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Tamar Weinberg
Here's why I think the FriendFeed Feedburner integration is not beneficial (or entirely accurate). I include my "fun" schwag blog, schwagaddict.com, in my FriendFeed stream. EVER since the launch of the site, I have received only 30 (yes, thirty) referrals to my blog from FF. All of the sudden, my 74 subscribers have jumped up to 2686.
It just feels wrong, like I'm wearing an itchy jumpsuit. - Tamar Weinberg
When you talk about blog subscribers, it should be people who are subscribing to your *blog* and have an interest in THAT content, not the PERSON. I have friends who maintain 284824348 blogs and I only am interested in one of them. Why should their ego be inflated (and their subscriber #s inaccurate) when people are really not interfacing with the blog despite the high subscriber count? - Tamar Weinberg
congrats! ;-) - Barry Schwartz
Thank you!!! That happened to me today too and I don't like it. I went from 35 subscribers who are honest to goodness blog readers only to almost 500. It feels like cheating. - Nurse Katie
"All of *the* sudden..." -- The definite article "the" is making its way into that idiom at what seems an accelerating rate. If you don't mind, I would be curious to know what part of the country you live in... - Christopher A Carr
I'm in the northeast, but I was raised in the southeast... maybe it's an eastern thing. - Tamar Weinberg
Thanks, Tamar. Another question if you don't mind: as far as you can tell, do you ever use "All of *a* sudden..." ? And are you aware of the fact that that is the more common form of that idiom? - Christopher A Carr
fair points, especially on the itchy jumpsuit. Could you say that RSS in general is so accurate anymore tho? - Brian Wallace
I was going to say, Christopher, that I have no idea if it's the fact that I haven't slept for weeks since I have a newborn or if it's something I subconsciously say without realizing it. I'll try to pay more attention to it next time. - Tamar Weinberg
Interesting. Thanks for suffering my linguistics nerdiness. - Christopher A Carr
When you write in second comment "When you talk about blog subscribers" - are you talking about yourself writing in second person? [I don't see anybody else talking then.] And, continuing, "it should people who are subscribing to your *blog*…" - should it have been "BE," or something else? - ianf ⌘
Ianf, are you also nitpicking my grammar or is this a serious question?! (and I fixed the "be" part, thanks... I edited that one too many times to try to make it make sense..) - Tamar Weinberg
Define:serious. Besides, answering a question with a question that questions the validity of questioning in the first place is so... hermeneutically Talmudical? ;-)) - ianf ⌘
You're killing me. In any event, the "when you talk about blog subscribers," it was more of a logical assumption type of statement... so yes, I am talking for myself and most other people who think about blog subscribers by assuming they're actually interested in subscribing to a particular blog and not a username who may be involved in several other blogs/entities/endeavors/whatever. I hope that made some sense. - Tamar Weinberg
I think of the number more as "reach". For example, if I start a new blog and add it to my FriendFeed account, it will immediately reach a large number of people because future posts will automatically appear in my feed (even if not all of those people read the posts). If I didn't add it to FriendFeed, the initial reach of my new blog would be much closer to zero. Tracking the number of... more... - Paul Buchheit
Paul thanks for the explanation. - Susan Beebe
@Tamar, your hope is my command but, as I can not think of a single person who'd stoop down to thinking about blog subscribers in the way you describe[*], it only succeeded in making a lot of nonsense. [^*] analogous to the famous quote <http://thinkexist.com/quotati...> which I believe was first uttered by Hunter S. Thompson, though it is unattributed there. - ianf ⌘
Itchy Jumpsuit? - Charlie Anzman
erm, it doesn't feel right, Charlie. :D And Paul, good explanation, but then it may be a good idea to really consider it to be another metric on Feedburner's end -- these aren't RSS subscribers anymore to your blog but it's the reach, just like you said. It's time to have separate counters for both. - Tamar Weinberg
And ianf, let me ask you something quite honestly: for the FF users you subscribe to, do you read *all* their blogs? I'm going to guess that you don't. I have about 10 blogs to my name and I know that there is not a single person who reads all of them. That goes to say that my schwagaddict.com blog which now has nearly 3k subscribers is not being read by probably more than 80 people --... more... - Tamar Weinberg
Subscriber count is completely inaccurate with feedburner including friendfeed, it is like saying your twitter followers are RSS subscribers to your blog. - Justin Germino
A substantial portion of those 30 referrals from friendfeed to schwagaddict were me, sometime over a month ago. I'm a sucker for tchotskies. ... I really dislike that friendfeed inflated my RSS subscriber numbers. Before, 30-40% of the RSS subscribers would fetch the complete article. I don't know if they actually read it or if their software just fetched it, but at least it was an indication of intent. Essentially nobody on friendfeed actually reads my blog, yet it doubled my RSS subscribers. - DGentry
Works with a few VC's :) - Charlie Anzman
Yes, it feels totally wrong to me too. Like padding or fluff that distort what was previously decent analytics. I know a guy who is a FF hustler and has lots of subscribers, and now it says his blog has "2123 subscribers" and he doesn't even get a single comment - so it's not accurate. No one seems to read or interact with it. Clean up Feedburner analytics, Google! - Brett Borders
Robert Scoble
The new YouTube uploader in iPhone 3GS totally sucks. How much does it suck? Let me count the ways:
1. It often does not complete uploads. - Robert Scoble
2. It often does not tell you why. - Robert Scoble
3. If it doesn't complete an upload it does not remember what you typed in and retry it, no. - Robert Scoble
4. It does not show you upload progress. - Robert Scoble
5. It does not give you options. - Robert Scoble
6. It does not log errors so you can figure out what went wrong. - Robert Scoble
7. It is the most frustrating uploader I've used, and that's saying something because I've used the Flickr uploader. - Robert Scoble
8. On the other hand, it is simple to use and when it works it sure seems like genius! - Robert Scoble
This is funny. :) - Barry Schwartz
These seem like signs of a last-minute add in if you ask me. - Ryan Massie
Ryan: or a sign of software that was made too simple. Sorry, uploading isn't always simple, especially when AT&T is involved. - Robert Scoble
And the video compression is pretty bad too boot. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
This is why I don't mind using two different devices; my FlipMino HD for video, and my iPhone for everything else. - Carlton Prest
I've been waiting on some real reports on this feature before I spend $500 on an early upgrade. - Craig Shipp
JP: it's not that bad, it's watchable. Better than the Qik live streaming I also use on my iPHone. - Robert Scoble
Viddler needs an iPhone app for this! - Rob
Reminds me of the Einstein quote: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Ryan Massie
I have one video I want to upload and it just keeps saying "upload failed." Sigh. - Robert Scoble
what about e-mailing a 12 second video to 12seconds.tv? - Craig Shipp
I agree, when it works, it's like ROCKIN! but when you have to reenter discriptions. ANGER!!!!!!! - SolidSmack
I email mine to 12seconds but it still compresses when emailing. - Richard Mackney
I also do not like the built in uploader in iMovie. Not enough control there either. Best to output to mov and use the web uploader. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Can you add the video to a playlist when you upload? - Craig Shipp
On the other hand I do like shooting with the iPhone video as it's always with me and I catch great little moments. - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
I shot this whole video on the iPhone this weekend. http://ow.ly/h7wS - JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
Using Twittelator Pro I can send the video to Yfrog ... that works ok http://img178.yfrog.com/i... - Richard Mackney
Has anybody used Posterous to send video to Youtube? I would use Posterous by itself regardless as it has better quality than Youtube. - Jay Caruso
It shows upload progress if you go to that video in Photos and have the controls up. The thing that kills it for me is that I haven't found a way to easily upload to multiple accounts. - David Potts from iPhone
@JP Holecka Not bad for iPhone vid.. I haven't filmed a lot yet with my iPhone 3GS - Sebastiaan van den Akker
#8 sums up apples philosophy in a nutshell. They dumb everything down so that you don't have to hurt your brain thinking for yourself. - Steve Feinstein
I don't like the idea of compression beyond what's needed for the hosting site. Been playing with pixelpipe and pretty happy with it so far. - James Deaton
@Steve very true, but the questions is.. aren't there just times when want shit to work... I love tinkering with Linux, Win and the all other stuff... but I just love the idea that my mac is rock solid.. and it workz.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
does pixelpipe work over 3g for video uploads? - Craig Shipp
Another reason why I only have an iPhone 3G - Chris Heath
haha love the creative title....beats "here's why:". i hope this is a trend. - Carlos Ayala
Not a big fan of the upload quality... posting to youtube after i've uploaded to my Mac is much much better - Danny
I use the Pixelpipe app for photo & video uploads on the iPhone. You can upload up to 200MB without recompression, supports uploads to YouTube, Viddler, blip.tv and a bunch more. - Brett Butterfield
There isn't a Pixelpipe app for the 3Gs? Works like a god in Android. With that you can get it into Vimeo, Seesmic, Qik, Flickr video - all with a single upload. - Matthew DeVries
I think I'm going to wait until my 3g contract is up next summer and see if ATT has their act together by then. If not Verizon here I come! - Craig Shipp
You can download Pixelpipe for the iPhone 3GS directly from the App Store or at http://tr.im/s893. Makes getting video off the 3GS pretty effortless. - Brett Butterfield
I totally agree! At least save all the text I entered when it crashes!! - Che Hodgins
Barry Schwartz
X-Employee is using RustyBrick code for his personal clients. What should I do?
change your code/passwords. - Jim Gianoglio
nothing to do with passwords - Barry Schwartz
send a cease & desist letter - with note that maybe there is some misunderstanding of ownership but that you will pursue action. if he doesn't stop, then take action. - Mark Ferneau
If you parted on good terms talk to him. If you parted on bad terms then I'm with Mark above. - rshore
Matt Cutts
To answer my own question: love these other NY Post headlines: http://www.nypost.com/seven... http://www.nypost.com/seven... http://www.nypost.com/seven...
NY Post headlines can be a little over the top. - Matt Cutts
We linked to this via SELand ;-) http://searchengineland.com/ny-post... - Barry Schwartz
Is NY Post a tabloid? - Ionut
For those too lazy to check the links, the other NY Post headlines were "GOOGLE GLITCH CAUSES SURFERS TO REAP PAGES OF FEAR" and "GOOGLE STROKES PORN GUY" and "GOOGLE SCARES SENATE." Ionut, it's a real newspaper but tends a bit toward the tabloid side. - Matt Cutts
Why would anyone be worried if the links are being checked...that's like giving someone money and then asking them what it'll be used for. - John kowal
maybe they are just trying to offset Randall Stross' pro-Google cheerleading in the New York Times? ;-) - Karim
I was wondering why in the world people would want to quote the NY Post. - marziah
Tamar Weinberg
I've decided to break my embargo on FriendFeed. I am due with baby #1 and s/he will join us in June. :)
OMG Congratulations!!!!! - Mona Nomura
YEAY! - Shevonne
Congrats! You should join us over in the parenting room. :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms... - Rochelle
Wohoo! glad you put that smiley face. - Alfredo
Thanks all. Rochelle, just did -- and the messages there already scare me! :P - Tamar Weinberg
Hey! Congrats!!! - Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Aww, don't be scared! Let me know if I can help or anything. :) I have very recent experience! - Rochelle
HUUUUUUUGS!!! - Helen Sventitsky
wow, good for you! good luck - Cee Bee
grats! - Joshua Schnell
Mazel tov! - Akiva Moskovitz
w00t!!! - Derrick
WHOO HOOOOOOOOOO - Erin @queenofspain
Congratulations!!! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Awesome! Take the classes. They really do help. - Robert Scoble
Read Dr. Karp's 'Happiest Baby On the Block'. And keep a copy of Dr. Sears' 'The Baby Book' on hand. They're absolutely essential. - Akiva Moskovitz
WOOHOO! Congratumacations! - Glen Mistletoe
Congratulations! - Trish R
I agree with Akiva. I would go nuts without those two books. Dr. Karp's is also available as a DVD. - Rochelle
Thanks - will definitely check them out. - Tamar Weinberg
Congratulations! - Paola Bonomo
Congrats, Tamar! And good to see you back. If you're interested, you can run your own baby pool contest on my site here: http://bebepool.com ~ all the best! - Micah Wittman
Congratulations! - Anne Bouey
Congrats again Tamar :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
great to cya in austin! - sean percival
Yay! I can talk about it publicly now! Congratulations, Tamar. Great to see you at SXSW. (Also, sounds like I have to send a louisgray.com onesie) - Louis Gray
Congrats.. :o) - Rob Sellen :o)
congradulations :) - chaz2b
Congrats, Tamar! - Kol Tregaskes
Congrats. :-) - Håkan Dahlström
(S)he'll join FriendFeed in June? Cool :) - Jemm
Yayyy! Congratulations!!! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Congratulations! - Parth Awasthi
Congratulations! Now you have to listen to everyone give you advice on how to raise a child :) - Rob Diana
Yay!! Congratulations on the tiny one! - Yolanda
Congratulations! :-D - Ladybug Heather
Congrats!!! :) - Carmen
Congrats! - Manuela
Congrats! - Matt Cutts
Awesome News ... love all the good news .. - johnpiercy
Congrats! - Mike
Congratulations!!!!!!! - Thomas Hawk
Congrats :) - Hao Chen
Congratulations! - Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Jemm: I guess I'll make an account for 'em ;) And Louis - yes, send onesies! I'll even post pics on schwagaddict.com :D - Tamar Weinberg
wow, mazol tov!!! - Barry Schwartz
Congrats Tamar! :) - AJ Batac
Congrats! - Steve Rubel
Congrats! - Shey, Jamaican of FF
Conga Rats & Mazel Tov, Tamar! - Michael R. Bernstein
Congrats! - pearl
Congratulations - that's excellent! - Patrick Jordan
Congrats Tamar! - Hutch Carpenter
Congratulations! - .LAG liked that
YAY, Congratulations Tamar!! wooo hoo!! You're a Mommy blogger now! :) - Susan Beebe
Congratulations. :) - Dr. Apps from twhirl
wow congrats - Kipp Bodnar
Congratulations!! And get ready for sleepless nights :) - Dilip Dand
woo-hoo! Congratulations! :) - JA Castillo
Congratulations!! :) - Nicholas James
Congratulations! - Rutger Blom
Yay! - Josh Haley
Congrats Tamar! - Mo Kargas
Congrats ... very good news ... +1001. - Amani
Although I knew about this, congrats again! You are going to be a great mommy! Life as you know it will never be the same :-) - Mike Fruchter
Barry Schwartz
Report: Sitemaps Increase Crawler Response Time - http://searchengineland.com/report-...
I think you mean decrease :) - John μller
ugh, sorry about that, fixed. - Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts
I want me some minty fresh Google Reader. I think they left me on an older server to taunt me for a few more hours. :)
just got it, it is light - Barry Schwartz
Tamar Weinberg
wtf? google opted me into searchwiki? I DON'T WANT IT.
Everyone was opted in and, as far as I know, there's no way to opt out unless your use Greasemonkey or Greasekit. - Akiva Moskovitz
I call it SearchIcky. - Tamar Weinberg
Tamar, I find that after using it a few days, it gets more and more useful. So you might want to give it a week before concluding that it's not helpful. - Matt Cutts
Observed a strange thing. it is enable when I use it on Firefox but not on Chrome. Anybody else seeing the same issue. - Atul Arora
Good trick: use google.co.uk. If you don't tick the "uk only" box you get the same results as .com, but I dont see any searchwiki mention on it (which I get on .com) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Matt, I really don't want it. I hate "personalized" results as it is. - Tamar Weinberg
Well, you can always log out if you don't want personalized results. - Matt Cutts
i wanted it upfront but don't at the moment. are we equally pissed off? - Berk D. Demir
Matt, but why should I log out? How about making it, erm, optional? Should that be really difficult? I mean, c'mon... why should I log off my Google Accounts that I use regularly (read: Gmail) just because of SearchWiki? How about Google acknowledge that people DO NOT WANT and give the users the power to do what they want? Usually Google has empowered the user, but not in this case. - Tamar Weinberg
Just add &pws=0&hl=all to the end of your search string, very easy to do with search toolbars - Barry Schwartz
personalized and search tailored to intention is kinda like your local bartender, you pull up a chair and they are already pouring you a beer(cause since you go there FREQUENTLY they ASSUME they know what you want) when at THIS MOMENT what you really wanted was a vodka martini! ie. let search be just search! - shayne catrett
Barry, as I told you on IM, that's not a solution. Google should make these things optional -- it's not fair to enforce it upon all users who definitely don't want it. - Tamar Weinberg
Barry Schwartz
Ditched GoogleBot But Now Want To Make Friends Again? - http://www.seroundtable.com/archive...
Ditched GoogleBot But Now Want To Make Friends Again?
"So what can you do to encourage Googlebot to come back quicker? Send it flowers and chocolate." :-) - John μller
John, thought someone would like it. I should write more often at night... - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
Is Google Changing Their Search Results HTML To Mess with Scrapers? - http://www.seroundtable.com/archive...
I imagine it might be more due to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008... - John μller
you "know" or "imagine"? :) illl update the post - Barry Schwartz
Matt Cutts
@dannysullivan, welcome to the iPhone club! Who should we peer pressure next?
bill gates? - Barry Schwartz
John μller
Thanks, everyone! - Random chit-chat | Google Groups - http://groups.google.com/group...
We'll miss you, Bergy!! - John μller from Bookmarklet
Good luck Bergy, thank you for all of your hard work. - John Honeck
Also note that JohnMu goes on a vacation and they start quitting...what does that say about the work load that John carries. Hmmm?? I'm just saying... - John Honeck
Bergy! We will miss you! - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
Google Sitemaps New Error: "Dynamic Content" - http://feeds.seroundtable.com/~r...
Not error, warning :) - John μller
I've recently started seeing warnings that "All the URLs in your Sitemap have the same priority." I see no problem with that if all my URLs have the same priority. And the funny thing is that one of these sitemaps only has one URL anyway, so this warning will never go away! - Tony Ruscoe
Yeah, the single URL case is definitely something to look at on our side :-). However, for the rest, if you don't want to specify Priority or any of the other optinal values, it's better to just leave that tag out instead of making a default value up. Priority doesn't really matter since it's relative to the site, but if your Sitemap is being generated automatically and you thought Priority was being assigned, this warning may help you to spot a problem in your processes. - John μller
Of course, I see. That makes sense. Even for the single URL. (If you've only one URL, why would you want to assign a priority to it?) The problem is that my sitemaps are automatically generated using a script which assigns priority based on directory level. I guess I'll just remove it so that the warning disappears. Thanks John! - Tony Ruscoe
John, yea, I warning - didnt mean it was an error in Google... - Barry Schwartz
Jeremy Zawodny
Good luck at your new gig! - Phil G
From somebody who's Internet experience has been heavily influenced by you (you were one of the first blogs I ever followed), best of luck and I look forward to seeing the results of your new opportunity! - Damon Cortesi from twhirl
yahoo won't be the same without you.. :( - Augusto Becciu from twhirl
Just to hope you all good to your new work, whatever it is. - Daniel Schildt
Where are you going? Anywhere we've heard of? - Tony Ruscoe
Jeremy. Good luck. I can only echo what Damon said above - Deepak Singh
good luck - Andreas Gohr
shocked to know that u'r leaving. good luck. - Jansen Lu from twhirl
:) - Sarath from Alert Thingy
shocked. And happy for you :) - John μller
woo. crazy. all the best to you. - SolidSmack from twhirl
Congrats on a huge move, and all the best, Jeremy. You'll be deeply missed as a Yahoo, even by those of us that don't work there. - DeWitt Clinton
Welcome to the ex-Yahoo club, Jeremy, and congratulations on the move. Looking forward to seeing what comes next for you. - Ryan Kuder
Congrats! - Ginger Makela Riker
Best of luck! - Mike Reynolds
Who's the next lucky one to hire you!? :) - directeur
Good luck! - Matt Wood
Reading this in Friendfeed. Doesn't seem appropriate to "like" it. More "ackknowledge that it is news". You seemed like a force for good in a good company Jeremy. - Scott Koon from twhirl
Congratulations ;) What's next ? Google or Own project ;) - David Berrebi from twhirl
@Jeremy startup please!! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan
He said a 'smaller' company. So that rules out Google. - Adewale Oshineye
Best of luck Jeremy ! - Charlie Anzman
Good luck Jeremy, can't wait to see what your up to next. - Barry Schwartz
Wow! All the best man! - Robert Cooper from twhirl
Wow! Good luck Jeremy! - Niranjan Tulpule
The problem with having an ! in your company name is people always sound so excited when they write about leaving - Christian Anderson
oh, dear. - edythe
Good Luck, Jeremy. - Krishnan Subramanian
All the best to you Jeremy....I'm looking forward to the next chapter. in your book. - Jerry Chacon
Good luck and thank you for your great work at Yahoo! I always enjoyed the developer video podcasts you did. - Lars Trieloff
After Yahoo-Google deal day; I understand better why more than 59 people have "Like"d a leaving post :-) - Erhan Erdogan
Barry Schwartz
@igorthetroll is what worth an article? i dont write about cyber stalking, i write about search
I think search is very limited! It might be worth expanding to Social Media and its issues. IMHO - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I can't write about everything. - Barry Schwartz
John Honeck
Nice room John. I like what you've done with the place. Where's the bar?
Now I know what's missing :) - John μller
I'm building a bar in my basement, starring the Googlerator, I'll build one here next. - John Honeck
very happy you invited me here. Gives me another way to find good threads. :) - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
Many Gmail Accounts Hacked Into - Gmail Security Breach - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Dave has some more concerns about this at http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/gmail-h..." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
SEO Firm Uses Mafia Style Tactics Online - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Just today Forbes released an article about this actually happen at http://www.forbes.com/2007..." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
MySpaceTV vs. YouTube: A Comparison of Both Services - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"MySpace is convinced they can compete, but Hitwise shows us that it would be hard. See http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-..." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
US Stamp Prices Increase 1,266% Within A Century - http://digg.com/busines...
"And good point, I am honestly a bit concerned that did not add that earlier." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
US Stamp Prices Increase 1,266% Within A Century - http://digg.com/busines...
"BigDaveDiode, Like I said, please click through and read the article." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
US Stamp Prices Increase 1,266% Within A Century - http://digg.com/busines...
"There is nothing wrong with the article. Maybe someone else should write an article on how stamp prices have gone down relative to inflation? Problem is, we need to find someone who doesn't mock other people to write it. Stop staring at the title of the post and read the other details." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
US Stamp Prices Increase 1,266% Within A Century - http://digg.com/busines...
"You = Look... Look at the other stats..." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
US Stamp Prices Increase 1,266% Within A Century - http://digg.com/busines...
"You at the other stats, not just the stupid title. Interesting trends and averages. Oh, but wait, you didn't bother to click through a read it." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
First Look - Google Print Ads Now Part of AdWords [pics] - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"Covered first at http://www.ppcdiscussions.com/2007... But nice work Andy on this post." - Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz
67% of Google AdSense Publishers Earn $100 or More Per Month - http://digg.com/tech_ne...
"And of those 80%, probably only 10% do anything with AdSense instead of just writing a blog post once per week." - Barry Schwartz
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