell

Paul Buchheit

Steve Jobs at Next part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

October 20, 2008 from YouTube favorites - Comment - Like - Share

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I have fond memories of NeXT. Still have a floptical disk around here somewhere. - jho

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His clarity of thought and laser focus are something else! - vijay

One of the most interesting things about the NeXT OS at that time is how similar is to the current Mac OS X. Just a small example. When you attach a file on an email it appears located in the exact location you choose and not at the bottom (like in Windows). - Martin Añazco

@Martin. Whoa!, I love simple details and touches like that! - vijay

know a lot of friends who lost their shirts with Next... bad business model as ever... - jfayel

seems one century ago... - jfayel

Steve's first attempt at convincing a 2nd person that if a deskop computer was packaged inside a cube, that would make it awesome awesome. Do you think he'll have a 3rd try? (The iPod Shuffle doesn't quite count.) - j1m

He forgot about SGI. - Leo Laporte

nice to see you on here Leo - Zee.

I can barely recognize him. Luckily, the "uniform" has remained consistent! - Heidi Moon

He got the transition to database apps, connectivity, and the need for easy to write custom apps right, although it was the web that really changed the game here, not any particular hardware. - Loren Heiny

Chris, yep. - Loren Heiny

@Martin - It's not an accident that if you look through the Darwin Open Source code, or at some of the header files on a Mac OS X box that you'll find several NeXT copyright headers, either. - Tyson Key

@j1m: I'm waiting for the iPhone Nano, the 1 inch cube that will sit on a necklace. It will transmit audio over your collarbone. And it will light up to let others know you're talking on the phone. - Amit Patel

Phil Glockner

Wow. For the first time today, I am finding SocialMedian to be as interesting as FriendFeed. It makes sense now. http://www.socialmedian.com

October 7, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Man, I just can't grasp it! I'll try again. - Bwana ☠

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+1 Bwana, plus it really needs a design overhaul to slicken it up...i just can't be on there too long as it is now. - Zee.

Now that they added the ability to auto-submit from your GR shared feed, that pretty much takes care of 90% of the work for me. Now I can browse and clip at my leisure. And I am noticing more commentary happening on clippings as well. - Phil Glockner

I've noticed the same thing. - Hutch Carpenter

Ah, the GR is killer. NOW we're talking - Bwana ☠

I probably should know but...What is GR? - Lindsay

you do know, google reader :) - Zee.

LOL yeah, I guess I should have said gReader. Ah well. - Phil Glockner

Oh! I hadn't ever used that abbreviation before! duh. ;) - Lindsay

Social Median is really coming along. The new Facebook app will really help to spur adoption. My e-mail in box was flooded this morning with new connections. And just think, it's only been six months since we helped launch them. It's a great feature race. Find me here: http://www.socialmedian.com/louisgr... - Louis Gray

Agreed Louis. I'm going to try to play with the FB app as well. My link on s|m is http://www.socialmedian.com/eng1ne .. anyone else out there want to share your socialmedian profile link? - Phil Glockner

I'm gonna give it a spin. My user is http://www.socialmedian.com/jungleg - Jorge Escobar

See my in box from this morning: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Louis Gray

wow louis -- you are really popular! serious, that flickr image of your in-box is crazy. - Jason Goldberg

Everyone on this thread -- FYI -- I'm here and monitor this religiously. Feel free to ask me any question directly and to give us suggestions on how to make socialmedian work even better for you. - Jason Goldberg

Thanks Phil, I'll give it another whirl... - Bill Sanders

Hey Gregory -- we're testing lightbox vs. other messages for that initial suggestion to connect facebook and socialmedian. - Jason Goldberg

When do we get an AIR app or Twhirl support so I can track it like I do FriendFeed? - Jesse Stay

Go post your Social Median URLs over here *add yourself to the growing list* --> http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe

Thanks Susan! - Phil Glockner

I just created a Social Median ROOM here on FF to help track it all, just invited you - Susan Beebe

Susan -- I didn't get an invite? What is the URL? - Phil Glockner

Found it.. http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Phil Glockner

Phil -- thanks for the original post on this. and keep pushing us to make it better. - Jason Goldberg

Chuck, fwiw I posted this as an honest reaction. It is a coincidence (or perhaps other people tried s|m after seeing this post). In any case, that is what the hide function is for. - Phil Glockner

We're just glad that we're starting to make some sense now ;-) - Jason Goldberg

73 days later their purchased, that's one for the text books! - Michael Fidler from twhirl

SocialMedian's user experience is awful. I can't see myself using it until that's fixed. - Mark Trapp

SocialMedian's OK, after playing with it for some time, but I still prefer FriendFeed any day. - Tyson Key

Mark, I posted this a while back. I will say that FriendFeed still captivates me for longer periods and more regularly than SM. SM is fun but the blush is not off the FF rose yet. - Phil Glockner

Phil: I just noticed that, Michael Fidler bumped a months old topic :-/ I know SM has been focusing on features, but UX really can't be ignored as it has been. FriendFeed is a good example of focusing on the UX instead of adding features that works. Lots of features missing that people want, but we all keep coming back because it's a joy to be in. - Mark Trapp

Atul Arora

Dave McClure Joins Founders Fund - Jobwire - http://www.readwriteweb.com/jobwire...

December 17, 2008 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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Hutch Carpenter

AccMan - http://www.accmanpro.com/2008...

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"Nice post Dennis.I follow more people on FriendFeed than I do on Twitter. How is that possible? Lists. Don’t underestimate the power of those. I spend my workdays monitoring my own hand-crafted Enterprise 2.0 List (you, being a social media maven…uh…collaboration thinker, are on my List). I’ve got 45 individuals on the List right now. And I’ve turned off the friend-of-friend feature for that List. So that’s a relatively small number of people. Call that Part 1 of my Enterprise 2.0 List. Part 2 comes from tracking keywords. I set up a Room on FriendFeed that tracks tweets and Del.icio.us bookmarks related to Enterprise 2.0 (http://friendfeed.com/rooms...): enterprise 2.0, e2.0, social software, social computing. Now I’m tracking a much larger number of people, but only for topics I care about. My Enterprise 2.0 List thus is…all content by a select few, select content by all. Final touch for all this? Pop that List into its own real-time window. FriendFeed’s real-time is..." - Hutch Carpenter

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@Hutch Carpenter. Looks like I've got a lot more to learn! - Rob Cooke

Rob - there's a tremendous use case for FriendFeed as a tool for tracking things you're interested in (on top of the social network aspects). The tools FriendFeed provides are great for managing the consumption of information from anywhere. - Hutch Carpenter

Gregory - only if you were "aware" of it... - Hutch Carpenter

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