"Former Beatle Ringo Starr will no longer sign memorabilia for fans and will throw away all fan mail he receives in the future, he has said." - Baard Overgaard Hansen
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"Gone are the Days" of "Photograph"s "For Love". "If It's Love That You Want," "It Don't Come Easy." *sagenod* Now, get off my Octopus' Garden's lawn! - Michael W. May
congrats - it's a mark i hope to hit one day! - Allen Stern
Congrats. You should link to more of your stories on FF, along with Google Reader it's the primary way I consume news these days. - trextor
Trextor, everything from Inquisitr is here based on the RSS feed. Several people share stories from there as well using Google Reader. Most likely, you are just missing them due to traffic on FriendFeed. - Rob Diana
Dude, that is such great news...as you can see in related entries - i've over the moon for ya. Well deserved. - Zee from WeDoCreative
...when talking about Social Median! Around 48:00ish! EF YA!! Thanks to the people who alerted me! :) /end 1st Name Drop EVER - Mona N.
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I am extremely flattered and now quite embarrassed for posting this out of excitement... It's like I'm a total name dropper now. ugh! But I LOVE Leo! - Mona N.
Mona, we would have found out anyway ;) And Leo is right, you rock! - Ray Metzen
Well, let's be honest... You are a good person to follow. - Jason Huebel
I wouldn't mind Leo mentioning my name. I've been following him since his days on TechTV. :P - Molly, the Vampy Vampire
Thanks everyone... I'm truly flattered... and embarrassed... and quite mortified by this post fed into Social Median, where Leo responded. Now I know to think before posting lol. - Mona N.
WOW, that is GREAT!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!! I never looked back...love ya Mona :) you do rock! Queen of FriendFeed! (yes, please put crown on) - Susan Beebe
I am a huge Leo fan. HUGE! Like Duncan said, Leo FTW @Susan: He actually mentioned me for Social Median, which was a very pleasant surprise! But thank you for your words and you rock too!!! - Mona N.
lincoln center has the most amazing music/dance library. i totally nerd out there. not often, but when i do, it's on! - Melissa Maskevich
Good question...I haven't been recently, but with recent economic downturn, I bet libraries start to get a lot more activity. Who doesn't want free resources like books, music, movies, etc? - Pete Delucchi
Studies show that libraries do get busier in hard economic times. Not just because of the free stuff, but people also need resources on finding jobs, managing finances, etc. - JMakesAwesomeSauce
I couldn't even tell you where my local library was :-) - Duncan Riley
Yes. Beside books - especially for my 5-yo - it has a reasonable selection of music CDs. I use this to try out music that I wouldn't buy straight away. - Warren Butler
Haven't used one since I got out of college. There are very few good libraries in India. The British Library in Pune is the best there and that sucks bigtime. On a completely different note, I like keeping books - irrespective of whether I liked or disliked them; if I read it, I should keep it. But yes, I would like to *have* a library, by the time I am 50. - Parth Awasthi
I use libraries quite often. Best place for research ever is a library with a quite room and a high speed internet connection. Every type or reference you could ever want right at your fingertips. - Aaron Krug
Absolutely. I just got home from the library, in fact. - Wendy
It's great for the public wifi and general hanging out. For research, not so much. - Sid Yadav
Sid, it depends on what you're researching and whether you're in a large city. However, whatever you can't find in your own library can usually be borrowed from another library thanks to the magic of a little thing called "interlibrary loans". And don't forget - librarians are there to help you with research. We don't just keep people from talking loud. :) - ☺ Cecily ☺
My local library allows you to "borrow" digital copies of books. They also have the cheapest DVD rentals in town ($1/ 3 days) And libraries are still the best and cheapest way to get a hold of a copy of an older, out of print, and hard to find book. - April Russo
Yes. We do and a new study (look in my feed, it's there somewhere) shows that library usage is up and something like 83% of Americans have a library card. - AJ Kohn
yes, from time to time I do. Since I started at the age of 4, I've always read a lot. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
Yes indeed. If I see a new book I like, I check it out. If I like it, I return the library book and buy the book from B & N. That way I can read it at my own pace. - Jimmy Walker
no. The classics are available for free, I can gets technical stuff off ebookshare.net and get my fiction from Amazon - Ernie Oporto
Oh yes, are you mad? The library rocks! - Bwana McCall
no, haven't been to any library for 8 years at least - Kirill Bolgarov
Always. Can't afford to buy all the books my family wants to read. - Carleen
Why isn't super easy on Friendfeed to post someone's RSS feed as an imaginary friend? Then instead of just liking it, you can subscribe to it. - Ranjit Mathoda
“Is the Friendfeed craze dying down or is just that my priorities are changing? I spent nearly 35 hrs online this week yet I only left nine comments and had four likes.”
Hmmm, maybe. Things are busy. I spent approximately 2.5 hrs on soc nets during the week, according to PageAddict. This includes Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. - Steve Rubel
i think people are just finding their way of balancing friendfeed along with their other "social responsibilities" shall we call them... :) Maybe even you! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
I like FF for micro-blogging but Twitter is still my #1. - Stuart Forsyth
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My usage has gone down as well and will go down even more starting next week. But, that is only b/c I will be working during the day starting Monday. - Mathew Ballard
i guess maybe it's like opening a new video game on your birthday - you play the heck out of it for a month, then only once in a while. as hodson would say, maybe ff is no longer a shiny new object. - Allen Stern
can't find any compelling reason to spend much time on FF. I check in every 2-3 days but that's about it. Becoming a burden and I'm considering giving up. - Chris Selland
My use had gone up dramatically since the introduction of lists. It's infinitely more useful now. - Kevin
Mine is waning too... due to increased responsibilities at work. Enormous changes ahead for me so I have to gear down and get all serious. You'll see less of me... probably morning, evenings and weekends (sneak in for lunch too!) - Susan Beebe
Facebook feed does the same with higher quality and simple ways to manage it. I prefer it to Friendfeed. - Mikko Alasaarela
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I'm still using FF because it's the last Web 2.0 social network I pay any attention to. And yes, I'm feeling like I should be doing better things with my time - Jason Kaneshiro
So your measurement of a community's success is your own activity? I argue that's broken. And you were only online for 35 hours? Did you go on vacation? :-) - Louis Gray
I love FF, but I admit, my priorities are changing. I can't spend too much time on it at work anymore, and I've got projects at home that need to get done. The following of the <strike>drama</strike> conversation here is quite addictive and quite time consuming. - Mavericks of A-sauce!
"In the midst of a massive global downturn I suspect that many advertising-supported bloggers will follow in the footsteps of the larger media outlets and pull their full-text feeds." Or as ad revenues go down, bloggers will take more measures to reach out to a larger or newer audiences. Yes, you could spend time locking down what you have--or you could dedicate your energies to reaching out to new opportunities. I imagine a good number will do the latter. - Loren Heiny
(reposting here as steve's blog said my comment was spam) Allow me to present yet again, my feed for a buck proposal:
http://www.centernetworks.com/...
People are willing to drop 99 cents for a game or some stupid laser beam app on the iPhone but they are willing to block ads on Web sites who provide content that's making them smarter (not just tech blogs, any content source).
It's time for a change. Full text = 99 cents a month, Partial = free.
I am open to bundles and a variety of pricing - the 99 cents is just to get the conversation started.
Also note that with more and more mobiles having nice Web interfaces, there's no more real need for a full feed.
Sometimes I wish a marketer came up with RSS, not a developer :) - Allen Stern
@Allen as interesting as the idea might be given the current setup for RSS feeds how would you go about setting up how the delivery system on blogs would know how to tell who is getting the partial and who is paying money for the full feed and especially for those folks using something like Feedburner for delivery - Steven Hodson
I can still never quite get my head around the fact that folks will watch network TV with almost always non-contextual advertising totally distracting them from the program content every 7-8 minutes, yet complain about online advertising that they can skim past in any case,. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
Steven, I believe you figure out a solution then architect to make it work. If we stick within what's possible at this moment, we will never move ahead. :) - Allen Stern
I don't think this will make a difference. Only 5-10% of people consume feeds - and people who use RSS don't click on ads often - especially ads in feeds. - Mike Reynolds
I prefer full feeds not because they have fewer ads, but because of the convenience of reading all my feeds in one place. Having to go to 100 different websites would be a huge PITA. A blogger with a partial feed needs to have exceptional content to make me subscribe, or keep me subscribed. Most likely I'd just unsubscribe. Just saying... - Ray Metzen
Even as a blogger myself who likes to earn some revenue for my (albeit small) efforts, I don't like the idea of charging for content. Once that can of worms is opened it wouldn't be long before everyone is charging for everything on a per-page basis. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
I always run a full text feed. i don't even do my blog for ad money. I just do it to share the content and provide some useful info or a smile once in a while. - Jason Shultz
@Jason I don't primarily do my blog for ad money, although the extra income has been welcome. That isn't why I started it though, and I'd still do it even if I didn't make any income at all. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
I have seen a lot of feeds go partial lately. And I'm thinking I'll unsubscribe. - Louis Gray
+1 @Ray. Convenience is what RSS full feeds bring. Take that away and I'll unsubscribe. I don't mind ads in the feed instead. - Sanat Gersappa
Agreed about ads. Now all we need is a decent mobile reader. - Mona N.
Partial feeds kind of defeats the main purpose of RSS feeds according to me. I want to read all the posts right from my feed reader and go to the websites only if I want to read comments etc. I always offer the full feed of my blog. - Tabrez Iqbal
I'm probably the minority since I'm about headlines and first paragraphs. Tech news moves fast, plus the echo kills me. My ideal would be: headline, first, and concluding paragraphs with click for full text option. - Mona N.
I simply can't stand partial feeds and skip on even good content to keep away from them. I don't mind ads in the feeds and do click the ones that are of interest to me. It's just impossible to keep track of 300 blogs without full feeds. - Shivanand Velmurugan
Hmm let me put it this way... End of Full RSS Feed = End of reading this sites for me. I would never surf the whole sites to read, because there are so many. I have my RSS Reader, and I read there. So for me this won't work. But it's no problem to put ads in RSS. Plenty of services already exists, like Feedburner. - Ryo
She has an account but doesn't post much compared to a couple other Scobles around here :) - Mark VandenBerg
Disagree. And you can always turn off Friend of a Friend if it bugs you. - Louis Gray
I would assume it would be closer to "Friends of LG/RS - Kyle Lacy
Ahhh nice to know politics ain't limited to Washington. /cough. The parallels are striking. - Eric Rice
Jeremiah: yeah, Maryam shows up here once in a while. She likes Facebook better. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
Hmm, I don't share this experience. Sure, the Scobles are here, but they aren't the majority of my feed. - Jason Wehmhoener
By the way, I don't agree with Jeremiah's premise. I see more "friends of Mona" or "Friends of Louis Gray" on my side. - Robert Scoble
Jason: everyone's experience in FriendFeed will be different. There is no common experience for everyone. For instance, I don't have ANY "Friends of Robert Scoble" stuff in my view. :-) - Robert Scoble
I don't have any FORS in my view either.... I get all my RS (or almost any other "a-lister") bits via FOAF, and it's more than enough that way. - abacab
I suppose it's not a problem if the quality of content is diverse enough. - Eric Rice
I'm not complaining, I enjoy the Scoble's content, all of it, from all of them. Just to be clear. - Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble is definitely unique among the other early adopters in that he is everywhere with everyone giving us the benefit of cutting edge microblogging. Thanks Robert!! - earl wallace
Morgan: I am NOT paid by FriendFeed. I have no financial interest in the company either. I got a free sticker, a magnet, a glass of wine and some grapes and cheese at the only party I attended of theirs, and T-shirt from the company, though. But that's the only things I've gotten from the company. - Robert Scoble
There you have it. The Scobles get free gifts, whereas us mere mortals get diddly squat. Blatant favoritism. ROFL. - Ian Hussein Maverick May
Ian: if you show up at the headquarters I'm sure that one of the team will give you a sticker and a T-shirt too. Heck, I'll go and get some for our meetup on Tuesday to hand out. :-) - Robert Scoble
will there be hookers there performing Double Scobles? if not, I gotta go to work, - Kaia is a party pooper.
Never fancied the film, but always thought that was a terrific poster - clever, eyecatching, eerie and quite beautiful. - Andrew Lewin
i just though the movie was better than i expected - by no means in my top 1000 even...just better than expect for The Bullock. - Zee from WeDoCreative
This is so nice. face textile from trees - Ervin Ter
Thanks to Ross (my cousin, FriendFeed intern) and Robert Scoble for being the sources for my analysis (little did they know!). My talk focused on the signals we are looking at to create better automatic filtering and ranking interfaces for FriendFeed. (Emily is Ross's sister by the way, if you are wondering why he likes her entries so much.) - Bret Taylor
Josh -- we've barely scratched the surface of analyzing social media and networking. The AI-based social network analysis software of the future will optimize the interactions and experiences of billions of people. We are still at a very primitive stage in figuring this stuff out. - Sean McBride
Imagine a rapidly self-evolving global superintelligence firing on all cylinders, maximizing the productivity and self-actualization of billions of people simultaneously. That is the long term strategic objective of AI-based social network analysis, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, etc. We're barely at step 1. - Sean McBride
I love this path. FF makes me increasingly less likely to use my reader. Yet, I know there are some worthwhile nuggets in there that I am missing. This kind of intelligence improves the chances that I am predictably surfaced everything I would want to be. I love it. - Christopher Sacca
Awesome. I'm going to buy Emily cookies so she likes more of my posts. :-) - Robert Scoble
Did someone record this talk? I'd love to see it, since I'm one of the sources. Hey, Bret, want to get together when you get back? I'd love to talk more in depth about this with you. I think you're onto something very important. - Robert Scoble
I wonder what effect I had vs. my brother. :-) - Robert Scoble
Friendfeed remains ahead of the game. Bret a driving industry force. - Alex Hammer
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