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Did TechCrunch just write a story about another story trying to get on Digg, to get on Digg? OH THE IRONY. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Alp, Ken Sheppardson, Larry Hudson and 19 other people liked this
There's a reason I don't read ANYTHING from TechCrunch. I blacklisted them after they wrote that baseless article about Last.fm betraying users to the RIAA. Michael Arrington is very deserving of the real world harassment he blogged about receiving earlier this year
- LANjackal
someone just wrote a comment "Did The Next Web just write a story about Tech Crunch just writing a story about another story trying to get on Digg, to get on Digg, to get on Digg?"
- Zee.
Zee, I wrote that on another share of this story. I found the whole thing rather funny. Nothing against The Next Web, but TC reporting it was lame.
- Rob Diana
Zee: you knew that was coming, tho, right?
- Chris Heath
:) Yeah, I guess I did..
- Zee.
Hehehe, went here by the link you shared on atul's post, to your article, linked by feedly to this conversation, sweet stuff, feedly, sweet stuff. ;p Thanks for the development, I was able to process the whole story pretty fast. <0,
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Yeah... TC is sucking more and more... Maybe I just unsubscribe.
- Kristian Salonen
Somebody put dear Ivy on the payroll...adshare at least.
- zeroinfluencer
so zee - if you are correct, and tc wrote a story to get on digg about getting on digg - what's your take on snipping a previously posted on tc video interview to make another story about it using kevin rose in the title - is that not digg bait?
- Allen Stern
Hey there Allen, are you referring to the "real time" digg coming that i posted a while back?
- Zee.
(edit) - wow i thought you guys and tc were close - just read butcher's post - wowza! you said he got out of bed on the wrong side, maybe he noticed your post about being first in europe :-P
- Allen Stern
But it seems like she's still using it, so maybe's it a good thing?
- Bryce Roney
11k followers already. WOW.
- Roberto Bonini
yeah, I thought Mike took it a bit personally too but he's assured me thats not the case. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we're still close! I dig Techcrunch and Mike. (pun intended)
- Zee.
I guess I find everybody getting indignant over everybody else's coverage, all the "that's why I don't read X" talk, etc. equally silly. The fact that Geek Squad signed her up is no more or less important than the claims she's the "world's oldest Twitter user". I'd suggest none of it's important, but if you think the claim is noteworthy, the background is as well. So... where's the next windmill for us to tilt at?
- Ken Sheppardson
Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Media News and Analysis, RWW: The Future of Tech, Twitter, TheNextWeb Forum, building43
Cellphone Novels Have Competition: Twitter Fiction | Salon Books - http://www.salon.com/books...
ivanandersson, rich phelps, Jen (SquirrelGirl) and 6 other people liked this
"in Japan, imperium of the future where all the above is old hat, the keitai (cellphone) has further spawned a wildly successful, populist fiction genre. Keitai shosetsu, the so-called cellphone novel, has been touted (in the pages of the New Yorker, among other places) and reviled (by Japanese literati) as the first narrative mode of the txt msg age -- the herald of a written-word future bent by wireless telecom's powers."
- Brad Williamson
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NOTE: If you like this article, make sure to join the "Media News And Analysis" group... http://friendfeed.com/media-n...
- Brad Williamson
Why do people insist on making the creation of literary art an absolute asswhip? I mean REALLY? You wanna write fiction on a cellphone? Knock yourself out....
- Brad Williamson
Japan is also renowned for tech faddish-ness. I don't forsee the trend lasting. Especially since text messaging will eventually move beyond 160/140char SMS
- LANjackal
The future has to be mobile technology, Mobile + infrared keyboard + inbuilt projector (I'm in technology bliss!
- Rohit
The New Yorker article mentioned here is fascinating if anyone has the time to read it. http://www.newyorker.com/reporti... It doesn't sound like a literary movement I would be interested in, but it's origin and growth story is really very interesting. It's hard to imagine it will take hold here in the US easily.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
If the new yorker is talking about something then I'm sure to listen. I'll definitely be reading that one.
- Brad Williamson
from BuddyFeed
Google's Outage Caused 5% Internet Traffic Decline - http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-b...
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Building a Better FriendFeed Suggested Users List - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Niklas Sjostrom, Alfredo, Shinya ICHINOHE and 50 other people liked this
Two days ago http://friendfeed.com/louisgr... Louis Gray pointed out on FriendFeed that when a new user signs up for FriendFeed that they receive 24 suggested FriendFeed users to follow. I'm one of those 24. There is no mystery to how these 24 users are selected for promotion on the FriendFeed platform, they are simply the 24 FriendFeed users with the most followers. Once a user subscribes to someone this list changes. it roughly becomes the most popular people followed by their friend(s). And while Friendfeed's objective and simplified method of promoting users to new sign ups is probably better than Twitter's much criticized subjective method of elite favoritism, it could be vastly improved yet.
- Thomas Hawk
But the "most popular" under this scheme is also self perpetuating is it not? Is that a good thing? Perhaps some sort of other automated suggestion list would be more appropriate?
- Brian Sullivan
Yeah Brian, read the linked article :) He covers that sufficiently, I think...
- Joel Bennett
Oh, and Thomas, maybe what you need are some imaginary friends: http://friendfeed.com/setting... (no, seriously).
- Joel Bennett
I think rooms/groups or whatever they're calling it now should be featured more prominently for old and new users alike. That takes care of both the geography and the interests.
- Eric P
Joel, Yeah, I've got a number of imaginary friends already set up from Flickr. But these are problematic as well. You can't share their stuff with other people on FF, you only see their flickrstream (I want to see their blog, their Flickrstream, their twitter acct, etc. all together), plus having to make these one by one is a pain. It would be much better if FF could just use the Flickr...
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- Thomas Hawk
Brian, yes, the suggested user list should *definitely* encompass more than just popularity. If you read my article above you'll see that I offer up a number of suggestions on how to improve/fix this. There are ways to deal with the self-perpetuation problem with the current system.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas this is a very good suggestion. Lets new users get out of the simple popularity based recommendations, and get more into interests and areas, which I very much like. Caters to the geeks and non-geeks alike. I especially like the "take 200 and randomize 24 out of the 200" -then even longer time users can go back to the list and get a fresh view. I think that if FriendFeed won't implement something like this, someone else should, but it would be best if we culd convince the FriendFeed crew to do so.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The Flickr API does indeed expose your contacts in terms of their user id and screen name on Flickr. FF could match this info against Flickr accounts that have been set up by FF users.
- Ole Begemann
Ole, that would be my number one FriendFeed request. I'd love to be able to add all of my flickr contacts on FF that I'm not already following. I'd love to be able to invite all of those that are not here yet via the flickrmail system as well.
- Thomas Hawk
The most distinct problem with the "popularity" based recommendations (here esp) is that they're totally oriented towards one group of people. If you don't like tech-journalists, you're not going to like the recommended list here now. I ALSO really like the idea about finding the new most active/popular users (the ones with less than 60days here) Great way to discover new talent.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Thomas: Not much of a flickr user, aren't flickr / yahoo contacts integrated? (I guess they must not be)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
One of the problems I see with the suggestions is they involve introducing more information requirements for the user to specify (geography, interests) which imply changes elsewhere in the system. Surely there is something simpler that can be done without that extra baggage to introduce some more randomness?
- Brian Sullivan
Rob the new active/popular users tab would actually serve two purposes. it would be great for people like you and me to find new users to follow, but it would also provide valuable interaction to new active/popular users bringing them into the fold so to speak. I think some people sign up for FF and because they are new and unknown they get no interaction and get frustrated and quit. This would help them get exposure and engagement making their first impressions of the service better.
- Thomas Hawk
what would be interesting is to ask the new user what they are interested in, then show the 24 people that have registered the same interests/tags in their FF stream. Like for example, Love comic books, comic book goodness, rapatton, me, and ect. That at least would be more "democratic", but then there I go thinking again :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Rob, I'm pretty sure that my Flickr contacts are not integrated with my Yahoo mail. It would be cool if they were. Yahoo owns Flickr but the Yahoo mail and Flickr systems are still distinct as far as I'm aware.
- Thomas Hawk
Dan, exactly. by letting us stipulate interests, friendfeed could create a suggested users by interests tab. I think you'd get a far different initial friendfeed experience if you had a tab for 24 (or even better paged) people interested in say photography than in the current 24 being promoted. Whatever your interests, music, guitar, comic books, movies, cooking, etc. I actually think...
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- Thomas Hawk
The "suggested list" should go "both ways": to subscribe and unsubscribe. Friendfeed should give me a list of, from those I follow, the one's is "less worth" following (I have everything, don't click in their links, never like or comment...)
- Marcos Marado
Tina & I pointed out this deficiency a while back in April where I cited an Allan Stern article which was perhaps the first to point out this lob-sidedness wayyyy back http://friendfeed.com/sofarso... kind of fell on death ears *shrug* I'm not a blogger
- sofarsoShawn
Yahoo and Flickr contacts are completely separate. Thomas: Inviting people via FlickrMail is not straightforward because Flickr doesn't expose FlickrMail via the API. Understandable IMO for spam reasons.
- Ole Begemann
I agree with your suggestions, as well that a good chunk of the current 24 are not really engaging in the conversation here and whilst popular don't really deserve to be on the recommended list. It would definitely be better to see people who are engaging more here... As opposed to just having their tweets feeding through.
- Travis Koger
I haven't looked at the suggested list since last year. It was something very similar even then, people with the most followers were chosen, but they aren't always the most active people. I think there could be a different way to suggest people to new users, maybe a way that chooses suggested users by interest.
- Candace
In case you missed it: "Twitter, Welcome to the Trough of Disillusionment! [Video]" - http://mashable.com/2009...
Thomas Power, anth and Scott liked this
Make: Online : A Twitter-enabled toilet - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
Mert Akbulut, John kowal, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 24 other people liked this
ROFL
- TheHenry
Lordy be I thought slot machines in the toilets in Las Vegas was bad enough :)
- Anne Bain
Does it twitter the weight of the "load" at each flush?
- Steve de Mena
25 Greatest Superhero Romances - http://jefferyklaehn.blogspot.com/2009...
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edythe, Kol Tregaskes, Victor Ryden and 17 other people liked this
"1. Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy 2. Superman and Lois Lane 3. Barry Allen and Iris West 4. Thor and Sif 5. Clea and Doctor Strange 6. Catwoman and Batman 7. Big Barda and Mister Miracle 8. Susan Storm and Reed Richards 9. Jean and Scott 10. Silver St. Cloud and Bruce Wayne"
- RAPatton
"11. Kitty and Colossus 12. Wonder Woman and Superman 13. Green Arrow and Black Canary 14. Tom Strong and Dhalua Strong 15. Betty Brant and Peter Parker 16. Talia and Batman 17. Mary Jane and Peter Parker 18. Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine and Nick Fury 19. Alicia and Ben 20. Jessica and Luke"
- RAPatton
"21. Scarlet Witch and Vision 22. Jean and Wolverine 23. Abby and Swamp Thing 24. Vindicator and Heather Hudson 25. Wonder Woman and Batman Honorable Mentions Starfire and Nightwing Sue and Namor Elektra and Daredevil Emma and Scott"
- RAPatton
No Invincible and Atom Eve? or Kyle Raynor and Jade (or his girlfriend that ended up in the refrigerator?)
- James Ferguson
Didn't Hal Jordan have something with Carol Ferris for awhile too?
- James Ferguson
Some of those guys get around!
- Lindsay
Yes the did. I don't agree with the order at all. No Barbara and Dick either. I would have dumped Silver St. Cloud.
- RAPatton
Wow, no Rogue and Gambit? Heck, not even Rogue and Magneto (AoA)? And I definitely don't agree with placing Parker and Mary Jane so far down the list! It should be number 1 in my book...all the crap they've gone through together? Pshaw!
- Carlton Hackett
Aden, that was a great cover
- RAPatton
No Howard the Duck and Beverly? I call "fowl." WAAAUUGH!!
- Karim
Newsarama.com : Best Shots Extra: Detective Comics #853 - http://www.newsarama.com/comics...
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Jesper Lind, Bill Sodeman, Scott and 8 other people liked this
"There are two things I took out of this second and final chapter of "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" One, Batman is not so much a man but a force of nature -- a way of life, if you will. The other is that for a funeral piece, it seems apparent that the Dark Knight will never die. If you think I ruined things with an observation worthy of a spoiler alert, then you clearly haven't gotten your hands on this neo-classic by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert to gather all of the eloquently rendered subtext. In every enlightened way, Detective Comics #853 is a celebration of Batman, and as a whole, "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" is utterly timeless."
- RAPatton
"Part Two of "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?" also works on a very sweet, very human level. Any further detail would spoil the surprise of who's been Batman's escort on this journey to the Great Beyond (never mind the stunning last couple of pages), but I say with confidence that Gaiman & Co. have rendered Bruce Wayne's alter ego at his most heartfelt. I dare say we get a...
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- RAPatton
I'd recommend these two issues when it is collected to even casual Batman fans who do not read comics; Neil Gaiman did an impressive job.
- RAPatton
I'm really looking forward to reading these. Sounds great.
- James Ferguson
I enjoyed them a great deal, the second issue in particular
- RAPatton
Mexico detains woman with anti-aircraft machine gun - Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/news...
Steven Perez, edythe, Scott and 2 other people liked this
"A woman was arrested guarding an arsenal that included an anti-aircraft machine gun -- the first weapon of its kind seized in Mexico, police said today.
- RAPatton
io9 - Superherodom's Favorite Twins Return - Wonder Twins - http://io9.com/5197386...
Jason Toney, Nia, Kevin Cearns and 2 other people liked this
"Form of a San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive! Shape of a nostalgia trip! Just last week, I was wondering what'd happened to the Wonder Twins, and now Mattel have give me the answer... including Gleek's bucket! Yes, the Wonder Twins are back with this San Diego Comic-Con-only toy set including Zan, Jayna, Gleek and accompanying Zan in form of water and Jayna in shape of a giant eagle (Zan and Jayna will be available from Mattel's website after the show, but you won't be able to get that damn monkey anywhere else). While we're happy to see the creepy twins return - well, slightly happy, at least - we're not sure how we feel about their new look. Were they always so... buff?"
- RAPatton
Finding Amazon removing the sales ranking of books with gay/lesbian content rather disturbing http://markprobst.livejournal.com/15293... #censorship
Scott, Mary DeSive, Donovan Watts and 4 other people liked this
Amazing that in a week when Iowa and Vermont both had major advances on the marriage for all front Amazon would do something so negative!
- Bill L
It's actually even worse. Go to Amazon.com and search "homosexuality".
- Stan Scott
I wonder how many people know about the free 25 GB of cloud storage at skydrive.live.com. It's handy.
Derryl Beukes, Torsten Eckert, Shey, Jamaican of FF and 92 other people liked this
I did not know of this.
- John E. Bredehoft
I think I heard about this and never looked into it. Gotta look into it!
- Justin Korn
not me - thanks!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Being a Windows Live Butterfly i am aware of this service.
- Jamie Ellis
I did not know of this. Very cool!
- Dee S.
I didn't know it was that much. However, I keep wondering which cloud service is going to get yanked at some point. Who do I trust?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Do now thx!
- sofarsoShawn
I do now, Thx!
- jamar78
Does it work on OSX and Ubuntu?
- Bruce Lewis
@Bruce: it's just a web service, so I'm thinking yeah
- Sarah Perez
yeah. I like it.
- pastas9
Yack.. Windows!
- Dan van Moll
Love SkyDrive. Works great!
- Jordan Hofker
I love Skydrive, use it all the time, it's a great service. I was just thinking about how MS has a number of really good online services but they do horribly at advertising them.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
from twhirl
Is there a way to use it as a network drive? That would be pimp...
- Hao Chen
Thanks for sharing, Sarah! I don't think many people know about this.
- MiaD
Hao, I've been searching for a desktop uploader ever since this came out. :/ Tough to do it one by one using a web 0.1 uploader :/ (I blogged about it when it was still 5GB http://www.allanjosephbatac.com/blog...)
- AJ Batac
I like the Flickr uploader
- AJ Batac
That's a way old thing.
- Anurag Bansal
from Nambu
There's multiple flickr uploaders now; what really matters is the bandwith upload rate which as I can recall is pretty fast, at least as fast as box.net. As web app skydrive is amazing for storage and it's easy interface
- sofarsoShawn
I got it
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
wonder what kind of strings attached by MS ;)
- A.T.
@solarsoshawn I'm on Windows (obv) so I use the Flickr uploader built into Windows Live Photo Gallery (plus I added the Facebook uploader & YouTube uploader, too)
- Sarah Perez
...cont'd: Facebook uploader: http://www.codeplex.com/liveupl... & Youtube one: http://www.codeplex.com/liveupl...
- Sarah Perez
@AJ Batac: If you're a Windows user, try Live Photo Gallery - built in uploader to SkyDrive (Photos) & Flickr: http://download.live.com
- Sarah Perez
@sarah nice, more than I expected at that!
- sofarsoShawn
Nice. Is there a way for it to integrate with Windows Explorer? I'm currently using Dropbox which offers that very handy feature which I can't do without.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark: Gladinet does that, but MSFT would rather you not use that. For photo uploads, Live Photo Gallery is best way though.
- Sarah Perez
That's great Sarah. Can you upload files other than photos though? @Mark, yeah I would have hoped for a similar solution.
- AJ Batac
Doh! My office content filter knew about it before I did.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@AJ Skydrive uploads have to be done via the web browser (officially)
- Sarah Perez
Gladinet link: http://www.gladinet.com/ (don't tell anyone I gave you that!)
- Sarah Perez
It might be awesome if it weren't a web interface and one file at a time. Its sooo painful to use. Mobile Me has the right idea, OS integration, let you access the data like a normal local resource.
- Jody
surprised
- Marcos Vicente
Having upload errors.
- Walinmichi
I wish I could access SkyDrive through Windows Explorer. :(
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I do. I haven't really started to use it yet though.
- David Cook
Nice offering. But it takes a PhD in Algorithms & Combinatorics to design a user password that passes muster on Live.com
- Ryan Miller
Video Just Got Better - http://blog.facebook.com/blog...
MattJhsn, Langley Zhu, Jonah Merchant and 7 other people liked this
Facebook video "supporting higher resolutions—as much as 1280 by 720 pixels (720p)...You'll also be able to take videos you've added to Facebook and embed them on other websites. If you have a blog, personal or business website, you'll be able to display any of your Facebook videos on that site as well."
- Steve Garfield
from twhirl
Being able to embed the videos elsewhere is good news.
- jjprojects
Craziest video ever (you were warned) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Scott and Eric Geller liked this
FARK.com: (3920656) Obama = ? Biden = ? McCain = ? Palin = ? You've seen the meme, here's the thread (voting enabled) - http://forums.fark.com/cgi...
Tanath, fshamsi, Derek Collison and 36 other people liked this
Palin as Jar-Jar Binks = FULL OF WIN
- Cyndy
I think the meme is full of something... but it ain't win.
- Rob Reed
There is a reason I have a TotalFark membership!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Well, that killed a good hour. Much win lies within.
- Great Scott!
It's a good thing the ones equating Sarah Palin to the FN Five-Seven and the Noisy Cricket from MIB were buried toward the bottom, because had I not seen all the anti-McCain/Palin ones preceding them, the Five-Seven and Noisy Cricket would have = instant vote for McCain/Palin. I love both those guns.
- Brian Chang
Oh I soooooo love things that make me laugh as of late and this is one of them.
- Mark Krynsky
HAHAHA... the one with the phones are so nice. LOL. Nut they are all genius. Great.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Invisible Shield Coupons http://xrl.us/omdo5
Scott and Andrew Trinh liked this
Dang. I was hoping it was one of those personal invisible shiled ones... ;)
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
Cheers, I was thinking on getting one of these. Wait it doesn't make you invisible?
- Andrew Trinh
sadiq kassamali, Zulu, Dileepa Prabhakar and 9 other people liked this
Viral Videos Go Berserk, South Park Style! - http://mashable.com/2008...
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