Thomas Hawk and I need your help. The WordPress bloggers are having way too much fun with getting FriendFeed likes and comments into their blog, and we using Blogger (both the old or new) can't yet do it. I am offering a $250 bounty to the developer of a solution good enough I can integrate into my blog. This would not replace Disqus, but go alongside it, as seen at the Inquisitr. Thomas and others, feel free to add to the bounty...
- Louis Gray
I'm thinking it would need to be a javascript solution of some kind, I can't see how you'd get it done any other way. And this would need some kind of remotely hosted back end to do the work. Not impossible, but fiddly :)
- Glenn Slaven
So as silly as this sounds, what makes more sense... all Blogger blogs switching to WP, or somebody instead making a widget? :-) I think universality is what I'm going for here.
- Louis Gray
FriendFeed Widget FTW! Ben Golub where are you at buddy?
- Susan Beebe
Message dance looks like a cool social networking gadget - it works with twitter,youtube,facebook etc. handy for sending content to more than one place, with just one post.
- Zara Lockwood
I don't know how to describe these photos. Wow starts to.
- Robert Scoble
I "liked" it, but not really. Got to go put more food cans and water bottles in my garage now.
- Geoff
the bride in her dress against the rubble...
- edythe
A comment on the site claims they are photoshopped ... not sure if they are, but they look good anyway
- Peter Cattell
If photos are posted somewhere with comments enabled, someone *must* post a comment claiming they are photoshopped. It's the law.
- Michael Randall
from twhirl
The problem with technical people as early adopters is that we are too technical, we get down to the nitty-gritty, we have comparisons to refer to, we have a great deal of experience with user interface, operation, etc. So we are great as early adopters for the tech crowd, but not so good for the average consumer. I'm sure that if Robert just used the Kindle and read a few books the...
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- jcunwired
Say what you will about early adopters. I can see that businesses lust after the mainstream user base and don't place much stock in the early adopter. Fine. But without the head of the curve, the rest of it doesn't materialize by itself. I'm just happy to be able to get to the new stuff while it's still new. That is, as long as the thing being adopted changes things for the better for you. The iPhone gave me capabilities I didn't have before, for example.
- Tom Landini
" ...the real buy-in will happen organically and without the say-so of the early adopters who largely came and went." - "Organically", huh. Would have liked to have seen more discussion and examples on how that mechanism works.
- Adam Seever
The author takes one example -- the Kindle -- and one Early Adopter -- Scoble -- and one totally random guess from a Citibank analyst, and uses the three to conclude that "Early Adopters are Useless." The Citibank analyst was worse than reading tea leaves -- the estimate was based on the number of customer reviews at Amazon, among other things. The analyst then goes on to speculate between 10 and 30 thousand Kindles sold to date, and then applied a model based on the "adoption curve of the iPod."
- Karim
So in other words, if the Kindle is as popular as the iPod, then Scoble is wrong because the iPod sold a LOT!!! And if Scoble is wrong ALL EARLY ADOPTERS ARE USELESS!!!! NYAH NYAH NYAH!!! To quote Wolfgang Pauli, this kind of argument is not even wrong.
- Karim