This is fast becoming one of my favorite tracks of all time. It just gets better & better the more you hear it. It's called No Karma by Jaydiohead. [it will start playing automatically when you click the link] - http://www.thesixtyone.com/mintyfr...
Okay, can't help it, there is no 'friendfeed dilemma'... PROTIP: use it as a feedburner 2.0 thing, pop in from time to time so it's not some vapid empty channel, and subscribe to as few people as possible (be anti-social), and glance at everyone else's stuff once in a while. Be about you.
Oh yeah and stop using ping.fm to spam every site known to man. Your tweets on Facebook and LinkedIn look fucking retarded and out of context.
- Eric Rice
In conclusion, the online advertising experiment in which so many of us have engaged is really only ten years or so old. Those who say that it's "mature" are not only mistaken, but they drastically underestimate what a true break the web is from the offline media that came before. We've had a few hundred years to learn to monetize print, over 75 years to monetize TV, and, most importantly, millennia to build business models based on scarcity. In contrast, our collective effort to monetize post-scarcity digital media have only just begun.
- George Kelly
So, being the social media poseur that I am, I have jumped upon the bandwagon and setup Google Friend Connect on my site. It's very sad, there are two members and one of them is me =P I don't know that I want this kind of constant reminder that blogging is pretty much me talking to my computer...
Google Friend Connect is still up in the air for usefulness, but you can signup and add it to your site/s by logging into your Google account and heading over to http://www.google.com/FriendC....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I use DIsqus for commenting (well, theoretically; no one comments so it's a tree-falling-in-the-forest situation). If they ever build in Friend Connect, then I guess I'll get it for free.
- James (@willia4)
I use Disqus for actual comments too, but I figured this was along the lines of a MyBlogLog situation (that's what it reminds me of, at least).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Okay, can someone tell me what this actually does? I know that sounds stupid but ... sometimes ya just gotta ask the stupid questions.
- AJ Kohn
I never actually looked into what MyBlogLog did. Reading it makes me think of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog and I wander off to watch Arrested Development clips on YouTube...
- James (@willia4)
Ok, I put it on my blog. Can you believe your blog is blocked at work?! I'll have to go when I get home.
- Shevonne
:) Did I mention how much I love you recently, Tina? You do all the stuff I think about and then get distracted...where was I? Oh yes - pleased to be providing links/instructions for the setting up of the Google Fried Chicken :)
- WorldofHiglet
By the way, Google: If you're going to do this, you HAVE TO LINK MY EXISTING OPENID TO MY GOOGLE PROFILE!! It's like they don't understand the point of OpenID. It's just an extra button they put on their log in forms, but past that, they don't get it at all.
- James (@willia4)
Haggis, of course you're special! =D For both the James's and AJ: I always saw MyBlogLog (and by extension G's FriendConnect) as just another way to build an audience. For whatever reason, people like putting faces to names, and names to readers. From a users perspective it's kinda cool to get to 'see' who's been reading the same sites as you.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think FriendConnect will allow you to build a community around your site, that's what MyBloglog and Blogcatalog seem to wanna do, but I think Google could probably do it better. What if they integrated google talk, for instance? That could be pretty awesome. I think they have the pieces, they just need to be put together.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Shevonne, Websense blocks my blog and I have no idea why. Might be the post about the wanker wacker... WoH, to setup your very own GFC (haaaaaahahhahaaa!) just log into your existing account and head over to http://www.google.com/FriendC... and follow the instructions to add the widget to your blog. And Rah, I agree that Google could make something very useful out of these, it just remains to be seen if they will do so.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Just joined you on Google Friend Connect!
- Tyson Key
I have a few questions Tina. (1) did google just pay u to say that?? (2) if they did then I'm ok with that (3) wtf is it?
- Noah David Simon
Adam, in that case I appreciate you putting up with my rambling =D Noah, no I didn't get paid (heck, I don't even have ads on my blog!). As for WTF it is, it's kinda like Google's answer to the MyBlogLog widget. I'm pondering what I might want to do with it, I'm thinking I might put up a wall widget on it's own page...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I'm still abit confused over FriendConnect. I don't really know what to do with it?
- Patrik Johansson
hmmm may have to try and set up friendconnect myself. Still not sure exactly how it works or what it is supposed to do.
- Thomas Hawk
hmmmm.. it says I have to upload these two files to my server for this to work. I'm not sure how to do that. Can I set up friendconnect through Blogger?
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas, my understanding is that if you have a Google hosted Blogger blog, you should be able to skip the part about uploading the two HTML files to the server. Patrik, I'm still playing around with it, but I think I'm going to go with a 'retro' guest book thing for now.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hmmm...not really sure this is something that will really catch on. Maybe if more is done with it, but I'm not really feeling it right now.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
grrrrr.. it seems that you can only add it on blogger as a "widget" sort of thing which means I'd have to change my blog from bloggers old templating thingy. I tried to do this once before and it screwed my blog all up so I guess I'm out on Friend Connect for now. It seems lame that I use blogger (read: Google) and can't even add it.
- Thomas Hawk
ok... I installed it and now I look like I have no friends. great. another network that makes me look bad http://simonstudio.com/ark ...truth is if I could centralize all the shit I'm involved with I'd be so much better off.
- Noah David Simon
Nice, I came by and joined...apparently you're doing great with 43 friends now. I just set it up over at Lifestream Blog too so come on by peeps http://lifestreamblog.com/
- Mark Krynsky
The one on the very left looks like a pterodactyl!
- Mona Nomura
The iCom thing (second from the right) would be awesome if it was a full Mac computer on a touch screen. Really doesn't need the holophone part though.
- xero
Is that supposed to be the Apple tablet? Not really a fan of prototypes / rumors, etc. Anyone that knows more: care to enlighten me?
- Mona Nomura
FRIENDFEED ALTERT! THIS THING IS AWESOME!!! http://www.peoplebrowsr.com Watch the video, then try it out. I am already hooked. Competes with TweetDeck. Wonder what you think.
- Robert Scoble
Adds groups to Twitter. Plus much better cross-social-network contact management. Plus more.
- Robert Scoble
haha...i was thinking "don't share your password with the world!!" :)
- Zee.
Why am I not seeing a button for Friendfeed at the top?
- Mitch
Lol friend feed alert - where is the flashy lights and whooping sound? :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
eh - you have to log in, they want your id and password for your accounts skip and punt
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Checking it out now...thanks Robert... if you're hooked, I will be too! LOL Yeah, Contact Mgmt!!
- Susan Beebe
If it had friendfeed as well I'd be in.
- Nation Hahn
1st impressions were "far too messy", but i think that's mainly the text. After watching on and trying it out - it's actually pretty impressive. Love the sharing of groups
- Zee.
*hesitantly enters password* I'm trusting you here Robert :)
- Mo Kargas
It would be FAR better if it was an AIR client
- Dennis Howlett
Mo: Jodee is a standup guy. He'll be here soon to answer questions. Directeur: it's an operating system for your social network. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert - this looks EXACTLY like what we talked about a few months back when you and I met up with Tim and Brian to talk about mioNews. Pretty cool, just wish it worked in Safari :P
- Patrick Lightbody
Dennis, it would be FAR^34 better if it was a "normal" desktop app
- directeur
Dennis: gotta start somewhere. They respond to feature requests VERY fast. Patrick, yeah, very similar to what we were talking about, isn't it? A lot of what I asked Jodee for showed up here. Lots of little touches.
- Robert Scoble
top notch stuff. Unfortunately I have to agree with Dennis re: AIR client. Even so, a remarkable interface.
- phil baumann
I'm just hoping it withstands the load.
- Robert Scoble
At first pass, the interface seems pretty weak. Slow, kludgy.
- Aldon Hynes
OK, after the obligatory 30 second look, my findings are: this thing is buggy. I can't really talk - I'm sure many of my projects give that same first impression!
- Patrick Lightbody
Aldon: yeah, it's slowing down already on my system. It's doing a LOT of work behind scenes.
- Robert Scoble
It's a little slow from here in Aus, I assume it's just my connection or Scoble-effect load. Interface is very nice
- Mo Kargas
Mo: I think it's the Scoble effect. It loaded fine for me 30 minutes ago, now it's crawling.
- Robert Scoble
I have no idea how to sign in to this crap. I think it's cuz I'm too busy watching Criminal minds...LOL
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Blame Scoble - it's sloooow as molasses! LOL :)
- Susan Beebe
Rahsheen: I love Criminal Minds. I clicked on the Twitter icon, signed in with my Twitter name and password.
- Robert Scoble
yeah, pretty slow.. idea looks good tho
- Bruno Panara
Just a reminder, they are calling this an "Alpha."
- Robert Scoble
Rahsheen - click the twitter icon in the center to get started... then you'll see
- Susan Beebe
This app looks really great, thanks for sharing Robert!
- Susan Beebe
definitely on the blink...but that's to be expected
- Zee.
Great video, love the idea. I will try again in a couple of weeks when the site can handle the traffic. Great alpha though, this site certainly shows promise.
- Bob Blunk
Robert you've GOT to stop doing this, it's 3:32 in the morning here and I actually unpacked my MBA to check this out now...lol
- Gaby K. Slezák
Made it to email confirmation screen. Now seeing the main screen.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Bob Blunk: yeah, I will back off of hyping it for now cause it can't deal with the extra traffic. Very slow here. I'll get Jodee to show up here as well. Probably shouldn't have launched the day before Thanksgiving.
- Robert Scoble
looks promising...i'll have to check back later when everyone and their dog aren't trying to get on...
- Trent Olson
If there's one feature I would like Twitter (or third-party) to have, it would be the abiity to see which tweet you sent that someone is replying to. I had someone reply to me about something I said a week ago. I did not remember what tweet she was replying to.
- Dave "Freedom 35"
Scoble: ya, probably should have launched ON Thanksgiving. We would all be too full of turkey and dressing to lift our fingers and navigate to the site.
- Bob Blunk
Guy Kawasaki told me this afternoon that he would rather have his Twitter account than his cell phone (and is betting Mike Arrington $1,000 that he can do without his cell phone for a week to back it up). Now you see why. No blog required. Oh, and this will never even get on TechMeme because it's too lame to look at hot FriendFeed items for tech news.
- Robert Scoble
Jim: I'm going to upload my Broadcom videos. Maybe that'll help it regain some footing. :-)
- Robert Scoble
What day do you think is best to launch a software product? Aside from yesterday, of course...
- Prolific Programmer
Hello! Thanks Robert for this post. Thanks everybody for using PeopleBrowsr. We are delighted to have you all on board and we must confess that we were not expecting all this traffic today. We know what is slowing down the system and we are working to fix it. Thanks for your patience. The correct link to PeopleBrowsr is www.peoplebrowsr.com. The PeopleBrowsr Team.
- SHHHE
Hiya, SHHHE. Is there a such thing as a Scoble Effect already? You know, similar to being SlashDotted?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
SHHHE (Priscilla) - Love your PeopleBrowsr app ... nice job!! :) YES there is definitely a "Scoble Effect" and this is NOT the first time! LOL
- Susan Beebe
doesn't work for me, even "obama" search..
- Justinas Šaltys
If you like this video you should watch the one with Matt Mullenweg at http://www.fastcompany.tv -- first part is up and he was awesome. Talked about the future of blogging (he is the guy who did Wordpress).
- Robert Scoble
They just wrote me and said that they won't do a beta launch until next week and are working on some performance issues (obviously). So, this is a cool very early sneak peak. See you next week when they push out a new code base.
- Robert Scoble
Ehi Everyone. Our Facebook App has not being released yet. Wip: will keep you all posted.
- SHHHE
Connection to YouTube is insecure. YT whines about it, but lets it go through if you allow it. Still, c'mon, if there's a secure way to do it, as YT suggests, why not do it that way? ... Also, Upcoming support doesn't seem to work. Won't link up with my user name, nor the ID number.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Chris, very good point about the YouTube connection. It's something we are working on and it will be released next week.
- SHHHE
@SHHHE Good, sooner the better. Likewise, whatever's got Upcoming all bugged out. I'd complain about the slow speed too, but given what I'm using it's 70% likely to be this computer that's causing it to be slow for me.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
At last a web app that actually likes Safari. Ha!
- Tom Landini
@Rahsheen Unfortunately, there are more mouth-breathing IE users than intelligent folks like us. I'd like to change that, but I can't think of any legal ways of going about and doing so... :p
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Thanx Scoble...I'm curious, why did you choose Kyte instead of qik?
- Anthony Farrior
Anthony: Kyte lets me record on a FlipCam and upload later (I can use cell phone, webcam, FlipCam, our HD cams, etc, Qik only lets me use cell phone). Also Kyte has better distribution/better player. Also Kyte has a better chat room.
- Robert Scoble
I've been using this for a couple of hours and stumbled on some very useful features. A few seconds ago I finished watching your video, and I'm blow away by the potential of this app. It reminds me of a semantic Firefox addon called Headup, that has been inserted into a browser and spiced up with added communication features. Time to put this to use. Thanks again Robert!
- Michael Fidler
hi robert, twitter had some database problems a while ago. What is the effect of peoplebrowsr on the loadavg of the twitter databases? I guess peoplebrowsr is going to increase server requests dramaticly.
- Corné Wielemaker
Is it working? (not for me anyway, though it looks very interesting
- Orli Yakuel
Still not working. Is it crushing just for me? :-\
- Orli Yakuel
looks interesting, although what I dream of is contact synchronisation protocols
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Orli, it might be the browser you're using. I've just had to update Safari to the latest version. Gonna install and try again.
- Nicola Quinn
Thanx Robert for the feedback. Kyte seems to understand how to edge itself out of the mobile video pack...Peoplebrowsr is cool, but I still need a reason to leave the friendfeed page. These apps are just trees whereas FF gives me the whole forest, imho
- Anthony Farrior
I am all about the Real-Time FriendFeed sidebar in Firefox. http://bit.ly/mZLT Always open so I can see what's going on in FriendFeed while I use Google Reader and browse. All I need now is full Twitter integration (see my follows) in FriendFeed and an import box at the bottom of this sidebar and I'll be set.
- Rolf Schewe
I just can't believe it, I remember from where I know this guy! He was hunting just about everyone in TC50 to give him the red chip! (I didn't even know it's worth it, heh!)
- Orli Yakuel
Rolf: thanks for that link. Too bad you can't do sidebars in Safari. That might just be enough to bring me back to Firefox...
- Costa Walcott
Indeed very cool, I just get Invalid Source when linking my Facebook account. :)
- Daniel W. Crompton
Pretty cool - looks Scoblized though. But another tool for doing what FriendFeed is already doing?
- Sean
Looks awesome but I wonder how they are going to keep service online. Yes, there are donations but is that enough to have things running?
- Daniel Schildt
So far I don't see anything that'll move me away from TweetDeck, but I'll keep at it and see if something catches my eye
- Bwana ☠
Looks cool, but I don't see it adding enough to move me away from TweetDeck
- Don Campbell
@Sean very Scobilized, indeed. But that doesn't mean it's not cool.
- David
I agree with Rafe. I wanted to like it as well but I found it to be the equivalent of a social media bloomberg terminal. Too much happening, having multiple streams update with the same post, etc. Found it not usable. I rarely just sit in front of one UI and just watch scrolling updates like that where it is my sole focus.
- Lou Paglia
Lou, thanks for your feedback. We are still in Alpha, working on the UI. You can do many things on PeopleBrowsr. Did you try the Search or the Groups functions? Very welcome your ideas: http://groups.google.com/group... Thanks
- SHHHE
Is this service still available? I went to the URL but got a blank page.
- B2B Specialist
The new version released today is even more awesome!
- Svartling
"I got a chance to play a near-complete version of it today; it looks great. Fans of the series will recognize the SimCity 3000 look and feel, but the addition of touch screen controls makes sense for things like zoning (creating a certain type of building zone). Using the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone to do things like zooming in and out of your city also makes the game a good fit for the device."
- Steve Isaacs
from Bookmarklet
There are militia groups in parts of Africa that believe dressing like this is powerful magic that will protect them in battle. There are groups that all dress in one bright color, or all wear womens' clothing, etc.
- Internet's Tad
"This is my rifle, these are my wings. This is for fighting, these are for...uh...a screw it, they're just so gee-golly cute"
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
If I'm in Africa and a load of Warlords rock up shooting automatic weapons in the air whilst wearing women's clothing I'll be seriously worried for my sanity!
- Toby Graham
@Pope Tad: Cross Dressing Death Squads....nice
- Live4Emma (L4S)
The sad thing about this, is those gun totters are kids and the one with the wings is just acting like a kid in between doing some very bad things
- RAPatton
Baris, i agree - there is definitely a sad element to it...no doubt. But that comment by slippy just now had me laughing out loud.
- Zee.
baris et al, I'm not denying the sad truth indicated by this picture and I hope my comments do not cause offense. The simple fact is that we find humour in the strangest places and for the oddest reasons, and it is possible to acknowledge the humour in a situation alongside the inhumanity.
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
I didn't really reply to the other comments. I just wanted to say how I felt about the picture. I don't think anybody is offended. Slippy's comment is funny.
- Baris Seker
That sandwich would most definitely be thrown away.
- Kenya
To all of the nay sayers, I think most people *WOULD NOT TOUCH IT* so they couldn't throw it away or anything else. They would just leave it there for someone else to deal with.
- Andrew Baron
@Andrew it's a possibility, but I toss stuff out in the office fridge because I don't want mold to somehow get involved with my food...
- Ben Jackson
from twhirl
@ben, you should be careful, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsuspecting growth, a total biohazard. Please leave that stuff alone and let someone else deal with it, you could be seriously injured.
- Andrew Baron
So is iPhone like a self compiled linux OS. That u have no extra softwraes.That u have to *BUY* every softarwe. No s/w come free with it!!!
- Arjun
from twhirl
If i had an Iphone I would download this.
- Mike Fruchter
are you trying to sweeten up jail cages or what? one shall be complete /put-here-yourself/ to sit in jail and sing praises to cage :)
- A.T.
umm, you have to install it through SSH or Cydia, and that ain't happening on a non-jailbroken phone... this is NOT in the App Store.
- Nathan Chase
"It is only available for a jailbroken iPhone and was just released today". Yeah. Non Jail-broken iPhone...sure. Luckily I have Qik!
- Brandon Titus